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This is often the opening question of the individual is always intrigued by the healing and cleansing properties of essential oils, but it is very important to find out the use of its attributes and modes. The first thing to do is to give a professional prior to employment. To say that many people use these vegetable oils on a daily basis with good results. They are mentioned several times in the Bible were used by ancient cultures and were the forerunners of modern medical practices.
Where do these oils Come From?
In fact they are not oils in the strict sense, but the concentrated distillate of various plants. For example, can take hundreds of leaves of a plant for a small bottle of it. The distillation carries all the essential components of nature intended to protect plants against disease and difficult growing conditions, and these are really good for our health and well-being.
Often today, some people consider them to be aromatic, and of course this is true to some extent. Yet the healing and beneficial properties of essential oils and a much wider range of applications must still be explored today. For example, lavender oil can be used for a fungicide, and lemon essential oil has been shown to improve memory and concentration. Modern doctors suspect quickly on traditional healing practices and methods, but some doctors in European countries are adding to this form of natural healing to his repertoire.
Quality norms
For questions where to buy essential oils, we need time to reflect on the content of those bottles of oils and how to ask. The best oils are fully organic, prepared under controlled conditions and without using artificial materials. There are many retailers selling cheap oil, but these are of dubious value.
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They can be inhaled as a vapor, internally (if certified) are taken, used in massage oils and also used as a disinfectant! If the application of essential oils on the skin, eyes, and they are very concentrated and can irritate account. They are hardly ever good, whether it is used as a mild oil like coconut oil is diluted. Applied in this way, a few drops in a teaspoon of oil often enough. A mixture of your favorite oils can also be added to the bath – so it doubles the benefits of the delicious fragrance and absorption through the skin.
We also have the advantage of the flavor when used in massage. You need a common essential oils used in the past without remembering – the "wintergreen" smell often associated with sports and muscle aches are connected, is actually derived from wintergreen berries. The main chemical compound of the essential oil, methyl salicylate, there are evergreen characteristic odor. Where to buy essential oils? please just visit the link.


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Living in a city like New York, food isn't hard to come by, no matter the time, your location, or your mental state. Thus, when wasted, one should always be able to get a slice of pizza, perhaps some cheap Chinese or Indian food, or even a sandwich at the all-night bodega. But sometimes you get so drunk that you lose your wallet, or your bearings, or…your sense of self, and next thing you know you find yourself grubbing on the most despicable of concoctions.
This rarely happens for me, but here are some of my worst ever drunken meals.
5. Macadamia nuts — "Macadamia Nuts?!" you say. How can that be my 5th worst drunken meal ever? Aren't macadamia nuts delicious? Indeed they are. In fact, I'd dare call them the second best nut after the unshelled pistachio. So what gives? Here's what gives. I was in DC for a wedding and, as the only single guy amongst my friends, I was forced to get my own room at the ritzy hotel. After a night of drunken floundering with female wedding guests I returned to my room alone. Where I apparently ate an entire jar of macadamia nuts from the mini-bar. Something I don't remember at all. By morning there were none left save one single nut on the floor. I tried it. Phenomenal. Price for jar: $35! As Morty Seinfeld once said, "They're like 80 cents a nut!" I think I paid an even higher rate. I would have been better off buying two PPV porns.
4. Burger King — No explanation necessary. If you ever are drunk and BK is your only choice, just save yourself the 1500 calories and go to bed.
3. Can of uncooked vegetarian chili — For a while I lived with a vegetarian female roommate. Meaning that I stayed quite skinny as she never had anything worthwhile to steal when I came home drunk at 4:00 AM. However, one night I was so desperate for sopping-up-the-booze sustenance that I swiped a can of her vegetarian chili, spent about 45 minutes trying to figure out how to use a can opener, before eating the cold, uncooked chili straight from the tin like some boxcar hobo. It was disgusting.
2. Circus Peanuts — A few months ago I went out drinking hardcore and I don't even remember how I got home, a running theme I'm sure you're starting to notice. The next morning I woke up in bed completely clothed, even my shoes still on. And, surrounding me in bed and on the floor was a spilled bag of circus peanuts. You know, those orange gelatinous chunks of disgustingness. I hate those things when I'm sober. Why in the world did I buy some at 4:00 AM? Was I hankering for Styrofoam? I picked one peanut up and took a bite. I immediately sprinted to the bathroom to dry heave.
1. My most humiliating drunken eating experience happened just last week though. I had gone out drinking with the boys but had arranged to end the night at the apartment of a girl I hook up with on occasion. Arriving at her place at 3:00 AM I didn't think I was that drunk. I didn't think I was that hungry either. The next morning though, when I woke up, the girl had a strange look on her face.
"What did you do in my kitchen last night?"
"There's Parmesan cheese everywhere."
Oh god.
I had a drunken flashback to the night before. After we had hooked up, she had immediately crashed. I, however, realized that I needed a nosh. Like a cat burglar I snuck into her kitchen to examine her vittles. Fuck! She had nothing. Literally nothing to eat. No chips, cookies, leftover pizza, nothing. All she had in her fridge was salad dressing and…one of those large shakers of Kraft Parmesan Cheese.
Now in my sober life, I hate that shit. If I'm eating pasta, I want real fresh Parmesan shaved over top it. Not some powdery, chalky pseudo-cheese. But, I guess at 5:00 in the morning drunk, I thought this would satisfy. And, in my flashback, I recall turning my head upside down over the sink, like someone about to get their hair shampooed at the salon, before I proceeded to literally shake the cheese powder into my face, for the most part missing my pie hole and getting it everywhere else. In the full-of-water cups in the sink, on the counter-top, coating the floor.
I was so humiliated, I just had to pretend that I had no clue what had happened. I even blamed her roommate. And, of course, the girl didn't accuse me of eating powdered cheese straight from the shaker because, I mean, come on, what kind of deviant would do that?!
The kind of deviant like me that starts his night with a bomber of 12.5% barley wine. Recently when I was visiting friends in DC they took me to one of the best beer bars in America, Birreria Paradiso, where I was stunned to see that they had a single off-the-menu bottle of the famed Three Floyds Behemoth Barleywine, a beer I thought I would never be lucky enough to indulge in.
