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North Carolina short-term disability insurance is an important program for growing families.
Expenses are often highest when couples are having children. This is not a good time to lose your income, but this is exactly what happens when mom takes her maternity leave.
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North Carolina Short-Term Disability Forms
Three different North Carolina short-term disability forms may come into play, depending upon your needs and circumstances. Find the forms listed in reverse order of needed completion: claims, policy application, and new account forms.
Many site visitors reverse the process, leaving them only one option.
Filing Claims Forms
North Carolina does not have a state-mandated program, so you do need to purchase a private policy before the need arises. You cannot file a claim for benefits if you did not buy coverage prior to becoming sick, hurt, or pregnant. A new policy automatically excludes preexisting conditions for twelve months.
Apply for a short-term loan to obtain the funding you need if you do not have coverage already in force. Repay the note in convenient monthly payments.
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Complete your policy application form when electing to purchase coverage. An agent will ask a series of medical questions, and submit the policy application form to the carrier for underwriting review.
Request a pregnancy disability quote to address future conceptions. Estimate monthly premiums and project maternity benefits. Learn about a difficult choice between convenience and value.
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Many women desire policies that cover her recovery from normal labor and delivery. These policies do exist. However, carriers sell them only at the worksite as a voluntary employee benefits program.
Your employer may need to complete a new account form with the carrier, verifying that they will support a payroll deduction; promptly forward premiums collected and notify the carrier of any changes in elections.
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Short-term disability benefits in North Carolina can replace as much as sixty percent of your earnings to a maximum of six thousand five hundred dollars monthly.
You can select from of a range of elimination periods to match your financial cushion. Elimination period options include separate waiting times for accidents and illnesses.
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Twenty-five percent of pregnancies will experience one or more complications. You may miss weeks or months of work prior to your delivery.
Most individual policies sold directly may replace a portion of your income during this time and help you protect your family finances.Do one thing before getting pregnant – get your policy started. Private policies will not cover preexisting pregnancies.
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Short-term disability for maternity leave in North Carolina works by covering your recovery from normal childbirth. Your maternity leave benefit may be several multiples of the premiums you pay in advance.
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Chris Jones book uniquely and thoroughly explores networked learning as a relational perspective between society, the individual learner, and most of the salient points in between. Everyone involved in higher education, should read and digest this book, not just students of the field. Though dense at times, this book offers an insightful view through a complex field!
This study examines relationships of instructional environments, learner traits, and learning outcomes in the context of an online university course in Korea which has an advanced information technology background and rich e-learning experiences. However, the educational heritage of the country adheres to directive instruction with little interaction in the classroom. Based on the literature review, specific research variables are as follows: the environmental variables include learner-learner interaction, learner-instructor interaction, and content/system quality. Regarding learner traits, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and computer/academic self-efficacy were investigated. Academic achievement and class satisfaction were identified as potential determinants of online learning outcomes. A total of 937 valid responses from online university students were used to establish structural relationships among the variables. Most of the structural associations among the factors were significantly positive, although some variables reflected Korean cultural and educational contexts specifically. The findings suggest a need for a synthetic approach towards e-learning and that further research should be conducted concerning context-specific variables.
This paper examines the influence that student perceived quality of service (PSQ) has on continuance intention and willingness to recommend a course in a fully online university. A holistic view of the service provided by the university is taken. It is not only the effect of the teaching which is examined, but also that of the administrative services, the additional services, and the virtual learning environment (user interface). Through a survey completed by 1,870 students and the subsequent analysis using structural equations, we found that each of these services has a significant impact on the students' PSQ, their level of satisfaction, and, as a result, their loyalty and willingness to recommend the university. The study found that the perceived quality of the administrative services can have a comparatively higher impact on student satisfaction than the other services. PSQ is shown to have also a direct impact on student loyalty and recommendations. Moreover, as a whole, non-teaching services have a greater impact on loyalty and willingness to recommend than teaching service.
The peculiarities of the process of providing educational services in a virtual environment (such as the absence of face-to-face interaction between student and teacher and the lack of conventional tangible elements which act as benchmarks for quality of service) are well-known. The relationship established in the literature between the constructs of service quality, satisfaction, loyalty, and willingness to recommend the service in an offline environment can also be seen in this context.
The interconnection of factors proves to be more complex and interrelated than has been accounted for as yet in the scholarly literature. The findings of the survey are relevant to system concerns related to quality management and sustainability, both of which are increasingly important in today's competitive educational postsecondary environment.
Mobile learning (M-learning) provides a new learning channel in which learners can access content and just in time information as required irrespective of the time and location. Even though M-learning is fast evolving in many regions of the world, research addressing the driving factors of M-learning adoption is in short supply. This article focuses on the driving factors in adoption of M-learning and the learner's perceptions and willingness towards M-learning adoption. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been shown to be a valid and powerful model in mobile and other learning technologies research. Based on Technology Acceptance Model theory, this paper analyzes the influencing factors on M-learning adoption and measure the acceptance of M-learning in Oman. The data collected from 806 participants in 17 different Omani higher education institutions using a survey questionnaire. Some factors of perceived innovative characteristics, such as ease of use, usefulness, enjoyment, suitability, social, and economic were found to have more influence on learners' adoption of M-learning which help to facilitate and promote future empirical research. This effort is part of funded research project that investigate the development, adoption, and dissemination of M-learning in Oman.
The impact of targeted professional development activities on teachers' perceptions of self-efficacy with mobile learning remains understudied. Power (2015a) used the Mobile Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale (mTSES) survey instrument to measure the effects of a mobile learning themed professional development course on teachers' confidence with and interest in mobile learning. The current study looks at changes in perceptions of self-efficacy amongst participants in another open course about mobile learning called Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (ID4ML), which took place from May 4 – June 6, 2015 (Power, Bartoletti & Kilgore, 2015). The purpose of this study is to verify the reliability and construct validity of the mTSES instrument developed by Power (2015a, 2015b) and Power, Cristol and Gimbert (2014), and to explore trends in self-efficacy changes amongst a more diversified participant population. This paper reports on the findings from the analysis of data collected using the mTSES tool. The findings provide useful feedback on the impacts of participating in the ID4ML course. They also provide further support for the utility of the mTSES instrument as a measure of perceptions of self-efficacy with mobile learning. These findings point to the potential utility of the mTSES as a tool for both planning and evaluating mLearning professional development training for teachers.
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VAT invoice trafficking defies death and taxes
It's a crime punishable by death on the mainland yet some enterprising businessmen think ripping off the taxman is worth the risk.
