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The Power of Independent Thinking
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Emily Skarbek on the Government Cost Calculator
Recorded: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Emily Skarbek, Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation, talks to Nick Gillespie from Reason about the many features of the Government Cost Calculator, found at MyGovCost.org.
Experts: Emily C. SkarbekType: TelevisionIssues: Fiscal Policy/Debt, Taxes
The Jason Lewis Show Interviews Emily Skarbek on the Government Cost Calculator
Recorded: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Dr. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Government Cost Calculator was interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio program, The Jason Lewis Show (Premiere Radio Networks). In the program, Dr. Skarbek uses MyGovCost.org to explain the specific effects of rampant government spending on the personal situation for any individual in America.
Experts: Emily C. SkarbekType: RadioIssues: Fiscal Policy/Debt, Taxes
Dr. Emily Skarbek Talks about the Government Cost Calculator on Taking Back America
Recorded: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Dr. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Independent Institutes MyGovCost.org was interviewed on the nationally syndicated, web, radio blog, Taking Back America. During the interview, Dr. Skarbek uses MyGovCost.org to explain the specific effects of rampant government spending for any individual in America. Dr. Skarbek illustrates how an individual can find out what their own personal costs imposed by government are, and what they could have earned instead.
Emily Skarbek at Tax Day Tea Party Rally
Recorded: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Originally aired on 4/15/10 on ABC 7 News. Independent Institute Research Fellow Emily Skarbek spoke on free markets and individual liberty at the second annual Tax Day Tea Party rally in San Jose, California.
Emily Skarbek on MyGovCost.org
Recorded: Sunday, March 21, 2010
Originally aired 3/21/11 on PJTV Front Page with Allen Barton. Emily Skarbek, Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute, explains the features in MyGovCost.org and what it can tell you about federal debt, deficits and government spending.


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Kinsten - Presensitized PCB
I had a trip to Taiwan on May 31 and i'm coming back soon. During my trip i came across several electronic shops and man they sell electronics for a very cheap price. A white or blue Led is about 6 tai bi which equals $0.04. and the price just keeps going down for red yellow and green. So i got a few. While in the shop, I also so this Kinsten Presensitized Board. This was a different type of PCB board that was easier and more accurate to create PCBs. I got it for about $2. So I started my research. There are 5 steps:
Step 1- Create PCB design
Step 2 - Print it on a plastic/ trsparent paper
Step 3 - Expose it to UV light/Floresent light
Step 4 - Remove the photo sensitive coating to expose your design
Step 5 - Etch
This is very easy and more relaible than having to iron on the toner to the copper board. Cause sometimes your not accurate and you peel of the paper and some toner is still on the paper. So the next few days follow me as I start this tutorial on Presensitized PCBs. This will be a LED testcircut I designed a few days back. :)
Step 1
PCB software is everywhere. But the one i like the best is express PCB. It free and easy to use. You can download it here.
You can easily learn how to use it by just looking at it. I already designed the LED test circut. Although I might make some changes. If you see a problem tell me and I'll fix it.
There is a voltage regulator to lower the harsh 9V to a nice 5V. the 330 ohm resistor protects the LED when the Varrible resistor it all the way to 0. You can adjust the 10k varrible resistor to your desired brightness and then measure the resistance at the ohm intersection. then you can also measure the amps and voltage passing through the LED at the V/MA section.
I want to upload this PCB file but the site won't alow me. I don't know any other place to upload this so you guys can have it.
I've updated the circut abit by placing in a switch to turn it on and off.
Step 2
After you have designed your PCB change the colors of the screen. Backround to white. copper traces to black. Then when you ready to print. view only the bottom copper layer and uncheck the silkscreen and top copper layer. this can all be done in the the View > Options. And to change the color it's View > Options > Color.
It should look like this ready to print:
Then you wanna run out to Staples or any office supply store and get transparent Paper:
The paper should look alittle like this when unpackaged. I would take a picture ofone alonebut then you couldn't see it!
Then just stick it in your printer and print as usuall. When it comes out it looks like this:
The plack markings prevent the light from going to the board. So then the photo resist around the black lines disappear and the when you etch it the photo resist remaining protects the copper layers from etch.
Step 3
I took the PCB out and cut it to the specifications.
When cutting, I used a hacksaw. This one was bought at home depot for $3. A little back breaking work but it works. Bansaws would work better though.
Also make sure to cut it under red light or in a dark room.
I turned my downstairs bathroom into a darkroom just with a red light bulb boght at home depot for $3. then went to go expose it under a floresent light. all you have to do is lay your plastic PCB design on top of the board and then place a piece of glass over it so it doesn't move. I didn't have glass so I used clear plastic. The board has to be about 4-6 cm. away from the light. very close.
To quater is there to keep theplastic straight instead of lop sided. although the label on the bag says expose it for 10-12 minutes. i did for 30 just to make sure.
Then get out some sodium hydroxide or developer solution. since my dad is a chemist i got some sodium hydorxide instantly. if your usuing pure sodium hydroxide. make sure you dilute it very well. if it is not diluted very well it will eat through everything.i used 50% sodium hydroxide. about 1 part sodium hydroxide to 20 parts water. Once you dip it in it eats away the nonexposed an leaves your exposed traces.
Looks good huh. After that, just leave it in the sun or under the floresent light for a while so the photo resist gets even harder. this is to ready it up for etching.

