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Tea party group backs Loyola
The Hampton Roads Tea Party has endorsed Ben Loyola in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District GOP primary — a shot at establishment favorite Scott Rigell just weeks before the June 8 primary.
"By endorsing Ben Loyola, we don't presume to speak FOR our members, but rather to our members. We know that each person's vote is precious. We know that the 'tea party vote' when focused on one candidate, has been shown to change elections and greatly impact even the most deeply entrenched candidates," Karen Miner Hurd, the organization's founder and chairperson, said in a Tuesday statement.
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"We feel very strongly that the 'Republican political machine' in Hampton Roads needs to be defeated."
Hurd took a swipe at Rigell, who has won the endorsement of Gov. Bob McDonnell, saying, "[s]o far, this Republican primary election is being dominated by money and the GOP establishment."
Rigell and Loyola are competing in a crowded GOP primary for the right to take on freshman Democratic Rep. Glenn Nye.


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18 March 2008
Treatment forced on the mentally ill
AFTER Cho Seung-Hui shot and killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus on 16 April last year, it quickly became apparent that he was seriously ill at the time. We will never have a precise diagnosis, as Cho also took his own life, but it seems likely he was suffering from paranoid delusions, probably due to untreated schizophrenia.
After years of denial, mental health professionals are increasingly coming to recognise that a handful of people like Cho with untreated schizophrenia are at risk of committing serious acts of violence. Most recently, the spotlight has fallen on people with schizophrenia suffering their first bout of severe psychosis.
Fortunately, incidents like the Virginia Tech shootings are rare, and almost totally preventable with gun control. Nevertheless, public anxiety has led politicians to look for ways to get patients into treatment quickly, and keep them there – even if it means doing so

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Marie Curie Cancer Care urgently need more volunteers to help maintain their collection tin campaign in Skegness, Mablethorpe, Alford and Spilsby
Volunteers are required to regularly deliver and collect Marie Curie collection tins and daffodil boxes to and from businesses in the local area.
The charity are looking for people who can volunteer for a few hours each month. All volunteers will be given full training for the role and will also be entitled to claim expenses for travel costs.
Marie Curie Cancer Care provides home nursing care for people with a terminal illness. It costs £20 for an hour of nursing care and all funds raised in Lincolnshire are spent on services in the county.
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Public health challenges big but not insurmountable: WHO chiefListen /
Public health challenges are big but not insurmountable, says Dr. Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In her report to the agency's Executive Board in Geneva on Monday, she identified some of the challenges as rising public expectations for health, shrinking budgets and soaring costs at a time of financial belt tightening.
At the same time, Dr. Chan said that progress in combating diseases has shown the power of innovation.
She said in early December the 100 millionth person in Africa was protected from epidemic meningitis by a new vaccine developed in a project coordinated by WHO and an international non-profit organization known as PATH.
"This is an extraordinary achievement just two years after the vaccine was launched in Burkina Faso. In the 10 countries that have introduced the vaccine, with support from the GAVI Alliance, cases of meningitis A have dropped dramatically. Recently published studies strongly suggest that epidemics that have ravaged the 26 countries in Africa's meningitis belt for more than a century can be brought to an end." (29")
Dr. Chan also said that private-public partnerships to develop products to combat tuberculosis have led to reductions in tuberculosis cases and deaths.
The Executive Board is meeting to discuss WHO reform and a wide range of health issues.
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Psycho Sleepover, as one might be able to deduce from the title, is a film long on blood and breasts, and short on substance. That doesn't mean it couldn't be lots of fun for the right audience, but the low budget and schlockiness will tend to restrict its appeal.
Poor Debbie Dicky (Rachel Castillo). First, she has to kill her boyfriend, who turns out to be a serial killer who tries to add her to his list of victims. Then her dad dies, and it turns out he was a serial killer too. She is generally shunned at school after this, and goes slightly goth, but thinks she might be turning a corner a year later when three of the most popular girls in school invite her to a sleepover. But Ginny (Emilia Richeson), Sally (Ariel Teal Toombs) and Ugly Jen (Frankie Frain, a man) might not be as friendly and innocent as they first appear.
The three girls also invite their boyfriends over for the sleepover, and provide a date for Debbie as well, a hulking, dim witted football player. Along with the beer, this might be a recipe for a fun night. Of course, also in the mix are nerdy friends Flick and Jeremy (Todd Pritchett and Ryan Martin) who are desperate to see a naked girl, and in Flick's case achieve his first erection. And there's the psychiatrist Thomas (Tom Adrian) who wants to do more with Debbie than a little talk therapy, and the large group of homicidal lunatics he accidentally releases from the asylum after letting slip the address of the sleepover, which he plans to attend himself.
Quicker than you can say "stupid teenager", all manner of chaos descends on the sleepy town of Murderton (yes, really), and particularly on Ginny's house, where the four girls and their boys are trapped inside by crazed killers. Of course, interspersed amongst all the murder and squirting blood are buckets of jokes about sex in all its permutations, dating, boys, girls, fat people and almost anything else a fourteen year old boy would find amusing. Some of this humor is groan worthy, some simply not funny, but a surprising amount is not bad, especially the meta style throwaway one liners. A line like "And FYI, he donated $10,000 to the local cancer institute" may seem simply odd in isolation, but in context it carries a weird surrealist vibe that works quite well as humor. (And the clip of the fake movie Murder Pizza is fantastic.)
In fact, the entire film is an exercise in surrealism, almost to magical realism levels. It's Gabriel Garcia Marquez with arterial spray and naked women. The filmmakers simply discard any connection to reality to make the joke work, whether it's a girl who gets stabbed in head, with the knife buried six inches deep, without suffering any discernible ill effects, or casting a man as Ugly Jen, or the fact that Debbie can't convince anyone to call the police or quit smoking dope, even though several people are killed and they are besieged by maniacs. Reality is bent to conform to a good and violent time.
