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Aerial Resupply Coffee Shares Their Top 12 Veteran-Owned Companies to Support in 2023
Did you know that there are over 2.5 million businesses in the United States that are owned by veterans? That is an amazing statistic, and it just goes to show how strong the veteran community is. In this blog post, we will be talking about 12 of the best veteran-owned companies you should support in 2023, according to Michael Klemmer, Veteran and owner of Aerial Resupply Coffee. These companies do a phenomenal job of giving back to the veteran community, and they deserve your support in the new year!
Consequence of Habit – JT Frank
This 501c3 Nonprofit organization, Led by a board of individuals with diverse backgrounds, including Veterans and First Responders Consequence of Habit, is a leading non-profit that focuses on habits. Providing cutting-edge education, connections, inspiration, and purpose. Powerful storytelling can serve as a starting point for beginning new positive habits or coping mechanisms to help start the journey to eradicate poor habits. Purpose-driven events which deliver experiential service work combined with inspirational, educational aspects of recovery and positive habit forming.
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Empower Employ – Lindsay Helm
Re-launched in 2021, Empower Employ solves the issues of connecting employers to the military community to focus on training prospective employers on not only how to hire veterans and Military Spouses, but on the value that the talent can bring to organizations, as well as how to transform organizational culture to include and support Military hires.
Inspired by the founder Lindsay's discriminatory experience years earlier, She realized that she could build the best technology in the world, but unless companies were willing to educate themselves on the Military community, the existing gap would remain. With this renewed focus, she officially relaunched Empower Employ in June 2021, during a pcs move cross-country from NY to Hawaii. Empower Empoy is 100% Female, Veteran, & Military Spouse owned. Without a single investor. They have generated 17 corporate partners and have placed 80+ Spouses and Veterans in roles this year.
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Saddleback Leather Co – Jason Scoggins
Saddleback Leather Co makes absurdly high quality leather bags. To put it simply, Saddleback's goal is this: To love people around the world by making excessively high quality leather designs. Being Veteran owned and offering their incredible 100 year warranty they're a great option to consider in the new year!
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GoWild. – Brad Luttrell
GoWild is a free social community helping outdoor enthusiasts improve their skills, discover gear & earn rewards. Everybody has been doing more and more camping and getting into nature of the last couple of years. When it's time to upgrade your equipment or plan your next trip, you might as well do it with the support of a community that gets it. Even better if you get to support a veteran-owned company at the same time.
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Work Culture Consultant – Brittinay Lenhart
After serving eight years in the air force and managing projects and teams for the military, DOD/NASA contracting, and fortune 500 company to the private sector, she decided to bring her services to the public. Brittinay's mission is to improve the work culture and Toxic Workplace concerns at all levels of a company so that a company can thrive emotionally and thusly, financially. Bringing her military background, she can help companies take an educated approach to hiring and maintaining veteran employees.
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Kristen Burke
Kristin Burke is a US army Veteran and transition coach. Her transition wasn't easy, and she had to learn how to navigate civilian life without a guide. Kristen is on a mission to #change22. This means she has taken to bring down the statistic that we are losing an average of 22 veterans daily. That is roughly one veteran every 65 minutes. She is working to help veterans create a life worth living and will never leave a fallen comrade.
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MacSon Protection Services – Bruce McElhaney
MacSon Protection Services LLC is a Texas corporation that offers a customizable portfolio of private security services. MacSon is Licensed by the Texas Department of Public Safety (B24067201) and is fully insured. They are Veteran owned and operated with over 18 years of military background, 27 years of Law Enforcement service, and over 30 years of private security experience. They believe in and live by the principles of integrity, honesty, and respect in our personal lives and business operations.
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Lonestar Landscape DFW – Kevin Marshall
Lonestar Landscape is a veteran-owned landscaping and outdoor living company in Fort Worth, serving residential and commercial clients throughout Dallas-Fort Worth and surrounding areas. Their management team of seasoned professionals are dedicated to their core values and offer expertise in water management, native Texas horticulture, and solid business practices.
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Vets2Industry – Brian Arrington
Brian Arrington started Vets2Industry to provide a free resource library for the military community – active, guard, reserve, veteran, military-spouse, dependent children, Blue-Star & Gold-Star Families, and caregivers – so they know which organizations provide free services and benefits through the 501c3 nonprofit organization. V2I also serves to break the circle of ignorance by listing companies that have opportunities for veterans, those that have specific military hiring programs, those that are on the 100 Military Friendly companies list, and those that selflessly provide Fortune 500 mentors for a year to transitioning service members through their partnership with American Corporate Partners. The goal is to educate all 220,000 to 240,000 transitioning service members each year and their dependents on free resources to ease their transition and life needs and, more importantly, provide hope.
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O'conner Woodworking – Jeffery O'Connor
Owned by Jeff O'Connor, a retired U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Master Chief and a former Chicago Law Enforcement Officer.
Jeff has been woodworking for 25 years, and in 2019 he was accepted into the Purple Heart Project. The PHP is a hand-tool woodworking course for Combat Wounded Veterans taught by world-renowned woodworker Rob Cosman. This course changed his life forever and inspired him to launch O'Connor Woodworking!
He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his artisan wife, Kim, and creates custom woodworking pieces for clients worldwide.
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Boots 2 Books – Peter Cline
Boots to Books is a 501c3 nonprofit network of students, veterans, and professionals across multiple industries committed to helping veterans through every facet of their education and employment, always for free.
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VetJourney – Mark Delaney
A classic idea "born-in-a-garage" story, Vet Journey started with two neighbors, beer-in-hand, looking for a better way for veterans to transition into the civilian sector using advanced data analytics and an intuitive user experience. Since that moment, Vet Journey has grown through trial-and-error and phenomenal feedback from veterans.
Today, they help active-duty service members across the globe build their next career using our cutting-edge platform. They offer a personalized experience complete with a curated collection of resources from the world's largest single veterans transition resource library. Their culminating goal is to equip service members for their next big transition, whether that is in academia, as an entrepreneur, or beginning their role in the private sector.
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Conclusion There are a lot of things we will all need to purchase throughout the year and many service providers we will need to hire. We might as well give back to those who have served us and buy from veteran-owned businesses. Speaking of, while planning out all your priorities for the new year, make sure you enjoy a hot cup of Aerial Resupply Coffee from our friend Michael Klemmer who worked so diligently to help us put this article together!
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Canadore lifter named top male performer
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Published on: April 11, 2019 | Last Updated: April 11, 2019 6:27 PM EDT
Canadore Panther weightlifters with their team pennant from the Ontario Weightlifting Association's 12th annual Scholastic Challenge. Supplied Photo
Rodrigo Tupinamba of Canadore College was named the overall top male performer at the Ontario Weightlifting Association's 12th annual Scholastic Challenge hosted at Canadore College.
Organized by Canadore's strength and sport conditioning program, 59 male and female athletes from 17 schools competed for weight class medals, best lifter awards and team pennants.
The first session of lifting was for females in the divisions from 55 up to and including 64 kilos. The gold medal winners in each of the categories were Whisper Gillespie of Canadore College at 55 kilos, Burgandy Thiessen of Laurentian University at 59 and Naomie Lusigan of ESSC Pembroke at 64 kilos.
Males in the weight categories from 55 kilos up to and including 89 kilos, took part in the second session. The various winners were Griffin Lamarche from Chippewa Secondary School in the 55 kilo and under class, Lee Jessen of the University of Toronto at 67 kilos, Joel Asselin of Collège Boréal at 73 kilos, Xavier Lusigan of ESSC Pembroke at 81 kilos and Austin Dauost-Woodrow of the Laurentian Voyageurs in the 89-kilo class.
The biggest division of the day was the female 71-kilo group — this category alone was featured in the third session of the event.
Emily Chute of Fanshawe College was the gold medalist. Chute made best lifts of 68 kilos in the snatch and 85 kilos in the clean and jerk for a total of 153 kilos.
At the end of the contest Chute was awarded the best female lifter trophy according to the Sinclair (kilos bodyweight to kilos lifted) formula.
Males in the 96 to +109 categories took to the platform in the fourth session. Tupinamba took the 96-kilo title by doing personal bests, including 125 kilos in the snatch and 151 kilos in the clean and jerk for a 276 kilo total.
Meanwhile, the 102-kilo gold was won by David Staniszewski of the Canadore Panthers with a 220-kilo total. The gold in the 109-kilo category went to Nathan McArdle of Canadore College, and the +109 winner was Thomas Fast of West Ferris Secondary School.
The last session featured females in the, 76- and 87-kilo categories. At 76 kilos, Madison Finney of Canadore College won the gold with lifts of 47 kilos in the snatch and 60 kilos in the clean and jerk. In the 87-kilos class, Alexandria Wallace of Ottawa University was the top performer.
Wallace, a North Bay native, broke all her personal records with 58 kilos in the snatch and 68 in the clean and jerk for a total of 126 kilos. Wallace managed to edge out silver medalist Emily Rygus of Niagara College. Rygus made 55 and 69 for a 124 kilo total.
The top novice female was 71-kilo silver medal winner Laura Wells, of St. Lawrence College. The male novice trophy was won by Canadore College's Neil Vandeloo. Vandeloo was the silver medalist in the 102-kilo division.
The 2019 College/University team pennant, based on the points of the top three scoring males and females on each squad, was presented to the host Canadore Panthers. The Nipissing University Lakers were second. The top high school team was Chippewa Secondary School.
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Picked up from where I left off yesterday, basically. Was tired though, because of that "when in Rome", or in this case Podunk, think last night.
Wonder if I'll ever be in the mood to finish a Julia or Michele in one go again! Time on this 2nd part 31:39.
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Tabata HIIT (10/20×20=10min) Do each move 4x before moving on.
2. (15-14-13-12) DL plank hop squat jump sandbag – the handles are really too long for me with DLs but thought I'd give it a try.
2. Chest press leg drop 20s. Here's a place I wouldn't want to go any heavier! On bench w/ full range of "down motion", 4 sets of 12 was challenging.
Plank Bear crawl donkey kicks, alt My right knee is more sore than I'd thought! It hurt to support my body weight with one leg in a bear crawl so I had to change to plank. Guess I'm going to have to rest it up a bit.


