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More than a half dozen sources told Yahoo Sports that Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis could come back from torn triceps by Week 15, when Baltimore plays host to Denver in a game that could determine a top-two seed and a first-round bye.
Under that timetable, Lewis would return nine weeks after undergoing surgery. That recovery would trump Terrell Suggs' comeback from an Achilles injury this year.
But do the Ravens really need Lewis to rush back? The play of the Ravens defense says no.
With Lewis, the Ravens went 5-1 and allowed 19.6 points per game. Without him, Baltimore has a 4-1 record and has given up 20.2 points per game.
With Lewis, the defense allowed 396.6 yards per game, including 136.5 on the ground. Without him, the Ravens have given up 344.6 total yards, including 118.8 yards rushing.
This isn't the same situation as the Steelers with injured quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The Steelers offense desperately needs him to return.
This Ravens, on the other hand, are considered a virtual lock to win the AFC North right now, leading the Steelers and Bengals by three games with five weeks remaining. The defense has found its groove in the red zone, not allowing a touchdown inside its 20-yard line in the past four games. There really is no need for Lewis to be a medical miracle.
One source told Yahoo Sports that Lewis could practice as soon as this Thursday, the day he's eligible to do so after having been placed on the "injured reserve designated to return" list six weeks earlier, and almost certainly will return sometime in the next month. Lewis wouldn't confirm any timetable return, saying, "You've got eyes -- what do you expect to happen? I'm here to support my team."
The Ravens have adjusted to life without Lewis, moving Jameel McClain to Lewis' spot and putting Dannell Ellerbe in the starting lineup. Ellerbe has been one of the Ravens' most consistent defenders this year.
But Ellerbe left the Chargers game with an ankle injury and didn't return. He told the Baltimore Sun that he plans to play against the Steelers on Sunday, although he may undergo an X-ray on Monday.
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Roses and Petals Combo Box, Lavender (75 stems)
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- Suggested delivery time frame: 2 days before event
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- Please read and follow Care Guide in Specifications
- Imported from Ecuador
These stunning premium-quality roses and petals arrange beautifully with any flower and fit any occasion to give that extra touch of elegance. Use with hydrangeas, mini callas, fillers and greens to create a charming centerpiece or arrange them alone for a simple modern and romantic feel.
Please have someone available to receive and process the flowers on the delivery date.
Please read Order Cancellation, Warranty and Important Delivery Information policies.
Due to the nature of this specialty item, orders must be placed at least 7 days prior to delivery date. Requested delivery date is 2 days before event.
Due to differences in monitor resolution, color intensity may vary from actual items. Slight shade variations from actual picture may occur.
Each box contains the following:
- 3 bunches of Roses
- 2 bags of Lavender petals (approx. 1,800-2,000 petals)
- Stem length: 50 cm
- Bloom size: 5 cm+
- Each bunch contains: 25 Ecuadorian roses. Within each bunch, the roses are packed in two layers to ensure protection during shipping.
- From the top angle it will appear that you only have 12 stems in the bunch; however below this layer there is a second layer containing the remaining 13 stems
- Bouquets/bunches are individually sleeved to ensure protection during shipping
- Exposing roses to warmer environment will help the flower bloom, storing them in a cooler will slow down the opening process
- Roses are shipped with guard petals in order to protect the blooms during shipping. After your roses have hydrated, remove the protective packaging and then any brown or discolored guard petals if needed. It is not uncommon to remove an average of 5 to 10 petals per bloom and will not damage the flower
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To ensure optimum freshness, different varieties may be substituted based on availability. In making substitutions, we take great care to ensure that we exceed your expectations, and that you will be satisfied with the flower quality and performance.
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- Let them hydrate 1-2 hours before removing the corrugated wrap
- Fill a clean container/vase with fresh, cool water and add flower food provided
- Remove any foliage that falls below the waterline of your container
- Using a sharp knife or scissors, make a clean cut of at least 1/2" off the end of the stem
- Place the flowers in the prepared container
- Do not place flowers in direct sunlight and keep in a cool location
- Change water and re-cut stems every 3 days
- If these flowers are painted or glittered, do not submerse the heads in water and take extra care attaching to clothes as the colors may bleed
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While our petals will last up to 72 hours stored in a cool dry place, we recommend that all bags are placed in refrigeration to maintain optimal freshness for your event. Simply follow the steps below to keep your hydrangea petals fresh:
- Upon arrival, open the box and inspect the petals.
- Remove all bags from the box. If a bag has too much condensation on the inside, open and dry the bag with a paper towel and reseal.
- Place bags in selected refrigerator until ready to use.
- Open each bag and arrange as desired.
Note: In the event the petals are placed in a section of the refrigerator that could freeze, they will be damaged. Ensure that your refrigerator does not reach below 35 degrees.
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Contrary to rumors, Michael Strahan won't be leaving Kelly Ripa and his Live With Kelly and Michael morning talk show, but he'll be joining ABC's Good Morning America on a part time basis. With the recent departures of Sam Champion and Josh Elliott there was a hole to fill in the morning show so Strahan was quickly chosen.
He will be joining Good Morning America cast George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, Amy Robach, Lara Spencer and weather forecaster Ginger Zee.
"The big news is that I'm gonna be on 'GMA' now," he announced to the Live with Kelly and Michael audience today. "So what is so surprising is I had a meeting, and we talked about the possibility there, and then I went to see Captain America with Samuel L. Jackson and I get out of screening and I check my messages and I'm on 'Good Morning America.'
Strahan was quick to let everyone know that he won't be leaving Ripa as he'll be working semi-regularly during the show's first hour.
"I don't think I could do it every day. I have a lot going on. I have to be smart about it," he said. "I just want everyone to know and [Kelly] to know that no matter what, this is my number one priority, and you [Kelly] are my number one priority, and I would never do anything to jeopardize the quality of what I do here."
Strahan was a surprise choice to fill Regin Philbin's seat during the fall of 2012, but he's proven himself very adept for morning talk shows which is why ABC set their sites on him and worked out a deal to his advantage to make sure they landed. Also being an analyst on Fox's NFL Sunday, Michael Strahan will be working as hard as he did on the field.


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There are some resources on the architecture and the internals of Derby. They can be found under the 'Papers and Presentations' section [1].
