It has been very busy period. I am in the middle of my residency application, completing a book and many other interesting projects. Months ago when I was gathering the information about how to learn to code I e-mailed few programmers.
Thanks for writing to me. I think it may be difficult to get paid for small programming projects while you build up your expertise. I recommend contributing to open source projects as a way to build up expertise quickly. Given your medical background, are there any programming or system administration jobs at universities or medical facilities?
This entry was posted in programming and tagged open source, programming, Python on April 4, 2015 by Alex-G.


CAOIMHGHÍN Ó Caoláin, Sinn Féin Dáil Health and Children spokesperson has called on the government to table legislation to hold a referendum on the issue of children's rights as a matter of urgency. He was speaking on Monday during the Dáil debate on the publication of the third and final report of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children.
Ó Caoláin served on the committee, which met on 62 occasions over the space of two years. "The timely publication of this report presents an important opportunity to strengthen children's rights in this state," he said.
"The amendment should also go some way to addressing some of the legal obstacles affecting the child protection system. If an amendment such as the one contained in the report was enshrined in the Constitution, the state would have sufficient legal power to intervene on behalf of all children at risk, regardless of their parents' marital status.
"Sinn Féin is now calling on the Government to table legislation to hold a referendum on the issue of children's rights as a matter of urgency.
"At the moment, the law and policy governing children's rights and child protection is not only unsatisfactory, it is archaic and verging on the disgraceful. The Minister for Health and Children and the HSE hide behind the excuse of 'protecting the identity' of the children who died in their care. This is a sad reflection on the reality that the HSE's 'care' for these children only began when they died.
"Conducting an inquiry and writing a report containing recommendations on the plethora of inadequacies throughout the state's care system is too little too late if the recommendations already made are never published, let alone implemented.
"At the recent Sinn Féin Ard Fheis a motion commending the work of this committee and committing our party to pro-actively encourage the electorate's support for a referendum along the lines we have recommended was unanimously adopted.
"While Sinn Féin has for long advocated enshrining children's rights, we must remember that there are not only legal issues to be resolved in order to enhance the rights of children.
"We have recently seen the admission by a senior HSE representative that there are more than 20 reports on the deaths of children in State care awaiting publication. Despite the repeated questions on these reports that I put to the Health Service Executive, via the Minister for Health and Children, and which went repeatedly unanswered, it took the publication of a report by another member of the Joint Committee for a representative from the HSE to actually acknowledge that these reports existed. Information was wilfully withheld by someone in the HSE who stated that the information I was seeking was 'difficult to collate'. There is no room for any more cover-ups on children in state care and there is no valid excuse for the delay in publishing such reports.
"If we as members of the Oireachtas, as parents, and as people residing in this State, are to entrust the care of those children whose families can no longer care for them to the State, then the State's care regimes must be accountable and they must be fit for purpose.
"This is not just an issue of referendums and changes in law. An amendment that does not bring with it adequate increases in resources for child services will be utterly meaningless.
"This State has been dysfunctional when it comes to children's rights. We only have to look at the Tracey Fay report for a horrifyingly graphic illustration of that.
"It is only now that the HSE are admitting that not all children in state care have an allocated social worker. Some children that do have social workers might not see them for years at a time. The Roscommon child abuse case showed us that even where there are allocated social workers for children, terrible abuse and neglect will continue. Where relatives become foster carers for children, they are not always vetted. The HSE could not even give a straight answer when I asked them if all of their employees who worked with children were vetted. A clause in the constitution for children will be toothless if there is not a large-scale reform of child policy.
"Enshrining children's rights in this manner will ensure that the best interests of the child will be paramount in matters concerning their custody and guardianship. This will provide a valuable platform as we all work towards ensuring that the best interests of the child becomes paramount in all matters concerning the child – a cornerstone of the UNCRC. This legal change will mean that social services will have the capacity to intervene where the child's parents are married and children's rights will not be viewed as secondary to the rights of the marital family but rights in their own right.
"Sinn Féin pressed strongly for the insertion in the proposed wording of a commitment to have the voices of children heard. This is integral to the rights of the child. Acknowledging that particular right is imperative to the wider rights of children. The Child Care Acts 1991 and 1997 permit the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem for a child involved in court proceedings, at the discretion of a judge. We must look to international best practice in this area to reform the current processes. In Scotland, a Guardian Ad Litem will automatically be appointed unless there is a major reason why this should not happen. Sinn Féin believes we should be aiming for the highest standards for our children.
"It is a shame that it has taken almost two decades to arrive at a cross-party agreement on children's rights. Consistently, this and previous governments have failed to acknowledge the deficiencies in child policy and law.
"The rights children will now, hopefully, be given must be complemented with sufficient resources. Teenage mothers and fathers, who are themselves children, must be supported to, if at all possible, continue their education while parenting. Children with cystic fibrosis must have the right to adequate and appropriate healthcare. Social worker posts must be filled and resourced, children with mental health issues must be seen and supported immediately, and not forced into adult wards. Parental support mechanisms must be in place. Children at risk must be listened to before it is too late, and before they become the subject of yet another internal HSE report. Crisis management cannot be the cornerstone of how children are dealt with in this state.
"There needs to be joined up thinking when it comes to policies affecting children. Take housing policy for example, which is geared towards purchasing homes, with those who cannot afford housing left to the mercy of a local authority waiting list – in some cases for up to 5 or 6 years. In a question I put to the Minister for Health and Children, it was discovered that in 2007, 1,342 children were placed in care under the heading 'Family Unable to Cope/Family Difficulty Re Housing/Finance'. 193 families (6%) of those reported to be having difficulties had children placed in care as a result of their having housing or finance difficulties.
"It is unacceptable that a child may be removed from the home because of housing or finance difficulties when it is not in their best interest. 25% of all children placed in care are entered into this system because the State has failed to provide their family with the support they need. Those children are not in care because they are being abused. They are in care because the State has not provided their family with an adequate home or the means to support themselves.
"Would the State not be better off ensuring that the child remains with its family (if it is in the child's best interests) and providing them with an appropriate home rather than putting them in care? Why is the State willing to give a foster-carer €325 allowance a week but not provide financial support to keep a family together when it is in the child's best interests? This is unacceptable – because when a child enters the care system, the State will fail them again, unless the Government holds this referendum and then provides the resources to make the new constitutional rights of children meaningful. A new approach is clearly needed. This is only one aspect of the children's rights debate.
"There are still over 76,000 children living in consistent poverty in this State, with almost 20% of all children being at risk of poverty. It is claimed that there are hundreds of children who sleep on our streets at night, and there are thousands of children who reside within a care system that is not resourced to the level required to meet their needs. A substantial number of children in the 59,000 families languishing for years on end on social housing waiting lists are living in substandard accommodation that is damp, over-crowded and of general poor quality which exacerbates the detrimental effects on children's well-being. Children still go to school hungry. Children still go missing from HSE care and some are never found. That this is still the case in this State in 2010 is a reason in itself to enshrine children's rights in our Constitution.


