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Es como un piedrazo en la cabeza.
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That's gotta hurt. In Spanish, the suffix azo can signify a blow by the object at the root of the word. So, piedrazo means a blow by a piedra, or stone. By this logic:
Bala -> "bullet"
Balazo -> "blow by a bullet; a gunshot wound."
Codo -> "elbow"
Codazo -> "blow by an elbow; nudge."


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Earlier tonight we broke down the bevy of news coming out of Cleveland. Here is what is going on in the rest of the Central Division on Thursday night:
- Once the dust settles from the Bucks ownership change, many league insiders expect the new regime to make changes in the front office and on the coaching staff in Milwaukee, writes Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders. As Kyler notes, general manager John Hammond and assistant GM David Morway are both under contract for two more seasons. Head coach Larry Drew inked a four-year, $10MM pact last summer.
- Soon-to-be restricted free agent Greg Monroe spent what might be his last season with the Pistons keeping his head down and concentrating on his own production, writes Vincent Goodwill of The Detroit News.
- Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press suggests the Pistons would probably exercise their $2.5MM team option on Chauncey Billups for next season if the 37-year-old elects not to retire, but it seems questionable that the team would commit to that kind of money to him.
- Several Pistons players conceded that chemistry issues plagued the team all season, with Brandon Jennings admitting that he never would have agreed to come to Detroit last summer had he known how things would turn out, writes David Mayo of MLive.com. Based on player comments, Mayo infers that veteran Josh Smith, the team's highest paid player, is one of the reasons for the team's fractured locker room. In a separate piece, Ellis concurs.
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text: Nicholas John Robinson (born March 22, 1995) is an American actor. As a child, he appeared in the 2008 stage productions of A Christmas Carol and Mame, following which he starred in the television sitcom Melissa & Joey (2010–2015). He went on to play a supporting role in the film Jurassic World (2015), and took on lead roles in several teen dramas, including The Kings of Summer (2013), The 5th Wave (2015), Everything, Everything (2017), and Love, Simon (2018). In 2018, Robinson was ... more on Wikipedia


text: Have you decided on buying your home? When you want to buy your dream residence, then you should make sure that not only you, but also your family likes it. Few are few options that you can use when looking for your dream house.Look for what you have always dreamed of.You might have looked at many houses in the past. But those houses might not have satisfied your taste. But this does not mean that you have to give up on the search. You might have has a design in your mind as to what sort of a house you would want. A house should be one which is complete and useful to cater your needs. Therefore, write down a list of things that you wish to see in a house you want to buy. Then start your search. At present there is also another option. If you are not satisfied with any house you go to see, then you can get a customised house. All you got to do is to do an online search on modular houses for sale VIC. These houses can be made according to your need and your constructor can fix this part to your future house as these are attachable.If you had a dream house planned in an area in a resident place surrounded by a valley of mountains then you have the option of going to a eco friendly kit homes. These homes can be fitted into any steep or hill. Through this way, you can also have your own home on the dream place you wanted.Pay attention to the neighbours, surrounding and safety.You might like a house you go to see. But will inspecting the house alone is enough for you to buy the house? The answer is no, there can be a serial killer in the area you are purchasing the house. Before you buy a house, make good inspection about the land and the area you are going to buy the land. Talk to the neighbours in the vicinity and get to know about the house you are going to purchase. When we say the house, we mean the history of the house and about the previous neighbours. Make sure the house you are purchasing is away from any danger zones such as away from forests, and rivers which floods often.Get the legal papers of the property.One point which many fail to follow is to get the legal documents of a house or a property. The moment they see a house they like, they forget to check if the house is registered and if it has any cases going on. Therefore, always make sure you get the houses documents checked by a lawyer you know before paying the cash for the purchase.


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Mojito Bar
I enjoy serving signature cocktails with a few options to alter. It's easy for guests to serve themselves while I finish preparing the meal. Good friends of ours were visiting from out of town last night and I decided to make a mojito bar to kick summer off. In fact, I planned the meal around it!
Club soda, simple syrup, light rum, limes, mint, and mango and apricot purees to flavor were offered.
I chose to make simple syrup rather than use sugar cubes because it's already dissolved. I prefer it's taste. It's really easy to prepare in advance, just 2 cups of sugar to one cup of water!
Prep work, like slicing limes, is done in advance for ease.
To alter the flavor, I chose mango and apricot purees. Just add 2 tablespoons.
For a basic mojito, I muddle 2 mint leaves with 2 lime wedges, then add a shot of light rum, a half shot of simple syrup, any additives, then top with club soda and ice.
I created a little floral arrangement filled with roses, hydrangea, berries and added a little lime!
I created the simple syrup label with just a few simple steps! For the tutorial, click here.
Happy Summer!


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New York Florist Pastoral Creates Wonderfully Uncontrived, Tastefully Loose Arrangements
It was at our friend French Matthew's birthday in March that we discovered the truly wonderful arrangements of Pastoral. Owner and designer Audrey Stipanovich developed a love for flowers thanks to her British 'garden-obsessed' mother and after working in fashion for over ten years (with designer Bernhard Willhelm and photographer/director Stephane Sednaoui), she headed down the gorgeous (garden) path of flowers.
Audrey uses film, paintings and literature as her inspiration, with each of her classic arrangements named for her favorite movies. There's an uncontrived, tastefully loose element to the arrangements, no tight-and-white bridal balls here. She does events, individual bouquet orders and will occasionally set up shop at Hester Street Fair. Her next stall moment at the fair is Mother's Day (May 11). Get there early though, these arrangements will be snapped up. Real talk.
Check out the Pastoral Instagram and for orders go Pastoral-nyc.com


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Looking for something to do this summer? Skylanders Spyro's Adventure is coming to London for a live, interactive event!
You'll get a chance to meet your favourite Skylander and you'll even get to visit the magical Skylands!
There's also have a first look at Skylanders Giants. It's like the original but bigger and better!
So if you fancy meeting the giants, getting a picture, playing both games and grabbing a goody bag…you should pop along!
They will be at Lollibop Festival until 19th August and tickets are still available here!
Click here to find out more about Skylanders and what they're doing at Lollibop.
We'll see you there!


