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Sometimes, though, you can get some mighty weird answers. So, to help you enjoy the 3 day weekend, here are a few from my archives.
"My mom had diabetes, but only when she was alive."
"Both my grandmothers got menopause. My mom may have it, too."
Dr Grumpy: "Any major illnesses in your family?"
Mr. Bozo: "No, but my Dad was a Lieutenant".
"My mom died of liver cirrhosis. Nobody knows how she got it, because she never smoked a day in her life."
"My brother has diabetes. I think it's gestational diabetes."
"My mom is 80 and healthy as a horse, except for her lung cancer."
"My grandparents were from Norway, or maybe Germany, or it could have been England. You know, one of those Russian countries."
"My parents are both fine, but my goldfish has been sick."
"My father died of uterine cancer".
"Family illnesses? Hell, Doc, I don't even know my Mom's last name anymore. She changes it all the fucking time".


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Late Run Leads Rams Past Sage
Farmingdale State - 85, The Sage Colleges - 74
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Leading 62-58 with 7:46 remaining, Farmingdale State outscored Sage 23-16 over the final minutes to earn an 85-74 win in the regular season finale. The Rams improved to 16-9 overall, 15-5 in the Skyline Conference, while the Gators dropped to 13-12, 10-10 in conference play.
Farmingdale State led 14-8 in the opening minutes of the contest, before Sage went on a 10-2 run to take an 18-16 lead with 9:36 remaining. After a Rams timeout, a 3-pointer and layup by junior guard Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y./Brentwood) sparked a 7-0 Farmingdale run and a 23-18 advantage. The Rams took a 41-36 lead into halftime.
Leading 62-58 with 7:47 to play, Flournoy hit a 3 and was sent to the free-throw line for a four-point play opportunity. Flournoy did not convert at the line, but senior forward Jermaine Abraham (Brooklyn, N.Y./Wadleigh) was there for the offensive rebound and tip-in, giving Farmingdale State a 67-58 advantage. The Rams opened up an 18 point lead down the stretch and went on for the Skyline victory.
Farmingdale State had three seniors playing in their final regular season home game this afternoon. Senior guards John Dabney (Freeport, N.Y./Freeport) and Keith Nandin (Queens, N.Y./St. Francis Prep.) scored 17 and 14 points, respectively. Abraham scored nine points and had a game-high 15 rebounds. Junior guard Joshua Smith (Deer Park, N.Y./Deer Park) led the Rams with a team-high 19 points.
Junior forward Dalton Austin-Michaud (Valatie, N.Y./Ichibod Crane) recorded a game-high 23 points for Sage, while sophomore forward Matt Farbotko (Rouses point, N.Y./Northeastern Clinton) pitched in with 15.
Farmingdale State has earned the #4 seed for the Skyline playoffs and will host a first round game against #5 Old Westbury on Tuesday, February 22nd at 6:00 p.m.


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The scene was such that Aamir had to pick up a very bulky man and throw him against the wall and due to this Aamir pulled his hamstring muscle while he was enacting the action scene. This happened at Ramuji Rao Studios in Hyderabad yesterday. A Physiotherapist was then called in for Aamir.
The Ghajini team has been canning some complex action shots since past few days which are important part of the film. However, due to Aamir's injury, the shooting of the film has been indefinitely postponed.
Some reports suggest that Aamir will be sidelined for at least 15 days. Still, knowing Aamir, we can expect the release per schedule (around Diwali/Eid this year). Thankfully (based on what we know, at least), it's a hamstring injury and nothing worse. Relatively speaking, that is. Here is to a speedy recovery. What with the prayers and wishes of his legions of fans, he will hopefully undergo exactly that.
Speaking of the potential for injuries on the film sets...the actor is bold enough to do scenes such as this one in Ghulam (1998), in which he took on an oncoming train and refused the services of a stuntman. Talk about the risk there. Lifting a bulky man and throwing him against a wall hardly compares. While on Ghulam, two thumbs up to Rani Mukherjee for her excellent acting in the film. A much better performance across Aamir than in Mangal Pandey (2005), in my humble opinion.


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Sunday, September 14, 2008
R.S. "Pretties"
So many of what I call "the pretties" are from the German porcelain factories of the late 1800s. The Europeans tried to copy the fine porcelain that the traders brought back from their trips to China. A German chemist discovered the secret of making hard-paste porcelain in the early 1700's, and it gave birth to a porcelain factory in Meissen in 1710, sometimes called Dresden. For nearly a century, it was the "gold" standard for pottery.
Sadly, political disorder in Germany and competition from Sevres porcelain drove the Meissen factory into decline during the late 1700's. It continued to operate but did not make wares of the same artistic quality. Studying the history of artifacts, it becomes evident how much wars and political strife destroy…lives being the worst…but so much culture is also lost.
In the German lines, RS Prussia is a common mark along with ES Germany and RS Germany. One of the most popular was the Schlegelmilch Procelain (say that fast!) Reinhold Schlegelmilch produced R.S. Prussia porcelain at his factory in the town that is now Suhl, Germany from the late 1800s through the beginning of World War. That area was known as Prussia.
R.S. Germany was manufactured in the German province of Thuringia. Schegelmilch also opened a factory in Tilowitz in Silesia (aren't these great names?).
R.S. Poland is the mark used after WWII for a few years.
Not all the hand painted items were done at the factory. Blanks were shipped out for "crafters" to try their skill at painting on porcelain.
Sadly, there are reproductions. The porcelain is heavier, the pieces have decals instead of hand painted designs, and the wreath marks omit the Prussia word. What is so amazing are the pieces of the past attached to some of the pretties...yes, they are beautiful...but you can imagine how proud someone was of the set to mark it with this label.
The most valuable pieces of R.S. Prussia feature décor other than florals such as portraits, animals, classical themes and landscapes. Unusual objects and mold shapes are also prized by collectors. The pieces which command the higher prices are elaborately decorated and gilded. The lobster dish shown above and below here were designed simply as showpieces. They used to be rather expensive, but they have some down in price. I just find them intriguing...always beautifully crafted. Simple painted florals have values of $10-$20 so you can find pretties for pennies (well, several rolls of them!).
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hi susan-thank you for taking a moment to visit my blog. what a pretty blog you have! you mom is too cute! :) come visit again!
- Sun Sep 14, 10:22:00 PM
- Noelle Garrett Designs said...
Such pretty things this week. What could possible be better than "pretties" on a budget? Have a great week!
- Sun Sep 14, 10:44:00 PM
- cathy said...
Another interesting post Susan. You need to put all this info into a book. You are just a wealth of info.
My mom has a whole house of this stuff, most of it handed down from her mother. I'm going to have to send you pics to get you to tell me what you know about it. I'm totally clueless but it sure is pretty.
- Sun Sep 14, 10:48:00 PM
- gail said...
Hi Susan,, I think this has been my favorite post. I love this very pretty porcelin with the gold and flowers. I enjoy hearing the history on your post. Thanks. I hope school is going great. Have a nice week...gail
- Sun Sep 14, 10:51:00 PM
- Miniature Patisserie Chef said...
What a great post! Love all the precious tea pots and tea cups!
Have a great week ahead!
Pei Li
- Mon Sep 15, 12:02:00 AM
- Silena said...
Hi Susan, Enjoyed your stories about the European "pretties". I love the historical aspect of so many of your posts. Always fun and interesting....thanks!!!!
- Mon Sep 15, 12:22:00 AM
- Patricia said...
Loved this one. Have loved RS Prussia for ever. Only have a couple pieces--I'm partial to the pale green with flowers. I had heard a few years back that the molds and rights had been sold so alot of repros are out there now. But it's hard to mistake the real thing when it's side by side.
- Mon Sep 15, 01:22:00 AM
- Carolee Crafts said...
