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government, system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. There are many classifications of government. According to the classical formula, governments are distinguished by whether power is held by one man, a few, or a majority. Today, it is common to distinguish between types of government on the basis of institutional organization and the degree of control exercised over the society. Organizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified according to the distribution of power at different levels. It may be unitary—i.e., with the central government controlling local affairs—or it may be federated or confederated, according to the degree of autonomy of local government. The basic law determining the form of government is called the constitution and may be written, as in the United States, or largely unwritten, as in Great Britain. Modern governments perform many functions besides the traditional ones of providing internal and external security, order, and justice; most are involved in providing welfare services, regulating the economy, and establishing educational systems. The extreme case of governmental regulation of every aspect of people's lives is totalitarianism.
See R. M. MacIver, The Web of Government (rev. ed. 1965); S. H. Beer, Patterns of Government (3d ed. 1973); G. A. Almond and G. B. Powell, Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach (1966); S. E. Finer, Comparative Government (1970).
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- the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
n.also paleo-climatology, 1920, from paleo- + climatology. Related: Paleoclimatologist.
- The scientific study of climatic conditions, along with their causes and effects, in the geologic past. These conditions are reconstructed on the basis of evidence found in the geologic record, especially in the form of glacial deposits, fossils, sediments, and rock and ice cores. Because much of the geologic record studied in paleoclimatology predates humans, this research is valuable for weighing the relative influence of human and natural causes of global climate change. It also provides test situations for computerized climate modeling systems used to predict present-day climate changes.

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Analysis: A Lot of Races, But Not as Much Drama
With fewer than 10 weeks remaining until Election Day, almost all of the Texas races for Congress and the Legislature are all but over. Just a handful of competitive races remain.
The elections are coming, but voters in most regions can go back to sleep — at least when it comes to down-ballot contests: Only a handful of legislative and congressional races are competitive.
Here is a safe prediction: Texans will elect a legislature that looks — philosophically, anyway — a lot like the legislature that it is replacing. The same goes for the state's congressional delegation, where only one incumbent faces a serious challenge.
Only two of the 36 members of the delegation are out of the hunt. U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Friendswood, gave up his seat for a failed Senate bid. U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall, lost his re-election bid in a primary runoff with John Ratcliffe.
Thirteen incumbents face only minor party opposition in November. Only one of the remaining districts — the 23rd — is a battlefield: U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine, who is in his first term, is defending a seat he wrested from a Republican who wrested it from a Democrat who defeated a Republican who defeated a Democrat.
That contest has attracted attention from the national party organizations and third-party political groups — a distinction that sets it apart from the state's other 35 congressional seats.
Only 15 of 31 state Senate seats are on the November ballot — senators serve staggered four-year terms — and only one is truly up for grabs. That is the Senate District 10 seat held by Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, who is running for governor. The district favors Republicans in statewide elections, but Democrats are hoping Libby Willis, their candidate, can overcome Konni Burton, a Republican.
Several other state senators will not be back, having decided not to run or having been turned back by primary voters, and a couple of others — Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, and Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio — will give up their seats if they win races for higher office. Those would be filled in special elections. Barring major upsets, Davis's district appears to offer the only opportunity for Republicans to pick up a seat.
That leaves the Texas House, where the potential for electoral drama is light indeed.
The House has 150 seats. The elections for 63 of the seats are over, either because only one candidate filed or because only one party ran candidates and the primaries ended the argument.
In another 40 seats, only one major party candidate remains, opposed only by someone from the Green or Libertarian parties, neither of which has yet posed a real threat to a Republican or a Democrat in a Texas legislative race.
Each of the remaining 47 races has both a Republican and a Democrat on the ballot, but that does not make them competitive: Thanks to redistricting, most of those contests are in districts drawn to strongly favor one party or the other.
Only 10 seats appear to be up for grabs, something that could change if any particular candidate is exceptional, either in a good or bad way. A few of those contests overlap the precincts contested in the Senate race to replace Davis, which could increase turnout.
Half of the 10 have Democratic incumbents, including one — Celia Israel of Austin — who took office after a January runoff in which she beat the Republican she will again face in November. Two contests are for seats held by Republicans who lost their primaries. And three of the Democratic incumbents in those tight races are running in districts where Republicans have an edge in races at the top of the ballot. In a midterm election with an unpopular Democrat in the White House, those Democrats could be at even greater risk.
Voters looking at the overall picture should not expect much change in the numbers. Republicans could gain a seat in the congressional delegation, where they have a 24-12 advantage now. That could happen in the Senate, too, where the party has a 19-12 edge over the Democrats. In the House, either party could pick up as many as five seats. Either way, the Republicans, with a current 95-55 majority, will remain in control.
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Wild Goose: A6 greetings card
In modern Celtic tradition the Holy Spirit is represented as a bird, but not the peaceful and serene dove landing on Jesus at his baptism.
The Wild Goose tells a different side of the Holy Spirit. To begin with, wild geese aren't controllable, you can't restrain a wild goose and bend it to your will. They're raucous and loud, unlike the sweet and calming cooing of a dove, a goose's call is strong, challenging, strident and unnerving – and just a bit scary.
In much the same way the Spirit of God can be demanding and unsettling and at times even a little scary.
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Follow Him: A4 signed printCreativity, Spiritual GrowthWords: Follow Him Background: Artist Mary Fleeson tells us...'This is a call to follow Jesus, His way to the Father. Interspersed with the meandering of life and time depicted by the woven knotwork we see others who have followed and from whom we can learn more about God and how to follow Him. The characters are Zaccheus the tax collector; Saul/Paul who had a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus; Jesus' disciples who left everything to follow; the shepherds who dared to visit a new born King; the wise men from the east who followed a star for years, knowing that it was God's sign to the world; Brendan who left his home to go wherever God would take him and Aidan whose passion for God enabled him to communicate with the barbarous Northumbrians!' Will you follow Him...wherever He leads? Printing and Sizing: This item is 210mm x 297mm and is printed on 300gsm card stock using our in-house printer. Each print is individually signed by Mary Fleeson and is packaged in a cellophane wrapper with a descriptive backing sheet explaining more about the piece and the Scriptorium.£12.50
As the Touch: A4 signed printCreativity, Spiritual GrowthWords: Embrace me Lord As the loving parent to a new born babe; As the gentle wave on a windswept shore; As the summer breeze lifts the soaring bird; As the fall of rain on the parched garden soil; As the pure note of song caresses an ear; As the touch on the face from a lover; As the clear starlight falling on a deep, still lake; As the warming sunlight on a butterfly wing; As the brushstroke on a painters canvas; As the soft hug of a much loved toy; As the familiar words of a memorised poem Embrace me O Lord Background: An encouragement to invite God to be intimate with every aspect of our life. Printing and Sizing: This item is 210mm x 297mm and is printed on 300gsm card stock£12.50
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It's a venerable optical illusion, one of my favorites: look at it one way and it's a rabbit, look another and it's a duck. Here some crafty taxidermist has recreated the effect in real life; although I question his methods.
Here's the illusion as first conceived by Joseph Jastrow that first appeared in Harper's Weekly in :
The delicately balanced ambiguity of the image, the neutral positioning of the eye; it's an ingeniously crafted portrait that appears to be two things at once.
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That real life hybrid above, though? That really is two things—a duck bill united in unholy taxidermy with the back of a rabbit head. Creepy... but effective.
So how do you create a famous optical illusion in real life? You cheat, and do a darn good job of it. [Forgetomori via BoingBoing]


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There are a lot of various affordable bicycle insurance plan bargains to choose from, depending on what motorcycle driver want to ensure and what he may pay for. In which in case you commence?
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Initially you should consider if he have adequate care in case there is a street incident comes about. In most claims the normal cycle insurance coverage law incorporate home injury liability and physical trauma liability insurance for motorcycle user. You can find boundaries binded with motorbike insurance quote which is often advised through the bike insurance coverage agents that you just guard you to ultimately the fullest extent by purchasing the largest boundaries that one could pay for. Culpability solution protect other people that you cause damage. It tend not to normally include you, passions or motor vehicle in any respect. Property harm accountability addresses you in case your motorcycle injuries another individual car. Generally it can be their motorbike, but it might be a fence, a car port or any other residence damaged in auto accident. It is a great idea to get an ample amount of this cycle insurance coverage to protect the quantity of damage your motorcycle might because of another motorist.
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Physical injury liability insurance is required in many claims however some no-fault state like Florida or Kansas usually do not require it. Be it essental to status or otherwise not it is actually recommended to buy this coverage and again using the top restrictions you can afford. Bodily trauma option safeguard other people bodily traumas or loss of life for which you have reached-wrong doing. Creating motorcycle insurance policy promises for bodily damage may be for such things as medicare insurance charges, lack of earnings or suffering and pain. In the case of a critical conflict, you want a number of insurance to protect a pretension against you in a court action. It is therefore a succeeding concept (and often an organization offer you) to achieve the sufficient measure of insurance for your mobiles.