[1] http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/index.html
Dear Moderator,I have found that the issue on Derby MERGE statement is still not resolved. ( link:Ā https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3155Ā )So I can work on this matter as I know concepts of DBMS.I already download and build the source code of Derby using eclipse. I have read some documentation about the Derby. but they provide only about how to use derby but not about the architectural view about Derby. Can you please add me to the Derby mailing list so I can get some help from the developers.ĀIf you can send me some links and information about how I will start my work to implement this method.Thank you.--
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Yep yep yep, I still have A LOT of work to do but it's coming together now, I'm still not happy with the back of the helmet ugh!
And for more comic relief look who's in Maxim magazine!
Update: 04/08/04
Well my pathetic attempt at doing this myself is moving along, I got the main colors on my helmet and did some of the back.
Let me know what you think
Well after a lot of flip flopping on wheter i could ever d a decent job on an ESB helmet I finally got around to doing the small pieces today...
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Cynthia Mulligan has the latest from city hall as the whereabouts of Mayor Rob Ford is unknown. It is the first council meeting since Ford went to rehab. Coun. Doug Ford said the mayor is in a rehab facility, but wouldn't say where it is.
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Convergent Evolution
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As was noted in Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Charles Darwin himself had noted that one expects a treelike pattern of relationships from descent with modification. However, there are numerous cases where sets of organisms seem to have mixtures of shared and different features, a circumstance which seems contrary to that expected treelike pattern. Examples:
- Wings for powered flight: birds, bats, pterosaurs, insects
- Anteating: South American anteater, aardvark, pangolin, echidna (spiny anteater)
- Antishness: ants, termites
- Camera-like eyes: vertebrates, squid/octopuses
- Tail flukes for propulsion in water: fish, cetaceans (whales and dolphins)
In these cases, adaptation for similar function has induced similar overall structure -- but in all of these cases, there are enough differences in detail to enable us to recognize convergence, or homoplasy (also see parallelism). Bird wings have a characteristic architecture, one that differs from the characteristic architecture of bat wings, and likewise for pterosaur and insect wings. This indicates that wings evolved four times, once for each of these groups of animals. And we find that each of these groups of animals is closer to some nonflying animals than to any of the other ones:
- Birds - theropod dinosaurs
- Bats - other placental mammals
- Pterosaurs - early archosaurs
- Insects - crustaceans
The various anteaters have similar adaptations for consuming their meals, notably, long snouts and tongues. However, the rest of the animal looks different enough to suggest convergence. Echidnas are monotremes as opposed to placentals and SA anteaters are edentates/xenarthrans, closest to armadillos and sloths. And recent molecular evidence shows that aardvarks are in a group called "afrotherians" that includes tenrecs, elephants, and sea cows, and pangolins are probably closest to carnivores.
Their diet, ants and termites, are another example of convergent evolution. They have similar lifestyles, living in subterranean or subterranean-like fashion and with their only flyers being reproducers dispersing. However, ants are descended from wasps and termites are probably descended from cockroach-like insects.
Camera-like eyes also fit this pattern; they are different in detail between characteristic architectures, such as whether or not the nerves are in the path of the light to the photoreceptor cells, and their owners are most closely related to animals with much poorer-quality eyes.
Tail flukes are an effective means of propelling a creature through water. Yet fish tails have vertical flukes, while cetaceans have horizontal ones. Note that fish such as eels wriggle from side to side to swim; side-to-side is the fish way of moving. And note that land mammals tend to have a dorso-ventrally (up and down) flexible spine, for quadrupedal running. If cetaceans derived from land animals, as evolution claims, then it is no surprise that they would move their tails up and down, and therefore that their tail flukes would be horizontal.
All these examples suggest that convergent evolution can be recognized in cases where enough distinctive features can be found -- if they can be found. If they cannot be found, then one is likely to reach ambiguous or even false conclusions about relationships. This has been the case for certain birds, for example; convergence was only recognized when additional features were found -- gene sequences.
Biological homology and biological analogy
The difference between homology (detailed similarity of organization that is not explainable by similarity in function) and analogy (gross similarity explainable by similarity in function) was in fact recognized before Darwin. It was formalized by Richard Owen. With Darwin, it was recognized that homology is explained by descent from common ancestors, and that analogy is due to similar selective pressures acting on different starting organisms, i.e. convergent evolution. If biology was "intelligently designed" in a manner similar to human design, we would expect that similar functions would be served by fundamentally the same structures -- like GPS units from the same company have been placed in cars, boats, airplanes, etc. But instead, biology commonly shows a pattern of different functions served by the same basic structures (homology) and the same functions served by different structures (analogy). It is as if the "designer" is continually re-designing the same system from scratch with no knowledge of an already-existent solution to the problem on a continent only a few thousand kilometers away.
A few complications of the homology/analogy distinction should be mentioned. One occurs when organisms that are relatively closely related have similar adaptations. Did the adaptation occur before or after these groups diverged? Since the organisms would have very similar "starting points" even if the adaptations were independently acquired, it may be more difficult to clearly distinguish homology and analogy. In many cases this may be due to our lack of sufficiently detailed information (i.e., developmental and genetic) about the structures in question, or our intentional atomization of the structures into cladistic characters (two species might share the same individual character by common descent, common selective pressures, or chance; the homology vs. analogy question can only be intelligibly assessed by looking at a large number of characters). One term for this situation is parallelism.
A similar confusion may occur where nucleotide sequences are being compared and the level of sequence similarity is close to the similarity expected by random chance. In such cases, factors that bias sequence composition (such as a mutation bias or a temperature favoring DNA stability via a particular G+C content) might make the apparent sequence similarity appear more significant. In the opinion of this author, similarities attributable to chance or to a non-selective deterministic factor are neither homology nor analogy and should be described with another term. --oplo


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When teaching so as to engage with the diversity of your students you might
- approach every interaction with the assumption that the person you are dealing with is well intentioned, and respond positively.
- introduce yourself in the first class and include aspects of your cultural background. Ask students to introduce themselves to another student, share something of that student's background and if appropriate ask them to introduce that person to the class. Learn students' names and know how to pronounce them.
- agree on course expectations with students as early as possible. Provide an overview of learning activities and outcomes and explain academic standards and expectations regarding assignments, marking criteria and assessment timelines.
