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VA Health Care's Chronic Ailments: Long Waits And Red Tape
More than 2.5 million veterans served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they qualify for health care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. These recent vets have been putting in for more service-related conditions than previous generations, for everything from PTSD and brain injury, to the bad knees, bad backs and bad hearing that nearly every new vet seems to have.
But still, it's not the young vets are not who's filling up the VA wait lists -– that would be the more than 10 million vets of Vietnam, Korea and even World War II, who are older and need more care. And they're more likely to be the ones waiting.
Despite the ugly headlines, veterans rate their care and benefits very highly – the major hurdle for the VA is access to care.
Long Waits To Get Care
The issue of wait times has plagued the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for many years. The Department's own inspector general has issued 18 reports on the subject since 2005, all warning that veterans were waiting too long for medical appointments. It may just be simple math – the department says that in the past year primary care visits rose 50 percent while the number of primary care doctors went up just 9 present.
The recent scandal is less about the wait times and more about covering them up. The inspector general also has repeatedly warned of serious flaws in VA's internal reporting on whether a patient was seen within the target time of 14 days. VA had claimed to be seeing 90 percent of patients within 14 days; the inspector general estimated the real number at only 41 percent. Many clinics continued to "game the system," finding ways to report they had met their performance goals. This allowed executives to collect bonuses, including those at the now infamous Phoenix VA Hospital.
In April, a whistleblower who formerly worked at the Phoenix VA told CNN that executives there kept a separate list of how long patients actually waited (months) but only entered appointments into the VA's electronic database once the wait time would be 14 days or less. The whistleblower, Dr. Sam Foote, claimed as many as 40 patients died while on that list. But there is still no evidence that any of these patients died because of the wait – some of them were terminally ill.
As other whistleblowers came forward around the country, the problem of wait times and unofficial lists turned out to be systemic. The VA's Inspector general is now investigating scores of VA sites. An audit ordered by then-Secretary of the VA Eric Shinseki has estimated that 60 percent of VA facilities were gaming the system. The day he resigned, Shinseki admitted he hadn't been aware of how bad the situation was.
Slow Processing Of Disability Claims
The disability claims backlog is a separate issue from wait times. The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) processes claims of service-related injury for vets, giving them a disability rating that determines how much they may get in a monthly stipend. In spring of 2013, the number of claimants who had been waiting more than 120 days hit a peak over 600,000. Part of the problem was new, post-9/11 vets coming back from war and filing claims in high numbers. But a large part of the backlog was anticipated. In 2010, the VA decided to stop disputing many conditions linked to exposure to Agent Orange. The VA also stopped contesting claims from unexplained Gulf War Illness and combat-related PTSD, adding hundreds of thousands of new cases to the backlog.
Through a combination of mandatory overtime and use of a new electronic system (as opposed to the VA's previous decades of processing claims on paper), the backlog has been dropping steadily – it's now below half the peak in March 2013.
But some veterans' groups point out that the backlog of appealed decisions remains high – and they raise questions about whether speed has compromised accuracy.
Veterans Still Want VA Benefits
All the major veterans' service organizations say they like the care at the VA, and they think no one is better for veterans dealing with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, spinal injury and care of amputees.
Studies have shown that veterans who are getting VHA care are less likely to be among the estimated 22 veterans per day that commit suicide. The VBA can offer home loans and the post-9/11 GI bill for school, as well as emergency aid to veterans who find themselves homeless. But that's only available to vets who make it through the gantlet of red tape to get an appointment, get a disability rating, and maybe file a few appeals of decisions along the way. The term red tape possibly originated from the tape used to bind Civil War veterans' records.
Many veterans' advocates say they fear that the latest scandals will scare vets away from all the help the VA can lend. A poll in USA Today said public confidence in VA care has dropped to a new low -– just 1 in 5 had a favorable view of job government is doing at taking care of veterans.

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I am Mrs Loomes, the class teacher and together with our Teaching Assistant Mrs Boulton, we offer a vibrant, nurturing and dynamic environment in Hawthorn class. Having joined the school in September 2018, I am also supported by Mrs Megson who teaches the class every Thursday. We are a mixed class of Year 3 and some Year 4 children.
Whilst following the National Curriculum we use engaging, practical and exciting ways to make learning come alive. Our classroom is always buzzing! We build on the foundations of Key Stage 1 and as part of transition into Key Stage 2 we ensure that we nurture the children using the school values to develop their personal, social and emotional needs so that we are developing well-rounded individuals with skills for their futures.
Our approach is to build and maintain strong home-school relationships in order to support the children in their learning, and always welcome the opportunity for parents to come and see for themselves or get involved!


Apple pushed out an iOS update over the last week. It starts with a little red dot hovering over the settings icon on the home screen and then escalates to constant messages prompting us to give permission for the phone to make the switch. We may not want to change, we may even revile it, but eventually we acquiesce and allow the change to happen. What happens next is a lot like life.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of hours went into the planning for improvements, bug fixes, and usability design elements. Things were tried and tested, all the different permutations and apps run through the ringer to make sure that life was going to be better on the other side. Sound familiar? An iOS update is reminiscent of a major family move, a big job promotion, or significant life change.
However, changes - no matter how well thought out and planned - always bring unintended consequences. In the case of this iOS update, Facebook Pages has become glitchy. When scrolling down the screen, it seems to flip back to the top, over and over again. Annoying, right? Something similar happened with a different app the last time the operating system was updated.
What happens when best laid plans result in a new problem? We react, improvise, and adapt. In the case of Apple, I imagine that teams of techno geeks are frantically trying to design a solution to this, and probably other, negative results of a significant iOS update.
This one felt less like a bug fix update and more like a let's play with the user experience update. Things look and feel different. Functionality that previously felt intuitive, now feels hidden. In the end, the changes are most certainly meant to improve the overall experience, but in the early days, it feels like a big fat mistake.
How often have you moved into a new community or job and felt similarly? How often have you wanted to press the reset button and go back to the way things were before?
The Apple geeks will fix things over the coming days and by the time we think about the glitch we were experiencing, everything will be seamless and life will have moved on. Quickly we'll forget that a major change has occurred and we will have figured everything out to the point that we won't remember what life was like before.


Multi purpose heavy lifter. The attenuators reduce level, audio or CV, when switch is set to off. With the switch up the audio or signal passing through at full level. The inputs are linked together; patching into channel 1 drives both attenuators; patching into channel 2 breaks the link. Experimentation with key tracking to create alternative tunings, or interaction with audio inputs that don't afford attenuation—does good things.


The word "authethtic" has never felt so apt as when I use it to describe the offerings from Masala Zone. I am a frequent visitor to this place and it all started with my very first visit 2 years ago.New to London, needless to say terribly homesick , my husband decided to treat me to some delicious Indian cuisine. He couldn't have chosen a better place.
I love Indian street foods,so gorging on CHAATS was in order.A masala Coke is lovely with the chaats and I can rarely stop at one masala coke. We went A' la carte and got some spicy dal (lentil curry) and plain rice to go with it,closest in comparison to, my favourite comfort food which is varan bhaath- meaning simple yellow moong dal with ghee and steaming boiled rice!
Image below is of Sev Puri- thats small fired crunchy puris topped with mashed potato mix spiced with finely chopped tomatoes,sev which is the fine yellow crisp gram vermicelli,green mango bits and a tangy tamrind chutney with some finely chopped coriander sprinkled all over.
Image above is fried onion fritterr called Bhajiya in Hindi – thin slices of onion coated with gram flour mixed with spices and deep fried served with green chutney and tangy tamrind chutney.
In the image above there's 2 plates of Ragda Pattice and a plate of Dahi Puri in between- Absolute CHAATilicious !Ragda Pattice is fried potato patty served with a gravy made from dried white peas cooked in a thick garvy and spiced with many different flavours topped off with various chutneys and sev. Dahi Puri is made by stuffing the puffed puris with a mix of mashed potatoes,sprouts,chutneys,sev and adding dollops of flavoured curd over it.Great for those who want to try a chaat dish and still avoid anything too spicy as the curd http://onhealthy.net soothes your palate.
Last month we had a lot of friends and family visit us from India and U.S.A, all craving to have "authentic" Indian food. All the edible looking snaps I have taken with my new Samsung Galaxy sIII are taken over several dinners.
Highly recommended are the tasty and varied "Regular thalis" (mixed platter with a lentils,vegetable preparation of the day,another mix vegetable,some fried papad, rotis or rice as you choose,a sweet mango chutney, a green chutney and the main curry dish that you choose from the veg or non veg menu)which are quite filling and satisfy any cravings one has of either sea food,lamb,chicken or just good old plain veggie fare. Down it with some Mango Lassi and you are well on your way to food heaven. One has to choose the gravy dish from their menu to go with a thali or their choice, I love Roghan Josh – a spicy lamb curry and both chicken gravys one with a coconut gravy and the other spicier and packs a real punch.The staff are quite helpfull, friendly and will explain each item in your thali once it arrives which is great considering the many tourists who come here.
If your planning an early dinner , a beer or wine with some chaat dish or fried pakodas is apt.
If you want to go the whole hog, the dessert not to be missed is a serving of GulabJamun with Ice cream topped with pistachios.A perfectly sweet end to a meal fit for a king.
As their website says,it's the place to go to for "seductive Indian desserts","Sophistcated Indian Grills" and really wholesome Thali's.
Masala Zone has 8 outlets in London, the one at SOHO,also the only one I have visited several times.
The service at this branch is prompt and most times it's crowded especially on weekend evenings,if you are going in a big group to this particular branch, it makes sense to book yourselves a table.It's a short walk from Oxford Circus tube station off the lively Carnaby Street area.
To check out Masala Zone's website click on the hyperlink.


