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Skip to comments.Gingrich Calls Political System Stupid, Vows To Stay In The Race
Posted on 03/15/2012 11:07:10 PM PDT by Steelfish
Gingrich Calls Political System Stupid, Vows To Stay In The Race By NBC's Alex Moe
PALATINE, Ill. Hours after finishing a disappointing second place in both the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Newt Gingrich marched his campaign onward, vowing he is staying in the race.
Campaigning in Illinois on Wednesday, Gingrich made little mention of the two contests he had hoped to win in the South. He instead focused his speeches on the big ideas that drive his campaign, explaining that many people just dont understand what needs to be done to help change the country.
The thing I find most disheartening about this campaign is the difficulty of talking about positive ideas on a large scale because the news media cant cover it and candidly, my opponents cant comprehend it, Gingrich told the five hundred plus person crowd at the Northwest Suburban Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. The result is you cant have a serious conversation. It doesnt fit. It doesnt count. It is as though it doesnt occur.
Gingrich, who brought up Alzheimers research for the first time in weeks, admitted he wants to be the candidate of science and technology.
We are at the edge of such extraordinary opportunities and it is so hard to get this party to understand it, said Gingrich, speaking in a more frustrated tone than usual. Our political system is so methodically and deliberately stupid.
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Newt didn't say this when he won SC or GA. Did he?
Well, Newt, if it's stupid, why are you participating in it?
If it's stupid, surely a man of intelligence would be able to win.
This comes across as petulant, arrogant and from the ivory tower. It ain't gonna help him.
Truthfully, when any of our candidates are behind or lose, they all come across a petulant. I have heard the same from all.
Don't you agree?
Newt keeps Santorum and Romney 'honest' by staying in this race since I think Rick is a Pied Piper to lead conservative voters into Romney's arms after he's whipped up their emotions in a losing primary campaign.
A lot of the races ahead like Texas are strictly proportional and Newt will get his share and hopefully Romney will get a small enough share to fall short at the convention.
Stupid is a good word to describe the structure of this GOP presidential nominating year-at least a year, seems like a decade. Couldn't have been any more ridiculously insulting and embarrassing if Barack Obama himself had designed it. Anyone know WHO did by the way?
Michael Steele is claiming that he designed it. He is now appearing on msnbc. LOL
I thought of him after I wrote it. Figures.
It was a really great way to help Obama.
You know, I honestly don't know. The best way I can think to answer your question is to say that I'm not particularly impressed with any of our candidates, even those who have already dropped out, even though it is apparent that they are all better men/ women than Obama.
It doesn't seem to me that America is producing actual conservative patriots much anymore. If she is, they aren't running for high office.
What Newt said though is essentially calling voters stupid, and no doubt, a large number of them are, and a damn good portion of our population is in fact stupid.
However, one running for president doesn't say this. To do so is in and of itself stupid. A presidential candidate needs more tact than this. For all of Newt's intelligence, which he certainly does have, he fails as a salesman.
If one is attempting to sell a product to a potential customer and the customer does not seem to want it, seems difficult to perseude, one does not close the deal by calling the potential customer stupid, even if the customer is stupid. If I had to guess, I'd say the saleman just burned a huge number of bridges.
I'm going to try remember and put together a demonstration of how the media went out of their way to suppress Newt's platform and message while marginalizing his candidacy and history.
I'll get back to you all in a day or two.
[ That is a pretty broad statement. Pun intended. ]
OK.. Let go at this again...
1) Most democrats are women...
2) Most of Obamas voters are women...
Note: they are not black, hispanic or jewish they are just generally WOMEN... As a kicker most of Willard Romney voters are women.. American women are not too smart..
[ Barry will make clear that there is no reason for Romneys candidacy as they agree on every issue. ]
Well not every issue.. Romney doesnt want America to re-nig in 2012..
What backwoods atavistic culture did you come crawling from?
It shouldn't take that long. What does the general public know about Newt's platform? I see Santorum and Romney every time they talk about the election on 'the news', never Newt. Anyway, we'll see how cocky everyone is when it comes down to Obama debating Santorum or Romney. That's disaster waiting to happen.
[ What backwoods atavistic culture did you come crawling from? ]
Its all over you tube.. and the internet..
I didnt invent it.. saying the "N" word is wholly juvenile.. by the brain washed...
Although its(nword) become so bazaar it is a legal issue..
the longer Newt stays in, the more money Bishop Willard "Silky" Romney has to spend fighting him. Wooot, Newt!!
