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[SFFS] still requires checking each file in the "monitored" hierarchy for changes, instead of using filesystem event notifications?-f0dder (November 09, 2007, 07:24 AM)
Ralf Maximus and tomos: both SyncBack and SuperFlexible seem to be run by a scheduler, instead of doing transparent mirroring... while this could be enough if it's 100% invisible in the background, it still requires checking each file in the "monitored" hierarchy for changes, instead of using filesystem event notifications?
IBM's Tivoli Continuous Data Protection http://www-306.ibm.c...ous-data-protection/. Note: I DO work for IBM, so I get this software for free vs the $36 USD normal price. If I had to pay for the Tivoli software, I'd likely just use the free software that came with my Diskstation....not because Tivoli software is lacking.....my impression is it is top notch but I am just cheap and typically lean towards freeware if available. Be it Tivoli or Diskstation software....they both use the same approach....a real time data copy based on a set of rules. So I tell it what files to copy (be it filename matches, filetype matches or folder matches) and as soon as I save a file which meets the criteria, it copies it to a backup. It also can save multiple versions and target files require no special software to open.....meaning the files are not imaged but real file copies. I prefer this real-time backup as opposed to a scheduled backup -johnfdeluca (May 11, 2007, 09:53 AM)
I've checked out MirrorFolder a bit, and it seems very very very promising.-f0dder (November 10, 2007, 05:27 AM)
Wow, MirrorFolder looks insanely cool. And for $39 US it seems reasonable. I assume buying a single license allows one to synchronize to another workstation/server? The FAQ doesn't say. My excitement would diminish a bit if I have to buy a license for the target PC/server also.-Ralf Maximus (November 10, 2007, 11:31 AM)
This is a heavy duty piece of low-level engineering, BTW. Installing as a volume filter means if MirrorFolder isn't 100% solid 100% of the time you'll become friends with the BSOD. I learned this with SuperCache-II, which is also a volume filter. -Ralf Maximus (November 10, 2007, 11:31 AM)
It does suggest that it be tested thouroughly in the target environment before making a decision.-Ralf Maximus (November 10, 2007, 11:31 AM)
I really like the "filter driver" feature. f00der : does that seem to translate into real performance gain (mirroring time) ?-Armando (November 10, 2007, 04:22 PM)
not having to scan a potentially deep folder tree for changes on a fs-change event notify can also save time-f0dder (November 10, 2007, 04:48 PM)
Thanks! I'm asking because I didn't find that SFFS's delta backup technology accelerated my backups by that much, if any acceleration.-Armando (November 10, 2007, 04:55 PM)
NTI Shadows seem to do what you are looking for :http://www.ntius.com/shadow.asp-MerleOne (November 20, 2007, 07:44 AM)
NTI Shadows seem to do what you are looking for :http://www.ntius.com/shadow.asp-MerleOne (November 20, 2007, 07:44 AM)Does NTI do the filter driver thing?-f0dder (November 20, 2007, 07:59 AM)
SFFS delta backup probably has to read through the entire file to check which range(s) have changed... that's take some time. But I haven't read up on how it does it, so it's just a guess -f0dder (November 10, 2007, 05:05 PM)
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Paul Triggiani: I would describe one of our shows as "TV sketch comedy on a stage." We (both as individuals and as a group) come from a film and video background, so when we're putting together a live show, we approach it the way you would sketch comedy for live (or live-to-tape) television. We try to replicate the TV experience live, even if it means building a seemingly unnecessary set piece or painting ourselves black and white. We have a lot of fun with it, and if we do it well, it can be pretty magical.
PT: We brought our previous variety/sketch show, Welcome to the Terrordome, to Johnny Brenda's in 2009. We had a couple of successful shows there, and that led to Johnny Brenda's offering us a slot a couple days before Christmas (which I guess had been historically difficult to bring in an audience for). We all agreed at the time that we might be committing event suicide, but we took on the challenge and put up our first all-Christmas show, Nobody Ever Dies on Christmas (Except Toshiro Mifune), on December 23rd, 2010. We got a good crowd that year, and more importantly, people drank a lot, so Johnny Brenda's asked us back again. Honestly, it's just the absolute worst time of year to put together a show, but as long as people keep showing up and Johnny Brenda's keeps asking us, we'll probably keep doing it. Until we finally decide to give up this silly, expensive passion project.
PT: It's hard to name something we aren't excited for. For starters, we're all pretty jazzed about our set. It's very different from any set we've ever done; it's a bit of an experiment and we hope the experiment is a success. We love and respect all of the groups that are on the show— and it's up to like, seven now—and we wish we could come and just watch instead of being in charge (sorta). We pride ourselves on putting together a show that more than delivers for the price, and we honestly don't think that you can get more entertainment and fun for $10 anywhere else, ever. Also, PS, Mad Elf on draft.
This year's Secret Pants Christmas show, 'A Banner Year at the Ol' Bender House', is THIS SUNDAY, December 23rd at 9pm at Johnny Brenda's (1201 N. Frankford Avenue). The show will be hosted by comedian Chip Chantry, and will also feature sketch groups Camp Woods, ManiPedi and Specific Jawns; a burlesque showcase with Randi Warhol; music from Emily and Micah McGraw. Admission is $10.

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Australian iPhone users miss out on real-time traffic information and updated maps in TomTom's latest iPhone app update, TomTom Australia 1.3. The update was released on Saturday, four months after the company last updated the app.
Version 1.3 brings several new features to the Australian iPhone app, including improved iPod music playback control, an automatic day/night mode, and the ability to add points of interest (POI) through Google Local Search or by copying and pasting from a Web site.
However, the app retains the same map version as the last app update — v835.2419 — and lacks real-time traffic information, which was included in similar upgrades to the Western Europe and North American iPhone apps. Updated maps were also provided for other localised applications, including the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Malaysia, Turkey, Hong Kong, Thailand, Greece, Brazil and Mexico.
Nick Saisanas, TomTom Australia Marketing Communications Manager, told Good Gear Guide that the company had not yet implemented its HD Traffic system in Australia.
"We work with telcos to provide high-level traffic information from mobile phones," Saisanas said. "This is something we haven't brought out in Australia, but we're definitely considering it."
Saisanas said the technology was available but could not commit to a timeline for a local release.
A similar system is currently available through the included Maps application on the iPhone, which combines information from the SUNA Traffic Channel and information crowd-sourced from compatible mobile phones by Google.
Purchasers of the TomTom GPS app have also complained about the map, which is relatively old and inaccurate in some areas. One user, ScottL8, said in an iTunes app review that the old map version meant "my route to work (for example) sends me to an off ramp on the M1 that has not existed since August 2009, and then manually selecting the alternative route sends to me to a right turn that is no longer allowed."
Saisanas told GoodGearGuide that maps for the TomTom Australia iPhone app had not yet been updated as the company does not own the local map provider.
The company employs maps from Telstra-owned Sensis in Australia in both the iPhone app and dedicated GPS devices. TomTom owns TeleAtlas, which provides detailed mapping and navigation data for the US, Europe, Asia and portions of South America.
"We're basically still trying to work with Apple on how to provide maps on an ongoing basis to customers," Saisanas said. "Because we have to work with the map supplier here, it's a little more complex [than overseas]."
"It would be unfair to owners of dedicated GPS devices, who are purchasing map updates, to provide it for free [to iPhone owners]," Saisanas said. "There are no promises, but we're definitely going to work out the structure of how we'd do this for the next release."
Saisanas said that TomTom was looking to implement an in-app purchase system, which allows developers to charge for updates and subscriptions without forcing a customer to repurchase the original app.
The TomTom Australia iPhone app is available from the App Store for $99.99.


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Make These Blood Splatter Cocktails For Halloween
All the recipes you need for cocktails, juice blends, milkshakes and more.
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Kitschy cocktails have never really been my thing. Particularly ones themed for Halloween; they're always colored some violent shade, and more often than not, involve gummy worms. They're topped with sheets of crushed Oreos described as "dirt" (quotation marks on menus are always red flags something will be disappointing)—and given cutesy names like "Apple Scare-tini" or "Boo-urbon Grapefruit Punch." Please.
A few years ago, I visited mixologist Todd Thrasher at the cozy bar at Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, Virginia. Thrasher and the rest of Restaurant Eve's staff had just gotten into the bloody Showtime series "Dexter" and had created a few cocktails in the show's honor. One in particular stood out: a Cardamaro and vodka-based drink with a thick egg white layer sliced with a bright red streak of pomegranate molasses.
If ever blood splatter could look elegant and appetizing, this was it. That simple red streak managed to overcome whatever grousing I may have expressed in the past about themed drinks. No gummy worms, no crushed Oreos, no silly names. A single frightening smear is enough to be scary without seeming overwrought.
I asked Todd to share the recipe and he sent along this version for home cocktail makers. The egg white is what's key here—you need a base on which to drizzle something sinister-looking.
