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Personal Stories: Living with Vision Loss
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Jeremiah Taylor
Reality-based, confident, assertive, with a wry sense of humor, and a positively inspirational attitude to life, loving, and living — this sums up both Jeremiah Taylor and his wife Jo-Ann. But these qualities were severely tested seven years ago.
At the age of 52, Jeremiah, an active and ambitious sales executive, decided to have back surgery. At that time Jo-Ann, married to Jeremiah for one year, worked in real estate and taught aerobics on a part-time basis.
They both wanted to become more physically active and participate in a variety of outdoor activities, including cross-country skiing, mountain climbing (Jo-Ann wasn't too certain about this!), hiking, and even bungee jumping. Jeremiah's back problems, however, caused by a herniated disk that had degenerated over the years, were interfering both with his career goals and their desire for a more active lifestyle.
Jeremiah's surgeon left the operating room and told Jo-Ann the back operation had been successful. "Great!" she said, "Mountain climbing here we come!"
Suddenly Blind
Twenty-four hours after surgery, Jeremiah woke up and realized he was blind. The problem? During his back surgery, a routine although lengthy seven-hour procedure, his blood pressure was lowered to prevent excessive bleeding.
The anesthesiologist, however, failed to monitor Jeremiah's blood pressure sufficiently and it dropped too low, causing the optic nerve to die. The result was total blindness.
"The surgeons felt some vision might return, but within a month we knew the optic nerve was dead," said Jeremiah. "They also hoped that over time there would be a slight change and that maybe I would be able to see some light but we knew the damage was done. Blindness was something I was going to have to learn to live with."
Coping with, and Accepting, Vision Loss
Both Jeremiah and Jo-Ann claim they didn't experience any period of denial or anger. "We're both pretty reality-based," Jeremiah said. "Yes, we shed a few tears, but whenever either of us had a bad moment we'd talk about it." Their bonds, strong before the loss of vision, grew stronger.
Jeremiah's feelings are precise and pragmatic: "It's hard to explain how I adjusted to my vision loss, but I was able to accept it almost immediately. It seemed like my 'business' side kicked in. I didn't view myself as a sighted person who was now blind. I decided I was a blind person — period — and had to make the best of it. I couldn't allow this situation to have an impact on my marriage, career, or my enjoyment of life."
Professional Vision Rehabilitation
A month after the operation, and following Jo-Ann's extensive Internet research, Jeremiah began attending a vision rehabilitation center in New York City. The agency taught Jeremiah how to travel with a cane and he learned a number of useful adaptive daily living skills.
"If my car had a flat tire I'd take it to the garage. I'm blind, so I came to an agency that knows about blindness. No big deal — it was as simple as that. I learned typing and then I learned JAWS for Windows [a computer software program that speaks]. Trying to understand the JAWS 'speech' was especially difficult. But it was important for me to learn this.
Sales involves a lot of time on the phone, networking, making notes, maintaining files, doing follow-up calls, keeping information systematized and organized. I wanted to be able to do all these things for myself."
He also had the services of a state vocational rehabilitation counselor from the New York State Commission for the Blind to facilitate his return to an active working life.
Active Employment with Blindness
"I wasn't at the agency long because I decided to focus again on my career. I enjoy challenges — and making money! I got a sense that because I was 52 maybe it wouldn't be so easy to return to work, but work was my goal. I wanted things to continue the same way as before I became blind."
Jeremiah recalls that after losing his sight he returned to the engineering sales company where he held the position of vice president. He'd always viewed his position not so much as "just a job," but as an integral part of the career path he was building. It was a small company and he enjoyed his co-workers, but after he returned, the company hired someone else to take his place. Jeremiah decided to reduce his travel and look for another job.
A Natural Networker
Jo-Ann noted that many people seem to not get what they want, primarily because they lack sufficient motivation. Jeremiah, however, a born salesman with over 20 years of experience, knew exactly what he needed to learn in order to maintain his career, quality of life and independence. The first step was networking.
Regardless of the disability, Jeremiah believed that networking was the most effective way to find employment. "I spoke to everyone I knew," he said. "I alerted my friends, relatives, and especially former employers and co-workers."
Today Jeremiah has his own employment agency and recruits individuals by telephone, primarily for the Yellow Pages. He advises his clients about conducting themselves effectively during an interview, and coaches them on business dress and resume development. In addition, he profiles their personalities and gives them "hardnosed" feedback.
He's always found his own jobs, and the Yellow Pages hired him knowing he was blind. "Anyone looking for a job," he says, "has to make phone calls, has to network, must have a good resume, must look good, must have decent communication skills, must feel good about themselves, and must be motivated."
He suspects, however, that many people who have disabilities might not reach the interview stage because the prospective employer may be concerned about the costs of adapting workspaces or the legalities of terminating persons with disabilities.
Today, seven years after the operation, Jeremiah states that his life hasn't changed much at all, while at the same time noting that everything has changed! He didn't cook before he lost his vision, and he doesn't cook now. He used to do most of the shopping (which spoiled her, Jo-Ann says) and the cleaning (which he continues to do), as well as ironing his own shirts (which he still does).
What has changed is that Jeremiah and Jo-Ann now work on many household tasks together. For example, when Jo-Ann bought new window shades and didn't have the strength to drill the holes to hang them, they both stood on side-by-side chairs and she directed while he drilled. Task accomplished!
"There are many things we can't do separately but together we can achieve almost anything!" says Jo-Ann. "You learn what's important. We don't do as much as we did — he used to attend all my aerobic classes and now he doesn't — but we still have each other. We love socializing with friends and eating out; in fact, we're cooking so little these days we're even thinking of getting rid of the stove!"
This couple continues to live life to the full. They're active. They love ballroom dancing and receive compliments wherever they perform. "In fact, our socialization has increased. We love it, and we do it as often as we can," said Jeremiah.
They also enjoy watching movies together at home where Jo-Ann can narrate events occurring on the screen and tell Jeremiah what's happening. But he also enjoys the experience of getting dressed up and going out socially.
Jo-Ann admits that going to the movies is a little frustrating "because I can't keep up a running commentary on the action for Jeremiah, but he loves the overall experience and sense of being out in the world."
"I live in a relatively rural area where there's hardly any public transportation, plus I now work from my office at home, so I'm not really able to practice the orientation and mobility [cane] skills I've learned," says Jeremiah. Today when he needs to go into Manhattan, Jo-Ann drives him to the train and a friend meets him at the other end.
"I'm motivated and I'm glad I am!"
"I think motivation is important — in addition to being focused and determined," Jeremiah says. "Anybody, whether disabled or non-disabled, has to make the best of themselves in an interview, and you've got to get the people to like you. You've got to be motivated enough to ask for the job."
"Some employers are afraid of hiring people with disabilities, so maybe it's better you don't tell a potential employer too much initially. Let's say you're a great 5'9″ lady and I'm 5'4″ and I know you don't like short guys, and I want to call and ask you out because I know you're going to love me afterwards. (By the way, Jo-Ann knows I'm not talking personally here!) Would it make sense to tell you that I was 5'4″ before I asked you out? Better that I pick you up in the car, and I stay in the car until we get to the restaurant. Why start off with a negative? I might never get the date!"
"Yes, I'm motivated and I'm glad I am! I love working. I love being successful. And I love my wife! I'm a very lucky man."
Resources for Individuals Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
Jeremiah has found the following resources useful. You might, too:
NFB telephone newspaper service
E.A.R.S. for Eyes audiotapes
A bar code reader helps Jeremiah to identify any bar-coded product. He uses the reader to label CDs, files, clothes and other items. To purchase a bar code reader, see talking bar code reader at Independent Living Aids.
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Father, Daughter Charged With Stealing From Newtown Workplace For Years
NEWTOWN, Conn. – A Newtown father and daughter were arrested by police after they found the pair had stolen items from their workplace for years.Robert Lingl, 57, and his daughter, 21-year old Bethany, were arrested in Florida and Newtown respectively on multiple charges after police discovered the pair had stolen materials and packaging from SMT on High Bridge Road, where both were ...
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STAMFORD, Conn. – A Stamford woman was arrested by police on animal cruelty charges after turning herself in this week, according to the Stamford Advocate.Summer Parkman, 32, was charged after Animal Control Officer Michael Franzetti seized her abandoned dog during a search of her Taff Avenue apartment in January, the Advocate said.Parkman was contacted by Franzetti and made plans to be ...
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BELGRADE (Serbia), August 23 (SeeNews) – The countries in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) may be affected by a further rise of US interest rates and the Turkey panic may just be the first indication of a broader sell-off of emerging market currencies, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) said.
Many CESEE countries have significantly increased their external debt loads over the past decade, some continue to run large current account deficits, while a few countries in the region could also be vulnerable from a sovereign debt perspective, the WIIW said in a press release.
One key indicator of vulnerability is external debt, as much of CESEE has participated in the ramping up of external corporate credit since 2008, as firms have taken advantage of ultra-low borrowing costs, the WIIW said. "Gross external debt/GDP ratios have risen across most of CESEE since 2009, with the biggest increases recorded in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Belarus, Albania and Macedonia (all 25pp of GDP or more as of end-2017)."
In terms of the overall levels, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Hungary stand out. Short-term external debt is notably high in the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Turkey and Belarus, although in the past decade most countries have reduced their reliance on short-term debt. Corporate eternal borrowing was particularly high in Kazakhstan (88% of GDP at end-2017), but was also elevated in Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Ukraine, the institute also said.
A second key metric to access external vulnerability is the current account deficit adjusted for net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, WIIW noted. CESEE had undergone a positive adjustment since the global financial crisis but several countries are still running FDI-adjusted current account deficits. Some of them, particularly Kosovo and Bosnia, were able to rely on a large share of concessional financing, this was clearly not the case for Turkey in particular, which relied heavily on "hot money" to plug the gap.
The three major rating agencies have a particularly positive outlook on the region's sovereign debt, but public debt/GDP ratios rose in almost every country in the region over the past decade, with Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Croatia standing above 60% in March, the WIIW said.
However, US tightening is expected to proceed only slowly from here, while the pace of rate hikes by the European Central Bank is likely to be even more sluggish. This will provide a valuable source of stability for the more vulnerable countries in CESEE over the coming years.
Investors should not be complacent about the risks in CESEE, as market activity of recent weeks has shown, but some of the worst fears are overblown. In particular, there is a fairly strong likelihood that global rates will continue to only rise slowly.


