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FRESNO, Calif. — Vice President Joe Biden says the Obama administration “hit the accelerator” toward spending $5 billion under the economic stimulus law to weatherize people’s homes, create thousands of jobs, help consumers save money and put the nation on track for energy independence.
Yet the weatherization program Biden highlighted in his visit yesterday to New Hampshire is widely considered among the least organized spending projects under the $814-billion economic stimulus law. It has also been criticized for its slow progress by auditors and outsiders.
Biden didn’t hint much at its troubles.
Nearly 18 months since it started, the stimulus weatherization program has experienced spending delays, inefficiencies and mismanagement.
In Biden’s home state of Delaware, the entire program has been suspended since May, and last month federal auditors identified possible fraud.
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'Italian Bonnie and Clyde' Caught in Thailand 6 Years After Impersonating George Clooney in Clothing Scam
Francesco Galdelli, 58, and Vanya Goffi, 45, were convicted and sentenced in 2014 by Italy’s Supreme Court, but by then they had fled the country.
An Italian couple wanted for allegedly impersonating George Clooney in a bid to sell their clothing line has been arrested after years on the run, authorities said.
Francesco Galdelli, 58, and his wife, Vanya Goffi, 45, who were dubbed the “Italian Bonnie and Clyde” after spending six years allegedly evading capture, were arrested Saturday in Thailand, Italian police told CNN.
Their arrests were the result of a joint operation by Royal Thai Police and Italian agents from Interpol, officials said.
Clooney testified in 2010 that Galdelli and Goffi were fraudulently using his name and forged signatures to create a fake fashion line. The couple has also been accused of selling watches online they claimed to be Rolexes, but sending the buyers packets of salt instead, Italian police told CNN.
Galdelli and Goffi were convicted and sentenced in 2014 by Italy’s Supreme Court, with the former receiving eight years and four months and the latter getting six years and five months, but by then, they had fled the country.
The pair was known to travel often to Thailand, where they were “considered respectable citizens and even benefactors amid the Italian community” there, a spokesperson with the Italian police said to CNN.
Police nabbed the couple Saturday after surrounding their luxury villa in the Thai resort city of Pattaya.
Galdelli was arrested on charges of illegally entering and staying in Thailand, while Goffi was charged with overstaying in the country.
Galdelli, who had no legitimate record documenting his entering Thailand, had once before been arrested in the country, but escaped one day later.
After he was arrested at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Pattaya in 2014, Galdelli allegedly bribed prison guards with 20.000 Thai Baht, or about $638, to let him go. According to police, Galdelli even withdrew the cash from an ATM while in custody.
He and Goffi are currently being detained at the Immigration Bureau in Pattaya and are awaiting extradition proceedings.
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Hugo is a very sweet boy. He loves laying on you and has the loudest purr. He is also very energetic and is really good at back-flips when he tries to catch a toy. He has a little sister named Hera who he would love to be adopted with.

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A boutique hotel near Stanford University sits along Matadero Creek offering garden views from each room; complimentary coffee/tea and WiFi
Hotel at a Glance: Creekside Inn - A Greystone Hotel
Creekside Inn - A Greystone Hotel offers a retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily life in Silicon Valley. Residing along Matadero Creek, the hotel provides a lush landscape of gardens and oak trees for serene strolls and picturesque views.
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Within Silicon Valley lies Palo Alto, where tech giants such as Apple, Google, HP, and Intel have their headquarters. You can learn all about the region’s rise as a computer-industry powerhouse with a visit to the Tech Museum of Innovation, or see the results of the area’s affluence in its many fine-dining restaurants, shops, and cultural offerings. A thriving arts scene is anchored by institutions such as the Cantor Arts Center & Rodin Sculpture Garden and Symphony Silicon Valley. You can also take in a game at Stanford University or take a relaxing stroll through the Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden.

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Cristiano Ronaldo kicked the goalkeeper in the head on Friday, but he had a much more pleasant reunion with another ex-Manchester United player.
After the two clashed earlier this week while serving as international teammates, Bruno Fernandes said it was “good to see” Martin Dubravka.
In a 1-0 victory over Slovakia on Friday night in Bratislava, Fernandes scored the game-winning goal after slaloming through the defense of his opponent and firing a shot beyond Dubravka. His goal kept Roberto Martinez’s team’s qualification campaign undefeated as they now have 15 points after five games.
After being unintentionally kicked in the head by another former Reds teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dubravka had a night to forget. When the 38-year-old stretched for a loose ball, his boot accidentally struck the goalkeeper in the face, earning him a booking.
Having fun reconnecting with former colleagues, Dubravka shared two photos of himself with Ronaldo and Fernandes on Instagram. “Nice to see a good old friends,” he wrote.
Unquestionably, Fernandes had the better night of the two, but he still took the time to comment, sharing the photo on Instagram and writing, “Always good to see you mate.”
At the midway point of the group, Portugal and Slovakia are still in first and second place, with Slovakia having accumulated 10 points after its first five games. Despite having the same number of points as Luxembourg, Dubravka’s team leads by goal differential.
On Monday night, Portugal will play against Luxembourg, and Slovakia will host Liechtenstein.
Dubravka’s stay with United was brief; the goalkeeper was on loan to the Reds for six months. He moved from Newcastle United in the beginning of September, although he only played twice, both times in the Carabao Cup, before leaving and going back to St. James’ Park.


