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The TimeRiders series is one of my guilty pleasures. It’s a brilliantly realised sci-fi adventure about three children saved from death and recruited into a top-secret time travel agency. As rogue time travellers change the course of history, Scarrow creates terrifying alternative New York Cities – imagine the Nazis had won WWII… It’s all told at a cracking pace, with tons of high adrenaline action and characters you really care about. Perfect for action and adventure fans of 10+ – and those much older!
IT’S THE PERFECT BOOK FOR ME!
Timeriders involve three children, Liam O’Connor, Maddy Carter and Sal Vikram. Each of them should have died and disappeared from the face of the earth in accidents- Liam on the titanic in 1912, Maddy on a plane in 2010 and Sal in a fire in 2026. But a man named Foster has time travelled and saved them. Now they work for a secret agency which stops time travelling destroying history.


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To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now updated to include the recent American invasion, the fall and capture of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent descent into civil strife. What is clear is that much that has happened since 2003 was foreshadowed in the account found in this book. Tripp's thesis is that the history of Iraq throughout the twentieth-century has made it what it is today, but also provides alternative futures. Unless this is properly understood, many of the themes explored in this book - patron-client relations, organized violence, sectarian, ethnic and tribal difference - will continue to exert a hold over the future of Iraq as they did over its past.
Introduction; 1. The Ottoman provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul; 2. The British Mandate; 3. The Hashemite monarchy 1932-41; 4. The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58; 5. The republic 1958-68; 6. The Ba'th and the rule of Saddam Husain 1968-2003; 7. The American occupation and the parliamentary republic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Further reading and research.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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On February 14, ESADE Alumni hosted another Refresher Programme talk; ''The management of external resources: strategic sourcing'' by Professor Ramon Sagarra, academic collaborator in ESADE’s Department of General Management and Strategy.
Professor Sagarra began by analysing today’s economic scenario and explaining how important it was for companies and managers to develop their talent and capabilities with a view to increasing their long-term competitive edge. Sagarra insisted that a company’s profitability was directly related to its effective use of its in-house resources and also the external resources provided by its network of suppliers.
''Cost cutting continues to be the most important factor. Anyone who tries to convince the management to pay higher prices, regardless of quality, will probably end up on the street,'' he warned the audience before insisting once again on the need to optimize spending – an essential aim in any company.
However, another management goal and strategy is to transform ones company into a supplier’s best customer in order to ensure more bargaining clout. In this respect, Sagarra mentioned the importance of strategic sourcing, i.e. a methodology intended to reduce the overall cost of materials, goods and services by pinpointing the best types of supply offering the best quality for the lowest price and choosing the most suitable suppliers.
''When choosing a supplier, it is essential to be very careful and to analyse their standing and solvency,'' the professor recommended. It is important to be aware of these risks and handle them as effectively as possible.
Strategic sourcing is more than just procurement. It is a radical transformation of the traditional purchasing model into the management of external resources, an area that creates value and closer contact with suppliers. Strategic sourcing gets suppliers more involved in the business model and the company’s particular needs, and this adds value. Strategic sourcing is thus defined as the acquisition from external resources of goods, services and the knowledge and innovation needed to create and maintain the company’s competitive edge.
But who takes care of managing a company’s external resources? No one in particular. It is, therefore, necessary to organise this task within a well-defined framework. Strategic sourcing calls for a manager with business acumen able to see look beyond cost-benefit assessments and, by understanding the company’s real needs, ensure the best solution the market can provide.
Sourcing managers are responsible for matching corporate needs to the capabilities of suppliers, and this calls for the creation of a plan which integrates the company, knowledge of the supplier market, and the ability to reduce and streamline purchasing and other processes immediately. Their main management qualities are their business outlook, and their ability to work in teams and attract talent. In short, a shift from purchasing manager to sourcing manager fully capable of dealing with corporate management.
You are invited to the ESADE Alumni Refresher Programme talk, ''Outsourcing management: strategic sourcing'' by Ramon Sagarra, assistant professor in ESADE’s General Management and Strategy Department.
A company’s returns are directly related to its effective use of its in-house resources and the external resources provided by its supplier network. The aim of strategic sourcing is to ensure that the company gets as much value as possible from its suppliers.
On the other hand, a company’s competitive edge depends on its ability to give customers maximum value at the lowest possible cost. A company’s outlay is what it spends on purchases plus wages, therefore outlay optimisation depends on purchase maximisation. But who is responsible for managing external resources? This responsibility is, in fact, spread throughout the company.
The strategic sourcing model used in outsourcing management requires managers with business acumen and a value-for-money approach able to achieve more than just a good supply service: managers who work like business partners and can find the best solutions in the market.
Academic assistant in ESADE’s Department of Strategy and General Management. Chemical engineer (IQS) and industrial engineer (Universidad Ramon) and Degree (IESE).
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It's safe to say that the past two weeks have been the most difficult that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Labour-led Government have faced.
Between the sexual assaults at a Young Labour summer camp, the entire Russia fiasco, Ron Mark melting down over defence force flights, Jenny Salesa's Ministerial spending, criticism that not enough was being down to help the Nelson and Tasman regions in their recovery from Cyclone Gita, the Green Party ambushing Labour by announcing they were gifting questions to National, and Shane Jones repeatedly shoving his foot in his mouth over Air New Zealand, there's a lot that's been going wrong lately.
The public relations triumph that was Ardern's Waitangi visit must seem like an age ago, while the successful Pacific Mission has completely vanished from view.
Despite all that, when the next round of political polling is released I don't expect to see any significant change from what we saw in February. I'd expect to see Labour in the mid to high 40s, National in the mid to low 40s, and the Greens and New Zealand First struggling to reach 5 per cent.
The main reason for this is that Ardern hasn't been personally responsible for many of the issues that have played out and, where she has, they've mostly been on things that I don't think are necessarily going to sway voters. That, combined with her personal popularity, will mean that while Ardern has burnt some political capital fighting fires, she still has a deep well of support to call on.
The Labour Party's seemingly terrible handling of the sexual assaults at the Waihi camp will reflect badly on Labour's General Secretary Andrew Kirton, but as Ardern was only briefly at the camp delivering a speech, and had nothing to do with its organisation or the events in question, I doubt any voters will hold her responsible for it. A test may come further down the line when Labour's own internal investigation is complete if it finds significant failings on the part of the party organisation and Ardern doesn't demand that someone takes personal responsibility, but that's hard to preempt given there's a lot of water to go under the bridge.
The Russia fiasco - Winston Peters' alternative facts on Russian interference with the US election and Russian involvement in the downing of MH17, the bizarre focus of Peters on a Russian free trade deal, and the ham-fisted attempt by the Government to first condemn the Salisbury attack without blaming Russia, then several days later finally managing to step into line with our allies and blame Russia, as well as Ardern's bungled attempts to spin away that foreign policy disaster - while a bad look generally for Ardern and Peters, isn't the type of issue that will sway votes, even if it has lead to some questioning within the beltway of Ardern's own judgement and Peters' motives.
What has been interesting is that the Russia saga played out over 11 days. If a day is a long time in politics, then 11 days is an eternity for an issue like this to run its initial course. There's possibly more to come in this space, which could start to erode voter confidence in the Government's foreign policy and security credentials.
Ron Mark's defence force flights and Jenny Salesa's ministerial spending are similarly both minor issues. In the bigger scheme of things both are relatively minor issues. While Mark hasn't handled the pressure being questioned about the flights put him under particularly well, Ardern did the requisite telling off of Salesa and unless it becomes a pattern of overspend, the matter will rest there.
One thing that will nag at Labour's recovery of support in the regions, at least in the top of the South Island, has been the Government's sluggish response to Cyclone Gita in Nelson and Tasman. It took nearly three weeks after Cyclone Gita hit New Zealand for the Government to announce any meaningful assistance for businesses cut off by the storm. And unlike the flooding in Edgecumbe, which prompted a Prime Ministerial visit from Bill English to see first hand what had unfolded, the residents of Takaka and the surrounding areas still haven't seen or heard from Ardern.
Not that anyone is suggesting a Prime Minister visiting is somehow going to magically undo the damage done by a given disaster, but it usually serves as both a way to boost morale in the affected communities, as well as to highlight the ongoing importance of the recovery to Government agencies to ensure they keep their efforts up.
The Green Party surprising everyone by gifting questions in Question Time to National has been an interesting issue to follow the reaction to. While it feeds the Opposition's narrative that not all is well and cozy on the Government benches, any consequential reaction to it seems to be more directed at the Green Party over it, both supportive of the move and in opposition to it. While headlines of the Greens doing a deal with National aren't helpful to Labour, it seems unlikely this will translate into the polls either.
Finally, there was Shane Jones' attack on Air New Zealand. It kicked off on Friday and didn't end until Ardern finally hauled Jones back into line during Question Time on Wednesday. Jones' comments caused some concern in both the beltway and business community, as did Ardern's initial backing of Jones. Outside of the beltway, Jones' comments will have played well.
Towards the end of the past two weeks Ardern was getting visibly frustrated with both media questioning and Opposition attacks. In part this will stem from this being the first time her Government has been hauled over the coals for a significant length of time. But no doubt a lot of her annoyance will come from the fact that most of the problems she's been having to deal with aren't ones that she's been responsible for, barring her poor handling of the Russia issue.
The rough patch is set to continue too. With the Select Committee submissions soon to be heard on the Electoral Integrity Amendment Bill, there will be a stream of negative headlines about the Government pushing that Bill through, as well as the Green Party's support for it. There's also lingering questions around Winston Peters' infatuation with Putin's Russia.
It shouldn't escape anyone's notice that New Zealand First, who are struggling badly in polls, have been the source of three of the issues that have dogged the Government in the past two weeks. Shane Jones' comments are perhaps the most interesting in this regard, as they point towards New Zealand First taking a much more vocal stand on issues that might not always sit well with the responsibilities and requirements of occupying the Government benches.
The good news for Labour is that with Easter fast approaching, and beyond that the beginning of pre-Budget announcements, the Government does have an opportunity to start setting the news agenda rather than reacting to it.


