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Many people are afflicted with the I Want MORE syndrome. Fortunately, it's a curable disease.
For some, this disease begins at childhood. They want more and more of whatever it is. Maybe it's chocolate they are longing for, or maybe it's toys. Parents, often unwittingly, try to satisfy these children's cravings by giving them more, only to find out their efforts have been given but to no avail.
A child with the I Want MORE syndrome won't be satisfied with a new toy they've been given. Their thirst for MORE won't be quenched.
Some people are strapped with this disease through their childhood and youth, and then on into adulthood.
As this disease progresses it paints a sad picture. What kind of emptiness in the soul forces people to try and fill in the gap with material things?
Some people buy their fortieth luxury car, only to find out the forty-first car is really the one they were after. Some people need a forty-million dollar mansion, because a ten-million dollar home just wouldn't do. But after they're done signing the paperwork on the forty-million dollar home, they might just realize their children have grown up without parents who pay attention. The parent's attention and love got replaced by a checkbook and nanny, and it may very well be the I Want MORE syndrome got passed on to the next generation.
This is not to say that all people who have worked hard and built a fortune have this disease. There are people, like Warren Buffet, who have amassed billions of dollars over the course of their careers, yet still hold dear the simple things in life. A man like that who has made billions, lives in the town he grew up in, and pledged 99% of his fortune to charity, shows where his heart is.
Warren might make more and more money while he's still alive, but all he'll do with it is give more away. Giving is what makes Warren happy; that's what makes him feel fulfilled.
And giving is what can fill the emptiness in a soul that causes the I Want MORE syndrome. Putting the focus on the needs and desires of others, rather than ourselves, will satisfy all of a person's cravings. If you're focused on what other people need, you can't even think twice about what you may be missing. And you won't be missing anything at all.
Now, for little children that want MORE, I can't over-emphasize how smart kids are. They can grasp the concept of giving at a very early age. In order to grasp this concept though, they need parents who care, are willing to teach them, and who will spend plenty of time helping fill the child's mind with healthy things.
But until they can grasp the concept of giving, I assure you, they can comprehend the word, "No." And it would benefit them greatly to hear it.
In the words of the wise, "He that loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor will he that loves an abundance of things, be satisfied with having more." – Ecclesiastes 5: 10
I'm not saying children, or grown-ups shouldn't get anything they want; but everything is better in moderation.
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Drink Beer, Expand Your Mind – Science on Tap
St. Louis, MO/February 2, 2017 (STLRestaurant.News) – Beer, music, food, and science! What could be more fun? It may sound like an unusual combination, but the St. Louis Science Center's Science on Tap is putting it all together for an evening of fun, learning, and of course, beer. The event Saturday, February 11, 2017 from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. is open to members and nonmembers alike.
Food, beer, and music is a natural combination, and this Science Center tasting event won't disappoint. Attendees will be able to sample more than 80 different beers from more than 30 artisan and craft brewers, including local favorites Urban Chestnut, Schlafly Brewing, 4 Hands Brewery, Ferguson Brewing Company, O'Fallon Brewery, The Old Bakery Beer Company, Six Mile Bridge, and many others. There will be product tastings from national brands like Anheuser-Busch and Samuel Adams too.
Science Center officials say it's an opportunity to learn more about the many craft and artisan beers made in and around St. Louis as well as the brewing process itself. This is a total sensory experience that includes hands-on activities, plus live "Science of Beer" demonstrations. Participants will learn about the chemistry behind the brewing and bottling processes. They can also learn about the buoyancy of their favorite brew, and even how Sam Adams Nitro technology works.
In addition to all this beer science fun, there will be food. The Science Center's in-house catering team, Starlite Events is partnering with some of St. Louis' culinary favorites to create amazing small tastes at five stations. Food partners include Clementine's Creamery, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Naked Bacon Company, MO Beef, and Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolatier.
Advanced tickets are available online or at any Science Center kiosk. The cost, which includes parking, is $45 each for members, $55 non-members, and $60 at the door. Science on Tap is an experience in molecular gastronomy that beer lovers won't want to miss.
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Egg whites have been a go to protein source for bodybuilders for some time now, but are starting to become more and more mainstream. Eggs in general are considered to be relatively healthy, with the only downside coming from their high cholesterol content.
Egg whites are a good alternative to eggs if you are looking for a good source of protein, because they are high in protein with little else, making them really calorie friendly also.
We know that eating more egg whites is a great way to supplement your protein intake, but does it provide us any other health benefits?
One of the major problems with whole eggs is their high cholesterol content, and the risks that comes along with it. One major problem associated with high cholesterol levels is arteriosclerosis, or the narrowing and stiffening of the arteries.
Our arteries are essentially the roadways throughout our body which we use to supply our organs and tissues with blood and the necessary ingredients found within it like oxygen, glucose, potassium, calcium etc.
When these roadways get clogged it prevents the flow of this blood, which makes the heart work harder to push the blood through these arteries. This extra work that the heart has to do can lead to strokes, heart attacks and possibly death because of restricted blood passageways.
One of the major issues when it comes to our diet is staying full. This is especially the case in the west, where the diet is very rich in calories but devoid of other nutrients. Many people think the answer to satiating themselves is to eat more calories, when the problem may be a lack of protein.
Eggs are a breakfast staple, so don't skip out on eating your eggs in the morning, just replace them with egg whites. Eating more protein in the morning will help curb your appetite throughout the day, causing you to eat less and to better regulate your weight.
Egg whites contain a complete amino acid profile, meaning that it has all the amino acids we need to make all of the proteins our body uses for various functions. Building these proteins are essential to our health, so getting the proper amount of all of these essential amino acids from our diet it important.
Most foods, especially plant sources of protein do not have a full amino acid profile which makes egg whites a great protein source, especially at the low calorie cost.
If you are an athlete eating a meal high in protein is especially important because it is needed in muscle repair and growth as well. The best time to do so is after an event so whip up some egg whites when you come back from the gym.
In the whole egg versus egg white debate, the main argument is that you are losing out on a lot of nutrients from the whole egg that you don't get from the egg white itself. The egg white is where most of the protein in the egg is, but what is in the yolk?
The yolk is where all of the fat and cholesterol in the egg is which is generally considered to be the bad parts, but like any other animal product out there the fatty part of it is where all the micronutrients lie as well. Your Vitamins A, D, E, K and most of your minerals like calcium, zinc, and phosphorous are all from the yolk.
So if you are debating whether or not you should be eating the yolks of your eggs or not, it really comes down to your reasoning behind eating the egg in the first place. If you are eating the egg because it is a good source of protein, you may want to stick to eating just the egg whites themselves.
If you are eating eggs for the nutritional value you get from all of the vitamins and minerals it contains, you definitely want to be eating the yolk.
Eating one yolk a day isn't going to exceed the daily recommended value of cholesterol you should be getting for the day, so if you are looking for a combination of benefits in micronutrients and protein, try eating one yolk with a few egg whites for a better balance.


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Okay. So, today's run was nice and easy. The wife and I went for a quick jog around the neighborhood. She's been under the weather and is just easing back into things so that she can run in the Get in Gear 5K in a couple of weeks. I didn't mind cutting back a little for today because I'll have a hefty bike tomorrow afternoon in Madison We did 2.32 miles in 28:30. It wasn't a blistering pace, but I can think of worse ways to enjoy the beautiful weather.
But I don't want to write about my workout today. The main story today is my first attempt at a Bacon Explosion for my buddy Doc's bachelor party this weekend. Let's get started now shall we.
First I got together my ingredients.