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AFME's FX Head Talks Regulation
Dow Jones Newswires' Clare Connaghan sits down with the head of the global foreign exchange division at trade body the Association for Financial Markets in Europe to talk about risks surrounding regulating the foreign exchange market and how the U.S. and European authorities need to strike the right balance.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Bowls Stickers
Bowls Stickers
Bowls Initial Stickers
Personalise your Bowls with stickers that cover most letters of the alphabet. For example: "T" for Tony.
The letters Q, U, X and Z are not catered for.
Colours: Mid Green, Red, Sky Blue, White and Yellow.
Sold in strips of two stickers.
Please note:
* ONE strip is needed for TWO Bowls (50p)
* TWO strips are needed for FOUR Bowls (£1.00)
* THREE strips are needed for SIX Bowls (£1.50)
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A few months ago, a rumor said Dragons Call 2.0 was in development. The rumor is true! Compared with the upcoming new features, the first part of the DC 2.0 patch notes could be extremely boring.
The new features include: the new Vampire Class with the artworks unveiled - a sexy female vampire wiping her blood-dropping lips; the new dungeon map - demon city, reversing the ways in which Dragon's Call used to be played, breaking through with a brand new method. Alright now, let's read the first part of DC 2.0 patch notes.
Dragon's Call 2.0 Patch Notes, Part I –
1. Wage System
The wage system allows players to claim corresponding rewards with the use of points that are accumulated by completing relevant quests. Click the "Reward" -> "Wage" button in the upper navigation bar to enter the wage page.
2. Auto-sell System
The newest auto-sell system can help players automatically sell equipment (common equipment by default) that are obtained through killing monsters. Certainly, this system can be set.
3. Reset Character Stats
Level 40+ characters are able to reset their stats, including strength, stamina, intellect and agility. However, luck cannot be reset, it may be increased or reduced after other stats are reset. Some gold will be consumed every time when stats are reset and the number of gold is related to character level.
4. Improved Equipment
Extra stats will be added during the refining process.
Different stats will be added to different class equipment, such as strength to the equipment for warriors, agility to assassins, intellect to mages and stamina to the equipment fit for all classes, like rings and necklaces.
Corresponding extra stats will be deducted when the equipment is refined unsuccessfully and its level is reduced.
Players can drag the equipment that has been refined before the patch is released into the refining slots, and then click the "Restore" button to add extra stats to the equipment.
5. Optimized Gems and Warehouse
After the patch is updated, gems, dragonshards, soul stones, event items, buff potions can be piled in one slot, but the upper limit is 100. In this way, the warehouse space can be saved greatly.
Quickly draw gems from the warehouse through a shortcut button during the enhancement process.
When refining, purifying, combining and injecting soul to equipment, players can quickly purchase gems or take out gems from warehouse by clicking the relevant shortcut buttons.
6. Optimized Quiz Show
The rankings will be based on the time that players spend in answering questions instead of scores.
Please click here to enter the exclusive page for the new patch.
About EverDream Studio - (Dragons Call Gold)
EverDream Studio was founded in 2008 as a small independent studio and then expanded itself into a much bigger one in 2010. Now we become a globalized team with more than 80 people and concentrating on browser-based game development. What is more, a cutting-edge gaming platform is on our schedule and we intend to become a significant role in all the major gaming markets worldwide.


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Accessories & Furnishings
renovation resolution: "this year, i'll do it the eco way."
Accessories & Furnishings
renovation resolution: "this year, i'll do it the eco way."
Presenting some exciting products for your wall-to-wall eco overhaul!
CLD Pure Wallpaper
CLD PURE wallpaper (Carey Lind Designs, Crown Wallpaper) covers your walls with natural, non-PVC product. These stunning, subtle solids and loud patterns are printed using low-VOC water-based inks so you can breathe easy in your own home.
Price: $80--$100 per roll Available at: www.crownwallpaper.ca
Bamboo Wall Flat by Inhabit Living
For a touch of texture, try these bamboo wall flats by Inhabit Living. Made from 100% bamboo pulp with no chemical additives, these tiles are a wonderful way to make your walls pop! They`re also 100% biodegradable. Customize your look with placement (you can rotate, mix and match the tiles) or paint colour (eco-friendly paint, of course).
Price: $86US per box of 10 panels (each panel 18" x 18") Available at: www.re-modern.com
Milk Paints by Homestead House
Toronto-based Homestead House is all about natural products and cultural heritage -- we like! Great for indoor or outdoor use, these milk-based paints are made with natural ingredients and pigments boasting Canadiana names like Voyageur Red and Rideau Blue. They`re 100% biodegradable, durable, and only take about a ½-hour to dry! (We really like!)
Price: $37.00/1 lb Available at: http://homesteadhouse.ca


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Fitzjameshorse is back.
He retired from blogging some time ago but has reconsidered. In his usual style there has been no announcement or fanfare. Just wanted to let those of you with an interest in contemporary Jacobean politics know.
Fitzjameshorse, needless to say, drives me mad sometimes as I'm sure he does to the SDLP party in general. (And I'm no SDLP'er)
The British Labour party had their Anthony Wedgwood Benn, The Tories have Boris, Fianna Fail had their differences with Neil Blaney and as for the UUP…Well, that's a developing story.
I always thought that his contribution was worthwhile and his experience worth listening to. Perhaps his "retirement" was a fit of pique, I don't know but he is back.
If I may say something directly. " Please don't leave the field without good reason"


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On tonight's edition of WWE Raw, Sasha Banks defeated Alicia Fox in a singles match; however, while Sasha was being interviewed backstage by Charly Caruso, she was attacked by Alicia, though Sasha attempted to fight back.
During the confrontation, referee Darrick Moore stepped in and attempted to stop Alicia from assaulting Sasha, but Alicia shoved the referee to the floor. Two other referees then stepped in and moved Alicia back.
WWE's official Twitter page has just posted a storyline update that Alicia "has been fined an undisclosed amount of money" for shoving Moore backstage:
BREAKING: @AliciaFoxy has been fined an undisclosed amount of money for shoving referee Darrick Moore earlier tonight on #RAW.— WWE (@WWE) October 17, 2017


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Center To Target Tobacco Use by Youths
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Cancer Society announced last week that they will spend $30 million in the next five years to create a national organization devoted to fighting tobacco use by children.
The Washington-based National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, which is to be up and running in June, is intended to go toe to toe with the tobacco industry, countering its promotional messages and legislative efforts. Center officials will try to defeat through regulation many of the marketing strategies that they say attract children and teenagers to start smoking. The tobacco industry denies that it targets minors.
"The center is going to focus on changing the social environment and changing the policy environment," said William D. Novelli, the former president of the New York City public relations agency Porter/Novelli, who will be the president of the center.
The Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will provide at least $20 million over five years, and the cancer society, based in Atlanta, will kick in up to $10 million.
The Annie B. Casey Foundation, the Conrad Hilton Foundation, the Henry Ford Health System, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the American Heart Association, and the American Medical Association have also pledged to provide some financial support.
Lobbying Focus
The center will push for many of the same restrictions proposed last summer by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which published regulations that would try to curb teenage smoking by banning some advertising and sales practices. But officials said the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's interest in establishing such a center predates that plan.
As a private organization, the center can be more aggressive in its approach than the Clinton administration can be, Mr. Novelli argued.
The center will not support community-based smoking-prevention work. It will lobby at the state and federal levels, maintain a database of grassroots activists nationwide, and provide technical assistance and money to combat state-level legislative efforts by the tobacco industry.
The National PTA has signed on to work with the center, and Mr. Novelli said he expects other education groups to be involved.
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Snowy Mountains Flight Stunts
Tags: 3D Games / Aeroplane Games / Airplane Games / Plane Games / Unity Games
Publisher: Gamolition.com
Video Walkthrough
Becoming a great pilot takes amazing skills and many flight hours, so you better work really hard in this captivating game we have for you! Get now in your amazing plane and fly it over mountains in challenging situations in order to perform great stunts with your vehicle. Make sure you complete each mission within the given time limit, or else you will lose the game! Prove your skills in this very dynamic game and learn how to control an awesome plane by playing Snowy Mountains Flight Stunts. Good luck gamers!
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1 The Association shall hold an Annual General Meeting once a year and may hold workshops and meetings between General Meetings.
2 The agenda of each Annual General Meeting shall include:
2.1 Approval and confirmation of minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting.
2.3 The presentation of the accounts of the Association in respect of the preceding financial year.
2.4 The election of the National Executive Committee for a further three year when due.
3 Whenever appropriate and necessary the following items shall be included on the agenda of an Annual General Meeting:
3.1 The appointment of an auditor.
3.2 The approval of applications from groups of ordinary members wishing to be recognised as branches of the Association.
3.3 The consideration of nominations for honorary membership.
4 The secretary shall be responsible for taking proper minutes of the proceedings of the Annual General Meeting.
5 The Annual General Meeting shall be the supreme organ and policy-making body of the Association.
6 It shall pass and approve resolutions and decide on the date and venue of the next Annual General Meeting.


