For many, a big part of the holiday tradition is exchanging gifts. But, buying that perfect gift for everyone on your list can be expensive. This year, why not reduce the financial stress that comes with holiday spending, and instead, create new traditions and memories?
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If you want to add measurements, weight and progress pictures, that's up to you as these features are available, but this app is built to be easy and quick to use whilst in the gym. No more messing with the app for 10 minutes between sets trying to figure the app out, just log it and get on with it.
Easy build plans to schedule your workouts and notify yourself what you're working on this week coming and view your progress. If you are a personal trainer or like to share plans with other and build plans for others, you can build your custom plans using this app and share them with your clients/friends.
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require 'athena_health/claim/diagnosis'
require 'athena_health/claim/payer'
require 'athena_health/claim/procedure'
module AthenaHealth
  module Claim
    class Claim < BaseModel
      attribute :diagnoses, Array[Diagnosis]
      attribute :primaryinsurancepayer, Payer
      attribute :patientpayer, Payer
      attribute :claimcreatedate, String
      attribute :billedproviderid, Integer
      attribute :billedservicedate, String
      attribute :appointmentid, Integer
      attribute :patientid, Integer
      attribute :departmentid, Integer
      attribute :customfields, Array[CustomFieldData]
      attribute :reserved19, String
      attribute :referringproviderid, Integer
      attribute :procedures, Array[Procedure]
      attribute :referralauthid, Integer
      attribute :secondaryinsurancepayer, Payer
      attribute :chargeamount, String
      attribute :transactiondetails, Hash
      attribute :claimid, Integer
      attribute :transactionid, Integer
    end
  end
end

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Q: Erlang change value of element in list Hello is there a way to change the value of the head of a list in Erlang
 Hd -> store2(Key, N,[New|List],New,false)

this is as close I came to changing it New is the new element to the Head element of the list
store(Key, N, TupleList, New) when is_integer(N), N > 0, is_tuple(New) ->
store2(Key, N, TupleList, New, false).

store2(_Key,_N,[], New, false) -> [New];
  store2(Key, N,List, New, false) -> case fetch(Key, N, List) of
     [] -> List;
     false -> List++[New];
     Hd -> store2(Key, N,[New|List],New,false)
   end.

to clarify even further im using a function called fetch that I defined to find an element to replace with another element which is New

A: Just prepend your new head to the tail of List.
[New|tl(List)]

You usually write it as pattern matching
some_function(..., [_Old|Tail] = _List, ...)->
    ...
    NewList = [New|Tail],
    ...

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Grendel Grendel Grendel is a 1981 Australian animated film written, directed and designed by Alexander Stitt and starring Peter Ustinov. It was based on John Gardner's novel Grendel. The music was composed and conducted by Bruce Smeaton and has been released on the 1M1 Records label.

Like Gardner's novel, the film is a retelling of part of the epic poem Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. Grendel (voiced by Ustinov) is by turns a thoughtful and contemplative character and a rampaging monster who attacks the mead hall of an early Danish kingdom, biting the head off of one would-be defender. This was the second full-length fully animated film ever made in Australia (coming after 1972's Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon).

Plot
Initially narrated by the titular character through a flashback, Grendel (Peter Ustinov), the "Great Boogey", recounts how he first left his cave as a child and encountered the Danish King Hrothgar (Ed Rosser) and his thegns. After being rescued by his mother, Grendel pondered over the similarities he shared with the Danes, yet lamented on their not being able to understand his language. He watched as Hrothgar's power and wealth grew, disgusted at his excesses and the royal Shaper's (Keith Michell) revision of history, presenting the king's underhanded and brutal achievements as glorious victories. Desperate to find meaning in life, Grendel encountered the dragon (Arthur Dignam), who informed Grendel that his sole purpose in life is to terrify humanity, thus stimulating human imagination and encouraging social cohesion.