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Field reports show little threat of whitefly to cotton in Bathinda: Govt
Punjab Agricultural University vice-chancellor discussed progress of cotton crop and ways to safeguard it against white fly and other diseases with the agriculture officers.punjab Updated: Jul 19, 2017 15:08 IST
District chief agriculture officer Gurditta Singh Sidhu has said weekly reports from cotton fields has shown that white fly pest attack on cotton was lower than what could be considered to be worrisome. He added the crop was also expected to be better than last year.
“A district-level pest surveillance team has been conducing survey of fields for the pest and issuing advisories. Due to medium rainfall, there is little threat of whitefly,” he said at the fourth meeting of Inter-State Consultative and Monitoring Committee for cotton on Tuesday. Bathinda has 140 acres of cotton cultivation, with the largest area in Talwandi Sabo.
At the meeting, Punjab Agricultural University vice-chancellor Dr Baldev Singh Dhillon discussed progress of cotton crop and ways to safeguard it against white fly and other diseases with the agriculture officers.
Joint director with the agriculture department Dr Sukhdev Singh Sidhu also stated that the white fly pest attack was lower. “This year, we expect good yield from cotton crop,” he added.
Mansa chief agriculture officer also said that no white fly attack had been reported in his district. “ Stagnant water did hit the crop in low-lying areas,” he added.
Experts from Haryana and Rajasthan too shared their experiences and added that no pest attack has been reported in their states.
Experts from PAU, Ludhiana; Haryana, Rajasthan and the chief agriculture officers of Mansa, Muktsar, Faridkot, Bathinda, Barnala, Sangrur and Fazilka participated in the meeting. Beside them, block agriculture officers and district administrative official were also present.
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Read the article in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette about Project Lead The Way teacher Mike Smutok and his efforts to 3D print PPE for local hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.
The project was inspired by STEM sophomore Matthew Healey, who, after seeing a similar story in the news, went to Principal Michael Rubin with the idea.
Smutok, who is using the school’s Maker Bot Replicator Plus and a Maker Bot Method printers to produce the face shields, said he acquired the equipment earlier this week and is running them in the basement of his home.
It takes the printers roughly six hours to make four face shields, he said.
“We are printing the headband section of a face shield,” he said. “It was designed by Stratasys, a company that makes 3D printers. It was designed around ease of manufacturing, small footprint.”
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Massawa is New York City’s oldest African restaurant, known for its unique split pea shiro and friendly service. Our vegan-friendly menu features Ethiopian classics as well as Eritrean seafood dishes.
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Massawa Restaurant was named after Eritrea’s historic coastal city. Massawa is the largest natural deep-water port on the Red Sea, known for its hot climate and lively bars & restaurants.
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2 years short of 20 years of Orlu governance, Imo State is already in a frenzy over who succeeds Governor Hope Uzodinma in 2024. Already, many individuals, diaspora groups and organizations from the three senatorial districts of Imo East, Imo West and Imo North, are engaged in serious discussions on how to balance the problems caused by the Supreme Court judgement that deprived Owerri zone of their first attempt at a full term in office since Imo state was formed in 1976.
Imo East, also known as Owerri zone, has nine local councils, namely Owerri Municipal, Owerri North, Owerri West, Ikeduru, Mbaitoli, Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise, Ezinihitte Mbaise and Ngor Opkala.
Imo West or Orlu zone, has 12 councils including, Isu, Njaba, Orlu, Nwangele, Oru East, Oru West, Ideato North, Ideato South, Oguta, Ohaji/Egbema, Orsu and Nkwere. The incumbent governor is from this zone.
Imo North, otherwise known as Okigwe zone, has the least number of local councils. They are Okigwe, Isiala Mbano, Ehime Mbano, Onuimo, Obowo and Ihitte Uboma.
In the current democratic dispensation, Imo West has produced Chief Achike Udenwa (1999- 2007), Imo North produced Chief Ikedi Ohakim (2007-2011), Imo west again produced Chief Rochas Okorocha (2011-2019), Imo East produced Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha who did a shortlived 7 months (2019-2020) and Imo West once again had Senator Hope Uzodinma (2020 till date) installed on the saddle, meaning that by the end of Uzodinma’s tenure, Imo West would have been on the saddle for 20 years.
The arrangement has led to agitation that the Owerri Zone (Imo East) remains the only zone in the state that has not produced even one full term governor since the military handed over political power to civilians and in fact since the creation of the state in 1976. Recall that the only times the zone had a, semblance of producing a governor were in1991 when the late Chief Evan Enwerem held office for a few months during the Ibrahim Babangida diarchy of the aborted Third Republic, and, the seven months of Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha before he was removed by the Supreme Court.
Imo East (Owerri zone) has been cooperating with other zones in producing governors in the understanding that we are hosts, by virtue of having the state capital sited in our zone. The time is now ripe for Owerri zone to occupy the top seat in 2024 and the other two zones should graciously reciprocate past gestures and provide the necessary across party’s support required to achieve it conscientiously without rancour in the interest of equity fairness and justice. Imo wu nke anti nile, let’s keep it peaceful. Let men of integrity and conscience in all zones and across partisan lines come together to correct this anomaly and imbalance in our politics before the state is deluged by the centrifugal and centripetal forces working against it.
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At 12.30pm today the Team was requested by the North East Ambulance Service to assist with the evacuation of a 13 year climber. The young climber was with a school group when they sustained a lower leg injury.
The Team along with North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team responded to the incident at East Woodburn crag and evacuated the casualty on a stretcher to the waiting crewed Ambulance on the nearby road.
12 Team members were involved for 1.5 hours.
Having just finished providing the rescue cover for the fell race at the Alwinton Border Shepherds’ Show, the Team was called by the North East Ambulance Service for an injured walker in the Hedgehope area. A vehicle and team members were mobilised quickly, along with North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team.
One of our incident controllers spoke to the party on the hill and determined that they were most likely on Coldlaw Cairn. The casualty and two companions were located at 17.30hrs.
The casualty’s two companions were walked off the hill down the Harthope Valley by a Team member, whilst the casualty with a suspected dislocated shoulder was walked to Coomb Fell to help him warm up. From there a three hour stretcher evacuation ensued in the dark. After crossing many peat hags and crossing the river, we were able to evacuate the casualty down the path to Langleeford Hope. From here the casualty was transported in our 4×4 ambulance to the road head where he was transferred to crewed ambulance.
The incident involved 18 team members for 8 hours
Earlier this afternoon the Team and North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team were requested by the North East Ambulance Service to attend an individual who had collapsed in the Yetlington area of Northumberland. Due to the conditions the helicopter was unable to fly. Consequently a vehicle, Team members and a Team Doctor were mobilised quickly.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the Paramedics and Team members, the 50 year old male died. The man was on a shoot when he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Our thoughts go out to the man’s family and friends at this difficult time.
The incident involved 14 Team members for 2 hours.
The Team was placed on standby this afternoon for a 15 year with a lower leg injury near to Prudhoe. After 20 minutes the Team and North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team were stood down; the North East Ambulance Service confirmed they could handle the incident.
Back to enjoying the weekend!
Earlier this afternoon the Team alongside North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist the North East Ambulance Service. A 65 year old female walking on the St Cuthbert’s Way near Wooler, fell and damaged her lower right leg.
The Teams alongside the Paramedics evacuated the lady on a mountain rescue stretcher to the nearest road for onward transport to hospital.
The incident lasted 2.5hrs and involved 10 Team members.
At just before 2.00pm the Team and North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Teamwas called to assist the North East Ambulance Service. A 22 year female had fallen off a motorcycle in north Northumberland, near Kirknewton. She had a suspected fractured lower leg.
Due to her location we also requested the assistance of Borders Search & Rescue Unit and ultimately RAF Boulmer to fly the casualty to hospital. Possibly the last time operationally we will see the Seaking.
In total six members from three MRTs and two Land Rover ambulances were involved.
The Team was put on standby earlier this afternoon for an injured mountain biker at Kielder. The mountain biker had injured their shoulder having come off one of the downhill trails below Deadwater Fell. Given the mountain biker’s location and nature of their injuries, Forestry Commission staff were able to assist the Paramedic to evacuate the biker to the ambulance. A total of 15 members from North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves were available to respond should we have been needed.
At 11.55hrs one of our Incident Controllers received a call from the North East Ambulance Service. A horse rider had fallen off their horse near to Newton on the Moor. The rider, who was going in and out of consciousness, was in a difficult to access location on farmland. Due to the prevailing conditions – strong winds, heavy rain – ourselves and North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team were requested to assist. Before the Teams deployed, the Air Ambulance was able to land near to the casualty and evacuate them. We hope the rider was not too seriously injured and makes a swift recovery.
The Team along with North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team has just stood down from an incident near to Hethpool. The North East Ambulance Service requested the assistance of both MRTs to evacuate an injured walker on the St Cuthbert’s Way. The walker had a suspected fractured leg. Whilst travelling to the scene, the Ambulance Service informed the Teams that a farmer in a 4×4 had helped to transport the walker to the awaiting ambulance.
At just before 4.00pm today, the North East Ambulance Service requested the Team’s assistance in locating and evacuating a walker with an injured ankle. The location provided by the walker’s partner was approximate; they were believed to be near to Chesters, a remote uninhabited farmhouse to the south of the Breamish Valley. The Team along with North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team responded immediately. A Mountain Rescue Landrover 4×4 Ambulance with two members onboard located the walker 400m to the east of Chesters. Casualty care was administered and the walker’s injured ankle immobilised before he was transported off the hill by the community Paramedic, who also happens to be a Team member, to an awaiting Ambulance. The busy period continues…


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Google has announced some new features to improve content recommendations when making travel plans using Google Maps. When you search for a new city, you'll see recommended lists for places to go created by Maps community remembers and top sites.
In addition, Google Maps will curate restaurant lists titled, Trending, Top, and Hidden Gem, based on public interest in the area. Putting in it's own words, Google explained:
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The search giant has sprinkled some more AI on Maps and announced it will use AI to show important stuff at a glance when you search for a place.
You can now get a good sense of a place and its highlights at a glance, powered by Google’s AI identifying key insights from the Maps community. Pull up a place on Maps and you’ll see photos and reviews that summarize what people love about it, like a restaurant’s famous tacos or the laid-back vibe at a bar.
Google is already experimenting with a generative AI feature that lets you input text prompts to discover new places to go. The feature is available to a limited pool of testers, Google announced last month.
Adding more customization to lists, Google will let you re-order the places you have added to your lists and link your social content such as reviews to the list items. These features will roll out globally for Android and iOS later this month.
After changing the color scheme on Google Maps, the company is working on some more design changes such as a a cleaner home screen with fewer tabs, and new pin colors, the company said.


