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The FBI and I: A Long Trek Over The Past (1 of 7)
July 3, 2018 Uncategorizedmtc9393
All art in this series on the law by Artist Charles Bragg
I wrote a book called "Don't Embarrass the Family."
I explained why I gave the book that title. I attended every day of the trial of the United States v John Connolly before Judge Joseph Tauro and took copious notes. I was able to produce the testimony of the witnesses at Connolly's trial in somewhat of a transcript form but because the witnesses testimony during direct and cross-examination did not vary significantly I could incorporate both direct and cross into one narrative from each witness.
it appeared to me that the defense in the case sought to limit its attack on the government's case. I attributed that to the wishes of the defendant retired FBI Agent John Connolly. A defense lawyer can only present a case in conformity with a defendant's wishes. In this case Tracy Miner, who was Connolly's defense lawyer was capable of doing whatever was necessary for a client but she is constrained by defendant's instructions and wishes.
Both sides seemed not to be straying too far from a specific tale. The case was such that a lawyer sitting next to me who represented a family of a victim of Whitey Bulger victims said to me: "Is this case fixed?" By that I assume he meant Connolly was taking all the heat and the FBI was escaping hardly being touched.
The name of the title came to me when Frank Salemme was testifying for the US government. He lied during the trial saying among other things he had no involvement in the 1993 murder of Steven DiSarro. He was just convicted of doing this by the same government attorneys who used him before as a witness.
That was one of the points raised by John Connolly in his motion for a new trial. The trial judge denied it without an opinion; the Court of Appeals upheld its denial. It brushed his complaint aside saying it wasn't important. Actually, it was very important judging from the jury's verdict. It found Connolly guilty on several counts almost totally dependent on Salemme's credibility. He had denied that any murders occurred when he was the boss, or king as he called himself, of the New England Mafia. Had the jury known he was involved in DiSarro's murder it may very well have had a different opinion of him.
When Salemme testified during the Connolly trial he told how as the Mafia boss he instructed his lieutenants – known in Mafia lingo as "caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to just a capo" – that they could let the guys under them do anything that they wanted as long as they did not embarrass the family.
When he said that it occurred to me that the trial was going like it was because no one wanted to embarrass the family, in this case the FBI. The case against John Connolly was an FBI cover-up of the fact that it aligned itself with James Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi (who admitted during the recent Salemme trial where he was the star witness that he may have murdered up to fifty people). It made them Top Echelon Informants. Under J. Edgar Hoover a program was created, in part because the FBI could no longer plant bugs wherever it wanted by breaking into private places or residences. The screwball idea that rather than bugs the FBI would partner with criminals who were at the top-level of criminal organizations to help them. .
These criminals at the highest levels obviously were not going to volunteer to double cross their buddies. They wanted something for it. What could be better than having the guys who were supposed to be investigating you now having your back. The FBI was offering a priceless gift to real nefarious individuals such as Bulger and Flemmi. It was telling them they could operate as long as the provided it information against other criminals. In Boston it became the "Irish" providing information against the Italians.
The Top Echelon Program, which still exists, is an ongoing embarrassment to the FBI. It was supposed to be a secret program. The FBI worried if the people truly understood how it operated they would demand it be shut down.When Connolly was on trial in 2002 it saw the public response to its actions. The local media was up in arms about Bulger and Flemmi two top gangsters being informants. How could that be?
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Jean Elizabeth Allan says:
Matt, last year I had an interview with a SA FBI who once he recognized my facts quickly terminated the interview ….he was particularly distressed about the Whitey BULGER warning to me..He knew I was telling the truth…He essentially said that if he open an investigation into my ongoing complaints he would get into trouble. He expressed personal concern for his safety…so nothing has changed..
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JKM is right. There is nothing Flemmi says that is credible. One striking aspect of Connolly's case in Boston was the jury verdict. The Globe headline reporting the result was Connolly acquitted of the serious charges. Emily Rooney had Attorney Minor on her show congratulating her on her victory. Yet when he his sentenced a totally dishonest judge gives him ten years for the petty offenses for which he was found guilty. Martha Stewart got 90 days for a similar offense. A lawyer plead guilty in the Meuller probe to lying to the FBI and got 30 days. What an affront to decency and fairness that judge was. Completely in the bag for the false Mafia and media story. Someday Trump may drain the swamp not only in DC but Boston as well. 2. Happy July 4th. Happy Independence Day. Unique country. Special country. The Patent Office just approved the ten millionth patent. Only in America. No one else comes close. Nikola Tesla said America was a thousand years ahead of every other country..
It is the FLEMMI MURDER GRAB BAG !!!
Gotta do some Mafia Housekeeping ?
Put Flemmi on the stand.
Again, uncritical acceptance of his role in many murders, and uncritical acceptance of his testimony re: John Connolly , as well as Frank Salemme, is the problem. He is like the Woody Allen character, ZELIG , in a portrait with Lucretia Borgia in one century and shaking hands with Hitler in another. He is … Everywhere !!!
Again, the mind numbing persistence of accepting everything this demonic bum says as gospel .
Q.E.D.
So many different angles to take on this issue. For one is it "ironic" that Salemme lied during John Connolly testimony (in which Connolly was found guilty) only to see Salemme found guilty during his trial based on the supposed "lies" of one Robert DeLuca?
I think Flemmi during the Salemme trial regarding the murder of DiSarro confessed to being involved up to 100 murders when you count Martorano, Bulger, etc. Flemmi said he helped in the planning and setups of many murders in addition to the ones he personally did.
Where does Mark Rosetti analysis come into play?
Why did Wyshak go after Salemme after using him to prosecute Connolly?
Was Richard Castucci murdered by Winter hill because he was found out to be an informant (info passed from Connolly to Bulger and Flemmi)?
Nice to take a break from Trump and his antics.
Concise. Flemmi may as well say he committed 500 murders for all the credibility he has . He is a slobberer when it comes to murder, too much of the sexual thrill as canines are yanked from a disfigured and destroyed blonde beauty. Yet, and this is a very gentle criticism for you have much usually astute company in this matter, you, uncritically , an experienced prosecutor, put the imprimatur of fact on his lurid exaggeration of his poaching numbers, by heedlessly just … Simply repeating it !!!
Fifty murders ??? … Where are the corroborating accounts, facts, or reports of the thirty odd above the twenty we grant him ???
This is your problem with John Connolly.
When the lie becomes the Legend !
tadzio says:
In Boston it became the "Irish" providing information against the Italians.
Why is Irish in quote marks and Italians not? As Race, Ethnicity and multiple other clearly discernible differences between demographic groups do not exist this smacks of a primitive form of Racism, prevalent before the redemptive Age Of Obama.
Mankind is a singularly endowed life form. Equality is omnipresent. We must stamp out all the inequities caused by a society in which Nature is distorted by White Privilege. This can only be rectified by sending trillions more to the teachers' unions.
One fears that Our Good Host is sidling towards fascism, or worse. This disparate treatment of two putative subgroups must have a nefarious purpose. The Political Correctness Cheka will soon be slamming through Matt's door. Pray for him.
David Fishwick says:
Thanks for a well written article Matt on your blog.
Do you think that Salemme had more people killed than just Disarro as he was the boss of a violent organization?
Did Carmello Merlino and his group have any connections to Salemme, Flemmi and Bulger?
Did Mercurio invite Flemmi to Vanessa's to discuss mutual interests that both gangs had?


Hare sculpture Humphrey, a design by Paul Jenkins, released by Frith in resin (cold cast bronze), hand-finished. Size: H 21 x W 19 cm.
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Very naturally designed hare, designed by the English artist Paul Jenkins for Frith (supplier of the National Trust). The resin sculpture in cold cast bronze technique is hand finished. Size 18 x 17 cm .
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Boris McGiver (Cobleskill, 23 de janeiro de 1962) é um ator norte-americano.

Filho do ator John McGiver, nasceu em Cobleskill, pequeno distrito que pertence ao Condado de Schoharie, Nova Iorque. Iniciou a carreira de ator aos 6 anos de idade, quando trabalhou na telenovela One Life to Live, em sua primeira temporada, no ano de 1968. Sua próxima atuação ocorreu 19 anos depois, quando trabalhou com Hector Babenco em Ironweed, filme de 1987.

Dedicando-se ao cinema e em filmes e séries para televisão, ganhou projeção internacional com atuações de destaque em The Pink Panther, Law & Order, Lincoln, White Collar e House of Cards.

Ligações externas

Atores dos Estados Unidos

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Part 3 of our White Gold (Sensi Seeds) grow report. A very special breed of cannabis - a mostly-Indica hybrid, producing sweet, syrupy resin and an excellent yield.
We're 3 weeks in, which means we'll be switching the day/night cycle to 12/12 to start the flowering period later this week.
We've also acquired a new humidifier to replace the broken one we reported about last week, which you can see below in the pictures is the strange device in the corner.
Enough talk, time for pictures!
The ladies are looking healthy. Next week, part 4 in our series!


