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I have been with my girlfriend for four years this May. I truly love her and we get along very well most of the time. My girlfriend is very close with her mother as her father has been working out of the state/country for the last 5 years, and her mom is around a lot of the time when we are together (she lives at home and I usually go over there when we spend time together.)
In so many words, I cannot stand her mother. While we have never had confrontation at all face to face, I feel that she is far too involved in our relationship than need be, and she is not the kind of person that I would typically surround myself with. I could go on for just about ever about my reasons for disliking her, but that is not what is important. Let's just say that her 2 cents come very often and are very rude, very condescending, and overall not appreciated.
My girlfriend and I are moving into our own place together next month. This has brought on a whole new brand of the 2 cents that I was speaking of and frankly I have gotten sick of it. Recently, a lot of turmoil has come up in our relationship because of my feelings of being disrespected and my feelings toward her mother. I am still finishing college (I'm 23, didn't start until 20 and have been going half-time) and won't be done until I'm 25. My girlfriend earned her bachelor's last year, and we have had many discussions of living our lives together, getting married when the time comes and starting a family of our own. During one of these conversations, my feelings towards her mother came up and she told me that if we were to get married that I would be marrying her family (especially her mother) as well as her. I definitely understand the taking on of your significant other's family, but as things have gone in the first 4 years of our relationship, boundaries will be crossed and I will be annoyed and very disrespected. I fear buying a house and having children and having my mother in law telling me what I need to do and how my plans are wrong and it really makes me question whether it will work out between my girlfriend and I.
My question is, to you married men, how much of a role do your wives' parents play in your relationship? Specifically, how much did they early on? While it may come off like I am insensitive and I need to just suck it up, please understand that it has come to the point where I have a hybrid second mother-girlfriend creature that is almost ruining my life. I understand that my girlfriend and her mom are close, but I am in a relationship with only one of them.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that you've kept these views to yourself and only recently shared them with your girlfriend (or only recently explained to her the vehemence of your views). If so, why? Why let it fester so long? Why not let her know years ago that you have objections to how her mother behaves?
Frankly, this isn't a problem with your girlfriend's mother ... its a problem with your girlfriend. It isn't that the mother is intrusive, its that your girlfriend invites/ allows the intrusion. Your in-laws will play as much of a role as the wife allows. If she sets boundaries and makes sure they're observed ... they will be. If she doesn't, there will be no boundaries.
Part of the problem here is that you're not married, so I don't have a lot of advice to give you on relating to your girlfriend's parents when you're shacking-up with their daughter. Her mother is rightfully protective. Even if she moves in with you ... she's not your wife. You have no real responsibility to one another, and no real commitment to ask her to honor.
At this point, I'd re-think moving in together before y'all commit ... and I'd have a long discussion about family boundaries after marriage. You need to know what the boundaries are going to be, and that she's going to honor the marriage, even if she occasionally has to tell her mother to get lost.
My ex wife had the same opinion as your now girlfriend.... notice the "ex" part. My now wife is really close with her mother, grandmother and grandfather. Even though I cant stand her grandmother, it doesn't cuase a problem becuase she understands I married her... not her family... I tolerate her family becuase I love her, but she knows I'd rather not if I can avoid it. So she doesnt try to force it to much.
Jack is pretty well spot-on.
The dating phase is akin to a job interview before you are hired.
So, if she isn't going to take your feelings about her mother's intrusiveness into account - then you are looking at a major compatibility issue. Address that issue before moving forward.
"Frankly, this isn't a problem with your girlfriend's mother ... its a problem with your girlfriend. It isn't that the mother is intrusive, its that your girlfriend invites/ allows the intrusion. Your in-laws will play as much of a role as the wife allows. If she sets boundaries and makes sure they're observed ... they will be. If she doesn't, there will be no boundaries."
I completely agree with this.
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking and well stated by JB.
I once took a girlfriend home to stay with my family for about a week during Christmas. My parents were not treating her nicely, so, after my girlfriend had gone to bed, I gave them a little ultimatum. I just told my parents, with a little more heat than was really necessary that they could either A) start treating her like a welcome guest and a family member or B) we would be leaving the next day. It's my job to make sure my parents respect the girls I choose, whether they approve or not. You would do that for your girl, and she should do it for you.
Spot on!
The only thing I will add to this is that maybe you need to have a discussion with your girlfriend's mother. Ensure her that you will take care of her daughter and that you don't need to be chased every step of the way. Then maybe offer a "fresh start? You don't have to like her, but as long as her and her daughter are close, you're going to have to tolerate her.
I'm going to have an unpopular opinion but here goes.. Until you marry your girlfriend, her family is her home. They are responsible for her (even if she doesn't live with them). When you marry her, you are taking on that responsibility of providing and protecting her. When you marry her you become her home.. Until then, you should treat her family with the utmost respect and keep in mind you are privileged to date their daughter.. When y'all start a family of your own, then you can ask and expect the in laws to be less involved in your personal life.
That only works if the wife agrees with that model. If the wife thinks that, even after marriage, the parents' role remains the absolute same, that model you propose means nothing.
You're right. That's definitely something that needs to be discussed beforehand. My main point was, I don't think you should insist on your girlfriend's family playing a lesser role until you marry her.
What a beautiful thing, that someone should remain close to a beloved parent. Yet how inconvenient, if you dislike her.
