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So, what was it I did before I had kids?
My kids are gone for a little more than two weeks visiting my mom and dad in North Carolina. This leaves my husband and I with what seems now like an endless stretch of time to do whatever we feel like. And that is … I hardly remember. Apparently, this is a trend: parents whose […] [Read More]
Hey, buddy, get your own Manbag!
So I was looking for something in my purse yesterday and ran across a huge balled-up piece of paper. Only it wasn't paper, it was the greasy popcorn bag from my husband's snack at Park Playhouse the night before last when we saw "Annie Get your Gun." What the? It's like when we are on […] [Read More]
A father's view of infertility
Motherlode has an important post today, sharing a father's perspective on infertility. Too often, this gets overlooked. Sure, I was the one taking daily injections and obsessing over every twinge and pang in my abdomen, but my husband was right there with me, subject to his own marathon of tests and questions (and to my […] [Read More]
$ saved on gas blown on express mail
So those of you who already think I throw my money away because I don't shop at Hannaford will feel validated by this: I had to express mail my dad's Father's Day card because I didn't get it in the mail this week. I bought two Father's Day cards last Sunday — one for my […] [Read More]
Why do men cling to their threadbare underwear?
We here at Parent to Parent have a suggestion for a can't-miss Father's Day gift. Based on our own in-depth research — endless case studies — we'd say you're pretty safe at picking up a four-pack of Hanes boxer briefs (or Fruit of the Loom, Jockey, etc.). Too practical? Maybe. Important to maintaining harmonious relationships […] [Read More]
A gift for the coaster-loving dad
In a salute to dads and in celebration of Father's Day, all dads will enter The Great Escape in Lake George for the children's admission price of $29.99 Sunday (June 20), when accompanied by a paid child under 48 inches tall. Dads can then upgrade their admission before it's too late to a season pass […] [Read More]
Gifts for dad
I got a great shot of my two daughters hugging their dad a few weeks ago when we were in North Adams, Mass., for a concert. That photo is now on a mug, in a styrofoam cube waiting to be wrapped for Father's Day. My daughter wants to get him a special hat she saw […] [Read More]
Which parenting jobs are his, yours?
The June/July issue of Babytalk magazine has an uplifting article about the new hands-on American dad. Today's fathers stay home with the kids, plan their lives around parenting, help with household chores (just make sure the kids don't love him best). In fact, the article says, 38 percent of men say they would take a […] [Read More]
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As we discussed in our February Bulletin, late last year Netflix and its CEO, Reed Hastings, each received a notice from the SEC Staff indicating that the Staff intended to recommend to the SEC that it institute proceedings against them related to Reed's posting on his company blog and on his Facebook page that Netflix members were viewing "nearly a billion hours per month." The company had not, such as through a press release or the filing of a Form 8-K, otherwise released this information, which the SEC deemed material. While Mr. Reed's position was that this information was public due to the large number of people (over 200,000) who subscribe to his Facebook page, and in any case was not material, he acknowledged that "we don't currently use Facebook and other social media to get material information to investors." Therefore, as we noted in our Bulletin, his blog and Facebook page would not have been a "recognized channel of distribution" and, if the posted information was material, the posting would have violated Regulation FD, which prohibits selective disclosure of material nonpublic information.
In April, the SEC released a Report of Investigation [PDF] with respect to the Netflix case. The Report confirms the SEC's position that companies can, in appropriate circumstances, use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to announce material, nonpublic information without violating Regulation FD. Consistent with its 2008 Commission Guidance on the Use of Corporate Web Sites (Release No. 34-58288), the SEC noted that in order to announce such information solely using such social media, the company must have previously alerted the market about which social media may be used to disseminate what types of information – in other words, the company must ensure that such social media is a "'recognized channel of distribution' for communicating with [its] investors" in order for disclosure of material nonpublic information via such methods to comply with Regulation FD. While not stating that Netflix and Mr. Reed violated Regulation FD, the Report did, however, confirm that "disclosure of material, nonpublic information on the personal social media site of an individual corporate officer, without advance notice to investors that the site may be used for this purpose, is unlikely to qualify as a method 'reasonably designed to provide broad, non-exclusionary distribution of the information to the public' within the meaning of Regulation FD.'" Apparently recognizing, however, perceived "market uncertainty about the application of Regulation FD to social media," the SEC declined to initiate an enforcement action against Netflix or Mr. Hastings.
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In an opinion that continues a welcome trend in False Claims Act cases, Judge Saylor of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has dismissed a relator's FCA complaint for failing to plead facts demonstrating that a manufacturer's breach of the Food & Drug Administration's ("FDA") adverse event reporting requirements resulted in any false claims against federal health care programs. United States ex rel. Ge v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. (Nos. 10-11043-FDS; 11-10343-FDS) (Nov. 1, 2012). Judge Saylor's opinion, like other recent opinions of Judges Gorton and Stearns in the District of Massachusetts, reflects an appropriate judicial resistance to attempts to convert any and all alleged regulatory violations into liability under the FCA, especially when the agency in question has broad discretion in how to respond to regulatory non-compliance.
