text:
There's a song that seems so appropriate sometimes:
"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future." (the song is Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band)
Ah, yes, yes it does. Another month has passed and it's time to take a moment to review January and look at what I want to accomplish in February.
== January goals ==
1) Dental hygiene habit.
-- Almost, but not quite. I was consistent all the way up until the last few days. What threw me off? Once again I flubbed up my sleep schedule for no good reason. On the good side, I got it right back in. The long-term goal isn't necessarily perfection in remembering every single night - but not letting the habit drop out again - and that is going well.
2) Write 30 minutes a day.
Got this one done even on the nights I was exhausted. My production those nights was lousy though, which is just a reminder of how critical proper is to so many other goals.
3) Weight at or below 165 consistently.
-- Didn't hit it, but I am back on a downward trend and pretty much stabilized on my workout routine and eating. My current low is 166.5 and today's weight was 167, so I'm close -- and content with where I am progress-wise.
4) Update budgets for 2013.
-- I use Mint, which is connected to Quicken, to track everything and updated my budgets and even set a couple of goals for 2013.
5) Write out the questions related to Vet Tech
-- Whoopsies. This was completely forgotten in January. Definitely going to get it done in the next week or two.
6) Write out what I want with a personal trainer
-- This was semi-forgotten, but partly because I decided to postpone a personal trainer indefinitely. I'm progressively rebuilding my own routine, expanding my repertoire of exercises. I think the most important thing I've learned in the last month or so is that there isn't some perfect routine or best exercise. It's so common to see articles putting down one exercise and lauding another, to see one or another trainer promising the best results with their combination of exercises and supplements, but consistency and good form are really far more important.
So, only 2 out of 6 goals met - but in spite of that I feel like January went quite well. The changes I've made to my workout routine have been working well. I'm really liking the 4-day split for my weight work that breaks it into Upper Body one day and Lower Body / Abs the next day. I'm doing well food-wise with less of a deliberate deficit, but being more precise with my measuring. I feel good with the balance I have in doing challenges for the BLC#21.
The only thing I feel a little bad about is I've been much less active with my other teams. I've been trying to improve my work productivity, which means less time online during my work hours. That's left me a lot less active with huddling and replying to threads. Ditto for keeping up with friend's blogs, which I try to do when I can.
I have also been working on several of the by Spring goals. I got my taxes filed this weekend (whew, only owe about $40 between Fed and State - that makes me *SMILE*). I'm past 52,000 words in my novel and still writing. I'm doing lunges even if comfortable isn't the word I'd use yet.
So January may have rushed past, but I can leave it behind feeling what I did was done well.
What do I want in February?
1) Weight at or below 165 consistently.
-- I think this one will finally be met this month, even with it shorter.
2) Set up an automatic transfer to my savings account.
-- I've set a goal to build an emergency fund, but need to get the transfer set up and actually start saving.
3) Keep my streak of 30+ minutes writing daily going.
-- Don't want to break this habit. I don't honestly expect this particular novel to go anywhere long-term, but it is very important to me to finish it. I also want to really be in a routine when November 2013 comes around so I can have an outline and concept and actually do 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo on a book I feel will be worth getting revised and maybe even trying to publish.
4) Keep getting 6+ hours of sleep as many nights as possible, as close to a routine bedtime / rising time as possible.
-- I'm doing better at sleeping, even if I'm up late tonight and had the one hiccup late in January. Sleep affects my ability to make good decisions, my health, and so much more - so this has to be a priority.
February is a short month, so I also need to be really watchful with my finances and make sure I get all necessities paid. Not making a goal with that - just reminding myself.
Hello February! Now I'm ready for you.
Every weekend of the BLC (Biggest Loser Challenge) there is a challenge to help us stay focused through the weekend as that's a difficult time for some Sparkers. There's two parts of this weekend challenge that call for blogging:
1) How will your life change when you reach your fitness/weight goal? How will you feel?
Journal or Blog about it
Honestly? It won't change any more or less than it has been through the whole length of the journey. The changes are what has been happening along the way, not something that will occur at some arbitrary numbered goal.
Now, a lot WILL have changed; a lot ALREADY has changed. To look at a snap shot of when I started and when I finish, that much will be obvious. This whole process has been about looking at my life and seeing which patterns weren't working, making the changes that I wanted to make most.
The biggest change is that I'll be adjusting my calories to remove the deficit. Because I noticed I was filling in that deficit with treats, I've looked at how I want to fill it instead (more lean protein and/or adding a protein smoothie at breakfast).
I don't expect to feel notably different. I will feel satisfied to have passed that scenic point on my journey, but life isn't all about weight or fitness. Those are just two small pieces of a much grander puzzle. Before I started this leg of my journey, I was fixing my finances. It was much the same thing - yes, there was a point when I "finished" the major portion of that, but I can't just slack off and run up the debt. Most of the changes are still part of how I handle my money. I still track my budget closely. I expect to keep tracking my food. I still have bad days where I splurge more or have an unexpected emergency - both money and food - and have to recuperate.
The biggest thing I will feel, and already feel, is a great satisfaction in knowing that I ~CAN~ do just about anything I set my mind to and a joy in growing positively in my life.
2) Forgive yourself for one thing you regret in your past-write it down or blog about it
I briefly mentioned in my team's chat thread that this one would be challenging, and it is.
I don't spend my energy on regrets. When I said that, the response was to not get stuck on the word regret and just find something I could forgive myself for. Which was an interesting response to me.
When I say I don't spend my energy on regrets, this doesn't mean I don't have them at all. I regret many things in one sense. But I let the regrets go as easily as I have them, because I know the past is unchangeable and the present is what matters.
For example, I could say I regret not going to college. I'd have done well. I could have a career in something fascinating (chemistry? astronomy and physics? higher mathematics?) I could be a greater career and financial success. I could even bend that further and say I regret not figuring out a way to go to Stanford. There was a point in high school where I wished I could make that happen, even as I knew it wasn't in the card(inal)s.
However, that isn't the path this life took. If I had gone to college, it would have altered this life so completely, I might not have learned what I did, might not have had three beautiful children, might not be looking into a future as a vet tech. I'm happy with where I am now. I'm happy for all the experiences, good and bad.
So it's less about not having regrets than it is about owning every choice I've made and the results of those.
I also don't feel a need to forgive myself for putting on weight, something that was brought up. I did it on purpose for a reason that I recognize now as illogical, but which made sense to me and seemed to work as I needed it to. I forgave myself the moment I faced the illogic, the damage it was causing, and took action to change things. (The best way I forgive myself is to change what is harming me. I forgave myself for the condition of my teeth by implementing good dental hygiene. I forgave myself for not putting money aside for retirement earlier by doing it now.)
Anyway, that's why this one has been very difficult for me. I'm rather proactive, so if I ~KNEW~ I was regretting something and needed to forgive myself, it has most likely already been done. It has taken a bit of poking and prodding to find something I do regret, but avoid thinking about often.
I actually had a lot more written that kind of led me around to this.
I mentioned to my team that I was a loner, but it got taken more in the introvert sense because that's how I framed it. It's more. I find maintaining a friendship HARD. It's a lot of work, and I feel like I'm not that great a friend because I'm more likely to do something alone than think "Oh, I should do that with -friend-." Most people I know, even the introverts, if they HAVE friends then their concept of activities tend to be including those friends. Go to a club ... with friends. Go to the movies ... with friends. Go hiking ... with friends. Go to the gym ... with friends. Even if I had a whole slew of local friends, every one of those activities is one I would naturally do alone unless ASKED to do it with someone, and then might inwardly resent that I had to adjust to someone else's preferences and pace.
I regret not ever making a very real friendship that would be satisfying to ME. I am forgiving myself for being so emotionally detached and independent that I tend to only let myself get close to people who are more dependent on me, and who thus carry more of the weight of maintaining a friendship that never comes into balance. I forgive myself for being such a difficult person to be a close friend to.
Because that last is what it really comes down to. Both friendship and relationship require an emotional investment, and ability to be interdependent, and I feel somehow lacking in both of those areas. (I can perform the actions to be a good friend. I do them for my best friend. His dependence on me as friend helps. But deep down I end up feeling like a fake, like only I know that I'm not really as involved in the friendship.)
Only problem I've got now is that saying I forgive myself isn't enough. I need to take it that extra step and take action to change things. Not nearly as easy to do as to say.
I swear the reason this was delayed had nothing to do with the fact it was the first month to ever show a gain. The 16th, my usual day for these, was the beginning of BLC#21. I weighed in at 172, which is up 3.5 pounds from the 168.5 of last month's check-in.
Then again, as I mentioned in a semi-recent blog post, I've done a bit of a change-up to work on stabilizing my eating -- one part of which is setting my SP goal to two years out rather than a few months away. This adjusted my calories to a maintenance-like range. I'm also focusing very closely on measuring, because I started looking at the number of servings some things I was buying weekly would provide. When a 416g container of almonds is gone in a week, but I've only recorded 300g or less (which wasn't easy to see because I would list it as 24 almonds, which is a serving, not the grams) I was eating notably more calories than I was recording.
I will say this much. I know my metabolism is fast. I was using that as an excuse to eat loosely like that, but the problem is that once started with the excuse, it kept expanding and being used more and more often. My goal right now is to actually see how much faster by not fudging the food tracking, so that when I put the deficit back in place, I don't put too large a deficit.
The reason for that is when I eat at too large a deficit, given my activity level, after a few days or a week, I get legitimately hungry. Once I get that hungry, eating goes way overboard. It settles back down after a day or two, but that was becoming a roller-coaster ride I didn't want to be on.
So visually there likely isn't much difference in these pictures from last month. (Well, minus the fact I had my DDa take them, so the angle is different -- normally I have the phone propped on my bed in a box and using the timer.) Here they are:
Just for fun, since DDa was there, I had put on the green shirt in my original picture on my SparkPage and the pants that fit me at my top weight. She laughed hard, called me gangsta, and took this:
Then I realized she could take this picture better than me:
Compared to before (August of last year):
I'm actually back down to 168.5 today, and that in spite of a slight calorie surplus this past week.
I did get super-whammied this week, though. I've mentioned that I almost never get sick. Well, the one exception happens when my TOM hits -AND- I get exposed to a bug right about the same time. That's the only time cold sores ever crop up, too. So all week two people at work had "the crud", coughing and snuffling. I got the mild sniffles, which touch on my throat overnight. Then my DDa kindly exposed me to her tummy bug Saturday to add to the fun. (All I got out of that was tummy gurgling - and mushy doodoo.)
The worst part has actually been a tendency for my hands to get chilled. I was running warm water over them at work ... and had bright red fingers as though I'd scalded them and very pale white hands. Thankfully I seem to be pretty much through it all and back to a normal routine.
And complete unrelated to me, just two fun photos.
This first one is a car wash that has been around since I was very young. We lived less than a mile from it. I now work less than a mile from it and walk past it regularly. It's crazy, in fact, remembering this whole area because the next block over from this was a large orchard. It is now an eBay campus, shops, and so on. There are no orchards left of the ones I remember here. (There are some elsewhere, but this entire area near where I work now got completely developed. In fact, the old canneries got turned into apartment complexes too.)
As a child, early on they would let us ride inside the vehicle. Rules changed later and we'd have to walk through the little store to get outside and watch it go through. There were always whole families of ducks, often with ducklings in the spring. There was also a small pavilion area with a control panel like what might be on the bridge of an actual steamboat. I carried on the tradition when I had a car, taking my DS and DDa along and believe they had as much fun as I ever did.
This other picture is of some sort of ??? fruit ??? vegetable ??? that my landlady had sitting on the table near my room. They were sprouting. I have absolutely NO clue what they are, but they certainly looked fascinating.
I actually posted all the details of the challenge and what I'm doing and keeping track of my points in the super-sekret hidden Outlaw thread earlier today. However, this one action I'm making more public and expanding on:
D: DECIDE to just DO IT.
Basically we are to pick something that is holding us back and decide to just do something about it. Good timing on this one, as I've mentioned this more than once in the last couple weeks, it's not the first time I've set goals on it, and now I'm ready to face down the beast and win.
Okay, I'm tired of my own lack of cooperation on this one and have decided I am going to JUST DO IT. My sleep schedule has been deteriorating and it is affecting EVERYTHING. I need to get back to a more acceptable routine.
-- Standard bedtime will be 12:20 pm.
-- Up on weekdays by 7:20 am
-- Up on weekends by 9:30 am
-- Exceptions are to be rare and specific, such as walking DDa home and riding transit back, or going out dancing, and bedtime as early as possible after arriving home.
I've been thinking about things all afternoon and evening, and there are some expansions to the above.
Bedtime has to be when I'm done getting ready, lights out, phone off, head on pillow. Other than a potty run, nothing but sleeping or lying still.
I do have a variety of evening activities. Sparking needs to avoid taking over a lot of time. Get a realistic feel for how long things like cleaning my teeth or making dinner and smoothie and eating / drinking / cleaning up take.
Consider carrying my laptop along on my commute and getting my 30+ minutes of writing during that rather than playing an addictive little time-wasting game.
Pay attention to how long I'm Sparking. I don't NEED to get every possible point, just be reasonably active with teams and friends. (Seriously, for a long time I've been pushing for 125+ sparkpoints daily - everything but the social media ones, almost. That's gotta stop. I have more points than I use and can easily earn any for Goodies I want to give.)
I've been doing fine catching up on my webcomics on the weekend rather than feeling like I need to read them as soon as some post at midnight. Keep that up.
Finally, my inner two-year old who thinks my rules are made to be broken is just going to have to take a long nap. I know. I never took naps. Ever. (My mother took a picture of me around 6 years old taking a nap. Turned out I was sick with the mumps. Ditto for a picture of me around 11 - I think it was chicken pox.) But sleep is critical to my ability to manage everything I keep wanting to do. In fact, sleep makes my inner two-year old a much happier camper when we wake up.
BLCers! Let's meet all our goals and exceed them!
I decided it might be easier to comment further on my status(es) yesterday about flu shots and flu antibodies in a blog than to add my own replies or bounce around to several pages.
First, the source for the answer that I found was on the same site as COXBETH provided on my second status, but a different page:
This page has a lot of good information, in question and answer form, on things like how the decide which viruses to protect against and why some people will still get sick with one of those even after. It definitely has the agenda of convincing the reader that they should get the flu shot (influenza vaccination) every year, early rather than late, but looking past that at the studies and factual answers, it is possible to draw one's own conclusions.
My core question had to do with whether or not immunity to the flu viruses built up year to year for someone consistently getting the flu shot. I knew they only had selected viruses protected against each year, but would last year's shot still protect against those same viruses this year?
There's two parts to the answer. One is that the amount of antibodies in our blood goes down over time, so we gradually become more likely to get sick. The other is that viruses tend to change over time, so the "same" virus isn't really the same any more - even if it has the same basic attributes.
The point that was interesting to me is that it doesn't matter whether we get those antibodies from actually catching and fighting off the flu virus or from getting a flu shot - the protection wears off the same. Of course, most people don't want to suffer through a serious bout of the flu just to get the antibodies to avoid getting sick with it again for a while. Hence the flu shots.
(I also learned that H1N1 was in both last year's and this year's shot, which made me wonder if that was more for those who may not have gone in for the shot last year -- or because the antibodies can decline that quickly. I'm guessing the former or a mix of both.)
It is definitely possible to still get sick after being vaccinated - and they list three reasons:
1) Exposure just before or within a short time after getting the shot. (Shots aren't instant immunity - they simply trigger your body to begin producing antibodies to fight. That takes up to 2 weeks.)
2) A different virus. The shot protects against three strains. The antibodies may help protect somewhat against others, but that protection may not be complete. (Sometimes it means being less sick than one would be otherwise.)
3) Health and age factor into how well our body produces antibodies in response to the vaccination. Some people can even get sick from one of the strains that the flu shot was meant to protect against (not from the shot, but from later exposure).
(In addition to those reasons, not everyone who gets sick and calls it the flu has the influenza virus, whether one of those they should have been protected against or a different one. Anecdotal evidence lacks confirmation from a lab that an influenza virus is involved. In addition, we won't often hear the opposing anecdotes. A doctor is only going to see the people who did get sick ... and have no frame of reference in numbers for those who didn't get sick because they didn't need to come see him.)
Now, all that said, that doesn't mean we should avoid the flu shot because "it doesn't work".
ALERT: These next numbers are made up just to provide a reference. The actual numbers are probably in studies out there.
For example, if 100 people got flu shots and 10 of them got sick with an actual influenza virus within the next 8 months, that's 90 people who did not. How many of those 190 would have gotten sick without the shot? That can be a difficult question to answer. We aren't testing the healthy people constantly to see if they've been exposed and avoided getting sick; we're tracking records on those who get sick and go to the doctor.
To try to answer that question, historical data is used. If we have data that in past years with no flu shot option at least 25 people out of 100 came down sick with the flu, then we compare the 10 to the 25 and say it was definitely effective - 15 people were protected.
Back to real numbers. From a report giving early estimates of the effectiveness: "Results for the 2012�13 season indicate that vaccination has reduced the risk for influenza-associated medical visits by approximately 60%". That is similar to what HOPEFULHIPPO mentioned of the news saying it was "less than 60% effective".
It also shows very well how wording can make the same data sound like it means very different things. Approximately 60% and less than 60% could both mean 58% or 59%, but by saying "less than" the news source makes the implication that it is less than effective. Another point in the article actually gives 62% and a range from 51% to 71%. Turn it around and say "more than 50% effective" and it sounds a lot better. Facts CAN be twisted in either direction.
I'll end with the comment that, no, I don't get the flu shot and don't plan to. My reasons actually have little to do with effectiveness or lack of it.
1) I rarely ever get sick. Once a year at worst I get sniffles, touch of a sore throat, a cough if the sniffles go down my throat at night. A few times a year I might go through a day of being oddly exhausted and having chills then a quick fever. I consider those a sign that I was exposed to something and my body did its job and successfully fought off the infection. Getting sick with symptoms is when it doesn't fight it off as quickly and efficiently. My immune system is in good order tackles any virus I don't manage to avoid through simple precautions of washing hands, etc.
2) I'm not around very young children, the elderly, or anyone considered at a higher risk. Being a carrier could be a concern if I was, but I'm also vigilant about the times I feel off to avoid exposing others unnecessarily.
3) My own personal belief system is that one develops and maintains a strong immune system by BEING exposed and fighting things. I have kind of a twisted take on evolution which says I want to survive current things because I'm fit to do so. When studies say we evolved to be certain ways, my thought is that our changing and adapting doesn't end at some past point in time. I'm not living in the world of my evolutionary ancestors, so I don't need to alter my world to mimic theirs -- I need to be fit to survive in mine.
And just maybe a small part of it is reminiscent of my vaccination history as a child. My parents abstained for religious reasons in the early years. I had the mumps, I had the measles, I had chicken pox. The religious reason had to do with the way the shots were made at the time, in that they included some blood components - and Jehovah's Witnesses very firmly hold to a "no blood" rule - not eaten, not transfused, and not entered into the body in any way, including shots. I was around 10 when they believed the shots to be "safe" in those religious terms. I got the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) shot and wondered why on earth I needed it when I'd already had two out of three ... and neither of those bad enough to really need protection from. (LOL, for the mumps the main thing that happened is I took an afternoon nap - such an unusual thing for me that my mother took a picture.)
So, there you have it. Definitely don't auto-reject the idea of the flu shot over the presumed lack of effectiveness. Greater than 50% is actually a pretty good number in terms of people who don't get sick who might have otherwise, and the less than 50% who "get sick anyway" would have ... just that ... "got sick anyway". (It's like a seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet, in a way. Does the fact that some people still die with one on mean they're not effective? Not at all. They do save many lives. Even saying that, I'll still say no to the shot, but I do it knowing the risks involved and making a conscious choice to face them.)