Clare tells the Minister for Social Protection that the scandalous way the CRC Pension Plan was wound up has to be addressed, and warns him that if he doesn't act, there will be far-reaching implications for other Defined Benefit pension schemes.
Clare on the unilateral wind-up of the CRC pension scheme, undertaken without any consultation with staff who had paid into it all their working lives. The treatment of staff throughout has been shocking, and there are major questions around why the scheme needed to be wound up at all. Transcript below.
Deputy Clare Daly: There is something incredibly rotten around this. It has the potential to put other CRC controversies into the shade. Overnight, unilaterally and without warning, a pension scheme was shut down that loyal staff members had paid into all their working lives. Subsequent to that decision, those staff members have been unable to meet the members of the board of the CRC who have no problem going to a gala dinner in the Burlington tonight. It is absolutely reprehensible.


You only had to look at the beaming smiles on the faces of the Iranian negotiating team to see who had emerged as the undisputed winners of the drawn-out negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme.
Iranians have long enjoyed a reputation for being wily negotiators, but the outcome of the marathon talks that concluded in Vienna amidst a fanfare of mutual congratulation will have surpassed even their wildest expectations.
Tehran entered these talks, let us not forget, out of sheer desperation to escape the crippling effects of the economic sanctions imposed by the West in retaliation for Iran's less-than-forthright disclosures about its nuclear activities.
These included building a heavily fortified underground uranium enrichment facility at Natanz (whose existence was exposed by the Iranian opposition in 2003) and a similar establishment built deep within a mountain at Fordow (whose existence was exposed by British intelligence in 2009).
Iran's obsession with acquiring the ability to enrich uranium well beyond the level required for civilian and commercial applications, as well as its concurrent investment in building ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, has led Western intelligence to conclude – not unreasonably – that Tehran has been working on a clandestine atomic weapons programme.
One of the main objectives of the Vienna talks, part of a diplomatic process that first began more than a decade ago, has been to get to the bottom of Tehran's deliberate obfuscations. Western officials wanted to establish whether a country that is sitting on the world's second largest oil reserves was seriously developing an indigenous nuclear power industry, or something far more sinister.
Yet such is the Iranians' negotiating skill that, despite years of intense diplomatic activity on the part of the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany), we are still no closer to understanding precisely what they have been up to.
Attempts to force Iran to account for all the glaring inconsistencies that have arisen over the years in its declarations to the International Atomic Energy Agency have drawn a blank, with the Iranians claiming that the perfectly reasonable requests made by Western diplomats for clarification are insulting and disrespectful.
The proper response by the White House to Iran's refusal to cooperate should have been to keep the sanctions in place until the ayatollahs demonstrated a genuine desire to come clean. This was the attitude that prevailed in Washington during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose defiant attitude simply resulted in Tehran suffering further economic hardship.
And yet, far from holding the Iranians to account for their deception, we now have the bizarre situation where we have world leaders from Washington to Tehran – even including Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad – celebrating the conclusion of a deal which leaves us none the wiser about Iran's true nuclear intentions. Moreover, the deal set out in Vienna yesterday allows Iran to retain vital capabilities that can be used for making nuclear weapons, such as developing more sophisticated methods of enriching uranium to weapons grade, as well as continuing development work on its ballistic missile programme.
In return, Iran can now look forward to having the sanctions lifted as well as the global freeze on its assets, which could result in Tehran realising an estimated $150 billion (around £100 billion) in funds. No wonder the Iranian negotiators are celebrating their "historic" deal.
The main reason we have ended up with this apology for a deal is that, rather than maintain the economic pressure on Iran until it guaranteed proper cooperation, President Barack Obama indicated he was more interested in securing his foreign policy legacy by signing a historic accord, irrespective of the concessions this would require.
Mr Obama might have convinced himself that the deal cuts off all of Iran's "pathways to nuclear weapons", but that is certainly not how the deal will be viewed by those who have more intimate knowledge of the Iranian regime's devious tactics, such as the Saudis and the Gulf states.
Rather than being reassured that Tehran's nuclear ambitions have been thwarted, they will view with alarm the prospect of a resurgent Iran, unfettered by economic constraints, seeking new opportunities to dominate its Gulf rivals.
It is no doubt with this in mind that Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to London, warned in his recent interview with The Daily Telegraph that the Saudis might be prepared to acquire nuclear weapons of their own to defend themselves from further acts of Iranian aggression. If Mr Obama really believes his "historic" deal is going to bring peace to the region, then he needs to think again.


Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary's Dante Booker, back, watches as Travonte Junius, right, strips the ball from Bellevue quarterback Jalen Santoro in the fourth quarter of the Division III state high school football championship in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012.
AKRON — It's not that watching Ohio State lose the Big Ten Championship Game and its 24-game win streak last Saturday night was the worst thing to happen to Dante Booker Jr.
It's that Booker is on quite a run of nothing bad happening.
Maybe hitting a couple red lights in a row. Maybe a day out of school with a sore throat.
Maybe. The Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary senior linebacker's run of good fortune and good play culminated last week with Booker being named Ohio's Mr. Football and his team completing a 15-0 season with a 24-0 shutout of Trotwood-Madison to win its second straight Div. III state championship.
He's the first Mr. Football winner since Brandon Saine in 2006 to be committed to Ohio State, but for now he doesn't want to talk about the future or how quickly he might make an impact at the next level. A moment to enjoy all that's happened lately has been well earned.
At 6'4, 220, he looks the part, and in the 2013 season he played the part of game changer, too. He finished the season with more than 130 tackles, eight sacks and three defensive touchdowns. With Booker playing inside linebacker next to Newman Williams, a rugged 245-pounder who recently committed to Akron, opponents found very little success trying to run on St. V-M. Booker used his athletic gifts — long strides, long arms and a nose for the ball — to make big plays and solidify his status as Scout.com's fifth-best outside linebacker prospect nationally in the class of 2014.
He even caught a long pass while lined up as a wide receiver in the state championship game. TV replays showed that he actually lost the ball on the turf while trying to complete the catch, but there are no instant replay challenges in high school football.
When things are going well, they're just going well. It was last Wednesday, the day before St. V-M's state championship game, when Booker found out he'd been named Mr. Football.
He found out the old-fashioned way: Via Twitter. He'd checked his voicemail and had a message from a reporter, and acting on a hunch he decided to scroll through Twitter.
There it was, the 27th winner of Ohio's Mr. Football award. Booker kept scrolling, just to make sure he was really seeing what he thought he was. Before he called anyone, he said he took a second to reflect on his journey.
"I'm growing up, starting to break out of my shell," Booker said. "I just feel more comfortable talking to people. Recruiting and (the spotlight), it's a lot to handle at first. I'm kind of a quiet guy. Getting the recruiting stuff overwith (last spring) was good. I had a clear head and good focus. I think it was good to have that out of the way.
His rest was a quick one. Booker is playing basketball for St. V-M again this season after not playing his first two years of high school.
"Playing varsity football as a freshman, I thought I had to devote all my time to that — to lifting, just getting ready for the next season," Booker said. "I stopped playing basketball and that was a mistake. I feel like it made me a lot faster. I think playing basketball is why I went out to Oregon last summer (for the Nike Opening) and ran 4.5 (in the 40-yard dash).
Booker's father was a defensive tackle at Auburn in the late 1990s before a quick stint in the NFL and a longer one in the Canadian Football League. He's also known around Akron for the time he shattered a backboard as a high school basketball player.
Booker Jr. said he spoke with Auburn coaches during the recruiting process, and out of the dozens of offers he also strongly considered Louisville and Notre Dame. Ohio State, though, already had a committment from his high school teammate Parris Campbell, has a need to upgrade the talent and depth at linebacker and has a bunch of momentum created by 24 wins in 25 games under Urban Meyer, who's building a third-straight strong recruiting class.
Next week, the St. V-M basketball team goes to Florida to play in the City of Palms Classic. A few days after Christmas, Booker heads to San Antonio to play in the Army All-American Bowl in early January.
On the weekend after winning Mr. Football and another state championship, he said he slept so long that he woke up "wondering where the time went." He woke up smiling, though.