2 pounds of thick-cut bacon
2 pounds of loose Italian sausage
1 bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Chipotle BBQ Sauce
Some of my own special BBQ Rub
1/4 of an onion.
The next step was laying out a 12 inch by 12 inch lattice of bacon. In my case, that meant a 7 slice by 7 slice pig blanket.
Now, let's spread on some of my special rub.
Over the top of the rub goes the 2 pounds of Italian sausage (mild Italian - we are in the Midwest you know) patted down into a ginormous patty.
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More progress these past few nights. I got the microSD card adapter and OLED display working on the breadboard. The Adafruit sample code for the display uses software SPI (bit-banging) while the SD card library uses the AVR's hardware SPI. The two methods won't play well together, so I'll have to rework the Adafruit example a bit so it uses the hardware.
The OLED display is awesome. It's 0.96" diagonal and the text is very crisp... even off angle. It's a graphics display, so you can also draw to it. I'll probably just use it for text, though. The full-blown sample application from Adafruit takes up about two thirds of the flash on an Arduino Pro Mini!
Everything on the board so far is running off a single LiPo battery through a 3.3V regulator. As I relearned, it's important to select a low-dropout (LDO) regulator. I grabbed one from a box of spare parts I had, only to discover that the regulator had a dropout voltage of around 1V. Since the initial voltage of the LiPo is around 4.18V, that means the regulator will shut off at around 4.3V (higher than my input voltage!). I replaced it with a LDO (Microchip MCP1700), which has a dropout voltage around 178 mV (at full 250 mA load). It's working nicely.
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The textile machine twists many of the plant fibers into yarns or yarns, which can be used to loosen the cloth. The earliest spinning machine was very simple and was used in the 14th century. After the 18th century, people invented a better spinning machine, is this spinning machine to make the textile industry as the largest industry. All the spinning machines are only two things: first a large number of short fibers together
Loose cotton thread, and then a little bit out of the cotton thread, twist twist into a fine cotton thread, cotton twist after twist on the longer.
Spinning is a science that studies the processing of woven staple fibers into yarns. Yarns are generally made of a number of short fibers of varying lengths by twisting, as well as by a long continuous filament twist Come together.
In the spinning process, the first need to remove the impurities, that is, the initial processing of raw materials, also known as spinning raw materials preparation. Different types of raw materials, different types and properties of impurities, processing methods and processes are also different. The initial processing methods of raw materials are mainly physical methods (such as ginning), chemical methods (such as hemp degumming, silk refining) and physical and chemical combination of methods (such as wool washing and defrosting).
Will be chaotic, horizontal contact with the fiber processing into a vertical order, and has a certain requirements of the smooth yarn, the need to block fiber into a single fiber state, the lifting of fiber raw materials exist in the horizontal link, to establish a solid first-tail Vertical contact. The former is called fiber release, the latter is called a collection of fibers.
The release of the fiber is the complete release of the fiber and the fiber between the horizontal contact. But must be as much as possible to reduce fiber damage. The set of fibers is to re-establish the permissive longitudinal contact of the released fibers, which is continuous and should cause the fiber distribution in the assembly to be uniform and at the same time to have a certain linear density and strength.
Fiber aggregates, but also need to add a certain twist. The collection process is not completed once, to be combed, drafted and twisted and many other processing can be completed.
Crack is a large piece of fiber to tear into a small piece of small fiber bundle. Broadly speaking, hemp degumming is also a kind of open. With the opening action, the contact force between the fibers and the impurities is weakened, so that the impurities are removed, and the fibers are mixed. Open and the removal of impurities is not a complete, but by tearing, combat and the role of the rational allocation of such a gradual realization.
Carding effect is a large number of carding machine combing the needle on the fiber small pieces, small beam further release into a single state, thus further improving the fiber release. The horizontal connection between the fibers after the carding is basically released, and the impurity and the mixing effect are more sufficient. But there are a lot of fiber was curved. And there are hooks, each fiber is still a certain horizontal link between.
The combing function of the combing machine is a more detailed combing of the ends of the fibers by the combs, respectively. The combing machine can eliminate short fibers and fine defects below a certain length, prompting the fibers to be more parallel and straight. Chemical fiber because of its length neat, less impurities, straight parallel state is good, generally not through the combing machine processing.
The comb after the sliver pumping thin pull, and gradually reach the scheduled thickness, this process is called draft. Laying the foundation for the firm establishment of a regular coherence relationship between the fibers. However, the draft will bring the yarn short pieces uneven, therefore, need to configure a reasonable drafting device and process parameters.
Twisting is to be around the axis of its own to be twisted, so that parallel to the axis of the fiber was spiral, resulting in radial pressure to maintain the longitudinal connection between the fibers down.
The semi-finished products or finished products into a certain form, in order to facilitate storage, transportation and processing of the next process, the process said winding. The winding process should be carried out continuously without affecting the yield and quality of the product. Efforts should be made to achieve continuous production between processes and to minimize the quality problems caused by the winding process.
In short, the spinning process generally includes the preparation of raw materials, opening, combing, impurity, mixing, drawing, mixing, twisting and winding and so on, some of the role is repeated after repeated to achieve.
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Rihanna definitely keeps us on our toes with her fashion choices so I certainly wasn't surprised to hear that she recently launched her very own Beauty and Style Agency with managing partner Benoit Demouy. The Los Angeles based firm, "Fr8Me" will style artists for red-carpet appearances, ad campaigns, commercials, and editorial … [Read more...]
Flawless: Beyoncé Bares It All For Flaunt Magazine [PHOTOS]
Beyoncé certainly seems to be feeling herself in this new risqué photoshoot captured by Photographer Robin Harper for the September issue of Flaunt Magazine. The "Drunk In Love" singer turned it up a notch by frolicking around a pool in a few scantily clad looks and even going topless for some really dope shots. Ya'll should … [Read more...]
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Glory to the Beauty Gawds! Our favorite Swedish retailer H&M, has just announced their plans to launch a new 700+ piece beauty & makeup collection! Slated to hit 900 stores worldwide this Fall, their new line will include make-up, skin care, hair care products and beauty tools. Wrapped in sleek black and metallic … [Read more...]
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We the Corporations: How Americans Won Their Civil Rights (W.W. Norton, 2018) sheds light on of the most successful, yet least known civil rights movements in American history, revealing how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations-like minorities and women-have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United v. FEC, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a 200-year battle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Bringing to resounding life the legendary lawyers and justices involved in the corporate rights movement-among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall-Winkler's tour de force exposes how the nation's most powerful corporations gained our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business. Winkler is also the author of Gun Fight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America (W.W. Norton, 2013).
Praise for the Book
'Impressively thorough and wide-ranging. . . . Winkler employs an evocative, fast-paced storytelling style, making for an entertaining and enlightening book that will likely complicate the views of partisans on both sides of the issue.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review
'A chronicle of the steady, willful process by which corporations became people-until, that is, you try to sue them. . . . Maddening for those who care about matters constitutional and an important document in the ongoing struggle to undo Citizens United.' - Kirkus Reviews
'An eye-opening account of how corporations became 'persons' entitled to constitutional rights and used those rights to impede efforts to regulate them in the interests of real people.' - David Cole, author of Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
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At this point in history when women en masse are standing up and fighting back against the very real threat sexual harassment and abuse, marching in the streets at the Women's March, and running for elected office in record numbers, Doritos announced its contribution to women's causes— a new, more ladylike Dorito chip.
Women who've been craving a smaller chip that makes less of a crunching sound and creates fewer crumbs and not as much of a desire to finger-lick after consuming will have their needs met with the "lady-friendly" chip, Doritos' parent company PepsiCo announced on Freakanomics radio.
