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Music Regram: Justin Bieber's Tush (Update: JB took it down)
Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:27:40
Justin Bieber Photos
Justin Bieber Videos
"Look," see JB's totally bare butt.
It's Bieber butt time! For Beliebers, this is a beautiful sight. For non-fans and the copious amount of haters, it is one of those "things you cannot unsee" situations.
Justin Bieber got "butt" naked, literally, on Instagram. He posed for a completely and totally nude photo, but (or "butt") from the back. He showed off his butt, calves, legs and tattoos.
It's NSFW, but in all honesty, you really only see his uncovered butt cheeks. We're not kidding, yo.
There is no frontal nudity. It is just The Biebs, perched in front of a body of water, with his arm outstretched and his butt free of any clothing. He is not wearing a shirt or shoes, either. So, yeah, he is naked as he was on March 1, 1994.
Can you handle it? Are you absolutely, positively, 100 percent sure you can handle it? Alright, we'll take your word for it.
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When this photo posted, the shrieks of Beliebers filled the air. Dogs howled. People went deaf. But in all seriousness, The Biebs has a sexy body. Yeah, we said it.
Justin Bieber's butt has finally made its way to the Interwebs. Rejoice! Celebrate! Recoil! Do as you wish.
Update (July 13, 2015) It appears that Justin Bieber deleted his Butt-instagram. According to NYMag's The Cut, Beiber says "Hey I deleted the photo of my butt on Instagram not because I thought it was bad but someone close to me's daughter follows me and she was embarrassed that she saw my butt. I totally wasn't thinking in that aspect. And I felt awful that she felt bad. To anyone I may have offended I'm so sorry. It was completely pure hearted as a joke but didn't take in account there are littles following me!!! Love u guys."
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Category: Stock Graphic, Illustrations
Stock Graphic >> Illustration - Women Slim Fit Denim Jeans 156056 by VecFashion @ CreativeMarket
File Size: 10.61 MB; DPI: 300 DPI; Vector: Yes.
A Slim Cut Denim Jeans is normally fitted at hips and much tapered and hugging towards through out the leg till its bottom hem. This denim jeans vector template includes Metal Shank, Main Satin Label on inside waist band, Metal Rivets, PU Label, Back Pocket PU Label, Belt Loops with Bar Tack Stitch and Double Needle Stitch on all over garment.
Vec Id: VF127
Formats: AI CS6, EPS 10, JPEG
Keywords: dark wash, fashion vector, indigo, slim cut jeans, stone wash, vector template, women denim jeans.


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A few years ago, I spent two weeks in Kauai with friends and family. It was one of the most beautiful place I've ever been to and I can't wait to go back someday. We hiked, snorkeled, paddle boarded, biked on the beach and ate all the things the islanders ate. It was magical!
Sun-screened and flip-flopped, we snacked on giant bowls of Hawaiian ice, sipped on touristy cocktails with umbrellas and absolutely devoured all the poke in sight.
Poke just means little cubes of raw fish tossed in a seasoning, similar to sashimi. Usually a side dish, add rice and all the fresh toppings and you have a simple, light meal that is basically a giant deconstructed sushi roll. If raw fish gives you the creeps, sear the marinated tuna before putting the bowl together, it'll still be delicious!
If it's a hot day and you really don't want to cook, then this beauty is your go-to summer dish. With all the color, texture and fresh flavor, this bowl is fancy enough to impress with almost no effort.
The hardest part about this recipe is the rice. And no, it's not cheating if you use your rice cooker! The rest of the dish, really makes itself. If you like spice, be sure to add some of your favorite hot sauce to the marinade to give it a bit of a kick or top it with some fresh chopped chiles.
Ahi Tuna Poke Rice Bowl
This tasty rice bowl is straight from Hawaii! It's packed with fresh toppings and lots of tender tuna for a healthy, flavorful bowl.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 4 Servings
- Marinade
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- Hot sauce, if desired
- Rice Bowl
- 1 1/2 cups sushi rice or long grain white rice
- 1 1/2 pounds sushi-grade ahi tuna
- 3 carrots, shredded
- 1 ripe mango, peeled, pitted, chopped
- 2 watermelon radishes, thinly sliced
- 2 large, ripe avocados, peeled, pitted, sliced
- 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, chopped
- 1 bunch cilantro, roughly chopped
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- Black sesame seeds, if desired
- In a small bowl, stir together all the marinade ingredients; set aside.
- Cook rice according to package directions, cool to room temperature.
- With a sharp knife, cut the tuna into cubes. In a large bowl, gently toss the tuna with 2 to 3 tablespoons, or just enough of the marinade to coat the tuna. Reserve the remaining marinade to serve with the bowls. Refrigerate the tuna for up to 1 hour while you prep the remaining ingredients.
- To serve, arrange a scoop of rice in each bowl and top with desired toppings and additional sauce on the side.
Need help selecting or cutting the tuna? Check out this great article from Bon Appétite
What are your favorite poke toppings?
Here are a few more sashimi inspired recipes…
Poke Quinoa Bowl from I am a Food Blog
Seared Tuna Poke Salad from Half Baked Harvest
Tequila-Spiked Shrimp Ceviche with Avocado from A Cooking Canuck
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What Price Success?
March 5, 2015 in Finance, Money, Small Business, Small Business Advice by lizbygrave
by Marcia MacLeod
As I write this, the headline news in print, on TV and radio and online is the revelation that two leading and respected politicians – Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind – are yet again embroiled in cash for access scandals. It's quite clear that even the wealthiest and best-known public figures can be corrupted by money.
And while exposing a couple of corrupt politicians may seem like a million miles away from a small business in north London, there is a price for everything and as small business owners, we all have to work out what the best price is for our product or service – and for our sanity. Read the rest of this entry →


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Harvey & John worked with film director James Frost to develop a variety of concepts for Nike's Human Printing Press.
Istanbul is a city of fanatical sports fans but moving, playing and training aren't high on the agenda. To change this Nike needs to motivate them to get moving and show that sport isn't just for professionals. That's where The Human Printing Press comes in.
The giant press was designed and built to capture the movement of athletes and transfer them onto the page, ultimately creating a series of totally unique 'Made by Movement' posters that the youth of Istanbul will do anything to get their hands on.


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It seems that the docker images are largeish at least 500mb or more. I compared my habitat-ized Tomcat with the docker hub's Tomcat:
bdangit/tomcat 8.0.36-20160726172516 592.7 MB
tomcat 8.0.36-jre8-alpine 134.6 MB
Am I building my docker containers wrong?
No, you aren't building them wrong. The major difference is the choice of libc - alpine uses musl, which is significantly smaller than glibc, at the cost of ease of compilation for the common case. A closer comparable would be tomcat:8.0.36-jre8, which uses glibc. That image comes in at 336MB.
Looking at your deps, you depend on both ant and jdk8. Most likely you don't need the jdk, but instead the jre - it looks like nobody has packaged the JRE yet. You probably don't need ant, either.
Thanks @adam! You are right. I did the suggestions you stated; and was able to get a binary that is 361.4MB (slightly larger by 30MB but getting closer).
I moved the ant and jdk as build dependencies as they are required for building tomcat from source. Actual dependencies is blank. In order to get jre, core/jdk8 includes the jre directory so I moved that into my packaging. But I have other issues, where I am able to run hab start bdangit/tomcat inside the studio and it will work; however outside in docker it won't work as it appears I'm missing some of the shared libraries.
hab start bdangit/tomcat
tomcat(O): /hab/pkgs/bdangit/tomcat/8.0.36/20160726221441/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Sounds like I'll just have to make a hab package for jre.


