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Bigby is an archmage from the World of Greyhawk, famous for his "hand" spells. Before the Greyhawk Wars, Bigby made his home in Scant, capital of Onnwal. Nowadays, he can often be found in Mitrik, Veluna. His personal symbol is an open palm behind a large, stylized bumblebee.
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We're excited to bring you a new post from mother and actress Tori Spelling and her ediTORIal by Tori Spelling blog. This week, Tori shares a behind-the-scenes look at her daughter Stella's flower-power-themed fifth birthday party!
Whether I like it or not, my little Buggy is really growing up. She's starting kindergarten soon and in June she celebrated her fifth birthday. I've been meaning to share a few pictures from Stella's milestone celebration with everyone here on ediTORIal. (It took me a while to sort through all the photos, but better late than never right?)
Related: Dean Carries 'Em All!
Stella wanted her party theme to be gardening (aka. "Flower Power" in Stella's words), and she wanted the colors to be "girl rainbow" (that means pink substituted for red). We all had such a blast. Today I am sharing all of the getting ready and craft station details, but stay tuned for the food, dessert table, and more.
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Craftista: A yard sale chair gets a stylish makeover
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I do not know much about this banner except that it is very old and very fragile. I like the different animals and the stitching is really cool. Anybody know anything about Asian textiles? I am not even sure about how to store this. I was considering having it "framed" so to speak.


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Susan Woodruff Appointed Department of Human Resources Director
Sept. 22, 2008
News Highlights
- Woodruff's start date is Sept. 29.
- Has worked for Fairfax County for 34 years and for the Department of Human Resources since 1981.
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors today appointed Susan Woodruff as director of the Department of Human Resources (DHR). She will begin her new position on Sept. 29.
Woodruff has worked for Fairfax County Government since 1973 and has served as acting director for DHR since May. She was assistant director for DHR from 2002-2008 with responsibilities overseeing compensation, employee relations, and work force planning for a diverse employee population. She also worked closely with senior managers on a wide range of complex personnel issues. Woodruff was the project manager for the county's Pay For Performance system; served on the legislative team; and co-led the management team setting the strategic direction for the agency.
From 1986-2002, Woodruff was the employee relations division chief for DHR, supervising employee relations functions including personnel policy development, grievances, internal communications, award programs, the Employee Assistance Program and drug and alcohol testing. She also served as the agency's liaison to the Fairfax County Employees Advisory Council and the Civil Service Commission. Woodruff joined DHR in 1981 as a personnel analyst.
Woodruff also has held positions with Fairfax County in the Office of the County Executive, the Consumer Affairs Division and the former Department of Social Services.
She holds a Master of Science in administration from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va. Woodruff serves on the board of directors and is chair of the personnel committee for the Fairfax Court Appointed Special Advocate program.
Woodruff will receive an annual salary of $152,297.
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Bella Ferraro was the first act to appear in The X Factor auditions this year, and last night she became the last contestant eliminated prior to the final next week.
Ferraro found herself in the sudden death sing off against the X Factor created boy band The Collective, in which she performed a rendition of Sarah McLachlan's Angel.
Ferraro's elimination follows the exit of 14 year old Shiane Hawke last week, meaning the hotly tipped 'girls' group have no representatives in the final. The result sees Natalie Bassingthwaighte become the first mentor with no entrants only two weeks after she was on top with two of the last five.
The 18 year old from New South Wales was one of the early favourites to win the competition once the final twelve were announced, however her odds had consistently blown out in recent weeks despite only having appeared once before in the bottom two.
The Collective, who appeared in the bottom two for the second week running, lost their status as most likely winner according to bookmakers overnight following the result, with Over-25's artist Samantha Jade installed as the new favourite.
The group, which was put together from a selection of solo artists who auditioned for the Seven Network reality show, join country boy Jason Owen and West Australian Jade who were the first through to the final and spared a sing-off.
The result would appear to back up Ronan Keating's theory that the teen girls who flock to support the boy bands on social media aren't backing it up with votes.
"The young girls aren't voting," he told Fairfax. "Parents own the phones, they pay the bills and young girls don't vote, they don't get on the phone. The mums are voting for Jason [Owen]."
The decision on the elimination saw Guy Sebastian left with the casting vote, choosing between elminating The Collective or putting the result back on the viewers with a Deadlock after Ferraro had the nod from her mentor Bassingthwaighte and former Spice Girl Mel B, while Keating stuck with his group The Collective.
Sebastian said he sent the result to deadlock because the two artists were competing in "different genres."
Deadlock is decided by the viewer's original votes.
"We are staring at two great acts," Sebastian said during the live telecast.
You are all amazing and inspire me every week and the best three are in the final.
"We are talking about the battle of two different genres.
"Out of respect I am sending it to deadlock."
Ferraro did well to hold back tears while she thanked a number of people including her parents and Bassingthwaighte.
Tears started pouring down her face when she started praising The Collective, Owen and Jade.
"You are all amazing and inspire me every week and the best three are in the final," Ferraro said.
Bassingthwaighte was sad to see the end of her protege after three months.
"She has so much heart and so much soul and she was the only contestant to have a song in the charts every single week in the competition."
Meanwhile Keating's goal of creating a One Direction-style Australian boy band out of The X Factor is on target with The Collective's progress to next week's grand final. One Direction finished third in the UK X Factor final in 2010.
"One Direction didn't win," Keating told Fairfax. "They were third. People don't vote for groups – I'm not moaning – I do feel that Australia will embrace the Collective no matter what's on the show. They deserve to do really well. They have what we are looking for, they have the X factor, the judging panel knows it."
Owen, Jade and The Collective will appear on next Monday night's show and then return Tuesday to hear who has won prizes including a recording contract with Sony.
Tuesday's Results show was the top rating show for the night, with 1.5 million viewers across the five metro capitals.
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I went to the Bluetooth session at Build 2013 (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/3-026). The session itself was so-so (only 30min, and not enough details for me) but we got a nice surprise at the end : the attendees (at least the firsts of them) will get a Sphero !
Sphero is a ball than can be controlled by Bluetooth. There are several SDKs, notably for iOS ,Android and a preview version for Windows 8.1. https://developer.gosphero.com/
More info here : http://www.gosphero.com
Now let's play with it !
About the APIs
You can find the doc here : https://github.com/orbotix/DeveloperResources/tree/master/docs
The problem is the API is not exactly the same as the one I have (And I made the latest firmware upgrade) so it broke my head from time to time…The biggest problem I found was with the GetVersioning command (more on that later)
Command packet
Example, the command to get Bluetooth info is 0x00 (DID) 0x11 (CID) (See API p13). The message will be : 0xFF,0xFF,0x00,0x11,0x01,0x01,0xF2
I put SEQ = 1. DLEN is always 1 at least, as there is the CHK byte.
