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'I was extremely blessed to have Michael as my baby brother' - Sister pays heartfelt tribute to tragic Michael Bugler
The sister of NUIG law student Michael Bugler today spoke of the pain of losing her brother and that she will never be able to hear his beautiful voice or tell him that she loves him.
In an emotional tribute before a packed St Peter & Paul Cathedral at Ennis this afternoon, Laura Bugler said that her brother, Michael (20) "will forever be in my heart and always be my baby brother".
Last Thursday, Michael's body was recovered from waters off Oranmore, Co Galway and chief mass celebrant, Fr Jerry Carey said that a recurring thought for him last Thursday was that "20 years ago, Michael was delivered from the protective waters of the womb and on Thursday last, he was delivered from the protective waters of Galway Bay".
Michael had been missing since December 18th when he was last seen at 1am after he left the Quay's pub in Galway city.
During the almost three week search, Laura posted Facebook updates on its progress and Fr Carey told mourners that "one thing that motivated an awful lot of us over these past days was Laura's blogs"
He said: "An awful lot of people have mentioned the lovely, heartfelt, dignified way Laura kept people motivated to do the one thing that you wanted - to bring Michael home."
"Fr Carey told Laura: "That is ultimately what happened and people believed in your persistence and for you, Laura and parents, Harry and Connie, it was your one desire over these past weeks."
Laura is Michael's only sibling and in her own words delivered by Fr Carey, Laura told mourners that "I am not even used to Michael being gone yet - I am so overwhelmed with emotions".
She said: "Anyone who knew Michael knew how much he loved his family - he was a beautiful person inside and out. I am so incredibly grateful and blessed to have shared this precious life as his sister."
Mourners yesterday included President of NUIG, Dr James J Browne while one of the con-celebrants was former Bishop of Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh.
In her tribute, Laura said that she felt "extremely blessed to have Michael as my baby brother for 20 years".
She said: "It was only a short life and it was filled with love and laughter with so many amazing moments."
She recalled that "when we were younger, our days were filled with our own private jokes much to the annoyance of our parents".
Laura remarked that "it saddens me to think that I can no longer share these jokes with Michael".
She said: "Michael was loved by everyone, when speaking to friends and family over the past days, it has become apparent that his lighthearted personality was one of his most loved qualities."
"Michael loved and was loved by many and that has been evident to his family over the past weeks by the numbers of people who were there so give support from near and far. He had such a good spirit and a huge heart."
Laura said that Michael's friends "commented that there was always a gap in jokes and conversation in Michael's absence. He was such an easy person to get along with, rarely refusing to partake in any activity".
She said that Michael had a great memory and this was evident in primary school with his involvement in school quizzes and she said that his pal, David said that he would be a dangerous man for a best man's speech.
Laura said that it is "so painful to be here on this journey of losing my brother. I wish he was still here. His laughter has been greatly missed around the house. I am reminded everywhere I am that he is no longer here."
At the end of mass Laura herself read the words of a poem 'Dear Parents…' by Christy Kenneally that includes the line 'There are many who have lived long lives and have not been loved as me'.
During the offertory procession, a snooker cue, golf clubs, favourite toys from earlier years, school tops and photos of Michael and his family were offered up.
Michael's uncle, Paddy Bugler told the congregation "what has sustained Harry, Connie and Laura over the past three weeks or so was the overwhelming support from friends, colleagues, different services involved and the many people who were previously complete strangers".
Offering thanks to everyone who have given support, Paddy Bugler said that "people's capacity for compassion and a willingness to help was a great comfort to us as we struggled to get through the past few weeks".
He said that "the level of support astounded, surprised and sustained the family through weeks following Michael's disappearance".
Michael Bugler was later laid to rest yesterday at St Finian's cemetery in Quin village.
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|2009-04-15, 20:54
|Link #1221
Urzu 0
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Alhambra, California
For realz. They could already do 2 more seasons with the novels already out. But i do hope that the novells never end, or rather the story. I want to keep reading FMP side stories for the end oftime. ITs just too good
|2009-04-15, 20:56
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Why should you care?
Age: 28
I'm surprised to see Zac Efron as "a huge comic book and manga fan" O.O hehe Who knew? I wonder what he himself thought about his possible role as Sousuke. Did he think he would make a good job, or did he realize, as the manga fan he claims to be, that it would be disastrous?
But yes it's better this way. FMP doesn't need this LAM to keep on living.