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400 ppm has been reached – will They help?–Is it all True Series # 319
I have written articles before on global warming and climate change, and it is time to write another one. Back 10 years ago I remember an article by a climatologist that stated that once the CO2 levels in our atmosphere reached 350 ppm (parts per million) it was over for all things living on earth, the fat lady had song. Well as time went on 350 ppm was changed to 360, 375, 385, and finally 400 ppm. So barring any changes to the tipping point level, we have made it to a level that will go down as the end gamer.
At this point ecosystems will start failing in huge numbers, and non-human species will become extinct, followed quickly by the death of millions of humans as huge wars break out to control the ever shrinking resources with food products on the top of the list. Western countries will start finding excuses to kill third world peoples in massive numbers. After that their weapons will be turned on each other, and finally nuclear weapons will purge the world clean of humans and most other life, except for a few cockroaches. And very slowly after several thousands of years Mother Earth will stabilize and return to a more normal state.
Now the big question is will they (the inter-dimensional beings) allow the above scenario to happen, to its fullest extent. My belief is they will not, because they have too much invested in this beautiful planet.
I would bet that after a 90% reduction of mankind they will come to the rescue, for that amount of people left would be in perfect balance for the total healing of the earth. Note they will not ever allow the use of nuclear weapons, because that would zero out their personal investment. Also there are potentially millions of Hybrid beings among us, and I doubt they would sacrifice them.
Sleep tight, if you are reading this you will probably experience a reasonably "okay" balance of your life, but the following generations probably not so much.
MWiz.
Temperature Change Makes Arctic Seasons More Like the South's
In eastern North America, people are accustomed to experiencing distinct seasons at distinct times of the year. Similarly, the Arctic and its plants and animals are accustomed to distinct seasons, particularly extremely cold winters and short summers, when plants and animals rapidly squeeze in the growth that winter prevents.
Oliver Taylor
But new research published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the differences between those Arctic summers and winters are lessening. Winter is becoming warmer — a lot warmer.
"The colder seasons are warming more rapidly than the summer," said Liang Xu, a co-author on the study and a doctoral student at Boston University.
The study, funded by NASA, used both ground and satellite data to look at how changes in temperature are affecting vegetation. A team of authors from seven countries, including the United States' Woods Hole Research Center, contributed to the research.
Showing that Arctic winters are warming a lot more than the other seasons is significant, said Ranga Myneni, another co-author of the study and a BU researcher who has been working on the impacts of temperature increases on the Arctic and boreal regions for decades.
"Most of the time, people talk about global warming at a steady rate, 1 degree Celsius per decade. That does not really even convey what it means," Myneni said, because the warming in the north is happening so much more in the winter.
More greening, trees and forest fires
In the Arctic, this means the region is getting greener, with unknown impacts to the ecosystem, Myneni said. The study found that 32 to 39 percent of the Arctic had an increase in plant growth over the past 30 years.
"It is a big deal because in the north … there are no trees, it is mostly grasses, lichen and mosses, and now you are creating sufficient warmth for trees to grow," Myneni said. "So the trees will try to move north. What will that do to existing Arctic vegetation? We don't know."
Bruce Forbes, a research professor at the University of Lapland's Arctic Center who works with the reindeer-herding Nenets people of Russia's Arctic, says the transition of the tundra into trees is already affecting them.
In the past 30 years, areas that used to be pasture and shrubs are becoming trees and large shrubs, he said. "[Nenets] can notice the shrubs increasing to tree size because they use the same campsites year after year." This affects the reindeer herders because they have to avoid these areas, since they can lose their reindeer in the denser growth.
"So far, they are just trying to avoid these areas, but that is becoming more difficult" as the quantity of shrubs and trees increases, Forbes said. Oil and gas development in the region has also shrunk the availability of pasture, another complication in addition to climate change.
Long-range forecast: Detroit-like weather
Boston University's Myneni said that because seasons are so important for a variety of ecological processes, he thinks the rapid changes in seasonality will lead to some mismatches in the food web, although it is currently hard to predict exactly how this will play out.
The higher temperatures may contribute to more growth in the Arctic, but in the boreal region there are mixed effects by continent.
North America's boreal region has higher temperatures but has also been drier. This means trees are experiencing drought, increased fire risk, and more pest and disease outbreaks. So this region of the boreal forest is actually getting less green.
The Eurasian boreal areas, though, have seen enough precipitation to keep some of those effects at bay. Whether this is a trend that will hold true for the future remains to be seen, Myneni said.
Between 1951 and 1980, the temperature profile of the Arctic — the graph that shows how temperatures change season to season — resembled that of lands north of 65 degrees latitude, or just above the latitude of Fairbanks, Alaska. By the decade of 2000-2010, the temperature profile resembled that of lands above 61 degrees north, or closer to Anchorage, Alaska — 360 miles south of Fairbanks.
At the end of this century, the authors predict the temperature profile of the Arctic could resemble that of lands around 42 degrees latitude — about the latitude of Detroit.
Myneni's group has created a website to explain its work to the public.
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Home / News / Grenoble Ecole de Management and GISMA Business School open campus in Berlin
Grenoble Ecole de Management and GISMA Business School open campus in Berlin
Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is now delivering its Master in International Business (MIB) and MBA programs in Berlin, thanks to a partnership with GISMA Business School, which has opened its new campus in Berlin in January 2017.
Centrally located on Potsdamer Strasse in the cosmopolitan Schöneberg area, the 1,600 sq. m. campus brings together GEM's academic excellence and GISMA's postgraduate student experience. The site offers the structure, connections, and networking opportunities that domestic and international postgraduate students greatly benefit from, as well as good transport links to enable them to make the most of the world-famous Berlin experience.
The initial course portfolio includes the Grenoble Ecole de Management MBA and Master in International Business (MIB), both of which started in January 2017. Later this year, the campus will welcome students joining the Grenoble School's MSc Marketing Management and the MSc Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship.
According to GISMA Managing Director, Dr Thorsten Thiel, the new campus in Berlin is the natural next step to enable the school to continue supporting the new German economy.
"Our ambition is to provide Berlin's fast-growing service industries across all clusters and sectors with young, fresh talent as well as to offer the necessary tools for our entrepreneurial graduates to take their ideas off the ground and launch their own businesses," said Dr Thiel. "Germany is a very open and dynamic market and Berlin offers the ideal infrastructure, with the cultural diversity and connections to other European hubs that domestic and international students seek."
"We are very proud to be working with our partners from Grenoble on this initiative to bring an exclusive portfolio of highly-ranked programmes to Berlin. The Grenoble Ecole de Management MBA will be one of just a handful of triple-accredited MBAs in the whole of Germany and this makes our offer completely unique," added Dr Thiel.
Santiago Garcia, Dean and Director of Grenoble Graduate School of Business, the international school of GEM, said: "Our collaboration with GISMA will allow our students to enjoy the best of two worlds: the prestige of our degree programmes and the corporate connections that a reputed German business school provides. For our students, this opens a new opportunity to study in an English-speaking environment whilst becoming familiar with the language, culture, and business of the capital of Europe's economic powerhouse."
About GISMA Business School
GISMA, the German International School for Management and Administration, was founded in 1999 to support the business community of Lower Saxony in its internationalization efforts by providing international management education to young professionals and executives from Germany and all over the world. Since then, GISMA has graduated a global community of alumni who have accelerated their careers in Germany and abroad with a sound foundation in management theory, diverse practical experience, and invaluable connections with fellow graduates and other GISMA alumni. GISMA classes are taught by expert faculty from around the world who bring both academic and practical experience to the classroom.
Grenoble Ecole de Management TOP 25 in Europe
GEM is ranked 6th best French Business School and 25th best European Business School in the final Financial Times' Ranking of the year. Announced December 9, this European Business School Ranking compiles all 2019 results.
Global MBA Ranking: 5th place in France
The Financial Times has ranked Grenoble Ecole de Management's Full-Time MBA 28th in Europe, as published in the Global MBA Ranking on January 28th, 2019.
Rankings: Part-time MBA shows the quality of its participants
Grenoble's Part-time MBA is ranked 64th worldwide in the new EMBA ranking published on April 26, 2018 by QS.
International Hospitality: a new double-degree MBA-MSc with Glion Institute of Higher Education
Grenoble Ecole de Management is partnering with Glion Institute of Higher Education, one of the leading hotel management institutions in Switzerland, to offer a new, unique double degree; an MBA combined with an MSc in International Hospitality in...
Grenoble Ecole de Management retains top spot in France in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2017
Grenoble Ecole de Management is ranked 3rd best MBA in France and 92nd best in the world (gaining two places from last year) in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking published on 30th January 2017.
A jump of 20 places in the FT Emba world ranking 2016
Grenoble Ecole de Management's part-time MBA is ranked in the Financial Times 2016 Executive MBA ranking, published on Monday 16, October. The Grenoble program gained 20 positions . It is performing the highest progression in this year's ranking.
MBA enters the Financial Times top 100 Global MBA ranking
Grenoble Ecole de Management/GGSB's MBA is ranked 94th best MBA in the world, according to the Financial Times most recent Global MBA ranking, published on 25th January 2016.