Trading Rules represent an exciting and fun way to do more book-keeping!
Also Trading provides a way for players to enrich themselves and to gain concrete benefit in exchange for taking an active, thoughtful, or simply money-grubbing role in the campaign.
Here's the deal: Certain commodities will be designated "trade goods".
A "unit" of Trade Goods is 100gp worth of the item in question.
Trade goods can be liquidated in the port you bought them in on a 1:1 gold piece basis. So 420 gp worth of crystals liquidated becomes 420 gp in the same port.
We could also call that 420 gold pieces worth of trade goods as "4.2 units".
If Trade Goods are brought to a foreign base, anywhere other than where you picked them up- the DM determines a haggle DC for anything you want to sell. This will be an arbitrary or random Diplomacy or Bluff DC(and usually ends up as 1d20+average party level+4). You get only ONE attempt to roll an unaided diplomacy OR bluff check. This roll represents an entire days negotiations and dealings. Sometimes the Haggle DC will just arbitrarily be set to an impossibly high number, based on the whim of the DM or 'market conditions' or for any other reason.
Success means you may sell 1d20 units at a markup of 1d100%. 1d20 units=market saturation.
Failure means that you may sell (at your discretion) up to all of your units of goods at a markdown of 20-80% as the best possible price in the system.
Certain trading companies will provide goods on spec. Essentially you are buying goods with the promise to pay back the base cost- which can usually be paid anywhere in Sigil or at any of the major ports of call. This usually requires signed contracts and bonded merchant houses or consortiums.
Honoring your contracts increases your profile as a "trusted merchant"- allowing slightly increasing shipments of goods to be consigned on spec.
Not honoring your contracts lowers your profile as a trusted merchant. After a certain amount of time (say 1d3+1 months) the Trade Consortium will begin to look for, and eventually pursue ship captains to settle their contractual debts.
The Mejor Que'nada can haul 100 Units of goods (up to 10,000 gold in trade goods) at a time. So yes, you can just travel around selling stuff. But that's when adventure happens, haha.
I don't want to do anything more complicated than this! But please feel free to make suggestions to the DM.


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Q: Will salesforce notify when about failed emails when TLS is unavailable? We have enabled email relay in our organization. Recently our security team performed a scan of our salesforce instance and has asked us to change the TLS (Transport Layer Security) setting. Earlier it was set to "Preferred"(which I guess is default). Now we are asked to change it to "Required".
I wanted to understand the implications of doing so before we actually change the setting. I checked the documentation and it states salesforce will terminate the session if TLS is unavailable. This means email will not be sent. Will salesforce notify us in such cases? Or Is there any setting to be enabled by which we can get notified.

A: TLDR - Yes, Salesforce will log emails that fail as a result of TLS being unavailable; this includes if TLS is unavailable is a result of "Required" being selected in the TLS setting and the outbound server failing to support TLS.

First, might be worth quoting Salesforce's email deliverability setting docs you're referencing:

To configure the email deliverability settings for your organization:
[...]

*To specify how Salesforce uses the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol for secure email communication for SMTP sessions, choose one
  of the following:

  Required Verify: Salesforce continues the session only if the remote
  server offers TLS, the certificate is signed by a valid certificate
  authority, and the common name presented in the certificate matches
  the domain or mail exchange to which Salesforce is connected. If any
  of these criteria are not met, Salesforce terminates the session
  without delivering the email.
Note: If you select a setting other than Preferred (the default setting),
  select Restrict TLS to these domains and specify a comma-separated
  domain list. The asterisk (*) wildcard is allowed; for example,
  *.subdomains.com matches john@aco.subdomains.com and john@bco.subdomains.com (but not john@subdomains.com). If you don't
  specify domains, Salesforce uses the TLS setting you specify for all
  outbound emails, which may result in emails not being delivered.
Important: If you plan to use Transport Layer Security (TLS) with this connection, enter the host name instead of the IP address. TLS
  requires the host name for verifying certificates
(source-1, source-2)

Next what you're looking is to know if Salesforce will log the failure in a way that you're able to tell the failure was a result of TLS connection failure. Salesforce logs this is the EmailBouncedReason field, which is within the Contact & Lead objects.
Next you need to know the email delivery code for a TLS connection error, here's the list of Salesforce's Mail None Delivery (NDR) codes & Pardot's Bounce Codes; Pardot was acquired by Salesforce when it acquired ExactTarget. You'll notice that none of these code explicitly list TLS failure as an explanation, but it appears likely that a failure would be coded as "451 The command has been aborted due to a server error. Not your fault."
To get a report of the contacts that bounced, see "How can I get a list of contacts whose email message bounced?"
If you want to confirm this, you'll have to setup or find a external system were TLS is not supported, but were the service is valid; which you can check using free online tools like CheckTLS or SSL-Tools.  If possible, given security made the request, beyond you confirm that you "checked a box" - ask them if they will supply a way to confirm Salesforce is really enforcing that "checked a box" - since it's always possible they're not (aka "goto fail").

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*Also of note, appears I was correct that there's the potential for Salesforce implementation to either be dated, flawed, etc; say this since it appears the code referenced in the question 451 4.7.5 [internal] tls negotiation failed was an inbound response from another mail server saying Salesforce did not have support for 256bit ciphers; also, this appears to be a custom code generated by the Symantec Messaging Gateway.

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Some observers are saying that Yahoo's entry into the Voip market might be disruptive.
A little background. The latest version of Yahoo's instant message was redesigned to use SIP. Yahoo also acquired Dialpad which gives them PSTN capability.
However, Yahoo's model is expected to be more like Skype's, free PC to PC calling with additional costs for PC->phone and phone->PC and should not really pose much of a threat to Vonage and the other POTS replacement companies.
However, since Yahoo is now SIP that means it may be compatible with Vonage. Yahoo probably has enough users, and users with verified addresses, that Vonage may be encouraged to open peering. There would be a huge advantage to allowing peering with Yahoo compared to similar peering with FWD whose user base exists entirely to make phone calls.
Primarily this would mean that it would be easy to get calls from people using Yahoo Messenger on your Vonage line. It should also be possible to call Yahoo Messenger users either with some speed dial mechanism or via a computer assisted mechanism like Click2Call.
The biggest thing this means for Voip users in general is a large well funded organization pushing SIP/VoIP from the computer side of the wall rather than the POTS side of the wall as Vonage is doing. It will hopefully lead the marketplace away from strict POTS functionality to expanded functionality including presence indicators and video.
I predict that once the market pressure is created and there is a clear demand for some of the features that are currently only available via computer hosted SIP Vonage will respond with an expanded line of devices intended to provide additional functionality with greater ease of use and a lower price point.
These devices will replace computers for many people who use computers for little more than web browsing and email. They will be instant on devices, support USB for accessories (e.g. keyboards, mice, printers, cameras, headsets), support multiple audio or audio/video extensions, have some type of digital video output and will be simple to install and use with little expandability. They may be capable of acting as very thin clients for subscription based applications.
Excellent content scerruti, (as always), but not in this forum.


Dewayne Dedman, 6'11", 255 spent one year as Antelope Valley College. He had little basketball experience prior to his one year at AVC but his athletism and size was enough to have Universtiy of Southern California(USC) sign Dedman. Dewayne will be a sophomore and he may be a key cog in USC's team next year. If Dewayne continues to improve in the next years, he could be NBA bound.
Dewayne Dedmon has decided to apply for the NBA draft in 2013. Dedmon was not drafted during the draft.
Dewayne has been playing the D- league in Santa Cruz, CA. He was brought up for three weeks with San Francisco warriors.
According to USA Today, the Golden State Warriors have agreed to terms on a partially guaranteed deal with rookie forward Dewayne Dedmon, agent Mike Silverman told USA TODAY Sports.
The 7-foot, 255-pounder averaged 6.7 points and a team-leading 7.0 rebounds per game as a junior at Southern California while also leading the team in blocks and steals. But he went undrafted in June and will compete for a roster spot on one of the Western Conference's most intriguing teams at training camp next month.
Dewayne Dedm0n signs with Philadelphia 76ers. He played with the 76ers for the 20 days and was released.
Dewayne was called up from the D-1 league and played 20 days for the Orlando Magic. He was signed for the rest of the year with the Magic and reportedly has a two year option with Orlando as well.
Look for Dewayne Demon to have a big year in the NBA this year with Orlando Magic.
Dewayne Dedmon signed a three year contract($3.1 million) with the NBA Orlando magic and played backup post players for the Magic.
The Orlando Magic is looking to make a qualifying offer, worth nearly $1.216MM, to Dewayne Dedmon, too, according to Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel. Orlando is working to keeping Dedmon from moving to another Pro Team.
Dedmon returns yearly to Antelope Valley College to put on summer youth camp for Antelope Valley Youth.


