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Fall Strata 2018
Like most Fortune 50 firms, General Electric relies on an abundance of computer systems to power its enterprise. And like most firms that size, synching up and aligning the data emitted by different systems is a major challenge. But thanks to an innovative data discovery solution powered by machine learning, GE found a solution.
GE’s Hadoop-based data lake contains 500 PB of data that originated from about 120 different systems, according to Diwakar Goel, the VP and Chief Data Officer of GE Digital and Finance. Read more…
Feature Articles from Fall Strata 2018
During last week’s Strata Data Conference, Datanami sat down to talk with Cloudera Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson to talk about the state of big data, and where Cloudera offerings are headed next. Here’s a rehash of that conversation.
When Olson co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and served as its first CEO, Apache Hadoop was just starting to register as a blip on the radar screens of tech executives, who were wondering how they were going to store all that data and what they could do with it. Read more…
While there was heavy cloud cover in New York this week, cloud computing could be seen lifting Strata Data Conference, where vendors scrambled to ensure their products can support cloud and on-premise environments simultaneously, which necessitated a steady diet of Special K.
If a Strata attendee had a nickel for every time she heard a particular big data vendor supports cloud, multi-cloud, or — Read more…
Facebook recently lost $120 billion in market cap in a single day, citing three reasons for its Q2 earnings miss and lowered earnings expectations: the Cambridge Analytica scandal, global currency fluctuations and the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Yet it is noteworthy that Q2 2018 only saw five weeks where GDPR was in effect, and two of the three factors Facebook called out were related to influences from GDPR. Read more…
Today marks the start of the fall Strata Data Conference in New York City, which has traditionally been the big data community’s biggest show of the year. It’s been a wild ride for the big data crowd in 2018, one that’s brought its share of highs and lows. Now it’s worth taking some time to consider where big data has come, and where it’s possibly headed in the future. Read more…
For all the progress that companies are making on their big data projects, there’s one big hurdle holding them back: complexity. Because of the high level of technical complexity that big data tech entails and the lack of data science skills, companies are not achieving everything the’d like to with big data. Read more…
News in Brief from Fall Strata 2018
Datanami this week unveiled the winners of the 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards, which honors the companies, products, and projects that rose to the top in the big data community this year. Also unveiled were the Editors’ Choice Awards, which gives Datanami editors a chance to honor those companies, products, and projects that also deserve recognition. Read more…
Compliance with new European data privacy regulations was spotty in the first three months after the rules took effect at the end of May, with an estimated 70 percent of global companies failing to comply with requests for personal data within the required one-month time period.
According to a survey released this week by cloud data integration specialist Talend, compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was actually higher outside Europe. Read more…
Data management vendors continue to target the growing number of cloud-native NoSQL database applications while shifting their platforms to Docker containers to handle microservices-based apps.
Among them is Rubrik, which this week rolled out the latest version of its data protection platform upgraded to handle cloud-based applications on NoSQL databases, including Cassandra and MongoDB. Read more…
StreamSets, which bills itself as the “air traffic control” tasked with preventing collisions from occurring with big data, today announced that it raised $35 million, which it will use to continue building its data operations, or DataOps, platform. The company also announced greater support for cloud environments.
StreamSets says DataOps has grown in importance as companies re-architect their “data supply chain” Read more…
Streaming and other data applications continue to be paired with microservices as streaming data shake up application designs targeting AI, machine learning and other data-driven use cases.
The latest to jump on the microservices bandwagon via the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator is Lightbend Inc., which this week launched the latest version of its data platform tuned to developing and running streaming applications. Read more…
Enterprises that are looking to push transactional data from on-premise systems into Google’s cloud environment may want to check out the latest from Attunity, which today announced support for Google Cloud Platform with its change data capture (CDC) software.
Attunity already supported Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure with its CDC software, which automatically detects changes made to production data repositories and replicates those changes to target systems in a ready-to-use format. Read more…
Hortonworks, IBM and Red Hat today announced they’re banding together to build a consistent hybrid computing architecture for big data workloads. Dubbed the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative, the program pledges simplicity of deployment and freedom of movement for data apps.
The rapid ascent of cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud has given enterprises abundant new options for storing data and deploying processing-intensive applications, such as deep learning and real-time stream processing. Read more…
This Just In from Fall Strata 2018
- Zaloni’s New Release Enables Self-Service Data Across the Enterprise – (9/13/2018)
- MemSQL Showcases How to Solve Data Challenges with a Modern Database at Strata Data Conference – (9/13/2018)
- Zoomdata Launches Global Reseller Partner Program – (9/12/2018)
- Bloomberg Launches Linked Open Data Website – (9/12/2018)
- MapR and Waterline Data Collaborate on Data Catalog for Machine Learning-Driven AI and Analytics – (9/12/2018)
- BlueData Announces General Availability on Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure – (9/12/2018)
- BlueData Brings On-Demand Provisioning and Automation to Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Big Data – (9/11/2018)
- Pepperdata Announces Major Enterprise-Grade Capabilities, Enhanced Usability and Services – (9/11/2018)
- Zoomdata Partners with South America’s Biggest Payment Processing Company – (9/11/2018)
- Syncsort Integrate Updates Address Market Shift Toward Versatile Streaming Data Architectures – (9/11/2018)
- O’Reilly and Cloudera Announce Inaugural Strata Data Awards Finalists – (9/11/2018)
- Striim Expands Integration With Microsoft Cloud Services, Solutions – (9/11/2018)
- Hortonworks, IBM, Red Hat Collaborate to Accelerate Containerized Big Data Workloads for Hybrid Architectures – (9/11/2018)
- Striim Bolsters Integration with Apache Kudu – (9/11/2018)
- StreamSets Raises $35 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by Harmony Partners – (9/11/2018)
- MapR Introduces 6 New Data Science Offerings – (9/11/2018)
- New O’Reilly Book on AI and Analytics in Production Authored by Experts from MapR – (9/11/2018)


