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You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
Sub freezing temperatures and a shift in wind greets me as I open my door in the morning darkness. I'm still reeling through yesterday's events, as I wonder what I'm going to tell my clients on this peachy Saturday morning. "You should've been here yesterday." Perhaps the most infamous and hated line in all of fishing. To me it's a copout; the fish bit well yesterday so we're not going to try hard today since conditions are tough. Mother nature can throw a mean curve ball, but if there's one thing I've learned from Mr. Rollins, it's that the fish are almost always biting somewhere.
This whole week has been a series of curveballs good enough to nominate Mrs. Nature for the Cy Young award, with high winds and an onslaught of cold weather dominating the forecast. February fishing in a nutshell. Oh well, nobody is paying us to make excuses. Waiting for both the sun to rise and my customers to show up, I play through yesterday's events one more time.
We're shaking hands at the boat ramp, as I announce my prediction. "Guys, it's gonna be a good afternoon. I just heard Vern "The Voice" Osden on the radio for the first time since I can't remember when." Sharing a laugh and a couple of quick fishing stories, we get ourselves into the boat, and proceed onto the water. I'm glad everyone is in good spirits, because truth be told, I'm not. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to be on the water, but I've been anxious all week knowing that I have time-hardened crappie fishermen getting on the boat today, and I refuse to tarnish the BigCrappie.com name that our team has worked so hard to preserve.
It's one o'clock now, giving us roughly five hours to pull my goal of 30 fish, leaving just enough twilight to clean fish and take pictures. I couldn't have hand picked a better team to come to battle with me on this brisk afternoon. Matt, Dale, Bobby and John have all brought a trait with them that will help make this team a force to be reckoned with. Dale, an optimistic man at heart, doesn't seem the type to let life kick him around much. Bobby is good for keeping the mood light, which is the perfect medicine for a tough day on the water. John is consistent and focused, a perfect customer. Matt Scotch, spry at heart and one heck of an angler. Me? Well, that depends on who you ask.
Pulling up to our first spot, I'm going through the recommended presentation techniques and what to expect throughout today's trip. "We're gonna be fishing today boys, and we're gonna have to earn everything we catch." If there's one thing I've learned the last couple of years, it's don't sugar coat the situation. I won't speak a single word to kill someone's confidence, but I do not like being viewed as a liar or a fool. "The net is going to be right here in the middle of all of us, as this is the time of year when the big fish are caught." After loosing a potential record at the side of the boat in the spring of 2011, I have since made it a habit of keeping the net in the front of the boat from February-April. I can still see that fish shaking it's head to this very day...
We're locked and loaded with graphite and lead as I tell the guys to "fire when ready." Dropping our jigs down to 19 feet, we await the highly sought after thump that has driven us to madness for so many years. I get tagged much quicker than expected, and pull up a healthy eleven inch white crappie. Two or three more fish are pulled up in the next few minutes, and I'm starting to feel a little easier about today. After a few minutes of fishing, with no more catching, we're off to the next spot.
We hone in on several other pieces of structure that are close to this area, ranging our depth from 16 to 22 feet. There's never any hard and fast action, but we're on a clip to get seven to eight fish an hour, and after five hours, well, that's a decent mess. When fishing is fishing, the angler must stay extremely focused at every moment, and they must do their best to make every bite count. There's just not enough opportunities to go about making mistakes right now. Fortunately, these fish are getting very hormonal and are beating the brakes off the jig once they decide to go after it. After picking up the aggressive fish from a handful of spots, the increasing wind sends us north to get a reprieve and to help the guide sit on the pile a little better.
Idling north, taking our time to enjoy each other's company, I notice everyone is still seemingly happy to be here. They are all fishing hard, and that's really all a guide can ask for. What we don't have in quantity, we are making up for in quality, as we already have some two pound fish in our box. We nestle over a spot in 12 feet of water and again drop our lines. This spot is actually producing fairly nicely, as we land six very healthy fish, in a very quick manner. My favorite part about this time of year is watching the males turn to jet black, as they put on their spawning war paint. There is nothing more beautiful in the world of freshwater fishing as the snakeskin patterns that are so vibrantly displayed on a large male white crappie.
A few minutes go by, and I glance over at Matt who has just frustratingly announced that he is hung up. He's continues to pop his rod as I keep my eyes on the fish finder, in order to hold us on the danger zone. A few seconds pass, and Matt again raises his voice, only this time to holler "Net!" Swiveling around on my bow seat and grabbing the net, which is directly behind me off my left hip, I quickly get to the side of the boat. Emphasis on quickly. Looking over the side of the boat, I see something that closely resembles a large mouth bred with a toaster oven.
I can see that we have a big fish on our hands, and I can see that she's hooked well. The fish swims completely by me as it makes a short run, the shoulders gleaning in the water, spots and all. Matt backhands the fish and perfectly directs the fish back to me, as I make an osprey style jab and watch the fish go in the net head first.
The next couple of minutes is basically a high five soup kitchen, as Matt has just landed his personal best black crappie. I guess the fish to be around two and a half pounds, as she is exactly sixteen inches long. Normally, a fish of this stature is photographed and released, so that we can maintain our brood stock here on Cedar Creek. Fortunately, as fate would have it, we only had about fifteen fish in the box after almost three hours of fishing, so I opted to keep this one. After the excitement died down, we went back to fishing as usual. I felt a sigh of relief as I now at least had one happy customer, regardless of what happens the rest of the day. Time to work on the other three.
The next two hours goes like this: If we find structure, any structure at all, we fish it, and at best pull two fish. I'm working my tail off, and so are my friends. I can't thank them enough because I know they our freezing from head to toe, and the bites come few and far between. We're getting there though, and I can tell by the cooler that we should be really, really close to an even thirty fish that I had hoped for. With daylight dwindling, I give the call that the next keeper wins it. A few minutes pass, and Matt loses a fish accidentally. I can't blame him, I never want to go home either. Dale picks up the last keeper, and I tip my hats to the four guys for their hard work and good attitudes.
At the boat ramp, I'm lining up the fish for a good picture, when John brings around his digital scale for curiosity's sake. I pick up the black beauty, placing her on the scale, and patiently wait for the results. "2.15 pounds. I was a little off guys, I thought she was closer to two and a half." John chimes in "No Lane, that means two pounds, fifteen ounces." "Guys, that changes the ball game completely. We have ourselves a lake record black crappie." I say it again as it all sets in. "We have ourselves a lake record black crappie!"
I would like to contact the phone company to see what the record number of text and phone calls is for a five minute time span, because I bet we broke it. Greg, our newest member of the BigCrappie team, has Matt follow him to Chuck's house, where they are to fill out the paper work for the record. Interestingly enough, through a little tender loving care, they are also able to resuscitate the beautiful fish in a horse trough rigged with a water pump. The rest of the night is a blur of phone calls, laughing and flashbacks of the days events.
