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The NetBackup 7.5 Late Breaking News Bulletin has been created in order to provide customers updates on Documentation and Known Issues discovered post release. These documents attempt to highlight the most "common" known issues and concerns reported by customers.
Guidelines regarding the availability of EEBs/Hotfixes for NetBackup can be found here:
Known Issues: Please select the hyperlink on each topic for more information on each issue.
Appliance Issues:
Appliance-specific issues are collected in the NetBackup 5xxx Appliance series Late Breaking News:
Installation Issues:
Please review the NetBackup 7.x Upgrade Portal for additional information on the 7.5 Upgrade:
(ET3404485) Installation of NetBackup 7.5 or 7.6 hangs at the PDDE phase on some versions of AIX.
In NetBackup 184.108.40.206, when running "bpdbm -consistency -move," valid NDMP images may be found to be "corrupt" and moved when they should not be moved.
Key Performance considerations for NetBackup 7.5 master servers
(ET2783979) During installation of a 7.5.0.x maintenance release, if the <install_path>/openv/db/data directory is a link, the installation will fail.
When applying a 7.5.0.x maintenance release on a Solaris server, if insufficient space exists in /tmp, the patch process will abort, leaving a master or media server with only the client binaries installed.
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET2772490) After an upgrade to NetBackup 188.8.131.52 where NBAC is in place, authorization services start and shut down suddenly. (This issue will not be seen during an upgrade to 126.96.36.199.)
(ET2701424) <<Fix Downloadable>> Attempting to upgrade a Netbackup cluster with GCO to 7.5 on VCS 5.1 SP2 fails with an RPC error.
(ET2696992) <<Fix Downloadable>> Installing NetBackup 7.5 client on to a 64-bit Windows server running postgreSQL fails.
Updates for Replication Director:
Replication Director Digest - The latest updates on Veritas NetBackup Replication Director
Auto Image Replication Issues:
Recommended NetBackup and PureDisk software versions and EEBs for use with Auto Image Replication
(ET2941256) List of fixes included in the 22.214.171.124 bundle for Auto Image Replication
Manually importing replicated images on an AIR target server should be done with extreme caution as it can lead to unexpected image expiration if not managed correctly.
Other Issues:
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5.0.x, VMware Backups are slower than expected
NetBackup deduplication backup jobs may fail with status 84
After upgrade to NetBackup 7.5, MSDP storage volume is down
Latest Issues:
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET 3624718) BMR restores fail for backups taken after 7th September, 2014 when using non-Windows Master Servers.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: alert: When using NetBackup for VMware, if BIOS UUIDs are not unique, results of VIP queries filtering on custom attributes may be unpredictable.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET 3467593) alert: With a Solaris SPARC NetBackup master and Linux or Windows media server, there is a potential for full restores of a VM with independent disks to fail.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET 3501226) After applying 188.8.131.52 or 126.96.36.199 the nbpem process is asserting in LastBackupData::getWindowTimes.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET 3467593) NetBackup GRT browse of Exchange mailbox with special characters in its name fails with "Warning: unable to obtain list of files using specified search criteria" reported.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET 3473902) alert: When using NetBackup to protect Windows 2012 NTFS Data Deduplication volumes, restored DFSR (Distributed File System Replication) data may be corrupt.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET 3387635) alert: When adding new schedules to a NetBackup synthetic policy on Windows, the include file list may be incorrect for future backups.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: alert: When /usr/openv is in the exclude list of a Linux backup host, VMware backups will appear to complete successfully but will not contain any data.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: True Image Restore with move detection should not be enabled in NetBackup policies where Accelerator has already been enabled.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: NetBackup restore jobs for more than 100,000 files may be delayed for several hours before starting to write data
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: When using the NetBackup Java GUI, selecting or changing a storage unit (to override the policy storage unit) within the schedule of a policy causes the retention level to reset to Level 1
Fixed in 7.6: (ET 3439790) MS SQL and other XBSA Backups fail with status code 239 reported after applying the NetBackup 184.108.40.206 maintenance release.
Fixed in 7.6: During an installation of the NetBackup 126.96.36.199 maintenance release, clustered master server NetBackup processes core dump or application fault.
Fixed in 7.6: After upgrading to NetBackup 188.8.131.52, Alternate Location VMware restores are putting VMDKs back in their original location.
NetBackup 220.127.116.11 is now available!
NetBackup 7.5 Maintenance Release 5 (184.108.40.206) includes fixes for the issues marked below (including all fixes contained in the NetBackup 22.214.171.124-184.108.40.206 maintenance releases) and additional fix content. All customers are encouraged to apply the 22.214.171.124 maintenance release as part of normal maintenance. ALL issues listed below this header are resolved in NetBackup 220.127.116.11.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET3286500) When taking place concurrent with a hot catalog recovery, an image cleanup may delete newly restored files and folders.
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET3310111) Performance decrease for Incremental schedule types after upgrading to NetBackup 7.5
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3298566) OpsCenter may not collect all job data during its initial sync with a NetBackup master server, leading to inaccurate reporting.
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET3357483) alert: In NetBackup 126.96.36.199, some Exchange 2013 CU1 or CU2 backups may appear to succeed, but restore attempts fail.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3242432) Incremental backups of Windows Guest Virtual Machines with BLIB enabled or Duplication of such images to MSDP/PDDO Storage Units fail with error - fbu_scan_buf: bytesNeeded already set
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET3320755) NetBackup 7.5 additional tuning for Sybase to allow thread optimization
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET3289848) The NetBackup Legacy Client Service (bpinetd.exe) periodically crashes.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET3256446) NetBackup backup of DFSR data is slow
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3091012) bpdbm fails to connect to database with a connection error: Found server but communication error occurred
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3245196) When using Backup History to set the date range on a NetBackup 184.108.40.206 Java console, status code 144 may be reported.
Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 188.8.131.52 are no longer available:
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3300058) After upgrading to Netbackup 184.108.40.206, the Activity Monitor displays either UNKNOWN or inconsistent Job Details.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3251172) After upgrading to Netbackup 126.96.36.199, bpbkar32.exe may fault on Windows 2003 clustered servers.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET3289890) In NetBackup 126.96.36.199, TIR (True Image Restoration) catalog data pruning fails, leading to unexpected growth in the size of catalog.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET3256506) alert: A regression in VMware vStorage APIs for data protection can result in NetBackup erroneously reporting a successful VM backup or restore of an offline LUN when using SAN transport.
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET3263461) NetBackup 126.96.36.199 Fibre Transport media server services will not run on Solaris 10 SPARC.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET3255000) Linux NetBackup VMware backup hosts may experience semaphore leaks following VMware backups.
NetBackup 188.8.131.52:
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3118240) bpfis.exe generates an application fault on a multistream job to an Amazon Cloud storage unit
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2898214) OpsCenter causing high CPU utilization
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3108661) Mapped FullVM backup of VM fails to exclude the data disk on some Windows 2008 machines
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET3137665) List of fixes included in the NetBackup 188.8.131.52 bpbkar bundle for resolving status code 130 failures.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET3191336) alert: If the expiration time of a backup image copy stored on a tape is manually changed to an earlier expiration time, the expiration time of the tape may be incorrectly changed to the same earlier time.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET3123528) The NetBackup 7.5.0.x master server appears to "freeze;" administration console hangs as some commands hang indefinitely.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET3131418) VMware backups are hanging or failing with status 41 after waiting for response to a WMI query on IsSystemBootedUsingEFIFirmware()
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET3103018) OpsCenter NetBackup Data Collection appears to hang and Java.exe process consumes allocated memory
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET3105408) Backup and Duplication jobs to and from an Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) appear to hang or take an extended period of time to complete.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET3055770) Attempts to view SharePoint topology in SharePoint Server 2010 using the NetBackup GUI fail.