To be precise, entrepreneurs have made a business out of trafficking invoices generated by the mainland's value-added tax (VAT). Since 1994, a sales tax of up to 17 per cent has been levied on the added value to a product, material or service at each stage of manufacturing or distribution.
The upshot is the VAT is now the single biggest source of revenue. In the first nine months of last year, tax authorities collected 1.5 trillion yuan (HK$1.76 trillion) from VAT - 27 per cent of the country's total tax intake.
VAT invoices are particularly important to companies operating in the mainland because they can be used to offset taxes.
It is unclear how much tax revenue is lost to the government each year through the fraudulent trading of VAT invoices but anecdotal evidence suggests the practice is widespread, relatively open and performed by what appear to be professional invoice traders. The office of this newspaper in Shanghai receives about 10 faxes a week from dealers offering to sell VAT and other types of invoices - at a discount. The offers do not disclose any names but usually provide a mobile-phone number. 'This can help your company to save at least 90 per cent taxation,' one recent faxed offer promised.
Robert Li, China tax partner at international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, said providers of fraudulent VAT invoices fell into two camps: unethical entrepreneurs who have forged invoices to sell; or owners of financially troubled companies seeking additional revenue by selling their own legitimately acquired VAT invoices.
Whatever the case, 'the practices are all illegal', Li said. The culprits would face 'harsh penalties' if they were caught.
Perpetrators risk at least a jail sentence, and even the death penalty if the case is deemed to have cause serious enough damage to the tax system. An intermediate court in Anhui province sentenced a businessman, Sun Zhanyun, to death in 2005 for faking VAT invoices, which he sold to other businesses, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Sun and his partners falsified VAT invoices worth 67 million yuan. Authorities recovered much of the tax owed, but Xinhua said the fraud ultimately cost the government 7.9 million yuan in foregone revenue.
The State Administration of Taxation had stepped up investigations of tax fraud and uncovered several cases involving very large amounts, according to a spokesman.
He added that details of the cases would be made public soon to demonstrate the government's resolve in cracking down on such illegal practices.
'VAT tax fraud has been curbed in the past few years due to intensified supervision and an upgraded technical system' that better tracks invoice issuance, the tax office spokesman said. 'It is now increasingly difficult for unethical businesses' to use the VAT regime to cheat the tax system.
Other countries, including Germany and France, impose VAT, but global accounting firms say the illicit trading in invoices in those countries is rare because of more advanced collection and monitoring.
'I would say China is the only market in the world that has rampant VAT tax trades,' said Steven Feng, a partner with accounting firm Deloitte, adding that he doubts the practice can be 'totally rooted out in the near future'.
One businessman's account of how he turned to trafficking in VAT invoices offers a peek into this underground scheme of tax dodging. The Shanghai-born businessman, who asked not to be identified, started a business assembling and selling personal computers in the late 1990s. He had several good years as mainlanders became more affluent and the rising popularity of the internet spurred the sale of PCs and computer parts.
Then his profit margins began to shrink because of cutthroat competition. Desperate for cash, he hit upon the idea of selling his own VAT invoices generated from buying computer parts from suppliers, ironically after being questioned by the tax authorities about why his business generated so many incoming VAT invoices from suppliers but so few outgoing invoices to customers.
According to the way the VAT works, participants are taxed all along the supply chain. Typically a business receives VAT invoices from suppliers, then when the finished product is sold, the business issues VAT invoices to the buyer of the finished product.
The invoices are printed, endorsed and distributed to corporate taxpayers by the authorities. The value of the VAT invoices issued by suppliers, in this case for the purchase of computer components, is measured against the value of the VAT invoices issued to customers who buy the finished product, in this case a PC. The difference between the two values is considered to be the value added, and therefore subject to 17 per cent tax.
When the Shanghai businessman buys components from a supplier, it generates a VAT invoice. Because he purchases computer parts in large lots, the value of each invoice can be worth tens of thousands of yuan.
But most of his customers are individuals who do not need VAT invoices because they are not useful in offsetting personal tax bills. The invoices are, however, very useful to companies generating big incomes that are subject to the 17 per cent value-added tax. And they can help reduce the amount of tax a company has to pay under the mainland's 25 per cent corporate tax rate by overstating its costs.
After comparing what he could earn by trafficking in VAT invoices with the paper-thin margins his computer-selling business was producing, the businessman decided he could make more selling - even at a discount - the 'extra' VAT invoices issued to him by suppliers that his customer
.s did not ask for. 'I sold 10,000 PCs while only 3,000 customers asked for the invoices,' the businessman said, 'so it was nothing wrong for me to issue another 7,000' to companies who wanted to pad their own accounts for tax purposes.
Meantime, he has started underreporting his actual PC sales, which gives him excess incoming VAT invoices from his suppliers to sell because it makes it look like he added less value to his finished products than he actually did. That, in turn, reduces the amount of VAT he owes the government.
An added bonus is that by underreporting his sales he also understates the amount of profit subject to the 25 per cent corporate tax rate. Plus, the businessman pockets 100 per cent of the income from the invoice sales because, obviously, the authorities are not supposed to know about his illicit sideline.
'All the good days have passed,' the businessman said about his teetering legitimate computer sales business. 'We can't survive without this diversification' into invoice trading, from which he said he expects to reap millions of yuan a year.
'Had it not been for the questioning from the tax authorities, I wouldn't have come up with this,' he said, adding that 'as long as no police knock at your door, you win'.
Income stream
VAT is the mainland's single biggest source of revenue
The sales tax levied on the added value to a product, material or service at each stage of the supply chain is: 17%
Taxing scheme
It is unclear how much revenue is lost through invoice trafficking
In the first nine months of last year, VAT amounted to 1.5 trillion yuan, or this percentage of the total tax intake: 27%
Risky Business
2001 Shanghai-based Fengxiang Trade found to have fabricated 12,000 VAT invoices to obtain rebates worth 100 million yuan.
2003 A Beijing court sentences Chen Xuejun to death for falsifying 2,800 VAT invoices to help businesses dodge 390 million yuan in taxes.
2004 A Henan court sentences Zhang Mi and Zhan Xizeng to death for faking 400 million yuan of invoices.
2005 Chen Zhourong sentenced to death for trading 1,700 false VAT invoices in Hangzhou. His business partner receives a suspended death sentence.
2009 An Anhui court sentences Sun Zhanyun to death for faking 67 million yuan worth of invoices.
2010 A Lanzhou court jails Li Ghuangjian for 15 years for selling
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) are high definition imaging techniques that use a strong magnetic field and radio waves sent to a computer to create diagnostic images. MRI's are especially advantageous in visualizing soft tissue where MRA's are utilized for artery and vein visualization.