So now I'm here sitting in the morning darkness, already freezing, as I'm hooking up the boat for today's trip. What am I going to tell them? How do I compare yesterday's fishing trip to any of the hundreds of others I guided in the last couple of years? I can't. It's not fair, and it isn't realistic. I'm going to go out and work my tail off again, trying to do the best I can to make people happy, in very unfavorable conditions. Oh well, nobody paid us to make excuses. We get on the boat, bundled up head to toe, and we're fishing once again for that highly sought after thump. I've already gotten reports from Athens that the big girl went an official three pounds, one ounce, with almost fifteen inches of girth. About nine o'clock, the question that I dread the most is asked: "So, how has fishing been?" Shaking my head, and trying not to laugh at my own predicament, I answer - tongue in cheek - "You should've been here yesterday."

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A programming error allowed users to see other users' confidential email addresses and phone numbers.
The majority of agencies, as of late Sunday, had not been alerted by Facebook to a newly-discovered security risk on the social network used governmentwide, federal officials told Nextgov.
A database error accidentally exposed email addresses and phone numbers of 6 million users to other Facebook users, the company disclosed late Friday in an online message. Essentially, members who downloaded their Facebook page histories were able to see confidential phone numbers and email addresses of other account-holders.
Thousands of federal Web managers and social media specialists are on Facebook to expand agency public outreach, government officials said on Sunday. The social titan did not respond to multiple inquiries to ascertain how many federal employees maintaining agency Facebook pages might have had their personal data compromised.
Friday's online message stated, "When people upload their contact lists or address books to Facebook, we try to match that data with the contact information of other people on Facebook in order to generate friend recommendations."
The company had been storing suggested friends' details in users' histories. "As a result, if a person went to download an archive of their Facebook account through our Download Your Information (DYI) tool, they may have been provided with additional email addresses or telephone numbers for their contacts or people with whom they have some connection," company officials stated.
The flaw, which the social network learned about earlier this month, had existed since last year, according to news reports.
Aside from being angered about the exposure of private information, some users are outraged that Facebook has been harvesting this data in the first place, security analysts observed. The affected users had not registered their phone numbers and email addresses with Facebook. The company had been obtaining those details from friends' address books.
"What the revelation means is that Facebook has much more information on us than we know, it may not be accurate, and despite everyone's best efforts to keep Facebook from knowing our phone numbers or work email address, the social network is getting our not-for-sharing numbers and email addresses anyway by stealing them (albeit through 'legitimate' means) from our friends," tech pundit Violet Blue wrote in a ZDNet column.
She added that the incident "creates a scenario of horrifying possibilities for any woman who has [begun] to experience harassment, abuse or stalking by an ex within the past year," or "anyone being maliciously stalked and harassed" by someone "they may have accidentally friended over the past year."
According to the company, an unaffiliated security researcher discovered the bug and informed Facebook through a so-called bug bounty program that offers at least $500 -- there is no payment cap: "each bug is awarded a bounty based on its severity and creativity." Google, Mozilla and most-recently Microsoft have begun paying hackers, researchers and other good Samaritans to report previously-undetected vulnerabilities on Web services.
On Friday, Facebook officials stated they "immediately disabled" the history download feature, fixed the issue, and restored the tool within one day of hearing about the defect. No other personal or financial data was involved, and developers as well as advertisers did not have access to the tool, they added. Company officials stated they "currently have no evidence" anyone took advantage of the mistake for malicious purposes. Nor have officials seen anomalous behavior on the site to suggest wrongdoing.
Facebook officials downplayed the privacy lapse, but admitted they regret the episode: "Although the practical impact of this bug is likely to be minimal since any email address or phone number that was shared was shared with people who already had some of that contact information anyway, or who had some connection to one another, it's still something we're upset and embarrassed by, and we'll work doubly hard to make sure nothing like this happens again."
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Letter dated 04/20/10 - Environmental Protection Agency
April 20, 2010
By Electronic Mail
May 3, 2010
Via Facsimile and E-mail
Mr. Dean Koppel
Assistant Director
Office of Policy and Research
Office of Government Contracting
Small Business Administration
409 3rd Street, SW
Washington, DC 20416
RE: Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program 75 Federal 10030, March 4, 2010
Dear Assistant Director Koppel:
The Office of Advocacy submits this comment letter to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in response to the above-referenced notice of proposed rulemaking.
Advocacy Background
Congress established the Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) under Pub. L. 94-305 to represent the views of small business before Federal agencies and Congress. Advocacy is an independent office within the Small Business Administration (SBA), so the views expressed by Advocacy do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA or of the Administration. Section 612 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (1)requires Advocacy to monitor agency compliance with the RFA, as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act.(2)
The RFA requires agencies to analyze the economic impact of proposed regulations on small entities, and where there is likely to be a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, to consider regulatory alternatives that will achieve the agency's goal while minimizing the burden on these small entities.(3)
In addition, under Executive Order 13272 agencies are required to give every appropriate consideration to comments provided by Advocacy.(4) The agency must include, in any explanation or discussion accompanying the final rule's publication in the Federal Register, the agency's response to these written comments submitted by Advocacy on the proposed rule, unless the agency certifies that the public interest is not served by doing so.(5)
Potentially Positive Aspects of the Proposed 8(a) Contracting Regulation
Section 811of the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 2000, Public Law 105-554, section 811 addressed the difficulties women-owned small businesses were encountering when competing for federal contracts. Public Law 105-554 created an acquisition tool that would allow agencies to restrict competition to qualified women-own small businesses. Since 2000, SBA has had a legislative requirement of trying to provide maximum practicable opportunity for women-owned small businesses to participate in the performance of contracts let by any Federal agency. SBA has made tremendous strides to encourage agencies to make awards to women-owned small businesses. The acquisition restrictive competition tool of Public Law 105-554 is necessary to remove years of sex discrimination that have inhibited the ability of women to compete equally for contracts.
The Office of Advocacy commends the recent actions by SBA to provide the necessary regulatory structure for the full implementation of this women-owned small business contracting program. Advocacy is pleased that SBA has agreed to not retain a provision from a previous proposed regulation that would have required each agency to find that it has discriminated against women-owned small businesses before it could implement a restrictive competition program. It is also commendable that SBA, recognizing some of the cost burdens that women-owned businesses encounter with having to comply with certification requirements, is proposing to provide women-owned small businesses with alternative compliance opportunities.
Areas of Concern with the Proposed Contracting Regulation
Eligible North American Industries Code (NAIC)
The previously proposed regulation identified only three NAIC areas in which women-owned small businesses were underrepresented and substantially underrepresented for which the restrict competition for contracts would be available. The current proposal if implemented would require the agencies to examine eighty three NAICs to determine if a restrictive procurement could be awarded to a woman-owned small business. This current proposed regulation, however, does not appear to take into consideration new areas for women-owned small business participation. For example, since there does not appear to be a specific NAIC for broadband contracting, will contracting officers in the telecommunications area be able to provide restrictive procurements for women-owned small businesses? Perhaps the final regulation should address new market opportunities for women-owned small businesses that may not yet be incorporated in the NAIC system.
