text:
Simple Tips For Receiving Much more From Your IPhone
No smartphone is even more common or properly understood than the Apple iPhone. There are a dozen items you can easily carry out with this phone, and a million apps it can help you with in your lifestyle. To obtain a take care of on the best opportunities, in to this post for plans on applying your iPhone to its most advantageous ability.
Touch and have any kind of one image on your iPhone screen, and you will certainly start in order to visit them dance. Someone can easily at that point shift them around, bunch them in to folders or also eliminate those that you do not desire. This is a simple means in order to maintain your screens coordinated and your applications set to utilize.
Someone can easily utilize your iPhone in order to store records rather of getting a motive on their own. The most reliable means to accomplish this is in order to acquire an inexpensive show called iPhoneDrive. Applying this show, you can easily save records to your phone then transfer the to your Macintosh at a later time.
If you're sending messages to pals who really don't utilize apples iphone themselves, bear in mind that longer messages will certainly acquire robbed 160-character assignments. Someone can easily always keep an eyeball on your messages' span by way of including a personality counter to iMessage. Just start the Configurations food list and head to "personage count" under "messages." With the counter allowed, you'll never ever must bother with a message getting shattered at a regrettable fact once more!
In order to promptly provide a specific appearance or sign in to your words, you can easily pull up a food list by way of managing the $ key. Someone will at once picture a food list that includes various currency symbolic representations, stretched out hyphens, upside down exclamation facts and lots of additional types. This is best for those who correspond with intercontinental contacts.
Usage itunes to obtain any kind of {media Touch and have any kind of one image on your iPhone screen, and you will certainly start in order to visit them dance. Someone can easily at that point shift them around, bunch them in to folders or also eliminate those that you do not desire. This is a simple means in order to maintain your screens coordinated and your applications set to utilize.
If you obtain your iPhone drenched, do not utilize a tresses clothing dryer to try and save it. In accomplishing so, you are just driving the dampness additionally down in to the equipment. Someone could really do more damage to your phone this means, as the liquid can short-circuit the deeper circuitry.
Don't fail in order to inspect for updates in order to your applications. Someone might believe that as soon as you obtain an app, that is actually the end of it. Make confident you inspect the revise section of your Application Shop or you run the risk of overlooking pest repairs or also supplemental attributes that app programmers provide after the application has certainly been discharged.
Piloting aficionados will certainly like this iPhone secret. First, you have to make certain that Location Solutions are allowed in the phone's Configurations application. Next, instruct Siri to ask Wolfram which flights are above. Siri is going to at that point utilize files from the Wolfram Leader hunt engine in order to deliver you with detailed data approximately any kind of close-by journey.
If you really don't desire anyone else in order to look by means of your phone you can easily lock it. All you must do is transform this element in the environments, then input a four digit passcode. This will certainly make it so that only individuals who understand this passcode is going to get easy access to your phone.
If you would like to require a photo promptly, double tap on your Home button. Also if the phone is secured this will certainly raise a little camera equipment image that will certainly enable you in order to start the camera equipment. Someone can easily at that point utilize the Edition Up button on your phone or headphones in order to snap the photograph!
There are a number of alternatives to carrying photographes with your iPhone. One of these helps you promptly snap a shot by way of just pressing a button. When you have actually placed your iPhone on your subject, merely squeeze the volume-up button on the position of the phone. This will certainly snap a photo without delay.
If your iphone freezes totally you perform get possibilities for receiving it going once more. First, you can easily require out the electric battery then change it and give it a go after that. If that does not work you can easily hold back the beginning and food list buttons at the identical time for about 10 seconds to obtain it to restart.
If you are not satisfied with the current environments of your iPhone, you can easily totally reset anything in order to the default environments that your phone had in the 1st area. This can easily be discovered under the overall section under environments, and will certainly help you to start fresh if you did one thing that you did not desire.
If your e-mails start to amass, at that point stop losing time and removing those messages one by way of one. This is actually rather easy to eliminate them simultaneously. Through visiting your inbox, merely click on the edit button and inspect all the e-mails you would like to eliminate. At that point merely strike the eliminate button, and they're all eliminated!
If you are weary of the ringtones given to you with your phone and desire fresh ones, you do not have to shell out money getting fresh ones. Instead, make your personal ringtones! There is an app phoned "Ringtone Application" and it is free of charge. Someone can easily carry clips of records you like and turn them in to a ringtone!
If you are troubled approximately marking your iPhone's glass, obtain a screen bodyguard and a situation for your equipment. Display screen bodyguards can easily always keep all but the inmost scratches from at any time involving your iPhone front screen, and a situation protects your iPhone's back glass and edges from getting shambled.
These are just a couple of the splendid items you can easily do with your phone. Programmers are striving fresh items every time, thus you will certainly get more to do in the times in order to come. Usage the techniques you have certainly just read to truly get the most from your fresh iPhone, and you will certainly seem like a long-lived pro.


text:
A group of 14 North Carolina environmental advocacy groups submitted a letter to Governor McCrory yesterday in which they urged him to veto two controversial bills advanced by polluters during the waning hours of the recently adjourned legislative session.
The letter describes the two bills as follows:
"House Bill 74 is a sixty-eight-page compilation of special interest handouts, some of which have already caught your attention. As you noted in your press conference on July 26th, the bill weakens standards that protect citizens, communities and gamelands from the impacts of landfills. Additionally, you pointed out that the bill strips local governments of control over the size and types of billboards that can be erected in a community….[Senate Bill 515] is the third delay of a much-needed and federally required clean up of Jordan Lake. The rules need a chance to bear results. Once implemented, wastewater plant upgrades and better stormwater management will reduce water pollution in Jordan Lake and the rivers and streams that feed into it. Several local governments have already invested a lot of time and money complying in good faith with the Jordan Lake rules, and Senate Bill 515 punishes them for making those investments. In addition, delaying the rules exposes upstream municipalities and developers to legal challenges for failure to adequately protect a resource that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has already found to be impaired."
Click here to read the entire letter as well as new survey results showing that strong public support of most North Carolinians for strong environmental protection laws.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Happy New Year Rob.....and all the tifosi who are regulars on this forum.
Going into the 2019 campaign, there are several drivers who will have to deal with a lot pressure when they get in the car.
Here at PlanetF1, we have drawn up a list of the five drivers who are under the most pressure going into the New Year.
Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso
The Russian returns in 2019. After just over a year off the grid, Daniil Kvyat will line up for Toro Rosso next year.
It will be his third stint with the team where he started his F1 career, back in 2014. After a year with the junior team, he moved up to the Red Bull team.
During his time with the Bulls he scored two podiums, but after a catalogue of errors, he was demoted back to the junior team.
Daniil Kvyat has hit Sebastian Vettel TWICE.#RussianGP #F1 #Seb5 pic.twitter.com/iKUBPeVjjj
Sebastian Vettel #5 (@sebvettelnews) May 1, 2016
Kvyat then spent another 18 months with Toro Rosso, before leaving the team after the 2017 US Grand Prix.
A year as development driver for the Scuderia, and the Torpedo is back in business with Toro Rosso.
Robert Kubica Williams
Another returnee to the Formula 1 grid in 2019 is Polish driver Robert Kubica.
However, unlike his Russian counterpart, Kubica last raced in F1 in 2010. Yes, 2010 Eight years ago.
The Pole has a race victory to his name, winning the 2008 Canadian GP, in what was BMW Saubers only victory in F1 as well.
However, he suffered severe damage to his right arm in a rally crash in 2011, which actually scuppered his chances of signing for Ferrari the year after.
He admitted this week that even he would have doubts about his return to the grid, but Williams have given him that shot, and he needs to prove his worth.
Lance Stroll Racing Point
Thanks to Daddys money, Lance Stroll will have a chance to prove himself in the midfield battle once more, with the new Racing Point F1 team.
The Canadian scored just six points in 2018 with Williams, as the Grove outfit struggled to get anything going with their FW41.
However, after his father led the consortium who bought out the Force India team in the summer, Stroll moves into the team.
He replaces Esteban Ocon, who has been tipped to win Championships, and will now serve as Mercedes reserve driver.
Stroll will have to show he can fight with team-mate Sergio Perez, but if not, Daddy owns it so
Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
It is not often that you would see a four-time World Champion on a list like this, but Sebastian Vettel is under pressure in 2019.
He claimed those four consecutive titles between 2010 and 2013 with Red Bull, but has gone without a title in his four seasons with the Scuderia.
He has been in the title fight over the last two seasons, but a series of mistakes saw him fall away in 2018.
Now, he comes under pressure from the young Monegasque starlet, Charles Leclerc, who impressed in his first season in F1.
Can Vettel beat Leclerc? And if so, will he challenge Lewis Hamilton for the Drivers Championship?
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
It is no surprise as to who is the most under pressure going into the 2019 season, as Valtteri Bottas already knows he will lose his seat if he doesnt perform.
Esteban Ocon is waiting in the wings as Mercedes reserve driver, and Bottas failed to win a race in 2018.
The Finn could have won in Azerbaijan had it not been for a puncture.
It's not how start but how you finish.
There is a rumour that Germany will have a F1 world championship in 2019, and it won't be the WCC.
Not starting a rumor but if Honda red bull challeng for podiums right at the start of the season straight away I would say the fia gave them info on merc and ferrari engines. Because I believe honda are still 2 seasons behind on hp and merc are still sandbagging there ultimate pace and were told to keep it interesting. The wheels were just them adding to there package and just put them out of reach for all teams on the grid as all teams will develop that this season.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Didn't Mercedes offered some help to Honda?
Don't know if they really did it but I've red something in the past like that.
Could just be the usual toto
Hero's come and go, but legends never die!
If Honda proves o k with less DNFs, Merc and Ferrari will have a tough time with R Bull. Even more so than 2018. I used to believe it was 80% the car the rest driver. Last season proved that wrong. Ferrari needed more than the 20% driver to get the best out of their great car. Or did the driver do less than 20% ? R Bull with all their 2018 success goes and change engines? Are they that confident their driver is that great to put them back to where they were or even closer to WDC, WCC ?
Just a reiteration of what some of us have been talking about at the end of the 2018 season; yes, Vettel holds most of the responsibility(I'd say 70%) but the rest is management and the pit wall.
"Ferrari should've done more to ease pressure on Vettel when his 2018 F1 title bid derailed, reckons one of the team's former test drivers - who feels Arrivabene is not 'sympathetic' enough to be a good team boss."
It's not how start but how you finish.
Burti thinks Vettel's mistake in Germany was a "really tiny mistake" ?
CFD data. Images(pic 1) looks to be the bottom of the car due to the wooden plank.
This is how the flow around the car will change with the new 2019 regulations of the Front Wing. The flow around the front wheel will be dirtier and will influence the rear part of the vehicle.
front view. Y250 vortex looks less pronounced in 2019 vs 2018.
rear view. Don't know how far back this is. Rear diffuser looks minimal in 2019 vs. 2018. IMO, this just looks like a repeat of what to expect with the outwash from the lead car.
It's not how start but how you finish.
[AutoBild] Honda hits a snag with its engine development for 2019 already. It has terminated its partnership with AVL(simulation and testing company). Apparently there is a disagreement with AVL and Honda engineers. Ferrari also uses AVL. This has and will prevent Honda from running its PU at full capacity.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Is it March yet?
Disappointed Since 2010
I'm hoping that the SF1000 proves to be a championship winning car, maybe even a BEAST!!!
I heard Ferrari stopped working with AVL some years ago, end of 2017 I think.
Fast forward to 2018 with Toro and nothing of vibration or leaking. Maybe adapting to the RedBull chassis and mounting points me thinks. They've got a little over 30 days to work the bugs out.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Forget about others, I can't find a single piece of news on Ferrari's 2019 challenger. Last year, there were lot of "sources" with info about Ferrari's 2018 car. Where are all those sources now? Any thing about optimism with Ferrari for something they might have gained with 2019 car? Or we will have to wait till launch?
Motorsport Italy: The 2019 Ferrari car might have a longer wheelbase due to the larger fuel tank (5kg more fuel is allowed), Mercedes will try to work on the rear end to keep the same wheelbase length as in 2018 despite the larger fuel tank.
"Ferrari project leader Cardile and chief aerodynamicist Sanchez have pushed for the 2019 car to have a slightly longer transmission, moving the engine away from the rear wheels and have an even more extreme rear end."
"The new radiators are arranged in a different way, thus improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the car.
In short, the 5kg more fuel addition could have affected the 2019 Ferrari car more than you think."
Ferrari 2019: passo più lungo non solo per i 5 kg di benzina in più
It's not how start but how you finish.
Mercedes: After Toto Wolff's alarm, found a dozen more horses on the engine.
The 2019 power unit is the result of a new project and at the beginning of the development work on the new engine the results were not too exciting. Now it seems that the engineers led by Andy Cowell have found a dozen more horses on the 6-cylinder world champion.
Mercedes: dopo l'allarme di Toto Wolff, trovata una dozzina di cavalli in più sul motore
It's not how start but how you finish.
An extra 40 hp.has to help big time in quali. for that 1st place spot on the grid. Then it's up to the driver. I read there's a driver that did 5 wins, never from pole! I no longer believe it's 80% 20% car to driver with regards to who's on first. Seb had the car. R Bull had the driver. Merc had both together.