Grendel accepts his new role and regularly visits the king's mead hall to frighten Hrothgar's people and devour them. He stops short of killing the king himself and the warrior Unferth (Ric Stone), whose delusions of grandeur and passive opposition to the king amuse Grendel. Feeling sympathy for Hrothgar's miserable wife Wealhtheow, who is also the object of Unferth's secret affection, Grendel decides to finally kill Hrothgar and take her to his lair. Before Grendel can arrive, the meadhall is visited by the hero Beowulf (also voiced by Dignam), who kills Unferth on the increasingly paranoid Hrothgar's orders. Beowulf then ambushes Grendel and tears off his arm, leaving the monster to die outside, pondering over the accidental nature of his death.

Production and release
Stitt acquired the film rights to Grendel in 1978, and work was commenced at Melbourne Al et al. Studios the following year. The film was conceived as a coproduction with producer Phillip Adams, under the banner of Animation Australia. Although completed in 1981, it was not released in US theatres until the spring of 1982. Because of its limited appeal, broadcasting of the film was largely restricted to art theatres in urban centres.

References

External links

 Grendel Grendel Grendel at the National Film and Sound Archive
Grendel Grendel Grendel at Oz Movies
Grendel Grendel Grendel at Just Watch

1981 animated films
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Animated films based on novels
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Lab test reports of a suspected Swine Flu case at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) will arrive on Wednesday, RIMS officials said.
RIMS superintendent Dr Vivek Kashyap said that there is only one suspected Swine Flu patient at the hospital at present. He was admitted in RIMS around five days ago, he added. "The reports have been delayed. They will be with us the day after tomorrow," he said on Monday.
Swine Flu has already claimed one life in Ranchi this year. Hitesh Kumar, who worked in the merchant navy in South Korea, died of Swine Flu in the city on January 25. Kumar returned to Ranchi in mid-January after being taken ill and lived in an apartment on Kanke Road. After complaining of high fever, chills and severe body aches, he was admitted in Medanta Hospital in the last week of January.
The patient, whose blood samples have been sent for H1N1 test, has responded to the treatment so far and as of now it seems that he has not contracted the infection, RIMS doctors said.
Sources said that he is a resident of Lohardaga and he was undergoing treatment in Vellore. However, he came to Ranchi because of financial crisis. He was tested positive in preliminary test.
According to the figures mentioned in the official website of Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP), at least eight patients in Jharkhand have been tested so far for H1N1 flu but none of the reports came out positive. The figures were last updated on the website on February 3.
However, IDSP's district surveillance officer Rajeev Kumar said that the number of samples collected has gone up to 12, but all were negative.
lightly. Hospitals in all the 24 districts have been asked to immediately report if any patient's symptoms mimic that of H1N1 Flu.
Meanwhile, the State Animal Husbandry department has issued a Bird Flu alert after mysterious death of several crows and poultry in Bokaro. Test of samples have confirmed that the birds died due to Avian Flu.
However, Dr Kashyap denied the rumours about Bird Flu cases reported in the hospital. "No Bird Flu cases have been reported yet," he said.


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Synative lets game developers build playable Google Play demos
Dean Takahashi@deantak	 June 18, 2019 4:30 AM
Above: Synative
Image Credit: Synative
Synative has announced that developers can use its Synative Playable Studio to create playable game demos — a relatively new form of advertising — for free.
Hong Kong-based Synative allows developers to build their own "try now" demo for the Google Play Store. These demos are like ads for the games. They let the player get a taste for the gameplay of a mobile game, without having to download the entire title. The playable demos start instantly, removing friction in the process.
Rivals like AppOnboard have been doing these demos for a while. But Synative is taking the extra step of letting developers try out the demos for free and then decide if they want to use it in other networks for a fee.
Above: Synative playable ad
Developers can sign up now at the Synative website and enroll in the Synative Playable Studio for free to get access to the service as well as instructions on how to build playable ads for the Google Play Store.
The Synative Playable Studio is an online service that allows companies to quickly build playable advertisements and demos for mobile devices without the need to know any programming, allowing anyone in the company to create high-quality ads in under an hour.
All playables created by the Synative Playable Studio can also be exported to ad networks like IronSource, Unity Ads, Applovin, and as advertisements for social media sites like Facebook. However, Synative has also added the Google Play Store "Try Now" button as an added exportable option in late 2018.
This option is now free of charge for any game developer using the service.
Synative also is announcing that developers can move any playable from their free service to their favorite ad network for the price of $200 per ad network. This includes Applovin, Unity Ads, TapJoy, AdColony, ironSource, Vungle, Google UAC, and the social network Facebook.
"We've been talking with Google for a long time and know they are pushing to get more developers trying out their demo service within the Google Play Store," said Synative CEO Ken Liu, in a statement. "We thought we give them an extra push by helping everyone get their demos out now and working to make it an industry standard."
Anyone using the free service will receive two blank projects to build their playable demo with and can upgrade their service to a monthly paid option with unlimited projects and free ad creation for some ad networks and Facebook.
Tutorials and instruction booklets are available from within the service as well as videos from the company's official YouTube account.
A group of mobile game industry experts formed Synative in 2017, and it released the Synative Playable Studio in October 2018. The company has 100 employees.