WOSB Program Repository
SBA proposes that women-owned small businesses will submit eligibility certification documents at the time of self-certification. SBA is proposing that women-owned businesses submit the eligibility documents directly to the contracting officer prior to each award. The proposed rule further will require the women-owned business to post the documents to the repository within 30 days of the repository becoming available. The Office of Advocacy is concerned with the potential cost of compliance for women-owned small businesses. There are at least two areas of concern. First, until the repository is operational, the women-owned business who decides to self-certify must not only submit documents to the Online Representations and Certifications Application system ( ORCA) but must provide each contracting officer with eligibility documents. For some businesses this may mean multiple packages being provided to the same agency and in some situations to the same contracting officer for multiple procurements. Perhaps SBA can explore a less burdensome alternative for the woman-owned small business that will still provide the agency with the eligibility documents.
Advocacy commends SBA for its effort to address the discrimination against women-owned small businesses by proposing a regulation that would allow for restrictive procurement competition. Advocacy urges SBA to give full consideration to these two areas of concern.
If you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact Major L. Clark, III in my Office at (202) 205-7150.
Susan Walthall
Acting Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Major L. Clark, III
Assistant Chief Counsel for Procurement
cc: The Honorable Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
1. Pub. L. No. 96-354, 94 Stat. 1164 (1980) (codified at 5 U.S.C. §§ 601-612).
2. Subtitle II of the Contract with America Advancement Act, Pub. L. No. 104-121, 110 Stat. 857 (1996). 5 U.S.C. § 612(a).
3. See generally, Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, A Guide for Federal Agencies: How to Comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Ac (2003).
4. Exec. Order No. 13272 § 1, 67 Fed. Reg. 53461 (Aug. 16, 2002).


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Gordon Nixon
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TRIEC Conference
Toronto, Ontario
June 21, 2005
Good morning.
I have been invited to a number of events lately related to immigration, and almost without exception, the very best of them have Dominic's name attached. Thank you, Dominic, for your leadership and kind introduction.
And congratulations to Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) on the important work you are doing, and especially on the launch of your new employer strategy and website today.
I am honoured to be here representing the corporate community and, more specifically, as a current and prospective employer of immigrants to Toronto and Canada.
While I'm not an immigrant, I'm not a native of Toronto either. I was born and raised in Montreal, and moved here in 1979. But I count myself fortunate to live in a city that so clearly shows the potential that can be unleashed by multi-culturalism.
Right now, we may be the only city in the country that can claim a "visible majority" rather than "visible minorities."
I know that the terms "visible minority" and "immigrants"
are often used incorrectly as synonyms. But demographically
speaking, the reality in Toronto is that immigrants are visible
minorities. Almost one out of every three Torontonians is
a visible minority, and our future growth is expected to come
largely from immigrants who are visible minorities.
My topic this morning is "The Immigrant Imperative," and I have one key message. We must not only attract, but also improve how well we integrate new immigrants into our communities, our workforce and our economy.
Immigration has historically been critical to Canada's growth, yet there has seldom been a time in Canada's history where immigration has been so important. In the next twenty years, we stand to gain more— or lose more— depending on how we handle immigration over the next few years.
Canada's standard of living has lagged behind that of the United States for the last 25 years. Our competitive advantage is no longer driven by the resource industry, or by capital assets like plants, equipment and machinery. It is being driven by our ability to tap human capital so we can develop technology, improve productivity and develop creatively.
But Canada is a small nation. Our national birth rate just hit an historic low, and our workforce is aging. Clearly, we are going to have to import talented people to make up the gap, not just for labour intensive jobs, but for all levels. The global war for talent is heating up, and we'll be going head-to-head with countries like Italy, Spain and Germany, whose birthrates are falling as dramatically as ours, and whose workforce is also greying as quickly as ours.
And finally, globalization has presented us with new game and a whole set of new players— like China and India, who are investing heavily in higher education, technology and innovation. For example, China is graduating three times as many engineers each year than the United States does, and many Chinese immigrants are actually leaving the west to go back to China, because they see better opportunities at home.
The Canadian government has set a target of welcoming 300,000 new immigrants each year, or about one per cent of our existing population. New Canadians make up about 70 per cent of the growth in the Canadian labour force. By 2011, they will account for all the growth in our workforce.
So our success depends not only on our ability to attract new immigrants, but on providing an environment where new Canadians can maximize their potential. This can be Canada's competitive advantage— and Toronto is the flash point.
Historically, we don't have the best track record in this area— and I hope that is about to change.
The federal government's "Internationally Trained Workers Initiative" is a step forward for our nation, and I commend the government for its action and leadership.
Yet no level of government can bear the burden alone. Governments can attract skilled immigrants to Canada, but once they have arrived, businesses have to pick up the ball.
But we have not.
In fact, we're dropping it— at least according to the Public Policy Forum. In a survey conducted with over 2,000 Canadian employers in 2004, the Forum found three pieces of discouraging news.
The Conference Board of Canada goes one step further, saying that Canadian companies are almost myopic about connecting the dots between Canada's aging workforce and the impending skill shortages in our workforce. In a recent report called "Business Critical", they assert that businesses just aren't seeing the solution staring us in the face: maximizing the talents of visible minorities and immigrants.
This solution will bring untold benefits for our businesses, our communities and our country— and will have a profound human impact as well.
I'd like to tell you a story about Apoorva Shukla.
Apporva is 32 years old.
But his education and experience were all based in India.
In 2004, Apoorva arrived in Canada, with his wife and four-year old daughter in tow, hoping to make a better life.
Like most new immigrants, his network here was limited. He was used to working in an industry that looked quite different back home than it did in Canada.
If Apoorva had landed in Canada five years earlier, you could predict how this story would go. He would probably be underemployed now, working in a field unrelated to his training and background. Like many other new Canadians, he might have become a successful entrepreneur, but likely he would feel like he was wasting his education, and not maximizing his contribution to Canadian society.
But that didn't happen.
Because by the time Apoorva got to Toronto, so had Career Bridge.
RBC was a founding supporter of this internship program designed to eliminate employment barriers facing experienced professionals, and as part of our support, we committed to placing 10 interns in Toronto.
Within 8 months of arriving in Canada, Apoorva was matched
up with RBC, and he began a work placement as an account manager
trainee. Apoorva aced his training, and during his six-month
internship, he generated $2 million in new business for RBC.
Now, RBC is one of the largest employers in Canada— with about 16,000 people in the GTA alone. And we just added one more. Apoorva was simply too valuable for us to lose, and I am proud to tell you that two weeks ago, he became a full-time employee of RBC.
I wanted to share this story because it's a win for everyone: for Apoorva and his family, for RBC and our clients, for Toronto and for Canada.
RBC sets a high premium on diversity. I chair our Diversity Leadership Council, made up of senior leaders from across our businesses. Just to let you know how important this issue is, I can tell you that it is the only committee other than my executive committee that I sit on.
