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That's because a July 27 event proved highly successful and the townships reached the 9,000-tire limit their grants would pay for, Raap said. Three other collection events had been held in June and July.
Raap said the communities would apply again next year for the state grants that paid for tire collection and recycling. The three townships received $11,500 in grants from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
"We're going to do it again next year and hope we will get a grant and that (the tires) eventually will disappear," Raap said.
Residents were allowed to bring up to seven tires each to the tire collection events. In addition to the 9,000 collected from Moorland, Egelston and Ravenna township residents, 5,000 old tires were collected at a June event for residents of Fruitland, Blue Lake, Dalton, Laketon and Muskegon townships.
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ha, should i make tangsuyuk? i'll think about it.
Thanks a lot for this Maangchi!I bought the ready-to-eat one today at TnT supermarket because I'd been craving for it since yesterday after I watched this video. It was so expansive (the one I ate today). One for CAD$2. So not worth it since there was almost no filling in it. It was unagi but there was no unagi in it. Like, seriously, it was just the unagi sauce. -_-" Maybe you've eaten it before, the brand is DaeJangGeum I think.
hi maangchi!
i just want to so thank you soooooooooooooo much for this blog! my friend recently sent me the link to your blog and i absolutely love it! i've been looking all over the web to find a good website and never found something that explains step by step and i just can't get over how thorough it is…..i think your blog is easier than all the korean cookbooks because you make it look so easy and it is! please don't stop blogging:)!
I really enjoyed your video on rice cake gifts… I LOVE them, and only recall making the songpyun with my grandmother when I was little girl. You look so skillful making them and make it look easy… You seem so charming and your videos are a joy to watch.
By the way, in your list of future recipes, do you think you might make beejee chigae? I think I can attempt it, but don't know exactly what kind of bean to buy…
Thanks again for your videos and website!!
Hi Maangchi,
I'm from Switzerland, I was living in China and just fell in love with Asian Cuisine, now I'm again back in Switzerland. Since Switzerland is so poor with good Asian Food, I started to cook your recipies!! You recipies really have been saving me from starving ;)! thank you so much! And my family and friends also have been enjoying it!
I just saw that you guys organize Meetups, that is so great to know! And actually I'm going to be in New York next week!! But only from 8th to 13th June, what a pity your meet-up is only the 20th. I would love to join you guys!!! Isn't there any chance you guys will do something next week? Or at least where could I dine delicious korean or asian food in New York? It would be so great meeting you!
Hi Maangchi, I would love to come to NY but I live in San Jose (really close to San Francisco). Any chance you would visit the bay area in the future? I enjoy watching all of your korean cooking videos and have attempt a couple of them myself. Can't wait for your new videos!!
where in nyc are you meeting?
i hope its in bayside or flushing!
Awww Maangchi I would love to meet you and would love to hear great stories from you and others. Unfortunately I'm so busy that day, I have a class almost 6 hours and a wedding to attend to. I'm sobbing away now….
I look forward to viewing it. 고맙습니다!
안녕 Maangchi!
I do not know how to contact you personally so i thought I would leave a comment here. I was just wondering whether you would be able to teach us all how to make Bindaeddeok?? I would really love to try and make it!
Please get back to me,
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In the spirit of the season Lycoming County United Way officials are reporting more treats than tricks as the fall campaign begins to heat up with the arrival of cooler weather.
"The campaign continues its early positive trend and is running ahead of last year's pace," said Dr. William Martin, campaign chairman. "As of this week's report, we've raised $317,195, equating to a 4-percent increase over where we were last year at this time. While we are a month into the campaign, the real heavy lifting is just getting underway with the larger workplace campaigns. As 60 percent of the annual campaign is realized from these sources what we are reporting is just the tip of what we hope will be a much larger iceberg."
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Linux and free software will get some prominence at the upcoming CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, March 3-8. A star-studded preview event will open the show, and a press conference has already taken place in Munich.
March 2, a day before the CeBIT 2009 show opens, will be a celebrity event with German chancellor Andrea Merkel attending together with guest star Arnold Schwarzenegger. An initial press conference in Munich has already provided some first insights into the show. One featured theme is Internet and Mobile Solutions, for which CeBIT has reserved an area in Hall 6 under the coined rubric "Webciety." At the press conference, show organizer Sven Prüser mentioned how the world is becoming more Web-oriented, as evidenced by the recent U.S. elections.
