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After a morning of waiting, Facebook has finally made Facebook Home available in the Google Play Store. Only a limited number of handsets are supported for Facebook Home right now, including the HTC One X and One X+, the Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II, and the forthcoming HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. Facebook Home is also included out-of-the-box with the new HTC First.
Facebook Home enables you to take advantage of new features like Cover Feed, which essentially runs a slideshow of your friends' status updates for the lock screen and home screen. It also enables notifications that pop up over the Cover Feed (as pictured in the screenshot above). Facebook Home replaces Android's apps list with an App Launcher that has quick access buttons to post a status update, upload a photo, or check in to a location on Facebook.
You can also separately download or update Facebook Messenger to get the Chat Heads functionality added to your Android device without installing Facebook Home. Chat Heads are little pop-up bubbles with the Facebook profile photo of the friend who is attempting to get in touch with you. The new Facebook Messenger is also somewhat similar to iMessages in that it allows you to send both SMS and Facebook Messages from one application.
If you're curious, be sure to check out our review on both the HTC First handset and Facebook Home app for Android.


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As I chatted with my colleague Joel this morning, he complained that the iPhone suffered from a distinct lack of technical Hello Kitty stories. While commiserating, I pointed out that although Hello Kitty played a minor if pretty much nonexistent role on the platform, that you could trade off the cat for super cow powers instead.
Debian APT, the Debian package management utility, has a core role on any current iPhone. It's automatically installed as part of the iPhone jailbreak. And like other APT distributions, the iPhone version offers the built-in "moo" Easter Egg.
To access this little gem, start a secure shell session with your iPhone and enter
apt-get moo at the command line. Instantly, super cow powers are conferred upon you.
% ssh firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com's password: iPhone # apt-get moo (__) (oo) /------/ / | || * /---/ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"... iPhone #
The apt-get command is not, of course, limited to silly cow art. It allows you to install packages from the command line outside the Cydia application. For example, to install zsh you'd issue the command
apt-get install zsh:
iPhone # apt-get install zsh Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: zsh 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1866kB of archives. After unpacking 6181kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://apt.saurik.com tangelo/main zsh 4.3.5-3 [1866kB] Fetched 1866kB in 3s (514kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package zsh. (Reading database ... 1684 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking zsh (from .../zsh_4.3.5-3_iphoneos-arm.deb) ... Setting up zsh (4.3.5-3) ...
Apt-get allows you to install, update, upgrade and remove packages. Using apt-get becomes second nature after a while. It's often a lot easier to download and install software at the command line rather than firing up Cydia. Run apt-get with the -h flag to print out help text for the command.
Puns I refrained from using in this post
- I'll beef up the usage coverage.
- You should milk the apt-get command for all it's worth.
- Don't put your packages out to pasture when you can upgrade them.
- Debian's APT command is outstanding in its field.
- To jailbreak is human; to moo bovine

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Freedom New Mexico
Deadlines? Don't you hate them? Today is one of the biggest deadlines of the year for taxpayers. It's when Uncle Sam orders you to turn over a large portion of the money you earned so he can stuff his pockets with it and give it away to whomever he chooses.
This has been going on in the U.S. since 1913, thanks to the ratification of the 16th Amendment. Back then, its supporters claimed only the rich would pay the tax. The top tax rate was originally set at 7 percent. It applied only to people earning more than $300,000 — the equivalent of $7.5 million of today's dollars.
My, how things have changed.
Now the government raises more than $700 billion from income taxes — 14 times more, in real dollars, than in 1913. And it's no longer just for the rich — we all get to pay! That adds up to more than 100 million tax returns filed each year.
So, what does this mean to your pocketbook?
The median income family — mom, dad, two children — pays more than $5,000 in income taxes, or more than 14 percent of its income. When you include Social Security, Medicare, sales and other taxes, about 40 cents of every dollar goes to the government.
Here are some more tax highlights (perhaps lowlights is a better word) for you to ponder today:
• For the median family, taxes are a larger expense than housing, food and clothing combined.
• The top 10 percent of income earners paid 70 percent of federal income tax. The bottom 50 percent paid 3.1 percent.
• According to the Tax Foundation, it costs us $200 billion a year just to comply with the tax code. That's like taking every new car, van and truck that General Motors builds and driving them off a cliff.
• Presidents Kennedy and Reagan gave us significant tax relief. But after reaching a post-war low of 28 percent, the top tax rate, thanks to Bill Clinton and Bush No. 1, is now back to 35 percent and increases to 39.6 percent in 2010. Today's bottom tax rate — 10 percent — is nearly double the rate paid by the rich in 1913.
• The IRS has 114,000 employees. That's more than three times the total population of Clovis. It is twice as big as the CIA and five times the size of the FBI.
• When the income tax first took effect it had 170 pages of laws and regulations. Today, the tax code has 17,000 pages, along with hundreds of thousands of pages of court decisions. The 1986 tax act was aimed at simplification. It ended up amending 2,000 sections of the code and creating more than 100 new forms.
• Even Congress doesn't understand the tax laws. Sixty percent of the members of the Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee don't do their own taxes, according to a Money Magazine survey.
Have a happy tax day.