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Newborn babies and their families are being secretly moved in the dead of night to Christmas Island detention centre, which is considered unsuitable for young children by medical practitioners.
It is believed at least five two-month-old babies, their siblings and parents were given no notice as they were forced to leave Adelaide's Inverbrackie detention centre at 3am last week, without access to legal advice.
On Monday, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison refuted this, saying the families were notified "well in advance of the 20 minutes that advocates are suggesting", but would not say how much notice was given.
The sudden relocations come as Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced a $2.6 million educational package for school-age children in the island's detention centre, run by the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, suggesting the government is planning to increase the number of child detainees on the island.
Jacob Varghese, who is representing 26 Australian-born asylum-seeker babies, said the families were living in fear they would be ''shipped off''' to Christmas Island.
''There's a really heavy-handed and unnecessarily cruel approach taken to removing people, which is knocking on their door in the middle of the night and shipping them off,'' said Mr Varghese, the principal of Maurice Blackburn lawyers.
''Christmas Island is the worst place to put these people, because it's very remote and a long way from any first-class medical services,'' he said.
The new school arrangement on the island will provide full-time education from kindergarten to high school for the 56 children held in the centre, it was announced on Friday. But the government is expecting the centre will enroll ''up to 150'' children.
If a baby is born to asylum-seeker parents in detention, the infant is considered an ''unlawful maritime arrival'' by the government. But this could change following the decision of a test case in Brisbane, where lawyers are fighting to release Australian-born baby Ferouz from detention.
Ferouz was born in Brisbane on November 6 after his asylum-seeker mother was flown to hospital from the Nauru detention centre
Sarah Whyte is a political reporter in the Canberra bureau, covering immigration, customs and the High Court. Previously, Sarah was the consumer affairs reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Debt Management
Bills Piling Up?
Is your rent or mortgage looming? Food and gasoline prices increasing? Barely making it from paycheck to paycheck? Making adjustments given personal circumstances in an ever changing economy can be a challenge. Managing bills is not easy. Being in debt is not fun. In fact, it's one of the most salient stressors of modern life, and dealing with its elimination can be an anxiety-inducer in itself.
It's More Than Just Dollars and Cents
When a person is in debt and they are working with someone who is trying to help them get out of debt, it's important for them to know that the person they are working with understands their situation. We know what it is like to be where you are. We know what it's like to feel like you're drowning, to have bills in the mail that seem to come daily, to having credit cards maxed out and decline each time you try to use them. We know what it's like to only pay the minimum balance, knowing that the interest and potential penalty is more than what you just paid. We know what it's like be out of work and turn on the computer to see if anyone has responded to your resume today, to go on an interview with a gas tank on empty, wondering if and when rent will be paid this month. We understand how it feels to have your heart drop when you hear the telephone ring, knowing it's another bill collector harassing you or your spouse for payments that you can't make.
Being in debt is much, much more than a financial situation…It's also an emotional experience. And while we are by no means psychiatrists or therapists, we do understand what it feels like to be "that guy" or "that girl", and it's important for you as our potential client to know that we truly understand what you are feeling…and more importantly, that we know what to do to help you pull out of the situation successfully.


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Alma Söderberg just finished a tour with Entangled Phrases, and is working on her next show The Listeners, her first big scale creation and her first one as artist in residence at the Cullberg Ballet. The première is 24th of January at Norrlandsoperan, Umeå (Sweden), followed by shows in Malmö and Dresden.
Sarah Vanhee is currently working on a publication on Lecture for Every One, together with a new performance We Are Before. The first presentations will be in April (Stuk – Leuven, Teatergarasjen – Bergen, CAMPO&Vooruit- Gent). At the same time she is passing on Lecture for Every One to a new generation: as from January on, 15 teeenagers from Brussels will reassemble weekly, to create their own Lecture For Every One. This will be presented in May during KFDA. In the meantime Sarah is doing research for Bodies of Knowledge (BOK), a nomadic classroom, creating a space to exchange knowledge on things one usually does not learn, told by voices who are not always heard, from different parts of society and the world. BOK will reside in Brussels from September 2020 on. Sarah also keeps performing collected screams, undercurrents and Oblivion.
Juan Dominguez is as we speak touring in Mexico, and when he is back, he will shortly resume the rehearsals with Amalia Fernández on Between you and me. From February on Juan is in residency at Leal.lav La Laguna (Tenerife), and Teatros del Canal (Madrid). Between you and me will première in May at Teatros del Canal (Madrid). In the meantime, Juan is also preparing the second part of his trilogy that started with My Only Memory: it-MATTERS (working title), with residencies at Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Buda (Kortrijk) and Centro Conde Duque (Madrid). it-MATTERS will premiere in October.
Mette Edvardsen will be performing No Title at Pneu festival (Salzburg), Black at Moveble Types at Witte de With (Rotterdam), and oslo at Arter (Istanbul). The piece Penelope Sleeps, an opera made in collaboration with Matteo Fargion, will be presented at Carriageworks (Sydney) and Dance House (Melbourne), where she is also part of the jury of the Keir Choreographic Award. The recent publication Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine – A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books (eds. Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Victoria Pérez Royo and Runa Borch Skolseg) will be launched at Carriageworks (Sydney) and Reina Sofia (Madrid).