All patients are required to complete a safety questionnaire to determine if they can be safely scanned. The procedure is well tolerated by most patients; however, patients that may be claustrophobic (fear of enclosed spaces) or are unable to hold still (due to pain, nervousness) may not tolerate the exam as well. It is not uncommon for these patients to receive a relaxation or sedation agent, or pain from their physician to take prior to their MRI or MRA procedure. Many patients will receive a routinely utilized contrast agent (gadolinium) for their MRI procedure.
While we do offer an Open MR scanner at our Ann Arbor location only, if clausterophobic, we still recommend that you talk to you physician about an oral sedative. While the Open MRI scanner is open on the sides, depending on the anatomy being scanned, the top of the unit may still present close to a patient's face.
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Huron Valley Radiology, PC, 866-744-1452
Monday - Thursday,
8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
To request an estimate call 734-712-1500 or fill our web form.
What should I do before my MRI / MRA Procedure?
A Patient Safety Screening Questionnaire must be completed at your physician's office. These questions provide important information to ensure that you do not have any condition or metal in your body that would prevent you from having an MRI/MRA procedure. Be sure to include any allergies or kidney problems.
If you have claustrophobia (the fear of small spaces) or have difficulty lying still because of pain or other underlying conditions, talk with your physician prior to your MRI/MRA. Your physician may want to prescribe medication for you. The MRI department does not provide any medications. If your physician prescribes sedation for you to take during your MRI/MRA procedure, you must have a driver accompany you to your appointment. If you have any concerns regarding your MRI/MRA, please discuss them with your physician.
How do I prepare for my MRI/MRA procedure?
You will receive a confirmation call two days before your appointment and any preparation instructions will be given during this call.
Where should I arrive for my MRI/MRA appointment?
Please proceed through the Main Entrance to the Radiology Waiting area on the left side of the lobby to check in with the Radiology staff between the hours of 7:00 a.m-6:00 p.m.; after 6 p.m., please check in at the Emergency Department waiting room desk and inform the staff you are here for a scheduled MRI.
What can I expect when I arrive for my MRI / MRA appointment?
You will be asked to fill out a history form. This helps us care for you during your visit with us. This information is provided to the Radiologist who will review current and historical information related to your clinical condition while interpreting your images. A staff member will review your patient safety screening form and history form with you. We will also explain the procedure to you. You will be asked to remove all metal objects. This may include jewelry, glasses and dentures. If possible leave all metal objects at home. You will be provided hospital attire to wear during your exam to insure your safety and also reduce the risk of problems with the images. This may include a hospital gown or scrub pants. Remember to use the restroom before your MRI, so you can be comfortable during the procedure.
What should I expect during my MRI/MRA procedure?
Each MRI procedure requires specific body positioning and the use of an MRI coil (image information receiver). This will be explained to you during your interview with the MRI staff. Most procedures require a heads first entry in to the magnet (ie, brain, neck, chest, shoulder) while others require feet first entry (foot/ankle, knee, hip, pelvis, abdomen, breast). The MRI scanner is very noisy (loud knocking sound) when we are making images. You will be provided ear protection to minimize this noise. It is important that you hold as still as possible during the scan to ensure the images don't blur. The more relaxed you are the easier and faster the scan will be.
Will I receive IV contrast for my MRI / MRA procedure?
Some MRI / MRA procedures may require the administration of Intravenous (IV) contrast. A contrast agent is a material or dye used to make specific organs, blood vessels, or types of tissue (such as tumors) more visible on MRI images. Gadolinium is the most commonly used contrast agent. You may experience slight discomfort while the needle is placed if your procedure requires IV contrast. Please notify the department if you have a history of an allergic reaction to Gadolinium.
How long will my MRI / MRA procedure last?
The MRI/MRA procedure generally lasts about 45 minutes. Some procedures are longer in duration and others may be slightly shorter.
What should I expect after my MRI/MRA procedure?
There are no noted side effects from MRI / MRA procedures. You will be able to resume normal activities immediately following the procedure unless otherwise directed by your physician.
How can I find out the cost of a SJMHS imaging procedure?
Please refer to the general FAQ's for information on how to obtain price estimates for mammography procedures. Patient's may call the SJMHS estimate line at 734-712-7392 (option 3 for facility estimates)
SJMHS also offers financial assistance program through the financial counseling department is reachable at 734-712-2009.
When will I receive my results?
A radiologist will interpret the images and a report will be sent to the physician who ordered your procedure. Please follow up with your physician's office on when and how you will receive the results of your ultrasound procedure.
You may also gain access to your results utilizing the SJMHS Patient Portal (must be previously registered to utilize).
How do I obtain a copy of my report or images?
To obtain a copy of your report or images, please contact the Imaging Results Center (IRC) at 734-712-RADS (7237) or fill out an online request for imaging results. Note: The IRC requires 24 business hour notice to fulfill your request. You will be able to pick up your material at the location you specified and will be required to present a photo ID and sign a release at the time of pickup.
Who can I call if I have billing questions?
Depending on your procedure, you may receive two bills.
If you have questions about your bill from:


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I played drums in 5th-grade band, but if you're looking for the Jeff Friedl who plays drums for ASHES dIVIDE, that's not me.
What is me is...
- I currently live in Kyoto, Japan.
- Married to Fumie since 1998.
- Son Anthony born October, 2002.
- Have studied the following languages in school: English, Spanish, German, French.
- Can actually speak the following languages: English, Japanese.
- Languages I apparently wasted a lot of time on for nothing: Spanish, German, French.
- Born in San Diego, California.
- Raised in Rootstown, Ohio.
- Bachelor of Science in Math / Applied Computer Science: Kent, 1987.
- Master of Science in Computer Science: University of New Hampshire, 1988.
- Have been in a couple of big earthquakes (Loma Prieta '89, Kobe '95).
- Spent 2.5 painful years writing the first edition of Mastering Regular Expressions (O'Reilly Media, 1997).
- Spent 2 more painful years writing the second edition (O'Reilly Media, 2002).
- Spent only 9 months updating for the third edition (O'Reilly Media, 2006).
- Catholic.
- Have programmed in C since 1981, Perl since 1990. Don't know C++.
- Have used email@example.com as an email address since before there was Yahoo! Mail. Still use it.
- Wrote these blog posts.
- Took these pictures, and these, too.
- I lurk on Google Plus and Facebook.