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STAFFORD, Stone and Rugeley residents are being urged to watch out for very high pollution as one of the worst smog clouds engulfs the county today.
The Midlands is one of the worst affected areas and people with lung conditions are being told to stay indoors to avoid it.
The unusually high air pollution levels are a result of powerful dust storms swept in from the Sahara Desert by strong hales.
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I obtained "jure sanguinis" via the San Francisco consulate a few years ago. My nephew is currently pursuing citizenship via the LA Consulate. This forum was a great help and a comfort during that time!
I was told that the LA Consulate will simply refer to my San Francisco application for all the information up to my nephew's and his parent's info. I am advising him.
My question: The LA Consulate has forms for "ascendants". I have forgotten requirements for those forms. Does my nephew need to fill our an "ascendant" form for all ascendants (In this case GGF - GF - Mother), or just the primary ascendant, who emigrated from Italy? (note: I understand that one must use a different for for "living" and "decesed" descendents.)
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Letters to the editor - 4/4/04
According to "The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today," William Eskridge wrote he hopes gay marriage "will dethrone the traditional family based on blood relationships in favor of families we choose." Concurring with this, Michelangelo Signorile told activists "to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits, and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely - to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. The most subversive action lesbians and gay men can undertake … is to transform the notion of family completely."
Massachusetts, in pushing gay marriage, is putting God-ordained marriage, the family and the country under attack because the real objective is to dethrone the traditional family and to transform the notion of family completely. This is a moral issue. Gen. MacArthur observed, "History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline." Sodomy and gay marriage fit MacArthur's observation.
Who really wants peace in the Middle East?
Mr. Davis Bell (Letters, March 27) claims we get no reports about Israelis opposed to the policies of Sharon. Mr. Bell also claims the Palestinians use suicide bombers because they have no tanks or aircraft. I'm surprised that he knows about the feelings of many Israelis about Sharon and does not know that one of the main reasons the Palestinians have little military hardware is because most of the millions sent to Nobel Peace Prize winner and Prime Minister Arafat by other Arab countries and from the United States ended up in Mr. Arafat's personal bank account in France, which gets fatter every day.
When Israeli soldiers attack Palestinians, they single out where they believe the terrorists are located and of course there is some civilian collateral damage.
When Palestinian suicide bombers attack Israelis, their main objective is women, children and teenagers. Israeli soldiers in the area become the collateral damage.
There are two simple questions that Mr. Bell can ask himself that tells it all. The answer to each has to be honest to be meaningful. If the Palestinians would stop blowing up Israeli children and lay down their arms and declare a truce, would the Israelis keep fighting?
On the other hand, if the Israelis laid down their arms and declared a truce, would the Palestinians keep fighting?
Government contracts: the untold story
In a March 27 story, "Questions raised about Iraq contract," it was pointed out how BearingPoint is fleecing the taxpayer for $240 million in an Iraq contract. The federal government probe is raising questions because the amount is considered "too much."
The question is, when does it become too much and what is considered normal? How is it possible that fleecing the taxpayer is considered as normal business? The basic idea of a government contract is that nobody will make a substantial profit. Therefore, everything is spelled out so inspectors will have an easy way to discover any fraud. The keys are in the reading of the contract and unveiling what has been left out, or in the case of overseas contracts, the item unrelated to American standard.


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Under new IRS guidance, an employer may amend its cafeteria plan to allow for up to $500 of unused amounts remaining in a health flexible spending account (FSA) at the end of a plan year to be carried forward to reimburse eligible expenses incurred in the following plan year. This new $500 permitted carryover feature does not affect the $2,500 annual health FSA limit imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Thus, a participant with $500 remaining unused in his or her health FSA at the end of a plan year may be permitted to carryover the $500 into the next plan year, in addition to a maximum contribution of $2,500, for a potential total of $3,000 available for reimbursement the following plan year. The catch is that if a cafeteria plan adds this new carryover benefit, it must eliminate any grace period (i.e., the period of time which immediately follows the plan year during which unused health FSA amounts may be used to reimburse eligible claims incurred in the following plan year). One of the potential drawbacks of adding this FSA carryover feature is that any amounts carried over from a "general-purpose" health FSA (i.e., an FSA that reimburses all eligible health care expenses) may prevent an employee from contributing to his or her health savings account during the period of time in which the carryover amounts are available. Cafeteria plans generally must be amended to implement this new rule by the end of the plan year from which the amounts are to be carried over; but, for cafeteria plan years that began in 2013, the amendment deadline is extended to no later than the end of the 2014 cafeteria plan year. This extension does not apply to an amendment to eliminate the grace period. As such, employers who want to add this new carryover feature to their 2013 calendar-year cafeteria plans which include a health FSA with a grace period, will need to amend their cafeteria plans by December 31, 2013. Additionally, participants will need to be promptly informed of any change so they may account for any carryover amounts during the next open enrollment period.