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2985395) bpbkar32.exe faults on DFSR backup jobs of NetBackup 7.5.0.x Windows clients.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET3093976) VMware Backups of Linux Servers using EXT4 may fail with Status 12 (db_FLISTsend failed: file open failed (12))
Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 220.127.116.11 are no longer available:
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3106719) After upgrading a master server to NetBackup 126.96.36.199 (or applying NetBackup 5200/5220 Appliances 2.5.2 to an Appliance running as a master server), the Activity Monitor reports inconsistent information on job status for some jobs. Additionally, some jobs may not display in OpsCenter.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3113092) When running the NetBackup 220.127.116.11 Java admin console and restoring windows clients to alternate directories, an "invalid destination pathname" error is displayed.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET3099258) bpbkar32.exe faults on DFSR backup jobs of NetBackup 7.5.0.x Windows clients
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET3123001) nbsl experiences a memory leak which results in a core dump.
NetBackup 18.104.22.168:
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET3165084) alert: NetBackup's Sybase ASA fails to start, returning "Internal database error *** ERROR *** Assertion failed"
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET3059678) A NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server agent backup fails sporadically with status code 6.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2966213) Java GUI PREVIEW showing tapes needed for a restore fails - "Null for the fileData arg. The exception was thrown from (SR-1)writefile"
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2948703) VMware backups failing with status 13: file read failed.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2952065) NetBackup 7.5.0.x backups with multiplexing, multistreaming and checkpoint restart enabled may hang when a large file is encountered.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2873147) On some UNIX master servers, Sybase is leaking semaphores and the EMM_DATA.db grows very large.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2954551)VMware incremental backups fail with status 13,84 to MSDP storage unit (deduplication). Error 2060022 (software error) appears in the pdplugin log.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2979563) All backups stopped running, jobs that were running appeared to be hung and child jobs were never spawned.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2988317) alert: Duplicated copies managed by a Storage Lifecycle Policy created with expiration dates beyond the UNIX epoch (January 19, 2038 03:14:07 UTC) are prematurely expired. This condition does not occur when a retention level set to "infinity" is used.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2950392) Bare Metal Restore (BMR) RedHat 6.3 clients fail to import config file.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2799175) In NetBackup 7.5.0.x, DSSU cleanup fails, triggering backup failures when the disk becomes full.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2950431) VMware clients are displaying client name as IP address in OpsCenter Virtual Client Summary report
Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 22.214.171.124 are no longer available:
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2990617) When a transaction log backup image for restoring from the SQL Agent is clicked on, the agent crashes.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2935722) In some cases ,when a snapshot job is canceled the snapshot process will continue on the client.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET3013181) NetBackup 7.5 produces Status 156 on the inactive node of a Windows 2008 cluster
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET2987107) Mapped FullVM backups are failing to map large dynamic disk on a virtual machine
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2991238) BMR enabled backup job is partially successful (status code 1) after upgrade to Netbackup 18.104.22.168, Parent job fails reporting status code 26
NetBackup 126.96.36.199:
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2905057) alert: When duplicating images to a PDDO storage pool, if duplication fails initially but succeeds on a later attempt, it is possible that the duplicated images will be unrestorable.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2846239) SQL backup jobs randomly failing. Dbbackex.exe process does not exit after failure.
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2785499) Duplications jobs ending with Status 190, parent job ends with Status 191 when image is on a DSSU.
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2835170) alert: On an alternate client, off-host snapshots back up the local drive instead of the snapshot volume.
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2849987) alert: A tape holding copy 1 of a synthetic full backup may have its expiration time set incorrectly when under the control of a storage lifecycle policy.
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET2777863) When performing a Test Query using the VMware Intelligent Policy, the number of virtual machines (VMs) returned is incorrect.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2823087) SAP backup of files larger than 4GB fail.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2833456) Incremental VMware Backups to deduplication pool is failing with Status 13/84
Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 126.96.36.199 are no longer available:
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2824762) After upgrading to Netbackup 7.5, Active Directory Granular Backups fail with a status code 1 when doing Cumulative or Differential backups (fulls continue to work)
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2876501) NB_220.127.116.11_ET2876501_1.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) bundle replacement for NetBackup 188.8.131.52.
This bundle includes resolutions for the following issues:
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2719194) After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5, Storage Life Cycle Policy (SLP) duplication jobs do not run.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2832342) After upgrading to NetBackup version 7.5 through 22.214.171.124, multiple bpdbm processes appear to be using excessive CPU time.
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2842910) OST to TAPE Direct Duplication is not working properly after upgrading to NetBackup 7.5
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2829119) NB_18.104.22.168_ET2829119_2.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) bundle replacement for NetBackup 22.214.171.124.
This bundle includes a resolution for the following issue:
Fixed in 188.8.131.52: (ET2817226) alert: Differential incremental catalog backups may skip recently updated configuration information. This can result in restores which will not bring configuration state to the expected point in time.
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2838857) NB_184.108.40.206_ET2838857_4.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) replacement for nbpem for NetBackup 126.96.36.199.
This EEB includes resolutions for the following issues:
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2836511) After upgrading to NetBackup 220.127.116.11 virtual machine (VMware) backups run multiple times, eventually failing with status code 196 reported.
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2746518) Calendar schedules will be run multiple times in the backup window in 7.5 if the Backup window spans midnight and the backup starts prior to midnight and finished on the next day.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2836015) Query base VMware Backup using Calendar schedule may fail with Status: 196 (client backup was not attempted because backup window closed)
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET2824075) After upgrading to NetBackup 184.108.40.206, VMware Backups started failing with "the backup failed to back up the requested files(6)" reported.
NetBackup 184.108.40.206:
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (ET2780187) In NetBackup 7.5, if bpexpdate -recalculate is invoked from the command line without the -d or -ret option, incorrect expiration dates for images may be recalculated, which may lead to early expiration of those images.
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: (ET2781929) Archived catalog images are not migrated correctly to NetBackup 7.5
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2735545) After upgrading the NetBackup master server to version 18.104.22.168, 7.5 media servers using disk staging storage units (DSSU) fail intermittently with status code 2106 reported.
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: (ET2717247) After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5, VMware Backups hang when attempting to write to MSDP storage pools.
Fixed in 22.214.171.124: "Unable to read configuration: server not allowed access (46)" after selecting Change Server
Note: The following hotfix for NetBackup 188.8.131.52 is no longer available:
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2785535) NB_220.127.116.11_ET2785535_3.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) replacement for nbpem for NetBackup 184.108.40.206.
Fixed in 184.108.40.206: (ET2769435) The NetBackup nbpem process is faulting during backup windows.
NetBackup 126.96.36.199:
Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 7.5 are no longer available:
Fixed in 18.104.22.168: Replication Director Support Hotfix (NB_7.5_ET2698773_1.zip, NB_7.5_ET2698772_1.zip)
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (multiple etracks) NB_7.5_ET2710406_1.zip is a Hotfix for 7.5 Master Servers
Fixed in 126.96.36.199: (ET2682336) After Upgrade to NetBackup 7.5, backlevel Media Servers using DSSU jobs fail with 190
Fixed in 220.127.116.11: (multiple etracks) DSSU/SLP duplications fail to run after 7.5 Upgrade
Applies To
Installation and Upgrade Checklist:
An Installation and Upgrade Checklist is available for NetBackup 7.5 on the SORT website to determine 7.5 requirements for master, media and clients:
SORT also provides the ability to audit EEBs/Hotfixes in your environment to determine if they are resolved in a current version of NetBackup. You can access the EEB Auditor on SORT at the link below.
Related Articles
Updates, Patches and Late Breaking News for NetBackup 5xxx appliance series


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wikiHow to Create an Album on Kitsap County Buy Sell Trade via iPhone with Screen Caps
Here is how to Create an Album on Kitsap County Buy Sell Trade via your iPhone.
1Start by opening your Safari Browser App. You can not create an Album via the Facebook App. Go to Facebook.com on your Browser.
- Your Browser will automatically try to take you to the Mobile Site, m.Facebook.com, like shown in the picture. You will have to be in Desktop Mode to create an Album. To do this, click the three line button in the top left corner of the screen.
