text: W.Va. among top 'extreme weather' states in 2012 By Ken Ward Jr. January 15, 2013 Story Share Read the report CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nearly 100 records for heat, rain and snow were set in counties across West Virginia last year, and the state ranked among the top 10 states for percentage of weather stations reporting such "extreme weather" events, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.The NRDC report, released Tuesday, comes after one government report that found last year set an all-time record for average U.S. temperature and another government scientific report that warned climate change is already happening."Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," said the 1,146-page draft National Climate Assessment, a scientific report issued Friday."Americans are noticing changes all around them," the report said. "Summers are longer and hotter, and periods of extreme heat last longer than any living American has experienced."Winters are generally shorter and warmer," it said. "Rain comes in heavier downpours, though in many regions there are longer dry spells in between."Earlier last week, the National Climatic Data Center had reported that the average annual U.S. temperature was up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998.Scientists say the U.S. heat and the extreme weather events are in part global warming in action, and that major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions - such as carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants - are needed to avert the most damaging impacts. In its report and an interactive map released Tuesday, the NRDC said that at least 93 record-breaking weather events occurred in West Virginia, including 53 new heat records and 17 new rainfall records.The NRDC said that the 3,500 monthly weather records set in 2012 bested the 3,300 weather records smashed in 2011, with record-breaking extreme weather events occurring in every state."2012's unparalleled record-setting heat demonstrates what climate change looks like," said Kim Knowlton, an NRDC senior scientist. "This extreme weather has awoken communities across the country to the need for preparedness and protection."Last week's National Climate Assessment, written by a team of 240 scientists is a draft of a report required every four years by law. The first such report was written in 2000, but none were done while George W. Bush was in office. The next one came out in 2009. Officials are seeking public comments for the next three months on the latest draft.In his inaugural address Monday, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin mentioned several extreme weather events in West Virginia last year, including last spring's tornado and floods, the derecho and Hurricane Sandy. The governor praised West Virginia's "strength of character" in responding to the storms.After Hurricane Sandy, Tomblin did not respond to a question about climate change and extreme weather events, and the governor has questioned whether global warming is really occurring.The National Climate Assessment says that "large parts of West Virginia" could experience more than a doubling of days per year, or about 15 more days per year, with temperatures over 95 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2050s. The report said the increase in hot days "will impact the regions vulnerable populations, infrastructure and agriculture and ecosystems." "Many impacts associated with these changes are important to Americans' health and livelihoods and the ecosystems that sustain us," the report said. "The impacts are often most significant for communities that already face economic or health-related challenges, and for species and habitats that are already facing other pressures. "While some changes will bring potential benefits, such as longer growing seasons, many will be disruptive to society because our institutions and infrastructure have been designed for the relatively stable climate of the past, not the changing one of the present and future," it said. "Similarly, the natural ecosystems that sustain us will be challenged by changing conditions."Reach Ken Ward Jr. at email@example.com or 304-348-1702. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 3 Rod Run and Doo Wop brings classic cars, music to Boulevard for 12th year 4 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 5 WVU seeking improvements during off week Interstate 81 expansion in E. Panhandle to be done in fall Previous Story Nitro cleaning up litter, tearing down unfit properties Next Story


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Saginaw Children's Zoo may seek county tax money
Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:01:15 GMT —
The Children's Zoo in Saginaw wants to ask county voters whether property taxes should help pay for operations.
The Saginaw News reports ( http://bit.ly/1jFfaXa ) that the zoo became privately run in 1996 by the Saginaw Valley Zoological Society after decades as a city-run operation. It now faces increased expenses and declining revenues.
Zoo's executive director Nancy Parker says she's cut all she can without affecting exhibits or services. The society wants the Saginaw County Board of Commissioners to place a 10-year property tax levy on the ballot in the Aug. 5 election. Zoo leadership plans to go to the Board of Commissioner's County Services Committee meeting in March with more details.
Parker says that before 2009 the zoo's annual budget was more than $1 million. Now it's about $840,000.

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when finding files in Konqueror, why use the files index?
When I use the "Find File" function in Konqueror, it never displays the files it finds. All it does is list the number of files and folders, at the bottom of the window. The kind of search I've been doing is for a *.* containing certain words. Well, I just solved my problem: the answer is that "use files index" wasn't checked by default, and apparently must be.
Okay, but if Konqueror has to use the files index, why do I have the option of telling it not to? When would it not be counterproductive, as in this situation?
I dunno.... I've never used the "Use files index" option... honestly, I hadn't even noticed it was there until you pointed it out.
From what I can gather, this checkbox is used if you want to do a large search for something across the whole system -- ie you don't know where a particular file is located. It seems to make the search use the the shell "locate" command rather than the "find" command that is used if you don't have it ticked. (nb: this is just what I'm inferring having looked into it for a few minutes; anyone who knows better is free to correct me! ;-) )
So, if the search isn't working without "use files index" ticked, then I'd say that either (a) you're doing a very large search and it's just taking a very long time, and you're not being patient enough, or (b) the "find" command in your computer isn't working correctly, but "locate" is. I would guess at (a), but you can check for (b) by going to a shell prompt and typing "find", and seeing what comes up.
One thing I would say, though, is use * as your wildcard, not *.* -- unlike Windows, not all files have a dot in their name.
And the find command will always be faster,
so I never use the KDE tool.
Examples :
' find /usr/lib/ -name "*file*" '
or ' find . -name "*file*" '
where the dot ( . ) means the current directory, e.g. /home/"username"
I forgot this
'find . -iname "*file*"
-iname is important > > both 'upper case' and
'lower case' spelled words will be found.
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No Pain, No Gain
Choreographer Paul Taylor's not a happy man. His dances are filled with anger and sadness -- even his happiest, everything-is-beautiful ballet has a family scene where everyone reaches out but nobody touches. His couples break up in the end because that's the way life is, Taylor says. We break up, we move on, we leave.
Matthew Diamond's documentary The Dancemaker doesn't tell us anything we can't see from watching Taylor's work. It doesn't show the dancer behind the dance. It doesn't show who he is. Why did he start dancing? Why did he leave Martha Graham? Why did he lose his temper and fire his entire company? Why did he yell and scream that they were too fat and no good when his dancers walked off stage?
This is a happy, fluffy Biographylike episode with moments too mushy for a Lifetime Intimate Portrait. All we hear is a bunch of gay guys talking about how Taylor helps them get in tune with their bodies and how when they hear that Taylor's casting a ballet they just pray to God that they're in it! It's a big lovefest. And that's nice. It's a tribute to Taylor, but it's not a documentary.
Director Diamond choreographed for The Washington Ballet (among others), so he knew what he was doing when he picked and shot the dance scenes. Impressively, most of his shots are from the wings, where he closed in on the dancer's breath over the music and where a girl can be seen hawking a loogie on the floor to wet her feet.
The dancing is break-your-heart beautiful, especially that of Taylor in his younger years. One of the best moments moved back and forth between a dancer in Taylor's current company practicing the same routine Taylor did years ago. The new guy is good, but not nearly as good as Taylor was. They're doing the same steps, but there's something indescribably different when Taylor does it.
"Sometimes it's hard to get the dancers to do the mayhem and the [despair] because they haven't lived it," Taylor says in the documentary. "You have to choreograph it into them -- they can't dance it."
That's the indescribable difference between the dancers. Taylor's better because he has felt the pain. But what happened? What hurt him? They briefly hint at a relationship that didn't work and that his parents divorced and he didn't see his dad, and his mom found it inconvenient to have him around. So she sent him to a foster home in the country. More is needed about him. The film says, "He let life beat up on him." What happened?
"It won't all be ugly," Taylor tells a dancer in the studio. "But here it's about confrontation."
What's Taylor confronting? Sometimes his dance experiments worked, sometimes they failed. No matter; his feet made their way back to his studio and kept dancing. Why did he need to dance when his dancers were unpaid?
The film is called The Dancemaker, but it strays from the subject until it becomes a documentary about Chris, the guy Taylor hoped would take over the company but died of AIDS. Or suddenly it's a documentary about Jill, the girl Taylor fired because it was no longer interesting to work with her.
There was no need to watch the dancers pack their Nyquil and Imodium A-D for their trip to India. We didn't have to view them opening their paychecks or snapping tourist shots in front of the Taj Mahal. And they really could've cut the part about a union orchestra picketing a performance.
It was moderately interesting when the dancers talked about their injuries -- cracked feet, torn calves and bruised bones -- because Taylor's dance style looks painful. There's a lot of jumps in the air that land hard. He makes a lot of moves that hurt. One lady who danced with him can barely walk now. But the film just glosses over that without talking about his injuries. When did he stop dancing? Why did he stop dancing?
Taylor, who has been called the greatest living choreographer, deserves a documentary that examines all the aspects of his life. Even the pain.
The Dancemaker.
Directed by Matthew Diamond. With Paul Taylor, Francie Huber, Patrick Corbin, Andrew Asnes and Heidi Berest.
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Colo. massacre: Supporting the officers of Aurora PD
Officers in Aurora, Colorado are living with the sacrifice of answering an active shooter call with multiple injuries. As the shock wears off, the reality of what happened will set in. Most officers will do fine. Others will need support.
According to the research and science in post-traumatic growth, social and peer support can be the most important aspect in a person's healing. The law enforcement community needs to rally around the officers who answered the call at that theater and those who put their life on the line to diffuse a booby-trapped apartment. These officers need our support, our compassion, and a nonjudgmental environment in which to heal.
Let's give that to them.
After Columbine, I interviewed the Jefferson County, Colorado SWAT commander. He emphasized that the media bashing officers received after the incident affected their ability to heal and productively process the trauma of the shootings. The last thing officers need in the aftermath of such an incident is second-guessing by talking heads, the "experts" the news media employs, and fellow officers.
Let's stand behind Aurora's first responders. We know they did their best under trying and dangerous circumstances.
I advise the officers and deputies who responded to the shooting to put words to their horror. Talk to someone you trust. Write your feelings down to release and process the emotions and anger. Remember to get adequate rest, exercise, and nutrition. Refrain from hitting the booze.
Aurora PD provides psychologists to assist their officers. I urge officers to take advantage of those resources.
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The top five things holding me back from using Rakudo for anything but experimental playing with Perl 6 are (in order of imporatance):
1. lack of lazy evaluation
2. s/// is not implemented
3. it cannot be installed ("removing or moving the build tree will cause the binary to stop working")
4. I cannot easily tell what parts of the spec are implemented and which are not
5. The REPL has executes every line in its own scope making lexical variables (and therefore the REPL itself) next to useless.
I may be wrong abou
All of these issues are slated to be resolved by the time Rakudo Star is released. Indeed, I expect that all of them except for #4 will be resolved by the September 2009 compiler release.
#2 can already be done in current versions of Rakudo, just use
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s/// form should be available when we start using the STD.pm parser in Rakudo, currently planned for December 2009.
That makes me happy. It would be nice if there were an article about what is planned to be (or not be, if that is shorter) in Rakudo Star. Of course, it is entirely possible there is already a road map on a public site that I have not seen yet, and there is still a lot of time until Spring.
I am not worried about the spec (and therefore the implementations) changing or growing; I am worried about how much of what is currently spec'ed will be implemented by the deadline. A Perl 6 implementation that can't
Patrick and I discussed this at OSCON. Our rough plan is that I'm going to be helping track and communicate what is in Rakudo Star, and what isn't, and how close we are to having those things ready to go.


