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UKIP want a referendum this year but the conservatives are persistent they want to hold on until 2017. New steering groups have been set up to direct this movement with 'in' and 'out' groups vying for support. Open Europe have stated that if the UK leave the Eurozone there are 2 potential stances they can adopt, Protectionism or Liberalism, the result creating a fall in GDP of 2.2% or a rise in 1.6% respectively by 2030. Protectionism would mean the departure from free trade and would encourage the growth of domestic industries- potentially verging towards a more labour than tori approach, whereas the complete opposite is encouraged with liberalism. With the conservatives in office until 2020 and the EU referendum 2017 the initial response could see focus on new trade links and encouragement of continued high levels of FDI.
Much of the investment into the UK from the likes of China, the US and India has been in part explained to the fact that UK is a gateway into Europe and an exit would close this gateway, with the taxes and duties advantage no longer present. Uncertainty is something business' do not look favorably at and in the lead up to the referendum decision, Investment may be postponed or diverted. In the longer term, UK MNC's may move production elsewhere as the competitive advantage from free trade between countries would no longer exist. Moving from the UK into the Eurozone would allow for savings in financial accounting and compliance and when combined with lower operating costs and taxes could be enough to sway the MNC's to vacate.
Out (Brexit)
On the other side of the table are those who believe that now is the correct time for Brexit to take place. Some believe that the fear of a substantial decrease in trade between the UK and Europe is hugely over exaggerated as the benefits to trade of being in the EU from a cost perspective, are miniscule (custom duty is 1.76%). Britain is strong enough to survive outside the EU and can easily follow in the footsteps of the likes of Norway and Switzerland who have successfully moved away from the Eurozone and continued to trade strongly with them and the rest of the world. Many fear that FDI will decrease but in a recent survey by Ernst and Young it was shown that the top 3 reasons for investing into the UK was UK culture and values, English language and telecommunications infrastructure, no mention of Eurozone membership. EU membership costs the UK billions of pounds in lost jobs as a consequence of excessive regulation, red tape and significant membership and aid contributions.
Conclusion: So What does Brexit mean for UK
The 2 steering groups are in the forefront of the press at the moment. Both have substantial business experience with their highly reputable members who will be doing all they can to sway the views of the British public when they come to vote in 2017. The fallout of Greece, should it occur, would be a big contributor should home citizens feel the effect, but for now it remains down to the steering groups and there success in campaigning.


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Refer to the exhibit. The output that is shown is generated at a switch. Which three of these statements are true? (Choose three.)
A. All ports will be in a state of discarding, learning or forwarding.
B. Thirty VLANs have been configured on this switch.
C. The bridge priority is lower than the default value for spanning tree.
D. All interfaces that are shown are on shared media.
E. All designated ports are in a forwarding state.
F. The switch must be the root bridge for all VLANs on this switch.
Correct Answer: ACE
Refer to the exhibit. Give this output for Switch3, what should the network administrator's next action be?
A. Check the trunk encapsulation mode for Switch3's fa0/1 port.
B. Check the duplex mode for Switch3's fa0/1 port.
C. Check the duplex mode for Switch1's fa0/2 port.
D. Check the trunk encapsulation mode for Switch1's fa0/2 port.
Correct Answer: C
Refer to the exhibit. Which of these statements correctly describes the state of the switch once the boot process has been completed?
A. As FastEthernet0/12 will be the last to come up, it will not be blocked by STP.
B. Remote access management of this switch will not be possible without configuration change.
C. More VLANs will need to be created for this switch.
D. The switch will need a different IOS code in order to support VLANs and STP.
Correct Answer: B
Refer to the exhibit. Three Cisco 2950 switches are set to their default priority settings. During the spanning-tree process, which switch will be elected as the root bridge?
A. Switch3
B. Switch4
C. Switch2
D. Switch1
Correct Answer: D
Which two commands can be used to verify a trunk link configuration status on a Cisco switch? (Choose two)
A. show interfaces trunk
B. show interfaces switchport
C. show ip interface brief
D. show interfaces vlan
Correct Answer: AB
Which three statements accurately describe layer 2 Ethernet switches? (Choose three)
A. Microsegmentation decreases the number of collisions on the network.
B. if a switch receives a frame for an unknown destination, it uses ARP to resolve the address.
C. Spanning Tree Protocol allows switches to automatically share vlan information.
D. In a properly functioning network with redundant switched paths, each switched segment will contain one root bridge with all its ports in the forwarding state. All other switches in that broadcast domain will have only one root port.
E. Establishing vlans increases the number of broadcast domains.
F. Switches that are configured with vlans make forwarding decisions based on both layer 2 and layer 3 address information.
Correct Answer: ADE
Which two of these are characteristics of the 802.1Q protocol? (Choose two)
A. it is a layer 2 messaging protocol which maintains vlan configurations across network.
B. it includes an 8-bit field which specifies the priority of a frame.
C. it is used exclusively for tagging vlan frames and dose not address network reconvergence following switched network topology changes.
D. it modifies the 802.3 frame header, and thus requires that the FCS be recomputed.
E. it is a trunking protocol capable of carrying untagged frames.
Correct Answer: DE
Which term describes a spanning-tree network that has all switch ports in either the blocking or forwarding state?
A. redundant
B. spanned
C. provisioned
D. converged
Correct Answer: D
Assuming the default switch configuration which vlan range can be added modified and removed on a cisco switch?
A. 2 through 1001
B. 1 through 1001
C. 1 through 1002
D. 2 through 1005
Correct Answer: A
A network administrator needs to configure port security on a switch.which two statements are true? (Choose two)
A. The network administrator can apply port security to dynamic access ports
B. The network administrator can configure static secure or sticky secure mac addresses in the voice vlan.
C. The sticky learning feature allows the addition of dynamically learned addresses to the running configuration.
D. The network administrator can apply port security to EtherChannels.
E. When dynamic mac address learning is enabled on an interface,the switch can learn new addresses,up to the maximum defined.
Correct Answer: CE
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Richard Stallman wrote: How about making them use help-follow-symbol instead of help-follow? Wouldn't that make them work right? mouse-2 and RET _are_ working right in these buffers. That is not the problem. The problem is that the introductory text says to use `M-x help-follow', whereas it should be saying to use RET. The problem is that the "\\[help-follow]" in the docs is not working right, probably because of the use of `minor-mode-overriding-map-alist'. That is why I suggested to simply hardcode RET in the docstring and that is what my two last patches do. I do not understand this proposal at all. help-follow now does exactly the right thing for help buffers: it has a useful doc string but it always gets an error. I don't see why we should change that. If some other mode wants a different command, make a different command for it. I was not concerned with some other mode wanting a different command. I was concerned with a user wanting to bind help-follow to a different key than RET. With the current code, this will not work. After my latest patch to help-mode.el it would work. But maybe this is not important enough to worry about. Anyway, if the user quite simply can not rebind help-follow to anything but RET, then there definitely would be no problem with hardcoding RET in the two docs I was talking about. Sincerely, Luc.
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Just as humans need to keep moving and stay active to fully enjoy their senior years, so do older dogs and cats. The aging process brings with it loss of muscle tone and balance, which can lead to inactivity.
Inactivity leads to weight gain and added stress on joints that are no longer well supported by adequate muscle mass.
It's a vicious cycle.
But like human senior citizens, older pets can benefit tremendously from anti-aging activities, including:
• Exercises specifically designed to maintain strength, flexibility and balance
• Short, frequent walks to maintain heart health
• Massage to relieve sore muscles and joints and other aches and pains
Some of these activities require the expertise or guidance of an animal physical therapist, but certainly willing pet owners can take their companions out for several short walks each day to promote cardiovascular fitness.
You can also learn how to do massage on your pet from your vet, most animal physical therapists, or a professional small animal massage practitioner.
Exercises That Help Senior Pets Stay Nimble
There are three specific types of exercises that help aging bodies, including:
• Passive range-of-motion (PROM) exercises
• Exercises that maintain balance and fluid movement
• Exercises that target the big, body-supporting muscles like the hamstrings and gluteals
Passive range-of-motion exercises can benefit both incapacitated and physically healthy pets.
PROM exercises are performed on a pet who is lying down on her side in a comfortable position. Limbs are gently flexed and extended one at a time. Each position is held for about 10 seconds.
It's important to keep the leg's position parallel to the body wall to avoid torque on the joints. It's also important not to hyperextend the wrists or ankles.
Passive range-of-motion exercises include:
• Forelimb flexion
• Shoulder and elbow extension
• Shoulder flexion + elbow extension
• Shoulder abduction
• Hind limb flexion
• Hip flexion + stifle extension
• Hip and stifle extension
• Hip abduction
Balance and proprioception (spatial orientation and movement) exercises include use of "cookie reaches," which are exercises that help older pets remain flexible while also encouraging improved balance and physical stability.
The cookie reach exercise starts with a dog in a standing position. The goal is to have the dog reach for the cookie without taking any steps. The cookie is offered from various angles to encourage stretching in different directions.
The dog is rewarded with the treat when he achieves the desired position. The exercise can be made more challenging by requiring the dog to hold the position for 10 to 30 seconds.
Cookie reach exercises include spinal extension, spinal dorsiflexion, lateral spinal flexion, and lateral spinal flexion with rotation.
Another exercise to improve balance, strength and flexibility involves either walking or high-stepping a pet over Cavaletti poles.
Targeted strengthening exercises in older pets are designed to work the big muscle groups that help with standing, walking and running.
The side-stepping exercise strengthens the glutes and lateral thigh muscles. Stand facing your dog's side, with one hand on her collar and one hand on the opposite hip.
Step into your pet until she steps to the side with a lateral move, but no forward motion.
You can start with 3 to 5 steps and work up to 10 to 15 steps in each direction.
Other large-muscle strengthening exercises include walking up a hill or stairs, and sit-to-stand.
The Benefits of Massage for Older Pets
When many people think of massage, they imagine lying on their stomach on a not-too-comfy massage table while a professional masseur or masseuse stands over them and aggressively works out the kinks in their back and neck.
Pet massage, especially for older furry friends, is a different animal (pun intended). As you can see from this short video, the technique for dogs is one of slow, gentle strokes and stretches, combined with light, rhythmic tapping.
Massage techniques for cats are highly dependent on what an individual kitty will put up with. If your cat enjoys being petted and is used to having his tail, paws, and head touched, he's probably a good candidate for massage. If your kitty doesn't enjoy being handled, it's likely massage won't be a healing or comforting experience for him.
Regular massage can help keep your senior pet's muscles toned and reduce the slackening that comes with aging. Massaged muscles are looser, which makes it much easier for your pet to move around comfortably.
Massages improve circulation and encourage lymphatic drainage. Regular massage also eases the stiffness of arthritis, which can help your pet maintain his normal gait and active lifestyle.
Massage loosens the muscles around joints, which also helps promote ease of movement.
Dr. Karen Becker is a proactive and integrative wellness veterinarian. You can visit her site at: MercolaHealthyPets.com.
Her goal is to help you create wellness in order to prevent illness in the lives of your pets. This proactive approach seeks to save you and your pet from unnecessary stress and suffering by identifying and removing health obstacles even before disease occurs. Unfortunately, most veterinarians in the United States are trained to be reactive. They wait for symptoms to occur, and often treat those symptoms without addressing the root cause.
By reading Dr. Becker's information, you'll learn how to make impactful, consistent lifestyle choices to improve your pet's quality of life.
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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has won a plethora of trophies in his two-decade career in the Hindi film industry, but the awards still leave him excited as ever. The actor won two awards – Entertainer Of The Year and Best Romantic On-Screen Couple along with co-star Katrina Kaif – for his film Jab Tak Hai Jaan, at the Big Star Entertainment Awards held here Sunday night.
"Jab Tak Hai Jaan will always be a special film for me. I will always be thankful to Yash-ji. I get really excited with awards. No matter how many I have got, they have the same affect on me, like they did when I was new in the industry. I almost become like a kid in the candy store," said Shah Rukh.
Shah Rukh and Katrina were also named the Best Romantic On-Screen Couple for the same film. "This was the first time I worked with her and see what happened! Katrina is a very hardworking girl and it was a pleasure working with her. And as far as romance is concerned, I am the best one here," quipped Shah Rukh.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan was Yash Chopra's last directorial venture, before he passed away on Oct 21.


