For about two years i have been obsessed with Peppermint tea, the health benefits are so amazing that i would never go a day without a cup.
I have always had mints or chewing gum on me at all time and it is notoriously bad for you so i thought i would try and get my mint flavour from somewhere else.
The main reason why i drink it is because i love the taste, as i do not like the taste of coffee and normal tea i wanted to find something that i could drink instead of just water. Another reason is because it stops bloating, i was always bloated before drinking it and now i only get bloated if i eat a big meal, so it really does work. I always have a mug before going to sleep as it works through the night and i wake up with a flat stomach.
Another reason why people drink the tea is because it is absolutely amazing for weight loss, acting as an appetite suppressant, it makes you feel full so you are either not hungry for a snack or stops you from eating bigger portions. As well as stopping you from feeling hungry it helps to speed up your metabolism. I used to have a really slow metabolism and now i have a really quick one which is great.
You can buy Peppermint tea from any supermarket, but like i am sure avid tea drinkers will say no tea is the same, and that goes for Peppermint also. My personal favorite flavour is from Aldi, it costs 49p for a pack of 20 tea bags and it get through about two packs a week which is a lot but once you get addicted you will understand.
If you do not like the taste of Peppermint there are other flavours such as green tea on its own or with a mix of different fruits, ginger, camomile, fennel, liquorice and many more each with different health benefits.
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The CGMA Competency Framework defines four knowledge areas that finance professionals need to drive their organisations' success. The framework, released Thursday, also offers employers and management accountants a guide for the assessment of the skills needed for current and future roles.
Three research phases, conducted by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and validated by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), led to the development of the competency framework. First, in-person interviews were done with 67 organisations from Malaysia, South Africa, the UK and US. Second, round-table discussions took place in 13 countries from Asia, Europe, Africa and North and South America. Third, more than 3,000 CIMA members and students took part in an online survey.
The framework is the underpinning of CIMA's 2015 Professional Qualification Syllabus. The syllabus is the basis for a strategic case-study exam that candidates will need to pass, starting in 2015, to obtain the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation. CIMA partnered with the AICPA to create the designation in January 2012.
The CGMA Competency Framework is composed of four knowledge areas: technical, business, people and leadership skills. Organisations shared specifics from their own corporate competency frameworks to provide insight for the CGMA Competency Framework, which gives employers a way to benchmark finance competencies and write better job descriptions and provides academic leaders relevant curriculum topics.
Within each knowledge area are competencies and skillsets that are spread across four proficiency levels: foundational, intermediate, advanced and expert. As individuals progress in proficiency, the weighting of each knowledge area changes. Foundational-level professionals, for example, should focus more on technical skills, while expert-level professionals should focus mostly on leadership skills.
Technical skills. Collecting, storing and processing information to be shared with other stakeholders. Tasks include financial accounting and reporting; cost accounting; treasury management; and tax strategy, planning and compliance.
Business skills. Using knowledge of the organisation and the organisation's business environment to turn data into insight. Tasks include strategy, process and project management, and macroeconomic analysis.
People skills. Used to influence decisions, actions and behaviours of decision-makers and other stakeholders. Tasks include negotiating, decision-making, and collaborating or partnering.
Leadership skills. These skills come in three types – peer, functional and strategic. Tasks include team building, managing change and driving performance.


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Farfisa day, showing excellence
CASTELFIDARDO – "For years we have adopted Farfisa day as a preview of the PIF, the International Accordion Prize: an event within the event that recalls the memory of a prestigious company, offering to the community an exhibition full of historical instruments, many of which in working order that will become heritage of the city ". Thus the councilor for culture Ruben Cittadini announces the appointment for next Sunday (13 September) when Castelfidardo will host the ninth edition
of the initiative that brings together fans and former employees of the giant that marked an era.
The "FAbbriche Riunite FISArmoniche", born from the union of Settimio Soprani of Castelfidardo, Scandalli Brothers of Camerano and Frontalini of Numana, from 1946 to 1998 was a real flagship, signing cutting-edge products in the music sector spread across all continents. and adopted by famous artists, including "the poet of accordion" Gervasio Marcosignori who was its demonstrator and ambassador.
The president of the cultural association, with the the same name of the factory, Claudio Capponi, a former technician now one of the greatest Farfisa collectors, once again worked on organizing the meeting in compliance with the right distancing measures: guests from five regions will be welcomed in the morning by the Municipal Administration and then visit the renovated accordion museum, the Guiness accordion and the Risorgimento Museum.
In the afternoon, at 4.00 pm, the inauguration of the exhibition at the conference room in via Mazzini which will remain open until the end of October from 09: 00-12: 30 and 16: 00-19: 00 during the PIF days.
A lot of valuable examples that can be appreciated, some of which are very rare and revealed to the public for the first time as the Clavioline, synthesizer built by Farfisa in the late 1950s on a French design; the PR 310, 8-channel mixer dated 1967, the Br 80 amplifier from 1967, also used at the Sanremo festival and Cantagiro, the Leslie RSC 350 and RSC 180 amplifiers from 1972.
Farfisa day will end – obviously – in music, with the concert (5.00 pm) in piazza Leopardi by maestro Diego Trivellini who will perform pieces by Ennio Moricone on the electronic accordion.
In the photo (from Claudio Capponi's archive) M° Gervasio Marcosignori in his office in Farfisa factory.
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Hoover sign
Malcolm Lemyze and Frédéric Bart
CMAJ February 08, 2011 183 (2) E133; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.092092
Malcolm Lemyze
Frédéric Bart
A 72-year-old man with a 70 pack-year history of smoking was referred to our emergency department for an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). On examination, he breathed through pursed lips and had paradoxical indrawing of the lower rib cage margin with inspiration (Hoover sign)1 (Figure 1A, Appendix 1, video available at www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/cmaj.092092/DC1). A chest radiograph showed distension of the lungs and flattening of the diaphragm (Figure 1B). Repeated flow-volume loops at rest and during an incremental exercise test (Appendix 2, available at www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/cmaj.092092/DC1) showed severe airflow obstruction (one-second forced expired volume 0.9 L, 30% predicted value; curve 0) and dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation with a leftward shift of the flow-volume loops at higher ventilation levels (curves 1–4).
(A) Paradoxical retraction of the lower intercostal spaces on inspiration (arrows) in a 72-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (B) Lateral chest radiograph showing distention of the lungs associated with flattening of the diaphragm (arrows).
Expiratory flow limitation is a hallmark finding in patients with severe airflow obstruction, as in COPD. It is extremely difficult for these patients to increase their expiratory flow above its resting value. In healthy controls, lung volume at the end of expiration approximates the relaxation volume of the respiratory system (i.e., functional residual capacity) (Appendix 3, available at www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/cmaj.092092/DC1). By contrast, in patients with limited flow, expiratory flow limitation leads to incomplete lung emptying and gas trapping; the end-expiratory lung volume exceeds the predicted functional residual capacity, causing dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation. This phenomenon increases the work of breathing and is currently considered the main mechanism explaining dyspnea in patients with COPD.
Pulmonary hyperinflation can cause flattening of the diaphragm and impairs its piston-like downward displacement capacity. When this occurs, the inspiratory contraction of the flattened diaphragm decreases the transverse diameter of the lower rib cage. Originally described by Hoover,1 the resulting eponymous sign may be overlooked, although it may be present in up to 76% of patients with severe COPD.2 The frequency of the sign increases with the severity of airflow obstruction.2 In addition, it is one of the most easily reproducible clinical findings for detection of obstructive airway disease (sensitivity 58%, specificity 86%).3 Hoover sign may be a useful clinical marker of severe airway obstruction to assist at the bedside in patient triage and management in emergency settings.3
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. The diagnostic significance of inspiratory movemens of the rib costal margins. Am J Med Sci 1920;159:633–46.
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. Frequency of Hoover's sign in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Int J Clin Pract 2006;60:514–7.
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. Paradoxical movement of the lateral rib margin (Hoover sign) for detecting obstructive airway disease. Chest 2002;122:651–5.
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And now I'm so not.
I had posted a little over a month ago about trying to read 100 books in 2009.
Not sure about that these days. I hit a speed bump, or two, or more, in the name of several books I just couldn't finish or truly get through. And while I read some, I hate to add them to a list that should be of completed books only.
But I just read one that I finished today, and started a day or two ago, and really enjoyed, so I hope to be back on my tear.
And here we have a link to my previous reads: Books 1-33 and below you'll find a few more I'm adding to my completed list!
I'll hope to have more to come over the coming weeks, and we'll see if I can suddenly hit 100 before 2010. Otherwise I'll be happy with 50, and super happy with 55!
Impressive goal! I love reading and I can not imagine a day when I don't read at least a paragraph in one of my books. I'm going to go check out the other books you've read. I do like Jocelyn Jackson (and I think she is a Georgia girl, too).
100 books in a year, that's amazing. The most I ever read was 17. Alot of those consisted of the Left Behind series.