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Music news round-up: Weds 16 May
Ultravox follow the release of their forthcoming new album Brilliant (28 May) with a UK tour. Starting in Bristol, this will be the first time the band have played live since their ‘Return To Eden’ reformation shows of 2009.
FRIDAY 21 BRISTOL COLSTON HALL
SATURDAY 22 OXFORD NEW THEATRE
SUNDAY 23 PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL
TUESDAY 25 NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CENTRE
WEDNESDAY 26 BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY HALL
THURSDAY 27 HMV APOLLO HAMMERSMITH
SATURDAY 29 GUILDFORD G LIVE
SUNDAY 30 MANCHESTER PALACE THEATRE
TUESDAY 2 SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION
WEDNESDAY 3 IPSWICH REGENT THEATRE
THURSDAY 4 SHEFFIELD CITY HALL
SATURDAY 6 BLACKPOOL OPERA HOUSE
SUNDAY 7 GLASGOW CLYDE AUDITORIUM
MONDAY 8 GATESHEAD SAGE
British rock trio Wideboy Generation release their debut album No Time To Be Shy on July 16th, 2012. The album was produced and engineered by the John Cornfield (Muse, Oasis, Stone Roses, Cast) in his south Cornwall studio.
Following the release of his debut LP Lucky Shiner back in 2010, a record that won The Guardian’s First Album Award, Gold Panda – has announced a new 7” ‘Mountain/Financial District’ and a selected tour of live dates and festival appearances.
June UK dates:
2nd London - Field Day Festival UK 10th Manchester - Parklife Festival UK
10th Manchester - Parklife Festival UK
The new single 'Weathervanes and Chemicals' from award-winning Norwegian indie-pop outfit Team Me, is now available for free download. Taken from the debut album To The Treetops! released earlier this year, the single is a fan favourite and until now has only been available online to stream.
Team Me - Weathervanes and Chemicals by Anorak London
Hop Farm Music Festival has announced the final acts for this year's festival. Additions to the line-up include Jose Gonzalez, Athlete, Nitin Sawhney, Taj Mahal and I Am Kloot.
The festival takes place at Paddock Wood, Kent on 29 June - 1 July.
Sparrow have released a new video to forthcoming single, ‘Move’ and announced new tour dates.
Following the band’s recent packed show at this year’s Great Escape festival, they will play a series of shows around the album and single releases:
- Fri 18th May 2012, Proud Galleries, Camden, London. (album launch show)
- Wed 23rd May 2012, Resident (instore show at 6pm), Brighton
- Sat 2nd June 2012, Meadowlands Festival, Lewes n/ Brighton
- Sat 9th June 2012, Play, Reading
- Thu 14th June 2012, The Cooler, Bristol
- Thu 21st June 2012, The Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
- Fri 27th July 2012, The Haunt, Brighton
Trailer Trash Traceys have issued a video for their new single 'Los Angered'.

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Chile is returning to diesel and coal to alleviate stress on its power grid caused by a record-dry winter that has depleted hydroelectric reservoirs.
The precipitation deficit has driven up marginal costs as thermoelectric stations that depend on imported coal, LNG and diesel ramp up supply.
Thermal power accounted for 73.5pc of generation yesterday, compared with just 12.6pc for hydro, a ratio that is usually reversed during the southern hemisphere winter when reservoirs would normally be full.
The energy ministry is currently preparing a preventive rationing decree to provide more flexibility to the system, although energy minister Juan Carlos Jobet has dismissed any immediate risk of power outages.
Of particular concern is the persistent dispatch of diesel units that are generally only used for back-up supply.
“Diesel logistics and low inventories are raising alarms, because in recent years generation demand for diesel was low, but now it’s normal,” says former northern grid director Daniel Salazar, now head of Santiago-based consultancy Energie.
In January to July 2021, diesel generation accounted for 2.6pc of total generation in the 28GW national power grid (SEN), and 4.2pc of total thermal generation. In the same seven-month period of 2020, diesel represented just 1.1pc of total generation, and 1.7pc of thermal dispatch, according to national grid coordinator CEN.
Over the past seven days alone, the power sector has consumed around 4,000m3/d (25,160 b/d) of diesel, representing 12pc of overall thermal generation.
Chile’s state-owned Enap says it is working to ensure supply of diesel as well as LNG. Experts say the challenges lie downstream, where generators are reluctant to sign term diesel supply contracts with distributors such as Copec because of dispatch uncertainty.
Chile’s thirst for diesel is reminiscent of the mid-2000s, when generators resorted to diesel to cope with a sharp curtailment of pipeline natural gas supply from neighboring Argentina. The crisis led to the construction of substantial coal-fired capacity and two LNG terminals.
The new pressure on the system recently prompted CEN to bring the 120MW Ventanas 1 coal-power unit out of reserve. Other coal plants that had been earmarked for decommissioning, such as 350MW Bocamina 2 in May 2022, could now be kept in service as well, a setback for Chile’s aggressive decarbonization drive.
Chile is now also looking to Argentina for more pipeline gas starting in October to complement LNG imports.
Brace for 2022
The imminent preventive rationing decree will unlock a series of technical options and conservation measures aimed at mitigating the risk of power supply shortages. Measures include reducing the security margin on some transmission segments, spacing out maintenance and conducting public water-saving campaigns.
The government issued a similar decree in 2008 and again in 2011. Since then, the grid has been transformed by a wave of solar and wind capacity that recently hit a 10GW milestone. Nonetheless, renewables alone cannot compensate for the hydroelectric shortfall because of their intermittent nature and transmission constraints.
Chile’s electricity system has coped well so far, but the outlook for the second quarter next year is grim. “Any major breakdown right now would cause a blackout,” according to Andrés Romero, former head of the National Energy Commission (CNE) and current chairman of local consultancy Valgesta. “But March and April 2022 will be the most difficult period.”
By Patricia Garip
Fuente: Argusmedia, viernes 13 de agosto de 2021.