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Remember the Lapdock? If not, join the club.
Motorola is issuing a kill order on its smartphone dock accessory, which never managed to gain traction among consumers.
Introduced at the CES expo in 2011, the Lapdock's Webtop software allowed owners of a limited number of compatible Motorola phones to interact with their devices from the comfort of a desktop-like interface. It was a novel, potentially amazing idea that was hindered by an absurd price point and buggy software.
"While consumers around the world have adopted Webtop and the concept spurred a lot of innovation in the industry, the adoption has not been strong enough to justify continued resources being allocated to developing Webtop on future devices," Motorola said in a statement.
While the Lapdock is nearing the end of its life, it's becoming increasingly clear that Motorola was onto something with the device. The rise of convertible tablets and laptops means modular is officially in vogue right now, so it's too bad Motorola is closing down its Lapdock shop so soon.
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Hello Friends!
Time for a monthly update again! So sorry it's a bit late. April has been the most satisfying month so far this year. I am getting much better at breaking my annual goals down into good monthly/weekly/daily goals. Here's a look at the progress for this month.
Monthly Goals
- Gift Red Sea Road – done! I decided who I would send a copy to, and did it. I can think of a few more people who might enjoy it. Maybe I'll send some more copies next month?
- Read Humble Roots – I'm maybe a third of the way into this book. It is so good, ya'll. And dare I say it – humbling! I'm redefining what pride is, what humility is, and what that looks like in my life. The root of basically all sin and false humility is pride – even ways we don't recognize it, like low self-worth. I feel that this is a must-read for any Christian.
- Finish Fierce Women – I didn't finish it but that is okay. I lost the book for over a week. As a result, I'm behind but that's okay because I don't want to rush it. Internalizing how to affirm, respect, and encourage my gentle man is worth missing this goal.
- Put up House Prayers – Inspired by this post by Val Marie, I wanted to get at least some index cards taped up in different rooms to remind me to pray for various things and people related to that room. This did not happen until the very end of the month.
- Set up a vet appointment – this is an example of one of those big to-do's that I put off unless it is obviously visible and so found its way onto the PowerSheets. Not directly related to any of my annual goals. Henry the dog is all set for another year.
- Car tires/oil change/tail light – This is another of those to-do's. The tires did get changed halfway through the month. We put this off way too long, but hooray for safe tires now! The oil change didn't get done.
- Buy a wedding gift – Another to-do. Done and shipped in time for the happy bride and groom!
- Movie Night w/friend – so we did not get around to this. We both had crazy schedules and toddlers and this month just was not the month. Want to be very intentional about getting this done next month.
- Taxes – get them done! And yes, they were filed in time! Next year I do not want to put this off as long as I did. Can you see a theme here? Putting things off, avoiding hard things. I want to change this about me in the coming months, one step at a time.
Weekly Goals
- Truth journal – I did not need to do this like I thought I would. I did get lots of journaling in (see my daily goals) which was wonderful. I think that this could be a monthly goal on an "as-needed" basis. If you didn't read my April goals post or don't know what this is, you can read about it in detail here. Basically it's a great way to battle depression or anxiety by writing down the lies that you are telling yourself, and then writing out the truth of Scripture and reality in order to combat them and cement them in your heart and mind.
- $75 grocery budget – every week was not at $75, but because of this goal I was able to stick to the overall monthly budget of $300! We even came in $5 under budget, for the first time ever!
- Check-in with a friend – a simple reminder to be more intentional about reaching out to my far-away friends. I've done it every week and I love being more connected with them. But more than that, it's been great being able to encourage them and to know what is going on in their lives so that I can pray for them.
- Meal Plan – successfully done every week. It was tight some weeks, but I managed to use up a lot of what we had here in the house, plan meals that didn't require as much standing for me, and that lasted over several days. I squashed my inner wanna-be gourmet chef for the second half of the month. That majorly helped us to stay in budget.
- Write out the next week's blog post – Got that done starting about week 3 this month. I also set up an editorial calendar which I'd been putting off for ages because I thought it was complicated. Turns out it is really as simple as adding a recurring event to your Google Calendar. More details here. I now have posts planned out through October/November. I want to have all of July/August/September written (with a few exceptions) before Secundus arrives, so the next two months are going to involve much more writing.
Daily Goals
- Read Bible – did not happen every day, but far more consistently than I had been in the past. I read through several epistles in their entirety and then went back through them a little slower. That helped immensely for understanding the context of various chapters and verses that had been foggy before.
- Prayer – so I didn't mark this one off because I didn't get dedicated prayer time. However, I did pray randomly throughout the day most days. I realize that I had an unrealistic expectation of what this goal should look like. It will continue to be a daily goal, but I'm not going to expect dedicated prayer times next month.
- Gratitude -I wanted to do this but was lost about how to go about it. I found a gratitude journal that I've had for ages and started using it last week. I'm not sure if I will keep doing it this way, or if I need to find a more genuine way for me to remember and express thanks.
- Get Outside – This one was pretty good. Some days i was too tired or it the weather was bad. But keeping it intentional kept me from being inside as much. I made more of an effort to get out and stay out for at least 30 minutes.
- Podcast – this is a daily goal that should have been a weekly goal. I listen to various podcasts, but I don't always want to listen to their newest shows. I found out that if I listen to them daily, I get burned out quickly, especially with as much reading as I did in April. I need time to process everything.
- Journal – this should be weekly as well. I used to try to journal every day when I was single and thought I should go back to that frequency. Well life with a toddler does not lend itself to regular journaling right now! And some days I really had nothing I wanted to write down.
- Music time – this is good for me and Prima. I've been renewing my love of studying music. Prima has been practicing piano again, listening, learning rhythms, and showing great joy in singing with us out of the hymnals at night. Some days she goes around pretending to sing, or sitting and pretending to sing out of the child hymnals. We will keep this up as a way to cultivate a love for music as well as an ear for it.