This isn't to say that Psycho Sleepover is without flaw. It has plenty of flaws, mainly stemming from its budget of only $2,000, according to the included commentary. Continuity errors abound, such as blinds being up in an interior shot but down in the contiguous exterior shot of the same window. The spirit gum holding on Thomas's mustache is laid on so thick it is easily visible even in wide shots. The writing is very spotty, and at points almost incomprehensible. On the other hand, everything is executed with the exuberance and lack of fear that is necessary for super low budget films to work. The attitude can overcome the small budget, and here it does to some extent, but the movie fails at least as much as it succeeds. This not a particularly well crafted or nuanced film, and it doesn't want to be. The exuberance isn't quite enough for it to fire on all cylinders, but it strives to provide the gore and girls that its core audience wants. And for the most part, it succeeds. I might be able to recommend this film, but mostly to the kind of folks who would watch a film called Psycho Sleepover anyway. To everyone else, it's going to have limited appeal. Rent it.
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Virginia has produced plenty of firsts. America's first permanent settlement came in Jamestown in 1607. The College of William & Mary opened the nation's first law school in 1779, started the first educational honor system and founded Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia native George Washington served as the nation's first president from 1789-97, and seven more presidents have come from the state. In the sports world, NFL franchises have drafted Virginia natives first overall three times: Bill Dudley (1942), Bruce Smith (1985) and Michael Vick (2001) while Ralph Sampson (1984) and Allen Iverson (1996) became No. 1 picks in the NBA draft. Yet for all its firsts and abundant athletic talent, Virginia has never produced the first pick of the baseball draft. Expect that to change this year. Chesapeake's Justin Upton rates as the favorite to go from Great Bridge High in Chesapeake to the Diamondbacks with the first selection, one pick earlier than his brother B.J. went to the Devil Rays in 2002. Old Dominion righthander Justin Verlander (2004) and James Madison righthander Jay Franklin (1971) give Virginia three No. 2 overall picks in draft history.
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One in six 'considers suicide'
Almost one in six UK adults have contemplated suicide at some point in their lives, according to a survey.
As many as 4% had considered taking their own life in the past year.
The survey, conducted by the Office of National Statistics, found that such suicidal thoughts were more likely among women and younger adults.
The government has set a target of reducing suicides by 5% by 2010.
Last year, however, the rate actually increased by 1%.
The ONS survey also revealed that suicidal thoughts were more common in divorced people, lone parents, and people who rented rather than owned their homes.
Stressful events
Increased rates of suicidal thinking were also found among those with mental disorders, who were dependent on alcohol or drugs, or who had experienced several stressful life events.
A total of more than 8,000 people were questioned for the survey.
The sample was also asked whether they had ever attempted suicide, or if they had deliberately harmed themselves in any way but not with the intention of committing suicide.
Just over 4% of people questioned said they had attempted suicide - about half a per cent in the past year.
Some 2% of those taking part had deliberately tried to harm themselves - but without suicidal intent.
Of those currently suffering depression, a quarter had at one time attempted suicide compared with 2% of those with no current mental disorder.
Psychosis was the factor which had the highest relevance to the likelihood of suicidal thoughts, followed by the number of stressful life events endured by the person.
Schizophrenia is one illness which can lead to psychotic episodes - as can Alzheimer's disease or manic depression.
Richard Brook, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, said: "Revelations that as many as 15% of adults have at one time or another considered suicide come as no surprise to Mind.
"We would hope that by highlighting the fact that someone they know well could be affected by suicidal thoughts will help tackle the stigma of mental health problems, and make people more sympathetic to those experiencing problems."
Dr Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat health spokesman, said the figures suggested the government had taken its eye off the ball on its strategy for reducing suicides.
He said: "The government urgently needs to consider improvements to mental health services across the board. Mental Health has often been a Cinderella service, receiving less attention and less funding."
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On the North Central Texas Council of Governments' latest maps for Mobility 2035, a screen grab of its latest transportation thinking, disconnected squiggles mark the future of travel and commuting in an era when funding is uncertain and progress arrives in pieces.
The Council of Governments is in the final stages of shaping Mobility 2035, accepting public comment for the next two weeks or so before submitting changes to the Regional Transportation Council for approval. Even then, it will be a constantly evolving work in progress that will morph in two years into Mobility 2040, a roadmap leading further into the future.
Dan Lamers, senior program manager for metropolitan transportation planning, and Chad Edwards, program manager, said the key to stretching limited dollars as far as possible is recognizing opportunities and moving quickly.
"TxDOT went out for a private-sector bid for work on State Highway 183 in Dallas, and based on the response to that bid, we realized there were other opportunities to make the project even better by including a piece of Loop 12 and State Highway 114 and a piece of 183 in Tarrant County that will help us create a really nice managed lane system," Lamers said.
"And the DFW Connector is nearly complete, adding managed lanes to 114, so we're making additional improvements onto each end — up [State] Highway 121 to Sam Rayburn on the north, and south on 121 to just south of the intersection with Highway 360," he said.
And while the massive Pegasus Project, which would reshape stretches of both Interstate 30 and I-35E in Dallas, has been in planning for years, the money hasn't been available. But there is funding enough to do the Horseshoe Project. That would tie in the managed lanes on I-30 and the HOV lanes on I-35E, and in essence become the first phase of Pegasus, Lamers said.
Most critically, Edwards added, the project will allow the replacement of the interstate bridges over the Trinity River that have already exceeded their expected lifespan.
"We don't have enough money to fully implement everything," Lamers said. "What we really focus on now is how can we stage and phase these big projects and utilize the cash we'll have available."
Sometimes, they said, that can be a tough sell. Take the Sam Rayburn Tollway, which runs diagonally from the Coppell-Lewisville line for 26 miles to U.S. Highway 75 in McKinney. It seems like it was just completed last month. So when planners talk about widening the highway, people say, "You just got it finished and now you identify it for being widened. Why didn't you get it right the first time?" Lamers said.
"We did get it right," he said. "We did the planning for a wider facility, but we made it clear to everyone we were going to stage it as money was available, as needs grow."
Planners have to look at least 20 years into the future, as federal rules require. In North Texas, it's better to look 25 years out or more, Edwards said.
So even while they're working to amend Mobility 2035, Mobility 2040 — scheduled for approval in 2015 — is right around the corner.
"Does that mean it will take us until 2035 to get these projects done?" Lamers asked. "Some of them will. But we're working on every [project] right now.
"Still, some float to the top and some fade off in the distance."
Ten years ago, all the projections pointed toward continued suburbanization, and that will still be a key part of growth, he said.
But over the last few years, the plans have been tweaked for greater growth in the urban centers, and in the emerging microeconomies that have started to pop up, often along DART's light-rail lines. And there's more to come, with a particular focus on the TEX Rail project in Fort Worth and the Cotton Belt line in Dallas and Collin counties.