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Tuesday, Mar 28 2017
With 2018 Midterms In Not-Too-Distant Future, Each Move On Health Is Politically Fraught
Republicans may be stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to addressing health care. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump hits a new low in the polls after his failure to make a deal on the Republican plan, and ads are already running against a lawmaker who supported the American Health Care Act.
The New York Times: 2018 Dilemma For Republicans: Which Way Now On Obamacare?
As they come to terms with their humiliating failure to undo the Affordable Care Act, Republicans eyeing next year's congressional campaign are grappling with a new dilemma: Do they risk depressing their conservative base by abandoning the repeal effort or anger a broader set of voters by reviving a deeply unpopular bill even closer to the midterm elections? (Martin, 3/28)
The New York Times: The Republicans In Power: From 'We Got This' To 'What Now?'
The new Republican government is in deep trouble.President Trump and his majorities in the House and Senate had hoped to head out for their spring break celebrating the chest-thumping accomplishments of finally gutting President Barack Obama's health care law and installing a conservative Supreme Court justice. They were determined to show the American public: We got this. (Hulse, 3/27)
Politico: Gallup: Trump Hits New Low After Health Care Flop
President Donald Trump's approval rating slipped to a new low Monday in the Gallup daily tracking poll, the first measure of Trump's job performance following his administration's failure to move a new health care law through Congress. Only 36 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president in interviews conducted last Friday through Sunday, a time period entirely after Republicans abandoned their bill to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act. (Shepard, 3/27)
Seattle Times: Reichert Is Target Of Attack Ads Over GOP Health Plan
Via ads on social media and YouTube, a leading Democratic election committee is attacking Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, for his defense earlier this month of House Republicans' failed health-care overhaul. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) launched the digital campaign Monday on sites including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The ads against Reichert are part of a broad effort targeting more than a dozen GOP House members who at one point supported the GOP plan for replacing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. (Lee, 3/27)


Many people, including experienced project managers, have never used (or even seen!) a Gantt chart for tracking project progress, despite it being one of the most useful and intuitive tools for the job. Gantt charts are ancient compared to modern project management techniques, being invented over 100 years ago, but they are still as relevant today as they were back then.
Simply put, a Gantt chart is a visual representation that tracks the progress of all the elements in a project and allows the project manager to express their creative side a bit. A good Gantt chart provides a lot of information about project tasks, including when each one should start and end, who is responsible for each task and if there is any overlap between the various tasks.
It effectively communicates project progress. A Gantt chart allows all team members to easily and quickly see which tasks they need to work on, when they should have started the task as well as the deadline for the task. It's a great tool for project managers to see how the project is progressing as a whole and which areas may need more attention.
Gantt charts promote efficiency by planning the entire project, start to finish. Team members can manage their time more effectively because they know when they should be starting their tasks, without having to wait for feedback from other team members.
Gantt charts are flexible, allowing for changes to be made even after the project has started. Project managers can put in as much, or as little, information as they want in the chart, depending on their particular project management needs.
How do you use a Gantt chart?
When drawing up a Gantt chart, the first step is to identify the activities that need to be tracked. Each activity should contribute to the overall end goal of the project and be manageable, realistic and have a set start and end date. Some activities may require others to be completed first and this will also be reflected in the chart. Once the activities have been charted, a timeline of how long each task should take can be included, as well as the people responsible for the activity and the resources needed to complete the task.
The Gantt chart can be drawn up either manually on paper, if you're old-fashioned, or digitally, using Excel or dedicated software. The X-axis of the Gantt chart represents time, broken down into useful increments depending on the scope of the project (days, weeks, months, decades, etc.). The Y-axis represents the various tasks and expected milestones and can also include the people responsible, or the resources needed, for the task.
Gantt charts can be simple or intimidatingly complex, depending on the scope and depth of the project. The chart below is an example of a simple Gantt chart, taken from the Workep software.
Even if you don't know your HBMC from your GMBH, this example shows off the basic components of a good Gantt chart. It's easy to see what the tasks are, their start and end dates and the people responsible for each of them. Each of the teams can quickly see what tasks they are responsible for and when these tasks are expected to start and finish.
Gantt charts are a simple, yet powerful, way of planning and tracking a project throughout its lifetime. Even if they appear to be old and unfashionable, they're a valuable tool in any project managers arsenal.


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Unemployment rate edges up in July as job…
Unemployment rate edges up in July as job growth slows
August 3, 2007 at 2:13 a.m.
WASHINGTON – Hiring cooled off in July, pushing the nation's unemployment up to 4.6 percent, a six-month high.
The fresh snapshot of employment conditions around the country, released by the Labor Department Friday, also showed that new job creation slowed. Employers increased payrolls by 92,000 last month, the fewest add-ons in a single month since February.
Job losses in construction, manufacturing, retailing and by the government blunted gains in education and health care, professional and business services, and leisure and hospitality.
Even with the uptick from June's 4.5 percent unemployment rate, the current jobless rate is still low by historical standards. Those with jobs, meanwhile, did see modest wage gains.
Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics, likened the new figures to a modest middle ground, saying the job market is "running not too hot and not too cold."
Another report showed that growth in the service sector – an engine of the U.S. economy – also slowed in July.
The Institute for Supply Management's index dipped to 55.8, from 60.7 in June. Readings above 50 indicate expansion, while those below 50 indicate contraction.
On Wall Street, stocks sank. The Dow Jones industrials were down more than 100 points in morning trading.
The latest batch of economic reports is consistent with analysts' forecasts that the economy will grow gradually – but not like gangbusters- through the rest of this year. The economy has been coping with fallout from the sour housing market, problems with higher-risk subprime mortgages and troubles in the automotive sector.
The news comes as President Bush has been trying to counter weak public-approval ratings for his handling of the economy. Only 37 percent approve of his performance, close to a record low, according to a recent AP-Ipsos poll.
The new employment picture was weaker than economists expected. They were forecasting employers to add around 135,000 jobs in July and for the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.5 percent. The new figures suggest the jobs climate wasn't as robust as first thought at the start of the third quarter.
However, Edward Lazear, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, said the business appetite to hire "is still very strong." The labor market, he said, has been a "shining beacon" even as the economy made its way through a sluggish spell over the last year.
Wages grew modestly.
Average hourly earnings rose to $17.45, a 0.3 percent increase from June. That matched economists' expectations. Over the past 12 months, wages grew by 3.9 percent.
Wage growth supports consumer spending, a major ingredient in healthy overall economic activity. Still, workers pinched by high gasoline and food prices may not feel their paychecks are growing as much as they like.
Many economists expect the Fed to hold an important interest rate at 5.25 percent next week, extending a more than yearlong breather for borrowers. Before that, the central bank had boosted rates for two years to thwart inflation.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues, however, still believe inflation is a potential threat to the economy. One of the things they are watching closely is whether the sturdy labor market – which has allowed some workers to command higher wages and benefits – could add inflationary pressures.
Out-of-control inflation shrinks paychecks, erodes purchasing power and eats into the value of investments.
Job growth in May and June turned out to be slightly weaker than the government previously thought.
The economy added 126,000 jobs in June, fewer than the 132,000 first reported. In May, employers boosted payrolls by 188,000, versus 190,000 previously estimated.
The job market still remains strong, but the toll of housing slump, seesawing economic activity and high energy prices are catching up with employers.
Construction companies slashed 12,000 jobs in July. Manufacturers shed 2,000 and retailers cut a thousand. Some 28,000 government jobs were eliminated. In contrast, education and health care added 39,000. Leisure and hospitality expanded employment by 22,000. Professional and business services added 26,000 new positions.
The 4.6 percent jobless rate was the highest since January, when the unemployment rate also stood at 4.6 percent.
At the start of this year, the economy nearly stalled, growing at a pace of just 0.6 percent, the slowest in more than four years. The economy rebounded in the April-to-June quarter, logging a rate of 3.4 percent, the best in more than a year. Growth in the July-to-September quarter is expected to be more subdued, possibly just under 3 percent.
Across the country, the time it took to find a job grew.
The average time the 7.9 million unemployed people spent in their job searches was 17.2 weeks in July. up from 16.8 weeks in June.
Worries about the sour housing market along with fears that problems with higher-risk subprime mortgages will spread, caused stocks to crater last week. The carnage left the Dow Jones industrials down more than 585 points, its worst week in five years. Stocks have gyrated since then, reflecting lingering anxiety among investors.