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Calvary Presbyterian Church was built in 1916 at 8240 Grand River Avenue, at the corner of Vicksburg Street, on Detroit's west side. Calvary Presbyterian Church had many parishioners and realizing it's location was getting outgrown, the church built an addition onto the church in 1932. With the new addition of Sunday-School classrooms, a kitchen, pastor's offices, and other space, the attendance at Calvary Presbyterian Church had reached over 1,700 parishioners by 1940.
Calvary Presbyterian Church continued to hover around 1,500 parishioners throughout the 1950's and into the 1960's. Calvary Presbyterian Church was located within close proximity to the site of the infamous 1967 riots in Detroit. After the riots, the neighborhood around Calvary Presbyterian began to change drastically. Families that one attended the neighborhood church, began to flee to the suburbs in record numbers. Calvary Presbyterian Church was able to hold on through the 1970's, but by the end of the 1980's, Calvary Presbyterian realized the need to be closer to the suburbs. Calvary Presbyterian Church finally moved its ministry to a new location, in 1991, near 8 Mile Road.
Calvary Presbyterian Church then became The Abundant Life Christian Center. The Abundant Life Christian Center operated the building for a about a decade before they moved to a new building in Redford. After Abundant Life Christian Center moved, Greater Faith for Deliverance Church moved in.
Greater Faith for Deliverance Church occupied the location until 2009, when a fire broke out and caused heavy smoke and water damage to the sanctuary. While the congregation waited for insurance money to come through to fix the building, scrappers began to loot the structure, stealing pipes, radiators, and even the stained glass windows. So due to unfortunate circumstances, the Greater Faith for Deliverance Church has been abandoned since 2009.
As of 2015, the former Calvary Presbyterian Church is still abandoned and has been wide-open since the front doors were scrapped in 2012.
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With autumn and winter weather come frequent storms, and those storms often cause downed trees and power lines. Here's a great video from South California Edison reminding all of us of safe procedures when we come across a downed power line.
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- Beware of a downed power line touching a vehicle. Stay clear of the vehicle and the power line. If a power line touches your vehicle while you are inside, remain calm and follow these directions: If you can do so safely, stay inside the vehicle until emergency assistance arrives. Warn others to stay away from the vehicle and have them call 9-1-1. If you must get out of the vehicle for safety reasons, jump clear. Do not touch the vehicle and the ground at the same time.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 seconds Tracking the car, finding the gun. The original cordon had been removed after the removal of the car and the failure to find a gun or any of Mrs. Ward's possessions at the scene of the incident. A new outer cordon was established from the access road from Ross Loan to the Priory. These are indicated on the map that's available to you. The outer cordon was controlled by police officers at the entry gate, who only permitted essential traffic to pass through and logged all movements in and out of the site.
Skip to 0 minutes and 53 seconds An inner cordon was set up by blocking the access road from the Priory to the loch and jetty with crime scene tape, with a control point at the Priory end of the road.
Skip to 1 minute and 7 seconds The paved access road terminated near a jetty. The weather on the day of the shooting had been dry, but it had been raining heavily the day before and through the night, and the crime scene team believed that any vehicles that had driven down the road would have left tyre tracks in the soft ground at the end of the road, where they would turn around or park. The estate manager was interviewed, and reported that no official vehicles had used the road for more than a week. The area between the end of the road and the jetty and the adjacent ground was searched, and tyre impressions and a partial footwear mark found and recorded.
Skip to 1 minute and 54 seconds The tyre impressions and the footwear marks were found where a car could have turned around.
Skip to 2 minutes and 2 seconds Access to the concrete jetty was blocked by locked gate. There was a shallow stone-covered beach on the right, but deeper water on the left with no beach. Nothing had been found in the search for the gun at the shooting scene, and attention now focused on the loch. A detailed search of the road and verges was conducted, and an underwater search team was requested to search the loch. A gun was subsequently found in the loch in shallow water about 15 metres from the shore at the right of the jetty. The gun was passed to the crime scene examiner, who rendered it safe and packaged and logged it. DI Morrison returned to the hospital and asked Mr.
Skip to 2 minutes and 48 seconds Ward if he could explain why he had been seen driving to the loch, and why he had left the Priory about an hour before the shooting. Why do you keep bothering me? My wife's been murdered and I nearly died, too. Why don't you go and find the killer? He became quite angry at this point, and told the inspector that it was none of his business. He calmed down after a few minutes and explained that it was a nice, clear, and sunny afternoon, their wedding anniversary, and they had driven to the lochside to admire the view of Loch Lomond.
Skip to 3 minutes and 22 seconds Not that it's any of your business, but it was a nice day, and we drove down to the loch to admire the view before going home. The forensic investigation now had two related threads. Examination of the gun and examination of the tyre and footwear impressions. Tests confirmed that the cartridge cases found in the car were from rounds fired by the gun. The serial number of the gun had been erased, but was restored in the laboratory. However, there was no record of its registration. The tyre impressions were a similar pattern to those on the Wards' car, but no marks were found that could link them specifically to their vehicle. The footwear impression was compared to Mr.
Skip to 4 minutes and 7 seconds Ward's shoes, which were included in the clothing taken from him at the hospital. There were no distinguishing features in the shoes nor on the impression, and other than saying that the marks could be made by shoes of that size and type, no firm conclusions could be drawn from the examinations.
The case study - footwear marks, tyre marks and firearms
Given our case involves the discharge of a firearm, there will be an important impression evidence component to the case. This will also include the potential of finding tyre marks and footwear marks which may be associated through the examination of class and individual characteristics to a vehicle or the footwear of an individual.
The recovery of a weapon would be important and this would be used for test fires to create comparison samples. Similarly tyre marks and footwear marks would be recovered from seized vehicles and shoes in order to make impressions for comparison.
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Every time I launch a terminal it attempts to execute
sudo apt-get update
This happens regardless of which terminal emulator is used - both guake and gnome-terminal do it at least.
It also does the behavior upon creating new tabs within either terminal application or when logging into different ttys. Any time a new bash is started it seems.
Additionally, the command inexplicably fails (
command not found) - though it executes perfectly if I type it in manually.
How can I make this strange terminal quirk desist?