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The Events Calendar Shortcodes
Our Events Shortcodes For The Events Calendar solves the missing shortcode problem of The Events Calendar plugin and offers a shortcode generator and custom Gutenberg block to easily represent events inside pages or posts. Additionally, the addon includes free stunning events list designs and advanced configuration settings for customization.
showcase your events in the ultimate and precise way with a powerful shortcode generator.
🔥 Free v/s Pro Version Demos
Free Version Demos
🔗 Events List
🔗 Events Timeline
🔗 Events Minimal List
Premium Version Demos
🔗 Events Grid
🔗 Events Masonry
🔗 Events Carousel
🔗 Events Slider
🔗 Events Accordion
🔗 Events Calendar
🔗 Events by Organizer
🔗 Events by Venue
Now customize event single page with custom colors and layout by using
🔗 Event Single Page Templates Addon For The Events Calendar.
The Events Calendar plugin has 800,000+ active users. You can extend this famous free plugin features by using this Events Shortcodes addon that provides events template design and shortcode options.
✨ A Must Use Addon For The Events Calendar Plugin
- Create/Post events by using WordPress most powerful calendar plugin – 🔗 The Events Calendar.
- Install this calendar extension and it will provide a functionality to extend the design of your events listing page via gorgeous events design templates.
- Use flexible block or events calendar shortcode builder feature of this events calendar extension to show your upcoming events or past events anywhere inside your any page or post.
Plugin Shortcode
[events-calendar-templates category="all" template="default" style="style-1" date_format="default" start_date="" end_date="" limit="10" order="ASC" hide-venue="no" time="future" socialshare="no"]
You can easily customize the design of your events list with custom colors and fonts using easy settings panel.
⚡ Plugin Features
- 🆓 Easiest Design Settings Panel
↳ Events Addons
↳ Shortcodes & Template
↳ Common Settings
- 🆓 Custom Colors & Fonts
- 🆓 Powerful Shortcode Generator
(You can show your upcoming or past events on any page/post. You can easily generate the shortcode by clicking on events calendar templates icon inside your classic visual editor. It also supports Gutenberg, simply add events block on any page.)
- 🆓 Compatible With Elementor
- 🆓 Compatible With Visual Composer
- 🆓 Choose Any Date Format
- 🆓 Order Events ASC/DESC
- 🆓 Responsive Designs
- 🆓 List Layout
- 🆓 Timeline Layout
- 💳 Grid Layout (PRO)
- 💳 Masonry Layout (PRO)
- 💳 Carousel Layout (PRO)
- 💳 Slider Layout (PRO)
- 💳 Accordion Layout (PRO)
- 💳 Calendar Layout (PRO)
- 💳 Events by Organizer (PRO)
- 💳 Events by Venue (PRO)
- 💳 Events Category Filters Inside Masonry (PRO)
- 💳 Show Only Featured Events (PRO)
- 💳 Events Schema SEO Support (PRO)
- 💳 Premium Design & Settings (PRO)
- 💳 Quick Premium Support (PRO)
Check Our Other Addons For The Events Calendar
🔗 The Events Calendar Single Event Details Page Templates Addon
🔗 The Events Calendar Search Addon
🔗 The Events Calendar Countdown Addon
🔗 The Events Calendar Widgets For Elementor
😎 Who's Behind
This plugin is not developed by or affiliated with "The Events Calendar" official plugin & its parent company Modern Tribe, Inc. It is a third party addon that provides extra features to remove this free plugin limitations.
🔗 Cool Plugins is a team of experienced WordPress plugin developers who manages this addon/plugin. Here are a few words about company:-
- 7+ years WordPress plugin development experience.
- 20+ free and premium WordPress plugins released.
- 400000+ plugins downloads.
- 70K+ active websites are using our plugins.
We provide cool solutions to remove famous plugins limitations!
✍ Special THANKS!
Special thanks to famous The Events Calendar plugin authors and its parent company Modern Tribe, Inc. for creating an awesome plugin for events management.
All of these addons are not developed by or affiliated with The Events Calendar (by Modern Tribe) team, these are third party addons for The Events Calendar and they add extra features inside The Events Calendar free plugin.
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- Events Shortcodes For The Events Calendar
There are 3 ways to install Events Shortcodes and Templates Addon.
- Automatically install our plugin via WordPress admin panel:- Open your WordPress website admin panel and go to Plugins > Click Add New & search Events Calendar Templates at here > Here you will find our plugin > Now click on install button > After this you will see an activate button > Just activate it to use Events Calendar Templates inside your website
- Install via Zip file:- In this method first you need to download our plugin from WordPress plugins directory. Download Events Calendar Templates. After this inside your WP-admin panel, click on Plugins > Add New > Upload Button. Now choose the plugin zip file that you just downloaded from WordPress plugins directory & activate it.
- Install plugin via FTP:- In this method first you need to download plugin zip file from WordPress plugins directory. After this open your FTP manager and Go to > wp-content/plugins folder. Here you need to upload extracted version of Events Shortcodes And Templates addon(remember do not upload zip file directly at here). After this you can activate plugin from wp-admin > plugins page.
Remember this is a design addon. It will only work if you first install "The Events Calendar (by MODERN TRIBE)" plugin.
What is plugin shortcode❔
[events-calendar-templates category="all" template="default" style="style-1″ date_format="default" start_date="" end_date="" limit="10″ order="ASC" hide-venue="no" time="future" socialshare="no"]
Shortcode Attributes:-
- category:-
'all' or 'cat-slug'
- template:-
- style:-
- date_format:-
'default' (01 January 2019)
'MD,Y' (Jan 01, 2019)
'MD,Y' (January 01, 2019)
'DM' (01 Jan)
'DML' (01 Jan Monday)
'DF' (01 January)
'MD' (Jan 01)
'FD' (January 01)
'MD,YT' (Jan 01, 2019 8:00am-5:00pm)
'full' (01 January 2019 8:00am-5:00pm)
- start_date & end_date:-
'YY-MM-DD' (show events in between a date interval)
- limit:-
'10' (number of events to show)
- order:-
- hide_venue:-
- time
'future' (show future events)
'past' (show past events)
- socialshare
- category:-
Can I use this inside Elementor or Gutenberg editor❔
Yes, this addon is compatible with Gutenberg editor. You can add it easily via searching "Events Calendar Shortcode" block.
Also you can add it inside your elementor page via searching this inside elementor widgets.
Why & How to purchase PRO version❔
Pro version will provide you extra design features and events layouts:- Grid, Masonry, Carousel, Slider, Accordion etc.
You can purchase pro version easily from codecanyon by following this link:- 🛒 Buy Pro Version
We are elite author on envato with 10,000+ premium customers, you are in safe hands, we continuously work on pro plugin new features updates and bug fixes.
Can I check demo before upgrading to PRO❔
Please check our demo website:-
🔗 https://eventscalendaraddons.com/demos/events-shortcodes-pro/
Here you will find our all premium designs and layouts provided by premium addon. You can also contact us at https://coolplugins.net/contact-plugin-support/ for any pre-sale query.
Will this plugin comply with GDPR❔
Yes, our plugin does not save any data from your website visitors.
Also we never save any data from plugin user without his permission. We provide a feedback form on plugin deactivation request where user can share his feedback and email with us or he can skip this, it totally depends on user.
Do you provide addon customization services❔
We fix plugin issues and minor styles without any extra cost. You can share you feedback via at here – https://coolplugins.net/contact-plugin-support/
But if you want to customize styles and code according to your own requirements then you can hire our developer. Project cost and timeline depends on type of customization, just email us with full details.
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Protokol změnow
Version 2.3 | March 03, 2023
- Improved:-Gutenberg Block
- Removed: Elementor Widgets
- Fixed: Minor Bug fixes
Version 2.2.6 | March 02, 2023
- Improved:-Minor Texutal changes
- Improved: Updated Links.
Version 2.2.5 | Dec 05, 2022
- Added:- Update Find Out More Settings
- Fixed:- Time function parameter issue
Version 2.2.4 | Oct 20, 2022
- Added:-Google Fonts enable/disable settings
Version 2.2.3 | Sep 23, 2022
- Fixed:- Title issue with divi theme
- Fixed:- event status issue after event calendar update
- Fixed:- Google font issue
Version 2.2.2 | Sep 23, 2022
- Fixed: Translation issue
- Fixed:- Google font issue
Version 2.2.1 | Apr 14, 2022
- Fixed:- Minor Issue
Version 2.2 | Apr 08, 2022
- Fixed:- Security issues
- Improvements:- Improved OverallCode
Version 2.1 | Apr 07, 2022
- Fixed:- Security issues
- Updated:- Codestar Framework
- Improved:- Overall code improvements
Version 2.0 | Apr 05, 2022
- Fixed:- Major Security issues
- Improved:- Overall code improvements
Version 1.9.2 | Oct 21, 2021
- Compatibilty:- Compatibilty with PHP version 8
- Improvemnets:- Code improved
- Fixed:- Missing shortcode generator fields
Version 1.9.1 | Sep 29, 2021
- Fixed: minor bug fixes
- Improved: renamed settings framework
Version 1.9 | Sep 27, 2021
- Added: Integrated new Events Shortcode generator
- Improved: Minor code improvements
- Removed: Tinymce shortcode generator
Version 1.8.2 | Sep 16, 2021
- Fixed: Tiny color issue with php 5.6 version
- Compatible:- compatible plugin with 5.6 version of php
- Improvemnets: improved folder structure
Version 1.8.1 | Sep 13, 2021
- Fixed: Minor typography migration bug
Version 1.8 | Sep 03, 2021
- Added: Integrated New Settings panel(codestar)
- Removed: Titan Framework settings panel
- Fixed: major security issues
- Added: Optimized all layouts styles and created different Filters
- Removed: all unused css and add layout based loading checks
- Improved: Improved overall code
- Improved: managed shortcode and styles in different Filters
- Improved: Review box and admin notices
- Improved: folder structure
- Improved: Minified CSS and JS
- Improved: overall code
Version 1.7.2 | Aug 25, 2021
- Fixed: Major security issue with settings panel(Titan Framework)
- Removed:Removed typography preview settings
- Improved: code improvements
Version 1.7.1 | March 9, 2021
- Added: New Events addon for Elementor notice
- Fixed:Minor localize script issue
Version 1.7 | JAN 6, 2021
- Added:Integrated Minimal layouts.
- Added: Added 3 styles in Minimal layouts
- Tweak: shortcode generator and gutenberg shortcode block
Version 1.6.1 | OCT 30, 2020
- Added:Implemented some checks
- Fixed: conflict with Gravity form
Version 1.6 | OCT 23, 2020
- Added: Events Addons Dashboard
- Updated: Moved plugin settings menu under – Events Addons >> Shortcodes & Template >> Common Settings
Version 1.5.3 | JUL 10, 2020
- Fixed: Broken links of pro plugin purchase.
Version 1.5.2 | JUL 08, 2020
- Improved: Plugin name & minor text improvements.
Version 1.5.1 | FEB 14, 2020
- Fixed: Category missing issue in classic editor.
- Fixed: Deactivation form bug.
- Updates: Minor textual changes.
- Improved: Minor code improvements.
Version 1.5 | DEC 30, 2019
- Added: Integrated elementor widget support.
- Added: Added visual composer element support.
- Tweak: Minor changes.
Version 1.4.3 | DEC 20, 2019
- Added: Integrate default value in Gutenberg block.
- Added: Added esc_attr() in all attributes.
- Improved: Minor security issues.
- Fixed: Minor issues.
Version 1.4.2 | NOV 20, 2019
- Integrated: Integrate not interested in rating div.
- Fixed: Shortcode Block JS error.
- Fixed: Order by(ASC/DESC) bug.
- Fixed: Undefined variable: feat_img_url in timeline view.
- Improved: Sanitize feedback form.
Version 1.4.1 | OCT 22, 2019
- Added: New date formats.
- Added: Default image selection setting for no-image event.
- Added: Minor improvements in shortcode generator.
- Improved: Minor code improvements.
Version 1.4 | AUG 26, 2019
- Added: Integrated feedback form on plugin deactivation.
- Improved: Folder structure.
- Improved: File paths.
- Improved: Minor code improvements.
More:- check changelog.txt file inside plugin folder.


