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Sps Materials Locating Panic Attack
Decorating By Girlfriendal Updated 20 Jun 2013 , 7:47am by kvand
Panicking a bit here. After my fiasco last night when I went to a local cake store that had claimed to have SPS when I called them on Monday, just to find out they did not when I got there, I am in need of some help and advice fast. I went to Bakery Crafts' site, but apparently you have to be a business to buy from them? I saw no way for the average person to order anything, not to mention I couldn't even find SPS materials in their product listing categories. And when I searched I only got pictures of a few round white plates and the Grecian pillars. I tried Oasis and Global like Leah mentions in her signature, but still they just have the Grecian pillar, not the EZcut ones that Bakery Crafts is supposed to offer, which was what I wanted... (http://www.bakerycrafts.com/DynamicContent/OtherPages/EZCUT/Bakery%20Crafts%20SPSSystem.pdf) I keep searching but I can't find the EZcut anywhere. And, of course, I need somewhere that can ship - fast!
And one of the reasons I was hoping to get it at a store was because I wanted to make sure I got everything I needed and was hoping for onsite advice. No such luck of course. So, is there a special type cardboard round I should get, or will any one work? I'm making a round 14/12/10/8, so I need a 12, 10, and 8 SPS plate and a package of pillars. What else? Feeling so overwhelmed thinking about this cake...haha! :)
AI've read somewhere that Wilton pillars will fit the SPS plates and they are easy to cut.
I just don't trust my skill at making a cake exactly 4" tall with icing and filling and all that. I was wanting to allow myself a bit of flexibility just in case.
AHere's the sps system..You would still need cardboard rounds . I don't know all what you need to buy for the system I've never used it.
Cardboard rounds
I get mine from Oasis, and I'd send you some, but I just ran out of pillars.
Oasis can ship overnight if you CALL your order in and talk to customer service.
I've recently started using a pvc pipe cutter to trim my pillars and it works great. HOWEVER, you can make a 4 inch tier! You just have to measure as you start building it. Put the first layer down, add your filling, measure. Put your second layer down, measure and add the right amount of filling to get you to the 1/3 mark. put on your top, level and measure. Frost your top. This is much faster and easier than trying to fix the height and level after you've already frosted and filled.
good luck jen
fyi, I bake 1 inch layers with 1/3 inch of frosting/filling.
AI get mine from pfiel & holing
The first SPS I bought were GC9's because that is all my local cake supplier carries. I used a hacksaw to cut them. I tried the PVC cutter but they cracked. Not the easiest thing and time consuming, but not terrible. I kept one of them to use as a guide when stacking my cakes, but I'm sure you could use anything. I marked the SPS column with a permanent marker at the correct height for each section of cake so that I always end up with about 4 to 4.2 inches of height. Works like a charm.
Don't have a panic attack. You can stack the cake using other methods. SPS is nice but I have used straws and dowels with success and I'm still fairly new to cake decorating.
I have been having a fun time trying to get SPS in Canada. I run a business and still struggle to get the supplies I want/need. The closest supplier to me is 4 hours away and they only carry the multi piece pillars not the 4" pillars. The girl told me I could just use the extra length pieces as their own pillars but they don't lock into the plate like the Grecian pillars do. ugh I ordered 10 8" round plates and 10 6" round plates and what showed up on my door step today was only 2 6" plates.... wtf?!? why couldn't they tell me they only had 2. I could order from GSA but then I pay an arm and a leg in brokerage fees and duty. Sometimes being in Canada really blows! well that's my vent for tonight. I need a friend in the US who can order me the goods and ship them across the border as a "gift"... too bad it would be big trouble if I got caught...lol


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Marin County will pay a 66-year-old West Marin man $1.9 million to settle a 2009 case in which a deputy sheriff jolted him repeatedly with a Taser stun gun.
Marin County Counsel Patrick Faulkner emerged from a closed session with the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday and issued a statement announcing the payment to Peter McFarland of Woodacre.
"The agreement brings to a close the lawsuit brought against the county of Marin and the Marin County Sheriff's Office for the alleged use of excessive force by deputies who used a Taser to help effect the arrest of Peter McFarland in June of 2009," the statement said.
"The incident was not consistent with department policy," the statement added, in an unusual comment about liability.
San Francisco attorney Ethan Balogh, who along with attorney John Scott represented McFarland, said, "Mr. McFarland and his wife, Pearl, are pleased to have reached an amicable settlement with the county and to put these events behind them and move forward with their lives." McFarland couldn't be reached for comment.
Faulkner said settlement of the case was less expensive for the county than taking it to trial, especially since the result of a trial would be uncertain at best. A videotape of the McFarland incident was played repeatedly on television news programs last year.
Faulkner noted the county is self-insured for up to $1 million, minus expenses for litigation costs. The county's insurance carrier will pick up about $900,000 of the tab, he said.
Officials noted that Taser policies are continually changing as the law evolves through court cases, and Marin has tightened its rules and procedures over time.
"Since we implemented the Tasers and non-lethal weapons, we've revised our policy probably five or six times," Sheriff Robert Doyle said, adding that more restrictive rules cut Taser use 64 percent last year. Each time a Marin deputy uses a Taser, the event is filmed by a camera in the Taser unit, he noted.
A Taser is a stun gun that delivers electric shocks when fired. The sheriff's office began issuing the weapons in November 2008 and has about 100 devices that deputies carry while on patrol.
Deputies received around eight hours of training when the department first issued the stun guns and each year complete four hours of refresher training, Doyle said.
McFarland, who was 64 when the Taser incident occurred, fell outside his Carson Road home after attending a fundraiser with his wife, Pearl, on June 29, 2009, according to a lawsuit filed last year in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Pearl McFarland called authorities just before midnight to request help.
At some point in the wee hours of June 30, McFarland, who had been drinking, made a reference to shooting himself in the head, and paramedics contacted the sheriff's office, according to television news reports last year.
Deputies then entered the home and fired a Taser at McFarland when he refused to go to the hospital. He was arrested for resisting arrest, but that charge was later dismissed. McFarland's legal team obtained a video of the incident — filmed by a camera attached to the Taser — from Marin County prosecutors.
The lawsuit also named two responding deputies, Erin Mittenthal and Justin Zebb, as defendants and alleged that Zebb fired his Taser four times, including once after McFarland was already handcuffed. Mittenthal no longer works for the sheriff's office, although her decision to leave was unrelated to the incident, Doyle said. Zebb remains with the department and was not disciplined, he added.
Supervisor Steve Kinsey, pressed for a comment, said, "This is an unfortunate situation for everyone involved. While the board continues to believe that Tasers are an effective law enforcement tool that will save lives "... they need to be used with the stringent policies our sheriff has established."
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NHL prospects returning to the ice this week
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:34:07 GMT —
Northern Michigan enjoys its baseball and there is nothing quite like the kickoff to a prep football season but a big sporting event has been missing from this area since 2011.
The NHL is returning to Traverse City this week for the Detroit Red Wings annual Prospects Camp with the Wings Training Camp taking place next week. Hundreds of potential prospects from eight different NHL teams will hit the ice over the next five days, all in hopes of extending their hockey careers.
It all takes place at Centre Ice Arena from September 5th through the 9th with games beginning on the 6th. Tickets are just $10 per day. For more information you can head to the Detroit Red Wings main website (http://redwings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=681240) or the Centre Ice website (http://www.centreice.org/page/show/467296-nhl-prospect-tournament).