text:
- Scientific paper (114)
- Presentation abstract (121)
My research comprises a combination of modelling and experimental approaches to investigate the sources, transport, fate and exposure of chemicals contaminants. A suite of modelling tools are used in our research to: (i) estimate key physicochemical properties of chemicals, (ii) simulate the transport and fate of chemicals in outdoor and indoor environments, (iii) simulate the bioaccumulation of chemicals in food webs and (iv) simulate the pharmacokinetics of chemicals in wildlife species and humans.
There has been much recent focus on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) which due to their unique environmental chemistry offer exciting new research opportunities. We work closely with analytical chemists in our department to better understand the behaviour of these substances.
I am the Group Leader of the Contaminant Modelling Group. More information about our research and the group members can be found on the group homepage.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Highlights for October 24-25, 2014:
- Five editors and five literary agents, with coverage of every genre–from Christian and literary to fantasy and science fiction–and all of the major nonfiction topics
- Q&A panel on both days
- Conference all-activities deal with two manuscript critiques and two pitches
- Extended workshop on platform and social media
Do you want the chance to earn a contract directly with a publishing editor or with a literary agent who will represent you to publishers? Do you want editors and agents to tell you what you're doing wrong and doing right in your manuscript, synopsis, and query letter? Would you like to discuss your writing project with editors or agents to see if there's any interest in the marketplace? If you answer, "Yes," to any or all of these questions, then the Atlanta Writers Club has designed a conference for you:
On Friday October 24 and Saturday, October 25, 2014, the Atlanta Writers Club will present its eleventh Atlanta Writers Conference. The goal of this conference is to give you access to ten top publishing editors and literary agents–never any repeats from previous conferences; always an all-new lineup—and to educate you with a workshop and talks by experienced authors. The editors and agents will respond to your pitch; critique the manuscript sample, query, and synopsis you submit in advance; critique your query letter during a Friday practice session so you can improve your work for Saturday; and educate you about the current environment of the publishing industry and the changing roles of editors, agents, and their clients.
You could be offered a contract based on the materials you've submitted: after every conference some AWC members sign with conference guests and realize their dream of publication (see testimonials here). You might be asked to send additional pages or an entire manuscript for their review. You certainly will know more about how your work is perceived by industry professionals, and you'll gain valuable experience interacting one-on-one with them.
You also will have fun, learn more about the publishing business, and get a chance to chat informally with these editors, agents, and your peers. We will have five editors and five agents in attendance: on Friday, October 24, we'll feature an Editors Q&A Panel to give you their viewpoints and on Saturday the 25th we will have an Agents Q&A Panel to focus on their experiences and advice. In addition, you can register for two critiques and two pitches from the start, as part of a conference package deal.
Moreover, we are featuring a special two-hour Workshop on Friday the 24th from Writer's Digest editor and Conference special guest speaker Chuck Sambuchino, who will present "Platform & Social Media: How to Use Both to Make Connections and Sell More Books" with exercises, examples, and extensive Q&A. This workshop is for writers at all levels, from those just starting out to authors with books who want to build a larger audience.
With the Editors Q&A panel, Query Letter Critique, and the two-hour Workshop, it's definitely worth taking a half-day off from work on Friday the 24th so you can experience all of these educational and developmental opportunities!
On Saturday, October 25, while the morning critiques are held, award-winning author and educator Daniel Black will give two 75-minute presentations, and that afternoon while the pitch sessions are held, bestseller Lauretta Hannon will do two 75-minute presentations. Chuck's 45-minute talks on Friday and the 75-minute presentations on Saturday are free to those who register for any of the paid Conference activities. Finally, to close out the Conference on Saturday afternoon, we feature an award ceremony, where each editor and agent will present a certificate to participants for the best manuscript sample submitted for critique and for the best query letter pitched. Testimonial providers Marie Marquardt and Rebecca Albertalli each were awarded a certificate and you can see how it helped to change their lives!
Those who have succeeded as a result of the conference aren't the only ones who are grateful for the experience. Conference guest Heather Alexander, Associate Editor forDial Books, raved, "The Atlanta Writers Conference is a great place for writers to meet editors and agents, and learn some of the ins and outs of the publishing industry. What a great networking and learning opportunity!"
Complete details about the Conference follow:
The Conference
The Location
The Editors & Agents
The Cost
Refund Policy
Please contact George Weinstein at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ready to register?
View the Registration page for instructions.


