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International Baby Brigade
A Look at Guatemalan Adoption
May 7, 2007 10:21 AM
The brown skinned, big eyed three-year-old sets up a tea party in the dining room. Even though there are only two joining Adriana for tea, seven flowered cups and two miniature teapots are lined up. In the kitchen, her mother, Kelly Day, makes dinner and chats amiably with a friend, while Adriana clatters cups and saucers together in amusement. She is a tall woman with a commanding presence and gentle, hazel eyes, but this 47-year-old mother of three is energetic and in good shape. Day is in a constant flurry of motion, but still takes the time between tasks to check on her children. Day adopted Adriana, along with her six-year-old sister Sofia, both babies fresh out of the Guatemalan foster care system.
Day isn't the only American adopting internationally these days. International adoption, compared to domestic, has steadily increased over the years and become especially popular in the United States. In 2006, 20,679 immigrant visas were issued to children who were adopted into the United States, compared to 10,641 in 1996. Day chose international adoption because in the United States birth mothers can change their minds and interrupt the adoption process or completely stop it, leaving adoptive parents with no legal protection. Day didn't want to take that risk, and instead began her search into the world of international adoption.
At the time, she already had a son of her own, Ryan, whom she had raised as a single mother. Due to her single status, there were limitations as to what countries Day could adopt from. Many preferred to adopt to married couples only. In 1998, with the help of the Bay Area Adoption Services (BAAS), an organization specializing in international adoption, Day put together a dossier - a type of biography of the potential parent.
It was clear to her that she would adopt from a Latin country since Day was familiar with the language and culture, and is comfortable speaking Spanish. Guatemala also had many infants ready for adoption at the time, which was what Day hoped for: a baby girl.
Other international country requirements at the time were strange. "China had a weight requirement for the parents," Day says with a laugh. "I think they think Americans are really fat and unhealthy."
Weight was just one factor looked at in adoptive parents, others included age, psychological evaluations and a certain number of years married for couples. Every country's government has a set of guidelines to ensure adopted children are placed in safe environments.
But wherever the country and whatever their rules, it hasn't stopped celebrities from going overseas to adopt. Americans are fascinated by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's newly adopted son, Pax, from Vietnam, as well as their daughter, Zahara, from Ethiopia; Jolie's first adopted son from Cambodia, Maddox, seems like old news now.
Have celebrity adoptions influenced Americans? People working for the adoption agency think it has, to a certain degree. "Because of their notoriety, celebrities help to raise the consciousness of the average person that [adoption] is a possibility," says BAAS Executive Director, Andrea Stawitcke. "I have no problem with celebrities adopting and I applaud them, as long as they follow all the rules and don't try to circumvent the law."
Stawitcke's daughter, Meghan, also works for BAAS. She has been a citizenship and immigration coordinator for two years and says that international adoption has always been popular, but that celebrities have only most recently brought it to the attention of the public through the media.
"Many adoptive families feel a tie to a particular culture and adopt from countries they relate to on some level," says Meghan.
Before any babies were adopted, Day's first born had a role to play. It is required of any biological children of adopting parents to be interviewed. Day took Ryan, age 12 at the time, to meet with a social worker in downtown San Francisco. She remembers Ryan getting upset when they took him into a separate room for the interview.
"I had warned the social worker he wasn't thrilled with the idea," Day sighs, but she didn't realize how bad it might go. Day was later told that when asked how he felt about his mother adopting a baby, Ryan told the social worker he didn't want to share his inheritance with anyone.
Apparently Ryan had become emotional during the interview and was almost in tears - clearly not interested in sharing his mother with any adopted children. The social worker advised Day to hold off on the adoption for a couple years until Ryan matured. He was at a fragile age where he worried about how people may look at his family, and especially worried about things like his inheritance.
Day was disappointed. "I sort of needed Ryan's approval and couldn't go completely against his will by adopting," Day says. "I was angry at him but had to take his feelings into consideration."
The adoption was put on hold for two years. Then Ryan began spending more time away from home and more time with friends. "I was by myself all the time," remembers Day sadly. "I held off to the point were I was giving [Ryan] way too much power and adopting was something I had to do."
An important and consuming part of the adoption process was the application process. Aside from the dossier, Day did a home study where she was observed in her natural environment, photos were taken and friends wrote reference letters about her. The paperwork had to be notarized, country certified and authenticated and would only be valid for 18 months.
"It's a big huge thing," recalls Day with a laugh. "It was harder than getting pregnant."
Internationally adopted girls outnumber boys, with 64 percent of girls being adopted to only 36 percent of boys. This is because of China's large number of orphaned girls and the fact that one-fourth of all internationally adopted children are from China. Guatemala went from 1,518 children being adopted in 2000, to 4,135 being adopted in 2006. It has become the leading country in Central and South American for international adoptions, followed by Colombia and Chile.
If adoption continues to increase at this rate, what will America look like in the distant future? "I think international adoption will be around for a long time - as long as there are children around the world in need of permanent, loving families," says Stawitcke. "Unfortunately, I see no end to the number of children needing homes."
Baby Rosario was born July 10, 2000, in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Armando Carrillo, Day's attorney in Guatemala, informed BAAS, which called Day to tell her the news: her baby was born. Day took her first trip to Guatemala when Rosario - later renamed Sofia - was two months old. Just a month later, Day went back to bring her home.
"It was a miracle that she was brought to this country at only three months," exclaims Day. "She was just a baby."
Being able to hold her baby daughter in her arms and bring her home was amazing for Day who always wanted more children; the ecstatic new mother wasted no time in adopting another child. Day was filing adoption papers all over again two years later.
The adoption anticipation was hard enough, but especially steep was the price Day paid to be a mother. In 1998, at the time of Sofia's adoption, BAAS's Program Information sheet stated that adoption fees ranged from $1,000 to $20,000 while today, fees range from $5,000 to $50,000. Meghan explains that fees aren't for the actual children, but for "services rendered by the agencies," such as home studies and paperwork. "The children profit most from this," she adds.
And for parents like Day whose family didn't come together exactly the way she hoped it would, the cost of adoption didn't phase her. "Every penny was worth it when I look into my girls' faces and they call me 'Mommy.'"
Looking back, Day sees how hectic it was going through the process, but she admits she would adopt again if she wasn't married. "It was exhausting at the time but the end result has been extremely rewarding," she says with a reminiscent tone in her voice. "I try to be happy with what I have, not what I don't have, and I love being a mother more than anything."
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Greeting The Sun
Category: Places
Photo and caption by Bojil Vassilev
The Greeting the Sun installation in Zadar, Croatia ("Pozdrav Suncu") collects solar energy during the day to create stunning visual patterns at night. Next to it people are enjoying the unique sounds of the "Underwater Organ", caused by the random movement of the sea waves. A magical place that oozes peace and harmony in a city where the civil war ended just recently.
Location: Zadar, Croatia
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Steam (finally) came to Mac OS? Apple released an update yesterday for Mac OS X 10.6.4 users that fixes frame rate issues that have been found in both titles.
Not to mention the update also fixes the reported crash issues found in Blizzard's newest money machine, StarCraft II (check out our review here), and oddly enough, Aperture 3. According to AppleInsider, the update also fixes an issue where image display becomes problematic when switching external displays while your Mac is turned on.
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Past Post~ Farragut Letterbox
Farragut Naval Training Station is actually a Past Post, Past Post. You'll find two stamps in this LB. One is representative of the mail that passed through the training station and the other is representative of the training station itself.
