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MONTREAL — It's been two years since an IBM computer named Watson humbled humankind, or at least the part of it that takes quiz shows seriously, by beating two carbon-based Jeopardy champions at their own game. Now a prominent investment analyst suggests that episodes like this are something we'd better get used to.
This is more than an observation about the sweep of technological progress. It has immediate investment implications, believes economist Peter Berezin, chief strategist at Montreal's BCA Research
More than a decade after the tech wreck of the early 2000s left a generation of investors chary of such stocks, it's time to rethink, Berezin said on Friday. A major resurgence of high-tech companies could well be a key investment theme of the next decade or two.
Laying out his thesis in the current issue of The Bank Credit Analyst, Berezin notes that for the first time in history, we are able to create technologies that quickly boost human intellectual powers.
Although that's of remarkable importance in itself, it also has specific economic implications, Berezin notes. He believes most of humankind's long-term economic progress — from bare subsistence a few hundred years ago — stems from technological gains triggered by a gradual rise in intelligence. If this rise can be greatly accelerated by new technologies like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology and robotics, the implications are breathtaking, not least for the companies that make this possible.
Over the longer term, perhaps in 20 years or more, we could even be talking about something called the "technological singularity," a point when human history ends, to be replaced by whatever happens in a world run by computers or other devices whose intelligence exceeds our own.
But for every wise person who believes this singularity is on its way — and this speculation about self-improving machines goes back to the middle of the 19th century, when the first mechanical calculators were invented — there's another who thinks it's unlikely.
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has stated that "I am a skeptic." Ironically, his accurate 1965 prediction that the power of computer chips would tend to double every two years is a key support for the idea that machine intelligence might surpass that of humans. But "I don't think this kind of thing is likely to happen, at least for a long time," he told a 2008 computing conference.
In any event, a more immediate question for investors is whether the tech sector is headed for a very big upturn as a result of the same trends that excite singularity theorists.
Berezin thinks it is. For the first time in history, there are ways to boost intelligence much more rapidly than by improving nutrition and health. An obvious one is the steadily rising power and smaller size of our computers, particularly now that some devices are being linked directly to the human nervous system, for example to provide sight to the blind.
And we should also think about the power of biotechnology. The cost to sequence the human genome has fallen even faster than that of computer power, notes Berezin.
On the outskirts of Shenzhen, China, he points out, a biotech company known as BGI-Shenzen has 4,000 scientists at work. Some are studying the entire genomes of 1,000 brilliant individuals in order to isolate the genetic characteristics that contribute to high intelligence. "They will probably succeed," Berezin says, based on what is already known about links between genetic variation and intelligence.
Some of these advances can raise serious ethical questions, but once these are sorted out, there's not much question that technologies this powerful will be able to generate enormous revenues.
Since tech-wary investors continue to shy away from this sector, tech stocks look now like a bargain to Berezin, trading at price-to-earnings ratios about seven per cent below those of industrial stocks in general. A more typical valuation over the past three decades has been around 40 per cent above the industrial average, he notes, reflecting profit growth over this period that's been nearly twice as strong as for industrial stocks in general.
Here's one example of tech's growing capabilities. Since his Jeopardy triumph, Watson has tripled his processing speed and shrunk from the size of a room to that of a pizza box. And he's matured, moving from quiz-show showboating to diagnosing lung-cancer xX-rays — with nearly double the accuracy of the best-trained doctors.


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2013 Dallas-area girls soccer player of the year: Casie Ramsier stands out at Plano West, but not from her sister
Identical twins Casie and Brooke Ramsier share the same classes, the same car, the same room.
"We kind of have the same personalities too, although she can be a little more outgoing than I am sometimes," Casie said. "But we have the same humor and same mind-set in sports, that kind of thing."
They enjoy each other's company so much that the Plano West seniors signed to play soccer at the same university, Auburn.
Still, if there's a little inequity, it can cause some friction — at least in jest.
Two weeks ago, when Plano West won its second-straight UIL Class 5A championship, Brooke won the 5A championship game MVP for the second year a row.
When Casie found out she had been named SportsDay's All-Area girls soccer player of the year, she joked: "Finally, I have something I can hold over her."
With Brooke as the tireless facilitator and Casie as the willful scorer, Plano West had a tremendous run of success over the last two seasons: winning back-to-back titles, finishing 28-0-2 this season and ending the season unbeaten in its last 38 games.
"It's definitely been fun to watch them," Plano West coach Carley Phillips said. "They've gone back and forth in taking the lead on the field."
On a team full of standouts — Plano West had seven players sign with Division I colleges this season — Casie was a luminary, leading Plano West with 18 goals, while adding 12 assists. She becomes the third Plano West girls player to win SportsDay's top honor, joining Brooke Bowman (2002) and Rachel Shipley (2007).
"It's incredible, ending your senior year with a second state championship," Casie said. "And I couldn't ask for a better group of girls to win it with."
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Notable: 18 goals, 12 assists
About Ramsier: Ramsier led Plano West in goals and finished second in assists, a feat considering the team's wealth of talent. Fifteen players scored for West this season — with four girls in double-digits in goals — as the team scored 93 times over its undefeated 30-game season.
Did you know?: Ramsier's older sisters also played for Plano West before moving on to college athletics. Alexa ran cross country at Air Force, and Jordan played soccer for two seasons at Nevada.
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Overly sensitive trackball
I just installed a new Logitech trackball. Everything works fine but the trackball motion is far too sensitive. I even added a min and max speed to my xorg.conf, but it doesn't seem to make any difference...
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I tried playing with the "Resolution" option as well as the "SampleRate" and "BaudRate" (those last two are supposedly almost always not needed, but I can't find a good explanation of them). I just can't get this trackball working nicely. It's a new Logitech TrackmanWheel (if that helps).
I guess I should have described the problems better:
It is too sensitive in Linux. A small push on the trackball causes the mouse to move too much. I can't seem to find a way to change this nicely. It also moves a bit too jerkily.
It works fine in windows, but is very frustrating to use in Linux.
I tried `xset m...` too but I couldn't get it working well. Does anyone else use this trackball under linux? maybe you could tell me your configuration?
Those xorg config settings are fine. The question is... what desktop/window manager do you use? KDE has a mouse control center to fine tune these details. I'm sure other environments would be similar....
I use KDE. It does have a mouse adjustment centre, but it's not very useful. It was the first thin I tried playing with, but it didn't help much. I can set the acceleration to between 1.0x and 20.0x, and the threshold also has the same range of values. I can't enter numbers out of this range. Right now I have acceleration set to 1 (it moves smoother, the lower it is, and I have the threshold set to 11 (but the value for this seems to make no difference at all... I wonder if it's even actually working?).
Are there other methods to adjust the mouse speed? xset seems to work best so far, but I'm not sure where I should put the xset line so that KDE won't override it with it's own values.
And I'm still curious to the "BaudRate" and "SampleRate" in the xorg.conf file. In windows, I can set the sample rate for the mouse up to 200. Would it work in Linux too?
Does NO ONE have experience with this (or similar) device or problem?
I've heard that there are some drivers available for certain Logitech mice/trackballs, but I don't know if this is one of them?
Does anyone out there know?
I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel (trackball). My xorg.conf reads as :
I don't use any other tweaks for it. And the only difference I can see is the Protocol.
Might be worth a shot.
I tried the IMPS/2 protocol, didn't seem to do much...