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Do you like to look your best? Do you enjoy reading fashion magazines? Then you're a fashion maven. On the other hand, even a fashionista can fall from grace. Check out the tips below to tweak your style.
Try to spend the vast majority of your budget on the essentials. If your pieces can easily be paired with each other, you will have a closet full of great outfits that are always in style. Items like a basic black skirt will be fashionable for years to come, and can be updated with tops that are currently in the fashion eye.
Wearing sheer clothes can make you look sexy, but you have to make sure that you are very careful about how sheer the clothing is and in what area. Something too sheer can cause you to look trashy.
Create a unique style that is all your own. There are so many people out there that follow what they see, but the truly original people create their own personal style. You have to be comfortable with yourself in order to do this. Although once you decide to follow this path, you will notice the increase in compliments you receive.
If you have frizzy hair, look for a shampoo and conditioner that has moisturizing properties. It will offer protection to the cuticle and balance the level of moisture in your hair. Additionally, avoid anything that adds volume to hair.
If you are going out of town, focus your wardrobe on neutral colors that can mixed and matched at will. This way, you can travel without worrying about clashing colors. You will also have the confidence that you can make many different outfits from a select few pieces. Also bring some belts and scarves to give you a pulled-together look.
Get back into the fashion groove by using the tips you've just read. The ideas presented here can make you look great and remind you just why you enjoy fashion in the first place. Hit the stores one more time with all of these new ideas. You can't help but look your best!


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The following quotes are from the partners we work with at the wellness centers. Â Thanks to all of our partners for being so great to work with!
Freed Wellness Center
StepUp has always been such a help when a child needs to get on CHP+ or Medicaid. They always have such a positive cheerful attitude [and are] very prompt and courteous. They're the best.â€
– Justine Ramos, Freed Wellness Center
East Wellness Center
StepUp coming into our wellness center has been terrific for our uninsured community. [Brenda] works great with our families and is very friendly and flexible.â€
– Sandra Trujillo, East Wellness Center
Having StepUp at EHS has been great in giving parents onsite information about getting their children insurance. Feedback from parents has also been positive.â€
– Ann Gomez NP, East, Risley Wellness Centers
Risley Wellness Center
Having a StepUp outreach specialist at the Risley Wellness Center has provided a double benefit. Parents in need of medical insurance for their children have been able to connect with our representative very quickly, even the same day in one case. Also, we have learned more about the process of insuring students and the benefits available to them. This is real grass roots advocacy for our kids.â€
– MaryAnn Saucer, RN, School Nurse
Central Wellness Center
I have worked with the StepUp program for patients in need of obstetric and newborn care in my previous position and they were always helpful. In my current position I witness almost daily children in need of health care that has been put off so long they now need specialists for surgery, acute illness treatment or physical therapy in order to return to a stable health condition to function in school and the community as productive individuals.
These children do not have any insurance and Brenda and the staff at StepUp have responded immediately to assist families to not only evaluate the child for Medicaid or CHP+ but to also assist them in finding a physician and making appointments.
As sick as so many of these children are because they have no access to healthcare, StepUp is truly making a difference in the lives of children, their families and our community. I am thankful to have them as a resource in today's world of so many resources being eliminated due to budget cuts.â€
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Kebab eating copper who sparked an emergency when he went 'missing' sacked for gross misconduct
PUBLISHED: 10:41 09 January 2018 | UPDATED: 10:41 09 January 2018
©2014 Terry Harris
A March policeman who sparked an emergency when he went missing (he was getting a kebab at the time) and used a police car to drive his wife home, has been sacked.
PC Richard Musgrave, 52, was dismissed from Cambridgeshire Constabulary following a misconduct hearing.
He was found to have breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour in respect of honesty and integrity, discreditable conduct and duties and responsibilities at a hearing which concluded yesterday (8 January).
Musgrave was dismissed without notice following a week long misconduct hearing.
The panel was told that while he was eating the kebab, PC Musgrave told bosses his earpiece had come out of his radio and his watch had stopped.
However, he then reportedly changed his story to say he had fallen asleep.
Meanwhile colleagues had sent an emergency response to the Hundred Road area of March after becoming concerned about PC Musgrave's whereabouts when he failed to respond to numerous radio and phone calls.
A report prepared for the misconduct hearing said: "PC Musgrave had taken a marked police vehicle to collect Ms A and her friends and take them to a friend's home address.
"PC Musgrave then drove to an industrial estate in the Hundred Road area and ate a kebab.
"PC Musgrave then resumed radio contact and returned to March Police Station.
"When asked where he had been, PC Musgrave told the sergeant that he had been on a burglary patrol on the industrial estate, his watch had stopped, his earpiece had come out of his radio and his mobile was on silent."
That same evening, the woman referred to as Ms A was drinking in March's Wetherspoon pub.
"Some of the group were refused service due to their demeanour," a misconduct hearing report said.
"PC Musgrave was on duty, in uniform in a marked police vehicle and drove to the pub.
"He met Ms A and some of the group outside and spoke with them before entering the pub.
"PC Musgrave was aware of the behaviour of the group and took no material or adequate steps to address it.
"PC Musgrave prepared and signed a witness statement in relation to the incident at the pub.
"The statement was incomplete, lacked detail, and contained assertions that were untrue."
Several days later, PC Musgrave told a sergeant he had not been honest about his whereabouts on July 31 2016, the report said.
"PC Musgrave then dishonestly told the sergeant that he had gone to the industrial estate to finish writing a statement and had fallen asleep there," the report said.
"The sergeant challenged PC Musgrave over this as his laptop slate was at the police station at the time.
"PC Musgrave then dishonestly told the sergeant that he had seen Ms A in town, had gone to pick her up, took her home and had something to eat there.
"On being told that the inspector would be made aware, PC Musgrave then had a discussion with the sergeant during which he asked the sergeant to tell the inspector that he had been asleep."
The hearing heard evidence that included CCTV footage from Wetherspoons and of his wife hurling abuse at bar staff after querying a bill.
In the ensuring argument, the hearing was told, PC Musgrave had failed to respond properly to the ongoing incident.
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Moon phase on 7 May 2059 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 24 days old Moon is in Pisces.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 5 May 2059 at 01:29.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1901".
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 19 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
Length of current 733 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 734 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 12 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠30°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠53.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
14 days after point of apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 363 668 km (225 973 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 831 km (227 938 mi).
8 days after its descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus.
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
5 days after previous South standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.654°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.665° in the next northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer.
After 4 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.


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I've managed to create an interesting "situation" in a recent attempt to create a dual boot setup with xp and Debian. The hardware:
ide0, 250 gb seagate pri master
ide1, 13 gb maxtor pri slave
What I wanted to do was have xp on ide0 and debian on ide1, then use the bios control to determine which drive is the boot drive on system startup.
This sounded like a perfectly reasonable way to have a dual boot without having debian ever touch ide0. It didn't turn out that way.
The install went fine, and debian used ide1 just like I wanted. However when the install was done Grub had set itself up in the MBR of ide0 per the normal linux way.
What I want now is to find a way to *SAFELY* remove Grub from the MBR of ide0, restoring it to the condition it was in before all of this and try a different tack, probably by swapping drives physically or something.
How do I do this *WITHOUT* having to reinstall windows or lose data on ide0? As it is, I can't even remove ide1 from the system because grub pukes if I do and won't allow windows to boot.