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Days of Our Lives Review: Another Day, Another Kidnapping
Jack Ori at September 21, 2019 9:00 am .
Jennifer was kidnapped by a jilted date.
This is the second time Jennifer dumped someone she barely knew to reconcile with an ex, only to get violently attacked by her former date.
Back in 2014, Liam held Jennifer and Nicole hostage at the Horton Cabin after she broke things off to reconcile with Daniel. And on Days of Our Lives during the week of 9-16-19, another broken-hearted doctor held her hostage to stop her from reconciling with Jack.
It's annoying when Days of Our Lives repeats the same stories over and over, especially when they don't change many of the details.
Liam was the hospital pharmaceutical rep, who went nuts when Jennifer dumped him for Daniel. Henry Shah is a doctor who went nuts because Jennifer dumped him for Jack.
In both cases, the character was exceedingly minor and mainly interacted with Jennifer before suddenly snapping and stalking her.
Liam was a true stalker, even breaking into her house to steal a nightgown, while Henry is just a random dude. But still.
It's distracting to think about how Jennifer's been through this before, especially because JJ was involved in both storylines yet didn't as much as comment that Henry was just like Liam.
To be clear, this story isn't all bad. It's just semi-redundant.
I enjoyed Jennifer getting one hand free all on her own and doing her best to get herself out of trouble.
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This is a refreshing change from the usual damsel-in-distress story, where the woman is helpless to do anything at all except pray her man comes to save her.
It fits Jennifer's character better, too. She became a fan favorite because she was smart and spunky and I'm glad she hasn't lost that spark all these years later!
And we had some relevant flashbacks from years ago, too. The Jack/Jennifer flashbacks not only helped build Jennifer's determination to get herself back to safety but also helped newer viewers understand what made this couple so special in the first place.
Related: Days of Our Lives Classic Couple Spotlight: Jack and Jennifer
More of this, please! If Days of Our Lives is going to use flashbacks at all, it needs to use clips from the far distant past that enhance current story.
Most of the time we instead get flashbacks of something that happened less than 24 hours ago--sometimes even from earlier in the same episode--which does nothing but waste time.
Also, this story gave Jack and JJ the opportunity to team up!
JJ went from wanting nothing to do with Jack no matter what to being his right-hand man without explanation. That's a shame, because Casey Moss would rock JJ's emotional transformation if the writers had given him a story instead of having JJ do a random 180.
However, the week of 9-16-19 gave JJ a ton more screen time than he's got in a long time, and that's always a good thing.
Plus, this particular storyline seemed more like what JJ was cheated out of when his father "died". Had there been no supposedly dead Jack and no rift because of Jack's amnesia, JJ would have had lots of adventures like this with his father by now.
Jack: What the hell did you do to Jennifer?
Rolf: I didn't hurt her! Why would I? I wouldn't bite the hand that feeds me.
JJ: Especially with your appetite.
Permalink: Especially with your appetite.
JJ is equal parts passion and sarcasm, and both got to shine in his scenes with Jack -- and with Rolf.
Hopefully Rolf will have a greater purpose than comic relief.
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His argument with Kayla seemed pointless since she ranted about not wanting to help him...and then did.
But in any case, JJ's irritation with Rolf is fun. He is quick-witted and his delivery is always perfectly timed.
Kayla was the one to tell JJ about Henry's instability, and that was as it should be.
Kayla has always been a supportive figure to JJ, and these two don't share nearly enough scenes together.
The newly-created flashback of Henry losing his temper when Kayla wouldn't kick Rolf out of the lab for him was well done.
However, Henry's behavior should have set off several red flags for Kayla. She had to call security to escort him off the hospital premises -- did it not occur to her that he might go after Jennifer?
Of course, Kayla has had a lot on her mind with Kate and Julie both being in critical condition.
She definitely should have noticed that Kate's breathing tube had been compromised after Vivian tried to crush it. (And there should have been a guard on Kate's door, too, but hospital security in Salem is sub-par at best.)
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Nevertheless, the hospital drama over both Kate and Julie's conditions has been poignant.
Julie's impatience with being in the hospital and her sense that she was attending her own funeral were as realistic as they were heartbreaking. The only part of that story I could have done without was Gabi deciding to attack Julie again.
Julie and Gabi rile each other up too much, and since Julie's heart is in bad condition, she doesn't need to get agitated to the point that she's yelling about finding Nick in the afterlife to haunt Gabi.
But Julie's scenes with Doug, where he tried his best to put aside his pain to encourage her, more than made up for that nonsense.
Lucas' scenes at Kate's bedside were among the best of the week of 9-16-19, and not just because Lucas is a sorely missed character!
Lucas is the only of Kate's kids to have come back to Salem for her health crisis thus far, and it seems he may need to make some difficult decisions.
With Kayla saying that it's up to him whether or not to keep Kate on life support, we may be in for another story like when Marlena's living will stipulated that she not be kept on such machines.
Hopefully, this time Days of Our Lives does it right instead of descending into campy silliness involving doppelgangers!
Ideally, all of Kate's children would come to Salem before Lucas made any such decision. The half-sibling dynamics could add a ton of soapy drama to this already sad situation.
Philip, for example, might wonder why Lucas gets to make this decision instead of him, while Rex would likely be distracted by the fact that his ex-wife is one of the doctors on Kate's case.
Besides, it's not realistic that the rest of Kate's children would stay away while Kate may be dying.
Kate's family wanting answers about who shot her is realistic, but Days of Our Lives will have to be careful not to focus too much attention on that. The drama of Kate's condition shouldn't take a back seat while everyone tries to prove Vivian was the one who hurt her, and this could easily descend into that.
Stefan seems to have reached the end of his rope with Vivian, though. Even though he was ready to shoot Kate himself, he now wants to get revenge on her only in the business world.
His moral outrage is misplaced, considering that Gabi talked him out of killing Kate himself and he had less of a problem with covering for Vivian before he learned she dressed up as a doctor to try to finish the deed.
Stefan: Let's hope that Kate doesn't wake up from her coma.
Vivian: What if she does?
Stefan: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Vivian: My life is on the brink and that's your answer? You're from the generation that doesn't ever take initiative. We have to take care of our little problem.
Permalink: My life is on the brink and that's your answer? You're from the generation that doesn't ever...
It was only a matter of time before someone overheard him and Vivian arguing about this. Half of Salem is related to Kate and suspicious of Vivian, and the cops only believe her alibi because it hasn't been proven false yet.
Props for discussing it at home instead of in the park, though. At least they had some sense.
Will eavesdropped anyway, and the question is how much he overheard -- and what he's going to do with this information.
Meanwhile, Kristen grated on my last nerve with her insistence that Brady loves her and just needs to be pushed to be with her.
Everyone who called her selfish was right. Kristen is incapable of thinking from any perspective other than how everything and anything benefits her.
She helped get Tony out of jail to convince Brady she's now a good person, then after that ploy failed went to the Kiriakis mansion and start plotting to steal Sarah's unborn baby.
First of all, Kristen tried this nonsense already with Theresa.
She managed to get baby Tate implanted in her own uterus and took care of him for a short time until Theresa and Brady found out about it. Apparently her fall out the window during the battle to get the baby back didn't make an impression on her.
The scheme made Brady hate her even more, and it was too over-the-top for many viewers' liking. So can we not do it again, please?
Kristen thinks this time she'll get away with it because Sarah is planning on terminating her pregnancy anyway. But what if Sarah changes her mind, as have most of the other women in Salem who have dealt with unplanned pregnancies?
And even if she doesn't, doesn't Kristen think Brady will ask for a paternity test? Of course, Kristen could imitate half of Salem and have the test results changed, but still. There are a lot of problems with this ridiculous plan that she isn't seeing.
As for Sarah, this dilemma is not compelling.
She has the right to terminate her pregnancy regardless of what Eric thinks, but her reasons for not telling him are nonsensical.
She doesn't want to interfere with his happiness with Nicole, but having a child together and being a couple are two separate things.
Nicole was a part-time stepmother to Parker when she was with Daniel, who shared custody of Parker with Chloe. So surely she and Eric could be part-time parents to Sarah's baby while Sarah raised the child the rest of the time.
In any case, the best thing that could come out of this storyline would be if Xander stepped up and pretended to be the baby's father so that he could keep Eric at bay and get close to Sarah.
