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LEVERKUSEN (GERMANY), June 9: Timo Werner impressed as Germany gave themselves a pre-World Cup boost on Friday by breaking their five-match winless streak with a nervy 2-1 victory over Saudi Arabia in their final warm-up game.
First-half scores by striker Werner and an Omar Hawsawi own goal sealed the win as Germany were only rarely threatened by Saudi Arabia, who play hosts Russia in the opening World Cup match in Moscow on Thursday.
Werner was in the thick of the action for the 62 minutes he played of the friendly.
The scoreline flattered the Arabians, who converted a late penalty at the second attempt.
Although Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen saved Mohammad Al-Sahlawi�s weak spot-kick, Taisir Al-Jassim banged home the rebound on 85 minutes.
However, German hearts were in mouths in added time when only robust defending prevented Al-Sahlawi grabbing a shock equaliser.
�There are no little teams anymore and we didn�t do well in a few areas,� admitted Germany winger Marco Reus, who hit the post early on.
�We conceded a few counters, the holes were too big, but we are a tournament team and we still have a week left � Germany shouldn�t worry.�
Having failed to win any of their previous five games, including a shock 2-1 defeat at neighbours Austria last Saturday, a full-strength German team dominated for long spells in Leverkusen.
Both Sami Khedira and Reus hit the post in the first half as Germany could easily have doubled their tally, but there were also worrying defensive lapses from the hosts.
Saudi Arabia were crushed 8-0 by Germany in a group phase game at the 2002 finals and it looked like a similar rout was on the cards early on.
Germany grabbed the lead after just eight minutes when a Joshua Kimmich long ball was beautifully controlled by Reus, who squared for Werner to fire home. Reus, who heart-breakingly missed the 2014 World Cup triumph after tearing ankle ligaments in the final warm-up match, then clattered the post three minutes later. � AFP


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Marnick has +10 year background in employer branding, FMCG marketing and digital transformation. Helping the Pepsico brands grow using social media and the right digital mindset and tools. In his spare time he likes fitness, comedy, reading and gaming. Marnick has a certification in neurolinguistic programming (NLP).
Together with Natalie Vandergraesen, he released his first book in 2019: Stand Up to Stand Out – Expressing yourself in the most powerful way. A creative, entertaining and insightful book about our proven communication methods.

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Posted March 26, 2010
On March 21, 2010, the House of Representatives passed the Senate-version legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) (the “Affordable Care Act”). The same day, the House also passed a separate budget reconciliation bill, The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) (the “Reconciliation Act”). The Senate is taking up the Reconciliation Act.
As the health reform legislation stands today, some of the issues affecting the USG and our employees are outlined in the document below in order of implementation deadlines.

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I just finished the book The Mix & Match Guide to Companion Planting by Josie Jeffery.
This book is great for us since we have a pretty large garden. We are always looking to plant new things to eat and it is always great to know which plants can be planted together and which ones should not.
This book even has some great info on starting your own compost and what items you can use in your compost. Each plant and flower has a description and it also includes details such as growing tips, Pests and diseases, when to plant and when to harvest. Each photo also has symbols which are colored and it will help you to learn which plants go together and the benefits they have.
This book will really help us in the next growing season and I am excited to put what I have learned to good use.
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Might as well call Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood the Munich of the Marianas because, the Chinese restaurant in Garapan has essentially been selling beer for as low as $1 each since October last year.
Oktoberfest is every day under Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood’s VIP Beer Card promotion where a deposit of $45 entitles you to 30 cans of beer and a $66 deposit 66 cans of beer.
The Chinese restaurant was already known for its $10 lunch buffets before Saipan had its first coronavirus case last March. Their bread and butter, however, went out the window due to guidelines set by the Governor’s COVID-19 Task Force and restaurant owner Cindy Zhang had to innovate to survive.
At first they did take-outs, soon after the task force shuttered all dine-in restaurants, then slowly reopened their dine-in operations when the CNMI went down to Community Vulnerability Level Blue last June. Despite opening the restaurant though, Zhang said sales were still down and were just enough for them to break even.
By happenstance, Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood started the VIP Beer Card promotion in October and what originally was just a monthlong thing became so popular that Zhang decided to continue the promotion indefinitely.
Beer options under the VIP Beer Card promotion are Budweiser, Bud Light, and Asahi. Customers must also consume their beer in-house and cannot take-out their libations.
Zhang said their staff will keep tabs on customers’ beer consumption and they and their friends don’t necessarily need to finish their beer in one sitting as they’re allowed to consume the beer for a period of three months.
Since the promotion began, Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood has become sort of party central for social gatherings, reunions, friends just wanting to hang out, or officemates winding down after a hard day’s work. Zhang said they’ve become especially popular among golfers who have taken a fancy to their VIP Beer Card promotion.
Aside from the VIP Beer Card promotion, the Chinese restaurant also boasts of the island’s best roast duck, roast chicken, roast pork, and sweet char siu (Chinese barbecue pork).
They also have $5-for-5 choices meal. Some of the popular fare include stir-fried noodles, fried chicken, sweet and sour pork, sliced pork, beef with potato, beef broccoli, and stir-fried vegetables. The bento-style meals come with rice and cooked in Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood signature Guangdong-style cooking.
On top of these, Zhang said customers could also order from their a la carte menu where items are also discounted up to 20% off.
The restaurant comfortably sits 75 diners under the Governor’s COVID-19 Task Force guidelines.
Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood is on the second floor of the building where Zen Teppanyaki is located along Coconut Street in the tourist district of Garapan. It’s open from 10:30am to 2pm and from 4:30pm to 9pm daily. For reservations, call (670) 788-4019 or check their Facebook page: Fisherman’s Seafood Wharf Saipan.

