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ANAHEIM DUCKS--Assigned RW Brad Staubitz, C Richard Rakell, LW John Kurtz and D Nolan Yonkman to Norfolk (AHL) and G Igor Bobkov to Utah (ECHL). Placed LW Emerson Etem, RW Jakob Silfverberg and D Luca Sbisa and Sheldon Souray on injured reserve.
DALLAS STARS--Designated Fs Scott Glennie and Rich Peverley and D Aaron Rome injured non-roster players.
DETROIT RED WINGS--Assigned Fs Mitch Callahan, Luke Glendening, Calle Jarnkrok, Tomas Jurco, Gustav Nyquist, Teemu Pulkkinen and Riley Sheahan, Ds Adam Almquist and Ryan Sproul and G Petr Mrazek to Grand Rapids (AHL). Recalled D Xavier Ouellet and G Jared Coreau from Grand Rapids. Placed C Darren Helm and RW Patrick Eaves on long-term injured reserve and G Jonas Gustavsson and RW Jordin Tootoo on 7-day injured reserve. Released F Jeff Hoggan and D Nathan Paetsch from their professional tryout agreements.
EDMONTON OILERS--Assigned G Tyler Bunz to Bakersfield (ECHL).
FLORIDA PANTHERS--Loaned D Colby Robak to San Antonio (AHL).
LOS ANGELES KINGS--Loaned D Jeff Schultz to Manchester (AHL).
NASHVILLE PREDATORS--Signed F Simon Moser to a one-year, entry-level contract.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS--Assigned RW Cam Janssen to Albany (AHL). Placed LW Patrik Elias on injured reserve. Designated RW Mattias Tedenby an injured non-roster player.
NEW YORK RANGERS--Reassigned D Samuel Noreau and Fs Josh Nicholls, Michael St. Croix and Jason Wilson from Hartford (AHL) to Greenville (ECHL).
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS--Placed D Kris Letang and G Tomas Vokoun on the injured list. Assigned F Andrew Ebbett and D Simon Despres to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL), F Beau Bennett to Wheeling (ECHL) and Derrick Pouliot to Portland (WHL).
WINNIPEG JETS--Re-assigned F Patrice Cormier and D Zach Redmond to St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Grant Clitsome on injured reserve, retroactive to Thursday.|
HARTFORD WOLF PACK--Loaned G Jeff Malcolm; D Charlie Dodero and Mike Marcou; and F Andrew Rowe to Greenville (ECHL). Released Fs Sean Ambrosie, Brandon Hynes and Matt Kirzinger and sent them to Greenville. Released D Sam Klassen and Jason Lepine and F Scott Arnold from training camp.
ELMIRA JACKALS--Re-signed F Jean Bourbeau.|
NCAA--Granted Florida men’s basketball G Eli Carter immediate eligibility. Named Jon Levinson secretary-rules editor for women’s basketball.
FLORIDA--Announced DT Dominique Easley will enter the NFL draft.
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I'm in my mid 60's, independent person, loving mother, published writer. Open mind and loyal to those I love.
Yesterday was my son's 40th birthday. It hurt not being able to send him anything. I have the address but aren't using it. Sooner or later he's going to grow into his age and realize how unfair he is being. The only one trying to make him choose wife over mother is the wife. I'm fine with second place, she wants me in a non existent place. I hope her own son marries someone just like her so she can see how childish and unfair to everyone it is. I hope Kathy is getting the help she needs from a psychologist....more
Football is a waste of time and money
There's a thing on the internet that a mother was strangling her daughter because the Packers were losing. Her husband said she also threw dinner on the floor and attacked him. She was strangling her daughter and stopped then started again a little bit later and almost killed her. She up on changes but what is it about this stupid game that drives people crazy! People make fun of sci-fi fans but nobody there is trying to kill each other. God, people, get a grip, it's a stupid game that overpaid brutes play running into and over each other. ...more
It's getting close to Dan's birthday. I hate not buying him anything. I just need him to realize he's being manipulated. I hate that but I can't make that choice for him. All I can do is be here for him when he finally realizes he deserves to be treated with respect and love. All he ever has to do is let me know he needs something and I'll be there for him. I will spend his birthday under medication because I won't get through it otherwise. No matter what I love my son unconditionally....more
Today is Thanksgivingt. I hope Danny is having a good day. All I can do is think about him. The fact that he doesn't want me in his life is beyond reason. I know how Darryl must have felt. His decision wasn't spur of the moment, he thought it through....more
I'm trying to understand and help rather then continue on this selve serving diatribe
I spend a lot of time worrying about my son. I hate seeing him being taken advantage of and not standing up for himself. Marriage is a 50/50 contract. His seems to be 95/5 in Kathy's favor. I don't think she's all bad. I do lose patience with her always taking and never giving but I also know your background can change how you see things. I hope you'll understand and try to get the intended message. I'm available if you ever want to talk. Don't take kindness for weakness. When push comes to shove I don't care if you're h...more
Tired of this hostile association
Kathy I am no longer going to exchange barbs with you. I've know you eleven years and have never had an actual conversation with you. I realize you were abused as a child. I was too and one doesn't discount the pain of the other. I'm glad you're doing the Oprah thing, I hope it helps. You didn't like when I tried to tell you how I got on disability and went to school too. There was nothing hostile in that communication yet you could only respond with hostility. I know you hurt from your childhood. I understand that makes you defensive ...more
Things I think about
I sometimes have to wonder if being older means you don't count anymore. I consider myself a nice person. I try to be good to others. I really don't understand my daughter-in-law though. She spends so much time spewing venum that she never stops to realize I'm not her enemy. From what I understand she has an abusive childhood, lot of that going around. Being abused yourself doesn't mean no one else has it in their background. Surprisingly I share a lot of the same thoughts as she does and could be a good sounding board. <...more | http://www.blogher.com/member/karen-k | dclm-gs1-071470002 | false | false | {
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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by Staff on Oct. 25, 2013
The week has finally come to an end but before you toss all your work on an intern and head to Las Vegas, check out the news that’s buzzing around the internet today.
11 Acre Wish
Have you ever seen a portrait that spanned 11 acres? This is amazing. As part of the Belfast International Festival, artist Jorge Rodriguez transformed a photograph of a girl making a wish into an 11 acre masterpiece made from 30,000 wooden pegs, 2,000 tonnes of sand, 2,000 tonnes of topsoil, grass and stones.
NC GOP Chair Got Daily Showed
Yesterday everyone was watching a pretty hilarious video of Aasif Mandvi from the Daily Show interviewing Don Yelton, a North Carolina GOP official who apparently had been drinking heavily with his medication that day and had no idea the level of stupidity that was coming out of his mouth. The highlight reel of his discussion about NC’s new voter ID laws included;
• Use of the term “lazy black people”
• Assuring us he wasn’t a racist because he has a black friend
• Mentioning how when he was a kid black people weren’t called that, they were negroes
• Questioning why he can’t use the n-word
• Acknowledging that the voter ID law was just to mess with Democrats and not to prevent voter fraud
Yelton has since been removed from his position in the party, one he won in 2013 by two votes (himself and his wife). The GOP would like everyone to know that they too know Yelton is a dingus and they do not support his pretty much insane interview in any way.
Text Your Resignation
A Texas judge who, for whatever brilliant reason, decided to text instructions during a trial to an assistant DA, has submitted her resignation in lieu of disciplinary action and is now barred from performing any kind of judicial duties, even performing weddings.
The judge didn’t admit any guilt, though she was accused of sending texts to the DA with suggestions of questions they should ask during a trial in 2012. Whether that was because the prosecutor really sucked or the judge just wanted to hurry things along we may never know.