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Emergency medical services (EMS) crews are all on assignments, it's rush hour, the cardiologist hasn't called back, or the transfer center is waiting for approval before assigning a bed. These are all valid reasons for delays in transfer of a patient with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), says Kevin Brown, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, principal with Brown Consulting Services in Armonk, NY, and former director of the department of emergency medicine at Greenwich (CT) Hospital, but if any of these delays occur, times should be documented by the emergency physician (EP).
"Should questions later develop, you will be grateful you did, especially if it backs up your timeline," he says.
If a STEMI patient presents to an ED that lacks a cardiac catheterization laboratory (cath lab) and the decision is made to transfer the patient to obtain treatment with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), any delays in getting the patient there can result in significant legal risks for the transferring ED, says Kurt Dischner, MD, FACEP, director of critical care for the ED at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, NY.
"Delays in treatment may be due to the patient not being transferred out quickly enough," he says, adding that this may result from failure to immediately identify the patient's MI due to a nondiagnostic EKG.
"The initial EKG may be nondiagnostic for an MI. In approximately 45% of patients having an acute MI, the initial EKG is normal or nonspecific," says Dischner. Dischner advises doing repeat EKGs if acute coronary syndrome is suspected, even if the first EKG is normal or nonspecific.
If the EKG shows an MI, but there is a miscommunication and the EKG is never handed to the EP to review, this could result in a delay. Dischner recommends having an ED policy in which all EKGs performed in the ED must be handed to an ED attending to be reviewed.
"This prevents the situation where an EKG showing evidence of an acute MI is placed in a chart without anyone ever reviewing it," he says.
Dischner also advises adhering to strict clinical guidelines once a STEMI is identified. "At that point, you are on the clock. If your treatment is thrombolytics, you need to be pushing them within 30 minutes," he says. "If you are treating with a cardiac cath, then door-to-balloon time is 90 minutes."
There are potential legal risks if the patient being transferred decompensates or develops an arrhythmia and goes into cardiac arrest, Dischner adds, because the transferring physician is still responsible until the patient arrives at the next institution.
Aside from an extraordinary mass casualty situation, documenting that the ED was crowded with other patients doesn't afford much protection for the EP, according to Dischner. "Juries will be less sympathetic if there was a breakdown in the system or evidence of carelessness, such as if the EKG was done and just left somewhere," he adds.
However, if a delay occurs with a STEMI patient because the EP was involved in another critical care case and was unable to leave the bedside, Dischner advises documenting this.
"It's kind of hard to fault the doctor if he can't leave the bedside of another critical care patient who is severely unstable or about to code," he says. Documentation of the reason for the delay may offer some protection for the EP, adds Dischner, by showing the jury that the delay was not due to incompetence or carelessness but to another critical patient receiving care at the same time.
"Still, when a jury looks at a case, they imagine the patient as the only one in the ED," he says. "They will want to know, 'Why wasn't this done right away?'"
Examine Each Step
The steps involved in detecting a STEMI patient and transferring him or her to another hospital with a cath lab are more complex than most EPs realize, according to Brown.
"Each step needs to be examined to see if it 'adds value,' and if not, whether it can be eliminated," he says. He gives these examples:
• Does the EMS agency that does interhospital transfers have enough resources — or might the ambulance that will be used to do the transfer be responding to a 911 call and, therefore, unavailable for an hour?
• Does an EMS system have a backup plan to get assistance, such as utilizing on-call emergency medical technicians or employing a mutual aid agreement?
• What delays might occur in contacting the accepting cardiologist?
"I have been involved in some cases where there are delays getting through to the telephone center, as they didn't have a dedicated phone line or the cardiologist took 20 minutes to return my call," says Brown. "It was very frustrating."
The best approach for EDs, says Brown, is to adopt a transfer-friendly "call and ship" approach, with the referring facility making a single call to a dedicated phone line with the accepting cath lab facility, with brief information given, followed by the name of the accepting cardiologist.
"An immediate call can then be made to EMS, which shortens the process," he says.
• Kevin Brown, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, Brown Consulting Services, Armonk, NY. Phone: (914) 760-8632. Email: krbrownmd@verizon.net.
• Kurt Dischner, MD, FACEP, Director of Critical Care, Emergency Department, Mercy Medical Center, Rockville Centre, NY. Email: disch05@yahoo.com.
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In the spotlight are new microsystems featuring all the tools, training, and documentation that you need to implement Mathnasium Team Teaching successfully in your center(s). Existing microsystems have been revised accordingly to reflect our most up-to-date recommendations.
• New training course "Right Instruction-Team Teaching" on Mathnasium University that will explain everything you need to know about Team Teaching.
• Building a collaborative work environment/culture for Instructors so they work as a team to address the needs of all students in the center.
• Properly setting students up for success through a balance of instruction and independent work.
• Using the new Session Wheel and Workout Plan to maintain session accountability for each student. These tools not only help manage individual student visits, but also allow you to establish goals for/with your students and track their progress over time.
• Creating effective one-on-one engagements within the Mathnasium Team Teaching model.
New Zeewise dashboards go live tomorrow, December 4! Based on Mathnasium's proven Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), these dashboards show you where you stand relative to target benchmarks, enhancing your ability to define and achieve business goals and pinpoint opportunities for improvement.
• New training course "Evaluate Business Performance" on Mathnasium University on evaluating your business performance per these KPIs.
• New microsystem "Manage Performance: Evaluate Business Performance". For KPI explanations and questions regarding accurate data, reference the KPI Dashboard Explanations and Instructions document on M2.
Also included is an updated Training Path Checklist and requirements for the entire five-stage training process.
Note that existing training courses will also be revised as needed to support these new resources.
As always, please direct all questions and feedback to support@mathnasium.com.
7 users comments for " Fall/Winter 2014 Release: Team Teaching and Evaluating Business Performance "
Looks like lots of hard work going on. Thanks for the continuous focus on improving the system. I have a training question. Pages 75 and 76 of the training manual still refer to the courses as 101, 102 and 103. I don't see those references in the actual training system. Where does the new team teaching course fit into that series? There is no mention of it on pages 75 and 76 of the operations manual.
Love the idea of workout plan and session wheel. Would love to see a video demonstrates how to use them! Thanks!
We're loving all the feedback! Just wanted to let everyone know that the Operations Manual has been updated to reflect the new Team Teaching course and Instructor training requirements. James, thanks for bringing this to our attention. Happy Friday to all!
I'm curious to know what percentage of centers in North America (who are at least 1 year old**) use Team Teaching as it is defined in this training course vs. Stationary instructors/Stationary instructors with a floater. I know many franchisees who have started out with Team Teaching and changed to stationary. This is why I say that we should measure centers that are at least 1 year old.
I know that this data has been collected by the FBCs.
I'd also like to know if there are other regions that are trending towards one or the other. My FBC, for instance, has told me that the NY region has a very, very high percentage of centers who use Stationary instructors/Stationary with a floater.
As a side note, I think scheduling of students might have some regional trends as well.
HQ, could you please enlighten us?
The decision to release the Team Teaching micro-systems in the current form was made based on several years of center observation, evaluation and testing across the system both in franchisees' centers as well as company-owned centers. We will continue to update and evolve these systems as appropriate based on our ongoing instructional observations from across the country. While the details of instructional implementation in centers has started to be collected and measured across franchisees, it is not our intention to release this data to the system. We at HQ will use it to guide and inform our efforts to provide the tools and systems that will enable continued growth and success to the entire team.
Thanks for your continued interest and input.
"While the details of instructional implementation in centers has started to be collected and measured across franchisees, it is not our intention to release this data to the system." This response does not bode well to develop confidence in a system that HQ finds superior to a system that has worked well system-wide for many years since the inception of Mathnasium and, currently still, for many successful franchisees in the system. It would seem that it would be in eveyone's best interest (HQ and individual franchisees) that if there is empirical data that supports the Team Teaching as a better model from a marketing and profitability perspective, HQ would want to share that system-wide. I suggest that you have a fiduciary responsibility to those that invested in a system that demonstrated the potential for success using the stationary model (as an alternative) to share whatever data you collect that would alleviate the concerns of those operating under that model.
There are many owners that are concerned about this change who deserve to have evidence shared with us that the change to Team Teaching would not impact our businesses in a negative manner. You must know that there are many in the system that have switched from a stationary model to a Team Teaching model back to a stationary model as it did not work for them. They felt that it was difficult to manage and reduce their revenue potential.
This is the realty in which you will be pushing for this change and all transparency on the reasons for your position should be shared with those that have may substantial investments into their business. I, for one, truly hope that you will reconsider your position on keeping the data you collect to yourselves. If we can make math sense to kids, perhaps you can make your decisions make sense to us!


