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CALGARY — The parents of teenage twins who died during an after-hours run down Canada Olympic Park's luge-bobsled track two years ago say they try not to dwell on the details of what happened and don't want to blame anyone.
Jason and Shauna Caldwell were in court Monday for the start of a fatality inquiry into the deaths of their sons Jordan and Evan.
"Risks to life in this world are inevitable, but because we value life and there are opportunities to put safeguards in place, we fully support and encourage this inquiry process, and are thankful for it," the father told the inquiry led by Judge Margaret Keelaghan.
Keelaghan's role is not to assign legal responsibility, but she may recommend ways to prevent similar deaths in future.
Jason Caldwell said outside court that he and his wife made a conscious decision not to be obsessed by the facts of the crash that claimed the lives of their 17-year-old boys.
"Nothing that will be said here today can bring Evan and Jordan back," he said, clutching a leatherbound bible that belonged to Jordan.
"We've had to let all of that raw pain and grief be displaced by something bigger, and that is our faith in God and our faith that we will see Evan and Jordan again."
The twins were part of a larger group that snuck onto the grounds of the WinSport facility with plastic sleds and headed down the icy track, which was built for the 1988 Olympics.
They hit a gate, set up to divide the bobsled and luge runs, at high speed and died almost instantly — six other young men were taken to hospital.
The Caldwells drew parallels with the grief still rippling after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan on Friday, which killed 15.
After the accident two years ago, the Caldwells thought one of the boys in hospital might have been their son, but found out later that both had died.
They said they empathize with families affected by similar confusion following the Broncos crash. Authorities mixed up the identities of one of the deceased and one of the survivors partly because the hockey players all had blond dyed hair and similar builds.
"We remember the chaos of it and waiting for hours to identify the unidentified boy," Shauna Caldwell recalled.
Calgary Police Service Det. Neil MacPherson, who responded to the scene the morning of the accident, told the inquiry the boys climbed over a fence that was more than two-metres high at the top of the sliding track to get into the start house.
MacPherson said there were "no trespassing" signs and three boys involved in the Feb. 6, 2016, tragedy had snuck into the park nearly two weeks before.
Helena Falk, who was a security guard at the time, told court her training did not touch on unauthorized entry onto the sliding track. She said she'd heard rumours about, but never encountered, anyone trying it until the night of the fatal crash.
Shauna Caldwell hugged Falk as the inquiry broke for lunch. The couple has told WinSport, which owns and operates the track and Canada Olympic Park, they have no intention of taking legal action and invited anyone involved in the tragedy to reach out to them.


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I'm sure we've all heard about people who train barefoot. A lot of us have looked at them like they're crazy. Shoes give added support, cushioning, and protection to the foot, right?
Well, is it right? First lets look at some anecdotal evidence:
Shoes are a fairly recent invention, being only several thousands of years old. The Hominini tribe, the earliest ancestors of Homo-sapiens genus, divulged from their Pan genus brethren 6.3 million years ago. The human foot, and all the body's supporting mechanisms for the foot, evolved over millions of years to be fairly good at what it does. We could probably trace the evolution of the human foot even farther back, but lets go from there. Human feet were designed to be walked on. Shoes stop you from walking on them.
You are probably wearing shoes right now. Take them off, and put one on your desk. Look at it. Do you see how the toe is curved upward? This is done so it is even possible to walk in shoes.
When you walk barefoot, you strike with the middle of the heel, rolling forward onto the balls of the feet, and then there is a powerful push-off from the balls of the feet. When running, they were designed to strike in the midfoot, not the heel. Shoes alter your gait - when you walk in shoes, the back of your heel strikes first, and your foot rolls forward, and then you push off your toes which creates a rocking motion. When you run with shoes, it feels "natural" to run heel-to-toe, which causes a jarring shock to your ankles and knees. High heels exacerbate problems caused by an unnatural position of the foot. They cause different and unnatural stresses on the bones of the foot, the ankle, the knee, up to the pelvis and even through the shoulders. It raises the heel, which is the foot's natural supporter of weight, by an inch, two inches, sometimes even four or five inches! The entire weight of the body is transferred to the ball of the foot, while the pelvis and the shoulders tilt to compensate for the difference in weight distribution.
In terms of health, unshod feet have been proven healthier than their shoe-trapped relatives. Zulu, an African tribe, have healthier feet than their shoe-wearing Europeans counterparts, EXCEPT for the Zulus that work in coal mines, where they are "forced to wear ill-fitting footwear and stand on their feet for long hours." (http://web.wits.ac.za/NewsRoom/NewsItems/feet.htm) Foot fungus and other bacteria thrive in dark, damp places... such as inside of a shoe.
Society is too focused on protection. Just like an over-obsessive use of anti-bacterial soap robs your body of the chance to be exposed to those bacteria and develop an immunity to them, exposing your body to minor threats strengthens it. Walking barefoot toughens the foot, while wearing shoes can destroy it. Even as an infant, wearing shoes too early or socks that are too tight can permanently inhibit proper bone growth (http://www.unshod.org/pfbc/toysawfl.htm).
How does all this relate to Parkour?
I've trained barefoot several times in the past month, and each time is better than the last. Not only do you get back down to that primal feeling of your feet in the dirt and the grass, but it forces you to progress slowly. Slow progression is something I understood in Parkour, but I'm coming to realize its importance in everything. I'm recovering from a nasty case of tendonitis developed by rock climbing and bouldering WAY too much in the Winter. I didn't limit myself and let my body adapt, and now I'm facing the consequences.
This happens all too often in Parkour, and training barefoot is a magnificent way to force this concept of slow progression. With shoes, I can do a 9.5 foot precision with little trouble. Without shoes, I was hesitant to attempt a 4 foot precision. I was second guessing myself when doing an extremely small cat. I lacked the confidence to land out of a certain kong. Without the "protection" shoes offered me, I was more halving the distances of most of my techniques. And I was elated. Not only was I learning more about an area of my body I had been neglecting (my feet), but by mastering and rebuilding my confidence when barefoot, those gains still exist when I am wearing shoes. Going barefoot means perfecting my form, or else there will be pain. Shoes mask imperfections in technique, but do not fully protect you from their consequences.


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Surgical Sunday cuts 50 patients from waiting list
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is hoping to address a backlog of some 250 patients who are on a waiting list to have surgery for hernias on Surgical Sundays.
So far 31 members of the public who needed surgery for hernias have benefited from the programme and an additional 20 persons were scheduled for surgery yesterday.
The initiative, which started on November 12, will utilise four operating theatres by four teams of surgeons at the Eric Williams Medical Science Complex every other Sunday to address the backlog of urgent surgeries.
At a press conference yesterday at the EWMSC, Deyalsingh met with four patients who had the surgery.
Dr Malachy Ojuro, acting Medical Chief of Staff at the EWMSC, said the new initiative called Surgical Sundays, would be performed every two weeks on Sundays when the operation theatres are free.
"The surgical team will initially focus on hernia surgeries, but other types of procedures will be considered over time as we move to reduce the backlog of cases to more manageable levels," he said.
Ojuro said the initiative resulted in 18 surgeries being conducted on 16 patients a month ago and another 15 patients benefited two weeks later on Sunday November 25. All the procedures were successfully performed by the all-local medical teams at the EWMSC.
