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Here is the original recall notice. I have sent in at least 3 guns for the modification over the years with no problems, the last one, just last month. I applaud S&W for still providing this service for guns that they sold decades ago.
MODEL 581, 586, 681, 686, or 581-1,
RECALL: Reports have been received from the field where the combination of a SMITH & WESSON L-FRAME 357 MAGNUM REVOLVER and some .357 Magnum ammunition has resulted in unacceptable cylinder binding. L-frame revolvers bearing model numbers:
581, 586, 681, 686, or 581-1, 586-1,
Cylinder binding can cause a failure to fire. Mishandling a revolver while freeing the cylinder can result in accidental discharge.
Cylinder binding can result from a number of causes, including characteristics of an individual revolver or the use of ammunition, which does not conform to industry pressure specifications or is particularly fast burning. Recent developments in ammunition manufacture emphasize the production of .357 Magnum ammunition with increased velocity and greater primer sensitivity.
Although there have been very few reported incidents of cylinder binding, in view of our concern for our customer's safety and the reliability of Smith & Wesson products in all circumstances, we issue the following warning:
In a situation where a failure to fire can be critical - such as law enforcement or personal protection - do not use .357 Magnum ammunition with an L-frame revolver bearing model numbers 581, 586, 681, 686 or 581-1, 586-1, 681-1, 686-1, 686CS-1 without an "M" over the model number until you have had the revolver modified.
Those who need to use their L-frame revolver under these conditions prior to modification can safely fire .38 Special caliber ammunition.
Smith & Wesson has developed a modification to improve existing L-frame revolvers. This improvement enables them to fire all .357 Magnum ammunition, without cylinder binding. Shipments of L-frame revolvers from our factory after August 21, 1987 already include this improvement.
You can check if your revolver includes this improvement by looking at the left side of the frame when the cylinder is fully open. If your revolver has been stamped either with a "2" or higher number after the basic three-digit model number or with an "M" above the model number, your revolver includes this improvement and does not need modification. If your revolver bears the model number 581, 586, 681, 686, or 581-1, 586-1, 681-1, 686-1, 686CS-1 without an "M" over the model number, it does not include this improvement and your should have your revolver modified.
Smith & Wesson will modify your L-frame revolver free of charge to eliminate the possibility of cylinder binding with .357 Magnum ammunition. Law enforcement agencies wishing to arrange for modification of L-frame revolvers should call 800-458-8469 between 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. Eastern time (MA residents call 413-734-8244). Other users should send their revolvers to a Smith & Wesson Warranty Service Center, specifying "L-frame improvement program" and enclosing their name and return address.
One of the modifications to improve the L-frame revolver is the installation of a new hammer nose. This obsoletes all old L-frame hammer noses (part numbers 4702 and 7513) and all old L-frame hammer assemblies (part numbers 3366, 3378, 3380, 3382, 3391, 4722, 4723, 4726 and 4728) in field parts inventories. Superseded parts should never be fitted into a modified revolver as this may result in malfunction. It is essential for safety that you return these obsolete L-frame hammer noses and obsolete L-frame hammer assemblies for a free exchange to:
Smith & Wesson
Service Department
2100 Roosevelt Avenue
Springfield, MA 01101
Do not return L-frame hammer-nose bushings from your spare parts inventory inasmuch as they are useable in J, N and K-frame revolvers, which are not included in this Product Warning.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Smith & Wesson's first concern is the safety of its products and the protection of its customers.
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ToxFAQs™ for Bis(chloromethyl) Ether
July 1999
This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about bis(chloromethyl) ether. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. It is important you understand this information because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present.
Bis(chloromethyl) ether is only used in small amounts inside fully enclosed systems to make other chemicals. Use of this chemical is highly restricted, so chances for exposure are very low. Bis(chloromethyl) ether is highly irritating to the skin, eyes, nose, throat, and lungs and it is a carcinogen. Bis(chloromethyl) ether has been found at 2 of the 1,518 National Priorities List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What is bis(chloromethyl) ether?
Bis(chloromethyl) ether is a clear liquid with a strong unpleasant odor. It does not occur naturally. It dissolves easily in water, but degrades rapidly and readily evaporates into air.
In the past, it was used to make several types of polymers, resins, and textiles, but its use is now highly restricted. Only small quantities of bis(chloromethyl) ether are produced in the United States. The small quantities that are produced are only used in enclosed systems to make other chemicals. However, small quantities of bis(chloromethyl) ether may be formed as an impurity during the production of another chemical, chloromethyl methyl ether.
What happens to bis(chloromethyl) ether when it enters the environment?
- Bis(chloromethyl) ether released to air can be broken down by reactions with other chemicals and sunlight, or it can be removed by rain.
- In water, it is broken down quickly to formaldehyde and hydrochloric acid.
- When released to soil, some will evaporate to the air but most of it will be broken down by reacting with soil moisture.
- Bis(chloromethyl) ether does not build up in the food chain and does not last long in the environment.
How might I be exposed to bis(chloromethyl) ether?
- Because bis(chloromethyl) ether does not last long in the environment and because of its restricted use, you are not likely to be exposed to this chemical.
- The most likely way to be exposed is by breathing it in the air if you work at, or live near, an industrial facility that makes or uses chemicals that may contain bis(chloromethyl) ether as a contaminant.
How can bis(chloromethyl) ether affect my health?
Bis(chloromethyl) ether causes irritation to the skin, eyes, throat, and lungs. In some cases, damage to the lungs can be severe enough to cause death. Breathing low concentrations will cause coughing and nose, and throat irritation.
Animal studies show effects similar to those observed in people. These effects include irritation to the skin, nose, and lungs and lung damage (swelling and bleeding). Application of the liquid to the skin of mice and rabbits has produced hair loss, bleeding, swelling, and destruction of tissue.
We do not know if bis(chloromethyl) ether causes reproductive effects or birth defects in people or animals.
How likely is bis(chloromethyl) ether to cause cancer?
There is evidence that bis(chloromethyl) ether causes lung cancer and other tumors in people and animals. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that bis(chloromethyl) ether is a known human carcinogen.
Is there a medical test to show whether I've been exposed to bis(chloromethyl) ether?
Because bis(chloromethyl) ether is broken down rapidly in the body, there are no specific tests to determine if someone has been exposed to this chemical. The only available medical tests involve physical examination of the nose and throat, chest x-rays, or other tests to identify damage to the respiratory tract. However, these tests are not specific for this chemical and can only be used after damage has occurred.
Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
The EPA recommends that levels in lakes and streams should be limited to 0.0000038 parts per billion parts of water (0.0000038 ppb) to prevent possible health effects from drinking water or eating fish contaminated with bis(chloromethyl) ether. Any release to the environment greater than 10 pounds of bis(chloromethyl) ether must be reported to the EPA.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a limit of 1 ppb as the highest acceptable level in workplace air, and strict controls have been established to minimize exposure to this chemical.
The federal recommendations have been updated as of July 1999.
Carcinogen: A substance that can cause cancer.
CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service.
Evaporate: To change into a vapor or a gas.
National Priorities List: A list of the nation's worst hazardous waste sites.
Polymer: Chemical compounds consisting of repeating structural units.
ppb: Parts per billion.
Tumor: An abnormal mass of tissue.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1989. Toxicological Profile for bis(chloromethyl) ether. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
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Here is yet another signed items from the same ebay seller highlighted previously- yes in blue ink.
My good nature is still trying to keep an open mind on these letters. I now see the seller has very kindly taken a photo of the watermark - the previous letters did not have the watermark?
Is the date bit looking right?
Any thoughts from you experts, not that i am thinking of bidding- just curoius i guess but they do look ot be getting better!


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The pilot boys were in full attack mode, the first few songs were all the freakin' rockers. "Crackerman", "Vasoline" and the first single of the new album "Between the Lines" were the highlights. The songs rocked with such force that it kept pace with the windy conditions courtesy of the remnants of what used to be Hurricane Earl.
I can attest, at least during this show that Scott was singin' with full valor and grace. The band was smokin' hot. the stage was kept clean of clutter, catwalks/ramps be damn. The groups sound was awesome and every instrument could be heard clearly. Other highlights include the songs "Big Empty" and "Sex Type Thing."
If I had to point out a sour note, it would be the steep price of $137.00 for the seats up front. There were a few empty seats to be seen in not only this section, but the entire venue. For the record there were 3 sell-out at Jones Beach this year. Phish sold out not one, but two high flying shows and a gig by Jimmy Buffett. STP did manage to bring more fans in then Cinderella and the Scorpions did earlier this summer. With this show the Jones Beach season comes to an end… Despite some brutal heat, summer really flew by quickly this year. I have confess once more…
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Dr. Navinderdeep Singh Nijher, wearing a long black beard and turban, both typical of those of the Sikh faith, was impressed with how rescue workers at the World Trade Center struggled to help people of different races and cultures on Sept. 11.
However, Nijher, the first doctor to arrive at the New York landmark after it was struck by terrorist-piloted airliners, was disappointed that the unity within the United States was short-lived. Negative stereotypes returned, he said.
Nijher was in Stockton on Friday morning for religious services and a press conference at the Sikh Temple on South Grand Street.
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He recalled that just two days after attending to the dead, dying and injured in the streets of New York, Nijher went to a photo shop and asked how much it would cost to develop two rolls of film through one-hour processing.
"For you people, that's $500," the clerk replied.
"He thought I was a terrorist," Nijher told the approximately 40 people who had gathered at the temple.
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in America wearing turbans are Sikhs," Nijher said at a press conference after the service. "They're not the terrorists who committed these acts."
A Manhattan surgeon, Nijher spoke briefly about his rescue efforts at Ground Zero, but he focused more on the need to educate the nation about the Sikh community. Sikhs themselves are to blame for not assimilating more into American society and showing how peaceful they are, Nijher said.
Like the estimated 2,000 Muslims in Lodi, the nearly 1,000 local Sikhs maintain that their religion requires peace and equality regardless of their color, creed, gender, religion and national origin.
"They are peace-loving, patriotic people," said State Sen. Dick Monteith, R-Modesto, a candidate for the 18th Congressional District seat now held by Rep. Gary Condit, D-Ceres.
Sikhism is a religion that was founded in the 15th century in the Punjab region of northern India. Early Sikh settlers arrived in the United States in the late-19th century. It is customary to wear turbans, which Sikhs wear with pride and reverence, according to a flier distributed before the service.
Bhajan Singh Bhinder, a leader at the Stockton Sikh Temple, said the temple has about 5,000 members, most of them from San Joaquin County.
"I would say at least 1,000 of them live (in Lodi)," Bhinder said.
"We need to unite and recognize who our fellow Americans are," Nijher said at the service.
Bhinder added, "No American needs to prove they are a better American than someone else."
The only elected official to attend Friday's prayer service and greet Nijher, Monteith removed his shoes before entering the temple and wore a bright orange turban, which was issued to everyone who didn't have a turban of their own. That included print and TV media representatives.
"I was born and raised in this Valley," Monteith said before the service. "I believe we all have many things in common. The Sikh community has contributed a lot to this Valley."
Nijher said he had not encountered ethnic prejudice prior to Sept. 11, but he has seen signs since that time, starting with his attempt to have his film developed.
However, Nijher said Sikhs face less prejudice in areas like San Joaquin County that have a large Sikh population.
At Ground Zero, Nijher said he was gratified to find that no one questioned who he was or why he was there, despite his beard and turban.
"This camaraderie was a true representation of the American spirit," he said.
Monteith presented Nijher a proclamation by the State Senate for his work at the World Trade Center.
"Dr. Nijher is an American hero," Monteith said. "He saved the lives of numerous firemen, police officers and Port Authority workers."
Nijher replied, "I don't consider myself a hero. I did something any American would have done."
After his Stockton visit, Nijher spoke about disaster preparedness with personnel at Sutter Roseville Hospital in Roseville. He was also scheduled to speak at a synagogue and Lutheran church in Sacramento over the weekend.
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I became a mentor in Take Stock in Children three years ago. I was looking for an opportunity to give back to the community and since I was a retired school teacher the TSIC program seemed like a logical fit. This program has a very strong impact in the lives of the youth it serves. Although the program does provide scholarship monies to those that successfully fulfill their contracts, this is secondary to the mentorship provided. The bond that develops between the mentors and the students is often one of the strongest of all the mentee's relationships. They know that regardless of what else is happening they have someone who is there to encourage, consul, listen to and empathize with them. Often their mentor is the one constant in their lives. Having someone to help them face and over come the challenges that life deals them can mean the difference between failure and success. I am proud to be a mentor in this much needed and successful program.
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1. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed dataBrad_Peek Apr 14, 2010 10:10 PM (in response to 762405)We are in the middle of a POC with an Exadata quarter rack using SATA drives. Our testing of compression has been mixed, but it is actually the OLTP compression that we have been dissapointed with since the marketing material suggests that the performance penalty for updates when using OLTP compression is minimal.
We found that if you have a process that updates all the rows in a set of contiguous blocks then you can see up to 10X slower performance of the updates. Especially if the update process is a recurring one in which those same rows are updated each time the process runs. Our initial intent was to compress everything using OLTP compression except for certain large partitioned tables, in which case we would use either QUERY or ARCHIVE compression on the older read-only partitions. We had to back off of that approach due to the update performance penalty. Our theory is that row-migration is playing a role in the slower performance, since we noticed a large number of chained rows after the updates.
There is a least one bug filed regarding the OLTP compression performace of updates. I don't think a patch is available as of this posting but you would need to confirm.
Bug 9049164 - SLOW UPDATE WITH ADVANCED COMPRESSION AND A VARCHAR2 COLUMN.
There is a table with a varchar2 column, and if we run a update against this column where the table has the option COMPRESS for all operations, then the performance is extremely slow.
This is not the case if the column is the number field.