Thank you for sharing the lovely china and feminine designs.
- Mon Sep 15, 01:33:00 AM
I love German china and have many pieces. It's nice to know the history behind it. Thanks again.
- Mon Sep 15, 04:13:00 AM
- Carolyn Kocman said...
am i going to be tested on this? love the little pink teapot and the piece in the last pic. i love this stuff.
- Mon Sep 15, 07:23:00 AM
- Bake Me A Cake! said...
The dishes are absolutely beautiful. I can't wait until my girls start putting things aside for their hope chests. Thank you for sharing!
- Mon Sep 15, 08:12:00 AM
- Susan - InHerOwnWords said...
German china is also one of my favorites. I've enjoyed the history lesson! Thanks!
- Mon Sep 15, 08:26:00 AM
- Cottage Flair said...
Gorgeous pieces. I absolutely love hand painted china. Thank you for sharing.
- Mon Sep 15, 09:10:00 AM
- Michelle May-The Raspberry Rabbits said...
Hey Susan,
I just love that lobster dish. My cutie grammy has one like it, but it has orange colors. Such pretty things this week. Thanks for the lesson.
- Mon Sep 15, 09:18:00 AM
- Shabby in Pink Boutique said...
Oh LaLa! I love all those pretties! I love collecting china, there are so many pretty pieces. Hope you have a nice Monday!
Pink Hugs,
- Mon Sep 15, 09:21:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Susan!
The German porcelain pretties are beautiful! I was in Germany back in 1989 for vacation time. I saw so many beautiful things during that time. You always show us such wonderful products. I really enjoy visiting you Susan. Hope you have a happy week ahead!
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- Mon Sep 15, 10:34:00 AM
- Janet L Christian said...
Love all the new china. I am very sweet on sugar bowls and creamers.
- Mon Sep 15, 11:29:00 AM
- Inka Smith said...
Lots of pretties Susan. I have a lobster dish that I just love. Thanks for sharing all the pretties with us.
- Mon Sep 15, 12:47:00 PM
- Shabby Shan said...
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I love all the pink ones!
Have a nice day!
- Mon Sep 15, 01:24:00 PM
- Deb said...
Susan......RS Prussia has always been a favorite of mine. I'm going to post a link to your blog article for some of my "pottery" friends to read. Thanks for all of the information!
- Mon Sep 15, 05:40:00 PM
very very pretty~
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How does a network fill two hours for a finale results show? Easy.
Bring on multiple musical acts, like Flo Rida, Ne-Yo, Green Day and Justin Bieber with Big Sean, team the finalists with celebrities who can work with their talent for a little performance and give the viewers multiple video montages and flashbacks.
But finally, after an hour of America's Got Talent, we got to see what the votes revealed.
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Coming in last place were The Untouchables, who instantly started tearing up, but Sharon Osbourne reassured them saying, "Don't be sad, little ones, because it's my last show, too. So we're both leaving together."
Joe Castillo took fifth place, and David Garibaldi and His CMYKs came in at fourth. "From the first time I saw you," Howard Stern said, "I was amazed." And then there were three.
The semifinal eliminations were so nerve-racking!
Boos were heard from the crowd when William Close was announced as third. Then, it came down to Tom Cotter and The Olate Dogs.
Nick Cannon announced, "The winner of the $1 million and the star of the headline show in Las Vegas is...(extremely long dramatic pause) Olate Dogs!"


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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court gave the Sahara conglomerate more time to repay billions of dollars it had raised from investors through bond sales that were later ruled to be illegal.
The court on Wednesday asked Sahara to make an initial deposit of 51.2 billion rupees ($937 million) with the capital markets regulator and pay the remainder in two installments in January and February. Sahara has estimated the total payout to be about $7 billion including interest.
Unlisted Sahara, one of India's biggest business groups and a household name through its sponsorship of the national cricket team, was ordered on August 31 to repay within 90 days sums raised by what the court called "dubious" means from nearly 30 million small investors, with 15 percent interest a year.
The top court had asked Sahara to deposit the amount with the capital markets regulator. It had also ordered Sahara to submit detailed documents with the regulator if it had refunded any money collected through the so-called optionally fully convertible debentures to investors.
The case was back in court after the regulator said Sahara had not complied with the order, while Sahara argued the regulator "deliberately refused" to accept documents and information submitted by it.
"You are in default. It seems that you have chosen not to pay the money," the Supreme Court told Sahara on Wednesday, according to Gopal Subramaniam, a lawyer who represented Sahara in the case.
"Tell us whether you are ready to pay the amount or not? Don't say sorry. Say I will deposit the amount," the court told Sahara, according to the lawyer, as it gave extra time.
Sahara said in newspaper advertisements on Saturday it had "cleared" about 330 billion rupees raised through the bonds and had maximum outstanding liability of 51.2 billion rupees, which it was ready to deposit with the authorities.
India's capital markets regulator issued advertisements in late October saying it had received complaints from investors that they were being forced by agents and officials of Sahara to switch the money held through the bonds to other investment products sold by the group.
Sahara had no immediate comment on the court ruling. The company, whose interests range from finance to real estate to sports, recently bought New York's Plaza Hotel, and had earlier bought the Grosvenor House hotel in London.
Sahara, which has sought a review of the August order, said on Saturday its total group assets have a book value of $14 billion. The Supreme Court is yet to give its verdict on that review.
($1 = 54.6400 Indian rupees)
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THE warden escorted David Rohde to his cell and left. Scared, Rohde stood near the doorway, feeling the eyes of the room's five occupants upon him.
Hours ago, he'd thought he was on the verge of freedom. Now he seemed to have turned a corner in a Balkan maze and found bars instead of an exit.
Five days had passed since his capture by Bosnian Serbs. As far as Rohde was aware, no one he cared about knew where he was, and his family probably thought he was dead.
''Hi, how are you,'' he said nervously in Serbian. ''I'm an American journalist. My name's David.''
One of the men turned toward him. ''Are you the American journalist?'' he asked.
''Yes,'' said Rohde.
''I just heard your brother on Voice of America,'' said the prisoner. ''He's trying to get you out.''
Rohde felt a rush of elation. His family knew he was alive.
Christian Science Monitor reporter David Rohde sneaked into Bosnian Serb territory in late October in search of evidence of war crimes.
Caught at a dam where Muslim civilians appeared to have been massacred, minutes from the end of his mission and a safe return, he was held by police convinced that no journalist would risk so dangerous a trip. Instead, they appeared sure that he was a spy.
The authorities of the self-styled ''Republic of Srpska,'' Rohde decided, were obsessed with sovereignty and respect for their laws.
This wasn't surprising in light of the fact that the outside world considers Srpska less a nation than an armed camp of usurpers.
After days of interrogation, Rohde was increasingly confident he would survive his ordeal. The problem was that somehow, before this was over, he would have to satisfy his captors' desire for Bosnian Serb respect.
'Like a bird'
Still, his sentence was somewhat unexpected. On Friday, Nov. 3, Rohde was waiting in a small office in the Zvornik police station, a room he'd come to know all too well. His interrogator, Marko, was late.
When Marko finally arrived, around 3 in the afternoon, he was still wearing the clothes he'd had on all week - a short leather jacket and lavender pants - but he was carrying a thick volume Rohde hadn't seen before.
It was the criminal code of the Republic of Srpska. Marko sat at his desk, copying passages from the law book. Then he said the words Rohde had been waiting to hear through the long hours of his five-day Zvornik interrogation: ''I think, Mr. David, we are finished.''
Marko typed up his notes, handed them over for Rohde's signature, and rose to go. Rohde came with him.
''Mr. David, if you are lucky, tomorrow you will be like a bird,'' said Marko as they walked out the door. ''Be like a bird, and fly away.''
