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Review RatePerches too big and would work better without perches for small finches.
The sparrows & purple finch took over this feeder even with the perches turned to make it an upside down feeder The feeding ports were under each other and sparrows sit on the perch and reach the port above the bottom port. Our suggestion is to stagger each port around the tube instead of one under the other. We cut the perches off because large birds could sit on them and feed and we found the goldfinch loved it without perches because they sit right on the yellow plastic flowers to feed. This feeder sounded good, but didn't work for just goldfinch.Response From Perky-Pet®Lauren : Consumer Relations Representative
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Review RateBirds will eat from it but not a good feeder
This feeder suffers from 2 flaws. First, very inefficient use of seed. Once seed goes past 1st set of ports only 2 birds can feed and it will take A LONG time to fully deplete. So you either have to refill or wait to drain. Either way, you will have seed in it that will never be eaten unless you rotate the seed somehow. Second, and this is the main reason why I would avoid this feeder, the bottom is IMPOSSIBLE to remove when seed gets trapped between the bottom yellow piece and the clear tube. The bottom is supposed to twist off but becomes impossible to do so once seed gets jammed. While not as decorative, I would highly recommend either the 10" or 16" metal finch feeders instead.Response From Perky-Pet®Lauren : Consumer Relations Representative
Thank you for sharing this experience. We appreciate this feedback and have shared these comments with our Product Managers for review.
To ensure the health of our feathered friends, we recommend cleaning out a seed feeder two weeks. Doing so regularly should help prevent excess seed from becoming trapped at the base of the feeder.
Please feel free to contact our Consumer Relations Team at 1-855-PERKYPET (1-855-737-5973) with any questions.
Review RateFinch FeederWe've been enjoying this feeder - and the birds have too! Bought it because of the flexibility of being able to select either a top perch or a bottom perch at each port and found that the birds like the bottom perch better. Wish it had more ports - the top ports are about halfway down the feeder and when the seed is half gone (and it seems like that happens really fast) there are only two ports left - not enough for all the birds who want to use it. An outstanding feeder for the price.
Review RateBright and Sunny!The bright, sunny feeding ports and the rotating feeding features were great!
Review RateGreat for the priceIts a great inexpensive option - which so many people are looking for. They what to hang a feeder but not spend too much this is perfect.
Review RateLove the colorThe sunny yellow color is great!!!
Review RateFeeds all FinchesI love the bright Yellow color. I love the fact that it is not just a finch feeder but that it will feed just the finch too.


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My fiance and I are honeymooning in Venice, Florence and Rome for 10 days. We havent picked any hotels yet in Italy. What areas do you recommend we get our hotels in?
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My fiance and I are honeymooning in Venice, Florence and Rome for 10 days. We havent picked any hotels yet in Italy. What areas do you recommend we get our hotels in?
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Welcome to Fodor's. There are lots of threads here with similar questions - if you do a search you'll find additional information. Also, if you want specific hotel recommendations (not just areas), it will be very helpful if you provide your budget per night in euros.
Venice is pretty small, so most places in the main city (not the Lido or Mestre) will be fine. I stayed here, thanks to a recommendation from Fodorites, and really loved it, but location isn't as big a concern in Venice as in other cities. It would be nice to be near a vaporetto stop, but the city is very walkable.
In Rome, I really loved staying near Piazza Navona. We walked everywhere. Trastevere is also a great neighborhood and gets recommended here a lot. Staying near the main train station (Termini) or the Vatican are convenient for those areas, but not so much for getting to the rest of the city.
It's been too long since I've been to Florence to help there.
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We went to Italy for our 10th anniversary. We stayed in these places and love each one:
Venice: http://www.cortegrimani.com/ Great apartment, lots of room, close to everything, less than 5 minutes to San Marco
Florence: http://www.sleepinginflorence.com/lepri_apartment_florence.html In the pedestrian area close (but not too close) to San Lorenzo market. Very convenient. It's a walk-up if that makes a difference.
Rome: http://www.vrbo.com/32035 Quirky 2 story apartment with great view. You can walk to Colosseum. When we were there the nearest subway entrance was closed, but it should be open by now and very close.
Gee I can't believe it's been 7 years since then!
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My three favorite Italian cities. I could blab on here but instead will direct you to my website which has write-ups of our travels to these very cities fairly recently. Also links to reasonably priced places we stayed. You must have two full days in Venice the most romantic and beautiful city and I live near San Francisco.
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Venice Pension Academe
Rome anywhere near train station
Florence stay outside the city in it is very nice
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My favorite in Venice, Hotel al Ponte Mocenigo, a welcoming place and very close to the San Stae vaporetto stop, 5-minute walk in a quieter direction from the Rialto Bridge.
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I would start with some research here, or at www.slowtrav.com or www.venere.com.
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Search here using one city at a time--" Rome hotels".
Theer are hundreds of posting for each city.
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When I read honeymoon and first-time to Europe, I'd lean towards suggesting "special hotels" (memorable) rather than an apartment. What is your budget per night and perhaps we could give more specific recommendations?
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What's your budget?