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The distribution, abundance and seasonality of pelagic marine invertebrate larvae in the maritime Antarctic
A survey of pelagic larvae was undertaken between November 1992 and February 1995 at Signy Island, Antarctica (60° 43′ S, 45° 36′ W). A diver–towed net and hand–held plankton pump were used at five sites of varying depths (6–30 m) and benthic substrata, in a combination of monthly and fortnightly samples. Overall larval ecological diversity was much higher than expected, with 131 morphologically distinct larval forms collected, apparently representing most of the benthic phyla present. The species richness observed is comparable with levels recorded at temperate latitudes, and higher than Arctic data and the implications for Thorson's rule (the inferred cline of reduced pelagic larval diversity towards high latitudes) is discussed. Larval abundances were low (mean 2.6 individuals per m3) which were two to six orders of magnitude lower than peaks in comparable data from temperate and tropical zones. We suggest that the low abundances recorded are a reflection of both slow developmental rates and a high dilution of larvae, reducing synchrony and spreading larvae over larger distances. Three seasonal periods, during which different larval types occur, have been identified. Summer, late summer and winter spawning strategies were discernable, and in some groups larvae occurred throughout the year.
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26 Aug 2015
Saint John consumer confidence levels decline
• Consumer confidence in Saint John declined this quarter and continues to be below other urban markets tested in the region.
• A majority of Saint John residents are satisfied with the performance of Council under Mayor Mel Norton’s leadership, stable from three months ago.
HALIFAX, NS August 25, 2015: Consumer confidence among Saint John residents has declined this quarter and continues to be below other urban markets tested in the Maritimes, according to the most recent Urban Report Survey conducted by Corporate Research Associates Inc. (CRA). Specifically, Saint John consumer confidence rests at 91.2 (down from 94.1 three months ago), the lowest recorded over the last three years.
On the other hand, nearly six in ten Saint John residents (57%, compared with 55% three months ago) are satisfied with the performance of the Council led by Mayor Mel Norton.
These results are part of the CRA Urban Report, an independent telephone survey of adult residents and consists of 400 Halifax CMA, 400 Saint John CMA, 400 Moncton CMA, and 400 Fredericton CA residents, conducted from July 16 to August 6, 2015, with overall results for each accurate to within ±4.9 percentage points, 95 out of 100 times. The survey results for government satisfaction are based on 400 Halifax CMA residents (±4.9 percentage points, 95% confidence level), 214 City of Saint John residents (±6.7 percentage points), 183 City of Moncton residents (±7.2 percentage points), and 272 City of Fredericton residents (±5.9 percentage points).
Corporate Research Associates (CRA), www.cra.ca, is one of Canada’s leading public opinion and market research companies. Founded in 1978, CRA is dedicated to providing clients with state-of-the-art research and strategic consulting services. CRA is a Certified Gold Seal Member of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA), which sets stringent standards as a condition of membership, and enforces those standards through independent audits. Follow us on Twitter @CRAInsight.
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Radhakishan Damani was born on 15 March 1954, in a Marwari family, his nourishment from childhood to young age took place in Bikaner, a district of Rajasthan. Radhakishnan is known for his success of being a self-made billionaire in our country despite having such a humble beginning. He was a college drop out because he dropped his B.com (Bachelor of Commerce) from the University of Mumbai to start his stockbroking business journey.
Radhakishnan is now the biggest investor and entrepreneur living in Mumbai. He owns the country's third-largest mega-retail stores chain, named DMart. He considers Chandrakant Sampat his mentor who was first generation investor.
He says that he learned his techniques for dealing with risky situations in business from Chandrakant Sampat. His career began as a trader, but when his father died, he had to face an unwanted and drastic financial crisis at his home and he then decided to become a stock-market investor. In the few initial years the market was utilised for observation and taking knowledge. Meanwhile, he considered following menu Manek's stock-market strategies, who had established a kind of fear in everyone in the market because he was the real player.
Radhakishan established his roots in the Market after he vanquished Harshad Mehta who was the Indian stockbroker who was responsible for the biggest scam of India. From the late1980s to the early 1990s heavy amounts of investments were made by Radhakishan in large and multinational stocks and consequently it made him one of the leading stock market investors. 'he was also ranked as 12th-richest person in India by Forbes.
Childhood & Early Life
Radhakishan Damani was born on 15th March 1954, he belongs to a Marwari family. Shivkishanji Damani was his father and he was also a part of the stock market. He has a brother named Gopikishan Damani. Radhakishan started to pursue his graduation in B.Com from the 'University of Mumbai' but then dropped out because he wanted to begin his career as a businessman.
His career began in the ball bearing business as a stock trader. Before that, there was no interest shown by him in the business of the stock market.
But due to his father's death made him enter the stock market business. Radhakishan had to shut down his prior profession and needed to accompany his brother in the stock market as stockbroking. After Entering his first work was to have keen observation and speculation because he had no knowledge about the market then and needed to learn accurate way by which the whole market functioned. After all his observations he invested for the first time at the age of 32.
After facing a few failures Radhakishan realized that just speculating will not be much helpful for him if he wants to take deep roots in this risky business while taking long term business. He understood that he needs to learn ways to invest and grow capital so he started considering Chandrakant Sampat as his mentor and Learned from him, Sampat was an investor they Both had already met each other in the early 1990s. After having a couple of failures, as he lost some of his initial bets. Since then, he started investing in the long-term. this Idea made him successful in this business.
Radhakishan knew that if he wants to become powerful in this market then he needs to understand the strategies of many Manek who was the dreaded market operator and used to rule over Dalal Street, after understanding his strategies for a few years he applied them practically and overpowered Harshad Mehta who is known to be the mastermind behind the 1992 securities scam which was the biggest scams in the history of Indian stock market.
Radhakishan established 'DMart.' in 1999 because he has a proper understanding of consumer companies with little experience in a similar occupation, Radhakishan and Damodar Mall, bought a franchise of Apna Bazaar" which was a cooperative organization established in Mumbai in1948. Then Radhakishan decided to launch 'DMart' after 2 years and took over 'Apna Bazaar.' in the starting of D-Mart he had only one store based in Mumbai in 2002 and with an inclination of success he has about 160 stores all over the country.
DMart's 'Initial Public Offering' (IPO) on its parent name the, 'Avenue Supermarts.' IPO is the general process by which a private company can issue Its stock shares to the public in form of new stock issuance. So D-Mart set a new record through an extraordinary opening which had a strong influence on the 'NSE (National Stock Exchange market) this made Radhakishan's name take the 20th position in the list of the top 20 Indian billionaires. the March 2017 Radhakishan became India's retail king. It's said that there are three pillars (its consumers, its sellers, and its employees) responsible for the success of 'DMart'.
Family & Personal Life
Radhakishan is married to Shrikantadevi Radhakishan Damani and the couple has been blessed with three daughters. Their daughter, Manjri, is the manager of 'DMart.'
His brother, Gopikishan, and his wife does the promotion work for the hypermarket. Radhakishan prefers living a simple and peaceful life and has even fewer interactions with the media.
He avoids public gatherings programs. because of his dressings, He is also known as "Mr White, because he has always been seen dressed in crisped white trousers and white shirts.
What Can We Learn from his life:-
Radhakrishan always believed in the long term and all his investment were in long term goals. Understanding the fact that the long term gives plenty of benefits than short-term or shortcuts. This resulted in him in bigger profits when he started D-Mart.
Value the people who support you:-
life and business run by the relationship that we make with the people we work with and who support us similarly when Radhakishan opened D-Mart then it was the time when he made connections with vendors suppliers and buyers, which never let him go down and prosperity kept growing. As like Radhakishan we should also respect the people and value the relations.
Start from small don't hesitate:-
Radhakishan started his career small didn't rush to make it big in initial years he waited and took the time that gave him proper control over all his business that gave him increasing profit. And this is how he raised profit each year. Similarly, we should understand that starting small isn't a problem, but not starting is. Start and then gradually make it big.
Warren Buffett of India "Radhakishan", Learned his techniques and strategies without following the crowd he didn't follow any unknown's dumb advice, with his walking alone leaving the crowd behaviour he could lift himself and the business and earned plenty of profits.
Don't speak and let your work answer it:-
Radhakishan always avoided media and fame that helped them to completely focus and be dedicated towards his duty and work. Despite being the richest man he barely has shown himself on any tv channel. In the initial days when he was trying to grow it's really hard to stand in a business where stress welcomes you at every step, he kept his dedication and zeal on fire and kept growing.

