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|The Valentine's excitement is just a week away and most of you might have already thought of how to make the women of your life feel special that day. And if you intend to spend it just like any ordinary day then prepare yourself to bear the consequences.
A woman loves to be felt special and if the love of her life is doing it then sky is the limit for her excitement. Frankly speaking it's not that difficult to make her happy. Girls usually find happiness is small things which are done effortlessly. Here are few simple & effortless yet very unique ways to make your love happy and felt special. 1) On Valentine's Day devote your 100 percent to her. Avoid giving here silly excuses like "I love you, but I am a guy and I do not know how to express my love to you", "Each day is special for us we don't need a Valentine's Day to celebrate our love". She'll be disheartened. 2) Tell her 'I love you' every 2 hours, message her, call her, send her a cute email or tell her face to face. 3) The next best thing to feel the 'love in the air' is the most reliable chocolates, preferably heart shaped wrapped in red wrapper or a wrapper of her favorite color.
4) Buy her flowers, and if she is a working women then send some flowers to her workplace with a short yet sweet note. It will make her smile even if she is highly stressed.
5) Send her an expressive Valentines card by tea time to her desk at work or her house (if it's not a secret relationship that is )
6) When you meet her in the evening for a well planned dinner do not forget to fill your car backseat with Valentine gifts just for her. Buy her clothes, earrings, bags etc.
And if you guys are close to getting married or are married then definitely go for a designer sari for her. Do not forget the most special heart shaped cushion which will remind her of you and your love even in your absence. (All these things are easily available on online shopping portals like www.craftsvilla.com but see that you keep a margin of atleast a week for the products to be delivered).
7) A show is incomplete without a perfect ending and to give this evening a touch of perfection give her scented candles followed by a loved letter beautifully written on a designer love letter filled with emotions and romance. Keep the best for the last.
So this Valentine's Day, make that 'Special' person in your life feel 'Special'.
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Airman 1st Class Dilip Pradhan, an exercise unit control center operator "deployed" from the 366th Comptroller Squadron, relays information over telephone to higher headquarters during a readiness exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Dec. 17, 2013. Pradhan was evaluated on his performance. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace/RELEASED)
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No not rabbits. There is no season on them. Same goes for squirrels — assuming you don't live in East Texas.
It's deer — specifically whitetails.
General season runs through Jan. 20. Limit is five deer with no more than three bucks.
Those hunters using bows, or some form of archery, got an early start during their special season, as did the youth of the area.
Alan Cain, who heads up the state's white-tailed deer program, said, "South Texas, known for trophy bucks, should be in good shape as we've had rain this summer."
David Veale, another biologist, added, "Deer age structure is still going to be impacted by the previous drought, with low fawn crops in 2008, 2009 and 2011. This will affect the number of bucks in the population available for harvest in many age classes, although the large fawn crop of 2007 should carry over decent numbers of mature bucks where they managed to live that long."
And, finally, biologist David Synatzske adds, "Antler development is expected to be good on more mature-aged bucks but may be somewhat lacking in younger age classes unless the drought ends soon. Higher fawn crops are in order from low production evident during the 2011 drought."
For many hunters, the opening of deer season is almost a religious experience.
It's anticipated like Christmas morning.
George Gilchrist has been hunting now for 47 years.
However, his perspective has changed over time. He still shoots. It's just done a little differently.
"My first hunts were with my dad, going from my hometown in Brownsville to a corporate, antlerless-only lease outside of Mason," he said. "At that time, Mason and a lot of the rest of the Texas Hill Country was overgrazed by sheep and goats; cedar trees were ubiquitous on the landscape, and deer were the size of German shepherds."
In Brownsville, deer were few, and in Mason, about all that could be seen were does and small fawns.
"I'll never forget one afternoon in a pasture they called Devil's Canyon, lugging around my dad's spare 12-pound Springfield 1903-A3 military surplus rifle.
"I saw a buck...a big buck, and I was mesmerized.
"I daydreamed about seeing a shoulder mount on my wall, but again, this was a doe lease. Thinking back on it now, I'm sure it was probably still more of a German shepherd with a 12-inch wide typical 8-point rack."
Gilchrist continued hunting, although it wasn't the most important thing in his life. As a teen, he had discovered girls and cars, which took precedent.
"For quite a few years, I was lucky enough to be drawn for prime hunting opportunities with my dad on nearby wildlife management areas like the Daughtrey, Kerr and Chaparral, upgrading my rifles over the years."
He still hunts — just now out of Laredo on a 9,000-acre lease where mature deer in the 140-150 class range roam the countryside.
"Over the past 10 years or so, I began taking binoculars and a camcorder with me to the blind," he said.
"Then, I began taking my still camera also.
"At times, it' a real challenge to determine what to pick up first.
"Binoculars? No, he might run off without hanging around.
"Better pick up the camcorder. No, this is a good deer, better get him on film before he leaves."
As when he was younger and was upgrading his rifle, Gilchrist is now upgrading his photo equipment, switching from film to digital and snagging better lenses along the way.
However, the decision of with what he wants to shoot is still there.
"My dilemma is filling me with anxiety," he said.
Whatever the decision, his blinds are likely complete now and ready to go.
"Man, I can hardly wait," he said. "Deer season is coming. It's almost here, bullets optional."
Jason Collins is the editor at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 121, or at email@example.com.


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Boston's Faneuil Hall reopens Friday with a ribbon-cutting to celebrate renovations and the historic building's new visitor center.
The Associated Press reports:
The new enhanced facility includes interactive exhibits, an audio-visual orientation program, handicapped-accessible public restrooms and a bookstore.
The space also includes 7,400 square feet for visitor services and community meeting space.
The renovation, which resulted from a collaboration between the city and the National Park Service, cost $7 million.
The reopening will include a demonstration of a new National Park Service app for navigating Boston's historic sites. The app, NPS Boston, will be free to download on iTunes and Android.
The Boston Globe reports that "[t]he Grand Hall area, where the mayor delivers the annual State of the City address, was not renovated because it was not needed."
Faneuil Hall has been a Boston meeting hall and marketplace since 1742.
Update at 3:30 p.m.: Faneuil Hall has been reopened.
During the ceremony, Peter O'Sullivan, the renovation's manager, lauded the project.
"This is a great day in the city of Boston," he said, according to our Newscast unit. "This is arguably — probably — the most historic building in the country. And then it's created probably about 100 jobs. Everyone is very proud of being part of the project."


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Amaran wins SRAM Tour of the Gila stage 2, Leipheimer second
- By Steve Frothingham
- Published Apr. 29, 2010
- Updated Apr. 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM EDT
Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) outsprinted Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's) to win stage 2 of the SRAM Tour of the Gila on Thursday, on a stage marked by vicious winds from all directions — including a last-mile tailwind that produced a screaming fast finish.
(read the stage 2 women's report)
Amaran gets it right
Amaran figured in the mountain-top finale of stage 1 on Wednesday, opening a big gap with about two steep kilometers to go on the ride up to Mogollon. His doomed attack might have been a bit too early, but served to draw out the eventual podium finishers and cut loose any pretenders still in the front group. Amaran faded and finished 41 seconds back of Leipheimer, in seventh.
On Thursday, the Cuban got the timing right, letting Leipheimer jump first and then passing him to take the win in the long, fast sprint.
"Levi made a very good move with a little more than one kilometer to go," Amaran said. "I saw that no one from the field was responding, so I decided to try and go. I passed Levi and kept going and saw I had a gap to the peloton."