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I also recommend hotels for a first visit. Hotel staff can be very helpful with restaurant recommendations and reservations, directions and tickets, etc. Once you have visited a city and apartment is very nice but for a first visit a hotel is better.
We like the Pensione Accademia in Venice and also the Hotel Ala. In Florence we like the Tornabuoni Biacci. In Rome, a hotel near the Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. The Albergo Senato is great. We recommend not staying near Termini. The area is not the greatest and it is a good distance to major sights.
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Will second the recommendations of Al Ponte Mocenigo in Venice and the Albergo del Senato in Rome. I was at both last summer and they are both terrific, clean and central. If you add your budget, it would be helpful to suggest more places.
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Insider request ESPN- off season work out
theres an atricle on Espn regarding offseason workouts can anyone thats already subscribed post the article please ??
would be good insight to see what players do to keep their fitnes and hone theyre skill during off season
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There is a well-known quote that permeates all basketball levels: "Players work on their individual games in the summer, and their team stuff in-season."
Thirty years ago, that was an accurate line, and perhaps in some high school communities it remains true today. But for NBA players, who routinely face constantly-changing schemes and major personnel changes, in-season development is more important than ever in remaining productive from November to June.
There is no question, however, that the summer months are also an invaluable time. During the "offseason," players have the opportunity to continue to refine and improve their skill-sets, and perhaps add some new weapons to use once the season begins. Players can benefit from a smart, well-executed plan that will allow them to arrive in training camp feeling fresh, fit and ready for a new season.
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Getting loose like Steve Nash is usually the first step.
Some players elect to train all summer in their own arena, working with the same coaches they'll see throughout the year. Others seek special facilities or camps that focus on NBA player development. And others choose to train by themselves or with a few friends.
The types of workouts vary greatly, though most players seek to simply maintain their skill-set and physique.
But the special players, the guys who desire greatness, want to add to their games each offseason. They can do this by building a better body (see the bodies of Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony over the last three years) or learning to use the body they have in a more effective fashion (see Kobe in the post now compared to his early years).
Adding skills might be the best way to utilize the summer months, giving players new dimensions to their games just when opponents thought they knew how to defend them (think Magic Johnson's skyhook). Maintenance of their already-established skills is also a must. After all, there is no guarantee that a player will shoot the same from one season to the next. The skills we all see exhibited nightly in an NBA game are the result of talent, to be sure, and hours and hours of practice.
For an NBA player to grow on the court -- increase his productivity (with regard to skill) -- he must spend a large percentage of his time in the gym developing genuine confidence in his skills before he can display them in a game situation. Genuine confidence only stems from genuine work (something I remind players of daily), so let's delve into what exactly happens in an offseason NBA player workout to produce the kind of players and plays we see in the season. Before I script out and explain an NBA workout, let me first share with you a simple explanation that players must understand to improve their game. Offseason training is best approached like packing a suitcase for a trip.
Obviously, you can only pack the clothes that you own, not the clothes you see in a catalog or in a window or that someone else is wearing. Well, the same principle applies to players when they arrive at the arena for a game. Only the skills and athleticism that they "own" can be used, not what they see someone else do on TV or in person.
This is a major problem in basketball today. Too many players try to shoot fadeaways like Vince Carter, or dribble through traffic like Allen Iverson or split screens like Tony Parker -- without the ability to do those things all that effectively or consistently.
To "own" a skill is to have mastered it through countless hours of practice, developing supreme confidence and then trying it out on the court. When you own it, you can suffer through the temporary failures and still believe in the same maneuver in crunch time. But to master a move means the player must not just practice it relentlessly, he must do so under game conditions -- speed, competitiveness, pressure and exhaustion.
An NBA workout should incorporate all of these things, so that the difference between practice and the games is largely mitigated. Some workout days are purely devoted to skill work, while others are strictly cardio. For our purposes, let's assume this workout is a hybrid, which is the most typical.
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No workout can begin before the players are properly stretched. We ask our players to arrive approximately one hour before our morning workout begins. They can get taped if needed, use a foam roller to work out aches and pains in the muscles, jump on a bike or treadmill to get warmed up, or work through some corrective movement exercises to ensure their limbs and joints are all working as one. Then they go through an "active stretch" on the court, similar to what every NBA team does each day. This typically lasts for 11-13 minutes.
• 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -- Tape, foam roller, warm-up cardio
• 10:00-10:13 -- Active stretch
• 10:13-10:18 -- Dunk drill 20, 15, 8, 4, 2, lob
I like to jump-start my workouts with something tough but meaningful. One of my favorites, and one the players know really helps them, is what I simply call the "dunk drill." Each player gets with a partner or a coach and stands just in front of the rim with the ball in his hands. He then has to jump off two feet and dunk the ball (for smaller guys -- jump as high as possible and lay it in).
As it goes through the rim, he catches the ball with his hands while landing softly on the balls of his feet. Sometimes I tell players to bounce just a little, then explode back up (think of the half jump some people do when jumping rope). Other times they simply explode back up with no bounce in between. I don't want their heels touching the ground.