Culinary arts schools in France: French Cooking Training, Internships in France, hospitality internship. Curso Gastronomía francesa, Escuela Culinaria Francia, Experiencia laboral de práctica.
Situated in the picturesque town of Agde, on the Mediterranean Coast in the South of France, Gastronomicom International Culinary Academy is a long-established, globally-renowned school of culinary arts. We provide French cooking and pastry Certificate and Diploma programs (taught in English) to students from around the world. Courses are taught by chefs and teachers with amazing skills, and years of culinary arts experience. Gastronomicom also teaches French Gastronomy and refined Michelin star cooking techniques at our culinary arts school in Miami, Florida.
We offer Gourmet programs of 4 weeks duration in French Cooking and French Pastry. You will enjoy 30 hours of hands-on training - 15 hours cooking lessons + 15 hours pastry lessons per week.
The full program consists of a 3 month gastronomic course as listed above + 4 month training course (internship) in a luxury Hotel restaurant in France.
- You are between 18 and 60 years old, and very motivated by the food, beverage and gastronomy industry.
- For non-native speakers of English: Your level of English is minimum 600 points in TOEIC or 550 points in TOEFL.
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There's fresh outrage over how the developers of Hudson Yards used a federal immigration program meant to spur economic development in low-income communities to get inexpensive financing for their luxury development.
But the arguable misuse of the program has sparked calls for reform for years, even if those calls have essentially gone nowhere in Congress.
To wit: An article from the Wall Street Journal, dated September 9, 2015 — three and a half years ago — illuminating how Hudson Yards developers gamed the EB-5 program, a then-little-known immigration program meant to provide inexpensive financing for rural and high unemployment areas, by gerrymandering their luxe Midtown development into an oddly shaped district with parts of Harlem that included low-income housing to obtain benefits meant to spur job growth in poor neighborhoods.
At the time that piece was written, parts of the program were nearing expiration, and it looked like outrage in Congress over how the program was actually being used could lead to its demise.
But it has survived, in part because of an aggressive multi-million dollar lobbying campaign by Related Cos., the Hudson Yards developer, to block a bipartisan plan that would have overhauled the program. As the Journal reported in 2017, one of the program's biggest champions is New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, who helped block changes to it in 2015, and in 2013 urged the Department of Homeland Security to expedite Related's EB-5 applications.
Any benefit Hudson Yards is directly providing to poorer New York communities is as yet unclear. Without an explanation, the city's Housing Authority has scrapped a 14-year-old plan to build an affordable housing development nearby, a deal that was brokered as a concession to the local community as part of the Hudson Yards Deal.
A Hudson Yards spokesperson defended the development to AM New York, saying the project "created jobs for residents all over the city, including in Harlem" — the poorer area it tied itself to in order to get its financing. The spokesperson "did not respond" when asked how many workers at Hudson Yards were actually residents of the Harlem neighborhoods included in the special district.
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WHAT CITY HALL IS READING
NEW THIS A.M.: "When ACS employees believe that kids are unsafe at home, they may file a petition in family court to remove those children from the care of their parents or guardians. The law requires court oversight. But the city has authority to remove a child on an emergency basis, when court is closed and when there is 'imminent danger to the child's life or health,' according to state law. It is a power that should be the exception, advocates say, but is too often exerted in cases that aren't emergencies. Last year, of the 3,633 children removed from their parents, the city used emergency powers nearly half the time. Almost all of the children involved in these removals were non-white, reflecting a system that, by and large, only surveils black and brown families." WNYC's Yasmeen Khan
"MICHIGAN HEALTH OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THAT A MEASLES OUTBREAK IN OAKLAND COUNTY is linked to the ongoing outbreak in New York. Lynn Sutfin, public information officer for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, told CNN that a male individual from New York traveled to Southeast Michigan by vehicle. 'He was unknowingly contagious with the measles during his visit here. All 38 other cases of measles in Southeast Michigan can be linked to this individual,' she said. State health officials have reported 39 cases from this outbreak. (There is an unrelated case of measles in Washtenaw County, Michigan, which is linked to international travel.)" CNN's Debra Goldschmidt and Susan Scutti
"THE MTA IS PLOWING AHEAD WITH ITS PROMISED CRACKDOWN ON FARE BEATERS — though police won't say who, exactly, they are targeting. According to an NYPD spokesperson, a total of 21,112 summonses were issued to fare beaters in the first three months of this year, compared to 10,522 summonses during the same period in 2018. The more than twofold increase comes after the MTA's own survey of the issue found that the number of subway fare beaters remained 'relatively flat' last year … The NYPD seems to be coming around slowly to this view—shared by advocates and now some prosecutors—that the penalty for fare evasion does not need to be criminal charges.
"In the first quarter of this year, police arrested 1,144 people for misdemeanor theft of services, compared to 2,599 in the first three months of 2018. At the same time, the number of overall stops for fare beating has skyrocketed, and the racial disparities that have long plagued subway enforcement don't appear to have gone away. … A spokesperson for the police department did not respond to multiple inquiries from Gothamist requesting a breakdown of the arrest and summons data by race and subway station." Gothamist's Jake Offenhartz
"THE MAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING QUEENS JOGGER KARINA VETRANO is scheduled to be sentenced this week after he was found guilty for the 2016 killing. But throughout the case, defense attorneys and court watchers have raised concerns about the judge presiding over the case, and his impartiality. Justice Michael Aloise presided over both of Chanel Lewis' trials, and made several controversial decisions during each case. He quickly called a mistrial on the first case after the jury deliberated for just over a day; he declined to pause the second trial when the defense received an anonymous letter claiming that police had wrongly targeted Lewis in a DNA dragnet that only tested black men; and at least one juror in the second trial told reporters that the jury felt pressured by Aloise to return a guilty verdict on the day of closing arguments. And topping it all off, Aloise on multiple occasions wore a purple tie in the courtroom—a sign that many observers took as supporting the Vetrano family.
While this may seem like an extreme case, court watchers say that's not out of the ordinary in the Queens County Courthouse. In his years covering the city's courts, New York Law Journal reporter Colby Hamilton has found that the Queens Supreme Court stands out for its particularly close links to the Queens District Attorney's Office: many of the sitting judges has family members serving as prosecutors (including Justice Aloise), and many of those same judges started off working for the Queens DA's office (including Justice Aloise). As Hamilton told WNYC's Jami Floyd, those links can create the appearance of impropriety when it comes to judges' roles as impartial arbiters of the law." WNYC
WHAT ALBANY'S READING
NXIVM BOOKKEEPER KEEPS MUM — Times Union's Brendan Lyons: "A longtime bookkeeper for NXIVM invoked her right against self-incrimination dozens of times when she testified before a federal grand jury last year, refusing to answer questions about the secretive organization's leaders, her personal life and numerous alleged criminal acts. The details of the testimony by Kathy L. Russell, 61, who has been associated with NXIVM since coming to the Capital Region from Alaska in 2002, were revealed in a court order unsealed this week in which a federal judge declined to dismiss her criminal case. During her grand jury appearance last summer, Russell was asked by federal prosecutors about the hacking of computers of NXIVM's 'perceived enemies,' large amounts of cash coming across the U.S. border, alleged tax evasion and immigration fraud, the branding of women in a secret slave-master club, and NXIVM co-founder Keith Raniere's alleged sexual abuse of underage girls." Read more here
DUFFERS DECRY DEVELOPMENT BILL — Wall Street Journal's Keiko Morris: "Golf-industry advocates have sounded the alarm about a bill that could result in raising property taxes for golf-course owners in New York. The proposed legislation would give local governments the option to assess and tax golf courses based on 'highest and best use,' which, for many facilities, could mean being considered as a residential development with a much higher value. Business owners and industry representatives fear the measure would usher in tax hikes for many facilities, prompt closures of courses and hurt local tourism and hospitality markets at a time when the sport faces stiff competition to gain more fans. 'Home builders are watering at the mouth at a lot of golf course land and would pay 10 times what it's worth as a golf course,' said Jay Karen, chief executive of the National Golf Course Owners Association. 'If all of the sudden we saw tax bills at golf courses increasing by a factor of 10, you are going to see an acceleration of golf course closures.' The bill's Democratic sponsors, Sen. David Carlucci and Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, and proponents say it is about golf courses, especially country clubs with high-end amenities, paying their fair share of taxes." Read more here
— Watertown has spent nearly $30,000 to defend its lease with the local golf club after the neighbor of a nearby country club sued over government subsidies.
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AOC'S MYSTERY BOOK -- "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) … was recently in talks to write a book … Multiple publishing industry sources told The Daily Beast that the freshman Democrat retained the talent agency CAA and took meetings earlier this year about writing a potential book. The project, one industry source said, was ultimately pulled, but for reasons that remain mysterious." The Daily Beast
AROUND NEW YORK
— City Council Member Jumaane Williams endorsed Monique Chandler-Waterman to replace him in the special election for his now-vacant 45th district seat.
— "The pool of candidates looking to fill the vacant seat in the 45 council district just became smaller after several hopefuls were booted off the ballot Tuesday afternoon, turning the May 14 special election to an 7-person race, so far."
— "Ex-City Councilman Kendall Stewart insists that Brooklyn police arrested the wrong man this weekend: him. The 68-year-old Stewart, accused of sending armed goons to menace a tenant at a Brooklyn building he owns, insists he never dispatched anyone to threaten the alleged victim."
— The Sexual Harassment Working Group wants more public legislative hearings.
— Rep. Chris Collins raised just $5,000 in the first quarter of 2019, according to the Federal Elections Commission.
— Sen. Chuck Schumer wants money to replace an 85-year-old wastewater treatment plant near Lake George.
— Entergy has struck a deal to decommission the Indian Point nuclear plant over the course of a decade.
"LONG BEFORE AMAZON BACKPEDALED ON PLANS TO PLANT A SECOND HEADQUARTERS IN QUEENS, another rising real estate player hoped to land the trillion dollar corporation on its home turf. It was September 2017 and Andrew Kimball had a pitch: Amazon should come to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park. Kimball, the CEO of Industry City, and Marvin Schein, the managing partner of neighboring Liberty View Plaza, argued to city officials that Amazon belonged on the Brooklyn waterfront, where 'technology, media, design, art, fashion, manufacturing and craft-making collide across an amenity rich urban campus, creating new opportunities for today's innovations to cross-pollinate and collaborate across sectors,' according to documents shared with Gothamist.
Industry City's general bid for Amazon has been public knowledge, but not the scope or detail. Kimball and Schein proposed handing over 5 million of their properties' 7.5 million square feet to an Amazon campus. Effectively, this would have transformed Industry City into Amazon City. In their Amazon pitch, Industry City talked up benefits like proximity to a ferry stop and express subway lines, as well as eligibility for START-UP NY, a tax subsidy program for new businesses. Had Amazon selected the sprawling, privately-owned industrial complex that City Hall and real estate interests hope to convert into a retail, hotel, and tech destination, history might have been different.
The document, ... reveals what Industry City, publicly at least, did not want to link with Amazon: a controversial rezoning that would change the scope of the property, creating 1.3 million square feet of new commercial and industrial space by allowing its owner to erect several new buildings that will also house hotels, retail spaces, an academic campus, and parking. Kimball and Schein touted the rezoning as a way to 'expand and accelerate the vibrant Innovation Economy ecosystem that exists today' and add new density." Ross Barkan for Gothamist
— Mayor Bill de Blasio raised the rent on his two Park Slope homes by $4,450 last year, even as his expenses went down by more than $7,000, according to a copy of his tax returns released Tuesday afternoon. De Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, took in $108,450 in rental income in 2018, compared to $104,000 the year before. By comparison, expenses on the properties dropped from $116,482 in 2017 to $109,323 last year. POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg
THE HOME TEAMS, BY HOWARD MEGDAL
Yankees 8, Red Sox 0: This was not your standard Yankees-Red Sox game. It lasted just two hours, 23 minutes, James Paxton struck out 12 over eight shutout innings, and Mike Tauchman hit his first major league home run in a New York rout.
Phillies 14, Mets 3: Steven Matz received a standing ovation... from a Phillies crowd after allowing eight runs and failing to record an out in the first inning. Didn't get much better from there.
The day ahead: Phillies-Mets matinee at Citizens Bank Park. More Red Sox-Yankees in The Bronx.
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The 34th Degree
A Thriller
Greanias, Thomas
An ancient text. A world at war. The end of history. Prepare to be initiated into The 34th Degree.
From New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias comes an all-new, reality-altering epic adventure featuring counter-terrorism agent Sam Deker from The Atlantis Revelation and The Promised War .
1943. The supernatural alchemy for the ultimate weapon, encoded in an ancient biblical text, has fallen into the hands of the most ruthless secret society known to man--the Nazi SS.
Present Day. Dishonorably discharged from the armed forces after the events of The Promised War , Sam Deker is trying to build a new life in Los Angeles. But nightmares of the past continue to haunt his present, and Deker discovers that the unusual lightwave-induced torture he barely survived has changed him.
The Pentagon, however, believes that change makes him the only one who can endure their top-secret neuro-simulation program known as the 34th Degree. The stunning technological breakthrough uses the sliced brain tissues of dead terrorists to enter their memories and glean priceless intel.
Now Americans want to use the preserved brain tissue of SS General Ludwig von Berg, the legendary "Baron of the Black Order," to send Deker back to 1943. Deker's mission is to discover the fate of the lost biblical text and steal its formulas before his counterparts in the Alignment, a 21st-century successor to the SS, beat the U.S. to it.
The text not only spells out the end of the world, but the supernatural alchemy for Greek Fire, a thermodynamic technology that the ancient Greeks believed to have come from Atlantis and that the Americans now believe threatens the Earth.
Ultimately, Deker discovers that the past, present and future are not what they seem, as his path leads to a shattering secret that will change everything he knows about the universe.
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Atria Books, 2011.
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. --
Branch Call Number: FIC Grean
Characteristics: 470 p.
Alternative Title: Thirty-fourth degree
Read more reviews of The 34th Degree at iDreamBooks.com
Intelligence Officers — Fiction.
Terrorism — Prevention — Fiction.
Nazis — Fiction.
Space and Time — Fiction.
Antiquities — Fiction.
Weapons — Fiction.
Greece — History. — Occupation, 1941-1944 — Fiction.
Suspense Fiction.