This Council sets RBC's strategy and goals for diversity and employment equity, as well as monitoring our progress. We meet quarterly to make sure the talent pipeline is being filled with qualified candidates from diverse groups, as well as tracking the results of our recruitment efforts, promotions and terminations. Each of our businesses has targets and objectives with respect to gender, people with disabilities and visible minorities so we can measure our success (or lack thereof), rather than just talking a good game.
And just as a point of interest, we've proven that developing a strategy and setting goals really does work.
For example, we set our focus on women in the late 70s. Our first woman director joined the board of directors in 1976, and we appointed our first woman executive in 1979. Currently, women make up about one-third of our management ranks in North America— a number we are working hard to increase. I'm hoping we have the same kind of success with people who are visible minorities, because if we can, it will mean we took full advantage of this opportunity.
Currently, about 24 per cent of our workforce is comprised of visible minorities, as is ten per cent of our executive management team— some were born outside of Canada, while others are children of immigrants. Those numbers are still too low, but we're moving in the right direction, and are developing programs to help better integrate new employees into our workforce.
For example, we have mentoring arrangements and English business language classes available to new employees, and even developed cross-cultural awareness training for our recruitment and human resource professionals— the first training of its kind in Canada.
One of the largest barriers to employment for skilled immigrants is in the area of foreign credentials. The government's "Internationally Trained Worker Initiative" has an entire program dedicated to this— but businesses can do their part as well.
One small example from RBC. We used to ask prospective employees to provide the name of the institution where they received their degrees or accreditations on our application form. But if our recruiting staff weren't familiar with the institution, we risked passing over qualified foreign candidates. So we removed that field entirely from our application— and follow up on credentials and education later in the process. We hope this quick fix will move us one step closer toward bias-free hiring.
We don't have all the answers, but we know that if we have
a strong reputation for valuing diversity, we will be able
to draw from a broader pool of Canadian and international
talent. Once those candidates become our employees, we will
see a bottom-line benefit for the company. This year, for
example, RBC is developing a new strategy for attracting new
immigrant business within the GTA, and our success will very
much depend on the talent and diverse backgrounds of our employees.
So while we do believe in the "social justice" imperative of diversity, I personally believe that it is the business case that will ultimately generate results for most companies. Most people believe in social justice, but the business case can really propel them into action, even outside of their comfort zone.
The final thought I'd like to leave you with comes from Richard Florida in his book The Rise of the Creative Class. While most experts say that technology is the driving force behind social change and economic development, Florida disagrees. He says creativity is now the fundamental source of economic growth, and builds a link right back to diversity.
"Economic development," he says, "is powered by creative people, who prefer places that are diverse, tolerant and open to new ideas. ...Greater and more diverse concentrations of creative capital... [will] lead to higher rates of innovation, high-technology business formation, job creation and economic growth. "
The good news, according to Florida, is that Toronto gets it— and he mentions us by name— because Toronto is striving to become a creative community, not just a centre of business and technology, by leveraging the diversity of our people.
The bottom line is that, for businesses, diversity is both a great opportunity and the right thing to do. I believe that a personal commitment from senior business leaders must filter through the entire organization, so that companies can unleash the full potential of all our people and our teams. And in doing so, we'll discover that unleashing the power of diversity and capitalizing on immigration will become a competitive advantage for Canada, and a source of national pride.
Thank you.


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I am starting to convert 8mm home video over to a digital format for long term storage and future editing. I am looking for advise on the best method for doing this. I started doing a few conversion and results seem good, but just want to make sure before I invest even more time. Here is my information.
Tape / camera Format:
8mm - Video shot from 1990 through 1998? with Sony 8mm camcorder, not sure of model.
8mm - Digital - Video shot with a Sony digital 8 TRV520 camcorder 1998 through 2008?
mini DV digital cassette - Video shot with Cannon ZR900 2008 - 2012
I have approximately 100 tapes to convert.
My current method is using the Sony digital 8 DCR-TRV520 camcorder to input the video using Premiere Elements 10. I plan to use the Canon ZR900 for the mini DV tapes with the same settings.
Project settings:
DV NTSC 29.97 frames / second
Frame size 720 horizontal 480 vertical
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9091)
Fields: Lower Field First
Display Format : 30 fps Drop-Frame time code
After capturing the video, (No editing at this time), In Premiere Elements I use the "Share" AVI setting and create an AVI file using the preset DV NTSC Standard. I then save this file on to my hard drive. The file is quite large 27 GB for about a 2 hour video.
I have downloaded the file on to a jump drive and played it on my laptop which was hooked to my TV. It seemed good quality for a 27 year old video. I would like to edit these files in the future and pull them back into Premiere elements.
1. Does this seem like a good method for long term preservation of family videos?
2. Are AVI files easy to pull back into Premiere Elements for editing in the future, and will the quality be about the same as the initial capture?
3. Are the project settings for the 8mm / digital 8mm / and mini DV tapes the same in Premiere Elements.


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Erythromycin, sold under the brand names Ery-Tab, Akne-Mycin, E.E.S. Eryc, and Pediamycin, is an antibiotic.
The drug is prescribed for infections like pneumonia, whooping cough (pertussis), sexually transmitted diseases, Legionnaires' disease, urinary tract infections (UTIs), and acne.
For off-label use, doctors may prescribe erythromycin for slow passage of food from the stomach into the intestines (gastroparesis) and other conditions involving poor movement of substances through the stomach and the intestines.
Erythromycin belongs to group of drugs known as macrolide antibiotics, which work by stopping bacteria from making proteins that they need to survive and function properly.
Erythromycin was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1967 under the brand name Iloson, which was manufactured by Eli Lilly.
You should not take erythromycin if:
Talk to your doctor before taking erythromycin if you:
Erythromycin may cause sudden death if taken with other medications that are broken down by the liver the same way (see "Drug Interactions").
Taking erythromycin for a long period of time may make you more likely to develop infections caused by bacteria or fungus that are much more difficult to treat.
Erythromycin is a pregnancy category B drug, which means it should be generally safe to use in pregnancy.
Regardless, you should tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant before taking this medication.
Since erythromycin has been found to pass into breast milk, it's best to tell your doctor if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
If you have diarrhea, gas, or begin vomiting, stop taking erythromycin immediately and call your doctor.
It is always important to share with your doctor and pharmacist all prescription, non-prescription, illegal, recreational, herbal, nutritional, or dietary drugs you're taking.
You should not take Erythromycin if you are taking the following drugs:
If possible, ask your doctor about other antibiotics you can take instead of erythromycin if you are taking any of the following:
Erythromycin interacts with many more drugs than what appears here, so be sure to talk to you pharmacist or doctor before taking erythromycin.
There are no specific warnings about drinking alcohol while taking erythromycin, but there's some evidence that alcohol might result in delayed absorption of the antibiotic.
Therefore, you should talk to your doctor about avoiding or limiting alcohol consumption while taking erythromycin.
You should avoid eating grapefruit and drinking grapefruit juice while taking erythromycin.
Grapefruit juice slows down how quickly the body is able to break down the erythromycin, which could cause erythromycin levels in the blood to rise dangerously high.