Men "lick their fingers with great glee, and when they reach the bottom of the bag they pour the little broken pieces into their mouth, because they don't want to lose that taste of the flavor, and the broken chips in the bottom," Pepsi's chief executive officer, Indra Nooyi, explained of the freedom men have been allowed to be less couth than women out in the world.
"Women would love to do the same, but they don't," Nooyi said, according to NPR. "They don't like to crunch too loudly in public. And they don't lick their fingers generously, and they don't like to pour the little broken pieces and the flavor into their mouth."
Like other pointlessly women-specific products that have come before, like the Bic for Her, which was a line of pink or purple pens that boasted a narrower barrel than regular pens in order to accommodate women's diminutive fingers, the "lady-friendly" Doritos will come in smaller triangular shapes for women. Although whether or not the smaller shape is to accommodate what Doritos must perceive as women's tiny hands or miniature mouths (or both) is not clear. But beyond the size of the chip, the packaging will also be smaller in order to fit more snugly in a purse, according to U.K. newspaper The Sun.
The idea for gender-specific Doritos arrives at a time when women across industries are fighting for respect and equal pay, and so, like Ellen DeGeneres skewering the Bic for Her on her show when that tone-deaf product dropped six years ago, the "lady-friendly" chip has been dragged mercilessly and hilariously on social media.
Here are a few tweets that hilariously nail the sexism inherent in developing a chip designed expressly to support stereotypes about women.
The only good thing about the new quiet "Lady Doritos" is now they can't hear us coming pic.twitter.com/irMRblNDP4
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 5, 2018
Questions I have about the forthcoming lady Doritos:
1. May I request they be salted with the tears of our enemies?
2. Will they be priced to align with the gender pay gap?
3. If a lady is OK with crunching, crumbs and public eating, is she banned from purchasing them?
— Kim Bongiorno (@LetMeStart) February 5, 2018
instead of crunching noise the new Lady Doritos just say "sorry" quietly every time you bite down
— ariel (@arielgitlin) February 5, 2018
We already have Lady Doritos. Maybe you damn men could start putting the chip clip on?
— Colleen Secret Society Member (@ColleenHolt20) February 5, 2018
I want to know how the Lady Doritos conversation went
Bob: Hey Sharon! Doritos needs to take a stronger stance in the Me Too movement. Any ideas?
Sharon: Equal pay... perhaps more resources for women who experience harassment in the workplace?
Bob: Doritos for Ladies. Got it!
— megan (@m_dot_brown) February 5, 2018
We don't support Lady Doritos, but we do support the development of chips that leave less residue on your fingers. THINK OF THE BOOKS! pic.twitter.com/LGrVR8MiX1
— Random House (@randomhouse) February 5, 2018
Only interested in these "Lady Doritos" if they have the same exact chips but cost 76 cents on the dollar as compared to regular bags of Doritos.
— laura (@LauraSimis) February 5, 2018
Cheer up, gals! We may not get a lady president, but we do get lady Doritos!
— (@NicCageMatch) February 5, 2018
Holy crap. LADY Doritos,thank God. I was really hoping for equal pay, respect, and rights to my own body not being voted on by old white men, but this will do just fine. @Doritos it's a new dawn and history will remember the day you took a stand!
— Renee (@reyfornow) February 5, 2018
Lady Doritos is a start, but really excited for Gentleman Cheetos, the less-qualified, over-confident snack that crunches loudly over you every time you try to speak your mind in a meeting pic.twitter.com/msfyizguO0
— Icon Undies (@IconUndies) February 5, 2018
Breaking news: Mike Pence not allowed to be in the same room as Lady Doritos unless he is accompanied by "Mother."
— Linda Childers (@lindachilders1) February 5, 2018
I love lady doritos pic.twitter.com/2TfSi7IhXc
— t0ri (@toehyndman) February 5, 2018
i make full eye contact with ur girlfriend as I open a bag of Lady Doritos. She's mine now. I know it. She now knows it. You'll learn soon.
— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) February 5, 2018
.@Doritos If you're doing "lady-chips," I would love some Cool Ranch infused with Plan B
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) February 5, 2018
Make them Midol flavor or get the fuck out of my face https://t.co/eRHwhPqmqe
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) February 5, 2018


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Something that is on my heart right now, is UNICEF's Malaria Initiative.
According to UNICEF's webpage:
"Malaria kills a child somewhere in the world every 30 seconds. It infects 350-500 million people each year, killing 1 million, mostly children in Africa. Ninety per cent of malaria deaths occur in Africa, where malaria accounts for about one in five of all childhood deaths. The disease also contributes greatly to anaemia among children — a major cause of poor growth and development. Malaria infection during pregnancy is associated with severe anaemia and other illness in the mother and contributes to low birth weight among newborn infants — one of the leading risk factors for infant mortality and sub-optimal growth and development.
Malaria has serious economic impacts in Africa, slowing economic growth and development and perpetuating the vicious cycle of poverty. Malaria is truly a disease of poverty — afflicting primarily the poor who tend to live in malaria-prone rural areas in poorly-constructed dwellings that offer few, if any, barriers against mosquitoes.
Malaria is both preventable and treatable, and effective preventive and curative tools have been developed.
Sleeping under insecticide treated nets can reduce overall child mortality by 20 per cent. There is evidence that ITNs, when consistently and correctly used, can save six child lives per year for every one thousand children sleeping under them.
Prompt access to effective treatment can further reduce deaths. Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy can significantly reduce the proportion of low birth weight infants and maternal anaemia.
Unfortunately, many children, especially in Africa, continue to die from malaria as they do not sleep under insecticide-treated nets and are unable to access life-saving treatment within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. Most recent data on household use of insecticide treated nets reveal low coverage rates of only around 5 per cent across Africa. However, recent efforts to scale up coverage have contributed to significant progress in several countries."
You can find further information here: UNICEF Malaria Initiative
For every 10$ donated a net will be given to a family, where 2 to 3 people can sleep under and many lives can be saved.
If you would like to donate towards this cause you can do so via UNICEF's donation page: UNICEF Donations
- Acts 20:35
"… remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "
Be awesomely blessed! 🙂
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We have new shirts available for purchase.
B.J. ordered his second round of shirts in October. With the month being October, Several different themes and ideas came to mind, but was an easy choice when it came down to it.
We decided to help raise money to help find a cure for breast cancer. Every shirt sold from this order (with the pink ribbons on the sleeve) will have $5 donated to his friends Mona and Elizabeth to help them reach their goals for when they walk 60 miles over three days to help raise money to find a cure. (Susan G. Komen 3-day for the cure). They will be walking a total of 60 miles over a 3 day period in Nov. of 2012.
A special thanks to Blue Collar Press for the speedy service and doing such a great job on the shirts! We have them available in black and white.
These shirts have been going fast, and we almost left them off this site because we thought we might run out as quickly as we got them. Then decided we'd just order more if needed.
If you would like to Donate to help Mona or Elizabeth raise money for the Susan G. Komen organization, follow this link to donate directly to one of their accounts on the Susan G Komen 3 day for the cure site.
If your organization would like to raise money to help support your cause, use the contact form and let B.J. know that you would like to be on our next order of shirts. We are also actively looking into getting some hats made for future events and for sale.
It's taken me a little while to make this post on bearracing and update the store page, thanks in advance for supporting bearracing! Get your shirts today here!
Don't want to pay for a shirt? But still want to sport the awesomeness of this or another design? Become a fan on facebook and watch for prizes coming as soon as the beginning of 2012!