EDIT: Just watched the interview. It isn't very promissing, he can still be in the movie, and yes, there can still be a movie. F***! I'm not waiting till 2012 to see if a new anime season is going to be made. I want one now!
|2009-04-15, 22:45
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Lol, i seriously doubt he is a "comic and manga fan" i bet at most the only things hes read is Xmen and transformers. If he trully was one, he would have tried to persuade Mandalay to stop productions or at least suggest better ppl for the roles instead of trying out himself. He is ok for a peterpan production but as a hardcore mitril mercenary he is a joke.
|2009-04-16, 03:26
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Location: Perth, Western Australia - Down Where The City Meets The Sea
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|2009-04-16, 08:37
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In all honesty if we had to live through a LAM, who would actually suit Sousuke's role?
I'm struggling to think of anyone young enough to come off as a sixteen year old mercenary...
|2009-04-16, 10:35
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The problem is that i doubt there is anyone who can do the role. It has to be someone young enough to look 16, but buffed enough to play as a mercenary. Fitting that role is pretty hard. I could think of Hayami Mokomichi due to his skin color and he looks aight in black hair, but he doenst look young enough to be Sousuke.
|2009-04-16, 20:33
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true that is why you would have to try and find an unknown actor somewhere to play the role and then get fans to vote on who out of a bunch of people who audition would suit the role best.
|2009-04-16, 20:46
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Only actor I can think off that could have played a decent LAM Sousuke is a young Charlie Sheen. Did the serious military role in Platoon, the comedy in Hot Shots and can do the same intense look. To bad (or fortunatly depending on pov) he is too old now.
|2009-04-17, 19:57
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|2009-04-17, 21:52
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Location: Texas
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hey i know everyone is bummed about the LAM but hell as long as they don't trash the story and make a decent effort on the acting front i think the gain in publicity for a new series will be grater than the pain of watching.
o and thank god it won't be that efwhater is name is.
edit- page top once more, you can kill my rep but you will never kill my spirit!
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^ Si. The publicity thing is the upside. I don't mind a live action movie cuz, if it has negative feedback, it might kick Gatoh into gear and make him write to have him redeem his series. And if it has positive feedback, it might kick him into gear to make him write faster so he can collect his money faster xD
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JAIL-BIRDIE: Benefits cheat who swindled £26k while winning golf tournaments jailed
A SHAMELESS scammer who pocketed £26,000 in disability benefits while winning golf tournaments has today been jailed for six months.
Shameless Alan Bannister pocketed £26,000 in disability benefits while winning golf tournaments
Alan Bannister, who boasted a handicap of just six, exaggerated the severity of his arthritis for eight years as he was awarded a top-rate payment usually only reserved for people who cannot walk.
The former mechanical engineer insisted he could not hold a saucepan or peel potatoes, struggled to dress himself and took 15 minutes to walk as little as 50 metres.
He overstepped the mark. What awaits him is a life of misery in the community. He is a broken man
Bannister, 56, made the claims in a successful application after quitting his job on health grounds.
However, the fraudster joined the 18-hole St Andrews Major Golf Club in Dinas Powys, south Wales, in the same year he applied for increased benefits.
The prize-winning golfer collected £26,090.55 over eight years and was also handed a mobility ca, which he then used to drive to golf tournaments, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
Secret footage captured Bannister lifting a bag of clubs with one hand before comfortably launching a 240-yard drive from the first tee.
Jailing Bannister for six months, recorder David Miller described the claimant's actions as a "blatant" fraud.
The judge told Bannister: "I imagine someone with high mobility needs rightly claiming Disability Living Allowance watching that footage of you playing golf, hearing about your golfing prowess, your championships and wondering how on Earth you were getting what they were getting.".
Last month, a jury at Cardiff Crown Court took less than two-and-a-half hours to convict Bannister of a single charge of obtaining money transfers by deception.
Secret footage captured Bannister lifting a bag of clubs with one hand
A jury at Cardiff Crown Court took less than two-and-a-half hours to convict Bannister
The jury heard how golfer Bannister was initially given a lower rate of disability living allowance back in 2002, having been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis - a condition which causes the spine and other areas of the body to become inflamed.
However, by 2004, Bannister had applied for the highest rate of the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and soon began receiving the increased payments.
The judge said the increased amount was granted on the basis Bannister "couldn't carry saucepans, grip tin openers or prepare a cooked meal".
Bannister repeated his claims on a form in 2007, adding that he could not peel potatoes and did not have any improvement in his condition.
"You were unanimously convicted by a jury because during the time you were claiming DLA, you were an active member of your local golf club with a handicap of six," the judge added.
He added: "You won competitions almost on an annual basis. You were the men's champion in 2006. You played regularly throughout this period.
"You were filmed effortlessly removing your golf trolley and your golf clubs from your car. You held the bag in one hand. You walked a decent pace on the golf course.
Representing Bannister, David Leathley said his client's initial claim had been a "bona fide" one but then "overstepped the mark".
"This is a man who is genuinely poorly," Mr Leathley said. "He has good days and bad days. This is an honourable claim that has fallen foul.
