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Friday Philosophy – The Worst IT Person I Have Met October 15, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy.
Tags: behaviour, Humour, perception, rant
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A couple of weeks ago I extolled the virtues of someone I felt was a great person to work with. This week I'm going to do the opposite (and it will be interesting to see which posting gets more hits).
The worst person I have worked with in IT is Mick. I've only known a couple of Micks {and if you are one of them, but you don't know Barry, you are not the Mick}. In an ironic twist of fate I met Mick at the same time I met the best person I have worked with, Barry. We were all in the same team you see, a UNIX sys admin team I got parachuted into. Maybe the vast difference between the two help make them so distinct in my mind.
Mick was very knowledgable and technically very capable. No, that is not fair, he was extremely good. He actually knew all this system admin stuff and several variations of shell programming, perl, C and a few other two-steps-from-assembler type languages. And he was an absolute and utter pain in the behind.
Barry and I did not know much (or in some cases, any) of this sys admin stuff. If we needed to do something and did not know how, Mick was supposed to show us. It worked something like this:
"Mick, I need to copy all the files that were changed last week from this directory on box X to box Y, keeping the directory structure – Can you help?". Mick would not hear. He suffered from "intermittent deafness" – though he never missed any announcements about free food. You had to go and stand by Mick and wait for him to deem to notice you. If you actually interrupted him he would swear at you and utterly refuse to help, you had to wait quietly. If it was a good day he would deem this acceptable after a minute or two, but he would do his utmost to convey the impression he despised your lack of knowledge and your concerns were beneath his talents… but he would stoop to help.
You would repeat the task you were trying to do and, pausing only briefly to pour scorn on such a trivial thing, he would turn his back and start typing. He'd write a script to do it. "no, no, don't write it, just tell me the basic commands and I'll work it out!" No, he insisted on writing the script.
The script would be a thing to behold. Mick would write it in as few lines as possible and the least number of letters. For ages. Oh, he would have a working version in about the time it took Barry or I to explain the task, but he would not give you that version, oh no. He would ignore you until he had made all variables 1 character, took out all whitespace, replaced anything obvious with something obtuse, replaced a small chain of simple commands with one or two arcane commands. Every script was an attempt to win an "obfuscated code" competition. If we waited for the end result, it was impossible for Barry or I to decipher. The only benefit to the process was you would see the commands he was using and you could wander off and start with the unix Manuals yourself and get the job done.
He had other methods with which to demonstrate his greater worth.
Mick would agree to help (under duress of the boss telling him to do so) with an urgent task, but keep asking you to wait all day – then go home without doing his bit.
He seemed to love to intercept anyone coming to you for help, tell them he would sort out the problem for them – only to not. And then tell the user the next day that it was Barry or My problem to sort out. Correct, Mick would not have mentioned this to us.
Mick was fair though, he would treat everyone the same. With scorn. Any expertise in a field he did not know was unimportant and anyone with skills in his field was just competition to be shown who was best. Sadly, he usually was best, if best means biggest smartass.
Over time, as Barry and I learnt stuff (almost never from him), Mick became redundant. Not because we caught him up, not by a long way, but because no one else in the department would ask him anything. They would come to Barry and I. We might be slow and we sometimes screwed it up but we did not sneer and we fixed the problem in a way they could understand.
The reason Mick is the worst person I ever worked with is, unlike people who simply break stuff or lie about their skills or are stupid, he was actually very talented and capable – and yet took a perverse pleasure in not doing so. Mick would put effort into the art of maximizing his unhelpfulness. It was the difference between his potential to help and his drive to not do so that made it so hard for me to deal with him. I'd rather work with a talentless, idiot liar because at least you don't need or expect much from them.
Team Work & The Science of Slacking July 23, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy, Management, Perceptions.
Tags: behaviour, Humour, Management, science
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We all know that working in a team is more efficient than working on your own (and I did say a week or two back how I was enjoying the rare privilege of working in a team of performance guys). Many of us also know about team dynamics and creating a balanced team of ideas people, completer-finishers, implementers, strategists and so forth. Those of use who have been exposed to training courses or books on team management know all these good things about teams and how we are supposed to get the most out of them.
How many of us, though, have been introduced to the work of the French Agronomist Max Ringelmann and the aspect of teams named after him, the Ringelmann Effect? In summary the Ringelmann Effect proposses that people in teams try less hard than they do when working alone. Especially if they think no one is watching them.
Back at the start of the 20th century Ringelmann tested out his ideas using a tug-of-war experiment. He would get people to pull on a rope as hard as they could and record their efforts using a strain gauge. Then he would get them to pull on the rope as part of a team, from 2 to 8 people. As soon as people were part of a team, they pulled less hard. With two people in the team, each pulled 93% as hard as on their own, with three people this dropped down to 85% and with 4 it was just 77%. By the time there were 8 people in the team, effort was down to 50%.
This idea of shirking work more and more as the team increased in size became established in modern psychology and was given Mr Ringelmann's name. Psychologists explain that when someone is part of a group effort then the outcome is not solely down to the individual and, as such, is not totally in their control. This acts as a demotivating factor and the person tries that little bit less hard. The larger the team, the greater the demotivation and the more significant the drop in effort. Ringelmann found that effort was down to 50% in a team of 8 so how bad can the impact of the team be? I think most of us have at least witnessed, and quite possibly been in, the position of feeling like just a cog in a massive corporate team machine. Thoroughly demotivating (though, of course, we all of us still tried as hard as we could, didn't we?).
The effect is also know under the far more entertaining title of Social Loafing.
Monsieur Ringelmann was far kinder at the time and pointed out that these chaps pulling on the rope could well have been suffering from a lack of synergy. They had not been trained together to pull as a team so that could account for the drop in effort, they were not synchronising their effort.
However, in the 1970's Alan Ingham in Washington University revisited Ringelmanns work and he was far sneekier. Sorry, he was a more rigorous scientist. He used stooges in his team of rope-pullers, blindfolds and putting the one poor person pulling for real at the front of the team pulling the rope. Thus he could record the effort of the individual. Ingham found that there was indeed a drop in efficiency due to the team not pulling as one. But sadly, this was not the main factor. It remained that the drop in effort was mostly down to the perceived size of the rest of the team. The bottom line was proven to be the human capacity to try less hard when part of a team and that the drop in effort was directly proportional to the size of the team.
