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What do you do when your child tells you about some risky behaviors that a friend of theirs is engaging in, and you know the friend's parents?
This is a question that terrifies many parents of teenagers. When one parent has an, "I know something you don't know" piece of information, it can become a wedge in an otherwise beautiful friendship between two parents. The holder of this potential landmine of information may think, "I would want a parent or friend to tell me if my teen was engaging in risky behaviors."
If your teen is sharing this information with you, you should feel very encouraged by the strength of your relationship. It means that your teen finds you worthy of his or her trust and thinks you can help in difficult situations. Your first and most important allegiance should be to your teen and his or her safety. This is something worth protecting, because it means you may be able to impact not only the safety of your teen, but perhaps someone else's teen as well.
Say your teen comes to you with a story about a friend who got pretty drunk at a party. Feeling worried for their friend, they share this story with you. They feel uncomfortable and lack the experience and strategy to deal with it in an effective way. They don't need your judgment; they need your help. What happens is you go right into "the lecture:"
"You are not allowed to ever go to that house again! If I ever find out you have been drinking or taking drugs, you will be grounded. I don't want you hanging out with those kids again."
After a speech like this, you can be assured that your teen will NEVER come to you again for help. They may even start seeing his or her friends without your knowledge or permission. If you immediately call the parent of the kid(s) they told you about, you can also be assured that your teen will NEVER come to you again for help. Here's what you can do instead.
First, commend your teen for coming to you in the first place. Say, "I really am glad you can tell me this stuff. I know you are worried about your friend; maybe we can figure out together what might be a good plan of action."
Now comes the strategy session. Do not try to solve this for your teen—work on it as a collaboration. Come up with alternatives and scripts so they are prepared when this situation happens again—and it will, despite your warnings, punishments and threats.
Risky situations will always be present in the lives of teens. You can't protect them from these situations, but you can give them the information and strategy that will help when they are in the thick of it. If they're worried about a friend, then you can help them figure out how they might be able to help that friend before you get on the phone and call the parent.
I worked with a parent recently whose son's close friend was cutting herself. This girl called the boy night after night as her anxiety reeled out of control, needing his voice to keep her calm and safe from hurting herself. The boy's mom was beside herself with worry. Her son pleaded with her not to call the girl's parents. He felt so responsible for keeping this girl safe, which of course was a losing battle. We worked on a plan so that the next time he was on the phone late with this girl, his mom would immediately call the girl's parents and let them know their daughter was in crisis. This way, he could blame his parents' involvement on catching him on a late night phone call, thereby protecting his friendship with this girl. Most importantly, the new process helped get the girl the much-needed help from her parents, who had been completely in the dark about this scary issue. This mom accomplished two goals: protecting the relationship she has with her son and recognizing the importance of getting this girl the help she needed to stay safe.
Your job is to keep your lines of communication open with your teen. If the situation is life threatening, or threatening to others, then this does require a call either directly to the parent or the school's guidance counselor. If you are going to do this, tell your teen ahead of time so you can work on a plan on how to handle it together after the information is shared. The guidance counselor can call the parents and say, "Some concerned parents have shared information I think you ought to know about your teen's safety." Using the school as your go-between allows you to keep your teen out of the loop and protect your trust with him or her, while still looking out for the safety of the other child. If you see risky behavior with someone else's kids first-hand, you can feel comfortable sharing the information with their parent(s). For example, you can say, "I just picked your teen up from the party, and they're high. I wanted to get him home so you can make sure they're OK."
If you are friendly with your teen's friend's parent, then you might also use a more indirect approach when having coffee with your friend. "So what do you think our kids are into?" Or, "I have been hearing that there is a lot of drinking and pot smoking going on where our kids are hanging out. Let's come up with the same strategy with our kids, so we're both on the same page." Now you can open up a conversation about your worries without divulging any particulars your teen has shared with you. Your goal for this conversation is to gently nudge this parent into becoming aware of possibilities. Your relationship with your teen is THE MOST IMPORTANT goal. Helping your child stay safe may help their friends to be safe as well.
About Joani Geltman, MSW
Joani Geltman, MSW is a leading parenting expert, with four decades of experience in working with youth, including as a psychology professor, school counselor and social worker, a family therapist, and a parenting coach. She has recently published the book "A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens: Talking to Your Kids About Sexting, Drinking, Drugs, and Other Things That Freak You Out". She holds a Masters degree in social work from Washington University and has been quoted or published by USA Today, Psychology Today, Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Find out more by visiting joanigeltman.com


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Snowboard Review: 12-13 Rome Hammerhead
16 Feb, 2012
Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked groomers.
Setup: I rode the Rome Hammerhead with the Mob Bosses bindings and Vans Ferra boots size 8.
Size: 153cm.
First Impression: Woah crazy shape but you don't notice it when you are riding.
Weight: Average.
Flex: The Hammerhead is definitely built to be a softer park flex for on-mountain jibbing and freestyle fun. Torsionally it's a softer more playful board, easy to engage into the next turn and get quick response for turning. It's stiffer underfoot to give you support and stability while cruising. The nose and tail are medium range for flex, definitely soft enough to be playful but not overly soft so you wipe out while buttering.
Turning: Easy engagement on the Hammerhead. Overall it's a pretty forgiving, easy to ride board. The softer flex and thinning between the bindings allows for you to get quick response out of it. Underneath the bindings you have more support with a stiffer flex so you feel like you can still cruise on it. Short turns were the most impressive, longer turns did okay but this board was built for quick.
Stable: The Hammerhead is softer so it's not as stable as other charging boards. Instead of speed, it's built to ride the mountain in slower, freestyle waves of fun. While most cruise down a cat track, this board is one that you'd play on the sides of the run, ollies, butters, stalls. When it came to speeds and carving, it was better than expected but it's not what the board is meant for.
Pop: It's a very playful board, super easy to butter with and surprisingly not catchy on the nose/tail with the shape. I was expecting catch and it never came.
Switch: The Hammerhead is a true twin and rode like a true twin on the mountain.
Overall Impression: The Hammerhead is Rome's latest freestyle snowboard with influence from the classic Hosoi skate influence shape. It's insanely fun and the shape gets so much attention on the mountain, it's just weird looking but you still have a very capable board underneath to play on.
Shay's Honesty Box: I wasn't sure what to think about the Rome Hammerhead when I first saw it but it looked fun and crazy…which can be a good combo. At the on-snow it was probably the funnest board I rode during the demos, super playful and softer with a crazy fun design to it. Props to Rome.