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Cairo, West Virginia is located in Ritchie County. Nearby cities and towns include Harrisville, Ellenboro, Pennsboro, Pullman, Belmont, Newport, St. Marys, Waverly, Elizabeth, Reno, Auburn, Mineralwells, Grantsville, North Hills, Williamstown, Boaz, Parkersburg, West Union, Marietta, Friendly, Matamoras, Vienna, Middlebourne, Belpre, and Devola. Cairo is a rural community with a population of 275. The median household income is $34,999. In Cairo, 55% of residents are married, and families with children reside in 22% of the households. Half the population of Cairo commutes 35 minutes or less to work, with 0% of residents holding white collar jobs and 0% residents holding blue collar jobs. The median age of homes in Cairo, WV is 44 years, with 64% of those homes owned, 10% rented, and 26% not occupied.
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Mathews is sitting out Sunday's game with a calf injury. He finishes the season with 1,091 yards rushing.
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Tucked deep within the hotel, the Spa at Mandarin Oriental is truly an urban retreat—not a peep of the noise from Boylston disturbs the tranquility. The dressing room, equipped with a whirlpool and crystal steam room (plus plush Frette robes, fresh fruit, and cucumber-infused water),is an experience in itself. But the services are what set the Mandarin apart: Many of the massages, facials, and body treatments are Eastern-inspired, though New England-sourced herbs are often incorporated.
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Throughout the years working with ISA and TMG I notice that one of the most challenging configuration for many Admins is to correctly setup the network settings on ISA/TMG. Although we have some great content out there about the subject, such as the An Inside Look into TMG Firewall Networks by Deb Shinder and the great series of 3 articles written by Tom Shinder: Overview of ISA and TMG Networking and ISA Networking Case Study (Part 1), Overview of ISA and TMG Networking and ISA Networking Case Study (Part 2) and Overview of ISA and TMG Networking and ISA Networking Case Study (Part 3). Those are "most read" articles if you are planning your network configuration on TMG, add also on top of that the article Planning Forefront TMG network topology. But, in case you inherited an environment with Forefront TMG and you are experiencing weird problems, than it is time to step back and review your configuration. This post will highlight a very common configuration mistake that can cause network route issues.
Problem: clients on remote networks were randomly unable to access Internet.
Scenario: In this case the TMG Admin has the following topology that he needs to configure:
When TMG Admin opens up TMG Management Console this is what he see:
When he look at this he thinks it is okay. But you know what, IT IS NOT!! Here are the reasons:
For the second bullet, I want to call out the original source of this information, which says:
Forefront TMG does not support defining separate network objects that represent remote subnets
Issue: Forefront TMG does not support defining separate network objects that represent remote subnets.
Cause: When you define IP address ranges for a network, Forefront TMG checks all network adapters. When Forefront TMG finds an adapter with an IP address in the network range, it associates the network with that adapter. When a network includes remote subnets accessible by Forefront TMG through routers, the IP address of the remote subnets should be included in the network definition. If you define a separate network object for a remote subnet (instead of including it in the network definition), Forefront TMG tries to locate an adapter with an IP address of the network object, and fails. Forefront TMG assumes that the adapter is not available (disconnected or disabled), and sets network status to disconnected.
Solution: For best practice when defining your network configuration in Forefront TMG, take note of the following:
From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee796231.aspx#NetworkAndRoutingIssues
This is a VERY common mistake and I've seen this over and over. The main argument that I also hear is: it always worked like that, why this is a problem now? Well, mainly because it is not supported, which means that Microsoft can't guarantee that your setup will be functional with this setting.
Resolution: The correct way to setup this particular environment is:
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Damien Comolli is proud to have signed Luis Suarez for Liverpool.
The former Reds football chief brought Suarez to Anfield from Ajax.
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Pineville Municipal Water Works has issued a boil water advisory for the area from the water plant to Route 16 (the river road).
Do not drink water without boiling first. Bring water to a boil and boil for one minute. Let it cool before using, or use bottled water.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, food preparation and bathing until further notice.
According to PMWW, the problem is being caused by a main line break near Pineville Paving.
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iHub Consulting is an initiative of the iHub that aims to improve the community's skills and to expose them to larger client projects which freelancers and small software companies would not have access to on their own. iHub Consulting maintains a pool of consultants (individuals and companies): developers, creative, quality assurance and project managers. We then look for projects, build a team to carry out the project and coordinate the implementation process. At the end of project, we conduct peer and client reviews. The client and peer reviews are used to improve on our processes. To complement this Consulting carries out training based around the needs in the community. Our next training session is on the 11th of February (read more here).
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People in NYC, rejoice! You'll still be able to enjoy inexpensive lunch and dinners at more than 170 restaurants until Labor Day. NY Restaurant Week has been extended through the end of July, and the entire month of August! In fact, this money-saving "week" won't end until September 6.
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Visit nycgo.com/restaurantweek on Monday, July 26, to view the complete list of NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2010 extension participants and make a reservation online. And keep coming back to GAYOT.com for the latest NYC restaurant reviews!