This is an occasion for you to show strength. It would be easier to combat MIL. It would be easier to avoid her. But you are called to be civil without being dominated; to drive no wedge between wife and MIL while keeping the stuff you dislike about MIL out of your own head.
There are techniques. The one I use with difficult people is "wall of nice": you keep them out by being unfailingly nice and never taking any bait. A book that tells some tactics on this is The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by Susan Elgin. She calls what I'm talking about "computer mode."
Another tactic is to level: without heat, just to say, I'd rather hear things you like than things you dislike. It's hard for me to be around such negative comments. Such things. However, it does make you vulnerable, and it can lead to explosion. It's worth doing if you want to build a relationship with someone, rather than just keep her at bay.
Yet your last paragraph makes me wonder if more is going on than you say. You ask "much of a role do your wives' parents play in your relationship?" My answer: none. Ever. From the beginning. How much of a role does your gf's mother play in yours? Does she go on your dates? Participate in your conversations about love? Or does gf keep saying "Mom says..." -- in arguments?
It may have been easier for me. My wife was in 30's and I was in 40's and we had long since left behind the habits of obeying our parents. I suspect you feel the need to defer to this woman, and it gripes you. When you're truly independent, you don't chafe or rebel; rebellion is for underlings. You aren't one.
But I keep running up against that I am not really clear on what's happening. Still maybe something I said is useful.


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More than a third of parents (36%) are considering buying a tablet for their children this Christmas, according to new research.
The research, commissioned by EE, comes as the operator announced the launch of the Robin, a 4G tablet aimed specifically for parents and their children.
According to a poll of 1,702 parents, just over a quarter (27%) said being able to access content from anywhere was vital when choosing a tablet, and 38% believe parental control
features are a key factor when selecting the right tablet for their child.
The research also revealed that 12% of children have thrown their parent's tablet, 11% have covered it in food, 10% have stood on their parent's tablet, and 5% have tried to eat and chew on it.
The Robin, set to launch on Friday, comes with pre-loaded content aimed at children, the device has parental controls aimed at making it safer for children to browse the internet.
Set to launch on Friday, it is also said to have a robust design and Superfast 4G connectivity for use at home or out and about.
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Christopher Traggio, EE's director of connected products, said: "Parents know their children love using technology gadgets more than ever.
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Argentine side San Lorenzo have admitted they cannot afford to sign Fabricio Coloccini - unless he is allowed to leave Newcastle on a free transfer.
Toon centre-half and captain Coloccini held talks with club chiefs on Wednesday, after asking to leave St James' Park for personal reasons.
He wants to return to his native Argentina this month.
Coloccini is under a long contract and Newcastle are hoping to persuade him to stay, but even if they can't manage that they are unlikely to allow him to walk away.
San Lorenzo, one of the clubs courting Coloccini, have now admitted that they cannot afford to pay a transfer fee and that is is down to the centre-half to negotiate his way out of Newcastle.
Matias Lammens, the Buenos Aires club's president, said: "I believe any deal will be difficult because the money could be impossible for us. We are dependent on the player agreeing something with Newcastle.
"It would be impossible for us to buy the player because of our financial situation.
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I don't know how WoE works in iRO, but honestly, that really wouldn't work, considering that
1. If you are going to go FULL sin emp breaker, you're gonna have to cloak fast and pray there are NO wiz/prof/sniper guarding the castle. Once you're detected, you're dead.
2. LK's.. Just knock them back or trap with ankle snare and just use crit sins/wiz/prof/barddancer to quickly kill them
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Lego pneumatic provides power the complex hand and wrist movements. The hand has 12 degrees of freedom. Not only this, but also it can do some cool stuff. The gripper is specially designed to pick up something without damaging or crushing it. It can lift more than a couple of pounds. The Lego designed arm starts above the elbow prosthesis. The design is highly verified with nearly no error. The hand can even spread its fingers out to the sides. Each digit of this hand can be controlled by a cluster of switches and joysticks. An air compressor or hand pumps is needed to operate the hand. Check out the video.
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The Lego Robotic Prosthetic Arm : At A Glance
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–> Abduction/adduction of fingers
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Something showed up at this year's Super Bowl rarely seen within that context: a sermon. No, I'm not talking about any after-game sideline ten-second testimonies or some new form of Tebowing, but rather an ad that stood out above the rest, if not in style, certainly in substance. The two-minute commercial seemed more of a tribute than an advertisement. The soundtrack was excerpted from a speech that Paul Harvey, the late and beloved radio personality, gave at the 1978 Future Farmers of America convention.
With Harvey's unmistakable oratorical style of dramatic pauses and quirky intonations, the words of this ad targeted an often overlooked but much-needed profession, that of the farmer. In the span of two minutes, viewers were pulled out of the Super Bowl dream and into the rough and real world of farmers and farming. Instead of obsessing over which team would carry the Lombardi Trophy home, we were invited instead to consider some human qualities that matter most in life.
Since the first six days of Creation in Genesis all deal with God creating things that can be seen, perhaps if there really had been an "eighth day" of Creation it would have been devoted to things internal. After all, it does seems that after God made the heavens, the earth, and mankind, he has spent all of time since shining the light on things both internal and eternal, and calling man back to his holiness and wholeness. Harvey's portrait of the Faithful Farmer shone a needed light on similar things.