I wound up experimenting with a few other ingredients I had on hand for a sister cocktail to Thrasher's original; this time apple and bourbon based, drizzled with a rhubarb syrup.
And because I had apples on the brain, I've thrown in a spiked hot ginger cider for good measure. After all, there's only so many themed cocktails I can take.
Pomegranate Blood Splatter Cocktail
Shaken egg whites make for the loveliest canvasses, don't they? The drizzle of pomegranate molasses against the foam is striking, and I love how the deep purple liquid lurks underneath. The sweetness of the pomegranate juice and molasses is countered by their inherent tartness, and the Cardamaro imparts a pleasant, nutty flavor.
Apple Blood Splatter Cocktail
For this variation on Thrasher's bloody cocktail, I subbed in fresh apple juice and bourbon, along with amaro and rhubarb syrup. Try dripping the syrup along the rim of the glass for a bloody effect suitable for Halloween. (If you don't want to fuss with the rhubarb, you can use your pomegranate molasses for this one as well.)
Ginger Apple Cider With Applejack
Since even the cleverest and most restrained Halloween cocktails can get a bit tired after awhile, I always rely on a spiked hot apple cider to pick up the slack. This recipe amps up the classic mulled cider with a heck of a lot of ginger, which gives it a spicy quality perfect for cold nights. The applejack helps a bit with that, too.
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This year not only marks James Bond's 50th anniversary onscreen, but also 40 years since Sir Roger Moore accepted the role that Sean Connery defined.
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Roger Moore played James Bond between 1973 and 1985.
Moore's first outing as the famed 007 came in 1973's "Live and Let Die." He appeared in a total of seven of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli's films, concluding with "A View to A Kill" in 1985, the most of any Bond actor to date.
Moore, now 85, visited NBC News to talk about his new book, "Bond On Bond," and his thoughts on the newest film, "Skyfall."
NBC: Do you still feel a connection to the James Bond series?
Moore: Yes, certainly. ["Skyfall" producers] Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson are friends of mine. I'm always interested in how production is going. I have two sons who both worked on Bonds from time to time. So yes, we're part of the family.
NBC: You've said in the past that Sean Connery will always be the best Bond, but you recently commented that Daniel Craig is now your favorite.
Moore: If I had been able to see "Skyfall" before finishing the book, I would have then had to have written a chapter about Daniel Craig, who is a superb Bond. I think it has guaranteed another 50 years for the franchise.
NBC: What would you have said in that chapter?
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Moore: I would have liked to talk about his performance in "Casino Royale." His bravery in looking like he knew what he was about in "Quantum of Solace," which I didn't understand. I don't think anybody did. But with Sam Mendes directing, "Skyfall" to me is just an extraordinary piece of motion picture.
NBC: Do you look at any of the other Bond movies and say, 'I think I did a better job portraying the character?'
Moore: No, I would never say that. If I happen to see one of mine playing on television, if my wife wants to see it, I think I could have done everything better.
NBC: Are you proud of the films you made?
Moore: I'm happy that I lasted long enough, that I fooled them long enough.
NBC: An article published in British GQ this month said, "No one can agree on who the best Bond is. However, ask people which actor is their favorite, and most say Sir Roger Moore." It says you're handsome and funny, which hadn't been seen since Cary Grant.
Moore: Well I have to agree. Cary was actually a good friend of mine. He was a lovely, warm, funny man, and a marvelous actor.
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Roger Moore in 1985's "View to a Kill."
NBC: "Skyfall" director Sam Mendes said in an interview that he feels Bond movies aren't rooted in the novels, but in Hitchcock films. He said "North by Northwest" could be seen as the first true Bond film, that Cary Grant played the antecedent of the Bond character.
Moore: He could be right, come to think of it.
NBC: If Cary Grant had played Bond first, would you have been comfortable following in his footsteps?
Moore: No, I would have been terrified. I think that's one time when you say I'm not going to live up to the expectations that he would produce for his heir. But he had the epitome of sophistication. Cary's humor was completely scatological. He loved whoopee cushions. He just adored that sort of thing.
NBC: Going through some of the earliest reviews of the Bond films, they often mention the color photography or landscapes in some way. It takes much more than that to bring in audiences today, doesn't it?
Moore: Well certainly. In the '50s and '60s. travel was out of the reach of most people. They couldn't go to exotic locations, which the Bond films used. Now they can go to those places, so Bond has had to step up its game a little.
NBC: You wrote in your book that "Skyfall" should be "enjoyed in a theater with 350 of your local neighbors." That reminded me of an article I read, expressing concern that the modern movie experience is no longer social. Instead of going to theaters, people are simply streaming movies on computers. It's become solitary.
Moore: I think people are missing a great deal. I don't think there is anything quite the equivalent of dressing up, though people dress down now to go. I don't like everybody sitting around having their dinner sitting around me. Popcorn rustling. But they're certainly improved since back in the days when I first came to America in the early '50s. People smoked in the cinemas. And the cigars, terrible King Edwards, would stink. You came out of the cinema really smelling.
NBC: You've said that "A View to A Kill," your last Bond movie, was unnecessarily violent. Do you think it's really that bad now, compared to today's movies?
Moore: I think violence has become pornography, actually. The amount of violence, I don't particularly enjoy it. I suppose that's ridiculous, coming from somebody who's done nothing but films where there are explosions and guns.
NBC: What do you think it says about today's age, if the movies are that violent?
Moore: I don't think they have to be that violent. One tries to out-do the other. Also, there's a little too much fantasy for me, with steel men... I like good old-fashioned romantic comedies. Cary Grant movies.
NBC: "Skyfall" has been getting great reviews. Do you think the reception has anything to do with them bringing a bit more humor back into the films?
Moore: There are all sorts of things as to why it's getting such good reception. Adele's music track goes back to the John Barry style. It's not stealing from John Barry, but you're thinking, 'this is a Bond film.' It has locations not seen very often on the screen. There's extraordinary stunt work, like the whole cycle chase and the fight on the train. Great stuff.
NBC: You attended the "Die Another Day" premiere in 2002, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bond on screen. It's now been 50 years. Do you think Bond is in a better place now than it was then?
Moore: It certainly is now. My reaction when seeing "Skyfall," I emailed Barbara Broccoli and said how [her parents] Dana and Cubby would be so proud of what you've done with "Skyfall." It's another 50 years of life guaranteed to Bond.
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Most businesses are created because an entrepreneur has a passion for something. Sometimes these entrepreneurs forget about the purpose of a business. The main purpose of forming a business is to make a profit. Not only is equity important in personal finance, it is one of the most important concepts of Business.
What is Equity
Business equity is your capital or net worth. It is the value of your business after all of your debts are paid. The more equity you have, the better chance you have of acquiring an investor for your business. Positive Equity comes in the form of cash, property, and assets. Negative comes in the form of debt.
Growing Equity
As you increase sales, your business equity should increase. As you equity increases, your business debt should decrease making your business a more viable business.
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After selling her Web site mediabistro.com for $23 million, Laurel Touby told The Times that she had somewhere between $9 million to $11 million in her bank account after taxes. "I had all kinds of illusions about how far the money would go and what I would enjoy, but they're not true," The Times quoted her saying. "I thought, 'O.K., a car and driver and a new apartment and a whole new life.' In fact, I can only afford two out of three."
So Ms. Touby either has a car and a driver but not a whole new life, or a whole new life but no car and driver: According to city records, she just closed on a $3,905,000 penthouse loft at 43 East 19th Street. According to a listing, the 4,100-square-foot full-floor loft, in a 101-year-old limestone building, has four-sided views, three "grand Egg & Dart columns," three bedrooms, and "sole recreational use of the roof."
She did not return an email, but earlier this month she tweeted, "closing on NEW apartment tomorrow!! I have to say, this is almost better than my wedding day, 'cuz I get to wear jeans."
Her new penthouse is a few steps away from the West 18th Street apartment that Atoosa Rubenstein bought for $3.05 million in 2007, after leaving her Seventeen editorship. "It's going to be a salon," she said then. "I hope my apartment can be a place that Alpha Kitties, men and women who are interesting in New York, will want to come by, shoot videos together, and just hang out, figure out how to do interesting things together."


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Gregory A. Paxton didn't always dream of the wail of sirens and daring fire rescues.
Gregory A. Paxton didn't always dream of the wail of sirens and daring fire rescues.
Paxton, who was recently appointed chief of the Columbus Division of Fire, wanted to be an astronaut.
"It was exciting," he said. "And it was captivating when I was growing up."
Paxton had his sights set on being the first person to land on Mars.
"The moon wasn't big enough for me," he joked.
But real life intervened.
After college, he was kicking around Columbus, working construction jobs when a friend suggested he take the firefighters test.
After passing, "The rest is history," said the 31-year veteran of the Division of Fire.
