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Are you sick of seeing back to school commercials already? It's hard to believe another month of managed IT services blog posts has flown by, but to prevent those end-of-summer blues we've rounded up our top posts of August! Have you ever wondered how to price your managed services? Do you have the right onboarding strategy when taking on new clients? We've answered these questions and more in this month's roundup!
Without further ado, here are the MSP blog posts our readers couldn't get enough of this August!
How Do I Price Managed Services?
Posted by Brandon Garcin on Aug 9, 2016
"Do you have any managed services pricing strategies or tips?" That's the single most common question I get asked by business owners trying to evolve from a break/fix model to a managed IT services model. Ultimately, you understand the need to evolve your product portfolio and expand into offering more proactive IT support. As a business model, managed IT services provides monthly reoccurring revenue and aligns your interests with those of your clients, thereby making those clients stickier. But still, MSPs with varying levels of maturity often lack confidence in your current pricing strategy. So what is there to consider when pricing managed services, and what are some of the most popular pricing approaches today?
5 Hidden Costs Most MSPs Don't Notice
Posted by Dave Boulos on Aug 16, 2016
As an MSP, what is your most important business goal? When I ask that question to our partners, the answer is always "growth!" All MSPs (and all businesses for that matter) want to grow, and they think the key to growth is by increasing their revenue. This is true to a degree, but increasing your revenue does not always mean increasing your profitability. Sometimes, the hidden costs of acquiring more clients or growing your business outweigh the actual revenue you generate.
MSP business owners must be aware of and work to minimize the costs associated with owning a business in order to improve your profitability. So what are examples of expenses that you should be tracking and scaling? Here are the five most important ones.
Managed IT Services Client Onboarding Best Practices: The Weekly Byte [VIDEO]
Posted by Brandon Garcin on Aug 15, 2016
The first few months with a new managed IT services client are critical—and having the right onboarding strategy can be the difference between a satisfied customer or someone who's wondering if they made the right investment.
In this edition of The Weekly Byte, we look at four important best practices to keep in mind as part of your new client onboarding process. Tune in now to learn more!
5 Awesome Windows Features You Never Knew Existed
Posted by Matt Mainhart on Aug 24, 2016
The PC users you serve depend on Windows® for their daily business processes, but they may only be using basic features and functionalities. What about those productivity hacks and secret tricks that make work more bearable? The masterminds over at Microsoft® are constantly thinking up new, innovative ways to optimize their operating system's user experience.
Have you shared these five special features, gestures and Easter eggs with your end clients? As their strategic advisor and virtual CIO (vCIO), you've been charged with helping them grow their profitability. To alleviate operational inefficiencies and technology time-sucks, include this latest set of technology quick tips in your next newsletter send!
3 Major Pitfalls & Profits When Promoting from Within
Posted by David Russell on Aug 2, 2016
People debate about whether it is best to promote employees or hire seasoned talent. It really depends on your company culture.
The first step is to understand the strengths of your company culture so you can play to those advantages. MSPs pursue three types of company cultures when deciding how best to allocate the talents of technicians and employees.
There you have it, folks! I hope you've enjoyed these top blog posts from August. Be sure to subscribe to our MSPblog to get instant updates as we bring you more great content throughout the rest of the year and beyond!
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Patch, C. S., Tapsell, L. C., Mason, S. & Curcio-Borg, F. (2003). Thickened Fluids: Factors Affecting Wastage. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 5 (2), 73-77.
There is a putative risk of dehydration in patients with dysphagia in a chnical setting. A common conception is that the thickened fluids provided to the patient are the primary cause of poor intake. Commercial supplements may be better tolerated than domestic versions, primarily due to taste and consistency. Our study compares fluid wastage of dysphagic patients consu_ ming commercially prepared thickened fluids (Resource thickened beverage TM, Novartis Consumer Health Australasia Pty Ltd) against standard domestic products, and to compare waste at snack times and mealtimes. A wastage audit was designed to investigate the effect of commercial supplements and timing of wastage in patients admitted to a rehabilitation facility, with dysphagia as assessed using a comprehensive bedside assessment (n = 63). There were no significant differences in wastage between patients supphed commercial supplements and patients supplied domestic supplements. This result was the same at both snack times and mealtimes. A significant difference was reported between the average wastage of modified commercial and domestic supplements offered at snack time (37.9 _+ 11 ml and 17.3 _+ 10 ml) compared to main mealtimes (168.7 _+ 12 ml and 167.2 _+ 11 ml) (p < 0.01). The timing of thickened supplement provision appears to be a factor on the wastage of thickened fluids, whereas the type of supplement provided is of little consequence. Further investigation is needed to determine whether the time of day in which drinks are provided is a variable of intake, or is it attributable to the patients' milieu.

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Indonesia Faces Resurgent Maritime Piracy Challenges
Recent data from the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) and the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) indicate Southeast Asia has emerged as the world's hottest spot for piracy attacks and armed robbery against ships this year. Of particular concern is the concentration of crimes occurring in the eastbound shipping lanes of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.
The vast majority of attempts at piracy and armed robbery against ships in Southeast Asia have been successful, with most incidents being cases of petty theft while vessels are anchored or moving slowly through the Strait of Malacca, often in Indonesian waters. Indonesia alone accounted for 54 of 91 actual and attempted piracy attacks in the region during the first six months of 2015.
To combat this trend, Indonesia has partnered with Malaysia to form a rapid response team to interdict criminals at sea and with Australia to conduct joint patrols and develop anti-piracy training programs.
While piracy in eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean in the late 2000s frequently occurred while ships were underway, incidents of armed robbery against ships and petty theft in Southeast Asia overwhelmingly occur while ships transit through the crowded Strait of Malacca or are anchored. In most cases, pirates are generally in small groups of six or fewer, and do not always carry guns or intend to harm the crews of boarded ships . This has led some to dismiss the severity of maritime piracy in Southeast Asia as not being perpetrated by professional criminals.
Despite its efforts, Indonesia's capacity to maintain its maritime domain awareness, much less to interdict criminals at sea, remains very limited. The high success rate, coupled with a small chance of being caught, is likely to encourage would-be pirates and incentivize more experienced pirates to experiment with more lethal weapons to ensure success.In addition, since crimes against ships tend to be concentrated in areas where international ships anchor or move slowly, Indonesian navy vessels will need to focus more of their patrols on maritime crime hot spots, such as the Strait of Malacca, potentially limiting patrols in other regions of the country.Because armed robbery against ships tends to be a crime of opportunity in Indonesia's waters, authorities could deter would-be criminals by maintaining a high degree of visibility. Coordination with neighboring countries, including with Malaysia's helicopter-equipped Special Task and Rescue team, may also be invaluable.
Counter-piracy efforts in eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean show that patrols from various navies and coast guards can be combined with the use of private security contractors on ships traversing high-risk areas. Likewise, Indonesia's 17,000 islands and over 3,300 miles of coastline requires a concerted approach to combat piracy.
According to Oceans Beyond Piracy's The State of Maritime Piracy 2013 report, significant gains were made in eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean after the shipping industry began to routinely place private security contractors on their vessels. The number of attacks and the number of successful attacks on ships plummeted as a result. Research has shown that the use of private security contractors can also help help manage the considerable stress (including, in some cases, post-traumatic stress disorder) experienced by crews that often comes with traversing high-risk areas or being held captive. For these reasons, private maritime security advisers as well as the International Maritime Organization have recommended the use of private security contractors in Southeast Asia.
