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Legal Question in DUI Law in North Carolina
My attorney told me it wasn't necessary for me to be present for my court date and that he would be there to ask for a continuance. I live out of state.
A week later I received a bond forfeiture notice in the mail (my bond is paid in full).
I have attempted to contact him by email, telephone & text every day since, but he has not responded.
I have never been in trouble before and don't know what to do.
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Send him a letter telling him that you have a problem with your case and that you need to hear from him. If you don't hear back, contact the State Bar for assistance.
As a lawyer, my first thought is - did you pay your attorney? You'd be surprised how often people whine that their attorney did nothing and it turns out the attorney was not paid. It is however common for an out of state client to not be present for a continuance request. Assuming you did make your payment, normally only three things could have caused your case to be missed and your bond forfeited (which most likely means there is also an Order for Arrest): 1) attorney / district attorney error; 2) court clerk error or 3) the judge denied the request for a continuance. I'm leaning toward attorney error since you indicate that you have not been able to contact him after several days of various attempts. However, you should not jump to the worst case conclusion that your attorney ran off on a bender to Vegas with your money - it could be the case that your attorney has become incapacitated in some fashion. This issue does need to be addressed ASAP, so I recommend one more good faith attempt to contact the attorney and you then need to contact the North Carolina State Bar (contact info can be found online) as Mr. Love recommended.
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February 2015
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Nuclear Power & Corporate/Regulatory Collusion
by Mary Zepernick
I was inspired by Cecile Pineda's book, The Devil's Tango; How I learned the Fukusima Step by Step (Wings Press)
- Molly Johnson, Motherers for Peace
Fukushima was owned by the TEPCO Corporation, with Mark reactors, including Mark 1 (the reactor at both Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee plants). It is now majority owned by the Japanese government which notified some 160,000 evacuees that it was safe to go home to ground that will be contaminated for centuries, as is the Chernobyl legacy. Side effects include increased instances of childhood leukemias and elevated instances of thyroid nodes becoming cancerous.
My home on Cape Cod is some 50 miles south of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth MA. The Pilgrim "Fathers" would be astounded and probably appalled to see how their name is now used. The Cape is accessible to the mainland by two bridges, and anyone who has left on a summer Sunday can attest to the long wait. Just imagine the lines trying to "escape the Cape."
A local T-shirt features a swimmer in the ocean, with the caption SWIM EAST! Our town health department annually issues iodine tablets to protect our thyroids in the event of an accident. Small comfort, but I collect mine. Given all this, I wouldn't leave Cape Cod, nor do I know anyone who has left because of Pilgrim. Many of us belong to the Cape Downwinders which lobbies our legislators and other public officials, organizes demonstrations, writes to our newspapers, holds fundraisers, and works with Plymouth groups and others, to close the plant. Meanwhile, we Cape Codders have a hearty legacy, even if few descendants of sea captains are left.
The term "downwinder" refers to Cod's proximity to a potential reactor meltdown, which resulted in an approximately 6000% cancer increase at the Fukushima site, and other long-term health effects, along with the creation of a radioactive wasteland.
The Entergy Corporation is engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. It operates or manages 12 nuclear units at 10 sites, including Pilgrim, in several states; employing 13,0000 people and delivering electricity to 2.8 million customers.
On January 27th there was an emergency shutdown, or "scram" during the blizzard Juno. In a February 4th Cape Cod Times article, Yarmouth Port resident Dr. James Garb, a specialist in occupational medicine, wrote that, "These events occurred a day after the release of an extensive investigative report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on four scrams at Pilgrim in 2013. The NRC, it should be noted, is part regulatory agency and part lobbyist for the nuclear power industry." Following the storm-related shutdown, the NRC announced that it was sending a special investigative team to Plymouth. Although the transmission lines were restored within a few days of the shutdown, the plant remained offline for necessary maintenance. Several groups like the Cape Downwinders (an indication of our vulnerability), the Pilgrim Coalition and others pressed for the plant's closure.
Meg Sheehan, an Eco-Law Attorney, wrote that" the NRC and the Entergy Corporation hides Pilgrim's dangers behind a blanket of techno-speak….to make it too technical for the public to understand. But thanks to in-depth research by local groups and public outreach, the blanket of secrecy is being pulled back. The time has arrived for some straight talk about:
- the damage Pilgrim causes to our environment;
- increased rates of cancer linked to the types of radionuclicides emitted by Pilgrim since 1972;
- the unacceptable risks of continuing to operate this outdated reactor;
- the dangers of a spent fuel fire rising from Entergy 's continued storage of 40 years of lethal high level radioactive waste in the wet pools; reported by Pilgrim Watch at a recent Plymouth's Board if Selectmen's meeting, the NRC will allow the Entergy Corporation to store lethal nuclear waste in wet pools until 2092.
Juno hit the Massachusetts southeastern coast on January 27th with blizzard winds bringing Pilgrim the closest ever to a meltdown, within minutes of sounding evacuation sirens, though this was disputed by a Pilgrim spokesman. "What is it going to take for the NRC to understand that the aging nature of this plant has led to a number of system failures?" asked Senator Daniel Wolf, a Democrat who represents Cape Cod The Cape The Cape Downwinders, Pilgrim Coalition, Bay Watch, and Concerned Neighbors of Pilgrim wrote to the NRC asking "that Pilgrim not restart since safety cannot be assured to the public." Diane Turco, co-chair of the Downwinders, said, "If I drove my car recklessly I'd lose my license. The NRC should revoke Pilgrim's license."
"Safety nets aren't often deployed to protect tight rope walkers and trapeze artists during performances. If a performer falls and slams to the ground through a ripped portion of the net, more needs to be done than mending broken bones and ruptured organs - the rip in the safety net needs to be fixed. It is simply unacceptable to tolerate a rip simply because performers rarely need a safety net.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is tolerating the intolerable: a ripped safety net. Granted, nuclear reactors do not fall into the safety net every day. And so far the United States has been lucky - with limited and notable exceptions, reactors that have fallen have avoided the ripped portion of the safety net. Many of the near-misses at nuclear power plants last year involved problems that had already existed for years - sometimes even decades - prior to the incident in question. If the net itself is abused, however, the more likely it becomes that someday workers or the public will be harmed by a nuclear reactor accident.
Failing to enforce existing safety regulations is literally a gamble that places lives at stake. The NRC must enforce its own regulations. Within the agency itself, rips in the safety net must also be fixed. The simplest repair available is for the NRC to enforce existing regulations, using its ability to impose fines on owners and shut down reactors that violate safety regulations. Unfortunately, the agency has repeatedly failed to enforce essential safety regulations. Within the NRC itself, rips in the safety net must also be fixed. Regulations are the safety net. Tolerating the intolerable is not acceptable. For example, in 2012 the NRC did nothing when the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan operated for nearly a month despite cooling water leaks. A poor safety culture and unwillingness to openly discuss working conditions go hand in hand.
Democratic Congressman William Keating represents both Plymouth and Cape Cod. In a letter to constituents on February 26, 2014:
"Within my first year, I voted to ban the exemption of nuclear power plants from regulations enforced and created by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and cosponsored Ed Markey's Nuclear Power Safety Act of 2011. This bill would have directed the NRC to initiate a rule making proceeding to revise nuclear plant safety regulations and ensure that each licensed facility can withstand and respond to events that threaten a major impact to the facility or loss of power. Since this bill applied to facilities up for relicensing, as Pilgrim was at the time, I urged NRC officials through letters and personal/joint communications not to move forward on issuing a twenty-year license extension for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station until there was a final resolution of all contentions and concerns. Unfortunately, despite my pleas and the continued urging of other officials, including Senator Markey and Massachusetts Attorney Genera Martha Coakley, Pilgrim was relicensed at the end of May 2012, and it will continue to operate under a new license until 2032"
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John Kennedy said on July 26, 1963, upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests, "The number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.
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Today's Wyoming and Washington Primary Races: Intense Battles for GOP Noms; "Top-Two" Gets Another Test
Today is primary day in Washington and Wyoming. Both states' races include important statewide elections.
[Ed. note: Jon will be liveblogging tonight's results on the Elections page. Polls close in Wyoming at 9pm EDT.]
Governor – Popular Democratic Gov. Dave Freudenthal has decided not to run for re-election creating a excellent pick up opportunity for the Republican Party. Most observers expect the Republicans to win the governor's race in this very red state, which is why the Republican primary has been crowded with several viable candidates. A Mason-Dixon poll for Casper Star-Tribune found in the Republican primary State Auditor Rita Meyer had the lead at 27% among those polled. Close behind her is Matt Mead with 24%, House Speaker Colin Simpson at 17%, and Ron Micheli with 12%.
On the Democratic side, the campaign has been less intense. The race is between former Democratic Party chair Leslie Peterson and Pete Gosar. The Mason-Dixon poll found Peterson leading Grosar, 30% to 22%, but with a huge level of undecided. Neither Democratic candidate is considered to be a top recruit. The only poll of the general election I can find is a Rasmussen poll from June; although aged, it shows all potential Republicans with a big lead over the potential Democrats.
A note on Washington's "top two primary": Unlike most states, Washington has recently stopped using a partisan primary, in which political parties select their nominees for the general. Washington State now uses the "top two primary" system in which all candidates, regardless of party, compete. The two candidates that earn the most votes in the primary become the only two candidates on the general election ballot. In theory, the general election could be a fight between two Democrats or two Republicans or even two independents if any of these combinations are the two top vote-getters tonight.
Senate – The big race is the primary for U.S. Senate. Recent polling indicates that incumbent Democrat Patty Murray and Republican Dino Rossi are expected to be the winners of their respective partys' nominations. Having run twice unsuccessfully for statewide office, Rossi is well known in the state and the Republican establishment's choice. There are two other more conservative Republicans, Clint Didier and Paul Akers, hoping to come in second so they can make it to the general but according to polls they are trailing Rossi by double-digits.
3rd District – This swing district is represented by Democrat Brian Baird who decided to not run for re-election this year, making this one of the most hotly contested races this November. There are three serious candidates for the two top slots: Democrat Denny Heck, Republican Jaime Herrera, and Republican David Castillo. Former state legislator Denny Heck is the best financed person in the primary and as the only serious Democratic candidate he is expect to easily secure one of the top two slots. Herrera is better financed and is the Republican Party establishment favorite among the two Republicans. David Castillo is trying to run to the right of Herrera and has the backing of Tea Party sponsor FreedomWorks.