The judge's office was several buildings down the street. It resembled a courtroom about as much as Rohde looked like American actor Brad Pitt, but Rohde hoped it might be the place of his deliverance. A translator was already there, as was the guard who had collared Rohde near the village of Sahanici.
The Monitor journalist thanked the elderly man for not shooting him. The guard said it was no problem, that he had in fact been scared that Rohde would somehow kill him. The man's hair was combed, as if this appearance was an important moment in his life. He had bagged an American journalist - maybe even a spy - and seemed proud. Rohde decided he was a nice guy in spite of everything.
The judge was a woman. The court proceedings were relatively brief. Rohde was asked if he'd changed his accreditation to enter the territory. He said ''yes'' - he'd admitted that right off. He denied seeing signs prohibiting photography at the sites he'd visited. There'd been no fence around the dam at Sahanici, he said. He drove right in.
Nobody was talking about espionage. He must have finally convinced them that he didn't work for the CIA. ''I'm sorry,'' Rohde told the judge, ''I was just trying to find out the truth.''
''I will announce my decision in half an hour,'' the judge said.
The defendant and audience filed into the next room.
But judgment took longer than 30 minutes. An hour went by. ''It's got to be the firing squad,'' joked Marko. Everyone laughed.
Finally, Rohde was called back into the courtroom.
''David Rohde is found guilty,'' intoned the judge. ''He is hereby sentenced to 15 days in prison, minus six already served.''
This was bad. Rohde had thought he would spend one more night in custody, at most, and then fulfill his dream of freedom, driving back across the Drina.
''And all his personal possessions will be seized by the court,'' added the judge.
This was more than bad. What would he do about the car? It was a rental, a 1994 Citroen from an Austrian agency. The insurance wouldn't cover a car lost in Bosnia. Somebody would have to pay for it, and the Monitor journalist figured it would be him. He'd be the laughing stock of the Bosnia press corps.
Bijeljina bars
The prison was an hour north of Zvornik, on the grounds of an old factory in the city of Bijeljina. It was surrounded by a 10-foot wall of red cinder block, and as Rohde was ushered through its gates on Friday evening, he could see lit windows, bars, and group cells within.
The attitude of his guards, upon arrival, was a mixture of hostility and excitement. They couldn't believe they had an American.
As a political test, they asked him, ''What is the Drina River the border between?'' The correct answer, in their eyes, was ''The Republica Srpska and Serbia,'' not ''Bosnia and Serbia,'' as the rest of the world would answer.
They collected the journalist's possessions, giving him meticulous receipts. Such record-keeping was important to Bosnian Serb officials, Rohde had noticed. It was part of their obsession with respect for ''Srpskan'' law.
His cramped cell was about 10 feet by 20 feet, with six bunks and a heater in the corner. One bunk - his - was empty.
During Rohde's introduction, the cell ''director,'' a man named Slavko, who had been a director of a failed bank, got up and began to put extra blankets on the empty bed.
Happy that his family knew he was alive, Rohde began to think that prison might not be as bad as he had pictured it.
Room with a crew
His cellmates seemed sympathetic. Besides Slavko, there was Zenga, a young thief who'd been caught stealing crates of cigarettes; and Milan, a military policeman who had shot a man who attacked him with a knife after a traffic accident.
The man with a smuggled-in shortwave radio was in prison for doctoring a friend's car-ownership papers. The fifth and youngest member of the group was half-Serb and half-
Muslim, 18 years old. He'd been arrested for possession of 300 marijuana cigarettes and was a big fan of the rock group Pink Floyd.
In the days to come it would become clear that for Rohde, the problem with prison was the inactivity. The nervous reporter needed something to do with his energy; he was the kind of person who measured rooms not so much in feet as in paces.
But prisoners were allowed outside for exercise only 30 minutes a day. It was perhaps the fastest 30 minutes Rohde had ever experienced in his life.
And the food - liquid with rice mush, liquid with bean mush, liquid with potato mush - was awful. Rohde became convinced that the prisoner's leftovers, dumped into a large bucket, were fed directly to pigs.
Boston goes to Dayton
By now the Monitor's phone lines in Boston were jammed with calls about Rohde. Faye Bowers, David's editor, plus the international editor, Clayton Jones, and senior editors, kept in touch with the UN, the State Department in Washington, and individual US embassies overseas. Meanwhile, the media continued clamoring for information.
Rohde's family was set up in an office just off the newsroom, making calls to their political contacts and anyone else they felt would pay attention or could be useful. The problem was that the ad hoc David Rohde Action Team continually received conflicting information.
The UN said the Bosnian Serbs had David; the State Department wasn't sure. No one had seen David, or talked to him, or had any confirmation about his fate.
Late Friday afternoon, during a strategy session held in Editor David Cook's office, it was decided that Jones, Bowers, elder brother Lee Rohde, and other family members should fly to the Bosnian peace talks being held at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, just outside Dayton, Ohio. Proximity might make it easier to meet with - and pressure - the top US officials who dealt with the Balkans. Bosnian Serb officials were in Dayton as well.
If their efforts failed, the family could always hold a press conference outside the peace talk gates, ratcheting up media attention.
Most family members flew to Dayton on Friday afternoon. Plans for the two editors and Lee Rohde were made late, and they missed the last flight from Boston to Dayton. They landed in Cincinnati instead, and drove to a hotel near the base, arriving at 2 Saturday morning.
Five to 15
On Saturday, Nov. 4, Rohde became fully aware of the scope of US efforts on his behalf.
He was in his cell, bored, when a guard fetched him at around 6 in the evening, and they headed off for a nearby police station.
Along the way, the guard turned to Rohde and said, ''you, 15 days is only your first sentence. That was your sentence for changing the documents. No one has sentenced you yet for taking the pictures. You will go back to court and will be serving five to 15 years for espionage.''
Rohde was taken aback, but replied with only ''I am not a spy.'' He thought that perhaps the guard was just playing with his mind.
At the police station, it became clear that the purpose of the trip was to place a phone call. Rohde could see the Bosnian Serbs trying to dial a 202 number in the United States - Washington. Excited, he started plotting out what he should say. But the line didn't work.
They piled back in a car and drove to the local office of the International Red Cross. Rohde had never been happier to see relief workers in his life.
He strode up the stairs and introduced himself to the first person he saw. The woman looked at him as if he were a ghost.
At that point, Rohde had been missing for almost a week, and some Westerners in Bosnia were beginning to think he was dead. This Red Cross worker was probably among them.
As his guard negotiated a phone call, she kept nervously quizzing Rohde about his condition. ''Are you alright?'' she asked, ''Where are they holding you?''
She was stunned to learn that Rohde was in a prison a short drive away. ''How are they treating you?''
''I'm fine,'' replied Rohde. ''I just don't know what's going on.''
First call
The call went through. David picked up the phone, and said hello.
''David, this is John Menzies,'' said the man on the other end of the line. ''I'm here with your brother Lee, your father, your sister, Laura, and your brother Erik.''
''Oh God, no,'' thought Rohde, ''What's going on?'' John Menzies, after all, was the US ambassador to Bosnia. He - David Rohde - must have become a very big problem for the government. And what was his family doing in the room? It must have cost them all a fortune to make the trip.
The journalist gave a two-minute burst transmission of what had happened to him, and then the family got on the phone - first his brother Lee, then his sister, who cried, and Erik, and his father, whose voice shook.
When it was over, Rohde was confident that it was now only a matter of time before he was released. But now he knew what his desire to expose the breadth of Bosnian Serb atrocities had put his family through.
He felt about 3 centimeters tall.