text:
Passages to India: India Seen by Outsiders
This provocative complement to our Satyajit Ray retrospective surveys the work of eight European and American filmmakers whose outsiders' visions of India range from meditative documentary to full-on Orientalist artifice.
Community Partner:
Eat Pray Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel are just the most recent instances of a cinematic trend that began in the silent era: the use of India by foreign filmmakers as exotic setting and spiritual metaphor, a place of both visual splendour and existential terror. This provocative survey, designed to accompany our concurrent Satyajit Ray retrospective, explores the various ways eight directors have made their own "passages to India," which range in tone from meditative documentary to full-on Orientalist artifice.
Though Hollywood had its inevitable infatuation with the country of maharajahs and mystics (e.g., The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Gunga Din, Bhowani Junction) and the British colonialist venture on the subcontinent bequeathed a legacy of India-set films (A Passage to India, Gandhi, et al.), it was French cinema that most insistently employed India to its own allegorical ends. Just as Roland Barthes and Chris Marker found in Japan an "empire of signs," in India French filmmakers discovered a land at once ancient and timeless, its spiritual elusiveness providing abundant metaphorical possibilities: for personal regeneration, the dissolution of identity, a search for authenticity, the lassitude of desire. Beginning with Jean Renoir's The River — which was shot at the culmination of India's struggle for independence, but disregards political issues in favour of the eternal cycle of life and death, loss and renewal — French films set in India tend to scant historical events as they arrogate and aestheticize the country's oft-invoked "mysteries" to fashion metaphors of European existential dilemma and self-discovery. Louis Malle, in his Phantom India, cloaks this impulse in the guise of documentary observation (Roberto Rossellini, whose profound documentary-fiction India, Matri Bhumi is included here, deemed Malle's portraits of India too negative and one-sided, lacking in compassion), while modernist French filmmakers such as Marguerite Duras, Alain Corneau and Benoît Jacquot find in the sweltering entropy of the subcontinent signifiers of individual dissolution, their protagonists' sense of time, being, and incident (Duras), of the past and personal identity (Corneau, Jacquot) undone amidst "la chaleur, la terreur," as Duras characterized it in India Song.
Though Jacquot began his filmmaking career as an assistant to Duras, his vision of India in L'Intouchable is utterly different from his mentor's. Duras' is an interior India, a psychological state or idée conjured in French villas and palais replete with modernist hall of mirrors, while Jacquot's is a harsh, mystical terrain, shot documentary-style on location at the holy city of Varanasi, formerly Benares (a site also explored in one of the earliest French films about India — Alfred Chaumel's silent 1929 The Hindu Soul — and by another film in this series: Robert Gardner's intent, intense documentary Forest of Bliss, which chronicles twenty-four hours in the city's streets and crematoria).
Corneau's Nocturne indien resembles Jacquot's film in many ways — it, too, chronicles a European's journey to India to search for an elusive person, a pursuit that transforms into a journey of self-discovery — but Corneau foregoes the Camusian-Calvinoesque tone of the Antonio Tabucchi novel on which his film is based for one closer to Duras, with flashes of premonitory and reiterative montage and an enveloping sense of inanition. And just as Duras uses Beethoven's fourteenth Diabelli Variation in India Song to evoke death and absence, Corneau's troubling employment of Schubert's String Quintet associates it with both affliction and loss, while his polyglot audioscape and attention to the bande sonore have an affinity with Duras' carefully worked soundtrack of disembodied voices.
Like Duras with India Song, for Black Narcissus Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger similarly created a dreamlike India on an English soundstage rather than bothering to venture to the subcontinent; as in the Duras, the film's utter artifice intensifies the sense of stanched passion in a cloistral setting. But as feverish and stylized as Narcissus may be, it cannot exceed Fritz Lang's late excursion into Technicolor exotica with his two-part, self-titled "Indian Epic" of The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb, whose archaic Orientalist clichés — as Philip Horne catalogues, "exotic dancers, sinister priests, sexual passion, torture, dungeons, lepers, gurus, elephants aplenty, etc." — are more preposterous than objectionable in their delirious blatancy. If Lang transforms India into a realm of florid fantasy, even in its actuality the country remains for many foreign filmmakers less a reality than a recalcitrant cipher and incarnation of Eastern irrationalism, peopled by symbolic figures whose elusiveness or "uncertainty" — e.g., the beggar woman who haunts the heroine in India Song, the unknown Indian father in L'Intouchable, the grotesque clairvoyant in Nocturne indien — induce existential quandary in the films' European visitors. The latter are "in search of a shadow," to quote Tabucchi, but the shadow lies within.
— James Quandt
This film series was inspired by Shanay Jhaveri's book Outsider Films on India 1950-1990 (Shoestring Publishers, Mumbai, 2010), which will be on sale at TIFF Shop this summer.
Thanks to Mark Johnson, Harvard Film Archive; Sarah Arcache, Consulat général de France à Toronto; Carmen Accaputo, Cineteca di Bologna.


