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Latest post Tue, Oct 23 2007 7:59 PM by
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Tue, Oct 23 2007 10:13 AM
B Lynn
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Have I been scammed?
I had to have all my teeth pulled and get dentures. I went to a place where they provide all denture services. During my first visit I was given a printout of what it was going to cost. The total cost on Treatment plan was $4546. There was no indication that this amount was only an estimate and that there might be more charges added later. Now 2 1/2 months later I get another bill saying I own an additional $1876.
I based my decision to have the work done at this place on the cost I was given in the initial appointment. Had I been given full disclosure on what the final total would be I would have never had the work done at this place. I don't understand how someone who is supposed to know what they are doing could make a mistake of $1876. Did this person not know what she was doing or was it a deliberate act of deception?
I am on disability and paying the additional costs would be very, very difficult for me. (The additional costs put the total over $6,400.) Can they tell me one price and then add an additional $1876 when it is impossible for me to do anything about it?
Tue, Oct 23 2007 11:30 AM
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re: Have I been scammed?
"Did this person not know what she was doing or was it a deliberate act of deception?"
Presumably you asked this provider that question. What was their answer?
"Can they tell me one price and then add an additional $1876 when it is impossible for me to do anything about it?"
I'm not sure why you think it is impossible for you to do anything about it. You tell them you agreed to pay X and that's what you will pay unless they demonstrate some extraordinary reason why it should cost 41% more.
Tue, Oct 23 2007 1:17 PM
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B Lynn
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re: Have I been scammed?
What I meant by impossible for me to do anything about it was the fact that the major option I had was to go elsewhere but that option was taken away from me by the fact all the work was done.
I called their billing dept again and found out not all the bills had been submitted to the right insurance so they have resubmitted the claim to the right place.
I was also told by the billing dept that if I still show a large amount due after they hear from my insurance that I will need to take this up with the business manager that did the initial plan. I certainly plan to do that.
Thanks for the help.
Tue, Oct 23 2007 1:49 PM
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re: Have I been scammed?
Sounds like they are willing to see what the insurer does....you need to figure out with specificity where the difference is. Sometimes things happen, and the vendor is entitled to additional fees that were unanticipated in an estimate.....but first you have to figure out where the additional fees are being allocated, and why they were not considered up front. If it's the amount collectible from an insurer, then maybe you have an argument with your insurer.
Can't tell much from your post.
Tue, Oct 23 2007 1:54 PM
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We're not mind readers
Without seeing the document it is impossible to say if the original figure was simply their best estimate of a firm price.
Tue, Oct 23 2007 7:59 PM
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B Lynn
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re: We're not mind readers
The printout I have very clearly says it is my "Treatment Plan". The total cost is broken down into everything they are doing, including the type of dentures and their cost. The amount listed at the bottom clearly states the total is $4546.
Because she did this printout before she realized I had insurance she then at the bottom of this printout deducts the amount of coupon I provided her, an insurance estimate (so far this is the only part of the bill that is still waiting to be resolved. They sent part of my bill to my main insurance and not the part that pays for dental work) and she also deducted a percentage for the fact I paid in full that day. .
The only time the word estimate is used is from what she figures my insurance will pay. She deducted $1116 for insurance and they have so far paid $910. It will depend on what else my insurance pays. I feel the only thing I would owe them is the difference between her estimate and what they actually paid.
I talked to my insurance co. and I filed a formal complaint against this dental company because in addition to this billing problem there were really bad problems with the dentures they made. One of their own dentists said both (upper and lower) were so bad they needed to be redone. Out of 3 dentists that saw me he was the only one to say they were badly made and insisted they be redone. (To quote him "these are so badly made I can't work with these".) Thank God someone there agreed with me or I might still be trying to use something that was really unfit for use.
The only way I could still owe $1800 is if the total amount she had for my "treatment plan" is incorrect. I based my decision to have the work done by them based on the total cost listed on this paper.
I have a feeling I am in for a fight with them
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The Krishnamurti Video screening at London University last night was fantastically well attended. With well over 100 people, of all ages and interests, squeezing in for what turned out to be an engaging and insightful evening. We watched the 3rd discussion between Krishnamurti and Dr Allan W. Anderson, titled 'What Is Communication With Others' and afterwards we had a dialogue and quick question and answer session about the KFT. It was great to see such numbers and such interest. For our next screening on February 18th, we will have to book a larger room, as from this photo you will see our attendees were pouring out into the corridors.
Brockwood Park School trip is going great, our art teacher Maggie informs us. All are enjoying themselves and they are currently making their way southwest to the Centre For Learning school. We look forward to hearing of their eastern adventures upon their return.
Here are some photos taken whilst traveling and in Rishi Valley, Andhra Pradesh.
"Wherever one goes in the world, India, Europe and America, one sees great sorrow, violence, wars, terrorism, killing, drugs – every kind of stupidity. One accepts these as though inevitable and easily puts up with them, or one revolts against them; but revolt is a reaction, as Communism is a reaction to Capitalism or Fascism.
So, without revolting, without going against everything and forming one's own little group, or without following a guru from India or from elsewhere, without accepting any kind of authority – because in spiritual matters there is no authority – can we investigate these problems that human beings have had, centuries upon centuries, generation after generation, these conflicts, uncertainties, travails, all the things that human beings go through during life only to end in death, without understanding what it is all about?
Psychologically, inwardly, every human being, whoever he is, is the world. The world is represented in oneself and oneself is the world. That is a psychological, absolute fact; though one may have a white skin and another a brown or black skin, be affluent or very poor, yet inwardly, deep down, we are all the same; we suffer loneliness, sorrow, conflict, misery, confusion; we depend on someone to tell us what to do, how to think, what to think; we are slaves to propaganda from the various political parties and religions, and so on. That is what is happening all over the world inwardly; deep down, we are slaves to the propaganda of the experts, of the governments and so on, we are conditioned human beings, whether we live in India, Europe or America.