Farragut was and is a marvelous place full of rich history. During the war years it was one of the inland bases put in place after the Pearl Harbor attack.
293,381 recruits and over 25,000 service school attendees. trained at Farragut between the years of 1942 and 1946. The first recruits arrived on September 17, 1942. The last graduation was March 10, 1945.
A lot of people and mail passed through this place. Farragut quickly became the largest city in Idaho. Recruits from California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming housed here and afterward were stationed in all theaters of operation during WW2.
While at Farragut visit the Visitors Center and the Brig Museum. Say hi to Mack located in the yard just southeast of the Brig.
A big heart felt Thanks! to all our Veterans.
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Head to Farragut State Park. Stop by the Visitor's Center and pick up a day pass ($5) and a map of the park. You'll want to find the South Road. Drive along this road until you find Kinglet Road. It's a left turn and will run North. Drive until you see the sign for Lynx Trailhead. It's on the left side of the road before you reach Locust Grove Road. Have a park and prepare for a short walk (about 0.35 mile in, it will be a .70 of a mile round trip) along an old paved road that has been blocked to vehicle traffic. This is a level southwesterly walk. You need to walk until you come to a place were 3 paved routes converge. South of this convergence you should see a white sign. (Wait! this has been removed! !You can still see where it was. The hole for the post is still there.) Face this sign (HOLE) and look over the top of it. You will see a large Red Fir tree just 21 steps farther to the south. Or stand in the middle of the convergence and look southeast. You will see a large Red Fir tree approximately 27 steps away. At the eastern base of this tree, where a pitchy spot turns the trunk white, is Past Post ~Farragut covered with broken cones. Some squirrels have been really busy for years.
As always watch for others before retrieving and replacing. Please re-cover well.
There is two stamps in this letterbox.
Thanks so much for playing along. God bless.
Sincerely, Sondog
My letterboxes:
If you find one and it is in disrepair, in "bad" shape -Please simply notify me. I prefer to do my own repairs and/or replacements. Thanks.


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As dream jobs go, race car driver is one that many share, but you might think differently after seeing the roasting environment BMW's M4 DTM drivers experience as they race the curvaceous sportscar. The German marque brought thermal cameras to bear on the BMW Motorsport car, with temperatures of up to 140 degrees fahrenheit (60 degrees celsius) in the cabin.
That's nothing compared to what the car generates when it's slowing, however. BMW's testing found the carbon brakes get as high as 1,472 degrees fahrenheit (800 degrees celsius) when the car is racing in earnest.
Even the tires could give you serious burns without the right gloves. BMW Motorsport heats them up to between 176-212 degrees fahrenheit (80-100 degrees celsius) before fitting them, using thermal blankets in the pit stop area.
The BMW P66 engine is a V8 good for a 0-62mph run in around three seconds, mustering around 480 HP and 369 lb-ft of torque. It's pushed through a sequential six-speed sport gearbox, which BMW's engineers can tweak between eleven different ratios.
The regular BMW M4 shouldn't get quite so hot, but it will be a little more affordable. Only eight of the M4 DTM cars will be available to BMW during the season.


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Two Airport Volunteers Plan Nuptials After Chance
Meeting at Service Desk
By Pamela Wilson
South is red, Terminal North is blue;
Erin and Neal will soon say "I do."
That could well be the ballad of Erin Klank and Neal Bowen, who met two years ago while both were serving as Host Volunteers at Hartsfield-Jackson's main information desk. Neal, who began volunteering in late 2004, and Erin, who started in March 2005, worked different shifts that normally would not have caused their paths to cross.
But that changed in May 2005 when Neal worked a different shift for just one day and ended up sharing information desk duty with Erin. A recent college grad, who had majored in Spanish, Erin was employed at her family's Atlanta area restaurant. But a desire to use her Spanish fluency to help people combined with a news segment she saw about the Airport Volunteer program led her to the volunteer post.
"I really enjoy being able to assist (people) who need guidance or directions in the massive airport," Erin said, noting that she often helps Spanish-speaking passengers connect with arriving relatives. "It's a difficult place to navigate for people who do speak English. I often wonder what would happen in these cases without an interpreter."
Neal, an Army officer, who was newly stationed in Atlanta when he and Erin met, also had a desire for civic service. A former volunteer at Denver International Airport, his desire to serve others also led him to join the military, Erin added.
The two volunteers never dreamed their public service work would lead them down the path of romance. But it wasn't long before they were getting to know each other. They both loved to travel and began to take trips together to various destinations including Germany, New York and the North Georgia mountains. About a year and a half after they met, Neal popped the question while they were on a Caribbean cruise celebrating Erin's birthday. Neal hid the engagement ring inside a piece of chocolate candy, much to the surprise of his now-fiancé.
The two volunteers haven't allowed their pending nuptials to hinder their volunteer work. Both still put in several hours a week at Hartsfield-Jackson. However, that will likely change next year because Neal is scheduled to be transferred from Atlanta in December 2008.
Erin says she plans to find another volunteer opportunity in which she can serve as an interpreter. "It's a great feeling to help people as they come through the Airport," she said. "I'm glad I can be there for them."
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CUs PRESS NCUA FOR REGULATORY RELIEF
updated 08/08/14 12:11 PM
Corporate Assessment Unlikely
Credit unions continued pressing the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) for regulatory relief last week as Credit Union National Association (CUNA) Interim President and CEO Bill Hampel wrote NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz a letter to emphasize the continuing need for regulatory relief measures.
Hampel called on NCUA to work with other regulators to reduce regulatory burdens that credit unions face. The letter also urged fiscal restraint for the agency.
Regulatory relief is a top priority for the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues and CUNA as both organizations continue asking NCUA and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to minimize government-imposed requirements on credit unions every chance they have.
Corporate Stabilization Assessment Unlikely
Additional credit union payments to the Temporary Corporate Credit Union Stabilization Fund will not be required this year and are unlikely ever again, NCUA stated at its board meeting last week.
Total projected stabilization costs at the end of 2013 ranged from $2.8 billion to $4.2 billion—compared to a range of $6 billion to $9.3 billion in 2011—after all the NCUA Guaranteed Notes had been issued, according to Larry Fazio, director of examination and insurance for the agency.
The stabilization fund is currently projected to conclude in 2021 with a surplus of $600 million to $2 billion, and there could be a rebate to credit unions at that time, if all obligations have been met.
NCUA said the continued positive performance of conserved corporate credit union legacy assets, the NCUA Guaranteed Notes, and the $1.75 billion in settlements for the sale of mortgage-backed securities to the corporates have resulted in the favorable performance of the stabilization fund.


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DEXTER -- Reva Evelyn Tanner, 83, died at 1:52 p.m. Oct. 27, 2008, at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter.
Born May 25, 1925, in Calm, to Elmer and Annie Bellar Reed. she attended school at Gatewood and Couch in Oregon County. She worked at Brown Shoe Manufacturing in Bernie from 1956 until her retirement in 1988.
On May 2, 1942, in Alton, she married Lowell Russell Tanner, who preceded her in death.
Besides her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by one great-granddaughter.
Survivors include: two sons and daughters-in-law, Russell Dale and Jeanice Tanner of Wappapello and Randy Ellis and Tammy Tanner of Dexter; one daughter and son-in-law, Donna Louise and Harold Tucker of Oak Grove, La.; and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be conducted from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, where services will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday. The Rev. James Lee Reed will officiate.
Burial will follow at the Chalk Bluff Cemetery near Dexter.


