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Could There be a Last Minute Rays Holiday Gift?
We all know that the holiday season's spirit is centered around the fact of giving and sharing with our fellow-man. No matter your religious affiliation or the exact calendar date to commemorate your joyous celebrations, every team within the MLB wants to bring about a joyous cornucopia of unexpected presents to their faithful fans base, hopefully adding a few well placed good tidings and joy as we are now under 50 days until Pitchers and Catchers officially report to Spring Training.
With all of the recent unwrapping of surprising player signings and a surplus of some tremendous talent that has some MLB rosters bursting at the seams like Santa's red jacket, a team like the Tampa Bay Rays could very easily come a-caroling in the waning moments of the holiday with bushels of prospects and MLB ready personnel with hopes of possibly adding a few additional player ornaments to their own tree before the blessed holiday season comes to an end.
Whether it be by trade, free agency or even minor league deal with a Spring Invite, this is the perfect time for the Rays to get in the giving mood, and possibly get some glad tidings in return who could be instrumental pieces of the Rays own game plan as they head into the Spring of 2013. With that in mind, I'm going to pop on my Rays Santa elves cap and throw out a few names that I would pen onto my "Wish List" going into the final holiday moments.
We all know the Rays have been eagerly searching and awaiting the perfect additions to their team to the Designated Hitter position, and possibly a right-handed First Baseman who could platoon with newly signed James Looney to provide a bit more stability and flexibility to the Rays past offensive woes. With that in mind, here are a few names I have penned on my own list to Santa Sternberg hoping he will pass these on to his dedicated Master Elf, Andrew Friedman.
I was a bit perplexed the Rays have not entertained a trade towards their expansion brothers the Arizona Diamondbacks in regards to outfielder Jason Kubel. I had Kubel higher on my list of potential targets heading into this time of the season than Justin Upton, especially since Kubel could be brought into the Rays fold with mirror salaries of $ 7.5 million expected over the next 2 seasons.
Sure Kubel played mostly a corner (LF) outfield position in 2012, but he does have ample experience as a Designated Hitter in the American League after his tenure with the Minnesota Twins and his salary is within the Rays general range for DH candidates who can also play an outfield position during the InterLeague schedule. What might make the D-Backs an ample trading partner is the fact the Rays have a few pieces both in experienced MLB infielders and budding pitching prospects who could make this deal happen fast with the recent addition of OF Cody Ross to the Arizona ranks.
The only Grinch factor in Kubel is the fact he is a left-handed bat, but that should not hinder the Rays in trying to acquire a talented bat who knows how to play duo roles for his team.
That is just once possible present the Rays could possibly foster before the 25th day of December, and there are even a few I have penciled in from my second favorite squad, the Seattle Mariners who could also be great additions to the Rays fold. Some say the Rays were unwise to have traded John Jaso to the M's when they had a few questions as to their catching corps. Jaso is only one of the Three Wise Men aka Emerald City edition I have picked as potential trade offerings the Rays could get for some well-placed sprigs of Frankincense Myrrh and possibly a few Gold shekels.
Along with Jaso I would include 1B/DH Justin Smoak and the aptly named C/DH Jesus Montero who all 3 have become a bit expendable with the recent Seattle addition of 1B/DH Kendrys Morales and return of prodigal favorite Raul Ibanez. This overflow of potential First Baseman and Designated Hitter candidates make any of the 3 possible shining stars for the Rays to pluck out of the night sky possibly for not a lot of the aforementioned spices and metal. Jaso might be a long shot to return, but the possibility of a switch hitting DH/1B like Smoak or even an additional catching option and DH like Montero should have the Rays quickly on the phone inquiring about these 2 Wise choices for their current lineup holes.
With the Rays recent signing of Roberto Hernandez to an incentive laced contract for either starting or relief duty, I feel he might either be a rotation fit or an ample candidate for the Rays now vacant long-relief spot with the trade of the team's 2012 incumbent Wade Davis to the Royals. Even with the Rays young stable of budding relievers at the Triple-A level, it might be a prudent move to acquire or sign an experienced relief pitcher until the Rays youngsters show they are up to the task.
Right now with the duo of Kameron Loe, Jon Rauch and Jason Frasor all still out in the cold as free agents, possibly could come at a low-cost for the Rays as well as add some extra veteran experience and ability to the Rays Bullpen as right-handed relief options. With the Rays overflowing with leftie options with Jake McGee, Cesar Ramos and possibly Alex Torres, the left side of the relief corps might have stability for at least the next few years (barring injury).
Loe would be the younger relief candidate at 31, with Rauch (34) and Frasor (35) and both having previous closer experience that sometimes is vital for a team to overcome even the slightest of late inning setbacks in the American League East. And wouldn't it be wild if the Rays signed Rauch and added Jeff Niemann as their long reliever. The team could have the "Twins Towers of Terror" with each rising above the 6 foot 9 inches.
But that is what is great about the holiday season, some times you get completely surprised, and other times you can find just what you need under the tree to fulfill your dreams and needs. These are just a few of the viable options still out there or being put up on display as we begin the final push of the holiday season. My only real question now is are the Rays still seeking the right gifts, and are these teams brimming with overflowing roster in the holiday mood to give more than they receive?


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Old Spice is raising the bar, literally.
The aftershave brand, which is known for appealing to more mature men, is introducing a line of scented soap bars this month.
It may seem odd that Procter & Gamble, which has fought in recent years to refashion its 75-year-old Old Spice brand to target younger men, is rolling out something that some people consider antiquated.
After all, not much has changed with bar soap since P&G introduced Ivory soap in 1879. Body wash has eclipsed bar soap sales in 2010, according to research firm Euromonitor International.
Bar soap sales edged up just 1 percent in the U.S. between 2007 and 2012 to $1.62 billion, according to the firm's data. Meanwhile, body wash revenue jumped 30 percent during the same period, to total $2.44 billion.
But Old Spice executives say their interviews with thousands of men each year indicate that bar soap is popular among men. Some say it's what they grew up with, others prefer the "squeaky clean" feeling of bar soap and others just like the fact that it's cheaper than body wash, he said.
"We know that 42 percent of guys use bar soap in the shower, but only 15 percent of bar soap has `manly' scents," said Jason Partin, Old Spice brand manager.
The rest are odor neutral or have feminine scent, he said, leaving an opening for Old Spice.
The new soaps come in Old Spice's three most popular scents: "Fiji," a summery scent, "Pure Sport," a fresher, clean scent, and "Swagger," which is slightly musky. They're aimed at 25- to 34-year-old men, and will cost $3.99 for a 6-pack and $1.79 for a 2-pack.
To rev up interest, the company is rolling out an ad campaign on Tuesday that includes spots that make fun of jingle-laden soap commercials from the 1980s.
One shows a man showering with the soap in a gym locker room and then cutting open a basketball to reveal a watermelon-like inside. "It's a really weird commercial for soap," the accompanying jingle trills.
Another shows a man showering with the soap and then having the shower following him everywhere - even when he is in the middle of operating on a patient and when he goes out to dinner with a beautiful woman.
"The freshness will follow you all through your day," the jingle states. "This could actually be a fairly serious problem."
Procter & Gamble, the world's largest consumer product maker whose products range from Tide detergent to Crest toothpaste and Gillette razors, has focused on rolling out new products in North America as it lowers costs to boost its bottom line.
Old Spice, with about $564 million in annual sales, according to Bernstein estimates, is not a large P&G brand. That's less than 1 percent of the company's annual revenue of $83.66 billion.
P&G spent $26 million on advertising Old Spice in 2012, less than 1 percent of its overall advertising budget in 2012, according to Kantar Media.
But since a revamp in 2008, it has been successful in rolling out new products with names like "Red Zone" and "High Endurance" and trendy marketing targeting a younger audience that captures young mens' attention with tongue-in-cheek ads featuring actor and former football players Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews. Annual sales rose about 33 percent between 2009 and 2012, according to Bernstein revenue estimates.
Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj said he was surprised Old Spice was offering new products in a slow-growth area like bar soap - but said they must believe they can capture market share quickly in the area.
"What P&G has a tendency to do is if they are successful under one brand banner, to expand that brand in adjacent categories," he said. "They're trying to gain share in a category that has mainly seen growth with niche products like vegetable bars or higher-end type products."
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"Shower: https://youtu.be/XS1dM6kmCx4

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But there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." (Gal. 1:7-9)
After reading the above passage, I would have to say that the gospel message we promote is of the utmost importance. Paul said that the Lord called us by our gospel (II Ths. 2:14). That gospel is the same gospel Paul was referring to when lie wrote the epistle to the Gallatin saints. Therefore, if the Lord saves his people through the very gospel message Paul preached and Paul said for other men who spread a false gospel to be accursed, the gospel news we give die lost man becomes utterly important.
"But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and to file (Greeks foolishness: But unto them, which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." (I Cor. 1:2 .14)
This is the basis of the gospel. If you are sitting under preaching that is leaving this out of the message, they aren't preaching the gospel of Christ. Many preachers say "Let God into your life. Accept Christ. Let God be your co-pilot" Brethren, Christ is my pilot and I didn't let him do anything. He is God and "… he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth." (Dan. 4:35) He must be exalted and he is by true gospel preaching.
Paul never told anybody to accept Christ, or, to let Christ be part of their life. He simply preached the gospel and "the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved". (Acts 2:47) Our Lord told us to "Preach the gospel to every creature." (Mrk. 16:15). He didn't tell us to save them. We can't make a single person born again. You see, brethren, "With men this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible." (Mat. 19:26) The proper gospel message is boldly proclaimed with the results left up to God.
Acts 13:49 states: "And when the Gentiles heard this (the gospel), they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed."
You see, the gospel message was put out and the ones God had ordained to eternal life believed it. This, is why we are saved by the Sovereign Grace of an Almighty God. With these thoughts in mind, I don't hesitate to say sinner if you are burdened down with sin–if you are weak and heavy laden, cast your burden on the only sacrifice for our sins.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who was God in the flesh, came to this earth and walked among men. He committed no sin. He lived a perfect life. He was tempted in every way we are, yet he was without sin (Heb. 4:15). However, God requires a perfect sacrifice. Therefore, my Lord had to die. l wasn't worthy to pay for my sin. I needed a perfect Lamb of God to do it for me. Without Him, I would be on a one-way course to the deepest parts of hell. Yet, with Him, I am at peace. He was crucified on the cross for our sins. He laid down his life for the sheep (Jhn 10: 15). I was a lost sheep, but he found me and brought me into file fold.
"How do I know God recognized his sacrifice as sufficient?", one might ask. This is taught in almost every book in the Bible. The answer is because lie raised him up from the dead. He rose again after three days. He was a perfect sacrifice. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved." (Acts 16:31) If you trust in him for your salvation, you are trusting in one who is worth trusting. If you are trusting in your church, your preacher, the life you live, your baptism, or anything, save the blood of Christ, you aren't trusting in the gospel Paul taught. You are trusting in works (Eph 2:8-9). We are saved by faith in Christ and faith alone. This is a faith imparted to us by the Holy Spirit through the use of a gospel message. It must be a gospel message.
If you are supporting a gospel other than the gospel of Christ, I tell you to find another place to worship. Find a place that preaches the gospel the Bible talks about. If you truly love the Lord, follow his word, heed to his commands, and proclaim his gospel in truth. I leave you with this thought in mind from the 53rd chapter of Isaiah. "
He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."


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A finite state machine (fsm) is a method to model a system's behavior. The model is composed of a set of states, of which one is designated as the start or initial state. The initial state is the state that the fsm begins when it is instantiated. The transition from the initial state and between the set of states is determined by a set of events. From one state to the next, an event may be processed to cause a transition or ignored.
The embedded Finite State Machine (eFSM) I present here is written in C and portable to different environments. You can download the eFSM from SourceForge here.
The set of states is defined in a state description table. The state description table from the demo is shown below:
static state_description_t normalized_state_table[] = {{idle_s, "Idle State"}, {wait_for_init_ack_s, "Wait for Init Ack State"}, {established_s, "Established State"}, {wait_for_term_ack_s, "Wait for Terminate Ack State"}, {FSM_NULL_STATE_ID, NULL} };
Once the states are determined, the set of normalized events is defined is the event description table as shown below:
static event_description_t normalized_event_table[] = {{start_init_e, "Start Session Init"}, {init_rcvd_e, "Session Init"}, {init_tmo_e, "Session Init ACK TMO"}, {init_ack_e, "Session Init ACK"}, {start_term_e, "Start Session Termination"}, {term_rcvd_e, "Session Terminate"}, {term_ack_e, "Session Terminate ACK"}, {FSM_NULL_EVENT_ID, NULL} };
Now to put the states and events together. The state table provides an entry for each state. The entries map a state to the associated state-event table. In the table below, the established state is mapped to the established state-event table:
static state_tuple_t demo_state_table[] = /*** State ID ****************** Event Table ***/ { {idle_s, state_idle_events}, {wait_for_init_ack_s, state_wait_for_init_ack_events}, {established_s, state_established_events}, {wait_for_term_ack_s, state_wait_for_term_ack_events}, {FSM_NULL_STATE_ID, NULL} };
Here the event handler and the transition caused by an event is defined:
static event_tuple_t state_established_events[] = /****** Event ID ******* Handler ************ Next State ID *****/ { { start_init_e, event_ignore, established_s}, { init_rcvd_e, event_ignore, established_s}, { init_tmo_e, event_ignore, established_s}, { init_ack_e, event_ignore, established_s}, { start_term_e, event_start_term, wait_for_term_ack_s}, { term_rcvd_e, event_term_rcvd, idle_s}, { term_ack_e, event_ignore, established_s} };
With the state and event tables, the fsm_engine() can be called to process events and drive state transitions.
Included are calls to display the state machine history of events and resulting state transitions (useful for debugging) and a call to display the state-event tables. The organization of the demo software suggests an organization for your real application.
You can find a comprehensive and detailed description of finite state machines here.


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- I live stream one meditation per week, every Monday 7.30pm (except public holidays in NZ). As a member you can attend them all AND you will get access to the recording of those Meditations afterwards. You have access as long as you are a member, the meditations will stay online for minimum 1 year. You can leave the membership anytime. Renewal is always the day of your entry.
- oh, and a bonus is, you can do them online together with other people if you like, no extra, because I don't mind how many people sit in front of the screen … 😉
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News Of Interest to Berkeley
Two articles of interest to Berkeley have appeared in other media over the holidays. We'll have more in this space about these topics in the new year, but these links will keep you abreast of developments.
First, some Southern California developers, aided and abetted by Berkeley's ex-
planning director land-use-planning manager Mark Rhoades, husband of Erin Rhoades (honcho of the Livable Berkeley developers' lobbying group) have drawn a bulls-eye on the old Hinks department store building, now home to the thriving Shattuck Cinemas. They propose to demolish much of the historic structure in order to construct a 17-story luxury apartment building, complete with a four-story parking garage. You don't really believe that this is "transit-friendly", do you? Residents of luxury apartments surely will have at least one auto per occupant. Here's a good story from Berkeleyside, complete with links to the promoters' press release.
Carolyn Jones in today's Chronicle covers the on-going story of another demolition in the works, the city of Berkeley's demolition-by-neglect of the Maudelle Shirek Old City Hall, a gorgeous Beaux Arts building which city officials have negligently allowed to decay. Councilmember Jesse Arreguin is determined to reverse the process. Read about it here.