Considering any new presidential appointments to both the Secretary of Labor and Assistant Secretary of Labor, it’s highly unlikely the new administration’s directives will relax OSHA’s focus on enforcement of the current lockout-tagout (LOTO) standard in any meaningful way.
OSHA’s Control of Hazardous Energy LOTO standard (29 CFR 1910.147) contains only the minimum required elements for effective hazardous energy control. It was never intended to apply to every situation. OSHA still holds employers accountable to use all published LOTO standards and industry-recognized best practices when all other options for hazardous energy control are not found within OSHA standards and publications.
A significant body of work exists from the 1990 OSHA standards, resulting OSHA interpretations, industry and trade associations, and specifically “industry consensus” standards like ANSI Z44.1. Each industry is continuing to advance these standards—effectively changing the way traditional work is done. This requires employers to keep pace with published standards in order to keep employees safe and avoid costly fines—making the document a must have for all employers and EHS professionals.
Here are seven useful LOTO program hacks you’ll find in the revised ANSI standard:
1. Industry specific examples of “Alternative Methods” of LOTO when traditional options don’t work
2. LOTO-based risk assessments
3. Management of change forms and examples. This is sorely needed in all industries for LOTO
4. Remote LOTO options
5. Sample policy/program elements
6. Alternative LOTO method justification forms. This is highly recommended when you have to implement non-traditional LOTO procedures to provide effective controls.
7. Alternative LOTO procedures for specific packing, pharmaceutical, robotics, plastics, printing, steel, and semiconductor industries
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Defective tires are the cause of over 400 deaths annually in this country, and thousands of injuries. A tire defect usually occurs in the manufacturing stage, during a process where fabric, wire, and rubber are molded together to create tires as we know and use them.
Today, San Diego’s 10News concluded an investigation revealing that automobile tires that are being marketed as new, are actually old, raising all kinds of safety concerns. According to the report, there are no federal regulations that require a seller of tires to disclose the actually age of the tire to the consumer. The tire may look new, and be presented as such, but the tire may have been manufactured years earlier.
It is well understood that the structural integrity of rubber will degrade over time, causing the tire to become more susceptible to stress, and more likely to fail in a catastrophic way. The failure of a tire while traveling at a high rate of speed can lead to serious injury or death.
That scenario is precisely what happened to 19-year-old Luis Meraz. The Imperial tire teenager purchased a set of tires he believed was brand new, but in fact were 12 years old. While driving his Mustang, the tread separated on one of the tires, causing a huge crash, and claiming the life of the teenager. His parents successfully sued the tire company.
“If you take an old rubber band that’s been sitting out for a long time, if you start to stretch it you’ll start to see it crack,” said Sean Kane, of the Safety Research and Strategies Inc. in Massachusetts. “And you can’t stretch it very often before it will break.” Over the last 20 years, Kane said his group has documented catastrophic failures in 252 incidents, including 233.
Ultimately, tire manufacturers have a duty to sell products that are safe for their intended uses. When those products fail, they should be held responsible. If you or a loved one believes that a serious injury or death was caused by the failure of a defective tire, and wish to discuss the matter, please call the Walton Law Firm for a free and confidential consultation.


One of our clients specializes in enabling emergency responders to use robotics. However, while researching the challenges described by the Fukushima robot operators, they realized that the difficulties the operators faced stemmed not from physical limitation of the robots used but from the way they were controlled.
Robots can perform strenuous, dangerous or unergonomic work not well suited for people. They are widely used in controlled environments such as factories but struggle in dynamic environments that constitute most work sites. In these environments, even robots controlled by AI can have inadequate adaptive decision-making. Interpretability for such AI (understanding why and how they function) can also be difficult, if not impossible, to establish, raising concerns regarding their use in critical applications where errors can result in injury or expensive outages. On the other hand, fully human-controlled robots require significant operator training and, even with experience, introduce significant challenges resulting in inefficiencies. As a result, these two factors have led to the limited deployment of robotics across all industries.
To address this problem, which is faced by many industries, including nuclear, our client developed a hardware-enabled software platform called the Intuitive Robot Interface System (IRIS). Promation connected this novel technology with real applications in the nuclear power industry and integrated the conceptual augmented reality (AR) control system into functioning prototype solutions. As a result of this applied R&D, a contract was recently signed with a major nuclear power generator to deliver an AR-controlled robotic system.
A suite of robotic control tools that enable optimal utilization of automation and human-in-the-loop control for any application lowers costs, risk and development time of robotic solutions. The key benefits of the platform for the nuclear industry include minimizing time spent on PPE, improved operational flexibility, and enablement of simulations of the work to train new operators.


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Pattern Gown Printshop Illuminator
Color printed Taufscheinwith angels in profile at sides in yellow and red colored gowns, pair of birds on vine in bottom corners, spread eagle with banner at top center.
Dimensions in Inches
16 x 13 7/8
Watercolor and ink on paper
Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered
Print Shop Location
Longswamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
eagles, birds, angels, clouds, leaves
William Hamscher, Angelina Fenstermacher, Joseph Heinrich, C. Herman, Joseph Hamscher, Maria Hamscher
Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.
Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Folklife Society
Fraktur lettering, German script
Stopp, Klaus. The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans. 6 vols. Mainz, Germany, and East Berlin, Pa.: privately published, 1997–99. vol. 1, p. 192.
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
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Mercy Launches Healthy Variety Frozen Meals
Jun 20, 2018 10:09AM
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Mercy Medical Center – Sioux City announces the launch of Healthy Variety, a line of frozen meals developed by Mercy dietitians and hand-crafted in the Mercy-Sioux City kitchen.
The meals are heart healthy, low in sodium, and diabetic friendly. They offer an easy meal solution for anyone with congestive heart failure, diabetes, or heart disease; those following a weight reduction plan; or anyone who simply wants a convenient and healthy option.
One of the goals of Healthy Variety is to reduce readmission to the hospital. "Patients with congestive heart failure, for example, need to follow a low-sodium diet, and having too much salt could cause them to be re-admitted," explains Mercy Clinical Dietitian Coordinator Stephanie Small. "Most frozen meals at the grocery store are loaded with salt. Healthy Variety meals offer an easy, well-balanced, and accurate option."
"We carefully tailored the sodium, carbohydrate and saturated fat content to ensure the meal is appropriate for a variety of dietary needs and is balanced for good nutrition," Small says. "Our meals stand alone in being dietitian developed and approved."
Healthy Variety meals are just $4.75 – $5.50 and are available for purchase in the Mercy – Sioux City cafeteria. Varieties include: beef stroganoff, cheese ravioli, chicken breast deluxe, cilantro lime chicken, citrus peppercorn tilapia, French toast, meatloaf, penne pasta, roast beef, roast pork shoulder, roast turkey, and salmon bruschetta.
Additional sales locations include Mercy – Dubuque, Mercy Family Pharmacy – Elm Street in Dubuque, and Mercy – Clinton. For more information, visit mercyhealthyvariety.com.


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understand why Danish label Mighty Music has signed this Dutch thrash band. They are
just a little bit different from the lot. They combine elements of several
genres and do this in a way, so that the band doesn't sound like the umpteenth new
thrash band. In 2011 they released an EP called 'Warchitects' and the band
changed from a 4-piece into a 5-piece. New is guitarist Pascal and also
a new singer Sander has joined the band. One of the members is drummer Ivo
Maarhuis, who also plays in Izegrim.
Why is this band different from the lot?
Well, because their music is a combination of thrash, has metalcore kind of vocals,
progressive elements, especially the guitar soli and that with a certain groove
the songs. It is a kind of combination of Hatesphere, Textures, soli reminding
of the Varney period and that with a nice groove. Neckbreak Nation is technical,
but has succeeded in writing songs that stick. Enough songs to bang your head to and
you are warned, don't break it. That the band dares to take a risk can be seen in letting a
former DJ and hip hop producer master the record. I have to admit that he has
done a good job.
you are ready for some interesting rather technical and groovy thrash, check


Who said men were the only ones to catch a woodie in the am? Women think about sex just as much if not more than the average man. Hell, we’re human, right?
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Drake sat down with Beats 1’s OVO Sound Radio and held nothing back when addressing recent incidents …


