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>Behind the Scenes>The Cost of PayPal
Years ago, when users asked for a way to support RA, I picked PayPal because it was simple and quick. I knew nothing about online credit processing other than a merchant account is required (whatever that is). I switched to use Google Checkout because they offered lower fees. A few months later, Google suspended my account because I labeled the transactions as "donations". Apparently, I violated their Terms of Service because there was no exchange of physical goods. Google seemed to be excluding itself from the service based segment of the internet. I went back to PayPal since they had no such restrictions.
In the past year, I've been looking for an online credit card processor to provide an integrated payment service so that users would not be redirected to PayPal to enter their payment information. My experience was very similar to Paul Down's so I won't describe it. However, if you are considering processing credit cards for your business, or curious about what happens when you pay by credit or debit card, you should read his New York Times blog.
As a side note, if the politicians want to help small business as they all claimed, a good place to start would be to clean up the complexity, predatory terms, and shady practices of the credit card processing industry. In reality, nothing will change because the banking industry has powerful lobbyists.
I switched to an online credit card processor two months ago so you will no longer be redirected to PayPal to complete the payment. Thus far, I'm quite happy with the switch, more so after I crunched some numbers.
While working on the database for a new component on RA, I saw the payment history from about 6 months ago. Each order has an associated state that indicates where it is in the purchase process. When you purchase an Ad-Free subscription, the order starts at "new order", and progresses to "completed" when you confirm the payment. I noticed there are many orders that never went to completion (abandoned). They were at the authorizing stage, meaning the users were redirected to PayPal but never completed the payment form on PayPal.
I tallied all the orders made from November 2012 to beginning of March of this year, when I stopped using PayPal. I divided the orders into either completed or abandoned. I counted multiple abandoned orders from the same user as one order. I also deleted abandoned orders where there's a completed order from the same user (multiple attempts leading to eventual completion). What I have left should be the number of users that abandoned their orders from November to March. It turned out the order abandon rate is 36%.
The 36% number by itself doesn't mean much. Amazon.com might have a higher abandon rate. Who knows? I can, however, compare it against the orders made using the new credit card processor since March, when I made the switch. The percent of abandoned orders with the new processor is 1.6%! The only conclusion I can draw from this is that PayPal deterred users from completing the transactions. I'm guessing these users think a PayPal account is required, even though it's not.
Credit card processing is expensive. Merchants are charged literally a dozen fees (or more) for the privilege of accepting credit cards. The fees are paid as a percentage of the transaction and as a fixed amount per transaction. There are also fees that merchants pay once a day and fees every month. There are quarterly and annual compliance fees to prove that the server is secure. If a website does not collect enough money per month, the fees may end up being more than the transactions. Services such as PayPal are attractive to small business owners because they're simple to set up with simple fee structures. On the flipside, is PayPal losing sales? I needed more data points.
As some of you may have guessed, I created the Running Wizard website for Nobby because I saw the secret sauce and it is the most customizable plan that I've seen. It is a smart training system that is specific to each runner. Running Wizard also uses PayPal to collect money. I did a quick search and found that 48% of the orders were abandoned! I did not eliminate multiple attempts so the actual percentage is probably somewhere between 36% and 48%.
These two website data points are statistically insignificant, but both of them have a direct impact on their respective owner's bottom line. If you use PayPal, perhaps you can share your experience here. Direct credit card processing is still king. While PayPal provides a good service, it should not be the primary method of money collection. Lesson learned.
I remember donating via paypal in 2010. For a while, I had no ads and did not pay much attention to my subscription status, as I was already 'paid up' for some period of time when the ads first went online.
Recently, I noticed that ads came back, so I went looking for the paypal donate button, even to the extent of searching forum posts where I remembered people linking it. I could not find the donate button, nor any announcement that it had gone away. I let the whole thing drop and figured I would address it at some later date. I guess you could count that as an order 'abandoned' because it was not clear to me what happened. Does paypal take a bigger cut from you than a direct credit card transaction?
Thanks for explaining.
A Saucy Wench
Thank you!!!!
I am one of the multiple abandons.
I've run in to several problems with Paypal freezing up during the credit card stage. And twice it indicated to me that it was complete, but the payment never went through the other end, once for a donation here, once here for Monkey registration.
We've also run into several security issues with Paypal. I loathe Paypal. Which is why I do not have an account, but as mentioned above, they were very very spotty in actually accepting my credit card.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
As someone who shops online a fair bit, I know that Paypal accounts are not required. I'm no computer guru, but is there a way during registration to make is clear that a Paypal account is not required?
p.s. that reminds me I keep meaning to donate. Keep up the great work, Eric : )
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Doesn't paypal take extra steps compared to direct credit card processing? That may be the reason for the extra abandons. Either that, or people inherently trust the direct card processing more than paypal.
Not dead. Yet.
PayPal makes it hard to complete orders at times. I had problems on more than one occasion using my account. I don't remember exactly, but it seems there was no way to log in and change out my old credit card. I tried calling during business hours but could not get through, and there was no way to do it online. In fact, I think there was supposed to be a way to complete it online but it was not working properly. It made me mad at the time and I vowed never to use it again. I think they are a poorly run company.
I have seen people take credit card payment with a small attachment to an iPhone where you can actually slide the card. If thats possible, how hard can it be to do your own online billing? I guess the key is just to make sure it is secure.
How can we know our limits if we don't test them?
One day at a time
I guess I'm the exception. I have never had a problem with PayPal, either giving or taking funds. Our church is linked to it, and I record the donations. I haven't heard any complaints from church members.
Can I get an LOL?! These two ads were showing while looking at this thread. Gotta love Google.
Feeling the growl again
I don't recall the exact issue, but I do know that the last time I donated here it took more than one attempt to go through.
I loathe Paypal for a number of reasons. I'm glad you switched.
I agree with you whole heartedly on the bad position small businesses are put in by credit card companies/banks. When only 2-4 providers control the industry, you know the small guy is going to get screwed.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
I've had times (here, Run Wiz and others) where PayPal says it can't process my order, and that I should try later. I've tried 5-6 times here before it went through...didn't re-try RWiz...may re-try later.
Connoisseur of Cookies
I gave up on PayPal years ago for the same reasons outlined previously; PayPal repeatedly froze, would not accept my card information or just outright wouldn't complete the transaction despite advising me that the transaction was complete.
"C" is for cookie. That's good enough for me.
PayPal does offer value in the market place. For small organizations or companies with few monthly sales, direct credit card processing doesn't make sense due to the high cumulative fees and the unfavorable terms. I purposefully did not mention some of these terms in my post to avoid going off in a tangent.
When you pay for a purchase by credit or debit card, the bank that processed the transaction sends the money to the merchant after a fixed number of days. This bank in turn would get the money from the bank that issued the credit card to you. You have up to a month to pay your credit card bill. If you dispute the purchase, the banks then demand the money back from the merchant. A fly by night operation would have been long gone by then. Having the ability to process credit cards is the same as having a limitless loan, which is why banks have unfavorable terms to limit their loss.
One of the credit card processor's agreements that I skimmed through consists of 13 pages of single spaced 8 point font text. Many banks require escrow accounts. Even though the money belongs to the merchants, the banks have complete control of these accounts. The merchants are at the whims of the banks.
Buried in the agreement is this little gem (legalese but quite readable):
Merchant and Guarantor each hereby grants to Servicers ... a security interest in all of Merchant's and Guarantor's personal assets and property... Servicers may enforce this security interest as applicable by ... taking possession of any or all of Merchant's or Guarantor's personal assets or property.
In my case, I am both the merchant and guarantor. The terms did not specify under what situations I would be liable. Only the banks (servicers) can determine that. Even if I do everything by the books, I am still at the mercy of the banks. I don't want to lose my home because someone made an unfounded allegation against me and the credit card processor sides with this person. These agreements circumvent the reason for having a company, which is to protect the entrepreneur's personal assets.
Going back to my point… PayPal doesn't have these terms. They take on some of these risks by charging higher fees, although direct credit card processing may actually have higher fees because they don't reveal how much they charge for each transaction until you get the monthly statement.
PayPal has many shortcomings too. It is not obvious to non-PayPal users, especially when they see it for the first time, that a PayPal account is not required. It is suspicious to be redirected to another website to pay for the purchase. PayPal also seems to be very strict when accepting credit cards. Its credit card rejection rate seems to be higher than other credit card processors.
Their management page is even worse. I have to wait multiple seconds for each report page that I load. I am only list transactions in 60 day increments. I cannot get a monthly total from their interface. To do that, I had to download the data and use Excel to get my answer. I also cannot download the data immediately. Instead, I specify the date range of the transactions that I'm interested in. PayPal notifies me via an email that the data is ready, which could take a minute to an hour.