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At first I agreed with the posts that BSG didn't need an episode like this but then I changed me mind. Yes we don't know the full reason why Moore needs to tell us about some of the characters back story, some of it makes sense and connects with the main story (Baltar's father and being an overall empty vessel) and some of it doesn't...yet. What this episode was trying to do was make the viewer get to know a side of the characters that we hadn;t seen before so when the story eventually plays out, we feel an emotional loss. Its clear that these characters play a pivotal role in the final episode but Daybreak part 1 was a good episode and as others point out, its part 1 of 3, not a standalone.
How I think things will play out.
The Black hole which is defending the cyclon colony is the same black hole that Starbuck dissappeared into back at the end of season 3, this black hole also connects to Earth. Throughout the series, Starbuck has been referred to by the hybrids (and now her husband) as the Harbinger of Death and will lead Humanity to its doom. Starbuck will lead a portion of the galactica army to the cyclon colony which will eventually lead to both sides destruction. To complete the cycle, some of the characters will survive the 'end' and go through the black hole to earth, the earth of the past, ie 2000 years ago. The survivors will most likely be in a raptor around Orbit and will warn the Earth cyclons of what has occured. These 'Angels' will warn the Final Five of Earths past and set things in motion. One of the 'Angels' will be Baltar, he has done nothing selfless his entire life, this will be his reincarnation, ironically as the one true god he has been pilgrimming since exhile.
All this has happenned before, and will happen again.


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Barbara led a session about our marriages, wedding pictures, and obits. I wrote this poem about my husband Wayne who died of leukemia. A couple of women asked if they could change the name and use the poem in honor of their own dear ones. I agreed and changed "To Wayne" to
"To Him."
I wonder when
I kiss my dear one's fading flesh
Taste life's loss as our lips mesh
I wonder why
Caresses, comfort I did give
Then, after all he could not live…
I wonder how and where
To find the strength I sorely need
I dream his words so oft indeed…
He swore he'd leave our sweet love never
He said life's strangest force forever
Was how love does but change its form
And I must accept this as the norm…
I lift my heavy heart to day's bright light
His breath, a breeze, calms me at night
Warm fire, clear cool water, freshest air
Earth's green goodness shows me his care…
I wonder…but truly sense and know
Above, among the clouds of angels' wings
My love, a new soul, sings and sings.
Virginia L. Wylie


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Man to serve up to 20 years for drug death
Victim's mother tells Diosi: 'You held her life in your hands'
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BRENTWOOD — An Epping man who sold a fatal dose of liquid methadone to 26-year-old Danielle Rock of Exeter in 2010 will spend the next eight to 20 years in prison.
Lorant Diosi, 27, was sentenced following a roughly 90-minute sentencing hearing Friday at Rockingham County Superior Court.
Diosi previously agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of dispensing a controlled drug — death resulting.
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- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2016. "The DDT Effect: The case of Economic Growth, Public Debt and Democracy Relationship," MPRA Paper 75022, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 11 Nov 2016.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2016. "Electricity Supply and System losses in Ghana. What is the red line? Have we crossed over?," MPRA Paper 74559, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 11 Nov 2016.
- Mensah, Justice T. & Pomaa-Berko, Maame & Adom, Philip Kofi, 2012. "Does Automation Improve Stock Market Efficiency? Evidence from Ghana," MPRA Paper 43642, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Adams, Samuel, 2018. "Energy savings in Nigeria. Is there a way of escape from energy inefficiency?," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P2), pages 2421-2430.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Insaidoo, Michael & Minlah, Michael Kaku & Abdallah, Abdul-Mumuni, 2017. "Does renewable energy concentration increase the variance/uncertainty in electricity prices in Africa?," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 81-100.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2017. "The long-run price sensitivity dynamics of industrial and residential electricity demand: The impact of deregulating electricity prices," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 43-60.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2016. "The transition between energy efficient and energy inefficient states in Cameroon," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 248-262.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Amakye, Kwaku & Barnor, Charles & Quartey, George & Bekoe, William, 2016. "Shift in demand elasticities, road energy forecast and the persistence profile of shocks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 189-206.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Amuakwa-Mensah, Franklin, 2016. "What drives the energy saving role of FDI and industrialization in East Africa?," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 925-942.
- Philip Kofi Adom & William Bekoe & George Quartey & Kwaku Amakye & Charles Barnor, 2016. "Impact of Market-based Policies and External Fiscal Discipline on Ghana's Inflation," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 20(4), pages 794-816, November.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2015. "Business cycle and economic-wide energy intensity: The implications for energy conservation policy in Algeria," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 334-350.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2015. "Asymmetric impacts of the determinants of energy intensity in Nigeria," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 570-580.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2015. "Determinants of energy intensity in South Africa: Testing for structural effects in parameters," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 334-346.
- Philip Kofi Adom & Kwaku Amakye & Charles Barnor & George Quartey, 2015. "The long-run impact of idiosyncratic and common shocks on industry output in Ghana," OPEC Energy Review, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, vol. 39(1), pages 17-52, March.
- Philip Kofi Adom & Fidelis Zumah & Abdul Wahab Mubarik & Afia Boatenmaa Ntodi & Charles Nathaniel Darko, 2015. "Analysing Inflation Dynamics in Ghana," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 27(1), pages 1-13, March.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2014. "Determination Of Spatial Integration And Substitution Of Foreign Rice For Local Rice In Ghana," Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics (RAAE), Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra Provider-Homepage: http://www.roaae.org;Association of Agricultural Economists in Slovakia (APES), vol. 17(2).
- Adom, Philip K. & Kwakwa, Paul Adjei, 2014. "Effects of changing trade structure and technical characteristics of the manufacturing sector on energy intensity in Ghana," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 475-483.
- Adom, Philip Kofi, 2014. "Determinants of food availability and access in Ghana: what can we learn beyond the regression results?," Studies in Agricultural Economics, Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, vol. 116(3), December.
- Philip Kofi Adom & Kwaku Amakye & Edinam Doh & Regina Anku, 2014. "SMEs Record Keeping in Ghana: Has VAT Made It Better?," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 4(1), pages 152-169.
- Philip Kofi Adom, 2013. "Time-varying analysis of aggregate electricity demand in Ghana: a rolling analysis," OPEC Energy Review, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, vol. 37(1), pages 63-80, March.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Bekoe, William, 2013. "Modelling electricity demand in Ghana revisited: The role of policy regime changes," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 42-50.
- William Bekoe & Philip Kofi Adom, 2013. "Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Private Investment in Ghana:An Empirical Investigation," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 3(2), pages 276-293.
- Kofi Adom, Philip & Bekoe, William & Amuakwa-Mensah, Franklin & Mensah, Justice Tei & Botchway, Ebo, 2012. "Carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth, industrial structure, and technical efficiency: Empirical evidence from Ghana, Senegal, and Morocco on the causal dynamics," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 314-325.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Bekoe, William & Akoena, Sesi Kutri Komla, 2012. "Modelling aggregate domestic electricity demand in Ghana: An autoregressive distributed lag bounds cointegration approach," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 530-537.
- Adom, Philip Kofi & Bekoe, William, 2012. "Conditional dynamic forecast of electrical energy consumption requirements in Ghana by 2020: A comparison of ARDL and PAM," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 367-380.
- Philip Kofi Adom, 2011. "Electricity Consumption-Economic Growth Nexus: The Ghanaian Case," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 1(1), pages 18-31, June.
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Savannah, GA 31401
Burgers made with the fresh ingredients
Large variety of food offering any of the 33 burgers on their menu as a veggie burger in a 1/3 lbs, 1/2 lbs or a 1 lb version.
All fresh bread and veggies as toppings and even a variety of veg friendly appetizers.
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Veggie burgers were from a box... although they were vegan (gardenburger) the gross bleached bun they came on was bigger then they were by 400%. Also they put cheese on my veggie burger the first time around even though I asked for it without and it doesn't automatically come with it. The waitress acted like she was high, and the peppers, onions, tomatoes and mushrooms I put on it were so greasy they were brown not "fresh".
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Time to plan for high cost of nursing home care
Life for farmers has changed a lot in the past 40 years. The commonplace practice of family members caring for an aging parent until they passed on to their eternal reward is virtually no more.
Most farming spouses are now working outside the home and are simply not in a position to care for an elderly relative. This raises the spectre of future nursing home care in many farmers' minds and how the cost of same can be borne.
Farmers contemplating transferring the family farm can be faced with a very difficult choice. Will they hold on to some land as security in the event that their successor runs into financial or matrimonial difficulties in which case the land is an assessable asset for determining eligibility for free nursing home care should the need arise, or will they throw caution to the wind and transfer everything.
One of my clients referred to this as the 'Divorce Dilemma'.
His concerns surrounded the possibility of his son's marriage hitting the rocks and the possible consequences for the farm.
It is very difficult to advise farmers in this regard as circumstances will differ in every case.
However, regardless of how far off the prospect appears, nursing home care will be a reality for many and those families who are currently bearing the full cost of nursing home charges are unlikely to make the same mistakes that their parents did.