THAT would be worth watching! Too bad Days of Our Lives went in this silly baby switcheroo direction instead.
Brady realizes that his attraction to Kristen is an addiction, but the rule of three says that next time he sees her he's going to give in, since he resisted her twice already.
He was joking when he said that he wished there was a Kristen Anonymous group to go to. But he COULD go to a 12-step group for sex addicts or relationship addicts. Or he could go to AA just to get the fellowship and the program talk in him that he needs to defeat Kristen.
In any case, he needs to develop the ability to walk away. No matter how much Kristen insists she wants his attention, he doesn't need to stand there helpless until Abe shows up.
Just as he can't take that first sip of alcohol, he can't exchange that first word with Kristen or he's going to get himself into trouble.
Brady's scenes with John and Abe were all sorts of awesome, though. It's good to see Brady FINALLY developing some self-awareness rather than just jumping into bed with Kristen. And the genuine relationships with these soap vets are well worth watching.
Abe needs a real story, though. He was wandering around town giving everyone advice, and while his advice was good it seemed like his character could be used better.
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I liked his advice to Eve, though, not that she's likely to listen.
Eve and Kristen seem to have become the same person, both delusional with rage and loneliness.
Eve should have known better than to ask Abe to be her new partner in crime! Abe being Abe, he wasted his breath on trying to get Eve to turn in a new direction... or will his words impact her later?
Eve: Come on Abe. Together we could rule this town.
Abe: I don't want to rule anything. I want to serve.
Eve: And nobody does it better than you.
Abe: Really? Then why did you fight so hard for Jack to replace me as mayor?
Eve: That was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I regret it.
Abe: I don't think so. I think you knew exactly what you were doing. You wanted fame, money, power. All the things that are the opposite of why you should get into politics.
Permalink: I don't think so. I think you knew exactly what you were doing. You wanted fame, money,...
Eve was upset that Jack thought she kidnapped Jennifer. But while that's not Eve's MO, her hatred for Jennifer knows no bounds. She should be asking herself why people think she's guilty of terrible, violent crimes, but she won't.
Jordan came back to Salem and reclaimed baby David just in time to break Ben's heart.
It makes no sense that a judge would issue an order that Jordan be released to Rafe's custody so she doesn't harm herself AND that she get legal custody of an infant!
In addition, Jordan is demanding everyone believe she's changed and forgive her for attempting to murder Ciara... at the same time as she insists that Ben has not changed and should not be forgiven for similar crimes.
Ugh. Ben is constantly dealing with someone who thinks anything goes in the name of protecting Ciara from him. Enough already.
And for the love of all that is holy, please don't let Rafe and Hope get back together. It looked like it was going that way, and after two or three torturous attempts at a relationship for these two, it's time for the writers to move on.
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Your turn, Days of Our Lives fanatics!
What do you think of Jennifer's kidnapping, Kristen's latest plan, and everything else that happened during the week of 9-16-19?
Weigh in below, and don't forget to check back on Sunday for our Days of Our Lives Round Table discussion
Days of Our Lives airs on NBC on weekday afternoons. Check your local listings for airtimes!
Jack Ori is a senior staff writer for TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter.
Tags: Days of Our Lives, Reviews
Jack: All right, your mother has been released just like you wanted. Now where's Haley?
JJ: I'm not telling you.
Jack: We had a deal.
JJ: I lied.
Jack: You lied to me?
JJ: I will never give up Haley!
Permalink: I will never give up Haley!
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Deimos: Sometimes in life all the pieces come together exactly at the same time.
Victor: Yes, well the love of a good woman will do that for you.
Permalink: Yes, well the love of a good woman will do that for you.
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Armidale nurses and midwives rally for ratios
NSWNMA members at Armidale Hospital and nearby community health services will rally today, 14 May, in support of guaranteed minimum staffing ratios, which provide better and safer patient care.
At the lunchtime rally they will call for the same guaranteed minimum nursing hours, in general wards, as the big Sydney hospitals such as Liverpool and Westmead – that is, a minimum of six hours per patient per day or a minimum of one nurse for every four patients.
They will also be calling for the extension of guaranteed minimum nursing and midwifery levels to hospital emergency departments, high dependency units, such as intensive care and the neo-natal intensive care units, and community health services.
For emergency departments like Armidale's the NSWNMA wants a guaranteed minimum of one nurse per three patient treatment spaces/beds, plus an in-charge nurse and a triage nurse on each shift.
For intensive care units, including neo-natal intensive care units, there should be one nurse/midwife per patient plus an in-charge nurse/midwife on each shift. In high dependency units there should be a minimum of one nurse for every two patients, plus an in-charge nurse, and in critical care units there should be a minimum of one nurse for every three patients, plus an in-charge nurse.
Community health nurses and midwives should have a maximum of four hours per shift contact time with patients, leaving four hours to attend to associated duties.
Today's Armidale ratios rally details (Armidale Hospital and Armidale Community Health Services branches)
Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Venue: Armidale Hospital, Rusden St. – dining room
Two Armidale NSWNMA branch officials
Lisa Kremmer, NSWNMA Ratios Campaign Director
Jim Maher, Mayor, Armidale Dumaresq Council (TBC)
NSWNMA general secretary, Brett Holmes, said people living in regional cities like Armidale are entitled to the same nurse and midwifery staffing levels in their hospital wards as the people of Sydney and Newcastle.
"It is also no longer acceptable to leave the staffing of emergency departments, high dependency units and community health centres to chance.
"There is no doubt mandated minimum staffing arrangements protect safe staffing levels. Staffing levels can be assessed against a mandated minimum requirement, which means we can act decisively when governments and hospital managers try to undermine safe staffing just to save a bit of money.
"Nurses and midwives at many of the larger Sydney hospitals and at John Hunter Hospital in the Hunter New England Local Health District have already had experience working under the first round of compulsory, minimum staffing ratios and they are clear that the ratios have provided a safer clinical and less stressed working environment.
"In the second stage of implementing this important staffing reform, we must ensure that patients at hospitals like Armidale have the same guaranteed minimum nursing levels in the general wards as the big Sydney hospitals and that Armidale's emergency department, high dependency units and community health services also have guaranteed safer nursing levels.
"That is the challenge for the O'Farrell Government – to build on this first round of staffing reform and ensure every public patient in NSW, including those at Armidale, has access to the same level of safer care.
"O'Farrell Government ministers and MPs are very willing to take credit every time a new batch of nurses or midwives is employed to fill the new positions created by this first round of ratios, which were actually agreed between the NSWNMA and previous Labor government.
"Many, including Mr O'Farrell himself, were recently out boasting about employing 4000 extra nurses and midwives since the current government came to office. The fact is that is a simple head count and includes part-timers and casuals. The reality in terms of full-time-equivalents is closer to 2000, with about 1700 FTEs being the nurses and midwives required to meet the first round of safer staffing ratios.
"While welcoming the State Government's compliance with those ratio requirements, it will be interesting to see how it reacts now that it has a chance to act in its own right and extend this reform into other important areas such as emergency departments, high dependency units, children's hospitals, rural facilities and community health services. If it does not heed the strong message being sent by the state's nurses and midwives and do the right thing, then this Ratios put patient safety first campaign will escalate," Mr Holmes said.
The statewide Ratios put patient safety first campaign was launched in Sydney on Tuesday, 19 March.
A record 214 NSWNMA branches, representing more than 30,000 public-sector nurses and midwives throughout NSW, have endorsed the NSWNMA's ratios and wages claim, which was then formally presented to the State Government, through the Health Ministry, on March 11.
The current Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award expires on June 30 this year.
A key feature of the 2013 claim is guaranteed, safer nursing and midwifery levels for seriously ill children, emergency departments, high dependency units and rural hospitals and multipurpose services, and safer nursing and midwifery staffing arrangements in community health services.
The claim also includes two 2.5 percent per year payrises, which will provide the majority of experienced, full-time nurses and midwives with a payrise of more than $70.00 per week, or more than $3800.00 per year, by July 2014.
Lisa Kremmer


