> What sparked your interest in knitting? Did you leave it and come back years later? Why?
I wanted to be able to make a sweater. I have/had crocheted for years, but couldn't imagine getting the kind of drape I wanted in a sweater by crocheting. So with the help of a local yarn store (Sophie's in Philadelphia) and a couple of friends, I taught myself to knit. Years ago someone had given me a lesson (before I started crochet) but it didn't go well.
I rarely just follow a pattern, so beginning a project is more of having an idea of an object or an image that I want and then figuring out how I'm going to do it. I own many knitting books, which I use for inspiration. Sometimes they suggest an item I wouldn't have otherwise thought of knitting, sometimes they suggest colors or textures or construction techniques, other times they serve as the solution books for how to knit what I've decided to make.
> Have you ever converted a crochet, cross‐stitch or quilting design into a knitted piece? Describe it–what was the original design, how did you change it, were you happy with the result, etc.
I've used charted celtic interlacing from a Dover book to do stranded colorwork. The only thing I needed to do in order to use it was to figure out the repeat for the braids I was considering (I was putting it around a hat) to find one that would connect correctly. I liked the result.
> NOT counting famous/published designers, who is your PERSONAL knitting 'hero' (i.e., someone you actually know, whose work you've viewed and/or handled)? Why? How did their mentoring help your own knitting?
Ellen Helmuth, one of the women who helped me learn how to knit, is one of those people who has internalized garment construction, yarn weight, and needle size. She knits just regular garments out of her head: sweaters, socks, mittens. She can visualize how many stitches she needs to cast on, what needles to try, and what to do for shaping. She can also read knitting very well, locate mistakes, and figure out how to fix it.
I'd like to some day have that kind of command of the craft.
I guess mittens are one of the things I've done the most of.
I'm not sure I really want to teach knitting.
> What is the most recent special technique you learned? Where did you learn it?
Knitting a square in the round. I learned it from a book, which I don't have handy, but I think it's *Traditional Lace Knitting*.
> What technique has been your worst bug‐a‐boo or met with the most resistance?
> What technique would you dearly LOVE to learn next?
Knitting backwards. Since I'm working on a shawl and considering a lace border, I may get my wish.
> Who was the last stranger you met because you (or they) were knitting in public?
I met my friend Valarie's mother while knitting at the Sunday‐night international folk dance at MIT. She had never seen anyone knitting in the round before. I may have even been using DPs, I don't remember.
The book "Upside-downers"by Patons has the pattern you are asking about.
What does M1 in knitting instructions mean?
M1 means "make one", often knitting once through the front and once through the back of a single stitch, or lifting from the row below the yarn between two stitches and knitting into it.
I taught myself to knit about 6 months ago. But I still can't seem to figure out how to add another skein of yarn when one runs out! I am knitting a baby blanket for my sister‐in‐law and I really would appreciate any help. Thanks.


Pam and Jerry Pullins spent several years studying (and eventually helping to improve upon) the technology required for processing the finest available fiber before they opened The King's Mill in rural Blountsville, Alabama. Their mill equipment processes exquisitely fine fiber in a way that minimizes stress and damage to the fiber while significantly reducing waste. This results in both higher quality yarns for fiber artists and improved economics for the small-scale farms that produce the fiber. This is the kind of virtuous circle that helps sustain our local business communities in the face of lower-quality, lower-priced competition from overseas.
But careful study, thoughtful innovation, and even top-quality equipment are not enough. As Pam says, "There is no way to produce a product of the quality of Our Back 40 yarn without passion. It's our passion for this business, these products, and the people involved that inspire us to invest the endless love and attention required to make yarns of this quality. "We agree. Feel our yarns, and you'll feel the difference that Pam and Jerry are making.