- create safe collaborative spaces by setting ground rules for collaborative learning. Discuss appropriate classroom behaviour, a need for courtesy, respect for different opinions. Encourage students to articulate their thinking openly in trusting, respectful environments. Be comfortable with and encourage students to learn by getting stuck, being uncertain, making mistakes and being different. Link these to the University's graduate attributes.
- ensure cross-cultural learning experiences are fully integrated into course learning outcomes, curriculum and assessment and are not considered an 'add-on'.
- explain subject specific terminology clearly and concisely. Encourage students to ask for clarification if they do not understand and be mindful that some colloquial expressions may need to be rephrased in plain English, including questions or comments raised by students. Allow plenty of time for students to formulate responses to questions or to comment.
- be aware of your own potential for bias, and help your students to become aware of theirs. Support students in reflecting on these issues.
- encourage students to reflect on and value their cultural influences. Find opportunities to allow students to connect their learning with their own lives. This may involve selecting or negotiating topics and activities relevant to students' lives and backgrounds. Value contributions equally and find ways to use the diversity present in your students as a learning opportunity for all.
- develop strategies for sharing and generating knowledge. This involves creating open, flexible activities that allow students to draw on their knowledge, interests and experiences while encouraging them to share and apply different knowledges and experiences among peers. This might involve setting up cross-cultural learning environments where at times students might work in groups comprising students from diverse backgrounds, at other times they might work in groups of their choice.
- present material in ways that includes a diversity of international, national, Indigenous and local perspectives and ensure the material does not over generalise or reinforce stereotypes. Consider bringing in guest speakers from a range of backgrounds to address topics on which you may not have expertise.
- model inclusive behaviour towards minority students, neither 'spotlighting' them in ways that may be unwelcome, nor overlooking them when they wish to make a contribution. Avoid treating any student as representative of his or her cultural group and keep in mind that every individual has their own unique cultural influences. Avoid racist or exclusive remarks and discourage the same with your students.
- try to be culturally aware, for example by using materials, resources and anecdotes that are relevant to the subject and sensitive to the social and cultural diversity of the group.
- know where you might direct your students if they are in need of learning support.
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Happy Monday! I hope you had a fantastic weekend! I spent most of mine writing a research paper (don't be jealous), but took a break Saturday night to go on another date with Mr. Match.
We had dinner at Hank's Oyster Bar, one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants, and enjoyed a delicious meal of oysters, lobster roll, fresh-cut french fries and roasted cauliflower with caramelized onions.
Mr. Match had never tried a raw oyster, so
I forced him he was anxious to give it a go. 😉 The expression on his face as it slide down his throat was priceless!
The verdict? Well, let's just say that he ever-so-generously let me finish the remaining oysters. 😉
The highlight of the meal was definitely the cauliflower! Oh. My. Goodness. So good! The caramelized onions were a perfect contrast to the tender, lightly buttered vegetables. I plan to recreate the flavors in my own kitchen by making this Smitten Kitchen tart.
In completely unrelated news…
I've been on a major banana kick lately.
*Sidenote: As I was working on this post yesterday, I saw via Twitter that Julie had just posted a Banana Recipe Roundup. My initial thought was, "Oh no! Now I can't post this!" but then I decided that I could use it as an opportunity to spread even more banana love. Check out her recipes here!
If I were to guess, I'd say I'm probably eating about two to three bananas per day. That might not sound like a lot, but for a girl who once shunned bananas like they were as evil as SPAM, it's 200-300% increase from a year ago.
Meet yesterday morning's pre-workout "split."
Oh, and please excuse the iPhone photos. I was too lazy to run all the way upstairs to grab my camera. Saving the energy for my workout…obviously. 😉
I enjoyed this for breakfast nearly every morning last week. To make the topping, I combined the following ingredients:
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt (I use Chobani 0% plain most of the time, but it's even more delicious when made with the Honey-Nana Champions flavor)
- 2 T. PB2 (or peanut flour)
- 1-2 T. vanilla protein powder (I'm currently using Tera's Whey)
I slather my banana up good, then top it with granola, peanuts, or in this case, sunflower seeds.
But the banana lovin' most definitely doesn't stop there.
You all know about my love for Banana Muffin Tops. Well, Caramelized Banana Pancakes are pretty fantastic too. 😉
To make these, I used my favorite pancake recipe, but added banana slices to the batter. So simple! (And yes, that little pat of buttery Earth Balance makes all the difference!)
Don't you think that whipping up a batch of banana pancakes would be 58345 times more fun if you were wearing this skirt?
And these shoes?
Possibly the craziest pair of shoes ever? I think so!
If I start dressing like the Chiquita Banana Lady, I'm going to blame Pinterest.
I'm also going to "blame" Pinterest if I just happen to make every single one of these recipes this week. 😉
Peanut Butter-Banana Shake (from a great new-to-me vegan blog, Healthy Happy Life)
Banana Bread Breakfast 'Bake' <–made with quinoa and coconut!
Banana Split Mini's <–These would be so fun for a kids birthday party
Peanut Butter-Banana Chocolate Pudding <—only three ingredients!
Clearly I've gone bananas for…BANANAS! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself). 😉
And now, my friends, it's time to heed this banana's advice and get to the gym. 😉
Except, I won't be running. I'll be lifting. Bring it, Live Fit Day 22!
Oh, but one more thing before I go.
Did you watch the Oscars last night? I can't help but ask which looks you loved most! My favorites included…
Gorgeous! And cheers to Cam for rocking a HEALTHY body!
I think Gwyneth Paltrow is timeless. Loooved the dress, but the cape, not so much.
Angelina showed a little too much leg, but she was undeniably stunning, as always.
Go make today wonderful! It's 100% up to you! xoxoxo <3
Please share…
Are there any foods that you once feared and now love?
What is your favorite way to eat or cook with bananas?
Which "look" was your favorite at the Oscars?


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I'm not exactly saying that you should watch this, but it is hilarious. Big thanks to Krick for finding this… well, I'd call it a "gem" but I just can't muster it up.
Also, as a sidenote: the girl is twelve. Seeing her behind the wheel is genuinely frightening. And we all know that I kill cars.
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Re: st: multiple weights per person in GEE?
Stas Kolenikov <email@example.com>
Re: st: multiple weights per person in GEE?
Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:17:46 -0500
If SAS does it, it does not mean it is such a great idea. And
propensity score matching people rarelly care about any other
complications that may be arising from the complex data structure, in
my experience.