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Professional writing for academic cheaters
By Bjørn Østman on 11/18/2010 09:10:00 AM
Fuck!
Things will never be the same again, for me. If we are what we write, then forever there is no knowing who we are. Am I even who I claim to be, and are these words written by me at all, or by someone with no name who charges for helping the misplaced incompetents?
The request came in by e-mail around 2 in the afternoon. It was from a previous customer, and she had urgent business. I quote her message here verbatim (if I had to put up with it, so should you): "You did me business ethics propsal for me I need propsal got approved pls can you will write me paper?"
I've gotten pretty good at interpreting this kind of correspondence. The client had attached a document from her professor with details about the paper. She needed the first section in a week. Seventy-five pages.
I told her no problem.
It truly was no problem. In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper.
Do read this essay. The details and anecdotes should shock you. If for no other reason than marveling at the incapability of American students (how difficult can it be to use a spell-checker? Answer: nigh impossible).
But if this person cashes in on the apparently rampant cheating in American academics, I find it less apparent to decide where the blame for this disastrous state of affairs lie. As he says:
I work hard for a living. I'm nice to people. But I understand that in simple terms, I'm the bad guy. I see where I'm vulnerable to ethical scrutiny.
But pointing the finger at me is too easy. Why does my business thrive? Why do so many students prefer to cheat rather than do their own work?
Rather than blaming anyone, I personally prefer to think ahead to when I will (hypothetically) be reading papers written by students myself. It really should not be much of a trouble to test whether the student is at all capable of writing, for instance by having them do it once while in class.
Given the nature of the essay, it of course becomes imperative to question its veracity in the first place. If the author can make up stories about any subject, and write them well, then why not his own story? Could this simply be some aspiring writer's term project? Or, how about a meme-based virus? Educational malware? Can we trust that his business is as booming as he contends, and that he writes papers on ethics for the ethically challenged on a regular basis?
Yet, contemplating human nature and the current (permanent?) state of financial affairs, I don't doubt that there is at least a market for this kind of cheating. Given the suspicion, I wonder if other businesses won't now crop up to root out these dens of academic deceit. Like removing access to guns from people who are naturally homicidal, so I find it does make sense to eliminate the access to professional sources of cheating.
I wonder what he charges for blog posts...
yokohamamama November 19, 2010 1:50 AM
I find this man puzzling, too. If he's a good enough writer to be able to make a (*very*) decent living ghost-writing other people's term papers and business proposals, that implies that he's a good writer to begin with. Anyone could undertake to write a few term papers for a couple of college classmates (probably how he started himself)--but to make an actual living at it means you have to be good enough to earn repeat business and word-of-mouth business. And if he's doing as much writing as he says he is, he can't be doing much of anything else--there simply wouldn't be enough hours in the day. So if he's telling the truth about his hours and earnings, he's a good enough writer to earn a living writing honestly--under his own name. It just seems really odd that he wouldn't prefer to have his writing recognized as his own and earn a living that way...
Bjørn Østman November 19, 2010 6:09 AM
He could at least easily take a few scholarly degrees.
On top of the hours he spends, consider that he mentions the company has about 50 employees.
my company's staff of roughly 50 writers is not large enough to satisfy the demands of students who will pay for our work and claim it as their own.
yokohamamama November 19, 2010 5:28 PM
Good grief! I didn't see that part--an entire company that cheats for people? ....
Please excuse me--I'm dusting my jaw off. It fell on the floor. Is this for real?! Clearly it never occurred to me as a student to pay someone else to write my papers (or, for that matter, play hookey in high school). What do people who pay for that kind of "service" think they're going to do when they get an actual paying job? Spend half the money they earn paying someone else to do their writing for them? Wow. Just--wow.
Bjørn Østman November 19, 2010 7:19 PM
Yeah, the big company thing actually makes the story a little suspect. But who knows?
As for people who pay for the service, I think they're just desperate (dispret?), and will do whatever it takes to finish school. I can understand that, but it does so sorely disappoint.
James Sweet November 22, 2010 9:15 AM
It seems to me the guy is probably exaggerating somewhat about his own personal output, but I am not surprised about a company of 50 doing this kind of work.
As far as why he doesn't get a different type of job if he is that talented, I dunno, I can sort of understand... I am able to turn out a whole lot of reasonably well-written text in a fairly short amount of time, but I am too lazy to do a lot of sourcing and whatnot. Let's say I had a staff to do all the sourcing and basic research -- which I wouldn't if I had any of the jobs you mention as other possibilities for this guy -- I am certain I could churn out a whole lot of passable bullshit.
Remember that the professors grading these papers have the very same students who are such poor writers that they turn to this service. My point is, standards are low.
I remember for an Economics class in college, the professor wanted us to write some sort of dialog on some topic. I thought it was a corny assignment, but I knew he also wouldn't grade it too harshly. So I grabbed some Guinness, got shit-faced, and churned out 15+ pages of corny bullshit. After grading our papers, he highlighted mine to the rest of the class as what he was intending that people do.
Standards are low, and being prolific while reasonably coherent and moderately accurate with your grammar and spelling -- that's enough to get an A most of the time.
Assuming a 48-week work year, 5 days/wk, the guy would need to average 21 pages per day to meet his claimed 5,000 pages. If I had all the research and sourcing done for me ahead of time, plus a proofreader -- abso-fucking-lutely. And I'd love it.
Man, maybe I should switch careers... how do you break into the ethics-destruction business anyway?
I will make roughly $66,000 this year
Oh, nevermind. I assumed he was getting rich.
Why would somebody that intelligent ethically compromise themselves for such a mediocre salary? He oughtta be a spammer at least...
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When reading business articles about different generations in the workforce it seems that about 80% of articles are focused on Millennials (Gen Y) with 20% of the content reserved for Baby Boomers. What's frustrating about this is that we are leaving two whole generations out of the conversation — Gen X and Gen Z.
Baby Boomers: birth years starting from the early- to mid-1940s and ending anywhere from 1960 to 1964.
Gen X: birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s.
Gen Y (Millennials): birth years starting in the 1980s with the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.
Gen Z: mid-1990s to mid-2000s as starting birth years.
This means that someone in their mid-to-late 30s may have thought they were a sophisticated, hard-working Gen X, when in reality they are an entitled, social media addicted Millennial! Now of course, I say this with complete sarcasm, but I do so to prove the point that while individuals within these generational cohorts may certainly share some characteristics or behaviours driven by the environment during which they grew up, it is completely unfair and unrealistic to paint everyone with the same brush.
Learning Opportunities: Everyone has something to offer. Take advantage of the mentoring opportunities both downwards and upwards. Your baby boomer boss can impart wisdom on management practices or handling difficult conversations, while your Millennial colleague may teach you how to use a new program to be more efficient with your time or show you the benefits of using your LinkedIn profile for personal branding.
Diversity and Innovation: Diversity is a great thing for business. Whether it is gender, race or age, bringing people with different perspectives to the table can mean significant increases to your business success and profits. The major historical events that occurred during the formative years of the different generations results in new thinking, approaches, and beliefs that can be beneficial when handling challenging situations or brainstorming innovative ideas.
Purpose: Whether it is career progression, getting a foot in the door or simply bringing home a paycheque to support their family, everyone you encounter in the office is there for their own reasons, one that may be much different than you think. Instead of assuming that twenty-something colleague is just sitting in the chair for a year before getting bored and moving onto a new role, have a conversation to understand their goals and career aspirations – you may be surprised what you hear!
Culture: If you celebrate and promote the benefits of having an age-diverse workforce, your corporate culture can become more inclusive, unique and dynamic. This can be used as a key differentiator for your organization and strategically applied in your attraction and retention efforts in today's competitive business world.


Industry folks call it by its correct technical name: silicone-impregnated nylon. Marketers and consumers, on the other hand, have an aversion to "impregnated" gear; they use more benign names like siliconized nylon, or silnylon for short. Whatever you call it, this slick fabric is arguably the biggest new material to hit the outdoor market in the past decade.
These properties have allowed gear manufacturers to radically decrease weight, especially in tent design. As recently as five years ago, any standard, double-walled two-person tent that weighed less than 6 pounds was on the lightweight side of the spectrum. Five pounds has now become the benchmark—and several of today's lightest versions are less than 4. GoLite began using silnylon in its tent line in 1999, but it has hit the mainstream only recently. These days just about every gear manufacturer incorporates it in their ultralight lines.
Silnylon is also appearing in an increasing variety of stuff sacks, but only to a limited extent in other gear. Why? Silnylon is extremely thin stuff, making it less resistant to puncture and abrasion. This isn't an issue for tents, where tear resistance—especially the ability to withstand strong winds without shredding—is the essential property. It's a significant problem, however, for equipment like packs or clothing, where a single bushwhack could wreak havoc on the material. Silicone also bonds poorly with other materials—such as nylon repair tape and seam sealer—making it difficult to repair damage. Plus it's pricey; expect to pay about 50 percent more for anything made with silnylon.