text:
PNC Park – Home Opener
I arrived at PNC Park around 10 AM this morning for the Pirates Home Opener. Amy came with me, but unfortunately, she had to work the game, so I don't have many pictures of my ballhawking today.
We walked to the stadium and were second in line behind Nick.
Nick and I caught for about 20 minutes on the Roberto Clemente bridge.
Afterwards, Nick and I headed down to the Riverwalk. While there, I was able to see seven balls in the sky heading towards the seats.
Eventually one of the balls bounced out of the stadium. I dove here to snag the ball.
I got a little dirty, but it wasn't too noticeable.
Being on the board before going into the stadium is never a bad thing.
Upon entering the stadium, I heard Evan Meek call out to me. I thought he said, "Jabs!" but I'm not sure. Anyhow, he came over and shook my hand and asked how the offseason was and if there was anything new going on. He asked if we were doing the Ballhawk League again, and I said yeah.
A minute later, Evan fielded a ball and turned and tired a strike to me for ball #2.
Thanks Evan!
The Pirates players were wearing pullovers so I wasn't able to identify all of them. An unidentified righty hit a home run into section 134. The ball settled under a bleacher and I scooped it up for ball #3.
Ball #4 was chased down under the Rotunda. Again, no clue who hit it.
My fifth ball was another righty Pirates batter. I snagged it off of the concrete after it bounced around a bit. There were a few other gloves reaching for the ball, but I came away with it.
I decided to head over to right field and center field at 11:30. It paid off. I found Ball #6, #7, and #8 there.
The Rockies had come out to hit in the meantime.
My ninth ball was glove tricked in left-center field.
I then noticed another ball in foul territory.
I ran over and glove tricked it for ball #10.
Five minutes later, another ball was there.
I went back to that area and glove tricked that one too for ball #11
Ball #12 was tossed to me by Rockies ace pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez. It helped that I had Rockies gear on and asked for the ball in Spanish.
After snagging the ball from Jimenez, I noticed two balls in the ivy. I had forgotten my Cleveland stick, so I went to the Janitors closet and got a squeegee and prodded the ball closer to the fence so I could reach it.
It was in terrible shape.
That was it for batting practice. The Rockies batting practice was very poor. Not many home runs were hit at all.
The game was rather uneventful. The Pirates lost 7-1 and played sloppy defense.
Highlights from the game were the introductions, where the players line up on the baselines:
The Pirates side:
There was a flyover after the National Anthem.
Here was the view from my seat, where I sat for an inning.
It was really crowded in left field, so I went there to read the paper for a bit.
One of the non-baseball highlights was a 'streaker' who took to the field in the ninth inning:
He came from the left field stands and made it across the whole field.
Despite the Pirates loss, Opening Day was productive from a ballhawking standpoint.
Here are the balls I snagged today.
And the sweet spots:
Season: 22 balls (8 hit, 4 thrown, 7 device, 3 found)
Games: 3 games
Average: 7.33 balls per game
Career: 1,144 balls
Attendance: 39,219


text:
Forty years ago, Dick Clark's New Year's Eve special was created to give young people an alternative to a seasonal institution, bandleader Guy Lombardo.
Now Clark's annual show is the institution.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Happy New Year! Stars Ring In 2011 Coast-To-Coast!
U.S. & World
"New Year's Rockin' Eve," with Clark and Ryan Seacrest, pays tribute to its own history during a sprawling, nearly six-hour program Saturday night. The celebration takes up all of prime time on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of local news, then comes back on the air for two and a quarter hours that includes the ball dropping in New York City's Times Square to mark the beginning of 2012.
"I'm looking forward to it being 2:15 (AM on Sunday)," said Larry Klein, who has been producing the show since 1977.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: New Year's Coast To Coast: Stars Ring In 2010!
Clark's special shows no sign of slippage, after collecting its biggest audience in five years last year. The 18.8 million people who were watching ABC during the last half-hour of 2010 and first half-hour of 2011 were more than NBC and Fox's audience combined, the Nielsen ratings company said.
The show isn't designed to be a recap of the year in music, but that's almost what it turns out to be, Klein said.
In all, 29 separate musical performances are planned.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Stars Celebrate New Year's Eve 2009!
This year's headliner is Lady Gaga, who gets the prime slot in Times Square in the moments before midnight. Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Hot Chelle Rae, Florence + The Machine, Gym Class Heroes, Nicki Minaj and Taio Cruz are among the other featured performers from New York and Los Angeles. Beyonce is scheduled to perform from London, where she's on tour.
It may not seem so from that lineup, but Klein said booking the show is a challenge because performers frequently are offered some of their most lucrative gigs of the year on New Year's Eve. What Clark has to offer is exposure to a large audience not often seen this side of "American Idol."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: New Year's Eve Around The World 2009
And it's unique. Klein remembers Jennifer Lopez's exhilaration a few years back after performing in Times Square despite wearing a skimpy outfit and being pelted by freezing rain.
"No matter how much I can try to explain to people what it's like to be in Times Square live, I can't do it justice," he said. "You have to experience it once in your life."
During the first two hours, ABC will show clips of performances from past New Year's Eve specials, which Klein describes as a fascinating trip through hair, clothing and musical styles. Stars of Clark's first "Rockin' Eve" included Al Green, Helen Reddy and Three Dog Night.
New Year's Eve also marks the annual appearance of Clark, once a ubiquitous presence on television. A stroke makes it difficult for Clark to communicate, but he doesn't want to miss this show, Klein said.
"Dick is still Dick Clark," he said. "His communication is a little bit more difficult, but he's still involved in contemporary music. He listens to a lot, he knows a lot, he's still involved in the production. This is very important to him. This is one of his children."
Among the other big broadcasters, NBC and Fox will both be in Times Square on New Year's Eve, too. CBS hands its late-night schedule to its local affiliates.
Highlights of other New Year's Eve offerings:
— Carson Daly is host of a two-hour NBC special, sandwiching local news. The show is heavy on NBC personalities, with a comedy performance from Jimmy Fallon, a review of the year in music from NBC News anchor Brian Williams and performances by Fallon's "Late Night" band, the Roots, and Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton of "The Voice."
— Comic Rodney Carrington and "Pawn Stars" Rick Harrison and Austin "Chumlee" Russell host "American Country New Year's Eve Live" on Fox. Country stars Toby Keith and Joe Nichols are among the performers in a 90-minute special that switches between New York and LasVegas.
— MTV's Times Square studio is the site of that network's New Year's Eve party, with Demi Lovato and "Teen Wolf" actor Tyler Posey as hosts. Lovato, Selena Gomez, J Cole and Mac Miller are among the performers.
— After 12 hours of counting down the year's top music videos, BET presents its "106 & Party" special at 11 PM.
— Two news networks are also marking the occasion with specials. Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly are live in Times Square, and the network will have performances from country artists Big & Rich and Trace Adkins. On CNN, Anderson Cooper and comic Kathy Griffin have developed their own strange kind of chemistry, and will be back. Promises the outspoken Griffin: "By the time I'm done with him, Anderson's hair is going to be even more gray."
Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Related Content from AccessHollywood.com:
PLAY IT NOW: Access Hollywood Live: Trim Those Extra Holiday Pounds Away
PLAY IT NOW: Access Exclusive: Selena Gomez Dishes On Her New Fragrance
More from Access: [ Justin Bieber Jennifer Lopez Ryan Seacrest ]