Dubspot catches up with esteemed DJ, Producer and Bedrock Records founder, John Digweed at Movement Festival in Detroit to hear about his ever evolving career, changes in DJ technology and the inspiration he draws from.
Starting to DJ at age 15, Digweed emerged as one of progressive house's most revered ambassadors, touring the world as the genre hit it's peak in the late 1990s-early 2000s. In addition to running his "Bedrock" label, he and fellow producer Nick Muir also released original music using this name as an alias. Over the years, Digweed has worked with other collaborators such as DJ Sasha and together, "Sasha & Digweed" have become one of the most critically acclaimed in the progressive genre. Together, they have released several now classic mixes with labels such as Global Underground and Renaissance and in the early 2000s the duo toured the United States by tour bus on their famed "Delta Heavy" tour.
Stream CD1 and CD3 below and head over to www.versusalbum.com for more details.


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Q: Jasmine - testing promises. How to test function in callback? I have (Angular.js 1.5 + ng-redux) code:
update: function(itemId, value) {
  return function(dispatch, getState) {
    var params;
    params = {
      id: itemId,
      action: value
    };
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      dispatch({
        type: "CHANGE_STETE",
        itemId: itemId,
        output: results
      });
    });
  };
}

or coffeescript:
update: (itemId, value) -> (dispatch, getState) ->
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    action: value
  }
resultsAPI.change(params).then(results) ->
  dispatch({
    type: "CHANGE_STATE"
    itemId: itemId
    output: results
  })

I want to write a test to see if request to API has been made with correct parameters.
I would also check if after .then() dispatch function is called. Any ideas on how to go about it?

A: it "call dispatch after .then", ->
  filterId = 1
  value  = "stop"

  params =
    id: filterId
    action: value

  dispatch = jasmine.createSpy("dispatch")
  dispatch = =>
      type: "CHANGE_STATE"
      filterId: 2

  spyOn(@resultsAPI, "change").and.callFake(-> dispatch())
  @ngRedux.dispatch(update())
  @InvestigationsResultsAPI.changeState(params)
  dispatch()
  expect(dispatch).toHaveBeenCalled()

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Renewable energy to account for 42% of power generation in Morocco by 2020
Greentech Lead Africa: Renewable energy is expected to
account for 42 percent of power generation in Morocco by 2020.
Surging demand and a strong need to reduce dependency
from expensive coal and oil imports, have motivated the recent development of the
renewable energy sector.
The Moroccan electricity market has been growing steadily at nearly 6-8 percent
annually in the last ten years. This trend is expected to continue at about 5-7
percent for the next ten years, following GDP growth forecasts of 5.5 percent.
The country has embarked on an ambitious electricity generation capacity-build
program to raise installed capacity from 6,350 MW in 2010 to 14,500 MW by 2020,
as electricity consumption is expected to almost double in the corresponding
Investments will reach an estimated MAD 138 billion in new generation
infrastructure (2012-2020) and MAD 21.3 billion in network expansion
(2011-2015). Renewable energy should account for 18 percent of power generation
by 2012 and 42 percent by 2020.
"In an attempt to develop all energy resources available in the country, and to
reduce its dependence on imported coal, the Moroccan government has decided to
launch an ambitious wind and solar power program. This renewable energy program
aims to build 4,000 MW of additional capacity by 2020," said Frost &
Sullivan's Energy and Power Systems Research Analyst Celine Paton.
The Moroccan electricity market is developing rapidly, with substantial
investments planned in the next ten years, in order to follow steady demand
growth and eventually meet the export potential of green power to Europe, in
line with Article 9 of the E.U.
While the government's plans are ambitious, it has struggled to meet targets in
the past. For instance, the reserve margin decreased to worrying levels in 2007
and 2008, due to significant delays in completing new generation facilities.
The commissioning of new facilities in 2009 and 2010, combined with an
expansion of the transit capacity between Morocco and Spain (inducing an
increase of electricity imports from Spain), has helped resolve the issue.
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Play and fast forward mean that you activated to use with an integrated land line and it can't find the dial tone from your land line on the wall port.
if i bypassed using the intergrated system is there another way to use?
Call customer support and ask them to switch your service to the non-integrated land line mode.
The unit will then be a stand alone phone system.
You still not clarify if you have land line integration, ie you have a backup land line which plugs into ooma WALL port before switching to DSL.
In this situation as Murphy suggested.
You should call CS and ask them to change your ooma to without a land line option. I the mean time, if you have what I call a DSL splitter, use it on the DSL jack, and connect the green DSL phone cord to the jack labeled DSL, and with a regular phone cord, connect the remain jack (labeled phone) to the ooma WALL port. See if your hub turn blue now.
1. As murphy and tommies suggested - Call ooma and have them remove the landline integration. It works poorly with DSL.
2. Unplug anything that is connected to the WALL port on your ooma.
3. Plug a cordless base or corded phone into the PHONE port of the ooma.
4. Enjoy your ooma system.
5. If you want to distribute dialtone after performing the first 4 steps, we can help with that too. But it will require following instructions.
Nothing personal, just trying to help and relieve a MUTUAL frustration.
OK, take a deep breath. I'm sorry I seemed harsh - I get that way sometimes and just need someone to slap me upside the head to bring me back to the real world. Please forgive me!
You know, this VoIP stuff may be rocket science, but there are a lot of us duffers who have managed to make it work and I think that's a goal for all of us - to help you be successful after all. For some reason, ooma has chosen to allow customers to use their landline as part of their ooma setup. For the life of me, I have a hard time finding any real advantages that can't be achieved otherwise - but they still keep on recommending it when you call in. That's a personal rant of mine because it actually drives customers away because it works so poorly.
From your experience as a wire harness fabricator, think of it like this: ooma gives you the option of either using your (ship/airplane/race car) in stand alone mode - where all you do is power it up and navigate to where you are going - or you can have an integrated power cord that needs to be plugged in. If you choose integration, it will limit you to the length of your power cord. I know this is an over simplification, but to me it makes your system much more limited. I think they do it because their original technical model and business plan required it - in the original ooma they actually completed calls using other user's landlines. This didn't last long thank goodness. But they kept the integration option - very strange.
1. To have your ooma system work as it is advertised and provide great phone service including all offered features.
2. To relieve you of long distance charges and the need to have a landline (unless you can save money having one or want one for backup in case a power outage takes down your Internet). In my area, Qwest provides DSL and voice. If the power goes out, battery backup keeps the landline working with corded phones - but the DSL is not backed up so it goes dead. It is a nice thing to still have good phone service when the lights are out because my cell service is not the best where we live.
If you want to accomplish this, the first thing to do tomorrow morning is to call ooma at 888 711-6662 and have them remove the landline integration. If you gave up your ooma number, then ask for it back. Then, after they have done this, unplug your ooma and all the cables connected to it. I assume that your DSL modem/router is working OK for your computer now, but if not, connect it up like ATT said, with a cable going to the DSL jack on your wall to the appropiate port on the modem/router. If you can reach the Internet from a connected computer, then connect a cable from one of the Ethernet ports on the router to the Internet port on your ooma. Then connect up the ooma power supply. The ooma will go through a boot process and then be ready for action. If it is a hub (the white original unit) the little tab should turn blue. If it is a Telo, the lights should all be blue. Then plug a phone into the PHONE jack on the ooma device. Try making a call - you should hear the signature dialtone and be able to complete a call. You should be able to use a cell phone or your landline to call your ooma number and it should ring and be capable of completing the call. If this all works, then your system is working.
I don't believe you told us how you would like to use the system - with a multi-handset cordless or to distribute your dialtone throughout the house - but after you get things running by following the above, post your desires and we'll be able to walk you through making it all work. Your experience as a wire harness fabricator will make it a piece of cake to get it to work just the way you want it to.