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Burlington County freeholders introduce $198M budget that continues to shrink government, tax levy
MOUNT HOLLY — The Burlington County Board of Freeholders introduced a $198 million budget Wednesday that dips into its accrued surplus and reduces the workforce to trim the amount of taxes needed to run the county government.
The proposed budget reduces total spending by $645,000, largely through the elimination of 16 positions by attrition rather than layoffs.
The plan also calls for the county to use $6 million in surplus to help offset expected increases in its operating budget, among them rising employee health benefit costs, pension increases, and increases in the fees paid to Atlantic County for housing female inmates at that county's jail and to the state for county residents being treated in state psychiatric facilities.
Because of rising property values, the county expects to maintain a $17.3 million surplus balance, or about 9 percent of its total appropriations.
The net tax levy — the total amount of money the government expects to raise from taxpayers this year from county, open space and library taxes — will decrease slightly from $155.5 million in 2016 to $155.47 million proposed this year.
The $30,000 decrease amounts to a less than one-tenth of a percent change, but should result in a reduction in the tax rate for some of the 40 municipalities.
The county uses a state-mandated equalization formula to ensure all taxpayers carry an equal share of the tax burden based on the true market value of the property in each municipality rather than the assessed value.
Separate county rates will be established for each of the 40 towns and will be used to determine how this year's budget will affect property tax bills, but the freeholders have not yet released those equalized rates.
A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for July 12 at 7 p.m. at the county complex in Mount Holly.
Although the exact impact on homeowners' tax bills is still unknown, county officials said they believe the proposed budget continues the board's tradition of efficient government that reduces the tax burden. In 2016, about half of the municipalities saw a decrease in their county tax rates.
"We've made a decision that we were going to cut spending and we were going to cut taxes," said Freeholder Director Bruce Garganio on Wednesday night, noting the elimination of staff positions and the use of surplus funds. "We made some hard decisions."
Since 2007, the tax levy has decreased in eight out of 10 years, and the proposed $155.47 million levy for 2017 is just over $7 million less than the $162.8 million levy in 2007.
During the last decade, the county has reduced its staff by about 34 percent, from 2,102 employees in 2008 to a proposed workforce of 1,381 in 2017.
"The freeholders' objective is always to reduce the property tax burden on our residents," county spokesman Eric Arpert said. "Personnel is a primary driver of cost. Where we can find ways to do more with less, or find new efficiencies that can continue to provide the same level of service or enhance service, we do so. Like a good business, we ask that every new hire be justified."
The biggest anticipated cost increase in the budget is health benefits, which are expected to rise $2.5 million from last year, or about 6 percent.
Marc Krassan, the county's chief financial officer, said that the increase is high, but that the county has fared better than some other governments in the region that have experienced even larger hikes.
"Health care costs in the United States and this region continue to increase," Krassan said. "It's a 12-month-a-year exercise on proactively seeing what we can do to maintain the same level of coverage to our employees, while also seeing what we can do to reduce the cost."
This year, he said the county has focused on reducing pharmaceutical costs by promoting the use of generic drugs.
The budget also continues to appropriate about $4.15 million to Rowan College at Burlington County to assist with the college's operations and subsidize tuition.
The county increased the funding to the college last year from $1.15 million in 2015 to support the Workforce Development Institute, which the college operates.
The Burlington County Institute of Technology and Special Services school districts are also receiving the same $20.6 million in support from the county. A total of $15.89 million will go to BCIT and $4.8 million to Special Services. Those sums have remained unchanged for over a decade.
County debt service will increase slightly, from $32.19 million in 2016 to $32.46 million this year, according to budget documents. The county will also receive $1.5 million from the Burlington County Bridge Commission to help fund its roads program. The contribution has been made to the county for several years.
Salaries and wages, the largest portion of the budget, will decrease by $534,000 to $57.05 million. The decrease reflects the loss of 16 positions that aren't being filled after employees left or retired, officials said.
The county's anticipated per-capita spending remains at $346 per resident, which is believed to be the lowest in New Jersey and more than $200 below the state average of $588 per resident.
Officials pointed to the services provided by the county with that funding, including the Central Communications dispatch, recycling and the animal shelter.
They were not troubled by the continued reliance on surplus to help offset rising expenses, arguing that the fund balance has steadily risen since 2011, when it was down to $7.3 million. With property values anticipated to rise for a second consecutive year in 2017, after decreasing for five years between 2009 and 2014, they project the surplus will replenish by the end of the year.
Staff writer Kristina Scala Nasuti contributed to this report.
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Sanctuary for Unwanted Pets
The 10th Life Sanctuary is a registered charity in Clewiston. It makes its money by accepting unwanted cats for $550 along with donations and fundraising.
Our investigation started after a disturbing video was posted on the web showing sick cats, dead cats, feces covering the floors of the pens, empty food and water bowls, and moldy food.
We sat down with the former employee who took the pictures.
"Cat after cat has sat out there and just withered away," she said. The employee asked us to shield her identity because she's afraid of repercussions. "This is the orange kitten that was found dead in the cage," she explains as she holds the photo in her hand. "He sat in this cage until he died."
Another woman, Tara Peterson came forward to talk with us as well. She rounded up 23 strays in her neighborhood and sent them to 10th Life.
"Rallying them up on that day was stressful, but I kept telling myself they're going to a better place," she told the NBC Investigators. Now she regrets her decision. "I just felt sick. I was like what have I done?"
We went out to 10th Life Sanctuary to see the conditions for ourselves. At first they closed and locked the gates, refusing to let us in. Then, after we talked with owner Maury Swee, we got full access.
When we went inside we found a maze of ram-shackle sheds and pens. Terry Labounty, a worker there, told us there were about 450 cats.
AMY: "Looking at the conditions, would you like to be a cat here?"
LABOUNTY: "I'd like to be a cat on someone's couch."
We saw cats everywhere. Most were lounging on shelves. Some were living in feces; others were in rooms dark as dungeons.
Nick Atwood with the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida came with us. "We've been hearing about 10th Life for several years now," he told us.
"They're trying to encourage people to bring their cats to 10th Life, and hopefully you know, these people wont stop by in the future and do spot inspections."
In a 2007 tax form, 10th Life's owner, Maury Swee, claimed there were more than 12-hundred cats. Now he says there are 600.
AMY: "Where are the rest of the cats?"
SWEE: "OK, they have usually passed on."
AMY: "Do you think it's average then for 1200 cats, down to you were saying 600?
SWEE: "It can happen in an environment like ours."
Swee dismissed the diarrhea and the lack of sanitary practices like hand washing. "It's not required by law as far as I know."
He says the cats are seen by a vet. "We follow the protocols the vets have told us to follow."
And ultimately, Swee has walked away from every investigation.
"They have never found anything like that or I would have been cited," he explains. As for the Internet video and pictures? "We believe that the pictures on the Internet and the ones that you just showed me are staged," he says.
The NBC2 Investigators found 10th Life started in Palm Beach County, and was immediately shut down because it had too many cats.
Swee then moved to rural Hendry County which has less strict rules.
Maury Swee still lives on the east coast; more than 100 miles from his sanctuary.


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More Than 50,000 Fans Flock To Travers Dodgers' Scully Says Next Year His Last In Role U.S. Open Set To Begin With Renovated Stadium Nationals Xerox Launching Campaign Around U.S. Open Road America Eyeing Sprint Cup Race Funding For Wilson's Family Pours In Fan Dies From Turner Field Fall Sonoma Looking To Be Finale Again For '16 Renovated Sun Life Stadium Gets Good Reviews
Published August 10, 2014
Former Mariners manager Lou Piniella "transformed from gracious retired legend to motivational skipper once more" during his 25-minute speech yesterday as he was inducted into the team's HOF (SEATTLE TIMES, 8/10).
The CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday unveiled a special-edition jersey that will debut during the team's Aug. 16 home game against the Alouettes (Roughriders).
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin yesterday ruled that a group of fans suing MLB and the NHL to "stop the leagues' strict control over television broadcast rights can try to prove their claims at trial" (AP, 8/8).
Vijay Singh's attorney yesterday said that "no settlement has been reached" in the golfer's lawsuit against the PGA Tour. The two sides "continue to prepare for a status conference" Oct. 7 before New York Supreme Court Judge Eileen Bransten (GOLFCHANNEL.com, 8/9).