'You're going to go home'
On Sunday, Rohde was in his cell, half asleep and staring at the wall, when a guard came and said he had visitors. He met them in the warden's office: a small contingent of US and UN officials who had driven up from Sarajevo in an armored car through blizzard conditions. They brought him books, a case of military MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), and mixed news.
''We're going to get you out, you're going to go home,'' one told the imprisoned journalist. ''I can't tell you when.''
Rohde had hoped for instant release, or at least a firm date. His cellmates had told him that Bosnian Serb justice was indeed linear - you could finish an initial sentence, then be dragged back in court, tried on further charges, and land back in jail. An espionage trial remained a possibility.
At least he now had some diversions. Opening the first MRE was an adventure for the entire cell, and Rohde was excited to finally have a taste of America, though the M&M chocolate candies were old and stale.
He devoured the books as well. The officials from Sarajevo probably had brought all the books they had.
But reading John Grisham's ''The Chamber'' - a novel of justice gone wrong - Rohde was amused to find out that death row inmates in Mississippi were allotted more living space than he had.
In the following days, prison life began to become almost routine. There was the morning's flurry of activity, then hours of sitting in the cell, reading, talking, lounging on the heater, or being taught yoga by his cellmates.
Rohde's Serbian began to improve. He and his cellmates joked whether the journalist, as the first US ''prisoner of war'' of the Bosnian conflict, would be honored with a stamp when he got home.
Their brief contact with Rohde via the phone call gave his family and editors an enormous lift. He was alive, and it didn't sound as if he'd been abused.
The official meeting they had had preceding the phone call, which included top US negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke and US Ambassador to Bosnia John Menzies, along with the highest ranking Bosnian Serb in Dayton, ''Vice President'' Nikola Koljevic, had also gone well.
At one point, Holbrooke, a man not known for his subtlety, had picked up and played with Koljevic's wool plaid fedora. ''Do you like this hat?'' Holbrooke had asked the Bosnian Serb leader. ''Maybe I should hold it hostage.''
Family pressure
Now they had to decide how hard to push. Should the family hold a press conference at the Dayton base gates, and go on TV? Would that annoy US officials?
''Pressure sometimes helps, and sometimes hurt,'' said one American diplomat, quietly. They decided to wait.
David's father, Harvey Rohde, wrote Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a personal letter on stationary from the Dayton Radisson Inn. ''Please, please, in the name of God, release my son,'' he implored.
The US was leaning hard on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, as well as Bosnian Serb leaders. Balkan politics is a tangled web, and Mr. Milosevic is widely considered to have great influence with Bosnian Serbs, with whom he has at least nominally severed ties of assistance.
Quietly, the US began warning Milosevic that the Bosnian peace talks themselves might be affected by Rohde's continued imprisonment.
''So long as Mr. Rohde's detention continues, it will necessarily distract us from our principal purpose and create a negative climate for our continuing work,'' US Secretary of State Warren Christopher wrote President Milosevic.
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, the guards came for Rohde at around 10 a.m. They took him out of the prison, to the fourth floor of a building he had not been in before. There, dressed in a military uniform, was Marko. ''Hello Mr. David,'' he said. ''You have appealed your sentence. I want to hear your story again.''
It had been five days since Rohde had repeated the half-true explanation of his adventures.
Still, he ground it out quickly, all the names perfect. The Bosnian Serbs wrote out a copy of what he had said, and admitted to, and the journalist signed it after arguing for a few minutes.
He saw a silver sedan pull up across the street.
Nothing happened for hours. Then a Bosnian Serb TV crew suddenly arrived, and Rohde was marched out onto the balcony and ''interviewed'' by Marko. Rohde was forced to repeat the story he had told Marko and say he had found no evidence of a massacre.
He was then led downstairs, through a door, and into the presence of people he had dreamed of for days: heavily armed soldiers wearing red berets. They were Serbian commandos from across the Drina River. They must have come to take him home.
The Serbians were polite, but they gave him the same ghost-look Rohde had received from the woman at the Red Cross.
As they headed downstairs, Rohde shook Marko's hand before he left - grateful that his treatment was decent, considering what it could have been. The man had done his best to crack Rohde's story, but he also said he had lost a brother in the bitter Bosnian war.
''I try to be human,'' Marko had said during lulls in the interrogations.
As they drove away, a Serbian told him that they had been forced to wait for two hours, without being told where the journalist was.
Finally, he said, he had told Rohde's Bosnian Serb captors that he would start shooting in 10 minutes. They could shoot back if they wanted, he said. That threat finally produced the prisoner.
''You know they wanted to kill you, don't you?'' said the Serbian.
As they drove across the Drina, Rohde looked down and wondered if what the Serb was saying was self-serving exaggeration - or true.
* Last in a three-part series. Parts One and Two ran on Nov. 17 and 20.


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Bow Headband
This was a super quick project! I used this pattern but modified the band a bit since I was using a thicker yarn and bigger hook (5mm instead of 4mm).
I didn't mind the bigger bow, but the band was epically long. I think I changed it to 90 chains total, and the ends are closed with 6SC instead of 30.
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Jacques Weiser, 88, passionate English teacher, dies
As an English teacher, Jacques J. Weiser didn't just walk into his classroom, he bounded.
The Melville resident's enthusiasm for the works of literature he taught was reflected in his commanding voice, his hand gestures and his no-nonsense attitude for disruptions -- he was known to loudly kick a garbage can to regain his charges' attention when they doodled or daydreamed, his family said.
Weiser, a longtime Long Island educator and American literature aficionado, died Jan. 31 at Huntington Hospital of natural causes, his family said. He was 88.
"Dad was one hell of a character," said his younger son, Brad Weiser, of Altoona, Pa. "He was an actor. He really performed in front of the class. . . . He was passionate about teaching."
Weiser was born in the Bronx on Oct. 28, 1924, to the former Bella Zucker and Benjamin Weiser.
Weiser graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx and was drafted, serving three years in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a radio operator/gunner on a B-17 bomber.
While overseas, he exchanged letters with a young woman -- the former Ruth Frost.
They married Sept. 14, 1946, in Brooklyn. They honeymooned in Maine and had three children.
After his military service, Weiser graduated from Long Island University, majoring in accounting and English. He worked for a few years as an accountant, but decided on a career in teaching and earned a master's degree in secondary education from New York University.
The family lived in Inwood, and he taught at public schools in Manhattan and the Bronx before he got a job in 1959 at Commack High School and moved to Melville.
He didn't want to just teach from books, he wanted his students to broaden their horizons, his family said. He took them on field trips to The New York Times, Rockefeller Center and museums.
"It was a calling," said his son Jeffrey R. Weiser, of Scarsdale. "He got along very well with the students. They thought he was a real dynamic, memorable character. He did not put his students to sleep, to say the least. I always run into people . . . [who] always remember him."
He also taught at Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park before he began teaching night classes at Farmingdale State College, where he retired in 1991.
Weiser's nephew, Marc Frost of Atlanta, said Weiser had "more books in the house than I've ever seen." His favorite book was "The Great Gatsby," and he loved jazz and swing music of the 1940s, and playing the drums.
In addition to his wife and two sons, Weiser is survived by a daughter, Dr. Barbara Weiser of Sacramento, Calif., and four grandchildren. His brother, Seymour Weiser, died in 1975.
His funeral was held Monday at 1 p.m. at the I.J. Morris Funeral Home, Dix Hills. Burial followed at the Mount Golda Cemetery, Huntington Station.