"The procedures were completed using the model developed by the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) in the recently concluded Operation Walk project in October, where more than 50 surgical procedures were performed in just three days," he said.
Deyalsingh said such initiatives were important because it addressed many challenges facing the healthcare system and across the world by empowering the RHAs to deliver more for our citizens from the resources we have available.
"This project will expand the number of tertiary level services offered to citizens and has positioned the NCRHA and the EWMSC as the leading centre for specialised medical solutions in T&T. The success rate of this surgery team also reflects the growing confidence of our medical professionals and their competence to meet and surpass international standards," he said.
Davlin Thomas, acting chief executive officer at the NCRHA, said the project which will be conducted every two weeks, is part of a plan to institutionalise and further expand the number and types of surgeries being performed by the EWMSC.
"When we bring down the backlog for hernias to more manageable levels, we will look at other procedures with extended waiting lists. Additionally, the NCRHA will be doing its part to continually improve our system so we can accommodate important projects such as Surgical Sundays that provide opportunities for our doctors to make a tangible difference in the lives of our patients," he said.
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via pvrwire SageTV 6.0 PVR/media center public beta released — official sagetv forum thread
"SageTV has released a public beta of version 6.0, and there's a ton of new features.
Here's a few of them:
* Search and play Google Video files from you SageTV machine or from a media extender
* Playback more file types, including MOV (Quicktime), 3GP, MP4, H.264 Playback
* Convert files to play on a PSP, iPod or cell phone (3GP/MPEG4)
* Improved conflict resolution user interface
* Support for compressing HDTV recordings to MPEG4 while preserving the AC3 surround sound
* File conversion is now fully integrated into the maini user interface. You can also manage encoding jobs from within the UI.
For a full list of changes, visit this thread in the SageTV forums."
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SageTV Version 6 Public Beta Has Begun
Hello everyone, and welcome to another round of public beta testing with SageTV.
New Features for SageTV Version 6.0
Major Features
1. Integrated Google Video search and playback (also works on extenders)
2. Media Extender DVD playback with DVD menus and 5.1 audio for hard disk based DVDs
3. Thumbnails are now generated and shown for all video files (except for WMV9 or DRM protected content)
4. WMA, AAC (iTunes), FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis music files are now supported for playback with full tag parsing
5. MOV (Quicktime), 3GP, MP4, H.264 Playback
6. DVB-T/S/C Capture devices are now supported on Windows (BDA drivers required)
7. CAM/CI support for DVB-C on Windows
8. EPG Data from DVB capture devices is integrated into SageTV
9. EPG Data from ATSC capture devices is integrated into SageTV (i.e. DTV subchannel data)
10. Enhanced EPG Data for US/Canadian customers includes Series Information and TV Editorials
11. NEW Enhanced Picture Library has improved navigation and also supports lossless rotation/flips of JPEG images
12. NEW Enhanced Music Library has significantly improved tag parsing and much better navigation
13. NEW Enhanced Video & DVD Library has new detailed media format information and improved navigation
14. Database now cleanly separates music, video, pictures, DVD and television content and APIs have been updated to allow many operations to operate on specific types of content (referred to as a MediaMask)
15. Aspect Ratio correction is now fully implemented for all content types
16. Proper aspect ratio configuration is now supported by allowing the user to specify what the aspect ratio of their display is
17. Watched position for imported video files are now remembered
18. Conversion of files (transcoding) is fully integrated into the UI; as well as managing the transcode jobs. Any format SageTV can play it can transcode with the exception of WindowsMediaVideo9 and WindowsMediaAudioLossless.
19. Support for converting files to play on a PSP, iPod or cell phone (3GP/MPEG4)
20. Support for compressing HDTV recordings to MPEG4 while preserving the AC3 surround sound
21. Support for converting any imported file to MPEG4
22. Support for playback of progressive download Flash content (used for Google Video, can be extended to other things with the Studio)
23. Video Playlists can now be easily setup by the user
24. Song Information can now displayed on the screen as an alternative to music visualizations
25. Picture Slideshow Screen Saver is a new option
26. Significantly improved audio quality for the transcoder
27. Significantly reduced delay between playing back consecutive files on the Media Extender
28. Official support of Full Screen Exclusive mode on Windows
29. Improved conflict resolution user interface
30. OpenGL rendering is now supported with newer GPUs on Linux
Minor Features
1. The network adapter that the media extender server binds to can now be specified in the properties file
2. Audio stream can be selected when playing back content with multiple audio tracks (this is new for non-DVD content)
3. New command to toggle through the different aspect ratio modes
4. MS-DRM detection – SageTV can identify that a file is protected with Windows Media DRM.
5. DVD folders will now display their size in detailed information
6. Placeshifter clients no longer need to restart their buffering when seeking forward within the bounds of their current buffer
Studio Features
1. Re-use property editor windows in the SageTV Studio
2. Add scaling insets to Image widgets to allow specifying what regions are stretched when the image is scaled
3. Add ability to mark a widget as a background, this is now available in the property editor for Text, Item, Panel, Video, Image, Table and TableComponent Widgets
4. Image Widgets should have a property for automatically repeating their event if they're clicked on and the button is held down.
5. Setting the inactivity or screen saver now only resets the corresponding timer instead of both.
6. Added a drop-down list of previously used expressions to the expression evaluator
7. The results of an expression evaluation can now be copied to the clipboard by selecting the text
8. EXPERIMENTAL: There's a Launch Another Studio Frame option underneath Tools now. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. DO NOT OPEN MULTIPLE STV FILES WITH THIS. It is safe to use if you have the same STV open in all of the windows and you can drag & drop between the windows. There's also a Refresh option under Tools to refresh a frame if you change another and then the others fall out of sync.
9. Added LayoutStarted hook (much more useful for animations than RenderingStarted since LayoutStarted fires before the layout calculations are done)
10. Added context variables to Tables of:NumColsPerPage, NumRowsPerPage, HScrollIndex, VScrollIndex
11. Added Ctrl+R as the keyboard accelerator for Set Primary Reference in the Studio
12. Added a 'Recent Files' submenu to the File menu in the Studio.
13. Added HScrollIndex and VScrollIndex vars for scrolling panels (they're floats in Panels). They'll go between 0 and NumPages.
We've tried to provide generous upgrade policies to our customers in the past and we'll try to continue to provide generous upgrades in the future including a free upgrade for Version 5 customers to Version 6.0. Here's the details on our current upgrade policy for Version 6 which requires users of Version 6 to have one of the following:
1) A SageTV Media Center license key from Version 5 or higher
2) A SageTV Media Center license key from Verion 4 or earlier AND a Version 6 upgrade key.
You will NOT need to purchase new licenses for clients, placeshifter connections or media extenders.
Linux users do not need an upgrade key; all Linux license keys purchased are still valid.
Version 6 upgrade keys can be purchased here. (they are currently priced at $29.99 as a $50 discount from the regular full price of SageTV Media Center for $79.99)
If you wish to discuss the upgrade policy, please do so here.
Please submit all bug reports should be submitted via this form:
Here's the download links you've been looking for:
SageTV V6.0.11 for Windows
SageTVClient V6.0.11 for Windows
SageTVPlaceshifter V6.0.11 for Windows
The Version 6 Linux beta can be installed the same way the V5 Linux software is installed; but the files are in a different folder on a server that you need to download.
The normal Linux install downloads files from:
to use V6 beta, download the files from here instead:
We hope you enjoy this new version of SageTV. Thanks in advance for your assistance in beta testing.


