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Discussion in 'Breeze Discussion' started by RiverRunner, Sep 1, 2016.
Seems to work pretty well even in the wind.
He said the usual Yuneec password is "123456780". Isn't there suppose to be a "9" in there?
I thought the same thing.
my breeze password is 1234567890 so mine does have the 9
Got Mine a few days ago and have been very careful not to hurt it since I've take such a lo$$ on the toy quads in the past. Since I recently retired, I grabbed a chunk of my nest egg and ran out to get one. I almost went DJI Mavic but I am glad I went with this lil guy ( it was more than I needed and twice as much ). Today is a very windy day and I had to try it out. The Breeze stayed exactly where I put it ( not used to this ), all the other crap I bought would have been blow away into the trees. I don't expect to have to get another drone for a long time, this does all I have always wanted a drone to do.


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To celebrate the birth of these awesome peeps I tried out 2 new desserts, and here they are without further ado...
Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookie
(adapted from Martha Stewart and edited to my liking)
- 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups finely grated carrots, (about 3 large carrots)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with Silpat baking mats or parchment paper, and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine sugars and butter; beat until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla, and beat on medium speed until well combined.
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger; stir to combine. Gradually add flour to butter mixture; mix on a low speed until just blended. Mix in oats and carrots. Chill dough in refrigerator until firm, at least 1 hour.
- Using a 1/2-ounce ice-cream scoop, scoop dough onto prepared baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between cookies. Transfer to oven, and bake until browned and crisped, rotating pan halfway through baking to ensure even color, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat baking process with remaining dough. Once cooled completely, use an offset spatula to spread about 2 teaspoons of cream-cheese filling onto a cookie. Sandwich together with a second cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days in the refrigerator.
Here is a hint: Squeeze all the water from the carrots after they are grated. I read reviews about this recipe and some people said their cookies came out thin and too crispy. I think it was due to the water in the carrots cause mine came out very soft and cakey, which needed for a not-so-messy sandwich cookie.
Here is the recipe for the cream cheese frosting:
(I doubled this and used it for my Almond Joy Cake too!)
Makes about 2 cups
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, room temperature
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure almond extract
These will definitely be made again. They were as good as they look, maybe even better.
But what is a birthday party without a birthday cake? I found a recipe for Chocolate Cake and thought I would "jazz" it up and make it an Almond Joy Cake.
Chocolate Cake
(adapted from allrecipes.com and made extra special with a little love from Sommer)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.
- Use the first set of ingredients to make the cake. In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Stir in the boiling water by hand. Pour evenly into the two prepared pans.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
- To make the frosting, use the second set of ingredients. Cream butter until light and fluffy. Stir in the cocoa and confectioners' sugar alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat to a spreading consistency.
- Split the layers of cooled cake horizontally, cover the top of each layer with frosting, then stack them onto a serving plate. Frost the outside of the cake.
The "love" I speak of comes from the toasting of almonds and coconut for a bit in the oven to bring out that LOVELY flavor.
For the icing, I mixed a little toasted almond in with the chocolate icing and I mixed in some toasted coconut with the leftover cream cheese frosting from the cookies. Look at this beautiful outcome!
And if you were wondering if this cake is as good as it looks? I heard from a few different party-goers that this was the BEST chocolate cake they have ever had! Thank God that 10 hours spent in the kitchen was worth it!


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Rockers Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003 Drama, Action, Comedy 105 mins
Guitarist Ko-chanis a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
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The last step in completing your resume is often one of the most overlooked. Proofing a resume takes just a little more time, patience and concentration. But after writing, rewriting, critiquing and perfecting the document most people are tired of looking at their resume and skimp on the proofing portion of resume development.
There are some simple steps one can take to ensure they proof their resume and catch any costly mistakes. Here they are:
5. Print it out and read. Seems simple, but it's an easy step to forget about. Don't rely on just reading your resume from your computer screen. Print it out, step away from your desk or workspace and read. Use a red pen to highlight any edits and go back and change.
4. View at 200 percent. Take your word document and zoom in - to 200 percent. Looking at it in a larger size presents the copy in a more clear format than by reading it at 100 percent. Do this on a Word document by going to View>Zoom>200 percent.
One thing you can really notice is spacing issues or any extra characters that may have been overlooked.
3. Talk it out. When reading the resume, read it out loud. Slowly. This will force you to concentrate on actually reading the entire resume - not skimping over it or skipping words you are already used to seeing because you just completed writing the resume.
2. Take a break from reading the resume. The best way to proof your resume isn't to read it right after you complete it. Instead, step away from it for at least a few hours, and if possible, even let it sit overnight. By the time most people complete their resume they are just happy to have it done. They glaze over the copy and rely on spell check from doing the real deep proofing work. Let it sit. Print it out. Read again and make edits as needed.
1. Read your resume backwards. Go to the last page of your resume and read it from the bottom to the top. Looking at it this way can give you another view and help provide clarity to each sentence and give one final proof for spelling, grammar and spacing. You will be amazed how this step can see things you may have missed reading it the traditional way of left to right, top to bottom.
Don't let time spent on perfecting your resume go to waste because you get lazy when it comes to proofing your resume. Take the extra time and it will pay dividends in the long run. Your resume may not be a perfect fit for every job, but a perfect resume can help you be the right fit for your next job.