So, one is actually, psychologically, the world and the world is oneself. Once one realizes this fact, not verbally, not ideologically or as an escape from fact, but actually, deeply feel the fact, realize the fact, that one is not different from the other – however far away he is – inwardly he suffers greatly and is terribly frightened, uncertain, insecure, then one is not concerned with one's little self, one is concerned with the total human being. One is concerned with the total human being – not with Mr X or Y or somebody else – but with the total psychological entity as a human being, wherever he lives. He is conditioned in a particular way; he may be a Catholic, a Protestant, or he may be conditioned by thousands of years of certain kinds of beliefs, superstitions, ideas and gods, as in India, but below that conditioning, in the depth of his mind, when alone, he is facing the same life of sorrow, pain, grief and anxiety. When one sees this as an actual, irrevocable fact, then one begins to think entirely differently and one begins to observe, not as an individual person having troubles and anxieties, but whole, entire. It gives one an extraordinary strength and vitality; one is not alone, one is the entire history of mankind – if one knows how to read that history which is enshrined in one. This is not rhetoric but a serious factor one is deeply concerned with, a fact which one denies, because one thinks one is so individualistic. One is so concerned with oneself, with one's petty problems, with one's little guru, with one's little beliefs; but when one realizes this extraordinary fact, then it gives one tremendous strength and a great urgency to investigate and transform oneself, because one is mankind. When there is such transformation, one affects the whole consciousness of man because one is the entire humanity; when one changes fundamentally, deeply, when there is this psychological revolution in one, then naturally, as one is part of the total consciousness of the human being, which is the rest of humanity, its consciousness is affected. So, one is concerned to penetrate the layers of one's consciousness and to investigate whether it is possible to transform the content of that consciousness so that out of that transformation a different dimension of energy and clarity may come into being."
from The Wholeness of Life
J. Krishnamurti The Wholeness of Life Part II Chapter 7 1st Public Talk Ojai California 2nd April 1977 `Intelligence, in which there is complete security.'
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Questioner: What do you mean by freedom from the past?
Krishnamurti: The past is all our accumulated memories. These memories act in the present and create our hopes and fears of the future. These hopes and fears are the psychological future: without them there is no future. So the present is the action of the past, and the mind is this movement of the past. The past acting in the present creates what we call the future. This response of the past is involuntary, it is not summoned or invited, it is upon us before we know it.
Questioner: In that case, how are we going to be free of it?
Krishnamurti: To be aware of this movement without choice––because choice again is more of this same movement of the past––is to observe the past in action: such observation is not a movement of the past. To observe without the image of thought is action in which the past has ended. To observe the tree without thought is action without the past. To observe the action of the past is again action without the past. The state of seeing is more important than what is seen. To be aware of the past in that choiceless observation is not only to act differently, but to be different. In this awareness memory acts without impediment, and efficiently. To be religious is to be so choicelessly aware that there is freedom from the known even whilst the known acts wherever it has to.
Questioner: But the known, the past, still sometimes acts even when it should not; it still acts to cause conflict.
Krishnamurti: To be aware of this is also to be in a state of inaction with regard to the past which is acting. So freedom from the known is truly the religious life. That doesn't mean to wipe out the known but to enter a different dimension altogether from which the known is observed. This action of seeing choicelessly is the action of love. The religious life is this action, and all living is this action, and the religious mind is this action. So religion, and the mind, and life, and love, are one.
J. Krishnamurti, The Urgency of Change, 'The Religious Life'
When Bruce Lee was bedridden in 1970 with a bad back injury and his martial arts future was in jeopardy he discovered the work of Krishnamurti. He resonated particularly with K's notion that "you have to be a light to yourself" and with K's rejection of methods and beliefs. After reading K, Bruce Lee said, "I do not believe in styles anymore" and "where there is a way there lies the limitation."
Lee's newfound insights made their way into his acting work as well. In the 1971 television series "Longstreet", for example, he addressed Mr. Longstreet, who came to him for instruction, as follows: "I don't believe in systems, Mr. Longstreet, nor in method. And without system, without method, what's to teach?"
Bruce Lee was inspired by Taoism as well as by Krishnamurti which is evident in what would become his motto: "Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation."
This video tells the story of K's impact on Bruce Lee:


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Now, I'm not a complete idiot. Many of my friends have sent their kids to magnets schools. I'm aware of them in a vague "before there were charters there were magnets" way. I also—full disclosure—did not send my own children to a magnet because my husband and I were bewildered by the complexity of the magnet application system and daunted by the sense that in order to get our kids in, we would have had to apply before they were even born, maybe before we were even born. Who knew? Not us. But in order to understand the context of Jennifer Macon's class at Cleveland Magnet School, I realize I need to know what a "magnet school" means.
Magnets are incredibly complicated to explain but are basically a kind of "school within a school." Often, they operate within larger public schools; Cleveland High, for example, has almost 4,000 students, of whom 850 are in the Humanities Magnet (the others are divided into small learning communities with a variety of names; if you have, say, a month of free time and no personal relationships, you might want to spend several thousand hours trying to understand the genesis of these. Also, like in the last ten minutes, Cleveland High itself has become a charter. Don't ask.)
