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Mapping for your Web Site
Your web site may or may not benefit from the inclusion of maps, a relatively simple location map, or something more sophisticated.
You cannot of course copy any map that you came across due to copyright issues, but we have two options we can use.
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We can draw maps for you. Simple location maps such as those at the bottom of this web page can easily be created.
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Google Maps
Google maps can also be embedded into your web page as here.
The use of google maps in this way is currently free of charge. | {
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I loved working with the Bella Blvd products for this post, and encourage you to check out their latest lines! They were so easy to work with, and inspired me immensely!
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Denver Post: NHL Draft Adds Recruiting Pressure
This weekend's NHL draft has become one of the bigger annual events at the University of Denver, which has become the NHL development camp of the West.
Sophomore-to-be defenseman Joey LaLeggia, classmate Ty Loney, a forward, and incoming freshman forward Quentin Shore and incoming freshman defenseman Dakota Mermis are expected to be drafted Saturday in Rounds 2-7. In which round they are drafted, and by what team, will give us a good idea about how long they will play at DU [read entire article].
Man I flippin love the NHL draft weekend. Around my house it's like the Super Bowl. I have the next 3 days totally planned out. I have 3 TV's in the living room, computer....I took of work Friday. This is like Christmas eve for me | {
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recMake your own clone army for an extremely low price! This product is a waterslide decal set for the titled clone. At $2 a set, we offer decals for every surface of the figure at less than half the price of those inaccurate, incomplete decal sets sold on eBay.
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recMake your own clone army for an extremely low price! This product is a waterslide decal set for the titled clone. At $2 a set, we offer decals for every surface of the figure at less than half the price of those inaccurate, incomplete decal sets sold on eBay.
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If you have any questions on programming, this is the place to ask them, whether you're a newbie or an experienced programmer. Discussion on programming in general is also welcome. We will help you with programming homework, but we will not do your work for you! Any porting requests must be made in Developmental Ideas.
I made a program called VmuGx a long time ago. It was a little editor that allowed you to draw vmu "icons" and save them as the "+.+.+...+.+." deal or bmps. If there isn't a program that already exists that does what you want, I can add a bmp to "+.++.+....+." thingy in like 5 minutes.
My program was released to the public, on thechaosrift.com at least. It's not on the site anymore because I guess no one had a use for it. I'll go ahead and make the enhancement and post a link to it up in here.
In the KOS source, there's an example that loads XPM files onto the VMU LCD. It's located in examples/dreamcast/libdream/lcd.
Here's the thing, though: drawing to the LCD is slow. If you draw the LCD image once, nothing appears on newly-inserted VMUs. If you draw it every frame, your framerate will suffer. Here's my solution (again, anyone can feel free to use this however they want, regardless of the GPL license attached to the DCBlap project): replace the KOS VMU handler with one that sends your icon when the VMU is inserted. You can grab the code here:
This is a modified version of the KOS XPM demo, and it requires modifying your XPM slightly after saving it. All you need to do is remove the color palette information, and stick all the data into 1 string. For an example, see http://svn.c99.org/viewcvs/DCBlap/trunk ... iew=markup
Let me know if you have any questions, I know that file isn't very well commented (ok, not commented at all).
-Sam
Edit: Call dcb_vmu_init(); to initialize the driver and replace the default KOS driver. Then call update_lcds(); during your game loop. This will send the LCD image to any newly-inserted VMUs that haven't already recieved it.
Note: I made that with Win98 so I'm hoping it'll look and work the same on XP. The program had an icon I made for it but it randomly didn't show up on my compoot (can you tell me if it does on yours?).
So, all you have to do is open up the program, go to Options -> Bitmap to VMU. Choose the bmp you want. Then do File -> Save to create a text file containing the "+.+.++.+...." huha. And if you want to use the editor, left click places, right click erases.
I did a pretty simple RAW->XPM convert utility so I could display images in the VMU screen easily... First I create the black/white image I wanted (48x32 pixels) and then saved it as .RAW image. (256 colour palette) | {
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Arlington, VA (November 17, 2016) — Thanksgiving experience differs more by generation than housing type From overcooking the turkey to guests getting too tipsy, and from being stuck at the kid’s table to someone revealing a family secret, it turns out that the American holiday experience is about the same no matter whether you rent or own, or whether you live in a manufactured home, site-built home or apartment. That was the bottom line in the “All The Same Under One Roof” survey conducted by the Manufactured Housing Instituteand international market research firm YouGov. “What we found is that when family and friends gather at home for the American holiday experience, those who live in manufactured housing have the same joys, concerns and memory-making as those who live in site-built homes, apartments and condominiums,” said Richard Jennison, president and CEO of MHI. There wasn’t a statistical difference based the type of home in which respondents lived. Jennison added, “We found some amusing and very useful differences among age groups, regions of the nation, and other delineators, some of which could be used to help plan accordingly and smooth the holiday experience for everyone.” It’s no surprise to MHI that the holiday experiences are so similar. “The findings reflect the position that MHI champions — it’s time to get rid of the misconceptions surrounding factory-built housing and those who live in these homes,” Jennison added. “Today’s manufactured homes feature high-quality construction and customization, and can cost up to $35 less per square foot than traditional site-built homes.” Three out of five respondents acknowledge a fear about the upcoming holidays. Among those that express a fear, their top three biggest holiday fears are that politics will be discussed over dinner (27%), they will be stuck in traffic (15%) and their favorite team will lose the game (13%). In addition, for Thanksgiving, 28% admit to taking an after-dinner nap, 17% have complimented the cook when they didn’t like the food, and 13% have said something they shouldn’t have. “One can speculate on the whys of these findings, and dig in and find all kinds of interesting facts, but what we find most important is that the ties that bind the American family and the American holiday experience unite us regardless of what kind of home we live in, income level and education,” Jennison said. “Americans are all the same under one roof.” The survey did find some fun differences, and they are more likely to fall along age, education, income and geographical lines — whether the issue is a good old nap or worry that there won’t be enough wine at the table. Among the many findings: • Traditionally women are the big holiday planners but they have fewer concerns about things going wrong than do men. • Millennials and Gen Xers are most likely to get too tipsy and to worry about running out of wine at dinner. • Despite the stereotype of the boorish uncle who will talk politics at dinner, among those with a holiday fear, it’s Boomers who are most worried about it happening. • Millennials worry most about overcooking the turkey, while Boomers are least likely to politely compliment food when it’s not up to snuff. • It’s Gen Xers who most want a post-turkey nap. (Boomer grandparents or Millennials without kids at the table may want to plan activities for the grandkids.) And the more years of education, the more likely a post-dinner nap is in the cards. • Best not to assign doing dishes to Millennials or family members who are separated or single; they’re most likely to make an excuse to get out of it. • Football may be a holiday tradition, but don’t worry that a loss will dampen the holiday spirits. Even among men, just 15% worry that their team will lose on the holiday. • Younger and single? You’re probably going to be sleeping in your childhood bedroom if you stay the night. • Generally, the higher the household income, the more likely they’ve had someone who overstayed their welcome. • If you’re a grown up and want to avoid the kids’ table, then it’s best to be married – single Millennials and Gen Xers are most likely to be stuck with the children. Among those who expressed a fear, the biggest holiday fears among all age groups are: • 27% Politics will be discussed over dinner • 15% I’ll be stuck in traffic • 13% My favorite team will lose the game • 12% We will run out of food • 10% The cook will ruin the dinner • 10% We will run out of wine • 8% Religion will be discussed over dinner • 6% A family secret will be revealed Responses for all age groups when asked if this has ever happened to them at Thanksgiving: • 28% Taken a post-turkey dinner nap • 17% Complimented the cook even when the food was bad • 13% Said something I shouldn’t have • 10% Gotten too tipsy • 10% Been an adult, stuck at the kids table • 10% Over-cooked the turkey • 9% Hosted a house guest who stayed too long • 8% Slept in my childhood bedroom • 7% Made an excuse to avoid doing the dishes • 7% Waited in line to use the bathroom All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 2,227 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between November 2-3, 2016. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all U.S. adults (aged 18+). For more information and to dig deeper into the survey findings please visit www.manufacturedhousing.org. MHI is the only national trade organization representing all segments of the factory-built housing industry. MHI members include home builders, lenders, home retailers, community owners and managers, suppliers and 50-affiliated state organizations. Visit us on Twitter @MHIUpdate, and Facebook. | {
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An unannounced renewal inspection was completed on November 1, 2018 from approximately 5:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. One child, five years old, was in care, for a total of one point. The child was observed interacting with the provider during free play and pick up times. Children?s toys, learning materials, equipment, bathroom, outside play area, van used to transport children and the home?s first aid kit and emergency supplies were inspected. Three children?s records, one caregiver record, four household members? records, the emergency response and preparedness plan, fire drill, shelter in place and lock down logs, daily attendance and required postings were reviewed. Medication is not administered and there were no injury reports to review. The provider was available for interview, inspection and exit interview at which time inspection findings were reviewed and an Acknowledgement of Inspection form was signed and left with the licensee. There were two citations for violations of the Standards. See the violation notice on the Department's public web site for violations of the Standards.
Based on a review of caregiver and household member records, the licensee failed to ensure that each caregiver and adult household member obtain a tuberculosis screening every two years for one of one caregiver and two of four adult household members.
Evidence: 1. Caregiver #1?s record contained tuberculosis screenings dated May 20, 2016 and May 25, 2018, HHM #1's record contained tuberculosis screenings dated May 12, 2016 and May 25, 2018 and HHM #4's record contained a tuberculosis screening dated July 12, 2018. 2. Caregiver #1 acknowledged these screenings were not obtained every two years and indicated this is due to health insurance restrictions. Caregiver #1 was unable to locate HHM #4's previous tuberculosis screening but acknowledged the subsequent screening was over the two year time frame as well.
Plan of Correction:
This cannot be corrected. Licensee will find another alternative, such as checking with the local health department, to ensure that the TB screenings are able to be obtained every two years due to health insurance restrictions.
Standard #:
63.2-1721.1-B-2
Description:
Based on review of household member records, the licensee failed to obtain fingerprint results by September 30, 2018 for three of four household members.
Evidence: 1. HHM #1's record contained fingerprint results dated October 31, 2018, HHM#3's record contained fingerprint results dated October 30, 2018 and HHM#4's record contained fingerprint results dated October 30, 2018. 2. Caregiver #1 acknowledged fingerprints for these household members were not obtained by the September 30, 2018 required time frame. Caregiver #1 indicated that all three household members were out of town for weeks.
Plan of Correction:
This cannot be corrected. All household members have eligible fingerprint results.
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A compliance history is in no way a rating for a facility.
The online compliance history includes only information after July 1, 2003. In addition, the online compliance history includes information regarding adverse actions that may be the subject of a pending appeal. An adverse action is not final until a provider has exhausted or waived all due process rights. For compliance history prior to July 1, 2003, or information regarding the status of pending adverse actions, please contact the Licensing Inspector listed in the facility's information. The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is not responsible for any errors in or omissions from the compliance history information.
Virginia Quality is a voluntary quality rating and improvement system for early care and education facilities serving children ages birth through pre-K. Eligible child care facilities must be fully licensed, licensed exempt and a VDSS subsidy vendor, or a voluntary registered day home and a VDSS subsidy vendor. Only programs enrolled in Virginia Quality will display a rating. Virginia Quality contact information for your region is available at the following link Regional Contacts. | {
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Man in Penn State video says he was bystander, not rioter
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) One of 12 students arrested and charged with rioting at a Penn State satellite campus apartment building claimed to be a bystander only on a video taken by a friend.
The (Altoona) Mirror (http://bit.ly/14RmKGt ) reports the video shows a Logan Township officer choking and struggling with 19-year-old Kevin Nelson, who was on his apartment porch playing a guitar but not involved in Saturday's disturbance at the Nittany Pointe apartment building. Police declared the party in which several hundred people were drinking and dancing outside a riot after liquor bottles were thrown as a police car.
Chief Ron Heller says police can order people not directly involved in the disturbance to go inside in such an instance and that Nelson was arrested for not doing so. | {
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also been updated to v. 1.3.3.3 Note: the displayed transaction may be incorrect! You or other nodes may need to be updated. What are my front of the screen should be done to propalon update message and be able to continue production or solo P2Pool?
I have the most up to date wallet too. Same display at the top of the wallet. And it's been syncronizing with the network, but the time keeps increasing instead of decreasing and showing wrong amount??
If that does not work: Shut down wallet, emove peers.dat file and blockchain (DONT TOUCH wallet.dat), open up your cryptographicanomaly.conf file and add 'connect=cga.inceptioncraft.net', start up wallet, wait for it to sync, shut down wallet, remove 'connect=cga.inceptioncraft.net' from your .conf, start wallet back up, you should be set
I deleted peers.dat and there is a folder called blocks, I also deleted it. Now the wallet is syncing from the beginning but I have not balance? Is this okay?
also been updated to v. 1.3.3.3 Note: the displayed transaction may be incorrect! You or other nodes may need to be updated. What are my front of the screen should be done to propalon update message and be able to continue production or solo P2Pool?
I have the most up to date wallet too. Same display at the top of the wallet. And it's been syncronizing with the network, but the time keeps increasing instead of decreasing and showing wrong amount??
If that does not work: Shut down wallet, emove peers.dat file and blockchain (DONT TOUCH wallet.dat), open up your cryptographicanomaly.conf file and add 'connect=cga.inceptioncraft.net', start up wallet, wait for it to sync, shut down wallet, remove 'connect=cga.inceptioncraft.net' from your .conf, start wallet back up, you should be set
I deleted peers.dat and there is a folder called blocks, I also deleted it. Now the wallet is syncing from the beginning but I have not balance? Is this okay?
Your balance should be "re-created" as your wallet synchronises.
Your wallet does not really hold your coins, it holds your private keys which show which blockchain entries are yours. The coins are only ever *on* the blockchain and your wallet provides the "view" or "access" to your coins. Until your wallet sees the relevant blockchain entries that represent transactions to your keys it won't show them.
Ok all the pools are back on the right chain, things seem to be back to normal.
I noticed something strange:I am running the latest wallet (CPU-mining in that wallet)and the block number was behind compared to the pool.Then I checked the time and indeed, the 2 or 3 blocks behind in the walletcorresponded with about 10 minutes old "last block".I changed the "setgenerate" to reduce CPU load from -1 to 1and checked that I had enough connections to the network (it showed 8 connections)but still the wallet did not receive the last blocks.I believe it showed block 103465 while the pool showed 103467 then 103468so I shut down my wallet, downloaded the latest wallet again (my PC warned that it was overwriting the same 1.3.3.3 version)and re-opened the wallet - now it synced without problem.It could have been a fluke from running on Windows 7 - I don't know. Just wanted to give a heads-up that apparentlywallets are not always 100% synchronized apparently.
Yup, CGA went from 12th to 10th place just in the past days, so voting really makes a difference.The only reason we are 3rd on Swisscex is because others dumped a lot of money in the top coins,buying votes. For example Marinecoin (I had never heard of it before) was suddenly popping upat nr 2 position with 3800 (bought) votes. Overnight it jumped to 1st position by adding another4000 bought votes. I have not looked into it, but I suspect that as fast as it rises, it will also fall.Only benefit is the "bought voting" income for the exchange, the coin will not do well on an exchangewithout a community behind it.We will just continue to vote and get on the exchange with a good support. | {
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Written by Dan Waters Art by Max Fiumara Cover by Tiffany Turrill
God is angry. Lucifer has committed an unthinkable act of sacrilege, and now the forces of Heaven have left him with nowhere to turn but the lands of the dead. His first stop: Hell. But much has changed since Lucifer's last visit to his former kingdom. Meanwhile: a cherub appears in a motel room, a witch queen walks the Earth for the first time in millennia, and Mazikeen gets to break a finger or two. | {
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Hollow out jalapenos, stuff it with cream cheese & crumb it - then deep fry till crispy golden brown.....during this preparation process copious amounts of rum consumed is essential....so even if the dish flops, it looks good & fills the hunger pains........
I make large quantities at a sitting, then freeze it, just to pop into the deep fryer when needed....again plenty of rum involved of course.... | {
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<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There is so much that I have not responded to until now that I am sure I am going to miss a lot. I am going to keep an irony tally for this response.</font></pre>
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</span><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You seem to be trying your hardest to make this personal. Most of this argument is you misinterpreting/misstating my stance and then slinging mud at me personally while railing against a series of straw man arguments. I will get into the other stuff but first I have to take you to task for being a dick to my wife.</font></pre>
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</span><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">did you
seriously just come here as your husband's get out of racism free card</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">i do not really understand what the point of your email was. as far as i
can see, your husband is trying to use you and his stepfather as his
minority token to excuse his abhorrant behavior.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Nice to know that you only think of women in the context of their relationship to men and not as free thinking individuals. Bonus points for literally objectifying her. Twice. (Irony +2)</span><br>
</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">She is her own person. I asked her not to post in this discussion but keep on thinking that I am somehow manipulating her from the shadows. </span></pre>
</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> Remember when I said everyone needs to examine their actions and motivations not just one group and you</font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> falsely equated it to victim blaming? Saying that people should examine their own motivations and biases is not victim blaming. It is the very thing you are (in your own ham fisted and misguided way) trying to convince me (even though I already know) that I should do.(irony +1) But for some reason you seem to think checking yourself for privilege should only apply to other people. We all belong to multiple overlapping groupings each with it's own set of privileges. You are ignoring your own privileged actions while screaming that I am lording my privilege over you. (irony+1)</span></pre>
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</span><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"> and try to defend his racist ideas that minorities should just get the fuck
over their fears for their well-being in regards to the white nationalist
movement?</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial">You may not have seen this already so i'll repost it here. It originally came from the Tattoos vs. behavior thread. <br>
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</font></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial">...</span><span style="font-family:arial"> I was never blaming the victim or asking people to </span><span style="font-family:arial">approach this person directly. The idea that the only option for a person </span><span style="font-family:arial">in a group targeted by </span><span style="font-family:arial">white supremacists are to leave or "get over it" is</span><span style="font-family:arial"> false choice and never one that I put forward....</span></pre>
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</span><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial">You have been fighting shadows most of this debate. This alone makes most of the rest of your post irrelevant but I have a few more things to say. </span></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">...excuse his abhorrant behavior...</font></pre><span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It's abhorrent behavior when people disagree with your faulty assumptions on an internet thread? Exaggerate much?</font></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">... people who use those relationships
as an "out" to excuse racist behavior...</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">...i do not really understand what the point of your email was. as far as i
can see, your husband is trying to use you and his stepfather as his
minority token to excuse his abhorrant behavior...</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">I didn't bring up any of my relationships and I don't think of Papa Joe in that way. Frankly I didn't want to even mention my upbringing because of all the implications and types of privilege that it exposes me to. Stuff like the above post. What you wrote here disgusts me. Way to disparage and minimize my relationships with my parental figures into a trump card in an internet argument. I would totally do that because my relationships with parental figures is fleeting and shallow because we aren't biologically related right? FUCK YOU WITH YOUR MASSIVE PRIVILEGED IGNORANCE. She brought it up because he is one of the persons who taught me about my white privilege. The privilege you claimed I was unaware of. OF FUCKING COURSE knowing a black person doesn't make you not a racist, but did you stop to think that if a black person was raising a white person they might over the course of their lifetime, breach the fucking subject? The point was that I did not grow up in the protective bubble that keeps most white people unaware of their privilege. Elizabeth was not defending a racist viewpoint she was debunking your idiotic claims about my knowledge and insulting attempts to educate me.</span></font></font></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Oh look it's you complaining about people trying to educate you as to what racism is.</font></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">...(this being one of them btw.
the idea that a minority needs to be "told" what racism is, and informed
that their experiences suffering racism aren't valid because they don't fit
a bunch of white guys' perceptions of what racism is...</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And here is the tail end of an entire post dedicated to you doing just that to me as a form of snark.</font></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial">...</span></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">or anyone who wants to actually learn about this issue instead of just
brushing off the opinions of what the people living through it feel about
their own situations and experiences...</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(Also Irony +1)</font></pre></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
<span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></pre><pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">...People here are the
REAL victims of this bullshit. I grew up with stories of how my dad... </pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial">You want to talk about privilege lets talk. I grew up without parents so this already sounds like privileged whining to me. You try to claim the moral high ground by telling me what "REAL" victims look like. (irony +1)</font></pre>
<span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">I was beat up in high school almost every week
for being half latina.</pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial"> You think you had it bad? I was the only "cracker whiteboy" for miles. I lived with a black foster family and there were no other white kids at my middle school. You think I got a firsthand lesson on what it is like when an entire community turns against you because you look different? You had a fucking walk in the park compared to me buddy. I was jumped (sometimes upwards of 15 people) on the way to school, On the bus. At school. On the bus home. On the way home from school. And whenever the local gangs wanted something to do or someone to exert their angst on. I got jumped by the whole neighborhood every single day to the point that department of family and children's services stepped in and removed me from the foster family I loved for my survival. The next time you want to "educate" me on "real" racism try being dragged around the neighborhood while people take turns kicking and punching you until you can't see from the blood running into your eyes and see if that giver you some fucking perspective.</font></pre>
<span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial"><br></font></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial">Once again you do not have a monopoly on suffering. Not even racist motivated suffering.</font></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial">D</font><span style="font-family:arial">on't be one of those racists that say you can't be racist to white people. My scars beg to differ. </span></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></pre><pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">
minorities aren't a
monolith. we don't vote at the international minority movement on who we do
and don't deem racist. just because you don't see anything wrong with his
behavior doesn't mean that it is acceptable.</pre></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You seem to be the only one here who can't get a grip on this. As evidenced by your response to my wife. You seem incapable of understanding why she would disagree with you and equate her difference in opinion to racism. (irony +1) </font></pre>
<pre style="font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">Lets break this down though so you will have no excuse to ignore my statements and continue fighting your strawmen. </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">I understand white privilege. Despite your beliefs to the contrary I was never discounting it. I just happen to think that my right to control my own body is more important than my right to feel safe. You seem to think that the right to feel safe should trump someone else's right to control their own body. You also would do this without any discussion of the trade off and decry any who disagree with you (or even disagree that we should ban this person without discussion</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large;font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) as a neo-nazi supporting racist themselves. Despite the fact that the person we are talking about is not themselves a racist. Why do you feel that trading safety for freedom is a good idea? If the tables were turned and someone was telling you what to do with your body because of their feelings would you resent them? Would you support pants sagging bans too because sagging your pants is a choice not heritage? What about gang attire? Would you ban that?</span></pre>
<pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial;font-size:small">i still don't understand how if he was "forced" to get them why</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial;font-size:small">he wouldn't understand that those things will make certain people feel </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial;font-size:small">extremely unsafe for their physical and mental well-being?</span></pre>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">You don't see how he might not want to go through the entire body-modification-to-fit-with-a-group scenario again given the blowback the first time caused? Are you incapable of even imagining an alternate scenario to 'he doesn't want to cover himself because he's racist and believes it" </span></font></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">Lets explore a few hypothetical scenarios together then. Maybe he's sick of people telling him what to do with his body? Maybe the tattoos offer him the ability easily identify closet racists and publicly decry them. Maybe he wants a reminder of his past mistakes? Maybe he was just fucking overheating and didn't feel like wearing a head covering and long sleeves? Maybe it was a misguided attempt to cause people to think about the topic of racism. Who knows why. You seem to think you know why though without any evidence whatsoever to back up your assumption. That is the crux of this whole argument though isn't it. </span></font></font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">People are really shitty at predicting the internal motivations of other people. </span><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"> If you are thinking about why a person is acting the way they are acting without evidence to inform that prediction chances are you are already wrong. Even when you use evidence but you don't have all of it you are still likely wrong.</span></font></font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">The difference between you and me is if </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">I saw evidence counter to my model of this person's motivations, I would change my model and act accordingly</span><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">. You on the other hand ignore all evidence that your assumptions about his internal motivations are wrong and think that people who see this disconnect are racist. If you think that is not the case then I ask you this. Hypothetically, what evidence (if any) would it take to convince you that this person was not a racist? </span></font></font></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">I will break my rule about blanket statements this one time and get to the point of the entire debate (from my perspective anyway) : </span></font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">ANY STATEMENT ABOUT THE MOTIVATIONS OF ANOTHER PERSON CAN ONLY EVER BE A THEORY AND WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE IS A WEAK THEORY. </span></font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">You say he's a racist because he doesn't cover up his tattoos but the only support for that idea is your assumptions about his motivations for not covering the tattoos. Assuming that he doesn't cover his tattoos because he is racist begging the question</span></font></div>
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Among all kinds of satisfactions human being enjoy, sex always occupies higher position and a casual physical need of every human being at certain saturated age period. The world being male dominated, where men are the earning members, Women are always being suppressed and are dependent. But the scenario now has changed up to a large extent as now a days women are also equally taking part in the economic activities of the society. In the country like India, the situation is likely to be the same as it was earlier. This becomes evident from the fact that there has been an increase in the rate of violence against women in the past few decades. One of them being “RAPE”.
PRESENT LEGAL SCENARIO IN INDIA:-
Rape is as stigma which exists in the society from a long time. It is considered to be one of the brutal crimes against the mankind. Having sexual intercourse with a woman against her will or without her free consent is traditionally defined as rape, which laws of most countries view as an awkward crime and provide for strict punishment.
The rape victim i.e. a woman as woman cannot commit rape due to biological reasons. She is traumatized after the event; it is very difficult for a woman to come out of this trauma. Rape in India is a cognizable offence (means capable of being known). There are many provisions in various Acts. The word rape is legally defined under section 375[1] of Indian Penal Code, 1860. It defines the rape and also prescribes its punishment.
Whenever a man penetrates or does sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent or will it amounts to rape. Penetration here means that only a slightest of the touch of penis to vagina amounts to rape, unruptured hymen of woman does not prove that rape was not committed. There are exceptions to it also i.e. when a man does sexual intercourse with his wife who is above 15 years of age. The act of committing rape to his own wife is termed as “MARITAL RAPE” in the legal language.
Here we will be dealing with this exception only. The exception which states that when a man does sexual intercourse with his wife without her free consent, does not amount to rape according to the provisions given in the Indian laws. But the question here arises that, why it is not considered so? Does a women looses basic human rights after marriage? Is she becoming a slave after marriage? These are some of the questions which need a quick and intelligible reply.
There have been many attempts from many jurists and scholars regarding criminalizing “marital rape” and many reports were presented before the govt. but the situation remained the same.
MARITAL RAPE AND VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:-
Human beings, by virtue of their being human possess some inalienable rights, known as ‘human rights’. These rights should be unaltered immaterial whatever may be the situation. After the marriage also women should be given equal respect and chance to enhance her identity as it is clearly prescribed by our constitution under Article 21 and 19(a).
According to my point of view, marital rapes should be considered as a crime and the punishments should be given accordingly. This becomes more and more effective by the fact that where a husband causes some physical injury to his wife, he is punishable under the appropriate offence as per the provisions made under ‘Domestic Violence Act’ and the fact that he is the husband of the victim is not an extenuating circumstance recognized by law; if so, there is no reason why concession should be made in the matter of offence of rape/sexual assault where the wife happens to be above 15/16 years.
In simple words, when a person is charged for any sort of physical as well as mental injury to his/her spouse under domestic scenario, then why it is not so when it comes to their sexual relationship. It is also against the Hindu religion, tradition and values that a husband rapes his wife by exercising threat, fear, pressure and force. “Hindu religion and its literature stress on purity, cleanliness and behavior of good faith in conjugal life(the rights which the married couples possess over each other, are called conjugal rights), It cannot be said that Hindu religion and traditions exempts the heinous act of rape to wife. Sexual intercourse in conjugal life is a normal course of behavior, which must be based on consent. No religion may ever take it as lawful because the aim of a good religion is not to hate or cause loss to anyone.
“In a study conducted by WHO, it has been reported that near about 12% women are sexually abused by their husbands during pregnancy.”
Whereas, a marriage does not mean women to turn into slaves. Thus, women do not lose human rights because of marriage. So long as a person lives as a human being he/she is entitled to exercise those in-born and natural human rights. To say that the husband can rape his wife after the marriage is to deny independent existence, right to live with self respect and right to self-determination. Any act which results in non-existence of women, adversely affects on self-respect of women, infringes upon right of women to independent decision making or which makes women slaves or an object or property is not compatible in the context of modern world, rather it is a stone-age thought.
To forcibly compel women to use an organ of her body against her will is serious violation of her right to live with dignity, right to self-determination and it is an abuse of her human rights. The Constitution has guaranteed the right to privacy. Therefore, in the light of those international instruments on human rights, it cannot be said that marital rape is permissible.
“If an act is an offence by its very nature, it is unreasonable to say that it is not the offence merely because of difference in person committing the act. It will yield discriminatory results, if we interpret that an act committed to any other woman is an offence and is not an offence, if the same act is committed to one’s own wife. There is no justification in differentiating between the women who are wives and other women.”
It is beyond imagination that a husband commits rape to his wife, and it is sure that so long as there is love and good faith between husband and wife, there is no situation of rape. It is normal state of affairs, however, sometimes reality of life becomes different and strange than the normal state. Where a wife is treated as an object or property or a means of entertainment and exploitation, her personal health and her needs are ignored in an irrational and inhuman manner and in that situation, an unnatural and brutal act of rape of wife is committed. Such situation may be rarest of rare.
In the recent past, one of the important questions which arose was that, is there any chance that a wife can file a case over husband if he is forcing her to use certain abnormal positions, forcing her to use certain organs which she don’t like… by which even her health is drenching?
I think that, yes, this can be done as per the provision given in sec 377 of IPC which defines ‘unnatural offences’
Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Explanation -Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section.
CONCLUSION:-
Therefore, it is imperative in a married life to discourage the brutal act of rape. If marital rape is punishable, a pure, healthy and clean atmosphere will be created in society in places of disorder and imbalance. In our country, law has prohibited child marriage very long ago but this social evil is still in practice. If marital rape is made punishable, it would help eliminate this social evil as well.
It will help in improvising women’s condition in the society and will give her a self-dependent identity .Many health problems which these women face due to this act ,like transmitted infections such as HIV/AIDS, unintended pregnancies, gynecological problems, induced abortions, and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage, low birth weight and fetal death will get reduced to a large extent.
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Somesh Dutta
Student, College Of Legal Studies,
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun.
[Submitted as an entry for the MightyLaws.in Blog Post Writing Competition, 2011]
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Thanks vijay for reading the article and carefully observing the same.
I too personally believe that the present scenaio of the Inhdian law is partial towards women as they are getting more and more privileges and so it has been provided with a distinct name-‘feminist jurisprudence”.
Now coming on to my wrttn work, I would like to make you clear on your point that here we are nt supporting to say no to sex, we are only trying to say no 2 coercive sex.
Everything in this world has some advantages and disadvantages, bt by that fear we cannot escape from the reality of these kind of brutal crimes.
One of the possible solutions would be to have a complete medical check-up of that women who is putting allegation of this kind on her husband. By this method it may become very clear that was there any sort of coercive power used on her bcoz if so, then there would be clear injury marks on her outer body and which can be later on used as an evidence.
I am sure that you now may be thinking that these kind of marks she can make by herself also. But dear, for your kind information the medical as well as the forensic science has developed so much that they can easily differentiate between the marks of forceful injury and self- made injury.
Further to make you more clear, as i dnt think that you are a law student, if a partner in his/her conjugal life makes the other completely devoid of sexual pleasure, then it can be a valid ground for divorce. Nobody can put his/her partner devoid of sex, if they want to make their marriage work.