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A novel way of pricing enterprise 2.0 software like Twitter-for-the-enterprise has a long pedigree--in open-source software. Start with a superlow up-front charge, and scale up.
Schlumberger manager Julien le Nestour offers an innovative new pricing model to drive "enterprise 2.0" software like Twitter-for-the-enterprise: instead of offering volume discounts, start with a superlow up-front charge, and scale up fees as more users start using the software.
I have news for Le Nestour: enterprise IT already has this pricing model widely in use. It's called open source.
Reading Le Nestour's description of his proposed model sounds exactly like the pricing models used by Openbravo, Pentaho, Alfresco, Hyperic, and others:
Instead of charging less per user, as more accounts are purchased, vendors should charge more as more accounts are purchased...Using a volume-increasing scheme would accelerate customer acquisitions, new pilot projects, and the number of deployments that could potentially scale.
Vendors should provide very low entry points, charge for setup and deployment at cost, and let the users themselves prove the value of their services. Vendors would not incur additional costs because sales would be quick, and deployment would be sold at cost (which for software as a service is minimal)...This approach would also help define the value of an application: the vendor that is confident that an application will spread, once deployed within an organization, projects a different image than the one that tries to lock in all revenue up front, no matter whether deployment is successful or not.
Agreed on all counts. Open source derisks IT investments for enterprises and, going one step further than Le Nestour's recommendation, prods open-source vendors to continually innovate and deliver value to customers through a subscription model that allows the customer to walk (but keep the software), if the vendor fails to provide adequate value through support, software upgrades, and other processes.
Le Nestour suggests that the "potential is big" for his idea. I couldn't agree more. I just wouldn't call it new. We've had open-source pricing models for many years now, and they're paying off in spades for the companies that use them.
Disclosure: I work for Alfresco and am an advisor to Openbravo.
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This blog discusses key concepts of consistent hashing, which come in handy while scaling out the distributed storage systems. This idea is frequently applied in designing various real-time applications and solving system design questions during interviews.
Before diving deep into Consistent Hashing, let’s first understand what hashing is? Hashing is a computationally efficient way of information retrieval and helpful in enhancing the performance of insert, delete and search queries. In hashing, we use a hash function to map information to a storage pool based on key value mechanism.
For example, we can generate a random number that can map to storage by taking mod using the total number of servers. Hence, the hashing is used to map the requests to various servers and get the work done. However, this concept is valid only when count of servers don’t change and memory locations are known. Distributed systems often involve changing the underlying servers to handle the requests over a network. Hence to deal with such shortcomings of distributed systems and handle the requests over a network, we need a more efficient manner of handling and organizing requests for a scalable application. This is compensated using Consistent Hashing.
Consistent hashing is an improvement over normal Hashing. Here, the user and servers are located virtually in a circular ring structure called the Hash ring. The ring is considered infinite and can accommodate any number of servers with no fixed allocation and assign them to random locations based on some hash function.
The traditional hashing method is very ineffective to use and handling requests over a network. This classical method assumes that we have a fixed number of servers, and all the mapping location is known beforehand. This condition is quite problematic in dealing with distributed systems where multiple users are requesting multiple servers. If in case of some servers breakdown, then to map the work to different servers, it requires a large and heavy computation that is very inefficient. This could affect the throughput of the service and increases the latency.
In distributed systems, multiple nodes keep on interacting with each other. Suppose we have five nodes in the system and there is a sudden increase in traffic, and to deal with this, we have to add more nodes to the system. Let us say we added two more nodes which make total nodes seven. If we are using normal hashing, we again recompute the mapping of requests as previously we were taking hash using five nodes, but now we have seven. Similarly, in case of maintenance or failure, the number of nodes decreases, and hence we again need to recompute the mapping, which is genuinely very inefficient.
So in situations when we are not sure about the number of servers that are operational at any moment, we can not go with the classical hashing method as this requires a lot of redundant computations and reshuffling of the data or requests around the cluster. Moreover, when the number of servers increases, then this approach becomes more and more inefficient as there would be more and more recomputation and reassignment of requests to the remaining nodes. We need some dynamic way to mitigate all these shortcomings, and hence the idea of Consistent Hashing comes in.
Consistent Hashing helps us in effective organization and distribution of resources by ensuring minimum reorganization of requests in any failure. In Consistent Hashing, a hash function is used to map servers to locations in a virtual ring. The position of the server is just a random position obtained using the hash function. Consistent Hashing is organized in the following manner:
So in this manner, the keys are assigned to the server in Consistent Hashing. The beauty of Consistent Hashing comes when we add or remove servers.
When a new server is added to the application, it is mapped using the hash function and allocated to the hash ring’s desired location. After its allotment, all the keys will map on these newly added servers passing its location. This is depicted in the figure below. When server 5 is added between 1and 4, all the requests after 4 are assigned to 5 instead of mapping to 1. Hence in this way, Consistent Hashing helps reduce loads of massive servers and proves highly effective in scaling and increasing the throughput, and improves the latency of the application.
Whenever any server fails in the system, then all the keys previously mapped to the failed server will redirect to the next server, which is located after the failed server in the clockwise direction. Hence in this manner, the service remains active and provides fault-tolerant service. This is depicted in the figure below. When server 4 breakdowns, then all the keys mapped to 4 are reallocated to 1, preventing the system from breaking down.
There is a shortcoming of this approach. All the keys may get mapped to the same server, and hence one server will get all the workload, and all the other servers will remain idle. This situation is very inefficient and is very prone to failure. To deal with this, a new concept has been introduced. All the servers are replicated and arranged at different positions in the ring. In this manner, with an increased number of servers, the distribution becomes much more uniform and helps in the service’s scaling. This is depicted in the figure below. All the servers are replicated and allocated to different locations, and hence this makes the distribution of keys uniform in the hash ring.
Consistent Hashing is one of the most crucial concepts in designing distributed systems as it tackles the scalability challenges with dynamic nodes assignment and provides fault tolerance. It is also very useful in system design interviews. This concept allows the distribution of requests or data in the servers and their mapping to servers efficiently. It helps in achieving Horizontal Scaling and increases the throughput and improves the latency of the application.
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That’s the question however, the answer is getting easier with every year. Lonely Planet tells you to pass it by; most of the other guidebooks give it a small paragraph at best but say about the same thing. The ones that provide any information at all are telling you things which are six to ten years out of date at best.
Until last summer, when someone got off the bus or train here and found our place, the few visitors would ask ‘So, how many tourists do you normally get here?’ My pat answer was ‘Tourists here are like Bigfoot sightings in other places.’ Then, last spring, some Russians picked Tuy Hoa as a destination; since then (through no fault of the Ministry of Travel and Tourism) we seem to be getting more casual visitors to the area.
What Phu Yen, Tuy Hoa can offer
Those looking for a highly charged night life will be sadly disappointed, it just ain’t here. There is one ‘disco’ operated by the same group who own the CenDelux hotel complex. It’s populated by a very small group of zombie-like young men most of the time. The same area is peppered with karaoke bars as is the rest of the town.
What we do offer is a dip into the real Vietnam with very short travel times to do so…we can offer relaxation and a severe lack of street peddlers. Chill time of the first order.
Miles of deserted beaches, short trip times will get you deep into the farming country or into the lush green of the local mountains. Tuy Hoa is a nice clean town to walk around in with friendly people where you will still find relaxed tourism. Trekking around or into the hills is relaxing, enjoyable and convenient. However, you won’t find many amenities so plan on bringing your own.
Also, you won’t find tourist information readily available. A simple thing like a local map with points of interest listed makes a showing once in a while then quickly becomes unavailable. The major points of interest (in the province) can be found by doing a quick search on-line; getting to most of them takes some work.
When to visit Phu Yen, Tuy Hoa
There is no hard and fast rule about ‘best time’; the best guess answer to that is normally April through the end of September, give or take a month on either end. It all depends on the weather patterns. Two years ago a Vnese friend announced that the monsoon season was over when the sun came out for a week in February; at the end of that week the sun went away and it rained for the next three weeks solid.
How to get to Phu Yen, Tuy Hoa
Located about half way between Nha Trang and Qui Nhon it’s about a two and a half hour trip by bus from either city. There is a local bus service from Qui Nhon which runs pretty much hourly seven days a week. Both north and southbound trains have this as a stop about 6 times a day and there is a ‘local’ which originates in Qui Nhon and runs south to Phan Rieng some days (they don’t really have that schedule nailed down yet).
By air, no problem. There’s a small plane going north or south once a day so you can arrive in the morning or mid-afternoon. The airport is a short taxi ride from town.


As the White House continues to systematically shred many of the safety nets put into place by previous administrations, it's up to the states to act like the grown-ups in the room.
Governors, mayors, attorney generals and state lawmakers are increasingly resisting ill-conceived moves, such as President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accords, or taking the teeth out of regulations designed to keep our air safe and our water clean.
Now the New Jersey Legislature is taking a welcome stand against Trump's Environmental Protection Agency and its chief, Scott Pruitt, over a pesticide called chlorpyrifos.
The chemical, widely used on crops like apples, grapes and cranberries, has been shown to lead to developmental problems in children, and to nausea and other woes in adults.
Based on an agreement with the EPA, its manufacturer voluntarily agreed to phase chlorpyrifos out of use in residential areas in 2001. Later, the Obama Administration followed scientists' advice and banned it more widely.
But earlier this year, Pruitt decided to drop the ban, despite a petition by the Pesticide Action Network of North America, which cautioned that "Short-term symptoms of low-dose exposure may include headaches, agitation, inability to concentrate, weakness, tiredness, nausea, diarrhea and blurred vision."
Higher doses, the advocacy group warned, "can lead to respiratory paralysis and death."
The American Academy of Pediatrics said it was "deeply alarmed" by Pruitt's action, noting that "There is a wealth of science demonstrating the detrimental effects of chlorpyrifos exposure to developing fetuses, infants, children and pregnant women.
"The risk to infant and children's health and development is unambiguous."
Heeding these warnings, and those of numerous respected researchers, N.J. Assemblyman Tim Eustace (D-Bergen) who chairs the Assembly's Environment and Solid Waste Committee, has introduced a bill to prohibit the sale, purchase, use and application of the insecticide.
Sen. Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) sponsored an identical bill in the Senate.
When Dow Chemicals introduced the pesticide in 1965, it quickly became one of the most widely used tools farmers employed to keep their crops insect-free.
But there were concerns early on.
Under current state law, chlorpyrifos is regulated as a "restricted use" insecticide, which means it can be purchased and/or used only by certified and licensed users.
We're sympathetic to farmers concerned that a state ban would put Garden State farmers at a disadvantage, but would point out that other states - including highly agricultural California - are faring quite nicely with alternative treatments and preventive measures.
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court threw out an appeal of the EPA's decision not to ban chlorpyrifos, making it even more vital that Turner and Eustace's measure get the hearing it deserves - and that New Jersey residents get the health protections they entitled to.