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A salary negotiation window exists from the time you offer a job to a candidate until the acceptance of the job by your selected candidate. The results of this salary negotiation can leave a candidate feeling wanted or devalued. The results of this salary negotiation can leave the employer excited to welcome the candidate or feeling as if he lost.

A positive employer and a positive employee are the result of a successful salary negotiation. Here are tips for conducting a successful salary negotiation.

How much leeway do you have for salary negotiation and other conditions of employment with your candidates? The answer ranges from not much to a lot. One key factor is the discussion of salary, benefits, and working conditions that occurred with your prospective employees during the interview process.

Your candidates have likely shared their current or most recent salary with you. You may have shared the salary range for the position with your prospective employees. The posted job listings may also have given prospects an idea about the salary range.

Another key factor in salary negotiations is the level of the position; you likely have more bargaining room with higher level employees and with employees who are the sole employee performing a particular job in your company.

A third factor in salary negotiation is how badly your organization needs this employee and how much difficulty you have in finding his or her skill set. Market pay ranges also play a factor in your salary negotiation decisions.

Salary Negotiation From the Employer's Point of View

Consequently, the employer's salary negotiation leeway depends on these factors:

the level of the job within your organization,

the scarcity of the skills and experience needed for the job in the job market,

the career progress and experience of the individual selected,

the fair market value for the job you are filling

the salary range for the job within your organization

the salary range for the job within your geographic area,

the existing economic conditions within your job market,

the existing economic conditions within your industry, and

company-specific factors that might affect the given salary such as comparative jobs, your culture, your pay philosophy, and your promotion practices.

Bottom line? How badly do you want and need this candidate? If you are too needy, your salary negotiation strategy will quickly turn into a capitulation. And, capitulation, paying more than you can afford, paying disproportionately to the pay ranges of your current employees, and paying a new employee salary and benefits outside of your comfort zone, is bad for the employer and bad for the candidate.

The new employee's work is scrutinized under a microscope; employer expectations may be way too high. Fellow employees may resent the negotiated salary and think of the new employee as a prima donna.

In a win-win salary negotiation, both employer and employee leave the salary negotiation feeling ready to get started on a long term, successful relationship.

If you've ever been involved in an intense salary negotiation, you know that it can consume your mental and physical energy way beyond its importance. This is because, by the time you reach the stage of making an offer, you have spent the time to develop a pool of candidates. You have interviewed various candidates for weeks.

Intense Salary Negotiation

Your organization has invested significant time and energy in wooing and getting to know your final choice candidate. More sophisticated candidates, higher level candidates, and candidates with significant career progress will counter your initial offer letter, so expect it.

Additionally, expectations and needs of candidates can sometimes blind-side the employer. If multiple people have conducted interviews – which I recommend – you have little control over the expectations expressed and what the candidate comes to believe about the position as a result of the interviews. You also have no control over the content of offers from other firms that can occur simultaneously.

Salary Negotiation Tips

While they are not meant to comprehensively detail how to conduct a salary negotiation, I offer you these hints and tips to ensure you conduct successful salary negotiations.

Salary negotiation is not about winning – unless both parties win. If either party feels they have capitulated, not negotiated, both parties lose.

Make every effort to identify the most recent salary and benefits your candidate received. Most organizations ask for salary on their job applications and in their job postings and ads. Some candidates offer W-2 forms and other proof of salary when employers request proof of compensation. (I don't recommend this, by the way. It's more intrusive than employers should be.)

You can also ask former employers during reference checking. You may not be able to match the salary but you will have a good idea of what the candidate will seek during salary negotiations.

While these tips are not meant to comprehensively detail how to conduct a salary negotiation, I offer you these hints and tips to ensure you conduct successful salary negotiations.

Know what your salary negotiation limits are. Base your limits on your internal salary ranges, the salary paid employees in similar positions, the economic climate and job searching market, and the profitability of your company.

Recognize that, if your salary is not negotiable, and even if it is, superior candidates will negotiate with you in other areas that may be negotiable.

These include benefits, eligibility for benefits or paid COBRA, tuition assistance, paid time off, a signing bonus, stock options, variable bonus pay, sales commissions, car allowance, paid cell phone, severance packages, and relocation expenses. In fact, sophisticated candidates will negotiate in all of these areas and more.

