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Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The full moon Vesak Poya Day falls today. Buddhists commemorate the Birth, Passing away and Enlightenment of the Buddha on this thrice-blessed day.
Born into a royal house, Prince Siddhartha was a Seeker after Truth. He had a disturbing horoscope and his father the King decreed that he should not be allowed to see old age, sickness or death. However, as a young adult he escaped from the Palace and roamed the streets of the town and he came across an old man, a sick man and a dying man. He questioned these human conditions and could come up with no easy answers.
Finally, he left his princely robes, his young wife and baby son and went into the forest to meditate. "The Great Renunciation" is beautifully depicted in paintings and murals and we mortals can only imagine the Prince's state of mind as he left the Palace for the last time.
Most Buddhists live with their families and have not renounced human companionship or materialism. How then can Buddhism be practiced in modern life?
The Buddha preached against "tanha" or craving and tied it up with materialism. Today, television advertisements promote craving for food like pizza attractively presented with gooey cheese. Newspaper advertisements promote "tanha" for electrical appliances like washing machines and other mod.cons. Open economy was introduced to Sri Lanka in 1977 and capitalism became the watchword in the market.
"Everything is temporary" preached the Buddha and this is very true of material things.
Take even a Vesak lantern made with so much time and effort going into it. Once the kite paper catches fire, the beautifully-decorated lantern will simply burn away and be reduced to ashes. It is an important lesson in life for even a small child to learn.
Buddhist houses are decorated for Vesak and lamps are lit.
Then there are the beautiful pandals at street junctions with a myriad lights shimmering from sunset to sunrise. Usually, they depict "Jataka stories" from the lives of the Buddha lived as a "Bodhisatva" and carry a moral message.
For example, the Guttila and Moosila kavya tells the story of the pupil who tried to outdo the master in playing the lyre only to find the master winning the day through supernatural means.
Vesak is a time for purity of thought and action. Buddhists go to the temple and observe 'sil' and meditate. Even at home, Buddhists should not indulge in dislike or hate of others however different they may be.
The Buddha preached a doctrine of Non-Violence and said, "Hatred does not cease by hatred but by love." So it is time that people propagated peace and reconciliation. The time has come to let bygones be bygones.
Terrorism should be considered in the past and everyone should think of building bridges with each other. This phenomenon should not be limited however to the Vesak season.
Then what about 'Dansalas' where food and drink are served free to all, especially to the poor and hungry? During Vesak, you see big banners proclaiming "Maha Buth Dansala"(Great Rice Free-Giving) or 'Maha Noodle Dansala"(Great free-giving of noodles) and a patient queue of people waiting to eat.
Those who organize these "Dansalas" are supposed to gather merit for the after life. Since food is expensive in Sri Lanka, eating a meal at a 'dansala' can be a welcome break. Besides, you cannot expect the food cooked in such large quantities to be very tasty but it makes for a change.
Above all, the Buddha preached Right Thought, Right Speech and Right Action. If only everyone practiced these precepts then the special season of Vesak would permeate the whole year.
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The 100-year-old Harvard-Cornell rivalry is considered among the best in college hockey (photo courtesy Patrick Shanahan).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The Harvard men's hockey team will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to face Ivy League rival Cornell for a best-of-three ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series Friday-Sunday at Lynah Rink.
The Crimson, the ninth seed in the league tournament, is coming off a first-round sweep at Princeton and will go on the road for a second straight week. Harvard and Cornell, seeded second in the league and ranked ninth nationally, will meet Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m., with a deciding third game occurring Sunday at 7, if necessary.
In the other quarterfinal series, No. 11 seed Brown travels to top-seeded Yale, seventh-seeded Quinnipiac visits No. 3 seed Union and No. 5 seed St. Lawrence heads to No. 4 seed Colgate. The series winners will advance to the ECAC Hockey championship weekend March 19-20 in Albany, N.Y.
The Harvard-Cornell series pits ECAC Hockey's two top-performing programs in the playoffs. The Big Red has the best tournament winning percentage (.674, 87-41-4) among league members and has won a league-high 11 playoff titles. The Crimson ranks second in both categories, with an 85-44-4 (.654) all-time playoff record and eight championships.
The Crimson and Big Red are meeting for the eighth time in the last 11 ECAC tournaments but are facing off before the semifinals for the first time in a decade. The teams were matched up in four of the last eight league championship games, with each side winning twice, and alternated league titles from 2002 to '06. Harvard has won the last two playoff matchups. Cornell has won three of the squads' four previous quarterfinal meetings, most recently with back-to-back 4-3 home victories in 2000.
Harvard and Cornell first met Jan. 8, 1910, a 5-0 Crimson win in New York City. Cornell owns a 67-58-9 all-time series lead and won both regular-season matchups in 2009-10. The Big Red rallied for a 6-3 win Nov. 7 at Lynah and scored two quick second-period goals and added an empty-netter for a 3-0 victory Feb. 19 at Harvard's Bright Hockey Center.

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Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. It affects the small airways and air sacs.
Pneumonia can be described by where and how a child was infected. Types include:
- Community-acquired—from the community, such as home, school, or daycare
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- Aspiration—happens when foreign matter is inhaled into the lungs, such as food, liquid, saliva, or vomit
Viruses, bacteria, or other germs most often cause pneumonia. Cold or flu viruses are the most common cause of pneumonia in children. Rarely, pneumonia can be caused by food, liquid, or other items that are inhaled.
The infection or inhaled substance causes irritation, inflammation, and swelling in the deeper areas of the lungs. Pus or other fluids can also build up in the area. The swelling and fluid make it difficult for oxygen to pass from the lungs to the blood.
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- Hemophilus influenza type B vaccine, routinely given to all children aged 2 months to 5 years
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To decrease your child's risk of any respiratory infection:
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- Encourage your child to wash their hands often, especially after coming into contact with someone who is sick.
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Manny needs to stay in Boston
I know I haven't posted in a while - it was a disappointing ending to a season that looked promising from the beginning but fell apart shortly after the All-Star break.
