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-When I decided to look, I found more love and compassion than I ever imagined existed. Most significantly, I found forgiveness. I might even call it redemption.-
On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually abusing her since she was eight. Missouri state law, a disbelieving prosecutor, and Stacey's own fragile psyche conspired against her: She was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole.
Redemption is Stacey's candid memoir of her harrowing childhood and the pain and protective love of her sister that led her to that horrifying night. It is also an extraordinary portrait of what happened after she found herself in prison and how she grew determined to live positively, even triumphantly, despite her circumstances. Ultimately, and most profoundly, she learned the healing power of forgiveness.
After spending as many years in prison as she had out of it, on January 10, 2009, outgoing Missouri governor Matt Blunt commuted Stacey's life sentence. Six days later she walked out of the gates a free woman.
Redemption is the story of how Stacey learned to be free while living behind bars. It is a coming-of-age story set in a parallel universe of a maximum-security prison. And, it is a story of sisterhood, courage, and justice finally served.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
STACEY LANNERT was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1972. In 1992 she was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life in prison. On January 10, 2009, she was commuted and released. She is currently living and working in St. Louis, where she trains dogs, teaches, and has founded Healing Sisters (http: //healingsisters.org), a resource website and nonprofit agency that raises awareness about sexual abuse and helps women support one another. KRISTEN KEMP is a longtime writer for Glamour, Self, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and many other publications. She and her husband are raising three children in the suburbs of New York City, where she has founded a parenting website called Barista Kids (http: //kids.baristanet.com). She has written several books and is the editor of the Healing Sisters blog. From the Hardcover edition.
Praise For…
"This real-life tale, as dramatic as any movie, of Stacey Lannert and her struggle to survive violent sexual assault and the devastating aftermath raises intense issues of crime, culpability and the nature of violence and families. It's a devastating and important subject, beautifully told."--Naomi Wolf


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When I interviewed Courtney Love in 1992, she stared at a copy of a Janis Joplin biography. "This is the sort of biography I want written about me," she said, picking it up. "I want to read out the first sentence, OK? 'I was stark naked, stoned out of my mind on heroin and the girl lying between my legs was Janis Joplin.' "
She paused for breath, looking in amazement at the first page of Peggy Casserta's Going Down With Janis. "This Joplin book is insanely graphic . . . sex, heroin this, cocaine that. I can't believe she was like that."
It takes a lot to shock Love. Even then, at the start of the '90s, the Hole singer-songwriter was no stranger to controversy herself. Yet even she was taken aback by the wild behaviour of a singer who had made her name over two decades previously. She also knew that, apart from the many stories about drugs, and about sex with men and women, Joplin is central to the story of women in rock; without her, Love and her female contemporaries might never have felt able to express themselves so freely.
Joplin, who sang with a bluesy soulfulness previously unheard of in a white woman, confounded stereotypes from the start. She grew up in Texas in the '50s when women performers were not encouraged to write their own material, and when the pressure to look and be "feminine" was acute. In the mid-'60s, when she found a niche for herself in the hippy counterculture of San Francisco, the Supremes were still wearing spangly gowns and smiling sweetly.
The first major female solo singer to emerge after Aretha Franklin, Joplin was one of the few successful women in a very male world of dope and drink, guitars and groupies. Often, she saw no option but to behave in a male way while trying not to lose her identity as a woman; she knew no other way of being accepted. As a teenager, she had hung out with a mostly male gang of friends, and had an embarrassing propensity for shouting out, "Well, f--- you baby!"
Her role model was Bessie Smith, widely agreed to be the greatest female blues singer ever. Smith lived fast, drank hard and died relatively young, in a car crash in 1937, aged 43. In 1970, shortly before she died, she put up half the money to buy a proper tombstone for Smith's grave in Philadelphia.
Joplin began her career performing in clubs while she was attending the University of Texas in Austin. Shortly after being voted the "Ugliest Man on Campus" by her fellow students, she left for San Francisco. There, in the hippy enclave of Haight Ashbury, she hung out with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. She joined a band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and her moment finally came in the summer of 1967, when the band performed twice at the first Monterey Festival and secured a major record deal. The following autumn their first album, Cheap Thrills, went straight to No. 1 in the American charts, and stayed there for eight weeks.
But Joplin was restless. At the end of 1968, she left Big Brother to go solo. She was beginning to show signs of paranoia. She worried that journalists were more interested in her lifestyle than in her music; she felt she had a role to play off and on stage. "It's not easy living up to Janis Joplin, you know," she once said.
By the time she reached Woodstock in 1969, it was clear she was struggling to hold it together; she had developed a heroin habit that made her a pale imitation of her former self.
In the spring of 1970, she formed a new band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She started to call herself "Pearl". She stopped taking heroin. But her reputation went before her: some venues refused to book her, worried about her abusive language on stage and the rowdy audiences she drew.
In September, Joplin and her band went into an LA studio to record a new album. She had started to use heroin again. On October 4, 1970, after a hard night's drinking with her band, Joplin went back to her room at the Landmark Hotel and died of a heroin overdose. She was 27.
Shortly before her death, in the summer of 1970, Joplin performed at a series of festivals across Canada. With the Grateful Dead, The Band, Sha-Na-Na and others, she travelled from Toronto to Calgary on a train that became known as the Festival Express. There is now a documentary about the tour: a film crew shot around 60 hours of material over five days, which has now been edited and augmented with commentary from surviving band members, organisers and journalists. Directed by British filmmaker Bob Smeaton, who won Grammys for his documentaries The Beatles Anthology and Band of Gypsys: Live at the Fillmore East (about Jimi Hendrix), it is an extraordinary film, and the footage of Joplin is particularly strong, whether close-ups of her singing with abandon on tiny stages just a few feet from the audience, or scenes of her hanging out with other musicians, most of them men, on the train.
She clearly has the respect of everyone around her. After her death, Jerry Garcia, late singer of the Grateful Dead, remembered: "Janis was a real person. She was just like the rest of us - f up, strung out, in weird places. She was doing what she was doing as hard as she could, which is as much as any of us can do."
"Janis was great on camera," Smeaton says. "A natural. She looks very modern. We interviewed a lot of guys on the train who knew her personally. They said she was one of the guys, but she was very much a woman. She could drink with the best of them, but she pretty much stayed in control. There's a great scene where she's sitting with Jerry Garcia and Rick Danko (bass player in The Band) and she's the leader, the boss. She knew exactly what she wanted and she went out and got it."
But perhaps the most striking aspect of the film is how relaxed and happy Joplin looks. David Dalton, who was writing a story for Rolling Stone that summer and spent a long time shadowing Joplin, talks of the great atmosphere on board the train. "It was a reunion for everyone who had been around Haight Ashbury in late 1966. Back then it was a very communal society, no one had any money; they were drug-taking crazy visionaries. Janis was in her element. The folk scene has always been kinder to female singers; it's more accepting of women than the rock world."
Dalton says that Joplin took some getting used to. He remembers going into the Rolling Stones' dressing room with her when they played Madison Square Garden.
They all blanched. She was too much for them. Here was a latter-day Bessie Smith! We actually seem to encourage female rap stars to be outrageous today, but Janis was pretty intimidating. She always had an impact on a room. People say she wasn't very attractive, and maybe she put on weight, developed bad skin in the heroin years, but when I first saw her in late '66, she was your absolute wet dream. She was very hot."
Joplin had a reputation as a bohemian, an intellectual, and she never felt the need to hide her middle-class roots; she was happy to sit and talk about books, films and life. Dalton thinks she may have spent too much time thinking. "She was very reflective. She was maybe too smart, too introspective. She ruminated about everything. But while she was fragile and vulnerable, she was also fearless. She'd go into any bar, even alone. She was certainly more fearless than her band."
At the time of her death, Joplin was engaged to Seth Morgan, a former drug dealer who later killed himself and another girlfriend in a motorbike accident. She wanted to settle down, to be looked after. She was happy with the album she was recording - the vital, passionate Pearl, which was released posthumously. In other words, she was in a happy place. Dalton says she never talked of suicide or death; he always imagined her growing old, sitting on a rocking chair on a porch with hens running around her.
But Country Joe McDonald, a musician who went out with Joplin in San Francisco, says he has always believed she was a victim of her gender. "Sexism killed her. Everybody wanted this sexy chick who sang really sexy and had lots of energy. People kept saying she was just 'one of the guys': that's a real sexist bullshit trap, because that was f her head around. She was one of the women. She was a strong, groovy woman. Smart, you know? But she got f around."
While Joplin may have become rock's first female casualty, her legacy lives on. Although she may not be cited as an influence as often as, say, Patti Smith, without Joplin there might have been no blues-punk from Polly Harvey, no teen blues from Joss Stone, and no "odd" or behaviour from the likes of Bjork or Sinead O'Connor.
And it seems that her time may be coming again: Renee Zellweger is due to start filming a Joplin biopic, Piece of my Heart. Nothing, though, can match the power of watching her perform. As Bob Smeaton says: "She proved you could survive as a woman in the rock'n'roll business. They may not realise it, but all of the women performing today were given a doorway into rock'n'roll by what Janis Joplin achieved."
- The Guardian
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How to put together a look from thrift finds
Sure, it's easy to find great stuff at thrift stores and bargain places, but how do you put together an outfit that really looks good? You just have to know who to ask! I love the ideas from Lydia on her blog Chic On The Cheap. She not only tells you where she gets her pieces she also shows you how to put it all together. Check out her ideas!


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honours at University of Naples Federico II in December 2007 and
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From August 2008 till March 2009 he has been an exchange student at KTH (Royal Insitute of Technology) in Stockholm, then from September 2009 till March 2010 he developed his master thesis at ETH Zurich at the ASL laboratory focusing on Micro Aerial Vehicles under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Davide Scaramuzza.
He has obtained in May 2014 his Ph.D in computer and automatic engineering focusing in Robotics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Lippiello and Prof. Dr. Vijay Kumar. He was involved in EU FP7 project AIRobots (www.airobots.eu) in sensor fusion and visual control.
From April 2013 he has been Ph.D student and visiting associate at the GRASP Lab at University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vijay Kumar.
He was a Post Doctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Vijay Kumar.
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Johnson Wins at Talladega!
For me, one thing that is more impressive than the "big one" at Talladega Speedway is when the drivers can reel it in, and AVOID the big one, and because of that I have to say the move of the day was Ryan Newman and Juan Pablo Montoya. When Ryan was spinning out, Juan stayed into the drivers side, and straightened him out all at 190+ miles per hour!


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Hi Ken, If I remember correctly, someone asked a similar question a little while ago on the list. What you are observing is probably due to the behaviour of the way certain applications write to files. Some windows applications move/remove the old file, and create a new file with the same filename when a user "saves" an open file. Thus, you are losing the ACL on the file, so to speak. You could overcome this problem by setting a default ACL for the user group on the parent directory of any files you share. That way, new files are created with the needed ACLs to allow other users in the group to modify the files. Thus, files which are edited and "saved" by software of said behaviour will have the correct ACLs. hope this helps, Ian. On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:37:11AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a Samba issue or an XFS issue, but for various > users, on files that are commonly shared by others, the ACLs change in > weird ways, with no action (other than saving the file) on the user's > part: > > - One user, upon saving the file, has the ACL (but not the "stock" Unix > permissions) change to no permissions at all for group. > - Another two users, upon saving, have the Unix permissions change to > the equiv. of "chmod o-w". > > Any idea what might cause this to be happening, or where I should look > to find more info? It's entirely reproducible, and, right now, I have a > script running that "chmods" the files every couple seconds -- hack in > the extreme. Unless I figure something out, I'll probably start by > disabling ACLs in Samba, and see if the problem goes away. > > Thanks! > > Ken D'Ambrosio > Sr. SysAdmin, > Xanoptix, Inc. -- Ian Cumming, ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
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Economics of the family, economic demography, health economics, labor economics
Buckles' primary research area is the economics of the family. In her work, she investigates how people make decisions about family structure, and considers the consequences of these decisions — particularly for the children in the family. Recent papers explore the effects of sibling spacing on child achievement, and the reasons for the relationship between marital status and infant health. She also works in the field of health economics, where she has explored the causes of geographic variation in cesarean rates, and the effect of college education on health. Buckles has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Her work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Demography, Health Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources. She is a faculty affiliate of the Lab for Economic Opportunities and the Gender Studies Program.
Buckles discusses her research on seasonal patterns for childbirth.
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The story of Destiny 2, part 1: why Destiny's alien-walloping story disappointed you so much
Destiny had a rubbish story. Destiny's follow-up content mostly improved on it. Destiny 2 has a good chance of doing even better. Let's discuss.
How PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds went from scrappy mod to one of the games of 2017
The boss of all things Battlegrounds talks shop.
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Overwatch secrets include true stories of a time when Genji was even more OP.
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FIFA 18 is all about freedom of player movement.
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The EA Play E3 2017 presentation kicked off the biggest show off the year. All news, trailers and the full stream replay, right here.
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The Meditate to Regenerate team is pleased to announce our first tour to Ethiopia that will take place end of November to beginning of December 2016. Our volunteers will be working with schools, universities and other NGOs in Ethiopia, in order to reach out to the local people and provide various cultural activities alongside a meditation technique used to facilitate inner peace.
Our program will consist of a series of workshops and concerts that aim to help attendees fully realise their true potential, reduce stress and improve psychological and physical wellbeing and resilience. As in our previous projects, we will run several parallel workshops at the same time. To achieve the same goal, concerts will showcase diverse music and dance performances by youth from around the world.
Meditation techniques will be used as a core tool in our workshops as they are effective in generating resilience, social cohesion and a holistic wellbeing experience.
As always, our workshops are free of charge, as the experience of the meditation we teach is priceless. Therefore, in order to cover the costs of the tour, your donations are essential for our success.
A total of $5,000 is needed to make this tour happen!
We really appreciate your generosity!
Please find below the breakdown of costs.
Ethiopia tour 2016 expenses:
Main tour (2 weeks)
Accommodation: $1,000
Transportation: $2,000
Food: $1,000
Total logistics expenses: $4,000
Event expenses:
Hall rental, advertisement and phone bills: $900
Sound equipment rental: $1000
Workshop materials and equipment: $300
Other expenses: $800
Total event expenses: $3,000
Registration fee: ($100 x 20 = $2,000)*
Total budget to be raised for the tour: $5,000
*Each of the 20 volunteers pays for their own flight on top of a donation in the amount of $100 to support the tour expenses
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|The upgraded DOW with its new extensible weather station in front of NCAR's Foothills Lab. (Photo by Carlye Calvin.)
Built on a shoestring four years ago, Doppler on Wheels (DOW) hasn't been stingy with its data. This pack of portable weather radars has crisscrossed the country, peering inside tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter storms. This spring the DOW II and DOW III units received a major upgrade at NCAR, preparing them for field work on two continents over the next year and expanded use by university scientists.
"They don't look [much] different, but their brains and hearts are different," says Josh Wurman, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma. Wurman maintains the two existing DOW units with support from NSF's Major Research Infrastructure fund. (The original DOW was retired over two years ago.) NSF also paid for the recent improvements with in-kind assistance from NCAR staff, including technicians Jeff Bobka, Al Phinney, Tim Rucker, and Joe Vinson (Atmospheric Technology Division, or ATD).
Each radar is mounted behind a mini-processing room at the back of a flatbed truck. The most visible addition to DOW III is an extensible weather station to be used to verify conditions at the radar site. Mounted on a hydraulic pole between the antenna pedestal and the truck's cab, the station can be lofted 10 meters (30 feet) above ground level. "The idea is that in very high winds, the pole will stay rigid," says Wurman.
On the inside, DOWs II and III have received processor transplants. They now feature the second generation of the PC integrated radar acquisition board (PIRAQ) developed by ATD engineers Mitchell Randall and Eric Loew. PIRAQ made DOW possible by allowing radar data to be processed in real time through a personal computer rather than a costly, room-sized set of equipment. PIRAQ II has twice the computing power of the original, and "there's a pretty long list of other changes," says Randall. "When we did the first PIRAQ, we didn't realize where it would be used." The new version is compatible with coherent lidar and FM-CW radar, and it can transform a conventional weather radar into a Doppler radar.
Both DOWs have also gotten new antenna controller systems, developed by ATD's Jonathan Lutz. These will allow for faster and more precise pointing and scanning with the radar beam. Radar receivers have also been improved. Together, all of the upgrades should allow for winds to be sampled at an ultra-crisp resolution of 12.5 meters (38 feet).
Just as important to Wurman as the new features is improved reliability. "Our goal is to have it work every time," he says. The very success of the DOWs is one reason why a tune-up was needed: "Life on the road is very difficult. The radars get shaken a lot going down a lot of bad roads."
During last year's devastating tornado at Spencer, South Dakota, on 30 May, two DOW units got within 1.7 km of the twister. Then the antenna of one unit refused to spin. The DOW team ended up obtaining single- rather than dual-Doppler data, which prevented a full two-dimensional wind analysis. Still, the team obtained a peak wind of 115 m/s (258 mph) about 50 meters above the surface. According to Wurman, this was the most disastrous tornado strike for which high-resolution measurements were collected--that is, until the central Oklahoma twisters of last month (see sidebar).
These events may also help to confirm the Fujita tornado-damage scale. The scale gives numerical ratings (F0 to F5) based on observed damage. In turn, these damage ratings are connected to wind-speed ranges, but there have been few data to confirm whether the higher wind ranges are in fact accurate. The peak DOW wind from Spencer corresponds to a strong F4 rating, "which is what they found in the damage survey," says Wurman. Similarly, the F5 wind measured in Oklahoma on 3 May was backed up by F5 damage at ground level.
Wurman led the conceptualization and construction of the first DOW unit, which has since been cannibalized for its two newer siblings. To build the original DOW, he and colleagues pulled together expertise and surplused material from NCAR, OU, and the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). The first DOW made its debut in the southern plains for the 1995 field session of VORTEX (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment). Twisters remain at the top of the DOWs' priority list. The radars traversed the plains this spring for the second year of the field project ROTATE (Radar Observations of Thunderstorms and Tornadoes Experiment).
Later this summer, one DOW will set its sights on landfalling hurricanes. In 1996's Hurricane Fran and last year's Bonnie and Georges, DOW data verified the presence of small-scale horizontal rolls that transport upper-level winds downward. These may be the cause of localized streaks of intense damage such as those discovered after Hurricane Andrew. DOWs II and III measured gusts over 55 m/s just above the surface while parked at airports in Gulfport and Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, during Hurricane Georges last September. "We like airports in hurricanes," says Wurman. "They're treeless and flat, with no debris."
The other DOW will be shipped across the Atlantic in August to join the Mesoscale Alpine Programme in northern Italy and southern Switzerland for three months. (See the Winter 1998 UCAR Quarterly.) Matthias Steiner (Princeton University) will oversee the DOW's deployment in the Toce (Italy) and Tocino (Switzerland) river valleys, close to the NCAR S-Pol dual-polarization radar. Air flow in the valleys will be invisible to S-Pol, so the DOW will gather smaller-scale measurements beneath the larger radar's coverage area. "Just getting [the radar] down some of those mountain roads will be interesting," Wurman adds. "It's not Oklahoma."
Researchers are invited to contact Wurman about using one or more DOWs outside of the radars' springtime commitments for tornado research. "We're really anxious to have the science community use these," he says. Interested scientists may contact Wurman directly (303- 325-0589, email@example.com). See the DOW Web page.
Oklahoma twister yields a world-record wind
Wurman and his DOW team often drive hundreds of miles to snag a tornado, but one of the fiercest on record paid a visit to their own backyard on 3 May. The Oklahoma City area and several other points in Oklahoma and Kansas were raked by tornadoes that evening that killed more than 45 people and caused up to $1 billion in damage.
The strongest tornado of the day was a long-track F5 that plowed through portions of Oklahoma City and its suburbs. The two DOWs were positioned on either side of this twister (one unit within one mile of it) as the tornado took shape near Chickasha, about 65 km southwest of Oklahoma City, around 5:45 p.m. The DOWs tracked the storm over the next hour, measuring winds as high as 142 m/s (318 mph) a few dozen meters above ground. Should these wind speeds hold up in later analysis, they will be the highest ever measured in nature.
Also within a mile of the tornado was a separate portable Doppler radar, deployed by OU professor Howard Bluestein in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts and support from NSF. With a wavelength of 3 millimeters, this UMass radar offers limited range but very high spatial resolution, as fine as 5 x 5 x 15 m at a range of one mile. As they tracked the tornado, close to a point where most of a house was swept from its foundation, Bluestein's team saw wavelike features--possibly multiple vortices--along the edge of the tornado. "These are the highest-resolution images ever obtained of the inside of a powerful tornado," says Bluestein, who is collaborating with Andrew Pazmany from UMass. "We hope to combine our data with Josh [Wurman]'s and those from the mobile mesonet [operated by OU's Jerry Straka] to form a more complete picture of tornado structure."
DOW followed other tornadoes until after midnight, including a mile-wide twister that damaged or destroyed every building in the town of Mulhall. Afterward, the DOW team caught its breath and contemplated the vast task of sifting through observations from the portable Dopplers as well as the UMass radar, stationary radars, and other equipment that documented the tornado. "We're reeling with the volume of data we've collected," said Wurman. See preliminary DOW data and a map of the tornado's initial path with radar locations.


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Get movin' with fun, family games
While snow and ice offer fun winter activities such as sledding and ice skating, many families prefer to stay inside. Fortunately, new family games are available to keep families moving during the cold months – and warm months – and on rainy days too!
Here are a few games for your kids to try:
- Twister Hopscotch allows kids to design their own hopscotch patterns using durable, non-slip rings. The game is designed for one or more players, ages six and older.
- IPlay Super Skipper features two telescoping, rotating poles that spin at different speeds. The Super Skipper is for one player, ages three and older.
- Hyper Dash is an electronic target-tagging racecourse with fun electronic commands set to a timer. The game is designed for one to eight players, ages six and older.
- DanceMaker is an electronic dance mat that encourages kids to step on light-up stars as they dance to one of three preprogrammed songs. DanceMaker is designed for one player, ages five and older.
- Twister Moves lets kids use their Twister mats and follow the dance moves that DJ Ray and Diamond J call out. The game is for up to two players, ages eight and older.
- Cosmic Catch is the ball that remembers your throws. When the ball calls out the commands, you have to toss it to a friend wearing the correctly colored wristband. This activity is for two to six players, ages seven and older.
- Jump Dancer is a battery-operated skip rope toy that makes it possible for everyone to jump without having to hold the rope. It offers two speed settings and three time settings to allow kids to make up their own skipping and jumping games. Designed for children ages six and older.
- Cranium Hullabaloo is a high-energy game that invites kids to bounce, twist, spin, high-five and dance to music and fun sounds, moving from game pad to pad. This game is for quick-thinkers, ages four and older.
These games allow families to interact while raising heart rates. Most of these games can push participants to moderate levels of physical activity. An increased heart rate, increased respiratory rate and sweating are excellent indicators of the level of physical activity exerted. Family games can be a great place to start physical activity or add variety to the routine.
Leave a comment! What are some games you use to get your family moving?
~ Stacy Stolzman, MPT, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin


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Is there a Windows Vista compatible graphics driver for Intel 845G chipsets?
On pre-beta1 versions of Vista, I could use the Windows 2000 driver by
manually installing the driver from the Device Manager... In RC1, you can't
do that (You get a device install error every time you restart the computer,
and the display flickers at startup)... so I am stuck with a Standard PnP VGA
Driver... cant play any games, or play video smoothly.. It is a pretty common
mainboard here in India.. if the driver doesn't exist already, i hope they
make it available.
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Were you looking instead for APOE genotyping ordered to evaluate for Alzheimer disease? If so, see APOE Genotyping, Alzheimer Disease.
The Test Sample
What is being tested?
Apolipoprotein E (Apo E) is a protein that helps transport lipids (fats and cholesterol) in the blood. It is recognized by specific cell surface receptors that allow it to deliver lipids to cells for use or storage and to deliver excess lipid to the liver for excretion.
The ApoE protein has three genetic forms that have slightly different compositions. They are called ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE 4. ApoE2 is poorly recognized by cell surface receptors whereas ApoE3 and ApoE4 bind tightly to those receptors. Therefore, people with ApoE2 tend to have higher blood lipids since delivery from blood to cells is impaired by poor binding of ApoE2 to receptors.
Three different genes (termed alleles) are designated as e2, e3, and e4 and code respectively for ApoE2, ApoE3, and ApoE4. Each person inherits one allele from each parent. A person who has the same allele from each parent is termed homozygous: e2/e2 or e3/e3 or e4/e4. One who has different alleles is termed heterozygous: e2/e3 or e2/e4 or e3/e4.
The APOE genotype test evaluates a person's DNA to determine what APOE forms (alleles) are present.
APOE e3/e3 is the most common genotype (seen in about 63% of the population) and is considered "neutral." Risks of disease are made relative to the e3/e3 population.
APOE e4 (as e4/e4 and e4/e3) is found in 25% of the population and is associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis. People with these genotypes could be predisposed to a significantly elevated level of LDL-C ("bad cholesterol") and triglycerides when their diet is high in saturated fat.
People with the APOE e2 allele tend to have lower LDL-C levels but elevated triglycerides. APOE e2 is also associated with type III hyperlipoproteinemia/hyperlipidemia (HPL III or familial dysbetalipoproteinemia), a rare inherited disorder that causes fatty yellowish deposits on the skin called xanthomas, increased triglycerides in the blood, and atherosclerosis that develops at an early age. However, only about 2% of people with the e2/e2 genotype develop type III hyperlipoproteinemia/hyperlipidemia.
How is the sample collected for testing?
A blood sample is obtained by inserting a needle into a vein in the arm.
NOTE: If undergoing medical tests makes you or someone you care for anxious, embarrassed, or even difficult to manage, you might consider reading one or more of the following articles: Coping with Test Pain, Discomfort, and Anxiety, Tips on Blood Testing, Tips to Help Children through Their Medical Tests, and Tips to Help the Elderly through Their Medical Tests.
Another article, Follow That Sample, provides a glimpse at the collection and processing of a blood sample and throat culture.
Is any test preparation needed to ensure the quality of the sample?
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This time next week, those who park their vehicles at Perth train stations will be paying for it.
Paid parking at Transperth parking bays at train stations begins July 1, with a flat fee of $2 a day introduced, no matter whether cars are parked for an hour or all day.
The only exception are those using disabled parking bays.
As well as the traditional pay-and-display method, patrons will be able to use their SmartRiders to pay for parking.
The SmartParker system works through the registration of number plate details; no ticket is required as registration details are lodged with Transperth.
However those parking at Fremantle and Swanbourne train stations will need to use their SmartRiders.
Drivers who ignore the new rules and do not pay for parking risk a $50 fine.
Carparks are for train users
In a bid to ensure carparks at train stations are being used for their intended purpose, SmartParkers must tag on to a Transperth bus or train on the same day they tag on to park or they won't be able to use the system next time.
Fares go up
Parking will not be the only extra cost for public transport users come Tuesday, with fares also rising.
If paying cash, a regular ticket to travel one zone will cost $2.90, a rise of 10 cents.
The same journey with a regular SmartRider which gives a 15 per cent discount will be $1.47, a nine cent difference.
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[Federal Register: June 18, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 117)]
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Food and Drug Administration
Protection of Human Subjects in Clinical Trials; Public Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the following
meeting: Protection of Human Subjects in Clinical Trials. The topics to
be discussed are the role of FDA, institutional review boards, and
other stakeholders in the protection of human subjects in clinical
trials as it relates to minority participation.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on August 22, 2002, from
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location: The meeting will be held at Meharry Medical School, West
Basic Science Building Auditorium, rm. M001, 21st Avenue North at
Meharry Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208.
Contact: Sandra S. Baxter, Southeast Region, New Orleans District
Office, Food and Drug Administration, 297 Plus Park Blvd., Nashville,
TN 37217, 615-781-5385, ext. 122, FAX 615-781-5383, e-mail:
Registration and Requests for Oral Presentations: Send registration
information (including name, title, firm name, address, telephone, and
fax number), and written material and requests to make oral
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If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please
contact Sandra S. Baxter at least 7 days in advance.
Transcripts: Transcripts of the meeting may be requested in writing
from the Freedom of Information Office (HFI-35), Food and Drug
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, rm. 12A-16, Rockville, MD 20857,
approximately 15 working days after the meeting at a cost of 10 cents
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Dated: June 10, 2002.
John Marzilli,
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Feminism is not a radical movement or a fringe movement or an embarrassment or a fraud. Feminism is simple. The "patriarchy" does "exist." To identify as a feminist is to acknowledge that women are people, and, as such, women deserve the same social, economic, and political rights and opportunities as other styles of people (i.e., men-people). To be a feminist is also to acknowledge that the world is not, currently, a fair and just and safe place for women to exist. Because it is not. Obviously (see: everything ever). To deny these things makes you, at worst, a bad person who hates women, including but not limited to: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, your mother, Jennifer Lopez's mother, Jennifer Garner's Aunt Marcy, Michelle Obama, Ellen DeGeneres, Cher, Julie Andrews, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kraken Kardashian, Karphone Kardashian, Kickball Kardashian, Kornkob Kardashian, and THE VIRGIN MARY. At best, it makes you a complacent idiot.
ONE MORE TIME: If you are not a feminist (or something blamelessly ignorant, like a baby or a ferret or a college freshman), then you are a bad person. Those are the only options. You either believe that women are people, or you don't.
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Quick question, in the tutorial Learn HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner's Guide, the author references a ¨code archive¨ on page 8 to insert a photograph into a website but I cannot find the code archive. I have placed an order for the book already but is the code archive also online? Thank you!
Hi msmith2276, welcome to the forums,
From the article's page 1
This information is an excerpt from my recently released book, Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd edition.
If you go to that book's TOC page http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html2/toc.php you'll see some links, including the one to it's code archive http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html2/code.php
I don't know if they have your email stored yet, but if you ordered the book you should have access soon.
BTW, don't forget to check out the book's Corrections & Typos, it will save you some trouble.


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This year's stink bug invasion is expected to be one of the worst ever.
Stink bugs, officially called the brown marmorated stink bug, are an invasive species that found its way to the United States in the 1990's. The bugs originally come from Asia and cost Mid-Atlantic apple growers $37 million in apples last year. The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two insecticides that can be used on the bugs, but there isn't yet an official solution to getting them out of homes. Stink bugs are able to grow so rapidly in numbers because they have no natural predator in America. The USDA has considered introducing the stink bug's natural predator, the Asian trissolcus wasp, into the country. The Asian wasp is small, doesn't sting and only eat stink bug eggs, reports the International Science Times.
The stinkbugs have invaded 40 states, but Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia have the worst infestations. The U.S. Agricultural Department was conducting the Great Stink Bug Count to track the insects, but the main researcher was furloughed due to the government shutdown and the site is no longer available. People are advised to use silicone or silicone-latex caulking to seal cracks around windows, doors, siding, pipes and behind chimneys to increase the odds of keeping the invasive bugs out of their homes, reports Consumer Reports.


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The Daytona 500 has seen its share of veteran drivers in the first 55 years of its existence. However, in the 56th running of the historic event one of the oldest drivers to ever strap into a racecar will try to make the Daytona 500.
Veteran driver Morgan Shepherd from Ferguson, North Carolina will run a #93 Toyota with Support Military Foundation on the car. The team is a collaboration of BK Racing, Hamilton-Means Racing and MacDonald Motorsports. Dell Hamilton co-owner of the team is excited about the opportunity with Shepherd.
"Whenever you can break a record or make history, it's something special. To have Morgan in the car and the SMF presented on the car we couldn't be happier," said Dell Hamilton. "We are still looking for a presenting sponsor for the race, Support Military Foundation colors will be on the car but we are hoping for a presenting sponsor to come along and help us with this unique initiative."
If the 72-year-old Shepherd makes the race he will break his own record of being the oldest driver to start a Sprint Cup Series race. He set the record in September at New Hampshire with the Support Military Foundation backing him on that occasion also.
Shepherd brings loads of experience to the team. He made his first career Cup start in 1970 at Hickory Motor Speedway. All together Shepherd has made 515 career Sprint Cup Series starts and has four wins to his credit. Shepherd will be looking to make his 16th career start in the Daytona 500. He has a best finish of second in the Daytona 500 when back in 1992 he finished second to Davey Allison. In addition Shepherd also has 351 starts in the Nationwide Series and 56 career Camping World Truck Series starts. Prior to the Nationwide Series Shepherd was also a driver in the NASCAR Sportsman Series.
No word on who the crew chief of the #93 car will be for the Daytona 500.Tags: daytona 500, Morgan Shepherd, Motorsports


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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Joey Morin wrote:
> Acer notebook: AcerNote Lite Mdel PC350 Ext. 361. pentium 120MHz, 40MB
> ram, two pcmcic slots. i've tried two different hard drives: toshiba
> mk1624fcv 213MB, and Toshiba mk2124fc 120MB drive.
are they scsi or ide disks ? (they should be ide, but i wonder what the
acernote is presenting them as)
under the existing m0n0wall, it checks for disk /dev/ad0a, /dev/ad1a,
/dev/ad2a, /dev/ad3a (in that order) for a valid config file, and then
fails if it cant find it on any of the four. i've just submitted a patch
to manuel which further optimizes that search for the config file (ie
m0n0wall disk) and expands the search to include scsi disks as well as ide
i dont know if that will solve your problem, but could you also print out
the bootup messages as shown. just after the message which says "IPFilter
initialized" or something like that, it should show the disks which the
kernel has recognized on your system. that would help. (once again, it
should be ad0 if it's the first disk, but no harm checking)
Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven."
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Authorized Dean's Signature Designees
Sponsored research applications and forms often require the signature of the investigator's dean. However, deans may not be available on short notice, so many schools and divisions at USC have designated at least one other individual who is authorized to sign on behalf of the dean.
Note that these individuals are authorized to sign on behalf of the dean for sponsored research forms only, and not necessarily for any other type of form or policy.
The following schools have designated authorized dean's representatives:
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Sarah Banet-Weiser, Director, School of Communication
- Phil Seib, Vice Dean
- Andrea Hollingshead, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
- Dave Racewicz, Assistant Dean for Finance
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Charles McKenna, Domain Vice Dean for the Natural Sciences
- Kathleen Speer, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
- Sabrina Feeley, Director of Research Administration
- Steve Kay, Dean
- Dani Byrd, Executive Vice Dean
USC Davis School of Gerontology
- Pinchas Cohen, Dean
- Dominic Alpuche, Business Officer
- Kelvin Davies, Vice Dean
- Maria Henke, Associate Dean
USC Gould School of Law
- Andrew T. Guzman, Dean
- Scott Altman, Vice Dean
USC Keck School of Medicine
- Janet Stoeckert, Director of Research Administration
- Marie Choi, Associate Director, Research Administration
- Anne Taguchi, Senior Contracts and Grants Administrator
- Henryk Chrostek, Contracts and Grants Administrator
- Thomas Buchanan, M.D., Interim Vice Dean of Research, Director, SC CTSI, Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes Keck School of Medicine
USC Leventhal School of Accounting
- Gareth James, Vice Dean
- Sunny Donenfeld, Sr. Associate Dean of Finance & Administration and CFO
USC Libraries
- Catherine Quinlan, Dean of USC Libraries
- William Dotson, Director of Grants and Research Communications
- Gretchen Lees, Senior Financial Accounting Manager, USC Libraries, Office of the Provost
USC Marshall School of Business
- Gareth James, Vice Dean
- Sunny Donenfeld, Sr. Associate Dean of Finance & Administration and CFO
USC Ostrow School of Dentistry
- Yang Chai, Associate Dean of Research
USC Roski School of Art and Design
- Christine Rahn, Assistant Dean of Administration
- Margaret Lazzari, Associate Dean of Faculty
USC Rossier School of Education
- Robert Rueda, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Affairs
- Cathryn Dhanatya, Assistant Dean for Research
- Kathy Stowe, Associate Dean for Academic Programs (back-up signatory)
- Karen Symms Gallagher, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean (back-up signatory)
USC School of Cinematic Arts
- Scott Fisher, Associate Dean of Research
- Akira Lippit, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs (FY 2015-2016)
- Candice Jacobs, Senior Business Officer
USC School of Pharmacy
- Glen L. Stimmel, Interim Dean
- Wei-Chiang Shen, Associate Dean for Research
USC School of Social Work
- Carmen Frierson, Vice Dean for Administration
- Rosine Sarafian, Director of Research Administration
USC Thornton School of Music
- Susan Lopez, Associate Dean for Administration and Finance
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
- Maja Mataric, Vice Dean for Research
- Lauren Ferrell, Associate Director of Research Administration
- Linda Rock, Dean of Administration
- Nichole Phillips, Director of Research
- Aimee Barnard, Research Administration Coordinator (signing authority on proposals totaling $750,000 or less)


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The Fujifilm XF1 is a 12-megapixel premimum compact with a 2/3-type sensor and a 25-100mm (eq.) f/1.8-4.9 lens with Optical Image Stabilisation. The camera's EXR-CMOS sensor features Fujifilm's three switchable sensor modes (SN - high ISO and low noise, DR - dynamic-range priority, and HR - resolution priority) which can be selected according to the subject. The quick read time of the CMOS sensor, coupled with the high-speed EXR processor, accelerates all operations - start-up in 0.55 seconds, focus acquisition in as little as 0.16 seconds, and minimum shot-to-shot time of 0.8 seconds. The Fujifilm XF1's slim-line lens is constructed of 7 lens elements in 6 groups (four aspherical and three extra low dispersion), the first with a highly variable profile and a high refractive index, and the second an aspherical element with an extremely high refractive index. The Fujifilm XF1 will cost £399.00 in the UK. The Black version is exclusive to Jessops for two weeks from October 18th. All the versions are then generally released from Oct 29th with the Black and Tan versions available through the Fujifilm retail network, while the Red version will be exclusive to Dixons.
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Review by: Zsófia Anna Tóth
May 2003
By Celia Ruiz Tomlinson
It was a very positive, encouraging, and reinforcing experience for me to get acquainted with this outstanding story at an important and difficult phase of my life. I am close to finishing my studies at the university and will have to decide what I want to do with my life. Should I start working, if so what kind of job would be the best? Or should I still go on with studying? This book filled me with hope and courage that it is worth struggling for my dream.
The autobiography of Ceclia Ruiz Tomlinson is the story of an extraordinary woman. It is not an everyday life story, but something unusual. Yet when I started to read this book, another autobiography came to my mind which handled a story of a quite similar issues, though with several differences: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Both of these women wrote about their difficulties with getting along in a white world full of obstacles, and finally becoming successful, acknowledged, and respected as a result of the fights in their pioneering lives.
Tomlinsons work consists of 19 chapters recounting the most significant and determining events of her life. She writes about sadness, happiness, failures, successes, her struggles, fights and feelings, with well-selected words and in a very elaborate style. Her way of writing is simple, but with a refined simplicity instead of triviality. She writes in a rationalistic, true to life, sometimes naturalistic manner. She has a very good sense of how to present life and its workings aptly, credibly, and with delicacy. It is amazing, for example, how she describes human contacts, relationships--how a person is introduced to us. From a few sentences we know what that person is like, what s/he likes and what not and what we can expect from her/him. The problems and nuisances of minimal or basic human existence are also depicted accurately, such as the lack of a proper toilet or bathroom. She writes in details about her experiences but her work is never exhaustive or elongated. It deserves attention likewise that she underlines thoughts, or chain of thoughts, with what she considers to be important helping us to find the ideas of essential importance in her story.
The autobiography starts with a little introductory chapter about what she has achieved and why what she did is important. Then, Celia Ruiz Tomlinson begins her story from her childhood. We learn about her happy overture of life in San Miguel, Bulacan in the Philippines. Later on, because of an unfortunate event, her familys life takes a sad turn.They have to move to Manila and to start a new life in poverty with full of hardships. She relates how she studies, what studying meant for her, her father and her mother. She tells her story of how to get out of the slums and poverty, and how to become successful and rich via studying and fighting hard for advancement. Her toil of becoming a skilled, experienced, acknowledged and respected civil engineer is presented to us in her autobiographical book. She was one of the first female civil engineers who got a degree, and probably, the only one who managed to gain sphere and success in practice, as well. She succeeded in breaking down many unwritten rules and invisible walls which discriminated against women from various points of view. She successfully emigrated to the United States; and after overcoming many obstacles, she became a registered engineer in the U.S., as well. She worked hard, and finally, she even managed to found her own engineering company. Along with her professional work, she got married. She lead and still leads a full life with professional successes, after much hard work a good marriage, and a son.
At the end of her book, Celia Tomlinson also gives some useful advice about how to become successful. She talks about the interesting features of success, and she warns all of us to differentiate between dreams and fantasies. She reveals that selfishness is needed for success, but only provided nobody gets hurt. She also claims that you have to be different, to stand out of the crowd. You have to make positive steps, to be prepared, to be determined; you have to let go of the past, you must never underestimate people and you just have to go for it to achieve success (240-247). A teaching which can be followed and which probably results in a positive outcome.
It is also amazing how she manages to describe the workings of society, rules of social behaviour, how she handles moral questions, investigates problematic issues concerning every aspects of life. She describes and presents such subject matters which are of high importance in literary theory, such as the traffic in women, the eye of power, the gaze and the like. She discusses inferiority, superiority, male domination, racism, and all kinds of discrimination with much skill.
What is really captivating in this book or this story is the author herself, her personality, her character, her strength, her courage and all her abilities to become successful. Whenever the slightest doubt comes into our mind about whether it is worth struggling or fighting for something; this example, Celia Ruiz Tomlinsons example shows us that, yes, it is worth, and we must not give up. With her words behind each option lurks new problems but a solution always exists, as sure as there is a ramp to every bridge (238).


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Campus Visit
You really need to experience some things in person and SBCC's campus is one of those things. Sure, you can take the virtual tour and sit at your computer eating a piece of pizza, however it just doesn't have the same feel as walking across a campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
We offer campus tours every Friday at 10 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. CLICK HERE for tour details!
Come and explore the possibilities at Santa Barbara City College.
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What is the 2010 Holiday Helper?
As some of you may know, every year around the holidays we have had a little something here at MDC known as the Holiday Helper thread. It started six years ago with a simple post by Tracy and grew quickly into something quite magical – MDC moms helping MDC moms. We really appreciate the huge efforts of Tracy, Gemini, SpatulaGirl, JustVanessa, DreamsInDigital and Maluhia and many others to make things work in past years.
Last year's stats:
Canada: 2
This year, the need throughout the community here on MDC is greater than ever. Many more families are hurting financially. We feel so blessed to be surrounded by members who care so deeply for each other and are glad to provide a forum where you can help one another.
This year we've got new and returning volunteers facilitating your Holiday Helper, they are:
2010 Facilitators:
~Katie~ – Coordinator
Maluhia – Assistant coordinator
TiredX2 – MIN central contact person
FullofGrace – Assistant coordinator/Tech Support
weliveintheforest – Canada FIN
* baby clothing/outerwear (NB-24M) – justKate
* cloth diapers and gear/carseats – cristeen
* maternity/birth supplies – DeerMother
* kids outerwear – carmel23 – SleeplessMommy
* kids clothing (2T+) – cyrusmama – OkiMom
* baby and kids shoes – tracymom1
* toys – GardenStream – DeerMother
* books – changingseasons
* adult outerwear/shoes/boots – weliveintheforest
* adult clothing – Theoretica
Much love and peace to everyone throughout the holiday season and into the new year.
What are the Rules & Guidelines for the HH Forum?
This forum will be moderated and only threads started by the facilitators will be approved. Please do not start new threads in this forum or they will be deleted without notice.
We do ask that you remember the MDC User Agreement when posting here, and please note that we can not allow:
* Auctions
* Raffles
* Sales or solicitations
Please DO NOT spam forums to spread the word. There will be one moving thread that will float randomly from forum to forum. See if you can find it. Bump it up! Please DO use your signature to advertise that the Holiday Helper is up and running again this year.
How do I put Holiday Helper in my signature?
To get the word out about the Holiday Helper, you may 'advertise it' by directing members to the HH forum in your signature. (example: Please Help A Family in Need: Check out the Holiday Helper Forum) Please do not post or advertise the Holiday Helper in posts/threads on the boards. Those posts will be removed without notice. Please do not LINK to the HH Thread as links are no longer allowed in signatures without a business signature. Also – feel free to put the non-linking but very fun Holiday Helper smile into your signature ! The code for this year's HH smilie is : hh. You will need to remove the space between the colon and the hh to get the smilie to appear in your signature.
Can HH help me with shipping costs?
In the past we have had a "shipping fairy." This year, unfortunately, there are no funds available for the shipping fairy other than any funds donated by the community. We are counting on each other. If you are able to donate funds, we will gratefully accept them via Paypal to [account closed] To minimize shipping costs, we can also work with you to find the nearest Family in Need for what you have available. There are also several sizes of flat rate priority mail boxes, which allow you to know shipping costs in advance with no weighing – check ahead here and fill up a flat rate box! Please PM if you are in need of shipping fairy help.
How Can I Donate and What is a HHDDC?
An HHDDC is the Holiday Helper version of a DDDDC: "Holiday Help Done Dirt Cheap." For $3.00 sent via Paypal, a customized tag/saying will be placed under your username that will hyperlink to the HH forum. With a small donation ($3.00), you will be helping MDC Families in Need. To get your own HHDDC or place one for a friend, please send Paypal to: email@example.com
100% of the proceeds will go to help FINs! PLEASE DO NOT SEND HHDDCs DIRECTLY THROUGH the MDC SOFTWARE.
Why Isn't My Thread Showing Up?
As stated in the intro, only threads started by organizers will be approved. You can reply to an ongoing thread with your question or PM one of this year's facilitators.
Am I eligible to be a family in need (FIN)?
* FIN must have "significant financial need"
* FIN must have 1000 posts as of October 4th, 2010 and 1 year of consistently active membership from October 4th, 2009 to October 4th, 2010.
* FIN sign up will begin NOON EST MONDAY October 4th, and the first 100 completed forms will be chosen with the next 50 held aside for round two if we have enough families in "needs met."
* Fully completed forms, including first and last name will be given priority.
How can I sign up to be a Family In Need (FIN)?
FIN sign up will begin at NOON EST Monday, October 4th and must be received by Friday, October 8th. You can sign up by PM'ing Abimommy, with the filled out 2010 HOLIDAY HELPER APPLICATION form (please copy and paste the form below) she will then forward it to the appropriate helper. Applications will be dealt with on a first come first-served basis. Please be sure to list both first and last name and physical mailing address. Completed forms will be given priority.
MDC user name:
What is your family situation? (this portion will be published without names for all to see, please use terms such as "DD1" instead of names to help keep HH anonymous)
Pregnancy, if applicable
Child #1:
Child #2:
Adult #1:
Adult #2:
What can I expect to receive as a FIN in 2009?
The HH program will do its best to help out with gently used toys, clothing, coats, diapers etc – especially for younger children. If you need adult clothing or coats, please let us know – however much more children's clothing is available than adult clothing. Last year, we were able to provide gift cards to about half of FIN. This year, we do not expect to have many gift cards donated. We will be moving families to "needs met" when we have met the basic clothing, toy and diaper needs of children, to the best of our ability.
Can you help me with my mortgage, tuition, heating bill, etc?
No, because our helpers are also struggling we've removed this portion from Holiday Helper. Please leave these requests out of your family statement and needs listed. We have a sticky listing other sources of assistance.
Who will see my FIN information?
For added privacy and security, this year your username will only be available to two MDC Administrators in green (abimommy & AdinaL) and four MDC Holiday Helper Moderators in purple (~Katie~, Maluhia, fullofgrace, TiredX2). In an effort to keep user names private, we ask that you communicate to the central contact person and HH moderators. Your list of needs and family statement will be posted in the HH forum for everyone to see, along with your FIN number and state or province of residence. Your name and address will be released to helpers who offer to send items to you.
What about Thank Yous?
As in the past, Thanking Helpers is not required but it is a much appreciated step that our MINs can take to warm the hearts of Helper Mamas. This year we will be emailing a "Thank You" login to the MINs and they will be able to post their own Thank You notes.
Who do I contact if I need to update or change my profile information?
We will be using a central contact person this year in order to keep user names private. You may PM TiredX2 if you have questions or concerns related to your profile information or any of the HH moderators if it is urgent.
How can I be a helper?
First, make a list of what you have available. A gently used outgrown children's coat? Gently used toys or books? Are you willing to go shopping to pick out a special gift for a young child? Check the " master needs list" for each category, or PM one of the facilitators in the list below. Any facilitator can take care of your entire list, for example if you have both toys and clothing please PM just one facilitator (update example with names)
2010 Facilitators:
~Katie~ – Coordinator
Maluhia – Assistant coordinator
TiredX2 – MIN central contact person
FullofGrace – Assistant coordinator/Tech Support
weliveintheforest – Canada FIN
* baby clothing/outerwear (NB-24M) – justKate
* cloth diapers and gear/carseats – cristeen
* maternity/birth supplies – DeerMother
* kids outerwear – carmel23 – SleeplessMommy
* kids clothing (2T+) – cyrusmama – OkiMom
* baby and kids shoes – tracymom1
* toys – GardenStream – DeerMother
* books – changingseasons
* adult outerwear/shoes/boots – weliveintheforest
* adult clothing – Theoretica
What does gently used mean?
In general, clothing should be freshly washed and free from stains and holes. Toys should be complete and/or usable. Please read this post to better understand what we mean when we ask for Gently Used Items.
Where is the off-MDC Database?
This year we will continue to host everything on MDC rather than offsite. The Holiday Helper Forum has threads with needs lists for Diapers, Coats, Toys, Clothing, etc. We will also feature a few families in need at a time, each with their own thread.
Who do we PM about donating extra PayPal?
Maybe you have a few dollars in your PayPal account. Maybe it is just a bit of spare change. If twenty people send us their spare PayPal change or a few dollars that is a gift certificate for a Mom-In-Need!
You don't even need to PM anyone! Just send your PayPal donations to:
All money received to this account will go to helping MDC MIN.
If you have any further questions regarding eligibility or rules please PM abimommy.
When PMing offerings to our Facilitators please give 24-48 hours to update FIN profile information and to reply to questions you may have – we hope to be very busy spreading the joy!


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Access information on assessed property values and other property information.
Access a rich trove of city data on permits, licenses, contractors, cases & violation details.
The most up-to-date locations of where to vote.
Access citizen reports of potholes, broken street signs, building violations, etc.
Get access to the latest crime incident data, updated daily, going back to January 2006.
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See real-time availability of parking garage spaces for the Philadelphia International Airport.


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The very idea that iron ore investments such as the $US20 billion Outer Harbour expansion would be under review would be anathema to many investors who value
But where the company appears to diverge from its two bigger counterparts is in a desire to maintain this market presence even if it means lower returns for its investors.
Rio Tinto says it wants "at least a quarter" of any new growth and, luckily for the world No. 2, it can probably afford to get there.
Its expansion plans are vastly cheaper and faster to build than BHP's. The balancing act for other miners is hardly as difficult given they can get there more quickly and leverage the good times before they come to that abrupt end that Kloppers spoke of in Florida.
Whereas a decade ago any move by BHP to withhold supply from the market would have been welcomed for helping to keep prices high, that ship has now sailed.
Getting an additional 650 million tonnes into the seaborne market won't be difficult given all of the expansion plans under development. If BHP can' t make it through the window, investors will get nothing.
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News & Events
Elizabeth Kostova Alumna Fiction Reading
Elizabeth Kostova's first novel, The Historian, a tale of three generations of historians on the track of the original Dracula, was the fastest-selling debut novel in American publishing history. It has sold more than three million copies worldwide in 40 languages, has won numerous awards, and is being made into a film by SONY/Columbia Pictures. Her second novel, The Swan Thieves, a story of artists, psychiatry, and the rise of Impressionist painting, was published in 2010 and has been translated into 28 languages. She has also published introductions to new editions of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Kostova's short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in such venues as Mississippi Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Best American Poetry, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is currently at work on a third novel, to be published by Random House. Kostova holds a BA in British Studies from Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. She teaches at conferences in Eastern Europe and the U.S., reads and lectures internationally, and is co-creator of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation (www.ekf.bg), which provides competitive opportunities for Bulgarian writers, as well as opportunities for native-English writers to travel to Bulgaria. She lives with her family in Asheville, North Carolina.
Location: UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium
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Wiles Magazine 2nd Anniversary: WilesMag.com presents GameFace
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Who's Going
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Event Details
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I had similar problems trying to install m0n0 to an adapter from here:
In the end I used physdiskwrite.exe on a Windows box and that got things
-----Original Message-----
From: Me [mailto:d3javu1978 at yahoo dot com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:39 PM
To: don dot munyak at gmail dot com; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: Fwd: [m0n0wall] CF to IDE reader.
that was cool!
I know now the card adapter works, I can boot to the cd, its recognize
properly and I can see activity light as a do:
gzcat $image | dd of=/dev/da0 bs=16
but when I reboot, i get a "read error" again.
I'm considering purchasing yet, another, not so "el chipo" card and see if
that works.
thanks for the great info. And thanks Chris for the cool idea.
--- Don Munyak <don dot munyak at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Chris Buechler has a really conveinent Live installer I would
> recommend, but in doing so, I would suggest the following.
> http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=17
> On the machine you are trying to install the image.
> I am assuming this
> will be the actual m0n0wall firewall box.
> 1. remove any hard drives you don't want to over-right by accident.
> 2. install the CF adapter in the IDE-0 slot 3. Make any BIOS setting
> changes required.
> 4. Run the Live installer from CD.
> 5. Make sure you have a copy of the instructions handy during install.
> I had no problems doing this.
> conversely, if you install, say ver 1.11 and get it working from the
> CF card, you can then upgrade to the latest image from the m0n0wall
> GUI later.
> - Don
> To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> For additional commands, e-mail:
> m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
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The 'I Need a Doctor' crooner gets nostalgic in her latest music video ahead of the release of her album 'Don't Look Down'.
Skylar Grey is pushing to build anticipation for her upcoming studio album "Don't Look Down" set for release very soon. After premiering visuals for "Final Warning" and "Wear Me Out", she treats fans to a music video of her ballad track "White Suburban".
The low-budgeted video stays true to the theme of the song. Dr. Dre's female feature guest on "I Need a Doctor" is crooning and playing piano as fast-paced images of highway on what seems to be suburban areas are flashed, giving nostalgic feel to it.
"Don't Look Down" is co-produced by Alex Da Kid and Eminem among others. It boasts Grey's collaborative works with Big Sean, Travis Barker, Angel Haze with the one featuring the Slim Shady himself serving as the lead single.
Skylar Grey's White Suburban" music video


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THE owner of a Bridgwater nightclub has defended its £1-per-drink student night promotion.
The Palace, in Penel Orlieu, changed its Wednesday night student promotion a fortnight ago. Customers can now get £1 drinks all night, having paid a £5 entry fee.
Under the previous student night promotion, drinks were priced £1.50 all night, but entry was free to holders of the student NUS card.
The move is aimed at younger drinkers, but it has come under fire from 19-year-old Rebecca Andrew, from Bridgwater.
She said she and many of her friends feel pricing drinks at £1 promotes irresponsible drinking.
She told the Mercury: "It's encouraging binge drinking and I think it's ridiculous. There has to be some sort of law that says drinks cannot be sold at a certain price."
Rebecca told the Mercury she has been to The Palace once, but would never go back.
However, Clive Lilley, owner of The Palace, said his staff make sure people who have had too much to drink are not served more alcohol.
He said: "I'm not one of those people who doesn't care what goes on inside.
"We run it professionally; it's not a free-for-all."
Mr Lilley, who also runs The Gallery pub in Bridgwater High Street, which offers £1.50 drinks on Friday and Saturday nights, said the promotions had been introduced because of the huge competition he faced from other alcohol sellers, including supermarkets.
He said: "We are trying, in a very hard environment, to stay in business. I don't think people realise how hard it is."