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Wicked Clone The Cinema Musical
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Today, unlike usual, i'd post something old. It's still available in market, but i've sold mine so i don't think i will write about product review here since i don't think it's still reliable :p
Product : Too Faced Romantic Eye Palette
Price : $36
Discontinued : No
Here you are.. Super pretty packaging, very feminine, handy & travel friendly, complete with how-to-look card and the shadows inside seems so pretty in pan!
I'm intrigued, what is romantic eye?
According to Jarred Blandino, it's a palette to enchance your inner bride, bombshell or classic beauty, all with an ultra feminine touch.
Jarred Blandino is Too Faced's founder. And he loves to put the reason why a palette was created behind the product it self.
The eye shadows inside are divided into 3 section as usual : day, classic and fashion look. Each section has 1 big pan and 2 smaller pans.
Palette's size is the same with another cardboard palette from Too Faced.
Here's my swatches :
Both swatches are did in the same order :
1st row : soulmates, i do, un-veil
2nd row : kiss the bride, cut the cake, first dance
3rd row : bouquet toss, honey moon, ever after
(in my opinion, the shades name are getting more romatic from section to section :D)
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Two people who were convicted in a confrontation at a child's birthday party that took place in 2015 have been sentenced to a combined 33 years in prison.
On the morning of February 27, a judge sentenced Kayle Norton to 15 years in prison, with six to serve and Jose Torres to 20 years in prison, with 13 to serve.
According to reports, Norton and Torres paraded through a neighborhood that is populated by mostly black residents with a group called "Respect the Flag," which flew Confederate flags from their trucks. The group allegedly noticed a black family having a birthday party, and decided to roll up and cause trouble, reportedly telling the party-goers that they would "kill y'all ni**ers."
Video from the incident was shared by the New York Times back in October, 2015.
From the Times' original report:
Prosecutors say that members of the group, which calls itself Respect the Flag, threatened a group of blacks attending an outdoor birthday party on July 25. A cellphone video of part of the episode shows several white men driving away from the party in a convoy of pickup trucks with the Confederate battle flag and other banners, including American flags, fluttering from the truck beds.
The partygoers contend that members of the flag group yelled racial slurs and displayed a crowbar, a knife and either a rifle or a shotgun, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group in Montgomery, Ala., that is representing some of the accusers.
According to the accused, the confrontation started when someone at the party threw an object at one of the trucks, but party attendees' accusations and video of the incident were enough to charge two people, Kayla Norton and Jose Torres, with violating Georgia's street-gang terrorism law.
"If you drive around town with a Confederate flag, yelling the 'N' word, you know how it's going to be interpreted," Judge William McClain said at the sentencing. "It's inexplicable to me that you weren't arrested by the police that day.
Both defendants sobbed openly during the court proceedings.
Watch WSB-TV's report on the story in the video below:
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Chandra handover all the Amatya responsibilities to Yovani man Here a man is giving an information to Nand and Malaiketu that Chanakya left Mahal forever and now all people are talking about this matter. Nand asks is this a real information? He says yes. Amatya says that as we know Chanakya left mahal and now he is Chandra's enemy. But Chandra's enemy is our friend. So it's good to do friendship with Chanakya and then talks to him about the next plan.
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Here Helena and Apma are talking to each other about their further plans. Apma says that we have to celebrate this moment because I broke everything in between Chandra and Chanakya. She says to Helena that you have to take Bindusara from Nandini forever and then we will do something against her. Helena is coming in Moora's room and says sorry to her.
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Moora says to Nandini that you are responsible behind all of this. Only because of you, Chanakya left the Magad which is so much bad for the future of this mahal. So that I have one condition, either you stay here or I stay here. Nandini gets shocked. Later Chandra folded her hands in front of Nandini and makes a request not to leave Magad at any cost because Bindusara needs you. Nandini looks on.
Chandra Nandini 28th April 2017 Written Episode Update:
At last, Nandini says that I have to leave this mahal because I don't want you to stand against your son. Bindusaar starts to cry a lot. Nandini asks Moora for taking Bindusara once in her arms. She takes Bindusara in her arms and loves her a lot. Helena, Apma, and Moora are present there. Nandini is going out from there. Dadi comes there and asks what is going on here? She comes to know that Moora threw Nandini out from the Magad. Here Chandra comes to know that 1 lakh coins are missing from the stock of Magad. He gets shocked. Later Dadi is trying to make Moora ready to stop Nandini from going outside the mahal. One sevika informs Chandra that Nandini is going to leave this mahal. He goes there to stop Nandini. He asks Nandini what happened? Where are you going now? Nandini replies that I am going to leave this mahal. He makes a request to Nandini to stay here because Bindusara needs you.


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We can now officially put a fork in the short-lived Mitsubishi Raider pickup. It's done. Mitsubishi and Chrysler, the company that actually assembles the Raider pickup that's little more than a restyled Dodge Dakota, have jointly admitted that the midsize truck's contract will not be renewed. Mitsubishi is not currently planning on offering a new vehicle to fill the departed truck's spot in the lineup.
This revelation goes right along with remarks made by CEO Osamu Masuko, who suggested that his company would refocus all its efforts on small, fuel efficient cars, hybrids and electric vehicles. In any case, neither Mitsubishi nor Dodge is going to miss the vehicle all that much since sales for all of last year totaled under 3,000 units. Rest in peace, Raider.
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:42:20 -0500, Wynona Stacy Lockwood wrote:
I had a point to post this link.
On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 13:03 -0400, Art wrote:
sorry, I couldn't resist to cross-post.
"While most issues with computers slowing down are well known, and
pretty much a solved problem. There is one that is only slowly becoming
noticeable as systems get progressively faster.
This is the problem of memory slowing down as it ages."
For more information read
https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2018-April/109833... .
To work around this issue, it's possible to use GLV.
The bellow workaround seems to do the job. I didn't notice another
Begin forwarded message:
for testing purpose I simply removed the Falkon's config and copied
QupZilla's config.
rm -Ir .config/falkon/
cp -ai .config/qupzilla/ .config/falkon
By the Preferences dialog I edited qupzilla:speeddial to
falkon:speeddial , could there be additional issues that might need to
get fixed?
When I migrated from GRUB to syslinux I was euphoric, if you google long
enough, you might find claims from me similar to, "I got rid of the
GRUB crap, syslinux is the Holy Grail". Nowadays, I'm more careful
regarding such claims. Sometimes I'm thinking about migrating back to
GRUB. I've got good reasons to still stay with syslinux, but IMHO GRUB
is a good default bootloader, for user-friendly major distros. The way
too small /boot partition of Ubuntu default installs has less to do with
the bootloader. IMO sperating partitions from the root directory is for
hysterical raisins.
On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 03:10:42 +0000 (UTC), Jonesy via ubuntu-users wrote:
is it using a backported KPTI patch set, respl. is it possible to
disable it by booting with nopti [1]? I don't have the time to read
changelogs at the moment.
Since a DAW not necessarily is connected to the Internet at all, but
requires best performance, disabling might be better, than using the
KPTI patch set and suffering from loss of performance.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:47:48 +0300, Tom H wrote:
what happens if I make a release update from 16.04 to the next LTS? I
need xorg.conf.
do you have any hints on what to consider, when writing a script for an
LCD monitor and a CRT monitor using an Intel graphics?