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The current managed security services provider model just doesn't work in our information-rich world. Time to shake things up.
Cybersecurity today has reached a turning point. Managing today's cybersecurity issues requires a new model with which to identify critical information that needs to be protected, a new model to identify the threats that jeopardize that information, and a new way to understand the corporate risk associated with that information's potential loss.
Today's cybersecurity management also requires a more effective way to keep the worst from happening. The current managed security services provider (MSSP) model, one in which a third party monitors the security on a client’s network, can't handle new, more sophisticated threats, more complex enterprise IT infrastructures, the connection of the Internet of Things, and the ever-increasing value of information.
How did we get here? The sophistication of today's threats can be seen in two ways. Nation-states and organized criminals possess sophisticated tools to probe networks, penetrate firewalls, find targeted information, and send home to their controller the information they’ve compromised and details about the network from which it was taken. But those who jeopardize our cybersecurity are also sophisticated operationally. They use social media to identify and gain access to users with privileged information. They conduct thorough surveillance of the networks they seek to penetrate, accumulating valuable intelligence regarding the information they want, how it's defended, and what vulnerabilities exist that they can exploit. We see a rising tide of threats, blending existing malware with new, persistent challenges to the security of our enterprises.
The past six years have seen breaches of banks and investment houses ranging from JPMorgan Chase to the Korean Investment Bureau. Retailers such as Staples and Carphone Warehouse have been compromised. LivingSocial, Adobe, and Walgreens have all suffered from the actions of adversaries intent on pilfering corporate and customer information. Reports suggest that electoral systems in Arizona and Illinois are being targeted. The threat, both in its sophistication and its purpose, has never been more serious.
Why is the problem growing? The value of information amplified by the use of that information to manage today's infrastructures and industry on the Internet of Things rises every day, making cybersecurity more important than ever and the compromise of information ever-more lucrative. For instance, one need only consider information as an organization's end product and the use of information to coordinate its delivery of physical products to understand how vital it is to improve security today.
In addition, many products have so much embedded information technology, they are almost inconceivable without it. Consider today's Boeing Dreamliner. The jet airliner uses computer-based "fly-by-wire" technologies to control critical flight systems. It possesses Internet-based architectures for other systems ranging from avionics to passenger entertainment subsystems. In many ways, the Dreamliner is a computer around which someone designed an airplane.
What needs to be done? Today's MSSP model lacks the power to protect the information vital to the design and delivery of today's complex products. It also can't safeguard our personal information or protect the IT-enabled infrastructures on which we depend. The model relies on "knowing what's bad," including the signatures of known malware and known exploits.
Detection of software known to be bad is useful, but it's not enough in a world in which new cybersecurity threats evolve and constantly challenge the systems on which we depend. Every new threat poses the possibility that an enterprise will be the initial victim of a breach. The bulk of today's intrusion detection/intrusion protection and endpoint protection systems rely on information one hopes will be up to date regarding known threats. But according to Gartner research, "44% of reference customers for endpoint protection solutions have been successfully compromised."
To be clear, this problem isn't going away. Statistics compiled by the AV-TEST Institute indicate that over 140,000 examples of new malware were detected in 2014 and 2015, with almost 100,000 examples collected by mid-2016. Dealing with known malware based on existing signatures isn't adequate.
A new approach is possible. Replacing efforts to block the "known bad" by allowing access to only the "known good" represents the next generation of managed security services. An emerging approach denies by default access into a network to all applications unless they are known, according to a trusted whitelisting capability, in order to keep out malware. All unknown or untrusted applications or executables are automatically wrapped in an isolated container that prevents any malware from gaining the access it needs to harm either a specific device or its network, blocking all new zero-day threats and advanced persistent threats. Working with a comprehensive whitelist of applications and executables that are "known good" allows this cybersecurity approach to become a reality.
The stakes have never been higher. A new model, one that protects by default our most valuable information and systems, provides the cybersecurity we need today and will need in future.
In leui of todays chaos I would like to note that it is my perception that intentions have been misconstrude... this is however only my own personal blurry view of a much larger panaromic view that I do not yet understand. Lack of education and knowlege combined with a constant crunch for time are paving th way for "guesstimates" or "winging it". Education and training. Everything must ALWAYS start there. Had people been even remotely aware of the magnitude of casualties and damages at risk, I think we all would be having a much different conversation. That all being said, I offer my peace sign and assistance to everyone while humbling admitting that I might have everything so confused and backAssWard that I should just hide in the wings. In which case....someone kindly point me to the beach and I'll regretably retreat with my tail between my legs.

industry_corpus2: Information Services


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Adrian Crevan Mackin who shot dead Garda Tony Golden and his former partner, Siobhán Phillips in 2015.
Dissident republican Crevan Mackin was taking a cocktail of medicines – including drugs for weight loss, severe depression and obsessive compulsive disorder – at the time he shot dead Garda Tony Golden at a house in Co Louth in October, 2015.
Mackin’s partner, Siobhán Philips, had gone to the house accompanied by Garda Golden to collect her things and leave him. But Mackin (25) opened fire, killing Garda Golden (36) and wounding the then 21-year-old Ms Philips four times before taking his own life.
Garda Golden’s inquest took place last Monday in Dundalk, Co Louth. It concluded the married father of three from Co Mayo but living in Blackrock, Co Louth, had been killed unlawfully.
One of two loaded guns recovered from Mackin’s car parked outside his home had been placed in a suitcase with carrier bags containing almost 300 bullets. And the letters “INLA” had been written in pen on the outside of the case.
A 5-litre jerry can of petrol had also been purchased and brought into the house.
Mackin shot dead Garda Golden and wounded Ms Philips four times, including once to the head, on the afternoon of Sunday, October 11th, 2015. The attack occurred in the house he shared with Ms Philips, his partner and the mother of his two children, on the Mullach Alainn estate, in Omeath, Co Louth.
Ms Philips had just made a statement of complaint to Garda Golden in Omeath Garda station about the beating she had suffered at the hands of Mackin.
After the statement was completed Garda Golden accompanied Ms Philips to the house so she could collect her belongings and leave Mackin. Instead, Mackin opened fire on them before taking his own life.
The murder weapon – a Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol – and the other gun found – a Glock 22 semi-automatic pistol – had been fashioned by combining parts from different guns.
The frames of the weapons and the barrel and slide sections all had different serial numbers. The technical report on the weapons, according to the sources, said they had been “married together to form single functioning firearms”.
There has been much speculation in the 2½ years since the shooting about the circumstances and what was found at the house where it took place.
Drugs in Mackin’s name that were found at his home included the weightloss drug Xenical. A box of Fluzac tablets was also found; the drug used to treat major depressive episodes, obsessive compulsive disorder and bulimia nervosa.
Another drug he was using, Zopitan, is used to treat insomnia. Mackin was also taking Omeprazole pinewood, which is used to treat acid reflux and stomach ulcers. Also found at his home, prescribed to him, was Germentin; used to treat a range of infections.
Crevan Mackin’s inquest is scheduled to take place in May. His half-sister Sinead Hynes said he had both Asperger’s and an attention deficit disorder. Tony Golden’s inquest heard mention Siobhán Philips also has Asperger’s.
Mackin had been arrested 10 months before the shooting when Garda received a tip-off from the FBI. The intelligence from the US was that Mackin had been buying parts of decommissioned firearms online and had them delivered to him in Ireland from the US in the postal service.
He had then been modifying and combining the decommissioned parts to repurpose them into functioning firearms.
Gardaí believe he had been selling the guns to dissident republicans and criminal elements on both sides of the Border. He was on bail at the time of his death having been charged with membership of the IRA in January, 2015, arising from a search of his home that followed the FBI tip-off.