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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Pussy Riot protest band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained on Tuesday in connection with a theft in the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi, less than two months after their release from pris...
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Pussy Riot protest band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained on Tuesday in connection with a theft in the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi, less than two months after their release from prison under an amnesty.
The pair were held for around three hours at a police station in the Adler district of Sochi, before appearing with other women on the steps outside wearing summer dresses, colored leggings and their trademark balaclava masks.
Some punched the air in triumph and sang songs as they left the building, where they were greeted by dozens of reporters.
The women were in Sochi with other members of Pussy Riot to record a musical film called "Putin will teach you to love the motherland".
Russian President Vladimir Putin has staked his reputation on the Sochi Games, hoping they would show the world Russia's modern face more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Alyokhina, 25, said they and others detained with them were questioned without lawyers present, and Tolokonnikova said that police had used violence during questioning inside the police station.
"They dragged me across the floor of the police station assembly hall office by my face, they twisted my arms and threw me to the floor. Putin will teach you to love the motherland!" the 24-year-old said on her Twitter microblog.
Sochi police, who had told Russian agency Interfax that the women were being questioned in relation to a theft in the hotel where they were staying, said they had no further claims against them.
"The questioning in regard to the theft has been completed, we have no claims against those questioned," police told state-owned agency RIA.
Olympic Park
Lawyer Alexander Popkov told reporters gathered outside the station that some 30 to 40 officers had arrested 12-15 people.
He named Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova as among the detainees.
"They have been held over an alleged theft at a hotel," Popkov said. "They (the authorities) have refused to fully explain the reason for the detention."
Yevgeny Feldman, photographer for Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was in Sochi to photograph a demonstration and was detained along with the Pussy Riot members.
Feldman said the group had been walking down a street near the sea shore and were a long way from the Olympic Park when they were detained.
The photographer was interviewed as a possible witness to a theft in a hotel before being let go, he said, adding that he had not seen the other detainees "for a while".
"At the time of our detention, we weren't engaged in any protests, we were walking around Sochi. WE WERE WALKING," Tolokonnikova said on Twitter.
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were released from prison on December 23 under an amnesty that Tolokonnikova said was a stunt by Putin to improve Russia's image before the Olympics. They recently returned to Russia after a tour through Europe and the United States.
Disproportionate sentences
The pair had been serving two-year jail terms for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a profanity-laced protest song against Putin in Moscow's main cathedral in February 2012.
Western governments said the sentences were disproportionate, and Kremlin critics called the trial part of a clampdown on dissent during Putin's third presidential term.
Tolokonnikova said she and Alyokhina had also been detained for seven hours on Sunday and for 10 hours on Monday, though their presence in Sochi had not been advertised. "Now we are riding around in a police van accused of theft," she wrote.
A lawyer for the women, Irina Khrunova, said police had detained a large group on a Sochi street including accredited journalists, but said she did not know why they had been detained.
"In Russia it happens that they just do that," she said when asked why they had been arrested.
"No one identified concrete charges. Right now, there is a lawyer there trying to find out."
Tolokonnikova's husband, Pyotr Verzilov, said the group members had been detained at an office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday on the border with the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, which borders Sochi.
The Winter Olympics closing ceremony is on February 23.