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The GAT-X103AP Verde Buster Gundam is a Mobile Suit in the series Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Verde Buster Gundam is a modified GAT-X103 Buster produced as part of the "Actaeon Project", a joint development between several companies led by Actaeon Industries and Phantom Pain. The main aim of this project is to create customized MS for use by Phantom Pain's ace pilots. Like the original Buster Gundam, the Verde Buster is designed mainly as an artillery mobile suit and thus features a set of heavy armament consisting of a beam cannon, a gun launcher, missile pods and two powerful beam rifles, which also mount bayonets for close combat and hence increase the number of combat situations the MS can handle. To complement the additional weapons, the FCS and sensors system have been improved, which also leads to enhancement in the MS's accurarcy. Other modifications include the installation of the power extender, Variable Phase Shift armor, a new face guard to protect the sensors during close combat, and movable thrusters installed on both shoulders to compensate for mobility reduction caused by the increase in weight.
- 94mm High-Energy Beam Cannon
- An updated version of the Buster's 94mm high-energy beam rifle. It is mounted on the left shoulder.
- 350mm Gun Launcher
- An updated version of the Buster's 350mm gun launcher. It is mounted on the right shoulder. As the gun launcher and beam cannon are now shoulder mounted, they cannot combine like the original version.
- 6-tube 220mm Multipurpose Missile Pod
- Another weapon taken from the old Buster are the two shoulder mounted 6-tube 220mm multipurpose missile pods.
- M9009B Composite Bayonet-Equipped Beam Rifle
- The only new addition to the Verde Buster's armament is a set of two M9009B composite bayonet-equipped beam rifles, which are usually mounted on the hips of the suit but are hand-carried when in use. Each rifle mounts a bayonet at the bottom, which will unfold during close combat and can generates a force field that allows it to penetrate most armor easily. The rifles can be combined into a high output double-barrel rifle, which is strong enough to severely damage a space station. The powerful beam produced in this form is guided by the control system within the unfolded bayonets.
Special Equipment & Features
- Variable Phase Shift allows the MS to automatically alter the strength and by extension the power consumption of the PS Armor, depending on what combat configuration or situation that MS is in. As a result, the MS's colors changes, but all these must be programmed beforehand.
- Power Extender
- A device that improves a mobile suits energy storage capacity, allowing it to use its Phase Shift Armor for a longer duration than other mobile suits.
After the First Alliance-PLANT War, as part of the "Actaeon Project" MS development plan, another Buster was re-manufactured and assigned to Phantom Pain pilot, Shams Couza. The unit was subsequently upgraded into the more powerful Verde Buster according to Phantom Pain's instruction. One of the suit's sorties was against a ZAFT unit which attacked the Hannibal-class Bonaparte, carrying the GFAS-X1 Destroy. While the Verde Buster easily holds itself against ZAFT's forces, fellow pilot Mudie Holcroft is killed by a squad of TMF/A-802W2 Kerberos BuCUE Hound units.
Some times later, Shams and his suit are assigned to the Nana Buluku, which attacks the DSSD space station to steal the AI unit used in the GSX-401FW Stargazer. During the battle Shams is able to destroy a large number of the DSSD's UT-1D Civilian Astray DSSD Custom units but when he is ordered to retreat he is overcome with rage and continues to fire on the station. Even when he is warned that his energy will soon be depleted he continues firing until there is no energy left in his suit. This chance is used by several Civilian Astrays which fire on the defenseless suit and destroy it. Despite this Shams dies smiling.
- Beneath the head covering is a head identical to the Buster's.
- The Verde Buster holds the dubious honor of being the third Gundam taken down by mass productions mobile suits. The first was the GAT-X1022 Blu Duel and the second was the ZGMF-X24S Chaos.
- The combined mode of Verde Buster's twin rifles is called buster mode, most likely in reference to XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero's twin buster rifle.
- Like its sister units: the Strike Noir, the Blu Duel, the Nero Blitz and the Rosso Aegis, the Verde Buster bears a color-themed name, "verde" being the italian word for "green", the unit's dominant colour.
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Before Gutenberg perfected the printing press, books were luxury items. Each one was laboriously crafted, copied and sewn by hand by an educated, literate person- a member of the elite. Most people would never a own a single book, let alone several.
When the printing press began churning out books, three things happened right away: the price of books fell sharply, the literacy rate skyrocketed, and a few cranks lamented the fact that pressed books were not as beautiful nor as sturdy as their handmade ancestors.
My entire life, I've dreamed of having a library of my own. Then I moved, and moved, and moved again. I had 2000 books, and I had to downsize.
I will probably never have an entire huge room in my house filled with books. But now, thanks to ereaders, I will be able to own thousands of books, many for FREE, in something that will fit in my backpack when it's time to move.
People only used to be able to listen to music when there were musicians assembled. Then you had buy a radio. Or a turntable and records. All this stuff was very, very expensive. The the transistor was invented. And those little 45 rpm records started selling for about $1 each. So if you worked for minimum wage, you'd have to work about 90 minutes to buy two 45s, that had a total of four songs on them. Now, forty years later, I'm sitting at my desk buying songs for ten cents each! An hour of minimum wage work buys you 75 songs.
Computers, which have made all this possible, have gotten dirt cheap. I remember the macs in the early 80's- they cost $7000, or $20,000 in today's dollars. Now, you can buy a computer for $400. (So, that would have been what, around $80 thirty years ago?)
I don't need to store, maintain, or house art that gives me joy. Even most poor people can afford to enjoy ten cent music and free books and $9 a month for movies from Netflix. My house is bigger and more open without racks and shelves, less to pay for, less to heat and cool, easier to clean.