With no time bonuses on offer, Leipheimer lost (unofficially) a second or two to Amaran, but gained a small handful on other GC contenders. Second placed Tom Danielson (DZ Nuts) and third-placed Cesar Grajales (OUCH-Bahati) held their positions.
Leipheimer gave credit to Amaran's sprint. "He opened up a gap and I was able to bring it back a little, but he obviously has more speed than I do," he said. He said the stage was "pretty smooth" but he thought his teammates maybe went a little harder than necessary. "But they are training, so that's ok," he said.
Leipheimer also said he is unfamiliar with such early starts — Gila stages typically start at 9 am. "I'd be a little happier if I got more sleep," he said.
Trek-Livestrong's Alex Dowsett held on to his sprints jersey and California Giant-Specialized's Andrew Talansky held his lead in the U23 competition.
Bissell's Kyle Wamsley gave credit to his team for his third spot on the podium. "They protected me all the way to about 1km to go, and gave me a super smooth ride while everyone else was in the gutter," Wamsley said. "I was fresh for the finish. Right as we came (through) the last turn, a few guys came over the top, and I got boxed in a little, and then Levi and then Luis. When I was finally clear I attacked over the cattle grate with 600 meters to go, but with a tailwind like this, it's hard to close time, and they already had 5 or 10 seconds.
"I wasn't surprised that Amaran attacked, but I was surprised that Levi attacked. I figured he would just ride it in, but he's out here for blood just like everybody else is."
Two youngsters off the front
The day's story belongs to the buffeting wind and the race's two ad hoc ProTour teams, Leipheimer's Mellow Johnny's squad and the DZ Nuts team — and also by those two teams' related development squads, Trek-Livestrong and Holowesko Partners.
Holowesko's Danny Summerhill and Trek-Livestrong's Ben King broke away from the group near the summit of the stage's first major challenge, the climb to Pinos Altos. The two maintained a roughly one-minute lead through the mountains and down to the scenic Mimbres Valley.
Roughly half the field got dropped from the lead group in the mountains. But all the favorites were in a front group of about 50, led by DZ Nuts' Dave Zabriskie, Tom Danielson and Tom Peterson (who normally race for Garmin-Transitions), and Mellow Johnny's Jason McCartney, who is apparently adopting the team workhorse role established by Chris Horner at the Gila last year. Mellow Johnny's Lance Armstrong appeared to be enjoying better legs than on Wednesday and spent some quality time on the front. Leipheimer, in his red leader's jersey, stayed protected and rarely out of the top six.
King and Summerhill were given little leash, holding about a half-minute's lead through the valley before conceding soon after the day's second and final intermediate sprint.
When the race turned right and left the protective valley, the peloton encountered raging winds in their face and from their left. The six ProTour riders took over the front, with McCartney and Peterson doing more than their share of the work. The wind at times forced dozens of riders onto the dirt shoulder and slowed the pack to about 20 mph on one descent that normally produces 50 mph+ speeds.
The final miles were hectic, as the course wound through the streets of Bayard, to the cheers of local school children. The winds guttered some riders — the under-protected, the inexperienced or the just unlucky — forcing them onto the shoulders and even up onto sidewalks. Bissell's full squad was protecting Wamsley, while Armstrong and McCartney fought to keep Leipheimer on the front and out of trouble.
With about a mile to go the course turned hard right and picked up a full-on tailwind. Leipheimer was near the front of the strong-out field and jumped hard with about 1k to go. Amaran allowed Leipheimer a brief gap before blowing by him. With the tailwind reducing the value of drafting, it was every man for himself and the two were quickly isolated off the front, with Leipheimer chasing a few bike lengths behind, all the way across the line.
It was Jamis-Sutter Home's third straight win at the Gila's Inner Loop road race. Last year (when the team was known as Colavita-Sutter Home) Sebastian Haedo won and in 2008 Tyler Wren won.
Winds are predicted to subside a bit — to 20 to 30 mph — for Friday's 16.5-mile Tyrone time trial. Leipheimer said he would consult with team director Johan Bruyneel about what wheels to use. "If it's a big crosswind you don't want anything high profile, even if that would be faster … if it's real bad we might not even use the rear disc."
Armstrong working
Mellow Johnny's Lance Armstrong pitched in to protect Leipheimer, and said he had rarely raced in such stiff winds.
"Yesterday was a fairly traditional day with a break and the chase behind," Armstrong told VeloNews. "Today the field exploded from the beginning, it was in pieces immediately, and from that point on it was J-Mac, Peterson and myself on the front setting tempo.
"I don't know that I've seen wind like that in a race. I guess we were lucky, we had some time in the forest, so that was protected. After that we had a good tailwind. It was really just the last 40-50km that was headwind and crosswind," he said.
Complete results
Dave Zabriskie of DZ Nuts on the descent.
Danny Summerhill takes a downhill corner.
Summerhill feed
Summerhill gets a feed while he is off the front in a break.
Bayard kids
School kids in Bayard came out to watch the peloton speed past.
Taylor Phinney surprised the field and sprinted to take the first hot spot sprint.
Jason McCartney did a load of work on the front all day.
Ben Jacques Maynes worked hard to set up Kyle Wamsley for the final sprint.
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The CEO of Radio Shack presented the leader's jersey to Levi on the podium.
Armstrong look
Lance checks out who is following him early in the race.
Armstrong climb
Lance led the peloton on most of the climbs.
Leipheimer, it could be said, has been leading the SRAM Tour of the Gila since the first stage in 2009.
Armstrong was not shy about putting in some hard efforts at the front.
Luis Amaran continues a team streak at Fort Bayard.
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In the fourteen years since the release of his masterpiece "Festen," Thomas Vinterberg's follow-ups have been, to varying degrees, disappointments. So in a way, it makes sense that his storming comeback comes from a film that looks again at the subject matter of sexual abuse, albeit from a very different perspective to that of his 1998 Dogme picture. Mads Mikkelsen, in a career-best performance, plays Lucas, a teacher in a small Danish town, left lonely after a poisonous divorce, and working as a classroom assistant after his old school shuts down. Things start to look up after he strikes up a romance with his co-worker, but suddenly, his world is up-ended when Klara (Annika Wedderkopp), one of his pupils and the daughter of his best friend, accuses him of inappropriate behavior. It's the thoughtless and mostly unknowing act of a little girl -- we know from the start that Lucas is blameless -- but like a 20th century melodrama (the film's reminiscent of both Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Visit" in some respects), the townspeople can't believe that a child would lie, and so Lucas becomes ostracized and untouchable in the community. Vinterberg makes the smart move and simply gets out of the way of the story, letting the script (co-written by Tobias Lindholm, writer-director of the equally great "A Hijacking") and phenomenal cast do the heavy lifting. And at the center of it all is Mikkelsen, giving an absolutely titanic performance as a man so confounded by the idea that people might think he could do such a thing that he can never bring himself to deny it. It's something that aggravated some viewers, but in Mikkelsen's hands, it's understandable, and deeply, deeply moving.