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Black Zheep DZ "Whatchu Sayin'" (Prod. by Robin Carnage)
DC rapper, Black Zheep DZ "Whatcu Sayin'"
Music discovery is a beautiful thing. When you hear something new that not only piques your interest, but you can really dig into, it's an exciting feeling. After spending some time with rapper Black Zheep DZ's music, particularly his new single "Whatcu Sayin'," I'm pleased to say, the 20-year-old rapper's raw and inviting style has won me over. Black Zheep DZ and his basement rap crew, 7th Floor Vi77ains have been making waves in their hometown of Baltimore, gaining recognition for their wavy take on rap music.
Taking lessons from Miami's emerging hip hop style of trap-heavy beats, and eerie stadium hooks, producer Robin Carnage paints the haunting backdrop for DZ to drop his crackling tales of growing up in the nation's capital. Exhibiting the art of lackadaisical storytelling, DZ is creeping up on the hip hop world's radar, one single at a time.
Keep an eye out for an EP from Black Zheep DZ this fall.


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The two stars are certainly in the Muslim Brotherhood's bad books but do they have anything else in common? When sultry Lebanese singer, Elissa, said this week that she was "obsessed" with Egyptian comedian, Bassem Youssef, fans wondered if the couple could ever work out.
Elissa couldn't help but blurt out her feelings for the funnyman all over her Twitter account: "he is very talented and presents an outstanding program", she gushed.
But does Bassem feel the same? The "Egyptian Jon Stewart" has made headlines this week by upsetting his nation's Islamists, including the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi. Elissa, for her part, has had her concert agents called "devil worshippers" for getting her on stage.
So perhaps the pair can bond over their Islamist upset?
Meanwhile the Lebanese songstress has been stirring up controversy in her own country with the music video for her new track, 'Asad Wahida' (The Happiest One). The star has been accused of stealing the idea for the footage from a TV commercial.
Director, Salim al Turk, admitted to taking inspiration from the ad, but said many other filmmakers had done the same thing.