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I had these following ideas for Mari0 SE, but don't worry. They're mostly easy to create:
• Configurable jump: Each mappack could have an option to disable the Mario super jump (only 1 block jump);
• Diagonal surfaces: Like in the stabyourself.net post, that triangle surface could support portals and gels;
• Cleaning gel: Because the maps sometimes get fully painted, and we can't clean it;
• Bouncy cubes: Because they don't get painted and neither bouncy on already painted walls;
• Hazard liquid: Just placing a hole in the map don't get the same effect;
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Good morning! Big news today is the European Central Bank policy meeting in Europe.
News just came out that it cut its benchmark rate to 0.05 percent from 0.15 percent. Reuters also reporting that a 500 billion euro asset-backed security (ABS) purchase program is on tap.
The way the Europeans do it is they make an announcement at 7:45 a.m. Eastern time. Then Chairman Mario Draghi gives a press conference at 8:30, where he would typically address any QE program.
The immediate reaction is for the euro to get crushed yet again. It is now down 106 pips (more than a full cent) to 1.3044. We will have to see if this initial move sticks through the trading day, and especially Draghi's press conference, but at least initially, this is validating the "short euro" thesis I have had in place for several months.
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Saturday, 10 November 2007
POLICE MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT insist de Menezes family
Patricia da Silva Armani (centre) addressing Thursdays press conference by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, with Vivian Figueiredo (right) both cousins of Jean Charles
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of an innocent man following the publication of the Independent Police Complaints Commissions (IPCCs) Stockwell 1 report.
In a statement they said: The report sheds more light on the botched police operation on the 22 July 2005 and contains significant new material about the shooting of Jean including contradictions between the evidence given by passengers who heard no warning being given to Jean, and the firearms officers who all stated warnings were given before shooting.
Vivian Figueiredo, cousin of Jean told reporters: It has been an emotional and difficult report for us to read especially the sections that described the police officers who shot Jean being covered in his blood.
It reminds us of how our loved one came to die, in such a brutal and violent way.
Although we welcome the report we sadly are no closer to getting justice.
We now have two very long reports and a criminal trial where the jury found the police guilty but still no-one has been held responsible for shooting Jean seven times in the head and then lying to us and the public about it.
We demand action be taken to hold police officers to account and will not draw a line under this issue until that has been achieved.
In Jeans innocent name we will fight on for justice.
On the issue of (Met Commissioner) Ian Blair, we maintain that his position is untenable.
But whether he goes or not does not deflect from the issues of why Jean was killed, why he was shot seven times in the head, why a shoot-to-kill policy was used and why the police did everything they could to cover up their crime.
We now want the Ministry of Justice to promise us a wide reaching inquest as soon as possible and to allow us to examine all the issues surrounding Jeans death including the shoot-to-kill policy.
Harriet Wistrich, the de Menezes family solicitor said: The publication of the IPCC report is only the beginning of the process for the family.
They have until now remained as observers, along with the public at large, reacting to the decisions of other bodies and media revelations.
For the first time they are in possession of a report on the evidence found by the investigating team.
Soon they will have an opportunity to see all the evidence collected, make their own enquiries and interrogate that evidence through inquest proceedings.
The family remain determined to uncover the whole truth surrounding the tragic shooting and, where the evidence allows, to hold those officers responsible for wrongdoing individually accountable.
It is only through this process that all the necessary lessons can be learnt so that such a tragic outcome will never be repeated.
A spokeswoman for the Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign said: The IPCC report, whilst containing useful information, is only meaningful if it leads to concrete action.
It is highly insulting for the family to hear the comments coming out of Scotland Yard today suggesting it is time for them to move on when an inquest into Jeans death has not even taken place.
The only time to move on will be after justice is done.
With the conclusion of the health and safety prosecution and both IPCC reports now published, we believe now is the time for a wider debate and proper parliamentary scrutiny about the shoot to kill policy, as recommended in the Stockwell 1 report today.
Commenting separately, human rights organisation Liberty accused the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) of delaying justice by publishing its report 28 months after the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005.
Liberty said that the report should have been published immediately when the Crown Prosecution Service determined that no individuals would be tried in the case, and questioned whether the IPCC had handled the case robustly.
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti said: Through its hesitation, the IPCC has unnecessarily delayed justice for 28 months.
The IPCC report may help prevent future tragedies, but has done little to achieve trust and confidence in policing or the IPCC itself.
Liberty called for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Operation Kratos firearms policy and related matters, and stressed that the finding that Met Police chief Ian Blair hindered the IPCC investigation should provide the last word on his ability to retain the confidence of Londoners and the officers bound to protect them.
Going back over the chain of events, Liberty said:
1 November 2007 The Metropolitan Police is fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £385,000 costs after being convicted of breaching health and safety legislation.
1 October 2007 The trial of the Office of the Commissioner on health and safety charges begins at the Old Bailey.
The Metropolitan Police are accused of a catastrophic series of failures leading up to the death of Mr de Menezes.
2 August 2007 The IPCC Stockwell Two report finds serious weaknesses in how the Metropolitan Police handled critical information following the shooting.
11 May 2007 The IPCC stated that 11 of 15 officers named in the investigation will be cleared of any disciplinary offences, but action in regard to the four remaining senior officers will be delayed until the Scotland Yard trial brought by the Crown Prosecution Service under heath and safety laws over the death of Mr de Menezes is completed.
17 July 2006 The CPS announces it is to prosecute the Metropolitan Police under health and safety laws. No individual police officers are charged.