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Mind & BodyDrugsShareSubscribe
Scientists Have Developed a Non-Addictive Opioid
The drug works by only targeting the site of pain, not the brain.
By Peter Hess
Filed Under Experiments, Health, Medicine & Public Health
The number of deaths from opioid overdoses in the United States increased 280 percent from 2002 to 2015, with over 30,000 Americans dying from these drugs in 2015, according to the most recent statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This number not only accounts for deaths from illicit use, but also from legal prescriptions. Many people take opioids to treat chronic pain or to recover from surgery, and it's easy for a medical user to become addicted to powerful narcotics such as Oxycontin, Vicodin, and fentanyl. America's opioid epidemic seems to have become a cultural mainstay, but if forward-looking medical researchers have anything to say about it, things could change soon.
A team of researchers from the Free University of Berlin, the Zuse Institute Berlin, and the Washington University School of Medicine have collaborated to discover a new opioid that relieves pain without creating the potential for abuse or overdose.
In a study published Friday in the journal Science, these researchers report that they've developed an opioid painkiller that's been proven effective in rats without producing any of the negative side effects associated with conventional opioids: addiction, slowed respiration, and constipation, just to name a few.
Senior researcher Christoph Stein, of the Free University of Berlin, and his colleagues used computer simulations to develop a novel chemical compound, called (±)-N-(3-fluoro-1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenyl propionamide — NFEPP for short. NFEPP works much like the powerful opioid fentanyl, except it only targets inflamed tissues, bonding to them because of their lower pH.
"We expected to find a compound that would produce pain relief by selectively activating peripheral opioid receptors without eliciting adverse side effects via opioid receptors in the brain or gut," Stein tells Inverse via email.
"We were pleased to find our initial hypotheses confirmed by the experimental results," he says.
This image shows how NFEPP avoids the side effects common to most opioids by only binding to inflamed, low-pH tissue.
The researchers caused pain and inflammation in rats' paws, then treated them with varying amounts of fentanyl and NFEPP. They found that both drugs worked, but NFEPP only affected the inflamed paws, whereas fentanyl had a full-body numbing effect. Fentanyl also created the hallmark effects of opioids in the rats: depressed respiration, drug-seeking behavior, and eventually death. But NFEPP did none of these, even in quantities that would be lethal for fentanyl doses.
"At 32 μg/kg i.v., fentanyl was lethal because of respiratory depression, whereas NFEPP did not elicit overt sedation or respiratory depression," write the researchers.
Stein hopes to synthesize this drug in much larger quantities and continue researching its viability. Hopefully it can eventually become part of the effort to stem the growing opioid epidemic.
Abstract: Indiscriminate activation of opioid receptors provides pain relief but also severe central and intestinal side effects. We hypothesized that exploiting pathological (rather than physiological) conformation dynamics of opioid receptor-ligand interactions might yield ligands without adverse actions. By computer simulations at low pH, a hallmark of injured tissue, we designed an agonist that, because of its low acid dissociation constant, selectively activates peripheral m-opioid receptors at the source of pain generation. Unlike the conventional opioid fentanyl, this agonist showed pH-sensitive binding, heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide–binding protein (G protein) subunit dissociation by fluorescence resonance energy transfer, and adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate inhibition in vitro. It produced injury-restricted analgesia in rats with different types of inflammatory pain without exhibiting respiratory depression, sedation, constipation, or addiction potential.
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PHISH, WEDNESDAY 03/24/1993
LUTHER BURBANK CENTER FOR THE ARTSLUTHER BURBANK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
SET 1: Llama, Foam, Fee > Poor Heart, Maze, I Didn't Know[1], Sample in a Jar, All Things Reconsidered, Runaway Jim, Amazing Grace[2], Cavern
SET 2: The Landlady > Split Open and Melt, Sparkle > Tweezer > Mound, Big Ball Jam > Fast Enough for You, You Enjoy Myself, The Horse[3] > Silent in the Morning, Hold Your Head Up > The Prison Joke[4] > Hold Your Head Up > Terrapin > Hold Your Head Up, Good Times Bad Times
ENCORE: Carolina[2], The Squirming Coil
[1] Fish on trombone.
[2] Without microphones.
[3] Trey on acoustic guitar.
[4] Was told by an audience member named "Sam" after Fish refused to tell it.
I Didn't Know featured Fish on trombone and The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Amazing Grace and Carolina were performed without microphones. You Enjoy Myself contained Amazing Grace and the theme from Speed Racer teases. The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Under Pressure were teased in the You Enjoy Myself vocal jam. The Prison Joke was told by an audience member named "Sam" after Fish refused to tell it. Fish teased Moby Dick before Good Times Bad Times. The soundcheck's Ready for Love also contained bits of No Quarter and Slave (The Rolling Stones).