Coming to the alimony part, it is given to the wife untill she is married again . after her remarraige she cannot demand so. I think that with the amendment there should be one added clause which would punish the women coming up with fake cases.
Somesh
6 years ago
I think you need to be thorough with the indian laws. It’s good to question on other’s written works but first try to find a strong factual backup.
felice (kissonthecanvas) | Pearltrees
5 years ago
[…] To forcibly compel women to use an organ of her body against her will is serious violation of her right to live with dignity, right to self-determination and it is an abuse of her human rights. The Constitution has guaranteed the right to privacy. Therefore, in the light of those international instruments on human rights, it cannot be said that marital rape is permissible. “ If an act is an offence by its very nature, it is unreasonable to say that it is not the offence merely because of difference in person committing the act. It will yield discriminatory results, if we interpret that an act committed to any other woman is an offence and is not an offence, if the same act is committed to one’s own wife. There is no justification in differentiating between the women who are wives and other women.” Marital Rape- Gross Violation of Human Rights? (Women’s Perspective).. […]
PK JAIN
4 years ago
Although I am in agreement what is written by Somesh but if we look in the past, it has been observed that such laws likely to be misused more than used. It only opens a lottery for the police and unscrupulous lawyers. Section 498A was inserted in the IPC for protection of women from crime against them by husband and the in laws. History is a witness that this provision of law has also been misused by the women and has led to filling up of pockets of Police and lawyers on one side and harassment of the Husband and his parents who probably, in most of the cases are in twilight years of their life. in the observation of Hon. Supreme court; 98% of the cases u/s 498A are false fake and fabricated. Coming on to the RAPE. Please go to google and read the details of BATHINDA GANG RAPE U will be able to appreciate better. Regards. | {
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International Permafrost Association Country Reports
Germany
The 2nd European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP II) organized by the AWI and the ESF PACE 21 project will be held June 12–16, 2005, in Potsdam, Germany. The scientific steering committee is chaired by Charles Harris, and the local organizing committee by Hans-W. Hubberten. Permafrost scientists from Europe and other countries are invited to attend the conference and present results in the wide field of permafrost research and engineering (www.awi-potsdam.de/EUCOP).
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI-Potsdam) carried out a multidisciplinary study of the coastal region of Cape Mamontov Klyk (Western Laptev Sea) in summer 2003 (L. Schirrmeister, M. Grigoriev). The main topic of the new Russian-German project “Process studies of permafrost dynamics in the Laptev Sea” is transition processes from terrestrial to submarine permafrost. A joint Russian/German expedition focused on geocryological and sedimentological investigations, periglacial morphology, palaeosols, modern periglacial surface conditions, coastal dynamics, and hydrological and palaeontological studies. Other topics included palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, interpretation of remote sensing data, methane budget calculations and permafrost transformation. The 7th expedition to the Lena River Delta (May–July 2004, D. Wagner) focused on trace gas flux measurements and the microbial community involved in the carbon turnover during the thawing of the active layer. Micrometeorological eddy covariance measurements providing turbulent flux data (heat, water, CO2, and CH4) in the atmospheric boundary layer were carried out for the spring-summer period.
Late Quaternary environment and palaeoclimate in central Yakutia are investigated by the AWI (B. Diekmann) and the Aachen University (F. Lehmkuhl) with partners from the Permafrost Institute Yakutsk (V.V. Kunitzki, V. Spector) and the Yakutsk State University (L. Pestryakova, A. Prokopiev). Fieldwork in 2002 and 2003 in the Verkhoyansk Mountains and in 2004 in the alass region northeast of Yakutsk studied the development of periglacial and glacial landscapes, lacustrine systems, as well as permafrost complexes and ground ice features. During the summers 2003 and 2004 joint expeditions of palaeolimnologists of AWI (T. Kumke) and Yakutsk State University (L. Pestryakova) investigated 47 lakes in the Central Yakutian lowlands in order to establish a calibration dataset for diatoms and chironomids for quantitative reconstructions of the Yakutia palaeoenvironments.
In Spring 2003, scientists from the AWI-Potsdam (H. Meyer) sampled permafrost tunnels in Fairbanks and Barrow with the support of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (K. Yoshikawa and J. Brown). The objective was to apply in Alaska the experience acquired on complex Late Quaternary permafrost deposits in Siberia. Stable isotope analysis of ice wedges was the main research topic. Hydrological studies were carried out during the summer on the North Slope of Alaska within a collaboration between the Water and Environmental Research Center (UAF, L. Hinzman) and AWI (J. Boike). The modelling of smallscale hydrological processes was supported by several other field measurements.
The Institute for Geography at the Giessen University (L. King) continues monitoring ground temperature in the periglacial belt of the Matter Valley, Swiss Alps. Shallow ground temperatures measured in two test areas since 2002 indicates that discontinuous permafrost occurrence corresponds with coarse-textured surface deposits. The influence of coarse cover layers on ground thermal regime even exceeds that of snow cover thickness and duration (S. Philippi, T. Herz). In summer 2004, 65 temperature sensors were installed between the ground surface to a depth of 100 cm near the existing PACE borehole sites at the Stockhorn Plateau site, in order to demonstrate the influence of topographical effects on the ground thermal regime.
M. Gude (Jena) continues investigating permafrost thermal regime and geotechnical stability at the Zugspitze. In cooperation with the local cable-car company, permafrost was observed in foundations and mitigation measures have been evaluated. The interdisciplinary research programme SCREECOS (Scree Ecosystems) continues analysing low altitude sporadic permafrost in highland scree slopes in Germany, Czech Republic and France (M. Gude). The influence of permafrost on biomass productivity in Siberian boreal forests was evaluated in terms of its contribution to a global carbon budget model (EUproject SIBERIA II, C. Schmullius, Jena).
At the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, University of Karlsruhe, a physically-based approach was developed to assess the ground-ice content from seismic and geoelectric data sets (C. Hauck). Geophysical permafrost monitoring continues at Schilthorn, Swiss Alps, in collaboration with the University of Zurich (I. Völksch, M. Scherler, M. Hoelzle, C. Hauck) and is aimed at determining the spatial variability of energy exchange processes between atmosphere and permafrost on a 1- to 100-m scale. A permafrost map of the German Alps developed in collaboration with the Freiburg University roughly estimates the distribution of probable and possible permafrost (S. Blasius, C. Hauck, C. Schneider).
At the University of Marburg, Department of Geography, H. Brückner and G. Schellmann are working on beach ridges in Andréeland (Svalbard). On the basis of the observed sequences they propose a scenario for late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution.
At the Department of Physical Geography, University of Regensburg, H. Strunk continues his research in the Ob region of western Siberia, together with L. Agafonov, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg. The research topic is the reconstruction of the thermokarst history of the last 500 years (M. Krabisch). The study is based on dendrochronological analysis of living trees (Pinus sibirica).
The Department of Physical Geography, University of Würzburg (C. Kneisel) assesses changes in active layer and permafrost thickness by geoelectrical techniques in the discontinuous permafrost zone of the Swiss Alps. In collaboration with A. Kääb (Zurich) permafrost creep within the Muragl glacier forefield is evaluated using a combined geomorphological, geophysical and photogrammetrical approach. New geophysical and geomorphological permafrost investigations began in a subarctic alpine environment in northern Sweden.
The International Geographical Union established a new Commission on Cold Region Environments, chaired by M. Gude (Jena); see Other News for details. | {
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Avocados recalled in 6 states after testing positive for listeria
By Laura Jazmin Tolliver [email protected]
Tuesday
Mar 26, 2019 at 2:32 PMMar 26, 2019 at 2:34 PM
If you’ve purchased avocados recently, be careful — there’s a recall.
Henry Avocado is recalling California-grown whole avocados sold in stores across six states — Arizona, California, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin — due to possible listeria contamination.
“We are voluntarily recalling our products and taking every action possible to ensure the safety of consumers who eat our avocados,” said Phil Henry, president of Henry Avocado.
Listeria monocytogenes can cause high fever, severe headaches, nausea and abdominal pain, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
If you purchased an infected avocado, you can discard it or return it to the original store of purchase for a refund. | {
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Storm tracks and cyclogenesis/cyclolysis locations for the past 7 and 30 days.
Tracks are based on an algorithm developed at the Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) [Serreze (1995), and Serreze et al. (1997)].
Storm tracks are identified by locating grid points in which the sea level pressure (SLP) is less than its surrounding grid points.
The threshold used here is 1 mb.The storms are tracked by analyzing the position of systems between time steps and applying a maximum distance threshold between candidate pairings (800 km).
The intensity of the cyclone is given by the color of the line segment with storms of higher pressure indicated by black and storms with lower pressure indicated in red.
The top three panels show storm tracks and total precipitation (mm), mean anomalous 925 mb wind vectors (m/s), and significant wave heights (m) (from the Ocean Prediction Center) respectively included.
The bottom panel shows cyclogenesis and cyclolysis locations during the period with the smaller dots indicating higher pressure and larger dots lower pressure at the time of development or dissipation.
Latitude-time and time-longitude plots of storm frequency (the number of closed circulations in 10 x 10 degree regions per pentad) for selected cross sections in the northern hemisphere. Each figure below contains four panels corresponding to different cross sections from the western Pacific to the Atlantic.
Each panel contains two figures (one showing the location of the area of interest and the second the storm frequency). A three pentad running mean is applied to the data.
January, February, and March (JFM) storm track frequency binned into 5x5 degree grid boxes composited by ENSO phase. Composites are calculated using the ENSO Intensity Scale (EIS) based on the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) defined as the three month running mean of SST anomalies for the NINO 3.4 region (Kousky and Higgins, 2004). | {
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A leaked Western Digital technical spec describes a larger capacity and faster VelociRaptor drive.
VelociRaptor is WD's 2.5-inch enterprise SATA drive that spins at 10,000rpm, holds up to 300GB and comes with a 3Gbit/s SATA interface. It can be bought with a 3.5-inch bay mounting frame.
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By
Faye Bowers, Deputy world editor of The Christian Science Monitor /
October 29, 1999
Most of us are now familiar with the on-going war in Chechnya - a republic within Russia that wanted to secede when the USSR disintegrated in 1991 but was denied. A republic that did go on its own - Armenia - has struggled along mainly in obscurity since. But Wednesday's tragic shooting of the Armenian prime minister and seven others has focused world attention on the unrest there. An underlying factor for all the conflict in the region - and one the US is interested in - is oil
There's a much less volatile, but still serious, war of words between France and England - over beef - Faye Bowers, Deputy world editor
REPORTERS ON THE JOB *A BIKE TO BAUCAU: The Monitor's Cameron Barr contracted with two motorcycle taxi drivers to take him and a translator to Baucau. The driver warned Cameron about his tire - that it would cost 50,000 rupiah ($7) to fix if it blew on the trip. But Cameron thought that was a bargaining ploy. They reached a price (370,000 rupiah - $53) for both bikes, round-trip. Off they went on a grueling, 70-mile trip that was to take two hours but took four. The bike Cameron was on had a fuel leak, "and gears slipped a lot going uphill, and there are lots of hills between Dili and Baucau," he says. Interviews completed, they were about to return when the driver (in front of the bishop's house) invoked God's help with the tire. "A half hour into the return trip, the tire exploded. No danger, but the situation seemed dire - no repair shops in sight" - only rice fields and palm trees. The driver grabbed the other bike to find a pump, with which he returned. Work, work, pump, pump, and the inner tube was replaced and the wheel back on the bike. "Note that the tire hadn't been changed, and I surmised the same thing may happen down the road," Cameron says. Just then a minibus approached, one of the very few, bound for Dili. "Of course I opted to switch to the bus (not the least because the bikes are not comfy)," he says. The driver apologized for the delay, kindly offered to pay the minibus fares (about $7). Cameron declined. The minibus - filled with produce and live chickens - arrived in Dili on time.
*A FLOOD'S A FLOOD: When Mexico City correspondent Howard LaFranchi was looking over flood damage, he told a state official that what he was seeing reminded him of the devastation left in hurricane Mitch's wake last year. The official, seeming anxious to remind Howard that damage from uncontrolled development in high-risk areas is not a uniquely third-world problem, quipped, "Yes, and I think they're facing some of the same issues in North Carolina." | {
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The Junior Tall Blacks and Junior Tall Ferns squads have been announced ahead of the Hoop Nation Tournament being held in Tauranga this Labour Weekend.
The largest club tournament in the country will provide the JTFs and JTBs with stiff opposition as both teams will be playing adult club and invitational sides, some with a sprinkling of senior internationals.
For both squads this will be the last competitive hit out before the teams are announced ahead of Decembers FIBA Oceania Championships in Fiji, which will double as the qualifying tournament for the 2017 FIBA Under 19 World Championships.
The Junior Tall Ferns squad is very similar to the one that faced the China Under 19 team in two international games last month, although the American based pair of McKenna Dale and Akiene Reed will not be required to return home for this event. That said, Otago guard Nicole Ruske returns to the squad, as does Queensland based Jayden Fuiava. JTFs head coach Brent Matehaere is pleased to have both players in the squad.
"Jayden averaged 18 points per game at the Australian Under 18 National Championships and is intending to play in the Australian WNBL after completing her final school year at John Paul College in Brisbane. She is an exciting prospect who we were put in touch with by Pero Cameron, who identified her talent. She has been invited to Australian national camps, but has decided she wants to play for New Zealand.
"Nicole is still struggling with injury a little, but she is going to push through as we are making final selections following this tournament," added Matehaere.
The focus for Matehaere is individual and team performances, rather than the results in this tournament.
"We will be looking to perform what we need to do to the best of our abilities, as this weekend we have a big onus on selection. We will be looking to make sure that we have the right mix of players."
The Junior Tall Blacks team will also be named later this year, not long after the Hoop Nation event and Cartwright is delighted with the depth of talent he has available at his disposal.
"It is a nice headache to have. You would rather be in the position where you are struggling to separate guys than trying to find players to fill a spot.
"It is pretty tough to leave out guys who have been in the squad for 16 months, but we have to make a decision on the best talent we have available to give ourselves a shot at beating Australia. That is what we are about and we need to be confident we have the best group we can put forward," Cartwright added.
"I just want to see these guys get a shot at playing at a World Championship. We are trying to make history and beat Australia to qualify," added Cartwright. | {
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Every experienced Twitter user knows the feeling: you’re following all the right people, but suddenly your timeline overflows. It could be Tweets discussing a game you don’t care about, the latest celebrity scandal you’ve heard about non-stop, or, worse, Game of Thrones spoilers (seriously people, STOP!)
Well, Twitter has introduced a solution (depending on how you look at it): a new “Mute Button” that lets users temporarily hide all Tweets and Retweets of someone they follow.
But what really makes this ‘social blackout’ sneaky is that the other person will have no idea anything has changed. This spells D-A-N-G-E-R if you’re a brand or a social media marketer, because you could be soon talking to an empty room, never knowing that your audience has jet-packed outta there.
(sorry Jaden, consider yourself #MUTED)
So, mute is great for us as users, a little scary for us as businesses. But it does force brands to step it up when it comes to social media engagement. The trick is to keep people from wanting to mute you in the first place, which can be done by following a few key rules:
1) A-B-E. Always Be Essential
The best solution is always the simplest: to make people want to hear from you, make them need to hear more. Send out original content that helps your audience know your market better and empowers them even when they’re not directly communicating with you. When people can apply best-practices or deals you’ve recommended, it makes them think of you as a knowledge expert. And that trust builds long-term customer relationships.
2) Channel Your Overachiever
You know that girl in high school who managed to get straight A’s and bake cookies for the whole class? Take a page out of her book and don’t be afraid to go above and beyond for your audience. For example, Tweet back fun and personal responses to individual fans. If someone mentions your product in a cool and new way, try filming the team putting that idea into action as a thank you. The point is that social media success is measured in relationships—and when you take the time for your followers, they’ll take the time for you.
3) Please Tweet Responsibly
We’re willing to bet that the first muted accounts will be those who don’t know the difference between ‘engagement’ and ‘spamming.’ While the intentions are in the right place, make sure to Tweet responsibly to individual people. This means never harassing audiences with persistent begs to Retweet, favorite, follow, whatever.
Summed up, it’s just like having genuine conversations with people; when your audience gets tired or thinks you have an agenda, they’ll tune (read: mute) you out. But no need to cry over Twitter’s new feature. If anything, the mute button is a #GREAT thing for brands, because it puts more pressure on us to have real relationships with audiences, rather than commercially-superficial ones. And that is a challenge you’re now ready for.
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Earnings Roundup / Lowe's
Chain's net income falls 60%
The dismal housing market dragged down fiscal fourth-quarter profit at Lowe's Cos. by 60%, and executives at the home-improvement chain said Friday that they saw little hope of a substantive fix from a federal effort aimed at helping struggling homeowners.
To cope in the worsening recession, Lowe's said it was further cutting back the number of stores it planned to open in 2009 and offered a profit forecast for the year that was short of Wall Street's expectations. The news sent the company's shares down nearly 7%.
Lowe's earned $162 million, or 11 cents a share, in the three months ended Jan. 30. That's down from $408 million, or 28 cents, during the same period last year. Revenue slid 4% to $9.98 billion.
The latest results narrowly missed analysts' estimates, thanks in large part to the Mooresville, N.C., company's decision to offer deep discounts earlier than planned during the weeks before Christmas -- a decision that cut into profit margins but helped Lowe's clear out inventory.
Lowe's said it planned to open 60 to 70 new stores in 2009, a 15% decrease from its estimates in the fall. That means it will open 40% fewer stores in 2009 than the 115 stores it added last year.
Lowe's now expects to earn $1.04 to $1.20 a share in 2009, below the $1.27 a share analysts expected. The company predicts that full-year revenue will range from a 2% decrease to a 2% increase, while same-store sales are forecast to decline 4% to 8%. | {
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Tag: Eshu
A previous poem for the Yoruba trickster god Eshu (see Eshu, God of Fate) describes him as a deity who loves disrupting the laws of probability and creating impossible contradictions of time and space.
As an orisha who crosses boundaries his shrines are usually located at crossroads and at the entrances to homes. Another important station for Eshu is the marketplace…
A Yoruba Praise-Poem from Nigeria. As the God of Fate, the uncontrollable element in human life, Eshu is praised as a kind of trickster God, bringing about the unexpected, the contradictory and the downright impossible.
Eshu turns right into wrong, wrong into right.
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March 2, 2005 History repeated itself today when, in a surprise move, Morgan released the new Aero 8. It was five years ago exactly that saw the surprise launch at Geneva of the then new Morgan Aero 8. Now, with over 300 examples in customer's hands comes the latest version, fully approved for the American Market. | {
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They say you can’t keep a good man down. Similarly you can’t keep a talented producer down, nor can you keep him in a box. A figurative box that is. Italian producer an DJ Santos astounds year after year with his diverse and consistently inspiring productions, showing that if you’ve got the raw talent, you can indeed be a jack of all trades and master of all of them too. He’s one of those people whose creativity seems to know no bounds and needs to be indulged constantly. His quirky 2000 breakthrough track Camels remains an unforgettable and unique classic, and in the years that have passed si..
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This is a journal about my every day life. I'll be writing about some things that some of you may be going through, went through, or will be going through at some point in your life. I hope that this journal helps you understand that you are not alon
Wanna Kill Yourself?
Imagine this.You come home from school one day. You’ve had yet another horrible day. You’re just ready to give up. So you go to your room, close the door, and take out that suicide note you’ve written and rewritten over and over and over You take out those razor blades, and cut for the very last time. You grab that bottle of pills and take them all. Laying down, holding the letter to your chest, you close your eyes for the very last time. A few hours later, your little brother knocks on your door to come tell you dinners ready. You don’t answer, so he walks in. All he sees is you laying on your bed, so he thinks you’re asleep. He tells your mom this. Your mom goes to your room to wake you up. She notices something is odd. She grabs the paper in your hand and reads it. Sobbing, she tries to wake you up. She’s screaming your name. Your brother, so confused, runs to go tell Dad that “Mommy is crying and sissy won’t wake up.” Your dad runs to your room. He looks at your mom, crying, holding the letter to her chest, sitting next to your lifeless body. It hits him, what’s going on, and he screams. He screams and throws something at the wall. And then, falling to his knees, he starts to cry. Your mom crawls over to him, and they sit there, holding each other, crying. The next day at school, there’s an announcement. The principal tells everyone about your suicide. It takes a few seconds for it to sink in, and once it does, everyone goes silent. Everyone blames themselves. Your teachers think they were too hard on you. Those mean popular girls, they think of all the things they’ve said to you. That boy that used to tease you and call you names, he can’t help but hate himself for never telling you how beautiful you really are. Your ex boyfriend, the one that you told everything to, that broke up with you.. He can’t handle it. He breaks down and starts crying, and runs out of the school. Your friends? They’re sobbing too, wondering how they could never see that anything was wrong, wishing they could have helped you before it was too late. And your best friend? She’s in shock. She can’t believe it. She knew what you were going through, but she never thought it would get that bad… Bad enough for you to end it. She can’t cry, she can’t feel anything. She stands up, walks out of the classroom, and just sinks to the floor. Shaking, screaming, but no tears coming out. It’s a few days later, at your funeral. The whole town came. Everyone knew you, that girl with the bright smile and bubbly personality. The one that was always there for them, the shoulder to cry on. Lots of people talk about all the good memories they had with you, there were a lot. Everyone’s crying, your little brother still doesn’t know you killed yourself, he’s too young. Your parents just said you died. It hurts him, a lot. You were his big sister, you were supposed to always be there for him. Your best friend, she stays strong through the entire service, but as soon as they start lowering your casket into the ground, she just loses it. She cries and cries and doesn’t stop for days. It’s two years later. The whole school talks to a counselor/ therapist at least once a week. Your teachers all quit their job. Those mean girls have eating disorders now. That boy that used to tease you cuts himself. Your ex boyfriend doesn’t know how to love anymore and just sleeps around with girls. Your friends all go into depression. Your best friend? She tried to kill herself. She didn’t succeed like you did, but she tried… your brother? He finally found out the truth about your death. He self harms, he cries at night, he does exactly what you did for years leading up to your suicide. Your parents? Their marriage fell apart. Your dad became a workaholic to distract himself from your death. Your mom got diagnosed with depression and just lays in bed all day. People care. You may not think so, but they do. Your choices don’t just effect you. They effect everyone. Don’t end your life, you have so much to live for. Things can’t get better if you give up. I’m here for absolutely anyone that needs to talk, no matter who you are. Even if we’ve NEVER talked before, I’m here for you. | {
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Guns N’ Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed is arguing that Axl Rose has been “misrepresented” in the media. Reed lauded the singer's sense of humor, adding that he never considered departing – even amidst a ‘90s-era exodus that left Rose as the only original member.
“He’s a great person,” Reed tells Loudersound.com. “He’s one of the funniest people I know. Every night before we go on stage, he comes up and he’ll have a joke – and it’s usually a good one.” He continued: “And nobody works harder than that guy. He’s always misrepresented in the press. It’s kinda sad, really, what some people come up with just to sell things.”
On board since 1990, Reed eventually became the second longest-serving Guns N' Roses member. “I was given a great opportunity by Axl and the band when they were at the top of the heap," he said. "I just thought I always want to give back. Whatever they need from me, they’re gonna get it.”
That doesn't mean there weren't challenges along the way. Reed specifically recalled the difficulties he experienced recording Guns N' Roses' “Civil War,” his first track, saying that he had “the triumvirate from hell in the control room” – referring to Rose, guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan, who were all “telling me what I should do, all at once. But I made it through.”
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OS X 10.11 El Capitan: the Ars Technica review
Really, this is the first time in several years that iOS and OS X have felt like they’ve gotten (and needed) the same amount of attention from Apple – both get to spend a release in the slow lane as Apple puts its marketing muscle behind newer platforms like the Apple Watch and the new Apple TV. Like iOS 9 (and Mountain Lion, and Snow Leopard), El Capitan is about refinement. Yosemite’s big statement was “This is what OS X looks like now.” El Capitan’s is a relatively meek “Hey, I have a couple neat tricks to show you.”
[q]At this point I want you to pause and ask yourself a question. Do you really depend on TotalFinder workflows so much that you want to possibly lower your system security? Frankly, I’m going to stop active TotalFinder development because it is not economically viable to continue development for a small group of users who decide to disable SIP. Also it is likely that in the next OS release after El Capitan TotalFinder won’t work at all. It is increasingly more difficult to reverse-engineer Finder as new parts are being written in Swift. Also operating system security hardening will probaly continue in future. Those are good things, but you will have to let TotalFinder go at some point anyway. Maybe for you the day is today. Bite the bullet and move on. I have prepared a list of TotalFinder alternatives here.
Same goes for Total Terminal, he is giving up on it and recommending you use iTerm2.
I actually liked that whole look, muted down a bit more from the original Aqua but still better than the overly flat renditions that now seem to populate modern UIs as some hipster homage to retro looks.
I actually liked that whole look, muted down a bit more from the original Aqua but still better than the overly flat renditions that now seem to populate modern UIs as some hipster homage to retro looks.
Thoroughly agree. With the exception of the brushed metal, that can be quite tacky at times, I still cherish the look and feel of the earlier iterations of Mac OS X and look with dismay to the current offerings of all vendors, including OSS ones.
Sadly, my beloved KDE is slowly walking on to that direction with Plasma 5 as well…
And to add insult to the injury, GNOME which is known for its – some would say, rather extreme – minimalism, is looking more vibrant and tridimensional than all of the mainstream desktops combined… That’s saying something!
If I understand correctly in Windows Administrator doesn’t have all the permissions any more. What was it again Windows Installer has more permissions ?
More and more we’re seeing OS vendors treating owners like the enemy.
I do see value in sandboxing on most platforms. However it’s extremely disappointing when a vendor designs it to block out the administrator such that the administrator would need to turn it off to access one’s own system. Security features should be designed to empower administrators, not to handcuff us.
I do see value in sandboxing on most platforms. However it’s extremely disappointing when a vendor designs it to block out the administrator such that the administrator would need to turn it off to access one’s own system. Security features should be designed to empower administrators, not to handcuff us.
And it can be argued that the owners bring this on themselves. They simply can’t be trusted with an “open” system. And in the end, that corrupted open system doesn’t just harm the user anymore, but everyone else by fostering botnets and all sorts of other crime enabling behavior.
What would be nice in the next version is more granularity than a simple, huge ON/OFF switch. That way the administrator can selectively open trusted path ways in to their system.
And it can be argued that the owners bring this on themselves. They simply can’t be trusted with an “open” system. And in the end, that corrupted open system doesn’t just harm the user anymore, but everyone else by fostering botnets and all sorts of other crime enabling behavior. [/q]
I understand your point. We might point at windows and say “hey, the reason for malware is because users aren’t trustworthy”. However I think this view lacks context. The reason windows users have had so many problems with security is because apps are assumed to have the same trust level as the user and malware takes advantage of this. In other words, the windows security model doesn’t do enough to recognize the fact that apps are less trustworthy than users, and consequently we as users have very little protection from malicious apps – it has little to do with our trustworthiness. MS repeated this mistake over and over again with win32s/activex.
When we look at other platforms that were designed with sandboxing, even those that are not forcefully restricted, we do not witness anything like the malware epidemic that has tainted MS windows.
[q]What would be nice in the next version is more granularity than a simple, huge ON/OFF switch. That way the administrator can selectively open trusted path ways in to their system.
I agree, however my gut tells me that apple’s intention is to rope owners out and keep these privileges for itself. For all we know, the next version may disable the on/off switch entirely.
It’s not (only) about treating owners like the enemey. They also are trying to force their “application stores” model down your throats.
Example: recent Windows and OS X versions support sandboxing for store programs only. i.e. if you download a random program for the store, it is fully sandboxed and can barely touch any user files, not to mention system files.
However, if you download a random program from the WWW and run it, it will be run _unconstrained_ in both OS X and Windows. When you need sandboxing most, that is, when you download a random binary from the Internet for a quick thing, current OSes decide its best to do that without the sandbox.
It’s not (only) about treating owners like the enemey. They also are trying to force their “application stores” model down your throats.
Example: recent Windows and OS X versions support sandboxing for store programs only. i.e. if you download a random program for the store, it is fully sandboxed and can barely touch any user files, not to mention system files.
However, if you download a random program from the WWW and run it, it will be run _unconstrained_ in both OS X and Windows. When you need sandboxing most, that is, when you download a random binary from the Internet for a quick thing, current OSes decide its best to do that without the sandbox.
I think you are right on all counts. Sandboxing is extremely valuable for running untrusted apps, ie those downloaded from the web. Unfortunately venders are more interested in making security contingent on their locked down business models rather than enabling all users to benefit from better security.
I would love to encourage the adoption of sandboxes, but not at the expense of freedom. One of my biggest gripes with “metro” is microsoft’s greed. Until I have the absolute freedom to buy/sell/control indy applications outside of Microsoft’s store, I won’t even consider touching that platform. Even if MS reduced their 33% cut to 0%, I’m still totally opposed to them controlling the distribution of my apps, which is tyrannical in and of itself.
Example: recent Windows and OS X versions support sandboxing for store programs only. i.e. if you download a random program for the store, it is fully sandboxed and can barely touch any user files, not to mention system files.
However, if you download a random program from the WWW and run it, it will be run _unconstrained_ in both OS X and Windows. [/q]
That is not true for either Windows or OSX…
Applications distributed in the Windows and Mac app stores must (with rare exceptions) be sandboxed, you cannot distributed a non-sandboxed application in either store. That doesn’t mean you cannot create such a sandboxed app and distribute it yourself…
You can do so with either OS – the APIs used to achieve sandboxing are not reserved for store apps and never have been. They are just not required. In practice this means there is little or no motivation for developers to use them, so few if any do. But you can most certainly make a sandboxed app and distribute it yourself.
On OSX this is completely transparent, a sandboxed app is exactly like any other app, just sandboxed. There are in fact quite a few sandboxed apps distributed outside of the Mac app store.
On Windows it is a little more hairy, because you can only (without resorting to hackery) sandbox metro apps, and non-store metro apps require sideloading, which is itself restricted. But that restriction doesn’t have anything to do with sandboxing, and sideloading such an app (if you have the means to) will work just fine.
[q]When you need sandboxing most, that is, when you download a random binary from the Internet for a quick thing, current OSes decide its best to do that without the sandbox.
No. The developer decides that, not the OS. If the app was built to be sandboxed it will be, otherwise it won’t be. The OS isn’t deciding anything.
Unfortunately neither OS can sandbox applications that were not built with the intention of running that way, at least not yet.
No. The developer decides that, not the OS. If the app was built to be sandboxed it will be, otherwise it won’t be. The OS isn’t deciding anything. [/q]
Disagree, the app developer has absolutely no say if the platform/OS wants to enforce sandboxing of resources (ie internet/NFS/documents/webcam/email/etc).
[q]Unfortunately neither OS can sandbox applications that were not built with the intention of running that way, at least not yet.
I’ll concede there can be some major usability problems adding sandboxing after the fact. UAC was a disaster and it didn’t even have fine grained permissions that we’d see on IOS/android. An alternative that may fare better for pre-existing applications that weren’t designed for sandboxing may be an access redirection policy rather than outright denial. Here is 3rd party software that implements this sandbox model.
Disagree, the app developer has absolutely no say if the platform/OS wants to enforce sandboxing of resources (ie internet/NFS/documents/webcam/email/etc).