Even if you are convinced of the candidate's potential positive impact within your organization, and a negotiating candidate is likely to keep reminding you, most organizations have limits. You will regret violating your limits; even if you have to start your recruitment over, you will save yourself years of headaches and prohibitive costs.

In one company, a candidate tried to negotiate a severance package that provided six months of his base salary plus an additional one month for each year he worked for the company. Plus, he wanted all of this money in a lump sum upon dismissal.

At $5769.00 per pay, the organization would have had to come up with approximately $116,000.00 upon his dismissal after only three years of employment. I don't know too many small and medium-sized companies that can afford a compensation package in this price range or come up with a lump sum such as this.

If your initial offer is not negotiable, or barely negotiable, try to indicate that to the candidate when you make the offer. I once made an offer to a special candidate whom an organization had been trying to hire. (They waited to make an offer until the right position opened up.)

I said, "We are offering you $60,000 in base salary plus the potential to earn up to $20,000 in bonuses during your first year. Others who have been with us for up to nine years are within a couple thousand dollars of that base. So, you can see how much we value you.

"Additionally, as you build your accounts, some of our business developers are making well over $100,000.00." I was trying to tell her that the base was firm and that the upside potential in bonus was high.

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Richard Meier. Architecture And Design
By Morten Wilhelm Scholz
The Pritzker winning architect Richard Meier will be celebrating his 50th anniversary with a retrospective exhibition at the Fondazione Bisazza in Northern Italy this summer. The exhibition will among others include iconic buildings as Getty Center in Los Angeles; the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Jubilee Church in Rome.
As a younger man this signature has enjoyed plenty an afternoon hanging out watching skateboarders riding the rails in front of the incredibly white Barcelona Museum. When Richard Meier is at his best his designs seem to consist of nothing but light and air.
The exhibition room itself is design in white (no surprise there) columns placed in a tight grid at the floor plan but tilting in different directions upwards creating a feeling of slight dizziness.
Any fan of Mr. Meier should already now book a ticket to Italy and prepare themselves for a stroll down memory lane with one of the great designers of modernistic museums.
Please have a look at the Press Release after the jump.
Fondazione Bisazza (The Bisazza Foundation for Design and Contemporary Architecture) is pleased to announce the European debut of the retrospective exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Richard Meier's practice. The new exhibition will be a retrospective of the American architect's iconic work and the unveiling of a site-specific installation for the Foundation's permanent collection.
Meier's oeuvre is a reflection of the continuous search and analysis of concepts perfected over more than half a century of constant work in the field of architecture and design. The absence of color is an intrinsic characteristic of his works; his philosophy is grounded in using light as the main material to give form to his orderly, sculptural, and linear architecture. Profoundly influenced by Le Corbusier, Richard Meier refines his principles of geometrical progression by playing with structure, space and elements of formal precision. "The way that light traverses and cuts through buildings is the interrogative and the principal magic from whence Richard Meier's projects are born," states Frank Stella.
In 1984, Mr. Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, considered the field's highest honor and he has been the youngest individual architect ever to be awarded this honor. Meier has since received numerous awards and international recognition including the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects from the (1989), AIA Gold Medal (1997), the Praemium Imperiale from the Japanese government in recognition of lifetime achievement in the Arts (1997), and the Gold Medal for Architecture (2008) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1992, the French Government honored him as a Commander of Arts and Letters, and in 1995 he was elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011 Richard Meier received the AIANY President's Award and the Sidney Strauss Award from the New York Society of Architects. A leader in the field, Meier has also received honorary degrees from the University of Naples, New Jersey Institute of Technology, The New School for Social Research, Pratt Institute, the University of Bucharest, and North Carolina State University.
Fondazione Bisazza pays tribute to this great architect through a representative selection of his most influential works: fifteen models, more than thirty technical drawings, forty photographs and preliminary sketches and for the first time in Italy some lesser known design objects such as a tableware collection designed for Reed & Barton in collaboration with Swid Powell.
From the Getty Center in Los Angeles, which was begun in 1984 and completed in 1997, to the Neugebauer House in Naples, Florida; from the High Museum in Atlanta to the project for the competition to build the World Trade Center Memorial in New York, and the Arp Museum project in Rolandseck, Germany, which traverses a mountain, the works of the American architect are recognizable geometrical and spatial compositions. The Richard Meier. Architecture and Design exhibition also features some of his most famous creations in Italy: the Ara Pacis museum complex in Rome and The Jubilee Church in Tor Tre Teste completed to mark the occasion of the Jubilee in 2000.
The Bisazza Foundation is proud to be able to enhance its Permanent Collection with an oeuvre envisioned and created by Richard Meier especially for the Montecchio Maggiore spaces. The Internal Time project is a geometric garden – , a stylized wood of imposing vertical elements in white mosaic in which to wander or avail of the single horizontal module, which houses a seat dedicated to meditation.
Piero and Rossella Bisazza, President and Vice President of the Bisazza Foundation, comments: "Richard Meier is one of the most important and influential voices in international architecture. Considering the Fondazione Bisazza vocation for making original contributions and inserting itself into participating in the cultural debate of contemporary architecture, we wanted to pay homage to an architect of the caliber of Mr. Meier. We are honored that the retrospective and the installation we are hosting has never before been seen, collaborating directly with Richard Meier & Partners Architects specifically for the Fondazione Bisazza."
Maria Cristina Didero, Director of the Foundation, comments: "In the year of the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Meier & Partners Architects, we are delighted to have collaborated with the studio to create an exhibition dedicated to Meier's career, especially designed for the spaces of the Fondazione Bisazza. After the John Pawson "Plain Space" solo show and the Arik Levy design installation titled "Experimental Growth," both presented last year, we are proud to open the 2013 exhibition program with another eminent player on the architecture and contemporary design scene.
Richard Meier. Architecture and Design is organized by The Fondazione Bisazza and Richard Meier & Partners Architects.
About The Fondazione Bisazza
The project of the Foundation – a private non-profit organization open to the public – arises from the attention and sensitivity towards the culture of design and architecture that has always animated Bisazza. The spaces of the Foundation are spread over an area of approximately 6000 m2, which in the past was reserved for company production, and then refurbished and converted into exhibition areas. The substantial permanent collection consists of installations created by designers and architects such as Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Andrée Putman, Marcel Wanders, Patricia Urquiola ,Tord Boontje, Aldo Cibic, Jaime Hayon, Arik Levy, Fabio Novembre, Studio Job, artists like Mimmo Paladino and Sandro Chia, and starting from May 2013 Richard Meier. An area of more than 1000 m2 is given over to accommodating travelling exhibitions and installations, produced by the Foundation or developed in collaboration with international institutions. The Foundation's intent is to interact and dialogue with other foundations and museums of design and architecture, creating a network for the presentation of unique projects in Italy.
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Well the ambulance turned up late again, so im so stressed out now as its gone past my appointment time. I feel so sick on the way and finally get there. The dread was swarming me, there were 50 people in the waiting room,not what you want to see when you suffer with panic attacks.I sit at the back.In my head im remembering what Lori,Lucky7,Ashley,Mdreamer,Oluwa Rob and so many others of you wh kindly was helping me 'get tough' with the Demons.....sorry Doctors.
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I TOLD HER.....IF YOU THINK IM GOING TO BE TOLD TO TAKE DRUGS WHICH MAKE ME STOP WEEING AND GET MIGRANES YOU ARE WRONG! aND IF YOU THINK IM LEAVING YOUR ROOM UNTIL IM SATISFIED YOUR WRONG!!!
A usual appointment lasts 5 minutes. I stayed and DIDNT MOVE for over an hour.
I told her how unprofessional and VERY CRUEL they were treating me this way,leaving me from Christmas to now with STILL nothing done to help me.I told her, whe i left the hospital in January, i was under the impression in the next 2 weeks i would be sorted.INstead, 12 appointments later and still no further on. I said IVE HAD ENOUGH AND WILL NOT MOVE UNTIL I AM TREATED AND PAIN FREE!! I told her ive tried ALL the meds that make me ill, they didnt work.Ive had physio, it didnt work,i relax my jaw, im still in pain, ive done the MRI....and freaked out lol. I could see they wanted me out....i did not budge. I even brought in my hand bag a pair of handcuffs (Long story how i have a pair lol) because i was not being told to go away good little girl one more time.I was going to handcuff myself to the reclining chair I was prepared!!
She now is talking to my face as a person and not a silly number. She now knows I AM IN PAIN! She now tells me there is a protocol all Doctors there have to stick too. I have done them all. She now tells me....without an MRI, as this picks up what she needs to look at,that a CT scan can not pick up....that without it id just be fobbed off and put on pain medication.
She goes on to say, she understands my fear of enclosed spaces and even went to see if a doctor will give me IV Sedation.They carnt and wont do it due to staff numbers and id need an anethatist there.
So I have to have the MRI done and soon.
Also, im having a dye put in me and an other x ray, plus i am now on Codeine Phosphate.
My appointment is this Friday for 45 minutes in the MRI Scanner and my bowels are getting very loose just writing this.I know i need it, but the fear is so bad....if i dont go through with it, ive no help.If i do go through the MRI i get help. I have 7 diazepam left and may take them all before i go and take my uncle with me in case im too drugged up. Im aloud 20mg.But i need them to work as i took 4mg and it didnt touch me.
If i can get through the scan i will then know if my disc has 'gone' in my jaw and she will tell me what the hello is causing all this pain in my face.
She did say im preparing you that if all comes back well....and its just jaw mucsles or TJM, i will just have pain meds,but at least i'll know for sure.
Fair enough i thought.Now she's heard me.
So thanks everyone.....THE BIG LION IS HERE!!!!! Just need ideas about me and this big machine for Friday.All suggestions very welcome and very needed.
(the essay writer)
I am still here,just been on new meds so unable to function like i used to.I will pop back,just know im thinking of you all and hoping you are keeping on keeping on.xxxxxxx
WAY TO GO GIRL!!!!!! wish you could come with me to my appointments x
I made it sound easier than it actually was and i was prepared to do anything as having lock jaw at Christmas to now is far too long for a human to be left by a so called caring service. Im at my wits end, did cry once, but i was so frustrated with so many appointments yet getting nowhere.
If i could come with you believe me i really would. Sending you my 'big lion status' it brings you luck and gets you tough Roooooaaaaaaarrrr!
I am still here,just been on new meds so unable to function like i used to.I will pop back,just know im thinking of you all and hoping you are keeping on keeping on.xxxxxxx
I feel for you!!! I can't do the MRI's either!!! I had to be sedated. I didn't know they did it!!! When they did my legs they put me in upside down and my head was out!!! One time they where pushing me in and I was holding on. They thought the thing was stuck!!! I told them I couldn't do it. So they sedated me.
I have TMJ from grinding my teeth. I wear a bite grard when I sleep!!! It helps with the pain!!!
Oh Angel....I am so, so proud of you! You did it! I'll bet that felt so good. My heart was soaring with happiness as I read this. I was so afraid you were going to be sent away again with not a bit of understanding or help. WAY TO GO, AMANDA!!
I love that you spoke up when the first moments of panic started and got help from the nurse...and thankful she listened to you and acted. I can just picture you, in the exam room, butt planted on the seat, refusing to move until they dealt with you. You actually sat there for an hour, refusing to move? .......You Go Girl!!
Oh, and the handcuffs....I think you might have to start another thread, cuz I wanna hear the story how you happen to have a pair of those in your possession.
Honestly, I am so glad you talked and told the doctor exactly how you felt. And glad that she finally sat up and paid attention.
Now all we have to do is get you through the MRI Friday. And I know we can do it. I'll gather up all my tips and tricks and share some ideas soon as I can. I've gotta run and pick up kids from school right now. But I'll be back. I've had to go through some pretty scary, panicky tests in all my years, so I've got a few things up my sleeve that might help.
I'm truly happy to hear about a positive experience...because each one of those gives us the confidence to face another difficult challenge. Aren't you proud of yourself? You should be!!
Much Love,
you gotta tell those docs how it is!!!!
I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just A Little Lupie!
Thanks so much everyone. I made a massive effort to try and get sedated, but they said it would mean a Doctor being present in the MR Centre which is a building on its own. The centre had already told me they can not sedate Adults only children. Oh actually i did ask why not Adults and she said a Doctor would have to be there.But hang on...now im thinking.A doctor would have to be there with a child.Mmmm may look into this tomorrow with my nurse.I smell a fob off here and didnt pick up on it.
Yes, i am proud, but that negative chatter in my head is saying....you know people pleasing stuff....but you know what...i dont care anymore.If they want to think im a looney let em.As long as i get sorted its worth it.
Thanks for all your thoughts and Lori for your strength which landed with a bang
Erm the handcuffs.. They are in a silver box with some chocolate body lotion. A friend bought it me for my birthday. Why...i dont know, but it doesnt taste like chocolate.Then i thought....oh.....i dont think you are meant to eat it.She is so naughty my friend.She even handcuffed me to a Table a couple of years ago in a posh restaurant .
Love Angel.xxx
I am still here,just been on new meds so unable to function like i used to.I will pop back,just know im thinking of you all and hoping you are keeping on keeping on.xxxxxxx
Oh, Angel.....lmao here! Your words paint such a picture at times. You actually got handcuffed to a table in a restaurant?
So...handcuffs...chocolate....I guess you're a woman that's ready for anything in life!
Yes!! It was my 37th and a few people from work took me to an Italian, posh and quiet.The food was nice.The people were or looked upper class.Then there was me, handcuffed to the table with them all looking over.I was so embarrassed.They hid the key. I was not easy to miss being on the best table surrounded by the rest of the customers.Great fun though, when i managed to pick the lock.Im so talented....cheerleading on Ashleys profile, Smoke signals, BIG LION Keeps my mind occupied. Oh and i used to kick box a little n white water raft! Not now though...getting out of beds enough now im 39 lol.
I am still here,just been on new meds so unable to function like i used to.I will pop back,just know im thinking of you all and hoping you are keeping on keeping on.xxxxxxx
Handcuffs, chocolate, You Have a very exciting life!!!


