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Damask Stripe 500 Thread Count 3-piece Duvet Cover Set
- Upgrade your bedroom with a Damask stripe duvet set
- Bedding goes one easy with a button closure
- Duvet set feature 500 thread count and is made of 100-percent cotton
- Style: Traditional
- Pattern: Stripe
- Available in slate blue, chocolate, french vanilla, gold, dusty rose and white color options
- Full/queen: 88 inches x 88 inches
- Full/queen set includes two standard size shams
- King: 104 inches x 88 inches
- King set includes two king size shams
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Beautiful set
This set looks excellent on the bed. A good choice!Read More
It was Good
I purchased two colors:they were slate blue and Chocolate. I liked both colors but I did not like the weight of the material I had purchased prior duvets and they were much heavier in weight and that is what I was expecting. So I was disappointed with these two duvets. How ever I also purchased a black Microsuede Duvet Cover Set with Bedskirt and was extemely pleased with this one. It was much better quality I ended up keeping the micosuede and could not be more happy. In fact I recently purchased the second microsuede in chocolate because I so please with quality, ease of washing and how it looks and feels. They are extremely soft, warm and really classy looking duvetsRead More
Great. Nice product. Looks good.Read More
Great look and really soft!
They started to fade over time (but I've also had them for 3+ years), but the upside is they get softer with age. Button-closure on the bottom is convenient for easy add/remove of our down comforter.Read More
3 pc duvet cover set 500 thread
nice and soft and quality feel. worth the money.Read More
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Duvet covers are horribly overpriced - some costing more than the actual down comforter itself (I mean come on, it's two sheets that somebody sewed together...does that really need to be a $100 purchase?) This duvet was exactly what I was looking for at a fantastic price and I received it from Overstock within a week of ordering it. I couldn't be happier with my purchase.Read More
Looks and feels great!
I just received this duvet cover and the King shams. I chose this item because the measurements matched my comforter, and it came with KING SHAMS and not just standard, like many of the other king duvets. These sheets are made in China. The odor was strong when I opened the package, so I washed the items right away, and semi - dried them on medium. Since this is 100% cotton, I like to take them out of the dryer before they're completely dried and smooth them out on the bed to complete the drying so that they don't wrinkle as much. The buttons are not hidden, no big deal. There is a sheen to the fabric, which you either love or hate. I happen to love it. There are two vertical seams on the outer 1/4s of the duvet, I think all King duvets have these, but just be aware of it before you buy.My husband and I are both very pleased with the purchase. The duvet is soft and looks like great quality. I did not shrink when I washed it.Read More
Very Happy
I am extremely pleased with this product. I have a queen and bought the king, it is a beautiful duvet that I ordered in the Gold color. I was wavering between the gold and blue and am very happy I went with the gold It is a very tasteful gold. The king fits almost to the floor on both sides but the end shows so definitely needs a bed skirt. I have a Temperputic bed and finally tracked down a gold bed skirt with elastic, I don't know how mft's expect someone to use an old fashioned bed skirt; I sure couldn't lift my bed. My beige bed skirt just didn't work but gold will work great. The wrinkles on the duvet did smooth out but I shouldn't have been so lazy and ironed the shams, will after the next wash. I searched for hours here to find a duvet that was pet friendly, that sateen is the pits if you have pets. It is so nice to not have a pile of blankets on the bed. I hope it is okay to say here but I searched forever for more color selections and Overstock has a surprisingly slim selection and found the gold and a lot of other colors with the elastic on ***** .Read More
Damask Stripe 500 Thread Count Cotton Duvet Set
I was VERY disappointed when I found that the duvet had a top to bottom seam 2/3 of the way across the cover. It looks pieced together and unsightly. I refuse to use it.Read More
Comfy and beautiful
I had to double-check the thread count of this after receiving it--it feels like a much higher count than listed. The blue is really a lovely bold navy (the close up swatch looks more accurate than the in-room photo). There is a slight shimmer on the stripes but nothing gaudy. I purchased this for my boyfriend's bed and he loves it. It looks very masculine and feels amazing! Highly recommended. I might buy another one (for myself!).Read More
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"When will you be getting more of these????"
Hello cuffe, We do have the gold and chocolate in full/queen and a king size in Dusty Rose. The other colors will be stocked if and when they become available. Thank you for shopping with us.
"i want to order the slate blue one in full/queen but it isnt on the drop down list. how do i order it? also do you sell the matching sheets and bed skirt?"
Thank you for contacting us carla1821. Unfortunately this item is out of stock. We currently do not have inventory to check, and cannot guarantee the item will be restocked. I attached below the link to some others that you might like. Please let us know if you have any further questions. http://www.overstock.com/search?keywords=Damask+Stripe+500+Thread+Count&SearchType=Header
"Do your duvet covers have ties inside to hold the comforter in place?"
The cover uses buttons to keep the comforter secure.
"Is it machine washable?"
Yes, reviewers reported washing this product.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Christin Rivas, 14, was fascinated by the small, round toy magnets that you can sculpt into shapes and use to perform magic tricks.
Put a pen on a desk, hold a magnet underneath and watch the pen move across the desktop.
While playing with a couple of these rare-earth magnets at her Satellite Beach, Fla., middle school last week, Christin needed both hands to grab something, so she decided to hold the mini-magnets in her mouth. Someone made her laugh, and … gulp. She swallowed the magnets.
Five days later, Christin was at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Fla., having the magnets surgically removed from her intestines, along with a small section of her colon and her appendix.
Labels warning that magnets are harmful if swallowed have not stopped an increasing number of kids from putting them in their mouths or noses and then getting them stuck in their bodies, where they can cause serious harm.
The groups that get into the most trouble are children age 5 and younger, and tweens and teens, who use the magnets to mimic tongue, lip, cheek or nose piercings.
"Kids swallow a lot of objects," said Dr. Tejas Mehta, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Arnold Palmer who treated Rivas, "but from a GI perspective, magnets cause more damage than anything else."
That risks soars when more than one magnet goes down.
Magnets will work so hard to find each other that their force can cause intestines to twist and become blocked. The pull can also cause erosion, then ulceration, and eventually the intestine can perforate, causing infection, Mehta said.
Four out of five kids who swallow multiple magnets will need an invasive procedure, such as an endoscopy or surgery, said Mehta, who has heard of kids swallowing magnets and needing massive bowel resections.
From 2002 to 2011 magnet-related emergency-room visits among Americans younger than 21 increased fivefold, according to a recent study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
During that 10-year period, 22,500 magnet injuries were reported. Usually the kids swallowed the magnets, but about one-fourth put the magnets up their nose, said Julie Brown, an emergency-room doctor at the University of Washington, in Seattle, and lead author of the study. The magnets break loose and go in, not out.
Based on data Brown has seen since then, the problem shows no sign of slowing.
"There is something very tempting about them," Brown said. "When playing with this fidgety toy, you want to put it in your mouth. You want to try to separate the magnets with your teeth."
To toddlers, they look just like the silver-ball candies you put on cupcakes, she said.
Buckyballs, a set of 216 magnets that consumers can manipulate into sculptures and chain jewelry, is one culprit. Last year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission asked retailers and makers of Buckyballs and Zen Magnets, a similar toy, to stop selling them.