But I looked at the comments, and there was also a Logitech protocol. So I tried that, and yeah, the trackball motion was a lot smoother and better. The only problem is that the scroll wheel no longer works. And yes, I have the "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" line.
I don't know how you can stand the tracking with the IMPS/2 protocol... i find the motion to be jerky and overly sensitive... I use the Logitech protocol and I get very smooth and fine control over the pointer, but I STILL can't get the scroll wheel to work. I even added `Option "Buttons" "5"` right before the ZAxisMapping line, and it didn't seem to do anything. Does the Logitech protocol even support 5 buttons? also, is there a way to adjust the SPEED of the mouse? I don't mean threshold) or acceleration, Windows allows all three (speed, accel, threshold) to be adjusted. If I could adjust the speed, then I could just reset the protocol to Auto or IMPS/2.
Which version of KDE & X are you using? I am on KDE3.4.1 & Xorg 6.8.2. And admittedly I tend to like a lively mouse pointer, I find setting the acceleration to 1x in the KDE control panel to slow it down considerably (too slow for my taste).
I am using xorg version 6.8.2, and kde version 3.4.1
My mouse behaviour seems the same regardless of what WM/DE I use. with Logitech protocol, it's very smooth, with others, it's always a bit jumpy and twitchy (but the scrollwheel works...)
Okay, I played around with my setup.
First I tried:
Added :
Which slowed it down quite a bit. Not sure if it would be enough? or too much?
Next I tried this:
I have mine set up through the PS/2 port, not sure if that would matter but worth a mention.
Ok, I think I have everything working now, sort of...
Identifier "Mouse1"
BUT...... to get it all working, I first ran mouseconfig (as root) and set the mouse to be an IMPS/2 mouse (I put the trackball back onto the PS/2 port). THEN, I edited the xorg.conf file to have the IMPS/2 protocol. Then I restarted X and things got weird... the keyboard would sometimes stop responding and I'd have to restart X again. Also,the tracking got very slow. It ended up once that I had to reboot the machine. And then, everything seemed to work very nicely :) :) :) ...mostly. I still think the tracking was smoother with the logitech protocol (and I'll try it again when I have time to spare), but I don't want to try it right now because it's still PRETTY smooth and the scrollwheel works.
I still feel that I don't have as fine control as I did with the mouse. Do other trackball users feel this too? I just tried tracing some pattersn in Gimp. These are easy with the mouse, but very difficult with the trackball.
One last thing: I tried the Resolution line like you had, and my X server wouldn't even start :(. wtf?
Ok, I had to go back to the Logitech Protocol. It was just too jumpy on IMPS/2....
Does anyone know a way to adjust Mouse SPEED? Windows has a setting for the mouse called speed. NOT Acceleration or Threshold... it has those TOO. If I can adjust the speed then I'll go back to using IMPS/2 protocol...
OR......... is there an ALTERNATE way to set the scrollwheel? So that I can get it working with Logitech? I'm really getting very very frustrated with this... I'd go back to a mouse, but it is just getting too uncomfortable and painful. the Trackball would be great if I could get smooth tracking AND a working scrollwheel at the same time.
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I've spoken about this earlier on mumsnet. I think that the rights of women while giving birth are an integral part of the feminist movement, and I know that a lot of you agree. Until even a few years back, these rights were thought to be limited to women being able to choose a home birth, a natural birth or a VBAC. I've always believed that it is equally a woman's right to choose an elective caesarian or an epidural, as long as it is an informed choice.
In the UK, I am seeing a more balanced debate about this now. Most of my feminist friends here agree that it is wrong to deny women the right to choose how they want to give birth, even if what they choose is artificial pain relief or a surgery. Her body and her choice.
Unfortunately, I haven't noticed a similar trend in other countries, particularly the USA. I have relatives there and so I visit the USA quite frequently and the attitude of the self-proclaimed "feminists" there really surprises me. A lot of them think that women should be denied epidurals and caesarians. They even think that women should be denied repeat caesarians and be forced to VBAC.
In fact, I was told by a friend that the American pregnancy forums will delete any post that speaks positively of an epidural and/or caesarian.
Americans IMO have always been more ignorant , but isn't this a bit extreme even for them?
I fully support a woman's right to have a hands-off, non-medical birth if she prefers that and I find it horrifying that women are being forced into caesarians or forceps without consent. But how will we solve this problem by denying other women their choices? The answer is to enforce an adult, sane woman's right to both refuse and request reasonable treatment while giving birth.
Some women want a medicalised birth and others want a natural birth. Why oh why can't we just leave all of them alone to make their own choices as adults?? And why does the American feminist movement align itself only to an all-natural birth? Doesn't that actually put pressure on women to do things in a certain way and maybe even set them up for disappointment if that does't happen?
For a movement with a motto like "her body and her choice" sometimes we sure like to tell women what to do with their bodies!
There isn't a single blog post on any feminist website whether American or otherwise that talks about a woman's right to demand pain relief or an elective caesarian. Not one.
Feminists like Naomi Woolf have gone on record to say that elective caesarians shouldn't be allowed and there are plenty of other similar opinions that you will find both online and in the real world.
I am certainly not implying that all feminists think like that. Nor am I implying that their concern over unnecessary interventions being used forcefully on women is unfounded. I am merely saying that women like myself who were denied pain relief and the right to choose a caesarian often feel like our rights and feelings don't feature anywhere on the feminist agenda.
Be honest- when was the last time you saw a feminist supporting the right to request pain relief and/or a c-section? The agenda focuses only on natural birth.
I didn't mean to offend anyone. I agree that this is a privileged debate. But then so are things like hot water in the shower. The women in Afghanistan aren't allowed to bathe because the limited water available is used for men. So if you stop getting hot water in your shower, shall I turn around and tell you to stop complaining because it's a privileged problem? No, because by virtue of living in the first world there are certain things that one expects. It doesn't mean we don't care about the plight of women elsewhere!
Since you say that you are an American feminist, please prove me wrong. Do you think that women have as much a right to demand and get an epidural as they do to have a natural birth? Do you think we have as much a right to choose a caesarian as to have a home birth? Do you support the choice to have a repeat caesarian as much as a VBAC?
If the answers are 'yes', then why don't feminists talk about both sides of the spectrum instead of advocating for just one?
I'm not asking you for proof that all feminists think like that, I'm asking for a link to just one.
It's terrible that you were denied pain relief during labour, really terrible - but I'm sure it wasn't because of any debate in the labour ward as to whether you should be denied it because of any feminist ideology.
The right to pain relief is an issue that all feminists who I've personally discussed birth with agree is a basic right of any women. Any feminist who states she wishes to deny a woman a right to pain relief isn't a feminist, I've just not met any of these people who you are talking about - which is why I keep asking for a link.
Right now I feel like you are saying that some people are proposing removing the rights of women to pain relief during labour based on a bizarre feminist argument, I don't see it anywhere but again - link something that backs up your claim and I'd like to discuss.
Either way I believe we all strongly agree with you that pain relief is a basic right during labour and shouldn't ever be denied.
There is the real life example of Naomi Woolf (and quite a famous feminist at that). If you want another specific example, look at the blog of TheFeministBreeder (a self proclaimed American feminist) who has made a career out of shaming women who opt for epidurals, caesarians and formula. How much more specific can I get?