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"my team"On a serious note though, you should know as well as anybody that you won't carry games at 1500 Elo by going 1/0 for 20 minutes.
http://i.imgur.com/Nhwns.jpgI've had a number of high elo duo partners play with me and all of the will testify that every player who aren't me or my duo, automatically feed uncontrollably until the enemy can 1 hit anyone on your team.I didn't die a single time until 18 minutes.I got that 1 kill in lane. For 18 minutes I was 1/0.Died the 4 times trying to defend towers.
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Volvo Ocean Race to stop in Newport
Updated: April 11, 2013, 4:11 PM ETAssociated Press
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The former home of the America's Cup, Newport, R.I., will be the only North American stopover for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race.
The 12th edition of the race will start Oct. 4, 2014, with an in-port race in Alicante, Spain, and finish with an in-port race on June 27, 2015, in Gothenburg, Sweden. In between, it will cover 39,895 nautical miles in nine months, the longest route in its history.
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April's middle name is revealed to be Harriet.
Given that the Krangezoids are clones of Kang, it is likely that the giant reptilian beast they evolve into are Krang's original form. This is definately close to the established canon than the flashback in "The Four Musketurtles", where Krang's species were wrongly depicted as brain-creatures.
When Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo fight the Krangazoids underground, Leonardo is shown instead of Donatello when the three Turtles decide to leave.
Krang: Success! Six exact duplicates of myself!
Clone #1: Hey! Who are you calling 'duplicate'? I'm unique. (looks at clone next to him) No... I'm not...
Clone #2: What am I doing here? I sense that this is not my natural environment.
Clone #3: Well, I'll say!
Clone #4: I should be cooling off at a nice volcano in Dimension X.
Clone #5: For what reason have I been summoned into existence?
Krang: To do my bidding. I am your master.
Clone #1: You ain't the master of anything! We could defeat you with all of the firepower in these gizmos!
Krang: (as Foot Soldiers bring a control panel for the Bubble Walkers into the room) Ah, but I control the gizmos. (Activates panel) I could take you for a spin. (Clones start running.) Or freeze you up.(Clones stop moving, then take out their blasters and point them at each other.) I could even cause you to blow yourself to bits.
Clone #2: I guess we have to take his orders.
Krang: A wise decision.
Raphael: Hey, guys, remind me to make a memo to get rid of that cloning device the if we ever need to break into the Technodrome again.
Leonardo: Right. We can't afford for Krang to clone himself again.
Donatello: Imagine what would happen if he made six Shredders.
Michelangelo: Or six Rocksteadies.
Raphael: Or worse yet... six Vernons!
Donatello: Oh, come on, Raphael, that wouldn't be so bad.
(As they pass an electronics store, six TVs switch to Channel 6, where Vernon gives a report.)
Vernon: (On all six TVs) Sources say the volcano was put out by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But frankly, this reporter doesn't believe it!
Donatello: On second thought, that would be pretty horrifying.
Raphael: (To Bebop and Rocksteady) I hope your dentist knows about the cavity... between your ears!
(The Krangazoid in the green Bubble Walker jumps out and runs away)
Raphael: Tell me you saw that.
Michaelangelo: Can this show get any weirder?
April: (Points her minicam past Leonardo at the Krangazoid) Let me have a shot.
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Raphael: (to Michaelangelo) Does that answer your question?
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I battle pretty bad depression. This year, 2014 (and a good chunk of 2013) have been hellish for me. I divorced in February 2014, after an initial separation in April 2013 (and a brief reconciliation that ended with final separation in late October 2013). I had trouble finding a place to live, though I'm in a place I love now. But I've always had issues being alone. I was never good at "dating"/meeting women (I'm a man, mid-40s), and in fact I married my (now ex) wife of 19 years within 3 days of meeting. I was lonely, scared of spending my life with no one. I have no close family, no siblings, distant parents (only my father and stepmother are alive, they are not close…either in proximity or in a family way).
My "return" to dating, as it were, hasn't been very successful. I constantly get told I'm very nice, gentlemanly, and I'm financially secure. But no one is ever really interested. My most recent girlfriend actually, to my surprise, fell quite hard for me…but then reconsidered (felt it was too soon after HER divorce). Thing is, it's rare for me to even get a date or even a second look.
This has always been a source of…frankly, pain and heartache for me. I see so many others who are in seemingly happy relationships…it hurts enough that I honestly avoid functions for "couples" so I don't have to see what I cannot seem to achieve.
Sometimes…that pain and depression get the better of me. I often want out…out of life. Facing the next 30-40 years alone is sometimes too painful a thought. I was effectively alone the last 7 years I was married…it had died long ago, we were never truly compatible, simply forced it to "work" for the sake of a child…who is now an adult.
This may sound cheesy, stupid, asinine, or many other things…but the only thing I truly want is someone to love, who loves me equally in return. Someone who cares about me, about my trials and triumphs, and someone with whom I can share their trials and triumphs as well. Someone who wants me…not *needs* me (my ex actually stated she stayed for the last 7 years out of financial necessity, not because she wanted to).
I want to believe it's actually possible to be loved. My life until now, in my mid-40s, has demonstrated I'm somehow "unloveable". If that is truly the case, if I'm truly destined to be alone for the rest of my life…I don't want that life to be too long, because it's like facing an empty desert that never ends and never sustains you.