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Naucrates (en llatí, Naucrates, en grec antic ) fou un orador grec anomenat Erythraeus per Suides (Ἐρυθραίος Ναυκρατίτης, Naucrates d'Eritrea).

Va ser deixeble d'Isòcrates d'Atenes. L'any 352 aC va competir per un premi en oratòria al millor discurs funerari ofert per la reina Artemísia II de Cària pel funeral del seu germà i marit, Mausol.

Principalment va escriure sobre temes retòrics, i discursos judicials i polítics. A partir d'una cita de Ciceró, sembla que va compartir i defensar la necessitat del perfeccionament tècnic en oratòria que ensenyava el seu mestre. Quintilià per la seva banda diu que va ser el primer en utilitzar la paraula στάσις com a terme tècnic adequat per indicar l'estat de la qüestió d'un cas judicial. Va dedicar-se també a escriure discursos funeraris, que s'han perdut, dirigits a persones de fama pública reconeguda, segons Dionís d'Halicarnàs.

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Eritreus
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If you're reading this you've probably accidentally stumbled across this quiz. to be honest I wouldn't recommend doing it because this book isn't published or finished yet. It's just so I can keep track of the types of questions i'd put to categorise some of the characters yknow?
Does your personality resemble one of the characters from the Bartimaeus Trilogy? Take this quiz to find out!
Which Maze Runner character are you?
Do you want to know which sister you are in this awesome series? Find out in this quiz. (Also, I am Skye, by the way!: D) Note: Please take this quiz only if you have read at least the first three books.
Are you a golden king in a guard's armor, or a half-trained wizard with hat proclaiming, "Wizzard"?
You've probably read the series, and you probably want a kingdom to be proud of. Well, here's the official Royal Island Kingdom Sorting Quiz V.1! Are you Oceanian, Solarian, Spritian, Rainian or Florian? Take this quiz to find out!
Which one of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants girls are you like?
OK BE HONEST or the answer won't really mean anything! You could get Lena, Bridget, and Carmen, OR Tibby. They're ALL good!
What Unwanteds character are you?
This test is a test to see which character you are in the Unwanteds (Only people in the 7th book) Anyway, there will be a series of questions that you MUST answer truthfully. The people you can get are: Alex, Lani, Sky, Samheed, Kaylee, Aaron or Meghan (Yes I know Meghan dies tragically, it wouldn't be nice not to include her though) Also the last question does NOT count, that is just for an opinion on if the quiz was good or not.
What house of Night character are you? Zoey, Aphrodite, Erik, Stevie-Rae, or the Twins?


Cemal Gursel Stadyumu | Erzurumspor Stadium.
Cemal Gursel Stadyumu Capacity and Stadium Guide.
Cemal Gursel Stadyumu is a football stadium located in the city/town of Erzurum in Turkey, Europe. Cemal Gursel Stadyumu has a maximum stadium capacity of 17400 spectators. Erzurumspor are the main occupants of the stadium. Erzurumspor play their domestic home football fixtures at Cemal Gursel Stadyumu.


Food Network Kitchen: A Atlanta, GA Restaurant.
Atlanta's airport, Hartsfield-Jackson International, is one of the world's busiest, and the dining scene there is chock-full of culinary destinations to sate the appetites of many a traveler. Food Network Kitchen is one among the culinary gems, serving as a grab-and-go market for the daredevil travelers who show up with with just a few minutes to spare before takeoff, and a cafe for the nervous traveler to sit down and enjoy salads, soups, and sandwiches on the ground, and at a table that isn't a flip-down tray. Plus, you can enjoy it with a glass of wine to calm those travel anxieties.


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Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, BT37 9DG is within the Newtownabbey policing neighbourhood, under the Police Service of Northern Ireland force area. For non-urgent queries, contact 101. For emergency assistance, please contact 999. In February 2019, 32 crimes were reported within half a mile of BT37 9DG.
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Our Take Europe needs a continent-wide buy-in on a new strategic approach to tackling authoritarian interference, ASD argues in a comprehensive report that details European efforts to defend against such threats and identifies specific, actionable [...]
Online Harms White Paper: Open Consultation Submission to the U.K. Parliament
By Bradley Hanlon|2019-06-28T09:53:36-04:00June 27, 2019|Policy Paper|
The following is an introduction to the submission by ASD Intern Amber Frankland In April 2019, the United Kingdom's Home Office published its Online Harms White Paper, which proposed a regulatory framework designed to address the prevalence of "il [...]
The ASD European Policy Blueprint For Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies
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Our Take Partisan politics stands in the way of implementing many commonsense measures to address foreign interference in U.S. democratic processes, ASD Deputy Director Dave Salvo argues in an op-ed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Disinformation su [...]
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HÜSKER DÜ Released Their Raging Punk Debut Album 'EVERYHTING FALLS APART' 40 Years Ago
Band: HÜSKER DÜ
Who: Highly praised post-punk trio from Saint-Paul, Minneapolis
featuring Bob Mould, Greg Norton and Greg Hart
Active: 1979-1988
Anniversary LP: EVERYTHING FALLS APART
Released: January 1983 via Reflex Records
50 years ago this month.
AllMusic: "The trio demonstrates that it's capable of powerful noise, but not songcraft,
the only song with a discernible hook is their thrashing cover of Donovan's "Sunshine Superman." Still, the band's hardcore is better than many of its contemporaries because its grasp of noise is superior. Even with the inconsistent songwriting, Everything Falls Apart rages with layers of blistering guitars and scorching rhythms that are exciting in their own right." Score: 3/5.
TUTV: A studio album that sounds like it was canned in a filthy basement with no decent recording material, resulting in a raw, rough, and rip-roaring PUNK rager. Definitely not their best, but as good as the noise competition of that era.
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When smartphone addiction starts to hurt: Find out how smartphone shopping app, Pioneer smartphone app and smartphone survey app can help
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Lueczke says many people are struggling to find ways to save money, including the smartphone app.
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"Just open the app, put down some money and it's up to you what you want to do with that money."
She says smartphone addiction is a serious problem and many people struggle to find out the right way to get rid of their smartphones.
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Lueske says people who are addicted to smartphones have to find different ways to keep the money they have on them.
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Another Trump Coup: Morocco Agrees to Diplomatic Relations with Israel
The primary coup involving President Trump is that the Democrats have been working on for years to get him out of office, but Trump himself has pulled off a
December 14, 2020 by Robert Spencer Leave a Comment
The primary coup involving President Trump is that the Democrats have been working on for years to get him out of office, but Trump himself has pulled off a few coups of his own, of a very different kind. Another came Thursday, when the President tweeted: "Another HISTORIC breakthrough today! Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations – a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!" Even as the multiply-failed foreign policy establishment is poised to reassert its hegemony and reapply its massively discredited and futile policies, Trump, the outsider President, is showing them how it's done.
The Morocco deal, like the previous one between Israel and Sudan, seems to be a straightforward bargain. Trump also tweeted Thursday: "Today, I signed a proclamation recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara. Morocco's serious, credible, and realistic autonomy proposal is the ONLY basis for a just and lasting solution for enduring peace and prosperity!"
So Morocco gets recognition of its sovereignty over the Western Sahara, and the world gets another step toward peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. No one thought it could be done, except, of course, Donald Trump. Back in September, when Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates signed their deals with Israel, Trump stated: "We're here this afternoon to change the course of history. After decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East." This was accurate. These "Abraham Accords" have already changed the entire landscape of the Middle East, as for the first time in decades, pragmatic considerations are taking precedence over the fixed ideas that have guided the foreign policy stances of all the Muslim and Arab countries regarding Israel.
Although this aspect of the conflict has been little noted and is still routinely ignored by foreign policy analysts, the Muslim world's opposition to Israel has not been based upon conflicting claims for land or anything else, but upon core principles of the Islamic religion. As The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process shows, the Qur'an commands Muslims to "drive them out from where they drove you out" (2:191). Even though it is a historical fiction that Israel actually drove Muslim Arabs out, this claim is a staple of pro-Palestinian propaganda, and hence it is a divine imperative, no more negotiable than the Ten Commandments are for Jews and Christians, that Muslims must destroy Israel and "drive out" the Israelis.
That means that as long as pious, believing, knowledgeable Muslims are in charge in Muslim countries, which is by no means always the case, no negotiated settlement will ever establish Israel securely and end the jihad against it. That in turn is why analysts ignore Islam when considering the conflict: people don't like bad news, or problems that cannot be solved. Nonetheless, this is the reality of the situation, and no good can ever come from ignoring reality.
Why, then, did Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and now Morocco normalize relations with Israel? Because it was in their interests to do so. Sudan was taken off the terror list in exchange for normalization. The Islamic Republic of Iran has for years claimed Bahrain as Iran's nineteenth province, and the UAE likewise feels the heat of being in close proximity to one of the world's leading state sponsors of terror. In a certain sense, these deals with Israel are a byproduct of Barack Obama's decision to send billions to the mullahs' tottering regime: a newly secure and empowered mullahcracy threatens Bahrain and the UAE, and so it was in their best interests to look for assistance from a country that Iran also menaces.
Now, with the mullahs expecting Biden/Harris/Obama/Pelosi/Soros to prop them up again, there are numerous indications that many in the Islamic world have had quite enough of the Palestinians' jihadist intransigence and resistance to all peace accords, and are willing to proceed on a pragmatic basis, quite aside from what Islamic doctrine and law say, in order to secure their own countries against the threat from Iran. And so in these agreements the Palestinians have been largely bypassed, and that is the brilliance of Trump's move. If the Palestinians won't come to the table and make peace, he has chosen a path that no previous president and no previous negotiator has followed: leave the Palestinians to stew in their own rage and conclude agreements instead with other countries that are looking after their own interests.
Thus, even though these accords ignore the Islamic imperative of jihad and its deeply ingrained anti-Semitism, they are a tremendous source of hope for the future, even as Dotty Old Joe prepares to send a few hundred billion over to Tehran. As I have noted many, many times, what Islam teaches is one thing, and what any individual Muslim or Muslim group may do is quite another. In this case, Sudan, the UAE and Bahrain and now Morocco have demonstrated that their priorities are not to foster the growth of the jihad against Israel, and that's all to the good. President Trump is to be commended for refusing to follow the advice of foreign policy "experts" who have failed again and again, and to strike out in a new direction. That's a primary reason why the political elites hate him so much. It's too bad there is no unbiased organization to give out Peace Prizes; he would be a shoo-in.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America's Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur'an and Who Lost Afghanistan?. Follow him on Twitter here, and like him on Facebook here.


