As we were driving down from Panaji, to Margao I saw this banner that said, 37% Goan have votes AAP, 27%BJP, and some X% congress, the conclusion was AAP leads, what occurred to me, is it could also be interpreted as 63% Goans are clear that they do not want AAP.
Ultimately every story is about whose story are you telling?
chalayasi vikramane keshava balim adbhuta vamana padanakha nira-janita-janapavana kesava dhrita vamana rupa jaya jagadisa hare.
When we were kids we were told the story of the benevolent Balindra or the Mahabali, who was an epitome of virtue that Lakshmi was chained to his dungeons. the story as narrated by Kittadoddamma, always told us how the Deva's were jealous of Bali and Indra decided requested Vishnu to annihilate Bali he was then pushed down to the PatalaLoka, and each Onam he comes to oversee the harvest Bali or Mahaveli's arrival I never could figure the solar calendar out, the only thing I know is it Sone thingalu… some day and she said and the festival after it was ananthan chaturdashi.
She would tell us about Bali Maharaja, his greatness and his kindness and how his persona is honoured by the word Bali meaning sacrifice, she talked of the sacrifice of the seed that shed its skin, the soil that gave the nutrients, the clouds that showered the rains, the earthworms and the snakes that kept the soil enriched and how all this combined bounty gave a rich harvest. When this mission was complete Bali returned to the Patala on the day of Balipadya after being sure that his subjects were secure.
The understanding of the sacrifice or the effort that went into bringing that abundance, she would tell was the secret which kept Bali alive among his subjects, she would conclude Kings would come, Kings would go but Bali still ruled.., Vamana stayed dwarfed and forgotten.
When I got married my value system was questioned because the story here was Bali was arrogant he chained Lakshmi so the Deva's were justified in sending Vamana, it putting an asura in place.It was the ballad of Vamana and not Bali.
As I learnt more of these and began the quest of understanding the untold story of the other, after all eulogies and history is always about the winner. Here is what came to me…Bali the King of an prosperous Agrarian society.
Here comes Purandara the destroyer of cities, choose to call him divine incarnate if you wish, but definitely King somewhere who coveted the prosperity, the riches of the land, in comes the conqueror, and relegates the indigenous culture down. He is potbellied at that, and he unchains Lakshmi the goddess of Prosperity that would mean either he grabbed the riches or he destroyed the assets.
The conquerors Ballads talk of Bali being an Asura could be for Asura of the Rig Veda is the Ahura of the Zenda-Vesta the Zoroastrian holy text and Kerala always sea connect with the middle east.
Like our Balipadya being traded for the bhaubheej or our Onam is being traded for Vaman Jayanthi, the conqueror is marketed our oral stories and histories relegated as the large wave of Hindaptations (adaption to Hindi culture) even Thiruadhira or the big wave will not be able to save us.
Mr.Amit Shah, this is the translation of what my grandmother used to chant about Mahabali, can you bring it back? Till then let your Vamana stay the way he is — dwarfed!!
All the people on the land were good.
And no false words or promises.
I do not know which of the stories are true but the story of Bali narrated by my grandmother is definitely more empowering than the story of Vamana.
Mahabali, a benevolent Asura king was unjustifiably denied to serve his praja probably only because of his lineage to asura kula and the supremacy of the Devas..a nice perspective Parvati..
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Lars Blumers est un réalisateur et scénariste allemand.

Il étudie l'écriture de scénarios et la réalisation à New York. En 1999 il réalise son premier court métrage, Poker menteur. Son premier long métrage Mike, sort en 2011.

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 2011 Mike
 2005 Carjackin (court métrage)
 2003 Prédateurs domestiques (court métrage)
 1999 Poker menteur (court métrage)

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Réalisateur allemand
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)

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For an event such as the Ellsworth Cheese Curd Festival to be successful, many man-hours and dedicated and energetic volunteers are needed. That's where you come in. We need volunteers to assist with positions ranging from assisting with the various tasting events, serving cheese curds and beer, setting-up, cleaning, teardown and more.
Volunteering at the Cheese Curd Festival is a win-win! Not only are you contributing to an important community event, but a $10 donation for each hour you work (plus profit sharing from Cheese Curd Central, if applicable) also goes back to a local non-profit of your choosing! In 2018, volunteers earned $25 per hour for their local non-profits!
The hours can really add up–Recruit your family, friends, and neighbors to help out with this important community event!
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We've identified a few volunteer roles at the Festival that need a little more commitment. To make sure we have these covered with a stellar group of people we've created four special volunteer opportunities. Perfect for larger groups with access to a larger pool of reliable volunteers. Because of the time/manpower needed, these roles receive a higher payout for their non-profit group.
This group will help convert the East End Park and surrounding area into a Cheese Curd Festival wonderland – and then reverse that on Sunday morning. Needs will be communicated via a pre-festival meeting, task lists, and maps. Cheese Curd Festival Committee Members will also be onsite to assist with questions.
A clean festival is a happy festival. This group's job will be the upkeep overall cleanliness of the festival. The committee and the attendees will be forever grateful!
At Cheese Curd Festival, this is where the magic happens. You will man the fryers, taking direction from the official cheese curd frying experts from the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, at one of two Cheese Curd Central locations.
The festival will be utilizing two shuttle parking lots this year. Help us in welcoming our guests to Ellsworth! Throw on a big smile, direct attendees to available parking spaces, answer any questions, and keep parking areas clean.