Now an example with some data. To set the back light, the command is 0x02, 0x21. The data is a byte giving the brightness value.
The message (to set brightness at 255) is : 0xFF,0xFF,0X02,0x21,0x01,0x02,0xFF,0xDA
DLEN = 0x02, for data and CHK
= 0xFF, to set to 255
Response packet
The response format is :
SEQ is the same SEQ byte as in the command sent, so you know to which command it is the response.
Lot of the time, there is not part as it is just an acknowledgement of the command. Such answer is called SIMPLE ANSWER in the documentation.
For the MSRP, check the APIO document appendix for the values (0x00 = OK)
Stream mode
You can set the message to stream. With that, you will not get a response. It is faster, but some messages can be lost.
To do that, just set the SOP2 to 0xFE. Example with the set brightness command : 0xFF,0xFE,0X02,0x21,0x01,0x02,0xFF,0xDA
Playing with Sphero
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj207007(v=vs.105).aspx for info about Bluetooth for WP8
First of all, as we will be using Bluetooth, we need to set the ID_CAP_PROXIMITY, ID_CAP_NETWORKING capabilities in the manifest. Then, just a few lines of code are needed to connect :
PeerFinder.AlternateIdentities["Bluetooth:Paired"] = ""; var pairedDevices = await PeerFinder.FindAllPeersAsync(); // Get the device with "sphero" in the name var sphero = pairedDevices.FirstOrDefault(d => d.DisplayName.ToUpper().Contains("SPHERO")); if (sphero == null) { MessageBox.Show("No Sphero detected !"); return; } try { // open a socket spheroSocket = new StreamSocket(); await spheroSocket.ConnectAsync(spheroName, "1"); } catch (Exception ex) { //... } // Get device name DeviceName = sphero.DisplayName;
Note : the Sphero need to be paired with the phone before we can connect with it !
Now you've got a socket open where you can send the commands
Sending commands
Here is the generic method I use to send the commands
public async Task SendCommand(byte[] command) { // Compute checksum byte checksum = 0; for (int i = 2; i < command.GetLength(0) - 1; i++) checksum += command[i]; // set the complement to 1 of the checksum at the end of the message command[command.GetLength(0) - 1] = (byte)~checksum; // stream it await _spheroSocket.OutputStream.WriteAsync(command.AsBuffer()); await _spheroSocket.OutputStream.FlushAsync(); // Show message in output window Debug.WriteLine(BitConverter.ToString(command)); }
The command byte array is send as parameter. I sum the bytes, from DID to the one before the last (CHK). I invert it, then I put it at the end of the message.
After, I just write it in the Outpustream of the socket. I flush it to be sure.
Some basic commands
Except if I really need the response, these examples are in stream mode (SPO2 = 0xFE)
Set color
You can set the Sphero color with :
async public Task SetColor(byte r, byte g, byte b) { var command = { 0xff, 0xfe, 0x2, 0x20, 0x1, 0x5, 0, 0, 0, 0x0, 0 }; command[6] = r; command[7] = g; command[8] = b; SendCommand(command); }
Simple, I just put the R,G and B values in the message
Set back LED
As Sphero is a ball, there is no real front and back. To know what Sphero consider is back, there is a (blue) backlight. You can set the brightness of it using :
public async Task SetBackLed(byte intensity = 255) { var command = { 0xff, 0xfe, 0x2, 0x21, 0x1, 0x2, 0xff, 0 }; command[6] = intensity; SendCommand(command); }
Get Versioning
I had problem with this one, as the API doc doesn't seems to be correct. Finally I found a message on a forum from a developer of the API who stated that they planned to do it as written, but the new response broke their SDK (a bit annoying!) so they revert to an old response message. Without changing the doc it seems.
Here is what I have on my Sphero (There is a byte on 8th position I have no idea what it is for)
Here is a VersioningInfo class I made :
public class VersioningInfo { public string RecordVersion { get; set; } public string Model { get; set; } public string HardwareVersion { get; set; } public string MainAppVersion { get; set; } public string MainAppRevision { get; set; } public string BootloaderVersion { get; set; } public string OrbBasicVersion { get; set; } public string MacroExecutiveVersion { get; set; } public string APIVersion { get; set; } static public VersioningInfo FromBytes(byte[] array) { if ((array == null) || (array.GetLength(0) < 9)) throw new ArgumentException(); var stringarray = BitConverter.ToString(array).Split('-'); var obj = new VersioningInfo { RecordVersion = stringarray[0], Model = stringarray[1] == "02" ? "Sphero" : "Unknown", HardwareVersion = stringarray[2], MainAppVersion = stringarray[3], MainAppRevision = stringarray[4], BootloaderVersion = stringarray[5][0] + "." + stringarray[5][1], OrbBasicVersion = stringarray[6][0] + "." + stringarray[6][1], MacroExecutiveVersion = stringarray[7][0] + "." + stringarray[7][1] }; return obj; } }
So, to send the message and get the response :
async public Task
GetFirmware() { byte[] getFirmwareCommand = { 0xff, 0xff, 0x0, 0x2 ,0x1,0x1,0xFB}; await _spheroSocket.OutputStream.WriteAsync(getFirmwareCommand.AsBuffer()); await _spheroSocket.OutputStream.FlushAsync(); var buffer = new byte[14]; // read first 5 bytes to have first part of message var b = await _spheroSocket.InputStream.ReadAsync(buffer.AsBuffer(), 5, InputStreamOptions.None); var response = b.ToArray(); Debug.WriteLine("Answer : " + BitConverter.ToString(response)); var messageresponse = response[2]; // read rest of message b = await _spheroSocket.InputStream.ReadAsync(buffer.AsBuffer(), response[4], InputStreamOptions.None); if (messageresponse == 0) { // OK, so create a VersionInfo of it return VersioningInfo.FromBytes(b.ToArray()); } else { throw new Exception("Error code : " + messageresponse); } return null; }
I send the message (not in stream mode, as I need the answer).
I get the first 5 bytes of the answer. I get the message response code (the third byte) and I get the rest of the message .If it is success, it should be 9 bytes. If not, just one (the CHK). Anyway, I get the remaining length using the 5th byte of the answer (DLEN).
Now I check if the response is successful or not. If not, I thrown an exception. If success, I create a VersioningInfo.
That is probably the main command !