SportsLogos.net, a website dedicated to the history of sports logos and sports uniforms, has announced its annual "Creamer Awards" for Best New Logos of the past year, and the Portland have been nominated for the Best Primary Logo.
The Creamer Awards are named after SportsLogos.net founder Chris Creamer. The annual awards consist of the Best Primary Logo, Best Alternate Logo, Best Event Logo (such as the MLB All Star Game) and the Best Anniversary Logo. According to Creamer, the guidelines for the annual Creamer Awards are determined by average rating scores by users visiting the website. Logos worn in a game in 2017 are eligible.
The Blazers' primary logo was updated last May, coinciding with the NBA's switch from Adidas to Nike beginning with the 2017-18 NBA Season.
Portland's new primary logo currently sits with a 6.3/10 rating on SportsLogos, based on 216 votes. In the team's press release, the upgraded logo retains the iconic five lines on each side to represent the five players on both sides of the basketball court.
The colors in the new logo were re-arranged in the pinwheel. The red, which was on the bottom of the logo, has been moved to the top, while the silver has been replaced with white. The logo color scheme, and the red at the top, is based the team's former logo design from 1990-2002.
The lines representing the players on the pinwheel also became connected by a straight diagonal line at the ends, which symbolizes "teamwork." According to the team's press release, the player lines are also now at a 45 degree angle, representing the 45th Parallel, a symbolic trail to the Northwest region.
In addition to the updated primary logo, the Blazers updated its wordmarks. The team used an italic font for the wordmark since 1990 and updated it with serifs on each letter beginning in 2002. The new font is no longer italic and is described as a "Northwestern" font with serif accents on the P and the T in "Portland."
The team's logos were designed by Boston graphic designer Frank Glickman. According to ESPN.com, Glickman is the cousin of Harry Glickman, who was the Blazers' first general manager.
The winners of the Creamer Awards will be announced in the upcoming weeks and will be determined by a team of fifteen judges that include both logo and uniform enthusiasts.
The 2017 Creamer Awards have been revealed. The Trail Blazers did not win best new Primary Logo of the year. Surprisingly, the Blazers new logo came in 4th Overall (out of 50), just behind the PCL's Memphis Redbirds, the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, and the WHL's Kootenay ICE.


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Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Shut Down Over Condenser Issue
Watts Bar Unit 1 was shutdown over the weekend due to a "loss of vacuum" in the condenser. The unit will remain offline while TVA employees figure out what caused the loss of a vacuum in the condenser.
TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said there was never any danger to the public or plant personnel but operators manually shut down the reactor when they saw the condenser problem. "This was an uncomplicated trip, meaning that everything worked exactly as it was supposed to, but we had to bring the reactor offline until we determine the source of the problem," he said.
Hopson said warmer weather over this weekend has significantly lowered TVA's power demand from Thursday's peak levels, "so we do not expect the temporary loss of Watts Bar Unit 1's generation to create any issues for the transmission system."
"Of course, the team is working with a sense of urgency to find and correct the problem so the unit can be restored to service as soon as possible," Hopson said.
The 1,121-megawatt reactor is capable of generating enough power to serve the electricity needs for about two cities the size of Chattanooga, TN. Prior to the shutdown, the unit had been running for 220 consecutive days.
Watts Bar Unit 2 is under construction and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission could decide by spring whether to issue an operating license. TVA plans to begin hot functional testing of plant equipment in March and, if the operating license is granted, load nuclear fuel by June in order to start power generation by December.
Revision 10 to NUREG 1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors"

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This is an update of a popular article we did earlier this year.
Your pocketbook can really take a hit when you take the kids out to eat. Luckily, many area restaurants have deals for kids meals. Most have age restrictions with 10 or 12 being the oldest in many offers. It's always best to ask ahead of time so there are no surprises.
Here's our roundup of Kids Eat Free (or cheap). If you know of any others, please feel free to leave a comment and we'll add them to our list!
You'll be able to find this list on our home page under "Popular Posts".
Fazoli's – For each adult entree, get up to 2 kids meals for $.99 each. From 5 – 8 pm.
Gilly's: Buy one Combo Meal and receive one Kids Jr. Combo Meal FREE!
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I don't remember the specific details but Good Company in Appleton has a great kids special on Sundays.


It's BLEAGH's first day at school. Like the other students in his class, BLEAGH is cheeky and fun but there's one big difference between them….he's a MONSTER! Will BLEAGH be able to learn important values and make new friends?
BLEAGH! is a beautiful introduction to a series of six titles with full colour illustrations by LittlePinkPebble. The eBook version is supported by the Media Development Authority of Singapore.
Leana Lyn Doray is a trained educator, having obtained a double degree in Arts and Education at the University of Sydney. Serendipity led her to teach in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme in Singapore for four years, where she discovered her love for reading to young children and providing a holistic education above and beyond basic academia. BLEAGH! A Book about Values is Leana's first book, borne from almost a decade of educating (and being educated by) curious young minds. Leana is Singaporean, and lives in Singapore with her husband. She enjoys travelling, cooking, trips to the library and the thrill of new experiences.
"BLEAGH! A book about values is, in short, a gem. It features an unusual and sympathetic main character in "Bleagh" (love that name!), the illustrations are excellent and kid-friendly, and the life lessons in this book just happen to overlap quite neatly with some of positive messages I try to reinforce in my children. I highly recommend BLEAGH! (I still giggle every time I say that out loud!) for parents of young children, librarians, and preschool, kindergarten, or early elementary school teachers as a great resource for teaching socialization skills. Ages 3+."
"It manages to achieve something we find remarkable: It's both realistic and idealistic. It presents circumstances that are believable and all-too-familiar, and reveals to the reader how they might be dealt with in a positive, enriching way... Read Bleagh! to a child in your life – your nephews, nieces. If we want a more thoughtful, empathetic world, we could start with our kids."
"BLEAGH! has vivid illustrations with lots of colors and details, and my son especially liked the tropical setting and little hidden surprises on each page. The rhyming story is fun to read aloud, and the plot is easy for kids to follow. Even though this book tackles an important and serious issue, the author's gentle approach makes the theme of BLEAGH! easy to understand."
"Bleagh opens the eyes of young readers and helps them discover the importance of living each day with values. I especially like that each individual value is highlighted with a gold badge. This helps to make the lesson clear so children can easily grasp each concept and demonstrate it in their own life."
"I loved how the book weaved in the importance of six values - empathy, tolerance, creativity, cooperation, appreciation and integrity - into the story. And best of all, the scenarios in the book make it much easier for me to explain the meaning of the values to the boys! In all, BLEAGH! presents a set of fine mini-stories about values within a story, and the colourful illustrations and virtues extolled will no doubt please parents seeking to instill values in the very young."


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Caitlyn Smith Releases Stripped EP: Supernova Acoustic OUT NOW
Nashville, TN – When Minnesota native Caitlyn Smith first arrived in Nashville and found herself in writers' rooms about Music Row, she marveled at the simplicity and purity their songs were in initially: just vocals and guitar or piano. To this day, it's her favorite form in which to listen. It's with that foundation in mind that Smith releases her brand-new EP Supernova Acoustic, available today on Monument Records.
"Patty Griffin's Living with Ghosts was one of the records that changed my life," reflects Smith. "I've been thinking a lot about how I would want this to sound, how I would want an acoustic EP to feel."
The entire EP is Smith on guitar and piano. "It's always been a bucket list of mine to release recordings in this way, so the listener can experience the song in its most vulnerable form. I'm really proud we were able to include songs from both Starfire and Supernova as I feel like this is the perfect bridge between the two albums."
Supernova Acoustic features four re-imagined tracks originally from Smith's sophomore album Supernova, released last year, as well the critically-acclaimed "Tacoma" from her debut Starfire.
Each track on Supernova Acoustic offers something different. Acoustic's version of "Supernova" includes the original demo Smith put down the day she wrote the song, recorded in a voice memo on her phone. If you listen closely, you can hear her two young boys playing in the background. Fitting for a song about motherhood and growing up.
The acoustic EP's version of current single "I Can't" compliments the track featuring GRAMMY-Nominated band Old Dominion as it approaches Top 40 at Country radio.
Listen to Supernova Acoustic EP HERE.
The raw, introspective songs on Smith's original release, Supernova, released in March 2020, have resonated especially strongly with fans throughout the pandemic, with various tracks being called out by The FADER as "the kind of song we could all use right now" and by Esquire, who noted "Good. Old. Classic. Sadness. Caitlyn Smith's moody track is the kind of song that you listen to when you're working your way out of that terrible place.
Supernova Acoustic Track Listing:
1. I Can't (Acoustic) (recorded at Stone Jag Studio in Nashville)
Songwriters: Caitlyn Smith, Ben West, Stephen Wilson Jr.
2. Put Me Back Together (Acoustic) (recorded at Layman Drug Company in Nashville)
Songwriters: Caitlyn Smith, Jonny Price
3. Rare Bird (Acoustic) (recorded at Stone Jag Studio in Nashville)
Songwriters: Caitlyn Smith, Jon Randall, Ben West
4. Tacoma (Acoustic) (recorded at Smith's home in Minnesota)
Songwriters: Caitlyn Smith, Bob DiPiero
5. Supernova (recorded from a voice memo, at Smith's home in Nashville)
Songwriters: Caitlyn Smith, Aimee Mayo
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But that was the time when Shri. Subash Ghising's GNLF ruled the roost… and the GNLF had called for a boycott of the Prime Minister due to the atrocities meted out against us by the CRPF and other forces.
Despite the protest Shri. Rajiv Gandhi did come to Darjeeling and gave a speech at an almost empty NP school ground.
One of his closest aide was miffed at the fact that no one was present at the ground to attend the Prime Minister's rally other than the security forces, so he suggested that Shri. Rajiv Gandhi forgo the speech and return back to Delhi.
But despite opposition from his closest aide Shri Rajiv Gandhi refused to listen to anyone and gave his speech the way he wanted, even though in an empty stadium.
While addressing the people gathered at the North Point ground, (the then) Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had said, "Gorkhas are intermingled with the Indian culture. The Gorkha brothers have shed their blood for the sake of the country before and during the freedom struggle." There was emotional outburst from the hill people to his remark for it was the first time by any Prime Minister of India who praised the glory of Gorkhas.
He was a visionary nation builder to say the least and had he not died an untimely death, the history of Darjeeling and the Gorkhas could have been very different.
TheDC team fondly remembers Shri. Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary.
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jsondiffpatch
=============

