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Passion Is Evil
There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force.
The Jedi Code, Star Wars
Peace is a lie.
There is only passion.
Through passion I gain strength,
Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory.
Through victory my chains are broken.
The Force shall set me free.
The Sith Code, Star Wars
In Speculative Fiction, whenever there are two innate forces at work (usually Good Versus Evil or Order Versus Chaos), the "Light" side (that is, the heroic side) will be transcendent, calm and rational; the "Dark" side (the antagonistic side) will be passionate, impulsive and chaotic. Rarely are the two inversed, with the good side being the emotional one and the evil side being the indifferent.
Related to Villains Act, Heroes React, although that particular trope is more about how the events of the story are motivated by the villain's actions. Also, do not confuse with Ambition Is Evil, in which you can tell the good guys from the bad guys because the bad guys are the one who want to change the Status Quo. This trope is specifically about when there are two metaphysical forces in opposition and one of them motivates through passion and emotion and the other through peace and enlightenment.
Tends to be a common trait for a Strawman Emotional. May invoke a Superpowered Evil Side and, inversely, a Helpless Good Side.
Compare Emotions vs. Stoicism and Harmony Vs Discipline.
Contrast Straw Vulcan, Japanese Spirit.
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• Gurren Lagann inverts this. The villains are stoic and depressed. The heroes are Hot-Blooded. That is a very understated way of saying it.
• In Naruto, it is later revealed that the Kyuubi (Nine-Tails) gains his power from Naruto's hatred and despair. Or rather, those emotions make it easier for him to take control. Even later, it's revealed that strong emotions are the "curse" of the Uchiha clan, and that feeling strong emotions, then suddenly losing them, is what creates the Sharingan.
• X-Men: Several Face Heel Turns are caused by emotional overload throughout the series—but the most shining example is the Dark Phoenix. This is the explanation for Dark Phoenix—the result of the Hellfire Club feeding decadent and hedonistic desires to the Phoenix Force.
• A frequent theme in the Green Lantern mythos. Especially when the Guardians became despotic and started condemning emotions and the other Lantern Corps turned up as Foils. Essentially, the Green Lanterns are in the "center" of the light spectrum (Willpower) and so they're the most stoic. Red Lanterns and Star Sapphires represent Rage and Love, specifically, and since their colors are on the far ends, their emotions control them. The more powerful the emotion, the more it controls the Lantern.
• Star Wars, of course. The Light and Dark sides of the force tend to play this trope completely straight, although how true this plays out is a case of Depending on the Writer. According to several sources (including George Lucas himself), the Light Side is not merely dull apathy and cold indifference; it's supposed to be all positive synergy and symbiosis that makes the galaxy a better place. Things like love, romance, friendship, and peaceful ambitions are supposed to embody the Light Side just as much as hatred, lust, competition, and violence embody the Dark. This is not how it plays out, normally.
• Inverted in The World's End. The Blanks and humans who have been subjugated by them tend to be Stepford Smilers; not emotionless, per se, but certainly not passionate. Whereas the protagonists are (at least by the end), very passionate, especially Gary King, who verges on manic.
Live-Action TV
• Vulcans in Star Trek definitely believe this. Their race happens to have vast emotions which they must completely clamp down, lest they all become raging psychotics.
• In many religions, Angels, or an equivalent good side, embody purity and self-restraint, while Demons, or equivalent evil side, embody sexual, violent, and greedy desires.
• In Buddhism, "Dukkha" (suffering) is directly linked to passions such as greed, physical lust and anger. One of the Four Noble Truths is to recognize these as the causes of suffering and take proper action (meditation, moderation, and moral behavior) to correct them.
Tabletop Games
• In the Street Fighter universe, the Dark Hadou (or Satsui no Hadou in original Japanese) is the surge of violent emotion that drives the nameless martial art used by Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Dan and Gouken. The more fiercely and passionately one fights, the easier it is to become lost to the Satsui no Hadou. According to some sources, merely attempting to use the Raging Demon (Shun Goku Satsu) forever alters the personality of the user and drives them insane. Akuma is the first and only known person to use it and remain some lucidity (although not completely unchanged).
"We're more alike than I'd like to admit."
• In the EverQuest series, each god rules over a different physical or emotional domain, and all are clearly defined as Good, Evil, or Neutral. Among the evil gods are Cazic Thule and his daughter Terris Thule, who controls fear and nightmares, and Tholux Paells, the Demi-god of Lust. Among the good gods are Erollisi Marr is the goddess of Love and Quellious the god of Peace and Tranquility. An interesting note is that the extremely evil Rallos Zek, god of War, created Sullon Zek, Demi-goddess of rage and anger. Sullon herself and her domain are considered neutral.
• In The Elder Scrolls series, you have deities called the Aedra and Daedra. The Aedra represent aspects such as Time, Life, Beauty, Commerce and Air—all natural things which have little to do with emotions. The Daedra, however, represent things like Deceit, Desires, Knowledge, Competition, The Spurned, Ambition, Manipulation, Madness, Domination, etc—or things sparked or perpetuated by emotions.
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Witch Doctor vs Monk
I've been preaching to my friends for sometime on how I planned on playing the Witch Doctor.. Well while waiting on (error 37) I've been contemplating on how effective a Monk would be in PvP, espically against a Witch Doctor. Does anyone know how these fights have been taking place between the two classes?
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I don't think a WD would do well, they would have to fight without any pets since a monk could use them as punching bag batteries for free spirit.
Edited by Conq#6159 on 5/15/2012 5:00 AM PDT
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idk, if you are good at the WD maybe. but i didn't play a monk and never did pvp yet but well see
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Basically we won't know. The footage from Blizzcon was ancient and a lot of changes have been made since then, however Witch Doctors where basically wrecking everyone. 90% of the kills came from Poison Dart and usually a combination of Hex as well. But like I said, I think they nerfed Dart since then, and we have to wait for PvP to come at a later date.
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I havent really been to active this past month....sorry bout that yall. Well E3 is well under way and so far every system looks really cool. The big question for today though is the Revolution. A lot of speculation is going on for today and I am so so pumped....I hope something big is announced. Well it seems like a lot of stuff is just exploding onto the internet about the revolution and Nintendos big announcements for today. One guyz blog has been in the center of all the speculation check it out....
There is speculation as to the controller still and this pic is adding fuel to the fire. It looks strange but cool. Could the big annoncement be about the controller??? Who knows...nobody knows for sure. It can be anything....and thats what is keeping people on there toes. It just seems like Nintendos presentation was just a lil BLAH for everyone. People are even speculating on the lack of a revolutionary conference. People are saying that Nintendo is doing this on purpose in order to catch everyone off guard for the final E3 conference.
A link to a mock video that has surfaced on the Net is at the end of the paragraph....everyone saying it is fake but it couldve been let out on purpose....thats a possibility. The video shows the history on Nintendo then it shows the actual product. Nintendo On. Its a weird but cool looking helmet that puts the gamer inside of the game....if this video was in some way real or had some truth to it then I must say that it is pretty damn cool and exciting. This video is all part of the whole specualtion trend going on in the last couple of days since E3 started. I feel that its not just coincidence. The game web sites ...are acting very fishy when it comes to the revolution...so is the actual Nintendo web site....a lot of pics that are being put up on the Net....the words that Reggie slipped in during his conference speech did not go unoticed. The pic is a fake but the image of the headset is what the video version looked like.....check out the video and see for yourself.
The one thing for sure....or as far as we know is for sure...is the revolution pics. The revolution was revealed a few days ago. It looks cool but it also looks like its not complete or as if it is missing something....besides the controller. Could this be a ploy set up by Nintendo or is this just part of what will make the Revolution revolutionary!!! We shall see....I think it lookse sweet either way.Whatever happens today I am sure Nintendo is going to come out on fire. As far as the speculation goes .....well that is expected but there is just something in the air in the Nintendo camp....and it seems like that are gearing up to shock people today....I am ready to be shocked.
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The 360 and the PS3.........Both look pretty sweet I am leaning more over towards the 360. So far nothing suprising about the PS3 or the 360 ...just whateveryone has come to expect of xbox and playstation....a very powerfull system. If I were to predict which systems I would end up buying I would predict the XboX 360 and the Revolution. God its good to be a gamer in this day and age :-)
As a long time Nintendo fan I am pulling for Nintendo to shock the world.....Nintendo has come so far a Nintendo Revolution is on the horizon. I think both look pretty cool all though the PS3 does resemble a futuristic garbage can......other than that I think all the systems are looking very promising and I cant wait to get my hands on em. So lets see what Nintendo has in store for today shall we!!!
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1. I didn't sleep too well, either. Probably doesn't help that I was typing and working on an essay... :I
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3. ... This is true. But if I were to honestly answer such questions, three years ago and I cannot take any sort of pain. But back to such a subject. How do you do?
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Apple History: The Evolution of Apple Notebooks
The history of Apple is always facinating to me, the evolution of the notebook in particular, so I decided to take a closer look at how the portable computer has evolved over the years…
Apple has had a long history of producing great notebook computers. In fact, the first Powerbook is credited with being the birth of the modern notebook….but their first steps into the Portable Computer market were less than successful.
Let’s take a look at the evolution of Apple’s innovative portable computing line…
The Macintosh Portable (1989)
macintosh_portable.jpg This 15.8 pound monster of a “portable” machine was released in 1989 to a generally positive reception from critics, but very poor sales numbers. The system had a black and white active-matrix LCD screen which was fitted inside a hinged cover that closed over the keyboard when not in use.
It also featured a full sized keyboard, trackball mouse, and 10 hours of battery life…but the heavy machine failed to win the hearts of consumers (due in no small part to its $6,500 price tag) and was discontinued in 1991.
Powerbooks 100 Series (1991)
apple_powerbook_150.jpg Apple quickly learned from the mistakes it made with the Portable Macintosh, and in early 1991 three Powerbook computers were released. The Powerbook 100, 140 and 170 caused a stir when they hit the market for their stylish casing, use of a trackball, and the positioning of the keyboard.
The Powerbook was the first notebook computer to position the keyboard close to the display, leaving room for palm rests and the trackball at the bottom of the device. This innovation is has become the standard for notebook computers, and continues to be used today.
The Powerbook 100 series featured a variety of upgraded during its run from 1991-1994, but the line struggled to keep up with competitors who had adopted the systems designs due to overheating issues with some of the hardware. As a result, the systems were released with improvements like color screens and other minor additions, but by 1994 the 100 series was showing its age.
Powerbook 500 Series (1994)
540.jpg The Powerbook 500 series was a temporary shot in the arm to the line, and also introduced some innovative features that we now find common on all notebook computers.
The systems were sleeker and faster than their predecessors, featured active-matrix LCD display, stereo sound, and two firsts for notebooks…built in Ethernet, and a trackpad.
The move to the PowerPC chip Ultimately shortened the lifespan of the 500 series, as Apple moved forward to newer models.
Powerbook 5300 Series (1995)
5300.GIF Dubbed the “Hindenbook” by some due to a problem with exploding batteries that resulted in a recall, the Powerbook 5300 is considered by most to be the worst computer Apple has ever shipped.
Many of the units arrived DOA, and users continually reported problems with the notebooks, causing Apple to issue a warranty extension by up to 4 years on some machines.
This was Apple’s first new notebook to feature the Power PC processor.
Powerbook 1400 (1996)
powerbook_1400cs_133.jpg Apple quickly recouped, and introduced the Powerbook 1400 in November of 1996. This replacement for the terrible Powerbook 5300, while ultimately the low-end option for Powerbook owners, was innovative for a variety of reasons.
It was the first notebook to feature a “built-in: CD-Rom drive (although the drive was part of a swappable module, and could be replaced with a Zip Drive). The notebook also featured a lid which included a cover for storing papers, business cards, and sheets with patterns purchasable from Apple.
Powerbook 3400 (1997)
powerbook3400.jpg In Feb. of the following year, Apple introduced the higher end Powerbook 3400…which was briefly the fast notebook in the world.
This Powerbook was the first to feature PCI architecture, EDO memory, and a 64-bit wide internal bus.
The model lasted until November of 1997.
It was quickly overshadowed by Apple’s next notebook release.
Powerbook G3 (1998)
powerbook_g3_pismo.jpg Part of the first wave of products released after Steve Jobs’ return to the helm of Apple, the Powerbook G3 debuted at approximately the same time as the original iMac. This sleek notebook took its design ques from the earlier 500 series, making it a stylish device that was as pretty to look at, as it was to operate.
The original G3 spawned two successors in the line, including the “Lombard” in 1999, and the “Prismo” in 2000. Both machines shared the same basic design as the original, but where lighter and featured different internal parts.
The iBook (1999)
clamshell-ibook.gif At Macworld in 1999, Steve Jobs shocked the world by introducing the clamshell designed iBook. One of the key innovations of the iBook, was that it was the first mainstream computer ever to be designed and sold with internal wireless networking.
The unorthodoxed design of the machine made the media stand up and take notice, and the line was a commercial success.
It did, however, create internal debate among long time Mac fans, earning the name “Toilet Seat” in some circles based on its design. This first generation design continued to be upgraded internally until 2000, when it was replaced by a new model.
200px-ibook_g4.jpg In 2001, the iBook recieved an upgrade and redesign. The new iBook did not have the clamshell casing of its predecessor. Instead, the new iBook featured a sleek, white, slim-line polycarbonate shell.
This look inspired countless other products, including the iPod, and was well received from critics and consumers alike.
In October 2003, the iBook received its final major upgrade…this time in the form of a G4 processor. The design remained the same.
Powerbook G4 (2000)
180px-powerbook_redjar.jpg When the Powerbook was redesigned for the final time, it came with a titanium skin, and a widescreen display. The device was billed as “the first supercomputer you can actually take with you on an airplane.” The system was light, and had better battery life than most of its contemporaries.
This version of the Powerbook made professional production in a variety of media truly mobile on the Mac platform for the first time. The systems were updated in 2003 with a new anodized aluminium casing, and screen sizes of up to 17″. With DVD burning capability, tons of hard drive storage, and enough power to edit movie and music like never before, this was a truly a POWERbook.
The line continued until 2006, and the name Powerbook was retired when Apple moved over to Intel based processors.
Macbook Series (2006)
product-15in-1.jpg The Macbook line was introduced in May of 2006. The Macbook replaced the iBook, and the Macbook Pro replaced the Powerbook. These systems remained similar to their predecessors. Every model includes an iSight camera built-in, and a magnetic latch mechanism.
The Macbook and Macbook Pro notebook computers are some of the most powerful portable computers available, and (thanks to the Intel processors) can also run Windows and Linux operating systems in addition to Mac OS X.
The Future
It is uncertain what the future holds for Apple’s notebook computers. It has long been speculated that Apple might introduce a TabletMac, or possibly something featuring the multi-touch interface introduced in the iPhone…but all of that is simply speculation.
One thing that is certain is that Apple will continue to innovate as they have with their notebooks from the beginning.
1. Not to forget the PowerBook Duo series ( Their elegant docking system has still to be bettered in terms of software integration, by Windows laptops…
2. I still use my g3 wallstreet ironically as a stock ticker
3. I’m a sucker for historical stuff like this. Thanks for the nice read.
4. HEY!;), can i nget the history of the apple mac notebooks
5. please give me one leptop in white coler
6. Nice write up. Just a small correction, IBM’s ThinkPad 755CD featured an integrated CD-ROM drive two years before the Powerbook 1400.
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by Stephen E. Ambrose
In 1972 Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States. To a large degree, McGovern's candidacy was based upon opposition to the war raging in South Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Richard Nixon, the incumbent President, had been elected in 1968 with a promise to end the war. Four years later that promise was unfulfilled. McGovern's antiwar campaign brought strong opposition from many veterans and the organizations to which they belonged. When McGovern appeared before such groups, his reception was less than enthusiastic. That veterans viewed Senator McGovern with such disdain was ironic. In truth, he was one of them. In 1944 and 1945 Senator McGovern flew 35 missions as a B-24 bomber pilot over Europe. But for the military policy limiting missions, the number would have been larger.
Renowned historian and author Stephen Ambrose is a 30-year friend of Senator McGovern. THE WILD BLUE: The B-24s Over Germany was originally a project commenced by a different author. Ambrose took on the project at McGovern's request and expanded the story to include other men with whom he served. In numerous books, Stephen Ambrose has covered the war in Europe from the land. In THE WILD BLUE the contribution of the B-24 bomber and its crew is added to the saga. It is a story of courage and heroism that only a writer as skilled as Ambrose could bring to light. It reminds us once again of the contributions from the men and women who served in World War II; their efforts saved America and the World from tyranny.
There were more B-24 airplanes built than any other aircraft in American history. The Liberator Production Pool of Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, Ford Motor, Douglas Aircraft, and North American Aviation constructed over 18,000 planes. The B-24 was operational only during World War II. In a modern era of computer jets and weaponry, it must be remembered that the B-24 was a bare boned, totally unrefined flying machine. It lacked heat despite outside air temperatures that could reach as cold as 50 degrees below zero. Pilots maneuvered the plane by brute strength and, because the B-24 lacked windshield wipers, often navigated by sticking their heads out the window. The plane existed and was flown for one purpose only, to carry 500 and 1,000 pound bombs to be dropped on enemy targets. For that role, the Army Air Force needed thousands of men at a time when only a handful knew anything about flying. THE WILD BLUE is the story of those men and how they became the margin of victory in World War II.
The pilots and crews of the B-24 were America. They came from every state and region of the country, they were all volunteers and they represented all walks of life. Almost none of them had ever been in an airplane and indeed most of them had never seen aircraft. The Dakota Queen, piloted by 22-year-old George McGovern, would eventually fly 35 missions over Germany and southern Europe. For his efforts he would be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. However, many of his comrades would not be so blessed. Casualties for B-24 crews were extremely high --- over half of the crews and planes never returned from their missions.
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Bravay writes:
in response to Keep_Fit:
Better yet, why don't you just stay home and order pizza instead of being stupid and endangering others as well as yourself?
I would but that is sooooo boring. Thanks for the idea. Sweet.
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baircub#251916 writes:
in response to knotknessisary:
How is 70% a lot worse than 80%? This is a nice idea, but we don't live in a world that provides free education past high school. We don't need more people trapped in the student loan debt debacle.
knot, you need to see an eye doctor first. It was 79% vs. 80%. This program is about helping people find access to all resources available to them for furthering their education, and knowing what type of an educational background they need to pursue, in order to land a job here. It's about employers and educators collaborating together to give local residents the best advice on how to better themselves. for the past 10 or so years that I've spent being a watcher on the sidelines about Corpus Christi, the biggest complaint I've heard from people was why there were so many missed economic opportunities due to not enough high paying jobs being available. You want high paying jobs? Have a well educated workforce available. Over the years I've listened to certain voices in this town, with their much lauded "horse sense" decrying the "tax payer boondoggle" of having TAMU-CC and TAMU-KINGSVILLE, and oh yeah, "Del Mar is a worthless 2 bit community college not worth supporting". FIX OUR STREETS! is the Corpus Christi Screech du jour. Nothing else matters. Answer me this, knotknessisary, what would you rather have? A resource center that can help the local population get the most bang for it's collective buck by knowing what educational path to go down towards getting a good job with the skills that existing employers are looking for, and/or potential companies would want, if they were wanting to come here? Or would you rather see our local population stuck in dead end jobs going nowhere, or moving out of the city? Or worse, pursue a worthless degree in "Advanced basket weaving" available from some non-accredited for profit institution just because they "saw it on TV", or "read about it on the internet"?
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In this Oct. 20, 2008 file photo is an artist's drawing showing defendants Shain Duka, bottom left, Eljvir Duka, Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer and Serdar Tatar in a federal courtroom in Camden, N.J., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. AP Photo/Shirley Shepard, File
The federal jury deliberated for 38 hours over six days.
"These criminals had the capacity and had done preparations to do serious and grievous harm to members of our military," Ralph Marra, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said after the verdict.
But some Muslim leaders in New Jersey disputed that.
"I don't think they actually mean to do anything," said Mohamed Younes, president of the American Muslim Union. "I think they were acting stupid, like they thought the whole thing was a joke."
Jim Sues, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said: "Many people in the Muslim community will see this as a case of entrapment. From what I saw, there was a significant role played by the government informant."
The yearlong investigation began after a clerk at a Circuit City store told the FBI that some customers had asked him to transfer onto DVD some video footage of them firing assault weapons and screaming about jihad.
According to prosecutors, the group chose Fort Dix because one of the defendants was familiar with it. His father's pizza shop delivered to the New Jersey base, which is 25 miles from Philadelphia and used primarily to train reservists for duty in Iraq.
The group's objective was to kill "as many American soldiers as possible," prosecutors said.
But the men's lawyers attacked the credibility of the informants and accused them of instigating the plot.
After the verdict, Schnewer's attorney, Rocco Cipparone, said there would not have been a conspiracy without the involvement of the informants. "I believe they shaped the evidence," he said.
Members of the jury would not speak to reporters after the verdict and instead released a statement that said, in part, "This has been one of the most difficult things that we have ever had to do."
None of the defendants testified.
The government said after the men's arrest that an attack was imminent, though prosecutors backed off that assertion at the trial.
"The men will be sentenced and we'll certainly see an appeal here by defense attorneys who argue that the government's witnesses exaggerated the threat posed by the men and then actually tried to nudge the men into illegal conduct," Cohen said. "This was not nearly the slam-dunk case that prosecutors claimed it was."
The government has had a mixed record on terrorism prosecutions since Sept. 11. It won guilty pleas from Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with a shoe bomb; and the Lackawanna Six, a terrorist cell outside Buffalo, N.Y. And it convicted Jose Padilla of plotting terrorist attacks.
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In an atomic physics experiment, two atoms collide with each other in such a way that the initial total momentum of the atoms is zero. The atoms are chosen so that M2 = 4.0 M1.
In the collision, the atom M1 has a final velocity, V1f = - 0.20 V1i. What is the ratio of the final kinetic energy to the initial kinetic energy of the system (the two atoms)? In other words, what is
KEfinal / KEinitial
in this collision?
Give your answer to two decimal places.
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Consider a cascade of M sections of the first-order FIR lowpass filter represented by the transfer function
HLP =1/2*(1 + z^-1)
Use Matlab to plot the magnitude responses for M = 1; 2; 4; 10 and measure the 3-dB cuto frequency for each case. Please include your matlab
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microsoft common vulnerability and exposures (CVEs) are addressed through security advisories with a corresponding advisory ID. Other CVE sources attached a CVE ID to advisories. go through the archive of microsoft security advisories on the following link: September 15,2010
answer the following question based on the advisories for the past 12 months:
what vulnerabilities exist for this workgroup LAN based on the advisories? list five of them
do any vulnerabilities involve privilege elevation? is this considered a high-priority issue?
identify and document at least three vulnerablilities and solutions related to the client configurations
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tigerclaw writes:
MCS already spends much more $ per student that the local private schools spend per student. Why do they think spending more money will solve the problems? I hope this will improve the school situation, but I'm not betting on it. It will be an interesting experiment to observe.
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jcalhoun writes:
in response to biggestUTmanoncampus:
Nothing compares to the pampered brats of the NBA, no league or business is set up to lose money except the NBA..BTW, if any pro league folded the NBA would be the least missed..Just look at attendance and TV ratings if you don't believe me..
Actually, hockey and baseball's championships had lower ratings than the NBA finals last year. So you're dead wrong on your facts. And why are the NBA players bigger brats than the NHL and MLB players? What facts do you have on the differences between them, other than the fact that the NBA is majority black?
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When you're down and troubled -- and your therapist isn't around -- what the hell are you supposed to do?
Applying coping and self-soothing techniques can return your equilibrium. This is why learning and using these techniques is imperative to leading a balanced lifestyle.
Things don't go the way we want them to some of the time, but even if it's most of the time, we can still care for ourselves in healthy and unselfish ways.
Those who care for others can suffer from caregiver burnout, and the same thing may happen when it comes to caring for ourselves. We become tired of our routines, and sometimes our own emotions can keep us from doing what we know will make us healthy and happier.
For example, you're feeling a little down, and it might be too hot or too cold to exercise outside, and driving to the gym just takes too much energy to even think about. These rationalizations are normal when you're not in a great mood. It's easy to make excuses when you want to find them.
The trick is to psych yourself out of self-sabotaging. When you know that doing certain actions will make you feel better in the long or short term, but you find a way to keep yourself from doing them, part of you may be saying that you don't deserve to feel better. That critical inner voice needs to be muzzled -- and you can do that by saying to yourself: "I do deserve to feel better."
Telling yourself to take positive steps, especially when you are hearing the opposite in your head, is a time-tested self-motivation method. Once you know you can overcome negative internal messages, you can begin to heal.
Sometimes it can be helpful to talk with someone about your troubles, and it doesn't have to be a therapist (but it probably shouldn't be a bartender). Verbalizing your quandary gives you another perspective, and not only from the other person. Hearing yourself say the words out loud can also bring you new perspective. You can even talk to yourself if no one else is available. And no, it doesn't mean you are crazy if you do.
Positive self-talk has worked for ages to help people psych themselves up for whatever it is they're facing. Some people do it on the golf course; others, in the courtroom. Where you are makes no difference. Self-talk works, so give it a shot.
If you find yourself behaving in unusual ways that make you feel uncomfortable, or if you are unable to do things that help to make you feel good, then you may be stuck in a negative thinking pattern. Even if it started from something you feel you have no control over, you do have the power to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
It takes work, but the results are well worth it, so give it a chance and help yourself feel better.
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This amount is strictly for the September-December 2012 quarter
Source: Reuters
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By laviathan05 on 2/20/2013 9:56:06 PM , Rating: 5
Norway, Korea, Switzerland, Sweden
Some of the world's strongest economies.
USA is the worst by the way. However, even if we had a balanced budget, we would still issue debt due to the importance of US Treasuries in the global financial system.
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By tng on 2/20/2013 11:41:51 PM , Rating: 2
There are some states that run a balanced budget (Utah and Alaska come to mind), but most are not taken seriously by people in states like CA or NY who are seriously in debt.
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Don't forget Hong Kong.
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By imaheadcase on 2/21/2013 7:21:44 AM , Rating: 3
I believe Germany just reached that goal as well.
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By tayb on 2/21/2013 9:15:32 AM , Rating: 5
The US isn't the worst and it isn't even close. It's certainly a fun narrative to tell especially if you are in the business of drumming up support through fear.
Countries/Regions with a higher public debt as a percentage of GDP:
European Union
United Kingdom
There are some strong economies there, especially Germany. There isn't even enough data to support a strong correlation between debt and economic performance. Too many outliers.
Also, Norway has debt. South Korea has debt. Switzerland has debt. Sweden has debt. Essentially every aspect of your post is inaccurate.
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By Solandri on 2/21/2013 1:32:51 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah, it's a lot more complex than debt is good/bad. You'd think the ideal case is to have no debt. But if you can borrow money cheaply (like you can right now with historically low interest rates), the ideal case is actually to rack up huge amounts of debt. The presumption is that the money you borrow can be used to increase your productivity above and beyond the interest you're paying, making it a net win. (In personal finance terms, it's like borrowing $100k from a bank which agrees to loan it to you at 1% interest, and putting the money into a CD which pays 3% interest. Yes you've picked up $100k in debt, but you're gaining a net 2% interest on it, making the debt a good deal.)
But in terms of raw debt figures, Japan is by far the worst off (government debt is over 2x GDP). They just haven't collapsed like Greece because the people are incredibly disciplined and hard working, and not prone to rioting. So lenders seen as much more likely to repay their debt, and don't panic at them being over 200% debt-to-income ratio.
Most of the big countries with little debt are oil-producing nations. Which should tell you something about where our economic priorities should lie.
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That's not really a fair characterization of how it works.
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By laviathan05 on 3/1/2013 4:50:17 PM , Rating: 2
Actually the U.S. is the worst in terms of current annual budget deficit as a percentage of GDP, which is what was being discussed. Total debt is a different story, and I never said the U.S. had the most total debt in terms of GDP. You should probably improve your reading comprehension skills.
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God Bless Momma
On Mother’s Day, don’t forget your grandmother. Lord knows I could never forget mine.
illustration by Deanna Staffo
My grandfather was a Justice of the Peace and barber in Des Allemands in Louisiana. He went broke as a barber because he only took in payment that his customers could afford, which, during the Depression, was often nothing.
My grandmother was a great Disturber of the Peace who ran an ice cream store. She went broke selling ice cream, not because of the Depression, but because she frightened children. In Des Allemands resided perhaps the only children in America who were afraid of ice cream.
A cross between Margaret Thatcher and a wounded badger, my grandmother remained ready to pounce at the slightest infraction. My father would review the Rules of Engagement before any visit, which included a prohibition on just about every activity normal to boys. It was customary when having dinner with my grandmother that you never drank your drink until the meal was complete. There were no seconds on drinks, so you had to preserve what you had until the last possible moment of thirst, then slake it in a torrent.
When my grandparents moved to Chalmette, where I grew up, I became the Dedicated Visitor to my grandmother. I had two obligations: lose at Canasta and not flush the toilet after using it. My grandmother was a terrible card player, but still expected to win, though she was constantly distracted by the soap operas she watched while playing. Her judgment was harsh for the most troubled of the characters, believing that most of their problems stemmed from them not being Catholic.
(Once, out of frustration with having to spend the summers of my youth with the Third Reich, I snuck out during one hand of Canasta, then ran to the bathroom and flushed the toilet. The screams could be heard all the way to the French Quarter.)
On Saturdays it often fell to my father to take my grandfather grocery shopping. I think my grandfather was assigned the task so my grandmother could remain home preparing the Bills of Indictment directed at all the wrong items my grandfather would buy. There was always a sense of impending doom as my grandmother examined each item with a jeweler’s eye while we unloaded them. Railing against charges of buying the wrong brand of butter (American Beauty was on sale! J’Accuse!) to the wrong size of toilet paper, my grandfather’s only defense was a sheepish “Aw, momma,” a meek attempt at an auto da fey that invariably failed to quiet Chalmette’s Grand Inquisitor.
Occasionally, my grandmother would travel back to Des Allemands to visit her people and to frighten the now-grown children, who still did not like going into ice cream stores. Upon her return from the bayou, my grandmother would call us to report on who was dead, who was dying and who’d be better off dead.”
My grandmother lived a long time. People like her often do. A deeply religious person, she no doubt crossed the Pearly Gates with an E-ZPass, though leaving many of Heaven’s current residents wondering whether their judgment had suddenly been reversed.
Reid Champagne reports from Newark that he has never much been interested in genealogy.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) is a drama film and is also considered an anthology film.
Directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and written by Terence Rattigan, it tells the story of three very different owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce Phantom II: an English aristocrat, a Chicago gangster and a wealthy American widow. It is set in the years up to and including the start of World War II.
Produced as a result of the success of The V.I.P.s (1963), it boasts a similar all-star cast, including Rex Harrison, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif, George C. Scott, Art Carney, Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau. The famous song "Forget Domani" is sung by Katyna Ranieri in this movie and won a Golden Globe.
The car is first purchased by the Marquess of Frinton (Rex Harrison) as an anniversary present for his French wife, Eloise (Jeanne Moreau). The marquess is a longtime horse owner who has his heart set on winning the Ascot Gold Cup. This year, his horse is favoured and does indeed win. However, his elation is blighted when he finds his wife with her lover and his underling, John Fane (Edmund Purdom), in the back of the Rolls. For appearance's sake, he will not divorce her, but he sends back the car.
The Rolls is eventually purchased by American gangster Paolo Maltese (George C. Scott). He is touring Italy with his fiancée Mae Jenkins (Shirley MacLaine) and his right-hand man Joey Friedlander (Art Carney). When Paolo returns to the United States to take care of some unsavory business, he leaves Joey to chaperone Mae. Joey turns a blind eye when she falls in love with Stefano (Alain Delon), a handsome young street photographer. However, when Paolo rejoins them, Mae lies to Stefano, telling him that it was just a fling, in order to protect him from her lethal boyfriend.