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Durban - I count myself most fortunate to be no stranger to bush lodges and game drives. The 11 000ha Nambiti Game Reserve is a place I have visited a number of times and I am baffled that it remains something of a secret, since it is so accessible – just 25km east of Ladysmith.
This well-managed private reserve has incredible biodiversity. There are 80 species of trees in the whole of Europe yet more than 700 at Nambiti. It is home to 280 bird species and an array of plains game, the Big Five and hippopotamus. Last year the game count was 4 500.
Much of these goings on can be seen without stirring from the pool at Elephant Rock Private Safari Lodge, which overlooks a waterhole in the south of the reserve. This part of the reserve has a high concentration of game so, although it is lovely to laze on the deck, getting up at first light for early game drives is extremely rewarding. In the rare event that you don't have exciting sightings, JP, your guide, will make sure your drive is not a bust.
Human and animal interaction is what a stay at Elephant Rock is all about. There are no televisions and minimal cellphone reception, and in these times being without these "essentials", as well as dining at a communal table, may be unusual, even daunting. Fear not. Manageress Lee-Ann Janse van Rensburg and her team made us feel so welcome and at ease that it was impossible not to relax.
Elephant Rock Private Safari Lodge offers luxury accommodation for a maximum of 10 people in five suites, including one family unit. Our suite was spacious and beautifully decorated, with a private veranda with swinging seats. All suites are well spaced for total privacy, with panoramic views of the waterhole and beyond. It's great to take in the view from the oval bath before the picture window, as well as from the outdoor shower.
After a dip in the pool, it was time for an afternoon game drive. If you aren't on a game drive, you will probably find yourself doing what the game does – recovering from exertions between outings, eating and drinking. Our exertions were largely limited to strolling to the pool or to the boma for pre-dinner drinks around the fire before enjoying yet another exquisitely presented dinner on the deck overlooking the waterhole. All praise to chefs Doris and Comfort Nxumalo!
Lazy as we were, we did cast a few flies on one of the dams, which are well stocked with bass and yellowtail. And we ventured to the Elandslaagte battlefield nearby. We even made it to the rehabilitation centre for some one-on-one time with cheetah, serval, caracal and leopard cubs.
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The project, which will run from January 21 to February 1, is the UK's biggest annual wildlife survey and helps wildlife experts to build up a picture of birds visiting school grounds.
Emma Reed, the RSPB's edu-cation officer in Northern Eng-land, said: "A growing wealth of evidence suggests that many children have little or no contact with the natural world.
"This is bad news for wildlife because it means that future generations are less likely to care about the threats facing the environment.
"The Big Schools' Birdwatch introduces children to their local wildlife and encourages them to care about the natural world.
"The survey is easy and fun so it can be the first step towards a lifelong love of wildlife."
In 2012, the most common bird in Lancashire schools was the carrion crow, with an average of 4.9 of them spotted per school.
No birdwatching expertise is necessary for teachers, helpers or youngsters and the RSPB has produced a free schools' pack containing everything teachers will need to get started. The Big Schools' Birdwatch pack and the Little Schools' Birdwatch pack, both produced by the RSPB contain all the resources and information to plan a birdwatch.
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One approach to career counseling, advocated by theorist John Krumboltz, incorporates the theory of "learning experiences": that we learn about occupations, and how to select a career, by drawing on our direct experiences or modeling what we see in the lives of people around us. This means that analyzing our own experiences is valuable--and that learning about the experiences of others can also be instructive. So let me introduce Elsie.
Elsie is 30-something and married, is expecting her first child, and loves science. Her husband's career is fairly flexible. She has a doctorate in toxicology from a well-known research university. As a graduate student, she had a first-author paper, contributed to a second paper, successfully submitted several meeting abstracts, and had leadership and teaching activities common for graduate students. She is currently doing a postdoc in parasitology--her field of interest due to some brief work experience before graduate school. She's been working at a prestigious research university for over a year, and her project is going well, with writing projects in the works. An outsider might view Elsie as "having everything": Her career is on track, home life is good, and she knows she wants to stay in science.
So why is Elsie seeking career counseling? When I first met her, she said her interests included becoming a faculty member at a research university, working in parasitology or in industry developing drugs to treat parasite infestation, or becoming a science magazine editor. Bright people often have many career opportunities, whether they're aware of them or not, and even the most successful science trainees sometimes seek alternatives to the typical academic career track. Elsie sought career counseling because, despite her current success, she wasn't sure what she wanted to do next.
Elsie's case is not exactly typical; for one thing, I've never met her in person. For another, she knows that I'm using her example for an advice column. These facts may alter the dynamic of our interaction, since Elsie knows that I have interests in our interaction than the long-term health of her professional life. But other than that, the process I've gone through with Elsie is much the same as it would be for anyone who walked into my career counseling office.
After some chitchat, a career counselor typically begins by asking why the client is seeking assistance. The counselor then gathers some basic work history and personal facts, much like the ones summarized above. In real life, a counselor would continue based on what he or she perceives to be the client's needs. I asked Elsie to complete a couple of exercises in order to make her more conscious of the values, goals, and life experiences that will influence her career choices.
The first exercise she completed was a values card sort. She sorted a stack of 50+ cards (like playing cards) that each had a value stated on them. After identifying her top 15 values, she ranked them by their relative importance to her. Some of the things she valued most were having financial security; being a good parent; having a pleasant home environment; using her mind, her skills, and her abilities; working internationally; and being respected.
The second exercise I assigned Elsie is one you may do yourself without the assistance of a counselor. It has a variety of names among career counselors; I'll call it a life diagram. To complete this exercise, you'll need a large sheet of paper, a pencil, and some private time.
First, draw a line on the paper with a beginning and an end representing the beginning and the end of your life. This line can be straight, have peaks and valleys, or randomly progress across the page. Next, fill in significant events in your life starting when you were little and progressing until your current age. Focus on times when you had personal growth, accomplished a major goal, and experienced events that changed your life. Fill in the future, up to age 100. Include as many accomplishments you can, and note approximately when you expect to accomplish them. These should be things related to your professional and personal life.
First, draw a line on the paper with a beginning and an end representing the beginning and the end of your life. This line can be straight, have peaks and valleys, or randomly progress across the page.
Next, fill in significant events in your life starting when you were little and progressing until your current age. Focus on times when you had personal growth, accomplished a major goal, and experienced events that changed your life.
Fill in the future, up to age 100. Include as many accomplishments you can, and note approximately when you expect to accomplish them. These should be things related to your professional and personal life.
When Elsie completed this exercise, she was surprised how her parent's divorce and the moving around she experienced as a child influence her today. Elsie doesn't want to move too much when raising her child. Elsie also found it was hard to make solid career predictions such as "become an assistant professor" or "get tenure." Instead, she listed vague generalities; many her more specific goals were not career-related, or not obviously so. For example, Elsie hopes to serve as a mentor for someone, set up a collaboration overseas to work on parasites, live abroad, learn Spanish, and do some traveling.
I then asked Elsie some open-ended questions:
How does her desire to work abroad and travel fit with her desire to stay put while raising her child?
What, exactly, do working and living abroad mean to her? Where? For how long? What kind of work?
What other location-related factors might influence her job selection?
Elsie told me that she and her husband would like to live somewhere where their salaries could provide them with a good standard of living.
I've also encouraged Elsie to work on the following information-gathering tasks:
Identify a number of organizations or companies that do parasitology research.
List at least 10 universities were she might consider accepting a faculty position, regardless of whether a position is available.
Rewrite her CV to greater reflect her postdoctoral status. Additionally, create a list of strengths and weaknesses an employer might see in her from what is on her CV.
So what's the end game? There isn't one, at least not yet. This isn't a process with a definite conclusion, at least not in the short term. Hopefully, Elsie now has a better understanding of her career goals and the relationship between the personal and professional aspects of her life. I think she now has deeper insights into what drives her. Elsie and I, together, are working toward a career plan that will, with a bit of luck, be consistent with her goals and her personal values.
I hope that Elsie's example can show you how self-reflection, planning, and research might help you make decisions about your future career. I'll report on her progress in the spring. Career activists do something--such as self-assessment exercises and occupational research--when it comes to planning their future. Complaining or saying you'll do that eventually never gets you anywhere!