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Santa parades for the kids
The morning after Halloween, I stepped off an airplane in Newark and was assaulted by the sounds of Alvin and the Chipmunks singing their obnoxious Christmas song. This was not OK on several levels, the least of which being my wicked hangover and foul mood, brought about by taking shots the night before while fending off a 61-year-old who was taking his Hugh Hefner costume a little too seriously ("Yes, I'm blonde, but get your hand off my ass, buster"). On a broader level, I had to agree with the other passengers who scowled at the sound of carols so early. No Santa until Thanksgiving is over!...And now it is! So bring on the prancing elves and Claymation TV specials. And this Saturday, bring on the Neiman Marcus Adolphus Children's Parade in Downtown Dallas. Some 350,000 spectators will see marching bands, clowns, characters and floats--including one with Santa himself. Giant inflatables of Curious George, Garfield and Scrooge will also soar above the streets along the route, which begins at the corner of Austin and Commerce streets and travels down Commerce before heading toward Dallas City Hall Plaza. People start arriving as early as 6:30 a.m. for sidewalk spaces and entertainment like the 8 a.m. performance by children's performer Eddie Coker. This "Miracle on Commerce Street" has raised $1 million for Children's Medical Center in 18 years, and I can't think of a more fitting way to officially (and appropriately) welcome the start of the Christmas season. The parade starts at 10 a.m. and admission is free. Parking is available at downtown lots, and the route is within walking distance of several DART Light Rail stations (see dart.org). For information, call 214-456-8383 or visit www.childrensparade.com. --Leah Shafer
Neiman Marcus Adolphus Children's Parade
Tour de Food
If I had the ability to cook more than a pan-fried plate of salmon, this Wednesday I would certainly relish the chance to meet Joanne Bondy, the executive chef of Oak Lawn's Ciudad restaurant. Named Chef of the Month by Whole Foods Market and D Home magazine, Bondy will lead a tour through the store to show you how to select the choice ingredients she uses in some of her favorite dishes, which are undoubtedly a step or two above my culinary ceiling. For those of you who are more skilled around the kitchen, however, make reservations soon. Space is limited. The tour starts at 6 p.m. at Whole Foods Market, 4100 Lomo Alto Drive. Please e-mail reservation requests to email@example.com. --Matt Pulle
Would Freddy Krueger have lined New Line's pockets if his name was Wilbur? Could Psycho's shower scene work with a pro wrestling entrance theme as the musical cue? What if Mexican Werewolf in Texas--which makes its state premiere at the Inwood this Friday and Saturday--was instead called Chupacabra to pay homage to the voracious villain at the movie's core? According to some dated info at the official Web site, it originally was, but think about it--one reference conjures John Landis' classic, the other, quite literally, "Goat Sucker." Good call, folks. If the film itself (a horror flick concerning the legendary creature's newfound taste for human blood and border-hopping) shows any of the same resourcefulness, we'll see you at midnight. The Inwood Theatre is at 5458 W. Lovers Lane. Call 214-764-9106. --Matt Hursh
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It's no fairy tale that a woman's work is never done, but did you know such tales can transform your work life into the stuff of happily-ever-afters? According to Cary J. Broussard, author of From Cinderella to CEO, Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel might just hold the secrets to a woman's workplace happiness. Broussard will hold court this Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Women's Museum, 3800 Parry Ave., with her seminar, Learn How You Can Master the 10 Lessons of Fairy Tales to Transform Your Work Life. Billed as a "magical conversation," Broussard may unlock the door to career advancement despite all the wicked witches and poison apples along the way. Admission is $45 and includes a signed copy of the book and a wine and cheese reception. All proceeds benefit The Women's Museum. For further information or to R.S.V.P., call 214-397-0902 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. --Rich Lopez
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Once a year, we load the family up in the car and drive around Dallas to see thousands of lights in the nicest neighborhoods--but before you pack up the kids this year and head to Highland Park, go to UT-Arlington and check out two of this holiday season's brightest lights during Stars of Wonder. This planetarium program focuses on the winter solstice of the Sun and the astronomical possibilities of the "Star of Bethlehem," so not only will you save some gas money, you just might learn something, too. Stars of Wonder takes place at the planetarium in Preston Hall at UT-Arlington, 604 W. West, December 1 through December 17, with shows on Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m. and Saturdays at 1 p.m. Tickets are $3 for adults, $2 for kids 12 and under. Call 817-272-0822 or visit www.uta.edu/planetarium. --Amanda Bigbee


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Facts about travel insurance
With more than 91 million Americans planning to travel this holiday season, those traveling via plane will be presented with the option to buy travel insurance. The Minnesota Department of Commerce urges travelers to understand what travel insurance is, what it actually covers and what conditions to watch out for.
Travel insurance can protect against the loss of non-refundable travel costs such as airfare, hotel and tour expenses. Other types of travel insurance offer limited protection against losses due to medical emergencies, damage to personal property, and even a death.
A typical travel insurance policy will cover trip cancelation, travel delay, and trip interruption insurance. Often, it will include limited medical, medical evacuation and accidental death insurance. Finally, most travel insurance plans will include lost baggage.
The decision to purchase travel insurance relies on many factors. Here are some things to consider before you make up your mind:
Travel insurance policies are not all the same. If you buy travel insurance, be sure to review the policy, especially the list of covered reasons and exclusions for cancelling your trip.
Before purchasing a travel insurance policy, ask about pre-existing conditions and age limits. Some policies cover pre-existing conditions and some do not. Others will charge a higher premium to cover them.
Cruise and tour operators may offer cancellation waivers. Keep in mind that waivers are not insurance policies and are not regulated. Read all of the restrictions before you buy a cancellation waiver.
Review all of the policies you have now prior to purchasing travel insurance. If you have life, health or homeowners insurance, you may not need to buy certain types of travel insurance. Read your policy and speak with your insurance company or agent to learn what personal property and medical coverage you have.
No policy can guarantee your safety when you are traveling, but knowing you are covered for medical emergencies or the loss of personal property may help you relax and enjoy your vacation.
Check the refund policies on prepaid expenses before buying travel insurance. Some will refund your money if you cancel months in advance, but few will offer any refund if you cancel at the last minute.
Ask around. If you are working with a travel agent you trust, ask about his or her experiences with travel insurance companies.
For more information, visit the Minnesota Department of Commerce website.


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New uranium resources indentified in Iran, report
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Feb 23, IRNA -- The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced Saturday that new uranium resources were discovered in the country's northern and southern costal areas thanks to the relentless efforts of the Iranian nuclear experts.
A report by the AEOI said that the newly discovered resources would increase Iran's uranium reserves to 4,400 tons compared to the previous 1,527 tons.
The report added that the figure has set a new record in the past 35 years.
The AEOI stressed that the rise in Iran's uranium resources would help the country replace fossil fuel with nuclear power to meet energy demands of the Iranian nation.
Meanwhile, 16 new locations for constructing new nuclear power plants were identified in coastal areas of the Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman and Khuzestan province in southern Iran as well as the costal areas of the Caspian Sea in north of the country.
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Frank Alexander Strickland, 59, of 16 Lochmoor Ridge, died Monday, Aug. 21, 2000.
A resident of Clarke County, Mr. Strickland was a son of the late Charlie and Grace Davis Strickland. He was retired from Reliance Electric, was of the Baptist faith and was an army veteran. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Lord and Stephens Funeral Home, East, with the Rev. Buford Lockman officiating.
Survivors include a sister, Elizabeth Anglin, Colbert; two brothers, Dink Niddie Strickland, Colbert, and Jerry Strickland, Athens.
Athens Daily News, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2000
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Unanswered: Again. "A required privilege is not held by the client." in Enterprise Manager
Hello all,
Thanks in advance for any help.
I was trying to change the Startup Service Account through SQL Enterprise Manager and got the "A required privilege is not held by the client." error.
I've read all those articles regarding this problem. And I was able to solve this problem on one of my server after I grant the "Administrators" group to "Default Access Permissions" in dcomcnfg.
But on the other machine, even I've changed this, I still got the same error. I even tried to add the user to "Act as a part of the operating system" policy, the result is the same error.
I just wonder, when we're modifying the Startup Service Account under Enterprise Manager, which account is being used? 'Coz the error "A required privilege is not held by the client." doesn't tell us which account doesn't have the enough privilege and what kind of privilege required.