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Winners Chosen - Next Drawing is March 5th for Steiner Riflescopes
We'll be giving away 3 Steiner Predator Xtreme 2.5-10x42, S-1 Reticle, #5001 Riflescopes to continue our exciting 2013 give-aways.
The winners of the latest drawing for Vortex Sports Optics are as follows....
1st prize goes to Tyler M. of RimfireCentral: Vortex Viper 10x50 R/T Binocular, # V105RT
2nd prize goes to Bill D. of SnipersHide: Vortex Recon 15x50 R/T Tactical Monocular, # RT155
3rd prize goes to V. Jake R. of BuckBarn & NJHunter: Vortex Talon HD 8x42 Binocular, # TLN-4208-HD
4th Prize goes to Jim L. of LongRangeHunt: Vortex Hurricane 10x50 Porro Prism Binocular, # HRC-5009
5th Prize goes to Jeffrey G of TheArizonaHunter: Vortex Ranger 1000 Rangefinder, # RRF-101
Congratulations to our winners
Our next drawing is March 5th for 3 awesome Steiner Predator Xtreme 2.5-10x42, S-1 Reticle, #5001 Riflescopes .
We changed the drawings around a bit in 2012 making the prizes more exciting than ever. We will continue to have these drawings once a month in 2013 and continue to giveaway top end optics and camera equipment.
We would just like to thank everyone for all the support that we receive.
Please go to our website, Cameras, Binoculars, Spotting Scopes, Rifle Scopes - Camera Land NY and enter. Past entries will not be in this drawing. To keep the drawing available to those that continue to have an interest, each contest winner will be drawn from entries for that contest period.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. >> A woman who died after a nurse at her elder home refused to provide CPR had chosen to live in a facility without medical staff and wanted to pass away without life-prolonging intervention, her family said.
Lorraine Bayless' family said in a statement to The Associated Press that it does not plan to sue the independent living facility where the 87-year-old woman died last week.
A 911 tape recounts a dramatic conversation between a dispatcher and a nurse who refused to cooperate with pleas for someone to start CPR as firefighters sped to the scene. In the 7-minute, 16-second exchange, the dispatcher insisted the nurse perform CPR or find someone willing to do it.
The home's parent company said in a statement that the employee wrongly interpreted company policy when she declined to offer aide.
"This incident resulted from a complete misunderstanding of our practice with regards to emergency medical care for our residents. Glenwood Gardens is conducting a full internal investigation," Brookdale Senior Living said, adding that the employee was on voluntary leave during the process.
City fire officials say Bayless did not have a "do not resuscitate" order on file at the home. Her family said, however, "it was our beloved mother and grandmother's wish to die naturally and without any kind of life-prolonging intervention."
Glenwood Gardens is an independent living facility, and company officials say no medical staff is employed there. The woman who identified herself as a nurse to the dispatcher was employed at the facility as a resident services director, the company said.
The nurse's decision has prompted multiple state and local investigations at Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield.
The California attorney general was "aware" of the incident, said a spokeswoman, Lynda Gledhill. Bakersfield police were trying to determine whether a crime was committed when the nurse refused to assist the 911 dispatcher looking for someone to start CPR.
The nation's largest trade group for senior living facilities has called for its members to review policies that employees might interpret as edicts to not cooperate with emergency responders.
"It was a complete tragedy," said Maribeth Bersani, senior vice president of the Assisted Living Federation of America. "Our members are now looking at their policies to make sure they are clear. Whether they have one to initiate (CPR) or not, they should be responsive to what the 911 person tells them to do."
Bayless collapsed in the Glenwood Gardens dining hall on Feb. 26. Someone called 911 on a cellphone asking for an ambulance to be sent and eventually a woman who identified herself as a nurse got on the line.
Brookdale Senior Living said in a statement that the woman on the 911 call was "serving in the capacity of a resident services director, not a nurse."
The Tennessee-based parent company also said that by law, the independent living facility is "not licensed to provide medical care to any of its residents." But it added later that it was reviewing company policies "involving emergency medical care across all of our communities."
Bayless' family said she was aware that Glenwood Gardens did not offer trained medical staff, yet opted to live there anyway.
"We understand that the 911 tape of this event has caused concern, but our family knows that mom had full knowledge of the limitations of Glenwood Gardens and is at peace," the family's statement said.
The death shines a light on the varying medical care that different types of elderly housing provide — differences that consumers may not be aware of, advocates say.
Even if independent living homes lack trained medical staff, some say they should be ready to perform basic services such as CPR if needed.
The California Board of Registered Nursing is concerned that the woman who spoke to the 911 dispatcher did not respond to requests to provide aid or to find someone who might want to help.
"If she's not engaged in the practice of nursing, there's no obligation (to help)," agency spokesman Russ Heimerich said. "What complicates this further is the idea that she wouldn't hand the phone over either. So that's why we want to look into it."
"I would certainly hope someone would choose human life over a facility policy, said Robyn Grant, director of public policy and advocacy at the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care. "That's pretty rotten."
The family said it would not sue or try to profit from the death, and called it "a lesson we can all learn from."
"We regret that this private and most personal time has been escalated by the media," the statement said.
AP Science Writer Alicia Chang contributed to this report from Los Angeles.


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A Savoury Herb
Now that we are closer to enjoying the season of candy canes and everything cool, it is high time we also acknowledge the amazing benefits of a medicinal herb that also enhances our taste for freshness aka peppermint.
Soothes Colonic Spasm and Gas
Oil that is squeezed out of a peppermint is an effective alternative to drugs that are used for reducing colonic spasms. It is also reported to relax the intestinal muscles, thereby allowing gas to pass through and ease pain in the abdominal area. For instant relief from gas, try adding a few drops of peppermint oil or leaves to tea.
Treats Colic in Infants
Colic is a medical condition characteristic of acute abdominal pain in adults. Peppermint is reported to be as effective as medicines that are used to treat this condition. Because babies are delicate and need to be given adequate dosage of medicines, consulting the doctor for providing peppermint in any form is necessary.
Prevent Breastfeeding related Pain
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BBC3/CBBC will moved from frequency 10773H to frequency 10817V.
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BBC Alba and BBC1 NE&C will moved from frequency 10817V to frequency 10803H.
BBC4/CBeebies will moved from frequency 10803H to frequency 10773H.
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These changes should be done automatically by Sky and Freesat receivers
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Some Freesat boxes require you to perofrm a new "freesat" channels scan to make these changes to BBC channels.
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You would have used ClickOnce deployment / publishing technique for your projects at some point. If not then I would recommend it as it serves as web based installer / setup with minimal configuration and very easy to learn / maintain and push updates. You can publish your project and host the deployment package on Web Server. Typically you would do it on an IIS web server. IIS web server by default understands the artifacts of ClickOnce package and contains MIME types that allows this package to be requested or installed for web server. But you are not limited to IIS web server and can host this package on any web server. For example - Apache or Nignx (on Ubuntu). These web server does not know about the file types / MIME types of click once package so you need to take care of one extra step to make it work. Following is the » Read more