As we described there are exclusions to any or all condition needing body damage culpability option. As an illustration in Utah or even in New Jersey drivers do not have to make a monthly payments for this option per state laws and regulations, unless of course they problem in to a electric motor accident with traumas. Then if they did get it, body injury accountability gives protection if he was in the wrong in a car incident along with the motorist inside the other motor vehicle get personal injuries has ended the individual injuries insurance coverage. Bodily injuries accountability covers personal injuries to human body only and when you have to locate lower price motorbike insurance rates for added insurance, you have to use ins dealer in your state. If he did not have this approach the other celebration has the ability to sue as well as the express may placed a fabric accountability on his personalized solution, that he would must carry for three years. That financial accountability is called an SR22, or major risk motorcycle insurance policy task for convicted car owners. So even in a state for example New Jersey where this quotation will not be compulsory it is much better to get it in case of generating any sort of accident with affected individuals instead of not leaving you and the passengers in jeopardy plus getting essential to experience a SR-22 certainty.
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Uninsured driver physical damage (UMBI) is the other deal you might need to comprehend. Uninsured vehicle driver prepare covers you when the other vehicle driver was at-wrong doing and also you have been harmed and so they have been not insured. UMBI covers both you and your travellers for personal accidents, injuries, or mortgage brought on by an at-wrong doing uninsured driver. In case you are associated with motorbike automobile accident where body else is at fault but has no pieces of paper, your protecting motor bike insurance company will deal with your treatment bills as much as the maximum on the contract with insurance provider.
Additionally there is under covered driver physical injury (UNDUM) which handles your household for accidents, bike injuries or loss of life brought on by the recklessness of a car owner with limited insurance plan. In case you have a road accident with a person whose security cannot satisfy your injuries, your motorbike insurance coverage will meet the distinction approximately the maximum reduce of reported culpability.
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I had to do some brazing work in a really confined area. There was only 1 inch of clearance between the work and a thin plastic sheeting. Normally, I would have just dropped some scrap plate behind the area to protect from radiant heat damage. Because of the plastic, I was afraid that would not be enough of a shield, and re-radiated heat would melt the backing. So, I built this little do-dad. It's 6"x6" and 1/2" thick. The picture are pretty self explanatory. I put the tread side of the plate against the frame so that the space between the treads would make several exhaust ports along each side. It's not pretty, but I only have about 15 minutes and a couple dollars in it, so function won over form. Anyway, thought this or at least the idea might help somebody out and save stuff from getting burned or melted. Oh, it does use a LOT of air. SSS
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Excellant Idea. I think I will use a section of pipe cut the length to hang over the High pressure hoses I have to work around.
Thanks for the Idea
I didn't even notice the smoke flume until after I posted the pic. I try to make sure my pics are of the freshest quality Anyway, the regulation kinda depends on each situation. I didn't on the one I built it for originally, simply because it was such a delicate setting and I wanted to make sure it was working good. I have turned it down to just a good "breeze" when it was not so crucial. Although you are right on the ear plugs! Now that I've had it a little while, I wish I had put a little more effort in it's construction. I figured it was just going to be a one time use thing and it'd end up getting scraped. Now it looks like it will become a permanent fixture in the old torch tool box. Isn't that the way it usually works? SSSBobcat 250, MM 210, Syncrowave 180, Spectrum 375
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The Chief Rabbinate has been given a list of more than 60 recent converts to Judaism who continue to believe in Jesus – and are active missionaries.
Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz, chairman and founder of the anti-missionary and anti-assimilation Yad L'Achim organization, met in recent days with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and provided him with the list. Rabbi Amar was reportedly "shocked" at seeing that the Chief Rabbinate had authorized the conversions.
An immediate solution was found for the future, however. Rabbi Lifshitz presented Rabbi Amar with a list of 17 questions that should be asked of any prospective convert. Under the assumption that the missionaries will either not lie straight out, or that the specific questions will help detect the lies, it is hoped that missionaries will be spotted and weeded out from the conversion rolls.
Yad L'Achim had prepared the list of names, ID numbers and addresses of more than 60 people who were active in missionary groups before, during and after their long conversion process to Judaism. The "converts" were then accepted as members of religious communities, and their children were accepted into religious schools.
The meeting between the two rabbis was held in advance of the anticipated Aliyah [immigration to Israel] of many Bnei Menashe members to Israel, amongst whom it is suspected are a significant number of missionaries. The questions to be asked of them will enable weeding them out while resulting in the legitimization of the conversion of the remaining members.


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Every 9 seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten in the United States. You can help fight the battle against domestic violence by patronizing or donating to My Sister's Place (MSP) – a unique family thrift shop located in Ansonia, CT. Our shop offers quality new or "gently used" clothing, furniture, and household items to the public at discount prices. All proceeds support UCDVS programs.
There are several ways to help support My Sister's Place and The Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence Services. One way is to patronize our bright, well stocked store located at 380 Main Street in downtown Ansonia, CT. My Sister's Place offers a large selection of high quality new and/or "gently used" family clothing and shoes, appliances, housewares, furniture, toys, and other items at discount prices and is a terrific outlet for bargains all year round. Whether you're decorating a new apartment, dressing for a new job, or outfitting the kids for school, you're sure to find what you need at My Sister's Place.
Another way you can help support My Sister's Place, and the fight against domestic violence, is to donate your new or gently used clothing, furniture*, and household items to our store. Whether you're an individual or an organization, have just a few items or a whole truck load, My Sister's Place welcomes any donation (as long as items are in good, salable condition).
My Sister's Place no longer accepts donations of upholstered furniture, stuffed animals, or infant car seats due to health and safety risks.
MSP does not provide pick-up of furniture donations.
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Corporations/businesses wishing to make a difference in the community by supporting the My Sister's stores can take advantage of a unique and hassle-free donation opportunity – the My Sister's Place Corporate Drop Bin Program.
My Sister's Place Corporate Drop Bins collect large donations of clothing and household items from corporations/businesses and their interested employees via collection bins that the corporation/business agrees to host at one or more of their employee work sites. The bins are provided and set up free of charge by My Sister's Place staff and are emptied on a regularly scheduled basis. All employers need do is encourage employees to utilize the bins to donate their unwanted, but good quality items to My Sister's Place.
Corporations/businesses interested in participating in The My Sister's Place Corporate Drop Bin Program should contact BHcare's Development Office at (203) 736-2601.
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In order to claim a tax deduction, the U. S. Internal Revenue Services requires donors to value their items when filing their tax returns. Click the links below for a list of commonly donated items along with their estimated values. Keep in mind that the values are simple estimates and your items may fall outside of these guidelines.
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It would be nice if there were an R package, along the lines of RMySQL, for MongoDB. For now there is not – so, how best to get data from a MongoDB database into R?
One option is to retrieve JSON via the MongoDB REST interface and parse it using the rjson package. Assuming, for example, that you have retrieved your CiteULike collection in JSON format from this URL:
– and saved it to a database named citeulike in a collection named articles, you can fetch the first 5 articles into R like so:
library(RCurl) library(rjson) db <- "http://localhost:28017/citeulike/articles/?limit=5" articles <- fromJSON(getURL(db)) articles$rows[[1]]$title # [1] "A computational genomics pipeline for prokaryotic sequencing projects"
That works, but you may not want to use the MongoDB REST interface: for example, it may be slow for large queries or there might be security concerns.
MongoDB has both C and Java drivers. R has packages that interface with these languages: .C/.Call and rJava, respectively. My only problem is that I can write what I know about C and Java on the back of a postage stamp.
Not to be deterred, I took the approach that has served me well my whole professional life: wing it, using what I could glean from Google searches and the Web. In the end, using Java in R to connect with MongoDB was surprisingly easy. Here's a basic how-to.
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Why Do Onions Make You Cry? How Chemicals Work in Food [Infographic]
We eat. It's as much a part of being human as breathing. But unlike breathing, food is much more fun, and complicated. Right? We have so many flavors and colors and textures of foods to choose from. But with that come all kinds of weird effects as a result of the chemical compounds in food: Why do onions make you cry? Why does asparagus makes your pee stink? If you have ever wondered about these weird effects of food, you're not alone.


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LakeFest signup coming up for world record float raft
LACONIA -- On Saturday, September 7, at Weirs Beach's Endicott Rock Park in Laconia, LakeFest attendees will try to capture a Guinness World Record for NH.