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Gardening in Hell
Thompson Small Farm, May 24, 2007. Note the bent-double and fully-leafed out sapling in the middle-foreground. That's the kitchen garden behind it.
Hell is a strong word, but let me explain. The northern tier of North America's high plains, the region encompassing all of southern Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan and extending south in an eastward flexing arc all the way down to embrace the Texas panhandle and eastern New Mexico, hosts one of the most extreme climates on the planet. Where else on earth can temperatures fluctuate from lows of -40 to highs of +40 Celsius in course of a fairly typical twelve-month cycle? Oh, the soil can be rich indeed, depending on where you are, but add to these caveats of temperature the fact that it is windier here than an old man's yarns, drier than the humor contained therein and as unpredictably frosty as the fed-up wives who've endured years of such bullshit and you can see why this region could be considered hell, at least where vegetables and additional things, no doubt, of general tenderness, are concerned.
Yet it is here that Andrea and I decided to start our CSA (have you read our "Dumber 'n a 'Possum" blog entry yet?) It was trial-by-fire, or for the more amphibious of bent, sink-or-swim, as we had jumped right in with both feet and no life-jacket. We needed a system of growing that could withstand pretty much the worst conditions nature could throw at a gardener anywhere actual soil occurred. The system we came up with we feel worked admirably, and we're confident it could be adapted by anyone, anywhere and yield gratifying results. We'll outline it for you here.
A fine high-plains April morning. Thompson Small Farm, 2009. Those barely discernible smudges are Clydesdale horses, about ten metres from the camera.
We start in late March or early April with a small greenhouse, which at this time of year, especially at night, will sometimes need some supplemental heat. We have provided this heat at intervals woodstoves piled around with rocks for thermal mass, electric and propane heaters. We like the stone-heaped woodstove method best, as it appeals most to our desire for self-reliance. Next, we either mix our own potting soil mixture or get some bagged stuff, and you can probably guess which approach we like best there. Out come the soil-block makers, an assortment of sized punches ala Eliot Coleman's "The New Organic Grower" (refer to our online store, which contains most of the reference works you'll need and which we, by their inclusion, endorse - including this one.) The punches create blocks of soil that hold together and negate the need for pots - a real blessing! We use the 2 inch size almost exclusively. You can pack a lot more plants into a space using the one inch size, but you need to re-pot them into two inch anyway, so why not skip this step?
Seedlings, to make a long story short, are raised to optimal transplant size in these 2-inch blocks set into flats, about 40 - 50 per. While they're growing, we've been out there preparing the soil. This year, we've been feeding the animals on the garden space over the winter, in order that their ordure will generously anoint the land by spring. By doing this, you save on work spreading organic matter - it comes straight to the land from the horse's... it's there already. So this year, preparing the garden space will consist of harnessing the Clydesdales and driving them around the garden with a dual gang of spike-toothed harrows trailing, spikes in the flat position, to spread out the manure piles over the area. Next, we'll be turning the soil - not too deep - with a plow (horse-drawn, of course. If all you have is some machine, well, you'll have to make do with that for now. Hopefully you'll have animals of some description for manure, or you'll have to get your hands on some of that too, or better yet, compost.) The soil must be moist and friable for this step, but not too moist. Plowing is best done in the fall, so that the frost action can work on the turned soil over the winter, but if this system of "soiling the land" over the winter is used, you'll have to do it in spring, to work in the nutrients and organic material. That's okay. Just remember that when plowing is done in the spring, the disc-harrowing that always follows must be done immediately following the plowing to conserve soil moisture. So then, we disc harrow the plowed land. (If you plow in fall, the harrowing can wait til spring, and becomes the first tillage step.) Disc harrowing, back and forth and across and at all angles breaks down clods into a nice seed-bed, but the edges of the discs also compact the soil some, so we follow this step with some spring-tooth harrowing, or cultivating as some call it with this implement, to loosen the soil back up and give it loft. (We recommend "Implements for Farming with Horses and Mules," available through our store, for an understanding of equipment and the applications. It's the same sort of stuff you'd be using with a light tractor.)
Now comes the making of raised-beds. Raised beds needn't have borders, and in fact this would be far too labor and infrastructure intensive for larger scale gardening anyway. Instead, they are just raised rectangles of soil, in our case about five metres long by a metre wide, by perhaps a hand-width or a little more high, allowing for from two to four rows of plants. In the past we've made these beds by hand, with a hoe, once the horses have helped us prepare the soil. It takes maybe fifteen minutes per bed if you've loosened the soil adequately, as needs be. If you can't get enough soil up into beds, get back in there with the spring-tooth harrow. This year I've added an application to our basic home-made stone-boat, a set of adjustable discs on a rear-mounted frame that i'm hoping will assist in making the beds with the horses doing the bulk of the work. The discs can be set wide or narrow, to heap the soil or make a planting furrow. We'll find out how this works!
Raised beds are one of those steps that can make a night-and-day difference between small, stunted vegetables, and big proud ones. This is because the loosened soil, raised above the cooling thermal mass of mother earth, warms more quickly and allows for better penetration and retention of moisture and oxygen, not to mention root-growth. So, once your field is arranged into beds (leaving room to walk between and larger corridors for bring wheelbarrows and such out there,) let some time elapse, if you have the luxury (you won't some years,) so the weeds can get a start. Once they've sprouted, hoe them under. Hopefully there won't be too many, but this is a way of pro-active weed control, and it's added organic material as well. Now, a top-dressing of compost is in order, if you have it on hand, although it may not be necessary if you've fed the soil adequately as we've described. If you've got it, and you should have it, then use it. Just sprinkle a thin layer atop each bed - you don't need to work it in. Follow this with a thin layer of mulch - leaves, grass, straw, old hay, whatever. The mulch helps further with weed-control, adds further organic matter for soil building, and holds moisture. It's incredible, in fact, how much effect mulching has on soil moisture. It can spell the difference between needing to water liberally every day or two and just being able to rely on rainfall, or at the most, watering weekly. But it must be thin at first, as it also cools the soil, something you don't want to do in the spring, and defeating one of the purposes of the raised beds.
You're now ready for your transplants. Before you bring your flats of soil blocks containing the baby vegetables out to the field, spend a few days introducing them to the full, unfiltered sun in increments, or they will be unhappy, or dead. It takes some "hardening-off" to get them ready for the full elements. Then you can take them out to the field with you. Mind-you, keep those bastards moist! They dry very quickly in the open air. Refer to your reference materials for spacing for the different plants, part the mulch and make a hole and insert the block. Gently squeeze it just before covering to break the form of the block and keep the roots from binding. Don't then pile-drive your fingers around the base like an eye-gouging street-thug as I've seen some guys do in order to anchor the plant. A little gentle tamping, like seating the tobacco in your pipe will do. Once a bed is planted as such, we then water each transplant in, regardless how moist the block is, and then we do it yet again, this time with a pressure-sprayer and a little fish emulsion added to the water. Just a squirt or two into the base of the little plant. We do the fish emulsion thing last so the previous watering doesn't flush the root-establishing nutrients down into the bed. Tuck the mulch back in around the base of the little plant.
If you were somewhere pleasant, you could probably stop at this point. You are not somewhere pleasant, however, at least not for the sake of this instruction. This being the case, you're not done yet! And hey, even in a reasonable climate, the additional steps I am about to outline might just make you legendary. Give it a try, maybe in some trial plots. Anyways, now it's time to get out the 9-gauge wire and cut some hoops from it. You're going to push the ends of the wire into the ground to form semi-circular arcs over your beds at about one-metre (39 inch or so) intervals. They should allow for at least thirty centimetres (a foot) of clearance beneath them. You are in essence making a mini-hoop house over each bed. Over the hoops, you unroll a length of a product called "Agribon" or something similar - a gossamer-light fabric that admits both sun and precipitation, yet raises the temperature underneath by around three degrees Celsius, protects against frost, insect pests, and wind. (Wind robs plants of energy and stunts growth. And by the way, you can use this fabric in your starter greenhouses as well, draping it loose over flats at night to protect seedlings against frost.) You can use soil, rocks, sandbags, logs, or twenty-foot (about six metre) lengths of rebar to hold down the edges of the fabric. If you choose rebar, you can then use the same lengths at some other juncture to erect larger walk-in hoop houses when you need to. Soil is hardest of these choices on this material, but it doesn't last more than a couple of seasons in our climate anyway. We have lately gotten into the practice of buying this row-cover material in sufficient widths to cover two beds at a time, saving on labor. The hoops are still cut to width for one bed - they wouldn't be rigid enough for two beds, and you'd be tripping over them in the rows anyway.
Field layout, Thompson Small Farm. Some beds with mature plants are open, some are covered single-beds, and the wider arrays are covering two beds at a time. The corner of a second garden area is just visible in the background.
You can open these covers to water, or water right through them, or better yet, it hopefully rains enough that you don't ever have to. As the season progresses, thicken the mulch layer to better hold moisture and suppress weeds. When the plants begin to bulge the fabric, open up the bed to the air. It's always exciting to see what's under there!
Okay, there's our system in a nutshell. If you can't get a garden to grow using this method, you're probably an Eskimo and have many equally rewarding things to do anyway.
We find broccoli works very well in a challenging growing climate. Note the 9-gauge hoops that were used to hold the row-cover fabric before the plants outgrew their ceiling.