Some have tainted Ben Affleck's "Argo" with the faint praise that, once upon a time, all commercial movies were as smart and well-executed as this, so really "Argo" is nothing special. Well, I'm not sure that it was ever the case that films like this arrived like they grew on trees, and if it was, it certainly isn't the case now, so we should certainly cherish an "Argo" when it does come along. Affleck's first two films as director, "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town," were promising without quite sticking the landing, but even this marks a real leap up; a thrilling, breathlessly tense picture with plenty of wit, style and feeling. Affleck surrounds himself with a cast stacked with character actor greats (Scoot McNairy and Bryan Cranston being particular stand-outs), putting flesh on the bones of Chris Terrio's screenplay which is terrific, but perhaps drew the characters a little thinly. It's just one example of the way that Affleck makes all the right choices from here, from never leaning too heavily on sentiment with his own character, to a clear, concise storytelling. And some of the filmmaking here -- the way he juggles the tone from life-and-death-stakes to the Hollywood fun-and-games and back, the breathlessly tense editing of the final act -- is pretty much world class. It's absolutely a mainstream crowd-pleaser, but an impeccably executed one, and I must have missed the memo that declared that was a bad thing on either count.
In an especially strong year for political cinema, my favorite came from a relatively unlikely source; Chile, and rising director Pablo Larrain. I'd been a big fan of the director's previous two pictures, "Tony Manero" and "Post Mortem," dark, but quite different pictures that both looked at his nation in the years when it was being ruled by General Pinochet's dictatorship. To close off this trilogy, Larrain naturally looked at the final days of the regime, doing so with "No," a film that marks both his most formally audacious, and yet his most commercially accessible, picture to date. The film follows Rene (the best performance yet from Gael Garcia Bernal), a trendy, skateboarding ad executive with a collapsing marriage, who's asked to run the advertising campaign for those asking the people of Chile to vote 'No' on the upcoming referendum, and oust Pinochet from power. His boss (Alfredo Castro) is meanwhile fighting for the 'Yes' side, but that's almost the least of his problems, as the previously apathetic Rene attempts to use American ad techniques to sell the idea of freedom to the people. Funny, gripping and as perceptive as anything ever made about the power and process of advertising, it was also one of the most visually bold films of the year, thanks to Larrain's decision to shoot on bona-fide 1980s-style video. You feel like it shouldn't work, but he finds a strange beauty in the format, and it helps him blend contemporary archive footage in with what he shot seamlessly. In short: Yes.
Speaking (as we were at the start of this piece, if you've made it this far...) of children's literature, "Moonrise Kingdom" makes a good claim for being Wes Anderson's first children's film. His last, "Fantastic Mr Fox," might have a more obvious claim to the title, but that was essentially an urbane, if unusually zippy early Woody Allen picture that happened to be made in stop-frame animation. "Moonrise," however, taps more than anything else the director's ever made into that innocence of youth (complete with nods to classic children's literature along the way), and in the process turned out to be certainly the director's best film since "The Royal Tenenbaums," probably his best since "Rushmore" and maybe even his finest work ever. Obviously of a piece with the immaculate tableaux of his earlier films, Anderson feels looser and more playful here, formally at least, freed up by his fresh-faced protagonists (who are both excellent). Perhaps more importantly, the script (co-written by Roman Coppola) tones down the more arch qualities, and plays up the feeling that had often been lacking from his more recent films, thanks to beautifully drawn performances from the adults, including Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand. Despite the coming-of-age subject matter, and evocation of hazy endless summers and scouting adventures, it also feels like Anderson's maturing, somehow. If nothing else, worth watching for those glorious end credits.
I have to admit, I'd been something of a "Life of Pi" grinch around the Playlist water cooler in the run up to release. I wasn't sure that the novel could ever be adapted, I'd been unimpressed by Ang Lee's last few films, and the trailers had left me unmoved. But lo, when I caught up with the film just before Christmas, my heart grew two sizes too big, and I fell seriously in love with it. It's obviously a visual marvel. Even a 3D refusenik like myself was left positively evangelical by the format after the way Lee uses it, and Richard Parker (and the other animals) are pretty much the best visual effects I've ever seen. And the way that the filmmaker manages to find endless and imaginative ways to lens his hero (Suraj Sharma, in perhaps the most undervalued performance of the year), his tiger, and his boat, which could easily have become repetitive after about ten minutes, further cements that he's truly one of the greats. But it's far from just empty spectacle either; the director, and his script (by David Magee) engages intelligently and wholeheartedly with the novel's themes of religion, fate and storytelling, without becoming overbearing or tiresome -- in fact, it's arguably more successful than the novel in that respect. That Lee was able to make a $100 million dollar movie about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I felt that the film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction, religious friends took it as an affirmation of their faith) even more so. In a year full of idiotic 'cinema is dead' op-eds, Lee basically refuted themacross the space of two hours here.


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I just did everything but the optional tweaks and it does seem faster. I am not really sure what I did but the blog is usually pretty good about these things.
Have no idea what I did but I feel like my internet is on super speed now. Amazingly fast now.
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Well, if we're all without internet in the morning, we know who to blame.
Thanks for the link!
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Well, if we're all without internet in the morning, we know who to blame.
Thanks for the link!
That is what I was worried about as well but I tried it for a little while before I posted it just to be sure. The real question is did anyone write down the default values that we all just changed? I know I forgot about it.
Thanks for the link. I changed most of them and it seems to have helped!
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CG. No one knows what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by cowgirl836
Originally Posted by JHudd
That is what I was worried about as well but I tried it for a little while before I posted it just to be sure. The real question is did anyone write down the default values that we all just changed? I know I forgot about it.
If it fails, shouldn't there be something to reset to default settings in your properties or something? No matter what, you should be OK.
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Originally Posted by JHudd
That is what I was worried about as well but I tried it for a little while before I posted it just to be sure. The real question is did anyone write down the default values that we all just changed? I know I forgot about it.
There should have only been two that changed, and the two changed to true from false. Mine were -1 on the first step and 4 on the second step.
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There should have only been two that changed, and the two changed to true from false. Mine were -1 on the first step and 4 on the second step.
Mine too. I didn't do everything, but it did speed up page loads. Any Comp Sci guys on here that can actually explain what is going on? (I minored in it, but that was 10 years ago)
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I need someone to rep Linden for me from another thread, he's a boss.
Originally Posted by CycloneRulzzz
Nice close in the troll thread Linden. You are the Mariano Rivera of CF. We just hit Enter Sandman and Linden comes in takes care of business.
Here is what a user wrote in the comments below the original blog post.
A serious word of caution here.
1. browser.session.history is simply modifying how many pages of memory can be used to to make your going backward/forward etc. for effective. So in this case modifying this will improve performance or the system (if your resources are short) but it comes at a cost for other aspects of browser behavior that may be less desirable. This is simply a trade off of where the resources are used and how you use the system.
2. pipelining is a method of stacking all the requests from the browser together to prevent waiting for answer each time. this is actually and option built into the HTTP protocol itself. This option might work if the site is using components (all of them) which can support this activity - and the pages can be served this way. However many sites will not want this because it risks impacting the load and performance of their servers and reducing the ability of the infrastructure manage the requests. On some sites this may cause problems or get you kicked off.
3. The initial paint delay is just about loading what ever it gets as soon as it gets it. This is yet another trade off, if there is a lot more content coming then the browser/engine will use even more time and resources painting everything again and you will be actually waiting longer for the "final" page/image. (look up reflow)
4. You do not want to change the ipv6 options unless it there is a clarity on its benefits vs. impact (again may cause problems for some sites).
5. All but the last settings are again only tradeoffs of WHEN actions are done not making them more effective (there is no free lunch. The full path setting is simply a debug setting which rarely improve performance (it means do more processing)
6. The final item actually is the one that can benefit you but again only if that behavior is not a problem for how you use your system. If you have a lot of apps open and switch back and forth, run out of resources then it might be good. Especially if you have limited resources on your system (i.e. 1GB or less of RAM) Again as before this is a left and right hand issue because when you maximize the app it will have to reacquire the resources it needs.