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They'll do 20 straight, then switch with their partner or rest for 30 seconds if by themselves. When it's their turn again, we'll do 15 straight, then 8, 4, 2, and finish with a lob dunk. The purpose is simple -- to improve vertical jumping.
• 10:18-10:20 -- Weak-hand finishes
Almost every NBA player can improve on his ability to score with his weak hand (except perhaps David Lee and Carlos Boozer), so it's something I try to incorporate into most of my regimens. Each player will get a ball and stand near his own basket with a coach behind the 3-point line.
The coach will fire a pass inside, and the player must catch and finish with his weak hand, then return the ball back and get ready for the next pass. We want the player to vary his finishes -- meaning a different finish every time (off two feet or one foot, using different moves and finishing using different angles off the glass). A player should focus on extending with the arm and shooting as if it were his strong hand.
• 10:20-10:30 -- Dribbling drills
All players should work on their ballhandling all the time. Yes, that is right. Even bigs, as it helps with their "hands" and assures them that, in a pinch, they can put the ball down for a few dribbles and not turn it over. There are many ways to improve a player's handle -- the key is that all drill work should be done in "game condition," meaning changing speeds and directions often.
The drills should require the player to keep his dribble below his waist, pounding the ball down. We don't partner up here, each player has a ball and goes to work, and it is best to mix up the myriad of drills that are available to keep things fresh and challenging.
• 10:30-10:36 -- Superman 2x20, Superman + dunk 2x20
These are as exhausting as anything we do because the players have to go almost nonstop for seven minutes. This is a perfect time to challenge them. An important part of any NBA workout is to get guys to make plays when they are fatigued, similar to what they will be challenged with in games. As we know, rebounding is so much a result of desire, so now we will work with our guys on being a "beast" -- fighting through fatigue to make an effort play in a physical manner.
We'll start with the "Superman" drill. Each player stands just outside the paint with the ball, facing the backboard eight feet away. He throws the ball off the board hard toward the other side of the key. The player races for the ball and must rebound the ball before it hits the ground. But he must jump for it, and land with both feet outside the key on the other side.
We emphasize quick transitions from the catch to the pass and chase, and typically ask each player to do two sets of 20, as fast as possible. Then, we get to the "beast" part. We ask the players to do the same drill, only this time they must dunk off one step after each rebound. Another two sets of 20. The key is to get the players to find that "next level" -- it will serve as a great reference point in the season ahead.
• 10:36-10:40 -- Tip drill 3x3 from each side, then water break
An offensive tip-in is an effective way to score points without being involved in the offense. But just jumping high or being tall does not mean that a player will make a lot of tips. It takes practice. So we fit in tip drills almost daily. The drill is simple -- each player must tip the ball up on the backboard three times and then tip it in. Only one hand is used, with an extended arm and fingers. We do three sets of three tips and makes from each side.
• 10:40-10:47 -- Guards: Dribble attack to basket, including crossover, inside out, hesitation, through legs, behind ankles, behind back, combo moves. Posts: Back-to-basket scoring, including jump hook, skyhook, turnaround jumper, turnaround fadeaway, up and under, double pivot
Assuming there are both guards and posts on the court, a good workout plan must account for both. So we'll split up the guys to different courts and ask them to do different things. For our guards, we spend a good amount of time working on "attack dribbles," trying to get better at breaking down defenders to create five-on-four situations.
First, we'll focus on their actual dribble moves, working on changing speeds, starting and staying low, keeping their dribble down, etc. But we also have to address the finishes, so we'll start by asking them to finish at (or above) the rim using both one leg and two leg (or power) jumps.
We'll put chairs in different spots on the perimeter to serve as "defenders," and challenge the players to make technically correct but also quick and powerful moves to get by their defender and finish strong with varied finishes. This is one area where having a trained eye on them is crucial, since the chair is stationary.
It is our job to tell the player that the move was flawed (too slow, mechanically incorrect, etc.). While this is happening, the post players are working on their "post scoring routine" with their backs to the basket. Using a coach to feed them above the block, the bigs will work on their best and worst moves, thinking about the "move-countermove" strategy that they will employ in games.
The posts must establish their go-to move, then work on the counters to it when the defender overplays them. Both hands must be used in these sequences.
• 10:47-10:54 -- Guards: Dribble attack into pull-up jumpers. Posts: Back-to-basket scoring with fakes
Guards are well-served to work on their midrange game, as it is a valuable weapon against teams who defend the paint well. So we'll repeat the actions above, only this time asking them to beat their defender then pull up for the jump shot. For the bigs, we'll have them add freeze and shot fakes to their hooks, turnarounds and fades.
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Developing Duncan-like fundamentals would be a good goal for promising bigs.
• 10:54-11:01 -- Guards: Dribble attack into fades, step-backs, runners, floaters. Posts: Post scoring off the back-down dribble
Lastly, the 24-second clock means players may have to get off a well-defended shot, so practicing fadeaways, step-backs, runners and floaters is something all perimeter players should be doing. And the bigs will work on their same moves after backing their defenders down off the dribble, staying low and looking for double-teams or defensive dives.