Not complicated. Just set a heading and a speed. Heading is 0 to 360. 0 being straight line on positive Y axis.
async public Task Move(int heading, int speed) { if (speed > 255) speed = 255; if (speed < 0) speed = 0; if (heading < 0) heading += 360; if (heading > 359) heading -= 360; var command = { 0xff, 0xfe, 0x2, 0x30, 0x1, 0x5, 0, 0, 0, 0x1, 0 }; var directionbytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(heading); command[6] = (byte)speed; command[7] = directionbytes[1]; command[8] = directionbytes[0]; SendCommand(command); }
I check if speed and heading are in correct range.
Then I get a convert the heading into bytes.
I set the heading and speed bytes in the message.
I send the message
Note : the STATE byte is set to 1. If you want to make Sphero to stop, it is better to set it to 0, in order to give a smooth deceleration (See appendix C in docs).
Turn off Sphero.
public async Task Sleep() { var command = new byte[]{ 0xff, 0xfe, 0x0, 0x22, 0x1, 0x6, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0 }; SendCommand(command); }
This is a very simple version of the sleep command. No timeout, no macro.
As I said earlier, as Sphero is a ball, there is no real front and back. But we still need to calibrate Sphero to set the heading 0 (straight line).
The way I do it is :
- Set the tail light on so I can have a mark
- Rotate the Sphero by calling the Roll command on a heading with a speed of 0 to align it as you need.
In the app I made (Sources given at the end) here is the calibration screen :
Keep pressing on the + or – button move the Sphero of +5 or –5 degrees.
Moving using phone sensors
In my app, you move the Sphero by orienting the mobile. To be more precise, the Pitch is for forward/backward and the Roll is for left/right
The more the orientation is increasing, the more the speed is also.
You see the red ball in the screenshot. Take a vector from (0,0) to the ball. Its angle gives the heading (0 being the Y axe) and its norm gives the speed.
To get sensor data,I use the Motion class
_motion = new Motion(); _motion.TimeBetweenUpdates = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100); _motion.CurrentValueChanged += _gyroscope_CurrentValueChanged; _motion.Start();
When the orientation changed, I compute the heading and speed :
void _gyroscope_CurrentValueChanged(object sender, SensorReadingEventArgs
e) { //Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("X : {0} Y : {1}", e.SensorReading.Attitude.Pitch, e.SensorReading.Attitude.Roll)); var x = e.SensorReading.Attitude.Roll; var y = e.SensorReading.Attitude.Pitch; var _halfPi = Math.PI/2; // Limit to 90 degrees (Pi/2 in radian) if (x > _halfPi) x = (float)_halfPi; if (x < -_halfPi) x = (float)-_halfPi; if (y > _halfPi) y = (float)_halfPi; if (y < -_halfPi) y = (float)-_halfPi; // Move the ball on the screen Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() => { ((TranslateTransform)Position.RenderTransform).X = x * (120 / _halfPi); ((TranslateTransform)Position.RenderTransform).Y = y * (120 / _halfPi); }); // Get vector angle var angle = x != 0.0 ? (int)((Math.Atan(y / x) + _halfPi) * (180 / Math.PI)) : 0; // Get vector magnitude var speed = Math.Sqrt(x * x + y * y) * 255 / _halfPi; // If x < 0, add 180 degrees to have a heading in degrees, clockwise if (x < 0) angle += 180; Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Angle : {0} Speed : {1}", angle, speed)); _spheroCommands.Move(angle, (int)(speed)); }
I limit orientation to 90 degrees max (pi/2). To get the angle, I use the Atan to get an angle (in radian) from a tangent (y/x). I add 90 degrees (pi/2) as for Sphero, heading 0 (angle 0) is on the positive Y axis, not on the positive X as it is by default for math. Then I multiply by 180/Pi so I have degrees and not radians.
For the speed, the norm is simply square root of (x*x + y*y). I divide by Pi/2 (as Pi/2 is the maximum) in order to have a number between 0 and 1. Then, multiply it by 255 to have a number in the range 0..255.
It is just a quick overview, Sphero is capable of way more, but it needs a book to explain it all. But there is already lot of things that can be done with those simple commands.
Next post : the same thing but with Windows 8.1.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A judge ruled Tuesday that 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez was incapable of understanding and waiving his Miranda rights after his arrest in the death of his younger brother, therefore his statements to police cannot be used at his separate upcoming trials.
The ruling comes two weeks after a four-day hearing about the suppression of video recordings showing Fernandez being interrogated by police while facing charges of first-degree murder and sexual battery.
Fernandez, now 13, is accusing in the beating death of his 2-year-old half brother, David Galarriago, and of sexually abusing a 5-year-old half brother. The sexual battery trial is set for trial late this month and his murder trial is scheduled for September.
"We appreciate the fact that Judge (Mallory) Cooper recognized what our nation's courts and the experts around this country have said for many years, which is that children are different," said defense attorney Hank Coxe. "There is no way that any reasonable 12-year-old could have possibly understood what the police were doing with him."
JUDGE COOPER'S RULING: Granting motion to suppress statements
UNCUT VIDEO: Fernandez police interrogation
The state has 15 days to appeal, but prosecutors are expected to do so by Monday, when the next status hearing in the case is scheduled.
"I've learned never to be surprised," prosecutor Mark Caliel said of Tuesday's ruling. He said the judge obviously put a lot into her decision, saying, "It was a tough call."
The ruling boiled down to this: After Fernandez waived his Miranda rights and interviewed with a detective, he asked her if the information he revealed was just between the two of them. That moment showed he did not understand what he was giving up, and it was referenced directly in the ruling in which the judge threw out his statements, according to court documents.
"Well, was the -- the -- rules on paper actually will -- the rights were between you and me?" Fernandez asked the detective who interrogated him regarding the sex crimes investigation.
When the suspect is a juvenile and waives his Miranda rights, the state bears a "heavy burden" to prove that the rights were knowingly and voluntarily waived. Cooper ruled they were not.
According to the court order, detectives brought Fernandez to police headquarters in March 2011 as a witness, and they believed he was covering for his mother.
They asked what happened to his younger brother. Fernandez first claimed the toddler fell from a bunk bed and hit his head on a ladder and books fell on his head, according to court documents.
But the detective told him the injuries were too severe for that to be true. The detective asked if Fernandez' mother did anything to his brother. Fernandez said no, according to the documents.
Then the detective asked him if he did something to his brother, and Fernandez responded, "Um-hum," according to court documents.
It was at that point when the detective stopped the interview because Fernandez became a potential suspect.
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'Write it down': How to communicate employee benefit plan changesComments Email Print
The first thing I tell my clients when making a benefit plan change is to write it down. ERISA, the federal law that governs employee benefit plans, including retirement plans and medical plans, requires that employers write it down. ERISA requires that plan terms be written in a Plan Document and summarized in a Summary Plan Description (SPD), which is the document to which most employees would refer for questions. In addition, health care reform requires a new document called the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC), which is even shorter than the SPD and designed to provide employees a summary of key benefit details. (As an added tip -- these documents are not required simply for large employers, but all employers. Don't take your insurer's certificate of coverage as compliant. All employers need all of these documents.)