27 July 2005 The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) begins its investigation into the shooting.
25 July 2005 An inquest into the death of Mr de Menezes is opened at Southwark Coroners Court.
22 July 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian electrician, is mistaken for a terror suspect and shot seven times by firearms officers at Stockwell Tube station in London.
Libertys Public Statement following the shooting of de Menezes on 22 July 2005 reads:
Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (part of our Human Rights Act) protects the right to life and places onerous obligations on the State to protect the lives of all us.
This principle places tight limitations on the use of deliberate and lethal force.
Such action is the gravest of steps in a democracy. It can only ever be justified where absolutely necessary; where there is no other way of effectively protecting the lives of others.
Even in the context of a suspected suicide bomber, Article 2 requires that everything possible is done to avoid a moment where lethal force is the only viable means of preventing the suspect from detonating a device and bringing injury and death to others.
However, there may be situations where lethal force is the only means of protecting huge loss of life.
It is important to draw a distinction between accepting that such action might be justified and the need to scrutinise any policy that allows for an innocent man to be shot in the head eight times.
Whenever someone dies at the hands of the State, there must be a fully independent and comprehensive Inquiry.
This applies whether the person concerned was innocent, reasonably suspected or even guilty of criminality.
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I totally agree with the above post! I have often wondered this, myself. It all boils down to the fact that some people just do not think, at all. Children cost money. I am personally waiting to have children, for a few more years. For one, my significant other and I are not married, yet and I am also hoping to expand in my career, which would bring in more income. I was reading an article the other day about the expense of children in a year and it was extremely high. There are many things to take into consideration before being careless, but a lot of people don't think about that and it's part of the reason why the world is like it is.
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I believe that some of the thinking is that you should have plenty of expendable income before starting a family, but the average (not rich) person also thinks WHEN will I have enough money to start a family. If most of us waited until we felt we had enough money to start a family, not many of us would have kids. You figure it out as you go and make ends meet.
That being said, I mean this with a little common sense....not in the Octo-Mom kinda craziness. I think the attitude that "we'll never have enough so we might as well start while we are still young enough" is the majority of families. However, there are those that take this attitude to the extreme....like neither Mom or Dad have a job, etc. This errs on the side of irresponsibility.
Factors...their upbringing, their morals, their local economy, their maturity level, caught up in the moment and had an "accident", etc. The reasons are endless. I just hate it because of the home life it creates for the kids and because of the burden that it places on taxpayers when parents can't or (in some cases) refuse to take care of their own kids. Lots of people fall on hard times and need assistance, but no one should make a stay-at-home career out of it.
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I don't know! And it is driving me insane! Once a woman that my husband works with came up to me and asked why we hadn't started a family. I told her that I was a full-time college student and we couldn't afford it. She waved that off and stated the government used to pay for her child's health bills then started complaining that she had to pay for them herself. It's her child and she doesn't even want to pay for his/her bills?! Why would parents be so rude to their own child? Children deserve better. It's a shame there are people who don't even consider their own children as deserving attention, affection, and all the little goodies they should have.
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I find it maddening to say the least. Some people just bewilder me to say the least. Many people just do not think, they are just mindless automatons.
Its called ,our mindless bilogical addiction ! ......If it wasn't for the lack of impule control .If we as mankind actually thought before breeding ,we would never have children , humankind would die off !.....:-}
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Good answer, ahorseback. Nice to hear from you again!
Socioeconomic status, religion, and education all factor in here.
Religion can be key. Some religions push really heavily for children and some push really heavily against contraception of any sort. That's when peer pressure can come into play and if you're involved in a church where everyone is having children and you're being pressured to have children, some people may eventually give in because they want to feel worthwhile within their religious community. As for birth control, when you're guilted into believing using it is a sin, you aren't just going to stop having sex with your spouse/significant other, so pregnancies are bound to happen.
Education is another thing. Okay, it can be given that the vast majority of people understand how the body works and everyone knows that sex can lead to pregnancy. But that said, not many people understand how menstruation cycles work (if you aren't using birth control) and so they aren't having unprotected sex responsibly because they just don't understand or know how. A lot of religions (and for a long time, public schools and conservative communities) pushed teaching abstinence instead of responsible sex practices, so people just don't know how to go about gaining access to birth control. It's also been statistically proven that the less educated people are, the more likely they are to have children (because of these factors and more).
Lastly, their socioeconomic class plays a heavy hand. Some people can't afford to regularly purchase birth control. They can't afford to have the medical procedures to make it impossible to have more kids. Birth control can be expensive and it's unrealistic to assume that people in relationships will just abstain from sex entirely "until they have enough money" (which could never happen, as when is enough, enough?).
Some people handle having children very irresponsibly and they know it, but a VAST majority of the poor people who have several children just don't have the access to the same things wealthier people do, so they can't help themselves the way wealthier people do.
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This is the SECOND BEST ANSWER. Clear and very intelligent take on the situation at hand. I totally agree with this answer. Rated 99.99%.
The wealthier people tend to have no more than two children. This weay even if they lose some of their fortune that can still swing the best schools and thus the best jobs for their offspring.
Religion plays its role in this. In some religions once you are joined with another person its okay to go crazy producing lots of offspring/ The result? Poverty and more of the same.
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Totally concur. Parents of large families oftentimes do not care about the negative ramifications of having numerous children on the children themselves. You are right children from large families are impoverished with little amenities.