• 11:01-11:13 -- Guards: Full-court attack and finishes, 3 reps x 4 sets. Posts: Full-court post-ups, 3 reps x 4 sets
Almost everything practiced in the half court should also be worked on in transition. Once a player seems to have a certain skill set "under control" through half-court practice drills, it is time to introduce some full-court action. Each player stands under a rim, two players to a court.
For a guard, we may ask him to pop out off a screen to the right wing, catch and establish a dribble, then use an attack move (that was just practiced) to get to the rim for a dunk. After the made basket, he must then sprint to the other rim, pop out to the left wing, and execute an attack dribble/pull-up jumper.
Again, after the made basket the players springs to the opposite rim, where a coach will throw him the ball at half court and then the player must make an attack move and finish with a fade/step-back/runner/floater. Post players do the same thing, only they run rim to rim, push to get position above the block, then catch and execute one of the post moves drilled previously.
For a "beast" workout, I might ask for a routine that called for nothing but dunks, and have the players doing far more reps with each turn. But in this format, the idea is to see how well the player nails his mechanics while feeling just slightly fatigued, so we'll stick to three reps in each set.
• 11:13-11:15 -- Water break
• 11:15-11:25 -- Ball-screen action, half court
NBA teams all run lots of ball-screen action, so we do the same each summer. We're focusing on key teaching points while making sure the players see and understand all of the options at their disposal. It is great to see NBA players from different teams explain their varied defensive schemes, forcing offensive players to be ready to read and react.
We'll set up two chairs on each wing, one playing the screener and the other his defender, and our guards will work on using those ball screens with every option open to them: drive opposite the screen, split the screen, turn the corner, take it to the middle for the jumper, etc., varying their finishes from dunks and layups to all of their midrange shots.
Our post players will work at setting solid and legal screens, then either rolling or popping before a coach throws them the ball. They must vary their finishes too, including using shot and freeze fakes after popping out.
• 11:25-11:30 -- Ball-screen action, half court, 2-on-0
Then we'll bring our "littles and bigs" together and go through the same sequences, making sure the guards deliver timely but strong passes to their teammates. The players take turns shooting, with the other players looking for a tip dunk or tip-in.
• 11:30-11:35 -- Ball-screen action, full court, 3 reps x 4 sets
Finally, we'll ask them to execute while slightly fatigued. Run the action on one end, resulting in a split-the-screen dunk, then sprint to change ends and hit the post on the pop, then sprint back again and just make a play, or perhaps use a drag screen on that final rep.
End of workout
Seventy-five to 85 minutes is about all a player can give if the pace is fast and there are not too many players on the court. Since today's workout was not focused on long-range shooting, the players can take a few minutes to get some shots up from long range.
Had this workout featured lots of perimeter shots, then the end of practice would see the guys doing something else, perhaps free-throws or ballhandling or post moves. The key is not the number of shots taken each day, but the quality of work put into the shots. Again, game condition is vital to being able to transfer skills from the practice court to the game.
The workout above is real, one that NBA players will do often this summer. The names of the drills may be different -- and the drills too -- but the emphasis will be the same.
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These drills listed represent about five percent of the available options to a player who wants to get better. As long as the player is giving maximum effort and focuses on improvement each week, then he can't help but see positive results. And remember, this represents only one on-court workout.
Many players do two-a-days for five or six days in August and September (before heading to vet camp) plus a solid 90 minutes in the weight room. Add in film study, specialized cardio or agility training, some speed training too (and remember, this is the offseason!), and you can begin to see why the NBA features the best combination of skilled athletes in the world.
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The star apparently was having some difficulty breathing during his Thursday night concert but was able to finish out his show. "He got oxygen from emergency personnel. He insisted on finishing the show. He is on the way to the hospital right now," his rep told E! News.
A source says the Biebs told the crowd he wasn't feeling great during the show then went backstage to get checked out. He returned about 10 minutes later and wrapped up his last four songs, despite doctor's recommendations that he scrap the rest of the show.
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02-05-2007 #3Originally Posted by ihavenoidea
Also, we need to know a lot more about your system. Without knowing what hardware you have, it is very hard to make an informed guess about what to do. But, for now, it looks like you need to configure and build your kernel. As for genkernel, I don't use it, so maybe someone else could help you with that.
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well i didnt use genkernel, but gentoo probably did so thats why, it just seems strange that gentoos portage cant run when you use genkernel, o well. I just downloaded kernel manually and set it up that way, ndiswrapper installed and everythings good.
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Portage will work with genkernel, but you have to at least run "make menuconfig" and save the config to get a working config in your sources. Also, your symlink /usr/src/linux has to point to your current running kernel for the drivers to compile.
Gentoo only does what you tell it to, so if you didn't use genkernel, it didn't either. If you didn't have a .config file in /usr/src/linux, then you didn't configure your kernel, or you didn't create the symlink. But, since you downloaded the sources manually, and probably configured it to your need, then you have a .config file.
All of the drivers in portage that I have found look in /usr/src/linux for the .config file.
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o ok, but yeah i didnt configure my kernel, i assume gentoo installed the default one that came with my cd (live cd- networkless option).
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I didn't read your first post well. It did use the livecd kernel, but to install drivers, you still have to have a .config file in /usr/src/linux.