And, best of all, so much better for the environment! So much less plastic, plastic, plastic.
If you made it through this, thanks. I'm just ripping the last of my CDs into LaLa and feeling reflective.
LP's to 8 track to cassette to cd to digital and the size of the equipment to play them
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When finance ministers gather in Washington for the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, hardly anyone notices except the maotres'd. But this year's Apr. 16-17 confab will be hard to ignore. It will attract a huge, motley crowd of environmentalists, human-rights advocates, union members, and AIDS activists, who will try to disrupt the meetings.
They're out to repeat the success of last December's protests in Seattle that helped sabotage World Trade Organization talks. So will the pin-striped delegates also be forced to hustle home amid clouds of tear gas and brawling in the streets? Not necessarily. Global finance is not as polarizing an issue as trade, the protesters aren't as organized this time, and capital police are better prepared than their Seattle colleagues.
Still, the World Bank and IMF are treading carefully. Many of the protesters may not understand the minutiae of these agencies, which were formed after World War II to fight global poverty and avert economic crises. But the demonstrators--who should be substantially fewer than the 60,000 in Seattle--have the zeal of missionaries and believe that secretive, multilateral institutions have lost their way. The IMF, World Bank, and WTO make up what protest literature terms a "global triad" that forces countries to restructure economies to favor corporate managers, investors, and speculators.
Environmentalists charge that World Bank loans finance ecosystem-damaging projects such as China's massive Three Gorges Dam. Human-rights supporters and unionists argue that the lending agencies support countries that restrict religious freedom and tolerate sweatshops. AIDS activists complain that neither institution does enough to get low-cost AIDS drugs to developing nations. Their hit list even includes the America Online-Time Warner merger, which the groups fear will "globally homogenize" content on the Net and harm local cultures. "These institutions need to be agents for the poorest people rather than for banks and large corporations," says Carol Welch, a Friends of the Earth analyst.
DOWNSIDE. Already, demonstrators are making headway with their efforts to shine a harsh light on globalization's downside. In March, Stanley Fischer, the IMF's acting managing director, met with Friends of the Earth, poverty group Oxfam International, and other activists. Meeting participants say they came away encouraged that top fund officials were finally starting to pay attention to their concerns, though they aren't expecting substantial changes anytime soon.
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We present a novel acquisition device to capture high resolution 4D reflectance fields of real scenes. The device consists of a concave hemispherical surface coated with a rough specular paint and a digital video projector with a fish-eye lens positioned near the center of the hemisphere. The scene is placed near the projector, also near the center, and photographed from a fixed vantage point. The projector projects a high-resolution image of incident illumination which is reflected by the rough hemispherical surface to become the illumination on the scene. We demonstrate the utility of this device by capturing a high resolution hemispherical reflectance field of a specular object which would be difficult to capture using previous acquisition techniques.
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The 22-year-old woman was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with two felony-level counts of child abuse.
The woman's 1½-year-old daughter was admitted to Primary Children's Medical Center on Dec. 23, where a doctor saw that she had leg twitching, eye deviation and facial twitching. After running some tests, the doctor found that the girl had suffered brain damage on two separate occasions.
Each injury was a serious impairment on the girls' health and risked killing her, according to the charges.
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Lexia-3 PSA XS Evolution works with both Citroen and Peugeot. Lexia-3 is compatible with most of Citroen and Peugeot cars from 1995. Lexia-3 PP2000 Interface support read identification, read fault codes, clear fault codes, auto-scan etc. Multiple language available.
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Lexia-3 PP2000 Description:
1.It is compatible with Citroen cars including: C1,C2,C3,C4,C6,C8,C-CROSSER,NEMO,BERLINGO,JUMPY,JUMPER,AX,SAXO,BX and so on. But please pay attention, according to our customer's experience, this item can not works good at C5 new models.
2.It is compatible with most Peugeot cars from 1995..If you have the two types of cars, please pay attention, please check with us first before purchase.
3.Diagnostics is performed via OBD-II connector (which is located near steering wheel) or via manufacturer-specific connector (only older cars, pre-2001).
Lexia-3 PP2000 Function:
Unlike other universal car scanner tools which only read fault codes; this software performs nearly ALL the functions like the original dealer diagnostic tool. Our diagnostic interface contains K-Line multiplexor, CAN-BUS interfaces and SAE J1850 bus (both PWM and VPW).
1.Read identification
Displays complete identification of control unit, e.g. part number, software/hardware version, manufacturer, etc...
2. Read fault codes
Displays all stored and pending fault codes with complete description (e.g. "Rail pressure - too low pressure").
Program supports report printing or copy to clipboard.
3. Clear fault codes
this function clears all stored fault codes and other diagnostic information.
4. Auto-scan (complete car scan/test)
Detects all ECUs (electronic control units) installed in car and reads all diagnostic fault codes.
5. Measured Values
Program displays live Data like Engine Speed, Battery voltage, Oxygen Sensor, Coolant Temperature, etc. Values can be displayed in graph, 9 values at once, or full listing (all measured values). Logging to file is also supported, which allows offline analysis.
6. Actuator test
Actuator test activates particular actuator (e.g. turn on fuel pump, lock/unlock wheel, lock/unlock doors, cut off fuel, etc..)