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A night of surreal sights and sounds
31 March 2003 31 March 2003 / Austin, movies, music / 2 Comments
The Alamo Drafthouse was having a "stag night" downtown. Gwen and I thought this sounded like fun, so we hied ourselves on down. There were a couple layers of difference between what I was expecting and what we saw. I was expecting, you know, stag movies. Grainy black-and-white porno shorts where the guy's eyes had black bars across them. In fact, what they had planned to show was a more conventional porno movie, Fantasex Island (not even in the IMDB, but hey, look, it is in the Adult Film Database, mysteriously listing Holly Near in the credits!).
Well, it turns out that, according to the jackbooted thugs at the TABC, establishments that serve alcohol cannot show porno. So the people putting on the stag show edited it down to the non-pornographic parts–about five minutes (which, frankly, was enough)–and ran that.
For the main feature, they showed something much stranger: Sinful Dwarf, AKA "The Abducted Bride." This was an English-language Danish horror movie, where a depraved dwarf and his hideous, washed-up showbiz mother lure young women into their attic, get them hooked on heroin, and use them as sex slaves for hire. Part of the schtick was that the sound was turned off, and a crew of four (?) live performers in the room took over all the voices, sound effects, and music. As near as I could tell, they stuck pretty closely to the original dialog, adding in a few of their own zingers along the way.
[Later] It turns out that none of the people in this movie have a Bacon number higher than 4. Amazing.
So, okay, that was weird. Watching it, we wondered two things: 1. What ever made anyone think that the movie had any artistic or commercial merit? and 2. How in the hell did somebody in Austin ever find this stinker and decide it would be fit to show in public?
After that was done, we then headed over to the Ritz for a night of ukulele music. The opening act was Sonic Uke (a great name that unfortunately appears to have been taken already). The three members all work at Cafe Mundi, so they were more or less familiar to me. The guy singing was doing a Bill-Murray-Lounge-Singer routine, and the chick had on a bizarre wig (as did Carl, on the uke). Most of their material was pretty weird, but not unpleasant–they do have musical talent, and they weren't going out of their way to conceal it.
They were followed by Shorty Long, which always puts on a good show. The Ritz was filling up at this point, and not a lot of people really seemed to be into them, for some reason.
The third act was probably what most people came for: Petty Booka. A couple of Japanese chicks who cover a wide range of pop and country numbers in their quasi-Hawaiian style (along with some original numbers). I'd heard their stuff before, and appreciated it for the novelty value (which is high), but seeing them live, I realized that they really had serious musical talent, singing in harmony that reminded me a little of David Seville and a lot of a 60s girl-group like the Ronettes. I expected to see just the two of them–in fact they were backed up by a standup bass, guitar, and a very young-looking but talented Mexican guy on a slide reverb guitar. They covered everyone from the Ramones to Patsy Cline. Great show.
There was a fourth act on the bill, the Meat Purveyors, but I've heard them and it was already pretty late, so we left.
Jennifer Government
29 March 2003 29 March 2003 / books
Just finished reading Jennifer Government by Max Barry, a blackly satirical story that answers the musical question "what would happen if Ayn Rand had her way?" The book has inspired an online game and is evidently being adapted to the screen.
It would actually make a good comic book, and I don't mean that in a negative way. It's a fast read, and suggests visuals that would be a lot of fun.
The story is fun but improbable, the characters are a bit sketchy, the plot moves quickly. Joe Bob says "check it out."
CSS rant
28 March 2003 28 March 2003 / net stuff / 4 Comments
CSS is great, but it's too hard. When even the guy who wrote the books on CSS admits that it has "made the veins in my forehead throb", you know there's a problem.
All the stuff I've done on the web for the past year or so has been in CSS, and I've been gradually re-working older stuff to bring it into the new millennium. So I've drunk the kool-aid.
One thing that would make it at least a little easier would be a hierarchy to stylesheet documents. I'm not talking about the cascade effect (which is really neat). I'm talking about a way to organize a single stylesheet document.
As it is, there's no enforced, preferred, suggested, inherent, or obvious way to structure a CSS document. You've just got "selector soup." This makes a complicated stylesheet hard to read and hard to write. CSS offers contextual selectors, which would be an obvious candidate for hierarchical organization. Rather than having
div#main {margin:2px;}
div#main h2 {color:red;}
div#main h3 {color:blue;}
It would seem eminently sensible to have
div#main {margin:2px;} [
h2 {color:red;}
h3 {color:blue;}
or something like that.
With a structure like this, it would be possible to distill an HTML document down to its tags, and generate a structured list of selectors, to create a stylesheet skeleton.
The other bear, for me, is the layout of major page elements. The whole box model is pretty powerful, but it is unintuitive and there are some things it just can't do. Imagine a page laid out like this:
header:left header:right
main content navbar
footer:left footer:right
Near as I can tell, this is almost impossible using straight CSS. It might be possible if the header and footer areas are fixed height, probably meaning they contain mostly graphics. It would probably require a lot of extraneous DIV tags. DIV tags are fine up to a point, but nesting a bunch of DIV tags just to get a page to lay out correctly goes against the spirit of structured HTML. Might as well use a table-hack layout after all.
It seems like something that was cooked up to be elegant on a theoretical level without much regard for the kinds of layouts people might actually want to achieve. The layout of this page was achieved through some code that I consider inelegant and brittle.
Enchanted rock
28 March 2003 28 March 2003 / personal
Finally posted some pictures I shot on the trip Gwen and I took to Enchanted Rock on Sunday (login "adamguest", password "adamguest").
27 March 2003 27 March 2003 / Austin / 3 Comments
Had lunch with Gwen at Saltillo Plaza, the train station to nowhere on East 5th St. The place is going crazy with wisteria.
Backstabtastic
27 March 2003 27 March 2003 / current events
Halliburton got the contract for the initial rebuilding of Iraq. The Daily Show gives this the coverage (real video or quicktime) it deserves.
Imagine my surprise.
Microsoft's slogan
27 March 2003 27 March 2003 / tidbit
Heard on NPR: "Your potential inspires us to create the software to help you reach it." Or something like that. Microsoft's bloatware philosophy applies to advertising, too.
25 March 2003 25 March 2003 / current events / 3 Comments
The B-52s have been banned from MTV Europe. Now that's just silly.
Cough, ahem
25 March 2003 25 March 2003 / tidbit / 1 Comment
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr is a local law firm with a name that sounds like a guy clearing his throat.
The bidding to rebuild Iraq has already begun
This New York Times article suggests that Gulf War II isn't about oil as an end–it's just a means to an end: to enrich American construction firms like, oh, Halliburton (Dick Cheney's employer (note that I intentionally left out the word "former")).
Let's see if I've got this straight. We (for the purposes of this entry, "we" means "they") declare war on a country and bomb it back to the Stone Age. In a vast ($25 bn+) humanitarian undertaking, we rebuild the country, using Iraq's oil money to pay for it. Sort of a roundabout way to transfer Iraqi wealth to corporate America.
Iraq has the world's second-largest proven oil reserves. I can imagine a scenario where the USA keeps the forthcoming client regime on a short leash, forcing it to keep oil prices low. That will depress oil prices throughout the world (Good for SUV drivers!), and keep Iraq in debt to the USA (or more accurately, corporate American interests) indefinitely, since it won't be able to pay down its boggling debt quickly.
It would have been nice if we could have just concentrated on rebuilding (or building) Afghanistan instead, but they don't have the oil reserves
I sure am glad the bidding process has received all the public scrutiny it deserves.
CNN refuses to answer cluephone
Kevin Sites, a CNN reporter, has been maintaining a blog from the field in Iraq. On orders from CNN management, he has put it on hold.
Lost in La Mancha
24 March 2003 24 March 2003 / movies / 4 Comments
Saw Lost in La Mancha on Friday. This is a documentary of the doomed effort to produce Terry Gilliam's magnum opus, the story of Don Quixote. Gilliam had been working on the idea since 1991, and only managed to start filming in 2001. The undertaking was terribly precarious even before it began, and as soon as it did begin, almost everything that could go wrong did, from big things to little. Floods, fighter jets, illness, and recalcitrant horses.
The documentary made the point that Gilliam himself was somewhat like Don Quixote on a gallant but unrealistic quest, and indeed, there was an amazingly tidy parallelism between the story and the story-in-the-story. But something at the very end of the movie made me think that Don Quixote is the wrong fictional archetype to describe Gilliam. Ahab is more like it.
France fest
Not sure how I got on this mailing list, but I just received a notice of an upcoming event at Escapist Bookstore called (in an unfortunate apparent confusion of Spanish and French) "Viva la France." From the message:
Womens of Masse Production bring you Viva la France!, a party honoring French culture in particular and American diversity in general. With food, drink, live music by Dakota Smith, and readings of French literature by local notables. Thumb your nez at wine-dumping, the breaking of windows of French-owned businesses (in Austin, Chez Nous was a recent victim), and other anti-Frenchist stupidity, and celebrate open-mindedness and the human spirit.
This Friday: March 2, 6–10 pm
Escapist Bookstore
2209 South 1st St., #D
$3 donation suggested, no one turned away for lack of $
Call 912-1777 or visit www.escapistbookstore.com for more info
In related news, I had lunch at the Fredericksburg Brewery yesterday, where the "French" in "French fries" had been blacked out on the menus.
Texas Travesty
24 March 2003 24 March 2003 / Austin
Texas Travesty is a student humor publication very much in the same vein as The Onion. Pretty well done. I got a laugh out of it. Discovered it in print, not on the web, at Vulcan Video on 29th St.
Where is Raed
Where is Raed? appears to be a genuine blog by an Iraqi citizen living in Baghdad.
Updated RSS feed
20 March 2003 22 January 2009 / meta-blogging / 6 Comments
For those who are interested, I've updated my full-text RSS 2.0 feed to include comments. To use this in Movable Type, open your template-editing screen. Click on "RSS 0.91 index". Rename that to "RSS 2.0 index". Replace the contents with this file. The output filename should still be "index.xml" unless you have a good reason to change it to something else. You may want to change lastn="10" to some other number–this shows the last 10 posts. The comments section is set off by blank lines, and can be tweaked.
This is based on the template provided by Mark Pilgrim at feeds.archive.org, but removes your e-mail address (which spambots might find) and adds the comments. It still validates.
[Later] Made a slight change to make the RSS feed friendly to foreign scripts: my template now uses the tag, which I believe is new to MT 2.6. For this to make a difference, you need to be using MT 2.6, and edit your mt.cfg file: de-comment the line containing PublishCharset and
set the appropriate charset (I've set mine to "utf-8"–unicode); also I think you need to de-comment the line NoHTMLEntities 1. This only matters if you use non-Roman script (Japanese, Cyrillic, etc).
[Later still] Fixed a few more minor things, including a link to extended entries (tip o' the cap to David Nunez).
Wired at 10
I picked up the tenth anniversary issue of Wired yesterday.
I remember when Wired came out (and still have a copy of issue 1.01 lying around somewhere). It was very exciting at the time. On a trip to San Francisco around then, I went to a party for Wired (which was headquartered in the same building as a friend of a friend). That was pretty cool. I subscribed. I enjoyed it, as did many people–I knew one couple that lived together but had two subscriptions so they wouldn't fight over who got to read it first.
As the dot-com bubble expanded, Wired changed from a fairly experimental, counter-cultural, brash magazine to a neo-establishment, business-oriented, smug one. It was as if the vertiginous success of the way-new economy had validated all its earlier futurism, and so it redefined itself as the establishment. The graphic design became a lot calmer (probably for the best, on balance). With a few brilliant exceptions, the stories it ran interested me less and less. I stopped reading it.
I haven't looked at it much since the dot-bomb, but decided to pick up this issue for old-time's sake. Perhaps only for this issue, they're back to the wild graphic design.
Wired seems as if it should be the first in line to be superceded by Net-based media. It speaks to, well, the wired population that can get all its news online. And after all, sites like Gizmodo do a better job of reporting gadget news than Wired ever could, personal blogs often have insightful and informed commentary on the world at large, and the Web offers more fertile ground for visual experimentation than print, right?
Well, yes and no. The fact remains that online journalism still isn't really a going concern. A print magazine can still send reporters on assignments that bloggers would not be able to cover. And although there are some websites that are amazing design experiments, the fact is, most of the ones I peruse (to the extent I bother to leave my RSS reader) are using plain, quick-loading designs. Print still looks a hell of a lot better. And is much more portable.
Celis is back
At Central Markup yesterday, I noticed a familiar label out of the corner of my eye. I almost failed to give it a second thought, but realized "Hey, that's Celis beer!" I asked the beer-and-wine guy about it. Turns out the Michigan Brewing Company has bought Pierre Celis' copper kettles and recipes, and is running his exact formulas (apparently a condition of the sale). For the time being they're just making White and Pale Bock; I'm awaiting the return of Grand Cru.
Just in time for summer.
Also spotted at the store: complete turduckens for $80. Quite a sight.
Democracy and war
I ran across this chilling quotation yesterday:
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
— Hermann Goering, April 18, 1946
This is exactly what is happening in this country.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Very enjoyable. Partly, to me, because of its involvement with the early days of comic books (I collected comics when I was younger), partly because it's just an engaging story. Michael Chabon seems to have done a prodigious amount of research to fill in the details of the story he's telling. I have no idea whether there was a Hofzinser Club for magicians in Prague, or what it was like, but Chabon's account of it has the ring of truth. His writing style occasionally treads a blurry line between inventive and precious, and sometimes comes close to annoying me, but is mostly straightforward. The story–of the brief golden age in the days before the war as the USA emerged from the depression, of the closing Holocaust in Europe, of creating a comic-book empire, and inevitably of men and women–makes for a good read. The themes–of tragedy, of opportunities foregone, of emergence, and so on–are common enough but not less worth reading because of it.