Ready to buy? Head over to evo to shop their full line of 2012 Rome snowboards until 2013 snowboards come out.
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Baylor Welcome Week Set for Aug. 21-24Aug. 6, 1996
Approximately 2,500 new freshmen and an estimated 500 transfer students will participate in Baylor University's annual Welcome Week Wednesday through Saturday, Aug. 21-24, with the theme titled "Take the Victory."
Welcome Week began at Baylor in 1979 and is an orientation program for new students which emphasizes the intellectual, social, spiritual and physical aspects of college life.
Students participate in small groups of about 15 to 20 students and discuss various topics related to Baylor life. In the past these groups have been called "mini-conference" groups, but this year Welcome Week will have an Olympic theme. The groups will be called "city groups" and what were called "seminar groups" will be "country groups."
On Wednesday morning, Aug. 21, Baylor President Robert B. Sloan Jr. will address the students in Ferrell Center. That evening, the students will be bussed to Floyd Casey Stadium to enjoy an Olympic Festival. The new students will tour the stadium then go out onto the field for a halftime show which will feature the Baylor Yell Leaders and John Morris, the voice of the Baylor Bears. Following the halftime show there will be a giant mixer for the students.
On Thursday evening, Aug. 22, Dr. Winfred Moore, the W. Winfred and Elizabeth Moore Visiting Distinguished Professor in ministry guidance, will speak at a candle lighting ceremony. Also on Thursday, students will have the opportunity to dine in the homes of different faculty members.
On Friday, Aug. 23, Dr. William D. Hillis, vice president for student life, will speak to the students. Also that day students will participate in their city groups in various activities.
On Saturday, Aug. 24, the students will participate in a community service project called "Bubble Busting." At 8 p.m. in the Ferrell Center, a dance will be held for the students.
Twelve steering committee members and more than 650 student volunteers, as well as several staff members and administrators, are responsible for organizing Welcome Week.
For more information, contact Robert Bobo at the Welcome Week Office at 755-3638.
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U.S. Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
The federal government on Wednesday approved the installation of what would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, off the coast of Cape Cod. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the long-awaited decision in Boston, clearing the way for a 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound.
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After nearly a decade, the developers of a massive wind farm planned for the waters off Cape Cod have their answer. Today in Boston, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the government's approval of the nation's first offshore wind farm.
Secretary KEN SALAZAR (Department of Interior): This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic Coast, which I expect will come online in the years ahead as we build a new energy future for our country.
BLOCK: The 130-turbine Cape Wind project has divided neighbors and environmentalists since it was proposed.
Sean Corcoran of member station WCAI has reaction from Cape Cod.
SEAN CORCORAN: As Secretary Salazar announced that he was approving Cape Wind, Peter Kenney(ph) sat watching television in his office on Cape Cod. He's opposed the project from the beginning.
Mr. PETER KENNEY: I can't say that I'm surprised. I'm disappointed. Of course, I have to read the record decision, but based on what the secretary has said, I think the decision is flawed. And court could be interesting.
CORCORAN: While most national environmental groups, editorial page writers and wind industry insiders have vocally called for Cape Wind's approval. On Cape Cod and the islands, opposition to the project and calls for its relocation have remained steady. On the streets of Hyannis, just a few miles from the home of the region's most prominent Cape Wind opponents, the Kennedy family, residents greeted the news with mixed reactions.
Tiny Ohaedean(ph) of West Armies(ph), said she views the opposition as people who want clean renewable energy projects like Cape Wind but they want them someplace else.
Ms. TINY OHAEDEAN: I don't like that. That NIMBY-ism, whatever done in my backyard, it doesn't work. I just think we need to do as much as we can to alleviate the problems in the high cost of electricity and everything else, help the environment. So, I'm all for it.
CORCORAN: The project promises to meet two-thirds of the energy needs of Cape Cod and its two islands, but for some people, the idea of installing 130 wind turbines, each 440 feet in height, over a swath of about 24 square miles of Nantucket Sound is unbearable.
Concerns about the project include its effects on fishermen, boaters, migrating birds and aviation radar. Two (unintelligible) Native American tribes also have opposed the project, saying it would prevent them from performing traditional morning sunrise rituals and also may disturb Indian burial grounds now covered by water.
Interior Secretary Salazar says he took those concerns into consideration, but constructing the first offshore wind farm in the United States was just too important.
Sec. SALAZAR: We must acknowledge that Cape Wind has been under various reviews for nine years, nine years. There has been multiple layers of review upon layers of review. Countless meetings, bureaucracy, uncertainty on all sides, conflicts - there is no question that the review of the project in my mind has been thorough.
CORCORAN: In a press conference after the announcement, Jim Gordon, Cape Wind's president and chief advocate, said he knows the project has plenty of opponents.
Mr. JIM GORDON (President, Cape Wind): We would like to reach out and ask them to join our country and community in ushering in a new era of energy security and prosperity.
CORCORAN: With Salazar's approval in hand, Cape Wind could be up, running and generating electricity by the end of 2012. But its construction still was not a certainty. Within a few hours of Salazar's announcement that Cape Wind will go forward, a coalition of opponents, including the Native Americans, vowed to battle the project in the courts.
For NPR News, I'm Sean Corcoran on Cape Cod.
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Bengaluru: The resignation of Anupam Shenoy, who had recently resigned from the DySP post in Kudligi district, has been accepted by the government of Karnataka with immediate effect.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), Kudligi Sub-Division in Bellary district, Anupama Shenoy had tendered her resignation on June 4, after giving her resignation letter to subordinate officers, she had instructed them to hand it over to the Superintendent of Police.
The state government in a press release mentioned that the resignation of Anupama Shenoy has been accepted.


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Congressional Testimony
April 23, 2009
Good morning. Chairman McDermott, Ranking Member Linder and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to discuss the provisions related to Unemployment Insurance (UI) in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act).
The Recovery Act is without a doubt the single most significant piece of Federal UI legislation in over 30 years. As you are well aware, the total unemployment rate in the United States is 8.5 percent. Experts anticipate that it will rise. Indeed, if this recession follows historic patterns, unemployment will not peak until after the recession ends. The Recovery Act brings urgently needed wage replacement to workers who are unemployed because their jobs have vanished.
In addition to addressing the urgent needs brought on by the recession, the Recovery Act brings long overdue recognition to the fact that, since the 1930's, when the UI program was created, the economy has changed, the workforce has changed, and the way we work has changed. I would like to thank you, Mr. McDermott, for your efforts leading to this legislation.