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- A randomized trial of automated electronic alerts demonstrating improved reimbursable anesthesia time documentationRobert E Freundlich
Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0048, USA
J Clin Anesth 25:110-4. 2013..To investigate whether alerting providers to errors results in improved documentation of reimbursable anesthesia care...
- Automated electronic reminders to prevent miscommunication among primary medical, surgical and anaesthesia providers: a root cause analysisRobert E Freundlich
Department of Anesthesiology, 1H247 Box 0048, University of Michigan Hospital, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:850-4. 2012....
- Perioperative effectiveness research using large databasesRobert E Freundlich
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 25:489-98. 2011....
- Patient selection for day case-eligible surgery: identifying those at high risk for major complicationsMichael R Mathis
Anesthesiology Resident, Associate Professor, Research Associate, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research, Plastic Surgery Chief Resident, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Anesthesiology 119:1310-21. 2013..There are no multicenter clinical data guiding patient selection for outpatient surgery. The authors hypothesize that specific risk factors increase the likelihood of day case-eligible surgical morbidity or mortality...
- Incidence, predictors, and outcome of difficult mask ventilation combined with difficult laryngoscopy: a report from the multicenter perioperative outcomes groupSachin Kheterpal
Assistant Professor, Lead Statistician, Resident, Research Fellow, Clinical Instructor, Software Analyst, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Seattle Children s Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado The members of the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group MPOG Perioperative Clinical Research Committee are included in the appendix
Anesthesiology 119:1360-9. 2013..Research regarding difficult mask ventilation (DMV) combined with difficult laryngoscopy (DL) is extremely limited even though each technique serves as a rescue for one another...


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Natasha Tobin, 25, died early Tuesday morning after she was hit by a car and a bus in Gaithersburg, Md.
Tobin, 25, lived in Fort Washington, Md. She was walking on the southbound side of I-270, near Route 124, when the collision occurred, police said. It's unclear why Tobin was walking on the highway. It's illegal to do so.
No charges will be filed against the drivers of the car and bus that hit her. Alcohol and speed were not factors, police said.
There were no passengers on the bus when the collision occurred.
I-270 was shut down for several hours, but it reopened in time for Tuesday's morning rush hour.
Published at 8:13 AM EDT on Oct 12, 2010 | Updated at 8:28 PM EDT on Oct 13, 2010


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CAIRO — Security forces backed by armored vehicles and helicopters on Monday stormed a town south of Cairo that had been held for over two months by militants loyal to the ousted Islamist president, swiftly taking control despite some resistance from gunmen.
Local activists Adel Shafiq and Ezzat Ibrahim said a joint force of army and police rolled into the town of Dalga, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) south of the Egyptian capital, before dawn on Monday. They said there were about 10 minutes of intense gunfire, followed by sporadic shots as government forces began house-to-house searches to arrest militants.
A total of 88 suspected militants were arrested out of a list of 312 who were wanted, according to security officials in Minya, the province in which Dalga is located.
Two army helicopters were flying low over the town, which has a 120,000 population of which an estimated 20,000 are minority Christians. Forces sealed off all entrances to the town and ordered residents to stay indoors, according to the activists.
Minya's security chief, Osamah Mutwali, said army troops and police were in complete control of the town and would remain there until law and order were fully restored.
Militants drove police out of Dalga, located on the edge of the Nile Valley bordering the western desert, during a security vacuum in Minya following the July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in a popularly backed coup.
After Morsi's overthrow and a subsequent deadly crackdown on his followers, angry mobs torched and looted dozens of churches across the south. In Dalga, when The Associated Press visited earlier this month, a church dating back to the 4th century was a blackened shell, with the remains of revered clerics strewn around the interior and "Egypt is Islamic" painted on its inside walls.
Armed militants were visible on many of its streets, and Morsi supporters held daily demonstrations outside the police station calling for the ousted president's reinstatement. Christians in Dalga say militants demanded money in exchange for their protection, a practice harkening back to a long abandoned tax called "jizyah" collected from non-Muslims.Comment on this story
The security officials said the 88 arrested Monday included members of the Gamaa Islamiyah, a militant group that is a close ally of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. The Gamaa led the insurgency against the government in the 1990s and is blamed for a series of high-profile assassinations at the time along with the killing of wealthy Christians and western tourists.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Minya is a stronghold of the Gamaa and was a heartland of the 1990s insurgency. It is also home to the largest Christian community in any of Egypt's provinces, making up about 35 percent of its estimated 4.5 million residents. Christians account for about 10 percent of the population nationwide.