SQL> UPDATE fin_coll_data_100m_nocompress
set record_update_by=record_update_by||'S'
where rownum < 1000000;
999999 rows updated.
Elapsed: 00:01:21.36
SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache;
System altered.
Elapsed: 00:00:01.62
SQL> UPDATE fin_coll_data_100m_comp_FAO
set record_update_by=record_update_by||'S'
where rownum < 1000000;
999999 rows updated.
Elapsed: 06:58:41.06
1) Compressed tables can only have columns added or dropped if the COMPRESS FOR ALL OPERATIONS option was used.
2) Compressed tables must not have more than 255 columns.
3) Compression is not applied to LOB segments.
4) Table compression is only valid for heap organized tables, not index organized tables.
5) The compression clause cannot be applied to hash or hash-list partitions. Instead, they must inherit their compression settings from the tablespace, table or partition settings.
6) Table compression cannot be specified for external or clustered tables.
2. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed dataBrad_Peek Apr 14, 2010 10:18 PM (in response to Brad_Peek)I just realized that I pretty much ignored your actual question about EHCC compressed data. We've done a number of tests but haven't organized the results in a manner suitable for posting. Once that is done I will try and post some benchmarks of DML against EHCC compressed data.
3. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed dataGreg Rahn Apr 15, 2010 4:55 PM (in response to Brad_Peek)Doing bulk updates on compressed data (of any kind) will likely be slow as that type of operation is not optimal for compression, so "testing" it is really unnecessary - it simply isn't a match between the operation and the technology.
If the workload requires bulk updates, then it is best to not use compression of any type.
Testing it is much akin to "testing" removing every row from a table (bulk delete) via DELETE versus TRUNCATE. One operation is much faster, and for a good reason.
Greg Rahn
4. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed data575729 May 5, 2010 12:51 PM (in response to 762405)I agree with Greg Rahn.
also even oracle database without exadata the update is slow the reason is, the amount of work oracle has to do. it has to create rollback data and redo data both. The with compression things become really difficult since compression is mostly supported for read only queries.
5. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed datauser5431290 May 14, 2011 1:42 PM (in response to 575729)What we found here on our Exadata warehouse setup, is that as much as possible turn everything into direct path inserts and combine that with partition exchange to arrive at either deletes or updates...
6. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed dataUwehesse-Oracle May 16, 2011 8:10 AM (in response to 762405)You may consider the requirement to do UPDATE frequently against HCC compressed tables a design mistake. You won't find many experiences from production systems (hopefully) about that therefore.
Just don't do it :-)
Kind regards
Uwe Hesse
7. Re: UPDATE DML performance on EHCC compressed dataLuis Moreno Campos-Oracle May 19, 2011 1:07 PM (in response to 762405)Update on non-compressed information is typically a heavy operation, but in HCC data the update has a different algorithm.
It will delete the entry in the Compression Unit (CU), and insert it the table as non-compressed data. So you have a new row.
If you do it to the entire table it will uncompress the entire table. But then if you move (rebuild) the table, these rows will be brought together to form CUs, thus compressing them.
Being aware of this, use it wisely.
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Netanya municipality officials held a ceremony last week meant to symbolize the city's efforts to protect the environment: Along the banks of the city's large winter rain pool, local schoolchildren planted the bulbs of the rare purple iris. The bulbs were transplanted from a nearby site slated for construction.
The city's economic development corporation said the project was being carried out jointly with ecological organizations to protect a rare natural treasure. However, according to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, the goal will not be met as only a minuscule number of the rare flowers will be saved, while their main habitat will be destroyed by the construction.
Netanya has two rare natural sites, adjacent to each other. One is the Dura rain pool, one of the last of such seasonal bodies of water to survive in Israel. Next to it is a hill that was once home to one of the largest concentrations of purple irises, a species that exists only in Israel.
The Israel Lands Administration and the municipality of Netanya have promoted a large-scale construction project that will surround the rain pool, albeit leaving it intact, with three residential towers slated to be built on Iris Hill. The Union for Environmental Defense and a local resident waged a legal battle against the construction of the towers, which recently failed. The city's economic development corporation decided to transplant the irises and move ahead on construction.
"This is cosmetic work, since most of the irises won't survive," Alon Rothschild of SPNI says, basing his opinion among other things on a study by Dr. Yuval Sapir of Ben-Gurion University. "Instead of moving the bulbs, the city should have saved their habitat and prevented construction next to the rain pool, which is deteriorating," he added.
Architect Sarah Gazit, head of the city's planning department, said: "The Netanya municipality has a rain pool committee that meets from time to time and includes representatives of ecological organizations and the municipality. The committee employs experts and has issued a report mapping the plants. The transplanting of the bulbs was monitored by experts."
With regard to the rain pool, Gazit added: "Since there is no outstanding example in Israel on dealing with a rain pool, we view ourselves as a pilot to be emulated on this matter."
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Norman Buroker was born in Portland, Ore, USA, in 1943. He received his B.S. degree in general science with a major in chemistry and minors in biology and mathematics from Mississippi State University, Starkville, Miss, USA, in 1968. He worked two years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Seattle, Wash and then entered the University of Washington where he received an M.S. degree (1975) and a Ph.D. degree (1978) in fisheries with emphasis on biochemistry and genetics. He took a position as a Research Associate at the Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, University of Maryland in 1979 and then was awarded a Busch Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1981 with the Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, NJ, USA. In 1983, he made a career change into medicine and took a position as a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1987, he took a position as a Research Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington. In 2003, he moved to a Research Scientist position in the Department of Cardiology at Seattle Children's Hospital, and in 2009 he moved back to the Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington where he currently works as a Senior Research Scientist. He has extensive research experience in molecular and population genetics and has several manuscripts involving these disciplines covering a wide variety of fields. His work in cardiology focused on nuclear and mitochondrial receptors in the mammalian heart and their association with metabolic genes. The research involves identifying and characterizing the PPAR response elements in promoter regions of target genes.
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New Patent Reinforces Elektrobay As World1s Leading EV Charging Station
BRIGHTON, UNITED KINGDOM – Oct 31, 2011: Verifying Elektromotive's position as a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, the UK-based firm has been granted a Patent for its safe and secure Elektrobay charging station.
Introduced in 2006, the Elektrobay was the first public charging station installed in the UK on the streets of Westminster in London. Its cutting-edge design and safe, secure usability has provided a viable solution to charging electric vehicles between journeys and has since been adopted across the UK and worldwide at over 2,000 sites.
The Patent awarded to Elektromotive protects the innovative design of the controller within the Elektrobay. This controls the user's access and activation of the charging station via a wireless key fob and safely initiates the charging process when the secure, weatherproof door at the front of the unit is closed over the inserted plug.
When the Elektrobay was designed in 2004, it was essential that the unit was safe, secure and could only be accessed by registered users. The wireless key fob system was adopted to store personal user details, enabling them to easily access the Elektrobay socket and provide data for monitoring individual charging profiles. To prevent interference when charging is in progress and for optimum safety, a door was designed to cover the Elektrobay socket and inserted plug. This door only opens using the key fob, it locks shut when charging is underway and is only reopened using the same key fob that initiated the charging process.