So if your problem is you use FF for hours with lots of tabs and notice a performance impact try the last suggestion (but you have to minimize the app.
A final note. All of these should come with a big disclaimer that you need to remember any of these manual changes because there is no way of understanding their future impact (esp ipv6) and they may not be reset with patches and upgrades.. You don't want to have problems in the future and never think about those little settings you changed.
Pipelining is probably the biggest boost here, IMO, and I see no reason that you shouldn't turn it on, though turning it off by default is probably a good move on behalf of firefox developers.
Yes, it CAN increase the server load, because it increases the number of requests in a given period of time, though it doesn't change the number of requests over an average period of time (if that makes sense). That time frame is on the order of a few milliseconds, though, for a high speed connection.
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Because Firefox isn't running fast enough for me already?
Most of my "speed problems" with Firefox have nothing to do with Firefox at all - more like Mediascam going through their daily network slowages and outages...
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In message <9Jugc.75998$vO4.5098632_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be>, Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> writes
>> Given a known primary key, it takes on average about 1.05 disk seeks
>>(excluding OS file management overhead) to retrieve a record. Given a
>>known index value, it takes a further 1.05 disk seeks to retrieve a
>>list of ALL primary keys associated with that value. Added to that, a
>>Pick record usually contains all data associated with an entity -
>>that would likely be scattered across multiple rows in multiple tables
>>requiring multiple seeks in a relational db.
>Sure. Retrieving records with an index is also very fast with DBM
>files. But what happens if you have a query with a couple of joins, a
>little aggregation and some subqueries?
Apply a little statistics. How likely is that going to occur with an RDBMS, as opposed to a Pick DB. If the stats say it's unlikely to happen, then why worry about it?
That's what I meant about Pick queries being impossible to optimise - the statistics say there's no room for improvement, or that any gains by optimising the unusual case will be lost by hindering the typical case.
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Let us look at the few positives in the just-released quarterly GDP estimates. Agriculture has grown by 4.6% over Q1, electricity, gas and water supply have expanded 7.7%, construction has seen growth of 4% and finance, insurance, real estate and business services have grown by 10%. The laggards are mining and quarrying, manufacturing, trade, hospitality, transport, community and social and personal services.
In the first six months of the current fiscal, while growth in agriculture, at 3.6%, was much higher than the level reached in H1 last year, the services sector, at 6.3%, grew slower than last year (7.7%).
But the poor growth of industry (1.3% compared to 1.5% last year) continues unabated, resulting in concerns for the commodity sector. In construction, much slower growth in finished steel consumption vis-a-vis cement production in Q2 has further brought down the steel-cement ratio. This apart, the poor growth in mining is entirely policy related as there is no contraction in demand. What is most worrying is the poor growth in industry, especially in manufacturing, which is demand-related. Data indicate a slow reversal of the sector's ill fortunes, but a large component of a healthy growth projection for the industry is linked to investment.
Gross fixed capital formation as a percentage of the GDP at market price has dropped to 29% in the current H1, a distinct fall of 1.4 percentage points from H1 of last year and way below the 32.9% clocked in 2007-08.The anticipated uncertainty in the investment scenario (discussed last week) has much to contribute to the slowdown in the industry's growth. This is also reflected in the low manufacturing PMI of 49.6 for October 2013. Traditionally, there is a lull in industrial activity in the fortnight prior to the Budget. The entry tax imposed by various states has affected the inter-state movement of goods and is gradually turning into a major controversial issue. With a strong likelihood of a soft Budget (having minimal changes in direct and indirect taxes), and a consensus on GST still far-fetched, the industry has to wait for other factors to boost demand. To contain the fiscal deficit, the finance ministry has announced cuts in the budgetary provisions for different departments, which may hurt the government's consumption and expenditures for Q4. Keeping in view ensuing elections, this years Budget may boost social expenditures at the expense of industrial investment.
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text: By Tim LinscottManaging Editor The budget for the upcoming year has been set and rates will be increasing for water and sewer customers in Grant. In regard to electric rates, Grant Mayor Michael Wyatt wondered out loud on what was going on with that division of the city. "I am curious on what the thought process was for electrical fund?" Wyatt asked council members at the Sept. 10 meeting. A $149,000 overall budget loss also had the mayor asking how the city can break even in the future. "The picture comes back to cash management. The shortfall we run into, in order to pay for the well, we basically put a franchise fee of $45,000. Where was that franchise fee going before?" Wyatt asked. Dana Harris, Grant City Administrator, explained the franchise fee was allocated to street projects in prior years and this year went to the parks and recreation fund. "If we don't maintain profitability within those enterprise funds, I get concerned about not having enough cash if and when we need it. It is not prudent on our part," Wyatt said. "We'd all like lower rates but we need to realize and recognize without franchise fees, we wouldn't have a lot of things in this town. Without that cash cow, we would not have some of the things we have." He urged council members to 'not go negative annually in electrical.' Bob Tatum explained that the city is facing a wholesale increase in January and he wasn't sure he wanted to raise rates now and then increase again at the beginning of the year. "Raising rates three times in 12 months doesn't show forethought," he said. The cash balance in the electrical fund has been decreasing in recent years, according to recent budgetary statements. Electrical rates were not changed at this time. Rates for sewer went from $12 per month per customer to $16 and water went up 32 percent across the board (see chart on Page 3 for individual cost per month). Harris felt without water meters the city would do what was best to be fair. "At some point a policy will be needed to define the type of users," Harris said, explaining that some customers are using a large amount of water and not being charged accordingly. "It should be based on the business type and the size of line going into the business. I think we are undercharging a lot of businesses in town. If they use, they should be charged." The tax request was set at 0.455199 for the upcoming budget year.


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When it comes to reviewing DeluxePass, I don't know where to begin and that might be the only problem you have upon signing in. There is so much content available that it might be a little overwhelming at first. However, the site has a nice simple, clean design and it doesn't feel confusing or unmanageable.
There are 940 sites included with your Deluxe Pass. Yup, you read that right, I said nine-hundred and forty. I'll get this out of the way right away, and it will explain why the site score isn't higher: the content isn't exclusive. Rather, the sites take their content from various DVDs.
The 940 sites are divided up among a variety of categories, including: pornstars, ethnic, oral, fetish, gay and Asian to name a few. There are even 54 sites in the 'pictures' section totaling probably around 1,000 photo sets (some downloadable and some not).
As for the movies, there are obviously too many to count. However, with over 780 DVDs in the DVD archive alone, I would say a conservative estimate would be 3,500 full-length scenes. The quality does vary among the sites I checked out, but of everything I watched, the quality only varied between really good and great.
As if you need more reasons to join, the price tag is under $30 a month and they are updating daily throughout the network. Now go get yourself a Deluxe Pass and enjoy.
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A lot of sites with the same content on various of them. Almost everything isn't exclusive material and maybe 50% of the videos available are 5 to 10 years old. Videos are HUGE, making u spend time and hard disk to get a 300 to 500mb file that could be 150mb if better codecs were used. This site is almost a waste of time for me, except for featirung Gape My Ass.
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By the numbers: OKC Thunder early-season update
By Anthony Slater – firstname.lastname@example.com - @anthonyVslater
The season is young, but it's never too early to examine the numbers. Here's a look at some telling statistics from Oklahoma City's first nine games:
24.2 - Points per game for Kevin Durant. He hasn't averaged below 25.3 since his rookie season (his only year in Seattle). The NBA's three-time defending scoring champ is sixth right now, behind James Harden and Kyrie Irving, among others.