Like I said in my original post, if the politicians want to help small businesses, they should clean up the mess that is credit card processing.
ymmv: if you click on the "disable ads" link next to each ad, you'll get to the subscription/donation page.
Teresa: your church might get more donations from the members if the church has direct credit card processing. PayPal will not disclose the number of abandon carts so you won't know how many members never completed the payment process.
sdizazzo: the service you mentioned is call "Squares". They require physical access to the credit card itself, thus the swiping. They have much lower rates than PayPal because having the credit card in hand is less risky than online payment.
not bad for mile 25
Eric, I'm sure you've done plenty of research. I ran across this article a while ago, about Square and GoPayment. It says Square allows you to key in the credit card, though at a higher fee. Does that mean the card doesn't have to be in your hand? I don't know. Anyway, no setup fee and no contract requiring your firstborn as collateral sounds good. Maybe a good choice for some RAers with their own businesses, if not for a web service like yours.
Egotist (n.) A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
-Ambrose Bierce
I find it hard to compare credit card processing services. Each one has its own set of rates, per transaction and per month fees. To complicate the matter, the rates and fees change depending on how much money I'm processing. I ended up running different scenarios. Even then, it's not a clear picture. It's more of an average, as in, I could save $30 a month with processor A under these circumstances, but if I process $100 more per month, processor B is cheaper.
On top of that, the internet works against any decision as there are plenty of irate customers for each processor. They talked about the horrors they went through. No processor has a perfect record, but there's no way for me to tell which is sleaziest. In the end, it's like jumping off a cliff into uncharted waters and hope for the best. The chance of things going wrong is slim, but if it does, it will go horribly bad quickly.
In the end, it's like jumping off a cliff into uncharted waters and hope for the best. The chance of things going wrong is slim, but if it does, it will go horribly bad quickly.
...find a lemming you trust and follow it over the cliff. You're bound to succeed that way!


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Effipro 134 mg spot-on solution for dogs between 10 and 20 kg 24 pipettes
Treatment of flea (Ctenocephalides spp.) and tick (Dermacentor reticulatus) infestations in dogs
EFFIPRO 134 mg spot-on solution for medium dogs
2. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION OF EFFIPRO 134 mg
One 1.34 ml pipette contains:
Active substance:
Fipronil 134 mg
Butyhydroxyanisole E320 0.268 mg
Butylhydroxytoluene E321 0.134 mg
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
3. PHARMACEUTICAL FORM OF EFFIPRO 134 mg
Spot-on solution.
Clear, colourless to yellow solution.
4. CLINICAL PARTICULARS OF EFFIPRO 134 mg
4.1 Target species
4.2 Indications for use
Treatment of flea (Ctenocephalides spp.) and tick (Dermacentor reticulatus) infestations.
Insecticidal efficacy against new infestations with adult fleas persists for up to 8 weeks. The product has a persistent acaricidal efficacy for up to 4 weeks against ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ixodes ricinus, Dermacentor reticulatus). If ticks of some species (Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Ixodes ricinus) are present when the product is applied, all the ticks may not be killed within the first 48 hours but they may be killed within a week.
The product can be used as part of a treatment strategy for the control of Flea Allergy Dermatitis (FAD) where this has been previously diagnosed by a veterinary surgeon.
4.3 Contraindications
Do not use on puppies less than 2 months old and /or weighing less than 2kg in the absence of available data.
Do not use on sick (e.g. systemic diseases, fever…) or convalescent animals.
Do not use in rabbits, as adverse reactions and even death could occur.
This product is specifically developed for dogs. Do not use in cats, as this could lead to overdosing.
Do not use in cases of hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of excipients.
4.4 Special warnings for each target species
Shampooing an hour prior to treatment does not affect the efficacy of the product against fleas.
Bathing/immersion in water within two days after application of the product should be avoided. Weekly immersion in water for one minute reduces the period of persistent insecticidal efficacy against fleas by one week and therefore it is advisable to avoid frequent swimming and shampooing.
The product does not prevent ticks from attaching to the animals. If the animal has been treated prior to exposure to the ticks, the ticks will be killed in the first 24-48 hours after attachment. This will usually be prior to engorgement, minimising but not excluding the risk of transmission of diseases. Once dead, ticks will often drop off the animal, but any remaining ticks may be removed with a gentle pull.
Fleas from pets often infest the animal's basket, bedding and regular resting areas such as carpets and soft furnishings which should be treated, in case of massive infestation and at the beginning of the control measures, with a suitable insecticide and vacuumed regularly.
When used as part of a strategy for the treatment of Flea Allergy Dermatitis, monthly applications to the allergic patient and to other dogs in the household are recommended.
For optimal control of flea infestation in multi-pet household, all dogs and cats in the household should be treated with a suitable insecticide.
4.5 Special precautions for use
Special precautions for use in animals
Animals should be weighed accurately prior to treatment.
Avoid contact with the animal's eyes. In the case of accidental eye contact, immediately and thoroughly flush the eyes with water.
It is important to make sure that the product is applied to an area where the animal cannot lick it off and to make sure that animals do not lick each other following treatment
Do not apply the product on wounds or damaged skin.
Special precautions to be taken by the person administering the veterinary medicinal product to animals
This product can cause mucous membrane and eye irritation. Therefore, contact between the product and the mouth or eyes should be avoided.
In the case of accidental eye contact, immediately and thoroughly flush the eyes with water. If eye irritation persists seek medical advice and show the package leaflet or the label to the physician.
Do not smoke, drink or eat during application.
Avoid contents coming into contact with the fingers. If this occurs, wash hands with soap and water. Wash hands after use.
People with known hypersensitivity to fipronil or excipients should avoid contact with the veterinary medicinal product.
Treated animals should not be handled until the application site is dry, and children should not be allowed to play with treated animals until the application site is dry. It is therefore recommended that animals are not treated during the day, but should be treated during the early evening, and that recently treated animals should not be allowed to sleep with owners, especially children.
Other precautions
Fipronil may adversely affect aquatic organisms. Dogs should not be allowed to swim in water courses for 2 days after application.
The product may have adverse effects on painted, varnished or other household surfaces or furnishings.
4.6 Adverse reactions (frequency and seriousness)
If licking occurs, a brief period of hypersalivation may be observed due mainly to the nature of the carrier.
Among the extremely rare suspected adverse reactions, transient cutaneous reactions on the application site (skin discoloration, local alopecia, pruritus, erythema) and general pruritus or alopecia have been reported after use. Exceptionally, hypersalivation, reversible neurologic symptoms (hyperesthesia, depression, nervous symptoms), vomiting or respiratory symptoms have been observed after use.
4.7 Use during pregnancy and lactation
Laboratory studies using fipronil have not shown any evidence of teratogenic or embryotoxic effect. Studies have not been carried out with this product in pregnant and lactating bitches. Use in pregnancy and lactation only in accordance with professional veterinary advice and a benefit/risk assessment.
4.8 Interaction with other medicinal products and other forms of interaction
None known.
Amounts to be administered and administration route
Route of administration and dosage:
External use only.
Administer by topical application to the skin according to the bodyweight as follows:
1 pipette of 1.34 ml per dog weighing over 10 kg and up to 20 kg bodyweight.
Method of administration:
Thermoformed pipettes:
Hold the pipette upright. Tap the narrow part of the pipette to ensure that the contents are within the main body of the pipette. Break the snap-off top of the spot-on pipette along the scored line.
Part the pet's coat until its skin is visible. Place the tip of the pipette directly against the bared skin and squeeze gently several times to empty its contents Repeat this procedure at one or two different points along the pet's back.
(Note : the shape of the marketed pipettes can be different as well as the pictures on the marketed boxes/package leaflets.)
Polypropylene pipettes:
Remove the pipette from the blister packaging. Hold the pipette in an upright position, twist and pull the cap off. Turn the cap around and place the other end of the cap back on the pipette. Twist the cap to break the seal, then remove the cap from the pipette.
Part the pet's coat until its skin is visible. Place the tip of the pipette directly against the bared skin and squeeze gently several times to empty its contents. Repeat this procedure at one or two points along the pet's back.
It is important to make sure that the product is applied to an area where the animal cannot lick it off, and to make sure that animals do not lick each other following treatment.
Care should be taken to avoid excessive wetting of the hair with the product since this will cause a sticky appearance of hairs at the treatment spot. However, should this occur, it will disappear within 24 hours post application.