With that being said, Dan Shaugnessy'scolumn in today's Globe pissed me off.
"Manny quit on us." How the hell do you know? Can you read his mind? Do you know what he was thinking? I understand Manny has acted like he is above rules before, but in this instance, do we really need to question whether he was actually hurt or not? I'd rather Manny sit out the rest of the season (which was gone to hell anyway) and not risk injuring his knee anymore than have him blow out his knee in a game that didn't really mean anything to the team.
I hate the way Shaugnessy always jumps on Manny. Probably because he hates the fact that Manny doesn't talk to the media. But trade Manny? Come on. I know he can be childish...it's part of his appeal to Red Sox Nation. We love the Manny who does the double point, and who goes through ridiculously long handshakes with his buddies in the dugout, or even the Manny who makes ridiculous blunders in left field because his head is up in space.
After all is said and done, he is one of the best right handed hitters in the American League, if not in all of baseball. Getting rid of him, just because some may be "tired of his act," is crazy. He is the 2004 World Series MVP.
The Sox will never get equal value in a trade for Manny. Forget about it. Manny stays in Boston until he is no longer producing as expected. If his numbers drop off, then we'll talk. But for now, he's done what he was brought here to do.
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Loyola University New Orleans alumnus Tod Smith '84 will return home to New Orleans as the new president and general manager of WWL-TV and affiliated properties WUPL-TV, NewsWatch 15 and WWLTV.com. Smith will replace Bud Brown, who is retiring after seven years at WWL.
"I'm honored and humbled to work with a team that understands the responsibility that comes with serving our communities, and we will continue to earn their trust every day," Smith said. "There's a spirit in this community, and it fills this station as well. I'm proud to have a chance to serve them both."
Smith, who graduated with a degree in business administration, began his broadcasting career at WWL in 1980 as a production assistant. At the time, the station was still owned by Loyola. He worked in a variety of different roles before being named a marketing executive in 1993. Smith was promoted to research director in 1995 and later became local sales manager before going on to hold the position of general manager at WWL's sister stations in Norfolk, Va., and Tucson, Ariz., also owned and operated by parent company, Belo Corp.
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|2010-07-02, 19:00
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Guns Galore!
I swear I do not remember more than one man in KK. Wtf.
And honestly now. Considering the way Japanese (Otaku) viewers are it's unlikely any animation will try to derive from any of the staples, especially under the upcoming critism of worker pay and industry decline.
Sigh. Really makes me sad. *CRIES ON VEXX'S MANLY CHEST.*
Ah my memory is slighty returning. I remember the readers didn't like it because it didn't focus on any portion of characters for long and kept switching right? The format for more than one competent protaganist should really be a much sought after concept, but that particular case of execution was lacking in proper structure. Probably too many male characters. You only need 2 not (insert number because of memory loss) that KK tried.
I do hope someone attempts such an idea again sometime in the soon future. But I guess we're stuck with this stuff eh?
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Also probably stupid question but does the SS mean anything?
|2010-07-02, 19:08
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Aww, why can't Miya get an arc. As of this episode, she's my favorite.
It was a pretty interesting first episode. The animation is pretty good, and it doesn't seem to run into the really bad problems that most poor adaptations do. Although, I have to admit, he makes that ditch two years ago sound overly dramatic.
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Edit: actually I'm thinking the SS might not mean anything but Super Sexy I like.
|2010-07-02, 19:12
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Guns Galore!
However though the first two encounters were acceptable "it happens," even I was astonished when she played leap, whatever the crap that was on his back. That pretty much crossed the line of believable character to me. If she honestly didn't think that would attract any guy at the age they appear to me then blind me. I dunno what sort of bring up past could make her than ignorant for lack of better wording.
^ Lastly as someone said above. That stood up date scarring is over the top exaggeration. Someone needs to slap him.
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With the amount we know about her at this point, I don't really think you can dismiss it as, "She's an overly friendly person who just so happens to have no shame," or whatever.
Edit: Also, shame that they didn't really expand on that second guy in ef - a tale of memories. That and True Tears are the closest I've seen to a show with two main male characters.
|2010-07-02, 19:21
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Guns Galore!
She wasn't interacting with him so much if we've watched the same thing. The only encounters I remember are:
1) The guy drops his bread. Any passerby that's nice would offer to help pick that stuff up. Just so happens to be her. The "your eyes are pretty part" was a bit eh. But meh.
2) Bump in the library. Standard stuff.
Then you got to remember they didn't talk again for days / was it a week? But again as I said the part that comes next, even I dunno what to think. What age are they? That stuff was pretty, immature? Can't think of another word.
But yeah the last 10 minutes was pretty iffy. For an "idol" any of the people around that saw that much of thought she got a screw loose. Hope rumors spread soon.
|2010-07-02, 19:25
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Protagonist-guy [I can't remember his name, but I can remember Nii-nii.] is probably in his second year, considering he remarked on the girl being a freshman and has a senpai. That'd place him around 16 or 17?
|2010-07-02, 19:42
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Quick Q for the VN players, is there any arcs outside of the main 6 girls? Because Vol 13 has no name attached to it from the looks of it.. and 6x4=24. No Miya (imouto) or Maya (teacher) route? If there isn't maybe they might do anime original for one of them or something... Or maybe Ayatsuji who's batting last gets 6 episodes compared to everyone else getting 4?
Hard to rank the girls considering this is going in arcs... but atm.. Morishima, Kaoru and Ayatsuji are my clear favs from the main 6.
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I was doing stupid stuff like that all the time at school even right up to my last year, hell maybe even for a time afterwards, yea me and my friends were pretty immature but we didn't really care
Actually reminds me we're doing leap frog once expect we weren't bending over we stood up straight trying to see if we could jump over each other, girl tried to jump over me but I stood at around 6 foot back then so lets say she didn't land so well.
School boy crush is school boy crush, it comes and goes. Her "leading" him on even for a little bit would be enough for school boy crush to bloom like wild fire.