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A battery nearly killed our son
Ten-month-old Te Kahu Harmer almost died on the operating table after a battery he swallowed caused horrific internal injuries.
The Bunbury baby had to undergo life-saving surgery to stop a rare condition where his heart was pumping blood through a hole into his stomach - the result of an ulcer, caused by battery burn.
Now parents Sorren Thomas and Caleb Harmer want to alert other families to the danger of lithium button batteries - which are found in musical greeting cards and small household appliances such as bathroom scales, remote controls and electric candles.
Their warning comes as Kidsafe, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the battery industry are preparing to launch a national campaign, after a spate of lithium battery swallowing injuries, including seven cases in five weeks at Princess Margaret Hospital in October.
Saliva triggers an electrical current when it comes into contact with lithium batteries which can result in severe burns to internal tissue within two hours. The battery was lodged in Te Kahu's oesophagus for 12 hours.
Te Kahu appeared to have made a full recovery after doctors removed a lithium button battery which had come from his dad's guitar tuner.
But four weeks after the battery was removed, Ms Thomas noticed her baby was unsettled one night and went to feed him a bottle.
"I picked him up and he stopped breathing," she said.
"He took a massive gasp and went blue and wasn't breathing at all."
An ambulance was called and Te Kahu started breathing shallow breaths again, but Ms Thomas noticed he had blood running out of his mouth.
"The ambulance took us to Bunbury (Hospital) and when we got to Bunbury he started to vomit up blood," Ms Thomas said. "They called the flying doctors and they took us to Perth and by the time he got to Perth he was vomiting dark red blood and it was full of clots."
When doctors at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children attempted to put an intravenous drip in Te Kahu's foot he got upset and stopped breathing again, Ms Thomas said.
"They ran him off to the room on the side and suddenly I remember it was full of doctors and nurses and they said you've got to leave, we've got to put a tube down, we don't know what the blood's from but he might not even live through the tube going down."
Doctors inserted the tube and a CT scan revealed Te Kahu had developed an aortoesophageal fistula - a hole between his aorta, the main artery leading from the heart, and his oesophagus at the top of his stomach - after an ulcer burst.
The ulcer had grown undetected after the initial battery burn and blood had poured from his heart into his stomach.
After six hours of surgery on his oesophagus and a further eight-hour operation on his heart, requiring a blood transfusion, Te Kahu pulled through.
He spent another two weeks in intensive care and almost three months in hospital, returning home two days before Christmas.
The toddler is still feeding through a tube and is undergoing a procedure to widen his oesophagus every three weeks.
Paediatric gastroenterologist Madhur Ravikumara, part of the medical team who treated Te Kahu, described the baby's injury as "dreadful" and said he was believed to be the only survivor in the world of this type of injury.
"It's fantastic that he has survived," said Dr Ravikumara, adding that PMH was now fast-tracking patients who had swallowed button batteries.
Ms Thomas said she still had nightmares and couldn't sleep because she was terrified her baby would stop breathing again.
"I've watched my little baby fight for his life. I've watched him stop breathing in my arms, I've been covered in his blood," Ms Thomas said. "I watched his life nearly slip away before my eyes, countless times I've watched his little face so terrified and I can't help."
WHAT TO DO
If you suspect your child has ingested a button battery:
Check and clear the airways. If the battery is stuck in the throat there could be a threat to breathing;
If the battery can’t be removed and breathing is normal call the Poisons Information Centre on 13 11 26 immediately;
DO NOT give food or drink and DO NOT induce vomiting;
Seek medical attention immediately. SOURCE: Kidsafe WA
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By Walter P / September 19th, 2019
It has been announced that the adventure title Sparklite will be launching on November 14th for consoles and on Steam. The game will be on sale on each platform’s store during its launch week. You can take a look at the press release for it below.
Manchester, UK, Thursday September 19, 2019 – Having built up an impressive amount of momentum so far this year with highlight reveals across the likes of Gamescom and PAX, Merge Games are delighted to announce that their whimsical top-down action adventure Sparklite will release via PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on November 14th! Ahead of the release, Merge Games are also excited to unveil the brand-new key art for the game (which you can see above and can find in the press kit link) which gives another insight into the world of Sparklite!
With a recent showing in Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase alongside unveilings across PAX events such as ID@Xbox, ‘The Mix Seattle’, ‘Kinda Funny’ Showcase, as well as the ‘Monsters of Indie’ Superstar Dev Panel, Sparklite continues to make an impact as one of 2019’s most interesting and exciting Indie games to watch out for. Fusing together an arsenal of gadgets, guns and gear, Sparklite will have you exploring a diverse, procedurally-generated world to take down the titans of the mining industry and harness the power of Sparklite!
From solving puzzles to defeating a range of different bosses and enemies, Sparklite joins together elements of classic adventure titles such as The Legend of Zelda alongside a unique blend of approachable roguelike elements. Get ready to immerse yourself in an everchanging world as you take Ada on a journey across an assortment of different biomes and save Geodia!
- Stunning visuals – Intricate pixel art aesthetic inspired by retro classics
- Original soundtrack – GameCube inspired soundtrack by composer Dale North (Wizard of Legend)
- Explore the world of Sparklite – Five beautiful, procedurally generated biomes
- Invent your arsenal – Invent gadgets to solve puzzles and defeat enemies
- Battle bosses – Take on the Baron Mining Corp and its formidable gremlin Titans
- Meet the locals – Befriend the people of Geodia and help build The Refuge
Ahead of release, Merge are running a Steam Wishlist promotion to receive exclusive content ahead of launch. They recently hit a new Wishlist mark of 15,000 where players will now receive a free demo ahead of release! Each new mark achieved unlocks a special treat for the community and a final, mystery gift is unlocked at 55,000. Check out their Steam page for more information.
Sparklite will be available to purchase on the Nintendo eShop, PSN store, Microsoft store and Steam on November 14th and will be available to pre-order from the Nintendo eShop and Microsoft store from November 7th. Sparklite will be priced at £19.99 & $/€24.99 and have a introductory 15% discount on platforms during the following periods;
- Nintendo eShop 15% November 7th to November 20th
- PSN store 15% November 14th to November 20th
- Microsoft Store 15% November 7th to November 20th
- Steam 15% November 14th to November 20th.
If you’d to know what we thought about the game during a hands-on, you can check that out here.
SOURCE: Press Release

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Rich kids of Caucasus fire with automatic rifle in Moscow center
A group of young Caucasians driving a SUV has opened fire with automatic weapons in the center of Moscow, scaring away passersby.
The silver-spooners have videotaped their ‘amusement’ and posted it online.
The video shows one of the young men pulling an assault rifle out of the trunk and starting shooting in the air. Other participants of the action are laughing cheerfully and commenting on what is happening. Cries of the passersby frightened by shots can be heard on the recording.
It has not been established when and where the incident occurred. As for the video itself, it was uploaded to Instagram by a user nicknamed umar_umarov111, who was directly involved in the unsafe ‘entertainment.’
Moscow police has already taken interest in the recording and noted that first it is necessary to establish whether the action really took place in Moscow, as well as its time and location. Only then it will be possible to take some measures. The young people’s actions fall under Article 213 of the Russian Criminal Code (Hooliganism with a Gross Violation of Public Order).
Video: Rifle shooting in Moscow center 2017
Deputy Yuri Gontar’, leader of the Edinaya Rossia (United Russia) Fraction in the Stavropol Krai Duma, highly values health resort treatment. His son has even re-zoned his private manor into a health resort, leased 2.3 ha of surrounding lands, and seized two village ponds. The controlling authorities don’t dare to interfere in the healthy lifestyle of the Deputy's family.
Within a few months, state-owned companies should develop a clear plan for import substitution in the field of software until 2021. Since 2015, the government has required them to use the domestic software.