Treatment schedule:
For optimal control of flea and/or tick infestation the treatment schedule can be based on the local epidemiological situation.
In the absence of safety studies, the minimum treatment interval is 4 weeks.
4.10 Overdose (symptoms, emergency procedures, antidotes), if necessary
No adverse effects were observed in target animal safety studies in 2 month-old puppies, growing dogs and dogs weighing about 2 kg treated with the therapeutic dose on five consecutive days. The risk of adverse effects (see section 4.6) may increase in cases of overdose.
4.11 Withdrawal period
Not applicable.
5. PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF EFFIPRO 134 mg
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Ectoparasiticides for topical use.
ATCvet code: QP53AX15
5.1 Pharmacodynamic properties
Fipronil is an insecticide and acaricide belonging to the phenylpyrazole family. It acts by inhibiting the GABA complex, binding to the chloride channel and thereby blocking pre- and post-synaptic transfer of chloride ions across cell membranes. This results in uncontrolled activity of the central nervous system and death of insects or acarids.
Fipronil exhibits an insecticidal and acaricidal activity against fleas (Ctenocephalides spp), ticks (Rhipicephalus spp, Dermacentor spp, Ixodes spp including Ixodes ricinus) in the dog.
Fleas will be killed within 24 h. Ticks will usually be killed within 48 h after contact with Fipronil, however if ticks of some species (Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Ixodes ricinus) are already present when the product is applied, all of the ticks may not be killed within the first 48 hours.
5.2 Pharmacokinetic particulars
Fipronil is mainly metabolised to its sulfone derivative (RM1602), which also possesses insecticidal and acaricidal properties. The concentrations of fipronil on the hair decrease with time.
6. PHARMACEUTICAL PARTICULARS OF EFFIPRO 134 mg
6.1 List of excipients
Butylhydroxyanisole E320
Butylhydroxytoluene E321
Benzyl alcohol
Diethylene glycol monoethyl ether
6.2 Incompatibilities
None known.
6.3 Shelf life
Shelf-life of the veterinary medicinal product as packaged for sale: 24 months.
6.4. Special precautions for storage
Store below 30°C. Store in a dry place. Store in the original package.
Do not remove from blister until required for use.
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Matthew Kaminsky (born 8 June 1971; age 49) is an American actor from New York who portrayed Crewman Cunningham in the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episodes "Singularity" and "The Crossing".
Although he has appeared on several other television series – including two episodes of 7th Heaven, starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks, and an episode of Picket Fences, starring Ray Walston – Kaminsky is primarily a voice actor. He can be heard as the voice of the title character of Max Steel (on which Keith Szarabajka also provided his voice) and as the announcer in the commercials for T-Mobile. In addition, he has lent his voice to such video games as Return to Castle Wolfenstein (with Tony Jay and Charles Napier), EverQuest II (with Larry Cedar, Alan Dale, Charles Dennis, James Horan, John Kassir, Michael Keenan, Daniel Riordan, Raphael Sbarge, Dwight Schultz, and Wil Wheaton), and Psychonauts (with Dwight Schultz and Armin Shimerman
Kaminsky also co-starred with Teri Garr and Bert Remsen in the 2000 film The Sky Is Falling; Kaminsky had previously worked with Garr in the 1990 TV movie A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder. In addition, both Kaminsky and his Enterprise co-star Connor Trinneer appeared in the popular TV movie 61*. Fellow Star Trek actors Bruce McGill, Christopher McDonald, Bob Gunton, Seymour Cassel, and Charles Esten also had roles in this movie.
In 2006 Kaminsky made an appearance in the pilot episode for the short-lived series The Nine, starring Enterprise star John Billingsley. He then appeared in an episode of Shark, starring Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan. In 2007 Kaminsky appeared as the father of a boy who died of an allergic reaction in a third season episode of Boston Legal, a series which stars William Shatner and Rene Auberjonois. Fellow Enterprise guest actor Zach Grenier was also in the episode, entitled "Nuts".
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- L.A. Firefighters episode "The Match" (1996) with Tony Plana
- Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "You Say It's Your Birthday, Part 1" (1996) with Mary Crosby, Deborah Lacey, and Julie Parrish
- Friends episode "The One with the Cat" (1997) with Dan Gauthier
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction episode "Tribal Curse" (1998) hosted by Jonathan Frakes
- Diagnosis Murder episode "Blood Will Out" (1998) with Daniel Riordan
- Chicago Hope episode "Vigilance and Care" (1999) with Pat Healy
- Veronica's Closet episode "Veronica's Girls' Night Out" (2000) with Kirstie Alley
- Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) episode "Diversity" (2002) with Ed Begley, Jr.
- Charmed episode "Womb Raider" (2002) with Nicholas Cascone, Aaron Lustig, and Carel Struycken
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- CSI episode "Blood Lust" (2002) with James MacDonald, Gina Philips, Eric Ritter and Michael Welch
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In my current project we are going to move from 9i to 10g really soon. One of the typical issue is to get the right privileges, because the schema owners typically had only CONNECT and RESOURCE, and that does no longer include CREATE VIEW in 10gR2.
I was just reading the 11gR2 readme today :
7.2 UNLIMITED TABLESPACE Privilege Changes
The UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege will be removed from the RESOURCE role in a future Oracle Database release (reference Bug 7614645).
So, probably I should ask for TABLESPACE quotas before we go to 12g 😉


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Dear Lloyd
I've gotta confess... I don't have huge expectations of CTV National News.
I think I know... in a general sort of way... where you guys lean on most issues. Tonight, however, you managed to surprise me again.
I'm talking about the story where you claimed that "some people" are calling the guy who took his diaper-clad babies out into a -50 degree storm, well... calling him "the victim" in this thing.
Now Lloyd... I've gotta tell you... I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
So, in the interest of clarity, who... besides this guy's immediate family... is saying dear ol' dad is... in any way, shape or form... the victim here?
Because it's totally beyond the pale... and I just don't believe it actually happened.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville man will be receiving some extra income after a scratch-off lottery ticket won him a handsome reward.
At the Commonwealth BP in Jacksonville, Michael W. Smith, 65, initially purchased a $3 Monopoly scratch-off ticket and won $5. He decided to buy another ticket, but because he had bought the last Monopoly card, he got two "Lucky $500 A Week for Life" games instead.
"The second ticket I scratched ended up being a top prize winner," Smith said. "I was lucky the store was out of the Monopoly tickets or I would not have tried this game and won this prize."
Smith chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump sum payment of $436,801.56.


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Saturday, September 12, 2009
U.B.O - (Unidentified Baked Object)
Can you guess what this is? Have you ever seen something like this crawl out of your oven? Before I do the big reveal, I need to tell you a little back story. You can mull over your guess while you're reading.
I have a thing for shaped pans. Sure I have your standard round and square pans, but what draws me in a like a sucker punch are the pans that have fun shapes. I must have spent a good 15 minutes in Williams-Sonoma once rooted to the spot, admiring a pan that was shaped like garden stuffs. You could make the cutest little Mr. MacGregor's garden cake with it - Peter Rabbit wouldn't have been able to resist!
I've also seen darling train cakes, snowman cakes, Christmas tree cakes, and even a giant Oreo cake. All of these pans make me sigh wistfully, but I try to let my common sense rule. I don't have the budget or the space to buy all these darling pans that are for one or two uses.
But if a friend brings one and says I may borrow it, that's a whole nother story!
My Baking Babe buddy, Tanna, was in town recently and brought along a pan she'd splurged on. Rather than let it sit and collect dust in her pantry, she's circulating it around, sharing the joy that a fun shaped cake brings.
The U.B.O. came about because I had no idea how much batter to put in the cake. I made my standard banana bundt cake from Baking. The batter came really close to the rim. A wiser person than I would have judiciously removed some batter and put it in a smaller baking vessel. Wise I am not. We watched in fascinated horror as the cake baked, rising and flowing like lava over the edge of the pan to plop and singe on the cook surface beneath the pan.
I had zero expectations of a great cake coming out of this fearsome mess. But it released well (thanks to lots of soft butter pushed into every crevice with my pastry brush), and out popped this fun octopus. Au natural it looked a bit bland, so I gave it a bath in a sugar glaze to bring out the details.
What do you think? I think he looks a bit cross. Didn't matter - he tasted great! And, of course, my kids were delighted that we were eating octopus for dinner.
What did you think it was?
16 comments:
- LizNoVeggieGirl said...
I see an octopus :-D
- September 12, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- celine said...
haha .... enjoyed your story, stared at the "UBO" and decided that it is super sexy!