But you can still find them online, said Brown, who has researched the issue and claims more than 3 million sets of the magnet sets have been sold. At 216 magnets per set, that's 600 million in circulation.

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I'm a chiropractor that had my lien adjudicated. What does that mean? What recourse do I have?
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Re: ajudication
Liens are frequently adjudicated by courts when a party wants to pay or settle a claim against someone, but knows you have asserted a lien on the settlement proceeds. You should have reeived notice as to when the court adjudicated the amount of your lien. Your options from here will depend on the particular facts of youer case.
Re: ajudication
Dear Doctor:
This website is primarily directed to people who cannot afford to consult with an attorney for their legal "problem" or do not know where/how to start the process of hiring an attorney.
As a professional, and a licensed physician, you would be better served by hiring another licensed professional and paying them for their legal advice.
In the meantime, the "Health Care Services Lien Act"(770 ILCS 23/et seq) is available online for your review. If you send out liens to people you should probably understand what you are doing and who/what you are "liening".
However my brother is a chiropractor and I understand that some are financially secure than others...so to try and provide you with some complimentary direction, I would suggest to you that while your "lien" on the proceeds of a lawsuit may have been adjudicated - that adjudication does NOT alter the "balance due" on the bill for the services you have rendered.
It just/only reduces the "lien".
You can still collect for your full medical fees assuming the charges are fair and reasonable, etc.
Whomever adjudicated your lien could/should be apprised of the fact that you do not consider that "adjudicated" payment amount to constitute "payment in full".
You should/could also advise the attorney that you intend to collect the balance due from the client.
Good luck (and go hire a lawyer).
Matt Belcher
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Victorian sprinter Zamorar will be given his chance to chase top grade success this autumn in the Group 1 2013 Goodwood (1200m) at Morphetville on May 11.
The consistent four-year-old will go into the Goodwood second-up, kicking off his autumn campaign in the Group 3 2013 RN Irwin Stakes (1100m) at Morphethville on Saturday.
Zamorar has shown plenty of quality in his career so far, winning four of 13 starts but only missing out on a top three finish on two occasions.
The Scandal Keeper gelding signalled his potential for bigger things in the early spring when running second in the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes, third in the Group 3 Aurie's Star Handicap and second in the Group 2 PB Lawrence Stakes.
Trainer David Bourne believes his charge has developed physically since his last campaign.
"The only difference that I can tell from the last time he was in work was that he looked like a three-year-old whereas now he looks like a four-year-old," Bourne told Racing Victoria.
"Anyone who knew the horse previously would be able to tell that he's physically matured."
This weekend will be Zamorar's second trip to Adelaide after running fourth in the Group 2 Centrebet Classic from a wide barrier last March.
"He drew barrier 10 of 10, got trapped three-deep the whole way, worked hard and battled on to run a close fourth so you'd just like to see him draw a good barrier," Bourne said.
The Goodwood will be the sprinter's second outing at Group 1 level, having run fourth to Sepoy in the Coolmore Stud Stakes as a three-year-old.
There are no shortage of Victorians nominated for the RN Irwin Stakes. Joining Zamorar in the entries for the $115,000 sprint are Mick Price-trained pair Loveyamadly and Lankan Rupee, Listed winner Winter King, Anthony Freedman's gelding Resuce Mission and Peter Moody-trained trio Kulgrinda, Justify That and Embark.
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A new federal transportation bill is unlikely before 2012, a transportation expert predicted at the industry roundtable session on transportation trends at ULI's Real Estate Summit at the Spring Council Forum in Phoenix this May. At the same time, another expert suggested, local governments across the United States are becoming increasingly sophisticated and innovative in using local financing tools to fund transit investments, including those for streetcars.
Joshua Schank, research fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and president and CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation in Washington, D.C., and William Lee, executive vice president with AECOM in San Francisco, spoke in Phoenix on a panel moderated by ULI's managing director for infrastructure, Rachel MacCleery.
Prospects for federal transportation reauthorization are dim for a variety of reasons, including the sense by many members of Congress that the transportation program is no longer serving a national purpose. However, no consensus has emerged about how the program should evolve, what its goals should be, how performance should be measured, and how to tie funding to performance. The size of the program, and how it should be funded, are also unresolved issues. Competing proposals from the Obama administration and Congress reflect the ongoing uncertainty.
The administration has presented a vision for a greatly expanded federal program, with spending levels about double those of the old bill, SAFETEA-LU (Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users), new trust fund configurations, and an ambitious rail agenda. However, the administration's proposal offered no suggestions on where new revenue should come from, and the White House and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) officials have indicated repeatedly elsewhere that a gasoline tax increase is off the table. In the House, Florida Republican Rep. John Mica is putting together a bill that would effectively cut transportation spending by limiting expenditures to existing revenues.
Schank suggested that the impasse will not be broken until voices outside the traditional transportation interests—which include state departments of transportation and the freight industry—join the chorus calling for a reformed program. In particular, what he called an impending "era of austerity" could actually present an opportunity to insist on measures that make sure resources are spent more effectively, and ensure that limited federal resources are leveraged to the maximum extent possible by rewarding higher matches from state and local governments, eliminating barriers to tolling, and other measures.
Lee took the conversation down to the local level and reviewed financing approaches for new streetcar systems in nearly a dozen cities across the country—including Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Tempe, Arizona, among others. These modern streetcars are being built using a variety of funding methods, some traditional and some innovative.
Seattle is using one of the more innovative approaches Lee explored. About half the $52 million in capital costs for the city's South Lake Union Line streetcar project will be paid by property owners adjacent to the system through a local improvement district (LID), with the remaining costs being borne by the federal, state, and local governments. Private sponsorship opportunities for the line and stations will account for about 25 percent of operating expenses.
Other approaches are more traditional. In Arizona, the Tempe Streetcar's $163 million in capital costs will be paid for with a mix of regional tax revenue from an approved bond measure and a matching grant from the Federal Transit Administration's New Starts Program. The system's annual $3.1 million operating costs will be the responsibility of the city. Salt Lake City's $56 million Sugar House Streetcar line received a hefty grant from DOT's TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) II program, which will cover 70 percent of the project's capital costs. But despite a $5 million commitment from area governments, the line still faces a shortfall in local funding.
Local funding approaches are aiming both to raise money for system construction and operation, and to more fairly allocate the cost burden to the project's potential beneficiaries, Lee said. Projects that rely on transit benefit assessment districts, such as the one in Seattle, must address issues that include defining who the beneficiaries are, identifying the level of benefit they receive, timing the assessment, and ensuring that there is legislation to enable creation of the district. To date, experience with benefit assessment districts is limited in the United States, but more cities are expected to turn to them to fund the projects they want to build.
Across the country, cities and stakeholders seeking to build new streetcar and light-rail systems are using a variety of funding methods —old and new, traditional and innovative—to put together the funding necessary to build and operate the lines. All this is playing out against a backdrop of uncertainty at the national level about the size and direction of the federal transportation program—uncertainty that is unlikely to be resolved in the near term.


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Now im loading my DLL from inside Firefox and it works great....for about 5 mins. Turns out thier code also hooks into the WndProc function. Could thier hook be overwriting my hook and thats why it dies after 5 mins?