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The leapfrog stuff was weird from start to finish: that high-schoolers would do it and that a girl would join in. But it was there for two reasons: to give them an oddly intimate contact, and to show her innocent and carefree attitude.
I agree with the idea that she is playing around innocently (in her own conscious mind) with (younger) guys, not thinking at all of anything further. The contrast between the guys liking picture books of women, and her liking picture books of cute dogs is meant to show her innocent attitude, I think.
She seems to be a bit of a flake in her friend's eyes, and maybe we are starting to understand why. There is no reason she should be attracted to our hero, except maybe that he's nice. Maybe someone else (older) wasn't nice to her? That's as far as I can go from one episode.
Sure, there are cliches here, but they are done pretty interestingly, I think. The collision in the library doesn't end with pantsu or shyness, but with her making use of him. The comments about his being nice and about his eyes were pretty original, in this anime context, it seems to me, considering that she is a senpai, way above him. I got the feeling that she is a queen, and can say anything, since she feels immune to the lower orders. Her whole character seemed fairly interesting, to me.
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So number of episodes is not confirmed yet?
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Chalet Hotel Coq de Bruyere Reviews
We booked very last minute - only 4 days ahead of our travel day and for a really good price, therefore we did not have high expectations. The room was quite small and basic but adequate. However, the staff and food more than made up for this. The location of the hotel is also fantastic right in the resort centre and with slopes a couple of minutes walk in either direction. The catering was incredible - we've never had such choice before and quantity. In fact if anything it was at times too much, as after afternoon tea, then canapes, then three courses, we were sad not to be able to manage with cheese or truffles! Perhaps a small portion option could be offered?! Our thanks to all the friendly team - Carl, Hayley, Georgia and Sean, there were many others but too many names to remember.
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My wife and I returned to Coq de Bruyere in 2011 after a wonderful holiday in 2010 and have booked again this year, for the third time. That should tell anyone how pleased we have been with all aspects of our holiday. The location in the village is fantastic with the ability to ski back to within about fifty paces (yes 50 PACES) of the front door. The food has always been excellent and no one could expect a more welcoming or helpful staff. OK, the hotel is getting a little jaded but plenty of hot water, clean and great views from many rooms. Heated ski/boot store ,rental skis delivered to and collected from hotel ... what more could one wish for! Oh yes, the skiing!!! Incredibly extensive with great variety of runs, piste maintenance and patrolling second to none, lift queues minimal and breathtaking scenery. Courchevel is expensive but if you spend wisely no more than anywhere else. We consider this to be a bargain.
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The American League most valuable player debate is heating up, with Baltimore's Chris Davis muscling his way into the conversation with Angels center fielder Mike Trout and Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera.
"Yeah, here we go again," said Trout, who won rookie-of-the-year honors and finished second to Cabrera inMVP voting last season. "It definitely feels good to be out there with Miguel and Chris."
Like 2012, Trout's MVP chances will be hurt by the fact that the Angels, who lost to the Texas Rangers, 8-3, Tuesday night, are out of playoff contention while Cabrera's Tigers lead the AL Central and Davis' Orioles are in the wild-card race.
BOX SCORE: Rangers 8, Angels 3
But a bigger obstacle to the award might be the slim pickings Trout is getting at the plate in the wake of a July 27 foot injury that could sideline slugger Albert Pujols, who hit behind Trout, for the season.
In 11 games since Pujols went down, Trout has walked 18 times, four of them intentional, bringing his free-pass total to 67, most in the league. Has Trout, who turns 22 on Wednesday, noticed a big difference in how he is being pitched?
"Uh, yeah, I've been walking two or three times a game," Trout said. "They're nibbling more. I'm looking for one pitch. If I don't get it, I'm not not swinging."
Trout, who is batting .331 with 19 home runs, 68 runs batted in, 79 runs, 24 stolen bases and a major league-high 44 multi-hit games, is determined not to chase pitches outside the strike zone.
"A walk is as good as a hit to me," Trout said. "I'm going to keep the same approach. I'll get into trouble if I get jumpy and swing at bad pitches. That's when I get myself out."
Manager Mike Scioscia believes Trout's speed can deter opponents from pitching around him.
"Mike's talent is he can turn a walk into a double, so any time you pitch around him, there's a probabilty of putting a guy in scoring position," Scioscia said. "Hopefully, we'll take advantage of that."
Right-hander Yu Darvish went after Trout on Tuesday night and paid a price. Trout hit a home run in the first inning and singled in the seventh.
Trout's home run came on the heels of Kole Calhoun's leadoff home run, the second time in club history the Angels opened a game with two home runs. The last two to do it were Rex Hudler and Don Slaught against Baltimore on May 21, 1996.
The Rangers ended a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning when Elvis Andrus singled, stole second, took third on Ian Kinsler's groundout and scored on Adrian Beltre's single to right field past a drawn-in infield. Texas, which had six stolen bases in the game, scored four runs in the ninth, three on singles against Ernesto Frieri.
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The Rangers' six stolen bases were one shy of the Angels' club record for stolen bases allowed in a game, but Scioscia didn't blame catcher Chris Iannetta. Rather, he had harsh words for his pitchers, who struggled to hold runners on.
"This is not on Chris at all — he's throwing well," Scioscia said. "This is about the inability of some of our pitchers to make adjustments. The reality of it is, if this is going to become an instructional league, we have to make some changes, because guys up here need to do a better job."
Scioscia said starter Garrett Richards, who allowed three stolen bases, has "made great strides holding runners." Relievers Kevin Jepsen, Nick Maronde and Frieri, who yielded three stolen bases, apparently have not.
"Some guys are in poor rhythm, some have a high leg kick, some have the same rhythm, where runners are getting jumps," Scioscia said. "As much as we've worked on it, some guys are having trouble making adjustments."