Lexia-3 PP2000 Specification:
1.Hardware and software requirements
Software requires at least Intel Celeron/Pentium III 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 50MB free HDD space and USB 1.1 port (USB 2.0 recommended) and Microsoft Windows 98 SR2/2000/XP with the latest service pack installed.
If customer requires, we can prepare ready to work PC.
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Lexia-3 PP2000 Package list:
1pc x Main unit with extension OBD2 cable
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Hello everybody!
Can someone please help me ASAP? I made a simple 3D Model in Max, and rendering using Skylight and Light Tracer. I'm doing a line of animation and rendering with an exact same approach, but after series of projects, this is the first time I come across this issue. For some reason, on my model after rendering, some ugly flickering appears. But the model is simple in topology. I viewed Xview, and it showed a lot of flipped faces. I tried to "fix" those, but then the rendering became more ugly and the flickering still appeared, so I had to drop that, and return to the start. Looked at the Xview again, and it shows that majority of the model has overlapped UVW faces. Is that the main issue? And what is the best way to fix that? Because the model has (seem to have) clean topology and no double vertices or faces hidden. Because Xview shows the huge part of the model as overlapped, but the flickering only appears in some (obvious) bits. Someone please? I'm considering of redoing the model, but I don't wish to start if there is some extremely simple solution in front of my nose.
PS.: I am more of an "artsy" person, but started freelancing and only know the basics of 3Ds Max. Even though I hate using it, it's what I started studying on, and have to live with it until I place myself in a different position.
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|Paul Inquiry Testimony Paints a Disturbing Picture
March 19, 2008
"The Union of BC Indian Chiefs concerns are deepening as the Frank Paul Inquiry continues to reveal more and more startling evidence," said Grand Chief Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. "Former investigator for the police complaint commissioner, Bill MacDonald provided testimony yesterday stating that the findings of pathologist Rex Ferris indicated that Paul was already dead in the police wagon. This evidence serves to demonstrate and expose the fundamental flaws of the initial investigations."
"MacDonald's testimony when coupled with Constable Instant's testimony raises grave questions in relation to the events of that night. According to Instant's testimony, the staff member at the detox centre asked about admitting Paul to the detox facility, Instant replied 'no, he stays with me.' When the opportunity was afforded to him, why didn't Constable David Instant hand Paul over to the warmth and safety of the detox centre?" said Grand Chief Phillip.
"The logical and chilling conclusion is consistent with Rex Ferris' findings, Frank Paul was, in all likelihood already deceased in the police wagon and therefore died in police custody. Frank Paul was subsequently abandoned in an alley where he was later discovered. Perhaps this is why there has been such an enormous effort over the last 9 ½ years to frustrate all opportunities to have the matter fully examined through an exhaustive and public inquiry" concluded Grand Chief Phillip.
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Thousands celebrate Labor Day weekend at wine festival
Harvest Wine Festival celebrates thirteenth year
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - For thirteen years, the Harvest Wine Festival has brought visitors from all over the region to Las Cruces, all to get a taste of New Mexico wine from more than 15 wineries.
The fun wasn't just for the adults.
The event featured plenty of family-friendly activities including face painting, a bounce house and hourly grape stomping contests.
"Bringing the kids out and the husband out, us parents have something to do, and then they've got activities for the kids, listening to music, just enjoying culture as a family," said Marcy Jones, visiting from El Paso.
Not only is the event great marketing for the wineries, it's a chance for them to test out new flavors on thousands of people.
St. Clair Winery had an entire tent dedicated to a new line of mimosa flavors ranging from pineapple to the classic orange.
They used the opportunity as an experiment to see which flavor people like the most. In just a few months, that flavor will be sold all over the country.
"It's really invaluable because as we go national, we can't really afford to make mistakes of producing products that consumers don't want," said Robert Oreloffs, marketing director for St. Clair.
Across the fairgrounds, Cottonwood Winery made its debut at the wine festival. They brought interesting flavors with quirky packaging, including the newest of the bunch, Jack Ass.
"It's a vanilla flavor. You have to check it out," John Martin told ABC-7 as he ate lunch and drank wine with friends.
"They kind of like our horse stuff. We do horses," Cottonwood Winery owner Dale Taylor said of his winery's uniqueness.
People said the wine festival is a win-win situation for everyone.
"On a scale of one to 10, it's a 15. It's out of the ballpark. It's a wonderful event," said Martin.
Wineries test out new flavors and find new customers, while the public gets to indulge in wines from all over the state.
"For us to be able to test market that here in Las Cruces or up in Bernalillo and let the consumers tell us what they want, it's the way to go," Oreloffs said.


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During class, our teacher allowed us to work with partners so, of course, I partnered with my BFF. We were listening to music when our favorite song came on and we started dancing very badly—we bobbed our heads and wiggled our hands, we were so into it!! Little did we know my crush and his friend were sitting in front of us, and watched our entire dance!! They looked horrified! Super embarrassing!!
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The players drafted were junior second baseman Danny Black, junior pitcher Zach Neal, senior pitcher Jeremy Erben, redshirt sophomore third baseman Garrett Buechele and senior pitcher Jason Chowning.
Black was the first Sooner to be taken, and he was selected by the Florida Marlins in the 14th round. He hit .339 with 21 extra-base hits – 10 doubles, six triples and five homers – and 47 RBIs and was solid at second base during his first year at OU.
Black has good range to both his glove side and backhand, but the most exciting part of his game is his speed, a fact that opposing teams paid for while he was at the plate and on the base path. He stole 10 bases in 16 opportunities, and had multiple bunt singles (many for RBIs) in a system that small-ball players flourish.
