1. A lawsuit by the institution for malpractice.
2. A hearing by the board of nursing to determine whether the charges are true.
3. Immediate revocation of her nursing license.
4. Requirement to complete a minimum of 10 continuing education units (CEUs).
1. Ask the other nurses on the unit what they would do.
2. Tell the coworker that the incident will be reported the next time it happens.
3. Offer to care for the nurse's patients until the medication is no longer effective.
4. Report the incident to the nurse supervisor.
1. Have the step-parent sign the informed consent.
2. Have the patient sign the informed consent.
3. Obtain the custodial parent's signature on the informed consent.
4. Solicit the signature of the noncustodial parent on the informed consent.
1. Ask the physician to change the patient's medications so they can be given intravenously.
2. Speak to the patient's family about his refusal of medications so they can discuss it with him.
3. Report the patient's decision to the physician and continue to provide appropriate compassionate care.
4. Explain to the patient the unwise nature of his decision and the effect that it will have on his family.
1. The patient must give his or her consent for restraints to be used.
2. A family member must give his or her consent to use restraints.
3. The nurse must have documentation that other methods have been used and failed to protect the patient.
4. The patient must be alert and oriented.
1. A family member has been appointed as having power of attorney.
2. A patient's wishes must be followed in the event of a major illness.
3. There is a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order for emergency personnel.
4. There are written guidelines specifying care desired and under what circumstances.
1. Patient's Bill of Rights.
2. Rules and regulations that nurses must practice.
3. American Nurses Association's (ANA) guidelines.
4. Reasons that nurses may have action taken against their licenses.
1. Taking a cooking class.
3. Studying the history of nursing.
4. Using research to improve practice.
2. Use of a ventilator.
1. Include the patient's name and any identifying numbers.
2. Be written in a way that it maintains confidentiality for the patient.
3. Be photocopied before being taken outside the hospital walls.
4. Be shredded after the assignment is graded.
____ 1. The potential exists for a complaint of sexual harassment if a nurse states which of the following? Select all that apply.
____ 2. In some situations, a nurse is required by law to report findings from nurse–patient interactions or the nurse's assessment. The nurse will notify the proper authorities when which of the following occurs? Select all that apply.
1. A patient admits that her husband frequently hits her and she has broken several bones.
2. An elderly patient tells the nurse that she is afraid of her grandson.
3. There are multiple bruises of varying colors on the back and abdomen of a 9-year-old.
4. An adolescent has a black eye.
5. A patient refuses to answer the nurse's question because his or her son will be mad.
1.A nurse manager discusses with staff that tort law may be applicable in certain patient situations. The five areas of tort law that apply to nurses are negligence, malpractice, assault and battery, false imprisonment, and ____________________.
2.The ability to intellectually or emotionally understand the feelings of another person without actually experiencing or even agreeing with the person's situation, thoughts, feelings, distress, or pain is known as ____________________.
3.Inappropriate use of ____________________ devices, including bed rails, chemical restraints such as sedatives and tranquilizers, belts, tied sheets, wrist or ankle restraints, and vest or halter restraints, can be considered false imprisonment.
4.All 50 states have ____________________ laws that require that a nurse report to authorities even suspected child abuse, including physical, verbal, sexual, and emotional abuse, and abuse by neglect.
5.As a nurse or as a student, discussion of patients on social media, even if the patients are unnamed, can cause action to be taken on one's nursing license if it violates the state's ____________________ and Rules.
Objective: 10. Name five areas of tort law that apply to the nurse.
15. Apply nursing ethics and laws to specific scenarios.
1 Assault is a threat to a person.
2 Battery is touching the patient or performing a treatment without the patient's permission.
3 Leaving the bed in the lowest position and raising the bed rails are common standards of practice. Failure to take those actions is negligence.
4 An example of libel is a written statement that is untrue.
Objective: 11. Discuss your responsibilities related to professional accountability.
1 The institution may terminate a nurse's employment, but it is improbable that the institution will file a lawsuit.
2 Most likely, a hearing will be conducted by the board of nursing to determine whether the charges reported are true.
3 The nurse may have her license suspended, but the first course of action will be a hearing by the board of nursing to determine whether the charges are true.
4 Some boards of nursing may require CEUs or refresher courses, but that will not be the first course of action.
Objective: 5. Identify at least six types of unethical behavior that as a nurse you must report.
1 A nurse should never discuss the situation with coworkers.
2 It is the nurse's responsibility to report the situation immediately.
3 Offering to provide care for the nurse's patients temporarily and not reporting the incident immediately is an inappropriate action.
4 The nurse is to report the coworker's behavior to the nurse supervisor immediately.
Objective: 15. Apply nursing ethics and laws to specific scenarios.
1 In most states, the step-parent does not have the legal authority to sign an informed consent.
2 An informed consent must be signed by someone 18 years or older unless he or she has been declared an emancipated minor.
3 Informed consent for a minor must be obtained from the parent with custody.
4 In most states, the custodial parent, not the noncustodial parent, must sign the informed consent.
Objective: 4. Discuss Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders.
1 Forcing medications on a patient is a violation of the patient's rights. It could also constitute assault and/or battery charges.
2 Discussing the patient with his family without his permission violates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
3 It is important to notify the physician of the patient's decision and recognize the patient's right to discontinue his medications.
4 It is the patient's right to refuse any form of treatment. The nurse can discuss all options with the patient, but telling a patient that his decision is unwise is inappropriate.
Objective: 13. Explain ways to make your nursing entries in the patient's chart so that the chart would serve you well in a court of law.
1 If the patient is able to give consent, it is not likely that there is a need for restraints.
2 Although family members may give their consent for restraints to be used in the event that a patient may cause injury to himself or herself, it is not required.
3 Unless the nurse documents that other methods have been tried and failed to protect the patient, and the physician has ordered them, restraints may not be used.
4 If a patient is alert and oriented, there is no need for restraints.
Objective: 14. Compare a proxy directive with an instructional directive.
1 Not all instructional directives require power of attorney.
2 A patient's wishes are followed only when there is an advance directive and the patient has become incapacitated.
3 An instructional directive may or may not address DNR; a doctor's order is required in any event.
4 An instructional directive has written guidelines explaining what type of care a patient wants and under what circumstances if a person is unable to make his or her own decisions.
Objective: Describe ways in which you could violate HIPAA regulations within a hospital or clinic setting.
1 The chart is the property of the hospital, and written permission is required for the chart to be copied.
2 With signed permission, the chart may be copied, most generally to a lawyer, another medical institution, or an insurance company.
3 With signed permission by the patient, a copy of most of the chart can be made.
4 HIPAA states that with signed permission, the chart can be copied.
Objective: 8. Read your state's Nurse Practice Act in its entirety.
1 The Patient's Bill of Rights was adopted by the American Hospital Association but may or may not be included in an NPA.
2 An NPA writes and enforces rules and regulations dictating boundaries within which nurses must practice.
3 ANA guidelines enhance the standards of nursing care.
4 A state's NPA may include the reasons that a nurse may have action taken against his or her license, but more importantly, it lays out and enforces the rules and regulations that dictate boundaries within which nurses must practice.
1 Telling or charting that a patient will take medications is inappropriate and constitutes assault.
2 Charting this statement indicates that the nurse forced or coerced the patient to take medications.
3 Only facts should be entered in a patient's chart.
4 Charting that the patient is uncooperative is the nurse's opinion and is not appropriate on a legal document.
Objective: 3. Explain what it means to advocate for a patient and why it is so very important.
1 An ethics board explores what action to take in a dilemma.
2 A value system is each person's belief of something's worth.
3 The nurse's role as an advocate is to respect and support a patient's decision regarding treatment, regardless of the nurse's personal feelings.
4 Conscience is a person's sense of right and wrong. The nurse would be acting on his or her own conscience, not as the patient's conscience.
Objective: 12. Identify at least five ways to keep your nursing practice up to date after graduating.
1 Taking a cooking class will not enhance nursing knowledge.
2 Improving computer literacy may or may not enhance a nurse's ability to provide patient care.
3 Although the history of nursing is important, it is not pertinent for enhancing nursing knowledge.
4 High standards of care can be maintained when a nurse uses nursing research or other medical research to improve care.
17. Discuss information found in the Connection features in this chapter.
1 As a patient's advocate, a nurse must stand with the patient, a nurse must stand for the patient, and a nurse must stand by the patient, always asserting himself or herself in the patient's best interest.
2 Serving as the patient's advocate requires that a nurse assist and provide care to the patient without imposing his or her own values on the patient.
3 As the patient's advocate, a nurse will have opportunities to validate patients' feelings, to provide physical care and comfort, and to help patients live and die with dignity.
4 As the patient's advocate, a nurse must stand with the patient, a nurse must stand for the patient, and a nurse must stand by the patient, always asserting himself or herself in the patient's best interest. Empathy is the ability to intellectually or emotionally understand the feelings of another person without actually experiencing or even agreeing with his or her situation, thoughts, feelings, distress, or pain.
1 In certain situations when a patient is in the terminal stages of a disease and not expected to live much longer, the physician may write a DNR order in the patient's chart. This generally indicates that the care for the patient should be limited to that which allows for comfort and dignity while withholding life-extending steps such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tube feeding, or use of a ventilator to breathe for the patient.
2 In certain situations when a patient is in the terminal stages of a disease and not expected to live much longer, the physician may write a DNR order in the patient's chart. This generally indicates that the care for the patient should be limited to that which allows for comfort and dignity while withholding life-extending steps such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tube feeding, or use of a ventilator to breathe for the patient.
3 In certain situations when a patient is in the terminal stages of a disease and not expected to live much longer, the physician may write a DNR order in the patient's chart. This generally indicates that the care for the patient should be limited to that which allows for comfort and dignity while withholding life-extending steps such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tube feeding, or use of a ventilator to breathe for the patient.
4 In certain situations when a patient is in the terminal stages of a disease and not expected to live much longer, the physician may write a DNR order in the patient's chart. This generally indicates that the care for the patient should be limited to that which allows for comfort and dignity while withholding life-extending steps such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tube feeding, or use of a ventilator to breathe for the patient.
1 A nurse's relationships with his or her patients must be kept on a professional level. A nurse cannot allow personal feelings to affect his or her actions on the job and must take care to avoid emotional involvement with a patient.
2 It is paramount that a nurse remembers his or her number one role: The nurse is to serve as the patient's advocate.
3 A nurse's relationships with his or her patients must be kept on a professional level. A nurse cannot allow personal feelings to affect his or her actions on the job and must take care to avoid emotional involvement with a patient.
4 A nurse's relationships with his or her patients must be kept on a professional level. A nurse cannot allow personal feelings to affect his or her actions on the job and must take care to avoid emotional involvement with a patient.
Objective: 6. Describe ways in which you could violate HIPAA regulations within a hospital or clinic setting.
1 The chart does not belong to the patient, but is the property of the hospital or of the physician in a clinic setting. The patient has the right to access the chart and to request copies of the chart as guaranteed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
2 The chart is considered confidential and may only be accessed by health-care workers providing care to the patient.
3 The chart does not belong to the patient, but is the property of the hospital or of the physician in a clinic setting. The patient has the right to access the chart and to request copies of the chart as guaranteed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
4 With signed permission from the patient, copies of the chart may be made available to the patient's insurance company or other health-care agencies or physicians.
Objective: 16. Identify your school's policy for handling your assigned patient's confidential information that you use to prepare your care plans.
1 Any data that the student collects from the chart must be written in a way that maintains confidentiality for the patient. In other words, the patient's name and identifying numbers should never be written on any of the paperwork that will be taken outside the facility.
2 Any data that the student collects from the chart must be written in a way that maintains confidentiality for the patient.
3 Charts may not be copied for students to use in their care planning or written assignments.
4 In the United States, government hospitals forbid that any copy of any document in the patient chart be taken outside the hospital walls, even if the name is cut off the page. Notes that are written while caring for the patient, as well as copies of care plans or physician orders, should be transcribed to the patient chart as necessary and shredded before leaving the facility.
1 Incident reports, also known as unusual occurrence reports or variance reports, are to be completed in the event of an unusual occurrence or an accident.
2 When accidents or unusual occurrences happen, injuries, physical assessments, and care provided are documented in the chart, generally in the nurse's notes. Entries are kept factual and objective, without impressions, assumptions, or conclusions. Then an incident report is completed according to agency policy, including notification of the supervisor and designated personnel.
3 The completion of an incident report is not mentioned in the patient's chart. Nor will the report be filed as part of the chart; it will be filed separately.
4 The incident report should include what happened, who was involved, witnesses to the event, and treatment provided.
1. This is incorrect. Seeking assistance with patients does not constitute sexual harassment.
2. This is correct. Asking what someone else will do for you, particularly between male and female nurses, can create a sexual innuendo. This could result in complaints of sexual harassment.
3. This is incorrect. Stating a wish to make rounds with a physician does not constitute sexual harassment.
4. This is incorrect. Seeking assistance with patients does not constitute sexual harassment.
5. This is correct. The accusation that male nurses do not carry their weight targets one gender and can result in complaints of sexual harassment.
1. This is incorrect. Spousal abuse involves adults, and while the nurse should communicate this information to the physician, the nurse is not required to report it.
2. This is correct. A nurse is required to report cases of admitted and suspected abuse, such as when an elderly patient states that she is fearful of another person.
3. This is correct. A nurse is required to report cases of admitted and suspected abuse, such as when there are varying degrees in colors of bruising in a minor.
4. This is incorrect. An adolescent with a black eye in the absence of acknowledgment of abuse or any other injuries would not result in suspicion of abuse.
5. This is correct. A nurse is required to report cases of admitted and suspected abuse, such as when an elderly patient refuses to discuss a subject with the nurse because of her son's response.
Objective: 9. Specify two areas of mandatory reporting for nurses.
The three areas of tort law that directly affect nurses and their practice are assault and battery, false imprisonment, and sexual harassment.
A good nurse has empathy for patients and families, as well as coworkers. Empathy is the ability to intellectually or emotionally understand the feelings of another person without actually experiencing or even agreeing with the person's situation, thoughts, feelings, distress, or pain. It is different from sympathy, which is sharing the feelings and distress of the other individual.
Objective: A. Define various terms associated with nursing ethics and law.
Before restraint devices can be used, the patient must present a clear danger to either himself or herself or others, and other methods of protecting the patient from injury must have been attempted. When other methods fail to provide adequate safety, the physician must write an order for the restraint device to be used.
One area of mandatory reporting is the abuse of children. All 50 states require that a nurse report to authorities even suspected child abuse, including physical, verbal, sexual, and emotional abuse, and abuse by neglect. Reports can be made to local law officials or directly to specific group services such as the state Child Protective Services (CPS).
As a nurse or as a student, discussion of patients on social media, even if the patients are unnamed, should be avoided. Patient confidentiality must be protected at all times and in all situations, not just at the place of employment. Action can be taken on a nurse's license when the use of social networking is such that it violates the state's Nurse Practice Act and Rules.
18. Identify specific safety issues.


Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of November 2018 in Beaver, OK.
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Review: Hush Hush, by Steven Barthelme
A collection of stories exploring anxieties about youth, adulthood, and the passing of time
In "Hush Hush," the title story of Steven Barthelme's new collection, Tilden, a lonely middle-aged drinker typical of the men who populate these stories, is lying in his daughter's bed, flipping through fashion magazines full of fresh faces, when suddenly he smashes the bedside clock against a wall. Later, he and his estranged daughter, a twenty-something who recently turned up at his office to accuse him of paternity, drink a bunch of bourbon, break more shit, and then screw.
A violent anxiety about getting older pervades the stories in Hush Hush. Barthelme is the brother of Donald, the madcap post-modern master, and Frederick, the less well-known but equally interesting "K-Mart realist," and the stories in this collection often jump from one end of this stylistic spectrum to the other. However, the best stories swing somewhere in between.
"Heaven" is an example of Steven Barthelme's more playful side, with lines like "Heaven resembles a very large Days Inn where God is always wandering around saying, 'Have you seen Jesus? Have you seen Jesus?'" It's a line that could have been taken from one of his older brother Donald's stories, or even the stories of George Saunders. Another story in this mode is "Siberia," a monologue by a troubled but precocious ten-year-old who says, "Nietzsche is some freak dead guy. I won the spelling bee." The most successful of these stories is "The New South," a vicious takedown of carpetbagging writers in search of Americana.
"Interview," which reads like a typical guy-feels-like-an-existential-fraud-so-leaves-his-wife-and-suburban-life-and-flees-to-Texas-where-real-people-live story, lacks the lived-in quality of Frederick Barthelme's best work, his feel for place and class. But what does shine in this story are the teenagers who hang around the mechanic shop where Quinn, the narrator, finds work. The dialogue between these kids sparkles in comparison to anything said between Quinn and other adults. Even Quinn seems to realize this when he equates his new line of work to "the way I felt in elementary school." Quinn seems to long for the childish world of possibility that the narrator from "Siberia" is chafing against.
Two stories, "Claire" and "In the Rain," pulse like the heart of the collection precisely because they combine the best of Barthelme's competing realist and absurdist tendencies. In "Claire," we meet Bailey, a degenerate gambler who has borrowed eight grand from his ex, which of course he immediately takes to a gulf shore casino. Miraculously, Bailey's luck turns, and he ends up doubling his money at blackjack. On the drive back home, he sucks on ice, telling himself that "[sucking on ice] meant you were orally fixated, too, which meant something — you wanted to suck a tit, you were childish, or something. Got that right…it's not a bad thing, being childish." He later describes of the feeling of winning money, but not having anybody to share it with as, "like being a kid and doing something really spectacular about which no one cared, like getting all the way home through the woods without ever touching the ground." Here, we see Barthelme's flair for poetic one-liners paired with real emotion, and the results are breathtaking.
The same can be said for "In the Rain," another story of first love gone sour. It is also a story that sweats with the anxiety of a once-promising life that took a wrong turn somewhere back in the foggy distance. In "In the Rain," the narrator's wife has left him, but she has also left behind her cat — lost and dead cats haunt the later half of the collection — telling him that maybe the cat will teach him something. Rain falls, and floods come, and Slick goes missing. At first, the narrator isn't too concerned because "cats went out and later they came back. They're animals. You don't ask them where they've been and what they've been doing." He spends days out driving in the rain, looking for Slick, but his search turns up only a different dead cat, a tabby. The narrator moves the cat to the side of the road and then drives home, "wishing I had a cigarette the way you wish for a cigarette after a few years of not smoking, wistful, wanting to be some way you used to be." Later that night, he goes back for the tabby and then sets it on his front lawn "as a sort of sort of signal, a crooked totem. A message to my cat, about what could happen." Slick reappears the next morning, looking "like an embryo," and "blubbering like a baby." This is the most hopeful ending of all the stories in Hush Hush, the only one that offers the chance to return to the innocence of childhood. However, the narrator warns us, "It just kept on raining."
Recommended if you liked: Circumnavigation, by Steve Lattimore, All Things, All at Once, by Lee K. Abbott
Read "In the Rain" by Steven Barthelme here at Recommended Reading.
— Eric Howell is a writer in Brooklyn.
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1) Is it safe to methyl ester sulfonates in Hand wash along with SLES and AOS? If yes, then at what percent.
2) Can I use methyl ester sulfonates and LABSA at 50% ratio in liquid dish wash?
1. Your question is too vague. What is your formula?
Basically I want to know, if it is safe to use methyl ester sulfonates in Hand wash.
methyl ester sulfonates are safe in Bar Soaps so I would use in Liquid hand Wash but why as they are expensive compared to AOS etc?
DRBOB@VERDIENT.BIZ thanks for your reply.
Does it have an INCI name? I couldn't find one.
I am surprised also as these compounds have been around for a long time.First used C18 analog for/in soap/syndet Bar in early sixties which had safety clearances for at least a test market. I think Stepan should submit safety data to CIR and tout it as basis for cleansers in sulfate free arena.