First, check out the FAQ:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/xtweight.html which talks about
the conceptual foundations for use of weights. Propensity score
weights are neither frequency, variance, or sampling weights; they are
more like kernel weights in non-parametric regression.
At any rate, my understanding of GEE is that a contribution to the
objective function is from the whole panel: you compute the residuals,
then, for each panel, you compute the quadratic form with the
residuals using the working correlation matrix, and then the whole
result is multiplied by the weight and added to the total. How exactly
would the different weights go into that quadratic form? SAS might
have found some algorithmic implementation (e.g., multiply each
residual by the square root of the weight before wrapping the
residuals around the correlation matrix), but I would personally want
to see a Biometrika paper that would justify this before I apply any
such method.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ariel Linden<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> This is a question more directed at the Stata folks than to the listserve
> per se.
> Is there a reason why xtgee does not allow different weights/person/wave? It
> gives an error message stating "weight must be constant within personnumber"
> While I hate to invoke the phrase, "but SAS does it", I am forced to. There
> is a growing body of literature in which the propensity score weighting
> method is applied to longitudinal data. Thus, by it's very nature, weights
> will differ within individuals over each wave.
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How can something so Wrong Ramen taste so right
Ever since I came back from Singapore, and having eaten at their famous Tonkotsu King ramen bar, I've been hunting for awesome ramen bars here in Manila. I tried Ukkokei before and it was just good, not mind-blowing for me. Ramen at Nihonbashitei was also good for its relatively affordable price.
Made a new blogger friend last month who suggested the newly-opened Wrong Ramen in Burgos Circle, Fort Bonifacio. It's along Bugsy's and if you've been to that area, parking's tough especially during lunch on a weekday which is what Tia and I did for our Valentine's date.
Wrong Ramen is a 22-seater 2-level ramen bar with a funny and minimalist interior. They have tables for groups as well as bar stools by the window for solo goers.
Check out this Scrabble wall display. They also have a lot of funny posters that I wasn't able to take a photo of.
Cool-looking transparent plate and the matching chopsticks which I find hard to use because it's slippery. I just prefer the regular light, wooden chopsticks.
I was tempted to take these battery Salt and Pepper shakers home. Hehehe. Cool right?
The courteous and attentive staff handed us a clipboard with a print out of their menu. They were still on soft opening at that time so there's no actual menu with photos yet.
They only serve Tonkotsu Ramen (pork broth) in different styles so don't go looking for your Shio's and Shoyu's here. Tonkotsu is what I was after for since for me it's the bang-for-the-buck ramen with its fat-infested broth. Hehehe. Their tonkotsu is Japanese-inspired but with local ingredients.
They have 6 kinds of tonkotsu ramen, with funny names as well. There's the Communist Ramen (P370), F.U. Ramen (P395 – spam, bacon, egg), and Sea Men Ramen (P345 – seafood, duh). For first-timers, the safest would be Wrong Ramen Tonkotsu that comes in either light (P295) or rich flavor (P380). Light only has shredded chashu (pork) while the rich has your typical sliced chashu. They also have their own Wrong Ramen Tantanmen (P395).
Aside from ramen, they also have a couple of stir-fried noodles (Tsukemen). As for side dishes, they only have a few – Bacon Katsu, Enoki Mushroom Fries, and Chashu Rice Rolls.
We ordered the Chashu Rice Rolls (P180) which are shredded chashu rolls in Vietnamese rice wrappers. Never though I would like something like it but it's actually good especially the sauce that came with it.
We ordered the rich Wrong Ramen Tonkotsu (P370) because it's close to how tonkotsu ramen is done in Japan (I think). It's not as milky as the ones in Tonkotsu King but still flavorful. Too flavorful that if you're not fond of a fatty ramen broth, go with the light version or else you might not be able to finish the soup.
How was it? Really good! The noodles were done just right. The chashu was tender but not the melt-in-your-mouth type of pork. Still good though. I haven't tried other tonkotsu ramen in Manila yet but Wrong Ramen is close to what I've tasted in Singapore. It's a bit pricey though but that's how good authentic ramen are typically priced.
I wish they would come up with desserts to counter the flavorful after-taste you will get after downing a bowl of their ramen. They did serve a couple of free yogurt shots after our meal.
I would definitely recommend Wrong Ramen as a ramen bar especially if you're craving for tonkotsu ramen. Just be mindful of other patrons waiting outside so don't stay too long when you're done. Besides, authentic ramen bars are the eat-and-run type.


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I have 3.0 for about a week with Win95, Pent 166 with 32 meg ram. I can
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As an educator, you understand the importance of keeping students interested and involved. We here at the Department of Environmental Services have gathered a collection of materials and activities to help make environmental education fun in YOUR classroom.
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(NEW YORK) — Cellphone use continues to grow and shows no signs of slowing down, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center Internet and American Life project.
The project, which has been tracking cellphone use since 2007, reports that 85 percent of American adults own a cellphone, and almost half of them have a smartphone.
The report finds that younger adults, individuals with higher levels of education, and those living in households that have annual earnings of $75,000 or more are more likely than others to have performed various cellphone activities such as taking photos, texting, accessing the Internet, recording video, emailing, downloading apps and mobile banking.
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Perceptions of Ethical Problems with Scientific Journal Peer Review: An Exploratory Study
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This article reports the results of an anonymous survey of researchers at a government research institution concerning their perceptions about ethical problems with journal peer review. Incompetent review was the most common ethical problem reported by the respondents, with 61.8% (SE = 3.3%) claiming to have experienced this at some point during peer review. Bias (50.5%, SE = 3.4%) was the next most common problem. About 22.7% (SE = 2.8%) of respondents said that a reviewer had required them to include unnecessary references to his/her publication(s), 17.7% (SE = 2.6%) said that comments from reviewers had included personal attacks, and 9.6% (SE = 2.0%) stated that reviewers had delayed publication to publish a paper on the same topic. Two of the most serious violations of peer review ethics, breach of confidentiality (6.8%, SE = 1.7%) and using ideas, data, or methods without permission (5%, SE = 1.5%) were perceived less often than the other problems. We recommend that other investigators follow up on our exploratory research with additional studies on the ethics of peer review.


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Human trafficking is now the world's second largest criminal enterprise behind drug dealing. Federal immigration officials were in Houston, reaching out with a message to legal or illegal immigrants who are victims of crime. The message is: there is help for you.