For the government of President Joko Widodo, which hopes to transform Indonesia into a global maritime nexus, international counter-piracy cooperation is a valuable means for building close relationships with the defense and coast guard forces, as well as maritime authorities of neighboring countries. Stepped-up counter-piracy efforts can be an excellent tool for the navy to project its seapower throughout the Indonesian archipelago.
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Weight loss is definitely a journey. And like all journeys with their highs and lows, we usually focus on the lows of it all.
According to a survey by Gallup, about half of the American population — nearly 45 percent — worry about their weight. And this is despite the fact that many of them take proper measures to lose weight. Clearly, losing weight and being healthy is a priority in our mind. Yet, we aren't able to attain that goal. In fact, even when we do, we end up worrying whether we might lapse and become as unhealthy as we were before.
And that is certainly something to be concerned about.
We of course refer, not to the idea of losing weight, but to the idea that we absolutely must lose weight!
Our Unhealthy Relationship with Healthy Weight Loss
For a lot of people, losing weight and becoming healthy are one and the same. After all, having a slim, lean body with not too much fat on your bones is the epitome of health. So why would you not want to achieve the same goal?
However, with this goal of attaining a slim, size-2 body, we forget a couple of important details; namely whether we have the capacity to even achieve this goal and more importantly, if we even need to do so. A study conducted by a group of scientists from the Medical Research Council in the UK found that people that had an unusually lean body type actually had a higher risk of developing diabetes and even heart disease, and this was despite their low body fat.
So that's one question out of the way; if being on the path to slim is even beneficial. Truth be told, it's not.
Rather than aiming for a smaller figure, you should be focused on a healthier figure.
The Healthy Way of Healthy Weight Loss
Keep in mind that if you want to lose weight the right way, you cannot follow fads and trends. Instead, you must seek professional help. Only a certified nutrition consultant can provide you with a complete report on what a healthy weight loss is; how you can achieve that and what you need, in keeping with your physical and mental state.
Healthy Living Journey in Stone Mountain, GA offers holistic nutrition consultant to all seeking the right path. To book an appointment, contact us today at 678-701-7757
First, take comfort in the fact that you've already passed your first test in bettering your mental health. Acknowledging that you need help and that you might have an issue is the first step. Only by knowing and admitting this do you stand a chance of improving yourself!
The second step though is finding the right treatment, and that is where a lot of people get confused.
While there are plenty of worthwhile options such as therapy and meditation, most people aren't able to find the right professional for the job. But this is why more people are now leaning toward crystal healing. Out of all the wellness techniques, crystal healing is one that has helped countless people improve their mental health and stability.
The Power of Healing Crystals
At its basis, everything on this planet has some form of energy, even us! In keeping with this knowledge, crystal healing utilizes that energy, using the characteristics and force of specific crystals to influence our natural power.
These crystals are used to treat a number of ailments, from headaches to body pain, anxiety and more. Regarding its effect on your mental health though, there are three ways through which crystals can transform your energy:
- Energizing
It's a lot simpler than it sounds. Basically, healing crystals push their energy into you, influencing your mind, spirit and body. Since your body is usually radiating its own energy, it becomes easier for you to harness this field.
- Clearing
Aside from giving you energy from their quantum field, crystals can also remove or absorb energy from your body. This is why we often hear crystals being used to get rid of negative energy.
- Balancing
Your energy levels can easily become misaligned, especially if you're not able to handle stress and negative energy the right way. Crystals supply their properties to basically repel and attract the energy needed to harmonize your energy levels.
How to Use Healing Crystals
Aside from keeping a stone close to your person, other ways through which you can tap into your crystal's healing powers include:
- Wearing them as jewelry
- Placing them on specific parts of your body
- Meditating with them
- Using a specific crystal healing grid
- Moving them around our body
- Sleeping with a stone under your pillow
Which Healing Crystal Should You Use?
If you're not new to the world of crystals, this question might cause a lot of confusion.
But that's where we can help!
Aside from offering crystals, chakra products and more, Healthy Living Journey also provides spiritual consulting services among other services.
So book a session with Healthy Living Journey in Stone Mountain, GA and have a professional help you in recovering your mental health.
Not that you're not grateful to be doing something you love. But with the amount of hard work you have to do and the lack of workable hours in a day, the stress of it all might just be getting to you.
Pretty much one of the most neglected aspects of one's mental health and well-being, workplace stress can bring with itself a luggage of related consequences. And it seems that you might be suffering from some of them.
Insomnia, depression and anxiety are bad enough. But now, it seems that all this pressure is taking a toll on your physical well-being as well, and that's a whole other mess altogether.
So what should you do? Quit and just focus on getting better?
While a lot of us might opt for this option given the chance, it's not exactly practical.
However, there is something you can do to combat this onslaught; get a Himalayan salt lamp for your office desk!
The Benefits of a Himalayan Salt Lamp
Some time back, we covered the basics of having a salt lamp in one's home.
For a residential setting, the gist of it was that a salt lamp purifies and cleanses the air around you. It also neutralizes electromagnetic radiation which is emitted from our everyday electronic appliances.
Given that a salt lamp will offer the same benefits wherever it is used, you can pretty much see why we'd want to have something so useful in a frantic work environment. However, these aren't the only reasons why a salt lamp might be useful in such a surrounding.
Negating Negative Energy in the Workplace
Since salt lamps are able to purify air, having a few around will not only keep your office clean, it'll also lessen your chances of becoming ill if the seasonal flu does start spreading. Quite effective for people with asthma or sinus issues, the salt lamp keeps the air around you filtered, thus making it easier to work.
Secondly, with its negative ions, the salt lamp reduces static electricity and neutralizes electromagnetic radiation. And what that means is this; even if you do use your computer and other electronic devices on a daily basis, you will not constantly be exposed to EM radiation as you were before. And that will have an effect on your fatigue and energy levels.
Buying a Himalayan Salt Lamp
Aside from their aesthetic value, pink Himalayan salt lamps a lot more health benefits than one would think.
So why not use one?
Healthy Living Journey is a reliable online store that offers numerous products for spiritual and crystal healing, including pink Himalayan salt lamps as well as chakra products!
While your chakras are certainly not something you can physically feel, you definitely feel their power and energy if they become blocked!
Located at seven spots on your body, from the top of your head to the base of your spine, your chakras keep your physical and spiritual energy balanced. Each chakra has specific psychological, energetic, emotional and physical characteristics, which when utilized correctly, allow you to attract positive frequencies, which in turn has a positive impact on your life and any decisions related to it.
This is why it's crucial that any person interested in chakra healing knows what to do when your chakras go out of alignment.
Learning about Chakras and Alignment
What Causes Imbalances and Blockages?
Simple answer; anything related to negativity and negative experiences. Any trauma, stress, anxiety and negative belief systems can cause blockages, especially when this negative energy isn't released from your body.
Over time, this build-up starts presenting itself through physical and emotional symptoms. In fact, this indication is the first sign that your chakras might be out of alignment. Keep in mind though that for each chakra, the symptoms are different. Because of their unique traits, you end up suffering from a number of mental and physical issues including, but not limited to:
What Aligning Your Chakras can do for You
Your seven chakras represent your complete self. If any chakra is imbalanced or misaligned, it could disrupt your overall function. For this reason, it's important that you devote some time and energy in achieving an overall balance. Focus your awareness on what needs to be fixed. Self-diagnosis is the first step.