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Press Release -- January 26th, 2012
Source: Equinix
Reality Check Network Renews Relationship with Equinix to Enable Continued Delivery of 100% Uptime
Emerging Provider of Managed Hosting Benefits from Platform Equinix's Scalability, Security and Direct Access to Network Carriers
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — January 26, 2012 — Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Reality Check Network, a provider of managed hosting services, will continue to leverage its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers to deliver high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. Since joining Platform Equinix™ in 2008, Reality Check Network has drawn upon the standardization, consistency and network connectivity within the Equinix IBX data centers in New York and Silicon Valley to significantly grow its North American customer base and ensure it delivers on its promise of 100 percent uptime for its hosting customers. Reality Check Network has also opened a storefront in the Equinix Marketplace™ to promote and sell its services to the more than 4,000 potential customers that are on Platform Equinix.
As part of Equinix's growing ecosystem of more than 800 cloud and IT service providers, Reality Check Network offers managed hosting solutions and powerful dedicated servers that are backed by unparalleled network, server, and application support. Originally launched in 2003, the company delivers proven solutions for some of the most demanding hosting needs, including highly available websites, PCI-compliant e-commerce sites, SaaS platforms, and virtualization. Reality Check Network also offers load balancing and firewall security as well as network storage and CDN services, in highly available configurations.
"At Reality Check Network, our number one goal is to ensure 100 percent uptime for our customers. In order to achieve that, it is crucial that our data center service provider offer the stability, security and compliance necessary for us to follow through on that promise," said Ben Uretsky, CEO of Reality Check Network. "We specifically chose to work with Equinix because of the company's superior stability and scalability. In the many years we have been with Equinix, we have never experienced any outages. In addition, the company's unparalleled network connectivity enables us to reach any network provider within the Equinix ecosystem. Equinix also has the global reach we need as we expand our business both nationally and worldwide."
"As more and more companies look to partners such as Reality Check Network to provide a vast array of hosting solutions in a secure and high-performance manner, it's imperative that hosting providers can adapt to customers' needs in a dynamic and secure environment," said Vince DiMemmo, general manager of global cloud and IT services at Equinix. "We are thrilled to help a company like Reality Check Network, along with our other partners in the cloud and hosting space, achieve success in delivering performance-optimized solutions."
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. Platform Equinix connects more than 4,000 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies including more than 680 network service providers to help them grow their businesses, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 38 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth.http://www.equinix.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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ANC is located about four miles southwest of downtown Anchorage. Constructed in 1951, it was renamed by the Alaska legislature in 2000 to honor former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens. Almost 5.4 million passengers arrived/departed in 2008 and ANC ranks as the world's fifth-busiest airport by cargo traffic (after Memphis, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul). The airport has three asphalt paved runways.
According to MACTEC Alaska Office Manager Sean P. Thomas, MACTEC will provide groundwater monitoring and soil testing at remediation land spread areas, fire training facilities, and other locations, such as storm water outfalls and soil storage areas. Additional services and task orders may be issued during the term of the contract to provide additional testing and/or environmental services as needed.