text:
We all talk a good game when it comes to the cars we want manufacturers to make, but would you actually take the plunge?
Welcome to Morning Would, where we present you with some of the most desirable, controversial cars ever built and ask what you would do to drive one.
There is hardly a shortage of compact super-sports sedans in the market today. The BMW M3, Audi S4, Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, and Lexus IS-F are all vying for your hard earned 60-70 thousands dollars. Is it wise for Volvo to try and get a slice of this small pie? Would you make it worth their while?
Since we want to have a conversation everyone can participate in, let's say that you actually have the scratch and want one of these cars. Are you really going to choose an S60 Polestar over the incredible M3 or the unbelievable C63? Even the IS-F is appealing in its odd little way. Then again, 508 horsepower, AWD, and a 6-speed manual in sheep's clothing sounds pretty good…
Would you take your dollars and convert them to kronor for this "Rebel Blue" S60 Polestar? Let us know why or why not in Kinja.
Photo Credit: Volvo


text:
Index-only scans
Index-only scans are a major performance feature added to Postgres 9.2. They allow certain types of queries to be satisfied just by retrieving data from indexes, and not from tables. This can result in a significant reduction in the amount of I/O necessary to satisfy queries.
During a regular index scan, indexes are traversed, in a manner similar to any other tree structure, by comparing a constant against Datums that are stored in the index. Btree-indexed types must satisfy the trichotomy property; that is, the type must follow the reflexive, symmetric and transitive law. Those laws accord with our intuitive understanding of how a type ought to behave anyway, but the fact that an index's physical structure reflects the relative values of Datums actually mandates that these rules be followed by types. Btree indexes contain what are technically redundant copies of the column data that is indexed.
PostgreSQL indexes do not contain visibility information. That is, it is not directly possible to ascertain if any given tuple is visible to the current transaction, which is why it has taken so long for index-only scans to be implemented. Writing an implementation with a cheap but reliable visibility look-aside proved challenging.
The implementation of the feature disproportionately involved making an existing on-disk structure called the visibility map crash-safe. It was necessary for the structure to reliably (and inexpensively) indicate visibility of index tuples - to do any less would imply the possibility of index-only scans producing incorrect results, which of course would be absolutely unacceptable.
The fact that indexes only contain data that is actually indexed, and not other unindexed columns, naturally precludes using an index-only scan when the other columns are queried (by appearing in a query select list, for example).
- 1 Example queries where index-only scans could be used in principle
- 2 Index-only scans and index-access methods
- 3 The Visibility Map (and other relation forks)
- 4 Crash safety, recovery and the visibility map
- 5 Covering indexes
- 6 Interaction with HOT
- 7 What types of queries may be satisfied by an index-only scan?
- 8 Is "count(*)" much faster now?
- 9 Why isn't my query using an index-only scan?
- 10 Summary
Example queries where index-only scans could be used in principle
Assuming that there is some (non-expression) index on a column (typically a primary key):
select count(*) from categories;
Assuming that there is a composite index on (1st_indexed_col, 2nd_indexed_col):
select 1st_indexed_col, 2nd_indexed_col from categories;
Postgres 9.2 added the capability of allowing indexed_col op ANY(ARRAY[...]) conditions to be used in plain index scans and index-only scans. Previously, such conditions could only be used in bitmap index scans. For this reason, it is possible to see an index-only scan for these ScalarArrayOpExpr queries:
select indexed_col from categories where indexed_col in (4, 5, 6);
Index-only scans and index-access methods
Index-only scans are not actually limited to scans on btree indexes. SP-GiST operator classes may support index-only scans.
postgres=# select amname, amcanreturn from pg_am where amcanreturn != 0; amname | amcanreturn --------+-------------- btree | btcanreturn spgist | spgcanreturn (2 rows)
SP-GiST opclasses may or may not imply that the actual on-disk index is "lossy"; there will be full redundant copies of Datums stored only for certain operator classes, and so index-only scans are only actually supported by some SP-GiST indexes. Support for additional index AMs will probably follow in a future release of PostgreSQL - GiST and GIN operator classes like btree_gist and btree_gin, or in 9.3, SP-GiST's "quad tree over a range" opclass, are not lossy, and so could in principle support index-only scans. Also, even with lossy indexes, it is still possible in principle to solve "select count(*)" queries, which may follow in a future release.
The Visibility Map (and other relation forks)
The Visibility Map is a simple data structure associated with every heap relation (table). It is a "relation fork"; an on-disk ancillary file associated with a particular relation (table or index). Note that index relations (that is, indexes) do not have a visibility map associated with them. The visibility map is concerned with tracking which tuples are visible to all transactions at a high level. Tuples from one transaction may or may not be visible to any given other transaction, depending on whether or not their originating transaction actually committed (yet, or ever, if the transaction aborted), and when that occurred relative to our transaction's current snapshot. Note that the exact behaviour depends on our transaction isolation level. Note also that it is quite possible for one transaction to see one physical tuple/set of values for one logical tuple, while another transaction sees other, distinct values for that same logical tuple, because, in effect, each of the two transaction has a differing idea of what constitutes "now". This is the core idea of MVCC. When there is absolute consensus that all physical tuples (row versions) in a heap page are visible, the page's corresponding bit may be set.
Another relation fork that you may be familiar with is the freespace map. In contrast to the visibility map, there is a FSM for both heap and index relations (with the sole exception of hash index relations, which have none).
The purpose of the freespace map is to quickly locate a page with enough free space to hold a tuple to be stored, or to determine if no such page exists and the relation has to be extended.
In PostgreSQL 8.4, the current freespace map implementation was added. It made the freespace map an on-disk relation fork. The previous implementation required administrators to guestimate the number of relations, and the required freespace map size for each, so that the freespace map existed only in a fixed allocation of shared memory. This tended to result in wasted space due to undersizing, as the core system's storage manager needlessly extended relations.
[peter@peterlaptop 12935]$ ls -l -h -a -rw-------. 1 peter peter 8.0K Sep 28 00:00 12910 -rw-------. 1 peter peter 24K Sep 28 00:00 12910_fsm -rw-------. 1 peter peter 8.0K Sep 28 00:00 12910_vm ***SNIP***
The FSM is structured as a binary tree [1]. There is one leaf node per heap page, with non-leaf nodes stores the maximum amount of free space for any of its children. So, unlike EXPLAIN output's node costs, the values are not cumulative.
The visibility map is a simpler structure. There is one bit for each page in the heap relation that the visibility map corresponds to.
The primary practical reason for having and maintaining the visibility map is to optimise VACUUM. A set bit indicates that all tuples on the corresponding heap page are known to be visible to all transactions, and therefore that vacuuming the page is unnecessary. Like the new freespace map implementation, the visibility map was added in Postgres 8.4.
The visibility map is conservative in that a set bit (1) indicates that all tuples are visible on the page, but an unset bit (0) indicates that that condition may or may not be true [2].
Crash safety, recovery and the visibility map
This involves WAL-logging setting a bit within the visibility map during VACUUM, and taking various special measures during recovery.
The Postgres write-ahead log is widely used to ensure crash-safety, but it is also intergral to the built-in Hot Standby/Streaming replication feature.
Recovery treats marking a page all-visible as a recovery conflict for snapshots that could still fail to see XIDs on that page. PostgreSQL may in the future try to soften this, so that the implementation simply forces index scans to do heap fetches in cases where this may be an issue, rather than throwing a hard conflict.
Covering indexes
Covering indexes are indexes creating for the express purpose of being used in index-only scans. They typically "cover" more columns than would otherwise make sense for an index, typically columns that are known to be part of particular expensive, frequently executed query's selectlist. PostgreSQL supports using just the first few columns of the index in a regular index scan if that is in the query's predicate, so covering indexes need not be completely useless for regular index scans.
Interaction with HOT
HOT (Heap-only tuples) is a major performance feature that was added in Postgres 8.3. This allowed UPDATES to rows (which, owing to Postgres's MVCC architecture, are implemented with a deletion and insertion of physical tuples) to only have to create a new physical heap tuple when inserting, and not a new index tuple, if and only if the update did not affect indexed columns.
With HOT, it became possible for an index scan to traverse a so-called HOT chain; it could get from the physical index tuple (which would probably have been created by an original INSERT, and related to an earlier version of the logical tuple), to the corresponding physical heap tuple. The heap tuple would itself contain a pointer to the next version of the tuple (that is, the tuple ctid), which might, in turn, have a pointer of its own. The index scan eventually arrives at tuple that is current according to the query's snapshot.
HOT also enables opportunistic mini-vacuums, where the HOT chain is "pruned".
All told, this performance optimisation has been found to be very valuable, particularly for OLTP workloads. It is quite natural that tuples that are frequently updated are generally not indexed. However, when considering creating a covering index, the need to maximise the number of HOT updates should be carefully weighed.
You can monitor the total proportion of HOT updates for each relation using this query.
postgres=# select n_tup_upd, n_tup_hot_upd from pg_stat_user_tables;
What types of queries may be satisfied by an index-only scan?
Aside from the obvious restriction that queries cannot reference columns that are not indexed by a single index in order to use an index-only scan, the need to visit the heap where all tuples are not known to be visible is relatively expensive. The planner weighs this factor heavily when considering an index-only scan, and in general the need to ensure that the bulk of the table's tuples have their visibility map bits set is likely to restrict index-only scans' usefulness to queries against infrequently updated tables.
It is not necessary for all bits to be set; index-only scans may "visit the heap" if that is necessary. Index-only scans are something of a misnomer, in fact - index mostly scans might be a more appropriate appellation. An explain analyze involving an index-only scan will indicate how frequently that occurred in practice.
postgres=# explain analyze select count(*) from categories; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aggregate (cost=12.53..12.54 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.046..0.046 rows=1 loops=1) -> Index Only Scan using categories_pkey on categories (cost=0.00..12.49 rows=16 width=0) (actual time=0.018..0.038 rows=16 loops=1) Heap Fetches: 16 Total runtime: 0.108 ms (4 rows)
As the number of heap fetches (or "visits") that are projected to be needed by the planner goes up, the planner will eventually conclude that an index-only scan isn't desirable, as it isn't the cheapest possible plan according to its cost model. The value of index-only scans lies wholly in their potential to allow us to elide heap access (if only partially) and minimise I/O.
Is "count(*)" much faster now?
A traditional complaint made of PostgreSQL, generally when comparing it unfavourably with MySQL (at least when using the MyIsam storage engine, which doesn't use MVCC) has been "count(*) is slow". Index-only scans *can* be used to satisfy these queries without there being any predicate to limit the number of rows returned, and without forcing an index to be used by specifying that the tuples should be ordered by an indexed column. However, in practice that isn't particularly likely.
It is important to realise that the planner is concerned with minimising the total cost of the query. With databases, the cost of I/O typically dominates. For that reason, "count(*) without any predicate" queries will only use an index-only scan if the index is significantly smaller than its table. This typically only happens when the table's row width is much wider than some indexes'.
Why isn't my query using an index-only scan?
VACUUM does not have any particular tendency to behave more aggressively to facilitate using index-only scans more frequently. While VACUUM can be set to behave more aggressively in various ways, it's far from clear that to do so specifically to make index-only scans occur more frequently represents a sensible course of action.
The planner doesn't directly examine the entire visibility map of a relation when considering an index-only scan (however, the executor does maintain a running tally, which is visible in explain analyze output). However, the planner does naturally weigh the proportion of pages which are known visible to all.
In Postgres 9.2, statistics are gathered about the proportion of pages that are known all-visible. The pg_class.relallvisible column indicates how many pages are visible (the proportion can be obtained by calculating it as a proportion of pg_class.relpages). These statistics are updated when VACUUM is run. It is advisable to run VACUUM ANALYZE immediately after upgrading to PostgreSQL 9.2, in order to ensure that relallvisible roughly accords with reality.
Note that it is possible to examine the number of index scans (including index-only scans and bitmap index scans) by examining pg_stat_user_indexes.idx_scan. If your covering index isn't being used, you're essentially paying for the overhead of maintaining it during writes with no benefit in return. Drop the index!
It is possible for index-only scans to greatly decrease the amount of I/O required to execute some queries. For certain queries, particularly queries that are characteristic of data warehousing (i.e. relatively large amounts of static, infrequently-updated data where reports on historic data is frequently required), they can considerably improve performance. Such queries have been observed to execute anything from twice to twenty times as fast with index-only scans. However, one should bear in mind that:
- Index-only scans are opportunistic, in that they take advantage of a pre-existing state of affairs where it happens to be possible to elide heap access. However, the server doesn't make any particular effort to facilitate index-only scans, and it is difficult to recommend a course of action to make index-only scans occur more frequently, except to define covering indexes in response to a measured need (For example, when pg_stat_statements indicates that a disproportionate amount of I/O is being used to execute a query against fairly static data, with a smallish subset of table columns retrieved).
- When creating a covering index, the likely effect on HOT updates should be weighed heavily. Are there many HOT updates on the table to begin with? This is a general point of concern, because creating an index may prevent HOT updates from occurring, and because the number of HOT updates is a reasonably good proxy for just how static a table is (i.e. the total number of inserts, updates and deletes), and therefore how likely it is that most heap pages are known to be all-visible at any given time.
- Index-only scans are only used when the planner surmises that that will reduce the total amount of I/O required, according to its imperfect cost-based modelling. This all heavily depends on visibility of tuples, if an index would be used anyway (i.e. how selective a predicate is, etc), and if there is actually an index available that could be used by an index-only scan in principle.