Richard Halverson with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says finding victims is never easy.
"The hardest part about this mission is identifying the problem. Human trafficking is an especially secretive crime, where traffickers program their victims to be fearful of law enforcement agencies. That's why we need the public's help to get the word out. As many times, these victims are hidden in plain sight. Recognizing and reporting suspected cases of human trafficking can help the victims, and bring the traffickers to justice."
The program, initiated by the Obama Administration, is called the "Blue Campaign." It's aimed at helping immigrants who came to this country under less than ideal conditions.
Scott Whelan of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says immigrant victims need to know that they may be eligible to apply for two different kinds of visas that would allow them to stay and work legally in the United States for three years.
"The T Visa allows victims of human trafficking to remain in the United States, and assist law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution of that trafficking case. The U Visa provides immigration protection to crime victims who have suffered substantial physical or mental abuse, as a result of being a victim of that crime. The U Visa also allows victims to remain in the United States and assist law enforcement authorities in the investigation or prosecution of that qualifying crime."
He says because of their status, many immigrants fear reporting abuse, so he's reaching out to local law enforcement agencies so they can let victims know that help is available.
"We walk through everything, to make law enforcement as comfortable as possible with them, and they know what they're doing when they're signing them and they feel comfortable with it, because they're the experts on those crimes that are happening in their locations. No one knows Houston better than Houston PD that's for sure. So like, we're relying on them for their expertise in the investigation and prosecute the individual and with the conviction. We can put them behind bars .for a long time."
Whelan says their sole purpose is to raise awareness with everyone, to do a better job of reaching people who are vulnerable victims.


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In the Queen's Speech on 6 November there was no reference to a Planning Gain Supplement Tax Bill. For the British Property Federation (BPF) and the many others who had campaigned against the tax, this news was welcomed enthusiastically.
The Government has for many years been pursuing a new homes agenda. The July 2007 Housing Green Paper, for example, speaks of three million new homes by 2020. For many years investment in new infrastructure has lagged behind growth. The areas most targeted for new communities and regeneration need investment in transport, schools, local services and health facilities.
Traditionally, investment in local services has come from central government, funded by direct taxation and from local rates, topped up by 'planning gain' contributions from the development industry.
The crux is that existing resources are not delivering enough to fund the necessary new and improved infrastructure. Increasing taxation on local and general populations is politically unacceptable. Research in 2004 showed that 'planning gain' via Section 106 agreements was negotiated in only 1.5 per cent of all developments, 17.6 per cent of major developments and 25.8 per cent of major residential developments.
In a gravity-defying property market, developers and landowners apparently earning large profits enjoy limited press, and even less public, sympathy. The Government has therefore warmed to the twin challenge of how to extract greater contributions from developers and how to capture contributions from the large majority of small developments that would otherwise slip through the net.
New tax plans
Proposals for a new centrally collected Planning Gain Supplement Tax (PGST) were launched for consultation in December 2005.
PGST was conceived as a measure "to capture a portion of the gains accruing to landowners as a result of the granting of planning permission so that increases in land values can benefit the community more widely".
Under the proposals, planning obligations (Section 106 Agreements) were to be scaled back and a direct tax to capture a percentage of uplift in land values deriving from the granting of planning permission was to be levied.
PGST would be paid direct to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Revenues captured were to be partially hypothecated with a 'significant majority' recycled to the local level, with a 'significant proportion' to be ringfenced for strategic infrastructure.
The campaign against PGST
The property and development industries did not see the proposals as either fair or efficient. From December 2005 to October 2007, the BPF led a campaign for the proposals to be scrapped in favour of a tariff-based approach.
A chink of light appeared when the July 2007 Housing Green Paper invited comment on four approaches to development-related contributions to infrastructure funding, only one of which was PGST.
Over summer 2007, there was frenetic activity by the property industry culminating in a combined BPF, Home Builders Federation, London First and Major Developers Group submission advocating an alternative approach.
An alternative to PGST
The submission, backed by research demonstrating the degree to which local authorities were already using a tariff-based approach to large developments, proposed:
– using Section 106 obligations as the foundation for the wider introduction of tariffs;
– setting a tariff-charging system in development plans, as opposed to an informal policy;
– applying the system to all developments from smaller developments to local or sub-regional infrastructure;
– introducing a development plan requirement for all developments to contribute through a tariff towards general infrastructure;#retaining existing Section 106 arrangements for when specific infrastructure needs to be secured for a particular development.
New planning charge
The representations were successful. The October 2007 Pre-Budget Report announced: "Legislation implementing PGST will… not be introduced in the next parliamentary session. Following discussions with key stakeholders, the Government will legislate in the Planning Reform Bill to empower local planning authorities in England to apply new planning charges to new development, alongside negotiated contributions for site-specific matters."
The same afternoon, Yvette Cooper, the Minister for Communities and Local Government, outlined the main features of the planning charge as follows:
– Subject to low de minimis thresholds, residential and commercial developers will be liable to pay the planning charge.
– Where appropriate, local authorities will be able to use planning charges to supplement a negotiated agreement. The agreements will still be necessary to secure affordable housing and to address costs related to the specific development site.
– Planning charges would be based on a costed assessment of the infrastructure requirements arising out of the development, taking account of land values.
– Planning charges should include contributions towards the costs of infrastructure of sub-regional and regional importance identified in development plans.
– Planning charge policies will be tested through the development plan process, in consultation with developers, stakeholders and the community to ensure they support the new development and levels of new housing required.
A battle won
The development industry has won a battle in a longer war. PGST has been shelved. But in its enthusiasm for standard tariffs the industry has conceded the principle that developer contributions to infrastructure should be based on need generated by individual developments.
Also, the true detail of the new planning charge has yet to emerge. The October announcements are opaque on how the charge will be calculated, but it is clear it will take account of land values. They are similarly opaque as to who will receive the monies raised and who will collect them.
Section 106 planning obligations will continue for the foreseeable future and will certainly be relevant to larger developments.
For smaller developments there will be a planning charge alone. For larger developments, combinations of infrastructure-related Grampian Conditions (a planning condition saying development cannot proceed beyond a certain point before another event has occurred), planning charges and Section 106 planning obligations may still be the norm. The conundrum of how developers can ensure that infrastructure to which they contribute will be delivered to release Grampian Conditions still remains. The spectre of developers having to make payments as well as having themselves to deliver infrastructure to overcome Grampian Conditions still remains.