Prince Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah, Chairman and CEO of Elektromotive Group, commented: "The patented technology that goes into the Elektrobay ensures that it exceeds all current safety legislation and is as user-friendly a design as possible. We are confident that this will act as an incentive to governments and businesses keen to invest in an EV charging infrastructure."
"Being granted this patent is testament to the innovative design process that we apply to all our products," commented Greg Simmons, Technical Director of Elektromotive. "We have been in the EV arena for a very long time, striving to stay ahead of the competition by developing new products that support the increasing numbers of EVs. As the first company to develop this practical solution to charging EVs in public places, we are relieved that our technology and investment, which we made in 2004, is now fully protected."
Calvey Taylor-Haw, Managing Director of Elektromotive added; "Having this patent is instrumental in the development of our company. It asserts Elektromotive as a leader in the development of charging facilities for EVs, thus giving our customers even further confidence in our products.
"Entering a market at a very early stage is a double-edged sword. We took a risk by investing in the R&D of a completely new product in an emerging market, but we now have a Patent for a system that brings commercial and strategic advantages. For all our products, we will continue to protect the IP and designs in this way," said Taylor-Haw.
Since launching its first Elektrobay charging station, Elektromotive has developed a full range of recharging products for all types of plug-in EVs, including its Home Charger, Fast Charger, rated at 400 Volts AC, and a DC-DC 50KV Rapid Charger, which is capable of charging compatible EVs to 80 per cent of their charge in just 20 minutes.


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Premise: Arsenio Hall hosts this one-hour variety/talent series inspired by the original 1983-95 ``Star Search.'' The series features live tournament-style competitions in categories involving singing, dancing and, for a time, comedy, culminating in the grand prize-winning ``star'' in each category. A panel of both celebrity judges and at-home, interactive viewers will determine the winners.


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Oh these new prima papers are sublime!! I chose this one because I have a grandaughter Isabella, but to be honest, I bought every other one in the range too. They are delicious! What a pretty frame to put round a lo, and I used this one on a BOY layout too! Gorgeous mediterranean colours, and just a hint of pink in the stitching - go on, you know you want some!!
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If you're anything like me, you leave all your files in one big clump on the Desktop for later "sorting." Then, again if you're like me, you put all these files into a hastily constructed "Sort Me" folder right before you connect the projector for that big presentation you have to do so no one sees just how many LOL cat pictures you have. Right? No? Ok, skip the LOL cat part. Today's tip is a "search-not-organize" user's dream, allowing the best of both worlds.
Desktoday does one thing and one thing only: it moves all those files cluttering up your Desktop into a folder with today's date on it. In addition, it is configurable to put those files into any destination folder you like. You can also create Exceptions to the clearing, if you have specific files you need to leave on the Desktop for any reason.
Once you download Desktoday from the Mac App Store, launch it from the Launchpad. It will place a menubar icon in the upper right of your screen with a helpful message that it has done so. Thanks!
Click on the little folder that makes up Desktoday's menubar icon, and choose Clear Desktop. The app will bring up a grey dialoge box, with a progress bar telling you what files it's processing in real time. The files will be moved from your Desktop to a folder called Desktoday in your Documents folder. You can set this destination in the Preferences, accessible in the same menu you launched the Desktop cleaning from.
In the Preferences window, you can tell Desktoday to start clearing the Desktop automatically on log in, enable a keyboard shortcut to clear your Dekstop, and even show or hide the menubar icon border. When you're customized, click Done and you're good to go.
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soda: What are the costs and benefits to students and schools? March 25, 2004, Student Run Press Conference
When SB 677 (Ortiz) was introduced it aimed to ban soda and other high-sugar drinks at elementary, intermediate and high schools. While the bill was amended to exclude high schools from the ban, the question still remains, do the financial benefits of vending machines on high school campuses outweigh the costs associated with too much soda consumption?
According to the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA), childhood obesity and inactivity has reached an all-time high in California. It is estimated that 26.5% of California kids are overweight and 39.6% are unfit. CCPHA suggests that part of the solution is to limit the amount of soft drinks available to students. On the other hand, the average high school collects $30,000 a year in drink vending sales that can be used to fund school newspapers, drama clubs and other special programs. As state funding for education decreases, can schools afford to eliminate the sale of sodas or have schools become so reliant on the revenues from soda sales, that they are forced to maintain their presence on school campuses despite the health risks? Where do students stand on this issue?


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If it was SMS last time, you can now add to it Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and what have you.
"It's tough," said one Ipoh-based Umno leader. "We have an intense fight on our hands, the toughest perhaps."
The Barisan Nasional stalwart was talking about the ongoing campaigning for the 2013 general election (GE13).
In two days, the nation goes to the polls to vote in the next government at federal and state levels, except for Sarawak.
Communication is making a huge difference. BN has been somewhat on the defensive as the opposition coalition at the federal level is better able to communicate direct to the people – thanks to social media.
When we are done with the GE mania, social media should win some sort of an award. It is certainly a decisive differentiator in the run-up to the polls this time around.
In the GE12, the mobile short messaging service (SMS) and e-mails going viral played havoc in BN's defence of its turf. But at no time did it really push the massive coalition to the far end on defence.
It's different this time. Increased mobile penetration and mobile data usage have made communication easier. If it was SMS last time, you can now add to it Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and what have you.
What is social media's impact on the local political landscape?
Most used platform
"The net impact of social media in the run-up to GE13 is that it has acted as the transmitter of online political content in Malaysia," said James Gomez from Universiti Utara Malaysia's School of International Studies.
"As a social networking site, Facebook in particular is the most used platform to share in particular alternative online political content."
Gomez should know a thing or two. He contested in the Singapore general elections in 2006 and 2011, the latter on the opposition Singapore Democratic Party ticket.
Now, he is a full-time academician. In a chat about a month ago, I asked him who has benefited most from social media. No one particular side, he argued, at that stage.
"In my analysis, I feel that social media has acted as a leveller. That is, it brought balance into the realm of political news," he said.
"On the one side, you have political news generated by the traditional print and broadcast media; on the other, you have alternative political content created by independent online media portals, blogs and video platforms that brought a 'balance' to the one-sided content in the traditional media."
In a way, the "balance" means that the federal opposition would have benefited.
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DAP, one of the three major parties that make up Pakatan Rakyat coalition, had even created social media strategist positions to oversee social media publicity for various campaigns like collecting RM1 donation for water rights. In that one campaign alone, it managed to raise RM130,000.
Yeo Bee Yin is one of DAP's such strategists. Her job is to leverage the power of social media to increase exposure for the party, to "compensate for the lack of or biased coverage in the mainstream media". Does it work?
In an e-mail reply, she said: "Social media is not a one-way communication, it's where your fans are willing to share your materials [what we call earned media]. We have a strong fan base in social media, that's how our news spread.