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- 2017-05-26: New headless Drupal 8 / Symfony 3 site at FranceTV Sport, architected and tech-led by OSInet
- 2017-02-20: New Drupal 8 site galaxy (+/- 70 sites) for Agences Régionales de Santé architected and tech-led by OSInet, delivered by Klee
- 2015-08-21: 50% less server load with MongoDB on the Drupal 7 site factory at France Télévisions
- 2015-07-15: Our first Drupal 8 production site at France Télévisions is live
- 2014-08-18: 400% speedup in 3 weeks for http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/ : who said Drupal back-offices had to be slow ?
- 2014-02-07: Sotchi Olympics traffic not a problem for http://www.francetvsport.fr/ , which I rearchitected on Drupal 7 in 2013
- 2011-09-14: Completed migration of FranceInfo.FR from SPIP to Drupal
- 2011-07-13: The new social network features of Le Figaro are now powered by an OSInet-designed MongoDB implementation
- 2010-08-16: France.FR is back online with OSInet and Typhon
The Drupal Block system from drop.org to Drupal 8: video from DrupalCon PragueSubmitted by Frederic Marand on Fri, 2013-09-27 09:31
So DrupalCon Prague is almost over, and I can now share with you the video of my session about the history of the Drupal block system, from drop.org to Drupal 8, just as recorded on wednesday.
The session page is available on https://prague2013.drupal.org/session/blocks-drop.org-drupal-8-and-beyond where you can also rate it. Please to it over there, or add your comments here: it is very useful for me to see what needs to be adjusted for upcoming presentations. Based on the overall feedback, it seems that:
Tip of the day: CRUD standard vs SQL vs MongoDBSubmitted by Frederic Marand on Tue, 2013-08-20 11:29
Just noticed this little gem on a 10Gen course, about the respective names of the CRUD operations in common practice, versus the equivalent operations in SQL and in MongoDB. Links point to Wikipedia for SQL and the relevant MongoDB documentation page for the MongoDB column.
Have fun with PHP: how to bypass an object constructorSubmitted by Frederic Marand on Sun, 2013-08-18 16:35
Some of the features in PHP may be surprising. Think for instance of the way PDO is able to create classed results, place the query results into them, and only then invoke the constructor when using
PDO::FETCH_CLASS fetch mode without the additional
PDO::FETCH_PROPS_LATE. Every wished you could do this in userland code ? Turns out this has long been possible, and is even simpler since PHP 5.4.
When Behat does not find features or bootstrap...Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sun, 2013-08-11 12:12
The issue
I was checking a bunch of Behat features left by former developers on a project, and noticed that the Rake rule to run them looked like:
$ behat -c config/behat.yml features
But this looked suspiciously like defaut options. How about running them more simply like just
$ behat ? Alas, this would throw something like:
When Drush Make fails to apply patches...Submitted by Frederic Marand on Fri, 2013-01-25 13:32
The issue
These last few days, I had noticed a problem with Drush Make and patches: some patches, be they rolled by our team or from elsewhere, would apply without a glitch, but some others, which worked normally according to the test bot on Drupal.org, would fail to apply without any obvious reason.
I had mostly put it out of my list of pressing issues when I really had to use an old version of OpenLayers, 7.x-2.0-alpha2 to be specific, AND apply a patch fixing one of the bugs in that module: behaviors plugin not being located correctly (http://drupal.org/node/1898662 if you want details). So I rolled the patch, tested it locally, the qa.d.o bot applied it and did not report more errors than expected for that old version.... and my Drush Make install refused to apply it.
Here was the relevant excerpt:
projects[domain] = 3.7
projects[domain][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/domain-foreach_argument-1879502-1.patch"
; ...snip...
projects[openlayers] = 2.0-alpha2
projects[openlayers][patch][] = "http://drupal.org/files/0001-Fix-the-path-file-declaration-for-behaviors.patch"
The Domain patch applied normally, but the OpenLayers patch would't apply. What could be wrong ?
Rethinking watchdog(): logging in Kohana 3Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sun, 2012-11-04 12:27
Continuing this exploration of logging solutions used in various projects, let's look at logging in Kohana 3.
While Monolog and log4php share a mostly common logging model of a frontal Logger object instantiated as many times as needed to supply different logging channels, in which log events are Processed/Filtered then written out by Handlers/Writers, Kohana builds upon a simpler model, which can be summarized by three patterns:
- Singleton: there is only one instance of the Kohana
- Observer:
Log_Writerinstances are attached (and detached) to(/from) the logger instance and handle events they are interested in based on their own configuration. Much like a Drupal hook, all writer instances receive each
- Delegation: the
Logexposes a
write()to trigger the buffered writing, but does not implement it itself, but delegates to the
Log_Writerobjects to perform it. Buffered logging control is a
Logproperty, not a
Rethinking watchdog(): Monolog vs log4phpSubmitted by Frederic Marand on Sat, 2012-11-03 16:45
Beyond Monolog, other packages provide advanced logging services. Apache log4php is another well-known logging solution, used (among others) by CMS Made Simple, SugarCRM, and vTiger CRM.
It is based on the famous log4j package from the Java world, and from uses of this package I have seen on customer sites, I feel that it carries a lot of useless baggage, and is - in my opinion - significantly less of a good match than Monolog for Drupal 8.
Monolog vs log4php : equivalences
There is some degree of equivalence between the Monolog and log4php components:
|Log an event
|Very similar
|Store an event
|both can be chained, group, control bubbling (Monolog) / filtering (log4php)
|Format an event representation
|log4php layouts can format a group of events, Monolog formatters format an individual event
|Massage event data
|Not so similar. Monolog processors will often add extra data, while log4php Renderers are typically used to format non-string events as strings.
Rethinking watchdog(): Monolog architectureSubmitted by Frederic Marand on Fri, 2012-11-02 13:11
I've been discussing Monolog in Drupal events (DrupalCamp Lyon, DevDays Barcelona) as a possible alternative to the legacy Drupal
watchdog() service for quite some time, but never took the time to explain it in writing, and the feature freeze date is looming ahead, so since I'm taking part in th Gent code sprint, and code has been starting to take shape
here, and
here is an overview of the Monolog classes.
The diagram below is a simplified version of the Monolog architecture. It includes all classes and interfaces, but only the most significant methods, no constants, and none of the non-bundled classes and interfaces upon which some of the builtins depend.
Overview of the pluginification of Field API in Drupal 8Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sun, 2012-08-19 11:54
If you have been wondering about the general organization of Field API in D8 and did not take time to work yched's existing D8 Field API sandbox, here is a simplified and cleaned-up version of the currently envisioned class and interface set.
OSInet library converted to PSR0 / PSR1Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sun, 2012-05-06 12:21
Over the last few days, I finally decided to revisit the old OSInet PHP library, to dust it off somehow, and convert the class-based parts to PSR0 and the whole to what seems to be liable to become PSR1 at some point.
This library contains a zoo of function helping with PHP-GTK development, and three packages with their demo application:
- Class Grapher
- Build a graph of inheritance and interface implementations on a directory (and subdirectories) of PHP code
- This package uses the Drupal Grammar Paser to parse code, and includes a Drush 5 plugin for easy use within a Drupal site, but can also be used to parse non-Drupal code, as long as the Grammar Parser - which does not depend on Drupal either - is installed in the include path.
- It is a more complete version of the Drupal-only Class Grapher sandbox on drupal.org.
- In the current version, graphs are generated using GraphViz. An extension to a client-side visualization tool like the Infovis toolkit should come someday. Suggestions for other client-side libraries welcome (please comment!).
- Open Document Calc reader
- This package provides a few classes and methods to extract the content of OpenDocument (LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, ...) spreadsheets.
- Finite State Machine
- This package is used to build applications designed around a finite state machine, and is mostly intended for use in PHP-GTK applications, to provide asynchronous processing.
- The demo application uses the PHP FTP extension to expose its asynchronous notifications in a PHP-GTK UI