Howie Kendrick avoids the DL, for now
An MRI exam on Howie Kendrick's left knee, injured Monday night, revealed a sprain but no significant structural damage. The Angels will give the injury four or five days to heal before deciding whether to put Kendrick on the disabled list.
To add infield depth, the Angels called up Grant Green, acquired from Oakland last week, from triple A and sent reliever Daniel Stange to Salt Lake. Green got his first two big league hits, singles in the second and fourth innings.
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Center fielder Peter Bourjos, out since June 30 because of a broken bone in his right wrist, will begin a minor league stint of four to seven games with Salt Lake on Thursday. ... Sean Burnett will undergo surgery Wednesday to repair a small tear in the flexor tendon near his elbow, but the left-hander is expected to be ready for spring training.
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Wasim Akram criticises pitch for Sri Lanka-Pakistan semi-final
October 5, 2012
Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has lashed out at the authorities for preparing a unsporting track for the ICC World Twenty20 semi-final between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the Premadasa stadium in Colombo.
Wasim, who is in Colombo as a commentator and expert, described the pitch on which Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 16 runs on Thursday in a low scoring game as "impossible pitch to bat on".
"I should say that this pitch certainly was not in the spirit of the game. It was an impossible pitch to bat on and I am surprised they had such a surface for such a big match," Akram told Geo News channel.
The former left-arm pacer said the dry and turning pitch was a test for the batsmen and he always knew that even chasing 140 on it would be a challenging job for any side. "On this pitch 140 was like chasing 180. I don't know how you can have such a pitch for such a big match, it was disappointing," he said.
The former skipper also pointed out that the pitch was not meant for T20 cricket.
Wasim said that before the men's semifinal the women's semifinal was already been played on the pitch, which was already assisting the bowlers.
"When Pakistan batted 60 overs had been bowled on it. This is not acceptable for such a big match," Wasim, who has taken 414 Test and 502 one-day wickets, said.
The former pacer added that the "poor surface robbed the spectators of entertainment".
Wasim also criticised the umpiring in the match pointing out that a rank bad decision had cost Pakistan the wicket of their in-form player, Nasir Jamshed.
"The moment umpire gave Nasir out leg before I knew the ball had pitched outside the leg side. Such errors are unpardonable in such a big match," he said.
Other Pakistani former players also criticised the pitch, slamming the International Cricket Council for failing to properly ensure a sporting pitch for the big match.
Former Test leg-spinner, Abdul Qadir said that since T20 cricket was played for total entertainment it the duty of the ICC to ensure preparation of sporting pitches.
"People want to see runs scored and big hits in T20. Such low scoring games is okay for Test match but not in T20 cricket," Qadir said.
Former Test batsman and national coach, Mohsin Khan said he was surprised at the quality of the pitch prepared for the knock-out match.
"It meant basically the toss played too much of a vital role," said Mohsin.
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Australia and New Zealand have teamed up to investigate the high cost of mobile roaming charges between the two countries to help bring prices down.
<i>The Trans-Tasman Roaming</i> report, prepared by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Employment and Innovation, found wholesale margins were 300 per cent and retail margins are more than 90 per cent.
This compared to typical margins of 10 to 20 per cent.
The report also revealed phone calls can range from $2 to $8.50 per minute and text messages can cost around 75 cents.
"The report clearly demonstrates the need for government action on roaming charges. Consumers and businesses have had enough of being gouged and putting up with high mobile roaming charges," Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a statement.
Regulators in both Australia and New Zealand will aim to take a co-ordinated approach to stem high mobile roaming costs in the countries.
"We will both introduce legislation into the parliament that ensures that the regulators are able to investigate, and if necessary, take action to regulate prices," Gillard said.
"If the telecommunications providers act to bring down prices themselves, then of course action by the two regulators will not be required."
To improve transparency, the report recommends regulators in both countries report regularly on wholesale and retail prices and margins for trans-Tasman roaming services.
However, while the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has applauded the government for giving greater regulatory powers to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), it said it might not result in lower prices.
"We can't say for certain that monitoring prices is necessarily going to have the impact the Australian and New Zealand governments hope. There has been almost a decade of reports into roaming charges and we know that watching prices doesn't always have the effect of bringing them down," Elise Davidson, media and communications manager at ACCAN, said.
"We believe the most effective way to bring down the cost of roaming between Australia and New Zealand is for the government or the ACCC to set price caps, as has been introduced in the European Union.
"Since 2008, EU price caps has seen a significant reduction in the cost of calls and texts for customers roaming in European countries last year and last year price caps were also introduced for data, which is expected to have a similar impact."
The report also recommends regulators be able to apply remedies asymmetrically against operators.
As part of the 'economic integration' between Australia and New Zealand, $8 million will be spent on technology to automate border processing for departures from Australian airports.
In December last year the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced it was seeking comment on a draft international mobile roaming standard to prevent bill shock when consumers are overseas.
In August this year Senator Stephen Conroy, communications minister, tasked the ACMA with implementing an international mobile roaming standard.
ACMA must develop a standard by May 2013.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 1:54 am:
i lived in africa the first six years of my life, thanks to my dad being the director of the peace corps in ghana & liberia. anyone who has an idea of a way for me to get more information about his peace corps experience, please respond. i'm lucky enough to have some of my dad's personal folklore in writing and before he passed, he shared so much of it with me of; his peace corps experience and my first years in life. i pray, i wish, that there is someone who can still give me a bit more of my dad. my father became even more of a phenemonal writer about his life and travels after africa. and i would like to add to his legacy.
his name is J Dale Chastain
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Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 5:49 pm:
I have a copy of a paper entitled "Primer for Trainers" it was written in January, 1978 by J. Dale Chastain and Arlene Schindler. I don't know if that's your dad but perhaps if you Google Arlene Schindler you might get a lead
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Phillip & Cheryl DeSautell,
Dale picked Cheryl and me up from a cancelled Malawi Program in September of 1969. Since I was one of the very forst "technical" volunteers, with no college degree, we would not have otherwise had a place in Peace Corps. It was a life altering event for us. Dale went on to be the inspiration in my life that kept me plugging away in Engineering school at The University of Texas at Austin. Without Dale Chastain we would not be who and what we are today.