- Adobe Systems, Inc 【アドビ システムズ】 (10/2007 — 8/2008, and again 12/2009 — 5/2010)
I consulted on issues related to Lightroom.
- Peak Web Consulting (2007 — 2008)
I worked on back-end infrastructure tools for top-tier bandwidth users (big Big players on the Internet, whose names I'm not allowed to mention).
- Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, USA (1997 - 2005)
Architecting and engineering on the Y! Finance site, using mostly Perl/MySQL to fold, spindle, and hopefully not mutilate reams of financial data. I was employee #192. When I left )-: I was the 30th most senior (by time, certainly not influence) employee.
- Omron Tateishi Denki
Nagaokakyou, Japan (1989-1997)
Mostly kernel work on a four-processor symmetric shared memory system that Omron was developing. While at Omron, spent about three years as a "visiting scientist" at Carnegie Mellon University (and was mostly unimpressive to the superbly smart people there).
- Northeastern Ohio Universities College of
Medicine (NEOUCOM)
Rootstown, Ohio (1981 - 1986)
Worked with a first-run IBM-PC with DOS 1.0. (Unfortunately, Microsoft has not improved on their software much since then). Washed a lot of lab equipment. Did a lot of programming, including some really advanced flow cytometer control software in FORTH.
I enjoy researching a subject of personal interest, and then, because I occasionally stumble across an ability to write well, sharing the results. Examples include my long writeup on digital image color spaces, the auto-focus test chart that I developed, and a detailed Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings. (See all in my list of geeky photo-tech posts.)
I also seem to have become the main provider of plugins for Adobe Lightroom, such as my plugins that allow direct export to Zenfolio, Flickr, SmugMug, PicasaWeb, Facebook, and more: see my Lightroom Goodies page for current details. I develop these on my own time, as a hobby, which is perhaps a bit odd because I don't actually use most of them in my own photo workflow. In case it's of interest, I've written up a story on how I fell into this line of handiwork: "Road to Now: My Long Path To Lightroom Plugin Development"
For comments specific to a blog post, feel free to leave a comment on the post. Otherwise, feel free to send email. (Plugin logs should be sent as per this FAQ.)
Dear Jeffrey,
Firstly let me thank you for all your hard work on your Lightrooom Plugins.
I only recently discovered them and I am now working hard to get maximum benefit from them.
I first discovered your plugin for Phil Harvey's ExifTool which I have used for years – much easier accessing it from within Lightroom.
I am comparatively new to Lightroom, but have used Adobe products since version 1 of Photoshop.
I am sure you are aware of the many discussions about Nikon NX2 and Lightroom – mostly ill informed, but frustrating to many.
I find that technically it is possible to achieve the editing in Lightroom that was possible in NX2 for older cameras, using addons but it is still a clumsy workflow.
Let me explain…
NX2 uses the Nik Software U point technology to allow very precise editing of images. Nikon licenced this software from Nik and built it into NX2. When Google bought Nik that license was no longer available to Nikon and therefore NX2 has not been updated to cater for the newer cameras such as the D810.
Google have continued to make the Nik Software available as a plugin for the Adobe products, including Lightroom and it works well.
So the editing functionality of NX2 is available in Lightroom.
The issue is that Lightroom does not read or understand the Nikon Maker Notes.
For example, the camera can be set to use Picture control VIVID. That is recorded in the Maker Notes and your plugin will read the fact that the VIVID setting was used. (Tagged in the raw file)
Lightroom has a setting mimicking the Vivid setting that can be applied under Camera Calibration settings in Lightroom. The problem is knowing which images have been taken with Vivid Picture Control.
That is where I am hoping that your plugins will assist.
I am hoping to find a way of using the plugins to read the Maker Notes and create a Collection of images with NikonMakerNotes: PictureControlBase = Vivid. (and other settings such as Active D-Lighting Then I can apply a bulk setting to that collection using the Lightroom Camera Calibration setting Vivid, or a variation of it, etc.
In summary, I along with many others am trying to use your plugins to add to the functionallity of Lightroom so that it will mimic the behaviour of the old DX2 software from nikon to allow support for the new camera models eg D810.
An ideal workflow would be to read teh maker notes automatically and then apply predetermined settings, predominently, Temperature, Picture Control (eg VIVID), and D-Lighting (combination fo EXP and tone curve).
I have spent some time investigating the functionality of the plugins, but so far without success.
Are you able to advise me if what I am attempting is possible?
Many thanks Ian.
I don't see a way to automate everything, but you can group photos with my Data Explorer plugin. Using the criteria of "User Specified Master-File Data Field" with a value of "PictureControlBase", you'll be able to partition selected images into one collection per control type, for example. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffery. Many thanks for the plugins for LR to ZF. Currently I can't transfer images. When I click to create a new gallery I get the following message and can't go further. "Create new gallery at Zenfolio aborted: Unexpected HTTP reply from http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.6/zfapi.asmx: Deprecated API version – upgrade required to at least version 1.7." I emailed ZF and they told me to contact (you) the software developer. Can you help me get back on track. As of right now I'm out of business as my contracts hold me to ZF online viewing. Thanks much.
Paul Gorman
Sounds like you're using an ancient version of the plugin; please upgrade. —Jeffrey
I haven't exported to lightroom in almost 2 years. I thought I had done everything I needed to do in order to begin again. I got this message. What??????????????
Unexpected HTTP reply from http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.6/zfapi.asmx: Deprecated API version – upgrade required to at least version 1.7
HELP….. David
You're using a very old version of the Zenfolio plugin. Please upgrade. —Jeffrey
I am a novice with a problem with my Nikon D5300 in RAW Uncompressed mode and my Adobe CS3 Photoshop. It can't see the file, only if I convert to TIFF or JPEG. I read an article that said I could use your EXIF Viewer and change the model version of camera on the file and then CS3 would open the file. I have downloaded your EXIF Viewer file, I think, and folllow the directions for a file on the harddrive. and no luck. Could you please provide directions for a Dummy on the proper download and how to bring up the D5300 RAW (Uncomrpessed) file so I can see it and play with it in RAW before converting it to TIFF or JPEG. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
My Exif viewer is a web-based tool, so I'm confused as to how you might have "downloaded it". Anyway, it's not surprising that Photoshop CS3 didn't include support for a camera that wasn't released until 5½ years later, but Adobe gives you a way to work with modern cameras in your old software, via the Adobe DNG converter. The "update the model version" trick is almost certainly going to lead to bad results in this case. What that does is have the software treat the image sensor data as if it's one of the sensors it does know about, but since CS3 came out in 2007, the "best" you could do would be to have Photoshop pretend your circa-2013 image data is really from a completely unrelated circa-2007 sensor. Sensors are completely individual beasts, so (for example) so even two modern sensors from the same camera company can't be interchanged. Your best bet is to use the DNG converter, or pony up $10/month or whatever it is for a modern Photoshop CC subscription. Or, perhaps, try Lightroom. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey!