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Murray Pozmanter
Evolution to an Accelerated Settlement Cycle
How Recent Volatility and Margin Requirements Make the Case for T1 Settlement
The Value of Financial Market Infrastructures
DTCC Executives Look Ahead to 2020
Murray Pozmanter is Head of Clearing Agency Services and Global Business Operations. He has responsibility for the development and marketing of products and services related to DTCC's post-trade processing of transactions across DTC, NSCC and FICC. In addition, he oversees DTCC's Global Business Operations.
Prior to joining DTCC in 2007 as Managing Director, Pozmanter was at Nomura Securities for 18 years, where the last position he held was Managing Director and Head of US Operations. At Nomura, Pozmanter was responsible for all fixed income, equity, and derivatives operations for all U.S. subsidiaries of Nomura Holding America. Before joining Nomura, Pozmanter spent six years at Salomon Brothers Inc.
He Chairs the Management Resiliency Committee, is a member of the Treasury Market Practices Group, as well as SIFMA's Funding Division Executive Committee and Operations and Technology Steering Committee. He is also a member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee.
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My mom decided to take me to The Daily Show as my birthday present. I draw portraits, so I drew a portrait of Jon hoping I could get an autograph. When we finally got near the doors, there was a guy and a girl. I asked my mom if she could ask the girl if I could get an autograph, so my mom did. The lady said, "Nope. No, sorry." Then the guy came to us with a list of last names and he asked for our last name. My mom told him, and he said, "Well you're not on the list. Did you RSVP a week before today?" Of course my mom said yes, but he just looked at us (my mom, my sister, and my mom's boyfriend) and said, "Well do you have tickets?" and my mom said yes. I was so scared I wasn't gonna get in because we weren't on that list! But he let us in anyway.
We went inside into a waiting room. There were like 100 people standing in this one room waiting for rehearsal to be done so we could get into the studio. The same lady who said no to the autograph made an announcement before we went in. She had to explain to us about a few rules and such and such.
The doors to the studio opened, and as we were walking in, the guy with the list was directing people where to go. My mom went up to him and said, "Do you think you can give this to Jon Stewart? My daughter did it and she wanted to get it signed but there's no signing." The guy looked at the portrait and said, "Wow! That's really good! Do you want the copy signed?" I told him, "No, I want the original signed, I wanted to give Jon the copy." And he said he would do it for me! I was so shocked! I got the book back 20 minutes afterwards because I guess he left the book in Jon's dressing room or something. I joked around with my sister and said, "I think he stole my sketch book and sold all of my portraits."
At the end of the show Jon walked in behind us, but he was five feet below us. When he walked by he said, "Have a good weekend everybody." I just sat there and looked at him and said, "Hey!" and he looked at me while he wishing everyone a good weekend. I should have done something smart and waved my book so he could see it and say, "I liked the picture!" or something like that. Oh well, always next time!


These Carrot Cake Bliss Balls are so easy to whip together, have the most deliciously moist texture, and loaded with your favorite carrot cake flavors!
Ever since I make my carrot cake squares on my YouTube channel last week, I haven't been able to get carrot cake out of my brain. It's like the spring gods planted a little carrot cake seed on my tastebuds and I just can't shake it.
Ever since I was a little gal, carrot cake has been one of my absolute favorite desserts. I have memories of my grandma's carrot cake. I'd eat the sweet cakiness and save the creamy dreamy icing for last. My mouth literally just started salivating thinking about it.
I'm not going to lie. I'm a chocolate gal. If there isn't chocolate in a dessert, I typically pass it up. But, there's an exception. There's always an exception. And, that exception for me is carrot cake.
That loaded up, nutty, sweet carrot cake. So I decided to make a bliss ball loosely based off my cinnamon roll bliss balls (because you guys love them so much!). You can totally customize these, add some raisins, add some coconut shreds, add some dried pineapple. The possibilities are really endless, so whatever you typically like in your carrot cake… do that.
So I made these and kept them in a bowl in our fridge. Jaryd got home from work and immediately pops open the fridge (as he does) and ate one. He loved it. He mentioned multiple times how much he loved it.
So, if you're looking for an easy snack to meal prep or just want to bring a healthier option to Easter, or maybe even you're just really jonesing hard for carrot cake, these bliss balls are for you. They're vegan, gluten free, dairy free, low carb and have raw carrots in there, people!! Holy healthy!
I used the smallest grater to keep the shreds small slivers, but if you like a chunkier carrot piece, feel free to use the large grater holes. So, let's get into and make some Carrot Cake Bliss Balls!
Pour the peanut butter, agave nectar, and vanilla into your food processor. Process until creamed together.
Add the almond flour and cinnamon. Process again until combined. Add the carrot shreds and pecans. Pulse a few times to chop the pecans and incorporate the pecans and carrot into the batter.
Use a cookie scooper to scoop balls onto parchment paper. I usually put the parchment paper on top of a cutting board or baking sheet so I can easily transfer them to chill in the fridge.
Roll the balls between your hands to smooth them and then place them back on the parchment.
Place the monkfruit sweetener and cinnamon in a shallow bowl and mix to combine. Roll the balls in the monkfruit mixture until coated and place on a plate or in a bowl. Chill for 30 minutes and enjoy!
Pour the peanut butter, agave nectar, and vanilla into your food processor.
Add the almond flour and cinnamon. Process again until combined.
Add the carrot shreds and pecans.
Pulse a few times to chop the pecans and incorporate the pecans and carrot into the batter.
Place a piece of parchment paper on top of a cutting board or baking sheet.
Use a cookie scooper to scoop balls onto parchment paper.
Place the monkfruit sweetener and cinnamon in a shallow bowl and mix to combine.
Roll the balls in the monkfruit mixture until coated and place on a plate or in a bowl.
Is there a replacement for monk fruit seeetener?


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Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a sensual experience? Imagine magnifying that times 100. That is reality for many on the autism spectrum. This book talks about how people with autism balance sensory input issues with socializing and following unwritten social rules in the real world. The author examines how people with autism have physical and emotional sensory experiences throughout their life.
This book breaks down the similarities and differences between Autism fixations, obsessions, and special interests. Travis shares his opinions on how the fixations and obsessions battle against the special interest. The negative against the positive. Travis feels he has greater control over what his special interest than what he fixates on. Travis works hard to eliminate the negative fixations.
Learn how some of Travis' special interests with Asperger Syndrome quickly became his best friends who helped him cope through times of loneliness, sadness, and depression from social isolation. This book examines the role of the special interest for someone with autism and gives useful tips on how to understand a special interest and what it means. Learn about Travis' special interests here.
So much is wondered about how and when to self-disclose to others when you are autistic. Travis shares how he chooses the how and when to self-disclose his Asperger Syndrome to others he meets. Travis says the decision is context driven and changes from person to person. Travis weighs the pros and cons of self-disclosure between each friendship and professional relationship he enters in his life.
Travis shares how he learned to challenge his beliefs and fixations. Autistic people tend to fixate on things. Travis learned he had choices to make and could choose not only to change his beliefs but change how he spent time focusing on his fixations. Travis made positive changing that have given him a happy life. Now he shares his story with you to help others who might be stuck and need help.