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Top 3 (Surprisingly Basic) Reasons Typical Performance Evaluations Don't Work
This is a Guest Post by Christian Meyers, CEO and Co-Founder of GoodRevu. Follow at @goodrevu
Studies show that 90% of companies worldwide conduct performance evaluations. Business across the board—from restaurants to manufacturers to high technology—are interested in measuring employee performance. Unfortunately, today's performance evaluations aren't very effective and it comes down to three surprisingly basic things:
:: Performance feedback and evaluation tools aren't adopted. Much of the available software is inaccessible and difficult to use. Users struggle with logging in, navigating and not losing their work. If users can't easily log in, navigate without training, and quickly get work done, users won't user the software solution—and businesses won't buy it.
:: Evaluations use an alien language. Traditional performance evaluations use a pseudo-psychological language that is insufficiently job-specific to be useful. Engineers don't talk about vague "competencies," "development opportunities" and "high-po talent pools", they talk about test-driven development. Sales people talk about demonstrating ROI to customers. Marketers talk about conversion rates. Using relatable language is incredibly important and often overlooked.
The good news is that solutions to these problems are universal, straightforward, and do not need to be over-engineered. Supporting tools can't be a barrier; they must be easily accessible, self-explanatory, and help users complete work. Evaluations should use job-specific, real-world language for describing performance and feedback and evaluations should be conducted frequently. Understanding the importance of employee performance evaluations and leveraging these best practices will enable your business to get the most out of your number one investment: people.


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PESHAWAR, March 24: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department is trying to seek the United Nations' help for strengthening union council polio eradication committees to achieve vaccination targets set in the Augmented National Emergency Polio Eradication Plan for 2012, according to the relevant officials.
Officials told Dawn on Saturday that last year, the government formed 972 committees at UC level, which became functional early this year, while the district coordination officers of every district in the province nominated chairpersons for these committees to oversee composition of teams and problems related to their task.
They said the role of the committees had improved a great deal but its members required training on vaccination and how to deal with other problems like refusals, missed children and lack of accessibility by health workers in certain areas.
"In the last campaign,100 per cent coverage was achieved by these teams due to presence of the committee's members in the campaign. We want to sustain the momentum and ensure that all children up to the age of five years get vaccinated in every campaign," said an official.
He said: "we have sent a request to WHO and Unicef to provide financial support for training of the committee's members. We have suggested that they hire a firm and impart one-time training to our members."
Officials said the committee members needed to be given information about vaccination so they could convince parents about importance of administration of oral polio vaccine to their children.
They said in the last few months, the committees had played a key role in addressing refusal cases whose number stood at 19,141 in March compared to 23,000 reported in previous campaign.
Officials said training would help committee members to understand some technical issues like efficacy and alleged side effects of OPV before they remove people's misconceptions and fears about it.
According to them, the committees headed by medical officers or assistant coordination officers and comprising principals, headmasters, prayer leaders and the ruling party leaders in the respective union councils are responsible to the District Control Room working under the focal person.
The focal person recommends action against lax workers in light of the committees' advice.
"Our only problem is lack of resources. For every intervention, we look towards donors for assistance who have their own priorities," an official said.
Officials said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had reported four of the 14 polio cases surfaced in the country this year but the virus was still in circulation in central districts of Peshawar, Nowshera, Mardan and Charsadda and southern districts of Kohat, Lakki Marwat, Tank and Dera Ismail Khan. They said the health department had planned to pay special attention to these areas.
"We need to train committee members in high-risk districts so that they could make area-specific interventions. We are hopeful of receiving UN assistance to enhance performance of these committees," an official said.
Of the 198 cases reported in Pakistan last year, which was the highest number in the world, 23 were from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


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Gun control isn't about banning guns, it's about banning people who aren't well-connected from having guns. If you're a Wal-Mart shopper then you're not supposed to have a gun. If you're David Brock, then that's a whole other story...
Gun control isn't about banning guns, it's about banning people who aren't well-connected from having guns. If you're a Wal-Mart shopper then you're not supposed to have a gun. If you're David Brock, then that's a whole other story...
A staffer at left-wing Media Matters for America committed numerous felonies in the District of Columbia and around the country by carrying a firearm to defend the organization's founder, David Brock, The Daily Caller has learned.
According to a knowledgeable source, multiple firearms used to protect the Media Matters founder were purchased with Brock's blessing — and apparently with the group's money.
Brock, whose struggles with mental health have seen him hospitalized in the past, became increasingly concerned by late 2010 that he was being targeted by right-wing assassins.
TheDC has learned that by that time, Brock had armed his assistant — who had no permit to carry a concealed firearm — with a Glock handgun.
According to an internal email exchange obtained by TheDC, the gun was purchased with cash in Maryland, likely to diminish the chances such a purchase would appear on the tax-exempt group's books.
Between Price-Morris' early 2009 arrival and late 2010 departure from Media Matters, he also acquired a shotgun for Brock's protection.
Price-Morris was regularly armed when accompanying Brock on trips around the country, according to a source, and his firearm possession in Washington, D.C. constituted multiple felonies.
How can this story get any worse? Well...
On at least one occasion, Brock — accompanied by his armed aide — visited California to attend a "Democracy Alliance" summit of major Democratic donors and lawmakers.
That gathering included such major figures in Democratic politics as billionaires George Soros, Peter Lewis and Bill Benter, former Service Employees International Union Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, and the politician behind the federal government's 1994 "Assault Weapons Ban," California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Yes, that Dianne Feinstein. But she wouldn't have minded. Gun control is for little people. Not big people.
Speaking to TheDC, multiple Media Matters staffers described an atmosphere of confusion surrounding why Price-Morris had a gun when so much of the liberal organization's work was aimed at restricting the public's access to firearms.
In the aftermath of the December 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Media Matters has been on the gun control warpath, commissioning hundreds of pieces supportive of restrictions on firearms.
The confusion is that there's one law for the people in power and another for those out of power. It some MM staff a while to grasp that.
Brock's aide was a "gun enthusiast," according to the source, and often selected a weapon from his personal collection of firearms that would suit a given occasion and his taste. Price-Morris would occasionally carry a separate Glock that he owned personally, one with a high-capacity magazine — 17-rounds — if his outfit was loose enough to conceal the weapon.
Media Matters had reason to be concerned about news of its use of firearms becoming public.
Aside from risking the disapproval or outrage of disenchanted anti-gun donors, it appears Media Matters personnel may have committed several serious crimes.
I'm sure the DC AG will investigate that around the same time he arrests David Gregory.


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New York-based graffiti artist COPE2 is among a plethora of artists whose work is being displayed during this week's prestigious Art Basel Miami. Notched on one of the illustrious Wynwood Walls, located within Miami's bustling Wynwood Arts District, is the Bronx native's intricate bubble letter instillation. Bearing the artist's namesake in a variety of vibrant shades, the piece will be on display to the public starting on December 1 through December 4.