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Tips and Must-Haves for your eCommerce PlatformBlog Post: February 27, 2011
Great Post. As an ecommerce developer I have always tried to ensure that our ecommerce platform MantisShop is as search engine friendly as possible.
After reading this post, it was great to see that all the recommendations you put forward we have already implemented in our ecommerce solution. We have also found that this stuff works great.. we recently launched a website for a toy company and without even manually submitting the site to search engines or doing any manual SEO we noticed within about 2 weeks they started getting great rankings on their product and category names simply due to the fact that we have an automated XML sitemap, automated title and meta description tags for all pages, url rewriting and unique descriptive image file names.
SEO is such an important element of websites these days and by building in as much SEO functionality as we can into our website packages, we have been able to significantly help our clients attract relevant traffic when they launch rather that doing SEO as an 'afterthought' which many companies seem to do.
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Recent Shows
November 17th and 18th 2015 was the tenth Law Club Ethics Revue, again both nights at Lannie Garrett's Clocktower Cabaret. The edgy theme, 9.1 Shades of Gray, featured the character Ashley Madison as a novice attorney, drawn to unethical acts by the dark phantom-like partner of the law firm. A cappella, dancers, remarkable soloists, and even some acting … another wonderful annual Ethics Revue.
November 4th and 5th, 2014 was the 9th Law Club Ethics Revue, sponsored by the CBA CLE and Ethics Committee. Our two night, three hour show, directed by Melissa McClure, was attended by a hundred attorneys, judges, and guests who sang and cheered and clapped and were the perfect audience. Our songs were new and old, as was our cast and band and ethics panel.Billing Time Video (filmed by Greg Garner) and Rehearsal and
We took a break at 5 pm and then met in the Golf Club at 6 for our 100th annual dinner meeting; as usual a raucous event with jokes, speeches, stories, the transfer of what little power the officers have, and dinner roll flinging. We went long enough that the 8 pm final show started pretty late.
More Dinner PicturesThe final Centennial show, directed by David Lichtenstein and Melissa McClure, began back in the movie theater at about 8:30 pm, and reprised dancing, singing, and what passes for Law Club acting from the modern period, 2000 to 2014. The Law Club stalwarts stayed right there till about 10:30 when we wrapped it all up.
On April 9th, 2014 seventy-five to one hundred former, current, and future members of the historic Law Club joined together at the historic Denver Press Club on the night before the actual centennial day, in the first of many celebrations of the Law Club Centennial. This first celebration (wonderfully conceived and arranged by Marion Brewer and Greg Cairns) featured dinner and drinks, camaraderie, a show rehearsal, the traditional cheese cutting ceremony featuring cheese-cutting celebrities including Chuck Turner, Norm Early, Gary Abrams, and Valerie McNaughton among other Law Club stars, the magnificent Doug Tisdale as host of the Centennial Auction, and ending with often striking, usually loud, and sometimes talented karaoke provided by sometimes-music-director Cecil Pearson, that lasted well into the evening.
From The Downtown Denver Bicycle Parking Lot News:
Law Club Show Hits High Notes: Panel says "It's Not Unethical!"
By Ed. E. Toreal, special to the DDBPLN
The Law Club has done it again! The highly-professional cast of attorneys and judges as shown here in a pictures from last-night's performance of "Austin Powers: International Man of Ethics." Under the superb direction of Judge Diana Terry, the cast and musicians entertained crowds at Lannie's Cabaret for the 4th year in a row!
The audience cheered as the unethical antics of Dr. Evil, Mini-Me, and their henchpeople Number 2, the Client Communicating Cowboy, the Unethical Associate, and Managing Partner Frau Overlein, were foiled by Jamie Bond, Austin Powers, and The Law Club! Ethical experts Ray, Amy, Gregory and Alec kept their interesting and entertaining commentary moving. A veritable zoo showed up to dream of advertising under the new rules cooked up by panelist Alec Rothrock. Judge Ray Satter clarified that it is now OK for lawyers to represent marijuana dispensaries and to smoke pot. Except when it isn't.
The DDBPLN was delighted by the gorgeous harmonies and catchy tunes used by the cast of talented singers and dancers, although we missed our favorite sea shanties. Maybe the Club can bring back that all-copyright-free-show next year. And another thing: Our focus group complained that people kept singing while the lovely Melissa, Yosy, and Ann were dancing. Maybe the Club can do away with the distractions next time.
The musicians, many of whom seem to be judges (don't they have ethical canons about this kind of thing?) were first-rate, complementing the musicians in every possible way. Maybe that piano player should give up law and turn pro!
The show was well-done, very tight (as was much of the cast, we hear), and may be reprised at a theater or Inn of Court near you.
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We entertained at the 2013 judicial conference in Vail on September 10, 2013 for lunch. They are always a very perceptive audience.
… oh, and of course, they loved us.
On June 13, 2013 in the afternoon we entertained the alumni at the DU Law School in the commons with a shortened version of the 2012 Ethics Revue. There was no booze and so they were sober. They loved us anyway and took us to a bar. Brenda directed and Mark made Anne laugh.
On December 6, 2012 we presented to the Marsh Inn of Court at the University Club. Last minute line changes made it more interesting. Doug saved the day … again … yawn …
November 12th and 13th, 2012, was the seventh-ever incredible 2012 Ethics Revue; once again two nights at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret. The second night was standing room only and by the end of the show the whole crowd was standing. And applauding and shouting and screaming … The November 19th Law Week Colorado front page article (which was on page 3 that week) shouted "Ethics Revue Does Impossible" and goes on "Well, they did it again …"
DENVER, COLORADO. Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret was awash with laughter and learning last night as the Law Club and the CBA Ethics Committee brought their own special brand of edu-tainment to LoDo. A panel of distinguished panelists provided witty commentary about Ethical issues in between a story of litigation on the high seas. While one member of the panel droned on a bit too long at the beginning, the situation was corrected when he was kidnapped by pirates early in the program. *** [Excerpted and reprinted with permission from the Denver Bicycle Parking Lot News, November 16, 2011]***
Downtown Denver Bicycle Parking Lot News proclaims Pirates of the COBAR the Best Pirate-Themed Ethics CLE You Will See This Year!Not realizing that they had also been duped into boarding a pirate ship under false pretenses, the audience truly enjoyed stellar performances by the actors, singers and dancers, including a Mark Berry solo that left panelist Marcy Glenn "verklempt." (As a side note, between the costumes, an Al Gore striptease in Act II, and a certain song that is not in the program, the show has lost its "G" rating. Don't bring the kids.)
Ethics Revue Pirates of the Cobar Trailer from Colorado Bar Association CLE on Vimeo.Other Videos of the show …"We Gotta Get Out of this Case"