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Babies are actually capable of standing up before they hit four months old, according to new research. But it doesn't happen out of nowhere.
Most moms are incredibly excited to witness the major milestones in their babies' lives. But if you could speed one of those major milestones up so that it happens much earlier than expected, would you do it?
If so, you'll want to read this: New research published in Frontiers in Psychology indicates that babies can stand up before they hit the four-month mark. This is crazy, right? Normally babies aren't capable of standing until they're around nine months old—so if this ability actually sets in earlier, why don't they display it?
Well, it's complicated. Getting a baby to stand this early requires training. Professor Hermundur Sigmundsson teaches a baby swimming class in Iceland and observes this firsthand—children enrolled in Profesor Sigmundsson's 12-week course are given the opportunity to stand, and he observes their abilities (the babies are also instructed on how to perform somersaults on mattresses in the water and grasp for nearby objects). The results have been startling: Of the 12 babies enrolled in the class, 11 were able to stand independently for about 15 seconds.
"The results are sensational compared to what we normally expect of children at this age," Sigmundsson said, according to a release for the news. "On average, the children were 4.3 months old when they learned to stand without support. The youngest was only 3.6 months old. Children can do more than we think."
It's crazy to think babies may be able to stand up so early in life (then again, it's also amazing that they can sort of walk right out of the womb!) Granted, it probably requires professional supervision in order for this to happen, so it may not be something you can arrange within your own home. Would you be interested in seeing your little one stand up this early in life?


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WFAN radio personality Craig Carton has resigned from his position at the station, according to a press release from his publicist.
For 10 years I've had the great privilege of showing up to work every day at my dream job. I have nothing but love and respect for my co-host, the show and the entire CBS Radio family and I've always tried to represent them in the best possible light.
Unfortunately, the unfounded legal issues currently plaguing me will only be a distraction to everyone at WFAN and the show I helped build. With that in mind, I have submitted my resignation to the station and they accepted. I am sad to see this chapter of my life close but know that it will allow me to focus on my family, my well-being and clearing my name, while giving the show the best opportunity to succeed without further disruption.
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We are migrating our file server from Novell to Windows and I will be using Robocopy to do the copy. i know I cannot move the Novell rights so I have setup the folders (blank) on the destination ahead of time with the rights I want. I was going to just use the MIR switch to keep things in sync but read that MIR could overwrite the rights on the destinantion, is this true? I am not trying to do anything with rights and don't want any rights being assigned or changed.
Am I better off using /E /Purge or /MIR.....or would I be better off with a different program like RichCopy.
Thanks for the advise,
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I just run the robocopy with /purge yesterday and connect few users to destination server.
/PURGE :: delete dest files/dirs that no longer exist in source.
i didn't realize the above and run again , thought of command will copy any changes to Destination.
Now how do restore the delete files?
Also how do i run just to copy anything has changed in Source without deleting?
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
This tutorial says that the /MIR flag may cause Robocopy to delete files on the Source:
Is that true? If it is true, presumably the same warning should apply to the /PURGE option?
Here's the relevant quote from that article:
Use the /MIR option with caution - it has the ability to delete a file from both the source and destination under certain conditions.
This typically occurs if a file/folder in the destination has been deleted, causing ROBOCOPY to mirror the source to the destination. The result is that the same files in the source folder are also deleted. To avoid this situation, never delete any files/folders
from the destination - delete them from the source, and then run the backup to mirror the destination to the source.
If in doubt, do not use the /MIR option, but be aware that backups will take longer.
I want to use Robocopy to do regular backups about 400 GB of media files. I want the external HD to replicate what's in my media folder on the internal HD. So, anything changed or added to the Source should be copied to the Destination, anything deleted
from Source should be deleted from Destination. I do not want Robocopy to delete anything from Source.
The backup will be run every few days, as media files on Source may be edited, added, deleted by me.
According to the documentation and some simple tests I ran today, the /MIR option does not erase anything from the source. The tutorial mentioned above is just flat wrong. Here's the truth, arrived at by typing "robocopy /?" at a command prompt:
/MIR :: MIRror a directory tree (equivalent to /E plus /PURGE)
And further:
/E :: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones.
/PURGE :: delete dest files/dirs that no longer exist in source.
Don't take my word for it. Sometimes these options change with different versions. The only way to know for sure is to read the help, create your command, and do some tests.
How can I go about purging old data from my SQL db?
I have configured a SQLExpress db to pull data from my ISA server, but I only need to keep one month of records. Therefore I want to be able to delete all of Septembers, especially as it's not letting me import October because there are too many records.
Hi everyone. Does anyone know anything about the program "Purge version 126.96.36.199" by Martin Preussner, which purports to clean up your hard drive? Here is a link to the description of it: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/File_Cleanup_Utilities/pURGE.html
I was wondering if it is any good, or if there is a better one out there.
Thanks in advance.
Only that it is remarkably similar to most other cleaning programs, "Empty Temp Folders" in particular, which is free:
My computer was infected with a virus. I was going to pay $100 for the computer repair person in my area to purge my system. I was told there is a way to purge the system from the inside. I didn't really know there was a way to do this besides formatting the hard-drive. Can you explain to me how I'm supposed to purge the system from the inside and how to do it?
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Is there a way for a person to delete all (or more than one AT ONCE) links from Favorites, without having to delete each link (or folder) separately??
Open up My Computer from your desktop.
Drive C/Documents and Settings.
Click on your user name if there is more than one user account set up on your computer. Open up the Favorites folder. Hold down the ctrl key while clicking on each entry you want to delete. After highlighting them, RIGHT click, choose delete.
I'm not sure what the Favorites folder would be under if there is only one user account on your computer, you'll have to root around for it. Or someone else can provide the info.
How do I purge "downloader.Zlob.ik"
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When I click on Computer/Searches, and view recent changes, recent email, recent documents, indexed location and everywhere, there are hundreds of files I'd like to delete/purge. How can I do this without deleting one at a time?
Never tried it myself aince the history does not get in my way. The first thing that I would try is on IE Tools>Internet Options>Delete Browsing History.
It probably will not clear documents etc, but it should work with the browsing history.
As I said it is not tried by me, but it seems logical that it may work. You should try it several times. If the files are large it does not usually complete the job with a single try. Good luck
Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 with clean Windows 10 install. I had a problem with drivers for an Alfa Wi-Fi device, tried alternative Alfa devices and drivers, then settled on one from TP-Link.
I would like to make sure I have removed all the drivers I tried, is there a way to purge them?
From elevated cmd prompt pnputil -e > %userprofile%\desktop\drivers.txt will list all third party drivers to file drivers.txt on your desktop. Looks something like this
Published name : oem13.inf
Driver package provider : Apple Inc.
Class : System devices
Driver date and version : 02/23/2015 18.104.22.168
Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Published name : oem20.inf
Driver package provider : Broadcom Corporation
Class : System devices
Driver date and version : 01/10/2014 220.127.116.116
Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Published name : oem14.inf
Driver package provider : Intel
Class : System devices
Driver date and version : 07/07/2015 18.104.22.1687
Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
You can then use pnputil -d oemnn.inf to remove them (replacing nn with relevant number.
Alternatively you can use DriverStore Explorer - Home which does the same thing.
Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 with clean Windows 10 install. I had a problem with drivers for an Alfa Wi-Fi device, tried alternative Alfa devices and drivers, then settled on one from TP-Link.
I would like to make sure I have removed all the drivers I tried, is there a way to purge them?
From elevated cmd prompt pnputil -e > %userprofile%\desktop\drivers.txt will list all third party drivers to file drivers.txt on your desktop. Looks something like this
Published name : oem13.inf
Driver package provider : Apple Inc.