Paxton, 59, grew up in Upper Arlington and graduated from Bishop Watterson High School.
He got his bachelor's degree with the objective of becoming a doctor, but decided it wasn't for him.
After passing his first exam to become a lieutenant, he quickly ascended through the ranks, eventually becoming assistant fire chief, the next in line for the top job.
He was chosen from a list of seven candidates to replace Ned Pettus, who retired in the spring. He has spent the last 10 years in an administrative position at the Fire Division's headquarters on the South Side.
Paxton, who makes $155,188 a year, is in charge of 1,600 employees and an annual budget of more than $217 million.
"It's a comfortable chair for me," said Paxton, the city's 23rd chief in the division's 157-year history.
"I'm not intimidated by that," he said. It's really an incentive to work hard and do good things."
Whereas firefighters often have disparate personalities, at their core the are sensitive and nurturing, Paxton said.
"This is a very altruistic job," he said. "You get a tremendous return for what you do. You're coming to (citizens') aid when they need you the most."
He figures he's been on hundreds of fire runs, which are exciting -- but also sobering.
"There's always exhilaration because it's the wildest ride you've ever been on,"Paxton said.
"It's also, at times, scary. Sometimes it's a gut check and always it's a cause for self-reflection."
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left an indelible impression on Paxton. He visited Ground Zero with other fire officials from Columbus.
Most of his time was spent at funerals for firefighters who died in the collapse of the Twin Towers.
The city recently honored the fallen with ceremonies throughout town.
Paxton is divorced and lives in Grandview Heights. He spoke at a "Blue Mass" at St. Timothy Catholic Church.
"This is huge for us," he said. "I know people who died. It's a very poignant reminder and it's a sad one."
While the rancor surrounding Ohio's Senate Bill 5 has subsided, it's still a topic fresh on the minds of firefighters.
The legislation, which would have stripped most collective-bargaining rights for public workers, was repealed by Ohio voters last year.
Paxton, who opposed the legislation, sees it as a home-rule matter: Each municipality should be able set the retirement and medical benefits for its employees, he said.
"It's a basic philosophical disagreement," he said.
Already having earned a master's degree from Ohio State University, where he also received his bachelor's degree, Paxton is in a doctoral program at the Fisher College of Business at OSU. He figures he'll be done in a couple of years, with a long-term goal of becoming a professor.
While he is eligible for retirement from the Fire Division, he plans to stick around for the foreseeable future.
"I still have some work to do," he said. "As long as the mayor and safety director will have me, I will continue to do this job to the best of my ability."
And, yes, he has a good chili recipe, the ingredients of which he prefers to keep a secret.
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I have no idea how many people take the effort to reproduce a meta-analysis in their spare time. What I do know, based on my personal experiences of the last week, is that A) it's too much work to reproduce a meta-analysis, primarily due to low reporting standards, and B) we need to raise the bar when doing meta-analyses. At the end of this post, I'll explain how to do a meta-analysis in R in five seconds (assuming you have effect sizes and sample sizes for each individual study) to convince you that you can produce (or reproduce) meta-analyses yourself.
Any single study is nothing more than a data-point in a future meta-analysis. In the last years researchers have shared a lot of thoughts and opinions about reporting standards for individual studies, ranging from disclosure statements, additional reporting of alternative statistical results whenever a researcher had the flexibility to choose from multiple analyses, to sharing all the raw data and analysis files. When it comes to meta-analyses, reporting standards are even more important.
Recently I tried to reproduce a meta-analysis (by Sheinfeld Gorin, Krebs, Badr, Janke, Jim, Spring, Mohr, Berendsen, & Jacobsen, 2012, with the titel "Meta-Analysis of Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Pain in Patients With Cancer" in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, which has an IF of 18, and the article is cited 38 times) for a talk about statistics and reproducibility at the International Conference of Behavioral Medicine. Of the 38 effect sizes included in the meta-analysis I could reproduce 27 effect sizes (71%). Overall, I agreed with the way the original effect size was calculated for 18 articles (47%). I think both these numbers are too low. It could be my lack of ability in calculating effect sizes (let's call it a theoretical possibility) and I could be wrong in all cases in which I disagreed with which effect size to use (I offered the authors of the meta-analysis the opportunity to comment on this blog post, which they declined). But we need to make sure meta-analyses are 100% reproducible, if we want to be able to discuss and resolve such disagreements.
For three papers, statistics were not reported in enough detail for me to calculate effect sizes. The researchers who performed the meta-analysis might have contacted authors for the raw data in these cases. If so, it is important that authors of a meta-analysis share the summary statistics their effect size estimate is based on. Without additional information, those effect sizes are not reproducible by reviewers or readers. After my talk, an audience member noted that sharing data you have gotten from someone would require their permission - so if you ask for additional data when doing a meta-analysis, also ask to be able to share the summary statistics you will use in the meta-analysis to improve reproducibility.
For 9 studies, the effect sizes I calculated differed substantially from those by the authors of the meta-analysis (so much that it's not just due to rounding differences). It is difficult to resolve these inconsistencies, because I do not know how the authors calculated the effect size in these studies. Meta-analyses should give information about the data effect sizes are based on. A direct quote from the article that contains the relevant statistical test, or pointing to a row and column in a Table that contains the means and standard deviations would have been enough to allow me to compare calculations.
We might still have disagreed about which effect size should be included, as was the case for 10 articles where I could reproduce the effect size the authors included, but where I would use a different effect size estimate. The most noteworthy disagreement probably was a set of three articles the authors included, namely:
de Wit R, van Dam F, Zandbelt L, et al: A pain education program for chronic cancer pain patients: Follow-up results from a randomized controlled trial. Pain 73:55-69, 1997
de Wit R, van Dam F: From hospital to home care: A randomized controlled trial of a pain education programme for cancer patients with chronic pain. J Adv Nurs 36:742-754, 2001a
de Wit R, van Dam F, Loonstra S, et al: Improving the quality of pain treatment by a tailored pain education programme for cancer patients in chronic pain. Eur J Pain 5:241-256, 2001b
The authors of the meta-analyses calculated three effect sizes for these studies: 0.21, 0.14, and -0.19. I had a research assistant prepare a document with as much statistical information about the articles as possible, and she noticed that in her calculations, the effect sizes of De Wit et al (2001b) and De Wit et al (1997) were identical. I checked De Wit 2001a (referred to as De Wit 2002 in the forest plot in the meta-analysis) and noticed that all three studies reported the data of 313 participants. It's the same data, written up three times. It's easy to miss, because the data is presented in slightly different ways, and there are no references to earlier articles in the later articles (in the 2001b article, the two earlier articles are in the reference list, but not mentioned in the main text). I contacted the corresponding second author for clarifications, but received no reply (I would still be happy to add any comments I receive). In any case, since this is the same data, and since the effect sizes are not independent, it should only be included in the meta-analysis once.
A second disagreement comes from Table 2 in Anderson, Mendoza, Payne, Valero, Palos, Nazario, Richman, Hurley, Gning, Lynch, Kalish, and Cleeland (2006), Pain Education for Underserved Minority Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial, also published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology), reproduced below:
See if you can find the seven similar means and standard deviations – a clear copy-paste error. Regrettably, this makes it tricky to calculate the difference on the Pain Control Scale, because they might not be correct. I contacted the corresponding first author for clarifications, but have received no reply (but the production office of the journal is looking in to it).
There are some effect size calculations where I strongly suspect errors were made, for example because adjusted means from an ANCOVA seem to be used instead of unadjusted means, or the effect size seems to be based on part of the data (only post-scores instead of the differences on Time1 and Time2 change scores, or the effect size in the intervention condition instead of the difference between the intervention and control condition). To know this for sure, the authors should have shared the statistics their effect size calculations were based on. I could be wrong, but disagreements can only be resolved if the data the effect sizes are calculated on is clearly communicated together with the meta-analysis.
The most important take home message at this point should be that A) there are enough things that researchers can disagree about if you take a close look at published meta-analyses, and B) the only way to resolve these disagreements is by full disclosure about how the meta-analysis was performed. All meta-analyses should include a meta-analysis disclosure table with the publication which provides a detailed description of the effect sizes that were used, including copy-pasted sentences from the original article or references to rows and columns in Tables that contain the relevant data. In p-curve analyses (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2013) such disclosure tables are required, including alternative effects that could have been included and a description of the methods and design of the study. All meta-analyses should include a disclosure table with information on how effect sizes were calculated.
The most important take home message at this point should be that A) there are enough things that researchers can disagree about if you take a close look at published meta-analyses, and B) the only way to resolve these disagreements is by full disclosure about how the meta-analysis was performed. All meta-analyses should include a meta-analysis disclosure table with the publication which provides a detailed description of the effect sizes that were used, including copy-pasted sentences from the original article or references to rows and columns in Tables that contain the relevant data. In p-curve analyses (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2013) such disclosure tables are required, including alternative effects that could have been included and a description of the methods and design of the study. All meta-analyses should include a disclosure table with information on how effect sizes were calculated.