CeBIT will dedicate an entire hall to security themes, with other venues focused on e-learning, RF identification and telehealth. For example, a "Future Care" display will demonstrate what doctors can anticipate in the digital age. Moving from hall to hall should prove not to be without its hazards: an "Autos in Dialogue" exhibit will have cars crossing intersections. What used to be called "green" in past years will now be under the "Energy-efficient IT" motto, at least according to Prüser, although Bitkom's Mario Tobias would rather have named it "Green IT World." Last year it was merely the "Green IT Village."
Close to the Webciety area, Open Source will get a forum of its own as a prominent theme at the show. Linux Magazine will be there as well, with its publisher Linux New Media AG having its own booth in Hall 6. The show will include programs with talks, keynotes and presentations about important Open Source projects. Keynote speakers will include Amanda McPherson (Linux Foundation), Simon Phipps (Sun Microsystems) and Georg Greve (Free Software Foundation Europe). Themes will include IT centers, Web, security, mobility, multimedia, distros and the desktop.
Linux New Media will also present its fifth annual awards at CeBIT. The awards will recognize individuals, projects, enterprises and organizations for their particularly innovative and engaging achievements in six categories.
Partners in the CeBIT Open Source initiative include the Linux Foundation, the Free Software Foundation Europe, the LiMo Foundation consortium and the German LIVE linux-verband.de.
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> My speed problems have come and gone and come and gone since I thought
> htey were fixed. It's very strange and I don't understand.
> I shut the computer down, when i was going away for a couple of days,
> and on reboot, when everything powered up and I checked the website
> www.testmy.net I found I was getting around 3.5 MB downloads from my
> Comcast internet line. To remind everone, I'm subscribed at 8 MB. At
> the same time, my XP computer was getting around 8300, so I know the
> internet connection is running at the proper speed. I have a linksys
> wrt54g router connecting everything, and everything is wired (the
> wireless interface is usually disabled, except when I'm using my
> laptop).
> I did a bunch of reboots, etc but nothing could speed up eCS.
> Interestingly, my inetcfg.ini has the tcpip receive and send window
> sizes as 150380, but when I used the tweak site on dsl reports, it
> reported my receive window as 65536. Their suggestion was to set the
> receive window higher. No matter how many times I re-loaded
> inetcfg.ini or even typed directly inetcfg -s tcprwinsize 150380 the
> dsl reports site consistently reported the value as 65536. to make it
> stranger, when I typed inetcfg -g tcprwinsize it said I had it set to
> 150380, yet those settings weren't getting recognized, at least not by
> the tweak site.
The internet site sees only the TCP window size of the gateway which
is your router. So simply changing the window size on eCS is not
enough because the router still uses the previous window size.
> Taking an older suggestion just to set everything to default, I tried
> running inetcfg -r all to set everything back to default, but that
> didn't speed me up. I then re-loaded inetcfg.ini with a -s all
> command.
> I started fooling around, and set the wrt54g from "gateway" to
> "router" with authomatic routing enabled. When I did that,neither of
> my computers could ping the internet, even after I released and
> requested the DHCP settings. Next I re-set the 54G back to gateway,
> and released and re-requested the DHCP settings on the eCS box. I
> re-ran testmy.net and wsa getting the 8.3 MB on eCS I should have been
> getting all along. The dslreports tweak site now had my receive
> window as 150380!!!
Looks like the transfer of the settings of TCP are part of the
DHCP protocol or the lan interface configuration. So the router
will only get the new settings when you either renew the DHCP
session or reconfigure the lan interface after changing the window
Did you try to set the window size in TCPEXIT.CMD (or TCPINIT.CMD)
in x:\tcpip\bin before the lan interface gets configured ?
(Don't remember the name of the script as I currently have no access
to my eCS box. Simply grep for ifconfig in all .cmd. In this script
several other scripts are called, either before ifconfig or after.
Take the one before ifconfig and add the required inetcfg stuff.)
When you added the necessary inetcfg calls, reboot!
There is also a way to restart the TCP/IP configuration without
reboot, but I can't remember currently how the script is called.
> Clearly I need to do something for that higher receive window to
> "take" because simply typing inetcfg -s 150380 doesn't do it all by
> itself. It also seems that settign the receive window to that higher
> value is needed in order for eCS to receive at 8MB.
> Can anyone explain this, as well as tell me what to do to get that
> higher receive window to take. While eCS thinks it's always set to
> those high values, clearly the router/cable modem doesn't agree.