10.3 - Rebounds per game for Kevin Durant. He has never averaged more than 8.0 for a season. Currently, Durant is ninth in the NBA in rebounding, ahead of big men like Blake Griffin and Tim Duncan.
39.5 - Russell Westbrook's shooting percentage. He's a career 43 percent shooter, never dipping below 39.8 in a season (his rookie year).
8.1 - Russell Westbrook's assists per game. Last season, he averaged 5.6, eclipsing double-digits only four times in 66 games. This season, he's already had 10+ assists in three of nine contests, including 13 last night (more than he's had in any game over the past two years).
14 - Threes for Kevin Martin in his first five games, coming in only 22 attempts (63.6 percent).
5 - Threes for Kevin Martin in his last four games, coming in 16 attempts (31.2 percent).
14.4 - Points per game for Serge Ibaka. His career-high is 9.9
3.67 - Blocks per game for Serge Ibaka, leading the NBA. He's making a real impact on both ends.
0 - Double-digit rebounding games for Kendrick Perkins this season. He did it 12 times last year. In his best rebounding season (8.2 per in 2008-09) he had double-digits 26 times.
17.7 - Turnovers per game by the Thunder, second most in the NBA.
13.8 - Turnovers forced per game by the Thunder, seventh fewest in the NBA.
14-36 – Combined record of the teams Oklahoma City has beat this season (counting Detroit twice).
16-6 – Combined record of the Oklahoma City has lost to this season.
6-3 - The Thunder's record, still good enough for first in the Northwest Division.


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A personal exploration of a simple but functional task light. Experimenting with the functionality of an LED strip and the visual of a very simple lamp architecture.
A personal project exploring a simple but fully functional task light. I had seen similar lamp architectures before, but felt there was more that could be done functionally and visually. A linear LED strip can illuminate individual sections with varying intensities to achieve the same functionality and localized light options offered by more complicated lamps with several mechanical hinges. Visually, the simple shape also creates some unique opportunities to explore distinct color, material, and finish options.
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Ideas for sound, inspired by big cities, small apartments, higher standards, lower profiles, and lives shared three hours at a time.Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Industrial Design2013
Protective cases for school environments for Amplify.Industrial Design2016
The Chicago Collection built on the success of Scott Wilson's original LunaTik watch kit by adding premium US-made band leather. Working with Horween Leather, a Chicago-based tannery, we matched our silver and black LunaTik hardware colors with custom-spec'd leather straps in black and "Dusty" brown...yeah, "Dusty" was named after me.Art Direction, Industrial Design, Product Design2012
Headphones and earbuds as fashion accessories rather than technology objects.Fashion, Industrial Design, Packaging2014
The Touch Pen instantly jumps between paper and touch screens with a single button click. Inspired by our increasingly mixed analog + digital lifestyles, it allows us to jump between media effortlessly. In one moment it's a pen, in the next, a stylus.
We launched the Touch Pen as our second Kickstarter project, easily surpassing our funding goal, and took all of our backers along for the ride with regular updates as it neared production. it is now available at lunatik.com.
I was MINIMAL's lead designer on the Touch Pen during and after its Kickstarter campaign.Industrial Design, Product Design2012
A microwavable tea kettle for on-the-go lifestyles that offers convenience and speed without sacrificing enjoyment of the tea experience.Industrial Design2012
During LUNATIK's first year, I worked with Scott Wilson to art direct the brand and create a consistent feel across our branding, advertising, and product imagery. During this time, we created print ads, multiple successful Kickstarter campaigns, and possibly hundreds of product images for press releases and our own e-commerce site.Art Direction, Branding, Graphic Design2012
Leveraging the look and feel of traditional SLR cameras to communicate high imaging capabilities, I created the initial design concept for the Cinema HD webcam, one of the first webcams in the world to offer 720p video recording.
With Scott Wilson, Matt Puhalla, & the internal Microsoft design team.Industrial Design, Product Design2012
In 2009, Dell came to us at MINIMAL for assistance breaking into the smartphone market with their Venue line of smartphones. Working with Dell's internal team, we wrapped the phone in metal and, in an industry-first, curved Gorilla Glass, differentiating them from competitors and creating a shape that was fresh, functional, and comfortable to use.Industrial Design, Product Design2012
A personal project to rethink a set of headphones, with a focus on a simple, understated aesthetic, and mechanical and technical constraints driving design opportunities.Entrepreneurship, Industrial Design, Product Design2013
Minimal discovered and developed a process that enables one-off customization in mass-produced products. The result was Uncommon. Their unique printing process now allows graphics of any type to be printed on complex product forms. I designed Uncommon's launch product a minimal but robust iPhone case and art directed the brand with Scott Wilson for its first year.
During the year we worked on Uncommon, our greatest success post-startup was gaining presence in Apple's retail stores, some of the most coveted retail space in the world.Art Direction, Industrial Design, Product Design2012
A material study for a simple kitchen-based AM/FM radio stemming from a 2004 design positioning project for Radio Shack. While rethinking a line of radios intended for use in different parts of the American home, we balanced functional features, size, and durability. Visually, the line was tied together with a design language based on internally tapered shapes with high material breaks bridged by large lozenge-shaped displays.Industrial Design, Product Design2012
A redesign of Lunatik's line of watch kit and accessory packaging with a focus on increasing familiarity with the Lunatik name, grabbing some retail shelf presence, and more than anything, showcasing the materials and workmanship of Lunatik's products.Art Direction, Graphic Design, Packaging2012
Back in my Ignition days, I led a project that enhanced TurboChef's product usability and pushed their boxy, utilitarian design language forward to something distinct and identifiable...something that was uniquely theirs. Working with TurboChef's existing sheet metal production capabilities, we incorporated a two tone metallic CMF with pops of color in TurboChef blue. We added a number of functional improvements as well, such as easier door access and clearer control I/O.Creative Direction, Industrial Design, Product Design2012
When it was built, the Plus V3 was the thinnest DLP projector in the world. It utilized a collapsing lens mechanism that allowed it to attain unprecedented physical dimensions. In a time when most projectors weighed many pounds and took two hands to lift, the V3 was a true breakthrough and was one of the first products to show the promise of small ultra-portable projectors. I created the initial design concept for the V3, which was executed nearly verbatim in production.Industrial Design, Product Design2012
INVISIO was a creator of military grade communications gear looking to break into the consumer market. They had no brand resonance in the consumer segment, so I led a team at Ignition that leveraged their military heritage in the creation of a design strategy for their three consumer launch products, headlined by the impossibly tiny G5 Bluetooth earpiece. Our approach focused on INVISIO's military background as a basis for trust in their unfamiliar name.Creative Direction, Industrial Design, Product Design2012
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Six of my favorite pieces of paper from this year's inspiration boards.
Originally posted in Board #522: Romantic Black & White, by Mr. Boddington's Studio.
Originally posted in Board #521: Lucky In Love, from Martha Stewart Weddings.
Originally posted in Board #534: You Say Tomato, photo by Jose Villa.
Originally posted in Board #527: Black Raspberry, by Stripe & Field.
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Originally posted in Board #536: Elegant Autumn Picnic, by Plurabelle Calligraphy.
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Basically, we have a lot of data in documents with a highly irregular structure that we need to make available over networks. Historically, this evolved from printed text documents, to a spreadsheet, to a flat file database, to a real database. The question is: can we do this without the overhead of the RDBMS. My job was not to answer yes or no, but point the decision makers in the direction of the information.
We're fairly well versed in DB stuff but totally ignorant as to XML database possibilities.