According to MSDN the first value of CallNextHookEx() is ignored but yet people pass things into it. Does it really matter?? or since im hooking into the WndProc, should i be calling something else other then CallNextHookEx()??
Here is the code that i use:
Code:........... HookedWndProc = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_CALLWNDPROC, (HOOKPROC) DllProc, Inst, ThreadID); ............ LRESULT CALLBACK DllProc(int uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { .........CODE GOES HERE........... return CallNextHookEx(HookedWndProc, uMsg, wParam, lParam); }


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Bachelor of Civil Engineering in 1959 from Calcutta University( India )
M.ASCE(USA). M.I.E(India).Accredited P.E(Canada) ,
Advisor with The Council of Energy Advisors, NY,USA .
Consultant to Coleman Research Group, NY (USA)
Project Manager , degreed Civil / Structural Engineer with multidisciplinary Engineering
skills ,offering over 47 years' international experience in handling multidisciplinary
Engineering projects from Designs to Project delivery involving structural , mechanical ,
process engineering related to various industrial plants detailed below.
All activities from FEED, detailed design engineering , cost estimating , preparation of
bid documents , Contract negotiations and administration , project controls including
HSE management , client and Consultant coordination to construction management.
Oil and Gas: Onshore field development and upgrade , setting up of surface production and treatment facilities, pipelines with pump and compressor stations, SCADA and UHF/ Fibre optic telecommunication, tank farms, outside plant services. For offshore development, various types of offshore platform design and fabrication/upgrade, load out, sea fastening and onsite installation, platform risers and hook up with well heads, sub sea pipelines and umbilicals and underwater manifold centers, design and fabrication of onshore and offshore rig structures, strengthening and upgrade of various types of rigs and draw works, SBM, FPSO and FSO construction and anchoring. Also development of logistics for offshore oil and gas production.
Hydrocarbon Process Plants: Front End Engineering Designs and handling EPC project work for large crude oil refineries , petrochemical plants, gas processing plants. (GTL, LNG and LPG plants.)
Thermal Power plants: Captive plants from 10 MW through 250 MW for Utility and IPP operators, based on diesel, HFO, GT, ST and combined cycle.
Other Industrial Plants: Integrated iron and steel with various mines and mineral development and processing light and heavy engineering goods manufacturing , ship building and repair yards , paper , food processing and pharmaceutical plants.
Infrastructures: Large scale housing with roads, water supply and waste water treatment plants, ports and harbours , shipyards, container terminals, telecommunications , upgrade and expansion of civilian airport facilities , LRT for urban mass transportation etc .
India, Africa, Middle East Gulf, Iran , Singapore and other Asia Pacific countries
Windows Operating systems ,. Application packages- Office XP, Autocad
2006 , MS Project , Primavera P3/ Sure Track , Timberline, and various design
Softwares for structural , mechanical and process engineering
Present (Since Aug 2001) : An Independent Consulting Engineer , self employed , providing design and project engineering services to various clients. Some recent projects include
a ) Expansion of tank farm and associated facilities of Oswald Petrochemical & Fertiliser Plant in India
Approx Project cost – US$ 800,000. Scope of my work- Provided design and bill of materials for client to incorporate in his Request for Bids. (RFB) document . Duration- 2 months
b) Iron ore Stockyard and bulk material handling plant facilities of Bhusan Steel Plant in India. Project Cost –Not revealed by outsourcing company. Estimated US$ 8 Millions .Service provided – Structural designs for conveyors , junction houses etc. Duration- 6 months (Self +1 Jr Engineer + 1 Draftsperson)
c) Coal handling plant facilities for 2x125 MW power plant of Tata Power in India .Project cost not revealed . Estimated US$ 3 Millions. Service provided- Civil and structural designs .Duration- 4 months (Self + 2 Jr Engineers)
(The above two were through design services outsourced by Tata Robins Fraser Ltd who did not reveal their project cost )
d) As Project Consultant since August 2001 of Central Petroleum Ltd , Perth , an Australian Petroleum exploration and production company, providing outsourced services to their major oil and gas development projects in Northern Territory and South Australia. The current phase of the project is drilling of six development wells and setting up of Up / Downstream facilities to handle about 6000 BOPD crude oil and associated gas. I was in Australia from Sep 2004 to Sep 2005and Dec 2006 to Nov 2007 in connection with design of production and process plants and Storage facilities and Utilities for the project. and preparation of Feasibility Reports on a 10,000 -140,000 BPD Gas To Liquid Plant (GTL) from one of their non associated gas fields using Fisher Tropsch Technology .
The estimated cost of drilling and field development is US$ 22 Millions and the GTL Plant is US$ 420 Millions ( both costs at Dec 2005). Services provided by me have been outlined above .Duration- As stated and currently through internet as and when required.(Slf + 2 Engineers + 2 D'persons)
e) The other assignments on hand include
1. Pre-FEED preparation services outsourced by a Petroleum Consulting Company based in Lagos (Nigeria) related to Chevron (Nigeria) Oil Company projects This is a 34000 BPD Gas To Liquid Plant(GTL) .The main facilities include setting up of GTL production units , Marine Receiving / Export Terminal , Large Onshore GTL Naphtha and Diesel Storage Tanks , onshore export Pipelines with pump stations and Truck Tanker Loading with associated infrastructures .
Project cost not revealed by outsourcer , estimated around US$ 250 millions
Services provided- preparation of structural designs of process skids , piping and tanks., bill of materials and brief technical specifications Duration- Nov 2007 to May 2008 (Self + 2 Engineers + 2 D'persons)
2 .Restoration and Upgrade of GR 3 & 4 Jetties of Calcutta Port Trust for handling assorted cargoes . The work involves designing for strengthening of existing wharves structures, installation of mobile conveyor systems and onshore bunkers for handling export of iron ore , installation of two POL Loading Arms for unloading from bulk vessels and additional Mooring Dolphins for larger ships.
Project Cost US$ 24 Millions.
Scope of work- provide designs, bill of materials, preparation of bid documents and construction methodology in compliance with OHSE requirements and later help the client as Consulting Project Manager to implement the project during construction stage.. Duration- Feb 2008 to date (Self + 4 design Engineers + 1 Estimator + 3 D'persons)
3. FEED for Conversion of LPG Export Marine Terminal in Qatar to Multi Product Berth (MPB) to handle export of LPG,LNG,GTL and POL Cargoes with handling capacity upgradation from 10,000 DWT to 60,000 DWT Tankers
This project is in bid preparation stage and outsourced by a Qatar Contractor . The cost will be worked out by him . Currently my scope of work is to provide design of the various facilities in accordance with client's technical specifications. Future involvement unknown at this stage.. Duration- Feb 2008 to May 2008
July 2000 to July 2001. Project Manager with Harimau Petrocon Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, handled oil , gas and power plant projects in Asia Pacific countries, ( 5 Discipline Engineers + 3 Draftspersons + 2 Estimators + Contractors' Engineers. Peak manpower handled = 50)
Scope of work involved tie ups with local contractors in various countries, preparation of designs , cost estimates and submission of competitive bids ,contract negotiations and post award implementation through the local contractors providing them with computer based back up services in respect of detailed designs, procurements from local and international sources, project planning and scheduling, cost and quality controls, optimization of resources, attending to various meetings with clients and consultants and generation of progress reports, extra claims due to change orders/additional work/design deficiencies and draft project completion reports.