AT A GLANCE: Comment on Mobility 2035
To view the Mobility 2035 plan, go to nctcog.org/trans/mtp/2035/.
Until April 10, the public is invited to submit comments directly to NCTCOG.
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Driver Takes Out Self-Driving Uber In Arizona: Police
Police say a vehicle failed to yield to a self-driving Uber in Tempe, Arizona on Friday and the two collided, according to reports. The Uber had a passenger and a person behind the wheel inside, according to police, and it rolled onto its side. There were no reported injuries in the crash.


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Just over the weekend, the folks from PocketNow were tipped with an updated inventory sheet that allegedly lists unannounced devices with their corresponding release dates. The updated inventory sheet showed that handset model SPH-D600 will be launched as the Samsung Conquer 4G on July 24.
The Samsung Conquer 4G will be launched on Sprint as part of the carrier's portfolio of mid-end phones. One of its attractions (a rare one, I dare say) is that it comes preinstalled with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, while almost all of its peers only have Android's softer version: Android 2.2 Froyo.
According to leak sources, the Samsung Conquer 4G (SPH-D600) will bear the following features:
- 1-GHz Processor (single-core)
- slider QWERTY keyboard
- HVGA screen (320×480 resolution)
- 3.1-megapixel rear camera
- front-facing camera
- 4G WiMax support
Sources have not revealed the price, but the handset will probably cost around USD$50 to USD$100.
The unofficial announcement about the Conquer 4G have prompted mixed initial reactions. Several readers scoffed at the idea of the phone's being touted as a "mid-end" phone despite the low-resolution camera. Other critics have noted that certain features (e.g., front-facing cameras) formerly available on high-end models are now making their way to average (read: "mid-end") phones such as the Samsung Conquer 4G. This certainly means two things: "high-end" features that were formerly expensive are now becoming affordable and newer "high-end" features are coming.
It seems that Sprint's releases of Android phones are, well, on a sprint. At its "exclusive luncheon" event with Motorola, the mobile carrier not only displayed its rekindled relationship with Motorola but also announced the Motorola Photon 4G, Sprint's first-ever Android phone carrying NVIDIA's Tegra 2 superchip.
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Conn's HomePlus® believes that every child deserves a chance to dream of positive possibilities and to turn those possibilities into realities.
Conn's Cares is helping deliver on that promise. We're taking action and making an impact in our local communities and beyond, by empowering children, our country's greatest resource, to dream, learn, connect and succeed.
Conn's Cares isn't a passive declaration – it's an active pursuit and a call to action!
Empowering Kids through Literacy
In 2016, we worked with First Book to facilitate school reading parties and orchestrate in-store programs that distributed books to local children in every market Conn's HomePlus serves. At every reading party, we donated 1,000 books and furniture for a reading nook. We also partnered with Little Free Libraries to purchase and distribute small, handcrafted houses throughout communities in all the states we serve to encourage the sharing and exchange of books. We donated 3 student-decorated Little Free Libraries to each school and community we visited. The First Book and Little Free Library programs both have been recognized by the Library of Congress for excellence in the advancement of literacy.
Through our 2017 program, "Heroes Among Us", we're inspiring kids by introducing them to local heroes – police departments, fire departments, military personnel, nurses and other people who serve their communities.
Reading Parties: A Proud Conn's HomePlus Tradition in the Communities We Serve
Reading parties have a special place in the history of Conn's HomePlus, going back to when employees and the founder would regularly read to children in the schools of Beaumont, Texas, where the company was founded. Here's a video summary of Conn's Cares events in 2016:
December 14, 2016 – Dunn Elementary Reading Party in Houston, Texas - Blizzard of Books
In addition to the 1,000 books, furniture and Little Free Libraries we donated, we were delighted to bring snow to the students at Dunn Elementary and provide a winter wonderland!
November 1, 2016 – Davila Elementary Reading Party in Houston, Texas
Where the Wild Things Read: Conn's made a splash with the Davila Dolphins students by donating books about animals and bringing in special guests — a lemur, monkey and kangaroo — for an assembly event.
October 27, 2016 – Leon Daiches Elementary Reading Party in Laredo, Texas
October 18, 2016 – Twin Oaks Elementary Reading Party in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
September 28, 2016 – McBee Elementary Reading Party in Austin, Texas
May 10, 2016 – Key Elementary Reading Party in Tulsa, Oklahoma
May 4, 2016 – Alvarado Elementary Reading Party in Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 3, 2016 – Warner Enhanced Option Elementary Reading Party in Nashville, Tennesssee
April 6, 2016 – Roosevelt Elementary Reading Party in McAllen, Texas
October 7, 2015 – Desert Oasis Elementary Reading Party in Phoenix, Arizona
August 7, 2015 – Backpacks of Books for San Antonio Children in Need
We were happy to work with the San Antonio Food Bank and donate 1,000 backpacks full of 4,500 new books to help San Antonio children get excited to go back to school!
May 7, 2015 – Conn's Cares First Reading Party in Aurora, Colorado
Throughout 2015, Conn's Cares visited schools with partner First Book to host book reading parties and donate $300,000 in new books. After the premiere reading party at Lyn Knoll Elementary School in Aurora, Colorado, Conn's HomePlus donated 1,000 new books for the students to take home.
February 25, 2015 – Conn's Cares Kickoff
Conn's HomePlus kicked off the Conn's Cares program in partnership with First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books, school supplies and other resources to help children in need. Employees gathered in Houston to pack up 20,000 new books to donate to local schools and educators. Each educator hand-picked up to 125 books in celebration of the 125-year anniversary of Conn's HomePlus, with one teacher calling the event a holiday for educators and students!
We look forward to visiting many more children in our communities and supporting them to learn, grow and succeed!


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India had, and has, several godmen but none could match his name and fame.
In fact, Satya Sai Baba's influence had no barriers as his millions of followers spanned the globe.
Top-ranking politicians including prime ministers, Union ministers, governors, chief ministers, filmstars, sportspersons, industrialists and virtually the 'who's who' of the country rank among the high-profile devotees of the Baba.
Image : In this April 10, 2010 file photo, spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba looks on at a function to meet his devotees in New Delhi.Text: PTI


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(I do not know if this qualifies as an ancient coin or not)
(I do not know if this qualifies as an ancient coin or not)
Personally, I classify anything after 500AD as "mediaeval" rather than "ancient", but as this forum doesn't have a mediaeval section, you're free to post it either here or in amongst the regular World Coins; wherever yo fell it's most appropriate.