The Al Gore Striptease — Youtube
"Pirates of the Cobar Promo" — selected scenes at Vimeo
On Tuesday September 13, 2011, in Colorado Springs, the Club entertained the state judges at their Annual Conference with tales of judicial ethics. Another standing ovation, and a remarkable last-minute substitution by Judge Diana Terry.
At the show for the CWBA on June 11, 2011 at 3 pm in Vail the room was half-full at the beginning, but there was standing room only after the intermission. Even the bridge players came. An errant mouse threatened us all, but Director Doug crooned us back into place. Another standing ovation.
Shows 2010-2000
On November 18, 2010 we sang for 600 lawyers and judges; and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey, at the Marriott for the CJI Dinner; a smaller version of the Ethics Revue. Barb Laff directed.The Law Club's 2010 Ethics Revue with the CBA CLE and Ethics Committee took place at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret on the evenings of September 22 and 23, 2010. Three hours ethics
CLE. Barbara Laff directed. The next day reviews rave:
Video of Show
We visited with the judges and magistrates of the 18th Judicial District on September 14th at noon at the Douglas County Courthouse. The judges stood up for us this time. Getting the piano t
hrough courthouse security was interesting. Diana Terry directed.
We sang and danced for the national organization called National Conference of Chief Justices (NCCJ) and Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) on July 28th 2010 in Vail. It was originally July 27th but some Irish lady named Sandra Day O'Conner got our original gig. We got a standing ovation. Not sure if she did. Some of the Justices wanted us to come sing in their home states. We are still negotiating who pays the plane fare … Diana Terry directed.On May 19, 2010 we may have sung for the Colorado Access to Justice at. A high point may have been the short judges song, Taubman, Kapelke, Chief Judge Davidson. I have no idea who directed or if this was the show I'm thinking of.We sang and danced for various Inns of Court on 11/18/09 (Doyle) and 12/15/09 (Rhone Brackett and Arraj) at the University Club. Brenda Taylor directed.The show on October 22, 2009 in Colorado Springs was for the Wendlekin Inn of Court; a very appreciative audience of about 60. Still not the Broadmore … Barbara Laff was the director.We played September 3, 2009 at the University Club for the Thompson Marsh Inn. Brenda Taylor directed.
Ethics Review IV occurred twice on July 9, 2009, at the CBA classroom. The Indiana Jones Show. Not exactly the best venue ever. Definitely not the Marriott … Brenda Taylor directed. Great show. On June 5, 2009, we played for an ABA Bar Fellows at the University Club. Bigger stage. Brenda directed but was the same size.
On April 7, 2009, we played the University Club for two Inns of Court. Nobody went to the hospital. Brenda Taylor directed.
We were at the Botanic Gardens on 12/10/08 for the Metro Attorneys. Great room. Lots of oxygen. Brenda Taylor directed.
On 11/6/08 we sang for two blended Inns on a tiny stage at the University Club. It was … interesting. It will be remembered as The 2008 Fall Show … We got a standing ovation but it may have been merely because everybody survived … Brenda Taylor directed.
We sang on 9/23/08 in Breckenridge at the 2008 Judicial Conference. It was at lunch. T
he judges and magistrates were sober (as a judge) and they liked us anyway — a lot … Brenda Taylor directed.On May 3rd, 2008 in Vail we sang for the first time for the Colorado Women's Bar Association. The projector turned itself off during Pat Madsen's song. She had her song memorized fortunately and the rest of us had spare scripts. David Lichtenstein directed.
The Arraj Inn of Court was at the U. Club on April 22 for a Law Club Show. Or maybe it was the other way around. David Lichtenstein directed.
On April 12th 2008 we performed for the Gilpin County Historical Society … in Boulder County. The Stage Stop Inn; just over the border. David Lichtenstein directed.
Once again we created the Ethics Revue (number three, if anybody is keeping track) at the CBA offices on October 24, 2007 — two shows, the second with dinner. It wasn't the Hyatt grand, but … not bad, all in all. Assistant associate middle school teacher Barbara Laff directed.
On 9/18/07 we were in Vail at the 2007 Judicial Conference. This was our premiere performance for the state judges. We had no idea in 2007 that they would like us enough to bring us back again and again. The director was Ken Laff.
On Friday May 18, 2007 we entertained the Colorado DAs in Keystone. Ken Laff directed. He was still a Denver DA at that point and the Denver DAs still were part of the Colorado DA's association then.February 3rd 2007 was the 2007 Law Club Reunion at the Broadmoor. Directed by Ken Laff and Bob Kapelke.
December 2006 hosted not one but two Law Club shows, on December 7, 2006 for the Thompson Marsh Inn of Court at the University Club …
… and also on December 13th, 2006, at the Hyatt, the return of the CBA Ethics Review.
Four brave members, Diana and Brenda and David L. and Christine, with professional piano player Deb, performed at a Technology Lawyers meeting on 2/15/06 at the Governor's Mansion. It was technically perfect. The director was David Lichtenstein.We did a double at the Marriot Hotel on October 27th, 2005, for a matinee and dinner performance of the very first CBA Ethics Review, jointly with the CBA Ethics Committee. Director David Simmons.The very first Law Club ethics focused show was for the Inns of Court Summit Party at South Adams Street in Denver on August 25th, 2005. Director David SimmonsWe sang again on April 2, 2005 in Central City for The Gilpin County Historical Society. Director was David Simmons.Our last 2004 performance was the Muni Attorneys at the Oxford on 12/15/04 in the evening, for about 50 folks. It was wildly successful. That audience had been drinking. Director David SimmonsThursday, December 9th, 2004 we were at at the Greenwood Village Chamber of Commerce. It was Cecil's idea … Director David SimmonsWe sang on September 10, 2004 Isle of Capri's Flamingo Ballroom Blackhawk for the Gilpin County Historical Society. Director David SimmonsWe held a December 11th, 2003 show at the Greenbriar Inn outside of Boulder for the Municipal Lawyers. Tiny narrow room with the Law Club sprawled down the side. Director David Simmons.On 12/5/2003 we sang for the CBA-Worker's Comp section at Maggiano's for lunch. Craig Eley's French-accent solo was a hit. Director David SimmonsOn December 1, 2003 we sang for the CBA/CLE Appreciation Party at the CBA. Director David SimmonsOn January 10, 2003 we sang for the Colorado Bar Foundation. 320 folks in the audience. Director David Simmons.
We sang at the Fort for the Metro City Attorneys Association on December 11, 2002. Crammed in a corner again, but the food was good. Director David Simmons.
We sang on Friday October 25th, 2002, at 3:30 PM, at the University of Denver College of Law for the Colorado Bar Association Access to Justice Awards Reception. Director David SimmonsOn 12/12/2001 we bused up to the Sylvan Dale Ranch for the Metro City Attorneys. The sing-along on the bus was fun. Director Theresa Mehringer, musical director Ken Laff.We may have sung for the DBA Summer Intern Program – Student Training on 6/21/01 … maybe.On 11/8/00 we did a charity benefit for Opera Colorado at the Shwayder Theater. A real stage !! … and a reprise of Channel Surfin' USA. Director Diana Terry, producer Nina IwashkoWe performed a reprise on 9/27/00 for the Arraj Inn of Court at the Brown Palace … Director Diana Terry
The last two-hour show at a CBA Convention, Channel Surfin' USA, was September 9th, 2000, in Keystone, Colorado, directed by Diana Terry.