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Your emails make an impression on your managers, colleagues, clients, and on possible recruiters. Sloppy emails may show that you are not disciplined and risk causing misunderstanding among colleagues. A poorly-written email along with a job application can damage your chances of landing the job.
Emails can be easily forwarded and thus be read by more people than you think. So re-read your emails carefully before sending it, to make sure that it is not offensive and that it doesn't say anything that could get you into trouble.
How quickly you need to reply to an email typically depends on the nature of the email. In general, you should reply immediately. If you know you don't have an immediate answer to a particular query, reply to acknowledge the email and give the person a time frame of when you think you'll be able to respond.
It might be tempting to call up the person you just emailed, but desist. It can be annoying for the recipient.
In general, avoid sending large files as attachments since they clog up the recipient's inbox.
Don't send emails for every little thing and especially not for something that can be tackled easily over the phone or in person. 'Emails are there to save your time, not waste it,' says Mr. Singh of Panasonic.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Four police officers were killed and two others injured on Saturday in a massive improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore, according to reports.
News18 reported that a police vehicle ran over the planted IED causing the explosion.
Jammu and Kashmir IGP Munir Khan told Greater Kashmir that three shops were also damaged. The report quoted a source as saying that the IED was planted beneath a shop.
The report also identified three of the four policemen as ASI Irshad Ahmad from Doda, Muhammad Amin from Kupwara and Ghulam Nabi from Sopore.
A police officer told IANS that the injured were shifted to the hospital and a search operation is underway.
There was heavy deployment of police and paramilitary forces in Sopore at the time of the incident to prevent any protests in view of the shutdown called by separatists on Saturday, reported The Indian Express.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti condemned the attack in a tweet.
Pained to hear that four policeman have been killed in an IED explosion in Sopore. My deepest condolences to their families.
She also said that the policemen were killed when they were on duty to protect the people in the town. It is highly unfortunate to see, she added. "The vortex of violence in the state needs to be broken and for that every section of society has to work shoulder to shoulder," the chief minister said.
This comes just days after two heavily armed militants stormed a CRPF camp in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, killing a personnel and leaving two others injured.


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Bringing a whole new array of light airs and windless traps to add to an already fluctuating regime, the result has been a comprehensive shake-up to the pack, with some notable slides down the rankings, and some narrow escapes. With the leaders expected to arrive in Dingle around 1900 (local time) this evening, there is little runway for dramatic comebacks.
The effect of the change to the forecast conditions was most marked on the two rival groups which were tussling for the lead yesterday; a southerly group led by Armel Le Cléach (Brit Air) [pictured above] and Charles Caudrelier Benac (Bostik), and that in the north led by Antoine Koch (Sopra Group) [pictured below] and Armel Tripon (Gedimat).
In the event it is the southerly group, seemingly best positioned to take advantage of the predicted change in wind direction, who have suffered most. Bostik now lies in 13th, while Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) is 20th, and Armel Tripon, who yesterday was savouring the new experience of being at the front of the fleet, has tumbled to 24th. Only Le Cleach seems to have borne a charmed life, pressing on regardless to fight it out with Koch for the top spot.
To add to the entertainment the Figaro fleet has crossed paths with that of the Fastnet Race, the need to keep a close look-out in the poor visibility adding yet another dimension to the harassed solo skipper’s lot. The night has also produced more significant gaps between boats that has previously been the case.
Now only eight other skippers are within five miles of leader Antoine Koch, with only Le Cleach right on his coat tails, 0.8 of a mile behind. Included in this group though are the likes of Nicolas Lunven (CGPI) and Yann Eliès (Generali), currently first and second in the overall cumulated rankings.
The second significant group are now six or seven miles down the track, while many of yesterday’s proponents of the westerly option are in yet a third rank, eight to ten miles from the front. From first to last the distance is some 60 miles, the largest yet seen in this edition of the race, the bottom end of the fleet unlikely to reach Dingle before Friday morning.
British skippers Nigel King and Jonny Malbon have continued to lose ground, if not places. King is 43rd at the 1600 position report, 26.8 miles from the leader, while Malbon is in 45th, with a deficit of 30.2 miles.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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This editorial by Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith was published in The Coloradoan on March 23, 2019. Sheriff Smith is the Sheriff of Larimer County, Colorado.
Being on the frontlines of Colorado’s battle against illicit drugs, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the storm clouds are moving in.
The opioid crisis is wreaking havoc on Colorado and is morphing into an overdose crisis. We lost more than 1,000 Coloradans to drug overdoses in 2017. Based on what we observe every day, this is driven by two concerning trends; overdoses from methamphetamine continue to climb, and more concerningly, the number of fentanyl-related overdoses has jumped sharply, reversing a downturn in deaths from opioids.
While the loss of life is and will continue to be the main story in this crisis, the prevalence of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl is a significant concern. We have seen what this powerful drug has done to states east of the Rockies and we don’t want to repeat that experience in Colorado.
Over the last five years, my county has witnessed a 75 percent increase in felony cases, the vast majority of them related directly or indirectly to illegal drug use.
Over the last eight years, we have experienced nearly a 30 percent increase in our jail population, an unfortunate reversal of the trend of declining inmate numbers during the decade prior. And last year in Larimer County alone, we lost 20 people to drug overdoses.
While we are fighting the drug abuse issues we already face, I'm deeply concerned about any changes that could compound this problem, such as legalizing the importation of foreign prescription drugs from unknown sources in foreign countries.
Working with our state and federal partners on our drug enforcement task force, we are seeing the advent of fentanyl-laced counterfeit opioids. This is simply terrifying.
I join the many law enforcement leaders, including the National Sheriffs’ Association, who have already voiced their concerns about drug importation. I am gravely concerned that the state of Colorado is actively considering a proposal to legalize foreign drug importation – this is flat out dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.
Last year, America’s sheriffs wrote to President Trump to voice their concerns about similar proposals. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has also studied importation proposals and found that it would be a boon to criminal organizations that would take advantage of this new loophole, especially since we can’t arrest and potentially not even prosecute these foreign actors.
And the dangerous fentanyl-laced counterfeit drugs they traffic are likely to worsen the opioid crisis. We simply don’t know and can’t control what these foreign actors would import.
Simply put, a bad batch of foreign prescription drugs, and people die.
Even the past four FDA commissioners have noted that the agency lacks the resources to safely regulate importation.
Colorado’s overdose crisis will not be eradicated with simply more officers on the street. We will stay vigilant, but we need to eliminate the problem at the source, and that means ensuring importation of foreign prescription drugs never happens in the first place, so dangerous foreign counterfeit drugs don’t become part of Colorado’s issues.