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|Yves Tanguy
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Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter.
Tanguy was born in Paris, France, the son of a retired navy captain. His parents were both of Breton origin. After his father's death in 1908, his mother moved back to her native Locronan, Finistère, and he ended up spending much of his youth living with various relatives.
In 1918, Yves Tanguy briefly joined the merchant navy before being drafted into the Army, where he befriended Jacques Prévert. At the end of his military service in 1922, he returned to Paris, where he worked various odd jobs. By chance, he stumbled upon a painting by Giorgio de Chirico and was so deeply impressed he resolved to become a painter himself in spite of his complete lack of formal training.
Tanguy had a habit of being completely absorbed by the current painting he was working on. This way of creating artwork may have been due to his very small studio which only had enough room for one wet piece.
Through his friend Jacques Prévert, in around 1924 Tanguy was introduced into the circle of surrealist artists around André Breton. Tanguy quickly began to develop his own unique painting style, giving his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1927, and marrying his first wife later that same year. During this busy time of his life, André Breton gave Tanguy a contract to paint 12 pieces a year. With his fixed income, he painted less and only ended up creating eight works of art for Breton.
Throughout the 1930s, Tanguy adopted the bohemian lifestyle of the struggling artist with gusto, leading eventually to the failure of his first marriage. In 1938, after seeing the work of fellow artist Kay Sage, Tanguy began a relationship with her that would eventually lead to his second marriage.
With the outbreak of World War II, Sage moved back to her native New York, and Tanguy, judged unfit for military service, followed her. He would spend the rest of his life in the United States. Sage and Tanguy were married in Reno, Nevada on August 17, 1940. Toward the end of the war, the couple moved to Woodbury, Connecticut, converting an old farmhouse into an artists' studio. They spent the rest of their lives there. In 1948, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
In January 1955, Tanguy suffered a fatal stroke at Woodbury. His body was cremated and his ashes preserved until Sage's death in 1963. Later, his ashes were scattered by his friend Pierre Matisse on the beach at Douarnenez in his beloved Brittany, together with those of his wife.[1]
Yves Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone.
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The Irish Sports Council reported that there were eight anti-doping rule violations in 2012.
Four of these violations arose from a substance found in supplements and four were related to cannabis .
The national programme saw 787 tests carried out across 31 sports in 2012. This is a decrease from previous years, but the Irish Sports Council says this is due to "a more targeted programme".
Information was also published on 'Whereabouts Failures.'
For individual sports there were 18 'Filing Failures' and three 'Missed Tests'.
Three indiscretions of this kind can lead to an athlete receiving a sanction - to date this has not occurred.
In team sports, there were 12 missed tests. Eight of those tests were missed by GAA teams.
Speaking at the publication of the findings, Professor Brendan Buckley, Chairman of the Anti-Doping Committee said: "The results highlight clearly where the problems remain.
"We see positive tests arising from the use of supplements which contain banned substances; this is something we have warned about repeatedly. Also, cannabinoids remain on the prohibited list and competitive athletes should avoid or risk sanctions."
John Treacy, CEO of the Irish Sports Council added: "We have worked very hard on improving the compliance with the 'whereabouts system'
"Progress has been made in some areas but there is still room for improvement. We are very pleased with the progress made in the blood testing programme.
"Overall we are working towards a more targeted intelligence-led approach to testing and there were important developments in this regard in 2012."


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Saba Golbaz, Born on December 26, 1982 in Tehran, Saba Golbaz is an Iranian calligrapher. She learned the art of calligraphy under the supervision of prominent master Yadollah Kaboli Khansari. Saba is an official instructor at the Iranian Calligraphy Association. Saba has held five solo exhibitions and participated in a number of group exhibitions. She has also done some artworks in the fields of art performance, film credits, architecture, video art, installation art and graphic design (books, posters, CDs). Saba is endowed with some other skills such as painting, singing, and playing two Persian musical instruments (Tar and Setar). She holds an MA degree in linguistics from the University of Allameh Tabatab'i.


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Thane, Jan 29 (IANS) 49 days after her disappearance, police in Navi Mumbai have recovered remains suspected to be of Sandhya Singh, the missing sister of music composers Jatin and Lalit Pandit and yesteryear actresses Sulakshna and Vijeta. Her brother Lalit said the remains were identified by some jewellery found with them.
Sandhya, 50, was missing since Dec 13 from her residence in the NRI Colony at Seawoods Estate here.
Though police are tightlipped about the cause of death, they suspect murder for robbery and the remains have been sent for forensic tests and autopsy.
Sandhya's husband, Indore-based Customs & Central Excise Commissioner Jaiprakash Singh had lodged a missing person complaint with the Nerul police in Navi Mumbai and even announced a reward of Rs.50,000 for any information on her.
The remains were found by a 61-year old British geologist and ornithologist M. J. Oates, while taking part in last Sunday's 9th Mumbai Bird Race. He was looking out for birds in the posh Palm Beach Road when he stumbled across a skull and some bones and informed police.
An official said that when Sandhya left her home Dec 13, she was reportedly carrying jewellery worth around Rs.2.60 million which she planned to deposit in a bank locker.
A friend gave Sandhya a lift to the bank, but she was not heard of since then, the official said.
As time passed, her family continued to hope that she would return safely.
"But that was not meant to be," said Lalit."
Our sister went missing on December 13.She never returned. As the days turned into more than a month, we lost hope. Now her body was recovered from a secluded area near on Palm Beach Road near the Delhi Public school."
"We only knew it was her because of the mangalsutra and the rudraksha and also a cap in her tooth. Otherwise there was no way we could tell whose body parts they were...What our sister must have gone through before she was killed so brutally....
"I wouldn't wish this kind of a gruesome tragedy on any family.We can't begin to describe what we're going through. What harm had our sister done to anyone? If they wanted to rob her of her jewellery why kill her so brutally? What do we tell our sister's children about what happened to their mother?" he added.