Major projects included
onshore/offshore Gas collection and distribution pipeline system in Indonesia, balancing of onshore Gas Processing plant facilities to handle heavier gas from an offshore field in Indonesia, (US$ 22 Millions)
Augmentation of Gas Compression facilities to make low pressure gas available for gas lift wells and market sale for State Oil Co in Indonesia,(US$ 13 Millions) Tendering for 3 Trains Air Cooled Heat Exchangers for offshore gas development project in Malaysia (US$ 9 Millions)
Design of process plant skids for a 80,000 BOPD FPSO for a joint venture oil company in Indonesia (US$ 8 Millions)
Front End Engineering for a 60 MW Combined Cycle Power plant for an I.P.P in Indonesia.(Plant cost US$ 18 Millions)
June 98 to Mar 99. Gas Services International Pte Ltd, Singapore: Project Service Manager, handled EPC activities for nine large PCB skids with process plants for refurbishment of large FPSO owned by Brazil Oil Company, PETROBRAS for development of their Marlim offshore oilfield in the Campos Basin in 900 m water. These involved about 1300 Tons base skid structures, 3500 Tons of process equipment, 140 T (7500 dia-in) process piping, 280 pieces electrical and instrumentation items, 18 km electrical and communication cabling and 580,000 Man hours of labour input over a period of 9 months.
As Project Service Manager, was responsible for monitoring the project control
systems, milestone Reporting , progress reporting, cash calls, and cash flow reports,
PDMS system, work breakdown structure system , capital commitment budget
system, procurement authorization system, project variance systems and change
order claims, computerized cost control system and all systems associated with the
E PIC delivery of the FPSO. Primavera P3 and Microsoft Project management tools were
used to control the project. The systems employed were Internet based WAN and LAN
reporting real time progress and task completion by percent (%) and man-hours (M-hr).
The task breakdown were based on work packages and entailed many hundred interfaces
and in excess of 282000 individual tasks.
Handled single point responsibility in setting and monitoring sub contractors. Peak manpower
of over 200 were handled and supervised several Senior Engineers or team leaders,
including discipline Lead Engineers on EPC projects in a Program Management role and
handled liaison with corporate office.
Project cost for topside modules US$ 16 Millions . All plants and equipment were supplied by client and so excluded from this cost.
Sep 92 to June 98. A Freelance Engineering Consultant with project specific
assignments with the following international organizations.
Iran Power Plant Projects Management Co, Tehran, Iran. Senior Project Manager, handlied pre-construction project work for awarding various contracts related to construction of six large combined cycle power plants at various locations, aggregating to 2300 MW. The work involved freezing of plant layouts, detailed designs, preparation of various tender packages , project planning through Primavera tools, issuing RFBs and after receipt of offer, technical and commercial evaluation and award of over 60% of the major plant contracts.
Aggregate total cost of six plants US$ 800 Millions Duration- Sep 1997 to May 1998 ( 10 Discipline Engineers + 18 persons which include D'persons , Estimators and Field Engineers)
Pechiney Aluminium Engineering Lyon, France. Quality Control Consultant for preparation of quality plans and implemented in vendors shops for fabrication of furnace and building structures for expansion of an Aluminium production plant in India.. Approx project cost US$ 8 Millions. Duration- May 1995 to Aug 1997.(Self + 2 Engineers + 6 Field persons)
ABB Lummus Global Engineering Ltd, Qatar. Senior Project Engineer, handled EPC Consulting services in connection with expansion and upgrade of facilities in three offshore fields of Idd El Shargi, Maydan Mazham and Bul Hanine in 45 m water, owned by Qatar General Petroleum Corporation and one onshore Dukhan oilfield of the same operator. This included new 8-legged platforms and link bridges, upgrade of drilling cum production rig platforms, laying 12 in and 8 in diam 21 km offshore pipelines and augmentation of capacities of platform process plants by additional process skids and hook up.. Duration- Sep 1994 to Mar 1995
Project cost US$ 51 Millions.( 2 Discipline Engineers + 3 D'persons + 1 Estimator)
Associated Marine Consultants, India. Senior Consultant engaged in structural design, preparation of construction programs and coordination of various subcontractors work for fabrication of offshore equipment like Jack up rigs, offshore platform jackets and topsides, SBM and construction of ship repair yards, container terminals , LNG handling, storage and regassification facilities etc. Undertook upgrade of Calcutta port to handle heavier bulk carriers up to 60,000 DWT and feasibility studies for a shipyard in Haldia , West Bengal. Duration- one year . Duration Sept 1993 to Sept 1994 .( 2 Design Engineers + 3 D'persons + 2 Estimators)
STUP Consultants, Calcutta, India. Technical Adviser, providing services in FEED, cost estimating, preparation of bid packages for awarding contracts, selection of contractors and assisting the clients in sourcing plants and equipment for their share of the projects. Major activities included bid design of some facilities of a 6 MMT, grass root crude oil refinery and setting up of surface production facilities for thermal recovery of heavy crude oil(18 deg API ), from two onshore oilfields , expansion of a pharmaceutical plant for production of bulk drugs , in India.
Duration- Sept 1992 to Sept 1993.(3 Design Engineers + 2 project Engineers + 4 D'persons and 2 Estimators)
May 84 to Aug 92. OIL India Ltd, Assam, India. Manager Planning (Projects), responsible for planning and execution of various onshore and offshore oil and gas field development and upgrade programs. This also included various associated facilities like augmenting power generation, telecommunication, housing and infrastructure construction, waste water treatment etc. Undertook upgrade of six National 2000 land drilling rigs by strengthening structures and draw works, modification to derrick floor and replacement of main drive motors suitable for drilling deeper wells. Also supervision of fabrication and Q.C of offshore drilling rig in the Contractor's yard for offshore drilling in 128 m water in the Bay of Bengal , India, under contract drilling programs and setting up of facilities for new onshore oil field development for production of 25000 BOPD.( 15 Departmental which include Engineers , D'persons. Planners, estimators, Clericals + Contractors personnel which varied from project to project. Peak handled = 45 persons)
July 81 to Oct 83. Arabian Oasis Industries, Dubai, UAE. Contracts Manager handled turnkey projects for various onshore and offshore oil and gas field facility construction, LNG plant upgrade , fabrication of steelwork for platforms, risers and link bridges, onshore and offshore pipelines and industrial plants in the Gulf countries for major oil companies. Also handled material handling systems related to upgrade of cargo handling facilities in Abu Dhabi New International Airport. ( 3 Design Engineers + 6 D'persons + 3 estimators + 8 Workshop and Field Engineers. Peak Man power handled in the largest project (ADGAS ) = 92 persons
Dec 80 to May 81. Rehab Industries Corporation, India. Chief Project Manager for expansion and rehabilitation projects of iron and steel and power plants in India.
Jan 79 to Jan 80 . Iron & Steel Corporation, Libya. Senior Project Engineer, handling project activities for setting up an 1.3 million ton grass root iron and steel plant with a 700 km long 18 in gas transportation pipeline and a 420 MW captive power plant and a 2000 TPH ore handling plant to handle imported pellets and other minerals., a captive port to handle iron ore vessels up to 80,000 DWT
Jan 77 to Jan 79. N.E.D.Co Ltd, Tanzania. Senior Structural Engineer, responsible for design and project management related to housing construction projects, new interstate highway construction, small scale industrial plants , Kilimanjaro International Airport Maintenance shop upgrade programs and construction of waste water treatment plants.