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The Digitalis interface is clear and intuitive. Our goal is to offer you a modern and lightweight design so you can use the software with ease.
Do you have a web browser? Perfect, you are ready.
Digitalis is a web-based software, which requires no special installation, a web browser and an internet connection are enough. The software is designed for the latest web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) but remains functional on older browsers such as Internet Explorer 9.
Computer, tablet ... Digitalis adapts to the size of your screen.
Whether you work on your computer or on your tablet, Digitalis is used in the same way and adapts to the size of your screen. Thus, you can use the application from your tablet effortlessly using a thoughtful interface designed for your device.
The input of clinical data is simple, intuitive and enjoyable.
The quality of the data collected is ensured by intelligent management of manual and automatic consistency checks.
Monitor protocol deviations when needed using a dedicated module.
All entries and data changes are tracked and recorded.
Import clinical data into your eCRF: data in ODM-XML format or connection to external sources.
Your data is at any time exportable partially or totally, in CSV, PDF, and ODM-XML formats.
Realize your CRF study database and interfaces easily with ODM Designer integrated in Digitalis.
The entry forms are customizable with Forms Designer: take control over the layout and dynamics thanks to web languages.
Digitalis is used to manage compassionate uses. Manage requests for access, check and validate requests for treatment. Digitalis especially suitable to the implementation of any specific workflow.
An overview of your study is offered through dashboards that can be customized to your needs.
Digitalis is available in English and French. We can implement other languages if necessary.
Collect data from health connected devices. We can connect to remote devices as sources of clinical data.
The CDISC ODM standard defines the rules for storing and exchanging clinical data. Digitalis goes further and relies entirely on this standard to manipulate clinical data, a mark of quality and interoperability of the data collected.
Digitalis is built on a robust and powerful framework: Onemo. Very flexible and powerful, Onemo is designed to develop rich and interactive web applications. It relies on a Model-View-Controller architecture, a guarantee of quality and maintainability of Digitalis.
Digitalis complies with the regulations of Chapter 21 CFR Part 11 of the Food and Drug Administration. The authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the data are ensured by the application: secure connections, audit trails, electronic signatures, etc.
The electronic CRF of your study can be built with our dedicated solution: ODM Designer. ODM Designer allows you to define the structure of your database in compliance with the CDISC ODM-XML standard. Code the basic elements, input conditions and consistency checks. The study can be put online in one click, the input interfaces are generated automatically.
Digitalis forms are fully customizable via XSL sheet editing. An editing interface allows you to edit forms with traditional web development languages.
Digitalis draws its strength in its scalability. Its lightness allows it to easily adjust to your requirements. The software packages on the market make available a wide range of features that you do not always use, for often expensive prices. Digitalis focuses on the essential features of an eCRF while leaving an important place to integrate your specific needs. This scalability an flexibility of Digitalis ensures that the software you have is adapted to your needs for an affordable price. With nearly 12 years of experience in clinical trials, we are willing to configure and adapt Digitalis to your study.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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The annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience will take place at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban from 24 August to 3 September this year. Choreographers and dancers (individuals and dance companies) are invited to apply for the JOMBA! Fringe and Youth Fringe programmes before Monday, 13 June at 16:00.
The JOMBA! Fringe programme is open to professional, experimental and up-coming performers and choreographers who are above the age of sixteen. This programme is for persons working specifically in the idioms of contemporary and fusion dance, which is in line with the mission statement of JOMBA! which is to support and promote the development of contemporary dance in KwaZulu-Natal. There is space for a maximum of eight works on this year’s Fringe. Each participant will have an opportunity to showcase and perform their work on Tuesday, 30 August at the festival.
The Youth Fringe is open to dancers under the age of sixteen years old and entry is free of charge. It is a support initiative for the various ‘Dance Development’ projects operating in KZN and provides a space to celebrate young up-and-coming dancers. Different dance styles are welcomed in this platform. The youngsters will have an opportunity to showcase their talent onSunday, 28 August at the Pieter Scholtz Open Air Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College Campus).
For application forms as well as terms and conditions contact Clare Craighead on 082 875 6065during office hours. All complete application forms for both programmes must be submitted via email to ATT: Clare Craighead at jombafestival@gmail.com with the subject line “2016 JOMBA FRINGE APPLICATION”.
1. Fringe : Musa Hlatshwayo’s Mhayisa Prodcutions at the JOMBA! FRINGE.

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The Professional MSc programme is open to pharmacists working in all areas of practice who have already gained a postgraduate diploma.
The Masters programme is taken over one year and is common to both of School of Pharmacy’s postgraduate programmes, i.e. Clinical Pharmacy Practice and Advanced Practice. It is structured to be suitable for pharmacists from all areas of professional practice and is flexible to your own learning needs and the needs of your employer.
The Masters year is categorised by the University as a Professional MSc that is grounded in an individual’s professional practice and the programme structure encompasses an emphasis on the researching professional as a reflective practitioner. It will enable you to focus on a personal area of interest within your practice so that you can develop a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of this area at an advanced level. It will enable you to apply your learning to develop your professional practice/services through scholarship and research whilst at the same time enabling you to achieve the standards for a postgraduate Masters degree.
Entry to the Masters year requires satisfactory completion of a postgraduate Diploma award that is associated the relevant Keele programmes, or an ‘equivalent’ postgraduate Diploma award from another university. Candidates who wish to gain direct entry after having completed a Diploma at another university will have to provide full details of the syllabus covered/assessment strategy for consideration with their application to Keele. Diplomas awarded more than 5 years ago can be considered for entry to the Professional MSc year, provided the diploma is still considered current - all decisions on the relevance of the diploma to the MSc programme are at the programme manager’s discretion.
The title of the final MSc award will depend on the entry route – students entering with a Keele Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (or previous equivalent) or with the relevant postgraduate diploma from another university, will be graduate with an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice.
Those entering with a Diploma in Advanced Practice (or previous equivalent) will graduate with an MSc in Advanced Practice.
The Masters year is structured to take into account a number of factors affecting education and professional role development for pharmacists to embody an emphasis on the researching professional as a reflective practitioner.
It is categorised by the University as a Professional MSc that is grounded in an individual’s professional practice.
It will enable you to focus on an area of interest to you so that you can develop a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of this at an advanced level and apply your learning to develop your professional practice/services through scholarship, research and enquiry that will, in parallel, enable you to achieve the standards for a Masters degree.
Entry to the Masters year requires satisfactory completion of a postgraduate Diploma award that is associated with one of the relevant Keele programmes, or an ‘equivalent’ postgraduate Diploma award from another university. Candidates who wish to gain direct entry after having completed a Diploma at another university will have to provide full details of the syllabus covered/assessment strategy for consideration with their application to Keele. Decisions on the equivalence of other diplomas to allow entry to the Keele Professional MSc are at the Programme Manager’s discretion.
Please note that IETLS exams must be no more than two years old at the start of the programme for which you have applied.
The delivery media used, outline content and activities for each module are described in the postgraduate module section of the website. You will also attend an Induction Session at the beginning of the programme. This will be held ‘virtually’ so there is no requirement to attend Keele.
The Professional MSc is designed principally for distance-learning. We provide mainly online distance-learning materials so that you can study where and when it is most convenient for you.
The Professional MSc is fully supported by a team of experienced, friendly, and approachable academic, administrative and technical staff based at Keele. The Programme is also supported by our network of experienced, practising tutors. You’re not on your own! And, don’t forget the network of other pharmacists on the programme whom you can contact. You will require the equivalent of 1-2 days (approximately 10-15 hours) each week to complete your programme. Remember that the online nature of our programme materials, and the fact the MSc focuses on your professional practice, means that you can integrate study and work.
You will be assigned a tutor at the beginning of the programme who will support you throughout the programme. You will meet with your tutor on a regular basis either on the telephone, virtually or face to face as agreed between you and your tutor.
Assessment is entirely by coursework. For the Introduction to Research Methods, you will undertake an evaluation of two research methods that you might use in your research, develop your research proposal in Research into Practice and write a dissertation on your research project for Researching Professional Practice that will assess ‘thinking’ and practical skills, and your ability to plan, conduct and report on an investigation. All the modules also assess your ability to critically appraise the literature and relate published theory to everyday practice.
Each method of assessment is supported by clear criteria for marking; these are explained in the relevant Programme Handbooks. The minimum pass mark is 50%. The summative assessment is supported by a variety of formative assessment activities that include online discussions and formative feedback on elements of the reflective portfolio.
For all programmes you will need regular access to a computer, email and the internet. Apart from additional costs for text books, inter-library loans and potential overdue library fines we do not anticipate any additional costs for our postgraduate programmes.

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text: Antifungal activities of 9 plant extracts were evaluated against Alternaria solani causing early blight of tomato using radial growth technique. While all tested plant extracts produced some antifungal activities, the results revealed that Azadirachta indica (neem), Datura stramonium (datura) and Withania somnifera (ashwagandha) showed significant antifungal activities. The leaf extract of Ashwagandha (W. somnifera) was most effective in inhibiting the mycelial growth of A. solani (62.56%). Extract of D. stramonium (34.65%) and A. indica (25.27%) exhibited moderate activity with average mycelial inhibition of 34.65 and 25.27% respectively. Allium crispum (jungli pyaj), Mentha requienii (pudina), Lepidium sativum (chandrasur), Ocimum tenuiflorum (Tulsi) and Calotropis gigantia (Aak) also inhibited mycelial growth of A. solani. Sporulation per microscopic field was found maximum in C. gigantia (89.11) and minimum in A. crispum (1.44).