- September 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- Sara said...
all i can see is an octopus as well!
- September 12, 2009 at 6:55 PM
- Abby said...
Yep. Octopus! An angry one? (We can say that, anyway!)
- September 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- Katrina said...
I definitely never thought that top picture was octopus!
What a fun pan. You stumped me. LOVE banana bundt cake!
- September 12, 2009 at 7:47 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
I had NO idea from that top picture! But it's so cute :)
- September 12, 2009 at 8:50 PM
- Barbara said...
Never would have guessed from the first photo. These baking molds look like such fun!
- September 13, 2009 at 4:51 AM
- grace said...
i love shaped pans too! never in a million years would i have guessed octopus, and really, whose idea was it to make an octopus-shaped pan? for what event would such a cake be appropriate? i guess it does accomplish one thing--this is the only way i'll eat my fair share of octopi and enjoy every bite. :)
- September 13, 2009 at 9:05 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I love the shaped pans they have these days..so much fun.
- September 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Elle said...
Having seen the pan itself I had a premonition that it might be that quirky octopus. Love how the glaze really brought out the details. Sweet instead of briny...thats an octopus I can enjoy!
- September 13, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Maria said...
Fun! I can see an octopus:)
- September 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
Ohhh it looked like a spider in a way! I don't think I'd be able to eat it, because I hate spiders ha ha! Glad your kids liked it though:-)
- September 13, 2009 at 5:07 PM
- Dolce said...
From your first picture, I though "uh oh, deflated souffle?" but it was not!
- September 14, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Miss High Heels said...
I thought it was a shell cake. Love that it's an octopus though, such a fun pan shape. I recently saw a cake pan shaped like a gift box with a lovely big bow on top. I was so tempted to buy it!
- September 14, 2009 at 7:11 PM
- eatme_delicious said...
Haha the first time I made a bundt I overfilled it as well and ended up with UFO shapes too. =) I love the octopus!! I've seen this pan before and wanted it. And the vegetable pan is too cute though I know I'd never use it. I just admire.
- September 15, 2009 at 7:23 AM
- Peabody said...
I knew what it was. :)
I love shaped pans but never know what I can make with them.
- September 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM


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My sister Gray was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer in November of '09. Gray never asked the Doctor about prognosis, never Googled. She went about her life. I had a lot of ideas early on about how she should deal with her cancer, but I managed to keep my mouth shut and follow her lead.
Lead she did. Gray worked her way through chemo (Gemzar, Tarceva and Cisplatin), never lost any hair, never lost her appetite, managed to fold all the medical appointments into her approach to life. (Made a lot of new friends, chemo-suite folk, doctors, nurses, custodians, ultra-sound and radiation therapy techs. She'd ask them about themselves and remember their info.)
We all think of denial as a bad thing, I think Freud taught us to do that, and then Elisabeth Kübler-Ross didn't exactly promote the value of denial. But I read an article recently in the Washington Post which touted the benefit of denial with a diagnosis that borders on a death sentence.
I wanted to tell my friends and family about Gray's diagnosis, asked her if that was all right; she said no. She wanted the same interaction with the world that she'd always had. I largely honored her request.
Gray's quality of life was good for 13 months after diagnosis, but a month ago, the pancreatic cancer figured out the mechanics of metastasis, spread to her liver, stomach, lungs, and bone. Secondary to that spread, she got massive edema in her legs. For the first time, her mobility was compromised.
She went in to consult with her oncologist February 7 and understood there was nothing curative left in the pharmacopoeia to try. She went to hospice that same day, switching from curative to palliative care. She said she felt safe in hospice.
No pain, no fear.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
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|An instance of PERFORMANCE-like decadence from Mai Zetterling's NIGHT GAMES.
Last night I treated myself to an evening of forbidden Swedish cinema (forbidden in the sense that it's not commercially available here), beginning with Mai Zetterling's bizarre NIGHT GAMES (Nattlek, 1966), a film which won some stateside notoreity when Shirley Temple resigned from the board of the San Francisco Film Festival when they refused to bar the film - which she considered obscene - from exhibition. It's a garish film to be sure, aggressively weird in that faux-Fellini way, and it contains at least one scene (between Ingrid Thulin and the young actor playing her pre-pubescent son) that would never be permitted today, but as the point of the story became clearer, I found it winning me over to its side. This started happening when I realized that the film had been the missing visual link - in my own cinematic education - between Losey's THE SERVANT and Cammell and Roeg's PERFORMANCE; like those films, NIGHT GAMES is about people who don't get enough sunshine, whose homes fester into a second skull housing their increasingly baroque and dangerous games of cat and mouse. Made pretty much exactly between those two films, we can clearly see ordinary decadence becoming both sick and psychedelic here.
YES turned out to be conspicuously different to the Swedish-language version I'd seen before. Kvinnolek (which I'm told means "Girl on Girl" - not to be confused with his 1974 Marie Forsa film GIRL MEETS GIRL) is not just different in the musical way that INGA (made immediately before it) is different to its Swedish version. It's nearly a 10 minute difference. Kvinnolek includes several scenes that weren't in the copy of YES I watched:
1) In the first party scene, a blonde guest on the dance floor strips down to her panties and dances until one of the male guests carries her off and throws her on a bed;
2) Ingrid visits Lisa's office and makes the acquaintance of one of her male business associates, whom we subsequently see (even in the YES version, with omits their meeting) dating and making love;
3) After Ingrid seduces a member of a rock band and tires him out, she redresses and takes to the street in frustration where she meets another man within view of a church, who takes her to his apartment, removes her dress and begins making love to her (if this sounds familiar, it's because the US version removed this portion and used the first part to create a more conservative finale);
4) Kvinnolek includes a brief night exterior of Ingrid running toward camera down a street, but omits the set-up for this shot found in YES, where she is accosted by two drunken men after leaving the previous man's apartment - the scene humorously plays itself out with two louts deciding they are happier with each other than chasing a broad;
Finally, the climactic lesbian scene between Ingrid and Lisa unfolds differently in the two versions. In Kvinnolek, their initial standing kiss cuts to a full length shot of the two women, covered by a white sheet, then the scene cuts to them in bed, Lisa kissing Ingrid's face everywhere but on the mouth. Then, the scene fades to white (a most unusual touch for 1966) and we see the two women waking together and having what appears to be - it's in Swedish, so I can't tell for certain - a happy, conciliatory conversation which then fades to black as the exit music plays.
The scene, as it plays in YES, adds in roughly a full minute of graphic yet non-explicit footage of two body doubles sucking and grinding away, and then fades to black before fading in to Ingrid's awakening and furtive departure. I couldn't help wondering if this was the only instance where Sarno recut the US version of one of his Swedish films to make it both more sexually explicit, yet at the same time, more sexually conservative?