I already have done some research on my own [1], but actually I booted
with an xorg.conf, IOW it's not removed yet.
mainly for Ardour usage, but also for office work, browser etc. I want
to get rid of my CRT monitor. I wonder how much difference is between a
300,- € and a 150,- € LCD monitor.
Regarding a chip.de test the 8. best monitor is an Eizo FlexScan EV2450
the 48. best monitor is a LG 24MB56HQ-B
Both are 24" monitors. I can't say anything about the quality of this
test but at least the test was updated, a few minutes ago the rankings
were 7.
It's not an April Fools' joke.
When running Ubuntu or any other Linux as a guest, is there
An Ubuntu developer thread related to this started here:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2017-March/008325....
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:44:41 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
this is from a backup script:
cd /media/winos7
tar --exclude=./winOS_2/ardour_ragrug-2017-mar-21-DONT_DEL_AT_IO_ERROR/cubasis \
$ATT -czf $BACKUP_DIR_Q/arcwinos7_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD$ARCH_BACKUP_NAME_EXTENSION.bak.tar.gz *
It should exclude the
directory /media/winos7/winOS_2/ardour_ragrug-2017-mar-21-DONT_DEL_AT_IO_ERROR/cubasis
but it doesn't. I also tried with ''. The "\" is part of the original
script, IOW the command is split to two lines.
$ATT is an empty string, but could also contain "--xattrs".
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:34:46 +0200, Charles IRONS wrote:
Some of the discussed "editors" are already "dwarf IDEs" [1] ;).
In the style of "dwarf planet".
If an editor is considered a moon, an IDE could be a planet.
So something more than an editor, but less than a bloated IDE, might be
a dwarf IDE. Analogies aren't perfect.
I need a new mobo and PSU, this unfortunately means a new CPU and new
RAM, too. Does somebody use on of the following components or could
recommend for or against one of those components [1]?
Could somebody recommend something else?
The mobo must provide at least one PS/2 socket and one PCI slot, not
only PCIe.
I've got a new SSD and two new HDDs.
The SSD is ok, but I wonder if the two HDDs are ok, too.
The TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 is inside the PC case and at the beginning
it caused click noise and input/output errors only repeated shutdowns
made it accessible. The WD3200AAJS is used with a FANTEC DB-ALU2E
by USB. It automatically goes to sleep. If it goes to sleep as
e.g. /dev/sdd, it could wake up as /dev/sde and sometimes it could
completely hide. However, since my last reboot it goes to sleep
as /dev/sdb and wakes up as /dev/sdb.
I already ordered a SSD to replace a fishy HDD. For the moment I run
fsck, since one file caused input/output errors when tar, cp or string
tried to read the file. When it failed, the HDD made click noises.
The file seemingly is repaired, but I don't understand what fsck has
done to repair it [1].
I plan to replace two drives [1]. I'll start with the small drive,
since it seems to reach end of life. Today everything was ok, but
sometimes it seemingly is the cause for serious issues.
The larger drive seems not to cause issues, but it's also very old.
I'll replace the large drive by a 1 or 2 TB HDD, but not right now.
even the few very good file managers could get broken after an upgrade.
Even an upgrade of a theme could render a file manager useless, let
alone that there could be serious bugs in the code of a file manager. A
user could lose files! Thunar is know for serious bugs and upstream
doesn't fix those serious bugs. Reading the Nautilus thread users claim
slow performance. I noticed this for newer releases of Rodent, too.
Note, Rodent does use regular shell commands, a user could edit those
commands, so some GUI crap adds the slowness.
On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 14:03 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
Don't worry, nobody of us is used to apt. Some options already provided
by apt-get are less used, too.
I can't remember, that I ever had the -/+ feature in mind, when it would
have been useful.
You even could use "install" to remove a package:
[root@moonstudio ~]# apt install pulseaudio-
Reading package lists...
since some script experts are online at the moment, does anybody know a
more neat solution, than using bash's read in a dash script?
bash -c "read -n1 answer"
Btw. I'm using this for a script that could run as dash and bash
script, it's just that dash is faster. It doesn't matter for this
script at the moment, but you never know, speed could become an issue.
I need to run a script with root privileges. One thing this script
could do, is adding a user to a new group. Sometimes the script doesn't
know, if this is already active for the user. IOW the user is already
member of the group, but didn't log out and in again, resp. didn't
restart the display manager.
yesterday I needed LightScribe, but the LightScribe software doesn't
recognise the drive. I installed it on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (64bit), as
well as Arch Linux (64bit) and it failed on both installs. Around
midnight I have given up troubleshooting and used LightScribe of an old
Ubuntu Quantal 12.10 (kernel 3.6.5-rt14 64bit) install, its end of life
was 2½ years ago.
Has somebody successfully used LightsScribe with Ubuntu >= 16.04?
is there a guidelines how to name directories and files in shared folders,
e.g. in /tmp on multi-user systems? And apart from the names, how
should permissions be handled?
User? PID?
those who want to test different Ubuntu desktop flavours [1] might want
to use a script to automatically download all files and do the complete
check as described by https://www.ubuntu.com/download/how-to-verify .
Save the script [attachment].
Make it executable by running
chmod a+x luamd64_1610.sh
Usage: ./luamd64_1610.sh [FLAVOUR [RELEASE]]
The default flavour is ubuntu-mate.
The default release is 16.10.
Other desktop flavours available for at least 16.10, but perhaps for
other releases, too
after booting Lubuntu 16.10 from the official ISO, from DVD and running
a script to set up the live media, I experience something strange.
I attached the script. One thing it should do is enabling the bell, so
it loads the pcspkr module and enables the bell for lxterminal and
My apologies, by accident I forgot to change the thread for my previous
mail. I changed it by this mail. So please, don't reply to the other
IMO this discussion requires clarification on this mailing list.
where do I find an English and a German manual for apt?
Packages installed by either apt "full-upgrade" or "install", e.g.
# apt -o APT::Color="0" full-upgrade
# apt install alpine-pico
are not stored in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
As wanted apt-get "dist-upgrade" and "install" stores the packages in
the cache.
Some apt-get options seem to be available for apt, too, e.g.
# apt-get --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
# apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists...
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2016-August/008144...
while I understand what a transitional package usually is good for, I
don't understand what those linux-*-lts-releasename packages are good
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&section=all&arch=any&keyw...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&section=all&arch=any&keyw...
Could somebody please explain the reason for this ongoing "transition"?
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:39:48 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
That's correct, I need more than 1 hour to build something like firefox
or a kernel and apart from this my tmpfs is to small to build something
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B.C. Corrections to review solitary confinement program after court ruling
Judge rules inmates under Enhanced Supervision Placement must get written reasons for placement
B.C. Corrections is reviewing a program aimed to modify behavior with bouts of solitary confinement after it was challenged in court by a 24-year-old inmate accused of being an accessory to a Fort St. James murder.
Cindy Rose, a B.C. Corrections media spokeswoman, confirmed that the lawsuit involving inmate Teresa Charlie has sparked a review of the Enhanced Supervision Placement (ESP) program.
"B.C. Corrections is currently reviewing the ruling at this time," Rose told CBC. "As such, it is too early to comment further on the ruling or to speculate on any changes to policies or procedures that may take place."
Charlie has spent the past three years remanded in custody between two correctional facilities for her alleged involvement in a 2012 killing in northern B.C.