The author of a book on electroacoustic music analysis (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2003), Stéphane Roy holds both a doctorate degree in electroacoustic composition and a PhD in musicology from the Université de Montréal where he has taught electroacoustic techniques and auditory perception for a few years. Back to Canada after spending close to five years in St Louis (Missouri, USA), he has tought music analysis at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. Stéphane Roy's work has received awards from international competitions in Canada, the USA, and Europe. It has been released on a number of labels, including empreintes DIGITALes (Kaleidos, 1996; Migrations, 2003). Stéphane Roy has been invited to present his work in Europe and the Americas.


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Poland Prepares for a Run-Off Vote
By Hilary Heuler
Poland's first round of presidential elections on Sunday resulted in the center-right candidate Bronislaw Komorowski beating the far-right's Jaroslaw Kaczynski by a slim margin.
The results of Poland's presidential election Sunday put center-right candidate Bronislaw Komorowski in the lead, with around 41 percent of the vote. But the race was closer than most people had expected, with the far-right candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski pulling in nearly 37 percent of the vote.
Since neither candidate won 50 percent, Komorowski and Kaczynski will be going head-to-head in a run-off vote July 4th.
Poland's presidential elections were held early after a plane crash on April 10th, in which the country's president, Lech Kaczynski, was killed along with a number of other Polish dignitaries. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president, has taken his brother's place as candidate for the far-right Law and Justice party.
Kaczynski has enjoyed a surge of popular support in the months following the plane crash. But both Kaczynski and his brother have a history of turbulent relations with Germany and Russia, as well as with the European Union.
> Map Of Poland
Jacek Kucharczyk of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs says that a win for Kaczynski could affect Poland's relations with the rest of Europe. "Kaczynski is quite well known in the EU as a "eurosceptic", as his brother was, and his party is also outside of the mainstream of European political parties," he explained. "So I think that would be very much detrimental to Polish position in the EU. And this process of improving bilateral relations between Poland and Germany, and especially Poland and Russia, would be put in jeopardy by this victory."
Kucharczyk says that Komorowski, running for the center-right Civic Platform party, aims to tie the country more closely to the EU, as well as to push forward a number of business-friendly domestic reforms.
"Komorowski's aim is to consolidate Civic Platform's ability to implement its own modernization agenda. Komorowski's main idea is that his presence in the presidential palace will provide an umbrella for this reform program, which means both domestic reforms, but also to further Polish presence within the EU," Kucharczyk said. "The main foreign policy objective of this government is to put Poland very strongly in the heart of EU policies and increase Polish presence and influence on EU policy making."
In a speech last night, Kaczynski told supporters that they faced a choice between two visions of the country's future. Both candidates are expected to intensify their campaigns over the next two weeks.