text:
Niemeyer running for Landske's vacant Senate seat
By Carrie Napoleon Post-Tribune correspondent January 17, 2014 7:50PM
Updated: January 20, 2014 11:28AM
State Rep. Rick Niemeyer, R-Lowell, announced Friday he will run for the Indiana Senate District 6 seat.
Niemeyer, whose 11th District House seat expires in 2015, plans to run for the long-held Republican Senate seat being vacated by Sue Landske, who earlier this month announced her intention to retire after 30 years as senator to take care of her health and spend time with family in the wake of a lung cancer diagnosis last fall.
Prior to Landske, the seat was held by Niemeyer's father, Ernie Niemeyer, who left the position to fill a seat on the Lake County Board of Commissioners.
Dan Dernulc, Lake County GOP chairman, said Niemeyer has strong support in south Lake County. The Senate seat includes portions of Newton and Benton counties as well.
No one has yet come forward to run for Niemeyer's seat in the House.
Filings are coming in slowly for the majority of seats in Lake County government, particularly on the GOP side. So far Dernulc, an incumbent Lake County Council member, and Councilman Eldon Strong, R-Crown Point, and assessor Jolie Covaciu, who were both appointed by the party to fill midterm vacancies, remain the lone Republicans seeking countywide office.
Dernulc said the party is taking a wait-and-see approach to determine who may be interested in running for office on the Republican ticket. If no candidates come forward during the primary election, Dernulc, as GOP chairman, can select candidates to run in the general election in November.
Meanwhile, another Democrat has tossed his hat into the ring to challenge incumbent Sheriff John Buncich.
Richard Ligon of Gary, the city's director of public safety for the past two years, has filed papers to run for the office. Oscar Martinez Jr. is also seeking the Democratic nomination for the sheriff's job.
Incumbent Councilwoman Christine Cid, D-East Chicago, is again running unopposed after challenger Scott Rakos withdrew from the race earlier this week.


text:
Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists, caught in a gun battle with security forces in a village in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, managed to escape in early hours of the day despite a cordon being thrown by the Army.
Highly-placed sources said the terrorists gave a slip to troops at around 0600 hours from the house at Qoimoh in Kulgam even as the army personnel, assisted by police, were preparing to launch an offensive against them.
A gun battle had broken out last night between LeT terrorists holed up in a house and security forces in Kulgam.
The help of some local people in the area to the terrorists was cited as the reason for their success to flee the area, the sources said, adding some of the persons had been rounded up.
The security forces had surrounded the house acting on a tip-off about the presence of militants, sparking an intermittent exchange of fire between the two sides.
Security forces had suspended the flush-out operation in the congested locality late last night in order to avoid civilian casualties.
Keywords: Jammu and Kashmir, Gunbattle, Militants, Security forces, State police,


text:
30 Ways To Wear A Flannel Shirt
As someone who goes to work at 4:30 am and arrives home around 9pm (aren't you guys so excited to grow up and get real jobs like this?!) I often get dressed in the dark, and sometimes wear my pajamas to work. Of course, for my job, I always change into an on camera outfit for the show- but for the times I am bumming around in hair and makeup or researching or blogging, or if I actually might get to grab lunch and dinner with a friend or my husband- I love to rock a simple flannel shirt for fall. They are so comfy, easy to get and are basically my cartigan!
Here are my 30 favorite ways to style your flannel for fall. (and one picture of a cat wearing a flannel because it's awesome!)
I hope you guys have a great day today!
psst. you can follow my daily outfit posts on my INSTAGRAM: KELTIEKNIGHT
More For You:
bylidasCausal Flannel Shirt Tops RedNov 10, 2014
Kate CordovabeautifulllOct 17, 2013
Kate CordovaSO CUTEOct 17, 2013