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Photo: Joseph Jackson House (Rockaway Free Public Library), ca, early 1800s, 82 East Main Street Rockaway, NJ. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Photographed by user:TheoneSueVanderschans (own work), 2013, [cc-by-3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed January, 2016.
Rockaway Borough Hall is located at 1 East Main Street, Rockaway, NJ 07866.
The area that would become Rockaway Borough was first settled around 1730. By 1760 Rockaway Village contained a store, a grist mill, a saw mill, a forge and a Presbyterian Meeting House. By 1776 Rockaway had perhaps 50 residents. The Morris Canal, which came through the middle of town, contributed to accelerated growth. By 1889 the U.S. census reported more than 1,000 Rockaway citizens. A Rockaway business directory from 1868 lists 2 doctors, 5 merchants, 2 manufacturers, railroad agents, mining agents and insurance agents. This period saw significant commercial development along the town's main streets.
Rockaway Borough History, www.rockawayborough.com, accessed July, 2011.
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Bio-inspired 'nano-cocoons' offer targeted drug delivery against cancer cells — ScienceDaily
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Biomedical engineering researchers have developed a drug delivery system consisting of nanoscale "cocoons" made of DNA that target cancer cells and trick the cells into absorbing the cocoon before unleashing anticancer drugs. The work was done by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"This drug delivery system is DNA-based, which means it is biocompatible and less toxic to patients than systems that use synthetic materials," says Dr. Zhen Gu, senior author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC Chapel Hill.
"This technique also specifically targets cancer cells, can carry a large drug load and releases the drugs very quickly once inside the cancer cell," Gu says.
"In addition, because we used self-assembling DNA techniques, it is relatively easy to manufacture," says Wujin Sun, lead author of the paper and a Ph.D. student in Gu's lab.
Each nano-cocoon is made of a single strand of DNA that self-assembles into what looks like a cocoon, or ball of yarn, that measures 150 nanometers across.
The core of the nano-cocoon contains the anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) and a protein called DNase. The DNase, an enzyme that would normally cut up the DNA cocoon, is coated in a thin polymer that traps the DNase like a sword in a sheath.
The surface of the nano-cocoon is studded with folic acid ligands. When the nano-cocoon encounters a cancer cell, the ligands bind the nano-cocoon to receptors on the surface of the cell – causing the cell to suck in the nano-cocoon.
Once inside the cancer cell, the cell's acidic environment destroys the polymer sheath containing the DNase. Freed from its sheath, the DNase rapidly slices through the DNA cocoon, spilling DOX into the cancer cell and killing it.
"We're preparing to launch preclinical testing now," Gu says. "We're very excited about this system and think it holds promise for delivering a variety of drugs targeting cancer and other diseases."
The paper, "Cocoon-Like Self-Degradable DNA-Nanoclew for Anticancer Drug Delivery," was published online Oct. 13 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Co-authors include Yue Lu, a Ph.D. student in Gu's lab; Margaret Reiff, an undergraduate student in the joint biomedical engineering department; Tianyue Jiang, a Ph.D. student in the joint biomedical engineering department and at the China Pharmaceutical University; and Dr. Ran Mo, a former postdoctoral researcher in the joint biomedical engineering department now at the China Pharmaceutical University.
This research was supported by the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute under grant number 1UL1TR001111 and with funding from NC State and UNC Chapel Hill.
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Futuro Antico V - Musica della Serenissima è un album di Angelo Branduardi.

Il disco
Quinto capitolo del progetto che vede l'artista ripercorrere le tappe della musica antica e, nello specifico, quella Veneziana del '500-'600 a favore dell'ascoltatore odierno.

Il progetto viene presentato al pubblico con un concerto presso il Casinò di Venezia il 29 gennaio 2009, con la partecipazione dell'ensemble Scintille di musica.

Come per gli album precedenti anche in questo sono presenti quattro momenti ben definiti che raggruppano melodie e temi simili, abbiamo quindi:

Destino e fortuna
 Ballo de' Paggi (strumentale): C. Pallavicino
 Che faralla che diralla: M. Pesenti
 Voi che passate qui: F. Varoter
 Ostinato vo' seguire: B. Tromboncino
 Sprezzami fuggimi: B. Ferrari
 La Cara cossa; La Gamba a 4 (strumentale): Anonimo

Gioco
 Balletto de' Cavalieri (strumentale): P. A. Ziani
 Sette passi: Anonimo
 Pavana alla Veneziana - Piva (strumentale): J. Dalza
 Chi la gagliarda (strumentale): B. Donato
 Franceschineta beula: V. Bellaver

Spirito
 Toccata arpeggiata (strumentale): G. Kapsberger
 Chi vi darà più luce: F. Varoter
 Laudate Dominum (strumentale):C. Monteverdi:

Amore
 Sprezzami bionda:A. Grandi
 Damigella tutta bella: C. Monteverdi
 Nasce l'aspro mio tormento (strumentale): F. Varoter
 Ancor che col partire: C. de Rore
 Damigella tutta bella: V. Calestani
 Ballo de' Paggi (strumentale): C. Pallavicino

Formazione
 Angelo Branduardi, voce, violino
 Francesca Torelli, direzione, liuto, tiorba, chitarra barocca, voce
 Rossella Croce, violino
 Andrea Inghisciano, cornetto
 Luigi Lupo, flauto dolce e traversa
 Stefano Vezzani, bombarda, flauto dolce
 Marco Ferrari, bombarda, flauto dolce
 Mauro Morini, trombone
 Rosita Ippolito, viola da gamba
 Luisa Baldassarri, cembalo
 Paolo Simonazzi, ghironda
 Gabriele Miracle, salterio, percussioni