We have all had our own individual experiences in real life and on online forums. I have already told you that I have met American feminists face to face who think like this. The discussions we have had individually with feminists are our own specific experiences. The purpose of this thread is not to argue about that.
I could ask you for a link (just one link) that shows a feminist arguing in favour of an elective caesarian, epidural or the right to choose formula. You won't find it.You will only find them arguing in favour of VBAC, home birth and breastfeeding.
I am not entirely certain that the feminist movement is blameless in women like myself being denied pain relief. The rise of the natural birth movement is largely due to the efforts of feminists and this has indirectly (IMO) led to restricted access to pain relief with more and more women being told how "empowering" natural birth can be.
Here is an even more specific link-
An American feminist openly stating that she doesn't agree with women choosing elective caesarians or epidurals. Her concern about court ordered c-section is spot-on, so I won't argue with that at all. But she demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding as to why someone would prefer an epidural or a c-section. It isn't because we think that obstetricians know best, it's because we want a say in how our birth happens. She seems to think that a c-section can never really be a choice and most women who choose one are misinformed which I find highly offensive.
I'm happy to prove you wrong. I absolutely believe women should have the right to epidurals, elective sections and repeat sections. I totally agree that anyone saying women must have natural births and be forced to breastfeed is bonkers.
I'm not sure why you're focusing so much on blogs. Do you consider this forum here on MN to be a feminist forum? I've certainly seen plenty of women here say women have the right to epidurals etc.
I agree that the discourse you're talking about is problematic but I think it is essentially an activist/elite discourse that does not necessarily reflect the feelings of feminists generally.
I think if you were to approach this from a different direction, and look at women who do support pain relief, etc., you would find that many of them are feminists and support it for feminist reasons. Like the Skeptical OB -- this is a good recent column:
It kind of addresses your question of why people don't talk about both sides. These are not just medical issues but ideological issues, and thus they invoke questions of identity and agency and meaning. Also, at a cynical level, some people will advocate certain positions for attention or to gain relevance or funding.
Like the filmmaker, I've also done a lot of research in norms/ideology/propaganda and I find it so depressing that women's health is an ideological battleground, in a way that men generally don't have to deal with.
Basically I agree with your stance, just don't write off all of us American feminists because of what a few blogs say.
How are you defining 'a feminist'?
If you only consider feminists to be people who write on feminist blogs and have names like feministbreeder or have careers specifically defined by feminism, then yes, you may only find a narrow viewpoint among them.
But that is not a representative discourse. Or rather, it is representative of one current in feminist thought.
You are not likely to find organised groups fighting against their positions, because if you disagree with them, you are already sort of subsumed in mainstream practice, so there's no need. You won't find group blogs dedicated to arguing with them, you are more likely to find individuals like the Skeptical OB rejecting their arguments.
I'm pretty sure she's a feminist btw so there's your one link.
That is one of my very favourite blogs She is the sole voice of reason on the internet.
I am personally relieved to hear your opinion on women's healthcare and am pleased to announce that it is very similar to mine.
OP I think you'll find this paper interesting as a feminist view of medicalised vs natural childbirth - from page 258 . It supports and explains a feminist argument (that I think every right-minded person would agree with) of medicalised birthing and rights.
I understand what you're saying but it seems that you are really annoyed at some women supporting natural birth for feminist reasons. This does not mean there is a feminist argument or movement trying to deny anyone their rights during childbirth - which seems to be the conclusion you are jumping to.
As a side note - the "ignorant American" comment in your OP further suggests you are making bold assumptions that are not fully grounded once dissected.
You are slightly in denial. The traditional feminist agenda has supported exclusively natural birth, and some of the ramifications of that have been less than ideal. I have no issue with anyone supporting natural birth, but if you call yourself a feminist you have to support all choices- and those include epidurals and c-sections.
Once again - supporting one thing does not equate denying the right to another.
You are missing the point. Firstly, there are feminists who do openly state that the right to the other options is invalid (see the examples I have given you).
Secondly, promoting only one choice and pretending the other doesn't exist is harmful and inadequate. What if I solely promoted the rights of working mothers and completely neglected the challenges faced by SAHM? What kind of a feminist would I be then? A rubbish kind.
I'm not "in denial" nor am I missing your point.
The overwhelming majority of women, and medical professionals, agree that a woman should have the right to pain relief if she wants it - including you, me and everyone else on this thread and also everyone I've ever discussed birthing with in my entire life - feminists as non-feminists.
As a pregnant feminist who has done a lot of research into the area recently, I have not read of seen anything that suggests using pain relief during birth doesn't exist as you are saying is the case.
I do think that you are leaping to a conclusion that any feminist supporting and promoting natural wants to remove the rights of women who want pain relief, which is absolutely incorrect.
Can you find a link to Naomi Wolf's views OP? I find some of her recent views (especially re Assange) problematic. But your characterisation isn't what I recall her position being on sections so am interested to read.
Read her book entitled "Misconceptions".
Where in the book? I haven't read it for years but my recollection is of her being against enforced and unnecessary medicalisation, not choice. I can dig the book out tomorrow but I'd like to know where to start looking as I don't much want to re-read the whole thing right now.
And I do think that you are being deliberately obtuse by missing the simple point that by supporting choices on only one side of the spectrum, some feminists are inadvertently doing more harm than good.
Like I have said repeatedly, there is nothing wrong with promoting natural birth. But promoting only natural birth is more harmful than beneficial.
While these women might not all be saying that other women should be denied pain relief or elective caesarians, I don't see them passionately defending this choice the way they defend VBAC and home birth.
In other words, they don't think that the rights of women who want to choose a c-section or epidural are worth fighting for.
You seem to think that the feminists you have met are representative of all feminist views.
The purpose of this thread wasn't to argue or start a one-upmanship.
You will have to make that effort yourself. I cannot give you a page number and exact line, as I myself read the book a couple months ago and do not have the chapters imprinted in my memory.
I do recall reading the view I have described earlier.
It's perfectly acceptable that she is against forced procedures (who wouldn't be), but like most feminist writers she has assumed that women who choose caesarians voluntarily don't exist. The same can be said about Jessica Valenti who wrote "Why Have Kids?". It's an excellent book otherwise, but she hasn't anywhere acknowledged the rights of women to demand pain relief and elective caesarians.
No need to be rude.
I think if you are going to assert that someone holds a surprising opinion you should be able to back it up with at least a chapter reference. I am perfectly willing to believe she says that somewhere. But equally that that might not be an accurate recollection. I am not going to take it as read.
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The weather report grew grimmer with each ray of the rising sun. It started with a 10-knot wind out of the north, then 20 out of the northeast, and eventually 27-plus out of the same direction by the time I was ready to board the flagship Rampage 45 Convertible at Mason Boro Inlet in Wilmington, North Carolina. I would find out later that May day that the Coast Guard was rescuing two boaters and two dogs from a sailboat a little to the north at about the same time. It was a bad day for boating, but a great day for a boat test.
From the flying-bridge helm of Hull No. 1, Capt. Doug Cratch, John Roberts (Rampage's sales manager), and I looked at the frothing white and cresting green that was Mason Boro Inlet as we listened to the dismal weather report on the optional Raymarine 230 VHF. "Winds 27 knots from the northeast; waves, seven feet, seven seconds apart," the cold digital voice repeated over and over, as if to say, "Don't go, dummy." This was not a place any of us would really want to be, but it was a place that sooner or later those of us who spend any time offshore are likely to find ourselves. And when we do, we want to know that the hull under us is going to get the job done.