True. But I was referring to how things actually are on Windows and OS X, not how they could be. Right now sandboxing is opt in and off by default for “vanilla” binaries on both platforms (metro apps not withstanding). If the app doesn’t opt in to sandboxing it won’t be sandboxed…
ps. I realize that UAC prompts are a form of sandboxing, but Im not counting things that allow interactive control – Im talking about SIP and AppContainer type sandboxing, that is based on trust chains.
You can do so with either OS – the APIs used to achieve sandboxing are not reserved for store apps and never have been. [/q] Ok, please tell me how to do this. In the OS X world, I need a developer ID just to read information about how to do it, and the visible free documentation suggests the need of a developer certificate. In Windows, I need either an Enterprise edition or distributing my program via the Store for it to be sandboxed.
I will be happy to try anything you suggest.
in fact quite a few sandboxed apps distributed outside of the Mac app store.
Examples please!
But that restriction doesn’t have anything to do with sandboxing, and sideloading such an app (if you have the means to) will work just fine.
…. So it turns out that I cannot use sandboxing for non-Store programs.
[q]No. The developer decides that, not the OS. If the app was built to be sandboxed it will be, otherwise it won’t be. The OS isn’t deciding anything.
Yeah, the OS developers are deciding that. Why is the sandbox availability tied to the Store at all? It would make more sense to disable the Sandbox only for Store programs, for which a revocation process at least exists (but that would be even more tying and annoying, too). And most annoyingly, why is it a developer decision, specially for OS X where sandboxed apps have almost no API changes at all?
A Sandbox that the developer controls is useful for catching bugs, but useless for any actual sandboxing purposes.
Ok, please tell me how to do this. In the OS X world, I need a developer ID just to read information about how to do it, and the visible free documentation suggests the need of a developer certificate. In Windows, I need either an Enterprise edition or distributing my program via the Store for it to be sandboxed.
I will be happy to try anything you suggest. [/q]
Yes, on OSX your need a developer certificate (i.e. you have to signup and pay $99/year) if you want things to work transparently. Such a certificate will also allow you to distribute in the app store, but you do not have to – it is perfectly acceptable to self distribute.
And yes, for Windows you need an EE edition in order to sideload a sandboxed app.
Because metro apps cannot be sideloaded by most people, and you cannot create non-metro apps (yet) using AppContainer, it is effectively a non-starter if you want to actually distribute to normal people. My point was not that there are no limitations, I was just pointing out that the limitations are not related to sandboxing itself (i.e. the limitation is that MS doesn’t allow self distribution of metro apps – sandboxed or not)…
Examples please!
Chromium makes extensive use of the sandboxing facilities on OSX – but it would not qualify as a store app because it is not fully sandboxed:
You can run anything in a sandbox on OSX using sandbox-exec. Of course it may not work right, but if you just want to experiment with it you can use that as a on-demand wrapper. Signing with entitlements basically does the same thing, it just makes it explicit and required – it won’t run outside of the sandbox.
And most annoyingly, why is it a developer decision, specially for OS X where sandboxed apps have almost no API changes at all?
I don’t know where you got that idea from. Sandboxed applications have extensive restrictions on what they are allowed to do. The “no API changes al all” claim is pretty bogus – most apps require significant changes. That is partly why the Mac App store is slowly dying, the sandboxed-only app restriction makes it impossible to publish anything remotely complex…
[q]A Sandbox that the developer controls is useful for catching bugs, but useless for any actual sandboxing purposes.
Didn’t say it was perfect, or even good… its frankly a pain in the ass as far as I am concerned… Just saying that is how it works.
Ironically, this might be a huge boon for crackers. With $1MILLION+ bounties for iOS, some people will be very pleased with the idea that once SIP is cracked, the malware will be almost impossible to remove.
Ironically, this might be a huge boon for crackers. With $1MILLION+ bounties for iOS, some people will be very pleased with the idea that once SIP is cracked, the malware will be almost impossible to remove.
(Is SIP already on iOS?)
Actually if you read those two pages in the review (highly recommended as they are very interesting and full of technical details), you can currently disable the feature by booting into recovery mode.
The scary part is that it only really takes two minor changes from Apple to completely lock down OS X: 1) restrict bootloader, 2) remove that you can disable it in recovery mode.
I don’t know if iOS has SIP installed, but here it doesn’t matter as much since there’s no way to execute a ‘sudo’ without jailbreaking it first.
So young Thomas, are we at this dystopian vision that you had almost 5 years ago when you claimed that Apple would turned OS X into a walled garden? or once again are we going to hear you talk about how it is ‘one more release away’?
So young Thomas, are we at this dystopian vision that you had almost 5 years ago when you claimed that Apple would turned OS X into a walled garden? or once again are we going to hear you talk about how it is ‘one more release away’?
Well, with features like SIP and Gatekeeper We are 1-click away from the walled garden, it’s just an on/off switch. I mean, all the “infrastructure” predicted by Thom is there, he was (kind of) right. | {
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How Spicey Do you Like YOUR Chang Sauce ? It made for a great laugh to end the meal and a fun new blog.
PF Changs is a Chinese restaurant chain that we like to hit for lunch from time to time. They make an inordinate presentation out of mixing a dipping sauce at the table, but other than that they're pretty decent. SouthPark did a hilarious parody of them recently with the pothead Towel mixing Chang Sauce while he was High. Classic.
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"Fortunately, I Keep My T Cells Numbered For Just Such An Emergency" -Either Foghorn Leghorn or Johnny Cash
OK... other than the obvious reasons of GENETICS... why is Lwood's SO BIG?
THE PICTURE YOU FRIGGIN PERVERTS!
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LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!
OK Eric, How did you do that??? Do you have access to a fortune cookie printer or a really good version of Photoshop or what Perhaps this was a much larger Karma at work .. I once printed out the message " Youre Fucked" , neatly trimmed it and delicately tucked it into a fortune cookie then neatly resealed it in the celophane wrapper and left it for a co worker to find. ....
And Ive been making my photos gradually smaller, that one was 1000, I think that 500 would probablly be better..
P.S. I still dont read my Horriscope...that would just be asking for it....
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"Fortunately, I Keep My T Cells Numbered For Just Such An Emergency" -Either Foghorn Leghorn or Johnny Cash
OK, but how do you get them like YOU have it instead of like how eric has it? IN the message rather than ATTACHED to the message?
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LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!
AC, Youll need an 'offsite' photo hosting service like Photobucket, Kodak , or something similar....click on the photo icon ( just to the left of the globe above) and paste the url for your photo that the photo host gives you. its kindof a pain but I think the results are alot better.
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"Fortunately, I Keep My T Cells Numbered For Just Such An Emergency" -Either Foghorn Leghorn or Johnny Cash
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!
ALLOPATH, Oh ya it was worth it. It sticks in my memory because he later went down the tubes with a wicked combination of cocaine and Gambling... so I guess I was not too far off... the 'Homemade Fortune Cookie' is also a great way to slip a lascivious note to a partner or date...
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"Fortunately, I Keep My T Cells Numbered For Just Such An Emergency" -Either Foghorn Leghorn or Johnny Cash | {
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Spiritual Alchemy
I had discovered, early in my researches, that their doctrine was no mere
chemical fantasy, but a philosophy they applied to the world, to the elements,
and to man himself.
W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it
evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies.
Jean Dubuis
Spanning more than 2500 years, the belief and practice of Alchemy endures even today through expanding philosophical thought. The spagyric art, (from both Greek and Latin etymological roots meaning "to separate and join together") offered a physical example for the spiritual allegory of separating from God, then joining together with spirit. As we move through life, we see cyclical separations and unions in our personal lives, our cultures, and ultimately the world. When clearly in synch, spiritual alchemy demonstrates the transformation of the ordinary into enlightenment of consciousness.
Personal Alchemy
In our human experience, growth often occurs from separation and reunion. We notice this most evidently in relationships, which sometimes benefit from a break to review and refresh perspective. As a departure from work, vacation or the occasional "mental health day," serves to distance ourselves from the depths of weariness, if only temporarily. We optimally resurface, inhaling a completely new breath of life and enjoy the lasting effects of our new perspective.
When the Universe calls us to disconnect from the challenges of the day, and invites us to join hands with spirit, we sometimes fearfully trudge into the unknown of separation. In the midst of the uncomfortable chasm between habit and possibility, we grasp for the solid footings of faith as we climb to new heights. The process of distancing ourselves from confusion and tedium, adhering to new resolutions of outlook results in the alchemic transformation of our souls. We are never the same again.
Cultural Transformation
Some of the greatest separations and reunions in history resulted in amazing new achievements. Religious separation notably, offered blatant examples of courageous people in history making daring moves of rebellion which resulted in changing the world. When Martin Luther courageously questioned Catholic dogma in 1517 by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenburg, his act constituted the beginning of the Reformation. His separation spawned a world-wide change, and spiritual alchemy affecting the lives of millions. Soon after, religious groups of people separated from oppression in their mother countries to reunite in America and grow a new nation based on freedom. In further pondering the process, the move away from the old, demonstrated more of a philosophical stance and statement of saying "yes" to spirit, than the physical move itself across the expansive waters of change.
The Civil Rights movement, uncomfortable in its roots and uprising, separated and united on philosophical and physical fronts. Breaking free from traditional boundaries embedded most distinctively in America's southern states, but also holding tether to invisible protocol and customs throughout the country, the movement of an entire race of people (and eventually women in general), brought about tremendous changes and a unification of society. The ones who dared to dream, including the new-world Martin Luther (King, Jr.) led the way to leave behind hundreds of years of perception and band together with new found choir of individual voices. As our culture in the western world outgrows the bondage of old thinking and behavior, it transmutes into an even better place to live.
Elixir of Life
Ponce De Leon, noted for his quest for the "fountain of youth" around the globe, personified man's search for the elixir of life. Throughout time, scientists and philosophers and hopeful seekers, convinced a "universal solvent" either existed or awaited either discovery or invention. The idea of a "panacea" that would cure all diseases single-handedly and also prolong life, proved alluring yet evasive.
In our daily trials and errors, we seek an overarching solution to our micro-woes, hoping for a one-size-fits-all remedy to immediately provide recompense and respite for all our mistakes and difficulties. We eagerly search outside of ourselves for the magic potion of peaceful resolve, all the while spirit within us patiently waits for recognition. Until we realize the authentic elixir of life dwells within us, and in fact IS us, our quest for completeness and wholeness from the separation of spirit, portends unanswered. You and spirit exist as one - you are the elixir of your own life.
In our brief appearance on earth, whether one time or many, we experience a series of challenges and resolutions. The continuous cycle of problem/solution moves through our lives like a lie-detector reading, ever recording our actions and fears; sometimes stressful, sometimes calm, but nonetheless a representative interpretation of our lives. We separate from our fears and challenges and move back into the continuum of momentum to carry forward. Like us, our cultures endure ups and downs, distance and unions of ideals and methodology, yet the aspiration for a better life endures over time. Remember, in your search for life's elixir, your treasure map begins and ends at the same place - within you! | {
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Users with forward set receive duplicate messages at destination
Hello,
I have this problem with a new installation of Zimbra, that I am trying to solve for the last days, without success.
Everything is running smoothly, except for one thing: the accounts that have forward addresses configured receive duplicate messages at the destination every single time.
I tried everything and read thousands of articles on the Internet, without any luck.
Can anyone give me some advice please?
I can post every detail of the installation, just ask.
Would you like to describes what's the solution for the problem? Does this means apply the latest binary (currently zcs 8.0.3) fixed your issue or does this means editing /opt/zimbra/postfix/conf/master.cf.in for : -o receive_override_options=no_header_body_checks,no_ unknown_recipient_checks,no_address_mappings would be need for resolve the problem? | {
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Friday, 15 June 2012
Australian Cricketers Threaten To Strike
Australia’s cricketers may go on strike ahead of next month’s one-day tour of England over performance-related pay issues reports said on Saturday. The Australian newspaper said players have examined a boycott of next month’s one-day tour of England or the Twenty20 world cup in Sri Lanka in September-October.
“Relationships between players and management are heated and threatening to become as ugly as the stand-off surrounding the first player contract negotiations during Mark Taylor’s captaincy (1994-1999)” the newspaper said.
“Cricket Australia is playing hardball in negotiations and has frozen all state and Big Bash (domestic T20) contract talks under the threat of Aus $50,000 fine until the new agreement is in place.”
The newspaper said players and state administrators have both raised the possibility of a boycott of next month’s tour to England.
“There’s only 29 days of negotiations left to run, so of course we are preparing for the eventuality of not having a deal in place before the end of July,” Marsh told The Australian.
The players and Cricket Australia were progressing towards an agreement on a controversial shift to performance-based pay when CA tabled a demand to change the definition of cricket revenue, it said.
“The players argue they are not asking for more money, but want to ensure they do not receive less at a time when the game is in reasonable financial health”.
“At the moment the players receive 26 percent of all cricket income but that would move to a sliding scale under a new deal,” the newspaper said.
Australia was scheduled to play England in five ODIs from June 29 – July 10. | {
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Roses et Reines Roll-on Eau de Toilette Intense
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ROSE
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Roses et Reines Roll-on Eau de Toilette Intense is an intense version of our fresh and velvety fragrance, a floral tale that celebrates the flower of queens. The muses that inspired this fragrance, the four daughters of the Count of Forcalquier, all cherished roses: the flowers that were said to have made them queens.
Their favourite rose – the Grasse rose, Bulgarian rose, Moroccan rose and Turkish rose are brought together in this precious scent, enhanced by a unique rose extract from Haute-Provence with delicate fruity notes.
The Roses et Reines collection uses rose extract derived through enfleurage, a traditional process made innovative by the L’OCCITANE research team. The freshest of rose petals are steeped in oil, allowing it to become saturated with the natural fragrance of the rose, resulting in a fruitier scent.
This roll-on format can be used anytime, anywhere, and is ideal for fragrant touch-ups throughout the day.
ADVICE
Roll on the pulse points : neck, décolleté, wrists, inner elbows and knees, back of the ears.
ROSE
Roses are so beautiful, blooming in the landscape of Provence. They’re central to Grasse, the perfume capital of southern France, as well as being key to our traditions and folklore. Our Rose collection includes fragrances, body care products and soothing hand creams, so you can carry a part of our history with you at all times.
Rose | {
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Lantern slide ultrasonic trigger is the control component used for the synchronous trigger lantern slide of camera, composed of the signal transmitter and receiver and operating in the mode of wireless remote control.
## Product Description
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Specifications:The Projector Power Supply: the small-size battery of 23A 12V
The Bin Power Supply: AC110~230V/60Hz
Name ot the Principal Pits: (1) AC output pin (2) AC input jack (3) Trigger output pin(4) DC power indicator (5) Trigger signal indicator (6) Testing knob (7) Hot shoe (8) Socket for X synchronous line
Unplug the AC socket from the lantern alide and insert it into the AC output pin of the receiver(2)
Insert thepower output pin (1) of the receiver into the power output jack of the lantern slide
Insert thetrigger output pin (1) of the receiver into the control jack of the lantern slide
Connect the the AC power supply and the DC power indicator ot the receiver(4) will turn green
Press down the testing knob (6) of the transmitter, and thetrigger signal indicator(5)of the receiver will turnand simultaneously the lantern slide will flash to work
Insert the Hot shoe (7) socket of the transmitter into the hot shoe jack of the camera for normal use
If the camera has no hot shoe jack, just insert one end of the synchronous line coming with it into the Socket for X syn-chronous Line (8) of the transmitter and the other end into the X synchronous jack of the camera
Package Included: 1 x Sync Cord
1 x Transmitter
1 x Receiver
1 x User's Manual
* 1 x Input Converter | {
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Last night, upon returning to Latacunga after traveling with my god-daughter and her family for Carnival, I invited everyone out for pizza. All I had to pay was a stack of $2 bills. That’s all I ever have in Ecuador. Since the nation was dollarized in 2000 not many of these bills have made
You can learn a lot about a place by observing how dogs exist within that society. I’ll compare the U.S., Ecuador and Laos; three nations I have lived in with vastly different cultures. In the U.S. stray dogs are almost entirely non existent because any that do are quickly trapped and put in cages. Many
By April 19th the city was in open rebellion, tear gas filled the air but everyone knew who was winning. On the 20th the protesters occupied every major government building and had effectively taken control of the city. The President fled and we danced in the streets all night. We won. | {
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Millennium's The Experience: 2013 Conference at Camelback Inn
The stage is set for Millennium software's annual conferenceeducational event, The Experience 2013. June 23 -25, hundreds of salon professionals will unite for education, networking opps, and inspiring entertainment at the beautiful Camelback Inn Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Attendees can expect three full days packed with education from how to get the most out of your Millennium Software, to varying "tracks" focusing on business classes, retailing, marketing, inventory management, and more (taught by industry experts and celebs). Educators include John Harms, Tabatha Coffey, Robert Cromeans, Martino Cartier, Matt Beck, Neil Ducoff, among others. Attendees can look forward to the always anticipated get together party and Owner’s Social.
"Every year it keeps getting bigger and better," says John Harms, founder and CEO of Millennium. "The Experience is great education, but it's also a lot of fun, a lot of networking, and we always have surprises from music and entertainment and, this year, we are VERY excited about what's to come."
Classes are taught by experts in his or her field and attendees always get the opportunity for a question/answer session. This conference is truly designed to be customized to what YOU want to learn and attendees walk away with immediate, actionable items to help improve their businesses.
Each year, this event is so motivational and inspiring for not just salon owners, but also for stylists and, now for the second year, cosmetology students. The event, which began at a local New Jersey hotel with just 40 attendees, has now grown to an expected 800 attendees.
"Our main focus is education, but our stylist track gives stylists the opportunity to sit with Robert Cromeans and Tabatha Coffey and learn hair education, but Day 2 is all about business education--how they can grow their own businesses," Harms says.
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About the Author:
Alison Alhamed
As Editor in Chief, Alison shapes the voice, content and design for MODERN SALON magazine, websites and social platforms—collaborating with artists and brands on photoshoot planning and layouts for the magazine, web exclusives, launches, global event coverage and breaking news. Alison oversees the content creation on all of MODERN SALON’s platforms, giving MODERN’s vibrant and engaged followers the platform to share their talent and work with the world of professional beauty. Her love for the professional beauty industry grew even deeper after she enrolled in beauty school, working as an editor by day and a student by night. As a beauty editor and licensed cosmetologist, Alison is passionate about the professional salon industry. | {
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A kind of record of a narrow boat and what has to be done to keep her afloat and usable.
We might even be able to tell you where we get to as well.
Hoping you enjoy the intimate detail of boating on the UK canals.
About Me
The name describes my demeanour and voice!
I love narrowboating and that is why this blog is mainly about the boat and our interaction with it. I have been keeping a log for Sonflower ever since we bought her and moved onto her as our main residence.
Some incidents in our boating life have been hilarious, some scary and some down right dangerous. I cannot tell what will come in the future but you can now share them!
The crew are an 'ordinary' couple. The Best Mate and I.
Monday, 30 May 2011
Blustery Day(s)
We would have liked to be boating on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. It is Summer after all. But. . .
The wind has been quite strong and the only place to go for an afternoon cruise is Cropredy. The wind whips across the fields and hits the boat sideways just above Little Boughton lock. A friend of mine found this out as we approached the lock from the north. I got off at Little Boughton Bridge 158 to walk to the lock to set it. After filling the lock and opening the gate I looked back and SONFLOWER was nowhere to be seen! She was pinned against the bank on the outside of the bend by the wind- just out of sight from the lock!
So we watched the clouds scudding across the sky, dreamt of a cruise another day and went for a coffee on our friends' boat as they were moored in town on their way to the Kennet And Avon from Market Harborough. It was a very pleasant visit. We had not been on their (new) boat before and, as with all bespoke boats, it was full of good ideas. The cassette emptying through the back of a hinged bookshelf was particularly impressive. It may re-appear in our bathroom re-design!
We did visit the boat to replenish bedding and check on a few things. The water tank was still full and the bilge empty which is always a good sign. The fridge inventory was checked and the next provisioning list started.
Maybe we will cruise in the sunny near future. After all June starts on Wednesday!
On Thursday we have a planned trip with some youngsters so hopefully the weather will improve. | {
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Bristol Aquarium
Bristol Aquarium Reviews
Bristol isn't a terrible large city, so to have an aquarium of this quality and size is good. It was £12 to get in which is a bit steep though.
I loved the tunnel as you walk in. Its the large pool full of fish directly overhead. Mostly small fish though, a few small sharks. Lots of cow fish (I don't know their real name) everywhere which I liked because they look like little yellow cows! There is a large pond with loads of turtle in it which you can view from the top or the side, getting a good view of the little creatures. There is also an amphibian section with South American frogs etc.
Its a nice place to visit, very good if you had older children with you (anything from 6 years up). Great for a rainy day as its all indoors. | {
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning
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Overview of Problem-based Learning: Denitions and Distinctions
John R. Savery
Abstract
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that has been used success- fully for over 30 years and continues to gain acceptance in multiple disciplines. It is an instructional (and curricular) learner-centered approach that empowers learners to conduct research, integrate theory and practice, and apply knowledge and skills to develop a viable solution to a dened problem. This overview presents a brief history, followed by a discus- sion of the similarities and dierences between PBL and other experiential approaches to teaching, and identies some of the challenges that lie ahead for PBL. Keywords: Problem-based learning, denitions, characteristics
Introduction
When asked to provide an overview of problem-based learning for the introductory issue of this journal, I readily agreed, thinking it was a wonderful opportunity to write about a subject I care about deeply. As I began to jot down ideas about “What is PBL?” it became clear that I had a problem. Some of what I knew about PBL was learned through teaching and practicing PBL, but so much more had been acquired by reading the many papers authored by experts with decades of experience conducting research and practicing problem-based learning. These authors had frequently begun their papers with a context-setting discussion of “What is PBL?” What more was there to say?
Origins of PBL In discussing the origins of PBL, Boud and Feletti (1997) stated:
PBL as it is generally known today evolved from innovative health sciences cur- ricula introduced in North America over 30 years ago. Medical education, with its intensive pattern of basic science lectures followed by an equally exhaustive clinical teaching programme, was rapidly becoming an ineective and inhu- | {
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Noah Winston’s life was perfect. He had it all: striking looks, more money than he could ever spend, good friends, and any woman he wanted.
Margo Perry’s life wasn’t perfect, but it was her own. She didn’t need a man to make her happy or feel better about herself.
Then he saw her – a gorgeous, rain-soaked stranger – but she wasn’t a stranger at all. They’d known each other a lifetime ago, when she was just a girl. Now, she was all woman.
Then it happened. The man she had spent her teenage years lusting over rescued her on a bleak yet fateful day. There he was, straight out of her dreams, looking better now than he had years ago.
The more time he spent with her, the more he questioned everything he knew.
The more time she spent with him, the more those old feelings resurfaced and grew stronger.
Too bad it only took one night, a few words, and a terrible decision, to ruin it all.
Too bad it was too good to be true.
4 Star Review by Ashley
To be honest, the cover of Hard Love just took my breath away so I didn't even read the synopsis before starting (which I like to do sometimes), so I was going in totally blind. Well double WHOOOOOOP! Joanne Schwehm gave me all the happy, fun and feel good vibes with this book.
I absolutely adored Margo. This woman is fierce. Full of passion and drive. But she was also kind and vulnerable. She knew what she wanted in both her professional and personal life and she wasn't willing to settle. Even when it came to the man of her teenage dreams. Oh Noah, sigh, swoon and everything in between.
That man- and he is alllllll man is what book boyfriends are made of. Smart, sexy, successful and so much more than his wealth and status. When fate brings Margo back into his orbit, it's a breath of fresh air. What started out years ago as a school girl crush quickly becomes attraction and chemistry and perhaps something more....Despite the challenges they faced from their families, it was smooth sailing for these friends turned lovers. That is until what was supposed to be a happy occasion brought some big fears to the surface.
As much as I hated the hurt they were both experiencing, I admired Margo for sticking to her guns. Let's just say that Noah learned the true meaning of change for the better. Hard Love was the perfect title for this book that showcased all the sides of the emotion that brings us to our knees and makes us soar. Joanne Schwehm wove a captivating and believable tale that had me begging for more when it was over.
About the Author
Joanne is a mother and wife and loves spending time with her family. She’s an avid sports watcher and enjoys the occasional round of golf.
She loves to write and read romance. Joanne believes everyone should have romance in their lives and hopes her books bring joy and happiness to readers who enjoy modern day fairy tales and breathless moments.
She is an independent romance author and has written several contemporary romance novels, including The Prescott Series, Ryker, A Heart’s Forgiveness, The Critic and The Chance Series. Joanne is a published author with EverAfter Romance and is represented by Brower Literary Agency. | {
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By JOHN DiSTASOSenior Political ReporterFebruary 25. 2013 11:58AMCONCORD -- The state Republican Party on Monday filed a complaint with the Attorney General's office alleging Gov. Maggie Hassan has failed to meet a statutory Feb. 15 deadline for filing and making public budget-related documents.
"We are working on the document," Hassan said on a conference call from Washington, D.C. "It's being drafted," and she said she is still "on the early side" in preparing the documents compared to most past years.
She said that historically, those documents have often been submitted after the deadline.
The issue has become a topic for State House political banter in recent days, and that was the case on Monday.
The state Democratic Party chairman called the GOP move "frivolous" and "a pathetic political ploy" by a party "bereft of ideas."
Although the governor has submitted her budget, her office has not yet submitted the other documents, which form the basis for a bill, known as House Bill 2, containing the necessary changes to law brought about by the budget.
It used to be known as the "trailer bill," or even "Christmas tree bill."
Many years ago, legislative changes brought about by budgets, and even unrelated to budgets, were tucked into myriads of footnotes to the budgets themselves. But that practice ended in 1984 with passage of a constitutional amendment and separate bills have been traditionally filed along with the budget bills.
Hassan spokesman Marc Goldberg said Monday, "We're working to finalize the technical language" of this year's HB2 with the Legislative Services office.
Hassan's office pointed out that an online history of past budget documents shows that only once in the past 20 years have those documents, in the form of HB 2, been submitted on Feb. 15.
That was in 2001 by then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat and current U.S. Senator.
Two years later, under Republican Gov. Craig Benson, House Bill 2 was submitted on Feb. 20. But in all other budget cycles, HB 2 was not introduced until March, sometimes late March. Those late filings were routinely accepted by the House.
But state Republican chair Jennifer Horn said in a letter to Attorney General Michael Delaney that Hassan's "actions are irresponsible and are prohibiting the Legislature from fully reviewing her reckless proposal."
She asks Delaney "to instruct the governor's office to immediately comply with the law."
Horn wrote that Hassan "is constructing a fiscally irresponsible house of cards that could collapse at any minute because it relies on $80 million in non-existent casino licensing revenues."
Noting that Delaney's term as Attorney General expires on March 31, Horn wrote, "I recognize that you are in a difficult position to take action against Governor Hassan's blatant attempt to subvert New Hampshire law given you are soon facing re-nomination to your position. I am also aware that you are one of the most prominent New Hampshire Democrats to speak out against the governor's budget and oppose her irresponsible revenue scheme. I congratulate you on your courageous and principled stand against bad policy that threatens our state's fiscal integrity.
"But any attempt by Governor Hassan to reject your re-nomination as a result of your opposition to her budget or your efforts to force her to comply with state law would be viewed as politically vindictive. I would hope that Governor Hassan would realize this and refrain from punishing you for simply doing your job and doing what is best for the State of New Hampshire," wrote Horn.
The Attorney General's Office did not respond to UnionLeader.com's request for comment.
State Democratic chairman Raymond Buckley responded in a statement, "The NHGOP is proving once again that they have no ideas to offer the people of New Hampshire to create jobs and move our economy forward.
"Instead of reevaluating their far right stances to actually appeal to voters, the state GOP has decided to focus on a pathetic political ploy that will cost Granite Staters by wasting the time of our Justice Department.
"Having suffered historic losses at all levels this past November, the New Hampshire Republican Party is reduced to political grandstanding while Democrats pursue policies that will help the lives of hundreds of thousands of Granite State citizens," Buckley said.
"This state's Republican party is so bereft of ideas to move New Hampshire forward that they are reduced to filing frivolous lawsuits in a Justice Department already overworked as a result of the draconian cuts imposed on it by Chairwoman Horn's mentor, (former House speaker) Bill O'Brien," said Buckley. "Frankly, I think if any deadlines should be on Chairwoman Horn's mind, it should be the deadline that her taxes are due on."
Buckley was referring to Horn's efforts to resolve $92,000 in outstanding personal income taxes due the IRS. | {
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As the rumored unveiling date for the iPad Mini steadily approaches - October 23 to be exact - speculation and rumors over Apple's pricing plans continue to pile up.
As the rumored unveiling date for the iPad Mini steadily approaches - October 23 to be exact - speculation and rumors over Apple's pricing plan for the product continue to pile up. Most recently, leaked screenshots from the inventory of a German electronics company purport to show the entry-level iPad Mini checking in with 8GB of storage and a price tag of $249 Euros, or about $323.
Now the iPad Mini, by virtue of its size alone, will be positioned to compete against smaller tablets like the Google Nexus 7 and the Amazon Kindle Fire. That being the case, Apple's iPad Mini should be priced rather aggressively. Keep in mind that the Nexus 7 retails for $199 while the base-level Kindle Fire is about $40 cheaper.
So what are the analysts and pundits saying?
Well, leaked screenshots aside, some analysts believe Apple will go all out and disrupt the low-end tablet market with an aggressive pricepoint in the $199 range. Still, others believe that Apple, always keen on maximizing its profits, will price the device in the $250 range.
Either way, iPad Mini pricing creates an interesting dilemma. As pointed out by the Investors Business Daily, the iPad Mini needs to be priced low enough to compete with the likes of Google and Amazon, but necessarily so low that it cannibalizes iPod Touch sales. The recently released fifth-gen iPod Touch starts at $399 for the 32GB model. That's right, the 16GB model is no more.
The pricing of the iPod Touch may actually give us a hint of where they're going to price the (iPad) Mini," said Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. "It's a low likelihood that they will price the Mini on par with the Touch or even at a discount. You can forget about a discount. So we're probably looking at a price above $299."
Wu's prediction: $349.
That seems absurdly high to me. $349 for a smaller non Retina Display iPad when you can pick up the iPad 2 for $399? That's an awful value proposition.
I contend that there really is no pricing confusion to be had with the iPad Mini and the iPod Touch as they are two different products that serve two different purposes. The iPad Mini is a miniaturized tablet meant for mild media consumption and book reading. And as opposed to the iPod Touch, it won't feature a crisp Retina Display or high-quality camera. What's more, a rumor this past weekend claimed that Apple's upcoming iPad event will have a strong focus on iBooks.
So if we take and run with the assertion that the iPad Mini and iPod Touch won't be competing for the same customers, does that necessarily mean that Apple should price the iPad Mini very competitively?
Absolutely.
Remember that the tablet market is still in its infancy with tremendous room for growth ahead. Now contrast this with the MP3 player/handheld mobile device market, a market that's been mature for some time now and one that Apple continues to dominate. Consequently, it's in Apple's own best interest to aggressively price the iPad Mini as a means to eliminate any price umbrella - a phrase Apple executives like to trot out - for the competition to enjoy.