Police Officer Fired for Shooting
Odds are that most police do their jobs well and we owe them thanks for it but it’s an indisputable fact that a lot of officers abuse their position and they do it horribly. Such was the case with officer Carden Spencer who, last week, shot a mentally ill man in the street and defended himself by saying the man lunged at him with a knife. What Spencer did not realize in his stupid arrogance was a neighbor had a security camera pointed at the entire event which showed the man not only didn’t move, he didn’t have a weapon and didn’t even raise his hands. The officer shot him point blank in the street for no reason at all.
The case against Spencer is now headed to a grand jury.
Seattle Parking Lot To Be Turned Into Parking Lot
The law of eminent domain allows for the government to take private property for public use. So if the city you live in has a reason to need your home, it can take it from you so long as you’re given just compensation. It’s rare, but legal.
In Seattle, the city has decided it needs a parking lot owned by a 103 year old woman. It needs this property to turn into a parking lot. Which, you may have noticed in that last sentence, it already is. Critics have pointed out that the point of eminent domain is to improve something for the public good, like by putting a roadway in place or building a school. Turning a parking lot into a parking lot is just short of the opposite of the intended law. The only thing worse would be if they planned to build condos for rich people there.
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This is why we need the right to bear arms. Do you really want only the most uneducated like the police to carry guns? The most violent thugs,former high school bullies and guys who just got back fom a military Iraq deployment. Yes that is your typical cop. Arm up people with cameras and guns. The police have become militarized. We are the peasants to them. It's them vs us. Try engaging a cop in conversation. You will soon realize your Speaking with someone who is mentally ill.
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The cop is a PRIME example of why we should NEVER allow them to take away our right to videotape police.
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The DA in a relatively large county like Nueces County is not paid to be a trial lawyer. There are plenty of lawyers on staff to try cases.
The DA is there to exercise judgment. The vast majority cases are routine and don't require a lot of judgment but there are a significant number of cases that require real judgment. If judgment is not exercised, lives are ruined unnecessarily. Also, respect for the law is diminished. The number of trials that Skurka has tried in the last 10 years is not important.
Compare the situation to the military. The general needs to spend his time thinking about strategy and motivating intermediate leaders. A general who is out in the trenches firing a rifle and getting shot at is not doing his job properly. Sure, he might do that momentarily to motivate the troops. But, he needs to be back somewhere safe doing some high quality thinking and leading. There are thousands of troops who can fire a rifle better than him but there is really only one general in a position to make strategic decisions and lead the army.
Anna Jimenez exercised poor judgment indicting Munoz. She failed to do her job well in that instance. In fairness, there were plenty of stupid cases under Valdez / Skurka leadership.
Anna Jimenez's problem is that she has only been DA for a short time and she has already made at least one major mistake. The Valdez / Skurka team had several decades to make their mistakes.
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DEAR TIM: I put my wood deck to bed for the season about a month ago. Suffice it to say I was really upset. Back in the spring I went to great lengths to clean the deck and reseal it. I purchased an expensive semi-transparent sealer that did have a small amount of pigment in it. However, after several months, the wood started to gray and then the mildew set in. Now I have to start over when spring arrives. This time I want to do it right. What advice can you offer when purchasing wood deck sealers? --Brandy S., Albany, Ga.
DEAR BRANDY: This is no consolation, but you're in a large group of consumers that are deeply disappointed with the performance of their deck sealers. I've been interested in this topic for years as a contractor, but I've also been on the short end of the stick several times as sealers have failed on my own wood deck surfaces.
Wood deck sealers come in all flavors. There are water-based sealants as well as a few oil-based products. Some are heavily pigmented while others have just a hint of pigment. Many homeowners love the look of the lightly pigmented products, as they tend to show off the wood's natural color. The trouble is these nearly clear sealers and water repellents are ill equipped, for the most part, to deal with the harsh ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun.
The best analogy I can offer up is what happens to me every spring. Without fail, I go outdoors on the first balmy spring day and shed my shirt. I really enjoy the warmth of the infrared rays of the sun on my pasty white skin that has been hidden all winter from any sunlight. While I'm basking like a seal on a rock, the invisible UV rays are causing sunburn.
You can prevent sunburn by using sunscreen. In the same way, the pigments and other nano particles in wood sealers act to block damaging UV rays. Some sealers simply don't have enough pigment to block the UV rays of the sun that turn wood gray in color. Heavily pigmented sealers and water repellents that are deep in color are akin to applying a sunscreen to your deck that might have a SPF value of 100 or higher!
One set never left the garage. Once dry, I boxed up one set and set them aside so they could be the control samples. The other set was attached to pieces of wood to simulate how they would be applied to a real deck.
These samples were then taken down to my boat dock, where they were punished by the sun from sunrise until mid-afternoon. I can't think of a better way to test deck sealers than a dock where the wood has no place to hide from the sun.
The shocking thing -- although you will not be surprised based on your experience -- is that some of the finishes began to fail within a month. What's more, the sealers and water repellents on the cedar performed worse than they did on pieces of treated lumber.
Some of the cedar samples developed severe mold and mildew even though they were inches away from the treated lumber samples. I suspect the copper used to make the treated lumber rot resistant was leaching through the sealers. Copper is a natural biocide.
The sealers that have medium to dark pigment are doing the best so far. My test has only been going on for seven months, so I'll have more data as we approach summer. But suffice it to say that the lightly pigmented products on cedar have already failed my test.
You can watch a video on the wood sealer test on my dock at Simply type "deck stain test video" into the search engine at
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withOUT a heavy handed evangelism. typo sorry ( and yes, I know the difference between their and there)
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in response to poolshark47:
Having a different opinion from the liberal mainstream is not necessarily bigotry. It is just ANOTHER OPINION.
It's bigotry when you deny another their Rights just because you dislike whatever makes them different from you.
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Private schools have better ISTEP scores because all of the children at private schools have parents who are actively involved in the children's education and they generally come from higher income homes. Public schools take any student who wishes to attend, even those who don't want to go to school and those children whose parents don't care about education.
Open access to private schools won't improve the education of poor performing students; It will bring down the overall performance of private schools.
In spite of all the efforts and programs like Head Start, nothing correlates better to student performance than household income. Children from stable homes with intelligent parents do better in school, and those same parents know the value of education and can afford to send their children to private schools.
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Where is spring? Finally an answer to the question everyone's been asking (including one frustrated farmer on his quad bike)... as things begin to look up for the weekend
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Kotaku uncovers new games lent to employees are sold as new
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By noirsoft on 4/13/2009 7:10:27 AM , Rating: -1
I would think that an employee using the code would render the product "unsellable" and would force the employee to buy the game. It is clearly grounds for the customer to return the game for a new copy.
Ultimately, I don't see a problem with the policy. If the game is sold in a condition that is indistinguishable from new, and has all the parts and functionality of a new game (including extras and codes, etc), and has not been bought by the store as a used copy, then it should be able to be sold as new. Stores sell things as "new" all the time that have been bought and returned by customers. Nor do stores put clothes on the "used" rack if they have been tried on.
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By fleshconsumed on 4/13/2009 8:21:49 AM , Rating: 5
There is a problem with this policy if the game requires online activation and can only be activated, say, 5 times. Employee registering game means you only have 4 activations left.
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By TreeDude62 on 4/13/2009 10:01:19 AM , Rating: 2
I have a few friends who work at GameStop. They are not allowed to take a game which requires an activation (I believe all PC games are off limits as well).