Taking into account the report and Cratch's statement, "We might not be able to take it, but the boat can," the three of us decided to go for it, and Cratch headed the 45 right at the steep seven-footers. My heartbeat increased in proportion to the size of the swells as we exited the inlet. Cratch eased the Twin Disc EC-200 Commander electronic controls forward, and the twin 800-hp Caterpillar 3406Es climbed steady to 1550 rpm. The first wave slammed us on the port beam, and the high winds drove the spray up and over the three-side helm enclosure. Boom! A second wave hit us, then a third. One after another they came, close together and mean-spirited. But whether we were in a head, quartering, or following sea or beam-to, the 45, with her solid-glass bottom and end-grain balsa-cored hull sides, made way. Granted, we weren't making the honkin' 41-plus-mph top end she would eventually show me on the much flatter ICW, but this boat was getting her crew out and with our teeth intact, too. The 45 maintained her line in admirable fashion, shouldering the waves like a real bluewater performer.
Being aware of her 16-foot beam and warped running surface, which flattens to 10 degrees at the transom, I had expected a bit of pounding. But her 47-degree deadrise forward had her slicing well at that rpm. In addition, her Carolina flare and secondary chines, about four inches above the hard chines and running all the way forward, did an effective job pushing water down and away. We did continually take spray over the flying bridge with the beam and head seas, but I could not fault the 45 for it. When you're pushing through seven-footers and 30-knot winds, there will be spray. Adding to the firm feel underfoot was the 45's one-piece stringer system. This full-length fiberglass grid is laid up on a one-piece stainless steel mold, with glassed-in, composite bulkheads.
Having shown her mettle in the slop, the 45 headed back to the ICW, where she was equally impressive during speed runs, making a face-stretching 41.9 mph at WOT while burning 74 gph and offering a 331-mile range on her 650-gallon fuel tankage. (She has one 450-gallon aft tank and a 200-gallon reserve forward.) At a comfy 35.1 mph cruise, our 45 burned 54 gph for a range of 380 miles.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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The center of the workbench becomes a WYSIWYG representation of the application, as you can see in Figure 4. It's SDA for the Android phone! Actually, it's quite a bit more sophisticated than that because of the number of widgets it supports and the hierarchical nature of an Android display, but it's the same principle. Add some things to the UI and see how it looks. It's just a bit more interactive, as we'll see. One note: Like All Eclipse displays, it's very easy to modify the layout as you need. Figure 4 also shows how I widen the palette; since I typically have more width than I need for the black WYSIWYG rectangle that represents the actual device, I make the palette wider to make it easier to work with.
While the WYSIWYG designer is very powerful and you can actually drag and drop UI elements right onto the screen, an alternate method exists that I find a lot easier to use—the Outline view. Figure 5 shows how easy it is to do things with the Outline. In this case, I'm switching the orientation of the layout from horizontal to vertical (orientation addresses how things are laid out, whether the various widgets go from right to left first, or stack on each other from top to bottom).
While you can change some things using the context menu (the menu that pops up when you right-click on something), most of your changes need to be made using either the Properties view or directly in the source code. Figure 6 shows the property view. Double-clicking on the TextView widget (the one that says Hello World, IBMi22Activity!") brings up the Properties view at the bottom of the workbench and populates it with all the properties and values of that widget. Now you can scroll through the properties to change the things you want to change.
Figure 7 shows me changing the value of the Text property to "Hot Orders." Other things that need to change are the color, which I change to a standard HTML value of #FF0000 (which translates to "red"). Another thing that needs to change is a property named "gravity." You can probably best think of gravity as the analog of alignment in a Word document. Since Android is all about nested containers, you must address both the gravity of objects within a container and the gravity of an object within its parent container. A full discussion of all the ramifications can't be done here, but gravity is very important. If you really want to gain some understanding of the topic, I suggest this blog post as a great starting point. Anyway, you'll see in Figure 8 that I've changed the test of the application to "Hot Orders," colored it red and centered it. Time to add some more content.
The TextView used as the title was automatically added for me when I created the application. Now I need to add my own widgets. At this point, I need to have some idea of what the application will look like. Designing an Android application is still something of an artistic endeavor, just as it is to design a good subfile application. Many of the same concepts apply, including corporate standards and drawing mockups. A whole cottage industry has grown around helping you design your applications, including both free and for-fee sites. This page might give you a little idea of what's out there. In my case, though, I already know what I want to do: I want to have a table of orders with columns for order number, salesperson and a description of what makes this order hot. To do that, I need to add a table layout and then modify it. Layout components are in the palette drawer labeled "Layouts," so I expand that drawer and drag a TableLayout component over to the Outline view. I position it right under the TextView and drop it. Note that dark horizontal line; it's a standard GUI widget for placing elements within an outline and it provides fine-grained positioning in a manner I find easier to use than trying to drop it onto the WYSIWYG. Your preferences may vary, and it's nice to have both options.
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I think my family trigers my depression
Q: I have taken several online depression quiz's and they all say the same: I am severly depressed. My mother is currently on depresion pills. I was hospitalized in the late 1990's for an attempted suicide. I am over that. I want to know if their is something that is puting me into a depressed mood. At school with my friends I feel loved and feel like I am worth something to someone. But when I get home that happy feeling just melts away when I walk in the door. At home I feel sad, unwanted and like I am just a burden on everyone else. I feel unloved and it is as if my worth is that of the dirt on the bottom of a shoe. But when I am away from my family I am happy again. At home I a irritable and likley to snap at anything. I can't remember the last time I was able to sleep all the way through the night. Also I feel like my accompishments at school go un-noticed and things like that are a big deal to me seem to only burden the people around me. No one notices anymore when I get A's only when they tell me to do better are my fults acknowledged. It is because this depressed feeling seems to only spur up when i am around certain people I am greatly confused about if I am very depressed or not. Can depression be triggered but certain people or things that once you get away from those things you can start to slightly feel happy again?
A: One of the criteria for mental illness is that symptoms are consistent across different settings. That doesn't seem to be the case for you. Out of the house, you can be your good natured self. In the house, you feel unappreciated, worthless, and unseen. My guess is that when you are home you are really, really angry and sad that your family isn't what you would like it to be. Since you are only 16 and not ready to be on your own, you are stuck with the situation – which only makes you feel worse.
My best wish for you is that you would find a way to get your mother into therapy with you, not because I think there is something wrong with you but because maybe the two of you could work things out so that the next few years (until you graduate) could be better. Perhaps she would be willing to ask the doctor who is prescribing for her to recommend a family therapist for the two of you. You could also ask your schoool guidance counselor or your own doctor for a recommendation. If that seems impossible, you might want to see a counselor yourself to help you figure out ways to cope with the situation. Meanwhile, you can make things better for yourself by staying busy with sports or activities and by spending as much time as possible with the people who make you feel good. A part time job would both keep you out of the house and give you the funds to do more things. And by all means stay in school and do well. You want to get yourself into a good college or job program so you can build the life you want as an adult.
I wish you well.
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How Much To Charge If Request For Just Fondant Decorations?