Sept 61 to Jan 77. Indian Iron & Steel Co Ltd, India. Senior Design Engineer in the Plant Engineering and Development Division handling design and project work for major expansion , shutdown maintenance and upgrade programs of the production plants , associated mines , collieries , mineral processing and beneficiation plant facilities . Well versed with logistic and planning for executing extremely tight time bound shutdown projects in operating plants.
More specific details about projects handled during these employment can be furnished on request.
Written many papers which have been published in leading American Oil, Gas, Pipeline and Power magazines and Indian Journals. Also presented papers in some International Seminars the latest being in Melbourne (Australia) in Aug 2007 at the invitation of The Institution of Engineers (Australia), on my paper "Structural Skid Mounted Process Plants for Offshore Oil production"
Reference available on request.
Some related Pictures of the FPSO in Singapore
Completed Vessel as it should look like.
Load Out of the assembled Assembled Skids at the Yard
Skid on the Barge at Yard
Injection Skid at assembly stage Furnace Skid at assembly stage
Conversion to Double Hull
Thanks for the reading
Hope you have enjoyed it
Nirmalendu Bandyopadhyay


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What to do when you believe a vet has harmed or killed your companion animal
ALDF Suggests: What to do when you believe a vet has harmed or killed your companion animal
One of the most frequent requests for assistance that the Animal Legal Defense Fund receives is from people whose companion animals have suffered injuries, or even death, and who fear that negligence by their veterinarian was the cause.
Prevention is the Best Medicine
The best way to protect your companion animal is to know your rights and the veterinarian's duties. Here are some major points to remember:
1. Seek out a qualified, competent, and caring veterinarian.
2. Do not be reluctant to seek a second or even third opinion regarding the diagnosis of your companion animal. There are specialists for animals just as there are for humans.
3. Monitor your companion animal's stay at the hospital or clinic. Ask questions if you do not understand what services the veterinarian is tendering. Trust your common sense.
4. If you suspect malpractice, immediately seek an independent and confidential second opinion. If your animal has died, preserve the remains and quickly take the body to another veterinarian (preferably a college of veterinary medicine) for a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
5. Request all medical records regarding treatment, including x-rays if taken.
6. If you have received a second opinion that supports your concern about malpractice, immediately seek expert legal advice.
When Malpractice is the Case
If you suspect that your companion animal was injured by veterinary malpractice, there are several things that you can do.
First, send a complaint to your state veterinary licensing board. This is a state agency, usually located in the capital, whose duties include the investigation of allegations of wrongdoing by veterinarians, including malpractice. State licensing boards have the power to suspend or remove a veterinarian's license, although this rarely happens.
Your complaint to a licensing board should be short, should fully identify all of the parties, and state the facts as you know them. Demand that the licensing board investigate your complaint and notify you of the results. A few weeks after you mail the complaint, call the board and confirm that they received it and have started the investigation. It is important that all licensing boards receive valid complaints and encouragement to monitor the practitioners in their state.
In addition, a complaint should be sent to the veterinary medical association in the county where the veterinarian practices. Again, demand an investigation and response. In some areas, the county veterinary association is not listed in the telephone directory. You can locate the mailing address by calling any veterinary clinic and asking for it.
A second approach to veterinary malpractice is hiring a lawyer to negotiate a settlement or to bring a lawsuit. The biggest problem with bringing a lawsuit is that, even if you win, you usually do not recover very much money. In this country, an animal is viewed as an item of personal property according to the law, and most courts limit recovery to the cost of replacing the companion animal with another animal. Because of the low potential for a large recovery, most lawyers are unable or unwilling to take veterinary malpractice cases on a contingency basis, and it is possible that the pet owner would invest more money in legal fees than can be recovered.
On the other hand, courts have recently begun to realize that a companion animal is unique and cannot simply be replaced. Courts are beginning to permit owners to recover the "reasonable sentimental value" of the companion animals to the individual owners, as long as the sentiment is not "excessive" or "maudlin." This can increase the potential recovery from a few hundred dollars to perhaps a few thousand.
If you are not able to afford a lawyer, then consider going to small claims court, where you can represent yourself. In small claims court, recovery will be limited to "out-of-pocket" expenses. This includes only the money you lost already as a result of the malpractice, and does not include loss of your companion animal's sentimental value. In any lawsuit, you will still be required to secure expert testimony as to what act of negligence the veterinarian committed.
Finally, you must understand that neither complaining to the state veterinary licensing board, nor filing a lawsuit, will alleviate the sense of loss that you feel. You must allow yourself to grieve fully. Check with your local humane society to see whether they offer grief counseling sessions, or talk with other owners who have lost their beloved animals. Also see ALDF's suggestions on Getting Through Grief for some compassionate advice for dealing with your animal's death.
Also see ALDF's Wrongful Death or Injury of an Animal resource guide for responses to commonly asked questions.
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Contributions for this article have been provided by Kenneth Ross and Thomas Kanyock, attorneys in private practice who have handled numerous veterinary malpractice matters.


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Valuable righty outfielder Kearns lands on DL
On Thursday, outfielder Austin Kearns was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain.
Outfielder Kevin Mattison was recalled from Triple-A New Orleans to fill Kearns' roster spot. It's Mattison's second stint with the club. He was first brought up on May 10, but sent down four days later after one big league at-bat.
Kearns has been a big contributor in limited playing time. He's batting .375 with three home runs and nine RBIs. He strained his hamstring while scoring from first base on Giancarlo Stanton's double in Tuesday's win over the Rockies.
Bryan Petersen, Chris Coghlan and Mattison are all left-handed-hitting outfielders on the roster.
"We have to have confidence in the guys we brought in," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "We've got Petey and Coghlan up here. Kearns is going to create a little hole against lefties."
Kearns was getting starts mostly against left-handed pitching. The Marlins are hitting just .221 as a team against southpaws.
A right-handed-hitting possibility to play left field now is infielder Donovan Solano.
Solano took fly balls in batting practice on Thursday.
"A lot happens. It's a long season," Guillen said. "I wish I could have them in the lineup. But I don't. I don't worry about that. I worry about the guys we have in the lineup."


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David Wrench is a Welsh musician and studio producer/ sound engineer from Anglesey, Wales. His music has ranged from camp synthpop to Doom inspired Folk.
He first came to public attention while still at school in 1989 with his first group Nid Madagascar, who recorded "the first Welsh language acid house record" Lledrith Lliw as a 12" single in 1990.
Reappearing some years later as a solo artist he was signed first to Ankst Records of Cardiff and later to Manchester-based Storm Music. Wrench has made three albums, Blow Winds Blow, The Atomic World of Tomorrow, and Spades & Hoes & Plows, as well as a number of singles and EPs. He was also a member of the 33 piece "cosmic supergroup" The Serpents, with whom he also released a single and an album.
His first full-length solo album, Blow Winds Blow includes Wrench acting as a multi-instrumentalist.