It's been a long time coming, but local hero Andy Lawrence has triumphed.
Regular readers will remember that Mr Lawrence risked life and limb to highlight the need for a barrier across Mortimer Street to make it safe for shoppers. That was back in September 2012.
Six months later, it looks like our beloved Council has finally got its act together, and we'll be getting the barrier. In a sensible world, of course, it would be open in the early morning – for deliveries to the shops – and shut the rest of the time.
We'll have to wait and see how sensible our little bit of the world (well, our Council) is in practice.
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Akiva Goldsman says. . .
This weekend, as a part of the reunion/commencement ceremonies at my alma mater, I got to see Akiva Goldsman talk about life as an Oscar-winning screenwriter. I also got to see a certain presidential candidate, but I'm going to be a good blogger and stay on topic.
I've seen a lot of writers come back and give advice to the masses. Goldsman talked a lot about failure. He was a failed novelist, a mostly-failed textbook writer, and he happened to, by accident, sell the first screenplay he ever wrote. His advice was, in a nutshell: "Write write write write write write write. And then write."
Someone asked him about going to Hollywood. He said that Hollywood was a club of "about 500 people, with everyone trying to make sure it's not 501." He advised aspiring filmmakers, writers, and actors to develop their skills elsewhere, and then bring those skills with them. He said that LA was no place to find yourself – you have to bring something to the table to have success.
The talk reminded me why I chose a small market like Boston, where I can form bonds with people at all levels of the production process. I once was trying to coordinate a shoot with a woman in LA, who tried to get me to sum up where I wanted to be in 5 years. I gave her a very vague, philosophical answer, and she said "No. You need to KNOW now. Do you want to be a technical director? A location manager? What?" I'm lucky enough that I've been a location manager, a script supervisor, a producer, an editor. . . all from the same desk chair. I should hope that if I ever get to make money solely as a writer or producer, knowing the whole process from start to finish will serve me well.
Can you wear leggings with that?
So, the Producer's post got me thinking. First of all, thanks to SXSW for the shoutout! Second of all. . .
I read this article in the NY Times a while ago. To sum up: Steve and Barry's is setting out to be the cheapest, most fashionable chain store ever created. They're using celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker to design fashionable outfits that sell for less than $9. Are these guys going to put Chanel and Oscar de la Renta out of business? No way. They're doing the same thing that the big studios are doing right now: Taking the most popular trends from high fashion (or its most popular public faces) and co-opting them for the masses. Warner Brothers, Paramount and the other studios seem to be angling to be the Target and Walmart of new media: You like Steve Carrell in that arty Little Miss Sunshine movie? More Steve Carrell! Steve Carrell for everyone!
Now, the difficulty here is that everyone, absolutely everyone, needs shirts and pants. The content of those shirts and pants (color, cut, pattern) is all up for grabs. So if Target can make cheap shirts and pants that look like something out of Sex and the City, then that starts to look like a pretty good deal. However, not everyone needs movies. Not everyone enjoys movies (I know, I'm as shocked as you). So what happens when the economy is a bit shaky, and people start thinking that their $9 is better spent at Steve and Barry's than at Landmark Cinemas?
Vaudeville. If you were around in the 1890's, and you went to the theater, you could see a vaudeville show consisting of comedy, drama, dance, music and some seriously weird stuff (does this remind anyone of the CW's Monday night lineup?) – it was affordable for the middle class, and acts traveled all over the country. There were people whose acts inspired the same kind of fannish devotion as any modern-day Miley Cyrus. But the advent of this cheaper form of entertainment called "film," plus that nasty financial incident in the fall of 1929, forced theaters to turn into movie palaces. Vaudeville's best talent headed for Hollywood. If this interests you, PBS put out a really good documentary on vaudeville for American Masters.
Film didn't kill theater. It just changed the nature of the theater-going experience. Now it's unlikely you'll see variety shows trying to attract a mass audience. Theaters had to adapt to appeal to a specialized audience. Target hasn't killed high fashion, either.
Are films going to die? No. Art doesn't die. It gets chopped up, rehashed and made into a collage somewhere else. Just like fashion – everything comes back into vogue eventually. When technology gets ahead of the curve of theory and critique, people get all agitated. Right now, nobody is reviewing YouTube videos in the New York Times. No academics have cannonized it, no critics have turned it into a comparison-fest. In vaudeville, there were some trashy, mind-blowingly stupid acts roaming around the country. But what we remember now are the geniuses – the people who influenced generations to come.
Eventually, we're going to see great art, really great narrative art, come out of these weird little platforms. I agree fully with the Producer: It's a great time to experiment and make something new.
Presenting Your Message
Image by Andres Rueda
Picture an advertisement for a cash back rewards credit card. A couple of months ago, this card was offering 5% cash back for the first 3 months and then 1% after that. Now they are offering 1% cash back and a 20% bonus on all cash back earned in the first year.
Which of these deals sounds better?
Many people will say the second one, because the percentage is higher, and the time period is longer. But take another look at what is actually being said.
20% on all cash back earned. So effectively 1.2% on purchases for the year. The first offer gave an average of 2% cash back in the first year, assuming evenly-spaced spending, and the new offer gives only 1.2%.
What lesson can you take away from this? How you present your message is almost as important as what the message says.
Metcalfe's Law
Andrew Chen has a post about Metcalfe's Law and corollary Eflactem's Law (M-E-T-C-A-L-F-E backwards, you can probably figure this one out).
"In fact, you see this happen all the time at dinner parties or events. Things are great until one or two people announce the intention to leave. If those folks are fun and entertaining, there's an immediate realization that the quality of the experience is about to go down. And yet more people announce their intention to leave, and so on, until you are left with the party hosts and a big mess ;-)"
Essentially, he posits that while adding a user increases value exponentially, losing users shrinks value by the same order.
Anna and I were discussing this phenomenon:
Anna: Awww, the Friendster party hosts must be so sad.
Teague: (laughs) Yeah.
Anna: It's such a sad mental image, 'cause it was like they had this sort of okay party with Bud Light and Sun Chips but then Facebook came along with its local microbrew and cru de te and it was all over.
Democritization of Technology is Not a Problem
Mike Curtis of HD for Indies recently wrote a piece titled The very, very serious problem with democratization of technology in moviemaking. I am a regular reader of Mike's blog and I generally find him to be very insightful, but on the premise of this article I must respectfully disagree. He mentions that this is a rough draft, so I won't nitpick it, but I will say that the article primarily focuses on the difficulties faced by current industry players who insist on maintaining the status quo.
I would suggest Mike pick up a copy of "The Long Tail " by Chris Anderson and then take another shot at his draft. The "trouble" isn't caused by more production and the same number of buyers and technology isn't a problem. Technology has changed the entire economy of entertainment (among others). Attention is now a scarcer commodity than consumer's money. This is a fact that we seem to agree on. Lower barrier to entry means more people make films for less money. Some of those are good; many are not. The trick is filtering through the bad to find the good; a job that is increasingly offloaded to the viewers.
However, where we differ in opinion is that I do not see this as an obstacle, but an opportunity. Mike talks about the rising cost of marketing, and how films must shout loud enough to be heard over the noise (I paraphrase). I think this is the wrong approach. Success for a small, low-budget film is more easily found by connecting that film with its niche audience, a goal that is aided, not hindered by technology.
Digital distribution lowers marginal costs to asymptotically approach zero. Crowdsourcing of the filtering process negates the need for taste makers and executives to tell people what they want. The declining need for those jobs means the people currently holding them have to adapt to the changing landscape. Some try to hold onto the status quo long enough to reach retirement. The real winners will be the ones who take a risk and leave the comfortable status quo to be at the forefront of the wave of change.
The final point in Mike's article is about the major challenge for content producers of creating content and selling it at a profit. As the technology is democratized, more people can create content, and with the same amount (or decreasing) consumption, it's true that maintaining a health profit margin is difficult. But if the only barrier keeping a novice from creating content that is more relevant or enjoyable to the viewer was technology, then the old guard of content creators hasn't been doing a very good job.
The technological playing field is being evened, the challenge is to produce content that people connect with and want, not just content that looks good. There are 4 quadrants in the production quality/story quality grid. The result of democratization of technology is that the production quality gradient gets flattened and it is no longer the determining factor in success. Story quality (however you define it), becomes a larger differentiator and, as such, will be the main measure of quality to people deciding 'what to watch' (or 'where do I spend my attention?').
We're seeing the effects of this already (Mike points to Speed Racer's absence of plot and resulting box office figures), but it will only become more pronounced as the difference in production quality from a studio-backed blockbuster and a low-budget indie gets smaller. Personally, I don't see this as a problem so much as an opportunity. It's an exciting time to be creating independent media of any kind and consumers have more choices than ever before. The future entertainment economy may not support large studios and monolithic entertainment empires, but there will continue to be a place for content creators and artists.
Turnitin wins by Fair Use
The Center for Social Media at American University has a story about Turnitin, a site used to catch plagarism, citing Fair Use to win a case against students who sued them for taking intellectual property. The irony was not lost on Patricia Aufderheide, who concluded:
So let the students—and the teachers—take a real lesson from Turnitin. Quoting from other people's copyrighted work is sometimes, even often, fair. Not all copying is cheating, or copyright violation.
Trends from SXSW
Not all filmmakers at SXSW were bullish on digital tools and social networks this year. The Center for Social Media at American University reports :
In spite of cutting edge talk, though, many filmmakers were looking to strike far more traditional deals with theatrical distributors and broadcasters.
Although SXSW has a reputation for being on the cutting edge, it seems there are still plenty of attendees who are proponents of the traditional distribution model. This suggests that it will still be a while before newer models begin to gain large market share. There are still opportunities to be had by those who take a risk and dive into the new distribution market.
After an extended hiatus, brought about by outside circumstances, we have returned to the Experiment. There will be a few changes to the site in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes open as we continue to bring you insights and news on the state of independent media.

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[SOLUTION] What can the "OPTION" in the GROUP help me in my query?
What can the "OPTION" in the GROUP help me in my query?
I have this example, but as I don't have the database AdventureWorks2012, I'd like to know what does that OPTION serve for?
The option clause applies to the query as a whole rather than the GROUP BY.
All of the options are detailed here.
Hash forces the group by aggregates to use hashing. Fast 10 optimises the query to return the first 10 rows quickly and merge union says that the two sets should be merged.
Essentially it controls how the groups are matched.
As far as the merge union, merging is how the two sets are joined, merge implies a sorted output, where the optimiser may chose a purely concatenated output.
The OPTION gives you the possibility to change the default behavior for a SELECT statement. You can say how the engine will use a JOIN or an INDEX, for example.
It shouldn't be used if you don't know how it will change a query's behavior. Only for advanced users that knows what they are doing.
Before using this in a PROD environment I highly recommend you to perform a lot of tests in a development environment and only when you feel comfortable with this you should use it in Production.