"And the rule of thumb is: what your friends say about an organisation matter more than what an organisation says about itself."
On the other side of the political divide, BN has also been burning the social media track. It will have its impact, as well.
In some ways, it will assist the BN troopers on the ground, like those in Ipoh.
Habhajan Singh is the executive editor of The Malaysian Reserve.
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The Nationals have the Tigers in Viera today. Danny Espinosa is sitting out, which is not an indication of the health of his bruised right foot, Manager Jim Riggleman said. Ivan Rodriguez isn't playing today, either, which could be a sign that the Nationals are being careful with his strained left calf. He was originally in today's lineup. Rodriguez was walking gingerly, with ice wrapped around his leg, yesterday after catching four innings. He said his calf "was perfect."
Meanwhile, Ryan Zimmerman will take batting practice today for the first time since he tweaked his groin Tuesday morning before being scratched from the lineup. Riggleman is still deciding if Zimmerman will return to game action before or after Wednesday, the Nationals' off day of the spring.
And here's the lineup:
1. Nyjer Morgan, DH
2. Rick Ankiel, CF
3. Jayson Werth, RF
4. Adam LaRoche
5. Wilson Ramos, C
6. Roger Bernadina, LF
7. Jerry Hairston, 3B
8. Alex Cora, 2B
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Graded stakes winners Freespool and Pure Precision sired their first winners July 6. Pure Precision's daughter Purely Class won by 10 1/4 lengths at Evangeline Downs as a homebred for Emerald Pastures Corp. in her initial start. The Florida-bred filly ran the five furlongs in :58.66. She is the second winner from the Holy Mountain mare Spot the Class.
Freespool's initial winner, Joe's Cannon, won at five furlongs in 1:00 at Boise for N F S Stables at first asking. Bred in Idaho by Billingsley Creek Ranch, the gelding is the fifth winner from stakes producer Lucy's Magic (by Manzotti).
Freespool (Geiger Counter--Broadtail, by Olden Times) stands for $4,000 at Rick Taylor's Special T Thoroughbreds near Temecula, Calif., and Pure Precision (Montbrook--Al's Helen, by Distinctive) stands for the same amount at Lou Gurino's Lou-Roe Farm near Morriston, Fla.


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A quick take on Syracuse's 72-61 win over Villanova on Saturday afternoon:
WHAT HAPPENED: With its best shooter, 6th man James Southerland, in street clothes due to an eligibility issue, the Orange offense never got going. Syracuse trailed at halftime, 29-27, but CJ Fair came out firing in the second half, pushing the Orange into a small lead that it didn't relinquish the rest of the way.
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ANALYSIS: The Orange sorely missed its 6th man's shooting (4-14 from 3) and, surprisingly, rebounding (outrebounded 40-34). But with freshman Jerami Grant stepping ably into Southerland's shoes, the Orange managed to claw its way to its fourth victory in conference play on the strength of its defense. Nova made a late push after the Orange went up 12, but SU managed to pull out a victory.
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HERO: The second half looked like it might be a continuation of the first, with Brandon Triche picking up an offensive foul on the Orange's first possession. Then CJ Fair went to work, tipping in a Triche miss, drilling a 3, and sparking the crowd. The game stayed close for most of the rest of the way, but Fair set the tone for the second half. Nova never recovered from his first few punches. Fair scored 9 points in the first 5 minutes of the half, finishing with 22 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 blocks. The Orange also got quality minutes from Jerami Grant, pressed into service as Southerland's replacement, and DaJuan Coleman. Grant especially was impressive, scoring a career-high 13 points, including a pair of clutch free throws as Nova was threatening late. Coleman played as well as he ever has for the Orange.
Trevor Cooney, who has struggled all season, played solid defense with Triche in foul trouble. After a poor offensive game he hit back-to-back 3s with just under 6 minutes to go to break the game open for the Orange, putting SU up double digits for the first time all game.
ZERO: An ineffective Brandon Triche picked up his 4th personal foul less than 4 minutes into the second half, sending him to the bench for over ten minutes of game time. He finished the game with 10 points on abysmal 1-8 shooting, and turned it over 3 times.
It's hard to single out one Wildcat, as the team shot 17-54 and 5-23 on 3s, and only two Nova players shot 50%. But fresh off scoring 32 against St. John's, Villanova freshman Ryan Arcidiacono was completely neutralized, scoring 7 points on 2-8 shooting while turning it over 6 times.
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Downtown Parklet Rededicates Parking Space to Pedestrians | KCET
Downtown Parklet Rededicates Parking Space to Pedestrians
Fanfare and foosball welcomed in two newly constructed public parklets camped on Spring Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets.
These parklets are small spots, once dedicated to vehicles, recommissioned into public space -- an über urban hipster idealogy of reclamation seen with CicLAvia and Park(ing) Day.
Spring Street, along with York Boulevard in Highland Park, where a parklet was just dedicated last Saturday, and later Huntington Drive in El Sereno, where a parklet will be dedicated February 16, are working toward making a greener and more pedestrian friendly city, say the believers.
Before it is declared as another step in a "Portlandia" transformation of an urban core, this is a park with curb appeal. The community driven declaration extends a sidewalk by carving out a common seating area for people to congregate, take in recreational games, or jump on stationary bicycles.
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The parklets on Spring Street were introduced as "adding to the excitement that we feel for downtown," by District 14 Councilmember José Huizar, explaining that the hardest sell about this project was not bringing the parklets in, but changing public policy in Los Angeles that has promoted cars over people.
They are emblematic of a time when people knew their neighbors and interacted with each other face-to-face, added Huizar, who envisions that Los Angeles can be like that again. "Parklets may be small in scope, but they are tremendous in impact."
Gathered with Huizar were those who worked pro-bono on a zero dollar budget to create what he called "the Taj Mahal of Parklets."
Patti Berman, President of the Downtown Neighborhood Council (DLANC), recalled the team going up to San Francisco, where parklets originated, to look closely at public common area. Valerie Watson, once a DLANC member and now Pedestrian Coordinator with L.A.'s Department of Transportation (LADOT), said the parklets were one ingredient for a "complete living street."
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, associate dean of UCLA School of Public Affairs, noted that San Francisco may have been the first city to incorporate parklets, but Los Angeles is the first city to have a parklet double as a health and exercise space.
The demand by residents and community leaders to change downtown from raw space to living space is backed up by their grass roots efforts. At the dedication, Berman touted that while DLANC team worked pro-bono, the dedicated efforts to bring the parklets, helped by grants from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, a demonstration of how to "stretch out every dollar until you could here it screaming across town."
According to LADOT, parklets price range is between $20,000 to $50,000, depending design and scale. The Spring Street parklet will be maintained by the Historic Downtown Business Improvement District (BID).
The parklets, and the street experience which they provide, are part of a 14-month pilot program and a research source for DLANC, the UCLA Lewis Center, and the USC School of Architecture.