We Raced Obama, and Won!
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Congratulations to President Obama for finally getting behind the wheel of the Chevy Volt electric vehicle with extended range capability during a visit to the Compact Power battery plant in Holland, Mich. LG Chem, the parent of Compact Power, is making the battery cells for the Volt, which goes on sale late this year in California, the Washington, D.C. area, and Michigan.
But we beat the President to the punch, experiencing the car powered with electricity at all times way back in September of 2008 talked about the car's importance with the former Vice Chairman of GM Robert Lutz before he retired. The Volt, with its range of about 340 miles, was even used by Olympic athletes back in February in Vancouver.
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I eat a lot of beef. From ground chuck to filet mignon, I enjoy it probably more than I should. Since my wife doesn't eat red meat, I don't get to go out to steakhouses very often. Frequently the steaks I enjoy are ones I grilled myself, next to a piece of fish for the Mrs.
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You're not supposed to drink and drive, or drive and text, or drunk dial, but how about drinking and typing on an iPad? Delicias, the highly-rated Rancho Santa Fe restaurant, plans on offering diners iPads at their tables to peruse the wine list electronically. General Manager and Sommelier "Gino" Campbell, plans on expanding his holdings to a 5,000-bottle list, so think of all the trees that will be saved. He will also be teaching wine classes here on Saturdays starting next month.
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If you're invited to a pool party, and want to bring a bottle of wine, how do you pick the right bottle? Consult GAYOT.com for our Top 10 Summer Wines. There you'll find whites, reds, sparklers, and even a dessert wine that will make your host happy during warm weather.
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You misunderstand me. What I'm saying is, there will be a point when you can't create better physics, you already have real-life physics, you can't create better graphics, you already have real-life graphics, etc.
What will a faster PC have over a $100 console then? Nothing really. From a developers stand point the PC will be virtually dead.
Yes, but what i am trying to say is that point can never be reached.
Why are we not all useing DOS? it was surely good enough plenty fast you could do everything from it!
Then came windows 3.1 ...... wow, its so much better, you can have multiple apps run, whoa we will never need anything better than that, and 8mb of ram is wayyyyy to much.
Windows 95 higher resolution, more color depth
Windows 98 "
winders 2000 " " multiple monitors 2 +
winders XP " " higher resoltuion icons so on so on etc 'interactive background' 'voice recoginiton'
Mainly what im saying is even if we look away and say its possible to make a perfect physics engine, people will not be satisfied with the amount of features we have today.
Most 3d games of today have
3d Graphics
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Next Gen 3d games seem to have
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Next Next Gen 3d games will have
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Physics applied to *more* stuff
*something that hasent been invented yet
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Luna Negra Magazine strives to publish outstanding literary and artistic achievements by current and former Kent State students. We encourage you to submit your work to be considered for publication in our online publication as well as Luna Negra's January 2013 print issue. Submissions must be received by Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012 to be considered for both the print and online journal.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 11:07AM
Opinions please Earlier this morning I made a 'New topic' in the Helproom - Attachment failure
When I came to post up came Please Wait
So I did, carried on with other stuff- on and off computer- and came back to the item - still -Please Wait and the button frozen. So I copied the text to a new post frame and clicked send and it went at once. Any thoughts?
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 11:12AM
This has been reported countless times and is being addressed by the PCA boffins.
I am really surprised that this is new to you.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 11:29AM
I was going to post a similar request about todays (weekends) problem.
Seems very bad so far today, with constant posts going into the blue yonder and other delays. Watching your handiwork vanishing isn't very pleasing. Its all getting very annoying to say the very least.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 11:39AM
Its all getting very annoying to say the very least.
I imagine there are worse things to be annoyed about than a glitch on a web forum, but it takes all sorts, as they say.
As I explained earlier in the week, we have committed over £10,000 for new hardware that will run this site in future, but it takes a little longer than five minutes to get it all installed and tested. Meanwhile, perhaps you can try to put up with what is a pretty minor problem in the overall scheme of things.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 12:11PM
I sense the FE's exasperation over these issues! However, phrases like "I imagine there are worse things to be annoyed about than a glitch on a web forum" do nothing to placate loyal members. It's no use crying over spilt milk but this new forum is very poor compared to the previous one. As I've said in other posts, I'll persevere with it as it is one of the few forums I know of that is well moderated, relatively polite and doesn't allow junk such as avatars, signature catchphrases, my PC specs are … etc.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 12:11PM
FM and Bremner I too copy and paste ,as I did on this occasion and, no it is not new to me, but I had no so far not come across active discussion as to what is/is not happening
And now thanks to Peter we know.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 12:37PM
Forum Editor
Matt Egan asked for comments, good or bad, about this new website, and forum members are providing this.
Why is it that you seem to constantly object to peoples remarks concerning the well-being of this website?.
We all know there are serious problems, which we have been told are being attended to (!). Yes there are far worse things in life and your comment " but it takes all sorts, as they say" is perhaps another one of you regular but un-neccessary put-downs, "as they say", when someone asks a question or provides an answer that displeases you?