We've been running singles events a long time now and we ran our first lock and key party 10 years ago in 2004. Since then we've run well in excess of 2000 events but still to this day we feel a surge of excitement when party day comes round. Our most recent party was called the Spring Fling and it took place on Saturday April 12, 2014, this time at the newly refurbished, beautifully boutique Malmaison Hotel on Charterhouse Square in Clerkenwell.
The weeks that lead up to a big party are when we find out if the theme and the venue we've chosen is something that chimes with our clients. We listen hard when we receive feedback but we never quite know if we've got it right until we release our event online. Fortunately in this case we did get it right and the first bookings came in within minutes which was very reassuring.
Over the coming weeks the event became busy and the female places quickly sold out. Now, here's in interesting piece of social science I've learnt since entering the dating game, girls are much more organised than guys. It seems Women really to like know what their plans are at least a couple of weeks in advance so in the case of our events they book tickets early. Gents on the other hand are quite the opposite and leave things very much to the last minute. It's not unusual for us to receive calls from several guys on the afternoon of an event pleading to buy a ticket for that night's party – some even offer to pay double! The trouble is of course that when we're full, we're unfortunately full. Book early guys!
In our early days this gender based quirk was terrifying for us as organisers. We genuinely didn't know if the guys were going to book at all. We're we going to have a room full of ladies with no guys for them to meet? Fortunately we learnt to hold our nerve and we've never failed to bring together a practically equal number of girls and guys at one of our parties.
Anyway, I digress. Last Saturday the big party day arrived and the team and I travelled early to the venue. Lock and Keys at the ready and guest lists loaded to our entry system.
The Malmaison really is a stunning venue and we'd hired their lounge bar. It's a very stylish venue and really well suited to parties like this.
Our clients started to arrive from 7.30pm and by 8pm most people had arrived. After a short introduction the lock and key icebreaker started in earnest and the atmosphere really became quite exciting. I'd like to explain something about the lock and key icebreaker. If you've never been to a one of these parties before you'd be forgiven for thinking it sounds quite odd. We issue all the girls attending with small padlocks and all the guys get keys. In theory it sounds bizarre but as a means of getting a large group of strangers mingling nothing works quite like it. There's something about this small piece of ironmongery that transforms the most insular, no eye contact Londoner into a social butterfly. The room was alive with people chatting, laughing and flirting – it's actually brilliant to watch.
We decided some years ago that we'd make speed dating a feature of our parties too. Saturday's event was no exception. It's done slightly differently at our parties when compared to our regular events across London but the principle is the same and it's another great icebreaker which we think adds a lot of value to our party format.
The party went on well into the night and everyone we spoke to had a great time and met a lot of people and loads of phone numbers were exchanged. A unique feature of our parties is the ability to message people you've met via our website the next day. Traffic on this system was high and we know a huge number of dates have been organised as a result of the party so it seems once again, we've done our job properly.
You might be wondering about the kind of people that attend our events. With this in mind we took a few pictures throughout the night. Unfortunately the camera seems to be somewhat knackered (we've ordered a new one for next time) but take a look below and you'll get the idea.
We'll be running another lock and key party soon. Check out our site and follow our Twitter feed for details. We hope you can be there! If you're single, there's genuinely no better place to meet people!


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Something Else!!!! (a veces llamado Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman) es el álbum debut del saxofonista Ornette Coleman. Según All Music, el álbum "sacudió el mundo del Jazz", revitalizando la unión con el blues. El álbum es inusual para la discografía de Coleman en el sentido en que utiliza un quinteto convencional de bebop (saxo, corneta, piano, bajo y batería). Luego de este álbum, Coleman descartaría el piano, creando un sonido más fluido.

Historia
Mientras trabajaba como ascensorista en una tienda en Los Ángeles, Ornette reunió a un grupo de músicos –el cornetista Don Cherry, el bajista Charlie Haden, y los bateristas Ed Blackwell y Billy Higgins– con quienes pudo explorar sus inusuales composiciones. Coleman fue presentado al productor Lester Koenig de Contemporary Records por Red Mitchell, un bajista amigo de Coleman quien pensó que Koenig podía estar interesado en comprar las canciones de Coleman. Sin embargo los músicos las encontraban muy complicadas de ejecutar, así que Coleman fue invitado a tocarlas él mismo.

Crítica

A pesar de ser controversial en su momento, el álbum es ahora generalmente bien recibido. La revista Rolling Stone  admiró la voz del compositor, así como la estructura de los temas. En 2007, All About Jazz señaló que el álbum introdujo "una nueva era en el jazz".

Historia de lanzamiento
Originalmente lanzado bajo el sello Contemporary, el álbum fue relanzado en 1992 en formato LP, CD y casete en colaboración entre Contemporary y OJC.

Lista de canciones
Todas compuestas por Ornette Coleman.
"Invisible" – 4:11
"The Blessing" – 4:45
"Jayne" – 7:17
"Chippie" – 5:37
"The Disguise" – 2:46
"Angel Voice" – 4:19
"Alpha" – 4:09
"When Will the Blues Leave?" – 4:58
"The Sphinx" – 4:13

Personal
Ornette Coleman – saxofón
Don Cherry – corneta
Walter Norris – piano
Don Payne – contrabajo
Billy Higgins – batería

Lester Koenig – productor
Roy DuNann – ingeniero

Referencias

Álbumes debut de 1958
Álbumes de Estados Unidos de 1958
Álbumes de Ornette Coleman
Álbumes de jazz


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Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Snuggle Up During Dinner Date in Los Angeles
Still in the honeymoon phase? Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin were seen "sitting in a booth together, snuggling" at Catch LA during a dinner date last week, a source tells Us Weekly. The pair sat with a group of friends nearby who apparently countered Bieber, 25, on his offer to pay for the group's meals.
"The friends said they wanted to pay for his and Hailey's meal," the source adds. "Then someone else came out and said he'd be taking care of both their meals." Though unsure, the source believes another man outside of their group ultimately footed the bill.
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Courtesy of Justin Bieber/Instagram
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin: A Look Back at Their Love
Baldwin, 22, and her husband appeared playful and happy while enjoying their meal together. "Hailey was eating sushi and dropping some of it on her arm," then "picking it off and eating it," the onlooker tells Us.
The young couple recently exchanged their vows in a second ceremony, nearly one year after their private nuptials at a New York City courthouse in September 2018. The second time around, Mr. and Mrs. Bieber celebrated with family and friends in South Carolina. Among the star-studded guests were Kendall Jenner, Scooter Braun, the bride's cousin Ireland Baldwin, and the Grammy winner's ex-girlfriend, Caitlin Beadles.
Celebrity Weddings of 2019
After the ceremony in September, a source told Us that the pair were adamant about tying the knot once more in front of family after obtaining their marriage license the previous year. "It made their marriage feel more 'real' and 'official' to them. They kept the wedding small because Justin didn't want any 'fake friends' there and hates that," the source said.
Though they're still newlyweds, the "Sorry" singer and Drop the Mic host are already open to the possibility of expanding their family.
"This is something I look forward to," Bieber captioned an Instagram video of a father-son pair cracking up together in October. Later the same day, the "I Don't Care" vocalist shared a handful of childhood photos and reposted adorable footage of a toddler lying about wearing her mom's lipstick.
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin's Most Romantic Quotes
"Hailey, with your attitude and my savage behavior, we are in a world of trouble haha," Bieber wrote.
In a November 2018 interview with Vogue Arabia, Baldwin had hinted that she would be excited to have children of her own one day. "I love kids and I can't wait to have my own. I would say now that's a closer reality," she said at the time, later clarifying that she wouldn't be pregnant "any time soon."