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Q: SQL Conditional relationship between 1 parent 3 child tables I am trying to develope a db with Sql Server Management Studio.
Grandparent table
Resource
ResourceID_PK   int
Project     nvarchar(5)
Model       nvarchr(15)

Parent table
Machine
MachineID_PK    int
Model_UK        nvarchar(15)
Type
Brand
EmptyWeight

Child tables
DumpTruck   .       Excavator       Loader
DumpTruckID_PK      ExcavatorID_PK  Loader_ID       int
Model_UK            Model_UK        Model_UK        nvarchar(15)
Capacity            Capacity        Capacity

Model column is unique for whole db. I need to reach Capacity column from Grandparent table. Model column of each Child tables are unique since all machinery will have different Model like "CAT966".
I need to use Grandparent Model column to read one of the Child table, which has the same Model.
I develope a c# project which inputs Model of the machine and will return capacity from the corresponding child table.

A: To join the tables, you will need ResourceID_PK in the Parent table and MachineID_PK in the Child tables.  Then you can join the tables and reach the Capacity column from the Grandparent table.
EDIT

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*Add ResourceID_PK to Machine (the Parent table)

*Add MachineID_PK to the Child tables

To get the Capacity based on Model, use this query:
Select Capacity
From DumpTruck c
Join Machine p on c.DumpTruckID_PK=p.MachineID_pk
Join Resource gp on gp.ResourceID_PK=p.ResourceID_PK
where gp.Model='X'

(A small warning, I have not tested this query.)

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Drivers and Technologies Announced For Run On Less
Carbon War Room and the North American Council for Freight Efficiency have announced the seven drivers participating in Run on Less, a fuel-economy roadshow that kicks off on September 6.
The seasoned drivers, working for Albert Transport, PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Division, Hirschbach, Mesilla Valley Transportation, Nussbaum Transportation, Ploger Transportation, and US Xpress have been selected to drive trucks equipped with a variety of technologies that improve fuel efficiency. Run on Less is a first-of-its kind fuel-efficiency roadshow sponsored by Shell and PepsiCo, and hosted by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency and Carbon War Room.
Drivers and their equipment are:
Henry Albert, 30 years driving, 2018 Freightliner Cascadia Evolution Aero Xi Sleeper
Bradley Long, 12 years driving, 2016 International ProStar SkyRise sleeper
Joel Morrow, 30 years driving, 2016 Volvo VNM62T630 Sleeper
Clark Reed, 12 years driving, 2018 Freightliner Cascadia Sleeper
Tommy Revell, 32 years driving, 2017 Volvo VNM Day Cab
Mark Risien, 30 years driving, 2018 Freightliner Cascadia Sleeper
Robert Sandoval, 26 years driving, 2018 International LT Sleeper
The drivers will benefit from a variety of different technologies on their vehicles. No two trucks are the same, as each fleet selects its own combination of technologies to achieve its fuel-efficiency goals. Axles selected by the fleets include 6×4 axles, 6×2 tags, a liftable 6×2 and a 4×2.
Several of the trucks are equipped with 15-liter engines, and others have a 13-liter and an 11-liter engine. All of the trucks will use automated manual transmissions purchased from three different suppliers. Half the trucks will be fitted with wide-base tires and the other half with duals. In addition, fleets have selected different options to assist them with idle reduction.
"This is going to be a lot of fun, challenging ourselves to achieve the best fuel efficiency with these incredible tractor trailers," shared Henry Albert, an owner-operator for his business, Albert Transport. "All seven of us are proud to take trucking efficiency to the next level and share with the world our experiences."
"The wide variety of technologies being deployed by these seven fleets validates the findings from our Confidence Reports that there are many technologies on the market today that allow fleets to get more miles from a gallon of fuel," Roeth says. "There is no one size fits all, but a suite of different solutions for different needs."
During three weeks in September, the drivers will haul freight from different locations across the U.S. and Canada and will demonstrate how Class 8 trucks can use different technologies to achieve the best fuel economy possible. Some of the routes have been confirmed. One fleet with team drivers will deliver auto parts from El Paso, Texas, to Ellisville, Missouri.
Another fleet will be doing dedicated store delivery in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky. There is also a fleet that will run a semidedicated route from Laredo, Texas, to the Carolinas. Another fleet will do a daily round-trip from Perry, Georgia, to Charleston, South Carolina.
The Run kicks off on September 6, 2017, and culminates in Atlanta during the North American Commercial Vehicle show September 24–28. SmartWay, a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined as an event sponsor.
More details about Run on Less can be found at www.runonless.com.
CVSA releases Roadcheck 2017 results
For-Hire Tonnage Index Up