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The Ultimate Fighting Championship will be streaming yet another "special announcement" live from Quebec City, Canada today at 12 p.m. ET. The announcement is expected to center around the full schedule of events centered in Canada for 2014.
Our friends to the North have always been very passionate about MMA, but that allegiance is going to be tested in 2014 without their golden boy, former UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre still retired (at least for the time being).
In preparation for the announcement, UFC Managing Director for UFC Canada Tom Wright appeared on SportsNet to discuss the fact that they do miss St. Pierre, but will move on with their plans for Canada with or without him:
"You know what, I'm a huge Georges St-Pierre fan. I think all Canadians are. We're really looking forward to actually seeing him back. I think he will come back. He may even come back in 2014, but who knows? But one of the reasons we're having this press conference and talking about the different things that we're doing, is because we will continue to move on.
"We've got some great fighters in our country. TJ Grant, we've Sam Stout, we've got these women I've been speaking (about), Mitch Clark is an up and comer… TUF Nations we just finished up Episode 2…So there's a lot of exciting things that we're doing to make sure the sport continues to grow, that our athletes continue to develop and while we'd love to see Georges back, and at some point we will, we'll move on."
In St. Pierre's absence, Canadian MMA fans received their own season of TUF (kind of) when their own Patrick Cote was signed on to lead the Canadian team against Kyle Noke's Australian team on TUF Nations. But that's hardly a consolation prize for losing one of the greatest fighters the UFC has ever seen, so Canadians will await his return regardless of what this anouncement may entail.
Check out the live developments here on LowKick and offer up your thoughts on the UFC's continuing expansion as a global company!


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Hebrides islands. The name comes from the personal name Paul. The Gaelic form of the name was Mac Phail, which is normally Anglicized MacFail or MacPhail, and means son of Paul.
McQuaale Early Origins
Isle of Man, where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
McQuaale Spelling Variations
McQuaale Spelling Variations
The translation of Gaelic names in the Middle Ages was not a task undertaken with great care. Records from that era show an enormous number of spelling variations, even in names referring to the same person. Over the years McQuaale has appeared as Quail, Quayle, Quaile, Quailes, McQuail, McQuayl and others.
McQuaale Early History
McQuaale Early History
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The Great Migration
Many of the ancestors of Dalriadan families who arrived in North America still live in communities along the east coast of Canada and the United States. In the American War of Independence many of the original settlers traveled north to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the ancestors of many Scots began recovering their collective national heritage through Clan societies, highland games, and other patriotic events. Research into the origins of individual families in North America revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name McQuaale or a variant listed above: Anne Quaile and her husband, who came to Virginia in 1623; Hugh Quale settled in Barbados in 1679; Joe Quyle settled in Virginia in 1635; John Quayle settled in Virginia in 1650.
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Qualis ero spero
Motto Translation: I hope what I shall be.
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Oil Furnace to Gas Furnace Upgrade
Loud, Inefficient, Even Dangerous – It Had to Go
Here we have yet another oil furnace that should have been converted over many many years ago. At a certain point, a furnace becomes an unmanageable risk. You are, after all, playing with fire. Once you upgrade, you'll spend less on fuel, be more comfortable, and be safer in your home.
It was an old Chrysler Airtemp oil furnace, built by Chrysler Corporation. I may have seen a half dozen of these in the last 30 years. It was built like a tank. The home was built in 1951 and I'm willing to bet the furnace was original.
The Oil Furnace Legacy
One of the biggest things to consider when changing from oil to gas is the old tank. If your tank is in the ground sooner or later your going to be dealing with that tank … better sooner than later. Have it decommissioned.
The American Standard 80% furnace is obviously a little smaller in dimensions and in this case as in most we down-sized the furnace to match the home. We added a liner in to the existing masonry chimney and ran a new gas line from the new meter to the furnace. Pretty simple, straightforward project.
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Dr. Linda Barboa holds degrees in speech pathology and audiology, psychology, and early childhood education. She is an experienced speech-language pathologist, with a background as a special education director, director of a center for autism, and university professor.
She has worked as an educator in the United States and Europe and has presented numerous programs to professionals across the country.
Dr. Barboa is the co-author of several books about autism, including Stars in Her Eyes; Navigating the Maze of Childhood Autism.
She currently resides in Battlefield, Missouri.
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On this episode of The Autism Show Podcast we listen to navigating the maze of childhood autism with Dr. Linda Barboa.
Hear more about Linda's inspiring journey to become a part of Stars4Autism and co-author several books on autism.
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- Linda's inspiration for getting involved with Stars 4 Autism
- What a place for autism authors on Facebook is doing for the autism community.
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Webcast Highlights:
- Who Millennials really are, and what they want from a career
- How to use people analytics to assess cultural fit and address Millennial retention
- Four unique ways to increase Millennial retention
Millennials are here to stay, and they are the next generation of leaders in the workforce. But who are they? There is no shortage of stereotypes—they're entitled, notorious job-hoppers who are too engrossed in their cell phones to do much else. Many of these negative stereotypes are wrong; the truth is, Millennials want many of the same things that GenXers and Boomers want—financial security, meaningful work, and opportunities for career advancement. They just seek it in different ways.
There is a huge wealth of talent to be found in the Millennial generation, and companies willing to engage Millennials on their terms will rediscover loyalty that seems to be the herald of a bygone employment age.