I would like to begin by providing some background information relevant to the UI program. Enacted in the Social Security Act nearly 75 years ago as a federal-state partnership, UI is the primary source of temporary, partial wage replacement for the nation's laid-off workers who are seeking jobs. It helps put food on the table and helps pay the rent.
It is also the nation's leading automatic economic stabilizer during downturns, returning $2.15 to national output for every $1.00 spent on UI benefits. To emphasize its role as an automatic stabilizer, I note that in calendar year 2007 – the recession began in December of 2007 – the system paid $32.4 billion in regular benefits. Last year, the amount paid jumped to $43.0 billion. This year we are on track to pay $74.4 billion, including the permanent extended benefits program. These figures do not include Federal provisions enacted last year, or the provisions in the Recovery Act. Including those, we paid a total of $50.8 billion last year and project to pay $113.7 billion this year. As noted, the stimulative effect of these payments is over twice that amount. There are few stimulative tools that are as effective as the UI program during a downturn.
I would now like to turn to the Recovery Act. The Department of Labor (Department) promptly executed agreements with states, as needed, and issued implementing guidance within only a few days after the Recovery Act became law. States have worked very hard to implement the provisions of the Recovery Act as quickly as possible and, in turn, get the Recovery Act's money out to beneficiaries. I will briefly discuss implementation of the UI provisions.
The Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program, created in June 2008 and expanded in November 2008, provides up to 20 weeks of benefits to eligible jobless workers in all states and up to 13 additional weeks of benefits in states with high unemployment. It was set to expire on March 31, 2009. The Recovery Act extended the date for new EUC claims to December 31, 2009, with payments on those claims ending on May 31, 2010.
All states (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) are paying EUC. Currently, 42 states meet the high unemployment criteria, under which 33 weeks of EUC are payable to eligible jobless workers. Through March, 3.7 million beneficiaries had been paid a total of $12.2 billion.
The Recovery Act created a new Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) program, which provides a 100 percent federally-funded $25 add-on to all weekly UI payments. Jobless workers can enter the FAC program until January 1, 2010, and can continue to receive benefits until June 30, 2010. All states signed agreements to pay FAC effective February 22, 2009 the first week for which FAC was payable.
Despite being a technical challenge for states, thirty-seven were able to begin payments of FAC on or before March 16, 2009. As of today, all but 2 states have begun making FAC payments.
The Recovery Act made available $7 billion for states that have updated their UI programs to reflect the nature of the 21st century economy. These provisions are not novel or radical. In fact, many state laws contained qualifying provisions prior to the passage of the Recovery Act. These provisions treat part-time workers and recent entrants to the labor force more equitably and recognize that many individuals must balance work and family. Recent entrants in particular have been disadvantaged because, for administrative reasons, their earnings in the most recent calendar quarter are not used to determine their eligibility, even though unemployment taxes have been paid on these earnings. Individuals with a substantial history of part-time work are also disadvantaged because in many states they are denied benefits when they seek the same part-time hours they have always worked. Again, this denial occurs even though taxes have been paid on their wages.
The UI Modernization eligibility provisions should have a modest overall impact on benefit costs. Research shows that using more recent wages increases benefit outlays by 4 to 6 percent. Actual costs will vary from state to state since labor markets vary. Also, some states may need to add entirely new provisions while other states needed only relatively minor changes. Of states obtaining enactments this year, we note that South Dakota estimated that using more recent wages would add only $700,000 per year. Arkansas estimated that adding the necessary provisions to qualify for its full share of UI Modernization payments would cost $5.75 million per year. Similarly, Iowa estimated that adding such provisions would cost $20.2 million per year. Minnesota, which had already had some provisions that were similar to the modernization provisions, estimated that upgrading its law to qualifying for incentive payments would cost only $1.5 million per year.
The incentive payments are available to states that have expanded eligibility for UI benefits in specific ways. States receive one-third of their share when they use recent wages when determining UI eligibility. Research shows this "base period" provision is critical for low wage workers and individuals who are recent entrants to the labor market.
States receive the remaining two-thirds of their share when they also provide for two of the following four eligibility provisions.
- Pay UI to individuals seeking only part-time work.
- Ease qualifying requirements for workers who quit because of certain family responsibilities. These relate to workers who leave work to escape domestic violence, to care for an ill family member, or who quit to follow a spouse who moves to a new job.
- Extend benefits to workers in training who exhaust regular UI.
- Add dependents' allowances to weekly benefits.
These provisions are particularly important to women, who often require flexible work arrangements as they balance their families' needs with their professional responsibilities. Incentive payments may be used for unemployment benefits or to improve states' ability to get benefits out to eligible workers quickly and to help them find a good job. The training benefit will assist in creating a skilled workforce, which will benefit employers who need these workers.
New Jersey was the first state to apply and receive its entire share of the incentive payment -- $206.8 million. Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and South Dakota's applications for the first 1/3 of their share of the incentive payment have been approved, and these states have received a total of $200.3 million. Minnesota's application for its entire share, and applications from New York, Hawaii and Virginia for their first 1/3 shares, are currently under review by the Department. Sixteen more states use recent wages when determining UI eligibility, and we are awaiting receipt of their applications. In their applications, all states have advised us that they plan on using the incentive money for the payment of benefits and strengthening their trust fund accounts.
Several states have enacted new legislation that would enable them to receive incentive payments. I note that one of the approved states - South Dakota - added the base period provision. Minnesota enacted several UI Modernization provisions this year prior to submitting its application. Other states have introduced bills in their state legislatures, and the Department's staff is providing technical assistance to assure that these bills result in state laws that qualify for incentive payments.
The Department is pleased that so many states recognize that UI modernization isn't a partisan issue it's an issue of fairness, and it makes the UI program more responsive to the modern workforce. The Department encourages states to update their UI programs to qualify for incentive payments as it is beneficial to both workers and states' economic recovery.
The Recovery Act also provided a $500 million special administrative distribution. Each state's share was deposited in the state's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund on February 27, 2009, where it is available for implementing the state's incentive provisions, improving outreach to individuals potentially eligible under the state's UI Modernization provisions, improving UI tax and benefit operations, and the provision of staff-assisted reemployment services. Most state laws require appropriation of these funds by the state legislature. At this stage, it is too early to report on state use of this money.
The Extended Benefits (EB) program is a permanent federal-state program that provides up to 13 additional weeks of unemployment benefits to eligible jobless workers in states with high and rising unemployment. At state option, workers in states with very high total unemployment rates (TUR) are eligible for an additional 7 weeks for a total of 20 weeks of EB. Costs of EB are generally split equally between the Federal government and the states.