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Monday Dec 01 2008
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Budget solutions staring state in face
By: Thomas Elias
California Focus
The panic in Sacramento this fall has been every bit as severe as that on Wall Street. But in a way it's all unnecessary, because the solution to much of the state's financial problem has been staring lawmakers in the face for years. Here's what's happening: A governor who swore a "no new taxes" pledge now appears ready to OK just about any tax increase, no matter how regressive, to help close a huge budget gap sitting at $11 billion, en route up to $28 billion within two years by some estimates. That same governor, who has spent years cultivating a green image, proposes weakening the state's most hallowed and vital environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act, by trying to speed up the environmental impact review process for new state infrastructure projects in order to create some new jobs and tax revenue. Legislators who have long resisted cuts to education appear ready to accept 10 percent increases in state college and university tuition and fees, while cutting public school funding. Public schools, of course, have long been a sacred cow. But not, apparently, as sacred as the regulations adopted in 1979, the year after Proposition 13, regulations that are not actually part of the landmark property tax-cutting initiative, but merely methods for administering its provisions. Change some of those rules and the state could reap billions of dollars in new property taxes without hurting a single homeowner. Here's all it would take: Revise regulations that now permit real estate to change hands without being reassessed upward if the new owner is a partnership where no one person holds more than a 50 percent ownership stake. Some property involved in corporate mergers and acquisitions is also exempt. These rules were adopted by legislators in 1979 and strongly influenced by the commercial real estate lobby and the state Chamber of Commerce. Under today's financial conditions, they are plainly obsolete. The last time legislators seriously considered a change in these rules, in early 2006, sponsors of the change estimated a revision could produce between $3 billion and $12 billion per year. Many more properties have changed hands since then without paying the same property tax increases normally charged when homes and condominiums get new owners. But changes in these rules have never gotten far when proposed because of claims they'd be bad for business. And yet, the vast new revenues produced could eventually allow reductions in sales and income taxes, while still tiding the state over these threatening times. In the long run, then, they'd be good for business. Remember, Proposition 13 calls for all real estate to be taxed at 1 percent of its 1975 value, with a maximum 2 percent yearly increase in the tax — unless it changes hands. When ownership changes, the property tax resets to 1 percent of the latest purchase price. But that rule has not applied to the many thousands of office buildings, shopping centers of all sizes, apartment complexes and industrial buildings that have been bought and sold — multiple times in some cases — since 1975, as long as no one individual or corporation held more than a 50 percent interest in them. That exempts many limited partnerships, real estate investment trusts and other entities which own myriad properties around California. And no, the real estate bust of the last 16 months has not brought values down anywhere near the levels at which these properties are now taxed. If this simple change can't fill the entire budget gap, there's always the possibility of a "split roll," where commercial and industrial properties are taxed at a different rate than residences. This would be a change to the actual Proposition 13, but it would not affect residences, either. Rather, it would see higher taxes coming from large, money-making properties than from homes, which are, after all, primarily intended for shelter, even if they can sometimes be profitable. All that's required is open eyes, and the ability to stand up to the business lobbies that have fought so hard to keep Proposition 13 what it is today — a form of corporate and investor welfare subsidized by every individual property owner and renter in California. Thomas Elias can be reached at email@example.com.


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Longtime P-I cartoonist David Horsey has been writing and drawing for just over a week now in his new job at the Los Angeles Times and appears to already have a legion of SoCal liberals in tow and at least a few Orange County Tea Partiers demanding that his pencil be ceremoniously broken. A cartoon and column last week on Rush Limbaugh and Mitt Romney particularly grieved the rightwingnuts and soothed the local lefties, drawing 2,600 Shares and more than 450 spirited comments. Not a bad start.
Either way, it gave Horsey a to-fer opportunity to diss Romney and El Rushbo. Saying conservative America's Mound of Sound was "freaked out," Horsey writes:
Limbaugh has gotten his voluminous knickers in a twist because Romney is essentially acknowledging that what Obama did was a good thing. Limbaugh and his legion of cranky followers believe Obama's action was a frightening display of big government socialism aimed at preserving union pensions and union jobs. To them, Romney's words are capitulation, if not treason.
"Does Romney favor government intervention to save American industries?" Horsey asked. "If so, he's anathema to Limbaugh's 'dittoheads' and most of the tea party. If not, how can he claim any share of credit for one of Obama's biggest bragging points?"
If his point wasn't clear, Horsey's new format fortunately allows him to draw readers a picture:
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Horsey's work seems to have liberalized the use of language in the mainstream paper's reader comments section as well. "Today's Republican Party: If you can't dazzle the people with brilliance, baffle them with bullshiht," mistypes one commenter. Says another: "A bunch of 'ditto heads' jacking off in tandem across the Nation to the sound of Rush Limbaugh's voice coming to the same conclusions is likely due to the abuse of viagara, pain pills and no-dose taken together."


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@ Bajarunner, I did less with these than normal.. I imported into lightroom and turned noise reduction up to 12 I think. I like sharpening in Photoscape (it's a free program) set to radius 1, 60%. They looked pretty good at that point. Because I was uploading to my facebook page which seems to compress the crap out of images. I "lassoed" the bird, inverted selection and just used a auto noise reduction in PSP x4..
@Rzarbo Any good eagle spots by you? I've been spending time just south of Hamburg Cove and have seen several eagles, just not very close...
@everyone else, thank you for all the kind words...
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They're having a conversation about Star Trek fanart.