10 Signs you are emotionally attached to him!
Home Love 10 Signs you are emotionally attached to him!
Getting attracted to someone isn't an uphill task but truly being emotionally attached to a relationship is a risky affair. As the relationship with someone gets more serious, you want to be absolutely sure if it's just infatuation or you are genuinely invested in the person. Emotional attachment doesn't happen overnight and you need to look for the signs to be absolutely sure about your feelings towards him.
Whenever he feels good you feel great. It makes you extra happy to have him flash a smile at you. To you, their smile is the best curve in the world. He looks the best when he is happy. When you consciously do something to make them feel better or you do everything possible to just add reasons for their happiness, it shows how clearly you are attached and have fallen for this person.
2. When he is sad, you are sad too.
You just can't tolerate seeing him unhappy. You will do anything in the world to lift up his mood. His mood has a direct relation to yours. If he is sad, you are sad as well. You always want to make sure that none of your actions become the reason for his sadness. In case it does, it makes you feel very guilty.
You might have known this person before and back then him going out with someone else didn't really bother you. But now, when he slightly flirts or appreciates someone you get a little jealous because all you wish is to be the center of his world.
You just love being with him. Everything seems better when he is around. You can't bear the thought of staying away from him. Your conversations, long walk, drives and dine outs make you forget what life without him was like. He seems to hover in your thoughts constantly at given time of the day.
He is so much a part of all your conversations that people around you are tired of the way you brag about him. You constantly talk about his awesomeness and when there is nothing more you can talk about, you seem to wonder what he is doing or where he is. You wake up to his thoughts and even end your day with him as the last thing on your mind.
You are so attached to him that you can't see yourself spending your time with anyone but him. You constantly change plans with other people in order to be around him. If at all he calls you up for some kind of help, you'll do anything to cater to them instead of others who may have had plans made long back.
You feel so comfortable when he is around that that you are at ease and can be exactly the way you are without having to make any changes just so that you fit in. You needn't go to a fancy place all the time, even when you don't do something or go anywhere but stay back home, his presence is all that matters. Any place is a good place for him. Any distance feels short with him.
He means so much to you and you take so much pride in him that you wish to introduce him to your friends and family. You are sure that they will like him too and he can easily gel with them. You always want to know what your near and dear ones think of him. Even before they tell you, you are convinced that he will be liked by all.
Even if you don't like football, for example, you will make an effort to understand the sport just because he is invested in it. You will try to win over him and consciously work on developing an interest in things that he is passionate about. You will dress up the way he likes, eat out at places which are his favorites and even quit habits that he isn't supportive of. You will never hesitate to do something that will make him happy.
You don't need to calculate before speaking to him about anything. He is always open to discussing things with you and you are not scared of being judged. You have the liberty to speak to him about yourself and your past and opening up to him never feels like a conscious effort.
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A related issue is the inclusion of pregnant women in clinical studies. Since other illnesses can exist concurrently with pregnancy, information is needed on the response to and efficacy of interventions during pregnancy, but ethical issues relative to the fetus, make this more complex. This gender bias is partly offset by the iniation of large scale epidemiology studies of women, such as the Nurses' Health Study (1976),[162] Women's Health Initiative[163] and Black Women's Health Study.[164][6]
Some fat is an important part of your diet; fat is part of every cell. It maintains skin and hair; stores and transports fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K; keeps you warm; and protects your internal organs. It even helps your mental processes—not surprising given that fat comprises about 60 percent of your brain. But many women consume too much fat. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that you keep your total fat intake between 25 and 35 percent of your total calories.
For this comprehensive narrative review, we evaluated both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions. Nutrition-specific approaches are those that address the immediate determinants of nutrition (e.g., food and nutrient intake, diet-related practices and behaviors, disease, etc.), whereas nutrition-sensitive approaches are those that address the underlying determinants of nutrition (e.g., food security, access to resources, safe and hygienic environments, adequate health services, etc.) (5, 12). We evaluated the following nutrition-specific interventions described by Bhutta et al. (13, 14): nutrition counseling and education, micronutrient supplementation and fortification, protein and energy supplementation, and lipid-based supplementation. We also included the following nutrition-sensitive approaches described by Ruel and Alderman (5) and Bhutta et al. (14): health care; family planning; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); empowerment; income-generation; education; and social protection. For each intervention, we 1) described the scale and coverage of the intervention, when available; 2) summarized the evidence of effectiveness for women's health and nutrition outcomes; and 3) described and evaluated the target population and delivery platforms, as described in the published articles and as summarized in Table 1. The delivery of interventions included the physical platforms, as well as the adherence and the implementation challenges of the different interventions.
Nutrition education Health clinics ↑ knowledge, NC Hgb, ↑ intake of fruits and vegetables, ↓/NC intake of fats, sweets, and sugar-sweetened beverages ↑ knowledge, NC Hgb, ↑ intake of fruits and vegetables, ↓/NC intake of fats, sweets, and sugar-sweetened beverages ↑ knowledge, NC urinary iodine, ↑ intake of nutrient-rich foods, ↑ intake of protein, ↑ weight gain, ↑/NC weight loss postpartum (obese women) with diet and exercise
Popular belief says if you really want to make a big change, focus on one new healthy habit at a time. But Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say working on your diet and fitness simultaneously may put the odds of reaching both goals more in your favor. They followed four groups of people: The first zoned in on their diets before adding exercise months later, the second did the opposite, the third focused on both at once, and the last made no changes. Those who doubled up were most likely to work out 150 minutes a week and get up to nine servings of fruits and veggies daily while keeping their calories from saturated fat at 10 percent or less of their total intake.
Young adults. Teen girls and young women usually need more calories than when they were younger, to support their growing and developing bodies. After about age 25, a woman's resting metabolism (the number of calories her body needs to sustain itself at rest) goes down. To maintain a healthy weight after age 25, women need to gradually reduce their calories and increase their physical activity.
Nutrition education interventions were often implemented in conjunction with other programs, and it was difficult to identify the effects of nutrition education alone. In addition, many studies reported on one-on-one counseling and group education, and it was not possible to differentiate the impact. The effects of nutrition education were often greater when combined with other resource-based interventions, such as micronutrient supplementation (31, 32), home gardening (28), food supplementation (33), and water provision (22). For nutrition education programs targeting mothers, those who were more educated or of higher socioeconomic status more often translated the intervention to nutritional outcomes (33). This suggests that the effectiveness of nutrition education might relate to individuals' ability to access resources and implement information received.
Women who are socially marginalized are more likely to die at younger ages than women who are not.[21] Women who have substance abuse disorders, who are homeless, who are sex workers, and/or who are imprisoned have significantly shorter lives than other women.[21] At any given age, women in these overlapping, stigmatized groups are approximately 10 to 13 times more likely to die than typical women of the same age.[21]