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"Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful. That's what I have a problem with. And I think most people agree with me."Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that."Captain Edward John Smith, RMS Titanic
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SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Stunned Into Apathy
The new record high of 5,000 Nasdaq, reminiscent of the last time we were here, at the height of the tech bubble, almost fifteen years ago, was short lived, at least for now.
There is certainly no reason why it could not go higher, even much higher, again. Their hypocrisy and shamelessness knows no bounds. Especially now after so many successful frauds with so little in consequences.
Rather, what surprises me is that they do it so recklessly, so wantonly, and relatively, for so little compared to the carnage and misery that they leave behind.
I still cannot quite get over Ben Bernanke's recommendation that the President be given special executive powers to declare a state of economic emergency, and to effectively suspend the rule of law. As if a financial crisis is an unexpected, tragic act of God. And not the consequence of reckless greed and the weakness of corruptible men who know what they are doing, and do it anyway.
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The Weird Sounds of Summer
Eerie new albums from Oneohtrix Point Never and SOPHIE
Published: August 7, 2018Words: Macon HoltArtist Link: www.pointnever.comArtist Link: msmsmsm.com/
June saw the release of two albums that, in very different ways, seem to offer some insight into the oddness of our world right now. It seems that it is becoming ever more difficult to decipher what information we should trust or even what is real. And, all the while at least in Denmark, we're living through a heat wave which has no business on these shores, and that suggests something real is happening. Something that is seemingly too terrifying to even attempt to understand. In this mess, art and music can be illuminating, just so long as it doesn't try to make things totally clear.
The most recent records from Oneohtrix Point Never and SOPHIE are such artworks. While reviews often come out at the point of release this has never been a convention that has made a lot of sense to me on any level other than logistics. For me, music needs to sink in a bit before I have any idea what I'm hearing or what it could mean. Having been living with these albums for the last couple of months, I think I may have started to make some kind of sense of them. And I think it's because of their uncanny fit with the strangeness that is all around.
Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
Oneohtrix Point Never is the solo project from super producer, Daniel Lopatin, who has worked with the likes of James Blake and ANOHNI. His latest offering, the enigmatically titled, Age Of, sees him take the frenetic collision of elegant textures and intense beat based electronics of his previous albums and push into a radically unexpected direction; that of new age spirituality run through an uncanny valley filter. A search for meaning in a world that seems to be functioning frightening well without it. A response to the terror of artificial intelligence and the desire for authentic stupidity. The use of sounds like harpsichords and plucked guitars produced clean enough to be identified but as if through frosted glass, harkens to some kind of humanist spiritual hunger that is at once undercut and paradoxically supported by the chaos of the distorted synths and samples. Lopatin's own vocals, which rarely featured on previous releases, carry a kind of unrecognizable anguish. Something that is at once very human but also unmistakably tangled up in something else.
The production is a master class in the manipulation of individual sonic elements. But more than that, the overall sonic world Lopatin has sculpted is that of a stunningly particular retro-futurism that is unsettlingly current. On "Toy 2", we find something like a Hans Zimmer film score from the 1980s being ripped from the Hollywood imaginary and placed into something all the more confusing and more real. A fantasy that grapples with its uncomfortable implications. The discomfort is all the more evident on the stand out track "Black Snow", which features lyrics ripped from the inhuman horrors of 90s cyber theory. When delivered by Lopatin's deadpan vocals, the textures of this track, like many of the others seem to be fighting so hard to drown out these proclamations of the machine world to come, but to no avail.
This a record of rabbit holes that will reward those curious enough to weather what it has to show you. Age Of ties a red thread between the technical realities of our lives, the parts of ourselves we like to imagine as somehow humanistically pure and the virtual images we use to keep these realms apart, and pulls on it, causing a collision we had hoped would never happen, but now that it has, its pretty damn exciting. The question is, is there another side to make it through to?
SOPHIE — Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Songwriter and producer Sophie Xeon, who performs under just SOPHIE, has been making work that breaks the convention of pop music, hard industrial dance music and personal identity for almost a decade. But with Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, her first LP of entirely original material, she has rewritten the rules of the game itself.
The album's opener "It's Ok To Cry" throws a curveball from the get-go. The track plays in that space opened up by the queer fandoms of artists like Madonna and Whitney Houston. Rather than just being an homage, however, what Xeon has done is delve into the avenues of potential that saturate this space. The subtleties of the production, the clarity of the breathy vocals, the unnerving lyrical sincerity, the fantastical words created by the different reverbs, all put this track beyond what it emulates. We are not hearing what's good about Whitney Huston, we are hearing how important she was to the formation of someone imagination. But it is with the next track, "Ponyboy", that SOPHIE follows this route into utterly uncharted territory. The aggressive incessant kick drum on the vocal hook—a pornified female vocal, as well as a parodical pitched down macho vocal—delivers a lyric of gossamer veiled fetishistic sexuality, which ruptures the sentimentality of what came before. And yet it still feels of a piece with the previous track's desire for connection. The track that follows, "Faceshopping", lays down the stakes of this apparent clash. All the fakeness, the uncertainty of reality, of identity is stuck in a constant recombination of commerce, personhood, appearance, and actuality. The super aggressive metallic synths force us to recognize something dehumanizing in our desires and makes us stay in that space of horrific self-knowledge, before letting up for a moment with a melismatic vocal interlude that once again channels Houston. A moment later, we tumble back or perhaps jump, into that chaos of complicated lust.
From here the rest of the record goes on to continue folding in these elements in different combinations, exploring the possibilities of different genre conventions but always pulling you towards a dance floor, where you might actually learn something about yourself. Though what you find there may not always being comforting, it will be something you know to be real. In a world saturated with shallow nihilistic irony, SOPHIE does not so much stand against it but show that she can play too and make so much more at the same time.
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Lasting Power Of Attorney - Use It Wisely
Andrew Morgan, 1 May 2019
It can be worrying to read stories about the UK's Office of Public Guardian causing issues that the LPA was designed to avoid, the author of this article argues.
This publication has examined controversies around the use/misuse of lasting powers of attorney from a number of angles. As populations age and issues such as cognitive decline become more salient, wealth managers must understand what is at stake and ensure clients are kept up to speed on legal and related changes.
Law firm Russell-Cooke examines the state of play, and provides us with this article from associate Andrew Morgan. He notes that recent data shows 50 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of investigations carried out by the Office of the Public Guardian.
This publication welcomes this contribution to debate and understanding; it does not necessarily agree with all views of those who send in comments, so please feel free to respond. Email the editor at email@example.com
Solicitors and the financial press consistently urge us to safeguard our assets should we lose the ability to manage them ourselves in the future, and many of us heed this advice.
It can therefore be galling to read stories about the Office of the Public Guardian causing precisely the difficulties the LPA was intended to avoid.
The OPG carried out 1,886 investigations last year (a quarter of which went to Court), an increase of 50 per cent from the previous year. Some 3,359 complaints were not accepted for investigation. There are a number of reasons why this might be:
1, Demographics: the UK's population is becoming increasingly elderly. The first half of 2017 witnessed 322,573 registrations of powers of attorney (an increase of nearly 20 per cent relative to the previous year);
2, LPA donors may have amassed substantial assets over their lifetime, particularly with property in the South East;
3, Family members may dispute how assets are used and characterise a decision with which they disagree as misuse of funds; and
4, The UK's family structures are becoming more and more diverse. It is not uncommon for children to be appointed as attorneys to look after an elderly parent who has remarried. The relationship between the wider family will largely govern whether a mild disagreement can be resolved amicably or snowball into a complaint to the OPG.
However, it is also important to see the OPG's role in context. Some 1,886 investigations is a tiny percentage of the 3 million registered powers, and when one considers the flip side of the coin, the OPG is clearly doing a vital (if thankless) job.
Attorneys must only use the donor's assets in the donor of the LPA's best interests; however the attorney entrusted with those assets is placed in a position of great trust and power, with substantial responsibility. There is ample opportunity to stray from those responsibilities through misunderstanding or wilful default.
It can be very difficult for a donor to protect themselves from financial abuse, as they will most likely have lost their capacity and awareness of it happening. As a check against this, one of the functions of the Office of the Public Guardian is to supervise, and investigate complaints made against, attorneys (and deputies appointed by the Court of Protection).
Doubtless, an attorney faced with a complaint will find the process frustrating and expensive, (particularly if faced with legal proceedings).
Steps can be taken, however, to avoid complaints being made; prevention is more effective (and cheaper) than cure.
Whether a complaint has been made, or the OPG is undertaking a spot check, existing effective financial management is the attorney's best protection. With that in mind, they should:
-- Familiarise themselves with their duties, responsibilities and specific powers;
-- Keep their own finances and those of the donor separate, and
-- Prepare, update and retain accounts of the donor's finances.
For the donor, they should consider the terms of their lasting power of attorney, for example, the scope of the attorney's powers and identity of the attorney. The appointment of a trusted friend or family member can reduce, but never eliminate, the potential for future problems. If the family dynamic is problematic, a professional attorney may be the answer. Whilst the cost may limit this to those with larger assets, it can prove to be money well spent.
And if a complaint is made, it is better to see this as a sensible check and balance, than to contemplate the financial abuse which might occur if such complaints were not made.