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Monday, August 31, 2009
Water-logged but lovin' it.
1. The mosquitoes will migrate to whatever place they go when they take a vacation from gnawing on my ankles.
2. The temperature may actually drop back into double digits. I'm a dreamer, I know.
3. Once my kids start school, I will not have to don a swimsuit until the following Spring Break, at least.
I realize expectations are not a good thing. They tend to leave you disappointed and, after last weekend, with a three-hour wedgie. I think the technical term is actually 'aquatic device misalignment'.
Every August, Mercy Street takes its mentors and their mentees to a water park to celebrate the new school year. And apparently to force me to leave my expectations at the door.
It's hands-down the kids' favorite event.
Water slides galore, lunch, and that gorgeous sunshine that stays strong in Dallas until about January when it cools off to 85.
There really is no better way to end the summer than a lazy river with a kid who looks forward to Bahama Beach all year.
Tee is our uber-comptetitive child and, after racing me down a slide several times, was incredibly discouraged that he couldn't beat my time. "Son, let me help you understand. It's not a question of skill, but of weight. If you drop a pot-bellied pig and a grasshopper at the same time, the pig's just gonna hit the pavement faster. It's a matter of physics." See, that's an example of how I'm always looking for those teachable moments but am clearly not qualified to home-school.
Here Dion is flashin' his famous grin.
9 comments:
- Traci said...
A pot-bellied pig and a grasshopper- great image! Don't you just love waterparks- I really do- wedgies and all. So sorry it's sooo hot there- it was 78 and no humidity today- wonderful. But- we're half way through the first quarter of school now if you can believe that!
- August 31, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- happygeek said...
No AC? In Dallas? I cannot even imagine. You have my deepest deepest deepest sympathies.
- August 31, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- Sheryl said...
they are blessed to have someone who is willing to take a wedgie for the team!!!
- August 31, 2009 at 10:22 PM
- These Three Kings said...
I looooooove the pics!!! You team player you!!
sorry about the heat..gosh!
- August 31, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- Henley on the Horn said...
I can't believe he beat you to the last bag of Cheetos!! Love all the pics & your creative story that goes with them. Hope there is no labor in your Labor Day!
- September 1, 2009 at 6:04 AM
- Becca said...
haha love the slide weight analogy-thing :-) (ps - I HATE water parks - way too much walking up stairs and wedgies!) but it looks like fun was had by all! :-)
- September 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- Jen said...
This is my favorite event of the year as well---I love me some water parks! So fun!
- September 1, 2009 at 8:17 AM
- Deidra said...
Ha! Swimsuit adjustment...I hear ya! I thinks that why they make those slides...just to watch us readjust.
- September 1, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- Kim said...
Just in case you are wondering ... when the migrant mosquitoes leave Dallas they join the rest of their gazillion relatives in Hong Kong.
Love & Blessings,
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Go hug your pet!
Maddie's Adoptathon
Need a new pet? Next weekend is definitely the time to get one.
The second annual Maddie's Matchmaker Adoptathon, including 47 animal shelters and rescue organizations in Contra Costa and Alameda counties "... will offer free adoptions to qualified adopters "... at 72 locations on the weekend of June 4 and 5.
This year, the Stoneridge Shopping Center in Pleasanton is working with Maddie's Fund to serve as command central for the Adoptathon. Other adoption locations include participating rescue organizations, PETCO, PetSmart and Pet Food Express stores.
Please check out www.maddiesadoptathon.org for a list of locations.
Last year's Adoptathon was a two-day record-breaking event, saving the lives of nearly 2,000 dogs and cats.
This year they plan to save more than 3,000 pets!
Maddie's has set aside $2 million for this year's Adoptathon -- double the nearly $1 million spent last year -- to cover this ambitious goal.
"The dedication of the animal shelter and rescue organizations was incredible last year," said Rich Avanzino, Maddie's Fund president. "Without their support and hard work, the Adoptathon would have never happened. As a result, Maddie's Fund is doubling its monetary contribution to help empty those same shelters again. Our big initiative this year is to expand our lifesaving to include more senior and treatable dogs and cats."
This year Maddie's Fund will pay organizations $500 per regular adoption, $1,000 for each adoption involving a dog or cat who is 7 years of age or older OR who has been treated for one or more medical conditions, and $1,500 for each adoption involving a dog or cat who is 7 year of age or older AND who has been treated for one or more medical conditions.
The Adoptathon is being held to increase awareness of shelter animals and their need for loving homes and to shed light on the tireless efforts of the shelters and rescue organizations in Alameda and Contra Costa counties that work so hard to save the lives of countless dogs and cats.
"In 2009, our operating budget was cut in half and it became a huge challenge to care for all of our animals," said Megan Webb, director at Oakland Animal Services. "But thanks to Maddie's Fund and last year's Maddie's Matchmaker Adoptathon, we received $66,500 for the animals we placed during the event. We not only used these funds to fill in the large holes in our veterinary budget, but also to convert our euthanasia room into a spay/neuter surgery center! A very meaningful and symbolic milestone for us!"
About Maddie's Fund
Maddie's Fund is helping to create a no-kill nation where all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats are guaranteed a loving home.
What a great goal!
To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in building community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving; in veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum to train veterinarians to save the lives of sick and injured dogs and cats in animal shelters; and in the implementation of a national strategy to promote accountability and transparency in animal shelter operations.
Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved miniature schnauzer who passed away in 1997.


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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
by Robert Browning
Stanza 4 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 25-32
Saint, forsooth! While Brown Dolores
Squats outside the Convent bank
With Sanchicha, telling stories,
Steeping tresses in the tank,
Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horsehairs,
--Can't I see his dead eye glow,
Bright as 'twere a Barbary corsair's?
(That is, if he'd let it show!)
- "Forsooth" means "indeed!" but the speaker is being sarcastic again: he's saying "Saint? Yeah, right!"
- The speaker says that when "brown Dolores" and "Sanchicha," two women from the neighboring convent (and therefore possibly nuns, but maybe just female servants of the convent), bathe themselves down at the riverbank and trade stories, Brother Lawrence likes to check them out.
- Again, this is a big no-no, since all monks take a vow of chastity, too. It's an even bigger no-no because these two women might be nuns, so they'd be off-limits anyhow.
- The speaker claims he can see Brother Lawrence's "dead eye glow" when the nuns are down by the river.
- He even compares Brother Lawrence's lust for these nuns to that of a "Barbary corsair," a North African pirate.
- But in the last line, the speaker undercuts himself by saying that Brother Lawrence doesn't actually "show" this lust; the speaker just knows it's there.
- Hmm... the speaker was able to describe the "blue-black, lustrous" hair ("tresses") of the bathing nuns in loving detail. Who's the one who's actually checking them out?
- To sum up: so far, the speaker has accused Brother Lawrence of the sin of pride (he keeps his own goblet and polishes it obsessively) and the sin of lust (he checks out the ladies as they bathe).


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June 27, 2011
Ross and Scott answer listener questions on Google filling up more and more of it's returned search results with ads, local search, google store, etc. And how will there be any room for small Internet retailers or will it all be brands? They also answer a question about handling extra metadata.
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HomeGeneral InformationRegenerative MedicineStem Cell Reports [Stem Cell Information]
Written by experts in stem cell research, this report describes advances made and outlines the expectations for future developments. It discusses current stem cell biology, not limited to NIH-funded research. Authors explain research using stem cells from embryos, fetal tissue, and adult tissues. The first five chapters of the report were originally written in 2006.