This website in its old format worked perfectly well for most forum users and the outside world, this one definitely doesn't works well, and your becoming regular sarcastic, arrogant and pompous remarks doesn't improve that situation.
Let's hope this doesn't end as a wasted post, and flies into the blue yonder?.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 12:45PM
"Why is it that you seem to constantly object to peoples remarks concerning the well-being of this website?"
I don't "constantly object" to constructive criticism, in fact I was the one who first posted a thread asking for feedback. What I do find a little tiring however,is people - and you seem to be one of them - who waste no time in endlessly repeating the same old mantra every time someone starts a new thread.
We know there are problems with the site - I've said so on several occasions, and I've also said on several occasions that we're taking steps to remedy them. Repeatedly posting along similar lines, and then hiding behind the "you asked for comments" excuse achieves nothing, and will not accelerate the actions we're taking in any way.
Referring to me as "sarcastic, arrogant and pompous" probably says more about your own irritation than mine, but if it makes you feel better, by all means go ahead.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 1:48PM
I find it happens mainly on Firefox and if I go to I/E I can post it Ok.
So not sure if it is a Browser Problem or not.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 2:54PM
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"What I do find tiring however, is people - and you seem to be one of them - who waste no time in endlessly repeating the same mantra everytime someone starts a new thread".
If you noticed I stated that "I was going to post a similar request about todays (weekend) problem".* But by seeing another posting on the same subject, I added to that, which now appears to be inappropriate?.
My original post and comments were not an endless repeating mantra, as you have appeared to suggest that I do on a regular basis (along with others), but more of an information request and provider.
Your last paragraph at 12:45 possibly says it all?.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 3:36PM
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Posted January 8, 2011 at 7:17PM
Hi all
Hope Im in the right place with this query,
I have photos and some documents saved in windows photo gallery, but when I try to veiw some of them they have lost all detail. When they first appear on the screen in WPG there are tiny, when I try to make it bigger I cannot see any detail at all.
Have I lost the items or is there a way to recover them?
Running Win Vista home
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Posted January 12, 2011 at 8:59PM
Go to sSEARCH and enter *.jpg. This will find all your photo's on your system, and then you can re-locate them so you can find them easier.
Another option is to use a program like Picassa (from Google-FREE)which will locate all your graphic programs (jpeg,mpeg,avi) and sort them for you according to date and folder.
This also has an excellent editing and straightening, which is easy to use.click here
To save your finished work it is best to EXPORT them to a different folder, rather than just save.
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Posted January 9, 2011 at 10:21AM
It appears you are only viewing a thumbnail of the picture, hence when you enlarge it it looses definition.
Right click and select properties and see what their file size is.
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Posted February 10, 2011 at 2:02PM
On your camera, if set to best resolution, the jpg file size should be in the order of 1.7Mb. 5.23kb is ridiculous.
Possibly you have made incorrect settings on your camera, and I suggest you consult the instruction book, and work through the various settings.
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 8:52PM
Even with Photoshop CS5 - a very expensive programme - I do not think that interpolating a 5.23 Kb original up to, say 500 Kb would look ok - the pixels would be spread too thin. Maybe if he reads this, hssutton would comment.
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 8:23PM
john bunyan
OK thanks , I will bear that in mind next time I use the camera.
So just to recap,is there anyway I can now change the size from the thumnail to a better size, or is it to late.
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 8:12PM
We also have a Lumix. The reason I save as above is that if I want to print them, I can get 2 to an A4 page, and 300 dpi is a good resolution for printing. I think the Lumix saves as 180 dpi bot larger. My total pixels are roughly the same afer adjustment.If you dont print it doesnt matter much. Your tiny thumbnails seem to be just that - thumbnails..
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 7:58PM
The photos are about three years old, they were not blurred when I transferd them fom my camera.
I dont have Photo commander now I got Picasa instead.
The SD card goes in slot on laptop then I get a window with 101Pana folder in there,I open that and there are the photos,
As you say Picasa has found all pics thats how I discovered more easily the ones that are blurred.
john bunyan
They are definateley kb, The camera is a Panasonic lumix DMC-TZ2 I cant remember for sure the settings but I mostley leave it set to intelligent iso (best setting for the situation,
I will burn them to a disk as you say.
To be honest when I download phots to laptop I dont alter any settings, size and dpi, was not aware I could.
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 4:45PM
I usually keep snapshots at about 7" x 5" at 300dpi, and coloured ones end up as about 1MB. For a photoframe, I keep them at about 12cmx10cm at 72dpi, and they are about 57Kb If yours are as small as 5.23 (Kb not Mb?) they are indeed very tiny.Surely they dont take up too much space? I would burn them to a CD (just in case) before deleting them.
What was the camera setting when you took them?
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 4:06PM
Hi Hetti
First thing to ask here..... have the photos always been blurred or are these a recent batch.
Have you checked in Ashampoo photo commander to see if this has a gallery/Organiser etc ?