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This post marks the beginning of a three-part series of essays on ancient Chinese philosophy. I will be covering the historical contexts, key figures, and core tenets of three major Chinese schools of thought: Taoism, Legalism, and Confucianism. Ancient Chinese philosophy has interested me for a while, and I'm excited to delve into this topic with you guys. Sorry if this is a bit rambly and unorganized. Go ahead and drop a comment if you want, even if it's just to tell me I'm full of shit. I'm learning right alongside you on a lot of this stuff.
China, 475 BC. The Zhou dynasty, a vast and powerful military empire, is finally on its last legs. The royal house of Ji, once an institution of immense political and military authority, is shattering. In the wake of the power vacuum, dozens of regional factions are clambering to secure their spot; the backdrop is war and chaos. This is the beginning of the Warring States period, a time of deep political and ideological upheaval in ancient China. Though the Zhou kings had seen total control for centuries, the inherent difficulties in maintaining such a massive decentralized empire were beginning to show.
When the Zhou initially took over, they legitimized their authority by formalizing the concept of the Mandate of Heaven – the idea that an emperor's right to rule is handed down directly from Heaven, and that Heaven imparts this mandate only to virtuous and worthy rulers. There were also a number of signs that were said to signify when a ruler had become unworthy – including droughts, pestilence, famine, and natural disasters. If the populace began to notice signs that a particular dynasty had become corrupt or ineffective, it was the duty of that populace to overthrow and replace the unworthy emperor. This was how the Zhou dynasty rulers justified their military takeover of the previous Shang dynasty. Unfortunately for the house of Ji, this framework had the side effect of creating a built-in justification for the eventual removal of the Zhou dynasty itself.
Familial ties were also a major diplomatic tool for the Zhou. Local lords and vassals built relationships with the house of Ji by leveraging mutual blood lines or lineages – when none existed, kinship was built through marriage. The authority of the king was thus legitimized through this functional role as the head of what was effectively a giant bureaucratic family. However, these familial alliances could only withstand so much tension.
As the empire continued to expand, the various regional lords and vassals became increasingly concerned with their own sovereign territory, and less concerned with appeasing the dynasty as a whole. The tension between the regional lords and the royal house came to a boiling point in 770BC, when the capital city of Haojing was sacked by the Quanrong tribe, assisted by the Marquis of Shen. King You, the reigning Zhou ruler, was slain during the conflict, and the seat of Zhou royal power was pushed far eastward, to Wangcheng. This marked the transition from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Zhou, and signaled the eventual decline of the dynasty.
So here's where we're at: We're nearing the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (771-476 BC), wherein more and more regional marquises and lords begin to stake their own claims and scrape self-determination and self-governance back from the Zhou. We are entering the aforementioned Warring States Period (475–221 BC), and the writing on the wall is clear. The Zhou dynasty is collapsing, and a new dynasty will soon take hold. But how will this new dynasty be structured, and what will the new ruling ideological paradigm look like? The need to craft a new framework for a functional and prosperous society became the impetus for the vast majority of Chinese philosophy at this time.
In a race to craft the new ruling philosophy, various political thinkers began to put forth new paradigms, giving birth to the 100 Schools of Thought. This is the period of competing ideologies that gave us our Big Three: Taoism, Legalism, and Confucianism. These different schools of thought arose out of a necessity to create a philosophical framework that would succeed where the Zhou had failed.
Enter my boy Laozi. Laozi is credited with authorship of the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Taoist thought. You know this dude is serious because 'Laozi' isn't even his real name, just an honorific title meaning 'Old Master'. He is a legendary figure in China, and his origin story is convoluted and debated – mostly as a result of his deification over the course of history. But here's the hyper-condensed version.
Laozi was a court administrator for the Zhou dynasty during the period of conflict that was the Eastern Zhou. Witnessing the decline of the dynasty, he saw everything crumbling around him. He was living in an extremely volatile time, and change was clearly on the horizon. Now, to many thinkers, this was an opportunity to craft entirely new ideas. The old ways had seemingly failed, and it was necessary to change the way people governed and lived their lives. Laozi didn't look at things this way. Instead of trying to look towards some bold new ideology, Laozi looked towards the past. He was of the belief that humanity had lost its way, and that in order to regain stability and peace we must return to a life of simplicity and harmony.
Now, what I'm not gonna pretend to do here is provide some kind of synopsis of Taoism as a whole. Taoism simply cannot be broken down into one comprehensive summary. It is an incredibly complex and ancient tradition stretching back millenia, with tendrils extending far beyond the scope of this post. What I will try to do is highlight a few important Taoist concepts, beliefs, and practices in order for us to get a better idea of the core messages behind the philosophy, and better understand how it took hold in ancient China.
The most fundamental concept in Taoism is that of the Tao, commonly translated as 'the Way'. The Tao is typically thought of as the natural order and flow of the universe. I know, super vague – but it's meant to be. The Tao is actually not a concept that can be entirely communicated through language.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
(Tao Te Ching, Verse 1)
At its core, Taoism is about living a life in harmony with the Tao. This presents an evident difficulty – we should all strive to live in harmony with the Tao, but nobody can actually tell us what the Tao is. This is because the Tao must be intuited through lived experience, and meditation on your place in the universe and the course that your life is meant to take. The Tao changes from person to person, time to time, place to place. This highlights an underlying concept present in much of ancient Chinese philosophy – the notion of reality as non-static and constantly changing.
This concept is further illustrated in the I Ching, 'The Book of Changes'.
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese divination text, contemporary to the Zhou dynasty. When consulted, it gives the user life advice in relation to a specific question being posed. However, if consulted twice in a row with the same question, it is incredibly unlikely that the user will receive the same answer. To many people, this disproves the divinational power of the I Ching. If it cannot give you a consistent answer, there is no use for it. This criticism is rooted in a Western way of thinking. In ancient China, there is not much focus on trying to posit universalizable theories. In fact, the whole idea is contrary to the core philosophy of the I Ching. It emphasizes that nature is constantly in flux and is not guaranteed to be predictable or communicable, and human attempts to order nature according to a set of rigid laws and rules will ultimately fail. This is why you cannot recreate an I Ching reading just by asking the same question twice. The situation is completely different, as untold numbers of imperceptibly small changes have taken place from the time you did the first reading until now.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
(Tao Te Ching, Verse 74)
Laozi was also very concerned with society's increasing lust for material power and scientific progress. He believed that humans were not particularly special – they did not possess any inherent superiority over the rest of nature, they were simply part of it. We must not, according to Laozi, be blinded by unchecked ambition, material wealth, cultural norms or traditions, and other things that distance us from the natural order. Remember – reality is in constant flux, all power is impermanent, human pursuit and ambition is built on a false sense of superiority over the rest of the world. Material progress is an attempt to disconnect ourselves from what we really are. What we truly ought to do is practice wu wei. Remember this word. It is, like, THE fundamental Taoist concept besides maybe the Tao itself.
Wu wei is typically translated as 'inaction', but I like to think of it as 'effortless action'. This helps differentiate it from the type of 'inaction' that entails sitting in your room playing video games and eating Doritos all day. Instead, wu wei is closely related to the Taoist notion of harmony with the natural order. It is about making sure our behavior is as closely aligned with the Tao as possible. This means never trying to force your life in a certain direction, never aggressively asserting your will on the world, never stubbornly maintaining a certain way of thinking or behaving, and straying away from excessive hubris and ambition. Instead, we should swim with the current as it comes – essentially, 'go with the flow'. This is particularly apt because Laozi uses water as a metaphor for wu wei on a number of occasions.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard.
(Tao Te Ching, Verse 78)
Like water, we must be fluid, and constantly shifting in the ways we comply to the demands of different problems. Like the nature of reality itself, we must be constantly changing, and cannot be tied down to rigorous ideologies, behavioral patterns, or ways of living. Water is weak and yielding, but through this fluidity, it is able to work around and erode even the largest obstacles. This sense of wu wei can only be achieved when we put our ego to the side, and abandon our long-held ways in favor of whatever is most conducive to the situation at hand.
The wise
teach without telling,
allow without commanding,
have without possessing,
care without claiming.
(Tao Te Ching, Verse 16)
Wu wei is about strategic passivity. In many Taoist manuals, it is said that rather than imposing a preconceived solution to a problem, we should let nature take its course, and adjust our own path based on what experience has revealed to be the best course of action. It is a means of reducing rigidity and stubbornness; a way to dissolve strict adherence to singular ways of thinking and doing things.
The nature of reality is constantly flowing and changing, like water. It is the ultimate goal of Taoism to align ourselves with this nature. In the immortal words of Bruce Lee:
You must be formless, shapeless, like water.
When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip, or it can crash.
Be water my friend.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism
- http://tao-in-you.com/
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shzh/hd_shzh.htm
- https://www.ancient.eu/Zhou_Dynasty/
- https://www.thoughtco.com/the-mandate-of-heaven-195113
- https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/the-eastern-zhou-period/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060927122311/http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_23009.htm
- https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/wu-wei-doing-nothing/