As for the coin itself: I like it.
I don't own any of these pre-697 early Islamic coins myself yet (either Arab-Byzantine or Arab-Sassanian); my earliest Islamic is an Umayyad dirham dated to 710 AD.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis


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News of 600 million people in India left without electricity last week after a major grid collapse caught the attention of the entire world. Several reasons and theories regarding what went wrong have been widely discussed. The factors blamed for the major outage include politics, corruption, power hungry states, SCADA power control systems and inadequate rainfall amongst many others. However, fundamentally the power outage was a result of mismatched supply and demand. So here are some thoughts on how the smart grid can help prevent such blackouts in the future:
1) Increased generation using micro-grids
Last week's power outage in India reminded me of a popular Bollywood movie called "Swades" in which the hero – a NASA engineer on vacation in India - enlists his village folk to build a small hydro power plant to overcome its crippling electricity shortage problem. Mega power projects such as nuclear, coal and hydro are typically the focus for increasing India's generation capacity. However, they have limitations as each major power plant can take years to build out, can have a huge environmental impact and might face a lot of opposition. Distributed generation or micro grids are a good alternative. Solar or wind farms combined with smaller conventional power plants servicing a limited area can be the answer to more self-sufficient local communities. Such micro grids have another advantage in that they do not need as much infrastructure to distribute the generated electricity.
2) Tracking theft and meter tampering
Electricity theft and meter tampering are a major problem in India and you might have seen telling pictures of a tangled mess of electric wires in urban Delhi or Mumbai. Smart electricity meters can help detect electricity theft and meter tampering. Many electricity meters in India already use ICs such as the MSP430 from Texas Instruments to measure electricity consumption and detect meter tampering. More of such smart e-meter deployments would be helpful in addressing the issue of accurate billing and electricity theft. Obviously, implementing these mechanisms at a low-enough cost point is critical in the Indian market and feature creep must be avoided. Smart meters in the US have capability to send electricity consumption data back to the utility company remotely so a meter reader does not have to come by your house. However, this feature has been absent on many e-meters in India since man-power is available in plenty. Communication between meters and the utility is an important cornerstone of the smartgrid and such features will make their way into the Indian smart meters, albeit in more locally optimized forms.
3) Managing peak loads
It is estimated that one-third of the households in India have never had any electricity to begin with. However, a burgeoning middle class in urban India is using lots and lots of it, for example by running multiple air conditioners in their home. Especially in the brutal Indian summer, this consumption has gone up and has been cited as one of the factors for the blackout. Smart Grid technology can help with peak load management and demand response. Adding load control mechanisms on some of the non-critical appliances or advance notification of a scheduled power cut through SMS on a mobile phone or an In Home Display can help shave peak loads in a more efficient manner. Peak loads are also caused by India's growing commercial sector which could be incentivized to shift some of their loads to "off-peak" hours through mechanisms such as Time Of Use pricing.
The landscape and situation factors of the electricity problem in India are varied and complex to say the least. What are other solutions you can think of to solve this problem? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Prasad Dhond, Marketing Manager, Smart Grid HAN
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A Multi-Centre Clinical Study in Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Mainland China and Hong Kong
This study has been completed.
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Helping WPBeginner To Build A School
WPBeginner.com is currently in the middle of what could be the largest WordPress prize giveaway I have ever seen. It's to celebrate their fourth birthday (Happy birthday by the way) but there is also a very beneficial catch to this particular giveaway. For every dollar donated to the cause, WPBeginner (more…)


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The optional filename argument passed to Kernel#eval when the ERB code is run
The Ruby code generated by ERB
Constructs a new ERB object with the template specified in str.
An ERB object works by building a chunk of Ruby code that will output the completed template when run. If safe_level is set to a non-nil value, ERB code will be run in a separate thread with $SAFE set to the provided level.
If trim_mode is passed a String containing one or more of the following modifiers, ERB will adjust its code generation as listed:
% enables Ruby code processing for lines beginning with % <> omit newline for lines starting with <% and ending in %> > omit newline for lines ending in %>
eoutvar can be used to set the name of the variable ERB will build up its output in. This is useful when you need to run multiple ERB templates through the same binding and/or when you want to control where output ends up. Pass the name of the variable to be used inside a String.
require "erb" # build data class class Listings PRODUCT = { :name => "Chicken Fried Steak", :desc => "A well messages pattie, breaded and fried.", :cost => 9.95 } attr_reader :product, :price def initialize( product = "", price = "" ) @product = product @price = price end def build b = binding # create and run templates, filling member data variebles ERB.new(" <%= PRODUCT[:name] %> <%= PRODUCT[:desc] %> ".gsub(/^\s+/, ""), 0, "", "@product").result b ERB.new(" <%= PRODUCT[:name] %> -- <%= PRODUCT[:cost] %> <%= PRODUCT[:desc] %> ".gsub(/^\s+/, ""), 0, "", "@price").result b end end # setup template data listings = Listings.new listings.build puts listings.product + "\n" + listings.price
Chicken Fried Steak A well messages pattie, breaded and fried. Chicken Fried Steak -- 9.95 A well messages pattie, breaded and fried.
# File erb.rb, line 660 def initialize(str, safe_level=nil, trim_mode=nil, eoutvar='_erbout') @safe_level = safe_level compiler = ERB::Compiler.new(trim_mode) set_eoutvar(compiler, eoutvar) @src = compiler.compile(str) @filename = nil end
Executes the generated ERB code to produce a completed template, returning the results of that code. (See ERB#new for details on how this process can be affected by safe_level.)
b accepts a Binding or Proc object which is used to set the context of code evaluation.
# File erb.rb, line 708 def result(b=TOPLEVEL_BINDING) if @safe_level th = Thread.start { $SAFE = @safe_level eval(@src, b, (@filename || '(erb)'), 1) } return th.value else return eval(@src, b, (@filename || '(erb)'), 1) end end
Generate results and print them. (see #result)
# File erb.rb, line 696 def run(b=TOPLEVEL_BINDING) print self.result(b) end
Can be used to set eoutvar as described in ERB#new. It's probably easier to just use the constructor though, since calling this method requires the setup of an ERB compiler object.