Our love to him and all those who loved him also.
Phillip & Cheryl DeSautell
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Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 4:17 pm:
I was the PCV secretary in Liberia in 1969, working with Dr. Gaymon, the director, and Terry Hamilton, his assistant, in the Monrovia office. I remember Dale Chastain very well. He had a large personality, a great smile, and was sociable with the volunteers.
I'm in touch with many volunteers from that time. Victoria, if you send me your email address, I can give you contacts.
I found this website because I'm looking for Arlene Schindler, who worked with Dale in Monrovia, and who I traveled with around West Africa.
Pat Fewer
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I was in the Peace Corps Ghana program from 1971 to 1973 and knew J. Dale Chastain, director. I am sorry to hear --years later--that he passed away. I am in touch with my RPCV Ghana group and can try to get the information Victoria, Dale's daughter, is requesting.I would like to get in touch with Arlene Schindler, who grew up only two blocks from me, we discovered. Does anyone know how to reach her?
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You may have found your way to my blog after reading "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall. If so, welcome.
Many of you are probably looking for answers to the question how to run barefoot or with Vibram Fivefingers or with huarache sandals. You can learn from my experiences over the last 5 years recorded in this blog or participate in one of my coaching seminars.
However, to be up-to-date and part of a larger and growing community of footwear minimalists and barefoot explorers I suggest you check out the Minimalist Runner Google Group I started a couple years ago. You will find many like minded folks who are sharing their insights from a growing body of research and personal experience.
The mission of the Minimalist Runner Google Group is to share experiences running with minimalistic footwear, footwear that allows the foot to feel and to develop strength naturally, barefoot being the gold standard.
This group seeks to dispel the myth that you need an overly supportive, cushioned, orthopedic shoe-boot in order to push the limits of human potential in running and exploring the world. As a matter of fact, many in the group like me suggest that not only do you not need them, you are better off without them.
Please feel free to join and share YOUR experiences and YOUR adventures, big or small.
PS. The photo above ALMOST became the cover of "Born to Run" but I did not have a high enough resolution photo of it...a kind of self-portrait taken in the Verdugo Mountains near Burbank.
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Providing technical assistance to parks in the design and conduct of aquatic habitat restoration projects is another active component of the National Park Service's Fisheries Program.
Large mountainous parks are usually located at the top of their watersheds and often their aquatic habitats have been little disturbed physically. However, many parks are at lower points in the watershed and can be greatly influenced by alterations to the rivers, streams, or lakes that occur both within and outside of the park. In addition, some areas within parks were altered prior to the area being designated as a national park unit. Therefore, many parks have a need to implement aquatic habitat restoration projects in order to return these areas to their natural condition.
Aquatic habitat restoration projects have included such actions as restoring stream access for salmon and steelhead spawning migrations in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Point Reyes National Seashore, and Redwoods National Park; recreating cover and woody debris in streams which have lost this valuable fish habitat due to logging and removal of streamside vegetation in Olympic National Park and Redwoods National Park; reestablishing natural stream bed channels and meanders in Glacier National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, St Croix National Scenic Riverway, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park; dam removal, culvert replacements, and stream bank erosion control in Rocky Mountain National Park, Gettysburg National Historical Park, and Fort Laramie National Historic Site; and, reducing the hydrological and ecological impacts of commercial oyster farming at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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My sister Stacy studied photographs of Civil War military leaders as we drove through Antietam Battlefield yesterday. As she examined the brochure she held, she commented to me, "I want to show you one of these pictures when you have a chance."
At our next stop, I looked over to the passenger seat at the portrait of Ambrose Burnside, the Union general leader for whom Burnside Bridge is named.
"Check out that facial hair!" she said. "And his name is Burnside! Get it?"
Sure enough, Gen. Burnside sported the puffiest sideburns I had ever seen. They were very distinctive. As I chuckled, I said, "Yes, he certainly has 'burns!"
Later, as we walked down the path to take a closer look at the historic bridge where Burnside's Ninth Corps drove the Confederates not only from the bridge, but from the bluff overlooking Antietam Creek, I studied the sign that directed us to "Burnside Bridge."
"I wonder where the word 'sideburns' originated," I mused aloud.
Stacy looked at me and raised her eyebrows, "Now that would be something!" We laughed and continued the descent to the historic site.
"It's worth Googling," I said with a shrug.
Hours later, as we sat before the computer at my home, Stacy burst out laughing.
This is what she found:
Ambrose Burnside, a Union General during the civil war, sported a mustache and interesting sidebar whiskers (hair grown down in front of the ears). This style of hair was so distinctive that his name became attached to these whiskers. But there was a catch! The two syllables of his last name were reversed, and sideburn (not Burnside) became the name of these whiskers. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_term_sideburns_originate).
"Well, Stacy," I said. "As powerful as our trip to Antietam was today, I think I know what you'll remember best!"


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India 515 for 8 (Dhoni 206*, Kohli 107, Tendulkar 81, Pattinson 4-89) lead Australia 380 by 135 runs
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Spectators entered the M Chidambaram Stadium earnestly hoping to see a Sachin Tendulkar century. They were to leave it chanting the name of the unbeaten double-centurion MS Dhoni, after watching one of the most brutal and influential innings the ground has witnessed.
Crashing and caressing his highest score, Dhoni tilted the first Test firmly India's way after three days in Chennai. In a startling display of power and poise that amounted to a six-hour celebration of Dhoni's inimitable technique, Australia's bowlers, fielders and captain Michael Clarke were humbled. India lead by 135, but the psychological effect of such an innings is bound to be weightier than that, much as Tendulkar flattened Mark Taylor's team on this ground in 1998.