Class : System devices
Driver date and version : 02/23/2015 188.8.131.52
Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Published name : oem20.inf
Driver package provider : Broadcom Corporation
Class : System devices
Driver date and version : 01/10/2014 126.96.36.1996
Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Published name : oem14.inf
Driver package provider : Intel
Class : System devices
Driver date and version : 07/07/2015 184.108.40.2067
Signer name : Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
You can then use pnputil -d oemnn.inf to remove them (replacing nn with relevant number.
Alternatively you can use DriverStore Explorer - Home which does the same thing.
I recently went through a big infection of vundo.
So what is happening now is that I'll be watching a movie, not using the computer for anything. Then I'll start hearing the windows chime, the same one it uses for crashes or deleting a file that's in use, for example. But no message anywhere, just the tone. Then the computer BSODs, but there's no file listed, just a stop error and an address, "STOP 0x000000F4", then a group of similar number strings in parentheses.
When the computer reboots, my wallpaper has been replaced with a big YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH SPYWARE, an alert going off over and over in the taskbar, and popup window telling me to purchase win protector or something like that.
Of course the virii won't allow me to run MalwareBytes or HJT. So I reboot into safe mode, run MBAM, and remove the files included in the attached log.
Problem is, this keeps happening. Something is reinfecting me, and MBAM and Avast aren't detecting it.
What should I do?
Thank you for reading, I'm getting a little desperate.
UPDATE:Part of the way I can tell that the virus is going to BSOD is that a process appears in task manager that is always a string of numbers .exe, for example 1562363434.exe. Don't know if that is helpful information or not, but something is generating an .exe and running it.Hello evenhand,We ask that once you have posted your log and are waiting, please DO NOT "bump" your thread or make further replies until it has been responded to by a member of the HJT Team. The reason we ask this or do not respond to your requests is because that would remove you from the active queue that Techs and Staff have access to. The malware staff checks the forum for postings that have 0 replies as this makes it easier for them to identify those who have not been helped. If you post another response, there will be 1 reply. A team member, looking for a new log to work may assume another HJT Team member is already assisting you and not open the thread to respond.That is why I have made an edit to your last post, instead of a reply. Please do not multiple post here, as that only pushes you further down the queue and causes confusion to the staff.Please be patient. It may take a while to get a response but your log will be reviewed and answered as soon as possible.Thank you for understanding.Regards,The weatherman (Moderator)Ah, I apologize. Is there some way I could delete this reply and return to 0 replies?Read other 3 answers
I have a HP Deskjet 6127 on a network. A use, cmhill, sent print jobs this morning that all printed fine. The last job she sent, poster, will not clear from the queue so now no one else can print. I've tried purging the queue, restarting the printer, forcing a paper feed, changing the priority - everything I can think of.
Any help?
Stop and restart Print Spooler in Manage>Services. That should handle it.
OS Windows XP. How can the printer buffer for a HP LaserJet 6L be purged?
I can't find any sort of reference to this situation on the HP support sites. I think it is printing PostScript code. Have tried to let it run through but still printing page after page many hours later. Thanks.
Will not switching the printer off then going to the printer folder and deleting the spool file do the trick ?
In w2k that is in winnt/system32/spool/printers
What does it mean to "purge" registry values? I am getting help from Microsoft and I was told to purge certain registry values.
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I have a new laptop (WinWPpro), which will not read CD-RWs made with the old Adaptec/Roxio programs on my desktop (Win2kPro). I installed Nero, which I like very much and can make the "quick CD-RWs" which will work but cannot format a disk in InCD on Nero. It appears that Roxio and Nero will not coexist. I have removed most traces of the Adaptec/Roxio programs but the InCD writer on Nero won't work. Nero says to disable the remaining driver files from Roxio "Cdr4_2k" and Cdralw2k" (I put an extension of .bak on them). When I do this neither my CD nor CD-RW drive will work and my device manager cannot find a suitable driver to activate the drives. So far, Nero has not been able to resolve the problem. Is there a way to safely purge all Adaptec/Roxio files? I notice there are still some registry entries attributed to Adaptec/Roxio but I am not comfortable fooling around with these.
Thanks much.
Neither is visible in the control panel.
I remember refusing to approve either during a long ago install. Before I ran across unchecky.
Please use the Farbar Recovery Scan Tool:
Download: Farbar Recovery Scan Tool Download
Select the version that applies to your system: 64-bit
Save it to your Desktop.
Double-click the downloaded file to run it.
When the tool opens click Yes to the disclaimer.
Press the Scan button.
The tool makes a log (FRST.txt) in the same directory from which the tool is run (Desktop).
Please provide the FRST.txt in your reply.
The first time the tool is run, it also makes another log: Addition.txt
Also post the Addition.txt in your reply.
Hi guys I'm new here and it looks like I'll have a huge amount of questions after reading through the board.
without going into a lot of detail .....my estranged husband purged nine months of incredimail emails .....these emails are extremely important to me. He was my 'server' for my domain name so all emails went through him (I think that's how it works) from his hosting site.
could someone tell me how I can possibly retrieve these emails? or do I have to send the PC away to have them retrieved. Is it possible?
thanks in advance
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how do i write a query that would delete dupes from a certain table, but only check specific fields i choose for duplicate info, not all fields, and then DELETE the dupes based on certain criteria, such as deleting the older record? i hate doing this manually!!!
thanks for any help ! --A2Kg
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Shared computer w/my roommates, I'm generally the only person who knows what the hell they're doing. The amount of **** they manage to put on this computer ****ing amazes me, so (with your help) I'm going to clean off everything that's on here and then install everything listed in the "How did I get Infected" thread and hopefully keep the crap to a minimum. I've already got CWShredder, HijackThis, Ad Aware, Spybot S&D, and others. I'll get things started by posting a HT log:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2
Scan saved at 11:34:37 AM, on 11/9/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Running processes:
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel\atiptaxx.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
C:\Program Files\DIGStream\digstream.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Gmail Notifier\gnotify.exe
C:\documents and settings\global\local settings\temp\l873r.exe
C:\documents and settings\global\local settings\temp\l873r.exe
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I recently downloaded glary undelete for recovering deleted files but I do not have a way to purge deleted files other than formatting the drives with ccleaner's driver wiper ect. Is there a good free program that can both purge deleted files and undelete files? I'd prefer a program that's not huge or very complicated to use, with an available folder listing option instead of just listing all deleted files together in a drive.
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sometime under w7 i had to purge/delete all the file inside the Prefetch folder
reboot ,use the pc and after the second reboot , the pc is faster
i was used to do one every 5 months
could i do in w7?
Hello there, drugo.
Yes, you can delete the contents from the Prefetch folder but it won't make your PC to "go faster".
What is the prefetch folder?
More than enough explanation
Hi, I'd like to purge the learned behaviors in my ATA instance and start from scratch. Haven't found any guidance on how to do so on the technet or console config section. Any help would be appreciated.Read other answers
HI all.
We recently found that our Microsoft ATA database files keep growing. Is there anyway to purge the old data ?
Currently we have 2x files collection-*****.wt with size around 20-25gb each . Is there built-in method for purging old data from MS ata? Currently we have 140 incidents that remained open .
Anyway to cleanup the collected data ?
My co-worker's Outlook Express suddenly "lost" thousands of e-mails. There is now a gap of emails from 3/29/05 to 8/29/08. He now has a total of 1417 emails showing, whereas before he had apprx. 11,000. Cananyone explain how this happened and if there is anyway to retrieve the "lost" emails?