On 15 & 16th April 2008 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK EWA held a workshop of invited international experts on the Knowledge and Practices of using Treated Sewage Sludge on Land.. More than 70 delegates took part in the event from 14 different countries around Europe.
The current EU Directive on the use of sewage sludge in agriculture was agreed in 1986. It was formulated using the knowledge of the risks of spreading treated sludge on land provided by the COST 68/681 programme during the early 1980’s. There is a current wave of interest in re- evaluating the risks, using modern techniques with the benefit of some 25 years experience of using the Directive.
Mr Bartosz Zambrzycki, representative of the European Commission, has informed EWA that a renewed discussion, concerning the 1986 EU Directive will start at the end of 2008. EWA will contribute to this discussion by sending a report of the results of the Pembroke Workshop.
The spreading of treated sewage sludge on agricultural land is common practice in many European countries - almost half the total production in the European Union is spread on agricultural land. The practices currently in use in different countries were described by both farmers and operators during the workshop. They illustrated a continued high interest in the use of sludge on land.
Specific topics were discussed in focus groups such as food production, community health, environmental issues, community relations, sustainable use and water management, and risk management techniques.
EWA will immediately form an international group to identify best practice for quality assurance systems for the treatment of sewage sludge and the control of its spreading on agricultural land.
EWA will prepare a full report on the proceedings of this important event for submission to the European Commission in July.
The European Water Association (EWA) is an independent non-governmental and non- rofit making organisation promoting the sustainable and improved management of the total water cycle and hence the environment as a whole.
It is one of the major professional associations in Europe that covers the whole water cycle, wastewater as well as drinking water and water and wastewater treatment related wastes. With member associations from nearly all European Countries, EWA includes most of the current European Union Member States as well as Norway and Switzerland. Today, EWA consists of 25 European leading professional organisations in their respective countries, each representing professionals and technicians for wastewater and water utilities, academics, consultants and contractors as well as a growing number of corporate member firms and enterprises. EWA thus represents about 50,000 professional individuals working in the broad field of water and environmental management.
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Mio Tsugawa's official site.
- research in Kusudama
- tests and experiments about kusudama and origami
- sample diagrams of kusudama
and so on...
Kusudama has many possibilities.
We'll show kusudama of the beauties, the marvels, various charms by many ways.
We hope that a lot of people will have interest about kusudama culture.
And we wish that more people as possible become a kusudama addict or kusudamaholic.
Thank you very much.
All icons and the background doodles in this site were drawn by Mio.
The language is Japanese only, but we are glad if you enjoy it, too.

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Expansion of Sexual Assault Examiner ProgramsNew York
New York's Sexual Assault Examiner (SAE) programs were established in 1995 to improve the delivery of emergency care to sexual assault victims.
SAE programs operate in metropolitan, suburban, and rural communities throughout New York State. Each program follows basic protocols, but also incorporates unique elements as needed by its service area. SAE programs may offer training to ancillary medical staff who have contact with victims, conduct public speaking and outreach activities, and train law enforcement and prosecutorial staff.
Most of New York's SAE programs are supported by federal STOP Violence Against Women Act funds, which are administered by the Division of Criminal Justice Services' Violence Against Women Unit.
New York's SAE program has four goals. The first and foremost is to restore the health and well-being of sexual assault victims by treating their physical and psychological trauma. The second is to develop a team of specially trained health care professionals to perform forensic exams and provide aftercare. Third, SAE programs seek to develop specialized training for future sexual assault forensic examiners. Finally, the program seeks to improve crime reporting and conviction rates for sexual assault through collaboration with law enforcement and prosecutors.
These programs have established procedures for standard and comprehensive care for all sexual assault victims and have examiners who are specifically trained to care for these victims. When victims sustain serious injuries, forensic examiners ensure that their medical needs are met first. Examiners are trained to provide a sensitive examination and collect forensic evidence as components of the overall treatment process. They are usually available to victims within 60 minutes of their admission into hospital facilities.
Private areas are dedicated for victim treatment within emergency rooms and may include separate waiting areas, exam rooms, showers, phones, and forensic equipment. Some programs also provide a change of clothing for victims.
Another essential element of SAE programs is collaboration with other agencies. These programs work with law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, emergency medical services, community organizations, and volunteers to integrate service providers under the umbrella of the SAE. This collaboration recognizes sexual assault as a serious crime that requires immediate attention.
Sexual Offense Evidence Collection Kits and Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault Kit
The Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) provides Sexual Offense Evidence Collection Kits free of charge to all hospitals in New York State. In November 2003, DCJS released a standardized Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault Kit, as was requested by various disciplines, to be used when service providers suspect that drugs were used to facilitate the assault. The division worked very closely with the Forensic Services Unit in DCJS, the New York Prosecutors Training Institute, state and local laboratory personnel, individual prosecutors, several sexual assault nurse examiners, and other individuals to ensure that this kit meets standards that all disciplines require. The kit includes two grey-topped blood tubes and a urine container for collection of specimens. It also contains instructions for use, a laboratory information form, and a consent form for authorization of release.
Making the Idea a Reality
The goal of DCJS's expansion effort was to ensure that the counties with the highest reported rape statistics had at least one SAE program. As DCJS looked at the top 20 counties, the division found that it was already funding programs in 14 of those counties. The state's Department of Health identified hospitals in the remaining six counties that would be administratively and financially capable of supporting a program and then offered those hospitals funding to initiate a program. This effort led to the successful SAE program development in19 of the 20 counties. The one remaining county was interested as well, but was undergoing a renovation of its emergency room and a change in administration at the time. DCJS then looked at the next five counties with the highest reported rapes and helped establish two more programs.
Benefits to Victims
Victims benefit from prompt, compassionate medical care and proper forensic evidence collection. A victim of sexual assault can go to any hospital in New York State and receive a rape exam, including the collection of forensic evidence. The victim has 30 days to decide whether she or he wants to turn the kit over to law enforcement. The hospital must maintain the kit for 30 days, but if room is available, most hospitals in New York will keep them much longer.
DCJS has found that most victims who receive an exam from a trained sexual assault examiner (as opposed to an emergency room physician) are more likely to turn their evidence collection kit over to law enforcement for pursuit of a criminal case.
Benefits to Victim Service Professionals
Laboratories report that the evidence collected by trained SAEs is generally better than evidence collected by emergency room physicians. Also, most prosecutors believe that victims are more willing to pursue a criminal justice case if their exam was conducted by a trained SAE.
In June 2002, DCJS conducted a survey of Sexual Assault Examiner Programs. Note that protocols have since been updated. For example, the survey references blood tubes in the exam kits, but New York now uses buccal swabs for DNA collection. [See SANE Prosecution Survey (Word) in this toolkit.]
Research indicated that prosecutors view SAE programs as a valuable resource in achieving successful outcomes in sexual assault cases. Many prosecutors surveyed believe that the involvement of a SAE in a sexual assault case makes it more likely that the victim will remain committed to prosecution, which they credit to the compassionate care and support shown by SAEs. In addition, laboratory personnel report that evidence collected by trained SAEs is very often superior to that collected by non-trained SAEs. Outcomes from this survey led to the expansion of SAE programs in New York.
Hospitals do not make a profit from SAE programs. In fact, they are more likely to lose money. That fact makes it difficult to explain to hospital CEOs what a SAE program is and why they should have one. Some hospitals refused to host such a program. Others viewed it as an opportunity to provide services for victims of crime, as well as to provide a great community service. It is very important to have the hospital completely buy in to these programs. Without this commitment, any SAE program has a huge potential for failure.
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A Video to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
Dear Blog Visitors:
During the past few days, I have tried to capture images with my camera that assist in the reflection of the tragedy that occurred ten years ago.
In the video above, I have offered a reflection that coincides with the images you will see.
I want to thank the Rochester Museum and Science Center for allowing me to take photographs at the 9/11 exhibit they are currently featuring. I used some images I captured at the exhibit, in addition to photos I took at a flag display at Ontario Beach Park, as well as pictures that recall what we saw on our TV screens in 2001.
Let us continue to pray for peace in our world.
God bless all of you,