The next owner of the car is Gerda Millett (Ingrid Bergman), a bossy, wealthy American widow touring Europe. During the Invasion of Yugoslavia by the Nazi Germans during World War II, patriot Davich (Omar Sharif) commandeers her automobile to sneak into the country. However, none of his men know how to drive, so Mrs. Millett volunteers, much to Davich's surprise. They survive a German aerial attack and reach their destination. Along the way, the two very different people fall in love. She wants to stay and help repel the invaders, but Davich will not permit it, saying it is not her fight. He tells her to go back to America and tell people what she has witnessed.
* Rex Harrison as the Marquess of Frinton
* Jeanne Moreau as Eloise, Marchioness of Frinton
* Edmund Purdom as John Fane
* Shirley MacLaine as Mae Jenkins
* George C. Scott as Paolo Maltese
* Moira Lister as Angela, Lady St. Simeon
* Isa Miranda as the Duchesse d'Angoulème
* Ingrid Bergman as Gerda Millett
* Omar Sharif as Davich
* Roland Culver as Norwood
* Michael Hordern as Harmsworth
* Lance Percival as Assistant Car Salesman
* Harold Scott as Taylor
* Jonathan Cecil as Young man
* Alain Delon as Stefano
* Art Carney as Joey Friedlander
* Riccardo Garrone as Bomba
* Joyce Grenfell as Hortense Astor
* Wally Cox as Ferguson
* Richard Pearson as Osborn
* Jacques Brunius as the Duc d'Angoulème
* Carlo Croccolo as Mrs. Millett's Chauffeur
* Reginald Beckwith
* Gregoire Aslan as the Albanian Ambassador
* Martin Miller as Headwaiter
* Andrea Malandrinos as the Hotel Manager
* Guy Deghy as the Mayor
See also
1964 in film
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The Basics You Have to Know in Selling Annuities
A huge emergency had just happened in your household and you are in
immediate need of huge amount of cash. The only thing you have that could
resolve your liquidity problems is your annuity plan. No doubt that the
obvious solution to your problem is to sell your annuities, right? In
this situation, you do not really have much of a choice.
Selling them would help you a great deal even if you do not get the
amount your annuity is really worth. However, if you are just tired of
paying out your annuity plan and you just want to get rid of it, or you
are just impatient to get your hands on your cash, or you are
anticipating a large expenditure in the near future, it pays to think it
over a hundred times. It is a fact that many people do not really know or
fully understand our policies and contracts about insurances and
This is why there are a lot of fake companies out there that take
advantage of people ignorant of their rights and of the worth of their
annuity plans. Companies that pay much lesser than what these people
deserve and take much longer to issue payment if they ever do.
So to guard yourself against such predators, you should arm yourself at
least with the basics. You should at least understand the basics of your
annuity plan, the things you have to consider and the right questions you
should ask before selling your annuity.
First, consider your type of plan. There are various kinds of annuities
and your selling decisions should be based on them. Each type of annuity
works in differently from each other. There are two main types of annuity
and they are fixed annuity and variable annuity. Fixed annuities are
those that pay a fixed rate of return while variable annuities are those
that allow the plan holders to invest in stocks and bonds.
Hence, the rate of return in variable annuities differs depending on the
investment’s progress and the economic state of the market. However,
these two sometimes branch out to other different types according to
payments and other terms.
Other forms or the sub-forms of annuity come in as deferred annuity and
immediate annuity. Deferred annuity gives you a guaranty that your
investment would increase in value and you can sell it when you need
income from it. On the other hand, immediate annuity enables you to
liquidate your investment within a short time after purchasing the plan
in a lump sum payment. The best thing about this plan is having the
choice of life income with a refund payout. This ensures that the full
value of your contract would be paid by passing the payments on to your
Now, the next thing you should consider is whether selling your annuity
plan would truly benefit you or holding on to it a while longer would
provide more benefits later. First basis on selling your annuity are the
two main types of annuities—fixed and variable.
If your annuity is a fixed annuity, holding on to it until before you
retire is the best option. This annuity provides a stable income source
for the rest of your life after you retire. After all, that is the very
reason why you availed of annuity in the first place—security.
However, the rate of return in this plan is not assured to keep up with
the inflation rate. So if you really want to sell it, the best time is
before you retire.
Now if your annuity is a variable annuity, you also have to consider the
timing in selling it. Remember that this plan does not guarantee a good
rate of return, so selling it must be timed with the market performance.
Sometimes, selling it an earlier time would prove beneficial than selling
it a later when the market is down and you really need the money. This
would put you in a situation when you don’t have much of a choice but
sell it at a lesser value.
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Description: 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a single free-end wire reel, and more particularly to a device to extend and retract a wire. 2. Description of the Prior Art A wire earphone or a mouse uses a transmission wire to get or transmit data. A key ring, stationery or a decoration also uses a wire for retraction or extension. In the past, the wire is wound or collected irregularly. Sometimes, the wire isto wind around, which is not convenient when in use. Therefore, there are some improved products on the market for extending and retracting a wire. This type of product comprises a spiral spring to extend/retract the wire through the spiral route ofthe spiral spring. When the wire is pulled out in use, the operation to pull out the wire is slightly held up by the outward force of the spiral spring. However, the force of the spiral spring can be overcome easily, so the wire is retracted along atrack route. Applying an appropriate force, the wire can be retracted or extended smoothly. Taiwan Utility Model Publication number M303196 discloses a single free-end wire reel. When the wire is pulled by the user, a ball will be moved between a first arc track and a sixth arc track along with extension and retraction of the wire. However, the distance of each arc track is too short, which influences the operation to extend and retract the wire. Accordingly, the inventor of the present invention has devoted himself based on his many years of practical experiences to develop animproved single free-end wire reel.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The primary object of the present invention is to improve a limit block to move in each arc track of a rotary member for the limit block to have a dual-positioning function when the limit block is moved in the arc tracks. The length of a wirecan be controlled exactly when extending or retracting the wire. In order to achieve the object, a leveled area is disposed on the rotary member to level the arc tracks and a g
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I have had the great privilege to work with many of Alberta College of Social Worker’s
(ACSW) members over the past 3 years. During that time, I have been impressed with our
collective passion and dedication in improving programs and services for the thousands of
Albertans we support every day. I have also gained some insight into 3 key challenges that
limit social workers’ feeling that they can truly initiate the change they envision.
1. Many social workers feel over-stretched with the demands of work and family
2. Many are limited (contractually or not) by the organizations they are employed by, in
regards to which social issues they can advocate on, and to what degree.
3. Many do not have access to the basic tools on how to advocate on an issue either
i) as an Alberta citizen or 2) as a social work professional.
In regards to the first two points, the ACSW recognizes the realities that impact social
workers. Tremendous work has taken place, particularly over the past year, by Council &
staff, to operationalize a process for ACSW to publicly address key social issues such as:
AISH, Welfare Rates, Health Care, Affordable Housing, and a Living Wage, through press
releases, letters to MLA’s / ministers / the premier, position papers, and a provincial wide
anti-poverty campaign.
This process has helped alleviate much of the pressure on individual social workers to speak
out about an issue. It has also ensured that we collectively have a stronger voice. It has also
helped raise our profile amongst the general public, and amongst our colleagues (for those of
us working in multi-disciplinary settings).
In regards to the third point, many social workers have identified the need to have access to
some basic tools on how to advocate on an issue either as an Alberta citizen or as a social
work professional (or both!). What’s more, these activities can be undertaken by an
individual or as a group. It is in this spirit, that this Advocacy Tool Kit was developed. We
have provided a list of basic advocacy strategies followed by a number of resources, to put
this into action.
Much of this work was undertaken by Devin Proulx – BSW student, University of Calgary
(Edmonton Division) who completed his practicum with us from September to December
2006. We thank him for his hard work and dedication in making this project happen.
We hope that you will let us know what is helpful, and what can be improved, so that we can
continue to make this a living, evolving document that will continue to serve the membership
well into the future.
Jessica Smith MSW, RSW
Research Coordinator
Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) 1
January 2007
What is Advocacy?
Advocacy can take a variety of forms. It is important to consider whom you are
advocating for and what the issues are surrounding your client(s). Advocacy can be
broken down into two types depending upon the nature of the client you are advocating
for. It can be further classified by its location in relation to the system you are advocating
Case advocacy:
Intervention on behalf of another individual in order for that person to obtain a service or
resource to which he or she is entitled.
Class advocacy:
Intervention on behalf of a group of people who share or experience a common need and
require assistance.
External advocacy:
Advocacy that originates from outside the agency or system. Often, this type of
advocacy does not have a formal relationship with the agency in question.
Internal advocacy:
Advocacy that operates from a source within an organization. This is characterized with
familiarity of the system and the people who work there.
Advocacy is not an act of conflict but a labour of collaboration in an
effort to promote social change. Do not assume that advocacy needs
to be adversarial in order to accomplish your goals. Success will come
when collaboration occurs.
How to Advocate:
1. Use a problem solving method.
2. Collect accurate information from the client about the issue at hand. This will
contribute to developing a meaningful and mutual relationship.
3. Contact other sources if needed with the permission of the client.
4. With the client, try to prioritize the issues into manageable pieces.
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5. Decide what needs to happen first and who should be involved. Repeat this step
as necessary until all the issues have been addressed.
6. Choose the advocacy strategies that would be most effective and appropriate such
as writing a letter to an editor or emailing a politician.
7. After completing each task, evaluate it in order to determine if the desired results
were achieved and to decide what methods worked and what did not.
Proper advocacy is done in cooperation with the client(s), where they have an
equal measure in what is done. Ultimately, the goal of a good advocate is to
empower the client(s) into advocating on their own behalf.
Strategies to Consider:
Prioritize if there are several issues to deal with.
Plan your strategies carefully and be realistic about what you ask for.
Know the important players that can help or hinder your objectives.
Maintain an open line of communication between yourself and your client(s).
Apprise them of any developments.
Be aware of the context in which you are advocating.
Advocacy is not about seeing every problem as grounds for a personal crusade
or assuming that the system deliberately discriminates against the client. It is
about challenging perceived social injustices and ensuring that people receive
that which they are entitled.
Main Activities / Advocacy Strategies:
1. Learn about the system you are attempting to advocate.
2. Work with the system; do not be viewed as overly for or against the system.
3. Make an effort to understand why certain decisions are made or certain policies
are in place within the system.
4. Understand the mandate and interests of the system or organization you are
accessing. Understand the actors involved as well as their own interests in the
outcome of your advocacy.
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5. Separate the problem from the people. Do not give into the temptation of blaming
the people over the problem.
6. Be prepared to understand alternative courses of action. Have another plan of
action if the first one does not work.
7. Appeal to people's conscience, values and professional ethics in order to effect
action in your favor.
8. Draw attention to the negative effects or consequences of a given course of action.
9. Acknowledge that the clients you are advocating for may not have a positive
relationship with the system/organization you are attempting to access.
1. Herbert, M. (Oct. 21, 1996). Standing Up for Kids: Case Advocacy for Children
and Youth Strategies and Techniques. Office of the Children’s Advocate Alberta
Family and Social Services.
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January 2007
How to Advocate by Phone / E-Mail
Telephone and e-mail can be an effective means of advocacy, particularly when there is
more than one person contacting the target audience. Given people's busy schedules,
engaging in advocacy by phone and/or e-mail provides opportunity for everyone to
become involved. The following are some useful guidelines when conducting such
In the event of contacting a politician, messages can be left at either their
constituency office or the Legislature or Parliament.
In the case it is an Albertan MLA; dialing 310-0000 and talking to the operator can
retrieve contact numbers.
Politicians are busy and may not respond to your call. However, leave a message
with the office secretary or assistant about your concerns.
There is power in numbers and, often, offices will keep a running tally of the number
of calls for or against a particular policy.
Before making the call, make a list of all the points you want to cover. This keeps
your message succinct and organizes your thoughts so they come across intelligently
and deliberately.
The person taking the message may ask you specific questions regarding the issue. Be
prepared to answer in a meaningful way.
Some e-mail addresses are published or are easy to access, but not
all. Therefore this option may or may not be open to you as an advocacy
Keep your message short and to the point as you would a letter.
A response to your e-mail is not guaranteed.
Maintain a record of your e-mail and any response that you receive. Such
documentation might prove valuable at a later date.
1. Alberta Teachers Association. How To Make Yourself Heard. Retrieved from
Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) 5
January 2007
How to Write & Present a Brief
Briefs are written outlines of the argument you are presenting. It is often presented in
conjunction with a scheduled meeting. It should detail your main concerns and provide
supporting evidence for your argument. Briefs should be detailed enough to cover every
aspect of the issue in concern, but, succinct enough that it does not ramble on.
Tips on writing a brief:
Collect all the necessary information before you begin writing the brief. Make sure
that all information is correct and current.
If you are part of a group or organization, nominate an author(s) to research and write
the brief.
Keep the brief short and to the point. It is not meant to be a narrative.
End the brief with a summary of recommendations or actions that you are proposing.
Tips on presenting the brief:
Provide copies for the audience along with any background information that is
pertinent to your issue. This will allow them to mull over your position on their own
Be aware that questions may be posed to you or any other presenters.
Make it clear at some point that you would like a response to your issue in a
reasonable time allotment.
Request a report on actions taken as follow-up.
Keep the material presented in the brief "alive" by following-up with phone calls,
letters and e-mails.
Report the results of the meeting to the other shareholders in the group or
1. Alberta Teachers Association. Advocacy: How to Make Yourself Heard.
Retrieved from:
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Organizing a Forum
Forums provide an opportunity for the exchange of information and ideas among various
shareholders and interests groups in a structured setting. It is flexible in the sense that it
can be as frequent and regular as the parties involved want it to be. Outsiders can be
invited to the forum on a regular basis to add to the debate and to help generate ideas.
A powerful aspect of the forum is that it reduces the sense of isolation
that can be experienced by those who perceive their cause to be theirs
alone. It creates and adds to the sense of community, both geographically
and ideologically. Forums can give rise to the issue and/or they can help
streamline the argument.
Aspects of organizing and conducting a forum:
Select an appropriate date that gives ample warning.
Choose a proper facility with estimates of attendance in mind. Underestimating the
turnout is better than overestimating.
Decide on a format and ensure that all panelists know it.
Choose a moderator that can handle the job and is aware of the format and its
Publicize the date and time of the forum to raise awareness and to promote
Arrive at the location early to ensure the sound system is operational, there is ample
seating, refreshments are there, water is present for the panelists, and a stopwatch for
the moderator is there.
Provide an introductory statement to the audience. Keep this short and to the point.
Tell the audience how long the forum will last and what the rules are.
Do not allow the audience to make speeches from the floor. Keep their participation
to questions only.
Circulate a record of the minutes to all who attended the forum.
Suggestions for Implementing a Forum:
Enlist support from prominent community members.
Develop a theme that is based on a particular issue within the community itself.
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Invite guest speakers and panelists by writing to them. Give them plenty of notice
and inform them of what the topic for discussion is. Be sure to inform them who the
other speakers are in the forum.
Press releases should be put out two weeks before the forum and then again the day
Provide a sign-in sheet that asks for a name, phone number and mailing address. This
is so information can be sent out as a means of follow up to those wishing it.
Advertise the forum in community and school newspapers.
Send reminder notices to community members a couple days before the forum.
Retrieved from
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Conducting a Petition
A petition is an effective means of bringing your issue to the attention of government
bodies. Petitions promote involvement in a particular issue, which can, in turn, promote
ownership of that issue.
How to Create a Petition:
Address petitions to the Legislative Assembly, House of Commons or City
Council. Avoid a general designation or a specific political party, caucus, or
Include a preamble that states the issue you want to address and the reasons why
you are addressing it. Be sure that the government body you are addressing has
the power to affect your issue.
Include a phrase that states what you are asking the Legislature, House of
Commons, or City Council to do. This phrase should accompany the top of every
page of the petition.
Each page of the petition should include a disclaimer stating that personal
information may be made public.
The person who is presenting the petition should have their signature on the
petition somewhere on the first page.
Rules on presenting and collecting petitions are different for each level of
government. It is important to familiarize yourself with these rules before you
Do not ask for any expenditure or charge on the public revenue. This would be
considered out of order and will not be received. Do not include any personal
debate or criticism of an individual representative. Do not send in photocopies of
the petition. Only original signatures will carry weight.
The Petition Process with the Alberta Government:
MLA's who are Private Members and not Cabinet Ministers may only present
petitions in the Legislature. Members are not required to present any petitions.
The presenting member will give a brief description of the petition’s request.
This will include the number of signatures and the geographic area it represents.
The petition will then be brought to the Table to ensure it is in order. The
presenting Member will then ask that the petition be read and received by the rest
of the Legislature.
The Legislative Clerk will read the phrase of the petition. At this point the
petition becomes public property. At no point is the Legislature compelled to any
action on behalf of the petition.
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Alberta Teachers Association. Advocacy: How to Make Yourself Heard. Retrieved from:
Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) 10
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How to Write a Letter to the Media
Contacting editors and journalists through written means is an effective way of promoting
greater awareness of your issue by the general public. It is a meaningful way of informing
others about the policies and legislation that will affect their daily lives.
Content should include:
1. Your name.
2. The date.
3. Content. Including your issue and position.
4. Closing.
5. Signature and typewritten name.
6. Your contact information including phone number and mailing address.
Other points you should know:
Letters should be short and quick to the point. Editors receive many letters over the
course of a day. Consequently, their time is short. Keep it under 200 words and do
not ramble. If you have multiple points to make then write multiple letters.
Write the way you talk. Speak from the heart. Editors respond to impassioned
speech and not unnecessarily large words.
Do not make personal attacks against anyone. Personal attacks will do nothing more
than evoke either no response or an equally negative response.
Remain topical. Write the letter around the approximate time that the issue is in the
public consciousness. If possible, refer to a local event or recent articles as a means
of reference.
Include your name, address, email, and phone number. Editors and journalists will
want to call to confirm ownership before they will run the story.
If communicating through email, do not send attachments, as newspapers will not
open these. Instead write the letter in the actual body of the email.
Feel free to ask readers to contact their legislators about the issue you have raised in
the course of your letter to the editor. Also, copy your letter and send it to the
relevant legislator.
1. Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta (2002).
Advocacy Workshop: Part III – Tool Kit.
Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) 11
January 2007
How to Write a Letter to Government
Letter writing is one of the most common methods available to get a message across. If
constructed precisely and eloquently, a letter can have a profound impact on the reader by
both informing them of the facts and persuading them towards your position.
Content should include:
1. Your name.
2. The date.
3. Correct name, title, and address of reader.
4. Salutation.
5. Content including purpose for writing and request for specific action on
part of reader.
6. Thank you and any closing remarks.
7. Signature and typewritten / printed name.
8. Your contact information including mailing address and phone number.
Other things you should know:
Ensure that the names and titles of your target audience are correct.
- Prime Minister: The Right Honorable (for life)
- Cabinet Ministers: Honorable
- Minister of State: Honorable
- Parliamentary Secretary: Honorable
- The Chief Justice of Canada: The Right Honorable (for life)
- Senators of Canada: Honorable (for life)
- Ambassadors to Canada: His/Her Excellency
- Governor General: His/Her Excellency (for life)
Keep your letter to one page or approximately three paragraphs. The recipient's
time is valuable and short. Long letters will more than likely be tossed out.
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Be polite and only cover one issue per letter. Use your own words and avoid
unnecessary jargon. Get to the point as quickly as possible in order to catch the
interest of the recipient. Be aware that this person or office receives many letters
in the course of a week. You want yours to stand out right away.
Write with the impression that the reader is intelligent and capable but not as well
informed on the subject as you are. Politicians and government officials are
expected to be generalists in the sense that they know general information about a
wide variety of topics. They are not of the same caliber of expertise as you are on
your topic of interest.
Written letters are preferable in that they create a personal atmosphere. However,
typed letters are acceptable, especially if it is more legible. If using a form letter,
be sure to add your own thoughts. By making the letter more unique, it will stand
a better chance of attracting the desired attention.
Include the action desired of the recipient. Make this clear and within the realm
of that person's abilities. Avoid directives as this will only alienate the audience
and endanger the potential working relationship.
If writing on behalf of an organization or group, be sure to tell the recipient about
what and who the organization or group is about. This includes revealing what
the mandate of the organization is especially in relation to the issue you are
writing about.
If writing to an elected official, be sure to send a copy to the Minister responsible.
These individuals are the ones with the power to affect change and should be kept
apprised of any issues of which you have a concern. Likewise, if writing a
Minister, be sure to send a copy to your MP.
Sign your letter above your typed or printed name. Include your address and
email on the letter as envelopes often become separated from the letter before the
intended audience sees it.
Make your letter timely. If you are writing in regards to a particular piece of
legislation, make sure it is received while the bill is being debated and, thus, open
to possible revision. Promote the alternative to the legislation rather than simply
Support your position with research and facts if possible. Include references for
any information that you present as factual. Relevant information will serve to
strengthen your argument.
Do not write letters that demand a particular action such as voting for or against a
particular bill. Do not write chain letters. Do not threaten a legislator with defeat
at the next election. Do not be a chronic letter writer. Do not send carbon copies.
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Remember that part of advocacy is developing a working relationship with your
audience. Writing letters should reflect this desire to create a positive atmosphere
where meaningful work can be done.
It is acceptable to ask for an explanation in the case of non-compliance on the part
of the legislator. Do so in polite terms as holding a grudge may impede future
dealings with this particular individual or office.
1. Disabled Women’s Network Ontario (March 23, 2006). Tell it to Ottawa –
Legislative Workshop: The Advocacy Tool Kit. Retrieved from
2. Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta (2002).
Advocacy Workshop – Part III: Tool Kit.
3. Habitat for Humanity Canada (n.d.). The Art of Advocacy: A Handbook for Non-
Profit Organizations. Retrieved from
4. Winning Women Association of Alberta (2002). Political Skills Manual: The
Campaign Book, The Appointment Book, The Lobbying Book. Calgary AB.
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January 2007
How to Visit a Politician
Visiting with a politician is one of the most effective means of promoting your issue. It
carries more weight that signing a petition, making a phone call or sending a letter. It
provides the opportunity for you to personalize the issue by giving the audience a face to
go along with a message.
Before you begin, become familiar with all the players and their
roles within government. This will help you in identifying who you
should contact about your issue and who will be able to do anything
about it.
Ten Steps to Success:
1. Be brief.
2. Relate issue, solutions and benefits clearly and concisely.
3. Try to answer objections before they are voiced.
4. Keep each meeting to one issue. Multiple solutions may be beneficial.
5. Be aware and sensitive to political realities in regards to timing and hot topics.
6. Be aware of your jurisdiction or interest group's opinions on your topic.
7. Follow rules and protocol as set out by the politician's office.
8. Provide support for your argument such as statistical data.
9. Sustain contact and information flow over time, build the relationship.
10. Be patient.
Before the Visit:
One issue at a time:
Time constraints will normally limit the number of issues that you want to address.
Also, presenting more than one issue will weaken the significance of the primary
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Know the politician:
Includes not only his/her name but the party and constituency they represent, as well
as, any committees they belong to.
Be clear about your objectives and what you want the politician to do:
Have a concise plan of action that you want the politician to undertake. Explicitly
state when you want this action done by or on what day.
Organize your group:
A larger group of people meeting with the politician shows that there is wider support
for your issue. Around three people would suffice. Someone with personal
experience with your issue is a bonus in that it gives additional weight to your
position. Try to bring someone from the politician's constituency as added political
Make the appointment:
Schedule the appointment in advance so there is enough time to prepare but not too
late that the issue is no longer relevant. Tell the politician's office who will be
attending the meeting and what groups, if any, they represent. Also, determine the
length of time your meeting will have. If a meeting with the politician is not possible,
try to meet with an advisor or an assistant. These people council the politician on
many decisions and are no less important to your cause.
Organize some written material:
Provide material that can drive home the points you are making. Such material
should contain a briefing on the main points around your issue, address counter-
arguments, and a reiteration of what you want the politician to do. Send this
information ahead of time along with anything else that may be necessary for an
informed decision.
Plan your talk:
The actual talk should repeat what was covered in the written material that was sent
ahead of time. Expansion is possible but keep this brief and topical. Be prepared for
counter-points and arguments on the part of the politician. It is usually preferable to
designate one representative to lead the discussion for your side. Also, designate one
person to record what was said on the part of the politician.
This is your opportunity to educate the audience about your issue.
Come prepared and willing to answer questions posed by the politician.
Remember, the politician will not know as much as you do about the
issue and will seek clarification.
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During the Visit:
Be early:
This will give you the opportunity to go over any final issues with the other members
of your group. When the meeting begins, start with a preamble that includes
introductions, a quick thank you for the meeting and a confirmation of the amount of
time that has been set aside for you meeting.
Professional conduct is conducive to a working relationship with this politician:
Be patient and polite even in the face of adversity. Politicians will rarely commit to
anything right away but your meeting does provide more information for them to
make informed decisions.
After the Visit:
Debrief:
Once the meeting has convened, gather the group around and go over what was said,
what worked and what did not.
Follow up:
Send any information that was promised to the politician or his/her office. Send a
thank you for allowing you the opportunity to voice your issue. Remind them of any
commitments that were made during the meeting.
Communicate with your group:
Constant contact is necessary to ensure that all are on board and that everyone has
ownership of your position.
1. Alberta Teachers Association. Advocacy: How to Make Yourself Hear. Retrieved
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Database Transaction (Transaction Management)
A database transaction comprises a unit of work performed within a database management system (or
transactions. Transactions in a database environment have two main purposes:
many operations upon a database remain uncompleted, with unclear status.
2. To provide isolation between programs accessing a database concurrently. Without isolation the
program's outcomes are possibly erroneous.
transactions that complete successfully must get written to durable storage.
consistent state.
Examples from double-entry accounting systems often illustrate the concept of transactions. In double entry
single transaction:
1. Debit Rs.100 to Groceries Expense Account
2. Credit Rs.100 to Checking Account
A transactional system would make both entries — or both entries would fail. By treating the recording of
credit is recorded, or vice versa.
Transactional Databases
transactions: transactional databases.
the following:
1. Begin the transaction
2. Execute several data manipulations and queries
4. If errors occur then rollback the transaction and end it
inconsistent state.
SQL is inherently transactional, and a transaction is automatically started when another ends. Some
databases extend SQL and implement a START TRANSACTION statement, but while seemingly signifying
the start of the transaction it merely deactivates auto commit.
The result of any work done after this point will remain invisible to other database-users until the system
processes a COMMIT statement. AROLLBACK statement can also occur, which will undo any work
performed since the last transaction. Both COMMIT and ROLLBACK will end the transaction, and start a
new. If auto commit was disabled using START TRANSACTION, auto commit will often also be re-
Some database systems allow the synonyms BEGIN, BEGIN WORK and BEGIN TRANSACTION, and
may have other options available.
ACID Properties
Atomicity requires that database modifications must follow an "all or nothing" rule. Each transaction
is said to be atomic.
If one part of the transaction fails, the entire transaction fails and the database state is left
unchanged. It is critical that the database management system maintain the atomic nature of
transactions in spite of any application, DBMS (Database Management System), operating system
or hardware failure.
An atomic transaction cannot be subdivided and must be processed in its entirety or not at all.
Transactions can fail for several kinds of reasons:
1. Hardware failure: A disk drive fails, preventing some of the transaction's database changes from
taking effect.
2. System failure: The user loses their connection to the application before providing all necessary
3. Database failure: E.g., the database runs out of room to hold additional data.
4. Application failure: The application attempts to post data that violates a rule that the database
itself enforces, such as attempting to insert a duplicate value in a column.
It ensures the truthfulness of the database.
The consistency property ensures that any transaction the database performs will take it
from one consistent state to another.
The consistency property does not say how the DBMS should handle an inconsistency
transaction could be rolled back to the pre-transactional state - or it would be equally valid
the DBMS could decide to reject attempts to put fractional values there, or it could round
each and every reference in the database must be valid.
If a transaction consisted of an attempt to delete a record referenced by another, each of
the following mechanisms would maintain consistency:
Abort the transaction, rolling back to the consistent, prior state;
Nullify the relevant fields in all records that point to the deleted record.
These are examples of propagation constraints; some database systems allow the database designer to
the account's minimum balance threshold, as far as the DBMS is concerned, the database is in a consistent
Isolation refers to the requirement that other operations cannot access data that has been modified
during a transaction that has not yet completed.
The question of isolation occurs in case of concurrent transactions (multiple transactions occurring
at the same time).
Each transaction must remain unaware of other concurrently executing transactions, except that
data that the waiting transaction requires.
If the isolation system does not exist, then the data could be put into an inconsistent state. This
could happen, if one transaction is in the process of modifying data but has not yet completed, and
then a second transaction reads and modifies that uncommitted data from the first transaction.
If the first transaction fails and the second one succeeds, that violation of transactional isolation
will cause data inconsistency.
Due to performance and deadlocking concerns with multiple competing transactions, some modern
databases allow dirty reads which is a way to bypass some of the restrictions of the isolation
A dirty read means that a transaction is allowed to read, but not modify, the uncommitted data from
another transaction. Another way to provide isolation for read transactions is via MVCC, which gets
around the blocking lock issues of, reads blocking writes.
Durability is the ability of the DBMS to recover the committed transaction updates against any kind
of system failure (hardware or software).
Durability is the DBMS's guarantee that once the user has been notified of a transaction's success
the transaction will not be lost, the transaction's data changes will survive system failure, and that
all integrity constraints have been satisfied, so the DBMS won't need to reverse the transaction.
Many DBMSs implement durability by writing transactions into a transaction log that can be
reprocessed to recreate the system state right before any later failure.
A transaction is deemed committed only after it is entered in the log.
Durability does not imply a permanent state of the database. A subsequent transaction may modify
data changed by a prior transaction without violating the durability principle.
The following examples are used to further explain the ACID properties. In these examples, the database
must sum to 100.
Atomicity failure
The transaction subtracts 10 from A and adds 10 to B. If it succeeds, it would be valid, because the data
continues to satisfy the constraint. However, assume that after removing 10 from A, the transaction is unable
to modify B. If the database retains A's new value, atomicity and the constraint would both be violated.
Atomicity requires that both parts of this transaction complete or neither.
Consistency failure
Consistency is a very general term that demands the data meets all validation rules that the overall
application expects - but to satisfy the consistency property a database system only needs to enforce those
rules that are within its scope. In the previous example, one rule was a requirement that A + B = 100; most
database systems would not allow such a rule to be specified, and so would have no responsibility to
enforce it - but they would be able to ensure the values were whole numbers. Example of rules that can be
enforced by the database system are that the primary key values of a record uniquely identify that record,
that the values stored in fields are the right type (the schema might require that both A and B are integers,
say) and in the right range, and that foreign keys are all valid.
Validation rules that cannot be enforced by the database system are the responsibility of the application
programs using the database.
Isolation failure
subtract 10 from A
add 10 to B.
subtract 10 from B
add 10 to A.
If these operations are performed in order, isolation is maintained, although T 2 must wait. Consider what
happens, if T1 fails halfway through. The database eliminates T1's effects, and T2 sees only valid data.
By interleaving the transactions, the actual order of actions might be: A − 10, B − 10, B + 10, A + 10. Again
consider what happens, if T1fails. T1 still subtracts 10 from A. Now, T2 adds 10 to A restoring it to its initial
attempted to write to the same data field.
Durability failure
be committed to the disk. Power fails and the changes are lost. The user assumes that the changes have
been made, but they are lost.
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Interesting Facts about India
India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established
Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
Chess was invented in India.
Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The
most ancient civilizations.
to a cycle of re-births.
hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from
consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
he discovered America by mistake.
Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years
Sun was 365.258756484 days.
before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by
10*12(10 to the power of 12).
Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).
surgery and brain surgeries.
Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy,
many ancient Indian texts.
India exports software to 90 countries.
of the world's population.
Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
1503 and 1568 respectively.
end of the 11th century.
million (US) to the temple everyday.
the city was founded in 1577.
in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
Real and radical facts about India
Real facts about India attempt to talk about the facts and figures of India. It tries to
open the veil and checks the ground reality of social, economical, political, cultural
scenario of India.
• The nation having one of the highest economic growth rates in the world and still 36%
of World poor living in India..
• The nation having lowest divorce rate (1.1%). and still counts for higher number of
family violence.
• The nation spending five times more than the World richest country inmarriage of his
daughter even if he lives in BPL (below poverty level) categories.
• The reveling facts about India is "the nation that built Iron Pillar of Meharauli, near
Delhi, in the memory of king Chandra Gupta II (376-415). It is over twenty-three feet
high, and consists of a single piece of iron, of a size and weight which could not have
been produced by the best European iron foundries until about one hundred years ago".
• Ayurvedic treatment developed in India over 5000 year ago. Ancient Indian doctor
evolved a developed empirical surgery. The caesarian section was known, bone-setting
reached a high degree of skill, and the plastic surgery was developed far beyond
anything known elsewhere at that time. Ancient Indian surgeons were at expert at repair
of noses, ears and lips. Indian surgery remained ahead of European until the 18th
century. The surgeons of the East Indian Company learn the art of rhinoplasty from
• Medieval Indian mathematician, such as Brahmagupta [7th Century], Mahavira [9th
Century] and Bhaskara [12th Century], made several discoveries which in Europe were
not known until the Renaissance or later. For Pi, Aryabhata gave the usual modern
approximate value of 3.1416. The mathematical implications of zero and infinity were
fully understood in medieval India. Earlier mathematician had taught that [x/0] is X, but
Bhaskara proved that it was infinity.
• According to Albert Einstein:“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,
without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
• The nation that exported spices and gems became a frontrunner in the knowledge-
based sector and turned into the favored investment destination for American technology
giants. The IT revolution facts about India. is seen as the 'miracle' of the new
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The world needed a hero, but how would an editor with no off-switch answer the call? For Jeff Deck, the writing was literally on the wall: “NO TRESSPASSING.” In that moment, his greater purpose became clear. Dark hordes of typos had descended upon civilization… and only he could wield the marker to defeat them.
But at the Grand Canyon, they took one correction too far: fixing the bad grammar in a fake Native American watchtower. The government charged them with defacing federal property and summoned them to court—with a typo-ridden complaint that claimed that they had violated “criminal statues.” Now the press turned these paragons of punctuation into “grammar vigilantes,” airing errors about their errant errand..
The radiant dream of TEAL would not fade, though. Beneath all those misspelled words and mislaid apostrophes, Jeff and Benjamin unearthed deeper dilemmas about education, race, history, and how we communicate. Ultimately their typo-hunting journey tells a larger story not just of proper punctuation but of the power of language and literacy—and the importance of always taking a second look.
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*Who new Steve Harvey’s son, Wynton, was a budding artistic/celebrity photographer?
Over the weekend, the 15-year-old hosted his first Art Showcase, with proceeds benefiting his family’s foundation.
In attendance were Wynton’s family, Elle Varner, Raheem Devaughn, photographer LaVan Anderson and other fancy folk.
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10 thoughts on “Wednesday Snaps: Steve Harvey’s Teenage Son
1. He is a very handsome and talented young man.
It would have been nice to have his mother there.
I hope one day they can all participate in special events in this young man’s life!
2. Let’s “find SUMPtin”, huh? So crabby. And why do we assume his mother “wasn’t” invited?Maybe she was & couldn’t make it? Maaaaybe she didn’t WANT to be there, b/c Steve’s new wife, was g’on be there! Hell!, the boy is old enough to “be aware” of the absence so what neh!?, “HE’s” an automatic a-hole, cause his mama is too immature to put his accomplishments over “HUH” feelings!? Yep!, that”/s prolly the….”rule”. How quickly we forget how KRA “mother Mary” is/was so, it couuuuuld be all ‘on huh! I tell yah, the “selective amnesia” is soooooo “strong & sistaly”. I yie yiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!/SMH!
3. I think I made an assumption based on the picture…
AND, the last reported news had her saying she was being kept away from her son.
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Health benefits of caloric restriction and a vegan diet, part one
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A vegan diet is generally low in caloric density compared the unhealthy eating habits that have become the norm for most Americans. In part one of this two part series we examine the cause and effect of a society that is, for lack of a better word, fat.
One thing few can argue is that, in general, Americans eat too much and usually that means too much of the wrong things. Humans have evolved to crave foods that have aided in the survival of our species. Those who ate foods that could sustain the body through times of famine and seasons of less abundance survived to pass on their genes to the next generation. As a consequence, preference for those sustaining foods became encoded in our DNA through thousands of generations of natural selection.
Have you ever wondered why we like the taste of salty and smoky flavored things? It is because refrigeration and cold storage are relatively new means for preserving food for extended periods. Drying, salting and smoking were the only means preserving food when temperature control was not possible and your ancestors, the ones who could best tolerate the salty smoky foods, passed on their taste preferences to you.
But long before humans even had such rudimentary technologies of food preservation our most primitive ancestors had to rely on energy storage within our own bodies to sustain them though periods of food scarcity. Energy is measured in calories and this is the reason why we seek, covet and savor foods with the highest caloric density. This instinct is so strong that it is almost impossible to satiate our cravings for fatty, sweet and salty foods. This has led to very unhealthy eating habits in a society where a lack of food abundance is not a survival issue anymore.
The perfect example of a food with very little nutritional value, that many crave only because it is fatty, salty and sometimes sweet, is bacon. We crave bacon so much that it is no longer the food we crave but the flavor. Condiments, soups, beans, rice, potatoes, salads, even ice cream and liquor are given the flavor of bacon.
Fat contains nine calories per gram. Protein, sugar and less refined carbohydrates all contains four calories per gram. It is easy to understand then why we crave fat so much but why sugar over other carbohydrates and protein? The answer is simple. For our bodies to store energy we need to convert our food into something that is most easily converted back to energy when we need it. There is a cost to this conversion process, that is, calories are expended when changing from one state to another. Our bodies store energy as fat so dietary fat can be stored for little or no cost, sugar can be used for energy immediately while saving our fat reserves and if we intake more sugar than we need it can be rather easily converted to fat for storage. There is greater cost to converting more complex carbohydrates and protein to either instant energy or stored energy in the form of fat.
This is a rather simplified explanation of why you drool when you smell that cinnamon roll, that sweet fatty package of concentrated energy and yes, bacon cinnamon rolls are growing in popularity.
The problem is that humans still crave high caloric density foods above all other foods. Our bodies store way too much energy, energy in the form of fat. And guess what? It has created an epidemic of health problems that can be attributed to one simple thing. We eat more calories than we need, way more, often hundreds of times more.
A national health and nutrition study conducted in 2009 and 2010 returned some shocking but not so surprising statistics. 37% of Americans were found to be clinically obese. Not just overweight mind you, but obese! That means that in a random sampling of 10 people, four of them are likely to be obese and likely to be suffering from chronic health problems due to that obesity. Now if you expand that criteria to include everyone who is considered overweight that number jumps to 69%. Seven out of every 10 Americans are overweight.
The logical means of correcting the negative health effects of excessive calorie intake is to reduce our overall intake of calories. Calories can be reduced as part of a generally healthier diet regimen or a more drastic approach can be taken by severely limiting calories in controlled fashion to ensure that other nutritional requirements are met though a diet that is entirely plant-based.
In part two we will explore the benefits of caloric restriction bot as a corrective measure and as a sustained healthy eating practice.
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Calling a MAYDAY is a complicated cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skill set that relies on a radio and the communication system, both human and hardware, that gets the call for help.
At the second prop, the firefighters quickly realized they were not getting out of whatever had fallen on them, so few needed to be prompted to call the MAYDAY. This time restricted movement challenged them because the fence was all around them. Many had to remove the radio from the pocket. Since they had performed the EIB skill once before, they knew they could do it, so they just kept working at it. As the firefighter's EIB skill proficiency level increased, their LUNAR transmission was more accurate.
At the third prop there was no restriction on them physically. Many tried to break down the door; we did not let them do that. Most still had to remove the radio to activate the EIB. They gave LUNAR, but few reported that they were in a bathroom. Only one needed to be prompted to call the MAYDAY after about 2 minutes of just sitting in the room.
At the fourth prop, they were tired and quickly realized their forward movement was stopped. In most cases the "swim technique" did not reveal the rope, so they called a MAYDAY. Their LUNAR usually did not include the fact that they were now trying to exit the building they were still reporting "division one, kitchen, ventilation, trapped."
Only one firefighter was observed to have no difficulty pushing the EIB in the pocket; he even did it without lifting the pocket flap. During the second drill period, Firefighter J.B. Hovatter was observed having not put his radio down in the pocket. He had taught himself to put the pocket flap down inside the pocket and hook the radio clip over the chest strap of the SCBA. This technique positioned the radio halfway down in the pocket keeping the controls outside the pocket, but still securing the radio to the firefighter. He quickly activated the EIB every time. It was decided to teach this technique, "The Hovatter Method", to all remaining firefighters, whose performance level increased dramatically. (photo 11)
A discussion session was held with the class after each drill to show what the props were and to get feedback. Overwhelmingly, they said it was an important learning experience and they all agreed the drill should go department wide.
What some participants said: Division Chief Allen Williams, Health and Safety Officer for the AACOFD who observed the drills said: "Hopefully firefighters will do all they can to not need to call a MAYDAY. However, firefighting is dangerous and the risk is there. Firefighters are reluctant to call MAYDAY. The training forced them to call MAYDAY. The training was excellent. The training is a very good risk management strategy."
Battalion Chief Dave Berry said: "This training shocked them into calling a MAYDAY. It took some of the bravado out of them. It doesn't matter what rank you are we can all get into a situation where we need to call MAYDAY. The drill became the great equalizer. In training it is difficult to shock a person into calling MAYDAY without hurting them; these props can do that. I know now that my battalion can call a MAYDAY if they have to."
Captain Leroux said: "We needed to be coached through calling a MAYDAY; it did not come naturally. We had machismo and self-doubt. Should I or shouldn't I call MAYDAY, I'll be embarrassed. We learned how important it is to call MAYDAY quickly while you still can think and explain where you are and answer questions. It is my crew and I that go in and will be using this skill. When you get in a MAYDAY situation you are going to be so stressed out - calling MAYDAY has to come natural and this training will help."
A firefighter: "When they dropped that fence on me I realized I was done. You are calling people to come get you out. I had to concentrate on getting to the button and calling a MAYDAY."
Some veteran firefighters said, "?it was the best training we have ever received in our career."
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06-11-2007, 04:52 PM
If there is a very complicated synced classical file or other complicated file for SM, are we allowed to remake steps but use the same BPM changes for an FFR file. Do we have to get permission from the original simfile artist for their BPM changes, or include their name as a collab?
Nothing has come up yet, but I'm sure there will be cases in the future.
06-11-2007, 05:41 PM
Nope. We don't have to get permission, we don't even have to credit the original simfile author. This has even been done already; hi19hi19's Jurs OP file used the BPM changes from Bursurk Lurk's file from SM.
06-11-2007, 06:18 PM
what he said. just gotta make sure that whoever did the 1st set of changes did them correctly.
06-11-2007, 08:43 PM
Almost on-topic question that sort of fits:
Are we allowed to release a file for SM of the same steps and song as FFR, but different mp3 (hence different BPM/changes)? If not, how much of the steps do we have to change?
I wouldn't push it.
06-11-2007, 09:34 PM
we would appreciate it if you kept your files for FFR private. they'll get played much more in FFR than they would on SM anyway. | http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/archive/index.php/t-70265.html | dclm-gs1-028500002 | false | false | {
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1. mlartigue 21 months ago | reply
LOOOOL this is so cool! XD
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tequila could be his sidekick saint...
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Okay just shoot me!! What am I supposed to do now? My doc told me I'm pre diabetic, one of these could send me over! Have you ever tried to eat just one? I'm going to try and not make them again until my B'day so I can treat myself!
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Whats your favorite game based on a movie and movie based on a game
qwertyMrJINXPosted 4/23/2013 7:24:48 AM
Game: Chronicles of Riddick
Movie: Mortal Kombat
DestinPosted 4/23/2013 7:26:55 AM
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Resident Evil
Destin the Valiant
CBASH13Posted 4/23/2013 7:37:08 AM
Favorite Game based on a Movie: X-Men Origins Wolverine Uncaged Edition (PS3)
Honorable Mentions: LotR The Return of the King (PS2) and Spider-Man 2 (PS2)
Favorite Movie based on a Game: Mortal Kombat
Honorable Mentions: Resident Evil Apocalypse and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
It is what it is
Madridiq8e(Topic Creator)Posted 4/23/2013 9:00:07 AM
kupo1705 posted...
Do games like Battle for Middle Earth even count as movie games?
They're not really movie games, they're games set in the same universe as a movie.
yeah i get what you mean ..
but I guess we can count LotR as a movie game since they're in the same universe and same characters and villains
Devilman_AmonPosted 4/23/2013 9:05:27 AM
Game: The Warriors, Wolverine, Star Wars Arcade
Movie: Advent Children, Street Fighter the Animated Movie, .Hack
Odin_theRoninPosted 4/23/2013 10:10:01 AM
The first Silent Hill movie and Goldeneye for N64
Romulus-PrimePosted 4/25/2013 4:27:11 AM
Game based on movie: Batman (NES)
Movie based on game: Street Fighter II the animated movie
AnonUnknownPosted 4/25/2013 4:41:35 AM
Game based on a movie: probably Riddick.
Movie based on a game: Resident Evil, the first one.
Orcinus_ToothPosted 4/29/2013 4:01:26 PM
Xx Parasite xX posted...
Goldeneye & Mortal Kombat
zyrax2301Posted 4/29/2013 4:06:53 PM
Movie-based game - Goldeneye 64
Game-based movie - Silent Hill
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jay18034Posted 7/17/2011 3:04:15 AM
the game said it may make certain monsters more vulnerable but how exactly?
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Destruction AngelPosted 7/17/2011 4:09:26 AM
Insane monsters take more damage and do more damage. Also sometimes they use different attacks. The standard damage increase against insane enemies is 50%, but this can be modified with abilities (Cthulhu gets another +50% at a fairly high level). I don't know how much enemy damage is increased.
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your correct at what it says, however your assumption that it means everyone is not correct. that law is only for the Jew. circumcision, not eating pork, woman on period, does not apply to the christian. read the book of Peter. he was told that Christians were not to be converted to Jews. his vision of the veil holding all Unclean animals is proof. the Jews have a different Path and only 144,000 of them will make the path. as a Christian we wont see them face the end of their journey.
Yes, that was MY point! The old laws of Moses, IE. Man laying with another man, don't apply anymore. Christ's crucifixion represented an new covenant between man and God. Hypocritical "Christians" pick and choose what laws they want to obey.
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It's clear who was wrong: The people of Military Intelligence who did not see it coming and the Shin Bet who did not emphasize enough what it saw coming; the leftists who believed up to the last minute in the false promise of unilateral withdrawal; the Americans who turned democratization into a religion, and the Europeans who turned Abu Mazen into a model; the Israeli elite who in the past year were once again struck by the glib, pretentious and disconnected-from-reality hubris that is amazingly similar to the glib Oslo era.
But who was right? When the herd mentality once again took over the Israeli political body, who kept their sanity? Ami Ayalon was right on some points. A few weeks before the Hamas victory he anticipated it. In the same way so did a few others who warned about the threat of Palestinian extremism resulting from the disengagement. Thus, Yossi Beilin, Ehud Barak, and Yoek Bin Nun, as well as Ephraim Halevy and Moshe Arens and Shlomo Gazit and Uzi Dayan and Uzi Arad and Giora Eiland, were also right. However, in a more profound and deeper way, there were three unusual Israelis who had the intellectual courage to counter the past year of consensus.
The first among the sober was Uri Avnery. While all of Israel cheered when Arafat died in November 2004, Avnery warned about the gates of hell opening up. As a national-revolutionary personality, Avnery understood that there was no chance that the man in the gray flannel suit, Abu Mazen, would be able to replace the revolutionary in the kaffiyeh, Abu Amar (Arafat). Avnery knew back then that Arafat was the last blockade against bin Laden, and that after he went, the fighting Palestinian youth would find a genuine alternative in the identity proposed by radical Islam.
The second sober person was Benjamin Netanyahu. The years 2002-2005 were very bad years for Bibi the politician. He made a mistake nearly everywhere. When he should have obeyed he rebelled, and when he should have rebeled he obeyed. When he should have raised his voice he fell silent, and when he raised his voice he should have stayed silent. But Bibi's failure as a politician cannot blur the correctness of Netanyahu the statesman. While lawyers Ehud Olmert and Dov Weissglas rolled around an historic move without understanding its significance, Netanyahu understood very well. While the Sharon gang grew drunk with its success, the son of the historian kept his eyes wide open. Netanyahu proved that his understanding of history is far greater than anyone else in Israel's current leadership.
But the most righteous man of all in the last two years was the man Israel insisted on not listening to: Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon. Unlike Avnery and Netanyahu, Ya'alon did not foresee anything because of ideology. He saw what he saw because he looked at the conflict as it is and because he was honest with himself. From this observation point, and integrity, he reached the conclusion that the Israeli military victory of the disengagement could lead to a diplomatic defeat. He reached the conclusion that a sweeping unilateral withdrawal could undermine Israel's strategic situation and strengthen the powers that want to eradicate it. As opposed to the disengagement chief of staff, the chief of staff in the war against terror did not know how to build a consensus around him. He did not know how to win over the media and the blessings of the power centers in Israel. But the events prove Ya'alon was right.
Seemingly, there is nothing in common between the three, Avnery, Netanyahu and Ya'alon. One is a leftist, the other a rightist and the third remains a cipher. One is a journalist, another a statesman and the third is a soldier. Nonetheless, they have some things in common. The three are lone wolves. The three are unloved. The three are motivated by complex inner truths that sometimes make them be misunderstood, slandered and denounced.
But now, with Israel bent over the rubble and trying to shape out of it some new picture of reality, it should listen to the three. Each in their own way is right. Each of them represents some dimension of the truth that must be understood. The Hamas victory teaches us that in recent years not only did we make a mistake, but we lived a lie. Now, with caution and modesty, we have to make a new way to the difficult truth. | http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/a-journalist-a-statesman-and-a-soldier-1.178998 | dclm-gs1-028750002 | false | false | {
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I've been making some power moves over here per usual, specifically in my home. For the first time in my entire life, I decided to eliminate TV from my bedroom. I don't have "shows" anymore so it was just background noise. Still, I hypothesized it was likely hindering my productivity whether I was still up when I should be sleeping or lingering in bed when I should be on a morning run. TV was not making me a happier or more interesting person so it had to go.
I shall focus on reading and discovering new music I thought. I was elated. I loved this new way of life. That is, until I started to become fixated on my bedroom light, otherwise known as the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Without the background noise, I had become hyper aware of my surroundings. Every night, I lay there, staring at it in disgust. I've lived with it for three years and it never bothered me before which made me even more uneasy. I was sure I shared the same light fixture as a prison cell. I needed this rectified...and quickly...
..Ta da! I'm living in a whole new world now. Here's my step by step light installation process:
1. I stumbled upon and loved their chic and affordable chandelliers. Done.
2. I was feeling very empowered so I went to YouTube for videos in light installation to do it myself. I watched a few videos, then deemed myself equally independent if I hire someone to install it for me.
3. I posted a light installation task on Task Rabbit for $36. Someone picked up the task within the hour.
4. My Task Rabbit installed it the next day.
5. Now I have a bedroom light like a boss.
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Jane Hamsher
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Posted March 23, 2009 | 11:39 AM (EST)
Why Does Timothy Geithner's Plan Make Countrywide's Stanford Kurland Even Richer?
Timothy Geithner's new plan, like all his other plans, seems designed to shovel billions into the coffers of the very same bankers who got rich on the mortgage bubble. When the public gets a glimpse of the tip of this giant iceberg, as they did with the AIG bonuses, they're dismissed as angry rubes who Just Don't Understand How Things Work. But his latest scheme is proof that they are absolutely right.
Despite Geithner's contention that banks are simply "burdened with bad lending decisions," most Americans understand at this point that there was serious fraud involved in the inflation of the mortgage bubble. The Justice Department and the FBI are currently investigating Countrywide for accounting fraud, insider trading and consciously lending money to people they knew couldn't afford to repay it. Meanwhile, AIG is suing Countrywide because they have to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance claims because Countrywide just flat out lied about the mortgages they were issuing:
United Guaranty said in the complaint that it had reviewed loan files that showed that most mortgages covered by 11 policies for asset-backed securities were either underwritten in violation of Countrywide's own guidelines or contained defects, such as missing documents, misrepresented credit scores or false social security numbers.
And who has the privilege of paying off AIG's insurance policies? That would be American taxpayers.
Stanford Kurland was the President of Countrywide during its salad days, when the predatory lending practice of low introductory "teasers" inflated Countrywide's mortgage portfolio from $62 billion to $463 billion. Bank of America, which bought Countrywide last year, has already paid out $8.7 billion to settle suits brought by states because of Countrywide's fraudulent practices, including hidden fees and false claims like "no closing costs." The Illinois suit examined one mortgage broker's sales of Countrywide loans and found the "vast majority of the loans had inflated income, almost all without the borrower's knowledge."
Just like any Ponzi scheme, the first ones out get rich. And Stanford Kurland got rich on Countrywide, cashing out to the tune of $200 million.
So where is Kurland today? Is he in jail? Well, no. He's going to get rich out of Timothy Geithner's new scheme. From the New York Times:
[A] dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from the home mortgage mess.
"In fact, it's off-the-charts good," he told Mr. Kurland, who was leaning back comfortably in his leather boardroom chair, even as the financial markets in New York were plunging.
Stanford Kurland and the Countrywide Crew have never been held to account for their part creating this financial crisis, and now Geithner's plan makes them rich all over again. Geithner worked hard to cut out provisions in the Senate stimulus bill that would have limited millions in AIG bonuses, and how he's refusing to endorse Congressional plans to tax them. He seems to believe that there is an elite class of bankers in this country who must make money no matter what happens, who should never be held to account, and whose interests should always come first in any plan the government devises.
Do you get a chance to make money in this "off-the-charts good" investing opportunity? Noooo, these loans that nobody has to pay back aren't being offered to the public.
The public understands what's going on all too well. The same thieves who brought us the mortgage crisis are above the law and back again to pick our pockets again in broad daylight, thanks to the tireless efforts of Timothy Geithner on their behalf.
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Robert Naiman
Robert Naiman
A Vote on the People's Budget is a Vote on the Wars
Posted: 04/14/11 03:45 PM ET
The House of Representatives is expected to vote soon, perhaps by tomorrow morning, on the People's Budget put forward by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
A vote in favor of the People's Budget is a vote against the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, because the People's Budget would end the wars.
In particular, the People's Budget would end emergency war funding beginning in FY 2013:
End emergency war funding beginning in FY 2013 The CBO baseline assumes that all discretionary funding--including emergency war funding--grows with inflation (from a starting point of $159 billion in 2011) when projecting future discretionary spending. Eliminating all emergency defense funding starting in 2012 would save $674 billion over 2012-16 and $1.6 trillion over 2012-21 relative to this baseline.
Furthermore, the People's Budget would cut the "base" military budget (that is, the "not for the current wars" or "future wars" military budget.) It would:
Reduce base discretionary defense spending Our budget institutes a realistic reduction in defense spending on conventional and strategic forces and capabilities that would not compromise our national security interests or capabilities. Savings would accrue from decreasing routine deployment of U.S. troops overseas (ignoring overseas contingency operations), slowing the growth of the Army and Marine Corps as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, reducing the fleet size of the U.S. Navy, reducing the number of Air Force squadrons, reducing the strategic capabilities, and canceling outdated cold-war weapon systems (including variations of the F-35, MV-22 Osprey, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), among other savings.
This is important because there is tremendous waste, fraud, and abuse in the military budget, far more than in any other branch of government. It is important because much of the military budget is a form of corporate welfare, a subsidy from the needy to the greedy. It is important because if one is going to cut spending, it's far better from the standpoint of the values and interests of the vast majority of Americans to cut military spending than to cut domestic spending, something that opinion polls show the overwhelming majority of Americans understand perfectly well.
But it's also important because the greater Washington's capacity for war, the more wars we will have. The creation of additional capacity to launch wars creates an incentive to use that capacity. In the long run, if we want our government to stop launching wars of choice all over the globe, we have to take some of the Pentagon's toys away. Our leaders - of both parties - have exhibited a strong tendency to choose war when they perceive war to be an option. Take away the option of war, and they become devoted advocates of diplomacy and negotiation.
A spectacular illustration of the role of capacity has been provided this week by the diplomatic wrangling over the war in Libya. The French and British governments demanded that the US increase its participation in the bombing of Libya. The French and the British complained that the US has military capabilities that the French and the British don't have.
This begs the question: if this military capability is so important to the French and the British, why don't they have it? And the answer is: because French and British taxpayers won't pay for it. French and British taxpayers would rather spend their money on education, health care, and other things that benefit their public rather than on high-tech weapons for their elite to go on foreign military adventures.
Good for the French and British publics. If we want to seriously address the domestic problems facing the United States, our public needs to become more like the French and British publics: putting domestic needs ahead of foreign military adventures, and making it stick. A first step is a big yes vote on the House floor for the People's Budget. You can reach your Representative via the Capitol Switchboard, 202-225-3121.