Oh thank GOODNESS there's an artist who still remembers Thrawn! He was such an amazing villain for his trilogy of books. x3
Best thing, I immediately knew who this was without even seeing the title of the picture. You've made my day. X3
Best thing, I immediately knew who this was without even seeing the title of the picture. You've made my day. X3
I was Thrawn for Halloween. I love this.
My favorite Grand Admiral
I'm always were fond of the imperial officers. Maybe because of their awesome British accents.
yay Thrawn! man is a freaking genius. very close second favorite villain to Vader and Fett (those two tie)
Oh dear! no wonder they look a bit concerned- they must've come across slash
not bad. not bad at all.
Ooooh nice! rare to see Thrawn fanarts!
He is still my favorite Star Wars Dude.
I must know what their conversation is.
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Oh crap, I remember that picture! I'll bet I still have it somewhere, too! That's awesome.
Thrawn is a G.
Ever played Empire at War?
Ever played Empire at War?
No, I haven't.
Considering how Thrawn loved to dissect species and cultures by their artwork, it would not surprise me.
Still Tarkin was more awesome
The books were awesome! I'd dare say Thrawn was my favourite character from the SW universe ^^ I need to read more of them.....
this is my favorite star wars character! Awesome job!
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When opening a large number of databases in parallel, many threads get stuck for a long time in FileMonitor, as reported in this thread on derby-user:
The synchronization in FileMonitor is only needed because the monitor instance is also used as a shared PrivilegedExceptionAction instance. Since all databases share one FileMonitor instance, threads that access any of these methods are serialized. If each method created its own PrivilegedAction or PrivilegedExceptionAction instance instead of using the monitor's run() method, these methods wouldn't need synchronization.
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Thanks for the patch, David. I had played with a similar patch myself (see the attached file, d5623-1.diff). My patch differs a little from your patch:
- It preserves the synchronization in getDaemonThread(). Without synchronization in that method, I saw occasional IllegalThreadStateExceptions when booting and shutting down databases concurrently in many threads.
- It uses PrivilegedAction instead of PrivilegedExceptionAction for the actions that don't throw checked exceptions, which made the exception handling simpler.
All the regression tests passed with this patch.
I also ran an application that booted 1000 databases in 20 threads on a machine with 8 cores, and the patch seemed to speed it up by 3-4%. It was primarily the removal of synchronization in getJVMProperty() that contributed to the speed-up.
Although the speed-up is modest (at least in my environment) the patches remove more lines of code than they add, which is a good thing in itself.
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Great - sounds good.
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Lima, Aug 22 (EFE).- Violent protests by coffee growers demanding government help in dealing with a crop blight resulted in police arresting 58 people and an undetermined number of people being injured, Peruvian media said.
Hundreds of coffee growers clashed with police during a march along Peru's Central Highway to demand that the government allocate more resources to combat the coffee rust fungus.
The Central Highway was cleared by police, while the coffee growers' leaders reiterated their demand for a government response to the serious economic losses the fungus has caused.
The demonstrators belong to the Central Jungle Coffee Growers Confederation, which is asking for loans to allow them to replant on the plantations ruined by the coffee rust fungus and to refinance their debts.
The group on Tuesday declared itself to be on an openended strike and set off on a march from the city of La Merced, in the jungle in Junin region, en route for Lima.
Agriculture Minister Milton von Hesse said that so far 250 million soles ($89 million) has been allocated to attend to the problems that have arisen this year from the disease affecting the coffee crop.
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Did anyone else watch this yesterday? I knew she was going to be on but hadn't really made any plans to watch it. I happened to notice it while I was scrolling through stations yesterday and stopped there.
OMG I cried. Oprah had on a couple of ladies that she'd interviewed 6 years ago, one of whom has been cancer free since then. The other now has mets and was in the show via Skype from her home.
Massive tear fest. I probably wouldn't have watched it last night, knowing that it would be a massive tear fest, except the husband was in bed early with a cold and I had the living room to myself for a change (and a nice change it was! is it bad of me to enjoy when my husband isn't feeling good?).
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I'm dying to get myself some exercise and am thinking about joining a local fitness club, but I'm nervous that DD (16 months) is going to freak out and cry if I try to drop her off in a room with people she doesn't know.
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posted at 2/1/2011 3:35 PM ESTI go to the YMCA, they have great playrooms. My DD did cry when we first started going (she was about that age, maybe a month or two younger), but eventually she got better, and now she is excited to go to the playroom. The Y has a policy where they come get you if your LO cries for more than 20 minutes. The first few times we went, they came and got me becasue she was crying, but even though she would still cry when I left her, she apparently stopped after a few minutes after that, since they didn't need to get me often after that (once when she drank all her water and was thirsty, and one other time she just wasn't having it). We've been going for about a year now, and it isn't a problem at all.
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posted at 2/1/2011 5:47 PM ESTWhat should happen in a quality child care program is that the staff of the drop in care should invite you to bring your child in for a couple of visits..with you...before simply leaving her. This gives her the opportunity to transition to a new environment and new people. If the child care program will not let you do this..then you should be very wary of leaving her there.


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Hi all,
I posted the night before we left on our trip about my LO potentially having an ear infection. Turns out she didn't have any infections, though she did develop a cold/cough on day 4 of our trip. I just wanted to post a recap basically to see if anyone else has had a similar (terrible) traveling experience.