This is could be life-threatening because erythromycin can change heart rhythm and/or electrical activity in the heart.
Erythromycin is available in many different dosage forms including cream, gel, tablet, and solution for injection into the veins.
Depending on the condition, doses of erythromycin tend to range from the following:
When taking tablets, be sure to take the medication exactly as your doctor or pharmacist directed.
Be sure to finish the entire prescription - even if you start to feel better or your symptoms subside. Otherwise, the infection could come back and might be much more difficult to treat.
If you suspect an overdose, contact a poison control center or emergency room immediately. You can get in touch with a poison control center at (800) 222-1222.
If you miss a dose of Erythromycin, try to take it as soon as you remember.
However, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your regular dosing schedule. Don't double up to make up for a missed dose.
By Frieda Wiley, PharmD, CGP, RPh | Medically Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD
Latest Update: 2015-02-19
Copyright © 2014 Everyday Health Media, LLC


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Cockneys Vs Zombies - Exclusive Clip
By James Whittington, Wednesday 29th August 2012
Cockneys Vs Zombies, the bloody and brilliant new Brit horror is opening at cinemas this Friday. The movie plays like a cross between Eastenders, Dawn Of The Dead and The Long Good Friday and has a cast of London born legends.
Just as brothers Terry and Andy Macguire decide to rob a bank, workers on a Docklands building site uncover a burial ground sealed up in 1666. However some of the corpses aren't brown bread at all and before you know it London's East End is infested with hungry zombies.
Can the two dodgy Hamptons get to the Bow Bells Care Home run by their granddad in time to rescue all the Raspberry Ripples under siege with only their Zimmer frames and wheelchairs to kick some zombie Khyber Pass?
Would you Adam and Eve it we have an exclusive clip for you to view below!
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Hailing from 'parts unknown', Pete G. comes to 97.3 ESPN with a background almost too diverse to explain. He has an honorary doctorate in applied mathematics from Cambridge, he lived among a tribe of Capuchin monkeys for 5 years to better understand their social dynamic, and speaks 8 languages fluently -- 3 of which cannot actually be processed by the human brain. When not working on a cure for the common cold, and hunger, Pete G. produces the Sports Bash Warmup and the Sports Bash every weekday.
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Wounded marine gets new home
'Home At Last' program gives Marine new home
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A marine, who was wounded in Afghanistan in 2011 got a new home today as a thank you for his service to his country.
Several local politicians like Congressman Daniel Webster and Oakland Mayor Kathy Stark were in attendance as the new home was dedicated to Corporal Ronald Barnes Saturday morning.
This was the fifth Home At Last home, provided mortgage free, through the generosity of many individuals and Central Florida companies, to a seriously wounded veteran of the Iraq/Afghanistan war.
Barnes enlisted in 2009 shortly after high school graduation, then following boot camp, completed engineer school at Camp Lejeune.
While stationed with the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion in Camp Lejeune, he planned to make a career in the Marines and eventually become a teacher.
As a member of the 3rd Marines 4th Battalion, Barnes deployed to Afghanistan in April 2011 and in less than a month, stepped on an IED pressure plate or land mine.
Barnes injuries resulted in the loss of both legs and damage to his arms and nose.
The home was presented to Barnes, his wife Katy and their infant son.
West Orange Habitat for Humanity established the project in 2007 to meet the special housing needs of permanently disabled combat wounded veterans of the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. The project is dedicated to presenting at least one mortgage-free home each year to a veteran. The projects are completed entirely by donations and in-kind contributions of construction labor and materials.
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I have to handle data from long term (years, decades) climate monitoring stations. The data flow usually starts with raw data (voltages, etc.) plus quality check information (pressure, temperature, flow rate, etc.) generally recorded @ 1Hz. Then, the data are assigned a quality flag (human and/or program), processed (apply calibration curves) and flagged.
So, we basically end up with 2 datasets : raw and processed data. New data are typically added once a day (~500Ko/day/instrument). Simultaneous queries are not likely to ever happen.
I wanted to go for a RDBMS (we have a MySQL server) and have some experience in database design, but the IT guy keeps telling me that flat files will to the job just as well. I suspect him to try to make his life easier when it comes to backup/upgrade the MySQL.
There are not so many links between data, they don't change much, but the quality flags will change. A RDBMS is easier to compare data from different instruments on a "many days" scale, compared to daily text files.
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Keep a daily journal. Submit the week's entries from Mon-Fri by noon on Saturday. There are 13 weeks for entries. You have to cover 10 weeks. Include the following:
(i) Describe your learning activities online; include your weekly study buddy experience, who attended and what you accomplished.
(ii) Your daily personal study report.
(iii) Write 5+ sentences in Afrikaans. Focus on new grammar principles and use vocab topics; Do not use the sentences for your weekly communication topic.
(iv) Week's communication topic paragraph -- also include a vocabulary list of new terms you learned to do the topic.


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Some of you may know that I was briefly homeless when I was in my early twenties. I mentioned this offhandedly in a comment on Gawker and some people were interested to hear about that experience. It was the worst time of my life, and I also had it a lot better than most people.
When I was 23 or so I was living in a basement apartment on Haight Street in San Francisco. It had concrete floors and pipes hanging from the ceiling that I had to duck under. It once had a stove but that was pulled out, but the light and vent that were over it remained. My room mate and I put a comfy chair under that vent so we would smoke cigarettes and read books with our smoke getting sucked out of the kitchen. We painted sea creatures on the walls. For a hipster doofus like me it was paradise. We didn't have a lease so when the home owner told us to scram so he could renovate the basement we thought we had to go (though this probably wasn't the case). In the week or so heads up that we were given I was unable to find a new place so that is how I ended up homeless while working and going to school full time.
During this time I was creating a lot of problems for myself because of my pride. I didn't want to admit that my life was so out of control that I was homeless, so even though I had friends in town I wouldn't allow myself to spend more than one night at a particular friends house in a row. I wanted it to be, "Hey, Penabler is crashing here and look, he brought beer!" not "Penabler is staying on our couch until he can figure his shit out." This split my time up when I wasn't working or going to school into 1)looking for long term housing and 2) figuring out where the fuck I was going to sleep that night.
Most nights I was able to find a friend that would take me in(or a classmate, or a friend of my sister, or anyone), but some nights I'd end up in Golden Gate Park. One night I was planning on staying at a classmate's house but she was coming on to me strong. She was making eyes at me like a cartoon wolf all night but I didn't want to weird up our relationship because we had class together (and I wasn't interested in seeing her). I lied that I had arranged to stay with another friend that night and left before I either had to turn her down or have sex that I would regret. I had no where to go so I went to the park and bought a great big jug of Carlos Rossi. I wanted to just drink deep and pass out and wake up to a different day where everything wasn't totally fucked up yet. While I was sitting there in the dark, a raccoon came out of the woods and slowly approached me. I froze, not wanting to startle it. I was in a vulnerable position, with my ass seated on the ground and my legs splayed, cross-eyed drunk, I wasn't sure what this critter was capable of. It walked right up to me and started sniffing the bottle, which I was holding as far away from me as I could. The raccoon, digging my wine choice, started to lick the liquid from the edge of the bottle. I took the bottle back and drank from the spot the raccoon was licking, and then gave it back to him. And that was the time I partied with a raccoon.