If the charges are dependent on both emerging legislation and adopted development plan provisions before they come into play, they will be at least two years off in most areas.
PGST has not been permanently ruled out. The development of statutory planning charges is to be kept under close review to make sure that the Government achieves its aim of increasing investment in infrastructure alongside supporting new development.
The Treasury and HMRC are rumoured to have spent £40m on a computer system for collecting PGST. If this is so, they will be reluctant to see it disappear altogether.
Tim Pugh is joint head of planning and environment at Berwin Leighton Paisner


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Size matters! Enterprise system success in medium and large organizations
Sedera, Darshana (2008) Size matters! Enterprise system success in medium and large organizations. In Gupta, Jatinder N. D., Sharma, Sushi, K., & Rashid, Mohammad Abdur (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems. IGI Global, Information Science Reference, United States of America, Pennsylvania, Hershey, pp. 218-231.
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Budget 2012
On 21 March 2012, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, presented his Budget to Parliament.
Taxes should be simple, predictable, support work, and they should be fair. The rich should pay the most, and the poor least. The tax system this Government inherited from its predecessor had drifted far from these principles,…we need to give Britain a modern tax system fit for the modern world….We are…pressing forward with our ambition to integrate the operation of income tax and national insurance…so we don't ask businesses to run two different payroll tax administrations.George Osborne
In this article, we pull out some of the the main points of interest and announcements in relation to workers, payroll and HR.
- Annual Personal Tax Statement
- Change to Personal Tax
- Additional 50% Tax
- Change to Age Related Allowances (ARAs) – "Granny Tax"
- Child Benefit
- Capping Tax Relief
- Pension Contributions via flexible benefit and salary sacrifice – Spouses and family
- Cars, Vans, Fuel Benefits etc
- National Minimum Wage
- Income Tax and NICs alignment
- National Insurance 2013
- Abolished Reliefs
Annual Personal Tax Statement
From 2012-13 tax payers who undertake self assessment (around 20 million) will receive information in relation to how much of their hard earned money that is taxed is spent by this Government.
Change to Personal Tax
A further rise to the personal allowance was announced for the 2013/2014 tax year.
Since the formation of the coalition Government, personal allowances have changed in the following way:
- 2011/2012 £7,479 (+£1,000)
- 2012/2013 £8,105 (+£630)
- 2013/2014 £9,205 (+£1,100)
This latest announcement further benefits 23.6 million individual's earnings less than £100,000 and removes another 840,000 out of income tax altogether – "people working full time on the minimum wage, will have seen their income tax bill cut in half".
To limit the benefit to higher rate tax payers, the basic rate limit has been reduced:
- £35,001 to £34,370 in 2012/2013
- £34,371 to £32,245 in 2013/2014
This means that higher tax rate payers only benefit from a quarter of the rise to the new personal allowances.
Additional 50% Tax
…The additional rate of 50 pence…is widely acknowledged by business…as harming the British economy…George Osborne
The top rate of income tax will be reduced from 50% to 45% in April 2013.
Change to Age Related Allowances (ARAs) – "Granny Tax"
We will simplify the tax system for pensioners by doing away with the complexity of the additional age-related allowances for anyone reaching the age of 65 on or after 6th April 2013 and I will freeze the cash value of the allowance for existing pensioners until it aligns with the personal allowance.George Osborne
From 6 April 2013 ARAs are frozen at 2012/2013 levels:
- £10,660 (born before 6 April 1938)
- £10,500 (born before 6 April 1948)
Child Benefit
From January 2013, Child Benefit will be withdrawn through an income tax charge from households where someone has an income over £50,000 a year. For households where someone has an income between £50,000 and £60,000 the charge will apply gradually, preventing the cliff-edge effect. Only households where someone has an income in excess of £60,000 a year will no longer gain from Child Benefit (Finance Bill 2012).
Capping Tax Relief
To curtail excessive use of reliefs, for anyone claiming reliefs of more than £50,000, a cap will be set at 25% of income. This is not extended to reliefs already capped e.g. enterprise and pension contributions.
Pension Contributions via flexible benefit and salary sacrifice – Spouses and family
The Government will legislate to ensure that arrangements where an employer pays a pension contribution into a registered pension scheme for an employee's spouse or family member as part of their employee's flexible remuneration package cannot be used to obtain tax and NIC advantages for the employee or the employer. (Finance Bill 2013)
Cars, Vans, Fuel Benefits etc
The fuel benefit charge for employees with company cars that are provided with fuel for private use is increased from 6 April 2012 from £18,800 to £20,200 (a 7.4% increase), and will increase by plus 2% above RPI in April 2013.
Company van user fuel benefits values are frozen at £550 with van benefit frozen at £3,000 but will increase by RPI in April 2013
The appropriate percentage of list price subject to tax will increase by one percentage point for cars emitting more than 75 grams/kilometre of carbon dioxide, to a maximum of 35 per cent in 2014–15, and by two percentage points, to a maximum of 37 per cent in both 2015–2016 and 2016–2017. (Finance Bill 2012 and future Finance Bill) (20)
From April 2015, the five-year exemption for zero carbon and ultra low carbon emission vehicles (cars and vans) will come to an end (Finance Act 2010). The appropriate percentage for zero emission and low carbon vehicles will be 13 per cent from April 2015 and will increase by two percentage points in 2016–17.
From April 2016, the Government will remove the three percentage point diesel supplement differential so that diesel cars will be subject to the same level of tax as petrol cars.
National Minimum Wage
The new rates will come into force on 1 October 2012 at below inflation increases:
- £6.19 per hour for workers aged 21 and over – a rise of 11p
- £4.98 per hour for 18-20 year olds – no change
- £3.68 per hour for workers above school leaving age but under 18 – no change
- £2.65 per hour for apprentices – a rise of 5p
- Accommodation offset max £4.82 – a rise of 9p.
Income Tax and NICs alignment
We need to give Britain a modern tax system fit for the modern world…We are…pressing forward with our ambition to integrate the operation of income tax and national insurance…so we don't ask businesses to run two different payroll tax administrations.George Osborne
Consultation is to follow.
