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26.0502 Signs allowed without permit.
The following signs shall be allowed without permit:
(1) any sign attached to, painted upon, or otherwise placed upon a building where the business announced or advertised is actually carried on, or the product announced or advertised is actually manufactured, assembled, or sold, or the service announced or advertised is actually available, or the event announced will actually take place. No such sign may project higher than the highest point of the building nor wider than the widest point of the building to which it is attached;
(2) any sign painted upon any vehicle used as a bus or a taxi for the sole purpose of identify-ing the owner or operator of the service, either by words or appropriate pictures or symbols;
(3) signs erected and maintained by the Government of American Samoa or any agency or instrumentality thereof;
(4) temporary signs, which shall mean any sign, banner, pennant, or advertising display constructed of cloth, canvas, light fabric, cardboard, or other light material, and not to be dis-played for more than 72 hours;
(5) memorial signs or tablets, including the names of buildings and dates of construction, when such are cut into any masonry surface or constructed of bronze or other noncombustible materials;
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Tiburcio and his daughter Helena have an interesting tool for learning when an online purchase has been made from their web store — an Arduino-controlled Wario toy. Tiburcio explains:
I wanted something nice to have at the office that tell us every time someone make a purchase on our game. Every time we make a buck Wario rings the bell and flash his greedy green eyes. If we made a lot then Wario shoot smoke from his ears!
You can check out Wario in action in the video, including the sketch that allows Tiburcio's Mac to communicate with Wario wirelessly via an XBee module.


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The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT. Is it really worth the extra scratch over the base SLS? Define worth.
In the GT version, the 6.3-liter AMG V8 hits 583 horsepower (up from 563), the electronically controlled dampers are mapped stiffer and the SPEEDSHIFT DCT 7-speed is quicker in manual mode. Is that worth enough for you?
Perhaps not, or maybe so, if you've got a little over 200,000 bones to toss willy nilly. But if you judge worth by engine note, you may find the ultimate answer in this episode of Chris Harris on Cars, wherein he flogs the thing on the Hockenheim circuit in Germany.


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Halos call up No. 3 prospect Green
ANAHEIM -- Grant Green, 25 and four years removed from being a first-round Draft pick out of the University of Southern California, is still a man without a position.
He was called up from Triple-A Salt Lake on Tuesday, seven days after the Angels acquired him from the A's in a one-for-one deal that sent third baseman Alberto Callaspo to Oakland, and started at second base, but he still doesn't know where he fits long-term. Green came up as a shortstop, is most comfortable playing second base, had a brief stint in the outfield and has been getting schooled on third base since joining the Angels' organization.
"It's fun, kind of, playing different positions now and then, but you still want to play a position you feel comfortable with," said Green, who picked up his first big league hit, a single, in the second inning and finished 2-for-4. "I'm glad that, with the A's, I was able to play all those positions because I kind of have that in my back pocket, but playing the last year at second base has really been kind of helpful because I only have one position. I'm able to get as comfortable and work out the little kinks that you get as you play through the year."
The Angels are still holding out hope that Howie Kendrick (left knee sprain) can avoid the disabled list, but for at least the next four days, Green, Chris Nelson and Tommy Field will essentially be alternating at two positions -- second and third base.
Green spent his first full season at shortstop, split time between shortstop and center field in 2011, got ample time at five positions in 2012 -- center field, left field, shortstop, third base and second base -- and has mostly played second base in 2013.
The Angels' immediate opening is at third base, where Callaspo no longer resides and where top prospect Kaleb Cowart still needs more time. Green started his last four games in Salt Lake at third base, working closely with roving infield instructor Omar Vizquel, but he still has work to do.
"It was nice to get on that side of the diamond again," Green said of a position where he's played in only 15 of his 462 Minor League games. "The more and more games got there, the more and more comfortable I felt there."
Now the Angels' No. 3 prospect, Green has posted a .306/.354/.468 slash line in five Minor League seasons and has performed at every level. In his first season at Triple-A last year, he hit .296 with 15 homers, 73 RBIs and 13 steals. This year, he's hit .326 with 11 homers in 93 games.
If he proves he can hit at the big league level over these next two months, the Angels will find him a position.
"Being a competitor, you want to go out and do well, and that's what I'm going to see it as," said Green, a Fullerton native who grew up a Giants fan but frequently visited Angel Stadium. "I'm not going to see it as, 'Oh, I have to do it.' It's going to be the type of thing where I want to. Hopefully I play well and they see it as a good thing going into the offseason and maybe Spring Training next year."


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Have you ever had that gnawing feeling where you want to make something you only vaguely remember eating in the past? I often have that feeling about foods from my childhood. I can almost always remember everything about the surrounding events but have no idea how to go about recreating a recipe for a food that until that moment resides only in the recesses of my mind. Take this cumin shortbread cookie (unceremoniously dubbed, a zeera biscuit in my native Karachi). A perfectly buttery, crumbly shortbread cookie, flecked with toasted cumin and designed to be eaten with a mug of steaming chai.
That cumin shortbread cookie was a constant presence for eight-year-old me. It made appearances in my pink elephant lunchbox, at my mother's fancy ladies-who-lunch teas, and almost always on walks home from the bakery with my dad. I remember the hustle and bustle inside that bakery like it was yesterday. The ridiculously warm summer day, my proper white knee socks capped with lace, the hum of the fan that simply circulated stuffy, warm air, and the kindly smile of the elderly baker who always handed me a cookie before filling our box to take home. Gosh, I loved that cookie but I had no idea how to make it.
This sudden obsession with recreating the cumin shortbread cookie came as no surprise as my love affair with all things cookies is fairly well documented on this blog. From classic Chocolate Mint (perfect for the holidays with green minty chips!) to my Mumma's timeless Brown Butter Pistachio, I've never met a cookie I didn't like. And that's precisely why I love our annual cookie swap with a group of local food blogger friends. It's the perfect opportunity to get together with friends for a relaxed afternoon of food, chatter, and of course, delicious cookies. So, it made perfect sense to share my favorite childhood cookie with my friends (Lisa from Authentic Suburban Gourmet, Liren from Kitchen Confidante, Gina from SPCookieQueen, Patty from Patty's Food, Jean from Lemons and Anchovies, and Lisa from Ravishing Hunger).
Except well, I still had the problem of having no idea how to make them. So, after a somewhat unhelpful phone conversation with my mother where she told me to simply find a bakery that made the cookies and some frantic Googling on a Friday evening after the end of a very busy week at work, I announced to the Hubster that he and I were finally ready to recreate that elusive cumin shortbread cookie. Like most of my grandiose proclamations, this one also came at 10 p.m. after we'd finally convinced Little Man that bedtime was a necessary part of life and after we'd tackled the mountain of dishes ever present in our kitchen sink. Needless to say, the Hubster wasn't excited about the challenge and may or may not have tried to escape to bed. But we forged on for science (and cookies)!