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Glooko rolls out new diabetes data platform
Diabetes data management firm Glooko launched a new web analytics platform this week, including navigation and analytics tools such as charts and graphs.
The new version of the Glooko Web Application is an outgrowth of the company's 2016 merger with fellow diabetes data management company Diasend.
Glooko had raised more than $35 million in Series C funding last year from the likes of Mayo Clinic, Medtronic and Samsung to expand its sales, marketing and development teams.
The shift to value-based care and population health has seen an explosion of tools and services to help people manage diabetes and other chronic conditions. Innovations in the diabetes management space have ranged from glucose monitors, advanced insulin jet injectors and an artificial pancreas to digital monitoring of blood sugar levels and predictive analytics. The Cleveland Clinic's list of top 10 medical innovations that will disrupt healthcare in 2018 listed the artificial pancreas as No. 1.
The global needle-free diabetes management market is expected to reach $16.8 million by 2025, growing 17.8% year over year, according to P&S Market Research. Major players include Medtronic, Zogenix and Pharmajet. Tech giants like Apple and Google parent Alphabet are also eyeing the space, as are a number of new companies such as Glooko.
In addition to navigation tools, Glooko's new platform includes education on how exercise, carbohydrates and medication impact glucose levels, insulin pump reports and a PDF wizard for report viewing and sharing.
The tool also includes support for the International Diabetes Center's ambulatory glucose profile, a standard used by clinicians.
Despite growing interest in diabetes management, there is little evidence on the benefits of diabetes self-management apps, according to a recent technical brief by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Of the hundreds of apps currently available, only 11 have been tested in clinical trials, and none of those was notably rigorous, AHRQ said. And while five of the 11 showed meaningful improvements in HbA1c, none showed improvements in blood pressure, weight or body mix index or quality of life.
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PUBLISHED 5:18 PM ET Mar. 01, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:18 PM EST Mar. 01, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Johnson and Johnson vaccine has been approved and is bound for Kentucky but here's why you have a better chance of receiving either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
The Johnson and Johnson vaccine is released, but you will see more of the other two
There are more doses of Moderna and Pfizer vaccine
The single-dose J&J shot is ideal for rural areas and for those populations that have trouble coming in for second dose
Doctors at UofL Heath suggest the mass vaccination sites won't see the J&J vaccine
It's a numbers game. Far more doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines will be coming into Kentucky in the coming weeks. UofL Health only plans to receive 1,500 doses in its first week. Also, the single-dose J&J vaccine is optimal for vaccinating rural and other logistically challenging populations.
"So specific areas where we may have a difficult time getting people to come back..." Dr. Jason Smith said Monday. Smith is the Chief Medical Officer for UofL Health. He believes the J&J vaccine would also be useful in vaccinating homeless residents for the same reason. Johnson and Johnson is the third vaccine to be approved by the FDA for emergency use but the first to be administered as a single dose. Dr. Smith says more doses of all three vaccines are on the way.
"You're going to see an increase in vaccine supply not just from Johnson and Johnson but also an increase in both Pfizer and Moderna and I've always said once we really get this out into every pharmacy and clinic in the area that's when we'll really see a significant change in the number of people being vaccinated every day."
Dr. Smith expects most of whatever doses of the J&J vaccine do come to Kentucky will be utilized and administered mostly by health departments and not the mass vaccination sites in either Louisville, Lexington, or Bowling Green.
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Die IVF Hartmann Holding AG mit Sitz in Neuhausen am Rheinfall ist ein international tätiger Schweizer Hersteller medizinischer Verbrauchsgüter. Die Kernaktivitäten der Unternehmensgruppe umfassen die vier Geschäftsfelder Wundversorgung, Inkontinenz, OP-Produkte sowie Erste Hilfe. Ergänzt werden diese Bereiche durch verschiedene Produktsegmente wie Watte, therapeutische Wärmepflaster, Damenhygiene, Babyhygiene und Immobilisation.

Die Unternehmensgruppe, zu der nebst die IVF Hartmann AG drei weitere Tochtergesellschaften zählen, beschäftigt rund 380 Mitarbeiter und erwirtschaftete 2016 einen Umsatz von 134,7 Millionen Schweizer Franken. Die Aktien der IVF Hartmann Holding AG sind an der Schweizer Börse SIX Swiss Exchange kotiert.

Geschichte
Das Unternehmen wurde als «Schaffhauser Woll- und Baumwollcarderie» durch Heinrich Theophil Bäschlin (1845–1887) gegründet. Dieser begann 1870 in Schaffhausen mit der Fabrikation antiseptischer und hydrophiler Verbandstoffe. Diese fanden im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg Verwendung. Basis dafür waren die Erkenntnisse von Victor von Bruns, dem es 1865 als Erstem gelang, Baumwolle zu entfetten und auf diese Weise saugfähig zu machen. 1871 verarbeitete die «Schaffhauser Woll- und Baumwollcarderie» erstmals auf der Welt Baumwolle im industriellen Massstab zu Verbandwatte.

Unter Mitwirkung von führenden Chirurgen aus Deutschland und der Schweiz wandelte Bäschlin 1874 seinen in der Zwischenzeit in «Fabrik für medizinische Verbandstoffe» umbenannten Betrieb in eine Aktiengesellschaft mit dem Namen «Internationale Verbandstoff-Fabrik Schaffhausen» (IVF) um. 1879 entstand in Montpellier eine Fabrikfiliale, von wo Bäschlin auch das Unternehmen in Schaffhausen leitete.

In der Folge wurde das Produktsortiment erweitert, Akquisitionen getätigt und 1908 eine neue Fabrik in Neuhausen am Rheinfall bezogen. Im Verlaufe des 20. Jahrhunderts wuchs die IVF kontinuierlich sowohl durch Erweiterung der Produktpalette und Eröffnung neuer Standorte wie auch durch verschiedene Übernahmen. Mit den Zukäufen der auf Pflaster spezialisierten Isoplast AG (1972), der auf Watte spezialisierten Kistler AG (1984) und der auf Inkontinenzprodukten ausgerichteten Vlesia AG (2000) erweiterte die IVF ihre Geschäftsfelder fortlaufend.

1993 erwarb die deutsche Hartmann Gruppe die Mehrheit des Aktienkapitals der IVF, welche bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt von der Galenica in Bern gehalten wurde. Seither tritt das Unternehmen unter dem Namen IVF Hartmann unter dem Dach der Hartmann-Gruppe auf.

Literatur
 Albert Steinegger: Heinrich Theophil Bäschlin. In: Schaffhauser Beiträge zur Geschichte. Biographien Band II. 34. Jg. 1957, S. 213–216 (PDF-Datei; 193 kB).

Weblinks
 Website der IVF Hartmann AG

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(L-R) Paul White, Ahmad Byagowi and Jesslyn Janssen of Team Biohack took home second prize in Game Changer in February 2016.
Since taking home second spot in the Game Changer competition in early February, members of Team Biohack have fashioned an impressive path forward.
Graduate students Paul White (biomedical engineering/engineering), Ahmad Byagowi (electrical engineering/engineering) and undergraduate Jesslyn Janssen (biology/science) made up the team, which took a two-pronged approach to diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, using a finger prick blood test, in combination with a virtual reality spatial navigation test.
Ahmad Byagowi recently defended his second PhD.
Paul White says the research using virtual reality is progressing, following Game Changer.
"We are working on arranging for testing space with an Alzheimer's care home in Niverville," he says.
"Another student in the lab is conducting further experiments in the fall with a different virtual environment to more thoroughly investigate the efficacy of (virtual reality) treatment," adds White.
The two-phase Game Changer competition that Team Biohack competed in got underway in September 2015 when students from all departments and faculties were encouraged to submit an idea – one that identified real-world challenges where there is a potential to enact positive change if solutions are found.
Seven finalist teams, addressing four challenges, moved forward to the final competition on Feb. 11. Teams were scored based on multiple factors, including novelty of solution, clarity and ease of implementation.
Janssen and White said competing in Game Changer helped focus their efforts.
White also captured the people's choice award in the 3MT® competition at the end of February.
Janssen says the competition helped build a network of collaborators.
Going forward, she hopes to have a lasting impact in the health field.
The 2016 edition of the Game Changer competition, developed by the University of Manitoba, is now entering its second phase after the winning five "problems" were announced at an evening event at the Hub on Sep. 27. Game Changer is open to all Manitoba post-secondary students (undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral fellows).
For phase two of the competition, students will form cross-faculty/department teams to develop practical, viable solutions for any of the winning problems from the first phase. The deadline for submitting solutions is Nov. 2.
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«Love at First Feel» es una canción de la banda australiana de hard rock AC/DC. Es la segunda canción de la versión internacional de su álbum Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, lanzado en noviembre de 1976, y fue escrita por Angus Young, Malcolm Young, y Bon Scott. La versión internacional no fue lanzado en los Estados Unidos hasta el mes de abril de 1981.