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Diff & patch JavaScript objects

-----
**[Live Demo](http://benjamine.github.com/jsondiffpatch/demo/index.html)**
-----

- min+gzipped < 6KB
- browser (```/public/build/jsondiffpatch.js```) and server (eg. node.js)
- includes [google-diff-match-patch](http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/) for long text diffs (diff at character level)
- smart array diffing using [LCS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem), ***IMPORTANT NOTE:*** to match objects inside an array you must provide an ```objectHash``` function (this is how objects are matched, otherwise a dumb match by position is used). For more details, check [Array diff documentation](docs/arrays.md)
- reverse a delta
- unpatch (eg. revert object to its original state using a delta)
- simplistic, pure JSON, low footprint [delta format](docs/deltas.md)
- multiple output formatters:
    - html (check it at the [Live Demo](http://benjamine.github.com/jsondiffpatch/demo/index.html))
    - annotated json (html), makes the JSON delta format self-explained
    - console (colored), try running ```./node_modules/.bin/jsondiffpatch left.json right.json```
    - write your own! check [Formatters documentation](docs/formatters.md)

Supported platforms
----------------

* Any modern browser and IE8+

[![Testling Status](https://ci.testling.com/benjamine/jsondiffpatch.png)](https://ci.testling.com/benjamine/jsondiffpatch)

And you can test your current browser visiting the [test page](http://benjamine.github.com/jsondiffpatch/test/index.html).

* Node.js [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/benjamine/jsondiffpatch.svg)](http://travis-ci.org/benjamine/jsondiffpatch)

If you want to run tests locally:
``` sh
npm i
# will test in node.js and phantomjs (headless browser)
npm test
# or test on specific browsers (using karma.js)
BROWSERS=chrome,phantomjs npm test
```
Usage
-----

``` javascript
    // sample data
    var country = {
        name: "Argentina",
        capital: "Buenos Aires",
        independence: new Date(1816, 6, 9),
        unasur: true
    };

    // clone country, using dateReviver for Date objects
    var country2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(country), jsondiffpatch.dateReviver);

    // make some changes
    country2.name = "Republica Argentina";
    country2.population = 41324992;
    delete country2.capital;

    var delta = jsondiffpatch.diff(country, country2);

    assertSame(delta, {
        "name":["Argentina","Republica Argentina"], // old value, new value
        "population":["41324992"], // new value
        "capital":["Buenos Aires", 0, 0] // deleted
    });

    // patch original
    jsondiffpatch.patch(country, delta);

    // reverse diff
    var reverseDelta = jsondiffpatch.reverse(delta);
    // also country2 can be return to original value with: jsondiffpatch.unpatch(country2, delta);

    var delta2 = jsondiffpatch.diff(country, country2);
    assert(delta2 === undefined)
    // undefined => no difference
```

Array diffing:

``` javascript
    // sample data
    var country = {
        name: "Argentina",
        cities: [
        {
            name: 'Buenos Aires',
            population: 13028000,
        },
        {
            name: 'Cordoba',
            population: 1430023,
        },
        {
            name: 'Rosario',
            population: 1136286,
        },
        {
            name: 'Mendoza',
            population: 901126,
        },
        {
            name: 'San Miguel de Tucuman',
            population: 800000,
        }
        ]
    };

    // clone country
    var country2 = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(country));

    // delete Cordoba
    country.cities.splice(1, 1);

    // add La Plata
    country.cities.splice(4, 0, {
        name: 'La Plata'
        });

    // modify Rosario, and move it
    var rosario = country.cities.splice(1, 1)[0];
    rosario.population += 1234;
    country.cities.push(rosario);

    // create a configured instance, match objects by name
    var diffpatcher = jsondiffpatch.create({
        objectHash: function(obj) {
            return obj.name;
        }
    });

    var delta = diffpatcher.diff(country, country2);

    assertSame(delta, {
        "cities": {
            "_t": "a", // indicates this node is an array (not an object)
            "1": [
                // inserted at index 1
                {
                    "name": "Cordoba",
                    "population": 1430023
                }]
            ,
            "2": {
                // population modified at index 2 (Rosario)
                "population": [
                    1137520,
                    1136286
                ]
            },
            "_3": [
                // removed from index 3
                {
                    "name": "La Plata"
                }, 0, 0],
            "_4": [
                // move from index 4 to index 2
                '', 2, 3]
        }
    });
```

For more example cases (nested objects or arrays, long text diffs) check ```test/examples/```

If you want to understand deltas, see [delta format documentation](docs/deltas.md)

Installing
---------------

### npm (node.js)

``` sh
npm install jsondiffpatch
```

``` js
var jsondiffpatch = require('jsondiffpatch').create(options);
```

### bower (browser)

``` sh
bower install jsondiffpatch
```

browser bundles are in the ```/public/build``` folder (you can re-generate these using ```make``` or ```gulp```, `npm test` will do that too):
- ```jsondiffpatch.js``` main bundle
- ```jsondiffpatch.full.js``` main bundle + [google-diff-match-patch](http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/) library for text diffs
- ```jsondiffpatch-formatters.js``` builtin formatters (only those useful in a browser)

All these come in minified versions (```.min.js```), and separate sourcemap files.

Options
-------

``` javascript
var jsondiffpatch = require('jsondiffpatch').create({
    // used to match objects when diffing arrays, by default only === operator is used
    objectHash: function(obj) {
        // this function is used only to when objects are not equal by ref
        return obj._id || obj.id;
    },
    arrays: {
        // default true, detect items moved inside the array (otherwise they will be registered as remove+add)
        detectMove: true,
        // default false, the value of items moved is not included in deltas
        includeValueOnMove: false
    },
    textDiff: {
        // default 60, minimum string length (left and right sides) to use text diff algorythm: google-diff-match-patch
        minLength: 60
    }
});
```

Visual Diff
----------------

``` html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="public/build/jsondiffpatch.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="public/build/jsondiffpatch-formatters.min.js"></script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="public/formatters-styles/html.css" type="text/css" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="public/formatters-styles/annotated.css" type="text/css" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="visual"></div>
        <hr/>
        <div id="annotated"></div>
        <script>
            var left = { a: 3, b: 4 };
            var right = { a: 5, c: 9 };
            var delta = jsondiffpatch.diff(left, right);

            // beautiful html diff
            document.getElementById('visual').innerHTML = jsondiffpatch.formatters.html.format(delta, left);

            // self-explained json
            document.getElementById('annotated').innerHTML = jsondiffpatch.formatters.annotated.format(delta, left);
        </script>
    </body>
</html>
```

To see formatters in action check the [Live Demo](http://benjamine.github.com/jsondiffpatch/demo/index.html).

For more details check [Formatters documentation](docs/formatters.md)

Console
--------

``` sh
# diff two json files, colored output (using chalk lib)
./node_modules/.bin/jsondiffpatch ./left.json ./right.json

# or install globally
npm install -g jsondiffpatch

jsondiffpatch ./demo/left.json ./demo/right.json
```

![console_demo!](public/demo/consoledemo.png)

Plugins
-------

```diff()```, ```patch()``` and ```reverse()``` functions are implemented using Pipes & Filters pattern, making it extremely customizable by adding or replacing filters on a pipe.

Check [Plugins documentation](docs/plugins.md) for details.