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unresolved core, coincident with the optical nucleus of the galaxy.
radio source is powered by an AGN.
In a group of Ellipticals and Lenticulars with NGC 0407 and NGC 0414.
NGC 0407, NGC 0410 and NGC 0414.
NGC 0408 is probably a star.
Ap. J., 71, 231, 1930.
discernible, but is probably a spiral. 46 s.n.


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To Defend, Retreat or Adapt? Design Responses to the Excess and Disappearance of Water
Seth McDowell
Extract from Water Index, ed. Seth McDowell. Published by Actar.
Hieronymus Bosch's "The Hell and the Flood", a panel from the triptych Deliverance from the Deluge painted on the inside of an altarpiece, reveals an image of a post-apocalyptic landscape. The water has subsided, and rotting corpses of drowned sinners litter the land. This Old Testament narrative depicts water as a device for ethical cleansing. Yet, if the moral connotations are set aside, the Deluge in Genesis 8 is essentially a story of human's technological adaptation to imposing natural phenomena. The ark, as a response for survival, has become the paradigm for humanity's response to ecological disaster: construct a mechanism for deliverance. This paper is a catalog of mechanisms that enable the control of, escape from, and adaptation to water. Two hydrological crises are examined here, the rising and the disappearing of water, which present fundamental complications for humanity's dependence on the natural resource. Each of these extreme conditions for water is evaluated relative to design strategies for defense, retreat, and adaptation.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Hell and the Flood, panel from Deliverance from the Deluge (circa 1450–1516). Oil, 27.2 x 15.4″. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
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[1] The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and unified and specified combatant commands. It prescribes five graduated levels of readiness (or states of alert) for the U.S. military, which increase in severity from DEFCON 5 (least severe) to DEFCON 1 (most severe) to match varying military situations.
[2] Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young, The Rising Sea (Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2009), xi.1 The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and unified and specified combatant commands. It prescribes five graduated levels of readiness (or states of alert) for the U.S. military, which increase in severity from DEFCON 5 (least severe) to DEFCON 1 (most severe) to match varying military situations.
[3] Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young, "People and the Rising Sea," in The Rising Sea (Washington, DC: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2009) 132.
[6] Bost, Travis. "The Spectacle of water and machine: The Ideologies At Work In The Bonnet Carre Spillway Openings Of 1937 And 2011" 2012.
[8] Project text from West 8, to be published in upcoming book, Water Index, ed. Seth McDowell. Actar, 2016.
[9] Isaac Cohen, Kate Hayes, and Jorge Sieweke's "Swamp Thing: Smart Grid, Smarter Water Management in New Orleans, LA," project description from designers. University of Virginia, 2012.
[10] "Water: Our Thirsty World," National Geographic (April 2010) 217, no.4: 52.
[11] Ibid, 54.
[13] Moorish, William. "The Urban Spring: Formalizing the Water System of Los Angeles" Modulus. University of Virginia, 1985.
[14] "Sietch Nevada « MATSYS." MATSYS RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2015.
[15] MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center collaborated to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation's largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. "Though the national debate on infrastructure (was at the time) focused on "shovel-ready" projects that would stimulate the economy, the joint effort enabled new research and fresh thinking about the use of New York City's harbor and coastline." An architects-in-residence program at P.S.1 (November 16, 2009–January 8, 2010) brought together five interdisciplinary teams to re-envision the coastlines of New York and New Jersey around New York Harbor and to imagine new ways to occupy the harbor itself with adaptive "soft" infrastructures that would be sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology. These creative solutions were intended to dramatically change residents' relationship to one of the city's great open spaces.
[16] Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream was an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis. During summer 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA P.S. 1 to envision new housing and transportation infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country's suburbs. Responding to The Buell Hypothesis, a research report prepared by the Buell Center at Columbia University, teams—led by MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, WORKac, and Zago Architecture—focused on a specific location within one of five "megaregions" across the country to come up with inventive solutions for the future of American suburbs. This installation presented the proposals developed during the architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, renderings, animations, and analytical materials.
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It's Christmastime again folks, and I'm so excited! I shared some Christmas tunes last year and I'll do it again this month as well. This is my favorite time of year. I'll admit, I was a little down this morning when WordPress informed me that they won't be offering falling snow on our blogs this year. Ugh! Seriously? 😧😫😭 Not sure who made that decision, but phooey on them!
When Scott Weiland came out with a handful of classic Christmas songs, I was so excited. I couldn't believe it and fell in love with the whole album. For those of you who aren't sure who Scott Weiland is, he was the lead singer and lyricist of Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, and a few other bands. He was also a solo artist. If you were listening to the radio a lot in the 90's, you might still remember Stone Temple Pilot's "Plush", "Interstate Love Song", or "Creep" which are still played today.
I love the traditional vintage feel they gave to these Christmas videos. I thought that was so unique. Plus, I just love his voice with these songs.
Last year I shared "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas." I thought I'd share his cover of "Winter Wonderland" for today's Music Monday.
Thanks for checking out Music Monday. What are you guys listening to this week? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below.
Wow, that was a fast sleigh! Great video.
I have to agree with your mom Jen. I immediately thought of Bing Crosby when I listened to him, Great share.