The Recovery Act provides for 100 percent Federal funding of EB (where EB is federally reimbursed) for weeks of unemployment beginning before January 1, 2010. This gives states an incentive to add the optional "trigger" based on the state's three-month average TUR. It is easier for many states to trigger on using the TUR.
Prior to the Recovery Act becoming law, 12 states already had this optional TUR trigger in their laws. Twenty-six states are currently triggered "on," either using this trigger or a mandatory trigger based on the insured unemployment rate. Since the Recovery Act became law, California, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Ohio have amended their laws to provide for this optional "trigger" for the period during which 100 percent Federal funding is available. Fourteen additional states could be triggered "on" if they added the TUR trigger.
The Recovery Act affected EB eligibility in another way. Generally, an individual must establish eligibility for EB within 52 weeks of first filing a claim for regular state benefits. Given that some workers can collect up to 26 weeks of state benefits and 33 weeks of EUC, some workers would not be eligible for EB since 59 weeks have passed. The Recovery Act permits states to expand EB eligibility to individuals who exhaust EUC while EB is payable in their state for weeks of unemployment beginning before January 1, 2010 with phase out for beneficiaries in payment status ending on June 1, 2010. Of the states currently triggered on EB, almost all have indicated that they are taking advantage of this expansion.
As you may know, due to longstanding concerns about the responsiveness of the EB program, the Administration will set forth a proposal to reform the program. As part of this effort, we will certainly review the program's triggers. Among the other EB issues we would like to address are work search provisions that are difficult to administer since they differ from regular state work search requirements. They are also paper-intensive since the requirements were designed in a time when state systems were not highly automated. States have told us they would like to see these requirements modified to reflect the way they currently implement their state law work search requirements. While we have tried to provide the states with flexibility, this has been difficult because the Federal EB requirements are very specific. We look forward to working with the Subcommittee to address this and other issues related to the EB program.
The Recovery Act also provides relief to states that need to borrow from the Federal government to keep paying state unemployment benefits. It does so by suspending the provisions that require states to pay interest on these loans through the end of 2010.
Currently, 14 states have borrowed a total of over $9 billion. Due to the increase in benefit payments, we project increased borrowing with the result that the Unemployment Trust Fund will need to borrow $16 billion from General Revenues in FY 2010 to cover these loans to states.
Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you about the UI provisions in the Recovery Act. I will be glad to respond to any questions you may have.


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If you're still taking selfies, time to ditch the old fad and grab on to the hot #Felfie trend! "Felfies" are selfies (taking a picture of yourself) out on the farm. People catching the craze use social media including Instagram and Twitter to post their felfies for the world to see.
Starting about a month ago by The Irish Farmers Journal, felfies are spreading like wildfire. There are thousands of felfies on social media, and it's grabbing some serious media attention.
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Want to see some of the epic and hilariously wonderful felfies out there? Head to Twitter or Instagram and search #felfie (yes, include the #). Get some ideas from others, then go shoot some of your own!
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To show off your best felfie, take a picture of yourself on the farm and post to Twitter or Instagram (or both!) using the hashtag #felfie. Most felfie takers feature animals (I've seen beef cattle, calves, pigs, ponies, dogs, chickens, goats, and alpacas, just to name a few), but animals are by no means required.
We, as agriculturalists, know there's so much more to the farm than our handsome livestock and adorable baby goats. Farmers and ranchers have tractors, machinery, barns and shops as well. There's land to tend, beautiful landscapes of windmills and barns, and hay in the pasture with snow draped over it this time of year. By posting felfies, it's not only showing off life on the farm, it's showing the world what happens on a real farm by real people.
So go ahead! Share pictures of yourself working in the shop, riding on the tractor, fixing fence, or even reading Successful Farming magazine (hint hint).
This trend is blowing up the Twittersphere and won't die down anytime soon as long as farm kids, families, and farmers keep the pictures coming. But why would it? We're out on the farm with our phones and cameras anyway. May as well snap selfie (whoops, I mean felfie)!
Post your felfie on Agriculture.com or Farmers for the Future network. You may see yourself featured on the website in the near future.


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Last year, U.S. Cellular funded 51 classroom projects throughout Washington. All public school teachers are eligible for the program.
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Ok, the IT staff had been formed into teams and struggled through the first week of the game. Most of them were excited the first day, confused and bored the second day, then started to get into a groove.
I let them struggle through much of it and tried to only step in when they were
really stuck.
The daily lunch-and-learns started to become very popular and even people
outside of IT started dropping in to learn a little more about what was going
Now, outside of this exercise, my job was hardly done. Their problems were not purely management related (except in the hiring process) and they had too many juniors in critical positions who simply didn't know what to do or how to respond in critical situations.
One example: their "DBA" had gone to a week of Oracle classes but didn't have
the time or initiative to actually practice anything he had learned. One thing
he did have going for him was that he was good friends with the CTO.
A developer who was responsible for data correction issues (wrong customer name, etc.) came to me one morning and told me he had a problem with an update statement and asked if I could stop by when I had a chance. About a half hour later I had a chance.
He then told me that he was trying to cleanup some account information and had issued an update statement against the customer table. He then reluctantly told me that he had forgot to add a WHERE clause to his update statement. For those of you who may be wondering if that's bad, let me tell you that it often is.
Unless you MEANT to update every single row in the table with a new value. He
had only meant to update 2 rows, not 20,000. They were not using a version of
Oracle with flashback queries and did not have this data on a standby or dev
I called over the "DBA" and told him we may be looking at a recovery scenario
and to start preparing options like if we were going to recover the database to
the test server (and finally sync it with production) or if we could use a recent export to pull that data.
He gave me that deer-in-a-headlight look that I only see from IT professionals
who look like they've been found out.
He stumbled off and I got back to the update. I usually ask how and why a
particular mistake was made, but not to be accusatory-- there's always time for
that later, but to see if there's an easy fix and maybe it's not as bad as one
may have thought.
The developer showed me what he was doing.
He was in TOAD (an Oracle developer/DBA tool from Quest that Oracle consultants I've worked with used until Oracle's recent SQL Developer came out) and had issued the following statement:
UPDATE ACCOUNT_MASTER SET ACCOUNT_NAME="clientabc"; -- not the real customer
he then saw
19,872 rows updated
He next did a select * from account_master and saw that, indeed, all of the rows now showed "clientabc" as the customer name.
He whispered to me, "I can't believe I'm so stupid."