Somewhere around midnight, we happened upon this perfect specimen of a cumin shortbread cookie. Those of you who grew in the motherland and frequented the same hot, sticky bakeries of my childhood may note that these cookies, with their adorable crinkled edges, are a lot more buttery than the smooth-edged ones of our childhood. They're also a tad bit sweeter. I happen to like these adaptations because sadly, I no longer have regular access to a perfectly sweetened cup of chai to dunk my cookies in to. If you would never dream of eating your cookies (or biscuits) without chai, then feel free to cut back a bit on the sugar. Oh, and don't forget to toast the cumin seeds before tossing them in. It's such a small task but it makes a huge difference in the finished cookie.
And whether you choose to take them to a cookie swap with friends, share them with your family and colleagues for the holidays, or enjoy them with a steaming mug of chai in the solitude of your home in that precious one hour window when your little ones are napping, here's to wishing you and your loved ones a safe and happy holiday season filled with lots of perfect cookies and memories!
1 ½ tbsps. cumin seeds
10 tbsps. unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 ½ cups flour
Pinch of salt
A little milk
Heat oven to 335 degrees F.
Put the cumin seeds in a dry frying pan on medium heat and toast, tossing, for two minutes, until fragrant and cool. Once cool, add to a mortar and pestle and crush a bit (you want to leave most of the seeds whole).
Put 1 tablespoon of the seeds in a bowl with the butter, and cream together until light and fluffy. Work the flour and salt into the butter mix with a fork, then add just enough milk – a tablespoon or so – to bring it together into a dough. With your hands, form into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
Remove from the fridge and portion dough into 1 tablespoon, rounded balls for mini cookies (such as the ones above), or 2 tablespoon balls for more regular sized cookies. Press cookie balls with the back of the measuring spoon until slightly flattened. Top with remaining, toasted cumin seeds and bake on a Silpat or parchment paper lined cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes until cookies are browned. Cool on a cooling rack.
Yields about 40 mini cookies, 20 regular-sized ones.
Adapted from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Lemon Cumin Cookies.


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When to Give Your Children Their Inheritance?
What age should your children receive their inheritance if you and your spouse die while they are young?
This is as much a question for a veteran estate planning attorney as it is for an experienced parent.
Your children can't own assets until they are 18. But do you want them to have compete control of their inheritance at 18? Remember when you were 18?
So from age 18 until age x, you want to protect your children from themselves.
Most of my clients choose to have someone else (parent, , sister, uncle, best friend) manage their children's inheritance until their children are 25, 28 or 30.
What do you think? What age do you think your children would be mature enough to handle the inheritance you leave them?


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
For those with a business that has an active blog, you may say that this seems light. It is. It seems that there's a huge gap between those who are adding content to their site and those who don't so we're going with a strong minimum. If you're adding two pieces of content per month, you have the ability to make a difference.
I'm not talking about conversion pages. I'm talking about interesting, engaging content that people can and will share if they see it. I'm talking about building content that works for your business, that's associated with your target visitors, and that comes from a unique place that is inherent to you. I'm talking about writing about what you know best – your business and the area that it's in.
That's not to say that those who are blogging regularly shouldn't read about this. Most that I've seen who are "blogging" are actually just posting search-relevant content in hopes that it will help them gain additional keywords. This practice is fine but is not a replacement for the type of content that I'm talking about here. For this content, you have to make it real. You have to build content that you would be interested in reading yourself if you came across it on the internet or in a magazine.
We've discussed this type of content in the past regarding killing birds, but it wouldn't be doing the topic service to write about it once and let it go. Here's an overview:
Most businesses are starting to post some sort of content on their blogs or directly to their site. Unfortunately, the vast majority of it is completely self-serving. This is fine – you're a business, not a media publication – but you'll miss out on the benefits inherent with valuable and/or entertaining content if everything is about you. There are other stories to tell, other concepts that should be explored in your industry, and interesting aspects of your community that will help you create content that others can post to their social media profiles or link to from their websites.
That's the goal. If you're a dealership writing articles like "Nissan Altima Dallas Gets New Incentives", it's fine and can help you rank for the target term "Nissan Altima Dallas" but it's not enough. You needgood content to support your conversion content. Not everything is about keywords. Done right, it's easier to get the tougher keywords by going after something altogether.
As we've discussed in the past, content has two primary goals. Yes, it can help the search engines understand your website better, so the SEO value is strong within the content. This is what conversion content is all about. However, you won't get anyone to share or link to this type of content, which is why engaging content is necessary to achieve the second goal: getting inbound links and social signals pointed to your website.
When you have an interesting piece of content that is shared on social media and linked to by others, it helps the entire domain achieve higher rankings in search for the "money terms" that you want. By mixing in pieces of content such as "9 Amazing Uses of Ford SYNC and Your Smartphone", you're on your way to getting higher rankings for other keywords. It does, of course, help with social media content as well, but even if you don't believe in the value of this content, you'll surely see the value of improving your rankings.
Two pieces of content a month might seem low, but how much are your producing today? Then, ask yourself which is more likely – to get in and post a lot of content, then get tired of it and abandon it altogether, or to schedule two pieces of content that don't interrupt your normal routine too often and that have a tremendous impact on your overall internet marketing? This is why I ask people to start with two. If they build two a month for a few months, they might decide that the value is high enough to hire a part-time or full-time content writer. That's the goal. Bring in some value, then expand on it.
Once you start, it's hard to stop after seeing the amazing result.
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Don't close your PHP tags!
I saw this post over at sitepoint about whether or not you should close your PHP tags. Apparently there is some debate, though to me it seems pretty clear the choice is to leave them out.
If you're unaware, the closing ?> tag in PHP files is completely optional. It is only really required if you are mixing HTML and PHP code, which itself is not a particularly good practice. Leaving off the closing tag prevents any erroneous white space or random characters from being sent to the output. It reduces the amount of code and prevents a possible error from occurring.
I can't really think of a good reason to leave them on (assuming your document is pure PHP). Perhaps if you are from an XML background you will feel compelled to close the tag, but it's entirely unnecessary in PHP.
Multiple frameworks and libraries such as Zend, CodeIgniter, Drupal and others suggest you to leave off the closing PHP tag as part of their style guide or best practices documentation, and I suggest the same. This is especially important for WinBinder developers (or anyone who uses php-win.exe), where any output sent to the console immediately ends the script.
Some have suggested dropping the need for <?php from php files completely. It's not a bad suggestion, though i sort of think of it as analogous to #!/bin/sh in unix scripts. Those tags don't need closing tags either.