Inclusion Criteria: The Researcher Degrees of Freedom of the Meta-Analyst
The choice of which studies you do or do not include in a meta-analysis is a necessarily subjective. It requires researchers to determine what their inclusion criteria are, and to decide whether a study meets their inclusion criteria or not. More importantly, if meta-analysts share all the data their meta-analysis is based on, it's easy for reviewers or readers to repeat the analysis, based on their own inclusion criteria. In the meta-analysis I checked, 3 types of interventions to reduce pain in cancer patients were used. The first is pain management education, which involves increasing knowledge about pain, how to treat pain, and when and how to contact healthcare providers when in pain (for example to change their pain treatment). The second is hypnosis, provided in individual sessions by a therapist, often tailored to each patient, consisting of for example suggestions for pleasant visual imagery and muscle relaxation. The third is relaxation and cognitive coping skills, consisting of training and practice in relaxation exercises, attention diversion, and positive affirmations.
When doing a random effects meta-analysis, effects under investigation should be 'different but similar' and not 'different and unrelated' (Higgins, Thompson, & Spiegelhalter, 2009). If there is heterogeneity in the effect size estimate, you should not just stop after reporting the overal effect size, but examine subsamples of studies. I wanted to know whether the conclusion of a positive and effect size that was statistically different from zero over all studies would also hold for the subsamples (and whether the subsets would no longer show heterogeneity). It turns out that the evidence for pain management education is pretty convincing, while the effect size estimates for relaxation intervention was less convincing. The hypnosis intervention (sometimes consisting of only a 15 minute session) yielded effect sizes that were twice as large, but based on my calculations and after controlling for outliers, were not yet convincing. Thus, even though I disagreed on which effect sizes to include, based on the set of studies selected from the literature (which is in itself another interesting challenge for reproducibility!) the main difference in conclusions were based on which effects were 'different but similar'.
You can agree or disagree with my calculations. But what's most important is that you should be able to perform your own meta-analysis on publically shared, open, and easily accessible data, to test your own ideas of which effects should and should not be included.
Performing a meta-analysis in R
I had no idea how easy doing a meta-analysis was in R (fun fact: when I was talking about this to someone, she pointed out the benefits of not sharing this too widely, to have an individual benefit of 'knowing how to do meta-analyses' - obviously, I think the collective benefit of everyone being able to do or check a meta-analysis is much greater). I did one small-scale meta-analysis once (Lakens, 2012), mainly by hand, which was effortful. Recently, I reviewed a paper by Carter & McCullough (2014) where the authors were incredibly nice to share their entire R script alongside their (very interesting) paper. I was amazed how easy it was to reproduce (or adapt) meta-analyses this way. If this part is useful, credit goes to Carter and McCollough and their R script (their script contains many more cool analyses, such as tests of excessive significance, and PET-PEESE meta-regressions, which are so cool they deserve an individual blog post in the future).
All you need to have to do a meta-analysis is the effect size for each study (for example Cohen's d) and the sample size in each of the two conditions Cohen's d is based on. The first string es.d contains five effect sizes from 5 studies. The n1 and n2 strings contain the sample sizes for the control conditions (n1) and the experimental condition (n2). That's all you need to provide, and assuming you've calculated the effect sizes (not to brag, but I found my own excel sheets to calculate effect sizes that accompany my 2013 effect size paper very useful in this project) and coded the sample sizes, the rest of the meta-analysis takes 5 seconds. You need to copy-paste the entire code below in R or RStudio (both are free) and first need to install the meta and metaphor packages. After that, you just insert your effect sizes and sample sizes, and run it. The code below is by Carter and McCullough, with some additions I made.
The output you get will contain the results of the meta-analysis showing an overall effect size of d = 0.31, 95% CI [1.13; 0.50]:
95%-CI %W(fixed) %W(random)
1 0.38 [ 0.0571; 0.7029] 33.62 33.62
2 0.41 [ 0.0136; 0.8064] 22.32 22.32
3 -0.14 [-0.7387; 0.4587] 9.78 9.78
4 0.63 [-0.0223; 1.2823] 8.24 8.24
5 0.22 [-0.1470; 0.5870] 26.04 26.04
Number of studies combined: k=5
95%-CI z p.value
Fixed effect model 0.3148 [0.1275; 0.502] 3.2945 0.001
Random effects model 0.3148 [0.1275; 0.502] 3.2945 0.001
Quantifying heterogeneity:
tau^2 = 0; H = 1 [1; 2.12]; I^2 = 0% [0%; 77.8%]
Test of heterogeneity:
Q d.f. p.value
3.75 4 0.4411
In addition, there's a check for outliers and influential cases, and a forest plot:
This is just the basics, but it hopefully has convinced you that the calculations involved in doing a meta-analysis take no more than 5 seconds if you use the right software. Remember that you can easily share your R script, containing all your data (but don't forget a good disclosure table) and analyses when submitted your manuscript to a journal, or when it has been accepted for publication. Now go and reproduce.


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Chicken meal, ground brown rice, brewer's rice, ground yellow corn, chicken fat preserved with mixed tocopherols (a source of vitamin E), meat meal, dehydrated tomato pomace, dehydrated whole eggs, fish meal (source of omega fatty acid), dehydrated yeast culture, chicken liver digest, salt, potassium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, calcium propionate, choline chloride, calcium carbonate, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, probiotics ( dehydrated Lactobacillus acidophillus fermentation products, dehydrated Lactobacillus casei fermentation products, dehydrated Bifidobacterium bifidium fermentation products, dehydrated Streptococcus faecium fermentation products, dehydrated Aspergillus oryzae fermentation products), proteinates (zinc, manganese, copper), DL-alpha tocopherol acetate (vitamin E), thiamin mononitrate, sodium selenite, copper sulfate, D-activated animal sterol (vitamin D3), pyridoxine hydrochloride, calcium iodate, manganous oxide, vitamin A acetate, niacin, calcium pantothenate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (vitamin K), biotin, vitamin B12 supplement, cobalt carbonate, folic acid, riboflavin.
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Vitamin A 20500 I.U."/kg
Vitamin D 1500 I.U."/kg
Vitamin E 100 I.U."/kg
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First ingredient is a named meat product.
Insufficient meat content, use of low quality meats of unidentifiable origin, low quality grains.
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product in meal form. There is a second meat meal ingredient 6th on the ingredient list which is a very low quality product - meat meal. We would avoid any product using unidentifiable ingredients such as this, the definition of which is "the rendered product from mammal tissues, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices".
Fish meal is the 9th ingredient. This is too far down the ingredient list to make a substantive contribution to the overall meat content of the food. We can find no sign of a guarantee on the manufacturers site that this ingredient is ethoxyquin-free (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish meals and that is banned from use in human food because it is believed to be carcinogenic).
The main grains in the food are rice and corn. It is probable that the combined rice ingredients, if not split, would supplant chicken meal as the true first ingredient in the food. Brewers rice is a low quality waste product. The use of corn is a significant negative as this is a difficult to digest grain and commonly the cause of allegy problems.
Tomato pomace is filler, but we appreciate the use of whole eggs and a range of pre and pro-biotics in the food.
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|Me and the DH being silly (yes he is the Queen and I am the King)
|My and my girls after the three of them were presented to Henry VIII's court.
|The oldest princess on a pony
|My husband and oldest princess in the front, and his brother and my youngest princess in the back--riding and elephant (My husband is VERY tall--his brother is about 6 ft., we made fun of how my B-I-L looked so small next to him.)
|My sister, her sig and my 2nd princess on an elephant.
|The DH in the stocks :)
|Baby Birthday Princess was WIPED out. She slept for about an hour as the rest of us continued our festival fun.
|Couldn't get this pic to turn... but that is a giant sundae :)


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Proteinuria is a condition characterized by the presence of greater than normal amounts of protein in the urine. It is usually associated with some kind of disease or abnormality but may occasionally be seen in healthy individuals.
Plasma, the liquid portion of blood, contains many different proteins. One of the many functions of the kidneys is to conserve plasma protein so that it is not eliminated along with waste products when urine is produced. There are two mechanisms that normally prevent protein from passing into urine:
- The glomeruli provide a barrier that keeps most larger plasma proteins inside the blood vessels.
- The small proteins that do get through are almost entirely reabsorbed by the tubules.
Proteinuria most often occurs when either the glomeruli or tubules in the kidney are damaged. Inflammation and/or scarring of the glomeruli can allow increasing amounts of protein and sometimes red blood cells (RBCs) to leak into the urine. Damage to the tubules can prevent protein from being reabsorbed. Proteinuria may also develop when too much of a small protein is present in the blood and the tubules cannot reabsorb all of it.