They charged us $20 for the bomber but it was well worth it. The smell was potent and awesome, tons of malts and hops. The taste was similar, quite burning and boozy, minimal carbonation, with tastes of pine, citrus, and caramel. My minor issues is that the mouthfeel is a little thin and it could use a tad more sweetness. Not the absolute best barley wine I've ever had, but damn fine.
So what are some of the worst things you have ever ate (eaten? I can never conjugate correctly) while drunk?


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All-American Celebrations: Best Barbecue Festivals
No matter which corner of this great nation you hail from, chances are you grew up eating and enjoying barbecue. And if you're familiar with certain stretches of the South and West, you know that barbecue is a food that can incite passions, start arguments over style and method, and bring famlies together for much-loved foods prepared using age-old techniques.
Here we take a look at some of the best barbecue-themed festivals and events across the country no matter your barbecue prejudices or preferences, you're sure to find one that strikes your fancy.
Searching for more fun, food-themed ways to explore your own backyard? Look no further than our list of weirdest food festivals from around the world.
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Stumptown Smoke Off
Good barbecue is worth a trek on its own — but good barbecue in a gorgeous natural setting, right at the entrance to Glacier National Park? That's almost indescribable. And yet the Stumptown Smoke Off in Whitefish, Montana, offers just that. The event, hosted by local restaurant Piggyback Barbeque, is only in its third year, but already attracts a wide variety of barbecue connoisseurs. The competition is open to cooks of all levels, from pit masters to beginners, and the 25 teams participating in this year's event (including groups all the way from Calgary, Alberta) will bring a variety of barbecue styles to the table — everything from Texas-style brisket to Memphis-style ribs to Carolina pulled pork is expected. In addition to the delectable barbecue, the Smoke Off includes live music, special activities for the kids, and a hog calling contest.
The event, which is sanctioned by the Pacific Northwest BBQ Association, will take place July 27-28, 2013, and will give away thousands in prize money to the winning competitors. Admission for the entire weekend is only $3 per person per day, and some of the proceeds will go to directly benefit a local charity, The North Valley Food Bank.


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ELLIS COUNTY - Veteran law enforcement officer Steve McKinney, 52, was selected by the Ellis County Commissioners Court Tuesday morning to serve as the newest constable in precinct four.
McKinney was expected to be sworn in as constable on Jan. 1 and serve the remainder of former Constable Perry 'Bubba' Curry's term through Dec. 31, 2008.
Curry, a 13-year veteran of the constable office, resigned the post effective Dec. 8 and began a deputy constable post in Tarrant County on Dec. 10.
McKinney said he would run for re-election during the November 2008 elections.
'I've always had an interest in politics and public life. I thought it was something I might be good at, so I seized the opportunity,' McKinney said.
Residing in Ellis County since 1976, McKinney has spent his entire 31-year career in law enforcement.
'I spent my entire career here in Ellis County,' he said.
He has served as a Midlothian police officer, a sheriff's deputy and later retired as a state trooper from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Currently a deputy at the Ellis County Sheriff's Deputy McKinney handles the sex offender registry and internal affairs division.
After meeting in two executive sessions, held during the last three weeks, county commissioners and County Judge Chad Adams reviewed the qualifications of six applicants.
Adams asked each commissioner to write down their top candidate choices for the opening and then Assistant County District Attorney Lee Auvenshine counted the ballots.
First place candidates received three points each, second place candidates received two points each and third place candidates were ranked with one point each.
McKinney came in first with 13 votes.
Johnny Brown came in second with seven votes and Charlie Kellis placed third with six votes.
'Out of the six there was 120 years of law enforcement experience,' said County Commissioner Precinct 1 Dennis Robinson after thanking all the applicants for their interest.
'In 2008, I would like to encourage them to come out and let the voters decide for that position.'
Other applicants included Keith Archer, Reed Huggins and James Shico.


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Amy J. Carle (left) and Laura Hooper star in "Gidion's Knot" at Profiles Theatre. | PHOTO BY MICHAEL BROSILOW
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When: Through March 9
Where: Profiles Theatre,
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Run time: 90 minutes,
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Updated: April 14, 2014 4:38PM
Hot topics do not necessarily make for good plays. Exhibit A: Johnna Adams' "Gidion's Knot," a 90-minute drama that is offensive on so many levels it is difficult to know where to begin when enumerating them. The fact that the play has been picked up by more than a dozen regional theaters this season is irrelevant; it signifies only that this is a trendy work, not a truthful one.
One point should be made clear at the start, however: The fault here does not lie with the Profiles Theatre production, in which two strong actresses, directed by Joe Jahraus, try with all their might to breathe believability into the play's dangerously twisted notions and heavy-handed construction.
The backdrop for the play is a public school classroom in suburban Lake Forest. Sitting nervously at her desk, surrounded by brightly colored walls covered with pictures and compositions devoted to the theme of mythology, is Heather (Laura Hooper), a fifth grade teacher who, we will learn, has an MBA and a previous career in advertising.
Arriving for a "belated" parent-teacher conference is Corryn (Amy J. Carle), the haughty single mother and Northwestern University literature professor whose son, Gidion, was a student in Heather's class. A week earlier, Heather had suspended the boy from school. He then proceeded to head home, tell his mother the news and shoot himself.
Forget the fact that the suspension, as well as this conversation, would never have unfolded as Adams leads us to believe they did. More crucially, continue on to listen to the absolutely repellant cant spewed by the aggrieved and grieving mother who clearly was not paying attention to her 10-year-old son's emotional life.
And be advised: The question here is not really about whether Gidion was being bullied, or, on the other hand, was involved in his own very troubling brand of behavior. As it happens, the impetus for Gidion's suspension was what was found in his notebook. The boy had penned a long, grotesquely gory saga of disembowelment and other horrors staged as an act of revenge against teachers.
The mother's response? My kid was a poetic genius, on the level of the finest minds of ancient Greece and Rome, and you, his teacher, were ill-equipped to appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of his magisterial mind. What's more, such mediocrity is emblematic of all our political and social ills and an offense to our civil rights.
Never mind that Heather's responsibility was to the safety of her entire class and school. I truly kept wishing she would shout: Remember the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn. Instead, the play devolves into a weeper about a sick cat that probably needs to be put to sleep. And that, I must tell you, was the very last meow.
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Who are we?
The Dublin Games Guild (DGG) is an informal group of gamers (wargames, boardgames, roleplaying, card games) who meet every Wednesday in Dublin city centre. New members are always welcome. For directions on how to find us and a map see below.
