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I am in the process, even as I write, of reading "Pack Justice". Great story girl. Thanks. Keep up the good work and good luck with your move.Reply
Unsurprisingly, things have been pretty busy! Originally, I was going to release Karma on the 26th, but I'm fairly confident in stating that's not going to happen. I've been busy hammering out Shadowed Flame, which has a hard May 16 deadline. I hate missing deadlines, but I'd rather push it back a bit and release a better book.
So, while Karma is being delayed, I have a few fun announcements regarding the May 16th release party happening on facebook. (Seriously. Come say hi, even if you're not a big facebook user. There are a lot of awesome prizes I'm giving away.
One of those prizes is a complete autographed set of Grace Draven books. An autographed copy of Tiffany Roberts's Make Me Burn will also be available. I'm really looking forward to the party, to say the least. I really love autographed books. Books are already magical, but having a book I know was, at some point, handled directly by its author makes them even more special. Yeah, I might have a bit of a problem. That's okay though, right? I mean, we're talking about books here.
In other news, the immigration process moves forward at a snail's pace. At least this time, it wasn't us slowing things down. Lawyers took their sweet time replying to some questions we had. We're down to filling out a few fields before they double check everything and send the next wave to the government. So, yay! Maybe the end is actually in sight. Maybe.
It does make me worry for the actual move, though.
On to the next subject: Taxes. Tax season didn't kill me this year, people! It's amazing! We got a refund. When husband lost his job last year, it shifted us to a lower tax bracket. In Quebec, the tax bracket differences are brutal. For the first time in forever, we didn't pay over 50% in taxes! It's amazing! The refund will help undo a lot of the damage from the sewage flood, which is a huge relief. It won't clear out everything, but it'll probably save us $150 in interest a month… which is a big deal.
Hmm. Beyond that, there isn't a whole lot new and exciting. One of my early birthday presents to myself arrived–an autographed copy of Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion! It's a gorgeous book, and it has a home beside my first edition All the Weyrs of Pern on my shelf. (Which has a home next to my pair of Flynns and my three Tom Clancys.)
Yeah, I have a bit of a book problem. I'm okay with this.
I've made really good progress on my coloring book; the first set of pages was already sent to contributors, and I'll be updating the coloring book every Friday with new pages. I'm going a bit slower than I anticipated, but this is thanks to being busy doing other things.
Part of the reason I'm so busy is a good one–for my sanity, that is. I've been trying to spend at least 2-3 hours a day playing games of various sorts. I want to make sure I play something for at least an hour a day. Unplugging is good. All work and no play makes me cranky.
I can't think of anything new on the horizon, so until next time, friends!
I am in the process, even as I write, of reading "Pack Justice". Great story girl. Thanks. Keep up the good work and good luck with your move.Reply


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Dinarasaurus: So the Dinar is a scam?? Check this out!
I ran across this some 3 years ago, but couldn't remember where from. I only updated some $$$ to be relevant to today's circumstances! It makes very good sense and VERY hard for the negative Nellie's to argue against! Enjoy!
We've all heard investing in the Dinar is a scam.
If there is a scam going on, it's the US govt, Iraqi govt, IMF and UN holding back info ... delaying ... the inevitable. But post RV/RI you'll be praised for your insight into this investment by the nay Sayers. (also known as Hindsight investors)
You want an example of a scam? Play the lottery. The odds of winning are astronomically against you. That scam plays on the hopes of the uninformed, or desperate, seeking great rewards without understanding the odds.
Governments make unimaginable dollars preying on lottery ticket buyers. Whereas investing in the Dinar, we can attempt to track international politics and become somewhat educated on our investment.
We are talking the currency of an extremely resource rich country (Gold, Oil, Diamonds, etc.) torn by a former dictatorship, war and civil unrest. In time, this revaluation of their currency will happen. Maybe not when we expect it, and maybe not in the manner we expect it, but the value of the Iraqi Dinar will rise. And eventually, we will see our financial rewards.
But with the lottery, as those little balls keep tumbling, the odds of winning never get any better, and you never gain any additional insight on what numbers to pick, and you have to keep buying more tickets for a fresh "chance to win."
We've all heard it's risky:
Bunk!! The most you can lose in dollars, is the amount invested, and that can ONLY happen if you actually drop your wallet and LOSE YOUR DINAR!! That is right ... if you misplace the currency.
Lets say for example if you purchased your currency reserves from XXXXX XXXX and your reserve expires, they send you an actual 5K dinar note for each 1,000,000 dinar bought on reserve. No loss there. Also, pretty much all currency dealers have a buy-back policy, right?
Does your financial planner or 401K managers have such a policy? Afraid not.
You want to talk risky? Buy into the stock market, without educating yourself. And what can you really learn from a prospectus? And remember, most financial planners are commissioned salespersons. Ask them if they make their living on their commissions, or on the results of the products they invest their client's money into. You'll be shocked by this scam.