"Love at First Feel" no se incluyó en la edición original del álbum Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap de Australia, publicado en septiembre de 1976, por lo que es uno de los dos temas no disponibles de AC/DC en los discos de las versiones australianas. (La otra es Cold Hearted Man, publicado en la versión europea de Powerage). Por el contrario, existen varias canciones que están disponibles sólo en las ediciones australianas de los álbumes de AC/DC y que no han sido publicadas en el extranjero. Sin embargo, "Love at First Feel" fue lanzado en Australia como sencillo en enero de 1977, con "Problem Child" como lado B.

El cantante y compositor Mark Kozelek realizó un cover de esta canción en su álbum tributo a AC/DC titulado What's Next to the Moon.

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Personal
 Bon Scott – voz
 Angus Young – guitarra
 Malcolm Young – guitarra rítmica
 Mark Evans – bajo
 Phil Rudd – batería

Producción
 Harry Vanda  - productor
 George Young - productor

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Next week is my big week. I will be heading off to college. It seems as if yesterday was the day that I step foot into the lobby of my old high school, with a cup of Starbucks in my hand, ready to tackle what four years of high school had in store for me.
It seems as if yesterday was the day that I was walked across a warm football field surrounded by thousands of people, ready to accept my high school diploma and see my friends for the last time on that very field.
It feels like all of this happened within the past few days, but it didn't, I constantly think about my last hugs, last fist-pounds, and last words with my friends from class.
Now that I look back at high school, I can now say that it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Sure, it had it's ups and downs, and sure- it kept me up until 2AM because I was probably finishing homework for Anatomy and writing last-minute essays for English, but I did meet some awesome people during those four years of my life. I met people who I could spend all the time in the world with, and I met people that I could talk to all day long- and they'd listen.
Those four years of my life were the best and the worst years, but out of all of it- I learned that even though you mess up once, you hopefully won't make the same mistake twice. I also learned that I can tackle just about any difficult project thrown at me, just as long as I have the right state of mind to complete it successfully.
I guess you can say that I have applied that philosophy (or whatever you'd like to call it) to my baking- I am now fearless in the kitchen, and I'd like to share my fearlessness with you.
So, today dear readers- I am going to put you onto the right road of kitchen fearlessness with a quick puff pastry recipe. A little farther on this road is classic puff pastry (which is definitely worth the effort- trust me!), but we'll start off with something a bit simpler, and it'll leave you with flawless results!
Making puff pastry is perhaps a fear of many home bakers around the globe, especially during the summer months, but come on- we're now walking on a fearless road, so take my hand and I'll guide you to making some awesome quick puff pastry that is just as great (if not- better) than classic puff pastry.
When making this quick puff pastry (and any puff pastry- for that matter), you want to make sure that everything is cold. So, once you combine the salt and all-purpose flour into a bowl, and you cut the butter into ⅓-inch cubes (and place it into a separate bowl), chill the bowl of flour and salt, and the bowl of butter in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. Trust me, your freezer is your friend!
Then, separate the chunks of butter with your fingertips- work quickly, and place it in the bowl of flour.
Once all of the butter is in the bowl with the flour and salt, take a butter knife and coat the butter with the flour, and throw in a little chopping action! Not too much chopping, just so every piece of butter is coated.
Now, drop the contents of your bowl onto your work surface. Preferably a marble board or metal counter (you can even use a chilled baking sheet), but if you're as fearless (doesn't sound better than cheap?) as I am, and don't have a marble board (I promise to pick one up soon!), use whatever clean work surface you have. Just keep in mind you'll need a lot of flour and you will need to work very quickly.
Form the pile of flour and butter into a well.
Pour in a few tablespoons of the ice water at first. Mix with your fingertips.
You can test the mixture by gently squeezing a small handful. When it has the proper texture, it will hold together without crumbling apart.
Knead the dough for 30 seconds.
Form the dough into a square. This is when you may want to wrap the square of dough in plastic wrap, and place it in the refrigerator for about ½ hour (until firm), but depending on how hot and humid it is in your kitchen, you may not need to.
After the dough is formed into a square, roll it out into a 15-by-8-inch rectangle.
Fold the short ends over the middle (like a letter) to make three layers. This is the first turn.
Repeat the process for the steps of folding (and giving the dough ¼ turns) to create the third and fourth turns. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before use (or up to 3 days). And you're done!
See how easy that was? Now, keep in mind that the dough keeps well in the freezer for up to about three months, but with all of the baking I do around here- it doesn't even last a couple days!
Having a digital kitchen scale is so much easier than having to actually measure everything out with this, so if you don't have a scale- I'd go out and get one, unless you want to wash tons of dishes after you make this quick puff pastry.
Mix salt and flour and place in a bowl.
Cut butter into ⅓-inch cubes, place in a bowl.
Chill bowls of flour and butter for 10 – 15 minutes in the freezer.
Separate the chunks of butter with your fingertips- work quickly, and place it in the bowl of flour.
Dump the contents of your bowl onto your work surface. Preferably a marble board or metal counter (you can even use a chilled baking sheet), but use whatever clean work surface you have. Just keep in mind you'll need a lot of flour and you will need to work very quickly.
After the dough is formed into a square, roll it out into a 15-by-8-inch rectangle. Fold the short ends over the middle (like a letter) to make three layers. This is the first turn.
Thank you for this ~ beautiful pictures and a very clear explanation. Nicely done!
Puff Pastry is easily one of the favorites in my home. I don't make it though because it is not as easy as you make it sound. I love stuffing it with curried veggies or lentils and surprising even my kids love it.
Ah yes, high school. All these years later and I still have mixed feelings about it. Love love your photos, and I'll definitely try out this recipe. I was just reading about a pizza made with puff pastry. I would think it would get too soggy, but I must say, I'm very curious.
My puff pastry has totally different steps.
4. Head home, let it thaw and tada…you're ready to go!
This looks much better and ONLY something I would consider for the holidays…but guessing I should make a couple at a time and freeze; even use that precious food saver machine I actually own!
This is a beautiful post and the photos are stunning. Well done!
You seriously rock. I can't believe all you do, and just heading off to college! You have your whole life ahead. Enjoy. Good luck!
I love the step-by-step photos. I think with something as challenging as puff pastry, you totally need them! My dad is the king of puff pastry–he makes it every Christmas. Congrats on going to college. Wish you all the best!
Great job on the site, it looks wonderful. I am going to bookmark it and will make sure to check it often!
If only the Top Chef DC contestants were doing this. Why do they keep buying frozen pastry dough when it is so simple?
Fabulous! I have never made my own.
And I'm not much older than you, but it feels like forever ago when I went to college. I remember it perfectly. Enjoy!
Kamran, puff pastry is my most favorite dough. So simple with just a few ingredients, but the end result is so rich and wonderful. Making it is almost more satisfying than eating it, too. Beautiful post, but I've come to expect nothing less from you.
I am MUCH older than you, and I remember my first days at college like they happened yesterday. Enjoy the experience. Remember, it's more than just about the books.
Kamran, you are fearless. And your post makes me think that even I could stumble my way to homemade puff pastry.
Best of luck with college! I bet you're going to love it! It is absolutely 100% nothing like high school, in an amazingly good way.
I've never seen puff pastry made this way, interesting. I just finished college, will be off to University in a while, I'm having the same jitters!
I've never attempted Puff Pastry before. Love your steps-by-steps pictures and instructions. I'll have to try. What are you taking in College?
Great puff pastry tutorial. And good luck in college.
Wonderful tutorial – and I think I may just be brave enough to give this a try! :0) Best of luck in college – it's my prediction you will find much success there!!!
Thank you everyone for the best wishes in college!
so excited for you! wish i could go back in time and relive those weeks leading up to college all over again. enjoy every moment! your puff pastry looks beautiful!
I like your recipe for puff pastry… Much better cutting the butter in the flour than trying to pound out the giant butter cube like I usually do (although I'm sure that's much more entertaining, watching me try to pound a giant cube of butter with my rolling pin… Glad there were no cameras!). I'll definitely give this a try.
Best of luck with your college adventures… I'm sure you'll do great things and have a wonderful time!
Kamran I have no doubt that you will approach college with the same fierce, tenacity that you have shown with this puff pastry and this blog!
true. i freak out every time someone asked me to make puff pastry. great pictures!
ps : high school is the best! college is great too thou. hope u have a great time @ college!
What a week you have coming up, Kamran! I wish you all the luck as you settle into your life at college.
This puff pastry is definitely on my to-try list. I use puff pastry a lot, but have never got up the guts to make it myself.
I love making rough puff pastry, I also like doing the regular depending on the application. Good luck with college!
Kamran, WOW! That's all I have to say. You are very amazing and I am definitely joining you on your road to kitchen fearlessness! I made your rough puff pastry today after doing a search on Google for quick puff pastry and I absolutely loved the results!! Maybe a little less "puffier" than classic puff pastry- but just as amazing, if not better!
Wishing you all the best on your journey, now starts another stage in your life and I am sure you will do amazing and learn so much about yourself. Enjoy college and I cannot wait to see more delicious recipes and beautiful photos from you!
Well, I simply know that college will be great. I want to hear all about your first few days, and I hope you enjoy it!
This puff pastry looks fantastic. I really must try it again. Maybe when my parents can have dairy again :).
High School – I have such mixed emotions about the whole ordeal. My 25 year reunion is coming up this fall; but, I will not make it for many reasons, one of them being, that I will be working a project in Detroit. Funny, as sometimes, even though, I am definitely in my adult years, I still feel like life can be like high school. Do people really grow up?
Best of luck to you! College will be one of the most amazing and most memorable time of your life. Absolutely stunning photographs!!!
How goes it, College Fella? I know I'm keeping up with you on Twitter for your educational escapades, but hope you know we're all cheering for you and glad to see you're being as voracious with education as you are with food.
Best of luck with this new chapter in your life- you are sure tomake it a success! And congrats on the puff pastry- when I made my own croissants, my kitchen looked like a flour bag exploded!!
Everyone– thank you so much for your kind words and wishes of luck. college has been going well, so far!
Great recipe. You're right – you did take the fear out of making puff pastry. In fact, it looks like fun.
Hope college is a terrific experience for you. What is your degree?
Ohh that's awesome! But the real question is, what will you make with the puff pastry!
I recently came by your blog, and I'm absolutely loving it! The photos, the easy recipes are fun to read, and I think your blog will soon become one of my favorites.
This puff pastry recipe is so good to be true. I've always wanted to make puff pastry, but since I'm impatient and a bit messy, I couldn't dare to do it. This looks much more easier than making real puff pastry. But I have a question, will it also look like real puff pastry? I mean, will it be layered and "puffy" when baked?
If so, then I'll definitely try it, make some napoleons with them and post it to my blog referring to you!
Great post Kamran. Love the step by step photos. I want to be fearless in the kitchen too.
Thank you! This is great to have as a guide. I can't tell you how many recipes I'm excited to try, until I get to the recipe and it calls for two packages of puff pastry. I much rather make my own, so thanks!
Thanks so much. I tried out your recipe and for a first attempt I think it went quite well.
I've been looking for a very basic puff pastry recipe for months. I cannot bring myself to use frozen dough. I refuse to. Definitely going to try this out soon – thanks for sharing!
I made this and it was so easy and turned out great. Thanks for the recipe!
Put in flour and pulsed until mixed just mixed.
Put a bag of ice on my granite counter before all of this and let is chill the rock. Then shaped rolled and folded 4 times fast since everything was very cold and … I'll have to let you know that where I am … But it looks and feels perfect and I can have pasty in a flash if it works.
Most of these people reviewing haven't even tried the recipe. Does it puff? I love the step by step procedures but you should post pictures of the finished result!
How much puff pastry does it make?
Hi. I just found your site. I love that you posted pictures. I can finally understand how to make it. However, I have one question, if I want to make it dairy free, what should I use instead of butter? Should I use oil or vegan shortening/margarine? Thanks.
I also tried to make puff pastry same method but mine did not rise at all.
I just used this pastry recipe to make some danishes, they turned out fantastic! Thank you for the wonderful recipe.
Based on the amount of ingredients used I would say it makes two sheets of pastry. I have not tried this recipe yet but is is very close to another I have made that makes two sheets.