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It’s the Second Round of Lethal Totalitarian Lockdowns for Australia
"We live in a surreal bubble world where state governments act as though the virus can be eliminated, and the news media feed us COVID porn every day"
While it’s tempting, and even invigorating, to experience a shiver of schadenfreude at the resurgence of COVID-19 in Victoria on the watch of Australia’s most punitive premier, you should let the sensation pass quickly.
The fact is the COVID-19 is a feature of our lives now and we need to learn to live with it. Even if a vaccine is found, it is unlikely that it will be 100% effective, so, like the flu, it will be an ongoing risk in what is intrinsically a risky business – living.
For every Ruby Princess debacle in New South Wales or the Stamford Plaza in Victoria, there will be others in every other state, unless economic winter is legislated forever with citizens in a state of semi-permanent hibernation.
The virus has been around for at least seven months now, and we know so much more about it, which is why 30 of us signed an open letter to the PM and premiers calling for a change of policy and suggesting a more sensible, flexible and effective policy framework.
We shouldn’t repeat the same policy with each new outbreak just because that is the policy that we are most familiar with. There is no sense in giving primacy to precedents just because they are prior. If we did that in health matters we’d probably be bleeding patients and putting leeches on them to treat the virus rather than putting them on ventilators, or remdesivir (or even chloroquine). If we wouldn’t do it in medicine, we shouldn’t do it in public health.
One of the ironies of how we’ve approached COVID is that rather than adapt practices from countries with recent experience of epidemics, and governance systems similar to our own, like Korea, Singapore or Japan, the off-the-shelf methods we adopted came straight from the only communist hegemon in the world, China.
So instead of trusting our citizens to make their own choices, we’ve imposed totalitarian, uniform straight-jackets, with ludicrous one-size-fits-all regulations. If you had any faith in central planning you should have lost it by now.
There was some sense in the lockdowns in the first place. The first academic work I saw out of reputable journals like the Lancet suggested this might be worse than the Spanish flu which killed 50 million out of a world population of 1.6 billion.
Pro-rata that would mean that 800,000 Australians might have died as a result and it seemed worthwhile to pause the world for a little until we understood the virus better.
Pretty soon it was apparent that this was not the case. The government predicted 50,000 to 150,000 deaths, based on epidemiological models, like the one at Imperial College London.
But sharper minds, like that of Professor John Ioannnidis at Stanford and Sunetra Gupta at Oxford, using actual data from the real world, like the Diamond Princess, predicted death rates more in line with a severe flu.
Amongst western countries, Sweden practised the most adult approach, leaving decisions to its citizens. If you project Sweden onto Australia, then we might have had 13,550 fatalities by now.
This is severe, but much less than the official projections. And it is only a measure of those deaths we can see.
The AMA estimates that as a result of the lockdowns there will be an additional 750 to 1500 suicides per annum. Based on a UK estimate of death due to people deferring procedures or consultations, you can add another 10,000 to the likely total.
Then there is the susceptibility of those affected.
Instead of looking at absolute mortalities, we should really be looking at excess deaths – the increase over what would happen in a normal year, a concept encapsulated in the colloquial “When your number’s up, your number’s up”.
Again, projecting the Swedish figures, since the beginning of 2020 they have had an excess of deaths over the average of 3,785 up until June 18, which scales up to 9,460 in Australian terms (and this figure is likely to drop as the year progresses).
Then you have to take into consideration the average age of those affected by COVID, plus their remaining quality of life. There are two reasons when they are allocating lifeboats they say “women and children first” – chivalry towards women, and quality and length of life for children.
Yet in our rush to save baby boomers we’ve thrown the kids overboard.
Once you take into account Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or Wellbeing-adjusted life-years (WELLBYs) then the cost to life from the shutdowns is staggering, and something like 24 times higher in lives lost compared to lives saved.
So we are killing more people because of the lockdown than we are saving.
Many of my friends object to these calculations as being cold-blooded, and they are, but they are also just and fair and equitable, even while they are emotionally difficult to make. How else are we to allocate scarce resources other than thoughtfully and with calculation? Why should the lives of those likely to be killed indirectly by [the insane response to] COVID be valued by orders of magnitude less than those directly killed by it? The premium we have put on COVID is unjustifiable and unaffordable.
How did we get here?
In the view of those of us who signed the letter, it is a failure of science and governance. In the first place, we put our trust in worst-case models produced by people whose models have proven to exaggerate beyond reason in the past – like Neil Ferguson of Imperial College whose miscalculations on Bovine Encephalitis is legendary.
Second, we ignored new data as it came in.
Third, we didn’t encourage healthy debate or debate of any sort. This isn’t just YouTube purging “misinformation”, but most of the measures put in place by governments were never properly debated in parliament and were implemented by regulation, and then interpreted and extended by “oracles” called public health officers.
Fourth, there was no attempt to do the simple public health sums that I have run through above, nor the courage to put the arguments to the public, so that now we live in a surreal bubble world where state governments act as though the virus can be eliminated, and the news media feed us COVID porn every day based on often meaningless statistics and the hope of a happy, COVID-free ending.
There are governance measures that can be put into effect to address these issues and make these miscalculations less likely (although they can’t guarantee absolutely against harm).
No forecasting model should be used where the program code is not publicly available for analysis and download. Public health cannot hang on opaque black boxes owned by organisations like Imperial College, which when they are eventually analysed turn out to be hopelessly constructed.
The models need to be available for critiquing, as do the inputs. Even climate change models pass this test.
Then we need to do proper cost-benefit analysis and make this public and explicit. The false media narrative valorising a decline in COVID deaths without highlighting the rise in other deaths is partly driven by a lack of understanding and education, which is driven by a lack of explanation from the top. People can get their heads around the idea of opportunity cost, even when it is applied to life and death, but they need to understand that it can be a matter of life and death.
The cost-benefit analysis also needs to be ongoing, and change as facts change – you might call this a Bayesian approach.
We also need meaningful statistics. At the very least the government should publish weekly statistics showing total deaths, as well as epidemic deaths, and media should be encouraged to do the same. Most of us are unfamiliar with the amount of death around us, and generally feel we are immortal, apart from when we get sick ourselves. This leads us to overweight the deaths caused by COVID (in this case), just as we tend to overweight deaths caused on purpose compared to those that happen routinely.
Just as importantly the government needs to broaden the range of people involved in making these types of crises public health decisions. The composition of the advisory groups isn’t well-known, but observation of their decisions suggests it is heavily-biased to hospital administrators and perhaps some epidemiologists.
Yet some of the best analysis has come from mathematicians and economists outside the industry groups. The decision-making process also seems to have been captured by groupthink, a process which turns smart people into the same kind of dumb. It is important in any process to have a channel for “devil’s advocacy” – what they call Red and Blue teams in the military.
There is a tendency, even for very smart people, to think the same way when they are in groups. The form of diversity that matters most is viewpoint diversity.
Without a diversity of viewpoints, and an infrastructure that supports dissent, decision-making can go right off the rails, as we would contend it has here.
The last thing that is required is for parliament to actually step-up and play its part. In most of our jurisdictions, parliament has gone on half-speed or slower, with crucial events like budgets even being postponed, or in the case of Queensland, abandoned.
While there is a need for emergency legislation in times like these, it has to be subject to frequent review. That means properly debating legislation in parliament – not just shoving a range of amendments through with very little notice – and review of regulations no more than a month after they are made.
We’re on a chocolate wheel with COVID – it is going to come around and around, time and again – but we shouldn’t leave any more things to luck, or precedent, than we have to. If you agree you may want to add your name to our letter by clicking here.
We’ve taken a radical, unconventional approach as a country. It’s past time to see what worked, what could have worked better, and then communicate to the people. The PM seems to be onside. He says we “can’t stay locked down forever,” but if we’re not careful, that’s exactly what our state premiers will try to do.
Source: The Spectator

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This practical text provides all the information and direction beginning school librarians need to develop and manage multi-format collections.
· Additional readings of current articles and helpful websites at the end of each chapter
· An appendix containing a comprehensive listing of annotated resources
· Sample forms for collection development policies and procedures
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New web 2.0 tools, Delicious for bookmarking, Twitter for research, and virtual libraries have drastically changed the use of a collection on shelves. Today's school library collections reach far beyond the walls of the physical school facility. The challenge facing school librarians today is knowing how to select and maintain print formats as well as the plethora of electronic formats that patrons expect and demand.About the Author:
Kay Bishop, PhD, was associate professor at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where she taught courses in school librarianship and youth services.
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Background: Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases of childhood. Management of pediatric asthma requires an understanding of the issues that uniquely effect children. This review provides the reader with the current state and future directions of pediatric asthma. Methods: Review of the pediatric asthma literature was undertaken with emphasis on randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews. Results: The prevalence of pediatric asthma remains elevated and is increasingly being appreciated in select global regions. Effective treatment in any setting begins with a focused medical history that queries key asthma features that inform both diagnostic and monitoring strategies. A thorough medical history may yield comorbid upper airway disorders and allergic triggers that could potentially exacerbate airway inflammation. Pre-bronchodilator and post-bronchodilator lung function testing is a preferable diagnostic strategy to quantitatively assess obstructive pulmonary disease among children capable of performing the testing maneuvers. Pediatric asthmatics who continue to have poor disease control require monitoring of medication adherence and drug delivery techniques, because both are often linked with disease outcomes. Therapeutic strategies in children are notably distinct from adults due to the possible effects of inhaled corticosteroids on reduced bone mineral density and growth. Adolescents may also require more time to address the psychosocial complexities that may complicate the required daily usage of asthma medicines. Conclusion: Asthmatic children are distinct from their adult counterparts due to limitations inherent in the pediatric age group. A unified and evidence-based approach to pediatric asthma may improve clinical outcomes.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Journal||International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology|
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- Lung diseases
- Pulmonary medicine
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- Immunology and Allergy