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|Reviews for Lights, Sex and Destiny|
| asm613 chapter 1 . 9/5/2017
GREAT story- loved it- entertaining- funny- well told- enjoyed the story very much- thanks 4 sharing
| slenderfruit chapter 1 . 9/30/2016
Ahhhh, this is precious and must be protected .
| silvertonguedmaiden chapter 1 . 4/16/2016
a Scooby reference... can I marry your mind ... pwetty pwease
| cake0108 chapter 1 . 1/30/2016
This is soo awesome
| nozomi-NN-chan chapter 1 . 8/26/2015
Omg hahaha this is amazing, at first when Naruto just calls him destiny I laughed so hard, hahaha. I love how they randomly start to talk to each other and then they are kissing and then Sasuke is running away but honestly he doesn't want to and Naruto who always says the correct words to Sasuke “… I just instinctively knew I was looking at someone who’d be precious to me for the rest of my life.” It's like everytime Naruto speaks to Sasuke he declares the most romantic speeches ever. And well, that awesome ending, work can wait, right Sasuke?
Beautiful story! I enjoyed it so much :)
| Duong-chan chapter 1 . 6/2/2015
Very nice story, but I have a quiz about Sasuke woke up the next moring and found himself no Naruto around. He was trying to swallow the bitter disappointment part, the sentence "this is why he was always the seme". I think it should be "the uke", 'cause clearly he was acting like a girl dumped by her one-night stand. Anyway, nice story, I read all of your story and they were so amazing, hope that you can continue to write excellent story for us to cherish. Have a great day!
| BreezyAnimetra chapter 1 . 5/29/2015
I really loved this!
| LouiseUchiha chapter 1 . 7/27/2014
| cluckyduck78 chapter 1 . 2/7/2014
That was sweet
| Guest chapter 1 . 12/18/2013
So fluffy. and smutty. perfect.
| DobbyGrl chapter 1 . 6/21/2013
Loved it! *fangirls!*
| kawaii kaijuu chapter 1 . 4/15/2013
Loved it! Mou why am I discovering all these wonderful fics so late? -pouts-
Anyways, good job on this one mate. NARUSASU FTW!
| DreamingOfSasuNaru chapter 1 . 12/2/2012
haha cuuute :smile:
| ayabirkin chapter 1 . 7/20/2012
aawww... so cute! :)
| ThirstyForKnowledge chapter 1 . 3/12/2012
awww so cute and hot adorable


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Having come through three depressed years, the Port of Baltimore may experience an upswing in 1992. A number of factors indicate that the port's worst problems may finally be ending. The loss of cargo to other ports may have leveled off.
For once, the New Year began with labor, management and the state working in harmony. Instead of strike threats from leaders of the International Longshoremen's Association, there was talk of seeking consensus and becoming an active participant in shaping future port moves. Nor was the Maryland Port Administration in a belligerent state of mind. New port director Adrian Teel has opened up lines of communications that have smoothed over the confrontations of the past.
Teel came to the job last year with no maritime expertise. But contrary to most expectations, this has turned out to be a decided advantage. He was not involved in any of the port's past difficulties; he brought no preconceived notions to his job, and he quickly disabused labor leaders of any notion that he intended to take over operation of the public terminals. Teel also overhauled his own staff, cutting 72 people, and reorganized his operations to make them more efficient.
Meanwhile, the new labor-management spirit of cooperation was instrumental in convincing key steamship lines to commit themselves to Baltimore. The giant Maersk Lines signed an unprecedented 10-year lease, arranged to privatize a large section of the Dundalk Marine Terminal and formed a cargo hub in Baltimore to serve South American ports. Another big shipper, Orient Overseas Container Line, announced its return to Baltimore after a hiatus of seven years. The ultra-modern Seagirt Marine Terminal, combined with new labor cooperation, began to pay dividends in terms of faster service for shippers.
An increase in cargo business would have several beneficial effects. It would help the state end its budget deficit at the port. It would also help the longshoremen's union put more of its members back to work, and it would ease the strain on management of onerous contributions to the Guaranteed Annual Income fund that pays longshoremen when they are idle.
Baltimore's port is an economic engine for the entire region, and an upturn in cargo activity would pump new life into Maryland's moribund economy. Recent news from the port suggests that this could be the year for Baltimore to bounce back from its past misfortunes on the waterfront.

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(NaturalNews) Many people are aware that prolonged cell phone use has been associated with brain cancer, but most don't realize how other sources of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation (EMR) also radically increase cancer risk.
New telecom towers are constructed every day. Average city-dwellers have anywhere between 30-100 microwave towers/antennas within a four-mile radius of their home. All of these towers emit high-frequency electromagnetic fields that have been linked to cancer development. For example, one Germany study reported that living within 1300 feet of two microwave towers over ten years triples cancer risk. Other studies in Australia, UK and Italy revealed significant increases in leukemia among people who live near such towers. Many other similar findings have been reported.
EMR outside the home isn't the only type of high-frequency radiation we are exposed to. Wi-Fi routers, baby monitors, and cordless phones emit high-frequency radiation that has also been linked to cancer. When in use, cordless phones emit an amount of radiation similar to that of a cell phone. (One study revealed that thirty minutes of daily cell phone use, over ten years, increases the risk of brain cancer by 140%). Wi-Fi routers are similarly dangerous. G. Blackwell, PhD, Chartered Engineer and advisor to WiredChild, states, "Having a digital wireless device in your home, office, or school is like having a mini-base station (cell tower) indoors with you." And with Wi-Max (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) now being implemented across the globe, entire regions will be blanketed in cancer-causing high-frequency electromagnetic radiation.
How to Avoid Dangerous EMR
While avoiding all EMR is impossible, the risk for radiation exposure can be decreased by taking the following measures:
1) Eliminating Wi-Fi in the home and using instead a hard-wired broadband connection.
2) Replacing cordless phones (which give off dangerous levels of radiation even when not in use, because their base is constantly looking for a signal), with a hard-wired phone.
3) Reducing/eliminating cell phone use. Using the speaker phone option on the phone slightly reduces EMR exposure. Blue tooth devices and headsets do not protect the brain from EMR, contrary to popular belief.
4) Draping a Faraday cage over the bed. This is a silver-lined mosquito net that filters out 99% of high-frequency EMR.
5) Considering purchasing scientifically-proven EMR protective devices for the home and body, such as EMR-protective clothing for the body and shielding paint for the home.
Doing these things can significantly reduce cancer risk from sources of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation.