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- Apartment residents who have been shielded from rising energy prices could start facing rent hikes as owners cope with increased operating costs.
Some owners of small apartment buildings in the Denver area said this week they may have to begin passing their natural gas costs on to residents in the wake of four price increases by Xcel Energy since July. The most recent rate hike was approved Friday by the Public Utilities Commission.
"So far I haven't wanted to rock the boat with my tenants, but if a new unit comes available or a lease comes due, I'm probably going to kick the rent up at that time," said Dave Newman, an apartment broker with Interurban Corp., who owns nearly 100 apartment units in the metro area.
Most apartments built since the late 1970s are submetered, or set up so each unit's utility use is individually monitored and billed.
But older, smaller buildings often operate off a single gas meter. Owners either absorb the costs or pass them to residents through a process called ratio utility billing system, or RUBS, which calculates a resident's share of the bill based on square footage and number of residents. Some companies pass those utility costs on monthly based on the most recent bill, but others base the monthly charge on what the utility bill was for the same month during the previous year.
"A lot of our smaller members that aren't on RUBS are stuck absorbing the costs right now," said Jamie Glonek, government affairs director for the Apartment Association of Metro Denver.
The association has received an increased number of inquiries from owners of smaller properties wondering how they can recuperate some of their costs, Glonek said.
Owners that typically pay the utilities for their residents say they're in a tough place. They don't want to lose tenants by raising rents or changing their billing systems, but they're struggling to keep up with their costs.
"In one of my buildings, I've been absorbing the costs as part of my overhead," said Don Werner, whose company, Werner Properties LLC, owns 46 apartment units in Denver.
"I've seen energy bills in one building rise from $600 a month in previous years to $2,200. I might have to raise rents to offset some portion of that," he said.
At least one large apartment company is reassessing its utility billing in Denver. The Simpson Property Group, which operates 115 apartment communities in 13 states, has started passing some of its utility costs on to residents in the metro area.
Earlier this month, the company sent a letter to residents of its Glenbrook Apartments. The letter said energy prices had increased more than 125 percent, forcing it to change the way it billed for RUBS. The company has based its RUBS billing on the previous year's costs, but price increases have forced it to bill based on this year's prices, the letter said.
Russ Rowe, an attorney for the Simpson Property Group, said the company's leases include a provision that allows them to raise rents or alter utility billing when necessary.
The company is exploring the option of changing the billing systems at other properties as well.
"I think more and more management companies are going to change their billing models as long as energy prices continue to go up," Rowe said.
Some owners said the price increases are making it difficult to provide their residents with cost-efficient housing.
"Affordable housing is constantly slipping away from us, and this makes it one step further," Werner said.


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One year ago, Nintendo published Super Mario Maker. Born from the seeds planted by Super NES classic Mario Paint, WarioWare D.I.Y., and Nintendo's own internal game development tools, Super Mario Maker democratized the concept of creating Mario games, allowing players to build their own courses with a full suite of design tools in four different visual styles.
This in itself wasn't necessarily a wild innovation. Fan games that allow people to make their own Mario adventures — and more fully featured at that — have been around for years. So, too, have the competition's game-making kits, such as LittleBigPlanet and Project Spark. Convenient, console-friendly level-making tools arrived in force a decade ago with the excellent Mega Man: Powered Up, which included decent sharing features and a ton of downloadable updates, and long before that we saw the likes of RPG Maker and Fighter Maker on PlayStation. Oh, and there's that "Minecraft" thing the kids always talk about.
So what made Super Mario Maker so great? What made it different from all the make-your-own-game games that had come before?
What we said at the time
Without question, I loved Super Mario Maker; I gave the game five stars out of five. Its appeal tied closely to its intrinsic relationship to the excellent Mario series, of course; the sights and sounds of nostalgia count for a lot in a product like this! Making your own game levels is all well and good, but building Mario levels is a different matter altogether. It's such an iconic series, its aesthetic so deeply ingrained in our minds, that putting its pieces together ourselves appeals to a deep, reptilian part of the hindbrain.
But just as importantly, Super Mario Maker offered grace and style. As I noted in my review, the first time you play, it opens in medias res: You can control Mario from the title screen, but you can only run a short distance before Mario runs out of stage. From that point, you have to build the rest of the stage yourself. It's very direct, very simple, very intuitive; and the more you build, the more tools and abilities the game unlocks for you, until at last you have command of the complete Mario Maker sandbox along with the experience to use it to its fullest.
Mario Maker's interface proved to be every bit as intuitive and direct as its concept. Combining traditional Mario controls with point-and-click stylus commands on the system's handheld touch screen, I found it to be "a truly compelling, ironclad case for the existence of the Wii U's Game Pad." Even potentially cumbersome elements, like swapping between different subtypes of a menu option, was as simple as shaking the stylus. Everything simply fell into place, with an elegance that suggested Nintendo had taken notes from its predecessors: "Super Mario Maker includes a few features that seem to function as direct responses to the bad habits that have bogged down other level tool kits."
Even so, Mario Maker suffered from significant limitations — absent features that competitors and fan projects had managed to nail from the outset. I offered a litany of complaints in my review, and Bob nailed his own list of grievances on the cathedral door of the internet. "The lack of sloped surfaces?" I lamented. "My apparent inability to change or otherwise control the direction of flying enemies so I can build elaborate jumping puzzles around them? No checkpoints? No partially submerged stages? No flipping between layers like in Super Mario World's fortresses? These oversights chafe, and they limit what you can reasonably accomplish with Maker's otherwise impressive suite of features."
And much as we all loved the sharing and community features (I admit to a certain satisfaction in seeing my own level creations sitting up near the top of the popularity rankings until review duties pulled me away to other games), the system's opportunity to witness others' unvarnished creations underlined the element of human weakness inherent in the concept: Most people aren't very good at designing game levels. "Just as Super Mario Maker refuses to hold your hand to get you started," I wrote, "so too does it leave you to your own devices when it comes to making effective use of its potential." In other words: Garbage in, garbage out. Not that this was the game's fault per se, or that it's in any way unique to Mario Maker. Still, hunting for true excellence on its public servers had a sort of wistful, quixotic feel to it.
Despite its drawbacks, though, it really did stand out as something special: A brilliantly designed tool to empower amateur design. "The whole point of Super Mario Maker is that it puts near-total control in your hands," I wrote. "As long as you're having fun, it's doing its job. And I have a hard time imagining anyone not having fun with this brilliant piece of software that so adroitly blurs the line between game and game creation. I wouldn't mind seeing better and more robust sharing features, or a few additional design options, but ultimately these feel like minor quibbles."
Since our review went live, Nintendo has released multiple updates to Super Mario Maker, folding in changes that range from minor tweaks to massive new features. Some of those features, it's worth noting, were mechanics we called out as specifically lacking in the 1.0 release. First among these: Checkpoints. By adding the ability to create a mid-stage progress flag, the game freed up designers to create vastly more complex stages, or not feel like they needed to front-load challenging elements in order to minimize frustration if players died and had to start over. It was, quite literally, a game-changer.
Super Mario Maker has seen many other improvements. Some, like the situational power-ups, made user levels feel more like authentic Mario games, changing a Fire Flower or other upgrade to a mere Super Mushroom when revealed by someone controlling small Mario. Others, like the plethora of character costumes and event courses, haven't been particularly substantial, though they've made the game more amusing. One tweak in particular — the more rapid speed with which players could unlock content at the start of the game — has almost completely been forgotten, since most players have long since opened up the game's entire sandbox. But the sandbox has expanded over the past year, with more in-game elements to explore. Some of these have been fairly minor, but others (like doors activated by P-switches or keys) greatly open up the potential for more intricate stage designs, allowing playing to create multiple or even interlocking goals within a level.
Meanwhile, one of the most recent changes to Super Mario Maker — explanatory feedback from Nintendo when a player's courses are deleted from the public servers — gets to one of the biggest sticking points to arise around Super Mario Maker. Namely, its rocky relationship with fans. Nintendo, being Nintendo, prefers to work on its own terms and never feels any particular need to apologize for its actions. But it quickly discovered that doesn't fly with a product whose core strength rests in its community; players would work hard on a stage, build up some social currency and status as people voted up their creations, and then — without explanation, their work would disappear. Nintendo hasn't slowed the frequency with which it prunes uploads, but at least now it provides a vague explanation for its actions.
The real proof of the game has been in its community, which has understandably tapered off as time has gone by. Still, Super Mario Maker seems to have inspired a fiercely loyal core userbase that continues to crank out stages. Some are quite good, though it can be tough to find them. Even now, a year later, it seems the novelty of idiotically difficult stage design hasn't worn off, and most of the stages sitting at the top of the all-time rankings fall into the category of "this designer hates your happiness." And plenty of other stage creations are just straight-up trash. Still, there's certainly enough gold out there to justify exploration... and of course the game's tool set remains as accessible and flexible as ever, meaning it remains ridiculously entertaining just to create your own stages, even if you never share them.
So does it hold up?
And good thing, too, because Super Mario Maker is about to stage a comeback on 3DS... but it'll be missing some of its most critical features. Particularly shocking: Online level sharing features will be greatly crippled on 3DS. Arguably the feature most essential to Super Mario Maker's success, the loss of sharing seems like a massive blow for the game.
We won't know its real impact until Super Mario Maker for 3DS arrives, though. For now, we still have the original Wii U game, with all its pros and cons. A year on, the pros continue to outweigh the cons, no question about it. I've picked up Super Mario Maker to toy around with at random several times since launch, and whether I muck around with my own creations or try my hand at community creations, I always have a great time. I've also shared it with family members of various ages, and they invariably love it... especially the young Minecraft fanatic set. Even without 30 years of Mario nostalgia baked into their systems, anyone who loves games or loves being creative takes right to Super Mario Maker in an instant. Its appeal is as straightforward and self-evident as its rules and mechanics.
There are still many things I'd love to see Mario Maker do more effectively. We still don't have sloped surfaces. Costumes still only work in original Super Mario Bros. mode. Each graphics set continues to have its own exclusive physics and control features rather than allowing players to mix-and-match — a real shame, since it means the most advanced techniques and stage layouts are tied to the kinda-ugly New Super Mario Bros. U look. Ah well; a year ago I said the game holds up as a masterpiece despite these quibbles, and nothing has changed since then. Nintendo has made Super Mario Maker even better than it was at launch, and the enthusiastic community and streaming culture that sprang up around the game underscore what Nintendo has accomplished with it. The 3DS port feels like a bit of a stopgap while the company tries to the get its NX console in order, but I look forward to seeing how this concept evolves on a proper next-gen system. And hey, I'd be happy to see some other publishers rip off its innovations and refinements wholesale. Steal from the best, guys.