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What does it take to separate from the crowd? How about a program that will allow even a buyer with only 3.5% down payment to purchase a home in need of repair. These homes will scare away most home buyers who either do not have the vision or do not want to take the time or deal with the expense in fixing up a home. The FHA 203K Streamline program will allow a home buyer to include up to $35,000 in improvement costs into the FHA purchase loan. One loan is used for the purchase and the cost to rehab the home. While this program is available to all FHA approved lenders, not all lenders want to deal with the extra work that goes into this loan program. But there are local lenders who do have experience closing Orange County FHA 203K Streamlines.
The buyer does not need to be a First Time buyer and there are no income limits. The property can be a single family home, or have as many as 4 units. The buyer does need move into the property since this loan is not available to investors.
FHA 203K Streamline is Available for Orange County FHA Approved Condo's
The condo must be within an FHA approved project. To check whether a condo is FHA approved, go to the HUD website. Rehab of a condo is limited to the interior of the unit. Also, only 25% of the total units can be undergoing rehab at any one time. The maximum mortgage amount amount cannot be more than 100% of the after approved value. (FHA allows 110% of value on non-condo loans.)
It will take a little longer to close a 203K loan. Once the escrow begins, it will take approximately 60 days to close escrow, provided the buyer moves quickly and works with a contractor who is experienced with the 203K loan product. Most delays in closing with the 203K loan have to do with borrower indecision when it comes to choosing a contractor and then staying within the predetermined budget. This is why it is important to work with 203K experienced lenders and contractors.
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- Decks, patios, porches
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- Major remodeling
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- Room additions or add-ons to the home
- Fixing structural damage
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For 2011 the FHA loan limit for Orange County is $729,750. The limit is the same for the 203K Streamline program. This means the max loan amount before adding the cost of improvements, assuming the borrower is going for the max of $35,000 in improvements, would be $694,750. With $35,000 added to the loan for improvement, the total loan amount would be at the Orange County limit of $729,750. *2013 limit is still $729,750
This is a great program for the right home buyer and the right property. The first step is to get prequalified and then PreApproved for an FHA loan. The PreApproval process for a FHA 203K loan is no different than for a normal FHA loan (FHA 203B).
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What is with the chewing up of resources? I have FF 57 with 1 tab on the WashingtonPost and I am using 7GB of memory. Yesterday I had an instance using 13GB+ with 4 tabs open. New NoScript is the only Add-on. This is a new clean install of Win 10 and FF 57. Closing tabs does not release. CPU spike also. Had this same issue on another laptop with the Developer version. That DID crash on me. If open the same set of tabs in Chrome, Edge or Vivaldi the memory usage is a fraction. What gives.
I have a hard time believing you were using 7 GB of RAM with one tab open. Are you sure you read it right? How much RAM do you have available?
See if your usage drops to what you would consider "normal" or "in line with expectations" after turning off hardware acceleration.
Tools -> Options -> General, Performance. Turn off the checkbox for "Use recommended performance settings" and then turn off the checkbox that appears for "Use hardware acceleration when available". Close and restart Firefox. Some people claim they have needed to restart their computer to make the change become effective. Monitor your RAM usage and see how it compares. If it continues to perform poorly, try changing the content process limit to a lower number.
What kind of computer are we dealing with here? Specs for CPU, RAM, video card, etc. How old is it?
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Yes I read it correct. I can replicate it. I will post up screen shots a little later. This is newer Lenovo T -series laptop that I use for development. i5, 16GB RAM, 1GB discrete video, SSD drive. I just reloaded Windows 10 1709 clean and the FF 57 was clean. Yes, I have disabled hardware acceleration for FF and running in safe mode has the same issue. The memory will creep up and CPU usage will be very active often in the 50-70% range. Last night I killed the FF process and it was using 13GB +. As I noted on my other machine i was I had similar issue with the Dev beta version on FF before 57 was released. Since I use it for dev work I keep the cache flushed cookies dumped.
What AV do you have? (if any)
What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
"Terry Pratchett"
Are you using Containers?
NoScript 10 has had reports of high or spiking CPU usage (though I'm not really following, so don't know if its something actually attributable to NoScript?).
Thinking you've got to set up a new, clean test Profile - no extensions, visit your pages & see what gives.
(Heh, I've never even seen 13 GB, but would think it would be performing quite awfully.)
I happen to be on a Win10 machine myself, OMG don't even get me started on that, & I am seeing totally unexplained behaviors, SLOW actions; keyboard movement, program loads & operations, taskbar tray opening... Part of that may have to do with, some gawd awful 4.4 GB of who knows what that turned up in some $WINDOWS.~BT directory, & I think another copy of same that is in System Volume Information. And the worst part is whatever is going on seems to be exacerbated by one of the greatest programs ever, Everything. (And that really sucks cause Everything is great at finding files, big files, recently mod'd files... & with it I could tell you in a second where & what exactly the other copies of what I mention earlier are. But as it is...)
Fire 750, bring back 250.
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All day long, as I stand behind my cash register, I ask people "What's been a highlight of your day?" If they act all stumped and say "Gee, the highlight of my day…?", I try to lower the bar: "not the highlight – a highlight, any little thing that made you smile". Frequently they turn the question around and ask me. Because I'm spending the day the way I am, my answers will frequently feature some of these very encounters with customers. Here are some of my highlights from Wednesday, January 28.
10 a.m. – arrive at work. I've been depressed for 12 days. My depressive cycles have been lasting, pretty consistently, 13-14 days – so I'm not expecting a change.
- Five year old Shona arrives with his mom Mary and little sister Izzy. He has had a crush on me for months, but lately he has been preoccupied with my 20-something rock musician wild man coworker Rowdy – who is really a very fun, charismatic young guy. This morning Shona prevails on his mom to go to Rowdy's line, which provokes lots of tears from Izzy, who wants me. I feel honestly a little hurt to lose his loyalty, but am completely charmed by his parting line to the two of us: "Rowdy and Majo – think about me!" Totally precious.
- Andy and Debbie – a delightful 50ish couple who have total loyalty to my line and are avid readers of the blog, talk with me about what they have been reading. They have been finding situations in their lives to use the line, "Sometimes it just fits" – which I had ten years ago used on the apoplectic gas station customer who fumed at me "How dare you call me a bitch?!" ("My favorite firing", January 15). It feels great to know that people are reading and enjoying the blog, but to hear that something in the blog is affecting them in some other part of their lives – or in any way spilling over from the moments of reading – that really rocks.
- This 65ish woman asks me where we keep our reusable bags. Her irritated rough-mannered husband says, "We've got about 40 bags." "But they wear out, and we don't have any with us." As she goes off to claim a bag or two, he – totally disgusted – says, "Aah, brother, more bags." I make the mistake of getting in the middle of the argument: "I've got bags for all the stores I regularly shop. We love it when someone would rather buy a reusable bag than use a paper bag." "Aww, geez." The whole thing was actually pretty funny and really tickled me.
- My friend Jenn comes in: an adorable late-30's mom who I have known from Jubilee for about seven years and am crazy about, as are so many people who know her. She is smart, feisty, strong, funny, affectionate, a fabulous friend and a world-class mom. Maybe the most painful part of being depressed is the way my heart gets closed. Contact with Jen routinely opens my heart and this instance is no exception. She has gone through another line, thinking I wasn't there (I had been on break) and needs to keep moving to get back to work, but we have a sweet hug and exchange a few words before she heads for the door. This brief encounter kind of takes my breath away from how open my heart feels.
All of these encounters happened in my first two hours of work. Looking back, it seemed clear that my depression was already lifting before Jenn came through – but then seeing her kind of broke its back. You just can't feel this kind of love and be depressed at the same time.
Was my biochemistry shifting in ways that allowed me to be moved by these exchanges? Or were these lovely encounters overcoming the depressive biochemistry? I'll share more about this and more charmed encounters from this one amazing day in my next post.