text:
HAVANA – In some ways, Yosuan Crespo's real estate office resembles any you might find in New York, London or Tokyo. There are slick posters of hot properties hanging from the ceiling, a steady stream of hopeful buyers and sellers and a constant clack of computer keys.
But Crespo's headquarters in central Havana's trendy Vedado neighbourhood is actually somebody else's breezy front porch. The computer's only connection to the Internet is a creaky dial-up link, and Crespo is careful to say he's not operating as a broker, since the job is still technically illegal.
A baffling, sometimes bizarre real estate market has emerged in the year and a half since President Raul Castro legalized private home sales on this Communist-run island for the first time in five decades.
While trade in homes is now legal, the people who bring buyers together with sellers are not. The government has yet to make good on promises to legitimize brokers, most of whom still operate in the shadows.
It's a story that has been typical of Castro's economic reforms, which often have left little space for the sort of middlemen and other services that help markets work.
The Cuban leader also has legalized a used car market, but not the right to open a business that sells them. And while reforms have sparked an explosion of private restaurants and cafes across Cuba, the government has yet to give them access to wholesalers that could keep them better supplied.
Crespo gets around the broker ban by operating as a licensed computer programmer and photographer, helping clients list their properties on Web portals, producing the for-sale posters that hang in his office and offering digital photo services for sellers. He says he doesn't charge commissions.
Crespo's listed fees are just a few dollars, but he's found himself in major demand. He estimates 30 to 40 customers a day wander into his porch-side business, called EspacioCuba. He says his service has 2,500 current listings and has helped sell about 250 properties since it opened in January.
"Right now we are very pleased," said Crespo, a smartly dressed 28-year-old computer scientist with close-cropped hair, but he added that the market would benefit by the government made brokering legal.
The market also still lacks a workable mortgage system, an easy means of advertising potential sales and, most important, a middle class with resources to buy.
Yet sales are humming, with some 45,000 homes changing hands in the first eight months after Castro legalized the real estate market in November 2011, according to the most recent statistics from the government.
Prices for the choicest properties are staggeringly high: One of Crespo's Havana listings offers the top floor of a three-bedroom, three-bathroom colonial-style house with a marble staircase and a graceful, blue-pillared porch for $250,000 — a fortune in a country where salaries average around $20 a month.
Exiles, economists and several informal brokers say much of the money is coming from abroad, some of it in under-the-table deals that lack legal protection and run counter to Cuba's ban on foreigners owning property.
In South Florida, home to the largest Cuban exile community, stories abound of people buying homes for family still on the island, or using relatives as fronts for their own purchases.
"I am aware of a number of people who have purchased property in Cuba," said Carlos Saladrigas, co-chairman of the Cuba Study Group, which advocates for closer ties between the U.S. and Cuba as a way to promote democracy.
"And (there are) many others who are financing small businesses in Cuba owned by their relatives," he said.
Cuban law says only permanent residents are eligible to buy property, so any transactions involving outsiders are taking place through proxies. Sometimes the cash is wired to Cuba. At other times, money changes hands in overseas accounts.
A Cuban economist who is well-versed in the real estate market agreed that the presence of foreign funds is "significant," though exact figures don't exist. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
Maria Isabel Alfonso, a Cuban exile who teaches at St. Joseph's College in New York, said many recent Cuban emigres left for economic rather than political reasons, and buying property is one way for them to maintain ties to the island.
"For many years I have been trying to overcome that feeling of having lost the connection with Cuba," she said.
There are more pratical motivations for people who haven't left the island. Divorced couples have forced to remain under one roof for years, and multiple generations commonly cram together under one roof. The ability to buy and sell gives everyone more options.
When office worker Milu Selis needed her own space, she and a relative sold their place in Vedado, and each bought a smaller apartment.
"This greatly eases the problem of dividing," she said. "It makes life easier."
Selis and others say it has been surprisingly easy to navigate the bureaucracy, with title transfers taking place in days and a 4 per cent tax levied on both buyers and sellers.
Some warn that potential buyers should be wary because Cuba's real estate market is far from transparent. They say buying in somebody else's name with no legal protection is inherently risky, especially since many buildings are in severe disrepair. And while Havana's stately mansions are still drawing big money, prices for less tantalizing properties are starting to stagnate or drop, they say.
"It's a very, very young, imperfect market and it's going to be very difficult as a result to get real supply and demand there," said Joseph Scarpaci, a marketing professor at West Virginia's West Liberty University who studies Cuba.
Associated Press writers Andrea Rodriguez and Paul Haven in Havana and Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.
Peter Orsi on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Peter_Orsi


text:
I'm not too bad using primitive variables, but I'm having a fairly rough time trying to productively use the API. An example it recently used TreeMap and it took me a while to discover that it made shallow copies. Examples had used string literals to put stuff into TreeMap, so when I used a variable, it was not obvious at first. In this case I put the stuff into two Vectors first (K & V) and then entered it into TreeMap, and this worked fine. Anyway, I'm bumping into stuff like type mismatches and syntactic subtlties all the time. It makes it hard to plan my code and finding work-arounds is nerve racking. Having to amke little programs to see if a work-around works gets discouraging.
Books packed with running code examples are really helpful. My favorite author is Herb Schildt.
Nevertheless, I feel somewhat at wit's end. Any suggestions helpful.