See above.


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Na Koa game off today, some links
August 10, 2011 - Robert Collias
By now many of y'all know that tonight's game between Na Koa Ikaika Maui and the Lake County Fielders is off.
WKRS radio in Lake County, Ill., posted this stuff on its Facebook page earlier today, saying it would not be broadcasting today's game.
And there is this, where a Maui front-office member can manage to talk to the Chicago Daily Herald, but apparently can not step through the press box door to let the local paper know precisely what is going on. Lake County appears to be closer than ever to folding completely.
And here is the Save the Lake County Fielders" Facebook page with some very interesting comments, worth a click for sure.
And there is this vague, simple statement from the Fielders team Facebook page:
"This evening's game in Maui will not be played. We will attempt to keep you updated as best as possible with the status for tomorrow's game. Thank you for your patience."
Hard to imagine if they are not here today — if you missed it, Maui team vice president Bob Elder announced in the fifth inning Tuesday night that this four-game series was on — that the Fielders will get on a plane tomorrow to land and then play three games here. After all, Lake County was off on Tuesday, presumably for travel.
What does Maui do for its 11-game set in Lake County that is supposed to begin next Tuesday? Does Maui play the final 12 games of the season on the road if both of these Lake County series do not take place?
All questions I will be looking for answer to this evening.
Again, I am on the situation and will be at the ballpark to update, get reaction and find out if this team will play again this season at Maehara Stadium, or at all.
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It's no secret that solar innovations can change the world. Israeli architecture firm Geotectura is on its way to being added to that list with their Urban Tree skyscraper design. The futuristic building features "floating cubes" clustered together and sprouting from steel "stems." The cubes are wrapped in photovoltaic cells to convert solar rays into energy for the building's use. Modular and flexible in design, the cubes vary in size and function in order to maximize views and air flows. The tree-like design of the building also minimizes the building's footprint on the street level.
"This concept of a two helicoid prefabricated infrastructure is like growing an urban tree that improves the dwellers' quality of life while living in the sky," says Geotectura.
Why is a conceptual renewable energy architecture design important?
Beginning in 1938, car companies began producing concept cars to showcase new styling and technology while gauging customer reactions to new designs. Over the years some concept cars have gone directly into production, others went through changes before production, and some never saw the light of day again.
Whether concepts come to fruition or not, they push the limit of what people perceive as possible, and in this their objective is achieved. We need more inventors, entrepreneurs, and designers to envision new concepts that change the way we consume resources and interact with our environment. Not all concepts will become reality but who is to say what's possible?
Check out these amazing pictures from Geotectura
Learn more:
- How do solar leases work?
- Clean energy is all around us. How we do we take advantage of it?
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Boyd Arnold is a member of Mosaic's business development team. Prior to working at Mosaic, Boyd worked in investment consulting and has experience starting businesses. He graduated from the University of Colorado and has completed all three levels of the CFA. Boyd enjoys cycling, brewing beer, and baseball.


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After news broke of his sister's death Wednesday, Nick Carter said he is not planning to cancel his scheduled tour dates, but will instead dedicate the performances to his sister, Leslie.
"Performing is cathartic to me and I am dedicating the rest of my tour to my sister since she loved to watch me perform," the singer said in a statement released via his publicist, Jack Ketsoyan, on Wednesday.
Leslie Carter was 25. She passed away in upstate New York, though no other details were immediately known.
The Carter family appreciates the outpouring of support from fans but asks that their privacy be respected during their time of grief, Ketsoyan added.
Nick Carter's tour is scheduled to resume Thursday with a performance at New York's Irving Plaza.