What do we play?
We will play pretty much anything. A short list of what is currently popular, or has been popular in the past is:
* Fantasy Miniatures (Warhammer, Hordes, Warmachine)
* SciFi Miniatures (WH40K, Warzone)
* Ancient Miniatures (DBMM, FOG, WHAB)
Winter League Round 2 Results
Rob 6 v Mick 19
Anthony 24 v Tony Kelly 26 (Double VP Battle)
Jan 23 v Garth 2
Brian 12 v Mike 13
Tony Bergin 0 v Ray 0 (Non-game)
Team 1 Score (Round 1 score of 73 + Round 2 score of 65 = 138
Team 2 Score (Round 1 score of 77 + Round 2 score of 60 = 137
Team 1 has the strategic initiative for Round 3, and will be the Attackers in all games in Round 3.
Round 3 Fixtures - 970AD
Team 1 Player (Attacker)
Team 2 Player (Defender)
Special Rules
Rob 358 AP (18 VP) v
Garth 397 AP (12VP)
Winter League Round 1 Results
Rob 12 v Tony K. 13
Jan 18 v Mike 7
Anthony 3 v Mick 22
Brian 15 v Garth 10
Tony Bergin 25 (BYE) – Dave Lederer has dropped out
Ray 25 (BYE) – and now switches to Team 2 to fill Dave's place in Team 2
Team 1 Score after Round 1 = 73
Team 2 Score after Round 1 = 77
Therefore Team 2 has the strategic initiative for Round 2, and will be the Attackers in all games in Round 2.
Round 2 Fixtures - 965AD
Team 1 Player (Defender) v Team 2 Player (Attacker) Special Rules
welcome to the DGG Winter League, this year all games will be UNrated
to allow for v1.1 playtesting (if both players wish) and for continued DBMM learning/tutorial games.
I used a RANDOM draw for the first round.
The first round pairings are, all games to be completed by the end of Oct:
#Player Number, Last Name, First Name(current score), Last Game Score,
Rating, Army List Date, Army List, Club, Country
#--- Game 1, Table 101 -------------
1, Hessian, Mick( 0), NoScoreYet , 12, 550, 2/79 N&S Dynsties
Chinese(Northern Dynasties 555AD), DGG, IRL
Leprecon, Ireland's oldest gaming convention, is running at end of this month, on the weekend of Saturday 28th February and Sunday 1st March.
Two-day Warhammer 40k tournament: 1,500 points, Swiss draw, 1st prize is a fully-painted Dark Angels army.
Hi all,
the December round of the DGG winter league is as follows:
#Player Number, Last Name, First Name(current score), Last Game Score, Rating, Army List Date, Army List, Club, Country
#--- Game 1, Table 101 -------------
11, Farrell, Tony( 25), NoScoreYet , 1, 1450, French Odonnance, DGG, IRL
8, Coghlan, Donal( 23), NoScoreYet , 4, 744, Thematic Byzantine (Anatolia), DGG, IRL
#--- Game 2, Table 102 -------------
4, Arnfelt, Thomas( 22), NoScoreYet , 8, -300, Samnite, DGG, IRL
7, Waldron, Phil( 22), NoScoreYet , 5, 980, Chola, DGG, IRL
#--- Game 3, Table 103 -------------
DBMM is well established at DGG and you will find a few games being played each and every meeting (generally we are in the basement playing area of Models Inc). It is not generally necessary to pre-book the tables with Martin, the Models Inc shop owner. However to be sure of getting a game it pays to set up an opponent the week beforehand. To make this easier there is now an online booking system for DBMM games on our web page here.
Here is the 1st round pairings for the league.
Note that the seedings (ranked by player number) are based on glicko ratings calculated for strongbow and the brian boru (I don't have all the riniwa league results yet). They are a bit random but in the end I went with them as the only thing I could do better (given events at the BB) was totally random and theres not much difference :-)
#Player Number, Last Name, First Name(current score), Last Game Score, Rating, Army List Date, Army List, Club, Country
#--- Game 1, Table 101 -------------
Entries So Far:
Mick Hessian
Jan van Embden
Thomas Arnfelt
Note that Bk4 Byzantine armies are now allowed to have regular baggage under v3 of the league rules (below).
Signup for the 2008-9 league has started. All players need to send their names (and army list, including date and sub-list) to firstname.lastname@example.com by the 31st of October.


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Metts sets new meet record
February 2, 2013
Senior Mason Metts set a new Cedarville Collegiate Indoor Invitational record in the shot put.
CEDARVILLE – Senior Mason Metts set a new Cedarville Collegiate Indoor Invitational record as the Wilmington College track teams competed Friday. Despite only taking a select number of athletes to the meet, the men's team finished third of 11 teams, while the women's eighth of 13 teams.
Metts (Pomeroy, OH/Meigs) won the shot put with a record-breaking throw of 51-10.50. The previous mark of 51-02.25 was set in 2008. The Fightin' Quakers added three more event victories in earning the third-place finish.
Derek Kilgo (Charlotte, NC/North Royalton) won the 200 in 23.12, while sophomore Jake Sydnor (Batavia, OH/Clermont Northeastern) was second in the 200 with a time of 23.29. Kilgo added a fourth-place finish in the 55 in a time of 6.73. Junior Graham Morgan (Lebanon, OH/Lebanon) almost eclipsed his personal best with a vault of 14-03.25 in winning the pole vault.
In his only his second day of training, junior Christian Patterson (Cincinnati, OH/Norwood) won the high jump with a distance of 6-06.25. Combs added that Patterson had three nice attempts at 6-08, a mark needed to reach the NCAA indoor championships. Patterson, who is also on the men's basketball team, will have at least one more attempt at qualifying for the championships.
Junior Alek Erwin (Springfield, OH/Northeastern) set a new personal record in the mile, finishing third with a time of 4:26.14.
On the women's side, senior Liz Delehanty (Euclid, OH/Villa Angela-St. Joseph's) set a new personal record in the pole vault with a distance of 10-11.75. Combs added it was the second best vault in the Ohio Athletic Conference this season.
Wilmington returns to the track February 9 in the All-Ohio championships at Otterbein University.