text:
Its been nearly 2 years since I created or modified any adwords campaigns and I needed to finally do it today. Unfortunately, it seems any and every keyword (I literally submitted even garbage keywords like dasjdkasjdkjsaka) is getting penalized somehow that Adwords is asking me to bid $10.00/click. These aren't competitive keywords either, low volume (< 10 searches/month), only 0-2 other bidders, tried broad/exact/phrase matches, all same results.
I'm pretty familiar with adwords, I'm picking relevant keywords, my landing pages all have unique content, full page reviews of the product i'm selling, keywords in the adgroups match those on the landing pages, etc. I'm baffled as to what else I can do to get a reasonable click minimum?
Contacting support yields the usual form mail response, links to optimization and tips pages which I've read inside and out.
I even setup a brand new adwords account hoping that it was my ctr history that was holding me down, but even that yielded the same results. I'm really stumped and have no idea what else I can do.
Can anyone provide suggestions?
Thank you kindly.
I had eight or ten keywords go to poor QS this morning in one account. So I'm wondering if there was an update overnight or something; they've been plugging along at OK or Great for the better part of a month. Also, the minimum bid to reactivate them only went up ten cents. Makes me wonder also what the factors are that make some bids go up a few cents, some go up to $5, and some go up to $10. Is a puzzlement.
It least in SEO you know what to do: Buy quality links, and use some sort of link bait.
Adwords different world: If you are a retailer you don't have to do anything smooth sailing great scores, but most other business models watch out.
I have an ecommerce store also, which was hit by Poor QS the first time they started with this QS thingy..
It took a while to get back to 'great'.
In fact, it is only in the last one month or so, that I have 'great' on most keywords and it is now, after a very long time, that I am getting decent traffic from adWords.
I had meanwhile switched to geeting traffic from affiliates / Yahoo etc..
What I mean to say.. is that, QS is a gamble. You never know when the algo change may hit you. There is little stability. But this is the environment, we got to work in, for now.
Does the landing page have external links to affiliate domains or your own cart apps (off the landing page)?
AdWords decided that if you are in certain affiliate business relationships, that is not a quality experience for visitors.
So if you want to use AdWords, you can pay $10 CPC.
eBay is one I know of first hand.
I've experienced it and others have written about it.
To describe this conduct on the part of Google as arrogant is putting it mildly.
I'll be writing about my saga shortly but for now, I hope this helps you and others wondering where the $10 cpc came from.
In my case, testing the "if you let it run the CTR experience will drive the price down" theory resulted in a great windfall for Google.
From an e-mail I sent to "support" in July 2007:
"I increased the bid to the minimum to re-activate the ads. Surely any clicks would be charged at the fair market price, not the minimum bid of ten dollars ($10), especially since the CTR would be high.
And in nine (9) impressions the first click was earned! What a surprise! How perfectly consistent with the history of this ad group.
And what did Google do? It charged ten dollars ($10) for the single click for a CPM of one thousand one hundred and eleven dollars ($1,111.11)!"
How would you all like to earn a 1K CPM?
Do no harm? Bahh.
I have no outbound links to any other sites (I only have links to within the same site) and to the registration page. The registration page is offsite to a credit card processor, but I wrap it through a cgi page (which then forwards) to make it look like its all part of the same site. The location of the cgi page is in a seperate directory which is disabled by robots.txt so google's spider shouldn't follow it, all other pages on the domain are content rich pages.
Nothing in the boilerplate they sent you was specific I take it?
It never is in my experience.
You could try calling and demanding a real answer on the phone but their first tier staff are nothing to brag about. Nor is management.
Then delete all your existing campaigns in adWords and start afresh.
If that does not work, you really have no other choice.
Best wishes.
Qs is evaluated quite regularly in my experience. Make sure you have good unique content related to your search terms and you will be away. Relevancy is the overall key. If the qs doesn't get reevaluated just create a new account and start again so they have to asses the site from scratch. Content is king when it comes to QS!
Put keyword in ad text.
And ultimately you need to risk a few bucks to bring it down... just limit the exposure by placing daily limits.
We have to pay... we fund the barrier against click fraud
I'd advise caution when it comes to following this advice. Creating new accounts at the drop of the hat may bring the accounts to the attention of the policy team in way that does not reflect well on the advertiser.
To be clear, peermedia, I was speaking to the suggestion made by another poster to just create a new account and start again in order to 'force' the system to re-evaluate quality score.
When it comes to the subject of multiple accounts in general, I'd advise that, when an advertiser is contemplating opening additional accounts, it's best to contact AdWords support, describe what you want to do and why, and ask if to do so would fall within policy.
I'd also suggest referring to the AdWords Help Center for 'official' information on the subject. Below are a couple of related links. Since I was 'dinged' recently for just providing links, and not a real answer, I've also quoted the text below. ;)
Can I have multiple AdWords accounts? [adwords.google.com...]
Quoting that page (though links within the text will be missing):
* Ads across multiple accounts for the same or similar businesses. * Ads across multiple accounts triggered by the same or similar keywords.
Individuals advertising for themselves or for their own businesses may only have a single AdWords account. However, your account may contain multiple ad groups and ads triggered by the same or similar keywords.
Only client managers (such as third parties or search engine marketers) who use a My Client Center can have multiple AdWords accounts. All associated accounts must be linked to the manager's My Client Center account. If you're interested in creating a My Client Center so you can manage multiple AdWords accounts for other people, you can sign up for Google Advertising Professionals. This program provides you with free tools and training to help you manage clients successfully.
And on a topic that is related to multiple accounts:
Double Serving [adwords.google.com...]
Google does not allow advertisers or affiliates to have any of the following:
Only client managers (such as third parties or search engine marketers) who use a My Client Center can have multiple AdWords accounts. All associated accounts must be linked to the manager's My Client Center account. If you're interested in creating a My Client Center so you can manage multiple AdWords accounts for other people, you can sign up for Google Advertising Professionals.
To protect trust in Google, and to provide a quality experience for our users and partners, the double-serving policy is strictly enforced. Exceptions are granted only in very limited cases. Advertisers seeking an exception to Google's double-serving policy must contact AdWords Support. We take the following into account when reviewing requests: -- The destination site for each ad offers different products or services (for example, a large manufacturer with two product sites, one solely for stereos and one solely for computers, both running on keyword 'electronics'). -- Each destination site has a different layout and design, and each URL and domain is different.
The following criteria are not considered for exceptions: -- Target audience such as B2B (Business to Business), B2C (Business to Consumer), and gender. -- Business structure such as different divisions within same company. -- Accounts handled by various 3rd parties such as agencies and SEOs (search engine optimizers).
If it doesn't and business is stagnating as a result that benefits no-one surely, which would quite readily explain why many just open new accounts, not so much because they are hell bent on breaking the rules but simply because of frustration as income dries up.
Perhaps a future mechanism within an account or campaign that lets an advertiser indicate a page is ready for a second look? I know from my own account that site changes can take a long time to influence a qs change. Surely that goes against the emphasis on improving content if you are not rewarded quickly enough, equally business cannot always afford to wait.
Its well and fine quoting multiple account policies but really under this kind of scenario it will only encourage multiple accounts, remove the reasons for wanting new accounts and it won't be a problem. Advertisers I believe want to be able to tell Adwords they have fixed their sites and they don't want to be guessing over many days as to whether their hard work has paid off as time is money.
I'd hazard a guess that the specific reason for your problem is that you offer in Google's opinion a poor user experience. Whilst it may be a discussion point on what constitutes that experience it's their ball and they can play their rules.
A couple of pages you may want to refer to are :
If you have a feed of any sort you will likely provide a "bad user experience".
If you are an affiliate you should try to use URL's that belong to you. In other words Google (or Yahoo for that matter) are not keen on lazy affiliates who just create pages with tons of links to 3rd party sites. It's a technical solution but it can be done.
Just as a footnote, the Quality Score also applies to the content network so a "really bad" site will not even show on the content network.......
I switched over my Ads in 2 of my Ad groups from my landing page on my own site to my clickbank link and affiliate site's Display URL, and a short time later, all my bids went to $10.00. Soon after I switched them back to my own landing page, bids returned to normal. I replied back to the Adwords support tech to complain. Still awaiting reply.
So with all that done, I want to know if there's a way to force the google adwords spider to come back to my site once I make a change to re-evaluate my Quality Score. I'm rather certain they were looking at the original version which was keeping me from entering the market.
Anyone have ideas to force their spider to re-evaluate my site?
Thanks for everyone's help, I really appreciate it.
Add new AD it might help.
Your explanation of purchase page and CGI script did not answer the question about if you are selling your stuff or just promoting stuff of other people? If it's yours, you ship physical products or it's some kind of download, lead, etc.?
Some said affiliate links get hit hard, true in many cases. We've had a chance to work with few clients who would get hit with $10 even on their own names. The only thing we could figure and connect was that they were some kind of lead harvesters, kind of college, university and so on. We guess that Google AdWords has figured that since they were not really offering anything as their own (product or service), they've got kicked by low QS. While an average affiliate can look into such site as into merchant (advertiser), for Google AdWords, that is still another type of affiliate.
Figure where you fit and go from there.
From our experience and long talks to folks ad Google AdWords way back in the past when we were frustrated over some of our sites, anything that sells directly should be fine.
Just changing the content usually DOES NOT help. You know why? Because it is about the CONCEPT and PURPOSE of your site, not about article you've been featuring.
Going back to domain name switch… That domain maybe belonged to somebody else in the past, who run it with content that Google AdWords did not like. Otherwise, your site is still not good (for whatever reason) from Google's perspective. That means you may expect $10 to show again… but it may never happen, that's the bad part about Google as there is no firm rule. …and how it could be with all factors being calculated in. Just a small "left" or "right" may change everything, but we'll never know it.
How does a privacy policy add value to a site? Nobody, including Google and its famous bot, knows if you copied and pasted it from another site, actually do what it says, or have any intention of doing what it says.