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Eagles-- Tanner Wegscheid 1-3, BB, SB, 2 R; Maison Roberts 2-3, HBP, 2B, R, 3 RBI; David Ayers 0-2, 2 BB; Mike Baune 2-4, RBI; Jarrod Norton 1-4; Nate Burg 1-3, R; Joe Hendrickx 0-2, BB.
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Friday, April 24
New York Mills 11, Ashby 4
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Ashby 2-1-0-0-0-1-0-- 4- 6- 7
Eagles-- Wegscheid 1-5, SB, 2 R; Derik Gaudette 0-4, R; Spencer Imsande 1-1, RBI; Roberts 1-4, BB, 3B, 2 R, 2 RBI; Baune 1-4, SB, RBI; Norton 0-3, BB, SB, 2 R; Tristan Huwe 3-4, 3B, SB, R, RBI; Erik Wallgren 1-2 2 BB, HR, 2 RBI; Benji Salo 0-2, BB, SB, R; Rohr BB, R.
Pitching IP R ER H SO BB
Norton (1-0) 4 3 3 5 6 2
Gaudette 1 1 1 1 0 2
Snelgrove 2 0 0 0 4 2
Tuesday, April 28
NY Mills 12, Otter Tail Central 8
NY Mills 2-0-1-1-4-4-0--12- 6- 2
Eagles-- Huwe 0-3, 2 BB, R; Roberts 0-4, Sac, R, RBI; Baune 1-4, HBP, R; Rohr 1-3, 2 BB, 3 R, RBI; Ayers 0-1, 2 BB, Sac, R; Norton 1-2, HBP, Sac, 2 R, 3 RBI; Wallgren 2-4, HR, 5 RBI; Cichy 1-3, BB, R, RBI.
Pitching IP R ER H SO BB
Rohr 3 5 4 5 0 3
Roberts (1-1) 4 3 1 7 3 0
Park Region Conf. All
Bertha-Hewitt 6-0 8-2
Pillager 4-2 5-3
Sebeka 3-2 5-4
Menahga 2-2 4-4
New York Mills 2-3 3-3
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I've only been in AdSense since last year and I must admit I was very skeptical it could earn any real money as I already had a good revenue stream from the site that I didn't want to ruin. So, I tentatively only put a few links on a few pages, waited for Google media bot to do it's thing, and VOILA! $15/day on a limited test. Not a lot of money but very encouraging for just a few pages compared to some other programs I'd tried. So I increased the spread of AdSense on my site to a few more pages and get $25/day, still nothing earth shattering but it showed promise. Then I decided to just blanket the whole site with AdSense, throw caution to the wind, and see what happened.
The site broke $1k the first month.
Made some more changes here and there and it doubled again, and I kept messing with it for 3 months and it went up and up in little baby steps and seemed to hit a peak, a threshold I couldn't get beyond.
So here I am with my site at my theoretical "peak" and reading all these tales of woe of dropping CTR and CPM and that Google must be taking a bigger slice of the pie, etc. while watching my own CTR go up while my CPM was sinking lower by the day from record highs of $7 to record lows of under $2. The earnings were holding about the same thanks to very healthy traffic and a steady CTR. I'm thinking this is as good as it's going to get and be thankful my earnings are holding out.
However, I found it hard to believe that the price of all the ads displayed on my site were just dropping to nothing so I signed up for AdWords and took a quick look at those keywords and verified that I was right, prices were still at a decent premium but I wasn't getting the targetted ads I needed. Since ADWORDS for my desired keywords still seemed to be selling at a premium and assuming Google wasn't skimming massive amounts of money all of a sudden (as all the conspiracy theorists on the boards think) I came to realize there was only ONE POSSIBLE ANSWER: my site was STILL not truly optimized for AdSense and my "peak" was merely a temporary obstruction to bigger and better things.
So starting well over a month ago I went back and did some serious re-reading starting at Google itself on their "best practices" and case studies. Then I read a bunch of articles by so-called AdSense experts on everything regarding ad positioning, colors, blending, etc., some eye-tracking articles, lots of pages of Webmaster World (of course), and some additional SEO articles. After reading for almost a solid week came up for air and started working on the site again. I must admit, the fear of making all these changes tanking the whole site and watching it all crumble did cross my mind, but I'm a gambler and throwing caution to the wind jumped in with both feet and put my site back on a positive track.
When all the new work on the site was done and everything was in place the only thing left to do was wait, watch, and hope for the best.
After watching for about 6 weeks the results are in:
- Traffic up almost 75,000 visitors (maybe 100K by EOM)
- CTR up 1% (not alot, but it all counts)
- CPM up almost double last month
- Earnings have climbed to DOUBLE last month with 3 days to spare
I attribute the 3 factors that made this transition to:
1. Tightening my keywords and refining some content to be even more relevant per page to attract the exact ads I wanted.
2. Improved a bunch of SERPs by doing #1. and thus got the 75,000 new visitors and better CTR.
3. Testing changes in number of ad units, ad positions, colors, some blending, some not, seems to have also improved CTR but there's more testing to do.
This is obviously a work in progress, but my mental state about this is much different now than it was a couple of months ago when I thought "THIS IS IT, THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS". I was wrong, flat out wrong, and all it took was mentally starting from scratch and re-evaluating everything I thought I knew about the whole process, looking at it from different angles and basically trying "ADSENSE IMPLEMENTATION 2.0" on my web site.
Hope this encourages someone else to give it a shot as I'm a firm believer you can turn the tide on your AdSense earnings if you make the right positive changes to your site.
Good Luck!
On Feb 2 I lost my home page from google results.
Ouch - that happened to me about a year ago and it took 6-8 weeks before it came back.
It was a dark and ugly time :)
However, this doesnt count the main focus of the site which is all about getting consulting projects
I too do consulting and contract programming and decided in January to stop taking on new projects and instead "consult" for myself which generates a long term recurring revenue stream. Instead of working a week for a week's pay I'm working a week for revenue to keep paying all year long, and next year, and hopefully the year after that. Kind of like selling software and collecting royalties without the tech support headaches, totally different paradigm and it took a while to get used to the idea and prove it was doable and sustainable.
Not tying to convince anyone to do this as my situation is obviously different from everyone else's, but I'm MUCH happier working on my own projects instead of jumping thru hoops to make a demanding customer happy. :)
The site was also supporting 2 other programmers with the projects but don't do that much anymore either because of the liability issues.
I thought I would never recover from the lost homepage but I'm doing about 30% above all time previous highs in Jan. If the homepage comes back I'll probably take the summer off :). I was considering starting another site using the homepage and a few other pages and cross link them but will hold off on that since I have 3000 inbound links to the homepage still.
I have Site A, which brings me 25-30,000 hits a day (it's a seasonal site which is in season right now). It's specifically targeted. The other, Site B is an evergreen site that is also very specifically targeted. It generally gets 300-400 hits a day.
Despite the overwhelming disparity of visitors Site A over Site B, my clickthrough rate is much higher for Site B, and the ads tend to pay out MUCH higher for Site B. Why? The topic on Site B draws higher paying advertisers. Plus, people searching for the particular term which it now ranks #1 at in a major search engine are very likely to be interested in the items being advertised.
So while Site A and its 25-30k daily visitors is very nice (and targeted), Site B draws a much more desirable audience with a much higher likelihood for clickthroughs, so I end up making more from Site B, despite having 100 times fewer visitors than Site A. I do nothing to encourage clicks or to violate Google rules -- but in the case of Site B, people seem to be extremely interested in the ads, which leads to a CTR rate which is incredibly high, particularly compared with my other sites (including Site A).
Perhaps this would be clearer if I didn't have to use generalities (but those are the rules we abide by for the right to post in this forum). Targeted traffic is important, but targeted traffic that is likely to be interested in the advertising is even MORE important. A subtle difference for me is that the ads on Site A are generally related to the specific topic, whereas the ads on Site B are almost always a spot-on match (or very close therein). Keep in mind that this factor can play a role in the targeting process as well.
Any advice would be appreciated on setting up a tracking system before I have to change it 2 or 3 times to get it right.
A subtle difference for me is that the ads on Site A are generally related to the specific topic, whereas the ads on Site B are almost always a spot-on match
I ran into some of that and had to split some content into 2 pages so Google could get more specific.
Any advice would be appreciated on setting up a tracking system
My channels are flegling at best but my site is also dynamic and I have hundreds of specifics I'd like to track but with the current limitations it's just not possible. So what I did was create channels for each ad on the home page (amusingly they earn about the same) then created channels for each ad on each subsection of the site.
If I only had 500 channels I could do this right :)