National Insurance 2013
The National Insurance Upper Earnings (/Profits) Limit will also be reduced to align it with the higher rate tax threshold. The higher rate threshold will be £41,450, meaning that one quarter of the total gain will be passed on to higher rate taxpayers. (Finance Bill 2013) (1)
Abolished Reliefs
The budget also confirmed a number of reliefs that are to be removed. It was confirmed that the 15p per day Luncheon Voucher relief would be removed from 6 April 2013. From 6 April 2015 reliefs on Life Assurance premiums, those paid by employers and employer financed retirement benefit schemes are withdrawn.
Personal Service companies remains a contentious area and a concern to the Government. As a consequence of the continued debate, the Government is to introduce a package of measures to tackle avoidance and make the IR35 legislation easier to understand for those who are genuinely in business.
This will include: strengthening up specialist compliance teams to tackle avoidance of employment income; simplifying the way IR35 is administered; and subject to consultation, requiring office holders/controlling persons who are integral to the running of an organisation to have PAYE and NICs deducted at source by the organisation by which they are engaged. (Finance Bill 2013)
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If you itemize (see if your ieeimztd deductions on 1040, Schedule A exceed your standard deduction, which is $10,700 for married filing joint, $7850 for head of household, $5350 for single or married filing separate in '07), you may deduct EITHER state and local income taxes OR your state and local general sales taxes. You cannot deduct both. You make your election on line 5 of Schedule A by checking box a for income taxes or box b for general sales taxes. The option to claim sales taxes instead of income taxes will not be allowed following 2007 unless Congress extends the law permitting this option.
You should claim the pro-rated amuont you paid on the old property and any pro-rated amuont you paid on the new property (often in advance of the year-end billing), then remember to make any necessary adjustments after official tax bills come out and get re-divided. In theory, you paid the taxes by giving the money to somebody else (or putting it into escrow for taxes) and you are allowed to assume they actually made the necessary payments to the necessary authorities. A lender holding tax escrow should give you an annual statement of taxes collected, held and paid out.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Deer deterrent
How I would throw nylon net over the Yvonne's and Blue Bedder salvia every night to thwart the deer?
How I would remove the net during the day so hummers and bees could get at the blooms?
And how, one day, the deer came during the DAY and ravaged the bed?
Well, by keeping the net over the bed 24/7, most of the plants have rebounded and started to bloom again.
Trouble is, having the net on during the day is driving the critters crazy. The bees are smart enough to find their way UNDER the net. Alas, they can't find their way OUT.
The hummers, meanwhile, get nothing. :-(
What good are flowers if you have to cover them up just to save them from the fracking deer?!
I remembered from somewhere (reading? conversation? forum?) that deer don't like uncertain footing and getting poked in the eye.
Hmmm, the footing around here is as sound as it gets - baked hard and easy on the hooves.
But - poking in the eye? Well then ... let's try THIS!
We'll try the porcupine approach. *snark*
At least now the GOOD critters have a chance to get at the blooms. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Fingers crossed ... now, if we could just shoot them with an unexpected jet of water at the same time . . .ReplyDelete
PS: I don't think you've shown me those raised beds before, very nice :}Replies
Actually, the salvias are growing in the front half of a compost bin. The 8x8 next door was the sandbox when I bought the house. I attached another row of board and made it the asparagus bed. Then last year I cleared out the front half of asparagus and planted flowers.Delete
As for the jets, I wouldn't waste *spit* on the deer, let alone precious water this year.
LOL! Love it. Those FRACKING deer must be stopped--and I love clever ideas!ReplyDelete
I have had some good luck now with shredded up Coast soap mixed with water to a gloppy mess--sprinkled over the plants.
My coneflowers and rudbeckia have finally had a chance to bloom-though they are only 6" tall. I'd laugh about it if I weren't so PO'd!Replies
Yes - stop they must! I'll keep you posted on the sticks. Odd - the deer never even once bit into my coneflowers. Glad you had luck with the soap. I'm still thinking venison though....Delete
Hang in there.
Great idea! I sure hope it works.ReplyDelete
Ilost all my Yvonne's. It is a beautiful flower.Replies
Me too, Glenda. I usually have swaths of tall Yvonne's for the hummers. This year - barely nada and only 20" tall.Delete
How'd the deer spears work? Great idea!ReplyDeleteReplies
*knock wood* So far, so good.Delete
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Real Bad weather
Today, was the last time I sailed this year.
So I went out with one of my best friends, my son and his son. Nice HAIRY CHEST sailing!!
Winds were around 20kts, the waves 10 to 15' plus, broken.
Anyway we had a good time. Going up up up up , down down down down.
Yep .. we do have bad weather too, (sometimes).
I tried to put some photos here but keep getting a failed to upload message (what's wrong Jeff??)
Here is the link to my gallery in the member's gallery. Some nice spray there, and wet rails from thre front!!!:D ENJOY! I DID!!
Looks like fun. It was blowing 40+ here today but my butt was warm and dry, no reef points on the main.
Giu....You really must love it to go out in such weather intentionally!! That was a real "fight club" day!
some of my bad weather log last month heading south to st martin
Well they say you are hit with a huge wave one in 100,000 times.
Tonight was the night. We were running down wind with the wind to our stern most of the day. The seas are running about 12-20 feet.
We were finally happy to have 20-30 knots of wind in the right direction to head us towards st Martin. I felt like I was caught in the Bermuda version of ground hog day as we wasted over 36 hours trying to get away from the Bermuda area.
Charles cooked a delicious dinner of Tuscan chicken wings with sautéed spinach and carvel cake for desert. After dinner, most of us were in our bunks sleeping or reading. Jim was on watch taking extra care as our radar unit it out. I was sleeping in our aft cabin and I felt the stern of the boat drop dramatically. Then I heard a huge slam on the cabin top louder than someone hitting it with a 1000-pound sledgehammer. By then I was wide-awake and I heard Jim yell "oh ****" and the boat lay over on its side and turned abruptly.
When I came forward, water was pouring down the stairs and the epirb had been set off as I could see its strobe light going off.
The epirb, a satellite transmitter, goes off or can be set off in an emergency, like the boat is sinking, the water set it off. I called Judy and my mother on the sat phone to tell them that if the coast guard called, tell them that we were in no danger.