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Cheap, Cold-Weather Dates in MHK
Culture, Travel
February 1, 2018 by Molly Burt
Photo By: Mary Kate Zach
It can be difficult to stir up romance without upending the piggy bank in winter, when it's too cold to enjoy lakes, parks, trails and pools. Of course, Manhattan boasts a number of typical entertainment options: ice skating in the park, bowling in the union basement, collegiate basketball games in Bramlage Coliseum, movies at two different theaters, dozens of unique restaurants and more bars than anyone could visit in a single weekend, but it's hard to remain excited about the same-old same-old, increasingly expensive dates for months on end.
Luckily, Manhattan is also home to more than a few unique, casual options for poor college students struggling to maintain a love life.
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Village Geek Open Board Gaming
For a relatively reasonable fee of $10 a person, gaming store Village Geek in downtown Manhattan opens its doors and board games to the public every Saturday night. Customers can choose popular, complex games to play from over a dozen options, borrowing right off the shelf and returning them when they're done. Considering that many of the available games are valued at $50 or more, a $10 all-you-can-play buffet isn't a bad deal. Better yet, one Saturday night a month, Village Geek waives the fee. Free play dates are announced on their Facebook page, and the next is February 17th.
Science on Tap and Science Saturdays
If you're looking to impress the STEM major in your life, take advantage of the free monthly lectures sponsored by Sunset Zoo, both onsite (Science Saturdays) and at Tallgrass Taphouse (Science on Tap). While Science Saturdays are geared toward families with simpler hands-on activities, Science on Tap is a more mature option for public discussion on topics presented by local scientists and researchers. The latter is also convenient in the fact that you can grab drinks and dinner with your date while you listen.
Beach Art Museum
With free admission and parking, and a wide variety of collections, exhibitions and interactive programs, the Beach Museum of Art is a hard bargain to beat. Modern, vibrant, and conveniently located on the south end of campus, the museum is worth the walk to spend some time with your muse among the masterpiece, especially if he or she is into the visual arts.
K-State Insect Zoo
With $3 admission and hundreds of creepy-crawlies to check out, the Insect Zoo makes for a light-hearted, fascinating date. Even if your significant other isn't a huge fan of bugs, it's hard not to enjoy daring each other to touch tarantulas and searching a terrarium for a little stick bug, only to finally catch sight of an eight-inch tree branch twitching a leg. The Insect Zoo is also conveniently located in the K-State gardens, which have a certain charm even in the barren winter landscape.
Discovery Center Rainforest Adventure and Butterfly House
Observe frogs and butterflies this semester at the Flint Hills Discovery Center, which now features a colorful Rainforest Adventure exhibit and multiple lectures about native amphibian and insect species. This highly-interactive program is on the pricier side, at $7 per college student, but is perfect for anyone hoping for a family-friendly experience. It's a great opportunity for your partner to bond with the young children ($4 admission) in your life.
Bring a Date to the Zoo Month
Sunset Zoo's admission is typically an admirable $5 per person, but it's been cut in half throughout February in the name of love. Tickets are buy one, get one free for the next 28 days, and $2.50 each is a small price to pay to traverse the animal kingdom with your lovebird. Watch otters frolic, tigers stalk and wallabies leap before you for endless fun.
MAC Classes and Performances
The Manhattan Arts Center isn't just a theatre—although they do host plenty of plays, which students can attend for as little as $10 each—but a site for collaboration and learning between people of all ages in visual and performing arts. They offer classes, workshops, lessons and studios in filmmaking, drawing, painting, ceramics, writing, photography, singing, dancing and printing of varying prices for every budget. If sitting back and watching is more your speed, there are a few fun performances quickly approaching. At the end of February, MAC will be hosting a Sherlock-Holmes-based mystery play called "The Game's Afoot," followed in mid-March by a puppet show called "The Cat Came Back" and "Numb and Number," a heartfelt story about a family's struggle with dementia.
UPC After Hours
It never hurts to take a peek at the Union Program Council calendar. Aside from showing popular films at an extreme discount, UPC also hosts numerous events designed for college students. In the first half of February alone, their programs range from the annual Drag Show next Friday at 7 pm, to a Wild Wild West night of bull-riding and swing-dancing this Friday at 8 pm, to an afternoon improv sesh courtesy of On the Spot Improv once a month at noon, beginning today.
Exercise at the Rec
There's no reason you can't work out and hang out at the same time. Visiting the rec together is simple, cheap and easy, and it will help you both stick to your New Year's resolution to exercise a little more. If one (or both) of you isn't much of a gym rat, play tennis or climb the rock wall together instead of lifting weights or running on a treadmill.
Dress Up a Night In
Staying in doesn't have to be boring. Take shelter from the whirlwind of college life and responsibilities in a pillow fort with your significant other. Break up the monotony with blankets, string lights, card games, a pile of snacks and a silly rom-com. Don't be afraid to get a little crazy and throw in some video games or paint and canvases. What really matters is that you're together, and taking time out of the week just for each other. Best of all, you can hide from the world as long as you want.
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Until May of 2005 I had trouble with one element in my work around the Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud (including the Local and Global InfoClouds as well) to build a framework for cross-platform design and development of information and media systems and services. This problem was lack of an easy of explaination of what changes have taken place in the last few years on the web and other means of accessing digital information. In preparing for a presentation I realized this change is manifest in how people get and interact with the digital information and media.
This change is easily framed as the "Come to Me" web. The "Come to Me" web, which is not interchangeable with the push/pull ideas and terms used in the late 90s (I will get to this distinction shortly). It is a little closer to the idea of the current, "beyond the page" examinations, which most of us that were working with digital information pre-web have always had in mind in our metaphors and ideologies, like the Model of Attraction and InfoClouds.
Before we look at the "Come to Me" web we should look at what preceded it. The "I Go Get" metaphor for the web was the precursor. In this incarnation we sought their information. The focus was on the providers of the content and the people consuming the information (or users) were targeted and lured in, in the extreme people were drawn in regardless of a person's interest in the information or topic covered. The content was that of the the organization or site that provided that information.
This incarnation focussed on people accessing the information on one device, usually the desktop computer. Early on the information was developed for proprietary formats. Each browser variant had their own proprietary way of doing things, based around a few central markup tags. People had to put up with the "best view with on X browser" messages. Information was also distributed in various other proprietary formats that required software on the device just so the person could get the information.
The focus providing information was to serve one goal (or use) reading. Some of this was driven by software limitations. But it was also an extension of information distribution in the analog physical space (as opposed to the digital space). In the physical space the written word was distributed on paper and it was consumed by reading (reuse of it meant copying it for reading) and it took physical effort to reconstruct those words to repurpose that information (quoting sources, showing examples, etc.).
The focus was on information creation and the struggle was making it findable. On the web there were only limited central resources used to find information, as many of the search engines were not robust enough, did not have friendly interfaces. Findability was a huge undertaking, either to get people what they desired/needed or to "get eyeballs".
Just as the use of the information was an extension of the physical realm that predated the digital information environment, the dominant metaphor in the "I Go Get" web was based in the physical realm. We all designed and developed for findability around the navigation/wayfinding metaphor. This directly correlates to going somewhere. Cues we use to get us to information were patterned and developed from practices in the physical world.
Physical? Digital? Does it Matter?
You ask, "So what we used ideas from the physical world to develop our metaphors and methodologies for web design and development?" We know that metaphors guide our practices. This is a very good thing. But, metaphors also constrain our practices and can limit our exploration for solutions to those that fit within the boundaries of that metaphor. In the physical realm we have many constraints that do not exist in the digital realm. Objects are not constrained by the resources they are made from (other than the energy to drive digital realm - no power no digital realm). Once an object exists in the digital realm replicating them is relatively insignificant (just copy it).
Paths and connections between information and objects is not constrained by much, other than humans choosing to block its free flow (firewalls, filtering, limiting access to devices, etc.). Much like Peter Merholz desire lines where people wear the path between two places in a manner that works best for them (the shortest distance between two points is a straight line). Now, don't think of the physical limitation between two points, I need to go from my classroom on the fourth floor of building "X" to across campus, up the hill to the sixth floor office of my professor. Draw a straight line and walk directly. This does not work in physical space because of gravity and physical impediments.
Now we are ready to understand what really happens on the web. We go from the classroom to our professors office, but we don't move. The connection brings what we desire to us and our screen. In this case we may just chat (text or video - it does not matter) with the professor from our seat in the classroom (if we even need to be in the classroom). Connections draw objects to our screens through the manifestation of links. As differently as people's minds work to connect ideas together, there can be as many paths between two objects. Use of physical space is limited by limitations outlined in physics, but the limitations are vastly different in digital space, use of the same information and media has vastly different limitations also.
It is through breaking the constraints of old metaphors and letting the digital realm exist that we get to a new understanding of digital information on the networks of the digital realm, which include the web.
The improved understanding of the digital realm and its possibilities beyond our metaphors of the physical environment allows us to focus on a "Come to Me" web. What many people are doing today with current technologies is quite different than was done four or five years ago. This is today for some and will be the future for many.
When you talk to people about information and media today they frame it is terms of, "my information", "my media", and "my collection". This label is applied to not only information they created, but information they have found and read/used. The information is with them in their mind and more often than not it is on one or more of their devices drives, either explicitly saved or in cache.
Many of us as designers and developers have embraced "user-centered" or "user experience" design as part of our practice. These mantras place the focus on the people using our tools and information as we have moved to making what we produce "usable". The "use" in "usable" goes beyond the person just reading the information and to meeting peoples desires and needs for reusing information. Microformats and Structured Blogging are two recent projects (among many) that focus on and provide for reuse of information. People can not only read the information, but can easily drop the information into their appropriate application (date related information gets put in the person's calendar, names and contact information are easily dropped into the address book, etc.). These tools also ease the finding and aggregating of the content types.
As people get more accustom to reusing information and media as they want and need, they find they are not focussed on just one device (the desktop/laptop), but many devices across their life. They have devices at work, at home, mobile, in their living space and they want to have the information that they desire to remain attracted to them no matter where they are. We see the proliferation of web-based bookmarking sites providing people access their bookmarks/favorites from any web browser on any capable device. We see people working to sync their address books and calendars between devices and using web-based tools to help ensure the information is on the devices near them. People send e-mail and other text/media messages to their various devices and services so information and files are near them. We are seeing people using their web-based or web-connected calendars to program settings on their personal digital video recorders in their living room (or wherever it is located).
Keeping information attracted to one's self or within easy reach, not only requires the information and media be available across devices, but to be in common or open formats. We have moved away from a world where all of our information and media distribution required developing for a proprietary format to one where standards and open formats prevail. Even most current proprietary formats have non-proprietary means of accessing the content or creating the content. We can do this because application protocols interfaces (APIs) are made available for developers or tools based on the APIs can be used to quickly and easily create, recreate, or consume the information or media.
People have moved from finding information and media as being their biggest hurdle, to refinding things in "my collection" being the biggest problem. Managing what people come across and have access to (or had access to) again when they want it and need it is a large problem. In the "come to me" web there is a lot of filtering of information, as we have more avenues to receive information and media.
The metaphor and model in the "I go get" web was navigation and wayfinding. In the "come to me" web a model based on attraction. This is not the push and pull metaphor from the late 1990s (as that was mostly focussed on single devices and applications). Today's usage is truly focussed on the person and how they set their personal information workflow for digital information. The focus is slightly different. Push and pull focussed on technology, today the focus is on person and technology is just the conduit, which could (and should) fade into the background. The conduits can be used to filter information that is not desired so what is of interest is more easily identified.