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Occasionally, when I talk about GPT sites, people are unconvinced they are legit. Why can't someone just get paid to be online? Well, it’s definitely not that simple. There's more to it than just being online, you're getting paid to do all types of tasks. The idea seems too good to be true, but companies will pay for useful marketing data on various demographics. Some of them are trying to encourage people to shop at their online store, hoping to gain their loyalty. These are a few reasons companies make deals with GPT sites, but there are others as well.
Best GPT Sites for Surveys
Because of this, companies will pay you to take surveys. They want to find out what your demographic thinks so they can advertise to you better.
Below are some legit GPT sites that pay well for surveys:
Most of these sites still give you points even if you don’t qualify for the survey, so you’re not wasting your time. They verify their surveys pretty quickly, so you won’t have to wait around for them.
Legit GPT Offers and Tasks
Another thing companies are willing to shell out big bucks for is possible leads. They’re willing to pay for the chance to sell you something in the future. That’s why you can get paid to sign up for free trials or newsletters. These companies are paying for a CHANCE to do business with you in the future. Offers can be a little harder to deal with than surveys because you have to remember to cancel trials before the billing cycle starts, but this is pretty easy to manage if you set reminders.
Here are some good GPT sites for completing offers:
You'll be fine if you manage your offers and cancel things you don't want to keep.
GPT Sites for Shopping Rebates
When shopping online there's literally no reason you shouldn't be taking advantage of rebates.
Get your money back by shopping through these sites:
- Fetch Rewards
- Branded Surveys (local deals only)
Best GPT Sites to Get Paid to Search
You search the internet all day, so why not get paid for it? Microsoft Rewards is willing to pay you to switch in hopes that you will do so. I understand why they do this since they are hoping to profit from the increase in visitors and improve search results. Since it's a legitimate GPT site, this site is 100% secure.
These are some GPT sites that pay you to search:
I really like Microsoft Rewards, but Swagbucks and iRazoo are also worth checking out if you’re already on those sites.
We've also compiled an extensive list of GPT sites like Swagbucks that are 100% legitimate, as well as explanations as to why they're not actually too good to be true. Both you and the companies paying out prizes are benefiting. After you understand how a GPT site works, you will realize that it is a totally legitimate way to make money online. Of course, you’re not looking to make a living off this stuff in most cases. Nevertheless, you can make some extra spending money if you use one of the best GPT sites mentioned above.
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Sierra Paradise by Thomas Kinkade Studios
Thomas Kinkade Studios Limited Edition Canvas is hand-retouched by skilled artisans, giving the painting a look almost identical to the artist’s on-easel original. Vibrant colors, rich textures and color tones accurate to Thom’s original brushstrokes are the hallmarks of your finished piece. All Limited Edition prints are created using high quality acid-free canvas or paper.
Learn about the different editions from the Thomas Kinkade Statement of Editions © The Thomas Kinkade Estate – All Rights Reserved
- Sierra Paradise was inspired by an original sketch by Thomas Kinkade. Growing up near the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Thomas Kinkade was enamored with the Great Outdoors, creating many masterworks inspired by his adventures.
- As with so many other Thomas Kinkade paintings, the lights in the windows of the cabins in Sierra Paradise are aglow, representing the idea that the family inside is home and the house is filled with warmth and love.
- The canoe and the fishing pole on the porch indicate a day well spent on the water.
- The wildlife included in Sierra Paradise is a pair of deer and a wild turkey. A family Labrador Retriever looks on at the animals ready to play.

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FRANKFURT, June 15 (Reuters) - Volkswagen’s corporate structure will be overhauled into a decentralised system with four holding companies, Handelsblatt said on Monday, citing company sources.
Former BMW manager Herbert Diess will be in charge of one of these holding companies, which will include the VW, Skoda and Seat passenger car brands. The high costs of the German factories in VW’s core business is an area with the biggest need for reform, Handeslblatt said.
The upmarket Audi, Lamborghini and Ducati brands will form another holding company and the commercial vehicles brands MAN, Scania and VW Commercial vehicles will form yet another, Handelsblatt said.
Porsche, Bugatti and Bentley will make up the fourth holding company, Handelsblatt said.
No-one at VW could immediately be reached for comment. (Reporting by Edward Taylor; Editing by David Holmes)


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Changing the way you build model cars
TDR 427 Roadster Sunburst Wheel Kit (Package-kit #7) Scale = 1/8 (1:8)
INCLUDED IN THIS KIT: (2 parts total)
A) One sunburst rim (outer half)
B) One sunburst rim (inner half)
Please note: Package-kits should be purchased in numerical order
This Package-kit contains the parts necessary to construct 1 wheel assembly for the TDR 427 Roadster. This is a model of the very
rare sunburst rim that originally came on the street version of the 427 Roadster.
If the modeler would prefer to purchase this kit in a resin material, please contact TDR Innovations at email@example.com
This package-kit is offered in both White Strong Flexiable material and Frosted Detail.
The WSF material provides an economical option for the modeler. The material is strong and provides good detail but it does require more finishing work.
The frosted detail provides a superior surface finish and a good strong part, for a slight increase in price.
We at TDR Innovations know that large scale kits can be quite expensive for the average modeler. So we are trying a novel approach, now you can purchase small package-kits of the TDR 427 Roadster. While you are finishing and detailing your new package-kit purchase you can be saving for your next package-kit from TDR. That way your investment in your model kit increases at your pace.

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- Update to macOS Monterey 12.2.1
- Save my EFI purpose
|Computer model||Acer A315-53G-5790|
|Processor||Intel Core i5-8250U|
|Memory||8GB/4GB Sk Hynix DDR4 2133MHz|
|Hard Disk||WD Green 240GB M.2 2280 + HP S700|
|Integrated Graphics||Intel UHD Graphics 620|
|Sound Card||Realtek ALC255|
|Wireless Card||Intel(R) Wireless-AC 7265|
|Touchpad||I2C HID based|
What is working
- Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620 1536 МB
- Audio: Speakers, headphones and internal mic
- Trackpad: VoodooI2C makes it buttery-smooth, supports all the macOS gestures
- Intel-Wifi: Replaced with Intel AC7265 using itlwm
- Intel-Bluetooth may not work on macOS 12.x but you can try What additional steps should I do to make Bluetooth work on macOS Monterey
Known not work
1. Discrete Graphics: GeForce MX130 (Disabled - MacOS not supported optimus) 2. Built-in Wifi (Must be replaced)
- Special thanks to Acidanthera for providing AppleALC, AppleSupportPkg, HibernationFixup, Lilu, OpenCorePkg, VirtualSMC, VoodooPS2, and WhateverGreen.
- Thanks to daliansky for providing VoodooI2C.
- Thanks to VoodooI2C for his great work with XiaoMi-Pro-Hackintosh.
- A huge thanks to the opencore community, I couldn't stress enough the support I got to make this a success. Reddit