We are of course not immune to this effect in the IT world and someone has even gone to the effort of checking that out, James Suleiman and Richard T Watson.
It seems the ways to reduce this problem are:-
- Don't give people boring jobs.
- Don't give the same job to several people and let them know they all have the same job.
- Ask people how they are getting on and give them mini-goals along the way.
- Atually reward them for success. Like saying "thank you" and NOT giving them yet another boring, hard job to do as they did the last one so well.
I think it is also a good argument for keeping teams small {I personally think 5 or 6 people is ideal} and split up large projects such that a single team can cope. Then give tasks to individuals or pairs of people.
If you like this sort of thing you might want to check out one of my first blog post (though it is more an angry rant than a true discussion ofthe topic) which was on the Dunning-Kruger effect, where some people are unaware of their own limitations – though I did not know it was called the Dunning-Kruger effect until others told me, which only goes to show that maybe I am not aware of my own limits… Read the comments or click through to the links from there to get a better description of some people's inability to guage their own inabilities.
My laptop has a Bug July 20, 2010Posted by mwidlake in biology.
Tags: Humour, zoology
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My laptop is suffering from bugs, and I'm not talking software.
It is warm and sunny here in the Southeast of England, which is not always the case during the British Summer, and I am suffering an invasion of little insects. Specifically Thrips or Thunderbugs. They are called Thunderbugs as they are supposed to appear in numbers when a thunderstorm is brewing. Like most Old Wives Tales it is utter rubbish. But kind of true too…
If you do not know, a thrip is usually a small insect about 0.15 mm wide and maybe 0.4mm long. So small, but visible. About the size of this:
Yep, a coma on an average LCD panel. And that is where the problem is. One has got into my laptop and under my screen and it is sure to die. It is currently scurrying around at the far left of the screen and I'm considering a mercy killing before it wanders further across the screen into prime acreage. I had this before on my old laptop. In that case it died in the middle of the screen and for ever more has looked suspiciously like a coma, or single 'quote', causing me confusion when it falls on top of emails, word documents and…. code. It really was a pain when it came to code. Even now, if I use that old machine it sometimes catches me out. It can merge with a letter in new and exciting ways, to subtly change a word or command.
I'm obviously not alone, a quick web search threw up some other people complaining of the same issue.
And of course it is a common knowledge that "bugs" in computing really did start out as insects getting fried in the electronics and valves of the very first machines in the mid-20th century. I wonder if that is really true or just another old myth? James Higgins seems to think it is real and who am I to doubt him. He has a photo of the evidence after all.
Enrichment of the Code Monkey Environment April 15, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy.
Tags: behaviour, Humour
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In animal welfare there is a concept called "Environment Enrichment". This is where you do things to make the life of the animal in captivity more enjoyable. Often it is centred on how you feed the animal – either hiding their food so they need to forage or presenting it in a way that better matches their natural behaviour . So, for example, you might take your gerbils out of their cage and then hide seeds and bits of fruit around the place {or get Ben Fogle dragging chunks of meat behind a Land Rover through the lion enclosure at Longleat Safari Park so the lions can chase after it}. Or you might buy some of that expensive, transparent, coloured plastic tubing that plugs together in little mazes – as Gerbils of course run around pink, blue and orange transparent tubes in the wild…
Where I am working at the moment, Environment Enrichment for the captives is achieved by relocating the coffee cups in the kitchen overnight. We all turn up in the morning and go up in little groups to play the "open the cupboards in random" game in order to track down the mugs. Never the same cupboard two days in a row – except occasionally just to keep us on our toes.
We also have several fruit bowls and someone occasionally fills them with a selection of fresh fruit. Of course, as we are Code Monkeys, the bananas are most popular. What most of my fellow inhabitants have not yet worked out is the occasional bonus cache in the pot that looks like a flower vase. It's usually apples.
The best bit of the environment enrichment is at the end of the week though. 5pm Friday, with the gentle tick of cooling laptops and the gentle lowering drone of hard disks winding down, and the glow of the LCD sceens dimming, the oasis is opened. A bottle of beer or can of coke can be obtained and you all stand around and discuss anything but computers. Well, OK, maybe computers a bit, but they have to be non-work computers.
Relax with Good Security :-) April 14, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Architecture.
Tags: behaviour, Humour, security
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It's nice to know that your computer system is very secure. It allows you to relax.
Is this because you feel confident that your data is protected and that your systems cannot be compromised by malicious actions?
Well maybe, but in my case, today (*), this is not why I can relax. Security is allowing me to relax as I've been locked out of my account at my client's site and it is hard to tune SQL/review design documents if you can't log on. It is a little bizarre that my account expired today as I know the date my account is set to self destruct – I filled in the relevant forms myself and simply had my boss sign them before I popped them over to the security team. Unfortunately, I can't pop back over to them to jolly things along as I am now in a remote location (really, very, very remote!).
I just have to wait patiently for HR, Security and Management to complete the complex little Morris Dance they have to do to confirm I am a real person, need the access and have not recently been asked to leave {I hope I am not going to be asked to leave!}.
I'm not really complaining. Having worked for the NHS back in the late 80's and early 90's, I have shocking tales to tell, such as of taking home confidential patient clinical reports in order to play with "SQL*report writer" on my personal desktop, and similar stories about modern organisations in the private sector {well what do you know, person X owes HOW MUCH?}. So I am glad security is an order of magnitude better now. {No, honestly, it really is! No matter how bad you think things are where you are now, you should see the stuff I saw back then. These days, you at least have the ability to lock things down, if not the real-world reality.}
But, like all process-oriented things, it has to be designed to work well to be, well, effective. I got locked out of the same systems in a similar way just before Christmas. How many people are being paid a day's wage to ring up the helpdesk and drink endless tea?
(*) I wrote this blog a while back. It might even have been before I had a blog. But a similar incident reminded me. Oh, and what was my reward for an enforced day being paid to drink tea and read a copy of "Oracle Scene"? Three days of working like a madman to catch up on that lost day. *sigh*. I did not get paid overtime.
Friday Philosophy – Are short Posts Better Than Long Ones? February 12, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Friday Philosophy.