If Apple were to release a $350 iPad Mini, they might as well not release anything at all. The whole point of the iPad Mini is to appeal to a completely new demographic of consumer. You might remember that Tim Cook during a recent Apple earnings conference call said that they noted a significant uptick in iPad 2 sales once they lowered the price to $399.
In other words, there are a whole lot of people who want to get their hands on an Apple iPad but are simply priced out of the market under Apple's current pricing matrix. Right now, those folks are becoming Amazon and Android-based tablet users. Apple wants to avoid this dynamic at all costs and we imagine the highest Apple would price the iPad Mini is at $250. Unleashing an iPad Mini at $199, though, would really leave the competitors like Amazon and Google scrambling to stay afloat.
Why cannibalization isn't an issue
Meanwhile, the IBD quotes NPD Group analyst Stephen Baker who says that Apple should worry about a "cheaper iPad Mini cannibalizing sales of pricier, large-screen iPads."
That's a valid consideration, but as Apple has said time and time again, if an Apple product is going to be cannabilized, they'd rather have it be at the hands of another Apple product. As it stands now, Apple's competitors are the ones enjoying the benefits of a marketplace without a cheap iPad option. It should be a no-brainer for Apple to limit the growth of its tablet competitors, even if it means sacrificing a few higher-margined iPads in the process.
Here's why.
It was made abundantly clear during Apple's and Samsung's trial this past summer that the significance of a purchased iOS device doesn't end with the profit derived from the sale alone. Rather, each sale of an iOS device takes on a greater significance because it brings consumers into the iOS ecosystem where they're likely to spend money on media content and, more importantly, purchase additional Apple products in the future.
Apple's ultimate goal with the iPad Mini isn't solely make a killing at all costs - after all, they're already doing that with regular-priced iPads and iPhones. Rather, their ultimate goal is to corner the low-end of the market and prevent companies like Google, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and even Microsoft from gaining a foothold in the tablet market and then using that momentum to release larger-sized tablets and steal some of that iPad thunder.
All that said, Apple is smart enough to price the iPad Mini at a price well below the $349 figure cited by Shaw Wu.
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With just one month to go until IDF WDS 2018 in Daejeon, South Korea preparations are underway at Randox Food Diagnostics HQ. IDF WDS is the world’s leading dairy conference, attended by industry experts, multi-national dairy processors, standing committees and academics, the event is truly one of a kind. Randox Food Diagnostics are exhibiting at booth #16 showcasing our most innovative development yet, the InfiniPlex for Milk Array.
InfiniPlex for Milk is a dairy test kit that offers testing using the most innovative method on the market. Testing milk at various points of the production process is an essential part of the quality control process. Contaminants are administered to dairy cattle to improve herd health, stop the spread of disease and deliver a high-quality product. As a result of this it then becomes essential to screen the milk to ensure no residues pass through to the final product.
The quality of milk is gaining closer inspection on a global scale with antimicrobial resistance at the forefront of concerns. Regulations are getting stricter and many processors are facing the problem that their current quality control method does not have a comprehensive enough test menu. The InfiniPlex for Milk Array helps processors tackle this problem by providing a test menu that complies with EU regulated antibiotics from one sample of raw milk.
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Shown in the upper panel is a record of total solar irradiance obtained as an average of three different observational composites. In the second panel are irradiance variations estimated from an empirical model that combines the two primary influences of facular brightening and sunspot darkening. The symbols indicate direct observations made by the TIM instrument of the SORCE mission, used to determine the relative sunspot and facular components in the model, shown separately in the middle panel. Annual mean sunspot numbers shown in the bottom panel indicate overall levels of solar activity in cycles 21, 22 and 23, with times of minima indicated by the dashed lines. [Ref 57 provides details and sources of the various time series].
Compared in (a) are observed monthly mean global temperatures (black) and an empirical model (orange) that combines four different influences. In (b) the individual contributions of these influences are shown, namely ENSO (purple), volcanic aerosols (blue), solar irradiance (green) and anthropogenic effects (red). Together the four influences explain 76% (r2) of the variance in the global temperature observations. Future scenarios are shown as dashed lines. Anthropogenic and solar contributions are extended into the future using knowledge of past behavior, assuming the same linear trend for anthropogenic gases of the recent past and future irradiance cycles similar to cycle 23. In lieu of the ability to forecast ENSO and volcanic activity, possible scenarios are based on past events [from Ref 52].
Compared in the upper panel are the observed monthly mean global temperatures (black) of Earth's lower and middle tropospheres, and lower stratosphere with empirical models (orange) that combine four different influences, shown separately in the bottom four panels. Each of the four different sources contributes different modulation of Earth's atmospheric temperature at different heights above the surface. Relative strengths are deduced from multiple regression analysis. The ENSO, volcanic, solar and anthropogenic time series are described in Ref 22. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration produced the Quasi Biennial Oscillation time series, available at http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/data/indices/. The Microwave Sounding Unit measured the temperature anomaly data,58 which are available at http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/.
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So I know we (hockey and basketball fans) don't get along too well a lot of the time, but I just wanted to post this here.
One of my roommates is a big Knicks fan and never really followed hockey. I'm a huge Boston Bruins fan, and never really cared for the NBA. Both of us wound up working each other over a bit and I found myself enjoying some Celtics games this year, and he got hooked on the Islanders playoff run.
Now, I know a lot of you will be busy with the two NBA games you have tonight. But, if you get a chance, even for a little bit, I HIGHLY recommend checking out one or both of the two Game 7's in the NHL tonight: Toronto Maple Leafs vs Boston Bruins on CNBC @7pm, and NY Rangers vs Washington Capitals on NBC Sports Network @ 8pm
Should be a couple great games, and there are some wicked storylines in both that should make for a ton of intensity (as if a game 7 needed more intensity!). Come give hockey a shot!
I'm 100% an nba fan. Hadn't watch a single hockey game all year. Put it on in the 3rd when the heat bulls was basically over and watched it instead of Memphis thunder because it was interesting. I can't believe what I watched.
I would love to lie to you and tell you hockey is always like that, but obviously it isn't true. That being said, I am very glad you got to witness such an exciting game and hope that it goes as a testament to how quickly things can change in hockey! Yes, comebacks of that scale are rare. But huge changes in momentum happen like that all the time and lead to some incredible stuff! | {
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New July Laws: Education
More bills that have become state law as of July 1st include a series of changes in education policies that were key parts of the Governor's legislative agenda during this year's General Assembly session.
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While the reforms were initially met with mixed reviews, many past and present education leaders on both sides of the political aisle now say that without them, some students could fall behind.
The laws include a new A-through-F grading system to rate local schools, a new state school division to manage underperforming schools, and a revised program to both prepare and reward teachers to hold them accountable for student achievement. Some argued that the new grading system would unfairly target high-poverty schools. Others criticized the school takeover plan. But former Governor Doug Wilder’s Secretary of Education, Jim Dyke, says few counter proposals would have given students what they need.
"I was asking those who were opposing this legislation, 'Would you be willing to let your child or your grandchild spend one day in a school that was failing? No, you would do everything you could to get that student in a school that would give them the kind of quality education that they deserve, and so even though we're the fourth ranked school system in the country, we still have schools that are not meeting those standards and we need to do whatever it takes to make sure that those kids get the kind of education they need," said Dyke.
Another new law allows local school divisions to open charter schools rather than waiting for state approval. There's also a "High School to Work" partnership to give students real work experience before they graduate. | {
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Judgement
Irving's response
5.84By way of explanation of his reference to Goebbels having felt apprehensive when he went to see Hitler on 10am November 1938, Irving stressed that his paraphrase "what to do next" is an accurate rendition of the German :
"Ich uberlege mit dem Fuhrer unsere nunmehrigen Massnahmen".
According to Irving, those words mean that Goebbels discussed with Hitler the measures which need to be taken "now more than ever". The reason why he wrote that Goebbels was apprehensive was that he had been summoned to see Hitler at a time when Germany was going up in flames. Goebbels had believed that he had acted in accordance with Hitler's wishes but to his consternation he had discovered that he had been doing the exact opposite of what Hitler wished. Irving did, however, agree that Goebbels's diary entry indicates that he was discussing with Hitler whether to let the actions against the Jews continue or to call a halt. He claimed (and Evans agreed) that the probability is that in the course of a telephone conversation on the morning of 10 November Hitler instructed Goebbels to draw up an order calling a halt to the violence.
5.85But Irving did not accept the rest of Evans's reconstruction of the sequence of events on 10 November. In regard to Goebbels's account in his diary of his meeting with Hitler at the Osteria restaurant, Irving argued that the claim that Hitler endorsed what Goebbels had done was false, that is, Goebbels was lying in that diary entry. Goebbels was prone, said Irving, to claiming that Hitler had approved his actions when in truth he had done nothing of the kind. Goebbels was being denounced on all sides so he needed to claim he had the approval of Hitler. Irving did, however, agree that Hitler did express the intention that Jewish businesses should be expropriated. Irving suggested, on the basis of information said to have been uncovered by Ingrid Wechert (to whom I have already referred), that an instruction to halt the demonstrations and actions was broadcast as early as 10am on 10 November. Evans doubted the timing claimed by Wechert and Irving: the only record of the content of the broadcast gives the time of transmission as the afternoon. It is accepted that the order calling a halt to the violence was issued at 4pm. Evans considered it to be unlikely that there would have been a delay of six hours between the broadcast and the promulgation of the order.
5.86Irving justified the doubt which he cast in Goebbels on the diary entry in which Goebbels recorded Hitler's visit on 15 November and claimed that Hitler had indicated that he approved totally "my and our policy". According to Irving, it was obvious from the handwritten diary entry that "my" was inserted by accident and Goebbels then added "and our" as an afterthought because it would have been, as Irving put it, a bit of a giveaway if he had crossed out "my". Evans refused to accept that interpretation of the entry.
5.87Similarly in relation to the message sent by Goebbels to the Nazi party chief in Munich-Upper Bavaria that "the Fuhrer sanctions the measure taken so far and declares that he does not disapprove of them", Irving argued that it cannot be taken at face value. The reason, according to Irving, is the double negative in the second part of the sentence, which indicates that Goebbels was providing an alibi for himself by claiming that he had Hitler's authority when in fact he did not.
5.88Irving did not accept that in his account in Goebbels he had falsely given the impression that firm action was taken against those involved in the violence on Kristallnacht. He defended his reference in Goebbels to "turning the culprits over to the public prosecutors" by claiming that there were a large number of prosecutions and that many were sent to gaol. He did, however, accept that it was inappropriate to refer to the party court as the public prosecutor. He also agreed that there would have been many who had committed grave crimes against the Jews who were let off. Irving sought to justify this lenient treatment on the basis that their acts of violence had been authorised by the state. Irving made reference to a passage in the report of the Party Court which was in the following terms:
"The individual perpetrators [of the acts of violence etc] had put into action, not merely the supposed will of the leadership, but the to be sure vaguely expressed but correctly recognised view of the leadership".
Irving took this to be saying by implication that the perpetrators knew they were not acting on the order of Hitler. Evans claimed in reply that that is the exact opposite of what the report says: the perpetrators were acting in accordance with the wishes of the leadership. That is the basis on which those who compiled the report concluded that the perpetrators should not be punished.
5.89Whilst Irving accepted that only two of the sixteen suspects referred to in the report of the Party Court were handed over to the criminal courts, he claimed that many others were prosecuted. Space reasons prevented him from telling his readers how many escaped virtually scot-free. He did not accept that it was the intention of the Nazi party that all but a tiny minority should get off. | {
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Your guide to defective equipment
As an employee, you are entitled to expect your employer to provide you with the legally required standard of care by ensuring that the equipment you use is suitable and safe for the job you are expected to carry out. This equipment may include any machinery, tool or plant you are asked to use at work. Yet the Health and Safety Statistics Annual Report, 2013/14, shows that process, plant and machine operatives have on average the second highest injury rate in the UK.
If work equipment is broken or defective, it is dangerous. If you unknowingly use equipment that is defective, expecting it to be safe, you could be at serious risk of suffering a severe or even life-threatening injury.
Defective equipment in the workplace can include:
Broken equipment
Machinery with disabled, faulty or missing safety guards
Equipment with temporary repairs that fail to make it safe from the risk of an accident
Slow, faulty or a non-working emergency STOP switch on conveyors or other moving machinery
An employee who has an accident at work caused by a breach in the legal requirement owed by an employer to supply appropriate equipment in good working condition is entitled to pursue a claim for the harm and suffering caused.
Your Legal Friend has an in-depth knowledge of workplace law and injury compensation and over 30 years of experience in successfully managing workplace compensation claims. We can provide you with all the expert guidance you will need to help you make your case and secure the best possible settlement.
What is work equipment?
Under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER), any item which is used by an employee at work is classed as work equipment.
Work equipment is defined as:
Any machine, tool or device provided by an employer to assist an employee, or a self employed person treated as an employee, in carrying out their job.
Any equipment required to be used by employees to do their job even if not carried out at the workplace itself.
Work equipment at the place of work includes:
Factory machines, such as power presses, circular saws, lifting equipment including lifts and elevators
Tools, such as drilling machines, hammers, knives, ladders
Devices such as computers, laptops, photocopiers and other office equipment
Machine guards – one of the most frequent and regular causes of a serious injury is a faulty, missing or disabled machine guard. Sometimes the guards are not re-attached after machine maintenance, service or repair because it takes too long.
In a number of cases, the guard has been disabled so any blockage that could slow or hold up production can be quickly cleared by an operator without following the necessary safety precautions, which are intended to prevent the risk of an accident.
Under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER), every employer shall ensure that measures are taken to:
- Prevent access to any dangerous part of machinery
- Stop the movement of any dangerous part of machinery or rotating stock-bar before any part of a person enters a danger zone.”
STOP controls - your employer is also responsible for ensuring that the right type of adequate STOP controls are fitted to the equipment, which enable a machine to be turned off quickly and safely in an emergency. A machine operator should be given instructions on what to do if the equipment needs to be quickly shut down to prevent further serious injury if an accident occurs.
‘Software’ measures
Following safe systems of work and providing adequate information, instruction and training about the specific equipment.
Defective equipment – do I have a claim?
To succeed in a claim for an injury caused by defective equipment, you will need to show that the employer should have reasonably “foreseen” the accident would happen.
In many cases, an employer will have failed in his legal responsibility and duty of care to provide one or more of the following legal requirements:
Regular risk assessments
Routine safety inspections and equipment maintenance
A safe system of work put into place
Appropriate training to correctly operate the equipment
How Your Legal Friend can help you
As experienced personal injury specialists, we have over 30 years of experience in managing compensation cases involving accidents at work. We are committed to guiding you through every step of the process and ensuring that your claim is handled carefully and professionally by specialist solicitors with a record of success in this field.
Our in-depth knowledge of workplace law and injury compensation can provide you with all the expert guidance you will need to help you succeed in making your claim. We can:
work with you on a guaranteed no win, no fee basis
help you with medical treatment, rehabilitation and your return to work
ensure care and support services are available for the most serious injuries
advise you on how to claim for DWP benefits to help you along the way
skilfully manage your compensation claim to include:
payment for the pain and suffering caused by your injury
any financial losses you’ve incurred already, such as lost wages, travel and medical expenses
any expenses you may need in the future.
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BBQ Soy Chicken and a Gardening Post
I love Math. It was my favorite subject in school. I love doing simple computations in my head, I love figuring out an algebra or trig problem and I am intrigued with math story problems.
I was working in the garden this morning. It rained here a few days ago, so a new crop of weeds began to show through once the hot weather hit. As I have said before, timing is everything when weeding your garden. I was smiling to myself, thinking there must be 5,000,000 weeds in this garden.
Then a brilliant (well, brilliant if you are a math nerd) idea popped into my head! I wanted to estimate how many weeds there might actually be in my garden. I went in and got a ruler and proceeded to measure a square inch in the garden. Hang on with me here. This is a REAL math problem and one anyone could do . . . of course, no one else wants to know the answer, but I do!!!
With my measured inch, I counted how many weeds were in that inch. Getting the picture now? I then measured the dimensions of my garden. From that I found the square footage of the garden and then the square inches in the garden and … from that I estimated how many weeds were in the garden.
I was so pleased with myself!! Armed with this great knowledge, I was now very satisfied knowing the estimated number of weeds I was killing today. Isn’t knowledge powerful!?
Since I was in the garden most of the morning and Kim and I are catering an event tonight, I thought I would roast some fresh veggies, pull out some grilled chicken from the freezer and have dinner ready!!
I always have grilled chicken in the freezer. My dear, sweet husband grills a huge batch of chicken, flat iron steak, and hamburgers for me about every other week. Then, I have instant dinners that I add veggies and fruit to, and life in the kitchen is good.
I thought you might enjoy the marinade I use a lot on my chicken. It is one that has been in my recipe box for more than 25 years. Give it a try and see what you think … and remember to do a big batch and put some in the freezer for easy weeknight dinners.
Comments
Julie – it’s great to hear from you…..I do NOT like math…never have, and am thankful for people like you who do…it’s what makes the world go round. The marinade recipe sounds great – I love simple, easy and delicious. Must try it soon. Bummer about all those weeds! :-/ | {
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Following the sale of Cesc Fabregas, the expected departure of Samir Nasri and a slow start to the season, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has been linked with a host of players as he bids to strengthen his squad ahead of the transfer deadline.
One of those players is 21-year-old M'Vila, already an established France international, with Wenger reportedly prepared to pay £12million for the defensive midfielder.
However, Dreossi claims he has no knowledge of any approach from the Gunners about M'Vila, who recently signed a contract extension until 2015, and believes he will be staying in Ligue 1.
"I don't know anything [about an Arsenal bid]. Yann has extended his contract with us so a departure is not topical," Dreossi told L'Equipe.
"He has started the season with us and he will finish it with us. That is very clear." | {
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Dwayne Stenstrom is a professor of American history. His office is lined with towers of obscure books and poetry on the walls. There's even a copy of the Declaration of Independence in a binder.
He teaches this document like many other professors, beginning with, "We hold these truths to be self evident." But he stops on another phrase — "the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages."
"What [is] significant to me," Stenstrom says, "is the impact that it has on a lot of our Native American kids when it still regards Indians as merciless Indian savages."
Stenstrom teaches at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He grew up in a white foster care home, married his wife 31 years ago and raised six children. He's as passionate about history as he is his community.
Most social services departments would look at him and say he's a success story.
"The problem," Stenstrom says, "is that that's a fallacy."
He says he didn't make a life for himself "until I came back to the reservation."
Losing Native Traditions
The Indian Child Welfare Act says that except in the rarest of cases, Native American children who have to be removed from their homes must be placed with relatives, their tribes or other Native Americans. Yet 32 states are failing in some way to abide by the law, according to 2005 government audit. These children are also more likely to end up in foster care than other races, even in similar circumstances, according to the National Indian Child Welfare Association.
The result is generations of children growing up without a connection to their culture, traditions and tribes — as Stenstrom did.
He grew up on the Nebraska plains, on the Winnebago Reservation. He and his brother spent the summers outside on the prairie with their grandfather.
But when he was 8 years old, in the spring of 1968, a van pulled up outside his house. The driver, a woman, told him he and his brother were going away for the summer. Stenstrom recalls his grandfather looking worried.
"He told me never to forget where I come from and to embrace it," Stenstrom remembers.
That was the last time he saw him.
Stenstrom spent the summer in several foster homes. One day the van took him to Ainsworth, Neb., to a house where an older couple lived. Their own children were grown and no longer living at home. There, he and his brother waited for fall so they could go home.
"I'm thinking when the summer's over, the little van [is] going to come and get me," Stenstrom says. "It still hasn't come and got me. I'm still sitting there emotionally waiting for the little van to come. And I don't expect it's coming."
Years later, he was told by a state worker that his mother drank too much. But he doesn't recall any bad memories. He knows she loved him. When he closed his eyes, he could see it in her face.
He says he doesn't understand why he wasn't sent to live with one of his relatives. He had hundreds of them. Instead he was sent to a white foster home.
"I grew up in a teepee, for Pete's sake," he says. "This isn't a cliche. Go to bed in a circular teepee tonight and wake up tomorrow morning with four walls. And when you open your eyes, you don't recognize anybody in the room. And sit there for 12 years. Because that's what I did."
Sometimes he dreamed about Native American ceremonies. But when he woke up, the details were gone. For a while, he hoped his two older brothers would come get him. But they had both been drafted and sent to Vietnam.
"I'm sitting here feeling sorry for me because I lost my mom," he says. "Imagine what she went through."
Stenstrom liked his foster parents. He says they treated him well, but he does not refer to them as his own mother or father.
"I learned to appreciate that family," he says. "I stayed with them until both of them passed away. When the mother passed, I went back to her funeral and one of her kids asked, 'Why's he here?' "
After that, something snapped. And like more than half of children who leave foster care, he got in trouble with the law and drank too much.
"The only thing I had going for me was my memory," he says. "I looked in four directions and there was nobody."
That's when he returned to the reservation, he says, to see what he had missed and find his identity. He says it saved him.
Finding Tiospaye
On the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, former foster care children walk into Juanita Scherich's office every week. They want to be saved too. Scherich knows the feeling. She was taken from her parents when she was 9.
Scherich says like those who visit her, she lost her language and her sense of tiospaye — tribal family.
"A lot of times it's real painful for me to think about it because my brother and I went through a lot," she says. "I have never forgotten it. I think that's why I work so hard in this job."
Scherich is now the tribe's social worker. The most difficult mornings are when young children are waiting at her door. They're runaways from foster care.
Asked what she does with them, she says: "I don't give them back to the state of South Dakota, that's for damn sure."
That feeling is common on South Dakota's reservations. Officials from three separate tribes said they are actively hiding children from state caseworkers.
Scherich says she finds a relative to take them in — something she says the state should have done in the first place.
"They are so happy to see Grandma," she says. "They just cry. It makes you cry. Those are the times it's all worth it."
After Stenstrom found his way home, he says he connected with the spirit of his grandfather and made peace with the years he spent in foster care. Eventually he even found his mother. She told him she had searched for him for years. He spent six months with her before she died of cancer.
"That was my mom," he says. "That meant the world to me."
'They'll Always Come Home'
Not too long ago a boy, about 6 years old, found his way to the pay phone at the minimart on the Cheyenne River reservation.
"He ran away from a foster home in Lemmon," says Diane Garreau, the tribe's social worker. "He was looking through the phone book because he had remembered names of his family.
"They try to come home," she says. "They'll always come home.They should have never left here."
Garreau and dozens of other tribal officials say the only difference between running away and running home is whether or not you're running in the direction you belong.
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ARI SHAPIRO, host: Native American children are almost three times as likely as other kids to wind up in foster care. That's true even when the family circumstances are similar. It's happening despite a federal law that says these kids should be placed with family members or with their tribes.
This week, NPR has been investigating the cultural perceptions and financial subsidies behind this pattern. While some kids have a positive experience in foster care, for Native American children, even in the best circumstances, the loss of culture and identity can leave a deep hole. NPR's Laura Sullivan has this story of one man who's spent a lifetime trying to fill it.
LAURA SULLIVAN: Dwayne Stenstrom is a professor of American history and you can tell by his office. Towers of obscure books, poetry on the walls, there's even a copy of the Declaration of Independence, leftover from a class.
He teaches this document like many other professors, we hold these truths to be self evident, and all that. But his class stops on another phrase, one toward the end few probably remember about the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless, Indian savages.
DWAYNE STENSTROM, PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY: What's significant to me is the impact that it has on a lot of our Native American kids when it still regards Indians as merciless, Indian savages.
SULLIVAN: Stenstrom teaches at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He grew up in foster care. He married his wife 31 years ago, raised six kids. He's as passionate about history as he is his community. Most social services departments would look at him and say job done. So what's the problem?
STENSTROM: The problem is that that's a fallacy. I never got this way - however that way is - until I came back to the reservation.
SULLIVAN: The Indian Child Welfare Act says that except in the rarest cases, native children who have to be removed from their homes must be placed with relatives, their tribes, or other Native Americans. Yet 32 states are failing in some way, to abide by this law, according to a 2005 government audit.
The result is generations of children growing up without a connection to their culture and traditions, like Dwayne Stenstrom did. He grew up on the Nebraska plains, on the Winnebago Reservation. He and his brother spent the warm summers outside on the prairie with their grandfather.
But in the spring of 1968, a van pulled up outside his house. He was eight years old. The driver, a woman, told him he and his brother were going away - just for the summer. His grandfather looked worried.
STENSTROM: He told me never to forget where I come from and to embrace it.
SULLIVAN: That was the last time he saw him. Stenstrom passed the summer at several foster homes. One day the van took him to Ainsworth, Nebraska, to a house where an older couple lived. Their own children were grown and gone. There, he and his brother waited for fall so they could go home.
STENSTROM: I'm thinking, like, when the summer's over, then the little van is going to come and get me. It still hasn't come and got me. I'm still sitting there, you know, emotionally I'm still sitting there in Ainsworth, waiting for the little van to come. And I don't expect it's coming.
SULLIVAN: Years later, he was told by a state worker that his mother drank too much. But he doesn't have any bad memories. He knows she loved him. When he closes his eyes, he can see it in her face.
What he can't understand is why, if he absolutely had to leave his mom, he wasn't sent to live with one of his relatives. He had hundreds of them. Instead, he was sent to a white foster home.
STENSTROM: I grew up in a teepee, for heaven's sake. I mean, this isn't a cliché. Go to bed in a circular teepee tonight and wake up tomorrow morning with four walls. And when you open your eyes, you don't recognize anybody in the room. And sit there for 12 years. Because that's what I did.
SULLIVAN: Sometimes he dreamed about Native American ceremonies. But when he woke up, the details were gone. For a while, he hoped his two older brothers would come and get him. But they had both been drafted and sent to Vietnam.
STENSTROM: I'm sitting here feeling sorry for me because I lost my mom. Imagine what she went through.
SULLIVAN: Stenstrom liked his foster parents. He says they treated him well, but he still refers to them as the mother of the family, the father, not his mother or father.
STENSTROM: I learned to appreciate that family. I mean, I stayed with them up until both of them passed away. I remember when the mother passed away, and I went back to her funeral, and one of her kids asked, why is he here?
SULLIVAN: After that, something snapped. And like many children who leave foster care every year, Stenstrom turned to alcohol. He got in trouble with the law.
STENSTROM: The only thing that I had going for me was my memory. I looked in four directions and there wasn't nobody. And I'm like, you know, I've got to do something different, because there's nothing here for me.
SULLIVAN: That's when he says he went home, to the reservation, to figure out who he really was. He says it saved him.
Every week or so, on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, former foster care kids walk into Juanita Sherick's office. They want to be saved too. And Sherick knows the feeling.
JUANITA SHERICK: I was taken from my mom and dad when I was about nine years old.
SULLIVAN: Sherick says, like the kids who walked in her door, she lost her language and what she calls her tiospaye - her tribal family.
SHERICK: A lot of times it's real painful for me to think about it, because my brother and I went through a lot. And I have never forgotten it. I think that's why I work so hard in this job.
SULLIVAN: She's now the tribe's social worker. The most difficult mornings are when young kids are waiting at her door. They're runaways from foster care.
What do you do when these kids come here and say we're hiding?
SHERICK: I don't give them back to the state of South Dakota, that's for damn sure, you know me.
SULLIVAN: That feeling is common on South Dakota's reservations. Officials from three separate tribes told NPR they are actively hiding children from state caseworkers.
Sherick says she finds a relative to take them in - something she says the state should have done in the first place.
SHERICK: They are so happy to see their Grandma. I mean, they just cry. It makes you cry. So I think that those are the times that it's all worth it.
SULLIVAN: After Dwayne Stenstrom found his way home, he says he connected with the spirit of his grandfather and made peace with the years he spent in foster care. And eventually, he even found his mother. She told him she had searched for him for years. He spent six months with her before she died of cancer.
STENSTROM: I mean that was my mom. And I mean, that meant the world to me.
SULLIVAN: Not too long ago a boy, about six years old, almost the same age Dwayne Stenstrom was when he was sent to foster care, found his way to the pay phone at the mini-mart on South Dakota's Cheyenne River reservation.
DIANE GARREAU: He ran away from a foster home in Lemmon. And he was looking through the phone book because he had remembered names of his family.
SULLIVAN: Diane Garreau is the tribe's social worker. She says children don't understand the federal law. They don't know whether or not a state is complying with it. All they know is their family.
GARREAU: It goes to show you that they try and come home. They'll always come home. They should have never left here.
SULLIVAN: For Garreau and dozens of other tribal officials, the difference between running away and running home is whether or not you're running in the direction you belong. | {
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The Nazi roots of U.S. gun-control laws
What makes the argument so powerful? Two factors. First, it makes common sense: Unarmed, defenseless people have no hope against armed aggressors. Second, it states the historical truth: Evil governments did wipe out 170,000,000 innocent non-military lives in the 20th century alone.
~ Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership website
The pretext: Massacre of the innocents – Newtown, Conn.
I am a professor at a wonderful online school called National Paralegal College (NPC). Shannon Southard, a student there recently raised some very prescient questions on the issue of gun control:
Seems that almost every shooting that has made national headlines recently has involved a shooter suffering from one form or mental issues or another. We had two tragic shootings this week – one in a crowded mall another in an elementary school. Not to mention the awful shooting earlier this year at the movie theater. … Who should be blamed for these individuals being able to commit such heinous acts – lawmakers for allowing access to weapons, mental health professionals for possibly not treating appropriately, society for turning their backs on them?
This prompted fellow NPC student, Kathryn Dunigan to remark, “Almost all the mass shooters over the past 20 years, including the ones at Columbine and the Aurora Theater were on mind altering psychiatric drugs. Is gun control really the national conversation we need, or is [it] medication control?”
This comment prompted my response to Kathryn:
Don’t take the easy (unconstitutional) way out. … I want you to reconsider your remarks in light of constitutional history. If you follow Obama’s and the Democratic Party path to disarm law-abiding citizens, then the criminals (who won’t obey any gun laws) will be emboldened to use gun violence without limits. Why? Because they will know that law-abiding citizens will be disarmed and easy prey for criminals to abuse We the People. When in doubt, always follow the Constitution.
I would invite you to read Dr. John Lott’s excellent book dispelling liberal assumptions on the correlation between the access of guns and the proliferation of gun violence. You can read a short analysis of Dr. Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime.”
Note the level of vitriol in the academic community against his theories. Why? Because progressives understand that to effect and increase federal government hegemony and state-control throughout society, the Second Amendment must be repealed. Look at the history of all fascist societies from Robespierre and the Jacobins, the French Enlightenment, Germany’s Otto von Bismarck, to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Franco, etc. The first thing these tyrants want to do as soon as they secured power was to disarm the public and make the STATE (e.g., the army, police, secret police, Gestapo, etc.) the only entity legally allowed to possess guns. Why? So the state can steal your unalienable (God-given) liberties and make you slaves of the Leviathan State. … In my opinion, President Obama has almost taken America to that abyss.
The Policy
The great Spanish philosopher George Santayana warned us decades ago: Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) is an organization dedicated to the preservation of gun rights in the United States and “to encourage Americans to understand and defend all of the Bill of Rights for everyone.” The group was founded by former firearms dealer Aaron S. Zelman in 1986. JPFO interprets the Second Amendment as recognizing a pre-existing natural right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
According to the comprehensive research by JPFO, all of America’s present gun-control laws have Nazi origins, evidenced by the group’s shocking accusation that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was plagiarized almost word for word from Nazi legislation. The German Weapons Law, which existed before the Nazis came to power in 1933, was amended on March 18, 1938, by the Nazi government. The JPFO’s claim is based in part by the fact that the 1968 law introduces the “sporting purpose” test to distinguish different types of weapons, similar to the “sporting purpose” test that existed in the German law in question. Sen. Thomas Joseph Dodd (father to Sen. Chris Dodd) was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46) and had reviewed copies of the Nazi 1938 firearms law as the 1968 Gun Control Act legislation was being drafted.