Yes. Possibly what is explained here in this article. Read it
but don't compact just yet. If you have already compacted the
emails, then you probably can't recover anything. But it is
worth a shot.
To recover emails DBXtract Macallan:
old freeware DBXtract
Were those 11,000 emails stored in separate custom folders?
If they were all in one folder, probably too many. Check the size
of the .dbx files - I keep mine at or below 25 MB others go up to
100MB without problems. Anything more and it could easily
cause problems.
Ihave two questions on the mail panel in win 8.
Itis sync with my hotmail. And I look at it occasionally, but preferredgoing to Outlook to do my email activity.
HoweverI notice the deleted items have reached 137 and do not seem toperform any auto cleanup.
1.Is there a way I can set the deleted items to be erased after Xnumber of days?
2.Can I remove these deleted items as a bulk(more than one)?
Theonly way I know how to remove these items is highlighting 1 per itemand clicking Cntl-D.
PS: As stated above, I am using Outlook.com as my primary mail activity.the delete option there is working fine. When I first configured mylaptop, I sync my old Hotmail with the win 8 mail panel(frontscreen). It is here where I am having a bulk of deleted mail which Ican only purge manually. When I right click "deleted" namenothing happens. Is there a way to remove these deleted items inhotmail that exist on my front panel screen.
Hello, tomx2. Welcome back.
I'm fairly new to Outlook.com since I just changed from the Live.com, so please bear with me.
I don't see or know of any way to be erased after an x amount of days unless it can be performed online. Go to Outlook.com and sign in. Press the cog wheel next to your name. Select "More Mail Settings". There's a ton of them.
So far as deleting, right click an empty space and the bottom menu will slide up. Push "Select all" while in any folder or use Ctrl/A without the menu. Simply press another option or press Delete key to delete all. One needs to be careful, for there no longer exists a warning popup. Once they're deleted, they're gone.
Just to let you know, there's a "Rate and Review" option in Settings within the Charms Bar. One can make suggestions to improve the app such as your time deleting option. There's also Help under Settings as well.
Hope that helps.
While computer in use it started doing a physical purge by itself. Couldn't stop it and now when powered on doesn't load up, just makes whirr noise. Cannot turn off with power button.
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I have been trying to get rid of 180solutions and its counterparts and have found wininit, alchem, and others repeatedly on my system. I have been using Ad-aware and Avast, but have finally resorted to Hijackthis.
Below is the current H/T log file for my system. Can someone please tell me what to delete? Your help is appreciated.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 3:06:46 PM, on 7/30/04
Platform: Windows 98 Gold (Win9x 4.10.1998)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.yahoo.com/
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/defaults/stp/ymsgr*http://my.yahoo.com
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Each time I go open a site it is retained and when I go to a try to access asite therafter starting with the same one or two letters the entire list of sites I have been to starting with the same letters appears as a list. The lists are getting quite long but I can't seem to purge them. Thank in advance.
Using Windows xp on a Dell Inspiron 1150.
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I have NO idea what I did... can I just start over?
I have a laptop running XP HE. At home, I connect to the internet via a Linksys wireless nic -> Linksys WAP/Router -> Motorola cable modem. Setting up the home network was easy and it withstood all of my fiddling and tweaking without incident. Then, I brought my laptop to work, plugged the cat5 in, ran the network setup, etc.. and I had full access to the network and internet. Going back and forth between networks (wireless to hardwire & even using different wireless nics), everything worked fine for months. I tried to set my girlfriend up with a network similar to my home network, but things didn't work out quite as well this time. Now I can't connect to ANYTHING. I've tried every troubleshoot I know how to do, but my laptop will not talk to anything now... home, work, or otherwise. I suspect I changed a simple setting that I can't find now. I've tried setting up new connections and nothing is working. XP won't allow me to DELETE a connection, and it only shows me the connections that are plugged-in.
Short of re-format, is there any way I can purge all of my network settings and connections and start with a clean slate? Is there a better way?
well you can remove the tcp/ip settings or remove the protocol and also you can see what your network identification is set at. Right click my computer look for it.
Hi, I keep getting similar pop up windows on any website that I go to. I used AVG and every couple minutes it keeps healing the same files over and over again called Purge.U and Dialer or something. I tried used Adaware and Registry Mechanic, but those programs apparently found a million other things wrong on my computer besides the Purge and Dialer. I don't really know what else to do and the thing is getting really annoying. Ahhhh help!
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I'd like to know what is a purge unit & how to replace/clean it.
I have a MP780 that started with not printing black(3e) and now none of the colors print. It has a brand new head (the tech said the head needs replacing, but it didn't work). I did clean the sponge pad on the left and the two pads on the right(where the heads park themselves).
I sucked the ink out of the head using a tube to make sure that ink flows; it does.
any help / directions / diagrams would be appreciated.
Have a Win7 machine where the PendingRenames folder has 16,000 files in it. I've left the computer idle overnight to see if trusted installer would automatically do a purge, but it didn't delete anything. How can I force Windows to complete
the renames or purge the files out of here if they're no longer needed?
So i have been searching the web for quite some time regarding this subject and there is a whole lot of arguing between those that claim microsoft fixit will work and whose who claim it is impossible.
i would like some sane advice from competent individuals and i know for a fact that it is possible to clean this folder because ms used to have a program called msizap that could delete orphaned pacakges without damaging the installer directory.
i also know which programs will and will not be uninstalled and would be more than willing to clean the folder manually if there was some way to take the file names and figure out exactly what programs and updates they went with.
for now i would like to know if there is any NON COMERCIAL software that can do this eaisly and painlessly or if there i some way to figure out what the filenames for the MSP files mean so i can manually figure out if it is orphaned or not.
it has really gotten out of hand the folder has balooned to about 25gigs and my C drive is a 80gb solid state. i simply cannot deal with microsoft's mess anymore i need help to clean up.
Hello! I suppose you have already been here??https://www.raymond.cc/blog/safely-delete-unused-msi-and-mst-files-from-windows-installer-folder/Read other 3 answers
XP crashes halfway through downloading 58mb of MS Updates. This happens whenever I connect the computer to my Alcatel SpeedTouch modem and try to fetch them all. It sometimes gets to 28mb+ and the screen goes blank, computer reboots and the download is neither partly downloaded nor partly installed.
I'd better explain a little deeper.
I've taken on the job of cleaning up a friend's computer (always a dangerous thing when you do favors). The machine had W32.Beagle virus and I did all the necessary - switched off System restore; ran to safe mode and scanned with Norton after doing an update.
Scanned again and it seemed to be clean.
I used a removal tool obtained from Symantec which scanned and said the system was clean. Then I tried to do a MS Update for all the Security patches and Critical updates. The owner had never done one in 2 years of use! There were 58mb of updates needed! This was just too many to fetch on a Dial-up home phone line. (Would be OK if you could just set it going all night but heaps of them need a reboot after installing which is a mega pain).
So to hitch it up to my own broadband ADSL line I installed my USB Alcatel SpeedTouch modem and got connected at 512kbps and started fetching the updates. It crashed after 28mb and lost the lot.