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The continuing inability of Christians to come to full confessional agreement is not simply an intellectual problem. The Apostle Paul prays that "together with all the saints" we may "know this love that surpasses knowledge" (Eph 3:18-19). Such an intimate relationship between knowledge and love implies that longstanding disagreement on significant doctrinal issues is a spiritual and moral issue. St. Paul's beautiful encomium on the unity of the Church, with its sevenfold refrain of unity in Ephesians 4:4-6, connects the unity of the body of Christ to our mutual love. When our interpretation of Scripture differs to such an extent that we cannot arrive at ecclesial unity, it should be clear that we have a problem that requires conversion and prayer for its resolution.
Truthful interpretation of Holy Scripture is a matter of love of God and neighbor. According to St. Augustine in his discussion of biblical interpretation in On Christian Teaching (De doctrina Christiana), we can only claim to have come to an understanding of the Scriptures if it builds up the twofold love of God and neighbor. Augustine links the observation that love is the starting-point and aim of biblical interpretation with a discussion of ultimate ends. He distinguishes between "use" and "enjoyment" and expresses the conviction that only God himself is our ultimate end and worthy of our true enjoyment. St. Augustine insists that only God ought to be loved and enjoyed strictly for his own sake. Any temporal blessings we receive are to be used and loved only with an eye to the eternal purpose of the enjoyment of God himself.
On Augustine's understanding, erroneous interpretation of Scripture is not just the result of a misapplication of technical exegetical tools; more seriously, it is at heart a misdirection of love and the result of a preference of temporal goods over the eternal good—eternal life in the presence of God. Since Scripture is the divinely appointed means to lead us to the love and enjoyment of God, this understanding directs us always to search for the reality to which the biblical text points and which it makes present.
More than anything, therefore, the Center's goal is that together we may see, love, and enjoy the reality of the Triune God. This goal involves a threefold understanding of our task as Catholic and evangelical scholars in dialogue:
In short, Scriptural interpretation, educational formation, and the evangelization of individuals and cultures cannot be separated. As Catholics and evangelicals, we believe that there is a close interconnection between how we interpret Scripture and how we understand education (teaching God's doctrina) and evangelization (living God's doctrina). Our work together thus aims at exegetical, doctrinal, and cultural revitalization so that we may be formed, as a people, in "the unsearchable riches of Christ" (Eph 3:8).


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The rate of a chemical reaction doubles for
every 10°C rise of temperature. If the
temperature is raised by 50°C, the rate of the
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(2) 64 times
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enjoy some fine fiction, in addition to that five dollar snack box
and half-can of Coke, according to aviation letter groups such as
the National Business Aviation Association.
Passengers flying Continental, American, US Airways, Northwest,
and United have been reading editorials from the CEOs of those
respective carriers, each with a common message: you, the
passenger, are helping to pay for corporate bigwigs flying around
in their bizjets, taxing an already-stressed air traffic control
The editorials are an attempt to garner support for the FAA's
proposed airline-backed funding plan.
"What that means, as crazy as it sounds, is that airlines and
our customers (that's you!) are paying a subsidy -- to the tune of
$1.5 billion a year--to the companies and individuals who can
afford their own aircraft," writes American Airlines CEO Gerard
Arpey in the most recent edition of American Way, the company's
in-flight magazine.
Forbes reports the editorial also tells customers to contact
their congressmen if they want a system "that does not force
passengers to subsidize corporate aircraft."
Hogwash, replies NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen, who sent a
fiery letter to United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton regarding that
airline's "Contact Congress" initiative, asking passengers to take
up the fight bandied by the Air Transport Association and other
pro-airline interests, to impose user fees on corporate
"Your e-mail provides no
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but instead makes a blatant attempt to encourage ill-informed
support from people who are justified in their frustration with
this summer's unprecedented airline delays," Bolen writes.
ATA maintains the number of small aircraft and corporate jets
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planes -- and user fees haven't risen to keep pace, burdening
airline passengers who have had to shoulder the responsibility
The Alliance for Aviation Across America rebuts those claims,
saying airlines would enjoy a government handout if user fees were
implemented -- with none of the savings enjoyed by the airlines
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Aviation consultant Michael Boyd says both sides "have gone a
little overboard" with their claims, and passengers are still going
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now being waged in the House and Senate plays out.
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Project Description
This project provides support for Ada compilers and libraries in portage.
At present two gnat compilers are provided, gnat-gcc by FSF and gnat-gpl by
AdaCore. Both are SLOTted and made to coexist, with the selection of the active
compiler performed via the eselect gnat module. Various Ada libraries and related
packages are available under dev-ada. The libs support the multi-compiler
situation by being built for every gnat profile that is installed. Selection
of the active lib variant is done simultaneously with the selection of the
active compiler via the same eselect gnat command. More details on the
setup can be found in the
resource section below and the lengthy discussion that lead to this organization in
bug #111340.
The implementation of the structure is nearing completion. Its progress can be
tracked via:
bug #137268.
"Old-style" dev-lang/gnat and dev-ada/asis packages have been masked and recently removed.
All developers can be reached by e-mail using email@example.com.
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Summary: Gentoo Specific Support for Programming in Ada.
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By extending the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product offering, we enable you to do all your systems administration using a single user interface. You will be able to monitor the health and performance of your systems with precision because the alerts that you will receive from using SCOM MPs from NiCE will pinpoint you directly to the source of the problem. Our solutions work on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.
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NiCE Smart Plug-Ins (SPIs) for HP Operations Manager complement this system monitoring package by adding first class Application Monitoring capabilities. With UNIX, Windows, and Linux as the supported operating systems, you can rest assured that we have a solution for you. NiCE SPIs help you to ensure your business critical applications are at peak performance and availability at all times – the way your business demands it.
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What are the top 10 issues that Database and System Administrators face in the workplace?
Regardless of whether it is a comment on SystemCenterCentral, TechNet, or a System Center User Group meeting where a group member complains to an MVP, the same concerns come from System Administrators time and time again. Interesting to note is that whether the database administrator is working with Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, 2012 SP1, 2012 R2 or any other platforms – the concerns are the same. We are not talking about deployment issues…we are talking about deeper concerns regarding job performance.
We have compiled a top 10 list of these concerns below. These concerns are being able to:
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The only comprehensive list of SCOM Management Packs in 2014 that you need to know is:
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According to Microsoft, System Center 2012 – Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective. It also helps to ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, as well as offering comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.