His 2004 single "Superhorny" was backed by "Fuck You And Your War on Terror", which was recorded live for Sheffield's radio2XS.
The Atomic World of Tomorrow and its supporting singles are best described as camp synthpop, with a resemblance to artists such as the Pet Shop Boys and Scissor Sisters.
In 2010 he released the album Spades & Hoes & Plows on Invada records. The album comprises 3 re-workings of old revolutionary folk songs and one original instrumental piece based on the Rebecca Riots. The album was produced by Julian Cope and received widespread critical acclaim. Writing in the Sunday Times, Stewart Lee described it thus: "In the face of young people's new enthusiasm for trad-lite, the Welsh weirdo David Wrench threatens to reunpopularise folk music, foregrounding puritanical politics over unpalatable instrumentation at funereal tempos. Fans of Lisbee Stainton are unlikely to enjoy Wrench's punishing, 24-minute rendition of The Blackleg Miner despite the invigorating and apocalyptically primitive Mellotron interludes supplied by Julian Cope's Black Sheep band. These weary recitations of traditional protest songs require patience, but by Helyntion Beca, a wordless closing workout inspired by 19th-century black-face transvestites attacking Carmarthenshire toll gates, the LP achieves a tortuous transcendence."
When not working on his own music, Wrench is a studio Record Producer and Engineer. His credits as Producer include albums for Bear in Heaven (I Love You, It's Cool), Alessi's Ark (Time Travel), Race Horses (Goodbye Falkenberg), Zun Zun Egui (Katang), Y Niwl, Gwyneth Glyn, Skinny Lister (Forge & Flagon - co produced with the band)The School and Euros Childs. As an Engineer he has worked on albums by Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything, Kathryn Williams, Guillemotts, Beth Orton, James Yorkston, Nancy Elizabeth and Fanfarlo. As a mixer, he mixed the award-winning "Swim" album by Caribou, as well as previous album "Andorra". He has recently mixed albums by Is Tropical, Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party, Sunless 97 and Rich Aucoin. He was awarded the BBC C2 Producer of the Year award in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Wrench recently appeared (3 May 2009) in session on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone alongside Julian Cope and his flock of Black Sheep
- 1997: Blow Winds Blow (vinyl LP/audio CD)
- 1999: You Have Just been Poisened by The Serpents (audio CD with The Serpents)
- 2005: The Atomic World of Tomorrow (audio CD)
- 2010: Spades & Hoes & Plows (audio CD)
Singles and EPs[edit]
- 1990: "Lledrith Lliw" (12" vinyl EP with Nid Madagascar)
- 1997: "Black Roses" (7" vinyl)
- 1997: "The Ballad of the Christmas Tree and the Silver Birch" (7" vinyl)
- 1998: "No Mask, No Cloak, Dim Gobaith" (7" vinyl with The Serpents)
- 1998: "Sings the Songs of the Shangri Las" (7" vinyl EP)
- 2004: "Superhorny" / "Fuck You And Your War on Terror" (12" vinyl & CD EP)
- 2004: "World War IV" (CD EP)
External links[edit]
- Head Heritage-Spades & Hoes & Plows Mini-site for Spades & Hoes & Plows album
- BBC "mini site" for David Wrench
- David Wrench Discography
- AllMusic
- David Wrench discography at Discogs


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Evolution gives them pleasure
Jim Gilardi, on July 21, claimed I ignore evidence (I wish he would list some of it and the dates they were written in these letters), and then tries to set me up for one of the oldest cons in the book (the loaded question). This west Texas boy ain't gonna fall for that con or any other he wants to throw at me. I know a loaded one when I see it.
I don't know why evolutionists can't answer a simple request without talking in circles. Instead, they insult people and try to make everyone think they're stupid for asking questions. It takes a lot of brain power to be able to name Dr. Carpenter's Web site as an authority, when that one ain't even recognized by evolution scientists.
I think Will Rogers had these guys pegged right from the start. He said, "There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we came from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it."
Just say no to homosexuality
For as long as I have been reading letters to the North County Times, Rocky Velgos has led a crusade to foster absolute acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle as one that is wholesome and normal, but rather than persuade the incredulous, he reinforces their belief that homosexuality is aberrant. Mr. Velgos disparages heterosexuals who reject his unsolicited point of view and challenges them to respond. I have ignored these challenges in the past, because I find the subject to be utterly repulsive.
There are numerous references to the sins of aberrant sexual behavior in the Bible, which causes angst among its practitioners, hence, their aversion to Christianity.
Rather than accept the teachings of the church and amend their lifestyle, many homosexuals have embraced secularism, which demands adherence to the scientific explanation of creation and evolution. But if we were to accept the purely scientific explanation for evolution, how might we account for homosexuals, whose genetic endowments are not complementary and do not enable them to procreate?
If we are to survive as a species, we must emulate the lifestyle of our progenitors, rather than violate the laws of nature and of nature's God.
Evolution and oil
Mr. Fred Carr (Faith & Values Letters, July 21) mentions some former creationists who became evolutionists after entering the field of petroleum geology. That is interesting because I have never heard a good uniformitarian explanation for the presence of billions and billions of barrels of oil under the ground. Neither do they have a good answer for the presence of coal seams that span hundreds of miles.
The Bible, however, says that there was a global deluge that killed and buried enough organic matter to easily account for all the oil and coal. Science has proved that it does not take millions of years to make oil or coal as was once thought. They are both rightly called fossil fuels.
What else could have buried them in such vast amounts? By the way, do you suppose that God intended us to heat our homes and power our cars with these fuels?
Evolutionists have run out of ideas
Psalm 118:8 says, "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." It's too bad Fred Carr didn't think of this when he cherry-picked Glenn Morton as an example of a man who gave up creationist views as he began working in petroleum geology. Does Mr. Carr believe there are no scientists in the world today who gave up evolutionary views when they began working in geology or other fields? Mr. Carr is putting a lot of trust in this one man's apparent change of heart, and closer inspection reveals that Morton may have ulterior motives.
What separates creationists from evolutionists is that creationists have no problem presenting both sides of the issue in public forums. Evolutionists insist that only their interpretation be shown. Further, evolutionists come unglued when someone writes a letter in the religion section exposing one of evolution's many fatal flaws.
But when they try to convince us that evolution is true because a scientist somewhere became an evolutionist, they demonstrate that they have run out of ideas.
Evolutionary theory changes; Scriptures don't
I have a follow-up question for Harry Alexus (Faith & Values Letters, July 21). No doubt his Bibles do read differently in Genesis 1:28, but how does that inconsequential variation change the meaning of the passage? It doesn't.
If Mr. Alexus knew biblical-textual history, he would know the Bible was translated from Greek into other languages much earlier than the 15th century. As a matter of fact, the Bible (including the New Testament) that we have today (for the most part) was translated into other languages as early as the second century.
The reason for this was due to the rapid spread of the Gospel and the necessity for the Scriptures into those languages. Why he links Bible translation with evolution I'll never know. But what we do know is that evolutionary theory changes, but the Scriptures don't.
San Marcos
Assertions without connection
The Bairds' mountains of evidence (Faith & Values Letters, July 7) would be impressive if they weren't assertions with no evolutionary connection, God-bashing (Richard Dawkins), or wishful thinking. Two in the wishful thinking category are bacterial resistance and the finch, neither of which developed into anything else, so let's go to the eye inside out.