Every time I tried to start anything of a speedy download, it crashed at variable times into the job and now whenever I reboot or just start up the computer I get "Windows has recovered from a serious ... Read more
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Hi, I often cleared by index.dat files as I use home banking and the like .... I used to be able to use a piece of free software called index.dat remover , but don't seem to see anything for windows 8.1? If there is a way to do this it would be appreciated if you could advise (in simple terms being a newbie with 8). Once this procedure is done (assuming there is a way) How can you view the files to see they are indeed cleaned/ purged/ or gone ? and how can you view them now ? ie tonight ?
kind regards all
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I always browse using firefox and recently I visited a site involving cross country workouts and same old same old, at the top, firefox notifies me that it has stopped a pop-up from activating. I've encountered websites like these before with the same notifications and usually nothing happens, however within five minutes of browsing this site, a strange message popped up on my tool bar called "Just-In-Time Debugging". I didn't trust this strange message and immediately left the site and restarted my browser, then I "X" out the "Just-In-Time Debugging" message. Within seconds the message appears again and again I "X" the message out, however after several attempts the message constantly keeps coming back!
Then, the next time I turned on my computer my avast notifies me that it has blocked a malware url site. I thought I had dodged the bullet, but I find that every time I start my computer avast notifies me again that it has blocked a malware url site even though I didn't go on the internet.
Now, every time I browse on google, when I click on a link, I am redirected to an unknown url! Also, sometimes when I am casually surfing the net a tab opens by itself being either blank or on an unknown site.
I've scanned with all my anti-spyware and anti-virus software (avast, search and destroy, spyware blaster), but every one has told me that everything on my computer i... Read more
Hello and welcome to the forums!My secret agent name on the forums is SweetTech (you can call me ST for short), it's a pleasure to meet you. I am very sorry for the delay in responding, but as you can see we are at the moment being flooded with logs which, when paired with the never-ending shortage of helpers, resulted in the delayed responding to your thread.I would be glad to take a look at your log and help you with solving any malware problems.If you have since resolved the issues you were originally experiencing, or have received help elsewhere, please inform me so that this topic can be closed. If you have not, please adhere to the guidelines below and then follow instructions as outlined further below:Logs from malware removal programs (OTL is one of them) can take some time to analyze. I need you to be patient while I analyze any logs you post. Please remember, I am a volunteer, and I do have a life outside of these forums.
Please make sure to carefully read any instruction that I give you. Attention to detail is important! Since I cannot see or directly interact with your computer I am dependent on you to "be my eyes" and provide as much information as you can regarding the current state of your computer.
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Hello all,
To save my life I could not get the Robocopy GUI to work. I have no problem using it with command line by dropping in to CMD.
Tried the GUI it reported that the job is finished as soon as I click "RUN" but nothing copied.
Thank you kindly,
Why not just put the command line commands in a bat file and run them like that? It's how I do my backups.Read other 2 answers
I have created a robocopy.bat as below :
robocopy C:\Users\Faust_000\Documents\Alfredo "F:\Backups Documents" /e /mir /z /np /tee /log:Alfredo_log.txt
and I have created a Planned Activity into the Planning Utility to run at certain time every day.
Now my question is :
1. if manually activeted by double click robocopy.bat it perfectly works and the log.tx file is created
2. if I execute the robocopy by the Planned Activity (by manually Excute or automatically at the planned time) the robocopy is done correctly but the log.txt file is not created or updated.
I did both on W7 Professional 64bit and on W8.1 64bit but no difference.
Could someone help me to understand why the difference of results manually and via Planned Activity ?
Thank in advance.
I don't use Robocopy or Planned Activity but it might perhaps be related to the current directory when the bat file is executed. If so, the other log file should be somewhere on your system and you could search for it.
I mean when you manually run the bat file you get a certain "current directory", but in the other scenario you get another directory. You can try to include a path for the log parameter or move to a certain directory with the cd command in the bat file, before the robocopy command.
Need to back up data-drive regularly on drive F and send to data-drive G
Robocopy has been mentioned as win7 built-in. I'm confused what is it & how to use it?
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Hi, I have 2 questions which I desperately need help with. Here's the question: 1. robocopy shoud Run in a separate terminal window and recheck file system changes every minute. 2. write a continous logfile that contains all detected file system changes including full pathnames of affected files. How do I do this?
This is one way, put this in a batch file:
robocopy command here
timeout 120 > nul
goto Start
Lots and lots of robocopy parameters, one of which is /log:file (file being the file you want info logged ion). > nul hides the Timeout in n seconds message.
Hi there,
I want to use ROBOCOPY to move any file that is older than 30 days.
I've tried this command but it seems to move the file anyway, even though the file is only 4 days old:
robocopy * C:\b2d C:\archive /mov /minage: 01-04-2011
From "/minage: 01-04-2011" i thought it would only move files that are at least 30 days or more old. But this seems to move everything.
Can anybody explain why this is happening? Is it because i used a wildcard on files, will that not look at the file age?
how do I access a command line to be able to use robocopy? when I use the regular command prompt, I get an error message that says Robocopy is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. What am I doing wrong?
Where did you get the program? Sounds like it's corrupted.
We are looking to migrate a SQL database to a new server. The database is for an imaging software and has pointers to the images. We are going to move the database in the next week or two. I wanted to start copying the image files to the new server to prepare for the migration (about 300 gig of 17k files). I understand that robocopy is a good program to accomplish this. I am looking to copy all the files, folders, and subfolders over, then copy only the changes over nightly. What is the correct command line that I should use to accomplish this? Can I save it to a bat file and use windows task scheduler to have it run nightly?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Are you migrating to a server that will be running the same software? Why not use an SSIS package? That way, you can migrate the complete database to the new server and just point your programs as necessary.
I have Windows Vista Home Premium and somebody recently mentioned to me about Robocopy to use from cmd. Unfortunately I got into a mess and cmd froze so that I had to force shut down.
Can somebody kindly let me know how to use robocopy to copy files and directories my document on C: drive into external hard drive J: in a simple language as possible.
Thank you very mcuh.
This is how robocopy is used:
How to Copy Vista to Another Hard Drive | eHow.com
That being said, I would like to mention that in several years of helping out at the Vista Forum, this is the first question about robocopy. Most members use Macrium Reflect to make monthly backups. These backups are always available in the event of a catastrophe with the OS. It can also be used to transfer to another drive.
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I have been forced by the man to switch to vista. I had a simple xcopy to duplicate a folder structor. Would someone be kind enough to translate this into robocopy for me?
xcopy r:\_DND\*.* r:\SMcbrid2\ /E /O
Thanks for the help
Here you go:
ROBOCOPY r:\_DND\ r:\SMcbrid2\ *.* /E /COPYALL


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BSA would like to invite you tot he Annual Black History program next Wednesday, Feb 25th at 7pm in the Auditorium. $3 entry at the door. Money will help fund local college tours for BSA. This year's program will include music performances from Mosaic, traditional African dance, historical readings and keynote speaker, Pastor Phil Jackson from Chicago, IL. Hope to see you there.
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Let's get into a gorgeous sounding technique building chords using 5ths and inversions. But, you say most chords already have a 5th in them. Even power chords do that. True, but what happens if you add another 5th? You get a stacked 5th. An example; the 5th of A is E, the 5th of E is B. Put them together and you have a stacked 5th. They can be played as chords (we'll get to that soon), but they can sound awesome played as arpeggios, played as individual notes. Here's a short chord progression that demonstrates this. Depending on the instrument you play it might be good to start this lesson by actually playing the piece. Go on.... Done?... Cool. Now let's analyze it.
First up you'll notice two chord variations. The chord boxes are the exact chords of what is scored. That's what we're focusing on. However, if you play full chords by filling out the missing notes from each triad (including the extra notes above) the chords underneath are what you'll get. And, that is actually subjective because the first chord could quite easily be a Major chord not a minor as indicated. Let's not go there today but depending on your musical level you can go all creative and develop a different chord structure.