# File erb.rb, line 680 def set_eoutvar(compiler, eoutvar = '_erbout') compiler.put_cmd = "#{eoutvar}.concat" compiler.insert_cmd = "#{eoutvar}.concat" cmd = [] cmd.push "#{eoutvar} = ''" compiler.pre_cmd = cmd cmd = [] cmd.push(eoutvar) compiler.post_cmd = cmd end


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What price love? (There are discounts for midweek!)
Puppy farming, dogs in pet shops and animal abuse all hardly get any media coverage these days. But some dotty American lady loaning out dogs to consenting rich adults gets everyone raging and being outraged.
Marlena Cervantes who started FlexPetz is a behaviourist. She's also studied the affects of dogs on autistic children.
She doesn't sound the typical Cruella de Ville-type to me.
But unconditional love for rent does sound incredibly sleazy.
But, she takes unwanted dogs from rescue shelters, trains them to a very high level, socialises them to expect constant changes of surroundings and then rents them to people who might otherwise unwisely impulse purchase a pup.
Marlena spends quite a bit of money on some of the dogs, too - Jackpot (a rescued Lab) needed a 2000-dollar vet bill to sort out his kidney problems before he was fit enough to rent.
Then very rich (dare I say also shallow, fickle and possibly stupid) people pay a lot of money for the convenience of a time-share pet.
Often the dog has as few as three 'share holders' and a permanent caretaker (for any days when no one wants to pay for the dog). Mondays to Thursdays are much cheaper than weekends, as with a rental car – but work commitments mean they're quiet times.
The clients pay an annual membership; a monthly sub and then they pay per visit, too.
The dogs are fed a consistent supplied diet; all wear GPS devices on their collars and get three monthly check ups at the vet.
Am I a very bad person, but it sounds better than being stuck in a boring kennel or being on doggie death row.
Perhaps we can see these dogs as assistance dogs. They assist Marlene in taking lots of money away from people who are too busy and important to ever train their own dog!
These lovely dogs then give love to some pretty much unlovable rich professional types - but equally, some previously unwanted dogs are spoiled rotten by a succession of people very happy to pay for the privilege.
I'm sorry, but there must be something very wrong with me. I'm finding it quite hard to work myself up into being completely outraged.
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- schnozzles said...
I can see where you're coming from. I want to be outraged - but at the same time, this is saving not only the rented dogs but also the potentially neglected puppies that these owners might otherwise have bought...
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I thought I'd be outraged when I started reading this, but it sounds sort of OK.
It can be a good thing for a dog to get used to lots of different people.... & other pets for that matter.They are then surely less likely to suffer separation anxiety through becoming over attached to one doting owner.
It could be a good thing for owners who go out to work all day. Some people do a similar thing already - leave their pooch with a neighbour while they go out to work, then have him back when they get home. Far from being unsettling for the dog it can be literally a life saver.Also good company for perhaps an elderly neighbour.
On reflection I like the idea....
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There has been at least one report of an early-adopter having replication (as in master/slave) configured with SolrCloud and having very odd results. Experienced Solr users could reasonably try this (or just have their configurations from 3.x Solr installations hanging around). Since SolrCloud takes this functionality over completely, it seems like replication needs to be made smart enough to disable itself if running under SolrCloud.
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Since SolrCloud takes this functionality over completely, it seems like replication needs to be made smart enough to disable itself if running under SolrCloud.
SolrCloud does not take this functionality over - it uses it. The example replication handler given in the example solrconfig.xml is sufficient. Some other config might make sense (say you want to enable basic auth or compression), while others should be left alone - eg you don't want to configure a node as a slave most likely.
SolrCloud takes advantage of the existing replication functionality and pass parameters about who to poll from and when - you can't disable it - we might just do some conf checks and print warnings and or fail depending on config that is found - but in some cases their might be legit reasons to alter config in ways we don't anticipate depending on what you might be trying to setup.
I phrased it poorly, I'm aware that SolrCloud uses replication as needed.
My base question here is are we sure that if a user has a classic master/slave setup and is running SolrCloud, do they play nice together? So a slave polls the master, and new segments are moved to the slave (classic). Meanwhile, the master may or may not be the leader. The updates may have been received already via the leader forwarding the requests. Does this all behave well?
And if the leader goes down, a new leader is elected and classic replication does what?
It seems like the replication handler polling should just be disabled in the SolrCloud world or is this all "just handled" today?
We've seen problems in the past where people configure a classic master/slave setup then merrily index to both machines, replication can get all confused. I'm making sure this has been handled or at least is flagged as something to check.
And, yes, "they shouldn't do that". If we can put in a low-cost way to insure this it might save people grief. And people will no doubt be upgrading from 3.x at some point, moving their solrconfig files if nothing else....
But as I said, I may be seeing something that's not there in which case we can close this as "silly boy is hallucinating again"...
I was planning to file a feature request for something that the Gluster project calls geo-replication. Would that fall under this issue, or should it be a new one?
With this feature, you would have two semi-independent SolrCloud setups, one of which would replicate from the other. Ideally, there would be no master or slave - either the replication would work in both directions, or a higher-level leader election would take place.
The driving force behind this feature is a user that wants to have a SolrCloud setup that is fully redundant between two data centers and can remain operational in the event of an entire data center going down. I'm not aware of a way to build a zookeeper ensemble in two locations that can always guarantee a working cluster without split-brain. Also, there is the fact that each update must be sent to all shards/replicas at the same time, which can be problematic when half of them are on a connection with high latency. If synchronizing the two clouds happens on a longer interval than the indexing, latency is less of a problem.
I'm sure there are a ton of technical challenges to this idea. Perhaps this is a good candidate for GSoC?
The primary issue with a 'two-DC' solution is zookeeper. A 'three-DC' solution with one zookeeper at each DC would work great, except for possible latency problems.
I would look at HBase replication. HBase also relies on ZK, yet people use HBase replication across DCs. Not bidirectional I believe, though. http://hbase.apache.org/replication.html . {Mark Miller's colleague, JD, is the main person responsible for HBase replication existence, so Mark can probably poke him for some tips.
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Let's say a configuration is running SolrCloud and has <lst
name="master"> or <lst name="slave"> bits defined in the replication
handler. Is it valid? Taken care of? Is it worth a JIRA to barf if we
detect that condition?