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Twelve ominous strokes of the bell at midnight in Frederiksborg Castle (Denmark). No noticeable background sounds, although there is some white noise from the recorder. A very dark sounding bell.
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this recording will sounding in a Rock-Musical in Switzerland.
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Tomahawk vs. Kukri (Gurkha)
There are a number of threads and articles on the web discussing the various merits of traditional tomahawks vs. kukris in terms of their functionality as tools and fighting implements. I decided to finally chime in, as I might be one of the few western folks who grew up using both a tomahawk and kukri on a regular basis. I should also note that it was not my decision use both, I was provided with them at a young age (along with a lot of other tools), to do work. Later, when I began working on a game preserve, I used both in the field extensively and went on to use them as a guide. I still regularly carry them with hiking (more the tomahawk than the kukri), and as a Kali instructor, I introduce them into my classes if students have any interest.
I should, however, make my biases clear before continuing. When it comes to tomahawks I much prefer lighter instead of heavier. In other words, if one looks at the Cold Steel catalogue, by preferred tomahawk is the Trail Hawk. In my experience there is a point of diminishing returns with tomahawks, and at some point a tomahawk transforms into a long handled hatchet or camp axe instead of the lightweight tool it is supposed to be. In regard to this balancing act there is a wonderful quote from the book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver Eating Johnson, where one of the main characters (Bear Claw, I believe), says something to the nature of, "I knew things had changed when I went to buy a hatchet and found that the only ones being sold were better for chopping wood than chopping people." In other words, society had become more sedentary, where heavy and purpose built tools replaced those that were designed for easy transport and multiple missions.
I have the exact opposite feelings about kukris. I much prefer the larger, heavier bladed versions because they chop substantially better than the smaller ones. Like the tomahawk a kukri is a multi-purpose tool. Unlike a tomahawk, however, the weight of a kukri is distributed more evenly and the primary chopping action is closer to the center of the blade. Because of this weight distribution kukris are easier to stop and redirect mid-chop. This might not sound very important when you out clearing brush or kindling, but it is damn important when you're using a kukri as a weapon.
The multi-tasking abilities of the kukri and tomahawk are often overlooked in most discussions of these tools. Although some people may disagree, like most provincial weapons I firmly believe that both of these implements were originally designed as tools first and became weapons much later on. As tools both the kukri and tomahawk fill an important niche; easily transported steel that is adept at lightweight chopping tasks. That last part is important, as neither the kukri nor the tomahawk were designed to replace more specialized and heavier tools such as axes. In other words, no mountain main walked into the forest carrying a tomahawk and expected to fashion an abode suitable for four season living. I've used both kukris and tomahawks to clear brush, gather kindling, dig holes, make blinds and stands, chop trees (yes, I've chopped down fairly large trees with this lightweight gear), and even butcher game. Obviously, I've used these tools for tasks that they were never designed for, but they served well, if not perfectly, in a pinch … and that's exactly what they were intended to do.
I can also say that for the vast majority of tasks that I have encountered in my life where a serious chopping tool was needed, I prefer a decent-sized kukri over the equivalent tomahawk. When I say "decent-sized kukri" I'm talking about a kukri with a blade length of over 11 inches, and preferably around 13 inches. Any longer and the weight becomes an issue as does ease of carry. I long ago gave up on carrying a kukri on a belt as they simply move around too much for comfort and in most localities carrying around what amounts to a short sword on your belt is illegal. Better to be discreet, when possible. Unlike a lot of folks I don't particularly care about the make of a kukri as long as the angle of the blade is close to the original, the steel is around a quarter inch think, and the edge isn't too hard. Remember, these are chopping tools first and need to be easily sharpened. They're subject to abuse that goes beyond what would apply to a knife and unless you're a collector, spending loads of money on a rugged tool that will be heavily abused is money wasted. I own several kukris and can say that my oldest one, which I paid $15 for, is by far my favorite for hard work.
For chopping thick wood or taking down small trees I find the kukri superior to any tomahawk that I've ever owned. There is some technique that must be mastered with the kukri before users can take full advantage of the cutting power, not the least of which is learning the proper grip (the rings are on the handle for a reason), and beginners often make the mistake of chopping to far forward on the blade. Kukris also have a much larger edge than tomahawk so you're much less likely to get wasted hits or totally misplaced chaps than you are with a tomahawk. It also goes without saying that for clearing brush in the manner that one would clear brush with a machete, the kukri is clearly superior.
Tomahawks do, however, have some distinct advantages over kukris. While I personally don't feel they can match a comparable kukri when it comes to simple chopping, they definitely have an advantage when it comes to clearing saplings and other flora that needs to be cut low to the ground. Anyone who has ever had to clear land knows that cutting low is a tremendous hard on your back and a long handled tomahawk with all of the weight around the head makes this task easier. Most tomahawks are also far superior to kukris when it comes to hammering, which is something that happens fairly often when making a camp. Perhaps most importantly, tomahawks are much more people friendly than are kukris. A tomahawk lashed to a backpack gathers no more attention than a plain hatchet, while a kukri gets too many stares and comments to be comfortable.
From a fighting standpoint kukris and tomahawks are different. Again, both of these implements started off as tools, not weapons, so their designs don't represent the most effective forms possible. They are also meant to be used with a single hand, so that means they would also likely be used in conjunction with another weapon. We know, for instance, that the tomahawk was often in conjunction with camp or hunting knife wielded by the alive hand (the hand not holding the primary weapon). This makes sense as it allowed someone using a long handled tomahawk to transition more easily between ranges, as well as allowing for hooking movements with the axe head.
There are also few problems with using a tomahawk as a weapon. The first is lack of edge length. Tomahawks have a small cutting edge and that edge is at the very end of the weapon. It only goes in one direction and there is no stabbing point (although you can certainly jab someone with a tomahawk to good effect). The lack of edge length and the fact that tomahawks have long handles means that the closer you are to your opponent, the farther up you have to choke on the handle and the less momentum you get when swinging. Less momentum is both good and bad. When used at long range recovery time with a tomahawk is very long in comparison to similar length weapons and you have to consciously work to redirect the energy of the blow in order to smoothly change angles. By choking up on the handle you are more effective at short range and can change direction much, but you lose force, most of your ability to hook, and the added penetration depth that the axe head gives you. By added penetration depth I mean that if you swing a tomahawk at a target and the blow is intercepted but the deflecting element hits the tomahawk handle instead of the head, the length of the head combined with the force of the blow is often enough to follow through and impact the target. Again, a tomahawk is most definitely not the weapon of choice for close range fighting and basically becomes a small bludgeon or short, chisel pointed push dagger at close range. That being said, you CAN use a tomahawk for close range fighting, and there are very few long weapons that you can say that for. Again, tomahawks are multi-purpose tools…and weapons.
Kukris are a little bit different. Most of them are not as long as tomahawk and they have long, sharpened edges. One uses a kukri like they would any other long knife, and although the blade points on kukris hang lower than the grip, after a little practice with targeting they can still be used effectively for stabbing. As for chopping / slicing, the kukri is superior in that it has far better weight distribution than most tomahawks. This allows for a much faster recovery on hits and easier change of angles. A number of kukris on the market are also short enough to be used at close range, although my favorite, which has a 13 inch blade, is a little too long for that. In order to use it at close range you have to pinch the spine of the blade near the hump between your fingers on order to produce a shorter initial blade length. This is far from an ideal method for fighting, but it is certainly better than being unarmed. That being said, despite their shortcomings, kukris are surprisingly fast for their size and pack a tremendous amount of cutting power. Where a tomahawk is good for hooking and immobilizing an opponent's weapon a distance a kukri provides an excellent belly for substantial pull cut which is made considerably more effective by the downward angled tip and heavy forward weight.