Both candidates have polygamist ancestorsBreaking News
ROCKY RIDGE, Utah — About 60 miles south of Salt Lake City, at the end of a long, winding, dirt road off the highway, a small cluster of houses sits at the foot of a desert mountain. The neighborhood landscape is littered with children's things — plastic playground equipment, abandoned toys — and the backyards are covered in clotheslines, with denim shorts and Sunday dresses of all sizes hanging off them like ornaments.
But the houses themselves command the most attention. They look as if someone took a bunch of starter homes and glued them together with communal kitchens and shared garages. The structures’ aesthetics vary, from utilitarian ranches with unpainted decks to well-kept A-frames with manicured lawns. And virtually every structure is in a state of renovation, expanding and shape-shifting to make room for more beds, more groceries, more children — and more wives.
This is Rocky Ridge, Utah, one of the fastest-growing polygamist communes in the country, and an unlikely symbol of a genealogical subplot that links America's two main presidential candidates. While neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama is keen to talk about it publicly, the family trees of both are rooted in polygamy, a practice that, for each candidate, has defined generations of family history....
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Hasselblad H4D-40 available now
Following last September's announcement of new 50 megapixel and 60 megapixel H4D medium format cameras, Hasselblad has now announced the immediate availability of the H4D-40 DSLR camera system. The 40 of course signifies the number of megapixels, but the camera also benefits from up to four minute exposure times, faster capture rates and higher ISO ratings as well as an improved auto focus mechanism.
The 35mm equivalent, 40MP (7304×5478) professional digital SLR system has a huge 33 x 44mm CCD sensor which gives it "almost twice the capture area of the largest 35mm DSLR sensors", comes complete with 80mm lens and viewfinder and records images in a proprietary 3FR lossless compressed RAW as well as 8 bit TIFF format. Modular in design, there's a choice of three interchangeable viewfinders, a host of lenses and a range of accessories available.
Auto Focus Improvements
The H4D system includes a technology called True Focus which, Hasselblad claims, has solved problems often associated with accurate focus across the whole image when working with shallow depth-of-field at close range by using "modern yaw rate sensor technology to measure angular velocity in an innovative way. The result is the new Absolute Position Lock (APL) processor, which forms the foundation of Hasselblad’s True Focus feature."
Said to have been many years in development, the APL system uses advanced positional algorithms to accurately log any camera movement during recomposition of shots and then issues commands to the lens motor to ensure precise focus. Hasselblad claims that further interrogation of data supplied by the HC/HCD lenses by the camera's firmware offers additional focus perfection and that the system does all this without causing any shutter lag.
Digital lens correction complements the system by removing any trace of distortion, vignetting, or chromatic aberrations from an image and the Hasselblad Natural Color Solution (HNCS) is claimed to "produce outstanding and reliable out-of-the-box colors, with skin tones, specific product colors and other difficult tones reproduced easily and effectively."
Exposure times range from 1/800 second right up to four minutes and ISO from 100 to 1600. Shots are stored on a CF card type U-DMA such the SanDisk's Extreme IV, a 4Gb card holding about 75 images. Images can be transferred to a computer's hard drive via the FireWire 800 port. Previewing and in-camera image manipulation is taken care of on the generous 3-inch, 230,400 pixel color display to the rear and off-camera tweaking via the supplied Phocus 2.0 software, which is compatible with both Mac and Windows. And power is provided by a rechargeable Li-ion battery.
Pricing and availability
Hasselblad is busy arranging a series of dealer demonstrations throughout the US, Europe and Asia but the H4D-40 camera system is available now, prices starting at US$19,995/GBP 12,995/Euro 13,995. The product page is not live at the time of writing, those interested in further details should therefore keep an eye on Hasselblad.com for updates.


text: Karkoth's Keep is a dungeon-crawler set in a fantasy realm, whose royal House of Quilan was extinguished generations ago by the undead witch king Karkoth. You, a descendant of the noble dynasty, set out into the dungeon under Krakoth's keep in search of the magical sword Ramdahl, with which the evil usurper can be defeated. Attributes are determined by random rolls, and bestow bonuses or penalties along with the choice of race (Greyelf, Dwarf, Human, Halfelf or Highelf) and profession (Ranger, Fighter, Cleric, Magic-User, Gedi, or Monk) - not all of which may be combined. The adventure starts in the town of Nosar, your base of operations; it boasts hotels, shops, taverns and a hospital for all your basic CRPG needs. The way to the Keep must be divined by communicating with the townsfolk. In the Keep's dungeon, only your current line-of-sight is visible; oddities like hidden teleports make the journey less than linear. The rumored Endless Staircase connects all ten dungeon levels, with the coveted sword hidden somewhere in the deepest four. En route, the randomly-encountered monsters will do their best to make the seeker's life unpleasant (and short) - fortunately, battle and exploration reward you with treasure, which takes many forms: valuables, weapons, magical items, and other opportunities for good or bad luck. Spells (for characters that can use them) and magical scrolls provide further assistance, and food must not be forgotten either. Character development follows the standard practice of automatic levelling through experience points gained in combat, though you may also trade gold for them when you go in/out of the dungeon. Getting your character killed will have the nasty effect of erasing its file from the game disk.

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What To Consider When Selecting A Video-Game ConsoleIf you're an adult, you probably remember the old school Atari games like Pole Position and Donkey Kong. If you haven't looked at video games lately, you are in for a shock! They are far different than they used to be. Gaming is a billion dollar industry, and if you want to get into it, keep reading for some gaming tips.
Switch subtitles on. Looking for a way to hear the dialogue much better due to the overwhelming noise of those loud games? There should be a subtitle selection in the menu of the game. Almost all video games have audio options. This lets you toggle subtitles on or off.
If you feel like you targeted your enemy spot on in a shooter and still missed, check what weapon you are using. Just like in real life, different weapons have different strengths and weaknesses. The weapon you are using may not have the short distance required or the weapon recoil is actually putting you slightly off target.
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If you are concerned about the ESRB rating, and you aren't sure whether you should purchase a game for your family or not, turn to the Internet for help. By combing through user reviews, you should be able to figure out why a game was given a particular rating. You may also discover things that the rating didn't tell you about, but that will impact your decision.
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LANSING, MI -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed an emergency rule Thursday barring anchor usage within the Straits of Mackinac in an effort to prevent further anchor strikes on lake-bottom utility lines.
The move May 24 comes nearly two months after a suspected anchor strike dented underwater petroleum lines and ruptured transmission cables, spilling an estimated 550 gallons of toxic coolant oil into the Straits.
Line 5, the controversial pipeline in the Straits, was damaged at the time and temporarily shut down.
"Anchoring in the Straits of Mackinac poses a serious threat to the welfare and protection of Michigan and our vital natural resources," Snyder said in a press release. "Anchoring could cause severe environmental damage and threatens to disrupt critical energy and communication services between the Upper and Lower peninsulas. This emergency rule will help us better protect Michigan waters and residents until a permanent solution is in place."
The rule will remain in place for six months, with an option for an addition six-month renewal. Previously, there were no restrictions to dropping or dragging anchor in the Straits of Mackinac, only an advisory.
The new rule allows vessels in emergency situations or that have written permissions to use their anchors. Tribal vessels are exempt from the rule.
The no-anchor zone is roughly two miles wide and terminates on the western side of the Mackinac Bridge. It runs from shore to shore between the peninsulas.
Rep. Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, said he hopes dropping or dragging anchor in the Straits becomes a permanent illegal act.
"Let there be no confusion: From this day forward, dropping anchor in the Straits will be an illegal act and should be treated with the full weight of the law," Chatfield said in a release. "A spill would endanger and affect the well-being of people living in the entire region. The Straits and inland waterways aren't just important to our economy, they are a big part of our way of life."
Punishments for violators were not detailed in either the press release nor the emergency rule.
The April 1 anchor strike renewed calls to shutdown Line 5, a 65-year-old pipeline which crosses the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan and transports up to 540,000 barrels of light crude oil and natural gas liquids per day.
The twin lines were dented in three places by the suspected anchor strike but, according to Enbridge Energy officials, line integrity wasn't compromised.
A study released earlier this year from a Michigan State University researcher estimates an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac could have an economic impact of more than $6 billion.