2Find the side panel. This will open the side panel. Scroll down to the bottom of the side Panel.
3Click the "Desktop Site" button. Allow the page to load.
4Make sure you are on the Desktop Site by checking the website URL. It should have www.facebook.com, NOT m.Facebook.com. Once you are on the Desktop Site, scroll down/zoom and click the Kitsap County Buy Sell Trade page to open it.
5Allow the Kitsap County Buy Sell Trade page to Load. Scroll/zoom so you can click on the "Photo" tab under the Kitsap County BST banner.
6Allow the Photos Page to open. It might take a few minutes, so be patient. Once it is loaded, click the "+Upload Photos" button.
- This page will pop up. The Admins are VERY specific about what they want the title of your Album to be! DO NOT JUST CLICK CREATE ALBUM! The next image shows how your album SHOULD be labeled!
- 1. YOUR name. 2. The current or upcoming Month/Date. 3. [Optional] Your location. NOW you can click "Create Album".
7This is the SIMPLE uploader page. If you see another pop up uploader, scroll down to click on the link that says something along the lines of "switch to Simple Uploader", etc. Click on the "Choose File" button.
8Select your photo, Only one at a time. Either Take Photo, or Choose Existing from your Photo Library.
9Allow your photo to attach, it may take some time. I suggest only uploading ONE photo at a time, depending on your WIFI abilities. If you choose to upload 5 photos at a time, the page may crash and not upload any of them. You can repeat this step again and again to upload additional photos. Once your photo has attached, click the "Upload Photos" button, highlighted by the Red Arrow.
10Bookmark your album, so you can find it again easily by opening your bookmarks on your iPhone. Click the button the Yellow Arrow is indicating.
11Click "Bookmarks" from the pop up menu.
12Name your Bookmark so you know it is your BST album, then press save. Now you can access your Album via your Safari Browser at any time by going to your Bookmarks.
13From your album, you can add additional photos. Make sure you are on YOUR album page, just click the "Add Photos" Button that the Green Arrow is indicating, then repeat steps 10, 11, and 12.
Community Q&A
Ask a Question
200 characters leftSubmit
- All listings must include a price! The Admins do not want any "make an offers", you have to have a price for your items. Like the admins say in the rules "Do your research", have a price.
- Photos should be edited to include as much information about what you are selling as possible. A detailed description of the item, it's condition, size, etc.
- Finally, make sure you review the rules of the Group. Some additional helpful hints to posting photos..

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Posted by: PowerPage Contributor
Date: Monday, February 1st, 1999, 00:00
Category: Archive
Date: Monday, February 1st, 1999, 00:00
Category: Archive
For those of you who swear by your Imation Superdisk USB drives rather than swear at them (like several NoBeige.com staffers and the Iomega "Click-of-Death"), Imation posted updated Superdisk USB drivers. No specifics about the changes in Superdisk USB driver 2.0 have been posted yet.
Also of interest to those with Blue/White Power Macintosh G3 systems, Apple updated their FireWire drivers to version 2.1. Go and grab'em.


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Happy Festivus everyone!
The holiday's celebration on Dec. 23 dates back to the mid-1960s, as any Seinfeld fan knows. We went out Saturday afternoon to The Home Depot and picked out a fine aluminum "Festivus pole."
And now for two other Festivus traditions — the "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength."
To clear the air, Gallery was disappointed this year in:
Time Warner Cable: Your channels number into the 1,000s — including countless shows on cooking, buying/improving/flipping houses, fake housewives and something called Honey Boo Boo (if you've watched this, please, please seek counseling) — but you can't fit the Padres into your lineup? Pitiful.
Sports Illustrated: Didn't like "The Decision" two years ago and didn't like this decision two weeks ago — picking LeBron James as Sportsman of the Year. Gotta go with an Olympian (a real one, not an NBA one) once every four years.
The Dodgers: Spending like drunken sailors to buy the team and then on trades to improve it made missing the playoffs a huge disappointment. Gallery, of course, was giddy.
The Chargers: Hoped for a good season so all their bandwagon fans would stay aboard instead of griping and grumbling — and emailing. Really miss hearing intoxicants scream "Chargerrrrrs!" into open mics after wins.
Gallery is saving strength for outrage in coming weeks over the Fiscal Cliff, although anyone out there looking to wrestle — bring it!
Trivia time
What is the single-season NFL rushing record?
Let it snow
To offset the NHL's canceled Winter Classic, the minor league Las Vegas Wranglers announced plans to play their New Year's home game against Ontario "outdoors" — well, sort of.
"Most of the arena's doors will be left open," explained Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "and artificial snow will drop from the ceiling."
Trivia answer
Eric Dickerson rushed for 2,105 yards with the L.A. Rams in 1984.
No, Adrian
Think Dickerson is pulling for the Vikings' Adrian Peterson to break his record? Think again. "All these guys who say, 'I don't mind my record being broken,' they are a bunch of liars," Dickerson told the Houston Chronicle. "Even if you go back to junior high school and you're the jump-rope champion, you want to hold on to that record."
Compiled by Kirk Kenney from news services, online reports


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Last hurrahs
After five years under PNoy's constant watch, officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways—without any sign of shame and regret—admitted publicly that they were not able to control Metro Manila's flood problems in time for the start of this year's rainy season. Very boldly, they still announced that they would be able to do so before the end of PNoy's six-year term of office on June 30, 2016.
In other countries, they would have been fired or made to resign immediately.
Don't PNoy and these officials realize that floods cause huge traffic jams, slow down the economy, and make life miserable for everybody?
They do. That is why PNoy has never hesitated to release hundreds of billions of pesos for their agency's flood control projects. For next year alone, he is allocating to it P600 billion.
Despite the President's full financial support, DPWH has failed to control floods in the country's most economically productive metropolis, the most that matters to us Metro Manila residents.
Yet for PNoy, DPWH is good enough to be named his model agency worthy for emulation in his "Tuwid na Daan" administration after it has become less corrupt, even if not corrupt-free yet.
Officials of the Department of Transportation and Communication must have emulated already DPWH officials in the way they, too, have admitted their failure to provide a reliable mass transport system to the thousands of workers who commute daily along Edsa to Makati City. They are offering to issue incident reports such that when their light rail trains break down, workers may use these reports as excuse slips for their respective workplaces.
We wish employers would not penalize workers who come late provided they have these incident reports.
Other government officials behave likewise, still optimistic about the passage of the half-baked draft Bangsamoro Basic Law and unmindful that the Mamasapano massacre of the Fallen 44 has rendered its non-passage anything but moot and academic.
They boast of still being able to accomplish before June 30, 2016 the projects that they initiated five years ago and not even completed halfway. At best, they are naive; at worst, they are deceitful.
For us pensioners, nothing could be more disgusting than the recent announcements of officials of the Social Security System to invest abroad and increase contributions.
First, they announced investing $1 billion abroad. Because this is not doable, as this requires two years of preparations, it would be rejected eventually by SSS members. Moreover, politicians would feast on shooting it down before next year's presidential election.
Yet SSS officials have announced it. Perhaps they still desire to travel abroad—for the last time, in the last days of this administration—in the guise of consulting foreign fund managers.
Haven't they previously announced their plan to invest P1 billion using local fund managers? Weren't PhilHealth officials supposed to follow suit?
This investment strategy has not been carried out. Otherwise, SSS and PhilHealth would have triumphantly named these elite fund managers so we can profusely thank them.
SSS has also announced a contribution increase before the end of PNoy's term. Indeed, increasing contributions—rate and the maximum amount subject to contributions—is the real funding solution to systematically adjust pensions. But would SSS dare do it in an election year? No.
Only recently, Congressman Neri Colmenares proposed a P2,000-pension increase without any funding support. Knowing that this would not be approved, SSS officials easily acquiesced to it. After all, it has a calming effect on the starving pensioners as they falsely hope for it. In reality, it would never come.
Why can't SSS officials stop announcing plans that are worth discussing only in barbershops? Nothing significant is going to happen anymore to its programs under PNoy's time, and if ever there are new projects worthy of consideration, they are better left for their successors to pursue.