March 10, 2018 in History, Myanmar (Burma).
How the British Empire occupied the remote highlands of Burma (Myanmar) through football, jokes and an indomitable imperialist.
May 4, 2016 in History, Myanmar (Burma).
Yangon: an account of a slow and fascinating train journey through an extraordinary city is published in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place.
March 7, 2016 in Myanmar (Burma), Psychogeography, Travel.
The river of lost footprints. The road to Mandalay. The river that brings blessings to the people. If nothing else the Ayeyarwady (or Irrawaddy) River is evoked by a great line, and Kipling's poem of nostalgia and longing.
November 6, 2014 in History, Myanmar (Burma), Travel.
As far as the eye can see they rise-up in their thousands from the burnt arid plains, hollow temples and stupas of a medieval Buddhist kingdom, edged by the distant mountains to the east and the Irrawaddy River to the west.
July 21, 2014 in History, Myanmar (Burma), Travel.
Postcards from 48 hours wandering in the downtown area of Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma).
May 12, 2014 in Myanmar (Burma), Travel.
Exploring an abandoned British colonial club in downtown Yangon, Burma (Myanmar).
March 20, 2014 in History, Myanmar (Burma), Travel.


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"""
    Wrapper module for the louie implementation
"""

import warnings
from coherence.dispatcher import Dispatcher

warnings.warn("extern.louie will soon be deprecated in favor of coherence.dispatcher.")

class Any(object): pass
class All(object): pass
class Anonymous(object): pass

# fake the API
class Dummy(object): pass
signal = Dummy()
sender = Dummy()

#senders
sender.Anonymous = Anonymous
sender.Any = Any

#signals
signal.All = All

# a slightly less raise-y-ish implementation as louie was not so picky, too
class GlobalDispatcher(Dispatcher):

    def connect(self, signal, callback, *args, **kw):
        if not signal in self.receivers:
            # ugly hack
            self.receivers[signal] = []
        return Dispatcher.connect(self, signal, callback, *args, **kw)

    def _get_receivers(self, signal):
        try:
            return self.receivers[signal]
        except KeyError:
            return []

global _global_dispatcher
_global_dispatcher = GlobalDispatcher()
_global_receivers_pool = {}

def connect(receiver, signal=All, sender=Any, weak=True):
    callback = receiver
    if signal in (Any, All):
        raise NotImplemented("This is not allowed. Signal HAS to be something")
    receiver = _global_dispatcher.connect(signal, callback)
    _global_receivers_pool["%s%s" %(callback, signal)] = receiver
    return receiver

def disconnect(receiver, signal=All, sender=Any, weak=True):
    callback = receiver
    if signal in (Any, All):
        raise NotImplemented("This is not allowed. Signal HAS to be something")
    key = "%s%s" %(callback, signal)
    if key in _global_receivers_pool:
        receiver = _global_receivers_pool.pop(key)
        return _global_dispatcher.disconnect(receiver)
    else:
        print warnings.warn("louie - cannot disconnect %s" %(key,))
        return

def send(signal=All, sender=Anonymous, *arguments, **named):
    if signal in (Any, All):
        raise NotImplemented("This is not allowed. Signal HAS to be something")
    # the first value of the callback shall always be the signal:
    return _global_dispatcher.save_emit(signal, *arguments, **named)

def send_minimal(signal=All, sender=Anonymous, *arguments, **named):
    return send(signal, sender, *arguments, **named)

def send_exact(signal=All, sender=Anonymous, *arguments, **named):
    return send(signal, sender, *arguments, **named)

def send_robust(signal=All, sender=Anonymous, *arguments, **named):
    return send(signal, sender, *arguments, **named)

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Tom Atwell coaches the La Jolla High swim team at Coggan Family Aquatic Complex.
Tom Atwell is the epitome of tough. He runs 100-mile ultra-marathons and competes in grueling Ironman competitions, many days waking before 3 a.m. to run 15 miles or more.
After that, he'll get on his bicycle or swim 45 minutes at Coggan Family Aquatic Center, where he coaches water polo and swimming for La Jolla High School. Then it's off to his job teaching AP European history at La Jolla High.
It's this indomitable spirit that doctors say helped him take on cancer twice, and live to serve as an inspiration to others.
In 1997 Atwell was diagnosed with a rare sarcoma known as a malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Doctors gave him a 25 percent chance of survival. A softball-sized tumor on his hip required the removal of the top of one leg and a portion of his glutes.
Tom Atwell at Coggan Family Aquatic Complex in La Jolla.
"I had been racing in triathlons. I surfed a lot, trained a lot. I had 4 percent body fat and was just charging pretty hard," recalled Atwell, 47, noting that his three brothers — who he said have all made less healthy life choices — have never had a serious illness.
Due to his otherwise peak physical condition, doctors were able to put Atwell on an atypically aggressive chemotherapy regimen. "Normally, you go in and you do three hours in the chemo lounge and then leave … but I was hospitalized for five days straight and they would do a drip around the clock and it would just wreck me," he recalled.
By the time his body would regain strength, it was time to repeat the process.
He survived and again thrived.
Then, early last year, cancer struck again — this time melanoma cells started appearing on Atwell's shoulders head, ear and lip.
This time, he didn't take the diagnosis lying down, continuing to train through chemotherapy, skin creams and subcutaneous hormone injections.
As a way to shake the dark cloud of cancer (as he put it), Atwell ran the American Cancer Society's 100-mile Relay For Life at La Jolla High — just one week after completing his last treatment in June 2013.
Today, Atwell, as well as his wife Utahna (a breast cancer survivor) are grateful and happily in remission. Atwell gets check-ups every three months.
"Everything looks good," he said. "Hopefully, pretty soon (the check-ups) will go to every six months and then once a year," he said.
La Jollan Joan Henderson Brown is a regular fixture at the Coggan pool, and one of Atwell's No. 1 fans. She noted how, just one month after completing his last round of treatment, Atwell accompanied the La Jolla High boys' water polo team on a trip to Hungary to compete with some of the world's top teams and young athletes.
Next month, Atwell will run in a rim-to-rim marathon at the Grand Canyon (alongside his primary care physician), and is working toward competing in the 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley and the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.
In the meantime, he continues his involvement in events benefitting the American Cancer Society and the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Each year, Atwell and his water polo players volunteer to carry disabled athletes participating in the La Jolla Challenged Athletes race up the stairs at La Jolla Cove so they can continue in the bike portion of the race.
Equally important to Atwell these days is demonstrating the importance of armoring one's skin from the sun's intense rays.
As a young surfer, Atwell said getting his first sunburn of the year was a ritual and a badge of honor. Before he developed skin cancer, he could be found running with his shirt off. These days, he rarely hits the pavement without a hat, sunscreen and long-sleeve shirt.
"It freaks me out sometimes. You go running on the beach and you see these people that are still out there laying out with baby oil on," he said.
Not only should a 30 SPF or higher sunscreen be applied generously, but reapplied every two hours — even when it's cloudy and cool outside. "The sun's still hitting you and it's just as powerful as any other time. You can't go by whether there's clouds in the sky," said Atwell, who reminds his swimmers to coat their skin with liquid armor before every practice.