Let's say you timed the market well, and bought General Dynamics awhile back at about $35/share. And now it is about double that. Forget trading fees, ... you doubled. So if you had purchased 5 shares, for $175, you would now have ~$350. Remember these numbers. Double your money in the stock market ... but limited realization in terms of dollars gained, but the limited number of dollars invested initially. 100% rate of return in one year.
How about SSI?
Counting on this for retirement supplement, now that's another risky government scam. 'Nuff said.
How about Real Estate?
Let's compare it to purchasing Dinar. Build a speculation house for 200,000 and try to market it for 300,000. That is a 2:1 ratio. Or buy a foreclosure house. Say EFMV $150,000 purchased at auction for $100,000, plus holding costs and closing costs, so max realized gain is maybe $50,000 - again a 2:1 ratio. But you may hold longer than anticipated, (more expense) and lower your selling price and only make $25,000 - now you're at a ratio of say 5:1. That is saying that for every $5 invested, you only made $1.
If in the example, you are upside down in real estate, you've invested 150,000 and got out at 125,000. Now you have lost $25,000. Now compare that to the Dinar. In the Dinar, you only risk what you invest, and to that I take you back to currency dealers buy-back policy. Further, you did not have to start with a $100,000 investment to try to gain $50,000.
How about buying an estate property below EFMV, and needing to sit on it for three years before reselling it. Even if a profit is gained, the rate of return annualized needs to be divided by three. And was there a positive or a negative cash flow on that property for the three years you held it? Again, compare that to the Dinar. The only argument against the Dinar here is that the amount invested was stagnant while you held it.
And if you had the amount of your Dinar purchase in a CD right now, could you get 2% return? I doubt it. And to get 2% you're probably looking at a 5-year hold. 'Nuff said.
We've all heard negative news sound bites. The few sound bites I've heard were so trite, they were laughable. That's not journalism ... it's sensationalism, not credible research. It's been the blind leading the blind.
What about how long we have to wait for the RV/RI to exchange.
OK, some since 2004.. If you are in an employer based retirement system, how long do you have to work, in terms of years, before you become retirement eligible? And what kind of return do you get? Do you know how to track it? Have you done your homework there? Now that might be a risky investment ... a lifetime.
Oh, you don't have an employer based retirement system? Okay. Then look into your Roth or traditional IRA or other "paper assets" in your portfolio. What did you say? You don't have a portfolio? Or did I just hear you say your portfolio was cut in half in the past few years thanks to XXXXX, as well as your annual earnings? Wow. That was a risky investment, ... very risky.
We've all heard it's an pyramid scheme.
Go to work tomorrow to your JOB (Just Over Broke). I'm all for capitalism. I believe in rewarding those that take the calculated risks, those that create jobs for others, those that stabilize local economies. But when you look at the company ladder, well, there is your pyramid at it's best.
Dinar Dealers, yes, as businessmen have made this venture accessible to us all. And for their effort and risk IMO they deserves to make profits.
There are the nay-Sayers that say the only ones making money on the Dinar are the sellers, such as CBI and currency dealers. Well, time will reveal the truth on that point of contention.
So let's talk Dinar.
100,000 Dinar mailed overnight from a Dinar Dealer is maybe $105, + $20 UPS fee, + $1.00 for the money order = $126 invested. This is a relatively small amount to invest in anything.
Presently the rate is $1=1166 IQD, or $0.0008547/Dinar. But with shipping, etc, ~= $0.000165 (a trifle above 1/10th cent per Dinar.) So we'll call it $0.001 = 1/10th cent per Dinar.
If/when there is an Revalue/Reinstatement, look at the numbers. We know the low of 1 IQD could be $3.58 (current amount loaded on Qi cards, but not released in US as of yet) to highs of $28.00 (?) (contract rate, not available for all). For easy math, I'm just using RV at 1 IQD = $1.
That means your $126 investment is now worth $100,000 pretax. Okay, you'll have some expense to exchange ... minimal in big scheme, but may take your total investment to say $500. So you turn $500 into $99,500 (in pretax $$$).
You did not have to risk investing 1,000,000 to make a potential 100,000, or $125,000 to make $25,000.
Better yet, you were not excluded from the opportunity to make this $100,000 because you lacked the $1,000,000 in cash or credit to invest.
And if the increase in the Dinar on the currency exchange boards is a gradual float, and not a spike from an RV/RI (not saying this is likely) you will have to decide for yourself when to cash in. But in this scenario, all it needs to do is increase to 1 IQD = 1 penny, and you have a ten fold return on investment, grossing $1000 on a $126 investment. AND THAT'S IF IT ONLY GOES UP 1 PENNY!! Have your financial planner or realtor or banker deliver that return! Not gonna happen.
Compare the Dinar to CDs. No comparison.
Compare the Dinar to IRAs/MFs/stocks/bonds, etc. No comparison.
Compare the Dinar to the lottery.
No comparison. How can I say that? In the lottery, the numbers predicate the number of winners, typically one, if any per drawing. But with the Dinar, all of us that exchange are winners. Thus, again I say, no comparison.
Compare the Dinar to real estate.