The Marlins came back to the Sooners' roster during the 17th round, but this time they picked up Neal.
The right hander from Flower Mound, Texas, was named the team's ace and Friday night starter before the season started, and truly fit the role during conference play. Following a stellar performance during OU's regional round, Neal posts an 8-3 record with a 4.42 ERA and displayed his near pin-point control by striking out 86 and walking just 23 batters.
Buechele was drafted in the 18th round by the Texas Rangers, the same team father Steve Buechele was drafted by in 1982 and the same organization he works for today, coaching for the Double-A affiliate Frisco RoughRiders. Garrett is OU's leading hitter in most categories with his .387 batting average, 16 homers and 62 RBIs.
But the younger Buechele doesn't just impress at the plate. He has a good glove at the hot corner and any speed he lacks he makes up with quick reactions to range for grounders.
It was an up and down year for the Arizona Diamondbacks' draft pick, Erben, in the 22nd round. He made his 29 appearances in both relief and starting roles, but he found most of his success coming out of the bullpen.
Erben has a 7-1 record and 3.90 ERA, and looks to improve upon those stats during his year as a senior captain.
Chowning, the final Sooner to be drafted, was taken by the Houston Astros in the 28th round. He saw little action during the end of the season, but he was reliable when he was on the mound.
Chowning had a 2.11 ERA and 1-0 record during his senior year as one of OU's middle relief pitchers.
Even though these players could be raking in money soon, they are still focused on the end of their 2010 college season. The Sooners start a best-of-three series against the No. 5 Virginia Cavaliers at 2 p.m. Saturday in the super regional round and are two wins away from their first College World Series appearance since 1995.


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Businesses, and especially small medium enterprises, have to carry out essential steps if they want to succeed doing business over the Internet. A vital pillar to sustain and achieve success is content generation and for this WordPress is the practical way to update and run a corporate blog and/or website. Costs are low: plugins are often free, the software is free and great themes are free or affordably priced. Unlike WordPress.com blogs (or those on Blogger), however, you do need to pay a web host and buy a domain to use self-hosted WordPress.
The advantages of using WordPress for business are many. Many themes allow a fully-finished aesthetic, and WordPress itself is known for ease of use. The complexity of web design and programming are
completely somewhat disarmed by WordPress. There is no need of a large group of professionals to arm a business site; there is only a need of a little time and willingness to learn the basic skills. There are numerous WordPress guides for businesses out there, where business owners can teach themselves and learn the nuts and bolts of the job. If one does need a more complex theme or plugin or other set up, WordPress developers are abundant and can be found in various online groups.
Several studies address the issue about the importance of having a business blog, in order to market content for your business, and attract prospects to the website. Blogging platforms, and especially WordPress, offer numerous business advantages when it comes to the potential of an enterprise and small business.
Let's see what advantages are offered by this specific platform, and what it can do for our company.
1. Corporate Blogging
Blogs have become a most dynamic and efficient tool for businesses on the Internet. WordPress blogging allows posting frequent information about business products or services. Blogging helps to bring content to the target audience, increases brand awareness, and the business gains visibility.
2. SEO and keywords
If you had to create your business website recently , you've probably heard about the SEO or search engine optimization and keywords, all this so that search engines like Google can understand what is your information and can bring the users interested in it.
WordPress allows you to add relevant keywords to your posts, include meta information on your pages (using SEO plugins) and optimization of post titles. A business has the ability to complete certain data fields (using SEO plugins) and overall take charge of automatically generated and highly optimized web pages with your content, especially friendly for search engines like Google and with responsive web design.
In addition, the publications in WordPress are set up as individual pages or posts, each with static URLs, category and content. This creates more opportunities for SEOs to have a site separated by relevant content, and pages or posts can be positioned individually in the search results for different combinations of keywords.
With WordPress as the platform for your business, you can publish high quality content, well-optimized, and quite often gain webpage visibility and prospects without investing in paid advertising.
3. Community Support
Community Support is another of the great advantages of WordPress for business. Whether you decide to create your blog on this platform, or the entire website design, there are lots of developers, support staff, forums and blogs to help users at all times and from the very beginning, so that they can perform what they propose. Here are a few places to look for WP communities and/or developers:
- LinkedIn WordPress Groups
- Google+ WordPress Communities
- WordPress Support Forum
- WordPress Development Stack Exchange
4. Extensions Available
The large number of extensions (plugins and themes) allow business to create a better experience directed to their target audience, resulting in a more attractive and optimized website. Many of the best web sites created with WordPress don't look like this platform at all. This is because the number of themes and extensions, or plugins, offered to customize the site or blog with which you can add much more functionality to your pages. Best place to look for plugins is the WordPress Plugin Directory (never use a plugin that is not recommended).
5. Publication and Content Update
Publication and Content Update are the best reasons for all small and medium enterprise to want to implement a blog or website on this platform. Posting new content is extremely easy and does not need you to play with the website settings, let alone the HTML code. Simple WordPress editors allow you to create new content pages for your site with just assigning a title, writing the body of the article and hitting the Publish button.
This is an advantage for those business owners who hired a web designer to build their site, and every time they want to make a change they must go through a long process of contacting the webmaster. A WordPress site allows business owners to write and publish their own content whenever they want, surrounded by simple tools for the task.