For their last hurrahs, SSS officials should instead announce things that would please SSS members—for instance, the completion of long-pending projects.
They could announce the status of the project to re-post the contribution records that they had inadvertently deleted. They could then announce that pensions have been adjusted for the 1.8 million pensioners who now wait for them impatiently.
PNoy's officials are on their way out, and as before, their only remaining valid agenda is the cleanup of the mess that they have created. Perhaps they were all made in the name of reform, still graft and corruption cases—real or fabricated—would be filed against them by the new administration's Ombudsman.
It has been experienced by recent former presidents from Ferdinand Marcos to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. President Cory Aquino was spared only because she was able to anoint her national defense secretary as her successor after pragmatically junking her husband's bosom friend despite being selected in her party's national convention.
PNoy seems unperturbed, but his officials should know better. As the cycle goes—if they did it to their predecessors, their successors will do it to them, too.
Such is the harsh cycle of life in government in the Philippines.


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Hey guys, so as the title suggests i think that their are issues within the multi-player. so before i say anything id like to ask for some input. I am a fairly good gamer, i have had no problems against any of the a.i enemies and i love the games single player/ co-op mode. i am a veteran of halo, cod, and a decent number of other games. So is this just a personal issue? or does the game really need to be re-balanced? I love the game, i just really want it to be as fair as possible especially with it coming out in the next couple of months. Also if this particular issue has already been addressed would you kindly point me in the right direction? I looked before hand and didn't find another thread.
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Well I've found the game well balanced, of course the players with auto-rifles, pulse rifles and shotguns are plenty, you can always take a different approach. The vehicles in the moon are a little unbalanced but they already worked on that. BTW I'm a hunter, I only use Handcannons and Snipers.
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Special Purpose Hinges
- The Special Purpose Door Hinge section contains hinges that serve a variety of purposes.
- Some examples of the hinges found in this section;
- allow a door to be adjusted vertically and horizontally after installation
- allow hinges to be installed without cutting a mortise in the door or door frame
- allow a door to be removed by lifting it off of the hinge that is attached to the door frame
- allows a door to lay flat against a wall (in a pocket)
- acts as a reinforcing hinge for a door that is beginning to sag
Pocket Pivot Hinge (Harmon Hinge)
- Pocket pivot hinge is also known as a Harmon hinge.
- This unique hinge is a "swing clear" type of hinge that allows a door to swing into a pocket at a right angle to the door frame.
- When the door is in the pocket it is completely clear of the door opening.
- The base material is made from solid stainless steel.
- Hinge is not handed, they work on both Left Hand swinging and Right Hand swinging doors.
- Full mortise installation. Click on links below for more installation and dimensional information.
- Minimum door thickness required is 1-9/16".
- Maximum door swing is 90 degrees with this type of hinge.
- Weight rating:
- For doors weighing up to 270 lbs use 3 hinges.
- For doors weighing up to 360 lbs use 4 hinges.
- Matching fasteners are included.
- Polished Brass (US3)
- Satin Stainless Steel (US32D)
- Satin Bronze (US10)
- Polished Stainless Steel (US32)
- Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B)
H Hinge Solid Bronze
- Solid bronze H-hinge for use in coastal areas or anywhere a rustic old world design is desired.
- From our "Solid Bronze Collection".
- Hinge is approximately 7" tall by 5" wide. Hinge thickness is approximately 1/4".
- Hinge barrel is approximately 7/8" in diameter.
- Hinge is designed to be surface mounted and is not swaged.
- This beautiful and unique hinge will work well for any high-end gate or entrance door.
- 5/16" x 1-1/2" Bronze colored stainless steel hex bolts are included.
Black Iron Hinges, H" Style, Flush 4-1/2" and 7"
- Steel base metal
- Hammered black iron
- Square head wood screws included
- Both the 4-1/2" and the 7" hinge is drilled for 6 screws (3 per leaf)
- Black Iron
Black Iron Hinges, HL" Style, Flush, 4-1/2" and 7"
- Made from steel base material.
- Hammered black iron finish.
- Square head wood screws are included.
- These hinges are sold as a pair which includes a top hinge and a bottom hinge.
- Both the 4-1/2" and the 7" version of this hinge has 7 screwholes per hinge.
- Black Iron
Raised Barrel Hinges
- Raised Barrel Hinges allow a door to be installed in a deep door frame or jamb.
- Available in three finishes
- Dark Antique Brass
- Oil Rubbed Bronze
- Satin Chrome
- Handing:
- These hinges have a top and bottom that is different.
- Hinges should be installed as shown in photo, with hinge pin cap facing up.
- The bottom of the hinge barrel has a cap with a small hole in it.
- The hinge pin can be removed by inserting a small rod shaped tool and driving the hinge pin upward.
- Because of this feature, these hinges are handed Right Hand and Left Hand.
- Click on link below to see Right Hand and Left Hand models of this hinge
- These hinges are for "Square Edged" doors only (not for beveled edge doors).
- Hinges are made from steel.
- Matching wood screws are included.
- This hinge is sold by the each. You will normally order two or three hinges per door.
- The hinge leaf that attaches to the door jamb or door frame may be either surface mounted or mortised.
- Hinge measures 4.5" tall by 4-7/8" wide (hinge in open position).
- Hinge is made to fit a door that is 1-3/4" thick
Electrified Butt Hinges
- Electrified hinges allow a low voltage electric current to passfrom the door frame leafto the door side leaf of a standard Architectual grade hinge. Wiring is completely concealed when door is in closed position.
- This allows control of various electric items on the door (electric locks, access control devices, alarms, etc).
- Available in different finishes and in either steel or stainless steel base material.
- Hinges are ball bearing hinges. Suitable for any door installation, especially desirable for doors with door closers installed.
- Sizes available:
- 4" x 4" Architectural Grade Hinges
- 4.5" x 4.5" Architectural Grade Hinges.
- Architectural Grade Hinges are built to an industry wide template.
- Sizes and screw hole patterns of Architectural grade hinges will match between different brands of the same size hinge.
- Other sizes are available by special order. Contact our office for more information.
- Features and Specifications;
- UL Listed
- UL Fire Rating (for steel and stainless steel hinges only)
- UL Rated for 50 volts AC/DC at 3.5 amp continuous and 16 amp pulse (maximum pulsewidth: 400 msec. with 10 sec minimum off time between pulses)
- 4 wires per hinge. Other wire configurations available by special order. Contact our office for more information.
- When installing an electric hinge, it must be placedas the middle hinge only.
- All electrified hinges are fixed pin hinges. The hinge pin is not removable.
- A mortar guard is required for all applications which have a grout-filled door frame. This may be special ordered from our office if necessary. Failure to install a mortar guard for this applicatation will void any warranty on these hinges.
- Fasteners are included.
- These hinges are sold by the each. You would normally order one electrified hinge and two (or more) non-electrified hinges per door.
Rising Butt Hinge
- A rising butt hinge solves the problem where you have a door that will not open completely because of a raised or unlevel floor or high carpeting.
Large Lift Off Hinge
- Hinge measures 4-1/2" high by 4" wide
- Loose joint hinge, opened door may be lifted off after installation
- Comes in either a right hand or left hand model
- Steel base material, comes complete with matching #12 wood screws
- Hinge thickness is .139". Hinge Pin diameter is .308".
- This product is "Made in the USA".
- Satin Chrome
- Oil Rubbed Bronze
- Prime Coated
Reinforcing Surface Mounted Pivot Hinge
- Full surface reinforcing hinges can be added to doors troubled by sagging.
- For medium and heavy weight doors subject to high frequency and abuse.
- Provides increased reinforcement at the top corner of the door and jamb where stress can occur.
- Available in two sizes; 4 inch and 4-1/2 inch. The 4 inch size is for doors with existing 4 x 4 inch hinges. The 4-1/2 inch size is for doors with existing 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 inch hinges. It is important that these hinges match your existing hinges so that the pivot points are aligned.