Tags: Blogging, Humour
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Just a pointer to an update January 27, 2010Posted by mwidlake in Testing.
Tags: Humour
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This post is really just to highlight that I finished salvaging Yesterdays Post. If you found it of any interest before, go have a look at the end. If not, heck go look at dilbert. As funny as ever but BOY is that web site suffering from advertising hell and slow performance…
Update – I removed the link to the dilbert site because I went over to the site the other day and got one of those "Your PC is INFECTED" cons popping up in my browser. You know, the ones that tell you you cannotget rid of the infection without their software, but the only infection is their software. I could not get rid of it without shutting down my browser session (and yes, I have PC security software that is updated every day).
What were you doing 10 years ago? December 24, 2009Posted by mwidlake in Perceptions.
Tags: behaviour, ethics, Humour
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It is coming towards the end of December 2009. What were you doing 10 years ago today? If you were at school or college I don't want to know, it just depresses me. You might have been doing last-minute Christmas things, you could have been traveling to see friends , loved ones or maybe {and often less pleasurably} relatives. If, however, you were working in IT I probably know what you were doing:
You were somehow involved in preparing for "The Y2K bug!!!" (Cue dramatic drum roll, ominous music, thunder-and-lightening video and the quiet shrill laughter of consultancy firms running all the way to the bank).
Remember that? I'm a little surprised not to have seen anything much in the media yet celebrating it, {I've not seen it in the UK anyway}, which is odd as it was such a very big deal back then. You remember? All the nuclear power plants were going to blow up, air control systems go haywire, bank systems crash and generally the whole of modern civilisation was going to crumble.
It did not of course. It's biggest impacts seemed to be firstly to give old Cobol and Fortran programmers a bit of a financial boost to help them bolster the pension fund and secondly so much time, effort and planning was spent on Y2K preparation that 75% of other IT programs were shut down to cope. There certainly seemed a little less work to be had in the immediate aftermath.
I never decided who was more to blame for the hype and the fear. The Media, who can never pass a chance to boost revenue by outrageous scare tactics, or business/it consultancies who can never pass a chance to boost revenue by… I better stop there, in case I ever decide to go back to working for a consultancy.
I personally learnt a couple of things.
One was to prepare. In my particular case, I had planned a big Y2K party with a bunch of friends, hired a big house to hold a dozen of us plus kids and found somewhere to buy big fireworks from. All in 1998. And for 18 months before the event told anyone I went to work for that I would not be available for that particular week. I put it into my contract. Of the two or three companies I picked up contracts with during that period, none of them batted an eyelid when I mentioned this. Of course, this meant nothing. With 3 months to go before Y2K, the missive came rolling out from top management that no one, absolutely no one in IT was being allowed to take New years eve off.
I said to my boss "except me". No, no exceptions. "It's in my contract, I stated when I joined I was not available that week". No exceptions. "Bye then". Huh? "Well, I said at the time and I am sorry to upset you, but you see, this is a job, we had an agreement and what I have organised is my life and well, you lose". I was a little more diplomatic about it, but I insisted. After all, we had fully Y2K tested the app I was responsible for and I had an agreement.
I had the week off (with a mobile phone by my side, admittedly, but I was not in a fit state to do much by the time midnight came around). I learnt that if you have an agreement and you calmly refuse to capitulate, and you negotiate a little, you can avoid "no exceptions". {My friend Nasty Mike took the more direct approach of swearing loud defiance. He won also, but maybe with more bad feeling…}
The other thing I learnt was that companies will not pay less than they expect for a job. The five of us had written this app and it used four digit year dates all the way through the system. It was on Oracle 8. It worked. But no, Top Management wanted the system Y2K proving. So they asked a company to test it. This company wanted something like £50,000 to test it and it was to come out of our development budget. Ouch. That was pretty much half the budget.
So one of the team put forward a proposal to Y2K test the system via their company, for about £5,000.This was refused; it was too cheap to be believed.
So we put exactly the same proposal forward through another of our companies for £15,000 plus expenses and an exorbitantly hourly rate if extra work was needed.
This proposal was accepted.
So we did the work, we ran all the tests we specified, rolled the system past Y2K, repeated the tests, then…did a full refresh of the O/S, oracle and the app and recovered a full backup from before the initial tests. We were delayed by 24 hours as central IT screwed up the full oracle restore, so we got to charge the exorbitant hourly rate.
We handed the test results pack to the central IT team and their one question was "Why had we refreshed the O/S and re-installed Oracle? Well, we said, how do you know that going past Y2K had not set some internal variables within the O/S or the database that just setting back the system clock would not fix? The O/S is a complex thing.
The head of central IT looked ever so worried. No one had mentioned that before. And they had spent a lot on external Y2K testing consultancy…
Isn't business odd at times?
Friday Philosophy – Statistically Significant November 27, 2009Posted by mwidlake in performance, VLDB.
Tags: Humour, statistics
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There are very few generalist Oracle DBAs around, and very very very few expert generalist Oracle DBAs. Tom Kyte might count, but I'm sure if you pressed him he would admit to knowing nothing about {some key aspect of being a general DBA}. That is because to be an expert on something you have to spend a lot of time on it. Oh, and learn. {I've spent a lot of time around my wife but she still confuses me, I just don't seem to be able to learn}. Oracle is simply too wide a topic to be able to spend a lot of time on all of it, even if by "Oracle" you mean just the core RDBMS technology, which I do. You have to pick an area.
Pete Finnigan specialises in security, Julian Dyke on RAC and Internals, Doug Burns on the relationship between the database and cuddly toys. Oh and ASH/AWR.
So I ask myself, what is my specialty?
Well, if I go on the last 5 working years of my life, it would probably be Oracle Database Statistics. Which is quite ironic given my woeful attempts with Statistics when I tried that maths 'A' level all those years back {for non-UK people, an 'A' level is what you do at age 17- 18. It's that point in maths when most of us are convinced logic is replaced by magic}. I'll go further and say I specialise in Oracle Database Statistics on VLDBS. Maybe even more specific, Gathering and Maintaining Oracle Database Statistics on VLDBs.