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One DJ's name is synonymous with Ibiza and that is SPACE resident Jonathan Ulysses…
Voted "Best Club in the World" at 2001 Dance Star Awards, it's understandable that Jonathan describes his residency as "living the dream". Playing alongside luminaries including Erick Morillo, Sasha, David Guetta, Darren Emerson, Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox and Arman Van Helden and many more, Jonathan has also mixed three terrace selection sides of the SPACE CD series and DJ's globally as main resident on the SPACE World Tour.
However, Jonathan's career was no overnight sensation. After leaving school, he formed a sound system called Soul Plus and fancying himself as a bit of a ragga MC, competed in sound clashes across South London. In 1989, he started working for a holiday company in Corfu where his stage presence and crowd control training served him in good stead as a DJ. Once the season was over, Jonathan returned to London and spent time DJ'ing around London until the following summer, when he was sent to the Balearic Island of Ibiza.
In Ibiza, he found himself being pushed to DJ at certain times and events, this is where Jonathan realised his true vocation. Taking a small record box of R&B, Soul, Hip Hop, Drum 'n' Bass and very little house, Jonathan returned to Ibiza the next summer solely to DJ.
He went to work for a friend who had taken over a small venue and for the next six years this was to be Jonathan's training ground where he perfected his mixing skills and got to grips with the industry. Jonathan's presence there, complete with his MC'ing antics, dancing on the bar and varied musical selection transformed the venue into one of the best places to be, where he played the coolest music to packed crowds every single night.
This resulted in Jonathan playing stints at the islands' major clubs: Amnesia, Pacha, Es Paradis, El Divino and Privilege and, of course, SPACE. The bars were no stranger to him either, as he clocked up Bar M, The Rock Bar, Mambo, Kanya, Star Cafe, and Savannah. Then, in 1998, Jonathan started a residency for Twice as Nice who were at the time small promoters from London, the rest as they say is history…
Although Jonathan has built up a stellar reputation as a house DJ, he still does not like to pigeon hole the music he plays and keeps his record box suitably eclectic. He describes the majority of his house style as very pumping with an electronic and uplifting sound. Throughout his twenty year career, Jonathan has played every genre of dance music. His aim is to educate the crowd rather than play only the obvious commercial tracks, this has helped him break boundaries and receive the acclaim he deserves. In recognition of this, summer 2003 saw Jonathan being nominated by DJ Magazine for Best Ibiza D.J.
Never having stayed in one place long enough to secure a regular radio show, Jonathan has made appearances on various radio shows, such as Galaxy (Manchester and Bristol), Kiss 100, Ministry of Sound, Key 103, Thump Radio (San Francisco) and Radio 1, Pete Tong Essential Mix. He also has an ever-growing production CV (see discography attached). Past productions have seen Jonathan work with various producers, such as Tom Neville, Good Rhyming Bass on Nukleuz and French producer Laurent C of Paris, 21st Century Party People on Cyber Records. Most recently working with producer Matt Schwartz from 'The Drill' fame and finishing a track "Electro Sex" under the name Nine Lives, signed to Destined Records.
Six years on, 2004, saw Jonathan's DJ'ing in further demand, when he was filmed live, touring with MTV in Ibiza, Germany, Switzerland and Austria for the 'Gate to Ibiza Tour' in combination with the mix CD 'Gate to Ibiza', mixed with DJ Henry.
Since 2005, Jonathan has firmly made his mark, establishing himself at SPACE as one of the main residents playing some of the best set times the club has to offer to a 2,000 strong crowd every week, going from strength to strength and continuing to break boundaries and implement a solid reputation as one of music's fundamental house DJ's.
SPACE has not only won "Best Club in the World" Dancestar 2001 and "We Love Sundays"@SPACE winning "Best Club Night", but it has also, at the House Music Awards this year, won "Best Club 2005" with Jonathan representing SPACE and collecting the prestigious award in London.
Jonathan has worked on a number of highly successful and popular compilations, the In Bed With Space compilation album mixed by himself and Javi Munoz and in July mixing the 'World Tour Album' alongside David Morano. Both Jonathan and David, can be seen on the DVD accompanying the Space Album 2005, being interviewed alongside Carl Cox, he quotes "to play at SPACE is like playing to God!"
The new SPACE terrace saw Jon performing with Barbara Tucker live at 'In Bed with Space' a great success story, however, the highlight has to be his much publicised closing set on the terrace of SPACE which has earned him the admiration and respect of many of his peers…


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If I have more than one tv, do I have to have a box for every tv or does my cable box take care of all tv's?
Viginia recently posted a question:
"If I have more than one tv, do I have to have a box for every tv or does my cable box take care of all tv's? None of the other TVs have basic cable."
You will need to purchase a digital converter box for each TV in your house if:
None of the TV's are equipped with a digital tuner (Click here if you're not sure what kind of tuner your TV came with)
or, you do not have cable or satellite television service
I'm assuming that you have some type of cable service since you mentioned that (1) of your TV's has a cable box? Who is your cable service provider? What kind of cable box is it? You'll most likely be able to receive DTV with the TV that has the converter box, but will have to have a digital converter box for each of your other TV sets.
If you have not done so already, you can order a total of (2) $40 converter box coupons from the government to help with purchasing a digital converter.
Hope this helped, let me know if you have any other questions.


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Venice: Saint Mark's Basilica After Hours Guided Tour
Duration: 1.5 hours
Small group
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck mistakenly said, "growing government" when he meant "growing the economy" during an appearance Sunday on "Meet the Press." His opponent, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., turned the gaffe into a jab, saying, "Well, I'm definitely not interested in growing government, I can tell you that."
Oh, but he is, big time. Despite Bennet's agonized rhetoric about the deficit and the debt, what's his track record? How did he vote on the bills to expand the scope and size of the federal government?
"National Debt Up $3 Trillion on Obama's Watch," CBS News reported today, a 21-month time frame that also encompasses Bennet's time in the U.S. Senate.
In 2009, Bennet earned a grade of 'F' from the National Taxpayers Union.
He voted for the stimulus package, estimated at $862 billion.
Bennet voted yes on ObamaCare, affecting one-seventh of the U.S. economy. The Heritage Foundation estimated more than $500 billion in new taxes between 2010 and 2019.
"Michael Bennet. He Spends. We Pay," the National Republican Senatorial Committee describes in the ad above.
Now, where have we heard something like that before? ;-)
Below, links to some of our favorite Bennet videos from this year…
Citizen to Bennet: "Can you balance a checkbook?"
Sen. Bennet: No Tea for me, but Big Government for you!
Sen. Bennet's response to, "'You're a socialist.'"
Sen. Bennet: the media are "mistaken"
Sen. Bennet: Previous decade "a complete waste of time. False economy."
And just for fun…
Stunt Doubles – Doogie the Senator
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Colorado's "Stapler Guy"