Dec. 20, 2017 10:30 p.m.
It was a long dry spell but the Aldergrove Kodiaks finally broke their losing streak Wednesday night with a 5-0 blanking of the visiting Grandview Steelers.
The win improved the Kodiaks to 21 points after 27 games and put them back into the top four in the Harold Brittain conference.
The Steelers managed to outshoot the Kodiaks in the first period but keeper Michael Lauriente held them at bay with the help of a strong Kodiaks defense that did their best to keep the puck at the Steelers' end.
The Kodiaks turned on the taps in the second period with a pair of goals that put them up 2-0. Scoring were Davin Padgha and Arjan Cheema, with both assisted by Matt Oliver and Kyle Bosko.
In the third period the Kodiaks piled on three more for the win. Scoring were Oliver, Austin Cook (unassisted, on a power play) and Bosko, with assists from Bosky, Clayton Schroeder, Arjan Cheema and Ty Pickering.
The Kodiaks outshot the Steelers 38-30 that night, and scored on one of seven power plays while successfully killing three penalties.
Game stars were Lauriente, Oliver and Bosko.
The Kodiaks' remaining games this month are away at North Vancouver Wolf Pack on Dec. 22, and a home game against the Delta Ice Hawks, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 7:15 p.m. at Aldergrove Arena.


Ruining a perfectly good monkey.
At one point during Koko: A Talking Gorilla, Barbet Schroeder calls Koko, a gorilla who has allegedly been taught rudimentary American Sign Language, the world's first White American Protestant gorilla, and it is the most damning thing anyone can say about the project. As Pat and I discuss, that ultimately means that in a study trying to prove gorillas can "communicate" — a self-evident fact given they are social animals — what takes place is an exercise in assimilationism, a seeming belief that gorillas can only be proved intelligent if they are made to live and communicate like White Americans. There's some racial overtones there, and we talk about the history of anthropology and psychology in that light this episode as well.
We talk anthropology and the research ethics on this week's Lost in Criterion with Koko: A Talking Gorilla. Listen on LostInCriterion.com, Spotify, iTunes, or anywhere you like to get podcasts. While you're at it, like us on Facebook or support us on Patreon.


Tucked away from the city bustle, The White Rabbit is located at Dempsey road. They are an European restaurant in a restored 1930s Ebenezer chapel. The restaurant is inspired by aspects of Lewis Carroll's story – Alice in Wonderland. With 2 of their iconic stained glass windows surrounding the area, get ready to be fascinated by this history-rich venue.


HomeAnimeEpisode 289: The Frenemy of My Frenemy Is My BFF!
The sistahs are all healed up from their sistahpades at PAX EAST 2012 this year, and you can tell they have been dying to get back to what they do best: talk to each other.
They spend a good chunk of time speculating the angles that could make this pre-prequel more awesome than the pre-hype has made it out to be.
With that out of the way, Panda finishes off the episode with her thoughts about an anime Ninja recommended to her called Accel World.
So buckle in for some podcast goodness in this week's ESH Podcast Episode 289: The Frenemy of My Frenemy Is My BFF!


How to use ADLS & MPT connection?
ADSL ကို Router နဲ့ခံသုံးပြီး MPT ကိုတော့ direct line အဖြစ်သုံးထားတယ်..
you need to use load balancing router.
Use load balancing router. I understand you use ADSL as primary connection. If ADSL is something wrong, all traffic will go through MPT automatically. So using load balancing router is simple solution.
TP-Link load balancing routers are cheap. But they don't support Fail-Over feature(your idea). They always use 2 connections at the same time. But you can do some modifications to solve your idea. For example, you can define WAN1(eg. ADSL) for 95% of traffic, WAN2(MPT) for only 5%. If WAN1 down, router pass all traffic to WAN2. When WAN1 is up, router resume original state.
I found one in D-Link brand. DSA-3600 Business Gateway but that is a little bit expensive. Find in TrendNet brand. It might be supported.
ADSL is the kind of connection and MPT is the one of the ISPs.
Do You wanna say ADSL of MPT and MPS of Skynet?
thanks ko htetag and ko thetzawko.
Now i used the prolink balancing router including 2 WAN. But when the weather is too bad, the connection was down or too slow. skynet connection is not stable when raining condition. ADSL is 512 kbps and skynet is 2 M. But still slow. How can i do for split the connection as you say( For example, you can define WAN1(eg. ADSL) for 95% of traffic, WAN2(MPT) for only 5% ).
So, change the title plx.
I think u mean..ADSL from MPT and ADSL from MTP...Right?


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Heritage/
Fortresses/
Archaelogical sites
The monasteries in the province of Pontevedra
Virtual tour Carboeiro
Virtual Tour Armenteira
Historic cemeteries
Guardians in stone
Beautiful castles, walls and towers that were the setting for a thousand battles.
Landscape and history are combined in perfect harmony in the province of Pontevedra, boasting a rich heritage of castles, fortresses and towers. These constructions have witnessed battles, invasions, domains, revolts and power struggles in Galicia, in the other kingdoms that ruled Spain in medieval times, and in Portugal. A route along the Rías Baixas will evoke amazing stories linked to these constructions, always surrounded by an idyllic landscape.
The Soutomaior Castle, which stands on a hill at the bottom of the Ría de Vigo, used to be the centre of power in Spain and Portugal in the Medieval Ages, especially during the 15th century, when it was ruled by the feudal Lord Pedro Madruga. The Castle of Sobroso, where the Queen Doña Urraca was under siege, dominates the landscape of the towns of Mondariz and Ponteareas. Both fortresses are the crown jewels of the fortress heritage of the province and a must-visit in Rías Baixas.
Soutomaior Castle
The strong and monumental fortresses, which overlook amazing landscapes, are major attractions in this destination. A good example is the fortress in Monte Boi, which is surrounded by a 3-kilometre wall and dominates the town of Baiona, an international benchmark for tourism. Other fortresses, such as those in Salvaterra de Miño, in Goián (Tomiño) and in Santa Cruz (A Guarda), were used to defend the Spanish bank of the Miño River. The fortress of O Castro, in the city of Vigo, offers magnificent views over the Ría de Vigo, with the Cíes Islands on the background. Today, its walls are surrounded by a quiet wood.
Monterreal Fortress (Baiona)
O Castro Fortress (Vigo)
Towers of Oeste (Catoira)
The towers in the province are proud vestiges of a time full of landings and invasions. It is worth visiting the towers of A Lanzada (Sanxenxo) and San Sadurniño (Cambados), both surrounded by a beautiful seaside landscape. The Towers of Oeste, in Catoira, witnessed the Viking's incursions, to search for the treasures kept in the city of Santiago de Compostela.


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Q: Gradle + Kotest + JUnit: "Test events were not received" when kotest-version > 5.0.0 I am trying to run kotests via gradle test task.
It works smoothly for kotest version 5.0.0. But if I upgrade it to higher version, e.g. 5.0.1, gradle says "Test events were not received".
I've read through changelog and haven't found any specific breaking change leading to this behavior.
Please help finding out the problem. I haven't got any specific reason to use kotest >5.0.0, but I want to know the reason to avoid troubles in the future.