I never saw an equivalent to your funny "wigglegrams" before but today I found the following that may be of interest to you Did you inspire them? See Fyuse
Hi Jeffrey,
Thank you very much for the light room plug ins. I am a photographer in northern California, shooting mostly motorsports. I'm in the process of refining my workflow. The goal is to shoot car racing, tag cars with their numbers, then have them ready for drivers to view within an hour. I'm a newbie compare to others who work in my area. They seem to have a specialized/secret software that does this, with fancy networked monitors for viewing. Your collection publisher will help me get very close to what I need, so thank you very much!
When adobe announced they have some sort of image recognition, I was hoping they come up with a way to recognize and tag text (car numbers) in all of my photos. I guess face detection is a good start for most people.
Hi Jeffrey,
Google Photos has a possibility to upload unlimited photos with a specific high resolution. How can I choose this special high resolution? Only writing exactly size? Can you put a special option to choose this mode directly and to get unlimited size.
Thank you !!
This issue is addressed here. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
Just wanted to say a big thank you for the exif viewer, which enabled me to recover a 1080 X 1440 preview of a photo I took on NYE and which has great sentimental value to me. After spending about 3 hours searching for ways to recover this corrupt file, I finally found your site and was easily able to do exactly what I needed.
Hi – Your plug in is GREAT! I'm wondering whether it's possible to set up the plugin to export two different file types? Here's why. I have 20K images, and about 7,000 of them are already JPEGs. I want to export the rest (e.g., PSD, TIFF, etc) to a JPEG format keeping the Lr organization. But I'd prefer not to apply JPEG compression to an image that is already in JPEG format which would degrade the image more. So, is there a way to set up the Publish Services JF plugin to produce two different file types in export?
I suppose you're talking about my Folder Publisher plugin. Given Lightroom's limitations, I can come up with two ideas. One involves creating two separate publish services, one that generates JPEGs and the other that uses the "ORIGINAL" file format. Then use a smart collection in each to select only non-JPEGs in the first, and only JPEGs in the second. The second idea involves one publish service that spits out JPEGs for everything, but then invokes a little script via my Run Any Command plugin to overwrite the just-exported copy with the original JPEG, if indeed the original is a JPEG. You'd need a bit of scripting skills to create the script. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey, I've just discovered your website, you're doing a massive amount of work, thanks for all that!
I'd like to buy some of your Lightroom plugins, but first I'd appreciate a little help with planning my workflow. I shoot film, have my films scanned in a lab (those come with no metadata at all), then do everything manually. I edit metadata using AnalogExif tool (it basically fills in EXIF data, some of them as direct EXIF, some as XMP within EXIF). Then I just use some other tools to make corrections, create webgalleries manually, etc. Painful and long process.
So I'm thinking about changing my whole workflow – after filling neccessary film metadata with AnalogExif, I'd import files into Lightroom 6, add GPS metadata, make corrections and let some of the plugins do their work automatically. But I don't know how and which plugins would be useful for me.
I found out, your Metadata Viewer plugin can see all metadata from AnalogExif, but it's all I can do. I'd like to access the metadata (like film type and developer process) in webgallery generator, but they're not accessible, Lightroom can only see User Comment field (which contains all XMP data), but I can't access it from Web module. So, is there some way to access custom metadata in Web module, like some gallery plugin? I also organize my photos in chronological folder structure, but default gallery templates only generate flat galleries, without subgalleries, which is useless. Is there some template, that allows making structured galleries, using custom metadata?
Which ones of your plugins do you think would be useful for me? I'm kind of lost.
THANK YOU and anyone else who brings some idea.
I'm afraid that I don't have any good news for you (except that my plugins are free, so you can use them all without buying). I don't use/know the Web module, so I can be no help to you there, sorry. The best I can suggest is while working in AnalogExif, to stuff the fields that are important to you into otherwise unused fields that Lightroom does give access to (e.g. stuff the film type into the "Job Identifier" field). It's an affront to data to use fields this way, but it'll allow you to get your job done. —Jeffrey
Jeff, thanks for your reply! Much appreciated. Well, I know I can use your plugins for free, but if they help me out with streamlining my process, I'll donate gladly 🙂
I noticed there are user customizable fields in AnalogExif, I must investigate the settings a little bit http://analogexif.sourceforge.net/help/addmetadata.php
There seem to be more issues with how AnalogExif fills data and how Lightroom handles them http://sourceforge.net/p/analogexif/discussion/1120617/thread/bd2bc3b5/
It's so hard nowadays, to be a hybrid guy who shoots film and manages scans digitally, but I'm sure I will find the way to do things properly and usefully – already testing some of your plugins, extremely usefull stuff!
Thanks again.
I just have a question about your nifty EXIF viewer. Do you also have a pluginto reveal the File Properties values that come up in Bridge, or for that matter when viewing an image file in a computer's finder?
Sorry, no. —Jeffrey
I like a "jf Metadata Wrangler" and "Lightroom Ver.4" and "jf Flickr".
It was also helped by Jeffry's item this time.
Thank you very much!
Hi Jeff,
I've taken pics with a smartphone that has geo-tagging and GPS built in but no matter how I view the EXIF, the GPS coordinates of where the pic was taken never show. Any ideas? Thanks.
First you've got to be sure that the location is actually included with the photo… with an iPhone, for example, if you disable Location Services for the Camera app, the location is not recorded. Then, even if it's recorded with the original photo, it might be stripped out when you export it from the phone, depending on how you do it. If you send it via Facebook as a photo attached to a message, for example, I think that all metadata is stripped, but if you send it as a file attachment to a message, it's included. (I think; I haven't tested recently.) —Jeffrey
Thanks for the info, Jeff. I don't actually own a smartphone but I've had my brother take pics and send them to me via email attachment with his Android phone to see if the GPS data was intact. He has zero interest in what I'm trying to do but my thinking is that if he transferred the photos from his phone to a pc, the data would be intact or if I got his mini SD card and put it in my PC, the data might be intact. The experimentation continues. If I ever figure it out, I'll buy a cheap smartphone just for the camera.