Much in the same way as a doctor would describe your illness by factoring in the symptoms; you'll have to focus your energy on regaining that balance by resolving your emotional and physical issues.
How to Align Your Chakras
There are a lot of ways through which you can balance out your chakras. However, if you're unaware of the details, your best choice is to go to a professional instructor.
Healthy Living Journey can help you heal yourself naturally. With our chakra products and spiritual consulting services, you can retain your status as a well-balanced human being. For more information, contact us at 678-701-7757 today.
Crystals have long been used as sources of spiritual healing and holistic health. But while many people laud the beneficial properties of healing crystals and say they can facilitate bodily healing, improve emotional health, and overall well-being, a lot of skeptics question the authenticity of this healing method.
It's quite normal to be skeptical about something that seems so magical and otherworldly unless you witness the benefits firsthand. After all, how could a bunch of stones improve everything from mood to heart conditions? But as everyone who enters the world of spiritual healing knows, all the hype around the benefits of crystals is real and justified.
Heard a few things floating around the internet about how crystal healing may not be all it's cracked up to be? Let us help debunk a few common myths many people believe!
Myth#1: Good and Bad Energies Don't Exist
Let us explain this one with an example.
Imagine you're with people who seem to do nothing but complain about everything, bringing moods down, and leaving you depressed, lethargic, and wondering where your life is headed. Now imagine yourself in a room full of people who are encouraging, joyous, and seem to love life and handle things as they come instead of despairing over them. You leave the room feeling motivated, happy, and ready to face anything that may come your way!
Good and bad energies are very real, and it is not just people who radiate them. Crystals have the power to absorb good and bad energies from their surroundings, which is why not all crystals are suitable for spiritual healing.
Myth#2: Crystals Are Nothing but Rocks
Yes, crystals are rocks. But they have also been around far longer than the human race, and have seen everything from the creation of Adam to the defeat of the Huns and all that came after that.
Continuing from the last myth, crystals have the power of absorbing good and bad energy, and are as much a part of the universe as the oldest plants. They are wise, knowledgeable, and capable of facilitating healing beyond human understanding.
Myth#3: Crystals Do the Healing
Crystals themselves cannot heal you. They work in tandem with your own persistence, intention, and willpower to facilitate the healing process. Use your crystals to guide you when meditating and help you on your way to emotional and physical wellbeing. Without willpower and belief, crystals are just rocks. It's ultimately only you who can make the difference.
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You've probably used candles your entire life for celebratory purposes, as a form of light in case of a blackout, or as part of religious rituals. But candles have a history of being used for gaining spiritual insight and can help detect the presence of negative and positive energies, harmful and harmless otherworldly beings as well as for praying and conducting spells.
In the world of candle burning, the way your candle's flame burns holds a lot of significance. Let us jump right into what each type of candle flame means:
A Steady, Strong Flame
This flame usually means that your intent is strong and clear and whatever purpose you lit the candle for will reach fruition. If your candle is placed in a glass container but shows no signs of blackening where the flame is, this usually counts as a sign that your wish or spell has been successful.
A Weak, Slow Flame
This is usually a sign of a poorly executed spell or a weak intention. The flame may sometimes grow larger upon focusing your energy, which could be a sign that your intention is gaining power. A weak flame may also indicate that your timing is wrong or that the spell is not powerful enough to make your intent a reality.
A Sizzling, Crackling Flame
The spirits you invoked or your ancestors are trying to communicate with you! The louder the sound, the higher the chances that those you seek are opposing your intent and that there will be arguments.
Dual Flames
This could be an indication that there are two energies that are either working in tandem or in opposition to each other. If you are performing a protection spell, it could mean that the targeted person is joining forces with your intention to make the protection stronger. If you are performing a hex, your victim might be trying to resist the hex by fighting against it and redirecting it back at you.
A Flame That Relights Itself
Your intent is not yet powerful enough to be accepted by the spirits, but is strong enough to be considered. Practice harder at building intent, focus harder, and try again.
The Candle Does Not Burn
You or the room you are in is a victim of black energy which is preventing the spirits from reaching out to you. Sprinkle the room and yourself with purification herbs like mugwort and white sage and get rid of the negative energy before trying again.
Schedule an Online Intent Candle Reading Today
Get the help of a professional psychic medium readings to find out what your intention candle is trying to tell you. Buy herbal incense sticks to help with focus and purification, as well as white sage and other herbs at our online store for intention candles.
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5 Benefits of crystals for spiritual health
From the time of the Ancient Egyptians to today, crystals have played an important role when it comes to spiritual healing. While the Ancient Egyptians primarily used crystals of lapis lazuli, carnelian, emerald, and turquoise for protection purposes, we now use various crystals for everything from protection to purification, eliminating lethargy, negative emotions, and maintaining emotional well-being.
Here are a few ways you can use crystals to improve your spiritual health:
Turquoise for Protection and Healing
Often considered to be the energetic bridge between the earth and heaven, turquoise has been used for centuries as a good-luck charm, for protection purposes, and to help you be more honest. A master stone, turquoise benefits the whole body, detoxifying the body, healing the immune and respiratory systems and also helping balance blood pressure and dental problems.
Smoky Quartz for Eliminating Negativity
Negative emotions, blocked energy, and old memories holding you back? Smoky quartz might be just what you need. A detoxifying agent, smoky quartz facilitates the act of letting go and finding inner peace. Change is always good and letting go of your old fixed beliefs and patterns might be just what you need to make positive changes in your life.
Energize Yourself with Bloodstones
Also referred to as the "stone of the warrior," bloodstone purifies the blood and helps the user open their heart to newer possibilities. Purifying organs, stopping hemorrhages, and improving blood circulation, bloodstone revitalizes the body and makes it more capable of eradicating self-doubt, lethargy, and negative emotions. This magical gemstone may also boost your energy and sex drive, and maintain emotional well-being.
Boost Creativity with Carnelian
Helping remove blocked creative energy, carnelian acts directly on the Sacral Chakra which is responsible for creativity, emotions, and sexual energy. Combining energizing and focusing properties, the orange stone helps you get out of artistic or creative blocks and increases motivation, energy, and enthusiasm.
Cultivate Love with Rose Quartz
Working directly upon the Center or Heart Chakra, Rose Quartz improves your ability to feel compassion, empathy, and love—for yourself, your family, friends, significant other, and for humanity as a whole. This crystal makes you more likely to forgive, feel calmer, and let go of negative emotions like jealousy, envy, and hatred.
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For Beatles-crazed North American teens in the early 1960s, Liverpool was a music mecca, and the Cavern Club was the base of the entire British Invasion.
This dank, dingy, brick-walled subterranean club -- a former bulk wine cellar located in the heart of Liverpool's business district -- was where the Fab Four made their name and were discovered by manager Brian Epstein. The band performed on the tiny stage some 292 times between 1961 and 1963 before global fame precluded Cavern appearances. Nonetheless, the club looms large in Beatles lore.
On Aug. 9, 1965, four Winnipeg lads boarded a CNR train headed for Montreal, where they would board a ship bound for Liverpool. Popular local rock quartet the Crescendos -- singer and sax player Glenn MacRae, drummer Vance Masters, guitarist Terry Loeb and bass player Denis Penner -- were about to live the dream of a million teenagers.