text:
West Africa ngam 3 ah abosa tha 8 sung Ebola natna nasia tatak in piang hi. Mihing 6,000 vaal in vei aa, 3,000 vaal thi hi. Democratic Republic of Congo ngam Ebola ngun (river) kiim pan 1976 kum a kimu natnalung (virus) ahimanh, Ebola virus ci in min kivaw hi. Ebola taw kisai heaktu kilawm … Continue reading
Leo Tolstoy, Pathian Na Thumann Mu Hi, Ahihang Ngaak In
Leo Tolstoy sia laiat minthang mama Russiami hi. 1828 September 9 ni suak aa, November 20, 1910 ni thi hi. Laiat bek hi ngawl, philosopher, political thinker zong hi si aa, leitung bup ah laiat thiam nasiabel khat in kiciamte hi. Novel, short story le long story tam mama at aa, a laibu theampo sung … Continue reading
Thianmaang Toaisaang Zaangsi Liannu
Innkuan thu
Vang Lok Khang, Thuklai Suanh, Lun Muntuu, Tun Ngo bawng pah Pu Thuk Kham le Pi Tuang Ciin te sungpan 1876 kum in Thuklai ah piang hi. Ama ii suapui laizom te sia a nuai a bang ahi hi. (more…)
Democrat hibong, Ahihang Republican te dei bong
March 2013 hunlai "Why I m no longer a Republican" ci article khat kaat ngei aa, atatak cileang "One important reason among many that I am no longer a Republican" cizaw leang ka ngaisutna le dinmun kitelcian zaw tha tu hi. (more…)
Tulai leitung thuthak (news) sim leang Ukraine ngam buaina nisim in kimu hi, pawl khatna leitung ngaalpi 3na dong piang thei tu ci dongtak son hi. Ukraine sia koisung om aa, koibang ngam ziam, a taangthu tawm a tom thathei in en tek tawng. (more…)
Sizang mi Army Officer teng ii thu a tom
Kawl ngam ngaalkap sung a seam ngei Sizang mi officer teng.
Are We Missing The Point or Have We Lost The Essence?
By Mungpi Suantak
What does the term "Chin" imply?
The word or the term "Chin" may have had its roots far beyond our recordable memories and could possibly have been used elsewhere in Mongolia, China or Tibet. Yet it is not the history of the term that we are concerned here in this article. In the modern age, since the 19th century, the British used the term "Chin" to identify groups of people living in Northeast India, Northwest Burma and Chittagong Hill Tracts. (more…)
Major General Tuang Za Khai
Following article is compiled from the Pu Thang Za Dal's paper "THE CHIN/ZO PEOPLE OF BANGLADESH, BURMA AND INDIA"
Born: July 1, 1927
Parents: Ex-Chief Khan Lian, Pi Lian Cingh(Khuasak)
Bros & Sis: Son Za Cin, Niang Pum, Tuang Kho Kam, Pau Kho Hau, Man Vung, Lian Za Cing, Tuang Za Cin
Marriage: Miss Tual Dim
Children: Kam Do Dal, Khan Lian Khup, Cingh Thian Uap (more…)
Power for the Elite (Among Chins)
Following article was compiled from the "Conversion of the Chin in Burma: The Creation of an Elite" by Bianca Son (Mang Khan Cing) Ph.d, daughter of the late Dr. Vumson Suantak, her thesis paper for Master of Science at International School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Contemporary Asian Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam (August 2007).
The previous chapter demonstrated a carefully constructed effort of the Hakha to separate themselves first from the Burman and then from other Zomi, resulting in a Hakha elite. This section examines how this elite has used Christianity to gain political power within Burma, specifically by creating a new Christian community, the Hakha have vied for leadership of the whole of the Chin. They have further parlayed their Christianity to gain attention and power on the world stage. (more…)
By Upa P. Ngin Za Thang
Thu ma sa,
Sizaang minam te ii Kawlngam Khuapi ih thet thei na, thu ma sa tepte nate ih heak tek tu le tep te tu in pha ka sa hi. (more…)
Pawlpi Lian Le Pawlpi No
Koisungpo ahizong a lianzaw theamp a phazaw hi papai tuan ngawl hi. Mitdal screw a kol hun ciang screw driver ano ih zong masa hi, screw driver liante kizangh thei vet ngawl hi. Pawlpi zong tubangma hi. TOPA Pathian in pawlpi liante a zakna mun a tuam hi. Pawlpi note sep zawk ngawl thu pawl … Continue reading
The Great Khai Kam by Pu Thang Za Dal
The Great Khai Kam
The University of Kalay was once officially called "Khai Kam University", the best sport centre in Chin State located in Hakha is also called "Khai Kam Sport Centre". But do we really know who he was and why do we celebrate his name? Khai Kam was the Chin hero who resisted the British from invading our mother land. (more…)
A sin le a sin ngawl (Professional vs. amateur)
By Pr. D Suan Za Khai
Thukong honna
"Sinna" (Learning) ii a mungtup bulpi sia ei le ei limit kiheakna tu ahi hi, ci in mipilte in pualaak uh hi. Sinna tungtawn bekin ei le ei limit kihe thei pheang tu ahile, ih sin ngawl thute ah ih limit tawm mama tu ahi hunlam sia ih kiheak tu ol ngawl het tu ci sia ngaisuthuai sa ing. (more…)
The 1964 Emergence of Zo Separatism in East Zoram
The 1964 movement began without any organization or planning and resulted from a variety of government actions and policies. One factor was that Zo members of parliament were angry with the military government of General Ne Win for dissolving parliament. This meant that their hard won seats provided no more work or income, and they were forced to be idle. (more…)


text:
PowerShell Summit NA 2015 – – Registration open
Registration for the PowerShell summit North America 2015 is open. Details and registration link - http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/
PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – – videos from day 1
The videos from day 1 of the Powershell Summit Europe 2014 are now available on the PowerShell.org youtube channel. The European Summit playlist can be found at
Uploading of day 2 is in progress and I'll supply notification when complete
Euorpean PowerShell Summit 2014 registration details
The European PowerShell Summit, organised by PowerShell.org, will be in Amsterdam September 29 - October 1 2014 at the Park Hotel. Details at http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/
The Summit will feature 3 days of PowerShell sessions from PowerShell team members, PowerShell MVPs and other PowerShell experts. It's the in-person gathering place for PowerShell enthusiasts and PowerShell users. It's a place to make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues. If you can't get your PowerShell questions answered at the PowerShell Summit you'll never get an answer.
The Summit agenda is available to view at: http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/agenda/PSEU14
Registration is now open via http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14.
Scripting Games countdown
The countdown to the 2014 Winter Scripting Games has started. The ideal way to brighten up the depths of winter.
This Games is for teams of least two. You can learn more by downloading and reading the players guide:
The games start January 2014 so don't go looking for events just yet. Now would be a good time to look at the events from past games and get in some practice.
PowerShell Hero
PowerShell.org is giving you the chance to nominate your PowerShell hero – someone how has helped you & others with their PowerShell problems.
Details from http://powershell.org/wp/2013/09/20/nominate-your-powershell-hero/


text:
Forgot Password? | Not a User? Sign up
Your browser does not support iframes.
Ms. (Joan) Krohn seems willingly to have misread the critique of her "trust women" theme and, in the process, to have made some amazing leaps of logic.
In questioning the wisdom of blindly trusting any and all women to make life and death decisions for the babies they carry, those of us who are anti-abortion are pointing out that women are not magically blessed with good judgment.
I know you have many bases to cover and yes, I'm a week behind in my reading for various reasons. However, as nice as was the story of Oct. 14-15 about "Bridge Street award celebrated," I wonder why Cindy Collins was not in the photo of the men (and woman) receiving the award? Cindy did all the work, yet she is barely mentioned in third paragraph down as "Cindy Collins, executive director of Main Street de Las Vegas, introduced various dignitaries."
I was seated in a local restaurant reading the newspaper and enjoying lunch when I was distracted by individuals in an adjoining booth boasting on how long they have been able to get away with extended unemployment, food stamps, welfare and how easy it was to get their free government cell phone.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 : "For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity..." Letters to the Optic regarding the subject of abortion have appeared with frequency over the past few months.
"Miley Cyrus and Lindsay Lohan" are examples of women who cannot be trusted. This is according to Mary Vermillion in her Optic letter of Sept. 27 regarding abortion. If one of these two misbehaving celebrities should find herself in an unplanned (or crisis) pregnancy, no choice for her! This raises a critical question: If you can't trust a woman with a choice, how can you trust her with a baby?
"The chief executive of Britain's biggest abortion charity has said women are legally free to arrange an abortion because they are unhappy with the sex of their unborn baby." — (UK Telegraph Oct. 7) Wonder what's next.
Some say when you can't win an argument, change the subject. That's exactly what Marshall Poole is attempting to do in his recent letter to the editor. His 1,100 words of rabbit trails are diversions from the issue of "life."
Jerry Flores was an outstanding West Las Vegas High School athlete and scholar. He went on to sacrifice life and limb in the Vietnam War, where he paid the ultimate price — he gave his life for the values inculcated in him by his illustrious family, school and community.
I find it only fitting that the West Las Vegas School Board provide an appropriate and well-deserved honor to this exemplary student, citizen, brother and beloved child by naming a school building appropriate to his honor.
We say no to poisoned water and polluted air. A report from Environment America states that 280 billion gallons of toxic wastewater from fracking in the United States was generated in 2012 and 450,000 tons of air pollution was produced in one year.
As the San Miguel County Moratorium on fracking nears its end, citizens are making every effort to ban natural gas fracking.
Two Las Vegas groups, Casa de Cultura and the Committee for Clean Water, Air and Earth are bringing people together for a rally at the Old Town Plaza Park, Friday, Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m.
October is National Long-Term Care Residents' Rights Month, a time to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices many long-term-care residents have made to better our community and to call attention to the rights of residents in long-term care facilities. This year's theme – Speak Out Against Elder Abuse, was selected to call attention to the fact that elder abuse is an issue that shouldn't be taken lightly.
Copyright © 2014
The Las Vegas Optic is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in San Miguel County and Las Vegas, NM, and the surrounding area.