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India, IKEA See Compromise on Sourcing Rules – Report
By Dow Jones Newswires
NEW DELHI – The Indian government and IKEA Group are headed for a compromise over contentious local-sourcing rules that the Swedish home-goods retailer will need to meet, the Economic Times reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed source.
India has agreed in principle to give IKEA seven years to meet guidelines stipulating foreign, single-brand retailers sell products manufactured from 30% locally made or sourced content, the report said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the discussions.
IKEA said earlier it shouldn't be expected to comply immediately and sought a 10-year moratorium. The government responded saying that was excessive, the report said.
IKEA has now agreed to comply with the local-sourcing rules by the seventh year of its operations, the report added.
IKEA's foray into India has been made possible by a policy change last year that allows single-brand retailers to own 100% of their Indian units. But products sold by these companies must be manufactured with at least 30% locally made or purchased content.
IKEA plans to spend 1.50 billion euros in India over the next 15 to 20 years.


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Start from money, or credit?
Posted By Kurt Schuler On February 5, 2013 @ 12:02 am In Commodity Money,Economic History,Financial Markets | 24 Comments
The Austrian theory of money begins with Carl Menger. In his Principles of Economics he develops a theory, based on economic logic and compared to historical and anthropological evidence, of how money originated.
Menger's emphasis is on commodity money, which Ludwig von Mises later classified as a form of "money in the narrow sense" and which textbooks today call a form of the monetary base. Menger has little to say about credit.
Later Austrians, building on Menger, developed a "monetary view of credit." That is, they started from money as the basis of the analysis and discussed credit as deriving from money. This is the textbook view among economists generally, not just among the Austrians. One of the consequences of the monetary view of credit is that it tends to see money as the solid but narrow base on which is constructed a huge superstructure of credit. Diagrams often represent the monetary system as an inverted pyramid that looks likely to topple over at any time, leaving a pile of rubble.
The opposite approach is to take a "credit view of money," as I think Henry Thornton implicitly did in his Paper Credit of Great Britain and as Joseph Schumpeter discussed in his History of Economic Analysis (see in particular part III, chapter 7, section 4). A credit view looks as money as a kind of residual for settling net credit balances where sufficient trust is lacking to roll over the credit. In the credit view, money is the capstone at the top of the settlement pyramid, which is not inverted and is therefore not in constant danger of toppling over. The credit view also implies less suspicion than the monetary view that banks are "creating money" and that fractional reserve banking is somehow inherently fraudulent.
Since Menger there has of course been a huge amount of further historical and anthropological research into the origins of money. The left-wing anarchist anthropologist David Graeber gives an interesting though tendentious account of some of it in his recent book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, using it to criticize Menger.
My sympathies are with the credit view, because credit is both logically and historically prior to money. Logically prior, because it is easier to imagine a society without money (where outstanding credits are extended, transferred, cleared, or written off) than to imagine a society without credit (where every transaction has to involve barter or cash payment at the moment of consummation). Historically prior, because even hunter-gatherer tribes functioned on a kind of credit, where people performed services for one another today expecting something in return in the future. It was not the exact calculation in terms of a monetary unit we now think of in connection with credit, but it did involve exchange of goods over time and was not simply a gift: those who were able to contribute to the tribe's well-being but refused to do so tended to get expelled.
(An interesting aside: Menger had high regard for John Law's ideas on the origins of money: see Appendix I of the Principles, page 318 in my book.)
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Students at Bellarmine College Preparatory are not alone in their love for Taylor Swift, the singer-songwriter often called "America's Sweetheart."
They demonstrated that love by voting daily in a recent online contest in the hope Bellarmine would win an on-campus concert with Swift.
When the votes were tabulated it wasn't "The Best Day" for Bellarmine, which placed in the top five but lost the Swift concert to Harvey Mudd College in Claremont.
However, it wasn't a total loss as the school received a $10,000 grant for its music program for placing in the top five in the contest, which was open only to high schools and colleges.
The contest was sponsored by Chegg For Good, the philanthropic division of Chegg, the Santa Clara-based textbook rental company.
"While I know that the students and staff are disappointed that Taylor Swift won't be on campus, we are thrilled about what this grant will mean for our music program," said Chris Meyercord, Bellarmine principal.
"We are so proud of our choir and various bands and the work that they do."
Bellarmine was the sole winner in Northern California. The other finalists were Seton High School in Cincinnati, Ohio; Terra Environmental Research Institute in Miami, Fla.; and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.


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Fifth grader Alyssa Emory, who weighs about 90 pounds, sometimes carries a backpack that's nearly a third of her weight.
"I've been having to come home and take naps because my back's been locking up and cramping really bad," said Emory.
"We really didn't realize how much she was going to be toting around on a regular basis," said her mother, Grace Emory.
Doctors recommend that, when you pack your backpack, leave the bulky items toward the front. Then, when you zip it up and put it on your shoulders, make sure to put it on both shoulders so you distribute the weight evenly.
"It's a growing problem," said physical therapist, Lindsey Byrd. "It (the backpack) should have a padded back on the backside. A waistband would really help to evenly distribute the load. Some kids get really creative in how they carry their backpacks and they'll even carry it on the front, but the front's not always better. The load of the backpack should never be any heavier than 15 percent."
Fifteen percent of Alyssa's weight would mean a 13.5 pound backpack, instead of 33 pounds.
"I kind of have to bend and make my back into sort of a table-like thing to go everywhere," said Alyssa.
"Coming home like that on a daily basis is just too much," said Grace.
If your child is having problems with a heavy backpack, physical therapists say talk to the school about possibly providing a set of books to keep in the classroom. You should also urge your children to let you know if they have any back pain.


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Some of my recent art…
Empire of the Wolf Paperback is here!
The soft cover graphic novel of the four issue mini series has been released! I had a hand in this book, coloring issues 1, penciling issue 3 and penciling and coloring issues 3 and 4. Check out the website at EmpireoftheWolf.net or order your copy on Amazon here
New Star Wars Print for Acme Archives
I had been busy over the summer working on a print for Acme for their 'Join the Alliance' limited print release going on in September. This has been approved by Acme and Lucasfilm and I was given the ok to post it. I decided to pick a scene from A New Hope that was not in the film but but you can imagine this may have been how it happened.
I included a minor detail into the scene for the sake of continuity. In the following scene in the film where the Rebels rush to meet Luke as he gets out of his X-Wing, just before you see Han coming up to congratulate Luke, you can make out he arrives on a rebel transport and jumps off. In my pic I have the transport driving toward Han and Chewie to come pick them up.
The dates for the release will be from September 5th through September 15th on Acme's Dark Ink site.
Here is a link to their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Ink-Art/487084014761520
Also their site where you can order the print: http://www.darkinkart.com/
Empire of the Wolf is out!
This has been a long time coming, and it's finally here! The four part mini-comic Empire of the Wolf published by Alterna Comics, debuts on Comixology!Created by Michael Kogge (Star Wars: The Despotica) and Dan Parsons (Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Star Wars: Legacy), this is an epic tale of Romans battling werewolves! The comic is penciled by Dan and myself, also colored by me and colorist Chris Summers.
Download issue #1 here: http://www.comixology.com/Empire-of-the-Wolf-1/digital-comic/53829
Comic Con is here again, and I will be in Artists' Alley table II-18, same as last year. I will be doing on site art commissions, plus I will have some brand new prints including some characters of my own creation! Come by and check them out!