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SPOTLIGHT: This BAYC Member Baked A Bored Cake Featuring His 10 Bored Apes
Updated: Apr 23
This Bored Ape Yacht Club member wished the club he loves a happy anniversary by sharing a photo of a bored birthday cake featuring his 10 Bored Apes!
On Sunday, BAYC member Warrenhimself, who minted 10 Bored Apes in 2021, wished the BAYC a happy birthday complete with a bored birthday cake!
“Happy 2-year anniversary, dear @BoredApeYC,” Warrenhimself tweeted along with an incredible video of his birthday cake.“We made you a cake. Congrats from @10APES and me.”
Warren told the gazette that the cake was baked for his Future of Finance NFT community event in October 2022 to celebrate the launch of his 10Apes beverage brand.
“It took around 2 weeks to have all the Ape models hand modeled by one very talented baker woman,” he said. “It was around 5feet high I would estimate and cost in the 4 figures range.”
Going forward, Warren told that Gazette that he’s excited to see what’s next for the BAYC community as it sets sail into its third year.
“I love the BAYC community and what so many community members are building,” he said. “It is one of the most fun and interesting communities to be in and I am proud to be a part of it since May 1st when I minted my 10 Apes.”
The Bored Ape Gazette will continue to follow Warren and will let you know what he does next!