I've had great returns and can even mathematically show you infinite rates of return, but for the vast majority of people, real estate transactions returns vs. the returns on the Dinar investment, well ... no comparison. Further, how many across the globe are in trouble financially as we speak, because they thought their home was their biggest asset, only to now realize that their mortgage and over-leveraging is eating them up, both financially, and emotionally.
Compare the Dinar to pension plans.
Took you 20, 25, 30, 35, etc years of your life, and you can only receive pension payments as allotted, under someone else's discretion. So, ... no comparison.
And for the negative Nellie's that say you were scammed when you bought into the Dinar investment, with the $126 they did not invest, they may have purchased them something else. Lets say they bought dinner and a movie for two, or some clothes they'll only wear a few times ... So when your investment is eventually worth (Example only) $99,500 pretax, I hope they enjoyed the dinner, movie and clothes that now cost them ~ $99,500.
And I'm not done yet. Let's say you pay your taxes and tithes, and then pay off your remaining mortgage, freeing up that $650/mo payment for the next 180 months of your life. Look at how much "not buying Dinar" now cost the negative Nellie's. So I'm willing to give up a night out with my wife and new shoes.
And finally, for the negative Nellie's... they are all missing out on a great opportunity to grow in the Spirit as we fellowship on this forum, and lift one another each evening.
If you followed all the way through this post, thanks for reading. I needed to vent. I needed to take the frustrations of listening to negative vibes and multiply that with negative reasoning, to produce a positive outcome.
3/10/2015 10:27:15 am
I enjoy your posts, thanks.
3/10/2015 10:28:47 am
This is among the best , albeit unintended, arguments for the OPPOSITE of the sudden/immediate "RV" which is weekly played upon we the readers as "certain" or that "all intel points to it".
3/10/2015 10:35:36 am
Thank you for this post.
3/10/2015 10:49:54 am
Thank you for helping put this in perspective for me. I bought dinars about 5 years ago and have been told it is a scan by my husband and several friends. I always thought my odds were better than the lottery. I have been second guessing myself lately with all the " it is going to rv tomorrow" and tomorrow never comes.
3/10/2015 11:11:35 am
Awesome insight for the (risk)? we took...Thanks! Still a believer!
3/10/2015 11:11:49 am
The reserve game is the reason people have pumped that its really going to happen(every Monday) for the 4 years I have been here, just a few more days, my secret source says, air plains landing. And the list is endless. A 5K note for the money you lost believing their stories really. Your lost reserve money goes right to their pockets. Then they (not you) can buy the dinar with your money These things have truly hurt and shattered many dreams and lives. Recaps please post this for the sake of your readers. Have one currency in hand (IRAQI DINAR). This is factual and my experience. 4TH AMENDMENT
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3/10/2015 11:21:08 am
Great article! These are my thoughts and feelings as to the dinar exactly. I bought mine back in 2007 on my own due diligence and reasoning that at some time, whenever that may be, that they would revalue based on their natural resources. I did not belong to any guru site or group - just my own common sense. So, where's the scam in my situation?
3/10/2015 11:26:46 am
Magnificently asserted, Dinarosaurus.
3/10/2015 11:29:28 am
Fabulous post when I was brought into this by my friend Ducky she said it would change my life &that of my family & now look at what I'm part of the biggest sorority in the world waiting blessings beyond belief thank you & all that keep us up to speed with high regard blessed in fla
3/10/2015 11:51:03 am
This put's things in perspective!
dong man
3/10/2015 12:38:26 pm
If DINAR RECAPS will post one side, surely they can be unbiased and post the other.
I have always known/believed the money of the Iraqi's would rise in value. I have said a few times that I hoped it would happen in my lifetime. In any case, I would have left an inheritance for my family. I have never had emotional highs and lows in response to the silly/ignorant banterings on some of the sites.
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Session 5: Curtains Rise! Students will spend the first 15 minutes to rehearse their flash play. Students present their flash plays. We will re-group and discuss "highlights" of the workshop overall.
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I. Conversation on Super/S/Heroes: Why are we drawn to certain superheroes, comic book series, science fiction universes, and alternate realities? What does that say about us? Identifying our own gifts and talents; Identifying an issue that we are passionate about; Exploring how we can use our unique gifts and talents to address the issue; Imagining ourselves as Super/S/Heroes; Imagining the ISSUE as a Super Villain:
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Amanda Seyfried has admitted that she is "bummed" awards season is over as it means she will be spending less time with her Les Misérables co-stars.
Speaking to E! News at the Oscars last night, Seyfried explained that it felt "good" to perform with the Les Mis cast during the ceremony.
"It feels good to be back with the team," she said. "We've spent a lot of time together over the awards season, and we're really proud of what we did."
However, she added: "We're really a close bunch, so it was kind of bittersweet. I'm really bummed that it's over - we had such a good time."
Seyfried concluded: "I mean, [there were] a lot of nerves up until that point of getting on stage again for the last time, yeah."
Seyfried's co-star Anne Hathaway won the 'Best Supporting Actress' Oscar for her role in Les Misérables and later became emotional while discussing her win backstage.