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New book art
I've been working on this over the last few weeks, and I'm pretty excited about it as it is a bit of a departure from my usual art. It is to be used as a book cover for an upcoming independent novel to be sold as an e-book. Had a lot of fun doing it and it gave me more practice painting in Photoshop! I will post a pic of it with the titles and details on the author soon. More details when it becomes available for purchase!
Star Wars Insider Fiction Art Issue 137
Hey everyone, here's an update – Titan Publishing offered me another assignment to illustrate for the Star Wars Insider. This story, written by Alexander Freed, is titled 'The Last Battle of Colonel Jace Malcom', set in the Old Republic era.
Star Wars Insider Fiction Art
I was given an assignment by the nice folks at Titan Publishing to illustrate their short fiction for the Star Wars Insider Magazine. I am so grateful to be given this opportunity as I had been trying to get this for several years. I did three illustrations for a story based around Myri Antilles, Wedge Antilles' daughter who is working as an undercover spy. The story was written by Karen Miller.
This was published in the August/Spetember issue of Star Wars Insider, U.S. Issue 135.
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If you are going to the Star Wars Celebration show in Orlando and would like to purchase one of my prints, you can pre-order it starting today and pick it up at the show.
Pre-orders start August 1st 10:30 am PST and ends Aug 15th. Here is a direct link to where you can find my print: David Rabbitte CVI print: "Ally or Enemy"
My art is in Entertainment Weekly!
My Star Wars Celebration print was shown on Star Wars.com's official site, but as an added bonus it was featured along with art by Cat Staggs and Spencer Brinkerhoff in an article on Entertainment Weekly.com
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Undead sightings
During the Ammo Apocalypse of 2013, one needs to find alternative sources for ammo and magazines.
There are few sources more alternative than Sarasota's Survive Anything, which offers solutions for hurricanes, floods, civil unrest as well as aliens and zombies.
It's a fun store, and well stocked with 30-round magazines, hard to find ammo – .223, 9mm, 7.62×39 and .308 – and of course lashings of Zombie gear.
Owner Michael Crea, who also owns the nearby Z-Edge Tattoos, has somehow found a source for items some gun shops can't keep in stock.
As of this week, there were 30-round Tapco AK mags and 40 round steel, and AR mags by Thermold and C Product Defense.
The ammo selection included TulAmmo, Brown Bear, Herter's – which was probably made in the same plant – Federal, American Eagle and of course Hornady's Zombie Max.
They also have Tannerite – a binary compound that explodes when hit by a bullet.
Prices were not bad – I've seen much higher – and certainly not anything close to the gouging going on elsewhere.
Crea and his merry band offer much more than just ammo and mags, which is why you should plan on spending some time at the shop.
The first aid gear is impressive – including Quik Clot – and well thought out.
He's got an interesting selection of swords and a great selection of real work knives, including most major brands.
They have one of the hard-to-find Hibben IV forged kukri left in stock.
I wrote a story for the newspaper about the store last year, that has more information about their other items.
The came across the AP wire yesterday. If zombies ever do rear their ugly, decomposing heads in Detroit or LA, I wonder if anyone would notice.
Hackers use alert system for zombie warnings
By JEFF KAROUB and MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
DETROIT — Warnings about the zombie apocalypse may seem pretty amusing, but officials say they're dead serious about figuring out who hacked into the nation's public warning system to broadcast such messages in a handful of states.
So far, people in California, Michigan, Montana and New Mexico have heard the warnings about attacking zombies that have been sent over the Emergency Alert System.
"Local authorities in your area have reported the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living," the message warned. "Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered extremely dangerous."
The subject matter may be humorous, but Greg MacDonald with the Montana Broadcasters Association said the consequences of such attacks on the alert system could be severe.
"This looks like somebody being a prankster, but maybe it's somebody testing just to see if they could do this, to do some real damage," MacDonald said. "Suddenly you create a panic and people are fleeing somewhere and you end up with traffic jams and accidents and who knows what."
The U.S. recently replaced its old telephone-based alert system with a web-based one. The Federal Communications Commission sent an urgent advisory Tuesday urging stations to reset their alert system passwords, disconnect their Internet connections and take other steps to make sure the equipment is protected from outside attack.
In Michigan, hackers broke into the system with audio or text messages at two stations on Monday. Michigan Association of Broadcasters President Karole White said the breach appeared to be related to default passwords that the stations hadn't changed. The U.S. recently replaced its old telephone-based alert system with a web-based one.
In Los Angeles, a radio station that had its alert system breached sent out a zombie message, according to Richard Rudman, a broadcast engineer and vice chair of the California State Emergency Communications Committee. He declined to name the station but said any that were hacked were using default passwords for their alert systems or lacked adequate computer security.
The FCC on Tuesday also asked stations to check their equipment to make sure no further unauthorized alerts were queued up for future transmission, according to a copy of the advisory provided by the Montana Broadcasters Association.
No one has been arrested in connection with the hacking incidents.
All U.S. broadcasters are required to be part of the Emergency Alert System, which evolved from Cold War-era systems dating to the 1950s and '60s. The system was created so the president could address the public in a national emergency, but it's mainly used by state and local authorities to deliver weather warnings and Amber Alerts. The first national test of the revamped system was in November 2011.
WNMU in the northern Michigan city of Marquette was broadcasting an episode of "Barney and Friends" just before 4 p.m. Monday when an ominous voice warned of zombies on the loose. The station quickly caught the errant message and disabled the system.
"There were really no complaints," said station general manager Eric Smith. "A couple of viewers… called, wondering what it was all about."
Michigan FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet said his office has been notified but declined further comment. The Associated Press left messages with representatives of the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Homeland Security.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said its public alert and warning system wasn't breached and the hacking incidents did not affect its ability to activate the system nationally. FEMA also said it's supporting the FCC and other federal agencies on the investigation.
White, who oversees the alert system in Michigan, says she's confident that systems there are now secure, though any breach is a concern.
"We feel fortunate they were not able to get into the entire Emergency Alert System — that's the good news," she said. "The bad news is they got in at all."


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Yes, it sure can.
It's not because the project is a mediocre effort attempting to cash in on the elusive comic abilities of Jack Black, who plays a modern riff on the traveler Lemuel Gulliver, hero of Jonathan Swift's classic novel, first published in 1726. It's because this film was made and is being marketed as family entertainment, and so has to be held to that standard. Presumably, this is an entertainment for children to consume.
By that measure, it's the cinematic equivalent of toxic lunch meat. Director Rob Letterman and screenwriters Joe Stillman and Nicholas Stoller have produced a sour, slapped-together botch with a noxiously cynical message: You can plagiarize and lie without penalty and still end up with the girl -- and the job -- of your dreams.
Black's Gulliver, a mailroom clerk at a New York newspaper, is a lazy schlub who dreams of becoming a writer to impress travel editor Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet). He works up enough courage to ask her for an assignment, but when she requests writing samples, he produces a couple of articles by cutting and pasting from travel websites.
In the real world, that's no joke—such an underhanded act means lost jobs and derailed careers. In this story, it earns Gulliver an assignment that has him piloting a small watercraft in the Bermuda Triangle, where a huge storm and waterspout transport him to the Kingdom of Lilliput, a vaguely British island populated by a race of people only 4 inches tall.
Gulliver, famously first tied down and imprisoned by the Lilliputians and called The Beast, eventually becomes a defender of the land ruled by King Theodore (Billy Connolly) and his princess daughter Mary (Emily Blunt).