One of her solitary confinements lasted in the area of 30 days, her lawyer said.
Court documents show Charlie was accused of "bullying and disruptive" behaviour, and was placed in the ESP program. She was locked in her cell most of the day with no way to challenge the practice.
Charlie denies all the allegations against her in custody, and says she has had no chance to properly defend herself.
The prison wardens and the province argued in court that they often need to make decisions on the spot and the program helps modify behavior.
But B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck ruled Dec.16 that inmates in the ESP must get written reasons explaining why they are being placed in the program, and must be able to challenge their placement.
They could say I don't like you so I'm going to torture you by putting you in separate confinement.- Bibhas Vaze, lawyer for Teresa Charlie
"The judge recognized that ESP was a significant deprivation of liberty. The province was trying to argue it's not punitive, we are just putting them on a program," said Charlie's lawyer, Bibhas Vaze, who described his client as happy she won her case.
"If you are going to be deprived of your liberty in a meaningful way, you have to be able to respond to that," said Vaze.
"If you don't have the transparency for people to be able to respond, then people could just use this arbitrarily. They could say, 'I don't like you so I'm going to torture you by putting you in separate confinement.'"
Under review
"I'm really glad to get a court case ruling on this," said Jennifer Metcalfe of Prisoners' Legal Services.
She said ESP has been in place for more than 10 years, and its use is not tracked by the province.
Metcalfe says she saw many clients who were "rolled over and rolled over" in different solitary confinement programs for more than a year at a time.
For many, controlling behaviour was already a struggle, and months of confinement made it impossible, said Metcalfe.
"They would never get their liberty back and they would really just lose all hope."
Charlie was charged after the killing of Fribjon Bjornson. a 28-year-old Vanderhoof man.
Bjornson was last seen alive at a convenience store in 2012. Three weeks later, his severed head was found in a vacant house near Fort St. James.
Charlie, one of four people charged, was accused of being an accessory after the fact, but her case has not yet been heard in court.
The others charged are:
- Wesley Duncan, 27, second-degree murder.
- Jesse Bird, 31, accessory after the fact and indignity to human remains.
- James Charlie, 23, indignity to human remains.
Vaze said earlier this month that his client is still not in the general population at the Prince George Regional Correction Centre or the Alouette Correctional Centre for women.
"I don't see what can be rehabilitative about a program where you are confined to your cell for 21 or more hours per day. During the time you have outside of your cell, you have little or no contact with other human beings. Particularly for young women who have faced their own challenges in life," he said.
Legislation versus policy
Under the B.C. Corrections Act, inmates can be put in separated confinement for 72 hours, or for 15 days, and either of those can be repeated.
But that legislation requires that the inmate be given certain information about their placement.
Under the ESP program, which is not described in legislation but rather in the B.C. Corrections adult policy manual, a person can be confined up to 22 hours a day if they are acting in a way that's "detrimental" to the operation of the correctional centre or a danger to themselves or others.
Vaze says because it is just a policy, before this ruling, an inmate wasn't legally entitled to much information.
"Because ESP is not legislated, they have not seen themselves under any statutory requirements," said Vaze.
Vaze says after this ruling, if Charlie — or any other inmate — is assigned to ESP, they would have a court precedent stating they have the right to know why, and the right to a possible challenge.


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These things are awesome to work around the house in. And super comfy! And if you get a wild hair, you can go crazy and make it with pretty stuff on it or just outta pretty material, and wear it anywhere.
Alright enough of the build up....heres how I did it.
Disclaimer: I am a crafter, I sew when I need to. ie: make my sons play/sleep/work clothes, make my own clothes(most of them) I've even done some work making a boot for our feed grinder. But sewing isnt my strong point. I can do it, but only when I need to. So, if you are one of those sewers that cringes at the work of a lazy sewer...pass this post up. I dont hardly do anything by the book and this is just a get in, get it done, get out, wear it kinda pattern. On the flip side of things, if you see something here that can be modified, should be modified or anything can be reworded for clarity, or general comments...PLEASE let me know.
Ok, you will need these things.
1. A pillowcase or any material equal to a pillowcase. I bought a yard each in two different patterns of jersey fabric from walmart that I'm going to make these shirts out of. So if you dont happen to have a pillowcase, but have some extra fabric...carry on. (Im not sure if I can do it, but I think I might be able to get 4 shirts out of these two yards. Ill keep you posted.)
2. A spaghetti strap shirt your fond of.
3. 2 plastic rings. med to small sized
4. matching thread
5. extra wide double fold bias tape. you will use the whole package which is 3yds so if you like long straps...better get an extra package.
6. A page of the newspaper. or some large paper
7. something that marks. I used a sharpie
8. sewing machine/serger.
9. scissors
10. chocolate and dr. pepper...or vices of choice.
Sheewww! I didnt know I used all of that stuff till I wrote it down...lol
First, we gotta make a pattern, so grab your newspaper, sharpie, and your spaghetti strap shirt and hit the floor..
Lay the newspaper out on the floor and put your shirt on top of it, making sure the front of the shirt is up and the top of the material is at the top of the newspaper, like this...
Now take your sharpie and trace the shirt from the bottom side of the shirt to the top. I must mention that this particular shirt is too big for me, so I just traced it as is. Normal seam allowance is 5/8 of an inch, so if you are tracing a shirt that fits, go out an extra 5/8 of an inch of the outline of this shirt only on the sides.
Now trace the armhole area and the neck area. If your using a pillowcase, your kinda restricted to the length of the pillowcase but, if you are using a sheet or bought material, you can lengthen or shorten your shirt here. Add an inch to the length you want, and draw and outline across the bottom. I didn't mess with it. I just let the pillowcase dictate my length, which was fine. When I use the stuff I bought for these, I may add some length to hide my fat a little better.
BTW: You only need to do all this on one side.
Remove the shirt and fold the paper in half making sure you can see the marked areas. Cut the outline you just drew and then cut the paper in half. Mark on one of the pieces: "FRONT" Like this....
Set the "front" pattern piece aside and turn the other piece over and set the shirt back on it, this time with the back facing, and matching sides up to the armhole. Tuck the front under and trace the armhole of the back, and the neckline....like this
Remove the shirt and cut the outline you just drew. Mark: "BACK" on it and lookie!! You just made your pattern!
Now we can get down to business. Take your pillowcase and cut it along the side seams and across the bottom so you have 2 equal pieces....like this.
Fold one piece of fabric in half, and lay one of your pattern pieces on it, straight side on the fold, pin it to the fabric....like this.
|sorry for the crappy pic
Set it aside and repeat last two steps for the other pattern piece.
With wrong sides together, sew up side seams.
I feel compelled to mention that you will need to treat your seams somehow after you sew them up to keep them from fraying. Most people just sew up the sides and then use the zig zag setting on them and that does the trick. It also depends on the fabric your using. With the jersey t-shirt fabric, I could prob get away without doing anything, but I treat them anyway. With most fabrics, you will have a ratty, ugly seams and will be slapping yourself for not doing anything. Just for good measure, treat your seams.
If your lucky enough to have a serger, you can use it and sew up side seams and treat them at the same time...Ahhh someday I shall have one!!
But for now, this is how I do seams. For this method, you will need to allow another 1/4 inch. Before you sew up the seams with the right sides together, you sew them with the wrong sides together, trim the excess material close to the seam, and then turn the garment inside out, iron the seams flat, sew them again. You wind up with something like this.....