With reporting by MARISA LAUDADIO
Nick Carter Not Canceling Tour After His Sister's Death
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OKC shooting victim in critical condition, police sayUPDATED 5:33 PM CDT Aug 15, 2013
Officers are looking for the gunman who shot an Oklahoma City man in the breezeway of an apartment complex in the 3200 block of Southwest 74th Street. Police say the victim is in critical condition.Video Transcript
A MAN IS SHOT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT -- OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT. NOW POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE SHOOTER. KOCO'S NAVEEN DHALIWAL IS LIVE IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA CITY... NAVEEN? WHEN PARAMEDICS ARRIVED THEY FOUND THE MAN ON THE GROUND IN THIS BREEZEWAY. POLICE SAY HE WAS BARELY ALIVE. Clip 33 Chastity Mitchell LIVES IN APT COMPLEX 03:08 we were up, we didn't hear nothing MOST IN THE HILLCREST GREEN APARTMENT COMPLEX DIDN'T. BUT AS THE WORD OF THE SHOOTING SPREAD. Clip 34 Kim Francher - LIVES IN APT COMPLEX 04:14 not really surprising, but it puts a scare in me. CRIME TAPE ISOLATED THE SCENE. DETECTIVES SAY A MAN WAS FOUND SHOT INFRONT OF HIS APARTMENT. HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS. Clip 32 Myrtle Young VISITING A FRIEND IN COMPLEX 1:57 this seems like a quiet community. I never thought this would happen, but things do happen and it's been happening all over. WITNESSES TELL POLICE THEY SAW A PERSON STANDING OVER THE MAN MOMENTS AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED. POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT THEN TOOK OFF WITH THE VICTIMS CAR. WHILE THEY LOOK FOR THIS GUY.... NEIGHBORS ARE ON EDGE. Clip 34 Kim Francher - LIVES IN APT COMPLEX 04:36 you don't feel safe opening the door, you don't feel safe opening the door after dark, you don't feel safe coming out after dark, even in the daytime now. POLICE SAY THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO OU MEDICAL CENTER IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THEY ARE NOT RELEASING HIS NAME YET. IN SW OKC NAVEEN DHALIWAL KOCO 5 NEWS. AND EARLIER TODAY
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NATASHA TABORI FRIED, managing editor of Welcome Books, has conceived, edited, and produced numerous titles, including The Christmas Almanac, The Little Big Book of Life, The Ultimate Organizer for Moms, A Baker's Recipe Keeper and The Big Book for Toddlers. She has co-edited numerous other titles, including The Little Big Book of Comfort Food. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.


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ROARING SPRING - Despite the revelation this week that Spring Cove School District's preliminary 2013-14 budget includes teacher furloughs, administrators haven't told educators any details about the possible layoffs, the head of the teachers' union said Wednesday.
"There's been zero discussion with the [Spring Cove Education] Association," union President John Fitzpatrick said. "I've never seen a budget drag out like this."
The proposed budget, which passed Monday with a 6-3 vote, features hundreds of thousands of dollars in cuts to close a growing deficit. Among those cuts are several support and teaching positions, though administrators declined to identify specific positions this week.
Business Manager John Clark said Monday that he would rather wait for furloughed employees to receive notice before making the cuts public.
As of Wednesday, the identities of those set to be cut - and even the precise number of furloughs - remained unclear, Fitzpatrick said.
"We've asked the building administrators, and they don't know anything," he said.
Board Finance Committee member Amy Acker-Knisely said she hopes to see a public announcement at a meeting next Thursday, after administrators privately notify individual teachers and staff to be furloughed.
The school board has worked with attorneys in recent days to iron out possible contract issues related to the budget, Acker-Knisely said.
"I completely understand their feelings. ... These are peoples' lives and their livelihoods," she said. "But we're dealing with the legal system."
Fitzpatrick said union members are looking into a plan of action in case they don't find out soon. He declined to say what that might entail.
He said teachers - especially those at risk of layoff - need to know their work status soon, so they can weigh their chances of rehiring or consider nearby job openings.
While the district would remain deep in the red without major budget trimming, economic problems alone aren't a legally acceptable cause for teacher furloughs, Fitzpatrick noted. Administrators must demonstrate additional factors, such as enrollment drops, under Pennsylvania law.
In a presentation before Monday's budget vote, Superintendent Robert Vadella cited the district's 15-year enrollment decline as grounds for an administrative shift. In that time, however, the number of teachers at Spring Cove has dropped roughly on par with enrollment.
The student-teacher ratio today, 15.09-to-1, is slightly lower than its 15.17-to-1 ratio 15 years ago, Vadella said.
Teacher furloughs will depend on attrition losses and the district's rehiring choices, Fitzpatrick said: If all this year's retirees are replaced, as many as five teachers could be laid off.
Vadella did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.
Mirror Staff Writer Ryan Brown is at 946-7457.


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Looking for website best practice tips
I'm looking for some opinions on the customer behavior in relation to page scrolling, for both home page and product page. Stats show the longer the homepage the lower the click through but is this true of all site? Does it / could it make a difference on the product page, or does it even matter?