"We had seen the Beatles movies and Ferry Cross the Mersey and figured that's where it was at," says MacRae.
The four received a royal send off at the train station, with dozens of fans and members of the media on hand to bid them good luck. They arrived in Liverpool in the evening and had to wait for the customs office to open the following morning.
"We stood on the railing of the ship looking out into the darkened city. We couldn't sleep from excitement.
"Imagine four kids from Winnipeg going to Liverpool with limited funds, no contacts and no place to stay," recalls Penner. "Liverpool was like no place I had ever been to. Small cobblestone streets, houses and buildings that were hundreds of years old, the smell of coal from the docks. The people were friendly and very helpful."
Their first destination was the Cavern.
"They were having an all-night session with a half-dozen bands," MacRae recalls.
The four met many of the bands and discovered a welcoming atmosphere.
"There was a family feeling among the bands. We were never treated as outsiders," he says.
Being a Canadian band on the Liverpool circuit proved to be a curiosity, but the Crescendos proved their worth, earning enough respect to be booked into the legendary Cavern on Sept. 26, 1965.
"When we found out we had a gig at the Cavern, I think it took a while before it finally sunk in," says Penner. "We didn't know what to expect. The event was called A Fabulous All Nighter, with 10 other groups. Rory Storm & the Hurricanes (Ringo Starr's pre-Beatles band) was one of them. I couldn't believe I was on the same stage where the Beatles played."
The group would play the Cavern several times during the next six months. They were the only Canadian band to ever appear at the original Cavern Club.
MacRae found playing the local scene different from what they had experienced in Winnipeg.
"In Liverpool, you did an hour, and then another band would do the next set," he says. "So you had to line up several gigs a night, because they didn't pay that much. You would play a set, pack up and head to another place, set up, play, then head to another gig."
Playing the Liverpool circuit offered meagre funds, so the four Winnipeggers became resourceful.
"We used to steal milk bottles off doorsteps and turn in the bottles for the deposit in order to buy cigarettes," says Masters.
"We stole coal from neighbour's bins," chuckles MacRae. "We burned all the furniture in our flat for heat."
Penner returned home before Christmas.
"When I went to Liverpool I was engaged to be married, so I told the boys I could only stay until early December. We found a replacement a couple of weeks before I left and gave him a crash course with our playlist."
With Liverpudlian Stuart McKernan on bass, the Crescendos carried on.
In the spring of 1966, Chris Curtis, drummer for the Searchers (of Needles and Pins fame), caught a Crescendos set at the Iron Door club and offered to take the group to London to record a single. Signed to Pye Records, whose roster boasted the Kinks, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw and the Searchers, Curtis produced a cover of Paul Revere & the Raiders' Hungry. He also changed the band's name to the 5 A.M. Event.
"We thought we'd hit the big time," says MacRae.
When the single failed to chart, the band was discouraged.
"We continued playing around Liverpool, but we'd lost our spark," says MacRae.
Masters briefly left to join up with a band in London assembled by the managers of the Who to back singers the Merseys.
"We all lived in a hotel, all in the same room, and rehearsed," says Masters. "But I came back to the Crescendos after a couple of weeks, and I'm glad I did."
The guitarist in that backing band was Liverpudlian friend Joey Molland, who later went on to form Badfinger.
"Who knows," muses Masters. "I might have been in Badfinger."
Dispirited, MacRae, Masters and Loeb returned home in December 1966. Regrouping with Penner, the Crescendos were welcomed with enthusiasm on the local circuit, their Liverpool experience giving them an edge over their peers.
"We were playing stuff no one else was playing," says MacRae.
After several months, the four went their separate ways. Masters joined the Fifth and later Brother before playing in a latter-day Guess Who, while MacRae went on to manage a Long & McQuade music store. Penner took an automotive job. Loeb was killed in a car accident in British Columbia in the 1980s.
In 1973, the Cavern Club was closed after construction of a rail line required it to be filled in.
On April 26, 1984, a replica of the Cavern Club was opened on the site of the old club, using bricks from the original. A commemorative wall nearby includes the names of every act that graced the stage of the original club. The Crescendos and the 5 A.M. Event are among the names listed.
"Almost 50 years later, it feels like it was just yesterday," says Penner.
For MacRae, playing the most famous club in rock 'n' roll remains the highlight of his music career.
"It was wonderful. We felt that if we all died the next day, we had at least accomplished our dream of playing the Cavern. It was an exhilarating experience."
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What is traction?
Traction, when used by physiotherapists, involves distracting joints by pulling the surfaces of the joints apart. It is a useful technique to offload joints and facilitate accessory movements to occur at a joint.This has the effect of mobilisng a joint and reducing pain.
Manual Traction
Manual traction involves the physiotherapist manually pulling the joint apart by fixing proximal to the joint and applying a longitudinal force distal to the joint to distract the joint. Sometimes the joint will be fixed using a belt or another therapist to stabilize the joint.
Mechanical Traction
Mechanical Traction involves using a special machine to distract the joints in the spine. This can be very useful for chronically stiff spines, but is also very useful in treating difficult disc injuries.
It works by creating a negative pressure within the disc by distracting the vertebrae attached to the disc, the aim is to "suck" the bulge back into position. It will then be possible to settle the disc with movements.
This technique is not widely used today, however it is a very useful tool to have when a client comes in who has "tried everything", We have a traction couch, and do use it when all else seems to have failed. We do however advocate that clients manage their own pain where possible with exercise and lifestyle changes.


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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is planned for release on April 23rd in North America, and April 26th in the rest of the world. It will be available on disc for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and as a digital download on the PlayStation Network – a digital download for the 360 is planned "in the Summer".


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The Printing Architecture is one of the major components from Windows architecture. It consists of a print spooler and a set of printer drivers. The applications can create print jobs and send them to the printers by calling device-independent Win32 printing and GDI functions. Printer drivers include a user interface component that allows users to control a printer's selectable options (Paper Size, Number of copies, Coloration, Pages per sheet, etc.).
An application's calls to Win32 GDI functions are passed to the GDI graphics engine, which either spools the drawing instructions as an enhanced metafile (EMF) file or, in conjunction with a printer driver, renders a printable image that can be sent to the spooler. Spooler components interpret EMF files, and they can insert page layout information and job control instructions into the data stream. The spooler then sends the data stream to the serial, parallel, or network port driver associated with the target printer's I/O port. Spooler and driver components are designed to be replaceable. Support for a new printer usually requires only the creation of new data files for use with one of the Microsoft-supplied printer drivers.
Most of the device drivers work at kernel mode. Some of the device drivers or part of the device drivers work at user mode and kernel mode. Printer drivers work at both modes.
The printing process is divided into three groups of steps:
Each process performs some operations and passes the print job to another process. For example, user fires a print document from an application, the client process starts the creation of print job by calling the GDI, and after completing the creation of print job, it sends to the spooler. The spooler will perform some operations on that print job and sends to the printer process. The printer processes receive the print job from the spooler process and translate the print language into a bitmap, and then it prints.
A user sends a print job from an application. The application calls the Graphics Device Interface (GDI). If print output is produced in RAW format, the GDI is not used. The GDI calls the printer driver for information, which the GDI uses to create a job in printer language. The GDI delivers the job to the spooler.