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This has to be my favourite painted traffic signal boxes in Brisbane: the 'GFC hangover' with its clever use of bear and bull market symbolism (it's on the corner of Charlotte and Eagle streets).
Category: money
alan greenspan can print more money
This is screwed up:
"This is not an issue of credit rating. The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that"
Alan Greenspan on the USA's credit rating being downgraded on the weekend.
Print more money? Seriously? Is that really the solution to the whole world, Australia included, being addicted to debt and having been on one huge debt binge for the last decade? Confidence inspiring.
Video here.
warren buffett's grandfather on having savings for a rainy day
"…the mental satisfaction of having $1000.00 (in 1939) laid away where you can put your hands on it, is worth more than what interest it might bring, especially if you have the investment in something that you could not realize on quickly."
Warren Buffett's grandfather Ernest Buffett writes a letter in 1939 on the importance of what Scott Pape calls Mojo Money, some money tucked away for just in case.
I can't stress how important this is, or how much it changes your attitude to life. I have quit jobs I wouldn't have without my mojo money. It allows you to think rationally in non-rational situations.
warren buffett on home ownership
"Home ownership makes sense for most Americans, particularly at today's lower prices and bargain interest rates. All things considered, the third best investment I ever made was the purchase of my home, though I would have made far more money had I instead rented and used the purchase money to buy stocks. (The two best investments were wedding rings.) For the $31,500 I paid for our house, my family and I gained 52 years of terrific memories with more to come.
But a house can be a nightmare if the buyer's eyes are bigger than his wallet and if a lender – often protected by a government guarantee – facilitates his fantasy. Our country's social goal should not be to put families into the house of their dreams, but rather to put them into a house they can afford."
~ Warren E Buffett – the world's third richest person, even after giving billions to charity, applies some common sense thinking to the dream of home ownership in his entertaining yearly letter to his investors.
In Australia, we still have hugely overpriced houses, and banks willing to facilitate the common fantasy of owning a hugely expensive dream home with lifelong debt. It makes even less financial sense to own an overpriced home in Australia.
the intergenerational wars continue
You Boomers! I swear you are the worst generation ever to walk this earth, self centred, ladder kicking, asset sucking, greed merchants, look at moi, look at moi. all you have ever done is position yourselves in some moral highground, now its emotional intelligence! Cant you all just accept that you inhaled the stoic platform of stabiltiy and unmatched prosperity provided by your hardworking, long suffering parents and ridiculed it in the most pathetic way, dirty hippies. to much outta sight and not enough insight.
Why dont you all just climb into your disgustingly named (and priced) winnebagos and drive off into the sunset. "Spending the kids inheritance"! Pah- you lot spent the countries inheritence.
So to all you 60 year old super sensitive emo dudes, dont trust anyone over thirty, life begins at 40, hippy, yippee, yuppie, dink, grey nomads, go get into your now luxuriously appointed retirement villas (after saving money sending your folks to crap ones) and shut the hell up, I for one am sick of you and all your ridiculous studies.
~ The inter-generational wars continue: a SMH reader posts a rather passionate anti-baby-boomer comment.
damon young on bonsai
I very much enjoyed this blog post by Damon Young, on bonsai and zen.
The finest bonsai have many, if not all, of these virtues. Instead of trying to represent every tree in a forest in their intricacy and detail, they suggest the landscape: the vital, ideal form, with a little moss, a single rock. Instead of being perfectly symmetrical, the best bonsai are balanced, but irregular: a harmony of differing angles, masses, shapes. They are not allowed to become overgrown or messy – they require constant pruning and training to acquire their evocative simplicity. And, while they're kept alive, they give the impression of age: trees subject to the wearying flow of the decades, and to the cycle of the seasons.
The bonsai can be a craft, an artwork, and a meditation aid. It offers a brief chance to let go of anguish, false hope, and all the leaden accoutrements of the psyche. And it fits on the porch.
People who read this blog would know I am a big fan of Damon's writing, particularly on gardening and mortgages.
october is 'buy nothing new month'
I like the concept of 'buy nothing new month' which is being promoted by the Salvos stores. The only thing I am a dubious about is their Radio Rentals sponsorship, and how they say renting things from radio rentals lowers your footprint. Really? I'd think buying an appliance and keeping it for a really long time is better than renting the appliance and constantly upgrading it. But that's just me.
Otherwise, a great idea. And they have a blog too. I'll give it a go this month, and see how I do.
on debt
"Debt, no matter how creatively structured, is anathema to peace of mind."
~ Ryan Freitas's thoughts on debt – included in his 35 lessons of 35 years.
This statement succintly explains why I don't own, and probably won't ever own, a house. A lifetime of debt is not for me, I would rather rent, have money in the bank and peace of mind. I'm what you call debt-adverse.
banks and casinos
"To call banks casinos, as is often done, is actually unfair to casinos, which are required to hold certain levels of capital because they must be able to cash in a customer's chips."~ Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek June 22, 2009)


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By Tracy Meyer, nutritionist, Advit
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word non-nutritive as "not relating to or providing nutrition". In other words, these are additives included in pig diets that are not providing a nutritive benefit but otherwise aiding in the growth of the animal.
There are numerous products on the market and one can get overwhelmed with choice. In this article I will highlight the more common additives and provide a basic description of each so as to help make an educated decision when choosing additional feed additives.


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Friday, August 13, 2010
PNG Porcelain Floral Pitcher
This set consists of fifty-five beautifully painted porcelain pitchers. Perfect to hold flowers, as an element for a still-life scene, or wherever a delicate touch of loveliness is needed. Select thumbnail for a preview -shown 50% of actual size. Hope you will enjoy using these!
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Machete – Red Band trailer
20th Century Fox has brought online the Comic-Con Red Band trailer for Machete, opening in theaters on September 3.
The Goon – trailer
The full Comic-Con trailer for the animated adaptation of Eric Powell's The Goon, produced by David Fincher and voiced by Paul Giamatti.
Megamind – Comic Con footage
The footage from DreamWorks Animation's Megamind that debuted at the San Diego Comic-Con is now online.
Street Fighter X Tekken – SDCC gameplay footage
First gameplay of Street Fighter X Tekken shown at SDCC 2010.
The Looney Tunes Show – WB sneak peak
Tony Cervone and Hugh Davidson (Producers) discuss how the new Looney Tunes is written like an animated sitcom.
Young Justice – WB sneak peak
The producers discuss the unique time period of the show and how this new generation of super heroes deal with their talents.
Tron: Legacy – SDCC trailer
Walt Disney Pictures debuted the new trailer for Tron Legacy at the San Diego Comic-Con and you can now watch it here.
Marvel announces 4 new Animes to Debut in 2011 on G4
Marvel announced at SDCC on Saturday that four new japanese animes will air in 2011 exclusively on the G4 network.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game – Comic Con trailer
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, coming to PSN on August 10, 2010.
Green Lantern – SDCC promo images
Warner Bros. Pictures has provided us with four new Comic-Con promo images for Green Lantern.
Thor – Comic Con trailer – (watch it while it lasts)
This Thor trailer from Comic Con leaked to the internet today. Enjoy it while you can.
DC Universe Online – SDCC trailer
Check out the trailer shown for DC Universe Online at SDCC.
Underworld 4 bringing back Beckinsale?
Len Wiseman told IGN that his wife, Kate Beckinsale, could be back for Underworld 4.
Smallville's Chloe Sullivan to become Comic Book Character
Chloe Sullivan will be converted into comic book form for Action Comics.
SDCC 2010 – J.J. Abrams on LOST finale
JJ Abrams gives his opinion about the LOST finale during a panel at San Diego Comic Con 2010.
Thor's "Destroyer" revealed by Marvel Studios
Thor director Kenneth Branagh unveiled the Destroyer from the film at Marvel Studios' Comic-Con booth.
SDCC 2010 Coverage – Day 4: Smallville Panel
Details and highlights from the Smallville panel at San Diego Comic Con.


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"Black Friday" is no term of endearment, especially for the people who have to work in retail that day.
From retailers' perspectives, being "in the black" is a good thing — it means profits. For many of them, Black Friday is the biggest sales day of the year.
But the name has darker origins. As Time reports, newspapers in the 1960s reappropriated the term Black Friday — which was originally used to describe the September 24, 1864, stock market crash and panic it caused — to describe the rush of crowds stores saw the day after Thanksgiving.
These days, to call it the most hectic day in retail is an understatement.
To get a better sense for what it's really like to work retail on Black Friday, we asked a former Best Buy sales associate who handled customer service and worked as a cashier during five Black Fridays until 2013 to weigh in. Here's what she had to say about her experience:


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To truly understand my philosophy, how I work with clients and how I run my business you'll have to understand who I am as a person. That means sharing the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. Truth be told, I share this with you so that we are on the same page from the start. If who I am doesn't work for you, then I'll save you a lot of time.
The Beginning
I grew up in the South Bay area, as the youngest of three girls. As women, we were not supported to pursue college or a career, being led to believe that learning how to type would serve us well so we could become secretaries.
(Given the amount of typing I do as an author and information product creator, this was actually a good thing).
I was fairly enterprising, even at a young age, doing everything from babysitting to running a lemonade stand. I even started my own neighborhood newspaper at the age of 8 where people would pay a penny for a listing!
I was raised in a traditional religious upbringing and from as far back as I can remember something didn't resonate with me with what we were being taught. It seemed there was a lot of hypocrisy. At the age of nine I had a death and dying experience and from that point forward I felt like the religious teachings did not resonate with what I intuitively knew to be true.
For me it was a pivotal experience in shaping my spiritual beliefs and a lifelong quest for deeper knowledge.
The Middle
Although I was raised in a relatively conservative, middle of the road home, somewhere along the line I got way off track.
I barely graduated high school. I took occasional college courses, most of which I received in-completes in, and more or less "drifted" from day to day. To say I felt like a victim is an understatement. I was convinced I had been dealt a bad hand in the card game of life. Throughout my teenage years and my 20's and 30's I lived a very "fast life" and made poor choices that resulted in my being both homeless and unemployable.
I may have continued that way had it not been for a spiritual awakening that allowed me to discover more for my life.
It was this awakening and the guidance of some amazing mentors that invited me to step into my higher purpose. Granted, it didn't happen in a day. It was a long drawn out process to get from the streets to the boardroom. But I knew my purpose was to help others step into their higher purpose and also make a lot of money in the process.
But what does a homeless, thirty-something with no college education and no job record do to start making money and a difference in the world?
Life as an employee
The answer I discovered, was in getting my hands dirty. Literally. I began work doing whatever I needed to feel good about myself and generate money to put a roof over my head. That meant I cleaned yards, cleaned homes, ran errands, and doing basically anything anyone asked of me that aligned with my new direction and focus. I intuitively knew it was an important part of my journey to prove my willingness to do what it took to clean up my life. I realized that part of getting to the other side was going through, not around.
After some time, I craved getting an RJ (real job). I wanted to work in an office, and got a job at a small radio station in Santa Rosa, California, to sell airtime. With no experience and no track record, my first sale was convincing the sales manager that she should hire me. When she asked, "Why should I hire you?" I told her, "I will be the best sale person you have ever had!"
Those words became the cornerstone of virtually everything I did from that point forward – "I will be the best _________ you ever had."
Not only did I become their best salesperson I could be, every other job I had after that I shined. This included a stint working for GTE Health Systems, where I was awarded virtually every award possible in the three years I was there including Employee of the Month and Employee of the Year more than once.
And while I loved my job I became super restless due to not being able to fully express myself in that environment. More on a professional level than personal. There were lots of rules and regulations and a creativity ceiling that killed my spirit a little every day.
With two major health scares only a few months apart at the age of forty, I knew it was time to take a leap of faith.
An entrepreneur is born.
It wasn't long before I went out on my own, and started a business. Without having the first idea of how to really run a business, I was running on passion and a dream.
My first offerings were that of a corporate trainer. Shortly after I started my business I got a contract with a national seminar company. It was only a matter of time before I became a very successful trainer. Out of hundreds of contracted trainers I was ranked #1 in all my topics. I worked very hard during this time and was on the road a lot without much time to myself.
I had learned a lot about structure and discipline (Something that was sorely lacking in earlier years.).
After four years, I was worn out. Although I loved the speaking and training, had received tons of achievement awards, a change was lurking just around the corner.
Life as an employee (Part 2)
Not sure what was to come next, I let go of the gig with the seminar company. The sign I made the right choice was when I got a call to join a career development company as a branch manager. I actually thought the call was a joke until I went for the first interview.
I was offered a very nice salary ($65,000) that was more money than I had ever made up to that point. Within a month I was promoted to VP of Operations and guaranteed $100,000 a year plus stock options.
I suspended my involvement for my current business. My partner Karen was in the business almost from the start. While I was at the career development company she was designing websites for other speakers and trainers. Little did we know how instrumental her expertise would be to the success of our business in the coming years.
Meanwhile, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I got the corner office, a team of 25 people and all the leeway I needed to test out creative marketing strategies to build the business.
I really shined in this environment. We increased customer satisfaction, quality clients and we grew the revenues nearly 80% the first year I was there. (went from $1.2 million to over $2 million with much higher client retention and satisfaction.)
How did this happen? I was willing to make the tough decisions that best helped the business, even to the dismay of many employees. It meant creating standards for our sales team and benchmarks to monitor their success.
I set new standards of the way we paid our sales team and put incentives in place for the trainers. We extended credit only to those clients who were a great risk. In the past, the sales team got paid on signings and anyone who could fog a mirror got credit, The lack of collectables reflected this.
Many people loved this new approach. Those that did not were invited to leave.
The business thrived. I felt very complete with the job at the career development company. That is until I found out the owner was stealing from investors for a dot com company he was launching.
The owner was running the financial health of the career development company into the ground.
I discovered that vendors were not getting paid, that our healthcare premiums, social security and taxes were not being paid despite money being taken out our checks. It was a huge mess. A total house of cards.
I was devastated. And when I spoke up I was basically told "this is how real business is run" and to be a good girl and keep my mouth shut.
The problem is I couldn't keep my mouth shut. It was in that moment that I truly understood that integrity is the cornerstone of a successful business.
I did all I could to expose what was happening. Once the company hero, I was now the lone ranger and the bad guy. Most every employee refused to believe what I was uncovering. Many of these same people lost tons of money due to investing in a sinking ship.
When it all came crashing down and I made the decision to move on it was a hard pill to swallow.
"How could I have been so stupid? Who do I think I am to come from where I was in my life only a few short years earlier? I am such a failure," were the thoughts that kept playing in my head.
I went from $100k to nothing overnight. I had no idea what I was going to do. My world felt like it was crashing in.
After sitting on the pity pot for about a month with no idea as to what came next one day I made an incredibly important decision. I was NOT going to let this eat me up. I would get into action.
I had a rough road ahead, but rather than wallow in self-pity, I dusted myself off and put a plan into place that launched the next level of my own business. The whole experience turned out in my favor.
What I learned from the experience is that no matter how bad it gets there is always a solution. And…sometimes the most messed up people and experiences turn out to be the greatest blessings for our growth.
The experience at the career development company was the catalyst for me committing 100% to our business. Even during 9/11, when our business took a serious hit, I discovered that commitment was the key to success, even if it meant reinventing ourselves. I discovered that each time we took bigger risks, had more faith and did whatever it took to turn things around, somehow, someway, things work out better than ever.
When 9/11 hit, I created my first full signature product, Street Smarts Marketing, How to Market a Business on a Limited Budget. I basically locked myself in a room for 30 days and created a full blown physical product. It was the cornerstone of countless other products I would create over the next decade.
Since that time I have written several books, co-authored dozens of books, created countless eBased information products, have been a featured guest on countless teleseminars, webinars, radio interviews, and more.
In 2002 our business was recognized as the #1 home-based business in the state of Utah by the Governor and Department of Workforce Services.
Over the next few years receiving awards and recognition for speaking, business innovation, creativity and community involvement had become a very common occurrence.
By 2009, Business was booming. Life was good. I had just turned 55, was training for a marathon and felt confident that my time had come. I had arrived. So I thought…
Then all hell broke loose. In the eighth mile of a training day I broke my ankle. Shortly after, my father was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer. Four weeks later he transitioned from this life. Then my mother became deathly ill. Not knowing what was in store, I became one of her primary caretakers for the next two years.
What did that entail? Driving 500 miles to and from her place and back to mine. I was willing to do whatever it took to keep the business afloat, take care of my mom and refused to let any excuses hold me back.
Never did I falter in my responsibilities to our business. It was during this time I became a product creation maniac. Staying at my mother's bedside, I created product after product. This gave me the opportunity to generate great revenues, serve my market and most of all, serve my mother at the deepest level possible.
The time with my mother taught me more about trust, foot work and willingness to show up then virtually any other experience in my life. There wasn't time to complain. There wasn't room for excuses. There wasn't anything to do but answer a calling.
In many ways I learned a lot about patience. In other ways, my patience has worn thin. What do I mean?
One of my pet peeves is when people don't have much at all to complain about and yet, they do. They say, "I don't have time, money, knowledge, connections, etc. so I can't succeed."
Or those who try to get something for nothing and then wonder why their business is not working.
I know people who have incredible obstacles and yet, make things work.
I know, to the core of my being, one of my greatest purposes in business is to lift people up who are willing to answer their life calling regardless of what challenges lay ahead. I also know I am to call people on their crap when all I hear is excuse after excuse. I'm here to help push them to points they didn't think they could go and when they succeed, to enable them to experience a great sense of accomplishment.
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Unanswered: Storing RTF in LOBs.
Hey all.
I'm designing a small (5 table) database in Oracle. The developers need to be able to store RTF (Rich Text Format) strings in some of the table.
Is CLOB most appropriate, or would I be better off using BLOB?
Also, the records in one table will need to store two RTF strings, but not for every record. Only about one third of the records in this table will require RTF fields. Should I create the LOB fields in this table, or as a separate table that is linked to this table? I'd think the simplest development approach would be to store them inline, but I am concerned about what performance impact this may have.
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I stand open to being corrected, but as I understand it, typical LOB (whether LOB, BLOB or CLOB) storage by default will store up to 4k inline within the row. Inline meaning as part of the table itself on disk. If every query on the table includes the LOB, and most LOBS are below 4k this can result in apparently good lob performance.
The fact that only a third of your rows are expected to include a LOB would suggest that you create a separate table (in a fully normalised approach this is general advice regardless of the datatype anyway).
On 8.1.7 (I haven't tried on other versions) I have seen some strange performance behaviour - both hits and improvements by moving LOB storage out of line. I haven't quite put my finger on the reasons as yet (not enough time) but I suspect it is to do with block size (physical storage) and particular tables and their "LOB density" (I just made up that term - sorry!).
I would strongly suggest you experiment with some representative data, moving entire storage out of line, partially and fully inline (iff possible) etc etc.
The benefit of out of line of course is that you can meddle with the LOB storage parameters without affecting your main table storage parameters. Downside is the extra join, upside is non lob column queries being much faster.
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The Hofstra baseball team fell to Troy University on Friday night, 4-0, in the first game of a four-game series against the Trojans. The Pride struck out 11 times, leaving eight men on base to be held to under two runs for the sixth time in its 12 games.
Hofstra starter Teddy Cillis (0-2) gave his team a strong chance to win, throwing five innings of one-run, two hit baseball. He worked out of trouble in the third and the fourth innings before giving up his lone run in the fifth, which was enough to hand him the loss.
Cillis struck out five, but also walked four before being replaced by John Ryan in the bottom of the sixth. Ryan and Seamus Brazill were unable to keep the Troy lead at just one run, giving up three more runs over the course of the seventh and the eighth innings.
Hofstra's best chance to score took place in the top of the seventh, when they were still only down 1-0. Troy starting pitcher Daren Osby (3-1) walked David Leiderman and Mikey Riesner before being relieved by Marc Skinner.
Skinner struck out Vinnie Costello, making it two outs, but then walked Parker Quinn to load the bases for Tom Archer. Archer struck out swinging in four pitches to end the Pride's only real scoring threat.
Hofstra did not have a single batter with more than one hit on Friday night, bringing the team batting average down to .243 on the season.
Stephen Foster's leadoff single in the top of the eighth inning extended his hitting streak to six games. Sean Rausch, David Leiderman, Mikey Riesner and Vinnie Costello also had hits for the Pride.
With the loss, Hofstra drops to 3-9 on the season while Troy improves to 7-5.
The Pride continues its weekend series against the Trojans on Saturday afternoon with a doubleheader, playing at 1 p.m. (CST) and 4:30 p.m. (CST).