Live vs. pre-recorded virtual events
I would like to do a virtual event/trade show but I can't decide if it should be live or pre-recorded. Does anyone have experience with live vs. pre-recorded and are there any stats that prove one to be more effective than the other.
Does the spider program run through all links on a Web page?
I know that linking is a very good way to increase visibility in my site, the more links, the better but will linking to my competitors help me or hurt me? And how?
What is the value in adding links to external sites on my company's website?
What are some other great link-building strategies other than directories?
How do I determine the lifetime value of my customers?
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Unfortunately, my marketing department has a small budget and our sales department is complaining about lead quality. I know we need to do a better job with lead nurturing but I'm not too sure what we can do with such limited funds. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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How do we convert free trial clients into full-paying members? Any recommendations on lead nurturing programs?
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Its the science of hitting without being hit, its far too technical for it to be considered anything else. Science is the study of the physical universe, its observation, experiment and measurment which are all part of boxing in some way or another. I get really annoyed when people say boxing is just two people hitting each other, anyone who thinks that would change their mind if they ever come up against a skilled boxer.
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yeah SlipX, I think HBO had it a little better than Friday Night Fights. The final punch stats, according to Compubox:
Mayweather Gatti
295 Punches thrown 245
168 Punches connected 41
57 Percentage 17
112 Jabs thrown 189
53 Jabs connected 31
47 Percentage 16
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Power punches
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63 Percentage 18
And give it a couple weeks, it'll be up officially on CompuBox's official site too. Gatti supposedly landed 10 power shots.
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An excerpt from an essay by someone named Jon Christensen:
'The phrase the sweet science of boxing was popularized by Liebling. He got it from Pierce Egans Boxiana, collections of articles about boxing in England in the 1700s. Egan called boxing The Sweet Science of Bruising.'
Liebling's book The Sweet Science was a collection of his boxing pieces for The New Yorker in the 50's.
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" Boxing is chess except with muscles, like boxing you find openings and strike"
Well, it was something along those lines anyway.
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Cory Spinks fans' are even worse at using this term. they know Spinks does not belong in a boxing ring, but they try to justify his presence by saying he's some "terrific boxer", a master of the "sweet science" when really he just gets gift decisions and gets knocked out when he tries to fight at all.
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A leading member of Stamford Hill's strictly Orthodox community, Rabbi Avraham Pinter, has accused the medical insurer HSA of "discrimination".
Last week the JC revealed that hundreds of Jewish families have been left out of pocket due to the insurer's refusal to reimburse them for treatments.
They are supported by furious dentists, homeopaths, chiropodists, herbal doctors and opticians, who say HSA has failed even to respond to applications they made on behalf of patients.
HSA refused to respond directly to Rabbi Pinter's challenge. Instead it insisted: "Our database does not hold details of ethnicity or religion, and any claim reviews would be based on an objective assessment of the facts.
"We have a regulatory duty to monitor claims continuously...If there happens to be a number of claims from a similar geographical location that we can not substantiate, then for convenience we may choose to review customers at the same time."
HSA, which is part of the Simplyhealth group of medical insurers, has been conducting "reviews" of selected policies since January. Since then, the holders of those policies have been unable to receive payouts on claims, despite paying premiums.
In the past few weeks, a large number of patients have had policies cancelled without explanation.
Rabbi Pinter, head of Yesodei Hatorah School, said he had cancelled his policy with HSA "as a point of principle", adding: "I've not made a claim with them for a long time but I cancelled because they are discriminating against members of the Orthodox community in Stamford Hill."
He has also made a complaint to the Financial Services Authority.
Robin Gordon-Walker of the FSA said the regulator is "duty-bound to investigate any suggestions of a firm mishandling its terms and conditions", adding: "Good claims-handling includes dealing with customers fairly and quickly is very important.
"When you are not upholding claims you must give full reasons."
The FSA forced HSA to change its terms and conditions four years ago after describing the insurer's grounds for terminating policies as "detrimental to the rights of consumers".
Some claimants are owed more than £1,000 by the insurer, which attracts large families by offering insurance for "unlimited children" on one policy.
Isaac Kraus's policy was terminated despite being owed £1,200 for dental, chiropody and homeopathy treatments, claimed since October.
"They sent me a letter in January saying they were reviewing my policy for four months," said Mr Kraus, who is owed payments for 15 claims, covering eight family members on his policy.
"I thought this was a standard practice and so I continued to make claims, since I was paying premiums," he added.
"But a few weeks ago I received a letter saying my policy had been terminated, without a reason.