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When Democrats in Georgia do get elected, they very frequently do so with the help of large numbers of African American voters.
When a supporter produced a graphic urging minority voters to join Republican Karen Handel's campaign, part of the text said: "free the black slaves from the Democratic Party plantation." The tweet caught the attention of Steve Handel, the candidate's husband. He retweeted it, then deleted the tweet from his feed.
Handel, a former Georgia Secretary of State, is locked in a tight and very expensive race with Democratic newcomer Jon Ossoff to win a special election in the sixth congressional district. Handel's campaign refuted the tweet, saying Steve Handel "made a mistake and retweeted something he didn't pay a lot of attention to, thinking it was just an absentee vote message. It clearly was not appropriate and has been deleted."
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Andrew Short has got a lot going on in 2005. In addition to being one of the new members on Team Honda and one of the favorites for the Western Region 125cc Supercross Championship, Shorty has agreed to check in with TransWorld Motocross with a regular editorial column. Fresh off his three-day sweep of the Bercy Supercross, Andrew shares some of his experiences with TWMX online…
You may have read about the Bercy/Paris SX from a journalistic point of view, but what you haven't heard is the rider's perspective. The trip to Europe always starts and finishes in a horrible way, due to the dreadful airplane experience. Still, as a rider I get to just show up at the airport with my wife, all excited and ready to go. The people who have it tough are the mechanics, who try to stuff a race bike in a suitcase! I must say, Losch and Dan from Honda tackled the duties for me with ease, though. They brought everything except a frame, wheels and swingarm. Fortunately, our team caught the TSA in a good mood and we all walked through customs, unscathed. The TSA forgot to stamp our passport, but we didn't have the courage to go back and ask the scary G.I. Joe customs guys for it. We just wanted something to show for our trip to France and thought the stamp would do it, but that would soon change…
Jet lagged, grumpy, and stinky from the eleven-hour flight, we all washed up in the RV-sized shower at the hotel. The mechanics all met at the stadium to begin building the masterpieces that had to survive three nights of racing chaos. With next to no sleep, Losch and Dan decided that the French translation of Ratio Rite didn't exist, and played the guessing game as they added oil to my motor. KTM is lucky enough to have the factory in Austria to drive them over a bike or two. You could see the despair in the faces of those mechanics whose parts didn't make the trip: Frankie from Factory Connection looked like he lost his dog because his so-called "Gucci parts got pulled off the plane in the last minutes before takeoff.
After visiting with the mechanics for a while, my wife and I went to what has become our favorite Italian restaurant. Terry and Craig from Fly Racing joined us and as we ate, we talked how important this race was to me. Now that I have the opportunity to ride for Honda on such unbelievable bikes, I feel I have a lot to prove. I'm often reminded by my mechanic that I'm the only the only one on the team without a championship! I hope to change that this season! I knew that the three-day race in Bercy was a key part in my preparation for the upcoming season. I was looking forward to using the race to measure where my speed, fitness and equipment stood.
Practice started off well and I used it to get used to the unique track. The soil was comparable to brown Play Doh! The best parts of the track were the tunnels you race through. It's more than a little unreal pinning it down a long hallway, passing peoples' offices in fifth gear! One of the many unusual aspects of the race is that your practice times are used to determine your gate pick for your heat race. At the end of practice they close the track down and then you're allowed to practice several starts. Of course, after my practice start I managed to lay it down on the least technical part of the track and I watched helplessly as my bike was transformed into a 4th of July sparkler as it slid down the start straight. I officially earned the Goon of the Week Award! With the award, came a bruised knee and road rash on my arms. Nice. (Needless to say, I crawled through the first turn only using my rear brake at the start of my first heat race.)
Opening ceremonies in Bercy puts the American races to shame. I hate to say it, but the French definitely have us beat! They get everyone's heart pumping with lights,, lasers, music, and even half-naked pom pom girls. Earplugs are a must because every fan is equipped with at least one air horn and a pack of cigarettes. When Jean-Michel Bayle came in, the place went crazy and left our ears ringing for the rest of the night.
For the American riders this was our opportunity to race with our European counterparts. It was also a tremendous honor to race Mickael Pichon, a past world champion. I realize the results probably would be different if we were on a motocross track, but I was still so excited to have the opportunity to race him on his home turf. The races went about as perfect as they could have for me. My starts were good and I won every heat and main event. All of Team Honda's work really paid off!
In between all the racing, the freestyle show goes on. And let me tell you, it gets out of control! The night started out with a whip contest where Ronnie Renner and Edgar Torronteras made it look easier to pull a barrel roll then to bring their bikes that far upside down and back. Then there were the flips! Dinner after the race sometimes turned into more of an escapade then the show itself. Let me just say that a freestyler's reputation precedes itself and in some cases, is not just rumor! For example, I have never seen a motocross racer rider drinking pee out of a wine bottle, but the freestyle guys acted like it was no big deal.
The best part of this year's Paris race for me was the trophy presentation on the first two nights. The promoters present some of the coolest trophies in the business. With confetti falling from the ceiling and fans screaming, it feels surreal as the trophy girls award you the prize along with the European double kiss on the cheek. It was an atmosphere that left me with goose bumps on the back of my neck. The night three trophy presentation was scary. As weird as it sounds I didn't feel safe going on the podium. Alessi just finished in second after punting the local French favorite over the berm. The Paris crowd was loud, and since they were upset, they were really loud. I have never witnessed a riot, but I thought the crowd was close to that kind of a frenzy and because of that atmosphere I was honestly scared to get on the podium so close to that kid. In the end it turned out ok, and no one was harmed, well except for Lauret.