So supremely did Dhoni play, barely offering a chance, that he overshadowed a perfectly constructed century by Virat Kohli, who proved an ideal partner for his captain. Australia's worst fears of subcontinental conditions - an unresponsive pitch, neutered fast bowlers and uncontrollable Indian batsmen - were realised as Kohli and Dhoni tore the attack to shreds in the first 45 minutes after lunch.
It was a passage that sapped Australia, its after-effects notable in the final session when a contest once finely balanced now looked almost as lopsided as that between Dhoni's top and bottom hands for control of the bat. The debutant and No. 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar played the pesky tail-end role with aplomb, and by the close had taken part in a record, unbroken ninth-wicket stand for India against Australia. In all, 144 runs were ransacked after tea.
Pattinson was clearly his side's best and most threatening bowler, but Nathan Lyon's three wickets came at far too great a cost, and the rest were unable to make anything more than the most fleeting passing impact. Added to the tourists' concerns was the sight of Clarke stretching his back after a bowling spell; the draining day was elongated by a tardy over rate.
There had been immediate evidence of Australian adjustments in the field when play resumed. Pattinson and Siddle bowled without a slip but a tight ring field, denying the batsmen boundaries and homing in on the stumps with the odd short ball thrown in.
After taking an over or so to settle, Pattinson and Siddle charged in for a sustained period of high-quality bowling on a pitch that gave them nothing, only a hint of reverse swing aiding their cause. So tight was their work that four consecutive maidens ticked by at one point, Pattinson holding his head in his hands when he let the sequence lapse with a Tendulkar single behind square leg.
This outstanding partnership was to be exhausted without reward, but Lyon soon became its chief beneficiary. In his first over replacing Siddle, Lyon had Kohli blinking as two deliveries landing in the rough behaved with bipolar variation - the first a grubber outside off stump, the second a jumper that narrowly evaded short leg. Next over Tendulkar stretched to drive a nicely looped offbreak that drifted, dipped to land in a footmark, and spun back to take an inside edge then clip leg stump. Lyon's joy was unrestrained, but Pattinson and Siddle deserved plenty of credit.
Dhoni arrived with India becalmed. He responded with hard hands and aggressive shots, while Kohli heeded his captain's example and pulled a Lyon long hop into the crowd beyond midwicket to help them regain their voice. Boundaries began to leak again where previously none could be found, and the 50 stand was raised at better than four an over.
Lunch came and went, and the arrival of the second new ball was the signal for Dhoni to launch the most brazen of batting assaults. Taking advantage of a harder projectile more waywardly delivered by Australia's bowlers, Dhoni's blade flashed in the afternoon sun as boundaries piled up. Kohli reached his century in the middle of this period when Pattinson drifted onto his pads.
Moises Henriques' return to the attack had Dhoni smearing him contemptuously into the stands at wide long-off, and seven overs with the new ball had given up no fewer than 54 runs when Lyon returned. At once Kohli's ambition outstripped his prudence, and Starc claimed a fine overhead catch at mid-on. Ravindra Jadeja made a careful start, and faced a trio of lbw appeals as Pattinson and Starc extracted the sharpest reverse swing of the match so far.
Pattinson's composure appeared to be slipping with each unsuccessful shout, but minutes before tea, his move around the wicket had Jadeja bowled shouldering arms. Dhoni remained, however, conserving his wicket in the lead-up to the interval then advancing again as the evening session commenced.
Others fell by the wayside - R Ashwin edged Lyon onto the stumps via his boot, and Harbhajan Singh gifted Henriques a first Test wicket with an unseemly waft that did not impress Dhoni - but Bhuvneshwar provided sturdy support. Dhoni toyed with the strike, taking singles at times and spurning them at others, and invariably connecting cleanly when he deigned to swing for the fences.
Australia's bowlers and fielders gradually wilted, Ed Cowan missing a tough chance from Bhuvneshwar while others misfielded, and Pattinson's pace dipped as steadily as Lyon's bite. All the while, the lead grew from awkward to match-defining dimensions. Such a possibility had seemed so unlikely at the moment Tendulkar fell.
Daniel Brettig is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here


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Sophie Milman's immigrant experience has shaped not just her personality but also her approach to music.
Take for instance the Meredith Wilson song Till There Was You, the fifth song on the jazz singer's newly released fourth CD, In The Moonlight.
"That song takes me back to a time that was very difficult for us – it was the best of times and the worst of times," the 28-year-old Juno Award winner says.
Milman, then seven, had just moved with her parents to Israel from Russia. Her parents had to work several jobs to make ends meet, and Milman had to grow up fast, sometimes only seeing them on Shabbat.
"Music was how we communicated. [Till There Was You, the Beatles 1963 version] was the first English song I learned to sing. I was a big Beatles fan. We had a car and on a long trip — which in Israel means anything longer than 20 minutes — I was the stereo. My dad would always request that song. I would sing Beatles songs, Queen songs and Deep Purple songs."
Now, two decades later, she finally got to record it. "It's a simple song, a ditty, it's not very sophisticated… but there's something so beautiful about it."
Then, nine years after moving to Israel, her family uprooted again — this time moving to Canada. "There's nothing like picking up and starting over from scratch — twice," Milman says.
"My experience was very different," she says. "Leaving everything you know and never going back. I've met many rich Russian Jews who come here to go to school and go back over the summer. It was nothing like that for me. We had no money. On my birthday I would receive a telegram from my grandparents in Russia because we couldn't afford a phone call!"
This summer, Milman had a chance to go on what she called a "reverse journey," going back from Canada to Israel and Russia.
Russia was just a visiting trip, but in Israel she got the opportunity to perform for the first time. She did three concerts – the first was an emotional show at the Zappa Club in Herzliya.
"I've played Massey Hall in Toronto and the Hollywood Bowl [in Los Angeles] but the show at the Zappa Club was one of the best shows of my life. Even my husband, who's seen me 100 times, says it was the best show I've ever done. It was something very special."
Milman was nervous before going on stage. This was the first time her relatives in Israel as well as her old friends would be seeing her. Although she purposely had the venue darkened, she still knew they were there.