Sometimes in law enforcement, you've got to dangle a little fish on a hook to catch a bigger fish. That's why undercover cops don't always stop a crime in progress if it can help them take down someone much higher up the food chain. However, things can sometimes get a little ethically blurry when they try to find the right spot to draw a line.
Well, there were some eggs broken all right. There are a lot of people who were apparently killed with those weapons, including an American border patrol agent, Brian Terry.
This is something that Congress should be investigating and if itturns out that, yes, people are dead because the ATF and DOJ allowed guns to be given to criminals, then at a minimum, the people responsible should be fired. We also need to know what Eric Holder knew and when he knew it. Although I doubt Barack Obama would be informed about this sort of thing, we do need to know if this went higher than Eric Holder.
I'm not proclaiming them guilty, but what I am saying is that this is a serious matter and it needs to be investigated by Congress. Hopefully, even Democrats would agree on that point.
Hat tip to Instapundit for the story.


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BC Curriculum
BCTF - 5 years ago
This website contains unit plans designed for tea…
This website contains unit plans designed for teachers, by teachers. The units explore the themes of global education across the grades and across the curriculum. The units contain all of the necessary handouts and materials to be easily utilized in the classroom setting and are consistent with the outcomes of the BC Curriculum. The creation of this site and the units were made possible through a joint CIDA and BCTF project.
Fine Arts/Visual Arts
http://www.bctf.ca/SocialJustice.aspx?id=6218
Labour History Project - one year ago
Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "The …
Lesson activities to accompany the vignette "The Professionals" from the acclaimed Knowledge Network series; Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia produced by Landrock Entertainment. A short profile on Ethel Johns, an important figure in the history of nursing in British Columbia. Lesson materials examine the changing role of women in the nursing workforce from 1900-1960 . An extension activity also examines the Nurses Strike of 1989. This is a unit created by the Labour History Project, a group of retired and current British Columbia teachers collaborating to develop a series of lesson plans, activities, and workshops focused on labour studies and labour history. See: http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/
Ethel Johns
BCNU
http://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/education/lesson-plans/
The materials address aspects of the key learning standards of the current social studies 10 curriculum. Critical thinking skills are applied throughout as well as research and writing skills as described in the "Social studies inquiry processes and skills". Aspects of historical significance, continuity and change, evidence and perspective are addressed in the materials as they examine the changing roles of women in British Columbian society as they work towards improving working conditions and recognition in the nursing profession.
Files: The Professionals
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the-professionals.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
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Eventos
 maio - O filme Ashani Sanket, do realizador indiano Satyajit Ray é distinguido com a Palma de Ouro do Festival de Cannes.