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With this year's pick, I would definitely try to use it to dump salary.
For me, the 2 players for total salary x compared with one player at salary x also makes sense, depending on the situation. For example, I don't know that I would want to pay 2 players 3M each that are your 9th and tenth men that might average 15-18 total, if I can use the 6m total to get a better fit/better rounded player that is or 7th man that can give you 24 minutes or so per game. I would rather have better quality players at positions 1-8, or 1-9, even if it means that you only carry 13 players and positions 11 and 12 are minimum salary players. 10-11 players will get you through the season, unless you have a significant number of serious injuries. But, in the playoffs, you want a great 8 players, with #9 and #10 able to give you a few minutes here and there.
Right now, I agree that our salary situation is getting sticky. This summer, I see re-signing West as a must. One we see what that amount is, then they can start the work to see if it is possible to keep Danny. By the end of the season, they should also know enough about Danny's recovery to have contingencies in place for choosing between Danny and Lance, and whether there is a chance to retain both (depending on West's new contract amount).
If I were the Pacers, I would do my darndest to try to lock Lance in this summer. Perhaps try to give him more years with some reduction in annual dollars. That way he gets some reward next season in a higher salary as opposed to 900k+. Otherwise, if they wait until summer 2014 after what will probably be another full year of improvement, and there will be several teams in a bidding war for him. If we can get that done, it also locks in another core player. Then they can put their plan in place to be able to trade one of Danny or Lance, if necessary.
After this season, retaining West and acquiring a backup point guard will make it difficult to keep Tyler. If we plan on doing everything possible to also keep Danny and Lance, considering the re-signing of George, that might even make keeping Mahinmi difficult. But Green and his 3.5m have to go, and we need to sign some of the low- end guys at 400k, not 890k. If the bench fodder want won't play for minimum, then we need to move on to the next set of candidates. But we need to quit overpaying guys to sit in sits. Heck, if they need candidates, maybe the two of us can sit in suits behind the bench and ogle the Pacemates for 400k apiece.