Milman, admittedly, gets emotional even at the best of times and says that no matter how long you've been singing, you never quite get used to it.
"Singing is the only profession in the world where you go out and all eyes are on you," she says. "You have to connect with people in a way nobody else needs to."
In The Moonlight is a strong, sophisticated recording, one that shows a more introspective and mature Milman.
It features 13 songs, from the flirtatious George Gershwin/Buddy DeSylva opener Do It Again to the hauntingly seductive Serge Gainsbourg song Ces Petits Riens and the Duke Ellington classics Prelude to a Kiss and Day Dream.
"This album's moodier, lusher and more romantic," she says.
"I think that without my previous records I couldn't make this one. It's all a natural evolution. I am extremely proud of [2009's] Take Love Easy, and this album reflects a lot of growth."
Milman recorded In The Moonlight in New York with Grammy-nominated producer Matt Pierson.
"I was really looking forward to it and yet I was terrified," Milman admits. At first, she was reluctant to leave her comfort zone. "But I felt like I needed to do it."
Working with top players such as pianists Gerald Clayton and Kevin Hays and guitarists Julian Lage and Romero Lubambo helped her up the ante. "When you're in a recording studio with [such musicians] you have to sing the best you can. It allows you to push yourself in a way you normally wouldn't."
Also for the first time, Milman enhances her music with orchestral strings on several songs.
"There's more personal maturity, and the strings really add to the sound. The overall effect is a more grown-up Sophie Milman record. It's a better, sleeker version of what I've been doing."
Milman's second CD Make Someone Happy won a Juno Award in 2008. She admitted to having high hopes for this record but conceded, "I'm not greedy. One win is enough."
As on her previous recordings, she also throws in a contemporary tune, this time Feist's regretful So Sorry.
"People suggested that one to me. I don't often accept suggestions, but that Feist tune is perfect for me. I'm a very temperamental person, and when I fight, I'm very fierce. There's also that whole Jewish guilt thing as well."
Although she's not particularly religious, Milman feels very connected to Judaism — at least on a cultural, traditional level.
As is the case for many Soviet Jews, it was hard for her family to be observant in Russia. In fact, it wasn't until they came to Canada in 1999 that she first went to a shul. But just like her music, Milman is constantly maturing and evolving on a personal level. She got to host her first Rosh Hashanah dinner this year.
"My husband [lawyer Casey Chisick, whom she married two years ago], who's way more religious than I am, roped me into it. I did the whole thing, two briskets and chicken soup made from scratch. I'm a real balabuste!"
To her husband's chagrin, marriage is not slowing Milman's touring schedule. She just returned from Japan and immediately launched a mini-Canadian tour that took her to Ottawa, Quebec and Montreal. She'll be spending most of the rest of the year touring the United States. She's scheduled to perform in Markham, Ont., on Jan. 27, 2012, and at Massey Hall in Toronto on June 1, 2012.
For more information on Sophie Milman and In The Moonlight, visit www.sophiemilman.com.


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Volume 16 Issue 46 | April 9 - 15, 2004
Variety Arts Theatre
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Like a Hollywood movie
New play by young couple voted audience favorite
By Jerry Tallmer
A scene from The Joys of Sex a new play that is gaining attention with its appeal to Village audiences
Dear Monty David Singer:
Let me tell you something about your mommy. Youre only five-months-old now, and probably not quite ready to see the Off-Broadway musical at the Variety Arts that your mother, Melissa Levis, wrote with David Weinstein. It began life as an Off-Off-Broadway revue in last years Fringe Festival a big, big little hit and do you know how your mommy did her research for it?
She spent a year reading the sex letters in Penthouse magazines Forum section.
The show is The Joys of Sex, entering previews this Friday, April 9, toward its May 12 opening, and let us now allow Monty David Singer, son of Melissa Levis (Singer) and realtor Ben Singer, to concentrate on his crib mobile, while we meet none other than his mommy herself, who wrote all those naughty lyrics, and David Weinstein, who wrote the music they jointly wrote the book sitting side by side at a rehearsal break in a large white room, beaming like a couple of cats that licked the cream.
The way this show began, she says, is first came the title, and then came the piano, and then came David.
I was taking this class for an MFA at NYU a class in producing, conducted by Margo Lion, the conceiving producer of Hairspray. She told us: You have to be realistic about the economics. You dont write for a cast of 20. You write for a small cast, a small set. Look at little shows like Forever Plaid or I Love You, Youre Perfect or Nunsense.
So, Melissa Levis says, I woke up one morning, thinking: Forever Plaid, that was about the 50s and nostalgia, I Love You, Youre Perfect is about dating, Nunsense was about religion. What subject can be funny and universal?
And the answer came: Sex!
When she received that MFA she went out and bought herself a piano.
At that time I was given the opportunity to write some songs on spec for Fox, and I met this guy who could write music, and hired him for $300, and he said: For what you pay me I could be flipping burgers at McDonalds, and he split.
So then I remembered David, whom Id met through friends . . .
David Weinstein now pipes up. I was working at MTI, he says. Music Theater International, doing arrangements and orchestrations, and working with musicians who were condensing classic musicals . . .
. . . and I called David and said: Ill pay you anything, and he said: Dont pay me, just buy me dinner, and we went and had an $18 Japanese dinner at East, and that night I propositioned David . . .
. . . about writing a show . . .
I said: David, did you ever do a three-way?
And. says Weinstein, boyishly, bashfully, I said: Of course.
He lied, says Ms. Levis.
I lied, says David Weinstein. I wanted to be a nice guy.
But Ive come to realize, says Ms. Levis, that writing songs together is a lot like having sex together. Now David and I are like . . .
Laurel and Hardy? he throws in.
Odysseus and Penelope?
No! Like Carole Lombard and . . . and . . .
John Barrymore, a helpful journalist supplies.
David and I are now working on our next show, which will have a cast of 20. Its taken from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Want to hear the working title? Ithaca, Gods, and Greeks, Oh Troy. What do you think of it?