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Sheboygan man sentenced for child sexual assault
Sheboygan Press Media
A Sheboygan man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old multiple times at his home in February.
Joseph A. Torres Sr., 30, was found guilty by jury of felony first-degree sexual assault of a child. In addition to his prison time, he was sentenced to 10 years extended supervision.
According to a criminal complaint:
After the child spent some time visiting Torres earlier this year, the child came home and told the mother that Torres tried to kiss the child and touch the child's genitals.
Torres stopped the behavior when his wife came into the room.
The child also told the mother that Torres had done similar things in the past.
Torres also received a 111-day sentence credit for time already served.
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The new dirigible in town. Spotted above the Embarcadero this afternoon.
Save The Words — interesting words that have fallen by the wayside as new dictionaries are published.
Save The Words. Learn their definitions. Use them in memos or Scrabble.
At the beginning of the year we lost John Flinn, the Travel Editor, and Lynette Evans, the Home & Garden Editor.
Starting February 1, Home & Garden moves to Sunday from Wednesday and Saturday. Food (which was all of four pages yesterday) moves to Sunday, where it will share a section with Wine, which is moving from Friday to Sunday. Restaurant news and the Inside Scoop column will show up in the Datebook section on Thursdays.
Beginning Sunday, The Chronicle will offer its readers an enhanced newspaper that will better capture the essence of living in the Bay Area. Not only will readers notice a new look and new features in its daily sections, but there will also be new sections and features that will add to the value of the Sunday newspaper.
What does my crystal ball have to say about these moves?
People who currently subscribe because they want the Wednesday Food Section AND the Friday Wine Section AND the Sunday paper will cut their subscription to Sunday-only or drop it altogether. Why bother when the food/wine/home stuff has all moved to Sunday and the current news is on the Web? We're reading stale news in the morning paper for the most part anyway. Sunday's a nice day to go out for a walk, pick up a paper from the newstand and walk back home for coffee and a read.
Circulation will fall. Subscriptions will fall. Ad revenue (based on circ stats) will fall as well.
By Christmas, the Chron will decide to exist as a Sunday-only print paper — tabloid format — with all other news content on the Web.
Someone dropped me a line today, asking to buy internet-resources.com and its content for something more than $1K and less than $2K.
Coinkadinkly, just now on Facebook I found an ad telling me they could tell me what my blog or Website was worth. Well, why not?
How WebValuer got its numbers is anyone's guess. SiteMeter puts my pageviews and visitors a stretch higher than WebValuer has them. There's no ad revenue, even though WV estimates $3.84 – 9.60.* No ads, so no ad revenue.
Plinky | Your web enabler since 2009.
Here is a list of their prompts so far.
Equal Pay for Equal Work — It's About Time! – Huffington Post article by Steve Hildebrand, Barack Obama's National Deputy Campaign Manager.
Both House and Sentate have passed the Lily Ledbetter Act. Obama plans to sign the act into law tomorrow. Ledbetter, who spoke at the Democrat Convention last year, is the poster child for Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber for nineteen years but only found out a few months before she retired that she was being paid substantially less than men doing the same job. She sued and won her jury trial, but Goodyear appealed.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Goodyear, ruling that her suit had to have been brought within six months of the beginning of the discriminatory practice in order to be valid. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the appellate court verdict. The fact she hadn't known for years (and years and years) about the discriminatory pay scale had no bearing.
The bill states that the six-month window for filing suit for discriminatory pay restarts with each paycheck received while the pay discrimination is in place, as each paycheck is a new instance of pay discrimination.
Lily Ledbetter would have won her suit if this legislation had been in place at the time.
The Chron goes into more detail.
Good video on YouTube about Project Homeless Connect.
Chocolate news :-( Scharffen Berger. Joseph Schmidt.
In 2005 Hershey's bought Scharffen Berger chocolate in Berkeley and Joseph Schmidt chocolates here in the city. At the time it was all like "nothing's going to change." My reaction was, Hershey's? Who do you think you're kidding? We've heard it all before, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Same chocolates, Hershey's claims. No change at all. Just no longer locally made. The quality will be maintained, they say. Heck they were already making most of the Scharffen Berger stuff in IL anyway. What's the diff?
Nice way to buy the competition and co-opt it, Hershey's.
Chocolate news to cry for.
Blagojevich — just "an exploration of ideas and thoughts"
In honor of the day (Happy Year of the Earth Ox to you too!) I made kung pao chicken for dinner. Loads of cutting and chopping and mincing of garlic and fresh ginger and green onion and chicken.
The recipe — one that I've used for years … used so much in fact that the page has fallen out of the cookbook — calls for 1tsp. chopped garlic. 1tsp. chopped ginger. Wha? Wimps. I threw in a certain amount that might've been five or ten times what they asked for.
Loads of measuring and stirring — first for the goop the chicken sat in before cooking and then for the cooking sauce added after the chicken was cooked through. Measuring of peanuts. (Well, I didn't measure, really. I scooped up about twice what the recipe called for.) Counting of red hot dried peppers. Cook this. Set it aside. Then this. Add that. Add that back in. Stir until thickened.
We'd seen a bottle of "kung pao sauce" at the grocery store over the weekend when we were getting a fresh bottle of hoisin sauce, having used up our bottle dregs when we were eating egg foo yung the other night. Bottled kung pao sauce? Why? And what's in it anyway?
Still, I'd already been thinking of kung pao chicken and we had peanuts on the shopping list because we were out and I couldn't make kung pao chicken without peanuts. Seeing the bottled stuff kinda shoved me over the edge.
Today seemed like an appropriate day.


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#GiveElsaAGirlfriend and #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend are symptomatic of Disney's major LGBT problem (opinion)
By Selina Wilken | 6:05 am EDT, May 24, 2016
After the success of the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend hashtag, fans are calling for Marvel and Disney to Give Captain America a boyfriend.
Whether you believe Frozen's Elsa and Captain America's Steve Rogers are the best options for mainstream LGBT representation or not, one thing is clear: Fandom is fed up with Disney's LGBT erasure.
Just over a month ago, GLAAD came out with a damning report, which revealed that Disney — including its Marvel and Lucasfilm subsidiaries — had exactly zero LGBT characters in their 2015 movies. In what is supposedly an enlightened age this is, in no uncertain terms, completely unacceptable.
LGBTQ+ people exist all around us, all the time; they have kids and fall in love and work hard at their jobs, and of course Hollywood needs to start being more inclusive of this segment of the population. I'm not even sure why this is up for debate at all.
Related: Is Star Wars setting up Poe Dameron as its first queer protagonist?
As Disney currently holds the monopoly on mainstream heroes and heroines, the behemoth company needs to lead the charge against LGBT erasure, not uphold it. This massive company is shovelling in millions of dollars daily — if anyone can take a stand, it's them. So why haven't they?
While 'token' gay characters certainly exist as part of ensemble casts (just not Disney's), the idea of a lead character in a franchise film being LGBT seems absurd to some people, who somehow confuse "liberal propaganda" with "we're literally just asking for one character to represent the entire LGBT community." Likely, Disney's hesitance to commit to LGBT representation is some misguided worry that it would somehow damage their family-oriented brand (and, let's be real, their ability to make absurd amounts of money) — but, ironically, it is exactly the LGBT families facing horrific discrimination every day who need Disney's support the most.
But no more erasure, if fandom has anything to say about it!
We've covered the rise of the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend movement, and now comes her other half (irony intentional), #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend, the Twitter hashtag that took over social media this week.
The hashtag was started by a student named Jess Salerno, who explained to Metro UK why she believes Captain America is the right character to spearhead this movement:
"I feel like it sucks that people in the LGBT community don't get the representation that they deserve and it would be so amazing for something like Captain America or Marvel to be able to portray that. and maybe just let people know that it's okay to be who you are. you know? You don't have to be scared, especially to be able to have children grow up in that way, I feel like it would do amazing things for the future."
The significance of using Captain America as the face of what is ultimately a call for more mainstream male LGBT characters in franchise films is obvious: As the name implies, Captain America is meant to represent good American values, and giving him a male love interest — making him bisexual, seeing as he's already had several female love interests — would symbolize America embracing a new age of acceptance and inclusivity.
Credit: MTV
Cap himself would certainly be the first person to march in a Pride parade, and, as many fans are quick to point out, his relationship with Bucky is already practically a romance in all ways but the physical. And, whether or not you subscribe to this specific ship (there are plenty of people calling for Steve/Sam or Steve/Tony instead), there is no actual reason Steve Rogers the character couldn't be bisexual — except, of course, the false assumption that it would somehow make him 'less' than what he is, that this iconic piece of American pop culture somehow needs to be held 'above' a non-straight sexuality.
Assuming for a moment that someone reading this article wouldn't be against another Marvel character being LGBT, as long as it wasn't Cap or [insert list of other main characters here] — why? Why couldn't it be him? What possible reason could you give for needing to keep Steve Rogers straight, as though his non-straight sexuality would somehow impact his ability to be a hero or a leading male character?
Questioning the need to 'keep Captain America heterosexual' (an actual movement, as though the very concept of heterosexuality is somehow under threat) is especially relevant after Civil War, which felt the need to include one of the most universally panned romance plots in recent history. With Steve so consumed with saving Bucky, it seemed counter-intuitive to shoehorn his comic book romance with Sharon Carter into the already bloated plot, especially seeing as it had no narrative consequence for either character. And yet that is exactly what happened. Even if you don't believe he's bisexual, did the movies need to give him a love interest at all? Or was this simply one giant #NoHomo sign by Marvel, to appease the leaders of the gay panic movement?
Credit: LGBT Group Project
Whether it's Bucky, Tony, Sam, or someone else, giving Cap a male love interest would have no actual impact on his character. It would simply prove that Disney isn't as square-headed and heteronormative as they appear to be. It would be a big gesture, but frankly, the time has come for big gestures, whether it's Elsa, Steve, or another major franchise character (Poe Dameron is another popular option).
But don't take my word for it: Here are some fantastic fan responses to why Disney should Give Captain America a boyfriend:
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend so queer kids who feel weak can see a superhero who's strong and powerful being comfortable with who he is
— frankie (@queerhealy) May 24, 2016
I don't care who Steve hooks up with as long as it isn't his girlfriend's niece right after her funeral. #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend
— Chris Kennett (@chriskennett) May 24, 2016
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend b/c sexuality & romance is diverse and complicated, but MCU's interpritation of it had been shamfully stifling
— onorobo (@onorobo) May 24, 2016
#GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend bc wanda falling for a robot is realistic but steve being in love w the man he's given up everything for isn't
— -`ˏcloˎ´˗ (@PAULROVlAS) May 24, 2016
As fantastic as both the Captain America and Elsa campaigns are, the sad reality is that, if and when ("Within the next decade," Feige said) Marvel introduces LGBT representation, it'll likely be a minor character, rarely seen, his or her romantic plot only implied as opposed to explicitly part of the narrative (see Joey on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
As for an LGBT Disney princess, as brilliant as Elsa would be, unfortunately we'll probably have to wait for a new character, who can be specifically branded as "the lesbian princess," kept separate and defined purely by her sexuality.
But wouldn't it be great if Disney actually caught up with the 21st century and practiced what they preached in North Carolina, using some of their most popular, established characters (whether it's Cap and Elsa or someone else) to show the world that a character can be LGBT without their entire story having to revolve around that plotline? That a hero or heroine can be first and foremost defined by their actions, their sexuality accepted by the worlds they inhabit and their romance stories treated as equally valid to those of their straight peers? It's not that crazy — it happens on television all the time (even if there's a whole new set of problems there, like the fact that lesbians tend to die a lot).
Both the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend and #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend campaigns are symptoms of audiences' growing discontent with a heteronormative Hollywood. While it is unlikely that Disney would heed these particular campaigns (as much as we might want them to), hopefully they pick up on the wider sentiment: That zero LGBT characters in their movies is unacceptable.
As strong and positive of a message it truly would send, it doesn't have to be Captain America or Queen Elsa. It just has to be somebody.