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The plaintiff sustained serious and catastrophic injuries
The plaintiff sustained serious and catastrophic injuries when he fell while traversing a trench at a construction site in the Bronx. As a result of plaintiff's fall into a trench at the job site he became impaled on a reinforcement bar (rebar) that was surgically removed several hours after his admission to the hospital. It is in this setting that the jury, after a trial and after hearing testimony from plaintiff's physicians and other experts regarding the devastating and traumatic nature of the personal injuries he sustained, rendered a verdict in the sum of $86 million including $20 million for past pain and suffering and $55 million for future pain and suffering.
A Lawyer said that, plaintiff's treating physician, the Director of Spinal Cord Services at Helen Hayes Hospital, described in explicit detail the nature and effect of the spinal injuries plaintiff incurred. The Doctor provided the court and jury, inter alia, with a graphic picture of plaintiff's suffering, stating in part, that the pain plaintiff continues to experience "is of two types. He has nerve pain in his legs, and that nerve pain is perhaps one of the worst pains that you could think of. Imagine somebody stabbing you with a knife, a gazillion times, or with a pin all over the place. That numbness, that tingling, that stabbing sensation" is "present all the time, but it is a constant pain and that pain will not go away." He depicted plaintiff's chronic pain by providing the jury with a vivid description of the damage to plaintiff's spinal column when the rebar went into the area of his spinal cord and the compression fracture also caused by the pipe entering his body. He described the emotional pain sustained by the plaintiff caused by the distress of no longer having the ability to walk and the nerve pain emanating from his legs which he testified was permanent. The jury also heard testimony regarding plaintiff's chronic bed sores, his cauterization in order to urinate, his inability to control bowel movements, constant urinary tract infections and repeated hospitalization for the conditions described by the Brooklyn Doctor.
A Lawyer said that, the defendant moves pursuant to CPLR §4404 and §5501, to reduce the damages awarded to the plaintiff, after a jury trial, contending that the award is excessive and materially deviates from fair and reasonable compensation.
The issue in this case is whether the damages awarded to plaintiff is excessive and materially deviates from fair and reasonable compensation.
The Court said that, manifestly, pain and suffering awards are not subject to precise standards that permit a purely mathematically evaluation in order to determine whether a verdict deviates materially from what is reasonable compensation. CPLR §5501 requires that: "In reviewing a money judgment in an action in which an itemized verdict is required by rule forty-one hundred eleven of this chapter in which it is contended that the award is excessive or inadequate and that a new trial should have been granted unless a stipulation is entered to a different award, the appellate division shall determine that an award is excessive or inadequate if it deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation."
It is well established that the language quoted, although specifically directed to the appellate courts, also applies to the trial court mandating the trial court to review jury awards to determine whether the award is excessive or inadequate. Consequently, review under CPLR 5501 requires the trial court to evaluate whether the award deviates from comparable awards and as the court observed, reviewing comparable awards "cannot, due to the inherently subjective nature of non-economic awards, be expected to produce mathematically precise results, much less a per diem pain and suffering rate." It is also evident that review of jury verdicts for personal injuries to ascertain whether the award is reasonable, involves questions of fact.
Defendant referred this Court to several cases in an effort to convince the Court that the award, in the instant case, is not fair and reasonable. At the outset, this court acknowledges that the verdict rendered by the jury in the case at bar is unprecedented in view of the evidence presented regarding plaintiff's spinal injuries and the jury award clearly exceeds what can be considered fair and reasonable. However, this recognition regarding the size of the verdict in the instant case does not automatically carry with it the court's determination that the award falls within the boundaries which defendant suggests would be a fair and reasonable award for the plaintiff, who concededly is a paraplegic experiencing constant pain.
Evaluation of prior awards, in similar personal injury cases is intended to provide guidance to the court in resolving disputed contentions regarding the adequacy or inadequacy of a verdict so that issues such as prejudice or sympathy do not become the motivating factor for the award. The trial court, therefore, in reviewing a jury award must consider the nature of the injury sustained by the plaintiff, the plaintiff's age, the physical condition of the plaintiff prior to the occurrence, the permanency of the injury sustained, plaintiff's ability to return to gainful employment, the pain, both physical and emotional, experienced and to be experienced in the future, the extent of future hospitalization and ascertain whether the award in part was generated by the devastating effect of plaintiff's injury. Here, x rays introduced at the trial showing the presence of the rebar that entered plaintiffs body clearly invoked sympathy by the jury causing in part, a huge verdict that was intended to compensate the plaintiff not only for pain and suffering he sustained but the grief experienced by the impact of the steel rod entering his body. Manifestly, modification of damages awards cannot be based on past precedents alone.
This Court's review of the cases set forth in this opinion denotes the factors which are considered in assessing what would be reasonable compensation. This process, now completed, does not however provide a clear picture that permits the application of some formula that identifies the limits of compensation for injuries that parallel plaintiff's suffering. It is undisputed that plaintiff who at one time was a strong and vibrant man is now a wheelchair bound paraplegic. The devastating injury he sustained was caused by the pipe that upon entering his body destroyed his bowel requiring a colostomy bag to collect his waste matter and he is required to manage his bladder with catheters. Plaintiff's nerve pain in his legs is continuous and permanent. Such injuries, including those previously described, including the permanency of his injuries and his inability to return to gainful employment, are the factors that this court has applied in determining what would be reasonable compensation.
For the foregoing reasons, this Court grants defendant's motion to set aside the verdict as excessive unless within 30 days after service of a copy of this decision and order with notice of entry plaintiff stipulates to reduce the jury award for past pain and suffering from $20 million to $5 million; for future pain and suffering from $55 million to $10 million, and for future medical related expenses from $10 million to $8,295,000.
Suffering serious and traumatic spinal injuries that renders your whole body paralyzed is difficult to accept. You will need the help of a Bronx Spinal Injury Attorney and Bronx Personal Injury Attorney in order to handle your case. Bronx Injury Attorney at Stephen Bilkis and Associates will make sure that you will be properly compensated. Call us for free consultation.
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Highlights of the March 3, 2009 meeting
of the Tompkins County Legislature
Legislature Supports Three-Party Agreement to Address Affordable Housing
After more than an hour of discussion, the Legislature authorized County to enter into an agreement with the City of Ithaca and Cornell University to develop, administer and jointly fund a long-discussed Community Housing Affordability Program and the Housing Trust Program to address the local need for affordable housing. The measure was approved by a vote of 13-2, with Legislators Mike Hattery and Greg Stevenson voting no.
The Community Housing Affordability program will be a competitive program to encourage the building of affordable housing units by assisting with pre-development costs associated with residential and mixed-use real estate development primarily benefiting low- and moderate-income households. The Community Housing Trust Fund is a program that places land in trust to help ensure that newly constructed or renovated homes made available to low to moderate-income buyers remain affordable in the future.
The Legislature's action accepts a memorandum or understanding among the parties, committing the County to provide $100,000 for initial capitalization the first year, to be matched by $100,000 from the City of Ithaca and $200,000 from Cornell, with automatic renewal under the same arrangement at a rate of $100,000 per year for up six years in total. The County's contribution comes solely from Small Cities Community Development Block Grant funds for its first-time homebuyer program, awarded and repaid by recipients since 1993. The County will appoint three representatives to a Program Oversight Committee for the programs, with the Planning Department providing administrative support.
Legislator Hattery voiced serious concern about impact of creating the housing trust, which he said could give control of value of properties in his district to a future non-profit entity without accountability. Legislator Dooley Kiefer asked that the Legislature recommend that scoring criteria for the Housing Affordability Program be modified to give greater weight to smart growth and green building technologies, an approach Legislator Stevenson characterized as unwise. With affordable housing long considered one of the County's most pressing challenges, Legislator Martha Robertson called the proposal "a tremendous opportunity for our residents and the people who want to live in Tompkins County, but can't afford it." Legislature Chair Mike Koplinka-Loehr praised the three partners for innovation to address a long-standing need.
Contact: Pamela Mackesey, Chair, Planning, Development and Environmental Quality Committee, 273-6203; Legislator Mike Hattery, 844-4361; Legislator Martha Robertson, 272-0584; Planning and Public Works Commissioner Ed Marx, 274-5560.
Preliminary Report Assesses Potential County Impact of Governor's Proposed Budget
County Administrator Joe Mareane talked to Legislators about preliminary report based on information submitted by County departments and agencies regarding how the County might be affected this year, should Governor David Paterson's proposed executive budget be approved intact. The report suggests a potential total county impact of $2.7 million from reductions proposed in the Governor's budget—about $1.7 million affecting County departments, another $1 million impacting local agencies.
Administrator Mareane stressed that the information does not include impacts that can't presently be quantified, such as the proposed shift of funding for Social Services administration and Youth Services from formula-based reimbursement to restrictive block grants. The Administrator noted it is unlikely for the proposal to come through legislative review without significant changes—the Governor has already recommended full funding of the so-called CHIPS highway funding, reversing his own proposal that would have cut $500,000 in aid to Tompkins County.
The Administrator also reported that initial reports indicate that increase of the federal government's share of Medicaid costs could produce a one-time benefit to the County of $3.25 to $4 million over the next two years, a bit less than had been anticipated.
Contact: County Administrator Joe Mareane, 274-5551.
Legislature Delays Taking a Position on "Fair Share" Tax Reform
After considerable debate, the Legislature failed to yet take a position on proposed "Fair Share" tax reform legislation being considered by the State Legislaure, legislation that would increase income taxes for the top 3.5% of the state's taxpayers. Following objections from legislators, including Frank Proto, that the Budget Committee vote that led to the recommendation violated rules of the Legislature regarding the appointment of temporary committee members that Proto claimed had "orchestrated" the recommendation vote—and much debate—budget chair Jim Dennis withdrew the measure, to return to committee. Later in the meeting, an attempt was made to resurrect the proposal as a member-filed resolution, which failed by a vote of 4-11.
Contact: Jim Dennis, Chair, Budget, Capital and Finance Committee, 387-4058; Legislator Frank Proto, 277-4875.
No Action Yet on Proposed Changes in Process for Staff Vacancies and Reclassifications
Proposed revision to the County process to fill staff vacancies or change position classifications was withdrawn for more consideration in committee, after nearly a half-hour of debate. The proposed new policy would make all personnel changes subject to review by the Commissioner of Personnel and the County Administrator, with final approval by the County Administrator to allow for consideration of impact on the County's overall budget . Legislator Dooley Kiefer has proposed changes that would, in part, keep reclassifications under the authority of the County Personnel Commissioner.
Nathan Shinagawa, Chair, Government Performance and Workforce Relations Committee, 280-7557.
Kelsey Melvin Recognized as Distinguished Youth
Trumansburg High School student Kelsey Melvin was tapped for recognition as a Tompkins County Distinguished Youth for her generosity in celebrating her 16th birthday. In lieu of presents, she requested that her friends bring non-perishable food to be given to the Trumansburg Food Pantry, resulting in 24 boxes of food for the pantry. Carol Mann of Trumansburg, who nominated Kelsey, calls her "a fine example of a caring young adult, to give from the heart to benefit people in need." The Distinguished Youth Award is cosponsored by A&B Awards and Engraving, Bangs Ambulance Service, Purity Ice Cream and Cayuga Radio Group.
Contact: Legislature Office, 274-5434.
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Georgia Tech's 35-17 defeat of Pittsburgh on Saturday was, in at least one way, extraordinary. The Yellow Jackets won despite committing four turnovers and allowing a punt return for a touchdown. That normally doesn't happen.
From 2007 to 2016, there were 73 FBS teams that played games in which they had four or more turnovers and allowed at least one punt return for a score, according to sports-reference.com.
Their record in those games: 6-67, or a winning percentage of .082. It is obviously a credit to Tech's defensive play against Pitt and perhaps a referendum on the quality of the Panthers' offense that the Yellow Jackets were able to overcome the obstacles.
"I thought that our defense played really, really well (Saturday), especially in sudden-change situations," coach Paul Johnson said.
The Jackets didn't allow points off any of the four turnovers (Pitt missed a field-goal try after one of them) and, in fact, didn't allow a first down on any of the four possessions.
Of the six teams to win with four turnovers and an opposition punt return for touchdown, none gave up fewer than 17 points and only won by more than one possession – Duke, which beat N.C. State 38-20 in 2013. The Blue Devils went on to play for the ACC championship.
In Tech's recent history, it was the rare victory in which the defense repeatedly bailed out the offense for mistakes, when it has often been the opposite, although it should be noted the offense still ran for 436 yards.