I confirmed that he had done nothing else and he assured me that he hadn't
pushed another button since running that last select statement.
I laughed and patted him on the back, "You're fine. Let me find "DBA" real
He wasn't sure why I was sounding so relieved but just sat there and tried to
stop sweating.
I looked around for the "DBA" but couldn't find him. I finally looked out the
window near his desk and, SERIOUSLY, I saw him getting into his car and driving away. He didn't come back for a couple of hours.
Instead of waiting for him, I went back to the developer and sat down.
"I'm going to show you a secret command to use in Oracle in these situations,
but you have to promise not to update any more data in production without having it tested and reviewed by the Build Monkeys."
He swore that he would not doing anything on production again without following
that process.
I then leaned over his keyboard and typed in ROLLBACK.
He ran his final select statement again and saw that all was right.
He started to edit his update statement and saw the look on my face.
"Oops." He closed his connection to production and started making notes to
present to the Build Monkeys and the review team.
I explaioned to him very carefully that his biggest mistake was in not escalating this to me or anyone else as quickly possible (instead of whenever I had time). Mistake will happen. How you deal with them makes all the difference in the world.
(As I left for the day that day, the "DBA" asked if everything was ok and if we
had documented our recovery process. I told him that it was touch and go for
awhile and we had almost lost everything, but that the developer and I had kept
trying different scenarios and finally found something that had worked but that
I was so frazzled by that time that I don't remember exactly what we had done.
The developer picked up on this and added it would have been nice to have had
the "DBA" there looking over our shoulders to make sure we could recover again if we had to.)
One area I had to get into was investigating performance problems. The code was in bad enough shape that it would be easy to just blame it on the code. But
it's always bad to assume you know what the problem is without starting at the
The problems they (and their customers) had noticed were that early in the
morning, performance was fine, but as the morning progressed, performance got worse and worse and many clients couldn't use the service at all.
So I started at the beginning. What were the customers trying to do?
The customers would:
- hit the website
- log into their account
- browse the content
- start a video to stream
- take a test (if applicable) on the content
Did they have problems hitting the website?
Did they have problems logging in?
Did they have problems browsing for content?
Not really.
Did they have have problems streaming the content?
Well, we'd start there.
The first thing we did was determine the average bandwidth of the videos they
were streaming. The video quality was adaptive, meaning that it would degrade
quality to fit the bandwidth.
For an enjoyable viewing experience (size, sound, frame rate), we found that the average bandwidth was about 126 kbps per streaming (on demand) video.
Ok, not horrible. I wouldn't want to sit through hours of videos at that
quality, but it worked for them.
The next step was to determine their available bandwidth for streaming videos.
This is the part that I found the most shocking of the entire engagement.
The CTO explained to me the cost-saving deal he had worked out. He was leasing a partial T1 from the company next door and had (kinda) standby connectivity via DSL from the company on the first floor of the building.
He was quite pleased with himself (having made his bones in a small internet
company he had founded with his frat buddies) for coming up with such an
economical "solution."
Clearly, he was more of a negotiator than a technologist. He also explained to
me something that I hate to see in a company that bases their entire business
model on hosting services-- they did not seperate internal internet needs from their streaming internet needs.
So, not only were they sharing their T1 with another company, they were also stealing bandwidth from their own customers when anyone in the office was on the internet for whatever reason (like streaming radio to their desktop!).
Ok, I admit, I'm not really a networking guy so I asked the CTO to help me with my math.
Assuming they could grab all the 1.5 Mbps bandwidth from the shared T1 and no one in the office was using the internet to stream music, and assuming that the average bandwidth of their content was 126 kbps, I was only coming up with 11-12 streams they were capable of providing to their hundreds and hundreds of customers at anyone time. So, as soon as the thirteenth customer tried to stream a video, quality degraded and continued degrading with each additional customer until they videos were completely unwatchable.
He stared at me for several seconds before announcing they were looking at a solution for that. I left him to it so I could make my meeting with the CEO and COO. They were not technologists, but they could do math. They didn't like the numbers I had come up with and we agreed to run my math passed a networking expert (who laughed).
We immediately contacted Akamai to host the videos and a couple of internet providers to get increased, dedicated access.
This was their whole business, streaming videos! This was finally the ammo the CEO need to get rid of the CTO.
This has gone a bit long so I will post the final edition in a post later today. I've still had to cut out a lot just match this format. It really deserves a Movie-Of-The-Week.
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Unknown User
Apr 24, 2006
I laughed at the foolish developer messing around in Prod. I had a coworker do that. Something VERY similar actually. I was horrified he'd 1) messed in prod 2) see #1 3) he didn't fess up until I caught him 3 days later. Sadly, we didn't have rollback :( I cried. (I'm a girl, I'm allowed. If your DBA can leave, I can cry) Now I look back and I chuckle:)
Unknown User
Apr 24, 2006
I sympathise with the guy, I occasionally have to venture into prod and run an update and I live in constant fear I'll forget a where clause and cause some kind of horrific meltdown. I can't imagine actually doing it though.
Unknown User
Apr 24, 2006
Ha! As soon as I left that comment somebody walked over and needed an immediete change to production data. I checked that sql statement 6 times before I ran it. I just knew this was the time I finally blew it.
Unknown User
Apr 24, 2006
2 things I notice all the time with 'developers' #1 Auto Commit #2 Not understanding read consistancy (not having Auto Commit on) --- "Wha, huh, I can see the changes but no one else can..."
Unknown User
Apr 25, 2006
Luvlysa, guys can cry too, i do. But in the bathroom where i can hide the sound of my tears with the sound of the flushing W.C. XD
Unknown User
Apr 25, 2006
I've still had to cut out a lot just match this format.
That's too bad - I'd like to see all you've got...
Apr 25, 2006
Tim, I have this case and another that two people have suggested I put in a book. I could also use the DumbCo disaster. If I find a publisher (or if you have a really good laser printer) I'll send you a copy. Maybe I should at least make a Whitepaper out of it. I certainly have a lot more details.
Unknown User
May 6, 2006
if you have a really good laser printer
I've got a duplexing printer - is that good enough? At the very least this would be an excellent resource on how to recover from a difficult situation like this.
Unknown User
Jul 14, 2006
I would love to see this as a book. This is super valuable to me and has been an entertaining read. --doc0tis
Unknown User
Aug 4, 2006
I hate drops or deletes , Gives me shiver and i verify about umpteen times .I did it on PRE-production, dropped a table (per request) , it had 19 rows . The developers spent a week without talking to me and i spent 2 days crying in the bathroom , course if you''re in the bathroom crying you're not recovering the data so more talking-to's and black looks .Anyway if it was so important why didnt they have a backup? .