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Lara Montecalvo '00 Nominated for First Circuit
RI Public Defender Is Biden's pick for Court of Appeals.
By Sean Doolittle '24
UPDATE: June 16, 2022. The US Senate Committee on the Judiciary approved Public Defender Lara Montecalvo's nomination to the federal appeals court. The vote was 12 to 10 with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina the lone Republican voting along with all Democrats on the committee in support of Montecalvo to fill the vacancy created by 1st US Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson assuming senior status.
In April, President Biden announced his nomination of Boston College Law School's Lara E. Montecalvo to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Montecalvo has served as the Public Defender of Rhode Island since 2020, overseeing the office that provides legal representation to those who cannot afford a lawyer in criminal proceedings.
Montecalvo received her JD magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 2000 and began her career as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. She joined the Rhode Island Public Defender's Office four years later as a trial attorney, eventually working her way to Assistant Public Defender and Chief of the Appellate Division before reaching the top job.
If confirmed, Montecalvo would replace Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, who announced her decision to take senior status on the First Circuit in July of last year. The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit hears all federal appeals for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico.
Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both Democrats from Rhode, recommended Montecalvo to President Biden for nomination.
"Lara Montecalvo is an exceptional public servant with sterling legal credentials and a profound respect for the rule of law. She has practiced law in every court in Rhode Island and earned high marks from her peers across the legal spectrum," the Senators said in a joint statement. "She is highly qualified for this important position and will bring a unique perspective and diversity of experience to the First Circuit. We urge the Senate to consider and confirm her nomination in a swift and timely manner."
"Lara has appeared before the Rhode Island Supreme Court several times in the 18 years of my tenure here," said fellow alum and Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court William P. Robinson III '75. "She unfailingly impressed me with her knowledge of the pertinent facts and law, and she was always an ardent and eloquent advocate for her clients. I am certain that she will for many years be a credit to the Court of Appeals and will forever be a credit to the wonderful institution that is Boston College Law School."