A magnet is different from a traditional public school because you have to apply. Acceptance is based on the number of "magnet points" you've accumulated, which are awarded on a point system so byzantine that though I just stared at the L.A. Times' explanation of it for the last five minutes, I still don't understand it. Basically, you get points based on where you live, how many times you've already been rejected by the system and a whole bunch of other stuff, plus the magnet must maintain a balance of 40% white students and 60% students of color in some neighborhoods, or 30% white, 70% students of color in other places. Back in the 1970's when it was developed, this 40/60 balance was originally intended to work toward desegregation and social justice, but in light of the fact that the LAUSD is now actually only 8.8% white, this balance may arguably be creating an effect that unintentionally tilts excellent schools once again in favor of white, privileged students.
My head hurts. Sandra Tsing-Loh and Angel Zobel-Rodriguez, aka the Magnet Yentas, have anticipated this reaction, and have started a program called Magnets and Martinis, if you also feel like drinking before thinking about magnets any further. Their site, Ask a Magnet Yenta, offers a more detailed explanation.
In other words, most magnets (except for the gifted or highly gifted magnets, oy, where's my Martini?) do not select students based on academic ability.
On the other hand, by virtue of their complex application process, magnets do select students whose parents are unbelievably savvy, smart, dedicated, motivated advocates for their children, willing and able to parse through mountains of data and leverage their social networks to be in the know about how to accumulate the number of rejections you need because the last thing you want is for little Angelica to get accepted at a school she was only applying to in order to get rejection points but really didn't want to attend.
Not surprisingly, having been raised by these incredibly motivated parents, magnet students tend to be unusually smart, dedicated and motivated as well. Many people, like my husband, will say that these kids deserve a fast-paced program that meets their needs. Others, like Dennis Danziger, the Venice High teacher I'll be visiting on Wednesday, will argue that we have no comparable system to meet the needs of at-risk kids who did not have the good fortune to be born to unusually smart, dedicated, motivated parents and who arguably deserve enrichment more, not less.
Often, magnets operate on the premises of a school whose general student body is significantly more economically disadvantaged and is mainly Latino and African-American. At Cleveland, for example, Jennifer estimates that about 28% of Cleveland Humanities Magnet students come from families in poverty, compared with 63% at the regular school. In terms of race, at Cleveland Humanities magnet, 60% are students of color, compared with 97% at the regular school.
The way you feel about magnets may be similar to the way you feel about charter schools, and can touch on where you stand on issues of race, class and privilege—as well as how (or if) we as a country should be using the educational system to redress imbalances. Collectively, these are called "choice" schools and are the flashpoint of a great deal of the educational debate right now. You can check out some of that debate here.
Anyway, all of this may give some context for my next post, where I describe Jennifer's class at Cleveland Humanities Magnet where she teaches, among other things, the idea of context—and when I visit Dennis' regular mainstream, non-magnet class at Venice High later this week.
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by Kate Heyhoe
Because making a highly seasoned dal can be time-consuming (especially when making other Indian dishes at the same time), I like to make one big batch and freeze half. I add all the ingredients to the whole recipe, as described below and freeze a quart of it. But to refresh the flavors after defrosting and reheating, I mix a half-batch of Mixture 3 to stir in just before serving, and I also add extra fresh lime or lemon juice to perk up the flavors.
You can also finish the dish after Step 2, adding Mixture 2 and omitting Mixture 3. It will be milder in flavor but tastes perfectly fine; doing so shaves off some time and eliminates another pan to wash.
Mixture 3 includes mustard oil, available in Asian and Indian markets, but you can use canola oil and a hefty dose of horseradish if you can't find it. As for ajwain seeds, if you can't find them omit them or substitute a 50-50 mix of thyme and celery seeds.
As with all dried legumes, be sure to sort through the mung beans thoroughly to remove any rocks or debris.
This recipe is adapted from one by author Bharti Kirchner. It makes a soupy sort of dal, but if you let it sit for 30 minutes or so before adding the 3rd mixture, the cooked mung beans will expand and help thicken the broth. I find that the soupy dals are less filling than the dry dals. In fact, I prefer them when serving a full meal of entrée, raita, rice and bread. They also make a very satisfying light meal with naan or other bread, and a cucumber salad.
For an ideal companion to this dal, serve it with Basmati Rice with Two Cumins.
Mixture 2
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground coriander seed
Mixture 3
2 tablespoons mustard oil
2 bay leaves
3 tablespoons minced ginger
2 teaspoons minced serrano or
jalapeño chile (with or without seeds)
1/2 teaspoon ajwain seeds
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1. Toast the yellow mung beans in a hot, dry skillet over medium heat, stirring frequently, until light brown, about 8 minutes. Rinse and drain.
2. In a large, heavy saucepan, bring water to boil. Add the mung beans, turmeric and whole chile. Simmer on low, uncovered, until the beans are tender but not mushy, about 30 minutes. Stir the beans occasionally to keep them from sticking to the pot. When the beans are tender enough to be broken easily between your thumb and finger, stir in the salt, sugar, cumin and coriander. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes for the flavors to blend, or turn off the flame now if reheating later.
At this point the mixture can be set aside and reheated before use. Or, for a mild taste, you can serve the dal as is, skipping the remaining step.
3. Make sure the dal is fairly warm. Just before serving, prepare Mixture 3: Heat the mustard oil on medium-low heat until hot. Add the bay leaves, ginger, and minced chile. Stir and cook until the ginger begins to brown. Stir in the ajwain seeds and garam masala and cook for a few seconds; do not let the ajwain seeds burn. Stir the mixture into the pot of mung beans. Remove the mixture from the heat, stir in the lime or lemon juice and serve hot in small bowls or cups, with lemon or lime wedges. (Remove bay leaves before serving.)
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Isn't it illegal in the US to conduct contests where all entrants don't have an equal chance of winning? I tired getting to your servers, but got so many errors I could not take the quiz.
You should cancel this mad rush, or make it so that like other contests, everyone has an equal chance of winning.