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I wonder if Morse Theory on pseudo-Hermitian manifold is developed. For example, I wonder if the following statement on pseudo-Hermitian manifold, which is corresponding to the Riemannian case, is true:
Suppose $f$ is a smooth real-valued non-degenerate function on a pseudo-Hermitian manifold $(M,\theta)$, $a < b$, $f^{−1}[a, b]$ is compact, and there are no critical values between $a$ and $b$ in the sense that for all $x\in f^{−1}[a, b]$, the subgradient of $f$ at $x$ is not zero. Then $M^a$ is diffeomorphic to $M^b$, and $M^b$ deformation retracts onto $M^a$, where $M^a=f^{-1}(-\infty,a]$.


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Tutorial 2: A Bottom-Up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials
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This lecture provides a theoretical development of the transport of thermal energy by conduction in nanomaterials. The physical nature of energy transport by two carriers—electrons and phonons--will be explored from basic principles using a common Landauer framework. Issues including the quantum of thermal conductance, ballistic interface resistance, and carrier scattering will be developed. Bulk material properties, such as thermal conductivity, will be derived from particle transport theories, and the effects of spatial confinement and material interfaces on these properties will be established.
- Introduction
- Lattice vibrations and phonons
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- Discrete masses and the vibrational eigenspectrum
- Thermal properties and larger scales
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Corey Perry scored late in the second period and added the winning goal in the shootout, leading the Anaheim Ducks closer to the Pacific Division title with a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night.
Matt Beleskey scored the tiebreaking goal on a power play for Anaheim with 15:06 to play, but Kings captain Dustin Brown tied it with 3:45 left in regulation in the third Freeway Faceoff of the season.
The Ducks were outshot 38-22, but the Pacific Division leaders were perfect in the shootout. Bobby Ryan and Saku Koivu scored on Jonathan Bernier before Perry ended Anaheim's fourth win in six games with a wrist shot.
Jeff Carter and Drew Doughty scored for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who had won five of seven.
Bernier stopped 18 shots in just his second loss since Feb. 2 for Los Angeles, which never led.
Viktor Fasth made 35 saves, and Kyle Palmieri also scored in regulation as Anaheim extended its division lead over Los Angeles to nine points while remaining five points behind Chicago for the NHL's best record.
The Ducks played without captain Ryan Getzlaf for the second straight game. Anaheim's leading scorer and emotional leader is out with a lower body injury after his right leg bent awkwardly late in the Ducks' win over Dallas last Wednesday.
The rivalry game featured its usual hard hits and after-the-whistle scuffling. The teams wrap up the Freeway Faceoff series on Saturday night at Staples Center - unless they meet in a playoff series for the first time.
Carter tied it for Los Angeles in the final minute of the second period with his Western Conference-leading 23rd goal, but he took a slashing penalty deep in the offensive zone early in the third to set up an unlikely goal by Beleskey, the scrappy depth forward who makes his biggest contributions as an agitator.
Beleskey collected the rebound of Sheldon Souray's shot from the point and buried it for his seventh goal of the season - and the first on a power play in his 202-game NHL career.
The Kings dominated play after that, and Brown finally evened it when he batted Anze Kopitar's rebound out of the air and past Fasth for the captain's 15th goal.
Although the Kings have been Southern California's top team for the past few years, the Ducks have taken charge of the Pacific from the opening days of the lockout-shortened regular season. Anaheim got off to a 22-3-4 start and has scarcely slumped while taking a healthy lead over Los Angeles and San Jose, which has a game in hand.
Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter essentially conceded the division race after the Kings' win over Edmonton on Saturday. The Ducks have won just one division championship in their two-decade franchise history, back in 2007 on the way to the Stanley Cup title.
"We know they're a division winner," Sutter said. "When you get off to that type of lead, it's impossible to make it up, so we just concentrate on us."
Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau disagrees, saying the Kings are still "nipping at our heels" for the Pacific title.
After Palmieri got his ninth goal of the season less than three minutes in, Doughty evened it in the second period with a power-play slap shot past Carter's screen. The goal was just the third in 39 games this season for Doughty, who scored into an empty net Saturday against Edmonton.
Perry cherry-picked a goal late in the second period, with Andrew Cogliano finding him behind Los Angeles' defense for a breakaway and a slick wrist shot. Just 1:18 later, Carter scored for the fifth time in six games, one-timing Mike Richards' pass in front.
NOTES: C Matthew Lombardi played his second game for the Ducks, who acquired him from Phoenix last week. D Robyn Regehr played his third game for the Kings, who got him in a trade with Buffalo. ... Kings F Dustin Penner missed his fourth game with a lower body injury. ... The Kings and Ducks both confirmed their serious interest in playing an outdoor game next season. The Kings are working on plans to host a game in January, likely at Dodger Stadium.


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Archive for the 'Democracy is the best Revenge' Category
The Great Game Continues – ExclusiveOctober 21, 2011
Musharraf will not comply with warrant: spokesmanFebruary 12, 2011
LONDON: Former president Pervez Musharraf will not return to Pakistan to comply with an arrest warrant issued by a court over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman in London said Saturday.
"No, he won't be going back for this hearing," Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesman for ex-military ruler Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League party, told AFP, adding that the warrant was "totally ridiculous."
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court earlier Saturday ordered Musharraf, who is currently in self-imposed exile in London, to appear for a hearing on February 19 over claims about the assassination of ex-premier Bhutto in December 2007.
Pakistani prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said Musharraf was alleged to have been part of a "broad conspiracy" to have his political rival killed before elections but the exact nature of the charges was not clear.
Chaudhry said he had heard that Musharraf, who was president at the time of her death and who stepped down in 2008, was accused of failing to provide adequate security for Bhutto.
"How can the president of a country be made responsible for the non-provision of security? It's totally ridiculous, you cannot pin criminal responsibility on a president for that," Chaudhry said.
He accused Pakistan's judiciary of becoming politicised following Musharraf's dismissal of the country's chief justice in 2007, which prompted a constitutional crisis that eventually led to his own resignation.
"It is unfortunate that the judges in Pakistan have literally become a political party," he said.
"Pakistan's courts are right now trying to politicise the situation and take on Mr Musharraf after he dismissed the chief justice."Chaudhry insisted that Musharraf still planned to go back to Pakistan eventually to contest elections, adding: "His return to Pakistan will be a political decision."– AFP
Source: Dawn
APML-Charge sheet against Nawaz Sharif's corruption-Released to mediaNovember 13, 2010
The following depicts PML-N's performance:-
Nawaz Sharif and his cronies have always been working to plunder Pakistan's wealth as their sole agenda. He expanded his business empire by misusing his authority as Chief Minister Punjab and Prime Minister Pakistan. And in order to gain financial benefits, he manipulated laws and changed policies. Likewise, in a bid to avoid accountability, the Nawaz Sharif Government amended "The Ehtasaab Act" and made it effective from "1990" instead of "1985" as proposed in the original text of the "Ehtasaab Act" prepared by the interim government of caretaker Prime Minister (Late) Mairaj Khalid (1996-97). And by bringing this change he cunningly saved his tenure of Chief Minister Punjab (1985-88) from accountability.
Despite all maneuvering following references were filed against the Sharifs:-
- Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and others misused official resources causing a loss to the national exchequer of Rs 620million by developing 1800 acres of land in Raiwind at state expense.
- Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif are accused of whitening black money during their first tenure (1990-93) and causing a loss of Rs 180 million to the national exchequer by evading income/wealth tax.
- Nawaz Sharif, Saif-ur-Rehman and others reduced import duty from 325% to 125% on import of luxury cars (BMW), causing a huge loss of Rs1.98 billion to the national exchequer.
- On the imposition of emergency and freezing of foreign currency accounts, Nawaz Sharif and Saif-ur-Rehman removed 11 billion US dollars from Pakistani Banks illegally. Without the consent of account holders, Foreign Exchange Bearer Certificates (FEBC) accounts were frozen and foreign exchange was misappropriated.