Communicating changes to a benefit plan requires updating all of those documents where the employer originally wrote down the benefit plan details. The Plan Document must be updated with a Plan Amendment. The Summary Plan Description must be updated by issuing a Summary of Material Modifications, and the Summary of Benefits and Coverage must be updated by issuing a Notice of Material Modifications.
The key to getting this right is consistency between all of the documents. And a cautious employer will not craft new summaries or letters that conflict with the ERISA-required documents. If you want to send a cover letter to employees with the updated ERISA documents, make sure it is entirely consistent with the ERISA documents. Inconsistency can be the basis for an employee lawsuit.
To summarize, when making employee benefit plan changes, follow this list to communicate them effectively:
1. Ensure that Plan, SPDs, and SBCs are current.
2. Prepare an appropriate document to update each Plan, SPD and SBC.
3. Do not provide employees with inconsistent documents.
We recommend that our clients talk with both ERISA legal counsel and benefit plan consultants before making plan changes and communicating them to employees.
Write it down, but make sure you are right.


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A couple of times each week, cardiologist Chileshe Nkonde-Price ditches her white coat and sets up an impromptu "research laboratory" at TraChic Hair Studio in Lansdowne, Pa.
She's a physician-researcher but doesn't spend much time peering into a microscope; instead Nkonde-Price is hunting medical breakthroughs amid the hiss of hot curling irons and the smell of hair dye.
"It was actually when I was at the hair salon myself and I was sitting under the hood, and I heard stories about health, stories about family, stories about solutions, and I thought: the truth is here," said Nkonde-Price, a cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Exploring the 'why?'
Heart disease is on the rise among African American women, and once black women have heart trouble they are more likely than white women to die from it.
That's disturbing, but frankly, old news.
"There was nothing out there saying the why," said Nkonde-Price.
She searched current medical literature on black women and heart disease, but came away unsatisfied.
Nkonde-Price's investigation at the hair salon is an opportunity to go beyond what prior research on black women and heart disease has primarily focused on.
During her chats with salon clients, Nkonde-Prices pushes a little and often asks the same question several times in different ways.
In the down time, between getting her hair washed and coiffed, client Sheveen Greene agreed to talk with Nkonde-Price.
The 28-year-old said she goes to the gym regularly, but that's wasn't enough for Nkonde-Price. The cardiologist wanted specifics on what it takes for Greene to make that healthy choice.
"In the clinical setting we don't ask that," Nkonde-Price said. "As doctors we tend to just say: do you or don't you exercise. And then when someone tells us the answer, we give a prescription: 'You should exercise more.'"
At the salon, Nkonde-Price soon found out that Greene and her best friend go to the same gym.
"So, I find it easier sometimes when she's going," Greene said. "I feel a little bit more motivated to go as well because I have a gym buddy, we just went together."
Pushing patients towards healthier habits
The hair salon study is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, which supports physicians who want to research ways to improve the health system.
Salon owner Tracey Johnson said her shop was a good fit for the study.
"Stylists are psychologists slash hairstylists, so we can talk about any and everything... relationships, children, what's happening in the world today," Johnson said. "All types of conversations happen in a hair salon."
Nkonde-Price said the biggest insight from her study may be that doctors--or other health care providers—need to ask better questions to move patients toward healthier habits.
Continuing the research
Greene was prepping for her wedding day, but said she felt it was important to participate in a study on black women and health.
"I think there's a stigma about telling people your business, some people just aren't OK with that, I think culturally, it's stays in the like family, so what happens in our house stays in our house," Greene said.
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Has a famous public intellectual been eavesdropping all the way from London, England, on some heated conversations here in Manitoba?
More than a few passages in British philosopher A.C. Grayling's erudite new humanist polemic would certainly give that impression.
Assisted suicide? Yup, Grayling weighs in on that knotty subject. Homosexuality and gay marriage? Yes, definitely.
And the role of human rights in a civilized society? Would Grayling take a position on whether or not Winnipeg should be home to that fancy national museum at The Forks.
No doubt he would. "The claim that the great moral problems in our world are human rights violations, war, injustice and poverty hardly needs justifying," he writes. "With very few exceptions, private individuals are in no position to make a difference to these problems. It is nations and their governments that have to do it."
The God Argument serves as a bracing primer to Grayling's ideas, and perhaps a guide to their development, over the course of some 30 books. For example, in 2007 he released an entire volume on the evolution of human rights in the West, Toward the Light of Liberty, and here he summarizes his views on the topic in a short chapter. In 2011, he published a humanist "bible," titled The Good Book.
But The God Argument is more than another tune in Grayling's greatest hits. It is his feisty entry into the contentious field of atheist manifestos, a field crowded by the works of Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.
Unlike some of his fellow infidels, Grayling is not satisfied with merely dismantling the logic of God belief; he aims to persuade us that the principles of secular humanism offer a sturdier ethical framework for the modern age, a better way to think and live than those offered by the precepts of religion.
In some ways, he echoes the late Toronto humanist Robert Buckman in his 2002 book Can We Be Good Without God? But Buckman was a medical doctor, while Grayling -- who teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London -- uses the toolbox of a professional philosopher.
This means that although his prose is generally accessible, bits of academese do creep in, especially in the section refuting the classical proofs of God's existence.
It is worth noting his title's similarity to Dawkins' 2008 bestseller, The God Delusion. But do not think that Grayling's neutral title signals generosity toward "the votaries of religion," as he calls them. "Briefly put," he says, "critical examination of religion's claims places it in the same class as astrology and magic."
He refuses to concede some of the excellent points about the value of religious ritual scored by his fellow Brit Alain de Botton in his provocative 2012 book Religion for Atheists. Read together, these two volumes make fascinating, though often clashing, companion pieces.
Ever the teacher, Grayling spells out the differences between religion, superstition, ideology and philosophy. By definition, he says, religion is "centred on belief in, worship of and obedience to a deity or deities." It has its roots in early man's attempts to explain reality. He calls it a "proto-science."
As humans have progressed scientifically, he notes, our gods have moved further away from us. Once they occupied the streams and forests. Then they decamped to the mountaintops and clouds. Now, for sophisticated 21st-century monotheists, God is "beyond space and time altogether."
There is no objection to atheism that Grayling fails to meet, from the noxious idea that trust in science parallels religious faith -- scientific ideas are testable, religious ones are not -- to the canard that atheism has been responsible for as many deaths as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The Chinese and Soviet communists may have killed in devotion to their ideology but not in devotion to their godlessness.