Need to charge your cell phone? The bus stops in San Francisco used to have lights that would plug into a standard AC wall socket. You could crack open the box, unplug the light, and plug in your cell phone or other electronics. I'm willing to bet a lot of cities have the same type situation. Just don't get caught busting that box apart.
The schedule for normal day during this time was: wake up wherever. Make my way to school. Work out (while keeping my backpacking pack in sight, as it held all of my possessions). Take a shower (with my pack). Go to class. Go to work. Figure out where I was going to sleep. Try to find a home. Going to school with a camping pack was embarrassing to me at the time, but looking back I'm guessing no one even paid close enough attention to me to notice. My overall shame at being homeless (plus my incredible ego) made me think everyone could instantly sense I was homeless and was judging me. I would switch between thinking I was okay ("I'm working hard and paying taxes, I'm bettering myself with school, I have a lot of friends!") to wallowing in despair ("How am I in this situation? What the fuck is wrong with me?").
City College of San Francisco does have housing for needy students, so I made an appointment to see my councilor to talk about it. When I met with him I told him the situation, which I hadn't articulated to anyone before. I forget the actual reason, maybe because I was working, but I wasn't eligible for the housing. What I do remember is that I broke down and started sobbing in front of this strange man and he put his hands on mine to comfort me. He told me to quit school, that I could always come back but I needed to spend more time focusing on finding a home. I cried more.
Finding housing in SF sucks. I was working seven days a week (and couldn't take time off for fear of getting fired) but I still couldn't afford my own place. Even if I could my credit sucks, as I stupidly never took a credit card or owed anyone money, so other people could beat me by their credit rating if it came down to it. Convincing a house of people that you are the best new room mate candidate is an ordeal. My self esteem was already in the tank for being homeless and I would come into a new place and try to sell sell sell how awesome I am. I would try to Sherlock Holmes the situation "Oh fuck, a D&D poster? I've played that game, I'll engage them on that. That dude has running shoes. Maybe he likes to jog? I'll play that up." I'd get perfectly good and chummy with some guys, feeling like I'm really clicking with them, but then the next interviewee comes in and its some 19 year old woman that says she likes to cook in her underwear. FUUUUUUUUUCK.
Because I was working I never went hungry, but I still found myself super bitter at the people who had less than me. I remember eating a burrito in a Taqueria in the Tenderloin and this other homeless person coming up to me asking me for money. He talked about how bad he had it, how hungry he was, but all the while I was thinking "You asshole, do you see this pack? That's everything I own. I'm going to sleep in the park tonight. I work everyday and its grinding me down, I'm keeping my money because I need it." I lied and told them I didn't have cash. Today I earn twice what I did then, and I have a home and plenty of food, and its a weird thought but now I can afford sympathy for him. At the time I was fighting to get by and he was a person that wasn't fighting as hard as me. I think a lot of the anger aimed at Killermartinis recently was a lot of the same mindset.
After only two months of living like this, I caught a break. I was smoking with some students at City College and I mentioned I was looking for a place. One of the students I TAed for in film production really liked a movie a friend made that I was in (where I played a robot that was in love with a human woman) so he talked me up to a house that was looking for a room mate. It was all girls and they called themselves the "Pussy Palace." Based off of that student's recommendation, whom I didn't really know, they decided to take me in. It was a beautiful home a block from the Painted Ladies and it was so good to me.
I guess as homelessness goes, I had it relatively briefly and pretty easy, but it was easily the most depressing and humiliating time of my life. I can't imagine how the chronically homeless must feel, what they think of themselves. I'm not into playing poverty Olympics but I'm curious to what other people have experienced from homelessness, or your thoughts.


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Who is John Tortorella? Start with toughness, tenacity
John Tortorella talked about his sometimes testy relationship with media in the past, the philosophy he brings to the team, and his plans for the Sedin twins on his first day on the job Tuesday.
VANCOUVER — It was in the very early days of John Tortorella's playing career at the University of Maine when head coach Jack Semler suggested one of his assistants might want to have a word with the young right-winger.
Semler had noticed his new recruit was, well, a little intense and sent first-year assistant coach Ted Castle to have a chat with him.
"Ted specifically told John after we had done some scrimmaging one day that you don't have to look like you're going to kill a guy every time you go in the corners," Semler recalled with a chuckle earlier this week.
"I feared that if he didn't take Ted's advice he would be going to the box too often. But John was the kind of guy who liked structure and from that moment on he just all of a sudden knew that he was going to plant his stick on the ice and play. He was still one of the toughest guys in the corner and he didn't take many penalties, but a lot of people took penalties against him trying to kill him."
Those probably were not the first players who wanted to kill Tortorella and definitely not the last.
It's that win-at-all-costs intensity and unwavering work ethic that seem to be common threads in Tortorella's past, ones that played a key role in allowing him to weave his way from being a fringe minor-league player to a successful NHL coach. On Tuesday, he became the 17th head coach of the Vancouver Canucks and the first American to hold the job.
"John was a very hard worker," Semler said of the Boston-born Tortorella, who turned 55 on Monday. "We'd plant him in front of the net on the power play. John is a not a terribly big guy, but if he got knocked down he'd get right back up every time. He just became a memorable hockey player at Maine."
Tortorella had transferred to Maine after one season at Salem State College. He joined his younger brother, Jim, who was a highly recruited goalie at Maine and is now an associate coach with the University of New Hampshire men's hockey team.
Both of the Tortorellas had attended Concord Carlisle Regional High School in the Boston area, where John captained both the hockey and baseball (he was a shortstop) teams.
Semler remembers Tortorella as a quiet guy, who didn't have much to say to his coaches. He had a part-time job on campus at the Maine arena as a ticket-taker.
"He would hand out the figure skates for public skating," Semler said.
"John was quiet as a mouse. He was seen but not heard by coaches, meaning he wanted to take his instructions and then keep his mouth shut. That's the kind of player he was.
"But I think he was a good leader in the locker room. Apparently, one day he had an across-the-locker-room chat with his younger brother that was not too friendly. I didn't hear it, but apparently he was being the older brother and he wanted Jimmy to stop talking, I guess."
After graduating from Maine — he had 12 goals and 42 points in 34 games in his senior year — Tortorella headed to Sweden for one season, where he played in the Swedish fifth division.
He returned to toil in the old Atlantic Coast Hockey League, making stops with the Hampton Road Gulls, Erie Golden Blades, Nashville South Stars and finally the Virginia Lancers.
By then, he had most definitely found his voice. Pete De Armas was his linemate for one season in Virginia and remembers Tortorella as a player who was constantly challenging his teammates to give more.
"As a teammate he was a fierce competitor," said De Armas, now a chiropractor in the San Diego area. "He was the guy who would tell the guys on the bench, 'you better be giving it everything you've got because I'm out here giving everything I've got.'