- Illegal appointments in Pakistan International Airlines (Nawaz Sharif and Saeed Mehdi).
- Abbotabad land purchase scam (Nawaz Sharif and Sardar Mehtab Abbasi).
- Availing bank loan for Ittefaq Foundries and Brothers Steel Mills without fulfilling legal requirements (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
- Concealment of property in the US (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
- Illegal appointments and promotions in Federal Investigation Agency (Nawaz Sharif).
- US wheat purchase scam (Nawaz Sharif and Syeda Abida Hussain).
- Murree land purchase scam (Nawaz Sharif and Saif-ur-Rehman)
- Tax evasion (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
- Forging of passports and money laundering (Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar).
- Concealment of private helicopter purchase while filing assets' detail (Nawaz Sharif).
- Favoring Kohinoor Energy Co, causing loss of Rs. 450 millions (Nawaz Sharif and Others).
- Illegal cash finance facility given to Brothers Sugar Mills (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
- Bribe offered to ANP's Senator Qazi Mohammad Anwer (Nawaz Sharif and Others).
- Hudaibiya Paper Mills Reference against Sharif brothers and Ishaq Dar.
- Illegally appointing Chairman Central Board of Revenue (Nawaz Sharif)
- Whitening of black money by amending laws (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
- Causing Rs. 35 billion loss by writing off/rescheduling bank loans (Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar).
- Bribing (late) Maulana Sattar Niazi from National Exchequer (Nawaz Sharif and Others).
- Plundering Rs. 200 million from Jahez and Baitul Maal funds (Nawaz Sharif & Others)
- Opening fictitious foreign currency accounts (Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar).
- Making 130 political appointments in federal departments (Nawaz Sharif).
- Relaxing export duty and rebate to transport sugar to India (Nawaz Sharif).
- Whitening of money through FEBC (Nawaz Sharif).
- Wealth Tax evasion (Nawaz Sharif).
- Concealment of facts to evade property tax (Nawaz Sharif).
- Withdrawal of case against Senator Islamuddin Sheikh (Nawaz Sharif, & Ishaq Dar).
The first tenure of Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister in the year 1990 saw another reign of loot and plunder. During this period Mian Nawaz Shairf obtained loans amounting to more than Rs.614 billion from Banks through his influence against inadequate guarantees. According to the details of loans obtained by Sharifs include Rs.1556 million for Ittefaq Foundries, Rs. 543 million for Haseeb Waqas Sugar Mills, Rs.455 million for Mehran Ramzan Textile Mills, Rs.373 million for Ramzan Bukhsh Textile Mills, Rs.339 millions for Ch. Sugar Mills, Rs.226 millions for Ittefaq brothers, Rs. 205 million for Sandalbar Textile Mills, Rs.182 million for Hudaibiya Engineering Mills, Rs.153 million for Hamza Board Mills Ltd, Rs.134 million for Hudaibiya paper Mills, Rs.351 Million for Brothers Sugar Mills, Rs.174 million for Brothers Textile Mills, Rs.159 million for Brothers Steel Mills, Rs.623 million for Ramzan Sugar Mills, Rs. 191 million Khalid Siraj Textiles, Rs.313 million for Ittefaq Sugar Mills, Rs.164 million for Ittefaq Textile Mills, and Rs.239 million were obtained for Ittefaq Brothers. Due to the malpractice the national wealth was used for establishing personal empire while the country's economy was facing disaster. This loan was equivalent to the total internal loan obtained by the government of Pakistan! These so called patriotic politicians ruthlessly plundered the national exchequer and used national wealth for personal financial gains. In addition money laundering worth billions of dollars through illegal means, wheat import scam, awarding motorway's contract to an internationally black listed company, receiving heavy loans despite of being defaulter, secret businesses in UK (Evidence attached), Sugar mills in Kenya and four flats in the most expensive area of London and huge commissions in privatization of Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) are also a few "achievements" of Nawaz Sharif and family.
The Auditor General Report released in the year 1988-89 reported that Nawaz Sharif, misusing his authority as Chief Minister Punjab, issued directives which resulted into direct malpractice of Rs. 35 billion.
The report said that the Chief Minister Secretariat had been turned into a hub of corrupt practices and Nawaz Sharif used public money like an emperor that resulted into huge fiscal deficit of the province.
The Auditor General Report released in the year 1986-87 said that the then Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif had used Rs. 1200 million for malpractices in only one year.
Nawaz Sharif allotted 3000 precious Lahore Development Authority (LDA) plots among his favourites due to which the province suffered loss of billions of rupees.
Nawaz Sharif was the lead character of the Cooperative and Financial Institutions Scam, which deprived the retired employees, orphans, widows, and poor of their total assets amounting to Rs. 17 billion.
Nawaz Sharif released Rs. 1200 million from his discretionary grant in the year 1985-86 while Rs. 1895 million were released in 1986-87, Rs. 1899 million were used in 1987-88 while another Rs. 1887 million were distributed among his cronies.
Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and other party leaders practically share and proudly identify commonalities between PML-N and Taliban and they have very close ties and cordial relations with terrorists and banned terrorist outfits. In early 90s Nawaz Sharif received huge sums of money from Osama Bin Laden to overthrow former Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaheed Benazir Bhutto's Government. Even now PML-N's cabinet members and spokespersons are commonly seen hanging around with members of those banned outfits, reportedly involved in managing terrorist attacks on thousands of innocent Pakistanis including soldiers, police officials and members of other law enforcement agencies.
Due to compromising attitude of PML-N's leadership and their mild will to fight against the menace of terrorism the members of law enforcement agencies are completely demoralized. That is one of the reasons that the investigations against terrorists are not carried out in a proper manner and proof against arrested terrorists usually is not available. Due to the incapability of the Punjab Government terrible terrorist attacks took place in the province including suicide attack on Police Training School Bedian Road, blast in Moon Market Lahore, car bomb blast in the Rescue 15 building, car bomb blast in F.I.A building, suicide attack on Munawan Police Training Center, Model Town link road bomb blast, suicide attack on Jamia Naemia, terrorist attack on Ahmedi's worship places, blasts in Imam Bargahs including Karbla Gammay Shah and suicide bomb blasts in the sacred shrine of Hazrat Data Gunj Buksh along with many others. After these attacks PML-N has morally lost its right of government in Punjab.
Further, it was Shahbaz Sharif, who instead of showing courage and political and moral will to fight against the enemies of Pakistan, in his speech in Jamia Naemia Lahore, begged for mercy from the terrorists. He, in a very disgraceful manner, requested them not to attack Punjab as they are likeminded and standing on the same side. This statement of Shahbaz Sharif reflects his mindset !
Nawaz Sharif and Co. has always been involved in destabilizing the democratic system by one way or the other and did not even hesitate to take bribes to grab power. Lt. General (R) Naseerullah Babar, the former Interior Minister had disclosed in the National Assembly in 1994, that the ISI had disbursed money to purchase the loyalty of various right wing politicians, including that of Nawaz Sharif, in order to manipulate the 1990 elections, for the Islamic Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI- Pakistan democratic alliance), and bring about the defeat of the PPP. As proof Lt. General (R) Naseerullah Babar, Lt. General (R) Asad Durrani and others have filed affidavits supported by copies of various documents. In Air Marshal Asghar Khan's human rights petition (HRC 19/96) in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the former Chief of Army Staff Mirza Aslam Baig and the former Chief of the ISI and a banker concerning the criminal distribution of the people's money for political purposes. The case is pending adjudication in the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the last 14 years.