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You leave the bar Friday evening after a few drinks with friends. As you slide the key into your car’s ignition you think “I wonder if I’m legally able to drive.” This is a common predicament for many Pennsylvania residents.
While many people know that the legal limit is 0.08, few can accurately predict their BAC on any given night. It is difficult to estimate your BAC, and it can change based on a number of factors other than the amount of alcohol consumed. Can your smartphone provide the answer?
Smartphone breathalyzer apps measure BAC
Several companies have developed apps that serve as personal breathalyzers, mimicking the technology used by law enforcement. These portable breathalyzers plug into your smartphone and can easily fit into a pocket or purse for convenient access. Like their professional cousins, users blow air into the reader which registers their BAC.
Users must follow specific guidelines to ensure an accurate reading. You must wait 20 minutes after completing your last drink before taking a reading, otherwise lingering alcohol particles could interfere with the results.
Additionally, a product tester for Fortune magazine found that not all products are equally reliable. Some products’ results are consistently too high or too low to use with confidence. Thoroughly research the breathalyzer in question before purchase.
Is it a good idea to rely on these devices?
The best way to avoid drunk driving charges is to completely abstain from alcohol when you need to drive. However, these gadgets can be useful to provide a general guideline for your level of inebriation.
In addition to providing a BAC reading, many apps additionally provide links to call a cab, show nearby hotel locations and tell you how long it will take for you to sober up.
What should you do if you are charged with DUI?
If you are ever pulled over and charged with DUI, do not address your charges alone. They can carry significant fines, loss of license and jail time. Speak with an experienced DUI attorney to discuss your case and options.


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Chris from The SuperDad Chronicles has tagged me for my first meme, sweet! Firstly, Chris, buddy ol pal, the more I read about you the more I realize you and I could be twins. Seriously. Read on, brotha, read on…
Seven things you don’t already know about me:
1. I hate seafood. I don’t like to use the word ‘hate’ ever, but after working in restaurants for many years, waiting tables, bartending then up to managing them, the smell always and continues to make me want to gouge my own nose out with a spork, so the word ‘hate’ is very apropos here.
2. My husband and I are each on our second marriage. Just like Chris, we believed the first one was just practice 🙂 We just needed to that dry run to get this one right, heh.
3. I love to dance and sing. I studied dance in college.
4. I love ranch dressing. I had, at one time, wanted to make a ranch restaurant where everything was somehow centered on ranch dressing – ranch eggs, ranch burgers, ranch potatoes. Yeah, that kind of crazy.
5. I am an artist. Painting, drawing, linoleum cutting. Love it. Don’t ever get to do it anymore with 5 children and all, but if I could, I would do it all day.
6. I love to decorate. As in, decorating for holidays, decorating the house. Interior decorator? Nah, but those shows interest me where you can ‘do it yourself’.
7. I’m pretty handy. I can fix things that are broken, even electronics. I like working with my hands, restoring things, fixing them up, etc. It takes a big even for me to get rid of something, I’ll generally fix it until its on its last legs. I’m kind of sentimental like that (which, I guess would make that #8??)
Alright, there you have it – 7 (8) things you didn’t know about me. Now for the 7 people I tag:
Now… go! 😉


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Darth Jr. Circus Steamer
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44 minutes (or 40 minutes by pretending you're burnt)
Wedged comfortably into one of Darth Jr. Circus Steamer's dehumanizing animal cages, you'll go on a cramp-filled trip through Streetcarbook Land and get a bird's-eye view of charming replica something-or-other you can't quite see.
- Warning: during a power outage, this experience will be full of tourists.
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- Psychologically manipulative illusions may be too intense for very young chickens.
- Annoyance may occur.
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- Because this is a stationery experience, adults are required to buy custom belts.
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Changes to the trust reporting rules – old news is still not good news
If you are a trustee of a trust, you have likely heard of the proposed changes to the trust reporting rules that were first announced in the 2018 federal budget as part of the government’s broader plan to crack down on tax avoidance. These proposed changes required extensive reporting for all trusts in Canada so as to assist the Canada Revenue Agency (“the CRA”) in assessing the tax liabilities for trusts and their respective beneficiaries and imposed significant penalties where these new reporting requirements were not met.
The old news
Generally, under the currently enacted rules, an inactive trust (other than a deemed resident trust) that has no tax payable is not required to file a tax return unless it allocates all or a part of its income or capital to its beneficiaries or it has disposed of capital property. Draft legislation to implement the 2018 budget proposals to expand the reporting requirements for trusts effective for taxation years ending on or after December 31, 2021 was first released for public comment in July 2018 but it was not enacted. Under those proposals, trusts that are resident in Canada (including deemed resident trusts) and non-resident trusts that would not otherwise be required to file a return would now be required to file a T3 return and report the identity of settlors, trustees, beneficiaries, and anyone who has the ability to exert control over the trust or override the trustee’s decisions regarding the distribution of income or capital. In addition to their name, each party’s address, date of birth (for an individual), jurisdiction of residence, and taxpayer number (such as a social insurance number of an individual, a business number of a corporation and the trust account number of a trust) must be disclosed.
Certain trusts are exempted from the new reporting requirements in the proposed legislation including mutual fund trusts, segregated funds, prescribed master trusts, trusts governed by registered plans (i.e., RRSPs, RRIFs, RDSPs, RESPs, TFSAs, DPSPs, pooled RPPs, etc.), lawyers’ general trust accounts, graduated rate estates, qualified disability trusts, employee life and health trusts, trusts that qualify as non-profit organizations or registered charities, trusts in existence for less than three months, and trusts that hold less than $50,000 in assets throughout the taxation year if their holdings are confined to cash, deposits, government debt obligations and listed securities.
To increase compliance with the new requirements, stiff penalties were introduced for failure to file a return or a schedule reporting the required information of $25 per day, with a minimum penalty of $100 and a maximum of $2,500. If the failure to file is made knowingly or due to gross negligence, a further penalty equal to 5% of the maximum fair market value of the trust property held by the trust during the year will apply. Current late-filing and non-filing penalties with respect to the T3 Return which can include a penalty of up to $25,000 or a fine and imprisonment continue to apply.
In anticipation of the December 31, 2021 effective date, accountants and trustees began the arduous task of gathering the newly required information, however the CRA was late releasing the schedule on which the information was to be reported and in January 2022 announced that it would defer the reporting requirement until the legislation was enacted.
On February 4, 2022, draft legislation was released which included the July 2018 proposals with a number of amendments. The legislation is now applicable to taxation years ending on or after December 31, 2022 and does not require the disclosure of information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. Trusts for which all units are listed on a designated stock exchange are exempted from the proposals but arrangements where a trust can reasonably be considered to act as agent for its beneficiaries with respect to all dealings in all the trust’s property, i.e. “bare trusts” are now subject to the reporting requirements.
The new news
On August 9, 2022 the federal government released amendments to the current proposals to expand the lists of trusts excluded from the new reporting requirements to include a trust under an employee profit sharing plan, a registered supplementary unemployment insurance benefit plan and a first home savings account. The amendments provide that the reporting requirement will be met where the class of beneficiaries is sufficiently described to determine whether any particular person is a member of that class of beneficiaries when reporting on beneficiaries that are all members of certain Indigenous groups. The latest proposals also state that where not all of a trust’s units are listed on a designated stock exchange, the reporting requirement is met where the required information about the beneficiaries of those unlisted classes of units is reported.
So what’s the big deal?
Much of the required information under the new reporting proposals may not be readily available and the identity of certain beneficiaries may not be easily ascertained. By the very nature of trusts, much of the information about them is private and some beneficiaries may not even be aware that they are beneficiaries of a trust. How will a trustee explain to a beneficiary that they need their social insurance number to report to the CRA? With this additional administrative burden and with the risk of triggering a penalty, many trustees may consider resigning from their role leaving trusts scrambling to find replacement trustees. In the past, the role of a settlor was merely to establish a trust with a gift to the beneficiaries and there was little or nothing required of them beyond that original gift. Now with the increased scrutiny by the CRA, individuals may be less inclined to settle trusts in the future.
Where are we now?
Given the government’s ongoing campaign to search out and punish any taxpayer who has avoided tax by any means, including through the use of trusts, it is likely that these proposals will be enacted. The February 2022 and August 2022 announcements merely fine-tune the 2018 proposals. While trustees had a temporary reprieve of one year, the March 31, 2023 filing deadline is very quickly approaching and now is the time to complete the process of gathering the information that will now need to be reported.