How did you get the images to the computer..ie; via software or copy from the memory card in My Computer ?
Did a specific program download the images for you to the computer ?
Picasa maybe your best bet at the moment as this will find your originals if they exist.
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I just found some photos I took myself and the file size is 5.23, some are a little less some a little more they are all blurred when I try to enlarge it there are quite a few like this, are they lost now? if so I may as well delete them as they are taking up quiet a lot of hard drive, hate to do this but if I cant veiw them they may as well be gone.
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July 9th, 2003 #1
Maybe i have a unhealthy love for pirates, but Pirates of the Carribean was so great.
some may think its a bit too hokey or something, but this movie was a blast. i was never a Johnny Depp fan until this movie. it was just a fun adventure movie (like indiana jones over water).
these are pirates that say "arrrrrrrggggghhh matey" and have parrots and all that. if you take this movie seriously (and you're an idiot if you do) you wont enjoy it. i had a grin on my face the entire movie, just enjoying the craziness of it all.
btw, first person to say "the skeletons looked fake" is getting kicked in the nuts, i swear to god. name a movie where the skeletons looked real and moved, then you, too, will recieve a kick in the nuts.
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I have to admit, despite my love of all things ninja, I am actually quite interested in seeing this movie. I hear it's more of a family thing too which isn't a bad thing. I can take my parents to it with being embaressed.
After the second Matrix and finding Nemo, I was worried that there wouldn't be any more good summer flicks. I have a hard time not finding the terminator movies repetitive...And the actors? well..There like robots.
Btw. Check out Sleepy Hollow for another good, sureal, Depp movie.
July 10th, 2003 #3
Pirates and ninjas are arch-rivals. If a group of pirates and a group of ninjas were to have at each other in a battle, it would be a draw. They both kick serious ass. No one would win. Like zombies fighting scarecrows.
July 10th, 2003 #4
There are three comedic staples that double as historical figures of brutality, consequently all three exist as either a source of immediate coolness and an instant laugh depending on thier use, they are:
1) Pirates
2) Ninja
3) Zombies
This movie, if the trailers are to be beleived has at least two of the three.
I'm game. Gonna catch it this weekend.
July 10th, 2003 #5Originally posted by Exo
Btw. Check out Sleepy Hollow for another good, sureal, Depp movie.
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Mr Smith: Not a Depp fan?! damn... He rocks in all kinds of ways..
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Pirates kicked so much ass.
Hey does anyone know::: Did Puddn'head do some of the concept art for this movie??
July 10th, 2003 #7Originally posted by eli
Hey does anyone know::: Did Puddn'head do some of the concept art for this movie??
not that i ever hated Depp, i just wasn't an uberfan.
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Re:Originally posted by MrSmith
Maybe i have a unhealthy love for pirates, but Pirates of the Carribean was so great.
is there such a thing as "an unhealthy love for pirates?!" you just gotta love those pirates!
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July 11th, 2003 #9
Ever since "the goonies" have I waited for a good pirate flick! can't wait for it to come to denmark..
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I saw this yesterday and I thought it's quite good. Definitely entertaining. I generally don't pay attention to how well people act, but Johnny Depp certainly stood out in a good way.


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Frustrations with the UI
I'm currently in the process of setting up the game to work with a controller and I'm running into a big problem right now.
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When I'm playing with mouse + keyboard I have the 2 button bar on with my basic abilities. To active the BO powers I mouse click on the buttons next to the BO stations, in my UI this is below the button bars.
Now comes the problem, to play with a controller I must add all the BO powers to the button bars and turn on 3 bars (if I don't I won't have enoughs pace for all the BO powers). So far so good. However, when you switch a BO (which happens quite a lot) the BOs power disappears of the button bar and leaves a free spot. You then have to click and drag the new BOs power to that open spot first before you can use it.
This wouldn't be so frustrating if you'd only have to set that up once, however when you switch back to your previous BO you need to drag his power from the power tray to your button bar again first before you can use it!
I know that we have 10 bars and can make all sorts of combinations like that for our BO powers, but come on, I have 10 BOs and that's a lot of different set ups I can get.
I have a couple suggestions I'd love to see implemented and get this problem fixed:
- Allow us to active powers from the Power Tray itself, I can scroll through them pretty fast with my controller and though not ideal it would solve a lot of problems already.
- Allow us to drag station slots on the button bar.
This last point probably needs further clarification. Right now we drag the actual BO power to the button bar. From what I understand each BO power has an unique number in the UI, thus Emergency Power to Shields I from BO A is not the same as Emergency Power to Shields I from BO B when I drag it onto the button bar. If I switch those 2 BOs and they both have that power then I need to add their power to the bar again as well. That's the current situation.
What I'd like to do is drag the station slot, for example Engineer Ensign slot to the button bar. Then it doesn't matter which BO I'm using, his Engineer skill will always show up on the spot I dragged it to since it's now station slot related and no longer BO slot related.
I hope the basic outline is clear, if you need me to make it more clear with pictures or further explanations then please send me a PM or something and I'll be happy to get busy with that.