Looking at the dem party I see many, many men. Looking at the "love fest" that was The Won's campaign events...I saw many, many men. Since I try to never paint any group of people with a broad brush..I'll just say that there are many individuals that aren't too smart.
I certainly appreciate your patience in trying to enlighten me and stand in deep awe of your obviously superior intellect. ;)
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There are 1,001 reasons why Shawn Williams is one of the NLL's elite players of all time.
But it's precisely what he's done with his time that makes him stand out.
When Williams takes to the floor in Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center on Saturday against the Wings, he will set a new league record by playing in his 189th consecutive game.
The feat comes just one week after the 15-year veteran scored his milestone 1,001st point in a home-and-away series against the Calgary Roughnecks.
"It's great that he got his thousandth point," said Rush head coach and GM Derek Keenan, who brought in Williams, along with league-leading goaltender Aaron Bold, in a trade with the Rochester Knighthawks in October. "He's obviously been a great player for a long time and it's a great accomplishment for him."
The key to longevity for the 37-year-old high school Phys. Ed. teacher who grew up watching the NLL in Scarborough, Ont., is making the most with his time off of the floor as he does while on it.
Williams, his wife Tamara and their three children — Dyson, 12, eight-year-old Dylana, and Tucker, 6 — spent the past four days touring Alberta for the first time.
"We went out to Banff and are just at my aunt and uncle's in Lloydminster now," said Williams, who flew his family out with him for last weekend's games. "We're on spring break, so it was a good opportunity to bring the family out and just hang out here for a bit."
Williams wouldn't be closing in on any iron-man records without rock-solid support from his family.
"Fifteen seasons in and my wife has been there for all of it," he said. "Especially with having three kids, you're away a lot, so on weekends it's crunch time to do things with the family."
Back in 1998, ironing out a consecutive-game record wasn't exactly the first thing on Williams's mind when he joined the league with the Ontario Raiders, who became the Toronto Rock the following season. And nothing's changed for him on that front, either, now that he is just two days away from setting the record.
"I kind of just go about my business," Williams said. "I expect highly of myself and expect to be in the lineup all the time contributing the best I can."
For Williams, it hasn't been a case of not getting injured as much as he's been able to play through injuries — though he has been fortunate to avoid any serious ones.
"Any little nagging injuries, you just put them aside and do whatever it takes to get on the floor," he said. "I've been sick a few times where you get an I.V. before a game, you have broken fingers and just little things that you keep to yourself and do the best you can to hide an injury — as long as you're not hurting the team."
Or bribing any team trainers?
"No, but I always have a good relationship with them for a reason, right?" said Williams, who last missed a game in 2000.
"I got a ball through my mask and I thought I could have played but the team put me on injured reserve," he said. "I think I was ready to play that next week but I had to sit out two games automatically when they put me on that."
Williams finished the last six games of the 2000 season and the rest, at least on Saturday, is history.
"I'm going to hopefully play until someone says stop," he said. "My kids are older and get to watch me play, so that's obviously fun and my parents are still my parents, I still want to play for them. The older you get, you're still that kid at heart."
Player Bio
Height; 5-foot-11
Weight: 200 pounds
Birthday: June 20, 1974
Age: 37
Hometown: Scarborough, Ont.
Current Residence Town: Oshawa, Ont.
Former Teams: Rochester Knighthawks, Buffalo Bandits, Toronto Rock, Ontario Raiders
Position: Forward
Shoots: Left
Number of Years in NLL: 15
NLL Iron Men
Three players are currently tied for the league's most consecutive games played:
188 — Steve Toll (1999-2011)
188 — Colin Doyle (2000-2012)
188 — Shawn Williams (2000-present)

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March 23, 2012 BY Aaron Hope
We just got a glimpse at a new Air Classic BW that strays from this season's dominant blocking pattern to focus solely on a simple black/grey/white trio, and now the same is replicated on its immediate predecessor. Just as the Big Window was once known as the Air Max IV, the Nike Air Max 90 debuted twenty-two years ago as the 'Air Max III', a shoe whose design is so perfect that it's managed to outlive many of the more recent 1990s Air Max running flagships and outproduce all of those (AM95 notwithstanding) combined. The latest is as simple as it was described above, a dark leather and mesh mix that can be your workhorse this spring, and is available now at select Nike Sportswear stores like Titolo.