"He overstepped the mark. What awaits him is a life of misery in the community. He has to atone for his act of exaggeration which he bitterly must regret.
"He is a broken man."
Speaking after the case, Adrian Landeg, group manager for fraud and error investigation for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), said the sentence sent a "strong message".
He added: "Alan Bannister claimed he couldn't walk more than 30-50 metres without feeling extreme pain and discomfort."
"Clearly from our investigation and covert filming we found him playing golf, we have evidence of him winning club championships."
A Proceeds of Crime hearing is set to take place at a future date to recover the money paid to Bannister, Mr Landeg confirmed.


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So, you know how I mentioned that recently I've been focusing my efforts on getting my BCG portfolio prepared for submission? Well, I decided I would write about it on my blog.
One of the requirements for the BCG portfolio is that the work be completely your own; no critique, review, or help from others. The BCG wants to certify you for your own skills. It's not unlike a computer programming final exam where they expected us to not use the internet for help. In the real world, my computer programmer husband totally uses outside help. Crowd sourcing, forums, collaboration - these are just tools to solving a problem efficiently. They are also helpful in the real world of genealogy.
BUT...this isn't the "real world." This is the world of becoming certified by a world-class organization. Technically, I am allowed to publish posts on my blog that contain material that I would submit. However, when I do this, I get lots of feedback, lots of really great, helpful suggestions about what a word might actually mean, where to search next, etc. I don't want to do a ton of work and then have to not use it in my portfolio because somebody else gave me super helpful albeit unsolicited feedback. So, I've made a conscious choice to not blog the specific material that I want to submit in my portfolio.
Huh? I didn't I just say in my first paragraph that I want to write about my recent BCG portfolio efforts on this blog? Isn't that a contradiction?
Actually...no. Why? Because all that work I spent the past two months on, yeah...all that work...pretty much all of it...I decided I can't use it in my portfolio. Lots of reasons, mainly: it isn't the best display of my work. I don't have enough varied kinds of sources. I don't have enough solid evidence to "prove" my theories. It's good work, but it's not really portfolio-worthy, and sadly, it probably can't be because of the lack of available records for the village of Vlčovice. The parish registers start in 1720 and the land records start in 1764 - well, there are some Urbary records in the 1500-1650's, but they are too early. There's a 70 year gap of records.
I actually feel satisfied because I learned a lot from this experience. I was given the advice to never, never, never submit your first-ever client report in the portfolio; I suppose the same is true with the case study portion. And, even though it's not as strong as I would like, I have a case study. I gained a lot of experience with land records.
And now I have fodder for this blog for the next few weeks! So, that's good. The feedback I will get from these blog posts will help me with my BCG portfolio work.
The Babinec Project
Here's a brief summary of the project that I was working on. A friend and client's ancestors came from Mniší, Moravia. I found the marriage record for her direct line ancestor, Margaret Babinetz, in the neighboring village of Vlčovice. I wanted to trace her family back. I gathered all of the records of the Babinec/Babinetz's in that village, and figured out how they relate to each other. I gathered land records, transcribed and translated them, and was able to learn even more about the family.
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Canoa Caiçara, Canoa-de-um-pau-só, Canoa de Borda Lisa is a dugout canoe used for river, lagoon and coastal fishing built with a single tree log about 3 to 12 meters long and found all along the southeast and south coast of Brazil. It can also be called "Ubá" from the Tupi language or even "Obá" from the Carijós indigenous people.
Usually built from Guapuruvu trees but today only naturally fallen trees can be used today. The construction starts from cleaning branches and bush and pulling the tree out from the forest and taken to where the canoe will be built. Sometimes the carving of the log is done locally. Traditional tools as small hand axes are used.
See the blog Úúúú about the native culture.
and the video showing the construction of the Canoa-de-um-pau-só in São José, south Brazil.


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Global Change Music is music for global change, but we believe it will take more than just the music. As a multifaceted nonprofit record label, Global Change Music encourages taking personal action against the broken systems of the world.
Global Change Music lyrics speak of taking action against any form of injustice where the people are oppressed. Global Change Music promotes sustainable living, which includes growing your own organic food, building green, permaculture, sharing services and goods (trade and barter), and having a protective environmental consciousness. The music itself can be any genre, however, the musicians must live their message of national and international radical changes.
Global Change Music nonprofit record label makes grants of housing, instruments, and recording opportunities available to hopeful, promising student musicians from around the world who may not otherwise have the opportunity to develop as musicians in the arts. Our philosophy is based upon the wholeness of developing the complete personality—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Musicians have access to a state of the art recording studio, Future Studios, in Southern Arizona.