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Tractor Pulling: Everything You Need to Know About This Fascinating Sport
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If you're looking for a fascinating sport to watch, tractor-pulling is a perfect choice! This unique competition involves teams of drivers pulling heavy-duty tractors across a track, often for distances of up to 1,000 feet. In this article, we'll introduce tractor pulling – including everything you need to know about the rules and equipment involved in this sport.
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This sport has an impressive legacy, stretching back many decades. It all began in the mid-19th century when farmers who wanted to prove their tractors had the most pulling power faced off against each other. This informal competition helped propel tractor design and innovation forward. Through the ages, it has evolved from a backyard sport to an international sport today, which is widely popular among its enthusiasts. The bulldozing motors that power these behemoths can reach speeds just shy of 100mph, making this a thrill-a-minute experience for that watching!
It all started with farmers in England who tried to outdo each other by attaching bricks and rocks onto chains hooked on the back of their tractors and seeing how far they could pull them. As time passed, more powerful engines and attachments such as weighted sleds began to appear, eventually leading us to this modern sport that has rapidly become a fan favorite.
Description of this Motor Sport Event
This sport is also known as power pulling, is a competitive motorsport that involves modified tractors pulling a heavy sled along a dirt track. It is a thrilling and intense spectacle that attracts thousands of spectators and competitors worldwide.
This sport can seem intimidating to any newcomer. It looks like a chaotic engine explosion on the track – and it is! But despite its crazy exterior, this discipline is an incredibly strategic sport that requires intense methodical preparation and skill to master. The goal of each pull is simple: create enough power and torque to move the heaviest sled the farthest possible distance, providing spectators with an incredible show of strength. So, for anyone wanting to get into this exciting, flashy competition, you'd better get ready for some serious horsepower under your hood!
If you're looking for an exciting new sport, this sport is the thing! In this competition, drivers attach their tractors to a massive cable, then rev the engine until they drag the weight along. It's more challenging than it looks – though it's one of the more underrated events in motorsport, there are ample rules and regulations regarding this sport that must be observed if you want your entry to pass muster. Powerhouses like John Deere have brought some heat to this game.
This sport is quite a thrill for those who enjoy seeing large machinery at work. It may not sound like the most enthralling sporting event, but it's sure to put a smile on any enthusiast's face! After all, what could be more interesting than watching modified farm tractors racing down a track while trying to haul the heaviest load? Indeed, this popular sport puts metal and tenacity to the test! But don't just take my word for it– join millions of fans worldwide and experience this burly exhibition of might. You might even end up glued to every revving engine and clutch-popping shift alongside them!
In a typical event, competitors are divided into classes based on the size and type of tractor they use. These classes can range from small, stock tractors to massive, custom-built machines with huge engines and technical modifications.
The sled the tractors pull is typically made of steel and weighs several tons. It is designed to be dragged along a dirt track 100 feet long, with starting and finish lines. The tractors compete to see which one can pull the sled the farthest distance within a specific time limit.
Tractor pulling is a sport that requires a great deal of skill, strength, and strategy. Competitors must carefully tune and modify their tractors to optimize their power and traction. They must also be skilled drivers who can control their tractors at high speeds and under tremendous strain.
The sport also requires a high level of safety, as powerful engines and heavy loads can pose significant risks to competitors and spectators. To ensure the safety of all involved, tractor-pulling events are carefully regulated and governed by strict rules and regulations.
This is a fascinating sport that attracts a dedicated and passionate following. Whether you are a competitor or a spectator, it is a thrilling experience that will leave a lasting impression.
The tractors compete to see which one can pull the sled the farthest distance within a specific time limit.
Is a sport that requires a high level of skill, strength, and strategy. It is not just about raw horsepower but also about carefully balancing the various components of the tractor to optimize its performance. Competitors must carefully study the track conditions and adjust their tractors accordingly to ensure they can achieve the maximum distance.
In addition to the competition, tractor-pulling events also feature various activities and attractions, including live music, food vendors, and carnival rides. It is a fun and exciting event for the whole family and will surely provide an unforgettable experience for anyone attending.
Tractor-pulling is a fascinating sport that attracts a dedicated and passionate following. Whether you are a competitor or a spectator, it is a thrilling experience that will leave a lasting impression. So, this is everything you need to know about this fascinating sport.
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                EIP_TIMESOURCE,
                EIP_DROPMODE,
                EIP_SPEED,
                EIP_RESUME,
                EIP_PAUSE,
                EIP_SEEK,
                EIP_POSTION,
            };

            enum EOutputPorts
            {
                EOP_VIDEOID = 0,
                EOP_PLAYING,
                EOP_POSITION,
                EOP_ONSTART,
                EOP_ONEND,
                EOP_DURATION,
                EOP_FPS,
                EOP_WIDTH,
                EOP_HEIGHT
            };

#define INITIALIZE_OUTPUTS(x) \
    ActivateOutput<int>(x, EOP_VIDEOID, -1);\
    ActivateOutput<float>(x, EOP_POSITION, 0.0);\
    ActivateOutput<float>(x, EOP_DURATION, 0.0);\
    ActivateOutput<float>(x, EOP_FPS, 0.0);\
    ActivateOutput<int>(x, EOP_WIDTH, 0);\
    ActivateOutput<int>(x, EOP_HEIGHT, 0);\
    ActivateOutput<bool>(x, EOP_PLAYING, false);

        public:

            CFlowVideoInputWebMNode( SActivationInfo* pActInfo )
            {
                m_pVideo    = NULL;
                m_bStart    = false;
                m_bEnd      = false;
                m_bFrame    = false;
                m_bWasPlaying = false;
            }

            virtual ~CFlowVideoInputWebMNode()
            {
                if ( m_pVideo )
                {
                    m_pVideo->UnregisterListener( this );
                    gVideoplayerSystem->DeleteVideoplayer( m_pVideo );
                }
            }

            virtual IFlowNodePtr Clone( SActivationInfo* pActInfo )
            {
                return new CFlowVideoInputWebMNode( pActInfo );
            }

            virtual void GetMemoryUsage( ICrySizer* s ) const
            {
                s->Add( *this );
            }

            void Serialize( SActivationInfo* pActInfo, TSerialize ser )
            {
                /*
                TODO: Implement serialization
                */
            }

            virtual void GetConfiguration( SFlowNodeConfig& config )
            {
                static const SInputPortConfig inputs[] =
                {
                    InputPortConfig_Void( "Open",                                _HELP( "Open / Start paused (call Resume)" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig_Void( "Close",                               _HELP( "Close / Stop" ) ),