Run "make menuconfig" and then save when you exit.
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During this busy week, I have no idea why suddenly I missed him so much. The feeling comes without invitation. It makes me wondering why I still missed him although he hurts me. But infacts, I hurt him more than he hurts me.
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I just can say sorry, if it's because of me you stop believing in girls
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Although I hurt you, I just dont want to hurt you.
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I just jealous and felt unsecured when you gave priority to your friends than me. So I spend more time with my friends but you're not comfortable with that.
Sorry because I never listen on you.
For all the moment we spent together before, I realised that we just not meant to be together because I will not get your trust on me forever. I hope you understand why I lie on you. I just felt like Im losing from your arms. The more I tried to close with you, the more circumstances. Thanks afiq!!! I wish you the best in life, and good luck with your studies. I hope you can trust me for the last time that, when Im with you after months, and I said nothing going on between me and Nash I meant it. But, I'm sorry for lying on you on the day we couple about me and him.
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Any US-UK trade deal will come at a price
As 'The Donald' began to fulfil his pre-election promise of dismantling key policies introduced by his predecessor Barack Obama, and making his own impact felt, a bilateral trade agreement with the UK was one near the top of the list.
Last year, Obama had very publicly announced that the UK would go to the back of the queue of countries that the US would strike deals with were it to leave the EU.
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Zurich American Insurance Company has agreed to refund $4.56 million to policyholders of its New York statutory disability insurance policies because the insurer failed to spend at least 60 percent of total premiums on claims -- as required under law.
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JCA Young Concert Artists Series: Violinist Aleksey Semenenko
3/19/17Sunday @ 3:00 PM
On Sunday, March 19 at 3 p.m., the Jewish Community Alliance welcomes violinist Aleksey Semenenko as part of the JCA Young Concert Artists Series. Thanks to the generosity of the Berman Family, this concert is free and open to the entire community. For information, contact Thelma Nied at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Young Concert Artists is a non-profit organization that discovers and promotes the careers of exceptional, emerging young concert musicians. The Jewish Community Alliance is happy to receive these brilliant newcomers as they launch their careers.


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Millie Bobby Brown in custom Giorgio Armani
How darling is she?! Every time I see her, I see a young Natalie Portman. I'm so excited for the cast of Stranger Things – they took home a big win tonight!
Diane Kruger in Prabal Gurung
After the Met Ball, this might be the second best dressed night during the year.
I can't believe it's time already for the most fashionable night of the year! It's crazy to think that a year has already gone by. I feel like I was making the 2013 post just last month. This year's theme is White Tie and Decorations.
Of course we're kicking things off with Queen Bey and Jay.
Beyonce and Jay-Z both in Givenchy Haute Couture
Camilla and Marc Adaptation Dress – $509.06
Happy month of love y'all! The big day is just around the corner and whether or not you're expecting something or just letting yourself go and enjoying the moment, Valentine's Day is a day where you should feel good about the way you look and for your significant other or whatever they call them these days. Typically, I prefer the red family – pink, coral, light red, etc. only because I don't LOVE the color red. However, we're gonna diverge a bit. Here are some of my favorite picks so if you don't have anything special to wear yet, I guess you had better get on it…
[Rooney Mara in Givenchy Haute Couture]
I absolutely love this gown on her. It's so refreshing to see her not wearing black for once since most of her press outfits and even gowns on the red carpet recently have been black.
I spent most of the day watching the red carpet special for the Academy Awards yesterday as E! decided to start it around one if not sooner. Unfortunately, thirty minutes into the show, I decided to give up on watching it to spend my time with some great company. It's alright – the red carpet is usually the main priority for me…that was until Ashley sent me a text that said, "We could have easily made tonight a drinking game," which meant that I was missing a whole lot of highlights from the show.
I suppose I can just read about the rest of the stuff that happened during the show. I did, however, witness Sacha Baron Cohen as the Dictator dump Bisquick all over Ryan Seacrest's Burberry suit. Just watching him trying to contain his anger over the situation was entertaining enough.
And with that, let's get into some red carpet looks!
Rose Byrne in Elie Saab Couture
I was actually impressed by most of the looks I saw on the red carpet this year at the 2012 SAG Awards -more so than the Golden Globes. Rose Byrne, Michelle Williams, Emma Stone were some of my favorites! I absolutely loved how Rose Byrne opted for a jumpsuit instead of a gown. It's a risky choice, but the actress pulled it off. Also, her haircut is adorable with the look.
Charlize Theron in Dior completely gets Yow Yow's stamp of approval for being the best dressed on the red carpet last night. There was a whole lot of cream and ivory, but gosh the simplicity and elegance of this gown made me melt. The headband was also what sealed the deal for me.
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Kristin Cavallari in Zuhair Murad. My 2nd favorite of the night!


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Both sides hopeful of resolution before height of marching season
A senior Orangeman has expressed hope resolution can be found to a parading impasse in Belfast that has seen a loyalist protest camp manned for 1,000 days.
Belfast Deputy Grand Master Spencer Beattie said he was optimistic the Woodvale/Ardoyne row could be resolved before the height of the marching season.