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Alice Smith has become the latest Young Apprentice candidate to be fired by Lord Alan Sugar after she failed in a tea party task.
The 17-year-old was project manager of the losing team this week and was criticised by her own teammates for her lack of organisation.
Alice's team struggled to agree on a pricing for their tea party and her sub-team complained that the "traditional with a twist" theme for the tea party wasn't clear enough.
The farmer's daughter brought Maria and Navdeep back into the boardroom, but she couldn't defend her corner well enough in the final showdown.
"I don't think you did get the business plot here to be perfectly frank, Alice, I think a lot of things ran away," said Sugar.
"And I've decided that due to the poor business logic in this particular task, and the way it was conducted, it is with regret that, Alice - you're fired."
Speaking after her firing, Alice said: "The other two girls maybe don't have the entrepreneurial spirit within them, however they believed in themselves a lot more than I did, and that is never, ever going to happen again!"
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NEW ORLEANS -- While the recruiting scene has gone quiet and college coaches are finally taking time away from the trail, adidas put the capper on the summer hoops scene with the adidas Basketball Experience, a five-day showcase for U.S. and international high school players. In the months leading up to the event, the top U.S. prospects in the 2008 and 2009 high school graduating classes -- as selected by adidas regardless of high school, AAU or future college affiliation -- convened to practice and compete against one another four times at different locations throughout the country.
During the adidas Basketball Experience, the U.S. players, who were divided into two teams by graduating class, competed in a tournament with a similar collection of talent from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. At the event, which concludes today at the Allero Center in New Orleans, it seems the real winner has been the game of basketball itself.


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As with any champion build, this one works only for specific situations. Dont be afraid to improvise. I've been using this build with huge success playing Dominion and not going bottom lane.
Greater Mark of Insight - Because magic pen is amazing. Since I usually don't get Sorcerer's Shoes, its nice to have that little extra punch.
Greater Seal of Clarity - To take full advantage of the sustainability the spell vamp offers, we need to get our mana regen up as high as possible as well. I oftentimes stay out from the time I buy my Will of the Ancients until I can afford to buy Rabadon Deathcap from scratch, but thats only possible because I can cast spells for days.
Greater Glyph of Force - I like Greater Glyph of Force because AP. Nothing sucks about AP. The only other real option for this slot is Greater Glyph of Potency, but I'm a huge fan of scaling runes in Dominion since you start at level 3 and end up spending 2/3 to 3/4 of the game with a greater benefit than from flat runes.
Greater Quintessence of Transmutation - Between these and Will of the Ancients, you get 31% spell vamp all the time, plus an additional 35% when Soul Eater procs. I've found spell vamp to make or break Ahri, so get as much as you can. The only other options I've found viable are Greater Quintessence of Force or Greater Quintessence of Potency, but in the end spell vamp is much harder to come by in game via items than AP, and I can't stress how useful it is to the build.
This one's pretty simple. With Ahri the best defense is a good offense, so you need straight face raping masteries. 21 points into Offense should be a given. I've done well going 21-9-0 and 21-0-9 but prefer the latter. Due to the fact that spell vamp plays a big part of this build I'd rather have the scaling base mana and mana regen over health and bit of armor and magic resist. The point into Runic Affinity is pretty good too since it applies to speed buffs, quest buffs and the storm shield.
I start off with Boots of Speed and two Amplifying Tomes and then rush Will of the Ancients, picking up Ionian Boots of Lucidity either after the Hextech Revolver or once Will is finished. Once I've got my sustainability set, I recommend Rabadon Death Cap. Why? Because otherwise he doesnt hit hard, and thats not very fun. Next I get Morello's Evil Tome for the CDR. After that, its really all about what you need most. Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, Abyssal Scepter and Zhonya's Hourglass are all good choices.
Some of my teammates think that its better to get Spirit Visage between Will of the Ancients and Rabadon Deathcap. While the 15% increased health is pretty good in combination with the spell vamp, I find that I do better by just gaining more life by doing more damage.
Skill Sequence
Orb of Deception is definitely your hard hitter. The AP ratios apply on both hits and the second hit deals TRUE DAMAGE. On top of that, the cool down is reduced every level. Max it first.
Fox Fire is pretty good too and I have a feeling that most builds will level it second, I however prefer to level it last.
Charm is way better when it lasts for two seconds than one. I know it slows down your DPS to level this before fire fox, but I think its worth it. Hitting someone with a one second taunt is good, but a two second taunt can pull an opponent off their tower and straight to their doom.
Spirit Rush should, like all Ulti's, be leveled up whenever possible. Its an awesome escape if you get caught out of position, but its true strength comes in team fights. You can easily burst three champions down while remaining relatively hard to hit.
Ability combos
The most frequently used combo is Charm, Orb of Deception, Fox Fire. Hitting an opponent with Charm pretty much guarantees a double hit with Orb of Deception and as many hits as you want with Fox Fire. This is your most versatile combo. It works well when fighting alone, as you get two seconds to go through your burst rotation and either run away or commit before your opponent gets a chance to do anything. It also works well when capturing or defending a tower by forcing an enemy to walk away from the safety of their turret or into the range of your own. In team fights, it often feels like charming one enemy champion causes all of them to come straight at you. This is great, because hitting multiple enemies with Orb of Deception doesnt decrease the damage dealt per target. The more the merrier!