Healthy people can have temporary or persistent proteinuria. It may be associated with stress, exercise, fever, aspirin therapy, and exposure to cold. Some people release more protein into the urine when they are standing up than when they are lying down (orthostatic proteinuria), though this condition is rare in individuals over age 30. However, a detectable level of protein in the urine usually indicates the presence of an underlying disease or condition and warrants further investigation to determine the cause.
The most common cause of protein in the urine is kidney damage resulting from:
- Diabetes – proteinuria is one of the first signs of deteriorating kidney function in people with type 1 and 2 diabetes.
- Hypertension – proteinuria in someone with high blood pressure is also a first sign of declining kidney function.
Others causes of kidney damage resulting in proteinuria include:
- Immune disorders (e.g., lupus, IgA nephropathy, Goodpasture's syndrome)
- Infections
- Exposure to toxins
- Trauma
- Kidney cancer
- Congestive heart failure
Some other conditions that can cause proteinuria include:
- Red blood cell destruction and release of hemoglobin that occurs in the bloodstream (intravascular hemolysis)
- Pre-eclampsia – pregnant women are routinely screened for proteinuria because its presence is associated with pre-eclampsia (also known as toxemia of pregnancy). Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy-specific disorder where proteinuria and hypertension develop at the same time. Symptoms can include edema (swelling), nausea, and headaches during pregnancy. Rarely, it can cause severe symptoms such as seizures. Pre-eclampsia can be dangerous for both the mother and her baby.
- Multiple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells) – proteinuria due to the presence of excess proteins in blood that overflow into the urine (Bence-Jones protein) may be seen in multiple myeloma. Bence-Jones protein consists of an abnormal immunoglobulin light chain (either kappa or lambda) that is produced by monoclonal plasma cells. All immunoglobulins are composed of four protein chains, two light chains and two heavy chains. Bence-Jones protein is made of two immunoglobulin light chains and its presence in urine is often diagnostic of multiple myeloma in the context of other symptoms.


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Perhaps one of the most well known families in jazz today is the Marsalis family. Branford, Wynton, Jason, Delfeayo, and Ellis Marsalis III are the sons of Ellis Marsalis Jr. Ellis Jr., an accomplished jazz pianist and music professor himself, passed on the candle to his four sons. All four sons have successful careers all their own, independent of each other. However, the four brothers have played together on occasion and continue to carry on their father's legacy. Wynton, a trumpeter, has become a leading figure in jazz academia and performance. He is currently the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a very accomplished performer. Branford is most noted for his work as a jazz saxophonist and for starting the record label aptly named Marsalis Music. Delfeayo has a successful career as a jazz trombonist while Jason, the youngest of the four, is an accomplished drummer. The four brothers do not usually tour together but have at times collaborated on selected projects. Most recently they recorded Music Redeems, a live engagement at the
Stepping back a few more years, the Adderley brothers appear on the scene. Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and his brother Nathaniel became figures in the jazz scene as early as 1955. As the previously discussed brother groups have also done, Cannonball and Nat led separate careers as well as careers together. Cannonball started his first quintet in the early 1950s with his brother. However, it was not until after Cannonball's stint with Miles Davis that Cannonball gained the acclaim that allowed his second attempt at a quintet with his brother to flourish. Cannonball Adderley died at the young age of 47 of a stroke. After his brother's death in 1975, Nat continued his career performing and recording with many notable figures in jazz. Like his brother, Nat also suffered from a long battle with diabetes. On January 2, 2000, he passed due to complications from the disease.
The name Jones is a highly celebrated name in jazz. Elvin, Hank, and Thad Jones are most often celebrated as musicians for their solo careers. Elvin, a drummer, is remembered for his work with figures like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner, and Wayne Shorter. Hank's piano work with Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Lester Young, and Wes Montgomery earned him the reputation as one of the most celebrated musicians in jazz. Thad Jones was probably most known for his work as a composer, arranger, and band leader. His first major step in his career was as a trumpeter and composer/arranger for the Count Basie Orchestra. He went on to form his own group, the Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra. Hank and Elvin played together on albums with other noted artists, but the three brothers did not record all together until 1958. Nevertheless, they recorded quite often in other bands as sidemen on the same albums. Elvin Jones died on May 18, 2004 of heart failure in
Thad passed on August 21, 1986 at his home in New Jersey . Hank Jones died most recently on May 16, 2010
in a hospice facility in Copenhagen, Denmark . Manhattan
One of the most influential brother groups in jazz was comprised of the Heath brothers. Jimmy (tenor saxophone,) Albert "Tootie" (drums,) and Percy (bass) formed the Heath Brothers band in 1975. It lasted for roughly three years until Tootie left in 1978. Percy and Jimmy continued the group with Akira Tana as Tootie's replacement. In 1982, Tootie returned to the group. Jimmy and Tootie continue the group today, hiring sidemen on an as needed basis. Percy Heath, an early member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, passed away of bone cancer on April 28, 2005, two days short of his 82nd birthday. One of the last times the three brothers were recorded together was on a DVD Brotherly Jazz: The Heath Brothers in 2004. While Jimmy and Tootie continue playing together, they also perform separately. Both brothers also lead their own careers as educators. Tootie Heath is currently the producer and leader of The Whole Drum Truth, a jazz drum ensemble. Jimmy has his own big band that he continues to tour with, performing his compositions and tunes that span the history of jazz.


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Author: Pablo Marques (@pablo_marques), Creative Director, BBH London & BBH Labs
Please donate here: http://keepaaroncutting.blogspot.com/
A few weeks ago we started the UK edition of The BBH Barn program (@BBHBarn).
The Barn is a program for our interns: its aim to expand and mix both the power advertising wields and youth's inherent energy, then channel both for good.
As our team went about trying to find a problem they felt passionate about solving, we were all surprised by the absurdity of the past week's riots in the UK.
With the riots came all of the negativity towards todays youth and the use of social media technology to mobilise people.
There it was, we had our problem. We wanted to show the world that youth and technology could also be a force for good, this was exactly what The Barn was about. The team came up an idea. Why not use the force for good to help someone that was neither young nor technology savvy.
We set up Keep Aaron Cutting.
Aaron is an 89 years old barber who has been in the Tottenham area for 41 years whose business was ransacked during the riots. He has no insurance and no way of rebuilding his shop. His livelihood is devastated.
"I will probably have to close because I haven't got insurance and I can't afford the repairs," – Aaron
If we could restore Aaron's faith in youth and technology that might not solve the problem, but would be the perfect way to start.
If you want to help, please donate or share. And if you'd like to, follow the story via the site and via #keepaaroncutting on Twitter.
If you have any questions about BBH Barn in the UK please contact me @pablo_marques or via email.
For media enquiries about BBH's involvement, please contact Sarah Pollard.
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If you live in the city of North Hollywood and want to ensure that your senior attains the type of high quality elder care that enables him or her to stay at home, Home Instead Senior Care is the right service provider for you. We offer our clients a variety of services that help seniors live comfortably, including but not limited to meal preparation, light housework, doctor's visits, and the development of the companionship that results from having a genuine, meaningful relationship with one of our excellent CAREGivers. If you're serious about ensuring that your elderly loved one attains the high quality care that they deserve, choose Home Instead Senior Care.
When it's time for North Hollywood citizens like you to select elder care services for your loved one, you need to ensure that you obtain them from a company who employs a capable, competent staff. Here at Home Instead Senior Care, we do this very thing by conducting background checks to ensure that prospective employees are a good fit for our company. And once hired, our CAREGivers participate in ongoing training so that they always possess the education and experience necessary to provide your senior with the type of high quality elder care services they deserve.
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Memorial Day Two Ways
You're used to Bay Weekly as the good news paper. So this week's issue, commemorating Memorial Day, may startle you. In it you will confront images, names and particulars of 19 men who lost their lives in military service over the dozen years we have been fighting the War on Terror. All are Chesapeake neighbors so, whether we knew them or not, their images open the doors of our hearts.
They came home to houses on our streets, went to our schools, drove our roads, saw the same sights we see, shared our place under the sky, built the community where we, too, have invested. Because of this unity of place, and because they gave their lives and met their deaths in our nation's cause, they have a call on us.
So we are riveted by these images, casual or formal shots that have become relics. In looking, we see a human life, make a salute of recognition, offer a prayer of thanks.
Some of you will see far more. You will see a son, a husband, a father, a friend, a classmate, a colleague, a comrade, a neighbor.
I hope you, in whose lives these men belonged, will tolerate our standing behind you to offer our regards on this solemn day.
Our choice to borrow and print these images was a considered one.
We're smack in the mainstream of America in celebrating Memorial Day as the much-anticipated beginning of summer. The day's official placement on the fourth Monday of May makes the consequent three-day weekend an irresistible invitation to play.
Memorial Day has another purpose, however. Officially, it is a day of commemoration, honoring all the men and women who have died in service to our nation, particularly in war. Over the years, all veterans have come to be included in the day's embrace.