                    InputPortConfig<string>( "file_File",    "",                 _HELP( "videofile (set on Open)" ),                   "sFile",                        _UICONFIG( "" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig<string>( "sound_Sound",  "",                 _HELP( "soundfile/event (set on Open)" ),             "sSound",                       _UICONFIG( "" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig<bool>( "Loop",           true,               _HELP( "loops the video (set on Open)" ),             "bLoop" ),
                    InputPortConfig<bool>( "Skippable",      false,              _HELP( "Can this video be skipped by the user" ),     "bSkippable" ),
                    InputPortConfig<bool>( "BlockGame",      false,              _HELP( "Block Game while this video is playing" ),    "bBlockGame" ),

                    InputPortConfig<float>( "StartAt",       0.0,                _HELP( "start [sec]" ),                               "fStartAt" ),
                    InputPortConfig<float>( "EndAfter",      0.0,                _HELP( "end/loop [sec]" ),                            "fEndAfter" ),
                    InputPortConfig<int>( "CustomWidth",     -1,                 _HELP( "custom render width [px]" ),                  "nCustomWidth" ),
                    InputPortConfig<int>( "CustomHeight",    -1,                 _HELP( "custom render height [px]" ),                 "nCustomHeight" ),
                    InputPortConfig<int>( "TimeSource",      int( VTS_Default ),   _HELP( "timesource to sync to" ),                     "nTimeSource",                  _UICONFIG( "enum_int:Game=1,Sound=2,System=4,SoundOrGame=3,SoundOrSystem=6" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig<int>( "DropMode",        int( VDM_Default ),   _HELP( "dropmode to use for sync" ),                  "nDropMode",                    _UICONFIG( "enum_int:None=0,Drop=1,Seek=2,DropOutput=4,DropOrSeek=3,DropOutputOrSeek=6" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig<float>( "Speed",         1.0,                _HELP( "play speed" ),                                "fSpeed" ),

                    InputPortConfig_Void( "Resume",                              _HELP( "Resume" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig_Void( "Pause",                               _HELP( "Pause" ) ),

                    InputPortConfig_Void( "Seek",                                _HELP( "seeks to position" ) ),
                    InputPortConfig<float>( "PositionI",     0.0,                _HELP( "position for seek [sec]" ),                   "fPosition" ),
                    {0},
                };

                static const SOutputPortConfig outputs[] =
                {
                    OutputPortConfig<int>( "VideoID",                            _HELP( "id for further use" ),                        "nVideoID" ),
                    OutputPortConfig<bool>( "Playing",                           _HELP( "currently playing" ),                         "bPlaying" ),
                    OutputPortConfig<float>( "PositionO",                        _HELP( "position [sec]" ),                            "fPosition" ),
                    OutputPortConfig_Void( "OnStart",                            _HELP( "start/loop begin reached" ) ),
                    OutputPortConfig_Void( "OnEnd",                              _HELP( "End reached" ) ),
                    OutputPortConfig<float>( "Duration",                         _HELP( "duration [sec]" ),                            "fDuration" ),
                    OutputPortConfig<float>( "FPS",                              _HELP( "frames per second" ),                         "fFPS" ),
                    OutputPortConfig<int>( "Width",                              _HELP( "decoder width [px]" ),                        "nWidth" ),
                    OutputPortConfig<int>( "Height",                             _HELP( "decoder height [px]" ),                       "nHeight" ),
                    {0},
                };

                config.pInputPorts = inputs;
                config.pOutputPorts = outputs;
                config.sDescription = _HELP( PLUGIN_CONSOLE_PREFIX "Videosource WebM" );

                config.SetCategory( EFLN_APPROVED );
            }

            virtual void ProcessEvent( EFlowEvent evt, SActivationInfo* pActInfo )
            {
                switch ( evt )
                {
                    case eFE_Suspend:
                        if ( m_pVideo && m_pVideo->IsPlaying() )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->Pause();
                            m_bWasPlaying = true;
                        }

                        pActInfo->pGraph->SetRegularlyUpdated( pActInfo->myID, false );
                        break;

                    case eFE_Resume:
                        if ( m_pVideo && m_bWasPlaying )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->Resume();
                            m_bWasPlaying = false;
                        }

                        pActInfo->pGraph->SetRegularlyUpdated( pActInfo->myID, true );
                        break;

                    case eFE_Initialize:
                        INITIALIZE_OUTPUTS( pActInfo );
                        break;

                    case eFE_Activate:
                        if ( !m_pVideo )
                        {
                            m_pVideo = gVideoplayerSystem->CreateVideoplayer();

                            if ( m_pVideo )
                            {
                                m_pVideo->RegisterListener( this );
                                pActInfo->pGraph->SetRegularlyUpdated( pActInfo->myID, true );
                            }
                        }

                        if ( !m_pVideo )
                        {
                            return;
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_CLOSE ) )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->Close();
                            INITIALIZE_OUTPUTS( pActInfo );
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_PAUSE ) )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->Pause();
                            ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_POSITION, m_pVideo->GetPosition() );
                            ActivateOutput<bool>( pActInfo, EOP_PLAYING, m_pVideo->IsPlaying() );
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_OPEN ) )
                        {
                            if ( m_pVideo->Open(
                                        GetPortString( pActInfo, EIP_FILE ).c_str(),
                                        GetPortString( pActInfo, EIP_SOUND ).c_str(),
                                        GetPortBool( pActInfo, EIP_LOOP ),
                                        GetPortBool( pActInfo, EIP_SKIPPABLE ),
                                        GetPortBool( pActInfo, EIP_BLOCKGAME ),
                                        eTimeSource( GetPortInt( pActInfo, EIP_TIMESOURCE ) ),
                                        eDropMode( GetPortInt( pActInfo, EIP_DROPMODE ) ),
                                        GetPortFloat( pActInfo, EIP_STARTAT ),
                                        GetPortFloat( pActInfo, EIP_ENDAFTER ),
                                        GetPortInt( pActInfo, EIP_CUSTOMWIDTH ),
                                        GetPortInt( pActInfo, EIP_CUSTOMHEIGHT ) ) )
                            {
                                ActivateOutput<int>( pActInfo, EOP_VIDEOID, m_pVideo->GetId() );
                                ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_POSITION, m_pVideo->GetPosition() );
                                ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_DURATION, m_pVideo->GetDuration() );
                                ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_FPS, m_pVideo->GetFPS() );
                                ActivateOutput<int>( pActInfo, EOP_WIDTH, m_pVideo->GetWidth() );
                                ActivateOutput<int>( pActInfo, EOP_HEIGHT, m_pVideo->GetHeight() );
                                ActivateOutput<bool>( pActInfo, EOP_PLAYING, m_pVideo->IsPlaying() );
                                m_pVideo->SetSpeed( GetPortFloat( pActInfo, EIP_SPEED ) );
                            }

                            else
                            {
                                INITIALIZE_OUTPUTS( pActInfo );
                            }
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_RESUME ) )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->SetSpeed( GetPortFloat( pActInfo, EIP_SPEED ) );
                            m_pVideo->Resume();
                            ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_POSITION, m_pVideo->GetPosition() );
                            ActivateOutput<bool>( pActInfo, EOP_PLAYING, m_pVideo->IsPlaying() );
                            m_bStart = m_pVideo->IsPlaying();
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_SEEK ) )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->Seek( GetPortFloat( pActInfo, EIP_POSTION ) );
                            ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_POSITION, m_pVideo->GetPosition() );
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_SPEED ) )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->SetSpeed( GetPortFloat( pActInfo, EIP_SPEED ) );
                        }

                        if ( IsPortActive( pActInfo, EIP_TIMESOURCE ) )
                        {
                            m_pVideo->SetTimesource( eTimeSource( GetPortInt( pActInfo, EIP_TIMESOURCE ) ) );
                        }

                        break;

                    case eFE_Update:
                        if ( m_bEnd )
                        {
                            m_bEnd = false;
                            ActivateOutput( pActInfo, EOP_ONEND, true );
                        }

                        else if ( m_bStart )
                        {
                            m_bStart = false;
                            ActivateOutput( pActInfo, EOP_ONSTART, true );
                        }