Not a very sexy-sounding specialty is it, even in the context of IT technical specialties. I am sure that if I was to tell a lady I wish to impress that I was "a specialist in gathering and maintaining Oracle database statistics on VLDBs" then I would soon be standing alone as she looked for an accountant to talk to {I refer back to my comment on my wife, I repeatedly try to impress her with this line and she never fails to walk away}. Heck, I could spend all my time at the UKOUG Conference next week and struggle to find someone who would respond positively to such a claim to greatness.
But the situation is that I have had to deal with the failures and idiosyncrasies of this area of Oracle for 4 major clients on a dozen or so systems and have discussed it with half a dozen other people who have had challenging times with it. And even now it trips me up all the time. Because, frankly, some if it is not very well implemented (choking automated stats gathering job anyone?), different parts work in different ways (if you state a statid, statown and stattab when you SET_TABLE_STATS the values go into the stats table, if you state them for GATHER_TABLE_STATS, the gathered values go into the data dictionary and the OLD ones go into the stats table – yeah, I know, if you did not know that you are now going ?huh?), some of it is wrapped up in a blanket of confusion and secrecy (what exactly DOES the automated stats job do and when you say "GATHER AUTO" what exactly will Oracle do automatically?).
Thankfully the secrecy side is reducing as Oracle (and others) say more about how some of these things are controlled or decided "automatically" , but then the world shifts under your feet with new versions of Oracle. Stats gathering under 11g is far more open to control than 10, but as my current client is not on 11g then I can't spend too long looking at that.
So currently I am a expert in 10g Gathering and Maintaining Oracle Statistics on VLDBs. Now if that is not pretty damned specialist then I don't know what is.
I should blog technical details on all of this {sadly I know the answers to the things I mention above}, but I suspect people would go "Hmmm, interesting….." in that kind of "who in heck needs to know that! I'm off to do block dumps of temporary segments" way. But if you think otherwise, let me know.
Besides, I am being very, very poor at getting on with the Partition stuff I want to do, even though I have half-written about 4 more posts on it. I need to stick to that for my technical blogs for now.
That and I kind of shy away from being an expert in such an unexciting area, I might get offered {oh dear lord not more} work in it.
Thankfully I also specialise in beta testing new features of Oracle for clients in the travel and media industries, where on-site work in exotic locations is, at times, required… If anyone has any opening in that field, drop me a line :-)
Keeping the server and storage utilisation high October 9, 2009Posted by mwidlake in performance.
Tags: Humour, performance
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A friend of mine sent me this today, from an old site of mine:
From: John Smith
Sent: 07 October 2009 10:08
To: Sarah Sims
Cc: DBA team
Subject: RE: Performance issues on your Test servers
Hi Sarah,
Please could somebody tell us why this query is running repeatedly on your database:
SELECT composite_key , exact_time , object_type , table_name , user_id , xml_data FROM usr1234.acramendlogshd ORDER BY 2;
It's very prominent in both of the 1-hour time slices I've analyzed so far, and is fetching the entire 12GB 20M-row table. This is so absurd that it looks almost like a programming error!
The same table in the production environment is almost the same size, 18M-rows.
From: Sarah Sims
Sent: 07 October 2009 11:18
To: John Smith
Cc: DBA team
Subject: RE: Performance issues on your Test servers
This would be the ACRALS service which has a bug in it currently which means that it runs continuously but never achieves anything.
So, not only inefficient and pointless but known to be inefficient and pointless. And still on.
And as some of you may suspect, yep this is a third party application where changing the code is forbidden. Seems like testing before release might also be forbidden….


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This unit is easy to setup and produces clear, quality sound.
Love this thing3/28/2013
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Works well, but not flawless.10/16/2012
Setup was not exactly as described in the users manual, but item works well.
very nice to use
Great solution7/19/2012
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Works great!7/12/2012
Does what it says, range could be better but nothing outside of what should be expected.
Works great5/30/2012
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Works as stated5/12/2012
For the money, this works great. Setup in my living room on 7.1 speakers. Now I can play sound from my iPhone or Macbook pro through bluetooth instead of hooking up external computer speakers like I've had to in the past. Told my brother to get this. I hope the range can increase in future products.
Works...but sounds pretty shabby....4/18/2012
At the newly lowered price I jumped on this quickly. It is fairly simple to setup and use, it's constantly broadcasting itself so that makes for easy finding and pairing with any bluetooth device. Probably the easiest bluetooth device to connect to that i've ever owned. No tricky recessed buttons to push, or blinking light patterns to pay attention to. It's fairly small and unobtrusive. Build quality is top notch. Unfortunately it fails at sound quality. It really sounds like i'm playing music through a tin can. I've tried it with multiple bluetooth signal sources: Two Android phones (Droid Incredible 2 & HTC Rezound), laptop, macbook, and iPad. Overall, the iPad sounds the best and is just barely acceptable.
Works Great!4/17/2012
I have an in ceiling speaker system in our house and it does not have a bluetooth hookup, until now! Now whether I want to play music off my laptop or off either iphones, we can. Talk about completely eliminating using an aux cable hookup everytime I want hear music. It's as easy as plug in and then let your bluetooth device 'discover' and sync with it and then start playing music!
Exactly what I wanted it to do2/29/2012
I love this product. I live in a 700 sq ft condo and it sits on the window sill at one end of my living room. It covers about 90% of my apartment with great sound. I have it linked to my ipad and my iphone. Be sure to keep the signal path clear as other bluetooth devices can occasionally disrupt the signal.
Wish they made a rechargeable version for my car!11/9/2011
The product works and is nice. You can pair multiple devices to it, and switch between them by just disconnecting from one device and connecting from another. Just as the previous review, the range isn't that great when going through drywall or worse, but that could also be dependent on the bluetooth transmitter in the iPod or Android device. If you move your iPod or Android phone too quickly, you might get a jump in the sound, but if you casually walk around with it in your pocket, it should be fine. The fidelity sounds great from my experience, I hooked the output into my 350Watt Philips Stereo.