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Maó stretches along the shore of one of the best and largest natural ports in the Mediterranean Sea. The capital of Minorca still preserves a number of churches, ancestral buildings and palaces, lining streets of deep Mediterranean flavour. But Mahón is also the silent witness to the presence of many diverse cultures that populated it throughout history. In the outskirts, archaeological sites like Trepucó can be visited, where one of the best collections of prehistoric art in the island is preserved.Another thing that makes the capital attractive is, in addition to the neighbouring coves, its location next to the S'Albufera des Grau, I'lla d'en Colomi i el Cap de Favàritx Nature Reserve, one of the most important ecosystems in the Balearic Islands. Legend has it that Mahón was founded by Carthaginian general Magón, brother of Hannibal. However, one thing is certain: both the present site of the city and the rest of the island of Minorca have been settled, throughout history, for many different civilisations. There were human settlements in the Island as far back as 2000 BC, leaving an important archaeological patrimony, which include the Talaiots (tower-shaped megaliths) and the Navetas (funeral constructions in the shape of an upside-down vessel). Under the Roman Empire, from 123 BC, the city became very important strategically, so that in 73-74 BC Emperor Vespasian declared the colony of Mago (present Mahón) a municipality. With the arrival of the Arabs, the city would become a remarkable Mediterranean commercial port, until the Christian king Alfonso III conquered the island in 1287. Centuries later, in the 1700s, the city would regain its lost splendour, becoming the administrative capital of the island during British rule. The city Along the streets that make up the historic quarter of Mahón, a good number of bourgeois houses can be observed, as well as historic buildings, specially around the squares of Colón, Sant Francesc, Conquesta and Miranda. One of them, the central Plaza de España, gathers important monuments. The Gothic church of Santa María, for example, built in the 13th century and remodelled in the 18th century. In the exterior of the temple, the largest in the whole island, there is a slender belltower. Inside, you can admire a great nineteen-century organ, or enormous acoustic quality. Next to the church is the City Hall, a building also known as Sa Sala. The Renaissance façade is dominated by a great clock, brought by the first British governor, Richard Kane. Among the rooms in this building, the conference room stands out, which keeps a good number of portraits of famous city figures. The church of Carmen, located in the square by the same name, is another emblematic building in Mahón. This Neoclassic temple, erected in the 18th century, houses a beautiful Baroque cloister in its interior. The city also has some great places where one can take a pleasant walk. Carrer Nou, a pedestrian street, is marked by numerous selling local crafts. Further down, along the shore of the port, which stretches for more than five kilometres, you will find plenty of restaurants, bars and terraces. In the surrounding area of the port, you can visit the distilleries of Majorcan gin (a drink flavoured with juniper cones) that follow the traditional English method of production. The Museums of Mahón The church of Sant Francesc, old Franciscan convent of Jesús (17th and 18th centuries), presently houses the Museo de Minorca. You can learn more about the history and customs of Minorcan people through its different exhibition rooms. Of great importance to the cultural life of Mahón is the Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico (Scientific, Literary and Artistic Centre), which houses interesting collections of cartography, fossils and ceramics. In the southern part of the bay, visit the Army Museum, which occupies the old gunpowder store of the castle of San Felipe. The exhibition mainly focuses on the history of the fortresses of San Felipe and La Mola. Gastronomy and the outskirts On the outskirts of Mahón, there are some of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites on the island. A few kilometres south of the capital you can visit Trepucó, a primitive village that preserves one of the best taulas (a "T" shaped megalith) in the Balearic Isles. Other options include a trip to Torelló, where you will find the Paleochristian basilica of Es Fornàs de Torelló, or to the settlement of Talatí de Dalt, with a taula and a few Talaiots. The Minorcan coast has a number of significant tourist compounds. In the coast of Sant Lluís, south of Mahón, is Binibèquer Vell. Its construction follows the canons of traditional island architecture and it has beautiful beaches like Binidalí y Binisafúa. Along the southern shoreline are the seaside towns of En Porter Cove and Galdana Cove. Inland, the town of Alaior is very much worth a visit. In its historic quarter, the churches of Santa Eulàlia and San Diego, both from the 17th century, are quite significant. But the town is also known for its prehistoric monuments, like the megalithic tomb of Roques Llises and the Tower den Gaumes. The eastern coast of Minorca holds the principal damp area in the island, where you will find the Nature Reserves of S'Albufera des Grau, I'lla d'en Colomi and Cap de Favàritx. The park centre has a shallow lagoon, which is a perfect marine-bird observatory. The unusual natural environment of Minorca, in addition to its cultural life and sustainable socio-economic development, allowed the 1993 declaration of the island as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. The most internationally famous sauce of all of Minorcan cuisine is, well, mayonnaise, made with egg, garlic and olive oil. Some of the most typical island dishes get their ingredients from the sea, like for example the lobster casserole and the cuttlefish baked casserole. For dessert, have a delicious cheese with the label Designation of Origin - Mahón.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Comments appreciated Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Comments appreciated Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Oman View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message KabinaJoined: 09 Jan 2005Posts: 10Location: Canada Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: Comments appreciated I would really appreciate any comments on the following part of a contract from the Higher Colleges of Technology. I am particularly concerned with the "Health Allowance". ($2100 US = 808 OMR) 4. REMUNERATION: 4.1 The Employee will receive an all inclusive remuneration package of USD $ 2,100/= per month with the following break down. 4.1.1 Monthly Salary USD $ 1,500/= 4.1.2 Medical Allowance USD $ 50/= 4.1.3 Transport Allowances USD $ 350/= 4.1.4 Utility Allowance USD $ 200/= 4.2 The remuneration will be payable in arrears at the end of each month during the contract of employment with the Client. 4.3 This salary is inclusive of all sums payable under the Law towards income or other Taxes. 