"I complained. Last Friday I had a letter saying HSA was no longer dealing with complaints and I should go to the Financial Services Ombudsman."
One man who did successfully complain was Leivi Vogel, who was finally paid £150 for treatments he had received.
He challenged the insurer over its right to conduct a review indefinitely, after making an internal complaint in February.
"At first, they defended their right to conduct policy reviews under their terms and conditions, but I said this couldn't go on indefinitely.
"They then claimed they could hold back payments, and that they could ultimately terminate policies if practitioners were not providing them with the requested information.
"But when I asked for copies of letters they'd sent to my homeopath and optician [asking for details of Mr Vogel's treatment], they paid out."
Herbal doctor David Rosenberg, who said that more than 50 of his patients were still waiting for payments, said: "Claims that were being accepted two years ago are not being paid out now. Previously, HSA would regularly check my invoices for claims made by customers, but they haven't been in touch since the review process began.
"A decision appears to have been made, out of the blue, not to pay out on treatments claimed under me."
Mark Frazer from the Board of Deputies said: "As the number of complaints increases, a clearer picture is developing of the amount of people that have been affected by this and the sums of money involved. We are now awaiting a response to these allegations from HSA, and we will reassess the situation."


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Not that shocking, but incredibly sad.
Shocked to see that almost half the children in Mississippi are obese!
Not that shocking, but incredibly sad.
I'm so proud to be a resident of Mississippi right now. *sigh*
Eating lots but still hungry? Eat more fat. Mid-day sluggishness? Eat more fat. Feeling depressed or irritable? Eat more fat. People think you've developed an eating disorder? Eat more fat... in front of them.
"We're still getting fatter, but maybe a little more slowly than before," he said.
yaaaaay! Set your standards low and you can achieve anything!
Sad thing is, that CW on losing weight makes this WORSE!
Here in Ohio there getting bigger and bigger and lazier by the day. Our local grocery stores used to have 2 or 3 electric scooters,now I see almost a dozen of them at the entrance. I see these folks riding them thru the stores and most folks are wider than the actual scooter (sometimes even wider than the big basket mounted on the front) blocking the isles. I always look at their baskets to see what they are buying,guess what they buy the most....
cheap carbs and soda's. It gets me sick what is happening to Americans. I also see so many homes and yards neglected due to obese owners who have no interest in the upkeep. Many sit on a broke down porch eating chips and drinking sodas while the house and yard are falling apart.
I have never seen so many obese people together in my life like in a Costco near New Haven, CT. Massive people buying massive bags of pastries. I can only imagine how it's like in other states.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. -Oscar Wilde
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -George Bernard Shaw
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." -Martin Mull
I've driven through the south several times in the last two years, most recently in May. Also visit Texas fairly often. I can see the general obesity rates in those states, especially after living in or visiting Colorado. The latter is one of the very least obese states. Lots of active lifestyles.
I have a Chinese friend who I met almost immediately after she came to America (Denver) in 1997. With her extremely limited English she conveyed to me how astounded she was with so many Americans being "heavyset." (She is now a citizen, is that cool or what?)
When I go to the beach for my 3 mile walk, and even though I am still 60 pounds overweight, sometimes I feel positively skinny compared to the beached whales of all ages and both sexes that I see. I still don't take my shirt off from embarrassment. I can't imagine buying a size 65 waist or whatever swim suit and then showing all that flesh. Yuck-ola!
PS: But some of the other scenery is SO motivating to keep losing weight!
Biglee- those scooters make me crazy.
Serialsinner- Costco is the worst. Especially on Saturdays when they offer the free samples. Watch out!
I grew up in a rural area north of Pittsburgh. Before I moved away last year, the scooter was widely used at the local Wal-Mart. A disturbing amount of grossly obese children usually shopped there with their grossly obese parents. A bad cycle, indeed.
I went to Poland on business and the majority of my Polish colleagues said they'd never move to America after visiting a local Wal-Mart when visiting the US. One woman said "Expose my healthy children to junk food, hamburgers, and fat people in carts? - No. I would not like that at all. You could not offer me a job that pays enough to handle that."
I used to walk to work everyday and most of my colleagues deemed me insane. If you live 1.5 miles from your workplace and have the ability...then walk! It's a no brainer.