As long as the games are checked before being sold I don't see the big deal. I always have them notate things like that on the receipt in case I need to return it, so I do not have any issues.
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By murphyslabrat on 4/13/2009 10:16:24 AM , Rating: 2
We're likely dealing more with console games here, largely nullifying that argument. However, yes, if it were a PC game, than I would hope that would result in being in "unsellable condition"
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McElwain said he has no timetable for naming a starting quarterback, leaving the possibility that it may not be announced as late as just before kickoff of Sunday's season opener against Colorado at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
"Every time we put the freshman kid (Stevens) in," McElwain said Monday, "it's like you go to film and say, 'Whoa. That's how you play the position.'
"I have a ton of faith in (Stevens), as I do the other guys," McElwain added. "He is mature beyond his years. He takes care of business. He perfects his craft on a daily basis. If he's ready, he'll go."
McElwain referred to the old football adage that if a coach says he has two quarterbacks, he really doesn't have one.
"You can say we don't (have a quarterback), that's fine," McElwain said to reporters. "Put a spin on whatever you want, I'm excited about the three of them and we'll find out who's ready to play."
McElwain said Grayson (five starts in 2012) and Smith (four starts) also performed well in Saturday's final scrimmage.
"Where I'm kind of prepared to make our decision is to see who handles the game plan (on Thursday), who looks ready to go," McElwain said.
"He's an extraordinary kid," said junior Kivon Cartwright, who is listed as the starting H-back. "He's very smart. He's already a leader. He's one of the kids that does things right, so he's easy to follow."
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Titanic Reflection Essay
By: Molly Roach
In the time of life one has to sort out his or her priorities. Throughout life you have to be
sure that when you say “darn,” something logical is about to follow. In any event the
person you become shows a lot of your past and some of what you plan to become
without you yourself knowing. In the past different events have occurred to different
people in different places. In those places you learn something different but you must
remember that everything you do has consequences. Like when you eat ice cream you
might have sugar rush, or you might have an uncontrollable urge to go “relieve yourself”.
But now, here and now, I wish to focus on one of the more disastrous consequences that
occurred not to long ago. The disaster I speak of is that of the sinking of the Titanic.
The Titanic was an iron beast, and luxury liner, a third class paradise, but right now I
want you, reader, to focus on one question. This question will have you thinking, I hope,
for some time. My question to you, reader, is: Why is the sinking of the Titanic such a
memorable event?
From the time she was launched on the 10th of April, 1912 the Titanic was known for her
luxury, and her passengers. For onboard were Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mr. and
Mrs. George Widener, and other multimillionaires. This ship was said to be the greatest
of its time, and it was said to be unsinkable.
On April 14, four days after her maiden voyage, an iceberg hit the Titanic ripping the
side. Later that night the Titanic began to sink, and she was gone on April 15. Many had
died in the sinking for not one life boat was filled to its capacity. The survivors were
fished out of the water by the Carpathia.
After this event, rules were set up, so that a disaster like this wouldn’t happen again. Ice
patrol was created, and drills began on every passenger ship. Like I said one man’s
mistake saved another’s life.
The sinking of the Titanic became very famous, and many shows and movies were
created after the disaster. Among these was the famous movie Titanic starring Leonardo
So what makes the sinking of the Titanic so memorable? You decide.
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On the brink of food crisis
In 1970 there were seven Arab countries exported food to the outside, but today has
become all the Arab countries import more than it exports, so the value of imports of
food commodities Arabs $ 20 billion annually, representing about 30 per cent of their
food needs. Adding to the current food gap exacerbate the problem of water shortage
and the presence of 13 Arab states near or below the water poverty line. And produces
the Arab countries combined is less than (70%) of its food needs, and will continue to
decrease in the proportion produced by Arabs in the coming years to reach the year
2050 to 50%, which is a real challenge for all Arab governments under the steady
growth of the population, the lower contribution of the agricultural sector in the
composition of output domestic product (GDP), and the high cost of agricultural
production is also due to the heavy reliance on imported supplies and agricultural
.production inputs of seeds, machinery and fertilizers and pesticides
The next crisis and economic problems that make it difficult for Arabs measure 20 or
30 billion dollars to be able to continue to import the quantities of food that does not
produce, the shortage of food products worldwide (due to changes and climatic
disasters) and price increases (due to increased world population and the economic
crisis) will further imbalance and economic inability to achieve food security both
.nationally and at the national level
And in spite of all the waste that struck the possibilities of the Arab countries, but
there is still some possibilities that are still available and sufficient to bring about
change if you find a sincere desire for change. The total area available for agriculture
in the Arab world 198 million hectares, not exploit them now only 40 million hectares
just any only 20%, which means that the Arab world today can produce food five
times what is currently producing and issued food for the world or achieve self-
.sufficiency at least
As a result of agricultural properties for most of the Arab countries, they can not in
any way to achieve food self-sufficiency, and therefore must raise sufficient funds to
import Maysd deficit in food of the few countries that will remain able and willing to
export to these countries. This underscores the need to logical solutions and process,
lies in the first national policy in each country individually to produce all that could
be produced locally at a cost compatible with the logic of the economy and then
regional coordination, especially Arab produce deficits in areas imposed by the
principles of economics and some politics, to achieve food security the local level
.through work and regional production
The British company Maplecroft specializes in risk analysis annually indicator of the
risk of food insecurity, and based on this indicator to 12 standard, was developed in
collaboration with the World Food Programme. These standards include the rate of
per capita income and the risk of extreme climate changes and conflicts and the
quality of infrastructure. The study showed that included 163 countries to determine
the Index 2010 that Sudan is one of the countries at risk of 'super' for food insecurity,
and Yemen in the same location in the index last year. If so with Sudan, which is the
food basket Arab, Yemen agricultural state with a history of outstanding, what is the
?case in the rest of the Arab countries
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Sander Safety Rules
1. Always wear approved eye protection when using this
2. When using this machine, do not lean to close to your work.
Baggy clothing or long hair may get caught in the machine.
3. You should not use a sander belt with torn edges. Pieces may
fly off and injure you.
4. If the sanding belt does not run in the center of the rolls, turn
off the machine and report it to the teacher.
5. Always keep material you are sanding in contact with the
6. Do not use sanding belts or discs that are loaded with pitch
and/or worn out.
7. Do not try to shorten the sanding process by pressing hard on
your work or holding your work in one spot for a long time.
This will burn your work and may cause the belts or discs to
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8. Be sure to use only the half of the disc moving downward.
9. Before turning on the power, check carefully to see that the
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The Processor
1. What do registers provide for the CPU?
a. Registers determine the clock speed
b. The CPU uses registers for temporary storage of internal
commands and data
c. Registers enable the CPU to address RAM
d. Registers enable the CPU to control the address bus
Answer: b
2. With a 32-bit address bus you can ____________ ?
a. Use Sector Translation with your hard drive
b. Use 32-bit processing
c. Address up to 4 gigabytes of RAM
d. Partition your hard drive as one drive without wasting
Answer: c.
3. Which of the following CPUs can use slot 1?
a. AMD K-7
b. AMD Athlon
c. Pentium Pro
d. Pentium III
Answer: d.
4. Which of the following relates to the amout of RAM that a CPU can
a. The speed in megahertz
b. The word size that the CPU can handle
c. The width of the data bus
d. The width of the address bus
Answer: d.
5. If your Pentium III has a CPU speed of 500 Mhz and a clock
multiplier of 4x, what is the external speed of the motherboard?
a. 50 Mhz
b. 100 Mhz
c. 125 Mhz
d. 150 Mhz
Answer: c.