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Hi Julie, I don't have any blobs to hand to play with, however, I believe pgAdmin is displaying the oid as binary data. This is all done by Microsoft code, so there is little I can do about it in pgAdmin. How is pgAdmin affecting your ability to sync your mobile database? Regards, Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Julie May [mailto:julie(at)ccorb(dot)com] Sent: 21 April 2003 22:40 To: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org Subject: [pgadmin-support] large object oid value not showing up in pgAdmin Hi, I have a column of type lo (for large object). When I query the database using psql I get the oid for the large object. However, when I run the same query in pgAdmin I get a ?/ instead of the oid value. Any ideas what is going wrong? This is also affecting our ability to sync our data with our mobile data base. Thanks for any help or insight you can give. Julie <query and results from psql> mobile=# select rec_no, map from scouting; rec_no | map --------+--------- 1002 | 1143540 1003 | 1143542 1004 | 1143549 (3 rows) mobile=# </query and results from psql> <query and results from pgAdmin> </query and results from pgAdmin>
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Pokemon Emerald Version
Bobhead's Guide to EVs and IVs
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- Bobhead's Guide to EVs and IVs
Contents -- ** Covered in this post
** Introduction
** How to get EVs
** Vitamins
- IVs
- Making a Good EV Spread
- Places to Train
- The Undo Button
- Conclusion
Effort Values, or EVs for short, can have a huge impact on your pokemon and the battles they participate in. EVs will let swampert survive Hidden Power Grass, or will let skarmory outspeed magneton, and many other things. Having a proper EV spread (distribution of EV points on a pokemon) can mean the difference between a win and a loss.
A total of 255 EV points can be put onto any one stat, and a total of 510 points total can be given to any pokemon. However, it is important to note that a stat will only increase after every four EV poins. In other words, putting 12 EVs and putting 15 EVs both result in the same thing: a 3 point increase to the stat.
How to get EVs
In Netbattle, and in the un-released Competitor, you only have to "decide" how many EV points you want on each stat, and you can fully customize each pokemon's EV spread in minutes. However, in the Pokemon games, it isn't so easy.
After you defeat a certain pokemon, every pokemon that receives experience in battle (meaning level 100 pokemon do not receive EVs in battle) also receive a certain number of EV points depending on the defeated pokemon. Every pokemon gives at least one EV point, and no pokemon gives more than three. Which means you will be fighting a lot of battles to get your pokemon's stats the way you want them. Luckily, Nintendo gave you a couple of things to help you along the way.
- Macho Brace: A hold item that doubles the amount of EV Points that the pokemon holding it receives in battle. Keep in mind it also halves your Speed in-battle.
- PokeRus: A rare "virus" that has no negative effects. When a pokemon has it, it gets twice as much EVs. When you notice one of your Pokemon has PokeRus, it is important that you try to benefit as much as possible from it. That means you should spread it around and always save one Pokemon with PokeRus in your box. The reason for this is that PokeRus can wear off to an extent - it will still gain twice as much EVs, but it will not be able to spread it. This will be referred to as "passive" PokeRus as opposed to "active" PokeRus. PokeRus is spread simply by keeping a Pokemon with active PokeRus in your party along with others. Every time you battle there's a chance it spreads. Pokemon with passive PokeRus can be infected again and get the active form again.
Vitamins can also speed up the EV training process. There are six different vitamins, one for each stat, and each vitamin adds 10 EVs and increases your pokemon's happiness. Unfortunately, vitamins cannot be used on stats that already have 100 EVs on them, which means you will still need to do some EV training. Regardless, they do save time. I recommend you save your money until a day where all vitamins are half-priced (it will be announced on TV), and splurge away. Here is what each vitamin does:
- HP Up raises HP
- Protein raises Attack
- Iron raises Defense
- Calcium raises Special Attack
- Zinc raises Special Defense
- Carbos raises Speed
Contents -- ** Covered in this post
- Introduction
- How to get EVs
- Vitamins
** IVs
** Making a Good EV Spread
- Places to Train
- The Undo Button
- Conclusion
Like EVs, Individual Values also have a large effect on the stats of your pokemon. However, unlike EVs, you cannot change the IVs of your pokemon. For each stat, the IV itself is a number from 0, which gives you the lowest possible stat, to 31, which gives you the highest. For example, if you take two vaporeons (at level 100), one with an ATK IV of 31, and another with an ATK IV of 0, you will see that the difference between the stats is exactly 31. At half the level, the difference becomes half of 31, and so on.
Stats aren't the only thing affected by IVs. The type and base power of Hidden Power is also determined by the pokemon's IVs. In general, the higher the IVs, the stronger Hidden Power will be (with a maximum base power of 70). However to control the type, you must specific combinations of IVs. For example, a pokemon with an IV of 31 in every stat will have a dark-type Hidden Power, and if that pokemon instead had a special attack IV of 0, the Hidden Power becomes type electric, and has a base power of 59.
While you cannot change the IVs of a pokemon, you can have a large influence on what IVs a newly hatched pokemon have. When breeding, 3 of the baby pokemon's IVs are chosen completely at random. The other three IVs come from its parents. At least one comes from its father, and at least one from its mother, the third comes is randomly from either parent. After you have hatched a pokemon, you can take it to the Battle Frontier (Emerald version only). Directly north of the Pokemon Center, there is an old man that gives you an estimate of what the overall IVs are, as well as what stat the highest IV is in. If you don't have Emerald Version (or you want more accurate information) you can use an IV calculator, which compares the stats of your pokemon (you will have to level up the pokemon a bit, because IVs have a smaller impact on the stats at lower levels).
Making a Good EV Spread
Most of the time, there won't be one proper EV spread for any particular pokemon. When choosing the right EV spread you have to consider, what moves you plan on using, and what areas the rest of your team can cover. For example, surviving Raichu's Thunderbolt isn't as important if you have a Dugtrio on your team. A good EV spread should take advantage of a pokemon's strong points, while at the same time protecting it from the most obvious weaknesses. For example, giving special defense EVs to Marowak will allow it to survive any super effective attack, making it harder to counter. But if you waste too many EVs on special defense, it won't have enough attack to KO that pokemon in one hit, or it won't have enough speed to outspeed other important pokemon. As you can see, making an EV spread can quickly become complicated, but here are a few tips on making and perfecting EV spreads:
- Battle. See what stats are most important on the particular pokemon, do you need to outspeed a lot of things, or do more damage?
- Calculate. Having enough power to do 70% to a pokemon is not very useful. Set your attack (or special atttack) so that you can OHKO (100% damage) them, or so that you can 2HKO them (54% with leftovers). If it's somewhere in the middle, you are wasting EVs.
- Analyze. Consider what weaknesses your other pokemon have. If your five other pokemon are Heracross, Machamp, Medicham, Breloom, and Blaziken (not recommended you use this as a team) Then your Zapdos will need a lot more defense EVs so that it can repeatedly switch in on flying attacks.
Contents -- ** Covered in this post
- Introduction
- How to get EVs
- Vitamins
- IVs
- Making a Good EV Spread
** Places to Train
** The Undo Button
** Conclusion
Places to Train
These are best places to train in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Note that some are trainers and some are wild pokemon. Trainers give more experience, but it can take some time before they fight you, and you might have to fight them a couple of times before they have the pokemon listed below
**Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald**
Whismur - Rusturf Tunnel - 1 EVs
Expert Timothy - Route 115 - 2 EVs
Tuber Lola - Route 109 (on land) - 6 EVs
Shuppet (rare in Ruby version) - Mt. Pyre - 1 EV
Triathlete Maria - Route 117 - 2 EVs
Triathlete Dylan - Route 117 - 2 EVs
Black Belt Nob - Route 115 - 8 EVs
Clamperl - Underwater - 1 EVs
Pokemaniac Steve - Route 114 - 5 EVs
Kindler Bernie - Route 114 - 4 EVs
Hiker Trent - Route 112 - 9 EVs
Special Attack
Spinda - Route 113 - 1 EVs
Triathlete Abigail - Route 110 - 2 EVs
Triathlete Benjamin - Route 110 - 2 EVs
Special Defense
Tentacool - Abandoned Ship - 1 EV
Tentacruel - Abandoned Ship - 2 EV
Electrike, Wingull, Zigzagoon - Route 118 - 1 EV
Linoone, Manectric - Route 118 - 2 EVs
Pokefan Isabel - Route 110 - 2 EVs
Twins Amy + Liv - Route 103 - 2 EVs
**Fire Red and Leaf Green (credit to Amazing Ampharos for this section)**
Dunsparce - Three Island (through cave) - 1 EV
Paras - Mt. Moon (B1) - 1 EV
Pokemon Ranger Nicolas - Sevault Canyon - 6 EVs
Tangela - Route 21 - 1 EV
Biker Ruben - Cycling Road - 6 EVs
Special Attack
Gastly - Lavender Tower - 1 EV
Haunter - Lavender Tower - 2 EVs
Slugma - Mt. Ember (B3) - 1 EV
Pokemon Ranger Madeline - Sevault Canyon - 6 EVs
Special Defense
Tentacool - One Island (water - 1 EV
Tentacruel - One Island (water) - 2 EVs
Aroma Lady Miah - Sevault Canyon - 6 EVs
Diglett - Diglett's Cave - 1 EV
Dugtrio - Diglett's Cave - 2 EVs
Picnicker Becky - Route 115 - 6 EVs
The Undo Button
If your pokemon was already trained, or your dog trained it for you, that pokemon probably has EVs you don't want. In Emerald version, there are six berries you can use to remove these EVs. Each berry removes 10 EVs and increases your pokemon's happiness.