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Global Change Music also runs The Musicians-That-Need-To-Be-Heard Network, a brother/sister music union of true solidarity. The main objective of the Network is to help artists that aren't necessarily on the Global Change Music label to meet their destinies and use their Creator-given talents for the betterment of humankind. Members of the Network receive numerous benefits including discounted rates on Global Change Music's top-quality management and production services.
"It is the hope of Global Change Music to sign artists who are vocalists and songwriters, who write higher consciousness messages, and who have something positive to say. Higher consciousness music does not have to be boring or rote. It is the intent of Global Change Music to bring the fusion of the highest of melodic sounds with the highest of consciousness lyrics in the hopes of uniting all of humanity into common truths in the understanding of the Creator and true reality. There is a place for all forms of music, but all forms of music are not necessarily beneficial to humanity. In order for music to be truly of eternal value, the artist must be truly of eternal value—for music is the expression of the spirit of man/woman. If that spirit is filled with love and compassion, that is heard in the music. If that spirit is filled with anger, that too is heard in the music. If that spirit is filled with triteness, that also is heard in the music. It is easier to write beautiful words than to live them. A musician who wants to make a difference on this planet needs to walk the walk that he or she writes about."
~ TaliasVan, founder of Global Change Music
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Update on Blue October's Acoustic Album
When the 2010 Acoustic Tour was announced it included the information that the shows would be recorded for "a future live acoustic release". Other than that first announcement there has not been any mention or news regarding the acoustic album. Jeremy posted this information on the Open Book Forum today-
I have seen a little bit of concern about the acoustic shows we did and their not being a recording out yet. Well, let me ease your concerns. I have in my possession the master files for all 5 shows. Our FOH,( T Hater) and I dropped and transferred all the files last night here at Mousseroom Studios. It might be a little bit, but ….. after much discussion, and searching, THE FILES DO EXIST. I will try to keep you guys updated, and let ya know if we find anything on those files that is worth releasing. We are our own worst critics ya know.
Happy New Year Everybody.
Keeping my fingers crossed that they find something they like on those files!!
ETA: Jeremy posted this on the Open Book forum on January 10th-
I'm sitting in my tiny little studio going thru Acoustic songs. Listening to you guys sing back to us is UNREAL, EMOTIONAL, and EXQUISITE! I am very lucky and blessed. Thanks very much.
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|25 May 2011
Can multiple "image backups" on one drive be accessed?
Question, which to be honest I could probably answer for myself with a little experimenting. But I'm hoping to get some insights from others faced with a similar problem, as to how they've addressed the problem... and if they may have a better solution than I've come up with.
My goal is to provide perhaps 2 or 3 generations of WindowsImageBackup (i.e. "system image") on one of my secondary local hard drive partition, which would be available in case of a system disaster to restore from. Since Win7 itself does not allow more than one per partition to exist (because of the high-level folder names), each time you run a new "system image" backup the old one on that partition gets deleted.
Obviously, I could rotate the target locations for the backups to three different partitions, but I don't have that luxury. I don't have enough free space that I am willing to dedicate to about a 46GB backup folder on other than one partition on one machine, or two partitions on a second machine (for "system image" on that second Win7 system).
So, on the one partition that I DO have some room on, I've simply renamed the current generation's high-level WindowsImageBackup folder to have a date-suffix on it. Then I run a new "system image" backup, creating a new folder with the standard Win7 name.
So far, so good... and I now actually have TWO "system image" backups on the one partition, physically anyway.
But if I go to restore, will both "system image" backups on that drive be visible in my list of choices for acceptable input to the backup? That would be true if I'd placed the two backups onto two separate partitions, and they would both appear in my selection list. But if they're both on the same drive but simply with different high-level folder names, will only the correctly named backup be presented as a choice? Will the renamed parent folder simply be ignored?
Obviously, underneath the two parent folders the sub-folder names and structure of the two backups is clearly identical, starting with the first sub-folder being my "computer name". Should I have renamed that too, somehow?
Is all of this pointless, and Win7 will never look for anything but the one "officially named" set of high-level and sub-folders as acceptable input to the restore?
My disaster recovery plan would normally be to just use the latest version of the "system image" backup on that one partition which therefore would not require any "trickery" to use an older generation renamed backup on the same drive.
But if I had to I could boot using the Win7 installation DVD or repair disk, exit to a command prompt, rename the high-level folders so as to "promote" an older renamed generation to now have the proper name looked for by the restore function, and then exit back to do the repair... i.e. to restore the "system image" version I just got the correct name to by renaming.
This is why I've been doing what I've been doing, namely using a partition I have available with a fair amount of free space to be used for "system image" backups, and retaining several generations. And in truth, I haven't yet had a situation where using anything other than the most recent "system image" to restore from was not the right thing or the appropriate course of action.
That's the background, and my thoughts.
Will ALL of the multi-generations of "system image" backup be visible at restore time in the selection list, so that I really do NOT have to go through the rename trick to get what I want restored?