Gulliver's first heroic act is to extinguish a palace fire by urinating. But the onscreen incident goes way beyond the somewhat indecorous potty humor of Swift's account, degenerating into queasy imagery as many Lilliputians, including the king, are knocked down and drenched by the fire hose-intense stream.
Gulliver also aids a romantic subplot between Princess Mary and commoner Horatio (Jason Segal), but this isn't sustained well enough to generate interest. Gulliver spins whoppers to convince the Lilliputians that he's an American president ("President Awesome") and is rewarded for his heroism with Gulliver-sized accommodations, including an entertainment center in which Lilliputians costumed as the band Kiss provide a live-action version of the video game Guitar Hero.
Although Darcy catches up with Gulliver's plagiarism, the deeply flawed moral takeaway remains intact: Theft and falsehood can be a path to achieving your dreams. That's a harmful lesson for children and an unwelcome message for adults.
The film contains skewed moral values, graphic scatological humor and some intense action scenes. The Catholic News Service classification is O—morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG—parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
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SIKESTON -- Geraldine "Gerry" Sams Hensley, 87, died at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 19, 2010, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center.
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Oracle's TaaS: Spend More Time Testing (and Less on the Other Stuff)
By User810030-Oracle on Mar 01, 2013
Recently we asked a group of testers what percentage of their testing time was spent on peripheral activities such as:
- procuring hardware
- deploying the application under test
- deploying a test tool
- find/detect/log issues/bugs and/or
- patching an application
When asked what the right solution could be to solve that enormous time consumption, the majority selected testing cloud solutions that combine capabilities for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service. Let's look at each one :
Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS ) based testing cloud : This solution is typically based on provisioning of virtual machines on provided infrastructure . This will only resolve the provisioning of applications under test and test tools which is only 10-15% of the total solution.
Software as a Service ( SaaS ) based testing cloud : This is Software ( for test automation ) as a service solution. This only addresses the test execution and ( possibly ) issue/bottleneck identification. It does not offer provisioning for applications under test . In many cases, it does not offer monitoring of internal applications.
The brand new Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Testing as a Service (TaaS) solution (.pdf) offers that combination and helps software development and QA organizations to spend more time on actual testing and less on peripheral activities, while significantly enhancing testing efficiency and reducing the duration of testing projects.
Oracle's TaaS is a platform for delivering automated application testing services. It is a self-service solution designed for private clouds that orchestrates the testing process end-to-end by:
- Automating the provisioning of test labs including application under test and test tools.
- Executing load and/or functional test scripts against the application.
- Providing rich application monitoring and diagnostics data for analysis.
- Sophisticated chargeback facility for metering and charging the usage of the testing cloud by end-users.
It's built with semantic understanding of testing artifacts like testing tools, applications, test scripts, it is not just VMs.
All this information and more was discussed in a recent webcast we ran in cooperation with the online StickyMinds.com community. We uploaded the replay on Youtube for you to watch at your convenience.
Happy testing!
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Old Family Painting May Be A Michelangelo!
How cool would it be to wake up one morning and find out that that a painting that spent the last 30 years behind your couch, is an original work of art painted by none other than the great renaissance artist, Michelangelo. If experts are right, this old unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary, that the Kober family affectionately calls 'The Mike', may indeed be that piece of art.
The painting, which has been passed down many generations, spent a number of years hung in the family's living room. About 27 years ago, the Kober kids were playing with a tennis ball and knocked it off the wall. Instead of hanging it back, the adults decided to roll it up and tuck it behind a sofa.
It was not until 2003 when Martin Kober, freshly retired from the US airforce, was put to work by his father to investigate whether there was any truth behind the family lore that 'The Mike', was indeed an original Michelangelo.
Mr. Kober dug out the history of the painting, contacted Renaissance experts and even visited museum directors in Italy. Along the way, he met with Italian art restorer, Antonio Forcellino, who while skeptical, decided to examine it. At best, he expected it to be a copy - and in pretty bad shape given that it had been exposed to the heating in the house for so many years.
When he saw it, he was speechless. Not only was it in great condition, it was even better than some of Michelangelo's paintings that currently hang in Italy's museums. Convinced it may real deal, he had a scientific analysis done, which proved that it might be very plausible.
Infrared and X-ray examinations showed that the artist made many alterations, changing his mind as he painted - and the fact that there is a small unfinished portion further proves that it is an original, for nobody in that era would buy an unfinished copy. Additionally, the Kobers have an ownership history that goes back many centuries, proving that Michelangelo could indeed have painted it for one of his friends, in 1545.
The find is so valuable that some more experts will have to weigh in, before the art world is thoroughly convinced - However if they are, it could mean a payday of anywhere from $20mm USD to $300mm USD for the Kober family and, an amazing new addition to the world of art.
Born in the Italian City of Caprese, Michelangelo was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance - a period when art and sciences flourished. While he started his life as a sculptor and has some very famous pieces like the 'Pieta', a marble statue of Virgin Mary grieving over dead Jesus and the colossal David, that sits outside the town hall in Florence, he is best known for his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican - A project he undertook with great reluctance, since he did not want to be known as a painter!
Sources: nypost.com,dailymail.co.uk
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Sample Rhode Island seafood (lobsters, steamers, chowder, fish and chips, and a raw bar), stroll the midway, climb a rock wall, listen to live music and enjoy the carnival rides at the Charlestown Seafood Festival.
The 30th annual event takes place Friday through Sunday, Aug. 1 to 3, at Ninigret Park. Hours are Friday, noon to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; and Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Fireworks are on tap for Saturday at 9 p.m. (rain date Sunday), and a car show is scheduled for Sunday at 11 a.m.
Admission is $8, free for children 10 and younger, and it's a $2 donation to park.
The festival goes on rain or shine. Ninigret Park is on Route 1A in Charlestown. For more information, call (401) 364-4031 or go to charlestownrichamber.com/seafoodfestival.html.
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Offering students financial-literacy training has become a popular way for colleges to respond to worries about both the weak economy and students' ability to manage their loans.
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Peavy, enjoying his healthiest season as a major leaguer, is giving the scribes a richer body of work this year, and he added to it last night by overwhelming the Dodgers yet again.
The 26-year-old turned in his eighth scoreless outing of the season, lowered his ERA to 2.10 and directed the Padres to a 7-0 win at Petco Park, where teammate Mike Cameron hit a grand slam in the fifth inning and made a terrific diving catch in the sixth. It was the club's major league-best 18th shutout.
The Padres, who have won nine of their last 11 games, remained atop the National League West, a percentage point ahead of the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers, who are 5-9 against San Diego, fell five games off the pace.
Peavy said his accuracy was well below what it should be, but the right-hander still allowed only two hits and struck out nine. He said he had good life on his fastball, and by throwing it low and high, a technique that makes it difficult for hitters to react well, he shot several past Dodgers bats.
"He executed the game plan about as well as he can," said catcher Josh Bard.
Peavy (16-5) has won his last seven decisions, a career high. Coming of a sparkling August in which he was 5-0 with a 1.36 ERA, he opened September by allowing fewer than two earned runs for the 17th time in his 28 outings.
Yesterday: Jake Peavy wins his career-high 16th game with help from Mike Cameron, who hits a grand slam.
Today: 1:05 p.m. at Petco; Dodgers' Chad Billingsley (9-4, 3.50) vs. Justin Germano (7-7, 4.25)
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Peavy seldom allows the Dodgers any significant success. He improved to 8-1 against Los Angeles with a 2.28 ERA. He retired all seven leadoff hitters and his final 13 batters. Peavy said there is no "rhyme or reason" for his record against the Dodgers.