text: Medtronic Minimed 508 Insulin Pump vs. my New Paradigm 512 Insulin Pump and Blood Glucose Meter August 2, '04 Comments [6] Posted in Diabetes | Movies Sponsored By This is a primarily technical blog, so I don't post pictures of pets (don't have any) or other personal bloggy things. However, I am an Insulin-Dependant (Type 1) diabetic with an Insulin Pump and most folks know that, and I've blogged about Diabetes before: Scott's Diabetes Explained - The Airplane Analogy. I've been diabetic for a decade, got it when I was 20. It doesn't run in the family, nor do any of my relatives have Type I diabetes. A few of the oldies have Type II, but these days who doesn't? The theory is that I got the flu (possibly a coxsackie virus) and when it was all over I was left without a usable insulin-producing pancreas.When I was diagnosed, my blood sugar was around 500 mg/dl and yours is probably 80 mg/dl. (I currently aim for <= 150 mg/dl). I had gone from 180 lbs to about 130 lbs because I was pissing away muscle. We think I was uncontrolled as a diabetic for at least six month before folks noticed I was wasting away. The weight came back on after I got under control.Diabetes sucks egregiously. It's the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. I have checked my blood sugar by pricking my finger between 5 and 10 times a day for the last 10 years (about 30,000 times so far). Hurts every time. Folks always ask "Does it still hurt?" You get beaucoup callouses, but yes, it hurts. I check my blood sugar (glucose) then make a decision based on some training they give you when you're diagnosed, some equations and hunches. I took shots 4-6 times a day for six years. Ironically, I hate needles and giving blood. Go figure. :)A month before my wife and I went on my first date I got an Insulin Pump, a Minimed 508. It looks exactly like a pager with a clear tube coming out of it, except it costs $6000 US and delivers insulin. (It does vibrate and have a remote control though.)The pump doesn't know ANYTHING about my blood sugar, and there are no pumps on the open market today that can detect blood sugar either continuously or at an interval. If you think your friend has one, you are either mistaken or they are in a clinical trial for something coming. I've done two clinical trials myself.The pump is a one-way device - delivery of insulin only. There is a small needle/canula that I stick in my side every 4 or 5 days. I move it around; sometimes I feel like I'm putting holes in me faster than I can heal them. It's a good thing though, as I used to have to stick a needle in me many times a day, now the needle and tube is in there all the time. I keep the pump with me 24 hours a day, it can't be removed for more than a few minutes at a time (bathing, etc.) Here's an example.Let's say my blood sugar is currently 100 mg/dl. FYI, 50 mg/dl would be dangerous. 30 mg/dl would be Emergency Room. 200 mg/dl or more for long periods is a bad idea also. So the goal range is 100-200 mg/dl. I know that (from a whole series of past calculations) that:1 Unit of Humalog Fast-Acting (starts in 15 mins, last 3 hours) Insulin will lower my blood sugar 50 mg/dl. 1 Unit of Humalog will "cover" 15 grams of Carbohydrates. So, ideally, if my BG (Blood Glucose) is 100 mg/dl and I want to eat a 30 gram Granola Bar, I'd take 2 Units of Insulin and expect my BG to be BACK at 100 mg/dl after about 3 hours. Make sense? Carbohydrates hit you fast - immediately and they spike blood sugar quickly. If I ate that Granola Bar and didn't take any insulin, my BG would go to 200 mg/dl in short notice and likely higher. Blood sugar is like a helium balloon, once it gets high, it likes to accelerate.Protein hits you slow - in about 3 to 5 hours. Fiber will also hit you slow. This is all that talk about the Gylcemic Index of food. For example an apple without skin would hit faster than one with skin. White bread hits faster than wheat. You get the idea. (Rice Cakes are horrible for you, by the way)OK, here's where it gets more interesting. Let's say that I have lunch at Subway. A foot long steak on wheat is 80 grams of carbs and 20 grams of protein. That's ~5.4U of Insulin now and ~1.3U either over, or in, 4 hours. Now, let's say that dinner comes around and my blood sugar is 200 mg/dl. That's too high and I'll need a "correction" as well as enough insulin to cover dinner. I want to be at 100 mg/dl, but I'm at 200 mg/dl. That's 2U (Remember 1U = 50 mg/dl) to correct, PLUS whatever I need for dinner. But, if dinner is at 3 pm for some reason, then I've still got some fractional amount of "active" insulin in me from lunch! If I don't take it into consideration I could over correct and crash later.Well, you get the idea. Anyway, I got a NEW pump this weekend. A Medtronic Paradigm 512 Insulin Pump with Wireless Blood Sugar Meter. It's freaking awesome.When I check my blood sugar on this meter, it immediately wirelessly transmits the reading to the pump. (I "married them" with a dance of serial number registrations and encryption as a first setup step.) The pump has a Wizard that I programmed earlier with all my details: Insulin sensitivity, type of Insulin, Carb/Insulin Ratio, etc. The Wizard then keeps track of my blood sugar and active insulin. If I count my carbs correctly, it will make a suggestion as to how many Units of Insulin to take. Mind you, it's just a suggestion. I have to make the final OK and/or adjustment for legal reasons. God Forbid it should make a mistake, so I'm happy to be in the loop. :)It works great. Yesterday we went to the movies and I had an ENTIRE bag of Peanut Butter M&Ms (75g) and had perfect blood sugar afterwards. This doesn't mean that I'll start eating crap. Remember the Airplane Analogy - dramatic altitude changes are hard to control, steady and even is always the best bet. But it was so much easier on the head to let a computer do the calculations that I've been doing 6 times a day in my head for the better part of ten years. (Try not eating M&Ms for ten years, then see how YOUR demeanor changes. ;) )For the next few years, the diabetic themselves will have to "close the loop" - but this pump and meter are a rockin' sweet next step and the coolest thing to happen to my diabetes in the last decade. « Visual Studio.NET MSI Setup Creation: "C... | Blog Home | Wesner's thoughts on Collection versu... » 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 [6] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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DailyDirt: Everything Old Is New Again? Human Billboards...
from the urls-we-dig-up deptIt's been a while since the dotcom boom days when human billboard tattoos were all the rage. Getting a tattoo is usually not considered a prudent decision, but it does attract attention... and that's usually what people are trying to get with tattoos. Maybe tattoo advertising is making a comeback, or maybe it's just as permanent as the ink in people's skin. Just make sure if you're getting a tattoo for money, that you really like your corporate sponsors.
- Myron Robinson really likes Netflix, so he got its logo tattooed on his stomach. He didn't even know that he'd get a free year's worth of Netflix, so it's gotta be true love. [url]
- NBA players have a limited time in the spotlight, so they might want to sell some advertising space on their bodies while they can. About 35% of players already have tattoos of some kind, but the NBA doesn't (yet!) have any explicit rules restricting commercial tattoos. [url]
- Hostgator Dotcom (aka Billy Gibby) sold space on his face to a bunch of different companies (some that don't exist anymore), and now he wants to finance his tattoo removal by selling more tattoos on his body. Gibby has 24 tattoos on his face that he wants to remove, but maybe he should try selling some other services that don't involve tattoos...? (He's open to legally changing his name again.) [url]
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This quilt is huge, so I quilted it with straight lines, the easiest thing I could think of and I love all the ones I have seen quilted the same way. I agonised for ages over the right colour for the background and finally chose artichoke in Kona cotton and I am very happy with it.
Not the best photos, but it started raining as we started to take them. With this finished I can tick one present off the Christmas list. This is for my sister (and I am not giving away secrets, I have consulted with her as I made it). Now to start on the rest of the Christmas sewing.


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There are almost 7 billion people on the planet, only 1 billion or so of whom have a smartphone. That means 6 billion people do not have one. The biggest tech company you've never heard of wants to flip that statistic, and in so doing make 2013 the year it brings the world online.
MediaTek is the largest mobile chipmaker in Taiwan. Its chips power devices from the likes of Lenovo, Sharp and Acer, as well as Chinese giants like ZTE and Huawei. It generated about $3 billion in revenue last year selling chipsets for some 500 million phones, easily eclipsing Samsung, HTC and Apple in total volume. Yet few know who MediaTek is.