Graham Phillips commented that "no engineer worth his salt would design an eyeball the way ours has been built." (I wish one would try!) Atheist Richard Dawkins commented that "some of the parts in our eyes have been wired backward." However, if they claim Mother Nature (evolution), then it would be a denunciation of evolution's favoring the most adaptable design, not God's.
If the eye were designed according to Dawkins we would be blind. It's wired to provide a rich blood supply to the retina. The octopus has wiring according to Dawkins, but then it doesn't see as well either.
Ophthalmologist Dr. George Marshall said, "The idea that the eye is wired backward comes from a lack of knowledge of eye function and anatomy." The eye can even detect a single photon of light. It's impossible to improve on this sensitivity.
Murderer benefits from death sentence
Re: Richard Crews' June 8 letter, "Whose agenda is being followed?" I agreed with some of the things he said, but not with his views on capital punishment. He quoted the "Thou shalt not kill" Scripture out of Exodus, but God also gave Genesis 9:6: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." Why did God give this commandment?
There is a growing notion in the world today that it is adding a crime to a crime to take the life of those who deliberately murder ññ a cruel retaliation that cannot benefit the murdered person and, likewise, the murderer can reap no benefits therefrom. The real purpose which the Lord gave for the taking of life has long been forgotten. The taking of the life of the murderer was never intended to be a benefit to the murdered person, or even a benefit to humanity.
It was intended to be a benefit to the murderer himself. There are sins that cannot be forgiven, except by the guilty person paying a price by the shedding of his blood. Capital punishment was to benefit the guilty to obtain a better resurrection when the sin had been one unto death.
Love of God is relevant
The article in the July 7 issue about the relevancy of the Christian Science Church got me to thinking that what actually seems relevant is the love of God, made practical through acknowledging, accepting and living it continuously.
The Bible promises this, and for over 130 years Christian Science has put into practice these promises that are as relevant today as they were 2,000 years ago. So, I must disagree with Jay Lindsay's article and say from my experience, Christian Science shows how to utilize God's promise of love.
The Christian Science church may be adjusting some of the human trappings and traditional aspects of its real estate, but the healing laws it outlines are proving effective and more relevant today than ever.
I believe letting go of some real estate is clearing the way for greater physical healing, which continues to be visible. But you don't have take my word for it, check it out and prove it for yourself: www.spirituality.com.
San Diego
Funguslike features
In response to a July 3 letter, "God is an evolutionary jokester": Some of us like being referred to as human, and some are referred to as fungus. Homosexuality is a choice, or some are genetically two of the same species, man and woman. Some like the spice of life. But atheists have a funguslike feature that tries to change into humans who refer to the cross and our jokester God for the truth it reveals in the Bible. When those who have sinned are in the light of the Holy Spirit, it's not something made up, it's true enlightenment.
But fungus needs the dark, and that's where they must remain to grow in their own filth. Gays and lesbians need to stop being gay. Some don't need to see it: many like fungus live off them.


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Lol perfect shot. You should make a video and zoom in on him like that and then push him off to make it look like he committed suicide.
You can't make clips in Campaign. It would be cool though. Very nice screenshot too.
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Decision on surgery coming soon for Polanco
Polanco received a cortisone injection Tuesday to treat a sports hernia, which he said has bothered him for about a month. He said Friday he felt a little better, although the next few days will go a long way toward deciding whether or not he needs surgery.
The third baseman said surgery could keep him off the field anywhere from three to six weeks. Three or four weeks would not be a problem, because he would have enough time to get back on the field and play. But six weeks would put his return at the end of the regular season, which would make him ill-prepared for the postseason.
"I'm going to need the surgery, so why not get it over with?" Polanco wondered. "But what's preventing it? We're playing for something. You can't take it for granted. You don't know when you'll be in the playoffs again. We have a pretty good chance. I don't want to miss it. This is when it gets fun. ... I don't know how much better I'm going to get in two days. That's why I got the shot -- to try to play through it. They said they think they can manage it. I trust them."
"We think the shots will help, but we won't know until he starts doing some baseball stuff," Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said.
Polanco said on a 1-10 scale, his pain was a nine in San Francisco, when he last played. He said it was a six on Friday.
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Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
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"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet
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There are four of us. My brothers are technically my half brothers. We have different mothers, but my Dad always had custody of his boys and my mother raised them as her own. My siblings have three children each--I have five nieces ranging from 21 to 5 years old and four nephews who are between 19 and 8 years old.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you must find the courage to live it.
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THAT's quite a Collection of Relatives!
How come you're not overrun with Nieces & Nephews during the summer?
I used to LOVE visiting an Aunt & Uncle & Cousins at their rural home beside
one of the New York Finger Lakes. GREAT way to spend a summer!
And how's the real / original purpose of this exchange ~ Spencer ??
Sure hope he's Feeling Better and making progress.
I must admit that I do not get over to this thread often. Glacier and Twisterdog, they are both very serious and burdensome issues to deal with. I will add both of you and your families to my prayers.
I've Been Boo'd!
My thoughts and prayers are going out to Spencer and family and Twisterdog. My goodness, I'm so sorry to hear this news in both situations.
I've been Boo'd...
Thanks Barry!
My thoughts and prayers are going out to everyone who needs them. Please take care everyone. ((((HUGS))))
Owned by Sky, Pearl, Ziggy Stardust, Alani, Blaze, Colby, Finnegan, and Summer.
My Rainbow Bridge Babies:
RB Pepper 3/17/97- 2/3/03 RIP Sweet Pepper
RB Starr 3/22/05- 7/1/09 RIP Sweet Starr
RB Sunny 8/25/00- 2/28/10 RIP Sweet Sunny
RB Storm 1/11/96- 8/2/12 RIP Sweet Storm
Kirk arrived safely in Denver this morning...he seems to be only mildly traumatized hehe. Thanks for your prayers! Mine are going out to all those still needing them!!
Many thanks to Roxyluvsme13 & k9krazee for my great new siggy!!
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Awww, I'm so glad Kirk landed safely and is where he belongs, with you at his side. Yay for Kate and Kirk! (((((hugs)))))
Glacier, Spencer and the entire "Glacier Family"...
You are all in our prayers - and that's A LOT of prayers!! The "C word" is such a scary word and little Spence sure was blessed to have the easily treated kind. Such wonderful news!!!!
The "Glacier Family" will remain in my thoughts and prayers.
, Kelly, Noah, Basie, Phoebe & Micah
You sure have a heck of a lot to handle. If advice is what you seek, mine would be to, like Gini said, take it a step at a time. You cannot help anyone if you are too upset/sick/annoyed yourself. You'll need to put yourself first enough to help others. The ones you help? The children...the adults are who put the innocent children into all this for their own selfish desires. I think that if I were a child in any of the situations you described, I'd want to know that there was SOMEONE I could count on. I would have your nieces/nephews/children over for the day and instill into their heads and hearts that "NO MATTER WHAT" you will be there for them. No matter what...and mean it too. It sounds like your family has been running amok for a while...and it seems they knew their goingson were wrong, because they waited for your father to pass (I'm so sorry ((((((((Twisterdog)))))))) ) to let everything fall apart like this. Your husband needs to grow the heck up. Any person, any "MAN" that chooses one child over another, ESPECIALLY when he knows the sitation, and makes said child aware he/she is second choice to another...is not in any way a MAN! (a child doesn't have to be told he's second to another, he knows...trust me)
You and your family will be in my prayers as well. You have a ton to deal with, but remember, God only gives us what He knows we can handle. Do you see ALL that God has entrusted you with? Do you see all that He knows you are very capable of handling - with His help...