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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The National Association of EMS Physicians® (NAEMSP®) is pleased to welcome new members to their Board of Directors.
David K. Tan, MD, EMT-T, FAAEM, FAEMS, is the new president of the association. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine and chief of the EMS Section at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Department of Emergency Medicine. Tan is also the medical team manager for the St. Louis Metro Urban Search and Rescue Taskforce, the medical director for the St. Charles County Police Department, the medical director of AMR/Abbott EMS and medical director of the Clayton Fire Department.
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ANSONIA >> His overnight activities terrorized hundreds of Ansonia and Derby hilltop residents during a month-long period during the summer of 2015.
Screens were cut, air conditioners pulled out and sliding doors popped open occasionally awakening sleeping residents who caught a glimpse of a hooded figure rummaging through their homes, grabbing laptops, cameras, tablets and game systems before fleeing into the darkness.
The situation became so terrifying that Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti ordered Police Chief Kevin Hale to step up patrols costing $20,000 in overtime each week. More than 500 residents attended the organizational meeting of a neighborhood watch group.
But hours after that meeting, Davon Miller of Hodge Avenue was arrested by Derby and Ansonia police and a Milford K-9 unit after a series of reported break-ins and attempted break-ins in Derby.
On Thursday, the final chapter of this crime spree began being written as Miller, now 22 and in custody since his arrest, pleaded guilty to three of what police believe were at least 19 break-ins and attempted break-ins between Aug. 6, and Sept. 2, 2015. He faced charges in 12 of those cases.
As part of the plea agreement, Miller admitted to three charges of committing burglaries at night. Those stemmed from an Aug. 6, 2015, break-in through a bathroom window at Highland Avenue, Ansonia; an Aug. 12, 2015, break-into an elderly woman's home on Reservoir Drive, Derby and a Sept. 2, 2015, break-in at a home on Hickory Road, Derby.
Assistant State's Attorney Amy Bepko recommended the sentencing judge impose a term of 20 years suspended after five are served and three years probation, according to court documents.
But by the time he is sentenced, Miller will have spent two years behind bars for which he'll get credit. That means he only has three more to serve.
At the time of his 2015 arrest, Miller was on state probation after being found guilty of a larceny and marijuana possession charge. The latest convictions constitute a violation of probation since a standard condition is not to commit any crime.
A judge has ordered the state probation department to contact victims of each of the charged burglaries, even the ones Miller has not admitted to, for comment that will contained in the pre-sentence report. That report is given to the sentencing judge.
Michael Moscowitz, Miller's lawyer, could not be reached for comment.


This is a group of photographs. The supporters are: T. W. Higginson, Samuel G. Howe, Theodore Parker, Frank B. Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, and George L. Stearns.
Shows Chambersburg, but doesn't go as far south as Staunton.
The Kennedy Farm, where the conspirators stayed before the raid.
Two views of the fighting at Harper's Ferry.
"Fighting at the Engine House"
"The Storming of the Engine House"
This is a group of photographs. The victims are: Oliver Brown, Watson Brown, John Kagi, and A. D. Stevens.
The Jail in Charlestown, VA.