By way of background LO will be two in November. She is not what I would catergorize as a difficult toddler. She is active (though not overly) and has the expected tantrum here and there, but she is fairly easy to distract and redirect. There were three of us traveling - myself, LO and DH. We didn't get LO her own seat (our first mistake, in hindsight). This was LO's second trip on a plane. I traveled with her on my own when she was around 9 months old and had no issues on any of our flights. I thought I was fairly prepared. We had the portable DVD player, new and favorite books and toys, new and favorite snacks, apps downloaded to the iPad etc. etc.
We had four flights total - two going and two coming home. The first flight was a real eye opener. We had to get up early (5:00) so LO was tired, and she cried and screamed during the take-off and tried like mad to wiggle out of my arms. She finally fell asleep about 25-30 minutes into the flight. When she woke, my DH and I worked liked crazy to keep her calm and distracted with moderatley successful results. The second flight was a little better than the first - probably a 5 on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best. The first flight was probably a 4.
Like I said LO picked up a cold on day 4 of our trip so she was stuffy and miserable on our first flight home. I gave her some ibu and hoped for the best. The flight was also at 2:00pm (her natural nap time is 12ish so I knew she was severly overtired, but I couldn't get her to nap in her stroller in the airport - we had to be at the airport 2 hours ahead of time). I knew that all of these things combined meant trouble and I was prepared for the worst (I thought). I also knew some of these things could have been avoided in terms of flight timing etc. The alternate flight times were much more expensive but I will be paying the higher price next time for sure.
I don't really know how to describe the experience of this flight. It was beyond terrible. LO screamed and flailed and cried. She bit own hands (which she hasn't done for months and months). I tried to stay calm and use a calm voice. We tried every trick in our bag. We tried walking the aisle. We tried letting her walk the aisle. I tried to get her cuddle in with her blankie and lovie. We tried everything. It was like LO was possessed. She was inconsolable and I didn't know what to do. It was panic-inducing. I tried not to worry about the other passenger and focus on LO, but it was so hard. I finally cried as my DH continued walking the aisle with her. Finally a flight attendant came by and moved the man who was sitting with us (God bless this woman). She also took LO for about 10 minutes and brought her back to us calmer. LO was somewhat okay for the rest of the flight. We put her in the now empty seat in our row and we were able to distract her with a DVD for the rest of the flight. The entire episode probably went on for an hour and a bit.
We had an overnight layover before our last flight which was such a relief. My DH and I were able to regroup and LO slept for 13 hours overnight (poor little thing). The final flight was okay. LO was fairly calm and slept for most of the flight. We probably had 10-20 minutes of freak-outs, spaced througout the two hour flight.
Sorry this is such a novel. Has this ever happened to anyone else?? I am so, so, so happy to be home.
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My former boss at the Riverfront Times, Tom Finkel, is the world's biggest Bob Schneider fan. He's such a fan that he sent me a missive earlier today imploring all of Seattle to go see the versatile, R-rated troubadour at the Tractor this Saturday night. Here's the hand Finkel's dealin':
You've got to be careful around me. I'm like that guy back in '78 who was "obsessed" with the Grateful Dead, kept insisting they were the Best Band Ever, that a live show would change your life, man. Only it's 2007, and the Dead are dead, and I'm telling you that whatever you do with the rest of your life, go see Bob Schneider at the Tractor Tavern.
I thought I'd pick one song that you could click on and listen to that'd convince you to risk the cover. So I'm digging through my CDs of Bob's live shows, wondering which single song will do the trick. (He does about 200 live shows a year and records every one; you can pick up a freshly burned disc on the spot after the show.) The trouble is, Schneider's ever-growing repertoire whipsaws all over the map, from confessional ballads to party anthems to pearly pop tunes that stick in your head to straight funk to metallic gut-blasts to raunch that has you covering the ears of your unborn child. (If I were to draw a comparison, the restless brilliance of Lowell George comes to mind.) Schneider refuses to be pinned down.
Of course, that sort of behavior, especially when coupled with a prolific output, is anathema to the music industry. Which is what drives guys like me to write screeds like this.
So here's a song. It's called "Sugar King," and though it has not yet appeared on an album, it's a staple of Bob's live act.
This particular version is from a show earlier this year in St. Louis. Listen. Then pony up to see Bob Saturday night (November 10).
Oh, and if you buy the live disc after the show, consider burning me a copy. In return for changing your life, man. -- Tom Finkel


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The Sasquatch Festival at the Gorge this weekend is sold-out, but it's gonna be o.k., we promise.
The Hold Steady, Aug. 18, Showbox at the Market. Buy tickets here.
Pavement, Sept. 5, The Paramount. Buy tickets here.
The Heavy, opening for Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at Showbox at the Market on June 21. Buy tickets here.
New Pornographers, July 31 and Aug. 1, Showbox at the Market. Buy tickets here.
Other Sasquatch acts playing second dates in Seattle include the National (Sept. 11 at Marymoor Park), Vampire Weekend (Aug. 29, Marymoor Theater), Caribou (playing Neumos two days prior to Sasquatch, on Thursday, May 27), and Minus the Bear (at the Showbox on July 17). The xx will also be announcing a fall Seattle date shortly.
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Katrina Lumsden reads the Fifty Shades of Grey books so you don't have to:
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"Why is this book, 50 Shades of Grey, so popular?"