In addition to the simple creation of content, WordPress also supports various unlimited multimedia content, since due to the extensions coming out constantly, practically all known or popular content types are supported by the platform.
Images, videos, infographics, slideshows, Google maps, calendars, links, documents and even any control that can be inserted with HTML can differentiate your site from the competition by having the ability to catch the attention of your audience with different forms of compelling content. It even offers a useful integration with social media such as Facebook and Twitter to add social share buttons almost automatically that users can use to spread your content.
Whichever option you choose to implement, it is really worth the investment as long as you keep your WordPress site active, updated, and full of relevant content. This in turn will generate more qualified traffic from the target audience interested in the word of your company.
Give WordPress a try, and discover why WordPress is the most popular blogging platform among successful companies.
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What do you think are the WordPress business benefits? Why would you recommend a small business start a blog with WordPress?


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New Solutions Will Provide One-to-One Guest Services Through In-room Interactive Platform, Reducing the Need for Expensive Set-Top Boxes
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2008 - LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:LNET) and LG Electronics are collaborating on the development of an Interactive Electronic Program Guide (IEPG) as the first in what is expected to be a series of in-room interactive applications based on the new Pro:Centric™ standards-based applications platform.
Announced here today at the 2008 International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show, LG Electronics' new Pro:Centric technology is designed to support interactive applications such as program guides, games, Web services and other applications designed to communicate with and connect guests to hotel services.
LG has chosen LodgeNet as its lead associate in developing applications and support services for this new platform, and solutions developed for the platform will be compatible with a range of existing LodgeNet free-to-guest (FTG) TV and video-on-demand (VOD) solutions.
"LodgeNet and LG are working together to bring this new platform to the hospitality industry to further enhance the in-room guest experience," said Dave Bankers, LodgeNet Senior Vice President of Product and Technology Development. "Our first collaborative application is an IPG. We are also evaluating additional applications such as hotel information and environmental controls to take advantage of the Pro:Centric platform."
Richard Lewis, senior vice president of Research and Technology for LG Electronics' U.S. R&D subsidiary, said, "We're joining forces with LodgeNet on this initiative based on its unmatched capabilities in delivering innovative new media and connectivity solutions for the hospitality industry. Working with LodgeNet allows LG to quickly introduce compelling applications for the Pro:Centric platform and ensure that hoteliers have the service and support required to operate and extend this environment thereby maximizing the return on their existing entertainment system investment."
LG Electronics' Pro:Centric LG700H LCD HDTV series, combined with LodgeNet's various TV-based platforms and products, supports a broad range of in-room TV services including standalone FTG to VOD and expanded Web based applications. By working together on these new solutions, LodgeNet and LG will increase the capacity and potential of the guest room television to serve as a robust point of convergence for content and services from various sources to meet the marketing, information and entertainment needs of hoteliers and their guests.
Optimized for LodgeNet TV systems, LG's LG700H HDTV models are not only equipped with the Pro:Centric platform, but also provide hoteliers with the industry-standard Pro:Idiom® digital rights management system, for the secure, broad deployment of HDTV and other high-value digital content throughout the hotel. In addition, this content is delivered in multiple formats including built-in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 technology that decodes high-definition (HD) content, so hoteliers get more HD channels and can provide guests with expanded entertainment options.
LodgeNet Interactive Corporation is the leading provider of media and connectivity solutions designed to meet the unique needs of hospitality, healthcare and other guest-based businesses. LodgeNet Interactive serves more than 1.9 million hotel rooms representing 10,000 hotel properties worldwide in addition to healthcare facilities throughout the United States. The company's services include: Interactive Television Solutions, Broadband Internet Solutions, Content Solutions, Professional Solutions and Advertising Media Solutions. LodgeNet Interactive Corporation owns and operates businesses under the industry leading brands: LodgeNet, LodgeNetRX, and The Hotel Networks. LodgeNet Interactive is listed on NASDAQ and trades under the symbol LNET. For more information, please visit www.lodgenet.com.
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a global force in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. In the United States, LG Electronics sells a wide range of consumer electronics (digital display and digital media) products, mobile phones and digital appliances under LG's "Life's Good" marketing theme. For more information, please visit www.LGusa.com.
LG Commercial Products is a division of LG Electronics USA, serves digital signage, lodging and hospitality, business-to-business (systems integration and industrial), healthcare, and channel markets (education and government). Based in Lincolnshire, Ill., with its dedicated engineering and customer support team, LG Commercial furnishes a broad range of products and services tailored to the particular needs of business environments. For more information, please visit www.lgsolutions.com.
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Pro:Centric is a trademark of LG Electronics. Pro:Idiom is a registered trademark of Zenith Electronics LLC. LodgeNet is a registered trademark of LodgeNet Interactive Corporation.


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Target: Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell
Goal: Don't allow private companies to obtain thirty-year permits to kill eagles
A newly proposed law could severely weaken protection for two of the United States most iconic birds: the Golden Eagle and the Bald Eagle. Private companies, namely members of the wind energy industry, are pushing to expand the length of time on permits that already allow companies to unintentionally kill a limited amount of eagles as part of normal operations. Currently, these permits have an expiration date of five years, and also require that companies who do accidentally kill eagles take part in various compensation actions to offset the damage. The new law would allow these "eagle take" permits to last up to thirty years without renewal.