6. Pentium chips have built in ________?
a. Maths co-processor and cache
b. Maths co-processor only
c. Level 2 cache
d. parity
Answer: a.
7. If you have a Pentium II 400 Mhz with a motherboard that runs at
100 Mhz, what is the clock multiplier of that CPU ?
a. 3.5Xx
b. 4.0x
c. 4.5x
d. 5.0x
Answer: b.
8. Which of the following is a type of CPU socket?
a. PCMCIA
b. ISA
c. ZIF
d. AGP
Answer: c.
9. If you have a Pentium II 300 Mhz with a board that runs at 66 MHz,
what is the clock multiplier of that CPU?
a. 3.5x
b. 4.0x
c. 4.5x
d. 5.0x
Answer: c.
10. You recently upgraded a computer, and now it shuts down after
running for a few minutes. You have confirmed that there are no
problems with the power supply. What should you check next?
a. Video card
b. RAM
c. CPU cooling fan
d. Hard drives
Answer: c
11. What types of connections allow for a SEC, or single edged
contact, type of CPU?
a. Socket 7
b. Socket 370
c. Slot 1
d. Slot A
Answer: c. and d.
12. What was the first CPU to include an internal math coprocessor?
a. 386DX
b. 486SX
c. 486DX
d. Pentium
Answer: c.
13. A numeric co-processor handles what function?
a. POST
b. Floating Point Calculations
c. Counts RAM
d. Data Processing
Answer: b.
14. Seamus has a slot 1 motherboard. Which of the following CPUs
would he be able to use for an upgrade, assuming his motherboard
would accept it?
a. Pentium 4
b. Pentium
c. AMD Athlon
d. Pentium II
Answer: d.
15. Cathy wants to upgrade her system from it’s present 300-Mhz
Pentium II to a 2.0-Ghz Pentium 4. Can she do this?
a. Of course, just remove the Pentium II CPU and insert the
Pentium 4.
b. Yes. Remove the Pentium II and replace it with the
Pentium 4, but remember to reset any motherboard switches
that may need to be changed.
c. Yes, but she will probably need a new motherboard and
new RAM to go with it.
d. No, there is no possible way to do this.
Answer: c.
16. Which of the following sockets are used for a 3.4 Ghz Pentium
a. Socket 423
b. Socket 462
c. Socket 478
d. Socket 754
Answer: c.
17. When installing a new CPU, what is applied directly to the CPU?
a. Cooling liquid
b. Thermal compound
c. A heat sink
d. A fan
Answer: b.
18. Which of the following could cause a computer to automatically
a. An overheating CPU
b. A five second power failure
c. Insufficient memory
d. A new set of software installed
Answer: a.
19. Which of the following choices best describes what is meant by
cache memory??
a. A place where instructions are stored about the operations
of a device or application
b. Extended memory that can be made accessible with the
SMARTDRV /ON command
c. Memory that holds applications and data that the CPU isn't
d. Memory that holds data that the CPU will search first
Answer: d.
20. Over-clocking allows a microprocessor to run considerably faster
than motherboard components. What type of memory structure was
developed to minimize the delay of accessing RAM on the
a. Processor resident pipeline
b. L2 cache
c. CMOS memory
d. Duplex memory
Answer: b.
21. Name for the 242 pin daughtercard socket that accepts the Intel
Pentium II processor?
a. ZIF
b. SEC
c. PGA
d. SPGA
Answer: b.
22. You get a call from a user complaining that his computer locks up
after 5 minutes of operation every time he turns it on. What is the
possible cause?
a. MBR on sector 0
b. Fluctuating power supply voltages
c. Bad CPU fan
d. Power sag
Answer: c.
23. The ___ is the high speed part of the motherboard that connects the
CPU, memory, and AGP together?
a. Northbridge
b. Southbrige
c. Front Side Bus
d. Memory Bus
Answer: a.
24. The CPU is processing an instruction set and needs the data
associated with it. Where does the CPU look first for this data?
a. RAM
b. L1 Cache
c. L2 Cache
d. ALU
Answer: b.
25. Manufactured by Intel at the beginning of 2002 for its Pentium 4
CPUs. This socket was the first to accommodate the 0.13 micron
Northwood core?
a. Socket 423
b. Socket 754
c. Socket 478
d. Socket 739
Answer: c.
26. Which of the following processors uses socket AM2?
a. Pentium IV
b. Intel Core Duo
c. Athlon
d. Athlon XP
Answer: d.
27. The original AMD Athlon processors used Socket ____ on the
a. A
b. 1
c. X
d. P1
Answer: a.
28. How many pins does a socket A ZIF socket have?
a. 478
b. 939
c. 754
d. 462
Answer: d.
29. The size of the L2 cache which directly impacts the speed of your
system has grown steadily throughout the years starting with the first
8K L1 cache on the 486 to the present __ K L1 cache on AMD's
Athlon processor?
a. 512 Kb
b. 1024 Kb
c. 2304 Kb
d. 4028 Kb
Answer: a.
30. Pentium CPUs run on what voltage?
a. 2.5 volts
b. 3.3 volts
c. 5 volts
d. 10 volts
Answer: b.
31. Which processor technology contains two processor cores in
a single processor package and provides all of the advantages
of a multi-processor computer? ?
a. Hyperthreading technology
b. CPU throttling technology
c. Dual-core technology
d. MMX technology
Answer: c.
32. Which architecture is commonly used to build CPU
a. CHS
b. PGA
c. ATA
d. EIDE
Answer: b
33. After which procedure are you most likely to flash the
computer’s BIOS program?
a. Adding memory
b. Upgrading CPU resources
c. Replacing the system board
d. Changing the boot sequence
Answer: b.
34. Which technology allows a single processor to handle to
independent sets of instructions at the same time?
a. CPU throttle technology
b. Dual core technology
c. Dual Independent Bus (DIB)
d. Hyper-threading (HT) technology
Answer: d.
35. Which technology protects a CPU from heat damage by
slowing the clock rate on the CPU? ?
a. CPU throttle technology
b. MMX technology
c. Hyper-threading (HT) technology
d. Superscaler execution technology
Answer: a. (slows the clock rate on the CPU)
36. When you start your computer, you notice that the system
does not power up. What could be the reason for this??
a. RAM chip is faulty
b. Power supply is bad
c. CPU is overheated
d. Hard disk has crashed
Answer: b.
37. You replaced a processor with a newer processor that runs
at a much faster speed. However, your system does not identify
the processor correctly, and the processor runs at the same
speed as the old processor. What could you do to correct this
problem? ?
a. Update the BIOS
b. Reseat the processor
c. Flip the turbo switch on the motherboard
d. Change the voltage setting for the processor
Answer: a.
38. Which two components should you check to avoid CPU
a. Heat sink
b. CPU fan
c. Motherboard
d. PSU
e. RAM
Answer: a. and b.
39. What technology allows a CPU to execute two separate
instructions concurrently??
a. Network Access Protection (NAP)
b. Hyper threading
c. Hyper-V
d. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Answer: b.
40. Which component of the processor is always built into the
processor and prevents the processor from having to wait for
code and data from the main memory?
a. Level 1 (L1) cache
b. Level 2 (L2) cache
c. Address bus
d. Front Side Bus
Answer: a.
41. In which type of motherboards are memory, processor and
expansion slots placed in a straight line?
Answer: AT and Baby AT
42. Which of the following sockets does AMD’s Phenom II
processor use?
a. Socket 939
b. Socket AM2
c. Socket AM2+
d. Socket AM3
Answer: d.