The Longfellow Community Council (LCC) Open Citation Program is designed to help residential property owners within Greater Longfellow make necessary exterior repairs and improvements listed on an open citation issued by the City of Minneapolis.
Income Limit: 80% of AMI based on household size and the adjusted gross income from the most recent tax return. If a tax return is not required than the income will be determined by the projected income from the upcoming 12 months.
Eligible Recipients: Owners of 1-4 unit properties within the Longfellow, Cooper, Howe or Hiawatha Neighborhoods who meet the program guideline criteria.
Eligible Properties: Owner Occupied and Non-Owner Occupied 1-4 unit properties located within the boundaries of the Longfellow, Cooper, Howe or Hiawatha Neighborhoods. Individual condominiums, townhomes and properties held in a trust are eligible.
Ineligible Recipients: Includes but is not limited to: co-applicants with no ownership interest in the subject property and business entities (Associations, Corporations, Partnerships, LLC, etc.).
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The coordinators of the annual Altrusa Chili Cook-Off have been tweaking their event planning recipe to make this annual event even more fun for kids and families!
This year, visitors can enjoy chili, face painting, a costume contest (and parade to the booths for trick-or-treating) for kids, and a beer garden for parents.
All children are invited to participate in a Children's Costume Contest/ Parade and Trick or Treating. Please have your children meet at the stage at 1:45 p.m. if they would like to participate. The parade will begin at 2pm and prizes will be awarded! Entry is free!
Doors open at 11am. Stop by and sample chili from over 20 different booths. $1 gets you in the door, $0.50 gets you a sample. All proceeds benefit Altrusa of Terre Haute, supporting literacy in the Wabash Valley.
The event will take place on October 27th in a new location "The Meadows Shopping Center" at 2800 Poplar.
Do you know what you're supporting when you attend this annual event? Altrusa uses the funds to disperses money to many different literacy based organizations in the Wabash Valley.
For up-to-the-minutes updates, be sure to RSVP as "going" to the facebook event page!
18 Valentine's Day Date Ideas and Events–for Families and Couples!
There's too much fun this weekend in Terre Haute! What will you choose?


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Q: Deleting rows from a pandas Dataframe which does not match a combination of colums in another Dataframe My data Frame 1 looks like:
   Col1 Col2 Col3
1   A    4    ab
2   A    5    de
3   A    2    ah
4   B    1    ac
5   B    3    jd
6   B    2    am

data frame 2:
  col1 col2
1  A    4
2  B    3

How do i delete all the rows in Data Frame 1 which do not match the combination of rows of dataframe 2?
Output Expected:
   Col1 Col2 Col3
1   A    4    ab
2   B    3    jd

A: Use DataFrame.merge with inner join, only necessary rename columns:
df = df2.rename(columns={'col1':'Col1','col2':'Col2'}).merge(df1, on=['Col1','Col2'])
#on should be omited, then merge by intersection of columns of df1, df2
#df = df2.rename(columns={'col1':'Col1','col2':'Col2'}).merge(df1)

print (df)
  Col1  Col2 Col3
0    A     4   ab
1    B     3   jd

Another idea is use left_on and right_on parameter and then remove columns with names by df2.columns:
df = (df2.merge(df1, left_on=['col1','col2'],
                     right_on=['Col1','Col2']).drop(df2.columns, axis=1))
print (df)
  Col1  Col2 Col3
0    A     4   ab
1    B     3   jd

If columns names are same:
print (df2)
  Col1  Col2
1    A     4
2    B     3

df = df2.merge(df1, on=['Col1','Col2'])
#df = df2.merge(df1)
print (df)
  Col1  Col2 Col3
0    A     4   ab
1    B     3   jd

A: You can also use join, to do an inner join
dfR = df1.join( df ,on=['Col1','Col2'] ,how='inner',rsuffix='_x')
dfR[['Col1','Col2','Col3']]

This will also give you the same result
   Col1 Col2 Col3
1   A    4    ab
2   B    3    jd

For more details check these links Join Documentation and
examples


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The Force of Nature range are fresh and fruit driven Organic wines produced by Five Red Star Halliday rated winemaker Nicholas Crampton.
Dark and broody but with berry fruit brightness and vitality. This is a wonderfully harmonious wine with dark berry fruit, milk chocolate, cedar wood spices and soft, supple yet affirming tannins. This mouth-filling wine is packed with flavour and has the structure to reward will careful cellaring.