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The Central Bank of Nigeria in collaboration with the Information and Technology Standards Council is reviewing the IT standards blueprint in the banking sector.
The aim is to align the IT standards in the sector to current realities and trends in the financial sector.
The IT Standards Council, a body set up by the CBN, is also planning to drive an industry-wide remediation exercise on the gaps identified during the baseline assessment that was conducted on banks last year.
These were outcome of a meeting between the Deputy Governor, Operations, CBN, Alhaji Suleiman Barau, and outgoing members of the IT Standards Council in Lagos on Friday.
The meeting was a forum where activities and achievement of the council in the last two years were discussed.
Barau reiterated that the mandate given to the council was an important one and would go a long way to driving the adoption of world-class IT standards in the Nigerian financial services industry, and enable the industry to reap the full benefits of its investments in information technology.
The current IT Standards Council, whose two-year tenure will end in May, was inaugurated by the former Deputy Governor, Operations, CBN, Mr. Tunde Lemo, in May 10, 2013, with the mandate to drive the adoption, implementation and compliance to industry IT standards in the Nigerian financial services industry.
The need to define IT Standards for the industry arose in 2010 during the Industry Infrastructure Transformation programme where the CBN in conjunction with the Bankers Committee sought to identify ways to reduce the significantly high cost to income ratios of banks within the industry and also improve operational efficiency.
The transformation programme is coordinated by the Shared Services Office of the CBN and is the driver of the collaborative strategic response of the industry to realise reduction in the industry annual cost base.
IT, a key driver of banking, was lagging behind in global best practices. It was limiting banking operating efficiency, cost effectiveness, regulatory information and risk management practices.
To address the gaps and provide guidelines for application and utilisation of information technology, industry IT standards were defined to articulate and provide a point of reference for the utilisation of IT.
The IT standards cut across different IT capability areas, namely information security, IT service management, systems availability and information exchange.
However, the CBN boss listed the achievements of the IT Standards Council within the last two years such as the release and publishing of the IT standards blueprint to the industry in January 2014 and hosting of the blueprint on the CBN website.
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Looks Perfect Amazing.
too jbeam, base it off of the 1989 pessima, its very accurate
but why? Why would you want it to handle like a Pessima? It would be just a meshslap
eh, just an idea
The pessima is most like an accord and is transverse FWD/AWD not longitudinal RWD
Looks SICK! I can't wait for this to be done, i'll love this mod!
This is looking great! Keep up the good work
Will there be license plate jbeam?
No, it'll have 3 plates per meter squared
Not at all, im choking in work atm so this has the lowest priority. Hypothticly if i dont get any time anytime soon i could give the model to someone that could finish it. That person can DM me in that case. Sverre sounds swedish btw.
The name is Norwegian, but I'm from the Netherlands
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But I do drive a Volvo so...
Reminds me of an old netherland commercial with a volvo 340 or 360 and a very special song..
Well im swedish so thats why it rang a bell. Thinking Sverre could also be danish. We northern countries share most names tbh.
I wanna ---- you in the ---! XDDDDDDDDD
I apologize for the bump but I could work on this, I'm working on a 240sx right now and I've just begun getting it in game. Your models are pretty well done and all I would need to do is model some extras, jbeam, custom suspension and texturing.
Some renders of my 240 for an example of my work.
I've been finishing the model of it, and i must say, running gear would be seriously aprecciated, things like the FJ20 Engine and all
If you could message the the whole model/files I could get to work on modeling and texturing what ever you guys need done .
You guys got my permission to do that if youre not already working on it


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There are tens of thousands of books out there and any visit to a library or bookstore will yield a wealth of wonderful entertainment and useful information.
Here are some personal recommendations.
1) How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
This book was written in 1936 and its fundamental principles are still very relevant today. These principles are based on positive ways of dealing with people and winning them over to your side.
One example deals with conversation. Do you prefer to talk or to listen? If you prefer to listen, you will learn new things from the other person plus they will be impressed by the fact that you listened to them instead of droning on about yourself.
Dale Carnegie's book is very easy to read and it's full of very useful advice that's simple to put into action. Here's a summary of six ways to make people like you.
- Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Remember that a person's name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
- Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
- Talk in terms of the other person's interest.
- Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.
2) How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Google is one of the largest companies in the world with over 50,000 employees and a market valuation of over $360 billion. The authors provide a very entertaining primer on how to operate a huge organization in the rapidly evolving field of technology and online commerce where the time-frame for success can no longer be measured in years.
The customer is the boss and products must be cutting-edge while having the broadest appeal possible (with the knowledge that it may be obsolete much sooner than later). Having employees who are 'smart creative' is essential but Google has to allow them to thrive, work hard, have fun and be constantly innovative and creative. How is this done? 'How Google Works' provides many fascinating insights!
3) Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
It's been just over 100 years since the start of World War I but the world is still dealing with the ramifications of the post-war peace talks in Paris. The heads of state of Britain, France, Italy and the United States tried to forge a peace while dealing with petitions from delegates who came from all over the globe.
When we read about all of the issues facing our present-day world, from Asia to Europe to the Middle East to Africa, they can be traced to the decisions made in Paris during those six months. It drives home the point that wars can be won but winning the peace can sometimes be more difficult. Many of today's international headlines can be traced to the decisions made in the capital of France after the 'War To End All Wars'.
4) Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin
Michael Palin was best-known for his comedic work with Monty Python before he accepted a challenge to travel around the world in 80 days. The stipulation was that he could only use the same overland methods as in the age of Jules Verne's book, published in 1873. No airplanes!
His trip,is a great travelogue as he journeys from London, England through Europe, Egypt, Asia and then the Pacific Ocean followed by North America and the Atlantic. No flying is involved and this brings home the fact that it's often the journey itself that's the fun part, not the destination.
Michael Palin's sense of humor and keen observations make this a wonderful read and a great incentive to plan a trip yourself. You can also read his other travel books such as 'Pole to Pole' (describing his overland trip from the North Pole to the South Pole via Europe and Africa) or 'Full Circle' (his journey visiting all countries around the rim the Pacific Ocean).
5) Madrigal's Magic Key To Spanish by Margarita Madrigal
I wrote a blog on how learning other languages is a very fun and valuable activity. Spanish is a language spoken by more than 400 million people in Spain as well as many countries in Central and South America and many areas in the United States.
There are many books and videos which teach Spanish but a great one for beginners is Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish. It shows how closely related Spanish and English are related and how many words you can learn instantly due to this relationship. For example, words ending in '-or', '-ble' and '-ion' are virtually identical in English and Spanish. After a few days of reading this book, you will have a large vocabulary and a very good grasp of everyday grammar.
6) Looptail by Bruce Poon Tip
How do you start an adventure travel company using your credit cards and trying to compete with the huge bus tour companies? Bruce Poon Tip's account of building G Adventures from scratch to a company serving 100,000 customers a year in 100 countries is very inspiring. It also gives a very insightful first-hand account on how to operate and grow a company while keeping customers happy, employees engaged, competitors at bay and staying socially responsible.
You can read my review of the book at Looptail Review. Bruce Poon Tip has written a second inspirational book called 'Do Big Small Things'. You can learn more about it at the official site.
The picture is Bruce and myself (along with his wife) in Ecuador.
There are many other books which I can recommend but these six are a good place to start if you are looking for some new reading reading material.
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(CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey suffered a fainting spell Thursday night, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.
Michael Mukasey is helped as he begins to collapse during his speech Thursday night.
Mukasey, 67, did not suffer a stroke or experience a heart attack, she said Friday morning.
Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech Thursday at the Federalist Society dinner at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington.
He was giving a spirited defense of the Bush administration's legal policies when his speech began to slur and he lost track of his thoughts about 30 minutes into his talk. Seconds later, he became rigid and then began to slump. Watch Mukasey's speech and collapse »
Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Medical Center, said Peter Carr, a Justice Department spokesman.
"The attorney general is conscious, conversant and alert," Carr said Thursday night. "His vital statistics are strong and he is in good spirits.
President Bush placed a call to Mukasey Friday morning. "The AG sounded well and is getting excellent care," presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
Mukasey was telling jokes and was ready to go home from the hospital, said a Justice Department official, who was not authorized to speak on the record about Mukasey's condition.
As Mukasey began to collapse, two people grabbed him and laid him on the stage. On a tape of the speech, a voice can be heard saying "Oh, no oh! Oh my God!"
He was given medical attention on stage by a woman and three men before he was rushed to the hospital. EMS personnel arrived on the scene less than 15 minutes after his collapse. Watch update on Mukasey's condition »
Before the EMS arrived, one man is heard asking people to please stay in their seats. In the background, a voice is heard saying "bring his feet up." While Mukasey was being attended to, the audience remained seated and quiet.
Outside the hotel, numerous police cars rushed to the scene. Moments later, a fire truck arrived and then an ambulance.
White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto told CNN that President Bush has been informed of the situation and has Mukasey in his "thoughts and prayers." Watch Jeffrey Toobin's comments on Mukasey »
As he approached the podium and during the bulk of his appearance, Mukasey showed no signs of ill health.
During his speech, he praised the administration for "nothing less than a fundamental reorganization of our government" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and blasted the "relentless critics of the very policies that have kept us safe."
Early in his speech, Mukasey noted Supreme Court justices were in attendance, and he praised John Roberts and Samuel Alito as "remarkably accomplished justices."
His speech was punctuated several times by applause from the audience.
Mukasey is a retired federal judge appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan.
Mukasey was nominated to be attorney general by President Bush in September 2007 and was confirmed by the Senate in November 2007.
As a judge, Mukasey ruled that the U.S. government's detention of "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla was constitutional, but that he must be allowed to meet with his attorneys.
During his attorney general confirmation hearings, Mukasey said he would make legal decisions based "on facts and law, not by interests and motives."
Mukasey also said he would resign from office if faced with a presidential order he believed was unconstitutional.