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I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this chaotic mess. Part of me wants to punch my eyes in. Part of me wants to grin and go make popcorn. Yet I sit here now, with this mildly tired look on my face, unable to do little more than consider how I feel about that. It's just not right. I don't mean the video. Still debating that. But the fact I don't know what to say or feel in response. You've fully disturbed me in a way most entertaining. Yet I don't know if that's good.
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Many parents fear giving their babies cow milk out of concern that it may cause an allergic reaction. But Israeli researches are now saying that giving specifically cow milk in the first days of life may reduce the incidence of the allergy to the milk for life.
Cow milk is considered one of the most allergenic foods. In medical literature it is reported that between 2-5% of children are allergic to cow milk. Though there are reports of spontaneous recovery from the allergy, on the other hand, there are also reports of children suffering not only from milk allergies, but also from allergies to one of the most popular milk substitutes: soy. Due to the relatively high incidence of the milk allergy, there are many parents who completely avoid giving cow milk to their children at the beginning of their lives."Nursing—still the best option"
Researchers from the Asaf HaRofeh Medical Center as well as from the University of Tel Aviv headed by Professor Yitzhak Katz—director of the Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Institute at the hospital—surveyed milk allergies among 13,000 babies born at Asaf HaRofeh from June 2004 till June 2006. The researchers focused on 300 newborns whose mothers complained that their babies suffered from milk allergies. Tests revealed that only 66 of the newborns were actually allergic to milk. The researchers checked what each of the newborns were being fed up until the allergy was discovered (breast milk, formula with a cow milk base, formula with a soy milk base or another base) and which allergic reactions the newborn developed.
The researchers diagnosed the allergy to cow milk via skin tests and by controlled oral administering of milk. They revealed that the incidence of type IgE milk allergy (the most common and dangerous allergy to milk protein) was only .5%, and not in the higher percentage range (between 2-5%) that they estimated beforehand.
It was also found that only .05% of the babies that drank cow milk during the first two weeks of life developed the standard version of the allergy, compared with 1.75% of the babies who began drinking cow milk from between 105-194 days after birth, meaning a later stage. None of the babies developed a demonstrable allergy to soy.
Professor Yitzhak Katz notes that the findings of the research show that adding cow milk at an early age can almost completely prevent the development of the main allergy to cow milk. "In order to prevent the allergy, there is no need for lactose-free milk substitutes, which today are given to babies that suffer from milk allergies, and are much more expensive than regular formula" said Professor Katz.
He emphasizes that breastfeeding remains the best way of nourishing a baby, and one cannot conclude from the research that it should be stopped. What arises from the research is that one should encourage mothers to give cow milk to their babies along with breastfeeding in order to develop their resistance to the allergy.
The research was funded by the Dairy Council and was published this week in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.


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By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is a-weary of this great world.
You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
Good sentences, and well pronounc'd.
They would be better if well follow'd.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree—such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word choose! I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curb'd by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none?
Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations; therefore the lott'ry that he hath devis'd in these three chests of gold, silver, and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love. But what warmth is there in your affection towards any of these princely suitors that are already come?
I pray thee over-name them, and as thou namest them, I will describe them; and according to my description level at my affection.
First, there is the Neapolitan prince.
Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother play'd false with a smith.
Then is there the County Palentine.
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say, "And you will not have me, choose." He hears merry tales and smiles not. I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth than to either of these. God defend me from these two!
How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palentine; he is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight a-cap'ring. He will fence with his own shadow. If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me, I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
What say you then to Falconbridge, the young baron of England?
You know I say nothing to him, for he understands not me, nor I him. He hath neither Latin, French, nor Italian, and you will come into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English. He is a proper man's picture, but alas, who can converse with a dumb show? How oddly he is suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behavior every where.
What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbor?
That he hath a neighborly charity in him, for he borrow'd a box of the ear of the Englishman, and swore he would pay him again when he was able. I think the Frenchman became his surety and seal'd under for another.
How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?
Very vildly in the morning, when he is sober, and most vildly in the afternoon, when he is drunk. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. And the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father's will, if you should refuse to accept him.
Therefore for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within, and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do any thing, Nerissa, ere I will be married to a spunge.
You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords. They have acquainted me with their determinations, which is indeed to return to their home, and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won by some other sort than your father's imposition depending on the caskets.
If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana, unless I be obtain'd by the manner of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant them a fair departure.
Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?
Yes, yes, it was Bassanio—as I think, so was he call'd.