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Current events in Egypt and Tunisia have the entire region and beyond glued to their television sets. The all-too-spoken-about Arab street has risen, seemingly from the dead. But while it is satisfying to see a dictatorial head of state being ousted by his own people, it is far too early to rejoice.
What we are witnessing is the removal and replacement of leaders, not an upgrading of the political systems that allowed someone like the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to remain in power for 30 years and then have the audacity to position his son to succeed him, while the Egyptian people sank into deepening poverty.
Unrest across the region will force these reactionary regimes to make some minimal changes, such as introducing term limits, which should have been done decades ago. But these knee-jerk legislative changes are solely aimed at persuading the demonstrators to go home.
Likewise, no one should belittle the fact that hundreds of thousands of average citizens are challenging their governments in the streets. This is not like demonstrations as we know them in western countries. It is the real thing. Serious conviction – and sustained repression – is the prerequisite to get many people to challenge a police state that ignores even the most basic human rights.
In the Arab world, civil uprisings – or intifadas, as they are frequently called – were coined in the Palestinian context. However, the context of the first Palestinian intifada was very different to what we are seeing today. Back in 1987 Palestinians genuinely became fed up with the foreign military occupation that Israel maintains to this day. Communities across the West Bank and Gaza took to the streets and sustained their efforts for nearly six years.
Demonstrations were only part of the story. The real ingredient to the Palestinians' ability to remain steadfast was much more complicated. Palestinians are highly political, and they organized themselves in a decentralized fashion and knew how to operate out of Israel's sight.
But the first intifada was aimed solely at a foreign entity, Israel, and ended with the signing of the infamous Oslo peace accords, which have failed multiple times over the past two decades. The Palestinian leadership tried to pick the fruits of their intifada prematurely and paid a dear price in human, political, economic and social loss.
Egyptians would be well advised to learn from the Palestinians that the window of opportunity for real change comes all too infrequently. They should therefore be very clear on what they desire from this historic episode. I'd guess that the US state department already has more than a few scenarios in place and dealing with these is what the Egyptian people will really be up against in the coming weeks.
The second Palestinian intifada in 2000 had many more similar elements to today's upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt. Following the collapse of the Camp David II talks and continuing Israeli provocations, the Palestinian street erupted. Although this second uprising was quickly steered to target Israel, the undercurrent at the time was boiling against a Palestinian leadership that was seriously corrupt and refused to shift gear politically, opting instead for a never-ending US-sponsored peace process.
The Palestinian president at the time, Yasser Arafat, knew that the second intifada had the potential to turn on him and the house of cards that he had created, the Palestinian Authority. Arafat knew how to shrewdly get his people to vent their anger elsewhere – towards Israel, the foreign occupier.
Arafat thought, like today's Mubarak and the many other leaders of his generation, that the US would come to his rescue and make things happen. He was wrong. Every major Palestinian political crisis witnessed the traditional Palestinian leadership taking minute steps forward to keep the masses at a distance. Often these steps meant rearranging the cabinet while paying lip service to the demanded structural reforms. Expect the same in Egypt and Tunisia.
Over the years, Palestinians have been able to maintain pressure on their occupier and keep their own quasi-government in check because they were organized at the grassroots level for many years beforehand. This level of deep, sustained organizing has been weak to non-existent in most of the Arab world. The police-state governments in Egypt, Tunisia and across the Middle East made sure civil society remained obedient – as the media and the private sector were made to be.
The obvious question is: if Palestinians are so experienced in taking to the streets, why then are there so few serious demonstrations in Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem or Gaza in solidarity with the Egyptian people? The reason is that the Palestinian Authority has been co-opted by a US-dominated and foreign-funded agenda which, in times of crisis, understands a single tool: force.
The same applies to the Palestinian government in Gaza, for different reasons. Since the last Palestinian elections, which ended in infighting, the US has equipped, trained and led a new generation of Palestinian security services to serve their old model of Arab world governance – police states and banana republics. Expect the US not to embrace real democracy in the Arab world, but rather to put a new, younger facade on an old and corrupt system of governance.
If you want a barometer for today's Middle East political temperature, follow Egypt; however, if you want a barometer for tomorrow's possibilities for serious, sustainable reform, keep your eye on the Palestinian people who are in a dual struggle – one to shed themselves from 43 years of a brutal Israeli occupation and one to create the first Arab model of truly representative and accountable governance.
The main factor preventing the Palestinians from continuing on their path to structural reform, following their first genuine elections in 2006, is the refusal of the US to accept the results of those elections. Expect a similar US veto on any forthcoming Egyptian move towards electoral reform that encompasses true representation.
Until the people of the Middle East take reforms seriously and transform their mass demonstrations into sustained, organized efforts that address all aspects of society – political, legislative, economic and social – then the blood and tears invested in this latest round of civil outcry will be wasted.


News this month regarding the approved expansion of Newcastle Airport will be positive news to investors and home owners in the area.
Port Stephens council has provided approval for an $80 million upgrade and expansion to Newcastle Airport.
According to Newcastle Airport...When completed, Newcastle Airport will have capacity to increase domestic passenger flow from the current 1.2 million to a potential five million annually, as well as provide infrastructure to allow for international flights.
The redevelopment will provide the infrastructure needed for Newcastle Airport to be a global transport hub and significant alternate gateway into New South Wales.
For investors this will provide many great opportunities for growth. There will be workers coming in from outside the area for the term of their involvement and they will want to be close to their employment, so they will be looking for accommodation in the Port Stephens area. This will mean that demand for rentals will rise and the rents themselves will go up. Driving an increase in the investment return.
You also have one of the most picturesque areas in Australia around the Bay area so many of the permanent employees will be looking for nice homes in good locations to take advantage of the growth potential in the vicinity.
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This is another area within the Newcastle and Hunter region that is showing great potential for employment, tourism and investment growth over the coming years.
Interest rates were kept on hold once again at the lastest RBA board meeting this month. Great news for both home owners and investors.
The RBA noted that there has been a small increase in house prices and a positive growth in housing loan approvals.
For those investing in new housing there has been a noticeable rise in activity for builders in most capital cities.
"Overall, recent data suggested that interest-sensitive parts of the economy were responding to the historically low levels of lending rates and it remained likely that this had further to run. "
For further details on the latest RBA report take a look at the latest news from Property Observer.


A competitive spirit is an advantage in life as well as business, and our East Midlands branch manager Laura certainly has that.
As well as running a busy team, which works hard every day to arrange and deliver a range of storage and accommodation solutions across the East Midlands, she is also one of the most capped members of Great Britain's Women's American Football team.
So, what does a typical day in the life look like for our very own sporting legend?
My first job of the day is to say good morning to everyone and make sure the team are all ok. I tend to be the first one in, and this way I can catch everyone when they arrive and say hello as they pass my office, which is a great way to check in with everyone.
My next job is to monitor how we are sitting in terms of asset management and pending order reports, making sure we are on course.
My days are varied, which is one of the reasons I love my job so much. On a general day I'll check in to see if we're hitting the timeframes around collections and processing. Are we rotating our stock and not having units sitting around for a period of time? Are we capturing all repairs? I like to make sure we catch any problems with units early, that way we can guarantee every one of our customers receives the best possible product. Then I'll keep an eye on profit and loss – where are we in the month against margin and target, what can we do to improve?
After lunch I like to check in with the team again – people are our most important asset and I like to make sure staff are happy and motivated. We're all one team, from yard to office, and all chip in together – so this regular engagement means everyone knows I'm here if they need me.
One of my favourite tasks is reviewing the driver's performance charts with them as they are so competitive and always looking to be number one – I can certainly identify with that!
In the afternoon, I like to help out with whatever needs doing, whether it's helping in the office, training, support, stock taking or supply ordering. I'm happy to get stuck in with whatever's needed – the variety keeps me on my toes and ensures every day brings a different challenge.
Working in operations means you constantly need to juggle, spin plates and bounce a ball off your foot. Being busy and finding a solution is why many people are attracted to hire as a career; while trying to implement proactive measures in the business, you are always going to have to react to the next hire, the next delivery, the next problem.
I would say with my experience we always find a way as a team, or at the very least give an alternative solution.
In my spare time, I play as Defensive End for Birmingham Lions an American football team. Additionally, I coach the Defensive Line at University of Nottingham, and I like to practise as often as possible. It's a great way to relax and keep fit, and the competitive element really helps me in my role at Mobile Mini too. I am a competitive person and being around people who want to achieve, want to improve and clearly want to help grow the business is such a bonus to my working day.
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Space; How did you get interested in it?
bestwork1989
My interest in space started when I was a child.
The Super Red Supergiant the[b][color=#222222][size=100][font=Calibri, sans-serif] Super Red Supergiant Star - UY Scuti, 1708 ± 192 Solar Radii, the biggest known star in the Universe UY Scutiar - UY Scuti, 1708 ± 192 Solar Radii, the biggest known star in the Universe UY Scuti[/font][/size][/color][/b]
Hello everybody! My story is not as romantic as stargazing in nature or anything like that. I just accidentally saw a few articles and videos on YouTube that hooked me with something. It was only about 6 years ago. But now I'm 30 and I try to follow the news from the space industry. I guess I just like to feel like we're living in an age of great accomplishment
Alivik
Location: Tartu, Estonia
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My story started in high school. I was interested in maths and sciences previously but what really turned my eyes forever skywards was Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I can't remember how I stumbled into watching it but most likely it was short clips on YouTube after which I downloaded and binge-watched the whole series.
Fast forward about 10 years and a physics degree, now I work in a planetarium, designing shows and trying to share the awesomeness of the Universe with others. I discovered Space Engine quite early on (but haven't been active in the forums) and I've always been inspired by the attempt of visual realism SpaceEngineer aims for - for me it's a very helpful visualization tool to explain how things would actually look like 'out there' if we could see it with our own eyes.
The more messed up things are here on Earth, the more I find myself looking at the sky and wishing there were more news about what our space probes and telescopes have found elsewhere.
A-L-E-X
Watch the new Cosmos series, it is also spectacular!
A-L-E-X wrote:
Source of the post Watch the new Cosmos series, it is also spectacular!
It's not too bad, but I think the original series wasn't in desperate need of a redo. The original series was more about the history and philosophy of science than astronomy, which could rather be seen as an example in this respect. Much has happened in astronomy since the original series, but not so much things that Sagan needed to be seriously corrected on. Usually it's more about further evidence. Sagan was a brilliant communicator, who is difficult to match. An orator in the classical sense, carefully choosing words meant to be spoken.
midtskogen wrote:
Yes and his books were also spectacular, he was a gifted communicator through his writing also. I also watch Nova, which seems to be a better version that covers the same topics (see Nova season 46 episode 2 which covers quantum entanglement and its implications on relativity and space-time being emergent not fundamental properties of the universe, vs the way Cosmos treated the same subject, season 3 episode 11)
FastFourierTransform
TommyJ wrote:
Source of the post Hello everybody! My story is not as romantic as stargazing in nature or anything like that. I just accidentally saw a few articles and videos on YouTube that hooked me with something. It was only about 6 years ago. But now I'm 30 and I try to follow the news from the space industry. I guess I just like to feel like we're living in an age of great accomplishment
I like this one. We all have stories about how since we were childs space was engaging and all. But this, been 24 and starting to have a new strong feeling about it, is just precious. It means that your mind is open and elastic as can be
Oh, thanks for that. But I recently discovered that my mind is not as open as I would like. Communicated on another forum and was unable to critically examine the opponent's point of view. I just started to insist on my own. (On the fact that rocketry and travel are at a stage of development when we can already dream of not too long interplanetary travel in a relatively short period of time). I still need to work on my perception of other points of view.