text: Back To Basics: You aren't smarter than the compiler. (plus fun with Microbenchmarks) June 26, '12 Comments [36] Posted in Back to Basics Sponsored By Microbenchmarks are evil. Ya, I said it. Folks spend hours in tight loops measuring things trying to find out the "best way" to do something and forget that while they are changing 5ms between two techniques they've missed the 300ms Database Call or the looming N+1 selects issue that has their ORM quietly making even more database calls. My friend Sam Saffron says we should "take global approach to optimizations." Sam cautions us to avoid trying to be too clever. // You think you're slick. You're not.// faster than .Count()? Stop being clever.var count = (stuff as ICollection<int>).Count; All that said, let's argue microbenchmark, shall we? ;) I did a blog post a few months back called "Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if and switch" and as with all blog posts where one makes a few declarative statement (or shows ANY code at all, for that matter) it inspired some spirited comments. The best of them was from Chris Rigter in defense of LINQ. I started the post by showing this little bit of counting code: var biggerThan10 = new List;for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++){ if (array [i] > 10) biggerThan10.Add (array[i]);} and then changed it into LINQ which can be either of these one liners var a = from x in array where x > 10 select x; var b = array.Where(x => x > 10); and a few questions came up like this one from Teusje: "does rewriting code to one line make your code faster or slower or is it not worth talking about these nanoseconds?" The short answer is, measure it. The longer answer is measure it yourself. You have the power to profile your code. If you don't know what's happening, profile it. There's some interesting discussion on benchmarking small code samples over on this StackOverflow question. Now, with all kinds of code like this folks go and do microbenchmarks. This usually means doing something trivial a million times in a tight loop. That's lots of fun and I'm doing to do JUST that very thing right now with Chris's good work, but it's important to remember that your code is usually NOT doing something trivial a million times in a tight loop. Unless it is. Knaģis says: "Unfortunately LINQ has now created a whole generation of coders who completely ignores any perception of writing performant code. for/if are compiled into nice machine code, whereas .Where() creates instances of enumerator class and then iterates through that instance using MoveNext method...Please, please do not advocate for using LINQ to produce shorter, nicer to read etc. code unless it is accompanied by warning that it affects performance" I think that LINQ above could probably be replaced with "datagrids" or "pants" or "google" or any number of conveniences but I get the point. Some code is shown in the comments where LINQ appears to be 10x slower. I can't reproduce his result. Let's take Chris's comment and deconstruct it. First, taking an enumerable Range as an array and spinning through it. var enumerable = Enumerable.Range(0, 9999999);var sw = new Stopwatch();int c = 0;// approach 1sw.Start();var array = enumerable.ToArray();for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++){ if (array[i] > 10) c++;}sw.Stop();Console.WriteLine("Enumerable.ToArray()");Console.WriteLine(c.Dump());Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump()); The "ToArray()" part takes 123ms and the for loop takes 9ms on my system. Arrays are super fast. Starting from the enumerable itself (not the array!) we can try the Count() one liner: // approach 2Console.WriteLine("Enumerable.Count()");sw.Restart();c = enumerable.Count(x => x > 10);sw.Stop();Console.WriteLine(c.Dump());Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump()); It takes 86ms. I can try it easily in Parallel over 12 processors but it's not a large enough sample nor is it doing enough work to justify the overhead. // approach 3Console.WriteLine("Enumerable.AsParallel() (12 procs)");sw.Restart();c = enumerable.AsParallel().Where(x => x > 10).Count();sw.Stop();Console.WriteLine(c.Dump());Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump()); It adds overhead and takes 129ms. However, you see how easy it was to try a naïve parallel loop in this case. Now you know how to try it (and measure it!) in your own tests. Next, let's do something stupid and tell LINQ that everything is an object so we are forced to do a bunch of extra work. You'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) how often you find code like this in production. This is an example of coercing types back and forth and as you can see, you'll pay the price if you're not paying attention. It always seems like a good idea at the time, doesn't it? //Approach 4 - Type Checking?Console.WriteLine("Enumerable.OfType(object) ");var objectEnum = enumerable.OfType<object>().Concat(new[] { "Hello" });sw.Start();var objectArray = objectEnum.ToArray();for (int i = 0; i < objectArray.Length; i++){ int outVal; var isInt = int.TryParse(objectArray[i].ToString(), out outVal); if (isInt && Convert.ToInt32(objectArray[i]) > 10) c++;}sw.Stop();Console.WriteLine(c.Dump());Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump()); That whole thing cost over 4 seconds. 4146ms in fact. Avoid conversions. Tell the compiler as much as you can up front so it can be more efficient, right? What if we enumerate over the types with a little hint of extra information? // approach 5Console.WriteLine("Enumerable.OfType(int) ");sw.Restart();c = enumerable.OfType<int>().Count(x => x > 10);sw.Stop();Console.WriteLine(c.Dump());Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump()); Nope, the type check wasn't necessarily in this case. It took 230ms and added overhead. What if this was parallel? // approach 6Console.WriteLine("Enumerable.AsParallel().OfType(int) ");sw.Restart();c = enumerable.AsParallel().OfType<int>().Where(x => x > 10).Count();sw.Stop();Console.WriteLine(c.Dump());Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds.Dump()); That's 208ms, consistently. Slightly faster, but ultimately I shouldn't be doing unnecessary work. In this simple example of looping over something simple, my best bet turned out to be either the Array (super fast if it was an Array to start) or a simple Count() with LINQ. I measured, so I would know what was happening, but in this case the simplest thing also performed the best. What's the moral of this story? Measure and profile and make a good judgment. Microbenchmarks are fun and ALWAYS good for an argument but ultimately they exists only so you can know your options, try a few, and pick the one that does the least work. More often than not (not always, but usually) the compiler creators aren't idiots and more often than not the simplest syntax will the best one for you. Network access, database access, unnecessary serializations, unneeded marshaling, boxing and unboxing, type coercion - these things all take up time. Avoid doing them and when do you do them, don't just know why you're doing them, but also that you are doing them. Is it fair to say "LINQ is evil and makes things slow?" No, it's fair to say that code in general can be unintuitive if you don't know what's going on. There can be subtle side-effects whose time can get multiplied inside of a loop. This includes type checking, type conversion, boxing, threads and more. The Rule of Scale: The less you do, the more you can do of it. About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [36] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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By Free Bird — Revenge of the Ghost Wolf Reporter for the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition/Hurricane Rina McCoy – Crooked County Crooks Editor/Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor
"No matter where you look in Gilmer County, West Virginia, around here you will find generous amounts of nepotism, cronyism and lots of corruption!"
Some think GLENVILLE in Gilmer County leads the corruption brigade for the state. And by documents and facts that have been presented in the FREE PRESS lately, let's face it Gilmer County has lived up to its nick name of Crooked County and then some.
"But, if we hear one more person say that nepotism, cronyism and lots of corruption is just the way things are done in Gilmer County we're going to puke!"
What a pitiful excuse for allowing corruption to ruin your home and convince you to toss a person's ethics, morals and and those of one's children to the side…
There are many Glenville Elite's who feel very comfortable living with other self serving people in this sea of corruption. They convince themselves that they are, "Just OK," because they follow the wishes of those really in the know, the insiders, the rich, the important, the CROOKS from Crooked County!
Refusing to hear any message to the contrary, the politically enabled of this Gilmer County seem to emerge ready to serve their self-interests at every opportunity. It is a shame that our corrupt politicians feel no shame, but it is a bigger shame that they have only their own kind to hear their confessions.
When our elected officials resolve to become fully corrupt, as we have witnessed for ourselves with Judge Richard A Facemire, County Commissioner Brian Kennedy, Larry Chapman who created his own job and salary with the EDA after he was VOTED OUT of the County Commission, and Gerry Hough, paying witnesses to lie in court, and knowingly bringing false evidence to a Grand Jury while threatening VICTIMS of RAPE as often happens , these corrupt son's of bitches can no longer tell the difference between positive action and selfish proposition.
"The corrupt public officials in Gilmer County come to think that life is all about them. Using public dollars or public anything else as an incentive for personal gain is immoral, but that's how they always do it in Gilmer County!"
Because these CROOKS commit illegal acts all in the name of being LEGAL, it is still not right!
A good example of this concept was just publicly displayed by the actions of Gilmer County Sheriff Metz bringing forward a FAKE bought and paid for document, and saying it is a genuine High School Diploma to use as credentials to run for public office.
HELL even with his illegal action METZ got the backing of the entire Democratic executive committee, now how is that for a bunch of Hooligan in your face freaks! This latest action by the Sheriff with full support of the other public officials has made Gilmer County the laughing stock of the state!
Most of us, "Know a BAD PERSON when we see one," for their actions always show their true colors. Many of our leaders, unfortunately, do not even know a bad person even when they look in the mirror, for their crimes are considered LEGAL in GILMER COUNTY! Of course ILLEGAL everywhere else in the USA
Most sins, for which us plain folk would be jailed, are Pre-Forgiven for an Elite or Public Official that has gone BAD, simply because those in power declare it to be so. There is no other reason.
"We have the only High School in the United States that could completely clear up the BULLYING PROBLEM by firing the principal of the school Nasia Butcher, who is truly behind all the crime, mayhem, bad behavior, underage drinking, sexual deviance, and anti-social actions!"
Somehow, from the second term onward, our local leaders seem to be much more well-to-do than what we pay them. They have a lot more status and seem to have a greater net worth than they had when they ran for elected office. Suddenly they seem to exist in a plain above the common man in a highly exalted land with no local constraints. They become drunk with power and flaunt authority every chance they get losing any humanity they ever had. They can only be found if they want to be found. Otherwise, they are "busy". Every few years, they must come down to earth to get reelected. At those times they are very public and seen everywhere. They are always available for photo ops, which make them look like they really care for the people.
Instead of shunning these two-faced parasites and castigating them for their poor behavior, some not so bright citizens, or we the people are often so enamored to be in their company that we pose with them and foolishly brag about what great friends they are.