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CHICAGO — In examining why some advanced melanoma patients respond so well to the experimental immunotherapy MK-3475, while others have a less robust response, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida found that the size of tumors before treatment was the strongest variable.
They say their findings, being presented June 2 at the 50th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), offered several clinical insights that could lead to different treatment strategies and perhaps influence staging of advanced melanoma.
"This was the first robust assessment to determine the impact of baseline tumor size on clinical endpoints in patients with metastatic melanoma — in particular — those receiving MK-3475. Our findings suggest the location of spread is less important than the amount of tumor that is present before treatment," says the study's lead investigator, Richard W. Joseph, M.D., an oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
Journalists: Broadcast sound bites with Dr. Joseph are available in the downloads.
Metastatic melanoma is currently staged primarily according to where the cancer has spread — Stage IVa if melanoma has spread to distant skin, Stage IVb if the cancer has reached the lungs, and Stage IVc when melanoma has spread to other organs, such as the liver or bones. In general, prognosis for Stage IVa is best and for Stage IVc is worst.
"The traditional staging system does not account for the total volume of disease or baseline tumor burden," Dr. Joseph says. "For instance, a Stage IVb patient with metastases only to the lung would be expected to have a better prognosis than a patient with Stage IVc. However, a patient with a large volume of disease in the lung may, in fact, have a worse prognosis than someone with a small volume of disease in the liver," Dr. Joseph says.
"That is not to say this drug doesn't work in patients with a large amount of disease. However, the efficacy is significantly less than in those with small volume disease," he says. "While this may seem intuitive, this was the first robust analysis of its kind."
The likely reason for this finding is that MK-3475 is a monoclonal antibody that stimulates the body's immune system response to the tumors, Dr. Joseph says. "But the immune system can get overwhelmed when there is too much tumor, and not work as effectively as possible," he says. "Some tumors have evolved to both evade and turn off nearby immune cells. MK-3475 provides a shield for the immune cells so that they can remain active when they reach the tumor."
The drug is also being investigated in lung, bladder and kidney cancer.
"The implications of these findings are that perhaps decreasing the baseline tumor size through surgery or other means and then treating with MK-3475 may be a more effective means of inducing long-lasting remissions," he says. Follow-up studies will be necessary to explore this strategy, he adds.
While Dr. Joseph led this study, he is a part of a team of international researchers studying the drug, which he says has offered patients with metastatic melanoma "truly impressive results." In a phase I clinical trial, overall survival one year after treatment was 81 percent.
"In the past, immunotherapies were associated with relatively high toxicities and provided meaningful clinical benefit to the minority of patients. MK-3475 and other drugs like it are revolutionizing the way we treat metastatic melanoma by benefitting a much larger segment of the population as well as having very few side effects," says Dr. Joseph.
MK-3475 is on the Food and Drug Administration's list of priority reviews.
Dr. Joseph and Mayo Clinic in Florida have currently enrolled an additional 20 patients since the clinical trial was re-opened in April through an expanded access program for qualifying patients.
The study was funded by Merck.
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Lake Butler shooter left suicide note, sheriff says
The Lake Butler man who investigators say shot and killed two men and wounded two more before killing himself on Saturday left behind a hand-written note naming his intended victims, authorities said on Monday.
Hubert Allen Jr.'s note named the four targets in his shooting spree, but it did not reveal any motive, according to Union County Sheriff Jerry Whitehead.
After three days of interviews with people who knew Allen, investigators said they are no closer to answering the question of why Allen gunned down his former friends and co-workers.
The 72-year-old Allen, described by a local minister as "a real quiet guy'' who "wouldn't have a grudge against anyone,'' had worked for decades for Marvin Pritchett at Pritchett Trucking Inc.
Starting around 9 a.m. Saturday, Allen drove to Pritchett's property on County Road 18, some of the thousands of acres that Pritchett owned, where he encountered Rolando Gonzalez-Delgado, 28.
Allen fired several times, killing his former co-worker.
He then went a short distance to where Pritchett, 80, was on his way to bottle feed some calves. Allen shot and killed him.
Minutes later, Allen confronted another former employee driving a farm tractor on County Road 18A. Allen pulled over and talked with Lewis Mabrey Jr., 66, before firing one shot from his .410 shotgun, hitting Mabrey in the left arm and side.
Mabrey was taken by Union County Emergency Medical Services to UF Health Shands Hospital where he underwent surgery for a broken arm and other injuries. Mabrey was listed in good condition on Monday.
Allen then went to Pritchett Trucking Co. at 1050 SE Sixth St. in Lake Butler and shot another co-worker, David Griffis, 44, in the abdomen. Griffis was rushed to Shands, where he remains in critical condition after several surgeries.
Allen then returned to the home where he had lived alone after his wife died in the 1990s and shot himself. Investigators recovered a .22-caliber rifle, a .410 small bore shotgun and an unfired .32-caliber handgun.
Allen, the step-grandfather of Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller, had never been in trouble with the law before, Whitehead said. Friends said that he had been ill recently, possibly with heart problems.
On Sunday and Monday, LifeSouth Community Blood Center set up in various locations in Lake Butler to receive blood donations for Griffis.
Pritchett owned the trucking company and Nextran Truck Center, a network of full-service truck centers along major highways in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Services for Pritchett, who leaves behind two sons and a daughter, will be at First Christian Church of Lake Butler on Friday at 2 p.m.


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Dubai plans to set up a central sharia board to oversee all Islamic financial products used in the emirate, and will encourage government-linked entities to issue and list sukuk on the local bourse, senior officials said on Wednesday.
The government announced last month that it wanted to become a global centre for Islamic finance and other businesses based on Islamic principles. But it will face tough competition from established centres such as London and Malaysia, where trading of sukuk (Islamic bonds) is much more active.
"We follow international standards of Islamic economies and will be the world's number one centre for Islamic finance," Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, told reporters on Wednesday.
Eissa Kazim, secretary-general of the committee leading Dubai's Islamic economy initiative, said: "We will harmonise all standards, structures and regulations through having a unified sharia board at a government level to oversee the industry."
Sharia boards are groups of scholars which rule on whether financial instruments and activities are religiously permissible. Most major Islamic banks and finance firms around the world have them; the rulings of different boards are sometimes inconsistent and the scholars are sometimes open to suggestions of conflicts of interest.
A government-level sharia board could reduce such confusion over standards in Dubai's Islamic finance industry, helping it attract business. With the prominent exception of Malaysia, few countries have a central board and other Gulf countries have followed a loose, decentralised model of regulation.
Having products in Dubai approved by a single entity could help to harmonise their structures, make it easier to create and list them on the bourse, and boost their appeal to investors.
"Unifying the sharia board will limit discrepancies between different structures and will boost confidence in our local market," said Hussain Al Qemzi, chief executive of Noor Islamic Bank.
New issues of sukuk jumped to about US$121bn worldwide in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters data, from around US$85bn in 2011. Dubai's share of this was relatively small and most of the emirate's issuers have listed their bonds and sukuk overseas, taking secondary market liquidity with them.
Almost US$9.2bn worth of sukuk is listed on the Dubai market, but US$7.5bn of sukuk issued from Dubai is listed internationally and around US$1.5bn is unlisted, said Kazim, who is also Dubai Financial Market's chief executive.
If 50 percent of total bond issuance from Dubai is Islamic and listed on the local bourse, "Dubai can easily top the list of Islamic financial centres," said Kazim.
Most debt issuers in Dubai are government-related entities which will definitely consider listing their sukuk locally, he added.
Last month Dubai Financial Market, which runs the emirate's securities market, published draft standards for sukuk with a consultation period that closes this Thursday.
(Arabian Business.Com / 27 Feb 2013)
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Tech writers often get a rap for being shy wimpy nerds. And, you know, a lot of us are. But not Brent Rose, our space-reporting, booze-hacking, Android-love-espousing, (frequently found cross-dressing) actor-cum-writer from Berkeley, CA. While riding his bike through Prospect Park last night, Brent stopped a group of four jerks from mugging a solitary citizen.
In exchange for his valor, Brent won a trip to the hospital and an evening in the police station. Brent's a little laid-up, recovering from last night's festivities, or he'd be writing this himself. Since we don't want to disturb his hero-nap, I'll just show you the email he sent last night:
From: Brent Rose email@example.com 12:41 AM (8 hours ago)
To: captains
I'm going to try for the very short version here. I was riding my bike in the Park around 7 tonight when I saw four dudes beating the shit out of one guy. So I stopped and basically got in between them, trying to defuse the situation. The main asshole (roughly my size) [Ed: Brent is a pretty big dude, for a tech writer] popped me one, and I basically snapped, threw down my bike and wrestled him to the ground. Unfortunately his three asshole buddies jumped in, punching and kicking me in the head and neck (got my face a little, too). Luckily, I was wearing my bike helmet [Ed: Safety first!] or I might not be writing this from home. All in all, I'm okay. They arrested the four assholes, and I had to go to the police station, and then to the hospital for stitches, etc.
So, I'm basically fine: five stitches above my eye, some skin off my elbow, some gnarly bruises on my forehead, and a seriously sore neck. The doctors said I'm probably going to feel like shit for the next few days, which I'm betting is true. So, I'd like to work from home tomorrow, is what I'm saying. Hesh is basically done with the fitmodo video (just had to had some titles, basically), and I'll write it up in the morning. Maybe not first thing in the morning, but it'll be ready by the afternoon.[Ed: He can have the day off.] I've got a couple meetings scheduled for Thursday, but nothing I can't cancel, so depending how I'm feeling (and looking) we'll see about Thursday/Friday. Oh, i also need to make a dentist appointment because I think I chipped a tooth. All this cool? Hope so.
Feel free to pass this on to the rest of the team, I just figured you captain folk should know first.
The fuck is wrong with people?
Fucking coward assholes.
So yeah, objectively speaking, what Brent did was a little stupid: He basically volunteered to be mugged. But you know what, who cares. He's a hero. And in a world where so many of us feel brave enough to take on the world within the confines of the Internet, it's nice to know that some people step up to the plate in meatspace as well.
So please, don't try this at home, and please join me in wishing Brent Rose a speedy recovery. Oh, and please please please take a lesson from my solitary note on Brent's performance: If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, use your technology: Call the police instead of trying to fight four dudes single-handedly.
PS, Here is the photo Brent took of himself in the ambulance. Feel free to meme it up in the comments.