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A View From the Top
By Ryan Vincent in Archives and Resource Center, Articles, Culver City History December 26, 2016 0 Comment
In June 1960, when Rich Langsford was 12 years old, he got to do what many Culver City residents only dream of doing — go up in the tower of the Veterans Memorial Building. Fortunately for us, he brought a movie camera.
A glimpse of this set can be seen from above in Rich Langford's footage. (Sam Cerra)
In town for his Culver City High School 50th class reunion in September, this Class of '66 alum presented the Historical Society with a DVD transfer of the film, which was shot on a Kodak Brownie 8mm camera.
The story goes that Rich's mother, Marjorie, worked at MGM, first in the script department and later as personal secretary for Rod Serling, a screenwriter best known as creator and narrator of The Twilight Zone television series. One day Rich joined his mother for lunch at the Tower Restaurant, which once operated inside the Veterans Memorial Building under the tower, and he just so happened to have his camera with him.
Rich isn't sure if his mother made an appointment to go up the tower's elevator or if she just asked nicely, but somehow they were able to spend some time enjoying the view. In 1960 that view would have included a look into MGM's Lot 2, which included backlot mainstays like "New England Street," "Grand Central Station", "Small Town Square," featured in films like The Philadelphia Story, Meet Me in St. Louis and, yes, TV shows like The Twilight Zone. These days Lot 2 is where the Culver City Senior Center and the Studio Estates neighborhood are located.
"I just did a panoramic filming," Rich says. "Of course I wasn't a very good cinematographer when I was 12. It's all kind of jittery. But it gives you a pretty good idea. You can see some things have changed since then."
If you would like to see Rich's 1960 view of Culver City from Vet's Tower, the DVD can be screened at the Historical Society's Archives and Resource Center during open hours.
Winter 2017 Message
Notes From Your City Historian: Winter 2017


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package com.facebook.buck.jvm.java.tracing;

import java.util.List;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@link JavacPhaseTracer} that translates the trace data to be more useful.
 *

 * The phases of compilation are described
 * here.
 * The doc describes annotation processing as conceptually occuring before compilation, but
 * actually occurring somewhat out-of-phase with the conceptual model.
 *

 * Javac calls {@link TracingTaskListener} according to the conceptual model described in that
 * document: annotation processing starts at the very beginning of the run, and ends after the
 * last annotation processor is run in the last round of processing. Then there is one last parse
 * and enter before going into analyze and generate. This is problematic from a performance
 * perspective, because some of the work attributed to annotation processing would have happened
 * regardless.
 *

 * This class translates the tracing data from the conceptual model back into something that more
 * closely matches the actual implementation:
 *

 *
Parse, enter, analyze, and generate phases pass thru unchanged

 *
What javac traces as an annotation processing round is renamed
 * "run annotation processors"

 *
Annotation processing rounds are traced from the beginning of "run annotation processors"
 * to the beginning of the next "run annotation processors" or (for the last round)
 * the first analyze phase

 *
Annotation processing is traced from the beginning of the first round to
 * the end of the last

 *
If compilation ends during annotation processing (as can happen with -proc:only), it
 * detects this (via being closed by its caller) and emits appropriate tracing

 *

 * In this way, the time attributed to annotation processing is always time
 * that would not have been spent if annotation processors were not present.
 */
public class TranslatingJavacPhaseTracer implements JavacPhaseTracer, AutoCloseable {
  private final JavacPhaseEventLogger logger;

  private boolean isProcessingAnnotations = false;
  private int roundNumber = 0;

  public TranslatingJavacPhaseTracer(JavacPhaseEventLogger logger) {
    this.logger = logger;
  }

  @Override
  public void beginParse(@Nullable String filename) {
    logger.beginParse(filename);
  }

  @Override
  public void endParse() {
    logger.endParse();
  }

  @Override
  public void beginEnter() {
    logger.beginEnter();
  }

  @Override
  public void endEnter(List<String> filenames) {
    logger.endEnter(filenames);
  }

  @Override
  public void beginAnnotationProcessingRound() {
    if (isProcessingAnnotations) {
      logger.endAnnotationProcessingRound(false);
    } else {
      logger.beginAnnotationProcessing();
    }

    isProcessingAnnotations = true;
    roundNumber += 1;
    logger.beginAnnotationProcessingRound(roundNumber);
    logger.beginRunAnnotationProcessors();
  }

  @Override
  public void endAnnotationProcessingRound() {
    logger.endRunAnnotationProcessors();
  }

  @Override
  public void beginAnalyze(@Nullable String filename, @Nullable String typename) {
    if (isProcessingAnnotations) {
      logger.endAnnotationProcessingRound(true);
      logger.endAnnotationProcessing();
      isProcessingAnnotations = false;
    }

    logger.beginAnalyze(filename, typename);
  }

  @Override
  public void endAnalyze() {
    logger.endAnalyze();
  }

  @Override
  public void beginGenerate(@Nullable String filename, @Nullable String typename) {
    logger.beginGenerate(filename, typename);
  }

  @Override
  public void endGenerate() {
    logger.endGenerate();
  }

  @Override
  public void close() {
    if (isProcessingAnnotations) {
      // If javac is invoked with -proc:only, the last thing we'll hear from it is the end of
      // the annotation processing round. We won't get a beginAnalyze (or even a beginEnter) after
      // the annotation processors run for the last time.
      logger.endAnnotationProcessingRound(true);
      logger.endAnnotationProcessing();
      isProcessingAnnotations = false;
    }
  }
}