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It's a far cry from eBay she was reared
Nativity costumes are selling for three times their original price on eBay as parents lose their minds trying to dress their children for the annual Christmas play.
With shops selling out of the typical Mary, Joseph and Wise Men costumes, parents have resorted to online bidding to ensure their child is appropriately dressed. According to eBay, used and homemade angel outfits are selling for €38, while shepherd costumes are reaching up to €26.
Parents are blaming the schools for waiting too long to tell them which part their son or daughter has been given, resulting in panicked, last-minute shopping.
Back in our day, some tinfoil wings, a tinsel halo and a tea towel on the head always did the trick – what more does a school nativity need?


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Words without Meaning
I presume that some combinations of sounds may affect some natural phenomenon as some people believe about music or mysticism.
What I stated, meanings depend upon situations. Let me to enlighten! Perceive! The word "promise" has different meanings for different situations, different people. Situation affects it and it reflects the meaning from one of its synonyms, even sometime, antonyms. In fact 2 people have different sense of meaning of the same word because of their formal or informal studies.
The meaning of "midnight" to his pupil in some ghastly background; on the other hand Jimmy is told the meaning of midnight on the grounds of cheerful and bright moments. Now, both of the pupils became older. They face each other and when they use the word "midnight" during their conversation, they lightly understand something different than each other. This difference is, sometime, unnoticeable, some time causes clashes.
I want to say that there are myriad factors to express a word's meaning. Never the meaning of a single word has been justified on scientific basis. We know what the standard unit of length is, what is the standard unit of time, and we make sure the accuracy of things. We name them; we use terminology for them because we are satisfied of their meanings after scientific experiment.
But there is no institute for specifying the meanings of language's words. Logic don't deal the meanings, it is just a tool to measure the true or false between propositions. Logic never lists the expressions. What does someone want to say actually? We can't know, if we don't be acquainted with expressions of talker.
Both, logic and dictionary are failed to express the specific meanings of a word. Meaning depends upon the listener object's quality, environment of narration, expressions of both sides, inherent meaning of somebody's perceptions, and the order of morphemes in a word. Words, which contain the sound of "shee" have some sharp real meaning within them, words, which contains "am" or "el" sounds leave some polite impact on listener. But sometime sharp and polite morphemes come together in a word and they have to change the impact into some other type of feeling.
The combination of morphemes is just like the combination of colors, we can compose countless colors from seven colors only. Same like that we can compose thousands types of effects of words by combining them in some special order for some special purpose.


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There are certain antidepressants that are not supposed to be taken with tamoxifen. Here is a list of what they are if you are interested. Paxil, Prozac and Wellbutrin are the ones to avoid if you are on tamoxifen. Always talk to your doctor if you have questions or are on tamox and any of those 3.
Choosing among antidepressants
Antidepressants vary in their ability to inhibit CYP2D6 (the enzyme that converts tamoxifen into its active form, endoxifen).
Effect on CYP2D6
venlafaxine (Effexor)
Safest choice if taken with tamoxifen.
desvenlafaxine (Pristiq), mirtazapine (Remeron)
Direct studies with tamoxifen are lacking, but effect on endoxifen levels should be minimal.
citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), nefazodone (Serzone)
Secondary choices if above are not options.
Only citalopram and sertraline have been studied directly with tamoxifen, so risk of reducing levels of endoxifen should be weighed against benefits of antidepressants.
duloxetine (Cymbalta), sertraline (Zoloft), fluvoxamine (Luvox)
paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), bupropion (Wellbutrin)
Best to avoid if taking tamoxifen.
Sep 02, 2012 - 12:57 pm
This is a new SSRI, or SSNI. I think its spelled "Viibryd". We couldn't find any info with regards to Tamoxifen.Just curious if you know anything about it.
Sep 04, 2012 - 11:13 am
No, I don't know anything about Viibryd Joyce. Where did you hear about that? I also remember from another post about not taking paxil, prozac or wellbutrin with tamox, and if you do, it can increase your chance of a recurrence.
Sep 05, 2012 - 3:25 am
My doctor who prescribes my anti-depressants said she's been having good luck with this new SSRI. She couldn't find any info in regards to taking Tamoxifen with it though. Probably because its so new on the market..My onco didn't think there have been any studies yet on taking it with Tamoxifen
As it turns out, I'm going to stay on the anti-depressants I'm taking now and have my ovaries removed...I won't have to switch antidepressants since Arimadex can be taken with the meds I'm currently on. I was just curious if anyone had heard anything about Viibryd because I didn't know it existed till a couple weeks ago.
Sep 04, 2012 - 1:03 pm
what is viibryd? Is it an antidepressant? I take Tomoxifen
Sep 04, 2012 - 1:03 pm
what is viibryd? Is it an antidepressant? I take Tomoxifen
Sep 05, 2012 - 10:47 pm
Viibryd is an antidepressant and one that is not recommended with tamoxifen according to a pharmacist online: "It blocks the metabolism of tamoxifen to its active metabolite, so it's not to be taken with tamoxifen." http://dailydose.essentiahealth.org/uploads/viibryd.pdf
According to epocrates, viibryd is listed as a drug that interacts with tamoxifen and may require modifying or monitoring. I would avoid viibryd on tamoxifen unless you are unable to use a safer alternative (effexor, remeron, lexapro, etc).
Sep 05, 2012 - 10:56 pm
Sep 08, 2012 - 5:20 pm
Thanks Cynthia for making us aware of that!