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Garlic Almonds
Melt butter in shallow ovenproof dish in moderate oven. Crush garlic, add to butter and return to oven for 5 minutes. Add almonds and roast until golden brown, stirring every 3 minutes for 12 to 15 minutes. Drain on absorbent paper, place in bowl, sprinkle... - 21.032
Scallops In Garlic Butter
Spread almonds on a baking sheet and toast in a 350° oven for about 6 minutes or until golden; set aside. In a wide frying pan over medium heat, melt butter. Add garlic, parsley, and lemon rind and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute. Add scallops (don't... - 29.7798
Almond Caper Butter
Place butter in 9-inch round baking dish. Microwave at High for 1 to 2 minutes, or until butter melts. Stir in almonds, garlic powder and paprika. Microwave at High for 4 to 5 minutes, or until almonds are lightly browned, stirring after every minute. Stir in... - 29.9944
Scallops In Garlic Butter
Spread almonds on a baking sheet and toast in a 350° oven until golden about 6 minutes; set aside. Melt butter in a wide frying pan over medium heat. Add garlic, parsley, and lemon peel; cook, stirring, for about 1 minute. Add scallops, a portion at a time... - 34.8323
Salmon With Fruited Almond Butter
In 1-quart casserole, combine butter, almonds, marjoram, orange peel and garlic powder. Microwave at High for 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 minutes, or until almonds are brown, stirring after every minute. Drain and reserve butter from almonds. In same casserole, combin - 28.3644
Planked Trout With Almond Lemon Butter
Mussels Stuffed With Herbed Almond Butter
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven hot to 400 degrees. 2) With a vegetable brush, scour mussels under running cold water. Discard the beards and rinse. Remove cracked or open mussels, keep aside. 3) Peel and mince shallots measuring to 1/3 cup. 5) Crush garlic,... - 43.0296
Barney Butter Spanish Almond Chicken
This recipe was created by Michele Thompson, MS, Channel Editor for and Food Editor for In addition to being a great recipe writer, Michele is an adventurous – and primarily healthy – personal chef. - 34.7336
Almond Noodles
Cook noodles. Microwave (high) butter, oil, garlic, and parsley. Blend with noodles. Pepper to taste. Add sesame seeds, almonds, and cheese. Toss well to blend. - 30.8319
Microwaved Almond Chicken
This Almond Chicken is from my Mom's cookbook; an easy to prepare treat for a family get together! An irresitible combination of chicken, veggies, and almonds - this Almond Chicken is something you must not want to miss out on! - 42.7694
Chicken With Mandarin Oranges And Almonds
This Chicken With Mandarin Oranges And Almonds is just right for any day when you relax and want to have something to eat. A chicken recipe, it is great for all those who love to have non-veg items in their plates! - 47.1249
Buttered Rice
Combine salt and 2 cups; water in saucepan; bring to a boil. Pour over rice; let stand for 30 minutes. Rinse rice with cold water; drain well. Melt butter in skillet. Add rice; cook over medium heat, stirring fre- quently, for 5 minutes or until butter is... - 42.8925
Red Snapper With Toasted Almonds
1 Toast the almonds in a large ungreased skillet over medium heat, shaking constantly until golden, about 5 minutes. Remove the almonds from the pan and set aside. Coarsely chop the scallions and set aside. 2 In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, salt and... - 34.0713
Green Beans With Garlic
Cook garlic and celery until just tender in hot butter in a large heavy skillet.2. Add beans; cover and cook (break frozen blocks apart with a fork as they thaw) about 5 minutes, or until beans are just tender. Sprinkle hot beans with seasoned salt, turn into... - 22.5488
Celery And Almonds
Heat butter in large skillet. Add almonds and cook until golden. Crumble in bouillon cubes and add remaining ingredients. Cover and cook 7 minutes or until tender-crisp. Serve immediately. - 34.3485
Garlicky Cocktail Almonds
Preheat oven to 275° F. Spread almonds out in a large, shallow roasting pan. Mix butter with garlic and drizzle over nuts; stir well. Roast uncovered, stirring occasionally, about 2 hours until golden brown. Drain on paper toweling. When cool, sprinkle with... - 33.2431
Mushroom Almond Pate
Toast almonds in a wide frying pan over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until lightly browned; turn out of pan and cool. Using metal blade, process garlic until chopped. Cut onion in chunks, add to garlic, and process with on-off bursts until onion is... - 42.0854
Avocado Pie With Garlic Crust
To make the crust, mix together the bread crumbs, almonds, thyme, butter, garlic and seasoning. Press over the bottom and sides of a 9-inch flan or quiche dish. Bake in a preheated 400° oven for 12-15 minutes, until golden brown and crisp-looking. Allow to... - 43.8153
Fresh Spinach With Roasted Garlic Puree
Trim stems from spinach leaves. Wash spinach 3 to 4 times in cold water to remove all dirt and sand. Drain. Steam spinach or cook in salted, boiling water. Drain well and set aside. Heat butter in saute pan over medium heat. Add garlic puree, apple, chili... - 25.8409
Easy Garlic Lemon Red Snapper
Rinse fish, pat dry, and set aside. Spread almonds in a 9-inch pie pan and bake in a 375° oven until golden (about 5 minutes), stirring several times. Remove almonds from pan and set aside. Place butter in same pan and return to oven. When butter is melted,... - 34.7941
Garlic Lemon Red Snapper
Spread almonds on a rimmed microwave-proof plate. Microwave, uncovered, on HIGH (100%) for 6 to 8 minutes or until nuts are golden, stirring every 3 minutes. Set aside. Place butter, garlic, lemon juice, parsley, paprika, and lemon peel in a small... - 42.6613
Salted Almonds
Melt the butter in a medium-size skillet. Do not let the butter brown. Stir in the blanched almonds; let them cook over low heat. Stir from time to time, or shake the skillet. When the almonds are lightly browned, sprinkle them generously with salt. Drain... - 31.1961
Smoky Almonds
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Spread almonds over bottom of a large baking sheet with raised sides. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until light golden brown. In a small bowl, combine butter or margarine, seasoned salt, liquid smoke and garlic salt. Stir almonds;... - 27.9618
Crunchy Almond Chicken
Place almonds, garlic and ginger root in blender container; cover and blend until finely ground. Mix almond mixture, salt, paprika, cumin and pepper. Dip chicken into margarine; roll in almond mixture. Place chicken skin sides up in ungreased oblong pan, 13 x... - 36.1825
Almond Prawns
Melt butter in a wide frying pan over medium heat. Add garlic and almonds; cook, stirring, until almonds are lightly toasted. Add prawns; keep turning until meat is opaque white throughout (about 5 minutes—cut one to test). Stir in parsley. Transfer to a... - 35.5808
Salted Almonds
These crunchy Salted Almonds are a delicious nutty anytime snack! Rubbed with a variety of salts and onion flavors these Salted Almonds always incarnate themselves in new irresistible varieties! Try out these Salted Almonds and see what I mean! - 32.7085
Asparagus-almond Saute
Asparagus almond saute is a microwave cooked dish, prepaed in a microwave. Seasoned with garlic and salt, the asparagus is cooked with mushrooms and topped with almonds beore serving for a delightful and easy side dish. - 34.0148
Mexican Almonds
MAKING 1. In a shallow baking pan, melt butter/margarine, add almonds and stir 2. Bake them in for fifteen minutes at 350°F until well toasted, sprinkle chilli powder and garlic salt and toss to coat well 3. Bake for another ten minutes, spread on a paper... - 29.5389
Celery Almond Saute
Celery Almond Saute is an amazingly delicious side dish recipe. Try this Celery Almond Saute dish; I bet you will have a huge fan following for this one. - 32.2496
Almond Dumplings
Mix together all ingredients, chill and form into small balls, using flour if needed to make a workable dough. Drop by half teaspoonfuls into gently boiling salted water or broth; cook 5 minutes or until balls rise to surface. - 26.9183
Oriental Almonds
Oriental Almonds - almonds with an oriental twist. I love the bit spicy and bit tangy flavor of these oriental almonds. The recipe is pretty easy too. Why don’t you give this Oriental Almonds recipe a try? - 33.5213
Mushroom Almond Pate
Spread almonds in a shallow pan and toast in a 350° oven for about 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Melt butter in a wide frying pan over medium high heat. Add onion, garlic, mushrooms, salt, thyme, and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is... - 40.155
Simple Celery Amandine
Celery Amandine is an irresistible side dish recipe. Once you try this effortlessly simple recipe at your dinner party, I bet you would surely get a huge fan following. - 35.8546
Veal With Peaches And Almonds
GETTING READY 1) Wash the veal and place on paper towels. MAKING 2) In a pan, heat oil and add garlic and cardamom. 3) Mix in the veal and cook for 4 to 6 minutes till well browned. 4) Pour in the wine, lower heat and allow to simmer for about 15 minutes. 5)... - 39.6962
Toasted Almond Cheese Ball
GETTING READY 1) Mix first 4 ingredients and shape into a ball. MAKING 2) In skillet, toast almonds in butter until browned. 3) Cool and insert, one by one, into cheese ball. 4) Wrap in foil and allow to ripen in refrigerator for at least 48 hours. 5) May... - 39.7582
Almond And Gruyere Omelette
MAKING 1. In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs gently with a fork, adding 3 tablespoons water. 2. In a frying pan, heat butter over medium heat until foamy. 3. Add almonds, and cook for about 1 minute. 4. Pour eggs over almonds and reduce heat to medium low. 5.... - 42.9439
Garlic Cheese Pate
1. Melt butter in a small saucepan and cook garlic and spring onions over a medium heat for 2 minutes or until spring onions are soft. 2. Place cream cheese and ricotta cheese in a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Add garlic mixture,... - 35.5808
Baked Low Carb Garlic Cheddar Biscuits
Are you on a low carb diet and wondering what to have as a snack? Try these Baked Low Carb Cheddar Biscuits. These are perfect to munch on, or a great lunch put together with some crisp greens. Taka a look at the video for the ingredients and directions. - 115.811
Creamy Roasted-garlic Mashed Potatoes
Who doesn't love mashed potatoes - and when you add some special flavoring into the mashed potatoes, it becomes just irresistible. In this video, vegan chef uses roasted garlic to heighten up the flavor and taste. Follow her instruction, if you also want to... - 110.725
Pasta Verde Spaghetti With Spinach Amd Almond Sauce
GETTING READY 1. Wash spinach thoroughly, remove white stems, and chop leaves coarsely. MAKING 2. Cook spinach in small quantity of salted water until the leaves turn tender; Cook frozen spinach according to the direction written on the packet. 3. Drain the... - 46.187
Chinese Rice Noodles With Seaweed And Almonds
Seaweed is a superfood - packed with vitamins and minerals. This noodle dish has so much flavor - and only takes a dozen minutes to make. - 0
Conchiglie With Spinach And Almond Sauce
MAKING 1) In a pan, cook the conchiglie in the boiling salted water, until tender. 2) In a blender or food processor, blend rest of the ingredients, until smooth. 3) Blend 5 tablespoons (75 mL) pasta cooking water into the sauce. 4) Drain the cooked... - 41.9252
Butter Baked Rice
Boil 2 cups water. Remove from fire and add 1 cup rice and salt. Let stand for 30 minutes. Drain and rinse rice. Melt butter in fry pan and add rice. Cook, stirring constantly until rice absorbs butter. Pour into casserole. Add broth and garlic powder. Bake... - 45.0873
Almond Chicken Soup
1. Combine the stock, onion, garlic, and sweet potato in a stockpot and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and add the chicken, then cover and simmer for 20 minutes. 2. In a small bowl, whisk together the Barney Butter and 1/2 cup of the soup... - 30.0162
Japnese Almonds
Spread the almonds in a shallow baking tin and toast in a preheated cool oven, 150°C (300°F), Gas Mark 2, for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the soy sauce, sherry and ginger. Pour over the almonds and continue toasting,... - 29.0497
Japanese Almonds
Spread the almonds in a shallow baking tin and toast in a preheated oven for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the soy sauce, sherry and ginger. Pour over the almonds and continue toasting, stirring occasionally, for 15-20... - 32.8677
Microwave Sauteed Celery With Toasted Almonds
MAKING 1) Into a 1 1/2 quart casserole, add in the celery, onion, butter, garlic powder and pepper. 2) Cover the casserole and microwave on HIGH for 6 minutes till the celery becomes tender, yet crisp to taste. 3) Stir the celery mixture once in between the... - 39.1452
Almond Mushroom Spread
Toast almonds in a heavy ungreased skillet over low heat for about 5 minutes. Stir frequently. Remove almonds to a bowl and set aside. Melt butter or margarine over low heat in the same skillet. Add onion and saute 5 minutes. Stir in mushrooms, garlic, salt,... - 32.2911
Roast Chicken With Almond And Pistachio Sauce
GETTING READY 1. Preheat the oven for 300 degree F 2. Season and truss the chickens as for a roast. 3. Arrange the chickens in a roasting pan. 4. Chop the nuts finely using a cleaver or coarsely grind in a food processor. They should not be ground to finely... - 45.3554
Almond Pate
This nutty pâté based on almonds, Almond Pate, does not really require much cooking. You can easily prepare this Almond Pate by simply combining all the ingredients furnished. Cook it up easily! - 24.6401
Ham, Barley And Almond Bake
PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Spray 13x9-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. SPREAD almonds in single layer on baking sheet. Bake 5 minutes or until golden brown, stirring frequently. MELT margarine in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add barley,... - 41.8286
Ham Barley And Almond Bake
Almond Tofu
In a bowl, mix first 5 ingredients. Add tofu. Marinate 2 hours, stirring occasionally. In a skillet, heat vegetable oil. Pour in tofu and marinade. Cook tofu until all liquid is absorbed. In a second skillet, heat peanut oil. Cook vegetables and water... - 41.7811
Blt And Egg Pie
Recipe by Sara Moulton, TV personality and cookbook author. - 34.8909
Almond Noodles
MAKING 1) Take a bowl and mix together oil, butter, parsley and garlic in it. Microwave (high) for about 6-8 minutes or until mixture begins to boil. 2) Blend boiling mixture with the noodles. 3) Add pepper, almonds, sesame seeds and cheese. Toss to blend... - 40.656
Toasted Almond Chicken With Amaretto And Porcini Mushrooms
Preheat the oven to warm. Lightly coat the chicken with flour. In a large skillet heat the butter and oil. Add the chicken and cook over low to medium heat until lightly browned and slightly cooked through. Turn the chicken over and brown the other... - 38.779
Almond And Bread Sauce
MAKING 1. In a pan, put milk, peppercorns, onion and garlic. 2. Cook and bring it to the boil. 3. Once done, let it cool for 30 mins. 4. Strain the mix and take out the peppercorns. 5. Pour the onion, milk and garlic mix back to the pan. 6. Add almonds to it... - 46.6751
Rock Cornish Hens With Oranges And Almonds
Rinse hen well. Drain and pat dry. Place in a shallow baking dish. Drizzle inside and out with butter. Combine orange juice, salt, pepper, marjoram, thyme, and garlic in a small bowl. Pour over and into the bird. Marinate 2 hours; turn occasionally. Set bird... - 45.1416
Broccoli With Almonds
Almond Soup Gratin
Butter both sides of bread and place in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake in a 350° oven for 10 minutes or until bread is lightly browned; turn and lightly brown the other side. Meanwhile, reserving 1 tablespoon of the almonds, spread remaining almonds... - 43.1878
Wild Rice With Almonds
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven to 200°C (400°F or Mark 6). 2) In a medium-size saucepan boil water or stock. 3) Add wild rice, reduce the heat and simmer for 45 minutes until rice are cooked and water is evaporated. 4) Cover the pan and keep warm until... - 43.0018
Almond Beef Hawaiian
Bring water to a boil with chicken stock base and butter. Stir in rice. Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes or until rice is tender. Heat 2 tbs. oil and garlic powder in skillet. Stir in sirloin strips and brown. Remove from pan and keep warm. Add... - 45.2903
Chicken & Almond Turnovers
In a medium skillet, melt butter or margarine; add onion, garlic, and chicken. Cook and stir over medium heat about 5 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, curry powder, basil and salt. Simmer over medium heat until flavors blend, about 5 minutes. Stir in almonds; set... - 42.6
Carrot And Almond Loaf With Tomato Sauce
GETTING READY 1) Preheat oven to temperature of 400 degrees. MAKING 2) In a large frying pan place over low heat, melt the butter. Saute the onion and garlic in butter very gently for about 5 minutes or till the onion has turned translucent. 3) In a large... - 42.052
Stewed Liver With Almond Sauce
In a large skillet melt the butter over low heat, then add the salt pork and fry it until lightly browned. Add the liver and chopped onions. Cook them for two to three minutes, then add the tomatoes and wine. Season with salt and pepper, cover the skillet and... - 37.366
Curried Chicken Almond
Stew chicken Cut chicken meat in large pieces. Measure out 2 cups of chicken stock and set aside. Melt butter in large heavy saucepan. Add mushrooms and garlic and cook gently 3 minutes. Stir in flour, curry powder and saffron and let bubble up... - 41.0522
Cauliflower And Peas With Curried Almonds
MAKING 1.In a slow cooker, put beans, broth, sausage links, garlic, onions, bell pepper, parsley, salt and pepper and cover the cooker. 2.Put the cooker on LOW and let the ingredients cook for 6-7 hours. 3.When 30 minutes are left, put corns in the cooker and... - 37.9036
Urnabai's Spiced Almond Chicken
Blend marinade ingredients. Combine lemon juice and cayenne, rub over chicken pieces, sprinkle salt over and let stand 30 minutes at room temperature. Make marinade, pour over chicken, refrigerate for 24 hours turning now and then. Remove chicken from... - 41.751
Chicken And Almond Rissoles
GETTING READY 1) Preheat the oven to 400°F/200°C. MAKING 2) In a large bowl, add chicken, potatoes, carrot, herbs and garlic with spices and seasonings. 3) Add the egg and bind the mixture. 4) Divide the mixture into two parts and shape them into... - 43.4704
Almond Chicken
1. Process almonds, about 1/4 at a time, with on/off pulses in electric spice grinder to fine powder. 2. Dip chicken in almonds on small plate to coat all sides; reserve remaining almonds. 3. Heat 1 tablespoon (15 mL) oil and the butter in deep 10-inch... - 38.525
Veal Scallops And Almonds Aflame
One of the most effective ways to comfort yourself is to try preparing this Veal Scallops And Almonds Aflame. Stock up on all the ingredients as you will want to make this Veal Scallops And Almonds Aflame time and again. This Veal Scallops And Almonds Aflame... - 50.5051
Herbed Lemon Pilaf With Almonds
Heat the olive oil in a saucepan. Add the onions and garlic, and saute on medium heat for 5 or 6 minutes. Stir in the turmeric, lemon juice, and soy sauce. Lower the heat and add the chopped basil, thyme, and parsley. Add the rice and mix it well with the... - 47.807
Chicken With Almonds
1. In a skillet heat the butter, add the chicken and brown on all sides. Remove the chicken and keep hot. To the pan add the garlic and onion and cook over low heat three minutes. Add the tomato paste and flour and stir with a wire whisk until the mixture is... - 30.5897
Rice Pilaf With Dates And Almonds
In a large heavy skillet, heat the butter and oil. Saute the onions and garlic on medium heat until just tender. Finely chop the bell pepper, and add it to the sauteing onions. Stir in the turmeric, cinnamon, and allspice or nutmeg. Finely chop the dates, and... - 39.8194
Carrot Dill Almond & Feta Baklava
1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan, then gently fry the onion over a low heat until soft and golden, about 15 mins. Stir in the garlic, carrots, dill and cinnamon, lemon zest and juice, then cook for another 2 mins. Season with sea salt. Add 800ml water,... - 37.5327
Creamy Green Bean Almond And Water Chestnut Casserole
MAKING 1) Take the first six ingredients and mix well. 2) Put the next four ingredients and mix all the ingredients well. 3) Pour the mixture into 1 1/2-quart casserole. 4) Top the mixture with breadcrumbs and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. SERVING 5)... - 41.4333
Stuffed Fillet Of Lamb With New Potatoes And Almond Beans
GETTING READY 1. In a saucepan, add potatoes in cold salted water, bring to the boil and simmer for 15-20 minutes until tender. 2. Make a slit down the length of the lamb and gently open out the fillet. Do not cut all the way through. MAKING 3. In a frying... - 46.0611
Papillote Of Chicken With Almond Mustard Sauce
Heat 3 tablespoons clarified butter in heavy nonaluminum large skillet over high heat. Add onions, carrots and turnips and stir-fry until lightly browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Season lightly with salt and pepper. Blend in 6 tablespoons vermouth and boil until... - 43.2435
Almond Sausage Cheese Tarts
GETTING READY 1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the softened butter and cheese. 2. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth and creamy. 3. Stir in chives and salt. 4. Add flour, a little at a time, working the mixture into a dough using a fork or pastry... - 45.1711
Red Snapper With Toasted Almonds
1. In a large ungreased skillet, toast the almonds over medium heat, shaking frequently, until golden, about 5 minutes. Remove the almonds from the pan and set aside. 2. In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, salt, and pepper. Lightly dredge the snapper... - 37.73
Mexican Style Sole With Almonds
1. Preheat the oven to 350°. Place the almonds on a baking sheet and bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until toasted. Remove the almonds and set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 250°. 2. Sprinkle the fish with the salt and pepper. Break the eggs into a... - 39.4944
Asparagus Yogurt Soup With Toasted Almonds
MAKING 1. In a pot, heat the olive oil and add the garlic to cook. 2. Add the chopped asparagus into the pot and stir 3. Add vegetable stock and bring to boil. 4. Once the soup boils, cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes. 5. Drain the asparagus and reserve the... - 114.202
Asparagus Yogurt Soup With Toasted Almonds
MAKING 1. In a pot, heat the olive oil and add the garlic to cook. 2. Add the chopped asparagus into the pot and stir. 3. Add vegetable stock and bring to boil. 4. Once the soup boils, cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes. 5. Drain the asparagus and reserve the... - 113.957
Couscous Pilaf With Almonds
1. In a large skillet over high heat, roast coriander and cumin seeds about 2 minutes, or until they begin to pop. 2. Reduce heat and add olive oil, onions, garlic, fennel and red pepper. Cook stirring, about 10 minutes, or until softened. Keep warm. 3. In a... - 33.9834
Farfalle With Sautéed Asparagus And Toasted Almonds
Italian pastas are always loved by everybody. They are simple, easy sometimes healty and offer a delicious meal option. Here is one such quick farfalle recipe for you. Watch the video for the whole recipe. - 111.43
Classic Caesar Salad With Toasted Almonds
Robin and her 88 year old Mother-in-Law show you their family Caesar Salad recipe which has been enhanced with toasted almonds. This is a video to watch for all you suckers of family recipes and secrets. It is going to impress you a lot. - 112.718
Butter Chicken
Butter Chicken
1. Place the chicken pieces in a bowl. 2. Melt the butter with the oil in a haandi or heavy-based saucepan and fry the onions and bay leaf over a medium heat for about 2 minutes. 3. While the onions are cooking, beat the yogurt lightly and add the ginger,... - 37.9231
Butter Chicken
GETTING READY 1. Wash chicken and remove excess fat from it. Cut it into 1 ½- inch pieces. 2. In a bowl mix together cold water and salt. Drop chicken piece in bowl and place it in fridge for about 30 minutes. Rinse and thoroughly drain chicken. Pat it dry,... - 108.015
Grecian Rice
MAKING 1. In a 2-quart Dutch oven or skillet, melt the butter or margarine over moderate heat. 2. When it begins to froth, add the onion, pepper and garlic. 3. Cook for 5 minutes on low heat, stirring frequently, until limp but not browned. 4. Increase heat... - 43.3796
Braised Lettuce With Grape Juice
I am in love with this Braised Lettuce With Grape Juice recipe as it brings such rave comments everytime I make it. Serve this Braised Lettuce With Grape Juice at the table today and watch it disappear in delight! - 50.7638
Rice Amandine
GETTING READY 1) Preheat the oven to 300° F. MAKING 1) In an iron skillet, melt the butter, then gently stir in the rice and stir coninuously, until brown. 2) In a casserole or pot, mix the browned rice and rest of the ingredients together. 3) Cover with... - 38.0822
Thai Inspired Wraps With Faux "peanut" Sauce
MAKING 1. In a blender, add the water, almond butter,honey,1 teaspoon of sea salt, cayenne pepper and lemon juice. Blend to a smooth paste and keep aside.This is the dip to go with the wraps. 2. Take the shredded carrot and add salt,cumin and garlic powder.... - 88.6617
Zucchini In Sour Cream
Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a 1 1/2 quart top of the-range casserole. Mix in zucchini, green pepper, salt, celery seed, and onion. Cover and simmer 5 minutes, or until vegetables are almost tender. Add sour cream gradually, blending well; heat thoroughly (do... - 39.9435
Carrot Saute
This simple carrot saute is a great side for meats or fish. Prepared with sliced carrots along with celery, this vegetable saute is flavored with garlic and soy sauce. Cooked to a tender crisp texture, the carrot saute is sprikled and tossed with toasted... - 36.7414
New Koulibiac With Green Marbling
Choose at least two kinds of fish which will make thinnish fillets, such as lemon sole and pink trout. If you can include something as attractive as red mullet, a more expensive sole, or some shellfish, it wili be even better. Skin the fillets (but not if red... - 46.7085
Catalan Bouillabaisse
1. Have the flesh of the red snapper cut into slices two inches thick and reserve. Add the bones and trimmings of the fish to four cups boiling salted water and boil slowly thirty minutes. Strain and reserve two cups of the stock. 2. In a heavy saucepan or... - 39.8072
Celery Almondine
Saute almonds in butter until lightly browned; add celery, bouillon cube, onion, monosodium glutamate, sugar, garlic powder and ginger. Mix well. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until celery is tender. - 30.9093
Sole Amandine
Enjoy this Sole Amandine - an ultimate treat for all foodies across the globe. Simply follow this best and easy recipe for 1008 and delight in! - 34.6004
Dressed Up Potatoes
Cook potatoes in boiling water to cover 15 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash. Add sour cream, milk, chives, and seasonings to potato mixture, beating at medium speed of an electric mixer until smooth. Spoon half of potato mixture into a greased 2 quart... - 41.8073 | http://www.ifood.tv/network/garlic_butter_almond/recipes | dclm-gs1-028930002 | false | false | {
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0.239049 | <urn:uuid:56ab169a-07e2-4f7e-8b55-e8e912ff8622> | en | 0.941396 | Govt: Compulsory food labelling 'would take far longer'
The Government has unveiled a new standard food labelling system, but it remains voluntary and firms that do not use it will not be named and shamed.
So why doesn't the Government make it compulsory?
Health minister Anna Soubry told me: "If we were to legislate, it would take far longer and it would get tied up".
Read: 60% of all food sold in UK will carry new labels
New food labelling system
A new front-of-pack food labelling scheme is to be introduced. The voluntary system,, which will cover just over 60% of foods, will involve traffic light colour coding and nutritional information on each product. | http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-06-19/compulsory-food-labelling-would-take-far-longer/ | dclm-gs1-028970002 | false | false | {
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lpoliver#223155 writes:
I see that nearly all of the loons are loose.
Then there is the standard BS, which normally is the rant of those who pay little to nothing in the from of income taxes, raise taxes.
For those who say they cannot find places to cut other than DoD, I will start a list of budget cuts by going back to FDR's programs were one worked for the government, if they wanted benefits.
Please feel free to ad you cuts.
I will bet that people with common sense can find lots of places to cut the budget without harming the people.
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ColeRimrock writes:
in response to cjensen:
ColeRimrock writes:
in response to Fordtough10:
"troubled upbringing"
You're a joke.
I believe cjensen is using just a bit of sarcasm.
LOL, thanks, Cole, for explaining the obvious, but with this crowd, they never have a clue....guess that's why they are called "clueless".
No prob...Just trying to state what I thought was the obvious...Howmever (and yes that is however/whomever), you never know what someone is thinking (virtually) on these boards. These places are cess pools of petri dishes. Thank goodness I can wear my SARS mask south of the keyboard....:)
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twicevolalum writes:
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No, they won a lottery of life based on where they were born and the resources, programs, and processes available to them. It's not the same for everyone. Would we have new citizens from Somalia without the U.N. refugee program?
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thedrpete writes:
"A parent with mouths to feed and rent to pay working a minimum-wage job . . . " has a history of having made poor choices and behaving irresponsibly.
". . . driving around on bald tires or with faulty brakes is everybody’s problem. His problem will be your problem if you have a collision with him." He has an unalienable right to liberty (the right to do whatever the heck he wants . . . just as long as not infringing on my like rights in the process), but this behavior is license, not liberty.
Ditto "but when a diabetic who cannot afford her insulin or an myopic person who cannot afford corrective lenses gets behind the wheel . . . ", just as with someone intoxicated.
The fix here, Mr. Stephens, isn't to have we producers support those who behave badly and make immoral, unconscionable, and indefensible choices. It's to get these dumb masses to stop it.
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0.243875 | <urn:uuid:cfec9a2a-f7fc-4e05-822c-5c9bcff85a0e> | en | 0.98605 | CANBERRA, Australia—Australia's highest court on Wednesday denied worker's compensation to a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex in a motel room during a business trip.
The judgment is a final decision, reversing lower court rulings, and could have ramifications for other federal employees who claim compensation for unconventional work-related mishaps.
The 4-1 decision from the High Court said the woman's employer did not induce or encourage her to participate in the sex, so the federal government insurer, Comcare, was not liable to compensate her. The lower court said the woman was injured in the course of her employment and should be compensated.
The woman cannot be identified for legal reasons. She was a federal civil servant in her 30s when she was hospitalized for the injury in 2007. She and a man were having sex in her motel room when a glass light fitting above the bed fell onto her face, injuring her nose and mouth. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government.
"The relevant question is: Did the employer induce or encourage the employee to engage in that activity?" a summary of the court ruling said. A majority of judges—Justices Kenneth Hayne, Susan Crennan, Susan Kiefel and Virginia Bell—answered: "No."
Justice Stephen Gageler dissented.
"Instances such as this where an employee seeks to stretch the boundaries of entitlements are of great concern and the High Court's intervention is welcome," Abetz said.
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0.090843 | <urn:uuid:b97d02aa-34f4-410f-a601-b2a33c6d337e> | en | 0.98657 | Incest Games
By Sonicck
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Tags: Incest, Brother, Sister, Mother, Father, Family
Added: 16 Jul 2008 Views: 208178 Avg Score: 4.83
A long story about how a sister and a brother got their parents to join in on their forbidden love
Chapter 1
The room was darkened by drawn drapes, and Jenny had stopped just
inside the door, but she could see plainly what was happening on the
bed, where her brother was jacking off.
Shock held her motionless, and she stared entranced at the boy's
stiffly upright cock, at how his hand was moving slowly, lovingly, up
and down upon it. Travis was masturbating; no doubt about that. His
balls were lifting and falling to the rhythm of his stroking, and she
was surprised at their size, and at the length of his prick. It wasn't
very big around--not compared to the two she had seen to date--but it
was inches longer than either of those.
Travis had a book in his other hand, engrossed in its pictures, and
Jenny thought it must be one of those horny magazines young guys
seemed to dig so much. It was turning on her brother, that was certain;
his hand fondled his glistening shaft, and worked up to the lavender
colored head, then stroked down to his balls once more. His pubic hair
was a rich and shining brown, feathering his crotch and covering his
balls with a shaggy fur. He was amazingly well developed for being only
fifteen years old, she thought.
She felt her heart pounding and the threat of a runaway pulse in her
throat. The nipples of her tits lifted strongly and pushed against her
thin shirt. She wasn't wearing a bra, and she'd sneaked into her
brother's room to borrow a special sweater, without his knowing it. Now
she couldn't leave.
Jenny couldn't even take her eyes off that sensuous movement as his
hand slid up and down, up and down. He had something on his cock, she
thought, and was sure of it when she saw him lift his hand to his mouth
and lick it several times, wetting down the palm. Travis was using his
own saliva, and that was something she had always wondered about, how
boys did it. It was easy for a girl because her pussy turned juicy
right away, and when she slid a finger inside to feel around--
Somehow, Jenny's hand had gotten down to cup her mound, to tremble
there as her entire being seemed to concentrate, to fold in upon itself
and the deep shiverings began. Her pussy responded, but her hand would
not. She wore jeans, and the material was too tight, too thick at her
crotch, for her to get inside and start masturbating along with her
She was drawn to him now. She yearned toward where he lay stretched
slim and tanned upon the bed. They had always been close, getting along
much better than the other brothers and sisters they knew. And lately,
they had begun to develop a special kinship, because of the turmoil in
the family.
But now--Jenny's fingers dug almost savagely into her crotch--on the
bed, her brother's ass lifted and rolled, and his belly made sexy,
bumping motions as his prick fed itself into his clenching fist. She
took an involuntary step toward him, and fought herself to a standstill
again. What was she doing? What did she have in mind?
Him. She had him in mind, and in her blood, and he was also beginning
to come to a boil within the trembling damp lips of her avid pussy. He
was her brother and she wanted him, more so than she had wanted the two
other guys who had screwed her. If that was bad or forbidden or
whatever the hell, Jenny didn't give a damn now. She wanted Travis, and
she meant to have him.
She took another hesitant step, wondering whether to wait it through,
thinking that if he came and all his boyish semen drained from that
interesting prick, then he might not have any left in reserve for her.
But she also wanted to see what happened when a guy's cock exploded.
She'd felt the onrush of come before, but she had never watched what
The choice was taken from her at that moment. Travis's eyes caught the
motion she'd made, and he looked up, stared right at her. He slapped
the magazine down over his cock, his upper body jerking erect, his eyes
"Sis! What the hell--how long have you--get the hell outa' my room!"
Her voice was strange in her own ears, strained, sounding kind of
fuzzy. "Travis--don't--I wasn't sneaking--" she moved toward the bed,
her hand out entreatingly. The other one was still cupping her crotch.
Jenny reached the bed and her knees gave way, spilling her upon it.
"Damn it--" he said.
She didn't know what she was saying; she hadn't consciously meant to
say "darling," but that's what came out.
And it must have been the right thing, for her brother stopped
bristling defensively and a flush spread over his face. "Jenny, you
shouldn't have come in here without knocking. I'm not a kid anymore."
"I'll say," she agreed, and watched his blush deepen. Her hand was on
his leg, moving up to his knee, and she murmured, "I saw what you were
doing. If you--if you go ahead until you come, will that stop you from-
-well, doing anything else?"
His eyes followed her hand, and he flinched when she reached his thigh
and the edge of the magazine that was protecting his prick. "You mean--
you? Sis, don't tease me. I never had a girl before. I've only done
this, jacked off."
Jenny reached up and did things to the neck of her blouse. It slipped
away and he stared at her freed tits. She felt her nipples more erect
and harder than they had ever been, and the mounds themselves were
swollen with this new, urgent need. Her lips moved numbly: "Do you like
them? Do you like my boobs?"
"They're beautiful," he said. "Oh wow--just like I always dreamed they
would be, if I ever got a peek at all of them."
She swallowed. "You can touch them. Travis. You can let go of that
damned magazine and touch your sister's tits."
His hands moved jerkily, came up with the fingers outstretched. The
magazine slid off his lap and she saw the beautiful hard cock spring
erect once more. Watching him jack off could wait, she decided; there
would be plenty of time for that kind of action, later.
Her entire being trembled when her brother's hands moved over her tits.
There was a look of awe in his face as he cupped the mounds, as he
pushed them down and allowed them to rise again, with their erectile
nipples firmly against his palms.
"Beautiful tits," he said. "Strong and lovely. Man oh man, to think I'm
really, really playing with them."
She couldn't wait. Both her hands moved up his thighs and her
fingertips prowled into the shaggy forest of his brown pubic hair.
Travis jerked his pelvis, and his hard prick waved back and forth like a
flag-pole in an earthquake. Jenny touched the base of his cock,
caressed the furry balls in their wrinkled sack. The shaft of her
brother's prick was throbbing; it was veined with twisting lines, and
the skin was impossibly soft along its length.
The head of it was something else, still damp from his saliva, flanged
and bluntly pointed, that intriguing lavender color deepening as she
fingered over the knob. As she watched, a little droplet of clear fluid
rose from the tiny mouth. And his fingers dug into her tits with an
immediacy, an impatience that matched her own sizzling emotions.
She released his cock suddenly, her hands darting to her waist,
snatching at the zipper of her boys' jeans. Wriggling her hips and
kicking off her tennies, Jenny stripped herself, flinging away the
panties, too. When she rolled over onto the bed with her bare legs
churning, she was totally naked, and the slightest touch of her
brother's skin against her own was electric.
Their eager bodies slid together, flesh on flesh, and she felt the long
pole of his cock pressed tightly against her belly. Jenny's mouth
sought her brother's, and finding it, locked avidly to his mobile lips.
Jolt after bright, hot jolt shot through her body and went ricocheting
around inside her head when their tongues met.
Wet and wild, they passed tongues back and forth, sucking and being
sucked; their teeth clashed gently, and Jenny thought that Travis was a
natural cocksman, to know so much and to react so well. He'd never
screwed a girl, yet here he was, so hot and strong.
Her tits worked across his chest, their nipples ultra-sensitive. Her
pelvis ground itself into his, and she lifted one slim leg to place it
across his hip. Travis pushed nearer, then, the head of his expanded
prick pulsing hungrily, prodding at the hairy mound of her humid pussy.
Jenny reached for his cock, held lovingly to it for just a moment,
then steered the spongy-hard knob into the entrance of her labia. Travis
shoved, and the head of it skidded from the hole itself, to slip
greasily along the quaking pussy lips and on past the cleft in her ass.