text:
Hi Peter! >> (Just to be clear: I did not suggest to extend the complements >> of dataranges to the "whole" domain in OWL DL. This would >> make no sense. I only stated that in *OWL Full* the complement >> actually *is* relative to the whole domain, and that this >> difference between DL and Full may lead to problems. >> I write this mail here to show such a problem.) > >I don't see that the situation in OWL Full is forced. The complement >operator for dataranges could, I think, be relative to rdfs:Literal in >OWL Full. > >peter AFAICS, this would lead to rdfs:Literal being equivalent to owl:Thing. Cheers, Michael
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 4 June 2008 07:58:54 GMT


text:
- Index
- » Football Discussion
- » NFL Thanksgiving Day Texans vs. Lions...
NFL Thanksgiving Day Texans vs. Lions Picks & Predictions
NFL Thanksgiving Day Texans vs. Lions Picks & Predictions
NFL Thanksgiving Day Texans vs. Lions Picks & Predictions
By Anthony Rome
DETROIT, MI (The Spread) – Will the Lions shock the masses and upset the Texans on Thanksgiving Day?
NFL Odds: According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Texans are 3-point favorites versus the Lions, while the over/under total for this game is sitting at 50 points. Houston enters the day with a 9-1 record and is 4-0 on the road this season, while Detroit is 4-6 overall and 2-2 at home.
Line Movement: The Texans opened as a 2-point favorite but the line was quickly bet up to 3. The total, meanwhile, opened at 49 but bettors are expecting a high-scoring game, which is why the over/under was bet up to 50.
Public Betting: Of the wagers currently placed on this game, 79% of NFL public bettors currently favor the Texans. This information is subject to change leading up to kickoff, however, so make sure you click on the link provided for the most up-to-date NFL public betting numbers.
NFL Playoff Free Pick: Take Detroit. According to latest NFL trends, the Texans are 1-4 against the spread in their last five road games versus a team with a losing home record. Houston played down to its competition last Sunday when it barely beat a bad Jacksonville team in overtime. They'll take on a desperate Lions team today in Detroit, one that can't lose another game if it still hopes to make the playoffs. Short weeks definitely favor the home team and while the Lions haven't won a game on Thanksgiving in eight straight seasons, they're capable of much more than what they've shown this year. Look for Matthew Stafford to not be as careless with the football as he's been throughout the season and for the Lions offense to come out hot. After nearly escaping last Sunday, the Texans are due for a loss. (That said, take the points with Detroit and shop around because you might find a book that has the line at +3.5.)
Bet NFL Week 12 Games
- Index
- » Football Discussion
- » NFL Thanksgiving Day Texans vs. Lions...
Board Info
- Board Stats:
- Total Topics:
- 45903
- Total Polls:
- 2
- Total Posts:
- 290618
- Average Posts Per Hour:
- 6.2
- User Info:
- Total Users:
- 3765
- Newest User:
- Michael
- Members Online:
- 2
- Guests Online:
- 2594
- Online:
- Glen Oaks, Red Dog
Forum Legend:
- Topic
- New
- Locked
- Sticky
- Active
- New/Locked
- Sticky/Locked


text:
Mario Sports Mix 'E3 2010 - Announcement' Trailer
Mario and the gang get involved in sports from basketball to hockey.
Mario Sports Mix 'Teaser' Trailer
Mario and friends are feeling athletic again, this time enjoying ice hockey, basketball, dodgeball and volleyball.
Mario Sports Mix 'Release' Trailer
Mario and friends demonstrate all the sports you'll be able to play when Mario Sports Mix launches in March.
Gameplay Movies
There are no Gameplay Movies for this title right now.


text:
lay hands on
Also, get one's hands on. Get someone or something in one's grasp, especially to do harm. For example, Tom's gone off with the keys again; just wait till I lay my hands on him. [c. a.d. 1000]
Also, get or lay or put one's hands on. Find, obtain, as in As soon as I lay hands on the book, I'll call you, or He couldn't seem to put his hands on last year's sales figures. Also see get hold of.
Dictionary.com presents 366 FAQs, incorporating some of the frequently asked questions from the past with newer queries.


text:
Dentsu Group and Apple bring iAd to Japan
Apple has inked a deal with the Dentsu Group that will bring iAd to Japan. Dentsu subsidiary cyber communications, inc. (cci) will take over the selling and "creative execution" of iAds in Japan, with a premiere date set for "early 2011." Under this arrangement, Apple will be limited to hosting and delivery. That's a huge change, as Apple has maintained tight control on U.S. iAd spots, occasionally to the peril of some huge deals.
It was only recently that iAds began to roll out globally. Meahwhile, Apple has begun building a new office space for iAd team members in New York City.
Congratulations and good luck to both Apple and Dentsu Group.
Subscribe to Newsletter
Software Updatesmore updates
- Dropbox adds file/folder renaming and Office document editing to iOS app
- Vizzywig 8xHD price tag now a very affordable $49.99
- Automatic targets teen drivers with License+ service
- Dropbox adds support for TouchID
- YouTube for iOS gets updated with full support for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
- iOS 8.0.1 update now available (Updated -- Don't update!)


text:
More Views
Rock on… play on… game on! It's the ultimate portable speaker!
Big Sound. Pocket Size.
Playful wireless speaker with powerful sound.
Amplifies sound by using almost any surface you place it on
Now Only : $261.00
Now Only : $189.00
Now Only : $546.75
Now Only : $399.95


text:
Bryce Dallas Howard
2 Bryce Dallas Howard Articles
Irrfan Khan shoots with Bryce Dallas Howard8 months ago 0
Irrfan Khan's yet another Hollywood project is in the making. Read on to find out which. Irrfan Khan is in Hawaai shooting for the latest instalment… Read Article ▶
Irrfan Khan and Vincent D'Onfrio to play villains in Jurassic World!10 months ago 0
The Life of Pi actor will be sharing screen space with the Men in Black actor in the fourth installment of Jurassic Park A little birdie tells us… Read Article ▶
Yogen Shah
More Bryce Dallas Howard


text:
Photo Essays
World's Most Famous Baby Photographer on the Power of Motherhood
Protect. Nurture. Love. These three words have served as my mantra and inspiration throughout my 30-year career as a photographer, allowing me the opportunity to...
The Two Sides of Nigeria
"Will elections change the struggling oil-rich nation? " Photographs by Jacob Silberberg / Panos and Thomas Dworzak / Magnum for TIME
The Two Sides of Lagos
TIME photographer Thomas Dworzak explores the cultural divide in the Nigerian capital.
Photos: Protests in Nigeria
The governement's removal of fuel subsidies in Nigeria has sparked strikesparalyzing the country.
Nollywood: The Stars of Nigeria's Movie Biz
Photographer Pieter Hugo captures actors from Nigeria's film industry From the book "Nollywood", published by Prestel Publishing
Deadly Attacks Kill 143 in Nigeria
At least 143 dead after coordinated assaults claimed by Boko Haram


text:
|Lyrics Depot
|Lyrics » Saint Etienne Lyrics
Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Saint Etienne songs. Please check back for new Saint Etienne music lyrics.
Saint Etienne Lyrics
Saint Etienne Songs:
4:35 In The Morning Lyrics
A Good Thing Lyrics
Afraid To Go Home Lyrics
Archway People Lyrics
Avenue Lyrics
Been So Long Lyrics
Boy Is Crying Lyrics
Calico Lyrics
Carnt Sleep Lyrics
Catnap Lyrics
Chicken Soup Lyrics
Clark Country Record Fair Lyrics
Clock Milk Lyrics
Conchita Martinez Lyrics
Cool Kids Of Death Lyrics
Dilworth's Theme Lyrics
Don't Back Down Lyrics
Downey California Lyrics
Dutch TV Lyrics
Erica America Lyrics
Etienne Gonna Die Lyrics
Former Lover Lyrics
Girl VII Lyrics
Goodnight Jack Lyrics
Groveley Road Lyrics
Hate Your Drug Lyrics
He's On The Phone Lyrics
Heart Failed Lyrics
Here Come Clown Feet Lyrics
Hill Street Connection Lyrics
Hit The Brakes Lyrics
Hobart Paving Lyrics
How We Used To Live Lyrics
Hug My Soul Lyrics
I Buy American Records Lyrics
Join Our Club Lyrics
Junk The Morgue Lyrics
Just A Little Overcome Lyrics
Kiss And Make Up Lyrics
La La La Lyrics
Last Orders For Gary Stead Lyrics
Late Morning Lyrics
Leafhound Lyrics
Lightning Strikes Twice Lyrics
Like A Motorway Lyrics
Like The Swallow Lyrics
London Belongs To Me Lyrics
Lose That Girl Lyrics
Madeleine Lyrics
Marble Lions Lyrics
Mario's Cafe Lyrics
Memo To Pricey Lyrics
Milk Bottle Symphony Lyrics
Mr. Donut Lyrics
My Name Is Vlaovic Lyrics
No Rainbows For Me Lyrics
Nothing Can Stop Us Lyrics
On The Shore Lyrics
Only Love Can Break Your Heart Lyrics
Pale Movie Lyrics
People Get Real Lyrics
Postman Lyrics
Railway Jam Lyrics
Relocate Lyrics
She's The One Lyrics
Shoot Out The Lights Lyrics
Side Streets Lyrics
Split Screen Lyrics
Spring Lyrics
Stoned To Say The Least Lyrics
Sun In My Morning Lyrics
Sycamore Lyrics
Sylvie Lyrics
Tankerville Lyrics
Teenage Winter Lyrics
Thank You Lyrics
The Bad Photographer Lyrics
The Boy Scouts Of America Lyrics
This Is Radio Etienne Lyrics
Urban Clearway Lyrics
Western Wind Lyrics
Who Do You Think You Are? Lyrics
Wilson Lyrics
Wood Cabin Lyrics
You're In A Bad Way Lyrics
Zipcode Lyrics
Album Song Lyrics:
All lyrics are the property of their respective authors, artists and labels.