If asked to choose between a tomahawk and kukri as wilderness tools and assuming there are no legal restrictions, I would choose a large kukri because of what I believe is an advantage in chopping power, which I hold to be more important than other factors. However, given that laws in most states are ridiculous concerning edged weapons, I find myself carrying a tomahawk or hatchet much more often. As for use as a weapon, it comes down to the range at which the weapon is to be used. Tomahawks tend to have fairly long handles, which makes them superior at longer distances. If given the choice between a tomahawk and kukri of comparable length, I would still lean toward the tomahawk because kukris of twenty inches and over are very heavy and difficult to wield. Speed is paramount when fighting with edged and blunt weapons, but particularly with edged weapons as they don't need the same amount of brute force to cause damage. For close range work a kukri with a shorter blade makes a lot of sense because it can be used to chop in surprisingly tight spaces, produces significant pull and push cuts, and can be used to stab. Again, this is more about choosing a weapon that fits the range (a few inches can make a huge differences), than it is picking a tool for all jobs.
Given the fact that the chances of needing to use a kukri or tomahawk for self-defense is pretty unlikely, either one, especially if you have even a modicum of training, will serve you well. From a practical standpoint, while I generally prefer a kukri, if you happen to be hiking or camping in public places or where large knives are illegal, I highly recommend a decent tomahawk or hatchet. All of these tools are tradeoffs, and while I find a large kukri to be a superior chopper, tomahawks are perhaps the most useful and efficient survival and camping tool ever made.


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Lucene provides the ReverseStringFilter that allows to do leading wildcard search like *user. It works by indexing all terms in reverse order.
But I think there is no way to do something similar to 'LIKE %user%'.
The trouble with LIKE queries is that they are expensive in terms of time taken to execute. You can set up QueryParser to allow leading wildcards with the following:
And this will allow you to do searches like:
But this will take a long time to execute. Sometimes when people say they want a LIKE query, what they actually want is a fuzzy query. This would allow you to do the following search:
Which would match the terms
I suggest you also take a look at regex query, which supports regular expression syntax for Lucene searches. It may be closer to what you really need. Perhaps something like:
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but this can kill performance. The LuceneFAQ has some more info for this.
When you think about it, it is not entirely unsurprising that lucene's support for wildcarding is (normally) restricted to a wildcard at the end of a word pattern.
Keyword search engines works by creating a reverse index of all words in the corpus, which is sorted in word order. When you do a normal non-wildcard search, the engine makes use of the fact that index entries are sorted to locate the entry or entries for your word in
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Pelalawan is a Regency of the Riau Province, currently one of the richest provinces in Indonesia due to its abundance of natural resources, making it the economic hub of the island of Sumatra. It covers an area of nearly 14,000 square kilometers, most of which is located on the Sumatran mainland, but also includes a group of offshore islands. Pelalawan's larger islands are Mendul, Serapung, Lebuh and Muda, while the smaller ones include Ketam, Tugau and Labu. Pelalawan Regency is well-known as a producer of fiber plantations, natural rubber and palm oil.
Pelalawan spans a variety of geographical conditions: dense forests, expansive plantations, peat bog plains and alluvial rivers. Simply the natural beauty of the region is enough to attract tourists, but especially catches the eye of the adventurer. With vast and diverse stretches of both terrestrial and marine charm, from the Kampar River to the Straits of Malacca, Pelalawan's great outdoors are just waiting to be discovered.
The history of Pelalawan began in 1726, when a royal descendant by the name of Pelalawan stood on the banks of the River Kampar. A Kingdom was later established under the reign of Sultan Syed Abdurrahman Fachrudin, who ruled from 1811-1822. The Pelalawan Kingdom existed until the Independence of Indonesia in 1945, when the kingdom joined the Republic. The regency is inhabited by various indigenous peoples of various ethnicities, including Malays, Minang, Batak, Acehnese, Javanese, Sundanese, Banjar and Bugis. Though differences exist among these ethnic groups, harmony thrives in this fertile land. Also living in the region is the ancient Mamak tribe, who dwell in the forests, as well as the Bajau sea tribes.
Here are a few of the hotels located in Pelalawan:
Dika Raya HotelJl. Maharaja Indra Pangkalan KerinciTelp. 0761 95024, 95192
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Jl. Dahlia Pangkalan KerinciTelp. 0761 95895
Pelalawan has a generally hilly topography, so be sure to bring comfortable shoes.
If you are interested in surfing the Kampar River, don't forget to bring enough food, beverages, medicine and clothes.
To get to Pelalawan, one must first fly to Pekanbaru, Riau. The SSK II International airport serves international flights from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, local flights from Dumai, Rengat and Tanjung Pinang, and domestically, from Jakarta, Padang, Medan and Batam.
From Pekanbaru, you can hire a car to take you to Pangkalan Kerinci, the Capital of Pelalawan. It is approximately 70 km away, or 1.5 hours' drive.


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Hey Everyone!
Sorry this post is a little bit late and short, as I'm sure ya'll know, the holidays can get a just a little bit crazy. "little" HA! I just spent the last weekend visiting with TONS of family for Christmas and before that I pretty much slept for a week straight. But now I have to admit, I'm kind of already itching to go back to school and start my new classes.
Now, I have just one thing to talk about in this post and that is everyone's favorite awkward small talk subject, weather. A small part of why I was so excited to go to HPU was because of the absolutely amazing weather that North Carolina has. Some people complain about how it goes from chilly to warm in the same week but I personally love being able to wear my boots and scarves one day and go to the pool, despite it being December, the next! <3
BUT when I go home for Christmas I want snow! And there is absolutely none. I love snow (in small doses) and despite three winters at boarding school in freezing Wisconsin, I have yet to make a snowman. Hopefully it will snow enough for me to make one at least one time at High Point. Rumor has it that it occasionally does that. Even more, I hope that someone will make a stinking snow man with me!!!!
I will let you all know how that goes, and also let you know all the details and amazingness that I can about RUSH on my next post!!
Hope you guys and gals had an amazing holiday and have an extraordinary rest of your break annnnd if you do make a snowman (lucky ducks) be sure to put some Panther Purple on it somewhere!!!


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MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) — The Philippine government clarified Wednesday that the 5 million pesos (116,000 U.S. dollars) that President Benigno Aquino III gave to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was intended to jumpstart the Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute (BLMI), dismissing news reports that the fund was used by the rebels to buy guns and ammunition.
"The 5 million pesos is a commitment made by the previous administration. It is intended to fast-track the establishment of the institute," government chief negotiator Marvic Leonen explained.
Leonen said the government would remain steadfast in finding a peaceful solution to the armed conflict.
"We will not let false reports undermine the peace process. I urge the public to stay heedful of what is happening and analytical of the information that they receive," he underscored.
The Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute is a training center for Bangsamoro leaders and managers who will be serving their communities in the future.
Leonen said he handed the 5-million peso check to MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ibrahim during the parties' last round of formal exploratory talks on Aug. 22-23 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This was announced during the Aug. 23 press conference held by the government panel following the meeting in the Malaysian capital.
Leonen related that the establishment of The Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute was discussed during negotiations at the 10th Formal Exploratory Talks in February, 2006. It was finalized and formally agreed upon during the 14th formal exploratory talks held on Nov. 14-15, 2007, with funding commitment from the Philippine Government to jumpstart the institute's operations.