Jul 20, 2007
We had a contractor do this!
Reminds me of the time I locked myself out of my NT server! At least that was easily fixable.
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After a volatile winter in the markets, with many analysts suggesting the notion of low $3.00 corn or possibly lower, corn futures remain resilient -- firmly proclaiming that corn is well-valued near the $4.00 area.
Many of you may be wondering why $4.00 corn is holding, and why the price is not surging higher or plunging lower. The answer lies in the delayed planting and potential yield loss ahead of us.
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This year, we have the same delayed planting due soggy fields, yet a scorching summer could be a detriment to late planted crops. Pollination will now come later, in the midst of a potential furnace blast of heat.
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Column D represents what might happen if corn acres are reduced by 1 million acres, due to the soggy spring weather. The loss in planted acres, with yield kept unchanged from this May's USDA report (assuming ideal growing weather this summer), lowers ending stocks to under 1 billion bushels, which would merit price to rally.
Column E represents an increase in potential planted acres followed by strong yields, which in the end, raises ending stocks and allows the market "breathing room." There is no fear of running out of corn; therefore, prices potentially might fall.
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Riverdance is a celebration of Irish music, song, and dance that almost every person of Irish descent would probably like to see quietly disappear. Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen anytime soon. The Irish dance troupe attracts inexplicably large crowds wherever it travels, including Dallas, where it is currently packing houses in the Music Hall in Fair Park. Riverdance is Irish culture for everyone who likes to drink green beer or wear a "Kiss me, I'm Irish" button on St. Patrick's Day. More importantly, it's pretty boring, like being stuck on a really bad Epcot Center ride for a couple of hours. The show at least has more credibility than Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance. Flatley, a former principal dancer for the troupe, ripped off his entire routine from Riverdance scraps. Plus, he's Canadian. Riverdance continues at the Music Hall at Fair Park through Sunday, August 16. Shows happen on Friday at 8 p.m., Thursday and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $17-$67. Call (214) 373-8000.
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Soul Rep Theatre's Annual New Play Festival continues on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with six new plays: Four Holy Ghosts in America, The Wounded, The Drums of My so Black Me, RACE, Sand Dancing and Things in the Mail, and Shorts in Black (see Stage review on page 60). The festival is one of the few of its kind in the Southwest, showcasing new works by both emerging and established playwrights. On Thursday, Holy Ghosts, Drums, and RACE will be performed, beginning at 7 p.m. Shorts, Sand Dancing, and The Wounded show on Friday at 7 p.m. The festival comes to a close with a marathon run of all the shows on Saturday, starting at 6 p.m. All performances are being staged at the Dallas Theater Center. Tickets are $10 for the Thursday and Friday performances, and $12 for the Saturday marathon run. Call (214) 565-0186.
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All artists dream of one day having their works hang on the walls of a gallery. On Saturday, Photographic Archives Gallery intends to make those dreams come true with PushPin, a unique event conducted by Clarke Evans, the president of the Texas Photographic Society. Artists (or anyone, really) can bring as many as five unmounted photographs to the gallery, and the gallery will hang them on the walls with pushpins. The event gives artists a rare chance to have the entire photographic community view their work and give them feedback. No pressure, huh? PushPin happens on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Photographic Archives Gallery, located at 5117 W. Lovers Lane. Admission is free. The gallery opens at 10 a.m.; come early to reserve wall space. Call (214) 352-3167.
Almost everyone can remember playing baseball in the front yard growing up. Games were played with plastic bats and balls, and the bases were mailboxes, rocks, shoes, and whatever else happened to be lying around. Yard Ball gives people a chance to play the front-yard game for real. A sister event to Hoop-It-Up and NFL Air-It-Out, Yard Ball is played four to a side on small-scale baseball fields, with plastic bats and balls. The event will feature everyone from struggling ex-minor-league hotshots to kids just learning how to swing a bat. Although the deadline has passed to enter a team in the tournament, you can still come down and watch. The Yard Ball tournament happens on Saturday and Sunday at Lookout Park in Richardson, located at Lookout Drive and Plano Road. Call (972) 392-5865.
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Elvis Presley was a man of many sides, especially in his later years, when his midsection was exploring the outer limits of his polyester jumpsuits. Dick's Last Resort celebrates at least two of those sides with a memorial concert on Sunday. Betty Lewis and her Gospel Choir honor Elvis' spiritual side with a special gospel celebration starting at 7 p.m. Following the choir, renowned Elvis impersonator Johnny Harra pays tribute to The King's less-than-spectacular Vegas years with a performance of classic Elvis tunes. The Elvis Presley Memorial Celebration takes place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Dick's Last Resort, located at the corner of Ross and Record streets in the West End. Admission is free. Call (214) 747-0001.
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Because of corporate and government funding cuts, Teatro Dallas needs to raise $20,000 by September, and another $50,000 between September and December. Throughout August, the theater group will be offering special food and entertainment at lunchtime every weekday to help raise some of the money. The food includes tortas (a special Mexican kind of sub) and aguas frescas (a fruit or flower drink), and the entertainment features plays by Guillermo Reyes and Emilio Carballido, and a film about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. On Monday, Venezuelan harpist Carlos Guedes performs. Teatro Dallas' special lunchtime fundraising drive happens every weekday between noon and 1 p.m. The theater is located at 2204 Commerce. Call (214) 741-6833.
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Twenty years ago, a bill featuring The Isley Brothers, The O'Jays, and Earth, Wind & Fire would have been exciting. A decade ago, it would have been interesting. Now, it just seems kind of pathetic. All three bands come into town riding a wave of nostalgia sparked by younger hip-hop artists' reworking of their old hits--and lugging around back catalogs that haven't grown since Reagan was president. But even though they're on the oldies circuit now, all three bands can still bring it when they want to. They just don't have much to bring anymore. The Sweet Sounds of Soul Tour plays the Starplex Amphitheatre on Tuesday. Tickets are $29.50 and $35.50. Call (214) 373-8000.
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The Karen Mitchell Gallery has evolved from an accessory boutique that also featured art into one of the area's best galleries. Its latest exhibit, Lost America: The American Landscape of the 1950s and 1960s, is a new body of work by artist Jeff Scott that focuses on historic American architectural landmarks. The gallery also is staging its first photography exhibition, a show that features Catherine Chapman, Frank Dugan, Libby Goff, Donna Lovely, Roger Moore, Waco Moore, and Diana Sentell. It's an impressive one-two punch from a gallery that is on its way up. Both exhibits continue through August 31. The gallery is located at 4532 Cole. Call (214) 559-4700.