                        if ( m_bFrame )
                        {
                            m_bFrame = false;
                            ActivateOutput<float>( pActInfo, EOP_POSITION, m_pVideo->GetPosition() );
                        }

                        break;
                }
            }
    };
}

REGISTER_FLOW_NODE_EX( "Videoplayer_Plugin:InputWebM", VideoplayerPlugin::CFlowVideoInputWebMNode, CFlowVideoInputWebMNode );

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text:
/**
 * Enables common http request scenarios.
 * @module http
 * @requires jquery
 * @requires knockout
 */
define(['jquery', 'knockout'], function($, ko) {
    /**
     * @class HTTPModule
     * @static
     */
    return {
        /**
         * The name of the callback parameter to inject into jsonp requests by default.
         * @property {string} callbackParam
         * @default callback
         */
        callbackParam:'callback',
        /**
         * Makes an HTTP GET request.
         * @method get
         * @param {string} url The url to send the get request to.
         * @param {object} [query] An optional key/value object to transform into query string parameters.
         * @return {Promise} A promise of the get response data.
         */
        get:function(url, query) {
            return $.ajax(url, { data: query });
        },
        /**
         * Makes an JSONP request.
         * @method jsonp
         * @param {string} url The url to send the get request to.
         * @param {object} [query] An optional key/value object to transform into query string parameters.
         * @param {string} [callbackParam] The name of the callback parameter the api expects (overrides the default callbackParam).
         * @return {Promise} A promise of the response data.
         */
        jsonp: function (url, query, callbackParam) {
            if (url.indexOf('=?') == -1) {
                callbackParam = callbackParam || this.callbackParam;

                if (url.indexOf('?') == -1) {
                    url += '?';
                } else {
                    url += '&';
                }

                url += callbackParam + '=?';
            }

            return $.ajax({
                url: url,
                dataType:'jsonp',
                data:query
            });
        },
        /**
         * Makes an HTTP POST request.
         * @method post
         * @param {string} url The url to send the post request to.
         * @param {object} data The data to post. It will be converted to JSON. If the data contains Knockout observables, they will be converted into normal properties before serialization.
         * @return {Promise} A promise of the response data.
         */
        post:function(url, data) {
            return $.ajax({
                url: url,
                data: ko.toJSON(data),
                type: 'POST',
                contentType: 'application/json',
                dataType: 'json'
            });
        }
    };
});


WARNING! BUMBO Seat Recall! - Tired Of Being Pregnant? Me Too.
This morning, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Bumbo International Trust voluntarily recalled 4 million of its Bumbo Baby Seats. The recall comes after a series of reports of babies falling from the seat when placed on an elevated surface.
Since 2007, there have been over 50 reports of injuries involving the seat, which include skull fractures, minor head injuries, as well as bumps and bruises. The recalled seat was sold at Sears, Target, Toys R Us, Babies R Us, USA Babies, and Walmart, from August 2003 through August 2012 for between $30 and $50.
Do you own this seat? Stop using it immediately and contact Bumbo for a free repair kit which will include a restraint belt and installation instructions. You can order the kit by calling or calling (866) 898-4999 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Thursday and between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. CT on Friday. You can also visit the website and order the free repair kit by visiting www.recall.BumboUSA.com. Do not return the Bumbo seat to retailers as they will not be able to provide the repair kit.


We have taken huge steps in improving the design, size, and material of our sensors, and this has led to many new ways of placing them in a device. Power consumption in our solutions is down to almost nothing, and with our Fingerprints' FPC OneTouch® technology the sensor is always ready for human interaction.
Fingerprints offers a complete range of technology for working with fingerprint biometrics that can be used separately or in combination, including sensors, biometric processors, and modules. The competitive advantages offered by Fingerprints' technology include unique image quality, extreme robustness, low power consumption, and complete biometric systems.
Fingerprints' area sensor and swipe sensor are both based on patented proprietary technology, which offers several strong advantages such as high image quality, programmable pixel elements, and 256 gray-scale values from every single pixel element. The sensors contain small capacitive plates, each with their own electrical circuit embedded in the chip. The sensors use Fingerprints' proprietary HSPA (High Sensitive Pixel Amplifier) that allows each pixel element in the sensor to detect very weak signals, which improves image quality for all types of fingers.
Extremely weak electrical charges, sent via the finger, are created, building a pattern between the finger's ridges or valleys and the sensor's plates. Using these charges, the sensor measures the capacitance pattern across the surface.
Fingerprints' HSPA method also allows the use of a patented protective coating that is 25 to 30 times thicker than other suppliers and helps Fingerprints' sensors to withstand values well above the European Community Standard Class 4 requirement of 15 kV for static electricity (ESD) and to withstand wear and tear.
Capacitance is the ability to hold an electrical charge. Fingerprints' sensors contain tens of thousands of small capacitive plates, each with their own electrical circuit embedded in the chip. When the finger is placed on the sensor, extremely weak electrical charges are created, building a pattern between the finger's ridges or valleys and the sensor's plates. Using these charges, the sensor measures the capacitance pattern across the surface. The measured values are digitized by the sensor and sent to the neighboring microprocessor.
The surface of a capacitive sensor is a neat array of plates that are able to measure the capacitance between these plates and thus the fingerprint contour. This can be done directly by applying an electrical charge to the plate.
The latter method is called the active measurement method, sometimes referred to as reflective or inductive capacitive measurement, and it brings several advantages. The programmable logic internal to the capacitive sensor configuration makes it possible to read off and adjust the sensor reception to different skin types and conditions. Another important benefit is that the strengthened signal between the fingerprint surface and the sensor plates allows for the introduction of a strong, protective coating layer – up to 25-30 times thicker than other suppliers – on the sensor surface. This enables Fingerprints, as one of the very few sensor vendors, to produce devices that withstand values well above the requirement for 15 kV electrostatic discharge (ESD) and that withstand wear cycle tests of more than one million touches to the sensor.
Fingerprints offers a portfolio of high-quality and robust touch sensors with a durable scratch-resistant coating. They are based on a capacitive sensor technology with best-in-class 3D picture reading, including superior imaging quality with 256 true grey-scale values in every pixel. The sensors support software for both Android and Windows. The compact sensors are all capable of sustaining millions of repeated fingerprint readings.
Ultra-thin touch sensors optimized for integration into smartcards, wearables and other IoT devices.


This website is a collection of numerous dialogues in many languages.
Any language learner needs a good number of dialogues to develop his/her own practical skills. Dialogues are an essential part of language learning. The more dialogues go through your head the better language skills you aquire. This website is of much help for everyone who would like to grow in a foreign language.