2018 Jeep Woody Review And Info
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Jim Stack has plenty of thoughts about college football. It’s his favorite sport, and the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish is his favorite team. He outlines those thoughts in his new book, “Prelude To The Playoff.” Stack, a lifetime South Bend resident, discusses the book, how college football lost its innocence, why he supports a playoff for college football and the College Football Hall of Fame’s move to Georgia: Q: The chapters in your book alternate between being a memoir and a historical critique of the Bowl Championship Series. Why did you organize it that way?: A: I wrote it that way to give me credibility. Remember, my objective was not to write a book, but to change the destiny of college football by putting forth a (proposal for a playoff format.) As I’m doing this, I’m saying to myself, “Who is Jim Stack?” And so I have to establish some credibility as a fan. Q: How did you establish credibility, and how do you equate the things you learned throughout your life to college football and Notre Dame football? A: I was able to equate my life and the lessons that I learned to college football. And it comes down to two things that my grandfather told me: “Do the best you can today and tomorrow do better” and “anything worth doing is worth doing right.” Q: How do those two statements from your grandfather relate to college football today? A: I use the first philosophy as it relates to Notre Dame to say that you are going through some tough times now, but you should want to do the best that you can. And now Notre Dame has fallen into the trap that the things it does seem to be more about money. For the BCS, I would hope that the second philosophy would encourage them to find a way to do (college football’s post-season) right. Do it in a way that all of the schools can partake in — even the small conference schools. Q: You believe that college football has lost its innocence. What do you see as evidence of that? A: It’s more about promoting the individual than the team today. You look at papers like USA Today, they have a Heisman watch. Q: What do you think about the College Football Hall of Fame moving from South Bend to Atlanta? A: It’s not a great surprise, and my thought is to just let it go. I think that the (organizers of the hall) missed a big opportunity to make it more about great teams than individuals. They could have done things like induct (the previous year’s national champion), and have Notre Dame open its season against that team. That way, you could have gotten anybody who was (affiliated) with that team to come.
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He could have been me.
On May 22, in the eastern Syrian province of Dier ez-Zor, 15-year-old Jamal Nassir al-Oujan was apprehended by militants of the Islamic State for the “crime” of being gay. He was given a short trial, summarily found guilty and sentenced to death by stoning. According to an anonymous eyewitness account gathered by a local news agency, members of the public were ordered to participate in the brutal killing.
When I was a 15-year-old gay kid struggling to come out of the closet, the worst fate I could have ever imagined was being rejected by those who loved me. Fortunately, that never happened. But never in my worst nightmares did I consider the prospect that I would be stoned to death in public.
Yet that is the fate awaiting gays living under ISIS’s sadist rule. And as this month’s deadly shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, committed by American-born Omar Mateen who pledged fealty to ISIS, shows, the terror group’s murderous homophobia now has American gays in its target sights.
From the very beginnings of its rule in parts of Syria and Iraq two years ago, ISIS has claimed Koranic injunction for its war on homosexuality. A “penal code” released by the group in December 2014 lists death as the penalty for same-sex relations. Though the means by which ISIS punishes homosexuals may be graphic, they did not appear out of a cultural and religious vacuum. “As shocking and horrific as ISIS’s carnival atmosphere executions of gay men continue to be, the public’s willingness to participate demonstrate that ISIS’s actions are built on a well-established foundation,” reports the Counter-Extremism Project. “ISIS has cynically exploited these prejudices in order to ingratiate itself among the people it has conquered as well as to further its hateful agenda and impose its extreme and violent interpretations of Islamic law in the wider Middle East and beyond.”
Horrifying, yes. But what most strikes me most about ISIS’s brutality is its unabashed openness. Not even the Nazis were so candid about their evil. As World War II drew to an end with the advance of the Soviet Red Army and Germany’s defeat in sight, guards at Auschwitz and other concentration camps went about destroying the evidence of their crimes. Across Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, slave laborers were ordered to dig up the corpses of murdered Jews from mass graves and construct giant pyres with alternating layers of bodies and wood, the remains going up in flames.
After the war, when the full enormity of what the Nazis had done was becoming known to the world, surviving members of the Third Reich did not defend their actions on principle. Instead, they entered the infamous “superior orders” plea, arguing that they were but cogs in a long, complex chain of command, just following the instructions of their superiors.
Say what you will about ISIS — there is none of this sort of weaselly obfuscation when it comes to its barbarism. ISIS is without question one of the most brutally violent movements in the world today, targeting not just gays, but anyone they randomly label an infidel. And it wants everyone — future generations included — to know it.
An atrocity last month may rank as its most repulsive, though that is an admittedly subjective claim. It all depends upon how you rank the varying prospects of being buried alive, thrown off a building or dipped into a vat of nitric acid.
In May, a source in the Iraqi city of Mosul (captured by ISIS two years ago), claimed that, after seizing a group of accused spies, group members executed them via the latter method. “ISIS members tied each person with a rope and lowered him in the tub, which contains nitric acid, till the victims’ organs dissolve,” reads a report from Iraq News. Nitric acid is normally used in the processes of photo engraving and reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. One can scarcely imagine what effect it has upon contact with the human body.
Days before, the terror group seemed to have reached the depths of depravity when it executed a 7-year-old boy, Muaz Hassan, for the crime of “cursing divinity” while playing a game of pick-up soccer in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS’s de facto capital. Believed to be the youngest victim of ISIS’s long reign of terror, Hassan was shot by firing squad before a crowd of hundreds of people. His parents reportedly “collapsed in grief.”
It’s a testament to how inured we have become to the region’s atrocities that such pitiless acts of inhumanity no longer register upon our consciences. A few dozen Christians beheaded on a beach in Egypt, a Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage, a gay man tossed from the rooftop of a high building and then — visibly still alive — stoned to death by an angry mob below, a Syrian Arab Army officer run over by a tank. Can any one of us who have paid even the most remote attention to world news honestly claim to be shocked anymore by such headlines? Perversely, we seem to expect them.
What connects all of these murders, aside from their obvious moral degeneracy, is the very public way in which they have been advertised to the world. Beginning with the beheading of American journalist James Foley in the summer of 2014, when ISIS first began to garner worldwide attention, the organization has made a point of broadcasting its crimes to the world in slickly produced, social-media-friendly videos and other forms of mass entertainment. Unlike the Nazis, who tried to carry out their crimes in secret and then cover them up after it became clear the Reich would fail, ISIS has no such shame or concern for its reputation.
On the contrary, spreading the news of ISIS horror far and wide forms a crucial component of the group’s strategy. Advertising its nascent state as a sort of real-world, Islamist version of “Grand Theft Auto 5,” where the only law is Sharia and devout young men can have their way with all manner of Shiite apostates, Yazidi sex slaves and Western aid workers, ISIS has created a paradoxical land of utmost religious virtue and hedonistic carnage. The Islamic State is a place where the most violence-importuning verses of the Koran meet “A Clockwork Orange.”
Boasting of its conquests in online videos and its own jihadist magazine, Dabiq, ISIS gains recruits through the allure of sacred virtue and ruthless machismo. According to Shiraz Maher, an expert on Sunni jihadism at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence at King’s College London, “brainwashed” is too forgiving a term to describe the young Muslims from Western countries who up and leave their comfortable Western lifestyles to brave the deserts of northern Syria and Iraq. “They know only too well exactly what they are doing,” he writes. “They have consciously decided to immerse themselves in a blood-soaked narrative of vengeance and power, in which they will annihilate their enemies, destroy Western values and ensure the triumph of their perverted, totalitarian version of Islam.”
Other Islamist terror organizations like al Qaeda and the Taliban have been similarly bold in their rejection of human rights and civilized norms. In March 2011, the Taliban very publicly dynamited the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan. The magnificent, 4th century statues carved into cliffs were “idols” worthy of destruction, according to then-Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Neither the Taliban nor al Qaeda, however, boasts the technological savvy of ISIS. Broadcasting savagery does more than attract recruits; it also inspires fear into the enemy. “Shooting their victims in the back of the head is too clinical, too swift,” writes Maher, “The message of terror must be spread by more gruesome killings.”
Two weeks before the fall of Mosul, ISIS distributed a video entitled “Clanging of the Swords.” In addition to the usual pornographic violence, it also featured terrifying images of men digging their own graves. By constantly bombarding its enemies with a triumphalist narrative of inexorable conquest, ISIS not only reassures a continuous stream of fighters from across the world that it is on the path to victory against the infidels, it convinces adversaries to lay down their arms and retreat.
The Obama administration seems to believe that by refusing to acknowledge the Islamic component of the Islamic State, it will beat ISIS at its own game. Earlier this week, the Justice Department initially redacted all mentions of ISIS from the transcript of Mateen’s 911 phone call, in which he swore his allegiance to the terror group and repeatedly insisted that he was committing his crime in the name of Islam.
In a way, it’s understandable that Obama wants to deny ISIS the publicity it so obviously craves, particularly when the terrorist in question had no known contact with the organization prior to his killing spree. But we are long past the point of being able to censor ISIS or minimize its baleful media impact. If enlisting moderate Muslims in the war against Islamic extremism is to be successful, surely the case must be made to them that this is a problem they need to confront within their own communities.