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NFP Sector Faces Growing Fundraiser Shortage
Tuesday, 11th December 2018 at 4:52 pm
A not-for-profit recruitment expert warns that a growing demand for fundraising skills within the sector has created a shortage of fundraisers expected to persist into 2019.
Tuesday, 11th December 2018
Richard Green, the director and founder of NGO Recruitment, told Pro Bono News the NFP sector faced fundraising shortages across the board, from fundraising assistants and major donor fundraisers to bequest executives.
He put this down to smaller organisations becoming increasingly sophisticated around their fundraising efforts in recent years.
"There's an increase in demand from the sector, particularly smaller organisations, and I just don't think the industry can produce fundraisers fast enough," Green said.
Peak body Fundraising Institute Australia (FIA) has also noticed an increased demand, with their weekly jobs bulletin seeing a dramatic increase in fundraising listings over the last few months.
Green said charities needed to ensure their leaders had fundraising knowledge to help create a culture of best practice fundraising within the organisation.
"It's no use having a CEO in charge of a fundraising organisation that doesn't know much about fundraising, because it's really hard to run a fundraising program without an in-depth understanding of it," he said.
"Making sure board directors have a broad knowledge of fundraising is important as well, and I think every board should have at least one professional fundraiser sitting on it.
"You need to create best practice fundraising programs in your organisation and you only get that by hiring the right people."
NGO Recruitment on Tuesday released a Fundraising Salary Snapshot for summer 2018/2019.
The top three fundraising roles in demand were identified as major donor fundraisers, digital marketing fundraisers, and individual giving managers.
Green said although salaries had remained relatively stable in the past 12 months, the basic rules of supply and demand were evident, meaning NFPs had to adjust their salary expectations.
"NFPs need to accept that anyone who can raise money is in huge demand. Salaries for niche in-demand roles such as major donor fundraisers have jumped and often these people are being paid more than equivalent grades in other organisational areas such as corporate services," he said.
"A shift in recruitment mindset is therefore required. You may only want to pay a certain amount, but if that's not buying you the skills you need, you have to pay what the market is demanding."
FIA CEO Katherine Raskob told Pro Bono News the number of charities looking for gifts in wills, direct marketing and major gifts fundraisers in particular was definitely on the rise.
She said a shortage of fundraisers across the board would persist in 2019, especially in the major gifts area.
"There's a huge demand and with the growth in need, there's an increasingly shorter supply of really experienced fundraisers," Raskob said.
"Sales, commercial acumen and a proven background in meeting financial targets are critical skills alongside an ability to build long-lasting, prosperous relationships.
"There's a lot of competition so our members want to find those fundraisers who can obtain cut-through and secure engagement and financial support. It also helps for people to have a passion for the cause they are fundraising for."
Raskob said addressing skill gaps through fundraising education courses would help with the shortage.
"In 2019, FIA will offer a course in storytelling, a skill more fundraisers will need in the coming years to ensure their stories about their organisation and donors are compelling, and stand out from crowd," she said.
Green agreed it was important the sector geared up to improve the training of fundraisers.
"I think the industry is doing a great job at improving and increasing its fundraising training," he said.
"And I think that development really needs to happen across the sector."
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package com.java.laiy.view;

import com.java.laiy.controller.GameController;
import com.java.laiy.model.Player;
import com.java.laiy.helpers.CoordinateHelper;

import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ConsoleView {

    private static final int LINE_SIZE = 3;

    private static final String CHARACTER_HYPHEN = "-";

    private static final String EMPTY_FIGURE = " ";

    private static final String COORDINATE_X = "X";

    private static final String COORDINATE_Y = "Y";

    private static final String INPUT_ERROR = "Coordinate is incorrect, please try again";

    public final GameController game;

    public ConsoleView(final GameController game) {
        assert game != null;
        this.game = game;
    }

    public int start(String coordinate, Player player) {
        int x = 0;
        switch(coordinate) {
            case "X":
                x = getCoordinate(COORDINATE_X, player);
                break;
            case "Y":
                x = getCoordinate(COORDINATE_Y, player);
                break;
            default:
                System.out.println();;
                break;
        }
        return x;
    }

    public void showGameName() {
        System.out.println(game.getGameName());
    }

    public void showPlayers() {
         for (Player player : game.getPlayers()) {
             System.out.println(player.getName() + ": " + player.getFigure().toString() );
         }
    }

    public void showBoard() {
        for (int i = 0 ; i < game.getBoard().getFiguresArray().length; i++) {
            showBoardLine(i);
            printLine(CHARACTER_HYPHEN, LINE_SIZE);
        }
    }

    public void showBoardLine(final int row) {
        for (int i = 0; i < game.getBoard().getRowLength(row); i++) {
            if (game.getBoard().getFigure(row, i) == null) {
                System.out.print(EMPTY_FIGURE);
            } else {
                System.out.print(game.getBoard().getFigure(row, i).toString());
            }
        }
        System.out.println();
    }

    public static void printLine(final String lineCharacter, final int lineSize) {
        for (int i = 0; i < lineSize; i++) {
            System.out.print(lineCharacter);
        }
        System.out.println();
    }

    private int getCoordinate(final String coordinateName, final Player player) {
        while (true) {
            System.out.print(player.getName() + ", ");
            System.out.print(String.format("input the coordinate %s:", coordinateName));
            try {
                final Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
                int coordinate = in.nextInt() - 1;
                if (CoordinateHelper.checkCoordinate(coordinate)) {
                    return coordinate;
                }
                else {
                    System.out.println(INPUT_ERROR);
                }
            }
            catch (final InputMismatchException e) {
                System.out.println(INPUT_ERROR);
                }
            }