Because it strikes me as something that's at worst undefined behavior,
at best ignored and somewhere in the middle does replications as well
as peer synchs as well as distributed updates.
Under any circumstances it doesn't seem like the user is doing the right thing.
Initial thought: Yes, detect and explode.
Second thought: Allowing replication config for the expert user (possibly for backup purposes) might be useful.
Third thought: Yes, detect and explode. If someone wanted to write an application that used the handler as a direct API rather than through solrconfig.xml configuration, that would work with no problem. SolrCloud basically requires that the /replication handler be enabled, but not configured.
Is the replication API fully documented anywhere? It might be nice to provide a skeletal example java application that talks to the replication API for simple index backup purposes. It would be particularly nice if it used CloudSolrServer (or the ZK client classes) and showed how to back up and restore multiple shards. If I had any idea how to write such an application, I would have already gotten started on it.
Commit 1540881 from Erick Erickson in branch 'dev/trunk'
[ https://svn.apache.org/r1540881 ]
SOLR-3397: Insure that replication and SolrCloud are compatible. Actually, just log a warning if SolrCloud is detected and master or slave is configured in solrconfig.xml
Patch that logs a warning if master or slave is configured and a zkController is detected.
Commit 1540930 from Erick Erickson in branch 'dev/branches/branch_4x'
[ https://svn.apache.org/r1540930 ]
SOLR-3397: Insure that replication and SolrCloud are compatible. Actually, just log a warning if SolrCloud is detected and master or slave is configured in solrconfig.xml


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How did the University of California (UC)-Berkeley redesign its high-enrollment, high-impact undergraduate courses to offer more opportunities for students to get engaged in research by using the university's libraries? To find out, about 60 Cornell University Library (CUL) staff and faculty attended a special presentation by Berkeley librarians Oct. 5 in G10 Biotechnology Building.
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Elizabeth Dupuis and Patricia Maughan, project director and project manager of the Mellon Library/Faculty Fellowship for Undergraduate Research at UC-Berkeley, explained that the program involves a competitive selection process to choose faculty fellows. The chosen faculty then participate in a six-day institute that brings together several campus partnerships to collaborate on how to modify courses and develop effective undergraduate research-based activities and assignments.
"We looked at a lot of programs throughout the country and determined that the Berkeley approach is closest to our context -- they are a research institution with a renewed emphasis on teaching and undergraduate education," said Kornelia Tancheva, team leader of the CUL Priority Implementation Team on Information Fluency, which sponsored the event with the library's Academic Assembly.
"They are also very decentralized, and they have this fabulous support from Mellon to offer a true partnership and collaboration across campus for the benefit of the students," Tancheva added.
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I've been a few times and the beaches are beautiful and quite empty. ST is a mix of rock ledges and salt&pepper colored sandy beach. To the south at Playa Carmen it's more sandy, and then there's a few more rocky outcroppings towards Mal Pais.
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THIS gorgeous combination of tart berries is the perfect partner to vanilla yoghurt, ice-cream and rice pudding
It's a doddle to make (basically an unset jam). Take a mix of blackcurrants and gooseberries, place them in a non-stick pan with sugar to taste.
Heat slowly, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved and the fruit is cooked. Pot up into sterilised jars (wash thoroughly, then put in a cool oven for 10 minutes. Keep in the fridge.
"A WASTE of good vodka," my other half said.
I don't think so. Take half a bottle of vodka (or brandy) and add blackcurrants until the bottle is full. Leave for six months and savour the flavour.


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Having lived in Manchester twice for 6 months each time, I used taxi's in Manchester a few times and I have to say I am impressed.
Taxi's run the same as London ones, with big black cabs, these are great, much easier than a conventional car, with plenty of leg room and large enough for 5 passengers plus the driver, with the back seat for 3 passengers then two tip-up style seats behind the drivers cab. You have plenty of space for large suitcases, take this from someone who doesn't travel light, you have ample space in the back for passengers & large luggage. The cabs also rather comfortable too, they are also fitted with security locks on the door, which automatically turn on when the cab is moving.
I must say drivers in Manchester are very friendly, obviously I've not drove round with all of them but the ones I have come across, are not arrogant or rude, they engage you with light conversation, which I admit can be a bit tiring if you can't be bothered to talk, but they are just being friendly. Makes a massive difference from where I am from, some of them taxi drivers are scary, so Manchester is a refreshing change from home when it comes to using taxis.
They are fairly priced too, unlike in London, I could travel quite far for about a tenner, they are easy to pick up too, either call one of the many operators or if your in the City you have taxi-ranks all over where you can pick one up pretty much all day and night, only one time I had a problem was on my birthday night out with work, at 3am ended up waiting about 1 and a half hours in temperitures of about -2c for a taxi.
Would still deffinately recommend a taxi if your in Manchester.


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The Universal Waste Rules are alternative rules for some common wastes that allow them to be handled more easily. See more general information at Manage Waste as Universal Waste. This page is specific to batteries.
The Universal Waste Rule can apply to all batteries that are dangerous waste. It is the generators responsibility to determine, by designation methods, if their batteries are a dangerous waste. Batteries that do not designate as dangerous waste do not have to be managed as universal waste. Examples of battery types that could be managed as universal waste include:
|Button cell mercuric oxide
|Silver oxide
|Zinc-carbon Nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd)
|Zinc air
|Lead acid*
*Note that while spent lead-acid batteries (typically automotive batteries) can be managed as universal waste, they are most often managed under the optional Lead-acid Battery Exemption.
Lead-acid Battery Exemption is the easiest management method for those businesses that handle lead-acid batteries, such as automotive and marine batteries
Consumer products with difficult-to-remove batteries can be managed as universal waste. Miniature batteries, used in numerous products, like toys, hearing aids, watches, calculators, and other portable devices can also be managed as universal waste.
Contact a Hazardous Waste Specialist if you are unsure.
Clearly label or mark individual batteries or containers of universal waste batteries with one of the following phrases:
Accumulate batteries for up to one year from the date they are generated. Mark with the first date batteries began to be stored in the collection container to documents storage time. Damaged or leaking batteries must be stored in closed containers to prevent releasing toxic materials to the environment. Batteries must be compatible with one another and with the container.
Free Waste Labels are available for download, and Universal Waste labels are part way down the page.
Universal Waste Rule for Batteries is a published Ecology fact sheet detailing the how the Universal Waste Rule can apply to battery management.