On the other side of the debate, Ardoyne priest Father Gary Donegan claimed the "moderate voice" of nationalism in the area was prepared to compromise.
The site occupied by loyalist protesters on Twaddell Avenue has remained longer than most observers predicted. The numbers manning it have steadily dwindled over the years, but some remain.
The cost of the three-year policing operation required to monitor the camp is approaching £20m.
It was established in 2013 after the Parades Commission prevented Orangemen passing the nationalist Ardoyne along a contentious stretch of the Crumlin Road as they returned from their traditional Twelfth of July commemorations.
Similar restrictions have been put on parades in the years since, with rioting in the area in 2015, but the primary objective of the camp is allowing the three Orange lodges stopped in 2013 to complete their homeward journey.
Mr Beattie said if that happened, the camp would go and the focus could be shifted to finding a more permanent resolution to the annual dispute.
Commenting ahead of a major parade yesterday to mark the 1,000-day landmark, the senior Orangeman added: "The resolution to our mind has always been simple and it still remains simple - toleration of the six-minute parade up the road completes the journey and takes away the problem and takes away the protest.
"If the lodges were allowed to return home, the dynamic changes and the obstacle is removed. The playing field levels and therefore more constructive conversations could be had.
"If the parade is allowed home, I stand ready, as soon as that parade is up the road, to go into any form of conversation that is necessary to seek a long-term solution to the problem.
"I always like to look to a positive and I always try to think there will be a resolution sooner rather than later."
"We would hope the parade would be allowed up the road long before July 2016."
Contacts between protagonists on both sides of the disagreement continue in the background.
The chances of resolution are complicated by the presence of two residents' groups in the Ardoyne, one of them with a more hardline stance than the other.
Fr Donegan said he felt the position "most representative" of people in the area was focused on finding a solution.
He said any agreement could not be a "stopgap or plaster over an open wound".
"Let's actually make this once and for all a situation where, okay, it isn't perfect for everybody, everybody is going to have to take a hit on this, everybody is going to have to swallow hard but, at the end of the day, it's for the future of our society and the future of the children of both of those communities," he said.
The priest at Holy Cross church also insisted that any accommodation had to be struck at a local level.
"You get all sorts of well-meaning people come up with hare-brained ideas as to how to solve these things, but they haven't lived a single night here," he added.
The cleric said the nationalist community had come to almost ignore the sight of the camp as it had no real impact on their everyday lives.
But he said he regretted the cost of policing it. "When you are based in an area of real social deprivation, then you realise what £20m, what £10m could have done in both communities," the priest added.
"(You see) what you could do for kids in the area if you had spent that kind of money on them and developing the area."
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|26 Apr 2011
Best way to log activity
Hello everyone,
I'm starting to learn ICT and want to know how I can log the activity on a Windows 7 system. At this moment I made a simple script which will log the username, when he/she logged in/out and the ipconfig settings from that machine.
My school can log everything like what programs you started, installed, removed and more. This is what I'm trying to do but powershell doesn't do these sort of things as far as I can see.
Can someone help me out here?
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The event log should give you all of the information that you're looking for, you're just going to have to sift through a lot of information you're not looking for.
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The event log has a lot of information and is where I will look first when there is a problem. Maybe I can filter the event log to show me only the things I need and put them in a txt file.
Thank you Devux for the fast reply!
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Not a problem. To speed up your search through event viewer, the logons (successful or otherwise) will be logged under security, and IP Addresses will show up under system, assuming that your obtaining your IP through DHCP (from your ISP, router, or DHCP server)
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Review for Allied Rockaway Foundation for Animal Recreation and Fitness Inc., Rockaway Beach, NY, USA
ARF-ARF has a great group of people working to make a more pet friendly Rockaway. It's Board of Directors (all volunteers) hold down full time jobs (except 1 person) while devoting many hours to this organization. These people are among the most devoted to the community and to animals. Freeway Dog Park, once a den of ill repute, has now become a more vibrant and safe space because of the passion this group has for the care of this park. I'm very excited to see what will the years will have in store for ARF-ARF.
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I wish there was more funding to be able to help expand this group and become an even bigger asset to the Rockaway community. I wish the organization had a physical space to be able to do more fun workshops and events. If it had more resources, it would definitely be able to do more.
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I have a farm journal that sits next to my chair in our living room, and I try to write a little something in it every night.
It's full of important things about our farm life and is affectionately referred to as The Almighty Pink Book. Reading through it will unlock the secrets of years past:
- How much rain we got.
- What the temp was.
- What seed we used.
- What we spent at the feed store.
- When we started the wood stove for the year.
- Who we got wood from.
- How much a bale of hay cost.
- When the pheasants started laying eggs.
But why should you write all this down?
A farm journal is completely practical:
I can't tell you how many times I have said, "we're planting so late this year!" and then look in the book and find out, no, it's actually a week earlier than the year before.
In the grand scheme of things, it's hard to remember what happens from year to year. You might think that this year it was hotter/colder/wetter/drier than last year, but your journal might say differently.