Yet, the green bike lane butting against the parklet is a reminder of another change in the city. The dedicated bike lanes were a surprise to the film industry, and became another point in the constant negotiation to keeping filming in Los Angeles.
What of the 40-foot-long mini recreation yards with fences and wooden planters? This is not a quick urban assemblage.
"They are not mobile," later confirmed District 14's Rick Coca. "But they are based on activity on the (downtown) scene. It's a vibrant growing community."
The film industry will always be vital, he said, but needs to allow ways to work around the changes in the city. "This is not downtown of the 1980s," Cocoa said. "It's not a ghost town."
And a parking spot becomes the spirit of a downtown looking for interaction between pedestrian and transportation.
Top: Foosball table at the Spring Street Parklet. Contributing reporting and photos by Helen Ly
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Leicester v Aironi, Heineken Cup, January 21
Cockerill underwhelmed by 'average' Tigers
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Naas Olivier lands one of two penalties for Aironi, who proved a tough workout for Leicester © Getty Images
Leicester boss Richard Cockerill admitted his team's European campaign finished on a "pretty average" note with an unconvincing 33-6 Heineken Cup win over Aironi at Welford Road.
The Tigers took a considerable amount of time to subdue the battling Italians and led only 9-6 at the interval before four second half tries gave them a comfortable victory.
Clermont's narrow home win over Ulster ensured the Tigers finished in 3rd place in Pool 4.
"The game reflected the importance of it," Cockerill said. "We couldn't see Clermont losing without a bonus point so we knew there was very little hope of us progressing. We didn't get going and it was a pretty average performance."
The Leicester forwards - with excellent performances from Tom Croft, Thomas Waldrom and Ed Slater - enjoyed ample possession but behind the scrum Leicester badly missed the defence-breaking skills of Toby Flood and Manu Tuilagi.
"A number of our boys had a good run out and nobody is injured but we tried to force the game too early and made too many errors in our passing," Cockerill said.
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AAAS Science: World Oil Crunch Looming?
Richard A. Kerr, AAAS Science
Summary: Even those who believe there's plenty of oil left in the ground to meet rising demand are warning that the final crisis could come uncomfortably soon.
… The fall in oil prices will likely be shortlived, say those in the know. Although price spikes and drops may recur for years, says economist Fatih Birol, "we think the era of cheap oil is over." He and colleagues at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) just released their World Energy Outlook 2008. IEA analysts see enough oil still in the ground to satisfy ever-rising demand for decades to come—assuming the price continues to rise. But they aren't at all sure that the Middle Eastern government-owned oil companies sitting on most of the remaining oil will be pumping it fast enough a decade or two from now to meet the unbridled demands of the rest of world.
Already, countries outside oil-rich OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) seem unable to increase production further, even with the enticement of high prices. IEA's World Energy Outlook sees that plateau of non-OPEC oil production continuing, putting the burden on a reluctant OPEC to make up the shortfall, if it can.
… Some oil analysts working from their best estimate of how much oil remains in the ground—dubbed "peakists"—see world production reaching its limits in the next few years or a decade and then declining.
Signs of strain may already be emerging. Outside OPEC, oil production has not risen since 2004, even as prices soared. IEA sees no recovery in this non-OPEC production from conventional oil fields. Moreover, it projects that the plateau in conventional oil will turn into a decrease beginning in the middle of the next decade, accelerating through to 2030. Only the growth of production from expensive unconventional sources, such as mining tarry sands in Canada, will keep total non-OPEC production from falling during the next 20 years, according to IEA.
… IEA studied 800 fields around the world that had already passed their peak production to see how fast they are declining—a rather rapid 6.7% decline per year, it turns out. And that rate could increase to 8.6% by 2030, IEA says, as the industry turns more and more from waning giant onshore fields to smaller fields and offshore fields, both of which decline faster after peaking.
… In its first look ever beyond 2030, the U.S. EIA is finding even less support for a rosy oil scenario than IEA is. Its report is yet to be released, but EIA's Glen Sweetnam of the Washington, D.C., offices outlined preliminary results at an EIA conference in April (www.eia.doe.gov/conf_pdfs/Monday/Sweetnam_eia.pdf).
… Things look fine right through the rest of the century if, starting now, the whole world severely curbs its appetite for oil, the EIA analysis suggests. In this low-demand scenario, the lingering demand for oil could be met even if the nondemand factors were unfavorable.
Still on the optimistic side, if demand were to continue rising as before and level off starting in 2030—say, in response to crash programs to increase efficiency and develop alternatives—demand could be met into the second half of the century even if a single factor were unfavorable, with one exception. If OPEC does not increase its production beyond its current 34 million barrels per day, world production will plateau within a few years, reminiscent of the potential crisis IEA sees in the middle of the next decade. Most ominously, EIA's high-demand scenario — higher demand to 2030, then business-as usual increases in demand thereafter—"may be difficult to meet even with favorable supply assumptions," said Sweetnam.
Unbridled consumption does not seem to be an option.
(21 November 2008)
Behind a paywall. Author Richard A. Kerr has written previously on peak oil for Science magazine.
Contributor Michael Lardelli writes:
Just out in the top ranking journal Science. Considering the growing size and considerable activity of the ASPO organisation and the depth of its scientific talent I think it is almost insulting that it is not mentioned in the Science article.
The 2008 IEA WEO – Oil Reserves and Resources
Phil Hart, The Oil Drum: ANZ
True to their word, the 2008 World Energy Outlook represents a significant development by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the philosophy and methodology of their oil supply forecasts. The report attempts a bottom-up model of the world's oil production potential and even revises down estimates previously taken at face value from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The tone of the report has also changed dramatically, with an urgent call for investment in additional oil projects to avoid production shortfalls by 2015.
Despite those significant changes, the report still relies on inflated estimates of reserves from OPEC countries, overplays the contribution of reserves growth due to technology and predicts the reversal of a decades long trend of declining oil discoveries. These are the real factors that will send oil production into decline, but at least now we have some numbers we can discuss and analyze instead of a decade of blind faith in oil market economics.
(20 November 2008)
Nine percent
Albert Bates, The Great Change
… A ski resort is an oddly appropriate place for a petrocollapse meeting, and in Michigan, in to response to an audience question, we gave a short rap on what the exponential function looks when it is inverted. You get off the chair lift and point yourself downhill.
We know from studies of the world's major oil fields, whose production rates are known, and from a recent IEA report, that the downslope after peak oil is likely to be steeper than the 2% average annual rise in production over the past century. The reasons for this are simple: governments and industry did not believe in peak oil, preferring to listen to classical economists who chant the mantra that demand creates supply; they pushed the fields well beyond normal production limits, using secondary and tertiary recovery techniques to scour the formations; when the end came, production less resembled the smooth curves of West Texas history and more the plunge of a natural gas gusher. Decline rates are shaping up to be 9 percent, although some, like Mexico's, will be even steeper.