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Installing RabbitMQ on a local vcap
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Assuming you have already done the https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap song and dance. I always have a terriable time trying to get items to work on cloudfoundry.com so decided to see how much of RabbitMQ is available in vcap. Here is a hack to getting RabbitMQ running. I could totally have a baked install and thus the reason why I went down this dark path.
Update and install the following decencies
cd ~/cloudfoundry/vcap
git pull
gem install bundler –no-rdock –no-ri
rake bundler:install
gem install amqp –version '0.7.1'
gem install daemons –version '1.1.0'
gem install thin –version '1.2.8'
cd ~
gem update vmc
Edit ~/cloudfoundry/vcap/bin/vcap and add rabbit as a service
Fire up the services by cd ~/cloudfoundry/vcap && bin/vcap start
Set target and login
vmc target api.vcap.me
vmc login –email email@example.com –passwd blahblahblah
BTW, if you forgot your username or password it can be found in ~/cloudfoundry/vcap/cloud_controller/db/cloudcontroller.sqlite3 . Just rip this file apart or add a new hash for the password.
Check to see the runtimes are correctly available
Check out the following sample to package up
git clone https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-cloudfoundry-samples.git
cd ~/rabbitmq-cloudfoundry-samples/spring && mvn package && cd target && vmc push
You can follow http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20322602-getting-started-with-the-rabbitmq-service-from-a-spring-application to deploy the app correctly.
Before you actually create the service you want to check the logs out… This is the issue I had with a local vcap and rabbit. The user and vhost never get added to rabbitmq, doing this manually will make the service work. Make sure to tail the logs before running the vmc create-service. That way you can pull out the actual username/password/vhost that vcap will try to send to rabbitmqctl.
tail -f ~/cloudfoundry/vcap/cloud_controller/log/development.log
vmc create-service rabbitmq
vmc bind-service rabbitmq-XXXXX rabbit-simple
After creating the service the logs will display the username/password/vhost but when you bind the service to an application the username and password change and you need to add those by hand with rabbitmqctl
The first set of username/password will not be used, after binding you need the current ones. In this case they were
user: uz25LQnFmJTrC
pass: pfah5U5dFiSRo
vhost: vf883c025ec524e55b11b0db4dcce928e
At this point you can add the data by hand, restart rabbitmq (sometimes queues decided to get eaten) and you should be ready to go.
sudo rabbitmqctl add_user uz25LQnFmJTrC pfah5U5dFiSRo
sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost vf883c025ec524e55b11b0db4dcce928e
sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p vf883c025ec524e55b11b0db4dcce928e uz25LQnFmJTrC ".*" ".*" ".*"
sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server restart
Some useful logs to keep tailed
Did I need to go to all this trouble, probably not, but it was fun to investigate what vcap is made and how things are done internally. Since all the code looks like its in place, my guess on how to properly enable rabbit service is to find out what should triggers the calls to ~/cloudfoundry/vcap/services/rabbit/lib/rabbit_service/rabbit_node.rb and debug why the calls are actually failing to contact the local rabbitmq service.
Useful links


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Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs and Forward by Elyse Walker toasted an upcoming collaboration for New York Fashion Week with a dinner party at Venice Beach hot spot Gjelina Thursday night.
The designers, who arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday, designed an exclusive piece for retailer Elyse Walker's e-commerce site and will be offering select pieces from their spring runway collection there, as well.
The designers also visited for the first time Walker's store in beachside haven Pacific Palisades. "She's got such an eye for fashion and also knows her customer so well," Cushnie said. The love was mutual.
"They make a statement," said Walker of the Cushnie et Ochs line. Aside from shopping, the pair have also been eating their way around the city, although no one would guess it from the lithe figures they cut in their own sleek dresses.
"This is like the pinnacle of the trip," said Ochs as she surveyed the platters laden with chef Travis Lett's farm-to-table cuisine. "We have not been here since the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund show in 2011," said Cushnie.
"It's so lovely, but it needs to be closer to New York." The designers then giggled with excitement when they saw actress Cody Horn arrive in their snakeskin-textured leather dress. "They fit the body so well it's insane," Horn said. Elsewhere on the restaurant's rooftop deck, Ashley Madekwe, best known for ABC soap opera "Revenge," chatted about her WGN America show "Salem," in which she plays a witch.
"I've been in Shreveport, Louisiana, filming for the last few months, but now I'm back," she said. "I'm applying for my green card so I couldn't leave the States even if I wanted to." At the dinner, Madekwe who was introduced to Cushnie and Ochs at the 2011 Council of Fashion Designers of America event when she arrived wearing one of their dresses wore a burgundy long-sleeve chiffon number by the label. "It's sexy but not t–s and a-s sexy," she pointed out.