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Posted inChildren's Health, Featured, State Health Policy
Health & Human Services Budget – The Winners
Photo credit: Philo Nordlund, flickr creative commons
Every budget has programs that get funded well and get what they want. NC Health News takes a look at some of the winners in this year's Health and Human Services budget.
State lawmakers in both the North Carolina House and Senate voted for final passage of the biennial budget late Wednesday afternoon. The $20.6 billion plan reflects the revenue goals created in the tax reform bill passed last week and cuts $53 million from last year's budget total.
While the plan makes deep cuts to education, many advocates in the health care world have said that this budget could have been a lot worse for the state's health care system.
"We think early-childhood education fared well in the budget," said Michelle Rivest, head of the North Carolina Child Care Coalition. "We're pleased with the commitment that the conference committee made to young children. NCPre-K actually got additional funding."
But others reflecting on the budget were not as pleased as Rivest.
Lisa Hazirjian from the N.C. AIDS Action Network expressed concern about losses in funding to the AIDS Drug Assistance Plan.
"It means that there's a much greater possibility that we'll go back to ADAP waiting lists," Hazirjian said.
As in every budget. there are winners and losers, and North Carolina Health News profiles some of the winners here.
WINNER: Psychiatric Beds
Inpatient psychiatric beds will soon be paid for using a two-tiered system, with Medicaid paying hospitals more for patients that require more intensive care.
The new system will allow patients with more acute mental illnesses to be treated in local hospitals' inpatient psychiatric beds.
The current system was put in place in 2008 to provide short-term psychiatric treatment in local hospitals and keep people with less serious illnesses out of state facilities.
Dix Hospital patient care, 1946-47. Photo courtesy of the Barden Collection, North Carolina State Archives.
The "three-way beds" are contracted between local hospitals, local management entities (LMEs) and state government.
Because patients with more serious mental illnesses require more costly treatment, it's hard for them to get treatment at local hospitals.
"Some of the hospitals are losing money," said bill co-sponsor Rep. Susan Martin (R-Wilson).
Those people have no choice but to go to state psychiatric hospitals. But many of them end up in local hospitals' emergency departments while waiting for a spot in state facilities.
That's the problem this two-tiered system aims to fix.
"If we fund more low-level community-based services, we should be able to serve more people without putting them in [state] hospitals at all," said Corey Dunn, director of public of policy for Disability Rights North Carolina.
Right now, inpatient psychiatric beds cost $750 a day.
The budget provides money to purchase more three-way beds and bed days than are currently being offered. For each of the fiscal years 2013-14 and 2014-15, $38.1 was appropriated.
The budget also provides $3.5 million in funding for 19 more beds at Broughton Hospital in Morganton, beds that were written into last year's budget contingent on Medicaid funding. But because Medicaid had an overrun this year, those beds ended up unfunded.
The new funding will be recurring, which means that next year the money will automatically be available unless budget writers specifically take it away.
WINNER: Child Treatment Program
The N.C. Child Treatment Program received $1.8 million in this year's budget for the next two years.
A partnership between the Duke-UCLA National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the Center for Child and Family Health and the UNC School of Medicine, the program uses evidence-based mental health treatments to help traumatized kids and families and teaches these methods to clinicians.
Robert Murphy, executive director of the Center for Child and Family Health, said he is pleased the legislature is funding the program.
Image courtesy apdk, flickr creative commons
"This new support will allow even more children and families to receive the best mental health care possible, at the most vulnerable times of their lives," he said.
The budget money will be used to help the program expand its services.
Karen McLeod, head of Benchmarks, a coalition of groups that serve children and families, said they are hoping to link the program with Community Care of North Carolina, a not-for-profit network of primary-care practices, and work with Medicaid.
The Child Treatment Program uses evidence-based practices that help children get over traumatic events.
"We cannot remove their concerns but we can help children and families to gain a sense of mastery and an ability to cope effectively," Murphy said. "The result for children is that they are again able to go about the critical aspects of daily life, learning in school, participating in family life and having friends."
He said these evidence-based treatments are not widely available in North Carolina.
The program has high expectations for its clinicians. McLeod said it follows strict guidelines for its proven treatments.
"What we know from the CT program is that these kids are getting significantly better and in a shorter period of time under the evidence-based practices," she said.
Murphy said clinicians need this rigorous training program to use the treatments more effectively.
"We would not expect a physician to learn a complex procedure in a brief training, yet all too often we have expected this of mental health providers," he said.
The CTP is aimed at helping kids in the child welfare system. A certain portion of clinicians' patients must be Medicaid recipients.
McLeod said managed care organizations can use the roster of clinicians to find high-quality providers for their clients.
The program received $1.8 million in recurring funding for each year of the biennium, plus an additional $250,000 per year in non-recurring funds to train additional practitioners from North Carolina.
McLeod said the money will also go to help the program create long-term sustainability by increasing the costs for training in exchange for higher reimbursement once practitioners are actually delivering the service.
WINNER: Adoption funding
This year's budget includes almost $7 million for adoption funding.
The General Assembly appropriated $3 million for the Adoption Promotion Fund – $1.5 million for fiscal year 2013-14 and $1.5 million for 2014-15.
That money will be used to fund nonprofit organization adoption programs. It will also be used to provide incentives for county social service departments that reach and surpass a certain number of adoptions.
The rest of the $7 million will go toward the Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund, which will be used by the Children's Home Society of North Carolina to find permanent homes for foster children.
The budget appropriates $1 million for fiscal year 2013-14, and $2.75 million for 2014-15 for the fund. It also creates an oversight committee for the Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund that will report to the General Assembly each year.
Matt Anderson, lobbyist for the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, said the money is needed to make up for inevitable cuts in federal spending. Until this year, the only source of adoption funding has been from the federal government.
Anderson said the money is going only to the Children's Home Society because it's not enough to service multiple organizations.
"Our initial thoughts were that it'd be a larger fund available to all," he said.
The society uses two unique methods for establishing permanency. One is Family Finding, which is used to find relatives of foster kids in hopes that they can adopt the child.
Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Raleigh) said knowing where they come from is good for foster children, even if they don't get adopted by relatives.
"This feels promising, in that you give that child the connection that all of us want," she said.
The other is Child-Specific Adoption Recruitment Services, a program that develops recruitment strategies for individual children.
"One size fits all doesn't work with humans," Avila said.
Anderson said these two services are specific to his organization.
"Those are two specifically prescribed service models that we deliver and no one else does," he said.
Anderson said the Children's Home Society's program will serve as a demonstration program for other organizations.
WINNER: NC Pre-K
After House budget writers initially proposed reducing eligibility for NC Pre-K, and thus reducing the number of total slots available for the program, the compromise budget keeps the eligibility for NC Pre-K essentially the same and adds permanent money for about 2,500 new slots.
Legislators allocated $12.4 million in state lottery funds to cover the new slots.
"It's important to put this in context," said Rob Thompson from the Covenant With North Carolina's Children. "Gov. Perdue added 5,000 slots last year, but that was temporary funding only. Those are expiring now, so, in sum, there will be 2,500 fewer slots at the beginning of this year than last year."
But Michelle Rivest from the the N.C. Child Care Coalition pointed out that those 2,500 slots will be permanent, because the funds for them are recurring, not temporary.
"I can only judge from the outcome that the conference committee had the right information from the right people to make this kind of decision," she said.
"It was the actions of our lobbying team, to hundreds of coalition members across the state, to thousands of parents and child-care providers communicating with legislators," Rivest said. "Legislators heard our concerns and responded."
Child Care subsidies also stayed steady after Senate budget writers created an initial proposal to cut them by more than 40 percent.
Cover photo credit: Philo Nordlund, flickr creative commons

Health & Human Services Budget – The Winners

by Rose Hoban, North Carolina Health News
July 25, 2013

Every budget has programs that get funded well and get what they want. NC Health News takes a look at some of the winners in this year's Health and Human Services budget.

By Rose Hoban and Holly West

State lawmakers in both the North Carolina House and Senate voted for final passage of the biennial budget late Wednesday afternoon. The $20.6 billion plan reflects the revenue goals created in the tax reform bill passed last week and cuts $53 million from last year's budget total.

While the plan makes deep cuts to education, many advocates in the health care world have said that this budget could have been a lot worse for the state's health care system.

"We think early-childhood education fared well in the budget," said Michelle Rivest, head of the North Carolina Child Care Coalition. "We're pleased with the commitment that the conference committee made to young children. NCPre-K actually got additional funding."

But others reflecting on the budget were not as pleased as Rivest.

Lisa Hazirjian from the N.C. AIDS Action Network expressed concern about losses in funding to the AIDS Drug Assistance Plan.

"It means that there's a much greater possibility that we'll go back to ADAP waiting lists," Hazirjian said.

As in every budget. there are winners and losers, and North Carolina Health News profiles some of the winners here.

WINNER: Psychiatric Beds

Inpatient psychiatric beds will soon be paid for using a two-tiered system, with Medicaid paying hospitals more for patients that require more intensive care.

The new system will allow patients with more acute mental illnesses to be treated in local hospitals' inpatient psychiatric beds.

The current system was put in place in 2008 to provide short-term psychiatric treatment in local hospitals and keep people with less serious illnesses out of state facilities.

Dix Hospital patient care, 1946-47. Photo courtesy of the Barden Collection, North Carolina State Archives.