True, madam; he, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes look'd upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.
I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise.


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The following is a rundown of action taken Tuesday by the Lafourche Parish Council. All members were present. All decisions were unanimous unless otherwise noted.
The following is a rundown of action taken Tuesday by the Lafourche Parish Council. All members were present. All decisions were unanimous unless otherwise noted.
Action: Changed town-house definition to mean two or more attached living units with common side walls, a maximum of 12 units per acre. Other requirements include: no more than six contiguous townhouses, a 25-ft yard on the sides and rear of each site and at least 200 feet of recreational space per unit.
Action: Accepted the Blanchard, Richard Lasseigne addendum 1, Labiche addendum 1, tract 1 and tract 2 of St. James Plantation subdivisions.
Action: Transferred money from several accounts to ensure the 2009 budget is balanced.
Action: Approved servitude agreements between Chad and Rachael Gervais, Rhonda Roddy and the Lafourche Parish Council for drainage improvements in Raceland.
Action: Approved a servitude agreement between Byron Talbot and the Lafourche Parish Government for drainage improvements in Thibodaux.
Action: Declared over 100 items surplus property, including several Chevrolet and Dodge Ram trucks, and authorized the items sale and disposal.
Action: Obligated the first $60,000 in excess of 2010 budgeted royalty revenues to the Dugas Canal Pump project.
Action: Established a $20 monthly fee for wastewater collection, treatment and disposal for connections to parish treatment facilities, with the exception of Sewerage District No. 1. The fees will increase annually by $1 beginning Jan. 1, 2011, until they reach $25 beginning in 2015. Matt Matherne voted against the measure.
Action: Entered into a five-year contract, beginning Jan. 1, with SWDI for garbage disposal at a monthly cost of $535,920.
Action: Appointed Dr. Stephen Morris to the Lafourche Parish Hospital Service District No. 2 board.
Action: Accepted the low bid of $28,600 from Foret Land and Tree for nuisance-abatement services.
Action: Entered into a contract with Laris Insurance Agency to provide equipment, boiler and machinery coverage for $31,802.
Action: Approved an agreement between Lafourche Parish Government and Lafourche Parish Water District No. 1 in which the water district will collect monthly sewage-maintenance fees from customers.
Action: Approved the State Mineral Board handling of an oil, gas and mineral lease for parish-owned land in Cut Off.
Action: Hired Stentz and Associates/Arthur J. Gallagher of LA to secure employee health and supplemental benefit services. The firm will be paid an 11.5 percent commission.
Action: Approved a Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships contract that provides $210,095 to help low-income families pay utility bills.
Action: Hired Picciola and Associates to provide engineer services for the Leeville Boat Launch. The firm will be paid 8 percent of construction costs.
Action: Rescinded an existing agreement with T. Baker Smith Inc. for engineering work on the Company Canal Pump Station and entered into a new $1.9 million contract.
Action: Applied for a $83,263 grant with the state Department of Social Services.
Action: Hired attorney Michael Gee at a rate of $125 per hour for arbitration proceedings regarding Jay Caillouet and the architectural plans for the Thibodaux library.
Notes: Initial plans were for the library to be housed in a new building on La. 308 near Canal Boulevard. When the council instead opted to buy the Daily Comet building, Calliouet's designs for the La. 308 building were 90 percent complete. Caillouet had designed a $4.69 million building, a project that would result in a $185,633 commission for him. Library Board officials say the building's cost wasn't to exceed $3.1 million. The arbitration is designed to determine Cailliouet's payment.


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Dave Wood's Book Report, Jan. 23, 2008
Historian A.K. Sandoval-Strausz has written a fascinating study of hostelries in "Hotel: An American History" (Yale University Press, no price).
It's his theory that Americans, not Europeans, set the standards for hotels in the 19th century due to several outside forces, including political.
In the course of this scholarly book, general readers will be fascinated with individual hotels they may have stayed in or wanted to stay in or were refused entry to.
You don't hear about Statler Hotel these days, but 50 years ago magazines were full of ads for the Statler chain. The first big hotel I ever stayed in was the Statler in Cleveland, when my college concert band went on tour. Rube that I was I thought it was pretty fancy.
Not so, according to Sandoval-Strausz's account. E.M. Statler got his start as a bellhop in the 19th century, worked his way up and became a hotelier by building a "temporary" hotel for Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition of 1900, where it boasted a 100 percent occupancy rate while the exposition lasted.