The worst part of higher earnings is that increasingly larger pit in the bottom of my stomach that says it won't last. If it holds a couple of months maybe the daily panic will subside that I'm now getting every day until my earnings hit that magic sweet spot so I know I'm *SAFE* for another day.
Without going into a lot of specifics that may or may not help anyone else, I'll just say that sometimes less is more...
Adsense has been a bit of a roller coaster for us since we started with it in January 04.
Did 4 figures in the third month and thought DANG! this is awesome stuff. My son talked me in to it. I just never thought it would pay more than a couple of bucks per month. (I've eaten a bit of crow over the last year but I still love him.) But we never again broke into 4 figures in spite of lots of tweaking.
First of this month? It was suddenly down to lunch at McDonalds each day. Dropped by 50% or more. We worked. Changed. Experimented. Prayed. Did it all over again.
This last week? I'd say the changes are working. Nearly three figures PER DAY!
Will it hold? I'll know for sure in a couple of months but for right now I'm loving it! (Whether it *held* - past tense. No guarantees.)
1500 impressions daily.
10% to 12% click through
Yeah. I'm happy.
I've tried the tips of changing layouts, sizes, colors, etc, and it always seems to be about the same. I've bought the $79 Adsense guides...which just tell me everything I aready knew.
I guess I don't sound happy, but I'm fairly satisfied, it's just when I hear of people making $1k per month or more that I wonder what I need to do to get to that level.
But, as far as 'uplifting' stories - back in Jan, (if memory serves me right), I redid my whole site, and my CTR went up 8x - from 1%-2% to 10%. So, yes I say, play around!... of course now I'm too scared to play around some more
Know the feeling! I'm loth to change anything as the current CTR and earnings are too good to mess with. Any changes I make tend to be very minor and watched verrrrry closely.
I've been running Adsense almost since it was launched, and I'm happy to be making something with it. I feel that it should be higher, though I feel the content of my site perhaps doesn't attract the higher paying ads. I'll get 30,000 - 50,000 page views per day, and get a CTR of less then 0.50%
I've tried the tips of changing layouts, sizes, colors, etc, and it always seems to be about the same. I've bought the $79 Adsense guides...which just tell me everything I aready knew.
I'm not sure about the low income being due to low paying ads. I have a feeling (and I may be wrong here) that Smart pricing will adjust the payment and what advertisers pay for a click on a particular page based partly on the CTR and page views of a page. If you could increase the ctr, then I have a feeling that the same ads would generate you a better payment.
I think the bottom line is that adsense works well on some sites, but not on others - as does selling stuff through affilliates. Adsense works great for me, but affilliates earned absolutely zilch and I dropped them all. Your site may well be monetised better with other forms of advertising - have you tried any?
- Using 2 300x300 blocks for ads
- If you imagine the site area split into squares three across and four down and numbered left to right, the ads are in square 1 and 5 (ish)
- On the home page, there's just one adblock, but the link that 90% of visitors are most likely to click on first (our headline article) is in square 5; which means that they click, the article page loads and (perhaps) their line of sight/focus/mouse is right on the block of ads that appears in the article, making that their first point of attention.
- All ads are blended, but the top left set have our own CSS border around them.
- All table layouts replaced with divs and spans, which has meant we can put all the keyword rich content at the top of the code and group it together a bit more naturally.
- I adjusted my CMS system to automaticallly paginate long articles into shorter pages with click-to-next-page:
title
 at the end of each; that's given us a big increase in page views.
- Finally, I put my trust in G's technology - so rather than being very cautions with what appears inside H1 tags (i.e. sticking to my main keyword topic), I switched to making almost all elements on the page dynamic based on the article content. At first this seemed (to me) to be pulling up ads that seemed related, but not what I wanted to see - BUT - seems my readers want to see them because they're clicking on them and coming back for more...
It's all working nicely so far... :)
1500 impressions daily.
You can only squeeze so much juice from a small number of impressions. I think I'd focus on getting more traffic through the search engines if possible and/or consider running some low cost advertising to get the word out and boost traffic for a month or two and see if it sticks with repeat visitors and such.
[edited by: incrediBILL at 11:41 pm (utc) on April 3, 2005]
I'll get 30,000 - 50,000 page views per day, and get a CTR of less then 0.50%
With that many page views, unless the ad prices for your keywords are just pitifully low, breaking 3 digits a day should be a breeze. If you're really getting 30,000 AdSense impressions you only need 2% CTR with an average of $0.20 EPC to get $120/day. I think that amount of earnings minimum is very doable in most cases with your traffic.
Is your site content oriented or a blog or forum? The latter seem to do worse based on what I've been reading.
I'm almost tempted to ask you to give me a shot at marketing it and we can split the difference :)
The worst part of higher earnings is that increasingly larger pit in the bottom of my stomach that says it won't last.
I should mention that a lot of the impressions do also come from a forum attached to the site. But I get more clicks on the main page, which still has 10K + impressions a day.
I think the ads shown on my site are very low paying.
Heck, if you could help me get 3 digits daily, I MIGHT just split it with you.
i have read your post and i want to ask you maybe you can give me a idea.
I have a site with tutorials (almost 3000 now and growing with more than 200 evry day)I have visitators but they didnn't click n my ads.
Something is wrong
what should i change on this site <snip>
thank you for your time
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I get 3,000 - 5,000 page views per day, and get a CTR of 15%
My site is relatively small but i hit the tops on many most competitive terms ,and i have placed the adds at the best place.So there are 2 factors number one be at the top 10 for competitive money topics number two place the adds at the right place.
are you making $10k+/daily and $1k increase is small change for you? -small percent increase, if you already have the traffic to go with it - makes sense.
if you're making $100/day or even $500/day, I am a bit incredulous to accept that you can somehow boost your revenue by 200%+ just like that. What I'm saying is - since you're so kind to say you can do it that easily, where exactly are you coming from.
Have you added that many pages before and not been penalized by Google for adding too many pages too quickly? What percentage of your total pages would that 2,000 represent?
I added a few hundred a couple of weeks ago and that's when I really started bringing in some coin (well, for me anyway) but now I'm really apprehensive about adding any more pages for a while.
Part of me says since I quadtrupled the content and picked up lots more traffic maybe Goog doesn't care so I should quickly add some more pages. Another part says, hmmm, not enough time has passed for Google to react. a. be patient and build slowly or, on the other hand, b. gonna get banged on the serps anyway so go for it and then there's:
Ehh have to say, im glad on your behalf, but im only getting like
CRT= .5 .6 with about 40k - 50k hits on the adsense stats per day...!
I have tryed to optimise it but dosent help, with out any changes a month can go about 2000usd and other month can go 800usd im realy fustrated.. :(
sucks.. :(
Have you ever tried putting some text right above the column ad, so that adsense might serve higher paying stuff?I'm sure the word tickets might help, since right now the ads on your index page look like $.05 junk ads....
Best ad placement I've found is right smack in the middle of the page, the 250x250 ad... this is where most people's eyes go soon after page loading, and where they stay the longest. What did I care if ppl were only staying for 13 seconds?
eCPM is dropping- avg this month is $19.34... was more like $40 in Feb, and I was making $700 per day.
Overall earnings have dropped by 90% due to another problem, which is that though my pageviews have only dropped by 50%, the % of my pageviews that show up as impressions has dropped by 70%... and not immediately either- there was an immediate change with the rankings alg change, and then another one a few weeks later.
Whatever has changed, the effect has been to reduce cost to advertisers- but I certainly wonder what is happening on the pageviews that AS isn't counting as impressions >-(
I am actively seeking other monetization strategies, because either AdSense is broken or greedy.
But, I admit, I haven't looked at which ads are showing- hard to do when you have 2000 pages and are churning out more every day. Too many things to do, too little time ;-)
Looks like my earnings are going to tripple what they previously were. I still need about 10x the earnings to quit my day job but it's a nice start.
I'm almost thinking of setting the adlinks to be the main ad on the pages but with that good of a result I'm afraid to touch it.
Thanks for the thread Bill!