- Pomeg Berry lowers HP
- Kelpsy Berry lowers Attack
- Qualot Berry lowers Defense
- Hondew Berry lowers Special Attack
- Grepa Berry lowers Special Defense
- Tamato Berry lowers Speed
EVs are an important part of pokemon and can be the key to victory. Whether you are battling a friend, playing Battle Frontier, or battling on Netbattle, make sure you always consider EVs when raising (or choosing) your pokemon. Always be sure you are using the "snap" feature on Netbattle, and, as always, experiment to your heart's content.
isn't this the one on smogon?
Come on God, do I seem bullet proof?
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yep, but this isn't smogon, and I see a lot of questions on this subject so I figured I would post it here as well.
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The Undo Button
If your pokemon was already trained, or your dog trained it for you, that pokemon probably has EVs you don't want. In Emerald version, there are six berries you can use to remove these EVs. Each berry removes 10 EVs and increases your pokemon's happiness.
- Pomeg Berry lowers HP
- Kelpsy Berry lowers Attack
- Qualot Berry lowers Defense
- Hondew Berry lowers Special Attack
- Grepa Berry lowers Special Defense
- Tamato Berry lowers Speed
^^^Most useful info I have learned today, thats with going school and news. I can now go back and make my pkmn from before I knew about EVs beasts. Thank you so much. Also, is it true that IV calcs are less accurate the farther your level is from 50 or is that bs?
The higher level, the more accurate you can tell your IVs, but, Level 20 is most preferred.
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all stat modifiers are multiplied by (<pokemon's level/100). So that is indeed true.
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Josef Adalian at The Wrap has a post up on how local NBC affiliates were down sharply with their 11pm newscasts were down sharply versus the prior week during premiere week. Note: premiere week here means the week of September 21-27 and not the first week of shows for The Jay Leno Show.
The article is pretty well disclaimed as far as why you should take the numbers with a grain of salt. But then looks at the numbers anyway (an approach we utilize often ourselves):
At first glance, the premiere week numbers don't look good for NBC. At all.
"They're just scary," a wag at a network not named NBC told TheWrap.
But keep in mind that premiere week offered CBS and ABC a chance to show off their biggest guns, thus boosting their local stations. By contrast, Leno was in "settling in" mode last week, having attracted much sampling and much bigger audiences the week before.
NBC says it's taking a full-year approach to 10 p.m., and presumably that applies to its stations. The network believes Leno will do better when the other networks are in repeats (Jay plans on taking off just a few weeks per year).
In those weeks when Jay is opposite repeats, there's a chance he could surge– lifting local news numbers with him.
It's also possible that Leno has found his comfort zone and will, on most nights, average roughly between a 1.7 and a 2.4 in the demo– just as he did during premiere week.
If that's the case, the question is whether local news numbers will follow the same pattern as premiere week, dropping in tandem with Leno's decline (relative to the primetime dropoff). Or do viewers return to their old viewing habits for late news, skipping Leno but returning at 11 o'clock?
You can see the numbers and disclaimers about last week's 11pm results in LA, NY, Philly, Chicago and Dallas for yourselves…


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Santhera Pharmaceuticals (SIX: SANN), a Swiss specialty pharmaceutical company focused on neuromuscular diseases, today announced preclinical data on a novel generation of melanocortin-4 (MC4) receptor antagonists for potential treatment of cancer cachexia (severe muscle wasting). The most advanced candidates significantly increase food intake in healthy animals and prevent cancer-induced body weight loss in disease-relevant models. In-vivo data will be presented today at the 2008 Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity & Cancer of the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) in Washington DC [1].


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Hi, I would like to make a budweiser bottle cap cake. Does anyone have good tips or instructions on how to make one.
do you mean 1 large bottle cap? or would you like to make a cake covered in tiny caps?
checke out member Traceyscakes, she posted a picture of hers. Just what your looking for.
Here's one: http://www.sugarfrosted.com/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=7
a google search produces a bunch of them, depending on what you are looking for.
I checked that site out, and the cap was great! However who does the site belonge to ?
Their name and email address are at the top of the page.
I made one awhile back, I used an 8" round covered in grey fondant and kind of pinched the sides, almost like you would for a pie crust, only make the pinches larger, than used dove grey luster dust and vodka and painted over it, then used an edible image of the Budweiser logo.
There are a few in the galleries to view and help you along the way, HTH
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so we'll see what he says.
It doesn't matter what he says. He can say whatever he wants but that won't make these "tweaks" any less BS.
It doesn't matter what he says. He can say whatever he wants but that won't make these "tweaks" any less BS.
quote:I could see this being useful if you're setting up a public kiosk-type machine.
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I love volunteering others to do work.
Heh heh heh... when I was teaching at DEC, occ'y we'd get someone who claimed he'd been in the industry for ten years or whatever, and who was obviously just blowing smoke. We'd privately agree that it must have been the same year, repeated ten times.
Of course, I'd say in this case it's more like the first month, repeated 60 times.
Not exactly exactly. The best you can probably say is, "Most of the time, they have a good reason, however you define 'good'." Often people overlook things, things get lost in the shuffle, etc., and MS is no exception. Even if you could say MS was on top of every single little thing, you certainly cannot say they always hold the user's interests above all others. It is facile, naive and ignorant to think or believe otherwise. It might best be summarized by saying, "MS conservatively configures Windows ootb to be as stable, compatible and "feature-loaded" for the middle of the road user as possible, while at the same time serving their own interests and those of their partners". Having made those two points, there's certainly lots of room for tweaking your system for performance and/or to meet your personal requirements (meaning not those of MS and/or its "associates"). At the same time, most of the so-called tweaks in this article are useless and may actually degrade performance in certain configurations. Your time and effort are better applied to defrag, bootvis, driver upgrades (sometimes) and services/startup/visual effects tweaking.
Maybe, just maybe, all such "technical" articles should be submitted to a qualified reviewer FIRST?
Gah, I was reading this and wondering why I hadn't heard much or any of this before, even in WinNT/2K...
Most 'tweaking' is fixing someone's bloated Comcrap/HP/Gateway/Dell services/startup/registry (and overeager printer software).
As far as raw speed improvement is concerned, anyway.