- PLEASE NOTE: Hinges are handed (Left Hand and Right Hand). See installation chart at link below to assure you order the correct hand hinges.
- Order one hinge per door. Hinge is installed as a reinforcing hinge on the top part of the door.
- Included with each hinge: 9 wood screws for wood frame and wood door, 9 jack nuts and short machine screws for hollow metal doors, friction wrench for jack nut installation, paper installation template, instructions. Also included are 4 grommet nuts for through-bolting if necessary and a spacer plate for the hinge leaf that attaches to the door.
- Made from steel base material.
Olive Knuckle Hinges
- Olive Knuckle hinges are a unique and decorative alternative to butt hinges.
- Also known as Paumelle hinges.
- Available in a wide selection of sizes and finishes.
- When the door is in the closed position, only the single hinge knuckle is showing.
No Mortise Stainless Steel Spring Hinge
- No mortise style spring hinge.
- No mortise hinges require no cutting or mortising of the door or door frame.
- After installation, this hinge leaves only a 1/8" gap between the door and frame.
- Hinge is not handed, it will work on both right hand and left hand swinging doors.
- Adjustable tension.
- Hinge is made for 1-3/4" thick doors.
- Dimensions:
- Height is 4"
- Width of hinge leaf is 1-7/8"
- Click on link below for more complete dimension diagram.
- Made from stainless steel with a dull or satin finish.
- Stainless steel wood screws are included.
- PLEASE NOTE: the internal spring on this hinge is made from steel. It is not stainless. It will have a shortened or limited life in a marine or corrosive environment.
No-Mortise Hinge for 1-3/8 Inch Door
- Large (4" tall) ball bearing no-mortise hinge (also known as non-mortise hinge).
- This hinge does not require mortising of the door or the frame (a mortise is a cut-out that the hinge fits into).
- Made for doors that are 1-3/8" thick.
- After installation there will be only a 3/32" gap between the door and frame.
- Available in all stainless or oil rubbed bronze over steel.
No-Mortise Hinge for 1-3/4 Inch Door, Stainless Steel
- Large (4" tall) ball bearing no-mortise hinge (also known as non-mortise hinge).
- This hinge does not require mortising of the door or the frame (A mortise is a cut-out that the hinge fits into).
- Made for doors that are 1-3/4" thick.
- After installation there will be only a 3/32" gap between the door and frame.
- Hinge is 4" tall. Thickness of hinge is 3/32".
- The base material of the stainless steel hinge is stainless steel.
- The ball bearings are made of stainless steel.
- Hinge pin is removable. There is a small hole in the bottom hinge pin cap. The hinge pin can be removed by using tapping out with a pin punch and hammer.
- Each hinge uses 8 each #10 screws. Screws are included with hinge.
- These hinges are sold by the "Each". You would normally order 2 or 3 hinges per door.
IMPORTANT HANDING INFORMATION: This hinge is "handed". There is a "Left Hand" model and a "Right Hand" model. Please see the links below before ordering so that you will get the correct hinge for your door.
- Satin Stainless Steel
No-Mortise Hinge for 1-3/4 Inch Door, Oil Rubbed Bronze
- Large (4" tall) ball bearing no-mortise hinge (also known as non-mortise hinge).
- This hinge does not require mortising of the door or the frame (A mortise is a cut-out that the hinge fits into).
- Made for doors that are 1-3/4" thick.
- After installation there will be only a 3/32" gap between the door and frame.
- Hinge is 4" tall. Thickness of hinge is 3/32".
- Base material is steel.
- The ball bearings are made of stainless steel.
- Each hinge uses 8 each #10 screws. Screws are included with hinge.
- These hinges are sold by the "Each". You would normally order 2 or 3 hinges per door.
- Oil Rubbed Bronze
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The first court-ordered class of FDNY trainees — the oldest and most diverse — is flaming out.
Liberalism works as well as Communism. Not that it will stop the coming of De Blasio and the repetition of these same experiments with the same disastrous results.
Because the left never learns.
The first court-ordered class of FDNY trainees — the oldest and most diverse in history — is flaming out.
Halfway through the 18-week Fire Academy course, the dropout rate has hit a sky-high 15 percent and could climb to a third of the 318 who started on July 29, according to insiders.
So far, 48 have dropped out. They include 23 of 123 court-ordered "priority hires," mainly blacks and Latinos in their 30s and early 40s who took the FDNY entrance exam in 1999 or 2000 but were passed over.
Four of eight women have also bailed. The eight were hailed as the most in an academy class since 1982, when a lawsuit forced the FDNY to bring on the first female firefighters.
In addition, an alarming number of "probies" have been injured — suffering sprains, fractures and other ailments — and put on medical leave, insiders say. Others teeter on the cusp of flunking out because they can't handle the physical or academic demands.
An FDNY insider called the 15 percent attrition at the halfway point "huge, an amazing difference from a normal probie class."
Shockingly enough, the kind of men who could climb to the top of the World Trade Center while it was burning in full gear are an elite. You can't make them happen just because a liberal judge gives an order.
The capper to the insanity wasn't just the diversity, it was bringing in failed examinees from 1999, 14 years ago. But Clinton judge, Nicholas Garaufis, a guy who probably hasn't exercised since 1999, decided he knew better. So he issued an order.
But of course the real fault lies with all the racism. It's racism that's causing the drop outs.
Vulcan Society president John Coombs questioned the FDNY's commitment to helping minorities succeed.
"Some of those instructors are out to break them," Coombs said. "It's psychological warfare."
He said physical demands, such as running a mile and a half in 12 minutes, are too strictly enforced. "We've never had so many injuries at the academy," he said. "Are they overtraining the candidates?"
"Overtraining" is the new racism. Unqualified candidates got rammed through and they turn out to be unqualified. But if they're getting injured, it's the fault of... racism.
So the FDNY is predictably coddling them.
The FDNY also launched a program to prevent these new probies from failing, assigning lieutenants to each mentor trainees, giving them pep talks and tips on getting through the course.
Rank-and-file members call it coddling. "Do we have to wipe their noses too?" a veteran grumbled.


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PORT ST. LUCIE — Travis d'Arnaud had too much on his plate last season.
Most of all, he had to prove to pitchers they could believe in him as a catcher. Hitting was secondary.
The pitchers believe in the young catcher now, and he believes in the Mets' young pitchers. Check out these words to see how much he believes.
As d'Arnaud ran down the rotation Monday afternoon, he had a big smile on his face.
"We're looking good this year and I think we are going to do some amazing things,'' d'Arnaud said to a small group of reporters at the Mets spring training complex.
"I expect a lot from this team. I expect us to play hard, and ultimately win and try to make [the] playoffs, that's what I want to do. I want to make the playoffs, win a World Series and I want to get a ring.''
Some huge goals for the young catcher.
This is a much different d'Arnaud from last season. He showed up for early workouts. He's confident. He looks stronger and is healthy. For d'Arnaud, it's all about staying on the field, as injuries have cost him so much time through the years. He has twice been traded for Cy Young winners, and expectations have been high.
The big change for d'Arnaud will be not to try too hard.
"Travis had to make sure the pitchers believed in him and that's where he focused most of his attention last year,'' Mets manager Terry Collins said. "That's what he had to do.''
So most of d'Arnaud's energy was focused on being the type of receiver the Mets pitchers needed, the kind of catcher they want to throw to each game. That part of the process is complete, and now d'Arnaud can focus on his offensive game.
The Mets need him to hit. He batted only .202 last year in 99 major league at-bats. His on-base percentage was .286. D'Arnaud went back to basics, keeping his swing simple and short.
"I worked on just shortening my swing,'' he said of his offseason in Southern California with his brother Chase, 27, an infielder with the Pirates organization. "Last year, I feel like every pitch, I was thinking something about my swing compared to focusing on the ball and focusing on seeing the ball and hitting the ball. I just have to slow the game down, and toward the end I started feeling a little more comfortable and a lot of weight came off my shoulders.''