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STRANGER THINGS 2 Review
by Ian Campbell · November 7, 2017
When I first heard that STRANGER THINGS was renewed for a second season, I made a very conscious decision. I enjoyed the first season. It was a nice surprise, I'm generally a sucker for '80s aesthetics, and I thought the music was good, but I was not nearly as hot on it as literally every breathing person between the ages of 18 and 35. So, I decided that this time around I was going to like it. "Wait", you think, "you can't just decide to like something!" I'm here to say I have and I will—I may have many faults, but having critical discussions about popular media is not one of them. My plan worked, and then it sort of didn't, and then it did again. So spoiler warnings for my all my thoughts, conflicted/contrived as they may be.
STRANGER THINGS 2 returns audiences to Hawkins, Indiana and the "party" of kids, teens, and adults who fought off a monster from an alternate dimension and saved their friend. It's sold as a "sequel to a movie" rather than a second season of a TV show, and it succeeds in that regard. The new season is self-contained enough that you could hop on now and probably not be too lost. The main storyline that carries over from the first season is the ongoing connection that Will Buyers (Noah Schnapp) has to The Upside Down (the show's bizarro Hawkins filled with ash and goop, home to interdimensional monsters), but otherwise, the season offers all new plotlines and several new characters. The tension I found between what the show was pitched as and how it actually works became apparent the longer I watched. STRANGER THINGS 2 wants to be a film sequel in nine parts (the Chapter headings in the title of each episode are apt), but the show relies on TV instincts and strategies to pad out its length and further explore its world. Sidelining Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) into what is essentially the B-plot is classic TV, especially having it culminate in a standalone episode in an entirely different setting, the odd couple pairings of several of the characters (most notably Dustin and Steve), and in general, giving almost every character a plotline in the show, feels like the writers trying to make every character worthwhile, while testing the limits of the world and their performances. Being a fusion between two mediums is not bad; it works in the show's favor, but the more I think about the story and the characters, the more I wish it erred on the side of the traditional.
These kids. These kids are memes
The thing is, the characters exist in STRANGER THINGS to advance the plot. Movies are plot-driven, and so is the show. Some of this is because reference and homage often appear to be the default motivation (Season Two manages to reference GHOSTBUSTERS, ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, THE EXORCIST, and ALIENS while dipping back into E.T., CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, and FIRESTARTER), but also because the show is heavily serialized. Few of the episodes stand on their own save for the controversial Eleven-only episode (and that's just barely). So characters are often surface-level, better at referencing and imitating things than having depth or a unique perspective. I wish that wasn't the case. Not only because I think the actors could and should bare more (Millie Bobbie Brown and Noah Schnapp do a lot of great work this season), but because for the show to really have the longevity I imagine Netflix wants it to have, it should have a stronger base than its ongoing plot. It should rely on its characters.
Issues of motivation and intention behind the show have dogged it since the release of its first season. Look one way and it's a cynical remix of references the people who pay for Netflix will remember, looking to spark, "Oh hey, I remember that!," and not much more. Netflix is as money-hungry as any modern tech company, and I fully imagine someone sits in an office watching a graph of profits with one hand on a lever labelled "MORE '80s," but I believe the creative side is earnest in their intentions. Like the kids in STRANGER THINGS, they know what they like and they understand the world through their passions. As discussed in the below YouTube video, the show demonstrates that through its characters, but also through its own structure.
Just as Mike, Dustin, Will, and Lucas use DnD and their favorite movies to attempt to understand that Lovecraftian horrors that exist in The Upside Down and (in the second season) below Hawkins, so does the show use its frequent homage to pick over '80s culture and explore themes of love through understanding. That is STRANGER THINGS 2 at its best, demonstrating that sometimes the purest form of love is understanding someone, or at least trying to. It was the courtesy Mike (Finn Wolfhard) gave Eleven when no one else would in the first season, and it's what most of the cast does in season two to save Will Buyers. It's a standout scene, that I'll describe here if only because it demonstrates another inflection point of the series. As it becomes clear that Will brought something back from The Upside Down, something that goes beyond the post-traumatic stress he frequently experiences, he becomes possessed by the big bad of the second season (potentially the whole show), a spidery shadow monster nicknamed "The Mind Flayer." Here his family and friends perform an amateur exorcism in attempt to free him and hurt the monster. The beauty of the scene is that it goes back to that core idea of the show: knowing and trying to understand someone as a pure form of love. Joyce (Winona Ryder, more subdued this season), Jonathan, and Will's friends recount their memories of him, favorite moments, times that prove they know him beyond what he's going through, and he experiences immense pain as an eldritch horror writhes inside him.
Get you a monster who is: a cthulu, often far away in shots
It's a touching montage, but the fact that it's sandwiched between scenes in which his friends and family repeatedly bind, drug, and physically harm him felt . . . weird to me? As the discussion of intertextuality mentions, it's the ways the show and its creators The Duffer Brothers twist the things they pay homage to that matters. Whether it's inverting character archetypes or sending whole plotlines into unexpected directions, their tweaks impart what they're actually thinking about their favorite things. STRANGER THINGS has always carried a notion of darkness, that these are the adventures you remember from your childhood but perhaps more "real" or "gritty," but when the cost of that "twisted" (insert .gifs of Jared Leto Joker) feeling is violence perpetrated against children, what's actually going on, what's actually being said? Anyone who works enough to afford an increasingly expensive Netflix subscription knows that life isn't fair. I don't need to see children tortured to understand that bad things happen. Eleven suffering at the hands of the Hawkins Lab makes sense in the logic of the show. She is a victim of the thoughtlessness of adults. How people will pursue selfish interests (read: money and power) at the cost of real human life. Will being tortured to stop some kind of great evil doesn't fit this kind of clear input/output. This doesn't mean his predicament is deep or nuanced, it means it's potentially unmotivated and definitely gratuitous.
One thing the show doesn't compromise on? Nosebleeds
STRANGER THINGS and STRANGER THINGS 2 are full of these little compromises. Great storytelling instincts displayed hand-in-hand with questionable motives. This doesn't mean the show is bad, it means that at its heart it's a TV show struggling to figure out the dynamics of its story, and that Netflix's model is not entirely conducive to doing that in any kind of uniform manner. The standalone Eleven episode is evidence of this. Eleven learning about her past is a great idea, especially expanding the world with a new city and a character with powers like hers, but keeping her away from the interesting juxtapositions she has with her friends the entire season is not. The same thing applies to introducing a character like Max—she's a much needed contrast to the occasional conflicts between the boys, but she's saddled with the literal baggage of an abusive brother (played by Dacre Montgomery, the Red Power Ranger). Mike becoming an asshole to Max and his friends is . . . well, that's just bad, and cheapens his character. But to beat my well worn drum, when it's good, it's good.The show is a lot of fun. It's charismatic, with likeable characters played by likeable performers. It's cheap, but engaging to be presented with so much nostalgia and layers upon layers of reference. It looks great, showcasing what seems to be an increased budget and effects that seem more carefully considered (everything supernatural is much more visually abstract this season, which makes it all the more convincing). There's a lot of growth on display, rewarding new and old fans alike.
I liked the standalone episode because it featured bold hair choices, among other things
Can you sense my inner turmoil? I find a lot at fault with STRANGER THINGS 2 (really Netflix as a whole), but I genuinely enjoyed watching the show. Cultural movements like these are rare. The monoculture is real, but divided into many many streams of content. We don't get FRIENDS, THE OFFICE, or LOST-level shows anymore. But STRANGER THINGS is one of those, and it is thrilling to talk to someone about something and feel that you were both as equally engaged. I did it with my roommate just recently and I bet I could have just as easily with a stranger on the street or my sister. That's sort of magical. In the end, the experience of watching STRANGER THINGS 2 is to feel the comfort its main characters offer each other. Liking something deeply and realizing others feel the same. Being unified in your enjoyment of something. I think that's nice. Compromised in many ways, but very nice.
Verdict: Recommend
Ian Campbell
Ian Campbell is a guest contributor here at Crossfader. He wants you to like him just as much as he wants you to like the things he likes. He recommends you give Damon Lindelof a break.
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Ariel Burdett death: Controversial former X Factor contestant dies at 38
Tue Nov 26, 2019 at 9:20am ET
By John Thomas Didymus
Former X Factor contestant Ariel Burdett. Pic credit: Amy Ara Burdett/Facebook.
Ariel Burdett, a former X Factor contestant, died earlier this month at the age of 38. Burdett reportedly died at her home in Leeds on November 12. Her friends announced her death on social media.
"It is with great sadness that I post this, as I have only just found out myself… Amy Burdett aka Arabella Starchild passed to the Summerlands earlier this month," one of her friends announced on Facebook.
A cause of death was not revealed.
Friends and fans have been paying tribute to the singer who gave one of the most memorable auditions on X Factor in 2008.
RIP to queen Ariel Burdett, the eternal holistic vocal coach. She never got past the first audition but she's been remembered and talked about more than the majority of the acts that have made it to X Factor live shows. This classical composition needs to chart at number 1! pic.twitter.com/57W5WULpiE
— Pete Burns' Confiscated Coat (@harrisonjbrock) November 25, 2019
ariel burdett is finally floating high and cannot feel the floor. rip legend pic.twitter.com/C9hIo8ACcM
— ryan ✨ (@crymatica) November 25, 2019
RIP to the greatest pop singer of the century, Ariel Burdett. For all those who didn't like her, she wasn't someone to be liked, she was someone to be understood from an academic perspective. pic.twitter.com/j1faPUDpe0
— Jo Frosts unasseptable behaviour! (@unasseptable) November 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/spacecow3oy/status/1199004473546412032
Ariel, whose real name was Amy, caused a stir when she walked into the audition room and shocked the judges by ripping off her label, saying she was a "human being, not a number."
She described herself as a "holistic vocal coach."
She sang several songs with a different voice and style to demonstrate her vocal range but the judges were left confused by her seemingly discordant performance.
Ariel tried to defend her act by arguing that every line of her performance was "a different style." She argued that she was not a "specialist" but a "generalist" and that her performance was not meant as "something to be liked." She said that her performance was best assessed from "an academic perspective."
She was not a number
but a human being
she was a generalist
not a specialist
a generalist
In the words of @unasseptable sleep holistically darling!
Ariel Burdett-
1982- 2019 pic.twitter.com/5inp7qv4mJ
— Jean Slater's Sausage Surprise (@slaterscandal) November 25, 2019
I can't believe that everyone's favourite generalist holistic vocal coach Ariel Burdett has sadly passed away. She produced one of the most memorable auditions and became one of the most iconic contestants X Factor UK ever had.
R.I.P Ariel Burdett ?pic.twitter.com/0WQvrX5buL
— Danny ???? / ???????????????? (@EscDannyj) November 25, 2019
But her explanation did not impress the judges and she did not make it past the auditions.
X Factor judge Simon Cowell reacted to Ariel's unconventional performance, saying, "That was a complete and utter nightmare."
X Factor judge Cheryl Tweedy described her as scary and said she would be scared of her if she had to attend her "holistic coaching." Ariel responded that she thought Cheryl was "stupid."
The exchange became testy and Ariel ended up telling the judges to "shove a bit of metal up your ***."
She was finally escorted out of the studio by security.


Health Costs > How Much Does a Brain MRI Cost?
How Much Does a Brain MRI Cost?
A brain MRI uses magnetic signals in order to create images of what is going on inside a patient's brain. Aside from studying the brain, an MRI is also used to study the muscles, bones, ligaments, tissues, and nerves inside the body.
A brain MRI will often be ordered by a doctor if you're suffering from seizures, headaches, swelling and/or dizziness. It can also be used to monitor certain illnesses such as multiple sclerosis or brain cancer.
On average, a brain MRI, with or without contrast, is going to cost anywhere from $1,500 to as much as $3,800 without any health insurance. The cost of brain MRI will depend on the hospital, the geographical location, the number of scans, where it's performed, if insurance is involved and inclusions with the bill.
Based on the national brain MRI procedure pricing summary posted on New Choice Health, the national average cost of brain MRI, without health insurance, can range anywhere from $1,650 in Andrews, Texas, to $7,300 in Ketchikan, Arkansas. The national average price, however, is around $2,550.
If you have health insurance, this process will more than likely be covered as long as it is ordered by a doctor and is medically necessary. Be sure to talk to your health insurance provider to better understand the costs you're responsible for, and always ask for the costs ahead of time. For most, you will be responsible for your co-pay and deductible. Those who have health insurance often find themselves paying close to $600 at a local freestanding center to as much as $2,000 at a local hospital.
Avino.com, for instance, says a brain MRI costs $1,767 at a hospital or $787 at a freestanding imaging center if you had health insurance.
The MRI bill should include the radiologist fee, the contrast dyes if you needed it and the entire cost of the procedure. When you receive your bill, you should receive an itemized bill, but in some cases, especially if you use a free-standing center, all of the inclusions will be included in one bill.
An MRI can be performed either at a hospital or a free-standing facility. An MRI at a hospital will often be within the actual hospital building or a professional building on the campus, whereas a freestanding center won't be affiliated with any hospital and will operate during the weekdays only.
During the procedure, you will have to lie flat on a table. This table will then be pushed through a tunnel that is surrounded by a magnet, and these radio waves, as stated above, will then broadcast a 3D image.
The procedure should last no more than 60 minutes.
A brain MRI can detect brain tumors of any size, signs of a stroke, multiple sclerosis, the cause of seizures, and the progression of dementia. If the skull is studied, the MRI can show fractures and sinus problems.
A cancellation fee can range anywhere from $100 to $750 if you cancel 24 to 48 hours before.
For patients that can be claustrophobic, a doctor may prescribe a mild sedative, such as Diprivan, which can cost an additional $150 to $350.
A contrast solution could be necessary to enhance the scan, and these solutions can cost an additional $100 to $250.
Before heading to an MRI, prepare yourself by wearing loose and comfortable clothing. It is also best to keep all loose jewelry at home since you will have to take it off for the test. You will also have to remove things such as belts or anything else metal that could interfere with the magnets.
A hospital will almost always be more than a free-standing imaging center. Call a few imaging centers in your area to see what they charge. A free-standing center will always be cheaper due to a hospital's high overhead costs. As long as this MRI isn't an emergency, an imaging center will be the cheapest route to consider.
Some centers may offer a cheaper rate if you were to pay cash instead of using your insurance company.
If you don't have a health insurance policy, then it's best to talk with the finance department to see if you can apply for financial assistance and/or setup a payment plan.