Print spooling is configured by users. Jobs can be sent to the spooler, or sent directly to the printer. If jobs are sent to the spooler, they can be configured to start printing as soon as possible or after the final page in a job has been sent to the spooler. When you send a print job directly to the printer, your computer renders the entire job and then transfers it directly to the printer. When you send a print job to a spooler, your computer creates the job, including meta-information about how the job must be processed, and then sends the job to the spooler. The spooler then renders the job and sends it to the printer.
Sending a print job directly to the printer is good because you remove a potential point of failure in printing documents, and all print job rendering is done on your computer, affording you more control, and you don't have to wait for other jobs to complete, as you might if you were printing to a queue on a print server that was being used by many users. Conversely, rendering a print job on your computer consumes computing resources, so you might experience reduced performance or have to wait until the print job has completed before doing anything.
Sending a print job to a spooler is good because your computer does not have to render the print job, meaning your computer's resources are more completely and immediately available. Conversely, sending a print job to a spooler fails if the print server with the spooler is unavailable, and you might have to wait for other jobs to finish spooling before your job is processed.
The primary component of the printing interface is the print spooler. The print spooler is an executable file that manages the printing process. Management of printing involves retrieving the location of the correct printer driver, loading that driver, spooling high-level function calls into a print job, scheduling the print job for printing, and so on. The spooler is loaded at system startup and continues to run until the operating system is shut down. Applications that print create a printer device context (DC). When an application creates a printer DC, the spooler performs necessary tasks such as determining the location of the required printer driver and then loading the appropriate printer driver. It also determines the data type used to record the print job.
The supported data types include enhanced metafiles (EMF), ASCII text, and raw data (all printer specific data types such as PostScript and PCL). Custom data types can be added to the spooler when additional printer drivers and print processors are installed. A print job is a document stored internally (by using one of the supported data types) that may contain one or more pages of output. It may consist of multiple forms; for example, a job may consist of one envelope and three pages of A4 paper. A print job is defined (or bracketed) by the StartDoc and EndDoc functions.
The default data type for a print job is the enhanced metafile. An EMF record is a compact structure used to store text output commands, raster graphics commands, and so on. When an application calls StartDoc, the spooler creates a spool file and a data file and begins storing EMF records in the spool file. The spool and data files are created in an operating system directory. The spooler uses the spool file to store EMF records, and uses the data file to record the type of form, the data type for the print job, the target printer, and so on. The spooler deletes these files when the job has successfully printed.
The Microsoft Windows print spooler is made up of a set of Microsoft-supplied and optional vendor-supplied components, with responsibilities that include:
Windows print spooler support for Directory Services consists of:
The primary components of the Microsoft Windows print spooler are illustrated in the following diagram. The print spooler consists of a group of components that include the print router, the local and remote print provider, the print processor, and the language and port monitors.
If printer hardware is local to the system on which the application is running, the "client" and "server" are the same system (although this is not evident in the diagram).
Note: All spooler components execute in user mode.
This section provides the following topics:
Print providers are responsible for directing print jobs to local or remote print devices. They are also responsible for print queue management operations, such as starting, stopping, and enumerating a server's print queues. Print providers define a high-level, machine-independent, Operating System-independent view of a print server. All print providers implement a common set of print provider capabilities. These capabilities are defined by a set of API functions, which are called by the spooler's router (spoolss.dll).
When viewing the diagram, you should consider the following points:
By supporting predefined sets of API functions, Windows print providers can supply the following capabilities:
These capabilities are implemented as a set of functions defined by print providers. There are many functions supported to define a print provider. Functions are divided into the following groups:
The local print provider for Windows provides job control and printer management capabilities for all printers that are accessed through the local print provider's port monitors. (A client administrator sets up access to such printers by selecting the Local Printer option when using the Add Printer Wizard.) Such printers include those connected to the local system's serial and parallel ports. They can also include devices connected to other I/O channels, such as SCSI ports, along with printers connected to remote non-NT-based-operating system servers.
As the diagram shows, an application creates a print job by calling the Graphics Driver Interface (GDI). Regardless of whether the print job's initial output format is EMF, the local print provider's job creation API creates a spool file. Later, when the job is scheduled, the spool file is read and, if the format is EMF, the EMF print processor sends the job back to GDI for conversion to RAW format, with the help of a printer graphics DLL. The converted data stream can then be sent back through the local print provider to the printer (without being re-spooled).
Printer drivers contain information that is specific to the printer that is used. Printer drivers reside on user's computers and are used by the GDI to render print jobs. A printer driver is a software program that understands how to communicate with printers and plotters. Printer drivers translate the information a user sends from the computer into commands that the printer understands. Various drivers must be installed on the print server to support different hardware and operating systems. For example, an administrator running Windows 2000 Server who shares a printer with clients running Windows 95 and Windows 98 might want to install the appropriate drivers so the users won't be prompted to install the missing drivers. The printer driver sends the printer-setting information, including the specifications needed to produce each character of the document, to the GDI. It also transmits helper services or utilities required to make the output print correctly.
Printer drivers are composed of three separate files:
All Windows printer drivers consist of the following components:
The print processor is a dynamic-link library (DLL) which calls the printer driver. An application has tried to use a print processor which has not been installed on your computer. The spooler monitors the current print jobs and the target printer to determine an appropriate time to print a job. Once the spooler determines that a job should be printed, it calls the print processor. The print processor works together with the printer driver to move the spooled print jobs from the hard disk.
Print processors are user-mode DLLs that are responsible for converting a print job's spooled data into a format that can be sent to a print monitor. They are also responsible for handling application requests to pause, resume and cancel print jobs.
The print job's spooled data is contained in a spool file. The print processor reads the file, performs conversion operations on the data stream, and writes the converted data to the spooler. The spooler then sends the data stream to the appropriate print monitor.
Microsoft Windows 2000 and later includes the print processors listed in the following table.
* Beginning with Windows 2000, localmon.dll and winprint.dll are included in localspl.dll.
For information about the data types, see the following topics:
You can create a customized print processor to support a data type that is not supported by Windows 2000 or later operating system versions. You can also provide a customized print processor that supports one or more of the supported data types, thus allowing you to modify the capabilities provided by the supplied print processors. Print processors are associated with printer drivers during driver installation, so multiple print processors supporting the same data type can coexist.
Enhanced Metafile (EMF) data consists of instructions to call GDI functions. The print processor must call the GDI functions to render printable images. The GDI functions make calls to the printer driver's printer graphics DLL, which renders the image and sends it to the spooler as RAW data (by calling EngWritePrinter). NT-based operating system clients send EMF data to NT-based operating system print servers. EMF data is device independent and can be sent to a server more quickly than RAW data. A print job is also spooled as EMF data when the requesting application is local to the server, allowing a quick return to the application while the EMF data is subsequently rendered by a background spooler thread.
EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) is a spool file format used in printing by the Windows operating system. When a print job is sent to the printer, if it is already printing another file, the computer reads the new file and stores it, usually on the hard disk or in memory, for printing at a later time. Spooling allows multiple print jobs to be given to the printer at one time.
The EMF format is the 32-bit version of the original Windows metafile (WMF) format. The EMF format was created to solve the deficiencies of the WMF format in printing graphics from sophisticated graphics programs. The EMF format is device-independent. This means that the dimensions of a graphic are maintained on the printed copy regardless of the resolution in dots per inch of the printer. In a network, the smaller file size of the EMF format reduces network traffic. EMF is the spool file used by the Windows operating system.