Grayling concedes, however, that atheists do themselves no favours by sounding "angry and contemptuous" when berating religion. "This is indeed a tone that surfaces," he notes drily, "but it is a hard one to subdue, because too many inducements to both sentiments offer themselves."
But it is the second part of The God Argument where Grayling's heart lies. He begins by separating the three main debates between religion and its critics.
There is, first, the "metaphysical" debate over what does or does not exist. Second, the "secularist" debate questions the "place and volume of the religious voice in the public square."
Third, the debate over the source of our moral views clashes over whether they are divinely inspired or come from "our own reflection on human realities."
He also draws a distinction between ethics and morality and how the former apply most urgently to the notion "the good life."
For the Greeks, he explains, all philosophy was "applied ethics." But salaried academics in the late 19th century turned philosophy into a pedantic exploration of "the words and concepts used in moral debate."
Humanism, for Grayling, is a return to philosophy's Greek roots. He applies humanist principles to support virtually all liberal positions, including legalized prostitution and drug use, serial monogamy, homosexuality and gay marriage, abortion and euthanasia.
His page on assisted suicide reads as though he were personally acquainted with the plight of the late Winnipegger Susan Griffith, who ended her life in Switzerland earlier this week.
"It is frankly a disgrace that people cannot have the same simple amenity in their own homes in their own homeland, if they have a clear and settled wish to avail themselves of it."
Of course, it's naive to think that Grayling's persuasive rhetoric will alter the course of this or any other of our pressing ethical debates.
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Published: Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 4:33 p.m.
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The immediate future does not look bright for Florida football.
The Gators are coming off a discouraging 17-6 loss Saturday at LSU. They were inconsistent on defense, unable to score a touchdown offensively and lost the battle on both lines of scrimmage.
UF dropped five spots to No. 22 in The Associated Press and USA Today Coaches' rankings, and four of the final six opponents are currently ranked in the Top 25.
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"We have control of everything. All the chips are on the table for us," he said during his Sunday television show. "We've got everything sitting in front of us to get to Atlanta, and that's one of the goals here at the University of Florida."
The SEC East race is wide open halfway through the season. Florida, Georgia and South Carolina all have one conference loss, and Missouri is sitting atop the standings at 2-0 after upsetting the Dawgs 41-26 on Saturday.
UF would be in first place in the East with a victory over the unbeaten Tigers in Columbia, Mo., this weekend.
It's another tough road test for the Gators, but Mizzou is now without starting quarterback James Franklin, who separated his right shoulder against UGA and will miss at least one week.
"We're going to Missouri this week," Muschamp said. "They've got a good football team. They're undefeated. They spread you offensively. Defensively, they do an outstanding job. We have our work cut out for us."
Muschamp said his offensive and defensive linemen have to play better for Florida to win.
Prior to the LSU game, the Gators had scored on 10 of 11 red zone opportunities since Tyler Murphy took over at quarterback. The one unsuccessful trip was a missed field goal attempt by former starting kicker Austin Hardin.
But against the Tigers, UF reached the LSU 20 twice in the fourth quarter and only came away with three points.
On the first red zone trip, Murphy had tight end Tevin Westbrook running wide open near the end zone on third-and-goal. But Solomon Patton inadvertently ran into Kelvin Taylor in the backfield and kept him from making his block on Jermauria Rasco, who forced Murphy into an incompletion.
On the second opportunity (Florida's last drive of the game), Murphy was sacked on third and fourth down.
"We didn't protect the quarterback in those situations," Muschamp said. "We drove the ball down the field. When we get in the red zone, we have to convert for a touchdown."
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Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:It's pretty much been potato gruel with the flavor packets from Ramen noodles or peanuts for the last 2-3 weeks, but I'm out of flour now, so no more gruel. The grapefruit tree is finally ripening, and I just picked up some grapefruit that blew down in this morning's storm. There are still a couple of cans of V8 left, too. I prefer to eat healthy and organic, but sometimes I have to go with economical. I generally eat vegetarian, and have stuck with vegetarianism for months at a time, but I have occasionally broken it up with raw hamburgers and raw cheeseburgers for a few days, and if I'm hungry and someone offers me a meal with meat in it, I'll probably eat it.
Animus wrote:but during the week I usually hit up a restaurant
Carl G wrote:OMG, Kunga, you have a job?! Most of us at Genius aren't in that category.
Steven Coyle wrote:NOTHING BUT BUNNY RUM
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I was wondering what geniuses like to eat :)
In the 148-IQ sense, pretty much anything allowed in the books of Leviticus & Deuteronomy dietary law.
In the common sense as you seem to portray it: I'll cheat and have my healthily-prepared whole-wheat homemade peanut butter cookies (a baker's dozen in one sitting) and the girlfriend will give me the "you're nuts" look. The occasional loaf of 100% whole wheat toasted bread smeared with butter and rhubarb-raspberry jam, homemade of course. Both cookies and loaf of bread downed with my 20% cream and 80% water mixture.
Breakfast consists of 3 beef sausage links, 3 eggs over easy, 2 slices of whole-wheat bread with 100% peanut butter, buttered of course.
And a couple cups of good coffee to start out the day.
Lunch is a couple chicken thighs with skin removed, steamed broccoli or cauliflower or cabbage with yellow bellpepper with melted white/mild cheddar. The usual suspect fruits consisting of berries and/or melons. Tuna casserole is another family favorite.
Dinner depends on what the girlfriend and our daughter usually come up with. Beef roast, some sort of chicken recipe, white tuna or red/pink salmon dish. And the usual suspect vegetables. Fruit would be watermelon, cantaloupe, musk melons etc.
Of course the all-American hamburger, 85% lean meat. Homemade oven-baked fries with a tad of sunflower oil and sea salt sprinkled with Mrs. Dash seasonings. I have a liking for russets whereas the girls like the Yukon Gold or reds. With baked potatoes, it's russets with scads of butter and Daisy sour cream with a touch of fresh-cracked pepper and chives.
A dessert may consist of home-made vanilla ice cream (real cream & sugar) not the crappy, store-bought corn syrup stuff. The flavored ice creams would be real strawberries, raspberry, chokecherry, june berry, peach-rhubarb, rhubarb-raspberry etc.
is your diet mainly healthy ?
Always except for the "healthy-prepared" cookie binge and assorted-such yuppies :-)
or do you eat just to survive?
You have one opportunity in this eternity called life .. so go all out!!!!
I love eating healthy /fresh (organic preferably)
Yup, we do ;-/ .. Tho, the organic label is overblown. We buy the meats from farmers we know, or (borrow) in a pinch from neighbors we know. The gov't "organic" label we do not trust.