text:
Poetry in Motion || Stowe, Vermont
Beautiful Bingham Falls surrounded by colorful foliage on a crisp Autumn day
Memories of Lake Garda || SIrmione, Italy
A stormy sunrise over Lake Garda as seen from the beautiful town of Sirmione. An actual quote from a passerby as I was taking this long exposure: "Excuse me, is this a lake or the ocean?" Lake Garda is massive.
The Bridge || San Francisco, CA
A soft pink sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the rugged Pacific coastline
Ruins || Sirmione, Italy
Clouds streak over the towers and walls of Castelo Scaligero
Golden Gate Magic || San Francisco, CA
Incredible streaks of color dance in the sky at sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge
Classic Americana || Stowe, Vermont
A vintage Vermont scene. Red barn, Fall foliage - Stowe is absolutely beautiful in Autumn.
Golden Gate Sunset || San Francisco, CA
Soft flowing water reflects the beautiful colors in the sky as the sun sets near the Golden Gate Bridge
Frozen in Time || Columbia River Gorge, OR
The majesty and beauty of Multnomah Falls
Multnomah Mists || Columbia River Gorge, OR
Multnomah Falls emerges out of the foggy dawn, flowing majestically
Pinots in the Mist || Willamette Valley, OR
Golden fog rolls in over the vineyards of the Willamette Valley


text:
Functional Skills: Explore new materials and approaches to support teaching and learning - maths webinar (West and South) (Code: C0498)
Pricing options
<Face to face 1 day>
There are two pricing options:
1. Individual fees
- Society for Education and Training member: £85
- Non-members: £100
2. In-house
To get maximum value from your CPD budget we can run this course in-house at a time and venue to suit you.
- Training for up to 16 staff: £880
- Training for up to 32 staff: £1,700
You can also add a post-course webinar to your session to help embed the learning from the course in practice for only an additional £200.
<Webinar 1 session>
There are two pricing options:
1. Individual fees
- Society for Education and Training member: £21.25
- Non-members: £25
2. In-house
To get maximum value from your CPD budget we can run this course for a group of your staff online at a time and venue to suit you for £200 per webinar.
Free Places
A limited number of free places are offered on this course. Please see the 'Upcoming' section above for current availability. Free places are offered to ensure greater diversity on our courses, so to qualify you must either:
- Work in an organisation in one of the 12 opportunity areas (Blackpool, Bradford, Derby, Doncaster, Fenland and East Cambridgeshire, Hastings, Ipswich, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough, Stoke, West Somerset)
- Work in an organisation with an annual turnover of less than £500,000
- Consider yourself to have a disability
- Come from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background
You must also agree to be contacted by our evaluation team.
To book a free place find a course that has free places remaining and book a single place. At the payments stage of the booking you will be asked to tell us which of the three criteria you meet. Once selected, click on the 'recalculate' button to reduce the cost of the booking to zero and complete the booking.
If, for whatever reason, you are unable to attend, please advise us at least one week before the course takes place. This will allow us to offer the free place to someone else who works in the FE sector, so they can take advantage of this offer.
SET Membership
SET members are entitled to an exclusive 15% discount off this ETF professional development course.
Find out more about SET membership on the Society for Education and Training (SET) website.
Who is this for?
- functional skills tutors
- vocational tutors and assessors involved in embedded support
- learning support assistants.
Training aim
This webinar will introduce you to the purpose, content and structure of the new functional skills maths subject materials.
You will have the knowledge and confidence to:
- use the key teaching approaches and support strategies modelled in the materials in your teaching
- take a flexible and creative approach to adapting the materials to meet the needs of your learners.
60-minute webinar.
Entry Requirements
You should be teaching or supporting maths skills development.
Contact us
If this course is not currently available in your area, and you would like to attend then register your interest. We will let you know about new events as they are announced.
If you have any questions, please contact:
E: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Connecticut gas tax scheduled to increase this July
Although lawmakers from both parties voted last year to pin down one side of the state's two-tiered gas tax, some are now seeking to avoid a slated increase on other side scheduled for this July.
Connecticut's petroleum gross receipts tax on gasoline is based on a percentage of the current wholesale price of gas. Because the wholesale price fluctuates, the gas tax rate can be a moving target.
Last year, the legislature, bowing to political pressure from Republicans, passed a bill which stipulated that for taxable purposes, the gas wholesale price could not exceed $3 per gallon. But in July, the tax rate applied to the price of gas is slated to rise from 7.53 percent to 8.81 percent. The increase could generate about $60 million for the state.
In a Wednesday press release, House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero said lawmakers should prevent the tax from rising. He said the state can find the funds somewhere else.
"We have the available resources in a number of areas of the state budget to prevent this gas tax hike. What we need now is the will to give taxpayers and drivers a break. The taxes on gasoline and diesel are too high as it is,'' Cafero said.


text:
The 19th century Mihrap (Mihrab), the niche in a mosque that indicated the direction of Mecca, Hagia Sophia ( Ayasofya ) , Istanbul, Turkey
3540x5320 pixels
No Property License. If this image is to be used for adverising a product and the image contains recognisable property you will have to approach the property owner for permission to use the photo. Editorial usage and travel advertising dont usually need a property license but please check if in doubt.
© Paul Williams 2019 all rights reserved
FunkyStock Picture Library free resource for professional editorial picture editors, picture researchers, historical scholars and students and enthusiasts who want to browse some of the best pictures and images of historic countries, historical places, archaeological sites and the very best museum antiquities and artefacts exhibits in Europe and the Middle East.
Pictures and Images can be downloaded or bought as stock photos or photo art prints.
Browse travel pictures and images of historic places and archaeological sites of countries in Europe and the Middle East.
Explore the past through pictures and images of its historic places. See the great palaces, castles and cities of antiquity as well as the great archaeological sites where our ancestors made history.
Browse pictures & images the treasured artefacts and antiquities exhibits from the great Museum of Europe and the Middle East. See the art and objects made by our ancestors.


text:
« Are Maryland's New Teacher-Evaluation Deals a Hoax? | Main | Student-Privacy Protection Focus of New York State Legislation »
Has Gov. Pence Just Saved the Common Core in Indiana?
At first blush, it appears that through his newly appointed members to the state board of education, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has decided to keep the Common Core State Standards in the Hoosier State.
How so? The Associated Press notes that among the governor's six new appointees to the 11-member state board made on June 13, Pence, a Republican. has decided to keep two of the current board members. That seems very important, because the board previously voted unanimously to adopt the standards back in 2010, and since then, the board has maintained its steadfast support for the common core even as political opposition has grown in the state.
The math, then, becomes simple. A total of six members on the new, 11-member board will have served on the same board that unanimously adopted the standards three years ago. In theory, that gives common core the majority of votes it needs to keep the standards. The board includes Superintendent Glenda Ritz, a Democrat, who has questioned the standards and is a voting member, but if six pro-common-core votes remain on the board, it doesn't ultimately matter, as Scott Elliott of the Indianapolis Star pointed out today.
The Associated Press leads its story with the fact that one of Pence's appointees, Andrea Neal, has been an outspoken critic of the standards. But unless Neal and others can convince at least one, if not more, board members from the 2010 cadre that they should switch sides and oppose common core, her opposition may not mean much. Another new selection, Brad Oliver, seems like he's on the fence.
Now, Neal and common-core opponents will have a pretty prominent chance to make their case. Remember, earlier this year, Pence signed a bill that common-core foes said will "pause" the standards in Indiana pending a review and legislative hearings, although it's not clear that the bill really pauses anything. But standards opponents will get the publicity they want during these hearings to pressure the board members, as well as Pence and others, that the standards are a bad idea and would cede too much control to individuals and groups outside the state.
So the math could still swing against the common core—nothing is certain. But it looks as though, if the newly constituted state board were to hold another vote on common core right now, the standards would stay.