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Michael Conway (31) was robbed and assaulted as he walked home from Burnley College.
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Bilateral hearing loss may affect professional life of a person. Hearing loss in children can impair normal development of speech & language, his emotional balance and academic & intellectual skills.
So every effort should be taken to know the Cause of hearing loss and effective management to Prevent further loss.
A brief account of Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing– How we hear to understand the causes of hearing loss.
Hearing loss can be two types:
Conductive deafness is caused by the failure of the sound waves to pass along the external and middle ear to the inner ear.
Causes in the External ear canal like
Causes in the Middle ear
Causes in the Eustachian tube
Sensorineural loss can be sensory when it is because of problem in the inner ear (cochlea) or neural when problem is in the nerves of hearing (retrocochlear).
Congenital loss:
Cochlear nerve lesions:
Tumors like acoustic neuroma.
Brain lesions:
Vascular insufficiency, tumors, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy.
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Once hired into their first "real job," many new grads struggle to pay attention at work. They chalk their distraction up to bad habits learned in college, where students often procrastinate to avoid intimidating assignments. Or they blame low pay, since new hires usually earn far less than their colleagues.
But can bad habits or low salaries really be the reason recent grads feel disengaged?
According to research, it's unlikely. Nearly 3 in 4 workers show symptoms of disengagement at work—regardless of pay. So while more money might be nice, it probably won't help you stay focused.
The real problem has to do with taking ownership of one's work: when surveyed, employees ranked challenge and responsibility as the number one factor in workplace engagement. Yet recent grads typically work under supervision, struggle to prove their merit, or get assigned mundane tasks experienced coworkers don't want. This lack of responsibility can be disillusioning, especially since millennials are known for their "superhero" mentality and desire to be useful.
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- "You've just shown us what a real snow engine looks like!"
- ―Stephen and Bridget
The Snow Engine! is a magazine story.
Stephen and Bridget are very excited to see that it has been snowing as they look through the window of their grandparents' house. They decide to wrap up warm and rush out to build a snowman. Stephen and Bridget have hardly started building their snowman when the Fat Controller calls out to tell them he is going to the main station. Stephen and Bridget love seeing their engine friends and go with him. The Fat Controller tells them that they can build another snowman in the station yard.
A little later, Stephen and Bridget are building a snowman in the station yard when Percy puffs close. Percy asks what the messy mound of snow is supposed to be. Bridget tells him it's a snowman, but they haven't finished it yet. Percy tells them that a snow engine would look better and this gives Bridget an idea as Percy leaves to deliver some trucks.
While Percy has gone, Stephen and Bridget try to build a snow engine over and over again, but it is a lot harder than they had anticipated. They particularly struggle with the tall funnel which keeps falling down. Stephen tries to rebuilt the funnel, but he only causes the snow to topple down onto Bridget who is collecting snow underneath. Bridget thinks Stephen did it on purpose and tosses a snowball at him. Stephen decides to throw one back at his sister, but Bridget dodges it. The snowball hits Percy who is returning from his job. Percy puffs past the engine shed and whistles to tell the others he is approaching. The loud whistling causes the snow on the roof of the shed to fall off and right onto Percy. The little engine almost completely disappears beneath a white blanket of cold snow. Percy is startled, but unhurt. The children are very pleased; now they know what a snow engine looks like and they can use poor Percy as a model.
- Percy's lamp irons and brake pipe are painted white when they should be black.


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October 5, 2016
You'd think that rain on your wedding day would wind up with a dull celebration, filled with family and friends whose spirits had been dampened by clouds and drizzle. Josh and Michael, along with everyone near and dear to them, don't understand the meaning of the words "dreary" or "bland". I've shot many weddings and events and loved each one. There aren't many couples, though, who so fully embrace the concepts of life and joy as these two.
Weddings are a celebration of life and love, of new futures and adventures yet to come. The memories that Josh and Michael have made so far are incredible, and it was a great honor to be their wedding photographer on the day when their stories of "me" became one book about "we".
Couple | Josh + Michael
Date | 08.27.16
Ceremony | Ciccone Vineyard
Reception | Ciccone Vineyard
DJ | 2 Bays DJs
Baker | Belle E Doce
Catering | Graystone Catering
Florist | Field of Flowers Farm
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A student took to the pedals when he embarked on a staggering challenge and cycled from his college all the way to Paris.
Twenty-year-old Joshua Moore completed the grueling 320 mile marathon route over a four day period.
The sports studies student, originally from Queensbury, teamed up with 15 of his classmates to raise funds for the Bradford Bulls Foundation.
Joshua, who's due to begin university at Middlesex in September, said it was a rewarding challenge.
He said: "I've always just wanted to really do something like that so I thought why not.
"The ride was hard because of the pain but other than that I didn't find the cycling hard.
"The first day we did 110 miles from Cambridge to Dover and we got lost a bit so that added on another 20 miles.
"It was mostly A roads up until we went to France. We didn't go straight from Calais to Paris we went across to Belgium first, that was quite nice through nice little villages and stuff.
"Probably the third day was the most challenging. It was a 90 mile bike ride. It was just the hours of constant hill climb that really did take it out of you when it's 35 degrees and very humid."
On crossing the finish line - where he was greeted by his girlfriend's family - he said the exhaustion had got to him.
Joshua said: "It was just like excitement as well as relief that I've done it and I don't have to go any further. I don't think I could have gone any further, I was just exhausted."
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Army set to court martial Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash
The Indian Army is all set to court martial its former Military Secretary, Lt. Gen. Avadesh Prakash, for irregularities in transferring land at a military station in West Bengal.
New Delhi: The Indian Army is all set to court martial its former Military Secretary, Lt. Gen. Avadesh Prakash, for irregularities in transferring land at a military station in West Bengal, with the proceedings to begin at Leimakhong in Manipur in the middle of June, an officer said Thursday.
The court martial is likely to be presided over by the army`s Director General (Perspective Planning), Lt. Gen. Phillip Compose, and will comprise six major generals, an officer at the army headquarters here said.
The court martial follows Prakash being indicted by an army court of inquiry early last year for his role in the illegal transfer in 2008 of 70 acres of land adjacent to the Sukna military station to a private realtor for constructing an educational institution.
Depending on how severe the court martial gauges the irregularity to be, Prakash, who retired from service in the middle of last year, could be severely reprimanded, stripped of his rank and medals and could also lose either all of or a part of his pension.
Prakash was the Military Secretary when Gen. Deepak Kapoor was the army chief.
Prior to the convening of the court martial, orders for which are to be signed by the Eastern Army Commander, Lt.Gen. Bikram Singh soon, Prakash would be attached to the Kolkata-based command headquarters.
Along with Prakash, then 33 Corps commander Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath, his chief of staff Lt.Gen Ramesh Halgali and the then administrative head of the Sikna military station, Major General P.K. Sen, were also indicted by the army court of inquiry.
While Prakash and Rath were awarded disciplinary action leading to a court martial ordered by Gen. Kapoor, the other two officers were let off with administrative action leading to a censure. The army has already punished Rath after a court martial found him guilty earlier this year and awarded him a severe reprimand, two-year loss of seniority and 15 years` loss of service for the purpose of pension.


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Some days have so many things to be grateful for, it is hard to begin. Today is one of them.
Mainly, the little thing today that meant the most was seeing my boys outside mowing the grass, taking ownership of some responsibility. They are growing up so quickly. As I was in the kitchen doing the dinner dishes, watching the activity outside the windows was a joy for this mama's heart.