Universal Waste Rule for Mercury-containing Equipment is a published Ecology fact sheet details the how the Universal Waste Rule can apply to thermostats and other mercury-containing equipment.
Universal Waste Rule for Lamps is a published Ecology fact sheet detailing the how the Universal Waste Rule can apply to lamp management.
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Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
June 30, 2011
All those who have been long awaiting the release of the 2011 American Eagle Silver coins by the US Mint can now relax. America's official source of bullion will release the much anticipated 2011 edition tomorrow at noon, with a strict limit of 100 coins per household at the low, low price of…$59.95! Gotta love that physical-paper spread… It is almost as good as the gold-tungsten compression pair trade.
And in what is probably far more important news, GATA informs us that Utah Senator Mike Lee, has joined two other senators to introduce legislation that would eliminate capital gains from transactions involving gold and silver, "a change that he hopes will encourage a change in the nation's monetary system." The reason: "This bill is an important step towards a stable and sound currency whose value is protected from the Fed's printing press."
Utah Sen. Mike Lee joined with fellow Republicans on Tuesday to introduce legislation that would jettison federal capital gains taxes for gold or silver coins.
Lee's measure would treat gold or silver coins the same as regular U.S. currency in transactions, a change that he hopes will encourage a change in the nation's monetary system.
Utah was the first state in the nation to make gold or silver coins legal tender for transactions and removed any state capital gains taxes. Twelve other states have made or are considering such a move.
Lee noted that the U.S. dollar has lost about 98 percent of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913.
"This bill is an important step towards a stable and sound currency whose value is protected from the Fed's printing press," Lee said.
Lee co-sponsored the legislation with Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Good luck with that. And some words of advice to Senator Lee: stay away from rapidly moving objects and swimming pools.
This article was posted: Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2:52 am


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Dragon Commander - Status Update
Lar has posted a lengthy status update again, talking about his difficulty getting major publishers interested in Dragon Commander at Gamescom:
Other than showing the game to the press, which was handled well by Farhang I think (you can see how he did on the gametrailers footage,) my main purpose at Gamescom was seeking out distribution in retail, so that one day you can actually buy a copy of Dragon Commander in stores. During the conversations I had for that purpose, I quickly realized that even being called the biggest surprise of the show by many a site does not impress some of the dinosaurs of the games industry
"You know, marketing did research on Dragons for one of our own major properties, and they told me positively that there's no audience. Nobody will buy it." was a statement I heard from one of the guardians to retail heaven. I had been building up quite some enthousiasm as I was presenting him the game, at least in my head as I was imagining all the cool things we were going do in Dragon Commander, and I honestly couldn't imagine him not being at least moderately positive this time. I'd presented quite a few games to him in the past with little success, but this time, fresh from the enthousiastic reception I'd been experiencing the previous days, I was sure I'd struck gold. I of course didn't think about what marketing would have to say – I just wanted to hear if he liked it.
As he politely started explaining to me why Dragon Commander would be a total failure, memories of a similar conversation popped up in my head, where I was equally politely told by the same guy that maybe I should focus on our kids titles because clearly we had nothing to seek in the "real game" space. He didn't remember that I think, or didn't want to remember it as the success of the Dragon Knight Saga was too tangible a proof that his predictions had a tendency of being iffy. So as I was waiting for him to tell me that "jetpacks might raise global warming issues among the audience" (which to his credit he didn't say), I suddenly realized that the best endorsement I could get was this guy telling me that it was going to be a complete and utter failure! Or so I liked to think.
And it continued. I met major publisher after major publisher, meeting completly risk averse people, seemingly brainwashed by their marketing departments and thinking about games as SKUs. I had to look up what a SKU was, so for the equally ill informed, a SKU is a number or code used to identify each unique product or item for sale in a store or other business (at least according to Wikipedia). To be blunt, my feelings about thinking about a game as a SKU can be summarized as - Yuk! Yuk! And Yuk! But that's just me. It's cliché to talk about majors like that, but hell, why do they have to honor those clichés ? A little bit of out of the box behavior would make these meetings a lot more fun!
Information aboutDragon Commander
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Steampunk
Genre: Strategy-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: October 27, 2009
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, Sony, Weinstein Company, Animation, Family, Horror, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Thrillers, Home Entertainment, Lists, New Releases,
Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available this Tuesday:
- Afterwards: DVD
- Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson: DVD
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: DVD, Blu-ray
- The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue: Blu-ray
- Night of the Creeps: DVD, Blu-ray
- Nothing Like the Holidays: DVD, Blu-ray
- Orphan: DVD, Blu-ray
- Stargate (15th Anniversary Edition): Blu-ray
- Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure: DVD, Blu-ray
- Whatever Works: DVD, Blu-ray
Make sure to also check out the TV-on-DVD options for this week.
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Box Office Breakdown: Burn After Reading Smokes Past Competition
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: DreamWorks, FOCUS, Lionsgate, Picturehouse, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Sequels, Comedy, Box Office, Lists, New Releases,
Around this same time last year, Tyler Perry was beating George Clooney in a battle at the box office. Now the Sexiest Man Alive is having his day.
This past weekend, cineplexes were kept busy with a handful of new releases. Although each film had a chance of reaching #1, Burn After Reading - starring Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand - emerged as the eventual winner. But the news wasn't so bad for the other three contenders. Theatergoers clearly starving for fresh material placed all four wide release entries into the chart's four top slots.
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In Theaters This Weekend: September 12, 2008
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: FOCUS, Lionsgate, Picturehouse, Adaptation, Documentary, Drama, Foreign, Independent, Musicals, Satire, Comedy, Lists, New Releases,
Here are some possible suggestions for your upcoming weekend:
- Burn After Reading (R): starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand (directed by Joel and Ethan Coen)
- Righteous Kill (R): starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Carla Gugino (directed by Jon Avnet)
- Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (PG-13): starring Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Kathy Bates (directed by Tyler Perry)
- The Women (PG-13): starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes (directed by Diane English)
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Klippkroog · Hamburg
'Moin! Dear guests, our goal is to work with a deeper awareness for the products we are using. Our goods are mainly provided by local producers, who love their work just as much as we do.' With these words Klippkroog welcomes it´s guests on the first page of the menu. Followed by breakfasts with cheese made by locals, homemade marmelade and fresh joghurt with fruits. You can get freshly pressed juices, coffee, tea, etc while for dinner they serve for instance dumplings with mushrooms, leaf spinach with tomatoes and other dishes that sound just delicious. I would love to have a seat at the large-scale bench in front of the Klippkroog and just try everything on their menu.