Principais filmes produzidos
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 A Doll's House, de Joseph Losey, com Jane Fonda, Trevor Howard e Delphine Seyrig
 Amarcord, de Federico Fellini
 American Graffiti, de George Lucas, com Richard Dreyfuss e Ron Howard
 Ana y los lobos, de Carlos Saura, com Geraldine Chaplin
 Ashani Sanket, de Satyajit Ray
 Badlands, de Terrence Malick, com Martin Sheen e Sissy Spacek
 Breezy, de Clint Eastwood, com William Holden e Kay Lenz
 Deux hommes dans la ville, de José Giovanni, com Jean Gabin e Alain Delon
 L'emmerdeur, de Edouard Molinaro, com Lino Ventura e Jacques Brel
 Enter the Dragon, de Robert Clouse, com Bruce Lee
 The Exorcist, de William Friedkin, com Jason Miller, Max Von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair e Lee J. Cobb
 Godspell, de David Greene, com Victor Garber, David Haskell
 High Plains Drifter, de Clint Eastwood, com Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom e Mariana Hill
 La grande bouffe, de Marco Ferreri, com Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret e Ugo Tognazzi
 Jesus Christ Superstar, de Norman Jewison, com Ted Neeley e Yvonne Elliman
 The Last Detail, de Hal Ashby, com Jack Nicholson
 Live and Let Die, de Guy Hamilton, com Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto e Jane Seymour
 Lucky Luciano, de Francesco Rosi, com Gian Maria Volonté
 La maman et la putain, de Jean Eustache, com Jean-Pierre Léaud
 La nuit américaine, de François Truffaut, com Jacqueline Bisset
 Magnum Force, de Ted Post, com Clint Eastwood e Hal Holbrook
 O Lucky Man!, de Lindsay Anderson, com Malcolm McDowell e Ralph Richardson
 Papillon, de Franklin J. Schaffner, com Steve McQueen e Dustin Hoffman
 Réjeanne Padovani, de Denys Arcand
 Scarecrow, de Jerry Schatzberg, com Gene Hackman e Al Pacino
 Scener ur ett äktenskap, de Ingmar Bergman, com Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson e Bibi Andersson
 Serpico, de Sidney Lumet, com Al Pacino
 Sleeper, de e com Woody Allen e com Diane Keaton
 The Mackintosh Man, de John Huston, com Paul Newman e Dominique Sanda
 The Sting, de George Roy Hill, com Paul Newman e Robert Redford
 Toda Nudez Será Castigada, de Arnaldo Jabor, com Paulo Porto e Paulo César Pereio
 The Way We Were, de Sydney Pollack, com Robert Redford e Barbra Streisand

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Q: Rest API Issue after Upgrading JDK and Spring Im having an api slowness issue after upgrading my application from Java 7 to Java 8 and SPring 3 to Spring 4
I was tasked to upgrade our application simple API that have JDK 7 and Spring 3 , to JDK 8 and Spring 4 , performance before was 300 ms and now its 1100 ms
I tried using Jmeter for testing and running it on local and remote machine its still the same result
Any suggestions how can I improve or determine the culprit of my issue?
New Performance with JDK8 and Spring 4

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Planters P3 Chipotle Peanuts, Original Beef Jerky and Sunflower Kernels - This portable protein tray packs a combination of three immensely delicious components. Succulent beef jerky, spicy chipotle peanuts and subtly seasoned sunflower kernels make for a combo to enjoy anywhere. - A Scrumptious Fusion of Protein, Flavors and Textures - Whether you are on a long trip, out in the wild seeking adventure or want a snack on hand on busy days, this proteinpack is a great choice and fits easily in a travel bag.
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Disbarred Lawyer Earns Second Chance at Law
David Edward Betts' fall from grace was dramatic. He was a partner at a respected Atlanta law firm, but in 1986, he stood before a Superior Court judge and pleaded guilty to forgery and theft. What followed, according to Betts, was a 14-year search for redemption, one that began with an appearance -- complete in prison garb -- before a UGA legal ethics class and ended two months ago in the Georgia Supreme Court.
By Trisha Renaud | April 28, 2000 at 12:00 AM
David Edward Betts' fall from grace was sudden and dramatic.


Calling out to all the Coniston lovers out there! We want your photos!
Simply share the photos that you take whilst enjoying your time at Coniston and you will be automatically entered into the hamper prize draw. Whether cycling, walking, eating or motor boating, we want to see and hear all about it!


So my front right bumper filler has now completely disintegrated. Do I get the Highway Stars flexible plastic or the Spool Fool fiberglass?
Champion Irons w/T&D roller rockers, TA-61 turbo, 206/206 flat tappet cam, 57 lb/hr Siemens Injectors, 3000 stall PTC, PTE Plenum w/RJC Power Plate, 70 mm PTE Throttle Body, RJC 325 Megacooler, TurboTweak chip, Alky Control w/M1 methanol, 25 psig on the street, stock crank, rods, and block.
I went fiberglass from the eBay. Though I definitely see supporting a part of the community.
Go with 'glass and be done with it.
Having concave plastic, black in color. facing the sun is just asking for it. Might as well get a material that isn't a slave to UV.
I think you are right. The originals lasted a long time but have been inside a garage or storage most of the time.
I think it is your acid rain! I've never had a problem with fillers and I drove my old 85 T-Type year round. Although, the fillers were full of snow in the winter!
The southern cars seem to be bad for that and baking the crap out of the interior!
My original filler cracked one day. Within a month, the other three cracked, and the first one got a second crack.
It was actually pretty amazing how they all cracked in three weeks when the car was 20 years old.
In the south, you just can't paint a concave surface black and point it at the sun. That never works out well.
White car's fillers did not survive the trip to Lorenz's. I blame Ohio air .
Do I get the Highway Stars flexible plastic or the Spool Fool fiberglass?
Do the Spool Fool fillers need painted? Are they as 'finished' as they appear in the pictures?
My oem fillers lasted about 25+ years, now 3 of the 4 are cracked. time to get started.
They don't ''need'' painting as they come is a pretty close shade of black that matches paint.
But every car is a slightly different shade. It just depends on how ''perfect'' you want them to match (and how ''perfect'' your current paintwork is).
I don't how the economics are for you guys but here the cost of painting is about the same as the cost of the (OEM style) fillers themselves. Makes the price of the spoolfool units look attractive.
Thanks for the opinions, guys.
I bought Spool Fool. I am a world class critic, but a damn poor body man. If i am disappointed with the color/finish, I will call in a debt from some people I have helped. Hell, I could probably refinish gel coated fiberglass. I will be down to fixing the idle and yea/nay on the headliner. I will have this car professionally detailed.
As it stands today, I will probably consign the car to Gateway Classics. Hopefully, by the end of this month.
There is an outside chance, I would end up keeping this car or my V8 Vega.


Tania (T. M. E.) Walsh began writing full time after becoming a casualty to the recession in late 2008. She successfully self-published the first two novels in the DCI Claire Winters series in 2013 before being picked up by Carina UK. Tania is currently working on a new standalone novel and a third book in the DCI Claire Winters series. She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and young daughter.