"The expectation was, 'Hey, I'm out here sweating and sacrificing and blocking shots and you guys can do the same.' He always called out guys and I think he still does that now. You see it in his interviews. But he is the nicest guy off the ice."
That 1985-86 season was as close as Tortorella would get to the NHL as a player and of course that wasn't very close at all.
Tortorella had 37 goals, 96 points and 153 penalty minutes in 60 games in his final season as a player.
"He had good hands and was a tough guy, good in the corners," De Armas said. "He was not a finesse guy, he was the worker bee."
The Lancers' owner had liked what he had seen of the feisty Tortorella as a player and asked him to coach the team the following season. De Armas, who has kept in contact with Tortorella over the years, stayed on as team captain and assistant playing coach.
De Armas said Tortorella brought that same intensity he displayed as a player to his new job as coach.
Tortorella shipped out some veterans and brought in a number of college players, knowing they would be more hungry to win and learn.
"He went with the younger guys because he knew a lot of the cagey veterans were just there to have fun and hang on," De Armas said. "We wanted to win the Cup so he went with a younger crew. We had a lot of college players and he knew those guys would follow his philosophy and we ended up winning the Cup that year."
Tortorella coached one more season in Virginia before getting his first significant coaching break.
Rick Dudley hired Tortorella to be his assistant with the AHL's New Haven Nighthawks for the 1988-89 season. The Nighthawks lost in the Calder Cup final that season and Dudley was named head coach of the Buffalo Sabres the following season. He took Tortorella with him.
Tortorella spent six years with the Sabres before becoming head coach of Buffalo's AHL affiliate in Rochester. Tortorella won the Calder Cup in his first of two seasons with the Americans. Former Canuck Dixon Ward was on that team and remembers Tortorella as a demanding but fair coach.
"He is very intense, he is very passionate, but from my experience everything he did was based around what was going to help the team win," said Ward, now vice-president of the Okanagan Hockey Academy in Penticton. "It was never about John Tortorella."
Tortorella's brother Jim made that very point in an interview a few years ago.
"The (players) who buy in and respect what he's trying to do are the ones who will thrive," the younger Tortorella said. "People think that because he's gruff and direct that it's a dictatorship.
"Let's face it. Coaching is egotistical and some become narcissistic because they think it's all about them. With Johnny it's not about him. It's about getting every player to get the best out of himself for the good of the team."
Assistant jobs with Phoenix and the Rangers followed that stint in Rochester and Tortorella finally landed his first NHL head coaching gig in 2001 with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Three seasons later, the Lightning won the Stanley Cup.
After six seasons in Tampa, Tortorella left Florida to become head coach of the Rangers.
Tortorella, who is married with a son and daughter, has ruffled more than a few feathers along the way.
He had some public battles with the likes of Vincent Damphousse and Dan Boyle in Tampa Bay. Former Philadelphia general manager Bobby Clarke once referred to Tortorella as the "Great Tortellini." In the 2004 playoffs, the Philadelphia Daily News came up with this classic headline: "Yo Torty! Shut Yer Yap!"
His dealings with the media have become legendary, particularly some of his dustups with New York Post hockey columnist Larry Brooks.
"You were probably beat up on the bus stop most of the time," Tortorella said to Brooks during one memorable exchange during his four-year stint as Rangers' coach.
His old teammate Pete De Armas says all these years later he's not surprised to see the success his old friend has found as a National Hockey League coach.
"He just has the work ethic and the tenacity," De Armas says. "I think it was a just a matter of time."
But it was Tortorella's mom, Rita, who perhaps best summed up her son in an interview with NHL.com when he took the job with the Rangers in 2009.
"If he knows he's wrong, he'll say he's sorry," Mrs. Tortorella said. "But he's pretty sure he's right most of the time."


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Holly Holm fights Friday
and it could be the last time you watch her fight in Burque
Sure, it's a damn shame that the UFC may never do a show in Albuquerque. After all, Duke City has some of the most committed fight fans on earth. On the flipside, we've got some of the best fighters as well, with both home-grown talent and fighters hat have immigrated here to train at Jackson/Winkeljohn MMA, as well as some of the other gyms, like FIT NHB. That adds up to local Mixed Martial Arts events stacked with top caliber talent, fighters that may very soon be competing at the sport's highest level.
Case in point: Friday, Dec. 6, at the Route 66 Casino, the Fresquez Productions' "Havoc" fight card, featuring Holly Holm vs Angela Hayes at bantamweight (135 lbs). The UFC has already expressed interest in Holm, and UFC president Dana White has acknowledge to being pestered to the point of desperation with questions about when the organization will sign her. Holm is being touted by many fans and media as a potential solution to Ronda Rousey's dominance.
Thus far, no opponent has escaped the first round without tapping to an armbar, much less beaten the UFC champion. Holm, a world champion boxer, and, according to her coach Mike Winkeljohn a "better kickboxer" is a fearsome striker, who has never been taken down or threatened on the ground in five professional MMA fights. But five of her opponent's six wins are by submission, which means this could finally be the time Holm is tested on the ground. And we have the opportunity to see what happens, live. As soon as Holm gets picked up by the UFC, you might not be able to see her fight in Albuquerque ever again, so take advantage!
Also on the card, flyweight Nick Urso, a Jackson/Winkeljohn product like Holm. SouthWestFightNews notes, "Urso's combination of speed, technique and natural talent has placed his name front-and-center in the discussion of who is New Mexico's best fighter not-signed by a major MMA promotion."
Urso will be fighting Jesus Urbina of Bushido MMA in El Paso. Again, SouthWestFightNews: "Urbina is very tough in all areas of MMA as he can trade punches in and outside of the pocket, he is very good at scrambling in his defensive grappling and he can finish fights when he gets top position on the mat. All of those compliments only accent his respected wrestling game; Urbina in fact has a collegiate wrestling background. "
Another fighter on the card we should be exited to see is Jackson/Winkeljohn welterweight (170 lbs) Clint Roberts, who will fight Eddie Gamboa, also of El Paso's Bushido MMA. Roberts is a powerful, well-rounded fighter who would likely be making big waves by now if he didn't keep getting injured. Most recently: a broken hand suffered in his last fight. It the knockout win, he ended up breaking his hand on his opponents' head.
Many other local prospects will be fighting as well, including Cody East, Chuck Pieritz, Gabriel Benitez, Ricky Esquibel, and Mike Benefiel. The six-bout main card is preceded by a five-fight amateur undercard, which starts at seven. The public is invited to attend the weigh-in on Thursday at 2 pm, at the Route 66 Casino.
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A Wristlojackimator is a device worn on the wrist which has a wide variety of functions.
The device itself may be called something other than "Wristlojackimator", since Leela usually refers to hers either as "this thing", "this thing I wear on my wrist", "my wrist-ama-jig" or "my wrist thingy". She only refers to it as a wristlojackimator once (2ACV11), and may in fact have been referring to the tracking beacon function she was using at the time ("wristlojackimator" contains the phrase "lo-jack"—a popular anti-theft tracking device for 20th-21st century cars).