Is there a 3rd-party software solution that DOES provide for multi-generation of the exact same type of "system image" backup that I should be using instead of Win7's "system image"?
Open to any thoughts and insights.
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|25 May 2011
Vista x64 / 7 X64
All 3rd party apps. will let you store as many images you like, wherever you like.
Your renaming trick is a workaround if you must rely on Win sys img. You will need to rename the one you want to restore back to just plain WindowsImageBackup.
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|25 May 2011
Hello mate.
Why go through all that horse-hit when you could use a more reliable tool like Macrium or an excellent paid SW like Paragon for about 30 bucks?
Imaging with free Macrium
Please excuse my foul-ness.
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|25 May 2011
I notice you didn't mention Acronis. Any reason? No free version?
I don't mind paying for excellent software, or compensating software developers. If it's the functionality I need and does the job, and it costs money, I'll buy it.
With that stated, and not asking for a detailed feature comparison matrix, which of the three vendors and free vs. paid products would you give the highest recommendation to?
If I could find one program that could do full/incremental/differential backups to internal and external drives as well as SCSI DAT tape, and could also do flexible system imaging with standalone bootable recovery capability, and was fairly priced, I'd buy it today. Otherwise, I have to use several products to give me what I'm looking for.
I want/need something more than I'm getting from Novastor's NovaBACKUP and Win7's "system image".
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|26 May 2011
Hello again.
Have a good stroll through this link, I don't know enough about Acronis to say one way or the other but many feel Paragon to be the premier SW for all needs.
PARAGON Software Group - partition manager, drive backup, hard disk partitioning
|My System Specs
|26 May 2011
Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
Windows inbuilt imaging plus Macrium I think is a good choice. Use one as your main and one as a safeguard. Macrium gives some partition imaging flexibility.
Windows image renaming is no big deal. A renamed image eg
WindowsImageBackup_7_5_11-before SP1
can be more meaningful than the obscure Macrium naming.
or simply move ("instantly") WindowImageBackup into a meaningfully named folder.
They can be easily renamed on the fly from the system repair boot disk if needed.
|My System Specs
|27 May 2011
Windows 7 Enterprise X64/Windows 10 Enterprise X64/Windows 10 Pro X64/Linux Mint
If you have a Western Digital or Seagate HD they both offer a free scaled down version of Acronis. They are available from their website.
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|04 Jun 2011
Windows inbuilt imaging plus Macrium I think is a good choice. Use one as your main and one as a safeguard. Macrium gives some partition imaging flexibility.
Windows image renaming is no big deal. A renamed image eg
WindowsImageBackup_7_5_11-before SP1
can be more meaningful than the obscure Macrium naming.
or simply move ("instantly") WindowImageBackup into a meaningfully named folder.
They can be easily renamed on the fly from the system repair boot disk if needed.
I have no real complaint with Win7's "system image", other than the fact that it backs up both my "active partition" (which is actually my WinXP boot partition on "hard disk #1" per the BIOS) as well as my Win7 system partition (which is on a second drive), since they're both part of the critical structure to preserve system recovery in case of a disaster. I virtually never boot to WinXP anymore, and certainly haven't done so for months. So to constantly include it in a "system image" is kind of a waste of time and disk space.
Ideally, I'd like to have separate images of both partitions, and manually recover one or the other or both as necessary, per my own control and decision. I think I can get this with Macrium Reflect (free) if I understand the product correctly. I've looked at the non-free additional features and none of them are relevant for me, so "free" should be just fine... if it does what it's supposed to do and recovery of any imaged partition is 100% reliable and problem-free.
So... if everyone vouches for Macrium Reflect (free) to do just what it's designed to do, I think I will at least experiment with it, if only to get the ability to not backup my WinXP partition in every image of my Win7 partition.
I'm negatively biased to anything Acronis, as I sampled their backup/restore product way back when upgrading from WinXP to Win7 and had to replace Sonic's Backup MyPC v6.0 which was unusable on Win7. I'm certainly no rookie, but I felt the product to be very non-intuitive and difficult to understand. Very complex, poor title wording and explanations, and overall unacceptable.
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|04 Jun 2011
If you're saying that you have a Windows managed dual boot and the XP partition is the "System" partition system volume you could mark the Windows 7 partition as the Active partition and do the 3 separate startup repairs outlined in this tutorial at the link below to (re)create the "System" boot files to the Windows 7 partition if you wish.
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
|My System Specs
|04 Jun 2011
Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
Windows inbuilt imaging plus Macrium I think is a good choice. Use one as your main and one as a safeguard. Macrium gives some partition imaging flexibility.