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The Digiwrimo Story Jumpers Saga -- BACKGROUND
This is the summary of the first 25 installments of the Digiwrimo Story Jumping experiment accomplished by people all over the world. Truth be told, the story did lose a bit of its thread, but it was fun nonetheless. For the FINAL chapter, concocted by GG and with edits from YWP Staff, click this honking big link.
1. The story begins with a journal entry of Bruno W. as he describes the seemingly mundane details of a journey to a cheap hotel in London where, surprise, surprise, he enjoys some wonderful food -- at a Chinese restaurant, of course.
2. Meantime, a woman named Sarah, a mad collector of ukuleles and a friend of Kevin, a mad fixer of all things tech and musical, finds an old laptop case while visiting a uke shop and gives it to Kevin, who, upon inspection, finds a page from Bruno's journal with this text:
A few more days later, I realized it was again different: They are more proofs that I didn't imagine this story, I didn't dream it or exaggerate it. This part of the story is so trite you barely need a proof, other memories, encounters are more exceptional, surprising that I've been relieved to find some tracks of them. Like the sand that you find in the morning, in your pocket reminds you that a dream could have been more than a dream.
As Kevin inspects it more closely, and holds it up to a light, he discovers what appears to be a mysterious map.
3. Most strange. Kevin, it seems, has more admirers than just Sarah. Maha has been spying on him from her window across the alleyway. She watches as he tinkers with devices he then takes apart and fixes. She has grown fond of him. Sometimes she grows jealous of Sarah and other friends, including girlfriend Sandy, and on this night Maha sees him reading the discovered papers, sees him hold up to the light what she thinks to be a map. Without realizing why, she reaches into her pocket and removes a map — much like what she had seen Kevin holding — with a location and a date: Nov. 30, 2015.
4. Sarah, meantime, has awoken with a strange haze — a hangover, perhaps? She had been playing her Uke at the pub the night before and has only a vague sense that she and Kevin (on sax) were thrown out of a bar where they'd been playing.
5. Ron knows. He was at the pub. He saw Sarah get into a fight with Sandy. Is it jealousy? Sandy responds by shooting a machine gun into the ceiling. But it is Sarah who is soon tossed from the pub and Ron follows. He sees her heading to Kevin's house. And then he sees Maha, staring down from her window.
6. Kevin awakens with even more confusion than Sarah. He had been seeing Sandy lately but now he wasn't sure. The whole thing with the machine guns has put him off. Big time. He also wondered about Sarah. And what was with that woman who kept staring at him from across the alleyway? He decides to get up to get some fresh air and goes into the garden and comes face to face with a spider. … He blacks out. He awakens in an unfamiliar place with odd signs, giant chess pieces and magical flowers. And a cookie.
7. Throwing caution aside, Kevin eats the cookie and suddenly everything came clear, as if he had been in some weird dream. But why was he in his garden? He went inside. He reflected. He had been under much stress. This whole Sandy thing was coming unravelled — she was so so violent, he thought. And what about Sarah? And that weird voyeur across the way. He had this feeling that she was not the only one watching. He decided to take another look at Bruno's map. This time, under a different light, he saw the date, November 30, 2015. But then he noticed something else: What he had mistaken for arrows were, in fact, something different, something more sinister.
8. Moments later, there is a knock on Kevin's door. Two men — a blind man and a rather large, ominous looking brute, The Henchman, — come in. The blind man demands Kevin's map and says is a map that can alter reality. The brute threatens Kevin who hands it over. The blind man feels the map and then returns it, asking The Henchman to wipe it clean of his fingerprints. "This is not a map that shows you where to go," the blind man says, "this map tells them how to find you." The blind man tells the brute to hurry that they don't want to be here when "they" come. Kevin gets worried when told he doesn't have much time.
9. Kevin knew he needed help. He decided that he would go to his neighbor's, the one that had been watching him. She would help, he thought. But as he went to the woman's door, he heard Sarah call to him. She, too, had found a map.
10. Maha opened the door and they both were shocked. They had been transported, in that single moment, to some deserted street. She, too, had a map, which she fingered in her pocket. Suddenly, a screeching tire, car stopping, Sarah jumps out. "Get in," she said. Kevin jumped in. So did Maha. Suddenly they were traveling as if though space, their bodies compressed, disorienting feeling, and they were suddenly in a boat in the middle of an icy lake.
11. It was not a lake after all. It was a tidal bay far to the north in Nunabut, what was once called the Northwest Territories. They were in a freighter canoe and soon found some tea and biscuits. Kevin opened another package of what he thought was food, but inside was not what was expected — a star chart, a thimble full of sand and a double-one domino.
12. In the darkness Kevin struggles to find a light. There is too much ice in Frobisher Bay and Sarah worries they will hit an iceberg and sink. Suddenly there is a grating sound — they have hit a giant ice flow — and they see, not too far away, blue and green lights. Kevin, though, has lost the domino. They set out for the lights.
13. The story shifts back to Rhonda, a young woman charged with cleaning the Quill and Ink, the pub where the odd machine gun shooting had taken place the night before or was it the night before? Rhonda reflects on how it was the wildest night in years at the bar, a place where the map jumpers come. She, too, was a map jumper. As she sweeps up she notices one of the customers, a blind man, going through a collection of maps in the corner. He pulled one from the stack, spread it on the table and seemed to be more feeling the map, listening to the map, than seeing it. Suddenly she felt light-headed; while she hadn't jumped in years, she felt everything go whacko, the familiar whoosh of air, the darkness, the disorientation.
14. Kevin awakened. He did not know he was sleeping. He was back at home. The dream stealers, the extractors were after him again. He heard swimming sounds. He was again in the hands of the brute, the blind man's henchman who slung him, like a missile, and suddenly Kevin found himself in Singapore.
15. Writerly interlude: This chapter's writer notes: "So here we have a mess. Characters have gone missing into the wings and we have these curious map jumpers that won't stay put. Worse, we have a crisis of structure where the tour bus seems to be overturned and obscured by a fuzzy shrubbery of peril that won't resolve." Here here. The story seemed to be unravelling. Are we in Frobisher Bay, England, Singapore? And the essential question: Did Kevin fix Sarah's Ukulele? (When did it get broken?)
16. It seems that the jumpers jump not only in place, but time, too, Sarah and Kevin end up in Times Square.
17. Their walking boots and worn traveling clothes were so out of place. They felt disoriented. They consulted their map, and, looking up, are suddenly stunned by what they see coming towards them on the sidewalk Peter Pan. Wendy. Oh Good. Where's Hook? They went for tea. And ran into two friends, Smidgy and Wry.
18. In the tea room, Kevin suddenly became Keith. Sarah became Haras. Is this time to call the Continuity Police? Or do the maps let them jump into other persona, too? They see the blind man. They confront him. The old man demands the "other" map. If they find it, they can save their friend's map. They do not have it.
19. Wry has insights: Time is a flat circle. The maps are not from the future, the maps are alive. They allow any of the characters to change anything any time. Handy.
20. Little did anyone know. Kevin's initial paranoia of being watched WAS justified: Superman and Supergirl were watching, a.k.a. Kal and Kara. They had noted that Kevin and Sarah and Maha and Smidgy and Wry were all experiencing what the super-beasts' super-intellects understood: The maps represented a kind of fourth-dimension actuality based on something or other and that by soaking the maps in water, they would see a new way of looking at the world. But quick, they just made their way to Hawaii.
21. The Uke lives! In Hawaii they heard the sound of Ukulele and all became right in the world. The map was still with Kevin. And they saw what they thought was a Uke floating in the ocean. No, wait, it was only a turtle. Everyone felt sleepy.
22. The crew bumps into George Harrison. And a blinding white light. "We are here," a voice whispered.
23. And here comes John Lennon.
24. George reveals his philosophy: "Maps are not geography."
25. John reveals his philosophy: "I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
26. Timothy Leary is at the root of it all. General Buck and his cronies see all. The other map is found. Fade to Dark.
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2010.07.07 - The Mercury Post - The Adventures of Bumblefoot: TheMerc Talks to Ron Thal
by Blackstar Tue Aug 24, 2021 12:54 pm
The Adventures of Bumblefoot: TheMerc Talks to Ron Thal
by Felipe on Jul.07, 2010
Infectious? Yes, but no hemorrhoid cream is needed for this case of Bumblefoot. "It goes back to when I was helping [his wife] study to become a vet," says Ron, "that's where I came across the names of the animal diseases."
In addition to impressive solo album releases and collaborative work throughout his career, Ron's work has been featured on videogames such as Wild Woody (SEGA, 1996), Outlaw Volleyball (XBox 2003) and Test Drive – Eve Of Destruction (PS2 2004) as well as television on MXC, That Metal Show and more. Ron is also preparing to release a new original song for the popular videogame Rockband, "Right now we have the song "Guitars SUCK" in play-testing to be released through Rockband Network, it's set up for version 2 of the game." The makers of Rockband recently announced the introduction of the new 'pro' controllers to be available with the upcoming third installment of the game due out for the 2010 holiday season. The new 'pro' controllers are meant to teach 'real' guitar through the game, as they will feature a full size fret board and the option to use a real electric guitar as optional controller for the game. The new controller format is bound to add a challenging edge to Ron's tunes, "I plan on releasing more songs for Rockband, and when Rockband 3 comes out end of this year I'd like to keep up with the most current format if possible." But that's not all! Ron is also going through final preparations to re-release his acclaimed debut album The Adventures of Bumblefoot in August as well as a tab book personally transcribed by him. "It was an incredible challenge" he admits, "it took 6 months of listening to every guitar track singled out, re-learning what I played and exactly how I played it, and writing out 200 pages of TAB, musical notation, fingers, picking, everything for every note I played on the album." All this coming from a guy who allegedly Can't Play The Blues.
His tenure in the current incarnation of Guns n'Roses, including contributions on the band's anticipated release Chinese Democracy (2008), is the latest addition to an already well-rounded resume. Despite an impressive portfolio that would make almost any musician green with envy, Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal is an abnormally normal guy who not only takes the DIY philosophy to heart but also is notorious for his constant interaction with his fans. "I enjoy meeting everyone, getting to know them." Even with the hectic and often unpredictable Gn'R tour schedule Ron would often find time to meet fans outside the hotel, at venues and wherever he was spotted, often posting numerous witty Facebook updates of his Adventures. As a true independent artist, Ron also handles his own accounting, publicity and bookings. "It's a constant battle to get things done," he adds, "more things are added to the "To Do list" faster than you can check things off." Ron has not only contributed to the long awaited Guns n' Roses release Chinese Democracy but he has also found time in between to release an original album and an acoustic EP (Abnormal and Barefoot EP 2008) while concurrently working with heavyweights such as Overkill, Anthrax and Exodus (just to name a few) at his private studio in central New Jersey, an unassuming house near Princeton that Ron has renovated into a studio. He describes the place as just "an old house where I go to make noise." However, the studio is a busy place, boasting visitors such as Zakk Wylde and Dream Theatre while adding video production to the services provided.
"I love challenges," he adds, and it is this love for challenges that led a young Ron Thal to learn Eddie VanHalen's legendary instrumental song Eruption, a challenging benchmark of shred skills to any guitarist, however young Ron took it a step further and after learning the song from the top he decided to learn it backwards too! "It goes back to being 12, being so inspired by Eddie Van Halen, I learned Eruption and then flipped the tape reels in the cassette copy I had of it and learned the song backwards." And though it was KISS' 100,000 Years that made Ron want to pick up a guitar and play it was EVH's iconic instrumental that inspired him. It started with learning Eruption backwards and quickly evolved into modifying and creating his own gear, "it was hearing Eddie Van Halen at that age that inspired this" he adds "–I'd read how he'd modify his guitars and I started coming up with my own weird modifications for my guitars." This fascination continues, showcased on some of Ron's most iconic guitars such as his "Cheese" and "Bumblefoot" models, which he chopped up himself, or his "Hand" model, which was cut by Tom Cannalonga.
Ron has also toured with iconic punk-rock guitarist Lita Ford, "I had a lot of fun on the Lita tour, it was with my solo band drummer Dennis Leeflang, and friends of mine – there was a lot of laughing and fun." Ron keeps some of his gear consistent between tour and solo appearances, "With Lita we usually had a rented Marshall half-stack and a Les Paul waiting for me at gigs, and I'd bring one of my Vigier guitars, a wah pedal, a Tube Screamer & a Boss delay pedal. Sometimes we'd have an Engl Invader100 head whenever possible, which is what I use with GNR."
Ron's material is available online at www.baldfreak.com/store.html as well as on Guns and Roses' 2008 studio album Chinese Democracy.
http://www.bumblefoot.com/press/20100807_-_TheMercuryPost/20100807_-_TheMercuryPost.htm