There are a few situational combos that involve Spirit Rush. In a 2v1 fight, I like to activate Fox Fire, Spirit Rush between the two champions (hitting both with Spirit Rush and Fox Fire), throw Orb of Deception in one direction and then Spirit Rush in the other. This causes both champions to get hit by Fox Fire, Spirit Rush (twice!) and the true damage portion of Orb of Deception, as well as the extra third Fox Fire hit and the first Orb hit, while saving the third Spirit Rush as either an additional escape or a finishing blow to both enemies.
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Women's World Cup: Estonia boss Keith Boanas wants grass pitches at Canada 2015
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Last Updated: 26/08/14 6:49pm
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada must not be played on artificial pitches, according to Estonia manager Keith Boanas.
More than 40 international players have petitioned FIFA and the Canada Soccer Association asking for a reversal of the decision to to stage matches at next year's tournament on artificial turf.
FIFA World Player of the Year Nadine Angerer and USA trio Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Heather O'Reilly are among those demanding games are staged on traditional grass pitches.
Due to his role with Estonia, Boanas is extremely familiar with the sort of artificial surfaces which are currently set to be used at all six stadiums in next year's women's showpiece.
"In my opinion, there will never be a substitute for playing football on a well prepared grass field," Boanas told Sky Sports.
"The finals of the biggest competition in the world for the women's game should absolutely be played on high quality grass fields, as is the men's.
"If I was fortunate enough to be involved in this competition at this stage, I would want this for my players and for the game."
"It is the pinnacle of any player's and coach's career, and everything should be done for it to be the best experience possible."
Grass pitches are impossible to play on in Estonia during the depths of winter, but Boanas insists the country's top international players would always elect to play on grass if given the choice.
"Working in a country where artificial fields are an absolute necessity, I am obviously grateful for them," the 55-year-old said. "Especially with the advances in technology in the quality of the field - 3G/4G - as opposed to the old carpets that we had in the 80s.
"But Estonia has a fairly decent summer when it gets here, and they have some wonderful grass field stadiums.
"Even though playing on field turf is second nature to the players here, male and female, whenever they get the opportunity to step on and actually play on a decent grass field, it's like giving them a birthday present. That is where the vast majority of players love to play."
The former Charlton Ladies manager added: "The arguments on the variance in the bounce and run of the ball are valid and in extreme heat, the injury-risk and stresses on the feet and joints definitely seem to increase on field turf in my experience over the years.
"I'm not sure if scientific evidence is available or not but it does seem that many of these injuries, certainly here in Estonia, could be linked to training and playing consistently on field turf."


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British movie house Aardman Animations has made its first film using computer generated imagery (CGI), after years of working with plasticine models.
After scoring hits including Wallace And Gromit: THE CURSE OF THE WERE RABBIT and Chicken Run using an intricate technique of filming clay models - the company has bowed to modern trends and made its first picture using computer technology.
FLUSHED AWAY tells the story of rats living in the sewers of London.
Plasticine models were created, but then scanned in 3D - so the characters resemble Aardman's traditional plasticine look.
Aardman co-founder Peter Lord reveals he turned to computers after realising it is impossible to recreate real water with plasticine.
He says, "We're quite amazed at how it looks.
"Although we're attached to our traditional technique, and a lot of people were kind of wary, now we've seen it, most people are pretty convinced. You've got a different toolbox with an awful lot of possibilities."
Despite the innovation, the new technique won't save animators much time - both processes are so painstaking it still takes a day to create two seconds of film.


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It's been fun, but like all good things, the Mike Huckabee campaign has finally drawn to an end.
I mean, we can call it a "campaign" but let's be real, candidates like this know they don't have a shot at winning the presidency. But a year or two of "campaigning" is great publicity for books and speeches, and it's a fun audition for Fox News that they can get someone else to pay for. Mission accomplished?
But the Iowa caucuses call bullshit on their nonsense, and now a handful of candidates are "suspending" their campaigns, which is a nice way of saying "nobody likes me." So far, the Republican nobody-likes-me list features Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, and Rand Paul, and probably soon John Kasich since he just said that he doesn't want his campaign to look like a "band of minstrels." Oh God yes he actually said that.
On the Democratic side, we just shed Martin O'Malley, which is merciful. Now he can go back to working on his pecs and his lats.
But so far the most pleasurable dropout has been Rick Santorum, whose suffering is a source of boundless cheer for decent people everywhere. After dropping out of the race, he went on MSNBC to endorse Marco Rubio, but couldn't exactly explain why. It's kind of amazing to watch — the hosts beg, literally BEG Santorum to name one Rubio accomplishment, and Rick dodges the question until the best that he can think of is that Rubio did "something that went after the insurance companies."