text:
Hi Family and Friends!
Celia and I recently got back from what may be my final embolization to treat this avm! What? That's what we said! Let me go back a little ways. I had been having a few bleeds here and there a few days before this trip to CO. So discouraging feeling like the bleeding will never end! Actually, I had a bleed as I brushed my teeth before leaving for the airport! The whole trip I would have a trickle of blood now and then, so I was always looking in the mirror and needing to have a tissue to dab my lip/mouth area! I kept worrying that I would have a big bleed while I was on the plane and would need to rush to the teeny, tiny bathroom and get blood all over eveything! Thankfully that did not happen!
Poor Celia had just gotten back from traveling for a dental conference and had a 2 day break before repacking and heading out with me! I am so grateful she makes time for me out of her busy life with her husband Greg and 2 kids Mark and Davis - not to mention all her wife, Mom duties, running a household, working with Greg @ the office covering for other dental hygenists and her hobbies (choir ministry) and pets! I was not looking forward to the cold weather in CO since it had been pretty nice and warm in South Texas! If the weather gets below 40 degrees, we don't like to leave the house! It wasn't too cold when we arrived, but by Thursday, I watched the big, fat snowflakes falling most of the day as I looked out the hospital window!
I had really tried keeping up with taking all the necessary meds to make sure my iron, potassium, calcium levels and electrolytes were @ a level where I would be able to have my procedure! It's kind of hard to do when I was having frequent bleeds and was more concerned with that and having to take meds to control the pain from the pseudomonas infection I had for a couple of months! I supplement my "diet" with Clear Ensure - I love the regular Ensure, but since it is a "milk product" that causes phlegm and I can't be hacking and causing possible bleed from the force of the hacking! I would drink Pedealite once in a while too - many times when I was having bleeds and my mouth was packed, I wasn't able to eat normally, so these supplements were necessary to maintain my health! Oh, and for any avm-ers out there - if you are taking strong antibiotics/steroids for a lengthly period of time, don't forget that may cause Thrush and that is extremely painful! I sure learned that the hard way! Now I make sure and take prescription Clortrimazol several times a day if I am on IV antibiotics or steroids! Having Thrush means its very painful to swallow - having to eat things like mashed potatos and oatmeal.
One of the first things I would end up having to wear while I was in the hospital, was these leg monitors! Support hose and then these massagers to make sure I was getting circulation! I don't like wearing them and have to be unplugged when I get up to go to the bathroom. Oh well.
Here I am passing the time reading my Nook! I love having that and it's so convenient w/all the traveling I've done to CO! I had a small fleece blanket that has a photo of a puppy on it that Vicente gave me. I remember the first time I used it, Hanz pulled it off of me! Guess he thought it was his! Somewhere I have a cute photo of Hanz laying with this blanket and a cute yellow duck that Mom gave him his first Easter season with us!
Here is a photo of me with Victoria that is from Ethiopia I believe, and works in Housekeeping @ Swedish! She has always been so friendly and encouraging to us regarding my situation! Victoria has told Celia she has seen avm patients in worse condition than myself heal completely, so she would assure us I would be fine! When we gave her the good news that I was "done" w/my embolizations, she fell to her knees and started crying! She has always prayed for me and always asks for Mom, Celia or Mark (depending on whose with me)!
firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Last Thursday I felt stale.
I wished there was way I could just call in "sick" and hide in bed all day with a book.
Friday I attended a Women's Conference at BYU that revived my soul. Not only was it inspiring to be with a good friend and some 15,000 other good women, but it was good to be reminded what's most important in life. During this Conference thousands of projects for good are accomplished. Hundreds of quilts are completed, newborn hats, booties, and blankets are sewn, and over 30,000 hygiene and school kits were assembled in one evening to replenish an ever increasing demand for emergency needs across the globe. Thousands of these kits were sent to Haiti through LDS Humanitarian Services partnering with the Red Cross within the first hours and days after the earthquake there. Now more kits will be ready for shipment when the next need arises.
It is so inspiring; the force for good that women can be. Paradoxically, women can be so destructive to each other when they are catty and selfish and self-centered- when their focus is purely themselves. But there is no force so powerful as women who are kind, and serve, and care for the needs of others. It's truly inspiring to be in the presence of those kinds of women.
Friday, I also watched a beautiful video about the needs for humanitarian service throughout the globe and various projects underway from medical needs in Haiti, water projects to provide clean water to communities that lack that basic necessity, and newborn resuscitation training in third-world countries. All of it was humbling and brought lots of perspective to my own life. How could I ever feel dissatisfied with the abundance I have?
However, I think the story that touched me most, was a story told by a Ukrainian woman. In heavily accented English she told about delivering a quilt to a poor widow, with no family to take care of her, who lived in a house that was leaning to one side. This woman had nothing colorful among her meager belongings until she received this quilt. It meant the world to her – not just the comfort and beauty it provided to her home, but the fact that someone she would never meet, created this gift for her. There was a touching photo of the wrinkled, kerchiefed-woman with this simple colorful, quilt – I wish I could share it with all of you. It nearly broke my heart.
It made me want to do more. Why should my house be full of cheerful beauty when sharing just a little of it would bring joy to someone with nothing? I'm recommitted to doing something about it.
So, (if you're even still reading this), my computer is still in pieces. Not sure when I'll have it – or access to all my pictures – back again. Hopefully soon.But suddenly, it doesn't seem quite so drastically important. It gives me more time to do something for someone else.
Have a happy Monday!


text:
This election season, msnbc.com is presenting a weekly series assessing the issues and controversies that the next president will confront once he takes the oath of office.
This week, we look at the state of public elementary and secondary education, and where the candidates stand on funding, school choice and teacher pay.
Why it matters
The United States spent nearly $72 billion on elementary and secondary education in 2007, which is the highest in terms of expenditure per student and as percentage of gross domestic product, among the G-8 countries, according to the Department of Education.
But according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States trails many developed countries in educational quality. In 2003, 15-year-olds ranked in 24th, 19th, and 12th of 38 nations in mathematics, science, and reading, respectively.
This deficit was the focus of the last question of the final presidential debate on October 15.
Moderator Bob Schieffer asked presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama how they would employ the federal government to raise the United States' international standing in elementary and secondary education.
The candidates agreed on the importance of the mission.
"This probably has more to do with our economic future than anything and that means it also has a national security implication," said Obama. "There's never been a nation on earth that saw its economy decline and continued to maintain its primacy as a military power."
McCain tied education to social equality, calling it "the civil rights issue of the 21st century."
Invoking the racial struggles of the 1960s, he continued: "There's no doubt that we have achieved equal access to schools in America after a long and difficult and terrible struggle."
But beyond the notion that the United States must improve its public school systems, McCain and Obama agree on little in terms of the role of the federal government in doing so.
Where the candidates stand
In 2000, Gov. George W. Bush ran his successful presidential campaign focusing largely on education reform at the federal level – a focus that had rarely been used to the same extent by a Republican seeking national office.
Bush's education proposals culminated in the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which bases the allocation of federal funds for schools on state-administered achievement tests.
Many education interest groups, such as the National Education Association, criticized the effectiveness of No Child Left Behind, charging that its emphasis on testing provides incentive for states to lower achievement goals and schools to teach students to master the test instead of developing critical-thinking skills.
"Right now it's a high-stakes test; it's a single test once a year and really has nothing to do with the individual student," Dennis Van Roekel, president of the NEA, told msnbc.com.
"We're going need some time doing some good research to figure out how do we adequately measure if students are learning," he added.
Obama, who is backed by the NEA, echoes this sentiment in his education policy, saying that although states should continue to oversee student assessments, the federal government should increase funding for "states to implement a broader range of assessments."
His plan does not, however, specify how much federal funding of assessments should be increased.
In the Oct. 15 presidential debate, McCain countered his opponent's plan, saying "Throwing money at the problem is not the answer," adding, "You will find that some of the worst school systems in America get the most money per student."
McCain's stance against increased federal funding is echoed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. "We should be hesitant to look to Washington to solve the problems in education" said Dan Lips, a senior policy analyst who specializes in federal and state education issues.
"One of the problems that we've seen is that federal funding comes with a lot of regulations and bureaucracy, and at the end of the day, much of that funding that Congress provides for education ends up being spent outside the classroom on bureaucracy and administration," said Lips.
Charter schools or vouchers?
Maintaining that No Child Left Behind is "only the beginning of education reform," McCain places more emphasis on school choice, saying that competition among schools will foster improved performance.
McCain supports charter schools – institutions that receive public money but are freed from some of the rules and regulations that govern other public schools in exchange for higher standards. The Arizona senator also lauds school vouchers — government-issued certificates that allow parents to apply public money to tuition at a school of their choice.
"Choice and competition amongst schools is one of the key elements that's already been proven in places like New Orleans and New York City and other places," McCain said during the debate, chastizing his opponent for not acknowledging the utility of vouchers in the Washington, D.C. public school system.
Obama countered that McCain placed too much emphasis on school choice, saying, "The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots. That leaves all of you who live in the other 50 states without an education reform policy from Senator McCain."
Like Obama, the NEA supports charters but opposes vouchers, saying that removing a small number of students from a faltering public school system does not address the root of the problem.
"It's not a good solution to me that if we can't provide a good education for children, we take 2,000 out and leave 63 or 65 thousand behind. That's not a solution. So that's why we believe vouchers do not solve the problem; they're a ticket to nowhere," said Van Roekel.
But Lips maintains that voucher programs allow students from lower socio-economic backgrounds to have greater education opportunities, while fostering competition among schools.
"I'm disappointed to see Obama oppose voucher programs, especially considering in his own life he chooses to send his kids to a private school," said Lips.
McCain countered his opponent's claim that vouchers do not attack the root of poor education, saying sarcastically at the debate, "because there's not enough vouchers; therefore, we shouldn't do it, even though it's working. I got it."
Unanswered questions
Obama angered many teachers and administrators, including the NEA, by telling the 3.2 million member group that he supported merit-based pay for teachers – a measure that the organization has long opposed, given the potential for pay increases based on arbitrary standards or favoritism.
After winning his long primary fight with Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama earned the endorsement of the group, and touched on merit-based pay in a speech to the organization in July.
"Now I know this wasn't necessarily the most popular part of my speech last year, but I said it then and I'm saying it again now because it's what I believe," he said in his address.
The NEA has since tempered its criticism of Obama's policy.
"Obama has said clearly that he opposes the old merit pay, where you don't really know what the measurements are and it's decided by a principal," said Van Roekel. "He opposes performance pay that's based on test scores, and that's very important to us because that is consistent with our policies, also."
Van Roekel said he would like to see an Obama administration establish an independent education research institute, drawing on the National Institute of Health as a model, with funding of $60 million to $70 million a year, for 10 years. He hopes this research organization would serve to set standards that could be used to assess teacher pay raises.
Obama's education plan calls for a "high-quality, nationally-available teacher performance assessment that measures actual teaching skill in content areas," but does not spell out specific spending projections for such a project.
Meanwhile, McCain has been vague on what parts of the No Child Left Behind Act are in need of reform, and what kind of funding changes would be required.
He has also come out in favor of merit-based pay, as well as pay increases for teachers who relocate to "challenging education settings" (such as inner-city or rural schools) receiving federal funds. But unlike Obama, he says that test scores and principals should be used to assess teacher performance, along with other issues, such as peer evaluations and student improvement.
Potential pitfalls for the next president
If McCain is elected on Nov. 4, he will likely have to work with what appears to be a very Democratic Congress, possibly including a filibuster-proof Senate.
That would make it unlikely that a president could push through reduced federal funding for education, which is backed by many conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation.
The Obama campaign has acknowledged that, given the grim economy, some of his spending proposals may have to be reined in. Though the campaign has only said that some foreign aid may have to be cut, spending draw-downs could affect education spending, too.
However, given the vigor that Obama has used to tie quality education to a thriving economy, he seems likely to push for increasing federal funding for public elementary and secondary education.