We celebrate this day in late spring because that season gives us the flowers to decorate the graves where those men and women's bodies lie.
In my girlhood, Decoration Day, May 30, was the occasion of a family drive from St. Louis to small-town Illinois cemeteries. We would read our way through the stones in search of graves of men taken by war. At Wilson Cemetery in Batchtown, cousin Cora Smith had so long a memory that she could remember the occupants and tell their stories. We'd stop at their graves in reverie, then extend our decoration of all our family who laid there.
In Bay Weekly time, our much-loved outdoors columnist Bill Burton, a Seabee in World War II, admonished us to do right by Memorial Day. His column for that week seldom failed to mention his boyhood friend Henry Beckwith, whose lot it was to die in war while he, Burton, lived.
So much hero worship was within this writer that … I ran away from home intent on doing the next closest thing to flying with the RAF. Word was the Royal Canadian Air Force didn't check ages of enlistees, and RCAF was already flying missions from England, where my closest high school friend, Henry Beckwith, was soon to die when his plane was shot down.
It was only by chance that he headed to the Atlantic, while I headed to the Pacific.
Henry was still in his teens when his plane went down: no wife, no children, not even a steady girlfriend. His mother and father are long gone, and no one is left to remember him on Memorial Day. It only seemed appropriate that as taps was played, his name should be mentioned aloud, if only by me, to let it be known that his sacrifice was appreciated.
So Bill, now that you've followed Henry to the grave, we'll say his name for you this year. And we'll live up to your standard with the small photographic tribute to the sacrifice and loss of our Chesapeake neighbors.
I hope, dear reader, you will see tribute in these pages and speak these names as you look at each picture.
On the Other Hand
We also bring you the good news you expect in this week's paper. Here in Diana Beechener's marvelous story aptly titled The Comeback Kids, you'll read about the inspiring Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team coming to Chesapeake Country June 1 to defeat a team of NFL players.
You'll also find 40 pages of summer good times in our 2013 Summer Fun Guide, which gives you things to do and places to go on all 101 days of summer.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
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Actress Betty White is headed to Washington and her agenda includes donkeys and elephants — but not the kind roaming on Capitol Hill.
First stop is the Smithsonian Institution, followed by the National Zoo to see the pandas, harmonica-playing elephant and other animals.
On Thursday, the 90-year-old actress visits the Smithsonian Associates, an educational division of the museum complex, to discuss her career and longtime passion for animals. She will be signing copies of her book, "Betty and Friends: My Life at the Zoo."
U.S. & World
White says her interest in animals started in the womb. She says her parents were animal nuts long before she was born.
Then on Friday, White will have a private tour of the National Zoo to see their research efforts behind the scenes.


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Sets the state of the device's insert/eject port, door, or keypad.
To perform this operation, call the DeviceIoControl function with the following parameters.
BOOL DeviceIoControl(
(HANDLE) hDevice, // handle to device
IOCTL_CHANGER_SET_ACCESS, // dwIoControlCode
(LPVOID) lpInBuffer, // input buffer
(DWORD) nInBufferSize, // size of input buffer
NULL, // lpOutBuffer
0, // nOutBufferSize
(LPDWORD) lpBytesReturned, // number of bytes returned
(LPOVERLAPPED) lpOverlapped // OVERLAPPED structure
- hDevice
A handle to the device. To obtain a device handle, call the CreateFile function.
- dwIoControlCode
The control code for the operation. Use IOCTL_CHANGER_SET_ACCESS for this operation.
- lpInBuffer
A pointer to a CHANGER_SET_ACCESS structure.
- nInBufferSize
The size of the input buffer, in bytes.
- lpOutBuffer
Not used with this operation; set to NULL.
- nOutBufferSize
Not used with this operation; set to zero.
- lpBytesReturned
A pointer to a variable that receives the size of the data stored in the output buffer, in bytes.
If lpOverlapped is NULL, lpBytesReturned cannot be NULL. Even when an operation returns no output data and lpOutBuffer is NULL, DeviceIoControl makes use of lpBytesReturned. After such an operation, the value of lpBytesReturned is meaningless.
If lpOverlapped is not NULL, lpBytesReturned can be NULL. If this parameter is not NULL and the operation returns data, lpBytesReturned is meaningless until the overlapped operation has completed. To retrieve the number of bytes returned, call GetOverlappedResult. If hDevice is associated with an I/O completion port, you can retrieve the number of bytes returned by calling GetQueuedCompletionStatus.
- lpOverlapped
A pointer to an OVERLAPPED structure.
If hDevice was opened without specifying FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, lpOverlapped is ignored.
If hDevice was opened with the FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED flag, the operation is performed as an overlapped (asynchronous) operation. In this case, lpOverlapped must point to a valid OVERLAPPED structure that contains a handle to an event object. Otherwise, the function fails in unpredictable ways.
For overlapped operations, DeviceIoControl returns immediately, and the event object is signaled when the operation has been completed. Otherwise, the function does not return until the operation has been completed or an error occurs.
Return value
If the operation completes successfully, DeviceIoControl returns a nonzero value.
If the operation fails or is pending, DeviceIoControl returns zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
Minimum supported client
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Minimum supported server
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A six-foot-long Nurse Shark was found in the middle of a Miami street on Tuesday after two men unsuccessfully tried to sell it to local fish markets. You read correctly. A shark. In the street.
In total, police visited three fish markets in the vicinity of the dumped shark, with each sharing a similar story of two men attempting to sell the shark for a sum of $10 to $20.
Jorge Sanchez of Casablanca Fish Market told WPLG reporter, Roger Lohse;
"It was still moving. The gills were moving and the eyes were moving. It was two homeless (men), and I said, 'What are you guys doing with this shark?' He said, 'I got it myself. It's 87 pounds. I want $10 for it.' I said, 'That's not good. I'm not going to buy it.'"
As news got out of the shark, a passenger of the city's Metromover train came forward after realizing they had snapped a photograph of the then, still alive shark, but unfortunately did not capture the two men traveling with it. Police are trying to determine whether security cameras picked up the faces of the fishy duo after reviewing blurry surveillance video near the scene of the dumped fish. They currently have no leads.
Officer Jorge Pino of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said;
"In my 20 years of law enforcement, I've never seen a shark in the middle of the street anywhere. It doesn't surprise me in Miami. I've seen all kinds of weird things, but a shark in the middle of the street is something completely unusual. It's not a major crime here. It's something unusual. It's something that we certainly would like to get to the bottom of."
It's been determined that the Nurse Shark was not a protected animal or on an endangered species list and was thrown back into the ocean late Tuesday night. Please, people, don't leave sharks in the street.
[via WPLG Miami, video via AP]


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Our darvish brother David has written a very good review of Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel on his Caravan of Dreams blog. You can read it HERE.
David is also suffering from a bout of Sickle Cell Anemia, so please visit his blog and send him your prayers and blessings.
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MUTEK presents Pole [DE] + Barbara Preisinger [DE]
Drake Hotel
Stefan Betke (aka POLE), founder of Berlin's influential label scape, is a master of a sensual, minimalism that draws you in with its blips, crackles, and sonic explorations, making for a unique dancing experience.
Label-mate BARBARA PREISINGER brings the night to a close with her dancefloor-rousing house and deep techno mixes.
Pole [DE]
Barbara Preisigner [DE]
Time: 11PM
Venue: Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St West
Tickets: $5 at the door
Artist Links: www.myspace.com/poleartist, www.myspace.com/barbarapreisinger
Click here to access the Facebook event page.
- Date
February 26, 2010 23:00 - 23:00
- Venue
Drake Hotel
1150 Queen Street West
Toronto, Canada
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If local governments are laboratories for innovative ideas, state legislatures tend to be innovation killers.
If Gainesville is where innovation is born, Tallahassee is where it goes to die.
Case in point: Last year the 1,000 Friends of Florida — an organization dedicated to promoting smart growth planning and sustainable public policies — gave Alachua County its "Better Community Award" for the county's new mobility plan.
Long story short, the plan implements regulations and fees intended to encourage development patterns that will facilitate alternative modes of transportation — transit, biking, walking — with the goal of lessening the community's auto-dependency.
"Alachua County is using a comprehensive approach to promote compact, sustainable development that supports a wide range of transportation alternatives," Charles Pattison, president and CEO of 1000 Friends, said at the time. "With its mobility plan, urban services area and multimodal transportation mitigation ordinance, Alachua County has taken a significant step to promote smarter growth."
Translation: You did good, Alachua County.
Last week came another communication from 1,000 Friends of Florida. With the Legislature soon to convene its annual session, the advocacy group has been keeping track of legislation that might impact, for good or ill, the ability of communities to adopt innovative approaches to growth management, like Alachua County's award winning mobility plan.