One tip I have learned, is that you can practice your stenciling using toothpaste! It's about the same consistency as solder paste. Once you know you've got your technique down, you can switch to the $$$ real stuff.
I use my PCB layout software to produce a stencil. Then I print to Toner Transfer, and etch a .005 brass shim stock that I can get from K&S at my local hobby store. Just a couple bucks for the .005, and it produces good stencils.
I set the grow radius for the pads to -6 . I find this helps keep the solder paste to a more controlled location and helps guard against bridging. Especially because I often reflow to a DIY PCB without a solder mask for protos.
Anybody have any tips for DIY solder mask? I've used the Testors Acrylic, but that covers over the pads, and so only works well for hand soldering. I've seen a Youtube video for a UV curable paint, but have not seen it for sale anywhere. SparkFun could get a large quantity and bottle it down?
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This grandchild business is getting out of hand. After three and a half months, poor Rosemary has had it with modern baby methods. She is forever falling foul of the new rules. Last week, while Daughter was resting, Rosemary borrowed a pram and took her darling granddaughter into the library and Co-op, bought some apples, but came home to a ghastly ticking-off.
Taking baby into shops is strictly verboten, said Daughter, except for the local health shop – Earth. And she rejected the apples. They were not organic. Prams are banned. So are baths. Baby must be cleaned with home-made lotions, and while Daughter and baby stayed over Christmas, Rosemary's heating had to be blasting away day and night until her flat was sweltering. The minute they left, Rosemary turned off the heating for four days as a penance. But what almost drove her to drink was the never-lay-baby-down rule, which is still ongoing. Daughter lives with baby strapped to her body, just as if she were tilling fields in the developing world.
Why bother to give birth at all, if one still has to carry baby non-stop? Rosemary is busting to pop her into a cot, but she doesn't have one. She sleeps with her parents. Unlike Baby Jesus. He had to lie down on some rotten old straw, "and no crying He made," said Rosemary crabbily. Then we remembered the past rather fondly: waking up in a chilly bedroom, nipping into the lovely warm kitchen for brekkers. But now Rosemary's family must sleep, wake and live in an oven, and when they do go out of doors, the sudden freezing blast will probably bring on a heart attack. And Christmas Day was even more fraught, because absolutely no paper crinkling was allowed – no screwing up of wrapping and chucking it into the fire, in case it woke baby up or gave her a shock.
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How Venture Capitalists Invest!
Author: SirNeo
Ok, I've been thru a couple rounds of startup companies. I've talked to lots of Venture capitalists and had to work for them as well. While the gist of the phrase "invest like a venture capitalist" is true, one shouldn't take it too literally.
Here are some characteristics of Venture Capitalists that as investors we should not (or cannot follow):
1. Venture capitalists are short term thinkers. They expect to have 5-10 times their money back in 2-3 years and will often structure their deals such that the "interest rate" on their investment in the case of liquidation is in the %20 range.
2. Venture capitalists expect 3 out of 5 of their ventures to fail. And by fail, I mean a total loss. They just write it off.
3. Venture Capitalists, expect to put their money into a company that they are going to be able to control. They expect to be able to have a seat on the board, replace the CEO as a condition of the investment, direct the company into a new direction and/or force the company to use other companies they've invested in as partners. Venture Capitalists get involved. This mitigates their risk.
4. Venture capitalists know far more about a given company than you and I ever will. I once had to spend an hour with a psychologist hired by a VC firm that was looking to invest-- they had every major player in the company evaluated to see if they could handle the stress of a high growth enterprise. This goes beyond what the SEC would call "insider information".
1-2 show that the method of investing is very different. It is not a buy and hold approach (though if a c company is a success they won't liquidate their share of the company for many years... but they will stop putting money in or pull their money out if it doesn't become a success in a couple years-- many companies that would have been successful are put into liquidation because a VC firm wants the dough tied up in their assets. Of course, this is the side of the tech boom that you don't read about in the papers.
3-4 show that VC firms have far more control and information to mitigate their risk than an individual investor does. VC firms are able to make more risky investments because of this power and this level of information.
Now the phrase was "Like" a venture capitalist, not as a venture capitalist, so don't think I'm flaming. I'm just pointing out that for any given level of risk you take in an investment, you MUST have an commensurate amount of information, or power, to justify that risk.
I am afraid that many, many investors take risk without doing their homework, and the phrase "invest like a venture capitalist" should be interpreted as "know a company as thoroughly as a venture capitalist". I've never gone thru a due diligence process with a company that took the proverbial "nice business plan, here's $1million" approach you hear about. All of them have made it an investigation like you'd expect from the FBI-- do that level of investigation in your investments as well!
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Add WriteBehind mode to cache updates before flushing to backing store ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: OPENJPA-1150 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1150 Project: OpenJPA Issue Type: New Feature Components: kernel Affects Versions: 2.0.0 Reporter: Michael Dick Assignee: Michael Dick Fix For: 2.0.0 The current L2 / DataCache implementation is exhibits write-through behavior. When an entity is updated its contents are updated in the datacache and then flushed to the backing store when the transaction completes. This feature will enable write-behind behavior - instead of updating the backing store when the transaction completes, the updates will be cached in memory until until triggered to truly flush. This approach has the effect of reducing the load on the backing store and (hopefully) improving overall throughput. Naturally there are some caveats to this approach. 1. A DataCache must be used in conjunction with the WriteBehind cache. The DataCache will be kept in sync with the WriteBehind cache reducing the possibility of stale reads. 2. When operating in write-behind mode you need to take care that OpenJPA is the only application accessing these rows. Updates from other applications may lead to errors when the write-behind cache is flushed. 2a. Some care must be taken when running on multiple JVMs. The DataCache & WriteBehindCache need to be kept in sync across JVMs. The DataCache has some capability in this area and the WriteBehindCache will further extend that. 2b. The application must contain some logic to recover from a failed update. 3. Database generated columns (ie IDENTITY, SEQUENCE) will not work correctly (at least not with the initial version of write-behind) 3a. Table generated columns will work, but the SQL used to obtain the value from the table will bypass the WriteBehindCache (ie you may see some database traffic in this case). This support may not be suitable for every application. Write heavy applications will see great benefit as will applications which place high load on the database. The feature should not be enabled by default and should be considered strictly optional. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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115 Sule Pagoda Rd, downtown Yangon T: (09) 1252 986
Whether coming from a taxi or a walkway, the way to May Shan Hotel is full of excitement and sights. Right in front of Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon (Rangoon), the entrance into the building is slightly less awe-inspiring, but leads you into a decent, comfy and clean hotel.