After the cameras turned off, I can just imagine Rick tearing off his lav and storming out, bellowing, "Fuck all this, get me back to that DVD-by-mail company that I run when I'm not running for an office I'll never win."
And then there's Mike Huckabee, who ended his campaign by noting, "voters are sick of me." I wonder if he used the same line when he dropped out of seminary school in his 20s: "God is sick of me."
Rand Paul dropped out as well, with Colbert noting that he is now free to pursue his father's legacy of not becoming president. Let us all now remember the time that one of Rand's staffers tried to stop someone from filming a campaign event by licking the camera lens.
.@RandPaul's NH Political Director has a new slogan for the state: Lick Free or Die http://t.co/GvshJGJt6p #FITN
— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) May 11, 2015
And then there was the time his campaign talked him into livestreaming himself answering questions. "Is Rand Paul still running for president?" he read, then answered, "I dunno. I wouldn't be doing this dumbass livestreaming if I weren't. So yes, I still am running for president. Get over it."
Also two of this staffers were indicted during the campaign so that probably didn't help either.
New Hampshire's primary is on Tuesday, so we can probably look forward to more dropouts next week. Chief among them: John Kasich, who said "If we don't do well, we're not going to be dragging around like some band of minstrels who beg people to come to our show." No sir, you would not want to be like a band of minstrels, definitely not.


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Hi, first of all, I need to say that I've been very foolish over this, but hope that someone can still be of help. When I moved in to my current place 6 months ago, I paid a deposit, but not to the landlord, to the person whose room I was taking. When I met the other housemates before moving in, it was them who told me that's how things worked, so I thought nothing of it. I paid using a bank transfer, but didn't get a receipt. However, I can easily get some kind of letter from the guy, as I can get in touch with him.
But then, it got to a point where there was a complete turnaround in the house, and none of the 4 housemates knew anything about where the deposit was actually kept. We don't have a written tenancy at the moment, as he brought one for us to sign, but we noticed some details on it were wrong, so he took it away to amend it, and nothing has happened since, despite me asking about it. He always gives some excuse.
However, we do have a copy of the contract the old tenants had, and it mentions the deposit being held with mydeposits. So I emailed them, but they responded to say that, according to their records, they don't have our deposit secured with them. They have advised me to write to my landlord for confirmation, which is going to be my next step (recorded delivery letter, so I know he gets it). But before I send it, I wanted to check that he's still responsible for having out deposit secured, even though we've been giving it to people as we move in? I was under the impression that he had the money secured, but he just got us to give each other the money for ease of moving.
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'I want my Porsche back!' Clarkson attempts to bring stranded motors home
TOP Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is attempting to recover the vehicles he left behind in Argentina after he was hounded out of the South American country over controversial Falklands War number plates.
Clarkson was forced to cut short his trip after locals spotted his Porsche – which read H982 FKL on the plates – while taking part in a 1,400-mile filmed trek along the country's famous Patagonian Highway.
The 54-year-old and his co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May abandoned their cars and took an unscheduled flight out of Ushuaia on October 2 leaving around 30 members of the Top Gear team to face an angry mob as they tried to escape Argentina by crossing to Chile with a police escort.
May's Lotus car, Hammond's Ford Mustang and the Porsche driven by Clarkson are currently being stored in an Argentine customs' building in Rio Grande near Ushuaia while officials decide what to do with them.
But local media in the southern province of Tierra del Fuego said a representative of the BBC programme has asked officials how to go about getting the vehicles back.
Regional press said a mystery man had phoned customs officials in the city to inquire about how to recover the vehicles.
Radio station Aire Libre FM reported: "We can confirm the owners of the Porsche, Lotus and Ford Mustang were claimed by their owners through a person - not yet identified - who phoned Customs in Rio Grande.
"That person wanted to know what requirements these controversial Brits have to comply with to recover them.
"These cars were moved to a building at Customs in Rio Grande a few days ago.
"Their number plates have been removed."
The radio station also claimed an official source had told them the vehicles could not be auctioned off, as has previously been reported, and they had to be donated or given back to their owners.
"The BBC confirmed it would show its Top Gear special featuring the controversial Argentina episode over Christmas"
A customs spokesman in Rio Grande said she wasn't aware of a call about the cars from a Top Gear representative.
She said: "I haven't received a call of that sort and I'm not aware of any such call. But I'm not the only one who works here. There are many other people."
The BBC confirmed earlier this week it would show its Top Gear special featuring the controversial Argentina episode over Christmas.
It came after the BBC received a fresh complaint from Argentina's ambassador Alicia Castro, who claimed in a letter Jeremy Clarkson's behaviour "fell well below BBC's editorial values and standards."
The Top Gear presenter, forced to apologise in May after appearing to mumble the N-word as he sang a racist rhyme for the programme, has always insisted the controversial number plate on his car was not chosen deliberately.
But his claims have fallen on deaf ears in Argentina, where angry locals threatened to make a barbecue with his meat in chilling Facebook posts before he fled the country.