Windows image renaming is no big deal. A renamed image eg
WindowsImageBackup_7_5_11-before SP1
can be more meaningful than the obscure Macrium naming.
or simply move ("instantly") WindowImageBackup into a meaningfully named folder.
They can be easily renamed on the fly from the system repair boot disk if needed.
I wouldn;t use Acronis Tru Image for anything but drive cloning. I found it too hard to use, unreliable and buggy. YMMV.
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About IPL Hair Removal There are a number of hair removal methods available depending on the applicant's skin tone, hair type and length and the desired effect. One of the more modern techniques that is used by many to achieve successful long-term results is Intense Pulse Light (IPL) hair removal. IPL hair removal is a highly effective treatment method and is applicable to many skin and hair types. The process is fairly simple; an applicator is targeted at a specific area of the skin and delivers energy to the hairs that protrude from it in short bursts or pulses. Enough energy from the light is absorbed by the hairs to damage the hair follicles creating detrimental conditions to hair growth. The technique differs from laser hair treatment in two ways. Firstly pulsed light is used instead of a continuous beam of energy and secondly a range of light frequencies is used rather than a single frequency. This allows different parts of the hair and surrounding cells to absorb energy in differing amounts. IPL hair removal is a safe, easy, painless and quick solution to unwanted hair and can be successfully used on the body or the face. Although repeated treatments are necessary the risk of side effects or skin damage is minimised due to the selective filtering of harmful light frequencies during application. IPL hair removal is a great option for long-term and large area removal and recommended by health professionals the world over. You'll also need a minimum of 6 treatments. This is because each of the hairs on your body goes through three stages in its lifecycle, and you can only neutralise a hair in the active phase. At any one time only a maximum of 20% of the hairs on your body are in that phase, which is why you need at least 6 treatments. Once you've completed the treatment cycle you can look forward to a lifetime of smooth skin with only an occasional maintenance treatment. Compare that to the cost and hassle of a lifetime of waxing.
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Not since the days of LaDainian Tomlinson have the San Diego Chargers been able to actually boast about a successful rushing attack. While the level of competition was certainly a step down on Sunday against the pitiful Jacksonville Jaguars, the Bolts' run game was anything but.
From a steady diet of Ryan Mathews to a change of pace dose of Danny Woodhead and Ronnie Brown, the Chargers really used the ground game to perfection on Sunday. All told the San Diego rushing attack rolled up 157 yards on 35 carries for a very pleasant 4.5 yards per carry. That kind of production is really going to go a long way toward making quarterback Philip Rivers and the rest of the offense hum.
Speaking of Rivers, he was close to perfect on the day and continues to be primary reason Bolts will remain contenders this season. His stat line of 22-of-26 for 285 yards with one score and zero turnovers was absolutely awesome for the Chargers, and there's no denying the immediate impact the signal caller has seen from the coaching staff addition of Mike McCoy and Ken Whisenhunt.
The rushing success may come with an asterisk as the Bolts were facing the NFL's worst run defense by a wide margin, but the team's overall performance against an inferior opponent was commendable. This is the type of game that the Chargers would have kept close in previous years or even unexpectedly lost due to a lack of focus or just a completely flat effort in general. This year's team is determined to turn the page on the past and write its own history which continued with a Week 7 win getting them to over .500 for the first time on the 2013 season.
By no means is this a time to celebrate because these Bolts still have plenty of work to do in search of a postseason berth this year. Heading into the bye week with some momentum should be a good thing for this team as it recovers for a tough stretch run that features two games with both undefeated AFC West rivals in the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos.
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Hi, I'm a big fan of theater and currently staying in Aldgate with thesqua.re, can a local please suggest good theaters and plays I could go for maybe? I've heard great things but don't know where to start!
Ross0 28 Nov 2016 Hi! I'm Ross and I handle the majority of written content at thesqua.re. Thank you for your question! I think it's all down to what you want to watch - for something classic then King Lear is currently on show at the Old Vic (SE1), a great musical number celebrating Carole King is being showcased at Aldwych Theatre (WC2B) or if you want to take in a blockbuster, then The Lion King is a great show to see at the Lyceum Theatre (WC2E) - just be sure to book tickets as they are VERY popular!