E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Master of the Universe, an adults-only Twilight fanfiction posted under the pseudonym Snowqueens Icedragon. The erotica re-imagining of Bella Swan as a 21-year-old college student and Edward Cullen as a 27-year-old billionaire -- with BDSM tastes -- was published by Australia's Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing in May 2011; names and details linking it to Stephenie Meyer's bestselling trilogy were changed (...for the most part). In recent months, the book has gone viral, selling more than 250,000 copies (over 90% in ebook format) and landing the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List. Last week, E.L. James sold republishing rights for the Fifty Shades trilogy to Vintage Books in a seven-figure deal. [more inside]
"There's a game of water Quidditch going on in the swimming pool." Harry Potter, fandom, and academia.
"... Everyone needs an escape. It just amazes me that for 1,200 people this involves sitting in darkened rooms listening to presentations on Harry Potter and the Sanctity of Everyday Life: JK Rowling's Complex Treatment of the Trope of Normalcy." Carole Cadwalladr covers Lumos 2006 for the Guardian. [via]
Not just for Trekkies anymore...
Fandom is, at the core, neither good or bad. It simply is. [+]
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Gap model fan fiction: I don't care what any of you think. I found this amusing. Fan fiction takes on many bizarre forms. From Thundercats (example) to the Lion King (example), the web opens up a level of fan-to-fan community that gives new life to things that would probably be better off left dead. What's the wierdest piece of fan fiction cheese you have ever come across?
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Do you experience any of these?
Hair loss
Cold hands & feet
Feeling cold all the time
Depression, anxiety or mood swings
Brain fog and memory issues
Or what about these?
Hot flashes & sweating
Fast heart rate
These are symptoms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. Any of these symptoms is a sign that something is going wrong with your body and deserves to be investigated.
If you are one of the 20 million Americans affected by thyroid disorders, you know it's not a small thing. It really affects the quality of your life.
It's no wonder, because the thyroid gland and the hormones it creates affect every cell in your body.
Did you know that your thyroid regulates body temperature and fat burning?
Or that it also plays a role in emotions and moods, sugar metabolism, cholesterol and triglycerides, bone metabolism, digestion, and liver and gallbladder function?
Symptoms of Thyroid Disfunction
- Weight Gain
- Fatigue
- Dry Skin
- Hair loss
- Depression
- Constipation
- Sensitivity to cold
- Muscle aches
- Puffy face
- Memory loss
- High TSH test
- Racing heart
- Rapid pulse
- Weight loss
- Hair loss
- Loose stools
- Fatigue
- Anxiety
- Low TSH test
- Irritability
- Hand tremors
- Muscle weakness
- Heat Sensitivity
- Insomnia
- Racing heart
- Night sweats
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Throat swelling
- Weight gain
- Hair loss
- Muscle aches
- Alternating constipation and frequent bowel Movements
- Memory loss
FACT: Your body is designed to heal itself.
There are natural solutions to correct your thyroid problems.
Call now to schedule your Root Cause Assessment and
start your healing journey.
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The Conventional Approach
Your thyroid system is complex. Typically, doctors only order TSH, or maybe also T4. Your labs may look normal for these tests, but in reality, there are several other markers that can reveal if your thyroid isn't functioning properly.
Have you ever:
- been told your blood tests look fine even though you feel bad, or
- been on thyroid medication without feeling better
If so, you know first hand that the mainstream approach to thyroid care misses a lot of people.
There is more to the thyroid system than TSH, and there is more to thyroid health than a prescription – or radiation, or surgical removal.
What is Hashimoto's?
The number one most misdiagnosed thyroid condition in the US is an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Hashimoto's is not really a thyroid condition at all – it's an immune system condition.
Sadly, the conventional approach to treat Hashimoto's (and all thyroid problems) is to prescribe medication. Because most doctors don't look for the root cause of the problem, the medication they prescribe artificially makes your thyroid lab numbers look good. All the while, your immune system continues to attack and destroy your thyroid gland, and your health coninues to decline.
If you don't uncover the ROOT CAUSE of your symptoms, your health will get worse.
- Have you ever walked away from doctors' appointments feeling utterly discouraged and hopeless?
- Have you ever been told that nothing is wrong with you— that your symptoms are "all in your head"?
If you experience any ongoing symptoms, it is a sign from your body that something isn't right. It deserves to be investigated. If you have a nail in your hand, you don't just take aspirin— you need to remove the nail!
There is hope
- What if you had more energy?
- What if you didn't have a racing heart or panic attacks?
- What if your memory were clearer?
- What if you felt better?
- What if you had an in-depth look at your body's systems, you knew which ones were good and which were struggling, and you had a clear plan to improve your health overall?
I know these things are possible for you.
I know this because I've helped hundreds of patients with thyroid problems. The conventional approach isn't working— my patients start healing and enjoying the best health they've ever had.
When people follow the functional medicine approach and find the root cause of their health problems, the results are amazing.
Renee's Story
Let me give you an example. Renee* had been struggling with fatigue, hair loss, and feeling cold for about two years. No matter what she did, she couldn't lose weight, either. She went to her regular doctor and to an endocrinologist. Her TSH and T4 levels were normal, so the doctors told her she was fine. When we ran her labs, we also looked at her Total T3 and Free T3. Both were low. That is why she was having hypothyroid symptoms. (This is a pattern called Underconversion, and it is the most common pattern I see in my office. This pattern is also not corrected by the common prescriptions.) We assessed the root causes of why Renee was underconverting her T4 into T3. We found that she was low in one of the co-factors needed for conversion and that her liver, which accounts for 60% of conversion in the body, needed some support. When we rechecked her labs 6 weeks later, her T3 levels had normalized and her symptoms were improving..