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Description: Gate Piers and Wall About 5 Metres East of Church House
Date Listed: 4 December 1986
English Heritage Building ID: 32949
OS Grid Reference: ST5759163243
OS Grid Coordinates: 357591, 163243
Latitude/Longitude: 51.3667, -2.6106
ST 56 SE CHEW MAGNA C.P. SILVER STREET (west side)
3/54 Gate piers and wall about
5 metres east of Church House
Wall and gate piers. Late C18/early C19. Sandstone and limestone. Low
sandstone wall with limestone coping about 12 metres long, formerly with railings,
central pair of square rusticated limestone ashlar piers with shaped tops. C20
Listing NGR: ST5759363241
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i finished the white scarf two days ago. yay! this scarf is made as a birthday gift for my mom. her birthday is exactly two months from now, on the 22nd of July. so, i kinda finished the scarf too early.
she hops between Jakarta and Melbourne quite often, so i thought she would be able to wear it during Melbourne’s winter…
she’s an avid crocheter. i learned how to crochet from her when i was on the 3rd grade. i’m not sure if she remembers that, though. then, when i was still living in the NYC, she made a crocheted blanket for my birthday. you can sorta see it on the couch in this picture. there is that, and a table cloth for our dining table, which is not in the picture. those are the larger pieces i have from her.
well, i can’t even finish my own blanket (which has reduced into a throw), so i’ll just go with a little scarf. i’m also a little worried that she would inspect the scarf and see the little mistakes i did… haha.
I love it. I really must tackle my crochet demons so I can produce something like that!
Nice work Thal, it will be a perfect birthday present for her. the warmth of your heart while doing it is there.
lutuu… Thal..ngerajut itu susah ga sih? 😛
Hi. Your crochet items are the best I have seen. You are a wonderful & creative designer & you truly have a talent from God! Also, I love the white scarf you finished. Would you consider emailing me a copy of the pattern? I will await your answer. Thank you! JoyceBlue – firstname.lastname@example.org
Wow, that’s really pretty and well done! I wish I could do something like that as well.
aww, thanks! btw, do you still want the pattern?
thank you, it means a lot coming from you 🙂
gampaaang! dan therapeutic 🙂 merajut itu kayak naik sepeda… waktu belajarnya perlu kesabaran dan ketekunan. tapi, kalo udah bisa, ga bakal pernah lupa dan rasanya kayak second nature!
thank you 🙂 will do!
thank you, denise 🙂
gue pengennya elo ngajarin, tapi mungkin belajar sendiri aja kali yeee dari buku. Bisa buat teraphy ya? hahaha.. I kinda need that 😉
hayuuuu! gue seneng ngajarin! tapi gimana caranya ya? elo mesti kesini… hahaha. btw, bukannya nyokap elo bisa crochet?
lama-lama gue pindah ke singapore aja deh 😛 Nyokap kayaknya bisa sih, tapi beda kota juga huhuhu…
(hmmm.. apa ngerecokin Chili aja ya?) hehehe
iya, chili aja. mumpung satu kota. kalo buat crochet + jait, minta ajarin chili. tapi kalo knitting, mintanya ama naomi. dia lebih bisa.
What a lovely scarf, could you email me the pattern please? This is just what I’m looking for as a wedding gift for my friend.
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Early results are in for California’s 12 state ballot measures.
One thing to keep in mind is that a huge portion of the vote still has to be counted — this will include late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots and ballots placed in drop boxes today. It could be many days until some of these races are called by the Associated Press.
Proposition 14: Stem cell research
The Yes on 14 campaign was at 51% with No on 14 at 49%. This measure would authorize California to issue $5.5 billion in state general obligation bonds to continue funding stem cell and other medical research.
Proposition 15: ‘Split roll’
The early results show a close race, with the No on 15 at 52% and Yes on 15 at 48%. The measure would raise money for schools and local governments by raising property taxes on commercial and industrial real estate.
Proposition 16: End ban on affirmative action
Voters have defeated Prop. 16, according to the Associated Press, keeping California’s ban on affirmative action in place. The No on Prop 16 campaign was at 56% with the Yes on 16 campaign at 44%. If passed, the initiative would have ended California’s ban on affirmative action. It would have allowed schools and public agencies to take race, ethnicity and sex into account when making admission, hiring or contracting decisions.
Proposition 17: Voting rights for previously incarcerated people
California voters have approved Prop. 17, according to the Associated Press. The Yes on 17 campaign was at 59% while the No side was at 41%. This constitutional amendment would allow people on parole for felony convictions to vote after their state or federal prison term ends.
Proposition 18: 17-year-olds voting in primaries
California voters have defeated Prop. 18. The No on 18 was at 55% and Yes on 18 was at 45%. This constitutional amendment would expand voting rights for certain 17-year-olds in California. Citizens who are 17, residents of the state and will be at least 18 years old at the time of the next general election, would be allowed to vote in any primary or special election that occurs before the next general election.
Proposition 19: Transfer of property tax breaks
Preliminary results show Yes on 19 at 51% and No on 19 at 49%. If passed, Prop 19 would allow homeowners who are over 55, disabled or victims of natural disasters to transfer part of their property tax base with them when they sell their home and purchase a new one.
Proposition 20 – Stricter Parole, Sentencing
Proposition 20 will be defeated, according to the Associated Press. The No on 20 campaign is at 62% and the Yes on 20 campaign is at 38%. This ballot measure would roll back changes to California’s sentencing laws, changing certain misdemeanor crimes to felony crimes. It would also make changes to the state’s parole system and require people convicted of certain misdemeanors to submit DNA collection to a state database.
Proposition 21 – Local Rent Control
California voters have once again defeated a rent control measure. Early results show No on 21 at 60% and Yes on 21 at 40%, and the Associated Press is calling the race. This measure is similar to one on the ballot in 2016 and would allow cities and counties to implement rent control for certain residential properties that are over 15 years old.
Proposition 22 – Rules For App-Based Drivers
In the state’s most costly race, the Associated Press says that Prop. 22 will pass. The Yes on 22 campaign at 58% of the vote and No on 22 at 42%. This proposition would exempt some gig workers from being subject to Assembly Bill 5, a contentious new labor law that requires companies to label independent contractors as employees.
Proposition 23 – Dialysis Clinic Requirement
The Associated Press has declared that California voters will defeat Prop. 23. Preliminary results show the No on 23 at 64% and Yes on 23 at 36%. The measure would require dialysis clinics to have a licensed physician, nurse or physician assistant on site during kidney dialysis treatment.
Proposition 24 – Expand Consumer Privacy
Voters have approved an expansion to California’s data privacy law. Early results show Yes on 24 at 56% and No on 24 at 44%, and the Associated Press has called the race. The proposition would allow Californians to block companies from sharing personal information and limit businesses’ use of “sensitive personal information.”
Proposition 25 – Repeal Of Cash Bail
Voters defeated a measure that would have ended cash bail in California, according to the Associated Press. The No on 25 campaign is at 56% and Yes on 25 is at 44%. Proposition 25 would have replaced California’s cash bail system with a new pretrial release system based on public safety and flight risk.


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RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen wrote today in The Daily Caller about how leaders in the Trump Administration are starting to undo the regulatory power grabs of the Obama Administration and being attacked for it by liberals:
For the eight years of the Obama Administration, liberals worked through extra-legal means to achieve the policy goals they desired that did not have enough popular support to be passed by the legislature. Sometimes this took the form of convincing judges to ignore the text of statutes and regulations and decide cases on the basis of policy, over-ruling the will of the people expressed through their representatives. Other times, it took the form of agencies ignoring the rule of law, seizing power, and enacting new policies without regard to their statutory limits and without proper procedures such as rulemaking following notice and comment.
He began with the example of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's proposal to undo the "net neutrality" rules enacted in 2015:
The “telecommunications service” classification was designed for monopoly telephone services and gives the FCC extremely broad authority to regulate. Extending this regulatory authority to Internet service is unquestionably an extension of the FCC’s authority. It was an extension that was authorized not by Congress but by the FCC itself.
Even worse, this power grab was unclear. . . . Chairman Pai’s proposed plan would return Internet service regulation to the previous regulatory framework—which had been upheld by the Supreme Court—and restore the FCC’s authority to the level granted by Congress. He publicly released it, unlike in 2015 when the details were released only after the FCC had already adopted them.
Mr. Thielen also points to the examples of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) deputy director's desperate bid to maintain control of the CFPB against President Trump's newly appointed acting director, who has announced a regulatory freeze, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt ending the "sue and settle" practices by which activist outside groups controlled the interpretation and implementation of the EPA's statutes and regulations. Mr. Thielen concludes by noting:
These are just a few examples of the immense amount of work remaining to be done in the Executive Branch to restore the rule of law. This effort is the opposite of a power grab. It is giving power back to the people through their elected representatives and taking power away from unelected activists inside and outside of government.
We thank these courageous leaders and President Trump for fighting to restore the rule of law to the federal government against the attacks of liberals and obstruction of Obama-holdover and career staff members in federal agencies.