Nawaz Sharif's politics is based on the philosophy "lie repeatedly till it seems as the truth". He has based his politics on deceit and lies. Nawaz Sharif and his "chellaz" believe in lying repeatedly and religiously follow their convictions in this regard. They are masters in the art of manipulation and alteration and use their wealth to achieve their goals. One example is enough to expose their hideous character. After conviction in the hijacking case, Nawaz Sharif and his family approached foreign friends who persuaded President Pervez Musharraf to have mercy and forgive them. Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and family sought pardon and signed agreements including a commitment not to participate in politics for a period of ten years but they kept lying and hid the existence of these agreements from the nation until the head of Saudi Arabian Secret Agency, Prince Miqran Bin Abdul Aziz and Prime Minister of Lebanon Mr. Saad Hariri's unveiled the existence of these agreements and Ch. Nisar had to admit the existence of these agreements during the press conference of Javed Hashmi. Sharif brothers in return of Pervez Musharraf's "Ehsaan" (generosity) have not only crossed all limits of hostility but also lied to the nation. Would Nawaz Sharif and his "chellaz" ever tender apology to the Pakistani Nation, for lying to them for so many years?
Under the horrible times of Shahbaz Sharif's Government the Punjab province has been virtually converted in to a "Badmaash" (rogue) province. Here police officials get involved in heinous and brutal criminal activities like one in Sialkot. The administration did not take any action against the shameful and atrocious lynching of two young brothers until the footage was telecast on electronic channels. It is believed that only in Gujranwala Division, where a brother of PML (N) MNA was deputed as head of police department, more than two hundred extra judicial killings have taken place. The record shows that in Punjab, police force has been continuously used to harass and insult political rivals. An endless campaign of lodging false FIRs against political opponents has also been initiated. Use of brutal police force and baton-charge has become a routine. Every segment of society including journalists, doctors, teachers, students, nurses, Government employees, semi Government and private institutions and lawyers have faced the brutality of police while protesting for their demands.
It is a hard fact that poor governance & maladministration is trade mark of Sharif brothers. Shahbaz Sharif is an attention-seeker and likes to show off. For the sake of "cheap publicity" he has started calling himself "Khadam-e-Ala" but miserably failed to meet the challenges of governance and administration. It's a harsh reality that during his tenure in Punjab all institutions deteriorated conspicuously. In order to achieve their motives, Sharifs always appoint their blue eyed personnel on key posts by completely ignoring merit. Almost all districts of Punjab are being run by grade 19 officers who are incapable hence a basic reason for poor governance. Due to his dictatorial approach Shahbaz Sharif himself heads 12 provincial ministries and he seldom holds cabinet meeting. He takes decisions over ruling, the cabinet. His obstinate behavior is the prime reason for the maladministration in the province. It would be just and appropriate to suggest that Sharifs have failed to establish a democratic spirit in their government and have completely overlooked the norms of democratic political setups.
In order to consolidate and attain more power, 'the champion of democracy and independent judiciary', Nawaz Sharif attacked every individual and institution, he felt could get in the way and challenge his authority. In order to get rid of Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who Nawaz Sharif despised, the latter created divisions amongst the judges using the humble services of a former judge, Rafique Tarrar (later President of Pakistan) to make life difficult for the Chief Justice. A group of judges refused to acknowledge CJ Sajjad Ali Shah as the Chief Justice and things got so bad that a number of junior judges made it difficult for him to carry out his duties. Eventually, Sharif ordered his thugs to attack the Supreme Court in order to prevent the Chief Justice from giving a ruling against him.
The police did nothing to stop Sharif's thugs as they attacked and entered the Supreme Court premises. The judges inside the building barely managed to escape. The thugs, led by Sajjad Naseem and Mushtaq Tahir Kheli, Nawaz Sharif's political secretaries, entered the court chanting anti-CJ Sajjad slogans and destroyed the Court Room.
A number of incidents during 1998-99 indicated a pattern of harassment and intimidation of individual journalists as the government was increasingly becoming intolerant. Imtiaz Alam, a Lahore-based journalist, complains of threats over the telephone and then of his car being set on fire in a mysterious manner the next day. Another Lahore journalist, Mahmud Lodhi, was picked up and held in illegal custody for two days. He was questioned about his involvement with a BBC team filming a documentary on the rise and wealth of the Sharif family. Present Pakistani ambassador in USA Mr. Hussain Haqqani was picked up in a cloak-and-dagger fashion and interrogated at a FIA Center for money embezzlement while he held government office.
The residence of Idrees Bakhtiar, a senior staff reporter of monthly Herald and BBC correspondent in Karachi was raided by CIA police on Nov. 26, 1998. The police harassed the family and also arrested his 28-year old son, Moonis, who was later released. On Feb. 13, 1999, three persons, including Senator Abdul Hayee Baloch and a lady worker from Lahore, were injured when the police baton-charged, used water cannons and threw bricks on a peaceful procession of the Pakistan Awami Ittehad in front of the parliament house in Islamabad. The march, organized by the PAI for the freedom of the press, was led by PAI president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (late), the then opposition leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and secretary general of the alliance Hamid Nasir Chatta, besides a number of sitting and former PPP MNAs and senators.
The owner of the Frontier Post, Rehmat Shah Afridi, was arrested in Lahore on April 2, 1999, by the Anti-narcotics Force. The Peshawar-based Frontier Post was critical of government policies. Afridi's arrest was seen by journalists and others as another attempt to gag the Press. On May 8, 1999, Najam Sethi, Editor of The Friday Times, was arrested on the orders of Nawaz Sharif. Police stormed into his house in Lahore and dragged him out of his bed room. After brutal torture and breaking furniture of the house he was shifted to some unknown place. And before leaving the house with Mr. Sethi, they tied his wife Jugnoo's hands with a rope and locked her up in a dressing room. Later, Nawaz Sharif asked COAS Gen. Musharraf to charge Mr. Sethi under the Pakistan Army Act for being a traitor and give him maximum punishment (maximum punishment is death!).
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a press freedom organization, said on June 1, 1999 that it was conducting an investigation into a "hit list" prepared by the Pakistan government that contains 35 prominent journalists of Pakistan. According to reports received by the CPJ, the federal government had decided to establish a special media cell comprising officials from the police, Intelligence Bureau and the Federal Investigation Agency to punish the journalists, who had been writing against the government. Ehtesab Bureau Chairman, Senator Saifur Rehman Khan was to head this cell which would function from Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar with its head office in Islamabad.
According to the CPJ, the journalists were: Irshad Ahmed Haqqani (late), Rehmat Ali Razi, Anjum Rasheed, (writer and anchor person) Suhail Warraich, Sohaib Marghoob and (late) Roman Ehsan (Jang Lahore), M. Ziauddin (Dawn Islamabad), Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Javed Jaidi, Nusrat Javeed, Mariana Babar and Ansaar Abbassi (The News, Islamabad), Rehana Hakeem and Zahid Hussain (Newsline), Ejaz Haider, Khalid Ahmed, Jugnu Mohsin and Adnan Adil (The Friday Times, Lahore), Mahmood Sham (Jang, Karachi), Rashed Rehman (The Nation, Lahore), Amir Ahmed Khan (Herald, Karachi), Imtiaz Aalam, Beena Sarwar, Shafiq Awan, Kamila Hyat and Amir Mir (The News Lahore), Abbas Athar (Nawa-e-Waqt, Lahore), Kamran Khan and Shehzad Amjad (The News Karachi), Azam Khalil (Pulse), Mohammad Malik (Tribune), Imtiaz Ahmed (The Frontier Post, Peshawar), Ilyas Chaudhry (Jang Rawalpindi), Naveed Meraj (The Frontier Post, Islamabad) and Syed Talat Hussain (The Nation, Islamabad).