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The first to welcome you to this hotel are not a doorman or the desk, but money-changers and a noodle stand among the mayhem of downtown. A window display of intriguing artwork stands next to the entrance and with a step through the door, air-con and a friendly staff welcome you into a dimly lit lounge.
A skinny elevator will whisk you to the seven floors above. We checked out a US$45 single room located down a long and clean tiled hallway; double rooms go for US$60 and a triple at the top with the "Sule Pagoda View" goes for US$80. (We noticed for the dates we checked Agoda.com has a higher price for the single bedroom.)
The room we were shown had horses running down a mountain painted on the tiles above the bed — who doesn't love quirkiness? Rooms are spic and span and packed fairly tight with furnishings that are both useful and decorative. Among the bunch is an armoire with a full mirror, a desk, table stands and a small entertainment centre that holds a phone and a tiny television. The bathroom is adequate and clean with a Western toilet and hotwater shower.
A small breakfast is included in the price and free WiFi can be used in the lounge. Room service is around the clock and a laundry service is available. While the rooms are decent value, what isn't at May Shan is their airport transfer for US$15; save your money and pay half the price by stepping outside and grabbing one of the many taxis that you normally have to dodge.
Where May Shan Hotel really shines is its location right next door to Sule Pagoda and Independence Monument and park. Just around the corner is Bogyoke Aung San Market and the downtown markets. Taking into account this location, comfort and amenities, May Shan Hotel is adequate value for those travellers looking for a decent hotel but not wanting to pay the now-outrageous prices at the high-end hotels that share the same road.
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After reports that Wally Backman might be joining Davey Johnson's staff in Washington were reputed, all was quiet on the Wally front.
The Mets were the only team to let Wally back in baseball but he seemed miffed last year when he wasn't promoted to the major league managers position after one season back in AA.
Now this season, there was a major shake-up in the major league staff and Wally once again wasn't promoted, although it's believed that he will be promoted within the organizations minors to Buffalo.
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A Catholic nun faces up to 10 years in prison after admitting to embezzling more than $850,000 from the college where she worked as chief financial officer, the Westchester Journal-News reports.
Sister Marie Thornton, former CFO of Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan today.
Thornton, 63, was fired in 2009 after school officials discovered the decade-long embezzlement involving fraudulent checks, phony vendor invoices and misuse of a college credit card, but did not tip law enforcement.
The stolen money came to light in the college's tax filing, the newspaper says.
Thornton's lawyer says his client is "accepting full responsibility" for her actions and wants "to move forward to make amends for everyone affected."
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It was the best car to drive in their three-way comparison test between the Panamera, the Quattroporte and the Rapide. Beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder - and I won't argue that the Panamera doesn't trail the stunning Rapide - but performance is not, and here the Panamera prevailed. TG tested a Turbo, it would have been the same driving outcome had they tested an S/4S.
Depends on what you value. If you want the best driver's car, and if you can handle the higher cost of entry for the V8 models, there's nothing to touch a Panamera in the segment.
Totally agree. I don't doubt it's the best driver. If you can get past the looks, then it's probably a magnificent car to drive. That's why the Rapide would've been my choice - it is a balance...stunning looks completely offset the less-than-Porsche drive. This is why I say there is no perfect car.
The Panamera is like a girl who's no looker but is still relatively hard to get, and you scratch your head at that from time to time. However, you get to know her and she has this intoxicating and charming personality. You really, really want to get past her looks cause she's so much fun. Some guys would be able to, some guys wouldn't be able to.
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why do you need to construct a calibration curve when doing spectrophotometric determinations? Is it not possible to obtain the concentration of the unknown solution by simply getting the extinction coefficient of the species under study and then determine its concentration in the unknown solution by using Beer's law? Thanks!
Many or most spectrometers split a beam of light in two and pass it through two different "arms" ot the spectrometer, and then take the ratio of the measured signals. One of the arms contains the sample material, in a holder.
There can be differences in the intensities of the two beams because of an imperfect beam splitter or different losses in the two beams, including absorption by windows of the empty cell. This can be evaluated by means of a calibration scan of the empty sample holder.
The ratio of the signals with full and empty cell should be used for the sample material transmittance or absorptance.
The absorption at a given wavelength may be due more than one species. I assume that you are not trying to deduce the concentration of one species in a mixture of species with overlapping bands.
It has been a long time since I calibrated a spectrophotometer, and there must be newer and better kinds around these days.
This article may help.
Let me add something to the answers provided by drwls. Knowing the extinction coefficient and using Beer's Law may work IF you assume that the extinction coefficient doesn't change with concentration. Sometimes it does and the calibration curves are not always linear. Some curve up, some down, some are straight lines.


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Democrats were expecting a big year in Ohio in 2006, and they got one. With the Republican Party crippled by both financial scandal and widespread disdain for the retiring GOP governor, voters elected Democratic candidates to almost every major office: not only governor but also U.S. senator, secretary of state, treasurer and attorney general -- ending more than a decade of Republican control in each case. None of these elections was even close. "There will be a sea change in Ohio at every level," one of the state's most prominent Democrats exulted on election night. "The significance of this is almost indescribable."