After three nights of racing, you really start to appreciate the good ole' USA. It's tradition after the race that all of the Americans get together and tell some of the finest stories around. This year the storytelling was led by Brock Sellards, who's a song writer but not a singer, and by Greg Schnell (Schnellyville), who was in rare form. He had pictures to go along with his stories and he made everyone cry because they were laughing so hard. I can't blackmail anyone (although I do take cash) so I will just leave it at that. In the end even though I did not get a stamp on my passport, but I ended up with something better: three big trophies and tons of incredible memories.
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In CLFIS v Reynolds, the claimant pleaded that X had decided to dismiss her because of her age; the tribunal had found as a matter of fact that X had had no discriminatory motivation, although the reason why he had decided to consider whether to dismiss was an internal presentation from two other employees about the claimant's performance, which the claimant suggested was motivated by her age. The Court of Appeal ruled that, because the claimant had only pleaded X's act as discriminatory, and not the other two employees' acts, the tribunal was right to consider only whether X was motivated by age.
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Why I Blog has been asked and answered� by many bloggers lately. The Stubborn Capitalist� (a great personal finance blogger) has tagged me to answer that question.
Why I Blog:
Teaching- My Mom and Grandma have both been teachers and I inherited the love of passing on information I learn. I get excited about a nugget of information I read about, experiment with, or discover and I want to share it.
Ingraining the information in myself- The more I write about something, the more it becomes ingrained in who I am. Making it easier to make the right choices.
Sharing growth – Sometimes I use the blog to document my progress in an area and get people to join me – like the 30 day spending fast. It's always more fun to make a change with others as we support each other.
Writing is in my blood� – I have been journaling offline and in recent years online. I can't seem to help myself.
And now I will tag some people to let us know why they blog:
Ariane� from Neat Living�
Marcia from Take Charge of Your Life
Kim from Swingset Reflections
Jay from Juggling Sheep
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Thanks for the tag. My response is over at Juggling Sheep.
Oh wow! I am blushing. This is my first tag!
Mine is up at http://takechargeofyourlife.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-i-blog.html
(I may have gone a bit overboard – I see I have 9 reasons)
And by the way, we should do the spending fast again this year. What do you say?
I was thinking about it today because I heard that World Vision (we sponsor a child) is doing a 40-hour fast (either food or technology).
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|Emergency powers? Papaloko ba tayo?
Now, Petilla is a changed err crazed man, going around town and preaching another mantra--emergency powers to the President! Petilla, with his lackey, Samar congressman Evardone who used to be the talking head of former president Gloria Arroyo for any issue that requires the support of Congress for any Malacanan issue, is trying to threaten us with a worse situation if emergency powers is not granted.
Alongside Petilla is, again a surprise, former defense contractor cum Senator Antonio Trillianes. Trillianes wants nothing more than emergency powers to his beleaguered buddy, President Aquino.
Of course, we know where Trillianes is coming from. Since he is gunning for the vice presidency, he needs finances to fund his political enterprise. Maybe he has a group of investors interested in entering the lucrative power sector, willing and awash with cash.
I remember Trillianes IV telling the people when he won the senator-ship that he intends to stay in his post only once. Now, he is on his second term and worse, trying to convince us that we need him as second fiddle for the presidency.
Maybe its Trillianes the fifth now talking and appearing in public instead of the Trillianes whom we loved when he took a definitive stand against the Powers in that Oakwood incident. Or that Manila Pen catwalk incident.
Anyway, Communications secretary Sonny Coloma denies that Malacanang is behind efforts to grant Aquino emergency powers. Kaw naman, Mr Coloma, you want to fool us. Petilla is your drummer boy now. Don't tell me that this is not discussed within your circle? Who are backing Petilla up? Hindi ba this balimbing Evardone and Aquino ally, Trillianes? This just shows that a propaganda roadshow was agreed upon and don't tell me President Aquino does not know about it?
Emergency powers entail extraordinary conditions. Our lack of enough power supply has been an issue since 2010 and even years from that. When our very own Energy czar admits and throws up his hands in defeat, this just shows years of neglect and mismanagement on the part of the Aquino administration.
For four years, this administration did nothing or probably very few solutions were proposed to solve this lingering problem. We have been in crisis for years and today is no different than what we have already experienced some years back.
And this neglect and lack of leadership are expected since for 2011 to 2013, this administration was busy toying with the people's funds thru the DAP.
Curiously, why was no funds were used from the DAP to fast-track the building of power plants, in the first place? This administration focused on giving funds to rebel groups killing soldiers instead of funding power plants?


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Uganda, represented by the Permanent Mission in Geneva, is participating in the 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva. The session will run from 1st to 12th May, 2017. The 27th session also marks the beginning of the 3rd cycle of the UPR after the 2nd Cycle, during which Uganda was reviewed, ended successfully in March 2017.
As of 4th May 2017, Uganda led by Deputy Permanent Representative Ambassador Lawrence Benedict Lukwiya had participated in the review of 6 of the following 12 countries: Bahrain, Ecuador, Tunisia, Morocco, Indonesia, India, Brazil, Philippines, Netherlands, Algeria, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
In his statement to the delegation of the United Kingdom, led by Mr Oliver Heald, Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice, Lukwiya thanked the delegation for a comprehensive national report and made the following recommendations to the Government of the United Kingdom:
Incorporate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination into the domestic law to ensure direct and full application of the principles and provisions of the Convention under the domestic law.
Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments that the UK has not yet ratified.
Strengthen the national framework to combat human trafficking and ensure adequate support and protection to victims of trafficking.
Uganda further noted from the UK report that domestic violence was the most pervasive form of violence against women in the UK and that would require a more consistent and coherent human rights-based approach in Government response.
Uganda also commended the UK Government for fulfilling its financial commitments to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other UN Trust Funds as well as to international development in general.
The UPR is a unique Member-state driven process which involves a periodic review of the human rights records of all the 193 UN Member States based on objective and reliable information on the fulfilment by each State of its human rights obligations and commitments in a manner that ensures universality of coverage and equal treatment with respect to all States. It provides an opportunity for all States to declare what actions they have taken to improve their human rights situations and to overcome challenges to the enjoyment of human rights. This also includes a sharing of best human rights practices with the ultimate goal of improving human rights situation in every country around the globe.
Uganda has undergone two successful reviews in 2012 and 2016 respectively. The first review in 2012 established the basis for the development of a new National Action Plan on Human Rights to facilitate implementation of the recommendations received during the review as well as commitments under other UN Treaty Bodies. Uganda delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Sam Kutesa presented the national progress report and shared Uganda's experience with the Working Group during the second review which was held in October 2016.
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PRESIDENT MUSEVENI HOSTED BY POTUS, 20th-September 2017The President of the United States held a welcoming reception on the evening of Tuesday, 19 September 2017, in honour of the Heads of State or Government, Vice-Presidents and Crown Princes or Princesses participating in the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, at 7.00pm at the Palace Hotel, 455 Madison Avenue.
PRESIDENT MUSEVENI, AFRICA 50 DISCUSS INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, 17th-September 2017President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today held a meeting with Africa 50 CEO Mr. Alain Ebobisse and Ms. Carole Wamuyu Wainanina the chief Operating Officer at Park Hyatt Hotel in New York, United States of America.
HON. OKELLO ADDRESSES FIRST SUMMIT OF THE ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY., 13th-September 2017
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of International Affairs, Hon. Henry Oryem Okello, has called upon the OIC Summit on Science and Technology to increase funding in Science and Technology Research and Development in Universities and Institutions funded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), including Islamic University in Uganda.
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Unanswered: Linking an AS/400 file member to access
I currently link an AS/400 file to an Access DB.
I need to set this up so that I can link an AS/400 file member to the Access DB.
I found that I can do an override from within the VBA code in the db but I am unable to get it to work.
Here is the bit of code I am using.
rc = SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_STMT, hdbc, hstmt)
If rc = SQL_SUCCESS Then
stmt = "call qsys.qcmdexc(OVRDBF FILE(qspexrpt) TOFILE(bnldta/qspexrpt) MBR(" + userid + ") OVRSCOPE(*JOB), 0000000071.00000))"
rc1 = SQLExecDirect(hstmt, stmt, SQL_NTS) 'hstmt
End If
rc ends up with the number 1630339070. I do not know how to determine what that is.
I also do not know what needs to be in the fields hdbc and hstmt.
If I knew what should be in these fields than I might be able to work this out.


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By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:05 PM
South Carolina lawmakers investigating Gov. Mark Sanford voted Wednesday not to impeach the embattled Republican for his use of state-sponsored travel and for abandoning his official duties this summer when he secretly visited his Argentine mistress.
The seven-member panel instead voted unanimously to formally censure Sanford over his behavior, passing a resolution saying that the governor was derelict in his duty and brought "ridicule, dishonor, disgrace and shame" to the state.
The House judiciary subcommittee's 6 to 1 vote against impeachment all but erases the possibility that Sanford could be forced from office before he finishes his second term in January 2011.
Sanford has been under fire since June, when he returned from a mysterious five-day absence and tearfully admitted an extramarital affair. He was in Argentina visiting his mistress but led his befuddled staff to tell reporters that he had been hiking the Appalachian Trail.
The full House Judiciary Committee will vote on the impeachment resolution next week, but House Speaker Robert W. Harrell Jr. (R) said it is unlikely to overturn the decision. "His actions were embarrassing and disgraceful for our state but didn't rise to the level of being removed from office," Harrell said.
Rep. F. Gregory Delleney Jr. (R), the lone member who voted to impeach Sanford, told reporters that Sanford "has lost all moral authority to lead this state." But Rep. James H. Harrison (R), who headed the subcommittee, told the Associated Press: "We can't impeach for hypocrisy. We can't impeach for arrogance. We can't impeach an officeholder for his lack of leadership skills."
Still, Sanford will not escape scrutiny. The State Ethics Commission is considering 37 charges against Sanford involving his campaign fundraising and his travel after an Associated Press investigation that found he used state planes for personal and political trips.
Sanford issued a statement Wednesday saying that despite his "moral failing," allegations that he misused state funds are "just not correct. . . . If there had been any oversight, it was minor and technical in nature."
Since June, a majority of state lawmakers from both parties have called on Sanford to resign, but he has pledged to serve out his term. The politics of removing him have been complicated by the intense battle to succeed Sanford, with some legislative leaders resisting his departure because it would elevate Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer (R) to the governor's office and give him a leg up in the 2011 election.