Microsoft released a lot of information on "What's new in System Center 2012 for Operations Manager" in November 2013. Below is a direct link to these articles published on TechNet:
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Schools in!! 21 days and counting! Anyone else starting this month - page 2
Starting ADN program in 21 days! So nervous but excited!! I only have nursing courses to take, I've taken all pre reqs (thank God) I've started studying for dosage calculations, I just want to stay ahead of he game.. Have a lot... Read More
- 0Jan 1, '13 by sarahnicoleee13I begin my ADN program on January 8th! I also have two nursing orientations: one on Friday (from 9-12) and one on Monday (from 9-4). And then classes start on Tuesday! I am so excited!!
- 0Jan 1, '13 by jachfletchI completed Pharmacology and Soc. Nursing last semester and begin Intro in one week! I opted for a part time ADN program and so far I do not see anything part-time about it! Picked up my books, syllabus, and course materials the week before Christmas and got my reading assignments the same day. Our 5 hour orientation went well...lots of nervous bodies in that room! Our SNA leaders all came out to welcome us and we have a "tabbing session" with them on Monday were they will go over our books and organize notebooks. I can't believe that it is already beginning! It was 6 months ago that I received my acceptance letter and now that time is here!
- 0Jan 1, '13 by PatyJackson1Congrats! I have orientation on 1/19 and my first day will be the 14th! I am also reviewing dosage calculation.. We need 95 or above to pass.
- 0Jan 1, '13 by margritamixI'm starting tomorrow
- 0Jan 1, '13 by cgrantQuote from PatyJackson1Sheesh. And I thought 90 was scary!! Good luck. Doesn't seem too bad .. Thankful I took college alg&trig this summer thoughCongrats! I have orientation on 1/19 and my first day will be the 14th! I am also reviewing dosage calculation.. We need 95 or above to pass.
- 0Jan 1, '13 by kaydensmom01In my program you have to have 100% on dosage calc to pass. You get 3 chances, and you get booted from the program if you can't pass in those three times. We have a new one each semester, and this last semester one of my classmates actually failed from missing one of them on the third test, she was and still is devestated. Thank god I have never missed one, but the anxiety is high on test days.
I am excited to start back on Jan 14, and I will be finished with my classes on March 24th and graduate May 10th. I am so ready to get this done with. I'm taking Peds/Med-Surg III, and not looking forward to Peds at all.
Good luck to all of you new students
- 0Jan 2, '13 by shamrokksMy LPN to RN program starts January 22nd. I have two orientations next week. I'm taking my kids to Disney World this weekend to spend time with them before I start. I know how hectic it gets when school is in session. It's hard to juggle family and school. My boyfriend is also starting his 2nd year of his ADN so at least we are both in similar situations and know what the other is going through. We also both work full time. The benefits will be worth it.
- 0Jan 3, '13 by jolie_tassoI start my ADN clinicals on the 16th! I also just started a new full time job, so I'm trying to enjoy this last bit of peace and freedom before my life is consumed with nursing school! Spending every available minute with my husband
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Since its inception in 2001, the da Vinci Awards® have recognized the most innovative developments in assistive technology and the ideas and designs that best encompass the principles of universal design. All students (individuals or groups, high school through graduate school) are encouraged to submit their own design projects for consideration in one of the five award categories (see Nomination page). The best student submission across all categories will be recognized with the Student of da Vinci Award. Student submissions will also be considered for the top prize in their respective category, the prestigious da Vinci Award.
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The Long-Term Case for Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp (Update 2)
Continued strong performance leads to eventual gains for investors, even though the banks have been forced to build up higher levels of capital in the wake of the credit crisis. The completion of this year's Federal Reserve stress tests led to regulatory approval for significant dividend increases and significant share buybacks for Wells Fargo, JPMorgan and U.S. Bancorp:
- Wells Fargo was approved to raise its quarterly dividend to 30 cents a share in the second quarter from 25 cents, subject to approval by the company's board of directors. The 30-cent quarterly payout would equate to a dividend yield of 3.24%, based on Monday's closing price of $37.02. The company was also approved by the Fed for "a proposed increase in common stock repurchase activity for 2013 compared with 2012." Wells Fargo's share buybacks during 2012 totaled $3.9 billion.
- JPMorgan Chase received only conditional approval for its 2013 capital plan, being forced by the Federal Reserve to submit a revised plan by the end of the third quarter. Nonetheless, the company was approved by the regulator to raise its quarterly dividend to 38 cents form 30 cents, making for a yield of 3.13%, based on Monday's closing price of $48.58. JPMorgan also received Federal Reserve approval for up to $6 billion in common-share buybacks through the first quarter of 2014.
- U.S. Bancorp was approved by the Fed to raise its quarterly dividend to 23 cents a share from 19.5 cents. The shares have a dividend yield of 2.73%, based on the higher payout and Monday's closing price of $33.69. The company was also approved for share repurchases of up to $2.25 billion through the first quarter of 2014.
Significant buybacks, year after year, lead to a reduced share count and which lead to higher earnings-per-share, not to mention the higher earnings estimates among analysts, which push shares higher over the long haul. And those dividend yields are nothing to sneeze at, considering how low interest rates are.
A quick look at stock valuations for the five bank stocks mentioned here, shows that while Bank of America and Citigroup remain "bargain priced" at below tangible book value, the strong earnings performers don't trade much higher on a forward price-to-earnings basis:
- Shares of Bank of America closed a $12.21 Monday, trading for 0.9 times tangible book value, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight, and for 9.3 times the consensus 2014 earnings estimate of $1.32 a share, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
- Citigroup closed at $43.56 Monday, trading for 0.8 times tangible book value, and for 8.4 times the consensus 2014 EPS estimate of $5.20.
- JPMorgan's stock trades for 1.3 times tangible book value, and for 8.4 times the consensus 2014 EPS estimate of $5.82.
- Wells Fargo trades for 1.7 times tangible book value, and for 9.6 times the consensus 2014 EPS estimate of $3.87.
- USB trades for 2.5 times tangible book value, and for 10.3 times the consensus 2014 EPS estimate of $3.28.
So there you have it. You won't pay much of a premium, on a forward P/E basis, for the long-term stability of Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp. Even U.S. Bancorp, the "most expensive" among these five, and rightly so, in light of its fantastic earnings track record, looks cheap. Before the credit crisis, the stock easily traded above 20 times forward earnings.JPMorgan Chase's stock also has attractive multiples, although the short-term uncertainty over the regulatory and political target on the company's back may give you pause, unless you have a strong stomach and can stick with the investment, despite the headlines.