Moving on.......To make your bottom hem, turn your shirt inside out and fold up 1/4 inch from the bottom, press and then fold up another 3/4 inch from the bottom and sew.
Now for the top: Grab your bias and find the top front of your shirt and fold the bias over the the material and sew it down, and do the same for the top back portion of your shirt. Trim ends and you should have something that looks like this...
I battle with how to tell you to do the rest of this. So if anyone can help me word this where it makes more sense, please help!
Starting at the edge of the back top, and leaving 1 1/4 inch of bias, fold the bias over the material in the armpit area, take that extra 1 1/4 inch you left and thread thro a ring.
Fold the excess over the back, where the ring has only minimal room to move, pin it, and sew across the back top sew line. Using the backwards function on your machine, go over that area again, work forwards to the armpit sew line, lift foot and turn. At the end of all that, you should be here.....
Fold the bias over the material and sew along the armpit to front top. Take it off the machine but Don't cut anything!!(but the thread)
Heres where we measure your straps:
Take the remaining bias and thread through the ring, put shirt on and measure how much strap you want, plus 1/2 inch. Mark it, cut it, fold under that last half inch, and pin it. Measure how bias you used for this side and cut a length of bias for the other side so they both are the same size. (I used 35 inches per side)
Starting a little bit before where you left off before measuring straps, sew bias together up to ring making sure you catch the folded under part.
Lift foot, turn sideways, sew across.
Using backwards function again, sew back over for security, and remove from machine. Your "ring" area should look like this when finished.
Cut extra threads and try on again just to make sure.
Repeat for other side.
And you have your cute shirt!
Im editing this still, this post will get better I promise!! But I wanted to get this out so I can maybe get some help. Soooo...Again, please help me clarify stuff in this pattern.


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Department 7
Psychic Powers
Those that claim to be "psychic" receive vague impressions of places, events and thought. That's not what we're talking about. People with Psychic Powers- called the Awakened – have abilities they knowingly manifest and consciously control… for the most part.
To be an Awakened requires the sacrifice of a point of Refresh, one of your five aspects must grant narrative permission for you to do so (ie, "World's most powerful psychic debutante" or "Sight beyond sight") and you must have at least 1 level in Will. Will is the skill that is used to resolve psychic challenges and contests.
All the Awakened can manifest psychic powers in 3 ways: ESP, telepathy and telekinesis. Awakened are usually stronger in 1 manifestation than the others. Chose 1 manifestation as your primary, another as your secondary. The last is your tertiary. You receive your full Will check to any rolls using your primary manifestation. Rolls for your secondary are made at a – 1. Rolls for your tertiary are made at a – 2.
Unless allowed by a stunt, you cannot manifest a power while manifesting or concentrating to continue another power.
Extra-sensory Perception brings you information about the world around you that transcends normal senses, distance and even time.
ESP Actions
– ESP can overcome obstacles a normal human's senses simply couldn't. No normal human can see through a wall without technological assistance, but a psychic can. ESP can only extend your senses in one particular way at a time. If you are remotely viewing a location, you cannot also hear and smell that place.
However, ESP is not a catch-all replacement for perception. Once viewing a location, you must still roll Notice or Investigate to pinpoint facts about the scene.
– ESP can create a variety of advantages. The ability to sense possible ambushes or scout a location remotely can set up wide-ranging aspects.
– ESP cannot be used to attack.
– ESP can defend against attempts to create an advantage by affecting the senses, such as technological or psychic illusions, sensory overload, or concealment like smoke or white noise.
ESP Stunts
– You perceive energy fields around conscious beings that fluctuate with mood. You can use ESP in place of Empathy or Telepathy to get a read on someone's emotional state.
– When remotely viewing a location, you may manifest your telekinesis in that location.
Literal mind over matter, this is the ability to imbue an object with enough kinetic energy to cause it to move.
Telekinesis Actions
– Telekinesis can attempt to overcome any kind of physical obstacle by moving it or bashing it down.
– A very broad ability, Telekinesis can be used to Create Advantages having to do with the moving of objects or people.
– You can attack anyone you can see within two zones by either throwing something at them, or slamming them directly with pure kinetic force.
– Telekinesis can defend against physical attacks, including firearms.
Telekinetic Stunts
– By spending a Fate point, you can use telekinesis to move all forms of electromagnetic energy (light, heat, electricity, etc.). Your control over this medium is not finite enough to effectively attack with it, but gathering all a local energy into one place or pushing it out of an area can Create some interesting Advantages.
– You have mastered using your telekinesis to subtly vibrate the air in order to create or mimic any sound. You gain a +2 to Create Advantage when using sound.
– You can focus air and microscopic particulates into a tight linear attack as fast and penetrating as a gunshot. When doing so, you may use Shoot instead of Will to attack.
Telepathy is the ability to sense another being's thoughts, read their emotions, and otherwise receive signals from their mind. Certain obstructions such as distance (more than 3 zones), lead shielding, and running water are known to increase the difficulty of manifesting this power. .
Telepathy Actions
– You can use Telepathy in the same ways you could use the Empathy skill. In combination with the mundane skill of Rapport, it enables efficient interrogation. The base difficulty for gleaning surface thoughts from a non-Awakened who is unaware his mind is being read is his Will score.
– Reading someone's thoughts can take the form of an aspect representing the information you gained or even the surprise you instill in your foe by knowing it. This can give you an advantage in many situations.
– You cannot use telepathy to attack.
– Telepathy can be used to actively defend against others reading your mind as well as against attempts to use Deceive.
Telepathy Stunts
– You can maintain telepathic communication with multiple willing targets simultaneously, allowing all of them to freely communicate with each other. The number of members in your group (besides yourself) cannot exceed your Will. Members who also have telepathy do not count against your limit.
– You can interface with a computer without having to touch it. Once your Telepathy roll succeeds, you must then use the appropriate mundane skill to manipulate the device (Lore for general searches and use; Crafts for programming, Burglary for hacking). You can affect any computer you can see within two zones.
– By spending a Fate point and succeeding in a Will contest, you can convince your opponent that a single, short statement is absolutely true. The statement must be at least possible, even if very unlikely. The opponent believes the statement until shown evidence of its falsehood.


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One sunny evening a young girl walks to visit her Grandma, she never arrives...A play about retribution, remorse and redemption, Frozen explores the interwoven lives of three strangers as they try to make sense of the unimaginable. Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster, Scott & Bailey), Jason Watkins (Line of Duty, Taboo, W1A) and Nina Sosanya (W1A, Last Tango in Halifax) star in Bryony Lavery's award-winning play. This psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing is directed by Jonathan Munby and plays a strictly limited twelve-week season. At the Theatre Royal Haymarket from Friday 9 February 2018, book your Frozen tickets today! *Please note: Suitable for ages 15+. This play contains very strong language and content that some may find disturbing.
Package includes a great seat for Frozen, and a 2-course evening pre-theatre meal between 5.30pm-6pm at Le Caprice. Additional drinks are not included. Menus subject to change.