Voci correlate
 Futuro antico I
 Futuro antico II
 Futuro antico III
 Futuro antico IV
 Futuro antico VI
 Futuro antico VII
 Futuro antico VIII

Collegamenti esterni

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General discussion for 'CSI'
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"LAT 40 Degrees 47 Minutes N/Long 73 Degrees 58 Minutes W"
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THE TEAM HUNTS FOR A SERIAL KILLER WITH A DEADLY SENSE OF DIRECTION, ON "CSI: NY," WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
Skeet Ulrich ("Jericho") Guest Stars in a Recurring Role as Hollis Eckhart, a Mastermind Killer, Who Takes the CSI Team on the Ride of Their Careers
Sarah Carter ("Shark") Returns as Haylen Becall
"LAT 40° 47' N/Long 73° 58'W" - When two bodies are discovered at the North and South ends of the city, Mac and the team deftly begin to navigate the trail of evidence left behind by the killer, on CSI: NY, Wednesday, Oct. 7 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Skeet Ulrich ("Jericho") guest stars in a recurring role as Hollis Eckhart, a mastermind killer, who takes the CSI team on the ride of their careers. Sarah Carter ("Shark") returns as Haylen Becall.
SERIES REGULARS:
Det. Mac Taylor........................ .... Gary Sinise
Det. Stella Bonasera......... Melina Kanakaredes
Danny Messer................... Carmine Giovinazzo
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes....................... Hill Harper
Det. Don Flack............................. Eddie Cahill
Lindsay Monroe......................... Anna Belknap
Adam Ross.................................... AJ Buckley
Dr. Sid Hammerback...................... Robert Joy
GUEST CAST:
Haylen Becall............................... Sarah Carter
Hollis Eckhart............................... Skeet Ulrich
Calliope Eckhart............................. Josie Davis
Tour guide.................................... Amara Cash
Kimball Saks........................... Benjamin Benitz
Cute girl..................................... Kelly Kolatac
WRITTEN BY: Trey Callaway
DIRECTED BY: Matt Earl Beesley
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Regent University News
Regent University Welcomes Delegate Scott Taylor to ELS Series
To former Navy SEAL and Virginia General Assembly Delegate Scott Taylor, life is like a chess game.
"It's not very linear," he told attendees of Regent University's Executive Leadership Series (ELS) luncheon on Tuesday, November 10. "Big things can happen from little decisions."
In fact, within the first two moves of a game, there can be 200,000 tiny decisions to lead to a victory. Taylor witnessed this phenomenon he calls "clarity in the chaos" as a child, when he made his very first move on the board.
He had been raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland by his single mother, and was working on a nearby farm when a man in a dark suit – a local detective – took him to the police station. There, Taylor was charged with malicious destruction of property, and breaking and entering.
"My mom must've been so proud when she learned that her 11-year-old son was on probation," said Taylor.
Checkmate: a mentor walks in. Taylor was enrolled in the Big Brother Big Sisters program and was introduced to the man who'd change the trajectory of his life, Andrew Jones.
"He taught me to put a napkin in my lap and how to maneuver stock options and everything in between," said Taylor. "We don't have to navigate through the chaos of life on our own."
Jones became an ever-present mentor in Taylor's life; and was the first person he called when he was injured during a mission as a SEAL sniper in Ramadi, Iraq. Without his encouragement, Taylor said he may not have had the tenacity to get through the training and the infamous "hell week" SEALs undergo.
"It's a lesson in free will," said Taylor. "You can quit at any time."
And many do. Out of the nearly 160 people who began training alongside Taylor, only 25 completed the six-day intensive training. And for good reason, Taylor explained, as he described shivering in ice-cold temperatures, enduring lack of food and performing with little rest.
"That's why some of the fastest guys and the best swimmers don't make it," said Taylor. "You have to have a strong will and a mental toughness. There's power in removing failure from your list of options. You find a way to make it happen."
Taylor is careful not to say that failure can be removed entirely. He'll be the first to admit that he's failed at nearly everything he's been successful at; having lost elections and failed physical endurance tests due to injury.
To Taylor, this is a key leadership trait as he continues to serve in a political office: to study the perspective of others and to encourage them and give them clarity through the chaos.
"I think Virginia, America and the world needs a leader to serve with care," said Taylor.
Following the talk, an Honor and Remember Flag was given by Mark Stets, president of the Honor and Remember Hampton Roads Chapter. Stets presented the flag to the family of Sergeant James Michael Ciccone.
The next ELS will feature former NFL player and coach, Steve Wisniewski on Monday, December 7. Learn more about Regent University's Executive Leadership Series.