Allow us to introduce Amy Baker, Ph.D., a specialist in Developmental Psychology who is a strong advocate for the values of the Stand Up for Gus Campaign. Dr. Baker holds a degree from Teachers College of Columbia University and has spent the past 20 years conducting research on various issues related to parent-child relationships.
She has written several books on parental alienation. Deeply concerned about the effects of this syndrome, Dr. Baker conducts trainings for legal and mental health professionals and coaches parents to better deal with the problem.
We conducted a brief Q&A with Dr. Baker to receive a professional understanding of the issue and to learn about various resources for children and parents suffering from PAS.
What is "Parental Alienation Syndrome"?
A: PAS is the term reserved to describe children who have been manipulated by one parent to unjustifiably reject the other parent. The term "alienated child" is also used.
Alienated children exhibit certain behaviors that differentiate them from children who are rejecting a parent for a rational and legitimate reason, whom we refer to as estranged.
What are the effects of PAS on the following groups: children, parents (and adults who have suffered PAS in their childhood)?
A: I conducted a study of 40 adults who related that when they were children they were alienated from one parent by the other parent. These adults reported that they suffered terribly from the experience, both in the short-term and over the course of their lives. They reported low self-esteem, difficulties trusting other people, depression, alcohol and drug dependency, and high rates of divorce in their own relationships. These qualitative findings have been replicated in several independent studies with standardized measures.
All of the studies reveal strong associations between alienation and poor outcomes.
What can a parent do to help their child (and themselves) if their (former) parent/partner is practicing alienation tendencies towards their family?
A: Parents who believe that the other parent of their child is trying to turn their child against them need to first and foremost, get educated about the likely landmines to avoid.
Second, they need to get legal representation from an attorney who "gets" alienation.
Third, they need emotional support by way of an informed mental health counselor and/or participation in a mutual-support-group, specially formed by other parents dealing with this problem.
Likewise, if a child is cognizant of the problem, what can they do to help themselves if they realize one of their parents is trying to alienate the other?
A: Ask to speak to a therapist or counselor who can help them figure out how to stay out of the middle of their parents' conflict. The I Don't Want to Choose book, written by Katherine Andre and myself, has lots of tips and tools to help kids with that.
What are some of the best resources for families experiencing PAS (either in the present or that which has taken place in the past)?


It's much easier to approach a women in a virtual dating scene, than having to approach her in a bar downtown. Imagine the feeling of rejection once you took the courage of going near that beautiful woman only to see the look in her eyes? That's a shame and men just couldn't let this kind of thing to happen in cyber world too.
Online dating sites are thriving industry in the field of technology and yearly, new online dating sites are emerging to help the men and women alike find the true meaning of love and life in cyberspace.
Men should never be afraid of sending few smiles or kisses to those women they think are worthy of their attention, after all it's only in the internet; so what if she doesn't throw your kisses back? If she does take the time of giving you a cyber kiss back, then you can move to another step; email or chat. Most women prefer to have men introduce themselves first before they start talking; it's just their secret way of leveling themselves.
These days, it's a little disappointing to register on these new online dating sites because they wouldn't let you sign in without your identity verification. Perhaps, this is their way of securing their site from scams and other wicked acts from aspiring members.For women could be the best thing that has ever happened on online dating but for some, this may also be the worst, after all not everyone wants to reveal their true identity online.


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This post is going to be helpful if you're recording sales calls and sales demos. If you are then great, if not, set that up first and then come back to this post.
Every sales call made is a training opportunity. Gather your team, pick a recent sales call or sales demo and use it as training material everyone can learn from. Done well this can be helpful for everyone, done badly it can be nothing but embarrassing for the sales rep in the spotlight and uncomfortable for everyone else. Here's how to do it well.
This is a bitesize but frequent learning session. Commit to a minimum of once a week for 1-2 hours per session. It works best in small groups, no more than 5 people.
This training session works best when the sales team celebrate all the things the sales rep did well during their call or demo. Create an environment where others can learn from what one member of the team is incredible at. Make the sales rep in the spotlight the hero. Don't make this training session about all the things the sales rep did wrong during their call and how the rest of the team must avoid their mistakes. You will create a training session everyone dreads and an environment where no-one wants to share and learn together.
At the start of each training session take a few minutes for each member of the team to chat about how the previous session improved their recent calls and demos. It sets up the training in a really positive way and highlights the value of each session right from the start.
If you're listening to calls that are 20-30 mins long I'd recommend splitting the call up into smaller chunks and give feedback as you go. It keeps the session energy high and you're more likely to keep people's attention.
Allow each member of the team to chat about what they learnt from the call and how it's going to help improve their own sales skills. The sales rep in the spotlight will naturally have made mistakes and you can address them in a positive way. Allow the rep under the spotlight to point our their own mistakes by asking 'is there anything you would have done differently next time?' Allow the rest of the team to offer advice on where the rep felt he/she could have done better.
Create a great environment that allows your reps to chat freely. This is about their development. If you're talking more than 20% of the time you're doing it wrong. Secondly, there will be loads learnt in one hour. Don't let the valuable lessons be forgotten after everyone has left the room. Consolidate the helpful lessons together with the sales call or sales demo and house it somewhere easy for staff to access. This stuff is great for new starter training. Finally, be responsible for bringing the coffee and snacks.
Hi Tom, are recording customer phone calls or face-to-face meetings? Either way, are you asking the customer's permission to record? If yes are they ok with that usually?
Hi, Mike thanks for the question.. Yes, we always ask permission as it automatically says that when anyone enters the call. This is the same for an online meeting as well. In years of doing this, I can only ever think of one person that has asked me to not record most companies are really happy to as they understand it is for training.
Face to face meetings I have recorded off our macs before as well, but again best to ask in advance, this can be more sensitive so maybe pick the right prospect. I know some good systems if you want some recommended?


Evolve, Other Virtual Synth from Heavyocity.
Product replaced by the Native Instruments Evolve.
Heavyocity Media has announced the release of Evolve, a new virtual instrument geared toward film and game audio, as well as artist production and live performance.
EvolveCreated by the TV and video game composers from Heavy Melody Music & Sound Design, Evolve is a virtual instrument powered by Native Instruments' Kontakt 2 Player. With an emphasis on the dramatic, it is geared toward film and game audio, as well as artist production and live performance. According to Heavyocity , sonically, Evolve doesn't just contain the typical sounds that form the foundation of most composers' setups. Instead, it accentuates them with a powerful combination of diverse percussion, massive stings/transitions and evocative tonalities in ways that have "never been heard before".
600+ beat-sliced loops strategically key-mapped into 7 genre-specific suites.
60 sequenced and arpeggiated percussive and tonal instruments.
75+ modern percussion kits and instruments.
45+ sting and transitional instruments.
250+ tonal instruments and FX.
Nearly 6 gigabytes containing 3,900+ 24/16 bit samples.
With an MSRP of $399 Evolve is available for Windows and Mac OS X in AU, VST, RTAS, DXi and Standalone formats via the included Kontakt 2 Player.
QuikQuak Crowd Chamber QuikQuak has released Crowd Chamber - an audio plug-in that layers multiple variations of a signal to create a crowd simulation.