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The huge dumping of extra-EU exports of dairy products and to the EPAs of West Africa, SADC, CEMAC and EAC in 2016
SOL | 11 April 2017
by Jacques Berthelot (jacques.berthelot4@wanadoo.fr)
Dairy products are the second largest sector of EU agricultural production in 2015, accounting for 14.1% of the value of total agricultural production, after fruit and vegetables (23.8%) and before cereals and seeds (13.3%). In 2016, they contributed €15.6 billion (bn) or 11.8% of extra-EU agricultural exports, second only to cereals (22.8%) but before fruits and vegetables (9%), wines (7.8%) and pigmeat (6%). However, it is a sector that has experienced recurring crises, which have been particularly profound over the last three years, because the EU's milk policy has always been built on an overproduction, which began with the CAP in the late 1960s. This overproduction was promoted by one of the strongest import protections in the world and by unlimited export refunds before the WTO, including in the form of external food aid, with refunds exceeding €2 bn per year until 1995, before gradually declining to disappear in 2014. The imposition of production quotas since 1984 did not solve the issue since they have been set at a level above about 10% to the needs of the domestic market, which has led to falling producer prices and the need to increase exports. Since the fall in producer prices, offset by semi-coupled direct aids (notified in the WTO blue box) of the 1992 and 1999 CAP reforms and the decoupled aids of the CAP reform of 2004 (notified in the WTO green box) has not been enough to stop overproduction and falling prices, the European Commission has strived to open new markets by multiplying bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) and by ending production quotas in 2015, expecting increased markets in Russia and China. But this hope has vanished with the closure of the Russian market and the recent decline in Chinese imports. If the EU has succeeded in opening up a market of 18,500 tonnes of cheese to Canada after the European Parliament ratifies the CETA agreement, it has been pressuring India in the ongoing FTA negotiation over the last 6 years and even more the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) to sign and implement EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) that would be destructive for these countries.
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Key Largo Fire and EMS District
Frank Conklin
Kenny Edge
George Mirabella
Danny Powers
Meetings / Minutes
Meetings / Minutes – District
Meetings / Minutes – EMS
Meetings / Minutes – Fire
Key Largo Volunteer Fire Deparment
Key Largo Ambulance Corps
Budget & Audit
FRANK CONKLIN – COMMISSIONER (Seat 2)
Commissioner Conklin was elected to the Board in 2018
The # 1 reason why Frank Conklin ran to be elected to the Key Largo Fire & EMS District Board was to ensure that the citizens of the Key Largo Community were being provided with the highest level of Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services available. Commissioner Conklin will strive to ensure that District personnel have access to the equipment and training necessary to provide the best service, and to keep them safe so they can keep the Key Largo Community safe. Commissioner Conklin encourages the public to become involved with the District, and to attend the meetings of the District, Fire Department, and Ambulance Corp, all of which can be found on this website!
Professional Life & Affiliations:
Frank is a Key Largo local, having lived in the Upper Keys since 1977, where he attended Key Largo Elementary School, Plantation Key School, and finally Coral Shores High School, where he graduated in 1990. Frank is an electrician by trade, but has been a member of the former Key Largo Volunteer Fire & Rescue for over 20 years. During his tenure as a volunteer fireman, Frank received the Firefighter of the Year Award on three occasions.
Community Activities:
Frank has served as a member of the Water Emergency Team, Special Response Team, Vehicle Extrication Team, as well as the Hurricane Response and Deployment Team. Frank has also participated in the fire prevention education program, which is deployed throughout schools in Monroe County.
P.O. Box 1023, Key Largo, FL 33037
clerk@klfrems.org
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Criticism leveled at Pirelli in Malaysia, is it justified?
2013, Christian Horner, Degredation, Pirelli, Red Bull Racing, Sebastian Vettel
Lets cast our minds back to the start of the 2012 season and the comments from the teams and drivers regarding the Pirelli tyres. Lets say they were critical at best but by mid season the teams got on top of their issues with them and adapted, resulting in less pit stops and inevitably less moaning.
Pirelli's remit from the FIA is simple, create tyres that challenge the teams, thus creating more pit stops, varying strategies, more overtaking and in turn more for the viewer to absorb. The teams lobby on one hand for a better 'show' (for their fans) but in reality would love a more controlled tyre as it lessens the challenge the team faces.
For 2013 Pirelli took on board some of the criticism the teams leveled at them in regard to the way the front tyres wore in 2012 and redesigned the construction of the 2013 tyre. The tyre is now more forgiving in the sidewalls whilst the central platform of the tyre has been made more rigid. The net result is a slight increase in the weight of each tyre (Increase in the minimum car weight within the Technical Regulations to compensate) whilst affording the driver a much larger contact patch due to the construction changes. With the compounds all being moved down a tier and a new Super Soft entering the fray the degradation levels have also increased.
Red Bull have voiced their displeasure in Malaysia at the situation claiming it is unfair that the teams with more downforce seem to be at a disadvantage, Sebastian Vettel even went as far as to say:
"Today I think tyre wear was pretty severe for everyone. You end up going round way under the car so it's not a lot of fun but that's how it is, it's the same for everyone. We need to try a couple of things to make it better; we tried today, now obviously it's up to us to hopefully learn the right lesson and make a step forward."
Whilst Team Principle Christian Horner had this to say:
"I think what we want to avoid is drivers cruising around under the performance of their car, unable to follow another car closely, otherwise it's not racing. But it's still early days so let's see a sample of two or three races and then be able to gauge from there."
Both are making the assertion that the team have more downforce (either than their competitors or than last years car) and that by virtue of this tyre wear increases. I have to say that surely this is logical anyway? A car with more downforce asserts more force onto the tyres, heating them more rapidly and therefore wearing them more quickly. I can see the other side of the coin in that if you have less downforce you should slide around more thus wearing the tyre, however with the enlarged contact patch it would seem that you simply add more energy / heat to a larger surface area. Without the rigid central platform on the tyre it would deform and quite rightly a sliding car would generate excessive heat and therefore excessive wear.
If we were to watch a lap onboard the Lotus it's clear to see that the team have found a way in which to assert the necessary force whilst cornering, however it would appear they are utilising the full contact patch therefore dissipating the heat across the whole width of the tyre. In comparison Red Bull seemingly have a very peaky window where they are operating the tyres, wearing this section of tyre more aggressively by virtue of thermal degradation. They are not the only team and if you watch the onboard footage of the cars, during cornering you will see the band of rubber pushed across the tyre as it heats up and then gets spit off the side of the tyre.
The other area of note in regard to the Pirelli's bought up this weekend is the use of the Renault R30 as Pirelli's development mule. It's something that I mentioned when Pirelli first announced they had acquired the chassis from Lotus and that is that Lotus will have a certain level of data available to them from the R30 that other teams argue is now giving them an advantage. I can see both sides of this argument as quite rightly Lotus do have a reference data to look at in regards to the R30, however I'd argue that firstly the R30 wasn't the best Enstone car and secondly they can have all the data they like from the R30 but that doesn't equate to the same tyre model as the 2013 tyres.
The E21 is clearly an evolution of the E20 and as we all saw in 2012 Lotus were capable of great tyre management, with a greater window for tyre performance the E21 has simply shown more of this potential. This of course is allied to the team using the 'Coanda' exhaust the season and achieving a downforce gain further enhancing the platform of the car.
So, storm in a tea cup? Yes, I think so, the teams have to adapt just as they do to any other variable that is presented to them in F1, for arguments sake the loss of unlimited DRS in qualifying this year.
Just like last year the tyre debate will rumble on until around round 8 at which point the likes of Red Bull will realise they have to give up some of the camber, low tyre pressures and/or ride height etc that was giving them an advantage in 2012 and found a better solution thereby allowing them to run 1 less stop like Lotus etc are doing already. There is always more than one way to skin a cat and at the moment some teams don't like the fact others are doing it in a way they can't.
As an aside, whilst others have been critical of Pirelli I find their approach to suit F1 as they are helping to push the boundaries of the sport, teams and drivers. With conversation constantly dominated in the media at the moment about their product they are resolute in their approach as I think they should be. Lest we forget when we had Michelin and Bridgestone battling it out the tyres were prototypes each race, so that they could one up each other for the most exposure.
Tyres to be deciding factor again - Webber
Pirelli Expecting Three-Stop Strategies As New Hard Tyre Makes Debut In Malaysia
Vettel Reigns Supreme in Third Practice
Sebastian Vettel admits concerns tyres won't last the distance in Malaysia
Rake - Does it mean additional downforce?
2013 Christian Horner Degredation Pirelli Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel
Brightlampshade 23 March 2013 at 18:19
Nice balanced write-up! Sometimes unusual in the world of F1. Its the same every year, those who 'loose out' moan for a bit but then just get on with business.
Manuel Maser 23 March 2013 at 18:45
Totally agree with Brightlamshade's comments!
Raymond U 23 March 2013 at 19:34
Matt, mate - wear ≠ degradation.
More heat history going into the tyres means more degradation - where the rubber breaks down - so it "degrades" the tyres - and wear is using up material, like an eraser.
More downforce inevitably means less slip angle and less slip ratios, meaning less WEAR. But the increased heat, the quicker cornering, the harder braking and traction inevitably means that you pump more energy into the tyre, which turns to heat. Even on the straights, there is added hysteresis because the tyre obviously "flattens" more under more load - it takes energy to do that too - and that means added DEGRADATION.
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Wright is back to his old self. He's tied for the league lead in RBIs with 65, is 7th in hitting at .314, and has 14 home runs — 4 more than all of last season. Wright went into the break red-hot — driving the ball like the good old days.
Before Davis joined the team, the middle of the lineup had Wright and Jason Bay… and nothing. Davis added another threat in the middle of that lineup, making it far more formidable. He's one pace for 20 homers and 80 RBIs — not a bad rookie year indeed. But he doesn't look like a rookie — he has an idea of what he's doing at the plate. He's solid defensively as well, even taking away those three crazy circus catches.
Who could have expected this? Following a season in which it sometimes looked like he was playing another sport, Pagan has been playing excellent, fundamental baseball. His .315 batting average is 5th in the league. He also has 19 stolen bases, tied with a resurgent Jose Reyes for 4th in the league. He's destined to spend some time on the bench when Carlos Beltran comes back after the All Star game, but Jerry Manuel will make sure Pagan gets his at-bats.
R.A. Dickey? Wright would have been an obvious, not incorrect choice. You could make a case for Pelfrey as well. But I'm going with Dickey. Keep in mind the circumstances that surrounded his call-up. The Mets were coming off that horrendous four-game sweep at the hands of the Marlins in which they lost one starter because of injury (Niese), and two to incompetence (Perez and Maine). The season could have been over right there. But Dickey came up and brought stability to an incredibly unstable situation. He and his knuckleball have been sensational — 6-2, 2.77 ERA in 10 starts. How long can his magic last? No one thought it would last this long, so who can say? Let's just enjoy the ride.
So what does the second half have in store? Can Dickey keep it up (that sounds dirty)? Will Beltran be his old self, or will there be considerable rust? Can Jeff Francoeur get on another streak and keep Pagan on the bench? Will Bay ever start to hit? And what ever happened to Sean Green? Will he remain in witness protection (along with Perez and Maine)? Let us pray that we never see those three again. Then the Mets will have a fighting chance for the post-season.