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Martha Stewart will take up housekeeping in the big house by Oct. 8. According to court papers released Tuesday, she's been ordered to begin her five-month federal prison term by that date. U.S. District Court Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum recommended that Stewart serve her time at one of two minimum-security federal prisons, either the one in Danbury, Conn. (not far from Stewart's home in Westport) or the one in Coleman, Fla.
Stewart was sentenced earlier this summer to five months behind bars and five more months of house arrest after being convicted of lying to the government about her suspicious sale of ImClone stock. Stewart has vowed to appeal, but last week, she announced that, rather than wait a year or more for her appeal to be heard, she'd just as soon get her sentence over with, in the hopes that she'd be out of jail in time for spring planting.
At least Stewart may be able to revive her TV show once she's released. No less a producer than Mark Burnett has been in talks with Stewart about renovating her show. The series would avoid reference to her prison term, the reality-show guru told the New York Daily News on Monday. ''It has to be about Martha helping people -- cooking, lifestyles, that kind of thing,'' Burnett said. Fine, but we'd like to see a show along the lines of Burnett's The Apprentice, where viewers would get to see Stewart fire underlings who make soufflés collapse or fold napkins improperly.


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WINSTED — The Water and Sewer Commission has been running significant deficits since the 2003-04 fiscal year, and its five members say it was unbeknownst to them.
Town Attorney Kevin F. Nelligan, a day after announcing that state police are investigating whether a crime was committed in connection with the town's financial troubles, met with the commission on Thursday to tell members that its revenue has not come close to meeting its expenditures. Revenue declined every year between 2004 and 2010, according to the town's annual audits.
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... not like the future "beings" of this planet are going to be able to figure out how to read the damn thing - we've all see planet of the apes and how inferior those beings were.. good use to document everything if it is just a hologram on a piece of rock..
... because real programmers use C
nothing like doing some polymorphism and inheritance via casting of pointers!
RIP: dennis ritchie.
no law.. but - everyone except apple agree'd to a universal charger.
seems if you want to stick with apple; your screwed on this one. everyone should just boycott them
thing is; the "mark of the beast" is only relevant when it is implanted. she can simply leave the badge at home when not going to school. the badge is ONLY required when on campus if i understood this correctly. this is just a 15 minutes of fame stunt - nothing more.
Every retailer knows if you give away free samples or even free products you're encouraging people to come back. To buy your new offerings. People are creatures of habit and once we like something we want more of it. This massive giveaway probably did wonders for their signup rates.
the guy shared movies from the same producer; how are there new offerings?
this only applies to the TSA who actually scan and pass people around the security scanning solution based on the results of what is in the barcode. in europe, you always have to go through scanning process, regardless of what your 2D barcode has encoded within in. all the TSA is doing here, is opening up a chance for terrorists based on local soil to get through the security scanning process simpler. the challenge is that the USA has the most number of travelers through the airline system than anywhere else in the world; doing extensive security checks does choke the system - so, they need to try and filter out the more frequent/trusted flyers, the net result is they are wasting time screening some since they done screen everyone.
... while i've always been a fan of IOCCC contests, when i was teaching C programming - most of the students source code could be considered entries to such a competition
i did already
this is a big question for me (as a developer).
or will open webOS will only support enjo (HTML5, CSS et al) with no native application support (existing webOS applications).
engadget reported this back in June http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/nokia-reportedly-scraps-meltemi/
if they were true IT guys, unless the woman looked like lara croft, i would not be concerned about it.
Never liked anything 'lower-level' than C
you say you were a programmer 20+ years ago? the only decent options back then were ASM, and the concept of OO wasn't even born yet - you left the industry because you were not capable of being in it in the first place. times have changed; all the old skool boys have stuck with C - specifically focusing on embedded environments (C, C++, objective-C) and the newbies (kids) are playing with managed code these days. CPU's are 1000x faster, RAM is 100x more available - you will have a better chance starting from scratch than trying to recuperate what you knew before.
four-thirds pi = eight-thirds tau
just as complex in both cases.. neither case holds up as being singular for the sphere.
i thought it would have been cool to get involved (been programming 20+ years now) - but the focus is really on high school students, so it needs to be dumbed down a little bit - if anyone has programmed for embedded environments, the idea of a restrictive IDE forcing you to do some things is a good thing. what they done want is a stack overflow on a unit in space
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I was upstairs at about 5:00 p.m., reviving leftovers for dinner wondering why it is so hard for me to go out and buy a big stack of that packing paper [for packing boxes right?] when the phone rings. Its a pleasant young man from the Spokesman Review [newspaper] letting me know that even though I take the paper on Sundays only, I will be receiving it everyday through June at no extra charge or obligation. This, he says is their way of saying thank you for subscribing — this, I think is one of those little miracles. Free newspaper — I'm off the hook on the packing paper!
How about we all look for some little miracle tomorrow? Sometimes it's just a matter of perspective — be sure to leave me a comment and share yours!


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With that statement, I reveal myself as the nerd that I am. So be it. I am a geek who prefers to see a character with a dark side.
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With that statement, I reveal myself as the nerd that I am. So be it. I am a geek who prefers to see a character with a dark side.
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- AnonymousOctober 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM
I like ur stuff. Speaking of weres and vamps;ReplyDelete
I'm lex;
Why is it that we often judge a book by its cover? lol, fiction writing is an amazing topic, and so I just wanted to add my lil incident from this week at work.
So this co-worker comes up to me and asks if I want to read her mom's new book that was just released in Aug. I give her a blank look, and am silently thinking in my head. Okay, if the book sucks, I'll be forced to say nice things about it for the duration of both our employment here. I'm still hesitant about it, and then she says it's free. I'll give you a free copy, and you can be like one of those reviewers, and just tell me honestly what you think.
I'm still hesitant, because now I have the responsibility of actually reading it. Ugh! so I finally agree and she gives me the book; and all I can say, is OMG! Never judge a book by its cover. This was an amazing book, and the author weaved this lil lycan world, that the reader just had to be a part of.