text:
- Conference date: 8–11 July 2008
- Location: Reggio Calabria (Italy)
This paper presents a theoretical study on the seismic response of alluvial valleys. The considered model consists of a two‐dimensional elastic inclusion of arbitrary shape embedded in a stiffer half‐plane excited by vertically or obliquely incident SH waves. Computations are conducted using a procedure based on the boundary element method. As known, this numerical technique is well suited to deal with wave propagation in infinite media as it avoids the introduction of fictitious boundaries and reduces by one the dimensions of the problem. This provides significant advantages from a computational point of view. A one‐dimensional closed form solution is also used for comparison, and the most significant differences between the results obtained using the two methods are highlighted.
Key Topics
- Seismic waves
- 3.0
- Boundary element methods
- 1.0
- Elastic waves
- 1.0
- Elasticity
- 1.0
- Elasticity theory
- 1.0
A New Method For A Sensitive Deuteron EDM ExperimentY. K. Semertzidis, M. Aoki, M. Auzinsh, V. Balakin, A. Bazhan, G. W. Bennett, R. M. Carey, P. Cushman, P. T. Debevec, A. Dudnikov, F. J. M. Farley, D. W. Hertzog, M. Iwasaki, K. Jungmann, D. Kawall, B. Khazin, I. B. Khriplovich, B. Kirk, Y. Kuno, D. M. Lazarus, L. B. Leipuner, V. Logashenko, K. R. Lynch, W. J. Marciano, R. McNabb, W. Meng, J. P. Miller, W. M. Morse, C. J. G. Onderwater, Y. F. Orlov, C. S. Ozben, R. Prigl, S. Rescia, B. L. Roberts, N. Shafer‐Ray, A. Silenko, E. J. Stephenson, K. Yoshimura and EDM Collaboration
Data & Media loading...
Article metrics loading...


text:
Finish on the 20th, start packing for a walking mountains/hills holiday from 27th.
It's our last few days, lessons finish tomorrow, pupils leave on Wednesday lunchtime after spending the morning at the carol service. I am finishing then too, off to Budapest on Thursday for a few days and not back into work until 2nd Jan. Busy few 2 days when I get back but looking forward to the break.
What's your plans?
Finish on the 20th, start packing for a walking mountains/hills holiday from 27th.
School breaks up Friday, working pretty hard next week, working 2nd/3rd Jan then off to travel the world for a year and a bit So quite looking forward to that!
3 days off next week, back Thursday and Friday (which is half day) then 2 weeks off, return on 6th for training day, then off following week. January will fly by!
Kids go on 18th at 12:00. We then move into our new building. Guess what i am doing this xmas? Woo hoo!
Don't finish till the 20th, my parents arrive on the Monday and stay till Friday (if they survive that long ) and have Mrs Teejays side of the family round Xmas day, so it will be 13 of us squeezed round the table :-)
Second week will be out doing lots of hill walks as now I'm getting down to a sensible weight I'm doing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge next summer, so seriously need to get fitter
School finishes Friday but in till the 20th; have a few days leave left so I'll be done on the 17th. Home for the holidays up in Peterborough (eurgh) then back down here for NYE. Back in the office on the 2nd.
I really need some sleep.
Refitting our IT office as it is stupidly cramped with massive desks in. If I can get hold of them, fitting a couple of replacement IWBs, few machines to rebuild and that is about it.
Finish on 20th, go home to family, go to see christmas lights at shrewsbury, visit my family there, apart from that kick back and relax, have fun with the missus/kids until we come back on the 6th.
I finish on the afternoon of the 13th, take my son to a birthday party that afternoon. Then on the 16th go down to bristol childrens hospital for my son to have his cystic kidney removed (not going to be fun ), hopefully back home by the 18th or 19th if all goes well. Possibly back in work for a half day to install new photocopiers on the 20th, then off until the 6th of Jan
Expecting a quiet xmas overall, thoroughly looking forward to my parents cooking as always on xmas day.
Finish on the 20th. Bus, train and ferry overnight on the 22nd/23rd (only 13 hours travel, to go about 340 miles). About 4 days with my parents, then staying with a friend until the 3rd when I get the ferry, train and bus back again.
Wish I could justify flying, but the cost is ridiculous.
Finish here on the 20th, back on the 6th. School closed for entire time. Two weeks off w00t. I might be in 23rd/24th.......maybe......if I feel like it or something crops up.
Lots of sleeping late, indulgence, grandkids, indulgence, toys, more indulgence, then probably a couple of days of Destroy-It-Yourself at home before we go back in January.
Then it's all downhill. That's what I always think when we go back in January. Midwinter passed, days getting lighter, weather getting warmer, short, short term until Easter, then it's all over for another year, basically. Roll on July
Finish on the 19th - nothing much planned, sleeping, eating and family.
Finish 20th then chill out a few days before big red on the 25th and dinner with my aunt and uncle. Heading off on Hogmanay till the 2nd up in Borders Forest Park with the vans to spend new year there Then finally back to work the 6th
Finish around lunchtime on the 24th, back in on the 2nd. School's shut on the 27th so we've all been told we have to book a day's holiday for that day anyway so I'm taking the Monday and Tuesday off as well.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)


text:
Ryc Nairda
Senior Member
Did they increase the gold amount? I ended the game with 17K gold as a jungle. I don't ever remember getting that much gold playing as a jungle role. I had as much gold as the ADC.
Well yes, they did, but you definitely didn't get all or even most of it from the jungle.
they boosted initial camp gold by about 45 total.
5 more gold from the big wraith
15 from the big wolf
10 from the big golem
the big camps also got more hp while the smaller camps got less
© 2014 Riot Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Riot Games, League of Legends and PvP.net are trademarks, services marks, or registered trademarks of Riot Games, Inc.


text:
Please log in or register to manage your account
Model: 25030 Item: SWI25030
Get noticed at work by adding an extra touch without going over the top. Elevate internal presentations to a step above 'everyday' clips and staples. Back Cover Color(s): Navy Blue; Front Cover Color(s): Navy Blue; Size: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4.
Swingline™ GBC® Laminating Pouches, 5 mil, 9 x 11 1/2, 100/Pack
$52.54$3678 / each
Swingline™ GBC® Fusion 3000L 12" Laminator, 5 mil Maximum Document Thickness
$189.94$13106 / each


text:
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A defense contractor who provided personal security to Afghan and Iraqi leaders has been charged with killing an Afghan civilian.
Documents filed in federal court in Virginia allege Don M. Ayala of New Orleans helped subdue and arrest civilian Abdul Salam after he tossed a container of flammable liquid at a fellow contractor.
Documents say that after learning the contractor had suffered serious burns, Ayala shot and killed Salam, who was handcuffed.
Ayala, who worked for contractor BAE Systems, is charged with murder in the Nov. 4 incident 50 miles west of Kandahar. A hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria has not been set.
Ayala's attorney in California was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
To comment, the following rules must be followed:
Comments may be monitored for inappropriate content, but the station is under no legal obligation to do so.
If you believe a comment violates the above rules, please use the Flagging Tool to alert a Moderator.
Flagging does not guarantee removal.
Multiple violations may result in account suspension.
Decisions to suspend or unsuspend accounts are made by Station Moderators.
Links require admin approval before posting.
Questions may be sent to email@example.com. Please provide detailed information.