She fumbled down and took him in her fingers again, clinging powerfully
to her brother's prick as he tried to pump it home.
"E-easy, baby!" she gasped. "Oh, take it easy. Here--let me guide it
for you. Yes, darling; there--oh, there! Feel how wet and soft it is?
Now push it in my cunt, Travis. Take your time."
He said brokenly, "Sis--oh, sis! You're so hot and slick, it's like
nothing I ever felt before--all juicy and like velvet. Man! I'm getting
into my beautiful sister's pussy."
She felt the head thrust into her outer cunt lips, and knew the thrill
as it penetrated, stretching the labia, as it came on into the next
frail barrier and shoved it aside, also. He was into her snatch then,
pushed the length of his long, hard prick all the way into her wetly
grasping vagina.
Jenny knew a strange new sensation as she realized that the head of
her brother's cock was pumping against her cervix, that for the first
time in her young life, the cup of her womb was being prodded by a
boy's prick. It was so much more thrilling to know that she was being
fucked by her brother. Dear, darling Travis; he had grown up practically
under her wing after their parents started fighting. Now he was really
hers, and she was his, in this marvelous intimacy.
"I--I feel your pussy around my prick," he panted, moving his belly
into hers, backing his rod out almost to the head before shoving it
deep again. "Oh, wow--sis! I always dreamed fucking you would be crazy,
but never this hot and slippery and good. Oh--I'm going to come.
Already! I--I can't hold it off! I love you so much--AHHH!"
She ground her cunt around upon his plunging shaft, digging her
fingernails into the smoothly muscled cheeks of his ass. "Go on,
darling! Let it all go! Squirt your lovely hot semen into me, into your
sister's cunt. It's all right. It's fine, baby."
His come erupted from the flexing end of his hard cock, spewed forth a
boiling stream of the wondrous liquid that both seared and soothed.
Jenny met his hesitant, broken strokes, swinging her ass and humping
her snatch to him, knowing the wet slap of her brother's balls. He was
sweet and magnificent and adorable--and she rode the diminishing spurts
of his semen as they splashed torridly into her shuddering pussy.
Clamping down on his embedded shaft, she held him still, her hands
stroking his buttocks, her fingers dipping swiftly and tantalizingly
into the furry crack and out again. Arms wrapped around his slim, hard
body, she crushed her tits into his heaving chest and breathed into his
ear: "Rest a minute, Travis. You came too soon, but I loved it, anyhow.
You were so hot, getting your first fuck, that you just blew off before
you could control yourself. Next time will be better. I'm really
slippery inside now, darling--all foamy and soapy from your semen in
there. And next time, I'll come with you. Oh baby brother--you have a
simply gorgeous prick!"
Travis nuzzled her throat in answer, his hands moving warmly up and down
her back. "Wow, sis--that was far out. It sure beats jacking off, and
my cock is wiggling around inside your crazy pussy on its own. I'll be
able to go again in a few seconds; I know I will."
Caressing her brother's ass, Jenny squirmed gently upon his stiff
prick, wondering at its continued hardness. The other boys she had
screwed usually lost their hards right away.
She moved her mouth into his ear, used her tongue to tickle him there,
pushing it right on down into the curvy little hole. Travis heaved
against her, twisting and turning, and she started to stroke on his
buried cock.
Pulling his ass to her with both hands, she bucked her pelvis into his,
rotated her crotch so that her sensitized cunt walls could enjoy every
rubbing of his prick. Her clit vibrated at each sensuous touch, and she
could feel her asshole tighten. Such a long, hard cock, she thought; a
cherry cock, all for her. Travis had been a virgin until a few moments
ago, and he had never tried to take his prick out of his sister's
jealous pussy since firing his first over-eager load there.
"Screwing you again," he breathed, his hands now with a powerful grip
upon her ass. "Putting my meat up your pussy again, sis. Oh man--it's
great great!"
She said, "Fuck me, baby brother. Oh, fuck me until I can't breathe;
you have the most beautiful prick ever, and I want it, want to screw it
until I pass out from coming. Travis, darling--oh, pump it to me. That's
so good!"
He picked up a beat, his slim shaft working in and out of the grasping
confines of her wet pussy, screwing in his own semen, in the bubbling
residue of his own ejaculation. Jenny knew the seeping of overflow, as
her own lubricating oils mixed so copiously with her brother's come.
She pulled him more tightly to her with the gripping of her leg, and
braced her heel behind his knee for a better purchase.
They bumped bellies, and Jenny felt behind her surging ass, reached
through her thighs to find his swinging balls. She held them, squeezed
them gently, fondled them as Travis fed his stiff and rejuvenated meat
to her avid cunt. Her brother was learning already, and starting to
roll his ass, to grind it as he used his boyish prick. It was better
for them both, slippery and juicy, teasing and deeply felt.
Jenny speeded up her rhythm, needing the hard meat deeper, faster,
needing more of it in her inflamed pussy. Her clitoris was thrumming
madly, and she began to feel the slight break in Travis's thrusts, the
faint jerkings that signaled the swift approach of his own orgasm.
"Go, baby brother!" she gasped. "Oh yes, darling--fuck me hard and fuck
me strong! Stick your cock so deep that I'll feel it in my belly. Oooh!
Oh! Y-yes--Travis! That's it, darling. I'm coming--coming--coming!"
He was only a heartbeat behind the titanic cresting that broke foaming
throughout her rippling cunt. Great and glorious, her climax swept her
body, making her moan and twist, making her asshole knot itself.
Travis's semen hissed scorchingly into her snatch, another heavy load of
come that poured the length of her throbbing pussy, drowning her womb
and flooding back to leak creamy and sticky around his root and down to
her thigh.
Her nails raked his sweaty back, and her pelvis made a drumbeat against
his hairy crotch. She loved her brother insanely, completely, totally now. No matter what else happened, they had each other.
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Written on Marco Island high school proponents hold meeting to address neighbors’ concerns:
4marco - it's funny you would quote The Alliance for Exceptional Education. They are all about improving existing schools, not running away. There is room for improvement at any school. Students are getting an exceptional education at Lely, if they want it.
And, if you truly believe that MICMS has the 3rd highest migrant population in the district, you are so far removed from reality that you should just bow out of this blog now and stop wasting everyone else's time!
4marcoisland- You are either pitifully uninformed, or an extreme skewer of the facts.
How can you say that the local schools have low graduation rates and no one does anything to fix it? That is your uninformed, uneducated OPINION, not a FACT!
Where in the world did you get the "fact" that the Marco Island Charter Middle School has the 3rd highest migrant population in the district? According to the MICMS website at, they have EXACTLY 7 migrant students, which is 1.98% of their student population. That is the 3rd highest in the district? In a matter of minutes this information is readily available to anyone who takes the time to look it up.
I have not checked into your other "facts" as you have proven that you are not credible, just like many other members of your group.
Those against a new school (paid for by taxpayers, and/or on Tract K) are a very large, mostly silent majority. It's nice to see that they are finally voicing their opinions.
Written on Plenty of interest but not much movement on Marco’s Tract K property:
No development of any kind near those eagles
Written on Prep baseball: Eric Maya replaces Miller as Lely coach:
Good luck to the new coaches! Go Lely Baseball!
Written on Guest Commentary: Applying reason to the high school initiative:
You make it sound like kids are not getting educated, so this new school will be the big fix. Only problem with that... nothing is broken.
Time to cut the cord.
Written on High school still an option for Marco Island's Tract K:
imlovinit=ignorant, uninformed, brainwashed fool, which is evidenced by the incorrect statemant that Lely is rated as one of the worst schools in the nation. Educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. Do you have a student at Lely? I can answer! It's obvious.
It's nice to see common sense, informed people posting about this ridiculous push for a new, taxpayer funded school, that we don't need, and the majority of us don't want.
Many wonderful Marco families will be at Alico Arena this evening celebrating the Lely High School graduation. The students are wonderful, intelligent, young men and wowen, well prepared for the next step in their lives.
This is a want, not a need. This ages old concept must be relearned in this current gimme society. (Wonder if they teach their kids the difference between want and need?)
And since it is a want, pay for it yourselves, on land you buy with your money. NO taxpayer money!
Don't be fooled by their hype. Most Marco parents are not interested in this limited experience for their kids.
And stay away from the eagles!!!
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Can't and won't be a high school.
Written on Two half-pints delivered a quart-sized message to City Council:
Ya gotta give the Academy people an A+ in marketing. They're selling this igloo to the Eskimos!
Written on Q&A | Marco Island Academy: Charter high school plans moving forward :
It is just amazing that these people think they know more than experienced educators!
livingonmarco - the majority of people admire and respect the principal of MICMS, unlike you and your negative group.
Written on Marco charter school partly eases budget deficit pain:
This is a great little school, serving the needs of local students. Let's continue to support MICMS - its administration, staff and students. They've proven they're worthy of our support, and they need us!
Also, remember...every $ you give to the Marco Academy (they don't have a charter, even though they are calling themselves a public charter school), is a dollar that could be given to MICMS or Lely High School. These two schools are doing an awesome job of educating our kids!
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Don't know if Dana Souza would come back, but he is the man for the job.
Written on Letter to the Editor: Marco Island needs a high school:
Fossil - what makes you think anyone not in support of a high school on Marco is an immature student or a Lely teacher? Your lack of knowledge of the subject must be the reason.
Mainly, the people who are against a new school are people who know that Lely High is providing an exemplary education, and they know this by personal experience. They are not just reciting what someone else told them to say.
Most of the people who want a new high school are intelligent, successful people who want the best for their kids. No one can fault them for that; that is what both sides want.
They fail to understand what they want is not needed.
Also, we must remember that some people are never happy with anything, and will find fault with any school, including a new school.
Why not open a private school similar to Seacrest? You will then have the control that you obviously seek, and you will have your Marco high school.
In case you really don't know why people are opposed to a new high school on Marco, I'll give a little run down:
1. The Marco Academy group has been bashing Lely High for over a year. Lely has been well liked by thousands of people for over 30 years. The lies and misrepresentations are annoying.
2. It isn't that people are against a school. They are against using taxpayer dollars. Private school, go right ahead and use your own money.
3. The assumption that their kids are too good for Lely. Guess what? Their kids aren't too good for Lely. Their kids are no better than anyone else's kids.
4. This story gets a lot of newspaper coverage, so you'd think that everyone is on board. In reality their fundraising events are not well attended. At one the menfolk were all wearing black afro wigs. Don't know what the point of that was. Trying to show they are not prejudiced? Ridiculous.
5. The "do and say anything to see what sticks" mentality. How about sticking to facts and the truth? Isn't that what you teach your kids? Maybe not!
A majority of the points listed above are purely opinion, with no fact whatsoever to back them up.
Just because it's in print does not mean it's the truth.
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BlueyDragon Mon 25-Mar-13 02:22:31
Kitty killed it. Come on over!
Lewisfan Mon 25-Mar-13 02:23:23
no idea...
starsandunicorns Mon 25-Mar-13 02:25:00
Waves to Bluey grin
Should be sleeping but first day placement nerves are keeping me awake sigh hows you
starsandunicorns Mon 25-Mar-13 02:30:15
Quickly runs around with a duster a hoover frebreeze puffs cushions and gets the cups sausers glasses and the biscut and cake tins on the table to make new thread all nice peers out of thread making the net curtains twitch for the vistors to arrive smile
BlueyDragon Mon 25-Mar-13 02:37:58
Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. Sorry I haven't been in, actually got some sleep the last couple of nights, which is just as well as DS has been yo-yoing out of bed. Think he's got another cold, oh joy. I do have some sympathy for him, honest, in fact he told me to go back to bed when I was giving him cuddles to try and get him settled smile.
Kitty, you're right, last chemo is this Thursday. I had my gastro-eyes on The Hand and Flowers in Marlow, and DH and I were hoping to stay there but there's a note on the website saying they only have availability for weekdays. In December. So it's back to the Michelin Guide drawing board. I hope your LO is better btw.
MrsShrek, your poor DH and his "phased return". I'm taking notes for when I go back, hopefully in May. My lot have managed to annoy me this week as my sick pay has stopped and the daffy insurance scheme that's supposed to kick in is still processing the paperwork, and HR can't tell me when it will be done. I wouldn't mind if it was my delay, but I asked them for the paperwork well before Christmas and it took them 2 months to send it. Still, otherwise they've been pretty good thus far so I'm not going to moan. I've joined a gym instead so I can get moving again, in the warm and not this bloody cold weather! Have you seen these t shirts btw? Made me smile anyway.
Sorry, mammoth post. I'm taking my hills back to the locker grin.
BlueyDragon Mon 25-Mar-13 02:40:00
Lovely tidy locker, thanks stars.
So is the placement the 3 day contract you were after? Or am I getting confused?
TheFallenNinja Mon 25-Mar-13 02:41:34
Dd is making this noise
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr, ffffffffffffff, ppppppppppp, fart, Rrrrrrrrrrrr
Over and over.
starsandunicorns Mon 25-Mar-13 02:46:51
Yes its a 3 week contract smile 9-1 but a hours drive in rush hour. mon to fri plus any night work from main angency its in post room with a big company nervous at the drive there due to weather and not been able to do dummy run this weekend.[good job Im good at 3 point turns ]
Am hoping I get to push the post trolley grin
starsandunicorns Mon 25-Mar-13 02:49:11
The fallenNinja your dd sounds like my dp this morning smile
BlueyDragon Mon 25-Mar-13 02:57:06
You'll be fine, stars, really you will.
Ninja, is this a new addition to dd's repertoire? Bet it's not new for stars' DP though grin.
starsandunicorns Mon 25-Mar-13 03:06:48
Thankyou Bluey and err no dp is most well qualfield in botty burps grin sadly and can be very vocal !
Right going to try to sleep up at 06:30
jynier Mon 25-Mar-13 03:08:04
I'm confused; may have been on the wrong thread earlier!!!
Thought that I had found you all but perhaps not!
weegiemum Mon 25-Mar-13 03:08:28
I'm awake as I've got a hospital appointment tomorrow and I really struggle with a phobia of hospitals. Very nervous!!
BlueyDragon Mon 25-Mar-13 03:19:02
jynier, which thread was it? Imposters, the lot of 'em...
weegie, that's not good (all of it: the phobia, needing to go to hospital anyway, not sleeping). Have you got any good distractions? Other than MN, obviously.
BlueyDragon Mon 25-Mar-13 03:28:19
Oops, my enthusiasm was a bit misplaced. New thread is here.
Sorry blush.
TheFallenNinja Mon 25-Mar-13 04:11:35
My god, she's like the energiser bunny tonight smile
That's it, she's on decaf tomorrow
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Iggy writes:
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Am I the only one here who thinks it's a bit greedy to expect your employees work on Christmas? If given a choice, that's a different story.
NO you are not the only one!! Some of these places require you to work, some posting shorter shifts and all but none the less a requirement.. I have seem people fired for choosing to be with their children on this holiday rather than working a dinner shift.
I think it is in bad taste to be open on this day. I understand that there are people that won't be celebrating with family and such but there are so many more that are, I think the others can go ONE day without a restaurant or store being open!! PREPARE... gezzz!!
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Ruger writes:
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Sorry buddy. If you got a job somewhere replacing a bad employee and you make it worse you can't go back to your supervisor(voters) two years later and blame the old employee. You would be fired.
Obama needs to be fired 2012. He failed and America has had enough of his excuses, stupid inane speeches and inept leadership.
Very true, he sounds like a spoiled child blaming a sibling for his own actions.
Conservatives warned everyone before the 2008 election.
Unfortunately, America didn't listen.
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The nine judges on the Supreme Court have answered your question already, and will do so again when asked. I wouldn't be presumptuous in that regard.
Re-read my question.
It is:
If Obe wants to try using Executive Order to try to regulate our 2nd Amendment rights, what would stop a future President from declaring abortion, freedom of the press and/or religion, or any other civil right illegal?
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As one might have expected, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates will not face criminal charges after being arrested for disorderly conduct in Cambridge, Mass., last Thursday. (Jonah discussed the incident in previous posts here and here.) Distilling the affair to its barest details, police were called to Gates’s residence when a passerby saw two black men, whom they later learned were Gates himself and a limousine driver, appear to be breaking into the home. According to the police account, Gates accused the officers of mistreating him because of his race, and he became belligerent to the point that he ran afoul of the Massachusetts law against disorderly conduct.
Gates denied the allegation and now suggests that the involved officer apologize to him. “If he apologizes sincerely,” Gates told a Boston Globe reporter, “I am willing to forgive him. And if he admits his error, I am willing to educate him about the history of racism in America and the issue of racial profiling.”
I suspect the officer won’t be taking Mr. Gates up on the offer. The claim that Gates had been “profiled” is ludicrous. Police responded to a 911 call from a witness who described two black men she believed to be breaking into a home. If contacting a black man then found inside that very home is deemed to be “profiling” then the term itself has been stripped of its meaning.
And though arresting Gates may in retrospect be seen as imprudent, to suggest he was hauled in on some trumped-up charge is to accept the following as true: Gates did not in fact behave as the officer described in the report but was instead as meek as a lamb, and despite the lack of legal cause the officer fabricated a case against him even after becoming aware of his exalted status as a Harvard professor. Straining Gates’s credibility even further, the arresting officer would have had to believe his fabrication would be supported not only by all the other officers who had gathered at Gates’s home, but also by the woman who had placed the original call to the police and the “at least seven other unidentified passers-by” referred to in the police report.
Preposterous. If there’s an apology that’s owed, it’s not from the police.
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The BCL6 proto-oncogene encodes a nuclear transcriptional repressor, with pivotal roles in germinal center (GC) formation and regulation of lymphocyte function, differentiation, and survival. BCL6 suppresses p53 in GCB-cells and its constitutive expression can protect B-cell lines from apoptosis induced by DNA damage. BCL6-mediated expression may allow GCB-cells to sustain the low levels of physiological DNA breaks related to somatic mutation (SM) and immunoglobulin class switch recombination which physiologically occur in GCB-cells. Three types of genetic events occur in the BCL6 locus and involve invariably the 5' non-coding region and include translocations, deletions and SM actively targeted to the 5' untranslated region. These acquired mutations occur independently of translocations but may be involved in the deregulation of the gene and/or translocation mechanisms. The favorable prognostic value of high levels of BCL6 gene expression in NHL seems well-established. By contrast, the relevance of SM or translocation of the gene remains unclear. However, it is likely that non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) harboring the most frequent translocation involving BCL6, i.e. t(3;14), are characterized by a common cell of origin and similar oncogenic mechanisms. Several experiments and mouse models mimicking BCL6 translocation occurring in human lymphoma have demonstrated the oncogenic role of BCL6 and constitute a rational to consider BCL6 as a new therapeutic target in NHL. BCL6 blockade can be achieved by different strategies which include siRNA, interference by specific peptides or regulation of BCL6 acetylation by pharmacological agents such as SAHA or niacinamide and would be applicable to most type of B-cell NHL.
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By William Gibson
Despite its obvious satisfactions, there are risks attached to being proved right. In the case of William Gibson, the triumph and eventual collapse of a financial system based on pure illusion, and the emergence and swift dominance of the "consensual hallucination" he named "cyberspace", have reduced him from a prophet to a pundit and transformed his approach from a sensitive taking of the pulse to a matter of simply looking around. Gibson's latest trilogy of novels - Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and now Zero History - takes place in the future - our present - which he predicted in his earlier trilogies, "Sprawl" (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) and "Bridge" (Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties). Being able to say "I told you so" comes at the cost, in the more recent books, of the fantastical becoming mundane, the other-worldly becoming everyday.
But while Gibson's earlier successes impose an air of obsolescence on Zero History, there is still pleasure to be had from observing the exact shape the present has assumed. And the world financial crisis has thrown up useful characters, including Bernie Madoff, whose scam - portrayed here as Fuckstick's Ponzi scheme - plays conveniently into Gibson's themes of authenticity and fabrication.
The professional milieu of the new book is industry, the government and "that lucrative sector . . . that might be either or both", and the setting is London. After losing on the money markets what she had left over from the dotcom bust, Hollis Henry, former lead singer of Curfew and heroine of Spook Country, is forced back into the employ of Hubertus Bigend, a slippery Belgian in control of the London-based advertising agency Blue Ant. Also on Bigend's payroll is the ex-junkie Milgrim, who has arrived in London from a stint in rehab. The novel's 84 chapters follow the progress of Hollis and Milgrim in turn, except during their brief joint excursion to Paris.
Gibson's London is a crude creation, not much more specific than Hollis's concert-tour impression of Melbourne: "a collage, a mash-up, like a Canadianised Los Angeles, Anglo-Colonial Victorian amid a terraformed sprawl of suburbs". But even in outline, London has its uses, not least as a setting for noir-ish doings and as a varied playground for the novel's mostly American cast.
The collision enables such chapter titles as “A Herf Gun in Frith Street"; such pop-culture soundbites as "Caffè Nero, a tastier alternate-reality Starbucks" and "Neal's Yard, a courtyard gotten up as a kind of New Age mini-Disneyland" and "a chain called Hackett. Like an upscale Banana Republic but with pretension he knew he didn't understand"; and such descriptions as "Milgrim fell, amazed and unthinking, into his mysterious joy at the Hanger Lane Gyratory" - this coming from the second scene to take place at "England's most famously intimidating roundabout".
Readers uninterested in contemplating, say, the redundancy of the postage stamp or the perversity of the non-digital television will find themselves hopelessly adrift. The characters' interests are generally confined to advertising gimmicks, brand names, surveillance technology and trend-spotting (or "coolhunting").
Description for Gibson is not a tool of vivid scene-setting, just as registering a character's impressions is not a way of conveying inner life: everything is at the service of ideas. He tends to use his characters to channel the thoughts and mouthpiece the opinions that he cannot quite force into his narration; so Gibson himself observes that "the gestural language of public places, that had once belonged to cigarettes, now belonged to phones", but it is Bigend who describes the rumour that Ralph Lauren shops at Hackett as "an extremely complex piece of information, conceptually".
Gibson has a wide range of reference and his prose habits are likewise a fascinating hotchpotch. He is conscientious about the Latin plural ("fora" not "forums", "homunculi") but loves nothing more than a split infinitive; he is capable of debonair literary theft (such as "attractively simian" from Lolita), but relies constantly on ugly colloquialisms, often involving the word "some", as in "some kind of Gurkha feedback loop" or - my favourite - "his tone like some Jane Austen chaperone's".
Unfortunately, these eccentric pleasures are somewhat undermined by a plot that becomes increasingly murky without achieving a corresponding rise in tension. It would have been tempting to disregard the plot as a mere pretext or springboard or motor, but much of the book's length is occupied with bugging and chasing and double-crossing; there are also efforts late in the novel to transform Gabriel Hounds from a McGuffin into a source of independent interest. Gibson seems uncertain whether to treat the plot as function or flourish, with the result that it fails as both. And it is a particular let-down that, after placing the reader in the company of characters with ice-cold blood and alien value systems, he rounds things off with a windfall and an engagement - like some kind of Jane Austen ending.
Zero History
William Gibson
Viking, 416pp, £18.99
Leo Robson is the New Statesman's lead fiction reviewer.
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Airhead's picture
Big Ant? Blue Ant yes!!!!
Phil's picture
Your expectations are as foolish as your own grammatical fetishes. You fail. You fail to see what is actually in the book, for your expectations lie with the assumption the book is written to amuse you with some sort of conventional plot and standard excitement. You are what is mediocre, and therefore you see only what you want, when the book's depth is in another dimension and this is part of the whole point. How the hell do you get paid for reviewing books, when you can't actually 'read' books? Eh fuck it, you're part of the problem Gibson is actually talking about. | http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/09/zero-history-gibson-london | dclm-gs1-029520002 | false | false | {
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0.063417 | <urn:uuid:3c75c241-23e0-4dbf-bb80-d6d99e8ec3ba> | en | 0.969287 | Who’s afraid of electoral reform?
Jean Lambert says its more than time Labour got around to fulfilling its 1997 manifesto pledge to ho
Labour made a manifesto commitment to reviewing the electoral system in 2001 and there have been many failed attempts to start the ball rolling. Seven years later we are presented with the review and the response from campaigners has generally been quite positive. It’s seen as being a fairly even-handed, comprehensive review of the voting systems currently used in the UK, with plenty of positive comments about Proportional Representation.
The review in fact goes so far as to demolish some of the arguments most cherished by opponents of electoral reform. And some of the conclusions of the study certainly point to an open approach to altering the first past the post system (FPTP) for the House of Commons.
For instance, the review found there was “not a difference between PR systems and FPTP in terms of delivering stable and effective government”, although it did of course recognise that “with a greater number of parties involved under PR, the political landscape can be more dynamic.” And it noted that in the experience of the UK, coalition governments can be just as stable as single-party governments.
It went on to say that “one of the main benefits of PR, and in particular STV (single transferable vote), is that voters have a greater degree of choice in elections and a greater chance of their vote counting in terms of who gets elected.”
This is a key concern of many groups. At the moment party campaign budgets are focused in swing seats, with safe constituencies being virtually ignored. If you live in a swing constituency your vote counts far more than in a neighbouring safe seat. With proportional representation everyone’s vote can make a difference.
The review also concluded that it did not find “any evidence to suggest that voters find one voting system easier or more confusing than another voting system.”
However, while these are warm words from the Ministry of Justice, the Government’s reluctance to engage with the public on this issue is clear given the lack of fanfare surrounding the release of the report. Voting matters and so do the systems used and yet there has been no attempt by the Government to ask voters about their experiences and opinions.
If the Government needed any convincing that the citizens are interested in our voting systems then they should consider the response that the Independent received in 2005 to a petition they ran calling for electoral reform. They managed to raise 40,000 signatures in just a few weeks. The I Want A Referendum on the European treaty campaign has been going for many months with a large, nationwide advertising campaign yet it has only raised 35,000 signatures.
The publishing of this review fulfils one of Labour’s 2001 commitments, but their 1997 manifesto commitment for a referendum on proportional representation is still outstanding. It is high time Gordon Brown fulfilled that pledge. The Government has dragged its feet for long enough on Lords reform – we must not have a similar delay towards serious consideration of this report.
Jean Lambert is on the management committee of www.makevotescount.org.uk. She was first elected Green Party Member of the European Parliament for London in the 1999 European elections and was re-elected in 2004. She is one of nine MEPs representing London and one of two UK Green representatives in the European Parliament.
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Labour and Lib Dems aren't interested in 'real democracy'. Here in Cornwall the Lib Dem elite are forcing a Unitary Council on us even though 80% of people voted against the idea in a local vote. They also seem happy to reduce representation down from the present 280 or so local Counsellors to under 100 in this centralising of power in the Duchy. Now Labour have put back local elections to this new council to May 2009 - a month 'after' it comes into being! And they wonder why people are so uninterested in voting - what's the point.
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Why not replace the House of Lords with a House of Juriors. In the same way jurys are appopinted to hear and decide upon criminal cases, jurors could be appointed to review new legislation from the House of Commons. A new jury could review each proposed bill. They could also annually review the pay and expences of MPs and decide what changes are required.
The one problem will PR voting for MPs is that finalises the move from voting for an individual to represent you, to voting for a Political Party. The next honest move from there would be to directly vote for the Prime Minister rather than letting MPs appoint a PM.
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When voting for an MP we are told we are selecting our prefered individual to represent us, although in truth I suspect most of us are either chosing the Political Party we prefer or the PM we want. We really should think about seperating the vote for MPs from the vote for PM.
While the monach may have the right to refuse to appoint the Leader of the largest party, I suspect it would be a huge step forward in the cause of Republicanism if the monach ever tried to use it today.
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MPs don't appoint prime ministers. The prime minister is appointed by the monarch. The monarch appoints the leader of the largest party. So when you do elect MPs you are in effect electing the PM.
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Where do we get this idea that voting for a political elite is democratic? "it is thought to be democratic for the offices to be assigned by lot, for them to be elected is oligarchic," (Aristotle).
A vote by the demos may be a democratic vote, but that does not mean a system whereby a political elite determines the candidates, the voting system, and indeed, whether or not they can employ their wives and mistresses, is democracy.
Democracy means rule by ordinary people, it does not mean having a choice between one or other undemocratic political party.
Indeed, the most democratic instiution we have in this country isn't parliament but the humble jury that we all respect, and does its job for next to no pay.
There is a lot to be said for developing the use of juries. Why e.g. couldn't a jury decide on issues such as MPs pay and conditions. Why not let ordinary people decide whether MPs can employ their wives and children and if so how much information is disclosed. And, why couldn't we just have a jury appoint the members of an upper house so that we don't have another wasted election where the only choice is between jumped up politicians who lie to get elected and then would have to justify their position by opposing the commons on principle.
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The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department received a letter dated 25 October 1998, signed by the late Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead OM in his proper behoof and on behalf of the late Lord Alexander of Weedon QC, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, Sir John Chilcot GCB (a Privy Councillor in 2004) and David Lipsey Esq.
Does it normally take Jack Straw nearly 10 Years to answer his letters? Or does he just wait until his correspondents have died or become Privy Counsellors?
So the Government was not convinced by the Report of the Independent Commission on the Voting System? The alternative vote plus top-up meant to retain the constituency link with a modicum of balanced incentives to make the elector's vote worthwhile and ensure cohesive goverment with identifiable advocacy from named representatives. It was the boldest reform since 1688 and superior to Rotten Boroughs where votes turn on electoral spending using money doubtfully obtained.
Jack Straw shows the same contempt for the dead in his belated response to the late Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead as James Purnell did in helping Cherie Bliar to sign and auction a copy of the report into David Kelly's death for Labour Party funds. Purnell's mastery of spin over substance by subsequently faking himself into a photograph to make it look as though he was doing his job instead of actually doing it, seems to be the example Straw has followed.
I do not need over 160 pages to tell Straw what to do. Look at countries that respect workers (like Sweden) and use their voting system. Or look at countries that have recognised social partnerships (like France) and try their two-round system.
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Labour doesn't "DO" Referendums. It is scared to. It does however , break Manifesto Promises. Will that do? | http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/02/european-referendum-labour | dclm-gs1-029530002 | false | false | {
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0.025909 | <urn:uuid:53cf7f1c-d634-4351-94e3-ca272c436096> | en | 0.972694 | Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather megafight is in doubt due to drug testing
The Associated Press By The Associated Press
on December 23, 2009 at 4:48 AM, updated December 23, 2009 at 4:58 AM
LAS VEGAS -- The proposed megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was thrown into jeopardy Tuesday with a demand by Mayweather's camp that both fighters be subjected to Olympic-type drug testing in the weeks leading up to the bout.
Mayweather's manager said the fight would not go on if Pacquiao didn't agree to blood testing under standards followed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
Mayweather, PacquiaoU.S. boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, prepares to spar at a gym in east London on May 22 and Manny Pacquiao, right, of the Philippines, weighs in for the junior welterweight boxing match against British boxer Ricky Hatton, May 1in Las Vegas. The March 13 , 2010 megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been thrown into jeopardy. Mayweather's camp is demanding the fighters submit to Olympic-type drug testing in the weeks leading up to the bout. Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's manager, says the fight will not go on if Pacquiao doesn't agree to blood testing under standards followed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. (AP)
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"There is no fight without Olympic-style random drug testing," Leonard Ellerbe said.
Mayweather's camp claims it was told Pacquiao would not agree to have his blood tested within 30 days of the fight because of personal superstitions. But Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, said he could live with some testing, as long as it wasn't too close to the fight and wasn't overly intrusive.
"I will not let my fighter take a blood test the day before a fight," Roach said. "If they give me a five-day window or something like that I have no problem with it."
Roach said he hoped the issue wasn't brought up as a way to get Mayweather out of the fight.
"He's looking for a back door out," Roach said. "We're eager to fight."