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Reminds me of the hymn, The Old Rugged Cross. Beautifully drawn!
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Some of us have problems meeting with clients. Either we have practices that are regional or nationwide, or the client cannot come to our office during normal working hours and getting to the client's home or office is too hard. Fortunately for us, today there are technological solutions as long as everyone has the Internet and a modern laptop (or desktop with a digital camera installed).
Face-to-Face Meetings
Face-to-face meetings can be conducted via Skype or Apple's variation, Facetime. For those of you who don't know them, Facetime is a wonderful free service by Apple to permit video calls with other Facetime subscribers. Skype is a wonderful and free service owned by Microsoft that enables you to make video calls to other Skype subscribers. As far as I can tell, Skype works on Apple and PC systems but Facetime works only on Apple systems. Both will allow you to virtually meet the client. For a small fee on Skype you can do conference calls with up to five participants, so you can even do video meetings right from your computer.
For me, Facetime is reserved for personal contacts that do not require enhanced security. To be sure, I just visited Facetime's privacy policy page. Facetime stores your communications "for a limited time." How long this is remains undefined. Facetime can use your data for its own purposes and will disclose whatever they have when required by law. Given that Facetime stores your electronic communications, including video, texts, and email, I would not use it for any purpose requiring confidentiality.
In addition to a regular video call to the client, for a small fee Skype will allow you to do conference calls with up to five participants. This lets you do video meetings right from your computer. But are these calls private? As best I can determine, as of July 2012, Microsoft, Skype's owner, is claiming that calls between two parties do not go through any data centers. Thus Microsoft should not have access to either the video or audio. In addition, regular Skype calls are supposed to be encrypted. Assuming Microsoft's reports are true, one-on-one calls should be safe, even from the government. This is not true about multiparty calls. Apparently multiparty calls do go through the Microsoft data centers. Thus, any of these calls are subject to being intercepted. According to Sensei Enterprises, "Based on what we know today, most experts have signed off on one-to-one calls via Skype. But I would be wary of group calls—once data is stored on a company's servers, I am leery of statements about when it is removed (and whether it might be shared at the legal request of a government)." Ride the Lightning" blog post Jan. 30, 2013.
For these reasons I am a Skype addict and regularly use it to meet clients who are remotely located. However, based on the Sensei Enterprises assessment (and other information) I would never use a group call to discuss client-confidential information. Lawyers in particular should avoid group calls involving client information. And Sensei is also reporting that Microsoft may be in the process of changing this policy, but we won't know for a while. You should keep a careful eye on what changes to Skype privacy policies Microsoft announces.
Correspondence and Document Exchange
An Initial Word on Security
Unless you use encryption, any exchange of documents or email is not perfectly secure. In fact, even if you do use encryption, you may not be perfectly secure. For those of us who do not use encryption when communicating with clients (and I don't know anyone who does not), please keep in mind that under various rulings by the courts (and depending on where you live, because it is very jurisdiction-specific), the government may be able to access your (and your client's) emails without a warrant. Certainly that is true for emails left on a third-party server for 180 days. There's a wonderful article on this issue in the August 2012 ABA Journal called "Crashing the Third Party." (It's part of an ABA series called "Patriots Debate.") The article is a little dated, but it will give you a good start—and scare you too.
If you are using your firm's email (based on your firm's domain) and your client side is using Gmail or other free accounts, keep in mind the famous adage: TANSTAAFL ("ThereAin't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch"). As another person once said (and I wish I could recall who that person was) "If the product is free, you are the product." In other words, whatever you and your client send/receive is no longer private, especially if you leave it on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. for more than 180 days. Do you do that? Do your clients? Oops! What I do is set up a private email account on my firm's domain and all correspondence goes to that email account. I also tell my client to use that account only to send me email. That way I have full control of the email chain even if it is left online. I also remove/delete/download everything on a regularly scheduled basis.
As an alternative, did you know Skype can also be used to send or receive emails? Unlike most email sent and received, email sent via Skype (and the attached documents) are not stored anywhere. They, like the videos, go directly from one computer to another, and no copy is retained. In any case, they are quite secure. Note: Facebook and Facetime don't do this. So don't use them for this point.
Electronic Transmission of Documents
Everyone has emails and uses them to send documents back and forth right? I use email all the time to send and receive drafts and final documents. One problem I have is that email accounts have upper limits on the size of the attachments you can send. Most email accounts I am familiar with have an upper limit for attachment size of between 5MB and 10MB. My own system will allow me to receive a file that is up to 25MB, but that's because I own and control my own servers. But sometimes more than that is needed. That's when zip.com or dropbox.com or yousendit.com can come into play.
I really don't like to zip files. It's useful because it allows you to compress large files into smaller ones that can be sent by email. But sometimes I have had issues with the transmitted files not being restorable. I don't know why.
I don't like to use Dropbox for sharing client files either. It's great and it works well for me to send myself documents to review or otherwise look at. And it links wonderfully with my iPad and iPhone too. But I don't like to give clients access to my public folder, so I don't use it to send materials to my clients. I do like and use Yousendit. You get up to 2GB free transmission capacity, which is a huge amount of files. And the files are downloaded from the Yousendit servers, so the free service doesn't fill up over time. Of course, your message may vary. Try them and see which ones you like best.
The Last Word
A Note
I have set out below a proposed paragraph to be included in any retainer document so the client is aware of your use of electronic and cloud transmission and storage. It is based on contributions from a number of lawyers' advice and suggestions accumulated over a couple of years. I would like to thank them all, but don't even remember who they were. Please also note that your jurisdiction may have its own rules that must be incorporated. (I am told that at least one jurisdiction is contemplating requiring email to be encrypted under some circumstances.)
The Release
It is our practice use electronic mail, including the use of online commercial email services that store information on their servers, for attorney-client communications. It is also our practice to send and receive documents via email and other document transmission technologies storing information in the "cloud" including, among others, Dropbox and Yousendit.com. We do this even though we understand that this may heighten the risk of inadvertent or unintended disclosures or other adverse consequences occurring. By signing below you
a) consent to the use of email and cloud storage services because of their efficiency and convenience, and
b) acknowledge that you are aware of and accept the risks of any adverse consequences, which could include the disclosure of confidential and/or secret information and the loss of attorney-client privilege.