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Laws that burden consumers for the benefit of entrenched economic interests are widespread.
Singh runs a medical diagnostic-imaging center where patients can get X-rays, echo-cardiograms, ultrasounds, and CT (computed tomography) scans. It cannot, however, be a full-service center without an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine, and local hospitals offering MRIs are averse to competition.
Americans with high-deductible insurance plans — which are increasingly prevalent — especially need low-cost diagnostic services. The median Winston-Salem household income is about $40,000. The average MRI scan at a North Carolina hospital costs $2,000. Singh charges $500-$700 for the MRIs he does using rental machines that the state’s harassing law requires to be moved once a week. Singh wants to buy an MRI machine. North Carolina, however, has a “certificate of need” (CON) law, requiring Singh to prove to the Soviet-style central planners in the state government that Singh’s area needs another machine.
Such state and local CON laws proliferated in the 1970s as the federal government began pouring money into health care, and government-funded hospitals tried to protect their revenue streams. Just for the privilege of submitting an application to buy an MRI, Singh would have to pay a nonrefundable $5,000 fee and be prepared to spend $400,000 (lawyers, consultants, economists) to surmount the opposition of determined competitors. The only two providers of fixed (not mobile rental) MRIs in Singh’s county are at two multibillion-dollar hospitals.
Fortunately, Singh has the support of the Institute for Justice’s litigators, who are wielding on his behalf four provisions of North Carolina’s constitution: First, “Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free state and shall not be allowed.” Second, “No person . . . is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges.” Third, “No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.” Fourth, Singh has a due-process right to participate in the health-care market without arbitrary, irrational impediments.
There are states where aspiring entrepreneurs must pay (application fees, lawyers) just to try to surmount the opposition of established businesses in order to get a CON entitling them to open a car dealership, operate a moving company, run a food truck, or enter other areas of enterprise. And the audacity of economic interests clamoring for government protection from domestic competition seems to be increasing as the Trump administration, with tariffs and import quotas, practices crony capitalism to protect favored industries and companies from foreign competition.
For example, this month a federal court — following the example of other courts that have swatted aside cases from Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Georgia — unanimously rejected this preposterous argument from Miami-Dade County (Florida) taxi owners: The U.S Constitution says private property shall not be taken for “public use” without just compensation, so they should be compensated because the government has permitted ride-sharing services (e.g., Uber and Lyft) that have substantially reduced the value of the owners’ taxi medallions. Governments sell medallions and keep them scarce in order to keep prices high for the benefit of the government and past buyers.
There are three important lessons from North Carolina’s CON mischief. First, domestic protectionism that burdens consumers for the benefit of entrenched economic interests (e.g., occupational licensing that restricts entry to professions for no reason related to public health and safety) is even more prevalent and costly than are tariffs and import quotas that interfere with international trade. Second, the sprawling, intrusive, interventionist, administrative state — a.k.a. modern government — that recognizes no limits to its competence or jurisdiction is inevitably a defender of the entrenched, and hence a mechanism for transferring wealth upward. Third, only courts can arrest the marauding of the political class when, with unseemly motives, it pretends to know more than markets do about society’s needs.


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With the start of little league baseball season and the early closing of southern New York’s ski industry, it would have been understandable if I didn’t ski this weekend. The truth is I’m not ready to give up on the season yet.
My Saturday was full and, yeah, my local options were gone but I figured with a little ingenuity and determination, I could still squeeze out another ski day. That’s how I found myself jumping on the Thruway in Rockland County around 9:30 on Saturday night.
Destination Whiteface, over four hours away. I drove until 1 AM, settled into an unobtrusive spot (not saying where exactly) and crawled into the back of my truck. Something woke me up before dawn and I couldn’t get back to sleep so I got back on the road. I ended up in the River Lot at 7:30, drinking coffee and twiddling my thumbs.
I actually got a kick out of wandering around the deserted lodge. The gondola was scheduled to load at 8:30, but they let me on at 8:15 and I headed to the top of Little Whiteface, alone.
I was nervous about the forecast, but the day started out nice, 27 degrees. There were low clouds, some fog. The visibility was decent, a pleasant surprise. I found wall-to-wall fresh cord when I got off the lift. The groomers had done a fantastic job.
Everything that was open had been resurfaced. And it was good stuff, three fingers of soft, dry corduroy. I would have preferred to have the upper mountain open but this was pretty fun too. I bombered Excelsior and then made my way back down to the base.
There’s something exhilarating about just blasting down big open fields of groomed snow, especially when there’s nobody else on the trail. It made me feel like a kid. I knew skiers would be showing up eventually so I did my best to gobble it all up while I could.
I moved around the mountain, checking out everything that was open. I kept skiing past the summit quad, hoping they would turn it on, but it didn’t budge all day. I rode the other lifts but kept coming back to the gondi.
Without the upper mountain open, it was the most fun available to me. I took an early break mid-morning and drank some more coffee and chowed some Special K bars.
When I came back it was more crowded; still no lift lines but with the limited terrain I no longer felt like I owned the place. I had pretty much destroyed the corduroy single handedly anyway so I didn’t mind having to share. Over the course of the morning, temps dropped, the wind picked up and the clouds started descending.
Around noon, things were getting a little chattery; some of the snow I’d spent the morning shaving off re-froze and started chunking up. Conditions were still fun, but the teenager inside of me was aging and my legs were giving out.
I took another quick break, but after I went back out, I knew was done. After a couple more slower runs, I packed it in around two in the afternoon.
I took my time getting my boots off, knowing my season was almost over, and got started on the long drive home, happy to have squeezed in another ski day.
Very impressive: a Sunday day trip all the way up to Whiteface! You have a lot more teenage energy then most of us. I bet with the snow the last few days, your season is NOT over.
We have not been to the Face in a long time. Arguably one of the best mountains in the East. We can relate to teenage mind but, aging bodies totally. Our kids keep us active in this household but, soon they will be out-skiing us and not want to hang out with some old slow folk.
Here is to #onemoreskiday .
This is great post. Anyone who sleeps in the back of their truck to go skiing the next day is awesome. Kind of reminds me when my brother and I camped out in the back of my dads truck at the ADK lodge before climbing Marcy the next day.
Reminds me of a trip to Gore when my brother and I slept in his Uni-Cell truck in the parking lot to get first tracks.
Thanks for posting. My gal and I were considering WF after skiing Twister all day. We would have done it were it not for the 8 hour drive back to Bmore. WF would have added another 90 mins. Glad you shared. For those in question: Twister was better than expected, lift attendant said 30 separate skiers/boarders at 2 pm, looked like a few more were showing up for a last run as I was leaving.
Thanks for the nice comments guys. It was a fun trip. I’m glad I went.
I want to be BrownSki when I grow up.
For anyone in their later years with the stamina and teenage spirit thing going, keep it going. Ski and party like a rock star…like the Tom Petty lyric goes…you never slow down, you never grow old. Live by this mantra every waking day. Love to see others engage in adventures such as the one Brownski reported on. Love the Dirtbag Dad title!
Ha! You guys crack me up. Reread your chic chocs story, ml. I want to be you when I grow up.
Ditto Ethan Snow. One of the reasons I like my Outback is that I can, and have, slept in it. My season ended early this year, so this was a great read.
I feel guilty…abandoned NYS and just kept driving North this week….any further North and I would have left the country…so I settled into a Tram ride or 8 at Jay….which was frozen hardpack, bordering on concrete. If it wasn’t for the thrill of seeing my teenage son clock past me at 62.4 mph on Jet I think it would have been better camping in my Jeep!
Trying hard to not let the season die at Sugarbush tomorrow….PS…they are calling for 4″ of fresh snow tonight….go figure….


text: Established in 1986, Teledyne Cougar’s comprehensive products contains more than 700 designs, achieving the requirements of more than 400 dynamic clients. Cougar is found in Sunnyvale, California – the center of the Silicon Valley. Cougar’s three establishments, two in Sunnyvale and one in Lakewood Colorado, completely just about 50,000 square-feet. Cougar’s latest Sunnyvale service buildings the head office group and revenue and layout design exercises. We’ve prepared the latest Sunnyvale center with a completely self-contained anatomist laboratory where designers can supervise manufacturing of solutions from construction through examination depiction, all in a clear and accredited atmosphere. Production and extra technological innovation routines proceed in the exclusive Sunnyvale and Lakewood centers.

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Carefully slice the sweet potatoes into ½-inch (1 cm) rounds.
Transfer the sweet potato rounds to a large bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Stir to coat.
Transfer the rounds to the baking sheets, spacing evenly.
Bake for 30 minutes, flipping halfway, until golden brown.
Top the sweet potato rounds with marinara sauce and mozzarella, or pesto and mozzarella.
Bake for another 5 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the sauce is warmed through.
Added garlic salt instead of seasoning salt as well as adding parmesan instead of mozzarella. Super yummy!
Lovely recipe, works with normal potatoes as well. Cooking time will vary depending on how thick your slices are.
Loved it! Great for the kids! Next time I won’t bake on flat surface, I will do them on a grill rack to make them crispy.... I added chorizo.... yum!