    }

}

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In the real shop, we can take a closer look at the product, touch it, try it, feel it: we can interact and enter emotional relationship with it. This makes it easier for us to make a decision and for store to make money. If we hesitate, the real stores have another great weapon to nail the sale down: a trained salesman. Presenting the product and showing it's features, he will narrow pre-chosen options and convince us that the choice we want is the choice we need. This is why, a real sales person can close much higher percentage of potential deals, with higher average value, than e-commerce web site.
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Posted on April 6, 2005 March 18, 2021 by Melissa Fye
Melissa Fye, April 6, 2005
Melissa Fye
Onboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai
Mission: Coral Reef Ecosystem Survey
Geographical Area: Northwest Hawaiian Island
Location: Latitude: 28.5 N, Longitude: 49.3 W
Visibility: 10 nautical miles
Wind Direction: 42
Wind Speed: 16 kts
Sea Wave Height: 3 feet
Swell Wave Height: 3-4 feet
Sea Water Temperature: N/A
Sea Level Pressure: 1021 mb
Cloud Cover: 3/8 SC, AS, Ci
Mapping the islands
Today's plan involved running sonar survey lines in a westerly direction en route to Necker Island (14.5 hours). Run at sea speed. CTD casts were conducted as needed, and I attended one at 1230. The senior surveyor informed me that CTDs are usually cast at least every 12 hours. I also spent the day interviewing various persons onboard to include the senior survey scientist, a deck hand/surveyor/, and the chief medical officer. At 1530, we arrived at our first point of reference, Necker Island, and the proceeded to continue survey lines westerly towards the French Frigate shoals for the next 9.5 hours.
The scientists on board are creating benthic habitat maps to support the Coral Reef Ecosystem Integrated Observing System under the direction of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Basically, several different plans have been laid out to determine fishing and no fishing zones around the island chain. The additional data collected on this cruise will hope those organizations determine the best plan for unrestricted and restricted fishing areas. Mapping boundaries may help to decide what fathoms (depths) to fish at or a longitudinal system may be used. Currently, lobster fishing is not allowed at all because they were all but wiped out in the past. The area around Necker, Brooks Bank, the French Frigate Shoals may eventually be entirely closed to fishing because evidence collected leads scientists to believe that that area may be a genetic gateway for species to the south.
I woke up around 6:30 am and proceeded to eat breakfast and to establish some times to interview people for the day, in between observing CTD casts and popping into the dry lab. Soon after lunch I interviewed the Chief Medical Officer and got a tour of the on board hospital which is equipped to handle many kinds of emergencies. The chief medical officer is LTJG Mike Futch. While on board he is in charge of handling any emergencies that may occur. Most common emergencies include sea sickness and if someone needs treated for that he can prescribe medication, administer shots, and treat dehydration that may occur from people regurgitating. He likened sea sickness to the feeling you would get if you were stuck on an elevator going up and down continuously until you got sick. LTJG Futch is authorized to do any lifesaving technique, but he is also in charge of handling medical questionnaires for members of the ship, weekly sanitation and safety checks, and handling inventory in the medical lab. Proximity to a port determines if a ship is assigned a medical officer (if more than 2 days from a port, then a med. officer is assigned), otherwise other members of the ship are trained for medical emergencies as well.
Working in the lab
LTJG Futch recommends anyone who would like a job like his to major in chemistry or biology in college, attend physician's assistant school, and specialize in emergency programs. He is an employee of the United States Public Health Service (the Surgeon General is the leader of this group) which deploys medical personnel to all federal agencies including NOAA, Coast Guard, prison system, Indian affairs, to just name a few. He will spend roughly 200 days at sea this year and he comments that the best part of his job is getting see parts of the world that many others don't see, the pay is good, and you get to function almost like your own boss because there is usually only one or two at most medical officers assigned to a ship.
I then proceeded to the science lab to get a first hand look at the computer system where data is filtered into from the onboard sonar systems. The senior surveyor and another surveyor spoke to me about the details aforementioned. I next interviewed Joyce Miller, Senior Survey Scientist, about her background and duties. Her job is to plan surveys, train new surveyors, and process data. She is at sea for 60-150 days a year depending on the projects she is working on. She comments that her most important piece of equipment is the computer and that any students who might be interested in this type of career should study oceanography (physics, biology, chemistry, geology) and heavily concentrate in computers. She feels a surveyor should be flexible, because things often don't go according to plan, and that this job offers a lot of challenges and movement.
Eventually I attended the launch of another CTD cast and ate lunch. The ship hasn't stopped, except for the occasional CTD cast for 30-40 minutes, because our late start has put us behind and there are 2 contractors aboard who need to be dropped off by a certain date at one of the islands to catch a plane. The afternoon was spent writing logs and lesson plans. Finally, I will go up on the bridge to interview the Operations officer and other officers employed by NOAA so I can give my fourth grade students a sense of the various jobs and people needed aboard a research ship to make it run smoothly. I am happy to report I don't seem to be sea sick at all, which makes me very happy, because many of the people on board are still trying to get their "sea legs!" To this point the seas have not been very rough though!
QUESTION OF THE DAY for my fourth grade students: The scientists on board are compiling data to create benthic habitat maps. What does the word benthic mean? What could maps like these be used for in the future?
Categories2005, Melissa Fye, NOAA Teacher at Sea Tagsbenthic habitat, CTD, Hydrographic survey, multibeam sonar, northwest hawaiian islands, seafloor mapping, survey line
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ETranzact, Africa's e-payments solution provider, is set to deepen financial inclusion by expanding its PocketMoni service with 10,000 active mobile money agents, through the Central Bank of Nigeria-funded Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility initiative.
The expansion, according to the company, will be executed in the next 24 months.
A statement by the company described the SANEF initiative as an effort by the apex bank to spur quick growth in the level of financial inclusion through availability of financial access points, especially in the northern part of the country.
It said that initiative aimed to drive the Federal Government's Social Investment Programme relied on improved banking agent network coverage points.
It added that eTranzact was certified as one of the 10 mobile money operators and super agents to roll out 500,000 agent locations within the next 24 months.
Under the SANEF initiative, the company said it would deliver 10,000 new agents in the first phase, expected to enable financial services for 500,000 unbanked/underserved individuals at a conservative ratio of one agent to 50 end users.
It said, "Part of the project funding will also go towards filling critical human and technology resource needs and to improve eTranzact's distribution capabilities with additional agent activation centres in northern part of the country.
"As a proof of our commitment to provide a world-class, customer-oriented service culture and environment, the company recently attained the world's highest standards certifications – ISO 20000:2011 and ISO 27001:2013.
eTranzact said it had recorded success in its PocketMoni mobile money service which had empowered over 9,000 agents and two million end-users with access to financial services, adding that it was well-positioned to deliver on its new SANEF mandate.
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Car Advice's senior editor has test driven and reviewed the Volkswagen Transporter TDI400 LWB Dual Cab. He summarises some of the best features; genuinely usable tray with exceptional tie-down points and drop sides, generous room in the second row, comfortable and flexible quality cabin, smooth ride despite a full load in the tray and outstanding gearbox and engine.
During the review the transporter was loaded with a 1000 kg pallet of bricks and the author of the article says that two factors impressed him immediately. Firstly he was impressed by the way the engine and gearbox continued to work so effortlessly. There were no signs the diesel had to work hard to get the vehicle with a near full load weight up to speed. The second factor was the Transporter's modern independent coil spring/rear axle arrangement that take to the weight-hauling task with ease. Just as it had when unladen, the rear end ironed out the bumpy road sections without breaking a sweat.