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package roles

import (
	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud"
	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/pagination"
)

// ListOptsBuilder allows extensions to add additional parameters to
// the List request
type ListOptsBuilder interface {
	ToRoleListQuery() (string, error)
}

// ListOpts provides options to filter the List results.
type ListOpts struct {
	// DomainID filters the response by a domain ID.
	DomainID string `q:"domain_id"`

	// Name filters the response by role name.
	Name string `q:"name"`
}

// ToRoleListQuery formats a ListOpts into a query string.
func (opts ListOpts) ToRoleListQuery() (string, error) {
	q, err := gophercloud.BuildQueryString(opts)
	return q.String(), err
}

// List enumerates the roles to which the current token has access.
func List(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, opts ListOptsBuilder) pagination.Pager {
	url := listURL(client)
	if opts != nil {
		query, err := opts.ToRoleListQuery()
		if err != nil {
			return pagination.Pager{Err: err}
		}
		url += query
	}

	return pagination.NewPager(client, url, func(r pagination.PageResult) pagination.Page {
		return RolePage{pagination.LinkedPageBase{PageResult: r}}
	})
}

// Get retrieves details on a single role, by ID.
func Get(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, id string) (r GetResult) {
	_, r.Err = client.Get(getURL(client, id), &r.Body, nil)
	return
}

// CreateOptsBuilder allows extensions to add additional parameters to
// the Create request.
type CreateOptsBuilder interface {
	ToRoleCreateMap() (map[string]interface{}, error)
}

// CreateOpts provides options used to create a role.
type CreateOpts struct {
	// Name is the name of the new role.
	Name string `json:"name" required:"true"`

	// DomainID is the ID of the domain the role belongs to.
	DomainID string `json:"domain_id,omitempty"`

	// Extra is free-form extra key/value pairs to describe the role.
	Extra map[string]interface{} `json:"-"`
}

// ToRoleCreateMap formats a CreateOpts into a create request.
func (opts CreateOpts) ToRoleCreateMap() (map[string]interface{}, error) {
	b, err := gophercloud.BuildRequestBody(opts, "role")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if opts.Extra != nil {
		if v, ok := b["role"].(map[string]interface{}); ok {
			for key, value := range opts.Extra {
				v[key] = value
			}
		}
	}

	return b, nil
}

// Create creates a new Role.
func Create(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, opts CreateOptsBuilder) (r CreateResult) {
	b, err := opts.ToRoleCreateMap()
	if err != nil {
		r.Err = err
		return
	}
	_, r.Err = client.Post(createURL(client), &b, &r.Body, &gophercloud.RequestOpts{
		OkCodes: []int{201},
	})
	return
}

// UpdateOptsBuilder allows extensions to add additional parameters to
// the Update request.
type UpdateOptsBuilder interface {
	ToRoleUpdateMap() (map[string]interface{}, error)
}

// UpdateOpts provides options for updating a role.
type UpdateOpts struct {
	// Name is the name of the new role.
	Name string `json:"name,omitempty"`

	// Extra is free-form extra key/value pairs to describe the role.
	Extra map[string]interface{} `json:"-"`
}

// ToRoleUpdateMap formats a UpdateOpts into an update request.
func (opts UpdateOpts) ToRoleUpdateMap() (map[string]interface{}, error) {
	b, err := gophercloud.BuildRequestBody(opts, "role")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if opts.Extra != nil {
		if v, ok := b["role"].(map[string]interface{}); ok {
			for key, value := range opts.Extra {
				v[key] = value
			}
		}
	}

	return b, nil
}

// Update updates an existing Role.
func Update(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, roleID string, opts UpdateOptsBuilder) (r UpdateResult) {
	b, err := opts.ToRoleUpdateMap()
	if err != nil {
		r.Err = err
		return
	}
	_, r.Err = client.Patch(updateURL(client, roleID), &b, &r.Body, &gophercloud.RequestOpts{
		OkCodes: []int{200},
	})
	return
}

// Delete deletes a role.
func Delete(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, roleID string) (r DeleteResult) {
	_, r.Err = client.Delete(deleteURL(client, roleID), nil)
	return
}

// ListAssignmentsOptsBuilder allows extensions to add additional parameters to
// the ListAssignments request.
type ListAssignmentsOptsBuilder interface {
	ToRolesListAssignmentsQuery() (string, error)
}