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Home/Boat tests/Cobra Cat 800 — by Mallards Boating
Tested by Erwin Bursik (SKI-BOAT September/October 2004)
Tel: +27 31 705-8620 • Fax: +27 31 705-9694 • E-mail: mallards@mallards.co.za • Website: www.mallards.co.za
IMMENSELY FISHABLE — AND BEAUTIFUL!
A BEAUTIFUL new boat beached next to me at Sodwana during the FIPS-M international competition in May this year. The name, Calypso, immediately identified the craft as the new CobraCat 800, which was confirmed when Geoff Barnes stepped out of the cabin onto the aft deck.
I should have recognised her sooner, as her lines are unmistakably those of a CobraCat, but on the beach she looked so much bigger than the upturned hull I had seen at the Mallards factory a few months earlier.
So this was the new CobraCat 800. Most impressive! However, I had to wait another month before it would be my privilege to take her to sea off Durban …
Slipping out of her moorings at dawn on a calm winter's morning with the chilly air blowing lightly over our faces, Geoff and I sat comfortably on the flybridge as we made our way through the port of Durban and out to sea.
The first thing that struck me during this review was how easy it was physically getting the craft underway after arriving at Point Yacht Club, compared to the effort and mechanics necessary to undertake the same task when launching off a beach and into the surf at a venue like Sodwana Bay.
In saying this, however, the pioneers of big boat launching from the beach have simplified the procedure to a degree, as was witnessed with all the larger boats being launched and retrieved during the FIPS-M competition. Nowdays the task is practical and, from the angler's point of view, very simple.
Dawn on a winter's day, a calm, undulating sea, a responsive craft in the palm of my hand, and the early morning sun casting her warming rays gave me a tremendous sense of well being. Calypso was on a bearing towards Umhlanga lighthouse in flat water protected from the reasonably fresh land breeze that traditionally blows down river valleys on our part of the coast in winter. At 3 800 revs and an SOG of just over 20 knots, I was enjoying the ride while getting to know the craft and feel how her hull reacted to various trim settings at this, her most comfortable cruising speed.
Just as I was getting used to the CobraCat 800 and Geoff and I were chatting amicably, his cellphone's piercing ring shattered the tranquillity. It was Mike Barnes who informed us he was just exiting the harbour in a Cobra 525, so we had to turn around to rendezvous off the beachfront to start work — photographing the Cobra 800.
It's only when one transfers from a boat like the Cobra 800 to the smaller Cobra 525 that one is aware of what a mere nine or ten feet in overall boat length actually converts to in boat proportions. This was once again evident when Geoff drove Calypso past the Cobra 525, towering over us and thundering on at well over 20 knots. To see a hull like that, not three metres from one's face, working the water at 25 to 30 knots, and hear the roar of the motors and the sizzle as the hull cleaves the water's surface is simply awesome!
The advantage of watching through the camera lens is that I also have the ability to zoom in even closer with the telescopic lens to see the hull-water interaction. One could never see it any other way. I often find myself looking rather than clicking away, because it helps build up a complete picture of the craft's performance.
When this exercise was over and Mike and the Cobra 525 had disappeared in the direction of the harbour, Geoff, SKI-BOAT's Mark Wilson and I were left in peace to really enjoy being at sea aboard the Cobra 800.
It is obviously more difficult to assess a craft's performance in relatively calm water than in the rough stuff, but when you think about it, in most instances we tend to go fishing when the sea is just that flat. Then we only cope with bigger seas when the wind picks up and we head for home.
With the Cobra 800 I set a course to take me out to sea to where I know the land breeze blows harder than in most areas. The chop it creates is directly on one's beam as we head to the traditional fishing grounds further north. It was interesting to note just how adaptable this hull was at a constant speed when undertaking this fairly long run.
By this time we were all in Calypso's cabin for two reasons. Firstly, it's damn cold when this wind comes down to the coast straight off the Drakensberg, then add to that the wind chill factor at 20 knots. Secondly, I wanted to feel the craft's performance without two big guys creating a pendulum effect by sitting up in the flybridge. When you extend the height of motion by nearly three metres, add to that 250kg of weight and start the pendulum, it's not easy to stop.
Once we got to the slightly rougher water, I undertook a full array of trials, both directional and at speeds ranging from slow troll, idling with one motor in gear, through the various trolling speeds to the fast 7/9 knots kona speed, and then the much faster cruising speed up to 25 knots. I left the very fast run until I was on the way home. I opened her up to 5 300 revs, which showed an SOG of 40 knots on the GPS, and the twin Mariner 150s were not even at maximum revs.
Throughout these trolling trials, which I undertook both skippering from the cabin helm station as well as the flybridge, I realised that the Cobra 800 is a lot more stable and comfortable than I would have expected from a craft this size. This is especially surprising considering she sports both a very substantial flybridge structure as well as a large, rigid T-top canopy.
Here I must discuss the pendulum effect I mentioned earlier. In very rough beam seas, in a craft this size one must expect to experience more lateral swing than one would expect on a 30, 40 or 50ft craft, as size and beam width have an incredible effect on this aspect. To experience it I have ventured up to the high tuna tower on big sportfishers in relatively rough seas and have been scared witless by the movement up there, while on the main deck the craft hardly felt like it was rolling.
To those who criticise flybridges on smaller boats, I can only say you need to get your mind into gear and accept that when conditions are right, the advantages for the skipper to be up on the flybridge are enormous. Also, accept that when the conditions are not ideal, the skipper has the choice of reducing this pendulum effect by either sending the second person on the flybridge downstairs and thereby reducing the weight, or by both of them moving to the cabin helm station.
This craft had her maiden voyage launching through the surf at Sodwana, and as she is a craft that is usually launched and retrieved with a big 4×4, it was necessary for me to put her through her paces as one would expect to find with such a launch. Turning, out-of-the-hole acceleration, going over a peaking wave and following a swell/wave back into the beach all needed to be assessed. Throughout extensive and repeated excercises covering the whole range, the Cobra 800 proved to be outstanding for a craft of this size. Having watched her launching and returning through the surf at Sodwana Bay, I would be fully confident with her in such conditions.
The Cobra 800 likes a fair bit of bow lift when running, especially with the sea we experienced and with two people up in the flybridge. However, while saying that, I am still not sure that this bow lift really is that important or whether it's just psychological, because when I was at the cabin helm station I used very little trim to get her to ride at optimum speed-to-revs-to-throttle setting.
What impressed me most was this craft's performance on one motor. With one dragging she achieved an incredible 15 knots on the plane at 4 800 revs (that's all I could get) and 17 knots at the same revs with the "dead" motor trimmed up. What's more, it did not take a long run to get her onto the plane with only one motor.
Finally, I found backing up to be quite easy out at sea, and it will probably become a lot easier manoeuvring her into moorings once I get to know her better. My first attempt at trying to back her into her moorings was not pretty, nor was the second, and although I achieved the desired result, it did not bring me any glory. Geoff has a lot of patience and explained the knack. Next time — and I hope there will be a next time — I'm sure I will do a lot better.
In my opinion, the Cobra 800 — whilst being an exceptionally practical, well fitted-out sportfishing craft — also provides a lot more extras than on most ski-boats this size. However, while Mallards have not gone overboard with luxury finishes that can cause costs to skyrocket, they have elected to maintain their high standard of practical, fisherman-friendly, solid interior finishes that will survive the test of time. Layout overall is also what I would call "socially friendly": it's great for when one simply wants to go cruising with family and friends or, most importantly, one's wife.
As her fishability is of the utmost importance, it was great to review a boat that was not only fully rigged for sport- and billfishing, but had also already been used for that purpose. The hatch drawers, cupboards, etc., were well loaded with equipment, so one could see at a glance just how much she could carry in stowage, and how neatly too when all the drawers and cupboards were closed.
As a major builder of sportfishing craft, Mallards must have had — and heard of — hundreds and hundreds of ideas on how to layout and set up a craft. These ideas have evolved into a good looking craft with a practical deck and cabin configuration that suits the majority of sportfishermen. On the Cobra 800 I reviewed, Geoff and Mike have incorporated their personal requirements, as Calypso is destined to be their personal boat.
The Cobra 800 has a large, open deck area that incorporates either a fighting chair or a coffin centre hatch. Both these configurations still allow enough space for another angler to work the deck. Two 150 litre fuel tanks are built in amidships, and two moderate-sized fish hatches — one in each sponson — are big enough to hold the allowable catch legislated these days.
Also incorporated into this area are a hand basin, two livebait hatches, a wide marlin door in the transom and a substantial wooden deck to the outer extremities of the craft. The wide, level-topped gunnel, set at a very effective, workable height, finishes off this craft's fishing area.
Access to the flybridge, via steps and a ladder, is extremely well designed and practical, both for climbing up as well as for getting down quickly when an "observer" needs to take a strike. As I have already said, the flybridge is spacious for a craft this size, and the comfortable seating and adequate instrumentation allows the skipper to do his job properly — and enjoy doing it.
The cabin, with access via a glass sliding door, assures total protection for the helm station situated in this area. Indeed, the entire crew can take refuge here during heavy weather or sit back and relax during quiet times. A full length bunk is provided in the starboard forward area to allow for a good, comfortable nap, and an accessible, practical flush toilet is situated on the port side.
Since 2001 Mallards have put a lot of thought into their CobraCat 900, and the experience they have gained producing this popular craft has undoubtedly helped them in the design and manufacture of the Cobra 800.
What's more, the CobraCat 800 has inherited all the strengths, quality, styling and finishes that Mallards have become renowned for through their very extensive range of offshore sportfishing craft. Indeed, the CobraCat 800 is an immensely fishable craft all round.
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Late last Friday afternoon, President Obama released a long-awaited draft of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act. Industry and advocates have been waiting for this language since the White House announced support for comprehensive commercial privacy legislation in its February 2012 privacy report. The United States is one of only two developed nations without privacy protections for all personal data (Turkey is the other one); instead, we have a handful of sector-specific laws that apply to narrow categories of personal information, and general purpose consumer protection law enforced by the FTC that maps imperfectly to privacy rights.
CDT is committed to working with the administration and Congress on strengthening this bill to ultimately deliver the privacy rights and protections that we deserve.
We're glad to see the administration continue to provide needed leadership on this issue. Consumers feel uneasy about how information about them is collected and used, and with the advent of increasingly sophisticated technologies, there is a pervasive sense that we've lost control of our privacy. So the administration's concrete legislative proposal is an incredibly important step. The bill does have some significant flaws, but the administration seems to admit as much by explicitly labeling the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights a "discussion draft." A number of elements need to be improved if this bill is going to offer consumers comprehensive protection. As it is, there are too many loopholes, and enforcement is noticeably lacking. CDT is committed to working with the administration and Congress on strengthening this bill to ultimately deliver the privacy rights and protections that we deserve.