Wristlojackimators may in fact have independent artificial intelligence, as Leela's detaches itself and leaves during the The 3001 Robot Uprising incited by Mom on Mother's Day, and tells her she should wash her wrist more often.
These multi-functional devices are operated by means of buttons and voice commands. They are available in a variety of models and colors.
In one episode Leela uses a laser beam device on it to reattach Fry's nose (it also burnt his skin). It may be that it is a weapon laser, which she had set to stun, or it is simply a tool for starting fires, cutting and welding.
They may have been inspired by the tricorders from Star Trek.
They are similar to the Pip-Boys, devices containing text information, maps, vital signs, and more in the video game series Fallout.
Persons wearing Wristlojackimators
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Leela wears the wristlojackimator in every episode of Futurama, so this list only shows when it has a special appearance, for example when more information about it is revealed, when it is mentioned by a character, has a part of the plot, or is used by a character other than Leela.


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The basic principle of playing casino Blackjack is that you have to beat the dealer. The house has an edge and a good player playing against a good dealer, all else being equal, will lose a little more than they will win over a large number of hands. But statistically, casino players lose far more than they should. The house edge is relatively small but the actual profit margins are in reality far bigger. Let's take a look at why the majority of Blackjack players perform more poorly than they should against dealers.
The first mistake that players make is to mistake the basic principle of the game as getting as close to 21 as possible. This is not in fact the case. You win the game if you beat the dealer, regardless if your cards add up to 5, 12, 19 or 21.
The dealer statistically has an edge of just 0.6%, which is the lowest house edge of any casino game, yet Blackjack is not less profitable for casinos than other games because the majority of players are focused on getting as close to 21 as possible. The dealer also cannot adapt to circumstances such as taking into consideration the cards which have already been dealt, which can quickly swing the house edge into the negative from the start of the game. The player can always choose what they want to do but the dealer has to stick rigidly to the house rules which dictate how he must play in relation to every possible combination of cards on the table.
Winning without a great hand
How you play should be dictated to by the cards the dealer has rather than your own. In the situation where a player has 13 as a points total almost all less experienced casino Blackjack players will elect to take a further card to try and get as close to possible to 21. Getting a card up to 5 or 6 doesn't really help you so you are looking for a 7 or an 8, but you have as much chance of getting a 9 or 10 which will lead to you going bust. So you have a 50/50 chance between ending up with a strong hand or going bust. If the dealer has a five house rules will dictate that they must take another two cards. If the first card is high it will still take the dealer up to less than 17 and house rules will again dictate they take another card. So there is a pretty decent chance that the dealer will go bust. Rather than taking the 50/50 chance of getting yourself a high hand, further diluted by the fact the dealer may also get a high hand, you would be statistically better off staying put on 13 and taking the 50/50 chance of the dealer going bust if the first card takes them to 16.


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Oliver Bierhoff knows how to win a trophy. The 46-year-old former AC Milan striker scored the winning goal for Germany in the Euro 1996 final against the Czech Republic at Wembley. Bierhoff, the German national team's general manager, took some time out ahead of the semifinal against Brazil on Tuesday to take a phone call from ESPN FC and talk about Germany's chances, as well as their use of technology to get an edge over their opponents.
Raphael Honigstein: Mr. Bierhoff, how's the mood in camp ahead of the semifinal versus Brazil?
Oliver Bierhoff: The team is very steady, very serene. I've been to many tournaments, as a player and as a general manager, but I've never seen a team that celebrate so little after winning a quarterfinal. They have been completely focused, they don't want the journey to be over. I think the trip to Rio (for the France game) also helped because it gave everybody a huge incentive to get back to the final at the Maracanã. The concentration has been incredibly high, but there's just the right amount of feeling at ease too.
RH: Nobody wants a third playoff game for third place. Would this World Cup still be rated a success if Germany don't make it to the final?
OB: For me, yes. We want to win the trophy, at all cost, of course. But anything can happen in semifinal or a final. You can be at your best and still lose. Or you can win with a bit of luck. The difference between the teams is so small. All I can say is that the players really want to win the trophy.
RH: How do you see the game against Brazil?
OB: They will be a tough opponent, even without Neymar and Thiago Silva. They will move closer together as a team. Our scouts have watched Brazil for four years. We have the data from the games without Silva and Neymar. We can show our boys how the players who will come in for Brazil move. We have devised an app that allows us to use this analysis on mobile devices. The data can be filtered so quickly that we will have the key scenes from the new attacker who will come in place for Neymar, for example, instantly. We can give the defenders two or three meaningful clues. We have found that this tool works really well because it's visual and intuitive.
RH: Can you give us another example of how football analytics are being used by the German team in Brazil?
OB: We have found that players like communicating via their digital devices. So with the help of our technology partner, we came up with an app that allows us to send short clips of analysis to individual players or groups of players from different parts of the team. Every player gets a couple of examples of him doing things well and badly straight after the game. They can look at it on their own time and also check their performance data. That's much more useful than showing a 90-minute video tape, as they used to in my time. The players appreciate that sort of feedback. We also have a lot of qualitative data for the opposition available. Jérôme Boateng asked to look at the way Cristiano Ronaldo moves in the box, to use another example. And before the game against France, we saw that the French were very concentrated in the middle but left spaces on the flanks because their full-backs didn't push up properly. So we targeted those areas.
RH: Is there more confidence since the win against France? The 2-1 versus Algeria had thrown up lots of doubts.
OB: These doubts were voiced outside the camp, but inside the team, everybody stayed very calm. One of my main jobs is to take out the drama a little bit. You can't let the emotions get too close to you, especially those that come from outside the team. After the 4-0 versus Portugal in the opening game, I had sponsors call who wanted to discuss what we could do if we won the World Cup. A couple of days later, after the 2-2 versus Ghana, everyone was more doubtful. These reactions are very extreme, and they can change with every game. You have to isolate yourself from that. We have managed to do that well, in my view. And sometimes I have to tell the players: It's a game -- it's sport.


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Hi, I've got the learning edition of RealFlow 2015, with the latest bug fix issued a couple of months ago
I've tried to change the lighting settings once a project has been created, such as the time of day and angle of the sun, motion blur and so-on, and it doesn't seem to accept changes once the project is created. This is quite annoying because occasionally I've imported some objects, attached loads of things to them, and then after a long simulation have found that the lighting isn't quite what I wanted. Yet rendering seems to be impervious to changes I make to the lighting settings, until I create the next project which seems to take them on. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I change the preferences from the file menu or the playback menu. When I go back into the preview preferences they show how I set them to be so it hasn't forgotten the changes I made, it just isn't taking any notice of them until I create a new project.
I can't work out what I'm doing wrong, and it doesn't seem sensible to be meant to function this way. I've also got the most recent bug fix, and it was only after installing that I noticed it, but then I wouldn't have noticed before.
Has anyone else come across this? Or am I missing something?
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