Hi – love your plugins and have been using them for years. I have a question.
When posting album, I add tags to identify the album/service. For instance I add tags "The Outrigger Project, FB, Flickr" for the folders associated with a project my wife is doing.
Then I would create a smart album in the jf Facebook plugin called (for instance) "The outrigger Project 2015-10-16" with "match all rules" as:
Keywords contains all The Outrigger Project, FB
Capture Date is 2015-10-16
Similar I would create a smart album in the jf Flickr plugin called "The outrigger Project 2015-10-16" with "match all rules" as:
Keywords contains all The Outrigger Project, Flickr
Capture Date is 2015-10-16
This allows me to take the pictures in and out of services/projects really easy – ONCE all the Smart Albums are created.
QUESTION (finally!):
Do you have an easy way to add smart albums to Lightroom? In other words, how would you do the above, either someway of auto-generating the smart albums, or maybe I am complicating the whole process way too much (very likely).
Again, thank you for your plugins! I got a full license for capture one, but I'm sticking with LR *because* of your plugins!
Good work!
Thanks for the kind words. About the smart albums, it sounds like you're doing it the correct way now. A very specialized plugin might be able to do some of it automatically for you, but what you're doing now doesn't seem too arduous. —Jeffrey
Dear Jeffrey
hi i am based in a small village in county durham ,uk i have a photo which i need to determine the location the metadata containing GPS co ords has been stripped would you be able to help me retrive them or find location .i am studying CSS at university .
kind regards
If the GPS data has been stripped, I doubt there's a way to figure the location unless you happen to recognize the scene seen in the photo.
Sorry. —Jeffrey
Hi Gary,
Go to Google Images
drop the image you have into the box. Google Images will then show you any other shots which look like it (which were taken from a similar spot). The data and/or caption attached to those should tell your where they were taken.
I've recently started using your Flickr and Facebook publishing plug-ins in Lightroom. Do you have any plans to create a similar plug-in for 500px?
That's covered here —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
Have you considered a plugin for Amazon S3? If doable, it seems like it would be popular.
Hi Jeffrey,
big fan of your blog and tools, Lightroom has been easier with you !
I have a question, might interest some other users so I post it here:
I (well, Lightroom did) deleted a whole year of photos on my disk. Not in LR catalog, but on disk.
2 great trips and a friend's wedding shooting , so I'm really pissed of ..
It happend during a 'synchronize' operation, I made the mistake of importing other pictures while synchronzing, I think lightroom messed up and started to delete some pics. Whatever.
Lightroom's synchronization feature includes a "remove missing photos" option, but if that was what caused it, the photos would have been deleted from Lightroom as well, so I don't think it was the synchronization. From what you describe, I wonder where there was an issue with how the remote drive was mounted… maybe it wasn't really mounted when you had the photos before, so the photos are really on your hard drive hidden under the now-mounted NAS folder? It could be worth digging around more. Also, have you checked the system trash? —Jeffrey
I made the other mistake not to have a backup of my NAS
I used ext4magic , but nothing retrieved 🙁 Maybe because my NAS was quitefull, maybe because I tried too many tools before ..
I used then PhotoRec. It works ! More than 100 000 retrieved files to sort now. Lot's of corrupted raws , but lot's of jpeg are fine at least.
I have also used your terrific "Extract Cached Image Previews" plugin. saved me at least a good jpg preview of the majority of them, thanks a lor for this.
My question : All recovered files have random file names. Would try to match 3200 manually .. quite a pain. But almost all of them (except corrupted ones) have metadata.
What would you suggest to match them with lightroom images ?
Workflow would be :
1 extract LR metadata for each LR image, along with its filename.
2 find a jpg or raw recovered file mathcing this metadata set
3 rename the found recovered file.
4 move them back to their original place on NAS
Won't be perfect (2 pictures took at same second will have same metadata) but I don't aim perfection here.
any idea of how to do that ?
I should not be the first one in this situation, although I found nothing close on the web.
1. could be done though your collegue's LR Transporter at photographers-toolbox,
2. I don't find any software to do that , would use custom script, based on exiftool to extract them
3. done in the same script
4. the easy part
any idea to do that without coding it myself ?
Thanks a lot for your advice.
One step that might help a bit would be to rename the files to something based on their capture date, using ExifTool. I don't see a solution beyond that without doing some coding, sorry. )-: —Jeffrey
I can find no other way to contact you. I do use several of your plugins.
How can I assign an image as a "wallpaper" in IOS 9.3 so that it is not enlarged?????
I have tried a number of suggestions seen on the WEB but none works. I am ashamed that I am angry at Apple because of this, possibly I am simply not clever enough. Could you be so kind as to make a suggestion as to how to fix this? If not will you join me in my aggravation ? (a semi-joke).
My blog home page has a "Contact Me" section. I suspect that if you make an image the exact pixel size of your screen, it won't be resized when set as the wallpaper. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
I'm a web developer and big fan of your Lightroom Plugins (and donor :), specifically the Folder Publisher which I'm using to export my jpgs into a personal photo backup webapp I'm working on. Great stuff!
I have a workflow issue maybe you could offer some advice on. I use a Sony A7S and download my best photos to my iPad over WiFi while travelling. However, when I get home I'm forced to re-pick all my photos in Lightroom.
Is there a way that I could dump all my picks from my iPad, generate a list of MD5 hashes or filesizes, and have a Lightroom plugin/script compare a catalog folder's images to this list and automatically place a flag on any that match?.
In a nutshell looking to synchronize picks from an iPad app with Lightroom.
I'm willing to learn how to code a plugin myself to do this since it would be such a massive time saver. Just curious if it's even possible or if there is some other tool to do it.
All the Best,
Well, my first thought is to suggest using the Lightroom iOS app, since that's about as integrated as one could imagine. My next suggestion is to somehow use the Lr/Transporter plugin to update Lightroom from a data file that you (somehow) make from your iOS app. —Jeffrey
Just found your blog: "Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 1: Introduction". Well done, wish I had found it back in 2006. I have been programming graphics and working in lighting topics since 1996. I can't believe I have programmed for this long without understanding Colorimetry. But now that I am knee deep in trying to understand it, I can't believe how complicated it is:) Doesn't help that I am colorblind:)
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for you exceptional blog and say that I love your pictures as well. Keep it up!
Hi JF
I have this message error today
Unexpected HTTP status from Google: 404
Unknown user.
Yeah, Google is flaky sometimes. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffery. I have registered for your Facebook, and Flickr plugins. Just wondering if you have any plans to make one for Googles Panoramio?