It's a paranormal romance, yea I know peoples qualms about Twilight, but I swear its nothing like that. She took ancient myths of Sekhmet, Isis, and some lycan King named Mulkie ( never heard of him so I assumed she made him up) but its kewl cuz she worked all of that into the story. The main character is a descendant of Isis, and the main wolf is a 475 year old monk. You guys should really check it out. I swear I loved it, and now I can look her in the face and say it was awesome hahaha!
It's called Teaching Between Midnight and Dawn, by Alexandria Infante
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South Texas report: Six baseball players named academic all-state
CORPUS CHRISTI - Six area players were named to the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association's academic all-state teams.
In Class 4A, Flour Bluff's Will Mendiola and the Gregory-Portland trio of Mickie Erwin, Pablo Garza and Travis Geiser earned the accolade. Class 2A honors went to Falfurrias' John Gonzalez and Lorenzo Vela.
Six area players are academic all-state
Six area players were on the Texas Girls Coaches Association's academic all-state teams.
All of the honorees are from Class 2A: Clarissa Gonzalez and Danielle Gonzalez of Santa Gertrudis, Cecilia Bauer and Irene Gallegos from Refugio and the San Diego tandem of Sydney Ramirez and Laura Trevino.


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Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education
Education programs at Thomas College are built on the premise that a caring, motivating, and challenging classroom culture is at the heart of successful schools. And in order to create that classroom, the Thomas programs emphasize preparing students to teach for understanding.
To promote teaching for understanding, students study and practice constructivist learning principles. The role of the teacher, must go beyond information-giver to creator of rich, comfortable learning environments that scaffold students' learning.
Throughout their program, you will learn to work in a variety of different group configurations designed to model the way teachers work together in public schools. You will learn to use technology as a teaching and learning tool that reflects the society in which they live, research, socialize and communicate.
You leave ready to engage young learners through the very technology they are exposed to on a regular basis. From using the applications of a cell phone to teach basic skills to exploring the internet for graphics and other resources to integrate into lesson design, you will practice planning and delivering engaging lessons that can be used during your field work. The education program is designed to provide you with early and on-going field work. In addition to the required field work and student teaching, you can choose to participate in a senior internship and work in classrooms in China and Korea. The opportunities for real-world experience are endless!
The Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education program prepares students to teach children from kindergarten through grade eight (Endorsement 020) and is certified by the state of Maine.
Upon completion of the Thomas College Elementary Education program, students will meet Maine's Standards for Initial Certification of Teachers. The student:
- Demonstrates knowledge of the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) s/he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful to students.
- Demonstrates the ability to integrate the concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures among the disciplines.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the diverse ways in which students learn and develop by providing learning opportunities that support their intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development.
- Plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, and curriculum goals.
- Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and appropriate technologies.
- Creates and maintains a classroom environment which supports and encourages learning.
- Demonstrates the ability to support students' learning and well-being by engaging students, home, school, colleagues, and community.
- Understands and uses a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and support the development of the learner.
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School purchases the iPad, staff have a monthly sum deducted off their wage over the course of a year until it's paid back. Once it's paid back, they own the device outright. VAT / Tax side of things - *shrug* how they work all that out is the finance department... the only benefit is monthly repayments out of their wage. They don't get it any cheaper than anyone else in education purchasing direct from Apple.Quote:
Can you elaborate a bit on how you do the staff purchase? Do they own the device? Is there a scheme? How do you avoid tax issues?
Well at the moment they do it online via ePortal, therefore, they just log onto ePortal from the iPad instead of their previous device.Quote:
How do your staff write reports on their iPads?
QuickOffice HD, or Keynote, both of which can save & open PPT format (there are other choices out there also... basically, all common file formats are accounted for via various apps and can be produced to work across all platforms). Media - videos can be created in iMovie and exported to MP4. Images can be created in the plethora of image apps out there.Quote:
How do they create media, or the MANY MANY powerpoints, on their iPads?
In some cases yes, in some cases no. That's down to the general IT ability of the individual.Quote:
Do they need laptops/desktop to complement the iPads?
Depends on the individual and the specific task at hand for that individual. Some staff can work happily solely on their iPad / mobile device. Others prefer the more standard methods.Quote:
I see it as iPads are a complement to existing services, they can no way replace what is already there. It is an extension though, and they are good at what they do.
Who pays for the device when they get broken or break down? If it becomes a 'requirement' to complete their lessons does it become the schools responsibility to pay for the staff's devices?
Do they not mind typing on a screen? I find it really annoying, but I suppose I have grown up with keyboards and am able to touch type, which seems impossible on a screen.
Laptop + warranty + Windows, Office etc... + support costs (admit it, laptops have a much higher support requirement than desktops and tablets) and you'll easily surpass £604 over 3 years.
Very good post about surface.
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Indeed arguing about cost is daft. They differ for every establishments' individual implementation, eg: We don't use or need "Emerge" or VGA adapters.
If it's their device, they do. If it's the school's device, we do. We can get full spares and self-repair outside of warranty. Inside of warranty we take them to the AppleStore. We have a few spare iPads as well just in case. But as said, apps do create stuff in standard formats. Staff have access to and save to network shares. In case of emergency, there's nothing stopping them accessing the same resources via other methods / devices.Quote:
Who pays for the device when they get broken or break down? If it becomes a 'requirement' to complete their lessons does it become the schools responsibility to pay for the staff's devices?
Down to the individual. We accomodate iPads for those who WANT TO USE THEM. We're not forcing them on people. It's their choice. If they choose to use one it's assumed they're happy with all the quirks. I can type just as quick on the iPad's screen as I can on my desktop keyboard. You simply get used to it thru continued use, same as with anything else. Some have gone out and bought their own bluetooth keyboard, that's their choice.Quote:
Do they not mind typing on a screen? I find it really annoying, but I suppose I have grown up with keyboards and am able to touch type, which seems impossible on a screen.
Sorry, even with a replacement power supply, ess licencing we're still under £500 per laptop over 3 years.
Support costs is debatable, some we don't see at all, some we do. Depends very much on the end user. Its not something that was added to the raw ipad cost, so wasn't considered with the raw laptop cost.
I think the main advantages of the tablets are classroom teaching (in front of kids).
They do School reports via the terminal server from home usually which can be virtually any device. Most of the time its their home computer.
For me it comes down to cost benefit analysis:
What is the learning outcome of the device?