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Owning the value chain – building a platform
by NextWealth | Apr 7, 2021 | Adviser Tech, Platforms | 0 comments
James Priday, CEO of P1 Investment Management, chose one of the bravest options for his Advice Tech Live session – a live online demo. But before he crossed his fingers and logged on, he talked through the background with Heather Hopkins.
When he had become MD of an IFA firm in 2012, he'd been shocked to find that advice firms – in his view delivering by far the biggest and most important part of the total service to clients – owned a relatively small part of the charging chain.
But it wasn't until 2016 that technology made it possible for him to do something about it. In that year, he was able to spin out P1 Investment Management from his advice business, Prydis Wealth– and, as part of that proposition, his own investment platform. And while the first goal was to reduce the cost of both DFM and platform to the end client, it wasn't the only one: as James explains, owning his own platform also offered better control of the client experience, and much greater efficiency resulting in much lower costs, to the advantage of adviser firms and their clients.
The P1 platform uses Seccl technology and custody services, and James has been very happy with what the Octopus-owned firm has to offer. Seccl enabled him to move much faster than any other technology provider – and, crucially, the Seccl platform was able to integrate fully with his firm's back-office system. This, James says, is absolutely essential. "At heart, a platform is a simple thing that performs largely generic functions," he says. "It should be seen as an extension of the back office and an adviser firm's operations, not a product in its own right."
Accordingly, what matters is that it must do exactly what the adviser wants, not what the provider wants – and in the case of James's firm, that means being truly paperless. The paperless office is a reality at P1 – anyone submitting documentation on paper will find it promptly returned to them. (We can confirm that the P1 Platform has been recognised as a Digital Champion, requiring a paper or scanned copy of a for fewer than 10% of processes).
At about this point, James fired up his demo, and it worked flawlessly. As he whizzed us through a number of screens, mostly to do with the onboarding process, he shared some impressive statistics detailing just how quickly processes can now be completed – SIPPs and GIAs set up in 90 seconds, for example, with no client involvement at all required. Small wonder that some 35 other advice firms use the P1 platform on a white label basis. (NextWealth will publish a report on white labelled platforms in May. Advisers on the NextWealth Research Panel (you can join the research panel here) will get a free copy.
All in all, it was a thought-provoking session, especially for those who believe that in technology the giants will always overpower the minnows. To see the full video of this minnow in action, click here.
The NextWealth Advice Tech Stack report on white labelled platforms will be published in May 2021. For more information, click here.


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A family chronicles their patriarch's dementia and the painful caregiving experience without flinching and with a lot of...
DAD'S LAST HUNT
DEMENTIA – AN UNINVITED GUEST OR ALZHEIMER'S – NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
by Mike D Larson Sharon L Larson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 25, 2011
As dementia claims a Midwestern man's mind, his wife and son record the experience in this memoir.
Dementia slowly crept into Donny Larson's life. By the time he went hunting in 2005 with his friends and son, he was already battling forgetfulness and mood swings. After Donny got lost in the forest and his son found him shivering and soaked, the younger Larson, Mike, realized this would be the last hunt of his dad's life, for everyone's safety. The hunt story, which opens this debut work, serves as the perfect metaphor for the larger tale of Donny's descent into dementia and the challenges, heartbreak and—occasionally—hope he and his family found in the experience. Initially, Donny's Minnesotan family noticed him injuring himself and growing more forgetful, but they worked around it to keep him at home. However, after a violent episode in 2007, his wife struggled to find a nearby facility willing to take him, then she wrestled with practical issues as well as emotional ones—especially after Donny was eventually moved into the same facility where his own mentally unsound mother still lived. Donny's wife and son write in sincere, frank tones, discussing with a surprising amount of openness topics such as incontinence, saving money for nursing home care, drugs, their Lutheran faith and the concept of "best care"—the realistic balance of care and sacrifice. The love and patience offered by Donny's wife is evident on every page, and readers will empathize with her as her husband's health declines. Likewise, her son's combination of frustration, sadness and resignation is understandable, particularly when he mentions how he doesn't mind caring for his kids since they will grow up and become independent, but his father "was never going to recover and his needs kept growing." While this memoir might be an overwhelming read for someone starting out as a caregiver or fearful of their own diagnosis, middle-aged and older readers who've been down a similar path may find comfort in this homespun story.
A family chronicles their patriarch's dementia and the painful caregiving experience without flinching and with a lot of heart.
Pub Date: Dec. 25, 2011
Publisher: Dad's Last Hunt
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2014
Review Program: Kirkus Indie