So what does 9 percent decline feel like? Well, on a growth curve, a 7 percent rise means a doubling every 10 years, each decade using more than all that has been used in history. On the descent, 7 percent means halving every 10 years: half the heating oil, half the tax revenues, half the fertilizer, half the semi-trucks, half the road and bridge repairs, half the school budgets, and so on. Nine percent would be slightly faster, or halving roughly every 8 years.
Gross Domestic Product in the developed world has always been a 1:1 ratio with fossil fuel consumption. Our economy and our oil use are essentially identical. If we start at 100% in 2008, and decline at 9% per year, we can see that we are at 47% of our present economic activity in 2016, and a little over 10 percent in 2032.
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It probably wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Belgian young-gun Mickey is on a bit of a roll at the moment.
Last year he blessed us with a stunning remix of Sebastien Tellier's 'Sedulous' showcasing his ability to think outside of his usual genre boundaries for the benefit of the song. In 2013 he's done it again with his remix of Claptone's 'No Eyes feat. Jaw'. It saw him retreat the familiar structure of house music for a 6 minute slice of uplifting deep house that went to the Top of the Beatport Charts. We liked his remix so much that we asked for a proper release.
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So today, I tried yet again, only this time I decided to try to just change the password (I know I can't) so I can see what email was listed as the backup.
Instead...I get a security question: What is the name of your first motorcycle. My WH never had one, so I'm assuming it's hers. The kicker is, the security questions were updated back in July, THE VERY DATE I sent an email to that account saying she could have him because I was done. At that point, the account supposedly hadn't been used in two months. WHY would she need to update the security questions on that very date?????
One of the emails he produced for me was from her to him in March at 10 AM on a Tuesday saying she was watching videos (porn) and thinking of him, and had some new toys to try out, too. And now a motorcycle!!!! She is just too good to be true. He should go to her!
Please know that I am in no way knocking women or women that ride motorcycles, watch porn, use sex toys, or anything like that. I always wanted to be more cool. I am just jealous that I'm not enough.
Someone talk me off this ledge...
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I am just jealous that I'm not enough.
Women on motorcycles are a trigger for me, too. OW has a motorcycle in our sitch. Thought it would lure my FWH with its stupid motorcycle. Really??? If FWH wanted a motorcycle he would buy one. Doesn't need to sit on the back of yours like he's your bitch. Or better, did you really think he would feel like a man driving your motorcycle and that would lure him away from me? At least you would be sitting in the proper place that was, apparently, named after it. The bitch seat. What a c you next tuesday.
I am so sorry for any women that ride motorcylces here but I really have a visceral negative reaction towards female's (even my sister-in-law) riding motorcycles.
"Oh, why do my actions have consequences?" ~ Homer Simpson
"She knew my one weakness: That I'm weak." ~ Homer Simpson
I guess it worked because I looked in to see what the he11 it was all about.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So, she's emailing him about watching porn and her new toys huh? Gee, I wonder how many men I could get, or you, or anyone, with those kinds of emails. Jesus, talk about someone that is just an attention whore. That screams 'pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee'. Desperate. Gross and desperate.
Don't worry about the bike. She isn't that 'cool'. Having a motorcycle means she was able to buy a motorcycle - nothing more. It's also a GREAT way for women to get attention, further proving what an attention seeking slugtrail this thing is.
You may not be 'cool', but you have dignity, which beats 'cool' every time.
I forgot all about that until today, when I found out about the motorcycle. That pushed me over the edge. The way she was so easy with telling him she was watching porn and thinking of him and had some new toys to try out was bad enough. It was like she was saying, "Don't you wish your wife was as great as me??" Having the name of your first motorcycle as one of your security questions, well, she is just SO AWESOME!!!!
Thank you, SisterMilkshake and Painfulpast for posting and making me feel better. Today was just a bad day. I really want that stupid email to go away. Why does she keep it?! More importantly, why does it bug me so much?? UGH!
friends wife lasting 10 years. TT over a
year a year. Now his health is declining,
among the lack of communication.
In my situation, OW loves 4-wheelin', NASCAR, big trucks, and watching football.
I like libraries, art shows, wine tastings, and watching documentaries.
I do not feel "cool" when compared to OW (and I will not kid myself and think that FWH didn't mentally compare me to her, he became just like her during the affair).
I totally get it. Seriously, I knew OWs like that before my FWH had an affair.
I wish I had more words of consolation, but just know I get it, and I feel your pain.
Madhatters. More Ddays than birthdays, at this point.
We talked last night when he got home from work, and while he is never one to say bad things about anyone, he did say that she is disgusting with her gestures (some pics on FB) and he cannot believe how stupid he was. She's not "him" and that I am way above her, etc., etc., etc. (Of course I thought of the thread "Honey, they ALWAYS affair down" and had to smile).
Anyway, I try to be a pretty upbeat person, but yesterday I was pushed to my limit. Thank you to all who responded. I'm glad you "got" what I was trying to say, because I'm sure it was very garbled, like my brain was yesterday.
I am glad you spoke to your husband. It sounds like he was able to give you the support you needed. That is good.
I didn't think your post was "garbled" either.
Oh yea, no motorcycle but she's got the 4 wheel drive truck..
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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7 (Reuters) - The price of gasoline in the Brazilian market has slipped below that in international markets, potentially saddling cash-strapped state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA with more losses on fuel imports.
Wholesale gasoline is now more than 5 percent cheaper at Brazilian refinery gates than international prices, according to analysts surveyed by Reuters. Petrobras, as the company is known, has not faced a higher import price since October when plunging world crude and fuel prices allowed Petrobras to stop subsidizing imports for the first time in several years.
"There has been no incentive to import gasoline for weeks and for diesel, the little (incentive) that there was died last week," Luciano Liborio, a director of Brazil's fuel distributors' association Sindicom told Reuters.
Petrobras must import fuel because its 13 domestic refineries cannot meet all of the needs of Brazil, the world's seventh-largest economy. Brazil's government, though, seeking to keep a lid on inflation, has long prevented Petrobras from raising fuel prices in line with world prices.
That policy cost Petrobras' refining division about 60 billion reais ($20 billion) in losses in recent years. Coming in the midst of a $221 billion five-year investment plan, it forced Petrobras to boost borrowing. This helped make Petrobras the world's most-indebted and least-profitable major oil company.
As a corruption scandal further undermined Petrobras' finances, the government allowed oil company to raise domestic fuel prices in November, ending the subsidy.
Since then Brazilian domestic gasoline prices have averaged 17 percent more than imports, according to Tendencias Consultoria, a Sao Paulo-based economic research group. The price is now 5.8 percent cheaper.
This helped ease the previous losses and gave Petrobras room to slow output and perform maintenance at its domestic refineries which were running at near full capacity.
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When the Texas Rangers signed Lance Berkman to a one-year contract, talking the veteran out of retirement, they did so with the idea he could help replace the production that departed via free agency, most notably Josh Hamilton as he'd be hitting third in the lineup — Hamilton's old spot.
Well, he's pretty much duplicated what Hamilton has done this year with his new team, but hasn't come anywhere close to what Hamilton did for the Rangers offensively last year.