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Hi –
I'm new to VBA programming in Excel and I'm trying to program a macro to locate certain rows in Worksheet1 in which the text in column A (ex., 1234) is not marked with a Strikethrough (ex., 1234). As the macro finds each occurrence it copies columns 1 through 5 of the found row to Worksheet2 and then goes back to Worksheet1 and continues the search, copy and movement to Worksheet2 until all such rows in Worksheet1 have been located and copied in their found order to Worksheet2. I've made several attempts using Range and Find, but none have worked. Can anyone out there give a newbie an assist.
Thank you.
Sorry the strikethrough didn't show up on the 2nd (ex., 1234)
Since it appears you are willing to try and write the code, why not post what you have tried and we'll see if we can offer some pointers?
You know...learn by doing instead of just being given the answer.
Here's the closest I've come. It needs to be cleaned up, but it does work except the rows moved into Worksheet2 are in reverse order to how they appear in Worksheet1 and when the rows are added to Worksheet2 I'm ending up with extra blank rows that are messing up the rest of Worksheet2 that appears below where the rows are being copied.
By way of some explanation, the code starts by moving to Row36 where the condition I'm looking for in the remaining rows starts. Although it works, I'm sure that it can be streamlined and cleaned up a bit. There may even be better and easier commands to use that I've yet to discover.
Sub OutstandingChecks()
' Locate,copy and move outstanding checks to next month
' Macro dated 8/25/2010 by BW
Application.Goto Reference:="R36C1"
With Application.FindFormat.Font
.Strikethrough = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
End With
Cells.Find(What:="", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= _
xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False _
, SearchFormat:=True).Activate
ActiveCell.Resize(1, 6).Copy
Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown
For i = ActiveCell.Row - 1 To Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
Cells.Find(What:="", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= _
xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False _
, SearchFormat:=True).Activate
ActiveCell.Resize(1, 6).Copy
Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown
Next i
End Sub
First, a few coding tips:
1 - Rarely do you have to Select an object to perform a VBA or Excel task on it. You can usually access the object directly. It's much more efficient that way.
For example, this:ActiveCell.Resize(1, 6).Copy ActiveSheet.Next.Select Rows("37:37").Select Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown
Can be condensed down to this:ActiveCell.Resize(1, 6).Copy ActiveSheet.Next.Rows("37:37").Insert Shift:=xlDown
2 - The reason your data is being copied in reverse order is becasue you are inserting it and shifting the other data down, as opposed to pasting it after the last piece of data in the column.
3 - I don't see any comments in your code. Comments not only help others that are reading the code understand what the author is doing, but - and maybe more importantly - they help the author remember what they are trying to do. You might get this code working and then not look at it for a year. Then a time comes when you need to make a change and you have to spend (waste) time studying the code trying to figure out what you were thinking a year ago before you can make the changes. Comments can help the author (and others) figure out the code much quicker.
Finally, while I commend you on your hard work, I think the use of FindFormat is a little, shall we say, robust for this task. In other words, I think you're doing it the hard way - but I'll bet you learned a lot!
How about something as simple as this:Option Explicit Sub OutstandingChecks_V2() Dim last_sht1_rw, nxt_sht2_rw As Integer Dim c As Range 'Determine last cells in Sheet1 Column A last_sht1_rw = Sheets(1).Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row 'Loop through checks For Each c In Sheets(1).Range("A36:A" & last_sht1_rw) 'Check if Strikethrough Font is False If c.Font.Strikethrough = False Then 'If yes, find next empty row in Sheets2 Colmn A nxt_sht2_rw = Sheets(2).Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row + 1 'Copy Sheet1 A:F to Sheet2 Sheets(1).Range("A" & c.Row & ":F" & c.Row).Copy _ Destination:=Sheets(2).Range("A" & nxt_sht2_rw) End If Next End Sub
DerbyDad03 -
Thank you for the assistance and the teaching moment, I can see that I have much to learn. Armed with a book on writing VBA code and macros for Excel I'm in the process of comparing my attempted solution to your streamlined coding to better understand some of the foundational concepts involved. Thanks again.


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French film legend Agnes Varda, the only woman director to emerge from the so-called New Wave scene in the 1960s, has died aged 90 after a battle with cancer, her family said Friday. With her two-tone bowl haircut, Varda was seen as the arty, eccentric "grandmother" of French cinema and tributes poured in for the highly-political artist revered for her originality.
Varda died overnight at home "of complications from cancer. She was surrounded by her family and friends," the family said in a statement. Varda worked right up to the end of her life, with a new autobiographical documentary premiering at the Berlin film festival just last month. She was still giving media interviews last weekend at an exhibition of her artworks.
"She was so far ahead of everyone else; she was the first to make films that influenced the New Wave" -- a form of European art cinema, French director Claude Lelouch told AFP. "She always chose the right battles."Madonna tweeted a picture of herself with Varda in Paris in December 2015, Varda's head resting on the singer's shoulder.
"Farewell to one of my favourite filmmakers - Agnes Varda always a curious, creative, child-like spirit to the last moment. We will miss you!! Selma director Ava DuVernay also tweeted a picture of herself with the French filmmaker.
"Merci, Agnes. For your films. For your passion. For your light. It shines on," she wrote. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed a "tremendous filmmaker, photographer and visual artist who will be terribly missed in the French creative scene."
Last November, Varda won an honorary Oscar at age 89 for her documentary Faces Places, which saw her ditch her walking stick during the ceremony for an impromptu celebratory dance with Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. With her eyesight failing but imagination undimmed, Varda admits at one point during the film that "every new person I meet feels like my last one."
Her death came just before she was to inaugurate a show of her whimsical art installations at the Chaumont-sur-Loire castle in the central Loire valley of France on Saturday.
Husband and wife team
Varda and her late husband, director Jacques Demy, were one of the New Wave's great double acts, with her pitching in on his masterpieces like The Young Girls of Rochefort, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Bay of Angels. She made her name in 1962 with her first feature Cleo de 5 a 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7), about a hypochondriac singer who gets increasingly worried that she has cancer while she is waiting for test results from her doctor.
But it was in her documentaries and films that mixed real-life events with the fiction that Varda weaved her very particular brand of gritty poetry. She won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival and a host of other awards for her 1985 film Vagabond which retraced the life of a homeless woman found frozen to death in a ditch.
Her social conscience was also clear in the now classic documentary, The Gleaners & I (2000) -- about people who comb the fields after the harvest for leftover grain and fruit, and urban gleaners who make a living from junk. It is on the BBC's list of the best films made since the turn of the century.
Varda never hid her interest in politics, making a series of documentaries in the United States and Cuba as both countries reeled from social and political revolutions, including Black Panthers (1968), Hi Cubans! (1971) and Far From Vietnam (1967).
Born in Belgium in 1928 to a French mother and Greek father whose family had fled Turkey, Varda changed her first name from Arlette to Agnes when she turned 18 and began her career as a photographer. Her work often crossed over between cinema and art and her own personal story, like her documentary Uncle Yanco (1967) about San Francisco hippie artist Jean Varda -- a relative of hers.
Some of her most poignant work focused on the three decades she spent with Demy until his untimely death in 1990 -- Jacquot de Nantes (Jacky from Nantes), The Beaches of Agnes and The World of Jacques Demy. Varda often used her own life as the framework for her art, which brought her an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 2015 -- the first time a woman won the coveted award.
"Her work and her life are infused with the spirit of freedom, the art of driving back boundaries, a fierce determination and a conviction that brooks no obstacles," the Cannes festival said at the time.