"Against Peavy, you've got to keep the game close and hope he gets tired," said Dodgers manager Grady Little.
The Padres made it 7-0 with six runs in the fifth against Lowe, who had a 2.52 career ERA against San Diego. A two-base throwing error by third baseman Shea Hillenbrand made it 2-0, and two at-bats later, Cameron reached out and hooked Lowe's slider down the left-field line for his fifth career grand slam and the team's third this season.
"He didn't really make many mistakes," said Martin, who was ejected in the seventh by plate umpire Dan Iassogna, though Martin said he was complaining about his own hitting, not Iassogna's strike calls.
Black said it's Peavy's consistency that has distinguished a season in which he has worked at least five innings in all 28 starts. "I've just been healthy," the pitcher said, crediting the training staff.
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When running PS3 Media Server as a service my PS3 does not detect the server.
I have tried running the service using a local account and password still no joy.
The log appears OK and the service is definitely running its just the PS3 doesn't see the server.
I want to be able to just turn the pc on and walk away without logging in. Running as a service is exactly what i need.
I saw a similar problem where the server did not detect the PS3 but my problem is the opposite.
I'm running on Vista if that makes a difference.
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Definition of psychology in English:
1The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example sentences
- He studied Jungian and transpersonal psychology and took a special interest in allergic diseases.
- These researchers draw their inspiration from the discipline of psychology and study behaviour in a quite detailed way.
- Qualitative inquiry embeds psychology in rich contexts of history, society, and culture.
study of the mind, science of the mind
1.1 [in singular] The mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group: the psychology of Americans in the 1920s
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- The election, he must remind voters, is really about something more than the personalities, and the psychologies, of the two major candidates.
- This is an extraordinarily complex topic that has its roots in history, the global economy, the failure of diplomacy and the psychologies of the people involved.
- While many movies attempt to imitate the personal psychologies of cops and criminals, Dark Blue hits closer to the mark than most.
mindset, mind, mental processes, thought processes, way of thinking, cast of mind, mentality, persona, psyche, (mental) attitude(s), makeup, character
informal what makes someone tick
1.2 [in singular] The mental and emotional factors governing a situation or activity: the psychology of interpersonal relationships
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- He wittily captures the psychology of the situation without actually showing many of the faces.
- The fact that he is red-green color blind prompted an interest in optics and the psychology of vision.
- It may help you to increase your sales by understanding the psychology of purchasing and your part in that process.
Late 17th century: from modern Latin psychologia (see psycho-, -logy).
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There have been several reports that show some United Airline Pilots are making up false mechanical claims in an effort to delay flights, a sort of "sticking it to the man" approach as "contract negotiations seem to be going nowhere" as one post labeled it.
We asked United if they know of anything like this happening and they denied pilots are making up false mechanical claims to delay flights.
We also examined FAA records for United flight departures and found over the last 90 days, the average delay rate had no significant increase in change when compared to last year the same same period, thought it was up marginally. This however could be attributed to weather or other factors such as yesterdays ATC traffic flow system failure which caused flights into the northeast to be delayed or cancelled.
On-time arrivals are down for domestic flights, international flights and for regional carriers of United, but only by less than 1% of the last week. The fact that regional carrier, who don't work for United, are also down is consistent with the marginal drop in performance easily being attributed to other factors.
Despite doing some fact checking, there has been no evidence TFNJ has been able to find that supports United pilots are making false claims to delay flights. None the less, rumor on various aviation forums continue.
A United Spokesperson said that United pilots behave in a professional manner ensuring the safety of the passengers and crew and do not take their possible grievances out on flights and passengers.


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D.A. Points came back from a long rain delay and made four pars, the last one giving him a one-shot victory Sunday in the Houston Open and a second trip to the Masters.
Points rolled in a putt from just outside 12 feet on the final hole to polish off a 6-under 66 and avoid a playoff with Masters-bound Henrik Stenson and Billy Horschel.
Points' other PGA Tour win was the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am two years ago.
He began the year by missing the cut seven times in nine tournaments. But he kept his calm when he returned to Redstone Golf Club after a rain delay of nearly three hours.
"Thank you for staying," he said to the sparse gallery in the bleachers.
Stenson birdied his last two holes for a 66 before the storms rolled across the Houston area, and while he came up one shot short, he moved up to No. 42 in the world ranking to earn an invitation to the Masters, which begins April 11 at Augusta National.
Horschel was on the 18th tee when play was halted. After the delay he split the middle of the fairway, found the green and two-putted for par -- and a 66 -- to join Stenson in the clubhouse lead.
They waited around for a playoff that wasn't necessary when Points saved par on his last two holes.
"I've been having a really tough year," Points said. "To have a putt to win, you want that starting out every week. I would have liked for it to have been closer."
He finished at 16-under 272, and the win, worth $1,116,000, gives him another two-year tour exemption. His exemption from the Pebble Beach win would have expired this year.
Phil Mickelson opened his round with four straight birdies and was still in the picture until a three-putt double bogey on 14. He had a 68 and wound up six shots back.
Rory McIlroy closed out his week by making a 25-foot birdie putt for a 70 and a tie for 45th at 284. He'll play the Texas Open this week in San Antonio before heading to Augusta.
European Tour: Marcel Siem had a 2-under 70 to capture the Hassan II Trophy by three shots in Agadir, Morocco. He won $320,000 with a 17-under 217 total. But he'll miss the Masters with a ranking of 51 (top 50 get in).


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The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
Mr. Jerome
Character Analysis
In a way, it's fitting that there's a whole chapter named "Mr. Jerome is Afraid," because that's the overwhelming sense that we get from Mr. Jerome: fear. He's a squirrely little man who is obviously very afraid of the woman in black that Arthur is seeing, but won't tell him anything about her. He won't even explain why he's so terrified of going to Eel Marsh House, just repeating again and again that he can't help Arthur:
He shifted his chair back, further away from me, as he sat behind his rickety desk, so that I thought that, if he could have gone through the wall into the street, he would like to have done so.
"I'm afraid I can't offer you help, Mr. Kipps. Oh, no." (7.21-22)
When Arthur keeps pressing further about the woman in black, Jerome just gives the most annoyingly vague answer ever.
When he spoke again he sounded husky and tired. "There are stories," he said, "tales. There's all that nonsense." (7.36)
Jerome seems represents the prevailing attitudes of the town, which involve being fearful but extremely vague when pressed for answers. They've got a bit of a She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named situation going on with the woman in black—they're so scared of her that they won't even talk about the things she's done.
Or allegedly done. Notice how he calls the situations "tales" and "nonsense," but he still won't take over the job? Yeah, we're pretty sure this guy believes in ghosts.


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Skip to comments.Elizabeth Warren Maintains We All Owe Success To Others
Posted on 05/06/2012 8:52:34 AM PDT by Starman417
She obviously figures she owes her success to her ability to manipulate the victimization of America's First Nation People to secure a teaching position at Harvard; since, according to Ms Warren, no one achieves success on their own.
I hear all this, you know, Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own nobody.
You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for.
You didnt have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Thus Warren justifies the theft of identity and her selfish use of another's victimization by using her dubious claim of being 1/32 Cherokee. A boast that put her in the front of the line to be hired at Harvard by providing two minority Affirmative Action claims: that of being a woman and that of being a First Nation individual. Being part of the only minority group that is a majority, is not being disputed, since being a woman requires no prescribed amount of integrity, but this claim of being a blonde haired blue eyed Cherokee might raise a few eyebrows on the reservation.