With 13 months remaining in his term, Sanford said he intends to "finish strong, focusing on the economic challenges facing our state." But some political leaders doubt what he can accomplish.
"South Carolinians have long since given up on Sanford's failed governorship," said Carol Fowler, chairwoman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. "The best we can hope for is that he won't cause our state any more embarrassment in the remaining months of his term."


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When i started modding ioquake3, i felt a little bit lost. Not knowing where to start, which tutorials to follow, etc. Therefore, i'm compiling a little list for everyone that's interested in having fun with modding!
Understanding the engine
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This topic is now pinned. It will appear at the top of its category until it is unpinned by staff for everyone, or by individual users for themselves.
I've also updated the Amazon book link to benefit ioquake3 when people make a purchase through it.
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ay Scheve Reardon, Executive Director, Missouri Lottery, said, "Our Lottery generates funds to provide educational opportunities for Missouri students, support Missouri businesses, and entertain millions. The instant games created by Scientific Games help us ensure continued growth in profits to the state of Missouri. We are confident that our My Lottery Players Club developed by Scientific Games has contributed to our success in recent years, and we look forward to building upon the popularity of our players club."
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In 2011, the company developed the Lottery's current website featuring the My Lottery Players Club loyalty program with an online store for loyalty Points for Prizes redemption, FunPlay games, and more. To date, more than 186 million tickets have been entered on the website by players, with more than 309,000 prizes redeemed.
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Davis Golf Course | 24439 Fairway Dr. | Davis, CA 95616 | 530 756-4010
Davis Golf Course | 24439 Fairway Dr. | Davis, CA 95616 | 530 756-4010
Davis Golf Club
Davis Golf Club news can be found at www.davisgolfclub.org
Davis Women's Golf Club
We are a friendly, fun group. Our playdays are Wednesdays at the Davis Golf Course, with a shotgun start, except for major tournaments. Tee times range from 7:30a.m. in the summer to 8:30a.m. in the winter. The course is very walkable and green fees exceptionally reasonable. Members may invite guests any time except during major tournaments.
Davis Senior Men's Club
We are an organization of men 50 years and older. The Club plays various tournaments every Thursday morning between the hours of 7am and 10am. In addition, there are Club tournaments every second Tuesday morning each month.
We play various types of tournaments from Individual Medal to 2-Man and 4-Man team events. For team events, if you don't have anyone to play with, the Pro Shop will assign you to a team.
The Club has an elected Board of Directors consisting of five (5) Club members. We have established By-Laws and Policies. All tournaments are played with established Club Handicaps. Note – if you are a new member, you can play the first two tournaments with an NCGA handicap, after that the Club will establish a handicap for you. If you do not have an established handicap, you must play the first two tournaments at 0 handicap.
The Club year is November to October with yearly dues of $5.00. We have one Annual General Membership Meeting usually the third Thursday morning in October.
For further information check the Senior Club bulletin board in the court yard outside the Pro Shop.
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Going against the better advice of my high school English and sex education teachers, this story starts with the climax. For anyone involved in wine, the three months from the end of August until the end of November are both the most exciting and the most frightening of the year. These three months dictate the final say in whether you happily learn that your wines will be served at the White House or whether you become the largest vinegar producer in your neighborhood. These are months of 60- to 80-hour work weeks (and many times more) that on one hand require complete control of the environment around you and on the other hand require you to give in completely to the whims of nature. These are months where all thoughts of family and friends dim in an ever growing purple haze as your sleep deprived mind attempts to reconcile the hundreds or thousands of details that'll make or break the next year of your life. This is Crush.
More specifically this is my accounting of Crush for David Coffaro Vineyards and Winery. This vineyard/winery is owned and operated by (take a big guess here) David Coffaro and I'm his assistant winemaker (i.e. only employee). This is the inside scoop of what we have to do in order to put a prime bottle of vino on your table. David Coffaro Vineyard and Winery consists of 20 acres of grapes that Dave planted in 1979 and a winery building that he's been operating since 1994. We make wines that are big and red; zinfandel, petite sirah, carignane, an "Estate Cuvee" (a blend of the previous grapes plus cabernet sauvignon) and a "Neighbors Cuvee" (our only non-estate wine whose blend changes from year to year). Like a sandblaster to Tammy Faye Baker's face, I hope to strip away the layers of overglamorized marketing rhetoric and highlight the best advice I ever got about becoming a winemaker -- "Don't do it!"
The excitement of crush takes place on two separate but intertwined stages that seem to spin and twist in independent motion. The first of these stages is the vineyard. The 20 acres of vines we grow is minuscule by industry standards (There are certainly vineyards that are smaller but we are definitely of the side of pretty-darn-tiny). The first job we have in the vineyard is to wait for the grapes to turn from a rather pretty translucent pink color into an intense dark purple/black color. This process is called veraison. Once the color changes we're in the picking ballpark and ready to play the game. The second step is doing a large amount of grape sampling from each block of vines. It's amazing how grapes will vary from one small block to another, even if they're only 10-100 feet away. For about a month before the actual harvest, my job is to pick a representative sampling of all the grapes we grow and monitor them for sugar content. In general we're looking for a level of 24 to 25 percent sugar, which we measure as 24 to 25 degrees Brix.