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Aug. 25, 2010 -- Fibers from broccoli and plantain plants may block a key stage in the development of Crohn's disease, a new study finds.
Crohn's is an inflammatory bowel disorder that affects about seven of every 100,000 people in North America.
Researchers in Europe tested soluble fibers from broccoli, plantains, leeks, apples, and the food processing additives polysorbate 60 and 80. They wanted to see if the fibers could reduce the movement of E. coli bacteria across cells lining the bowel, perhaps protecting against Crohn's disease.
They found that broccoli and plantain fibers prevented E. coli movement by between 45% and 82%; leek and apple fibers showed no impact. The food additive polysorbate 80, however, substantially increased E. coli movement.
Plant Fibers Help Against Crohn's
Results were confirmed in tissue samples taken from patients undergoing surgery for other disorders of the digestive tract.
Researchers conclude that supplementing diets with fibers from broccoli and plantains might prevent relapse of Crohn's disease. One of the key stages in the development of Crohn's occurs when cells lining the bowel are attacked by bacteria, especially E. coli.
Crohn's disease most often affects the small and large intestines, but may occur in any area of the digestive tract. It most often occurs in people between the ages of 15 and 40. The main symptoms include abdominal pain, persistent diarrhea, fever, fatigue, and loss of appetite.
Crohn's Disease Common in Developed Countries
Crohn's disease is common in the United States and other developed countries where the typical diet is low in fiber and high in processed food. The researchers conclude that more research is needed to determine the effects of dietary changes in soluble plant fibers on Crohn's disease.
The study, by scientists at the University of Liverpool in England, Linkoping University in Sweden, and at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, is published in the journal Gut.


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A scathing report alleges
paid football players "several thousand dollars" and changed grades, among other violations, under coach
Chizik was fired after the 2012 season and has been replaced by former Auburn assistant Gus Malzahn. The
described a culture of NCAA violations, criminal activity and more. Included in that crime was the arrest of four former Auburn players, including Mike McNeil, who spoke to Roberts while he awaits trial on armed robbery charges.
Three former players told Roberts that the university changed grades to keep players eligible, including former star running back Mike Dyer, during the team's national championship run. Dyer left the program after the year, transferred to Arkansas State, and is now out of the game.
"We thought we would be without Mike Dyer because he said he was one of them, but Auburn found a way to make those dudes eligible," Mike Blanc, a former Tigers defensive lineman, told Roberts.
Dyer went on to be named Most Valuable Player of the
Blanc on Wednesday denied making such statements.
that he had no knowledge of grades being changed, and added that his grades were not changed.
Roberts further claimed that players were allegedly offered cash for a number of things, such as returning to school instead of entering the NFL Draft. Former receiver Darvin Adams, Blanc and McNeil all said the amount was "several thousand dollars."
McNeil alleges that current Florida coach Will Muschamp, a former Auburn defensive coordinator, offered him $400. Muschamp has denied the allegations.
Former Auburn standout Neiko Thorpe said coaches gave the athletes $500 to entertain star recruit Dre Kirkpatrick. The NCAA allowance is $50 per day. Kirkpatrick ended up signing with Alabama.
After the release of Roberts' report,
that Roberts misquoted him throughout the story, quoted him out of context, quoted him as saying something he didn't say, and misled him about the nature of the story.
"She explained to me she was doing a story on Mike McNeil, and basically it was a story trying to be good information about him, just telling what a good person he was," Thorpe, now playing for the Kansas City Chiefs, was quoted by the Ledger-Enquirer as saying. "She told me she was just trying to do a good story on Mike—a character story, letting people know what kind of person he was."
Thorpe also told the Ledger-Enquirer: "It was kind of crazy when I had a chance to read it and see what she put wasn't true."
Roberts, who is an Auburn graduate,
. She also expressed disappointment with the responses of Blanc and Thorpe.
"I thought the one thing I was disheartened by with Mike Blanc and Neiko was that they were willing to put their name to what they said," she told the website. "I did talk to other players who were not comfortable with putting their name on it and told me some information on background. So, in some sense, when they were willing to say what they said and put their name on it, I think that showed a lot of courage and I think now in the aftermath of it you can see why it does take a lot of courage to stand up for what you believe is right and say things you believe are absolutely, 100 percent true."
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Warwick grad takes over AD job at Goshen
For the last two weeks, Greg Voloshin has worked with outgoing Goshen athletic director Thomas Heinzelman, learning some of the nuances of the position.
However, come Monday, it's Voloshin's solo show. Named Goshen's athletic director earlier this month, Voloshin, 34, is eager about his new position.
He leaves Warwick, his alma mater, after a successful run as diving and girls' lacrosse coach. Voloshin won a state diving championship at Warwick in 1997.
"I've always wanted to be an athletic director," said Voloshin, who will also serve as an assistant principal at Goshen High. He was a social studies teacher at Warwick "It's always been a dream of mine. I'm really pumped for Monday. It's all systems go. I'm really grateful for this opportunity."
Voloshin's wife, the former Victoria Fleming, was a star soccer player at Goshen, graduating in 1998. She has coached varsity girls' soccer, lacrosse and volleyball at Valley Central. After making a name for himself as a diver at Warwick, Voloshin excelled as the diving and girls' lacrosse coach.
He was named the Varsity845 girls' lacrosse coach of the year in 2011 and 2012. Voloshin helped the Wildcats to the Section 9 Class A championship the last two years. His predecessor at Goshen, Heinzelman, served as interim athletic director for the last two years. He starred on the Goshen football team, graduating in 1971.
"I love Warwick, it was a great place," Voloshin said. "It's where I grew up. It's bittersweet, but I'm looking forward to working with the passionate people at Goshen. The school has a lot of tradition."


text: Gun Rights Advocates to Protest GOP event in New Haven Invitation from the CT GOP A group of gun rights advocates is planning on protesting a Connecticut GOP fundraiser tomorrow night featuring Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. The fundraiser is scheduled to take place at the Owl Shop, a tobacco shop in New Haven. All of the GOP's major candidates for governor are expected to attend, along with former U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon and former Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele. An event posted on Facebook to invite people to the protest says it is \u201cin response to the continued attack on the Tea Party by liberal elements within the Republican Party and in response to the unconstitutional violation of our right to bear arms perpetrated by rogue elements within the CT Republican Party and by the majority party dominating the CT General Assembly." The organizers say anyone who love liberty and respect the Declaration of Independence and Constitution is invited to rally. The GOP event, billed as \u201can evening of cigars, cocktails and politics,\u201d starts at 6 p.m. Those RSVP\u2019ing to the protest on Facebook say they have cleared the event with the New Haven Police Department, and are protesting under the name \u201cJohn McKinney must go\u201d -- a jab at the gubernatorial candidate who, as state Senate Minority Leader and a senator whose district includes Newtown, championed Connecticut's landmark gun control bill. McKinney, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, former ambassador Tom Foley and Wilton state Sen. Toni Boucher -- all of whom are eyeing the governor's mansion -- will be at the event. (This article was originally published on a different platform. Some formatting changes may have occurred.)