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Marxists will lie to achieve any goal. It is their way and they believe it is their right. Logic be damned.
She is correct, BUT, who precisely do I owe my success to? We all have benefited from the actions of others - mentors, lenders, investors, partners, spouses, family, employees, customers. There is no general blanket obligation that we have that must be expressed through actions of the state.
This is, frankly, old news. It is the opening salvo she used to promote her redistribution candidacy. Her arguments about how much rich people OWE society are bullshit. Marauding bands? Gimme a break - today, when seconds count the police are only minutes away. More than 1/2 of 'society' doesn't pay a damned dime of taxes.
The real deal here is that this privileged academic nutjob used a false claim of Indian heritage to advance her credentials. It was done with the same lying bullshit bravado that drove Hillary Clinton when in New Zealand once to proclaim she was named for Sir Edmund, regardless of the fact Sir Edmund hadn't climbed Everest until AFTER she was borne.
Crucify her in the tabloids, hound her appearances and never relent on what a lying b!tch she is.
First dibs on her kitchen. You just know she has the best stuff ~ so her cook can make every dish perfectly.
Ronald Reagan himself advanced the idea of eliminating the federal personal income tax on folks below certain income thresholds.
No personal investment in society, ala no income tax for people below a certain level is wrong. Ronnie was wrong.
"You didnt have to worry that marauding bands "
well if you start a factory you DO have to worry about maurauding bands of conficatory taxin' over regulatin' liberals so....there's that..
Well, the good thing is one would think she is self destructing - the bad thing is the Libs in MA are so upset over Brown slipping in that they would gladly elect another Kerry (he fought in Vietnam), Kennedy (no matter what branch of the clan), or even this nut job.
Wow, a Senate composed of Warren, Al Franken (who thankfully has seemingly slipped into oblivion), the rest of the assorted nuts and bolts -including the aging RINO's, and the late night (so called) comedians will have material for a lifetime or two.
People are definitely going to have to get out and VOTE - if not for Romney, at least to keep control of the House and gain control of the Senate - MINUS the RINO's (where possible, or at least be able to contain them).
I saw segments of Obozo's rally at VCU yesterday and there were far to many adoring 'whites' - not just 'young' students, couple of middle aged with one even claiming the economy is fine (or words to that effect - since it was background 'noise' and when I heard that line I glanced up and saw some 20-30 something white dude).
I have never attempted it but I guess it is possible to NOT click on an issue or name while voting isn't it?
We people in Massachusetts have, for many years, provided entertainment material for the political industry.
In America NO ONE avoids contributing to the pile of loot claimed as taxes by government ~ at all levels. And I say NO ONE.
Since everyone knows that your use of the claim that SOMEONE is evading taxes is looked at more as a "criminal charge" better dealt with in court than as a "vast sociological economic challenge" we have to deal with in Congress.
Frankly, your lack of deep understanding of how out of synch our governmental authorities have gotten vis a vis human nature and the needs of free people suggests that you have no investment whatsoever in society!
It is long overdue for repealing the personal income tax laws and changing the 16th amendment that makes them possible.
The only tribe she belongs to is the "Hippie"! Checkout the hair part in the middle, the glasses and lack of makeup. Classic 60"s. If she weren't running for ofice, she would be in the streets with the Occupy Wall Streeet freaks.
Exactly. OTOH by her and the left's logic, don't the people who have been abject failures (like OWS protesters) owe the rest of us something for squandering the "opportunities the government gave all of us"?
Imagine if a government Bureau of Technology was responsible for technological innovations. We would still be using DOS with Windows and the Internet still years off.
You didnt have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
"When you live in a rational society, where men are free to trade, you receive an incalculable bonus: the material value of your work is determined not only by your effort, but by the effort of the best productive minds who exist in the world around you.
"When you work in a modern factory, you are paid, not only for your labor, but for all the productive genius which has made that factory possible: for the work of the industrialist who built it, for the work of the investor who saved the money to risk on the untried and the new, for the work of the engineer who designed the machines of which you are pushing the levers, for the work of the inventor who created the product which you spend your time on making, for the work of the scientist who discovered the laws that went into the making of that product, for the work of the philosopher who taught men how to think and whom you spend your time denouncing.
"The machine, the frozen form of a living intelligence, is the power that expands the potential of your life by raising the productivity of your time. If you worked as a blacksmith in the mystics Middle Ages, the whole of your earning capacity would consist of an iron bar produced by your hands in days and days of effort. How many tons of rail do you produce per day if you work for Hank Rearden? Would you dare to claim that the size of your pay check was created solely by your physical labor and that those rails were the product of your muscles? The standard of living of that blacksmith is all that your muscles are worth; the rest is a gift from Hank Rearden."
-- From John Galt's Speech, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
In that case, why should she be considered fit for the office of Senator?
I'm an MVP and no one does the work for me.
"counting coup in the tribal lodge of academia"
Lobachevsky just called and said that one will grow legs.
Unfortunately, the odds have increased that you and/or your family members could be killed or injured by a drunken illegal alien on our streets and highways. Your family could be destroyed by drugs being brought into our country by illegal aliens. Your vehicle could be stolen and/or your home burglarized by illegal aliens. We're paying the feds heap big wampum to protect and seal our borders and they aren't doing the job. Warren is nothing but an old, FOS, clueless white hippy.
Bingo! The welfare recipients should be on a payment plan to pay off the tax-payers.
She's a plagiarist, too.
Individualists don't deny the value of cooperation, but in a free society and a rational culture, with a just government, the cooperation has to be voluntary and a mutually beneficial exchange of values. This will tend to promote the well being of all.Government use of force that violates the natural rights of the individual is the opposite of this principle.
Funny, the corporations and top 10% pay the bulk of taxes used to build all of that infrastructure she speaks of
Funny when liberals want to impose their viewpoints, they always talk in this third person and refer to the third person as "Society". Over my life, when I dealt with liberals in positions in authority, I usually got the "society" talk from them even though my behavior doesn't affect anyone else.
> Her arguments about how much rich people OWE society are bullshit.
If the factory is presumably the largest employer and largest taxpayer in that town, didn't the FACTORY pay for that road, to educate the workers, etc.?
I agree with Warren that all Americans owe a collective debt to an identifiable group of fellow Americans. That group would be the founders and the US military, past and present, who've had more to do with the opportunities and freedoms available than anyone else.
Any other debts owed are mostly between specific individuals.
But Warren's BS is just more of the same: an attempt to diminish the successful and excuse the less so.
Elizabeth Warren is Chief Spreading BS of the Massachusetts Donkey Tribe. So, Spreading BS, you weren't very shy about using affirmative action to advance yourself. Of course, you'd deny the same opportunity to others out of "fairness" and "equality"? That's because Spreading BS needs an advantage based on fraud to succeed on life's playing field.
Paging John, pick up the satire courtesy phone!!
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"Yamauchi, Takashi" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message
>I wonder if someone can help me.
> I want to show a label for 1 second, make it invisible for 1 sec., and
> then show it again,.. so on.
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> When I used VB6, I insserted Me.Refresh in the code, so I can show the
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> I want to do the same thing in Excel VBA. When I inserted Me.Refresh in
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In VB I'd suggest using a timer control and toggling the Visible property
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For Excel VBA you should ask in an Excel programming group; VBA is close,
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Defoe, Daniel
(1660–1731), English novelist and journalist. His novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) is loosely based on the true story of shipwrecked sailor Alexander Selkirk and has a claim to being the first British novel. Other notable works: Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).
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