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What Is the Importance of Design in New-Hire Socialization & Orientation Programs?
Human Resource Plans
By Reese Alexander
[Employee Orientation] | Components of New Employee Orientation
[Orientation Program] | Example of an Orientation Program for New Employees
[Orientation] | How to Start an Orientation
[Headtrack] | How to Headtrack With a Webcam
[Portrait Orientation] | How to Set Up a Computer for Portrait Orientation
Hi, I'm Reese Alexander. Today, I'm describing the best way for new-hire socialization and orientation programs. There are two critical things to keep in mind. First, while it maybe cliche to say so, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Second, don't use a computer to do a human's job. Let's start with first impressions. New hires naturally form a lasting and significant impression of their new workplace, even before their first day. So, employers don't easily get a second chance to make a first impression. Second, on boarding programs are critical in introducing a new hire to the company's informal culture, in addition to its formal organization and structure. To convey the latter, provide new hires with an art chart, employee handbook and directions to the water cooler. To convey a company's culture however someone, preferably a human needs to describe to the new hire everything about the organization's mission, value and visions, how operations really work, stories, symbols, potentials and how to get visibility. In other words, an introduction to the culture. Think of new hire socialization as an opportunity to create a bond, celebrate possibility and shine a light into any dark recesses of the organization's psyche by embracing candor. Perhaps your new hire will come with a beginner's mind, and offer unique and not previously considered ideas.
Reese Alexander is a TV host and human resources executive known as "The Sassy Suit."
1 [Performance] | The Influence of Leadership Styles on Individual Performance
3 [Critique] | Critique of Leadership Styles
4 [Examples] | Examples of an Informal Rule at a Company
1 [Ethics] | Ethics & Work
2 [Orientation] | How to Conduct an Orientation
3 [Assimilation] | The Importance of Assimilation in Business
4 [HR Orientation] | What Is the Importance of HR Orientation?
5 [Employee Orientation Training] | Examples of Employee Orientation Training


Wednesday, September 10 – His Excellency, Governor John S. Duncan, made his first official visit to the Ministry of Communications and Works yesterday and was given a tour of the cruise pier development project by the Minister for Communications and Works, Honourable Mark Vanterpool.
While on site, the Governor observed the marine piling, landside pilling and land reclamation. He met with the project manager, marine and landside contractors and other technical specialist who gave an overview of the projects scope of works.
Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark Vanterpool stated that was important for the Governor to have the opportunity to observe the ongoing works at the pier. "The Cruise Pier Development project is a major infrastructural development project that has provided new job opportunities, revitalized the construction industry and will provide entrepreneurial opportunities and growth of the tourism industry." The Minister pointed out.
Meanwhile, Governor Duncan expressed his pleasure in having met the staff and he was also updated on the ministry's work for the last two and a half years. "It was important for me to come to the frontend and see the challenges faced by the Ministry." Governor Duncan explained.
Minister Vanterpool also gave Governor Duncan a thorough report on the Ministry's portfolio and the ongoing works that are currently being undertaken.
Governor John S. Duncan was sworn in as the 16th Governor of the Virgin Islands on August 15. As part of his mandate, he will be spending his first few weeks in the Territory meeting with Government Ministers, senior government officials and members of law enforcement agencies in addition to other relevant agencies and departments.