Clarkson told in his Sunday Times column after returning to Britain how protestors "bayed for his blood" as they stormed the hotel in Ushuaia where the Top Gear team was staying.
He claimed he was the victim of an orchestrated government campaign and had to hide under his hotel bed following an ultimatum to leave Argentina as an armed mob warned: "This is a mafia state, best you do as you're told."


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Former Grovetown track star Darius Watkins finished his freshman season at Virginia Tech last month.
Opening night of the CSRA Swim League at Riverwood Plantation was good while it lasted.
The unique tri-meet began at 6 p.m. and the host Division 1 Rapids, along with Division 2 West Lake and Division 5 Knob Hill, were able to get 51 of the 77 events in before lightning called a halt to the proceedings a little after 9 p.m.
In the regular season finale a year ago at Riverwood, the meet was washed out by weather after it started.
It was another great year across the board for schools in Columbia County.
For the seventh time in eight years, Greenbrier High School came away as the top school in the region as determined by the Georgia Athletic Directors Association's (GADA) Region Directors Cup.
For Evans High School graduate Mitchell Petras, the celebration at the Augusta Aquatic Center almost didn't happen.
Petras, a standout for the Knights and in the Aiken-Augusta Swim League, chose a college without the promise of swimming collegiately. But Wednesday night, the swimming community turned out to celebrate Petras, who is headed to Baton Rouge, La., to swim for the Divison I LSU Tigers.
"The deadline was May 1 and I decided LSU on May 1, and two weeks after that I got a call from their coach that said I'd be swimming there," Petras said.
In 2015, the Lakeside High School Lady Panthers lacrosse team was a No. 2 seed heading into the postseason and played host to a state playoff game for the first time in school history.
They finished with a 10-3 record.
"It was an awesome year, best year we ever had," Lady Panthers coach Courtney Hatcher said.
The Greenbrier girls did not make the state playoffs but also had a successful season, finishing 7-4, winning four of their last five games including a 5-4 triumph over Lakeside.
• The Evans Youth Basketball camp's second session June 22 to June 26. It runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a cost of $100 with lunch provided; $85 if you bring your own lunch. Early drop off/late pick up is free. Contact Kevin Kenny at email@example.com or (706) 951-3686.
Volleyball camp
Baseball America released its High School Top 25 Poll this week and Greenbrier came in at No. 23.
The Pack finished the season 30-4 with the school's sixth state title after defeating Gainesville in the Class AAAAA best of three championship series.
Learn to Row Day
The Augusta Rowing Club will celebrate the 14th anniversary of National Learn to Row Day, Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Boat House at 101 Riverfront Drive. The cost to participate is a donation of non-perishable food items which will go to the Golden Harvest Food Bank. Go to www.augustarowingclub.org or e-mail Kay Fletcher at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Basketball camps
With the high school baseball season finally over, it was time Monday for rising 10th- through 12th-graders in the area to start putting their skills on display.
There were 23 players at Westside High School taking part in the Georgia Dugout Club's Georgia Underclassmen Top 100 Showcase. It is one of 12 regional showcases, with the top 100 rising seniors along with 60 rising sophomores and juniors being selected to participate in the main event, which will be in late June at Georgia Gwinnett College.
Already the best in six states, two local baseball players are shooting to become national champions.
On Saturday, 8-year-old Steven Harshbarger and 11-year Reid Akins will be competing at Turner Field in the Major League Baseball Pitch, Hit & Run Atlanta Braves Team Championship. Players have six balls to hit a target while pitching from 45 feet away, six swings off a tee with balls measured for distance and accuracy to center field and are timed running (160 feet) from second base to home plate.
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South Shore Dive Pub & Kitchen opens in West Sayville
Sounding more trendy than divey is the new South Shore Dive Pub & Kitchen, which takes over the former West Sayville digs of Brock's Bar & Grill. Owner Bobby Gulinello, who also owns The Cortland Craft Beer & Cocktails in Bay Shore, said that the place has been entirely renovated with tin ceilings, white subway tiles and reclaimed wood from Sayville's first general store, now closed.
"It's a pub first and a restaurant second -- but one with very good food," Gulinello said. Its pared-down menu was designed by Craig Attwood, who was executive chef at Public House 49 in Patchogue and Jedediah's in Jamesport. Prices range from $10 to $15. At the $10 end is Buffalo leg confit — the house version of Buffalo wings, which features chicken legs first cooked in duck fat, then fried to order and served with a cumin enchilada sauce. The costliest dish, at $15, is the Dive Burger, the house version of a Big Mac with spicy ketchup and bacon, served with hand-cut fries or house-made Tater Tots.
On draft is an array of Long Island, New York and Northeastern craft beers. The place also serves a bottled cocktail that involves a cinnamon, clove, ginger and Granny Smith apple syrup mixed with apple juice and cinnamon-infused vodka, poured into a vessel and carbonated before being put in a glass, capped and labeled.
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Unanswered: IBMDB 2 Performance related issue.