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Demonstration of a woman's virginity on the wedding night remains crucial to the whole family's honour. FGM is considered as a way of ensuring this. The symbolic "opening" of a woman by her husband is in some cultures considered a vital part of consummating the marriage
"An educated man back home in Sudan brought his wife to the doctor because she did not bleed on the wedding night… The doctor tried to explain that there are different types of hymens, some do not bleed, that she was a virgin, but even so the man divorced her"


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NORTH SAANICH — Peninsula Panthers' Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Brad Tippett and General Manager Pete Zubersky are a busy pair as the Dec. 1 Junior hockey trading deadline rapidly approaches.
The club has been playing much better hockey as of late and Tippett and Zubersky feel a tweak here or there could make a huge difference in the direction of the team over the last half of the regular season and into the playoffs.
"We have really been playing much better over the last five or six games," explained Zubersky. "We have won only a few games over that span however, we feel that with a move or two we would be a much different club. Brad has some contacts in Regina and we have also been talking to some clubs in our league and we are close to making something happen."
Junior B teams go down to 25 roster spots at midnight on Dec. 1.
Teams are then forced to go to a maximum of 23 players by midnight on Jan. 10 and although that date is important, it is only the first step in setting the lineup.
"We would like to make a move or two if possible before Thursday night (Dec. 1) and that would still leave us some wiggle room over the next six weeks," said Zubersky. "The other clubs are feeling pressure to get something done before the deadline and I believe you will see some movement in the rosters right across our league.
"We have been through it many times and quite often it comes down to the final hour on Dec. 1 for deals to be completed."
The Club lost, 4-1, Friday night (Nov. 25) against the Campbell River Storm and were dumped 6-4 by the Kerry Park Islanders on Saturday night. The Panthers outshot both opponents and Zubersky said deserved to come out of the weekend with two or three points after two solid efforts.
They will be back in action on Friday night when they travel to Saanich to take on the Braves and will then return home for their only Saturday night game of the season, the back end of a home-and-home with the Braves.
The puck drops on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.


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Death toll rises to 12 in Israel's Gaza tunnel strike: Islamic Jihad
A Palestinian militant group announced Friday another five fighters had been killed when Israel blew up a tunnel from the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of dead to 12.
Published: 03rd November 2017 02:51 PM | Last Updated: 03rd November 2017 03:36 PM | A+A A-
GAZA CITY: A Palestinian militant group announced Friday another five fighters had been killed when Israel blew up a tunnel from the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of dead to 12.
Islamic Jihad said five more men trapped in the tunnel were dead, naming them. Israel had on Monday carried out a "controlled" explosion on the tunnel crossing the border.
"We announce the death of five new heroes of the Jerusalem Brigades in Zionist bombing," Islamic Jihad said in a statement, referring to its military wing.
Two of the 12 dead belonged to the militant wing of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, with the other 10 from Islamic Jihad.
Since Monday's explosion, Israel has refused to allow the Palestinian Civil Defence Authority access to the site to search for survivors.
The International Committee of the Red Cross had asked Israel to enable searches in the tunnel, according to a statement Thursday from COGAT, the defence ministry unit which liaises with the Palestinian territories.
COGAT commander Yoav Mordechai told the head of ICRC in Israel that the Israeli authorities would "not enable searches in the security perimeter in the Gaza Strip, without progress on the issue of the Israeli captives and missing soldiers."
Tunnels dug by Hamas were a key issue in the last war with Israel in 2014, but discoveries of those stretching into the Jewish state have since been rare.
The two have fought three wars since 2008, while the Jewish state maintains a crippling blockade of Gaza which it says is necessary to constrain Hamas.


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Have you noticed your air conditioner making loud noises, possibly waking you up throughout the night, or making strange noises in general? If you have, there are a few things to consider; older air conditioning systems will be louder because they do not have the sound dampening technology that some of the newer systems have. So if its generally louder but isn't making strange noise then you may want to talk to your certified HVAC contractor about options to help control the volume of your air conditioner. If, however, you hear rattling, popping, hissing, grinding, or any high pitched screech coming from your air conditioner then take the following steps.
Turn off power to your Air conditioner.
Letting the air conditioner run with any of these noises means that you could cause major mechanical issues. The noise itself means that there could be a breakdown or broken part already, cutting power will reduce the likelihood that other parts of your system will be affected.
Call a Certified HVAC Contractor.
Once you have turned off all power to your air conditioner, call your local certified air conditioning contractor to have a technician come and diagnose the issue causing the loud noise. In most cases the technician will not be able to repair your system in one visit if there is a mechanical issue. Once the source of the problem is found the technician will have to order replacement parts and then return to install them. However, if the loud noises coming from your air conditioner are not mechanical, the technician should be able to clean out any debris or obstructions that may be causing the problem.
Check Your Air Filter.
An easy step that you can do right away is check your air filter. A clogged air filter can cause your air conditioning system to go into overdrive and work very hard to get air into your home. This can cause your air conditioning system to operate loudly and even cause major breakdowns. Checking your air filter regularly helps prevent this issue.
Still need help? Call your local certified HVAC technician.