"We are," says Finbarr Moynihan, who runs new business for MediaTek, "one of those best-kept secrets."
That will soon change, because MediaTek wants to fundamentally remake the global phone business.
The company doesn't sell phones under its own name. Instead, it supplies what it calls "reference designs" – which include the chip and the operating system, camera, display and more – that need little more than polish and personalization from the manufacturers branding and selling them. MediaTek intends to take that formula, which has worked exceptionally in the feature-phone market, and apply it to smartphones.
In 2013, for the first time ever, global smartphone sales will exceed feature-phone sales – an area MediaTek has thoroughly dominated in China and South Asia. Most of those sales will be in the developing world, where unsubsidized smartphone prices are expected to fall to $50. But MediaTek is going after both ends of the market, with a plan to sell high-end phones as well. It is rolling out fast chipsets and gorgeous displays so handset manufacturers can target the emerging global middle class. If MediaTek can pull this off, it's going to flip the smartphone-to-feature-phone global equation, boost Android handset sales by an order of magnitude, and bring hundreds of millions of people online, many for the very first time.
Perhaps the one thing more impressive than MediaTek's vast size is the speed with which it grew. The company was founded in 1997, spun off from the R&D arm of giant Taiwanese chipmaker UMC. It initially made chips for optical drives in computers and home stereos, and remains the world's largest chipmaker in that segment. It expanded its operations into Wi-Fi, televisions and, most notably, mobile phones.
MediaTek quietly entered the mobile phone business in 2004, making chipsets that powered mobiles in China. Then it moved into the emerging markets of Indonesia, India, Brazil, Russia and more. Today, it is a feature-phone colossus.
Cheap handsets that offer only the most rudimentary features and run only the most basic apps comprised about 70 percent of global mobile sales in 2012. But MediaTek is betting that end users are ready to make the leap to smartphones, based on both hardware costs coming down and the rollout of 3G networks. Within four years, MediaTek estimates, the market for unsubsidized smartphones that cost $200 or less will be in the neighborhood of 730 million units.
And the subsidization issue is key. In China, and much of the rest of the world, phones are sold in retail shops you find in strip malls and markets, not the Chinese equivalent of an AT&T store run by a telco. These phones aren't subsidized by carriers, so price is a prime concern. The phone and SIM often are purchased separately.
Go to a mall anywhere in China or the developing world and you'll see a staggering array of form factors from manufacturers you've never heard of. To some extent, this is a reflection of necessity. Networks and needs vary from place to place – for example, customers may want a phone with multiple SIM cards for different carriers – so phones are built to suit local needs. MediaTek pioneered this approach in China, where it fueled the market in off-brand mobile phones. As it expanded internationally, that model turned out to be well-suited for a global scale.
"A lot of this stuff is consumer use case developed because of the retail aspects of those countries," explains Moynihan.
One of MediaTek's biggest selling points has been flexibility. Operating at enormous scale, MediaTek can pack lots of features into its phones at lower cost than manufacturers operating on a market-by-market basis. It can deliver cheap phones with rich multimedia experiences, while letting local brands to do the hard work of establishing identity and consumer recognition.
For example, because it isn't beholden to carriers, its phones have long supported multi-SIM and dual band. This is essential in markets where consumers might use different SIMs to call different people, or different countries, or at different times. In some markets, like Brazil, MediaTek phones might have as many as four SIM slots.
The company plans to take the cooperative model that made it China's biggest supplier of mobile phone chips and apply it to smartphones. The company sells hundreds of millions of feature phone handsets each year. Now it wants to flood the world with affordable Android smartphones, localized to suit particular markets. It developed a powerful quad-core chipset for use in phones that will compete with high-end models from the likes of Samsung and LG, yet sell for as little as $200. Don't have that kind of cash? No problem. MediaTek has single and dual core chips too, so it can hit lower price points.
"MediaTek has created a barbell market for the global smartphone market," explains Gartner analyst Mark Hung. "There is growth on the high-end, and significant growth on the low-end."
The low end is no less important than the high end. Apple operates at the high end. Although it doubled iPhone sales in China during the last quarter of the year, it is in sixth place there overall, according to IDC. It trails Samsung, China Wireless Technologies, ZTE, and Huawei – the last two of which use MediaTek designs.
What that means is, when hundreds of millions of people around the world pick up their first Android handset this year to make a call, send a text, compose an email or download a movie, they'll have a MediaTek phone in their hand, though it might carry another company's logo.
"We are democratizing the smartphone," Moynihan says, "bringing the premium experience in much more cost effective platforms."
Beyond being cheap to buy the company designs its phones to be cheap to use as well. For example, smart dialer software ensures that when you call someone's number, your phone connects with the SIM from the same network that number is on. They automatically swap to WiFi to suck down data, and some are even designed to work on 2G platforms and use WiFi only for web browsing. They have built-in power-management features, like a low energy display, to maximize battery life, a key consideration in areas where plugging in isn't always an option.
This strategy has been a huge success. MediaTek shipped 550 million feature phone chipsets in 2011 and 10 million smartphone chipsets. It shipped another 400 million feature phones last year, but while that declines, it sold a full 110 million smartphone chipsets. And now it thinks the market is about to flip completely.
"I think 2011 should be the peak of the feature phone in volume sales," says MediaTek president Ching-Jiang "C.J." Hsieh.
To put it more bluntly, MediaTek wants to muscle in on the smartphone market players like Samsung and LG currently control. It's already the biggest smartphone chip supplier in China, where its chipsets power some 30 to 50 percent of the smartphone handsets sold last year, according to analyst estimates. And while that may be bad news for Samsung, it's very good news for Google's Android operating system, and even better for consumers.
"In the past we focused on the feature phone so we provided our own ecosystem to the customer including our own platform. For the smartphone – it's an open system requirement – so that is why we focus on the industry's most popular platform," says Hsieh. "In the beginning we supported Windows OS, but maybe it's not so successful for our customer, so we moved to Android platform."
Going Quad-Core
This year at CES, MediaTek showed off a MT6589 handset. The screen looked great. The camera shot pictures impossibly fast. Apps fired quickly, and while it was no Nexus 4, the phone was as good or better than the bulk of Android phones and far faster than the clunky iPhone 4S in my pocket. It was appealing, and even at $150 or $200 off contract, seemed like a bargain.
There's a good reason why customers in the developing world may be ready to splurge on a nice handset. Often, the phone quite often is the only Internet-connected device in a household. It must have a display large enough to compose long messages on, or read the day's news. It may well be the household's sole media player, and may even double as a television. It's a camera, an e-reader, a web browser. It's truly an all-in-one device, the mobile communications, entertainment and Internet center for a large percentage of the world's people.
"Someone in Indonesia, they may want a nice [smartphone] camera because it is their camera," explains Moynihan. "In India it may be the only device for watching movies."
And ultimately, that's what's so exciting about the democratization of the smartphone. Sure, it may be good for MediaTek, or Android, but ultimately the 450 smartphone, and even the $200 smartphone are good for humanity. It isn't about MediaTek being a big company, or one that makes cheap phones, or even that it sells them by the boatload. It's the consequence of targeting the 5.8 billion people in the world who don't have a smartphone. The ultimate effect is MediaTek and companies like it will bring the world online, a few hundred million people at a time.
If it can flip the equation, if it can get smartphones to outsell feature phones, it will be one of the biggest product success stories of the year, and maybe even a global communications revolution, again.


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Daytime Dial: First off, how was your summer vacation?
Michael Steger: Really good. At the beginning, I did a few small vacations. I went to Rosarito, Mexico, and Ensenada and then Chicago. And then I worked on two films in May and June, which was nice. It went by pretty quickly. And then I started back up on "90210" in July. So most of my summer I've been working.