You do great work…..thank you
I'd love to, but no, they don't want one. They were one of the first places I contacted (almost 10 years ago now!), and astounded me with their ignorance of geoencoding. They weren't interested in a Lightroom plugin. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffry. I used you http://regex.info/exif.cgi to see video file info. I has an "exif" for it an in exif there is some serrialized data, which contains video file descriptions, such as size, bit depth, coordinates and so on. (I saved this data in binary file and opened in your viewer). Can you tell me what data format is it? XMP or IPTC? Meybe you have binary structure description for this format? (I need deserialize this data)
I don't know… I suppose it depends on the video-file format and, perhaps, on the type of metadata. (Some files allow different blocks of data to be in different formats.) Your best bet is to look at ExifTool, its docs and perhaps its source. —Jeffrey
I have been using your plugin exporting images from Lightroom to Zenfolio. Thanks so much for creating it. I am wondering, is there any way to not have to export to a folder and just upload to zenfolio? Thanks! Lisa
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. All photos at Zenfolio must live in an album, so when uploading you must supply a destination. On the Lightroomside, you don't need to make a Publish Service, though… you can just select photos and "File > Export" directly. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
Using your awesome People Support plugin, a thought popped into my head. Have you considered creating some sort of family lineage or relationship plugin? If there is more than one person in a photo, it would be cool to be able show the relationship, i.e. grandmother-grandson, etc. I sort of do this now using keyword hierarchies, but it's rather clunky. I don't know if a plugin is technically possible or how would it look, just a thought.
I've thought about it, but it's more than I want to bite off now. It'd be interesting if someone did it…. —Jeffrey
Good Day Jeffery, I am test driving the LR "Folder Watch" plugin. I have to enable the scan everytime I open LR. Is this by design or should the box "Enable Scan" supposed to stay checked once I click on the "Done" button in LR plugin manager?
Just below that option is a separate "Automatically restart scan every time Lightroom starts" option. —Jeffrey


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I'm stubborn and I'm a book elitist. For those of you who know me really well, this comes to you as no surprise. I have an English literature degree from a private university. I've never read Stephen King because I learned in college that he was for the average reader. It took me a long time before I'd read USA Today because my college advisor told us all the time that it was a newspaper written for those with less than an eighth grade education. He created a book elitist out of me and I have a really hard time breaking that habit.
I tell you all of this because I've not read any of Seth Godin's books. Not because I don't think he's smart. Mostly because he's a New York Times bestseller, multiple times over, and I can hear Dr. Spencer's voice in the back of my head telling me I don't want to read what everyone else reads.
Until "Small Is the New Big" was released. I was intrigued. After all, we are small. We compete with the big agencies. Did Godin have something in there I needed to know to surpass the competition? I bought it and ignored that voice in my head.
I love the book! Not all of it, but he even says on the cover that he dares every reader not to find one thing you really love. I found that one thing (and many others).
"The Soy Luck Club, my favorite place in New York, just announced the breakfast club. Pay $40 or so and you get breakfast every day for a month. "Grab and Go," it's called. If Vivian sells one hundred memberships, it's a home run. With $4,000, she can certainly buy a lot of whole-wheat bagels and grapefruit, and send ends up creating a cadre of superloyal customers. Best of all, she starts finding products for her customers instead of finding customers for her products.
Imagine a new chain of cafes that offers a coffee club. For a flat fee, you get all the WiFi and lattes you can handle. With the markup on both, the owner does great, and people would feel terrible every time they strayed.
They say to ignore sunk costs. People are terrible at that, though."
So I read that and started thinking about all the ways a business could implement this idea. Yesterday I went to pick up Jack Bauer from "camp" and I was very excited because I orginally wasn't going to pick him up until this morning. But I got an earlier flight home and was able to pick him up before they closed last night.
Imagine my dismay, then, when she handed me my receipt and it read, "Extra charges for late pickup." Late pickup? I'm early! You don't have to feed him dinner or breakfast! You don't have to give him his epileptic medicine! You don't have to take him for walks or scratch his belly! I'm early! How can you charge me for late pickup. Hrumph!
What if they took the extra step, instead, to print on the receipt, "One night boarding: $45.00. Pampered daycare for Jack Bauer: $20.00. Nail trim: $10.00." All of that is on the receipt already except in the place of "pampered daycare" is "late pickup."
See the difference in how that makes you feel? And it's simply changing two words.
Have you seen some examples like the Soy Luck Club? Do you have examples like pet "camp" that can easily be modified for better customer service or engagement? Share here!
And P.S. If you haven't read the book, I recommend it. I dare you to find one thing you can apply to your business/life/career.
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This is great Gini. Did you end up paying the extra $20 for the pampered Day Care?
No! I paid the extra $20 for being late!
way to go Gini, you succumbed to their evil scheme to bankrupt your wallet.
Seth Godin may not write on the same educational level but he's an amazing thinker. His books are important to read to understand the shifts evolving around us even if they do read like extended blog posts.
How about sending clients a note when they don't pay on time saying 'we invite you to pay your invoice?'
HAHAHA! I love that idea…"we invite you to pay your invoice."
Hey Gini, this is slightly off-topic, but I was wondering if you've yet escaped being a book elitist? Because Stephen King, well . . . that man can spin a yarn, my friend. I highly recommend The Stand or The Talisman. Not horror per se, but very interesting and engaging stories.
Nate, um, no. But…if I were to read one of them as my intro to Stephen King, which would you recommend? I'll make the commitment to read it during the holidays in order to continue trying to get over my elitist snobbery.
I'm constantly amazed in talking to clients when I say at the end of a telephone conversation, "thank you" or "thanks for calling." It's almost like they've never heard it before. Usually there is a pause and a heartfelt, "You're welcome!"
Janet Hansen
Janet – Isn't that crazy? I just read an article a few minutes ago about better customer service and they listed five things to create positive word-of-mouth.
They were:
* Answer emails.
* Call people back.
* Be present.
* Empathize with their complaints.
* Go out of your way for them.
* Make it your mission to make their lives easier.
Makes you want to say, "Duh!"
Two words? That's easy. Change "no problem" or "not a problem" to "you're welcome."
A great example in travel is where hotels or tour operators charge a per-person rate, except that the fine print says it's based on double occupancy. If there's just one of you then they charge a single supplement, so it's not really a per-person rate at all. How about charging a per-room rate instead and then offering a discount for single people? It would work out as exactly the same amount of money but it would make people feel a whole lot better.