When it was over, Statler tore the hotel down!
He did it again and again in the era of expositions. Finally, he was able to build permanent hotels, but all were constructed with economy in mind, unlike venues like the Waldorf-Astoria or the Plaza in New York or the Blackstone in Chicago.
This beautifully printed treatise is studded with line drawings, etchings and photographs of famous hotels.
Several years ago my wife and I found ourselves in Krakow, Poland.
We had an afternoon off from our bus tour, so we made our way to Jagellonian University, an ancient school that now boasts more than 100,000 students.
We went to the old part, dating from the Middle Ages. A lovely old place, it had just closed down for summer hours.
Fortunately a graduate student saw us and let us in and showed us around.
The most fascinating part was the office of Nicolaus Copernicus, who discovered that Earth is not the center of the universe, that we revolve around the sun.
In a new book, "Copernicus' Secret," by Jack Repcheck (Simon & Schuster, $25) we learn more about this fascinating early Renaissance scholar, a cleric who had doubts about his religion and who feared to share his discovery to fellow religionists.
We might not have made such an early leap into astronomy had it not been for a young mathematician, Georg Rheticus, who traveled to rural Poland, where he was banned from entering as a Lutheran, to meet in secret with Copernicus, who shared his secret. This is good stuff!
"Lord John and the Hand of Devils," by Diana Gabaldan (Delacorte, $25) also goes back to 18th century England for a fanciful fiction about Gabaldan's popular character, Lord John Grey, who inhabits in one story, a membership in the London's notorious Hellfire Club. It's all good fun.
The indefatigable sportswriter Ross Bernstein is out this year with two more books, both about Minnesota hockey.
The first, "Old Time Hockey," by Glen Somnor with Ross Bernstein (Bernstein Books, $19.95 paper) finds the famous hockey icon reminiscing about his days on the ice, coaching on the sidelines and his struggle with alcoholism. Foreword by Lou Nanne.
The second is "More Frozen Memories," by Ross Bernstein (Nodin Press, $29.95), a huge supplement to his earlier "Frozen Memories."
Proceeds will go to the Herb Brooks Foundation. This coffee table book includes almost 800 photos and chronicles the Minnesota sport from high school tournaments on to the pros.
Bernstein really digs in and tells my favorite story about Minnesota Hockey.
Back in 1928, five Hanson brothers played hockey for tiny Augsburg College, where I taught in the '70s.
They were so good they were chosen to represent the U.S. in the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Money was raised for the trip and they were ready to go when an Olympic Committee member discovered they were born in Canada.
"Not representative of the U.S." he said. And so the Hanson kids, who grew up in North Dakota didn't get their trip to Switzerland.
And who was the Olympic Committee Member? Douglas MacArthur. The Hanson boys went on to distinguish themselves in pro hockey and in science and industry.
Dave Wood is a past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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|03 Mar 2009
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Remove "Safely Remove Hardware" Icon
Does anyone know how to remove the "safely remove hardware" icon in the taskbar? I do not mean hide it. I have my icons always show in the notification area because I don't like the arrow icon either.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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|03 Mar 2009
there is no option in "customize notification icons" when you right-click in the notification area?.
one other thing to check is whether or not your usb device is optimized for performance or quick removal.
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|03 Mar 2009
Hello Kentor, and welcome to Seven Forums.
I believe the only way for it to go away is to go into the Device Manager and open the properties for each drive listed in the "safely remove hardware" icon. Next, select the "Quick Removal" option under the Policies tab in Properties for each drive. This will of course disable write caching for the drives, but it should remove the icon.
Hope this helps,
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|03 Mar 2009
Mine has disappeared in the 7048 build without doing anything Shawn..
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|03 Mar 2009
It's still on with my build 7048 x64. Both of my drives have write caching enabled though.
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|03 Mar 2009
Yeah, I do have write caching enabled, always..
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|03 Mar 2009
Um, hopefully mine will disappear as well at some point to.
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|03 Mar 2009
Win 7 Ult SP1/Win 10 Pro (all x64)
Mine disappears if I remove the "Always Show All Icons & Notifications In The Taskbar" checkmark from right-clicking the taskbar, Properties, Customize Notifcation Area, but then I have to adjust every single one to show that I want.
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|04 Mar 2009
Hey Shawn,
I found a free little app that removes the Safely Remove Hardware Icon from the sys tray.
my icon only appears if I plug in a usb device, it doesn't stay there like before..