I love cooking
I had to learn the hard way. My Mother (with slight exaggeration) wasn't too swift in the kitchen except for pies, cakes, cookies and breads. And my Dad never learn how to boil eggs. So it was pretty much fend for yourself, or eats junk food prepared by mom. They were Depression-era influenced where many days it was a couple slices of bread with lard for topping. Or, a potato... They both were needled-diabetics till they died.
Just curious as to your eating habits - Thankyou
Our good genius-buddy and resident sage, the esteemed Ryan Rudolph of Canadian lore had a thread on this very topic a couple years ago, or so. I think you'll find it in the back nether pages of Worldly Matters somewhere thereabouts.
PS - Store bought food is increasingly radiated, sprayed with this-and-that, BHT added to milk, flown in from other countries. I was raised on a ranch/farm combo, so we always had food to eat though during the drought of the 1950s (in North Dakota) we were forced off the land due to five consecutive crop failures etc. It toughened me up whereas if "hard times" come again at least I can plant a garden, shoot wild game essentially provide for family though girlfriend is a better shot with the guns, rifles.
The occasional marijuana tea or hemp tea. Quite delicious.
Ditto for the occasional pitcher of Budweiser keg (raw) beer - with a Cuban cigar. A night out at the local bar, shoot a few games of pool, some darts and a decent juke box. Good conversation and the occasional marijuana spliff .. makes for healthy, wealthy, wisey.
Life is hard.
Kunga wrote:in the past i used to drink wine all day as i cooked,,,,lol i was numb by the time i sat down for dinner...
Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Kunga wrote:in the past i used to drink wine all day as i cooked,,,,lol i was numb by the time i sat down for dinner...
Heh, sounds like the Julia Child method of cooking, :)
Carmel wrote:Carl G: FOOD? I LIKE EATTING JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING
WAit, why are we yelling? OH YEAH, FOOD!
Diebert van Rhijn wrote:As a kid I stubbornly refused to eat meat as well as vegetables. My parents left it at that and I enjoyed good health with mostly bread, dairy, fruit and candy my first decade, without supplements*! Shattering quite a few myths about what children should eat. Although I ate near everything later in life, nowadays I'm living largely as vegetarian with the odd seafood thrown in.
*) But at some point I was attracted to small amounts of (raw) liver and sometimes even rare (roasted) beef. Not sure anymore at what age that started. At the time that was not associated with health benefits, just a voluntary crave.
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Mouth Diseases
Numbness Left Jaw & Tongue
My husband for about three weeks has had numbness on Left Jaw & Tongue he has been to the doctors they have done test he has no infection in the mouth nothing showed up on the scans they have done. He has no other symptoms and no pain anywhere. He is a singer and after about three songs he starts going horse but still no pain. They looked at his vocal cords and said they look great. We are lost and do not know what to do??? He has it all the time for the past three weeks it does not come and go and it affects his tasting since his tongue is always numb. And it is only on the left side of his face can anyone help please.
First off, has your husband had any invasive dental procedures performed recently? Second, what kinds of "Scans" were done, MRI with contrast or a CT scan?
Have you seen a Neurologist, Neurosurgeon or Otolaryngologist to evaluate the clinical signs and symptoms described above?
Without seeing the patient I can only presume what may be the cause of what is going on. Based upon the description of unilateral facial numbness and tongue involvement associated with numbness and alteration of taste perception, I would include Bell's Palsy on my differential (damage to facial and glossopharyngeal nerves affecting the anterior 2/3s of the tongue and possible salivary flow alteration) age to the nerves can be the result of trauma or infection (Herpes Simplex or Bacterial). The presentation you describe may be related to some form or variant of Bell's Palsy, but recent discussions in the literature mention that this may be a diagnosis of convenience, and further evaluation and testing is necessary.
Facial neuritis may also be the result of a sinus infection, whereas glossopharyngeal neuritis may present a pain or numbness of the throat, ear, and lower jaw and also affect the tongue (taste disorders, or burning sensation).
It is very important that you have this complex set of symptoms evaluated.
Richard J Jurevic, DDS, PhD
Formerly, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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Researching his family tree, Gordon Elsworth discovered a secret family he never knew he had.
The Poole man found cousins, tragic tales of infant deaths, and three uncles who fought in the First World War – two of whom survived.
"My Dad, Sidney, never spoke about them," said Gordon, 77, a printer at the then Bournemouth Daily Echo from 1951 to 1988. There was no falling out, it was just a big family who did not often meet.
"My father rarely had contact with his brothers and sisters. When he died at the age of 54, only two of his brothers attended his funeral, Ernest and Reginald. This was the one and only time we ever met," said Gordon of Pound Lane.
His grandfather Emmanuel had 12 children by two wives and when Gordon began seeking his family history in 2000 it was thanks to cousins Pamela and Edna and Gwen Elsworth that he discovered so much about his Blackmore Vale family.
Herbert Elsworth, the first child of Emmanuel and Martha, was born in 1887. He worked as a gardener before joining the army and serving in India with the Second Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment in 1911.
Private Elsworth saw action in Mesopotamia – now Iraq – however he died of dysentery on July 16 1916, aged 29. He is commemorated not just at the Bagdad (North Gate) War Cemetery but also at the Broadstone War Memorial and in the church of St Nicholas at Corfe Mullen.
His step-brothers – whose mother was Emmanuel's second wife Amy – Edwin Charles and Frederick James Elsworth volunteered to fight for their country, joining the Dorset Yeomanry and going to Egypt together – although Frederick was under age.
"They got to know Lawrence of Arabia very well," said Gordon. "Frederick was upset by the film made about Lawrence as he felt it didn't 'do him justice', his daughter Gwen said."
Fred was invalided out of the army with rheumatic fever and went to work as a gardener. He died in 1980, aged 83. Edwin was also invalided out of the army and died in 1972 at the age of 76.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Ear, Nose, and Throat Disorders
Whenever my sinuses act up, I immeadiately get a headache(in the back of my head), ear infection, pain in my 2 front teeth, and chills. What can I take to deal with this issue?
The symptoms you describe are not routinely associated with a sinus infection. I suggest that the next time these symptoms occur, you consider consulting an ENT physician for further evaluation.
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Hi all.
I have a peculiar problem. When I'm uploading a photo to a website I have which runs on Wordpress on a MySQL database I am getting a "Fatal error memory size exhausted" message. However, it only happens on one PC. It works on other PC's.
I've tested it on all browsers and on a few different machines both apple and pc. It's always the same result on this one pc.
What must I change on this pc to make it work?
There is a setting in php.ini called "memory_limit" which determines how much memory a script can use, it's probably set lower on the one server
This is a local pc I'm talking about. Not sure if i made that clear. If its working on every other computer I use is it not likely to be a local issue.