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Mind, Body & Spirits
Somat DeHydrator System helps eco-friendly restaurant reduce trash 80% to 90% and achieve LEED Certification
Established in October 2008, Mind, Body & Spirits in Rochester, Michigan is the first fully sustainable, certified organic restaurant in America. The healthiness of the food served in the eco-friendly restaurant is equaled only by the responsibility and commitment to the environment shared by owner Mike Plesz and his 30 employees.
A showcase for green technology in virtually every aspect of its construction and operation, the restaurant serves up more than just delicious, natural and organic food. It also serves as a hub for the community to help spread eco-awareness and the use of local organic products. Extensive recycling, along with advanced waste reduction technology is used to achieve a net-zero footprint.
The Waste Reduction Challenge
The restaurant wanted to achieve a net-zero eco-footprint through the use of sustainable materials and environmentally friendly practices throughout the operation.
Unlike most restaurants that produce tons of trash each year, Mind, Body & Spirits practices recycling extensively and wanted to enhance its eco-friendly approach with advanced waste-reduction technology that would keep its trash from becoming a problem for the community and the environment.
The Somat Solution
The restaurant purchased a Somat DeHydrator System. This unit rapidly dehydrates food waste along with compostable disposables, producing a humus-rich soil amendment without the use of enzymes, fresh water or venting and with no other byproducts, resulting in zero sewer and landfill impact. Fully automatic and easy to operate using one-touch controls, the DeHydrator features an integrated revolutionary odor management system and high-efficiency heat-recovery system. It can be fed any type of food waste and yields as much as a 9-to-1 (93 percent) volume reduction.
The Results/Environmental Impact
The Somat DeHydrator System reduced volume and weight of compostable trash by 80 to 90 percent recycling it into a high-quality organic soil amendment in less than 24 hours.
In addition to using the humus-rich soil amendment in its solar greenhouse, the restaurant gives the soil amendment to local golf courses and provides it to food suppliers to add to their finished-compost piles. Members of the restaurant's wait staff have also asked to take the soil amendment home for their gardens.
Significantly reduced energy, labor and removal costs, as well as tipping and fees associated with waste-removal management.
Use of green technologies decreased the restaurant's carbon footprint, helping the environment by cutting down on greenhouse emissions.
Mind, Body & Spirits has achieved LEED Gold certification and has received multiple awards for environmental leadership.
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Cost: $150 for 15 classes, plus ~$30 for the required textbook.
For more information, go to www.brithshalom.org/yiddish, call (832) 429-8805, or email [email protected].
This class is now full, but please email [email protected] or call (832) 429-8805 for info or to receive news about upcoming activities and classes.
TUESDAYS, 7:00pm - 8:30pm CLASS TIME UPDATED: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM.
Get ready for Purim on Tuesday evening, March 19 as Yiddish bay Nakht and Congregation Brith Shalom present the 1937 classic Yiddish film, Der Purimshpiler (The Jester), directed by Joseph Green. It is a story of an itinerant purimshpiler who arrives in a town seeking work. He eventually finds a job in the shoemaker's shop, where he meets Esther, the daughter of the owner. He falls in love with her, but lacks courage to tell her.
We will serve light refreshments. Attendance is free, but we'll have a donation basket, so you can help with the costs of the event. PLEASE RSVP.
The film is in Yiddish with English subtitles.


Ashley Hall Online Spirit Store Now Open!
Ashley Hall Online Spirit Store is Now Open! Now you can purchase unique Ashley Hall merchandise without visiting campus! The Ashley Hall Online Spirit Store features unique and fun items, including shirts, bags, glasses, and more. Shop and show your Panther Pride today!


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Greyhound Package Express shipping centers and Greyhound terminal hours vary by location with many locations offering service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Fill out and submit the online account application form.
GPX does not currently grant charge account privileges to individuals. We will, however, consider applications from individuals with home-based businesses on a case by case basis.
Individuals may not ship collect. Either the individual will have to apply for a credit account, or the recipient can place a shipment over the phone, and prepay with a credit card by calling 1-800-739-5020. Our online customer portal for non-account holders is currently in development.
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Wendy Hathaway
Writer | Producer | Editor
Creative Writing Class
Posted on December 12, 2019 Updated on December 12, 2019
Last year, I enrolled in a creative writing class at Madison College. It was 16 hours of emotional torture, and I'm really happy I did it.
My intention, or hope, was to unlock something in my brain, a jumpstart give my non-fiction copywriting more spark. On the first evening, my classmates—all women, a variety of ages—took turns introducing themselves. They all arrived with a distinct backstory and purpose for being there. Some had big ideas they wanted to publish and just needed a little focus. Others were there to enjoy the exercise of writing itself.
By Week Two, I felt a deep panic start to ripen in my gut and glide through my veins and sweat glands. Our instructor gave us one exercise on main character development and another posing "6 Big Questions To Create Your Story" and the realization slammed into me like a semi: the rest of the class had fantastic plots and interesting characters percolating, already looking forward to the final assignment of sharing one page of their story with the class. I was starting from scratch, armed with experience in deftly rearranging words to fit someone else's brand guide or a 30-second voiceover, but without any stories of my own to tell.
For the next few weeks, I played along. I furtively scribbled worksheet answers, changing my story every time: from a political campaign manager with a #MeToo secret, to a horror/thriller, to an elderly woman blackmailing her neighbor into committing a jewelry heist. As my clever classmates shared incredibly creative dialogue and beautifully drawn tableaus, my voice dropped by decibels and I crouched further down in my seat.
Finally, by Week Five, I landed on a story, something that had made a few brief laps around my mind over the years and then scattered away to some private waiting room until I was ready for it.
That release from stress and worry also made the class more fun. The instructor assigned a worksheet to match a series of quotes with a series of characters. Instead of making obvious pairings, I just thought of what would make my husband and me laugh (matching the quote "Your future depends on the decisions you make today" to the Pot Smoker instead of the High School Principal or giving 7-Year-Old Colin the quote "I just got my first break-up text today").
On Week Eight, each writer read their pages aloud to the class. I was blown away by how much care and thought everyone put into their piece, how original their plots and settings and characters were, and how they infused their distinct personality and, in some cases, very personal life stories, into their words and their new worlds. (Bravo, my fellow writers! Bravo!)
The class wrapped on Dec. 13, 2018, and it's taken me an entire year to feel brave enough to share my one little page. Please enjoy.
Introduction/Background
This is set in late 1945 California. Mae McCoy and her cousin, Irene Hayes, have left their home in Wisconsin to seek adventure in glamorous Hollywood. They live with the Millers, family friends who opened their home to the 19-year-olds.
To fight off homesickness, Mae and her mother, Leigh, have been diligent pen-pals, trading letters back-and-forth that appear at the beginning of each chapter. Now that it's November, everyone on the farm is getting ready for winter. The little ones are bundling up to get to school, cousin Irene's father has been ill of late, and the neighbor's cow just escaped.
While in California, Mae and Irene take in the best (and sometimes worst) of the sunshine state. They also witness the end of World War II and a new sense of optimism; they find jobs—Irene as a secretary, Mae an assistant at a movie studio—and encounter widespread workplace sexism typical of the times; and Mae find a mentor (and boyfriend) in the handsome head screenwriter George Barrett.
"That son of a gun," Mae hissed as she flew off the bus and onto Juniper Ave., drawing a raised eyebrow from the prim woman sitting closest to the door.
Mae charged down the sidewalk at an angry clip, each click of her stacked heel on the sidewalk keeping time with the tiny, angry vein pulsing just below the skin of her temple she recalled George's cruel sneer, amused by how easily she'd fallen for him, trusted him.
"A dull no-talent skirt from small-town nowhere," her mentor—her lover—her married lover!—had smirked.
She roughly wiped a tear from her cheek, then, remembering herself, slowed to a stop around the corner from the Millers' to retrieve from her bag a handkerchief, embroidered with an "L" and an "M." Her mother's.
Taking a deep breath and chiding herself for such a public display of emotion, Mae neatly folded the hankie and returned it to her purse. She shook her head as if to wipe George and his family and the studio clean out of her mind.
She mustered a neutral expression as she reached out to open the white gate at the front of the house. As she reached behind her to click the lock shut, she noticed Irene sitting quite still on the front porch, a feat in that oversized rocking chair.
"Gee, am I glad to see you," Mae called out. "You'll never in a million guess the day I've had."
The anger, shock, and hurt began to bubble up again. "George—yes, George! George, well, I nearly don't have the words to begin. He asked me to have lunch with him, but not at the commissary, which I didn't think was strange at the time, but now—"
"Mae," Irene interrupted.
Mae looked up and looked more closely at her cousin and was surprised to see her solemn and serious, eyes rimmed in red.
"Why, Irene . . ."
"Mae." Irene, couldn't find any more words to say, a chatterbox momentarily closed up tight.
She slowly stretched her arm toward Mae to hand her a small piece of paper, sitting on top of a coarsely torn envelope.
Mae scanned the telegram. The address block, Wisconsin. News from home. Irene's father?
Then, her eyes flicked back to the top and she began to take in each word, each precisely typed serif letter becoming permanently stamped in her mind and on her heart.
Mae.
Mother has died. Heart attack. Please return home at earliest. Funeral Thurs.
With regret,
Mother? Mother, who'd written just days ago of finishing her rock garden in the front yard and shoring up the chicken coop for winter?
This was impossible.
She looked up, over the telegram, eyes locking with Irene's. At the sorrowful sight of her cousin—her sister, really—staring back at her, unblinking, Mae's knees buckled and she sank to the porch floor, subconsciously tucking her legs under her, still a lady even in her deepest moment of grief.
Irene rushed to Mae, lowering herself to the floor. Mae's stomach turned, her awareness foggy and unable to grasp the reality transmitted over two-thousand miles of telegraph wire. As they sat, she watched the paperboy pedal by. Watched Mrs. Jones across the street tend her orange-red fuchsia. Watched an ant—a single, solitary, lonely ant—crawl along the inner wall of the porch, dodging a minute paint chip. Watched as the world went on, not sure how the world could go on, feeling apart from everything: Irene's perfume, the soft evening breeze, and the heavy rumble of the city bus.
Mae blinked. Startled, she realized she was sitting at the kitchen table, hands neatly folded on the lap of her rayon dress, a cup of tea in front of her. She reached for the tea, anxious for its warmth, disappointed to find it has grown tepid. She sipped it anyhow.
Irene turned from the sink, narrowing her eyes with curiosity. "You okay?" she softly asked.
Mae breathed as deeply as she could, difficult what with the heavy iron weighing heavy on her chest, and nodded.
"Are you going home?" Irene continued.
Turning toward the calendar hanging on the cabinet to her left, Mae began to consider her travel plans. "If the funeral . . ." she paused, then cleared her throat. "If mother's funeral is Thursday, I'll have to leave on the first train tomorrow. That should get me to Spring Green by Wednesday night. Perhaps in the meantime you could write Lloyd for me, let him know when I'm arriving. Of course—"
"Mae," Irene interjected. "I meant . . . I meant, are you leaving California? For good?"
So many moments from the past seven months—good and bad, happy and funny and terrifying—rushed over Mae all at once.
A wave of sunshine the smell of salt the first time she visited the ocean, shopping with Irene and paying for an honest-to-goodness store-bought dress with her own cash. Bumping straight into George at the commissary. Sneaking into the archives, their first kiss behind a rack of period costumes while hiding from the security guard. But also Irene's mugging. The sound of Mr. Turner's roaring laughter. The violent studio worker's strike. George's secrets and lies.
Mae brushed her fingers across her breastbone, grazing her mother's necklace, and knew without a doubt.
"I'm going home."
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'use strict';