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Q: How did the accidental downing of a Korean passenger jet by the Soviet Union in 1983 lead to Uber, Waze, and countless other revolutionary products and services?
The Atlantic’s Sarah Laskow explains in a November 3, 2015, article that the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on September 1, 1983, motivated President Reagan to speed up provision of the U.S. government’s GPS satellite data to civilians. More than 10 years and $10 billion later, the data from the government’s GPS satellite network was made available to private parties (although the most precise GPS data was reserved for use by government agencies and their chosen partners).
The benefits of open data extend far beyond GPS services. In a December 17, 2013, article, InformationWeek’s Wyatt Kash describes the OpenData 500 Global Network created by New York University’s Governance Lab (GovLab). OD500 assists government agencies in countries around the world in making their data available for social benefit and commercial projects. The site lets you search for U.S. companies that are using open data by state, industry, and federal agency.
We’re only scratching the surface of open data’s potential to improve people’s lives. A November 21, 2015, article in The Economist highlights open data’s many possibilities. In addition to making governments more accountable and helping to fight corruption, open data promises to get more citizens involved in public services.
Government operations can be made more efficient by adopting smart-city technologies, as well as through sharing and regionalization. By making government data available to the public, the data can be verified and improved by tapping the skills of citizen volunteers, such as Code for America. Last but not least, open data allows the people who receive government services to play a role in determining how the services are provided.
1) Most of the data being released by government agencies has no practical use.
2) The data is difficult to analyze.
3) There’s a shortage of people with the skills required to analyze the data.
4) Use of the data is limited by privacy concerns.
Despite the effort involved, government agencies of all types and sizes are embracing “citizen-facing software and services that connect citizens, tourists and businesses with government services,” according to TechCrunch’s Maury Blackman in a November 24, 2015, article. They’re taking an entrepreneurial approach to open data, driven primarily by citizens’ raised expectations. “Citizens feel all data concerning civic matters should be readily accessible and consumable, so these info-savvy individuals are pushing local governments to open their data ports and let them in,” according to Blackman.
In their spare time, three programmers created Seattle’s Center for Open Policing, which sued successfully to get the Seattle Police Department to release data relating to the location of police patrols, and information about citizen complaints against/internal investigations of specific police officers. Steve Miletich of the Seattle Times reports in a November 23, 2015, article on Government Technology that the three programmer-activists were motivated by run-ins each experienced with law enforcement. They are developing a database that the public can use to find information about specific police officers.
Lash reports that GlaxoSmithKline suppressed results of a study that found Paxil was ineffective, and worse, was dangerous. Several people committed suicide as a result of Paxil’s dangerous side-effects.
Open Knowledge is a “worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge.” Its Open Definition is intended to ensure that open data is truly open and truly useful.
The Open Data Handbook provides even more instruction in the form of tutorials, guides, case studies, and resources. It covers choosing a dataset, applying for an open license, making the data available for download, and allowing it to be searched on a website.
Medium’s Susan Crawford writes in a November 2, 2015, article on Back Channel about the city of Louisville using the open-source OpenStreetMap mapping project to help blind people get around town. American Printing House for the Blind created an Android app called Nearby Explorer that lets blind people in APH’s hometown of Louisville know the street addresses of the buildings they pass.
APH chose to use OpenStreetMap because it’s cheap, it doesn’t require a lot of resources, and it’s accurate. Volunteers from Code for America brought APH together with officials from the city of Louisville, who offered to provide APH with address information from the city’s building footprint database.
GCN’s Amanda Ziadeh writes in a November 13, 2015, article about OpenDataSoft, which “has mapped more than 1,600 open data portals worldwide, in an effort to make clean, usable data easier to find and access.” The Open Data Inception project’s data sources range from public high schools to federal agencies and military departments.
Medium’s Nick Selby writes in a November 26, 2015, article about a Los Angeles councilwoman’s proposal to use data collected from license-plate readers to send warning letters to people whose cars are spotted in high-crime areas, such as locations where prostitution is prevalent. In addition to being unconstitutional, the idea is vague beyond reckoning. But its most dangerous aspect is the chilling effect it would have on freedom of association and freedom of transportation. Keep in mind, there is no court order and no due process in this unwise attempt to automate reasonable suspicion.
On top of this, there’s the matter of data retention. The license-plate data is theoretically disposed of quickly. However, once the data is used, it is subject to public requests for release, so the names of the people receiving these letters could be published.
Thus we circle back to the Achilles heel of open data: privacy. It’s too easy to de-anonymize personal information that is claimed to have been anonymized. For example, researchers at Harvard University’s Data Privacy Lab were able to associate anonymized medical information released by the State of Washington with newspaper accounts of accidents. This allowed the researchers to identify the medical histories of the people mentioned in the newspapers.
Even if we’re not able to find a reasonable way to ensure anonymized data can’t be reconstituted into personally identifiable information, the benefits of open data could outweigh some reasonable loss of privacy. Then again, the data is going to be collected and analyzed regardless of the privacy risk, so we might as well make the process as transparent as possible.


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Maryland Democratic Primary: White Voters Split, Black Voters Propel Obama to Strong Advantage - In a Democratic Primary in Maryland today, 4 days to the vote, Barack Obama defeats Hillary Clinton, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WJLA-TV Washington DC. White voters split, 42% for Clinton, 40% for Obama. But Obama leads 4:1 among African Americans. When all likely voters are combined, it's 52% Obama, 33% Clinton. In the city of Baltimore, Obama leads by 31. In the Baltimore suburbs, Obama leads by 8. In the rest of Maryland, Obama leads by 23. Among seniors, Clinton leads by 15 points. But Obama leads among voters under age 65, including a 39-point advantage among voters age 35 to 49. If younger voters do not vote in the numbers here forecast, Obama's margin is overstated. At stake is a larger share of Maryland's 99 proportionally allocated delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Filtering: 1,700 state of Maryland adults were interviewed 02/07/08 and 02/08/08. Of them, 1,527 were registered to vote. Of them, 737 were determined by SurveyUSA to be likely to vote in the 02/12/08 Maryland Democratic Primary.


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Basic property inspections involve visually assessing accessible areas of the property to identify apparent defects to the major structural components of the building.
The major structural items that will be assessed include foundations, footings, floor structure, internal and external walls, the roof and ceiling frame, primary structural steel elements such as lintels and beams, retaining walls and structural damp issues.
During our property inspections, we have uncovered many items that an untrained person might not identify as a potential problem.
Roof structures are a major part of the home and we have uncovered problems where people have carried out sub-standard alterations by removing major structural components without completely understanding the implications. Most of these homes appear fine to the untrained person but in actual fact have become dangerous structures.
Wall structures are another major component of the building where some people believe they know what they are doing when performing sub-standard alterations. We have encountered problems where major supporting walls have been removed without provision for loads above, creating dangerous structures where there is a possibility of collapse.
Footings are the major support for the walls and roof, which in turn transfer superimposed loads to the supporting foundation material. House footings are usually constructed of reinforced concrete to carry the heavy loads imposed on them. During our inspections, we have encountered where the footings have been omitted and walls build directly on sand which is a recipe for disaster.
We provide property inspections throughout Perth, including Joondalup, Wanneroo, Currambine, Ocean Reef, Connolly, Heathridge, Mullaloo, Craigie, Woodvale, Ocean Reef, Two Rocks, Yanchep and Butler.
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5. Serve as a bridge between the academic-scientific community and the policy-making and executive elite.
Hassan Rouhani, Director of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR), serves as the executive director of the Quarterly. Mahmood Vaezi, Deputy for Foreign Policy Research at CSR serves as chairman of the advisory board. Seyyed Jalal Dehghani Firouzabadi serves as editor–in–chief.
The editor-in-chief of the Quarterly cordially invites interested scholars and practitioners living in and outside Iran to submit their papers in the form of full-length articles or book reviews on relevant subjects for publication in the journal.


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What if I blow below a .08 in Washington State?
First of all, the fact that you blew below the legal limit within two hours of driving puts you in a very good position to challenge your case.
Much of your case’s success would be based on this other evidence. For example, if you performed well on the field tests and/or you were not displaying the typical signs of impairment, any argument to the contrary by the prosecutor would be weakened by this lack of other evidence. Other technical information such as calibration, etc. can be found on each Datamaster Machine’s report.
It is important to see the Discovery as it is entirely possible that the prosecutor may have enough evidence to go forward with a DUI affected prong (no BAC or below .08). Hopefully you know at this point that the city doesn’t need any breath test result to prove someone is DUI. The person who has the expertise to address your concerns is your attorney and I would strongly urge you to share your questions and concerns with him/her.
A Seattle DUI attorney, Raymond Ejarque has over 19 year of experience and offers free consultations, affordable fees, reliable and strong representation. He can advise you on how to get the best possible outcome for your case.
This is not a substitute for a full consultation regarding the facts of your case. Each case is different and outcomes of case vary depending on factors involved in your case. Mr. Ejarque can review your case and can help you strategize to get best outcome for your case. Please call the Law Office of Raymond W. Ejarque for a free consultation at 206-621-1554 and check our website www.seattle-duidefense.com for more info on how we can help.
If you have questions or would like to schedule a free consultation, please contact us as soon as possible. Our staff is here to personally assist you with your DUI and Criminal Defense issues.
Our staff is available to speak with you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The information provided in this website is not, and should not be construed as, legal advice.
or if you feel that the information provided in this website may apply to you, you should consult an attorney, or contact the Law Offices of Raymond Ejarque directly.