Decorating By Brendabeeper Updated 2 Jan 2014 , 8:58pm by KDs_Cakes
I received a request to make just the fondant decorations for a lady to place on a cake she is making for her grandkids. I made them and boxed them for her, Attached are the photos
Sorry I am asking how much would you charge for something like this? thank you
AThose are very cute. How many hours did it take you? I believe you can find cake decorations for sale on etsy. Maybe look there and see what people are charging.
making characters are not a specialty of mine still trying to get practice on them, They took me a while about a hour each to make. then maybe a hour for all the others. I have seen the etsy sites so can check there too. thank you.
AIt depends a lot on your area, I am currently in the process of starting my business officially. I started by checking the competitors in my area. But fondant decorations are where I am having a problem, your characters are great by the way. You can look on etsy for fondant toppers and get an idea of what people are selling theirs for but basically it comes down to how intricate the design is, if you want to get paid hourly and include your ingredients. Most of them are fairly simple cut outs, I'd probably charge .50 each and maybe discount one or two since there are so many but your characters you can charge a flat fee or time plus ingredients. I'd hate to undervalue your work, and since I don't know how long it took you to make them I'd say anywhere from $5-15 each, they really are lovely. Whatever you do be firm with your price.
I looked at etsy and they are going for aprox 10 to 15 each character or 48.00 aprox for the set. Thanks for your help. I know these are complicated and scary sometimes to make I know I am slow and want to be able to make better characters, Man there are some very very talented people out there. Thank you for all the postings on how to and the answers to questions we get here. I did use speghetti for the 1st time instead of toothpicks to attach the arms and legs, it works great by the way.
wow they are fantastic ;-) Pricing is hard when you do it for a hobby as some people just want something for nothing these days!
I would say $10-$15 each for the Umizoomi Characters; those are 3D and took sometime I'm sure.


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You missed it, man.
My taste has always been more about exclusion. Muscle bound guys have always grossed me out.
Also, if he is less hairy than me, forget it. (Lol.... men with no hair on their chest or arms, etc.)
I married an old school punk rocker and he is my perfect fit.
Taller than me dark hair blue eyes . Thin, but not akinny, with toned muscles. Facial hair, for the most part my husband is. He doesn't dress exactly like I'd want an he is a bit more muscular than I'd like. Other than that he is my type
I've always like dark hair & muscles on big guys, and I also love facial hair on men. When I got with my hubby back in HS he was in great shape, but weighed a lb less than I did, so he was pretty tiny!! But thankfully 7 years later he's a big muscled man with the ability to grow a crazy beard ; ) Hottie!!
im the same, tall dark hair, tattoos, i love love beards and shaggy hair.. so sexy to me.
i like guys that are bad boys.. BUT i know some clean cut that are some undercover FREAKS
I like tall, broad, rough acting, outdoorsy guys. An I like red hair. And chubby (no fat). And I pretty much just described my husband. :)
Edit: I forgot to add, I like it when they act "rough" but they're big softies at heart lol
Tall, dark hair and light eyes. I don't like skinny guys and I don't like big muscles but I like my men to be solid. SO is all that.
I've always been attracted to bad boys as well lol.
Real men, not skinny little ones. Muscles, tats, facial hair. I like em funny. Basically my SO. Lol
I'm married to a trucker... Not ripped but not fat, tall, reddish blond hair and green eyes... In highschool I dated a "pretty boy" dude took more time getting ready than me. Lol. I'm more of a personality chaser I guess.

Quoting Lady Anon:" Real men, not skinny little ones. Muscles, tats, facial hair. I like em funny. Basically my SO. Lol"

Agree with this wholeheartedly
Quoting ♥ cal's mama:" Eh, pretty self explanatory. Do you like blondes, brunettes? Blue eyes? Short? Tall? Older? Younger? ... [snip!] ... brunettes, has to have good teeth/hair, good with my son, outgoing so I realized my SO is pretty much the perfect guy for me."
Well, mine has always varied just depending on what kind of guy I wanted at the time....but I guess I have realized I am apparently very attracted to a*****es. I know it sounds crazy but it's never like I tried or anything it just seems they always turn out to be jerks. But if I could have my dream guy back it'd be BD before he turned into an a*****e to me. He was tall, and average on weight not to, to muscular, with his very beautiful blue eyes wrapped with green around the edges, brown hair with just the right voice, and he was shy when I first met him. He always did spontaneous things and was sweet when I least expected (for example our first date was to the mountains, and he took me under a waterfall and then we sat there watching the trees blow in the wind, then he went over to this tree where people who were together would carve their names and stuff; he said nope not going to carve it there but instead he turned around to the rock beside the waterfall and he carved our initials there ^_^ it was so sweet. Then well it ended with us having a picnic of boiled peanuts (one of my favorite things!) and well that was my perfect guy, to bad he changed) Smh!!
Quoting Lady Anon:" Real men, not skinny little ones. Muscles, tats, facial hair. I like em funny. Basically my SO. Lol"
Tats and facial hair are a must too! I forgot this!
I am very attracted to darker skinned guys- native, hispanic, Tall, Brown eyes, dark hair, trimmed face, "wangster" lol type.. But both BD (wangster) and SO are white. SO is the opposite of everything that I was attracted to. Short, White, Blue Eyes, Brown Hair, Scruffy face hair, cowboy boot wearing, cut off shirt wearing. Truck Driving. Skinnier.
I made a change for the better, I was always attracted to "bad boys" until I met SO.
Quoting pilot Jess:" My taste has always been more about exclusion. Muscle bound guys have always grossed me out. Also, if ... [snip!] ... it. (Lol.... men with no hair on their chest or arms, etc.) I married an old school punk rocker and he is my perfect fit."
mine too. my SO is a ex screamo frontman with a half sleeve and emo glasses. <3 sexay to me
They have to be older and taller too.


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Unexplained Urine Leakage
My 6 year old boy has no history of bed wetting or any health problems at all. All of a sudden about 6 weeks ago he began to leak urine here and there. Now, he is in a pull up all day! This has changed our lives. He is frustrated and so are we, for him. He is missing school and we have an egg timer going off every 20 minutes at home and at school, when he`s there. His ultra sound came back normal and no infections. Now he is on Detropan Syrup, 1 week now and NO difference yet. What Next??
His symptoms are not rare, but usually children respond to medications like Ditropan. I assume that there is no urinary tract infection and that constipation has been ruled out; in addition, it is important to check his lower back to be certain that he does not have a sacral abnormality. Furthermore, his postvoide residual urine volume should be checked. His situation is puzzling, and he would benefit from a pediatric urological evaluation. He may need to undergo urodynamic testing or a voiding cystourethrogram.
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In a closed-door meeting with Jewish Donors Saturday night, former President George W. Bush delivered his harshest public criticisms to date against his successor on foreign policy, saying that President Barack Obama is being naïve about Iran and the pending nuclear deal and losing the war against the Islamic State.
One attendee at the Republican Jewish Coalition session, held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas with owner Sheldon Adelson in attendance, transcribed large portions of Bush's remarks. The former president, who rarely ever criticizes Obama in public, at first remarked that the idea of re-entering the political arena was something he didn't want to do. He then proceeded to explain why Obama, in his view, was placing the U.S. in "retreat" around the world. He also said Obama was misreading Iran's intentions while relaxing sanctions on Tehran too easily.
Regarding Hillary Clinton, Bush said it will be crucial how she plays her relationship with the president. She will eventually have to choose between running on the Obama administration's policies or running against them. If she defends them, she's admitting failure, he said, but if she doesn't she's blaming the president.