Sure enough it came across House Bill 319, by state Rep. Lake Ray, R-Duval. It seems that builders are worried that other cities and counties might follow Alachua's lead and adopt mobility plans of their own; which might in turn lead to new fees on builders. So Ray's bill would nip that sort of thing in the bud.
Only two counties, Alachua and Pasco, have adopted mobility programs so far. And 1,000 Friends warns "if this bill were to pass, their innovative programs would be prohibited in the future."
This is par for the course. If local governments can be fairly described as laboratories for innovative ideas, state legislatures tend to be innovation killers.
Lobbyists know that the quickest way to stop cities and counties from adopting ordinances and policies that special interest groups find objectionable is to get the Legislature to prohibit them.
That's why city and county commissions are forbidden by state law from adopting local gun control ordinances.
Ray's bill isn't the only innovation-killing legislation awaiting the 2013 session. This week the Florida Conservation Coalition — a statewide environmental watchdog group founded by former Gov. Bob Graham — put out an alert about Senate Bill 584, by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla.
Hays' bill would forbid any state agency, city or county from purchasing land for conservation purposes unless "an equal amount of public property not being held in conservation is returned or sold at fair market value to the private sector."
Voters in Alachua County, of course, have on two occasions agreed to tax themselves in order to buy conservation lands. If enacted, Hays' bill would impose some sort of weird buy-an-acre, sell-an-acre balancing act on any such future initiatives.
"The bill would end Florida Forever and curtail conservation land acquisition in Florida," warns the coalition.
Want more? The Alachua County Commission has been considering following the lead of Miami-Dade and Broward County in adopting a "wage theft" ordinance intended to protect workers from being short-changed by their employers.
Last year a bill prohibiting local governments from passing wage theft ordinances failed to pass. But lawmakers will certainly take another run at that prohibition again this year.
Because that's what they do in Tallahassee.
Cities and counties propose.
And the Legislature disposes.
Ron Cunningham is the former editorial page editor of The Sun.


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After another subpar outing yesterday, Ryan sports a 9.00 ERA in seven Grapefruit innings, walking seven and striking out six. His velocity, if it matters, topped out at 87 MPH yesterday.
Without papering over the concerns over Ryan's performance in the Spring, we don't mind the Jays' high-intensity closer being a bit pissed when talk arises about someone taking his job. That's the gunslinger mindset that many of the great closers have, and without getting too hokey about this, that sort of swagger counts for something.
Perhaps more troubling is the fact that Ryan isn't alone in his struggles. If there was an obvious candidate to step in and assume the closer role, we might understand the public speculation about Ryan's capacity to lock down the ninth. But a glance through at the other closer candidates shows some pretty spotty performances in the fake games:
- Scott Downs - 6.75 ERA in four innings, two walks and two K's
- Jeremy Accardo - 8.71 ERA in 10.1 innings, 18 hits, three walks and five K's
- Brandon League - 9.00 ERA in four innings, six hits, two walks and six K's
- Jason Frasor - 5.71 ERA in four innings, seven hits, a walk and four K's
Look who snuck into the Super Duper Roundtable
Mop Up Duty has posted part two of its blogger roundtable, and we've managed to sneak in our views on the Jays' prospects for the coming year.


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NEW YORK — With the Dow Jones industrial average flirting with a record high, the split between American workers and the companies that employ them is widening and could worsen in the next few months as federal budget cuts take hold.
That gulf helps explain why stock markets are thriving even as the economy is barely growing and unemployment remains stubbornly high.
With millions still out of work, companies face little pressure to raise salaries, while productivity gains allow them to increase sales without adding workers.
"So far in this recovery, corporations have captured an unusually high share of the income gains,'' said Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. ''The US corporate sector is in a lot better health than the overall economy. And until we get a full recovery in the labor market, this will persist.''
The result has been a golden age for corporate profits, especially among multinational giants that are also benefiting from faster growth in emerging economies like China and India.
These factors, along with the Federal Reserve's efforts to keep interest rates ultralow and encourage investors to put more money into riskier assets, prompted traders to send the Dow past 14,000 to within 75 points of a record high last week.
While buoyant earnings are rewarded by investors and make US companies more competitive globally, they have not translated into additional jobs at home.
Other recent positive economic developments, like a healthier housing sector and growth in orders for machinery and some other durable goods, have also encouraged Wall Street but similarly failed to improve the employment picture. Unemployment, after steadily declining for three years, has been stuck at just below 8 percent since September.
With $85 billion in automatic cuts taking effect between now and Sept. 30 as part of the so-called federal budget sequester, some experts warn that economic growth will be reduced by at least half a percentage point. But although experts estimate sequestration could cost the country about 700,000 jobs, Wall Street does not expect the cuts to substantially reduce corporate profits — or seriously threaten the recent rally in the stock markets.
"It's minimal,'' said Savita Subramanian, head of US equity and quantitative strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Overall, the sequester could reduce earnings at the biggest companies by just over 1 percent, she said, adding, ''the market wants more austerity.''
As a percentage of national income, corporate profits stood at 14.2 percent in the third quarter of 2012, the largest share since 1950, while the portion of income that went to employees was 61.7 percent, near its lowest point since 1966. In recent years, the shift has accelerated during the slow recovery that followed the financial crisis and ensuing recession of 2008 and 2009, said Dean Maki, Barclays' chief US economist.
Corporate earnings have risen at an annualized rate of 20.1 percent since the end of 2008, he said, but disposable income inched ahead by 1.4 percent annually over the same period, after adjusting for inflation.
''There hasn't been a period in the last 50 years where these trends have been so pronounced,'' Maki said.
At the individual corporate level, the budget sequestration could result in large job cuts as companies move to protect their bottom lines, said Louis R. Chenevert, chief executive of United Technologies. Depending on how long the budget tightening lasts, the job cuts at his company could total anywhere from several hundred to several thousand, he said.
''If I don't have the business, at some point you've got to adjust the workforce,'' he said.
The path charted by United Technologies, an industrial giant based in Hartford that is one of 30 companies in the Dow, underscores why corporate profits and share prices continue to rise in a lackluster economy and a stagnant job market. Simply put, United Technologies does not need as many workers as it once did to churn out higher sales and profits.
''Right now, CEOs are saying, 'I don't really need to hire because of the productivity gains of the last few years,' '' said Robert E. Moritz, chairman of the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.
At 218,300 employees, United Technologies' workforce is virtually unchanged from seven years ago, even though annual revenue soared to $57.7 billion in 2012, from $42.7 billion in 2005.
The relentless focus on maintaining margins continues, even though profit and revenue have never been higher; four days after the company's shares soared past $90 to a record high last month, United Technologies confirmed it would eliminate an additional 3,000 workers this year, on top of 4,000 let go in 2012 as part a broader restructuring effort.
''There's no doubt we will continue to drive productivity year after year,'' Chenevert said.
Even as President Obama and Congress have battled over the budget and growth has slowed to a crawl in the United States, the economic picture has brightened overseas. Asia has rebounded and Europe has stabilized, factors helping the kind of big companies that make up the Dow, said Julia Coronado, chief North American economist at BNP Paribas. "You're investing in the global economy,'' she said, ''and you're getting access to stronger growth abroad.''
The Federal Reserve has also played a crucial role in propelling the stock market higher, economists and strategists say, even if that was not the intent of policy makers.
The Fed has made reducing unemployment a top priority, but in practice its policy of keeping rates very low and buying up the safest assets to stimulate the economy means investors are willing to take on more risk in search of better returns, hence the buoyancy on Wall Street amid the austerity in Washington and the gloom on Main Street.
Of the broader market's 13 percent rise in 2012, about half was a result of the Fed's actions, Harris of Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimated.
"The Federal Reserve has done a good job stimulating financial conditions and lifting the market,'' he said. ''It's been less successful in stimulating job growth.''


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Verizon Selects AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 for Enterprise Class Services: Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon Cloud Storage
Oct 7, 2013
SUNNYVALE, Calif. 10/7/2013 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Verizon is deploying SeaMicro SM15000™ servers for its new global cloud platform and cloud-based object storage service, whose public beta was recently announced. AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server links hundreds of cores together in a single system using a fraction of the power and space of traditional servers. To enable Verizon's next generation solution, technology has been taken one step further: Verizon and AMD co-developed additional hardware and software technology on the SM15000 server that provides unprecedented performance and best-in-class reliability backed by enterprise-level service level agreements (SLAs). The combination of these technologies co-developed by AMD and Verizon ushers in a new era of enterprise-class cloud services by enabling a higher level of control over security and performance SLAs. With this technology underpinning the new Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon Cloud Storage, enterprise customers can for the first time confidently deploy mission-critical systems in the public cloud.
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"We reinvented the public cloud from the ground up to specifically address the needs of our enterprise clients," said John Considine, chief technology officer at Verizon Terremark. "We wanted to give them back control of their infrastructure – providing the speed and flexibility of a generic public cloud with the performance and security they expect from an enterprise-grade cloud. Our collaboration with AMD enabled us to develop revolutionary technology, and it represents the backbone of our future plans."