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Naturopathic Physicians, Medical Assistants, and Care Coordinators- Regardless of roles and responsibilities, everyone pictured below is part of the mission to help as many people as possible.
Dr. Eric Blake ND, MSOM, Dipl. Ac.
Medical Director and Naturopathic Physician
Dr. Blake was born in New York City and grew up in the Midwest. He received a degree in Cultural Anthropology and completed his preparatory medical curriculum at the University of Cincinnati in 1994. After graduating, Dr. Blake worked as an herbalist in a small natural foods store and corner natural medicine apothecary in Cincinnati, Ohio. In anticipation of naturopathic medical school, he moved to New York City and worked alongside a well-respected acupuncturist in mid-town Manhattan.
Dr. Blake went on to graduate from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. National College is the oldest college of naturopathic medicine in North America, celebrating 60 years in 2016. During his time there, he completed a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine and a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine. He pursued special studies in physiotherapy for infectious and degenerative diseases, Constitutional Hydrotherapy, history of natural medicine, and German irisdiagnosis. Even as a student, he was already teaching and lecturing in the required courses. After graduation he completed a residency at one of the busiest and longest continually operating naturopathic clinics in North America.
Dr. Blake is co-editor and contributing author of the professional textbook Naturopathic Physical Medicine (2008). He has authored chapters for other professional textbooks as well - Chronic Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction (2011) and Fibromyalgia: A practitioners guide to care (2010). He has authored a teaching workbook on physiotherapy for physicians and is the history editor of the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine project.
Dr. Blake combines his extensive knowledge of therapeutic techniques with the outstanding training of a modern naturopathic college and his apprenticeship at the side of masters of the art.
Dr. Chris Metro ND, MSOM, LAc
Dr. Metro developed an interest in natural medicine early in life while growing up in Buffalo, New York. Nutritional and herbal medicines were introduced to him by his grandmother at an early age, and a later introduction to homeopathic medicine cultivated his first deep interest in the field of natural medicine.
Since both his father and grandfather were chemists, it was natural for him to pursue and complete a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He went on to specialize in silicate, chlor-alkali and petroleum based derivatives while working for Occidental Chemical Corporation. His work provided him with a wide range of experiences in many fields of manufacturing throughout the US. During this time he continued to pursue his interest in natural medicine by completing course work at the New England School of Homeopathy, which inspired his desire to pursue further study at the National College of Natural Medicine.
Dr. Metro completed his Doctorate in Naturopathic medicine and his Master of Science in Oriental Medicine at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM). During his tenure at NCNM, he received special clinical experience in addiction treatment and infectious diseases by completing internship programs at Portland Alternative Health Center, De Paul Treatment Youth Center, Outside In and Dignity Village. He developed his interest and experience with difficult and recalcitrant diseases at the Immune Enhancement Program of the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Metro has traveled and studied throughout China working extensively with the respected Daoist elder Prof. Wang Qingyu of the Sichuan Acadamy of Cultural History and Prof. Liu Lihong of Guangxi Institute for Research and Preservation of Classical Chinese Medicine. He has worked with Prof. Heiner Fruehauf, founder of the Classical Chinese medicine department at NCNM, to establish an online film archive of interviews and lectures from experts in mainland China. Currently, Dr. Metro practices at the clinic on Mondays.
Dr. Marcus Coplin, ND
This is Dr. Coplin’s first time living in Portland, but he is no stranger to the Northwest. After growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Coplin attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetes to study philosophy and cultural biology. During his time at Hampshire, Dr. Coplin became licensed as a biofeedback physical therapist. Later on, he attended Bastyr University in Washington to earn his ND with a focus on physiotherapy and botanical medicine. Following the completion of his formal education, Dr. Coplin completed advanced clinical work in IV therapy and Naturopathic Oncology care, then studied Athroposophic Oncology at the Ita Wegman Clinic in Donarch, Switzerland.
Dr. Coplin returned to the east coast to practice in New York City, later leaving to pursue a research sabbatical in Eastern Europe and the Near East, studying at a variety of Physiotherapy and Balneology-based Hospitals throughout the region.
After all of these experiential adventures, Dr. Coplin returned to San Francisco to operate one practice focused on physiotherapy, as well as a separate practice in Berkeley focused on IV therapy.
Dr. Coplin is a board member of the Balneology Association of North America, and he is the North American representative to International Society of Medical Hydrology and Climatology. He has worked with Dr. Blake over the years, and he is so excited to explore Portland’s rich culture and experience the Oregon wilderness.
Dr. Christine Kadykalo, ND
Dr. Kadykalo, also known as "Dr. K" hails from Toronto, Canada, and earned her B.S. Biomedical Science at the University of Ottawa. During her undergraduate studies, Dr. K spent a semester abroad in Australia, studying health sciences at the University of Sydney. Following her graduation, she worked in a neuroscience lab conducting research on Parkinson's disease.
Dr. K earned her doctorate from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and interned with a focus on adjunctive cancer care. She has also participated in a volunteer medical brigade in Guatemala with Naturopathic Medicine for Global Health.
Having always had a strong interest in health and medicine, Dr. K discovered naturopathy when a family member became sick and was treated with nutritional and herbal medicine. She was drawn to the idea of using natural means to support the body's healing processes, and found her passion as an ND.
Dr. K completed her internship with us in early 2018 and now joins our medical staff to help see patients on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Beyond medicine, she is also interested in sports, music, and travel. She spent several years training as a competitive figure skater, ran track, cross country, and was a member of the rowing team at the University of Ottawa. More lately, she enjoys spending time in the mountains hiking and snowboarding.
Dr. Lloyd Reiter, ND, DC
Dr. Reiter earned his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Southern California University of Health Science. His chiropractic career awarded him success, including residency and a faculty appointment at the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Iowa, a position as assistant professor at the New York College of Chiropractic, a faculty appointment at University of Bridgeport, and 20 years success in private practice of Chiropractic and Classical Homeopathy in Long Island, New York.
Dr. Reiter always strived to expand his knowledge of natural medicine, which led him to National University of Naturopathic Medicine (NUMN) in Portland, Oregon, where he earned a Doctorate of Natural Medicine (ND) degree. Upon earning this degree, he joined Portland Clinic of Holistic Health as a Resident Physician.
Dr. Nicole Priscal, ND
Dr. Priscal is a Florida native who now resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She earned her B.A. in Biopsychology and Child Development at Tufts University in Boston. From there, she embarked on a lifetime journey to learn how to cultivate the wisdom and skills needed to cure and prevent diseases. These passions lead Dr. P to further her education at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) where she received her degree as a Naturopathic Doctor.
She enjoys traveling the world and engaging in different cultures through music and culinary experiences. Her travels have led her to Peru, Cuba, France, and Belgium to name a few. When she is not cooking or gardening, you can find her reading at the park or walking her dog Frida.
Dr. Priscal’s knowledge and passion for naturopathic medicine have made her a great addition to our PCHH team and we are excited for her to grow with our clinic.
Lindsay McDonald, MscN
Lindsay has one of the most eclectic backgrounds of our entire team. She is originally from New York City, has lived in Canada, and used to work as a production coordinator for a visual effects company.
After moving to Portland from Vancouver, BC, Lindsay made a career change inspired by her love of cooking and holistic health, earning a Master of Science in Nutrition from the National University of Natural Medicine.
Lindsay believes deeply in the power of food as medicine, and aims to help people heal themselves through it.
In her time here, Lindsay has helped many achieve their weight loss goals and taught our patients how to improve their health in their very own kitchen. Contact us to schedule a Complimentary Nutritional Consult so you can meet her yourself!
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Traders will be on the lookout in the week ahead for any signs of overseas weakness seeping into the U.S. economy, after surprisingly soft job growth in August and September.
Trade data Tuesday and ISM services sector data Monday will be important as will the weekly jobless claims and Fed minutes Thursday.
The markets will also be looking to the start of the third-quarter earnings season, with Pepsico, Alcoa and a few other companies reporting in the week ahead. Earnings are expected to decline 3.9 percent for the , according to Thomson Reuters.
"I think for the next week and the following week, the market is dealing with a lot of uncertainty," said Ron Sanchez, chief investment officer at Fiduciary Trust. "(The jobs) number was not well received in terms of it being a surprise. Sentiment is weak here. I would describe it as fragile. … The focus is on growth, and clarity regarding economic data."
September's 142,000 jobs and a downward revision in August's number to 136,000, instantly rocked the stock market and signaled that the Fed may not be able to raise rates this year, as it would like. It also raised concerns that the Fed may have been right when it held off a rate hike in September, saying it was worried international developments, like China's weak growth, could hurt the U.S. economy.
"I think there's been some economists out there saying it shows real slowing in the U.S. economy. I don't really buy that," said BlackRock co-head of Americas fixed income, Rick Rieder. "What our collective eyes will be on for the next month is outside the U.S. It's data that has to do with Chinese growth and it's data that has to do with manufacturing around the world. That's what we're going to be watching. U.S. growth, I don't think, is a big concern."
Rieder said the miss in the jobs report was not surprising since employment growth has been running at a high level for the past two years. Rieder has said he believes the Fed could have raised rates previously, but now it faces a period of slower jobs growth. Fed officials, backed by a strong job market, have said they want to raise rates this year, even though inflation still lagged their target.
"This makes the Fed's job trickier," he said. Futures markets immediately shifted after the report, putting higher odds of a rate hike next year.
Economists are watching trade data Tuesday after a preliminary report on August exports provided some of the first clues that overseas growth was impacting the U.S. China does not have a big impact on U.S. exports but the countries that depend on China have relationships with the U.S., and a slowdown in activity could come via those economies.
"We know trade was a disaster in August, so this will just reconfirm it. Economists, myself included, have whacked their GDP forecasts in the third quarter based on the widening of the trade balance that we got. This will just be another shot across the bow with a tremendous widening of the trade balance, which will knock a good half-percent off of real GDP," said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
Growth in the second quarter is now tracking at sub-2 percent after 3.9 percent in the second quarter. The question is whether the sluggishness is just transitory. In the Treasury market, yields fell dramatically with the 10-year dipping below 2 percent Friday.
"I think you just have to wait and see what happens next Monday or Tuesday. I doubt the economy is as weak as the bond market is painting it. I don't really want to take December off the table (for a Fed rate hike)," Rupkey said. "There's 18.1 million cars (being sold a year). There's got to be a reality check somewhere here." September's strong car sales Thursday showed the fastest pace of annualized sales in 10 years.
As for the stock market, some strategists have been looking at the 1,871 level the S&P 500 hit Tuesday as a test of a low reached in August. There are some who say the recovery from that level, including a rally to close at session highs Friday, is signaling a bottom in the equities correction. The closed at 1,951 on Friday, up 1.04 percent for the week.
The upcoming earnings season could be a deciding factor in terms of determining whether a bottom has been reached and whether there will be a year-end rally.
Bob Doll, chief equity strategist with Nuveen Asset Management, said there could be a year-end rally but he also says stocks may not surpass last year's level and there's a good chance the S&P 500 could be negative for the year.
"Earnings are clearly important, and my guess is earnings will be ho-hum, but the big differentiator will be geography. I think the domestic will do reasonably well and multinationals will struggle again," he said.
The worst-performing sector is expected to again be energy with a 64 percent decline, followed by a 14 percent drop in materials earnings. The best performers should be consumer discretionary, financials and telecom, all up about 11 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Wells Fargo Securities institutional equities strategist Gina Martin Adams said technically the market could have reached bottom but she sees the real shakeout coming when companies begin to discuss their outlooks and analysts chop forward earnings. She said analysts will finally bring down their earnings estimates so that stocks can find a floor and move higher with better valuations.
"I think the 10 percent correction we had so far probably holds, unless you get further weakness in oil prices," she said. "I think this earnings season could present an opportunity for analysts to finally kitchen sink 2015 earnings estimates. We had the valuation drawdown. I don't think valuation is any longer a strong impediment to stock prices. Now we're worried about the earnings risk. … I'm looking for October to be a pretty volatile month but maybe it will finally allow for a clearance of that last leg of concern."
Adams said she views the current period as being similar to 1998, when the U.S. market corrected because of overseas concerns that did not make a big impact on the U.S. economy.
Earnings: The Container Store
9:45 a.m.: PMI Services Index
10 a.m.: ISM non-manufacturing
8:30 a.m.: International trade
1 p.m.: 3-year note auction
5:30 p.m.: San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams speaks
7 a.m.: Mortgage applications
10:30 a.m.: Oil Inventories
1 p.m.: 10-year note auction
3 p.m.: Consumer credit
8:30 a.m.: Initial claims
9:30 a.m.: St. Louis Fed President James Bullard speaks
10:30 a.m.: Natural Gas Inventories
1 p.m.: 30-year note auction
1 p.m.: Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota speaks
2 p.m.: FOMC minutes
3:30 p.m.: San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams speaks
4:30 p.m.: Fed Balance Sheet/Money Supply
8:30 a.m.: Import prices
10 a.m.: Wholesale trade
11 a.m.: New York Fed President's William Dudley speaks
1 p.m.: Baker-Hughes Rig Count
1:30 p.m.: Chicago Fed President's Charles Evans speaks.