43. Which type of CPU sockets eliminate the risks involved in
installing or removing a processor by allowing you to install a
CPU without requiring insertion force and extract the CPU
without requiring any tool ?
Answer: ZIF
44. Which bus determines the amount of RAM that the
processor can handle ?
Answer: Address Bus
45. Typically, when does a CPU’s fan make noise in a
Answer: Fan blades may be dirty or unbalanced or the CPU may be
running at 90% or above
46. What could be the problem if a computer automatically
reboots ?
Answer: Overheating CPU
47. Which of the following sockets does Intel’s I7 processor use?
a. Socket 478
b. Socket 775
c. Socket 939
d. Socket 1366
Answer: d.
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GETTING PERSONAL: Insurance Shopping To Cover Estate Taxes
17 August 2006
Dow Jones News Service
(c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
By Tara Siegel Bernard
A Dow Jones Newswires Column
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Buying life insurance can be a mind-numbing, not to mention macabre,
process. But it often plays a central role in estate planning, whether it is used to pay off a big estate
Choosing the right policy becomes even more complicated when you consider the uncertainty of the
estate tax, especially for families with more modest estates that may escape taxation if they raise
the exemptions. Putting it off, however, can cost you; even worse, you could become uninsurable.
That is why individuals who aren't entirely certain what their needs will be should carefully choose
among the more flexible options available, while keeping a close eye on costs.
While term insurance - the cheapest form of insurance that covers a specific number of years - is
often recommended for younger folks who are still working and need protection against the loss of
income, most planners advise buying a "permanent" policy for estate-planning purposes. While
needs will vary across families, several advisors recommend a "second-to-die universal life" policy,
which is a form of permanent insurance that combines a death benefit with a savings component.
Let's dissect that: A survivorship, or second-to-die, policy is often the best choice for couples. Why?
It costs less because it is based on two lives instead of one, and pays out on the second death.
(Since individuals can leave unlimited assets to a spouse tax-free, estate taxes aren't owed until the
second-death.) Survivorship policies come in different flavors, but families with taxable estates
typically chose a plain "universal life" policy - they comprised 73% of new survivorship sales in
2005, according to Limra International - which provides guaranteed death benefits and accumulates
cash value, or premium paid above the cost of insurance. The cash value earns interest at various
rates, which helps pay for premiums later; there also is some flexibility when it comes to premium
With variable universal life, cash values can be invested in an array of investment options such as
stock and bond mutual funds with varying levels of risk. However, if the investments do poorly, the
policy can lapse unless you pay more premiums.
"You want insurance that will be there when you die, without question, regardless of how (the
market or rates are doing)," says Steve Podnos, a fee-only financial planner with Wealth Care LLC in
Merritt Island, Fla.
How much does it cost? A last-survivor universal life policy with a $1 million death benefit - for a
healthy, nonsmoking couple, both 50 years old - carries an annual premium of about $6,614 a year
at Hartford Financial Service Group Inc. (HIG). At 65 years old, the same couple would pay $13,240
a year for the same policy. Both policies include "secondary guarantees," which means premiums
are high enough so that the policy is guaranteed never to lapse.
"Typically, the cost of the charge for death protection (on a couple) tends to be dramatically lower
than it would be for a single individual," says Patrick Smith, who heads the estate-planning group at
Insurance shoppers need to evaluate expenses closely.
"Some of the premiums I've seen are egregiously outrageous," Podnos adds. "The policies for
estate-planning purposes are big policies and commissions can range over 100% of the first year's
Individuals working with fee-only financial planners can access what is known as no-load or low-
load policies, where annual premiums typically are up to 20% less than traditional insurance
policies, says Keith Maurer, a senior analyst with LowLoad Insurance Services Inc., a Tampa
consulting firm that helps connect advisors with insurers (you pay the advisor a fee to handle your
overall financial plan). Some insurers, such as Ameritas Direct, offer no-load policies directly to the
consumer, advisors say.
No-load policies also tend to be more flexible and don't carry surrender charges if, for instance, a
couple dropped a policy if the coverage wasn't need any longer.
"You've lost time value of money a bit but you haven't lost your money," Maurer adds.
How Much Coverage You Need
Figuring out exactly how much coverage one needs in this environment is challenging; beyond the
lack of clarity with federal estate taxes, state-estate levies need to be factored in as well.
Congress failed to repeal the tax in June and was unable to push a compromise through last month,
although the issue may come up again later this year. They are trying to find a more permanent
solution to the Bush administration's 2001 law that temporarily phased out the federal estate tax.
Currently, the exemption is $2 million for individuals and $4 million for couples, while the top estate
rate stands at 46%. The tax is scheduled to disappear in 2010 and return in 2011 at 55%. The
latest compromise bill would have raised individual exemptions to $5 million and cut rates; estates
between $5 million and $25 million would have paid capital-gains tax rates, now 15%, while estates
greater than $25 million would have paid twice the capital gains rate, or 30%, by 2015.
During the past several years, insurance companies have crafted more flexible options that allow
you to tweak a policy if need be. For example, Hartford offers what's called a "last survivor
exchange option rider," which allows the survivorship policy to be exchanged for two individual
polices (each worth half the full policy) without having to medically requalify if the top estate-tax
bracket drops by more than half (for instance, from 46% to less than 23%); the law changes where
spouses can't leave unlimited assets to one another; or the couple gets divorced.
Another rider available at several insurers waives surrender charges if a policy is dropped - within a
certain window of time - if the estate tax was repealed.
"It helps prevent people from losing all of their money on a policy that won't ever be needed to pay
estate taxes," adds Damon Bates, an assistant vice president with MetLife's (MET) individual
"Insurance companies (also) offer some policies that provide for a low premium now that scales up
later, with (the option for a) much higher death benefit later," says Tom Posey, a fee-only planner
and lawyer with Posey Capital Management Inc. in Houston, noting that they are available through
low-load insurers. "Such a policy could be useful if a person wants to avoid the risk of future
uninsurability, but also wants to wait and see what happens with the estate tax."
In some situations, term insurance that is convertible into a permanent policy makes sense, says
Janine Racanelli, a wealth advisor with JPMorgan Private Bank. "Then you can calibrate your need as
more certainty comes into play," she adds.
Once you figure out what you need, advisors say it is wise to make the contract payable to an
irrevocable life-insurance trust, or ILIT, so that the insurance proceeds - which aren't subject to
income tax - don't become part of the estate and thus subject to estate tax. It also keeps proceeds
(Tara Siegel Bernard is one of five Getting Personal columnists who write about personal-finance
issues ranging from new tax proposals to education-funding strategies to estate planning.)
-By Tara Siegel Bernard, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5288; [ 08-
17-06 1447ET ]
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Questions for Part IV
“The Financing Decision II: The Financing Vehicles”
Chapter 16
Why does the market usually react negatively to security offerings? According to academic
research and the author of the article, which hypothesis offers most insights into the pattern of
market reactions to new security sales?
What are the different ways of marketing a security issue? Why do you think an underwritten
offering is the most common one?
What is the “Green Shoe Option”?
Chapter 17
What are the basic approaches for using finance to increase the value of the firm?
How can a company benefit from repackaging future cash flow rights to investors?
Why do many firms consider debt financing to be less expensive than equity financing and why is
this misleading?
What are the ways in which a firm can increase liquidity?
What is one of the key costs associated with issuing new securities?
What are the benefits of adhering to the financial “pecking order.”
What are the three main sources of conflict related to financial policy?
What is the problem of overexpansion?
What are the key characteristics of implicit claims?
What are a few features of rapidly growing companies?