That swing was in evidence Monday as he hit in a group that included Ike Davis. D'Arnaud was not rushing his swings and wasn't trying to hit every ball out of the ballpark. He focused on hitting line drives.
Monday was d'Arnaud's 25th birthday. He appears to be here for the long haul after starting in the Phillies system and then being traded to the Blue Jays and on to the Mets.
The best thing about being with the Mets' young pitchers, he said, "is that I get to grow with them. We get to live through a lot of ups, a lot of downs together. It's like a big development side and I'm looking forward to that too.
"Now I feel like I know a lot of their mind-sets on the mound and that makes it real easy for me, a lot easier than last year to be able to make adjustments mid-game and figure out what they are thinking. Defense is my No. 1 job.''
Hitting is his job now, too.


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Review: Canon Remote Control RC-1 for EOS Rebel XTi / XSi
Do any of these apply to you?
- Have you ever taken a group photo and you cannot seem to get it right because of the timing of the timer on the camera?
- Perhaps you run to get into the right position, but you do not have enough time to get set?
- Or maybe you just want to set you camera in a position to take a few random photos during an event without being too intrusive?
The package containing the Canon RC-1 (Canon part 2465A001[AA]) remote controller arrived from Amazon.com in just a few days and I took the opportunity to open it up right when it arrived. I was happy to to find that the size was exactly as I expected -- about 2.5 inches long by 3/4" wide. It also included a clip that you can put on a belt or camera bag fairly easily. I was curious as to what type of batteries it took and if they were included.
After removing the case, I was pleasantly surprised that Canon included the two batteries for me. The RC-1 Remote Controller takes the CR1220 3 volt lithium battery also known as the coin battery. Canon includes a couple of Sanyo CR1220 batteries, already installed for my convenience.
Getting the remote control setup to work on the camera was very easy. All I needed to do was hit the timer / remote button, select that status and my camera was configured. Then on the controller itself, I just flipped the switch from "L" (power off) to the circle (immediate picture), choosing to skip the second option "2" (2 second delay before taking the picture) and the Canon Rebel XTi responded immediately taking a snap shot.
I toyed around with the RC-1 remote controller for a few minutes to understand what kind of angle and range was effective. Since it a line of site infrared controller -- best performance was either from the rear or straight on -- with varying results from angles.
The manual states that the effective range of the remote transmitter is 5m or 16.4 feet from the camera. However, I found the range with my Rebel XTi and this transmitter to almost be double that. In a basic test (see below photo) with the camera sitting on a table, I was able to take several pictures at 33 feet (or approximately 10m) from the camera. It is always great news when an accessory performs better than expected.
In summary, if you are looking for a cheap but well performing IR (infrared) remote controller for your Canon EOS camera -- you should consider the Canon RC-1, especially for only $20 from Amazon. It is hard to beat the price and in my experience the controller was able to double the stated range by Canon.
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When you embark upon a career as an actor, others always tout the merits of the right headshots and solid training, and it is true that these things are invaluable. However, a good attitude is just as vital, although perhaps more difficult to attain. A key part of maintaining this positive perspective is learning to keep jealousy at bay.
Jealousy cannot be avoided. There are so many actors vying for so few roles, you will often wonder at the success of others, "Why them and not me?" Such thinking is fruitless, even destructive. There will always be someone more attractive, better trained, or more talented than you. Measuring yourself against others will serve only to defeat you. If you are thinking about the model or MFA student who is reading before you do, you are not thinking about the work. Only by being secure in yourself and your craft can you curb the poisonous effects of envy.
Clearing out people who perpetuate these negative cycles from your life is also helpful. If you have "friends" you feel are always denigrating your experiences or excessively flaunting their own, it will breed that sort of behavior in you and hold you back. Judging others results in self-isolation and forces you to turn that judgment inward with equal harshness. This judgment is detrimental, not only to a craft that demands unfettered expression but also to a happy life.
It will take a conscious effort to stomp out the twinge felt when someone you know who has never taken a class goes and books a national, but until you see that there is a place for everyone, you will never make a place for yourself. Begrudging others their success is a downward spiral, at the bottom of which you'll find yourself alone, not unlike Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Like so many of us, Willy is desperate to get ahead, but his mendacity and self-righteous delusion cripple him, as they will any actor trying to make it in a field based in emotional honesty.
In your career, and elsewhere, look for the positive in others, and don't scorn but learn from them. Jealousy can easily be turned into admiration, and competition into camaraderie. It will take work, but you will eventually find yourself rooting for your peers, thrilling at their successes and having them do the same for you. It is an elevating experience, personally and professionally. And you know what? It just feels better.
Jaime Andrews is a member of Sacred Fools, an L.A. theatre company full of incredibly talented people, all of whom she is deeply, deeply jealous of.


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check out mine if you get the chance and let me know what you think; i'd really appreciate it!
thanks Chreck…..
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renierbajala Artist
you like dogs
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BenjaminPhantom Artist from Florida, United States
Very cool illo. Love the simplicity and the colors. +1
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For those of you who sit around and wonder what the record is for comments on a Facebook post, RecordSetter is calling your name.
RecordSetter is a two-year-old-plus website devoted to world records, and it has gained enough traction to be mentioned on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and collected enough material to publish The RecordSetter Book of World Records.
RecordSetter has an entire section devoted to Facebook. Here are some highlights:
- Longest two-person comment thread on a Facebook status update: 5,323 comments
- Longest comment thread on a Facebook photo: 50,779 posts
- Longest comment thread on a Facebook wall post: 59,380 posts
- Most liked individual Facebook post: 573,528 likes
- Most comments on a Facebook link to a separate Facebook page: 301,000 comments
- Most pokes pending at once: 1,981
- Most comments on a Facebook check-in: 603
- Most Facebook friends on Facebook chat at once: 507
- Most pending Facebook friend requests: 1,052
- Most unread messages in a single person's Facebook inbox: 288
- Most times a single individual has been tagged in Facebook photos: 8,771
- Most messages in a single Facebook email thread: 137,970
- Longest two-person comment thread on a Facebook wall post: 2,181
Readers: Which of these Facebook records would you like to try to break, if any?


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Spring / Summer 2012 Hairstyles – Ponytails. The feel of spring is in the air, which means it's time to do something different with your hair. Flirty and fun ponytails are the perfect hairstyle for the modern women of today. It's a chic fashion statement that you can easily style at home. From high to low ponytails, every style and look works for this spring and summer season.
You'll especially love this look on those hot summer days when you find you don't want to fuss with your hair. Wear this look slicked black and flat for a sexy vibe, or wear it messy for a carefree feel. Designers such as Marc by Marc Jacobs and Herve Leger just to name a few adored this look on the runway. Look below to get inspired for your summer ponytail.
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Fair enough, and you're right.Quote from RMrulz
It's just that I'm on something of a personal crusade to stamp out the use of the word "retard" as an insult, because it can be quite offensive to people who actually suffer from mental retardation (or those who care for them).
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Do you ever feel like you hit a streak of not-so-great books, and then boom! You get a ton of really great ones in one shot?
Below are the library finds my family and I enjoyed reading in the last month, including everything from picture books about having a can-do attitude to graphic novels strangely reminiscent of Doctor Who.
Edgar Gets Ready for Bed, written by Jennifer Adams and illustrated by Ron Stucki is, as you can probably deduce, a picture book inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Edgar is a boisterous young raven whose answer for everything is, you guessed it, "nevermore!" The kids won't get the reference, but you will. Adorable!
I Had a Favorite Dress, written by Bonie Ashburn and illustrated by Julia Denos, starts with a young girl's favorite dress and a problem: her dress is now too short. Continue reading My Favorite Read-Aloud Books Right Now: March 2016


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Makin' Tracks in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Over the past few years biking has become an increasingly popular mode of transportation in New York City. More than 200,000 people bike everyday in New York City. There was a 26% increase in the number of cyclers between 2008 and 2009. Here at Eco Brooklyn, a number of our employees ride to work and it is common to see our front fence covered with bikes.