It obviously works but...10/31/2011
This device is extremely easy to setup. Simply plug into your power outlet and your stereo or other headphone jack equipped device. Then activate bluetooth on your chosen device and search for available devices. You will See "Belkin ###" which you can pair your device with like any BT headphones. Once paired just play your music like normal. Worked easily on iPod tough 4g and Droid Incredible. Unfortunately there were some fidelity issues that were rather apparent if you were paying attention. Luckily I could see using this outdoors with an extension cord and a boombox pretty easily and you probably wouldn't notice the sound if you were busy with something else. The effective range was about 15 feet with two walls inbetween the signal which was certainly adequate for use when both the transmitter and receiver are in the same room. Fun little product, price isn't bad. Just lacking a bit in the signal quality. Probably still worth it if you're more interested in the convenience then never hearing and pops or crackles in your music.
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Deb Adkins is a renowned actress who is beautiful, talented, poised, and bright. Her public persona is self-assured, self-reliant, and witty. Privately, however, she has trust issues and agonizes over an on-going relationship with Brad, an old sweetheart back home. Their relationship is stagnant and not particularly healthy.
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OMAHA, Neb. The team that might be the Cinderella of March stood in this empty Omaha arena in October, the exciting possibilities of this season looming as heavily as the expectations. The coach told a group of reporters that his goal this year is to make the Sweet 16, which this mid-major school has never done. The teams star player, who happens to be the coachs son, gave those typical athlete-being-interviewed answers about working hard and staying focused. And as he spoke, two teammates stood to the side, making faces and enjoying the attention and doing everything they could to disrupt the interview. It didnt work, of course. Doug McDermott is indeed too focused, which is a very good trait for someone wholl surely be on this years watch list for the Naismith Award given to the college player of the year, just as he was last year, his sophomore season at Creighton University. Its a trait that his father, third-year Bluejays coach Greg McDermott, had better hope permeates his ...
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The voters of Sodaville (pop. 290) elected Thomas Brady Harrington, 33, mayor in November, notwithstanding his criminal rap sheet showing robbery, eluding a police officer, felon in possession of a gun and other crimes (with his electoral success perhaps due to voters' confusing him with his father, a respected town elder). And the voters of Silverton (pop. 7,400) elected as mayor Stu Rasmussen, 60, an openly transgendered, longtime resident who previously served as mayor while a man but who sports breasts and dresses exclusively as a woman (especially miniskirts and cleavage-enhancing tops). Rasmussen still describes himself as a man and lives with his longtime girlfriend, but explained his switch as just his particular "mid-life crisis."
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It seems like this would have an adverse effect on the ease of sharing projects between developers, as it would require, potentially, having to acquire additional projects that perhaps you really don't care about. I think I'd honestly prefer doing the extra work of moving that file into it's own assembly over linking to a file in a potentially unrelated project. Or, at a minimum, moving it to it's own, separate folder, and linking to it from both projects, instead of reaching from one project into another.David Kline: In the case of sharing projects, a separate assembly is my preference as well. I typically use file links for simple, small projects where I am the only developer.
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As a massive foodie this mid morning meal really hits the spot. 100% luxury. At first i didn't really think much of the pancake mix but with my experience as a chef I decided to persist and managed to perfect it! Here's how: 50g Pancake Mix (I use the maple syrup) 125ml water (this may look a bit thin when added but trust me on this ;) ) Optional: Dried/fresh fruit and/or nuts (make sure you cut the fruit up into little bits and crumble the nuts) 15g Mascapone 25ml Apro Hazelnut milk Heat a non stick pan to hot/very hotBreak down any lumps in the pancake powder with the whisk before adding the water. There is no need for any oil/butter/spray oil, they will not stick. Pour in the water all at once and whisk for say 30 seconds until smooth. Pour half of the mix into the pan evenly (making sure the pan is flat). Sprinkle on half of your prepared nuts and/or fruit. Now here's the important bit: make sure you only cook the first side jsut to the point where it starts to pubble and theres still a little liquid ontop. Now using a spatula, carefully flip it over. The pancake is now 90% cooked. Cook the second side now for literally a few second, this way the its still going to be nice and moist inside as the pancake has still maintained it's moisture. Repeat again for the second pancake. Now I like to mix the mascapone and hazelnut milk until it starts to froth. Then pour over the top (this makes the pancake super moist). Enjoy guys, you will not regret buying this.Goes Well With:Fresh/Dried Fruit Nuts
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Like all pancakes, the first couple you make you always chuck away and it's nodifferent here. Found the first one far too thick, added a bit extra water and then used a smaller frying pan and boom, perfection! A lot more filling than I thought so unless you're Dwayne Johnson then go easy with the portionsGoes Well With:Chocolate Peanut butter, almonds
I have the maple syrup flavor pancake mix and it is amazing! Especially if you have a sweet tooth. The only downfall is that they might be a bit TOO sweet. I admit that I get a bit bored with my entirely savory diet and these hit the spot! I couldn't have ate another sweet thing all day! Goes Well With:Chopped banana in the mixture - IT CARAMELIZES!
Great product like the taste but needs to be made very thin
golden syrup flavor is nasty all I can taste is artificial flavor and sweeteners they should do this in a unflavored option and you can add your own flavor of choice Goes Well With:nothing
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I bought the Maple Syrup flavour. The powder is fairly easy to mix but you have to work it well to avoid lumps. The pancakes cook really quick, which is excellent at breakfast time. Their taste is quite sweet so anything you spread on them should not add any more sugar. My Protein crunchy almond butter is my favourite topping, but they are excellent on their own too. Goes Well With:Unsweetened almond butter.
I can't understand why people are rating these low?! The only thing that requires a bit of thought is that they mix with lumps sometimes. Solution: pour the mixture into a blender, blend for 30 seconds, done. Perfectly smooth mixture with no lumps. To stop it sticking I use some 1 cal. fry light spray (no problems) peals of the pan easy. I use about 4 sprays per pancake to ensure it doesn't stick (can't moan at 4 extra calories). They cook in about 3 minutes and the only addition I make to the recipe is a chopped banana on top! I have the golden syrup flavoured pancakes and when I made them I was a bit sceptical about the taste, however when I tried one I was pleasantly surprised! They tasted amazing! I couldn't stop eating them! The standard mix of 50g to 150ml of milk was a bit thick for me so I added 200ml of milk and it made 4 small and thick pancakes. Product is very simple to use and tastes great! Would definitely recommend and will definitely be purchasing again!Goes Well With:Chopped Banana
They taste amazing. They keep me filled up for hours. They're REALLY easy to make. If you want them extra fluffy - add an egg. I'm just going to keep buying them. Have tried all the flavours and love them all.