DD: For those who might be living under a rock, I also want to point out that "90210" has switched to Monday nights at 8/7c on the CW. I know you are active on Twitter, so how has the fan reaction been for the new season?
MS: Very excited. I've been contacted by fans on Twitter: "When is the show starting? When is the show starting?" The energy is very contagious, and the fans have been really great about passing that info along.
DD: Looking back on the previous season, what have been some of your favorite moments?
MS: My favorite moments from season four is getting the chance to work with really cool character actors. I got to work with Anthony Azizi, who played my uncle Amal. And Shaun Duke, who plays my dad, and then of course all the cool recurring cast we have on the show, like Josh Zuckerman. There are so many really good actors coming on board the show. They represent the fresh energy that is so much a part of the show and is always my favorite part.
DD: How's Navid doing this season?
MS: He starts the season in a bidding war with Liam for Silver, and now Silver has picked Teddy to have a baby with. It's thrown Navid off-kilter a bit to where his character is tested, and he goes the route of a stranger, in a sense — he does something that's really out of character.
He has an almost one-night stand, and he's really not thinking. He's trying to get back to Silver, so he's doing as much as he can in that area. It's completely out of character for him, but he is trying to get the attention with Silver at the end of the day.
DD: I saw some pictures of you and the rest of the guys online dressed as cheerleaders for a powder-puff football game. Was that fun to film?
MS: It's funny, when you get a group of guys and you dress them up as cheerleaders, you have this feeling of, "OK, we've got to represent." It ended up being a hilarious situation because we were all just making fun of ourselves the entire day. It was really funny. And of course, at the end of the day, we're all like, "Oh did you guys see the paparazzi over yonder?" We were caught off-guard, but we still had a really good time.
DD: Tell me about Dixon's recovery from the car accident.
MS: It's going to take a while. His recovery process is a long one. The execs handled it in a very organic way and very believable. I thought they handled it very nicely.
DD: Can you give me any spoilers for down the road?
MS: I'm really not sure what will happen. Everything's a surprise. I don't like to know too much, you know? I just wait until I get the script to be surprised. We'll find out!
DD: Tell me about the films you've been working on.
MS: They're both in post-production. "Farah Goes Bang" is about three women who are coming into their own. They're on a road trip to work on the John Kerry campaign during the 2004 Bush/Kerry election. It's a very great story about these women coming into their womanhood. One is trying to lose her virginity, and they have all of the obstacles along the way. It's a touching story of that time. I think people are going to enjoy it.
And the other one is "Blowing Vegas Off the Map," which is a movie for the Syfy network. It has to do with an Egyptian curse, and Las Vegas is being decimated by a horrible storm. I think if you're into sci-fi, you might enjoy it, but I haven't seen any cuts, so I have no idea. But I'm sure it'll be good, explosive fun.


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Here is a Top 10 of Computer Service & Repair in the Atlanta, GA area. This list was compiled by how frequently the repair firms information is kept in people's digital address books. The service providers that are used more frequently are stored more frequently. The #1 repair store on this list has been stored the most amount of times by Atlanta residents. Generally, people only store a business information in their address books if they are satisfied with the providers service and wish to engage in repeat business.
Top 10 Computer Repair Stores in Atlanta
Printer Repair Depot
(770) 451-1022
3618 Clearview Pkwy
Atlanta, GA 30340
Atlanta Technical
(770) 414-5266
2896 Greystone Cv N
Atlanta, GA 30341
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(770) 414-5266
Atlanta, GA 30303
Geek Squad
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3079 Peachtree Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30305
Nanosecond Computers
(404) 874-9664
Atlanta, GA 30303
Georgia Geeks
(404) 388-6553
Atlanta, GA 30303
Vertical Marketing Services
(770) 804-8884
Atlanta, GA 30338
All Services Computer Trouble Shooters
(404) 892-9030
4311 Lakeshore Xing NE
Atlanta, GA 30324
(404) 814-7675
3400 Around Lenox Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
Sirius Computer Solutions
(404) 351-5040
Atlanta, GA 30303
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2793A Clairmont Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
(770) 901-8475
124 Perimeter Ctr W
Atlanta, GA 30346
Fast Teks
(678) 344-0888
Atlanta, GA 30303
Friendly Computers
(770) 941-8232
Atlanta, GA 30303
Esquire Professionals
(404) 753-4600
2255 Cascade Rd SW
Atlanta, GA 30311
Adams Consulting Group Inc
(770) 441-5067
4091 Windsor Oak Dr
Atlanta, GA 30340
Martin Business Products
(770) 436-1248
Atlanta, GA 30303
A & C Computer Solutions
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1919 Metropolitan Pkwy SW
Atlanta, GA 30315
Nowadays, most people have their own Computers for their personal or official needs. But they don't know how to tame their Computers. They are struggling with installing, firewalls, upgradings and a lot more problems. They don't know what to do and where to start from. If you are one among them, this list will help you to find your best provider for your Atlanta area.
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The cyber-world is full of threats such as viruses, spyware, Trojans, Worms and etc. These can affect your PC and even steal your personal information. These cyber-threats can cause huge dilemmas to your PC. Always have an anti-virus guard installed. Upgrade the program and schedule regular updates. Your software's database should be updated for a full-protection.
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Unlike desktop computers, laptops are cute things that people can carry around. Laptop repairs pose less of a problem because of it, as lugging it off to the laptop service center is not much of an ordeal when on site service is not available. While this advantage because of its size is very much there, laptops are also better covered by warranties compared to other types of machines. This warranty protection not only makes laptop repairs easily available, it also makes buying of a new laptop much easier.
Every computer, whether laptop or desktop, is covered by the manufacturers warranty at the time of purchase. After that, many laptop manufacturers offer extended warranties that will cover all necessary laptop repairs, for the payment of a specified sum. These warranties may be on site warranties, where the computer technician will come to the location of the client and do the repairing, or warranties where the user will have to take the machine to the laptop service center of the warranty provider.
Warranties that provide on site help would obviously be more expensive, especially if the machine is located at quite a distance from the laptop service center. The other would work out cheaper, and the user will not be inconvenienced so far as he is not living too far away from the service center. The interesting part of extended laptop warranties is that it gets cheaper every successive year. The first year of the warranty, when laptop repairs could be few as the machine will be comparatively new, could turn out to be a bit expensive for the user. But after that, the annual charges will come down, and will decrease further every following year.
A three-year extended warranty could cost the computer owner about one-fourth the cost of the computer. Those who can fix their laptop problems themselves may find it a bit costly. But for those with limited technical know how this can be very helpful as it will cover his entire laptop repairs requirements for the ensuing three years. It is not just laptop service that an extended warranty covers. Most of these warranties have a provision whereby when a fourth repair becomes necessary for the laptop, the warranty provider will replace the machine rather than repair it. This provision, known as 'no lemon policy, enables the computer owner to have a new computer in the place of the old one.
In short, these warranties cover more than just laptop repairs. Under the terms of the extended warranty, the new machine will not exceed the price of the one that was covered by the warranty. Still, even if it is costlier, the laptop owner generally has to pay only the difference in the cost, which in most cases would be minimal. All types of laptop service will be available without warranty also. There are companies catering to different computer repair needs including for a laptop. Many of them have statewide and countrywide branches. Those who are not covered by any type of warranties should select one such laptop service provider so that they are not left in the lurch when their laptop strikes work.


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I just upgraded from Xfce 4.4RC2 to 4.4.0 final. There was a problem with libxfce4mcs3 (th couldn;t be replaced by libxfce4mcs4 which comes with 4.4.0 final) so I thought after a couple of days running with xfce 4.4.0 using libxfcemcs3 that a clean start would resolve this last detail. Thus: stopped X, removed all xfce-packages and re-installed it. Idea was that this would then automatrically pull in only the newest packages. This worked, but since then I cannot select xfce as a session in GDM -- it defaults to Gnome (default DE of the Mandriva version I have). The only way I can start xfce4 is by booting up in level 3, logon followed by startxfce4.