text:
Typical Psalms
In some monasteries, on days when the Divine Liturgy is not served, it is replaced by a service of Typical Psalms. The service consists of Psalms 103 and 146 with a hymn by the Emperor Justinian, Only-begotten Son. These are the First and Second Antiphons of the Liturgy in most Orthodox Churches. Also, the Beatitudes, the Creed, and certain other hymns and prayers are sung.
From Psalm 103
- Bless the Lord, O my soul! Blessed art Thou, O Lord!
- Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name!
- Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.
- Who forgives all iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.
- Bless the Lord, O my soul, blessed art Thou, O Lord.
From Psalm 146 and a hymn by Emperor Justinian
- Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
- Praise the Lord, O my soul!
- I will praise the Lord as long as I live,
- I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
- Put not thy trust in princes, in sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.
- When his breath departs he returns to his earth: on that very day his plans perish.
- The Lord will reign forever: thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.
- Now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
- O only begotten Son and immortal Word of God,
- Who for our salvation didst will to be incarnate of the Holy Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary,
- Who without change didst become man and was crucified,
- Who art one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit:
- O Christ, our God, trampling down death by death, save us!
- In Thy Kingdom remember us, O Lord, when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom.
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
- Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.
- Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake.
- Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven.


text:
(apologies if this is the wrong 'folder')
Has anyone had a go at hacking the Fisher Price "Code-a-Pillar"? (here's the Fisher Price product page: http://fisher-price.mattel.com/shop/en- ... llar-dkt39 )
We have one lined up for a Christmas present for our son. Seems like there should be scope to hack it, especially as the individual segments are connected with standard sized USB connectors.
I think an interface for Scratch would make a lot of sense.
A search online only came up with: http://anngadzikowski.com/hack-your-code-a-pillar/
All this does is tell you how to mute the speaker. Yes the demo one in the store was loud (!) and there is no volume control, so I can see this as being a worthy 'hack', although I would probably insert a preset resistor into the circuit instead...
Yes I also know about Fisher Price's Code-a-pillar Android app, but this is just a simplistic game that simulates a virtual Code-a-pillar and as far as I can tell, it doesn't communicate with a real Code-a-pillar.
Would also be interested in co-operating with others on hacking the code-a-pillar, but I'm not yet sure where to start.
Richard Marsden


text:
Activision's return to classic shooter GoldenEye 007 puts you in the shoes of Daniel Craig's take on a grittier, no-nonsense James Bond as he works his way through a new treatment of the classic movie.
The game also, of course, includes some pretty amazing Wii multiplayer matches. Check it out.


text:
Engage with IHI
5 Million Lives Campaign
About the 100,000 or 5 Million Lives Campaigns
Email Us
The aim of the 5 Million Lives Campaign was to support the improvement of medical care in the US, significantly reducing levels of morbidity (illness or medical harm such as adverse drug events or surgical complications) and mortality. IHI quantified this aim and set a numeric goal: we asked hospitals participating in the Campaign to prevent 5 million incidents of medical harm over a period of two years (December 12, 2006 through December 9, 2008).
IHI and its partners in the 5 Million Lives Campaign encouraged hospitals and other health care providers to take the following steps to reduce harm and deaths:
The Campaign also continued to offer support to hospitals as they introduced and sustained their work on interventions from the 100,000 Lives Campaign:
We collected "lives saved" data through direct submission of acute care inpatient mortality data from participating hospitals. We collected data on "harm avoided" by conducting retrospective chart review in a representative sample of participating facilities.
During the 5 Million Lives Campaign, a number of events were held to help support and celebrate the efforts of Campaign participants, including:
US: 100,000 HomesBrazil: Instituto Qualisa de GestãoCanada: Safer Healthcare Now!Denmark: Operation LifeScotland: Patient Safety Alliance Wales: 1,000 Lives Campaign


text:
Software Development Sydney
Dot Com Infoway offers custom application development services with highly skilled developers. Other services include Web Development and Design, SEO and we are located in Sydney.
+ Recent listings in this category: Computer Software
SOS development provides professional web design in Brisbane. By investing in a SOS Development... more details
Bungarra is a 3D production house specialising in console game development, 2D & 3D graphic design... more details
EzyOnlineBookings is an online bookings software that can be used for many types of businesses. It... more details
We are expert almost every part of development such as E-commerce solutions , website design,... more details
QHSE Risk & Compliance & Business Management systems software.
USed for incident... more details
Custom business databases, database applications and web applications designed and developed. We... more details
World's leading channel manager & hotel booking software provider. Access world's leading booking... more details
CustomApp.com.au provides app development services for businesses as well as individuals. Our... more details
Grace Information Management provides a wide range of document and information management services... more details
iGrow Marketing offers Perth SEO and Web Design services to small business. As one of the most... more details
from METALISTIK
from JAC MUSIC SCHOOL
+ Popular Website Link Directory CategoriesBusiness Services Accommodation Business Health & Beauty Home Improvements Automotive Real Estate Web Designers Finance & Investment Weddings Other Sports & Recreation Health & Medical Food & Beverage Legal Building & Construction Cleaning Services Photography Computer Services Internet Marketing & Advertising Gifts Education & Training Entertainment Health & Medical - Dentists View More...
+ Recent Listings in the Website Link DirectoryBespoke Baby Pro Pest Control Gold Coast Altitude Aviation Truck Wreckers Melbourne Melbourne Cash for Cars Vic Recyclers Absolute-it Total Wreckers Noble Cash for Cars Doctor Drain North Melbourne Concrete Cleaning Toowoomba Adam Insights ANZ Lotto Cash For Car Scrap Sydney Hobart Cash for Cars


text:
Red Sox said to be progressing in Pedroia talks
BOSTON -- The Red Sox are making progress in their efforts to sign Dustin Pedroia to a contract extension, according to multiple reports on Friday.
Pedroia is in the fourth year of a six-year, $40.5 million deal that carries a team option of $11 million for the Red Sox. Pedroia has provided consistent production both offensively and defensively during the course of the contract.
The news of a possible extension was first reported by WEEI.com and Yahoo! Sports.
Pedroia, who went 1-for-4 in Boston's 4-2 win over the Yankees on Friday, didn't think it was his place to characterize the state of the negotiations.
"I just leave my agent and the Red Sox to deal with that," Pedroia said. "My job is to come in here, play baseball and try to help the Red Sox win games. I don't have anything for you right now."
The Red Sox and Pedroia's lead agents -- Seth and Sam Levinsohn -- declined comment.
However, Pedroia again reiterated how much it would mean to him to stay in a Boston uniform for many more years, if not his entire career.
"That's great to think about," Pedroia said. "[Staying in one place is] hard to happen. This is all I know. These guys are my family. Everybody. If it got to that point, it would be great."
At 29, the second baseman still seems to be coming into his own, as he entered play against the Yankees on Friday with a .396 on-base percentage, the highest of his career.
Speaking on WEEI on Thursday, Red Sox principal owner John Henry said the team is weary of giving out long-term deals, but would be more inclined to do so with players within the organization.
"You have to look at every situation, every player differently," Henry said. "Dustin Pedroia, completely different player. Dustin would be different than going out into a free-agent market and signing someone."
Meanwhile, Pedroia will just keep trying to help the Red Sox stay in first place.
"I'm just focused on trying to help us win baseball games. That's what I'm trying to do," Pedroia said.


text:
The historic vote by the Boy Scouts of America's National Council Thursday to allow openly homosexual youth in the program but exclude homosexual adult leaders has left people on both sides of the issue unhappy.
California Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara says that despite the vote, he will continue to push a resolution that would revoke the BSA's tax-exempt status "to ensure that discrimination in any form does not exist – not in our state, not on our dime."
The homosexual-rights group GLAAD said it and other like-minded activist groups will now encourage "gay" youth to participate in the Boy Scouts. But spokesman Ross Murray said "the ban on gay adult leaders is still a major barrier for many families and organizations."
Advertisement - story continues below
He hopes, the Washington Post reported, that as homosexual youth "demonstrate their dedication to the program, hopefully it can change the culture of the organization from the inside."
Meanwhile, a coalition of members of the BSA who actively opposed the policy change says it is considering forming an alternative scouting organization.
TRENDING: The historic Trump presidency emasculated globalism
"Many Americans around the country will find it difficult to support the Boy Scouts of America after this decision," said John Stemberger, founder of OnMyHonor.Net. "Despite this setback, we will look to the future."
Stemberger said his group will meet with likeminded organizations, parents and BSA members next month in Louisville, Ky., to discuss the creation of a "new character development organization for boys."
Advertisement - story continues below
"We grieve today, not because we are faced with leaving Scouting, but because the Boy Scouts of America has left us," Stemberger said.
"Its leadership has turned its back on 103 years of abiding by a mission to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices," he said. "Instead, it is embarking on a pathway of social experimentation that we believe will place at risk the very youth the organization is entrusted to serve, while rendering as hollow the tenets of the Scout Oath."
Stemberger said his group welcomes public comments as it develops its plans, via email at [email protected]
The Assemblies of God and the Southern Baptist Convention are among the church denominations that already have formed their own Scouts-like organizations.
The BSA said Thursday the resolution to change the membership policy was approved by 61 percent of the approximately 1,400 Boy Scout leaders from across the nation who voted at the organization's annual conference in Grapevine, Texas.
Advertisement - story continues below
In a statement issued after the vote, the BSA said the resolution "reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting."
The policy change is effective Jan. 1, 2014, "allowing the transition time needed to communicate and implement this policy to its approximately 116,000 Scouting units."
Responding to the vote, the Family Research Council "expressed deep disappointment at the Boy Scouts of America."
"Sadly, the Boy Scouts' legacy of producing great leaders has become yet another casualty of moral compromise," said FRC President Tony Perkins. "Unfortunately, Boy Scout delegates capitulated to strong-arm tactics and abandoned the timeless values that have served the organization well for more than 100 years."
Advertisement - story continues below
Perkins said the delegates "succumbed to a concerted and manipulative effort by the national BSA leadership despite the BSA's own survey showing 61 percent of its members in opposition to changing the policy."
The new policy, devised after an extensive survey of BSA members, is a revision of a proposal issued in January that would have allowed local troops to decide whether or not to accept openly homosexual members and leaders.
The Scouts count more than 2.7 million members and more than 1 million volunteers.
The BSA said it has "no plans for further review on this matter."
"The Boy Scouts of America will not sacrifice its mission, or the youth served by the movement, by allowing the organization to be consumed by a single, divisive, and unresolved societal issue," the statement said.
The BSA said that while "people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are in Scouting."
The BSA's decision to propose a change in policy, as WND reported, coincided with a sudden drop in major corporate funding that began last summer after a "gay"-rights blogger for the Huffington Post published a collaborative report that named the donors and chastised them for violating their own policy of not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
Stemberger has contended that a change in the membership policy would "gut a major percentage of human capital in the BSA and utterly devastate the program financially, socially and legally."
He has called the policy change "logically incoherent and morally and ethically inconsistent."
"Opening the Boy Scouts to boys who openly proclaim being sexually attracted to other boys and/or openly identify themselves as 'gay' will inevitably create an increase of boy-on-boy sexual contact," said Stemberger in an open letter to the voting Scout leaders.
He says internal estimates by the BSA project an estimated $44 million of lost annual revenue if the policy is changed.
He points to BSA's own "Voice of the Scout" surveys that indicate tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of parents, scoutmasters and scouts would leave the program if the proposal were adopted.
A member of the National Council previously told WND a decision to change the policy would prompt a mass exodus at all levels of the organization.
Last July, after a thorough two-year study, an 11-member committee of professional scout executives and adult volunteers unanimously concluded the policy of not allowing open homosexuals should be maintained.
In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of the Scout organization to exclude homosexuals, because the behavior violated the core values of the private organization.