It was, indeed, the Great Blue Sweep of 2006, in Ohio as in much of the country. But as the votes poured in, the Democratic Party found itself puzzling over the one big prize that got away: the legislature. Not only did Democrats fail to capture the Ohio House or Senate -- which some thought might happen -- they didn't come near it. When the legislature convenes again this month, the House will still be Republican by a margin of 53-46. And the Senate, which was Republican by a lopsided 22-11 before November, scarcely moved at all. It's now 21-12. The Democrats gained one Senate seat. The voter discontent that installed their candidates in nearly all the major statewide offices in Columbus failed to produce a remotely similar result on the legislative side.
Why would voters cast Democratic votes at the top of the ballot and then change their minds in the next column down? Actually, there's a simple answer. They didn't.
If you take out a calculator and add up the votes cast for the Ohio Senate in 2006, you will find that there was something indeed resembling a blue tide. Returns from the Secretary of State's Office (they are unofficial and will change, but not by much), show that Democratic Senate candidates drew more than a million votes -- 1,007,284. Republicans drew 731,168. That's close to a 60-40 split.
So how did the GOP end up with a 21-12 majority in the chamber? Well, only 17 of the 33 Senate seats were up this year. And Democrats already held eight of those. So the best they could do mathematically was pick up nine. And you're never going to win all of the other party's seats, no matter how strong a tide there is. So that explains part of it.
But still, one measly seat? The Democrats draw 60 percent of the statewide Senate vote -- a plurality of 300,000 -- and all they get out of it is a one-seat gain? That makes no sense.
Or, rather, it doesn't make sense until you look at the margins of the winning candidates. All eight of the Republicans who won survived competitive campaigns by relatively narrow spreads. Six of the eight were in the 50 to 59 percent range. On the other hand, the nine Democratic winners all coasted home. Two weren't even opposed. The lowest Democratic winning percentage (60.8 percent) was very close to the highest Republican percentage (61.9 percent).
What's the explanation for that? I won't keep you in suspense any longer. In fact, I imagine you've figured it out by now. The Ohio Senate map is an elegant 21st-century gerrymander, drawn by Republican mapmakers to squeeze out as many Republican victories as possible by packing Democrats into a limited number of one-party enclaves with huge Democratic majorities. They did a pretty good job with the Ohio House, too, by the way: Democrats drew about 125,000 more votes than Republicans in the state's 99 House districts, and still fell four seats short of control.
This sort of thing is nothing new, of course. It has been a staple of legislative mapmaking since Elbridge Gerry invented it in Massachusetts in 1812 and lent his name to the practice. Both parties do it. Republicans were able to do it in Ohio in 2001 because they held all the major statewide offices, which gave them control of the state Apportionment Board that drew the map.
"It's definitely one of the most effective partisan plans," says Tim Storey, of the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures. "It's one of the top two or three. The Republicans controlled that board, and they took advantage of it." As Storey is quick to add, Democrats would have been just as political had they been in charge -- and likely will be if they hold on to their newly won state offices and control the board in 2011.
I went back and looked at the numbers in Ohio because I was curious what effect gerrymandering really had on the 2006 results. I have to confess that I've always been a skeptic when it comes to the notion that parties can draw districts skillfully enough to rig the political process for any significant length of time.
One thing I know for sure is that no set of districts can be drawn cleverly enough to provide a guarantee against a powerful shift in the mood of the electorate. Republicans drew most of the district lines in current use for the U.S. House, and many experts proclaimed that the political artistry of those lines precluded any possibility of Democratic congressional control in the current decade. But public revulsion over the Iraq war proved too much for the maps to handle, and the House went Democratic.
Those discontents had their effect at the state legislative level as well. Republicans in Michigan and Pennsylvania had the same cartographic opportunities as their counterparts in Ohio in 2001, and they drew House and Senate district maps that seemed just as impervious to Democratic challenge. But it didn't work out that way. Gerrymander or no gerrymander, Democrats picked up nine House seats in Michigan and eight in Pennsylvania in 2006, and (pending a recount in Pennsylvania) hold majorities in both chambers.
But those results simply frame the most important question: Is the power of gerrymandering overrated, or did the skill of Republican mapmakers at the state level save the GOP from a 2006 electoral debacle far more humiliating than it actually turned out to be? At this point, I'm inclined to think the answer is a little of both.
Gerrymanders aren't impregnable. In the right year, with the right issues, the right candidates and enough money, either party can break through the best of them. But even in a year like 2006, they make the odds against a successful challenge very hard to overcome -- and to an extent, at least, dilute the political expression of voter discontent.
That's a legitimate problem for American democracy. The question is what to do about it. For decades, the forces of good government have been promoting a simple answer: Take mapmaking out of the hands of elected officials and turn it over to a nonpartisan commission. Several states, most famously Iowa, have been doing this for many years, and the results have been generally positive: no skewing of votes-to-seats like the one that happened in Ohio this year.
But when citizens are asked if they want this sort of reform, they usually say no. That's what they said in a referendum in Ohio in 2005. In California, the voters have turned down five different proposals for nonpartisan redistricting over the past quarter-century. Still, the reformers never seem to give up. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to persuade the Democratic legislature to pass a nonpartisan redistricting plan later this year. The odds would seem to be against that happening.
But what if public sentiment changes? What if voters in states around the country become so tired of blatant partisan mapmaking that they finally decide to give the nonpartisan idea a try? Would that solve the problem?