LakeFest: Hands Across the Water is a family-friendly educational and entertainment event highlighted by a Guinness World Record attempt for largest raft of canoes and kayaks. The NH Lakes Association (NH LAKES) aims to get 2,000 canoes and kayaks into the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee to break the current record of 1,902 boats.
Online registration is available at www.nhlakefest.org for just $15 per canoe or kayak until August 31st; on September 1st registration increases to $20 per boat. Reasonably priced canoe and kayak rental options are available by pre-registering online; reserved boats will be onsite for pick-up the morning of Saturday, September 7th. All online registrants are automatically entered to win a bounty of great prizes and getaways provided by generous LakeFest supporters.
Volunteers are needed to help NH LAKES prepare for and host LakeFest 2013. Interested volunteers can visit www.nhlakefest.org, select the "volunteer" option during online registration, or call 603.226.0299; all volunteers receive free LakeFest registration.
Through its Lake Host program, NH LAKES has spent the past 12 years inspecting watercraft for plant fragments at boat ramps around the state. With aquatic nuisance species like Asian clams and zebra muscles threatening to invade our waters, NH LAKES needs the public's help.
The imminent threat of these invasive species is an urgent call to action for NH LAKES and those who love NH's waters to spread the word about the Clean, Drain, and Dry! protocol. LakeFest 2013, in addition to being a fun-filled day of paddling and Guinness World Record attempting, is also a critical opportunity to share information about the important practice of cleaning, draining, and drying boats to keep NH's lakes and ponds pristine.
The New Hampshire Lakes Association (NH LAKES) is dedicated to protecting New Hampshire lakes and their watersheds through education and advocacy. Since 2002, hundreds of paid and volunteer Lake Hosts have conducted more than 505,000 courtesy boat inspections and have made more than 1,256 "saves" of aquatic nuisance plant fragments that were about to enter or had just left a waterbody.


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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Forks, forks , forks.
Getting caught up on my work these days involves building all the forks and stems that have been on order , some since June ! I'm probably known as a guy who delivers custom frames pretty much on schedule and is horribly slow on building forks-even more so on stems. It just so happens that my shop is efficiently laid out for building frames but not so for smaller stuff. All this said, I rarely refuse an order for a fork-I just have a caveat : You can't be in a hurry if you want me to build you a stem or a fork.
The black fork above has one of the remaining few Ritchey/Bridgestone crowns out of my collection. I think I have four more out of the original 18 or so that I bought back in about 1995.
This unicrown fork will be used with a 29" wheel but on a 26" wheel single speed. The fork with the wheel will add up to about the same height as a 26" wheel in a 100 MM shock fork. I have been thinking about doing this conversion with my single speed.......might be fun to have that big wheel and no boing.
Here's a detail of the disc mount and the little cable guide on the back of the blade. I used some larger diameter rod for the 1/4" thick plate on the mount. I think it's easier to weld with and there won't be a problem with anything not staying together under hard braking.
Here's another crown with a finite supply. Kirk Pacenti is selling his bikelugs.com business so all these nice bits he has been selling might possibly be a thing of the past. This is a great resource that framebuilders are losing.....maybe we just didn't support him enough with our dollars. It's tough for me as there is little that I build with lugs,crowns and the like. Ironically, I have built more lugged forks in the last year than in the previous 7-8.
This Paris-Brest crown is really a terrific design and it will be sad to no longer be able to use it.There's plenty of metal on this crown , so much that I'm sure one could build a fork for off-road with it and feel sure that if anything bent in an accident, it would not be the crown. I have to use a rosebud tip on the torch...the largest flame at my disposal to heat up this massive casting.
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- FelletBrazing said...
Great looking forks man!
That really is sad about BikeLugs.com
I was stoked that he was able/willing to have that crown made for him/all of us... never got a chance to use it for one of my forks, but it was on the "I can't wait to try that one" list. Sad to see someone with that much knowledge, willing to put so much into the frame building community, not be able to sustain what they have to offer.
- November 29, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Nick Hansen said...
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- November 30, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Andrea Dinovo said...
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- November 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- commoncents said...
VERY COOL! Glad I found your blog!!
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- November 30, 2010 at 1:58 PM
- cn-smile said...
thanks for your sharing
- November 30, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Congrats for being named a blog of note. Come on by when you have a few minutes!
- November 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- Buscas Online said...
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- December 1, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- Cucipata said...
I'm a bike fanatic too. Like the blog. Good luck!
- December 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- beth said...
Okay, I haven't ridden my bike for over 5 years, and yet I just read every word of this post and enjoyed it. Funny how that works sometimes.
- December 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Wow i am a biker. I like your invention dudes. I want to buy your product but your too far from our country. God bless you.
- December 2, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Shaun said...
Love the blog, nice to see some infor from across the pond.
Come take a look at how we ride in the uk
- December 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM
- Rick Henry said...
Nice work. I enjoy the detail in which you describe the process of making these forks.
- December 3, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- mrdodobrain said...
Hey congratulations for being included in the blogs of note. You too make me inspired in building up my blog(just new). Im gonna follow your blog. And oh by the way i have included your site in my favorite site at my blog. . . here's my blog Eagle Eyes I have also an on-going campaign in making a better world for the disabled persons. . i hope, you and everyone's gonna support it. .
- December 3, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- devil said...
nice 1
- December 5, 2010 at 6:49 AM
This is a really fine peace of work :) my field is motorcycles but your craftmanship caut my eye nice job (y) it seams like you are into details, that is priceless.
- December 6, 2010 at 5:14 PM
- swiggco world said...
Blogs of note ? Wow....i had no idea.Hooray for me ! I guess I'll try to keep it flowing a little better.
- December 7, 2010 at 7:03 PM
this blog really help me to make a good mountain bike.., the details are manage clearly.., great awesome.
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Associate Team Leader
What you'll do... :
Joining us as an Associate Team Leader , you'll support a single retail office during tax season to consistently exceed client expectations and provide daily operations direction for the tax office.
Helping others is what we do best at H&R Block, which means you'll get to see the impact of your work firsthand. You won't prepare taxes in this role, so prior tax preparation experience is not required. You will be a vital part of the team to deliver on our purpose to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere.
You'll begin working a flexible part-time schedule in early December as you ramp up for the busy tax season and transition to a full-time schedule from January through April.
Day to day, you'll...
Support the Multi-Unit Team Leader, serving as onsite point of contact for tax office associates and clients, ensuring quality and consistent execution that will allow us to promote the value of H&R Block
Execute and hold all tax office associates accountable to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) execution and client service experience, with escalation to the Multi-Unit Team Leader and District General Manager as necessary
Serve as point of contact for onsite escalated client service concerns
Ensure clients are scheduled properly and conflicts are resolved, with escalation to the Multi-Unit Team Leader and District General Manager as necessary
Lead the office from the front desk, providing phone coverage and engaging with clients to deliver an outstanding experience
Lead daily activities to ensure that all tax office associates are scheduled, and work is completed according to deadlines, with attention to quality standards, priorities and overall goals
Lead daily huddles and communicate essential information to office associates
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About H&R Block... :
H&R Block's purpose is simple: To provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world.
We are a people company first and a tax company second. People who join H&R Block say it feels like being part of something bigger. A place with an amazing and storied history, but with a strong and urgent focus on the future. Maybe it's how determined, forward thinking and innovative we are, or how accessible our leadership is. We believe it's all those things, and much more.
H&R Block is committed to diversity and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. All qualified applicants are welcomed and encouraged to apply.
It would be even better if you also had... :
Experience supervising or managing people
History of delivering outstanding customer experiences
Bilingual candidates strongly encouraged to apply!
Perks of the job
Being here has its benefits. Our benefit offerings can help you plan for the health, well-being and financial wellness needs for you and your family. At Block, seasonal associate benefits include:
Medical coverage
Retirement savings plans
Tax prep benefit
Other perks like free coffee, flexible hours, collaborative teams and much more!
Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan. Qualifying associates can enroll themselves and/or their eligible dependents in medical and prescription drug coverage; can participate in the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan), the Employee Assistance Program, (virtual) fitness center programs, and the associate discount program; are automatically enrolled in Business Travel Accident Insurance; and receive Associate Tax Prep benefit.
What you'll bring to the team... :
Prior experience working in customer service or similar role
Strong organizational skills and ability to plan and manage day-to-day office operations
Customer-centric mindset and strong communication skills
Computer proficient with the ability to use MS Office
Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Passionate, determined, resilient under stress and a will to win attitude
Able to work a flexible work schedule of 40 hours per week and flexibility based on business needs
High school diploma / equivalent or higher
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Every year, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) reviews the current scientific literature and releases an updated version of its Clinical Practice Recommendations. This year, there have been several important revisions to the guidelines, including the adoption of more individualized recommendations for the frequency of blood glucose monitoring and the switch to a less stringent target for systolic blood pressure (the top number) .