What are the differences in tax concerns for growing companies versus mature companies?
Discuss the different ways of financing rapidly growing companies? Which is better: equity or
How can a new start-up obtain the necessary funds for growth?
What are convertibles and how can they be useful? What are their drawbacks?
Chapter 18
What are the main factors that influence the choice between using privately placed debt and
issuing publicly traded debt?
Are corporate bonds and commercial paper close substitutes for bank borrowing for certain types
of borrowers?
Does the identity of a particular type of private lender matter?
If bank loans are good news for stock market investors, why do so many companies issue
publicly traded debt?
In conclusion: Are bank loans still special?
Chapter 19
What are convertible bonds? How does the market usually react to issues of convertible bonds?
Convertible bond issues reached a record high in 2001. Can you explain why?
What companies can benefit most from issuing convertible bonds?
Chapter 21
Using Project Finance to Fund Infrastructure Investments
What have been the four principal features of project financing? How is project financing
different from traditional lending?
What is the benefit of involving the private sector in project financing and/or project management?
What are the five main parties involved in project financing?
How do contractual arrangements distribute risk among the various parties to a project?
Why are projects incorporated in separate companies?
Why are the operators and the main contractors of the project typically the main equity-holders in
that company?
Why are project companies highly leveraged?
Why does this leverage take the form of non-recourse financing?
When does project financing make sense and when does it not?
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What is in Alcohol
Ethanol following common alcoholic drinks contain equal amounts of alcohol and
are often referred to as a drink or a standard drink:
or Ethyl Alcohol Proof is the amount of alcohol in hard liquor or distilled spirits. The
Flavoring percentage of pure alcohol in the hard liquor is usually one-half the
Minerals the higher the proof, the more pure alcohol the hard liquor contains.
Water
*Different beers
have different
alcohol content.
Malt liquor has
higher alcohol
content than most
other brewed
It is important to
remember that not
all drinks are
created equal.
Alcohol and Teens
80% of teens have had at least one
alcoholic beverage.
Alcohol can have a negative impact
on school-work, athletics,
friendships, family, relationships,
and career goals.
Why Teens Drink
To escape pressure or problems
To feel better or get over being sad or lonely
To deal with stress and relax
To feel more self-confident in social situations
For excitement
Because their friends are doing it
To deal with boredom
To get away with something they are not
supposed to do
To fit in
Factors that Affect Teen
Alcohol Use
Pressure
Parents use it to solve problems/stress
Advertisements
– Young, handsome, attractive, fit and healthy
– A party like atmosphere with upbeat music.
– Healthful environment, beauty of the
– Problem free drinking
Advertisements – Who are
they trying to attract?
Factors that influence
alcohol’s effect! How alcohol affects you is
different based on different
absorption rate factors, these
Body Size: The bigger you are, the more
blood you have to dilute the alcohol in your
system. Smaller people are usually affected
more quickly by alcohol than larger people.
Gender: Women are generally
smaller than men, have a higher
percentage of body fat, and tend to
reach higher BAC’s more quickly.
Food: A full stomach slows the absorption of
alcohol into the bloodstream.
Strength of Drink: Drinks can have
different effects based on their composition, i.e.
carbonated beverages tend to increase the
absorption rate in alcohol.
Rate of Consumption: Gulping or chugging
drinks will increase the amount of alcohol
taken into your system. Also, the faster you
drink, the less time your body has to dilute the
Mood: A person who is obviously upset,
exhausted, or under a lot of stress feels the
effects of alcohol more quickly.
Woowho D’oh!
Age: The body processes alcohol better
once the body is fully matured.
Tolerance: The longer an
individual drinks, the more he or
she will need drink in order to get
Day 1 Day 15 Day 365
the same desired effect.
Drug Use: Legal or illegal drugs can
speed up the effects of alcohol and
have an unpredictable outcome.
Body Composition: In general, the less
you weigh the more quickly alcohol will be
absorbed. However, for people of the same
weight, a person who has greater muscle
mass will absorb alcohol slower than
someone with a higher percentage of body
What is the only thing that
really determines how
Alcohol is a lethal substance. Being knowledgeable about Blood Alcohol Content
system, and allow you to make informed decisions about drinking.
The standard way of measuring how much alcohol is in the blood stream is
Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) or Blood Alcohol Level (BAL). It can be
measured using blood, saliva, urine or breath and is measured in milligrams of
alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, or milligrams percent.
For Example: A BAC of .10 means one-tenth of 1% or (1/1000) of your total
blood content is alcohol.
MALE FEMALE
The following is a rough outline of The following is a rough outline of
expected BAC's for a 150 lb. male on expected BAC's for a 120 lb. female
an empty stomach after one hour: on an empty stomach after one
2 drinks .05 BAC hour:
2 drinks .08 BAC
4 drinks .10 BAC 10
4 drinks .17 BAC
How does BAC affect you!
your motor skills are markedly impaired, as are your judgment and memory.
difficulty talking, walking, or even standing; your judgment and perception are
severely impaired.
experience nausea and/or start vomiting; blackouts are likely.
increased risk of asphyxiation from choking on vomit and of seriously injuring
yourself by falling or other accidents.
and respiration are slowing down.
Facts About Drinking!
According to the Core Institute, an organization that surveys college drinking
cancers and heart disease.
159,000 of today's first-year college students will drop out of school next year
for alcohol- or other drug-related reasons.
On a typical campus, the average amount a student spends annually on alcohol
is $466. College students as a whole spend $5.5 billion on alcohol (mostly beer).
Almost one-third of college students admit to having missed at least one class
“bombing” a test or project because of the aftereffects of drinking or doing
One night of heavy drinking can impair your ability to think abstractly for up
professor says, or to think through a football play.
Students who binge drink are more likely to damage property, have trouble
those who do not.
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"golden virginia" vs "amber leaf" - Amber Leaf Tobacco Tobacco
Newest Review: ... the cost was just becoming too high for me to continue so I chose to change to roll ups. I have tried several brands of rolling tobacco an... more
"golden virginia" vs "amber leaf"
Amber Leaf Tobacco
Author Name: n p taylor
Amber Leaf Tobacco
Date: 03/10/08
Advantages: price/quality
Disadvantages: street cred
both my wife and i smoke "rollies" and usually buy 2*50 gram golden viginia pks and that sees us through about 2 weeks
recently went to the local shops for my usual order of 2 pks but they only had the one pack of "golden viginia" so with it i bought a small amber leaf to use as a reserve,
soon enough reserve time came along and i opened up the "amber leaf"
id always thought anything other than golden to be the "camels" of the rolling world but i was wrong
surprisingly i dont have to look at the inside of my lungs or a wizzend up heart when i examine the pouch we all know it happens and take it on board when making choices in life surprising to me all the same that .gov hasnt had a hand in the package design
i found "amber leaf" to be nice smelling on first opening the packet i find it a sweet mallasas type of smell, the free papers included was a pleasant bonus to me too. the tobacco was firmly in the pack with less moisture than i'm used to, rolling is easy the strands of tobacco seem to be more tied together somehow evident when you tear/stretch it out along your free paper. being slightly drier stops them odd lumps and bumps that pinched tobacco sometimes produces, lighting up instantly gave me the sweetness id experienced when opening the pouch, its a slighty mellow smoke which leaves my mouth feeling moist, i like it. the free papers turned out surprisingly good too ,in this cost cutting age id tried several rolling paper brands some were like smoking down a toilet tube but not these if you pop your "rollie" into the ashtray for a minute its still there when you get back, not just a line of ash where it once laid i think you need to run out of one brand of tobacco to appreciate the other, and if that time should arrive id reccomend you at least give "amber leaf" a chance and you too like us two might just become a convert
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1. 2 eggs
2. 1 garlic clove
3. 1/2 teaspoon salt
4. 3 cups courgettes, grated
5. 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, grated
6. 1/2 cup self-raising flour, approx
7. oil
1. Beat the eggs. Crush the garlic and add to the eggs with the salt. Mix again.
2. Add the firmly packed grated courgette and cheese then stir in enough self-raising flour to make a batter consistency.