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Ellis Martin - High on a Monday
Update: The visuals for Ellis Martin's High on a Monday single have been added.
As nice as it is to have a steady income, there are some moments when it's hard not to fill a twinge of envy for the unemployed. For example, when you're listening to Booth newcomer Ellis Martin describe what he was doing while most of us were at work yesterday: "I'm High on a Monday, no job, just a fun day." On this freshly-rolled single, the Chicago pop singer and producer "lashes back at the self-righteous cynics who have criticized him for his laid-back nature and herbal lifestyle." Those who aren't chronically uptight, however, should be able to look past their jealousy and appreciate the artist's unique vocals, as well as his bouncy, reggae-informed production. Fans will be able to find High on a Monday and much more on Ellis's wonderfully-titled Pornotopia EP, set for independent release in October.


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PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A Michigan man said he heard a loud crash in his house and found a bleeding six-point buck that had jumped in through a double-pane picture window.
Keith Luke, 62, said the noise Sunday morning sounded like a car driving into the house but when he investigated with his wife and son they found the deer bleeding and hiding behind a couch in Luke's study, The Detroit News reported Monday.
"When I saw he was injured, I ran to the front door and opened it so he had a way to escape," Luke said. "I think he was as bewildered as everyone else was."
West Bloomfield Township Police Sgt. Erik Tilli said that while deer are common in the area, is it "extremely rare" for a buck to jump into someone's window.
Luke said he does not know what became of the buck after it left his house. He said he doubts the animal survived very long due to its severe bleeding.


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 18.104.22.168
My site structure is like this:
The problem I am faced with is that I want to restrict the parsing to just the index.html in the root of my website and not the index.htmls in the subdirectories of my site.
I have the following line in my htaccess which is in the root of my site:
<Files index.html>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
Is this gonna do the trick? Or is it going to parse all index.htmls in my site? If so, does anyone have the correct directive I can use?
If you're only applying it to one file, can you do mod_rewrite? This might work better:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(index.html*)$ /yourscript.php [L]
RewriteRule ^$ /yourscript.php
Some notes:
the * means "zero or more of the preceding character" so it will also work for requests for index.htm
The second rule means "begins and ends with nothing" so will manage requests for example.com/ in addition to example.com/index.html
If you want to pass parameters to the script,
Do this:
RewriteRule ^(index.html*)$ /yourscript.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^$ /yourscript.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
yourscript.php should receive id=>1234 in $_GET/$_REQUEST
Note I am not a mod_rewrite expert, there may be more accurate solutions, but I use these and they work without issues.
Anyway, If you only want to do the index.html script, you should use a RewriteRule like rocknbil suggested. I don't know if there's a way to limit the rules to ignore subdirectories. I couldn't find one from Google.
I just ran a test and the htaccess as I have it is also parsing the index.htmls in subdirectories as php.
Sorry, I may have confused you, and am not extremely familiar this THAT approach. What you're doing there is adding the directive to parse HTML as PHP, and as you discovered, this probably affects all directories under it. As mentioned, if you use the mod_rewrite directive, it will only affect the directories containing that .htaccess.
In the end I just renamed index.html to index.php. Since the site has been live I have been 301ing index.html/index.php to root so I guess and hope that the search engine bots will not detect any changes anyway.
BTW, the code posted above is redundant and has several other issues. Both rules can be replaced by one, "?" should have been used instead of "*", and it is not necessary to 'handle' the query string, which will pass through unaffected if no "?" is used in the substitution:
# Rewrite requests for "/index.html", "/index.htm", and "/" to /yourscript.php
RewriteRule ^(index\.html?)?$ /yourscript.php [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]
As long as you have "index.php" in your list of index files in a DirectoryIndex directive (in your .htaccess file, or defined in the server config), the redirect to index.php to "/" should have no negative consequences for search.
My site is hosted on a shared server so I have no way of knowing if index.php is in the list of index files in the server config.
But this is default behaviour for a apache web server isn't it?