The Brix reading is only the second stage however. Knowing the sugar level lets you know the technical ripeness of the grapes but not their actual flavors. Somewhere in the early to mid-twenties (sugar level), grapes go through an incredible change of flavors that ultimately add to the complexity of flavors in the finished wine. This change can only be determined by tasting the grapes themselves. So during the final week before harvest Dave and I walk through every block and randomly snack on grapes to make sure they have the flavors we want. If the sugars are perfect but the flavors aren't there then we simply wait until they develop before picking. Once they do, Whamo!, it's time to wake up really damn early and pick some grapes!
Harvesting grapes is a demanding and sticky job. The grapes are about 25 percent sugar and as the workers dump their picking tubs into the half-tons bins, grape juice splashes everywhere. It's well worth the effort, however, because I get to drive a really cool tractor. Once the half-ton bins are full they are driven to the winery and weighed. From there they're taken, by forklift, into the winery and the grapes are put through a machine called a crusher/destemmer. Now, agricultural machine manufacturers are not very creative when it comes to naming their equipment. When I say we dump the grapes into a crusher/destemmer you can be well assured that the machine will probably crush (lightly) the grapes and destem then, doing very little if anything else. We then pump the destemmed/crushed grapes (a.k.a. "must") into a one-ton bin (again, no big guess on how much it holds). The must is then inoculated with yeast and the transformation into wine begins. [As a side note I should mention that this is specifically the process for making red wine. White wine is processed in a similar but distinctly different manner. I'll get into the whites later.]
The addition of yeast is technically a winemaking choice and not a requirement. Native yeasts, which accumulated on the grape skins in the vineyard, will naturally transform the grapes into wine. But most winemakers don't trust these native yeast strains for the same reason you don't let your crazy cousin Leroy baby-sit your kids -- you just don't know what might happen and, even though the results might be fine, it's just not worth taking the chance. Yeast contribute four things to the winemaking process: heat, alcohol carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfites. The heat and alcohol produced make it possible to adequately extract the flavors and characteristics from the grape skins (almost all of the character and all of the color of red wine comes from the skins being broken down). Alcohol acts as a solvent that extracts organic compounds in the grape skins and the heat aids in and speeds up the chemical reaction involved in fermentation.
The CO2 has a separate and interesting effect on the fermenting grape skins. As the CO2 is released by the yeast cells it catches in the grape skins and causes them to float to the surface of the fermentation bins. This forms a solid layer of covering the top of the bins like ice on a lake. This layer is called the "cap" and can get so thick in larger tanks that a full-grown person can walk across it without falling through. The cap, however, presents a small problem. Since most of red wine's character comes from the skins, having them separate from the juice during fermentation can be bad. This small problem is solved by either "punching down" or "pumping over" your bins or tanks. Punching down involves taking a stick-like device (a 2x4, garden hoe, etc.) and breaking up the cap while at the same time mixing it with the juice. Pumping over involves hooking up a pump to the bottom of the tank and pumping the juice over the top of the cap. These actions insure that the grape skins have enough opportunity to breakdown into the wine.
We monitor the fermenting bins at Coffaro constantly and record the residual sugar levels and temperatures at least once a day. When our measurements show that there's one percent sugar or less left in the wine we prepare the press. We use what's called a bladder Press (For $200, what item is inside this press?). The bladder press is a long cylinder made up of a perforated screen. We pump the fermented juice and skins into the press and rotate it while inflating the internal bladder. This is such an efficient form of pressing that when we remove the grape skins -- the squeeze-dried skins is now called pomace -- they are dry, warm and flaky. They serve no real further purpose and are dumped back into the vineyard as fertilizer.
The pressed wine is pumped from the press into a selection of barrels that we've pre-chosen dependent on the wine varietal and individual character it exhibits. At Coffaro we use six to 10 different cooperages, with barrels ranging from American, French and Hungarian oak. However, this doesn't mean we make "oaky" wine. Barrels serve two general purposes; the first is storage and aging; the second is imparting flavor. Barrels only contribute oak flavors to wine for the first two-to-three years of their life, then, after that, are considered "neutral." As storage containers they can be used for decades with the proper care. So, although all of our wines are barrel aged, we only use 20-25 percent new oak to contribute delicate oak flavors. (This percentage varies from winery to winery. Some use as much as 100 percent new oak, some don't use any depending on the varietals grown and the style of wine preferred by the winemaker.
Once the wine is in the barrel we inoculate it with a malo-lactic starter. All red wines and most whites go through a process called malo-lactic fermentation (ML). ML is a bacterial process that changes the malic acid that's naturally found in wine (it's the same acid that makes green apples taste tart) and changes it into lactic acid (the same acid found in milk). This process makes reds more chemically stable, and for white wines it adds flavor (i.e. that "buttery" flavor in most chardonnays). Now that this is done both the wine and the winemakers get a chance to take a short break and recuperate before it's time to start the whole process over again.
Next time we'll learn why they call cellar workers "rats."
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Here's another wedding that braved the weather conditions! The rain started right on cue when the ceremony was due to begin, but Damir & Jasmine bravely decided to wait it out, and it all paid off, resulting in a perfectly fine afternoon!
This lovely couple we've known for a while has great style, and that sure has shown in their wedding. Both ceremony and reception was held at Mandoon Estate, and what an amazing new location for weddings it is! Another precious photo happened at Alfred's Kitchen where they went on their first date
There were some special overseas guests we were happy to see, and a few guests of honour, including their dog Boris who was equipped with a GoPro camera on the day.