& Hugs,
Kelly, Noah, Basie, Phoebe & Micah
...RIP, our sweet Gini...
Glacier, it is true hodgkins lymphoma is one of the most treatable cancers, I lost a friend to non-hodgkins so I did quite a bit of research on both types. Spencer will be in my prayers.
Twisterdog I am so sorry I thought my teen stresses were bad but it looks like you have me beat but it is true, they will grow and move on (hopefully)
don't breed or buy while shelter dogs die....
I have been frosted!
Thanks Kfamr for the signature!
I am here asking for prayers for my aunt (through marriage) and her children.
My Uncle passed away last Saturday at 53 years old.
this was TOTALLY unexpected. He just had a physical two weeks before and everything checked out great. He just came back from his daily bike ride and went upstairs to get changed. he had been up there a while so Aunt Chris asked Kolton (the youngest of the children) to go upstairs and ask him if he could drive the oldest child Katelyn to work. When he went up My uncle was laying in an odd position and was unresponsive so Kolton got his mom. My uncle had had a heart attack and died instantly.
he was only 53 years old and has 4 children ages 12-20. they had all the memorial services and burial this week. Now they have to go back to their lives and try to live a normal exsistence without their father/husband.
They had an autopsy done to try to figure out what caused the heart attack. turns out he had an enlarged heart and this is a common thing with people who are at one time overweight and then lose weight and get back down to a healthy weight. He was overweight for quite a few years and then decided that since he had 4 children he really needed to start taking better care of himself. but apparently when you lose weight it takes time for your heart to go back to normal size since it doesn't need to provide the extra power any longer. This is not something they normally test for so it went by unnoticed in his physical.
This is such a shock to all of us.
so if you could spare some prayers for all of us... ESPECIALLY his wife and 4 children that would be greatly appreciated. it's going to be very hard for them to move on from this.
R.I.P my dear Sweet Teddy. You will be missed forever. We love you.
"Time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all." Ecclesiastes 9:11
OH no - too sudden, young and awful. You and your cousins are in my prayers.
I didn't know that about an enlarged heart - I guess that is why they say to check with your doc before starting a fitness regime, but heck, I wonder if the docs would even know to mention this?
{{{{hugs}}}} to you and the family.
"To begin, begin." ~William Wordsworth
Sneaking in here again...
Memaw/Grandma is now in the ER. They admitted her today because she was having bad chest pains, bad headaches, and dizziness. Thoughts/prayers are well appreciated. Thanks.
~Kay, Athena, Ace, Kiara, Mufasa, & Alice!
"So baby take a axe to your makeup kit
Set ablaze the billboards and their advertisements
Love with all your hearts and never forget
How good it feels to be alive
And strive for your desire"
-rx bandits
Thanks for asking about grandpa.
Papa is doing as best as expected - he was diagnosed with leukemia at the beginning of this month. They currently have him in another nursing home. He likes it better there as it's a lot easier for him and a lot less stressful for my grandmother. I'm not sure if they've started treatments or what not for the leukemia.
I feel bad about it, but I try not to ask for updates about him too often. I really worry about losing him. I cry about him all the time. The less I know, the less I worry, I guess. I hope that doesn't sound too bad.
~Kay, Athena, Ace, Kiara, Mufasa, & Alice!
"So baby take a axe to your makeup kit
Set ablaze the billboards and their advertisements
Love with all your hearts and never forget
How good it feels to be alive
And strive for your desire"
-rx bandits
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A province in north China that supplies Beijing with much needed water is itself facing serious shortages of the resource, state media reported ahead of World Water Day on Sunday.
Li Qinglin, director of Hebei's water conservation department, said water shortages had become a big problem for the province's social and economic development, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Saturday.
"Water resources in Hebei have dwindled by nearly 50 percent in recent years," Li was quoted as saying.
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There is less than a week left to register your Toyota-Scion-Lexus for the 17th annual All Toyotafest, which is scheduled for Saturday May 5, 2012. Everything from restored Toyota Stout pickup trucks to the latest Lexus supercars will be on deck at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. The Toyo ... Read more
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PATH to the Cure (P2C) is not just a 5K, it's a community fest! All of the proceeds from the event stay in the Huntington community with the majority going toward St. Mary's Pink Ribbon Fund, which provides free breast health services to uninsured and underinsured women in the Tri-State area. A portion of the proceeds will also go to the continued development and maintenance of the PATH.
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If the white stuff comes down in droves where you live and laws allow for tire chains in your state, the only thing stopping you from procuring a set is the pain installation can cause. Thule Easy-fit CU-9 ($450) tire chains mean having your safe driving and staying warm, too (of course, there's a lot more than just chains to keep in mind during winter weather driving). Just slip the chain on the top of your tire and wrap the bottom around the base, then simply push down on the pedal that's located on the central aluminum bar. Start your car and pull away, and the CU-9 will automatically adjust to a tight fit. That's it. The whole process takes about fifteen seconds, which you'll really appreciate when it's fifteen degrees out. Removal is just as simple. Push down on the central bar's red buttons and the chain pulls away. It even comes with its own rugged storage bag to use as a mat for use during installation. Thule wants you prepped for winter and is, apparently, also concerned about your fancy pants. Isn't that nice.


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At SYS-CON Media we see our inventories are filling up to 100% capacity for the months of November, December, and January, and we are seeing better-than-normal RFP activity for the first quarter of 2010.
When I say this, I am comparing the current insertion order activity to the same period last year. We will be closing 2009 roughly 32% below 2008 in revenues (far better than any other tech media company), which forced us to reduce our expenses for the same period by around 40%. Last fall, while the world was falling apart, we were preparing for a 40%-45% drop in advertising revenues for 2009. We did better than our worst projections.
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When we compare the number of RFPs in the pipeline for November 2009 through January 2010 to the same period last year I feel confident that near-term tech spending is promising, at least in our segment of the business. Tech media is traditionally the last to get hit in food chain during a downturn and the first to see the effects of recovering market.
Our observations at SYS-CON Media will be supported by the industry as the earnings news and projections start to come in for the rest of the year.
Cloud Computing Expo 2009 West in Santa Clara
Cloud Computing Expo is the new PC Expo, Comdex or InternetWorld, and will be the next global IT event for the decade starting with 2010.
This year's West Coast conference had 1,700 pre-registered delegates on the Friday before the conference opened. More than 500 additional registrations came in over the weekend and on-site registrations, which brought the number of delegates who registered and attended for the conference to roughly 2,250, more than double a year ago.
As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.
Most exhibitors on the expo floor highlighted the quality of the leads they got from the conference, which is due to the fact that we had no free expo option on the registration page.
I personally believe Cloud Computing Expo had the most qualified audience of any technology event in recent years.
Cloud Computing Expo 2010 East in New York City
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