4.4 The remuneration package is inclusive of all expenses (basic salary, utility, transport , and medical) Thank you, Kabina Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:23 am Post subject: Kabina, I have never heard of such a thing as a 'health allowance.' I would ask them what it means. If that is all that they provide and you are on your own in case of an accident or serious illness, I'd tell them to stuff it. No housing allowance? If you have to provide your own housing, this pay would be considered lousy. VS (for anyone who may not know... this organization has NOTHING to do with the Higher College of Technology in the Emirates.) Back to top KabinaJoined: 09 Jan 2005Posts: 10Location: Canada Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: Thanks VS for your reply. Furnished accomodation is provided as well as annual air tickets. My main concern is the health care. 6. MEDICAL: The employees shall pay his/her own medical cost on which allowance is included in the monthly salary.. I don't know anything about medical costs in Oman but the $50 US allowance seems to be ridiculously low.......what happens in case of an accident or any medical emergency? I'm sure $50 wont cover it! Disregarding the medical allowance (I will speak to the recruiters about this), what is your opinion of the offer? Does anyone have any information on conditions at the colleges? Many thanks, Kabina Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject: Well, I can tell you that medical costs are a fraction of what they are in the US. For instance, a medication that I take daily costs $100 for 100 pills in the US, but costs $7.60 (and it is from the same factory in the same bottle) in Oman. Let's say that you were in a car accident or got appendicitis... that could likely eat up your salary for a month or two. Like I said, I have never heard of an employer who does not either pay and/or provide you coverage under the national system. I certainly wouldn't consider it if you were not covered for catastrophic problems. If the $50 is meant to just cover general doctor visits, that would be sufficient. As to the rest of it, since you haven't given us any hint of your education or experience, it is hard to say. If you have an MA plus significant experience, it would be a tad low, but pretty standard for Oman. Where is this college? If it is a smaller town or village, you may also want to ask about housing. This place has been discussed before as I recall. Did you do a search of the Oman section for it? VS Back to top KabinaJoined: 09 Jan 2005Posts: 10Location: Canada Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject: Thanks VS you have been very helpful. I was told by the recruiters that the health allowance was non-negotiable. I have decided not to accept the offer. I have read through all the posts on the Oman forum, the internet is a tremendous resource when job-hunting in other countries. I am really keen to live in Oman (Muscat) for a few years and will keep on looking. Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it. Warmest regards, Kabina Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:03 am Post subject: I think that is probably a good decision. Have you tried applying at Sultan Qaboos University? VS Back to top KabinaJoined: 09 Jan 2005Posts: 10Location: Canada Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:16 am Post subject: No I haven't tried there yet but I intend to give it a go. I have a BA but not a Masters so I didn't think I stood a chance with them. After reading through the previous posts on the forum I see that it is not always necessary so I just might be lucky. Kabina Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17644Location: USA Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: Hi Kabina, When I was hired by SQU way back in the 1980's, an MA was required. But, they found that almost all of their applicants were Americans... and the British management didn't like that. So, in the early 90's, they removed the MA requirement and now take a BA with a recognized certificate (naturally CELTA is the preferred) and appropriate experience. Their student numbers have expanded so much in the past few years that they are doing quite a bit of hiring. You don't lose anything by applying... 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SA orthop. j. vol.11 no.2 Centurion abr. 2012
No loosening of an uncemented acetabular component at a minimum of 15 years
Nicolas Martin MBChB, FCS(Orth); Marc Nortje MBChB, FC Orth, MMed; Brendan Dower MBChB, FCS(Orth); Ian Learmonth MBChB, FRCS(Orth); Garth Grobler MBChB, FCS(Orth), MMed
One hundred consecutive total hip replacements using a cementless Duraloc 300 cup were reviewed at a minimum of 15 years. All acetabular metal components were found to be stable with no evidence of loosening.
Key words: Hip, arthroplasty, acetabular, loose, fixation
In our previous 10-year review of these patients we found a zero rate of loosening and a mean polyethylene wear rate of 0.12mm per year.1
The purpose of this paper is to retrospectively review the ongoing radiological results of this cohort of consecutive total hip replacements.
Patients and methods
Between August 1991 and July 1993, we performed 100 consecutive total hip replacements in 93 patients (48 men and 45 women). Two experienced hip surgeons performed 93 operations and seven were undertaken by registrars under supervision. The surgery was performed via a modified anterior approach as previously described.1 The Duraloc 300, tri-spiked, Porocoat acetabular implants were used with a polyethylene liner containing a 10° long wall, that was gamma irradiated in air.
Of the original 100 hips, 35 patients died (37 hips) at an average of seven years post surgery. None of these patients had undergone a re-operation and all had a satisfactory fixation of the acetabular cup as seen on radiographs taken on average 1.7 years before death. Six patients (seven hips) were lost to follow-up leaving 56 hips available for analysis after a minimum duration of follow-up of 15 years.
The patients' radiographs (post-operative, 10 year, 15 year) were analysed with respect to loosening,2,3 liner wear,4,5 granuloma evolution6 as well as bone graft incorporation post liner revision. Migration or position of the liner was assessed according to the method of Massin et al.3
At 15-year follow-up none of the acetabular implants showed any evidence of loosening. We defined loosening as cup migration or lucent lines of more than 1 mm diameter present in all three zones (as per Hodgkinson et al.2).
The average wear at 15-year follow-up was 0.08 mm/y. This was less than the 0.12 mm/y at 10-year follow-up. Fourteen hips had granulomas at 15-year follow-up. Eleven of these granulomas were situated in zone 2, which may be related to the fact that a hole eliminator had not been used in these cups.
Eleven patients required revision surgery. Two had well-fixed cups removed at the time of stem revision at another institution, one had the long wall repositioned for early dislocation, five had liner revision and underwent impaction bone grafting to granulomas, three had liner exchange for excessive wear without granuloma present.
Four of these revisions took place in the last 5 years. Three were liner revisions only (two for excessive wear, one during granuloma bone-grafting), while one had the liner changed during revision of a loose stem post periprosthetic fracture.
In the five hips that were revised for granuloma around the cup, all showed good graft incorporation and remodelling. There were no complications related to the revision surgery.
Kaplan-Meier survivorship analysis was performed with radiological loosening and liner revision as an end point. The survival at 15 years for loosening was 100%. The survival for liner revision was 84.93% (95% confidence interval of 76.02-93.83%)
The zero radiological loosening rate of the Duraloc 300 cups at 15 years would indicate that spiked Porocoated cups provides sufficient bone in-growth for long-term stability even in cases with granuloma formation.
The wear rate of 0.08 mm/year is less than the one found at 10-year follow-up. We assume that this decrease is due to a combination of decreased activity levels in the ageing study cohort as well as less statistical impact of the initial running-in wear over the extended time period.7
The predominance of zone 2 granuloma indicates that wear particles gained entry to the bony acetabulum via the apex hole for the cup introducer. Use of a hole eliminator would be prudent (Figures 1-4).
The cases that required liner revision and bone grafting were easy to perform and in all cases graft material showed evidence of incorporation.
At 15 years all surviving patients had well-fixed, functioning acetabular components.
Improvements in bearing surfaces may improve wear rates and granuloma formation in the future but fixation rates cannot be improved. If we solve the problem of wear, could joint replacement surgery offer a permanent solution?