Berkman was in a long, extended slump after getting off to a hot start in April and through most of May as he was just 16 for his last 87 at-bats heading into Yankee Stadium.
Prior to the Yankees series, Berkman got an extended break as he didn't play a second in St. Louis over the weekend since he could not DH in a National League park, but he was back in the Rangers' lineup on Tuesday and recorded a single, hitting sixth in the lineup.
The Rangers need more from Berkman than they've gotten recently. He's pretty much become a singles hitter and a guy who likes to take walks but has instead been striking out after showing some flashes of power early in the season.
The Rangers are still confident Berkman can help the team though, even if it might not be as an everyday player.
"I think that he's managing it, and I think Wash is doing a good job managing it," general manager Jon Daniels told the Star-Telegram. "When we signed him we knew it wasn't going to be a 162-game marathon for him. I think he can be productive."


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Life of a Follower: The Many Benefits of Twitter
This is Twitter in 140 characters: A free networking service that you can access almost anywhere that creatively maintains aspects of your business, social, and personal life.
Many critics remain skeptical about the benefits of a social media website that appears to be mainly comprised of mindless babble and thinly veiled advertisements. Moreover, Twitter seems fundamentally flawed. Can you really say anything important or meaningful in 140 characters? Why waste time obsessing over your follower count when you could be doing something more "productive?"
While it is true that their website is saturated with spammers and shameless self-promoters, Twitter does possess certain redeeming qualities that compensate for the unfavorable ones. It can be used to not only maintain current relationships, but also to create new connections, exchange ideas, and gain inspiration. Ultimately, its purpose is unique to each individual. Here are a few of Twitter's most useful functions:
Networking Aid: Owning a Twitter account can help you branch out to others in your field of interest. Even if you don't actually interact with them on a one-on-one basis, receiving updates on their current work may provide opportunities for you to collaborate with them. If you wish to advertise for your services or abilities, make sure that the offer is mutually beneficial.
Branding Developer: The personality that your tweets convey can be important if you wish to gain followers for your product or business. Witty, insightful, and relevant content can generate a positive image of your brand and create a more personal connection with consumers.
Personalized Information Source: Think of Twitter as one newsfeed for all of your favorite websites and publications. Say that your interests include political news, recent scientific discoveries, and indie rock music. Twitter combines all of those eclectic interests into an organized list, making it easy to quickly scan for interesting material. In addition, this content is being constantly updated so that you will always have up-to-date information.
Archive of Your Life: Twitter is popularly referred to as a "microblogging" service, and indeed, it is essentially a miniature journal. It can capture both significant and insignificant snippets of your life. Reading through old tweets from years past can be an enlightening experience, as doing so may reveal forgotten moments, interests, and emotions.
Trend Updater: The 21st century's rapid information production rate can make it difficult for one to keep up with the times. Twitter provides quick and brief notes on current trends, which makes it easier to stay updated on the latest and greatest.
Friend Tracker: Your friends may have a habit of sharing trivial details on their Twitter feeds, but hearing about their daily meals and woes may inspire you to pick up the phone and give them a call. Through Twitter, you can interact with your friends in a more time-efficient way; plus, their most recent tweets can make for good conversation starters.
Laugh Generator: One of the best byproducts of the 140-character limit is wit. Twitter is the perfect environment for humor, and many users solely function as comedians. You are guaranteed to find at least one account that caters to your specific sense of humor.
Writing Practice Board: Most Twitter users post regularly throughout the day, and although not all give extensive thought to their posts, many work to compose carefully crafted messages. Writing regularly in this way can not only help you condense and organize your ideas, but can also contribute to the development of your writing "voice." Expressing yourself in such little space is difficult, but it encourages you to find creative ways to document your experiences and thoughts.
Emotional Outlet: Posting personal information or controversial material online is certainly risky when it comes to future employers, but there are ways you can vent without offending anyone. Celebrating a new job or complaining about the weather to the Internet audience can feel liberating because you are speaking to a community. That community may not necessarily care about the humdrum events of your daily life, but the knowledge that your voice is being heard in some way can deter loneliness.
Celebrity Stalker: On Twitter, you have a kind of close-and-personal access to celebrities. Your definition of a celebrity may be different from that of another's, but either way, you have free admission to the private lives of your favorite stars. With the paparazzi out of the picture, you can read the words directly from the mind of the individual, allowing you to view celebrities as they truly are – as actual human beings.
Inspiration Vendor: Whether you're writing a novel, working on a home improvement project, or creating your own business, Twitter can be a guide in your life. The ideas and stories that others share can inspire your own work. They may even motivate you to abandon your computer chair and start building your dream into a tangible creation.
Social media is a powerful tool that possesses both advantages and disadvantages — Twitter is no exception. How you use it is up to you to decide.
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We are living in a world in which cows send texts to farmers when they're in heat, where the most valuable real estate in New York City houses computers, not people, and some of humanity's greatest works are created by crowds, not individuals.
We are in the midst of a networking revolution - set to transform the way we access the world's information and the way we connect with one another. Studying biological systems is perhaps the best way to understand such networks, and nature has a lesson for us if we care to listen: Bigger is rarely better in the long run. The deadliest creature is the mosquito, not the lion. It is the quality of a network that is important for survival, not the size, and all networks - the human brain, Facebook, Google, even the internet itself - eventually reach a breakpoint and collapse. That's the bad news. The good news is that reaching a breakpoint can be a step forward, allowing a network to substitute quality for quantity.
In Breakpoint, brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel takes listeners to the intersection of the brain, biology, and technology. He shows how exceptional companies are using their understanding of the Internet's brain-like powers to create a competitive advantage by building more effective websites, utilizing cloud computing, engaging social media, monetizing effectively, and leveraging a collective consciousness. Indeed, the result of these technologies is a more tightly connected world with capabilities far beyond the sum of our individual minds. Breakpoint offers a fresh and exciting perspective about the future of technology and its effects on all of us.
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Let me save you some time and a credit. Looking at the human brain, an ant colony, and the Internet, this boils down to a string of unsurprising factoids, sophomoric comparisons, and vague conclusions. Neurons in the brain & ants in a colony usually grow in number beyond some "breakpoint," after which they settle back down to some lesser size, and the effect of that settling results in greater "wisdom" for the brain & the colony. Apparently the Web will undergo the same settling at some point.
In case the subtitle piqued your interest, be aware that it's sensational purchase-bait that isn't supported by the content.
"Pseudo-science and wild speculation"
Not nearly as engaging as Malcolm Gladwell or as intelligent as Daniel Kahneman, Stibel instead relies on specious arguments and pedantic prose.
Do yourself a favor and read one of the aforementioned authors, or perhaps Nicholas Carr or Sherry Turkle, instead.
"Internet and brain"
Got a good insight into how brain closely resembles internet. What the future of technology might be. A good read.
"Excellent concept that truly changed my perception"
The analogies to biology.
The concept of carrying capacity.
The story about queen bee.
The same as the book title.
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