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It's a combination of these factors:
1. An uninteresting and stubborn protagonist in Connor, who lacks any meaningful character development and whose motivations are almost simple to a fault given the scope of the series' predecessors' stories.
2. Nothing feels fully developed - from the naval battles, which are generally too easy and whose rewards are mostly fluff, to the homestead and crafting, whose usefulness only really appears near the very end of the game when you really don't need it anyway. Achilles should've had at least a hint of a backstory.
3. The ending is a letdown, mostly because the deus ex machina is an archetype that is overused in video games - especially aggravating after Mass Effect 3 did virtually the same thing.
4. There's very little actual "assassin" type game play. In fact, that seems to be the least of what the game tries to do. It's like buying a Call of Duty game and only one stage has actual shooting. Assassin's Creed 1 was, to a fault, completely focused on assassination. AC 2 expanded the breadth of content but was still focused. AC3 feels as if it's spread too thin. It's a mile wide but an inch deep.
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I hated the awful stealth system in this particular game.
Connor was a meh for me. Ezio had more spaz. Connor was a little too naive. I did like how he address slavery and the founding fathers bull exchange for not freeing them.
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darkjedilink 4 years ago#3
omniryu posted...
I hated the awful stealth system in this particular game.
So, you think it's "bull" that a lot of the Founding Fathers DID want to end slavery, but no consensus could be made?
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omniryu posted...I hated the awful stealth system in this particular game.
If you say so
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From someone who never played the previous AC games I thought the concept was great but the storyline on which it focused was incredibly cheesey.
I connected with Haytham more than I did with Connor in this game, I felt time passed so quickly when he was growing up that you never really got to know him well enough. Some missions felt pointless too, especially when having to command an army...
All that being said, I enjoyed the game and thought it was visually beautiful. Some of the more scenic areas were just gorgeous - especially some of the Naval missions, they almost made me seasick.
It's a shame you didn't get to know more about Achilles and his history as that appeared to be far more interesting!
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From someone who never played the previous AC games I thought the concept was great but the storyline on which it focused was incredibly cheesey.
I thought Haytham was actually more justified and noble than Connor. Though, to be fair, one of the key themes of the game was that the Assassins aren't really any better than the Templars - they're both two sides of the same problem.
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I felt like the game fell apart at the end.
It played okay, but after the part where you used the apple to escape the building, it just seemed to fall apart.
Connor gets extremely injured at the end, bloody mess, poor guy. He is limping! Then the game says '6 months later!' Fully healed. Still limping? Wat?
Right after that Connor decides to put the key in the most secret place no one will touch for hundreds of years! His master assissins mentor's grave. Seriously? bury it 6 feet in a hole in the ground?
After that, Desmond wakes up and they prepare to go and get it. I prepared myself for the 'outside of the animus' game-play sequences, but the whole thing is summarized in a 30 second cut-scene of them going to the grave site and picking it up. Then we supposedly go all they way back, miles and miles to where we were 35 seconds ago. This had to be a very long journey, and it just felt so WRONG.
All that, and the little things like the 'phantom hidden blade', That is a big problem in the game. The game totally throws it in your face by making a bear kill a part of the game. You don't have your hidden blades yet, not even your robes, and you do the kill sequence and Connor stabs the bear with the palms of his hands and blood spews out and the bear dies. And also I realized if you press the hidden blade button when you are Desmond, even when he doesn't have a hidden blade, he flicks his wrist and you hear the 'schwith' sound. That would have taken 30 seconds to disable.
But what they did right was soooo well! i don't understand what went wrong!
Switch JRPGs with Shooters, and I'm sure that's what they're saying about us.
btaylorstl 4 years ago#9
I got pretty much what I expected out of AC3: a fun open-world game set in a vast Revolutionary environment, a bunch of historical tie-ins, and complete nonsense on the present/Desmond side.
The only thing that really surprised me was how much fun I had with the Naval combat stuff. I expected that to be nothing but half-baked rail shooting, but I enjoyed it so much that I'd probably buy a dedicated game of the naval stuff if it were a bit more fleshed out.
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NOW CLOSED Kärcher steam cleaner feedback thread: Non testers – win a steam cleaner (RRP: £219.99) for yourself by letting Kärcher know your home's 'dirty secrets'(405 Posts)
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Testers are trying the SC 2.500 C
Testers: we'll be asking you to add feedback twice - we'd like your first impressions now and in a week we will add some more questions.
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~ Where have you used the Steam Cleaner?
~ What were your impressions from the first few uses?
~ What cleaning chore have you been most pleased with the results from using a Steam Cleaner?
If you're not an official tester but you'd like another chance to get a steam cleaner (RRP: £219.99) for yourself then please share on this thread where in your house could really benefit from a bit of a deep-steam-clean. What's your home's 'dirty secret' ? the place where you've let the grime build up and now can't bear to look at? Where would you most want to use the steam cleaner?
Thanks and good luck!
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My dirty secret is the
futility room, down the sides of the tumble drier and washing machine. Tis grim and horrid
My kitchen floors take such a beating daily with the human traffic that they always look grubby
Life is too short for me to be hauling the mop and bucket out every day so they'll stay like that for quite a while.......
Non tester.
My dirty secret is the cupboard next to the dishwasher, which has splashes all down it (when viewed from some angles)... whenever anything with liquid on/in it goes into the dishwasher, some splashes onto the adjacent cupboard door - the obvious ones get wiped, but when the light shines on it, I can see a whole fiesta of grease & coffee that has been missed...
Not a tester
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I have three boys under 5 and a tendency to clean at eye level only
I would love one for my bathroom and futility room because i mostly wipe them in a rush!
Also as an aside, can the steam cleaner be used on Amtico?
Two places - the oven is a disgrace and my kitchen floor never seems to be clean no matter what product or method I try. I really wanted to be one of the testers as my floor really is a thing of wonder, and not in a good way .
Did you find setting up the Steam Cleaner easy, we're the instructions helpful?
The steam cleaner was pretty easy to set up. The instructions were not particularly useful. I would have preferred the various brushes to be labelled in the booklet with suggestions on what they might be useful for. I ve found it a bit trial ad error so far.
What were your first impressions from the first few uses.?
I didn't see a huge difference on my tiles or floor to any other cleaning products I generally use. However it's been great for cleaning areas I hadn't expected it to be useful for, such as skirting boards, getting crayons marks off walls, doors etc. It's good for getting into difficult hard to reach spots like behind the loo
I realise it's not recommend for leather couches, but I did a test patch on the arm of a chair and it came up really well.
What cleaning chore have you been most impressed with.?
so far , dirty marks on walls.
I have to admit my oven is the dirtiest thing in my house. It is such a horrible thing to clean - that's my excuse anyway!
Non tester here.
I have never managed to move my fridge to clean under it in the two years we have lived here. It is positively wedged between the floor and the work surface. I have visions of horror where the mess under it gets actually so much it will move the work surface up!
My dirty secret (well, the one to do with cleaning) is that my house looks fantastic, from afar. We are very tidy, surfaces clear, little clutter. But, close up it is really, really dusty. Cupboards hide all our sins and drawers are full to bursting.
So, good on the outside - really bad underneath.
Non tester here! I have 3 small boys, one of which is heavily into football, cue muddy trainers and kit, such fun! I also have an elderly, occasionally incontinent cat . Strongly considering buying a steam cleaner but would like to know if they're ok to use on original (not posh!) sanded and varnished wooden floors? Thanks!