The "three-way beds" are contracted between local hospitals, local management entities (LMEs) and state government.

Because patients with more serious mental illnesses require more costly treatment, it's hard for them to get treatment at local hospitals.

"Some of the hospitals are losing money," said bill co-sponsor Rep. Susan Martin (R-Wilson).

Those people have no choice but to go to state psychiatric hospitals. But many of them end up in local hospitals' emergency departments while waiting for a spot in state facilities.

That's the problem this two-tiered system aims to fix.

"If we fund more low-level community-based services, we should be able to serve more people without putting them in [state] hospitals at all," said Corey Dunn, director of public of policy for Disability Rights North Carolina.

Right now, inpatient psychiatric beds cost $750 a day.

The budget provides money to purchase more three-way beds and bed days than are currently being offered. For each of the fiscal years 2013-14 and 2014-15, $38.1 was appropriated.

The budget also provides $3.5 million in funding for 19 more beds at Broughton Hospital in Morganton, beds that were written into last year's budget contingent on Medicaid funding. But because Medicaid had an overrun this year, those beds ended up unfunded.

The new funding will be recurring, which means that next year the money will automatically be available unless budget writers specifically take it away.

WINNER: Child Treatment Program

The N.C. Child Treatment Program received $1.8 million in this year's budget for the next two years.

A partnership between the Duke-UCLA National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, the Center for Child and Family Health and the UNC School of Medicine, the program uses evidence-based mental health treatments to help traumatized kids and families and teaches these methods to clinicians.

Robert Murphy, executive director of the Center for Child and Family Health, said he is pleased the legislature is funding the program.

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"This new support will allow even more children and families to receive the best mental health care possible, at the most vulnerable times of their lives," he said.

The budget money will be used to help the program expand its services.

Karen McLeod, head of Benchmarks, a coalition of groups that serve children and families, said they are hoping to link the program with Community Care of North Carolina, a not-for-profit network of primary-care practices, and work with Medicaid.

The Child Treatment Program uses evidence-based practices that help children get over traumatic events.

"We cannot remove their concerns but we can help children and families to gain a sense of mastery and an ability to cope effectively," Murphy said. "The result for children is that they are again able to go about the critical aspects of daily life, learning in school, participating in family life and having friends."

He said these evidence-based treatments are not widely available in North Carolina.

The program has high expectations for its clinicians. McLeod said it follows strict guidelines for its proven treatments.

"What we know from the CT program is that these kids are getting significantly better and in a shorter period of time under the evidence-based practices," she said.

Murphy said clinicians need this rigorous training program to use the treatments more effectively.

"We would not expect a physician to learn a complex procedure in a brief training, yet all too often we have expected this of mental health providers," he said.

The CTP is aimed at helping kids in the child welfare system. A certain portion of clinicians' patients must be Medicaid recipients.

McLeod said managed care organizations can use the roster of clinicians to find high-quality providers for their clients.

The program received $1.8 million in recurring funding for each year of the biennium, plus an additional $250,000 per year in non-recurring funds to train additional practitioners from North Carolina.

McLeod said the money will also go to help the program create long-term sustainability by increasing the costs for training in exchange for higher reimbursement once practitioners are actually delivering the service.

WINNER: Adoption funding

This year's budget includes almost $7 million for adoption funding.

The General Assembly appropriated $3 million for the Adoption Promotion Fund – $1.5 million for fiscal year 2013-14 and $1.5 million for 2014-15.

That money will be used to fund nonprofit organization adoption programs. It will also be used to provide incentives for county social service departments that reach and surpass a certain number of adoptions.

The rest of the $7 million will go toward the Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund, which will be used by the Children's Home Society of North Carolina to find permanent homes for foster children.

The budget appropriates $1 million for fiscal year 2013-14, and $2.75 million for  2014-15 for the fund. It also creates an oversight committee for the Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund that will report to the General Assembly each year.

Matt Anderson, lobbyist for the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, said the money is needed to make up for inevitable cuts in federal spending. Until this year, the only source of adoption funding has been from the federal government.

Anderson said the money is going only to the Children's Home Society because it's not enough to service multiple organizations.

"Our initial thoughts were that it'd be a larger fund available to all," he said.

The society uses two unique methods for establishing permanency. One is Family Finding, which is used to find relatives of foster kids in hopes that they can adopt the child.

Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Raleigh) said knowing where they come from is good for foster children, even if they don't get adopted by relatives.

"This feels promising, in that you give that child the connection that all of us want," she said.

The other is Child-Specific Adoption Recruitment Services, a program that develops recruitment strategies for individual children.

"One size fits all doesn't work with humans," Avila said.

Anderson said these two services are specific to his organization.

"Those are two specifically prescribed service models that we deliver and no one else does," he said.

Anderson said the Children's Home Society's program will serve as a demonstration program for other organizations.

WINNER: NC Pre-K

After House budget writers initially proposed reducing eligibility for NC Pre-K, and thus reducing the number of total slots available for the program, the compromise budget keeps the eligibility for NC Pre-K essentially the same and adds permanent money for about 2,500 new slots.

Legislators allocated $12.4 million in state lottery funds to cover the new slots.

"It's important to put this in context," said Rob Thompson from the Covenant With North Carolina's Children. "Gov. Perdue added 5,000 slots last year, but that was temporary funding only. Those are expiring now, so, in sum, there will be 2,500 fewer slots at the beginning of this year than last year."

But Michelle Rivest from the the N.C. Child Care Coalition pointed out that those 2,500 slots will be permanent, because the funds for them are recurring, not temporary.

"I can only judge from the outcome that the conference committee had the right information from the right people to make this kind of decision," she said.

"It was the actions of our lobbying team, to hundreds of coalition members across the state, to thousands of parents and child-care providers communicating with legislators," Rivest said. "Legislators heard our concerns and responded."

Child Care subsidies also stayed steady after Senate budget writers created an initial proposal to cut them by more than 40 percent.