If you do not agree to this common practice we will abide by any instructions you may give us, but in the absence of such instructions, we will use our own judgment regarding the advisability of using such means of communication.


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Property Location
With a stay at Casa Sun and Moon, you'll be centrally located in Zihuatanejo, walking distance from La Madera Beach and close to Principal Beach. This hotel is within close proximity of Municipal Market and Fisherman's Walk.
Make yourself at home in one of the air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and plasma televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include safes and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Enjoy recreation amenities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a garden.
Satisfy your appetite at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Hotel Facilities
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of floors - 3
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Outdoor pool
- Terrace
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
Room Facilities
- Free toiletries
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Plasma TV
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Air conditioning
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I have softmodded my wii using Mauifrog's guide which when I bought it second hand, it is already modchipped. Previously, it was system menu 3.1u, tried playing other DVD backup games like mariokart and it is not playing so I decided to use Mauifrog's guide and it is now system menu 4.1u and the softmod part is a success. Mariokart DVD backup is also working now however, when I tried playing the Just dance 4 DVD backup, it is giving an error that
The DVD is not a Wii or a GC DVD.
I tried neogamma and wiiflow but still failed.
I tried the DVD backup on a store's Wii with system menu 4.2u and it is working. I will now try creating an ISO image and play via USB HDD, but if you have suggestions or answers, I would truly appreciate it. Have tried researching to no avail.
Btw, you might ask on why I still use DVD backups, my answer is, I just prefer playing them on DVD's as my USB flash drives and my USB HDD is jampacked with other work data.


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There are over 200 species of birds at Great Sand Dunes, nesting in tundra, trees, grasslands, or wetlands. View a Checklist of Birds of the park and preserve. Below is just a sample of some of the bird life in this diverse park, from high to lower elevations..
Brown-capped rosy finches nest on alpine tundra each summer in Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, building a cup nest in a cavity on a cliff. In winter, they migrate to lower elevations. These finches are onmnivores, feeding on insects, and seeds.
White-tailed ptarmigans are chicken-like birds that primarily walk instead of flying. They survive year-round on alpine tundra, raising chicks in summer and burying themselves in snowbanks during blizzards.
Red-breasted nuthatches, along with white-breasted nuthatches and pygmy nuthatches, are sometimes seen walking up and down trees on the Mosca Pass Trail and Montville Trail.
Peregrine falcons nest in high cliffs or forests of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In the 1970s, this species was federally listed as endangered. Due to recovery efforts, peregrines were de-listed in 1999. Continued recovery and monitoring efforts continue.
Though they typically nest higher in the mountains, they sometimes glide over the park's entrance road and across the grasslands surrounding the dunefield.
Mountain bluebirds are often seen along the park entrance road, where they hunt for insects in the foothills and grasslands.
Males are a brilliant blue color, while females are grey-blue.
They are one of the first birds to arrive in spring, often first appearing in March, the snowiest month of the year.
Northern pygmy owls are sometimes seen in montane forests of the foothills, near the Visitor Center.
Dusky grouse (formerly known as blue grouse) are often seen along the Mosca Pass Trail. These birds are distant wild cousins of chickens, with similar mannerisms.
Hummingbirds are summer residents of the park, nesting in tiny grass nests in the foothills. However, they have been observed feeding throughout the park, from grasslands to alpine tundra, as long as there are flowers present.
Hummingbirds consume large quantities of flower nectar and even aspen sap. To supplement their diet, they also feed on small insects, especially those attracted to sap and nectar.
Four species of hummingbird have been observed in the park (see bird list linked at top of page).
The bold yellow and red colors of male western tanagers prompt many visitor questions in summer months. These small birds are frequently seen in the campground, or in riparian areas.
Burrowing owls nest each summer on the grasslands west of the dunefield, using prairie dog or rabbit burrows for their homes.
Golden eagles are more commonly observed in the park than bald eagles. They typically nest in cottonwoods or tall conifers along the foothills, and hunt for rabbits, snakes, and kangaroo rats in open grasslands or pinyon-juniper woodlands.
Bald eagles prefer open water, so they are most often found in western regions of the park where there are wetlands.
Sandhill cranes bring excitement each spring when they return by the thousands to the San Luis Valley. The Crane Festival, centered in Monte Vista, is an annual spring event hosted in part by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Cranes usually spend their days in farm fields or grasslands eating grains. There is often a flock of cranes along County Lane 6, which runs along the southern boundary of the park. In the evening they head to wetlands to spend the night.
American avocets are commonly observed in the wetlands of the national park. They make a shrill call and will often perform an elaborate ritualized defense display with a teetering gait and outstretched wings.
Great blue herons are not common in the park, but occasionally are found in wetlands west of the dunefield such as Dollar Lake.
Last updated: February 24, 2015


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Mystics Release 2013 Schedule
Washington, D.C. The WNBA announced today that the Washington Mystics 16th season will tip off on the road against the Tulsa Shock on Monday, May 27, at 3:00 p.m. in a game that will be televised on ESPN2. Washington will return for their home opener to face Eastern Conference rivals the Atlanta Dream on Sunday, June 2, at 4:00 p.m.
I think this is an excellent schedule for our fans and our players, said Head Coach and General Manager Mike Thibault. The schedule is well-balanced between home and away games. Since I expect the Eastern Conference playoff race to be tight, the fact that our last eleven games of the season are against conference opponents will only heighten the excitement. We are looking forward to getting started.
Following their home opener, the Mystics will play the Sun in Connecticut on June 7 at 7:00 p.m. and will return home for contests against the last two WNBA champions, the Minnesota Lynx (2011) on June 8 at 7:00 p.m. and Indiana Fever (2012) on June 16 at 2:00 p.m.
The Mystics will continue their annual camp day game for local childrens camps and groups on Wednesday, July 24, at 11:30 a.m. against the Chicago Sky. The teams west coast swing will be early in the season with stops in Seattle (June 18), Phoenix (June 21) and Los Angeles (June 23). The Mystics will play 11 of their 17 regular season homes games on the weekend. All weekday (with the exception of camp day) and Saturday home games will tip off at 7:00 p.m. Sunday home games will start at 4:00 p.m., with the exception of the 2:00 p.m. tip off on June 16 vs. Indiana.
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Are you interested in programming and software but have never known where to begin? Some of our most popular classes have been our
introductory programming ones, and I'll be teaching one this Saturday. The idea is to give students a gentle introduction to software concepts using Python, a very widely-used but accessible language, and practical examples.
I don't assume any prior programming experience: I'll teach you everything you need to know to get started. Come and join us!