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pre-1)First as always a wrestlemania pre-show match and im rooting for a battle royal for the us title. maybe a 10 man showdown with a certain all-american american winning the title.
1)when the show starts it's more than likely we'll start with the world title match! i would like to see randy orton, miz, dolph ziggler and sheamus in a fatal four way for the title. sheamus has got the title back. we could use a rivaly between randy and miz, when the miz starts his tv segment with sheamus commenting on how he just lost the world title to dolph, with a successful ec defence to then get ambushed, randy interupts to deliver a rko to miz to then have sheamus brogue kick randy after he just destroyed his lime light. dolph jumps behind sheamus and delivers a zigzag. gm orders a tag match miz and sheamus vs randy and dolph. after the match was a no contest caused by a brawl the gm reorganised the match for wrestlemania for the world title. randy will come out with the win and the backlash will be sheamus out of equation and triple threats to proceed.
2)now we have wade barrett vs kofi kingston in a ladder match and kofi loses after falling off a ladder throw the annouce table (which also injures him in the process) winning wade barrett the title.
3)next a 4 way tag match of rhode scholours, hell no, hunico and camocho and prime time players. maybe put them inside a cage and the first two to escape win the titles whether they be partners or not. kane and sandow win and argue over who was the best.
4)divas open challenge as all the divas are pissed that they get taken for granted so they offer all of them vs any one that wants a match. mark henry takes the ring to grab a mic and say he with his partner will take on all of them. karma rans to the ring. they destroy all but beth and aj they team up and take mark out then john cena hits the ring and AA's henry and sees aj about to get destroyed and pulls her out. karma smashes into the corner to then get hit with beths finisher. winners all the divas.
5)sin cara vs rey mysterio. everyone is talking about this match so what if there was a street fight between these two. sin cara comes out the winner.
6)gautlet match with ryback facing the shield with ease. that takes four minutes and then big show takes the ring and challenges him, ryback accepts and they destroy each over and that leaves the ring destroyed with a win for ryback again.
7)CM Punk vs John Cena in a wwe title match. with john tired after his interfirence in the divas match cm punk capitilizes and punk wins again. he once again proclaims to be the best in the world. jericho hits the ring and challenges him to a match tonight.
8)jericho vs punk no DQ match. jericho wins and then grabs a mic and shouts i am the best in the world at what i do.
9)rock vs brock vs taker in a triple threat buried alive match. brock in a coffin but not buried and taker just about to put rock in coffin. brock awakens and pushes them both into the one coffin and pushes it into the hole and buries them. ending the streak at a 20-1 rate.


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By PAUL BOUTIN
Published: November 15, 2009
Why figure out how to connect a snake's nest of cables to a bunch of boxes just to watch stupid old television? JVC's TeleDock line of TVs have an iPod dock on the front -- right in the middle, where you can't miss it. If youcarry your movie library around in your pocket, now you can plug it in and watch it from your couch.p.b.


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Born in Seattle in 2007, with more than 300 events that occurred in more than 100 cities and 30 countries, the entrepreneurs' favorite event will occur in Quebec for the first time in February 2012 (3,4,5) in Montreal !
Startup Weekend, What is it ? |
Facebook, Twitter, Groupon … Behind every great startup idea are a project leader, surrounded by the best advisors. Many would like to create their startup but few know how to do it! Dare to enter, although surrounded, develop the project and awareness takes time and energy … Where the majority of the entrepreneurs create their own company after months or even years, Startup Weekend give you the opportunity to create your own startup in only 54 … hours! And with exceptional results!
At a time when entrepreneurship is highlighted, where many would like to start their own business, Startup Weekend gives an answer to these challenges with an entrepreneurial adventure where you will meet and work (without realizing it) with amazing people with multiple skills, sharing your passion for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Springboard for students, professionals and startups, accelerator of projects, social and professional shaker, Startup Weekend is an event almost always sold out!
The concept is simple : launch your startup in 54 hours, work with your team from idea to creation in a very short time and win the Startup Weekend in Montreal!
Whether you are a student or professional, project leader or not, graphic designer, developer, or specialized in business skills (finance, business development, strategy, marketing, legal, …), you can bring your skills to the team and the project that will better catch your interest. Everyone has a place in a Startup Weekend.
Share your talents and ideas, let's participate to a project that you will make growing in 54h, work with the best people to win the first Startup Weekend of Montreal !
The recipe is simple …
#1- Gather for a whole weekeend
- People passionated about startups, web and innovation, budding entrepreneurs, whatever their profile, age, gender or profession, students or professionals
- project leaders with a sense of Startup, more or less advanced, who want to go to achieve it in 54H
- and experts and professionals in entrepreneurship, with the desire to share their experience
… With one common goal: to work together and create their startup!
#2 – Ingredients for Success: Concretely, how does it work?
— Friday evening : kick-off is given by the Fire Pitch, where project leaders present their ideas in the amphitheatre in 1 minute, to bring together multidisciplinary teams of volunteers around their concept. One unique goal at the end of the weekend: to present the best project and to win all the votes of the jury, to convince investors and launch their startup!
—Saturday & Sunday : the dream teams thus formed will work hard with the help and advice from experts in marketing, finance, and web innovation. In parallel, conferences and feedback from professionals who have successfully launch their startup will be there to answer the questions that everyone is asking, in a spirit of ultra creative co-working.
—– On Sunday evening : the teams will present their projects to the jury to win the title of best project of the weekend, to win the prize, gain exposure and maybe, to be loved by investors who will invest in your project !
——– To convince them that their project is the best and will be a success story … and it works!
#3 – Objectives of the recipe:
- Gather all the conditions to success for those who want to start their startup or participate in such an adventure.
- Trigger off meetings and vocations: you will join the global community of Startup Weekends, and certainly if you play the game, your network will explode in a weekend
- You'll find many tools related to business creation and launching of startup. You will discover what really does the word "StartUp" means. In short, you will probably change after participating in a Startup Weekend, you'll want to change the world!
- And hopefully you'll launch your startup to success!
Why does it work?!?!
Let's see the figures. You will see, these are quite impressive.
– Nearly 35 000 entrepreneurs gathered by Startup Weekends around the world
– 30% of the projects presented will continue after the weekend and are still alive after 6 months
– 93% of participants keep in touch
– 2450 startups created since 2007 with over than 250 of them have raised funds in the days, weeks or months that followed, thanks to the visibility and credibility gained from the weekend! (Yes, 10% and it's pretty impressive for a single weekend!)
– A local event (we play), national covert (it's in the media and on blogs) and international echoes (it breeds success).
Why me?! Who can participate? |
Startup Weekends bring together all lovers of creativity and innovation focused on startup, whatever their age, gender, profile or level of experience.
The great strength of Startup Weekends, is to gather extremely varied profiles and skills highly complementary to encourage meetings, emulation and synergies that boost creativity and productivity of participants.
The participants of Startup Weekends have profiles as diverse as this:
- Beginners and experienced entrepreneurs,
- Students, whatever their field of study and degree of specialization,
- Commercials,
- Engineers,
- Web developers,
- Graphic designers,
- Lawyers,
- Journalists,
- Marketing profesionals,
- Finance and accounting,
- Business Angels and private investors …
Startup Weekend is above all a great way to bring together those with ideas, with those who can help them, , forming a combination of both teams cut to success, as evidenced by the many success stories from the previous Startup Weekends.