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(Archived document, may contain errors) MyVision for South Africa By Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi Sometimes it behooves one to pause and look at things in broad perspectives. On this present trip to the United States, I am very aware how history has swayed back and forth and how history has picked up and dropped t hat which men fought about so desperately. In the broadest perspective, there was the colonial era, there was the occupation of regions of South Africa by Britain, there was the march into the interior by frontiersmen conquering and taking land wherever t h ey went.Then there was the Act of Union which gave the in- vaders and the colonialists and the settlers and the new generation of South African-bom and -bred whites, the sole right to rule. All this was typical of what was happening in the rest of the wor l d where colonialism con- quered and established control over foreign places. Then the world started to move and South Africa started to stand still. During the first half of this century there was a gathering momentum of anti-colonial forces working to ri d countries of foreign control and minority white government. The 1960s saw sweeping changes in Africa and there was Mr. Harold Macmillan making his Winds of Change speech in South Africa. And the world, which was beginning to support the decolonization. p r ocess, started to react with stricken Western consciences leading the way in pouring scorn on South Africa continuing to do what the West was abandoning. The internal struggle against racism and apartheid in South Africa began gathering momen- tum in symp a thy with decolonization trends everywhere else. There was a taste of victory in the air; there was anticipation of liberation to come and as the years wore on, impatience turned to militancy. The newly converted are always more ardent than those long sinc e converted. Countries which abandoned colonialism were eager to support the fight against racism and minority government in South Africa. International platforms were opened up to all who protested against apartheid, and in the United Nations and other in t ernational forums, the West was forced to speak loudest amongst all against apartheid. Decades of Opposition. And then there were the long decades of the growth of opposition to apartheid in South Africa in the sixties and seventies. All the world saw was increasing op- position to apartheid and increasing recalcitrance by successive National Party governments, which spurned world opinion and set about generating the forces of repression which made apartheid the most hideously systematic form of racist opp ression in the world. And there was great, great indignation. There was anger. There was a shaking of fingers, turning to the shaking of fists. And there was increasing sympathy for those who were seen to
Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi is Chief Minister of Kwazulu, South Africa, and President of the Inkatha Freedom Party. He spoke at The Heritage Foundation on June 19,1991. ISSN 0272-1155. 0 1991 by The Heritage Foundation.be brave and militant and reckless even in the fierceness with which they rejected aparth eid and fought against it. T'he world wanted action and praised every action simply because it was action against apartheid. In South Africa itself, action against apartheid, and the conflict it produced, began calling for more and more strident politics. More Military. And then there was the idealization of confrontation and conflict and even violence. Ever since the mid-1970s, after those fateful events in Soweto on June 16, 1976, the cry was for more militancy, and confrontation ripened the circumstance s in which black politics moved away from being constituency-bound to becoming celebrity-bound. Media began creating leaders by acclaiming strident action. Committees were formed to form com- mittees to form committees yet again to elect and re-elect leade r s. And the government of South Africa fuelled the flames of conflict and escalated violence by crushing opposition with ever-increasing brutality to match rising militancy. And the world - which started pointing flngers and which had moved to shaking fist s - began to seek strangleholds over the South African government to force the life out of apart- heid. And the people suffered. Scores, hundreds, and indeed thousands, of young black South Africans were used as cannon fodder. I will never forget a remark m ade by an African Nation- al Congress (ANC) leader in the mid-1970s who was taxed with using children as cannon fod- der and bringing people out of South Africa, giving them some kind of rudimentary training and sending them back knowing that they were go i ng to be arrested because they were at- tempting the impossible. The remark was that there are casualties in war and most of the casualties of war are always the innocent. And in the world there was the view that apartheid could not be reformed, that demo c racy would have to be wrung out of Whites who would not relinquish their positions of privileged power. The total disbelief that reform would come from within was there in everything which everybody said at the United Nations, at UNESCO, at the World Heal t h Organization, at the International Labor Organization and in every other U.N. agency. Rhetoric sharpened in the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and there was an adding to the great international outcry by the OAU and non-aligned countries. There was a global condemnation of apartheid with a global disbelief that the end of apartheid would be brought about by the internal struggle. Grass Roots Resistance. In all this there were the hundreds of thousands of black South Africans who were daily opposing a partheid fiercely, where they lived, where they worked. They were opposing apartheid in their twos and threes, in their tens and twenties - in their hundreds and in their thousands. They were opposing apartheid where it mattered most - on the ground in So u th Africa. But they were out of the world limelight. The focus was not on that which the world believed could not happen. The focus was on the drama, the militancy, the anger and the preparation for revolution. And to all this there was added European cou ntries coming together to produce a harsh stand against South Africa. And there was the coming together of all the countries in the Commonwealth to produce harsh stands against South Africa.