The next morning the party spent a long time working out how they had all improved, then set out in the direction of Firesongs tribe.
As the evening approached, the party noticed a group of six things in robes, moving tangentially to the party. When they spotted the party they started charging. Sarentum immediately started running towards them, meeting them before the rest of the party. Mordel and Gygax opened fire with their bows, hitting one or two of them. Sarentum killed one of the things with his second blow, the creature turning to dust, then lost one of his swords in the underbrush. The things charged on towards the rest of the party, who killed three by the time Sarentum got back to them with his sword. Sarentum killed a second, and Rathek managed to kill the final one, which also crumbled to dust. After it was all over Gygax said that the creatures were undead.
Later that evening the party found the going easier, and Firesong said that they had just walked through the shield protecting his tribes valley. Everyone in the valley looked slightly elven, with white hair and pointy ears and stuff. Some lizards showed everyone to their rooms, and then later fetched everyone and took them to a party, whwere everyone had fun.
The next morning Firesong summoned the party to his sandpit, which had a representation of the valley and its surroundings in it. He showed everyone a section outside the shield and said that it needed patrolling. So off everyone pootled.
For the next six days everyone patrolled during the day, not meeting anything. Triana started to teach Sarentum how to use the short sword, and Rathek researched a new spell.
On the seventh day, while the party was patrolling, something crashed through the trees and attacked the party. The thing had the body of a lion, and three heads, one of a dragonm, one of a lion, and one of a bull. The dragon head breathed on everyone, doing some damage. Jim ran away. Sarentum ran in to hit the thing, managing to dop so a couple of times. Skiff did likewise. Rathek ran away, as did Triana. Gygax tried to hit the thing. The dragon head breathed again, damaging a few people. Sarentum atacked once more, then the bulls head breathed on him and Skiff, turning them both to stone.
When Sarentum was turned back he found he was in the valley again. Everyone was still alive, but Jim was becoming more and more unpopular with the rest of the party, for various reasons. After resting for a day, Sarentum found he had got better at fighting again.
A few days later the party decided they were ready to out adventuring again. Rathek had taught himself a new spell, and Mordel had made himself a new holy symbol.
When the party left the valley, they were shortly surprised by something that appeared from out of the ground. Most people found it hard to hit, but eventually it was killed.
The next day the party were walking along when they encountered four displacer beasts. Sarentum managed to hit one before he was blinded by one of Jims spells. Sarentum still managed to kill one while blinded, then, just as his vision was clearing, he was blinded by another one of Jims spells. Trying to find another displacer beast to kill Sarentum accidentally hit Jim (Oh. What a shame). Deciding that he didn't stand much of a chance of finding another displacer beast Sarentum withdrew a short way from the combat to wait for his vision to clear. One of the displacer beasts saw Sarentum withdraw, so chased after him. As it hit him, Sarentum managed to kill it, before going down.
When Sarentum woke up the other displacer beasts had fled or been killed. Everyone then returned to the valley.


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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal mining of dolomite, village Dundu, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, 16/09/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Chander Singh Vs Union of India & Other dated 16/09/2020.
Mining, Mining Waste, Mining Reclamation, Pithoragarh (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms during construction of Kotila-Gawad-Suraikhet Motor Road, Almora, Uttarakhand, 11/09/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagdish Chandra Pandey Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 11/09/2020. Grievance in this application was against violation of environmental norms during construction of Kotila-Gawad-Suraikhet Motor Road in tehsil Dwarahat, district Almora, Uttarakhand. It is alleged that large number of trees are being damaged during the construction of the road and in spite of complaints lodged with the authorities, no remedial action has been taken.
Roads, Deforestation, Almora (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding disposal of waste generated from Tuni Chandni motor road construction, Chakrata, district Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 11/09/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Darshan Tika Ram Dobhal Vs Ministry of Environment & Forest & Others dated 11/09/2020.
Roads, Waste Disposal, Dehradun (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Forests
The order of the National Green Tribunal regarding hotels requiring CTO, Uttarakhand, 24/08/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pramod Kumar Agarwal Vs Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board dated 24/08/2020.
Two applications were filed before the NGT (one of it by Sushila Touring Hotel) challenging the orders of the Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board. The SPCB had asked the hotels that arrangements must be made for sewage treatment. Also consent to operate should be taken in terms of the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981.
Hotels, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Sewage, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding setting up of a petrol pump in a residential area, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 17/08/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Roshan Joshi Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 17/08/2020. Grievance in this application was against setting up of a petrol pump in Dehradun in violation of siting guidelines - so as to maintain safe distance from residential area in view of health and safety concerns. It was submitted that ignoring the said guidelines, the District Magistrate had issued the no objection certificate.
Petrol, Air Pollution, Urban Air Quality, Dehradun (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal construction affecting Girital lake, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, 05/08/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Green India Heritage Vs State of Uttarakhand dated 05/08/2020. A report was sought from the District Magistrate, Kashipur with reference to the allegation of illegal construction, adversely affecting Girital Lake in Kashipur City, Uttarakhand.
Lakes, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Land Encroachments
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding waste disposal dump yards on the bank of river Khoh, Kotdwar, Uttarakhand, 28/07/2020
The order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arvind Baniyal Vs State of Uttarakhand dated 28/07/2020. The issue for consideration was the remedial action against waste disposal dump yards illegally set up on the bank of river Khoh at village Ratanpur, Kashirampur, Gadighat and near Sports Stadium, Kotdwar in Uttarakhand where garbage was being burnt and river water was polluted.
Khoh, River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Landfill, Waste Management
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding operation of a food park near Jim Corbett National Park, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, 17/07/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vijay Kumar Malhotra Vs Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board & Others dated 17/07/2020. Grievance in this application is that Himalayan Food Park Pvt. Ltd., Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand is operating in violation of environmental norms near Jim Corbett National Park. Neither the green belt has been developed around the complex nor ETP/STP has been set up. No spare land has been provided for development of green belt.
Corbett NP, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Udham Singh Nagar, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court on its Motion
CPCB report on M/s Speciality Industries Polymers & Coating Pvt. Ltd. SIDCUL, Sitarjanj, Udham Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand
Report by the Central Pollution Control Board, Regional Directorate, Lucknow to look into the matter of pollution by M/s Speciality Industries Polymers & Coating Pvt. Ltd. SIDCUL, Sitarjanj, Udham Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand. The unit is engaged in production of polymer emulsion and acrylic water based emulsions.
Industrial Pollution, Udham Singh Nagar, Groundwater, Water Demand, Central Groundwater Authority (CGWA), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Compensation, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal operation of a rice mill in village Danpur, Udhamsingh Nagar, Uttarakhand, 01/07/2020
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kripal Singh Vs State of Uttarakhand dated 01/07/2020 regarding illegal operation of a rice mill by M/s Bansal Industries in village Danpur, Kashipur Road, tehsil Rudrapur, District Udhamsingh Nagar, Uttarakhand.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — An infection control surveillance system was today commissioned at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) as part of efforts to strengthen the country's capabilities to fight dengue fever and other health related threats.
The $31.7-million system, which was funded by the Universal Service Fund (USF), manages information across the UHWI and allows for data capture in relation to infection control practices and surveillance of all infections.
As a result, the system has seen to the full digitization of the UHWI's Infection Prevention and Control Unit's data collection and analysis process, USF said in a statement this afternoon.
Speaking at the official handover ceremony, Chief Executive Officer at the USF Daniel Dawes said the agency's financing of the UHWI infection control system forms part of the overarching thrust of the USF to provide technological support across a wide cross section of sectors, in a bid to improve efficiency.
"We have seen world-wide how Information and Communication Technology can facilitate development and can assist in achieving targets in education, finance and health. This system will help the UHWI to more effectively combat outbreaks of infection and disease as it will now have valuable and credible data at its fingertips to inform the decision-making process" Dawes said.
Chief Medical Officer at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Dr Carl Bruce, said the system is part of a comprehensive scheme, designed to manage data across the entire hospital.
"Once implemented the Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) will streamline and centralise all patient data through digitisation. This system will help the hospital to have greater control over access to patient data and enable easier sharing of information among authorised medical personnel" Bruce said.
"This can lead to faster diagnosis and treatment, and in the case of infectious diseases, the hospital is now better able to prevent and manage the spread" he continued.
The project included the creation of a hospital wide network complete with desktop computers, tablets, a printer and the related Information and Communication Technology infrastructure.


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Turner-Pharr House is a historic home located at Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. It was built about 1867, and is a two-story, five bay by three bay, transitional Greek Revival / Italianate style brick dwelling.  It has a hipped roof.  It features a three-bay front porch with Doric order columns that may date to about 1900.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
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Twitter is all abuzz about Ron Hudson's list of the 50 most powerful and influential women in social media. I encourage you to read his post and leave a comment, if you have something to add to the conversation. In his post he cites his criteria for choosing the 50 finalists. It was his idea, so he made the rules.
Being powerful and influential does not make you a thought leader, at least the way I see it. Some of the most brilliant and creative people online today, both male and female, would not have made the cut using his criteria. It is all in what you are searching for online. So, even though it is fun to see your name in print, make sure you are doing exactly what you want to achieve success on the internet. That is the beauty of buiding an online empire.
By the way, if your name is not there and you are interested in this type of recognition, challenge yourself to improve in the areas Ron Hudson discusses in his post. We can all improve our online statistics, so rise to the occasion and get moving. Research more, write more, and be part of the conversation. There will most likely be another list of this type in the near future. For now, congratulations to the top 50. They have all worked hard and deserve this recognition.
Are You Spending More Time On Twitter Than You Do Posting To Your Blog?
Thanks for the great information. You are headed for the list.