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All in all, there are 29.92 seconds missing in a total number of 5 cuts.
Runtime of the cut version w/o credits: 1:30:45 (PAL).
Runtime of the uncut version w/o credits: 1:31:33 (PAL).
Timecodes relate to the uncut version.
Raging with jealousy, dentist Dr. Feinstone cuts off his wife's tounge. From then on, he is patient in a psychiatry. The dark side inside him takes control time and again. He is tortured by morbid visions all the time. He escapes from the psychiatry and flees to the desolate town of Paradise, where he opens up a new surgery. A martyrium of pain, suffering and death starts for his patients from now on. When his distorted wife appears to have her revenge, the situation escalates. Who can escape from this beast dressed in white?
Whoever deals instensively with the horror genre will find out that cult director Brian Yuzna managed to make a very special representation with The Dentist (1996), which plays with the primal fear of man and might make some of the audience's visit at the dentist a bit harder. Two years after the original, Yuzna went even one better with the sequel The Dentist II, which even improves the previous film in a few points. The schizophrenic dentist is once more geniusly embodied by Corbin Bernsen, who gives his character the neccessary depth and shows the inner psyche of the doctor even more shockingly. Aside the black humour which is shown several times the harsh splatter sequences are able to convince completely, they appear only in the final third of the film in a regular way though. Before that you unfortunately have to deal with a very long exposition that entertains but doesn't contribute much to the tension. What's left is a good B-flick with a Corbin Bernsen iln his height and very bloody scenes, but don't expect any innovation!
Unlike the German releases, the VHS- and DVD-releases in UK are a little cut. The dental torture scene is affected, for which almost all the bloody detail shots were removed for the BBFC 18-rating. The cuts were made pretty inconspiciously, but surely make the movie a little bit less fun for the willing audience.
For this report, the cut DVD by Cinema Club (BBFC 18) has been compared to the uncut DVD by E-M-S (FSK 18).
The black image in the BBFC 18-DVD is longer.
+2.08 seconds
The title "The Dentist 2" appears here.
The title "The Dentis - Zahnarzt des Schreckens" appears here.
Difference: 0.44 seconds
Dr. Feinstone is shown slightly longer. After that, he stabs into the exposed nerve of Bev's tooth.
1.84 seconds
The doctor stabs once more into the toothnerve.
1.64 seconds
A lot was censored in the "truth or tooth"-scene. The doctor bloodily pulls out the tooth with a powerful jolt. Quick cut to Bev's face twisted in pain.
Dr. Feinstone asks him about the result - the problem with the colored tooth was gone after all. He then comments on Bev regularly using dental floss - a good habit. He then puts the bloody tooth into the little container.
Dr. Feinstone continues by asking if Bev said anything to Jamie and after Bev has negated the question several times with a painful voice, Dr. Feinstone scornfully calls her a liar and puts the pliers to the next tooth. In the following shot, he starts to forcefully pull the tooth.
39.68 seconds
The torture continues and Dr. Feinstone starts to drill completely distorted Bev. Quick cut to the doctor. He drills so deeply blood drips out.
5.24 seconds
The moment in which the tooth is finally destroyed completely is missing.
1.52 seconds
The black frame is longer in the BBFC 18-DVD.
+3.68 seconds
Master errors were not considered in this report.


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Retired Army pathologist Bradley Harper explores the mysteries of the past.
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After thirty-seven years as a US Army pathologist, commander, and staff officer in the Pentagon, I took off my uniform, gained fifteen pounds, and started writing. My debut novel, A Knife in the Fog, involves a young Arthur Conan Doyle in the hunt for Jack the Ripper, and was a 2019 finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Book two, Queen's Gambit, is scheduled for release in October 2019. When not killing people on the page, I am a professional Santa Claus and work with my wife of almost forty-six years at a local park as the the Clauses. I've shared hugs, and some tears, with people from all over the world, averaging eighty-thousand or more visitors per year. I'm a soft touch, however. Those on the Naughty List are threatened with burnt cookies.


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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-- Oscar Wilde
Only two groups of people fall for flattery -- men and women.
People of all sorts of genders are reporting great difficulty,
these days, in selecting the proper words to refer to those of the female
"Lady," "woman," and "girl" are all perfectly good words, but
misapplying them can earn one anything from the charge of vulgarity to a good
swift smack. We are messing here with matters of deference, condescension,
respect, bigotry, and two vague concepts, age and rank. It is troubling
enough to get straight who is really what. Those who deliberately misuse
the terms in a misbegotten attempt at flattery are asking for it.
A woman is any grown-up female person. A girl is the un-grown-up
version. If you call a wee thing with chubby cheeks and pink hair ribbons a
"woman," you will probably not get into trouble, and if you do, you will be
able to handle it because she will be under three feet tall. However, if you
call a grown-up by a child's name for the sake of implying that she has a
youthful body, you are also implying that she has a brain to match.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the
farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than
chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men
should be happier than others.
-- Oscar Wilde
Sally: C'mon, Ted, all I'm asking you to do is share your feelings
with me.
Ted: ALL? Do you realize what you're asking? Men aren't trained
to share. We're trained to protect ourselves by not
letting anyone too close. Good grief, if I go around
sharing everything with you, you could hang me out to dry.
Sally: It's called "trust," Ted.
Ted: "Sharing"? "Trust"? You're really asking me to sail into
uncharted waters here.
-- Sally Forth
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about
what attracts mosquitoes.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers,
"What Every Woman Should Know About Men"
She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking good.
-- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
She been married so many times she got rice marks all over her face.
-- Tom Waits
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee


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When the lovely FarmFamily arrived for my birthday, they brought a few pumpkins from their garden, which they placed on the porch. One day a couple weeks ago, a neighbor brought me a nice homemade loaf of pumpkin bread. The next day, I noticed one of the pumpkins was missing. Those two events are probably unrelated, but it was interesting.
Little Town is a pretty quiet place, but there are a lot of kids around. Quite a few houses around town pulled out all the stops with the Halloween decorations, and I figured there'd be quite a few costumed little varmints come through.
I bought a 4 lb bag of candy that boasted over 200 pieces, but I felt a little fretful, worried that if I gave every kid a handful (as is my tendency), I might run out. Himself took me over to the dollar store and heroically procured pounds and pounds more candy. Back at the hacienda, I dumped said candy into a big lovely basket, checked and re-checked the front porch light was on, then set out to do quiet things around the house so I'd hear if someone came knocking.
I lit some citronella candles to shoo away skeeters, and I put a few candles in bright glass containers so there would be a little extra light, and waited, me and my 10+ pounds of candy and the dogs cordoned off in the kitchen so they didn't run out when I'd have the door opened.
Then they came. I took a picture of every trick-or-treater who came to the door. They were each and every one the utmost in adorable. Here they are, every last one:
Ninja, dragon and someone from Star Wars. I told them how great their costumes were and then they were off with their lovely mama to the place across the street.
I should have given them about an extra 3 pounds each of candy and just turned off the lights. Next year I'll go help at my parents' place and save the trouble.
Went to a girlfriend's lakehouse for a party Saturday night so the entire Halloween experience wasn't a wash as far as the weekend went. Everyone wore costumes except me. Well, there was one 80-something guy who just sat on a golf cart, but everyone else was a something-or-other. I wore a western shirt, so my girlfriend made me wear a cowgirl hat, and I hung around with an Indian chief for a bit, saying clever crap like "what do you mean 'we', white man?" Several of the costumes were x-rated. There was a flasher guy with an overcoat and a spring-loaded appendage which popped up when he opened the coat. He won an award in the competition, and Cruella de Ville shouted "put it on! put it on!" as he went up to accept his prize. Everyone laughed. There was more than one Dirty Old Man in attendance.
Early in the party, most folks kept one eye on the big TV someone brought out on the lawn to show the Rangers in the World Series, and I have to say it was adorable to see Barbara Bush snapping a photo of her guys out on the field for the first pitch. I'm no sports fan, but I was happy for the general joy of the occasion of local team done good. :)
A bald guy with a very authentic-looking devil get-up seemed a little too eager to get me to hit the hard stuff. I was sipping a 32 ounce iced tea I bought on the way to the party (yeah, I know: boring!) and he wanted to make me a Bloody Mary and get to know me better. "uh, I have a boyfriend" I demurred. He said "is he here?" as if that were all that mattered. I said "no, but I'll bet he'd be here really fast if you wanted to discuss my availability." :P Then it was his turn to demur, wisely. He was older and I figured that combined with a beer-goggles moment-- that by comparison I must've seemed young and fresh. Or desperate or whatever. Inwardly, there was eyerolling.
The old-guy theory was disproven shortly thereafter when a 28 year old guy said he wanted to make out with me. More eyerolling, this time observable. The beer-goggles theorum has yet to be disproven, though. I'm also toying with the notion that people in costumes use them as an excuse to behave very badly. *ahem*
Back to my friend's house, we stayed up late playing cards and then got up and played more cards in the morning. I learned to play canasta, and I quite liked it! Anyway, so the general weekend was good and I've learned something-- clearly, Halloween is only for the grown-ups anymore. Pity, that.