The Government of Nawaz Sharif started a campaign against the Jang group in July 1998 when it refused to sack a number of journalists critical of Government policies. The government objected to the Jang group newspapers' reporting about the law and order situation in the country and put a ban on advertisement. On August 13, a report was published about non-payment of Rs. 700 million to farmers by the sugar mills owned by the Nawaz Sharif family. Three days later, the government sent notices to Jang for non payment of taxes and the case was shifted to the Ehtesab cell. On September 27, 1998, the Government asked the Jang group not to publish a report of 'The Observer London' that Nawaz Sharif had siphoned off millions of rupees. The report was not published by the Jang but it was published by its sister English newspaper The News. On November 5, bank accounts of the Jang group were frozen and FIA raided the Jang and the News offices in Rawalpindi and customs authorities stopped delivery of newsprint to the Jang.
On Jan 28 1999, a sedition case was registered against Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman for publishing an advertisement of Muttahida's Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation on January 1, which according to the police, was aimed at inciting people against the state.
Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman revealed that Senator Saif-ur-Rehman asked him to sack a number of Jang employees who should be replaced in consultation with the Government. He released to the press audio-tapes of conversation with Saif-ur-Rehman on this issue. Saif-ur-Rehman accused Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman for evading tax and customs duty to the tune of Rs. 2.6 billion.
The hostility of Sharifs towards media is also evident from the fact that in the parliamentary history of Pakistan for the first time a resolution, condemning the media, was tabled (by a group of MPAs belonging to Nawaz League) and passed in the Punjab Assembly.
There is probably no institution in Pakistan which Nawaz Sharif did not aggressively confront in order to make them comply with his wishes. Besides picking a fight with the President, the Judiciary and the restricted/limited media of that time, Sharif also decided to have a confrontation with the army, the only viable institution left in Pakistan. Due to his hostile and dumb approach in Nawaz Sharif's first term as prime minister, he fell out with three successive army chiefs: General Mirza Aslam Beg, General Asif Nawaz and General Abdul Waheed Kakar. During his second tenure, he fell out with two other Generals, General Karamat and later with General Pervez Musharraf. General Karamat became the first Chief of Army Staff in the history of Pakistan to have been prematurely retired!
One by one all challenges and potential obstacles to his dictatorial mindset were removed from his way by Nawaz Sharif. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari, Sajjad Ali Shah, and General Jehangir Karamat were all removed from the scene by Nawaz Sharif.
1. 12. Ill-CONSIDERED ECONOMIC DECISIONS
Nawaz Sharif's ill-considered economic decisions cost Pakistan dearly! But the Sharif family's personal business empire grew exponentially through questionable means.
Nawaz Sharif, during his tenure as Chief Minister Punjab from 1988-90, deprived the provincial departments of Rs. 15.35 billion. In addition in 1997-99 he caused huge loss amounting in 11 billion US dollars to private account holders by freezing foreign currency accounts contrary to the law and constitution wherein he and his cronies managed to get away with huge sums even after the freeze. Billions of dollars were removed from the banks without the permission/consent of the account holders but the accounts of common Pakistanis were withheld.
In last two and half years, Shahbaz Sharif wasted more than 40 billion rupees in "Sasti Roti" and other subsidized food schemes that had been initiated to earn cheap popularity and to benefit their political supporters. Admittedly these funds have been distributed amongst their own supporters without any audit just to gain political mileage. A huge chunk of these funds has been disbursed by the ghost "Tandurs" (burners) owners. Inflation and un-employment is rocketing day by day due to the ill-conceived decisions of the provincial government. This is one of the reasons that Punjab could not help flood victims at the time because they had utilized their funds in senseless politically motivated schemes and now have an overdraft amounting Rs. 80 billion.
The so called son of soil Nawaz Sharif virtually sold Kashmir in 1999 during Indian PM's visit to Lahore. Nawaz Sharif deleted the word Kashmir from the joint declaration to please Indian counterpart. By crossing all the limits of treachery and falsehood Nawaz Sharif and his cronies claim that Pakistan armed forces lost the Kargil war. In fact, due to the decisions of Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan lost this war in the drawing room of the American President after wining it in the battlefield.
It is a proven fact that in 1998 Nawaz Sharif was double-minded about the atomic explosions. While the nation waited breathlessly for a befitting reply to India, Nawaz Sharif was busy in negotiating economic packages with US Government. Gohar Ayub Khan, who was foreign minister at that time, has also corroborated this fact in his book.
- APML demands from the Government to immediately initiate proceedings on the pending references against Nawaz Sharif.
- Nawaz Sharif and his Family must declare their assets both inside and outside Pakistan.
- Nawaz Sharif must apologize from Pakistani nation for lying and hiding the existence of pardon and all other agreements that were formulated between him and Pervez Musharraf.
- Nawaz Sharif Must tender apology for the heinous campaign against press and journalists and for the criminal attack on Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Dear Friends! Politics is every body's right and PML-N will have to face Pervez Musharraf politically. They cannot befool Pakistani public any more. We challenge them to bring their achievements and we will present ours. But knowing PML-N's track record it seems they will lie again. We wish to seek our future from the People of Pakistan. Let the people decide.
Thanking you
Co-ordination Committee
All Pakistan Muslim League-APML
Universities on strikeSeptember 22, 2010
Source: Daily Express, 22nd September 2010
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In the last post (gosh has it been that long ago?) Blasting the blasted Outlook Secure Temporary file folder… I outlined a number of free utilities that would assist with deletion of the contents of that folder.
The user who had the issue leading us on this learning adventure eventually called back with the same problem again. Additional monitoring of the user as well as the processes she was doing illustrated to me that some kind of Outlook error and/or interaction with Voltage was causing the opened attachments to remain "orphaned" even when closed out "properly."
We then were faced with deploying one of the solutions noted. I was leaning heavily towards OutlookTempCleaner and calling it at startup via a scheduled task or simple bat-file in the Startup folder.
However, in the end, the suggestion was made to just do a batch-file that cleaned it up without any additional third-party code. OK, I'm game.
There were a number of approaches I could have taken, primarily just making a direct, hard-coded identification to the user's particular Outlook Secure Temporary file folder location, but if that "randomly" generated location ever got changed, say if Outlook had to be reinstalled, then it might break.
Instead after a bit of research I found a suggested solution offered by GuruGary in this Experts-Exchange post: Outlook Secure Temp Folder Full : outlook, folder, temp, secure.
For a solution how about this in a batch file (that can be run as a scheduled task, or at logoff, etc.:
@echo off
for /f "tokens=3 delims= " %%a in ('reg.exe query hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security /v OutlookSecureTempFolder ^|findstr REG_SZ') do rd "%%a" /q /s
Depending on which version of Outlook she is running, you may need to change the 11.0 in the registry key.
However, try as hard as I could in testing, it just didn't seem to execute correctly.
It was very clever; using the reg.exe utility to query the registry and obtain the key value holding the actual path to the user's Outlook Secure Temp folder location, then doing a deletion of it.
I then proceeded to rework the batch file using Rob van der Woude's link: Batch files - Reading NT's Registry with REG.EXE.
In the end I crafted the following batch file that did work perfectly on our own XP Pro SP3 systems for the problem at hand.
::Place batch file in C:\Windows\32 location so it can find the reg.exe utility.
::Place shortcut to this batch file in the user's Startup folder to run upon login.
::Will auto-clean the user's Outlook Secure Temporary File folder location of all "orphaned" files so gets a clean-slate.
::Queries registry location of that folder location, then uses information to delete all the files present.
:: Note: delims is a TAB followed by a space
FOR /F "tokens=2* delims= " %%A IN (' REG QUERY "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security" /v OutlookSecureTempFolder') DO SET Location=%%B
DEL /s /f /q "%Location%\*.*"
Depending on which version of Outlook you have, you will have to modify the "11.0" number according to this Microsoft Support article 817878 --Attachments remain in the Outlook Secure Temporary File folder when you exit Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007.