The Australian debt collection industry is one of the most fully developed and tightly regulated in the world. The advantage that consumers, businesses, and other industry participants get from this is that when they deal with the debt collection industry, then can have the peace of mind that comes with knowing that there are industry and legal protections in place that protect their rights.
This is especially important because of the sensitive and at times emotional nature of dealing with bills and financial liabilities.
But to really get an accurate picture of the industry a regular "health check" is required. And that is exactly what the independently commissioned report by the consumer watchdog, the ACCC, titled "Research into the Australian Debt Collection Industry" aims to do.
Innovative businesses, and ways of doing business, have long been a hallmark of Australians. There has been plenty of evidence of this over the years, including popular shows like The New Inventors and Shark Tank.
The report found that larger, more sophisticated debt collection agencies had put in place effective reporting methods to automate the debt collection process. This included building in safeguards against inappropriate contact attempts for debtors and to ensure compliance with legislation.
It also found that smaller companies without the resources to automate these processes invested more heavily in training and creating a compliance culture to ensure their employees were adequately skilled.
On a balance sheet, all debt looks the same, as an ugly number next to the "bad and doubtful debts" item. But the report showed that there is a clear difference between credit regulated debt and non-credit debt. Credit regulated debt includes those bills issued by the energy, phone and internet businesses.
For smaller businesses, this suggests that credit checks can be a very valuable resource, as the scores issued by these companies as a result of past bill compliance can feed into credit scores, giving future customers an idea of their likelihood to pay future bills.
The report also found that businesses that operate in industries with fast-rising costs are much more likely to face debt collection problems. Those sectors most at risk include those that work alongside the electricity sector, such as electrical businesses, as well as industries that are vulnerable to falls in consumer spending like pay TV and outdoor landscaping.
Whether it's buying your groceries or a new car, clear labelling and communication is something that every consumer values. The report found that those agencies with simple, upfront, and standard terms and conditions were more likely to get good outcomes for their clients without imposing additional stress on those they were collecting from.
Red tape, regulation and the imposition of rules are some of the most common irritants for business owners and managers. But the report found that increased regulation and law has led to a huge improvement in the behaviour and conduct of the debt collection industry in Australia.
In particular, the Australian Credit License and external dispute resolution functions were found to be driving stronger outcomes for all. The report also found that the increased costs of regulation and compliance had meant that more dubious and "cowboy" style operators had been forced out of the market, allowing the stronger debt collection agencies to grow while also offering better service.
The report was also clear in its finding that regulators and consumer advocates like the ACCC were ready and able to undertake compliance action if they received complaints and evidence of illegal or improper practices.
The result is a better experience for both creditors and debtors, with less stress and hardship for both parties.
If you'd like to hear more about how the locally owned and operated Challenge Collections service can help you or your business collect your unpaid bills and improve your cash flow, just give us a call today on (07) 3808 7001, or email us https://challengecollections.com.au/contact-us/. We look forward to working alongside you.


Some great jumping at the mini midi maxi on 4 March!
Some photos from the Hunter Trials at Bel-Air on 26 March 2017.
A few of the horses and riders at the first Kizzy Cup day. It was a lovely day! See you again next week.
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You've probably guessed it, another by-product of the meat industry. If you want organic though, then this is one of the most effective organic fertiliser around. Solid rapid release of nitrogen is achieved, despite its low solubility, due to small particle size and easy decomposition after application. Especially beneficial when growing leaf crops such as lettuce, spinach and cabbages, it also makes an excellent top dressing for foliage plants in the green house and conservatory.
Application rate: 100g sq. m.


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APA Gong, Yongkang.,Li, Zhiyuan.,Fu, Jinxin.,Chen, Yuhui.,Wang, Guoxi.,...&Liu, Xueming.(2011).Highly flexible all-optical metamaterial absorption switching assisted by Kerr-nonlinear effect.OPTICS EXPRESS,19(11),10193-10198.
MLA Gong, Yongkang,et al."Highly flexible all-optical metamaterial absorption switching assisted by Kerr-nonlinear effect".OPTICS EXPRESS 19.11(2011):10193-10198.


The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has made an announcement that all it's state branches would be open this weekend to facilitate the movement of applications involved in the new mySIKAP system.
According to a tweet we received from JPJ, the counters will start operation as usual, beginning at 730PM.
Aside from catering to those involved in the migration to the new mySIKAP system, the JPJ counters will also handle other normal cases.
For Kedah, Terengganu and Kelantan, the JPJ counters will be open on the 15-16 of November, while other state would enjoy the extra service hours on 16-17 November 2013.


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The Cough That Would Not Quit
Nana Arthur, MD1
1Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2011, May 10-13, Dallas, Texas.
Abstract number: 233
Case Presentation:
A 22‐year‐old woman with a 4‐year history of active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presented with a 4‐day history of fever, nonproductive cough, and shortness of breath. Two months earlier she had been admitted and treated for right upper lobe pneumonia. She had a bronchoscopy when her cough did not improve. Bronchoscopy cultures were negative for fungal and Mycobacterium tuberculosis except for 1 colony of Mycobacterium avium‐intracellulare (MAI). She was discharged home on 20 mg of prednisone twice daily for presumed flare of SLE with a taper. Her oral temperature was 38°C, heart rate was 122 beats/min, and oxygen saturation was 98% on 2 L. She had decreased air entry to the right upper lobe. She had axillary lymphadenopathy. White blood cell count was 3800/μL, hemoglobin was 10.2 g/dL, and hematocrit was 31.2%. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 96 mm/h (high); C3 was 62 (low). Blood cultures were negative for bacteria, fungi, and Mycobacterium. Worsening right upper lobe infiltrates as well reactive mediastinal lymphadenopathy were noted on chest CT. Vancomycin and piperacillin‐tazobactam was started for presumed health care–associated pneumonia. Azithromycin, rifampin, and ethambutol were started for possible Mycobacterium avium complex. Repeat bronchoscopy with infectious workup including fungal cultures, Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, and MAI were negative. Blood for Cryptococcus was also negative. Antibiotics were discontinued. Pathology showed acute and chronic bronchiolitis obliterans. Per pulmonary recommendations, thoracoscopic right upper lobe wedge resection with extensive thoracoscopic pneumolysis was done. Anatomical pathology revealed acute and chronic inflammation of lung parenchyma, chronic pleuritis, and bronchiolitis obliterans secondary to lupus and rare noncaseating granulomas. The patient's clinical condition improved on high‐dose steroids, and she was subsequently discharged.
Recognize the clinical presentation and diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans in patients with SLE. Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia occurs in patients with lupus, but there are few case reports. Patients present with cough, shortness of breath, and wheezing. Typically patients presents with bilateral patchy pulmonary infiltrates. Nodules 3–5 mm in diameter may be seen in approximately 50% of patients. Unilateral focal or lobar consolidation occurs in 5%–31% of patients. Pleural thickening and pleural effusions may be present. It is characterized by the formation of plugs of fibrous tissue in the bronchioles and alveolar ducts. The preferred method of diagnosis is by video‐assisted thoracosopic surgery or open lung biopsy. Treatment is with prednisone 1 mg/kg for 1–3 months, then 40 mg daily for 3 months, and then 10–20 mg daily for a year.
Hospitalists should consider bronchiolitis obliterans as a possibility in patients with SLE if patients continue to have pulmonary symptoms and infectious etiology is ruled out.
N. Arthur ‐ none
To cite this abstract:
Arthur N. The Cough That Would Not Quit. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2011, May 10-13, Dallas, Texas. Abstract 233. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2011; 6 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/the-cough-that-would-not-quit/. Accessed January 19, 2020.
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Zachary Levi Show Off His Shazam Body
April 15, 2018 Arelis Movies, News, Shazam
Zachary Levi who's playing the title role in David F. Sandberg's Shazam!, went on to his official Instagram to show off his hard work towards building up his body for the movie. After the official announcement of Levi's casting, many fans were concerned he was too small for the role when it came to muscle mass.
Then when on-set photos were released of Levi in the Shazam costume, the amount of padding that the suit look to have, put his built into question.
Looks like the criticism was heard by Levi, as he now has shared a photo of himself topless, showing off how much he's transformed since his casting.
It's like the old saying goes, "Hard work, over time, plus chicken & broccoli, minus carbs, divided by whey protein, in which "X" represents the amount of supplements and "Y" represents the sentiment of "WHY the hell am I doing this to myself?!", multiplied by shameless selfies whilst staring into nowhere…carryyy theee ooone…equals results." 📸 by @ericblackmon / "Tan" by Hefe Filter / Body by Jake. 👏💃
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After 20-year wait, Hardin Valley getting its own United Methodist Church
HARDIN VALLEY — After a 20-year wait, Hardin Valley is finally getting its own United Methodist Church.
The Rev. John Gargis is pastor of the recently-named Valley Church, which will officially begin with small group meetings in February.
"Our plan is for it to grow organically and allow things to come to us," Gargis said, adding he expects worship services to begin in an as-yet-to-be determined location — probably by the summer. "This is an exciting time for Hardin Valley, as it is developing its identity — not as Farragut and not as Turkey Creek — and this church will be part of that, too.
"We are also very deliberate about the fact we will be starting worship services — not church — hopefully by May."
Eventually, plans call for a church to be built on a 20-acre tract of land along Hardin Valley Road that was purchased 20 years ago by the Holston Conference, which oversees more than 1,000 UMC churches in East Tennessee and portions of Southwest Virginia and Georgia.
A proposed offshoot of Cokesbury UMC sprang up in the area about a decade ago, but it did not take permanent root in the community. Then, over the last year, "the Holston Conference revisited the idea and decided it was time to plant a church here," said Gargis, who noted Concord United Methodist Church offered assistance by voting unanimously to host Gargis in the months leading up to the start-up.
"I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for Concord (UMC)," he said, adding he has been "called to do this work.
"It goes back to being lost — I know what that is like. My role is to walk with folks who are going through that, too."
Gargis said his experience ties into Valley Church's mission "to draw in people from the community who are not connected. We don't want to steal from other churches but want to pull in those who are not affiliated with other churches."
Planners are coming together to create a park-like setting.
"We are planning a greenway, a playground and a public community garden," Gargis said.
For more information, visit the church's Facebook page or call 865-310-4783.