It is very probable that it was none other than Sen. Thomas Dodd who brought copies of the 1938 Nazi German Weapons Law, had that language literally translated and copied into America’s 1968 Gun Control Act which would explain why the two laws are almost identical. History tells us that the 1938 Nazi law facilitated the disenfranchisement, imprisonment and murder of millions of Jews and millions of other untermensch (sub-humans, undesirables). The 1968 Gun Control Act has already lead to the disenfranchisement of our Second Amendment rights, imprisonment and the needless maiming and murder of countless citizens who, due to liberal fascist anti-gun policies, could not lawfully use a firearm to defend themselves.
Examine carefully the JPFO chart below detailing the history of global gun control laws in just a few selected countries over the past 100 years; it is a Who’s Who of hatred of liberty, government fascism, disarmed civilians and genocide.
The Postlude
America, you have a constitutional natural right to be armed in order to protect yourself, because under U.S law the police have no duty to protect the average person. The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution) are all unalienable rights, which meant that they are God-given, self-evident truths, natural rights that originated from God, the Bible and Natural Law and therefore can never be lawfully taken away by man or the State.
America, if you don’t learn your history, you will be damned to repeat it. | {
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Dear Friends,THANK YOU ALL for your interest, support, recommendations, ideas, encouragement, friendship, and so much more. Thank you for your messages about how music has touched you and others (and in some cases, how one of my pieces has made a difference for good.) As you know, I no longer am in the music sheet music business, but before all the alarms go off, please know that you can still find most of the long-time favorites online. Because of many inquiries, here is the short list: holysheetmusic.com, jackmanmusic.com, sheetmusicplus.com, jwpepper.com, and the three pieces published through Neil A. Kjos are available through any music retailer by ordering them. Here are the youtube links to the Kjos pieces: “May the Lord Bless You and Keep You”, “For the Beauty of the Earth”, and “The Songs They Sang that Night”.
I’ve also received a LOT of inquiries wondering why I’m really pulling the plug on 450 pieces of music. But first, please understand I’m stating simple fact. No accusations, no anger, no finger pointing. I’m pulling the plug on 13 books of music and nearly 450 pieces of music because of illegal photocopying and music piracy. I can’t compete. It’s just too easy for people to buy a copy and make additional illegal photocopies. And while this problem has gotten somewhat better through the past few years, it’s still problematic in the sheet music business. So I’m headed in a different direction. The remaining few thousand of my books of music are mostly damaged from storage, and will go to the shredder. No regrets. It’s been a valuable and wonderful journey.
I went through 15 years of incredible difficulty, including a suicide attempt, homelessness (while working 60-70 hours at a full-time and part-time jobs), mental illness, loss of family and friends, divorce, and much more. I have no regrets for a minute of it because I learned how to become a better person, how find happiness, and how to pay it forward. So I am. I have started a nonprofit production company, Under the Sun Productions, Inc., that produces musical and theatrical works and then donates a portion of ticket sales back to homeless charities. "Artaban, the Other Wise Man, the Musical" was our first project, and we are preparing for the 2018 holiday season with improvements and upgrades.
Last of all, thank you again, for your ongoing interest, encouragement, messages, and contact. Please keep in touch.
I hope you find this place easy to navigate, to find information, sheet music, and other resources.
On the Shop page you’ll find several book collections of sheet music. When you click on the book cover you’ll see the contents of each book and then you can click on titles to hear the music, and in many cases, see the sheet music. You’ll also find my little Christmas story, “Another Christmas Carol”, about how I sold my piano to pay college tuition, and the turn of events of how I got it back. You’ll also read about how I cut off my right index finger, and how I adapted.
If you can’t find a specific piece of music, you can probably find it at holysheetmusic.com and jackmanmusic.com. If you still can’t find it, contact me through the Contact page and leave me a message.
To listen to most of my published music, you can go to my youtube channel, danieltuness55, or my soundcloud page, danieltunes.
Here is a link for information and to see and hear the entire Artaban, the Other Wise Man. This work is performed at Christmas time to raise money for charities that help the homeless.
If you’d like to contact me to ask questions, commission music, or anything else, please go to the Contact page and I’ll respond as quickly as I can. Usually within 24 hours. | {
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Actions matter more than words, but in his speech to Americans, Obama's words overshadowed his actions. He spoke to hearts and minds, outlining an aspirational set of shared values on immigration. His subtext was 'we're not there yet,' but speaking ten steps ahead of hearts and minds is how to get there.
A recent police raid of Swedish subtitling website Undertexter highlights the need for the reform of copyright laws, and how these antiquated rules should be replaced with new regulations that better favour Internet users, innovators, and content creators. Undertexter had its headquarters raided for the simple crime of providing fanmade subtitles for foreign and hearing-disabled fans of shows and movies. Now they've paid the price.
Canada's sleepy and dysfunctional "board of directors/content providers", aka its Senate, thrives without justification and without an audience. Its shareholders, and CEO Stephen Harper, disdain the place and yet it continues. The best course of action is for our Prime Minister to become the political equivalent of a hedge fund manager. His job is to enhance shareholder value and there's no better course of action than to ignore threats of litigation by Quebec, stop the losses to reputation and treasure and shut this national embarrassment down immediately.
Around two hundred thousand Quebec students were out in the streets of Montreal protesting tuition hikes Thursday. Their claims are unfounded, or at the very least misguided -- but one thing I must concede is how this movement is getting Quebeckers out of their bubble of indifference relating to public affairs. | {
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Find out how my twisted, high-energy, interactive adult comedy-magic show can help make your party or event in Iowainsanely fun and impossible to forget!
My show is fast and funny, has received countless standing ovations (from corporate events to biker bars!)… AAAAAND – I’m based RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDWEST, which means you can bring real professional comedy-magic adult entertainment to your event in Iowawithout worrying about huge travel expenses!
At this website, you can learn all about who I am and what I do, get info on upcoming live performances, learn some clever ways to trick your friends, book me for your upcoming event in Iowa, and more. | {
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The exhibition focused on the theme of the mass media in art. It searched for answers to the questions: Does reality exist at all? Is it possible to reach it, delving through the strata of images, copies, photos and reflections incessantly flowing around the world? It became a chance to work out the distance towards the media through the “acquisition” of the tools of their analysis and through the awareness of the fact that the truth in the media is constructed. | {
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Jackson hailed as greatest entertainer, best dad
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Usher led an emotional public memorial for Michael Jackson on Tuesday as the music world, the Jackson family and thousands of fans bade farewell to the “King of Pop.”
Jackson’s brothers, each wearing a single sequined glove in homage to his signature look, carried the singer’s gold-trimmed casket into the Staples Center sports arena, where Jackson had rehearsed the day before his death for a highly-anticipated series of comeback concerts.
Carey performed Jackson’s 1970 ballad “I’ll Be There” and singer Smokey Robinson read out tributes from former South African president Nelson Mandela and singer Diana Ross.
But it was Jackson himself who loomed larger than life over the 18,000-plus arena crowd, shown in old concert footage, music videos and news clips, singing, dancing his signature moonwalk and surrounded by adoring crowds.
“The more I think about Michael, and talk about Michael, the more I think that ‘King of Pop’ is not good enough,” said Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, who signed The Jackson 5 in 1968. “I think he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.”
Jackson’s sudden death from cardiac arrest in Los Angeles on June 25 at the age of 50 prompted a worldwide outpouring of grief and sent sales of his biggest hits back to the top of the music charts.
President Barack Obama, on a visit to Russia, said he was “one of the greatest entertainers of our generation, perhaps any generation,” and added: “I think like Elvis, like Sinatra, like The Beatles he became a core part of our culture.
Tuesday’s two-hour memorial focused on Jackson’s 45-year music career, his charity work for childrens’ groups and his role in opening the mainstream pop and celebrity world up to African-Americans.
Gordy was among the few who referred obliquely to the darker side of Jackson’s life, which in the last 10 years had come to overshadow his prowess as a performer and his 13 Grammy awards.
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“Though it ended way too soon, Michael’s life was beautiful. Sure there was some sad times and maybe some questionable decisions on his part, but Michael Jackson accomplished everything he dreamed of,” said Gordy.
“NOTHING STRANGE” ABOUT DADDY
Jackson was on the eve of a comeback after his career collapsed despite his acquittal in a humiliating 2005 trial on sex abuse charges.
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton, angrily denouncing the media focus on the bizarre aspects of his life, said he had a message for Jackson’s three children.
“Wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with,” he said to cheers.
Jackson’s three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7, appeared with the family on stage at the end of the performances. Paris, in tears, took the microphone to say: “Ever since I was born my daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine and I just want to say I love him so much.”
R&B singer Usher’s voice cracked as he sang “Gone Too Soon” while actress Brooke Shields, who briefly dated the singer, remembered his laugh as “the sweetest and purest of anyone’s I had ever known.”
Jackson’s family and close friends held a brief private ceremony earlier on Tuesday at a Los Angeles cemetery before unexpectedly bringing the singer’s body to the memorial.
Fans watched from bridges as the funeral procession made its way along freeways cleared of traffic for one of the biggest celebrity events ever seen in a city accustomed to living with superstar citizens.
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Police had estimated that more than 250,000 people would gather outside the arena but the orderly crowds were much smaller than expected. Many fans and downtown office workers appeared to have stayed at home to watch the ceremony live on national TV networks or on the Internet.
At the Staples Center, Los Angeles resident Parisa Ebraihimi, 28, said she had been a Jackson fan since she was five years old. “For me, his dance moves and his music — all his songs were about a better world. He’ll live on for generations,” she said.
Police, security, escorts and sanitation for the memorial ceremony are expected to cost cash-strapped Los Angeles city council nearly $4 million. The city council on Tuesday launched a web site asking for fans to make donations toward the cost of hosting Tuesday’s events.
Additional reporting by Jill Serjeant and Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Mary Milliken and David Storey | {
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To Bee or not to Bee – that was my question
What a wonderful hands on workshop I attended last month. I have been very concerned about the impact on our food chain because of the world wide decline in the bee population and believe if enough people like me who is just “one person” does something then we can make a difference. I decided to find out what was involved in having a European honey producing bee hive on my property. Driving North to a property in picturesque Eerwah Vale, Sunshine Coast I was met by the Queen Bee herself, Paula West form Adopt - a - Beehive.
The property is one of Paula’s sanctuaries for her bee hives and it qualifies as such by being pesticide free. The property was beautiful and full of luscious greenery, flowers, extensive vegetable garden and mature fruit trees.
Our session started with the usual chit chat about what we, as participants knew or more to the point didn’t know about bees and then Paula in her no nonsense way started to impart her wisdom gleaned from over a decade of experience. What was apparent from the very beginning was her admiration and respect for the bees.
How to set up and position your bee hive
We learnt about how to set up your bee hive to protect it from cane toads, secure it from being knocked over and to position it to keep the bees and your other garden participants cohabitating happily. Then we were shown all the parts that make up your bee hive box and what role each part played as well as which bees live where in the different compartments of the hive. The various occupants and the hierarchy of the bee hive is fascinating from the Queen Bee and the Princesses to Drones and Working Bees, each one has their own role to play.
I love the “tit bits” of interesting things we learnt as well. The in-house rivalry between the princesses who are potential queens, the maiden flight of the princess (honeymoon) Difference between Black bees and Golden bees. Who & what we have to protect the bee hive from including cane toads, moths, black hive beetles .. heat, wind, and so forth And then after this wonderful introduction it was .HANDS ON We learnt how to make a honey frame We had to make our very own frame from the supplied pre cut pieces – tops, bottoms, sides, tacks, nail, wire, and wax sheets plus electrodes – well I can tell you hammering a nail into a delicate piece of very soft hoop pine timber was outside my comfort zone. But I quickly realised some of the other participants were also not so au fait with “making things” and then Paula came and helped everyone and the other participants shared the bits they knew so we all managed to successfully make a honey frame. I really felt it was quite an accomplishment for me!
Frames full of honey
Paula then showed us how the professionals do it – she used a very large heated “knife” to decap wax covering off the frames which were full of honey and we placed them in the big tub and all had a go at spinning the honey out of the frames and watching the volume of delicious honey pour down through the filter and into the drums. The smell was divine.
I was fascinated to learn you must absolutely NOT let a drop of water touch the honey or it could spoil the complete drum through a fermentation process. Haha so if we stuck our finger in for a scoop and a lick (did we really do that – YES!! ) then if we did it again we had to use a different finger - no double dipping.
After we all enjoyed our lunch it was time to suit up. We had been warned to be clean otherwise the bees smell your perspiration but we also put on head gear and covered up and then we were .... drum roll ...
Off To Meet the Bees
There were 4 hives on the property but before we went too close we had to get the smoker going. I think a few hearts started racing at this stage. The bees were very busy and Paula worked quickly to inspect and swap frames that were full and replace with sticky frames (ones we had spun earlier). The smoker was rather popular and I had a great time huffing and puffing with it. I think it gave me a ? false sense of safety. As we closed the day out we were able to taste test a variety of different honeys - the texture, colour and tastes were so completely different.
All in all a most wonderful hands on, information packed workshop. I have a new understanding and respect for bees and also a deeper appreciation of why each and every one of us can make a difference
In the United Kingdom, honeybee losses this past winter were the worst on record, the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) said in a statement on Thursday. Over the 2012-2013 winter season, 34 honeybee colonies of every 100 were lost on average — more than double that of the previous year. Widespread die-offs are being blamed largely on bad weather and a late spring, BBKA said in their report.
An exceptionally rainy season — the summer of 2012 was the wettest the UK had seen in 100 years — prevented honeybees from going out and collecting nectar and pollen from flowers, needed to nourish bees, produce honey, and to pollinate other crops. Poor nutrition, in turn, makes honeybees more susceptible to disease and other stressors. A scarcity of pollen and nectar even when honeybees were able to leave their hives served as an additional blow.
The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war. Read Full Article...
The Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) recently published preliminary data from its annual review of bee colony declines in the U.S., and the findings from this report are mind-boggling. According to the latest survey results, an astounding 31.3 percent, or roughly one-third, of all managed bee colonies in the U.S. were wiped out during the most recent 2012/2013 winter season, a rate that represents a 42 percent increase compared to the number of colonies lost during the previous 2011/2012 winter season. Read Full Article...
Our nation’s bees are vanishing. Every winter for the last six years, more than a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have simply … gone. The staggering losses within the bee population have caused many to speculate on causes. Is it GMOs? Is it new pesticides? Is it a bacteria or virus? The media have given the phenomena a name: Colony Collapse Disorder. Now the decimated bee population has finally reached critical mass. Read Full Article...
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Category Archives: Surety Bonds
There is a hidden risk facing small businesses across the country that often goes unnoticed until it suddenly rips through a firm’s finances: employee theft. It’s a crime that is costing U.S. businesses $50 billion annually, with 7% of annual revenues lost to theft or fraud according to Statistic Brain.
Studies found that U.S. businesses affected by employee theft lost an average of $1.13 million in 2016. Small and midsize businesses were hit disproportionately, representing 68 percent of the cases. Their median loss in 2016 was $289,864.
Despite the alarming levels of embezzlement taking place, it isn’t top of mind for many small-business owners.
When one hears the word “Bonds” it brings to mind an investment. But there are other types of bonds that have nothing to do with investing; they relate to business operations and function similarly to insurance.
Surety Bonds are like insurance. They back up a promise to do something; if the promise is breached, the bond pays off to complete the promise.
One common Surety Bond type is a Fidelity Bond (or Crime Bond). Fidelity bonds provide insurance against loss from employee misconduct, such as theft or embezzlement, which is not otherwise covered by a company’s regular insurance coverage. A bond can provide blanket coverage for the actions of all employees or can be tailored to cover one or more specific employees.
When safeguards like thorough employee screening and careful supervision aren’t enough, fidelity bond coverage to protect against employee theft is recommended. If one or more of your employees are entrusted to handle cash or other valuable assets, a Fidelity Bond can protect your business.
Coverage can include:
Employee theft – Stealing merchandise.
Forgery or Alteration – Checks, gift cards etc.
Theft of Money and Securities – Registers etc.
Robbery of safe, burglary of other property, stones, bullion, etc.
Computer fraud, funds transfer, diverting funds to personal accounts.
Money orders and counterfeit money.
Theft from third parties, on loan, deliveries, on customer’s premises.
The cost of Fidelity Bonds: There is no fixed rate for bonds. There are many factors that impact cost, such as the extent of coverage, whether there is a deductible (if allowed), and the surety company that issues the bond. As a rule of thumb, a fidelity bond can cost about ½% to 1% of the coverage obtained.
Surety and fidelity bonds are a risk management tool, it is helpful to discuss your business requirements with an experienced, trusted agent like BFBond/Bernard Fleischer & Sons Inc. We can advise you what coverage is best for your business when traditional insurance doesn’t provide the protection you want or require.
Bid Bond:
A type of contract surety bond that
ensures a bidder for a supply or construction
contract will enter into the contract within the
stipulated timeframe if the company wins the bid.
Default results in the obligee (a government
agency, in this case) receiving the difference
between the amount of the principal’s bid and
the bid of the next low bidder or company
who qualifies for the contract, or the amount
of the bond.
Commercial Surety:
A type of surety bond that
can be required by state and local regulators in
a wide variety of situations to protect consumers
and taxpayers. Some of the most significant for
government policymakers include: license and
permit bonds, reclamation bonds, mortgage
broker bonds and subdivision bonds.
Contract Surety:
Surety bonds that involve
construction projects. In the event a contractor
defaults, contract surety bonds ensure funds
are available to complete the contract and pay
subcontractors, suppliers and laborers.
Fidelity Bond:
A bond a business seeks to
protect itself in the event of a loss incurred
because of employee dishonesty or misconduct.
Some states require these bonds for businesses,
such as title insurance companies and credit
unions, that do business with consumers.
License and Permit Bonds:
Statutes and
regulations require these bonds if a company
seeks to obtain a license or permit in a state
or local jurisdiction. If a principal violates its
obligations, this bond pays the obligee or
other third party.
Miller Act:
Law passed in 1935 that requires
performance and payment bonds for federal
construction projects over a designated
amount, currently for contracts over $150,000.
Money Transmitter Bond:
A surety bond that
guarantees money transmission companies
offer services in compliance with state or local
statutes and regulations.
Mortgage Bond:
A type of commercial surety
required by a state or local regulatory agency
for mortgage brokers to become licensed in
that state.
Obligee:
The entity that requires the bond
and is protected if there is a loss or default.
Payment Bond:
A bond given by a contractor
to guarantee payment to subcontractors,
laborers and suppliers for work performed
under the contract.
Performance Bond:
A bond that guarantees
performance of the terms of a written contract.
Premium:
Required by a surety company
from the principal for the issuance of a bond.
Performance and payment bonds come with
a one-time premium that typically equals up
to 2 percent of the contract price.
Principal:
Also called “obligor.” This is the
party who seeks the bond and is bound by the
underlying obligation.
Reclamation Bond: Required by a state
regulatory agency, such as the Department
of Environmental Quality, for a business that
seeks to mine or perform related activities on
public lands. These bonds provide a financial
guarantee that the public lands mined will
be restored.
Subcontractor Bond:
A bond that a general
contractor may require of a subcontractor,
which guarantees the subcontractor will
perform work in accordance with the terms of
the contract and will pay for certain labor and
materials under the contract.
Subdivision Bond:
Developers must get this
bond from a surety if they plan to develop a
plot in a municipality to sell lots or homes.
Local development authorities require
these bonds, which guarantee a developer’s
obligation that the project will adhere to state
and local statutes and regulations, before they
issue a development permit.
Surety:
Third party that issues the bond to the
principal and is responsible for fulfilling the
claim in the event of a default or loss.
Surety Bonds:
A written agreement where a
surety obligates itself to a second party, called
the obligee, to answer for the default of the
principal. In the case of public works contracts,
the obligee would be the state agency and the
principal would be the contractor.
Many surety bonds are issued on a fixed term but there are some bonds with specific expiration dates set by the obligee, so it is important that you’re aware of when you are required to renew your bond. There are many bonds that expire on December 31st every year so to avoid a lapse in coverage and potential punitive action make sure to check your bond type and its expiration date.
It is highly encouraged that all surety bond renewals are done before the current term has ended. That way, there is considerably less chance of any issues that could result in a lapse of coverage. Keep in mind that by waiting until the last minute, if there is a lapse in coverage due to the principal’s failure to renew on time the principal may find themselves without the bond coverage necessary, which may result in penalties.
This is especially true for renewals due at the end of the year during the holiday season, when many local government and state offices have more limited hours of operation. We offer surety bonds in all 50 States with a quick and convenient application process to avoid delays. For further information on our surety bond products visit us at bfbond.com, call us at 800.921.1008 or get an application here.
Strange way of stealing Gold from the Royal Canadian Mint.
Via the Anus!
The case against Leston Lawrence, 35, in an Ottawa courtroom presided over by Justice Peter Doody on a number of smuggling-for-cash charges may seem like a joke, but the risk of employee dishonesty is all too real. Mr. Lawrence is accused of theft, laundering the proceeds of crime, possession of stolen property, breach of trust and he was fired from the Mint. Would a Fidelity Crime Bond cover this?
During testimony it was revealed that Mr. Lawrence set off the metal detectors more often than the other employees (Except for the ones with medical implants), requiring manual scans using a metal detecting wand but they never seemed to find anything on him. Investigators say that he used Vaseline and rubber gloves that they found in his work locker to aid in smuggling the cookie sized pucks of gold.
Four of the pucks were found in a safe deposit box owned by Lawrence and he had sold 18 of them for approximately $6,800 each from November 2014 to March 2015. Subsequently, an obviously dedicated security employee tested the idea that the pucks could be concealed in an anal cavity and not be detected by the wand.
Curiously, the mint never noticed any gold missing. After a bank teller noticed Mr. Lawrence had been cashing several checks from a gold dealer and then transferring the money out of the country is when the teller looked up the man’s place of work and alerted the mint to the suspicious activity.
Jaw dropping statistics from the ‘Statistic Brain’ website, trusted research provider for Forbes, CNN, ABC News, and many others reveals that the amount stolen annually from U.S. businesses by employees is $50,000,000,000 and 7% of annual revenues are lost to employee dishonesty and fraud.
Although a minority of employees becomes dishonest, they can rationalize their theft in many ways: ‘the company won’t miss it,’ ‘they’re not paying me enough,’ or the person succumbs to gambling or some other addiction. Protecting a business with a Fiduciary bond aka Crime bond or Fidelity bond is the most effective way of preventing these losses. The definition on a Travelers Insurance policy for Employee Theft reads
“The Company will pay the Insured for the Insured’s direct loss of, or direct loss from damage to
Money, Securities and Other Property directly caused by Theft or Forgery committed by an
Employee, whether identified or not, acting alone or in collusion with other persons”
In addition to the employer being protected from covered losses due to theft and forgery, the exact definition of “who” is covered is defined in the policy, but should include all current or former employees, partners, members, directors, volunteers, trustees, seasonal employees and temporary employees. If the mint had one of these bond policies they would be insured against the conservatively estimated $180,000.00 loss.
Some of the typical exclusions to these policies are accounting or math errors, vandalism, Governmental action, restatement of a profit and loss statement and theft by the employer itself. You cannot steal from yourself; however coverage extends to partners, directors, members, and trustees.
Ever watch HGTV (Home & Garden Television) and witness the horror stories left behind by shady contractors? Things like homeowners without kitchens or baths for months. Police recently arrested 45-year-old Cary Grimm on charges of grand theft for doing just that. Customers say the contractor disappeared without completing the work that was he was contracted for.
One couple said their home remodeling project turned into a nightmare after a few weeks’ delay turned into a half a year battle. The complaints which total nearly $90,000 based on over a dozen complaints by customers that came in after Grimm exhibited at a local home show. How could a surety bond aka performance Bond have helped? These bonds ensure a contractor will perform work required in a contract or winning bid.
Bonds provide small contractors and customers with numerous benefits. The surety bond is a form of protection against contractor default due to faulty workmanship, late delivery or not using specified materials. The surety company helps the contractor avoid costly delays and contract disputes if the sub-contract defaults with their portion of the job by non-performance. Then the surety company will intervene to fulfill the contractor’s scope of work. When a project is bonded, there’s also an added layer of payment protection for workers and suppliers of the contractor.
Surety bonds help level the playing field, and allow a small contractor to compete in the free market, leading to lucrative contracting opportunities. Consumers and businesses feel more secure when hiring a bonded contractor. A contractor’s bond and insurance are important forms of protection for anyone who is taking on a construction project.
Furthermore; to avoid a Mechanics Lien, a Payment bond is suggested. Using this Surety Bond as a tool, gives owners assurance that all suppliers and sub-contractors are paid. Also suggested is an Ancillary bond to guarantee that non-material or performance requirements of a contract will be met. An example would be compliance with special terms, laws or regulations.
An Indianapolis woman will learn her fate after admitting to six counts of wire fraud and money laundering in a $5.5 million embezzlement scheme.
No longer a swing state (The state typically votes Republican with an exception in 2008) Hoosiers will head to the polls as Kristi Espiritu will be headed to sentencing in U.S. District Court at 10 a.m. on Nov. 8. She worked at Network Storage Inc., a data storage company based in Indianapolis, from 2008 to 2014 as a bookkeeper.
Court records show that with access to the company’s bank accounts she used their money to pay for shopping trips to purchase luxury items such as diamonds, handbags, electronics, furnishings and travel. A common occurrence in employee theft losses. According to a plea agreement reached back in May she admitted to lying to company executives and falsifying books and payroll systems. Even the best managers, can be over trusting and never spot check or have a system to verify the monies in their bank account to avoid crimes like this.
As a part of a plea deal she agreed to pay $5.5 million in restitution, if she can’t pay that amount before sentencing, federal officials will use asset forfeiture to recover the funds. If the company purchased a dishonesty bond to cover this crime, they would become whole and not be concerned if the employee had the monies to repay the theft.
Espiritu could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on four wire fraud charges, and 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on two money laundering charges. White collar criminals steal through position and influence and quite often get away with their crimes for many years before getting caught.
It is unsure whether Network Storage Inc. had a fidelity bond (aka Crime Bond, Dishonesty Bond) which is a form of insurance protection that covers losses incurred as a result of fraudulent acts by specified individuals, usually insuring a business for losses caused by dishonest acts of its employees. Learn how fidelity bonds and surety bonds from BF Bond provide your growing business with the protection you require. Visit us at BFBond.com to fill out an application or call us at 800.921.1008
Prince Rogers Nelson, the legendary American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer died unexpectedly on April 21st 2016. He was married twice and has no known surviving children. Prince’s sister and only full sibling Tyka Nelson filed court documents in Carver County, to open a probate case, stating that no will had been found. Prince’s five half-siblings also have a claim to his estate. As of three weeks after his death, 700 people claimed to be half-siblings or descendants!
As for Prince, it’s hard understand, why he never created a will or a full estate plan, especially given his wealth and complicated asset structures. On April 26, 2016, Bremer Trust was given temporary control of his estate without bond; this is very unusual considering the importance of having a probate bond. probate bonds, keeps everyone honest. It is designed to protect the deceased’s assets from being misappropriated or stolen by the executor. Theft is not limited to just writing checks to erroneous people, but selling property at deep discounts to friends or shady business partners or making sweetheart business arrangements with possible payoffs or kickbacks. All monies in the estate are to be used to settle the estate, pay taxes and anything left over goes to the rightful heirs, if the executor has done wrong, the bonding company will make the estate whole and then prosecute the executor.
The court can fine or remove an administrator (or executor) for failure to perform the duties faithfully. The administrator (or executor) in most cases must post a bond (paid from the decedent’s estate) to cover potential losses that the estate might suffer through error or mishandling of property during the administration process. Why the court did not require the probate bond, is a question for further investigation.
We provide different types of Surety bonds, Probate Bonds, License bonds, Fidelity bonds, Guardian Bonds , Fiduciary Bonds, and are licensed with Treasury listed companies in all 50 states. Visit us to learn more or call 1-800-921-1008 to speak with a customer service professional.
In a Civil Case when an appeal bond is required by the judge, the principle has the option of getting a surety bond or depositing cash in the amount of the bond with the court. Does it make sense to obtain a surety bond or does it make sense to deposit money with the court? And if you do deposit with the court, how long before you get your money back?
Benefits of Posting a bond:
The benefit of posting an appeal bond is that the bonding company has options to take collateral in form of cash or brokerage account or Letter of Credit, in some incidents if your credit is strong enough, no collateral is required, these options gives you the ability to leverage your money. Of course if your credit is poor, then the collateral options are limited
If successful in winning the appeal, the funds are returned to you very quick.
Cons of depositing money with the court:
The courts only accept cash.
Takes months before the paperwork is processed.
Access to capital is lost
Real Scenario:
A client mentioned that he could not meet his financial obligations due to the fact that he had a $400,000 deposit held with the court and they are taking over 6o days to release his funds..
At BF Bond our customer service professionals can address our client’s diverse need which often requires finding creative solutions to these problems. Retrieving deposits from the courts can be a long and arduous process. When faced with a decision like this that may cost you time and money, contact us and we can help make a difficult process much easier.
The Public Adjuster Bond guarantees that you will comply with State laws and statutes and conduct business in accordance with all rules and regulations.
The Public Adjuster Bond is a license and permit surety bond that protects the policyholder for whom the adjuster rendered services from fraud, dishonesty, misstatement, misrepresentation, deceit and or any unlawful acts as they investigate the claim and issue their settlement recommendations.
You are required to obtain a surety bond to protect your clients. If you do not follow state regulations, a claim can be filed on your bond.
Why doyou needaPublic Adjuster Bond?
In the required States, any individual or business entity who aids an insured in negotiating the settlement of claims for loss or damage under an insurance policy or who advertises or solicits business as a public insurance adjuster is required to be licensed as a public insurance adjuster and obtain a surety bond to be in compliance with the state Statutes.
How long does the Public Adjuster Surety Bond last?
Each state has different year terms, 1 or 2 years, which means the bond will remain in effect until expiration date.
In today ‘s complex society, more and more people are engaging in litigation, which creates an increased need for the various bonds required in many cases.
BFBOND.com assures prompt service, not only in providing these judicial bonds locally, but also for those which a lawyer or one of his clients may be required to file in some other part of the country. We make our bonds and services available in all parts of the nation either directly working with the clients or through thousands of independent insurance agents and brokers. And, to assure these representatives and their clients effective action when coverages are needed or losses sustained, Bernard Fleischer & Sons, Inc maintains an expertly-staffed sales, underwriting and claim office.
Since 1949, Bernard Fleischer & Sons, BFBOND.com has been one of America’s pioneer bonding companies. We work with company ‘s approved as surety on bonds required by the Federal government. Bernard Fleischer & Sons, BFBOND.com consistently occupies a front-rank position in the surety field.
Our commitment to sound under writing principles enables us to provide a stable source of expert bonding service. At Bernard Fleischer & Sons, Inc, we believe that the proper handling of many forms of surety bonds requires technical knowledge that can be acquired only by a concentrated study of the subject combined with years of practical experience in the application of such knowledge.