Non-tester. At the moment I'm pretending the crooks and crannies around and under our kitchen appliances don't exist. They are hideously grimy and I can see it every time I clean the kitchen floor. Ick.
guilty dirty secrets are too numerous to admit
The bit under my wide gas stove that has never been cleaned since it was installed c.10 years ago.
The wooden floors under my sofas in the lounge which only get swept when we re-arrange the room.
The wooden floors in the same room which only get washed when...... actually, I don't know when.
The vent bits on my two built in ovens which I've noticed are horribly greasy having never been cleaned since they were installed (as above, c.10 years ago)
Non tester - the ensuite bathroom. Nobody but my husband and I go in there, so I always leave it till last to clean. Luckily one of the spotlights has broken so I no longer have to see the dirt.
Non-tester here - my very dirty and not so secret area of the house which could benefit from a steam clean is the kitchen units - they get so greasy and take ages to clean so it's a job I often neglect! My DH is a great cook but I swear it's like he's smearing butter all over the cupboard fascias when he's in there! I may have o watch him at work and see if this is actually the case... Either way, would love a product to cut through the grime!
Non tester. My dirty secret is behind the U bends in the bathrooms. Even when I do them, unless I get on my hands and knees with a multisurface wipe and scrub, they are lacking. And I scrub about as often as there are 5 Saturdays and Sundays in March - once every 857 years they said on the radio earlier.
Non tester.
I have a little segment beneath the gas cooker which is in dire need of a BGC (Bloody Good Clean)
There is also the really flipping awkwardly place toilet upstairs that DH manages to miss occasionally. I use the downstairs loo, so he is fully responsible for upstairs as I was getting really fed up. He isn't the most observant cleaner so it is in a bit of a state.
Please can I win?
Not a tester.
Where in my house wouldn't benefit from a deep steam clean?
The worst room is probably the bathroom. There's orange dust all over it from the dry rot and loads of general scum/dirt that's built up since the last time I got around to cleaning it properly.
I dread to think what's lurking around the edges of the kitchen, since the floor itself is bad enough. As for the oven. Better not to think about that.
I feel really dirty now. I promise, I'll clean my house.
Non tester here.
I have never cleaned the oven. Now it gives me The Fear (and oddly fragranced cakes).
But my real dirty secret is the flaming pipes and skirting - 30s place, with those long pipes and bevelled kickboards. Yech. Dont mention the oh-so chic chrome towel rail, dob 1927. Could be beauteous, but when I have a go but retire swooning.
Non-tester here.
I have a few dirty secrets in my home
On the surface, my home looks lovely, people comment on how tidy and clean it looks (not sure how they expect it to look) but I ever let anyone look inside my oven. I hadn't cleaned it for about 2 years and now it'll take hours and hours. I try to give it a wipe when it's still warm from being used, but it needs a hell of a lot more than that!
The grouting in my kitchen and bathroom has seen better days and I don't clean behind doors We rarely close any of the doors in our place, so I forget to clean behind them. Means a quick dash for the dustpan and brush and a babywipe when a visitor goes to the bathroom! (our bathroom door is outward opening, so when it's closed, you can see all the dust etc in the hallway.
I think I'd use a steam cleaner mostly in the kitchen and bathroom for tiles and taps.
no tester here too.
a steam cleaner would be perfect for the tiles in my bathroom (tiled from floor to ceiling all round) it takes me most of the day
and lots of effort to get them sparkling hence its not done very often im sure it would take dh me 5 mins with a posh steamer
I already wrote a 'First Impressions' piece so I am submitting this to the thread and will answer the specific questions underneath.
Well it arrived! I was super excited, I unpacked it straight away with dd2s help (age 5) and the wheels went on easy enough. I had a read through the instructions but it was a little unclear what bits and bobs had come with it in the box and whether these would usually be included or where an added extra. However, it looked really pretty simple to put together.
I wanted to use it immediately, on everything, even the kids, unfortunately that is not a usage listed so they had a bath instead.
Once they were in bed, I had a quick go on the kitchen sinks and taps.
Filling up with water is pretty self-explanatory and the connections are not hard to work out.
Now my kitchen sink and taps are not particularly dirty, so I couldn't really tell a big improvement, although it did look like it had been cleaned.
So I moved on to the cupboards and handles, now they were grimy. My kitchen is small with a rubbish extractor fan so it does get grease everywhere. So far, I am impressed. It did a nice job, there was patches of ground in dirt that I had to spend a little bit of time doing but they came up pretty good. I ended up doing the whole kitchen cupboards, hob and extractor fan which took about 90 minutes. I realised that if you let a little bit of pressure build up, your first squeeze of the trigger is most powerful which is good for getting into the little corners of drawer handles that you could not get clean with just a cloth.
I did find that when I turned it off, it would still steam, for quite a while afterwards. .something that is worth bearing in mind if it is to be left out near young children. Another thing I noted, there is a storage hole for the mains cable, Im not keen on this, Id prefer something to wrap the cord round, or ideally it could be wound in internally to keep it tidy.
~ Did you find setting up the Steam Cleaner easy, were the instructions helpful?
Yes I found it pretty easy, the instructions are not particularly clear to be honest but with a little bit of time it can be worked out.
~ Where have you used the Steam Cleaner?
I've used it in the kitchen-on the cupboards and the hob.
~ What were your impressions from the first few uses?
I think that is great! It makes light work of some jobs and leaves most things looking good. However, I'm not convinced it is the magic cure I have dreamed of and it will need some elbow grease to go with it.
~ What cleaning chore have you been most pleased with the results from using a Steam Cleaner?
So far-the kitchen cupboards and top of the extractor fan.
Non tester. I actually bought a Karcher steam cleaner (a cheaper model than the one on this thread) since I wasn't picked for the trial. It was one of Which? worst buys so I would normally avoid an item with suck a low ranking BUT the reviews on Amazon were really good.
Anyway, it's rubbish. I really wanted to be able to steam the grout in the kitchen & bathroom (not horrific but a but grubby-looking). My exMIL had a steamer that squirted grouting beautifully clean but my Karcher did nothing I also used it on the carpet where the dog had left footprints & assorted stains but it didn't lift those either. It's fun to use and means I've mopped the floor more than I usually would but I can't say it has helped with deep cleaning like I hoped it would. I think Which? may have been right.
OOh, Grockle - can you remember what Which's top-selling cleaner was?
Sorry you bought a lemon.
<A bit obsessed with steam cleaner emoticon>
One was this one
I'm a bit cross that I didn't go for that.
Can look the other one up later if that helps.
Bathroom floors, shower cubicles, oven extractor fan, tops of bookshelves, fire place, curtain poles...hmm...looks like I should stop typing and start cleaning...but then again, maybe it could wait another day/week/month/year...
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Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker backs National Harbor casino plan
National Harbor has long been seen as a big-time money maker and job creator for cash-strapped Prince George's County.
Along those lines, a new proposal for a high-end casino at the shopping and entertainment complex is gathering momentum, and it has at least one big political endorsement behind it.
Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker told the Washington Post that a casino on the county's Potomac River banks could help pay for a new regional medical center, along with school construction and repairs.
A casino at National Harbor could generate as much as $50 million per year and create 5,000 jobs. That would be on top of the 1,500 jobs that officials at the Maryland Live! Casino in Anne Arundel County, which is slated to open this summer, have offered.
"I think it's a good idea because people need to work," Victoria Wegand, a National Harbor patron, said. "People go outside the state to gamble anyway...you can't bring any more corruption that would happen with other businesses."
However, some residents of nearby Fort Washington are resistant to the idea of a large casino with more than 4,700 slot machines.
There are also infrastructure issues, which include the fact that Oxon Hill Road, one of the main roads that feeds into National Harbor from southern Prince George's County, is only two lanes.
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Neuromodulation and Language Acquisition (Project Stage Ia)
This study has been terminated.
University Hospital Muenster
Information provided by:
University Hospital Muenster
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: January 26, 2005