1. Grobler GP, Learmonth ID, Bernstein BP, Dower BJ. Ten-year results of a press fit, porous-coated acetabular component. J Bone and Joint Surg (Br) 2005;87-B:786-89. [ Links ]
2. Hodgkinson JP, Shelley P, Wroblewski BM. The correlation between the roentgenographic appearance and operative findings at the bone-cement junction of the socket in Charnley low friction arthroplasties. Clin. Orthop. 1988; 228:105-109. [ Links ]
3. Massin P, Schmidt L, Engh CA. Evaluation of cementless acetabular component migration. An experimental study. Journal of Arthroplasty. 1989;4:245-51. [ Links ]
4. Hui A, McCalden R, Martell J, MacDonald S, Bourne R, Rorabeck L. Validation of two and three dimensional radiographic techniques for measuring polyethylene wear after total hip arthroplasty. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Am]. 2003;85-A:3;505-11. [ Links ]
5. Martell J, Berdia S. Determination of polyethylene wear in total hip replacements with use of digital radiographs. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Am]. 1997;79:1635-41. [ Links ]
6. De Lee JG, Charnley J. Radiological demarcation of cemented sockets in total hip replacements. Clinical Orthopaedics. 1976;121:20-32. [ Links ]
7. Garvin KL, Hartman CW, Mangla J, Murdoch N, Martell JM. Wear analysis in THA utilizing oxidized Zirconium and crosslinked polyethylene. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2009:467;141-14. [ Links ]
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Manga Supplies? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Manga Supplies? Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Off-Topic Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message stloutomJoined: 31 May 2005 Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:31 am Post subject: Manga Supplies? Hey all, Moving to Seogwipo tomorrow, and I was wondering if any of you aspiring arteests out there have had any luck finding Manga screen tones in Korea. They're too pricey in the 'states, and I thought (perhaps errantly) that they'd be cheaper in Korea (as they're closer to the source, right?!). Also, any idea on the availability of Deleter nibs? TIA, mot Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Off-Topic Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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As a newly minted blogger, March 2007, I have met and read many bloggers in the blogosphere who have had a profound impact on real estate, business, and health. The following is a list of deansguide's choice as the Top 10 Bloggers for 2007:
1. Pat Kitano www.transparentre.com and domusconsultinggroup.com: A former top Wall St. investment banker, Pat's blog transparentre.com was voted one of 25 most innovative blogs for 2007 by Inman News organization. Pat's continual stream of hard boiled analysis, Wall St. experience, and visionary instinct makes him a must read for real professionals, start up entrepreneurs, and Web 2.0 technology followers.
2. Susan Hanshaw www.sanctuaryforchange.com; susanhanshaw.wordpress.com; innerarchitect.com: Susan left a successful 20 yr corporate career in direct marketing which culminated in a position as VP. Her departure into spiritual and inspirational endeavors produced a book "Unleashing Your Soul: Finding the Courage To Follow Your Heart", a successful appearance on Martha Stewart XM Radio channel, and a number of speaking engagements throughout California.
Her tips on positive energy, raising your vibration, and studies into the new frontier of spirituality meets science (quantum physics) make her blogs and website vast libraries of valuable information. Susan provides tools and thought provoking strategies for personal development for individuals, organizations, and corporate entities looking to strengthen their "Human Capital" through educational enrichment.
3. John Harper theharperteam: John Harper, Danville, CA Keller Williams agent, writes a template and guide map for Realtors searching for answers on "How to" write a hyper local blog. Recognized as a leader in the real estate blogosphere, John Harper incorporates local news, trends, and insider information that creates a window into the areas that he represents geographically as well as his niche business strengths. If I were a Realtor who was about to launch a blog I would study theharperteam.com extensively for direction and ideas.
4. Kevin Boer 3oceansrealestate.com: Kevin is a Yale MBA and former McKinsey consultant with vast business consulting experience beyond the norm found in real estate. Kevin's blog is the ultimate template for strategy in google search placement, hyper local content, contributor panels, and how to capture your local market while locking out your competition. A co-founder of Domus Consulting Group along with Pat Kitano, Boer represents the new breed of Realtor: niche driven, Wall St. smart, technology savvy with global reach.
5. Tommy's therealestatebloggers: this blog is a professional journalistic quality example of how to write a hard hitting fast acting real estate news blog without being an agent. He writes and reports with a national and international scope that attracts huge traffic. Tommy's blog is a fantastic example of the power social networking, keen ad placement, and thought provoking-reader commenting content. This blog IS A MUST READ for anyone watching the real estate market and industry from novice to cutting edge professionals.
6. Brad Andersohn activerain.com/blogs/bandersohn : Brad is a title rep with fantastic advice, free information, as well as market analysis. This is a very valuable site for both homeowners as well as Realtors looking for answers. Brad writes about a broad scope of industry news as well as his specialty title insurance. Comprehensive and instructive in nature, Brad's blog on Active Rain provides answers from a trusted industry professional at no cost. Thetone is everything the blogosphere is about: share information, be honest, provide value.
7. Brasschecktv.com: For the conspiracy theorist in us all, this site provides a mountain of video on every type of conspiracy under the sun. From 9/11 to JFK, brasscheck has historical and vital documents which provide a living breathing record source that is easy to navigate, access, and utilize. If you really want to know the truth check out Jordan Maxwell. (No Pictures Available)
8. Joe Firmage www.firmage.org : Joe Firmage is a Silicon Valley legend who believes in the unbelievable, accomplishes the unthinkable, and stands by his principles like no other before him. A boy-wonder, Joe built US Web and then left the Valley after proclaiming his belief in UFOs and many other concepts scoffed at by his peers.
Firmage's current project is to build the world's largest network of free information portals that are manned by the most brilliant minds in each field:
". . . an Internet-based visual navigation system for scientific knowledge, experience, and exploration, built upon a rich-media collaborative publishing system."
The portals will not be used to generate advertising revenue thus they will remain objective and open to analysis without the dirty hands of self loathing, self importance, and self indulgent American media tainting the information.
9. Tom Voight zodiackiller.com: Although this is not a traditional blog, my friend Tom Voight (son to the writer) site added over 1,200 pages in 2007. Tom writes his own copy and currently runs what is considered the highest authority on the Zodiac Killer in the world. His site garners upwards of 2 MILLION visits per month. Recently a English tabloid claimed that idiotic Brittany Spears is a regular reader of the site.
This site is super rich with content, forums, and social networking having to do with the long time hunt for the Zodiac. If you were a Bay Area native and lived through this terrible and frightening time ( I am and remember the Zodiac) then this site clarifies and focuses on what is known to this point today.
10. Blogosphere: The collection of blog authors around the globe who diligently and willingly produce content day in and day out. People who share their expertise, share tips, provide How to guides, and inform readers. Authors who express themselves by giving first and asking second.
To my fellow bloggers-we are the new generation of media. The old guard media is finally under attack and losing the war for readership. "Citizen journalism" is winning the war with our weapon of choice "radical transparency." We are beholden to no corporations, no conglomerates, no undue influences. We ARE the PEOPLE, writing for THE PEOPLE, standing TOGETHER to DELIVER OUR MESSAGE.
Honorable Mention: Walt Goshert's Marketing blog has fantastic tips and inspirational messages and Gorilla Sushi a entertaining blog written by committee that has unique content from scientific experiments to comedy.