We were sailing on our 1500 square foot Gennaker in 30 + knots true about 2am. Jim said he heard a roaring coming from the stern quarter and turned around just as a wave broke over our stern and sunk the aft end of the boat and stopped us . Then due to the lack of buoyancy and the fact that the boat was virtually stopped ,a 35 footer rolled over the boat. The entire boat was under water. We were also turned sideways by the wave. Jim seeing the first wave coming and sinking our stern had the sense of mind try to close the companionway hatch. Unfortunately he didn't get it all the way closed and water came pouring down the steps into the cabin. We were also using a fresh air vent with an internal fan assembly that was open in the cockpit- so we got another 150 gallons of water coming out that pipe into the cabin. The boat quickly popped up out of the water, the wind caught the sails, the autopilot made the course correction , and we were off and running. YEAH AMEL !!! Yeah Raymarine. I was really surprised that the pilot was still working.
The cockpit drained quickly as it was full of water, but the 2- 4 inch scuppers did their job, and we started the cleanup.
It took all six of us about 2 ½ hours to dry out all the wet bilges and
their contents. Most handy was a hand held bilge pump for pumping out the bilge storage. As many of you know, the amel bilges are dry and are not designed to drain as they are designed to never get wet
If the companionway was closed and the air vent was closed I believe we wouldn't have had any water below. NEW RULES NOW!!
Surprisingly no cabinets, drawers ,or bilges opened and spilled their contents.
I was also surprised that the Raymarine autopilot did not shut off or lose course.
We are all now dry, and a little salty. Showers will be good tomorrow and hopefully we will see the sun after 7 days and we can rinse out and dry a few dozen towels.
Fair winds,
Sunday 3am-to jerry ellstein11/5/06 30-08n 63-48w
as the stomach turns
As please don't tell judy but--
After i wrote the last note i was about to hit the sack and i noticed the carpet was wet in my cabin.
I figured one of the ports or hatches took a hit but the bunk was dry.
I then thought about the third hole in the hull-the rudder post.
I opened up the starboard settee in my cabin to find gallons of greasy water.
The force of the wave that hit us blew the grease out of the rudder stock packing and is now leaking.
It looks like it takes a 60-75 mm wrench to tighten it. I don't have one and if I did I couldn't get to the nut with a long wrench. they must use a deep socket at the factory. I tried using a flat punch and mallet and tightened it down to a slow leak. Hopefully it won't get worse.
I think I can change the packing (I have spare) and re grease it at sea but the sea is too violent for now.
I will have to remove the autopilot and steering gear and steer using the factory supplied tiller so I can hopefully get to the packing nut. Meanwhile we have to sponge out the locker every 1/2 hour. Based upon the forecast we will have 25-30 kts for at least another 24 hours. Doesnt make for much rest in the aft cabin--but its the passage not the destination that counts.--this one is a doozie.
The AHHHH ITS WINDY!!!!!!! photo says it all :cool:
Cam, what we did is called controled risk.
As long as you know the boundaries, the limits (yours, the crew and boat's), and what the weather is and will do, then it can be fun. And it was.
Winds were blowing from the South, towards land, a rare thing here.
Another boat a smaller Jeanneau 26 went out too, for about 1/2 hour, and they also had fun.
Believe me it was controlled risk, let me rest you assured that I am not crazy, ok?? Just been in these waters for more than 20 years;)
If we didn't think you were crazy we wouldn't like you so much. Perhaps you meant to say, "I'm not stupid"? <G>
Yes, that is exactly what I meant!!!Thank you for the help.
Crazy maybe, stupid, not at all. Besides I would never thake my son, and his best friend to sea, if we were not on top of it.
I think its also good for everyone, first, we exposed the kid (remember he sails on his own most of the time), to a "different" condition from what he is used. Think of it as a lion teachig the puppy how to hunt. (his friend too, and his father a long time sailor was there too)
By teaching him foul weather sailing, and making him BE THERE, it will make a better sailor out of him, just in case, God forbids he might need it one day.
Second, it exposes us to it, so we get "trained" should we also need it some day.
But in the end, we were in control at all times. That is the key item here. Once it got "ugly" we returned. No big deal.
Besides, this morning, while we were taking the morning shower, he said it was one of the best days at sea he had, he hugged me and said he loved it. For this only its worth it.
Giu...didn't mean to imply it was risky...I just meant that it looked cold and wet out there and I would have been snuggled up with a good book instead of having "fun" out there!!
Kimberlite...great log entry. I've always admired the Amel's seaworthiness. Hope you're having fun in the sun now!
Looks like he's having lots of fun in this shot . . .
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Also on a side note is there a way I can disable the tap for mouse click on the touchpad?
Alps Touchpad
So I looked around, and found this newer driver. It had some decent and most basic gestures, and it sufficed for my needs. However, it causes my Aero cursor to freeze up and no longer animate. This usually forces my mind to think my computer has frozen when it has not, very discontenting.
Then I had another Idea, what if there was a way to force Synaptics driver to think my Alps touchpad is a synaptics one so I can get synaptics features?
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I have a Sony VAIO of the VGN-AR series (it is a custom-built VGN-AR870). It has a Synaptics touchpad which I never use, since I plugged in a USB trackball. I want to disable the touchpad completely, but so far, I have been unsuccessful.
When I uninstalled its driver, Windows 7 reinstalled it automatically when I rebooted. When I installed the manufacturer's driver that creates the tab with the "Disable" button, the keyboard stops responding completely, regardless of the setting.
I ended up having to open the case and unplug the touchpad. Microsoft, please create a method for disabling the touchpad from within Windows using the standard touchpad driver.
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I've already installed the latest synaptic driver. The device manager even says that the device is 'working properly' however i can't get the pointer to move using the touchpad.
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EXCEPT the touchpad: Fn+F9.
Unable to install Dell touchpad
I have Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate installed in it. It was working fine and once I wanted to install synaptics touchpad driver for multi-gesture feature. I tried to install twice or thrice but the installation was getting failed.
Thinking that if any other touchpad driver is already installed, I uninstalled Dell touchpad(ALPS touchpad). Consequently the sensitivity of the touch got lost. Again I tried installing synaptics but the installation was being failed.
I tried even to install the ALPS touchpad latest available to my model as well as the one given with the DVD of drivers with my laptop too, but I'd failures again.
Eventually I'm left with a dumb touch without being able to install any good touchpad driver. It's not even possible now to open a folder or any file by a double tap
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