Yes, just having the end user periodically run a free utility when needed probably was much easier, but this will run almost silently in the background at each login and clean things out. Also, because it queries the actual registry key location each time before running, if that does ever get changed, it can adjust, rather than had I simply "hard-coded" that specific path to begin with.
Rob's website contains a wealth of detailed and helpful information for CLI junkies and batch-file writers:
He also has lots of great WMI Scripting information as well as an added bonus: Getting Started with WMI Scripting
Wayne Martin has another collection of lots of useful command-line models over at his WWoIT – Wayne's World of IT blog.
- WWoIT – Wayne's World of IT: Command-line - post tag.
- WWoIT – Wayne's World of IT: Useful command-lines – Part I
- WWoIT – Wayne's World of IT: More useful command-lines – Part II
- WWoIT – Wayne's World of IT: More useful command-lines – Part III
Lots of inspiring commands and operations here…
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For those of you who are whizzes at computer stuff and html and css, do not laugh at my puny efforts. Go look at this video of great social significance instead. I'm talking to the folks like me–who believe our computers are plotting against us when we're not looking.
You all know that ereaders can play havoc with your graphic images, right? Depending on the device, they can shrink or expand or get cut off in inconvenient ways. The way to make sure your images stay the size you want them to is define the size in the coding. So a line of html for a scene break glyph might look like this:
I needed to insert a graphic that ideally should fill the screen, no matter what size screen was displaying it. I knew how to do this thanks to Paul Salvette (and if you are really serious about formatting ebooks, you must get his book for your resource library) and my partner-in-obsessanating Jon Westcot. Change the size to a percentage–in this case I needed the width to always be 100% of the screen.
Do that and the image will expand or shrink depending on the screen size. Never have to worry about it being cut off.
That's when it hit me I could do something cool with chapter heads and scene break indicators.
I had a project with a noir-ish theme and I made graphics with a grayscale fade. The problem with locking the image sizes, though, was that on some screens the fade effect was lost and the graphic looked like a block–too graphic-y. That's when it hit me that I could use percentage coding to make the graphic fill the screen width no matter what size the screen–even a full-sized computer screen.
How it looks on the Kindle Previewer for the iPhone app–a very small screen.
How it looks on the iPad screen–very wide display.
I also did the same with the scene break indicators. For this series I wanted a simple grayscale fade line instead of a glyph, but I wanted to always fill the entire line. Setting the width at 100% did exactly that. Here's how it looks on Lucy Light the Paperwhite.
If you happen to have an image you want to fill an entire screen, top to bottom, you use the same trick, except you set the height at 100%. That way you can manage the size of your graphics, but still make sure your book illustration or chart gets its own screen "page."
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Finding summer help proved to be easier than businesses thought it would be, even though there were fewer H2-B visa workers available this summer.
With Labor Day in sight and most agreeing it was a good summer, business owners should be breathing a little easier as they head into the shoulder season. But many are preparing to work even longer hours as they lose the bulk of their staff come September.
With fewer H2-B visa workers available this summer many local businesses relied heavily on the J-1 visa program, which brings students from abroad to the United States to work for short periods of time. Most of those workers come from Eastern Europe and have already started leaving to return to university in their respective countries. While this happens every summer many area businesses are stuck, as they don't have the same size nor experienced work force they are use to when H2-B visa workers were more abundant.
"Finding help turned out to be a bit easier than I thought it was going to be," said one restaurant owner in Provincetown. "But I spend so much time training a younger and new staff. I'm going to have to start all over again this fall when my new employees come in to replace the kids going home to go back to school. Normally I'd start to relax at this time of year."
This particular business owner wanted to stay anonymous so as not to let prospective customers think he wouldn't be able to handle diners with the same level of customer service as usual. But he did add that while the face of the restaurant will be a good and relaxing dining experience, behind the scenes is a bit chaotic.
"My employees are good and hard working," he added. "They are just inexperienced and make very normal rookie mistakes. It is just another new challenge facing me as a small business owner."
Early last spring all signs pointed to gloom and doom. Congress failed to renew an amendment to immigration laws that would allow more than the 66,000 H2-B visa workers into the country. Cape Cod alone uses 15 percent of the workers that come in one the guest worker program. A new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center called the program "close to slavery." Plus, it is an election year and immigration is a hot button issue, meaning many in Congress were shying away from the third rail topic, said Cape and Islands Congressman William Delahunt last spring. Add into that sky high gas prices, a lousy economy, a national housing crisis and credit crunch it was all too easy to predict the summer was going to be a brutal economic disappointment, perhaps a disaster.But it wasn't.
"People really did vacation closer to home," said Wendy Northcross, executive director of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. "And it is pretty clear that we've had a record number of European visitors."
Most Cape Cod businesses are saying that 2008 was a great season. European and Canadian travelers, with a stronger currency than the U.S. dollar, found Cape Cod vacations down right cheap and came in droves. But not only did Europeans save the day on the tourism front, but also with the workforce.
University students from Bulgaria, Russia, Moldova, Serbia, the Ukraine, Macedonia, Kosovo and Belarus have become a fixture on the Outer and Lower Cape, but this year they came in larger numbers replacing workers largely from Jamaica on the H2-B visa program. However, what proved problematic is not all of the students will either want to or be able to come back next year due to restrictions within the exchange program. That leaves local business owners scrambling again at the end of the summer like in the spring to find workers to help them through the still busy months of autumn.
"They are worried about September and October," said Candice Collins Boden, executive director of the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce, about her members in a town that is the most reliant on outside workers than any other on Cape Cod.
Boden echoed that finding workers isn't the biggest problem, but rather the loss of experience and the need to constantly train means business owners are working a lot more hours themselves. It appears that the fall, rather than summer may be the true test as to full effect of the nation's immigration debate on Cape Cod.
The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce will be conducting a region-wide survey in October to gauge how the season went in regards to finding and training workers to better assist local businesses in finding staff next spring. But first they need to get through the fall.
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The kookaburra Group is an end to company in the fresh food and produce sector- the company is currently in the process of being listed to the Australian Stock exchange... see all about the company at http://www.thekookaburragroup.com.
As part of our fresh organic supply we have started a licensed program for Residents to become backyard market gardens (or what we call KRISP Farmers, KRISP is an acronym for Kookaburra Resident Intensive Small Plot Farmer) and supply their produce to the groups retail channels...these are supply farmers using a specifically designed growing and farming system designed for growing commercially on small plots of land (such as your backyard). There is no selling involved as the group takes all the produce and retails it through our own channels... all home farmers (KRISP Farmers) are assisted by a company gardener on a weekly basis, with all seedlings, fertilisers etc. being supplied By TKG.
We are are fun but professional company and want to foster a caring , family type relationship with our people, staff and customers... think along the lines of say: "Trader Joes", or "Sprots" or in the USA.
Home Based business - so targeted towards Stay at Home Mums/Dads - families looking for extra or a replacement income.
Potentially to the semi retired person whose looking for an easy at home income...
Or to people looking for a change and a simple new lifestyle business option.
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SYCAMORE – The Rev. Mark Dorsett knew that the Jane Fargo Hotel was haunted the first time he laid eyes on the building.
"I can be outside a building and tell it's haunted inside," said Dorsett, a medium, psychic, and intuitive adviser who moved to Sycamore about a year ago.
Shortly after his psychic intuition kicked in, he went to a Sunday brunch at the historic hotel, which was constructed around the Reuben Ellwood mansion, which was built in 1882. Inside the dining room, he saw one of the spirits that he says is a permanent resident of the building. Next week, he will lead a tour of the hotel to try to gather more information about the woman.
"The first time I walked in, I thought, 'Who is that woman over there looking at me?'" Dorsett said. The woman was wearing a ruffled collar and a dress made from a floral pattern.
Dorsett feels that the elderly woman, whom he believes is named Mary, is a long-dead owner, manager, or employee of the hotel from decades past. On Friday, Jan. 11, Dorsett will lead the first-ever public haunted tour of the hotel.