Peace in the New Year and Best Wishes to all!


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"The heart of hospitality is about creating space for someone to feel seen and heard and loved. It's about declaring your table a safe zone, a place of warmth and nourishment."
You don't have to be a great cook of fancy food in order to have people over for a meal…trust me, I've been doing it for years! Even though I don't love cooking like some people do, I have always been committed to the family dinner because it works like glue in our lives. There's something about breaking bread and sipping wine and enjoying conversation with family, friends, or colleagues that is more than the sum total of its various parts. Whatever age your children are, whatever your home looks like, whatever you can or can't cook (Uber eats?), being committed to at least one meal together everyday as a household and having guests often, will bring tremendous blessing to your life. Hospitality in my mind has always been about being welcoming and real and being 'present over perfect' which also happens to be the title of Niequist's next book (Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living). I think I will read it but the title is almost enough already.
Shauna Niequist brings a down-to-earth perspective in her book Bread and Wine. She makes herself vulnerable with the funny and honest stories she tells about her own life with themes of hospitality, spirituality, community, food, friends, family, infertility, love, and shame, AND there is a recipe included at the end of every chapter! I loved this book and read it slowly, trying out her comforting and easy recipes along the way, many of which have already become favourites and are simple enough to memorize and/or tweak to your own tastes.
Pull up a chair, pour yourself a glass of wine, and enjoy the conversation at Niequist's table!


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Review one
You know what Mazzy Star sounds like? This is that.
Review two, where I meet my word count
In the ninth episode of The Simpsons' twenty-third season – 2012's flash-forward 'Holidays of Future Passed' – there's a scene in which Homer visits a cryogenically frozen Abe and awakens him to wish him a Happy Christmas. Naturally Abe's mind is frozen at the same point as his body, so upon reawakening he continues with one of his cantankerous rants. It's a recycled joke, first used way back in season six with Mr. Burns during 'Lisa's Wedding' (an episode which flashes forward to the distant future of 2010, those of you who like feeling old), and by no means one of the best in this episode. It is a neat allegory for the episode itself though: a warm, heartfelt and funny one that could have been made at any point during the faded show's Nineties heyday.
It's also a slightly more torturous analogy for Mazzy Star's new album Seasons of Your Day. More than 17 years have passed since the glorious Among My Swan, the last of three gorgeous albums the full band put out first time around. Not that you – or apparently they – would know it listening to this record. If the 2011 double a-side 'Common Burn/Lay Myself Down' suggested that the band had no intention of doing anything other than picking up where they left off, Seasons of Your Day confirms it; opening track 'In The Kingdom' even kicks off with the same organ sound as Among My Swan's closer 'Look On Down From The Bridge'.
It's probably worth remembering that whilst they were consistently a very, very good band, even their best and best-loved record So Tonight That I Might See isn't held in quite the same Nineties nostalgic perfection esteem as, say, The Bends, Different Class or Summerteeth. At their best though, when Hope Sandoval's gorgeous whiskeyed voice was brought to the fore and backed by David Roback's druggy slide guitar, they were sublime. Unsurprisingly, the same is the case on this album, with the smoky, bluesy numbers such as 'California' and the Bert Jansch-featuring 'Spoon' standing out as highlights. 'Lay Myself Down' sounds like a dream-gaze (shut up, that's a thing) take on The Stereophonics' 'I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio' but is surprisingly giddy in its beauty.
Interestingly there seems to be a heavy Led Zeppelin influence on the album, with much of the slide guitar work reminiscent of Jimmy Page's swampier, Mississippi Delta numbers. The acoustic guitar chord progression that opens 'California' has that same dangerous aesthetic as 'That's The Way', whilst closing track 'Flying Low' could fit seamlessly on to Physical Graffiti. It's these moments though, where Roback is allowed to indulge further at the expense of the rest of the band's contributions – I still have no idea which bits are Colm O'Ciosoig after a dozen listens or so – and Sandoval's wonderful-as-ever vocals, that weigh the album down a little. It was the economy of that soft, fuzzy guitar that made 'Fade Into You' such a perfect track, and such restraint wouldn't have gone amiss here.
Reverb-heavy dream pop music is as ubiquitous as online Game of Thrones spoilers these days, but then when they last recorded together Mazzy Star was 15 years or so ahead of the game. Ultimately then no criticism can be afforded them for creating an album that's probably as good as any you'll hear in the genre this year though. But despite Mazzy Star sounding as good as they always have, Seasons Of Your Day only goes to show that the rest of the world has finally caught up with them.
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While You're Waiting For… And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini's new novel And the Mountains Echoed tells family stories of loss and love from multiple points of view. There is a long waiting list for this book at the library, so here are some ideas for other books you might enjoy reading while you wait.
The obvious first choices are Hosseini's other popular and well received novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both stories are set in Afghanistan, the author's native land, and reveal the impact the country's political turmoil has upon its people, while focusing on more intimate stories of friendship and family.
If you have already read Hosseini's other titles you might try The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman. This novel is also set in Afghanistan and follows the difficult life of Darya in the mid nineteenth century in a small village. This is a heart wrenching, yet ultimately redeeming story of a woman discovering her value.
An author that has much of the same appeal as Hosseini is Jhumpa Lahiri.
Her novels and short story collections focus on families of Indian heritiage, many recent immigrants, and the difficulties and triumphs they encounter. Try her popular novel The Namesake or her collection of short stories The Unaccustomed Earth.
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar was short listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Nine-year-old Suleiman's father has spoken out against Quaddafi's Libyan regime. Through the son's eyes we see the impact this has upon his family, as well as the regime's affect upon other families.
Other titles of interest might include Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy follows three generations of a family during tumultuous times in Egypt. The series begins with Palace Walk introducing tyrannical father al-Sayyid Ahmad, his timid wife and his rebellious children, providing insight into Cairo society at the end of World War 1. Palace of Desire and Sugar Street complete the trilogy.


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Shrine dedicated to Shroud of Turin
Man has spent more than 40 years collecting art, documents
The Shroud of Turin remains one of the most curious of all religious artifacts, with a faint image of a man many believe to be the body of the crucified Jesus Christ.
You soon can explore the mystery more deeply when what reportedly is the world's third-largest collection of Shroud-related items goes on display at the new National Shrine of the Holy Shroud in Wabash, about an hour southwest of Fort Wayne.
"The Shroud is the single-most studied artifact in the history of humanity," said Richard Orareo, who developed the collection over more than 40 years of searching. He hopes to open the shrine in May.
Orareo, a Boston-area native and resident until his recent move to Wabash, said his items form the largest Shroud-related collection in the United States. He said the collection probably ranks as the third largest in the world behind the collections of the Museum of the Holy Shroud in Turin, Italy, and the House of Savoy – the former Italian royal family – in Switzerland.