As a first step in that process, we've put together our initial summary of some of the bill's most important provisions, along with tentative suggestions for changes. Like the administration, we recognize that our analysis may not take everything into account, so we intend to iterate on this guidance over time. With that caveat, let's dive right in.
Some have argued in recent years that privacy protection should focus almost exclusively on responsible use at the expense of the other traditional protections; indeed, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology argued as much this summer in its report on Big Data (the White House's own Big Data report was more measured). We're pleased to see that the legislation includes a full range of protections beyond use limitations: minimizing the role of individual control, transparency, and collection limitations is inconsistent with consumer desires and expectations, and unreasonably presumes that nothing bad can happen to stored data. As we have seen in recent years, data security can be compromised, and governments can access commercial data sets often without reasonable due process requirements. Moreover, companies and individuals might not always see eye-to-eye on what constitutes reasonable use. The FTC recently rejected the notion that use limitations are sufficient to safeguard privacy; we're glad to see the administration do the same.
However, most of the bill's protections are predicated on a risk of harm. One very important element of the bill is that many of the FIPPs-based protections described above only apply in proportion to the "privacy risk" the data poses (the word "risk" appears 27 times in the 24 page bill). The bill defines "privacy risk" fairly narrowly — it is the potential that data could "cause emotional distress, or physical, financial, professional or other harm to an individual." §4(g). This is a significant shift away from a rights-based formulation adopted in other privacy legislation. While an assessment of risk makes sense for some protections — such as what level of security or internal accountability to mandate — predicating rights such as individual control (§102) and access-and-correction (§106) on an evaluation of risk is questionable. Predicating rights on this narrow formulation would leave many if not most data sets — such as information collected for marketing purposes — unaddressed. Consumers might reasonably want to limit what gets collected about them — or even know what's been collected — absent a significant risk of harm or emotional distress. Given that one significant rationale for this legislation is to demonstrate internationally — particularly to Europe — that the United States is serious about reforming its data protection regime, conditioning so much of the bill's protections on a narrow assessment of harm is counterproductive (the EU's Article 29 Working Party previously rejected the notion of conditioning rights on an assessment of privacy risk).
The bill also exempts a number of business records from many substantive protections. Similar to personal data that doesn't pose a risk of privacy harm, many business records are also exempted from protections such as individual control (§102(d)) and data minimization (§104(c)(1)). Certainly, many data records should be exempt from individual control — you can't opt out of a company's security database that identifies you as a previous shoplifter. However, the categories of exceptions are extremely broad in this bill (including a tautological definition of "customary business records" in §4(j)), and information collected doesn't need to be necessary for these purposes, only related. At the very least, reasonable minimization requirements — so that covered entities only collect the data that is needed (instead of simply related) for these purposes — would be an improvement.
The bill applies to companies and non-profits alike. Today, the Federal Trade Commission only has the authority to bring cases against for-profit commercial enterprises. This bill — in addition to expanding the substance of privacy requirements — would also expand the range of institutions to which these requirements apply to non-profit entities as well (meaning CDT would be subject to broad privacy requirements for the first time). §4(b). This is a sensible change, as non-profits — including political campaigns — have the capacity to collect a great deal of potentially sensitive personal information. However, the bill does have an exception for entities that collect information about less than 10,000 people in a year or that have five or fewer employees. §4(b)(1)(D). Given that small developers have the capacity to collect vast amounts of personal information, we're not entirely convinced that this exception is justified.
The bill has a very broad definition of personal information. The bill applies generally to a wide range of information — considerably beyond the traditional definition of "personally identifiable information" (PII) addressed in some existing sectoral legislation. §4(a). As privacy commentators have recognized for years now, consumers have an interest in pseudonymous identifiers such as device IDs and cookies because (1) those identifiers can be used to dramatically alter individual experiences and (2) information attributed to unique identifiers could — quite easily in many cases — be tied to real world identity. Identifiers for devices that aren't associated with a particular individual or family — say, a streetlight that is connected to the internet in order to be remotely turned on and off — are reasonably excluded from the definition of personal information.
Out-of-context data collection requires opt-in consent — or approval by a Privacy Review Board. So here's where the bill gets rather complicated. As noted above, consumers get certain rights if there's a "privacy risk" posed by that data. However, if data collection is "out of context," then consumers must be given "Heightened Transparency and Control" over that data (basically, they must provide affirmative consent in response to a clear and prominent prompt). §103(b)(1). When data processing is "unreasonable in light of context" is somewhat hard to parse — there's an eleven-factor test for what constitutes "context" in the definitions, including consideration of the nature of the institution's relationship with the consumer and the types of data collected. §4(k). Previous privacy bills such as Representative Rush's BEST PRACTICES Act and the Kerry-McCain Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights have adopted a simpler approach: opt-out controls for most data, opt-in controls for "sensitive" data. That approach is at the very least more predictable and certainly easier to implement. Alternatively, an obligation to provide just-in-time notice and opt-in controls could be tied to reasonable expectations or the likelihood that a consumer would be surprised by certain practices — arguably, the FTC has used this as a benchmark in previous enforcement actions. One of the key exercises going forward will be to evaluate this creative new idea of context and compare its strengthens and weaknesses against existing approaches.
Notably, the bill does provide for an exception to the requirement for Heightened Transparency and Control if an FTC-approved "Privacy Review Board" (think of a medical research institution's Institutional Review Board) finds that opt-in control is impractical, and the privacy risks have been minimized and are outweighed by "substantial benefits" that don't just accrue to the covered entity (this idea is tied to an expectation that big data will have a value to consumers and society). Even if a PRB waived a requirement of consent, the company would still have to provide transparency and individual control under §§101 and 102 of the bill, though general data minimization requirements are curiously overridden (§104(c)(3)). Moreover, whether out-of-context data processing is approved by an individual or a PRB, a disparate impact analysis must be conducted to ensure that the data processing wouldn't result in unintended discrimination against various protected classes. §103(d). We are wary about transferring too much individual autonomy to obscure and unproven PRBs, but we appreciate the effort to provide a creative solution to the problem of how to encourage societally beneficial secondary though unanticipated uses of data. The idea merits greater exploration.
Retroactive revisions to privacy policies no longer need permission. Under existing law, the Federal Trade Commission has brought enforcement actions against companies who tried to retroactively revise privacy policies to change the rules for previously collected data (that is, a company made certain material representations in its policy at the time of collection, and then retroactively changed the policy to remove those conditions). This of course makes sense — you can't promise someone at the time of data collection that you won't sell their email address to a data broker, and then change your mind after the fact. Surprisingly, the President's bill reverses course on this principle. Under §102(e), companies that change their policies simply need to post information about the change in advance, and then offer "compensating controls designed to mitigate privacy risks" from the change. This weakening of existing law is a bad idea, and this provision should be removed.
The bill has weak enforcement provisions. In order to effectively deter privacy violations, a privacy law needs to have robust enforcement — anemic enforcement powers has been blamed by many for uneven compliance with the Data Protection Directive in Europe. However, the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act is hamstrung by strangely weak enforcement powers. Most notably, privacy fines are calculated not by the number of affected individuals, but by the number of days during which a violation occurs. Thus, if a multibillion dollar company decided to sell millions of records in one day in violation of its promises, under this bill it would face a maximum fine of $35,000 — an incredibly perverse result. State Attorneys General and citizens themselves are not empowered to obtain penalties at all. And new companies get a free pass from penalties for the first 18 months of their existence (consider that Instagram had over a million users within two months of launch — and 150 million pictures and 10 million users in less than a year). If this bill is to be effective in deterring bad privacy practices, the consequences for behaving illegally need to be significant.
The FTC can approve specific Codes of Conduct as "safe harbors." Given the vagueness surrounding many of the bill's provisions (including how both risk and context are evaluated), covered entities will be eager for some sort of certainty that a specific set of practices will comply with the law. While the draft bill does not allow for FTC rulemaking to provide more in-depth guidance, it does allow the FTC to bless certain industry-specific codes as compliant with the law. These codes can be developed through the existing National Telecommunications & Information Administration's (NTIA) multistakeholder process that has delivered mixed results (at best) so far at generating consensus codes of conduct (though presumably institutions will be more incentivized to generate enforceable codes if there are substantive obligations from which you want to establish a safe harbor). Codes can also be developed outside of the NTIA process, potentially entirely by covered entities without multistakeholder input; however, these codes do not enjoy the presumption of validity and streamlined approval process that NTIA codes get. CDT believes that FTC-approved codes can play a helpful role in translating high level legal obligations into industry-specific practices — however, the FTC needs to be given the necessary resources to evaluate the potential influx of proposed codes.
CDT could support broad preemption provisions in a federal bill to create a common national standard, but the underlying substantive standard would need to be quite strong. Unfortunately, the President's bill is not there at this point — too much personal information is exempted from too many protections, and the enforcement mechanisms won't be an effective deterrent.
We are committed to working toward a common, strong privacy standard that would apply to all of our personal information. The President and FTC calling for comprehensive privacy legislation were important steps toward that goal. And this draft bill is an important step along the way.