RAW data can be sent to a print monitor without further processing. The print processor just sends this data back to the spooler (by calling WritePrinter, described in the Platform SDK documentation), sometimes inserting form feeds. An example of a RAW data file is one consisting of printer control language (PCL) commands. Print jobs are sent from client to server in RAW format if either the client or the server does not support NT-based-operating system EMF, or if a server administrator has disabled EMF support. In such cases, image rendering is performed on the client before the job is sent to the server. Postscript commands can be considered RAW data if the target printer supports Postscript. On the other hand, the sfmpsprt.dll print processor takes Postscript input and interprets it for non-Postscript printers, so in that case, the Postscript is not RAW data.
A RAW spool file is a one that is sent to the Windows spooler unprocessed (which is why it's called "RAW"). The raw file is used to send Postscript commands to a Postscript printer. The Postscript commands are understood by the printer, but are just plain data to the Windows spooler. The RAW format is device-dependent and slower. If printing problems occur while using the EMF format, they can sometimes be fixed by simply changing the format to "RAW" in the printer Properties.
RAW is data formatted exactly how the printer needs it. Depending on the printer concerned, it could be fully rendered to a dot-by-dot page image or, on more sophisticated printers, incorporate vector elements. A PostScript printer, for example, expects a page to be described by a set of PostScript commands. This is essentially a vector format and that's what the RAW data would contain. EMF (Enhanced Metafile) describes the page in a vector format specific to Windows. EMF is actually a capture of the GDI (Graphics Device Interface) commands that programs use to tell Windows how to draw what you see on the output device, normally the screen. Because EMF is Windows' native image description language, capturing the commands into a spool file is a relatively quick and simple process. Immediately converting data to RAW format involves more processing and may produce a larger quantity of data than the equivalent EMF. Therefore, when printing from an application, EMF gets the immediate business of generating the print job over as soon as possible before returning control to the user.
When the print spooler is ready to send a buffered page to the printer, RAW data can be passed straight through whereas EMF commands must first be rendered into RAW format. This is done as a background process which means you can continue working. On a well-specified PC and/or printer, the effect on overall performance of this background processing may not be noticeable.
That's the theory, but it doesn't always hold true. And you would think print quality should be the same in either case, but I have avoided describing a lot of behind-the-scenes complications. Odd problems can sometimes be solved by switching from EMF to RAW, or occasionally vice-versa. In fact, RAW is the manufacturer's preferred format for some printers. There isn't much you can do about the speed, but make sure the computer has enough memory to avoid excessive use of the swap file and ensure the disk is defragmented. You might also try the spool setting 'Print directly to the printer'. This is not an option when a printer is shared over a network. Your application will take longer to return control to you, but printing time may be reduced, because the job is not being spooled to disk.
TEXT data consists solely of ANSI text. The print processor calls GDI to draw characters using the print device's default font, and sends the resulting RAW-formatted output to the spooler (by calling WritePrinter, described in the Platform SDK documentation). The process is equivalent to opening the input file with Notepad and then printing the file. (This format is used for printers that do not print text characters.)
When the spooler is ready to send a print job to a print processor, it calls the print processor's OpenPrintProcessor function. This function performs initialization activities and returns a handle. The spooler can then call PrintDocumentOnPrintProcessor, which is the print processor function that converts the data stream from the input format to the output format and returns the converted stream to the spooler. If the input format is NT-based-operating system EMF, the PrintDocumentOnPrintProcessor function can control the playback of the EMF records by using the functions listed in Using GDI Functions in Print Processors. These functions provide an interface between the print processor and the printer driver. This interface allows print processors to control the physical layout of printer pages, and thus facilitates implementing such features as printing multiple document pages per physical page ("N-up" printing), printing pages in reverse order, and printing multiple copies of each page.
A print processor's output data stream must be returned to the spooler. Typically, if the data conversion requires interaction with the printer driver's printer graphics DLL (as is the case for EMF input data), the graphics DLL returns the stream to the spooler by calling EngWritePrinter. On the other hand, if the conversion does not call the printer graphics DLL (as is the case for RAW input data), then the print processor calls WritePrinter. The PrintDocumentOnPrintProcessor function can be interrupted by asynchronous calls from the spooler to the print processor's ControlPrintProcessor function. This function implements an application's ability to pause, resume, or cancel a print job. After PrintDocumentOnPrintProcessor finishes converting the data stream and returns, the spooler calls the print processor's ClosePrintProcessor function.
To install a print processor, an installation application must call the spooler's AddPrintProcessor function. To associate a print processor with a print queue, list its file name in an INF file in a PrintProcessor entry. This entry must be included for every print queue to which the print processor is to be associated. For more information, see Printer INF Files. When an installation application calls the spooler's AddPrinter function, using a PRINTER_INFO_2 structure as an input argument, it specifies the print processor name (obtained from the INF file) as a structure member.
If the PnP manager detects and installs a print queue on a system running either Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and if the INF file used to install the print queue contains a PrintProcessor entry other than the default Windows print processor, WinPrint, the print processor will not be associated with the print queue. However, the print processor will be installed. (Note that if you install the print queue using the Add Printer wizard, the print processor is correctly associated with the print queue. Note also that the PnP manager in Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 and later correctly associates a print processor with the print queue.)
To associate the print processor with the print queue for Plug and Play installations on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, include a PRINTER_EVENT_INITIALIZE case in the printer interface DLL's DrvPrinterEvent function. For Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 and later, it is not necessary to add a PRINTER_EVENT_INITIALIZE case in the DrvPrinterEvent function.
Print monitors are responsible for directing a print data stream from the print spooler to an appropriate port driver. Two types of print monitors are defined — language monitors and port monitors.
Language monitors are user-mode DLLs that serve two purposes:
Microsoft provides a language monitor, pjlmon.dll, which supports printer job language (PJL), and provides bidirectional communication for PJL printers. This monitor is included in the DDK as the sample language monitor.
Customized language monitors can be written to support other job control languages, for unidirectional or bidirectional printers.
Language monitors are optional and only associated with a particular printer type if included in the printer's INF file, as described in Installing a Print Monitor.
If a language monitor is associated with a printer, the language monitor receives the printer's data stream from the print processor, modifies it, and passes it to the printer's port monitor.
Port monitors consist of user-mode DLLs. They are responsible for providing a communications path between the user-mode print spooler and the kernel-mode port drivers that access I/O port hardware. A port monitor typically uses the CreateFile, WriteFile, ReadFile, and DeviceIOControl functions, described in the Platform SDK documentation, to communicate with kernel-mode port drivers. Port monitors are also responsible for management and configuration of a server's printer ports, as described in Managing a Port.
An NT-based-operating system user's view of a "printer" is really a print queue, to which one or more physical printer devices can be connected. A port is the physical connection between the print queue and a single printer device. Each port monitor supports one or more instances of one or more types of ports. For example, localmon.dll, the sample port monitor, can support all of a server's local COM and LPT ports. (The print folder assigns ports to port monitors by calling the Platform SDK documentation's AddPrinter function.)
For print queues representing multiple printer devices (through multiple ports), the spooler sends each print job to the first available port. If the port monitor indicates that a specified port is busy or has encountered an error, the spooler resubmits the job to the queue, specifying another port supported by the port monitor.