Caitlin – I LOVE this idea! It's also the same idea when you're traveling and you check into a hotel at midnight or later and you check out the next day. Wouldn't it be nice if they gave business travelers and "weary and tired" rate in those instances?


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If the datasheet says that the system needs 24V and 48W, you never can use your power supply.
The problem it's not on the voltage. Your power supply should give 48/24=2A. Since it only gives 0,5A you can turn on the CRIO.
Hello I have Compact RIO cRIO-9074 and trying to give power to it.In the manual, it says 48W and 24VDC.Can I use Hewlett Packard E3630A DC Power Supply 23V 0.5A for this?I just wanted to make sure that I don't blow up the kit.Thank you so much
If the datasheet says that the system needs 24V and 48W, you never can use your power supply.
The problem it's not on the voltage. Your power supply should give 48/24=2A. Since it only gives 0,5A you can turn on the CRIO.
Hi Hinewwiner,
Here are the power specifications from the 9074 manual.
Power RequirementsRecommended power supply ................. 48 W, 24 VDCPower consumption................................ 20 W maximumPower supply input range....................... 19 to 30 V
Also from the maual it states that the cRIO-9072/9074 has one layer of reverse-voltage protection.
The 48 W /24 V is the recommended power supply. You should be fine with the 23V power supply at 0.5A.
Basset Hound
The voltage and current values you give for your Hewlett
Packard power supply will yield a maximum of 11.5 W. The cRIO-9074 requires at
maximum 20W with all module slots in the chassis occupied. However, to just
turn on the controller with no modules connected, you only need 6W. Thus your
power supply will work fine to just power the controller and FPGA backplane.
But once you start trying to power modules, you may run into a problem. You
will not have adequate power to supply all 8 modules, that much is certain.
Exactly when in the process of adding modules you will begin to see problems
depends on a number of factors including which modules you insert and how many.
My best recommendation to you would be to not power more than just the
cRIO-9074 with this power supply. Once you add modules, upgrade the supply to something
that can supply at least 20W.
I hope this helps. Feel free to reply if you need any clarification.
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Wayne Bates, 71, of Amarillo died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd., with Faye Roberts, pastor of River Road Fellowship, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mr. Bates was born Nov. 21, 1935, in Amarillo to Ernest and Marie Bates. He married Lillian Light on Nov. 24, 1954, in Clayton, N.M. He loved to hunt and fish and was an avid member of the NRA. Wayne and his family had lived in Alaska for more than 20 years, where he had worked as an air traffic controller.
He was a veteran in the U.S. Navy and a member of Cliffside Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Lee Bates and wife Michele, and Dewayne Bates and wife Andrea, all of Amarillo; a brother, Kenneth Bates and wife Madeline of Amarillo; and six grandchildren, Jessica, Brandi, Lilly, Ashley, Jarryd and Frankie.
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The Tradewinds were actually Peter Andreoli (he is also known professionally as Peter Anders) and Vincent Poncia Jr., a pair of Rhode Island songwriters who had a minor doo wop-inflected hit with "Mr. Lonely" in 1960 while calling themselves the Videls, and who had written "(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up" for producer Phil Spector and the Ronettes. The Tradewinds put out a few additional singles (including "Mind Excursion" and the pretty "I Believe in Her") and an album before morphing into the Innocence and issuing a single under that name ("There's Got to Be a Word") late in 1966.
An album credited to the Innocence followed, and then the duo began recording a project under their own names. Andreoli and Poncia parted ways shortly after The Anders & Poncia Album was issued by Warner Bros. as the 1960s drew to a close. Poncia resurfaced a few years later as a producer for Ringo Starr, Kiss, and other acts, while Andreoli kept a lower profile. "New York's a Lonely Town" remains their high watermark, one of the great lost singles of the surf era. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi


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- " a very nice and fancy hostel with perfect facilities and programs. You can do everything from a freewalking tour, poker nights and drinks at the bar. For me the best place in valencia! "
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- " Pros: close to a nice park. Cons: the top bunks feel like you are sleeping next to the person in the adjacent bunk with only a 12 inch piece of wood separating you. If you choose to go to this place ignore the directions on their site...they are completely ridiculous. Just walk down Calle Colon toward the park(old River bed) and take a left when you get to the park. It's on the road that runs along the park. Also: they just jacked the price up from 9€ to 18€.... While I was there. "
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"I think the basic anti-aging diet is also the best diet for prevention and treatment of diabetes, scleroderma, and the various "connective tissue diseases." This would emphasize high protein, low unsaturated fats, low iron, and high antioxidant consumption, with a moderate or low starch consumption.
In practice, this means that a major part of the diet should be milk, cheese, eggs, shellfish, fruits and coconut oil, with vitamin E and salt as the safest supplements."
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I think what it does is normalizes your weight, someone eating the SAD may be underweight because they are not susceptible to processed foods but they are underweight because of malnourishment caused by white flour and vegetable oil and the Paleo diet fixes that. However the OP seems to be eating a wholefoods diet already and is exceptionally thin, I see no other solution than eating hyperpalatable foods to increase weight. Telling somebody to eat more potatoes isn't going to work, you need to activate the reward system in the brain to promote overeating.
I think mashed potato with lots of butter is never going to promote excess calorie consumption anywhere near as much as chocolate or coke. Except for some individuals with rare disorders obesity just doesn't exist is societies without sugar.
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lolBaby if you time travel back far enough you can avoid that work because the dust won't be there. You're too pretty to be working that hard.
my recipe for hot chocolate that has helped put weight on my skinny son and sickly father is this:
Melt 1/2 cube butter in saucepan. Add 3 Tbsp of high quality stoneground/raw chocolate and melt together. Add honey to taste (I only use about 1 tsp). Stir thir constantly, and slowly add milk - I don't know how much, because I just keep adding until it's the right thickness. I like it thick, almost like liquid fudge.
I know it's not primal exactly, but w/high quality ingredients, it is very helpful.
I am in Guatemala, where fresh stoneground chocolate is available anywhere and super cheap, and could prob be adapted for reg chocolate...
I think the thing everybody seems to be over looking is that people are genetically different. Maybe the OP is genetically programmed to have low amounts of muscle and fat. Strength training will increase muscle mass but it is unlikely they are going to catch up to somebody who is naturally muscular and who also does weights. Regardless the best shot they have of gaining weight of any sort is to combine highly nutritious animal products like milk and eggs combined with hyperpalatable foods. But like some people are very susceptible to the addicting qualities of tasty foods (like me) some people are completely immune to their addictive properties and may have a very hard time gaining weight no matter what they do.
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