In other words, whatever your profile, if you are creative, ambitious and motivated, if the business of Web and Digital is your passion, if you have have always dreamed of creating your business, Startup Weekend is for you!
# Reccurent questions : Why should I participate then?
1) If you have an idea of startup
We all know: to start from scratch, alone, is very difficult, and intimidates many people. Startup Weekend invites you to surround yourself with good employees, good advisors, to develop and market your idea to gain credibility and reputation – everything that you would take months if you were alone!
- Carried out in 54 hours what would take you months alone
- work with the best collaborators and go out of the isolation of creating alone
- receive free advice from leading experts in multiple domains and complementary
- develop and mature your project in just 3 days instead of months
- win your first beta testers, power-users and Ambassadors/li>
- introduce you to users and investors
- try to win various prizes to continue your adventure with success
- gain credibility, legitimacy and reputation
- … And maybe, as others did after a Startup Weekend, convince investors and raise funds!
- What are the prizes?
The project or projects designated by the jury will win support negotiated by the organizers with professional partners.
Startups lawyers, financial advisors, accountants, web agencies and web hosting companies: many benefits that will help the team to successfully launching their startup.
Go here to learn more about prizes and expect also surprises during the weekend!
- Why should i introduce my project ? Why not ?
Throughout the weekend, and during the following weeks, all the web industry and entrepreneurship has their eye on the projects developed by the participants.
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I am making a strawberry cake with a cake mix, i normally add some pudding mixes and flavorings and so forth to make it moist and taste good....the problem is, I cannot find strawberry pudding mix no where in town!!!! What could I use in place if this???? Any ideas would help and be greatly appreciated!!! TIA!
You can use vanilla pudding mix, and add strawberry extract.
Holy Crap!!!! LOL!! Thats a great idea!!! Thanks! My mind is too far gone thinking about everything I have coming up, so thats why I lean on you guys to do the thinking for me! TA!!
I use strawberry nectar that I get at Walmart in place of the water the recipe calls for.
You can use vanilla pudding mix, and add strawberry extract.
That's what I do, and it's an awesome cake. I use the DH Strawberry Supreme mix with a cake mix extender and I use vanilla pudding and strawberry extract.
I use the WASC with strawberry cake mix, strawberry yogurt instead of sour cream, vanilla pudding mix, some strawberry extract, and I add about 6 tablespoons of strawberry preserves. Everyone loves it!
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Welcome to Skin & Bones Tattoo
Skin & Bones officially opened in 1981. We are the oldest established tattoo studio in Sioux Falls and the 2nd oldest in the state.
We have worked from coast to coast and many places in between. Our first shop at 10th & Lake was just under 400 square feet. We have grown over the years and are now have more than 2000 square feet located in an "Old Pink Church" on the corner of 9th & Cliff Ave in Sioux Falls.
Our work has won numerous awards including being voted one of the Local Best year after year.
We offer cover up, repair, surgical and cosmetic as well as traditional and custom tattooing. We are very happy to have Killer Cait working with us. She has excelled in tattooing since starting her apprenticeship early in 2014. She is very talented and her work speaks for itself. Please take some time and check out our portfolios. We are open from 11 AM til 7 Pm, Tuesday thru Saturday. You can stop in and visit with one of our artists or give us a call at 605-335-0832. We accept walk ins when time permits but appointments are always preferred.
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I can't vouch for the Benzene Detox Protocol at the end of this article, but all residents of the Gulf Coast should at least read this.
To read this document in its original pdf format, CLICK HERE. For my post on the Gulf Coast disaster that provides the background for this piece, CLICK HERE.
A Short Benzene Toxicity Primer – How to Stay Healthy
By A. True Ott, Ph.D.
What is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is truly a nightmare of epic proportions. Untold millions (if not billions) of gallons of raw crude oil, mixed with natural gas, has been spewing (not spilling) into the pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico for over a month. All efforts to plug the massive leak have ended in abject failure. Sadly, the "mainstream media" is failing to accurately report the substantial health risks the oil geyser is posing to all coastal residents.
Raw crude oil is naturally loaded with a petrochemical called benzene. Unfortunately, several regulatory agencies (the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], and the International Agency for Research on Cancer) classify benzene as a confirmed human carcinogen (CHC). In other words, benzene causes cancer and other chronic disease states.
This paper will review the dangers of benzene exposure, and offer solutions to help detoxify the body following exposure –either via the air, or by sea water, or rain and precipitation in contact with the skin.
The first question most people ask is: "How much benzene exposure is safe?" The answer is: "There is no minimum safe amount." According to one online source (Leukemia Info Center) – "Documented cases of benzene-related blood diseases date back to before the turn of the 20th Century. The relationship between benzene and leukemia was first reported in 1928. In 1948, the American Petroleum Institute published a report linking benzene exposure to leukemia, concluding that the only safe level of benzene exposure is no exposure at all. Since that date, various studies have demonstrated that a number of trades — including plastics workers, painters, gasoline distribution workers, petroleum refinery workers, chemical workers, rubber workers, and printing press operators–have an increased risk of developing leukemia and other blood cancers and blood disorders as a result of their work-related exposure to benzene."
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a permissible exposure limit of 1 part of benzene per million parts of air (1 ppm) in the workplace during an 8-hour workday, 40-hour workweek. The short term exposure limit for airborne benzene is a mere 5 ppm for 15 minutes. Typically, if one can smell raw crude oil that has evaporated into the air from a massive oil spill, the OSHA safe limits for "short term exposure" has been massively exceeded.
Furthermore, according to Wikipedia, "The short term breathing of high levels of benzene can result in death, while low level inhalation can cause drowsiness, dizziness, rapid heart rate, headaches, tremors, confusion, and unconsciousness. Eating or drinking foods containing high levels of benzene (seafood affected by a crude oil spill for instance) can cause vomiting, irritation of the stomach, dizziness, sleepiness, convulsions, and death."
Get the picture? This is very, very serious business not only for the flora and fauna of the Gulf coast states, but also for human residents. Reports of "oily rain" originating over the massive plume could mean that drinking water could become contaminated with toxic benzene as well.
It is therefore, a very good idea to implement a plan for detoxification of benzene.
Benzene Detox Protocol
1. Mix 8 ounces of concentrated RealLemon juice (or the juice of 12 large fresh lemons) per 1 gallon of STEAM DISTILLED WATER. Divide your weight by 2 – and this is the number of ounces of pure lemon-water that must be consumed daily. (Example: weight 200 pounds divided by 2 = 100 ounces of water consumed.) Reason: Lemon juice is loaded with natural citric acid, (a benzene inder and anti-oxidant), phosphate, niacin, and of course, vitamin C. This is the most important, and key step in detoxifying benzene from the body.
2. 12 Chlorella tablets, 3 times daily with meals. Chlorella will powerfully help the cells remove the benzene residue, and allow the cells to utilize oxygen more effectively.
3. 2 Vitamin B oral strips daily (AM and PM).
4. 8 ounces of AquaVivos-treated distilled water daily (this is in addition to the lemon-water). The polyphenolics in AquaVivos helps to protect the cells from benzene-induced DNA mutation.
5. 4 Droppers each of M.E.M. liquid minerals, Boron, Zinc, Silver, and Manganese –taken sublingually and separately.