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if I might suggest:
To use BO skills with your controller:
you should map the controller to benign keys, then use /bind to set up the link to the power or skill. This gives you far more options. Save a modified copy of the binds to separate files for each of your BO configurations.
You can also unmap the existing keys in the options+keybinds and re-use them if you want...
To make it easier to deal with the quickbar in changing configurations:
open Options+Basic, and change your interface scale to 0.90. Now, switch your quickbar to mode 2. Then press Esc until the Main Menu appears, then Rearrange HUD. Drag your bars to the left until they begin at near the half way mark across your screen. Rearrange your other items to compensate. Your BO bar will now fit the max number of skills without running off the screen. Use the quickbar slots for your race and job skills etc... If you put some BO skills there, consider setting up a bar for each configuration (you have 10).
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The UI is one reason why I want mods. Customizing the UI would be very nice indeed.
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Critical Review by Peter Harris
SOURCE: "Four Salvers Salvaging: New Work by Voigt, Olds, Dove, and McHugh," in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 262-76.
In the following excerpt, Harris describes the poems in The Gold Cell as "undeniably gripping," but questions whether the emotional intensity of Olds's verse is merely sensationalistic.
A would-be suicide on the roof of a city building; a subway encounter between a white person and a black who looks, to the speaker, like a mugger; a newborn child left in a garbage can; a torturer castrating someone; 17th-century Siamese twins, one of whom grows from the other's chest; a man being beaten to death for stealing food in Uganda; a rape victim who ends up being a pom-pom girl; talking penises left over from sex change operations; an apocalyptic fantasy about a "sex center" where customers stand under signs indicating their preferences; the nightly devotions of the Pope's privates; a mother watching the nuclear holocaust with her child, who thinks it beautiful. These are the first eleven poems in The Gold Cell, a volume unmistakably by Sharon Olds, whose poetry incorporates violence, cruelty, broiling sexuality, as well as love. Olds treats both the present and the past with a make-you-squirm explicitness that's buffered only by an ingenuous honesty about her relationship to the events she describes.
Close to two centuries ago, Wordsworth proposed his Lyrical Ballads as a potential antidote to what he saw as the "savage torpor" induced in the common reader by the sensationalism of the melodramatists in the popular press. His aim was to gentle us back to health, to make a rural-seeming space for quiet contemplation, a poet's revolution for the preservation of the psyche. There are vigorous poets still writing in the Wordsworth tradition. But they don't, like Olds, work in New York City, and few have seen the kind of alcohol-induced violence to which Olds apparently was subjected as a child. And most will never sell as many books of poems as Olds, books that share the subject matter, though not the outlook, of the tabloid press. Olds apparently never has had the privilege of believing, with Wordsworth, that nature never betrays the heart that loves her; and though she everywhere affirms the power of love, her affirmation is anything but gentle. She aims to shock us back to consciousness, to speak what Melville calls "the sane madness of vital truth."
People have responded. Both in The Gold Cell and in The Dead and the Living, which won the Lamont Prize and the National Book Award in 1983, Olds' work has excited a shock of recognition among a wide variety of readers, some of whom would ordinarily be strangers to poetry. Her confessional poems often blaze with a fierce and sometimes inexplicable love, even for the villains in her life. And Olds has the voice of a peculiarly exuberant survivor who speaks with gusto, whether relating the details of her present blessings or past deprivations. Many of her poems are undeniably gripping. But is the fact a poem is gripping necessarily a sign of its value?
Olds' work is open to two kinds of criticism—technical and moral. Other poets, when they criticize Olds, often fasten on her weak use of line, which has her ending many lines with "and," or "with," or especially "the," a strategy which lacks the compelling musical or dramatic motives that justify similar choices in the shorter lines of, for example, W. C. Williams or Robert Creely. But it is one thing to acknowledge that Olds' lineation leaves much to be desired and quite another to conclude that her poems lack art. Olds may share her subject matter with the tabloid press, but she's very much a poet. If, in The Gold Cell, the poems too often seem in the same voice, searching for the same kinds of insights with the same rhythm of acceleration as her last book, that should not obscure the fact that she writes with great flair and often shows a resonant dramatic intelligence in searching out the contexts, or the frameworks of implication, in which to lodge and justify her dark witness-bearing.
Olds is gifted, too, with a fertile metaphoric imagination that allows her, when she is going well, to enter completely into her subject matter; her analogical imagination often insightfully graces what otherwise would be raw reportage. A distinguished example of her gift for metaphor occurs in "The Food Thief," a poem describing a Ugandan man being slowly whipped to death for stealing food during a drought. The first, expository half of the poem eschews metaphor, but the rest of the poem is an extended conceit, amplified by a series of similes which compare the thief's body to the once fertile land. The comparison is not merely verbal because, in an elemental sense, the man is an inextricable part of the land, and she makes us see how they are dying together. After she has established that the thief is being driven along and "slowly, slowly" being beaten to death, the poem turns as the thief turns to face his attackers:
with all the eloquence of the body, the
wrist turned out and the vein up his forearm
running like a root just under the surface, the
wounds on his head ripe and wet as a
rich furrow cut back and cut back at
plough-time to farrow a trench for the seed, his
eye pleading, the iris black and
gleaming as his skin, the white a dark
occluded white like cloud-cover on the
morning of a day of heavy rain.