I don't have a php.ini file in the given directory on the server and it says on the upload page the photo upload limit was 8mb. The file I'm testing with is only 2mb.
Do I still need to create a php.ini file on the server even if this issue is only happening on one of my computers.
Actually, if it's working on every computer except that one, it's.... almost certainly a local issue? That being the definition of local issue and all.
But let's just rule a few things out. Stop me if I make a mistake here.1: You're uploading the same file from multiple computers to a single server running a single script.2: The file in question is below 2 MB in size3: You are not attempting to upload more than 8 MB in -total- in a single pageload.
How much memory is the error showing that the script is limited to, and how much is it attempting to allocate?
(PS: Flagging this for movement to the PHP forum, as the issue appears to be a PHP generated error rather than a DB generated one)
It's ANY photo attempted from the affected PC. I tested on other PC's with 2 of the affected photos and both were 2mb or under.
I only ever uploaded one at a time so no more than 8mb in one single action.
So... Single file, single script, single server and it works on all but one PC.
The allowed memory size is 134217728 and its trying to allocate 19772 in one of the images (which is a 1.9mb photo).
What difference in any is there in hardware, OS or web browser between the computers where it works and the one were it doesn't?
So it's allowed 128 MB for execution and it's capping it out. Sounds like there's a leak somewhere, unless it's trying to load all the pictures in the directory at once.
Is the page in question a WordPress-provided one, or a custom one?
(Phoenix and I will come at this from opposite ends, and probably meet somewhere in the middle )
Hi there StarLion,
Yes it is a wordpress standard page, not one I have coded myself. It's media.php which is located in the wp-includes folder of a standard wordpress install in case you're interested. And it's line 258. Here is that chunk of code in case you wanted to see it.
256 // Set artificially high because GD uses uncompressed images in memory
257 @ini_set( 'memory_limit', apply_filters( 'image_memory_limit', WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT ) );
258 $image = imagecreatefromstring( file_get_contents( $file ) );
260 if ( !is_resource( $image ) )
261 return sprintf(__('File "%s" is not an image.'), $file);
263 return $image;
264 }
SpacePhoenix, I'll try to find out the hardware differences. But it's not my PC that it doesn't work on - it's a client. This is for a website I am developing. I have tested it on 3 of my owm machines (all different configurations and browsers) and he has tested it on both of his (One is a PC and the other is an iMac - it works on the Mac).
I know he is using Google Chrome - But I have also tested it with chrome so I don't think that's the problem. Both of us use the same (up to date) version.
That's all of the information I have for now - I will try to get more.
So the line right before it is the one that grabs my attention.
@ini_set( 'memory_limit', apply_filters( 'image_memory_limit', WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT ) );
have you checked this value (WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT) to make sure its not accidentally set too low?


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AMD's Radeon R7 265 Now Availableby Ryan Smith on 3/5/2014 9:00 PM EST
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RaistlinZ - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkBetter grab one while it's still at MSRP. Cheapest price for an R9 270 in stock is $229.99. I don't doubt the R7 265 will also creep up from $150.00 once the initial batch sells out. Reply
JDG1980 - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkAaaaannnnnd it's gone. Big surprise... Reply
Alexvrb - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkNo doubt! It does represent a pretty good value for a budget gaming rig. Err, or it did until they sold out. Hopefully for those interested more will ship out shortly. Reply
Shrogadunter - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkWent to add it to my cart and it decided to become imaginary.... Reply
fuminers - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkIts sad that we have to rush to buy these GPUs, not because you want to be the first owner anymore its because if you miss a second you might end up paying a lot more than what you should be paying. LTcoin mining has become a huge problem for us gamers. Reply
Aknosis - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkJust wait till the boom is over, the market will be flooded with 2nd hand GPUs that will either be super cheap or may effect enough of the market to actually lower the prices at the retailers. Reply
bendermichaelr - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkYeah but who wants a GPU that's already 90% through it's useful life because of being run 24/7 Reply
Magichands8 - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkDon't worry, it won't be a big problem for much longer. People are buying thousands of the new ASICS for scrypt mining. It's now possible to get a setup that churns out 3mh/s for on the order of $2,500 and 100 watts. When the difficulty goes through the roof it's going to bork the whole GPU mining craze and we'll have plenty of cards available. I just hope that Sapphire waits a little longer to release it's newer R9 290X's. Reply
extide - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkLink to such scrypt asics? Reply
Magichands8 - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkHere's his main thread (asiabtc/Jack):
And the main Gridseed asic site:
Search terms like LightningASIC, unicorn hasher, Gridseed 5... Google is your lover. Cost per 100kh/s should drop below $100 with the new firmware that's available. There's also a company called ZoomHash out in California which supplies the Gridseed's stateside. Reply
JDG1980 - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - link" It's now possible to get a setup that churns out 3mh/s for on the order of $2,500 and 100 watts."
That's actually not all that impressive. Even at today's inflated prices, you can buy a R9 270 for about $210. That gives ~450 KH/sec when tuned. Add about $500-$600 in supplies (mobo, CPU, powered risers, PSUs) and you've got a setup that does 2.7 MH/sec for about $1800. That's ~67 cents per KH/sec. The ASIC setup you describe costs ~81 cents per KH/sec. Yes, the power costs are lower, but if your electricity rates are not that high, it might take quite some time to pay back the difference. The ASICs aren't outclassing the GPUs by orders of magnitude, like they do with SHA-256. Reply
Magichands8 - Friday, March 07, 2014 - linkWell, definitely the investment to get running up front will be greater but that's part of the cost the first adopters have to pay for miners that use so much less power. Incidentally, they've been able to squeeze anywhere from 450 to 700kh/s from the same ASIC units just by changing the firmware. 5-6mh/s for $2,500 and 100 watts sounds pretty damn good to me. Plus, it's easier to set up than a PC produces far less heat and doesn't even need any fans. For people with special circumstances who don't have to pay for power and have plenty of space I guess it may not be much of an advantage using these but still... I really see this as the beginning of the end and it mirrors what happened with bitcoin. Apparently he is working on a 12mh/s set and if what someone else at bitcointalk forums said about this guy making $600,000 in little more than a month selling these things you better believe it when they say he's working on putting 100 of these gridseeds on a single PCB and selling them in rackmount units. My guess is that there will be a consolidation of the altcoin markets in the next few months and as the joke coins start to die off more and more money and hashing power will flow into the few left standing like Litecoin or Worldcoin. That's when the writing will definitely be on the wall. Reply
boot318 - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkI can smell the Newegg 'morning meeting' right now.... I hope we see this and other models at MSRP when they're in stock. Reply
johnny_boy - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkStill waiting for this bad boy to hit Europe. Think I might just drop a few extra bucks for a 270 if the wait becomes too looooooong. Reply
bendermichaelr - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkI NEED IT! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEEEEEEE
I currently have the A10-7850k running without help of a dedicated card. For an iGPU, it's doing an amazing job; especially with my gskill ripjaws z 2400MHz RAM. Combined with an ASUS a88xm-a, this thing is rock solid. The r7 250 would really help to make this the ultimate budget system. Reply
bendermichaelr - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkSORRY Wrong thread Reply
fuminers - Friday, March 07, 2014 - linkI managed to get a super secret link from amazon(not really), its listed for $170 which i find fine for the extra premium of the aftermarket coolers, its not like we should be expecting them to be exactly at $150...