text:
Republican senator from Maine says Hagel's views on the threats facing US are 'unsettling'
WASHINGTON (AP) � Sen. Susan Collins says she will oppose the confirmation of Chuck Hagel to become President Barack Obama's secretary of defense.
Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine who had been seen as a possible supporter of Hagel, said Wednesday that his views on the most critical threats facing the United States are "unsettling."
Collins said in a statement that Hagel was unwilling to ask the European Union to designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization in 2006, and he has been hesitant to back the use of all non-military options, such as unilateral sanctions, to pressure Iran into ceasing its nuclear program.
Collins said she would not join in a filibuster to block a final vote.
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 on Tuesday to send Hagel's nomination to the full Senate.


text:
Del Zarzoso Salvame From Afterglow
The Number One Non-Sporting Dog, the Standard Poodle, GCH CH Jaset's Satisfaction, recused himself, as the 2011 AENC winner tonight. Leaving Gene Mills' Non-Sporting Group up for grabs. The dog who grabbed it was the Spanish Standard Poodle, Del Zarzoso Salvame From Afterglow. Rounding out the group placements were the Tibetan Spaniel, GCH CH Kan Sing's Tenzin, the Schipperke, GCH CH Dante Fire When Ready, and the Chinese Shar-Pei, GCH CH Vaje's Jethrene Bodine.


text:
- Description
- Testimonials
- Order Now
Vimax bottles:2 bottles$130.00 $65.00 per item+ FREE BONUS PILLS
4 bottlesYou save $20.04$239.96 $59.99 per item+ FREE BONUS PILLS
Bonus Policy
- 4 free bonus pills for all orders!
- Free Regular Airmail (3-6 weeks) for orders starting with $150.00!
- Free Express Courier (US Customers Only) (2-4 weeks) for orders starting with $300.00!
- Free insurance (guaranteed reshipment if delivery failed) for orders starting with $200.00!
Short Description
Vimax is a herbal medicine for increasing stamina and sexual performance.
Vimax benefits include:
improved virility
increased stamina and sex drive
harder erections
boosted self confidence
Vimax is available in bottles of 60 caps.


text:
I thought I posted the aftermarket parts I used in another pic.. here you go.
-Carbon Fiber chassis, top plate, shock towers, disk break, front tire bar
-Jato wheelie bar with aluminum wheels and rubber tires
-1200nimh Venom 6.0v hump pack
-aluminum shocks, duratrax springs and 60wt rear, trx springs 40wt front
-MIP CVD kit
-RPM arms front and rear, bumper
-aluminum turnbuckles
-Proball diff
-custom made 27t cb with 62t sg
-O.S. .21VZ-R with THS racing pipe, or I use the TRX 3.3 with DC Resonator
-MS airfilter
-Futaba S3305 servos
-RC-Parts aluminum bellcranks preloaded with bearings
-Sway bar front (bought jato sway kit, havent installed in rear yet)
-Jaco foam tires
-Hex screw conversion kit
-Airtronics 2.4GHz transmitter and receiver
-Custom painted bodies by Zielke Racing and Kustom Rc Graphics
We are getting pounded with snow here in WA. I live about 40miles south of Seattle, and its very unusual to get this amount of snow. About every 3 years we'll get snow like this... but its been crazy.
I learned that a 2WD ST really doesn't drive to well in snow..
The pond outside my house started to form ice over it. I kinda felt bad for the ducks, lol.
heres my truck after christmas:
my rustler with brushedmaxx2's hpi mt2
if its fast its a rustler
Don't laugh.. this is my first..
Original body, chassis and motor already cleaned.
The mess it was after cleaning
New Body no paint
Finished Paint
Finished Paint and decals
Last edited by smg323; 08-04-2009 at 06:40 AM.
Pictures of my 2.5 Rustler with its freshly painted body (if it works)
well i got bored today. and i bought a new camera so i figured i'd take a few more pics of the rustler. i still haven't drove it since the carbon fiber and the street tires (stupid snow)
i need a 3.3 for my cf rustler
My Rustler 3.3
Before I dropped my 3.3 back in.
What shall I put here?
ya ya i know wut your thinking it looks like a stampede but its not its a rustler thats customised to look like a stampede I did this so i could put truck bodys on it.
losi micro-t
nitro rustler
1/16 e-revo vxl
Look it mine! HEHEHEHEHE. I have pictures of the my aluminum front bulkhead red also but i can't find that picture! Sorry the plastic one kind of kill the whole point
Last edited by smg323; 08-04-2009 at 06:36 AM.
pm me with what BRUSHED motor for rusty
Well hears some pics of my beast....
ive also put a couple of pics of were i go bashing its only 5mins from my house....
So far ive added
RPM front b/bar
RPM f&r shock towers
RPM revolver black wheels
HPI geo tyres f&r
Ive also bought some traxxas big bore shocks & tuned muffler just waiting for them to turn in the mail as i bought them from the US alot cheaper than buying them in AUS....
Here are some pictures of the body I just painted for my rusty. This is the third body I've painted. All paint is Faskolor except for the chrome which is spaz stix.
Last edited by smg323; 08-04-2009 at 06:29 AM.
My rustler
I gotta post mine and lets see what you guys think.
Last edited by smg323; 10-30-2009 at 06:27 AM.
Next to my slash
What shall I put here?
Few new pics of mine with its new body
And heres a link to all the mods if done http://monster.traxxas.com/showthread.php?t=487666
- Just getting into RC and got the Rustler Stock.
- Santa looked after me and sent me soem new wheels and tires, as well as a pipe and some RPM stuff yet to be put on.
- Quite a difference from stock wheels to new ones!!
And beside my buddies Slayer...
How do you like my rusty?I will post another when im done.
Keep the shiny side up!
Well I put it back together.
A new powerplant and im readt to go.
Keep the shiny side up!
Not done yet.... Looking cool thought.
One shot.....One kill, no exceptions
Rusty wheel recolour.
Thanks to traxxas for making the wheels black to start with !!
3.3 Power
Slash PE & Ja-two.
Last edited by GitRirish; 03-15-2011 at 05:30 PM.
This is my newly completed 100% Aluminium Rusty.
TRX 3.3 with aftermarket cooling head
THS exhaust
Big Bore shocks
Pro ball diff
RD Racing upper deck
Lundsford titanium turnbuckles and suspension pins
RPM wheels with Pro-Line tires
VXL suspension upgrade
Tons of Integy parts (to many to list)
Pro-Line Crowd Pleazer body (thanks to Josh@calicleanbodies)
I would like to know what people think. Please comment to email@example.com
Last edited by Powerman; 04-22-2011 at 08:20 AM.
this is my other rusty. It likes the mud as you can see.
This is where it goes down. My back yard.
Still needing some jumps.
hmmm the whole spare tranny isnt a bad idea!! since Indeed I already have busted many idler and top shaft gears... :S but not nearly as often as the crappy gears they put in the diffs... I'm sorta glad to hear that the ball diff did'nt work for you either since I did not want to start with it again! lol
Does anybody know of a company that makes stronger ones (planetary diff gears) for the Rusty??? or anybody know of another model's diff that could be a drop-in or that would require little modification??? I'm down with the idea of trying to goop it up some more like Powermann and the 500 000k oil but still... I was almost already there... so thats why I'm playing more with my Revo now. I'd rather have a Jato, but I just cant throw this beauty away!!
Last edited by Double G; 01-10-2012 at 01:40 PM.
Last edited by nitro on fire; 05-12-2011 at 04:15 PM.
road rage its not just drivin its a blood sport
new photo of mine [IMG][/IMG]
road rage its not just drivin its a blood sport
here is my Rusty after the rebuild
It may look like a Slash...
But its not. Its a Rustler.
Or as I like to call it, THE SLUTSLER!!!
My baby. Painted the body myself btw.
This is my first post so excuse if it's crazy.lol
With clothes on:
Annnd the reason why I can't run
Here's my $40 Rustler, had a .15 when I bought it now has a 2.5R.
Nice man. lol. My buddy did that to a .15 wedging a stampede under a Kia. I went through a couple sets of mounts trying flips and landing upside down. I don't know how I didn't blow a hole in mine yet. I got the case from my old 3.3 for when it dose happen lol


text:
Log in as a member of the destination project, booksite.
Create a new task in the booksite project by using the newtask command with the -v (verbose) option to obtain the system task ID.
machine% newtask -v -p booksite 16
The execution of newtask creates a new task in the specified project, and places the user's default shell in this task.
View the current project membership of the invoking process.
machine% id -p uid=100(mark) gid=1(other) projid=4113(booksite)
The process is now a member of the new project.