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As someone who often misses breakfast this give me something quick, easy and fulfilling to eat in less than 5 mins and is obviously much better for you than a stop en-route to the office. Will definitely be re ordering, I purchased the Golden Syrup version, yes it is sweet but hey it is a pancake after all....
Very excellent taste, ordering several times, never disappointed
These little ditty's taste amazing. I bought the standard mix and used unsweetened Almond Milk to blend with. Have started adding Cinnamon and 100% Raw Cacao into the mix. Top it off with some Blueberries and 100% Peanut Butter. Works a treat!Goes Well With:Blueberries. 100% Raw Cocoa. 100% Peanut Butter.
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Very happy I bought these! Not only a relatively high level of protein, but low carbs, meaning I can add what I want without feeling overly guilty. I like to either enjoy as a breakfast or as a pudding/snack to curb a sweet tooth. It took a few attempts to perfect, but now its very quick to create a high protein meal or snack. I noticed a few lumps in the shaker I used, but was unable to tell once cooked. Goes Well With:Bananas and maple syrup MyProtein smooth peanut butter
Bought MP's Maple Syrup flavour. Very very tasty! Not too sweet. Just right and nice and moist too.Tried this pancake mix because I was getting tried of protein bars and wanted something for work that had good ingredients and nutritional profile. Plus it's very cheap. This has twice the protein content of most bars and is very filling compared to endlessly having protein shakes. Very easy to make either in the morning or the night before and put it in the fridge. Vanilla would be a great flavour to introduce MP! :)Goes Well With:Omega Balance :)
Recently bought these and they are already my new favourite breakfast! Bought the unflavoured version - I have 1.5 scoops with 100ml almond milk and that makes 2 good size pancakes (I like them slightly thicker!). I mixed it in a shaker with a ball and it mixed pretty well, although there were still a few lumps left. I found them so easy and quick to cook!! I don't think i'd like to eat the plain ones by themselves, but when you have them with fruit etc they taste sooooo good! They are really fluffy too. And they are SO FILLING! If I have these for breakfast I know I won't be hungry again until lunch. Goes Well With:Fruit, peanut butter, honey, maple syrup
So easy to do it and getting 20gr of protein just like that. Love this product totally!!! Shame didn't get more!
Love these pancakes. Tried the unflavoured one at first, which were ok but found had to add toppings to them for added taste. Following this I bought the maple syrup ones and they taste so good! I don't need to put anything on them, although I am not sure of the nutrition value for these ones. They mix really well and if you only cook just for a minute each side they do not go dry. Excellent for breakfast as gives you a feeling of fullness of protein and carbs, or as an after dinner treat if you have a sweet tooth but don't want to eat something unhealthy! Will continue to buy these, would love the nutrition info for them!Goes Well With:Honey, Banana
Great value pancakes, excellent macros. Perfect protein breakfast!
I got maple syrup flavour and these are the absolute BOMB. Had chocolate before but these are way better. I think they mix okay too.. I find 125ml of water is best and you've got to be patient when cooking them to keep them from sticking or tearing but that's pancakes!Goes Well With:Cinnamon & calorie free pancake syrup
I absolutely love this product! I can't believe how much protein is in these pancakes... With virtually no carbs/fats! Amazing! I have maple flavour and wouldn't get any other. So impressed with this stuff! Tastes great mixed with water too, which allows me to save on calories whilst having a tasty treat whilst cutting! Goes Well With:Milk or water, butterscotch sauce and blueberries!
The texture is horrible. I would recommend that you only put 1 scoop and mix it with milk. Make then as thin as possible as 2 scoops with 150ml of water makes what looks like a slice of ham. It also feels like egg in your mouth, together with chocolate just puts you off. If you need protein, just make oats and add a protein shake.
The protein pancakes are very cheap and good value for money, they are easy to make and do not take much time which makes them fantastic for a high protein breakfast or snack. The product itself is very good but the flavour and the texture are not very nice, I bought the golden syrup flavour and while it tastes decent, the texture is horrible, it is very rubbery and chewy. Apart from that it is a good product Goes Well With:Great for breakfast.
Tastes aren't very strong but good overall product. All new members use code MP26870082 to get triple points on your order!
My frist order and probably a mistake with choosing flavour - Golden Syrup. This taste is sooo sweet that it makes the final pancake quite hard to eat. Next time I would definitely choose unflavoured mixture.Goes Well With:probably some syrups
If you follow the measurements accurately enough, the pancakes come out really well; better than others i've done myself. It is better with milk however, the maple syrup one had a great flavour, not too sweet. You get more protein from a portion or two than you do from a meal, so I guess they're not for pigging out on.Goes Well With:Peanut Butter
The first time I tried the pancakes I used the recipe on the back on the packet and it tasted awful. I then tried it in a different recipe I found online and it tastes amazing!
Good taste (additional sugar is not needed), great mixability and nutrition value. Definitly recommended
Awesome stuff, really like it! Good for a sugar fix, feels like a cheat food! I cant get mine to look like the ones on the photo but I dont care as long as it tastes good...
I went for the Golden Syrup flavour and love it! Its so quick to mix and cook, within 5 minutes you have a few tasty protein pancakes! I love them for a quick meal after my workout or even for a quick treat throughout the day. Now would like to try more flavours!!Goes Well With:On there own!! Or; Bananas, Berries, Nutella, Bacon...