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Q: In unity editor script, how to open asset with code editor without specific file type I know following can open script:
AssetDatabase.OpenAsset(AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<MonoScript>(assetPath))

but if I need open a json file, or other file type file, I don't know the Type for LoadAssetAtPath how should i open this asset
can i only specific asset path and open asset with code editor?

A: Use AssetDatabase.LoadMainAssetAtPath

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House of Fulton Jewellery was established in January 1997 by Pat Fulton. It is a local Darwin company which has been trading for twenty years. The store is currently situated at 45 Smith Street mall in Darwin, within walking distance of the Darwin waterfront.
Pat has extensive experience in the jewellery industry both in Australia and overseas. She managed leading jewellery stores in Scotland, Toowoomba and Darwin before commencing her own business.
Pat holds a Certificate in Business Management from Northern Territory University, (now Charles Darwin University).
Pat sources her stock from unique Australian suppliers who deal mainly with independent jewellers. This enables Pat to offer her customers an individual experience away from the mainstream mass produced market.
Each item of merchandise in the store is a 'one of its kind' in order that clients' purchases are exclusive.
Pat is able to arrange postal delivery of goods for those unable to get to the Smith Street store.


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Q: Density of $\sin(\Bbb Z)$ in $[-1, 1]$ implies the same density for $\sin(\Bbb N)$ I have succeeded in proving that $\sin(\Bbb Z)$ is dense in $[-1, 1]$ , however I would also like to prove that this result implies that $\sin(\Bbb N)$ is also dense in $[-1,1]$.
So far, I have tried to proceed by contradiction, noticing first that
$$\sin(\Bbb Z) =  \sin(\Bbb N) \cup \sin(-\Bbb N) = \sin(\Bbb N) \cup -\sin(\Bbb N);$$
then there is at least a point in $[-1,1]$ such that one of its neighbourhoods contains infinitely many points of $\sin(-\Bbb N)$ but zero points of $\sin(\Bbb N)$.
However I haven't been able to go further since I do not understand which property of sine must be used in order to complete the proof (if the proof is actually possible given only that hypothesis).
Any help is highly appreciated!
EDIT
I would like to clarify the reasoning I have done so far:
(1) I proved that any additive subgroup of $(\Bbb R, +)$ either has a positive least element or is dense in $\Bbb R$;
(2) I proved that the set $\{ n+m\alpha: n,m \in \Bbb Z\}$, where $\alpha$ is irrational, is dense in $\Bbb R$ by showing that it is an additive subgroup of $(\Bbb R, +)$ which doesn't have a least positive element;
(3) now it is easy to prove that $\sin(\Bbb Z)$ is dense in $[-1,1]$ by using the periodicity (let $\alpha = 2\pi$), the surjectivity in $[-1,1]$ and the sequential continuity of the sine function.
In light of recent comments, I think it would be easier to show that $ A = \{ n+m\alpha: n \in \Bbb N,m \in \Bbb Z\}$ is dense in $\Bbb R$.

A: Just a remark that one can prove $\sin \mathbb{Z}$ dense in $[-1,1]$ implies that $\sin \mathbb{N}$ is dense in $[-1,1]$ directly without using diophantine approximation.
Assume that $\sin \mathbb{Z}$ is dense in $[-1,1]$.
By assumption, there exists an integer $n$ such that $\sin(n)$ is as close to $-1$ as you wish. Also, for any $\alpha \in [-1,1]$, there are arbitrarily large integers $m$ such that $\sin m$ is a close to $\alpha$ as you wish.
Now either infinitely many of those $m$ are positive, in which case $\alpha$ is a limit point of $\sin \mathbb{Z}$, or they are eventually all negative. But then $-m + 2n$ will be a positive integer for $m$ big enough, one can easily compute from the double angle formula that $\sin (-m + 2n)$ is very close to $- \sin(-m) = \sin(m)$ which is very close to $\alpha$.
The basic idea is that when $\sin(n)$ is close to $-1$ then
that $2n$ is very close to an odd multiple of $\pi$, and $\sin(x + \pi) = - \sin(x) = \sin(-x)$.

A: We will use the theorem:

Given any irrational number, $\alpha>0,$ there are infinitely many positive integers, $p,q$ such that $$\left|\frac pq-\alpha\right|<\frac1{q^2}.$$

That can proven using continued fractions.
Claim: If $f$ is continuous and periodic with period $T>0,$ and $f(\mathbb Z)$ is dense in $[-1,1],$ then $f(\mathbb N)$ is dense in $[-1,1].$
Proof:
If $T$ is rational, then $f(\mathbb Z)$ is finite and thus can't be dense in any interval.
So $T$ must be irrational.
Since $f$ is continuous and periodic, it is uniformly continuous.
Now, given $\epsilon>0,$ and $\alpha\in [-1,1],$ let $m\in\mathbb Z$ be such that $|f(m)-\alpha|<\frac{\epsilon}2.$
Since $f$ is uniformly continuous, there is a $\delta>0$ such that if $|x-y|<\delta,$ $|f(x)-f(y)|<\frac{\epsilon}2.$
Find $p,q\in\mathbb Z^+$ such that $$\left|\frac pq-T\right|<\frac1{q^2}$$ and $p>-m$ and $\frac1q<\delta.$
Then $|p-Tq|<\delta,$ so $$\begin{align}  |f(m+p)-\alpha|&\leq |f(m+p)-f(m)|+|f(m)-\alpha|\\
&=|f(m+(p-Tq))-f(m)|+|f(m)-\alpha|\\&<\frac\epsilon2+\frac\epsilon2=\epsilon
\end{align} $$
But $m+p\in\mathbb N.$

You certainly don't need the whole first claim, just the narrower:

If $\alpha>0$ is irrational, then there are two sequences of positive integers, $p_n,q_n$ such that $\lim_{n\to\infty}(p_n-\alpha q_n)=0.$

I just happen to know the stronger lemma well, so I often lead with it.