The Shroud was held for centuries by the House of Savoy, Orareo said. It was willed to the Catholic Church when the last king died in exile in the 1980s.
It now is housed at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, but rarely goes on display.
Scientists and others have debated for decades whether the Shroud contains images of the front and back of Jesus' body after his crucifixion, commemorated on Good Friday. Testing has not proved or disproved it.
Orareo contacted the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend about his plans to open the Shroud shrine because Wabash is in this diocese. He had not received a response as of Monday.
But after being contacted by The News-Sentinel, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades said via email, "The museum on the Shroud of Turin looks like it will be an interesting exhibit for many to learn about this mysterious and remarkable image."
Orareo, 75, became interested in the Shroud as a young adult in his late 20s or early 30s.
Raised Catholic and of Italian heritage, he happened to see a television show on the Shroud of Turin one day while at home.
At the end of the program, viewers were invited to send in a self-addressed, stamped envelope if they wanted to receive a photo of the Shroud. Orareo did, and when the photo arrived, the envelope also contained a list of a few books that offered more information about the Shroud.
Orareo then set out to collect books and other information about the Shroud, as well as artwork that depicts it.
He purchased his first piece of Shroud art for $75 in an antique store within a quarter-mile of his home. Over the next four decades, he took many trips to Europe to buy Shroud-related items and amassed a collection valued at $500,000, he said.
The collection displayed in Wabash will include more than 1,000 books, journals, periodicals and documents, he said. He has more than 100 framed pieces of art and a few relics, including a tiny fragment of the Shroud.
"I'm still collecting," he said. "I'm always searching for things on the Internet. Actually, eBay has been a great source."
Orareo had been looking for some time for a place to house and display his collection.
He originally hoped to donate it to the museum of a U.S. Catholic university, but none showed interest, he said. The Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization for Catholic men, also declined to incorporate the collection into a building purchased in Washington, D.C.
Deciding to display the collection himself, Orareo began searching for a building and saw the Wabash location on a commercial real estate website.
He bought it at auction in late June.
The building, which was constructed in 1936 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built as a movie studio by Mark Honeywell, a Wabash native and founder of what is now the Honeywell corporation, Orareo said. Honeywell made movies in the 1930s as a hobby.
It later served as the clubhouse for the Wabash Country Club, whose golf course adjoins the 7-acre property, and then the Studio Eleven restaurant, which went out of business, Orareo said.
The four-story, Tudor-style structure features Indiana limestone on some of the exterior, grand interior oak woodwork and leaded-glass windows.
Orareo has had contractors working since November on repair and renovation of the building. Big-ticket items include bringing the electrical and plumbing systems up to current building code, and upgrading the heating system.
Orareo would say only that he has invested "a lot" financially in the project.
"I don't want to know what the figures are for the restoration," he added, chuckling.
He also established a nonprofit, ecumenical organization to own and manage the shrine and museum.
He expects it to attract people from all over Indiana, as well as from surrounding areas, such as Ohio. He believes many visitors will leave inspired in their faith.
"It is the Gospel accounts of the Passion, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ – illustrated," he said of the Shroud. "If they grasp that from a visit to the museum, then it will have a tremendous spiritual impact."

 Shroud on TV

What: Shortly before resigning, Pope Benedict XVI reportedly approved the Shroud of Turin being shown on television Saturday. It coincides with the Church's "Year of Faith" theme this year and the 40th anniversary of the first TV exposition of the Shroud on Nov. 23, 1973.
When: Many reports state no time; possibly 12:15 p.m. Saturday Fort Wayne time.
Where: Italian public TV channel Rai 1, www.rai.tv. Look for program "A sua immagine – Sindone: i segni della Passione" ("In His Image – Shroud: the signs of the Passion"). Or try www.youtube.com.


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Calif. police kill dog in videotaped shooting
A Southern California police officer fatally shot a Rottweiler that lunged at officers arresting its master.
The Torrance Daily Breeze ( https://bit.ly/14KWfPB ) says the videotaped shooting occurred Sunday after police surrounded a home where a gunman reportedly robbed two people.
Police arrested a bystander they say refused to turn down blaring car music during the incident. A cellphone video, posted on YouTube, shows the dog leaping out of the car window and lunging at officers who handcuffed its master. It's shot four times.
Leon Rosby spent the night in jail on suspicion of obstructing officers.
Rosby, who has a criminal history and a current lawsuit against police, say they needlessly killed his dog. His lawyer, Michael Gulden, says the incident will be added to the lawsuit.
Police are investigating the shooting.
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The backend runs in a KVM virtual machine. The host OS is Ubuntu 10.04 64bit server. The guest OS is Mythbuntu 10.10 32 bit. The guest network adapter is bridged to the main LAN.
An HDHomeRun dual tuner with an antenna is used.
Host Hardware:
- Asus M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G Micro ATX Motherboard
- AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 Brisbane 2.3GHz Socket AM2 Processor
- G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 Memory
- Seagate PATA 7200.8 200GB boot drive
- SansDigital TR5M-B eSATA Port Multiplier External Enclosure
- 5x Seagate 2TB 5900RPM drives ST32000542AS
- These are configured as a RAID 5 using the Linux MD tools
The guest VM is configured with two virtual hard disks. The boot disk is 6GB and resides on the boot drive for the host. The second is a 300GB disk stored on the large external array. The host and guest boot disks are ext4. The host and guest data disks are xfs.
I tried mounting the array on the guest using samba, but got very poor performance and weird errors. The current setup actually works pretty well despite being in a VM.
Currently I use an XBMC system as a frontend. It is capable of playing back the shows and skipping commercials. Mythweb is used for recording scheduling.
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Time: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Alonso Family Room, Student Life Multicultural Center
Say Her Name is an initiative of the Student Life Multicultural Center. The group offers an affirming space where women of diverse cultural backgrounds can connect and celebrate their unique perspectives and experiences at the intersection of race and gender.
Past conversations have included explorations of gender equality, stress management, leadership development, race relations, body image, sexuality & healthy relationships, and day to day experiences at Ohio State. What will come up next? It's up to you! Join us in our lively, open discussions!
Say Her Name is open to woman-identified undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
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Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Federal Reserve System, IHS, Nariman Behravesh, National Association of Realtors, New York, Vincent Reinhart
Reference – Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will leave behind an economy poised to record its biggest advance in almost a decade when he makes his anticipated departure from the central bank early next year.
Growth will accelerate to 3 percent or more in 2014 after averaging an annualized 2.1 percent during the first four years of the recovery, according to projections by forecasting firms Moody's Analytics Inc. and Macroeconomic Advisers in St. Louis. That would be the fastest rate of expansion since at least 2005, the year before Bernanke became central bank chief.