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As part of the study, a group of rats were fed corn which had been genetically modified for pest resistance. (Photo: iStockphoto)
Growing fatter on a GM diet
Rats being fed genetically modified food eat more and grow fatter than those on a non-GM diet.
Arild S. Foss journalist
tuesday 17. July 2012 - 07:15
Since genetically modified (GM) food started to appear in shops in the early nineties, large quantities have been sold for human consumption – without any harmful effects, as far as we know. But is there a risk of a long-term impact?
An international research project is exploring the effects of GM food, studying the impact on rats, mice, pig and salmon. The wide-ranging study includes researchers from Hungary, Austria, Ireland, Turkey, Australia and Norway.
"We are trying to identify which indicators we need to measure in order to explore unintentional effects from GM food," explains Professor Åshild Krogdahl of the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science.
"The findings could give us some understanding of the potential effects for these animal species as well as for humans."
Rats fattening up
As part of the project, a group of rats were fed corn which had been genetically modified for pest resistance. Over a period of 90 days they became slightly fatter than the control group of rats fed non-GM corn. The same effect occurred where rats were fed fish which, in turn, had eaten GM corn.
"If the same effect applies to humans, how would it impact on people eating this type of corn over a number of years, or even eating meat from animals feeding on this corn?", he asks.
"I don't wish to sound alarmist, but it is an interesting phenomenon and worth exploring further."
Different microstructure
Examining the effects on salmon, the researchers found distinct differences between fish being fed GM food and those on a non-GM diet.
"These were not major changes; all were within a normal range and the fish appeared healthy," says Krogdahl.
"But the ones who had fed on GM corn were slightly larger, they ate slightly more, their intestines had a different microstructure, they were less able to digest proteins, and there were some changes to their immune system. Blood samples also showed some change in the blood."
Wide range of organs
These subtle changes were observed in a wide range of organs, including the digestive organs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, adrenal glands and reproductive organs.
Krogdahl points out that there's nothing inherently unusual about physiological changes after food consumption, as this happens with non-GM food as well. The question is whether changes with a GM diet could be of a different category – potentially causing harm over the long term.
As well as examining salmon intestines after GM food consumption, the researchers also looked at the intestines of rats eating the salmon. The rats turned out to eat slightly more and grow faster than their GM-free counterparts, as well as being slighty affected in the immune system, but otherwise they seemed to thrive.
GM genes transferring into tissue
However, one important pro-GM argument has been disproved by the research.
"A frequent claim has been that new genes introduced in GM food are harmless since all genes are broken up in the intestines. But our findings show that genes can be transferred through the intestinal wall into the blood; they have been found in blood, muscle tissue and liver in sufficiently large segments to be identified," Krogdahl explains.
"The biological impact of this gene transfer is unknown."
Read the full story in Norwegian at forskning.no
Åshild Krogdahl's profile
New boost for sustainable food production
A new technology is being used to analyse and help purify water used in the food industry. A quantum leap for sustainable production, says researcher.
Convenience food – easy to eat and hard to swallow
Time-squeezed Norwegians gobble up ready-to-eat meals like crazy. But not without guilt pangs.
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The Fir-Tree's Story: A Fairy Tale
Translated from the German
Volume 2, no. 2, 1891/92, pg. 386-390
"Why did the fir-tree creak when the daisy said Winter was bad-tempered and did not love the flowers?" asked the lime tree. "Because he was vexed," answered the oak; "when he is vexed he creaks, have you never noticed that? When the wind rushes through the forest he cries to us trees, "Bow down;' but the fir-tree says "Stand upright,' and when the forest trees, in awe and fear, bow to the wind, the fir-tree stands stiff and straight, twists round angrily, and creaks, because he is vexed."
"What has that to do with Winter and the daisy?" asked the lime.
"Ask him, ask him," chattered the poplar, "then you will hear what he says; he can give sharp answers."
Now the lime-tree was inquisitive, and who can wonder at it? If one is bound to the same spot year by year, he does not care to miss a story just for fear of a sharp answer. But she was wise, and tried to find a suitable beginning.
"Fir-tree," she said at last, "how is it you always wear the same dress in summer and winter all the year round?"
"Because I am not vain, and do not always want new things like you," was the answer.
"There, now you know the reason," laughed the poplar.
The lime-tree was too inquisitive to pretend to be offended by this sharp answer, and that was a good thing or she would never have heard the story of Winter.
Turning once more to her disagreeable neighbour she said, "You might tell us something about Winter! You know him and love him, and we know nothing about him. When he comes we are asleep, you alone are awake and talk to him through all those long, long months."
The fir tree was silent for some time, and all the trees waited anxiously for a reply.
At last he said, "Leave me alone, and if you want to know something about Winter, stay awake; he who wants to learn must not sleep."
Here the conversation would have been at an end, if he oak had not intervened. He was the oldest and strongest of the forest trees, and was highly esteemed by them all. "Fir-tree," he said, "you show your most disagreeable side, but you are not as bad as you seem; I know you better, for I saw you when you were hardly a year old. Why are you so gruff? Tell your companions your story, rejoice with them now in happy days, that they may mourn with you when the dark days come."
These were serious words, and the fir-tree took them to heart, and began, "You want to hear about Winter? Very well! Lay down the prejudice you have against him, for I know you do not love him. Do not think I am partial because I am his friend. I am only just because I know him. However, let us come to the point. When God created the world, when the flowers decked the meadows and the trees waved their branches, He called the Seasons and said to them, 'Behold the earth, how beautiful it is. I give it to you; divide the flowers and trees amongst you, but love and tend them carefully.' And the Seasons rejoiced exceedingly, and dearly loved the children of Nature. That lasted a time, but soon they began to quarrel. Changeable, boisterous Spring could not agree with deliberate Winter; glowing Summer thought Autumn too phlegmatic. In short, their quarrels grew worse and worse, till Autumn declared, 'This state of things cannot continue; we do not agree; let us divide the earth amongst us, so that each of us may have a portion he can call his own.' And so it happened: Winter built his palace at the Poles, Summer took the middle of the earth, and between the two Spring and Autumn reigned supreme. You will soon hear that this arrangement did not last long, but it was not changed completely, and Winter still lives in his old palace.
"How do you know that?" asked the linden.
"My cousin, who went to see him, told me all about it."
"How could your cousin visit him?" asked the birch; "is he not bound to the earth, even as we are?"
"It happened in this way," answered the fir-tree. "Once upon a time some enterprising men came to the forest and looked for wood to build a ship. My cousin, a tall straight fir, stood up proudly amongst the other trees. They saw him, they cut him down and turned him into a mast. Then the went to sea! The sailors gave him a large cloth and said, 'Hold it fast.' My cousin enjoyed the voyage, and did his duty bravely, for when the wind came and wanted to carry away the cloth, he held it tightly, and did not bend. The voyage went northward, ever northward, and behold! suddenly they arrived at King Winter's palace. When the ship knocked, Winter came out, and was very much astonished to see such a strange visitor. Then he remembered how unkindly he is often welcomed on earth, and angrily he shook his head till the snowflakes flew about wildly. Suddenly he saw my cousin, and, as he is specially fond of us firs, his anger melted, and he began to chat merrily, and to tell him most wonderful stories. One of them I was telling you now.
"Old King Winter was so happy that he would not let the ship go, and folded it tightly in his strong arms! My cousin was delighted; but the happier he was, the more miserable were the sailors. One morning he heard them saying, 'Our firewood has come to an end, and if the ice does not melt soon we must all perish. Let us cut down the mast, that will help us for a time.' When my cousin heard that he begged Winter to let the ship go, and Winter consented for the sake of the fir-tree. He let the ice melt, and the crew returned home in safety."
"That was a good thing," cried the trees.
"But now let me return to my story. The earth was divided, and each Season had his own kingdom; so it would have remained, had not Spring, in his usual fashion, again wanted a change. He did not care to remain in the same place from year to year, so he called the Seasons together and made this proposal. 'Let us make another division, ' he cried, 'and as the whole earth belongs to each of us, let us not always be bound to one region. Let each have a certain time, during which the whole world shall be his.' 'I have no objection,' said Summer, 'provided I may keep the centre of the earth.' 'And I my Poles,' cried Winter. Spring agreed, glad to have his own way, and Autumn hoped to find a recompense somehow. So the compact was made, and Spring was about to begin his reign, when Winter said, 'Let us also divide the beauties of Nature, that one may not have all and the others nothing.' 'Very well,' cried Spring, 'I take the buds.'
"'Mine be the flowers,' said Summer.
"'And mine the fruit,' exclaimed Autumn 'and Winter can have the leaves.'
"Winter was agreeable, the compact was made, and Spring began to reign. Trees and flowers he kissed ino budys, and a radiant smile broke over the face of the earth. When the buds burst, and leaves and flowers shone in glowing colours, Summer began to rule Now things became more complicated, for Autumn made a special arrangement with Summer by which he gave him some of his fruits, and demanded flowers in return; and when his reign began he gathered his fruit with busy hands, for that was his due.
"Now something happened by which poor Winter was sadly deceived. You remember that, according to the agreement, the leaves of the trees belonged to Winter. But in glowing summer-time, when the leaves trembled high up in the air, and the flowers shone in the grass below, a little flirtation had sprung up between them. As often happens, love began in fun. When the sun tried to shine on the flowers the leaves stood in the way; then suddenly they bend down, and the sunlight fell on the little ones below and dazzled them completely; then the leaves branched in the branches above. Or when a summer shower fell, the leaves collected drops, and when the rain was over they shook them down, and startled the flowers. It was all fun at first, but it soon became an act of love, for the sun grew hotter and hotter, and the poor little flowers would have withered and died had not the leaves, like a shield, caught the fiery darts of the sun.
"As love grew deeper they longed to be united; but up above hung the leaves, and the flowers shone in the grass below. Love always finds ways and means, and so flowers and leaves soon found a messenger--clinging Ivy--who henceforth carried vows and sighs from one to the other. He sprang up amongst the flowers, and climbed up to the leaves of the trees, a silent bond of love.
"The reign of Autumn was over, and he was about to gather the last flowers; the leaves paled and withered at the thought of parting from their beloved companions, and entreated Autumn to let them down just once, that they might bid a last farewell. And Autumn granted their prayer, though he had no right to do so. He shook the trees, and down flew the Leaves to earth; he played a weird tune, and they whirled round the flowers in a wild dance, till pale and weary they drooped and died; and as Autumn's music ceased, the leaves too sand down to rest. Then Winter approached; bleak and bare stood hill and dale; only we firs were bright and green, only the ivy crept from tree to tree as if to hid the faithlessness of the leaves. Winter was touched; angrily he shook the last dead leaves off the trees, and whirled them over snow and ice; but to the ivy he spoke solemnly: 'I will protect thee, I will guard thee, that thou mayest pursue the sweet vocation thou hast chosen; remain for ever a messenger of love; carry silent greetings from flower to leaf, from Autumn to Spring; build an everlasting bridge from season to season; thy vocation be to embrace and unit; thou, the happy remembrancer of sunny days, thou shalt even soften the severity of Winter.' Thus spoke Winter to the ivy. But we fir-trees he loves with all his heart; and at Christmas he raises us to honour and glory, such as you can never imagine--no, not in your brightest dreams."
"Tell us about it; tell us about it!" cried the trees.
"Another time," answered the fir; " yes, another time."
Typed by Dawn Duran, Feb 2013


A short clip from "The Crohn's Moans" movie featuring Karen Langston discussing emotional connection to disease.
I was funded through Kickstarter to make "The Crohn's Moans" a documentary started by me, Ivana Bosek, about my life as a young woman living with a chronic illness. The idea came to me after I nearly lost my life to Crohn's Disease.
The filming has begun which means I am on the road! The Crohn's Moans team is currently in NYC conducting interviews with two very important voices in the medical community. The first interview with Doctor Lawrence Brandt went incredibly well and has started this process off on a great note. Loads of information was thrown our way and we couldn't be happier with the results. Tomorrow is the final interview here in NYC and then we are on the road headed towards Maine!
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