Last updated: January 26, 2010
Last verified: September 2006
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether levodopa, pergolid, rivastigmine, or modafinil are effective in boosting semantic language acquisition in healthy subjects.
|Drug: levodopa Drug: rivastigmine Drug: pergolid Drug: modafinil
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Improved Language Acquisition Through Neuromodulation, Project Stage Ia
Further study details as provided by University Hospital Muenster:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Boost in language learning success through neuromodulation
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Stability of language learning success
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|March 2004
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2005
Our prior work shows that d-amphetamine and the dopamine precursor levodopa markedly improve word learning success in healthy subjects. In this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial, we probe whether a mixed d1/d2 dopamine agonist (pergolid) or cholinergic neuromodulation (rivastigmine) or a general centrally arousing substance (modafinil) will yield a learning enhancement comparable to using levodopa in healthy subjects.
Our results show that the dopamine agonist pergolide impaired learning in healthy subjects compared to placebo, whereas cholinergic neuromodulation had no effect.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 35 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthy subjects
- 20-35 years old
- Right handedness
- Left language dominance (as assessed by functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography [fTCD])
Exclusion Criteria:
- Neurological/psychiatric/metabolic/cardiac disorders
- Asthma
- Known allergic reactions to one of the experimental drugs
- Other drugs affecting the central nervous system
- Leisure drug ingestion during the past 4 weeks (urine test)
- Smoking cessation during the past 2 weeks
- > 6 cups of coffee or energy drinks per day
- > 10 cigarettes per day
- > 50 grams of alcohol per day
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00102284
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00102284
|Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Muenster
|Muenster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, 48129
Sponsors and Collaborators
University Hospital Muenster
|Study Director:
|Caterina Breitenstein, PhD
|Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Muenster
|Study Chair:
|Stefan Knecht, MD
|Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Muenster
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Keywords provided by University Hospital Muenster:
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Breitenstein C, Korsukewitz C, Flöel A, Kretzschmar T, Diederich K, Knecht S. Tonic dopaminergic stimulation impairs associative learning in healthy subjects. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2006 Nov;31(11):2552-64. Epub 2006 Jul 26.
Knecht S, Breitenstein C, Bushuven S, Wailke S, Kamping S, Flöel A, Zwitserlood P, Ringelstein EB. Levodopa: faster and better word learning in normal humans. Ann Neurol. 2004 Jul;56(1):20-6.
Breitenstein C, Wailke S, Bushuven S, Kamping S, Zwitserlood P, Ringelstein EB, Knecht S. D-amphetamine boosts language learning independent of its cardiovascular and motor arousing effects. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2004 Sep;29(9):1704-14.
Breitenstein C, Flöel A, Korsukewitz C, Wailke S, Bushuven S, Knecht S. A shift of paradigm: from noradrenergic to dopaminergic modulation of learning? J Neurol Sci. 2006 Oct 25;248(1-2):42-7. Epub 2006 Jul 11.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00102284 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
KS-NEUROMOD_01, Stage Ia
IZKF Muenster: Kne3/074/04
|Study First Received:
|January 26, 2005
|Last Updated:
|January 26, 2010
Keywords provided by University Hospital Muenster:
language acquisition
stroke recovery
associative learning
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Antiparkinson Agents
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Dopamine Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Wakefulness-Promoting Agents
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
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Cholinesterase Inhibitors
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NK DLI in Patients After Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
This study has been completed.
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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Last updated: September 14, 2015
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This is a phase I/II study of highly selected donor lymphocyte infusions in patients undergoing HLA-haploidentical hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. Patients will be offered "pre-emptive" NK-DLI early after HSCT.
Three schedules of NK-cell infusion will be studied: Basel patients (adult and pediatric) will receive NK-DLI on days +40 and +100 (pre-emptive-late); Frankfurt patients (pediatric) will receive NK-DLI on days +3, +40, and +100 (pre-emptive early). Patients not receiving pre-emptive NK-DLI with loss in donor chimerism or with evidence of minimal residual disease will be offered "therapeutic" NK-DLI.
|Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma Myelodysplastic Syndromes Lymphoma Neuroblastoma Rhabdomyosarcoma
|Biological: CD3-depleted/CD56+ selected natural killer cells collected from apheresis products
|Phase 1 Phase 2
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Natural Killer Cell Selected T-cell Depleted Donor Lymphocyte Infusions (NK-DLI) in Patients After HLA-haploidentical Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Feasibility of NK-DLI production [ Time Frame: At day of transplant (day 0) ]The feasibility of the production of expanded NK-cell DLI will be measured. Primary quality measures of the NK cell product are the number of NK cells that can be produced (CD56+/cluster of differentiation 3(CD3)- NK cell goal dose >= 1 * 10e7/kg body weight of recipient) as well as the degree of CD3 T-cell contamination (goal CD3+ T-cell dose < 1 * 10e5 / kg body weight of recipient).
- Safety of NK DLI Infusion [ Time Frame: Day +60 after transplant ]The safety evaluation regards transfusion associated adverse events (fever, fall in blood pressure, transfusion site reactions, etc) and is evaluated at the time of NK DLI infusion. The primary long-term safety measure is the absence of acute graft-versus-host disease 30 days after the last NK DLI infusion.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Efficacy of NK DLI Infusions [ Time Frame: 5 years after last NK DLI ]The efficacy of NK DLI infusions will be assessed by evaluation of the rates of overall and disease free survival and the rate of disease relapse. As this is a single arm study, outcome measures assessed will be compared to those of historical controls treated with haploidentical HSCT without NK DLI infusions.
|Study Start Date:
|January 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: NK cell DLI
Biological: CD3-depleted/CD56+ selected natural killer cells collected from apheresis products
NK DLI products containing >1 10e7 NK cells/kg bodyweight (BW) and < 1 x 10e5 T-cells/kg BW are administered at days +4 (Frankfurt only), and on days +40 and +100 (both centers)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with acute/chronic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, lymphoid neoplasia, solid tumor or bone marrow failure syndrome
- signed informed consent of the patient (or his/her legal representative)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with graft failure
- Patients with any grade of active acute of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GvHD)
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01386619
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01386619
|Frankfurt, Germany
|University Hospital
|Basel, Switzerland
Sponsors and Collaborators
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
|Study Chair:
|Jakob Passweg, MD
|University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
|Study Chair:
|Dirk Schwabe, MD
|Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01386619 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NK-DLI Allo-Tx
|Study First Received:
|June 7, 2011
|Last Updated:
|September 14, 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
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Key UNC blockers listed as probable for Va. Tech
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Guard Jonathan Cooper, center Lowell Dyer, tackle Kyle Jolly and tight end Zack Pianalto are all listed as probable for North Carolina's game at Virginia Tech Thursday night.
Carolina's line has been thinned by injuries all season, and the Tar Heels face a rugged defense in Blacksburg.
Having Cooper (ankle), Dyer (shoulder), Jolly (ankle) and Pianalto (concussion) available would be a huge boost for UNC.
Also listed as probable are defensive end E.J. Wilson (thigh), linebacker Linwan Euwall (ankle) and running back Devon Ramsay (knee).
Listed as questionable are receiver Joshua Adams (shoulder) and center Cam Holland (shoulder).
Listed as doubtful are defensive back Jordan Hemby (concussion) and tight end Ryan Taylor (knee).
Out for the game are: quarterback A.J. Blue (knee), tackle Carl Gaskins (knee), safety Matt Merletti (knee), snapper Trevor Stuart (knee) and tailback Jamal Womble (wrist).