I seem to remember trying bootvis before and it completely borked my install
I thought everyone knew about the QoS myth
Why did you not offer to write such an article yourself instead of deriding others who did? Arstechnica is a community after all... I am sure Caeser or Hannibal or any of the other writers would have helped if you asked.
So, instead of standing back and pointing fingers, do the community a favor and write one up yourself. I am sure Ken and the others would be most appreciative.
Most articles go through the Writer's Block peer review before they are published. I don't think this one did.
I don't like it that we linked to his commercial website. Feels like a sales pitch.
the rebuild thumbnail cache does nothing. I often drag thumbnail files across systems.
I did this, and the thumbnail file was not replaced/rebuilt.
Sonoma: I didn't see it either. This one jumped out of thin air.
I'm changing back on these now that I've read todays comments.
I believe that exact course of action has already been recommended.
> Probably about 80% of the services running
> on an unmodified system are resource (CPU
> and RAM) drainers, and some raise concerns
> over privacy and security.
They certainly do "raise concerns," but in terms of actual resources "drained" their impact is just about nil. A thread that doesn't need to run, because it has nothing to do, takes absolutely no CPU time; similarly, memory not referenced recently will be automatically freed for other uses if and when the system needs it for other uses -- until then, it may LOOK as if the svchost.ese's are "draining" a lot of RAM, but in fact these aren't anything like permanent allocations.
> Why did you not offer to write such an
> article yourself instead of deriding others
> who did?
Because I don't believe in tweaks in the first place. My pattern is:
1. Build computer
2. Install OS and needed apps
3. Use computer
Most so-called "tweaks" are non-solutions for problems that don't exist in the first place.
Indeed, but of the 43 services I disabled to free-up system resources, how many of those actually sit there and do nothing all the time? Furthermore, what of those services that get loaded only occasionally do their thing and then "deallocate" resources they used immediately (making them available to other processes so the system doesn't have to do it when the resources are needed, resulting in system slowdown (to use a run-on sentence. ))? To both questions I'd reply, "Not many". We can get into details if you'd like. I have the list here of the services I disabled (including their default and modified states). It may, in fact, be informative to me, you and everyone else if we dissected them a bit.
In any case the truth is, the more services you have enabled, the more services the system has to manage, and that alone takes a not unsubstantial amount or resources in itself.
[This message was edited by a.k.a. Anonymous Man on May 07, 2003 at 14:20.]
Agreed. It's one tiny pigeon-step away from spam imo. Why doesn't the author's name simply link to an email address like it does for everyone else?
I'm not qualified to comment on the worth of these tweaks but it does seem as if the people here that are do not hold this article in very high regard (to put it mildly). Not good!
The way things are going I'm half expecting someone to come along and trash Bootvis and then the debinking will be total.
[I really hope you didn't pay for this article Caesar!]
quote:This is actually the way that it's supposed to work. I'm not sure where or how the peer review and editorial process broke down on this one, but it may have something to do with the fact that Caesar's out of the country and he's our NT/2K/XP guy.
Anyway, we're trying to get hold of the author right now, who seems to be MIA. I think Caesar is the only one with his email address.
quote:I don't like this one bit, either, and if I'd have been editing it I'd have insisted on a real email address.
> In any case the truth is, the more services
> you have enabled, the more services the
> system has to manage, and that alone takes a
> not unsubstantial amount or resources in
> itself.
Actually, no, the resources needed to "manage" the services are just about nil. Since they are practically all lumped into just a few processes there are only four or five processes to launch. The service controller manager exchanges a few SCM messages per service with threads in the respective process, and then goes to sleep - there is no further "management" to be done. Threads that don't want to run take zero time, and zero time to "manage" (nothing in the scheduler runs in order-n time). And since there is not a process per service, the job of working set reclamation isn't made any larger by having more services in the shared-service processes either.
Given questionable content of the article, and the fact that it was apparently posted without review as a result of some administrative fsckup, and its author now seems to be MIA, I'll second the suggestion of pulling the article.
This is an embarassing day for Ars. I am deeply disappointed that this article made it under the "radar of credibility" and that it is still on the front page after so many hours. This article is the worthless drivel of an idiot trying to draw money from to his website. Ars has been had.
I've been reading the Keen website we linked to. Keith says he's written articles for lots of enthusiasts web sites, and it appears his MO is the same for everyone of them.
Write a short article for an enthusiast website, get hits on his commercial website, get business...
I googled his name and found this web page, it might or might not be his, but under "writings" he does mention the CNet article
It's got his email there as well, so maybe you can contact him there Hannibal.
In his resume he says he wrote an article on Windows 2000 for Ars in April-June 2001...I don't remember reading him before, but maybe I'm wrong. He doesn't have a link to the article.
he has written for us before, so I see why we were fast to publish him this timie.
[This message was edited by Sonoma76 on May 07, 2003 at 15:34.]
You mean the Thumbs.db? If you want that rebuilt, delete it. You can also refresh thumbnails from that file's Explorer context menu. If you want all thumbnails rebuilt, delete all Thumbs.db recursively. From the command line:
attrib /s thumbs.db -h -s -r && del /s thumbs.db
Edit: I'm looking at the article now. Are you referring to the "Thumbnail Cache" entry? It doesn't say "Rebuild Thumbnail Cache." It looks like that should disable creating new thumbnail caches, but probably wouldn't affect existing Thumbs.db. To make Windows stop using Thumbs.db files, you'd need to do this reg tweak and then delete all Thumbs.db files.
Windows 2000 Memory Subsystem Tweaking
And if you take a glance through the discussion thread you'll see that there were similar criticisms of that article, including a detailed post by DriverGuru.
woah, he's finishing his junior year of college.
there's the other article. It contains many of the same items some wrong too with the same result in the discussion. (note this post by Hat Monster, our bios guide writer)
and this one
Writers don't have the ability to post things like this on their own do they? That's what it is sounding like to me...
No, not really. I think the news guys could do it (like Semi, Ator, etc) but not normal writers. When I wrote my satellite radio article last summer it went through the writer's block and everyone commented on it, suggested changes etc...
On the other hand, that's not always necessary. Jade's reviews don't need reviewing, they just ARE, and lots of other content is left up to the discretion of Caesar and crew.
There's quite a few articles waiting to be prepped and posted on the Front page in the Writer's Block however, so it's surprising this was posted without any review.
This article and the frontpage post for it should be updated, at the very least warning people to stay clear (an apology should be considered IMO).
I have always had the opinion that registry tweaks do little at best, and can cause major problems at worst. The only reason why I bothered with this article is because of Ars' good name. This guide does serious damage to that name.
(Edit - my postcount should show how strongly I feel about this issue, not the amount of time I've been religously reading the site)
[This message was edited by Rkone on May 07, 2003 at 16:25.]
oh please - everyone makes mistakes, and this "mistake" is not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
How they do or do not handle it, however, is where any "damage" will come from.
True, I should have said 'As it stands, this guide does serious damage to that name'.
I just skimmed the article, but I didn't think it was as bad as some people are syaing. Having said that, he did miss the one thing I was looking for: SCSI tweaks. If anyone hasn't had my misfortune, SCSI performance under XP is absolute crap. I've almost decided to go back to 2K.
There are a few sites with info on this:
Terrible SCSI performance in Windows XP (StorageReview.com)
Windows XP SCSI Performance - Revisited
New SCSI/IDE Benches (2CPU.com)
He also registered on Ars and replied to comments about his first article:
This article could have been written by APK, WTF? Why is this article up on Ars' front page? What the hell is PowerTweak (It sounds a lot like a SoftRam 95 type thing)? Why did an Ars front page article make me feel like I was reading something from BlkViper.com? Please, someone help me out with these questions!