Attorneys have come to depend on Bernard Fleischer & Sons, Inc experience and unparalleled service in meeting the special bonding requirements of the legal profession, such as:• Administrator’s/Executor’ sf Personal Representative’s Bonds• Guardian/ Conservators/ Committee Bonds• Testamentary Trustees Bonds• Receivers Bonds• Trustee in Liquidation Bonds• Trustee in Reorganization Bonds• Attachment/Garnishment Bonds• Replevin Bonds• Injunction Bonds• Indemnity to Sheriff• Counter-Replevin Bonds• Appeal, Supersedeas, Stay of Execution Bonds• Release Attachment/Discharge Garnishment Bonds• Dissolve Injunction Bonds
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US Africa Policy Assailed by Africans
London -– Neither overcast sky nor small crowd dampened the passion Duale Yusuf displayed as he denounced the destructive U.S. foreign policy in Somalia during a protest recently outside the American Embassy in this city’s posh Mayfair section.
“There is a Guantanamo Bay prison in Mogadishu where thousands of Somalis are being tortured. American drones are killing people in Somalia. We don’t need drones, we need peace, like in America and Britain,” said Yusuf, criticizing the latest upsurge in American military activity in his homeland in the Horn of Africa.
A few days before that London protest some American news outlets carried a report detailing increased U.S. military activities across the African continent supposedly designed to “fight militants” with measure that include supplying equipment, providing intelligence and expending “tens of millions of dollars.”
That report referenced $45-million in military equipment sent to Uganda and Burundi to support their forces in Somalia plus $24-million to Kenya, which invaded southern Somalia days before the protest.
Kenyan officials said their incursion into Somalia is to end murderous cross-border raids by the Al-Shabaab militia, an organization in Somalia that U.S. officials’ link to al Qaeda.
Yusuf, a member of the Somalia Youth Congress, expressed particular disappointment during his protest remarks with U.S. President Barack Obama for bringing more bombs than books to Africa, breaking promises to Africans that he would institute constructive rather than destructive policies.
“We tell Obama to remove the CIA from Mogadishu where they are torturing people. We are not terrorists in Somalia. We want schools, and hospitals like in the U.S. and Britain,” Yusuf said about his homeland wrecked by twenty years of civil war following the overthrow of an American-aligned dictator in 1991.
American military activities on the African continent have escalated steadily under the Obama Administrator, which has authorized assaults against terrorists suspected of links to al Qaeda, enlarged the U.S. military command in Africa (AFRICOM) and joined the British and the French in overthrowing Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi this year.
President Obama, weeks ago, announced the dispatch of 100 combat troops into central Africa to assist nations there in combating the renegade Lord’s Resistance Army which Human Rights Watch and other organizations say are responsible for a long reign of widespread atrocities including murders, rapes and kidnappings.
Obama stated in a letter to a top congressional leader that dispatching those troops furthers “U.S. national security interests and foreign policy.”
This escalation of American military activity in Africa triggered an escalation of criticism, as many Africans and others see this activity as a projection of Western imperialism directed toward securing tighter dominance over Africa’s vast mineral wealth, not as an effort to promote democracy, as proclaimed by the US and its allies.
“Africa is the new battle ground in a war over resources between the West and China,” a member of the African Peoples Socialist Party said during the protest, as attendees chanted slogans like “Obama’s wars – war crimes!”
Many critics of current U.S. African policy cite alarming gaps between U.S. rhetoric and the realities of US policy.
President Obama justified America’s billion-dollar-plus involvement in the assault on oil-rich Libya on humanitarian grounds, saying that bombing was aimed at preventing Gaddafi from massacring his opponents.
Yet the Libyan rebels backed by Obama and NATO – including some rebel leaders with long-standing al Qaeda links – have themselves engaged in a horrific racist massacring of black Libyans and African migrant workers in that country, all without strong condemnation from the White House, which has made no effort to end those atrocities.
“Yesterday it was slavery, then colonialism and now the dictators Obama, [British Prime Minister David] Cameroon and [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy are attempting to colonize Africa with again,” said Made’ Gueu during that American Embassy protest.
Gueu is a member of an organization opposed to the French removal this year of the elected president of the Ivory Coast in West Africa, a move backed by the Obama Administration. That removal remains controversial, and has been prompting protests weekly in Paris, said Gueu.
Affiong L. Affiong, a Nigerian-born activist once imprisoned in her homeland for opposing human rights violations, feels President Obama (whose father was Kenyan) has not been good for Africa.
“I think Obama is the classic case of neo-colonialism,” said Affiong, during a recent interview in London. She is co-founder of the Moyo wa Taifa Pan Afrikan Women’s Solidarity Network. She splits her work life between London and Ghana.
Affiong’s opinion about Obama policy is a sentiment also expressed recently in an article co-authored by Bill Fletcher, the immediate past president of the Afro-American lobbying/policy group Trans Africa Forum.
Fletcher wrote: “…there is something very wrong in Obama’s foreign policy.” He points to U.S. military aggression in regions ranging from Africa to Afghanistan and beyond.
Fletcher’s article is particularly critical of the lack of “outcry” from black Americans about Obama Administration foreign policy, noting that historically blacks “regularly criticize and openly oppose interventionist activities by the USA…”
Fletcher blames this “relative silence” on the paralysis stalking the African-American body politic stemming from a misplaced belief that criticizing Obama is “somehow disloyal.”
The Coalition Against Foreign Military Intervention In Africa, a group Alliong works with, criticizes Africa’s leaders and the African Union for failing to “represent the people of Africa” against the resurgent imperialistic efforts by America, Britain, France and other industrialized nations to control Africa’s resources.
To date, the performance of most African leaders has been nothing less than shameful,” stated a Coalition position paper, noting the “indisputable” track record of European/American alliances in “staging coups, committing assassinations, decimating economies, all with the intention of gaining control of African resources and its people.”
Activist Made’ Gueu condemns constant French intervention in the Ivory Coast for the May 2011 installation of Assane Ouattara as president. Ouattara, is the French-backed rebel leader who once worked as a International Monetary Fund economist.
This elevation of Ouattara is a prime example of Europeans subverting democracy in Africa, argues activist Made’ Gueu.
“President Gbagbo asked for a recount in the election, but France, the U.S. and the UN blocked a recount,” said Gueu, explaining that actions of Gbagbo’s international opponents violated election laws of the Ivory Coast.
“If there were problems with the election, then have a recount like there was in Florida and other places in the US. But Obama gets on TV saying President Gbagbo needs to go. Obama did not do the just thing.”
Gueu sees a direct connection between Gbagbo’s removal and that leader’s efforts to end French companies having monopolistic control over the Ivory Coast’s economy. Gbagbo also sought greater revenues for the Ivory Coast from its major export – cocoa used to make chocolate. (In its day Ivory Coast nation was the top revenue-producing French colony in Africa.)
“The issue is about money and who controls it. Plus, oil has been discovered in the Ivory Coast,” said Gueu during an interview. “The West and its media painted Gbagbo as a dictator but Gbagbo was no dictator. He barred the jailing of journalists. Dictators do not do that.”
Conservative Republican U.S. Senator James Inhofe wrote a few letters to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this year providing documentation to back his claims of “credible allegations of massive voter fraud” by Ouattara.
America’s mainstream news media and many progressive media sources dismissed Inhofe’s charges of vote fraud, characterizing him as blinded by his connection with Gbagbo through the two men’s shared Christian fundamentalist beliefs.
Award-winning independent journalist George Curry, who traveled to the Ivory Coast earlier this year, criticized “one-side reporting” that failed to mirror the realities he “witnessed on the ground” during his visit.
Curry, an African-American, wrote that France and the U.S. “can’t intervene in every country that elects a leader it opposes…Regardless of which side one favors, Ivorians followed their constitution in choosing Gbagbo over his challenger…”
Activist Made’ Gueu said, “One reason why the world is suffering today is the evil of the very few…Democracy is not a luxury for Africa, as Sarkozy once said.”
US Africa Policy Assailed by Africans
London -– Neither overcast sky nor small crowd dampened the passion Duale Yusuf displayed as he denounced the destructive U.S. foreign policy in Somalia during a protest recently outside the American Embassy in this city’s posh Mayfair section.
“There is a Guantanamo Bay prison in Mogadishu where thousands of Somalis are being tortured. American drones are killing people in Somalia. We don’t need drones, we need peace, like in America and Britain,” said Yusuf, criticizing the latest upsurge in American military activity in his homeland in the Horn of Africa.
A few days before that London protest some American news outlets carried a report detailing increased U.S. military activities across the African continent supposedly designed to “fight militants” with measure that include supplying equipment, providing intelligence and expending “tens of millions of dollars.”
That report referenced $45-million in military equipment sent to Uganda and Burundi to support their forces in Somalia plus $24-million to Kenya, which invaded southern Somalia days before the protest.
Kenyan officials said their incursion into Somalia is to end murderous cross-border raids by the Al-Shabaab militia, an organization in Somalia that U.S. officials’ link to al Qaeda.
Yusuf, a member of the Somalia Youth Congress, expressed particular disappointment during his protest remarks with U.S. President Barack Obama for bringing more bombs than books to Africa, breaking promises to Africans that he would institute constructive rather than destructive policies.
“We tell Obama to remove the CIA from Mogadishu where they are torturing people. We are not terrorists in Somalia. We want schools, and hospitals like in the U.S. and Britain,” Yusuf said about his homeland wrecked by twenty years of civil war following the overthrow of an American-aligned dictator in 1991.
American military activities on the African continent have escalated steadily under the Obama Administrator, which has authorized assaults against terrorists suspected of links to al Qaeda, enlarged the U.S. military command in Africa (AFRICOM) and joined the British and the French in overthrowing Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi this year.
President Obama, weeks ago, announced the dispatch of 100 combat troops into central Africa to assist nations there in combating the renegade Lord’s Resistance Army which Human Rights Watch and other organizations say are responsible for a long reign of widespread atrocities including murders, rapes and kidnappings.
Obama stated in a letter to a top congressional leader that dispatching those troops furthers “U.S. national security interests and foreign policy.”
This escalation of American military activity in Africa triggered an escalation of criticism, as many Africans and others see this activity as a projection of Western imperialism directed toward securing tighter dominance over Africa’s vast mineral wealth, not as an effort to promote democracy, as proclaimed by the US and its allies.
“Africa is the new battle ground in a war over resources between the West and China,” a member of the African Peoples Socialist Party said during the protest, as attendees chanted slogans like “Obama’s wars – war crimes!”
Many critics of current U.S. African policy cite alarming gaps between U.S. rhetoric and the realities of US policy.
President Obama justified America’s billion-dollar-plus involvement in the assault on oil-rich Libya on humanitarian grounds, saying that bombing was aimed at preventing Gaddafi from massacring his opponents.
Yet the Libyan rebels backed by Obama and NATO – including some rebel leaders with long-standing al Qaeda links – have themselves engaged in a horrific racist massacring of black Libyans and African migrant workers in that country, all without strong condemnation from the White House, which has made no effort to end those atrocities.
“Yesterday it was slavery, then colonialism and now the dictators Obama, [British Prime Minister David] Cameroon and [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy are attempting to colonize Africa with again,” said Made’ Gueu during that American Embassy protest.
Gueu is a member of an organization opposed to the French removal this year of the elected president of the Ivory Coast in West Africa, a move backed by the Obama Administration. That removal remains controversial, and has been prompting protests weekly in Paris, said Gueu.
Affiong L. Affiong, a Nigerian-born activist once imprisoned in her homeland for opposing human rights violations, feels President Obama (whose father was Kenyan) has not been good for Africa.
“I think Obama is the classic case of neo-colonialism,” said Affiong, during a recent interview in London. She is co-founder of the Moyo wa Taifa Pan Afrikan Women’s Solidarity Network. She splits her work life between London and Ghana.
Affiong’s opinion about Obama policy is a sentiment also expressed recently in an article co-authored by Bill Fletcher, the immediate past president of the Afro-American lobbying/policy group Trans Africa Forum.
Fletcher wrote: “…there is something very wrong in Obama’s foreign policy.” He points to U.S. military aggression in regions ranging from Africa to Afghanistan and beyond.
Fletcher’s article is particularly critical of the lack of “outcry” from black Americans about Obama Administration foreign policy, noting that historically blacks “regularly criticize and openly oppose interventionist activities by the USA…”
Fletcher blames this “relative silence” on the paralysis stalking the African-American body politic stemming from a misplaced belief that criticizing Obama is “somehow disloyal.”
The Coalition Against Foreign Military Intervention In Africa, a group Alliong works with, criticizes Africa’s leaders and the African Union for failing to “represent the people of Africa” against the resurgent imperialistic efforts by America, Britain, France and other industrialized nations to control Africa’s resources.
To date, the performance of most African leaders has been nothing less than shameful,” stated a Coalition position paper, noting the “indisputable” track record of European/American alliances in “staging coups, committing assassinations, decimating economies, all with the intention of gaining control of African resources and its people.”
Activist Made’ Gueu condemns constant French intervention in the Ivory Coast for the May 2011 installation of Assane Ouattara as president. Ouattara, is the French-backed rebel leader who once worked as a International Monetary Fund economist.
This elevation of Ouattara is a prime example of Europeans subverting democracy in Africa, argues activist Made’ Gueu.
“President Gbagbo asked for a recount in the election, but France, the U.S. and the UN blocked a recount,” said Gueu, explaining that actions of Gbagbo’s international opponents violated election laws of the Ivory Coast.
“If there were problems with the election, then have a recount like there was in Florida and other places in the US. But Obama gets on TV saying President Gbagbo needs to go. Obama did not do the just thing.”
Gueu sees a direct connection between Gbagbo’s removal and that leader’s efforts to end French companies having monopolistic control over the Ivory Coast’s economy. Gbagbo also sought greater revenues for the Ivory Coast from its major export – cocoa used to make chocolate. (In its day Ivory Coast nation was the top revenue-producing French colony in Africa.)
“The issue is about money and who controls it. Plus, oil has been discovered in the Ivory Coast,” said Gueu during an interview. “The West and its media painted Gbagbo as a dictator but Gbagbo was no dictator. He barred the jailing of journalists. Dictators do not do that.”
Conservative Republican U.S. Senator James Inhofe wrote a few letters to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this year providing documentation to back his claims of “credible allegations of massive voter fraud” by Ouattara.
America’s mainstream news media and many progressive media sources dismissed Inhofe’s charges of vote fraud, characterizing him as blinded by his connection with Gbagbo through the two men’s shared Christian fundamentalist beliefs.
Award-winning independent journalist George Curry, who traveled to the Ivory Coast earlier this year, criticized “one-side reporting” that failed to mirror the realities he “witnessed on the ground” during his visit.
Curry, an African-American, wrote that France and the U.S. “can’t intervene in every country that elects a leader it opposes…Regardless of which side one favors, Ivorians followed their constitution in choosing Gbagbo over his challenger…”
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I Am not buying one, but it is interesting. I remember the DCS 620, DCS 460 (all over $30,000 a body) and the DCS 760, not to mention the DSLR MF backs and bodies. To me the important point is that Canon is claming to capture and output stills from video at 4000X
BCADULTART wrote: 4K at 24 FPS, that makes me wonder about stills? Also it preforms
well at 200,000 ISO?
No relation to as in the original 1D?
It's a 1Dx with new firm ware- the stills will be the same as a 1Dx.
Video generally does not impress me. video uses thousands of frames to deliver/tell a story I'm interested just using 1
ETA:
BCADULTART wrote: I Am not buying one, but it is interesting. I remember the DCS 620, DCS 460 (all over $30,000 a body) and the DCS 760, not to mention the DSLR MF backs and bodies. To me the important point is that Canon is claming to capture and output stills from video at 4000X
It's a 1Dx with new firm ware- the stills will be the same as a 1Dx.
Video generally does not impress me. video uses thousands of frames to deliver/tell a story I'm interested just using 1
I don't think thay you understand my post?
I've seen this body and it is good, better than I would like it to be. I've been around for more than a few years, done the major magazines, gallerys, etc. Shooting 4k video at 24fps is interesting and I'm trying to figure out how it all fits into the future of "still photography."
ETA:
Ah, you are talking stills from video... the ultimate spray and pray
You do not understand what I am talking about.
All of you with no experience as a "Photgrapher" should pay attention, In my opinion. Leica M's are great units, I've used and Loved them over the years, M2's to M6's, Blads etc. I've seen a video from the Canon 1D C and it
is very good, I've also seen still images from video from the
1D C and they are excellent. All I was saying is that this is a bit frighting to me, as someone who shot for Time, Life, Newsweek, etc. for the last 30 years.
for 12k there are plenty of video cameras that dont have the "NIKON F MOTORDRIVE ON STEROIDS" form factor. I don't see how this is a game changer for anyone other than tendinopathy specialists (who may be ironically, the ones who can best afford one).
BCADULTART wrote: ETA:
Ah, you are talking stills from video... the ultimate spray and pray
You do not understand what I am talking about.
All of you with no experience as a "Photgrapher" should pay attention, In my opinion. Leica M's are great units, I've used and Loved them over the years, M2's to M6's, Blads etc. I've seen a video from the Canon 1D C and it
is very good, I've also seen still images from video from the
1D C and they are excellent. All I was saying is that this is a bit frighting to me, as someone who shot for Time, Life, Newsweek, etc. for the last 30 years.
If it has the same limitation of 25minute clips that the 5Dii does and no powered zoom lenses then it is not much of a game changer. The RED ONE is now $4,000, RED SCARLET is $7,950, and RED EPIC is $19,000. WHy would I spend $12,000 on a hopped up DSLR?
Because I am a "Still Photographer" I do not 'Spray and Pray' The idea that a 35mm body would alow a photographer to just press the button and record at 24 FPS and then ediors would select the frame does bother me.
Long Island Studios wrote: If it has the same limitation of 25minute clips that the 5Dii does and no powered zoom lenses then it is not much of a game changer. The RED ONE is now $4,000, RED SCARLET is $7,950, and RED EPIC is $19,000. WHy would I spend $12,000 on a hopped up DSLR?
Id like to see someone follow down the mountain even with carefully positioned shoot platforms with one of these on a rig. Red is the game changer here.
Is this concept new to you? People have been touting stills from 4k for a while, prophesying that we will learn to live in world of continuous lighting. I have read editorials in photography magazines saying cameras like the Red are still photographers' future and we must love crisp light.
Canon is attempting to break into Hollywood. They have set up an office but as good as they are, there are companies who are way ahead in the Hollywood HD camera world and they don't care about stills. So, be afraid of the monster that was unleashed some time ago.
BCADULTART wrote: Because I am a "Still Photographer" I do not 'Spray and Pray' The idea that a 35mm body would alow a photographer to just press the button and record at 24 FPS and then ediors would select the frame does bother me.
That hardly seems economical but maybe there is some poor sob somewhere in the world willing to sift down thousands images to find the keepers for cheap but I don't see that change coming anytime soon.
That hardly seems economical but maybe there is some poor sob somewhere in the world willing to sift down thousands images to find the keepers for cheap but I don't see that change coming anytime soon.
to be fair, its not thousands. you get to a point in the stream and you want something its just scrolling back and forth through a few dozen. it's 24FPS not 24mil. I have not done it with 4k but an image is an image. you want to find......that one. no...that one...no...back two.yes...thats it.
AVD AlphaDuctions wrote: to be fair, its not thousands. you get to a point in the stream and you want something its just scrolling back and forth through a few dozen. it's 24FPS not 24mil. I have not done it with 4k but an image is an image. you want to find......that one. no...that one...no...back two.yes...thats it.
Yes, but that's not just one per shoot... think catalog work - 2-4 sec at 24f/sec X 3 to 8 poses X 20 to 200 items...
Yes, but that's not just one per shoot... think catalog work - 2-4 sec at 24f/sec X 3 to 8 poses X 20 to 200 items...
not to mention x 4GB per minute!
It's bad enough shooting high megapixel stills and having to transfer then sort through several gigs of images. I don't even want to think about having to sort through 100 to 500 GB (or more!) of video.
I only shoot video as a hobby but i would love to be able to shoot 4k to allow me to "zoom in" on detail in the footage (within a 1920 x 1080 workspace) when my optical zoom runs out, eg like filming galloping horses. I would also love to be able to pull stills from video as I can't film and shoot stills at the same time... Its still a bit out of my budget though at the moment!
Yes, but that's not just one per shoot... think catalog work - 2-4 sec at 24f/sec X 3 to 8 poses X 20 to 200 items...
unless your catalog is Russian Brides you wouldnt shoot in video in the first place. Grabbing a still frame from a point in a video stream implies you have some sort of action going on. Now I'm the first to admit my catalog work is limited (2 contracts) but nothing moved when I was shooting it. Think of the video I linked to. You want to grab a frame in the middle of one of those crazy ass jumps. right....there.
if my catalog work was jumping around I would be worried.
It's bad enough shooting high megapixel stills and having to transfer then sort through several gigs of images. I don't even want to think about having to sort through 100 to 500 GB (or more!) of video.
As I said before that's the wrong way to think about it. its not 500 GB. its an x minute video stream. you stop when you get to a good bit and scroll back and forth a few frames to find the best of the lot. it's just better quality now.
BCADULTART wrote: Because I am a "Still Photographer" I do not 'Spray and Pray' The idea that a 35mm body would alow a photographer to just press the button and record at 24 FPS and then ediors would select the frame does bother me.
That's absurd. Who would shoot that way when you can use a Red and shoot at 96fps?
Photography is not about the technical, it's about translating your clients message or story. Anyone can make a good photo technically. If all you have is technical skill you're a camera operator, not a photographer.
If you have the story telling and communication ability, you don't have to worry because that's a rare thing.
You heard about the Red that's got a 20 stop dynamic range now right? Soon it will be at the point where you can decide the exposure after the fact.
Shutter Priority and Aperture Priority are pretty much obsolete now. If you have a usable ISO of 200k, then you can select your settings in manual and use ISO as a brightness control - or auto ISO in place of Av/Tv. Except for the sad fact that camera manufacturers haven't really caught on to this yet - or the need to have a low powered fill when shooting at 12,800 and higher.
As I said before that's the wrong way to think about it. its not 500 GB. its an x minute video stream. you stop when you get to a good bit and scroll back and forth a few frames to find the best of the lot. it's just better quality now.
Well you still have to transfer 500GB of data and you still have to store it until you select out the stills. So you can't ignore the massive amount of data required.
As for your statement that you just look at it as x min of video I disagree with that too. I can look through stills from a 2 hour shoot in maybe a couple of minutes, just depends on how many shots I took. But with 2 hours of video you have to sit through it or fast forward and risk missing something.
For an 8 hour commercial shoot you'd need 2TB of storage. That also might slow your shoot down as you wait for cards to be transferred so you can reuse them.
Well you still have to transfer 500GB of data and you still have to store it until you select out the stills. So you can't ignore the massive amount of data required.
As for your statement that you just look at it as x min of video I disagree with that too. I can look through stills from a 2 hour shoot in maybe a couple of minutes, just depends on how many shots I took. But with 2 hours of video you have to sit through it or fast forward and risk missing something.
For an 8 hour commercial shoot you'd need 2TB of storage. That also might slow your shoot down as you wait for cards to be transferred so you can reuse them.
Practical? Not to me.
sorry you cant use the GB argument. you have to transfer anyways. if your contract is to shoot video you shoot video. how many GB or TB you use is how many you use. Dont want to transfer that much data? Dont shoot high quality digital video. shoot film or whatever. But if you are shooting digital video you will be transferring a lot of data. If your contract is to shoot stills you shoot stills. the GB or TB required are part of the game. as for looking through 2 hours of video, if your mandate is to do a 2 hour video then thats what it is and someone is going to be looking through it anyway. so again...you have to be there anyways and all you do is hit pause and scroll.
Canon had some success with the 5DII being adopted by amateur and professional videographers. This success caused the company to litterally loose focus and start to develop products like these - packed full of features useless to actual photographers.
Canon is no longer chasing/competing with Nikon. Canon is now competing with RED. I know many hard core Canon shooters who have given up on them ever producing a wonderful new photographic tool. | {
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Former “The Ultimate Fighter 4” contestant Edwin “Babyface” DeWees (34-10) is set to return to the cage this Saturday night (December 15th) as he takes on ten year MMA veteran Frank Trigg (15-6) in a middleweight showdown at the Dallas’ American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX to be televised live on HDNet Fights 7:00 PM C. in what has been billed as “Reckless Abandon”.
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In this exclusive interview Edwin speaks out on this weekend’s clash, he gets into his time on the fight series and gets candid on the whole debate of boxing versus MMA, enjoy.
Benny Henderson Jr.
Hey brother, first off thanks for taking the time out to speak to Doghouse Boxing, great having on yah on the site. Well, you are just days away before you come to my neck of the woods (Dallas, TX) and face Frank Trigg, the readers your thoughts on the fight.
Edwin DeWeesI think it is a good fight for me, obviously he is a big name, I think style wise I
have a good style to beat him so I really think this is a good fight for me.
BH
Trigg is a strong wrestler, you have a strong ground game as well, do you feel this will more of a tactical fight than a brawl?
EDYes I think so, I am not sure to what his game plan is, but I know that I want to be aggressive on my feet and if he is going to be aggressive to it might turn into a little bit of a brawl, but on the ground there is no way around being very technical because that is what I do on the ground. If it hits the ground it is going to be technical coming out of me at least.
BH
We all see what the series “The Ultimate Fighter” shows the world, I imagine there is a lot of editing done to make it more of an interesting show. How different was it from what we see on TV and behind the scenes.
EDWhat they showed was pretty actual, hey did not show that I was sick and in the hospital for two weeks, I wish they would have showed it, my last fight I was actually twelve pounds from what I usually weigh. They made a big deal about in interviews but they never did show it. That was the only thing that happen to me that was not shown.
BH
How important is this fight for you and your career?
EDI think it is a really important fight because Frank is such a big name, this will kind of solidify me in the top, it would completely move me into another bracket by beating Frank.
BH
I have watched the Ultimate Fighter, they show a lot of the guys partying and acting out fighting and tearing stuff up, to me I guess that would appeal to some of the younger generation. The MMA, specifically the UFC has gotten really popular. I think it is due to the marketing, and the series, do you feel that is the success, the fact that it appeals to a younger crowd with the music, the selling of sex and to the party crowd.
EDThe thing with the guys that are tearing up the houses and stuff, mostly aren’t established UFC fighters, I don’t think most of the UFC guys are like that. I found with the people who like MMA that I associate with, they like it just because there is so many different things that is why it appeals to them. It is not just stand up and grappling, it is everything, obviously the violence that people like. I think the appeal is the wide variety of everything, the UFC has done a good job of getting it publicized and getting it out there, just letting more people be able to see it.
BH
There has been this big debate about MMA versus boxing, a lot of media and such are calling boxing a dying sport, which I disagree, I think there are a lot of great fights in boxing, as the MMA, specifically the UFC. What are your thoughts on this debate of the popularity and taking over of boxing and so on?
EDI think boxing is boxing and MMA is MMA, they should be two sports. Boxing still has its place, people like to watch boxing, I like to watch boxing. People have their pick. I think it has been over done like MMA versus boxing, it should be looked at as two completely different sports because they are. Boxing does not have that many well known faces at the moment and that is why I think they are taking such a hit now. You have your De La Hoya, Mayweather and a few other guys that the general public knows. I don’t really think it is MMA that is hurting boxing, I mean the MMA does have a lot of fans, and I actually think the two sports fan bases can combine and help each other out.
BH
Myself, I think a lot of the problem lies with the fact of all the commissions and titles in boxing, yeah it does bring in more revenue with more fights etc. but you have all these titles and you don’t know who the champion is because you have some many of them. To where the UFC has one champion.
EDThat does make a big difference when everybody knows how the champion of the world is and there isn’t four of them in every weight class. I think maybe boxing should have one big title.
BH
How has your training been for this fight?
EDIt has been phenomenal, this has been the best training camp I have ever gone through. I have been out herein Reno with the Lion’s Den, all the guys here are so tough and have been pushing me so everything has been going great.
BH
What impact of being with the Lion’s Den will have on your career?
EDThe wholes that has been in my game prior, are no longer going to be there, I am going to be more of a complete well rounded fighter. Just being with a team with such a great tradition and so much pride I am glad to be part of.
BH
If you could send out a message to Frank before the fight, using Doghouse as a platform, what would you tell him?
EDI really hope he doesn’t underestimate me, I want him to train hard, I know there is not much time left so I hope he has trained hard, I want to make it a good entertaining fight, that is always my goal. I just want him to be prepared.
BH
Anything in closing?
EDI would just like to thank everybody here at the Lion’s Den, Lance and Heather for letting me stay with them, my wife and family.
I would like to thank Lance Foreman for setting up this interview, and a thanks goes out to Edwin for his time and thoughts. | {
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Carrie and I have blazed through these past hundred days with carefree confidence. Empowered by the pureness of what we share we’ve swatted away the few pests in our paths. Moreover, warmed by well-wishers, we’ve continued our journey…
The when and where came easy. August 1st marks three years to the day from our first date (if Carrie’s counting). How could we not?
Her condo made sense. The late tip-off after Shabbos made sense. Keeping it small? No children or brothers or mothers or one hundred and one year-old aunts? A rough call, but the right call for us. The whole thing will be short, to the point, and moving in One Direction.
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It would have been easy, given all the circumstances, for Devon Ramsay to have moved on from North Carolina's football program after last season.
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He suffered a horrible break in the season opener a year ago, suffering multiple ligament tears in his left knee. This after he had been reinstated to the UNC squad in the winter of 2011 in a rare penalty reversal by the NCAA.
But neither of those things kept Ramsay away.
Just a few months after having reconstructive surgery to repair his ACL, MCL, and meniscus, Larry Fedora made his way to Chapel Hill as UNC's new coach.
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Neither did knowing that even if he does come back healthy and help the Tar Heels this fall, his final collegiate season will not feature a postseason bowl appearance.
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"I was out here for spring ball, but I'm really excited really just to get on the field and catch passes and blocking. That's what I'm really looking forward to because it's been since JMU last year since I've been able to do that, so I'm excited to be able to hit somebody."
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Eustace's thoughts on Preston...
Posted: August 16, 2017
Thank you to everyone expressing support as I try to survive losing my best friend of 35 years. Preston’s constant loyal support and inspiration was the best thing I ever had in my life. His kindness and humble talent were unsurpassed. Because Preston was such a giving, supportive person he helped many thousands of students and friends, always improving their life.
When Preston unexpectedly died of just-detected liver cancer he was already financially challenged; He had put off working on his own leaking roof, to make time to help so many others - Truly a testament of extending himself out to support his community in so many ways. I have never met a more genuine person and I have never, ever witnessed a man love his wife more generously and completely and committedly than Preston loved Kathleen. Thanks to all who have responded in honor of Preston by sending money to Kathleen as she adjusts to the loss of her husband, with no income. So many kind people have donated 5, 10 or $20 through this site: https://www.gofundme.com/in-honor-of-preston-roberts– that it has added up to quite a wonderful honoring, representing all of our love and appreciation for Preston and his life of making this world and our lives better. We have already used some of the donated money to fix the leaking roof on their house. He was so dedicated to helping many others that he never got his own house fixed. Thanks to the roofers who put the metal on and the friends and fans who donated to make it possible.
Kathleen is to tears in appreciation. Preston recently helped nurse her back to good health from stage 4 cancer herself.. I could write a book on the astonishing merits of Preston James Roberts. Most of his tv fans don’t even know the tip of the iceberg. Yet, they sense how important his message is.