Thus, there is no public chastisement for the politician gone bad in Gilmer County, even from those who know first hand their degree of dishonesty… For Example;
One of our Commissioners (Larry Chapman) felt free to express disdain and see no value in the people he is supposed to represent during a public meeting in response to the press. Chapman has no problem giving away the children or even the identity of Gilmer County. Such statements should put anyone out of office but in the two years it takes a leopard to change its spots or "change", I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Recently a Concerned Citizen stated…
"…When it was disclosed that the County's finances are so bad that borrowing more money is unfeasible, the $28,000,000 County bond issue for the College's new dorm obviously did that. There was no clear need for the dorm when Pickens Hall was fixable, but Brian Kennedy and Larry Chapman approved the bond issue without allowing citizens to vote — so remember that at election time. Also, if the College were to default on the loan, the College's Bowles and Rice attorney stated that the dorm would be sold on the court house steps. An outfall would be lowering of the County's bond rating to be another blow for our finances!"
Thanks, Brian Kennedy and Larry Chapman, your common sense approach for common folks really fucked us up this time you slimy pieces of shit! We don't need your kind of help bitches!
Casey Smith a teacher can take a student out of town, give them alcohol, admits it in court, and nothing happens, there is truly no punishment? How do law enforcement officers like Trooper Smith feel when they work hard, make an arrest they know will be unpopular and then see no punishment?
According to criminal complaint filed:
On September 14, 2011, Trooper First Class R.P. Smith, from Glenville detachment of the West Virginia State Police received a complaint from a parent of a juvenile who advised that the juvenile received text messages from a male juvenile who will be referred to as S.W..
The parent advised that the text message indicated that S.W. may have been drinking alcoholic beverage with an individual named Casey Smith, a teacher at Gilmer County High School, Glenville, WV.
On September 15, 2011, the undersigned officer obtained a written statement from the juvenile named S.W..
S.W. stated that he did stay with Casey Smith at a Hampton Inn in Parkersburg, WV.
S.W. stated while inside of the hotel room he did consume alcoholic beverage without Casey Smith's knowledge.
S.W. stated that alcoholic beverage was on the T.V. stand inside the hotel.
The undersigned officer then obtained a written statement from Casey Smith while under Miranda.
Another teacher Sheila Ables smiles while standing with a student next to a high school parade float loaded down with half empty liquor bottles as their picture is taken.
Have you heard she's been fired? Students physically abuse a special needs child in front of a teacher who sends the victim to their classroom with no punishment for the perpetrators. Want to bet that teacher still has a job? Sure, this is Gilmer County. The only punishment to be meted out will be to those honest enough to reveal the truth of any dirty dealing. Count on it, the corrupt do. And don't you think it is about time we showed those corrupt sons of bitches a thing or two. Ass kicking could be our only answer when it comes right down to it, for it has been my experience that, that is the only thing that these corrupt sons of bitches really understand.
I received a truthful account of an incident, where a Crook from Crooked County got too big for his britches with the wrong people. However, I CANNOT SHARE details as it is confidential, but I will tell ya about the day that Phil Reale came about as close as anyone could come to getting his ass kicked in his office and most likely would have been tossed into the street half beaten to death, if full cooperation by Reale wasn't immediately established. So the dumb son of a bitch got on the phone and started making some calls to straighten out a little problem that he caused with his own mouth. Phil knew if he did not do exactly as he was told under threat of taking a beating right then and there, it would have been nap time, and not the fun way. If REALE was not put in check he would have continued his bad business bullshit. This is a story I can never tell about, so don't ask after this. I only wish that Phil Reale would have taken the beating of his life that day so we could have set a precedent among the elite crooks. They all might have come around after that, and paid up for their bad deeds.
The message brought right to the office of Phil Reale was quite clear that day!
Even HOWDY DUTY the son of JUDGE ALSOP was there to witness what can happen to you in Crooked County if you truly fuck with the wrong honest hard working people.
"All of our SS meetings lately have been about sending that same message, so don't be surprised if we all suit up one day, and handle our problems the same way, for it sure lit a fire under Phil that day when he knew his only choice was cooperate and UNDO some bad shit that he knew he did,or take a severe brutal beating!" …Dude got real cooperative!
I was a little disappointed that PHIL REALE decided to play ball and quit fucking with a certain faction of business concerns he should not have been involved with. I was hoping for the beating, because I know what dude did, and he deserved to take a beating. Luckily Reale had enough influence to straiten the situation out, and I doubt he will ever fuck up like that again.
"We have some serious problems currently with community leaders in charge of children who drink and party with college students at our Recreation Center while they are supposed to be asleep!"
A person known as … Lisa Montgomery may get a visit from the SS soon allows a minor girl to live at her home with an over 18 male as a favor to the mother who let the same thing happen, but didn't want the state to get the child. The child winds up in a foster home. That leader is still getting a state paycheck and that mother is still a board member and leader to other children.
For the Director, its just get as much travel pay as you can and party down! Same kind of nonsense like when Jennifer Shirey was caught teaching the "Sex relationship" classes up at Glenville State College while LARRY CHAPMAN of the Gilmer County Commission bought the books.
I don't know why they can't hire someone that really is about 4H and the kids and not what they can get out of the job. Nothing happens to the wrong doers, there is no consequence if you know the right people in Gilmer County. Jamie Mullins Program Assistant known interracial dater and previous sports writer for the Glenville democrat is the other party person putting children in danger of molestation, rape, or worse that we wanted to name by name, since it is US, the citizens, that will have to police this action, for the law enforcement is bought and paid for and about as corrupt as anyone, anywhere, has seen. We might as well be living south of the border in the lawless land of Mexico.
Lately, innocent people have been dragged into closed court rooms with no official charges pending and that elected judge and prosecutor are still in office. Our schools are taken over in an unprecedented manner. Students will be forced into another county as elected officials watch state employees play with the public checkbook without saying a word.. In this county, they will probably still be in office after the next election.
All Gilmer County residents are hurt when the politically corrupt get the wrong message. Reelection is the worst message that we can send but there are a lot of other messages that can make the corrupt politician feel like it is OK. The gain of a politician using such tactics makes this county less than what it should be otherwise. Hell the Butchers make ILLEGAL and LEGAL campaign contributions!
The matter of the illegal campaign contribution to JOE MANCHIN can be directly traced back to the Glenville Attorney TIM BUTCHER aka the Bitcher of the Butchers law firm. Really what the fuck does Butcher have to bitch about these days, he stole thousands from the AJ Woofter estate and did NO accounting for 12 years and only recently was the matter brought to the attention of a federal authorities. The criminal complaint was with the Gilmer County Sheriff Mickey Metz and he refused to investigate the complaint. You see that's how those fuckers do it in Gilmer County. The Crooks from Crooked County that live down by the Crooked River stick together, but especially when the matter involves criminal allegations.
You can check out the illegal campaign contribution made by Butcher for yourself.
Just go to: http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/west_virginia_glenville_26351.asp and you can see for yourself the contributions for each year. Click on year 2006 and you can see MADGE BUTCHER made a political contribution in 2006. Folks Madge Hayhurst Butcher died in the 90's. She was the mother of one of the BOG members at GSC that we know all too well, that has WHORES for daughters!
Isn't this an example of federal election laws fraud?
You wouldn't think an attorney and a member of GSC board of governors is the person… Unfortunately it is!
To the Butchers, we are all just a bunch of dumb hillbillies and they will use their lawyers like Hayhurst (currently in federal prison) to threaten us, with legal action. The last time they threatened someone close to me — dude said, "Bring it you lying little Bitch Butcher!"
Those Butchers didn't bring shit! The document in which the Butchers threatened suit by letter is published somewhere on Revenge of the Ghost Wolf.
That statement was made in the office of a very expensive WVSC lawyer and expert on estates.
This CRIME of campaign contributions demonstration shows how business is done in Gilmer County and how the average concerned citizens get trashed as soon as they open their mouth to ask ANY sort of pertinent questions. The average concerned citizens would not do a fraud and embezzlement crime, but that sort of activity is every-day activity in Crooked County for the Power Elite, for they are the ones with the opportunity and their crimes often involve the Gilmer County Commission Clerk Jean Butcher a former SPECIAL EDUCATION student with maybe and IQ of 98, but no more, and she has proved what a dumb ass she is lately in federal court and circuit court losing a law suit to Lawrence Smith of the West Virginia Record over a FOIA action.
Corruption is insidious, and the relationships our trusted elect form while in office make most of them players who are in the on deck circle for Hell, but they make the most of their time before the big burn. When special interests flaunt their affiliations with our leaders, it is a prescription for bad government. That prescription has been refilled in Gilmer County a few too many times. In the meantime; the common man suffers because the process is inherently flawed in favor of these chosen ones and the handpicked corrupt players of their self serving games…
That's a shame. Glenville it's a damn Shame!