The classic St James's restaurant, Le Caprice is close to the Royal Academy, Burlington Arcade and Bond Street and moments from Piccadilly, Mayfair and the West End. Le Caprice's menu features classic British, European and American favourites and its timeless black and white interior is complemented by a collection of iconic photographs by David Bailey.Open late, combine a night at one of the West End's best shows with this exclusive pre theatre dining experience. Enjoy a two-course pre theatre dinner from 5.30pm. Customers must arrive for the post theatre dinner between 5.30pm and 6pm before their show. Seasonal Sample Menu (subject to change)FIRST COURSE Truffled cauliflower soup, with soft boiled quail eggsorPickled and raw heritage beetroot salad with Perl Las and toasted walnutsorSalmon ceviche with avocado, chilli, lime and corianderMAIN COURSEChicken alla Milanese with rocket and lemonorWild mushroom risottoorFillet of cod with spiced squash and pumpkin seed salsa, harissa yoghurtDESSERTSteamed treacle sponge with custardorPanettone & cranberry coupeorGolden pineapple & mango with coconut & lime sorbetAddress:Le Caprice, Arlington House, Arlington Street, London SW1A 1RJ. Opening Hours:Pre-show dinner from 5.30pm. Customer must arrive by 6pm. *Please note: For guests to enjoy a 2 course meal, we recommend 1.5 hours dining time. Service is included in the meal package price.
Tickets and bookings subject to availability at Le Caprice. Please note that bookings are for PRE evening theatre performances, for arrival at Le Caprice from 5.30pm until 6pm on the day of your show (please bear this in mind if booking a matinee performance, as the dinner will be POST matinee).
The two course pre theatre menu is taken from the seasonally changing theatre menu at Le Caprice, and is subject to change. Please ensure that you present your meal voucher to the Maitre d' upon arrival at Le Caprice. Failure to do so could result in you paying again. You will be responsible for any additional charges for food or beverages purchased. Service is included in the price of the meal package. Package does not apply to tickets already purchased. You will receive one meal voucher with every ticket purchased. Alcohol cannot be served to or consumed by people under 18 years old. Terms and conditions on how to redeem your meal voucher will accompany your ticket.


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Fourteen businesses launched at Keystone Business CenterAREA News, News - 03.14.16
Six years ago, the historic Keystone Hotel sat empty on a main corner of downtown McCook.
Today, through the work of the McCook Economic Development Corporation, that hotel has become the thriving Keystone Business Center and has helped launch 14 new businesses that are now providing jobs and services to Red Willow County and beyond.
"There's a presupposition out there that the primary means of economic development is recruiting outside businesses," MEDC Executive Director Rex Nelson said. "And, in rural communities, that does not hold true."
Most jobs come from expansions and new business creation, he said.
"In small communities, one of the things we need to do is help our entrepreneurs succeed and grow into businesses that create jobs and help expand the tax base," Nelson said.
Half of the funding for the $4.2 million Keystone renovation came from a federal Economic Development Association grant. Approximately a quarter of the funds came from the local-option LB840 sales tax money and another quarter was borrowed from local banks and repaid with income generated from the completed project. McCook residents will vote on May 10 whether to continue directing LB840 funds to economic development projects such as the Keystone.
The Keystone Business Center, which opened in September 2010, offers a tiered rental contract, charging businesses a below market rate rent the first year, market rate the second year and then slightly above market rate the third year and beyond. Other businesses who are not start-ups also rent space at Keystone and are charged a higher rate.
20/20 Technologies is one of the Keystone Business Center's success stories. McCook native Brett Warren started the IT company in 2011. He began providing IT consulting to rural schools that could not afford their own IT staff and quickly learned his services were in high demand. He moved to Keystone in 2012 when he needed to hire an employee.
He was attracted to the Keystone's low price, its convenient and professional location in downtown McCook and its amenities, such as conference rooms and video-conferencing technology.
"We started in a little tiny office" Warren said of his first location at Keystone. "Then we moved to a little bigger office. Now we've got the entire half of the fourth floor."
20/20 Technologies now employs six others besides himself and provides IT consulting to government offices and other larger entities besides schools.
Nelson said there is nearly constant movement among the tenants in the building as they grow and need more space. The Sew Blessed quilt store and Engineering International both recently moved to larger spaces within Keystone because of expansion needs.
Jeff Tidyman, owner of Engineering International, started his architect and engineering firm from his home in Curtis and then moved to the Keystone shortly after it opened in 2010.
He enjoys the access he has to other building tenants, such as the MEDC, the Nebraska Business Development Center and REAP (Rural Enterprise Assistance Project), which has office hours at Keystone monthly.
"Working with other people and being away from the distractions of the house is huge for me," he said.
Ann Barger of Adventure Travel and Faith Hyde of McCook Weight Loss Center have moved into the Keystone, and two other businesses, American Family Insurance has moved out and attorney Sagan Carmen Downer will be moving out.
"These changes do leave us with space for rent right now for both retail and professional businesses," Nelson said. "It is a good thing though, as it indicates
healthy growth of our businesses. We like to see them grow and succeed, but also to try things that might not work. That is all part of the creative process of entrepreneurship. We have had 14 successful startups at the Keystone Business Center. That's a great addition to the overall business mix in McCook. When you add that value to the preservation of a beautiful historic building and avoiding a big potential demolition liability it really adds up to win for the community."
For a listing of current Keystone Businesses, visit:
For more information about MEDC, please visit the MEDC web site at www.mccookne.org or call the MEDC at (308) 345-1200. The mission of the MEDC is to facilitate the formation, retention, attraction and expansion of businesses in McCook and the surrounding area.


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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Video: Sean Price ft. Illa Ghee & Royal Flush – Soul Perfect
Sean Price's Daughter, Shaun Price takes the focus on this visual for her father in a new haertfelt video titled "Soul Perfect" featuring Illa Ghee and Royal Flush.
Sean would've turned 44 today and WatchLOUD spoke to a bunch of his contemporaries about their memories of and relationships with P to mark the occasion. Heltah Skeltah's Rock, Royce Da 5'9, Statik Selektah, Smoke DZA and Harry Fraud are all included. Watch below.
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Coaching is a must have skill for today's manager. The challenge as a manager is to decide on what sort of of coaching is going to be the most effective. Ultimately, coaching is about performance improvement. Therefore you must be clear about how you are going to coach to achieve improved performance.
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Canada Day Celebrations ~ Northumberland
by Festival Nomad, Gary McWilliams
Welcome to Canada Day in Northumberland
I had been thinking about this concept for some time, so this year I thought I would try it out. The concept was very simple, try to visit as many Canada Day Celebrations as possible. We chose to try it in Northumberland County because we knew the area well and because the towns we choose were within easy traveling distances.
Brighton's Canada Day Celebrations
The first community we decided to visit was Brighton. The celebrations were being held in the Proctor Park Conservation Area. Although we arrived fairly early, there were still plenty of people milling around. All the tents and activities seemed to be in place. Once the first couples we met were Rick and Judy Norlock. Rick is the Northumberland-Quinte West Federal Member of Parliament. Rick and Judy were touring the various Canada Day celebrations in their district. They had just come from a breakfast in their home area of Warkworth (our next stop). We stopped and chatted for a few moments and then continued up a hill towards the Proctor House Museum. The community's Canada Day Pancake Breakfast was set up on the grounds just outside the Museum. We joined the line up to purchase our pancakes and sausages. Once we had finished eating, we headed back down the hill to where a petting zoo had been erected. We looked at all the animals and Judi "posed" with her "friends" while I took some "cute" pictures! We then left to travel to our next Celebration. On the way out we passed a Highland Band that was practicing for the Brighton Canada Day Parade.