To a degree, yes. In a small state such as Iowa, with a largely homogeneous population, it's easy to imagine a group of disinterested experts -- or a computer -- coming up with a map that doesn't tilt toward either party or disenfranchise any bloc of voters.
It's not so easy to imagine in a big, diverse state with highly concentrated minority populations -- a state, for example, such as Ohio. If you look at the districts where Democrats won the most lopsided victories for the Ohio Senate in 2006, you'll find that they are almost all densely populated urban constituencies with big blocs of minority voters. Republicans were delighted to pack these voters together in 2001, but even the most nonpartisan group of mapmakers would have had some difficulty figuring out how to unpack them.
The only sure way to create more competition in a city such as Cleveland would be to create districts shaped like slices of pizza, narrow wedges in the inner city that broaden out and take in enough suburban territory to make them politically competitive. That's been suggested, and Democrats would no doubt like to do it in 2011 if they could, but such a scheme would almost certainly fall victim to legal objections that it would reduce the number of minority candidates strong enough to win election.
The harder one looks for an ideal solution to the redistricting problem, the more one concludes that there is no ideal solution: Redistricting will always be unfair to somebody. What we can hope for is that it isn't systematically unfair to the same people and groups, election after election. Perhaps we're inching closer to that goal.Redistricting will always be unfair to somebody. The best we can hope for is that it isn't systematically unfair to the same people and groups, election after election.
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I lay beside you in the medicine den, leg stiff with rushes and cobwebs. The blood has long since dried, the ache reduced to a numb pulse. Leafpool ordered you to keep me warm in the night so my fever may break.
Your breath is slow and even as you sleep, your tail curled over your muzzle. I can feel your tabby fur against mine, although I can't see it in the darkness. The moonlight splits through a single crack in the wall. Your face is bathed in an eerie, ethereal glow.
I won't say a thing, but there are times I wish we'd fall in love.
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You press your muzzle to my pads and check to see if they're swollen with fever. There is something intangible about your close proximity, something magical about the way you efficiently smooth poultices on my leg. By now, there is more blood, but the numb pulsing is gone, and I can freely move about with only a slight pain.
"Nothing," you report to Leafpool, who is lost in thought on the other side of the den. "You'll be better soon." There is something akin to happiness in your eyes, relief; I'll never understand it, and I don't know if I want to.
It seems silly when I think it now, but for all my bravery, for all my dreams of being a warrior, it'll be a frightening world without you there to make sure I don't fall.
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It's a late night when you prod me awake, despite Leafpool's insistence that you don't bother me. My eyes flutter open to find you silhouetted by the silver light outside, your eyes sightlessly staring down at me. A chill seeps through my bones, and I notice a low mist outside the den.
You shuffle your paws. "It's cold, back there," and with your muzzle you vaguely gesture to the back cave. "Drafts, you know."
I say nothing, as if I cannot be bothered, when there is a cacophony in my chest. You take my silence as a cue and settle next to me in the fresh moss, fur matching fur, warm and contented.
I still say nothing, though I know I cannot sleep now, and from the way your breath stills, I know you are still awake. We lay like that, you and I, a reflection without a reason. There's so many things I could say, questions boiling in my stomach, but I say nothing, and neither do you.
Do you wish we'd fall in love?
If I could ask, you wouldn't answer, would you?
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The sunlight is warm on my fur, and the lake glistens like a million crystals. Beads of water vaporize in the heat, and my leg, a dull throb once more, lays comfortably at my side.
You sit next to me, your ringed tail curled over your paws, looking out over the lake. I wonder if you understand what you've done for me. I'm sure there's a inkling of knowing in that smart brain of yours, an understanding that you've helped. But you cannot possibly comprehend the significance.
I dip my tail into the water at the shore, watching it hiss over the pebbles with disinterest. The sun slides down the horizon, turning the sky several shades of orange, pink, and purple. You look up.
"We should head back." There's a hint of disappointment in your voice, words left unsaid.
I follow your gaze, as Silverpelt dots the sky. "We should."
And yet still, we never move.
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The den is a shadowy place this morning. I can feel it, the sense of foreboding, the sense of loss, for I'm leaving today. I'll be returning to my warrior duties, and you will no longer be my coach. There will be no more swims in the lake, or nights spent curled at each other's side.
There is bitterness in your eyes, and although I know you can't see me, you stare as if I'm forever in your memory. You once asked me, tentatively, what I looked like, long before you confessed you once dreamed of me, helping me in StarClan.
"I'm much like you," I said once. "You're my reflection, only much smaller."
Today, I know why you stare at me in such a way. I suppose this anger is hiding that you'll miss me, even if you have duties to attend to. You watch me as I pad in, my leg no longer a crumpled heap, now just as fit as my others.
Leafpool's eyes are alight with relief and amazement, their amber cores traveling over my leg interestedly. "I'm so pleased," she purrs, pressing her muzzle to mine. "I'll have to tell Firestar the good news."
She slips away, leaving me alone with you, and suffocating me in the thick air.
I smile at you, and yet you cannot see it, I know you feel it. "I suppose this is goodbye, then," I say, a tentative whisper, a hesitant goodbye. "Thank you for everything." I could have said more. Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for saving me.
You grunt. "Not forever, is it?" Even so, I can hear the desperation in your voice; you don't want it to be forever, and neither do I. You hope it's not forever. I wish it isn't forever.
And even though it's untrue, hopeful thinking, I still lie and say, "No, not forever at all."
I can hear the words left unsaid.
I love you.
And though they are never spoken, I can see it in your eyes, privately anguished and distressed: you love me.
And though I will never say it, it still shines there, burns in the deepest places of my heart: I love you, too.


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By 1st Lt. William Carraway
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July 12, 2012
With Maj. Gen. George McClellan and the Army of the Potomac retreating from Gen. Robert E. Lee's attacks on the Peninsula, a number of disparate Union commands in northern Virginia were consolidated as the Army of Virginia. Major Gen. John Pope was Lincoln's choice to command the newly-formed Army. Pope had built a reputation as a hard fighter in the west having captured New Madrid Missouri in March 1862 and Island Number 10 on the Mississippi River the following month.
Desperate for aggressive commanders, Lincoln brought Pope east hoping that the move would change the Union's prospects in Virginia. Pope immediately made a bad impression by boasting of his western exploits, permitting his men to requisition food from Virginia farms, and holding civilians responsible for damage caused by Confederate actions. These pronouncements not only upset his subordinates but caused the unflappable Gen. Robert E. Lee to regard him with unusually strong language. Lee described Pope as "a miscreant who needs to be suppressed."
With McClellan no longer a threat to Richmond, Lee dispatched Stonewall Jackson's corps north to begin the suppression of the miscreant Pope. Lee would have to act fast. With McClellan withdrawing by water from the Peninsula there was great risk that he would join Pope in northern Virginia and confront Lee with a united Union army.
By August 9, 1862, Jackson's men had arrived in the vicinity of Culpeper, Va. where they defeated Union forces at the Battle of Cedar Mountain. By this time, Lee had confirmed McClellan's intent to reinforce Pope. Lee therefore ordered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps to march to Jackson's support. With the Confederate Army again reunited, the Army of Virginia and the Army of Northern Virginia faced off in series of indecisive clashes as both armies jostled for tactical advantage.
Then, on August 25, scouts from Jackson's Corps discovered an unguarded route around the Union right flank. On receiving the intelligence, Lee ordered Jackson to make a dramatic march around the Union flank to place himself between Pope and Washington in the hope that Pope might react rashly and give him battle on terms favorable to the South. Jackson, whose men had achieved legendary status as "foot cavalry" marched more than 50 miles in 36 hours to Manassas Junction in the rear of Pope's army. There, Jackson's men seized Pope's supply depot.
After two-days forced marching Jackson's men feasted on the spoils before burning what could not be carried. His men flush with victory, Jackson took up positions near Manassas, Va.
The attack had the desired effect. Pope abandoned his position on the Rappahannock River and marched north hoping to catch Jackson's isolated corps. Unbeknownst to Pope, Lee was simultaneously marching north with Longstreet's Corps
On August 28th, Pope's elements were furiously searching for Jackson who had by then taken up a strong defensive position in an unfinished railroad cut. From his concealed position, Jackson observed Union troops moving on the Warrenton Turnpike to his front. Seizing the opportunity Jackson attacked.
The engagement was to be a bloody stalemate as the Union Soldiers Jackson faced were excellent Wisconsin and Indiana troops who would go on to earn the nickname The Iron Brigade. Despite the setback, Southern forces were poised for success. Lee and Longstreet had pushed aside resistance at Thoroughfare Gap and were within miles of reinforcing Jackson. Pope, meanwhile, had no idea of Lee's whereabouts.
Having discovered Jackson's corps, Pope ordered his army to converge and destroy it. On August 29th he pitched his united forces in a series of uncoordinated attacks. Though successful in breaching the Southern lines, the Union was unable to exploit the breaches and was driven back by stubborn resistance.
While the battle raged at the unfinished railroad, Longstreet's Corps arrived on the outskirts of Manassas and deployed on Jackson's right flank. Longstreet was perfectly positioned to crush the Union left.
On the morning of August 30, 1862, believing Jackson was in retreat, Pope ordered an assault. Two Union corps attacked and were pushed back. As the Union corps attempted to reorganize, Longstreet launched a massive assault directly into their left flank.
The 18th Georgia was among the first of Longstreet's regiments to meet the enemy. The Georgians drove the skirmishers of the 10th New York from their positions and inflicted 300 casualties on the 500 Soldiers of the 5th New York. This regiment suffered the highest percentage of Soldiers killed of any regiment in the Civil War.
Five Confederate divisions were barreling down on two undersized Union brigades. Their objective was Henry House Hill, a prominent feature that had been the scene of fighting at the first Battle of Manassas one year earlier. From Henry House Hill the Confederates would be able to shell retreating Union columns with impunity. Pope, belatedly recognizing the danger, dispatched troops to defend Henry House Hill. A division under the improbably named Maj. Gen Zealous B. Tower was the first to arrive.
In the engagement that followed Tower was wounded and Colonel Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster was killed. The Union resistance crumbled before the Confederate vanguard led by the brigades of Col. George Anderson and Col. Henry Benning for whom Fort Benning is named. Despite this success, the Confederate assault sputtered for want of ammunition and exhaustion.
By darkness Pope ordered a general withdrawal from the field. Of the 62,000 Union Soldiers engaged 10,000 were casualties. In September, Pope's career became the final casualty of Second Manassas as he was relieved of command and exiled to a post in Minnesota.
The Confederates had lost 8,000 out of 50,000 engaged. With Pope's men streaming for the safety of Washington's defense network no army stood between Lee and his bold plan to take the war to Northern soil. With Pope's army wrecked, Lee turned north on a march that could culminate near Sharpsburg, Md. along the banks of the Antietam Creek on the single bloodiest day of the war.
Next month: The Bloodiest Day.


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CIA Accused Of Spying On US Senate Intelligence Committee
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A dispute between congress and the CIA has gone public and caustic.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein of California says the spy agency has engaged in activity that may be illegal and violates the separation of powers.
She says the CIA improperly searched a computer network that had been set up at CIA headquarters for use by lawmakers investigating whether the agency had used torture during terror investigations.
CIA Director John Brennan disputes the allegations and says he'll leave it to authorities to determine whether there was a violation of the law.
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