"We are giving a tour of the hotel and the suites that are supposed to be haunted," said Carrie Burt, guest services manager of the hotel. Although she has never seen a ghost, she reports that hotel guests and workers have reported odd occurrences during the year that she has worked there.
"Some of us have had unexplained things like noises or the lights going out," Burt said. "But nobody has gotten the impression that it was malicious."
Dorsett's original impression of the ghosts at the hotel is that the ghosts are indeed harmless, and perhaps a little playful. However, he generally does not do extensive research on a property before investigating it for a client or a group.
"I would rather walk in and have no idea what's going on," Dorsett said. He said he will usually research a property's history after an investigation to find historical explanations for what he saw, heard and felt during the investigation.
Tickets for the tour are $35 in advance or $40 at the door. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with a buffet dinner, followed by a walking tour of the hotel. Along the way Dorsett will share his impressions, and present his theories and conclusions to the group before the tour's end at 10 p.m.
For more information contact Dorsett at 815-762-6948 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. To make reservations, visit Dorsett's website www.mediummark.net.
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SYCAMORE – The Rev. Mark Dorsett knew that the Jane Fargo Hotel was haunted the first time he laid eyes on the building.


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A few of my favorite things. Part 1.
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Here are some of our favorite things from our winter buying trip. Which one would you take home?? Me.. I would take home this dancing pup!!!
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It's definitely the right time for P1 to rise in the personal broadband hotspot or MiFi category in the telecommunication industry. Almost all other telco players have launched their own MiFi modem. Moreover, with the increasing usage of tablets and smartphones, the demand for MiFi is growing. Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd introduces MiFi MF230.


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If you're making the relocation to London this month or next, bundle up! As my Facebook status update says today:
"The greatest trick London Summer ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone."
Yes, that's a nod to The Usual Suspects because when I woke up this morning, it fully hit me that the little elusive devil that still technically gets to be called "summer" here in London has up and gone…if it was ever here to begin with. I don't know if I could pick it out in a line-up if I saw it.


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We are down to only 6 months until I turn 30. Where has the year gone!! It's time for a quarterly 30 by 30 check in! I've made some good progress the last 6 months and have accomplished some goals on the list!
- Thing 2: I have changed Hike Havasupai to Hike Mt Olympus. I need to figure out the details on this and plan a time to go do it!
- Thing 4: I am up to 43 pieces of mail! Almost to the half way point! Anyone out there want to be snail mail pen pals?!
- Thing 7: I have accomplished this goal and have been to 35 new restaurants! This was a fun goal and made me look for new and different places to go rather than going to the same old places all the time.
- Thing 12: I crossed off one more movie on the list-we watched Charade, which was a fun movie! I'm hoping some of the outdoor movies this summer will be movies on my list to watch.
- Thing 14: I visited Seattle!!! Sister and I went and we had a blast. Seattle is such a fun, manageable city. I cannot wait to return!
- Thing 17: I'm up to 4 books-since last time I finished Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me and The Fault in Our Stars. Couldn't put that one down-such a good, quick, easy read!
- Thing 18: Plans are in the very early stages for an international trip this fall. I'm excited about it!
- Thing 19: Megan and I hosted a favorite things party!! It was SO much fun. We had a great group of girls that came and everyone brought really fun 'favorite things'. I think we're going to make this a bi-annual tradition!
- Thing 30: I'm up to 37 new recipes. This is such a fun one-I love recipes and cookbooks and am having fun finding new-to-me recipes to try!
Plans are already in the works to cross off another handful of goals. It's been a lot of fun!!


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Phils fall quickly after suspended game resumes
It takes only nine minutes for Aumont to give up walk-off single in ninth
CINCINNATI -- That did not take long.
The Phillies needed just nine minutes to lose to the Reds on Wednesday evening at Great American Park, 1-0. The game had been suspended before the bottom of the ninth inning shortly before midnight Tuesday because of a hard rain. But after play resumed nearly 18 hours later, Phillies right-hander Phillippe Aumont faced just four batters as the Reds quickly scored the winning run.
"It's definitely frustrating to go out there and have it happen so quick," Aumont said. "Game's over. You're in already. Now we go to the second game and it's nine innings of me thinking about what I did wrong and how I could have went about it in a different way. But that's just how the game is. I'll be fine. I'll survive. I won't lose any sleep tonight. I'll come back and work harder."
Aumont got Zack Cozart down in the count, 0-2, before Cozart worked his way back to single to right field on a 3-2 pitch. Aumont then walked Joey Votto before Brandon Phillips hit a fly ball to left-center field. The normally sure-handed Ben Revere tracked the ball, but lost it in the sun. The ball deflected off his glove to load the bases with nobody out.
The miscue snapped Revere's streak of 173 consecutive games without an error. He had not committed one since Aug. 15, 2011, at Detroit.
"As soon as the ball went up, the closer and closer you got to that ball, you got closer to the sun," Revere said. "That's baseball for you. ... It ticks me off it had to go down like that. ... If the sun's not there, I make that catch."
Jay Bruce hit the next pitch from Aumont to right field for a single to score Cozart and end the game.
It was a strange scene for everybody Wednesday, including Aumont. There were only a few hundred fans in the stands without the regular atmosphere normally associated with a scoreless game in the bottom of the ninth inning.
It almost felt like a Grapefruit League game, only in a much bigger park.
"Obviously, it's a Spring Training game -- no man's land," Aumont said of the ballpark atmosphere. "Obviously, there is no intensity. As a pitcher, you have to find a way to fire yourself up. I was feeling good in the bullpen. It was good. The walk killed me. That's more frustrating than anything else. I could give up 100 hits and I wouldn't care. A walk kills me. I know I can get those guys out at any time."
It was the first time the Phillies had played a suspended game since Game 5 of the 2008 World Series.
Aumont will take the hit for the loss, but the offense continues to hurt the team's chances to win. The Phillies have become utterly allergic to scoring runs on this road trip. They have not scored a run before the sixth inning since April 10, when they scored five runs in the first inning against the Mets at Citizens Bank Park. The feeble offense wasted fine pitching performances from Cole Hamels on Saturday, Cliff Lee on Monday and Kyle Kendrick on Tuesday.
They picked up just two hits in the first eight innings Tuesday against Reds right-hander Homer Bailey: Michael Young's infield single in the second and Chase Utley's single to right in the fourth.
"Any time they want to, we can start hitting the ball and scoring some runs," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said Tuesday. "We've gone like four or five games, and you look up there and four or five innings -- we don't have runs. I'm not panicking, but if we're going to win games, we've got to play. The bottom line is we've got to put our game together."
The only reason the Phillies have won two games on this trip is because the starting pitching has saved them.
Imagine if Phillies starters had struggled?
"I'd rather go through this earlier than later," Revere said about the punchless offense. "We're going to get all this stuff solved out and be rolling real soon."


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Thanks once more to Kit Baum, a new version of the -punafcc- package is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -punafcc-.
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punafcc: Population attributable fractions for case-control and
survival studies
punafcc calculates confidence intervals for population attributable
and unattributable fractions in case-control or survival studies.
punafcc can be used after an estimation command whose parameters are
interpreted as log rate ratios, such as logit or logistic for
case-control data, or stcox for survival data. It estimates the log
of the mean rate ratio, in cases or deaths, between 2 scenarios, a
baseline scenario ("Scenario 0") and a fantasy scenario ("Scenario
1"), in which one or more exposure variables are assumed to be set
to particular values (typically zero), and any other predictor
variables in the model are assumed to remain the same. This ratio
is known as the population unattributable fraction (PUF), and is
subtracted from 1 to derive the population attributable fraction
(PAF), defined as the proportion of the cases or deaths attributable
to living in Scenario 0 instead of Scenario 1.
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