Warkworth's Canada Day Celebrations
Warkworth is approximately a half hours drive northwest of Brighton. Once we had found out where the celebrations were taking place, we parked our car. The celebration organizers were just completing their Canada Day preparations and town's people had started to arrive. A number of tents and displays were set up around the perimeter of the park. The local fire department was there with a display. Unfortunately shortly after we had arrived, one of their trucks had to leave on an emergency call! Warkworth is a wonderful little town with lots of community pride. It is also the home of two great events, the Warkworth Long Lunch and the Warkworth Western Weekend. Their Canada Day Celebration was no less enthusiastic! There were lots of activities for the whole family and, best of all; it was all "free"! We stayed for the singing of "O Canada" by the Warkworth Kids' Choir and for some free munchies! Our next stop, Campbellford.
Campbellford's Canada Day Celebrations
From Warkworth we drove the 20 kilometres to Campbellford. Campbellford is a beautiful community located on the Trent Canal. It is also the home of the Canadian two dollar coin, better known as the "Toonie". The Toonie's Polar Bear design was created by Campbellford artist Brent Townsend. Brent is an internationally recognized and collected wildlife artist! The Celebrations were being held at the Old Mill Park which is located right along side the canal. Several large boats were moored on the park's docks. By the time we arrived, the Canada Day Celebrations were underway and there were plenty of people in the park enjoying all the activities! In the park's Gazebo children's entertainer, Andrew Queen, was performed to the delight of the audience, big and small! After Andrew had completed his song, he introduced the Campbellford Town Crier. The Town Crier then welcomed everyone to the 2009 Canada Day celebrations. Other dignitaries spoke to the crowd and then a Canada Day birthday cake was unwrapped. We were all invited to joined in and enjoy a piece of cake. We were then off to Hastings!
Hasting's Canada Day Celebrations
We traveled back east to the Village of Hastings. Their Canada Day Celebrations were in full swing! Hastings is picturesque village located along the Trent River (part of the Trent-Severn Waterway). We found a convenient parking spot and then walked down to the town's riverside park. The park was filled with people who were enjoying Canada Day entertainment. When we arrived, a country singer and her band were in the park's gazebo and were just completing their performance. Once they had finished their final song, a new group of musicians began setting up their equipment. This was a young lively group who sang and fiddled to the immense enjoyment of the audience. People were clapping and dancing to their music. There was even a couple in a motorboat dancing the rhythm of the fiddles! We slipped away and walked back to our car.
We had a wonderful day. It was great to see how other communities enjoyed their Canada Day Celebrations. We planned on visiting other Ontario communities next year!


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The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
Burrell, Robert, Naval War College Review
Peattie, Mark, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, eds. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937- 1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2010. 614 pp. $65
The title of this book appropriately suggests a degree of ambiguity regarding the actors fighting over the territorial integrity and cultural identity of China. The interplay of imperial Japan, Nationalist and Communist Chinese, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, France, and the United States from 1937 through 1945 creates a terrain challenging to navigate with historical accuracy and objective truth. The conflicting viewpoints on these contentious events have proved difficult, and perhaps impossible, material from which to develop a definitive narrative. Consequently, the editors have chosen to avoid illusions of defining the "facts" of the matter, instead offering a number of exploratory essays from opposing viewpoints. In order to offer this multisource assessment, the editors coordinated the efforts of scholars from China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States.
Editors Mark Peattie (a research fellow at the Hoover Institution), Edward Drea (former chief of the Research and Analysis Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History), and Hans van de Ven (a professor of modern Chinese history at Cambridge University) stand apart as leading authorities on the Pacific War. The other seventeen contributors range from unknown doctoral candidates to heavyweight historians like Ronald Spector. Despite the pitfalls of bringing together authors of multiple disciplinary backgrounds, varying languages, and competing cultures and ideologies, the editors have maintained a surprisingly well organized text, firmly grounded in analysis of events from the perspective of military affairs.
The book is organized in six parts: the overview; opposing armies' organization, training, and equipment; initial hostilities (1937-38); a "stalemate in strategies" (1938-42); the Burma and Ichigo campaigns (1943-45); and conclusions. Each section begins with valuable information provided by the editors, furnishing continuity between thematic essays. The essays themselves are insightful, if not groundbreaking, offering milestones for future study and debate. One innovative and striking theme is the attention to and appreciation for the challenges facing Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT). While not excusing any failures, the authors make it easy to understand the KMT's weak position in an agrarian society with undeveloped state organization in the face of a growing communist insurgency, tepid allied support, and a vicious campaign of destruction by an industrialized opponent. The deprivations endured and the sacrifices made by the Chinese through seven long years of the most brutal warfare does much to explain the KMT's precarious situation at the war's end. At the end of the book, Ronald Spector provides excellent context to these essays on the Sino-Japanese War, placing the scholarship within the framework of the Pacific War, World War II, and the history of warfare. …


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For any Vets or companies looking to hire for their own organisations MWR have agreed to work at reduced rates to provide a cost effective quality recruitment service for Vets members. They will take measures to encourage the companies approached, and take a highly professional approach to assist you if, for instance, it is many years since you wrote a CV! I would highly recommend them, and wish you success.
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Here's an update.
1) The repair method seems to have fixed the coding issue. I'll keep testing for a whole day, but it's looking good, so thanks for that.
2) Regarding the sent emails not appearing immediately in the Sent folder (Hotmail accounts), I now understand how it works: WLM, instead of placing the sent message in the Sent folder straight away, has to go through a round of Receive email (F5) to download the message from the Sent folder on the Hotmail.com account.
It was not the same behaviour previously.
Edit: nevermind, point 1) has happened again, UGHHH.
For your 'sent items' problem try clicking on 'conversations' in your 'view' tab and make sure it is off.
Seems it's greyed out.
Anyway. To me, WLM now works sufficiently.
The coding problem is just a cosmetic one.
The sent emails problem is just a behavioural change.
I'll keep working like this indefinitely/until there's a new update.
Thanks for your support, guys!
Also, if you are using Windows 10 try this:
On the Microsoft Forums, users have posted several solutions. One is to run the application in Windows 8 compatibility mode. This can be done by navigating to the Windows Live Mail 2012 folder and then right-click on wlmail.exe. Select Properties and on the Compatibility tab select Run this program in compatibility mode for > Windows 8. Apply the changes and the start the application as usual.
I'm using Windows 7, so this shouldn't apply to my case.
Will run WLM in XP SP3 compatibility mode for a little while though, see if that changes anything.
The Conversations option is only available when sorting by Date. Click the Sort by button to change the setting.
Good luck.
Okay, this is actually worse than I thought.
Emails sent from Hotmail accounts in WLM are marked as "To:"... myself!!!
See here:
(I'm "Gabriel", but these emails were sent to other people, like Nick.)
This is unacceptable for me, so I'll try to uninstall the patch.
Edit: I now got rid of the hotfix and everything is back to normal! Emails sent immediately placed in the Sent folder and to the right recipient!! (plus coding problem gone)
Could this be the new Outlook Mail for Win 10 that will replace WLM? It says Outlook for 2016 and does indicate it will be a part of the WIn 10 OS?
Early look at the new Outlook on the desktop, Windows 10 and phones - Office Blogs