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hi folks,
i've spent over two weeks trying to figure this out. got some help from the weaver ii theme forum peeps, but i just can't seem to get over one last hurdle -- i have everything working as desired except the li background item for the current page. since it is not a link  item, i just can't figure out which element to style ://. (i know. lame.)
.homepage a {background-image:url(http://www.threeriversfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/homeLight.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: 10px 18px; background-size: 15px 14px;}
li.homepage a:hover, li.homepage .current_page_item {background-image:url(http://www.threeriversfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/homeDark.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: 10px 19px; background-size: 15px 14px;}
the current page should match the hover state darker icon at a slightly lower position. additional styling will bring the text in line with the dropped icon. but right now i just need to corral that dang element!! (and believe me, i've tried so many of 'em in there i can't even see straight any more.)
here's the url so you can see it in action: http://www.dev.threeriversfitness.com/welcome/
on a related note, when i view source or use browser dev tools i see declarations with a '>' stuck between elements like so:
.menu_bar .current_page_item > a, .menu_bar .current-menu-item > a
what does that mean and how do i handle it when trying to write new rules for that strign of elements/classes in the actual style declaraton?
thanks so much in advance for your patience and assistance.
mtouchette, I'm not exactly sure what is not working for you. The "Home" menu item does seem to be styled.
There is a bit of a problem with the positioning of the main menu that you might be interested in, however.
At the present time, the list items are being positioned on two different stylesheets as follows:
/welcome/, Line 217:
.menu_bar li {
left: 50%;
weaver-ii/style.min.css?ver=1.2.4, Line 17:
.menu_bar li {
float: left;
position: relative;
That arrangement is causing the main menu to extend past the right edge of the page.
I suggest that you delete the first item on /welcome/ entirely and change the second item to:
.menu_bar li {
and see how that works.
The child selector, the ">" symbol, is explained very nicely in this reference: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/childselector
If you can provide a better explanation of how you would like the first menu item to be styled (explain what is not happening for you) we should be able to help with that. It seems to be working in Firefox but I could easily be misunderstanding your wishes.
hi ronpat,
thanks for responding, and so quickly.
yes, i know about the menu being positione badly. it's not that way on the live site and i didn't think it worth tracking down on the dev environment.
and you are correct everytihng is working ... except ... the little house icon when the home page is the current page should be darker and down by 1 or 2 pixels as it is in the hover state.
in other words, the hover state and currant page tabs should be identical. right now when you click the icon image reverts to the  state image. does that make more sense?
You aren't getting the dark house when the page is current because you have the CSS a little wrong. Remember that the current class is on the LI, not the A, so instead of this:
li.homepage a:hover, li.homepage .current_page_item {
background-image: url(http://www.threeriversfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/homeDark.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 10px 19px;
background-size: 15px 14px;
you need this:
li.homepage a:hover, li.homepage.current_page_item {
background-image: url(http://www.threeriversfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/homeDark.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 10px 18px;
background-size: 15px 14px;
I've just closed up the gap between the classnames, so that the class is on the LI, rather than on its child. I've also changed the y-position to 18 instead of 19 to stop the appearance of a jump. I suspect that was a typo?
This is a perfect place for a "sprite" image, with each image state in one image. Then you get an instant hover effect, rather than a delay as the hover image loads.
hi ralph,
that's it? closing up the gap? i swear i tried that...i think. that was part of my problem, i think. i tried so much i was going i circles.
the 1px idfference actually wasn't a typo. the final version has the tab and its contents drop (and stay) down. see http://threeriversfitness.com if you're curious.
i will try the sprite thing soon's i get my head wrapped around what is what. i know of sprites and understand the general concept, but have never done it. now that the live site is done, i am going back into the dev environment to leisurely refine some things -- and learn some new stuff along the way!
thanks so much for your help. i'm hopping over to make the change right now!
oops, that didn't work. now i have a double image and it put the bullet image behind the background tint so it got screened back; which is exactly what happened when i did it in my trials. but since you changed that Y-axis location at least now i know the darker image is being dispalyed. before i thought it wasn't even switching.:-)
i've left it in there so you can see what happened.
Oops, I made a mistake. I forgot to add the "a" (see in red). Sorry!
li.homepage a:hover, li.homepage.current_page_item a {
background-image: url(http://www.threeriversfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/homeDark.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 10px 18px;
background-size: 15px 14px;
yes! yes! oh... doing my best meg ryan harry met sally impression here
that's it. i can sleep now and tidy up the rest tomorrow.
thank you again!
I assume you're just faking gratitude, but I'm glad that helped, anyway. :lol:
haha, good reply. i assure you, the gratitude was/is totally authentic, only the dramatization was fake.
i make every effort to solve problems via discovery before posting for help as i find that a more effective learning strategy. but, i never would have gotten that on my own since i was no longer considering the element as having  relevance.
thank you again, again.


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TRON is a totally updated sequel that takes place in today's computer world and not in the IBM main frame of the original TRON program creator, Alan Bradley. Jet Bradley, a talented, young computer programmer is the son of Alan 20 years after the events of the film (out in 1982). You assume the role of Jet and are in search of his missing father. You must travel through a whole new world of computers, PDAs, Internet hubs, and even infected servers.
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Sponsor: Controversial Part of City Gay Rights Proposal May be Removed
The sponsor of that very controversial measure to outlaw discrimination against gays, lesbians, and transgendered individuals in San Antonio city government says he is willing to remove one passage of the proposal which has sparked outrage among Christian and conservative groups, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Section 2-552(b) of the proposal states 'No person shall be appointed to a position if the City Council finds that such person has, prior to such proposed appointment, engaged in discrimination or demonstrated a bias, by word or deed, against any person, group, or organization on the basis of sexual orientation, or gender identity.'
That has prompted Christian leaders like Pastor Charles Flowers of Faith Outreach International that the free speech rights of people who have a religious belief that homosexuality is a sin could lead to them never having a voice in city government.
"The ordinance says if you have at any point demonstrated a bias, without defining what a bias is or who will determine whether or not one has been exercised, that you cannot get a city contract," Flowers told a Christian publication.
But Diego Bernal, the councilman who introduced the ordinance, says that is a misreading of the wording of the statute, which has been in place for decades to speak out against discrimination against people based on sex, race, or national origin.
"This doesn't in any way infringe on the First Amendment rights of anyone moving forward, nor has it in the past," Bernal said.
He says the language simply demonstrates that City Council has the authority to approve or reject nominees for any board or commission for any reason, or for no reason. Council may approve an avowed racist for a board position if it chooses.
"The rest of the council has the discretion to vote for against someone based on their own individual beliefs," he said.
Conservative groups say this language would disqualify evangelical Christians, and essentially all Muslims, from having any position in city government.
Bernal, who is an evangelical Christian, says the language has been reviewed by attorneys and has been determined not to violate First Amendment protections for religion or free expression. He points out that the proposed bill goes out of it's way to exempt religious institutions, schools, and churches from having their hands tied by the language of the law. For example, a pastor could not be censored for saying from the pulpit that he believes the Bible says homosexuality is wrong.
But Bernal says if the particular passage will block the law from being approved, he is willing to remove it.
"Doing something with it, whether it is amending it, editing it, removing it," he said. "I think a careful lawyer would look at it and say it is not doing what people are saying it is doing."
After being tabled in June, the measure, which would essentially place the city on record as opposing any discrimination based on sexual orientation or 'gender identity,' is set to come before a council committee again next week.
Bernal says every other major city in Texas has similar laws in place, and no city has experienced any attempt to restrict the free speech rights of people of faith.


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Took my 2011 macbook pro into a Apple store because the battery was only holding 16% charge after 260 cycles, they confirmed it was faulty but then asked me to pay for it to be replaced, after pointing out the EU law they said that they don't have to comply with the law and that if I wanted it fixed under the law I would have to take them to court.
So annoyed.
"customers should be made aware that the AppleCare protection plan only offers an additional 12 months of cover for customers in the EU because they have the first two years as standard"
I thought it only added 12 months here in the States as well (1-year standard manufacturer's warranty, 2-years total with Apple Care extension).
EU is not a legal country entity, therefore, any EU legislation is up to each country to implement according to and in conjunction to existing laws of that country, even if it non-opt act.
And implementation may differ, as simple as that. There are so many exclusions to 2y warranty here, i can't remember them all...


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A9 TV; November 8th, 2011
Faith makes a woman very beautiful. A dishonorable woman is not beautiful. She is not fine. She does not make any impact. Sometimes you may see some women around; excuse me, but women with immoral behavior. These women neither have respect for themselves nor feel any respect for others. Similarly, they neither appreciate their own value nor the value of others. Such women feel a constant rage. Similarly, those within their company also feel rage for them. That is why they get into disputes with others like dogs. You see them when they appear in some TV programs. They continuously make insinuations at one another since both parties consider the other one dishonorable. They make themselves feel that they are invaluable by means of all their acts and manners. The fact is however, a woman is very beautiful when she is appreciated and respected. A woman is beautiful when she is honorable and chaste. Chastity, of course. A woman who belongs to everyone or to a few men does not feel respect for herself. It has a very negative impact. But a woman who abides by what is lawful and unlawful remains very strong. The same feature holds true for men. That is because, if one is not attentive to what is lawful and unlawful, there exists no limits. In the absence of limits, the brain drains away. So does the soul. A person loses his power. For instance think of a room, which has no walls. A room with no walls ceases to be a room. It is no longer a room. If it has a wall, then it is considered as a room. A palace has walls, right? You have entered a great palace butit has no walls. Then it is emptiness. Similarly, people whose souls tend to unlawfulness, people whose souls have no limits in terms of lawfulness and unlawfulness have an infinite vagueness. The inside of their brains, their souls have vagueness. Their lives have no purpose. They have no meaning. Also, other people do not mean anything to them.
Otherwise a person can make effort as much as he can, or make suggestions to himself as to the necessity of loving a particular person, but the body, soul would not accept it. It can not be accomplished by inculcation. It has to be absolutely in that way. That is because,although a person may deceive some others, he can not deceive himself. The lower-self is very aware. He is very wise. In no way is he deceived. No matter how much you inculcate your brain and tell that you must love someone, if that person is not precious, the brain does not allow it. It simply does not allow you to love. If that person is precious, on the other hand, no matter how much you resist from feeling love for that person, you love with a crazed fervor. People may tempt you and say unfavorable things like, "This person is very dangerous, stay away from him", "He is a wicked person", "He may cause harm to you", etc., the brain no longer believes in him. That is because, the brain believes in what it sees. For instancemany people said thatour Prophet (saas) was a "sorcerer","a liar", "a deceiver."You speak of it, the prominent people of the city also state it, but the eye seesit in a different way and the earhearssomething else.The eye states that he is honest, fine and good. So do the ear and wisdom. So how would one believe in others' words? In that case a person believes in his brain. That is called conscience. An unconscientious person does not listen to the orders given by the brain. He does not heed the correct information provided by his brain. In this case, the brain and body fight against each other, and a tremendous tension emerges, as a result of which the body takes the color of coal-black. It collapses, decays. It turns into a carcass. His looks, manners, mouth, nose and brain degenerate. Even the tone of his voice, the scent of his body becomes disgusting. Everything related to him becomes filthy because the body dies while it is standing. Because the cells of the body are sensitive to love and the body notices that it has been betrayed, it starts to attack itself and kill itself. That is why you see that kind of women who go through degeneration. We see devastated people. People with a complexion of a filthy-yellow color. Surely those who are sick are exceptions; but in general the reason is lovelessness. For instance they suffer from a hernia. They become tense. They become nervous because of lovelessness. People who are loved do not become anxious and in the absence of anxiousness, there exists no hernia or cervical disc hernia. Except from traumas, it is also medically proven that stress causes such diseases.
Human beings are created weak. Cells can not resist lovelessness. A cell asks for love, for compassion. Cells asks for water and food but their vital need is love and you do not give it. You can give food and water to a person. But what happens when you do not give them any oxygen? They die. Love is like oxygen. Once you do not give love, even if you give the best of food, the body simply dies because he does not have the most vital need. In lovelessness the body tragically dies.
There are young girls. They are extremely beautiful, bright, very fine and attractive girls. Some get married to a jackal in pursuit of having his money, his car. That dog exerts such a psychological pressure on her, he shows such lovelessness that, only in a few years time I see her growing old. She becomes like a grandmother. She degenerates. You probably see many such examples around. You ask, "A few years ago she was a young girl, very fresh. What has happened to her?" This is the result of a severe poisoning that comes about as a result of injecting the lovelessness of that man into that young girl. The body simply collapses. If sheis treated with serious love and compassion, she becomes robust and more beautiful. But she lives like a corpse and her husband becomes her guardian. The house becomes her prison cell. The guardian comes from evening to evening and gives her food, money then he goes away again. At the end that poor lady dies slowly. Similarly, the workplace is a prison for a man who can not experience real love. His house is also a prison for him. He awaits his death in that prison. He is like a person who is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment. Wherever he goes, he suffers from the torment of that imprisonment, because he goes out, he does not love anyone, he goes out, he does not love anyone. He is always alone. It is like experiencing isolation in a prison; all alone. Everyday is a separate suffering, a separate torment. His body can not tolerate it and then collapses. Islam, first of all, eliminates this torment. This is one of the scourges that Islam eliminates. It is a healing for this illness. Almighty Allah says, I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed satan: "Those who have faith and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of Allah." This is what is meantby this verse. Otherwise the world is like a nightmare, it is very dreadful.
Sooner or later, Turkey will wage a worldwide struggle against communism. There will be a giant power in Turkey against communism, materialism and Darwinism and it will challenge the entire world. You will see this because except for that, Turkey has no way out. It is not possible to resolve the problem by military operations or other measures.It would be solved by now if the current measures were applicable. It has been 30 years. It is seen that a contrary system is at work.
The struggle against communism is possible only with science. If you demolish Darwinism, you also demolish communism. When Darwinism collapses, communism disappears, but the state supports Darwinism right now. This makes our task so difficult.
(A question about communism by an audience member: "Is it so bad that everyone is equal in communism? Do you think communism is bad? Can a Muslim not be a communist? Do all communists have to abide by the saying of Marx, "Religion is the opium of the people"? Indeed, the state has no religion right now. There will be places of worship, so there won't be any thing different. The only thing that will change is the fact that everyone will be equal in economic terms. Wouldn't you want to be equal with a worker or a civil servant?")
"The equality of everyone.", "Is it so bad that everyone is equal in communism?" Of course it is bad. "Can a Muslim not be a communist?" Of course he cannot be. Do all communists have to abide by the saying of Marx, "Religion is the opium of the people?" Well, if he does not abide, then he is not a communist. That is to say, if he changes Marxism or Leninism, it becomes a different ideology and he becomes a revisionist or an opportunist. It is something else. The state has no religion right now, so there will not be much difference. The state has no religion, but the state is not hostile to the religion. In communism, the state is officially hostile to the religion. "There will be places of worship, so there won't be any thing different." This means that you know nothing abut communism. In Russia, they massacred even those poor Buddhist priests en masse. Christian priests, Muslim scholars. They even made a list of the sayyids. My grandfather was also included in this list; he was the third on the list. They wanted to hang them but my grandfather migrated to Turkey. In Russia, they determined the sayyids who descended from our Prophet (saas) one by one, so my grandfather migrated to Turkey. My grandfather was to be the third to be hanged. "The only thing that will change is the fact that everyone will be equal in economic terms." Equality in economic terms. This is the creed of the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as). It is copied from the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as). In the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as), economic equality is achieved by means of love and freedom without any pressure. Communism is the false system of Mahdi. It is the application of the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) with no Book and no Allah. The system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a beauty of the world that loves Allah and that is attached to Him with fervor. Social justice with no Allah and no Book. What would happen if you accomplish economic welfare, give food and soup to people once they have no Allah and the Book, once spiritual values are eliminated and nothing like love, brotherhood, friendship, chastity, family remains behind? The dajjal will indeed provide soup to people. Our Prophet (saas) related that the dajjal would establish mountains of food. But a Muslim feels suffocated in it. A Muslim does not rely on food to live; he relies on faith. Once he loses his faith, his love, brotherhood and friendship, a corrupted, dead, disgusting system remains behind.We do not want that.Wouldn't you want to be equal with a worker or a civil servant? It is Hazrat Mahdi (as), the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will ensure this. Marx stole this notion from the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as). He read the features of Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the Torah. That there will be social justice and economic equality is related in the Torah at length. When he saw it, he wanted to apply it. But he wanted to apply it with no Allah and no Book. Under the influence of satan, he appeared as a dajjal. The dajjal is the opposite of the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The one who attempts to apply the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) with no Book and no Allah is called dajjal. The one who has a
passionate fervor for Allah, and who applies this system with the exuberance of Allah is called the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Right now there exists a war between the system of the dajjal and Hazrat Mahdi (as). There is an ideological war.
I love all communists who believe in freedom of thought, and who are respectful and kind. In the academy, I had so many communist friends. I treasure them. I respect them because you can talk with them in the ideological sense. But if he acts improperly, if he challenges, terrorizes and sheds blood, this is cruelty. This is mercilessness. But I am in favor of freedom of thought to the end. They can advocate their ideas as they like.
(You express the words "Insha'Allah" and "Masha'Allah" very frequently. I know that it is a portent of the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as). I will be glad if you could further explain the meaning of these words)
Yes the followers of Hazrat Mahdi (as ) will dominate the world with the words Insha'Allah and masha'Allah. Pay attention to the words "Insha" and "Masha". When angels hear the words "Insha" and "Masha", no disaster befalls that place. When angels hear these words, they stop a disaster that will strike them. The disaster approaches, comes close, but when it hears the words "Insha" and "Masha", it goes back. The disasterdoes not enter by Allah's Will. Insha'Allah and Masha'Allah are instrumental in Islam's ruling the world. We will recite these wordsa lot, Insha'Allah. The disaster comes like a cloud and when it receives the vibration of this recital, it simply returns. No disaster enters there Insha'Allah. It brings domination and blessings, Insha'Allah.
(In response to an audience member who said, "In the movie, 'The Lost Book of Nostradamus', it is stated that Muslims will put an end to Christianity and that the dajjal will appear among the Muslims.")
The dajjal has already appeared among the Muslims. If you look at that ferocious bigot in Istanbul, you can understand it clearly. Our Prophet (saas) also described him in details. Those who look attentively will understand it, Insha'Allah. But the statement that the real great dajjal will appear among the Muslims is a fabrication of the Christians . It is a fabrication of some of the Fundamentalist Christians in order to massacre Muslims. It is a part of the evil plan to murder all Muslims around the world. So what has become of Muslims? In this sense, they have become the armies of the dajjal. Because they are affiliates of the dajjal, they become the armies of the dajjal. Dajjals appear within Muslims. It is a separate issue. But the great dajjal of the End Times is someone else. What would be different if he were a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian? His main feature is being without a Book, without Allah. We see that the dajjal is a materialist and a Darwinist. He advocates Darwinism and materialism. OK; he has appeared; Darwin. And had he made all the world irreligious? Yes. Did he form his committee? Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Try, Abdullah Ocalan. He established his committee. Pol Pot, Mao; he established a committee of fierce bloodshedders and turned the world upside down. With his other hand he formed fascism. Mussolini and Hitler made another kind of devastation. It shed blood like an ocean. Consequently the dajjal has appeared. Now the system of Hazrat Mahdi (as) cleans up its destruction. These guys have already murdered over one billion people. How many people remain? He must murder all of them then. In those times the population of the world was much less. They killed one billion people. Consequently their religion is not a problem because he has no religion. You will not look at what is written in his identity card. He already denies what is written there. Consequently the dajjal is irreligious. He is without Allah, without the Book. They are not affiliated to any religion. But when it comes to race, descent and roots, it is OK [in their opinion, may Allah forbid]. In the hadith of our Prophet (saas) it is related that he will appear from somewhere around Horasan. In another hadith, it is related that he will appear among the Jews. What would be the difference? Is this man a Jew? No. What would be different if he were from Horasan? The important thing is that he will have no Book and no Allah.
(Mr. Adnan Oktar's comment to the question of the audience member who said, "Is there any mention to dinosaurs in the Qur'an?")
The Qur'an is a Book that outlines general moral principles and the world's general system. It outlines the morality that applies to the general, the general structure of science and it guides, encourages. Almighty Allah leaves the rest to us. But Allah also says that He continues to create animals. He creates new animals to ride, for instance. Allah also draws attention to vehicles, cars. Indeed, new species are found in different corners of the world.Species never seen before. New animal species are found, Insha'Allah.
(Regarding the Pope's explanation about the establishment of a single world state)
The Pope also knows that Hazrat Mahdi (as) and Propet Jesus (as) have come. He knows that a world dominion will come about, Insha'Allah. But I see that he is afraid of the people of the dajjal. He states, "Darwinists are right." Why do you fear? Have fear of Allah. Trust in Allah. He published a book advocating Darwinism. The papacy published the book. This shows the merciless and severity of the system of the dajjal. Which Christian would believe in Darwinism? None of them. But because they abstain, they pretend as if they believe.
(Mr. Adnan Oktar's comment about the audience member who says that he assumes he is Hazrat Mahdi (as))
I repeated this many times that this is blasphemy. You can say, "You are like Hazrat Mahdi (as)" or "You are a soldier of Hazrat Mahdi (as)." Is it proper to say this? This would make one go astray. Hazrat Mahdi (as) is innocent. What does this mean? He is among the people of the Paradise. But if you say, "You are like Hazrat Mahdi (as)", "You are a follower of Hazrat Mahdi (as)", that would be becoming. That is why I warn you sternly about this issue.
For instance, I see some young people who try to make themselves resemble a celebrity in order to be admired. They display snobbish attitudes with unusual clothes. The fact is, a woman feels convinced that that guy is really unwise and a fool and considers him to be very dangerous. People think that they will be liked more if they remain without manners. But a snobbish person is very dangerous. He can never attain profundity. He can never be wise. That is to say, he can not see the details of passion. He can only notice very superficial, simple, animal-like features. Consequently Allah makes snobbish people meet with other snobs. The people who do not possess character also find such people. This also holds true for spoiled people.Allah grants everyone the kind of love relative to the power of love in his heart.


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Dengue (DENG-gey) fever is a mosquito-borne disease that occurs in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Mild dengue fever causes high fever, rash, and muscle and joint pain. A severe form of dengue fever, also called dengue hemorrhagic fever, can cause severe bleeding, a sudden drop in blood pressure (shock) and death.
Millions of cases of dengue infection occur worldwide each year. Dengue fever is most common in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific islands, but the disease has been increasing rapidly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Researchers are working on dengue fever vaccines. For now the best prevention is to reduce mosquito habitat in areas where dengue fever is common.
Many people, especially children and teens, may experience no signs or symptoms during a mild case of dengue fever. When symptoms do occur, they usually begin four to 10 days after you are bitten by an infected mosquito. Signs and symptoms of dengue fever most commonly include:
You might also experience:
Most people recover within a week or so. In some cases, symptoms worsen and can become life-threatening. Blood vessels often become damaged and leaky. And the number of clot-forming cells (platelets) in your bloodstream drops. This can cause:
If you've recently visited a region in which dengue fever is known to occur and you suddenly develop a fever, see your doctor.
Dengue fever is caused by any one of four dengue viruses spread by mosquitoes that thrive in and near human lodgings. When a mosquito bites a person infected with a dengue virus, the virus enters the mosquito. When the infected mosquito then bites another person, the virus enters that person's bloodstream.
After you've recovered from dengue fever, you have immunity to the virus that infected you — but not to the other three dengue fever viruses. The risk of developing severe dengue fever, also known as dengue hemorrhagic fever, actually increases if you're infected a second, third or fourth time.
Factors that put you at greater risk of developing dengue fever or a more severe form of the disease include:
If severe, dengue fever can damage the lungs, liver or heart. Blood pressure can drop to dangerous levels, causing shock and, in some cases, death.
You'll likely start by seeing your primary care provider. But you also might be referred to a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases.
Because appointments can be brief, and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well-prepared for your appointment. Here's some information to help you get ready, and what to expect from your doctor.
For dengue fever, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
Be prepared to answer questions from your doctor, such as:
Diagnosing dengue fever can be difficult, because its signs and symptoms can be easily confused with those of other diseases — such as malaria, leptospirosis and typhoid fever.
Your doctor will likely ask about your medical and travel history. Be sure to describe international trips in detail, including the countries you visited and the dates, as well as any contact you may have had with mosquitoes.
Certain laboratory tests can detect evidence of the dengue viruses, but test results usually come back too late to help direct treatment decisions.
No specific treatment for dengue fever exists. Your doctor may recommend that you drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration from vomiting and high fever. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) can alleviate pain and reduce fever. Avoid pain relievers that can increase bleeding complications — such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) and naproxen sodium (Aleve, others).
If you have severe dengue fever, you may need:
Six dengue fever vaccines are in development, but not yet available. The vaccine that's furthest in development is a three-dose vaccine for children. The results of a phase III trial were published in July 2014. This study showed that the vaccine appears to be safe, and it prevented dengue infections slightly more than half the time.
Those who had the vaccine but still became infected with dengue had a milder course of the disease than did those who weren't vaccinated. Although the vaccine is not as effective as doctors would like, it is safe. The company that makes this vaccine hasn't yet announced any plans to seek approval to market the vaccine.
So for now, if you're living or traveling in an area where dengue fever is known to be, the best way to avoid dengue fever is to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes that carry the disease.
If you are living or traveling in tropical areas where dengue fever is common, these tips may help reduce your risk of mosquito bites:
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Memo To Gretchen Carlson: Economists Say Cutting Payroll Tax Would Boost Employment, Economy
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Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson suggested cutting payroll taxes has no effect on employment, claiming that she had spoken to "tons" of economists on the subject. In fact, economists agree that cutting the payroll tax would improve the employment situation and benefit the economy.
Carlson Suggests Economists Claim Payroll Tax Holiday Has No Impact On Employment
Carlson Claims She Has Spoken To "Tons" Of Economists While Downplaying Employment Impact Of Payroll Tax Holiday. During an interview with White House press secretary Jay Carney on the September 8 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson downplayed the employment impact of a payroll tax holiday, claiming that "[w]e've already had that," and "I see dismal [job] numbers." From Fox & Friends:
CARLSON: We'll see if Congress does rally around the president based on what he says tonight. But let me ask you this. Why go before the joint session of Congress if you're going to say stuff that the American public has already heard time and time again in 10 to 12 speeches before? Why say I'm going to go on vacation for a month, and then I'm going to come back and give this grandiose speech --
CARNEY: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait -
CARLSON: -- if it's going to be the same exact thing that they've already heard?
CARNEY: Gretchen, I'm not sure what -- whose talking points you're reading here, Gretchen --
CARLSON: So please tell me what new thing is the American public going to hear today. What new thing will the American public hear tonight from your boss?
CARNEY: The American people will hear a lot of new ideas. I want to correct you. The folks who went on a month-long vacation weren't the president, it was the Congress. Secondly, the American people will hear a lot of new and innovative ideas that they haven't heard before. They will also hear very common-sense, sensible ideas like a payroll tax cut for every working American that has tradition --
CARLSON: We've already had that. That's not new.
CARNEY: Oh, and is that a bad thing?
CARLSON: No. Well, did it create jobs?
CARNEY: I'm sorry, is that a bad thing because it creates jobs? And it grows --
CARLSON: Did it create jobs?
CARNEY: Absolutely.
CARLSON: When I look at the June job report and the July job report and the August job report, I see dismal numbers.
CARNEY: Gretchen, I'm not sure if you've talked to any economists, but there is not an economist --
CARLSON: Tons.
CARNEY: -- whose Ph.D. is worth the paper it's printed on who does not agree that when you cut the payroll tax, it has a direct impact on economic growth and job creation. If you're asking me if there were other headwinds that affected this economy, like the tsunami in Japan, like the Arab uprising that affected oil prices and the situation in Europe, that's absolutely the case. But cutting taxes, I used to think --
CARLSON: Yeah, Mr. Carney, with all due respect, we've heard all of those excuses before. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/8/11]
In Fact, Economists Agree With Carney That Cutting Payroll Tax Has A Positive Impact On Employment And Economy
Frank: "Perhaps The Most Promising" Policy To Reduce Unemployment "Is A Payroll Tax Holiday." In a June 25 New York Times op-ed, Robert Frank, economics professor at Cornell University, wrote:
If the economy could generate jobs at the median wage for even half of these people, national income would grow by more than 10 times the total interest cost of the 2011 deficit (which was less than $40 billion). So anyone who says that reducing the deficit is more urgent than reducing unemployment is saying, in effect, that we should burn hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods and services in a national bonfire.
We ought to be tackling both problems at once. But in today's fractious political climate, many promising dual-purpose remedies -- like infrastructure investments that would generate large and rapid returns -- are called unthinkable, in the false belief that they would impoverish our grandchildren. Yet there are other ways to attack unemployment that could garner bipartisan support.
Perhaps the most promising is a payroll tax holiday. The payroll tax was originally meant to pay for Social Security, and in recent years, employees and employers have each contributed 6.2 percent of total salary -- with no additional levies on salaries beyond $106,800. Congress should both declare an immediate payroll tax holiday for employees and exempt employers from making contributions for newly hired workers -- and keep both provisions in effect until the end of next year. [The New York Times, 6/25/11]
Seidman: "To Boost Private Sector Spending And Jobs," Congress Should Implement An "Immediate Suspension Of The Entire Employee Payroll Tax." In a July 17 op-ed in Delaware's News Journal, University of Delaware economics professor Laurence Seidman wrote:
To boost private sector spending and jobs, any budget deal negotiated by the president and Congress should contain an immediate suspension of the entire employee payroll tax through 2012.
Why? Because leaving more money in people's paychecks will cause them to spend more, and in response to their spending, private sector employers will expand production and create private sector jobs. Without this stimulus to the private sector, the economy is likely to fall back into a deep recession.
According to the simulations, if the suspension begins promptly, then in the fourth quarter of 2012 the unemployment rate would be 1 percentage point lower than it would have been without the temporary employee payroll tax suspension. [News Journal, 7/17/11, accessed via Nexis]
Tyson: Jobs Plan Should Include "At The Very Least" An Extension Of "The Temporary Payroll Tax Cut For Employees." In a September 6 post on the New York Times' Room for Debate blog, University of California, Berkeley professor and former Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Laura Tyson wrote:
The labor market is suffering from two problems: first, an immediate jobs gap, primarily the result of the collapse in demand after the 2008 financial crisis, and second, a long-term gap in rewarding jobs for American workers, primarily the result of skill-biased technological change and global competition.
The jobs gap requires additional fiscal measures to increase private spending and promote job creation. At the very least, the temporary payroll tax cut for employees enacted at the end of 2010 should be extended and a temporary payroll tax cut for employers that increase their payrolls or a tax credit for new hires should be introduced. [The New York Times, 9/6/11]
CBPP: "Failure ... To Extend The Temporary Payroll Tax Cut" Would Remove "Needed Support From The Still-Weak Economy." In a September 7 post, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) noted: "Failure by Congress to extend the temporary payroll tax cut enacted last December would reduce all paychecks starting on January 1, withdrawing needed support from the still-weak economy." From CBPP:
Failure by Congress to extend the temporary payroll tax cut enacted last December would reduce all paychecks starting on January 1, withdrawing needed support from the still-weak economy. The measure, part of the tax cut-unemployment insurance deal between President Obama and Republican leaders, reduces the employee share of the Social Security payroll tax, boosting workers' take-home pay by an estimated $120 billion in 2011. The tax cut is worth $934 to the average worker.
By extending the payroll tax cut -- and the provision of additional weeks of unemployment benefits to workers who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state-funded UI benefits without finding a job -- policymakers can avoid increasing the risk of renewed recession. But they should do more to reduce the probability of a double-dip recession and increase the probability of a sustainable recovery that generates sufficient jobs to shrink the massive jobs deficit. While a discussion of various steps needed to shore up the economy is beyond the scope of this paper, in the payroll tax arena, policymakers should consider strengthening the payroll tax reduction as part of a larger set of economic measures. [CBPP, 9/7/11]
Roubini: "What America Needs Is A Payroll Tax Cut." In a September 17, 2010, Washington Post op-ed, Nouriel Roubini, professor at the New York University's Stern School of Business, wrote:
A much better option is for the administration to reduce the payroll tax for two years. The reduced labor costs would lead employers to hire more; for employees, the increased take-home pay would boost much-needed economic consumption and advance the still-crucial process of deleveraging households (paying down credit card debt and other legacies of the easy-credit years).
Low-income workers have historically shown a much higher propensity to consume when given extra money, so the payroll tax cut should be designed to provide a larger-percentage break to those on the low end of the income scale compared with the upper middle class. [The Washington Post, 9/17/10]
Krugman: Payroll Tax Cut Would Give Money To People "Who Might Very Well Spend It." An August 30, 2010, CNBC article quoted Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman as saying:
"If you give a temporary tax cut to wealthy people who are likely to be highly liquid, they are not going to spend very much of it at all," Krugam [sic] said. "Give a temporary tax cut to corporations, who are sitting on piles of cash, they are not going to spend any of it."
A payroll tax cut would be better, since it would put money in the hands of people "who might very well spend it," he added. "But basically, I would take whatever we can, except that those high end tax cuts, corporate tax cuts, are going where the problem isn't; it's just a waste of money," Krugman said. [CNBC, 8/30/10]
Reich: Eliminating Payroll Tax Would "Get The Economy Moving Again." In an August 25, 2010, interview on America Public Media's Marketplace, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich noted that eliminating payroll taxes would "get the economy moving again." From Marketplace:
But here's an idea that might command everyone's support: Eliminate payroll taxes on the first $20,000 of income. Payroll taxes, you recall, include Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance. Make up the revenue loss by applying the payroll tax to incomes above $250,000.
This would immediately stimulate spending by adding to the paychecks of just about every working American. Right now, 80 percent of Americans pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes. And lower-income workers, who would receive the largest proportion of the benefits, are more likely to spend the extra cash than are people with high incomes.
So how to get the economy moving again? Eliminate the payroll tax on the first $20,000 of income and apply it to income over $250,000 for two years.
How to keep the economy moving? Do this permanently. [American Public Media, Marketplace, 8/25/10]
Orszag: "To Mitigate The Harm To The Labor Market From ... Fiscal Drag, Policy Makers Should" Extend "The Existing Payroll Tax Holiday." In a June 30 Bloomberg column, former Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag wrote:
Given our feeble labor market, it is particularly important that policy makers avoid overly hasty deficit reduction. Official projections for the federal budget show fiscal tightening in excess of 2 percent of GDP from fiscal year 2011 to 2012. To put that percentage in context, consider that the fiscal tightening in the U.K. from 2010 to 2011 -- which has received so much attention in the news media -- amounted to less than 1.5 percent of GDP.
To mitigate the harm to the labor market from this fiscal drag, policy makers should provide additional macroeconomic support in 2012 by extending the existing payroll tax holiday. But more than that, Congress should link the payroll tax to the unemployment rate. This would allow the tax holiday to automatically calibrate itself to existing conditions, providing support only when the economy is weak. If necessary, the underlying payroll tax rate could be raised to make this mechanism budget-neutral. [Bloomberg, 6/30/11]
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2010 Appropriations Bill Includes New Funds to Help Disadvantaged Workers
Dec 18, 2009
By Neil Ridley
The 2010 federal appropriations bill provides for the first time federal funding for transitional jobs to help people with barriers to employment, such as ex-offenders and long-term welfare recipients, enter the workforce.
Transitional Jobs programs provide access to employment for individuals who have little or no work experience and multiple barriers to employment. The programs combine time-limited subsidized employment with a comprehensive set of services, such as basic education, job skills training, and case management. See Making the Employment Connection or Earning and Learning: Options under the Workforce Investment Act for more information.
Given the challenges facing many jobseekers in the current labor market, this new federal investment in such a promising employment strategy comes at a critical time. The bill includes $45 million for transitional jobs, $15 million of which is dedicated to employment strategies for ex-offenders, who often have extreme difficulties finding employment after they have completed their sentences.
Transitional Jobs programs work. This week, MDRC released an evaluation of transitional jobs for welfare recipients that revealed:
- Participants assigned to the transitional jobs program experienced a more than 20 percent increase in employment compared to the control group.
- Participants earned nearly $1,000 more than the control group over 18 months.
- Employment gains were not limited to the subsidized jobs - there was almost 10 percent increase in the share that ever held an unsubsidized job.
Further, a previous evaluation of transitional jobs for ex-offenders found both employment impacts and a reduction in recidivism.
Funding Transitional Jobs programs is part of CLASP's recommendations for putting more Americans back to work. View Jobs Creation: Creating Work and Learning Opportunities for Low-Income Populations to learn more.


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Blitz3D Docs -> OpenTCPStream
OpenTCPStream (ip$,port)
Parameters:ip$=Address of stream
port=TCP/IP Port Number
Description:Use this command to open up a TCP/IP stream to the designated server and port. If the open command was successful, the command returns a stream handle. Otherwise it returns 0.
You can use this for a multitude of different 'internet' options. Obviously to contact a TCP/IP host outside your own network, you'll need to be connected to the Internet.
The IP address can be in the form of 18.104.22.168 or "www.domain.com".
; OpenTCPStream/CloseTCPStream Example Print "Connecting..." tcp=OpenTCPStream( "www.blitzbasement.com",80 ) If Not tcp Print "Failed.":WaitKey:End Print "Connected! Sending request..." WriteLine tcp,"GET http://www.blitzbasement.com HTTP/1.0" WriteLine tcp,Chr$(10) If Eof(tcp) Print "Failed.":WaitKey:End Print "Request sent! Waiting for reply..." While Not Eof(tcp) Print ReadLine$( tcp ) Wend If Eof(tcp)=1 Then Print "Success!" Else Print "Error!" CloseTCPStream tcp WaitKey End
| This seems to work with more web pages (including php):
; OpenTCPStream/CloseTCPStream/ReadAvail Example Print "Connecting..." tcp=OpenTCPStream( "www.blitzbasic.com",80 ) If Not tcp Print "Failed.":WaitKey:End Print "Connected! Sending request..." WriteLine tcp,"GET http://www.blitzbasic.com HTTP/1.0" WriteLine tcp,"HOST: www.blitzbasic.com" WriteLine tcp,"" If Eof(tcp) Print "Failed.":WaitKey:End Print "Request sent! Waiting for reply..." While Not Eof(tcp) Print ReadLine$( tcp ) Print "Bytes available:" + ReadAvail(tcp) Wend If Eof(tcp)=1 Then Print "Success!" Else Print "Error!" CloseTCPStream tcp WaitKey
| An excellent Demo of TCP usage can be found here.
Many thanks to Semar.
| What does the localport parameter do and how do you use it?
| Ked,
you must provide a port number in order to communicate with a server.
In the above example, a connection is extabilished with a website (www.blitzbasement.com). On that website, there's a web server which 'listens' to connection from clients on a specified port. Usually the standard port for a web server is always 80, that's why the command tcp=OpenTCPStream( "www.blitzbasement.com",80 ) uses it.
This is how an internet browser works, he attempts to connect to the address you type on the address text box, and usually use always the port 80.
Since any pc can use several ports, usually up to 65536, it's very important to know which port to connect to, in order to communicate with the running server.
It's like you want to send a letter to a friend. Not only you must provide the street name (read: IP address of the pc hosting the server program), but also the street number (read: the port where the server is listening on).
Hope it helps,
If you want, try the chat server program that Tin-cat mentioned in this thread, and run the code using different port numnbers.
| No. In the command there is another parameter.
OpenTCPStream( ip$, port[, localport] )
What does the localport parameter do?
| LocalPort listens only to connections on the local machine (ie only connections comming from your computer)
which will allow you to test client/server programs you use localport.
| Localport wouldn't be needed very often (you can normally let the operating system pick a port - see exceptions)
But what it's for is when you make an outgoing connection from your computer, you can specify the source port you are coming from (your source IP address is of course the address of your computer)
Sometimes, remote machines check the source port (as well as IP). They do this because back in the day, UNIX hosts guaranteed that source ports under 1024 were under the control of the 'root'/admin of the server. So there was an implicit authenticity or security guarantee being provided.
Some protcols then (I think DNS, DHCP, identd) will specify source ports (like UDP 53, UDP 67(68?), and TCP 113 respectively) - In those cases, if you don't give the right source port, the remote host will not believe it's genuine, and/or it would not be RFC compliant, and host-based firewalls would have a hard time matching up the session state when a stateless UDP packet "reply" from an external host doesn't match their expectations in their state table.
Anyway, most of the time it doesn't matter.
When you go outbound from your machine, like to a website, you can see that your OS provides whatever next open source port it wants, could be a strange number like 4468. Maybe the next connection will be 4469 or 4470, etc, usually counting upwards like that.
To see it, you can use a program like Microsoft's TCPView tool (or netstat -an)
I should add that your instinct should be that if the protocol uses UDP, it would probably need to specify a localport. (It might not)
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Hi all
I am eight months pregnant. My husband is very busy with his job, so I need help with my one year old son. I need to find a babysitter. But how? Who is the right person for that job? How to know who is the best for my son?
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Hi Jovana,
Having someone you trust that can help with your one year old can be a big help, especially considering that you are 8 months pregnant and expecting the arrival of another little one anytime.
The first thing to do is to ask around, to see if any of your friends have babysitters that they have used and that they really like. If you don't have friends that use babysitters, then you could go into your church nursery and ask if any of the parents there have babysitters that they use and trust.
If you can't find someone to give you recommendations, then it will be up to you to do your due diligence in checking the background of a sitter and trying her out before leaving her with your children.
1. Where to find names of babysitters...
- Local newspaper
- Care.com (or other local babysitter service)
- Post an ad in some local church bulletins or on a bulletin board on the wall in the youth building at church.
Checking their background...
Once you have some names of people, you will want to interview the sitter and find out about their background.
- How old are they?
- Have they had any experience working with children?
- What age groups do they have experience with?
- What age is their favorite?
- How many times have they changed a diaper?
- How many times have they fed an infant a bottle?
- Do they know how to burp an infant?
- Have they ever taken a CPR class?
- Have they ever taken a First Aid class?
- Do they know what to do if a small child and/or infant is choking?
- Have they ever bathed a small child or an infant?
- What do they do if a child throws a tantrum?
It's important that the sitter have previous experience working with children.
- Ask for the names of 3 families that the sitter has worked for. This can be paid or unpaid work, but families where the sitter has had interaction with the children on a regular basis.
Questions for those families include:
- How did they find the sitter?
- When did the sitter last work for them?
- How long have they known the sitter?
- What ages are their children?
- What are the sitter's strengths?
- What are the sitter's weaknesses?
- Would they feel confident leaving a newborn with the sitter?
If the interview goes well, the references check out, and you have a good overall "gut feel" about the sitter, then schedule a time to observe the sitter with your children.
This could just be for an hour or two on a Saturday morning, when your 1 year old is well rested and when you can get some things done at home while the sitter interacts with your child.
Have the sitter feed your son breakfast, or a snack. Have her read him a story and play with him. Have her change his diaper. Basically, you want her to take complete control of the situation and care for him as if you weren't available. Obviously if she needs to know where something is, she can ask, but you want her to take initiative to feed him when he is hungry, change him when he is dirty and play with him to keep him occupied.
If you end up hiring a young girl (age 12 or 13) to be a mother's helper, then you will need to train her. This can work out very well when you have a responsible young lady who loves children. But if you need someone you can trust to be left home alone with your children, then you'll want to follow the steps outlined above.
Please let me know if this is helpful and if you need any further help in finding the best sitter for your family and your children.
Warm Regards,


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This will be the time. That is always the hope amid the sorrow. The latest mass shooting will be the one that moves our leaders to finally begin a serious discussion of how to prevent senseless gun violence.
Unfortunately, our public officials continued to bring up the rear in this vital debate in the immediate aftermath of the killings of 20 children and eight adults Friday at a Connecticut elementary school and nearby by a heavily armed young man. President Barack Obama's spokesman said it was a day to grieve and not to talk policy, and Obama himself vaguely urged the country to "come together and take meaningful action." Politicians in California and the Los Angeles area tweeted out "thoughts and prayers" but few mentioned guns.
And so this editorial board finds itself writing, sadly, the same thing we did after the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting, thinking the same thing we did after Columbine and Binghamton and Virginia Tech and Clackamas Town Center and Gabby Giffords.
It is time. No more excuses. No more political cowardice. Start the conversation in the halls of power that American families are having. Talk about what should be done on firearm policy to balance the Second Amendment with public safety.
There's always a reason not to, and it's never a good reason.
Think back to the killing of 12 people and wounding of 58 others in July in a Denver-area movie theater by a disturbed man armed with an assault rifle, shotgun and handguns, who bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition legally over the Internet. Right after that, Californians heard Sen. Dianne Feinstein call for "weapons of war" to be taken off the streets - and then undercut the urgency of her statement by saying no gun-policy debate was likely while politicians were campaigning for the November elections.
Feinstein was right, we're sorry to say: The only brief talk about gun control in the presidential race came in response to a question in the second debate, and candidates here made little mention of the issue, perhaps because it was just too hot to touch when votes were on the line.
Nobody should think this would be an easy debate, or that the answers will be obvious. This page supported a perfectly reasonable state Senate bill last summer to close the so-called "bullet-button" loophole that violates the spirit of California's assault-weapon ban. The bill died in a Sacramento committee, and gun-control opponents, who raised fear the bill would have broader implications, congratulated themselves on a successful lobbying effort.
Based on reports coming in as this editorial was being written Friday, the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., will be the second most deadly such incident in U.S. history, behind only the killings of 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007. The New York Times reported that of the nation's 12 deadliest gun attacks, six have occurred in the past six years.
This has been said elsewhere but deserves repeating: If these mass killings were being carried out by foreign terrorists, then elected officials would be moving heaven and earth - and constitutional protections - to head off further crimes. Yet they're afraid to do the political heavy lifting, to risk the anger of pro- and anti-gun voters on the right and left, necessary to limit the ability of crazed individuals to acquire deadly weapons.
The point is that the villains in the bloody murder spree of the past decade are not organized terrorists; an organized plot can be found out and headed off. These are individuals who snap and are limited in their opportunity to commit horrible crimes only by the difficulty of acquiring firearms.
Difficulty? How does a nation make it more difficult for unhinged people to arm themselves without infringing on the right of the law-abiding to use guns for recreation and self-protection?
This is a topic from which our leaders cannot turn away. If it can't be debated seriously in Congress and the White House now, with the schoolchildren murdered Friday fresh in our leaders' memories, then when?
It is a time to grieve. And to talk policy.


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The CEO Power Forum: Not all utility CEOs are created equal...
We take this to be self-evident after the bankruptcies, ratings downgrades, balance-sheet blowups, and financial debacles that took place in the industry in the last five years.
Those utility CEOs that kept the corporate ship sailing smoothly, growing their companies right through those turbulent times also evidenced this premise.
But while it's easy to judge in hindsight those that took on too much risk, bought too many plants, failed to execute their business plans, or were too ambitious, even a management guru might be hard-pressed to identify tomorrow's successful leaders.
The "back-to-basics" plan so well executed by the utilities in restoring investor confidence (and some executives say they never left back-to-basics) has had the unwanted benefit of once again painting the industry with a broad "plain-vanilla" brush.
While interest rates stay low and economic growth advances at a measured pace, utilities will continue to be the darlings of Wall Street, as a handful of utility indexes show single, and at times, double-digit increases in the last six months.
But some financial experts say such success cannot last forever. The party has to end. The record earnings multiples or price-to-earnings ratios being ascribed to the utility industry cannot last forever, they explain, as interest rates will rise, the economy will grow, and investors will cycle their investments.
Some say more consolidation is the answer. But others say that great leadership is the key to investor satisfaction, and that their companies will continue to enjoy high valuations and investments.
So, who comprises this next generation of leadership in the utilities industry? Who might very well change the industry's investment paradigm?
Public Utilities Fortnightly has endeavored to find the "ultimate" CEOs-those who are blazing a new path for their companies and for the rest of the industry. We chose six CEOs as among the industry's brightest stars:
- Mayo A. Shattuck III, CEO, Constellation Energy (Ticker: CEG)
- Anthony F. Earley Jr., CEO, DTE Energy (Ticker: DTE)
- James E. Rogers, CEO, Cinergy (Ticker: CIN)
- C. John Wilder, CEO, TXU Corp. (Ticker: TXU)
- Wayne H. Brunetti, CEO, Xcel Energy (Ticker: XEL)
- Lewis Hay III, CEO, FPL Group Inc. (Ticker: FPL)
Many of these companies have bucked the industry trend and have pushed into businesses, markets, and practices that had been written off in the overreaction to deregulation. Constellation Energy's Shattuck and TXU Corp.'s Wilder are proving you can run a profitable company in competitive wholesale and retail electricity markets. Shattuck comes from the investment banking world and Wilder originally came from the oil patch, so they offer a new vision-and new language-for the industry.
FPL Group's Lewis Hay not only runs one of the most environmentally conscious companies-FPL is the largest wind-energy operator in the country-but his company is involved virtually in every competitive wholesale energy market around the country. Cinergy's Corp.'s James E. Rogers, whose thoughts on global warming are shaping the industry's view on the environment, has engineered one of the biggest mergers (with Duke Energy) in U.S. history, where he would become chief. DTE Energy's Earley shows how innovative he can be in finding new businesses and new opportunities within the utility industry, while Xcel's Wayne H. Brunetti is developing one of the most innovative technology programs in the industry.
Fortnightly is pleased to present the industry's ultimate CEOs.


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The 3M has introduced a new pocket projector, the MPro120, which is a next-generation handheld, battery-operated projector.
The MPro120 displays images and videos from computers and many mobile devices with image size from 8- to 50-inch at VGA resolution.
The product comes with built-in speakers and is lit with energy-saving LED light that lasts 20,000 hours.
At 12 lumens, it is 30% brighter than its previous pocket projector model.
The MPro120 is sold at US$385.00.
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