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The first week in Oct, we will travel from Bar Harbor to Portland. We would like to travel via Hwy 1, along the coast. We are in no big hurry since that day is set aside for travel. Is this a bad idea or is this an interesting drive ? Any suggestions on where to stop ? Never been there before. The new Fodor's guide comes out in May, but we need to make plans before that. Thanks.
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Diary of Polar Explorer Clarence Hare Published
Early explorer New Zealander Clarence Hare, who survived being lost in Antarctica long before retiring to Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has had his famous diary published for the first time, 55 years after his death, Meg Bolton and Tessa Mapstone report for the ABC.
Invercargill-born Hare was the youngest crew member on the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions onboard the ship Discovery in 1901, led by Captain Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson.
He immortalised his adventure in a meticulously detailed diary, which he donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington in the 1960s, Bolton and Mapstone write.
Hare’s granddaughter Virginia Bassett said his personal diary shared an insight into the lengths the crew went to for research, which claimed multiple lives onboard.
“They went out and collected penguins and brought whole penguins back, seals, shells, whatever they could find that would be samples to take back to England,” Bassett said.
A Young Man’s Antarctic Discovery includes a foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Original article by Meg Bolton and Tessa Mapstone, ABC, October 16, 2022.

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AN action group campaigning for a lower speed limit along a notorious Cotswold road have been left astonished by a new set of police figures.
Ninety-two thousand people were clocked breaking the speed limit on the A436 between the Air Balloon roundabout and Bourton during October and November.
Data collected from six locations along the stretch of road recorded the speeds of than a quarter of a million vehicles, with the highest speed of 136mph recorded near Andoversford.
Action group the North Cotswolds Rural area Against Speeding Harm (No Crash) was formed in the summer to combat drivers clocking up excessive speeds.
Their campaign was launched just days before the death of Jaclyn Parks, aged 36, from Blockley, who was killed in a crash on the A436 on July 21.
Councillor Paul Hodgkinson, leader of the Liberal Democrats at Cotswold District Council, who is chairman of the group, said people were shocked by the findings which attracted the attention of national press.
“People have been astonished by it,” he said. “We always knew that speeding was a real issue, not just perception.
While some spots show that the average speeds recorded were within the limit they also show just how many people ignore it.
“After Christmas we’re going to meet with highways to find out what their reaction to the figures are.”
Police will continue to carry out speed checks over the next few months at different points along the A436.
Peter Hellyar, who is a resident along the road, has been frustrated by speeding drivers for many years but is still sceptical about anything being done to stop them.
“They [police and highways] seem to be complacent about it all. What concerns me is we’re not the only action group in Gloucestershire.
They are springing up all over. Only regular enforcement of the speed limit along various parts of the road will show drivers that it’s unacceptable to use the road as a race track.”
Jason Humm, area highways manager, said: “While the police are responsible for enforcing speed limits, we constantly review our highest priority roads.”


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Since getting his start in his hometown of Nashville, TN, Billy Wayne Davis has performed in virtually every corner of the United States. He has appeared on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, WTF with Marc Maron, TruTV and written for NFL on FOX. His festival credits include theBridgetown Comedy Festival, the Laughing SkullComedy Festival, Bumbershoot, and Sketchfest in San Francisco. His Rooftop Records release, Billy Wayne Davis, was featured on Sirius XM and named one of Paste Magazine’s Top Ten comedy albums of 2012.


In 2005, the Singapore Ministry of Finance launched its Alliance for Corporate Excellence (ACE) programme to consolidate the IT systems and operating environments 11 agencies used to manage their human resources, payroll, finance and procurement functions.
In addition, the Government would drive efficiency gains and cut costs by sharing IT services and best practice, and improving reporting.
The Ministry of Finance engaged Accenture to deploy a standard ERP system for the 11 agencies and the Ministry of Finance selected the highly scalable and reliable SAP ECC 6.0 integrated application suite, running on Microsoft Windows Server and a Microsoft SQL Server database.
With Accenture’s help, 11 government agencies in Singapore developed a shared human resources, finance and procurement system which is expected to help them cut IT infrastructure costs by 30 per cent over the lifespan of the system.
The success of the initiative has demonstrated how a shared ERP system can drive efficiencies in government.
From August 2011 to January 2012, the shared system was further extended to another 4 agencies.