As part of its joint development, AMD and Verizon co-developed hardware and software to reserve, allocate and guarantee application SLAs. AMD's SeaMicro Freedom™ fabric-based SM15000 server delivers the industry's first and only programmable server hardware that includes a high bandwidth, low latency programmable interconnect fabric, and programmable data and control plane for both network and storage traffic. Leveraging AMD's programmable server hardware, Verizon developed unique software to guarantee and deliver reliability, unheralded performance guarantees and SLAs for enterprise cloud computing services.
"Verizon has a clear vision for the future of the public cloud services—services that are more flexible, more reliable and guaranteed," said Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager, Server, AMD. "The technology we developed turns the cloud paradigm upside down by creating a service that an enterprise can configure and control as if the equipment were in its own data center. With this innovation in cloud services, I expect enterprises to migrate their core IT services and mission critical applications to Verizon's cloud services."
"The rapid, reliable and scalable delivery of cloud compute and storage services is the key to competing successfully in any cloud market from infrastructure, to platform, to application; and enterprises are constantly asking for more as they alter their business models to thrive in a mobile and analytic world," said Richard Villars, vice president, Datacenter & Cloud at IDC. "Next generation integrated IT solutions like AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 provide a flexible yet high-performance platform upon which companies like Verizon can use to build the next generation of cloud service offerings."
Innovative Verizon Cloud Capabilities on AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 Server Industry Firsts
Verizon leveraged the SeaMicro SM15000 server's ability to disaggregate server resources to create a cloud optimized for computing and storage services. Verizon and AMD's SeaMicro engineers worked for over two years to create a revolutionary public cloud platform with enterprise class capabilities.
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- Virtual machine server provisioning in seconds, a fraction of the time of a legacy public cloud;
- Fine-grained server configuration options that match real life requirements, not just small, medium, large sizing, including processor speed (500 MHz to 2,000 MHz) and DRAM (.5 GB increments) options;
- Shared disks across multiple server instances versus requiring each virtual machine to have its own dedicated drive;
- Defined storage quality of service by specifying performance up to 5,000 IOPS to meet the demands of the application being deployed, compared to best-effort performance;
- Consistent network security policies and procedures across the enterprise network and the public cloud;
- Strict traffic isolation, data encryption, and data inspection with full featured firewalls that achieve Department of Defense and PCI compliance levels;
- Guaranteed network performance for every virtual machine with reserved network performance up to 500 Mbps compared to no guarantees in many other public clouds.
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Capture the excitement of a summer's day at the seaside in your crafts with the Helz Cuppleditch Beach Life paper craft collection. Within the paper pack, find adorable illustrations which capture everything we love most about a day at the beach – from beach huts and deck chairs, to sandcastles and ice creams - along with a selection of cheerful patterns in an array of vibrant colours. This charming collection also features a glittered decoupage pad, steel cutting dies, washi tapes, and much more for you to create lots of wonderful handcrafted projects.
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Criminal justice school admissions checklist
Criminal justice school admissions checklist
Criminal justice offers a sheer number of exciting career options, which is attracting young students to enter in this profession. Entering criminal justice school is the first step towards this career. By pursuing a course in criminal justice offered by these schools one can become police officers, forensic specialists, prison guards, criminologists, and more. Besides this, aspires can also move to the careers like federal agent or forensic psychology. So, there are dozens of options, but before you decide to get into any criminal justice school make sure the chosen school is suitable according to your needs. When you start researching for a potential school most of the time you come across several criminal justice schools. Sometimes, it becomes quite challenging to categorize potential schools out of such a big range. However, keeping few things in mind you can easily select one of the best if not the best school. Here, are few important things that you should consider or investigate before you decide to enroll yourself in that particular school: Accreditation of a School If you are looking for a credible criminal justice school then must not forget to look for its accredited status. It is highly required if your course is transferred to another post-secondary institutions for certification or licensing. Moreover, being a student from accredited schools you can also access to different student aid programs. Tuition Fee of a School It is always essential to consider the tuition cost of the criminal justice school if you are too conscious about education expenditure. You can look for either less expensive schools or schools that offer scholarships to needy students. Once you perform proper research you can find an array of colleges that have affordable tuition fees along with education facility that is as good as any high-profile or expensive schools. Quality of Education and Reputation of School Next thing to be taken in the account is the education quality and the reputation of a school. If the school has both the features, it means it is renowned among the employers as well as students. Apart from this, also try to find if they offer job placement statistics and additional student activities. These are some important points that can help you uplift your qualities, skills and may even provide an easy opportunity to get a job after the completion of criminal justice program. Curriculum of Program Offered by the School Once you are sure about the areas of interest in criminal justice then you should examine whether the program offered by the school contains curriculum of your interests or not. The curriculum of any program offered by the school must be effective enough to retain the interest of students. Crossing threshold of success needs proper learning along with strong dedication and for this, striding into the best criminal justice school is the primary need. Considering and following the above said points can help you enroll in the best culinary school that can be high in all aspects. Find more information about top criminal justice schools and best online criminal justice courses in different programs at CriminalJusticeU.com. Choose the best criminal justice programs for you and start career in criminal justice.
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Ok, everybody, here we go! The second annual TPMP Decade Draft, this time featuring the movies of the 90s!
Tank, myself, Eclectik of Eclectik Relaxation and Dylan Fields of Man I Love Films all square off trying to draft the best team of ten from amongst all the films released in the 1990s! Check out our rationales and reasons as we make our selections. Come listen in as the trash talk flies. Have a laugh as my favorite films get swiped out from under me again and again! Listen as Tank tries to throw Eclectik off every round with his "Whisper Picks"! It's a fantastic episode, full of movie clips, banter and of course, the competition itself.
Which of us will come out with the best team? Listen, have fun, and then vote here!
You can download the episode directly, here, or as always, search for us on iTunes or Stitcher Radio by using the keywords (title pending) or Tank and Fogs!!


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It's hard to tell at first glance which takes are live action and which are MLB 10 The Show gameplay, which I'm sure is the point of the game's official launch trailer.
Also, if I may brag, my 20-year-old lefthanded pitcher in Road to the Show made the majors yesterday after two years in the minors. I pitched every one of those games, nothing was simulated. I was so proud I damn near cried.
The Nationals wasted my debut (a 1-0 loss to the Mets) but I then vowed to f*** up the Braves in my next start. And I did. Javier Vazquez (still a Brave in 2011, apparently), hit me when I came to bat in the fifth inning. Vazquez was first up in the bottom of the fifth, but I fanned him looking, put a guy on intentionally and then drilled Chipper Jones in the back. Everyone got warned, I still got out of the inning and finished with an eight hit, 1-0 shutout.
We're still a bad team, but we're united.


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Diva Q necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 242 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
Diva Q
I am a professional female BBQer that needs to streamline my logo to better apply it to clothing, banners, letterheads etc. I travel all across North America competing in BBQ competitions. I teach BBQ classes, and do BBQ demonstrations on tv. I also provide private VIP catering. My logo should reflect my personality- sassy smart fun and trustworthy. I use a variety of equipment pellets, charcoal, wood etc.
I wear black head to toe. The logo needs to be able to go on a black golf shirt easily or any other black merchandise.
Also please visit my website http://www.divaQ.ca for more about me.
My target audience is anyone who likes to BBQ, anyone who wants to learn about BBQ and anyone who loves food.
I am all about getting my name out there.
I want this logo to be bold and simple compact in design. Prefer strong colors black white red etc overall must be able to apply it to multiples of items that are black. Nothing and I mean nothing should be pink. .There should not be an identifiable BBQ or grill in the logo as I have a variety of sponsors that could potentially change. I would prefer no pictures of equipment.
Examples of logos I really like:
Burnt Finger BBQ: http://www.168ps.com/pmsj/pmphoto/2…175965.png
KCBS logo : http://tomsbbqrub.com/yahoo_site_ad…683701.jpg
No cartoons unless very simplified. Ex an outline of my head in with a cowgirl hat,? This needs to appeal to both sexes. Outlines of pigs is ok.
The logo will be used for future marketing of rubs, merchandise and trailer wrapping.
I am looking for something that will make me stand out. I like simple flames but they are not a requirement.
Maybe a pig looking over her shoulder. With a flower in her hair. Something that lets them know I am female. I like my current pig logo a lot. She is just too complicated though. Too many colors.
The logo should also have a part that can be changed depending on the application ie (BBQ Team, Catering, BBQ Sauce, BBQ Rub etc)
Also PLease Note if you would like to use and outline of a pig or a pig in general give her some attitude. Even use a similar outline to the pig that is currently on my website. ** She is a pig full of attitude!! A Diva!! a bit feminine but not too much. Please make sure to give her something that reflects being a diva. Give the logo some attitude.
please email any questions to email@example.com
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