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Cyber criminals used data from previous high-profile hacks to break into thousands of Tesco.com accounts.
In total, 2,239 customers are said to have been affected by the incident, which first came to light on Thursday night, as reported by the BBC when it was contacted by some of the affected customers.
Customers reported seeing store vouchers stolen from their accounts after crooks used details from other data breaches to guess the email and password combinations of their logins for the site.
Tesco said it was aware and was working with customers to try and negate the effects of the incident.
It has also disabled some accounts of those affected. V3 contacted Tesco for more information, but had received no reply at the time of publication.
It is not clear which previous hacks the criminals used to piece together information for the Tesco.com site, but this breach underlines the perils of using identical email addresses and passwords for numerous online accounts.


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If this is the case, then you may want to know about motorcycle restoration. If you have a knack for machinery, you consider yourself an amateur mechanic, and you know a bit about engines, then restoring your vintage motorcycle is definitely a great hobby for you. In fact, you can even turn this in to a very lucrative business once you mastered the ins and outs of vintage motorcycle restoration.
Now that you decided to undergo the restoration project yourself, here are some tips that will make the entire process of restoration a lot easier for you. With these tips, you can be sure that you will be able to restore your vintage bike easily and without too much hassle.
The first tip would be taking pictures or a video of the strip down process. A lot of people who attempts to restore a vintage motorcycle make a mistake of not documenting what they are doing. You need to remember that there are a lot of parts that you will be taking off when you are stripping the bike down to its frame. If you don’t want to be confused which parts go where when the time comes to assemble everything back again, you should get pictures taken with a digital camera or a video to record the entire process.
If the engine is not working, you may need to check it if it has any damaged or missing parts. You need to remember that years of neglect can eventually take its toll on the engine. If you don’t know how to repair the engine, you should get a certified mechanic to repair it for you.
As for the parts that you need to get the engine repaired, you will find that this particular step is often the hardest, especially if you are working with a vintage motorcycle. The parts here will already be obsolete and there is a very big chance that you may need to look very hard for them. In fact, some motorcycle enthusiasts who are on the process of restoring a vintage motorcycle travels half way across the world just to obtain parts for their motorcycle.
Using the internet to find parts for your motorcycle is a good idea. Here, you will be able to access forums and websites that may have active members that have the parts that you need to restore your motorcycle.
To clean the frame, you can get it sandblasted to get rid of rust as well as the old and faded paint. You can get it repainted again with the color you prefer.
These are some of the things that you have to know about vintage motorcycle restoration. By following these tips, you can be sure that restoring your vintage bike will be a lot easier and almost hassle-free. After finishing your project, you can definitely enjoy riding your vintage bike around town or you can put it in auction and earn a lot of money for it.

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Her Majesty's day on Britannia would vary greatly, depending on whether she was on an official state visit or merely travelling from one destination to another. Although no two days were ever the same, this would represent a typical day on board.
Her Majesty The Queen is woken by her personal maid with morning tea, which has milk and no sugar. The maid fills The Queen's bath and checks the temperature with a thermometer.
The Queen takes breakfast in the Sun Lounge, her favourite room on the ship.
The Queen starts work in her Sitting Room with her Private Secretary. Boxes of official documents arrive daily from various government departments.
Coffee break and a chance for The Queen to view the chart in the Sun Lounge showing Britannia's position and distance travelled overnight.
Back to work on the official papers until lunchtime.
The Queen and members of the Royal Family gather in the State Dining Room for a buffet lunch.
The Queen spends the afternoon working on private correspondence.
Afternoon tea is taken in the Sun Lounge. It would often be wafer-thin cucumber and smoked salmon sandwiches, pastries and cakes, served with tea in the finest bone china cups.
Her Majesty meets with her Dresser to discuss jewellery and dress requirements for that evening.
The Queen dresses for dinner in her bedroom.
The Royal Family gathers for drinks in the State Drawing Room Anteroom. They are joined by the Captain of the Yacht and senior members of the Royal Household before moving through to the State Dining Room.
Dinner is served in the State Dining Room. The Queen sits on the port side of the dining table and uses a small bell to signal when a course has to be cleared away. Younger Royal children would eat separately until they were fully aware of the correct etiquette.
The Royal Family retires to the Drawing Room for coffee, liqueurs and The Queen's favourite chocolate mints. The rest of the evening may be spent playing cards, doing jigsaw puzzles or just enjoying conversation. Sometimes a film would be shown in the Dining Room or someone might play a tune on the piano, as Princess Diana often did.
The Queen retires to bed. As is Royal custom, no one goes to bed until Her Majesty retires. It was sometimes the case that Her Majesty would work on urgent documents in her cabin late into the night.


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It’s terrible, but the only thing of hers I’ve read is “The Lottery” long ago in high school, although of course I’ve seen the movie “The Haunting of Hill House” (one of my all-time favs). I’ve been meaning to pick up “We Have Always Live in the Castle”, have you read that?
I love “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”. It’s actually my favorite Shirley Jackson novel, with “The Haunting of Hill House” coming a close second. “We Have Always etc.” is just a fantastic work of twisted fiction, with great characters and really chilling context.
Like others, the only story of Jackson’s I had read was “The Lottery.” I have been reading her other short stories over the last few weeks, and just read “Flower Garden” today. Nice exegisis of the story here! I had thought, erroneously, for the most part, that “The Lottery” had elicited such an avalanche of hate mail on its publication in the New Yorker because people felt personally attacked. This story, though, does attack small-town New England life–and its racism–very specifically, and expertly. As you note, the manipulation of the reader’s feelings through its clever use of point of view (the narrator’s, at first likable, and at the end, as revulsive as her small town fellow inhabitants) is masterful.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


text: Wondering what to get that creature lover in your life? Fluffy Flowers is having a half-off sale, just in time for the holidaze! I particularly like the horns on this guy, and now, looking at my bookshelves I can also see that I am in dire need of a book worm and I expect your friends and relatives are too!