But this app just takes the icon completely away or brings it back but you can still access the safely remove hardware applet while this app has the icon gone if you make the shortcut for it.
I was going to make the tut on how to make the Safely Remove Hardware shortcut but I see you already made it over at Vistax64.
Anyways, this little thing works good, I tested it out, just unblocked it and installed, no compatibility mode or anything. Pleae add it to your list here and at Vista please.
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Rolen taking BP, fielding grounders
Rolen taking BP, fielding grounders
CINCINNATI -- It still is not known when injured Reds third baseman Scott Rolen will return to the lineup, but he appeared to have turned a corner this week.
Rolen, out since May 12 with a strained left shoulder, took batting practice and fielded ground balls on Wednesday for the first time since he went on the disabled list. He did it again on Thursday.
"I felt good and I'm ready to go out and do it again and progress this way," Rolen said before heading to the field on Thursday. "No timeline."
Rolen planned on dialing back the number of ground balls he took on Thursday. The club will continue to watch him carefully, and is not rushing a return. But they're pleased with the results so far.
"He looked pretty good," Reds manager Dusty Baker said of Rolen's Wednesday BP on Thursday. "Today is a key day and tomorrow and the next day and the next day. It's how he looks in successive days."


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Is it normal for Wilton Cake class instructors to be somewhat inexperienced?? I just finished course 1 and my instructor had never hear of:
1) the Faux Fondant Technique
2) Frozen Buttercream Transfers
3) and had never used gum paste before.
I guess I was dissapointed that I knew more than she did and that's just because of this site! ha. I was hoping she could give me some tips/pointers but unfortunately she wasn't much help.
Thank goodness I have my cake friends here!!! ha.
Sure. They may only be familiar with the "Wilton Way". Maybe that person is comfortable just knowing the basics and is comfortable teaching them. Not everyone will know about the world outside of Wilton unless they really want to start diving deep into the world of cakes. That is where this site, books, other classes, etc. come in to play. The items that you mentioned are not things that Wilton teaches, so it is fair to say that if Wilton is the only thing this person knows, then they would not hear of these techniques. Who knows, maybe you can get her interested in "the beyond Wilton". Wilton is a great teaching tools, but it really is just the basics and for beginners (though professionals have claimed to learn something new too... ), so please don't think her less of a cake instructor because she does not know things that are not part of the Wilton cirriculum.
That makes sense! And I in NO WAY think any less of her or anything. She was really knoweldgeable at the things she taught us. I guess I was just expecting more but didn't think about her only knowing Wilton techniques. I really hope I didn't come across as snobby! haha.
That makes sense! And I in NO WAY think any less of her or anything. She was really knoweldgeable at the things she taught us. I guess I was just expecting more but didn't think about her only knowing Wilton techniques. I really hope I didn't come across as snobby! haha.
Nope you didn't! Now is your chance to teach her some things!
I don't know that I would use the word inexperinced because she doesn't know those things. Everyone has their comfort levels and the things they are good at.
Wilton Instructors get looked at as those all knowing cake people, but you have to remember that many of us are just average people that are sharing a hobby with others. We don't go to cake school to learn to teach the classes. Many of us learned by taking the Wilton Classes.
As was mentioned earlier we are suppose to only show the Wilton Way in class. While there are some that deviate from the Lesson Plan here and there, according to Wilton we should teach only what they have in the lesson plans.
Invite her to join the board (after you ask for this thread to be deleted) and maybe she might be interested in learning more.
As a WMI there are still a lot of things I do not know. But like it was said they just show us their way(Wilton). I have learned a lot form here and watching shows and reading books. I was lucky that my instructor knew a lot of stuff and took her own seperate lessons for herself.
I REALLY hope I didn't offend anybody with this post!! I'm a newbie here and the last thing I want to do is make enemies right off the bat! haha.
I'm honestly glad I started this question because you all made excellent points. Like I said before, my expectations were just way too high and I assumed that if little ol' newbie me knew these things that she would too.
AND, like I also said before, she was a wonderful instructor and I hope to have her again because she WAS very knowlegable in what she did know.
I WILL have to invite her here! She does wedding cakes and I KNOW she could find some useful new tools on here!
This has become my favorite new internet spot! haha. I can't say enough about how much everyone here has helped me starting out! Knock on wood, I've yet to come across someone who hasn't been helpful.
So...on that note....I'm off to learn some more!