He added that Aquino approved the appropriation for the institute during the consultation with the panel early this year.
"During his one-on-one meeting with MILF chair Murad in Tokyo last August 5, the president again expressed his support to the BLMI. He then instructed the peace panel to hand the check to the Moro group," said Leonen.
Calls for an all-out war were made by various sectors after 19 government soldiers were killed in a bloody clash in the southern Philippine province of Basilan last week.
The MILF has been fighting government troops for decades to establish a self-rule Muslim sub-state in the south of the predominantly Catholic country. Peace talks between the government and the MILF stalled in August 2008 following the aborted signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain. A final peace deal with the government will touch the issues of autonomy and the civil settlement of the rebel group's 11,800-strong guerrilla fighters.
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A Romney/McDonnell 2012 Presidential Ticket is (Practically) a Done Deal
Re-posted from PJ Media It's a done deal! It's a slam dunk! You can just about start printing the bumper stickers for the 2012 Republican presidential ticket. For as a result of this week's GOP debate and a Virginia legislative election, the Romney/McDonnell ticket has been solidified. Mitt Romney, the inevitable Republican presidential nominee has become even more so as a result of Rick Perry's | Read More »


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Playing Nicely with Others: Thinking Outside the Sandbox: Part 2
Published: October 22, 2012
Part 1 of "Playing Nicely with Others" focused on working with clients and earning our colleagues' respect. In Part 2 of this series, I want to share some specific advice that has worked well for me when trying to build stronger workplace relationships among internal UX people, in the various companies at which I've been employed.
Actually Work Together
When I think of some of the strongest workplace relationships I have had, they were almost all due to our having been, at some point in our relationship, stuck in a room together, working well past a reasonable hour. In an age of real-time, yet remote collaboration possibilities, nothing really beats working side by side to build a relationship. Most of the time, UX designers sling wireframes back and forth with each other. It's clean, it's productive, and it's a modern way to work. However, it is also completely sanitized of the human element. You really see a person's character shine through when it is late, and you are both tired and frustrated. You leave that experience either really wanting to work with that person again or never again.
Too often, I find myself in a workplace situation where I provide information about a particular product need, then an internal UX designer goes away to come up with a design for me to review a few weeks later. That's not really working together, and it doesn't give us a chance to develop a strong interpersonal relationship. Even though it can be more work, getting in a conference room or design space together and really working collaboratively on a design not only produces a much cleaner, more coherent design from the beginning, but also helps us to build a stronger relationship.
Recognize Other Peoples' Strengths and Enable Them to Use Them
When you have a large group of UX professionals working for your company or for a client, it stands to reason that there will be strengths and weaknesses among the team members. However, in the eyes of internal and external customers, it is just the UX team. This sometimes means that stakeholders ask people on the team to undertake projects or tasks for which they are not really suited.
When working with internal UX people, I always try to learn a little more about their background in user experience. What are the aspects of the profession with which they feel most comfortable; what really gets them jazzed about our profession? I once worked with an internal UX designer who was asked to support me in doing research in the field. I would go out to work with clients and bring back product design requirements, then we would come up with designs and take them to customers for review. I found that, although this person was a talented designer, his heart was not really into the design tasks. When I finally mentioned as much to him and asked why, he replied that he would really prefer to do user research instead of user interface design.
Now, this person did not work for me directly, but I was able to convince his management that I really needed this person's research skills in the field, to be able to pinpoint the different user groups that would be good targets for our products. So, I was able to borrow this person for six months, and he accompanied me into the field. This person's output was so favorably received that, eventually, I was able to transition him to the user research team.
What this experience taught me is that it always pays to find out a little bit more about people's true strengths and competencies rather than just accepting what their role dictates that they should be doing. In the case I've just described, had I not asked, I might have walked away from our time working together with the belief that this person was merely a competent UX professional instead of the rock star user researcher I later realized he was.
Don't Expect That Your Common Profession Will Necessarily Breed Camaraderie
I cannot help but feel a sense of camaraderie when someone introduces me to another UX professional—especially in a meeting filled with business and technical folks. However, experience has taught me that I should not have any expectations based merely on our shared profession. It might be naiveté, but I still feel a sort of kinship when I know that another person has made the same career choice that I have.
Unfortunately, it is important to recognize that, just because two people are both UX professionals, that does not necessarily mean that you share the same values, work ethic, or philosophy. There are still relatively few people in the field of user experience, but there are so many different subdisciplines—all fighting for recognition—that it is sometimes difficult to find commonality with other UX professionals.
When you're trying to forge a strong workplace relationship with a fellow UX person, it is important to recognize that he or she may feel threatened by you instead of empowered. The hardest work I ever have to do is critiquing the designs of other UX professionals. When I do design reviews, I try to make sure that the person whose work I am critiquing knows that I am doing it to make his or her design stronger, not just chipping away at it.
Although UX professionals have a lot in common, we also need to recognize that there are some differences, and we need to work extra hard to ensure that we work well together.
Don't Expect That You Will Like or Be Liked by Everyone
Amazingly simple advice right? However, it is also incredibly hard advice to follow. At some level, everyone wants to be liked. In the workplace, people judge your effectiveness, in part, by how well you are able to work with others. But the truth is that you won't like everyone you must work with. Sometimes, it is sufficient for you to able to work together just well enough to accomplish the task at hand. When you are able to do at least that, it means you are professional in your work relationships. Unfortunately, these days, this kind of professionalism seems to be getting rarer and rarer in the workplace.
Relationship building in the workplace is hard enough when you're working with non-UX people. But as professionals in the specialized discipline of user experience, it is critical that we be able to work together effectively, so we can collaboratively create designs, products, and services that delight and excite our customers and users.
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It has been almost a year but I AM BACK! This past year has been difficult for my family. Mom has not been well, she was beginning to fall about once a week so it was only a matter of time before she fell and broke a body part... I just could not let that happen so everyday I would leave work around 2pm, go to her home, fix dinner, clean, do laundry, what ever needed doing for her. I have done this since last July and pretty much moved in there. I would stay until 10 or 11 every night making sure she got into bed safely and then return to my own home.
Caregiving is an extremely difficult job for anyone, the stress levels are very high and they tend to take a toll on the caregiver. I did myself a favor and went to a caregiver's conference and learn quite a lot about this. I learned that many caregivers, if they do not take heed to the level of stress they are under and do something about, they end up a statisic. In other words the stress takes it's toll on their body and often time end up with heart conditions, high blood pressure, or it could even be fatal. Needless to say, I was shocked.
I began to change a few things immediately because I am a health coach, and I saw all the signs in myself and tended to ignore them, that is not a good thing! Made some necessary changes, and then mom got sick. Sad to say but it was a blessing in disguise for all concerned. She could no longer live alone and doctors refused to let her return to her home. She had no choice but to move to assisted living. However, she got sick, was in the hospital from thanksgiving for a few weeks, moved to a rehab center and was released on Jan 5th. She was home for six days and then came down with the flu!!! OMG!!! BACK to the hospital, and then to rehab and she is still there!!!
I also received the opportunity to return to work full time and that is a mega blessing. I have been part time for three years and it was not fun. God blessed me with a great job, a promotion actually
I could not be happier about that, and that sealed the deal for mom, she could not even think about returning home to live alone. This whole scenario has been very difficult for her, giving up one's independance is not easy, but she has to make the transition and the adjustment. I love her, it is so hard to watch her deteriorate, but... it is a fact of life.
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