"Biggest bunch of crooks in the entire state of West Virginia are right here in Gilmer County. Gilmer County citizens are good enough to take the liability for their $28 millions bonds and unnecessary projects, but not good enough to get their questions answered. Surely Mrs. Burke you are not like the rest of them. Or are you?" Judging from the picture of YOU and Sheriff Metz and the executive committee that endorsed his phony diploma, I have to say … FUCK YES YOU ARE just LIKE the rest of them BURKE you old bitch, smiling in our faces while picking our pocket at the same time! NICE!
The common people and citizens of Gilmer County have little role to play other than that we help the corruption by maintaining our silence as we look the other way…
"But instead of looking the other way, we need to GO OUR OWN WAY and combine forces, and even use out of state influence to help us fight the corruption and the bad politics and politicians of Gilmer County and West Virginia! So if your significant other has Power Elite connections or a job, it may be time to say…"
"GO YOUR OWN WAY! Because the Concerned Citizens of Gilmer County and the Secret Seven have got some things to do today!"


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Char-grilled steak basted with mustard and served with a salad of artichoke, tomato and beans.
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Yield: 4 x approx. 3 oz cooked steaks
SALAD: Steam or microwave beans until bright in color, about 2 minutes. Rinse in cold water, drain.
Toss with salad greens, tomatoes and artichokes. Chill well, then add about a tablespoon of dressing when ready to serve.
STEAK: Brush steak with a little oil to stop surface from drying out and sticking to cooking surface.
Cook on a hot barbecue plate or char-grill until well sealed (about 2 to 3 minutes each side for boneless cuts, 3 to 4 minutes each side for bone-in cuts) before turning, using the juices which appear on uncooked side as an indication when steak is ready to turn. Brush with mustard.
For rare, cook 2 minutes per side. For medium or well done, move to cooler part of barbecue or reduce heat to medium/low and continue cooking about 2 to 3 minutes each side for medium, 4 to 5 minutes each side for well done. For a really tender, juicy result, lean beef is best cooked to rare or medium only.
Test steak to check if it is cooked to your liking by pressing with tongs rather than cutting it. To retain juiciness, cover and rest about 2 minutes before serving.
* RECOMMENDED BEEF CUTS: Bone-in Steak: Blade, rib or sirloin. Boneless Steak: Sirloin, rib eye, rump (including eye, center cut and tip), round eye medallion, or blade.
Can serve with a whole wheat bread roll.
Serving suggestion is not included in the nutritional analysis.


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2010 - A year for inner peace
7 Ways to Achieve Inner Peace and prosperity in the New Year - 2010
By H.H. Sri Sri
Happiness, peace and prosperity are wished for by every lip on New Year, but do we really know what peace means? Peace lies within us and we know it too. As we move beyond a year and enter new year, lets all take a resolution to become aware of this peace inside and allow our smiles to reflect the true sign of the prosperity that lies inside us. Here are seven ways to do it.
1. Give divine a chance, be grateful
This year, let the devotion flower to its fullest and give it a chance to work. Our love, faith & belief should be deep rooted, and then everything else moves on its own. The feeling that "I am blessed" can help you overcome any failure. Once you realise that you are blessed, then all the complaints & grumbling disappear, all the insecurities disappear & you become grateful, contented and peaceful.
2. Take out time for yourself
Everyday you are engaged in only gathering information and you do not take out time for yourself to think and reflect. Then you feel dull & tired. A few quiet moments are sources for creativity. Silence heals and rejuvenates and gives you depth and stability. Some time during the day, sit for a few minutes, get into the cave of your heart, eyes closed, and kick the world away like a ball. Taking out some time for yourself improves the quality of your life.
3. Know life's impermanence
See the impermanence in this life. Millions of years have passed & millions will come and pass. Nothing is permanent. What is your life? It is not even a drop in the ocean.
Just open your eyes & ask; who am I? How am I on this planet? What is my lifetime? Awareness dawns & you will stop worrying about little things. All
smallness will simply drop & you will be able to live every moment of your
life. If you review the context of your life, the quality of your life improves.
4. Do random acts of kindness
Make a commitment to make this world a better place to live. Do some acts of kindness without expecting anything in return. Service alone can bring contentment in life. It creates a sense of belongingness. When you bring some relief to someone through selfless service, good vibrations come to you. When you show kindness, your true nature which is love & peace
comes to play.
5. Make your smile cheaper
Every day, every morning, look at the mirror and give a good smile to yourself. Don't let your smile be snatched away by anybody! Usually, you give your anger freely and smile rarely as though a smile is costly. Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive! When you smile all the muscles in your face get relaxed. The nerves in your brain get relaxed and you become peaceful within. It gives you the confidence, courage & energy to move on in life.
6. Make meditation a part of life
When we have higher goals in life it leads to stress & restlessness which can only be released through a few minutes of meditation & introspection. Meditation gives you deep rest. Deeper you are able to rest, dynamic you will be in activity. What is meditation?
Mind without agitation is meditation.
Mind in the present moment is meditation.
Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation.
Mind that comes back home to the source which is peace & joy is meditation.
7. Be a Student always
Know that you are a student forever. Do not underestimate anybody. Knowledge may come to you from any corner. Each occasion teaches you & each person teaches you. The world is your teacher. When you are always looking to learn, you will stop underestimating others. Humility will dawn in your life.
Wish you all a very Happy & peaceful New Year.
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- Hiral Shah said...
Hi Manish,
Wish you and family a very Happy New Year :)
We came back to leeds on Saturday. will call you tomorrow.
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006
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Location: Wyoming, USA
Posted: Thu 13 Dec 2007, 20:34
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Even when the default connection is set, explicit use of Setup should take you back to the choosing all network options. Anyone else run into this?
Yes, I agree. I can't recall the details about when I ran into trouble, but I think it had to do with wanting to switch from one profile to another, or at least to looking at my profile information (e.g. the WPA password to set a router up). Yet in a working network, you never have access to that page any more.
Or something like that. Again, having trouble remembering the details.
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Posted: Fri 14 Dec 2007, 00:14
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I read through the thread, and noticed several references to applications taking a long time to start up. That's the problem I'm having, and it's also noted in
this thread
under "Beginners Help". In that thread, a new user of Puppy Linux started with 3.01, had troubles, and gave up on it. I'm not giving up, but I'm wondering if I need to go back to 2.17.
I did a full HD install of Puppy 3.01 (from a disk directly from Barry, yay!) on a new (to me) computer, freshly repartitioned (4 data partitions and a 1GB swap) and reformatted. It's a Celeron (don't know what vintage) with some 300MB of RAM. But from the beginning, it's behaved strangely.
After it completes the command-line bootup messages, there's a black screen with a mouse pointer for several minutes. You can move the mouse, but nothing happens. Then, a pixel lights up in the bottom corner of the screen. A long time later, the taskbar appears, but no desktop and nothing useful on the taskbar. After an eternity, the desktop finally appears.
Then, it's time to actually run something. A relatively tiny app, the very nice (except for the password thing) PupDial, takes a minute to load up. Opera takes 5 minutes sometimes. Once an application is loaded, it runs fine, but starting an application is a ridiculous chore.
One interesting behavior is that the system seems to figure something out after several boot cycles. Eventually, applications started coming up almost like normal. But then something glitched, and the black screen started staying at bootup. One time, my kids powered it down -- and that caused a file to get corrupted, requiring fsck before the system would boot (endless loop otherwise). After that, it was slow slow slow again, and then gradually seemed to get less slow.
I thought maybe my swap was causing the problem, so I axed it. But bootup is now back to the slowest -- it's like whenever anything about the system changes, bootup and starting applications is super slow.
I'm sure there's something different about my setup, and I'd be happy to dump whatever files might be helpful. It's just sad that the person in the thread I cited installed some other, inferior distro because he had these problems with the latest Puppy version.
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Location: VT USA
Posted: Sun 16 Dec 2007, 15:30
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I have been running 3,01, full hd install, on my Thinkpad T-22 for a little over a month now and have managed to work out most of the bugs, usually by changing or adding apps. I finally put a large drive inn and have room to play without having to keep a constant eye on thing.
My biggest problem right now is Mut. I have not been able to determine why it locks up the computer when I use my pcmcia smart media adapter. It has worked in all previous versions and P-mount works fine with it. I will just make the transition to P-mount and hide the desktop icon to avoid this in the future
I have a few minor bugs to work out still, most are with slackware compatibility and missing librarys on non-standard apps. I am very excited to have as many working allowing me to make this a great multi tasking machine.
Puppy Linux...