2It was just not understood that this harshness and the sancti ons against South Africa which flowed from it, and the support for the politics of confrontation, added to the burden of the poorest of the poor in the country and immeasurably increased the difficulty with which these poorest of the poor were fighting ap a rtheid where they were in their poverty-stricken lives. And then, perhaps at the height of the disbelief that reform would come from within, and at the height of the clamor for international support against apartheid to take the form of sup- porting punit i ve measures and confrontationalism. in politics, there was the height of confron- tationalism inside South Africa. The United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions emerged and the world clapped and applauded and the South African government acted more harshly than ever. Proving the World Wrong. And then on February 2, 1990, the whole world was proved wrong. Apartheid was going to be reformed from within. In a matter of weeks the world began to see dramatic developments taking plac e . Mr. Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners were released, banned organizations were unbanned, and suddenly South Africa was open and free to all political parties of all political persuasions. The world was astounded to see Mr. Mandela and revolut i onaries being given freedom and handed on a platter that which they told the world they would have to die for. Their suffering earned their release. They deserved their release, but the ANC did not free them from jail. We are still in the shock waves of i n ternational reaction to the drama of what is taking place in South Africa. There is still a lot of sifting out to do. And I believe that there is a lot of re-analysis and re-thinking to do. The radical changes taking place in South Africa now are not the f ruits of revolutionary ac- tivity. They are not the fruits of confrontationalism. Everything of course in the end helped in one way or another. I am not saying that violence and the threat of violence played no role. I am not saying that sanctions and int e rnational anger played no role. All I am saying is that the magnitude of what is happening in South Africa cannot be accounted for simplistically. That which the world did not see happening in South Africa produced a new South Africanism. which is now com i ng to the fore. Institutionalized South Africa is shaking apart- heid and laying the foundations for a post-apartheid democracy. It was not revolutionaries who turned all organized mining, commerce, banking and industry to withdraw support for apartheid a n d to begin employment practices and to evolve business philosophies which were practices and philosophies preparing them for a race-free, multi-party democracy to come. Sports institutions across the length and breadth of South Africa began moving towards the conderrmation of apartheid and step by step sports administrators removed apartheid from their games and their tournaments and their organizations. Role of Religion. In the things that were happening, the world would not recognize, and did not recogni z e, that there was the development of religious institutions in South Africa moving against apartheid. It was not revolutionaries who made the man in the pew say "no" to apartheid. It was the suffering of Black people. It was Black people themselves and it was growing realization among Whites, Indians and Coloreds that the society we had was wrong. And then, of course, there was Christianity at work in society at large. There was the wit- ness of great Christians and their suffering as they were penalized f or their beliefs. And then
3there was the continued defense of the valued liberal traditions that there have always been in opposition to apartheid. And the country's legal institutions turned to say "no" to apartheid. But they were not taught how to say "no" by revolutionaries, the y were taught to say "no" by the ugliness of apartheid which they saw all around them. Lawyers saw the consequences of apartheid in terms of human suffering and they said no to it. And in all the country's institutions of learning there was a growing intel l ectual revolt against apartheid and what it meant to man and society. And then there was also the man in the street experience. Apartheid could not keep Blacks out of the economy. Apartheid could not keep Blacks out of the cities. Apartheid could not keep Blacks out of sports. Wherever Whites went, they watched Blacks arriving where they were alone before. And they learned that the sky did not fall down on their heads when apartheid signs were removed from post offices and park benches. That which the econ o my was mixing was being assimilated by politics. South Africa is a scrambled egg which cannot be unscrambled and Whites saw this and knew that they had to react rationally. Of course in the end there were vested interests playing their role. Whites saw to t al destruc- tion ahead if apartheid continued. They saw that there would be nothing left if violence con- tinued to escalate to the point where there would be a Black/White all-out war with both sides adopting scorched earth policies against the other. Th e re was a witnessing in South Africa to what happened elsewhere in Africa. And finally the perception grew that the Ian Smith option of fighting to the last would leave Whites with a Lancaster House option of negotiating about the handing over of power to B lacks. Call of Patriotism. And then there was the more powerftil - and perhaps even all-powerful - call of patriotism. White South Africans are indigenous Africans. They have nowhere to go. They have to make South Africa a place they can live in. To do so they have to destroy apart- heid. White South Africans who want to live in South Africa - and they all do - will want to have a say in the government of the future even if they do not monopolize power in the fu- ture. And so the option of rejecting the Ia n Smith choice of fighting to the last began to be more attractive. And White South Africa has made the jump across the chasm which the whole world thought was impossible. There is White backing for Mr. F.W. de Klerk. Whites want now to negotiate a new dea l for everybody. They want now to establish a government under which everybody will be prepared to live. All the fighting can end and all the calls for revolution are dying down. There is now the licking of wounds, there is still the distrust and there are still the fears that things will go wrong. There is, however, now opportunity and hope. And courage can now turn hope to reality. Politics in South Africa is not going to be the system versus the rest. Politics in South Africa is going to be all about the extent to which political parties can gather the institutional support that they will need and gather the support of ordinary South Africans that they will need to win elections.
4That is, in broad perspective, another way of looking at South Africa, a nd I ask you all to look at South Africa in that way and re-think American foreign policy toward South Africa; re-examine American perceptions; tease out the implications of the -fact that what now is hap- pening in South Africa was regarded as impossible , and it was that perception of the impos- sibility of reform from within which determined American policy.