Blood glucose monitoring
The previous recommendation for people with Type 1 or Type 2 taking multiple doses of insulin or using insulin pump therapy had been to check blood glucose levels "three or more times daily." Some insurance companies had interpreted this to mean that allotting three blood glucose test strips per day was sufficient for everyone with diabetes.
The new guidelines for glucose monitoring have been revised to highlight the need for people taking multiple doses of insulin or using an insulin pump to check their blood glucose frequently. In these people, monitoring is now recommended at least before meals and snacks, occasionally after eating, before exercising, at bedtime, when low blood glucose is suspected, and before critical tasks such as driving.
"We're trying to say it's very situation-dependent…both by the patient and the patient's context," Richard Grant, MD, MPH, incoming chair of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, noted in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
For people with Type 2 diabetes who are taking basal insulin only or noninsulin treatments, monitoring blood glucose is still recommended as a potentially helpful tool when coupled with education about how to use the results. Monitoring "is really not any use if it's not being acted on…. If no one looks at the results, there's no sense testing," noted Dr. Grant.
Blood pressure control
Goals for systolic blood pressure have been updated to reflect new evidence suggesting that there may be little benefit — but an increase in risk — in controlling blood pressure tighter than 130/80 mmHg. For most people with diabetes and high blood pressure, the new target is now below 140/80 mmHg. The looser target may allow people to take fewer blood pressure medicines, saving money and reducing the potential for side effects, according to Dr. Robert Ratner, chief scientific and medical officer for the ADA.
Representatives of the ADA note that controlling blood pressure is still vitally important for reducing the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease, and state that the loosening of the systolic target should not be taken to mean that blood pressure control is unimportant. "We really tried to communicate that it's crucially important that everyone with type 2 diabetes have a [systolic] blood pressure down to 140. It's a very important threshold. Changing the recommendation is not meant to imply that excellent blood pressure control is not as much of a priority as it was," according to Dr. Grant.
The revised recommendations note that lower systolic targets may be appropriate for certain people (such as younger individuals) if they can be achieved without "undue treatment burden."
For more information on these and other changes to the Clinical Practice Recommendations — 2013, read the article "New Diabetes Guidelines Ease Systolic Blood Pressure Target" or see the updated guidelines in the journal Diabetes Care. (A summary of all the revision can be found here.)


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Full-time faculty and administrative employees.
It is the policy of Albion College to grant employees paid funeral leave for up to five days in order to make arrangements and attend the funeral of a member of the employee's immediate family. Immediate family includes an employee's spouse, child, stepchild, grandchild, mother, father, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister, grandparent, daughter-in-law, and son-in-law.
Employees are eligible for up to three days paid funeral leave in order to make arrangements and attend the funeral for relatives other than the immediate family.
Upon the death of a member of an employee's family, the employee must notify and request from the employee's supervisor the length of time the employee needs to be absent from work.
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Amid rising tariffs, Dollar Tree starts selling items for more than $1
Dollar Tree is revising its playbook.
The retailer known for selling everything for just $1 is now offering merchandise for more than a buck at about 100 of its stores, according to Business Insider.
The new Dollar Tree Plus! model is being rolled out at the same time rising tariffs are making goods imported from China more expensive. Almost half of the merchandise found in a typical Dollar Tree is sourced from China.
"With its 'Everything's a Dollar' model, Dollar Tree has remained one of the most unique, differentiated and defensible brand concepts in all of value retail," Dollar Tree CEO Gary Philbin said in a news release this week. "However, we have always been a 'test-and-learn' organization that is committed to evaluating all opportunities to deliver great value for our customers while driving long-term value creation."
Based in Virginia, Dollar Tree operates more than 15,000 stores across the U.S.


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Active Naturists present NuDance, a nude dance movement, at FreeForm Festival this weekend! It may sound new to you, but we see it as urban movement going back to its roots 😉
We are about to start regular weekly classes in New York City, so if you are interested, get on our e-mail list for updates and find out the location and timing of the classes. We are launching this project at FreeForm Festival as a part of our theme camp Gymnasium. We plan to have more workshops at other festivals, including Burning Man, and outdoor locations (e.g. Sandy Hook beach), as we see nature as a source of inspiration too.
We see dance as a celebration of human body in movement, and what a better way to celebrate and appreciate it than in the nude? We also think that by removing clothes, we'll get rid of preconceived notions of how we are supposed to move according to the social status and social group associated with clothes; also, different dance styles are usually associated with different attire, whereas we want to give your body full freedom in motion and let you move the way you want irrespective of style. In other words, free your ass, and your mind will follow!
The class is based on various street/urban dance styles, such as hip-hop, breaking, krump, house, etc. Electronic music and various mixes will serve as the musical accompaniment for the class, to get your energy flowing and your heart pumping while you have fun, learn and get a great workout in the process! And while these styles may appear utterly modern, many moves and rhythms are traced back to tribal and folk origins. Thus nudity will only add that authentic, raw feel, as in many tropical cultures, as well as the cradle of European civilization, Ancient Greece, dance was often performed naked.
And as a pleasant side effect, you'll probably learn the moves better than at any other (clothed) class, because you can't cheat your moves naked 😉
Enjoy this preview with our brilliant instructor damoN, and stay tuned for updates! Join the NuDance Movement!


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Washington (CNN) - Herman Cain said Sunday he was joking when he wrote a 2006 column endorsing Tiger Woods for president in 2016.
"That was a joke, okay? Tiger - I - that was a joke," the presidential hopeful said. "Americans got to learn how to have a sense of humor, okay?"
Programming note: GOP presidential candidates next face off at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, October 18, in the CNN Western Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas, Nevada. Submit your questions for the debate here.
The column, which ran on a conservative website run by Cain, reads like a serious argument for the once highly esteemed golfer.
"Tiger will be 40 years old in 2016," Cain wrote. "The Republican Party should begin grooming him now for a run at the White House. His personal attributes and accomplishments on the golf course point to a candidate who will be a problem solver, not a politician."
In the column - written years before Woods became mired in scandal over extra-marital affairs - Cain went on to write that Republicans need an outsider as its future presidential nominee.
"Tiger Woods could be an inspiring figure for the country, the likes of which we have not seen since Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ronald Reagan," Cain wrote, adding that the 2016 candidate should not come from inside the beltway, but "from inside the fairway, for all of us."
But Cain, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, said Sunday he was not being serious when he wrote the op-ed.
"Yeah I can be pretty serious," Cain said to reporters in Washington after an appearance on NBC News. "But also there are some things that, you know, you just kind of take tongue and cheek, and you don't make a big deal of it. Alright?"
- CNN's Laura Koran contributed to this report.
Everything he says that is wrong is a joke, so he says, it time we talk about serious business in times like these.
This is no laughing matter people livehoods are at stake and we need to come together as a country and finish the work that Dr. King began.
Jokesters should be left in a deck of cards
Tiger Woods can't run his own life how could he ever be expected to run a country. I despise Cain but his suggestion iwas clearly a joke.
actually, its a good joke, almost as big a joke as obama, to bad all obama knows how to do is get photo ops, go on vacation and LIE.
The GOP ticket is enough of a joke in and of itself...
We aren't going to be electing a comedian-in-chief.
Get serious Herman and maybe someone will take you seriously.
Herman, the thing about a joke is that it is supposed to be FUNNY. Not head-scratchingly idiotic.
Why is it a joke. Woods is far more qualified to be President than Cain.
Herman Cain, 9-9-9, the Republcian/tparty and the rest of their candidates are the real JOKES. Unfortunately they are also our worst nightmare.
Even with all his baggage (and no one to carry it) He would get my vote before you would.
LOL...dude is lying through his teeth!!! But seriously, why don't you tell the American people the real Joke is you running for President!!!! I mean don't get me wrong we can all think we are called for a greater purpose in life, but sometimes that can be life playing a joke on us. Herman you need to stop letting life play you for a joke!!
Seems pretty obvious that it wasn't a joke, just another odd remark from the casual contender. ZERO chance of becoming president (for good reason). The party needs to get serious and soon. Unfortunately, once again – they fail to produce their best and brightest as a presidential contender, despite the high probability of winning should they do it. Mitch Daniels – no; Chris Christie – no; just the milque toast and the wackos.
It was a joke just like his "9-9-9" Plan AND his candidacy.
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Blind Items Revealed
This B list reality star who is linked to an A list reality family left behind his A list reality star significant other when he and another guy took two women they picked up at a club to the other guy's apartment. Each guy paid for an hour.