The fight, which promises to be the richest ever, had widely been expected to be formalized this week, with an official announcement Jan. 6. It was expected to be held at the MGM Grand hotel, with the biggest live gate ever.
But neither fighter has signed formal contracts and there have been disputes between representatives of the two fighters ever since Mayweather's promoter pulled out at the last minute of a trip to Texas, where Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was to make a proposal to host the bout.
But Mayweather's promoter, Richard Schaefer, said all other issues have been agreed upon.
"The good news is we have agreed on all the other points," Schaefer said. "Depending on what Manny Pacquiao decides to do we either have a fight or we don't have a fight."
Schaefer said he is still hopeful of the fight happening, based on the fact Pacquiao himself has not publicly said he would not accept blood testing.
"I am still hopeful because I really believe this decision didn't come from Manny Pacquiao, it came from somebody else," Schaefer said. "It's up to Manny Pacquiao to prove me right or wrong."
Pacquiao has never failed a post-fight urine test in Nevada, including his last fight when he stopped Miguel Cotto. Mayweather also has passed urine tests in the state after his fights.
Fighters, though, are not routinely tested before bouts for performance-enhancing drugs, and there are no blood tests done for those drugs.
Mayweather's father, Floyd Sr., said after the Cotto fight that he suspected Pacquiao was using performance-enhancing drugs to move up and win titles in so many weight classes. Ellerbe did not make that claim, but said that for a fight of such magnitude fans deserve to be confident neither fighter is cheating.
"If it's good enough for LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps and Lance Armstrong why isn't it good enough for Manny Pacquiao?" Ellerbe asked. "The fans and sports deserve a level playing field."
Travis Tygart, executive director of the USADA, said he had talked to representatives of both fighters about providing testing. Tygart said he welcomed the request as he would for any sport that does not have stringent Olympic-type testing.
"I think every sport that wants to have clean athletes it's a sign of a step forward to have out of competition testing," Tygart said. "It's an essential thing to do if you want to protect the integrity of the sport. Clean athletes want a level playing field."
Tygart noted Olympic athletes are tested often and without notice. He said less than a teaspoon of blood is removed out of an average of 380 teaspoons in the normal human and that it regenerates within an hour of being withdrawn.
Blood tests, he said, can find things urine tests can't, like the use of human growth hormone, synthetic hemoglobin or blood transfusions, all of which "certainly would aid in an endurance-type event."
Ellerbe said he couldn't imagine why Pacquiao wouldn't agree, especially considering both fighters would likely make more than $25 million for the bout.
"Only Manny Pacquiao can answer that question," Ellerbe said. "The ball is in his court." | http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2009/12/manny_pacquiao_and_floyd_maywe.html | dclm-gs1-029560002 | false | true | {
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0.070312 | <urn:uuid:df1c64bd-38e8-4a04-9cb5-a6f5abc11d14> | en | 0.972295 | View Full Version : Legal Case from Russia
08-26-2006, 09:05 AM
I thought some of you would find the following case enlightening. It is hard to read in between the lines, but it looks like a muscle relaxant was given without knowing if child could be ventilated. Be happy you don't live in Russia.
Russian anesthesiologist sent to jail after 3-year-old girl dies
MOSCOW, August 25* - A Russian anesthesiologist was sentenced Friday to two years in a penal colony for a mistake that led to the death of a three-year-old girl.
Alexander Rekunov from Ulyanovsk in central Russia was found guilty of causing death by negligence and banned from working on the medical professions for three years.
The court said the girl, Yekaterina Gulko, had died because the doctor had failed to collect information about her medical history, including her sensitivity to hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, before performing lung surgery.
Prosecutor in the trial Mikhail Balakshov said, "The court ruling is appropriate and agrees with the position of the prosecutors."
He added that it was the first case in the Ulyanovsk Region, whose eponymous capital is about 550 miles east of Moscow, when a doctor had been punished in practice for a mistake.
Prosecutors established that parents of the girl had brought her to a local clinical hospital for children on May 26, 2005 because she was suffocating and they suspected she had a cashew nut in her lungs.
An X-ray confirmed their suspicions, and the girl was sent for surgery.
Prosecutors said Rekunov, who was on duty, had failed to ask the girl's parents about her medical history, although the parents knew that the girl was hypoxic.
Prosecutors also said Rekunov had chosen the wrong type of anesthesia and extended the period of oxygen deprivation, which stopped blood circulation in the brain.
The girl was in a coma for a few days and died on June 4.
Prosecutors said the doctor should have used a different type of anesthesia that would not have led to a halt in breathing. Even though he had used artificial lung ventilation, prosecutors said Rekunov should have prevented hypoxia by monitoring the girl's pulse, skin color and other indicators.
They also said the hospital had insisted that the parents sign an autopsy waiver for fear of prosecution, which had hampered the investigation. But after a criminal case was opened, the body was exhumed and an independent examination took place in Kazan in central Russia on the Volga River.
08-27-2006, 10:00 AM
Sounds like you're right, yoga. What a tragedy. :(
08-27-2006, 01:36 PM
scary stuff for sure.
08-27-2006, 10:24 PM
Even though we don't know the specifics of this case, it would seem like I hear of many cases like this all the time.
Anesthesia Providers (CRNAs and MDAs) making lethal mistakes b/c of negligence or just plain bad luck.
Here's an example. A colleague shared this story with me.
A CRNA doing a labor epidural and gets a "wet tap" (goes into the spinal canal w/ the big epidural needle and gets CSF leakage). Removes the Epidural needle and repeats the process placing the catheter in the appropriate place this time. Gives a test dose to verify catheter placement and tapes up the Epidural. Does not initate the initial bolus. It is now 7am and patient is scheduled for a C-section at 7:30. During shift change, CRNA 1 gives report to CRNA 2 and fails to mention the "wet tape". CRNA 2 goes to bolus 20cc of a local aneshetic in preparation for the C-section, leaves the room to set up the OR. Returns to a dead patient.
So what happened? how could this have been avoided? Should you proceed with placing an epidural after a "wet tap" ?
Remember, crap happens in anesthesia all the time whether it's your fault or not. There are many and many pitfalls in anesthesia. Through experience, maintaining strict practice guidelines, vigilance, and sharing of stories can we hope to avoid these pitfalls. | http://www.nurse-anesthesia.org/archive/index.php/t-309.html | dclm-gs1-029630002 | false | false | {
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0.025868 | <urn:uuid:424fc496-5506-48b2-a7a7-3831949bd2d0> | en | 0.968528 | WASHINGTON TALK: THE LABOR MOVEMENT; A Search for Image and Relevance
Published: September 07, 1987
(Page 2 of 2)
But even before Mr. Meany's death in 1980, labor's influence in Congress and in the White House had begun to wane, and Mr. Meany was often blamed. He was too old and did not understand the changing times, critics said, contending that his autocratic, hawkish image hindered organizing the young. The work force grew but not the house of labor, they said.
By the time Mr. Kirkland formally took over in 1979, the headquarters was already being called a relic of better times, a ''marble mausoleum.'' For one thing, much of the staff's efforts were geared toward a time when labor's opinions mattered deeply to this city's policy makers, whether the issue was the minimum wage, civil rights or strife in the Middle East.
The federation's communications office, for example, continued to send out thousands of news releases, newsletters and copies of speeches by various labor leaders, even though it was widely suspected that they were seldom read, even by the most dedicated members.
In addition, because of a suspicion of television, which many leaders believed had never given the worker's point of view a fair share of air time, the staff was slow to adopt the medium. Meanwhile, such natural legislative rivals as the United States Chamber of Commerce and the National Manufacturing Association were moving swiftly to use electronics to get their views across.
By all accounts, Mr. Kirkland has tried mightily to improve labor's image not only with this city's decision makers, but also its own members. The federation's staff of 400, once dominated by middle-aged white men, increasingly reflects the makeup of labor's rank and file, which means many more woman and minorities. Bringing In the Cameras
In another concession to changing times, the once camera-shy federation created the Labor Institute for Public Affairs and endowed it with a budget of $3 million a year, one of the few departments with a growing budget. It produces commercial spots, a public affairs show and a menu of cable television programming and training tapes to play in local union halls.
On Labor Day, for example, the institute will begin penetrating the airwaves of public television stations throughout the country with a slick hourlong documentary, ''Expectations,'' which its producers say ''poses hard questions about the decline of the American standard of living.''
None of these moves is novel, or especially bold, labor leaders acknowledge. And some unionists complain that the money would be better spent on trying to organize new workers.
But Mr. Kirkland disagrees. ''In today's America, for better or for worse, if you're not on television, you don't exist.'' | http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/07/us/washington-talk-the-labor-movement-a-search-for-image-and-relevance.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm | dclm-gs1-029640002 | false | false | {
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0.050871 | <urn:uuid:bdde6cf5-4d24-47ba-bfcf-04b9b4a79dda> | en | 0.949924 | After the Cold War: Views From Latin America; Sweeping Political Changes Leave Latin Poor Still Poor
Published: May 30, 1992
(Page 3 of 6)
Yet the prevailing Latin American economic model of the postwar age -- state ownership and intervention to sustain unproductive industries; monopolies and trade protection, and endless public works to buy political support -- crossed ideological lines. It was applied by leftist civilian governments and anti-Communist military regimes, and it failed them all.
Although Latin American economies grew at an average rate of 5.5 percent in the 30 years before 1980, they also grew heavy with inefficiencies, addicted to deficit spending and dependent on imports of capital goods.
By the 1970's, the result was often inflation that shot out of control. Then, beginning with Mexico in 1982, countries found that they could no longer pay their huge debts, and creditors began demanding austerity and orthodox reform as the price of sustenance.
The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 not only discredited statist policies in Latin America but also provided a further incentive for change: By putting Eastern Europe on many investors' maps, it intensified the fight for capital in the developing world.
It is in this light that many economists say most of capitalism's brave new Latin American soldiers had no alternative -- a historical subtlety, perhaps, but one that raises questions about the permanence of the reforms.
"The fact that politicians in Latin America have called in technocrats who believe in the formulas of the World Bank and the I.M.F. doesn't mean that there will be no return to the old populist policies," said the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, a strong advocate of the reforms. "Everybody is on their best behavior today because there's no money around, and the only way you can get any is to do what the I.M.F. says." New Allies Old Ideologies And Enmities Fade
In Central America, where superpower tensions fueled violent conflicts almost until the Soviet Union's collapse, the cold war's end has had more visceral effects.
The wooded hills above Ocotal, Nicaragua, for instance, are seeded with the hatreds of killing that began in the late 1920's and then proceeded almost without interruption from the Sandinista rebellion in the late 1970's though the contra war to oust the Sandinistas.
But earlier this year, former contra rebels and former Sandinista soldiers came down from the hills together, pointing rifles in the same direction and demanding the same things: land, housing and farm loans.
So fully have war memories been overwhelmed by immediate concerns that the authorities to whom they turn are old enemies, too.
President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Sandinistas' bitter critic for a decade, is under siege by former supporters because of her alliance with leaders of the old regime. And such was the Sandinista uproar when Mrs. Chamorro's Sandinista Defense Minister, Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra, decorated a departing United States military attache not long ago that Mr. Borge felt it necessary to remind the enraged militants that General Ortega, the strategist of their victory 13 years earlier, was still a revolutionary.
The general's brother, former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said recently that Nicaraguans had managed to "depolarize" their society, only to find that a half-measure. Leftist Salvadoran guerrillas and their right-wing Government saw the problem long before they made peace: Without foreign aid at levels like those that sustained their fighting, they could never treat the country's problems with the urgency that war had conferred on them. | http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/30/world/after-cold-war-views-latin-america-sweeping-political-changes-leave-latin-poor.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm | dclm-gs1-029660002 | false | false | {
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0.018971 | <urn:uuid:95e7851d-62c4-4271-b735-6492a7d06774> | en | 0.983203 | Published: November 07, 1993
I am 13, in the eighth grade, and I agree with your article that children are being forced to grow up too fast. I watch my peers trying to regress, in a sense, to the childhood they "missed." They consider it cool to carry a Barney lunch box or to know the words to the "Sesame Street" theme song. I see my friends acting "less mature" than third-graders. I don't think they know that people are saying they missed their childhood, but they seem to be having a lot of fun trying to regain it. LINDSAY RICHARDSON Ann Arbor, Mich. | http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/07/magazine/l-little-big-people-337693.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-029670002 | false | false | {
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0.035242 | <urn:uuid:953f0b63-0b38-4c64-8c45-6297923bca2e> | en | 0.888498 | A Guide to Pop Albums for Adults
Published: November 29, 1996
THE pop music industry is so fond of giving a catchy name to each hot new sound that nowadays it is tempting to see music as a steadily lengthening list of niche markets with names like alternative, grunge, hip-hop, new jack swing, gangsta rap, and trance ambient. But putting records into niches ignores the broader sweep of pop music history. Trends come and go, but beneath the labeling hubbub, plenty of durable music is still being recorded that resists narrow categorization. Much of this music involves exploring the interplay among broader musical currents -- pop, rock, country, jazz and rhythm-and-blues -- that will remain long after subdivisions have faded into historical footnotes.
One of the greatest pop albums of the decade, Cassandra Wilson's ''New Moon Daughter,'' brings together original and classic songs from the four corners of music and integrates them into a suite that defies any stylistic categorization. Ms. Wilson is nominally a jazz singer. But aided by Craig Street, the producer of her last two albums, Ms. Wilson has radically toned down her vocal experiments to get at the heart of her material, which comes from everywhere, including her own pen.
''New Moon Daughter'' is a shoo-in No. 1 in this critic's annual adult-pop consumer guide. With material that ranges from the delta blues (Son House's ''Death Letter'') to Neil Young (''Harvest Moon'') to U2 (''Love Is Blindness'') to Hoagy Carmichael (''Skylark'') to Hank Williams (''I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry''), the album casts the broadest possible stylistic net. And in two original songs, ''Until'' and ''A Little Warm Death,'' Ms. Wilson perfects an intimate songwriting voice that echoes the younger Joni Mitchell, without being slavishly imitative. Most important, the album's nonoriginal songs are completely reimagined in spare, atmospheric arrangements that don't sound like anything else in contemporary music.
The following list is a personal top 10 of adult pop albums, most of them released this year, and some runners-up, alphabetically listed. (Compact disks range in price from $15.99 to $17.99.)
1. CASSANDRA WILSON: ''NEW MOON DAUGHTER'' (Blue Note). Once again, less is more, if less means cutting back the frills to concentrate on the inner life of a song. Cassandra Wilson's strong dark contralto is one of the most sensual, authoritative voices in pop or jazz. The 12 songs on ''New Moon Daughter'' cohere as feverish meditations on a hot summer night in the Deep South, where terror and ecstasy lurk in every moonlit shadow, and the line between dream and reality becomes slippery.
2. ''LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S NEW YORK'' (Nonesuch). The image of Manhattan as the Emerald City where all things are possible is given thrilling romantic life in this collection of Leonard Bernstein's theater songs, along with instrumental interludes. Dawn Upshaw, Mandy Patinkin, Judy Blazer, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald and Richard Muenz, backed by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, become a representative chorus of New Yorkers telling stories, dreaming dreams, getting lost, and getting found. The album introduces two wistful Bernstein gems cut from his shows, ''Ain't Got No Tears Left'' and ''Story of My Life.''
3. ''MUSIC FROM AND INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE 'DEAD MAN WALKING' '' (Columbia). Twelve anguished songs inspired by the Tim Robbins film portray losers and drifters confronting the meaning of life and death. Two collaborations between Eddie Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (with a lot of help from Ry Cooder) are landmark meetings of American folk-rock and Middle Eastern devotional music. Steve Earle, Tom Waits, Lyle Lovett, Michelle Shocked, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith contribute some of their most powerful performances. | http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/29/arts/a-guide-to-pop-albums-for-adults.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-029680002 | false | false | {
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Published: June 14, 1998
(Page 2 of 5)
*The student killers gave ample warning signs, often in detailed writings at school, of dramatic, violent outbursts to come. The boy in Moses Lake wrote a poem about murder, saying, ''I'm at my point of no return.'' Similar jottings were left by the boys in the South, and in Springfield. In virtually all of the cases, adults never took the threats and warning signs seriously. Or they simply overlooked them.
''When you look at the overall pattern, it's a pretty serious wake-up call,'' said Dr. Ronald D. Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center, which monitors school violence from its headquarters in Westlake Village, Calif. ''We are seeing an increasing number of violent, callous, remorseless juveniles.
''What's behind it,'' Dr. Stephens said, ''seems to be a combination of issues that range from the availability of weapons to the culture our kids immerse themselves in to the fact that many youngsters simply have no sense of the finality of death.''
People argue, in the age-old debate, either that the killers are simply bad human beings or that their actions can be linked to a corrosive family environment -- nature versus nurture. Certainly, the recent shootings give plenty of new material for both sides.
Parents of the young killers place blame on the surfeit of guns, the influence of junk culture and children stressed to a snapping point. But they also look at themselves, their broken marriages, their lives of stress and hurry, and wonder how all that affected their children.
''I didn't think about Barry at all,'' said JoAnn Phillips, the mother of Barry Loukaitis in Moses Lake, in court testimony last year in her son's case. A few weeks before the shooting, she had told her son that she planned to divorce her husband and that she herself was suicidal, but she was oblivious to how this would affect her son.
''We are responsible for our kids, but you tell me, where did I go wrong?'' Gretchen Woodward said in an interview recently in which she discussed her son, Mitchell Johnson, the seventh grader accused, along with Andrew Golden, of killing 5 and wounding 10 in Jonesboro last March. ''I think there's a lot more pressure on our kids today than there was when we were growing up.''
The Killings
Urban Trend Takes Rural Turn
Children have long killed children in the United States. The peak was the 1992-93 school year, when nearly 50 people were killed in school-related violence, according to the School Safety Center. Most of those killings were in urban schools, and prompted a Federal law banning guns from schools, security measures like metal detectors, and efforts to control the influence of gangs. What is different now is that the shootings are largely rural, have multiple victims and, within the warped logic of homicide, seem to make no sense; many of the victims have been shot at random.
In looking at the 221 deaths at American schoolyards over the last six years, what leaps out is how the shootings changed dramatically in the last two years -- not the number, but the type.
Most earlier deaths were gang-related, or they were stabbings, or they involved money or a fight over a girlfriend. (Boys are almost always the killers.) Then came the Moses Lake shooting in 1996. Barry Loukaitis, who confessed to the shootings and was found guilty as an adult in trial last fall, did have a target in mind when he walked into the afternoon algebra class -- a popular boy who had teased him. He shot the boy to death.
But then he fired away at two other students, people against whom he said he had no grudge. He shot the teacher, Leona Caires, in the back. She died with an eraser still in her hand. | http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/us/where-rampages-begin-special-report-adolescent-angst-shooting-up-schools.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm | dclm-gs1-029690002 | false | false | {
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0.024096 | <urn:uuid:5b8a0738-9606-498a-9030-21c2dc6e0f48> | en | 0.970712 | The World: Diana's Dubious Legacy; Land-Mine Ban Has Trouble Getting Off the Ground
Published: September 05, 1999
IT has been two years since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, gave a last, emotional boost to an international treaty to ban anti-personnel land mines, then being feverishly negotiated in Oslo. Many say her efforts to draw attention to the fiendish effects of mines before her death may be one of her greatest legacies.
But what kind of legacy is it?
Despite a treaty signed by 135 countries to ban their use, production and stockpiling, anti-personnel land mines appear to be as popular as ever in fighting wars these days.
Yugoslav troops planted thousands of them during 18 months of civil war in Kosovo. So did the ethnic Albanian rebels they were fighting. Russia has acknowledged using them in recent weeks against Islamic insurgents in the southern province of Dagestan (and apologized to neighboring Georgia for accidentally dropping some of them from aircraft into Georgian territory).
Their use has been reported in the recent flareups between India and Pakistan and between Eritrea and Ethiopia, as well as in civil wars in Turkey, Colombia, Congo, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
In a survey completed last April, the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, reported that governments or rebel groups in at least 13 countries had used mines in the 15 months after the treaty was signed, though before it officially went into force. Among those were three that signed the treaty banning them: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Angola, the country Diana made the focus of her own anti-mine crusade.
WHAT'S more, despite the campaign's publicity, several major countries still refuse to adopt the treaty, including the United States, Russia and China, most of the nations in the Middle East and many in Asia.
''It is a little disheartening,'' said Marissa Vitagliano, the coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Land Mines.
She and other supporters of a ban say it is far too soon to write off the treaty as a failure. On the contrary, they point to progress that has been made, especially in reducing the worldwide production of mines and their availability in the international arms market, according to arms control monitors.
Mary Fowler, the deputy chief of the United Nations' Mine Action Service in New York, noted that the countries that have signed on to a ban have destroyed 14 million mines that had been stockpiled when the treaty was written two years ago. Even countries that have so far refused to sign the treaty -- including the United States and Russia -- have pledged to stop exporting mines and to stop making certain kinds altogether.
Perhaps the treaty's greatest impact has been on public perception. Reports of mines now evoke images of legless veterans, of maimed children, of Diana in protective gear walking near a minefield in Angola.
''Many, many mines were used in the Persian Gulf war, but no one thought about it,'' Ms. Fowler said. ''Everybody is aware that mines were used in Kosovo. The treaty is setting a new international standard.''
Still, as events have shown, a standard is one thing, the eradication of mines another.
Mines are cheap and durable and deadly. In Yugoslavia, which has not signed the treaty, Serbian troops heavily mined the routes along the mountainous borders with Albania and Macedonia that the Kosovo Liberation Army used to get in and out of the province; that forced the guerrillas into areas that exposed them to Yugoslav fire. Serbian police also used mines to booby-trap ransacked Albanian homes to keep refugees from returning home. (Many returned anyway, and died as a result.)
Another reason for discouragement is the weakness of the treaty itself. | http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/weekinreview/world-diana-s-dubious-legacy-land-mine-ban-has-trouble-getting-off-ground.html?src=pm | dclm-gs1-029700002 | false | false | {
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Published: November 20, 1999
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani declared yesterday that the homeless had no right to sleep on the streets and his police commissioner added that they could be arrested if they refused shelter. Their remarks came three days after an office worker in Midtown Manhattan was critically injured in a random attack by a man the police say may have been homeless.
''Streets do not exist in civilized societies for the purpose of people sleeping there,'' the mayor said yesterday during his weekly radio call-in show. ''Bedrooms are for sleeping.'' He added that the right to sleep on the streets ''doesn't exist anywhere. The founding fathers never put that in the Constitution.''
Mr. Giuliani referred several times to yesterday morning's front-page headline in The Daily News. The headline, ''Get the Violent Crazies Off Our Streets,'' was for a two-page editorial inside that demanded the city remove the ''dangerously deranged'' from city streets and put them in institutions.
In a later telephone interview, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said that if people sleeping on the sidewalks refused help from police and then ''don't obey, we're going to arrest them.''
Mr. Safir said the police would visit the homeless encampments in their precincts more often than before, but would not specify the frequency, saying that was up to the ''discretion of the police and the commander.''
Mr. Safir said the homeless would first be offered services. If they refuse, he said, ''We will either summons them or arrest them. If they're blocking people's access to property, we'll move them along.''
Advocates for the homeless, who are fighting a plan to require that the homeless work as a condition of shelter, reacted with disbelief. ''Now the new plan being introduced by Mr. Safir is, 'We're not going to take you to Bellevue, we're going to take you to Riker's Island?' '' said Mary Brosnahan, the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless.
Norman Siegel, the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the mayor had no legal basis for saying that the homeless had no right to sleep in the streets. ''It's not a crime to sit or sleep on a public street, providing that you're not blocking the entrances or exits to buildings, and that you're not blocking pedestrian traffic,'' Mr. Siegel said. He added that the choice ''cannot be living on the streets or locked up in jail.''
Renewed attention has been focused on the homeless and the violently mentally ill since Tuesday, when Nicole Barrett, who was crossing Madison Avenue at 42nd Street, was struck from behind for no apparent reason by a man wielding a brick. The police have yet to find the attacker, and do not know whether he is homeless or mentally ill.
But the public and media outcry over the attack has fueled concerns that people who are dangerously unstable are wandering the streets, and the random nature of the assault reminds New Yorkers of the schizophrenic who pushed a woman into the path of a subway train last January.
Of the attack on Ms. Barrett, Mr. Giuliani said on his radio show that ''the presumption is that this was done by a mentally ill person.'' He added that ''you're going to have a lot of fear, you're going to have a lot of reaction, and you're going to have a lot of over-reaction.''
Mr. Safir said the police would probably not be stepping up efforts to roust the homeless from the streets had the brick attack not occurred. | http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/20/nyregion/in-wake-of-attack-giuliani-cracks-down-on-homeless.html?pagewanted=1 | dclm-gs1-029710002 | false | false | {
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0.061107 | <urn:uuid:8b7ae4a0-96a9-4817-92e2-431ab8b62198> | en | 0.979178 | AFTER THE WAR: INTELLIGENCE; Hussein Is Probably Alive in Iraq, U.S. Experts Say, Citing Intercepts
Published: June 20, 2003
The intercepted communications between some of Mr. Hussein's supporters have included credible discussions indicating that the former Iraqi president is alive and must be protected, two Defense Department officials said. Military officials indicated tonight that new operations in the hunt for him were under way.
If Mr. Hussein is alive, the prevailing view among intelligence analysts is that he is still in Iraq. These officials said they suspected that he would feel safer seeking refuge among his supporters in familiar surroundings, rather than risk fleeing to another country, where he could be at greater risk of discovery by American intelligence.
Beyond the intelligence officials, aides to President Bush have begun to express less certainty about the question, saying they do not know whether he is dead or alive. They include those aides who in the immediate aftermath of the war said Mr. Hussein was probably dead.
Increasingly, other officials in the United States and Britain have said publicly that Mr. Hussein probably survived the war. Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Fox News last weekend that ''probably the majority opinion is that he is alive.'' The British defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, said in Australia this week that ''my judgment and the judgment of the coalition remains that he is almost certainly still in Iraq.''
His fate is a factor in the civil unrest in Iraq, endangering American soldiers, some officials say, as Hussein supporters try to organize a continued resistance.
On Monday, the arrest of Mr. Hussein's closest confidant, Abid Hamid Mahmoud al-Tikriti, who was No. 4 on an American most-wanted list, raised some hope of obtaining more conclusive information about the former Iraqi leader. The presumption was that Mr. Mahmoud was more likely to have detailed knowledge about what happened to him than almost anyone else in the former government.
At the same time, American officials' optimism about Mr. Mahmoud's capture, near Mr. Hussein's stronghold of Tikrit, has been mixed with disappointment that he was not found to have been hiding with the former president, as some intelligence analysts had suspected.
Mr. Mahmoud's success in eluding capture for nearly two months in a country occupied by nearly 150,000 American soldiers underscored what intelligence officials said was the reality that Iraq still offered many hiding places -- even for a figure of of Mr. Hussein's prominence.
Also contributing to the belief that Mr. Hussein may be alive is that the authorities have so far failed to recover specific physical evidence, like his body or DNA material, from the sites of two American bombing raids that tried to kill him.
A number of intelligence analysts said they now believed that he had escaped the two air strikes, on March 20 and April 7. But because they have no conclusive evidence one way or the other, they said they had stopped short of drawing any firm conclusions about his fate. | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/INTERNATIONAL/WORLDSPECIAL/20SADD.HTML?EX=1056686400&EN=F3482FC9C74CCD23&EI=5062 | dclm-gs1-029750002 | false | false | {
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Insight Into What Motivates Candidates
Keith Boykin
Keith Boykin, a former Clinton White House aide, is the author of "Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America" and"For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough."
Updated May 8, 2013, 11:58 AM
Do polls affect news media coverage and the way the public sees candidates? Sure. Losing candidates get treated like losers, and reporters focus more on the horse race than the substance. But don't blame the polls; blame our culture.
Without polls, campaigns are not going to turn into some Oxford debating society where the candidates suddenly hold intellectual discussions about their political philosophies. Politics is about winning. The public knows that candidates fine tune their campaigns to match the public mood, and we deserve to see what motivates our candidates.
Polls don't thwart democracy; they enable it. When politicians follow the polls, we learn what they care about.
More than 20 different organizations publish national campaign polls, and many more publish state and local poll numbers. On the day of the first presidential debate, I found 25 new poll numbers from 9 different sources reported on Real Clear Politics. Four national tracking polls now provide daily updates on the presidential campaign. And every day at 1 p.m., I log onto to check its daily tracking numbers on President Obama and Mitt Romney.
Do polls make us shallow? No, we're already shallow. That's why we focus on Romney's debate remarks about Big Bird instead of his comments on Simpson-Bowles or Dodd-Frank. In 1988, political consultant Roger Ailes told us the only three things to get covered in a presidential campaign are mistakes, attacks and pictures. Asked today, the Fox News president might add polls to his list.
Of course, polls should be taken with a grain of salt, but this information is still useful for voters. Knowledge is power, and public polls democratize access to this power. If politicians make decisions based on polling data, the rest of us should know about it too. It helps us understand why candidates do what they do. Thus, the public fascination with polls does not thwart democracy; it enables it.
After watching the media freak out about Monday's Pew Poll indicating a possible shift in the presidential race, it's tempting to wish for a presidential campaign without polls, but we all have to understand the inconsistencies of polling and learn not to judge a campaign by any one survey.
In our hyper-competitive, score-driven, 24/7 news cycle, a presidential campaign without polls would be a lot less interesting to voters and deprive them of valuable information.
So grow up, America. The polls aren't the problem. We are.
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Texas Governor George W. Bush's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has been the richest in history. Jim Lehrer discusses 2000 primary fund-raising with three journalists and examines where all the presidential money is coming from.
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JIM LEHRER: Now, the campaign money story. Presidential candidates filed their midyear fund-raising reports today with the Federal Election Commission. We get the numbers, and some perspective on the impact money is having so far on the campaign, from three political reporters: Susan Glasser of the Washington Post, Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, and Elizabeth Arnold of National Public Radio.
Susan, let's first start with the numbers -- today's numbers. George W. Bush's numbers were the biggest. What were they?
SUSAN GLASSER, Washington Post: Well, as already noted a couple of weeks ago, Governor Bush has already raised more than any presidential primary candidate ever. The actual total turns out to be about $37 million raised so far, and he reported an equally surprising sum, which was $30 million in the bank, which means that in raising all that money, he actually only spent 20 percent of it, which is an incredibly lean and mean operation.
JIM LEHRER: And who's second? Is there a second and how far back is he? Or she?
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, Vice President Gore is second. The Democrats are actually running, though, much closer than expected. Vice President Gore and Democrat Bill Bradley. Basically, there's only about $2 million separating them in a key area of the fundraising, which is how much money they actually have left to spend next year on the primaries.
JIM LEHRER: And what are the figures? The figure's what, around 19 for Vice President Gore and around 11 for Bill Bradley?
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, it's actually 17.5 million for Vice President Gore in terms of what he raised for his primary campaign. He has a separate fundraising account that can't be used to fund his actual election expenses, and it was a little bit over $11 million for Bradley. But the gap is much narrower, as I said, in terms of what they actually have in the bank.
JIM LEHRER: Okay. Now, back to the Republicans, who's next after George W. Bush?
The other Republicans
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, a very, very distant second -- you have to remember that Governor Bush actually raised more money than all of his rivals combined -- but a distant second is Senator John McCain, and he's got about a little bit more than $6 million for the year, including a transfer from his Senate campaign. And he also is second in terms of cash on hand, followed by Elizabeth Dole. And also, then, there's a separate category for Steve Forbes, who's already spent more than $6 million of his own money we learned today, financing this campaign.
JIM LEHRER: And he's raised some, too, in addition to that?