Besides localmon.dll, Windows 2000 and later operating system versions provide several additional port monitors. The Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit describes each of these port monitors. Customized port monitors can be written to support additional types of I/O port hardware.
For Windows 2000 and later, each port monitor is divided into two DLLs:
When the spooler calls LoadLibrary to load a print monitor DLL, the system immediately calls the DLL's DllEntryPoint function. It is generally a good idea for the entry point function to call DisableThreadLibraryCalls, described in the Platform SDK documentation, so the DLL is not unnecessarily notified when threads are created and deleted.
Each DLL exports an initialization function, which the spooler calls after calling LoadLibrary. Language monitor DLLs and port monitor server DLLs export an InitializePrintMonitor2 function. Port monitor UI DLLs export an InitializePrintMonitorUI function.
These two initialization functions are responsible for returning pointers to the rest of the functions defined by print monitors, so the spooler can call them. The initialization functions can also perform load-time initialization operations. The monitor's InitializePrintMonitor2 function returns a monitor instance handle. The monitor should allocate local memory to store instance-specific information, and use the monitor handle as an identifier for the allocated memory.
When the spooler is first started, it loads all of the monitor DLLs that have been installed. After calling all monitor initialization functions, the spooler calls each port monitor's EnumPorts function, which enumerates the ports supported by the monitor. (A monitor supports a port if the port has been added to the monitor's database, as described in Adding a Port.) Each supported port is then opened, as described in Opening and Closing a Port.
After a port has been added, as described in Adding a Port, the spooler can open it by calling the appropriate language monitor's OpenPortEx function.
The language monitor uses the OpenPortEx function to create and return a port handle. Typically, a language monitor calls its associated port monitor's OpenPort function, and the language monitor just returns the handle obtained from the port monitor's OpenPort.
If a language monitor is not associated with a port, the spooler calls the port monitor's OpenPort function directly.
The spooler does not allow more than one path to a port to be enabled at one time. Thus, after it has called OpenPortEx (or OpenPort) in a particular monitor, it does not attempt to open the same port again before closing it.
After a port has been opened, the spooler can call additional functions to print a job, as described in Printing a Print Job, using the port handle as an input argument. A monitor should be written so that, after a port has been opened, the spooler can send multiple print jobs before closing the port.
The spooler closes a port if a job must be sent through a different language monitor, if no print queues are associated with a port, or when the system shuts down. To close a port, the spooler calls a language monitor's ClosePort function. The function invalidates the handle that was created when the port was opened. A language monitor typically calls the ClosePort function defined by its associated port monitor.
If a language monitor is not associated with a port, the spooler calls the port monitor's ClosePort function directly.
After a port has been opened, as described in Opening and Closing a Port, the spooler can send print jobs to the port.
Each print job is delimited by spooler calls to a language or port monitor's StartDocPort and EndDocPort functions. The spooler calls these functions when a print processor calls the spooler's StartDocPrinter and EndDocPrinter functions, which are described in the Platform SDK documentation. Within the scope of a set of StartDocPort and EndDocPort functions, unlimited spooler calls to a monitor's WritePort, ReadPort, and GetPrinterDataFromPort functions can occur.
Each of these functions requires the port handle returned by OpenPortEx (or OpenPort) to be specified as an input argument. Typically, a language monitor implements each of the functions by calling the like-named function in its associated port monitor.
When the spooler calls a language monitor's WritePort function to send a data stream to the port, the function generally adds language-specific information, such as PJL commands, to the received data stream before passing it to the associated port monitor's WritePort function.
The ReadPort function is used for obtaining status information from bidirectional printer hardware, which a language monitor might send to the spooler by calling SetPort, described in the Platform SDK documentation. The spooler does not call the ReadPort function.
If printing hardware is bidirectional, both its language monitor and its port monitor should support a GetPrinterDataFromPort function. A language monitor's GetPrinterDataFromPort function should accept a registry value name as input, obtain a value for that name (generally by calling associated port monitor's WritePort and ReadPort functions), and return the value to the caller. A port monitor's GetPrinterDataFromPort function should accept an I/O control code as input, call DeviceIoControl (described in the Platform SDK documentation) to pass the control code to the port driver, and return the result.
This section describes the methods that can be used to install print monitors. (You can install a print monitor with the same INF file that you use to install your printer. For more information about INF files, see Plug and Play and Power Management.)
Installing a Language Monitor: To install a language monitor, you must list its file name in an INF file by using a LanguageMonitor entry. This entry must be included for every printer driver that controls a printer requiring the use of the language monitor. For more information, see Printer INF Files. The Add Driver wizard or the Add Printer wizard reads this INF file and installs language monitors associated with printer drivers. Alternatively, custom installation applications can install language monitors by calling the spooler's AddMonitor function, to explicitly install only a specific monitor DLL.
Installing a Port Monitor: To install a port monitor, your installation medium must include a printer INF file (that is, an INF file for which Class = Printer) that contains a PortMonitors section. The single entry in this section points to an install section containing two entries: an INF CopyFiles directive that lists all of the files that make up the port monitor, and a PortMonitorDll entry that specifies which DLL in the previous list implements the port monitor interface. The following example code illustrates these points. The PortMonitors section points to an install section named SamplePortMon. In that section, an INF CopyFiles directive copies three files that make up the port monitor. Following that, a PortMonitorDll entry identifies the DLL that implements the port monitor interface.
"Sample Port Monitor" = SamplePortMon
CopyFiles = @file1.dll, @file2.dll, @file3.hlp
PortMonitorDll = file1.dll
To install a port monitor, open the Printers folder in Control Panel. On the Printers folder's File menu, select Server Properties. On the File Server Properties dialog, click the Ports tab, and then click the Add Port... button. On the Printer Ports dialog, click the New Port Type... button. Type the path to the INF file in the text input box, and then click OK.
Alternatively, a custom installation application can install the port monitor DLL by a call to the AddMonitor function.
The spooler provides support for bidirectional ("BiDi") communication between an application or driver and a printer. This support enables the application or driver to send one or more requests to the printer, and the printer to respond to these requests.
The bidi communication support involves two parts: the bidi communication schema and the bidi spooler APIs. The schema describes the requests that an application can make to a device and the format for the requests. The spooler APIs send the requests to the device and also send and receive the bidi data. An application can also send a request to a network print provider for a network printer or a printer that is connected to a remote printer server.
To send a single request to the printer, an application or printer driver must first compose the request, and then call the IBidiSpl::SendRecv method. To send multiple requests, the application or driver composes a list of requests, and then calls the IBidiSpl::MultiSendRecv method. After receiving the request, the client-side portion of the spooler (winspool.drv) passes it on to the server-side spooler (spoolsv.exe). The server-side spooler can be on the local computer, or on a remote network print server. When the server-side spooler receives the request, it parses the data in the request. The server-side spooler converts the data to a form suitable for use by the application or driver, and passes it back to the client-side spooler, and finally back to the originator of the request.
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1st Optional Protocol to the Covenant
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (aiming to the abolition of the death penalty)
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Statute of the International Criminal Court (which excludes the death penalty)
On 1 July 2017, entered into force the new Criminal Code that abolishes the death penalty for all crimes, approved in 2015.
The last execution in Mongolia was in 2008 and the death penalty remained classified as a state secret.
Since then, the country has taken a series of steps towards abolition culminating in the historic parliamentary vote. In 2010, the country's President, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, commuted all death sentences and announced a moratorium on all executions. In 2012, Mongolia acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), committing the country to the abolition of the death penalty.