To be honest, I don't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, so I know there is no way I'm going to remember when I started the wood stove last year or how long we ran it or how much extra wood we ended up needing.
With my farm journal I can make notes like plant more tomatoes next year or find better tomato cages. I can write down how long it took to butcher 50 Cornish Cross meat birds and if we need to make any changes to our chicken butchering set-up.
I never seemed to be able to remember what time of year the raspberries would be ready for picking. It used to take me by surprise, and then I was unprepared to deal with them. With my farm journal, I can just peek back at my entries from last year and know when that giant explosion of berries is coming.
Keeping a farm journal forces you to sit down and reflect on the day:
Let's face it – life on the homestead is busy. There is always something to do, and it's easy to feel guilty for taking a break. You can think of a ton of things you should be doing.
Well, let's make sitting down for ten minutes to reflect on your day and what's going on as one those things you should be doing.
Take a breather. Have a cup of coffee or a glass of water and jot down what's happening today on the farm.
It doesn't have to be fancy. You don't even have to use complete sentences. Just take some time to reflect. You will be so thankful later!
A farm journal is fun to go back and read:
Lots of times I will page through the journal and spout off to whoever is within earshot, "Hey, did you know time last year, we were replanting the corn field because of all the rain?"
It's almost like the handwritten equivalent of the On This Day app for Facebook. It's fun to see things we've tried that worked…and laugh about things we tried that didn't.
And who knows? Some day in the future—when handwritten journals are really rare—someone else might want to read what we were doing in our earliest days at Clucky Dickens Farm in the handwriting of the gal who lived here.
Isn't a farm journal just the same thing as keeping a blog?:
Some people ask why I keep a journal if I have my lovely website/blog full of information. Can't you just look back at posts and figure things out?
While it is true that A Farmish Kind of Life is intended to share experiences with my readers, the fact that on April 16th of 2014 we got a foot of snow, or that we fired up the wood stove two days before Halloween later that same year probably doesn't help you with anything you're doing at your homestead.
So to keep you from snoozing through my articles, I tend to keep those items in my journal.
Of course, if you want to be fancy, you can go ahead and write all this stuff on the computer—blog or not—but I don't. I choose to keep a paper journal because for me, the act of handwriting an entry every day is relaxing.
Also, if it's out on the end table, anyone has access to it and can look things up or read it.
A farm journal connects you to the farm:
This might be one of those woo-woo artistic type folk things, but I find I'm more connected to anything that I'm writing about.
Taking the time to write out what we're doing makes me remember that I'm here, and I'm doing this, and life is good. Sometimes that requires taking yourself out of the dailyness and looking at the big picture.
Our farm journal documents our life together on this fabulous farm—the struggles and the victories, both big and small. Why in the world would I want to risk forgetting any of that?
I encourage you to start your own farm journal. Every farm needs their own Almighty Pink Book, don't you think?


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Rock House Kids is located in a very difficult and crime ridden part of town. Families struggling to survive, "ladies of the night" walking the streets at all times of the day, gang activity is rampant, and police and ambulance sirens fill the air. This is where many of the street or inner city children live. Rock House Kids is committed to breaking the cycle in which these children must survive each day. We help them with physical needs such as a hot meal every night our program is open and a kid friendly take home food bag of items. We also provide coats, hats, gloves and blankets in the wintertime, socks in the spring, flip flops in the summer, school supplies and back packs in the fall and the list goes on and on.
We feel spiritual guidance is very important. We share with the children there is someone who truly loves them unconditionally and cares about their every need and concern; his name is Jesus. Each month our classroom leaders focus on moral character traits; i.e. Thankfulness in November, Christmas in December, Love in February, etc. which helps encourage and strengthens them spiritually.
Our building on Seventh Street is a place of learning and growing. Below are some pictures of the surrounding area of our building but also where the children come for a warm, safe, and nurturing environment.
We hope you too will see the need and want to be a part of the solution. All gifts and donations are appreciated and go towards the effective programs of Rock House Kids. Rock House Kids is a 501 c (3) nonprofit organization and we do not receive any government funding. Please call our office if you would like to volunteer or help out in any way at 815-962-5067. Thank you and bless you.


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SKATE TRAIL IS CLOSED FOR THIS COMING WEEKEND (March 10-11-12). Please refer to FB - Twitter - and the website for further updates. Thank you.
Discovery Harbour is getting ready to kick off Ontario's 150th celebrations this winter! Lace up your skates and experience the magic of skating along our unique 1.5 km Skate Trail.
The historic site will come alive with amazing live out-door entertainment; fireworks ; ice-sculptures; chain saw demos; face-painting; fire juggling; and more! Meet children's look-a-like characters from Frozen, Minions and Paw Patrol.
Admission: $8.00 per person Children 5 and under are FREE
*Fireworks are offered every Friday night (weather permitting)
• Service animals only permitted
• Visitors are encouraged to bring their own skates and helmets to use on the trail. We encourage the use of helmets for all of our visitors.
• Helmets will be required for individuals under 11 years of age.
• Visitors must be prepared to Sign a "Waiver" in order to be permitted to use the skate trail. Waivers will be available at Discovery Harbour main entrance – Bayfield's Charthouse.