*name changed for privacy
How functional medicine approaches thyroid conditions
Functional Medicine looks at thyroid health differently than conventional medicine.
- What if we asked why is the thyroid out of balance?
- How do we help it heal?
Functional medicine is about finding the root causes (rather than masking symptoms) to get you enjoying your life again.
Your thyroid system is complex – there are actually six patterns of hypothyroidism. In order to assess the six patterns of thyroid dysfunction, we order more tests than just a TSH, and we use a tighter range than conventional testing to uncover the problems.
I check these tests for all of my patients:
- Total & Free T4
- Total & Free T3
- T3 Uptake
- Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies (TPOAb)
- Thyroglobulin Antibodies (TgAb)
Also, all of my patients are checked for Hashimoto's. If you have it, we look for the 8 common triggers of autoimmune conditions to help calm your immune system and slow the destruction of your thyroid.
When it comes to thyroid support, we look at the big picture.
- Which of the 6 patterns of hypothyroidism is involved?
- How do we heal your struggling systems so you become healthier?
- How do we heal your struggling systems so you become healthier?
- How do we heal your struggling systems so you become healthier?
- Are you getting enough of the nutritional requirements for a healthy thyroid, like selenium, manganese, zinc, iodine, iron, or the amino acid tyrosine?
- Is fluoride & chlorine exposure impairing your thyroid hormone production?
- What is the health of your gut & liver health (these affect how much active thyroid hormone you make)?
- Do you have chronic stress, hormonal imbalances, sugar handling problems like insulin resistance or hypoglycemia, all which could be affecting your thyroid function?
Can you see how a thyroid problem isn't JUST a thyroid problem? Our bodies are complex and interconnected, so one struggling system will impair other systems.
Why work with me…
I have been personally trained by renowned thyroid expert, Dr. Datis Kharrazian, author of Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? When My Lab Tests are Normal. His extensive research and clinical experience have created a revolution in thyroid care.
Through my training with Dr. Kharrrazian, I have developed a deep understanding of thyroid problems and can customize a plan using natural means for your particular needs. By the way, if you do need a thyroid prescription, we will work with your MD for prescription support.
The ultimate goal is to get your thyroid functioning properly and get you feeling better as soon as possible. After working with me, many patients are able to reduce (and sometimes completely eliminate) their need for thyroid medication.
How to start healing
I help people find root causes and experience real healing for any chronic condition. In addition to helping your heal your thyroid, we'll work on making sure you have:
- healthy digestion
- blood sugar regulation
- immune system strength
- detoxification capabilities
- musculo-skeletal stability
- hormone balance
- proper nutrition
Once you become a patient, we create a specific plan to help you start feeling better and healing your body.
The healing process starts with you.
Are you ready?
Together, we'll work to find the root cause of your condition and start your process of healing. I can help you enjoy the full capacity of your life, if you are:
- Interested in discovering the root causes of your problems rather than just suppressing symptoms;
- Willing to play an active role in your healing process;
- Motivated to make necessary dietary and lifestyle changes to support your health.
I've devoted my career to helping chronically ill people find the root cause of their problems. I'd love to guide you on your journey to better health.
Schedule your Root Cause Assessment today— 972-836-6090
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This maybe old news but the list of top 10 largest insurance companies that make billions of dollars on monthly and yearly basis is staggering. This is an upward trend that is increasing with higher rates. Their uprising annual revenue only points to how much money they are able to make from the general public for the some reimbursement services, which many times they bluntly refuse to provide.
Top 10 Largest Insurance Companies
According to Insurance Suite 101 America's top 10 health insurance companies generated over $287 billion in sales just a few years ago. This figure is indicative of 7.2% rise in revenue over $268 billion posted year earlier. We are talking about a 7.2% rise during the periods when millions of Americans were faced with tough economical times, from unemployment, foreclosures to loss of investments and retirement savings.
Top 10 Largest U.S. Insurance Companies: Figures from 2009
10. Universal American
Total revenue of $5 billion
With headquarters in Rye Brook, New York
9. Amerigroup
Total revenue of $5.2 billion
With headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia
8. WellCare Health Plans
Total revenue of $6.9 billion
With headquarters in Tampa, Florida
7. Coventry Health Care
Total revenue of $14 billion
With headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland
6. Health Net
Total revenue of $15.7 billion
With headquarters in Woodland Hills, California
5. Cigna
Total revenue of $18.4 billion
With headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4. Humana
Total revenue of $31 billion (up 7%)
With headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky
Total revenue of $34.8 billion
With headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut
Total revenue of $65 billion
With headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana
1.UnitedHealth Group
Total revenue of $87.1 billion
With headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota
Top 10 Largest U.S. Insurance Companies According to Fortune Magazine
10. Mutual of America Life
With headquarters in New York, New York – Founding in 1945
9. National Life Group
With headquarters in Montpelier, Vermont – Founded in 1848
8. Mutual of Omaha Insurance
With headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska – Founded in 1909
7. Western & Southern Financial Group
With headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio – Founded in 1888
6. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
With Headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota – Founded in 2002
5. Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
With Headquarters in New York, New York – Founded in 1860
4. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
With Headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts – Founded in 1800
3. Northwestern Mutual
With Headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Founded in 1857
With Headquarters in New York, New York – Founded in 1918
1. New York Life Insurance
With Headquarters in New York, New York – Founded in 1845
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This is difficult, if I had the choice and the courage to go outside, I would buy cupcakes right now and eat them while watching some TV. But I won't ! I shan't !