Tiara N. Steagall; 6435 Heitler Avenue, Cincinnati; guilty of unauthorized use of property; $265; 30 days sentenced, 30 days served; no future similar violations for one year; complete 16 hours of community service.
Nasser H. Alrasheed; 3901 South Chalet Circle, Beavercreek; guilty OVI/driving under the influence; $565; 180 days sentenced, 176 served; three days to serve on Sept. 17; no future similar violations for two yearsl supervised probabtion for up to two years with assessment for drug/alcohol and follow-up treatment; als terminated; driver's license suspended for one year.
Leon E. Lacey; 821 Briddlewood Street, Beavercreek; guilty/no contest OVI/driving inder the influence; $490; 180 sentenced, 177 served; no future similar violations for two years; two years supervised community control with assessment for drug/alcohol and follow-up; ol suspended for six months; permit granted with interlock; must complete three day program.
Kyle L. Collins; 619 Hulbert Street, Dayton; guilty FRA; $265.
London D. Williams; 5827 Prince Edward Way, Huber Heights; guilty dus/olf; $265; 30 days sentenced, 27 days served; no future similar violations for one year.
Sonja I. Haines; 2080 Oldfields Cir. North Drive, Indianapolis, Ind.; guilty OVI/breath low; $540; 90 days sentenced, 87 days served; no future similar violations for two years; three day driver intervention program; ol suspended six months; als terminated; permit granted for three day program and doctor appointments.


Note: Possibly more complete list at Google Scholar.
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McKenzie AT, Pomerantsev AP, Sastalla I, Martens C, Ricklefs SM, Virtaneva K, Anzick S, Porcella SF, Leppla SH. Transcriptome analysis identifies Bacillus anthracis genes that respond to CO2 through an AtxA-dependent mechanism. 2014 BMC Genomics. PubMed.
Chary M, Park EH, McKenzie AT, Sun J, Manini AF, Genes N. Signs & Symptoms of Dextromethorphan Exposure from YouTube. 2014 PLoS One. PubMed.
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As First Year Corporate Security and Risk Management students at Algonquin College, we have engaged in a regimen of field trips, guest speakers, reunions, meetings and acronyms that would reduce the average student to a blubbering heap. And we've loved every second of it. From day one of orientation in September, the impending importance of our career paths has been impressed upon us. The number of doors that we've realized are open to us has proven to be more broad than any of us had anticipated; with a path for everyone from the technically minded to those looking for a managerial position in the federal government. We now know that the skills and services we are learning to provide will be highly sought after in government, commerce, and industry.
In first semester we were introduced to the dual concepts of corporate security and emergency management, with the overarching themes of teamwork and leadership throughout. Through our research projects, we've been taught to learn from the successes, and the mistakes, of others' experiences. We've learned to research and apply techniques and technologies specific to the industry and how to apply general smart business practices all the while. Our professors have stressed to us the importance of networking. In that spirit, many of us have attended CSIS meetings to listen to speakers talk about their experiences and organizations, met with former students at a reunion so that we could see first-hand just where the program could take us, an even applied for jobs in the industry to get our feet in the door. Perhaps even more importantly, we were given the opportunity to attend the Canadian Emergency Management College to participate in a tabletop exercise. In short, in the first six months of the program we've been immersed in the world of corporate security and risk management.
In second semester, the theory continues. However, we're also beginning to apply the knowledge we've learned in a series of group projects aimed at everything from developing a personal safety plan for the college, to creating our own security companies and defining all aspects of their inner workings. We're learning about BIAs, BCPs, TRAs, SOPs, MSLs, MADs, the GSP, and everything else that can be boiled down into a convenient TLA (Three Letter Acronym). In the near future we look forward to taking the next step towards our careers by engaging in the work placement selection process.
We are all eagerly looking forward to the challenges that second year will bring. We know that there is a great deal of technical knowledge that we have yet to learn, and that we have an interesting year ahead of us. We hope that, in a years' time, we can report back with the news that we have all met the challenges with which we are tasked.
Algonquin's current two-year corporate security and risk management diploma program will be completely revamped, possibly as early as September 2012.
Whether the change will involve merely adding a third year to the program, or it will be taught in conjunction with Carleton University and offer graduates a criminology degree, has yet to be decided.
Students currently in the program have mixed feelings about the change in the midst of this uncertainty. When it comes to their learning experiences thus far, however, they are satisfied for the most part.
Celeste Butler-Rohland, another second-year student in the program, entered corporate security and risk management after having studied to become an electrician. Both she and DiCesare share similar sentiments about the program and the changes it may undergo.
However, in terms of the possible change to three years, Butler-Rohland points out that most people coming out of high school do not want to attend a three-year program, or if they do, they choose to go to university.
Looking back on her experiences, DiCesare said that she doesn't know if she would have chosen corporate security and risk management if it was three years long.
Other second-year students feel the program could change for the better.
Carl Palmer, who worked in the IT field for eight years before taking the program, says he wishes the program was more information-technology focused.
"I think the reality is, as a security professional, we're gonna face IT. It's the way it is, get used to it now. Policy is boring," said Palmer.
"If you want to be a police officer, don't take police foundations," quips DiCesare. Palmer takes these claims a step further.
John Harrison, the program coordinator for corporate security and risk management, is currently in the process of researching the best way to revamp the program.


Nekter Juice Bar, the popular spot for freshly squeezed juices, smoothies, cold pressed juice cleanses and acai bowls, will soon be opening its doors at The Market Place.
Featuring natural juices, fruity bowls, healthy snacks and free Wi-Fi, this will soon become a summertime and all-the-time favorite. You can even skip the line if you are short on time by ordering ahead with the Nekter mobile app.
Refreshing and delicious, Berry Banana Burst complete with strawberries, bananas, blueberries, housemade cashew milk and a dash of agave nectar hits the spot as the perfect fruit-filled snack to get you through your day.
Packed with carrot, orange, lemon, and ginger, The Buzz is sure to get your morning going with a boost of energy.
In the mood for some veggies? Check out The Greenie, Toxin Flush and Green Apple Detox. All are full of rich nutrients and energizing ingredients that will rid your body of toxins and provide the perfect balance to your day.
The popular and oh-so-instagrammable acai bowl is always a good choice and a great alternative to a heavy lunch. Grab the Acai Banana Berry packed with acai, strawberry, blueberry, banana, and housemade vanilla cashew milk blended together and topped with hempseed granola, fresh strawberry, blueberry, banana, and agave nectar.
Nekter Juice Bar will be open this summer and located on the Tustin side of the center.
Store hours: Monday – Thursday 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.


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Erik Regtop
Full name Hendrik Jan Regtop
Name Erik Regtop
Playing position Striker
Role Footballer
Years Team
Position Forward
1985–1990 Ajax
Current team SC Bruhl
Date of birth (1968-02-16) 16 February 1968 (age 47)
Place of birth Schoonebeek, Netherlands
Hendrik Jan "Erik" Regtop (born 16 February 1968 in Schoonebeek, Drenthe) is a retired Dutch professional footballer. During his playing career, Regtop played professionally in the Netherlands, England, Switzerland, France and Austria, making nearly 400 league appearances in his career. Regtop is currently active as a football manager, and manages Austrian side Rot-Weiß Rankweil.
Coaching career
Regtop played in the Netherlands for Ajax, Telstar, FC Groningen and SC Heerenveen, in England for Bradford City, in Switzerland for FC St. Gallen, FC Altstätten and FC Montlingen, in France for OGC Nice, and in Austria for SC Austria Lustenau, SC Bregenz and SC Rheindorf Altach.
Regtop was appointed player-manager of Swiss club FC Altstätten in 2005. He then moved to current club FC Montlingen, also as a player-manager, in 2007.
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