• Limited skates, helmets will be available at no cost. Skate assist devices are available for children 3 – 7 years of age. Reservations will not be accepted.
• Scooters will not be permitted on the skate trail.
• Plastic sleighs ONLY WILL BE permitted for use with small children.
• Stollers permitted. Parents or guardians must be on skates to pull sleighs.
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Spain strove to distance itself from Portugal's debt woes that have forced it to seek EU assistance, insisting on Thursday it would never ask for a similar bailout of its battered economy.
After insisting for weeks it did not need to go cap-in-hand to Brussels, the Portuguese government threw in the towel on Wednesday, bowing to intense market pressure and paving the way for a third bailout of a eurozone country after Ireland and Greece last year.
Outgoing Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said an EU rescue plan became inevitable when lawmakers last month rejected new austerity measures presented as the last chance to balance the country's strained public finances.
Analysts have said that Portugal could require a package worth 70 billion euros (100 billion dollars), compared with 85 billion euros for Ireland and 110 billion euros for Greece.
Portugal's Lusa news agency Thursday said the caretaker government will only make a formal request to the EU after talks with the opposition on the terms of a deal.
A European Commission spokesman said it said expects Portugal to formally request a bailout soon and stands ready to send experts to Lisbon to negotiate the terms.
The reaction on the Lisbon stock market was positive, with the main stock market index up 1.50 percent in early trade as investors welcomed the move as providing at least some level of certainty after months of speculation.
As EU finance ministers gathered in Budapest to decide how to contain the eurozone debt crisis, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble described Lisbon's decision as a "sensible and necessary step" given the country's economic and financial situation.
The pressures on Portugal had raised doubts about other weak eurozone members including its wealthy neighbour Spain, the eurozone's fourth largest economy.
"While we believe chances are good that (Spain) will not need external help, there is no guarantee," said Christoph Weil, an analyst with Commerzbank.
Any such bailout would be bigger than those of Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined, possibly threatening the whole eurozone project.
But Spain, which has enacted stringent budget cuts, and labour, pension and banking reforms so as regain market confidence, is determined not to be the next eurozone domino to topple.
"Spain is not at risk at all after Portugal has asked for a rescue," Finance Minister Elena Salgado told Spanish National Radio (RNE) on Thursday.
She emphasized the Spanish economy was "distinct" from Portugal's as it is "larger, more diversified and more productive."
Also, the Spanish government's economic reforms are "deeper" and carried out "at a faster pace" than in Lisbon.
The European Commission backed Spain Thursday, saying that the government was meeting its deficit-cutting goals despite economic challenges.
"Spain must be judged on its on merits. Spain is on track to meet its objectives in terms of deficit reduction for 2010 and 2011," said Amadeu Altafaj, commission spokesman for economic affairs.
Spain's Socialist government is battling to bring the public deficit, which soared to 11.1 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, down to the EU limit of 3.0 percent by 2013.
In another vote of confidence, Spain enjoyed lower interest rates in a multi-billion-euro bond auction on Thursday.
The head of the IMF, France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said in an interview published Wednesday in Spanish daily El Pais that Madrid has taken the correct financial steps and had no need for international aid.
Jesus Castillo, a southern Europe specialist at the Natixis bank, said "several indicators show that Spain is different" from Portugal.
He noted in particular the tough economic reforms in Spain, the political crisis in Portugal and the fact that Lisbon's public debt was far higher than Madrid's.
"But the medium-term outlook is that Spain remains a fragile economy, which must balance its public finances," he said.
The Spanish economy contracted 0.1 percent in 2010 after shrinking 3.7 percent in the previous year following the collapse of a property boom that had fueled growth for more than a decade.
The crisis sent the unemployment rate soaring to 20.33 percent at the end of 2010, the highest in the developed world.


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Definitely, it's a laptop so that's no trouble
TPBM has surge protectors in their home.
Definitely, it's a laptop so that's no trouble
TPBM has surge protectors in their home.
TPBM likes rhubarb crisp.
"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen." ~ Orhan Pamuk
Never had it, but it sounds good!
TPBM likes strawberry -rhubarb pie.
Yes, I do!
TPBM is going to make chicken salad tomorrow.
TPBM is going to find some time tomorrow to buy some annuals so she can get started on her container planting.
No - but that would be tasty!
TPBM lives east of the Mississippi River.
No on the planting - not with this sore back.
Yes on East of the Mississippi river (it's rather obvious where I live )
I met TPBM on the ABC Bachelor Board.
Yes, you did!
TPBM can hardly wait for the new season of The Bachlorette
I'll be interested to see it.
TPBM has never missed an episode of any Bach/ette program.
TPBM was a Reid Rosenthal fan.


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erikasewing, the Chelsea Sweater looks nice in black! I see that you're using Flickr; you can grab the photo's URL from the "All Sizes" link on the photo page, and surround it with [img] tags:
[ img ]theflickrphotourl[ /img ]
without the space between the brackets and img.
rorosity, oh whoops! I started the Aspen Hat too with 19s. Guess it's time to frog!