I wasn't offended by this. We are all at different levels and we should be proud of the work we do.
Inexperienced? No. Knowledge outside of the box? Yes.
Remember that you're taking a Wilton course. Unfortunately, they don't teach the CC Method.
I REALLY hope I didn't offend anybody with this post!!
Nope not offended.
I've been teaching for almost three years, and I can say that I have learned a lot in the last three years. I learn new things from my students, and I learn new things from places like this.
I enjoy teaching the Wilton way because I see it as a beginning point for a lot of people. The Wilton classes are widely available and are affordable. I do let my students know there is a life outside of Wilton, but even when you find it, it's nice to have the basics there to draw on.


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are high by industry standards," says Ligeti, "it's not necessarily a negative if you can make the case that you're simply managing income for tax purposes." After all, that's what small business owners are supposed to do. "Ideally, the company is engaged in a business in which general and administrative expenses, as a percentage of sales, decrease as sales increase."
The cash-flow statement.
For an even closer look at how the company works, most investors will settle down with the cash-flow statement. Overall, they want to see how capital-intensive the business is (i.e,, how many dollars have to be put into the business before one pops out).
"It's not that a capital-intensive business is bad," says Ligeti. "It's simply that if a business needs lots of money, the equity investor needs to know it, because he or she is the person everyone is going to turn to as the business starts to experience growing pains."
The balance sheet. Most investors will zero in on the intangible assets. For instance, if a company is capitalizing research and development (that is, treating expenditures for R&D as if they bought an asset), that's good, because it shows a significant commitment to product development and improvement, which may power future sales.
Regarding accounts receivables, if there are any, many investors will take an interest in the revenue-recognition policies–that is, when during the sales cycle, the firm actually books its revenues.
"Growing businesses sometimes push sales out the door and book them right away, a policy that can be crippling with complex products or services that may take months to deliver to the satisfaction of the customer," says Ligeti.
Going over the liabilities, Ligeti says that accounts payable can cause problems. Sometimes a $500,000 investment will get whittled down to $250,000 after the creditors stake their claim. Entrepreneurs should be prepared to explain the precise amount of accounts payable that will be paid from the proceeds of the investment.
Moving down the liabilities, if there are any term loans, investors' comfort with them will vary directly with the length of the term. If it's two years, that could be a problem. If it's seven, that's much better. Remember, at the end of each year, the net income or net loss gets posted to the equity section of the balance sheet. If the company has been stringing together a series of losses, the equity will be pretty thin. If the equity account is negative, the company is technically insolvent. At the very least, it's running on fumes.
Finally, the investor will take a good look at the notes to the financial statements. "In fact," says Ligeti, "so important are the notes that some investors actually read them first. Notes to financial statements are just one more reason that CPA-prepared financial statements are essential. Internally generated financial statements rarely have them, handicapping investors and inviting them to walk away until notes become available.
From Where to Go When the Bank Says No: Alternatives for Financing Your Business, Copyright (C) 1998 by David R. Evanson. Published by


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Thomas Burnoski, the city gardener who is accused of killing a mother in Holly Park in a hit-and-run accident, issued a statement yesterday afternoon, one week after the tragic incident.
Burnoski's attorney issued his statement to ABC News:
My family and I wish to express our profound sorrow to the family of Christine Svanemyr and her community of friends. My actions caused the death of this person and there is nothing I can do to bring her back. I am absolutely devastated by this tragic accident. Mere words can never convey what I and my family feel, knowing that a child will grow up without her mother, and that Mr. Svanemyr faces parenting alone, in shock, bewilderment, and immeasurable grief. Nothing we can say or do can ever adequately address the long-term sorrowful challenge that those left behind will have to face.
Christy Svanemyr, 35, was laying at the south end of Holly Park with her 11-month-old daughter, Isa, and their family dog, when a Rec and Park maintenance worker turned off the path and onto the grass, driving toward the family. He hit her and drove off as witnesses yelled at him to stop. Svanemyr was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Both the baby and the dog were uninjured.
A few minutes later, police tracked down Burnoski with his truck; he was arrested and is facing vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run charges. He's been released on $25,000 bail. Prosecutors told the Chron they are awaiting toxicology tests and will likely decide by the end of the month whether to file criminal charges against the 57-year-old father.
The community began a fund-raiser online, where more than $59,000 in donations have poured in as of today -- well above the $25,000 goal. The money will be used to pay for long-term costs for Svanemyr's family.