In 2011 Hands off Cain awarded President Tsakhia Elbegdorj with the "Abolitionist of the Year Prix."
However, the new President Khaltmaagiin Battulga repeatedly invoked the death penalty and on 27 November presented a proposal to the Ministry of Justice to reintroduce the death penalty.
On 29 September 2017, Mongolia voted again in favour of the Resolution on the Death Penalty at the 36° session of the UN Council on Human Rights.
On 17 December 2018, Mongolia co-sponsored and voted again in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.


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Howard Helvey's beautifully lyric setting of HYFRYDOL is set to Louis F. Benson's communion text, not usually associated with this hymn tune. Your choir and congregation will love its combination of the familiar and the unexpected and the ease of the choral writing will open it up to choirs of all sizes.


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Naturals began in 1998 with a small retail store in Ashland, Oregon. They carefully hand-picked a group of contemporary styles made for real women, with an emphasis on natural materials. After 5 years of steady growth, Naturals Inc unveiled their online store, choosing Miva Merchant as their e-commerce solution. Their website showcased everything from foundation pieces to unique and specialty items. They have a wide selection of clothing from a variety of designers. The Eileen Fisher collection in particular has proven to be a special one at Naturals Inc, as it continues to be one of the best in the country.
Today, Naturals Fulfillment Center is still located in beautiful southern Oregon providing versatile stylish apparel, but these days Naturals Inc has left the "brick and mortar" ways of business and sells exclusively online. They feature an expanded collection of contemporary brands and classic styles from Cambio Jeans, Three Dots tees, Eileen Fisher, Hobo International bags, Satya jewelry, Not Your Daughter's Jeans, Fabrizio Gianni pants, Dogeared jewelry, ERB jewelry, and Chan Luu scarves.
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So much fun was had by all loading the 15 dogs into the van! Cats were unimpressed, but dogs were definitely on an adventure! Alfie kept walking up and down inspecting the cages, "maybe this one will nice, no, perhaps this one…"
Having finished we went towards Kyrenia to meet up with Bingo, a really sedate gentle dog, and the lovely kennel owners who've been looking after him. Poor chap, travelling with this noisy lot! We reached the port and checked in. At this point, the day went downhill. We discovered that we needed an additional export document.
This entailed a 45-minute dash to a Government office in Nicosia where we found the official we were looking for in only the third building we were directed to. A formidable, yet friendly and efficient lady, told us she could provide the documentation but we would need 23 documents photocopied, and she was about to go to lunch. She kindly arranged a special discount at a photocopy-come-copy booth and promptly disappeared.
She reappeared exactly one hour later and very quickly her minions whipped up the necessary paperwork. Knowing that bureaucracy in this part of the world is a fickle and unpredictable thing we retraced our steps to the port to check that our document was in order. Lo and behold the official we had dealt with, and who was still on duty, was a stand-in, who quickly shrugged his shoulders and told us to talk to his superior.
We were ushered into the presence of the superior who was presiding over a meeting of other worthies and fellow tea-drinkers. Fortunately another of Turkish Cyprus' under-valued and under-represented female civil servants took us in hand, very quickly comprehended the matter and interceded on our behalf with the office nabob. He and his companions had a short, heated discussion and then completely ignored us. Their decision, however, was that the document was satisfactory, but that we now had to go to a freight agent and obtain a manifest for our cargo.
Fate was smiling on us as a representative of this organisation happened to pass the door. Our friendly lady official cuffed him verbally about the ear and he escorted us a short distance to a tiny office filled with two large desks and two plastic chairs. Here we met the third of our formidable Turkish Cypriot ladies who told us that there was no problem, but that she could not do the document until the following morning when we checked in.
Her astute questioning made her realise that the animals did not belong to the people — us — actually transporting them. So we found ourselves setting forth once more in search of another document. This involved a short distance to a notary, who would witness an authorisation letter from the owner giving Animalcouriers permission to transport his animals.
The office was a tiny cell under a staircase in a Victorian building. Every surface was covered in piles of books, yellowing paper and dust. A truly Dickensian picture. Seated on the plastic garden chairs inside and standing on the pavement outside was a diverse collection of Turkish Cypriots and ex-pats stoically awaiting the return of the notary who was already an hour and a half late. He soon arrived and with a flourish of his pen, a bang of his rubber stamp, a smile and a lot of jolly banter, he dismissed the awaiting supplicants.
In short order we had our final piece of paper (we hope) and dashed back to the port to double-check it was acceptable. So glad to report that it was.
It was at this final point that we discovered the ferry we been forced to miss had in fact been cancelled due to inclement weather. Will the ferry run tomorrow I quizzed? With a broad and beautiful smile our new-found bureaucratic heroine replied: "Inshallah."


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Chelsea will likely be without the injured Eden Hazard on Sunday as the Blues face Everton at Stamford Bridge.
Last season, the Belgian international was in destructive mood as he scored twice past the helpless Maarten Stekelenburg as Chelsea ran out 5-0 winners in what the BBC's John Motson described as "the best performance [he'd] ever seen in the Premier League".
Below, you can watch Hazard's second goal for Chelsea against Everton courtesy of Feroze17.


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On January 24, 2014, Carole King was honored as the 2014 MusiCares® Person of the Year at a gala event in Los Angeles, CA. Carole and a cast of superstar guests performed some of the quintessential songs from her renowned and celebrated career.
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Treating Asthma in Dogs
People who suffer from asthma have difficulty breathing. Like humans, dogs can suffer from asthma as well. When people or animals suffer from asthma, they experience shortness of breath, wheezing and constricted upper airways. People understand what's happening when they have these symptoms, but it's a scary and freighting ordeal for dogs. That's why treating asthma in dogs is so important.
Symptoms of Asthma in DogsBefore beginning the search for asthma treatment for dogs, owners have to know that their dogs suffer from asthma. Thankfully, they can look for symptoms of asthma in dogs to determine whether or not their dogs need help, including
- hacking or dry cough,
- open-mouth breathing,
- respiratory distress such as wheezing or difficulty breathing,
- lethargy,
- no tolerance for exercise, and
- extreme weight loss.
Keep in mind that certain dog breeds are more likely to develop asthma over the course of their lives. Dogs are also more likely to develop asthma as they age. People with small dogs should be aware that they have a high risk for asthma as well. However, larger dogs shouldn't be overlooked because they too can suffer from asthma.
Why It's Important to Get Asthma Treatment for Dogs QuicklyAs mentioned above, dogs aren't sure what's going on when they have difficulty breathing. It's a frightening experience, but they don't know how to express their concern. During some asthma attacks, dogs start to panic and become stressed out. Panicking just makes the symptoms worse and can even lead to cardiac arrest.
Asthma Treatment for DogsTreating asthma in dogs requires owners to be aware of what triggers the asthma attacks. Like asthma in humans, certain things can trigger attacks in dogs, including smoke, dust, outdoor pollen and other small particles that trigger allergies.
However, owners can use some natural solutions to boost their dogs' defense against asthma. One example is Respiratory System Support - Asthma Defense. It provides natural temporary relief for asthma symptoms without using harsh chemicals. Giving this product to dogs is easy. Simply add a few drops into their water or canned food. Over time, the solution boosts their defense against asthma attacks.