3. Drop batter into hot oil to make small fritters. Turn over when golden brown.
4. Serve with yoghurt cucumber mint sauce or any relish, chutney or tomato sauce.
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Yes, Iraq Is Unraveling
And it's about to become Obama's problem all over again.
Michael Knights |
It’s a Nice Place to Visit, But I Wouldn’t Want to Be a Reporter There
How did Turkey become the world's leading jailer of journalists?
Christophe Deloire |
'We Are Not Fanatic Killers'
In an exclusive conversation with Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas chief talks about how Assad should have listened to his advice, and why he’s not “bloodthirsty” or “against” Jews.
David Kenner |
David Rothkopf
You Know It's Bad…
When progress in the Middle East seems more in reach than a Washington that works.
David Rothkopf |
Erdogan's Great Gamble
John Hannah |
Peter Bouckaert |
How Do You Say 'Quagmire' in Farsi?
Thanassis Cambanis |
The 'Go Slow' Caucus
As pressure builds for a military option in Syria, can the White House afford to keep quiet?
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon |
By Other Means
The Electric Kool-Aid Flashback Test
Should we arm the Syrian rebels? America's attempts to do so in the past hold a few answers.
Rosa Brooks |
Slide Show
Endangered Spaces
Slide Show |
The Art of Civil War
As the conflict rages in Syria, it's a bull market for antiquities dealers and thieves.
Fernande van Tets |
Morsy and the Muslims
Is Egypt’s government getting more Islamist?
Shadi Hamid |
Israel’s Three Gambles
Can Israel get away with its attacks on the Syrian regime?
Daniel Byman |
David Rothkopf
Red-Line Follies
Sorting the mistakes from the fiascos on Syria.
David Rothkopf |
Marc Lynch
How Syria Ruined the Arab Spring
Marc Lynch |
Terms of Engagement
Slouching Toward Damascus
In Syria's implosion, Secretary of State John Kerry already faces a defining task. How hard is he prepared to push against Obama's weary realism?
James Traub |
Time to Talk
Amb. William H. Luers |
Yemen's Power Wedding
Adam Baron |
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The Inmates Have Taken Over
Images of life inside the walls of Lebanon's infamous Roumieh prison.
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Beirut's Bastille
The free-for-all inside Lebanon's most notorious prison.
Sulome Anderson |
What Was Obama Thinking?
How the administration backed itself into a corner on Syria.
Barry Pavel |
Micah Zenko
Hawking Something
Micah Zenko |
A Friend in Need
Joseph P. Hoar |
The Driver
Mark Perry |
Assad’s Chemical Romance
How the Syrian dictator’s cynical and clever chemical weapons strategy outfoxed Obama.
Joseph Holliday |
Terms of Engagement
The One-Man Show
Secretary of State John Kerry thinks he can singlehandedly solve the world's most intractable problems. But will President Obama even let him try?
James Traub |
Intervention Escalation
James F. Jeffrey |
Reality Check
YaLa Young Leaders
How a Facebook organization could transform the Middle East.
Aaron David Miller |
David Rothkopf
The Ugly Choice in the Middle East
Permanent chaos, or a new generation of strongmen? Take your pick.
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0.050381 | <urn:uuid:b0bc21ac-1719-4c0d-9ffb-2d1775589c41> | en | 0.93955 | Judge blocks parts of Florida voting law
A federal judge says some of Florida's new limits on voter registration drives are likely unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday temporarily blocked implementation until a trial can be held.
One provision requires groups or individuals signing up voters to submit their registration forms to election officials within 48 hours of collecting them.
Others impose what the judge called "burdensome record-keeping and reporting requirements that serve little if any purpose."
The ruling was a victory for the League of Women Voters and other groups that challenged the provisions.
They say the restrictions passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature are aimed at suppressing turnout. Republicans contend they are needed to prevent election fraud.
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0.029534 | <urn:uuid:14daf7ef-c5e6-48db-8d07-0baa6db158c7> | en | 0.888405 | Build a simple Event Management website (domain is already booked) - repost
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Project Budget (USD)
$750 - $1500
Project Description:
I want to build a simple (WordPress based or otherwise) Event Management website which which allows user to:
(1) Upload Image / Invite (No plan to have templates at the beginning, if the image is too big it should warn the user and then re-size it suitably), fill event related information including Google Map location Tagging
(2) Set customized number of response buttons (with user defined text). For instance In case of event rsvp buttons can be "Yes", "No" and "May be" while in case of feedback it can be "Good", "Bad" etc Hence Number of button and Text to be displayed on each of them should be customizable.
(3) Upload / Enter contacts in standardize format. for instance "Salute First Name, Last Name, Designation & Email ID" and these field should be available in case user wants to include them in Email body to personalize the message (for instance Dear or Dear etc)
(4) Send / Test or Set a predefined Date to Automatically Send emails, user should be able to define "From" address and "Reply to" address and "Subject Line"
(5) Response Capture Mechanism will be simple yet intelligent, when email goes to recipient, button will contain a link which will post response to the database. Ideally a Database should be structured like User (parent) ---> Campaign. On clicking response button (let's say Yes in case of RSVP) the database should be updated with Date time stamp, replier's email Id, name, response etc. The message to be displayed on successful update is "Your response has been successfully updated." and a form to submit "additional remarks" and "total number of people attending (including yourself)" should be displayed, response to which should be stored in the same response record in the database.
(6) Users should also have ability to send email using their personal / corporate email system, along with ability to directly send it through my website.
However when user sends it using their emails tracking (embedded link in response button) will be generic i.e. without specific email id of the recipient but it will contain just the unique event id to store responses.
Structure of the response link in embedded button should be something like (I am just proposing it)
case 1: when email id is given (sent using my website)
If user decides to fill up the form (which allows him to enter remarks etc) the database record with same email id will get updated with "remarks" and number of people attending" field.
case 2: Generic (sent using their own infrastructure where embedded link has to be generic)
and a form should be displayed (different from case 1) where user will enter name, email id, remarks, no. of people attending etc, and then on submit a record will get created for a given event id.
(7) If the response is already captured and if Guest (replier) clicks on same personalized link (case 1) he should be able to change his response / remarks. However in case 2 (users with generic link) can update only if they provide same email id (otherwise a new record will be created) [please let me know if you have better way to handle this]
(8) Dashboard: User shall be provided with a back end dashboard which will show event wise detail (a) Total invites sent (b) Bounced (c) Total Response received further broken down into link Number of Yes , No, May be responses. etc
(9) Feedback: User should be able to send email to all the people with specified response type (let's say who marked Yes) a feedback email (with customizable text), which allows responders to enter feedback which will get stored in the same database record by matching email id.
Since WordPress already provides the framework it may be easier to build this on it. I assume that I have made most of the points very clear, however in case you have further questions let me know.
Skills required:
Anything Goes, Graphic Design, HTML, PHP, Website Design
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0.056338 | <urn:uuid:3a4fba79-f5e2-41aa-b847-6153787ed7c2> | en | 0.950478 | Iphone app, gps event with friends
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$750 - $1500
Project Description:
I would like to make an app that takes GPS data from devices and allows one device to see all four devices.