May be I'll just have an orange, it's a better choice right? Plus the whole point of this experience is to stop unnecessarily indulging myself. It's such a bad habit, especially when you live alone, work at home and have little social life. Most of my money often goes to extravagantly fattening food. It shall stop.
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When executing a multi-command script (for instance, a few
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I have searched this site and the net for an answer to this question, and it seems that the general response is "there's nothing you can do about it". My current solution is to run a "verify build" query that checks for some data and assesses the response to that - this seems terribly inefficient.
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We have a team that consists of a number of non-developers - for these non-developers to create and modify Work Items, would they need to have VS 2010 / Team Explorer installed on their machines? Or is it possible to create and modify Work Items through the project's SharePoint site or some other built-in means?
I've not yet installed a full test TFS 2010 instance, so I can't check it out myself.


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Arrested Development Was the Ultimate DVR Show
Too bad almost no one had a DVR when it aired.
When Bonanza debuted on NBC in the fall of 1959, it was the most beautiful show on television. At the time, Western dramas were a popular TV genre, with Gunsmoke the undisputed ratings champ. But Bonanza, which chronicled the Cartwright family's ranching adventures, looked like nothing that had come before. "It was shot in this very theatrical, movie style—outdoors, with big sweeping vistas and panoramas," says television historian Tim Brooks. More enchantingly, it was in color—the first Western and one of the few shows of any kind to have been filmed for new color sets. "NBC had created this peacock logo that opened up in a rainbow of color," Brooks says. "And they had this announcer—'Brought to you in living color [on] NBC.' "
It was an immediate flop. This was partly due to stiff competition; Bonanza aired on Saturday evenings at 7:30, opposite CBS's indomitable Perry Mason. But the larger problem was that few viewers could appreciate its good looks. Fewer than 5 percent of American homes had color TVs, Brooks says. Because most other shows were in black-and-white, most people didn't see a need for color sets.
In its third season, NBC moved Bonanza to Sunday evenings, where it began to find an audience. And once people caught the Bonanza bug, many rushed out to buy color TVs so they could better appreciate the show. This created a virtuous feedback loop. Bonanza helped sell color sets. TV executives, seeing these new color sets fly off the shelves, began to switch more of their shows to color—which in turn sold more color sets, and brought even more people to Bonanza. In 1964, according to Brooks' Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, Bonanza shot to No. 1. It held on to that spot for two more years, and it remained in the top 10 until the early 1970s. And by 1970, about 40 percent of American households had color TV.
The history of television—and, really, much of popular entertainment—is full of stories like this one, in which a technological advance is symbiotically paired with key programs that helped sell that technology. In the same way that Bonanza brought us color, cable gave us The Real World, Rugrats, and Peter Arnett on a Baghdad roof—programming that would only have been possible on low-cost, experimental cable networks, and which sparked widespread adoption of the medium. (The Real World—with an assist from Cops—was also made possible by new handheld video cameras, the cause of our reality-soaked age). In the same vein, we later got shows like The Sopranos and Sex and the City, thanks in part to new business models enabled by DVDs.
Sometimes, though, something goes wrong: A new technology comes along, a new program takes advantage of its possibilities, but—because the show is too early, too different, and the technology isn't accessible—it doesn't take off. That's Arrested Development.
More than any other recent TV show, Mitchell Hurwitz's absurdist take on a dysfunctional suburban family depended on, and showed the potential for, new technologies that would revolutionize how we all watched TV. These technologies were DVRs, DVDs, and online streaming. There was only one problem: Arrested Development was created in 2003, when almost nobody had a DVR, when TV shows weren't always offered on DVD, and when online streaming seemed unimaginable. (Netflix launched its streaming service in 2007, a year after Arrested Development was canceled.) This show was way, way ahead of its time.
True, you didn't need a DVR to watch Arrested Development. But the show's signature quality is comic density; every scene is overflowing with both spoken and visual jokes, some of which overlap, and many of which go by very quickly. It is also irretrievably self-referential—if you happened on it midway through the season, you wouldn't have understood what was going on with the stair car. Many shows that came along after Arrested Development—notably 30 Rock and Community, but in some ways every current prime-time comedy—borrow some of the same techniques. But Arrested Development did a lot of these things first. "In a funny way we feel like we're making a show for the new technology," Hurwitz told Fresh Air in 2005. "We're making a show for TiVo. We're making a show for DVDs."
When it debuted on FOX, only around 3 million of American homes—less than 3 percent—had DVRs; now, Nielsen estimates that number has jumped to 46 percent of homes. The show, meanwhile, attracted just about 6 million viewers in its first two seasons, and 4 million in its third. I have no way of proving it, but I suspect that there was huge overlap here—that almost everyone with a DVR loved Arrested Development, and that everyone who didn't, didn't. Because how could they? Some of Arrested Development's best jokes are on screen for just a few seconds—quick shots of yearbook quotes or Tobias' blue handprints. (Arrested Development owes a huge debt to The Simpsons here, a show in which every bit of on-screen text is a joke that can to be decoded by freeze frame.) The show is also obsessed with continuity. "We wanted the rules of the world to be consistent," Hurwitz said during a recent conference call with journalists. "If somebody smashed a hole in the wall, we wanted that hole there the next week. People who ended up seeing it back-to-back really got a distilled sense of that."