grab yours before its late or at least keep an eye on it for when it gets available. Reply
Teknobug - Friday, March 07, 2014 - linkYup I expected the 265 to vanish in a day, local store here got 10 units and they all disappeared in a matter of hours. I got a 750Ti for $150 and it's a great card for mid-range with amazing low power consumption, though seems the 265 outshines it in most games but I already have an R9 280X in one PC, suppose the 750Ti ever dies I may look at the 265 or 270. Reply
Wakalaka - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - linkhas anyone seen r7 265 on sale since march 5th? never could find them on any site except newegg, and it has been out of stock since. Reply


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How can I make my 2 year old son to drink more water? He is now experiencing slight constipation because he is not a water drinker.He prefer juices over water. He eats a lot but so difficult to make him drink water.
How can I make my 2 year old son to drink more water? He is now experiencing slight constipation because he is not a water drinker.He prefer juices over water. He eats a lot but so difficult to make him drink water.
Dear chasermack,
Thank you for your question - I'm sorry to hear that your son is suffering from constipation.
It's really important that he eats lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. Foods which are high in fibre also help with constipation. Examples of high-fibre foods include: broccoli, cauliflower, wholewheat pasta, oranges and oatbran.
You are right - drinking enough liquid also helps to prevent constipation. Try to gradually dilute the juice he drinks more and more (over time) so that it becomes water or the juice simply colours the water but hardly any is added. You could try making fresh fruit smoothies - these will help both with your son's liquid intake and his daily fruit intake.
A warm bath with a gentle tummy massage (in a clockwise direction) can also to relieve constipation. The issue with young children getting constipated is if they become afraid of pooing and try to hold it in then the longer they don't poo for the more the body will remove water from the poo, the harder it will get and the more uncomfortable it will be to pass... Keeping a close eye on your son's diet and liquid intake at the moment will help to make this easier and hopefully break this cycle. Try to avoid giving him processed foods or foods high in sugar as this can cause constipation.
Warm wishes,
When I think my child is thirsty, I hand him a water bottle. He often says he isn't thirsty, but I ask him to drink five sips. Half the time he ends up drinking way more than that. Once he starts, he realizes that he is thirsty after all.
I always leave a sippy cup with water where my child can reach it so when he does get thirsty, he sees the cup and drinks. If he is thirsty he has no choice but to drink the water.


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Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
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First impressions count. And the first impression that awaits a visitor approaching Gainesville's new southern gateway is stunning.
This week, after months of delays and construction, the newly refurbished 13th Street overpass on U.S. 441 was opened. The result was worth the wait.
It's not just the striking orange "Double Helix" looming over the Depot Avenue Rail-Trail that grabs attention. Just as visually arresting is the staircase and planted terrace arrangement that now affords pedestrian access from 13th Street to the rail-trail. Red brick sidewalks and soon-to-be finished textured concrete serpentine walls in the medians north and south of the overpass all conspire to send a message to the newly arrived: Welcome to a city of innovation and imagination.
That impression is only enhanced and magnified after dark, when the overpass lights up like a beacon.
First impressions really do count. And the impression Gainesville's new gateway imparts is of a university community that is alive with ideas, energy and plans for a vibrant future.
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The news yesterday that Marco Zanini, former creative director of Rochas, would become the new creative director of the relaunched House of Schiaparelli, which would also join the couture calendar, is the sort of news that normally would send the fashion world into such a frenzied show of breast-beating (what will happen to Rochas!!) and excitement (what will this mean for Schiaparelli?!) it would put the actual shows on the runway to shame. Except this time no one batted an eyelash. They yawned, and moved on. How'd that happen? Expectations management via social media. There are lessons here for us all. Read more
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TeWinkle Park provides a spot for leisurely strolls among lakes and waterfalls on one level, while Angel's Playground gives kids a place to adventure.
Groundbreaking for the playground occurred in November 2007, after a partnership among the city of Costa Mesa, Angel's Charity, and the Costa Mesa Community Foundation.
According to the Angel's Charity website, "The plan was the inspiration of Costa Mesa residents, Mr. and Mrs. Doug Hansen, whose daughter, Angel, is severely disabled."
The shade covers are colorfully striking in this peaceful setting across from the Costa Mesa Tennis Center behind the OC Fairgrounds.
Motor skills challenges set this park apart from others with pedestals, balance beams, platforms, standing pedal pushers, and tunnels to navigate.
Kids of all ages and abilities are especially drawn to the moving glider with enough room to fit multiple riders and a wheelchair. Children can pretend it's a sled, a car, a boat or whatever their imagination divines.
The playground is manageable, even when bringing a number of kids. However, be vigilant for wanderers, as there are deep water hazards up the hill from the play area and a parking area beyond the restrooms.
The best part of a visit to TeWinkle is wandering up the hill to see the waterfowl and cross bridges at the lakes above the playground. Families will spot mallards and maybe even a night heron fishing in the ponds.
Parents will be happy to find a free parking lot and nice, clean restrooms near the playground. There's even a family restroom for convenience.
The play surface is recycled rubber with a small sand play area near the back of the playground. Shaded benches surround the playground making it easy to view the entire playground. Long sidewalks wind through the manicured lawns.
There is a large covered picnic area with multiple tables. Another smaller picnic area, which only fits one table, sits on the other side of the park near the sandbox.
Consult costamesaca.gov for more information on park reservations and fees.
The park is near the OC County Fairgrounds on Arlington Drive between Fairview and the southbound Newport Boulevard lanes. It's easily reachable from the 55 and 405 freeways, as well as the 73 Toll road. Address: 885 Junipero Road, Costa Mesa.
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Roethlisberger is the second quarterback in Steelers history to reach the milestone. Terry Bradshaw is the other. He threw for 212 TDs from 1970-83.
Roethlisberger reached No. 200 when he found Antonio Brown in the end zone in the second quarter of Sunday's game against the New England Patriots. Roethlisberger then connected three times with Jerricho Cotchery in the second half to give him 203.
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