At the time of ordering the MP pancake mix, I was on a repeating, two-day workout (upper body/lower body) at the gym, with one day's rest in-between. I was (and am continuing to) eat healthily, attempting to stick to a popular diet routine. I was missing the ability to eat pancakes as a *very* occasional breakfast treat, and I saw these - with their excellent reviews - and decided to give them a blast. I opted for the maple syrup flavour, and went for the 500g pouch (despite the pestering to "upgrade" during the checkout process). Delivery was quick, and I followed other user's helpful suggestions - I used a smoothie maker to mix the powder with skimmed milk, and I threw in a single medium egg. I used one squirt of sunflower oil Fry-Lite in the pan, and poured the mixture out to a medium thickness. Looking at the ingredients, they contain a reasonable whack of protein - I actually used less than the recommended amount of powder by a third, and still came out with three decent sized pancakes. The packet suggests 1.5 scoops (50g) per 150ml of milk - I went for 1 scoop per 150ml and one medium egg for added nutritional benefit. The pancakes cook as per "normal" pancakes - i.e. you need a LOW steady heat, and once bubbles start to appear, use a silicone spatula to flip them over. They don't need long (around 1 minute for the first side, maybe 30 seconds or so for the second side) but use your judgement. I had them plain, and they were great. The taste was slightly synthetic, but that's something I'm prepared to overlook for the benefits! Flour has been replaced by egg protein powder and ground oats, and there's no sugar - sweeteners only! The texture wasn't as robust as a regular pancake, and I wouldn't recommend doing them too thick, however they certainly filled a hole. The only unfortunate downside was a HORRENDOUS bout of stomach upset approximately 6 hours later. My other meals haven't varied at all, this was the only new addition to my diet, so I'm reasonably confident at pointing the finger at these being responsible. I haven't tried them again yet, but will do so and report back if there are any further issues! Over all, they're tasty and I recommend them. They could be marginally cheaper, but for a 500g pack you'll get at least 12 protein-packed pancakes from your purchase. Enjoy!Goes Well With:Calorie-free syrups, fruit, lemon juice
Perfect for my keto diet. Add sweetener and sugar free chocolate syrup to these. Satisfy my sweet tooth and enough protein to help with my muscle recovery. Can't fault them! Goes Well With:Sweetener Sugar free syrup
I'm not a big fan of protein shakes as the texture doesn't sit well with me. I was on the site recently and saw this pancake mix, I was a little sceptical but the flavour is spot on. 2 scoops with 100ml of water gets you 2 good sized and completely filling pancakes, tastes so good feels like you're cheating but safe in the knowledge you're getting 30grams of protein in at breakfast.Goes Well With:Blueberries,Bananas and Honey
Great breakfast mix, I got the chocolate flavour, will be buying again!
Great tasting and satisfies my sweet cravings! Use an electric whisk for a good smooth blend. Golden Syrup is a winner for flavour!
I ordered the maple syrup flavour and it tastes great just on there own, no added sugar or syrup needed, easy to mix and easy to cook. Definitely purchasing again!
After a sacrificial first batch to get the temperature, amount of oil and cooking time spot on I soon had the knack of making a decent pancake using this mix - as others have said, go for a think pancake rather than thick ones. Also found the low cal spray oils are not so good for this, you need an actual oil to get the pan ready for the mix. When mixing it seems the lumps will never quite go away completely, but I found that once given a light mix and thrown in to the pan they seemed to cook fine and disappeared. Pancakes themselves are tasty and filling, but the golden syrup flavour is a little too sweet for me, certainly has that classic golden syrup smell to it but the taste is a little too obviously artificial - if you can live with that then fine, if not then unsweetened is for you and add your own accompaniments. Goes Well With:Peanut butter, strawberries, blueberries
The protein pancake mix is an amazing way of getting more protein into your diet without sticking solely to shakes. I really enjoy the shakes but sometimes it's nice to change it up a bit. The pancakes are lovely and taste like real indulgence without the guilt! Goes Well With:Greek yoghurt and strawberries!
4*'s because it tastes amazing mix ability is fine and nutritional content is great for my current goals. However I am back on the page to found out how people actually get the mix to work as the instructions on the packet just make it into slosh which does not flip on a pancake frying pan! (tried the liquid between all the recommended guidelines.. Maybe if my protein came up with a better way to get this mixture to work and wrote that on the packet, it would be perfect. Goes Well With:Bananas, and mixed berries, greek yogurt
I was a bit skeptical about these and read a lot of mixed reviews, but bought them when they were on offer and was pleased I did. They mix well, taste good and although they fell apart in the pan I put that down to my lack of cooking skills... I've bought a second pack and they are a nice little no guilt treat if you fancy something sweet.Goes Well With:MySyrup and a banana
After trying for the first time,all I can say it is just yummy and very addictive but perfect for sweet tooth like me(chosen as golden syrup). Perfect for a sunny breakfast if you are sick of porridge(which I love). A very good option for a sweet breakie
Absolutey fantastic product don't understand bad reviews iv tried numerous times to make my own protein pancakes and failed so was hesitant to buy these but so glad I did! Don't need no topping or anything have enough flavour in them selfs although I did use semi skimmed milk not water and an electric blender for ease. Tiny bit of butter in pan once while it heated and there cook perfect no sticking at all and there so filling defiantly recommend trying these ! Goes Well With:Have tried with peanut butter and is best thing ever!
Very tasty, very nice! Normally the shakes make me feel sick but I've found I can tolerate it in food form! Perfect for me and very nice!Goes Well With:Banana or yoghurt
It was the first thing I had ordered off my protein and I was extremely impressed. They were very nice to eat as a snack but also very nutritious. Definitely will be buying some more when I run out!!Goes Well With:Banana
I was pleasantly surprised when i got this. Mixes very well, tastes good (golden syrup) My only gripe would be that the pancakes are very dry but just use a lottle honey over the top and they are superb Dont cook them on a high heat as the moxture seems to blacken quite easyGoes Well With:Walnuts and honey!
from now I'm going to use this product always
Took a couple of goes to get the mix right but once you get it right it taste great.Goes Well With:Peanut butter and nuttella
Simply LOVE it! It tastes amazing, usually I eat it for dinner almost every day. Easy to shake it, easy to make it. I tasted all; for me the flavoured ones are a bit too sweet so I prefer the unflavoured one (I add a bit of sweetener to it). I make very thin pancakes (with extra virgin olive oil) and roll them with home-made jam.Goes Well With:jam
I found it hard to incorporate protein into my breakfast but these are fantastic! Really nice flavour (i got the maple syrup), I mix with a hand blender which does the job well as I find no lumps etc. at first I found it hard to get the right cooking times/thickness of pancake, but if you pour a thin layer into a pan and then pour off excess batter and fry for 30 seconds on both sides on medium heat they come out perfectly! This usually makes a stack of 3 pancakes with a 10 inch width. I will be buying again and would recommend the product to anyoneGoes Well With:Bananas, peanut butter, assorted berries
This protein pancake mix is fantastic! At first, my pancakes tasted wierd, looked wierd and were not formed properly. But now, I've discovered how to use this mix properly! Do not be put off if your pancakes don't go right first time - mine certainly didn't. The instructions on the back are for BASIC pancakes, but personally, they're so easy and delicous!Goes Well With:I use: Two scoops of protein pancake mix. 1 large banana 1 tbsp honey 2 Egg whites & one yolk Blend in the blender for 2 mins. Then I spray a pan with one cal spray, wait for the pan to get really hot, then turn the heat down and cook for 1-2 mins each side. Use a small frying pan for best results. THEY ARE THE BEST. I've also found that if you make a large one, put some sugar-free jam on (Holland and Barrett). You can roll it up and have it as a little 'swiss roll' type treat. Tastes so naughty! 5/5!