// TODO: can we express this test with only public API?
var getEventCharCode = require('../getEventCharCode');

describe('getEventCharCode', () => {
  describe('when charCode is present in nativeEvent', () => {
    describe('when charCode is 0 and keyCode is 13', () => {
      it('returns 13', () => {
        var nativeEvent = new KeyboardEvent('keypress', {
          charCode: 0,
          keyCode: 13,
        });

        expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(13);
      });
    });

    describe('when charCode is not 0 and/or keyCode is not 13', () => {
      describe('when charCode is 32 or bigger', () => {
        it('returns charCode', () => {
          var nativeEvent = new KeyboardEvent('keypress', {charCode: 32});

          expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(32);
        });
      });

      describe('when charCode is smaller than 32', () => {
        describe('when charCode is 13', () => {
          it('returns 13', () => {
            var nativeEvent = new KeyboardEvent('keypress', {charCode: 13});

            expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(13);
          });
        });

        describe('when charCode is not 13', () => {
          it('returns 0', () => {
            var nativeEvent = new KeyboardEvent('keypress', {charCode: 31});

            expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(0);
          });
        });
      });
    });
  });

  /**
    nativeEvent is represented as a plain object here to ease testing, because
    KeyboardEvent's 'charCode' event key cannot be deleted to simulate a missing
    charCode key.
  */
  describe('when charCode is not present in nativeEvent', () => {
    describe('when keyCode is 32 or bigger', () => {
      it('returns keyCode', () => {
        var nativeEvent = {keyCode: 32};

        expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(32);
      });
    });

    describe('when keyCode is smaller than 32', () => {
      describe('when keyCode is 13', () => {
        it('returns 13', () => {
          var nativeEvent = {keyCode: 13};

          expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(13);
        });
      });

      describe('when keyCode is not 13', () => {
        it('returns 0', () => {
          var nativeEvent = {keyCode: 31};

          expect(getEventCharCode(nativeEvent)).toBe(0);
        });
      });
    });
  });
});


How much difference in size is there between these two? What all can you fit into Rosemary?? And, is the Rosemary much lighter that Roxy ?
Just peeking in there now, and I have glasses case, 2 purses, mobile, business card case, hand cream, perfume, several pens, lippys, travel card, inhaler, mirror and some papers. It's full though.
I like the detatchable strap of Rosemary.
The front pockets aren't big enough for my mobile unfortunately so I use them for keys.
I had a black Rosemary which is now at Ann's Fabulous Finds. It fits every day stuff...wallet, cell, keys, pda, tissues, cosmetics clutch, ipod... It doesn't fit a water bottle, book, etc. It is a great day bag -- has that edgy look, but isn't enormous. When you sling it over your shoulder it looks plenty big! The whole definition of what's big and what's small has gotten skewed with all these ginormous bags. I loved using the Rosemary and it broke my heart to part with it, but had to fund the Roxy, which I just bought in London. Hope this helps.
Hmmm, roxie v rosie? Personally I like bigger bags so Rosie is lovely but too small for me. Roxie is sizeable but not enormous, certainly doesn't feel much bigger than my Alana & nowhere near as big as Soho. I'd opt for Roxie but, as I say, I'm a big bag girl!
OK, well just to open this up a little further - how does the Rosemary compare sizewise to the Blenheim? Is it quite a bit bigger?
Thanks for that and the answer re the two lavenders.
Thanks Hula, you are a gem!!!
hmmmm.....arent' U supposed to be on a "ban"?????????
I know, I know.....you can always scope out the next find.....I too have a yearning for the Rosemary since I "think" the Roxy may be too big for me.......I keep on lookin' at 'em and want one........UGH!!!!
I'm telling you, the Rosemary is a great bag. We are used to seeing such huge bags... When you don't fold down the top flaps of the Rosemary it looks much bigger than it is. It is a perfect size bag. Not too small, not too big, just right. And the shoulder strap is a dream. I'm amazed people don't use more Rosemarys.
Surprisingly, for someone who seems to cart everything around with her, I am extremely fond of my little Blenheims, but it is a squeeze sometimes and they're not always big enough, which is why I bought an Effie.
Will just have to curb my impatience until my visit to Shepton in May, unless I can get to York before then - but if I do that I won't have any money to spend at Shepton! Want to have a good look at the messenger bags, too, as hands free bags are so useful at times.
Dolly - do you know about our Mulberry meet on May 10???? We're meeting at Bicester Village's Mulberry store.
Good plan, every journey should incorporate a trip to SM if at all possible!!


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Q: Tensorflow.js create model from downloaded file I have a trained model, saved it with const saveResult = await model.save('localstorage://my-model-1');.
Now I want to reload it and use it again. So I want to do something like this:
async function loadModel() {
    let myModel = tf.sequential();
    myModel = await model.save('downloads://my-model-1')
    console.log(myModel);

    let outputs = myModel.predict([
        tf.tensor2d([[0, 0, 1]])
    ]);
    outputs.print();
}

But It seems like model.save returns a modelArtifactsInfo. So how could I create a model from this Object?
I followed this tutorial but they don't really explain that.
is that even possible?

A: In the tutorial it says it all:
You just have to call tf.loadModel with your savehandle which returns a promise which resolves to the loaded model or throws an error. In your case the handle would be 'localstorage://my-model-1'.
const model = await tf.loadModel('localstorage://my-model-1');

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Over the course of the next half century he is pulled along by the current of rivers, pushed by the energy of providence and influenced by the power of the human spirit. Through many travels and unexpected travails, his story offers a unique and insightful glimpse into the world of the waterfowler. Who would think that glass eyes, glued into a wooden head, could see the world so clearly?