The Game/Khloe Kardashian (And a short time later Khloe began hooking up with French Montana)


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Hopefully my final edit... @PeteFromDenver alerted us that Microsoft has added a "Mailbox Address" field to Outlook actions. You can enter the address of the shared mailbox in this field to get back to original functionality. I'm keeping all previous solution details below just in case.
I've accepted the solution provided by @Anonymous on page 3. As a note for future users running into this issue, this solution requires a premium account. This will not be the best solution for a number of users (myself included), but it's the Microsoft-supported fix and (hopefully) the least likely to fail in the future.
For more information on the Graph API solution, check the posts by @jonathanford on pages 5 and 6.
If you do not have a premium account, the solution on page 3 offered by @Mindaugas is your best bet. You will need to add a new connection to Flow for the shared mailbox and then select that account as the connection for your Flow step. @RHCC gives more details on page 4 - you will also most likely need to add a password to the shared mailbox which is not intuitive.
This is by far the easiest solution, but I'm concerned how long it will work before Microsoft breaks functionality in an update. They do not support shared mailbox connections in Flows that don't specifically use that language, which is a frustrating response given how many users were relying on these Flows for their daily business.
Original post below:
Hi all - I'm having an issue with a couple Flows that were previously working without error.
When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox runs in a separate Flow and creates a SharePoint list item. One of the attributes added is the id of the trigger email (MessageId from the triggerBody).
I have two other Flows that will reply to this initial email using Reply to email. The stored MessageId is used to reply to the correct email. This has been working for 4+ months without error, but started failing today with the error shown in the Subject (Item Id doesn't belong to the current mailbox).
Myself and one other user are not having this failure. I had a user who was experiencing the failure check their connections in Flow and all apps were still connected. I also had them check their access to the shared inbox in Outlook and they still had full access.
Has anyone run into something similar or have any suggestions? It seems like it must be a user connection to the shared inbox but I'm not sure what else to look into. Thanks!
**Editing to note that the Get email step is also failing when referencing the ID of an email in a shared mailbox.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Yes - two options for you.
1. Ask your Office 365 Administrator or your organization's Helpdesk if they are able to reset the password for the account. They may look at you a bit strange - you should reference this article. This sort of thing is certainly outside the norm.
2. If you cannot get help internally, escalate a ticket to Microsoft Support if you have not already, explain the issue and ask them to reset the password and provide the credentials to you.
Thanks for the suggestion
You're welcome!
@pmontra : my flow is also failing at the end when I want to mark it as "Read". But if i forward the email it automatically marks it as read, so I forwarded the mail to my personal mailbox and I have rule in my mailbox to delete this email.
@Mindaugas @jonathanford , My shared mailbox is in disabled mode as we don't use for any interaction. For this testing purpose we have enabled, reset the password and then added the connection which started working. But can not keep that Shared Mailbox account in disabled mode and use this? Not sure why Microsoft keep's on changing and breaking existing functionality. Not your fault.
But for Temporary purpose this is working. I need to looks for permanent solution.
Permanent solution is to use the "HTTP with Azure AD" connector or the "HTTP" connector with the Graph API but those connectors are Premium. I have the Premium license but haven't wanted to jump off into that yet.
Really @microsoft,
Everybody pays you lots of money every month and you guys cannot inform us what have you messed up?
Do you really want us to escape to solutions like Nintex or K2?
Please treat your client with respect. This action is commonly used in a lots of organizations around the globe. Please give us some update.
This occurs when you run actions which do not pertain to a shared mailbox.
e.g. Delete email refers to deleting email in your personal mailbox. If you use dynamic content (Message Id) from your shared mailbox, it won't work.
Microsoft should provide more actions for a shared mailbox. Must be some update Microsoft has run to identify this (which is the right thing to do). Most of their updates seem like an afterthought. Having said that, there aren't many better low code products right now. Also, I won't risk running enterprise dependent solutions on power automate.
@Mindaugas my shared mailbox does not have a password. is there a way to connect to it?
@Anonymous glad this worked for you. My shared mailbox does not have a password but users are granted access to it with their specific credentials. How would this solution work in my case?
Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Yes - two options for you.
1. Ask your Office 365 Administrator or your organization's Helpdesk if they are able to reset the password for the account. They may look at you a bit strange - you should reference this article. This sort of thing is certainly outside the norm.
2. If you cannot get help internally, escalate a ticket to Microsoft Support if you have not already, explain the issue and ask them to reset the password and provide the credentials to you.
If you have access to Office Admin, just go to the Users section and find the shared mailbox. Reset the password manually.
thanks @Anonymous -- this worked for me!
I was able to get the support method working today using the Graph API. I figured this is how they want you to interface with things going forward so might as well get it going.
@jonathanford glad you got it working. Could you please share how you did it. I am still having issues.
Does anyone tried using Premium connector? We were given premium license and not allowed to enabled Shared Mailbox for direct conenction.
So the only option left is to go with Premium connector. Not sure exactly about which connector and Steps to achieve this.
My flow.
1. when a new email arrived in Sharedmailbox
2. Get-Attachment V2
3. Copy file to SharePoint Library
Can anyone comment instead of Get-Attachment, which premium connector I have to use to retrieve the attachment?
Hi, I am trying to use the graph api workaround seeing as the approach we've been using has now stopped.
Anyone know what the "me" should be replaced with for a shared mailbox ?
I've tried the email address(es) of the shared mailbox and none seem to work.
Thanks !
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It sounds like the plot of a bad Bruce Willis movie, but some experts are saying it should be a reality.
In order to prepare for massive asteroids that could aim for Earth in the future, researchers should ram a spaceship into a real asteroid to see if the space rock would shift course, scientists say.
The proposal, which was presented Wednesday (Dec. 5) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, would send two spaceships to deflect a small asteroid in a binary (double asteroid) system coming toward Earth in 2022. One spaceship would crash into the asteroid, hopefully deflecting it, while another would observe the collision.
"This is the biggest problem for planetary defense," said Andrew Cheng, a physicist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins, who is proposing the space mission. "There is a risk if we saw an asteroid coming towards us, we wouldn't know if we could do anything about it." [When Space Attacks: The 6 Craziest Meteor Impacts]
Devastating impacts
Meteor impacts are rare, but they have devastated Earth several times in the planet's history. For instance, many scientists think a giant meteorite impact caused the massive extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
But while powerful space probes and telescopes can now see asteroids barreling toward Earth from far away, there's no real plan for stopping a giant one from wiping out humanity. While some have suggested bombarding asteroids with giant paintballs, or nuking an asteroid, Armageddon-style, very few of these schemes have been tested. NASA recently announced funding for a potential manned mission to an asteroid, slated for 2025.
In 2005, the European Space Agency floated a half-baked "Don Quijote" plan to aim a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect it. But the plan targeted a very large asteroid that was pretty far away, making it both expensive and unlikely that scientists on the ground could actually measure the asteroid's deflection.
Instead, Cheng and his colleagues are betting that aiming at a small and close asteroid may be more feasible. Their goal is to crash into the smaller rock in a binary asteroid system called Didymos that is projected to travel past Earth in 2022.
"We are targeting the smaller member of the binary," Cheng told LiveScience. "That will change the orbit of the system and that can be measured."
Because the asteroid is relatively modest-sized, about 500 feet (150 meters) wide, the spacecraft would be able to move it noticeably from its regular orbit, allowing the scientists to measure how much the spacecraft shifted the space rocks from their course. Since it will be just 6.5 million miles (10.5 million kilometers) from Earth, scientists can measure the deflection from the ground using telescopes, he added.
How it would work
Cheng's team is proposing that NASA use a 600-pound (300 kg) spaceship to ram into Didymos, while another spacecraft funded by the European Space Agency, called the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) would monitor the collision. Cheng's team has already applied to NASA for money to develop the idea, while a concept study for the ESA project is already funded, he said.
Testing the asteroid deflection on a binary system is smart, said Franck Marchis, an astronomer at the SETI Institute, who is not involved in the proposal.
"It's a perfect idea because the perturbations are more easily measured," Marchis told SPACE.com.
Even if successful, the deflection may not tell scientists whether a spacecraft could deflect a larger or different type of asteroid.
But this is just a first step, Cheng said.
"You've got to start somewhere."
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When we announced last week that we had purchased a Hall of Fame vote, making a mockery and farce of the process by which veteran baseball writers anoint the elect among retired ballplayers and usher them into the sacred temple at Cooperstown, we had one question: Will the takes be strong? Happily, they were.
It would strain even our resources to provide a comprehensive list of all the reactions to our announcement, but the following should prove a reasonably useful guide.
Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe
Those wacky fan-boys at Deadspin bought a Hall of Fame vote from an anonymous (big surprise there) BBWAA member... Wonder what the price of disgrace is these days?
Craig Calcaterra, Hardball Talk
What better way to show that a process which is taken way, way way too seriously by those who control it is, in reality, basically a joke.
Bill Madden, New York Daily News
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The M1 chip delivers 3.5x faster performance than the previous generation all while using way less power. Get up to 18 hours of battery life.
Vlae Kershner, San Francisco Chronicle
Still, mockery is one thing, vote-buying is something else. It should be obvious to anybody, even the editors of Deadspin, that buying and selling votes in any election is wrong.
Brian Kenny, MLB Network
Cliff Corcoran, Sports Illustrated
Vin Scully, Bill James, and John Thorn do not have Hall of Fame votes, but all three writers at GolfersWest.com do.... Deadspin's inflammatory rhetoric concerning "the Hall of Fame ritual... dominated by neo-Puritan scolds, milquetoast handwringers, and straight-out dimwits," is also par for the course.
Steven Goldman, SB Nation
Last year the voters passed the point of self-parody. Now we have arrived at decadence and corruption.
Steve Buckley, Boston Herald
Mike Bates, SB Nation
There's absolutely no question that what Deadspin has done is wrong, and that doing so compromises them as a source of credible journalism... It's doing so at the cost of its own integrity, choosing to participate in a troubled process it is taking an active hand in making worse.
Henry Schulman, San Francisco Chronicle
Joe Lucia, Awful Announcing
The process needs fixing, and Deadspin is merely helping that process along - regardless of which players their ballot consists of, and which writer sold it to them.
Mike Oz, Yahoo
You can't dress up like the morality police when your organization's morals have been undermined. We see this play in politics all the time.
Jonah Keri, Grantland
Some guy on WLW, WLW
What you get from the Deadspin vote is something far more reflective of the general attitudes of regular baseball fans. To me it will be as if the public gets a vote... You'll have some that apply this very rigid standard, claim to take it really seriously, then vote for B.J. Surhoff and Brad Radke.
Some Redditor, Reddit
Further proof that there is nothing wrong with the baseball Hall of Fame voting process.
Either Felger or Mazz, WBZ
It's amazing, it really is. Unbelievable.
Mike Harrington, Buffalo News
Rob Neyer, SB Nation
The BBWAA could strip the ballots from every voter who's manifestly unqualified to vote and the results would be almost exactly the same.
Some guy on WGN, WGN
The fact Vin Scully doesn't get a vote? That's ridiculous. Deadspin is genius. I just like the alternative media. I enjoy... you know, and all these writers are standing up and saying "this is ridiculous." You know what's ridiculous? That Ron Santo didn't get into the HOF when he was alive.
Either Mully or Hanley, WSCR
(A previous version of this article mistakenly attributed this to Phil Hersh.)
Shame on whoever did that. Who would sell their vote? Look at some of the people who have votes: people who haven't been in an MLB press box in forever.
Ed Sherman, The Sherman Report
From "Will scumbag who sold Hall of Fame vote to Deadspin actually reveal identity?":
[T]his scumbag likely has participated in the process for years. Why now to make a statement? Oh yeah, you're getting paid. Don't worry about stabbing your brethren in the back.
From "Deadspin Hall of Fame fallout: No comment from Cooperstown, BBWA; Members outraged":
I suspect the main purpose is for some idiot to make a quick buck. Note: I didn't call the person a "scumbag" as I did in my initial post.
Deadspin's motivation also is clear, and it has nothing to do with hypocrisy. This is all about getting attention to the site.
Anonymous Hall of Fame voter who agreed to sell us his/her vote
I could care less what old-school writers think. Newspapers aren't even relevant anymore.


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Contest Announcement for Lupine Lifers:
Whatever kind of werewolf you happen to be or know, send in something your wrote to win one of three prizes being awarded for:
1. A personal werewolf experience narrative
2. A werewolf poem
3. An article about life as a werewolf.
Up to three winning pieces will be featured on the front page of YourLupineLife and the writers will receive a thank-you gift card number from the iTunes store along with a chance to be published in an upcoming YourLupineLife downloadable e-book.
The hope is that your writing will add to the knowledge and experiences already described here on the site with stories and information about life as – or with – a lycanthrope.
One of the guest judges will be longtime friend and supporter of the site, Seth Greening from sethonsurvival.com. (SOS has a companion contest right now to celebrate the four weeks of the 4 Million Moon and you can earn one entry into his contest just by entering ours.)
Up to two other judges will be selected and announced as soon as possible. Judges will be instructed to select writing with feeling that is entertaining or inspiring or suspenseful and of course educational for werewolves like us.
Many great entries have already come in but there's still time, so please email your writing to firstname.lastname@example.com by April 30, 2014.
Thanks for sharing your lupine life.


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Thanks to new regulations that are part of the federal Affordable Care Act, patients will be asked to disclose more personal information to their doctors — including how often they have sex and how with how many sexual partners.
And once they do, it won't really be personal information any more.
One provision of the new Obamacare law will have doctors asking their patients about their sex lives and history of drug use, even if such information is completely unrelated to why the patient is seeking medical treatment, according to a report in Monday's New York Post,
Christina Sandefur, a lawyer for the Goldwater Institute, an Arizona-based conservative think tank challenging the Affordable Care Act in federal court, said the arrangement is a violation of patients' privacy rights.
"Once you've shared your information with a private third party, the Supreme Court has ruled that is fair game for the government," she told Watchdog.org, noting the recent disclosures of data sharing between the National Security Agency and Google, Facebook and other online services.
Doctors and hospitals who refuse to participate could be cut-off from some federal funds, and individuals who decline to share sensitive information may have to pay the fines — taxes, according to the Supreme Court — outlined in the federal health care law.
"This is nasty business," New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski told the Post.
Budzikowski called the sex questions "insensitive, stupid and very intrusive."
The president's "reforms" aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients' records confidential, the Post reported.
Thanks to laws that protect the confidentiality of doctor-patient conversations — in the same way conversations with your lawyer or your priest are considered off-the-record and — people generally are more open with their doctors than with friends and family.
That's a good thing for both doctors and patients. Privileged communication means patients will give honest answers and doctors can get vital information.
But in the new age of Obamacare, doctors will have to ask about personal details patients may not want to share. Then, that information goes into an electronic personal file, which can be shared between doctors, hospitals and other treatment centers.
The connectivity is supposed to help reduce waiting times and get patients faster treatment under Obamacare, but some worry about the tremendous potential for personal information to be stolen or improperly shared.
In reviewing New York's state-level system of electronic medical records, the New York chapter of the ACLU concluded that "there are significant flaws in the state's current privacy and security policies and procedures governing computer networks for sharing electronic medical records."
They're not the only ones raising concerns.
In August, the federal Department of Health and Human Services said it needed more time to ensure the software to be used for the federal insurance exchanges was secure enough to keep patients' private information would not be compromised.
And those concerns seem to be well-founded: just last week, the Minnesota health insurance exchange was victimized by a security breach leaking data for 2,400 insurance brokers.
Other parts of the Obamacare roll-out are also generating privacy concerns.
In a letter sent to HHS last month, 12 state attorneys general said they were worried about the trustworthiness of the Obamacare "navigators" being hired by states with federal money, as Florida Watchdog reported at the time.
The navigators are supposed to help low-income individuals understand the complexities of the Affordable Care Act and how to use the health insurance exchanges.
"It is inevitable that HHS's vague 'standards' will result in improperly screened or inadequately trained personnel. These individuals will be more prone to misappropriate, accidentally or intentionally, the private data of consumers," the letter said.
Patients need to defend their own privacy by refusing to answer the intrusive social-history questions. If you need to confide something pertaining to your treatment, ask your doctor about keeping two sets of books so that your secret stays in the office, the Post advised in its article.
"Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath seriously and won't be offended," the author of the Post article, Betsy McCaughey, said.
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Rotating shift work, or working hours that change according to a set schedule, has been found to have a variety of impacts on health, from insomnia, to gastrointestinal disturbances, to worsening of conditions such as diabetes and epilepsy. Some studies have also linked rotating shifts to cardiovascular disease, and some evidence links this type of work with certain kinds of cancer (although this evidence is inconclusive).
Now, researchers at Harvard Medical School have found that rotating night shift work can increase women's risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by almost 60%. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 15 million Americans work permanent or rotating night shifts.
The researchers looked at data from roughly 70,000 women ages 42 to 67 from the Nurses Healthy Study I, tracked from 1988 to 2008, and approximately 108,000 women ages 25 to 42 from the Nurses Health Study II, tracked from 1989 to 2007. Roughly 60% of the women involved had worked more than a year of rotating night shift work at the start of the study; about 11% of the women in the Nurses Health Study I and 4% of the women in the Nurses Health Study II had worked rotating night shifts for more than 10 years at the study's start, with the percentages increasing over time.