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Launch of the Myanmar Tourism Master Plan project
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Published under: Stoltenberg's 2nd Government
Publisher Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yangon, Myanmar, 5 November 2012
Speech/statement | Date: 2012-11-05
"Rapid tourism growth presents the country with many opportunities and challenges. Tourism is a labor intensive industry that can quickly create jobs across all levels of society, help to strengthen economic ties across borders. At the same time, great damage to the environment and negative social impacts may occur if tourism development proceeds in an unplanned and uncoordinated manner", Minister of Foreign Affairs, Espen Barth Eide said in his speech in Yangon on 5 November 2012.
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Mr. Union Minister
Mr. Vice President
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a particular pleasure for me to attend this launch of the Myanmar Tourism Master Plan Technical Assistance project, which is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and will be implemented by the Asian Development Bank.
This is my third visit to Myanmar in 18 months. During my first visit in May 2011, I announced that Norway had withdrawn its advice to Norwegian tourists to refrain from visiting Myanmar.
This was one of the first international relaxations on engagement with Myanmar. Many have followed since. It was done in support of the emerging reform process and in the belief that greater contact with the rest of the world would have a positive effect on a country that had been closed for a long time.
I followed this up during my second visit in October 2011, when I met with U Htay Aung, who was then Deputy Minister of Tourism (and I was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs). I agreed with him that Norway would consider ways of supporting Myanmar in developing a sustainable tourist sector.
And here we are today, at the launch of the Myanmar Tourism Master Plan Technical Assistance project.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Myanmar's tourism sector is currently experiencing rapid growth as a result of recent political and economic reforms.
In the first half of 2012, growth in international tourist arrivals increased by over 30% compared to the same period last year. It firmly establishes Myanmar as one of the world's fastest growing tourist destinations.
Rapid tourism growth presents the country with many opportunities and challenges. Tourism is a labor intensive industry that can quickly create jobs across all levels of society, help to strengthen economic ties across borders, promote international friendship, and foster greater appreciation of Myanmar's rich cultural and natural heritage.
At the same time, great damage to the environment and negative social impacts may occur if tourism development proceeds in an unplanned and uncoordinated manner.
To help Myanmar address these formidable challenges, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pleased to be cooperating with the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism and the Asian Development Bank to help prepare a Tourism Master Plan that sets out a framework for environmentally and socially sustainable development of the sector.
Under the leadership of the Union Minister, The Ministry of Hotels and Tourism could be congratulated for its significant efforts to cooperate with other public agencies, the private sector, and development partners to lay the foundations for sound national tourism planning and management.
Some of the early dividends of this cooperation include the highly successful Travel Leader's Symposium for Sustainable Tourism held in Bagan last November, and endorsement of Myanmar's first Responsible Tourism Policy this year.
One of the key action points of the Responsible Tourism Policy is conservation and enhancement of the environment. I am pleased to say that Norway is also supporting the work to rehabilitate and conserve Inle Lake, one of Myanmar's spectacular tourist attractions.
This project, which is implemented by the UNDP, The Institute of International Development (IID), and UN HABITAT, can serve as a model for tourism planning at important ecological sites.
Tourism is a multi-sector economic activity. It requires significant investments in public infrastructure and regulatory reform to sustain growth and spread the economic benefits of tourism more widely.
It gives me great pleasure to be able to announce today that Norway also intends to cooperate with the ADB on updating Myanmar's Electricity Law. This will help to accelerate expansion of the power supply network – thus address a key issue constraining expansion of the tourism and hospitality industry in urban and rural areas.
Ladies and gentlemen,
A future-oriented tourism policy must properly address issues related to sustainability. In Norway, we are particularly concerned about environmental degradation and climate change. These are two of the most serious challenges of our time.
Transport is one of the main environmental challenges for many aspects of tourism. Using less energy-intensive forms of transport with fewer emissions will be a major challenge in the longer term.
Myanmar's cultural heritage belongs not only to the country's present day inhabitants and tourists from other countries, but to future generations as well. The duty of our generation is to take good care of this heritage. This is a joint responsibility for the tourist industry, local authorities and other stakeholders. Together they must adhere to principles of good, sustainable use of resources and best eco-practice.
Tourism can be a blessing. It can strengthen the local economy. It can enable local communities to take even better care of places of particular value.
But there are dangers. Many popular destinations cannot cope with unlimited numbers of tourists. Beautiful places can be ruined by large scale tourism. Too many tourists may spoil the local culture, disturb the wildlife, cause degradation of natural areas and erode cultural monuments.
A Tourism Master Plan founded on the principle of sustainability will hopefully lay the foundation for a healthy development of a very important sector in Myanmar's economy. I wish you all the best in your deliberations today and with your important work ahead. Thank you.


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27 March 2012
Manual Mode & New Lightroom PresetsCategory: free lightroom presets, lightroom presets, photography, sepia, vintage
Author: Yadsia @ShopCookMake
6 comments:
- Helene said...
Gorgeous! Could you explain the settings that you used in Manual mode please? Thanks in advance.
- March 28, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- Yadsia @ShopCookMake said...
Thank you very much! I have updated the post to include the settings I used on my camera to take the pictures. Thanks for the suggestion!
- March 28, 2012 at 11:25 AM
- Helene said...
Thanks so much. I usually shoot in Aperture but just started yesterday to use the Manual mode. I will do by tryouts this coming week.
- March 28, 2012 at 2:59 PM
- kankana said...
It's hard to believe all your previous photos in the blog were not in manual. I always thought you clicked in manual. Such gorgeous they looked :) Manual is lovely and once you get the hang of it you will never go back to auto!
- March 30, 2012 at 10:17 PM
- Torviewtoronto said...
enjoyed the lovely pictures looks wonderful
- March 30, 2012 at 11:10 PM
- Yadsia @ShopCookMake said...
They were not manual, I took most of the them on Aperture Mode, but the very firsts ones on Program Mode. Never in Automatic, because it would never work. But lately I've been experimenting with full Manual Mode. It had been a challenge!
- March 31, 2012 at 10:53 PM


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October 9th, 2012 (9:00 PM).
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Hey there, Vato! Glad to see this make a comeback. This SU may seem familiar, but I've tweaked it a little and chosen a new starter and home country.
Jack Hanan
Jack is taller than average, 5' 7" to be precise, with a thin but wiry frame, like he does a lot of running. His hair is dark brown and kept short, but is usually messy, and sticks out at all angles. His eyes are blue, and he wears a pair of small glasses.
He dresses conservatively, with an odd mix of bright and dark colors. He usually wears an orange T-shirt and a black jacket (worn open to show his colorful shirts), with brown slacks, even though jeans would be more in style. In colder or windy weather, he wears a heavier coat, a tan canvas duster. He prefers comfortable, practical shoes, and most often wears a pair of red running shoes. Literally topping off his ensemble is an old, slightly dirty gray flat cap, which mostly covers his messy hair, but usually gives him hat hair if he removes it.
Jack is a friendly and outgoing person, always excited to see new things or meet new people. He is exceedingly curious, interested in a great many things. Despite this, he is not overly energetic or prying, as such things go against his personal code of conduct. He is interested in learning things, but has generally poor social skills. If people try talking to him, he doesn't mind talking, and could carry on a conversation. He's friendly and open, but is always worried about saying the wrong thing. Despite this, he's very honest, even bluntly and brutally so at times.
Though he is fine with people, he just doesn't get them half the time, and is prone to embarrassing social blunders. He tries to be nice to others, and is always willing to talk to someone or lend a hand. He is often out of touch with trends and fashions, often out of place in both appearance and culturally. Due to this, he tends to be awkward and self-conscious. In contrast to his outgoing nature, he has quiet hobbies, being an avid reader and runner.
Holy Burritos.
Growing up in Rustboro City, Jack had a quiet, peaceful childhood. His father was a janitor, his mother was studying to be a doctor. This lead to him living a comfortable, if uneventful life. He had little ambition, and would have been content to work in the local shop. He eventually found an interest in Pokemon when he befriended an old man who owned several Shroomish. The old man taught Jack about the Pokemon, and how they could be used to help others. When the old man sold a Shroomish to a bakery, Jack auditioned for a job at said bakery.
Being 12, he was of course denied. But this was the push he needed, and began to take an active interest in his own life and Pokemon. His parents were pleasantly surprised by the direction his life was taking. So much so that they decided to personally thank the old man, who accepted their thanks by offering them a job with Team Galactic, who he was a member of.
After years of learning and growing, Jack was ready to accept a Pokemon of his own. His parents had grown distant over the years, as they were very busy with the Team they had joined. So, he went to the one person who he knew would have Pokemon: the Professor who lived nearby. The Professor was impressed with Jack's enthusiasm to work with Pokemon, and intrigued by the actions of his mostly missing parents. As such, he gave Jack a Fire-type Pokemon in exchange for travelling on a journey, a prospect that Jack found simply fascinating.
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