After several days of silence and denial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC boss has finally spoken on why he is beaming his searchlight again on the finances of some powerful politicians in Nigeria.
One of them is the outgoing Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki.
In a report by the Independent Newspapers, Ibrahim Magu said the investigation of Senate President Bukola Saraki is not based on personal motive.
Magu said the commission only invites people it suspects of corruption-related crimes. Magu spoke on Tuesday with journalists after receiving an award at the commission’s conference room at its headquarters in Abuja.
It was gathered that the Outstanding Leadership in Public Service award was presented to him by the Euro Knowledge Group.
”No it is not personal, we are not after anybody. His case is not different from other individuals that are being investigated,” Magu was quoted as saying when he was asked why the EFCC was reopening investigations into old cases against Mr Saraki.
The EFCCC boss said the commission does not witchhunt any government official irrespective of their political background.
He said that the anti-graft agency “does not pursue people who do not have corruption cases. If you are not corrupt, we do not invite you. If you are not a 419 or internet fraudster, we would never invite you.
”We do our homework very well. Sometimes we conduct our investigations for up to six months, we have been investigating people for more than five years.”
Magu condemned described corruption as ”a national disaster, every Nigerian should fight corruption, whether you are in Nigeria or outside the country. You remove corruption, you eradicate disaster. All these banditries and Boko Haram, the root is corruption.”
Recalled that the EFCC on Sunday marked some properties at 15a, 15b and 17 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos allegedly belonging to Mr Saraki.
It was also gathered that the Senate President has reacted through his media aide Yusuph Olaniyonu who said the agency was only investigating what it had once probed, describing EFCC as being ‘mischievous.’
The recent effort by EFCC to probe Mr Saraki started when the agency wrote a letter to the Kwara State Government for a breakdown of his income and entitlements as governor of the state.
The anti-graft agency urged the former Kwara state governor not to be shaken “so long as he has no skeletons in his cupboard.
Bukola Saraki worked for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 Presidential election, but President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressive Congress (APC) won the election.


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You know I have a bad case of knitting indecisiveness when I’m literally begging for overtime at work so I won’t have to face the decision of what to knit next. Its work I’d be able to do at home, entering data, but that time would directly cut into my knitting. Its because I simply can’t decide what I want to knit. I currently have two works-in-progress the Knit Quilt from Knit Picks and Elizabeth. But I do not want to knit either of them. I’m simply over projects that I have to weave in a ton of ends, which would leave the Knit Quilt for the frogging pond, but since I may get over that hatred at some point, I’m leaving it as it is and not making any final decisions. Elizabeth is in a similar category. I love the texture and design of Elizabeth, but I’m not thrilled with the color I choose, a very very light pink Silky Wool, although that I could get over, but its the overall design of the neck and shoulders of Elizabeth I’m really struggling with. I’m so tired of knitting things I’ll end up never wearing that its quickly making me decide that it to should hit the frog pond. I already have narrow shoulders, and I don’t think my thoughts on fixes are actually going to work. Add that to the fact Nick’s Kalimba Bag was a total failure, I’m not feeling very confident in my knitting prowess.
Sidebar…so Nick’s Kalimba bag turned out as a total flop. My concerns on the felting came true, it felted like a bell, or funky vase. And Wool of the Andes is horrible for felting. sorry Knit Picks, but it was so fuzzy and crazy that I’m pretty sure a muppet died in my washing machine. I love and will continue to love Wool of the Andes as a good general wool, but never again for felting. So I need to knit another Kalimba bag. I’m thinking I might do a simple non-felted seed-stitch pouch type thing. I need to mull it around in my head for a few days.
So the decision is, what do I want to knit. And that is where I’m totally befuddled. I have no idea. Well I take that back, I do have an idea, back in November 2004 I went to Ireland, and I bought some yarn at Blarney Castle, well at the tourist trap near Blarney Castle. I kissed the Blarney Stone and I bought yarn. And since I was visiting Ireland with 7 non-knitters and well not even slightly crafty people, the fact I got to buy yarn at all is remarkable. Anyway, so I have this cream Tivoli yarn, which is hard to buy outside of Ireland supposedly which is kinda cool, that I’ve never found a pattern for. Alas, I finally have my copy of Aran Knitting and I think I will knit St. Brigid with it. But considering my current mindset, I’m not sure I’m ready to tackle such a project. But then again, maybe its exactly what I need! Its about time, its been sitting in storage for 6 years.
Maybe its the fact is September 20 and its still 91 degrees outside! Seriously the weather people must hate me.
Procrastinating a decision I did last week decide to knit a couple of pairs of mittens for one of my attorney’s kids. He has 5 (or 6) year old twins, a boy and a girl. I loved the Octopus Mittens from 60 Quick Knits and wanted to knit them but had no intended recipient, so it seemed to make sense. Unlike my last knitted gift reception, these were received with great enthusiasm and appreciation. He asked, “why, is it for some occassion.” My answer was no, just because, which in my opinion is the best reason to give a gift. He was thrilled and said he knew his kids would absolutely love them.
So I’m sure at some point here, I’ll face my indecision, or maybe its more of facing my fear of knitting another castrophe sweater and I’ll cast on for St. Brigid. I did at least pull the storage space bag with the yarn in it out from my storage racks in the basement this evening, I just haven’t faced the task of casting on.
I did find a fun thing this weekend at Michael’s. They had a whole line of objects in the $1.00 bins dealing with texture. But guess what the textures were, knit fabric. They had notepads, gift wrap, notecards, pencils with the pattern on them, and memo pads. I couldn’t help myself, I bought quite a few items. But how could I withstand for $1 a piece!
The boys are ready for fall and winter so t here’s more outside time and soccer/frisbee playing. And for Django just investigating. For now they are stuck inside watching the world outside (although we have gotten outside for play time quite a few times in the last week).


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Once again the Newsboyz make the list. Thank you to each of you that voted in the poll.
Best Cover Band 2004
Congratulations to the Newsboyz and to Tamara for making the Austin Chronicle Best Of 2003 Awards issue.
A special note of recognition to Tamara for being voted #19 on the Best Female Vocalist category. It should be mentioned that this category includes vocalist from every style of music in Austin. It is great to see her recognized along with so many top names in Austin.
Best Cover Band 2003
Best Female Vocalist 2003