Preston was one of the most manly men I ever met. I would want him at my back in the most fierce fight, yet I want to leave you with a rare and intimate photograph of Preston half-naked in winter, wearing a pink tutu trying to bring a smile to the face of his beloved wife Kathleen as she was battling her own cancer. His plan worked! She smiled, and made it. Preston’s love for Kathleen and good work knew no boundaries. If we could encourage and instill in our youth of today to be even a little bit more like Preston, our world would be a much better place. I'm reminded of the quote:
“When you were born, you cried and the people rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die… You rejoice and the people cry.”
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I am sorry and sadden to learn about the loss of Preston. I came to know Preston and Eustace from watching Mountain Men on the History Channel. I never met Preston but he was the kind of person I would be proud to call my Friend; an honest, trust-worthy, and peaceful man. Preston reminds me of Dan Blocker, “Hoss”, from the old TV-show Bonanza. Preston like Dan Blocker possessed a gentle and kind soul. Preston was Blessed by God, Touched by Jesus, and Filled with the Holy Spirit. My deepest sympathy. May God Bless, Kathleen, Eustace, and the Roberts Family.
So sorry for your loss. We have been dedicated watchers for many years. Both my wife and I were socked to learn of the passing of Preston. I have a friend 45years that passed recently and I can feel you loss. I have another friend of 50 years and I would really feel his loss when it happens. In todays world friendship are very important. We have a place outside Jefferson City on Cherokee Lake. I believe that is not too far from you. I would love to meet you just once. Best wishes and keep doing the show. We both love all of you on Mtn.men. God bless
though i've never met either preston or eustace,some how i consider them friends.i live alone in the woods and whenever i would see them on tv i would feel as though i was right there with them doing all those cool things they were doing.they brought me so much happines in times that weren't so happy.i would watch mountain men reruns over any thing else that was on,and yes that was to see preston and eustace in action.when i heard about preston i felt as if i had lost a friend.it wasn't till now that i could even think of the words to say.god bless his wife.preston will always live on in peoples heart.yes,there were actually 2 last american men.peace be with all of you.robin
My heart goes out to you, Eustice, and Kathleen and the Roberts family. My heart sunk when I found out that Preston had passed. Though I have never met any of you, I feel as though I know you all, and have developed a sense of camaraderie with you all, valuing the similarities and also the quality of character that you and Preston have always shown. I know your heart is broken, and you are grieving. My prayers go out for you all that God comforts you in your loss and grief. God bless.
Oh what sad news. My heartfelt empathy, sympathy and good wishes go out for now and always to those who really knew him. And from what we saw of him on the TV, Preston was one of life's true diamonds: A no-nonsense, hard-working, fun-loving, wonderful, warm hearted person. I was truly saddened, and shared some of your pain when I learnt of his passing. I am not too proud in the least to admit to a some tears when I first realised (I am in the London, England and so I am a little behind when it comes to keeping up with Turtle Island).
I have grown to love and respect Preston and Eustace's part of the show, most importantly the way you two worked together and the reasons for being at Turtle Island (living in nature).
There are no words which will ease the pain of such a loss, but he will be forever with you in your hearts, and I hope that way his memory will forever live on.
What a wonderful, wonderful man - and that's just from the very little we were introduced to him on the TV - in real life I can only imagine the goodness and quality in his character.
Stumbling upon your beautiful world through the great (spider) web, I was so moved by your life's work and am sorry to hear of your recent loss. May you find your friend is not too far away, but all around you and free of time.
I'm so sorry for you loss. I'm a 53 yo nurse been married for long time. I have never missed an episode of mountain men. I do have to say turtle island is my favorite, I grew up in slc and loved the mountains. What you and Preston have done is epic beyond my imagination. I would love to come visit and be a part of you life time experience. It's breathtaking to me. May you continue on you beautiful journey. Let me know what I need to do to visit this magical place on gods green earth.
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Although I didn't personally know Preston, I felt as though I had lost a friend, when I saw the "in memory of" after an episode of Mountain Men. I sat in my living room and cried like a baby. After reading an article about his passing, and the kind, loving, and wonderful man he was, my cries turned into sobs. My condolences to Kathleen and her family, as well as to Eustace and all who were lucky enough to know and love him.
That was beautifully written and I love the picture. Sorry to hear of Preston's passing. He was always so calm on the show, and helped his friend Eustace in every adventure and job to be done on Mountain Men. I will miss him, I know his friends and family will too. God bless
I am sorry to learn about the passing on of your dearest friend, Preston. Rest assured his legacy will never die and his kind and courageous spirit will be with you always. There are some folk God strategically places in our life journey that we will never forget and always remember. His legacy will live through you. I suggest you name one of your many gardens, Preston's Place. RIP Preston and thank you for all that you gave to this life journey.
Dear Eustace and Kathleen, just numb from the news as I'm sure you are still. Preston was such a good man, friend, husband, giver .hank you for sharing him with the world. God has a bigger plan for us all and when it is our time, we must put aside our chores on this earth for a special place with God in heaven. Know that you are loved Kathleen and Eustace and know that you are wished great things in the days to come. My heart is broken for you. God Bless You
How shocked and sad we were to hear of Preston's sudden passing. I'll never forget the sound of his voice as the truck went crashing down the mountain. Such a good soul. I can't imagine the sadness at Turtle Island....we live close in Knoxville, will try and visit your place soon. RIP Preston.
Thank you for sharing your friend's story. Grateful that you both were there for each other for so many years. Me and my husband have enjoyed watching your friendship on the show and hoped we could make it to your workshops one day. RIP Preston
So sad to hear of Preston's passing, I have been following mountain men from the beginning and Preston was my favourite, I always felt happy when both of you were on tv, I wish I knew Preston
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Ireland
I only just found out about your program this season. Did not miss a showing. The friendship you shared with Preston was so calming and truthful. Not many people receive this gift in a lifetime. You were both very blessed. May God be with you and Prestons family and as you continue your lives until you all meet again.
Preston really was the closest man to being like my papaw. Soft spoken but a serious worker, like papaw he gave blood sweat and tears into what he held dearest to his heart. Eustace you are a lucky man to be in his presence for so many years. God blessed him and you. He knew that you two have something special between you. One day I'm gonna make my way to turtle island just to shake your hand. Amazing, truly amazing. It was like I stepped back into the days my papaw was teaching me the way of life. Eustace, I will make good on that hand shake and when I do u will remember reading this. Papaw is still in my heart. You can count on that hand shake. And it will be an honor and privilege and to me a humbling experience. You and Preston are what this country needs to follow. The legacy will live on forever. The corner store has been set by you two. Love and peace to my neighbor R.I.P brother
I was not blessed to know Preston Roberts, but he was the kind of a man that I have tried to be.
The tv show connected on so many levels, l know the bond that Eustis and Preston shared. Know that Preston may have died but l know his presence will be at turtle island, as long as it exists.
Know God's plan for us is unknown, but we must carry on.
Rest High on that Mountian Preston Roberts.
Eustace, I have been watching you and Preston for quite a while, absolutely love you too. I just found this web-site while looking for Turtle Island to be able to come for a visit. Just wanted to express my heart felt sorrow for you loosing Preston; I could see the love you have for your friend. I was totally blown away to learn of his passing. I have been praying for God to give you comfort in your life knowing he is with the Lord watching you live your dream. I am planning to come for my vacation this year. Hope to get to see you.
I have been watching "Mountain Men" for many seasons now and have fondly watched Preston and Eustice working on their many projects. I have always had a great deal of pride for those who are willing to show others "the old ways of doing things" - I first learned of Preston's passing through a friend while backpacking in the Cascade Mountains this summer. As a young man I poured over the Foxfire Books to learn the "old ways" and gleaned many things along my own path in life, sure technology has made things better - but the "old ways" and the craftsmen that still work to show those ways are a treasure. We will greatly miss Preston - but look forward to a time when we will see him in eternity, till that day we express our deepest condolences and pray for Kathleen and Eustice daily.
I learned about Preston's graduation from this life to a better life just a month ago. Only by reading it on this site. It will be very sad to watch Mtn. Men without him this next season. Evidently, from all you have said he truly was an awesome man and friend to have. To Kathleen, God will carry you through this, I lost my husband too. I will pray for you and your children and grandchildren daily. Such a terrible loss. God Bless and keep you.
I`m an academic writer and I`m going to change your lifes onсe and for all
Most of my poems were sold throughout Canada, USA, Old England and even India. Also I`m working with services that help people to save their nerves.
People ask me "Sir, James Bush, I need your professional help " and I always accept the request, `cause I know, that only I can solve all their problems!
Eustace, I am deeply saddened to hear of your loss. Although I do not actually know you I am filled with a sense of sorrow. The two of you together could solve any situation with great success. I admired your sense of comradery and love your respect and love of life itself! Preston was a wonderful individual who will be dearly missed. I know that you will continue to push forward and accomplish anything that this life will throw at you! My sincere condolences to you and to Preston's family!
I am sorry for the loss of your friend Preston. It is hard for people to find a best friend especially one that is willing to give of themselves as Preston did for so many. my prayers for you, Eustace, as well for Kathleen and her family.
I am sorry for the loss of your friend Preston. It is hard for people to find a best friend especially one that is willing to give of themselves as Preston did for so many. my prayers for you, Eustace, as well for Kathleen and her family.
I am sorry for the loss of your friend Preston. It is hard for people to find a best friend especially one that is willing to give of themselves as Preston did for so many. my prayers for you, Eustace, as well for Kathleen and her family.
Hello Eustace, our late condolences from France. We discovered the show recently. I'm a disabled Vet living in France an my girlfriend is a skinny little frenchie that never been oudoors. She fell in love with the show and is talking about going to NC to visit or attend a class at Turtle Island.
We really enjoy watching you on TV and we're very sorry about Preston.
I`m an academic writer and I`m going to change your lifes onсe and for all
Most of my poems were sold throughout Canada, USA, Old England and even India. Also I`m working with services that help people to save their time.
People ask me "Please, Skott, I need your professional help" and I always accept the request, `cause I know, that only I can solve all their problems!
I am sorry to hear about Preston I have been a mountain man fan since day one . You and Preston we're my favorite on the show, your ability to make things and fix things without all the modern conveniences was absolutely fascinating my heart feels for you Eustis. Mountain Men will never quite be the same without Preston. God bless.
I'm sorry for your loss of Preston. You and Preston made Mountain Men the best. My husband and I always looked forward to seeing you both on the show. I really liked the special Chicken, Pig recycle pen.
I kept wondering why the show wasn't returning and kept seeing the "In Remembrance of Preston" on the shows beginning and ending. I was shocked to read about Preston. I'll miss him not being on the show. What a great thing you did for Preston's wife.
I hope you will consider going back and making more episodes of Mountain Men. You taught so many people some great "out of the box" ideas. Many people learned from the Mountain Men show. It's one of the best show's in Reality TV.
hi Eustache . i and family are all sad about the fact of mister Preston Roberts death . we feel how he was and stay a great friend of you . we are sure you will stay in touch with him in your mind . we would like to thank you for your way of life description . we were in Asheville nc four years ago and love your to visit friends and love your place . big hugs from France , near Bordeaux . email address : [email protected] . ps : keep safe !
I`m an academic writer and I`m going to change your lifes onсe and for all
Most of my books were sold throughout Canada, USA, Old England and even Russia. Also I`m working with services that help people to save their time.
People ask me "Sir, Mcclane, I need your professional help" and I always accept the request, `cause I know, that only I can save their time!
From France : I discover the TV program where you are often together with your deceased friend Preston Robert, please accept and also his wife my deepest sympathy at your loss.
I understand and admire your hard life, free and alone in the wilderness, Thank you for proving that it is always possible, Namasté
From France : I discover the TV program where you are often together with your deceased friend Preston Robert, please accept and his wife too my deepest sympathy at your loss.
I understand and admire your hard life, free and alone in the wilderness, thank you for proving that it is always possible. Namasté
From Northern Ireland: As like many I've been enthralled, entertained and schooled by yourself and Preston through the tv show. Prestons legacy lives on and lives on through you Eustace. Life is about peaks and troughs, it's how we react to the troughs that separates us. Sending you many blessings. RIP Preston | {
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Trump is not the only scumbag in the race for the white house. Hillary & Bill Clinton are too. One talks like an asshole but the others have done plenty of shady things. So don't just judge Trump. Sticks & stones never killed anybody. | {
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12 July 2011
Blood money
It’s explained that when the daughters
of Zelophechad demanded from Moses - "Give us an inheritance,
etc." Moses did not want to adjudicate the case himself, instead, he brought the matter before G-d "because the daughters of
Zelophehad revealed in their claim that their father was not against Moses (he had not taken part in Korach's conspiracy). G-d did indeed listen to their claim and it was judged favorably. Nevertheless, this whole incident has an appearance of giving a "bribe" by the daughters' suggestion, even though by
then it had already been more than 38 years since the incident of Korach!
(The Rebbe now ties this in with Knesset discussions on land transfers to arabs in 1979) And the important teaching from this to the religious
parties in the Knesset that receive money for the yeshivot based on how they vote is that they
should have the courage, etc. not to participate in debates involving handing
over territories to the enemy, Heaven forbid, because those yeshiva subsidies are "bribes !" And the "eyes of the
wise are blinded by bribery, etc. !"
How they can call it a "religious achievement"
when even by a single “yes” they place, G-d forbid, many Jews in immediate mortal
danger?!
When you get money for
education by putting G-d forbid, Jews in danger, it’s
impossible to get a religious education out of this. It's blood money. And may
it be G-d’s will that it will
indeed be that "The word of G-d stands forever.." and everyone will
see that G-d "will not take bribes!" It’s
impossible to bribe Him by building more yeshivos, etc. at such a price. And we should be
privileged soon to witness the division of the land as it will be in the
future!! | {
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Ultimate Horse Bloopers!
Cantering a draft horse is amazing once you get used to it! You can really feel the ground shake 😀 . This horse is awesome! And I have to agree that cantering a draft horse always requires Tarzan music 🙂. Thank you! | {
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NetGear N600 Router is the Best Router Ever
Most homes have more than one computer and one World wide web association. This scenario called for a means to distribute the Internet for each computer. The NetGear N600 makes this job easy to handle for the average household user.
This quick NetGear the N600 reviews will list its main attributes and cons and provide an overall worth for money ratio.
What makes it worth your money?
The router is easy to setup. Its user interface can make it easy to handle even by the average user, being intuitive and wizard assisted. Its main attribute is the USB slot that can make it easy to connect a hard dr as a community storage resource. The router also supports true dual band, IPv6 and cloud based storage. When an external dr is connected to its USB port, the router can make use of its cloud based mostly storage solution to make the content available over the Web for its user. being a class N router, the NetGear N600 supports the newest wireless engineering, enabling higher transfer rates.
The Cons
The NetGear the N600 wndr3700 is an excellent device but not without flaw. Unfortunetly it doesn’t support the newer and faster 450 Mbps wireless standard and its cloud storage attribute could use some improvement. However, the vast majority of laptops still rely on the wireless N standard and the new 450 Mbps would in fact mean an overkill as it would most probably be useless to the average user.
The Bottom Line
The NetGear n600 wireless router is a great device for an average computer user. It presents enough characteristics to sustain a easy home network. The USB cloud storage feature is also a major asset that everybody could enjoy. looking down at the cons, there is not much to say. From the value for money perspective the N600 is a great device and few others can offer the same attributes in its price range.
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Radon Information
This is the EPA’s website which has a lot of useful information about radon, radon inspections, and health risk involved with radon. | {
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Welcome to Central Michigan University's Office of Research and Graduate Studies (ORGS). Our staff is allied with faculty, staff and students throughout our campus community to foster the highest quality research, scholarly and creative activities, teaching and service. The Office of Sponsored Programs facilitates research and creative scholarship by providing proposal development and submission services, through internal funding support, by assisting with effective collaboration and community connections, and through workshops and symposiums. Our Office of Research Compliance and the Office of Laboratory and Field Safety promote research safety and integrity in compliance with federal, state and university requirements. Our College of Graduate Studies facilitates the wellbeing and success of graduate students across CMU's 70+ degree programs. Finally, the Master of Science in Administration Program, with its interdisciplinary nature and applied focus, provides professional administrators with a broad range of management and leadership skills. We invite you to discover how ORGS can contribute to your research, and your scholarly and creative activities.
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There is a limited amount of time and money in which one can read books, listen to music, eat good food, and so forth. I refer to that as my Beer Money and attempt to spend it wisely.This is where I talk about spending that time and money. I hope that it will help you spend yours more effectively.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Reading and writing scorecard for January, 2013
I don't plan on doing monthly scorecards, but after reading and reviewing far more than expected in January it seemed worth an update. As of January 31, 2013, here's where things stand.
Progress towards goal: 9 books of 52 in just over 4 weeks
Books obtained: 3 (none previously read)
Books read: 9 (8 first reads, 1 re-read)
Short reviews written: 9
Long reviews written: 9
Net change to unread shelf: down 6
At the beginning of the year there were fifteen books on the intended list, of which ten were unread and in-house, four intended for purchase, and one a likely re-read already in-house. By end of January five of the ten in-house were read, two of the four intended for purchase had been both bought and read, and the intended re-read was still on the list.Blog posts: a bit over 5100 words including these. | {
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Roasted Cauliflower with Cheddar Beer Cheese
Roasted Cauliflower with Cheddar Beer Cheese
It seems that certain foods run a hot streak, and these days nothing is hotter than cauliflower. You can find recipes for all kinds of cauliflower, it can be made into sauces, roasted, it makes a perfect “mashed potato” substitute and of course it makes a beautiful soup.
Recently a recipe caught my eye on Pinterest. It was a whole roasted cauliflower swimming in a pool of beer cheese sauce. It looked scrumptious. The recipe was from Joy the Baker. I must say I felt “Joy” after making this recipe…….so thank you Joy the Baker!
When I saw the recipe, my mind went screaming back in time to my Grandmother’s kitchen. For each and every holiday she cooked a whole head of cauliflower………well, I should say she boiled a whole head of cauliflower. Back in the day, the only way to cook vegetables was to boil the hell out of them………I mean boil them so hard and long they were practically mush. I do not remember that the head held together, but I do remember it being served every holiday.
Quite frankly, it stunk the place up…..it did not have a pleasant aroma. The adults, loved it……all of us kids, turned up our noses. What we did not turn up our nose to, was the cheese sauce Grandma served with the cauliflower. It was awesome……rich and velvety……..and you guessed it, made from velvetta. We used it on our potatoes instead of gravy. Such great food and memories came from my Grandma’s kitchen.
As an adult, I do like cauliflower, and I love cheese sauce on it. This recipe was something I just couldn’t resist trying it.
You do need to boil the head, but not to the extent my Grandma did……sorry Grandma!
After its hot water bath, it gets splashed with olive oil and sprinkled with smoked paprika, then into the oven for about 30 minutes. Smoked paprika is new to my spice collection, and a welcome addition.
While the cauliflower is roasting you make a nice beer cheese sauce. Beer cheese is just plan out and out yummy. A basic white sauce with beer and cheese….how in the world can that be bad??? Trust me it’s not! It’s wonderful!
The roasted cauliflower goes in a nice serving dish and you spoon around the cheese sauce………creamy, smooth , cheesey, yumminess. I used some sliced green onions ( green part only) for a garnish.
Perfect side dish for any kind of steak or chicken. So, try a whole roasted cauliflower, it may turn into your favorite side dish!
Instructions
To make the cauliflower, pour water into a large pot and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add the salt, olive oil, lemon juice, butter, sugar, red pepper flakes, peppercorns, and bay leaf. Stir until butter has melted.
Gently lower the cauliflower into the simmering water. The cauliflower should simmer top down in the liquid. No need to stir much. Just let it simmer away for 15 minutes or until very soft. To test the softness, insert a thin knife into the cauliflower. The knife should meet no resistance.
While the cauliflower simmers, place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Carefully lift the cauliflower from the water and place in a colander to drain.
Place warm cauliflower in a pie plate. Drizzle generously with olive oil. Sprinkle with smoked paprika.
Roast for 30 minutes, rotating the pan two or three times during baking.
To extra brown the cauliflower, turn the oven to broil and roast for 3 to 5 more minutes. Keep an eye on the cauliflower to ensure it doesn’t burn too much.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool while you make the cheese sauce. The cauliflower will be piping hot.
To make the Cheddar Beer Sauce, heat butter in a small sauce pot over medium-high heat. Add the flour and whisk together to form a paste and cook for a few seconds to develop a nutty aroma.
Slowly stream in the milk and whisk until thickened, about 2 minutes. Add the beer and Worcestershire sauce and whisk until smooth, well incorporated and thickened, about 5 minutes.
Add the mustard and season with salt and pepper. Remove from heat and add the cheese. Stir with a wooden spoon until melted and smooth.
To serve, place warm cauliflower in a serving dish. Pour the warm cheddar beer sauce around the cauliflower and serve. Enjoy!
2 thoughts on “Roasted Cauliflower with Cheddar Beer Cheese”
I’m sure this sauce is utterly delicious, but in the absence of cheddar cheese (and the correct type of beer) I decided to go ‘off piste’ and supplement the sauce with an extra table spoon of Worcestershire sauce and 1 cup of the yummy water that the cauliflower had been simmering in. Honestly, if you want a lighter, zingier alternative, make use of the water before throwing it out – super tasty and worked a treat! | {
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Oh, it isn't the zoomies, he goes nuts biting and jumping on me...zoomies would be great.
That is the zoomies. Gone into high play drive, and tag, your it!
Id be channelling that energy into safer zoomies. Use a frisbee, ball whatever and allow him to let off steam.
When he comes bounding toward you, about turn so your back is turned. He's less likely to jump and bite, especially if you can time the frisbee to catch his eye before he pounces so he's chasing that, not sinking his teeth into your arm.
go outside to greet him. more room to explode safely there.
up the walks by double
get children involved in playing 'where's x' fetch etc, burn off that exuberance
I love zoomies! My guys have a special circuit they run round a particular wall in the house and it is hilarious. We are often in hysterics watching them. Pippi is super fast and agile, and Barney is big and lumbering but as he is a bit older he has learnt some tricks she doesnt know (i.e. he goes in the opposit direction to catch her as she comes round).
Our zoomies often involves biting (or mouthing) when we join in. It's somewhat "encouraged" here, that is how the play (with their mouths) and we let them. However, they are taught from day dot "Gentle" so the biting never really gets out of control.
If my dog bites me - that's the end of the game for a while. At least 30 seconds. I don't do any scolding or stern talking - because that can actually encourage the dog to be excited. I'm quiet and boring as I can be.
I do ignore my dog for a few minutes when I get home - to encourage calm behaviour. And my dog does get a bit playful before and after dinner - but I like to wait a while after dinner - 30 minutes or more - before playing or encouraging exercise - because of the risk of "bloat" ie exercise immediately after dinner can cause gut problems in some dogs. Probably not a cav cross, but it's like going for a swim immediately after a meal - not healthy.
I also find playing tug in the semi dark - is fraught with peril for my hands - so I don't do that. Neither of us can see properly so the risk of hand chomping despite her best intentions (she doesn't do it in the daylight), is too high. I try a bit of fetch instead. Or just hands on gentle patta-pusha dog.
If she does grab me and not let go immediately - I push my hand gently towards the back of her mouth until she tries to spit me out. And then I let her spit me out. And we don't play for 30 seconds. No scolding, no eye contact, turn away. 30 seconds. Being boring.
I do most of my training before dinner - or for dinner.
You may also want to try a bit of "it's yer choice" - hold a treat in your hand and let him mouth it, and when he backs off, open your hand. If he tries to steal the treat, close your hand. If he doesn't try to steal the treat, pick it up with your other hand and give it to him. If he tries to snatch the treat before you get to put it in his mouth, put it back in the other hand and close it. If he puts teeth on your fingers holding the treat, take the treat out of his mouth and put it back in the other hand and close that hand.
This is going to hurt the first couple of times, if he grabs, push, but hopefully he will learn the only way to get the treat is to back off and stop trying to steal it and then you will put it in his mouth. And this is one game you might want to try after dinner the first couple of times.
I find when I'm training and rewarding heelwork on the move, it helps to deliver the treat in a flat hand - just held between two fingers, but near the palm not the tips of my fingers. Like giving a horse a treat with flat hand to encourage use of lips and tongue to get the treat, not teeth on fingers.
Yep, i need to step up all he training and make him work a bit harder, ie ignore if too mouthy, and have enrolled in clicker training classes level 1 at rspca! I can see it is going to help a lot. I have chosen to use a word, as the trainer said the clicker can get in the way, so its a high pitched happy "pop".
Whether you click and treat or say "yes" or "pop" and treat or just shove the treat in the dog's mouth, depends what you're trying to train.
Most dogs will spit whatever they have in their mouth out, to get a treat. So teaching "leave it" or "give" or "thank you" (eg drop what you have in your mouth and give it to me), is usually as easy as saying the cue word and offering something much more delicious than what they have.
So I use a clicker if I want something really precise like lifting up one back leg. I use "yes" to let dog know she's doing what I want and she will get a treat soon. Sometimes saying that means she comes back to me for the treat or looks at me for a treat when that's not what I want, and then I will just shove the treat in her mouth without saying anything. Or throw it to the position I want her in for the reward (eg training back up - yes and throw treat between her front legs).
I'm not sure I'd want to use a clicker to train bite inhibition. You can't click for "stop that", you click for "do that". | {
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Not back to normal
The centre-right and the centre-left suffered defeat, but the markets are no longer in a panic. Yassamine Mather looks at the French ... and the Iranian presidential elections
Just two candidates left and it is not hard to guess who will win
The sense of relief in the official media and financial markets was tangible on Monday April 24. A pro-EU former investment banker who wants to reduce taxes and increase working hours had secured his position for the next round of French presidential elections. Reporters and analysts were telling us the populist trends of late 2015 and 2016 - Brexit and the election of Donald Trump - were over, the world was back to normal. Of course nothing is further from the truth. The populist extreme right Front National had secured 21 percent of the vote, while the candidates considered to be radical left - Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud - had managed to gain a similar percentage of the vote, but divided between them. The two parties which have hitherto dominated the 5th Republic1, the centre-right Republican Party and the centre-left Socialist Party will not be part of the second and final round of voting, and although Emmanuel Macron is very likely to win on May 7, two weeks is a long time in politics and the final result should not be taken for granted.
Iranians, who are comparing presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran with those in France, praise the absence of vetting of candidates by the Council of Guardians, and the fact that there is no interference by an unelected religious supreme leader in elections in Western Europe. On the face of it Iran’s presidential elections are less democratic than those in France, or, for that matter, the coming general election in the United Kingdom. However, for those blinded by the merits of bourgeois democracy, it is worth quoting Alain Badiou in how capital intervenes directly and openly in elections held in Western Europe (not to forget the enormous role of money and electoral funds in US presidential elections).
Writing in March 2017, Badiou writes:
Emmanuel Macron, for his part, is a creature brought out of nothing by our true masters, the latest capitalists, those who have bought up all the papers as a precaution. If he believes and says that Guiana is an island or that Piraeus is a man, it is because he knows that no one in his camp has ever been committed by what they said.2
It is certainly true that capital’s control of the mass media determines the news agenda, making elections remarkably biased towards the right:
The conservative and reformist orientations constitute the central parliamentarist bloc in the advanced capitalist societies:
the left and right in France, the Republicans and Democrats in the USA, etc ... conservatives and reformists a shared hegemony - mediated by the electoral machinery, the parties and their clientele - that everywhere eliminates any serious prospect of the fascists or communists holding state power. This is the dominant form of the state in what we call “the west”. This itself requires a third term, a powerful common contractual base at once both external and internal to the two main orientations. Clearly, in our societies, neoliberal capitalism is this base. Unlimited freedom of enterprise and self-enrichment, absolute respect for private property - guaranteed by the judicial system and heavy policing - confidence in the banks, youth education, competition under the cover of “democracy”, appetite for “success”, repeated assertions of the harmful and utopian character of equality: such is the matrix of the consensually agreed-upon “freedoms”.3
It is worth debating whether this form of ‘democracy’ is really superior to the one exercised in Iran’s Islamic Republic, where we also witness a matrix of consensually agreed-upon “freedoms”, albeit within the confines of a Shia version of neoliberal capital.
Going back to the French elections, who is Emmanuel Macron - this latest darling of the markets and therefore the media. Trained in the prestigious École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Macron joined the French civil service in 2004, only to leave (paying the severance fee to buy himself out of the civil service contract) in order to join the Rothschild bank as an investment banker, where he managed to make his own fortune. A member of the Socialist Party from 2006 to 2009, rising to deputy secretary-general. By 2014, no longer in the SP, he was nevertheless minister of economics in the Manuel Valls government (2014-16). Always to the right of the SP, his role was clear: he had responsibility for deregulating the French economy, showing great promise in that role, mocking his SP colleagues for ‘taxing the rich’.
By August 2016 the former ‘socialist’ economics minister was setting up his own political movement, En Marche! (Let’s Go!), “open to everyone of progressive views” and “aimed at younger voters”. Given Hollande’s poll rating in the autumn of 2016, falling to as low as 11% to 15% of the vote, Macron decided it was time to test his chances, and the press and media in France and indeed throughout Europe have given him their full backing.
Although it is likely that Macron will defeat Marine Le Pen to win the presidency, it is difficult to envisage how this victory will affect the parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18. En Marche! has no party organisation in the country’s 577 constituencies, although his ‘movement’ intends to contest many of these National Assembly seats. Macron will be faced with the unenviable task of selecting candidates from the volunteers of En Marche! He might have defeated Francois Fillon (Republican Party) and Benoit Hamon (Socialist Party) in the first round of the presidential elections, but he is unlikely to achieve a deal with either party before June.
It is amazing that the same media which assures us every day that major political figures, party leaders and heads of state must be charismatic, is so full of praise for Macron. This boring non-entity lacks any personality, clearly has no views of his own, borrows ideas from the two centre parties, Republican and Socialist, and yet is feted as the saviour of globalisation and EU, for the sole reason that the opponent, Marine Le Pen, is worse.
Of course, like the conservative extreme rightwing clerics in Iran, Marine Le Pen is worse. She represents everything we abhor: intolerance of other religions and races; narrow reactionary nationalism. In the words of Badiou: “Marine Le Pen is the modernised - and thus feminised - version of what the French far right has always been. A tireless Pétainism.” Someone who inherited the leadership of the Front National from her father, Jean Marie Le Pen, a man who believes that the “gas chambers used to kill Jews in the holocaust were only a ‘detail’ of history.” Despite her attempts to distance herself from her father, Marine Le Pen’s xenophobic language is no better than his. Yet the leader of the ‘free world’, Donald Trump, and the reactionary dictator in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, are united in supporting her candidacy in both rounds of the presidential elections, and the wonderful press and media we have don’t seem to bat an eyelid at this rather bizarre turn of events.
So, to sum up, even without a religious leader to ‘advise’ candidates if they can or cannot stand, without a guardian council vetting candidates, the next round of presidential elections in France is, even by the standards of bourgeois democracy, a very poor exercise, giving limited choice to the electorate and in many ways no better than presidential elections in Iran’s Islamic Republic. As in the May presidential elections in Iran, voters are left with a choice between bad and worse: a neoliberal capitalist candidate promising reform (Macron in France, Hassan Rouhani in Iran) and xenophobic, protectionist nationalists (Marine Le Pen in France, a range of conservative reactionaries in Iran).