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Metallica have released a full official theatrical trailer for their upcoming 3D feature film Metallica Through The Never making its premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con. The movie will be available in IMAX theaters on September 27, 2013 and additional theatres on October 4, 2013.
Metallica Through the Never stars Metallica and the award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal immerses audiences in a spectacular live performance footage of Metallica's most iconic songs combined with a narrative story featuring imagery drawn from the band's iconography. Dane DeHaan portrays Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission, during the Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. While on this mission, he unexpectedly has his life turned completely upside down. The film features dazzling pyrotechnics, the most elaborate live-performance stage ever built and state-of-the-art 3D photography, captured using up to 24 cameras simultaneously.


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Abu Dhabi's Etihad reports $1.7bn loss for 2020, passenger traffic down 76%
The airline reported $1.2bn in passenger revenues in 2020, down by 74 per cent from $4.8bn the previous year
by Varun Godinho
UAE national carrier Etihad Airways said that it carried 4.2 million passengers in 2020, down 76 per cent from 17.5 million passengers it flew in 2019.
More than 80 per cent of the total passengers carried in 2020 were flown during the first three months of the year, the airline said which demonstrates the "precipitous drop in demand as the global crisis deepened over the course of the year."
Total passenger capacity was reduced by 64 per cent in 2020 to 37.5 billion Available Seat Kilometres (ASKs), down from 104 billion in 2019, with the seat load factor declining to 52.9 per cent, 25.8 percentage points lower compared to 2019.
The airline reported $1.2bn in passenger revenues in 2020, down by 74 per cent from $4.8bn the previous year.
Operating costs decreased by 39 per cent year-on-year, from $5.4bn in 2019 to $3.3bn in 2020, which the airline attributed to "a combination of reduced capacity and volume-related expenses, as well as a focus on cost containment initiatives."
The carrier's overheads reduced by 25 per cent to $0.8bn, despite their fixed nature, owing to cash and liquidity management initiatives during the crisis, while the finance cost reduced by 23 per cent through an ongoing focus on balance sheet restructuring.
It resulted in a core operating loss of $1.7bn in 2020, dipping 112 per cent from the $0.8bn loss it reported for 2019, with the EBITDA turning to negative $0.65bn (2019: positive $0.45bn).
In a statement, the airline said that it is continuing to target a complete turnaround by 2023, having accelerated its transformation plans and restructured the organisation during the pandemic.
In November, the airline announced a major reshuffle among its top management as it sought to reposition itself as a mid-sized, full-service carrier.
The business units within Commercial are now under Mohammad Al Bulooki, chief operating officer; Adam Boukadida, chief financial officer; and Terry Daly, who will assume the role of executive director guest experience, brand and marketing.
Read: Major restructuring among top management at UAE's Etihad airline
Additionally, Al Bulooki will assume responsibility for network planning, sales, revenue management, cargo and logistics, commercial strategy planning, and alliances.
The airline's cargo operation meanwhile recorded a 66 per cent increase in revenue from $0.7bn in 2019 to $1.2bn in 2020. Cargo yield saw an improvement of 77 per cent.
It operated 183 charters, ferrying more than 2,500 tonnes of essential cargo to 129 countries during the pandemic.
Etihad also took delivery of two new Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2020, bringing the total fleet count to 103 aircraft. With 39 Dreamliners in total, Etihad is one of the world's largest operators of this aircraft.
It also took the decision last year to ground Etihad's fleet of 10 A380s "unless demand grows and there is sufficient appetite to reassess their viability."
Read: Etihad grounds entire A380 fleet; will commence Abu Dhabi-Tel Aviv daily flights from March 2021
At the end of 2020, the airline operated to 50 passenger and seven cargo destinations from Abu Dhabi, representing approximately 35 per cent of its pre-Covid capacity.
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