SUSAN GLASSER: Exactly. His total for the year is about $9.5 million, more than $6 million of which comes from his own pocket, so -
JIM LEHRER: Okay. Now, Ron, the development that came out of -- also came out of this today was that George W. Bush said, "Okay, I'm not going to take any matching funds." What's your reading of that have?
RON BROWNSTEIN, Los Angeles Times: Well, you know, he's in a position where he clearly can choose. He doesn't need the matching funds, so he has no real incentive to bind himself both by the spending limits, state by state, which will affect him in the primary and which he now will - you know -- be free from.
JIM LEHRER: Because if he had taken the matching funds -
RON BROWNSTEIN: If he had taken the matching funds, he would have had to abide by the Federal Election Commission restrictions and how much you can spend in each individual state. But even more importantly, Jim, he's trying to avoid the problem that Bob Dole ran into last time, which is spending up to the primary limit to win the nomination and then having this long period until the convention where you could not spend money, where only the party could spend on your behalf. Now he has the prospect of being able to put on - if he is the nominee - put on advertising all the way through the spring and summer while Al Gore might be in a position closer to Bob Dole, if he survives, where he's had to spend really up the primary limit just to get the nomination and thus legally cannot spend more until he is officially the nominee at the end of August. So that could be a competitive disadvantage for the Democrats if it plays out that way.
JIM LEHRER: And Elizabeth, I noticed that in announcing this today, George W. Bush said that one of the reasons he was going to do this is so he would have enough funds to fight off any primary advertising campaign. He's talking about Steve Forbes, right?
Forbes challenging Bush
ELIZABETH ARNOLD, National Public Radio: He is talking about Steve Forbes. Steve Forbes incidentally out there criticizing him for doing this and for basically being an insider and being beholden to all these special interests who he's raised this from money from. Well, Steve Forbes obviously has the luxury of that, but one of the reasons Governor Bush is doing that is because he knows he's up against Steve Forbes who has an unlimited amount of money. He can just keep giving himself, giving his campaign his own money and he'd be out there attacking Governor Bush, who would be subject to these spending limits, as Ron explained.
RON BROWNSTEIN: And the precedent, if I could just jump in, the precedent is that Forbes spent well beyond the spending limit in New Hampshire last time really pulverized Bob Dole with negative advertising there, and I think that's very much what Bush has in mind, that precedent, when he looks at avoiding being caught in that situation or being outspent in the critical early states.
JIM LEHRER: Now, Elizabeth, has there ever been a primary campaign where all the reporting was about money, rather than votes at this stage?
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: That's really interesting. I mean it's as though the donors are sort of determining the shape of the race this early on, and who gets out of the gate first. They're giving to Bush the more they give to Bush, the more we right write about Bush and how formidable he is and the more people pile on and give to Bush. Senator Bradley's another great example. Senator Bradley is looking more credible now, which makes -
JIM LEHRER: But because of the money?
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: Because of the money. And that makes Vice President Al Gore not look as formidable because Bradley is becoming a challenger.
JIM LEHRER: Now, Susan, you've looked at - I know all three of you have, but where's this money coming from? This is a tremendous amount of money. You add up 37 million here and -- I mean there's a lot of money being contributed to an awful lot of candidates. Who's doing it?
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, it's really interesting. I think there's a lot of puzzling around right now about whether Governor Bush has actually managed to expand the size of the Republican donor base in this country -- a lot of speculation about the flush economy, people writing bigger checks than they ever have before, up to the $1,000 limit, instead of say $250 a few years ago. Also, Governor Bush comes from an incredibly wealthy state with a huge base of contributors and nearly a third of his money overall has come from Texas, an overwhelming $11 million. So, I think it's important to look at that when you think about the totals.
JIM LEHRER: You made a good point, though, that we always have to make is that this can only -- all this money is going collected $1,000 at a time, I mean, or less. Nobody can contribute more than $1,000, no individual can, to a candidate.
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, that makes it a little bit ironic when you have Steve Forbes criticizing the Bush campaign for being bought and paid for by special interests, when of course there's no single contributor in this campaign bigger than $1,000. Where you really get that accusation maybe sticking a little bit more is what the Bush campaign has done with its Pioneers Program, which is a group of over 200 wealthy individuals who signed up to collect $100,000 or more. The campaign has refused to release the list of who these people are, but I think that's where you start to look at, you know, the incredible sort of amounts of influence. I mean well over $10 million has come from those solicitors.
JIM LEHRER: But they also -- they have to collect it $1,000 at a time, do they not?
Record Fundraising
SUSAN GLASSER: Exactly. Exactly.
JIM LEHRER: Ron, what do you -- how would you answer the question where this money's coming from?
RON BROWNSTEIN: Well, I mean, I think first of all empirically it looks as though the pool is getting bigger. If you look at the comparable period in the last cycle, the first half of 1995, the Republican candidates as a group raised about $50 million, and it looks like it's going to be bigger than that this time, maybe $60 million. Likely Democrats are going to be bigger as well. So there are people coming in. I was at a Bush fund-raiser the other day - I guess yesterday in Northern Virginian -- high-tech economy type folks and look, there are a lot of people out there with money. Bush is raising -- Susan made the point about one-third in Texas. That is a lot, but I mean he is bringing in million dollar-plus in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. He's raised more money in California than I believe any Republican has raised countrywide, nationwide in the entire year. There's a real breadth here. There are a lot of people doing well in this economy. And there's just a lot more money out there I think for politics.
JIM LEHRER: Elizabeth, is it possible to answer -- I'm going to ask you the impossible question.
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: Oh, thank you very much Jim.
JIM LEHRER: Okay. You're certainly welcome. Is Bush raising the money because he's doing so well, or is the money causing him to do so well?
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: I think it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You go to these fund-raisers, as Ron, you've had this experience and you say to people, "What is it you like about the governor?" And they say, "Well I really don't know that much about him. He's charming. I know a little bit about his father I liked his father and I'm going to write a check." And that's it. I mean -- it's just - it's an incredible - he's just as baffled by it as others.
Fundraising in past races
RON BROWNSTEIN: To some extent the parties have really brought the situation on themselves. If you go back as recently as 1984, Gary Hart had raised $1.3 million by New Hampshire, but in that system -
JIM LEHRER: New Hampshire, now, New Hampshire is -
RON BROWNSTEIN: Is February of the election year.
JIM LEHRER: Right. Okay.
RON BROWNSTEIN: But he was able to translate success into New Hampshire into fundraising because the primary calendar was spread out over a period of months. California didn't come till June. Money could follow success. Now the calendar is so compressed that the candidates basically believe they have to raise all of their money in the year before the election because there's really no time to raise money based on initial success, and that allows donors to function in effect as a primary because they are, in effect, weeding out candidates in the way that voters in Iowa and New Hampshire used to be able to do because there's no time really to successfully translate early success into a lot of money.
JIM LEHRER: Now, Susan, speaking of weeding out candidates, go on down the list for us with some of the other Republicans. When you get beyond Forbes, how about McCain and Elizabeth Dole and Lamar Alexander? I mean are they having serious money problems, or how are they doing?
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, that's a really good question today. I'm just looking over the sheet here. And it turns out that three of the candidates, Dan Quayle, Gary Bauer and Lamar Alexander, are actually reporting today basically negative net worths -- campaigns that are in the red and in which they have more debts than they do have cash on hand. And you know, while they can continue on for a little while in that sort of a situation, basically it's putting them on a political life support system, and that's an area where clearly money does immediately matter in the campaign. McCain, Elizabeth Dole, they're in a little bit different situation. They have enough money to keep going -- and to be competitive in traditional terms. The problem simply is that Bush is raising such an untraditional amount of money, that, you know, it's not clear to anyone how they can possibly be competitive with him as the front-runner.
Spending campaign money
JIM LEHRER: All right. Now, Elizabeth, help us explain how this money is actually spent. I mean is it having the money and the power to raise it and having it in the bank, is that what we're working at now, is that what's causing this election -- that is having the impact on the election, or is it the actual expenditure of the money?
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: At this point, it's more a sign of strength - and short of anything else, that's what we have to go on, to see how these candidates are really doing.
I mean, if you look at Governor Bush, yesterday in two events here, he raised some $900,000. John Kasich, who just pulled out of the race, he wasn't able to raise $600,000 in a couple of months. I mean, basically the governor's just sucking all the air out of the race. And to add on something that Susan just said, what's telling about this is what's coming down the road. This Pioneers Program that Governor Bush put together, these people went out and they raised or pledged to raise $100,000 in $1,000 amounts. The apparatus is now in place for those people to go out to those same donors and raise $1 million in soft money. Fred Wertheimer -
JIM LEHRER: Explain soft money for those -
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: Soft money, that basically you can give unlimited amounts and it's very unaccountable to party-building purposes.
JIM LEHRER: You give it to the party or something, you don't give it to individual candidates.
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: As Fred Wertheimer -- formally of Common Cause -- said the other day, "The brakes are off." I mean, this is really telling about what's coming ahead.
RON BROWNSTEIN: You know, Jim, in looking at what's coming, if you're the other candidate, you have to face the reality that the history has been that in the year before the election, you raise money more in the first half than in the second half. I mean, it makes sense. You go for your best targets, the lowest hanging fruit. So if you're John McCain or Elizabeth Dole, you have a hard time matching even what you did in the first half. In the second half that means there can be no Republican with more than about $10 million, which is not really very much - if you're looking at Bush - an enormous total -- the advantage it gives him is the ability to have the capacity to put on ads and build an organization beyond Iowa and New Hampshire, which no one else is going to have.
JIM LEHRER: You were going to say something, Susan?
SUSAN GLASSER: Yes. I just wanted to chime in here that, you know, I think the Democratic side of equation has become significantly more interesting as well. I mean clearly Bush is so far ahead of his rivals, it's clear that no one essentially is financially competitive, except for Forbes. But I think if you look at how much money Al Gore is spending relative to what he's raising, that you know, it becomes much more of a significant contest. You're talking about practically parity between Bill Bradley, who just a few months ago was dismissed as an outsider with no chance of unseating the Vice President in a contest next year.
JIM LEHRER: You mentioned that again, but go through that again, the difference in how -- in what they're each bringing in and what they're each spending. I'm talking about Gore and Bradley.
SUSAN GLASSER: Well, exactly. You know, there is a fair amount of difference still in their overall fundraising The Vice President $17.5 million to $11 million for Bradley, but Bradley is running a much leaner meaner campaign, storing up his resources for the election next year -- he's still got $7.5 million in the bank, compared with $9 million for the Vice President. Considering the Vice President's much higher day-to-day, month-to-month expenses, he has a much bigger staff, many more campaign offices, you're talking about putting them all but even essentially at this point in terms of what they can actually spend on ads and in the election process.
JIM LEHRER: Finally, Elizabeth, just in a general way, is there something different about this particular election year that somebody has decided that this is going to require just a lot more money than it ever has before, or is it just a natural progression of politics?
ELIZABETH ARNOLD: I think it's two things: I think the economy is booming, I think people who normally write $100 or $500 checks are not having as much trouble thinking about writing a $1,000 check, and I also think it really is a result of this compressed primary. There just is no time, and the candidates know this and they saw it happen to Senator Bob Dole in 1996 where he was basically cut off at the knees waiting for an infusion of cash right before the convention. And they don't want to see that happen to themselves, and so they're out there raising as aggressively as possible because say you win in New Hampshire, you don't have time to wait for the checks to come in for the next primary.
RON BROWNSTEIN: And the other point quickly on the Republican side that the money is only one manifestation of a broader movement. You're seeing the entire infrastructure of the party, elected officials, party officials, Governors, Senators, state legislators basically doing the same things the donors are doing - overwhelmingly aligning with Bush, saying this is the guy and trying to in effect preempt this process in the year before -- and that will become a major theme for his opponents, trying to - you know -- grab whatever strand they can -- whether Steve Forbes or Lamar Alexander saying, look to the voters, that the infrastructure of the party, the establisher of the party is trying to make this choice for you. You should rebel against it. That may be the only argument they have in this environment. I'm not clear it's going to work, but you are going to hear a lot of it in the months ahead.
JIM LEHRER: Well, Ron, Susan, Elizabeth, thank you all three very much.
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As an inventor, Jimmy Rosa has experienced a "Rocky"-like journey.
He got knocked down, but kept getting back up and didn't stop swinging. And now, his creation, The Balanced Golfer, which is tailored to the most vital element of developing a consistently good golf swing, is on the verge of becoming a hit.
"My phone's blowing up, and when I make phone calls, they pick up," says Rosa, a Bensalem resident.
Having struggled for five years to market and sell his invention, Rosa's breakthrough came when he got the endorsement of Lee Westwood, now the world's No. 3-ranked golfer. Westwood taped an infomercial for the product, which sells for $49.95, and has gained widespread credibility in the world golf community.
It is being newly packaged and presented for better exposure in retail stores, including Dick's Sporting Goods, Golfsmith and Edwin Watts Golf. It's also available online at
The Balanced Golfer is designed to helping golfers maintain balance throughout their swing. It's a simple, lightweight board, a golf swing training plane designed for a golfer to check and correct his or her balance, the key to improving accuracy and distance. When a golfer takes a swing and the board is pressed to the ground in front of or behind the feet, it indicates the golfer's swing wasn't properly balanced. The position of the board helps the golfer specifically locate where balance was off, making it easier to correct.
Martin Hall, one of the world's top teaching pros, said in a testimonial: "Everyone should learn on the Balanced Golfer."
Another top teaching pro, Bob Thatcher, said: "The easiest teaching device to help you with your swing that I've ever used."
The product is radio show GolfTalk Live's product of the month for November, and in January, Rosa will do a major launch of it at the Professional Golf Association's trade show in Orlando and the Honda Classic in Palm Beach.
For an underdog such as Rosa, 48, this is quite a heavyweight comeback after absorbing some significant blows.
He grew up in Fall River, Mass., and spent six years in the Navy, taking up boxing while in the service. Rosa moved to the Delaware Valley near a buddy and began working in the fitness industry as a salesman and trainer. In his own training, Rosa liked to jump rope, but found extended periods of jumping rope end with tripping over the rope. So Rosa developed one that disconnected in the middle, called Easy Jump.
Not versed in marketing, Rosa had trouble selling it and later was beaten to the punch. Another company did it, and the rope became a hit. It was a major body blow, but Rosa wasn't done swinging.
He took up golf and became interested in the mechanics of a consistent swing. The key question he asked himself: ‘Why are the best the best? They all use different clubs, so it's not the clubs, it's the guy holding the club. So what do the best do to control the club?
"Balance means control. If you're in balance, and you're in control, that means every single time at impact, the club face is going to be in the same spot, same position. When you're in balance, you can actually control the clubface at all times," he said.
Rosa dug into research, went to PGA events, talked to the pros. He came up with a balance board, and took his idea to friend Tom Kaechelin of Levittown, who designed one weighing two pounds and made of a sturdy polymer. It could accommodate golfers of all weights, and would be durable on grass, sand and turf.
Rosa said he knew he had something good from the outset because Hall and Butch Harmon, Tiger Woods' former swing coach, both liked it.
But it was hard creating public awareness with limited funds. Still, his hunger for success made him persist.
"I need a celebrity to put some eyes on the product," he told himself.
Enter Chubby Chandler, super agent of PGA golfers, whom Rosa approached at the Honda Classic last March. Chandler gave the product to Westwood, one of Chandler's top clients -- Westwood loved it.
Then Rosa found some investors. Meanwhile, an infomercial is airing in Japan, and he says more wholesalers and retailers are interested.
"With the new packaging and everything, more people are aware of it. We keep making it and taking orders," Rosa said.
His advice to aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs: Be careful with your money when trying to market your product. He considers himself lucky that he didn't have a lot.
"Treat it like you don't have any money," he said. "Everyone gives you advice and you pay them. I learned every aspect of the business, with no middle man, and spent the time to learn."
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Praia da Vitória (pron. , "Victory Beach" in Portuguese) is a municipality in Portugal's Autonomous Region of the Azores (Portuguese: Região Autónoma dos Açores). It is located on the eastern fringe of the island of Terceira.
It is the second largest municipality on the island, after Angra do Heroísmo. Until 1981, when the Azorean Parliament passed an act elevating Praia da Vitória to the rank of city ("cidade" in Portuguese), the town was also known as Vila da Praia da Vitória (in Portuguese "vila" means a small town and is the title given to all capitals of municipalities which are not cities).
Praia da Vitória is a services, fishing and agricultural community, and boasts a large new marina popular with the yachting crowd. It is the location of the only sizable sand beach on Terceira.
Settled in the early 15th century around a natural harbor and being the most important settlement in the fertile Terceira Island flatland known as the "Ramo Grande" area, and then an important wheat producing center, was designated a "vila" (i.e. the seat of a municipality) of the Portuguese realm in 1480.
The harbor was the scene of a naval battle in 1829 between the Liberals and the Absolutists, competing factions in support of King Pedro IV and King Miguel, respectively, during the Liberal Wars. The Liberals won a decisive victory, and the town, then known only as Praia (beach in Portuguese) was granted by royal decree the name Praia da Vitória (Victory Beach) in honor of the victory. This was the last battle to be fought in Portugal.
The town boasts two notable churches, several public squares, and a number of hotels and restaurants. It is popular with windsurfers because of the constant stiff seabreeze. It edges up against a low mountain ridge called Facho (Portuguese for Torch, because in its top a primitive lighthouse and lookout place against pirates, and later a marine and military semaphoric signal station, operated for about 400 years), and a large public park atop the ridge affords excellent views of the surrounding countryside and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Praia da Vitoria hosts an annual triathlon and is known for its unique style of bullfighting, tourada à corda.
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August 20, 2013
Department stores have always been known for their mighty merchants. But Macy's, the largest operator, has lately been getting help from some specialists inside the mall.
In early August, Lids, the retailer of caps and apparel for sports fans, reached an agreement to open licensed team merchandise departments in Macy's stores and online under the name of Locker Room by Lids. The departments, located in about 150 markets covering major professional sports teams and colleges, will be operated by Lids. Lids will become the exclusive operator of Macy's in-store team sportswear
The arrangement follows up on the agreement last fall to have Finish Line, the athletic footwear retailer, open Finish Line-branded athletic footwear shops in Macy's stores and on macys.com. Over 450 locations will be directly operated by Finish Line as leased departments. For the remaining approximately 225 Macy's stores that carry footwear, Finish Line began managing the athletic footwear assortment and inventory in Spring 2013, without the staffing or branding provided in the leased departments.
For Finish Line and Lids, both gain greater access to the female customer who doesn't actively shop their stores inside the mall. In both cases, Macy's gains greater buying clout inside the athletic space as well as selling knowhow for categories traditionally catering to young men.
Macy's also has similar leased in-store shops with Sunglass Hut for sunglasses, Motherhood Maternity for maternity apparel, and Starbucks for coffee. Last holiday season, Toys "R" Us opened temporary shops inside 24 primary Macy's stores. Other department stores similarly leasing space include J.C. Penney with Sephora and Joe Fresh as well as Nordstrom with Topshop.
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Overall, what are the pros and cons for department stores of leasing space to inside-the-mall specialty stores? How do you see this affecting the department store's operation and overall performance?
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What's the likelihood that more categories inside department stores will be leased to specialty stores in the years ahead?
No cons on this idea. This is a very common approach in many non-North American department stores. This angle of retail helps to extend the loyalty of the smaller shop into the store or brand carrier—that being Macy's. The more you do the things shoppers like—such as shop in a shop—then the more they shop with you.
Operationally, it is not a challenge if their systems can handle the inventory/people/financials.
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I confess to being surprised at this, but here are the pros and cons.
For Macy's: They don't have to buy inventory or even provide employees for the space. So in effect, if they're getting 4% of sales (which I think was the going rate last time I checked, but that was quite some time ago), and it's basically free money. They also don't have to learn a business they don't know.
For the lessee: They don't have to do a store build-out. They don't have to invest in POS...they typically use the lessor's POS and sales are transmitted via EDI.
It used to be very common for mass merchants to lease out their shoe departments because it is a very size and style dependent business. They didn't have the chops for it. But with automated systems, that's not so hard anymore. And Walmart killed off most of the mass merchants anyway. I am honestly surprised Macy's bought in.
It also was (and is, I think) pretty common to lease out jewelry departments because working capital requirements are high and turn is low.
So the bottom line is about 2 things: working capital and expertise. And I'm still surprised!
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Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner, RSR Research
Traditional retail stores located inside regional shopping malls, or even in downtown city areas, need to make changes and adjustments to their business models and offerings. Forgive the cliche but times have changed and consumers are making other choices.
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Sounds like if you cannot beat them, then join them. It is a win/win for both in that Macy's keeps their customers in their stores longer and the smaller retailers gain added exposure to shoppers.
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Frank Riso, Sr. Director, Global Leader, Retail Industry, Motorola Solutions, Inc.
This concept makes shopping simpler for the consumer, but JCPenney got scathing criticism when they rolled it out. Perhaps Macy's will fare better.
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Cathy Hotka, Principal, Cathy Hotka & Associates
In one sense, big box department stores are becoming mini-malls within the mall. They understand they must inject some new energy into their stores as their core shoppers increasingly opt for online and other competitive alternatives.
My take on whether these branded stores-within-stores make sense continues to depend on the details. First, is the brand strong enough to matter to the shoppers? In the case of Finish Line, I would tend to believe the answer is yes. There are examples of others that fall short of this threshold.
Secondly, is the atmosphere, inventory, and service levels within these mini-stores significantly reflective of the brand being showcased? Specifically, the Finish Line does an excellent job with visual merchandising and knowledgeable store associates, not to mention one of the notable places to go for the latest Nike "must have" shoe.
If the code can be cracked on replicating the basic aforementioned tenets of the brand, then success is likely. Otherwise, these mini stores could do more damage to the brand than good.
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Mark Heckman, Principal, Mark Heckman Consulting
Online shopping is moving to multiple brands in one location, why not bricks and mortar operations? Consumers who lack time, appreciate convenience, and want name brands surely see the advantages. This is especially true of shoppers who like to actually handle the merchandise before they buy.
The only downside for the leasing retailer is less control over their image and their space. This is far outweighed by the ability to attract shoppers with multiple needs to one location.
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In my experience, it is very difficult for department stores to operate highly specialized niche businesses within the context of their overall processes and technology. The Macy's examples are excellent case studies: athletic footwear and team sports accessories and apparel. There are similarities in these businesses, as well as the others identified.
Specialty retail operates in niches where some element of the customer need profile can't be met by the economic dynamics of big box/department store operations. Delivering that benefit, be it expanded assortment, depth of product knowledge, localized assortment management (team sports) or targeted niche trend development is often better "rented" than "owned" as a core competency for department stores. The key question to ask is, "are the competitive capabilities (skills, processes, technologies) required to compete successfully those which we can leverage across the enterprise, or are they limited to specific categories or customer demographic segments?" Once answered, then the next level of analysis involves added value, market basket impact, traffic impact, and competitive differentiation.
Those questions lead to the "pros." The "cons" are linking one's brand to another without control over that brand, possible diminution of profits by outsourcing categories which could have been developed internally, and disparity in marketing (dependent on the terms of the arrangement).
Don Delzell, Managing Director, Retail Advantage
It's a fantastic idea to test this, and here's the real beauty: all of the pros and cons that other panelists have stated are completely measurable. Inventory impact, labor impact, sales impact, halo to other categories, cannibalization of goods that would have been in the space, customer satisfaction, etc., all completely knowable with the right predictive analytics approach. Further, the retailer can figure out which types of locations work better for specific sub-lease operations, which can also help to tailor the overall store to local preferences.
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Jonathan Marek, Senior Vice President, Applied Predictive Technologies
Of course there is plenty of precedent for locating leased departments within department stores. Think of the shoe departments in the old Kmart/Kresge or the record shops inside EJ Korvette. (Well I guess these examples reveal my true age....)
In general, it makes good sense to allow category experts to operate leased boutiques, if: (1) The lessee can deliver a superior customer experience compared with the host's own capabilities for the category; (2) The productivity per square foot is better than the host's; and (3) The leased departments mostly add to total sales, rather than siphon spending away from other areas of the store.
In an era of omni-channel retailing, virtual assortments and the endless aisle, Macy's and other large department stores may be finding that their existing physical spaces are somewhat larger than they want. Some are adjusting their staging by moving walls and leaving more back room space.
This leaves elbow room for invited boutique operators—like day spas, eyewear, and shoe sellers—to set up outposts. Most have a few traits in common. They are relatively highly-serviced, prestige-branded, experience-oriented sales.
I expect we'll see more of this—at Macy's and its more upscale competitors.
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James Tenser, Principal, VSN Strategies
This is the only way department stores can better their business model. This is a good idea for Macy's as it was for JCP. OOPS!
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Gene Detroyer, Professor, Independent
I'm not a huge fan. Shop-In-Shop's have their place, and as others have pointed out, assorting by brand is the standard practice for many European department stores.
The problem is that assorting by brand is NOT the standard shopping convention for many product segments in the US. So when you walk into Macy's and expect to find athletic shoes in the "Men's Shoes Department" and instead have to to learn to look for the "Finish Line" department, it hurts affordability. Also, when a retailer gives large chunks of their in-store experience up to third party vendors, you lose the ability to have a clear communication hierarchy, consistent merchandising standards, consistent shopping experience, etc.
When you have too many vendor shops, your store stops feeling like Macy's and feels more like a brand bazaar, and when that happens, Macy's loses the ability to differentiate based on the Macy's brand promise. See Best Buy for a current example of this syndrome.
As I said, shop-in-shops can be a great way to surprise and delight customers with an aspirational brand they wouldn't expect to find in Macy's, or for a category where brand is at the top of the decision tree. But the general trend is that brand is moving lower on the decision tree, so Macy's needs to tread lightly.
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This is not a new concept to department stores. In my early days with Rich's of Federated Department Stores, jewelry and makeup were leased spaces. When we introduced a food market, it too was leased. Makes perfect sense for categories that require a bit more expertise.
The lessee can control who is working their product and they know that person is totally focused on their product. Not being shared across departments etc.
It also brings the retailer the added value of new lines that they may not have been able to sell as effectively. And that, my friends, breeds loyalty!
Lee Kent, Brings Retail Executives Together to Meet.Learn.Profit, RetailConnections
There's nothing remarkable about the idea of a department store leasing (out) a department; it's age old. What IS remarkable—sort of—is the idea that the department is identified as such. But I'm not sure "Lid's" is a recognizable name for most shoppers; and the few who do notice probably won't care one way or another.
Wave 1: Department stores began as "private label" purveyors. As mall anchors, they created the space for specialty stores to live off their traffic. Specialty stores beat department stores at their game.
Wave 2: Category killers created off mall, big boxes within which to sell all leading brands at reduced prices. Those categories were killed by Amazon et al.
Wave 3: In the digital era, stores have too much square footage and unprofitable non-core categories exacerbate the real estate productivity problem. Now ALL traditional brick and mortar retailers are struggling to optimize their selling space. So they have to do something to fill the space. Server farms, Samsung or Sunglass Hut. You pick!
Or as we like to say, "retail ain't for sissies."
The benefits of leasing space to specialty stores for department stores are clear. They are able to cash in on borrowed interest in the other brands, and eliminate some level of their need for staffing, inventory, merchandising and inventory management. From all the standpoints, the strategy would be a clear win.
However, from a branding standpoint, a store like Macy's runs the risk of losing their differentiation—the unique position in the marketplace. When Macy's basically carries the same products as other stores in the mall, there are fewer and fewer reasons for a consumer to go out of their way to that store. Eventually, Macy's runs the risk of becoming like Service Merchandise in the old days—a warehouse full of other people's brands and other people's products.
Then the question is, why bother going?
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Mark Price, Managing Partner, M Squared Group, Inc.
Macy's has long been known for leasing space to other retailers and start-up merchants. It's what the department store does well, merging their own departments with interesting and quality parallel companies. I think the customer appreciates them for that.
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Jerry Gelsomino, Principal, FutureBest
Great point by Frank Riso. A good idea to keep customers in the store longer.
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Michael Vick's big-money second chance is an insult
Vick deserves a second chance | Aug. 16, Bill Maxwell column
Vick's big-money chance an insult
While I disagree with Bill Maxwell's opinion on giving Michael Vick a second chance in the NFL, I share his admiration and respect for Tony Dungy. Maybe one of the best lessons Dungy could teach Vick is that for most of us, second chances don't involve multimillion dollar contracts playing professional sports.
I am completely for second chances. We've all made our mistakes in life. However, I am not in agreement with reinstating large sums of money to athletes as a second chance.
Michael Vick deserves to make a living, get an education, have a roof over his head and feed his family. I'm guessing he can do it for much cheaper than $1.6 million this year and a $5.2 million (option) for next year, because the majority of us do. Shouldn't his second chance involve focusing on how to make a living after his NFL days are over? Completing his education from Virginia Tech? Does anyone bother to ask what his plans are after the NFL? Wouldn't that have been a great focus for him during his incarceration?
I feel slapped in the face by the NFL, and I hope others do too. In this economy, the Eagles signed this man to millions as his second chance. I know so many great, smart, law-abiding citizens who have lost their job, house, retirement, through no fault of their own. But a man who funded the systematic breeding of dogs to fight to the death for sport is going to make millions, running out on the field to play a game. I hope others see the sadness in this that I do.
Would Michael Vick stick to his statement that "everyone deserves a second chance" if he had invested and lost his NFL millions with Bernie Madoff?
Kristin Crawford, Tampa
Cruel treatment of dogs was no mistake
A mistake is when you inadvertently lock your keys inside your car or perhaps take a left turn when you should have taken a right. Killing dogs by hanging them, shooting them, beating them to death with a baseball bat or holding their heads under water until they stop struggling is not a mistake. They are willful, evil acts done by a man with no sense of humanity.
Michael Vick apologists always refer to these acts as "mistakes" like in "whoops." I wondered if Bill Maxwell could get through his entire commentary without using the word. He almost did.
Is there a doubt in anyone's mind that Vick would still be doing these vicious acts if he had not been caught? Vick's remorse comes from being exposed as the thug that he is. He should be given the same second chance that he gave to the dogs he mercilessly slaughtered.
Mike Lyons, Apollo Beach
Vick should just go away
Will someone tell Michael Vick to do us a favor and get out of football or any other sport and go home?
He was fortunate enough to get into pro football, made millions of dollars, then got greedy, made more money killing and torturing dogs. He got a slap on the wrist, served 18 months of a 23 month sentence. Now he is saying that he doesn't know why he ever did those terrible things and he is sorry. Of course, what else is he going to say?
I am very disappointed in the Philadelphia Eagles for hiring him, especially when you think of all the great players who have played for the Eagles. Vick is not one of them.
And what about Pete Rose? He couldn't get into the Hall of Fame because he gambled on baseball. Which is worse, gambling or killing dogs? Vick again has a chance to make millions more dollars. Then what?
John M. Chalakee, New Port Richey
Under the road to redemption | Aug. 16, story
Undeserving of our concern
Congratulations to Lane DeGregory for such talented writing. Her story about Homer Barkley and the other individuals he lives with under a bridge on the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami was thought-provoking. To think that people are forced to live in such squalor made me feel, well, almost bad for them.
But then I thought about the 10-year old girl Barkley raped and sodomized. Where is her story? What kind of prison is she living in? Does she visit psychologists like Barkley? Is she depressed, too?
Certainly society needs to find some solution as to what to do with individuals like Barkley, and the Julia Tuttle Causeway is surely not the answer.
But please, spare us this disgusting sap of a story.
Elizabeth Ariza, Tarpon Springs
Under the road to redemption | Aug. 16, story
Lost souls haven't a chance
Who else but Lane DeGregory, an award-winning journalist who so profoundly is a credit to her profession, could tackle the issue of a criminal justice system that is imploding on itself by its excesses?