Eh? What exactly is wrong with Black Viper? Granted I haven't read his site in its entirety, but I've found him to be an excellent resource on tweaking 2K/XP services.
First of all it's not Black Viper, he insists on calling himself BlkViper
Second of all, he does have an extensive site with service tweaks, mostly all "borrowed" from some other sites around the web and claimed as his own research.
And lastly, some of the services he claims should be tweaked would actually harm the average users system performance, were they to be screwed with.
Um, blckviper.com and blackviper.com are the same site. I'd think it pretty much goes w/o saying that a lot of the info on his site can be found elsewhere on the web, but I'm not sure about your assertion that he plagiarised other's work. Not to sound like I'm sticking-up for Black Viper, but do you have any evidence to back-up this slander? As far as taking his advice visavis services tweaking: I don't do anything extraordinary with my system, so in that sense I am "average". I followed his advice (have for years) and have had 0 problems as a result. On the contrary, I've enjoyed a benefit. If you don't know what you're doing you can screw things up badly indeed. Under "average" circumstances, however, you shouldn't have any problems. (Otoh, if you aren't competent enough to reverse any changes you make, you have no business going there in the first place.)
He says that this is the first in a series of articles he's going to bless us with. If we're very good boys and girls we'll get to read more pearls of wisdom in the next episode from Teh Master of Teh 1337 7w34k4z!
After reading through this thread one thing stands out the most: this guy wrote a similar article for Ars two years ago. It received a reception very similar to this one, so the question is: why on earth was he even considered for another one on more or less the same subject?
Perhaps different people were involved in selecting the first and second. We have had a lot of staff transitions since then.
My vote is for pulling the damn thing, personally.
Regardless of the merit of the article, if this is someone who had an article published on Ars in the past and it was beaten into a pulp, it definitely should have received serious review before being posted.
It certainly would have helped avoid some of the flaming going on.
If it could have had a legitimate "approved by Caesar" sub-title or something... I don't know.


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Smith & Wesson M&P 22
Anyone shooting one of these? I looked at one at the local gun dealer yesterday and really liked it. Thought it was nice that it was similar in size to some of my larger caliber autos. Thought maybe it would be an inexpenisve way (22LR) to get a good deal or shooting / handling in while shooting cheap ammo but still handling a gun that is similar is size to my other autos.
Does anyone have one of these? What are your thought on this gun? What did you pay? Local gun dealer is asking $349 which I didn't think was bad since the MSRP on the S&W page is $419.
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I just picked one up last week for about that price. Maybe 5 or 10 more. Haven't played with it, yet. Too cold here in Pittsburgh. I, too, liked it for relatively cheap shooting and as a trainer for the rest of the line. Very happy with my purchase. Grip is a tad big, but my husband will shoot it when I'm using something else at the range, so that's okay.
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I've had mine for almost a year now; bought it last February. I don't have any other M&P series pistols, so I can't say it's for training. I bought it for plinking fun and for use as in introduction gun for new shooters. Everyone who has used it has liked it so far. It groups pretty well, has no noticeable recoil, and is extremely inexpensive to shoot. Mine has more than paid for itself shooting .22 instead of 9mm/.45 for fun. Easy enough to strip and clean, no complaints on that front. Have not been keeping a round count, but it's easily over 2000. Every time I go shooting, it comes with me and gets at least 200 rounds, even if I'm alone. When I have someone else, it gets more.
The grip fits my XL-size-glove hand comfortably, but my mother and sister have had no complaints either with their much smaller hands. It's a fixed medium M&P grip if I remember correctly.
However, mine isn't a big fan of anything other than Minimags so far. I tried to run some bulk stuff at the beginning and it didn't take, so I've been running CCI since. Should probably go back and try the bulk again now that it's definitely been broken in. Magazines are a little expensive (2 for $30ish last year and 2 for $40 the other day) but have been reliable so far. Sights are a white dot front and height adjustable only black in the rear. The rear sights seem a little cheap to me, but they work fine and hold zero. YMMV.
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I bought mine because of the double action like trigger. All my guns are double action so I think a perfect cheap to run trainer. Most other 22's are da/sa.
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Got one last month. Only fired a few mags through it. But like it alot. They were on sale from the supplier to the lgs, he pasted it on to retail. Got it for 314$ plus tax. Last week I notice the newer arrivals were more, sale over. BE CAREFUL, after buying the M&P22 I went and got the 9, and last week put the 9c on hold till I get back this week. YOU've BEEN WARNED!
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Had mine for about a year now and bought it for a cheap fullsize trainer..
break it in with some of the good stuff and after about 200 rds mine now eats the bulk stuff with no problems.
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Love mine wish my MP 9 was as accurate.good gun.
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I don't own any M&Ps but I handled the M&P22 at the LGS today and thought it was pretty sweet and the price was right at $350. Of course they would not let me dry fire it so I could not test out the trigger. I like that it is a full size pistol. I tried a Ruger SR22 and it was just too small for me. I am looking at possibly getting one for my wife to learn shooting pistols with and some time I will have her handle it and see how it fits her and hear what she says. I do have a Ruger Mark 1 and it is great but I want to try someting different and the Rugers are a real PIA to break down and put back together.
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Way ahead of ya, pardner...I picked mine up NIB for about $100.00 less than MSRP at the last show. I bought it expressly for monthly practice; and so far, I'm enjoying it immensely.
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+1 on what Sigarms228 said..the Rugers are indeed a major pain to field strip. Anything that requires a rubber mallet for coming apart [as recommended in the instruction manual] is off my list!
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I've had mine for about six months and love it. Haven't put anything in it besides CCI Minimags but it's reliable and accurate with it so I haven't felt the need to change something that works.
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I have one - very nice shooter.
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Also +1
Have had mine for few months, I've shot over 2000 rounds easily. I've ran CCI Minimags for first 200-300 before switching to federal and wwb bulks. Only problem I've had was 2 ftf on wwb bulks out of 500. Federal bulk has been flawless so I use that exclusively now.
I've compared SR22 with M&P 22 before purchase and it has easily won over the SR22 - very easy to field strip and clean, holds like a full sized pistol. Range test was just as good as it proved to be quite accurate. I recommend it.
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Auctioneer Strategy and Pricing: Evidence from an Art Auction
This study examines the role of auctioneer's strategy used in determining pricing at art auctions. It characterizes the role of auctioneers, prices that the paintings were sold at and tests a series of hypotheses about their behaviour. This is done using pricing data from an auction of paintings. It examines the relationship between the auctioneer's estimates and realized prices. It determines whether the auctioneer and the market evaluate different attributes of different paintings differently and finally, an analysis is undertaken on the determinants of prices in the art market as suggested by hedonic regression.
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Notable: USF hasn't played since losing to top-ranked Connecticut last week, and this isn't too comparable, though UNF lost by only three at Florida. … The Ospreys have a pair of locals in PG Jade Givens (Jefferson) and C Larkira Jones (Gibbs), but their top scorer is G Brittany Kirkland at 15.1 ppg. … USF plays five games in the next nine days and will get a boost Saturday with the addition of transfer PG Sasha Bernard. So far, the only consistent scorer has been G Andrea Smith (17.8 ppg). … With a strong week, the Bulls can head into the holiday break with momentum, gearing up for Big East play in January.
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NRW also said, in a statement on Thursday, that it was on track to achieve its 2010-11 revenue target of $700 million.
But it expected 2010-11 net profit to be at the lower end of the range of $40 million to $45 million due to the impact of wet weather.