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Jewish group appeals to Obama on Sudan
The American Jewish World Service joined an appeal to President Obama to add sanctions to the incentives he has offered Sudan's government to comply with peace deals.
"President Obama, When will you impose serious consequences for ethnic cleansing and mass atrocities?" said an ad that appeared June 22 in The Washington Post.
"We are pleased that the Obama administration is calling out bad behavior and that he will withhold incentives and move to not take Sudan off the terrorism list," AJWS President Ruth Messinger told JTA.
"The only way to further call this guy out is if the U.S. increases sanctions on him," she said, referring to President Omar al-Bashir.
One measure would be to increase pressure on China, one of the few nations still backing Bashir, to cut him off, Messinger said.
AJWS has taken the lead in promoting awareness of the genocide carried out by affiliates of the Bashir regime in the region of Darfur.


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How bad are Hoboken road conditions?
Worsening Hoboken Road Conditions
Potholes and other bumpy surfaces are generally the norm when it comes to Hoboken road conditions. You know it's bad when even local Hoboken politicians make them front-running topics.
Properly run cities quickly figure out ways to solve the problem by whatever means necessary. Even if that means sidelining other less important projects such as parks or soccer fields. But in Hoboken, it seems our administration equates "priorities" with "will this score me votes in the next election?" We have so much on our plate here in town, it's apparent important necessities like the basic infrastructure are getting neglected. Just like how Observer Highway could have been repaved with grant money, it was lost due to some pipe-dream of quickly transforming that road into a perfect traffic and pedestrian "oasis" called Observer Boulevard. I'd be shocked if that happened this decade.
Meanwhile the road condition there downtown (and everywhere else) continues to deteriorate. Wonder why?
Because instead of spending money to fix to the roads – the city uses that money to conduct "studies" that our roads are bad. Just like we mentioned earlier another $200,000 contract to Boswell Engineering to tell us what we already know: Hoboken road conditions suck! (I'd make a map too for 100 grand!)
Click the image below to see the full size map – which was created in 2011. Make notes in the comments to add any additional RED roads – maybe we can prevent the city from doling out more money for studies that LEAD NOWHERE!


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Dereham Town have chance to get their own back on Cray Wanderers
PUBLISHED: 06:30 13 February 2016
Archant Norfolk 2015
Dereham Town head to Kent looking to exact revenge on one of the world's oldest football clubs.
Cray Wanderers, formed in 1860, are right in the thick of the Ryman League Division One North play-off picture as the business end of the season approaches. But the same cannot be said for Dereham, who now look set for mid-table finish with boss Matt Henman publicly admitting he never expected anything more than a season of consolidation.
The Magpies' third season at Step Four of the non-league ladder had threatened another exciting push for a first top-five finish after a couple of near-misses. Yet a combination of dropped points and other sides' red-hot form has curtailed any outside hopes of the club's developing young side staging a late charge for promotion.
Dereham, who lost 2-1 at relegation-threatened Waltham Abbey in midweek, would have travelled to Cray with two extra points to their tally had they not suffered late, late heartbreak in the reverse fixture at Aldiss Park in October.
Omone Sodje netted early for Cray, now fifth and with a three-point cushion over the chasing pack, who dominated until the Magpies were reduced to 10 men and were suddenly inspired to force their way back into the game.
Goals from Dan Morphew and a Luke Tuttle penalty in stoppage time seemed to have given the Magpies, currently 11th, the points. However, Sodje struck again to snatch a draw.


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It's already mid-July, so for the kids summer vacation is halfway over. Help them relish the dog days of summer with one last trip. Or lessen the blow of the impending school year by getting them excited about fall travel. Whatever tactic you choose, we have budget-friendly ways to plan a family break.
A South Carolina Summer
Packing is always a hassle for a summer beach getaway, but the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort in South Carolina has thought of a way to help. Their Family Adventure Package takes some of the guesswork out of planning for an ideal family vacation by supplying children with a pail/shovel, a kite to fly on the beach, a picture frame to decorate, as well as two hours at the Kids camp at the hotel. While the children have their fun the adults can lounge on the beach. Along with all the amenities come a S'more's kit and a disposable camera to capture all the memories on your family adventure! This package is available through September 30, 2012 with prices starting from $259. To learn more and reserve online, please visit their website.
Bring the Family to the Ballpark
If baseball is your family's sport, get out there and check out one of the newest ballparks. The boutique Miami Hotel Urbano at Brickell has a Triple Play Package in honor of the new $515 million Miami Marlins Park baseball stadium. The package includes a third night free in the centrally located hotel and three complimentary beers at the Bistro Urbano bar. Hotel guests also get free round-trip transportation to and from the Miami Marlins Stadium on game days via the new City of Miami Trolley. The best part…if the Marlins win a game you can present the Marlins Park game day ticket stub and receive Hotel Urbano's "Miami Friends & Family Rate" for a discounted future visit. The package is available through October 3, 2012 and valid for all room categories. To book online enter the promotion code "Marlins" or call 305-854-2070.
A Family-Friendly Festival Outing
From now through August 11 you can check out the Deer Valley Music Festival, whose acts range from chamber music, classical, and pops offerings. The show is all over town at Deer Valley Resort Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, St. Mary's Church, Temple Har Shalom and salon events in private homes. While you can hop through the venues you can make your residence from the Washington School House, whose package includes:a two-night stay, two premium tickets to Deer Valley Music Festival (seats based upon availability), complimentary breakfast for two and an afternoon appetizer/cocktail hour, plus private transportation to and from festival. The package price starts at $455 a night in a King Room. Click here for more information.
For families looking to plan ahead, then it's pays to book now. You "pay now and forever hold their price" at Hutchinson Island Marriott Beach Resort and Marina on the Treasure Coast of Florida. If you book before August 30, you can save 27 percent, with rates starting rate of $109 per night. For more information, visit them online.
WOW Options for Families and Couples
Deciding where to travel is an arduous task for many travelers but with Club Med's return of the WOW Sale, indecisive travelers can now relax and rejoice. The sale is currently featuring seven night all-inclusive escapes starting from $899pp at numerous locations. Vacationers can also enjoy the discounts of up to 50% for staying in more than 60 Club Med locations worldwide including the Caribbean, Mexico, Florida, France, Greece, Brazil , Indonesia, and Thailand. Prices are based on double occupancy and must be booked by August 27, 2012 for travel by February 15, 2013. For more information and reserving online, visit their website or call 1-800-ClubMed.
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LIMA (Jun. 7)
The Peruvian Chamber of Deputies has repudiated the 1975 United Nations General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. Its action is considered significant by observers here in view of the government's left-leaning position which has been marked by pronouncements favoring the Palestine Liberation Organization, the World Jewish Congress reported.
The legislature has formally advised UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar of its action. The WJC cabled the Peruvian Ambassador in Washington hailing "this most principled stand adopted by the Peruvian legislature."


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Federal Register for "administrative appeal"
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- Greetings group!
Is anyone aware of the statutory or regulatory requirements for seeking an "administrative appeal" for an agency failing to be in compliance with a FOIA request?
For example: the district courts appear to be using a 5 USC 556 hearing to consider the arguments in a "tax case". However there is no such procedure detailed in the Federal Register. At the moment, I cannot remember how I confirmed this fact. Anyone care to remind me, please?
Court citations concerning this issue would be appreciated as well.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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