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Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2007, 05:01
Post subject: Wifi wizard counts wrong number of digits
The wifi wizard, inside the network wizard, counts one digit too few. When you enter an 8 digit password it counts 7. So it gives an error that the passw is too short, which is wrong.
I had to reboot into another OS, make the passw 9 digits long and then it worked in Puppy. This bug exists in older versions like 2.14. Odd that nobody noticed yet?
Where is the script for this so I could fix it?
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Joined: 10 Jun 2005
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Location: Australia
Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2007, 06:51
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I will take a guess that you are using one of the Ralink wifi drivers, and Puppy 3-retro?
ESSID truncation was a known problem with Ralink drivers when Puppy moved up to the 2.6.21 kernel for version 2.17.
It turns out that Ralink wifi drivers (and maybe some others) are sensitive to the version of Wireless Extensions and Wireless-tools which, in turn, are sensitive to the kernel version.
The problem with Puppy 3.x is that the Wireless-tools were compiled for the 18.104.22.168 kernel ... and these should work fine ... but they are probably incompatible with the "retro" 220.127.116.11 kernel. Therefore, there will be wifi problems in Puppy3-retro.
The solution is not as easy as copying over the Wireless-tools from Puppy version 2.16 (the last one with the 184.108.40.206 kernel) because these will fail to work in Puppy 3.x with error message warning that the Wireless-tools were compiled with a different version of glibc.
The only way to fix this problem would be to recompile the Wireless-tools in Puppy3-retro ... and this may be difficult because the compiler will look for 126.96.36.199 kernel headers, which are not available in the Puppy3 devx package.
Simple answer; use the non-retro version of Puppy 3 for wifi support with Ralink. If the 184.108.40.206 kernel gives other hardware problems, go back to the Puppy 2 series.
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Posted: Wed 19 Dec 2007, 09:39
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Oops, the information I just posted was correct, but it concerns errors relating to the
, and I see that you were talking about problems with the
The problem of WPA passphrases of 8 characters not being accepted has been reported before -
and this is definitely a bug in the Network Wizard. Dougal has just reminded me that he thinks the problem can be fixed by modifying /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh at line 925 -
if [ ${KEY_SIZE} -lt 9 ] || [ ${KEY_SIZE} -gt 64 ] ; then
change the "9" to "8".
It would be good if you could change your router setting back to 8-character WPA passphrase and test this modification. If it works, we will tell Barry.
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Posted: Sun 23 Dec 2007, 19:09
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If a pup_save file is encrypted the PC does not stop and ask for a password when it boots. Rather it displays a PASSWORD prompt in blue followed by red text. If any character is entered, and Enter pressed a message is displayed to say that the save file is corrupted and perhaps e2fsck -b 8193 should be run. The strength of the encryption makes no difference.
Further, if there is only one save file present, the PC does not stop during the boot process and give the user the option of loading withou a save file.
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Posts: 103
Posted: Sun 23 Dec 2007, 22:58
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tempestuous wrote:
Dougal has just reminded me that he thinks the problem can be fixed by modifying /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh at line 925 -
if [ ${KEY_SIZE} -lt 9 ] || [ ${KEY_SIZE} -gt 64 ] ; then
change the "9" to "8".
Yes, that fixes the WPA passphrase bug. Please pass on to Dougal and Barry.
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Posts: 2307
Location: Wyoming, USA
Posted: Tue 25 Dec 2007, 20:41
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If a pup_save file is encrypted the PC does not stop and ask for a password when it boots. Rather it displays a PASSWORD prompt in blue followed by red text. If any character is entered, and Enter pressed a message is displayed to say that the save file is corrupted and perhaps e2fsck -b 8193 should be run. The strength of the encryption makes no difference.
Try creating an encrypted file from an unencrypted one and tell us if it works any better, using this utility:
If it does work, that means there is something wrong with the way Puppy creates an encrypted file in the shutdown process. Disclaimer: I have not tested this utility in Puppy 3.01.
Further, if there is only one save file present, the PC does not stop during the boot process and give the user the option of loading withou a save file.
That's the way it's always been. Think about it, you don't really want to be bothered with this selection if there is only one pupsave. If you want the "0" option you type "puppy pfix=ram" at the beginning of boot.
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Posts: 345
Posted: Wed 26 Dec 2007, 11:53
Post subject: Laotian instead of Latin American
Keyboard: Select Latin American but get Laotian
when I select Latin American keyboard in the boot process, I actually get Laotian script when I type. I have to fix it by going into the Keyboard Wizard>Xorg keyboard selector.
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Tue 01 Jan 2008, 09:47
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nibl wrote:
tempestuous wrote:
Dougal has just reminded me that he thinks the problem can be fixed by modifying /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh at line 925 -
if [ ${KEY_SIZE} -lt 9 ] || [ ${KEY_SIZE} -gt 64 ] ; then
change the "9" to "8".
Yes, that fixes the WPA passphrase bug. Please pass on to Dougal and Barry.
Okay, I've implemented this is 'net_setup-3.94' PET package.
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Posts: 17
Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 10:27
Post subject: [SOLVED] 3.01 DRI graphics problem with Savage module
Subject description: if OPENGL/DRI_MODULES installed, get blank screen when exiting from X
I reported an issue with the xorg savage video driver after installing xorg_OPENGL-7.2.pet and xorg_DRI_MODULES-7.2.pet http://ww.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24270
The issue is solved by updating to the xf86-video-savage module v2.1.3 contained in xorg 7.3
The attached files savage_drv.la and savage_drv.so were compiled on Puppy 3.01 from the savage driver package posted at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2007-August/000351.html
To install, drop them into /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ replacing the previous version of each.
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Posts: 2008
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 15:33
Post subject: Same problem with Intel video driver
I have a similar problem with the screen blanking if I do ctrl-alt-bksp in 3.01 using xorg 7.2. Also, on shutdown or reboot the screen goes black (the beam shuts off completely) and remains black during the reboot, necessitating shutting off the PC manually. Puppy 4 has xorg 7.3 which does not exhibit the problem. So I conclude that compiling the xorg 7.3 version of the intel driver would cure things in puppy 3.01. But I have never compiled anything successfully and cannot locate the howto for compiling (if there is one).
Would you point me to instructions for compiling the driver? When I enter "./configure" while in the xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 directory, I get "configure: error: Package requirements...were not met" and "Package 'videoproto', required by 'XvMC', not found" and some suggestions. What did you do?
Thanks for any help.
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Posts: 17
Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 17:10
Post subject: Re: Same problem with Intel video driver
Doing this was a painful learning exercise for me.
I encountered the same message, and more after this one was
taken care of. This is the drill:
get the required packages or files from the xorg site, searching from
if searching there doesn't locate a file, try google for the requested file plus xorg in your search string
e.g. configure stalls and asks for videoproto
download the videoproto package from the xorg site and unzip into a folder
in the console, cd to the folder
the packages are generally processed using the sequence
the needed item may be already generated after just autogen, or after
configure - look in the same folder
place the needed item in the folder generally indicated in the configure
error message
run configure again
solve the next configure issue as above, etc, until configure exits
without an explicit error message.
make will be the final step for generating the driver files
in my case, I had to struggle with an error reported in parsing
it was a syntax error in two lines of xcb.h:
I corrected the line
const xcb_query_extension_reply_t *xcb_get_extension_data(xcb_connection_t *c, xcb_extension_t *ext);
to 2 separate lines:
const xcb_query_extension_reply_t; declaration
int *xcb_get_extension_data(xcb_connection_t *c, xcb_extension_t *ext); prototype
after make has executed without error, you will be looking for
yourdriver.so and yourdriver.la
in my case, they were located in mydriverpkg/src/.libs
note the .libs folder is hidden
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Posts: 1
Posted: Sat 12 Jan 2008, 13:06
Post subject: USB Wifi doesnt work unless booting from live CD
Hi all,
I'm new to Puppy linux, and a novice to linux in general. I usualy get a lot done via man pages and searching forums and so on, but now I've found something I really don't get.
When I boot my thinclient hardware via an IDE connectd CF card I can't get my USB wifi adapter to work. Loading modules manualy or using auto load USB, even using modprobe in the console doesn't work.
The oddest thing about it is that when I attacht a cd drive and boot from the live CD, Puppy finds the addaptor and automatically loads modules for it.
I have also tried booting without the adaptor and inserting it later, and running from the live CD everything is ok. Back to the CF and nothing...
I also tried booting from a USB flashdrive with the same result as the CF.
I haven't tried an harddrive yet, but the whole idea was that the sistem would use no moving parts te reduce noise and energy consumption.
Any Ideas anyone?
Other than this issue Puppylinux is great. Keep up the good work!
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