"High rainfall during the March quarter in the Pilbara region, the Northern Territory and in Queensland has adversely impacted productivity on a number of sites," NRW said in the statement.
NRW said it would offer an initial 25.5 million shares at $2.74 a share, compared with NRW's last traded price of $2.85 at close on Wednesday.
In a second phase, eligible shareholders will be offered up to $15,000 in shares at $2.74, to raise up to a further $10 million.
The equity raising would maintain "NRW's conservative gearing" after acquisition of plant and equipment, and provide "flexibility in funding capital expenditure associated with major contracts", the company said.
NRW said separately on Thursday it had won a five-year, $780 million mining services contract with the Middlemount coal project in Queensland, starting on July 1.
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Her Naked Body, A Story Of 2 FoolsI walked into the hallway, a stranger she let into her home that was lost in her town (5yrs ago). I was a teenager, traveling, partying, living life to the fullest! She allowed me to spend the night, my sincerity I guess allowed me to gain her trust. I woke to water running in the shower in the adjacent room. I walked into the hallway, "Come in", yelled a voice above the running shower head. I looked around, maybe it was from another room...her friend was there as well. "Are you there? Come in...". Again the voice demanded impatiently. I stared at the light peeking below the door....the steam wrapping itself around my ankles, pulling me closer. I opened the door and stepped into the bathroom, closed the door behind me...head still down. "Hey, what do you want for breakfast?". The shower curtain slid backwards revealing her body, nude....in clear view....wet and glistening like a Christmas tree. Inappropriately put for the dialog, but true. My virgin eyes strategically maneuvered every curve and steered along every plain view of flesh. She looked flawless. "Louisiana", I exclaimed. "What? What are you talking about?" she asked whipping her hair in a fashion that made her own image in the mirror envious. I was lost in translation, English language became trigonometry within seconds. I was paralyzed, but my eyes were popping fire-crackers off of her body. She stepped out of the tub, water dripping onto the floor with giggles. "Am I High?" This cannot be happening, she motioned for the towel....I handed it to her from the counter behind me. She wiped the water off, and handed the towel to me as she turned around. What am I to do? I want to respect her, I am not like other guys, they would take advantage...not me. But, being the courteous human being that I am, I felt it was my civic duty as a citizen of the United....oh hell, I wrapped the towel around her! Wrapped my arms around her as she lay her wet hair back on my shoulder. At the time, I didn't even notice...probably didn't even care. My manhood...spoke for itself. Her hands found itself out of the towel as she reached behind her...I felt her tiny hand....at that moment, she Gasped quietly containing herself. Surely, she was a fool to trust me....and I was a fool to trust her. But, we were fools in the moment and it was too late. No turning back, no asking questions, we crossed that line.
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It was a highly competitive week on the Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 but Jung Eun Ji and Seo In Guk pulled away with the win for another week.
According to Billboard's updated K-Pop Hot 100 ranking for the week of September 29, 2012, Seo In Guk and Jung Eun Ji's All For You remained on top for yet another week in first place and beating out the big debuts of Orange Caramel's Lipstick and G-Dragon's Missing You (featuring Kim Yun A of Jaurim) in second and third place respectively.
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Warwick Vets High School to remain open for now
The Warwick School Committee voted Tuesday night to keep Warwick Veterans Memorial High School open for now.
The committee will hire a company to look into consolidation before closing any schools.
The proposal has met with opposition from students, parents and teachers. But administrators cite the city's declining school population and say it doesn't make economic sense to operate three high schools.
Students from Vets would be split between Pilgrim and Toll Gate. Gorton and Aldrich junior high schools would be closed in 2015, and students would move to the repurposed Vets building.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Maurice Barrow had 19 points to pace four Fairfield players in double figures as the Stags cruised past Marist 81-53 on Sunday.
Rakim Sanders added 17 points, while both Derek Needham and Desmond Wade scored 12 apiece for the Stags (11-10, 6-4 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Needham also chipped in a game-high five assists, putting him over 400 for his career.
The Red Foxes led for nearly the entire first half, including a 25-21 advantage with 3:34 before halftime on Devin Price's layup. But, after a timeout, Ryan Olander hit a pair of free throws and Needham stroked a 3-pointer to spark a 12-1 Fairfield run into intermission for a seven-point lead.
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HP OpenVMS Systems Documentation
OpenVMS Cluster Systems
9.5 System-Disk Throughput
Achieving enough system-disk throughput requires some combination of the following techniques:
9.5.1 Avoiding Disk Rebuilds
The OpenVMS file system maintains a cache of preallocated file headers and disk blocks. When a disk is not properly dismounted, such as when a system fails, this preallocated space becomes temporarily unavailable. When the disk is mounted again, OpenVMS scans the disk to recover that space. This is called a disk rebuild.
A large OpenVMS Cluster system must ensure sufficient capacity to boot nodes in a reasonable amount of time. To minimize the impact of disk rebuilds at boot time, consider making the following changes:
Caution: In large OpenVMS Cluster systems, large
amounts of disk space can be preallocated to caches. If many nodes
abruptly leave the cluster (for example, during a power failure), this
space becomes temporarily unavailable. If your system usually runs with
nearly full disks, do not disable rebuilds on the server nodes at boot
In addition to the system disk throughput issues during an entire OpenVMS Cluster boot, access to particular system files even during steady-state operations (such as logging in, starting up applications, or issuing a PRINT command) can affect response times.
You can identify hot system files using a performance or monitoring tool (such as those listed in Section 1.5.2), and use the techniques in the following table to reduce hot file I/O activity on system disks:
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Moving these files from the system disk to a separate disk eliminates
most of the write activity to the system disk. This raises the
read/write ratio and, if you are using Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS,
maximizes the performance of shadowing on the system disk.
Depending on the number of computers to be included in a large cluster and the work being done, you must evaluate the tradeoffs involved in configuring a single system disk or multiple system disks.
While a single system disk is easier to manage, a large cluster often requires more system disk I/O capacity than a single system disk can provide. To achieve satisfactory performance, multiple system disks may be needed. However, you should recognize the increased system management efforts involved in maintaining multiple system disks.
Consider the following when determining the need for multiple system disks:
Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS is an alternative to creating multiple system disks. Volume shadowing increases the read I/O capacity of a single system disk and minimizes the number of separate system disks that have to be maintained because installations or updates need only be applied once to a volume-shadowed system disk. For clusters with substantial system disk I/O requirements, you can use multiple system disks, each configured as a shadow set.
Cloning the system disk is a way to manage multiple system disks. To clone the system disk:
9.6 Conserving System Disk Space
The essential files for a satellite root take up very little space, so
that more than 96 roots can easily fit on a single system disk.
However, if you use separate dump files for each satellite node or put
page and swap files for all the satellite nodes on the system disk, you
quickly run out of disk space.
To avoid running out of disk space, set up common dump files for all the satellites or for groups of satellite nodes. For debugging purposes, it is best to have separate dump files for each MOP and disk server. Also, you can use local disks on satellite nodes to hold page and swap files, instead of putting them on the system disk. In addition, move page and swap files for MOP and disk servers off the system disk.
Reference: See Section 10.8 to plan a strategy for
managing dump files.
As an OpenVMS Cluster system grows, certain data structures within OpenVMS need to grow in order to accommodate the large number of nodes. If growth is not possible (for example, because of a shortage of nonpaged pool) this will induce intermittent problems that are difficult to diagnose.
You should run AUTOGEN with FEEDBACK frequently as a cluster grows, so that settings for many parameters can be adjusted. Refer to Section 8.7 for more information about running AUTOGEN.