Despite Mayor Bloomberg's strong push for more bike lanes, which is great, New York isn't always the most bike friendly city; we have yet to create an urban plan that makes biking a priority, like the plans of Amsterdam and Copenhagen. In NY, bikers are still very much lone riders in a dangerous sea of motor vehicles.
One NY resident – Joshua P. Rechnitz , is attempting to increase the biking culture dramatically, not on the streets but in the form of a huge cycling track.
This peaked our interest. As a New York green builder there are two things we are interested in: buildings that increase healthy habits for humans and making those buildings out of sustainable products.
Joshua P. Rechnitz is a Manhattan resident, and partner of the Hudson Urban Bicycles and a competitive cyclist.
He also happens to be a philanthropist and recently gave the NYC Parks Brooklyn Bridge Park 42 million dollars to build a velodome- an indoor cycling center. In addition to the cycling track, the 115,000 square-foot facility will include indoor space for basketball, tennis, volleyball and gymnastics. It will also include seating for almost 2,500 spectators.
The 42 million dollar donation to the NYC parks department is the largest in the history of New York. Previously, the donation from Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenburg for the High Line has been the largest donation to the Parks Department. Rechnitz's donation includes a promise to underwrite the first ten years of the new field house.
New York City was once considered the world capital of cycling. Indoor velodome races captivated large audiences in Madison Square Garden, circa 1879-1920. In 1922, a giant velodome was built near the Harlem River on 225th and could seat 16,000 people (it burned down in 1930). Enthusiasts now believe this is the time to bring a long tradition of competitive cycling back to the city.
Although this facility has the potential to create a new community of cycles, many community member are saying, "Thanks, but no thanks."
Leaders of community groups in the abutting neighborhoods of Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights are tentative about the plan because of its shear size, which is significantly larger than a football field. The stadium also has the potential to pull a lot of traffic onto the 19th century cobble stone streets of Brooklyn Heights.
But an important question arises: what is more important: green space with trees and grass or development, albeit development for cycling? Some community members claim that over the past few years Brooklyn Bridge Park has been nibbled away by new structures, and this new velodome would be a continuation of that trend in a big way.
Although it seems that the velodome would replace an old warehouse that currently sits at Pier 5. The proposal does not seem to suggest that developers will retrofit the already existing warehouse, but rather just tear the existing structure down and build a new one.
Currently there is only one velodome left in New York City, at Kissena Park in Queens, but the 400-meter city owned track is not enclosed. One idea is to take the Rechnitz gift and build the proposed velodome on the existing velodome site in Queens, which sits just of the Van Wyck and Long Island Expressway. In addition to not crowding a park, there would be opportunity to retrofit an existing building and also ample room for parking.
This proposal and gift has potential to really expand the cycling culture in New York, a movement that is already strong but could use more support from the city. An increase in cycling culture could drastically reduce the city's carbon emissions through reducing car traffic and also make the city a bit healthier and happier.
Our main question is whether the velodome can be built so as not to decrease green space but actually increase it. This would mean not building on land that should be park space as well as creating a structure that increases green through living walls, ponds and green roofs.
After that we would want to know that the structure was built to the highest energy efficiency standards possible and with the greenest building materials. This usually means retrofitting an existing structure over building a new one.
If the building increases green space (for more than just humans), doesn't create a huge environmental impact during construction and during ongoing running of the facility, then the fact that it contributes to New Yorker's healthy lifestyle as a cycling park means it is a win-win situation for everyone. These are the standards by which we build and it really makes sense.


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The Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has issued three interpretations intended to assist both plan and employer auditors who are auditing state and local government entities that have implemented recent pension accounting guidelines from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).
In June 2012, the GASB issued two new standards that substantially changes the accounting and financial reporting of state and local government public employee pension plans.
Statement No. 67, Financial Reporting for Pension Plans, revises existing guidance for the financial reports of most pension plans. Statement No. 68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions, revises and establishes new financial reporting requirements for most governments that provide their employees with pension benefits.
Statement 67 is effective for financial statements for periods beginning after June 15, 2013, while Statement 68 is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2014.
The AICPA Auditing Standards Board issued the following auditing interpretations:
- Interpretation No. 2, Auditor of Participating Employer in a Governmental Cost-Sharing Multiple-Employer Pension Plan, of AU-C section 500, Audit Evidence
- Interpretation No. 1, Auditor of Participating Employer in a Government Pension Plan, of AU-C section 600, Special Considerations – Audits of Group Financial Statements (including the Work of Component Auditors)
- Interpretation No. 1, Auditor of Government Cost-Sharing Multiple-Employer Pension Plan, of AU-C section 805, Special Considerations – Audits of Single Financial Statements and Specific Elements, Accounts, or Items of a Financial Statement
The interpretations, along with recent white papers related to cost-sharing plans (issued by the AICPA State and Local Governments Expert Panel), are available in the GASB Matters section of the Governmental Audit Quality Center website.
New Practice Aids for CPAs
The AICPA earlier this week also issued new technical practice aids for CPAs regarding a recent update to variable interest entity guidance from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
On March 20, the FASB proposed an accounting alternative that would – if certain conditions are met – exempt private companies from applying variable interest entity guidance to lessors under common-control leasing arrangements.
Under the new guidance – FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-07, Applying Variable Interest Entities Guidance to Common Control Leasing Arrangements – the private company would instead make certain disclosures about the lessor and the leasing arrangement.
The alternative was approved by the Private Company Council (PCC), which works with the FASB to enhance the relevance and reduce the complexity of certain standards for private companies that prepare financial statements under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
AICPA Technical Questions and Answers 9150.34 and 9160.30 (AICPA, Technical Practice Aids) were issued to provide nonauthoritative guidance regarding the modification to the accountant's compilation or review report when a client adopts a PCC accounting alternative that results in a change to a previously issued report, and to the auditor's report when a client adopts a PCC accounting alternative that results in a change to a previously issued report.
Related articles:
GASB's New Pension Standards Now Available
Pension Accounting Standard Stays on Course: GASB
FASB Issues GAAP Variable Interest Entity Alternative
About Jason Bramwell
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There's nothing like the sweet smell of marshmallows toasting over an open fire, or hot dogs roasting on a stick. But, when cooking and camping, campfire safety is of utmost importance.
So, before you get dinner started, you need to be sure you're not just enjoying a gourmet meal, but staying safe while you do. Here are five simple fire safety tips for your next camping adventure.
More: 10 Essential Tips for Family Camping
Step 1: Look Up and Around
Campfire safety starts well before the fire gets roaring. When scouting out your fire pit, make sure it's not under any low hanging branches or near brush or bushes. These can easily go up in flames if the fire gets bigger than anticipated.
You should also keep an 8 to 10 foot radius clear of anything, including tents, chairs and food.
More: 10 Car Camping Tips
Step 2: Safety Proof Your Pit
While most campgrounds have a pit already dug out, it's not always ready to go when it comes time for your first fire. Depending on who was there before, there may be some additional safety measures to take.
- Clear all debris from around the fire pit, including garbage and grass. There should be a 5-foot perimeter of soil around the campfire space.
- If there is no metal ring, circle the pit with rocks. If your fire grows in size, this will help keep it within these borders.
- Keep any flammable items far from the fire. This includes aerosol cans and pressurized containers.
If you ever have any questions, you can always call over your campground ranger. Campfire safety is their number one priority, and rangers can double check whether the pit is ready to use or not. It's always better to be safe than sorry.
Step 3: Have Water Nearby
A big gust of wind or new piece of wood could cause your fire to grow larger than anticipated. In that case, you want to always have water, dirt or a shovel nearby to help reduce the flames or put it out completely if necessary. Controlling the fire can be just as important as putting it out.
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CASH-strapped Balmain have two years to raise $4 million — or suffer extinction from the Wests Tigers joint venture.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the NRL's multi-million rescue package is likely to carry a deadly ultimatum for both joint venture partners — Balmain and Western Suburbs — to re-pay their share of the money within two years.