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Have just realized(remembered) how great this tool is. Have been using it for years and always does what it's supposed to, just recently reinstalled os and was having all sorts of problems with latest and greatest software when remembered this easy and basic tool. works a treat. thanks to authour
Works perfectly to convert my capture card MPG into DVD-compliant VIDEO_TS
The remuxed file i created using Rejig was nothing but trash. I had combined 8 files but resulting Vob file would only play first one. Went thru the files with Pgcedit only to find out that there were errors in the file. Redid the muxing with Muxman instead of Rejig and DVD played great. I do not recommend this program.
This is a fascinating little program, extremely powerful and it's power is in it's simplicity and very simply because IT WORKS!
If you want to convert NTSC to PAL this little app will help in the process:
Hats off to the programmer, just the right features for a perfect PAL->NTSC conversion, is an essential part of the process.
Just could not get it to work. Using file mode tried to demux some VOBs. The resulting mpeg2 file just doesn't work. TMPGEnc Author does not recognise it nor does Windows Media Player. The resulting AC3 Encoded audio file worked 100%, but NO video. Performed the same excercise using Vobrator (as old as it is) and it worked fine.
As jlpatte2 stated, It's probably the best free tool around for converting dvb streams to vob's.
I'm using it as the basis of an Windows XP Media Center program to convert dvr-ms (recorded tv) files to dvdr's that can be played in a standalone player. It does create non standard dvd's (i.e not the correct resolution) but I'm yet to see a player balk at them.
jlpatte2, I'd love to get my hands on the version of rejig you've created to run the dvdauthor from the cmd, it would save me using the linux port of dvdauthor for it. I would just email you, but I can't see your address here at all. If you could please contact me at trhr9AThotmail.com (msn IM ID as well) I'd be very grateful
Btw, it's released under the gpl, so you can do what you like with the source.
This is an awesome tool! Nothing else I have found can easily and quickly convert Satelite DVB content to VOBs w/o mucking with the data. This creates nonstandard DVDs, but I have yet to find a player they don't play it(only tried 3 different ones though)
I have Edited the Source to create a version on the DVD Author mode that can be run by cmd line; I am trying to contact the author to see what license if any I could redistribute my changes with. If you are intersted send me an e-mail...
The total lack of help or description of how to use it really bites, but a nice little program once you've figured it out.
Is an excellent tool with some weakness as the no existence of a little help.
I've used this tool twice now (not often you really need a compressed-domain transcoder), once on an MPEG file that turned out excellent, and then in combination with DVD REBUILDER to backup a really stubborn disc (other transcoders choked).
It has really held it's own, and provides quality that rivals DVD2One and DVD Shrink without deep analysis. This is using 1-pass mode. 2-pass is surely better, I would venture to guess.
Very valuable tool. Kudos to the creators.
The only think wrong in the DVDauthor is you cannot make menus, but you can import dirctly the charpters ( i think it writes this way) from DVD and use their original fonts and colors.
This is quite a useful tool that deserves some credit and I am using it more and more.
It can demux the video & audio stream from VOB/IFO. This is not a big deal but at least TMPGEnc Plus MPEG tool cannot do it directly from VOB. It is more easy to use than VOBEdit.
The compression function is also very handy when after encoding you find the output file size is a bit over your target. You can simply compress it a bit without spending hours again on re-encoding.
The DVD authoring function is invaluable to me sometimes. I have TDA but TDA does not support subtitles. Rejig can take multiple audio and subtitle streams. There are not many freeware authoring tools I am aware of that support SUP subtitles. Dvdauthorgui can support text subtitles but it seems to me that it lacks font for Chinese charactors.
On the other hands, there are downsides of Rejig:
1) development seems to stop and there weren't any new releases in the last couple of month. What a pity.
2) There weren't many guides of it in the web besides the compression function.
3) DVD authoring function lacks title/chapter menus.
Fantastic tool, the transcode utility is fantastic, you can demux ac3 and mpg files in it too.
The author DVD utility is great too, you cannot make DVD menus, but you can take several sound tracks and several subtitles( demuxed directly from original vob file.
It is great free tool.
crashes for me about 75% thru.
Allows import of VOB files, auto adds all VOBs in a series (VTS_01_1.VOB-VTS_01_7.VOB), takes both multiplexed MPEG streams, and MPV/M2V streams.
Demuxes audio, and applies delay correction if checked.
The scaling factor is based on % scale. 80% will shave 20% of the file size off of the m2v file size. Outputs a m2v file which needs to be remuxed into the VOBs. Works just fine using IFOEdit and NTSC streams.