The researchers discovered that the longer women worked rotating night shifts, the greater their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Women who had worked these shifts for 3 to 9 years had a 20% increased risk; those who'd worked rotating night shifts for 10 to 19 years had a 40% increased risk; and those who'd worked these shifts for over 20 years had a 58% increased risk. Taking body weight into account, those who'd worked rotating night shifts for over 20 years still had a 24% increase in risk. (In a secondary analysis of the participants, night shift work was also associated with weight gain.)
According to lead study author An Pan, PhD, "Long-term rotating night shift work is an important risk factor for the development of Type 2 diabetes and this risk increases with the numbers of years working rotating shifts." Senior author Frank B. Hu, MPH, MD, PhD, adds, "This study raises the awareness of increased obesity and diabetes risk among night shift workers and underscores the importance of improving diet and lifestyle for primary prevention of Type 2 diabetes in this high risk group."
The study authors note that further research is needed to evaluate the effect of other shift work schedules, such as permanent evening or night shifts, on Type 2 diabetes risk, as well as to determine whether such an association between night shift work and Type 2 exists in men and in nonwhites (roughly 96% of the women in the study were Caucasian).
To learn more about the research, read the article "Rotating Night Shift Work Linked to Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women, Study Finds" or see the study in the journal PLoS Medicine. And for more information about adjusting to shift work, see this piece from the Mayo Clinic.


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Benghazi, Libya: The leader of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya's Benghazi city warned the United States on Tuesday against interference or it would face worse than the conflicts in Somalia, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
Libya's young democracy is in turmoil three years after the NATO-backed war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, with rival Islamist, anti-Islamist, regional and political factions locked in a complex struggle for influence in the OPEC member state.
Four decades of Gaddafi's one-man rule left few institutions or national army to resist competing militias and brigades of former rebels who have become de facto power-brokers.
Ansar al-Sharia, listed as a foreign terrorist organisation by Washington, was accused of orchestrating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died.
Mohamed Zahawi, head of the Benghazi brigade of Ansar al-Sharia, accused the U.S. government of backing renegade former general Khalifa Haftar, who has begun a self-declared campaign to purge Libya of Islamist militants.
"We remind America, if they intervene, of their defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, because they would face in Libya something much worse," he said in a statement. "It was America who urged Haftar to turn the country towards war and bloodshed."
The United States has an embassy in Tripoli, but closed its consulate in Benghazi after the 2012 attack.
A former general under Gaddafi, Haftar earlier this month launched attacks with his irregular forces on Islamist militant bases in Benghazi because he said the government had failed.
Ansar al-Sharia also runs a network of social services in the city and has operated its own checkpoints.
Many Libyans are fed up with violence and Islamist militants accused of assassinations and bombings especially in the eastern city, and Haftar gained some support from regular army units.
But forces claiming loyalty to him also stormed the Tripoli parliament a week ago, and he demanded the legislature hand over powers in a further challenge to the vast North African country's already stumbling transition to democracy.
Asked about Zahawi's assertion that Washington was backing Haftar, a U.S. official in Washington replied: "That's ridiculous, but coming from a terrorist, not unexpected."
The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the United States opposed political violence by all sides in Libya. "Our position is clear - political violence will not solve Libya's political problems. We call upon all parties in Libya to work constructively and productively toward finding solutions to the current crisis."
Earlier on Tuesday, unidentified gunmen fired grenades at the Tripoli home of new Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq, and his guards killed at least one assailant, just days after parliament approved his appointment in a contested vote.
Full details of the morning attack were not clear, but Maiteeq, who is Libya's third premier in two months, was unharmed. "There were two cars and they fired RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) at his home," a source from the prime minister's office said.
A businessman from Misrata, Maiteeq won backing from an Islamist party and independents in a chaotic vote challenged as illegitimate by rival lawmakers and anti-Islamist factions including Haftar.
Some lawmakers and officials have demanded that Maiteeq's predecessor stay on because the vote in parliament was not valid according to a justice ministry legal department.
Early elections have been called for June as a way to defuse tensions, but many Libyans believe they may not be enough to bridge deepening divisions over the country's transition.
Worried that unrest may spill over into anarchy across the wider North African region, the United States and European Union have been helping train Libya's nascent army. But constant turmoil has undermined programmes to forge an effective force.
At stake also are Libya's large oil resources. They have been squeezed by months of blockades by an array of former rebel groups and local protesters whose demands range from more autonomy to better payments.
Ibrahim Jathran, a former rebel commander, defected from a state-run oil guards brigade with his men to take over four major oil ports last summer to demand more autonomy for his region.
Jathran had agreed to lift his blockade steadily under a deal with the government. But late on Monday he said he did not recognise Maiteeq's government, suggesting the oil deal may be in jeopardy.
Port shutdowns by Jathran's armed fighters and other protests have cut Libya's output to 160,000 barrels per day from the 1.4 million it was churning out beforehand.
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For safely rolling tyres
Every day the lives of millions of people depend on intact tyres on cars and airplanes. The Carl Zeiss Optotechnik tyre inspection systems equipped with STEMMER IMAGING's state-of-the-art machine vision components provide the maximum possible safety in this domain.
Carl Zeiss Optotechnik GmbH, headquartered in the Upper Bavaria region of Neubeuern, generates about one third of their annual sales with systems for the non-destructive inspection of tyres. The company, which has been known as Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH until 2015, is one of the world's leading suppliers in this segment and has already implemented inspection systems for tyres with diameters of up to 4300 mm. Such enormous tyres are used in huge mining vehicles, but also new and retreaded pneumatic tyres of passenger cars, trucks, aircraft, motorcycles. Even the racing tyres of all current Formula One teams are tested for defects by the Carl Zeiss Optotechnik inspection systems.
The company's tyre inspection systems are named "Intact" and are based on the shearography optical measurement technology which has established itself as the standard in the automotive sector, in aviation it is even required by law.
Detect errors in the micron range
Shearography is an interferometric testing method that is able to detect even the smallest damage or defects with a size of only a few microns on stressed components. The test object is illuminated with a laser light and is inspected by a CCD camera with a so called shearing lens. These lenses project the object image onto the camera chip twice; each object point is thus represented twice which results in an interferogram. When the test object deforms under load, the laser light, reflected by the component, changes. Due to superposition of an image in its unloaded state, the recording under load means the changes of each point in the image can be detected.
When testing tyres the required load is generated by varying the ambient pressure. Between the first and the second recording the pressure is lowered by about 50 mbar. Any air bubbles enclosed in the tyre expand as a result of the negative pressure and slightly deform the surface of the tyre at the weak points. Conclusions on defect type and size can be drawn by comparing and evaluating the resultant images.
"We have been working with shearography technologies since around 1990", explains Rainer Huber, NDT product manager at Carl Zeiss Optotechnik who is responsible for the development of the tyre testing systems. His company holds several relevant patents, such as one for the spatial phase shift, the direct phase measurement with only one shearing image. In addition to tyre testing, shearography is used for non-destructive testing of composites.
Over 1,000 measuring heads worldwide
Carl Zeiss Optotechnik´s Intact systems are used worldwide by all well-known tyre manufacturers as well as by a large number of medium-sized retreading companies. A total of more than 1,000 systems have already been installed, including licensed systems with Zeiss measuring heads.
"Our goal is one hundred percent safety – the failure of a tyre in operation or when being inflated can have fatal consequences", says Mr Huber. In the testing process the tyre tread and the side walls are examined for internal detachments and air inclusions, which would not be visible with the naked eye. "When testing retreaded truck tyres we know from experience that about 20 percent of the visually impeccable used tyres are classified unsafe when applying shearography", Mr Huber points out. The use of shearography is also cost-effective, especially in the area of retreading. The customers benefit from cost savings in production and purchasing, since damaged or improper carcasses don't even make it into the marketplace in the first place, thus avoiding unnecessary processing cost.
Automated testing process
The Intact systems are characterised by their non-contact and non-destructive application. Since there is no need for preparation of the tyre surface the application is simple, fast and cost-effective: After loading the pressure-tight test chamber the measuring heads are precisely placed inside the tyre to record the tread from the inside thanks to the automated detection of the tyre size. Each of the four measuring heads inspects a sector of 90 degrees.
In the second step the measuring heads are automatically positioned again on the outside to inspect the side wall on top. After inspecting the first side wall the tyres are flipped for the final examination of the second side wall. "Thanks to the automated process we are able to achieve cycle times below one minute for a complete tyre test", says Mr Huber. "Optional conveyor systems allow the optimal integration into the individual customer's environment. We also provide space-saving systems with manual loading if required."