These taste great! It took me a few goes to master them and they are better mixed with lesser liquid, rather than max amount. You get 2 decent pancakes from one mix. Tip : pour into middle of pan and let it spread out itself. If you move it round the pan to spread it they become thin in middle and you can't flip them! 10/10 for taste tho :) Goes Well With:Banana, Greek yoghurt & drizzle of honey Or peanut butter, Greek yoghurt & drizzle of honey
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When sailors go cruising in idyllic circumstances we often dinghy to a beach to start exploring or provisioning.
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But just how much do we understand about the beach and its potential hazards?
The types of waves and the way they break, tides and their currents, dangerous rips and how to spot them, and why some beaches are safer than others?
As for those who approach the beach from the other side, every year tens of thousands of people need to be rescued from the ocean because beach-goers don't possess basic beach safety knowledge and skills.
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2 Waves: the science of the surf; The art of bodysurfing; Boogie boarding for young and old; Learning to surf
3 Motions of the oceans: tides, tsunamis and storms; Rockpool rambling;
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5 Life's a beach … but which one? ; How to observe proper beach etiquette; An idiot's guide to driving on a beach
6 Shark fin soup and other things that can kill you: beach hazards and safety; The shark attack survival guide; The beach safety checklist
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Juba — Various rituals including slaughtering of bulls, placement of bull horns and other animal remains have been conducted on the grave yard of the late South Sudan's leader, John Garang de Mabior, to prevent his "ghost" from haunting president Salva Kiir, a practice condemned by the family members of the late.
The late's memorial site in Juba has seen a significant raise in recent days after groups believe to be close to the president Salva Kiir attempt to tell the ghost of late Garang to leave the president alone.
The president of South Sudan is said to have recurring dreams in which the late Garang, his predecessor who died in a mysterious helicopter crash in 2005, strangles the life out of him.
Such conduct of rituals on the grave has been the topic for discussions in various blogs as family members of the late criticize the practice.
Garang's eldest son, Mabior Garang de Mabior, who recently takes part in the peace talks in Addis Ababa on the side of the rebels condemned the rituals, describing them as "demonic and primitive."
"... These demonic primitive rulers have gone as far as placing cow horns on the grave of the late Dr. John because they believe it will stop Salva from having bad dreams... he was suffering from a recurring dream in which John Garang strangles him... ," wrote the son of the late leader on his Facebook page.
It is not clear how long the president has had this problem, or whether members of his cabinet are also being haunted by the ghost of Garang, but this growing group of dedicated supporters and well-wishers have taken it upon themselves to do what it takes to ensure that nothing comes in the way of the president.
"I have been seeing people dressed in a style of sorcerers conducting rituals at the grave, but I couldn't understand what it means. I thought they were honouring the late," a Juba resident eyewitness told Sudan Tribune on Friday.
Many South Sudanese communities have the tradition of scaring off ghosts through rituals in order to prevent them from haunting the living, particularly when it is perceived that the dead may have certain blames on the living.


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Both witnesses worked with Manning in Iraq. They testified to an office environment where those working with classified information listened to music, watched movies and played computer games in the secured areas.
It was the fifth day of testimony in a preliminary hearing to determine whether Manning should face a court-martial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website. He is charged with aiding the enemy and violating the Espionage Act. The presiding officer, Army Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, has a Jan. 16 deadline for making his recommendation.
The defense has not seriously challenged the evidence showing that Manning had access to the classified documents and had the ability to upload them to WikiLeaks. Instead, the lawyers have sought to portray Manning as a deeply conflicted soldier struggling with gender identity in an understaffed, poorly supervised and stressful base south of Baghdad.
Sgt. Daniel Padgett, who worked with Manning in their "sensitive compartmented information facility" in Iraq, said there was no clear chain of command. "There could have been more oversight," Padgett said.
Government prosecutors asked only a few questions, establishing that as a member of the U.S. armed forces, Padgett was aware that sharing secret documents was wrong. "Every soldier, especially a solder with security clearance, has a responsibility to safeguard classified information," Padgett said.
Next up was Capt. Barclay Keay, who was in charge of both Manning and Padgett in Iraq in the fall of 2009. Keay explained that the post was his first as an intelligence supervisor, and he was surprised by the loose environment.
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Evelyne Gebhardt
Evelyne Gebhardt (born 19 January 1954 in Paris) is a German politician. Since 1994 she has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD. Her main interests are bio-ethics, consumer protection and citizens' rights.
Ms Gebhardt studied at the University Paris Diderot, the University of Tübingen and the University of Stuttgart, studying linguistics, political science and political economy. She subsequently worked as a freelance translator, and moved to Germany in 1975. Since 1992 she has been Chair of the Working Group of Social-Democratic Women. In 1999, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (with ribbon).
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Evelyne Gebhardt is a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and of the Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China. She is also a substitute member for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.
She is best known for her role in shaping the controversial Services Directive in 2005 and 2006. The directive had aimed at opening up the European Single Market to competition amongst service providers but was, after much political pressure from mostly western and southern EU countries, subsequently watered down by the European Parliament. Evelyne Gebhardt was parliamentary rapporteur for the directive and played an important role in facilitating an agreement with the European People's Party which allowed Parliament to pass the directive with a huge majority and thereby forcing EU governments to follow their line.
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B1G extends it's long arm east to find its co-OW's from NJ.
Life's not the breaths you take, the breathing in and out that gets you through the day ain't what it's all about. It's the moments that take your breath away.
Fist pumpers rejoice....
What DON'T you take credit for?
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak."