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CONTACT: NH Dem Party
Today, Bush Unveiled Budget with $36 Billion Cut
On Wednesday, He Travels to NH to Promote It
CONCORD, NH - Congressmen Bass and Congressman Bradley must take a stand on the controversial new $36 billion cut that President Bush proposed to Medicare today, before the President arrives in New Hampshire on Wednesday to promote his budget.
"The deep Medicare cuts that President Bush proposed today would hurt New Hampshire seniors even worse that the recent fiasco they created with Medicare Part D. Our Congressmen have a duty to take a stand on this controversial Medicare cut before the President arrives in New Hampshire on Wednesday to promote it," said Kathy Sullivan, Chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
"First, Congressmen Bass and Bradley let the drug company lobbyists write a Medicare drug plan that has left thousands of seniors without the prescriptions they need. Now George Bush wants to continue massive subsidies to drug and insurance companies while cutting the Medicare that 179,564 Granite Staters depend on. Before our two congressmen take the stage with President Bush on Wednesday, their constituents deserve to know if they will stand up to his controversial Medicare cuts."
According to the Associated Press today, "Bush also seeks to cut projected spending on mandatory entitlement programs by $65 billion over five years, with the bulk coming from measures designed to hold down outlays for Medicare, the health-care program for the elderly, by $36 billion through 2011."


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The sun was high in the sky at 8:15 a.m., the morning crisp and cool. I knew what awaited me. I had been down this road before. I made the trek once before, in 2009, but this walk would be much shorter than that one. The first time I walked, it took all day to walk more than 20 miles.
My family and I made our way down to Santa Cruz and parked at La Iglesia de Santa Cruz de la Cañada. We stocked up on water and set out. Our final destination would be El Santuario de Chimayó, approximately seven miles (give or take) down the long, windy road.
Los Alamos County will soon pass another major milestone, as it prepares to hire an attorney to fill the spot vacated by Randy Autio in December.
The role of acting county attorney has been filled by Brian James for the better part of a year, since Autio served most of his tenure as acting county administrator. James is one of three candidates who were interviewed to take the job on a permanent basis Friday.
The county received 15 applications from as far away as Los Angeles, Calif. The three finalists are all experienced city and/or county attorneys with a range of other experience.
The Los Alamos Animal Shelter, 226 East Road, 662-8179, has a great selection of onsite adoptable pets waiting for their forever home.
Others are currently off-site in foster homes. Be sure to visit lafos.org, where you can get more information about volunteering, adopting and donating.
Also check out the Petfinder page at petfinder.com/shelters/friendsoftheshelter.html.
Rocky — Three-year-old neutered Pug/Boston Terrier-mix. His favorite activities include playing with other dogs and running around the dog park like he owns the place. He has often been called wiggly, which describes him perfectly. Brindle color and crate-trained.
April 8-14
For information, call the Betty Ehart Senior Center (BESC) at 662-8920, the White Rock Senior Center (WRSC) at 662-8200 and "Day Out" (adult day care, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.) at 661-0081. Reservations must be made by 10 a.m. for daily lunches.
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8:30, 10 a.m. Tax preparation
8:45 a.m. Cardio
9 a.m. Toenail clipping
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Sweet 'n sour pork
7 p.m. Ballroom dancing
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10:30 a.m. AARP meeting
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Chicken salad
Teen Pulse staff member Tom Hanlon asked students, "Have you ever pulled a prank on anyone?"
The notion of mortality has plagued humans since the dawn of time. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is familiar with this notion more than most people. Shot nine times in 2000, 50 Cent is lucky to be alive.
Unlike other gun violence victims, he got another chance at life and he has not wasted it.
Trying to build on his Billboard dominance of the early 2000s, 50 cent released his first mix tape since his 2009 studio album "Before I Self Destruct."
Released only on the Internet in December, 50's mix tape "The Big 10" had an aura of failure surrounding it. Following the major letdown of "Before I Self Destruct," "The Big 10" had to prove that 50 could still hang with the new, younger rappers.
Hurray, spring is here! Why does winter have to be so long, anyway? Not that I don't love pea coats and boots and UGGs, but come on, you've got to love warmer weather, a balmy breeze and the beginnings of a suntan.
Plus, the commencement of a season means a whole new list of what you've got to have this spring to be in style.
• For both men and women, colorful jeans are in. That means patterned or solid-colored ones. Don't forget that this trend still requires taste.
This spring, we're rocking colorful jeans with class, not with punk. Keep in mind that your jeans must fit well and that the colors in the pattern should be such that you can pair the jeans with items you already have in your closet.
On March 23, hundreds gathered for the "Stand Up For Religious Freedom" rally at the Pete Domenici Federal Courthouse Plaza in Albuquerque for an hour of speeches and songs.
This was just one of the rallies scheduled on this day in 143 cities across the nation, including Alaska and Hawaii.
The rallies were held to protest the Federal Government Department of Health and Human Services health care mandate.
The mandate requires all employers to provide in their employee health care plans, some products and services, which are contradictory to the religious and moral beliefs and practices of that employer.
Newly appointed State Engineer Scott Verhines just made his first big decision, denying an application to Augustin Plains Ranch in its standoff with federal and state agencies, counties, ditch companies, environmentalists, locals, and tribes.
It's a case all of New Mexico should be watching.
West of Datil in Catron County, promoters want to drill 37 wells 20 inches across and 3,500 feet deep, and pump 54,000 acre-feet of water a year for 300 years. That's a breathtaking amount of water – enough to supply half of Albuquerque's needs. In fact, the Rio Grande Valley would be the market.
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CCGT Plants in Belarus
Berezovskaya Unit-3 GT
Location: Belarus
Operator: Brestenergo
Configuration: 2 X 25 MW UGT-25000 gas turbines
Fuel: natural gas
Operation: 2005
T/G supplier: Zorya
EPC: Belnipienergoprom
Quick facts: These are topping gas turbines for a 165-MW steam set.
Photograph courtesy of Minenergo
Berezovskaya Unit-7
Location: Belarus
Operator: Brestenergo
Configuration: 425-MW, 1+1 CCGT with SGT5-4000F gas turbine
Fuel: natural gas
Operation: 2014
HRSG supplier: Hangzhou
T/G supplier: Shanghai
EPC: CMEC, Hebei Electric Power Construction Co, Tianjin Electric Power Construction
Quick facts: In June 2011, CMEC began construction on Berezovskaya Unit-7, essentially a twin of the Lukoml CCGT. About half a dozen local companies also worked on the project. China Exim Bank made preferential loans covering 85% of the cost of the Lukoml and Berezovskaya CCGT projects. In addition, CMEC was exempted from import duties and VAT on equipment. This was the first full-Chinese version of the Siemens SGT5-4000F gas turbine built by Shanghai Electric. The new block was synchronized in Nov 2013 and handed over in Mar 2014. It connects to the 330kV network.
Photograph courtesy of Power China
Lukoml CC
Location: Belarus
Operator: Vitebskenergo
Configuration: 425-MW, 1+1 CCGT with SGT5-4000F gas turbine
Fuel: natural gas
Operation: 2014
HRSG supplier: Hangzhou
T/G supplier: Siemens, Shanghai
Quick facts: In Sep 2010, Vitebskenergo signed a turnkey contract with CMEC for a PGU-400 CCGT plant at Lukoml. The plant was handed over to schedule on 30 May 2014.
Photograph courtesy of operby.com
Minsk-2 CC
Location: Belarus
Operator: Minsk Heat Network
Configuration: two 32.5-MW, 1+1 CCGT blocks with SGT-600 gas turbines CHP
Fuel: natural gas
Operation: 2011
HRSG supplier: AE&E Nanjing
T/G supplier: Siemens, Zhongzhong Power Generation
EPC: North China Power Engineering Co Ltd, Tsentrenergomontazh JSC
Quick facts: In Jan 2007, the GOB and the GOC signed a contract for construction of this CCGT project using concessional loans. This heating plant serves the southwestern district of Minsk and first went into operation in 1934. It was extensively rebuild after heavy damage during World War II and ended up with 29 MW of electrical capacity and 575 Gcal/hr of heating output before the extension. In 2009, work got underway on the new-builds and the $48mn project completed in Sep 2011 as the first joint energy project of Belarus and China.
Photograph courtesy of www.ccoec.com.cn
Location: Belarus
Operator: Minskenergo
Configuration: 250-MW, 1+1 CCGT with GT13E2 gas turbine CHP
Fuel: natural gas
Operation: 2009
HRSG supplier: Tlmace
T/G supplier: Alstom, TMZ, Elsib
EPC: BelNIPIenergoprom, Tsentrenergomontazh JSC, Heilongjiang Power Construction No 3 Co
Quick facts: In Jul 2007, TMZ announced it would build the steam set for a new CCGT block at Minsk-3. The plant completed on 27 Feb 2009.
Photograph courtesy of Minskenergo
Minsk-5 CC
Location: Belarus
Operator: Minsk Heat Network
Configuration: 400-MW, 1+1 CCGT blocks with MW701F3 gas turbine CHP
Fuel: natural gas, oil
Operation: 2012
HRSG supplier: Babcock-Hitachi Dongfang Boiler
T/G supplier: Dongfang, MHI
EPC:North China Power Engineering Co Ltd
Quick facts: In Sep 2008, in the GOB and the GOC signed a contract for a this dual-fuel project. In July 2009, MHI received an order from Dongfang for components for the 1+1 block, including some of the 701F gas turbine high temperature parts, control modules, plus steam turbine blades. This was the first time that Dongfang Turbine used MHI-licensed equipment in another country. The plant was turned over on 17 February 2012.
Photograph courtesy of www.ccoec.com.cn
Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data BaseUpdated 17-Feb-2016


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Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole
Recipe by diner524
My sister made this for her Superbowl party years ago and everyone loved it and asked for the recipe. There are several recipes for this casserole, but the amounts are different from her recipe. This could be lightened up by using light or fat-free soup, sour cream. I serve this over wide egg noodles along with blueberry muffins and corn or a salad.
Top Review by charlotte
I love this recipe but I use uncooked chicken breast tenders instead of pre-cooking my chicken, which is so much easier. I bake as directed and it comes out perfectly delicious.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 lbs boneless skinless chicken
- 2 (10 3/4 ounce) cans cream of chicken soup
- 16 ounces sour cream
- 60 Ritz crackers, crushed
- 1 tablespoon poppy seed
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
Directions See How It's Made
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Place chicken in a pan and cover with water and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until tender and no longer pink(about 10 minutes). Once cool enough cut into bite size pieces(I use my electric knife).
- Mix two cans of soup with sour cream in a 13X9 inch rectangular pan. Sprinkle the chicken over the soup mixture.
- Place Ritz crackers in a plastic bag and gently crush them. Add poppy seeds and shake to combine and then pour melted butter over the crackers and shake again. Sprinkle cracker mixture over the chicken.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until it begins to bubble around edges and the crackers are golden brown.


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Ted Alexander
|Ted Alexander
September 15, 1912
Spartanburg, South Carolina
|Died: March 6, 1999
(aged 86)
East Orange, New Jersey
|Negro league baseball debut
|1938, for the Indianapolis ABCs
|Last appearance
|1949, for the Birmingham Black Barons
Theodore R. Alexander (September 15, 1912 – March 6, 1999) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues.
Alexander was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He played with several teams from 1938 to 1949, playing mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs.[1]
He died on March 6, 1999 in East Orange, New Jersey at the age of 86.[2]
- ^ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
- ^ "Ted Alexander". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
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- Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)
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- Baseball players from South Carolina
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A Balcony is a platform that projects from the wall of the building and is surrounded by a railing. It is usually attached and accessed from the Bedroom. It is meant for relaxing. It may or may not have a roof.
Here, I have explained the Vastu Guidelines for a Balcony. Since Vastu is a science, every guideline is based on sound logic and reasoning. As an Architect, I have attempted to explain these guidelines rationally and scientifically, so that you can decide what you want to follow and what you don't.
Balconies should be in the East or North part of the house: They should not be to the South or the West sides of the main building. The Scientific Reason – A Balcony is a good place to sit out and sun-bathe. So, the ideal position for this will be in the North, where there is constant sunlight and the East where there is morning Sunlight.The West and South sides are too hot to sit and hence should be avoided.
Heavy furniture and seating should be placed only in the South-West part of the Balcony: The Scientific Reason – The North and East parts of the Balcony should not be obstructed by heavy furniture, so that the sunlight can stream in and light up the whole place and the room that is attached to the balcony.
A swing should be placed in the East-West axis: The Scientific Reason – This way, the person sitting on the swing, faces either North or South and thus the sun will not hit him in the face directly.
Small plants can be placed in the North-East of the Balcony: The Scientific Reason – Plants need sunlight to thrive and so should be placed in the North-East, where there is constant, morning sunlight. However if they grow too tall or grow up a pillar, they will obstruct the light into the Balcony and so should be kept short.
Keep only small flower pots in the Balcony: Flower pots with Creepers should not be kept in the Balcony. The Logic – Big flower pots and pots with overflowing creepers tend to obstruct light into the Balcony.
Height of the Balcony roof should be less than the roof of the main building: The Logic – A Balcony is a small space and will look proportional only if the roof is a bit lower than the rest of the building.
Avoid using asbestos or tin roof for a Balcony: The Logic – A tin or asbestos roof absorbs and traps heat within a space, making it uncomfortably hot for the users.
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Hello..recently i purchased a 1 bhk flat. The plot is rectengal shape and its all about vastu sastra. but i read that balcany in south is not prefrable. in my flat i have 3 balcany and all are at south facing. so i need solution for that. i allready purchased it so plz give me best solution according to u.
Dear Hetal Shah,
You can never get an apartment or house in a city which is 100% compliant with vastu. That is the reason why, I an architect, has explained Vastu scientifically. South side gets heated up and so balconies here will be uncomfortable, especially in the afternoons. Also the doors to the balconies will admit the hot air into the rooms. So to solve the problem, use the balconies only in the mornings. Have some plants and shrubs that could act like a buffer to the heat in the balconies.
Hi.. I am planning to purchase 2bhk flat at hyderabad. All are according to Vaastu and I strongly believe in vaastu saashtra. Here, Balcony they have given in the North-West corner of the building. Many people told that, Balcony should not be in N-W corner of the building.
Request you to kindly suggest on this? whether shall I go for this flat or not?
Hi Shyam,
A NW balcony is not usable after about 2pm till dusk because the Sun is in this corner at that time. But in the mornings, it is a nice place to relax. So do not reject a flat just because people tell you that a balcony in the North-West is unacceptable.
i have space in the southern direction,i want to construct a fabrication structure like a balcony,please suggest,rectification
Hi Ayyappan,
I assume you want to add a fabricated balcony on the Southern side of your building. There is no harm provided you can use the balcony. It will be hot to sit there after about 10 am and will remain so till about 4 pm.
I have recently purchased 2bhk flat keeping just one thing in mind that all the rooms of the flat gets early morning sun rays.
Following are the details, please let me know is this healthy & positive Flat
1) My living room, kids room and master bedroom all has Ceiling to floor length Windows.
2) The balcony attached with bedroom is open towards East.(South is completely blocked with wall)
3) The kitchen is an an open kitchen( east open) in the northwest direction of the flat.
4) The main entrance is in North Corner of the west wall
5) Master bedroom is in south part of the flat with eastern side having ceiling to floor window.
6) The Main apartment is EAST facing apartment.with road running parallel on east side.
Plenty of sunlight in the morning.In fact the house is quite well lighted throughout the day.
Please help me!!!
I am lil confused with so many articles on vastu.I need a peaceful life for my family.
your words can give me peace of mind.
Hi Priti,
Why go through so many articles and get confused? You have done the right thing – going by your instinct in buying your house. The fact that it is filled with light especially morning sunlight, is it's biggest advantage and so it is perfectly in tune with Vastu guidelines.
Hi am going to purchase a 3 bed room East facing flat. The flat has a balcony at North west corner. It's small and square in shape. Is it ok to have balcony here?
We have noticed that the hall of flat is huge with main door in the east side North corner. Now we want to have a balcony their without disturbing the main door. WILL IT BE FINE WITH VASTU
Hi Arun Kumar,
According to Vastu, a balcony is the NE is ideal as you can sit there in the mornings and get exposed to the early morning sunlight and in the afternoons when it is quite hot, you are protected. A NW balcony is also good but it can be quite hot in the afternoons.
We are planning to renovate our house which is Northwest facing. I do not know how to explain the direction but its a corner plot, first in the lane.West is diagonally left if I stand at the front door facing opposite house. The whole of South west of the house is constructed into shops, leaving space only in the west.
I want to know what direction should I consider to look for the vastu tips for my house. The ground floor portion is to let out, and first floor is where we live. Which direction is the best for the front door of the first floor. Now the door in the first floor faces South west and opens into a balcony. From balcony, the door facing Northwest opens into the living room.
Hope its not very confusing.. 🙂
Hi Vandana,
Actually I am quite confused regarding the door positions in the first floor. Since you have only space in the West side, Have the door in the North west corner or on the western wall in the first floor.
Thanks A lot sir…
{Hi am going to purchase a 3 bed room East facing flat. The flat has a balcony at North west corner. It's small and square in shape. Is it ok to have balcony here?
We have noticed that the hall of flat is huge with main door in the east side North corner. Now we want to have a balcony their without disturbing the main door. WILL IT BE FINE WITH VASTU
Hi Arun Kumar,
According to Vastu, a balcony in the NE is ideal as you can sit there in the mornings and get exposed to the early morning sunlight and in the afternoons when it is quite hot, you are protected. A NW balcony is also good but it can be quite hot in the afternoons.
Pls also advice what is the best material, to be used to divide the balcony (we are planning for upvc door with glass, so that light enters in living room/hall as well.. just to reconfirm before we proceed requesting builder want your valuable approval.
Pls note that the moment we enter main door of the flat it lol be balcony and to enter the living room we will have to slide the upvc glass door.
Hi Arun Kumar,
To have a glass door is a good idea but will the light and ventilation to the living room be only through this door? Is there no other window to the living room?
Yes only thru the glass door sir, can I have your number
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Hi Arun Kumar,
If the ventilation to the living room is only through the glass door, you have to make sure that it can be left open without the fear of security issues.
I have booked a 3bhk flat in Hyderabad which is West Facing.Everything in the flat is vastu compliant and my master bedroom comes in the south west corner of the flat with a full lenght balcony attached to it. Someone told me that having balcony attached to a south west master bedroom is not good for the family but others are telling that it does not matter. Could you please suggest me on this? I have an option of changing the flat but i have liked this flat. Could you please give me your suggestions on this. It would really help me.
Thanks, Richa.
Hi Richa,
Everyone likes to give an opinion and some give negative ones. Why would a balcony affect the family adversely? I see it as a bonus as it will cut down the heat and sunlight from the SW side to the bedroom. Moreover, always go by your instinct. If you liked this flat then it is the one for you.
Sir my house is south facing in first floor I have verandah opened to sun with roof.how to close it with low expenses as south facing house should not have balcony or verandah on front side of house.
Hi Sudheer,
Please don't feel pressurized to follow the 'ideal' vastu recommendations. They are 'ideal' but not the only solutions. For me, a balcony in the south is an advantage as it can reduce the direct heat that enters the house. Moreover, it has a roof which will cut down a lot of heat. So retain it.
Hello, I am currently living in a rented apartment that is east facing. There is a large glass door that opens up to a balcony in the west direction. I would say more of north west. Is that bad per Vastu? are there any remedies that I could do since it is rented and there's no construction, paints etc. that I am allowed to do.
It's winters time so I am not using the balcony at all except for we get good sunlight in the late afternoon. But summers I was hoping to put some nice plants there.
Thanks, Deep,
Hi Deep,
Don't do anything. There is good sunlight in the afternoons in the NW and so if you have a balcony there, it can help cut down the heat into the house. It's a good idea to have some plants in this balcony.
Hi m preparing for IAS and have rented a room which has south facing balcony with door in SW corner. The house is south facing also. Many sites tell balcony in the south curse the inhabitants..how do I correct this defect ?..I have had bad exp..like insomnia due to poor vaastu
Hi Akilesh,
If you do not like the vibes of this house, look out for another one. This is especially important now, when you are preparing for a competitve exam.
Ive seen a flat of second floor with north main entrance and the balcony vface south.. Most of the priest confused me that south facing balcony is not suitable. .
now m confused .. Plz guide me how to judge ba flat ? Is it from the entrance or balcony! !!
Hi Sonia,
In this situation, go by your instinct. I would go by the entrance and the overall feel of the apartment.
Sir I have a borwell in th center of north east by vastu it is states that borwell is not good in central part of house by the way it is in the north east if I divide the house into 4part and at distance of 2 feet from exact center to north and east .please suggest me.
Hi Suman,
You mean to say that the borewell is inside the house. If so, is it used? If not seal it off.
Hi, There is a balcony attached to our southwest bedroom towards the south. Planning to have few potted plants there. Is this fine? If yes, can you please suggest few plants which can be grown here. Also our main door entrance is in the north east & to avoid slippers thrown in front of the door wanted to place tulsi plant & couple of small plants in front of the door on both sides. Please suggest if this is also fine. Thanks in advance!
Hi Shri,
Tulsi in the NE is good. You can have potted plants in the South balcony, such as creepers which will give some shade.
Sir, I'm about to book a 3BHK flat. It has a North facing entrance, SE Kitchen, NE pooja room, SW Master bed room and NW kids room. It has got balconies facing West on both the bed rooms. Also one more balcony facing South in Dining. There is no balcony or window facing East as this flat is at the end. Otherwise i could sense lots of ventilation and rooms are spacious. Kindly suggest whether i can book this as we all liked it. I'll wait for your inputs and hold on to the decision. If possible request you to share your contact for personal consultation.
Hi Karthick,
If you liked it then go ahead. Everything seems to be according to vastu. Not having a balcony/window in the East is not entirely a disadvantage. I do not do vastu consultations. I only give architectural consultations. On this site i just answer your queries in a manner I believe is scientific and helpful.
I have booked a flat in first floor with Maindoor entrance facing east .Opposite to main door staircase to second floor is there. whether it is good or bad pls confirm me.
Hi Ramesh,
It is okay.
Hi ! We have shifted in a double storey house which has sloping roofs in drawing room & master bedroom, which is in the SW . Nearly all the rooms have beams in the ceiling. I am especially concerned about beams in the bedrooms. Though the position of the bed could be kept in such a way so as beam comes on the border of the bed. Suggesr me as per vastu.
Hi Mamtha,
Yes you can place the bed such that when you look up at the ceiling, you do not see a beam right above you.
Hello Sir
Thank you very much for your efforts in putting up such informative articles and taking time to answer our questions ! I have purchased a flat 2 years ago, and planning to move-in now.
It has West Facing main door (placed in the north west wall). The Hall, kitchen and 2 bedrooms have big bay windows towards east. South west is fully closed with solid wall and I have made wardrobes on the south west wall of one bedroom (I plan to use this south west bedroom as master bedroom).
Second bedroom towards north east has attached square balcony towards North East corner. The flat above has a half balcony while mine is full (Our balcony is visible from the half balcony above). To avoid their nuisance & add privacy, I am making a roof with terracota tiles Sloping towards NE. And also closing the NE Side of the balcony with glass doors & Sliding mesh.
Is this plan okay as per vastu ? Am i making a mistake by closing the balcony with a shade and aluminium sliding bay windows ? All bedrooms, hall & kitchen have windows on east walls, allowing enough light in the mornings.
Your response is much appreciated !
Hi Krishna,
Thank you for your appreciation. It is a pity that you are enclosing the balcony. An open balcony would have been better. If you want your privacy, you can extend the roof but keep the sides open.
sir i want to make a balcony on northwest side of my house for washing clothes is it gud if not hen keeping gap in both wall is okay n hw much gap should b there in it.
Hi Maina,
A balcony in the NW corner is okay.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for giving valuable information regarding Vastu through your articles. Iam planning to purchase a three bedroom flat with east facing entrance. I have the following three queries. Kindly clarify.
1. The balcony is attached to the master bed room which is at the south west corner. The balcony is connected to master bed room through a west facing door and running along the complete breadth of the master bed room from south to north. is this acceptable? as i know open spaces are not allowed in S-W corner what shall I do? If I want to close the balcony with colored glass or sheet, I have to loose the sun light entry completely in to my flat. No other way for sun light entry in to the flat. Kindly suggest suitably.
2. The children bed room which is at north-west corner is provided with entry at south east corner facing east. If I want to shift this door to N-E the main entrance and the attached bath room door of this bed room and the proposed child bed room entry are coming in single line. Is it acceptable?
3. Presently there is no special pooja room. If I want to locate the same where should i locate it?
Hi Suresh,
It is a balcony and not an open space in your plan. In fact the balcony is useful as it seves as a buffer to the heat entering your room. Why do you want to shift the children's bedroom door. only if the present position is affecting your furniture arrangement and circulation, you need to shift it. Place the pooja mandir where there is ample light and ventilation and it does not come in the way of your circulation space.
I have purchased a flat where the entrance is north and have balconies in south direction. Is this good and is there any remedies i should do if south is not good.
Hi Kannan,
Balconies in the south will serve as perfect heat buffers from the hot 'south' sun. So it is a positive.
Hi, we are about to book a flat which is NW entrance and a balcony towards south attached to SW bedroom. Is this okay? Also, there is staircase of d apartment behind master bedroom. Will there be any problems due to this? Pls advise
Hi Shanthi,
NW entrance is fine, Balcony in the south is good as it will cut off the hot sunlight from there to the bedroom. If the staircase is not obstructing light into the bedroom, it is fine.
Main door and main road is north facing. The children bed room which is at north-west corner is provided with entry at facing east no balcony.
The balcony is attached to the master bed room which is at the south west corner. The balcony is connected to master bed room through a west facing door and a small window. Is this good and is there any remedies.we are 3 brother and 1 is in USA and this 3 floor building where should stay elder and younger brother in this 3 floor building.
Hi Raju,
There is nothing wrong with what you have described. Normally the dominant person stays on the top but it is preferable for you to stay according to convenience.
Hello sir,
Thank you so much for the valuable information regarding vaastu.
Sir, i am planning to purchase a flat which is north facing. I would like to clarify that whether it is good to have a door connecting the balcony which is towards the north west of the master Bed room.
Hi Santosh,
Thanks for the appreciation. A balcony is always a bonus. It does not matter which direction the connecting door faces.
I am going to buy this flat.Now a days i am residing at an east facing one bed room flat with attached dining and all the windows at south and east. northern part is blocked totally.Kitchen and toilet attached to the dining are in the west.the main entrance and balcony is also east facing. i am residing at the ground floor at rent and my land lord at the first floor. both of us cannot get pregnant though trying hard for a long. so i think there may be a problem…. more over a drastic economic drop is coming after Dec 2015. So i want to change this position…and going to buy this flat
HI Nilashri,
I cannot view your images. In any case I cannot make a decision for you. The choice and decision is yours. Spend some time in both the apartments along with your family and 'feel' the spaces. Do this exercise 2 or 3 times. Go for the apartment that you feel happy in.
I have recently finalised a flat. The main door is facing east. As we enter the flat there is balcony in west. Is it ok?
Please advise.
Hi Sanj,
It seems okay to me. But make your decision based on your gut feeling- if the house makes you feel positive, then go ahead.
Dear Sir,
I have booked a flat in 24 story building at seventh floor in NOIDA (UP). There are three balconies all facing North-West direction.On either side of my apartment there is a row of 24 story apartments towards west direction.
Can you please tell if sun light can reach during winter times in the balconies. Request you to please reply today. Based on your suggestion, I shall cancel the booking or keep it.
Thanking you in advance.
Hi Vineet Kumar,
Sunlight will always be reduced in the North during winter, but that is a short period in India. So it should not affect you that adversely. But instead of depending on my answer, you have to make a decision based on your instinct and other factors like how much you like this flat, how you feel inside the flat, whether the papers are proper etc.
I hv a flat with SE (east of SE) entrance and a balcony (length 11 ft x 7 ft wide) in NE attached to drawing room(15 ft x 10 ft). I wish to cover this balcony and make a study room there. should i close with wall or cover with glass or should not change it. There is no other balcony but I am planning to construct a balcony in NW of full flat length (36 ft and 4 ft wide).
Flat has kitchen in NW.
bedrooms(2) in S of SW and W of SW.
toilet(1) & bathroom(1) in SE (exactly opposite to kitchen with a passage in-between(i.e.centre of house of 8 ft x 8 ft).
Pl adv. as I will be renovating this flat shortly.
Hi SV,
I am assuming that your building association has given you permission to enclose the balcony and to add another balcony on the NW. If there is no objection, then it is better you construct it with a proper walls and lot of windows on the North and East walls. The rest of the arrangement seems to be okay according to Vastu Shastra.
We are residing ina rent home..balcony is in south west wats the remedy
Hi Prakash,
There is no remedy and no need for it. the balcony will act as a buffer to the house against the hot afternoon sunlight.
Hi , I am planning to buy a house which is a NORTHWEST main entrance. The balcony is also on the NORTHWEST Side. The balcony is not 100% aligned with main house. It's about 80% from north to west, that leaves some cut in the WEST corner. Is balcony cut in west corner acceptable? Thanks in advance for your advise.
Hi Hari,
Why do you bother about a cut in the balcony. Only a cut in the main house is to be considered.
Dear sir,
I have constructed duplex house ,in the first floor balcony in north side ,while laying tiles in balcony it is bit height (2 inchs) ,is it fine? we have a bedroom in south east corner ,can we use as study room for children?
Hi Laxmi,
You can use the bedroom in the SE corner as a study. That 2 inches will not make a difference.'
Can the balcony be in first floor and not in the second floor ??
Hi Tharun,
It can be in either floor.
I have recently bought a tilted flat in which entrance door is NW(300degree) and there is a big balcony in SE in one line (directly opposite to entrance door). Is it OK or any remedies are required.
Hi Pallavi,
Do not fret about the angle of the flat.


text: 7 January is Christmas Day in Ethiopia's Amharic calendar. Last year, WaterAid supporters gave the most generous gift to the people of Adi Sibhat – clean, safe water. We've gone back to the community to let you know how one year has changed everything for the people there. In 2013, through our ambitious appeal, The Big Pipe Project, you raised more than £1million to reach 130,000 people across Ethiopia, including the community of Adi Sibhat, with safe water and toilets – and your generosity is continuing to change lives. Life in the highlands Over a period of three months, the Big Pipe Project blog brought you photos and videos of our work with one community in Adi Sibhat, a farming village in the highlands of Tigray. Before this work, their only source of water had been an open, leech-infested spring at the top of steep, dangerous hills. However, with your help, the community and our partners were able to protect the spring and install a gravity flow system. By December 2013, safe water was being piped to the heart of the community, and composting latrines were keeping people healthy. Our partners recently returned to Adi Sibhat and spoke to the people there, finding out how safe, clean water had changed their lives. Since the water arrived Kasa Kebede "Since the arrival of water we have saved a lot of time, as the water is in the middle of the village. It also means we have saved our energy and diverted it to more productive activities. I can name five or six individuals who have used overflow water from the reservoir to irrigate their lands and grow maize, potatoes and onion. Some got as much as 2,000 birr (around £65) from their produce already. It's helping us in many ways. "The water flows regularly and there has never been discontinuation. The cattle trough's faucet needed a gate valve change recently, but since we received training on how to fix such problems, and tools to help us deal with such incidents, we easily managed it. Apart from that, we have never needed to delve into our savings at the microfinance bank where we have 500 birr for emergencies." Mana Miteka "We can fetch water while our injera [a thin flatbread used as a staple food] is cooking in the stove. That is how quick it takes to get water now. It means we can use the time to take better care of our children and handle more household chores. "We wash our clothes more regularly. We wash our children more frequently than ever, so they are very clean and healthy. None of my children have been sick since the clean water arrived." Getachew Hailu "We no longer have any fear drinking the water. We are sure the water does not have harmful things such as leeches, so we drink without fear. "We don't hear any of our livestock groaning or coughing with pain. Our children are healthy, none of them have complained about diarrhoea. We are very happy people." Birhane Araya "We live a very comfortable life. I am pleased I lived to see this. I could never have imagined it. It's as if I am born again." Read more stories of lives transformed >


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I have four checkbox fields at the top of my form and would like to require that at least one of the checkboxes be complete (and ideally, not more than 4). Is there any way to accomplish this?
Please refer on this thread for my colleague's response: http://www.jotform.com/answers/335703
i was able to use that thread to solve my first problem--since the fields were hidden, i could have them all required.
but in this instance, i have 4 different checkbox parts created, all of which are visible. currently, people can select as few or as many of the checkboxes as they want on all 4 parts. i would like to require them to check at least one and not more than four.
is that possible?
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I want to talk about a new version of Little Printer…
Since we released Little Printer, we've heard stories about it being used in commercial contexts. One company using it to print e-commerce orders to a store, in real time, so there's a paper trail. A restaurant connecting front of house to the kitchen, printing out orders. A point of sale company experimenting with printing receipts…
This is weird! Little Printer prints out its face every time! And there are a thousand networked thermal receipt printers on the market. Surely one of those would do?
So we started looking into why.
It turns out that Little Printer has one big advantage over those other networked receipt printers: It's developer friendly. There are two developer features in particular:
- Little Printer, like all devices on the Berg platform, has a presence on the web. So it's easy to send messages to it… easier than a printer that might connect with a different address each day
- There are no print drivers and no difficult encoding. You print in HTML (the language of the web), and there are handy tools for development. So it's easy to get great looking output
It turns out Little Printer is solving a real problem for commercial users!
Announcing Little Printer for Business
Today we're opening up our trial of Little Printer for Business. The same easy-to-integrate printing from the web, with a business-friendly form factor. Read the Little Printer for Business product brief for features, the roadmap, and how to make an order.
Evaluation kits now available!
Part of Berg's new direction
I wanted to call out this particular move on the Berg blog because of what we're not doing.
Little Printer for Business isn't a Berg product.
It's a Berg-enabled product.
To create this product, we've partnered with Martel Instruments. Established in 1982, Martel Instruments produce and supply compact printers to your exact requirements. This particular thermal receipt printer is a model MCP1000 with some extra smarts added to the inside.
We won't touch the product… Martel will take orders, produce, and sell the Berg-enabled MCP1000.
With our platform, and the cloud renderer add-on, we're supplying the cloud services.
I'm excited about this move because it makes concrete the new strap on the front page of our website: Cloud services for hardware innovators.
We're making possible somebody else's business. This is exactly how I see Berg's future. And while the connected products market is so early, we'll do what we need to do to create the business ecosystem. Maybe this is one way the Internet of Things sector will grow.
Now this is a trial. There are already a couple dozen evaluation kits in the wild using the "Little Printer for Business" back-end, and they've printed many thousands of messages. We're going to see how this V1 Berg-enabled receipt printer is used, and – depending on demand – move to a V2 wifi version with added features. We're making this trial public (albeit in this low-fanfare Tuesday afternoon kind of way) because we want to talk about this style of partnership more widely, and because we want to see what you think.
What other Berg-enabled products could there be?
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Read all about Little Printer for Business.
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DALLAS --- Roads froze and airports closed. Falling ice sent six people to the hospital. Finally, seats to the big game vanished hours before kickoff. Super Bowl week in Texas was not always so super.
Annoyance over difficult driving conditions and altered travel plans early in the week turned to anger Sunday for hundreds of fans with tickets who were forced to watch Green Bay beat Pittsburgh on TV at $1.3 billion Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington because their temporary seats weren't ready.
Many visitors left Dallas-Fort Worth wondering whether the region had been prepared to hold the event.
"Logistics are a major, major problem here," said John Boyle, a 53-year-old Packers fan who was waiting at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for a flight home to Minnesota on Monday. "And I think everyone would say the same thing." North Texas wasn't at fault for the seating problem. The region had no control over the weather, either. Ice fell from the roof of Cowboys Stadium on Friday, injuring six workers on the plaza below.
Hundreds of flights were canceled early in the week and again Friday when more snow hit, but airline estimates indicated most of the impact was not on travel.
Even after the weather cleared, Tim Bastion of Pittsburgh found out the hard way how difficult it can be to get around without a car in sprawling suburbs where organizers intentionally put major NFL events as many as 30 miles apart to emphasize the Super Bowl's regional efforts.
Bastion and his son had to take a hotel shuttle nearly 10 miles back to the airport in order to get a cab to take them places.
Estimates of the economic impact on the Super Bowl vary widely -- from $200 million to $600 million -- and it's unlikely the prolonged and unusual weather event will affect those figures significantly, said Terry Clower, the director for the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas.
Bill Lively, the president of the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee, still believes the region will get another Super Bowl.
The area rallied with about 48 hours of typical sunny Texas weather in the final countdown to the Super Bowl, then the clouds and a chilly wind returned.
"I know a lot of people are probably having hours and hours and hours of meetings post-event to try to learn from this," said Julie Dennehy, a public relations consultant. "What they need to do is communicate how much they learned, and how they've changed."


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Laura Whitmore gets Strictly Come Dancing boot
Laura Whitmore has been given the boot from 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The 31-year-old presenter has become the seventh contestant to leave the ballroom and latin competition after she and her partner Giovanni Pernice failed to impress the judges with their Samba to 'Bamboleo' by Gipsy Kings in the dance-off against Ore Oduba on Sunday (06.11.16).
When host Tess Daly asked Laura whether the reality had lived up to her expectations, she said: "Just being here, the judges, behind the scenes. I don't think anyone realises how much goes on here, the make-up, the costume, everything and just to be part of that for a little while is amazing. And if I'm going to go against anyone then, Ore, I mean... I'm ok."
Her partner Giovanni said of the blonde beauty: "I would like to say again thank you for being such a great partner, an amazing person to work with, you teach me a lot and I will never ever forget this journey."
Although she was one of the favourites to win the series last month, Laura slipped down the leaderboard in Saturday (05.11.16) night's show after she accidentally put a step wrong in their fast-paced Samba routine.
However, although it was a shock to see the Irish presenter in the bottom two, fans were no doubt even more surprised to see broadcaster Ore in the same position.
The BBC sports journalist - who has been one of the front runners since the series began in September - and his partner Joanne Clifton dropped jaws with their Salsa to 'Turn The Beat Around' by Vicki Sue Robinson.
Once both pairs had performed for the second time, the judges Len Goodman, Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood all decided to save the handsome presenter and his blonde partner.
Craig said: "One couple danced the best I've ever seen them dance and I think was probably their personal best; but for me, the dance of the night and who I would like to save was Ore and Joanne."
Darcey added: "I think both couples danced exceptionally well tonight and it makes it very difficult but I'd like to save the couple that I believe and know performed their best, a finished performance, was Ore and Joanne."
Bruno concluded: "First off, let me say this wasn't a dance off, it was a dance treat. You both danced with such vibrancy, energy and entertainment value, it's like splitting hairs here. We didn't put you there, if you didn't vote, don't moan. But I have to pick one out of the two that in a way outshone everyone else, and that couple was Ore and Joanne."
Laura's elimination comes just two weeks after she was forced to pull out of the live show because she'd badly hurt her ankle during training.
However, after doctors gave her an immediate pass through to last week, Laura impressed the panel with her Halloween-themed dance and found herself at the top of the leaderboard with gymnast Claudia Fragapane.


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Just back from three days at the Surrey International Writers Conference. Three days of sessions on the craft and business of writing, as well as keynote speakers (Cory Doctorow! Chuck Wendig! Laura Bradbury! Others!) and a whole lot of networking. I listened to Don Maass describe how to write settings that readers will want to live in. Robert Wiersema gave his ideas on how to make readers cry and drove his point home by bringing his audience to tears. Chuck Wendig made his case for how to develop kick ass characters (we ended up outlining a story about a missing child whose parents opt to cope with the tragedy by CLONING the child). David Corbett steamrollered my brain with his rapid-fire erudition and thoughts on how writers can use various types of moral argument to develop plot and character. Larry Brooks and I had a wonderful chat about story structure and character (my notes from his book Story Engineering live on my office wall). Peter Rubie discussed voice and how you can make yours better (hint: practice the right things). By Sunday my brain was ready to hesplode.
The last session I attended was Liza Palmer's "Your Voice, Your Career." I expected another class full of tips, and there were plenty of those (including creating a Pinterest page for your characters!) but, for me, much of what made the session work was just Liza herself. She stood in front of her audience, laughing, digressing, talking a mile a minute, sometimes forgetting her place but then getting on with things anyway. None of the hiccups mattered.
Many of my life's epiphanies happen when I'm busy doing something other than looking for the meaning of life. Showering, cooking, driving, jogging. Things that require a bit of attention but not total focus. In fact, I've had so many personal epiphanies while hiking and folding laundry that I've become curious about it. Why is a little distraction good for insight?
My best guess is that activity quiets the mind – that conscious, thinking part of the mind that is usually humming like an air conditioner through our every waking moment (I'm talking here about executive function in the prefrontal cortex for you science nerds). For example, if I'm busy chopping carrots, I suspect that my brain hands over more control to the motor control regions of my brain and less to the self-conscious, idea editing part of my brain. While I'm still free to think, it's likely to be a little less structured, a little more freeform. Like a child on the beach, rambling around in the sand, looking at all the foamy surf, the pretty stones and seashells, the smashed bits of crab. There's no agenda here, except to keep rambling.
In this way, distracted thinking is a bit like meditation. A regular sitting practice not only enhances one's powers of concentration, but focusing on the breath for long periods frees other regions of the brain to rest and loosen up. In other words, to get quiet.
A 2012 study from the University of Leiden revealed that meditation can positively affect two key components of creativity: divergent thinking (which generates new ideas, like the kid finding trinkets on the beach) and convergent thinking (which figures out how to use those ideas, like the kid realizing that sea glass might make awesome jewellery). Put these two kinds of thinking together and you end up with novels, lightbulbs, antibiotics, and iPhones.
Picture yourself voluntarily waking up at 3:15 am every morning for an entire month. Now imagine lurching around in the dark to find a notebook, flipping to a blank page, and writing whatever comes to mind. And now suppose I said this exercise could supercharge your productivity and make you more creative.
I know, I know… about as likely as a break-dancing squirrel. Right?
When I first heard about the so-called 3:15 Experiment, I shook my head. I mean, seriously, I have enough trouble sleeping as it is. Why on earth would I intentionally wake up in prime dreaming time just to scribble in my journal? What could possibly come of it, other than grumpy moods and a medical need for coffee? On the other hand, I'm very often awake at 3:15 anyway. So why not give it a go?
For the first few days I remained unconvinced. Sure, it was interesting to wake up and see what my semi-conscious mind had oozed in the wee hours. But the result was usually nonsensical drivel or a series of cringe inducing cliches. My heart longs for trampoline freedoms… Shudder.I stuck with it though and, after a few days, I noticed something unexpected and kinda cool.
My daytime writing was getting better.
The border guard can barely hide his smirk. "You're going to fairy what?"
"Faerieworlds," I say, deepening my voice a little. "It's a three day festival down in Eugene, Oregon."
"And what happens there?"
"Well, there's music and craft vendors and performers. And people dress up in costumes."
Now the guard is just plain smiling. "So you're gonna dress up as a fairy for three days?"
"Um, no. I'm going as a steampunk tinker." My voice is now so deep I'm veering into Barry White territory.
"So those aren't your wings, then?" He points at some black, lacy dragonfly shaped wings on the seat behind me.
"No, those are mine," my partner says. "Made 'em myself."
To my relief, the guard hands back our passports. "Ok. Have a nice time."
I say thank you and hit the gas. In my side view mirror I can see him doubled over, laughing.
I don't blame him. The first time I heard about Faerieworlds I had my own misgivings. Why would I want to go traipsing around with people in Faerie costumes for three days? It didn't take long for me to change my mind though. Faerieworlds is not about fairies (the Disney sort of winged nymphs with no waist and big tits) but about Faerie: an imaginary and enchanted land.
Last week the amazing Danika Dinsmore invited me to participate in a "blog hop." After much consideration (.00257 seconds), I said, "Abso*****lutely! What's a blog hop?"
A blog hop, it turns out, is a themed pass-it-along blog post. The theme for this one is Writing Process and, specifically, these three questions:
Well, gird your loins folks because here are my fascinating and informative answers.
On a stormy afternoon in December 1932, a ship leaves the port of Long Beach, California and disappears into a curtain of rain and fog. The boat, a ramshackle 100 foot yacht, veers and pitches over rough seas while a small group of people gather on her port side. They hold tight to railings and listen while a man shouts through the squalls, delivering a eulogy for the dead man at their feet.
At the centre of the little group is a tall, blonde woman dressed in a military style uniform. Behind her black veil she wears an expression that is hard to read: part grief, part anger, part defiance. A few hundred yards away, men aboard another ship watch through binoculars, supposedly monitoring activities, but in fact looking at the statuesque blond whose name and face are on the front page of newspapers around the world. Despite her fame, however, no one knows much about her. How old she is, where she comes from, her relationship to the dead man. Some say she's driven around the world and has discovered tribes in the Amazon. Others claim she's a communist revolutionary, or a Hollywood insider, or that she crossed Africa, scaled mountains, survived jail and kidnapping, escaped civil wars and works as a spy. In fact, she is more than all of this. Her name is Aloha Wanderwell. She is one of the greatest explorers of her age.
During her twenty-odd years Aloha has tackled more change and faced more peril than all of Hollywood's swashbucklers combined. Adventure has been her way of life, her driving passion. Even now, in the cold wet grey, she understands that a larger world is out there: Brazil's buzzing jungles, India's colour-sick streets, the sultry cabarets of Paris, the wild dances of African tribes, the cathedral forests of Vancouver Island. These are real places and they live inside her like friends.
Captain Farris's voice is booming. He reads a passage from Joseph Conrad and then a bugle rings out the taps. Someone is sobbing. The flag is lifted and the sea grass coffin slides down the plank and into the dark waters. There's a splash, a wash of bubbles, and then nothing. Just a heavy sea and a life vanished. Aloha chokes down her emotions and wonders about what's next. She could quit, could just go home – except that she has no home. For the last decade at least, home has been the open road, the idea of what might be just over the horizon. Home as a fixed place has not existed for a very long time, perhaps not since her childhood, 1,100 miles north on Vancouver Island. It was eighteen years earlier, before she'd circled the world. Before she'd become famous. Before the US Government started tracking her. Those carefree days before another man's death had changed her life forever…
[For more information on this story, please Contact me.]


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Hello Bryan. Thank you for your reading the patch. I will answer your questions... > 1) In DDMWriter.writeScalarStream(), at about line 702, there is the <snip> > Do you know how to make that code be triggered? > 2) In DRDAConnThread.writeEXTDTA(), at about line 7487, there is the <snip> > Do you know how to make writeEXTDTA() be called with an object other > than a EXTDTAInputStream? I don't know both of them. I just read the callee modules and respected original construction. I think it is matter of taking risk to remove those code which may be not used now .... At least, I think it is needed to try derbyall with some more sanity checking code to remove them. > 3) I had two thoughts about the code which wraps the various stream > objects > in BufferedInputStreams in order to use the mark() and reset() > methods: > a) It seems that there are two different places where we perform the > wrapping of the streams: once in DDMWriter.writeScalarStream, and > once in EXTDTAInputStream.openInputStreamAgain(). That seemed a bit > unfortunate, and I was wondering if you thought we could arrange > things so that there was exactly one place where we did this stream > wrapping. I see. I will reconsider how to accomplish. > b) It seemed that the streams that were being wrapped were all streams > of our own implementation, such as the ReEncodedInputStream, and > the > streams which are returned by Blob.getBinaryStream and by > Clob.getAsciiStream(). Rather than wrapping all of these streams in > BufferedInputStreams, could we not just implement the mark() and > reset() methods on our streams, and avoid the extra overhead of the > stream wrapping? Hmm.... I don't want to make mark/reset implementation other than implemented in java.io.BufferInputStream already .... Wrapping those our streams when they are made would be considerable ... > 4) I didn't really understand the method openInputStreamAgain() in > EXTDTAInputStream. It seems that, for a Blob or Clob, we open the > stream to the Blob/Clob, then read a single byte from the stream just > to see if we will get end-of-file or not, and then if we didn't get > end-of-file, we close and re-open the stream. > > Am I understanding this code properly? If so, it seems rather awkward. > Three ideas presented themselves to me: > > a) Perhaps there is a method that we can call on the Blob/Clob object > to figure out if it is null or not, other than reading the first > byte from the stream? > b) Or, if we have to read the first byte, maybe we could just hang on > to that first byte in a local buffer, rather than having to close > and re-open the stream in order to be able to re-read that byte. > c) Or, since we are going to need to have a markSupported() stream > anyway, perhaps we could wait until we have constructed the > markSupported > stream, and then use the mark/reset support to peek at the first > byte > to see if the Blob/Clob is empty or not. About a) I found that length() method of Blob/Clob have problem in performance because they read up all of the stream and return length. About b) it sounds like what is markSupported .... Then c) would be the best answer. //Considering with 3)-b) , wrapping stream with BufferInputStream when they are made seems to be right way ... > 5) It seems that the streaming implementation in DDMWriter always does an > actual I/O (that is, calls sendBytes()) for each 32K segment. While > that > is certainly correct, I found myself wondering how much of a > performance > impact it was having for *very* large data transfers. If users are > using > Derby to manage blobs which are 10's or 100's of megabytes in size, > then > I wonder if there are still more performance benefits that could be > realized by batching up multiple 32K DSS Layer B segments and then > sending > them with a single call to sendBytes(). For example, maybe we could > only do a hard I/O call on each 4th or 8th segment, and give the > network > a chance to work with 128K or 256K worth of bytes at a time. > > I don't know if this would make a real difference or not, and it would > obviously remove some of the memory reduction benefit of the rest > of your > changes, but it occurred to me and I wanted to mention it. I think it would be nice to place buffer, which was configurable when to be flushed, before sending stream to . > 6) Lastly, it would be nice to add a comment to the method > EXTDTAInputStream.initInputStream(), specifically to explain the > meaning of the return value from that method, since it's a bit subtle. I see. I will add comments for them. Now, I'm running measurement of the performance . It will take for some more. And then, I will start 1)-6). Best regards. -- /* Tomohito Nakayama firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com email@example.com Naka http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~tomohito/TopPage.html */
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Skip to comments.What We Can Learn from Singapore
Posted on 09/21/2013 6:36:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1984, Singapore instituted a revolutionary idea: a system of compulsory saving for medical expenses. That was the same year my colleagues and I at the National Center for Policy Analysis introduced the idea of Health Savings Accounts in this country.
After almost three decades, Singapore has now come to the attention of a lot others, including a book by Brookings, and a whole slew of posts by bloggers.
At the risk of disappointing you, Singapore does not have a free market for health care. What it does have is an alternative to the European/American welfare state, in which private saving and private insurance do what employers and governments do in other countries. The Singapore philosophy is:
Each generation should pay its own way.
Each family should pay its own way.
Each individual should pay his own way.
Only after passing through these three filters, should anyone turn to the government for help.
If the United States adopted a similar approach to public policy, there would be no deficit problem in this country.
How the system works. In Singapore, people are required to save for health care, retirement income and other needs. They can use their forced saving to purchase a home, pay education expenses, and purchase life insurance and disability insurance. For individuals up to age 50, the required saving rate is 36% of income (nominally divided: 20% from the employee and 16% from the employer). Of this amount, 7 percentage points is for health care and is deposited into a Medisave account. Individuals are also automatically enrolled in catastrophic health insurance, although they can opt out.
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Incentives to control spending.There has been some argument about whether Medisave accounts have reduced overall health care spending in Singapore. On the one hand, anytime you force people to save for a consumption item and the savings rate for a lot of them is higher than what they were previously spending, total spending is going to go up. But, money in the accounts belongs to the account holder and anything not spent in the current period rolls over and is available for future spending. So, compared to taxing people and giving the revenue to insurance companies to pay for first-dollar coverage, spending in Singapore is definitely lower than it would have been.
A shift from the public to the private sector.The most important thing Singapore has accomplished in health care (in contrast to all the other developed countries) is an enormous shift of money and power from the government to the private sector. Since 1984, the Singaporean government's share of the nation's total health care expenditure dropped from about 50% to 20%. When you stop to think about it, that's incredible.
A different approach to social welfare. The most important feature of Singapore's overall approach to social welfare is that the country has found a rational way to provide services that are provided by ill-conceived social insurance programs in the rest of the developed world. As is well known, programs for the elderly have devolved into little more than legalized Ponzi schemes in the United States and throughout Europe. Governments everywhere have made promises of benefits they were unwilling to fund. So now they must either default on those promises or impose draconian taxes on the productive sector. Singapore has avoided that problem.
if America was Singapore, Lois Lerner would have already been tried and put to death for crimes against the Republic
And when the economy of Singapore collapses because of all the other economies collapsing, the government of Singapore will loot those savings. /dark cynicism off
Hell, 90% of Congress would have been tried and put to death for crimes against the Republic.
Here, vandals are called "Graffiti Artists" and are rewarded with Federal Grants.
In Singapore, they are CANED. That is, beaten with a stick.
It sounds better than what we have, but it still seems coercive.
However, I am completely convinced that the government's empty promises with regard to retirement have done a lot of harm. People believing the promises do not save for retirement. Then, when they retire, they learn that social security provides just enough for them to live in tiny 2 room apartments in senior living facilities, eating dog food. And then they keep voting for Democrats because they're so terrified that the little bit they receive will be taken away if they vote for Republicans.
Healthcare has its own set of government caused problems.
We definitely need to fix things. I am not convinced that strong-arming people the way Singapore does is the answer.
The authors don't bother to mention that two key features of Singapore's system are (1) individual and family mandates and (2) a high degree of direct government intervention into health-care pricing:
"Singapore has a non-modified universal healthcare system where the government ensures affordability of healthcare within the public health system, largely through a system of compulsory savings, subsidies and price controls. Singapore's system uses a combination of compulsory savings from payroll deductions to provide subsidies within a nationalized health insurance plan known as Medisave."
But then, *any* rational system has "mandates", otherwise you have (as currently in the US) lots of uninsured "free-riders" on everyone else's charity and tax dollars.
"But then, *any* rational system has mandates, otherwise you have (as currently in the US) lots of uninsured free-riders on everyone elses charity and tax dollars."
That's right; none of these solutions that presumes a work ethic have a chance in the US (even at the ballot box). We have multiple generations at this point that have never been issued a W-2 or 1099, and they and their bastard offspring have no intention of starting now. Any measure that attempts to curb their bennies are driven by the fact that "American-Americans" have learned the tricks and they've "walked off the job" as well...
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Spelling – national pride – eurocrats – and the €
€ – this is the sign for the EU currency, the euro. As you might have guessed, it comes from the name of the good old continent – Europe. Most of the languages that use the Latin alphabet have a name for this continent derivated from the Old Greek Εὐρώπη (originally, a mythological queen of Crete), and they spell it in a very similar way: Europe, Európa, Europa, Ewrop…
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This easy soup makes a nice lunch or light supper. As some ingredients may not be readily available in all areas, substitutes are listed. From Simply THAI Cooking. Updated to list ingredients in order of addition.
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- 4 cups water
- 1 stick lemongrass, smashed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 inch fresh galangal root, sliced in thin rounds (may sub. ginger root)
- 5 fresh lime leaves (may sub. 2 T. lime juice)
- 4 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons chili paste
- 8 ounces fresh tomatoes, cut in 3/4-inch dice
- 2 ounces button mushrooms, quartered
- 8 ounces chicken breast halves, sliced in 1/4-inch strips
- 4 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 fresh hot chili peppers
- fresh cilantro leaves
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- Boil 4 cups water in a soup pot. Add lemon grass, galangal, and lime leaves and cook 1 minutes. Add fish sauce and chili paste, cook 1 minute, and reduce heat to medium. Add tomatoes and mushrooms, cook 3 minutes, until broth bubbles again.
- Turn heat to maximum and add chicken strips. Stir to separate, and cook 5 minutes until chicken is done.
- Add 4 T. lime juice (this is in addition to the lime juice previously added, if you were substituting for the lime leaves). Stir.
- Crush chiles and cut in half. Add to soup and stir.
- Remove from heat, transfer to soup tureen and sprinkle with cilantro leaves. Serve immediately.