I have never quite understood how GDM figures out which sessions to offer; files in /etc/X11/dm/Sessions and/or /etc/X11/wmsession.d seem to have something to do with it. These both contain a file with xfce in its name (06Xce4.desktop and 06XFce4 respectively). Per user a file ~/.dmrc exists which has something to do with it as well. I do not understand the roles of these files well. Anybody who can advise how to correct this? All I want is to logon from GDM and then (usually) start Xfce4 (occasioanlly it would be Gnome).
The file ${HOME}/.dmrc is specific to the user who owns it. It keeps track of that user's previous session (and, perhaps, other related stuff). But gdm serves all users, so the file you want to play with must be elsewhere.
I have both SuSE 10.2 and Ubuntu 2006.10 running. In both cases, the directory /usr/share/xsessions is the key to everything. Files of the form *.desktop in this directory are read by gdm as it determines which sessions to offer and how to start them. Perhaps your situation could be improved by copying my file xfce4.desktop into the /usr/share/xsessions directory on your machine. Here it is.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Xfce Session
Comment=Use this session to run Xfce as your desktop environment
Edits are possible: my two distros use the text you put in the "Name" field to populate the gdm session chooser. Ubuntu prefers to put the full path of the startxfce4 command in the "Exec" line, and it also fills in the assignment for an "Icon". All the other *.desktop files on my SuSE setup say "Type=XSession", but this file works as-is for me.
Good luck. Drop a line back here if this does the job, or if you succeed after a little more fiddling.
Many thanks for the response. Your data helped me choose on one thing, even though Mandriva is different from both Ubuntu and Suse in this respect: /usr/share/xsession (or variations on that in capitalisation) do not exist. Based on your description I think that Mandriva uses /etc/X11/dm/Sessions for the same purpose. Mine has a file '06XFce4.desktop' with nearly identical content to yours -- the differences are cosmetic only (I think after studying the syntax for these files at freedesktop.org) -- Mandriva also spells out the full path (like Ubuntu); type is Application (like Suse).
I have in the meantime made some progresss. GDM showed 5 sessions (Last session, Default, foo, foo, foo). From freedesktop I learnt that syntax error in .desktop files cause it to be interpreted as 'foo'. I have selected foo #2 and this indeed mapped to 06Xfce4 after which all worked as before.
I wil go through the .desktop files with a fine comb (it shouldn't be too hard to find a syntax error in a file of 6 lines I hope) and may be post at Mandriva for explanation of how they start xsessions.
I found it useful when debugging to add some distinctive text to the "name" field of each .desktop file. Then I could be sure the file I was inspecting was actually the one GDM was reading.
Gentoo has almost the same path to session files as you quote for Mandrake, except that "gdm" replaces "dm" at an intermediate point. In case this is of any interest, I quote my file /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/XFce4 below. It has special inserts for Mandrake that I don't understand -- but maybe you will.
# XFce 4file for GDM. Usually in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions.
# Add support for XIM; Modified by Babyfai Cheung. 2002/03/10
## Launch an XIM input server if needed
# This's for RedHat and Slackware
for i in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* ; do
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if [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/XIM ]; then
. /etc/X11/xinit/XIM
# Option ignoreABI added by me, 2007-01-09:
exec /usr/bin/startxfce4 -ignoreABI
Do report back when you get everything working just right. It will help others.
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Tagetik and Qlik Sign a Global OEM Agreement to Integrate their Performance Management and BI Software Solutions
The integration combines Tagetik's powerful embedded financial intelligence and Qlik's data discovery and analysis to deliver deep Financial Analytics capabilities to the Office of Finance
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for performance and disclosure management, financial governance and business intelligence, and Qlik, (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in data discovery, today announced they have signed an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement. Through the agreement, Tagetik and Qlik have developed integration of their Performance Management and Business Intelligence software solutions for the benefit of their customers.
Through this integration, Qlik customers will be able to natively access all data stored in Tagetik applications while Tagetik's end-users will have a powerful, fully integrated tool for data analysis, reporting and dashboarding. The QlikView model for the analysis of financial data is able to access the embedded financial intelligence of the Tagetik platform for 'real-time' financial calculations such as currency conversion and intercompany eliminations, financial metrics, segment reporting, and KPIs. The result is a unified Business Intelligence, Financial Analytics and Corporate Performance Management solution for managing, analyzing, and modeling business performance.
"This partnership responds to the growing demand from companies to empower their business with powerful and flexible visual analysis tools to immediately provide relevant information and insight into their business," says Rosagrazia Bombini, VP & Managing Director for Italy at Qlik. "Thanks to the integration, companies will have greater insight into financial information and metrics that drive decision-making processes, resulting in a significant competitive advantage."
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I did a little photo shoot over at Barefoot Kids this weekend for a cloth diapering tutorial that I'm writing up. It made me realize that just as I didn't take enough photos of my baby girls breastfeeding, I didn't take nearly enough photos of them in their comfy cloth diapers. I still have a few of their diapers for my teaching stash, but not any of my own handmade wool recovers (what did I do with those? Who was so awesome that I gave them my own wool recovers, and yet so un-awesome that I don't even remember anymore?), and I have absolutely zero breastfeeding mementos, although to be honest, I NEVER, NEVER WANT TO SEE MY OLD NURSING BRAS AGAIN!!! I didn't even try to pass them on, or take off the bands or the elastic or the snaps to re-use. I JUST THREW THEM IN THE TRASH!!!
To be fair, I was nursing one to two people continuously from 2004-2009, so those bras and I were done with each other by the time Sydney weaned herself.
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Jules-Alexandre Grun (25 May 1868 – 15 February 1934) was a French post-impressionist painter, poster artist, and illustrator.[1] Grun's best known painting is called The Dinner Party, produced in 1911. It was, however, in the fields of poster art and illustration art, for which he was famous. He was employed at a large printing company in Paris and his artistic director was Jules Cheret. Cheret was also his main competitor in poster art. (Wiki) This Poster is published in Grun Posters Book by Israel Perry and Alain Weill , 2005, Page 96
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SOAP!! It keeps us from stankin' up a storm and it makes bathtime luxurious and sudsy. I recently got some wicked awesome soap and body butter samples from Garden Goddess Bodycare, and my olfactory glands have been over the moon (and my pits, yo, they've been under the radar… and that's a good thing!). 😉
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Body Bars, $6: These are especially rad because they are gigundo! I'm totes sick of puny slabs of shower soap that wind up getting all slimy and sliding down the drain. Dude, Lemongrass Delight (lemongrass, patchouli, and rosewood oils) and Exfoliating Vanilla Patchouli (made from homemade almond butter!) are to die for! Even my man is all about this unisesy ish. Btw, Lemongrass Delight is being discontinued, so it's on sale for $4.50! 😀
Signature Soaps, $5-6 I received mini samples (perfect for my bathroom sink) of The Woodsman (sexy, earthy bar with cedarwood, pine, litsea, and rosemary) and Winter Sage (über refreshing with wintergreen, spruce, and dalmation) – both are divine! I am so impressed with Garden Goddess Bodycare's mastery of mixing oils and creating beautiful, take-me-away scents.
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Whoa. That stuff sounds awesome. I'm into the Lemongrass one. I wonder why they are discontinuing.


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93-02 Camaro/Firebird/Trans Am
64.5-73 Mustang
94-10 Mustang
Interested in: old trucks, MOPARs, really anything.. just want something with a V8.