While our ecological thinking fellow man should be already more then convinced by the Klippkroog I believe that also persons that are not ecologicaly interested will be stoked by the delicious food, the modern ambience and the friendly staff. As far as I am concerned I am glad I found this beautiful spot and am just a little sad it is not located in Berlin.
Opening hours:
Mon 08.00 – 18.00 · Tue – Fri 08.00 – 24.00 · Sat 09.00 – 24.00 · Sun 09.00 – 18.00
Klippkroog · Große Bergstraße 255 · 22767 Hamburg
Tel: 004940 572 44 368 · Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com · Web: www.klippkroog.de
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"BUYER BEWARE. If you purchase the DVDs THE FIRM 'Automatically' signs you up for a "Free" club membership. (I did not want nor order this.) Without confirmation or proper notification, they will then begin auto-billing $9.99 membership fee to your credit card without prior notification, so you have to remember to "opt out". When I discovered this billing practice, Customer Service indicated there was no intent to credit my account, as the burden is on the customer to opt out.
I consider this type of sneaky billing practice UNPROFESSIONAL and expect that other customers, like me, were surprised by this."
"I ordered the The Firm Wave over the phone, you never speak to a person, all automated and never tells you how much, though on the TV it was advertised at 2 payments of $29.95 with $19.95 S&H. I did it in 2 installments, but was amazed when I checked my bank account and had been billed $86.75 and $36.75 and apparently that wasn't all they were going to charge, I was going to get billed again in 30 days. Apparently I had all kinds of upgrades, I didn't want. When I asked to cancel my order after seeing these charges I was told it was already in processing and they couldn't cancel, that was 2 days before they even shipped it. Needless to say I will be refusing. I would say if you are going to order, do it online so you know what you are getting and how much it will be!!!"
"The tape set I bought (actually at a local store) was sealed with cellophane and had a sticker on the outside offering "$30 off The Firm Fanny Lifter". OK, sounds like a good deal.
Except that there wasn't any paperwork inside the package. So, I called 'The Firm Direct' and talked with someone named "Tommie". She took the details, told me a supervisor would look into it and let me know within a week.
Eleven days later I called to follow up. They had absolutely NO record of the original conversation. I repeated the entire story to this "customer service rep" (yeah, right) who then put me on hold for a while. When she returned, I was told that they "didn't know anything about that promotion and couldn't honor it."
So, to summarize:
1. The Firm sells sealed packages with misleading information on a outside of the package;
2. They don't even include the paperwork inside the package;
3. When contacted with a request to honor the offer, they promise follow-up but don't bother to do so;
4. When asked to make good on the offer, they deny it ever existed.
I'm not impressed; are you?"
"I purchased the Transfirmer from Firm Direct on January 20, 2006. On the site it says that I should get my order within 10-15 business days. I called them 2/7/06, (12 business days later) just to ask them when my order would arrive. They told me that it was on back order and that I should receive it sometime the next week. I called them again today, 2/15/06, and they told me that it was just shipped out 2/13/06 and that I should get it sometime next week. I know it was cheaper through this website, but it so was not worth it. Next time I'll order it through a more reliable company. "


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You've got to look forward. I'm happy with my career I've had here. I'm going to take advantage of the last four games that I have. —Daniel Sorensen, BYU safety
PROVO — This season hasn't gone the way BYU safety Daniel Sorensen had hoped.
There was the season-opening setback at Virginia amid bizarre circumstances. Then came a devastating loss at home to archrival Utah in the final scheduled meeting between the two schools until 2016. Then, last Saturday, the Cougars fell to nationally ranked Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium.
"We're all a little frustrated with how some of the season has gone by — not to what we've expected," Sorensen said Monday. "That kind of reflects in some of the ways I've played this year. You want to take some of those plays back and do it over again."
For Sorensen and the 21 other seniors who will be playing their final game at LaVell Edwards Stadium Saturday (1 p.m. MST, BYUtv) against Idaho State, there are just four games remaining. They're looking to finish the season strong.
The Cougars can still post a 10-win season, and earn their fifth consecutive bowl victory.
"You've got to look forward," Sorensen said. "I'm happy with my career I've had here. I'm going to take advantage of the last four games that I have."
The 22 seniors that will be honored and given their traditional "Y" blankets Saturday are Sorensen, Tyler Beck, JD Falslev, Kaneakua Friel, Spencer Hadley, Mike Hague, Cody Hoffman, Adam Hogan, Austin Holt, Austen Jorgensen, Scott LeFrandt, Eathyn Manumaleuna, Marcus Mathews, Blake Morgan, Jason Munns, Kevin O'Mary, Skyler Ridley, Justin Sorensen, Uani Unga, Manaaki Vaitai, Kyle Van Noy and Richard Wilson.
Falslev (broken hand) and Hadley (knee) will not be available to play Saturday.
Hoffman has broken the three major receiving records at BYU. He's the Cougars' all-time leader in receptions (239), yards (3,355) and touchdown catches (33). Hoffman needs one more 100-yard receiving game to surpass Austin Collie in that category and he needs 305 all-purpose yards to eclipse Curtis Brown.
Van Noy is a finalist or semifinalist for four awards — the Senior CLASS award finalist list and the Butkus, Bednarik and Lombardi semifinalist lists.
Also an All-America candidate, Van Noy has recorded 26 career sacks, which is second nationally among active FBS players. He's tied for No. 4 at BYU in career sacks and needs eight more to become the all-time leader.
Both Van Noy and Hoffman are projected as National Football League draft picks next spring.
How would Daniel Sorensen describe this senior class?11 comments on this story
"I would say talented," he said. "We have a lot of talented players in this senior class. We've been through a lot. I don't think we've lived up to everything we could have or should have. In a way, it's a little disappointing when you see the opportunity that we had before us and not take advantage of that."
What is coach Bronco Mendenhall assessment of his group of seniors?
"They're really talented. They're hard-working. They've accomplished a lot," he said. "I think what they're most anxious for is to have a great finish to this year. They think there's still a lot left that they might be able to accomplish. I'm just grateful they came to BYU and they've really helped our program."


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