In the United States, eagles are protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. "Take" permits are required for any company that not only accidentally kills eagles through normal business operations, but also include "wounding, trapping, capturing, hunting, harassing or disturbing nests." Every five years, a permit is reviewed and only renewed if the government sees reason to do so. Furthermore, the public is granted access to the renewal process and allowed to voice opinions and ideas. By extending permit tenure to thirty years, the new law would essentially eliminate the renewal process altogether.
A thirty-year permit to unintentionally kill eagles has raised some serious concerns amongst environmentalists. Despite certain stipulations of the new rule, including the fact that not all permits will be issued for the full thirty years and each case will be reviewed individually before a permit is granted, conservationists fear that any amount of time longer than five years can be too long to accurately evaluate changes in eagle populations. The five-year rule was originally set in place due to "factors [that] may change over a longer period of time such that a [take permit] authorized much earlier would later be incompatible with the preservation of the Bald Eagle or the Golden Eagle." In other words, the original law set a five-year limit on these permits in order to allow for long-term factors that could negatively affect eagle population. Extending the length of permits from five to thirty years could potentially have drastic, negative effects on eagles in the United States, and these issues would not be fully evaluated until it is too late to reverse them.
Urge the United States Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, to carefully evaluate this new law on eagle take permits, and ask that she reject a thirty-year tenure on permits as it could have potentially devastating impact on eagle populations.
Dear Secretary Sally Jewell,
Eagles have long been a symbol of our country, and have been protected by federal laws accordingly. Now, our nation's most powerful symbol faces a threat to its survival.
A newly proposed law to extend the length of eagle take permits from five to thirty years severely weakens eagle protection by essentially eliminating a renewal process. The current renewal process for these five-year permits allows the government and the public to discern whether a specific company truly needs a permit, and to issue or revoke permits based on this information. Furthermore, it allows for continual evaluation of eagle populations in the United States.
By creating a new rule that would allow permits to last up to thirty years before requiring assessment or renewal, the government will allow an unprecedented threat to the nation's eagles. Various, unknown factors could easily alter a company's need for a permit, and to fail to evaluate these changes could lead to devastating effects on eagle population.
Please reconsider this new law carefully. I urge you to reject the proposed thirty-year tenure of eagle take permits, as the negative effects are simply too varied to properly evaluate.
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Snyder of Berlin Barbecue Potato Chips Kettle-Style
I grew up lovin' the Snyder's BBQ chip as the best BBQ chip in existence. Even as a child I was able to control myself to keep the form in shape but when I DID indulge in a chip it was the Snyder's BBQ. WELL.....Snyder's has outdone themselves. I've been off chips for awhile given my age and slowing metabolism but this past weekend was the start of the picnic season and I found the Snyder's BBQ Chip - Kettle Style. Snyder's took their formerly most perfect chip, perfected it and my gut is bound to suffer cause I think these things are laced with a drug. I'm hooked.
My mom used to put red pepper on everything and I think it wore off on my Dad. He loves spicy food now and these chips should satisfy the spicy cravingTags: food, gifts, snacks, chips, spicy, hot, potato chips, father, father's dayAdded 9 Years Ago from Taquitos


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OK, a friend wrote not all that long ago and told me he had recently purchased a book by a well-known author. It was a commentary. The publication date was 2010 and it said "First edition." Only problem is this: it was originally published more than a decade earlier but was re-issued in a new [Read More…]
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The Publishing Biz
Into the conquest
George Herbert, from "The Reprisal" Yet by confession will I come Into the conquest. Though I can do nought Against thee, in thee will I overcome The man, who once against thee fought. [Read more…]
A Matter of Tone and Approach (RJS)
I (almost) always add an e-mail address to my posts, an opportunity for readers to make more specific (or lengthy) comments or ask questions off-line. I received a several interesting messages last week – and would like to put forth for discussion a composite idea emerging from these disparate sources and from Justin's post last Friday on doubt.
One of the letters from a reader noted (used with permission, edited for anonymity):
(3) The main point of writing: one enormous obstacle is the general tone of public figures who hold to theistic evolution. Most of my evangelical friends can't fathom how evolution could be compatible with faith. What's needed is patient, quiet discussion. What worries me about [some] is the lack of winsome tone and approach (that's not uniform btw; Falk's book was excellent, and there's no problem with the main body of Collins's Language of God; Waltke, Keller, etc. are gems). I'm wondering how someone like you could use your platform to articulate this problem. In my opinion that is a bigger problem than the [fundamentalist] approach at Southern Seminary. The latter we can overcome via the web, books, etc.; but if the voices available to communicate about science and evolution are not winsome and helpful, but combative and derisive, where does that leave us?
(4) Second main point: … how does Keller's argument strike you … that we need theistic evolutionists who can work well with others on the spectrum between fundamentalism and atheistic science? If Keller is correct, this would mean that (say) Gilberson's tone is actually unhelpful and likely to do more harm than good; it may help him get a hearing in the secular sphere, but will be a problem as he tries to communicate to evangelicals. [Read more…]
Almost Christian 7
This will be our last post on the fine book by Kenda Dean, Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church.
I want to have a conversation today about the most significant element in the development of faith among young adults: parents. The best thing to do to get young adults more serious about their faith is to have more faith-serious parents. (Which is not to blame parents or to shift total responsibility onto parents, but it is to put the gravity where it needs to be.)
One of her themes is "translation" — that is translating the faith from the church to the youth, with the focal point being the family (as Luther famously made clear).
What are the guidelines for this translation? Here are her four points and I'd like to hear your responses: [Read more…]