Machine vision is the base
Machine vision is the technical base of the tyre testing systems: Each measuring device consists of four measuring heads, each containing a camera with a corresponding lens. Since the 90s, the company – at that time still operating under the name Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH – has been dealing with machine vision and has developed extensive know-how in this field.
And for almost that long, they have been successfully working with STEMMER IMAGING, who supplies the Carl Zeiss Optotechnik GmbH with cameras and other optical and electromechanical components. "Our clients expect reliable machines in order to be successful in their markets. And that is exactly what the Carl Zeiss Optotechnik is able to guarantee on the basis of many years of experience in this field.", explains Mr Huber. "It is very important for us that every component used is supplied by a reliable partner with the appropriate know-how and the right range of product and services. For this reason, we have been cooperating with STEMMER IMAGING on all aspects of machine vision for many years."
So it is no surprise that once again he and his team relied on their proven imaging and machine vision technology partner when the go-ahead for developing a new system generation had been given. The starting point for the innovation was the desire for standardisation, according to Mr Huber: "A multitude of different measuring heads have been developed over time. In the future, we wanted to use only one single type for different applications."
A greatest challenge was reducing the size of the measuring devices in a way, that they would allow the testing of even smaller tyre diameters. So far, the limit has been 16-inch-tyres due to the footprint of the measuring heads. Now the goal was, to be able to inspect even 12-inch-tyres. However, the concept of having up to four measuring heads per device will remain the same; the simple formula was: the more measuring heads, the shorter the measuring time, the higher the throughput. However, the necessary scaling down of the measurement device could not be achieved geometrically with the Allied Vision standard cameras that had been used so far.
The sensor remains the same
A substantial redesign was necessary, at the same time continuity was required: Carl Zeiss Optotechnik had been using the monochrome Allied Vision Prosilica GC1380 cameras for years. These cameras are equipped with a Sony ICX285 CCD sensor providing a resolution of 1388 x 1038 pixels. This sensor is especially designed for infrared applications and is ideally suited for this application when being combined with the optics that Zeiss had developed for shearography measurement.
For the redesign Carl Zeiss Optotechnik opted for a high-speed version of the previously used Prosilica camera with the same CCD sensor: The Allied Vision Manta G145B-30fps with a frame rate of up to 30 frames per second is now being used. Due to the discontinuation of the built-in Sony CCD sensor by the year 2020, Huber does not expect any major problems: "Since Allied Vision also offers a mechanically identical CMOS camera, easy exchangeability of the cameras is guaranteed."
Find a solution with camera modification
More headaches were caused however by a mechanical problem: the standard version of the selected Manta cameras included cabling that was too long to inspect the 12-inch tyres with four measuring heads contained in one measurement device.
"This problem could be successfully solved through a special modification by STEMMER IMAGING's hardware development department", praises Mr Huber: "In close cooperation with our mechanical design department, the STEMMER IMAGING experts developed a housing variant in which the cable connections are arranged at an angle of 90 degrees to the image layer and not linear as in the case of the standard housing."
That way, the length of each Manta camera could be reduced from 80 to 64 mm – and at the same time, the geometrical guidelines for the inspection of tyres with a 12-inch diameter could be observed. Since then, all cameras for use in the Intact systems have been modified by STEMMER IMAGING before delivery to Carl Zeiss Optotechnik.
However, the customer-specific service was not yet finished: the optics used also required an adjustment due to the vibrations in the systems. Standard optics couldn't cope with the high strains for a long time and led to changes in the presetting of the aperture and thus to variations in the measurement results. Thanks to an aperture presetting and the sealing of all screws on every individual lens, STEMMER IMAGING was able to reliably solve this problem as well.
Another engineering service was the selection and the long-term testing of CAT5e Ethernet cables for robotic use with an angled connector. These cables had to pass a long-term stress test attached to an Intact measuring head before being installed in the system. The test was conducted and logged by STEMMER IMAGING's in-house cable design and build service. This ensured that the cables were able to durably withstand the loads in the machine with no transmission problems. For serial production, each cable is now being tested before delivery and sent with a corresponding test protocol.
Another key component of the complete system is the software - an essential part of Carl Zeiss Optotechnik's know-how. Traceability and a simple classification of the test results are the most important features. In addition to the simple user guidance for the execution and storage of recordings, the software also provides an automatic identification of possible defects by means of significant deviations in the stored shearograms. The defects detected by the system must then be evaluated by the operator on the basis of the resultant images, which requires a certain level of experience. Comprehensive training courses in the shearography tyre test as well as competent service and support round off the range offered by Carl Zeiss Optotechnik.
Service offer as added value
Peter Stiefenhöfer,
Marketing and PR Manager,
Thanks to the active support and the smooth cooperation, only a few months passed from the initial inquiry to the commissioning of the first prototype. According to STEMMER IMAGING marketing manager Peter Stiefenhöfer, this service is a typical example of the company's added value: "Our strategic positioning is often not yet recognised properly: We have long been more than just a sales house. We consider ourselves as a manufacturer for certain components and as a service provider, tremendously supporting our customers, in this case the Carl Zeiss Optotechnik, in the realisation of their tasks."
The Intact tyre testing systems from Carl Zeiss Optotechnik prove their daily use worldwide in development and production. They play a decisive role in improving the quality of tyres and keeping it at a constant high level. In addition, they are characterised by extremely high reliability, as Hans Weigert, sales and marketing manager of the company, jokingly notes: "Our only problem with these systems is that they virtually never break..."
More information about Carl Zeiss Optotechnik GmbH
More than 25 years of experience and competence in optical measurement and sensor technology have written the success story of Carl Zeiss Optotechnik GmbH. Since its founding in 1987, the company has been developing and marketing high-precision optical measurement systems and corresponding software solutions, which are used in a wide range of applications of numerous well-known industrial companies and research facilities.


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Opera Next 24.0.1558.51
Opera introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional new web browser.
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Countless hours of hard work, hectoliters of coffee, tons of improvements, two version numbers skipped, and here it is: The all-new Opera for desktop is now out as an Opera Next version, Opera's channel for what used to be called beta. Made from scratch, this version is available for Windows and Mac and brings a new, elegant design and a bunch of new features that will make your browsing experience sleeker and easier than ever.
Craftsmanship, 17 years of hands-on experience and a passion for the web has helped Opera introduce a lot of improvements and new technologies in this new browser. Opera has refreshed the most loved features and added some completely new ways to interact with the web.
Here are the latest improvements that Opera has prepared for Windows and Mac users to get the most out of the web:
Speed Dial
Opera's popular shortcuts start page has been refreshed to make exploring web content easier and smarter. Speed Dial shortcuts can now be gathered in folders and easily filtered. Drag and drop one Speed Dial entry on top of another to create a folder, or use the new Speed Dial search field to experience the power of visual Speed Dial entries combined with the flexibility and organization of a classic bookmark folder.
Get hot, new content, with no browsing necessary. The new Discover feature allows you to lean back and get fed with new articles from your country, or whatever region you want to get inspiration from, right in your browser - all in one place. Pick and choose your category: news, food, technology or something else you are more interested in. Opera brings you a selection of relevant global and regional sources to discover web content more easily.
Imagine that, after hours of shopping at your mall for new shoes, you find a single shelf with all the pairs you have tried on so far, so you can sit down, compare, and pick the winner. That's what Opera's new Stash feature does for you with websites. Simply hit the heart icon in the address bar to collect the websites you want to compare easily while shopping, or to keep your travel research on hotels, sights and flights at your fingertips. Scan your Stash by resizable page preview, or search what you've saved, with keywords.
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Marisha Johnson shops while toddler remains in car, police say
Port St. Lucie mother faces child neglect charges
A Port St. Lucie mother is facing charges after authorities said she left her toddler in the car while shopping.
Port St. Lucie police said Marisha Johnson, 26, left the car running and the windows down while she was away, which made the situation even more dangerous.
A Port St. Lucie police officer, who stopped to get a bottle of water, noticed the car with the 2-year-old inside without a restraint.
The officer had a patron watch the child while she looked for Johnson, and nine minutes later, she walked out of the store with the officer.
Port St. Lucie police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sabol said the child had moved to the front seat and was standing behind the steering wheel.
Johnson's shopping cart included some personal items, nail polish and a few Father's Day cards, and police said that was nothing worth leaving a child in a dangerous situation.
Police said Johnson didn't have a valid driver's license and was nonchalant, but she apologized when asked about leaving the toddler.
Johnson left the parking lot in handcuffs and faces child neglect charges. She later bonded out of jail.
The toddler was placed with other family members.
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