In addition to running AUTOGEN with FEEDBACK, you should check and manually adjust the following parameters:
Prior to OpenVMS Version 7.2, customers were advised to also check the
SCSCONNCNT parameter. However, beginning with OpenVMS Version 7.2, the
SCSCONNCNT parameter is obsolete. SCS connections are now allocated and
expanded only as needed, up to a limit of 65,000.
Note: On Alpha systems, the SCS buffers are allocated as needed, and the SCSBUFFCNT parameter is reserved for OpenVMS use only.
Description: On VAX systems, the SCSBUFFCNT parameter controls the number of buffer descriptor table (BDT) entries that describe data buffers used in block data transfers between nodes.
Symptoms of entry shortages: A shortage of entries affects performance, most likely affecting nodes that perform MSCP serving.
How to determine a shortage of BDT entries: Use the SDA utility (or the Show Cluster utility) to identify systems that have waited for BDT entries.
How to resolve shortages: If the SDA EXAMINE command
displays a nonzero value, BDT waits have occurred. If the number is
nonzero and continues to increase during normal operations, increase
the value of SCSBUFFCNT.
Description: The SCSRESPCNT parameter controls the number of response descriptor table (RDT) entries available for system use. An RDT entry is required for every in-progress message exchange between two nodes.
Symptoms of entry shortages: A shortage of entries affects performance, since message transmissions must be delayed until a free entry is available.
How to determine a shortage of RDT entries: Use the SDA utility as follows to check each system for requests that waited because there were not enough free RDTs.
How to resolve shortages: If the SDA EXAMINE command
displays a nonzero value, RDT waits have occurred. If you find a count
that tends to increase over time under normal operations, increase
Description: The CLUSTER_CREDITS parameter specifies the number of per-connection buffers a node allocates to receiving VMS$VAXcluster communications. This system parameter is not dynamic; that is, if you change the value, you must reboot the node on which you changed it.
Default: The default value is 10. The default value may be insufficient for a cluster that has very high locking rates.
Symptoms of cluster credit problem: A shortage of credits affects performance, since message transmissions are delayed until free credits are available. These are visible as credit waits in the SHOW CLUSTER display.
How to determine whether credit waits exist: Use the SHOW CLUSTER utility as follows:
How to resolve incrementing credit waits:
If the number of CR_WAITS is incrementing more than once per minute, perform the following steps:
Note that it is not necessary for the CLUSTER_CREDITS parameter to be
the same on every node.
Network instability also affects OpenVMS Cluster operations. Table 9-9 lists techniques to minimize typical network problems.
9.9 DECnet Cluster Alias
You should define a cluster alias name for the OpenVMS Cluster to ensure that remote access will be successful when at least one OpenVMS Cluster member is available to process the client program's requests.
The cluster alias acts as a single network node identifier for an OpenVMS Cluster system. Computers in the cluster can use the alias for communications with other computers in a DECnet network. Note that it is possible for nodes running DECnet for OpenVMS to have a unique and separate cluster alias from nodes running DECnet--Plus. In addition, clusters running DECnet--Plus can have one cluster alias for VAX, one for Alpha, and another for both.
Note: A single cluster alias can include nodes running either DECnet for OpenVMS or DECnet--Plus, but not both. Also, an OpenVMS Cluster running both DECnet for OpenVMS and DECnet--Plus requires multiple system disks (one for each).
Reference: See Chapter 4 for more information about setting up and using a cluster alias in an OpenVMS Cluster system.


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Studying one supercluster in the Great Wall has revealed a strange spider-like structure of galactic tendrils.
The 1.4 billion light-year long Great Wall structure was discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in 2003.
The largest supercluster in the Wall, SCl 126, is unusual compared to superclusters within other large-scale structures.
SCl 126 appears to be a hothouse of galactic mergers and astronomers are having a hard time modeling its formation.
Structure exists on nearly all scales in the universe. Matter clumps under its own gravity into planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, and superclusters.
Beyond even these in scale are the filaments and voids. The largest of these filaments is known as the Sloan Great Wall. This giant string of galaxies is 1.4 billion light years across making it the largest known structure in the universe.
Surprisingly, the Great Wall has never been studied in detail. Superclusters within it have been examined, but the wall as a whole has only come into consideration in a new paper from a team led by astronomers at Tartu Observatory in Estonia.
The Sloan Great Wall was first discovered in 2003 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The survey mapped the position of hundreds of millions of galaxies revealing the large-scale structure of the universe, thus revealing the Great Wall.
Within it, the Wall contains several interesting superclusters. The largest of these, SCl 126, has been shown previously to be unusual compared to superclusters within other large scale structures.
SCl 126 is described as having an exceptionally rich core of galaxies with tendrils of galaxies trailing away from it like an enormous "spider."
Typical superclusters have many smaller clusters connected by these threads. This pattern is exemplified by one of the other rich superclusters in the wall, SCl 111. If the wall is examined in only its densest portions, the tendrils extending away from these cores are quite simple, but as the team explored lower densities, sub-filaments became apparent.
Another way the team examined the Great Wall was by looking at the arrangement of different types of galaxies. In particular, the team looked for Bright Red Galaxies (BRGs) and found that these galaxies are often found together in groups with at least five BRGs present.
These galaxies were often the brightest of the galaxies within their own groups. As a whole, the groups with BRGs tended to have more galaxies which were more luminous, and had a greater variety of velocities.
The team suggests that this increased velocity dispersion is a result of a higher rate of interactions among galaxies than in other clusters. This is especially true for SCl 126 where many galaxies are actively merging.
Within SCl 126, these BRG groups were evenly distributed between the core and the outskirts while in SCl 111, these groups tended to congregate towards the high density regions. In both of these superclusters, spiral galaxies comprised about 1/3 of the BRGs.
The study of such properties will help astronomers to test cosmological models that predict galactic structure formation. The authors note that models have generally done a good job of being able to account for structures similar to SCl 111 and most other superclusters we have observed in the universe.
However, they fall short in creating superclusters with the size, morphology and distribution of SCl 126.
These formations arise from density fluctuations initially present during the Big Bang. As such, understanding the structures they formed will help astronomers to understand these perturbations in greater detail and, in turn, what physics would be necessary to achieve them. To help achieve this, the authors intend to continue mapping the morphology of the Sloan Great Wall as well as other superclusters to compare their features.


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Where do I even begin?! To say that life has changed in a million different ways would be a gross understatement. Mallory has brought so much joy into our world! Having a little one at home brings out depths of your character you didn't know existed. What a pleasure its been watching her grow and learn each day! Phew. I wonder how God choses who gets to be the parents of each individual child...whatever the case is, I'm honored.
Mallory still isn't the best at breastfeeding. She gets my breast milk from a bottle but has also started nursing at the breast using the nipple shield. We still have a ways to go but I'm amazed at the progress she has made in just one short month.
She is still wearing all newborn sized clothing however I think she really could fit into the 0-3 month sizes now.
- We are using the Aden and Anais swaddling blankets CONSTANTLY! This is one chilly baby. I also find I use them as burp cloths in a pinch.
-Mallory enjoys her MAM pacifiers. These are pretty much the only ones she will take at this point.
-Kyle and our moms have been using this cute BOON drying rack to store pump parts and Dr. Brown bottles in between feedings.
-Mallory wears Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive diapers. We haven't had too many issues with blow outs and they aren't harsh on her skin. She did have a small diaper rash this month and this stuff did the trick!
Again, I can't even begin to say how grateful I am to have had both my mom and Kyle's mom here with us. We really just had to take care of Mallory and chew our food, what a gift!
What are some of your "must have" baby items?


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