While the Magpies faction are capable of complying thanks to the backing of Wests Ashfield Leagues Club, Balmain will need external support to maintain its stake in the NRL franchise. With their Rozelle Leagues Club development in deep freeze on Macquarie Street, Balmain officials concede there is little other option but to find a millionaire benefactor or petition diehard fans to donate money.
AFL namesakes, Richmond Tigers, ran a similar initiative in 2011 known as the 'Fighting Tiger Fund'. It was able to raise $6 million from supporters within one year, and donations are still being sought to keep the club competitive in a crowded Melbourne market.
Since their licensed club funding dried-up four years ago, Balmain have struggled to balance their half share of the books at Wests Tigers. The situation has been critical since 2012, when Wests Tigers recorded a $2 million operating loss.
Balmain could not meet their financial commitments, and, 18 months later, its debt to the joint venture now stands at around $2 million. Wests Ashfield was only compelled to equal Balmain's contribution, but agreed to advance the NRL club money to ensure salaries were paid. Certain Magpies directors wanted control in exchange for taking-over Balmain's outstanding commitment last year, but subsequent negotiations have seen the NRL provide the necessary funding.
It's believed the NRL is providing around $4 million to cover the existing shortfall, as well as another $4 million that will keep Wests Tigers afloat for the next two seasons. As security for the loan, the NRL have been given effective control of a new-seven man board. Three of the directors will be independent, NRL-nominees.
Balmain and Western Suburbs will both have two directors, but Balmain's delegates will be unable to vote until their share of the money is repaid, giving the NRL a 3-2 majority for now.
Should Balmain not be able to raise its $4 million within the two-year time frame, their delegates will be removed from the board and the 108-year foundation club will no longer have a stake.
That would leave Wests Ashfield with a decision over whether to accept the entire financial risk, a burden their board and members might not be prepared to accept. If that were the case the club would fall into the hands of the NRL, making it ripe for relocation. Some Balmain figures are already convinced a move to Perth is on the drawing board, because of the 'Wests' moniker.
"It makes complete sense — the Wests Tigers could work in Perth just as it does in Sydney," said one Balmain figure. "And everyone knows the NRL needs to get rid of some Sydney clubs."
Balmain chairman Leslie Glenn has said he will not publicly discuss the club's survival plan until the new constitution is formally signed-off. Parties expect an official agreement to be inked within the next month.
Originally published as Tigers must raise $4m or fold


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Hotel Front Desk Clerk Job Description and Duties
Hotel front desk clerks are employed by hotels, resorts, motels, timeshares and other corporations in hospitality industry. The primary duty of a Hotel Front Desk Clerk is to focus on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring an excellent guest experience. This is usually an entry-level and mid-career position responsible for; greeting every guest upon arrival, checking guests in and out of the hotel, assisting in room selection, and to resolving their concerns and problems.
The primary task of a Hotel Front Desk Clerk is the checking in and out of every guest of the hotel. To perform these tasks efficiently, he or she must maintain a friendly demeanor and be eager to assist the guest to obtain the best room available for their stay.
Hotel Front Desk Clerk Cover Letter Tips
A cover letter for Hotel Front Desk Clerk Resume is your initial contact with employer. It introduces you and your resume to potential employer or hotel you seek to work for. It is the foremost document a hiring manager sees and the earliest impression you will make. Therefore, make the most of this important first impression and convince the reader to read your resume, stating the reason you are writing, why you are an excellent match for the job and the hotel, and when you will make contact with him or her.
The following example cover letter template is specifically designed for those applicants who want to work as Hotel Front Desk Clerk either they are experienced individuals or have no prior experience.
Hotel Front Desk Clerk Cover Letter Sample
Katherine Davis
13 E. Example Street
Avalon, CA 65211
(222) 000-7414
katherine.davis @ email . com
August 21, 2013
Ms. Dana Smith
Recruitment Manager
Santa Catalina Island Resort Services
Avalon, CA 65214
Dear Ms. Smith:
I am writing to express my interest in obtaining a Hotel Front Desk position with Santa Catalina Island Resort Services. I have extensive experience in hospitality industry and believe my strong skills and work experience would be an asset to Santa Catalina Island Resort Services.
As indicated in my resume, I have numerous skills and capabilities that could contribute to your resort:
• Highly skilled in greeting and welcoming guests in an active and enthusiastic manner
• In-depth knowledge of assigning suitable guest room accommodations during hotel check-in
• Adept at record keeping, posting of room charges, and handling of billing / money disputes
• Comprehensive knowledge of making reservations and handling cancellations
Furthermore, I have a proven record of ensuring guests' exceptional experience hospitality and a demonstrated ability to collect payment for services. My excellent communication skills in English and Spanish, and potential of handling multiple tasks with a sense of urgency will enable me contributing to your bottom-line effectively. My enclosed resume will provide you with details of my skills and accomplishments.
I would like to meet with you in-person to discuss my front desk and reception expertise in detail. I will call your office next week to follow up. In the interim, if you have any questions regarding my resume or qualifications, please contact me at (222) 000-7414. I look forward to speaking with you soon.
I am grateful for your time and consideration.
Sincerely yours,
Katherine Davis
Enc. Resume


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Direct Mail Still Strongest Prompt for Donations
Direct Mail
Dec. 18, 2013 -- According to the latest survey by global research company, YouGov, direct mail is still the strongest tactic for donations, aside from donating to a regularly supported charity. Social media is beginning to be a significant motivator for younger Americans.
The November 2013 survey of over 1,150 U.S adults, finds:
- One-fifth (21%) of respondents cited direct mail solicitations as the prompt for their most recent gift.
- Mail arriving in the home is particularly successful with those over age 55; 25% of those 55+ made their last gift in response to direct mail compared to 14% of 18-34 year olds.
- Lower income households also respond strongly to direct mail with 29% of those earning $40k or less responding to direct mail for their last donation, compared to 18% of those earning $80k+.
- More than one in 10 (12%) report being prompted for their last gift by something they heard about on the radio, on TV or in print. It seems a stronger prompt for men (14%) than women (10%).
- One in 5 (21%) of those who have supported a crisis or disaster related charity in the last 12 months were motivated by mass media for their last charitable gift.
- Lower income givers are also swayed with the media with 17% of their last gift being prompted by information they heard or saw in the media.
- Although social media has yet to take off as a major prompt, with only 6% of adults responding to Facebook or Twitter for their last gift, social media has become a motivator for 18—34 year olds.
- 11% of the younger demographic responded to social media for their last donation, compared to only 3% of those 55+.
- Social media appears to have a higher response rate for low-income households (11%).
- Email prompted 10% of respondents to make their last gift.
- Those over 55 (12%) are slightly more likely to respond to email than younger responders (9%).
About: Total sample size was 1,157 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken November 22-25, 2013. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all US adults (aged 18+).
Source: YouGov, YouGov Giving Report 2013, December 12, 2013


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A cinque anni dal sisma le condizioni dell'Isola sono ancora critiche. Il progetto intende riaprire quel sipario chiuso troppo in fretta e mantenere viva l'attenzione sulla vicenda della popolazione haitiana…
Photographers Archives: Riccardo Venturi
Riccardo Venturi was born in Rome in 1966. He started his career documenting Italian and European social issues like illegal immigration and the rising of Nazi movements in Germany, or the early years of democracy in Albania. In the mid 1990's his attention was mainly drawn towards countries in conflict, foremost Afghanistan. Ever since, he has travelled to many countries at war among them Kosovo, Somalia, Gaza strip, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Libya. Over the last years Riccardo Venturi has kept on working with personal investigations and he has often worked for, and in collaboration with, the most important humanitarian agencies in the world. As a long term works, he realized in collaboration with the World Health Organization, a photographic project about the spreading of tuberculosis through the world and he has been involved in a project assigned by ANMIL (Italian national association gathering people who became disabled or mutilated persons in their workplaces) about the so called "white deaths", work-related deaths and accidents. Most recently Riccardo Venturi has been covering the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath keep on following the country over 2011. From 2001 Riccardo Venturi is distributed by Contrasto agency.
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