Next up is the root notes of each chord. They are indicated by the green arrows. The root note is not the first note of each chord. As mentioned above you could create full chords based on the notes above - great if you're a jazz or classical player. If you are in the rock department then you'll need your bass player to lay something down that drives home the root notes of each chord to achieve the boxed chords.
Lastly, we're going give you the breakdown of each chord as scored above. We hope that you'll not only develop playing technique, but be inspired creatively too! Think about chord structure in the way we outline below because this lesson is less chordal theory and more how notes are 'stacked' on each other, IE: they are not directly linked to the root note but rather related to the note that proceeds it. That said each note does flow through a logical, musically accurate path back to the root note.
D(no3) - A (inverted 5th), D (root), A (5th). Asus2 - A (root), E (5th), B (5th of E). Dsus2 - D (root), A (5th), E (5th of A). Csus2 - D (inverted 5th of G), G (inverted 5th of C), C (root)
Have fun!
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Weekly Art Lens by Beth Shook
Coming soon to the Renwick: Judith Schaechter, The Floor, 2006, glass, Collection of Claire Oliver and Ian Rubinstein, Photo by Dominic Episcopo
"Culture Wars: Then and Now" at the Corcoran Gallery: Given recent events at the Smithsonian, this symposium on freedom of expression over the past two decades comes at a pivotal moment – and at a venue that has its own tangled history with art censorship. Panel topics range from the evolution of the "offensive" to public funding for the arts, with panelists including Corcoran Chief Curator Philip Brookman, a diverse group of scholars and curators and D.C.'s own iPad protestors. The event is hosted in conjunction with Transformer, the D.C. gallery that first opted to display David Wojnarowicz's controversial video after it was pulled from the Portrait Gallery. March 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North.
Corridor at the Art Museum of the Americas: The AMA takes an unconventional approach to their latest exhibition, inviting a group of contemporary Baltimore and Washington-based artists to participate in a collaborative curatorial process. The twelve artists on view work in a variety of mediums; I'm particularly looking forward to whatever Martha Jackson-Jarvis's mixed-media installation "Vegan's Table, Cry Me a River" might entail. On view March 24 to June 26. Opening reception March 24 at 6:30 p.m. Metro: Farragut West.
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Patrick McDonough: Opening Act at Civilian Art Projects: This weekend CAP inaugurates its new "site-specific project space" with an installation by local artist Patrick McDonough. In line with the recent vogue for art that has more to do with process than the final product, McDonough's pieces are elaborate projects: a gray wall whose color was derived from Soundgarden song titles, song lyrics tattooed on the artist's back. The question is whether McDonough's broader theme of "fan behavior" will unify his works or get lost in the shuffle. Either way, this show looks fun. On view March 25 to May 28. Opening reception March 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. Metro: Mt. Vernon Square.
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 at the Renwick Gallery: For its fifth craft invitational, the Renwick is displaying works by four decorative artists who all manage to combine "historical techniques" with a distinctive, contemporary aesthetic. Highlights include Judith Schaechter's stained glass panels inspired by medieval tapestries and comic books, and Cliff Lee's porcelains forms that go from referencing ancient Chinese ceramics to the Chihulyesque. The Smithsonian American Art Museum website includes a pretty cool slideshow on the featured artists' and their
process. On view March 25 to July 31. Metro: Farragut West.
Short list: "Making Shapes in Space: David Smith and Dance" at the Phillips Collection; DCist Exposed at Longview Gallery; Ex-Apparatus at Corehaus DC.


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The things we do: What the World Humanitarian Summit says about human nature
Discussions of who mankind is usually begin with stories of small bands of hunter-gatherers roaming the savannah and struggling for survival under the African sun, of great feats of strength at the Olympics, or of monumental hurdles overcome to land on the moon. They do not usually start like this: hundreds gather in a Mediterranean city to schmooze and discuss the fate of millions of others. But this event is a quintessential story of who we are as human beings. The World Humanitarian Summit demonstrates the very human characteristics of cooperation and competition.
Michael Tomasello, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and author of Why We Cooperate, has explored the distinctiveness of human nature for decades. He and his colleagues suggest that one of the defining characteristics of humans is that we cooperate. Many species, from ants to dolphins and primates, cooperate in the wild, but Tomasello has identified a special form of cooperation that is truly human. In his view, humans alone are capable of shared intentionality—the ability to intuitively understand what another person is thinking and act toward a common goal.
Is Cooperation Natural or Learned?
Tomasello found that by the time human babies begin to point at things, at about nine months of age, they have already made several sophisticated cognitive leaps. Firstly, when they point at a puppy, they know that the perspective of their parents may be different from their own (their parents may not yet see the puppy), and, secondly, they want to share their experience with them. Pointing is an attempt to draw the attention of their parents, and it's also a request for a joint experience: they want their parents to look at the puppy with them.
In other experiments, Tomasello demonstrates that children as young as 12 months have no trouble understanding an adult pointing to a hidden reward because they recognize that the pointing is done for their benefit. To understand pointing, Tomasello speculates, one must form a "we intention," a shared goal that two or more individuals undertake together. Humans are especially gifted in making shared intentions. Young children work together and consider cooperation to be a reward in its own. When adults deliberately drop objects in Tomasello's experiments, babies of 14 months will crawl over to pick them up and hand them back. Toddlers will also open doors for experimenters whose hands are full. They do so without being asked or rewarded. If someone is having trouble, they stop to help, and they share.
Cooperation and Game Theory
Game theory models, which forecast how people behave when their interests are in conflict, suggest that rational actors accused of a crime will defect and attempt to pin the crime on their partners. Yet, there are many situations in which people voluntarily chose to cooperate– even with the threat of imprisonment. A 2005 anthropological study of 15 societies, mostly traditional small-scale communities scattered around the globe who exhibited a wide variety of economic and cultural conditions, demonstrated that the predisposition for cooperation is potentially universal. The researchers studied the behavior of these communities in Ultimatum, Public Goods, and Dictator Games and found that the established model of pure self-interest failed in all of the societies. They also found that group-level differences in economic organization and the structure of social interactions explain a substantial portion of the behavioral variation across societies: the higher the degree of market integration and the higher the payoffs to cooperation in everyday life, the greater the level of prosocial behavior expressed in experimental games.
Approaching game theory from another perspective, Simon D. Angus and Jonathan Newton model the evolution of the ability to undertake jointly intentional behaviour and show that this ability most likely evolved at a time when technological and cultural progress offered particularly high benefits to survival, such as during a period of significant environmental change. In such a context, those groups that have the ability to cooperate and therefore innovate will prevail over those who cannot cooperate. Here, cooperation and competition simultaneously shape human interaction.
The human dilemma
The science of cooperation acknowledges that humans still compete. Wars still happen, economic markets still fluctuate, and some people still lose out. Cooperation evolved on top of and in conjunction with our inherent competitive drive. This is the human dilemma: our minds are the product of competitive intelligence and cooperative insight, and our behavior blends friendly cooperation and competitive hostility.
From May 23-24, 2016, hundreds of world leaders will meet in Istanbul for the opening of the first World Humanitarian Summit, organized by the United Nations. They are gathering in response to social scientists and humanitarian workers who claim that 130 million people - more than ever before - need humanitarian aid worldwide and around 60 million people per year are being displaced by conflict. Our competitive spirit has, unfortunately, created the dire situation facing those in need of humanitarian support. The Summit has been criticized by some aid groups as little more than show. And while it is right to push world leaders to walk the walk (so to speak), it is nonetheless remarkable that so many world leaders are gathered to cooperate for the benefit of others.
Yes, power and politics are at play, but I hope that, in the end, what stands out is our capacity for generosity and team work— key aspects of what it means to be human.
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