industry_corpus2: Others


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Most do not understand. And for the many that do, the ability to articulate its implications is limited. Simply put, Black boys are set up in a way that is meant to deceive and ultimately fail them in the long run (no pun intended). Let me give you a scenario: a young Black male, somewhere around the age of 8 (yep, that early) to 17 or 18. He is in a class somewhere in New York City, or Chicago, or downtown Toronto. He receives a grade back on a test. He gets a C. So what? He is expected to get that C. His friends do not look at him any differently for getting that C on the test. In fact, he is even more so accepted by his peers for his lack of performance. What’s even worse, if he got an A, he might be faced with even more subjugation and questioning by his friends. He will most likely be made fun of by his dearest friends who chastise him for “acting white”. So what? Truth be told, his teachers, do not expect him to do any better than the grade he “earned”. They do not see him as the type of person who is earnestly concerned with his grades or his education. He, for whatever reason, is viewed as being more preoccupied with his “appearance”, his friends, and his social standing than his grades and future. So what? He gets a C. Who cares? It seems like nobody does. It seems comfortable to all the parties concerned. No complaints, no issues; it fits the script and we all continue on living our lives. And the Black male, subconsciously, is internalizing this. So what? This is what I ask because this is what is precisely the problem with our school system and the Black identity.
Black males are meant to fit into specific molds and are held to specifically lower standards. So when we meet these standards, everyone accepts it. Acceptance is even met by the Black boy who, in his heart, is upset with his grade, so next time he studies and does well and gets an A. But most likely his teachers subconsciously write it off as a “one off” and still maintain a certain ideal of this body. And his friends, even worse, poke fun at him for trying to be someone else. So where the hell does that place him? What, exactly, is he supposed to do? He is stuck, trying to be validated but the naivety of adolescence combined with scripted social identities leave him in no man’s land. This is the real problem of Black males in our school.
Black boys are stuck in the perceptual battle for identity every day they walk into school within our country, specifically in major cities like Toronto. They want to be accepted, simple as that. But I am sorry to all the parents out there who are trying to impart wisdom and do right by their Black children when I say that, at a certain age, friends come first. We were all there. What our friends did, acted like, and thought was far more paramount than what any elder could impart on us. What any new rap or hip-hop song preached about will continue to be way more impressionable than what any “teachable moment” could provide a Black boy at school. This is the truth, and this is coming from a young Black teacher. Getting into the mind and understanding the Black perspective has been so elusive simply because many Black boys never grow to the level of being able to understand and critically reflect on the scholastic systematic pressures that we experience before it is too late. Being represented more inside the school through literature and the curriculum is important, but it is not the spine of this existing crisis of Black boys in our school system.
Many things need to change. In the media, we are represented. Oh yes, we see ourselves and we are represented. But we are represented in a narrowed light. We are represented on Saturday afternoons while watching college football. We are represented on Sundays when we watch the NFL. We are represented throughout the week when we see LeBron James on a fast break or Kobe Bryant on the low block. We are represented every time we turn on the radio or step into our ride and listen to the latest bangers being produced by frontrunners of our culture. All of these representations of the Black identity we see are communicating notions of our identity. Black bodies. And also, how can we forget? We are represented when we turn our TVs on to the news channels and update ourselves with the latest crimes that have occurred in our city. With those identities cached together in some fashion or the other, we watch ourselves on television programs being represented by this, that, or the other. So we essentially have three entryways to follow: the athlete, the entertainer, or the criminal. That offers very little wiggle room in our school system. What else does the Black boy have to look up to? The problem of Black bodies is not one of representation (although, that would help). It is one of changing our perceptions of what we can become despite the culture that we choose to roll with. It is about developing an understanding that you can be cool, wear tattoos and earrings, and dress the way you want and still do well in class. That comes from the Black student’s side. But it is also one of opening our minds as teachers by crushing assumptions and accepting different notions of identities of how the Black body can exist and what its potential may be. It does take two to tango, we are all intertwined and cooperation between both parties is the key to defeating this challenge that Black males face in our school system.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Add curls and waves to your short hairstyle repertoire with help from ghd. Follow this guide on how to curl short hair with a wand or curling iron for guaranteed head-turning styles.
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Richard Wiles broke into the mapping community in 1998, unveiling his ten-map DICKIE series one installment at a time. DICKIE04 is the fourth outing, running in MAP04 of Doom II. In DICKIE01, you landed on a demon-infested planet and promptly slew the big boss, eliminating the source. The rest of the levels track the player as he (or she) runs around, clearing out the demonic remains. The adventure occurs in a variety of locales, mostly due to Wiles's vow to give each WAD its own distinct theme. For DICKIE04, this means a map split between green-walled outdoors, dark metal interiors, and a ton of lava running through it all.
The emphasis on damage floors makes it a fairly challenging level. It limits your maneuverability and ensures that you will suffer at least some attrition, making it paramount that you sniff out semi-secrets like the soul sphere in the yellow key section, which has no rad suits if you mess up, compounded by multiple visits. The monsters aren't too tough, for the most part. You'll have to watch out for some snipers here and there, especially when crossing the first outdoor yard. There are some neat navigation tricks, like the crossroads elevator. There's some annoying backtracking if you visit the northwestern area before lowering the teleporter, but that's bar standard in a map with looser exploration.
The most difficult bit for me was probably the blue key area, a rad suit timed battle in the outer lava surrounding the exit building. You wake up a hefty number of monsters and have to keep track of the fireballs flying around as well as some possibly threatening roamers. Don't be afraid to hang back or, better yet, make good use of that conspicuous plasma rifle just laying out. A close second would be the monster closet encounter in the yellow key area, where teleporting monsters make for some erratic dodging given your divided attention. Given a second pass, I'd have just turned around and rocketed as many of them as I could.
Wiles has laid out some interesting architecture, mostly in the northern area with the opposing staircases, spiral outer pathway, and the reactors / crushers. He's got some good manipulation of geometry to approximate three-dimensional space, especially in the final room, which took me a second to wrap my brain around. It all converges in yet another excellent map in the DICKIE series, which you should really play if you're looking for even more Doom II action. Though he insists that it's a bit of a mash-up of two different WADs, I don't see a difference in its presentation compared to previous levels in the set. Certainly nothing that would detract from the experience.
This level is good but there is a ton of backtracking after getting keys.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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"Characterization of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in rur" by Lei Zhang, Ling Ye et al.
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) infections have recently been found in rural regions of Zhejiang. A severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) surveillance and sero-epidemiological investigation was conducted in the districts with outbreaks. During the study period of 2011–2014, a total of 51 SFTSV infection cases were identified and the case fatality rate was 12% (6/51). Ninety two percent of the patients (47/51) were over 50 years of age, and 63% (32/51) of laboratory confirmed cases occurred from May to July. Nine percent (11/120) of the serum samples from local healthy people without symptoms were found to be positive for antibodies to the SFTS virus. SFTSV strains were isolated by culture using Vero, and the whole genomic sequences of two SFTSV strains (01 and Zhao) were sequenced and submitted to the GenBank. Homology analysis showed that the similarity of the target nucleocapsid gene from the SFTSV strains from different geographic areas was 94.2–100%. From the constructed phylogenetic tree, it was found that all the SFTSV strains diverged into two main clusters. Only the SFTSV strains from the Zhejiang (Daishan) region of China and the Yamaguchi, Miyazakj regions of Japan, were clustered into lineage II, consistent with both of these regions being isolated areas with similar geographic features. Two out of eight predicted linear B cell epitopes from the nucleocapsid protein showed mutations between the SFTSV strains of different clusters, but did not contribute to the binding ability of the specific SFTSV antibodies. This study confirmed that SFTSV has been circulating naturally and can cause a seasonal prevalence in Daishan, China. The results also suggest that the molecular characteristics of SFTSV are associated with the geographic region and all SFTSV strains can be divided into two genotypes.


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(Family Features) Busy school days demand meals that can match the pace of life. A Mexican-themed meal is a sure way to keep things festive and lively around the family dinner table.
Not only does a meal centered on Mexican-style foods let you spice up your menu, it also allows for plenty of personalization so even the pickiest of palates can be satisfied. That means less time for preparation and more time spent together.
An ethnically-inspired meal is a great opportunity to encourage kids to try out new flavors and experiment with foods they wouldn't normally eat. Sample variations of classic salsas, incorporate seasonal ingredients like jicama and diced sweet peppers to freshen up your dishes or put a spicy spin on a classic Italian favorite by creating Mexican-inspired stuffed shells.
Get creative with proteins. Chicken and beef are common options, but heart-healthy fish and shrimp are also great candidates for a Mexican-style meal. Pork is another good choice for many Mexican dishes, and beans provide an excellent source of added protein, along with some flavor variety.
Mex-up your taco night. Try an alternative to the traditional corn shell with an option like Ortega Good Grains Taco Shells, crafted with artisanal blends of real corn, unique grains and ingredients baked into each shell. They're made with whole kernel corn, giving them an authentic taste and a distinctive flavor, aroma and texture.
Keep things kid-friendly and fun by focusing on finger foods. A large taco can be difficult for little hands to handle, but a street taco portion, a chimichanga or even nachos are more hands-on.
Look for fun toppings that add an extra crunch. For example, new Ortega Crispy Taco Toppers, lightly breaded slices of real jalapeno or onion, provide a bold kick and are the perfect finishing touch for tacos, salads and even Mexican-style burgers.
Don't forget dessert. No meal is complete without a sweet treat, such as a churro, flan, empanada or sopapilla. Many of these favorites can be prepared ahead of time so you can simply cook and serve for a perfect ending to your family fiesta.
Find more mealtime inspiration like these recipes, perfect for the busy back-to-school season, at ortega.com, or find Ortega on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
In medium pan, combine chicken, taco sauce, chicken stock, salt and pepper, and cook on low, covered, approximately 2 hours, or until internal temperature of chicken reaches 165° F. Remove chicken from pan and shred using two forks.
Turn heat to medium-high and reduce cooking liquid into thick sauce, cooking 3-5 minutes and stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat and combine sauce with shredded chicken.
Serve in taco shells with desired taco toppings.
In large bowl or re-sealable plastic bag, combine chicken breasts with green taco sauce. Stir or shake to coat. Marinate at least 30 minutes or up to 2 hours.
Bake chicken 15-20 minutes, or until internal temperature reaches 165° F.
Let chicken cool 10 minutes then cut into small cubes.
In medium bowl, combine refried beans and salsa.
Transfer prepared pizza crust to baking sheet.
Spread bean mixture over dough, leaving 1/4 inch at edges for crust.
Top with peppers, green chiles, chicken and cheese. Bake 10-15 minutes, or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.
Top with taco sauce and crispy onion toppers then serve.
Prepare tater tots according to package directions.
Heat medium skillet over medium heat. Cook ground beef 4-5 minutes until browned, using wooden spoon to break into small pieces. Add taco seasoning and water. Cook until water evaporates and sauce is thickened.
Top hot tater tots with cooked ground beef and cheese, and broil in oven 5 minutes.
Top with tomatoes, sour cream and crispy jalapeno toppers, and serve immediately.