The journalist stares out the window. Except the room doesnt have any windows.
Well, were working on the title. The Joys of Sex is a lot catchier, isnt it?
Anyway, I applied to the Fringe in January of 2002, and got in in May. We were booked for five performances at the 14th Street Y, were held over for two more, and it was cool because out of 195 shows in the festival we were voted Audience Favorite, and our Jeremy Dobrish was named Best Director.
Whats even cooler is that on the Friday night a member of the audience was Ben Sprecher, producer/owner of the Variety Arts, Third Avenue just below 14th Street.
His partner Bill Miller had come on the Wednesday and sent Ben on the Friday. It was like a Hollywood movie. He stuck out his hand with a card in it, and said: Kid, you wrote a hit, and Im gonna produce it!
Also greatly helping in the genesis of that hit, shed like it known, are my best friend Beth Saulnier, whos worked on the dialogue, and our dramaturg Julie Kramer. The four actor/singers are Ron Bohmer, David Josefsberg, Stephanie Kurtzuba, and Jenelle Lynn Randall.
Melissa Levis was born January 19, 1970, in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Manchester, Vermont, where her mother and psychiatrist father own and operate the Wilberton Inn.
So I was always performing, putting on shows. The innkeepers daughter.
David Weinstein was born April 17, 1975, in Riverdale, and grew up in Spring Valley, New York a pretty good suburban childhood, always banging on drums and on an old piano handed down from my great-grandmother.
When he was just horsing around before a school talent show, a music teacher asked him: Can you do something else? David sat down at the piano and, just like that, made up a song that came pouring out.
The Joys of Sex is now whats called a book musical, its two young men and two young women play various diffident, wild, repressed, macho, nerdy, etc., etc., types, and the song titles include I Need It Bad, O No, Should I? Shouldnt I?, Intercourse, One-Night Stand, The First Time, and, of course, The Three-Way.
Hey, you there Melissa, David what was your own first time?
Come and see the show! she says.
Ill just say that my first time is in that song, Weinstein says.
Me? says Ms. Levis. Oh, Im boring. Freshman year in college. Its in the song too.
Shed like to note that whereas The Vagina Monologues is essentially a political enterprise, our show is fun, and people do open up.
I think people see our show and go home and have a wonderful romp, says Melissa Levis.
Monty David Singer, its time for your nap.
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Hi all,
Here's a little more background:
I'm trying to print red text on a yellow box on the Printer object and on a
PictureBox (for print preview purposes). In some cases the text has to be
printed in an angle, so I have to use calls to the Win API anyway. Printing
angled text is taken care of.
Here are the problems that I'm faced with:
1. The app I'm writing will be installed on computers with different prints
of which I cannot influence their breed and origin.
The red text and yellow box I mentioned above prints as I want it on
most printers but on some it prints the box and the text in the
color I want BUT, a white rectangle that is as wide and as high as the text
is printed around the text no matter what font I use. When I first saw that
happening I thought that a newer driver would help. Well... it didn't. MS
Word prints the above text and box as it should (MS Word uses API calls,
doesn't it?), and because I'm using API calls anyway, why not for the whole
printing which in my opinion will eliminate the white rectangle problem?
2. I read that widows resources, like pens and brushes have to be used with
great care because they are limited and run out quickly. They
also have to be used almost exclusively as local variables. Here's a rough
object model of the document I want to print: CDocument that is a
collection of CLabel classes. The CLabel class is a collection of CItem
classes. The CItem class contains all the information about its
position on the CDocument, its font, color, etc. The CDocument has a
PrintOn(hDC as long) method the calls the PrintOn(hDC as long) method on all
CLabel classes that call the PrintOn(hDC as long) method on the CItem
classes. The CItem uses only 8 colors. The qustion is: in this case can I
have 8 LOGBRUSH objects on a .bas module that will be globally available and
will be created when the PrintOn(hDC as long) method on the CDocument is
called and used by the CItem objects and destroyed just before the PrintOn(h
DC as long) on the CDocument method exits?
3. I have noticed that when several apps written in VB run at the same time
the system resources and GDI resources run out very rapidly and they go
up when I shot the apps down. Someone told me that this is only a Win 95/98
problem. So my conclusion is that VB uses GDI resources not very
efficiently (do correct me if I'm wrong). And I don't use API calls in all
apps I write. The above problem aggravates when I use the MSHFlexGrid OCX
with many cells. What's your comment on that? And better still how
do you deal with this? Are VC++ apps better at handling this?
Thanks in advance for your responses
Here's a response I got from: Igor Roytberg [email@example.com]
the question should probably be not about which Win API to cal but why in
the world would you want to complicate "ta **** out" your program?! I can
understand if object doesn't have Fore/BackColor properties, but in your
case you must be working with labels or textboxes, isn't it? I hope you've
got the point.
Another story would be if you need to change Fore/BackColor at run time to
the object that doesn't have any of these properties and sets some default
colors which you may not like. Please give us some more details on what
exactly you are trying to accomplish.
Tim Manos <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote in message
> Dear API gurus,
> How do I set the fore and back color of a device context to print text
> is, say, red? And more precisely, how do I draw a yellow box with and
> red text on it? All that using API calls. An example would be very much
> appreciable.
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim


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We offer a generous Pro/Sal compensation structure, full health, vision and dental insurance, 401k, large CE allowance, license and professional dues. We believe strongly in quality of life both at work and away from the hospital. Our schedule offers shifts that are grouped together to offer large blocks of time off so you can have a life outside of veterinary medicine.
Western Maryland is an ideal location for those who love the outdoors but still desire to live close to major metropolitan regions. This location also has a lower cost of living despite being so close to Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
If you're interested in being part of an emergency clinic that has the personal touch of a day practice, we'd love to hear from you. Resumes can be emailed directly to email@example.com.
ALVMA Office
P.O. Box 3514
Montgomery, AL 36109
Phone - 334-395-0086
Fax - 334-270-3399
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