Hi All,
I have created some tests for testing my application using IBM DB2(8.3) Database. As part of tests, I have to populate some information in the database. To populate the information, I have created the queries in a file and running the queries one by one. But I observed that DB2 is very slow and taking a lot of time to run all the queries. Is there any way to increase the perfomance from database side?
Below is the way I use to run the tests.
There will be a Java Program which reads sql files. These sql files consists of ddl and dml statements. The ddl statements consists of create and drop tables and dml consists of insert statements. These ddl and dml statements will be running using jdbc drivers. But it is taking lot of time to execute the ddl commands. Below are the statistics I captured from my test.
| 03:23:40 | Running the Queries from D:\sql\db2\db2.ddl.sql
| 03:44:41 | Completed running the Queries.
When I ran the same quiries on a Oracle/SQL Server database, I see it is taking very less time to execute. So I thought it is problem with the Database i.e. IBM-DB2.
Kindly let me know if there is any way to increase the performance of database?
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There are a lot of configuration changes that should be made to DB2 other than the default settings, especially with V8. You should find a real DBA to make the changes and tune the system for you. The changes are dependent on the nature of the database and the size of your machine (memory and processors).
BTW, there is no such release as 8.3, so you want to try issuing the db2level command on the database server (not your client machine) to find out what you have.M. A. Feldman
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Since you are on Windows, I will give you one thing to try, but this is still not everything that should be done for an optimum system:
This assumes your database name is "sample"
db2 connect to sample
db2 alter bufferpool IBMDEFAULTBP size 50000M. A. Feldman
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Drug-free pain relief: the natural way2 editions (1 ebook) - first published in 1987
Complementary medicine: an integrated approach1 edition - first published in 1996
Allergy and intolerance: a complete guide to environmental medicine1 edition - first published in 1992
The acupuncture treatment of internal disease: an introduction to the use of traditional Chinese acupuncture in the treatment of some common internal diseases1 edition - first published in 1985
Acupuncture: its place in western medical science1 edition - first published in 1982
Modern Chinese acupuncture1 edition - first published in 1980
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On 19 December 2014, the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") dismissed the claim that energy suppliers had exchanged information or engaged in prohibited concerted practices on green certificates (Case ABC-2014-I/O-25-AUD).
In 2011, the BCA investigated Belgian energy suppliers because the Flemish regulatory authority for electricity and natural gas ("VREG") noticed parallel behavior among a number of energy suppliers. According to the authority, there were indications that some players in the market made a (gentlemen's) agreement on fixing selling prices of contributions to the green certificate obligations, violating the prohibition of anti-competitive agreements of Article IV 1. § 1 of the Code of Economic Law and Article 101 TFEU.
In Belgium, energy suppliers must buy annually a certain amount of green certificates in order to stimulate the use of renewable energy. One green certificate equals 1.000 Kilowatt hours of renewable energy, produced according to specific conditions. If the suppliers do not reach that target, they are required to pay a fine for each missing certificate.
The VREG noticed that several energy suppliers invoiced their customers a contribution based on the amount of possible fines instead of a contribution based on the actual price that was paid when buying the certificates. This latter price is lower than the possible fine, which means that the suppliers made a profit by using this method to calculate prices.
However, following an investigation, the BCA concluded that it could not prove any exchange of information about fixed selling prices. Moreover, the decision states that transparency on the energy market is high. Customers can simply take a look on the website of the distributors and compare prices and conditions offered by the suppliers. Also, suppliers have easy access to the commercial policies of a competitor, in particular regarding residential customers. The BCA also refers to the legislation as well as to the specific nature of the green certificate which is not a normal "sales product".
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Since the Progress Educational Trust (PET) was originally founded, policy has been an important focus of its work. The charity has established a reputation for authoritative, balanced comment and debate, and for timely influence on policymakers as new advances in genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas are assessed by the UK government, Parliament, and bodies such as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Genetics Commission.
In the years after PET was founded, its efforts were concerned with the implementation of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The charity subsequently went on to be involved in the formulation and implementation of the successor to this legislation, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. As the latter was developed and debated in Parliament, PET helped coordinate strategy among professional bodies, patient groups and other organisations with an interest in its content and wording, via a strategy group chaired by PET Director Sarah Norcross. This work by PET was integral in keeping lines of communication open between the key scientific players, politicians, policymakers and journalists.
PET specialises in brokering relationships between stakeholder groups and relevant figures in policy and regulation, helping the latter to understand the concerns of the former, while helping the former to understand the rationale of the latter. Many of the stakeholder groups which PET assists in this way are small and disparate, and do not have adequate resources or expertise to deal with all of the issues which affect them. For example:
PET's Founding Chair of Trustees, Professor Marcus Pembrey, has long been involved in policy concerning genetics and assisted conception alike. As well as being involved in both the 1990 and 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Acts, he served as Consultant Adviser in Genetics to the Chief Medical Officer at the UK Government's Department of Health from 1989 to 1998. As a member of the Department of Health's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing (now subsumed into the Human Genetics Commission), he chaired the subcommittee that published the first Code of Practice and Guidance on Human Genetic Testing Services Supplied Direct to the Public.