He has "navigated the economy and the financial system through one of the darkest periods," said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's in West Chester, Pennsylvania. "Now we're starting to see some sunshine breaking through."
As the Fed celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding this year, confidence in the sustainability of the expansion is mounting. The stock market is surging, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index up 15 percent. Consumer optimism is hovering near a five-year high, according to the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index, and April was the fifth consecutive month that home values advanced more than 10 percent year over year, based on data from the National Association of Realtors.
Fiscal fears are fading. The Congressional Budget Office estimated on May 14 that the federal budget deficit will shrink to $642 billion in the year ending Sept. 30, the smallest shortfall in five years.
Departure Anticipated
While the 59-year-old Bernanke hasn't said whether he wants to remain as Fed chief when his current term expires in January, a majority of investors believe he will depart, according to the latest Bloomberg Global Poll. A third of those surveyed expect he'll be succeeded by Fed Vice ChairmanJanet Yellen, 66, the biggest vote getter in the May 14 poll of investors, analysts and traders who are Bloomberg subscribers.
A step-up to a 3 percent growth "channel" from 2 percent will make it much easier for the U.S. to tackle longer-term issues facing the country, said Vincent Reinhart, a former director of monetary affairs at the central bank.
"Are equity prices fairly valued right now? Can the Fed exit gracefully from quantitative easing? Is the fiscal position of the U.S. sustainable?" asked Reinhart, now chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley in New York. "If growth is picking up and we're on a 3 percent trend for a while, those things all work out. If we're not, then those things are much harder."
Dropping Joblessness
The strengthening expansion will push unemployment down and stock prices up. Zandi sees the jobless rate dropping to 6.7 percent at the end of 2014 from 7.5 percent now. At the same time, the S&P 500 will rise to 1,900, David Kostin, chief U.S. equity strategist for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York, said in a research report last month. The stock gauge stood at1,640.42 (SPX) at 4 p.m. in New York on June 3.
"You are seeing a recovery firing on more cylinders: housing, bank lending, the job market, confidence," said James Paulsen, the Minneapolis-based chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management, which oversees more than $340 billion. While this doesn't mean the growth rate will get a lot faster, it does signal "the recovery has gotten broader" and people "are more confident" it will last.
Cyclical stocks, those that particularly benefit from an expanding economy, probably will outpace the S&P 500 in the second half of this year, he said. These include "industrials, materials, technology and financials."
Deserve Credit
Bernanke and his Fed colleagues deserve a lot of credit for the upswing, said Robert Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon LLC, an economic advisory firm in Washington.
"Uneven as it is, we are seeing a recovery in the U.S. which draws largely on correct policy, particularly monetary policy, and on the underlying strengths of the economy," said Shapiro, a former undersecretary in the Commerce Department.
The Fed's 2009 stress tests of commercial-bank balance sheets were critical in restoring faith in the financial industry and helping clear the way for growth, according to Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Inc. (IHS) in Lexington, Massachusetts.
And the low interest rates the central bank has engineered through its easy monetary policies play a key role in turning the housing market around, Shapiro added. Sales of previously owned homes climbed in April to the highest level in more than three years, and the median price rose 11 percent to $192,800, the highest since August 2008, from $173,700 in April 2012, the Realtors association reported May 22.
Production Shortfall
Still, the economy is far from full health — a fact that Bernanke himself has acknowledged more than once. The April jobless rate of 7.5 percent was 2.5 percentage points higher than the rate at the start of the 18-month recession in December 2007, according to Labor Department data. Industrial production, as measured by the Fed in inflation-adjusted terms, also remains short of 2007 levels, and manufacturing unexpectedly contracted in May at the fastest pace in four years, based on the Institute for Supply Management's factory index.
"The patient got very sick," said Neal Soss, chief economist at Credit Suisse Group AG in New York and a one-time assistant to former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker. "The patient is clearly mending but probably isn't ready to run a sprint."
Former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder is concerned that another political standoff over raising the country's debt ceiling could undercut confidence later this year, he said in an interview. He sees the economy expanding 2 percent to 2.5 percent in 2014.
'Very Worried'
Blinder, a professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, also said he is "very worried" that financial markets will over-react to signs the Fed is pulling back on its stimulus to the economy and push interest rates sharply higher in response.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.12 percent at 5:00 p.m. in New York on June 3 from 1.93 percent on May 21, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader data. That's the day before Bernanke told Congress the Fed could scale back its monthly asset purchases if it were confident the recent improvement in the labor market will be sustained. The central bank currently is buying $85 billion of assets a month.
Yields have risen as confidence grows in the durability of the expansion. That optimism has been fed by the economy's ability, so far, to weather a federal-budget squeeze the CBO reckons will lop about 1.5 percentage points off growth this year through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases.
"A few months ago, I was on the pessimistic side, given the fiscal contraction," said Jeffrey Frankel, an economist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton. The recent "spate of good news" gives "me real hope that the economy is finally moving into higher gear."
Payroll Growth
Payrolls rose by an average 196,000 a month from January through April, compared with 183,000 in 2012, and Labor Department data to be released on June 7 will show a further 168,000 increase in May, according to the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Stuart Litwer, 51, a business analyst in Lilburn, Georgia, for a pharmaceuticals company, is among those feeling more optimistic about the outlook.
"I think it is getting better," he said. "Home prices are starting to pick up. The deficits are lower than they thought they would be."
Litwer recently bought a Lexus RX 350 sport-utility vehicle to replace a 13-year-old Honda Odyssey as his wife's main transportation, after he was close to paying off the loan on a 4 1/2-year-old Honda Accord he drives. "We didn't want to have two car payments at once," he explained.
Vehicle Sales
U.S. sales of automobiles and light-duty trucks rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 15.3 million in May, up from 14 million a year earlier, according to Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based Autodata Corp.
Responding to the stronger demand, Fiat SpA-controlled Chrysler Group LLC said on May 22 that three of its assembly plants and all except one of its engine, transmission and stamping factories will skip summer shutdown this year.
Nathan Sheets, the Fed's top international economist from 2007 until 2011, said the expansion is "nearing an inflection point."
"Headwinds that have restrained growth — deleveraging by households, lagging credit availability and labor-market weakness — are now abating," and "some powerful tailwinds have taken hold," said Sheets, who is now global head of international economics at Citigroup Inc. in New York. These include "the surprisingly strong recovery in the housing market – which supports the economy though a whole range of channels – – rising equity prices and robust consumer confidence."
Business Confidence
What needs to happen next is for businesses to grow more confident in the outlook and boost spending, Sheets and Morgan Stanley's Reinhart said.
Blinder, author of the recently published book "After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead," said he'd give Bernanke top marks for his handling of the economy since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. went bankrupt in September 2008.
The Fed chairman "was dealt a bad hand and he played it well," Reinhart added.
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