What will it cost to support? (set up, maintenance, replacement etc)
This applies to everything we spend money on in school: laptops, cameras, pens, books, staff.....
If there's a benefit to learning outcomes, then we should facilitate it. I work in an infant school and my instinct is that touch interface devices will probably offer most benefit to our youngest pupils - not that there's nothing in it for older students, but the 3 year olds I work with struggle with a qwerty keyboard but can already use an iPhone when they arrive. Also, if we are trying to make our pupils "digitally literate" they should have access to as wide a range of technology as possible. We already have a child in school who uses an iPad as an "assistative communications device" - he has speech difficulties and it turns symbols and typing into speech in real time, allowing to take part in main stream lessons. Cost of iPad + App less than £500. Previous device with similar,but more limited functionality and heavier was over £2500 - again you need to know why you're buying it and work out whether it's good value for money. In this case, the iPad won hands down.
Personal experience, I own a windows 7 laptop, an iPad, Android phone, iPod touch and work in a Windows Server / client environment. All have their advantages - the iOS devices are the only ones that have worked out of the box and have needed no support. Up time is 127 days on my iPad - since I upgraded to iOS 5.1 which only required one click to accept the update. In the classroom, two really big strengths are it turns on instantly and the battery lasts all day. In terms of use, the iPad is great for accessing content, Garageband is very heavily used, I have a great app for training for associated board aural music exams, great recipe book, works well for streaming music and TV to my hi-fi and TV, but for preparing documents, I find a PC is much quicker. As someone else said, for what it's designed to do, the iPad is very effective and reliable, but trying to make it do something that wasn't in Apple's list is probably not time well spent.
We should be aiming towards 1-2-1 availability of computing devices, but until that day comes, devices are going to need to be shared. I'm hoping that Win 8 tablets make that easier - I know it's do-able with iPads, but they're not designed to make it straightforward.
In general, making all of the unrelated operating systems play nicely is difficult - at the minute I think that will be overcome by using SaaS applications, so that everyone always has the same version of applications to work on (and should be much less hassle for me to manage) but that's some way off too.
I advised the client not to buy said devices, and to strongly consider going down the laptop route, which would double the provision... Needless to say, the above text suggests I was largely ignored. The client ended up with a device which was unresponsive, with a screen so pathetic, it made the device mostly unusable.
Anyway, the point I'm making is this - whilst the school had a vision of the future, they had in fact invested a large some of money in what were in affect a one trick pony... The one trick part being the aesthetics, which is where the ipad ties in.
I look forward to Microsoft releasing the Surface, as well as the offerings from Dell and the like... Interesting times a head.
Have been trialing a W8 tablet in most of my schools for a while though, most are reasonably excited about it in the tablet form factor apart from the best funded but most near sighted of them.
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Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 - North America/U.S. QuickSpecs
Sent a cold shiver down my spine when I google'd it.
with proper training of staff (that's the key bit), guidelines on usage for regular users and visitors then there's no reason why an environment which supports idevices in a relatively hands-off way needs to generate a tonne of support calls or take up a silly amount of time of ICT support (the proliferation of ruddy netbooks and wireless trolleys in schools would have been a far more disruptive and challenging to IT depts.'revolution'), after all it's not as if they have to build in a infrastructure or extend to another layer of AV servers, update servers, policy servers and all the other stuff which supports a windows infrastructure.


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GAD Or God?
Are you a chronic worrier? Do you worry about bills, the future, health, debt, marriage issues? Has worry so consumed you that you have become "a fret machine"? If this describes you, perhaps you have generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD—a condition marked by a perpetual state of worry about most aspects of life. According to David Barlow, professor of psychology at Boston University, "the key psychological feature of GAD is a state of chronic, uncontrollable worry." A little anxiety is normal, but constant worry is not.Read More »


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HBO presents Ken Kalfus's Pu-239
The movie adaptation of Ken Kalfus's short story, "Pu-239," which is the title story of his second Milkweed book, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, premieres on HBO November 17 at 8 pm and will be shown for the next month. Ken Kalfus's short story collection, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Philadelphia Inquirer Notable Book, and led to a his selection as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, the book's title story has been made into an HBO movie written and directed by Scott Z. Burns and staring Paddy Considine and Radha Mitchell.


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QE2 Sort of Already Happened
With all this talk about the possible effects of a "QE2" (a second round of quantitative easing from the Fed, ostensibly comprised of longer term bond purchases), and perhaps even a temporarily higher inflation target, folks seem to have missed the fact that QE2 has already more or less happened.
One of the most often used tools of the politician/central banker is jawboning. Talk is cheap and easy, and can often have an effect, at least in the short-term. Jawboning's been on wide display the last month or so as central bankers around the world hem and haw over the weakness of the dollar, Chinese Yuan manipulation, Yen strength, et al, ad infinitum, around the world.
But while many were interpreting Bernanke's recent speech to mean he's in favor of a new round of QE before yearend, they seemed to have missed the fact that bond yields have stayed low, the dollar has weakened (particularly to the Euro, which has rallied hard in the second half), and US 30 year mortgage rates hit or are near new all-time lows.
All the while, economic data is improving from the summer's malaise, asset and commodity markets are buoyant, earnings are surging, and leading indicators rose for a 3rd straight month.
A different way of saying all this: By simply talking up the matter publicly, the Fed has possibly already accomplished what it wanted to in the short-term without actually executing a new monetary stimulus.
Lately, there's been a vocal, and growing, minority of Fed presidents showing their trepidation about QE2. Maybe they'll follow through, maybe they won't, after the elections. If it happens, QE2 is unlikely to derail global capital markets or materially hurt the economy—in the short term it probably provides a mild boost. What it does is create a higher, and more difficult to clear, hurdle to stave off inflation and other monetary distortions down the line. Because, make no mistake, quantitative easing is a distortion of otherwise functioning capital markets, which has consequences.
The animal spirits of capitalism ultimately will revive the economy, not the Fed. To my view, the reason the Fed's tools are criticized sometimes "inadequate" or "arcane" is because those tools are explicitly tools of monetary policy, not rounded out economic policy. Yet, today we tend to think of the Fed as more "in charge" of the economy than ever before. Simply, the Fed has mostly directed the right monetary policy so far through the crisis, and done what it could to create an environment conductive to revived economic expansion (low rates, high yield curve spread, etc.). The rest is up to the economy, QE2 or not.
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