At 90%, the output is great. 80% is still usable, much like other transcoders (DVD2One, CloneDVD.....). The speed seems to be a little faster than DVDShrink.
Only fault I could find was that the compression scale wasn't always 100% correct.
Also doesn't have IFO parsing [b][i]yet[/b][/i]
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Alternate life in the Universe?
Posted 04 January 2012 - 05:11 PM
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Scientists have estimated that there will be around 20 planets, anywhere in the universe that have intelligent life on them. Of course this is an estimate, but it does not seem very far fetched to me as we have already discovered planets that are almost identical to earth, and we have barely even explored or seen space yet.
If we ever do find life, whether it comes to us, or we find it, it will be NOTHING like we imagine. Species that are able to live in the extremes, etc. Although science is not even close to finding out ways to travel at fast speeds to reach these planets, and chances are, it wont even be in the next 500 years, I still believe we will find life someday, intelligent or not.
Posted 06 January 2012 - 11:39 AM
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Posted 10 January 2012 - 04:57 PM
Seeing how insignificantly small our rock in the void is, and how many other rocks there are out there - there is all but the chance.
There has even been suggestions/hints of lifeforms on other planets within our own solar system. Such as the mysterious brown cross-hatching on Europa (could be asteriod trails, could be the vast collection of microorganisms). The production of methane on mars (could be organisims producing it underground (75% of earths organisims live under the surface, in harsh toxic climates), or it could be natural production via volcanic activity etc.). Only time can truely tell (and investments in exploration).
Posted 11 March 2012 - 03:18 PM
Posted 24 March 2012 - 03:40 PM
It may be the same as us, less advanced, or more advanced - Probably all three.
There are millions of stars just in our small Milky Way Galaxy, in which we've found over 1,100 "Life" planets - Plants that are within range of their stars to have the climate for life.
That just in our small Galaxy.
We have photographed over 600,000 other galaxies, all with hundreds of billions of stars in them, all with trillions or more planets.
There is no way that Earth is the only planet in all of those numbers to have life on it.
Posted 26 March 2012 - 10:56 AM
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Posted 26 March 2012 - 11:02 AM
and by life, I mean advanced civilisations of extraterrestrial life (to use javezz' words)
the thought that we'd be the only 'civilisation' in this entire universe... I highly doubt that'd be true
looking at the incomprehensible size of the universe, I'm sure there's more out there
it's however not certain that we'll be making contact with any other living extraterrestrial species out there, but it's definately there
Posted 26 March 2012 - 01:09 PM
So if they can actually find one, imagine all they can't reach.
I personally believe that there IS an extra-terrestrial force out there, however minuscule.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 07:42 AM
That being said, I think the universe is just so vast - with an incomprehensible amount of planets, I find it hard to believe that there isn't other life out there somewhere. With the vastnesses of our universe, these conditions for the development of life must have come about in other places as well - no matter how improbable they are.
It's hard to say what form it might take - I don't personally believe it will be anything like our current conceptions are, or what is mostly shown on the media nowdays (ie. a human with a wierd haircut wearing lycra ), but with the size of the universe, I would have thought that there would be a range of different life out there. Perhaps it's just single celled organisms, or perhaps there's something more advance - or even whole civilisations. With the different conditions each planet would have - light levels, gravity, atmosphere, I'm sure organisms would evolve and adapt to end up like something we'd never imagine.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 08:24 AM
and the fact that everything hasn't been completely wiped out by a giant asteroid or some such thing before now.
Thank you Jupiter!
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 08:34 AM
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:53 PM
there are living things out there might not be humanoid but there is life
Posted 20 May 2012 - 02:00 PM
Then again, because the universe is so big, I don't think searching for life elsewhere is ever really going to be productive. I've thought about it and decided it doesn't matter whether or not I believe in extraterrestrial life because it has absolutely no bearing on how I live my day-to-day life.
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Posted 28 May 2012 - 07:08 AM
Considering the vast age and size of the universe, I'd say it's completely likely and probable that planets have fostered life that evolved into advanced creatures like humanity, created advanced civilizations just like humanity, and was then completely wiped from existence just like humanity one day will be.
Imagine in 6 billion years, 1 billion years after our sun engulfs the planet and ends humanity's legacy (if we even survive that long) there could be advanced creatures on the other side of the galaxy pondering these same questions, creatures that just 6 billion years ago were single-celled organisms, beginning the great dance of life just as we did, 4 billion years ago.
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