Cover photo credit: Philo Nordlund, flickr creative commons

This article first appeared on North Carolina Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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In this Japanese name, the family name is Seki.
Yukio Seki (関 行男, Seki Yukio, August 29, 1921 – October 25, 1944) was a Japanese naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. As a kamikaze pilot Lieutenant Seki led one of the three fighter groups of the second official kamikaze attack in World War II (the first official attack was an unsuccessful attempt led by Yoshiyasu Kunō [ja] on October 21, 1944). Seki's final action took place on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He led a unit of five bomb-armed Mitsubishi Zero fighters, crash-diving his plane deliberately into the USS St. Lo's flight deck, being the first kamikazes to sink an enemy ship.
Yukio Seki was born 1921 in Iyo Saijō, a small town in Shikoku. His parents ran an antiques store specializing in tea ceremony utensils. At an early age, Seki was exposed to naval training courses at his middle school and planned a career in the Navy. Since naval personnel were fully prepared to die in battle, and since Yukio was an only child, the family adopted a daughter nearly Yukio's age to carry on the family affairs.
In 1938 he tried to enroll in the War Academy of both the Imperial Navy and the ground forces. He was accepted to both; he chose the Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima. During this time, his father died and his mother closed the antiques shop and lived alone. In 1941, one month before the Pearl Harbor attack, Seki graduated and was ordered to the Battleship Fusō. In June of the same year, he was promoted to lieutenant. Soon he was transferred to the seaplane carrier Chitose.
Seki saw several naval actions, and participated in a minor role in the Battle of Midway as his ship, Chitose, belonged to the second wave of Japanese ships.
In 1942, Seki returned to Japan and enrolled in the Naval flying academy at Kasumigaura, Ibaraki. After basic training, he was transferred to Usa in Ōita Prefecture, to be trained as a dive bomber operating from carriers. In January 1944, he became an instructor at Kasumigaura. Seki became friends with the Watanabe family living in Kamakura and fell in love with their daughter Mariko. Once when he was out drinking with his colleagues, one of them suggested that all of them should get married on the same day. They all agreed. The same weekend, Seki went to Kamakura and proposed to Mariko while her mother was present. Mariko accepted, and they were married May 31, 1944. Seki's mother Sekae was the only relative from his side to take part in the wedding. After the wedding, she lived with the young couple for a month and then left saying, "Young couples need some time alone". Soon after, they moved into a house close to the flying academy.
In September 1944, Seki was transferred to Tainan, a city in Taiwan. He had to leave his wife behind because Tainan was not safe enough for them to go together. Mariko followed Seki to Yokohama to say goodbye to him. Three weeks after he had arrived in Tainan, he was transferred again, this time to the 201st Flotilla in the Philippines as leader of the 301st fighter unit. Their base was originally in Nicholas, but was later moved to Mabalacat, away from increasing attacks by the Americans.
During this time, Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi had been making plans for the first kamikaze attack, and Lieutenant Seki was given the opportunity by group commander Asaichi Tamai to lead a special attack squadron that would end in the loss of his own life. Seki is said to have closed his eyes, lowered his head and thought for ten seconds, before saying to Tamai, "Please do appoint me to the post." Seki thereby became the leader of the squadron "Shikishima", which conducted the first official kamikaze attack, and the first to sink an enemy ship. Four times, his group returned to base in aborted sorties.
Near miss on USS White Plains.
USS White Plains (CVE-66): Two planes attacked. AA fire scored a hit on one attacker who changed course for St. Lo. The second plane was destroyed by AA fire just yards astern of White Plains. White Plains was not hit, but debris was scattered on the aft deck, causing 11 minor injuries.
USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68): Four diving planes attacked from astern. Two planes are shot down by AA fire. One crashed into the port side of the flight deck, damaging it badly. The other hit the aft port stack, destroying it.
USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71): The port catwalk was clipped and the aircraft exploded off the port side, causing one death and no significant damage.
USS St. Lo (CVE-63): The plane which veered off from White Plains approached St. Lo. Her action report states: "Approaching the ramp at very high speed, the 'Zeke 52' crossed over the aft end of the ship at less than fifty feet. He appeared to push over sufficiently to hit the deck at about the 'number 5 wire', fifteen feet to the port side of the center line. A tremendous crash followed quickly followed by an explosion as one or both of the enemy's bombs exploded. The aircraft continued up the deck leaving fragments strewed about and its remnants went over the bow." At first, the damage appeared minor. "There was a hole in the flight deck with smoldering edges which sprang into flame. Hoses were immediately run out from both sides of the flight deck and water started on the fire ... smoke soon appeared on both sides of the ship, evidently coming from the hangar. Within one to one and one-half minutes an explosion occurred on the hangar deck, which puffed smoke and flame through the hole in the deck and bulged the flight deck near and aft of the hole. This was followed in a matter of seconds by a much more violent explosion, which rolled back a part of the flight deck bursting through aft of the original hole. The next heavy explosion tore out more of the flight deck and also blew the forward elevator out of its shaft." The magazine had detonated, and St. Lo was gone in half an hour.
According to US Navy reports, there were no other kamikaze hits on US ships that day, although there was a "suicide" near miss on Kitkun Bay which was destroyed by AA fire from Kitkun Bay. Since this was at 1120 – nearly one half-hour after Seki's attack – and all five of Seki's kamikazes were apparently expended and the airplane was a Yokosuka D4Y dive bomber, it is unlikely it was part of Seki's group.
It is debated whether Seki's plane sank St. Lo. Nishizawa survived the attack and made his report stating that Seki's plane glanced off the deck of a carrier but that the bomb did not explode. His description on this point closely matches the attack on St. Lo as reported by her captain. A second plane did score a hit on the same carrier that Seki attacked and that plane's bomb did explode. The only carrier with two hits was Kalinin Bay. However, the description is sharply different, since there was an immediate visibly large explosion following the first hit on Kalinin Bay, and no portions of the plane were seen to go over the bow. So Nishizawa's description of Seki's hit most closely matches that on St. Lo. A posting on an earlier USS St. Lo survivor site showed a photo purported to be of the engine serial number plate of the plane which sank the ship found on the deck by a sailor about to abandon ship. It was stated that the serial number was later traced back through Japanese authorities to the plane and the pilot who flew it that day, Lt. Seki.
Japan's future is bleak if it is forced to kill one of its best pilots. I am not going on this mission for the Emperor or for the Empire ... I am going because I was ordered to!
In this interview, he gave insight into his thinking on how the carrier force should be attacked. "If they would let me, I could drop a 500 kilogram bomb on the flight deck of a carrier without going in for body-crashing and still make my way back." During his flight, his commanders heard him say "It is better to die, rather than to live as a coward."
Whichever pilot actually sank St. Lo did so by releasing his bomb onto the flight deck, just as Seki described to the reporter, instead of crashing his plane directly onto the deck. The reports of the attack are consistent with that of a pilot who intended to return to base after successfully sinking St. Lo.
^ "The Sacred Warriors: Japan's Suicide Legions", Early life details corroborated on pages 45–48.
^ The Sacred Warriors: Japan's suicide Legions, page 89.
Sheftall, M.G. (2005). Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze. NAL Caliber. p. 480pp. ISBN 0-451-21487-0.
Jon Guttman (July 1998). "Hiroyoshi Nishizawa: Japan's Ace of Aces". Aviation History Magazine.


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Seiko Instruments USA Inc. (SII) Thermal Printer Division, https://www.siiprinters.com, a globally recognized leader in thermal printer technology, today announced that it has named James Prince as Regional Sales Manager, Western U.S. and Canada. Focusing on these specific geographical regions, Prince will maintain and grow relationships with both distributors and sales representatives in regard to Seiko's POS, Smart Label, Panel Mount, Mobile Printer and Smart Label Printer (SLP) products. He will be based out of Dallas, Texas.
Prior to joining Seiko Instruments last month, Prince most recently worked as a field sales representative for distributor Wesgarde Components Group; he also previously served as Gulf Coast Manager for CODE Corporation. Prince also held positions in the POS printer channel, specifically with Fujitsu as Sales Channel Manager for North America, and at Star Micronics as Technical Sales Manager/OEM Channel Sales.
"It's a great time to be part of the thermal printer channel, especially as there are countless new innovations and technologies going to market each day," Prince said. "I'm beyond excited to be back within this space, and I look forward to growing Seiko's current distributor and partner relationships, as well as forging new ones that will undoubtedly further our position as a leader within our market when it comes to servicing both partners and end user customers."
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Here and around the political media world we have pointed out that man behind Donald Trump's White House hardline anti-immigration policy is one Stephen Miller…
Trump has reportedly announced that Miller runs the immigration policy , even though his son-in-law is trying to work his own policy initiative ….
We are subjected to crazy policy tries almost weekly ….
Most of them so illegal that Federal judges routinely strike down most of them that aren't pulled after they media reports them…
The question is?
Will Democrats bring him in for a grilling?
House Democrats are sharpening their focus on White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller, with key lawmakers saying he should be brought before congressional committees to testify about his role in recent policy controversies.
The talk of hauling Miller before lawmakers comes days after The Washington Post reported that he played a key role in a plan first discussed last year to release undocumented immigrants into "sanctuary cities" represented by President Trump's Democratic critics. While the plan never came to fruition because of objections from agency officials, Trump has since embraced the idea.
With a spate of new vacancies at the Department of Homeland Security, including the departure last week of the secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, Miller has emerged as a key target for Democrats who see him as an influential survivor in an administration that has otherwise churned through personnel.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Sunday cited Miller's role in developing the targeted-release plan in calling on him to testify. "Steve Miller, who seems to be the boss of everybody on immigration, ought to come before Congress and explain some of these policies," he said in a CNN interview.
While Cabinet officials routinely testify before Congress on budget and oversight matters, it is unusual for lawmakers to publicly question presidential advisers like Miller — particularly in an adversarial scenario. Presidents of both parties have declined to make their executive aides available to congressional committees, citing the constitutional separation of powers….
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