We clearly need a different kind of politics if we are to rescue ourselves from the current quagmire.
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This chart on Instagram will blow your mind
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Despite having less than half of Facebook’s monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram’s top 10 accounts generate more than 6 times more interactions than Facebook’s most-engaged accounts, according to data from CrowdTangle between Nov. 17-Feb. 17.
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HAWQ devises a query plan for each query. Choosing the right query plan to match the query and data structure is necessary for good performance. A query plan defines how HAWQ will run the query in the parallel execution environment.
The query optimizer uses data statistics maintained by the database to choose a query plan with the lowest possible cost. Cost is measured in disk I/O, shown as units of disk page fetches. The goal is to minimize the total execution cost for the plan.
View the plan for a given query with the EXPLAIN command. EXPLAIN shows the query optimizer’s estimated cost for the query plan. For example:
EXPLAINSELECT*FROMnamesWHEREid=22;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE runs the statement in addition to displaying its plan. This is useful for determining how close the optimizer’s estimates are to reality. For example:
EXPLAINANALYZESELECT*FROMnamesWHEREid=22;
Note: The legacy and GPORCA query optimizers coexist in HAWQ. GPORCA is the default HAWQ optimizer. HAWQ uses GPORCA to generate an execution plan for a query when possible. The EXPLAIN output generated by GPORCA is different than the output generated by the legacy query optimizer.
When the EXPLAIN ANALYZE command uses GPORCA, the EXPLAIN plan shows only the number of partitions that are being eliminated. The scanned partitions are not shown. To show name of the scanned partitions in the segment logs set the server configuration parameter gp_log_dynamic_partition_pruning to on. This example SET command enables the parameter.
Reading EXPLAIN Output
A query plan is a tree of nodes. Each node in the plan represents a single operation, such as a table scan, join, aggregation, or sort.
Read plans from the bottom to the top: each node feeds rows into the node directly above it. The bottom nodes of a plan are usually table scan operations. If the query requires joins, aggregations, sorts, or other operations on the rows, there are additional nodes above the scan nodes to perform these operations. The topmost plan nodes are usually HAWQ motion nodes: redistribute, broadcast, or gather motions. These operations move rows between segment instances during query processing.
The output of EXPLAIN has one line for each node in the plan tree and shows the basic node type and the following execution cost estimates for that plan node:
cost —Measured in units of disk page fetches. 1.0 equals one sequential disk page read. The first estimate is the start-up cost of getting the first row and the second is the total cost of cost of getting all rows. The total cost assumes all rows will be retrieved, which is not always true; for example, if the query uses LIMIT, not all rows are retrieved.
rows —The total number of rows output by this plan node. This number is usually less than the number of rows processed or scanned by the plan node, reflecting the estimated selectivity of any WHERE clause conditions. Ideally, the estimate for the topmost node approximates the number of rows that the query actually returns.
width —The total bytes of all the rows that this plan node outputs.
Note the following:
The cost of a node includes the cost of its child nodes. The topmost plan node has the estimated total execution cost for the plan. This is the number the optimizer intends to minimize.
The cost reflects only the aspects of plan execution that the query optimizer takes into consideration. For example, the cost does not reflect time spent transmitting result rows to the client.
EXPLAIN Example
The following example describes how to read an EXPLAIN query plan for a query:
Read the plan from the bottom to the top. To start, the query optimizer sequentially scans the names table. Notice the WHERE clause is applied as a filter condition. This means the scan operation checks the condition for each row it scans and outputs only the rows that satisfy the condition.
The results of the scan operation are passed to a gather motion operation. In HAWQ, a gather motion is when segments send rows to the master. In this example, we have two segment instances that send to one master instance. This operation is working on slice1 of the parallel query execution plan. A query plan is divided into slices so the segments can work on portions of the query plan in parallel.
The estimated startup cost for this plan is 00.00 (no cost) and a total cost of 1.01 disk page fetches. The optimizer estimates this query will return one row.
Reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE Output
EXPLAIN ANALYZE plans and runs the statement. The EXPLAIN ANALYZE plan shows the actual execution cost along with the optimizer’s estimates. This allows you to see if the optimizer’s estimates are close to reality. EXPLAIN ANALYZE also shows the following:
The total runtime (in milliseconds) in which the query executed.
The memory used by each slice of the query plan, as well as the memory reserved for the whole query statement.
Statistics for the query dispatcher, including the number of executors used for the current query (total number/number of executors cached by previous queries/number of executors newly connected), dispatcher time (total dispatch time/connection establish time/dispatch data to executor time); and some time(max/min/avg) details for dispatching data, consuming executor data, and freeing executor.
The number of workers (segments) involved in a plan node operation. Only segments that return rows are counted.
The Max/Last statistics are for the segment that output the maximum number of rows and the segment with the longest <time> to end.
The segment id of the segment that produced the most rows for an operation.
For relevant operations, the amount of memory (work_mem) used by the operation. If the work_mem was insufficient to perform the operation in memory, the plan shows the amount of data spilled to disk for the lowest-performing segment. For example:
The time (in milliseconds) in which the segment that produced the most rows retrieved the first row, and the time taken for that segment to retrieve all rows. The result may omit <time> to first row if it is the same as the <time> to end.
EXPLAIN ANALYZE Example
This example describes how to read an EXPLAIN ANALYZE query plan using the same query. The bold parts of the plan show actual timing and rows returned for each plan node, as well as memory and time statistics for the whole query.
Read the plan from the bottom to the top. The total elapsed time to run this query was 19.690 milliseconds.
The Append-only scan operation had only one segment (seg0) that returned rows, and it returned just 1 row. The Max/Last statistics are identical in this example because only one segment returned rows. It took 7.053 milliseconds to find the first row and 7.089 milliseconds to scan all rows. This result is close to the optimizer’s estimate: the query optimizer estimated it would return one row for this query. The gather motion (segments sending data to the master) received 1 row. The total elapsed time for this operation was 19.690 milliseconds.
Examining Query Plans to Solve Problems
If a query performs poorly, examine its query plan and ask the following questions:
Do operations in the plan take an exceptionally long time? Look for an operation that consumes the majority of query processing time. For example, if a scan on a hash table takes longer than expected, the data locality may be low; reloading the data can increase the data locality and speed up the query. Or, adjust enable_<operator> parameters to see if you can force the legacy query optimizer (planner) to choose a different plan by disabling a particular query plan operator for that query.
Are the optimizer’s estimates close to reality? Run EXPLAIN ANALYZE and see if the number of rows the optimizer estimates is close to the number of rows the query operation actually returns. If there is a large discrepancy, collect more statistics on the relevant columns.
Are selective predicates applied early in the plan? Apply the most selective filters early in the plan so fewer rows move up the plan tree. If the query plan does not correctly estimate query predicate selectivity, collect more statistics on the relevant columns. You can also try reordering the WHERE clause of your SQL statement.
Does the optimizer choose the best join order? When you have a query that joins multiple tables, make sure that the optimizer chooses the most selective join order. Joins that eliminate the largest number of rows should be done earlier in the plan so fewer rows move up the plan tree.
If the plan is not choosing the optimal join order, set join_collapse_limit=1 and use explicit JOIN syntax in your SQL statement to force the legacy query optimizer (planner) to the specified join order. You can also collect more statistics on the relevant join columns.
Does the optimizer selectively scan partitioned tables? If you use table partitioning, is the optimizer selectively scanning only the child tables required to satisfy the query predicates? Scans of the parent tables should return 0 rows since the parent tables do not contain any data. See Verifying Your Partition Strategy for an example of a query plan that shows a selective partition scan.
Does the optimizer choose hash aggregate and hash join operations where applicable? Hash operations are typically much faster than other types of joins or aggregations. Row comparison and sorting is done in memory rather than reading/writing from disk. To enable the query optimizer to choose hash operations, there must be sufficient memory available to hold the estimated number of rows. Try increasing work memory to improve performance for a query. If possible, run an EXPLAIN ANALYZE for the query to show which plan operations spilled to disk, how much work memory they used, and how much memory was required to avoid spilling to disk. For example:
The “bytes wanted” message from EXPLAIN ANALYZE is based on the amount of data written to work files and is not exact. The minimum work_mem needed can differ from the suggested value.
Generating EXPLAIN Plan from a PL/pgSQL Function
User-defined PL/pgSQL functions often include dynamically created queries. You may find it useful to generate the EXPLAIN plan for such queries for query performance optimization and tuning.
Perform the following steps to create and run a user-defined PL/pgSQL function. This function displays the EXPLAIN plan for a simple query on a test database.
Log in to the HAWQ master node as user gpadmin and set up the HAWQ environment:
$ ssh gpadmin@hawq_master
$ . /usr/local/hawq/greenplum_path.sh
Create a test database named testdb:
$ createdb testdb
Start the PostgreSQL interactive utility, connecting to testdb:
$ psql -d testdb
Create the table test_tbl with a single column named id of type integer:
testdb=#CREATETABLEtest_tbl(idint);
Add some data to the test_tbl table:
testdb=#INSERTINTOtest_tblSELECTgenerate_series(1,100);
This INSERT command adds 100 rows to test_tbl, incrementing the id for each row.
Create a PL/pgSQL function named explain_plan_func() by copying and pasting the following text at the psql prompt:
CREATEORREPLACEFUNCTIONexplain_plan_func()RETURNSvarcharas$$declareavarchar;bvarchar;begina='';forbinexecute'explain select count(*) from test_tbl group by id'loopa=a||E'\n'||b;endloop;returna;end;$$LANGUAGEplpgsqlVOLATILE;
Verify the explain_plan_func() user-defined function was created successfully: | {
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Egypt in crisis as violence escalates
EGYPTGALLERY
A torn poster of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is caught on a military vehicle as riot police clear the area of his supporters at Rabaa Adawiya square, where the protesters had been camping, in Cairo. At least 95 Egyptians were killed in ongoing clashes. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Morsi throw stones at riot police and the army during clashes around the area of Rabaa Adawiya square. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Morsi supporters throw stones at security forces during clashes in streets around Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in the Nasr City district of Cairo. Photograph: Narciso Contreras/The New York Times
Fire, smoke and debris. Photograph: Narciso Contreras/The New York Times
A melee of pro-Morsi supporters throwing stones. Photograph: Narciso Contreras/The New York Times
Morsi supporters take cover near the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in the Nasr City district. Photograph: Narciso Contreras/New York Times
Protesters face off against the security forces around the area of Rabaa Adawiya square. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Riot police and soldiers take up positions during clashes with stone-throwing members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi supporters around the area of Rabaa Adawiya square. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
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HippyDippy...The day before I first felt my hip pain (left); I felt a pain in my left ab while running/golf. Almost like a cramp. Since than it hasn't gone away; but seemed to calm down when the left hip is doing better. Hoping it's related to the tear.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while but I too was on vacation. I was able to walk a lot, hike, and wasn't even sore!! I'm pretty much back to my normal life until the next one in 6 weeks. But considering how fast I was 90% recovered (3 months), I'm not too worry to get the other side done. I updated the blog with a short post and hope everyone else is doing well!
Hi, new to this forum, and looking for some guidance from so many well informed posters. Here is background : 43y/o male, right hip cam removal (small debridement) no arthritis, operation 25 Aug 2012. Now 9.5 weeks post op. last few weeks seem to have shown a decline, was going ok and walking unaided after 3 weeks, with some mild pain, but seemed to be improving until week5, since then, sharp pin in the groin crease walking up stairs, similar pain increasing with duration when walking, starts after about 1minute. Twinging/pulling on the inner thigh wall near groin, and hip flexor discomfort. Limited ROM both internal(worse) and external rotation. Spoke to surgeon who asked me to return to rehab week one for 2 weeks, anti inflams and crutches, no weight, Am I just stiff ? Started hydro therapy 5 days ago, 2nd session yesterday and I would feel the intensity and pain in groin during the session, somewhat sore today, in all pof the above areas, have applied a groin brace and that relieves it a little. Sorry about the dump, just trying to make sense of it all, any info gratefully received.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by the heat:Hi, new to this forum, and looking for some guidance from so many well informed posters. Here is background : 43y/o male, right hip cam removal (small debridement
Hi, hang in there. I think all of us have had ups and downs. As soon as we feel good we all do too much!
I wonder if your psoas is playing up? Mine got really tight and I got bad pain exactly where you said, plus some hip flexor inflammation for good measure. Maybe try icing and speak to your PT about stretches.
I am sure Mrs LAF, EllaW and others will have some words of wisdom based on their experience.
Try not to worry too much, healing does take a while especially, it seems, if you are over 30 (being over 40 as well I can say that!!)KXCKXC
the Heat: welcome to the forum!first off, you are probably sick of hearing it, but 9.5 wks is still early in orthopaedic terms, so try not to panic just yet!sometimes we can do the initially healing relatively quickly but then level off.that said, it does sound very similar to the ongoing problem i have with Psoas.it is possible that during the surgery, your tendon was irriated which is causing you the pain-but it could also be tendinitis.I had a THR in July but still have chronic psoas tendinitis which causes great pain.did your surgeon inspect both compartments during the operation? (if not then he/she might have missed the tendinitis.)my surgeon is Mr Villar, and when he did my 2nd scope, he had a good look round the whole hip and found loads wrong.
the best advice i can give is to get yourself a wheat pillow and heat it up in the microwave. it is by far the best way to aleviate the pulling in the groin and if you use heat before settling for the night, i find that it tends to calm things down a bit before disrupting sleep!
also-if you are able, try stretching the groin slowly by kneeling on the affected side with the other leg bent with the foot flat on the floor. lean into the good leg, and it should stretch the capsule and the psoas.
i hope this has helped some,and please let us know how you are doing.Laura
KXC: wow heals??i am too scared to even try heals!lolwhich is a shame as i have the most amazing collection of pretty shoes!but since the injury happened, i have felt so un-feminine and instead of wanting to dress up and look good, i opt for being warm, comfortable and where possible pain free. (with the result that most of the time i look like the michelin man!)
i'm almost 4months out from my THR now, and mostly things are awesome! my mobility is like 1 million times better than pre op. The only thing bugging me is psoas (and the worsening of the 'good' hip )maybe i will be bionic before i am 30!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrsLAF:KXC: wow heals??i am too scared to even try heals!lolwhich is a shame as i have the most amazing collection of pretty shoes!
Well by heals I mean about 5cm!! Not exacty sky scrapers, but at 5ft 2 every cm helps! I don't do very high...
I know what you mean about being warm and comfy. I spent all last winter in Uggs (+ orthotics before anyone shouts about lack of support for your feet) and fleecey trousers! There are some advantages about surgery in autumn, no summer dresses and crutches (sorry Snowpants, I think that was you)!
For my naughty psoas I found lying on my back on a table, good leg into chest and then drop you bad leg off the end of the table really helped. Hold for about 30sec twice a day (not too much or you make the tendinitis worse). When I started this my leg hardly moved down, now it will go to the hoizontal and I can bring my foot back towards my bum.
Santinello - I've never had anything like that burning you describe. The other hip problem sounds just as you guessed, like the first hip is now overcompensating for the second hip.
MrsLAF - I love reading your posts but I wish your hips would just get better. You are so young to be going through all of this.
Cris - 3 miles, amazing.
Megan - wow, fantastic progress. So happy for you!
Heat - I had my hip done 2 weeks before yours. Having very similar problems, incredible roller coaster. I rarely see my surgeon; my PTs handle the interim problems. They tell me the roller coaster is normal for most people and to be patient. I started out with a lot of damage, so I started at a real disadvantage.
That pulling on the inner thigh might be the adductors, which is a recurring problem for me. I get weekly deep tissue massage as well as PT to help with it. I also back off on PT when everything flares up. You may not be able to tolerate the half-kneel on the op leg (I cannot, on my worst days). I also have a lot of trouble with the Thomas stretch that kxc mentioned - it is very uncomfortable.
Goodness, I wish I had gotten this surgery done earlier, when the hip was not so destroyed...but I was trying to avoid surgery! My recovery feels painfully slow.
Originally posted by the heat:Hi, new to this forum, and looking for some guidance from so many well informed posters. Here is background : 43y/o male, right hip cam removal (small debridement) no arthritis, operation 25 Aug 2012. Now 9.5 weeks post op. last few weeks seem to have shown a decline, was going ok and walking unaided after 3 weeks, with some mild pain, but seemed to be improving until week5, since then, sharp pin in the groin crease walking up stairs, similar pain increasing with duration when walking, starts after about 1minute. Twinging/pulling on the inner thigh wall near groin, and hip flexor discomfort. Limited ROM both internal(worse) and external rotation. Spoke to surgeon who asked me to return to rehab week one for 2 weeks, anti inflams and crutches, no weight, Am I just stiff ? Started hydro therapy 5 days ago, 2nd session yesterday and I would feel the intensity and pain in groin during the session, somewhat sore today, in all pof the above areas, have applied a groin brace and that relieves it a little. Sorry about the dump, just trying to make sense of it all, any info gratefully received.
I had exactly the same thing at the 5 week mark, which both my physio and surgeon had warned would be the case. Basically your body goes into a degree of shock post-operation, which then subsides a few weeks later...at which your body wakes up to the fact it's undergone major surgery, and goes back into defensive mode, ie, tightening up and sending pain signals.
I'm the same age as you, and am now 10 months post-op. I'm pretty much doing most of what I could before, but easing off on the high impact stuff like sprinting. Every now and then I get twinges and aches and pains, but that's about it.
Thanks to everyone for the info much appreciated, I have tried the Thomas stretch and it seemed to work, almost immediately alleviating a chunk of the discomfort and allowing me a bit more hip movement, I then tried to walk up stairs unaided and got the groin pain straight away.
One step at a time me thinks (no pun intended). I think the pain is definitely related to that group of muscles. I just need to find the key to unlocking them properly.
I was getting deep massage from physio, and that felt good immediately afterwards, with much improved ROM, only to later return to being inflexible. Perhaps the Psoas stretches and deep massage combined will be the solution.
Hi all! Writing from my trusty hospital bed. Had a total hip replacement Monday, going home today. My OS used the SuperPATH method. My incision site hurts & it's bruised, but my right foot now points forward not to the side, and my 3" leg difference is gone! So the THR isn't that horrible, will keep posting as I gain strength. My OS says I will run again, & I will jump my horse too. We'll see!Oh Angela-don't forget the Game Ready ice machine, 'twas my best friend through all my knee & hip surgeries.
Originally posted by mpkbhicks:Hi all! Writing from my trusty hospital bed. Had a total hip replacement Monday, going home today. My OS used the SuperPATH method. My incision site hurts & it's bruised, but my right foot now points forward not to the side, and my 3" leg difference is gone! So the THR isn't that horrible, will keep posting as I gain strength. My OS says I will run again, & I will jump my horse too. We'll see!Oh Angela-don't forget the Game Ready ice machine, 'twas my best friend through all my knee & hip surgeries.
yay!welcome to the THR crowd!im so happy that your leg length difference has gone, and hope you recover as well as I did.sorry to hear your incision site hurts-mine did for a few weeks after, and once the numbing had gone, it is hurting a lot more now because it is cold.
Well, the cold weather will soon be here, if you don't have it already.... Time to wrap up, put the fire on and disapear under the blankets with - pick as approrpriate - book, wine, chocolate,cat, nice cup of tea.....
Snowpants, sorry to hear about your ongoing issues, I am slowly improving, thanks to the folks on this board and some hydrotherapy, if you haven't done that as part of your Post Op rehab then try and get on it, my OS put me on it (albeit some time after my initial rehab wasnt going so well) and I can really feel the benefit, I am getting this in Glasgow, so if it has reached here then it must be where you are The stretches are borderline painful and I am sore for a couple of days after, but it does seem to be working. Good luck with your choice of cold weather comfort from kxc320
I am getting this in Glasgow, so if it has reached here then it must be where you are The stretches are borderline painful and I am sore for a couple of days after, but it does seem to be working. Good luck with your choice of cold weather comfort from kxc320
Glasgow - brrrrrr! Buckinghamshire is cold enough!!! Enjoy the snow. At least the pool will be warm.
Hi MrsLAFI am 1 year and 1 day out from surgery and am finally not thinking about my hip every day. I am still aware of it and need to be kind it to, but mostly I can do what I want (no running though).
I managed to wear heels (about 5cm) for a blacktie party and thankfully my hip did not complain.
My good hip has started to give me reminders that it is there - pain on the front of my hip just below my hip bone - what's that all about?? Hopefully that will go away!
How is Scotland - have you got snow? We had a sprinkling on the roof last weekend- very unusual for Buckinghamshire.
Wow this morning I was laying on my side (the operated hip was under me) and when I moved my other leg that yes has problems too, it was popping and catching like crazy. ugghhh so frustrating to have hip dysplasia and know I am going to need two THR's in my life.
Glad to hear you are doing well Laura! When is your check up again or have I missed it?
I know I have mentioned I am doing a medical research survey on my operated hip for Mayo but the odd thing is I got another survey from them and this time it was from my first doc the one that did the arthroscopic failed surgery. Well I didn't fill it out because it really doesn't pertain to me any more because I had to have corrective surgery because of it so I tossed it with a few drunken sailor words to go with it. lol
Hi everyone! I am doing fine. I re-started personal training last Friday and that was hard on my weakened muscles, despite it being a watered down version... I think I just need a couple of days of rest to recover from the added stress.
Hoping that I can keep doing personal training once a week, I am down to once a week for physical therapy.
Originally posted by the heat:EllaW, you should have completed it, I recon we need more info on who are the good and bad OSs. Sorry to hear about the popping, sure its the hip and not the tendons, they can make the same noise ?
MrsLAF, woop woop to you, there must be something in the water up here that degenerates the hip joint
kxc, no snow in the West, plenty of rain that you can take away if you wish Got brother in Thurleigh, Beds, quite close to Bucks.
Hope everyone progressing well, any updates ?
The survey was as if I hadn't had the open hip surgery though so I am just guessing it was a mistake on their part to send it to me. Nope the popping and catching are the same things I had on the operated hip and I knew from the MRI's and Xrays that both hips are going to need work done.
We are getting tons of dreary, wet days here too, can't wait for a sunny day!
Hello all! One week post-op from SuperPATH Total Hip Replacement. Had surgery afternoon of 10/29, was home morning of 10/31! Used a walker till Saturday, now on crutches, no issues getting in or out of cars, no limp, no pain meds except over the counter Tylenol. I had a 3" leg length difference, my OS said if I had waited another month or so the femur would have shattered or the pelvis crumbled and we would've had a whole new set of problems!
So, be aware that if you are dragging the whole injured side of your body (even if it doesn't hurt) see your OS at least once a month for rapid degradation!
I have an extensive history, you can click on my name and read all my older posts. Just wanted folks to know you can find a solution to your pain and inability to be mobile! I'll keep posting updates as they come.
Originally posted by kxc320:Hi MrsLAFI am 1 year and 1 day out from surgery and am finally not thinking about my hip every day. I am still aware of it and need to be kind it to, but mostly I can do what I want (no running though).
I managed to wear heels (about 5cm) for a blacktie party and thankfully my hip did not complain.
My good hip has started to give me reminders that it is there - pain on the front of my hip just below my hip bone - what's that all about?? Hopefully that will go away!
How is Scotland - have you got snow? We had a sprinkling on the roof last weekend- very unusual for Buckinghamshire.
How is you hip doing? Is "work" playing ball with you?
KXC
thats awesome that you managed to wear nice shoes without your hip complaining!i am still too scared to try high heeled shoes we havent had any snow in Edinburgh yet, but my brother only just got back from holiday as Aberdeen airport was closed for a while due to snow.I also have front of hip pain on on my other side and although it isn't there all the time, it can get really intense. boooo.
I'm doing ok. only need to keep seeing my rehab instructor for another 4wks as they dont think i'll gain anything as have recovered from my THR so quickly.i still jhave chronic tendinitis but that is something that will hopefully settle by itself, although i have been waiting for it to do so for years!lol.x
EllaW: im sorry about the catching honey-was it really painful too?I would have used the first surgeon's survey to tell him exactly what i thought of his attempt at surgery-i agree that more people should know that he didn't help you, and if anything made you worse.i really hope you get an easier time soon.my next follow up is on 21st November, and my mum is going to come with me and do some christmas shopping in Cambridge!I really want to get started on the diagnostics for the other hip as its getting worse every week.i was on the rower machine in the gym, and whilst my THR was completely fine, i got a really intense burning deep down in the groin on my other side. i had to stop rowing and go back on the bike
The heat: lol!i got injured during service in the Army. I'm still in, but being medically discharged in april. matter of interest-which surgeon do you use up here?
Well I had my surgery on 10/25, it went very smooth and I stayed overnight in the hospital which was great. Postoperative Diagnosis: Cam lesion anterolateral femoral head and neck with intact acetabular and femoral head cartilage and intact acetabular labrum.Procedure: Left hip arthroplasty, synovectomy and femoral head and neck osteoplasty.My stitches were removed on Monday 11/5 and I start physical therapy on 11/12. My question is should I still have the same "feels like I have a pulled groin muscle" and clicking noise with certain movements or is this normal and I am just rushing things? I do have crutches that I use but am ok if I dont use them for short distances or a limited amount of time. At night I am more achey and usually fall asleep with ice. My goal is to be in better shape than presurgery but how am I to do that with the same pain?
Hi Angela, that was what I felt like when I came out and the clicking noise can go hand in hand with the groin pain, once you start PT you should be advised to get stretching and increasing Range of movement, you will start to notice a big difference when you start doing that. I certainly did, especially when told to do the PASOA stretch by MrsLAF and KXC on this board.
Mrs LAF, I started off seeing a guy caled Colin Walker, but he said his speciality was knees and told me to go to Sanjeev Patil, I got my procedure done by him, I should have perhaps shopped around a little more on reflection, however, post op he put me in the hands of my own PT on dry land, but hes now taken charge of my PT since things werent progressing great in the first 8 weeks (I'm now in week 11), hes the hip specialist at Rosshall and Glasgow Southern General, hes got me in for hydrotherapy and has his team of PTs taking care and advising me, I now feel I am making progress. As for the op itself, went smoothly, cam removal on right femoral neck, some debridement, not much though.
All I would ad is that the symptoms of popping adductors and groin strain with hip flexor ache I still have, and had pre op, so recon my issue, although it showed a definate cam on the femor on Xray and MRI, was more psoas and hip flexor muscle group related, I suspect that I may have jumped into the operation instead of really working hard on my Range of movement, which I now am. Time will tell. Hope that helps
Anglea!im so glad to hear that your surgery went ok. i bet it is a load off your mind-not to be worrying about the surgery anymore.I would say that the groin pain is pretty normal at this stage as its still very early days in the recovery process.just take each day as it comes, and dont be surprised or disappointed if you have the odd bad day. my surgeon always told me that it is normal to peak and trough for anything up to 6-8wks after surgery, depending on the type of surgery you have.good luck with your PT, and please let us know how you get on!x
the heat: how long had you had hip pain before opting for the surgery?i spent 2.5yrs prior to my THR working on ROM and strengthening exercises but it made no difference at all.if you are feeling better than you did pre op, then maybe the surgery was the right option after all?its good that you found a surgeon who is committed just as much to your aftercare.
Hi everyone!For those of you in the cooler climates and those of you here in Chicago with me....do you all find that you have more pain/stiffness on cold mornings? I am now 10 weeks post-op on rt hip and 6 weeks post-op on left. Went to a new PT today and loved him! Did some nice stretching and ROM. Said he can get me walking less like a penguin in a few weeks. Very promising =) He also said in time (maybe several weeks) he can get me on the alter G treadmill so I can slowly get my hips back into running. I've ALWAYS wanted to try one of those. Hopefully I will feel good enough by early next year?
I wanted to thank everyone for the prep recommendations. They were very helpful. I am now 2 weeks post op. I surprisingly only needed labral debridement. Which meant I was only on crutches for 7 days. It really hasnt been too bad. I'm still home from work and will take off at least 1 more week. I'm doing well with around the houses daily tasks. I can shower, cook, wash dishes, etc. I just can't grocery shop or carry anything yet. I started PT just this week. I'm finding out just how tight I now am mainly in the lower ab/psoas region. I have decent Hip ROM and was able to put on socks by 5 days post op. I'm debilitated though for sure after sitting on the couch for 2 weeks. I took my first walk just around the blOck today and was exhausted after. Both upper glutes needed ice after as did my hamstring on the non surgery side. Just wondering if anyone else also had just labral debridement and if so how lOng it took to walk a mile pain free? Also when did you return to work? I'm dreading it as its a block walk from our parking lot. And I hate office chairs and slumping over a desk all day PRE op I can't imagine how my h I'll hate it now. Also girls did you need to find new non heel shoes plus I guess shorter pants post op? I don't think I can stand shopping yet!
Hi JillPIts great to hear you are up and about. Do try to rest up when you can, healing takes a while. You are right about sitting at work - it is not comfortable.
To answer the heel question - yes, low heels are the thing to wear. Ideally something with some padding in the heel to help cushion each step. I have just managed 5cm heels, for 1 night, a year after my surgery (ligamentum teres removal and labral repair).
Hi all, I have had this surgery twice for labral tears, right hip 8 years ago aged 22, left hip four years ago. Both surgeries were debridement of tear. With the right hip I was in severe pain before and after and used crutches for six months post op. I kept activity levels very low and pain gradually lessened after that and by twelve months I was slowly getting to a point of being pain free. Four years on I had the same injury in the left hip, not quite as painful, but still pretty bad. I had the same surgery and again had slow recovery, with similar pain to before surgery. Unfortunately I now own a coffee shop so had to be back on my feet after six weeks. Perhaps because of this the left hip has never settled properly and four years on is still very niggly. Having said that I function okay most of the time, can't run but ride and sometimes even race pushbikes with usually bearable pain levels. Final note is that after 6 almost completely pain free years my right hip has started hurting again, not as bad as first injury but when it twinges it is nasty. I am currently tossing up whether to have a second surgery on both hips in the hope of improving them, but given my need to be on my feet pretty quickly I'm not keen- I think the conservative rehab definitely got the better long term result, something my physio agrees with. Apparently 10-12 months is pretty normal for full recovery, don't believe a word the surgeon says about mountain climbing after 6 weeks...
the whole thing really started maybe 2 years back, had, groin and hip pain, eventually had an MRI for it and the diag was Osteitus pubis, it settled after a few months of non activity post MRI. So I was out for a good while, started running really easy mid 2011, and in October cranked up the mileage (for me) to about 50 miles a week, but there was still lingering discomfort in the groin, got to the point by Jan 2012 I had to reduce the mileage, down to 3-4runs per week, but it really wasnt getting better, all came to a head after an 8mile blow out at my running club on 1st March, could not walk day after (hip flexor and groin pain unbearable) and been unable to run since.I spent about 8 weeks with PT after with no real gains, the pain settled but I could not run, and internal rotation was painful. so eventually when thru the Orthapedic surgeon route.
Hi Glen, wow, you must have been one of the pioneers of this tyoe of surgery. The labral tearing and subsequent debridement can often be the result of something else, like a CAM, I am assuming you did not have anything like that show up in the MRI (with contrast) as simple debridement would not have got to the core of your issue ?
From what I have read elsewhere the choice of surgeon seems to be particularly relevant to the success of these procedures, and I have read of several people going in for successful follow up ops on there affected hips.
I suppose you need a complete re-assessment. That would be my plan if I were your age.
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