Minneapolis Animal Care and Control is now offering free training to people who adopt pit bulls, Rottweilers and other so-called "power breed dogs."
Under a new agreement between the city and the Animal Humane Society, new adopted dog owners can get two months of free training including a free "human training" class.
Any breed of dog can benefit from training, but especially big, strong dogs, said Jeanette Wiedemeier Bower, a program director with animal care and control.
"It's one thing to have a chihuahua and they misbehave, " Bower said. "It's not good, we need to correct the behavior. But I've got 80 pounds of pit bull and it needs to be nipped in the bud right now."
The "human training" offered helps power breed dog owners prepare to become advocates to help dispel the myth that the dogs are more violent than others.
"People are going to look at you different. We know that when you walk down the street people may cross the street because they have those stereotypes, " Bower said. "And so, people need to understand that they need to step up and be an advocate for the breed."


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What is the best professional DJ controller money can buy? In this article, I would like to explore a selection of high-end controllers available today in the DJ market.
2016 was an interesting year when it comes to the DJ controller market. The trend to include LCD screens into DJ controllers continues, but also to make them independent from computers. Manufacturers are working hard to tie their hardware as tightly as possible to the DJ software of their choice, be it for performance or preparation purposes. Pioneer DJ has Rekordbox, Denon DJ has Engine and Engine Prime and Serato plays nice with a whole host of hardware manufacturers.
But can DJ controllers be professional?
Those are a few of the most important characteristics of a professional level DJ controller. With that in mind, let's dive into a selection of currently available models, and I will give you my top recommendations.
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3: A great update of the previous MK2 iteration, with motorized jog wheels, haptic feedback and a built-in LCD screen to check track data!
Pioneer DJ DDJ-RZ Rekordbox DJ Controller: The DDJ-RZ is big and fully featured. It might have a lost a bit of attraction with the arrival of the DDJ-1000, but it's still a fantastic piece of equipment.
Pioneer DJ DDJ-RX Rekordbox DJ Controller: Compact yet fully featured, the DDJ-RX is a good (and cheaper) alternative to the DDJ-RZ.
Roland DJ-808 Serato DJ Controller: A powerful unit with fantastic jog wheels and a built-in sequencer/drum machine!
Pioneer DJ DDJ-SZ2 Serato DJ Controller: Similar to the DDJ-RZ, but built for Serato DJ.
Numark NS7III Serato DJ Controller: Fantastic DJ controller with moving platters, real vinyl, and 3 onboard screens.
Pioneer DJ DDJ-RZX Rekordbox Video Controller: Very expensive and resource hungry, but functionality wise superior to all the rest.
Pioneer DJ DDJ-SX3 Serato DJ Controller: Similar tot he DDJ-RX, but built for Serato DJ.
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S8: The best professional solution to DJ with Traktor Pro at the moment.
The Pioneer DJ DDJ-1000 is probably the very best DJ controller at the moment. It looks, feels and acts like two CDJ-2000NXS2's and a DJM-900NXS2 mixer glued together. At a little more than USD 1000, it's also very affordable considering everything you are getting.
The DDJ-1000 marks a departure from the traditional DJ controller design from Pioneer DJ and their Serato DJ controller line. The most remarkable thing is that the decks mirror actual CDJ decks, with the typical yellow loop buttons on top. The jog wheels are not only very similar to the ones of the pro-level CDJ-2000NXS2, they have large LCD screen built-in that show all relevant track information, including waveforms.
The mixer is really a mini-DJM-900NXS2. It has 4 built-in sound color effects and 14 beat effects that are available even if connected with external sound sources such as turntables or media players. The layout mirrors that of the pro-level mixer and that's a great thing since it will make it easier for DJ's to transition from this to professional club setups.
If you are ready to use Rekordbox DJ, then the DDJ-1000 is the best DJ controller your money can buy. I would even say, it's so good that it might be a good reason to consider switching from other DJ software.
The Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3 is more than a worthy update to the previous iteration, adding haptic feedback and motorization on the jog wheels. The onboard mixer effects and the small LCD screens give a standalone feel, but you still need a computer to use it.
The Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3 is definitely a very interesting update to the Kontrol S4 MK2. The controller was re-designed from the ground up, and the differences are many.
The S4 MK3 has, surprisingly enough, motorized jog wheels. Not only that, but they also have haptic feedback. This means that it's possible to feel cue points when moving jogs around, which helps to find your cues in a much more intuitive way. Not bad for a company that was determined to kill the jog wheel with the release of the Kontrol S5 and the Kontrol S8.
With an extensive amount of input & outputs and support for DVS, the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3 is compact enough to carry around from gig to gig but also well featured enough to be used by professional DJ's.
Big and expensive, but very close to a professional DJM+CDJ experience at less than half the price.
The RZ is a huge beast. It features CDJ sized jog wheels with center LCD display, a 4 channel hardware mixer with integrated sound color effects, professional-grade inputs & outputs on the back and double USB inputs for easy DJ changeovers.
The RZ has a hardware mixer as well, which allows connecting CDJ's and turntables to it.
Essentially, it's the closest a DJ controller comes (except for the DDJ-RZX) to emulate a CDJ/DJM setup.
The price, although being high (around USD 2.000), is acceptable knowing that a CDJ/DJM setup will set you back at least double the amount for essentially fewer features (you would be missing the performance pads for example).
The Denon DJ MCX8000 is the only 2-in-1 on the market: it can work as a professional Serato DJ controller but it's also a standalone Denon Engine DJ controller that works USB drives!
Fully featured Serato DJ controller and a standalone USB media player in one.
Extensive I/O and double mic input.
Big controller to carry around.
The standalone mode works best when the music files are analyzed & prepared in Denon's proprietary Engine software, but it also does work with files that didn't pass through Engine. While Engine is no match for Rekordbox (yet), it does get the job done of beat gridding your music.
The screens are good but not great. They are clear enough but are not a match for the screen on a CDJ-2000NXS2, or Denon DJ's own SC5000 Prime media players. But they are good enough and should help DJ's stay focused on their crowd & gear instead of starting constantly at their laptops.
Price-wise, the MCX8000 hits the mark, considering all the features. The only stand-alone unit I can think of that more or less compares to this is the XDJ-RX from Pioneer DJ, which costs around USD 1.500.
Fully loaded and reasonably sized, the RX is (almost) the perfect Rekordbox DJ controller.
Support for all the advanced performance features in Serato DJ.
As with the DDJ-RZ and the DDJ-SZ discussed above, we have a very similar situation with the DDJ-RX and the DDJ-SX2. The SX2 is the Serato DJ version, the RX the Rekordbox DJ version. Both have almost identical features, except for, you guessed it, hardware support for Rekordbox Sequencer for the RX and Serato Flip for SX2.
Choosing one over the other is a matter of software preference. Rekordbox DJ is very powerful software and although not as established as Serato DJ, it's built on top of Rekordbox and as such works on the same music library so you can be playing from USB in clubs and from Rekordbox DJ at home without having to prepare your music twice. This is a clear advantage Rekordbox DJ has over Serato DJ and in time, should make it the more popular DJ software choice.
Apart from all that, the DDJ-RX has a fully independent hardware mixer, professional grade inputs & outputs, fantastic jog wheels and a very solid build. Highly recommended, and a top contender for the title of best professional DJ controller.
Channel source switch on the front of the controller is a bit cumbersome to operate.
The first DJ controller to combine a DJ controller with a voice transformer and a drum machine/step sequencer.
The Roland DJ-808 is the first DJ outing from Roland in a long time, and they are not kidding around. The DJ-808 is not only a fully featured controller for Serato DJ, it also has a sequencer, drum machine, and vocoder build right in. And all that for USD 1.499.
This controller will appeal to those DJs/producers that want more than just playing and mixing pre-recorded music. Using the sequencer/drum machine it's now possible to create original sound patterns right in Serato DJ using the DJ-808, and with the Ableton Link integration with Serato DJ, hooking up with other devices that use Link as well is now possible and easy to do.
In my opinion, the DJ-808 is worthy runner-up for the title of best professional DJ controller out there. I still would place the MCX8000 above it, because of its built-in screens and its stand-alone capability.
The message is quite simple here: if you use Rekordbox/Rekordbox DJ and have no need for any other DJ software, go for the DDJ-RZ. If you are a Serato DJ user and might use Rekordbox alongside, go for the DDJ-SZ2, since the SZ2 will for sure be made compatible with Rekordbox DJ.
The feature list of both controllers is quite similar, with some small differences: the RZ has support for the Rekordbox Sequencer feature (Pioneer DJ's version of Serato Flip) and the DDJ-SZ2 supports Serato Flip. But that's about it.
3 built-in screens, motorized platters, the NS7III is a beast in the best possible sense of the word.
The Numark NS7III is in many ways comparable to the DDJ-RZX, since it's also a 4 channel controller, and it has 3 screens. There a few important differences though.
First of all, the price. The NS7III is half the price (!) of the DDJ-RZX. That is a big difference. The screens on the NS7II are smaller and lower resolution (they don't support video for instance) but at half the price that is an acceptable compromise.
Secondly, the NS7III is a Serato DJ controller, and won't work with Rekordbox DJ, in the same way, the RZX won't work with Serato DJ. And finally, the NS7III lacks the double USB ports of the RZX.
It does have one big thing that might be a decisive factor: it has rotating platters that use real slip mats and real vinyl. The NS7III is the closest you can get to a mixer and turntables using a midi DJ controller.
Beyond pricey, but at the same time offers a true CDJ+DJM experience. Laptop is still required.
You will definitely need a very recent machine to work smoothly with the DDJ-RZX, so it's important to take that into account when considering a purchase.
The main flaw here is that for all the raw power the RZX offers, it cannot work in standalone mode. If this would be possible, the RZX would be the absolute number 1 DJ controller out there.
Apart from screens and video support, the RZX is pretty much the RZ on steroids, with added color FX, dedicated MIC FX.
Could the RZX be the best professional DJ controller, since it's the most expensive of the lot? Not really. A DJ controller assumes at least a bit of portability, and this enormous beast will be very hard to move around. The dependency of a computer also makes it a less appealing choice for pro DJ's.
Lack of standalone capacity is a big miss, considering the price. Needs a heavy spec laptop to operate (especially video features).
Fully loaded and reasonably sized, the SX3 is (almost) the perfect Serato DJ controller.
The Pioneer DJ DDJ-SX3 is the updated version of the second generation DDJ-SX2 DJ controller. It has very similar features to the DDJ-RX discussed above, including the onboard sound color effects.
One advantage over the DDJ-RX is the compatibility with Rekordbox DJ next to Serato DJ so if you are planning to use both or are unsure what you will end up using, the DDJ-SX2 is a more sensible choice.
What I really like here is that the channel switches are not located in the front, but on top of each channel itself, making it much more easier to switch sound sources.
Fantastic controller for Traktor Pro, but it does force you into a workflow without pitch faders and jog wheels.
Hardware mixer with DVS support.
The Traktor Kontrol S8 is not a new controller, it came it out almost 2 years ago. But with the recent Traktor Pro update to version 2.11 things got more interesting for Traktor Pro users: Ableton Link is now integrated with Traktor Pro and the remix decks can now function as sequencers.
Apart from that, the S8 has built-in high-resolution screens, a hardware mixer, full support for Stems with 4 channel faders per deck. There are no jog wheels in sight, but the touch strips do a good job of replacing them (you can nudge and even scratch with them).