// ListAssignmentsOpts allows you to query the ListAssignments method.
// Specify one of or a combination of GroupId, RoleId, ScopeDomainId,
// ScopeProjectId, and/or UserId to search for roles assigned to corresponding
// entities.
type ListAssignmentsOpts struct {
	// GroupID is the group ID to query.
	GroupID string `q:"group.id"`

	// RoleID is the specific role to query assignments to.
	RoleID string `q:"role.id"`

	// ScopeDomainID filters the results by the given domain ID.
	ScopeDomainID string `q:"scope.domain.id"`

	// ScopeProjectID filters the results by the given Project ID.
	ScopeProjectID string `q:"scope.project.id"`

	// UserID filterst he results by the given User ID.
	UserID string `q:"user.id"`

	// Effective lists effective assignments at the user, project, and domain
	// level, allowing for the effects of group membership.
	Effective *bool `q:"effective"`
}

// ToRolesListAssignmentsQuery formats a ListAssignmentsOpts into a query string.
func (opts ListAssignmentsOpts) ToRolesListAssignmentsQuery() (string, error) {
	q, err := gophercloud.BuildQueryString(opts)
	return q.String(), err
}

// ListAssignments enumerates the roles assigned to a specified resource.
func ListAssignments(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, opts ListAssignmentsOptsBuilder) pagination.Pager {
	url := listAssignmentsURL(client)
	if opts != nil {
		query, err := opts.ToRolesListAssignmentsQuery()
		if err != nil {
			return pagination.Pager{Err: err}
		}
		url += query
	}
	return pagination.NewPager(client, url, func(r pagination.PageResult) pagination.Page {
		return RoleAssignmentPage{pagination.LinkedPageBase{PageResult: r}}
	})
}

// AssignOpts provides options to assign a role
type AssignOpts struct {
	// UserID is the ID of a user to assign a role
	// Note: exactly one of UserID or GroupID must be provided
	UserID string `xor:"GroupID"`

	// GroupID is the ID of a group to assign a role
	// Note: exactly one of UserID or GroupID must be provided
	GroupID string `xor:"UserID"`

	// ProjectID is the ID of a project to assign a role on
	// Note: exactly one of ProjectID or DomainID must be provided
	ProjectID string `xor:"DomainID"`

	// DomainID is the ID of a domain to assign a role on
	// Note: exactly one of ProjectID or DomainID must be provided
	DomainID string `xor:"ProjectID"`
}

// UnassignOpts provides options to unassign a role
type UnassignOpts struct {
	// UserID is the ID of a user to unassign a role
	// Note: exactly one of UserID or GroupID must be provided
	UserID string `xor:"GroupID"`

	// GroupID is the ID of a group to unassign a role
	// Note: exactly one of UserID or GroupID must be provided
	GroupID string `xor:"UserID"`

	// ProjectID is the ID of a project to unassign a role on
	// Note: exactly one of ProjectID or DomainID must be provided
	ProjectID string `xor:"DomainID"`

	// DomainID is the ID of a domain to unassign a role on
	// Note: exactly one of ProjectID or DomainID must be provided
	DomainID string `xor:"ProjectID"`
}

// Assign is the operation responsible for assigning a role
// to a user/group on a project/domain.
func Assign(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, roleID string, opts AssignOpts) (r AssignmentResult) {
	// Check xor conditions
	_, err := gophercloud.BuildRequestBody(opts, "")
	if err != nil {
		r.Err = err
		return
	}

	// Get corresponding URL
	var targetID string
	var targetType string
	if opts.ProjectID != "" {
		targetID = opts.ProjectID
		targetType = "projects"
	} else {
		targetID = opts.DomainID
		targetType = "domains"
	}

	var actorID string
	var actorType string
	if opts.UserID != "" {
		actorID = opts.UserID
		actorType = "users"
	} else {
		actorID = opts.GroupID
		actorType = "groups"
	}

	_, r.Err = client.Put(assignURL(client, targetType, targetID, actorType, actorID, roleID), nil, nil, &gophercloud.RequestOpts{
		OkCodes: []int{204},
	})
	return
}

// Unassign is the operation responsible for unassigning a role
// from a user/group on a project/domain.
func Unassign(client *gophercloud.ServiceClient, roleID string, opts UnassignOpts) (r UnassignmentResult) {
	// Check xor conditions
	_, err := gophercloud.BuildRequestBody(opts, "")
	if err != nil {
		r.Err = err
		return
	}

	// Get corresponding URL
	var targetID string
	var targetType string
	if opts.ProjectID != "" {
		targetID = opts.ProjectID
		targetType = "projects"
	} else {
		targetID = opts.DomainID
		targetType = "domains"
	}

	var actorID string
	var actorType string
	if opts.UserID != "" {
		actorID = opts.UserID
		actorType = "users"
	} else {
		actorID = opts.GroupID
		actorType = "groups"
	}

	_, r.Err = client.Delete(assignURL(client, targetType, targetID, actorType, actorID, roleID), &gophercloud.RequestOpts{
		OkCodes: []int{204},
	})
	return
}


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Nokian Tyres reports improved sales, operating earnings
NOKIA, Finland (Aug. 2)—Nokian Tyres P.L.C. reported operating earnings of $6.3 million for the January-June period, as both its manufacturing and retailing units were in the black. Sales grew 13 percent to $154.6 million as demand from the U.S, Eastern Europe and Russia picked up. Nokian attributed its rising earnings to price increases, an improved sales mix, lower than expected material costs and increased market shares in the Nordic markets. Nokian said demand for its passenger tires in North America picked up "considerably," whereas sales of forestry tires fell 40 percent. Sales of retread materials in North America developed favorably. Regardless of the downward economic trend, Nokian Tyres said it expects its performance to improve in the second half, and particularly in the final quarter of the year. The company will focus on the upcoming winter tire season, and hone its manufacturing business and tire chain for maximum performance. The forecast is for 10-percent sales growth and improved earnings over fiscal 2000.


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Q: Python unicodeescape issue I worked all day with no result in converting integer to the string of form "\x.." at the Python 3.2. When ascii conversion was used or other I get '0x..' or '\\x..', which is not proper for me.
Any bytes or unicode ("\u92") adding operations results with "SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: end of string in escape sequence"
>>>bytes([92])
b'\\'

>>>chr(92) + "x" + str(42)
'\\x42'

>>> str(hex(66))
'0x42'

>>>ascii(bytes([255])).replace(r"'b\", "")
File "<stdin>", line 1
   ascii(bytes([255])).replace(r"'b\", "")
                                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> "\x".encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode('ascii')
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: end of string in escape sequence

A: Oy vey...
>>> b'\\x42'.decode('unicode-escape')
'B'

A: I had a hard time reading the question, but I believe this is what you were trying to do.
>>> aString = str('\\') + str(42)
>>> print aString
\42

if you need the x after the \
>>> aString = str('\\') + 'x' + str(42)
>>> print aString
\x42

A: Note that in ascii(bytes([255])).replace(r"'b\", ""), the \ after b escaped the following ", which cause the SyntaxError.
Try escaping \ :
>>>ascii(bytes([255])).replace(r"'b\\", "")

A: >>> chr(92)
'\\'

The result shows 2 slashes, but the string really contains only one. That's just the way the strings are displayed. If you print it you'll see what it really contains.
>>> r"'b\"
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Raw strings are not allowed to end with a \ so that \ can be used to escape a quote in the middle of the string. Not sure I agree with that aspect of Python's design, but more information can be found at Why can't Python's raw string literals end with a single backslash?
>>> "\x"
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: end of string in escape sequence

You started an escape sequence that would identify a character by its hex number, but didn't follow it with a hex number.
Following up on point #1, perhaps this explains your confusion:
>>> chr(92) + "x" + str(42)
'\\x42'
>>> print(chr(92) + "x" + str(42))
\x42

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Haven't had the chance to post in ages - and in fact this will only be a slight return - Bangkok photos up soon, but here's quick Bangkok impressions that I had jotted down on my laptop a week ago and hadn't had time to post - the sea of yellow was really apparent: it's the 60th year of King Bhumipol's ascension, plus the King was undergoing surgery when I was there, and the Thais were all showing their support. Even at the wholesale Bo Be clothes market, down below my hotel. it seemed like the only things on sale were yellow shirts.
I wish I knew some basic Thai - yesterday, at Suan Lum market, I walked around with a Malaysian conference participant, and realised they immediately spoke to him in English, but quite happily tried to chat with me in Thai. At the very least, it would be nice to know what the price they were quoting me in Thai would be! As it stood, I picked up a fake Andy Warhol-style Marilyn Monroe print to hang, and a used copy of the Rolling Stones' Some Girls record (great pullout sleeve). Yes, I sometimes remember my travels via the vinyl I pick up.
Welcome back Daryl. Have been waiting quite expectantly for your posts.
I have been following your blog for quite sometime now and its been a part of my daily morning routine to log in and check out your posts.
I am Vasu from India. Hope you dont mind the intrusion here.
It must be pleasant to know that you are the first thing someone looks at in the morning.
pictures! we (i) demand pictures!
screwy - you want pics, you got pics.
God save our gracious King, long live our noble King ..."