Certainly, sex offenders and child molesters are the lowest of the low (regardless of the fact that differing degrees of sexual misconduct are lumped together in this system), but what kind of society are we delineating by making it impossible for most people caught up in this system to survive and be productive? These lost souls haven't a chance, and neither do we, of moving toward a more crime free civilization.
Dee Nicholas, Tarpon Springs
Under the road to redemption | Aug. 16, story
They should be grateful
Sorry guys: no sympathy here. Anyone convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old should be more than happy to have the privilege of living anywhere — let alone under a bridge.
C. Alder, Seminole
Why scientists are seldom Republicans Aug. 16, Robyn Blumner column
Crunching numbers
It's interesting that Robyn Blumner concludes that since most scientists are Democrats, Republicans are not open to "evidence-based thinking," using a poll issued by the Pew Research Center.
Who knows, maybe she is right.
I also read information from the Pew Research Center, and there is a survey of more than 2,500 scientists recently shared with the public. According to that poll, 76 percent of the scientists say a major problem for science is that news reports fail to distinguish between findings that are well-founded and those that are not. Also, 48 percent say that media oversimplification of scientific findings is a major problem. Can that really be true?
Maybe Blumner can ferret out some information on the makeup of the Democratic Party as well. I would be interested in knowing:
• The percentage of people on welfare who are Democrats, compared to Republicans.
• The percentage of ex-convicts who are Democrats, compared to Republicans.
• The percentage of illegal aliens who identify themselves as Democrats, vs. Republicans.
I wonder what conclusions she would draw from this information.
Chuck Krepshaw, Spring Hill
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This is Abigail's mother again. I must respond to the above post. Mrs. Flynt should not receive any personal criticism in this matter. She is a brilliant scientist who has a rare passion for teaching.
I'm sorry mgoblue, but Advanced Science is not the same as Mrs. Flynt's Gifted Science, and I don't give a darn whether she is gifted certified or not.
What you don't know is that Abigail was not in gifted science last year. She lost all enthusiasm about the subject during the seventh grade because she was in a very mundane Advanced Science class. Research shows that age 12 is the time when girls start to lose interest in the study of science. I was troubled by Abigail's lack of interest in science and was motivated to have Abigail accepted in the gifted studies program to get the benefit of this wonderful teacher. Abigail's interest in science has been completely renewed by Mrs. Flynt to the point that Abigail is now expressing her interest in combining her writing skills with a career in science.
I don't feel that Mrs. Flynt's discussion with her students on the day in question took anything away from class time. Her comments were made at the very end of a lab class about water conductivity, a lab which Abigail enthusiastically described to me at home. While Abigail's comments about the teacher crying could be misconstrued as more than what happened, I understand that tears welled up in Mrs. Flynt's eyes as she broke the news to her students. With passion comes emotion. We need to get off the topic of the teacher's tears, and focus on Abigail's real concern - the lack of gifted science for future middle school students.
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All they need is $6 million in start up cash. Where's Romney?
USDA loans are backed by a pool of money that has been there paid for a long time ago. So even if this little venture goes belly up it’s not going to add anything the national debt?? Are you kidding me? Can everyone stop being political for one second. You’re so worried about politics, liberals and BS that you repeat everything FOX news and MSNBC tells you. Come back to earth with the rest of us….THX
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd meets Holdern workers at a barbecue in Adelaide after announcing extra funding for the car industry. Photo: Andrew Meares
He's drooping in the polls, his back is against the wall and he needed a fiery speech to the workers to reset the Labor campaign.
But no one expected Kevin Rudd to drop the F-word.
The scene was a community hall in outer suburban Adelaide. There were children in the room.
People at the back of the hall audibly gasped. Did he just say that? Did the Prime Minister of Australia just drop the F-bomb?
Yes he did: "Ford"
In a hall full of Holden workers it was an obscenity.
Rudd mixed his carmakers up in what was otherwise his most rousing speech of the week.
The stumble came as he told the story of Sean Matthews, a Holden worker of 27 years whose father worked at the car factory for 30 years.
Rudd's advisers are likely to have viewed the Tony Abbott-type gaffe as a small scratch on the duco of an otherwise polished performance.
Rudd evoked former Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley in telling workers that Labor would back carmaking in Australia, with billions of dollars on the table in support before returning to his favourite theme.
Tony Abbott would "cut, cut, cut and cut to the bone,'' he said, adding an extra ''cut'' than the day before.
''Mr Abbott, I care about auto industry jobs. Do you care at all?'' Rudd asked.
The Prime Minister knows he is in a fight and day by day the election appears to be inching towards the point where it will be out of the grasp of Labor. Rudd, fresh from a pep talk in Melbourne at campaign headquarters, knows any fightback must start right now.
''I've been in a few tough spots before and I've managed to fight my way forward," he told workers. " I intend to fight my way forward again and part of the motivation for fighting my way forward is looking in the faces of you as good, honest, ordinary Australian families doing an honest day's work, producing the cars that Australians want to drive,'' he said.
''That's why we're not going to be told we can't win this election.''
Later he raised the name of John Hewson as a Liberal leader who ''arrogantly'' thought he would cruise to an election win and failed.
Hewson was brought unstuck by a brutally negative campaign inflaming fear of the unknown.
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No Hardware Acceleration for 1080p mkv/avi with 8800Ultra?
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Hi guys,
I have a unique problem. The following is my setup:
* Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 3.2 Ghz watercooled running very cool @ 35c even on load
* 2 GB DDR2 G Skill Ram
* 750GB (2 drives - lots of space left on system and backup partition)
* Asus EN 8800 Ultra 768MB on Forceware 169.25 / video bios version
* desktop and workspace resolution - 2560x1600
* Two PSUs powering the system (550w antec true power and 300w generic psu - enough power for sure)
* Vista 32bit newest drivers
* Matrox Community Pack for MKV, FLV, H.264 etc based codec format playback
* Media Player Classic
* Power DVD 7.3 Ultra with its H.264 codec
So it's a pretty beefy system by local standards with all the necessary software to playback High Def Movie rips available on torrents and other *uhem* helpful sources
have obtained the following HD movies all encoded using H.264:
* Doom 720p (1024x768) around 4.3Gb
* Transformers 1080p (1920x1080) around 9.5GB
* matrix trilogy 1080p (1920x1080) around 9.5GB
With the default Matrox video codecs loaded and using Media Player Classic I get the following CPU utilizations
* Doom - around 50%-60% peak on single core
* transformers and matrix trilogy - up to 100%
as you might guess, I'm having SEVERE lag in most action packed sequences which makes the system skip frames also misalligns the video from the audio for the 1080p movies
Obviously looks like there is no GPU based hardware acceleration thus every bit of decoding for H.264 codec is being handled by my poor E6400
Worst, its being done on a single thread not utilizing my 2nd core
First Easy Solution
Get a multi threaded decoder for H.264 and force Media Player Classic to use it - Power DVD Ultra 7 has a nice H.264 decoder thats multi threaded so i decided to install it and force media player classic to prefer that decoder over its native FFDSHow decoder.
Result of first Solution
Smooth Acceptable playback - with nearly 80% average utilization of Both F'ng cores - at least I can watch the movies now
But where the F is the H.264 hardware acceleration from my 80k behemoth of a GPU?
If someone can please tell me whether they have tried something similar to this and have any results to share where they can watch a 1080 movie on a NV80 based 8800 model gpu with hardware acceleration for MKV files (H.264 based)
I saw an article on anandtech where they show an 8600/8500 use on 25% cpu where gpu does the rest.
Please help if you have any info on this - I WANT HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR H.264
Hello -
I have a more modest system than yourself - 8600GT / AMD64 4200 x2.
I've a Paul McCartney 1080p music video. It's MKV/AVC/ac-3.
When I play it in WMP 10, I get 40-50% cpu utilization, using the coreAVC
codec, as mentioned above. Not sure if it's using HW acceleration or not.
PS I see that I'm using coreAVC version 1.85. Not sure if that supports CUDA. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/236755-49-hardware-acceleration-1080p-8800ultra | dclm-gs1-030450002 | false | false | {
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Migrate into a raid0?
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Hi everyone. Just to preface my question, I am purely an enthusiast, so telling me I wont get much performance increase means nothing to me, I just want cool stuff :D
My question is this: I have three hard drives right now-
C: -200GB main OS drive, SATA, with Vista Ultimate 64 and all my programs
D: -200GB storage drive, IDE, with music/movies/lab reports and just general downloads
E: -500GB backup drive, SATA, holds the Vista complete PC backup images of C:
The way I have this all in my mind is to get rid of the two (nearly full) 200GB drives, buy a 500GB drive identical to E: along with a seperate 1TB drive, and put the two 500GB drives into a RAID 0 config that holds everything that used to be on C: as well as D:, and then using the 1TB drive to hold backup images.
The seemingly logical way to do that would be get the 1TB drive, move the C: image to it, reformat E:, buy a raid controller and create a raid 0 array, then boot from the Vista disk and restore my full C: backup to the array, then copy everything from the old D: over to the new array. Then I can lose both 200GB drives, use a single "drive" (array) to hold everything I use, and use the 1TB drive to hold the image of the array as backup.
Is that possible? I remember using Norton Ghost when I had XP and I vaguely remember being told it does not support raid. However, I am a complete and utter raid noob, so I'm asking you all. Thanks :)
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Use Acronis True Image.
It will mirror a drive image from a RAIDed set to a single drive, or from a single drive back to the RAIDed set. Have done it many times.
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Yes, you have to set up your RAID 0 array, it must be functional and have it showing up in Windows as a drive. You may then mirror away just as if it is any other drive.
I am assuming of course you know how to set everything in your regular BIOS for the type of array you are going to build, and how to get into the RAID BIOS once you have those settings correct, and build the array.
I dont have the first idea on how to do any of that, but learning something new hands-on is always fun, I'll figure it out as I go.
You did confuse me a bit though. I am talking about striping, not mirroring. SO to make sure I have this straight, I install Acronis onto C:, create a new, working, blank array, install drivers in Vista so Vista sees a single bigger drive, then take the snapshot of the OS drive, unplug it, and re-mount it to the striped array?
Yes, you must install the array and have it working, showing up in Windows. Remember here now, the controller does all the work. When the array is up and funtional, the drives in RAID 0 will simply show up as 1 big drive in Windows. 250+250 means you will have 1 500gig drive showing up in windows now, and you treat it just like any other single drive. Set it to active, partition it, etc.
RAID 0 is other wise known as "striping".
Then you mirror your single drive over to it (the array)
Then, you must make sure that you have in BIOS the array set as bootable, and in the boot order. After you have mirrored the OS to the array, simply shutdown, unhook the old OS drive, and it should now boot to the array with the OS on it.
Acronis is a good, fast easy to use step by step guided software.
One of the last things it will ask you is if you want to use the newly created mirror or copy as your boot drive, and tell you what steps to take when it finishes it's thing. You will really like this software. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/247533-32-migrate-raid0 | dclm-gs1-030460002 | false | false | {
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WD VelociRaptor VS Samsung SP F1
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I'm building a gaming system and i'm stuck on which hard drive, I have been buying Raptors since they first came out but I keep seeing comments on the Samsung being a faster drive, is this true? Can anyone shed anymore light on this as I cant seem to find any solid info
I dont want to spend any more than £150, I want it to be as fast as possible and it will be installed to an Asus main board, more than likely an 890 chipset
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there are a lot of drive faster than the raptor's and have been for quite some time, the newer velociparter on the other hand is the fastest mechanical sata drive available. with that said the the three top drives at the time being are the black's, F3's and .12's; all three of which are much better than a raptor and no where near as good as a veloci-raptor.
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Thanks for the replies, what if I have a board with a 6gbps SATA connection? What HDD's take advantage of that?
Or have you answered that already and i've just realised that SATA2 is 3gbps and SATA3 is 6gbps?
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Other 7200RPM drives may have faster transfer rates than a Velociraptor, but they can't match the access time of a Velociraptor, even an old one. Access times are the most important metric for the kind of small random I/Os you get when you boot a system or start up applications.
There are currently NO hard drives that have a sustained data transfer rate faster than a 3Gbit/sec SATA connection, so you don't get any real performance improvement by buying one with a 6Gbit/sec connection. Hard drive manufacturers are standardizing on the faster SATA chipsets because the older ones are going out of production, but the platters still only rotate so fast and the transfer rate is limited by how fast the data flies past the read/write heads.
Maybe a next generation SSD can break 300mb/s but for hard drives thats still quite far away. The fastest HDD for sustained read is the spinpoint F3 at 150mb/s, still half of what SATA2 can do.
Theres sustained read/write and random read/write.
Raptors are the fastest HDDs for random operations but that is a few dozen times slower than even what a cheap SSD can do since SSDs have pretty much zero seek time. Random read is good for system boot and opening programs, makes windows more snappy and responsive.
For sustained read/write, there are HDDs faster than raptors. Sustained read/write is good for loading/moving large files like movies and games. SSDs I would say suck at sustained read/write for the price you pay. For the price for a good SSD like the intel X25 you can get several spinpoint F3, RAID 0 or 5 them and get read performance like no other. Capacity would be much higher too.
Someone did a good graph comparing the speed drop
for a VR and a slower/larger HDD, from outer to inner cylinders.
Turns out, the VR has smaller platters, because WD
decided to stay with smaller spindle bearings:
larger platters at 10,000 would have required
larger spindle bearings due to the extra centrifugal
force that results from spinning larger platters
at that higher rpm.
So, with a smaller overall geometry, and
with HDD controllers maintaining the same or
similar recording density from outer to inner tracks,
there is a measurable drop in the VR's transfer speeds
from outermost to innermost cylinders.
This speed "drop" can be graphed with HDTune:
it typically approaches 50% on average e.g.
I just measured a drop from 63.0 to 35.2 MB/second
on an older WD1600YS.
Now, with the much larger 1-2 TB 7,200 rpm HDDs,
they have more cylinders because their platter
geometry is larger: this, in turn, means that
the rate of speed "drop" is slower on these
larger HDDs, going from outermost to innermost
Proving the theory that the VR's speed would "drop"
faster, the two graphs did cross: beyond that
crossover point, the larger/slower HDDs did maintain
a higher transfer speed directly under the read/write
So, to take advantage of this phenomenon and
to have excellent speeds AND lots of capacity too,
a good option is to configure 2 x 1-2 TB PMR HDDs
in a RAID 0, and format the first partition
so it is "short-stroked", leaving the rest as a
slower data partition.
For example, we assembled a RAID 0 using
2 x WD 750GB RE3 HDDs, and installed XP x32
on one 30GB partition, then formatted the remainder
as a larger dedicated data partition = (750x2)-30.
This setup works G-R-E-A-T!!
p.s. I'll see if I can find that "crossover" graph,
and post a link here.
Here's one example of "cross-over" graphs:
WD's website still fails to mention PMR for their latest 600GB / 6G VR:
Compare the WD RE4-GP, as shown in the graphs above:
"Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) - Employs PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density."
No mention of this PMR technology in the latest VR's description above, however.
Surely the Velociraptor is still the better option. If you are reading/writing a single HUGE file then theoretically the above graph would come into play. But for real life applications (using as a boot drive)...the seek time is more important. Loading windows will try to access lots of random segments of the seek time takes priority. Which is why we use SSD...although classic Hard drives (arguably insome cases) are better for reading/writing of sequential data.
And when your drive is getting full on the "slow data partition" you'll have lots of time for making coffee when the middle of the 2tb spindle is getting full...those transfer rates don't look too impressive
I've asked the author of that article above, Adrian,
for more information about the graphs he prepared.
Also, I'm not 100% sure if WD's latest VRs use PMR, or not.
Do you know -- for sure?
Either they don't use PMR, or WD just forgot to mention
that feature at their webpage for the latest "6G" 600GB VR:
I'll try to remember to write WD directly for their official answer.
Thanks again.
Thanks, did I mention I dont want to spend more than £150, if not ooops!
I would also rather have a single drive, not to bothered about RAID, basically the best performance single drive for gaming no less than 100GB, theres a 150GB VelociRaptor for that but its now superceded by the newer models although still available, would this be a good choice?
This 74GB VR might work well for you:
You'll need two 2.5"-to-3.5" adapter brackets
in order to install it in a standard 3.5" drive bay:
Or, something like this:
We've tried this Vantec 5.25" bay cooler for 3.5" HDDs,
and it works very well with a knob to adjust fan speed:
p.s. Do NOT get this one, because the screw holes are NON-standard:
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Onboard graphics
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I'm building a computer but im very confused about whats the best motherboard for the system. Advice would be very much appriciated.
I'm looking for a MB with these features:
*Intel CPU socket 775 (for dual core cpu)
*1x PCI-e 2.0
*2x PCI
*1x IDE connection
*2x DDR2 or DDR3
*very good quality components (like japanese transistors and solid state capacitors)
*energy saving features
*pretty =P
(no SLI / Crossfire needed)
the computer is meant for:
*Windows XP 32bit
*seeing lots of videos
*recording digital TV
*play games(the most demanding beeing World of Warcraft, so no big performance required)
My main doubt is about the onboard graphics. Are they much worst than a actual graphic card? I know the onboard chips are good enough for my needs (GeForce 9300 or Intel GMA x4500HD) but someone told that they suck without the actual graphic card.
So are thay good enough?
And if I want to buy a graphic card is it best to have a motherbord with or without the onboard graphics? Because if there's no diference I rather buy one with onboard graphics.
im leaning towards Gigabyte GA-EG45M-UD2H or GA-E7AUM-DS2H, but I think the 1st is better because IntelGMA X4500HD has 800Mhz core speed and GeForce has only 550Mhz
the possibilities ive considered are:
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3 - 100€
Gigabyte GA-EQ45M-S2 - 110€ (onboard IntelGMA X4500HD,Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced, NO Ultra Durable, NO HDMI)
Zotac GF9300-A-E - 100$ (onboard Geforce 9300 but ugly)
Intel DP35DP - 115$
Gigabyte GA-EG45M-UD2H - 120€ (onboard IntelGMA X4500HD,Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced, Ultra Durable 3)
Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H - 120$ (onboard Geforce 9400,Ultra Durable 2,Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced)
EVGA nForce 730i - 120$ (onboard Geforce 9300 but no HDMI)
EVGA nForce 750i SLI - 130$
I havnt seen any asus boards yet
Thx in advance
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^ Even I wouldnt suggest the onboard graphics that you have listed, even for light gaming...
If it would have been an AMD PC, then the onboard graphics that come with some boards are good enough for light gaming unlike these intel GMAs...But maybe the nvidia might be able to offer better performance than that intel GMA...
The best option for you would be...
Get a cheaper board like the Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L, which has the required features that you are looking for and invest in a cheap, decent graphics card - HD 4670, 9600GSO with 512 DDR3... | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263114-30-onboard-graphics | dclm-gs1-030480002 | false | false | {
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Advice on a specific upgrade please...
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Hey guys,
I'm working on a project for someone else. I'm trying to figure out what memory I need to get to upgrade a dell dimension 4700 pc.
400-MHz (PC2-3200) and 533-MHz (PC2-4300) DDR2 unbuffered SDRAM non-ECC
I think the pc2-4300 is a misprint and should be pc2-4200.
I'm looking to get 2 1GB sticks, but I'm not sure which to get...
1.) PC2-3200 or PC2-4200? I've also looked on crucial's site and they say PC2-5300 and PC2-6400 are compatible...hence, the
2.) I've seen some memory at certain stores, but can't find where it labels it unbuffered or not...or non-ECC. How do I tell if it's not on the specs?
Thanks guys,
a c 128 } Memory should guarantee it's ram to work; may be worth spending a little extra so you have no return hassles. All desktop ram is non ecc; ecc is for servers only and should be listed somewhere in the specs.
So what about the PC2-3200/4200 on the specs from Dell's site vs. the PC2-5300/6400 on the recommended from Crucial's site?
I'm not overly concerned with any return hassles. I will most likely get the sticks from newegg, and they have a 30 day return policy. I think I understand the buffered vs. unbuffered and ecc vs. non-ecc...and most sticks I've been looking at are what I need for those requirements.
So, basically...I need to understand what the difference is between Dell's spec sheet pc2-3200/4200 and crucial's recommended pc2-5300/6400.
THe PC2-3200\4300 are different speeds of the RAM modules ie the 3200 are running at 400Mhz. the 4300 runs at 533Mhz. - the others you list PC2-5300\6400 are newer modules that run at 667Mhz. and 800Mhz. and are newer than your MOBO was designed to support (unless they have done a BIOs Update since the system was released - Judging from this page you listed ( ) - your MOBO only supports the older 400-MHz (PC2-3200) and 533-MHz (PC2-4300) DDR2 unbuffered SDRAM non-ECC so unless you verify that the others are compatible I would stick with them !! - Also are you completly replacing the memory or adding to the existing ?? - If adding more then you need to find out which speed is already in there and get some that match it (mixing speed will sometime work with the faster modules slowing themselves down to run at the lower modules speed but can cause stability issues so best not to if possible !!) - Also if adding to existing modeules be sure to get ones that use the same voltage as the old ones (the MOBO can only supply the same voltage to all of the RAM so you need all of them to run at the same voltage - again for stability reasons and again mixing will sometimes work but best not to chance it !) | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/271375-30-advice-specific-upgrade-please | dclm-gs1-030490002 | false | false | {
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Changing resolution
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Almost every computer on our network has the resolution 800x600.
Is there anyway I can automatically change them all to their native resolution without doing them all individually?
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not that I am aware of with out installing a program on them, and that would take longer then just changing the Resolution.
How did they get that way, normally it auto senses what the native resolution is and uses it. unless it doesn't have the proper video driver installed. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/30750-42-changing-resolution | dclm-gs1-030500002 | false | false | {
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Can we use vengeance ram with xms3 ram ???
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Can we pair up A vengeance Ram with Xms3 Ram if they have same bus speed and frequency ??
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Probably not. The XMS kit is old 1.65v DDR3 1600 while the Vengance kit is the newer 1.5v DDR3 1600 standard.
Do not use the 1.65v stuff with a LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge processor. The memory controller is on the actual CPU with these chips and they should be run with 1.5v memory only. You are fine running 1.65v RAM with an AMD build or with an LGA 1156 or LGA 1366 setup though.
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No, as I said above Sandy Bridge processors should be used with 1.5v memory only. Running 1.65v memory can actually damage the processor. Any i5 2xxx or i7 2xxx series CPUs are Sandy Bridge.
You are probably better off with the 8GB. The best RAM for a 2500 processor is 1.5v DDR3 1600 cas 9.
The GSkill is just as good as the Corsair ( lifetime warranty ) and usually cheaper.
Will this Intel DH67CL motherboard support upto 16GB of RAM or 8GB is maximum? It's specifications say that it supports up to 32GB of Memory.!!!
Of what malfunctioning? 32GB of RAM? No, if the board supports it then it will run it. The only reason to even consider that much RAM is if you work with photo or video editing or other software that involves huge files. Or if you wanted to create a RAM disk. For a gaming machine 8GB is fine and even 4GB will work fine for most games. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/309554-30-vengeance-xms3 | dclm-gs1-030510002 | false | false | {
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My computer frezzes in games
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Hey there
i have built my own pc and everything works ok unlees when i play games then after 10-30 min the pc frezzes
MB: Asus P8Z77-V
Cpu: Intel core i5 3570k
Psu: Corsair ax 750
GFX: Gigabyte gtx 680 windforce 3x
SSD: intel 520 series 240 gb
Ram Kingston hyper x genesis 1600 mhz ram (
i have been looking but cant seem to find a solution
it is under 2 weeks old
i has been having exams so that why i first play games now
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i have cpu-z and gpu-z, hwmonitor and intel burn test
I installed the new drivers from nvidia when they came i used drive swepper and bootet into safe mode and used drive sweeper that way, as instructions say you should
My temps are good under intel burn test my cpu is max 65 celsius and when the pc frezzes the gfx is max 50 celsius
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You know, I just had this same issue recently...I fixed it when I noticed that windows update had installed a motherboard graphics adapter, and I also use LogMeIn..which ALSO installed a graphics driver.
Once I uninstalled logmein and disabled the intel graphics everything ran perfectly!
Not saying it'll work for you but just check it out to see if you have anything other than you 680 driver listed in your device manager.
All important question: Freeze or BSOD? I had twin 8800s SLId in a machine for years, and a year or so ago PSU crapped out. I could boot and run normally, but it would BSOD after 15-20 mins in game...
Regardless of freeze or BSOD, I'd drop in a known good PSU if possible and see if it fixes the problem. Unless you have a PSU tester, then just test it to make sure GPU is getting enough juice. New part does not always mean good part, you could have a lemon that provides juice for basic use but not enough to handle the thing under load.
Just a thought
i got corsair ax 750 that is 80 plus gold, and it is freezing where the picture just stops and i can hear fans spinning it is like you pause pause the game. And i can't get out off the game so i need to restart it
i will run 5 passes of memory test and see if theres if not, see if it still freezes if not then i will try 2t command and see if that helps
i have been running it for 16 hours now and 15 passes and no errors, so it is 100% sure that i got no errors with my ram right?
Go to Start>Run
Type in DEVMGMT.MSC to open the device manager. Right Click your video card(s) and hit properties. Click the Driver Tab and click "update driver". If driver is already up to date or updating the driver does not work...
Is it one specific game? Have you tried other games to see if it crashes in them too?
If it's one specific game, try other games to see if it causes them to crash too. If not, completely uninstall then reinstall that game. If you've tried other games and it crashes all of them, I'm 99% sure it's your PSU. It takes a little while til the GPU is under full working load, and as your PSU gradually dies over the course of the next few months, it's crash after less and less time in games until you can't even get into them. Try replacing the Power Supply. I know you don't want to, but if the RAM is fine and you tried all the other stuff I said then PSUs the problem, and if it's under 2 weeks old it should be under warranty.
I'm telling you, try a diff PSU. If everything worked all the time, why would they warranty it?
Futuremark or one of those GPU intensive things will work IF it runs for at least the amount of time that it takes to crash in game. so if it's a GPU intensive benchmark, and it runs for at least the 15 - 20 mins it takes the game to crash, it is a sufficient test.
Also (stupid question I know), are you using the PCIe power connectors? Or are you using some sort of Molex/SATA power connector to PCIe Converter? Lastly are both 6 and 8 pin PCIe connectors plugged in?
they are both plugged in ofc, and i use 6 and 8 pin
i have modular cable so maybe they doesn't sit perfectly in the psu
Personally I'd buy an older game such as Batman Arkam Asylum (something cheap known for good graphics in it's time) to see if it crashes in all games or just that one specific game.
If it crashes in everything then the only possibilities I can think of are bad PSU or bad GPU. Reason I say change PSUs to see if it fixes it, otherwise you probably have a bum GPU. (Don't shoot the messenger). I hope it's not the GPU cuz you can buy another PSU for cheap, I don't even wanna imagine the RMA process for a GTX 680 at this point in time.
a b U Graphics card
your drive wont let games to play u have very high speed drive so that many games will run but freezes try to get a normal rive wd 64 mb cache drive which is good for gaming intel ssd 240gb per sec means your game boost but it freezes
a b U Graphics card
yes u have it use it for storing games and play it wont freezes games
and i preffer use intel ssd to store windows on it secondly use 1 tb hd for games storage
a b U Graphics card
u looking for fast loading but the games also need rendering setting while he loading
fast loading make u r pc to not run in default mode because u r hardware also configure it 3d rendering so use 1tb hd urs
but i heard many that recommends ssd for games, so that it is bit weird i am having that problem, when i know people with ssd not having the problem
i was running 3d mark 11 performance preset and then suddenly it freezed and i waited a minute turned the monitor off and then on, and then windows came with the message "nvidia kernel 301.42 stopped working".
does that mean that it is the driver that it causing the freeze?
so when nvidia come with new major driver my problem will be fixed?
Has it been popping up this error every time or is this the first you've seen it?
A few things I want to get straight:
1) Is it BSOD, computer freezing entirely, or the game crashes and an error message pops up in Windows?
1A) Has this error message happened every time, or is 3d mark 11 the first time that specific error has popped up?
2) Have you checked other forums to see if anyone else has had this problem and what their solution was? Or at least what they tried that didn't work so you don't waste your time?
3) Have you checked the manufacturer's site for new drivers? Sometimes manufacturers will tweak nVidia drivers to better suit their specific product. Tweaking CAN cause errors (one misplaced character, decimal place, etc can change the entire function of a program). See if your graphics card manufacturer has released a new driver to fix known issues, because you're probably not the only one having it.
Troubleshooting is hard when you're not looking at the machine in question.
in 3dmark11 the error pops up and in mist of pandaria it popped up after 10 min and 20 minutes later the screen totally frezzed, i maybe think it is because the driver stopped working and then the first and the first time it was recovered but the next time it couldn't be recovered
i will try to run heaven benchmark to see what happens
the only driver there is on gigabyte website 301.10 there 2 of 301.10 one that is 160mb and one with 201.7mb | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/356646-33-computer-frezzes-games | dclm-gs1-030520002 | false | false | {
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Cannot install Windows 7 drivers
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so, ive counted 14 people on the microsoft website who have this problem
and not a single fix
ive stoped looking and stoped counting
a few posts are as follows
and i have totaly been ALL over inside of this guys posts advice
and i still can not install any drivers at all to my pc.
this is obviously not a specific make / modle issue, but a MS issue. yes i did bois update in 3 flavors and a whole lot more.
who has any advice i can fource an update with??
what is your computer?
what device are you trying to install? is it working?
is there an option to click on "this device installed correctly" <-- click on it and ignore the error message.
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no you havent.
Is it laptop or pc?
windows 7, 32/64bit?
Dont be expecting for me to assume what youre running just from those links.
Are you running 32 (x86) or 64 (x64) bit OS and do the drivers match this?
What are you trying to install the drivers for?
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I never let windows install any drivers other than the basic generic stuff it installs on its own during the original install.
1. Whenever you plug something in and Windows wants to install anything, think of Nancy Regan and "Just Say NO !"
2. Install the manufacturer's driver from the CD in the box or from the manufacturer's web site.
I can't count the number of Windows re-installs I have had to do because someone let windows do what it "thought" was appropriate. Most frequent offender, laptop audio drivers. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/51700-63-cannot-install-windows-drivers | dclm-gs1-030530002 | false | false | {
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My granddaughter need a laptop for school
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My granddaughter is going into early college and need a computer, who can help me? Is there a grant program someplace or company that helps out young people like her. he has already had a very tough life. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/53801-35-granddaughter-laptop-school | dclm-gs1-030550002 | false | false | {
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Lana: Oh My... You're getting off on this!
Archer: And?
Cheryl: You're not my supervisor!
Pam: Shut up! We're going to go to prison.
Cheryl: No, we're not. Say the right stuff and they just send you to a mental hospital for ten months.
Gilette: I just this second realize why you do macrame instead of knitting.
Cheryl: Yeah, no sharp weapons on the ward. They were really strict about that.
Archer: I would have qualified... if I made it to the thing.
Lana: If your aunt has balls, she'd be your uncle.
Here's a sniper out there whose bullet could spark World War III and you idiots are tying up ISIS resources on high school bullshit? Cause I don't really see a downside to that Archer-wise. So load up. There should be a big box of grenades around here somewhere.
That so hard? Count Snackula.
Malory: So make her 40.
Cyril: And who's going to play her?
Malory: Me! That's the whole point.
Cyril: You do realize there's a finite amount of Vaseline in the world?
Malory: I think I can sell them on a rewrite, if you fix it.
Cyril: For starters, I don't think you wanna say this guy is as coal black and thick-muscled as a fieldhand.
Malory: I don't need you for content, just for plot structure.
Cyril: Racist overtones aside, it really kinda limits your casting options. I mean, only two, three guys could play that.
You can't have a flasback with a flashforward in it. That's just bad writing.
Cheryl: Deaf people are gross.
Pam: Not as gross as the hook hand ones.
Cheryl: Eh? I dunno.
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