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Neither me or Karma were super excited to do a lot of moving after work today!
However, we both sucked it up and did it, idk about karm, but I'm sure glad I did!
There was a point in my life when after a 12 hour shift it was straight to the drive thru or gas station and home to lay in bed and watch Netflix! I felt like being active or going to the gym wasn't even imaginable after a 12 hour shift. Slowly as I started doing home workouts and participating in our monthly bootcamps and community my mindset shifted! I'm so glad it did!
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It's not just working out and eating right. Its healthy habits to help me grow into the best me all around. It's going to bed on time. Its brushing my teeth (and flossing). Its working hard at work. Its keeping the house chores managed. Its budgeting our income. Its spending time with God. Its personal hygiene. It's taking care of Hank and the goat girls. Its reading a (baby) book every day. All of these things seem so little but I've realized how important they are now that a little one is watching my every move and learning from me.
Sure eating right and exercising will help your body but it's more than that. It's a lifestyle. You will either go to sleep a better person than you woke up as or the same (maybe worse 🤷♀) but I strive for the better.
I'm hoping that as baby watches what I do and sees what I prioritize she will learn what is important and what will be best for her.
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I have been eating mostly like crap for months, with the stress of finishing nursing school, looking for jobs and studying for the NCLEX. No matter what meal plan I made, I wasn't following it. Well, no more! I'm starting to feel crappy and I want to spend this summer enjoying the outdoors before I start work. So I've decided to do PSMF (protein sparing modified fast) for a few weeks to get myself back on track. I'm eating 2 meals a day with about 150g protein per day. I made 4 meal options that I pick 2 per day. I'm on my 2nd day, and it's going well. But I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little hungry. So, it's water, black coffee, broth, tea and sugar free drinks until my next meal. .
It's certainly not the largest health system. And it may not be the "fanciest" or the most ground-breaking facility in the world.
But we do have a LONGstanding tradition in nursing excellence, and I am PROUD to have even a tiny part in it.
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Today is shift 1 of 3. Here's my summary of the day so far. All my patients are pleasant 😊. I've been a busy bee 🐝 today, so I can't wait to eat my lunch. I'm currently snacking on some graham crackers to ease my hunger lol. But, all is well 😁. How's your day going? Are y'all working today?
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Who will be the next Labour leader?
As Labour faces a potentially devastating defeat at the General Election, here is a look at who could be in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.
– John McDonnell
The shadow chancellor played a prominent role throughout the General Election campaign, but has appeared to have ruled himself out as a future leader.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has distanced himself from the role (David Mirzoeff/PA)
On Thursday night, Mr McDonnell said he will not serve "either as a temporary or a permanent" leader of the Labour Party if Mr Corbyn were to resign.
Back in October, Mr McDonnell said he "can't see" how he or close ally Mr Corbyn could continue to lead the party if they failed to win power after the next general election.
– Emily Thornberry
The shadow foreign secretary has deputised for Mr Corbyn in PMQs and has represented the Labour Party on various overseas visits.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry campaigned for Remain (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Ms Thornberry, who campaigned for Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum, joined the party when she was 17 and was motivated by her experiences being raised by her mother, a single parent living on a council estate, according to her website.
She was first elected as MP for Islington South and Finsbury on May 5 2005.
– Keir Starmer
The shadow Brexit secretary was a human rights lawyer before becoming an MP, and co-founded Doughty Street Chambers in 1990.
Sir Keir Starmer was a lawyer before beginning his political career (Joe Giddens/PA)
He worked as human rights adviser to the Policing Board in Northern Ireland, monitoring compliance of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) with the Human Rights Act, and in 2008 he was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales.
Sir Keir was elected as Labour MP for Holborn & St Pancras in May 2015.
– Angela Rayner
Mr McDonnell named shadow education secretary Ms Rayner as a possible successor to Mr Corbyn in an interview with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell for GQ magazine in October, saying whoever comes after Mr Corbyn "has got to be a woman".
Angela Rayner is Labour's shadow education secretary (Joe Giddens/PA)
Ms Rayner was brought up on a council estate and left her local comprehensive at 16 with no qualifications and pregnant, after being told she would "never amount to anything", according to her website. It adds that in 2015 she became the first woman MP in the 180-year history of her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.
Her web page also says she rose through the ranks of the trade union movement to become the most senior elected official of Unison in the North West.
– Rebecca Long-Bailey
The shadow business secretary grew up by Old Trafford football ground in Manchester and began her working life serving at the counter of a pawn shop, according to her website.
Rebecca Long-Bailey was part of the 2015 intake of MPs (Gareth Fuller/PA)
She has also worked in call centres, a furniture factory, and as a postwoman before eventually studying to become a solicitor, her online biography adds, while she describes herself as a "proud Socialist" in her Twitter profile.
In 2015 she was elected as MP for Salford and Eccles.