His lips are open to his brothers as the body of a
woman might be open, as the earth itself was
split and folded back and wet and
seedy to them once, the lines on his lips
fine as the thousand tributaries of a
root-hair, a river, he is asking them for life
with his whole body, and they are driving his body
all the way down the road because
they know the life he is asking for—
it is their life.
As Olds' extended comparison unfolds, it makes both the food thief's and Uganda's loss increasingly evident, until her concluding lines fix exactly how dire their plight is: at the end of an ecosystem, no one needs to be reminded for whom the bell tolls, though the tribesmen's insight into their mutual plight is more Darwinian than Christian.
In poems as potent as "The Food Thief," Olds' dubious line break strategy seems a relatively minor issue. Not so minor, however, is the objection that Olds relies too heavily on extreme situations, often highly personal and that, at times, her poems verge close to the level of self-dramatizing, melodramatic tattle-tales. What, to some, appear as brave, liberating acts of witness-bearing, to others seem a breach of propriety or the eradication of the virtues of privacy.
Her detractors, as well as her supporters, have good evidence to support their claims. Olds, however, deserves, like all other writers, to be granted her subject matter, though it be marital relations on the rug or a self-confessed fascination with her father's alcoholic nose. It's not the subject matter but the vision it serves that is the proper issue of judgment. For Olds, her violent father, no less than her relationships with her children, are subjects beyond ignoring. And it's true that none of her poems fails to move beyond graphic description to a consideration of the human implications of what has been described. But sometimes the insights seem, at least in part, unconscious excuses for exhibitionism. "It" is an ambiguous case in point. For many readers, the poem's description of sex with her husband makes public what probably should remain private, or at least less explicit. And yet her conscious aim is to affirm the extravagant pleasures to be had through the flesh, an aspiration which, in principle, and in light of the long tradition of erotic verse, is hardly reprehensible. Moreover, Olds hits upon a startling analogy by which to clarify the quality of the speaker's gratitude for fleshly pleasure. She says, "sometimes it is sweet as the children we had / thought were dead being brought to the shore in the / narrow boats, boatload after boatload." We may object that comparing orgasms to the rescue of innocent children betrays a lack of ethical perspective. That is just her point: intense pleasure obliterates distinctions and searches out unruly connections. In an over-rationalized age, and to audiences perhaps overadept at forgetting our animal natures, Olds has a point worth making. But the reader may well ask whether her purpose is best served by taking us into her bedroom.
There are other Olds poems, often those dealing with her father, that seem insufficiently conscious of the damage sustained in the family crucible. The father in the poems is a profound sadist who delights in frightening his children, sometimes to the point of incontinence. For example, one poem explores his habit of holding one of his children upside down in the laundry chute, threatening to drop him or her. That he doesn't drop them seems scant reason to conclude, as Olds' speaker does, that "although it's a story with some cruelty in it, / finally it's a story of love / and release, the way the father pulls you out of nothing / and stand there foolishly grinning." The affirmation rings false. In another poem, Olds' desire to be knowingly dramatic fuses with an apocalyptic despair and yields a declaration of the inevitability of nuclear holocaust, "I wonder now only when it will happen." While nobody can argue with such a feeling, we might well expect a poet who grapples with the nuclear dilemma to refresh our sense of crisis without helping to spread the demoralizing fallout of resignation.
At the same time, it's clear that despair is not characteristic of Olds' overall outlook. Indeed, her work is sinewed with affirmative bravery, and that bravery and resiliency constitute no small part of her appeal. Given her family history and given a world that wastes so much of its creative energies on engines of destruction, The Gold Cell is saner and more full of love than anyone could reasonably expect, which, in itself, argues indirectly against the inevitability of mutual assured destruction.
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Srikakulam: District Collector A. Koteswara Rao on Friday urged all concerned to take steps and remove misconceptions about tuberculosis (TB) among rural people and send the message that TB was curable. Speaking at a meeting organised to mark the World TB Day here, Mr. Rao stressed the need to educate rural people. Officials said that the percentage of successfully cured TB patients in the district stood at 86 per cent as against the national percentage of 84.
Decrease in cases
Kakinada: The incidence of TB has decreased in East Godavari district due to the effective implementation of Revised National TB Control Programme and the Directly Observed Treatment Shirt Course (DOTS), according to S.S.C. Chakra Rao, District Medical and Health Officer. Speaking at a function as part of World TB Day, he said even the morbidity and mortality rate had come down compared to last year. Babji, District TB Control Officer presided. Venkat Rao, medical officer, while presenting a report on the DOT centres, said some 2,220 centres were functioning in the district of which 262 were in the agency area.