The Idea:
To be able to bicycle ride with friends and see where they are and what speed they are going at.
The Use:
Let’s say you’re going with 4 friends on a 10 mile cycling track. You want to know where they are and not have to worry about being left behind or riding ahead of them.
The screen:
You are able to touch the screen and pick what user you want to add to the run. You pick them out from a list of names from people who approved you.
You get to pick the 4 squared of user data. They can be elevation, ride time, lap time, time of day, next song, and mph.
The map you can zoom in, or zoom out. You can also hit warning, which will flash warning and the name of the person on the screen. The warning will flash on the map area only and will turn off if a person clicks on the screen or unlocks the screen. The persons who issued the warning will have their square flash their color. The square where their name appears.
In the Map, you will see dots for every person on the run. The dots will be the color you pick to be the background of the user. The background color can be chosen by the user.
If the user clicks on warning twice. The color will become red and yellow intermittently in there square area and in the map, their circle will also flash.
Computer view or seeing the recording afterwards.
You can also record the run. The data is recorded and can be seen on the computer or on the device. The recorded data can be sent by email and shared. When sent by email, it will ask the person to download and install the program before being able to open the data.
When looking at the recording on the computer, the dots will be seen moving as they progress during the run.
Skills required:
Additional Files: gps+example.jpg
Hire jdrt
Project posted by:
jdrt Puerto Rico
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0.023211 | <urn:uuid:a4205316-c1e5-4c9b-a97f-b0a47d9417b5> | en | 0.965687 | The problem with regulation
It is less universally known that regulation was the method that the pre-war fascists used to pursue their political ends, contrasting with communism which sought instead to own the means of production. Post-war, regulation re-emerged in the 1980s when it was used to control newly-privatized state monopolies to make privatization politically acceptable. And every country that followed the U.K. in their own privatization programs adopted regulation as the means of maintaining state control.
These privatized industries are still regulated today, with the addition of financial services and less obviously perhaps most other aspects of economic life. European socialists reinvented themselves by dropping their commitment to ownership of the means of production in favor of the fascist model. Thus, the policies of the right and left became joined at the hip.
The objective of regulation may be to protect the consumer but the weaknesses are multiple. In framing and operating the rules, government gets to decide what people should have. Businesses use the seal of regulatory approval as a replacement for stand-alone reputation, and regulation eliminates both competition and innovation from unregulated businesses. It ensures that big business has a basis for partnership with government, and that government does big businesses’ bidding.
At its heart, regulation is therefore anti-competitive. It is not based on consumer choice and the subjective values of goods and services that go with it. Instead it allows businesses to act as monopoly providers, where their costs determine prices. But fixing prices to the cost of production is only a first step: A regulated business can find many ways of placing regulation above the interests of the consumer by gaming the system.
There is nothing wrong with any business having conflicts of interest as such, after all, it is up to the consumer to judge whether or not to deal with it. The wrong is for the state to give business respectability through licensing and regulation, replacing genuine commercial reputation.
Defenders of regulation do not realize that it is primarily a means of state control. This is why all political parties with very few exceptions endorse it. And that is the insidious part of it: In an effort to correct the many wrongs of regulation, more and more regulations, always amounting to greater state control, are subsequently introduced.
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Iran, N. Korea, Syria block arms trade treaty
Iran, North Korea and Syria on Thursday held up agreement on the first global treaty on the $80 billion a year conventional arms trade.
Kenya announced that a coalition of countries from around the world would now take the treaty straight to the 193-member UN General Assembly next week for approval. It can be passed with a two thirds majority which is virtually assured.
The move by Iran, North Korea and Syria, all facing sanctions or international reprobation for their weapons programs or trading, caused widespread anger at the conference.
"This is not a failure, today is success deferred and deferred by not very long," said Britain's chief negotiator Jo Adamson.
"A good strong treaty has been blocked by the DPRK (North Korea), the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria but most people in the world want regulation and those are the voices that need to be heard," she added.
The Amnesty International rights group called the blocking move "deeply cynical".
All of the major arms producer -- the United States, Russia, Germany, France, China and Britain -- were ready to agree the treaty for which negotiations started in 2006.
The first major arms accord since the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty would cover tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, as well as small arms and light arms.
It would aim to force countries to set up national controls on arms exports. They would also have to assess whether a weapon could be used for genocide, war crimes or by terrorists or organized crime gangs before it is sold.
Conference president Peter Woolcott of Australia had been about to bring the gavel down on an accord when Iranian, North Korean and Syrian ambassadors raised objections. After an hour of closed talks, a second attempt brought the same result.
"The inherent right of states to self-defense, to defend against aggression and preserve its territorial integrity is not addressed," Iran's UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told the conference.
North Korea's deputy UN ambassador Ri Tong-Il called the proposed treaty a "risky draft which can be politically manipulated by major arms exporters." The envoy railed against arms embargos such as one his country faces over its nuclear weapons tests.
Syria's UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari said the treaty should be more explicit on supplying arms to "terrorists" and "non-state groups" and that Syria would not be part of "an artificial consensus."
Dozens of countries made it clear to the three that they were isolated. UN leader Ban Ki-Moon was "deeply disappointed" that the treaty was not agreed, said a UN spokeswoman.
US chief delegate Tom Countryman said the proposed draft "met our goals for a strong, balanced effective and implementable text that could raise the bar on common standards for regulating international trade in conventional arms."
The United States is the major arms dealer and he said the legitimate trade would not be "unduly hindered" by the treaty.
The United States had opposed ammunition coming under the full controls imposed by the treaty.
Even if the treaty is now agreed in the General Assembly, it may not get universal acceptance.
Russia said there are "omissions" in the treaty and "doubtful" provisions such as the failure to control arms transfers to non-state groups. Russia is particularly worried about weapons getting into the hands of Chechen rebels.
A Russian diplomat told the conference "we will be studying the draft extremely carefully" before deciding whether to sign it.
India also cast doubt on whether it would sign the treaty. It's delegate, Sujata Mehta, said: "The final draft has the tell tale marks of behind-the-scenes carve outs of exclusive interests of a select few countries." | http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130328/iran-n-korea-syria-block-arms-trade-treaty-0 | dclm-gs1-072130002 | false | false | {
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1 1 Poydras St New Orleans, LA 70130
Spend a day discovering the cuisine and culture of the South to build up your appetite before letting loose in one of the greatest food cities in the world. Whether you’re entertaining out-of-town guests or earning your foodie merit badge, the museum’s permanent collection of exhibits allows you to explore the myriad tastes and traditions unique to southern food. The Louisiana Eats! Laissez Faire-Savoir Fare exhibit chronicles the evolution of the region's flavors over time, while the Eating in the White House exhibit exposes the inner workings and dining habits of first mansion residents throughout history. Recently opened exhibits, such as SPOILED, which tells the tearful photographic tale of post-Katrina refrigerators, and an upcoming exhibit celebrating the history and heritage of the hurricane cocktail keep the museum's content as fresh as a butter-melting biscuit.
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• Quaesitor says goodbye in the Valedictory!Posted 4 days ago
CierraJanay Silks
User Since: 10/12/2011
Racing interest:
I'm watching Secretariats Glory and the current Orb
First track attended:
None yet
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
About me/racing interests:
I love about any horse sport out there. I got into horse racing while watching Secretariat run the Belmont on Youtube lol then I saw the movie Secretariat, then I saw Ruffian, Seabiscuit etc and I was hooked to racing and the romance it creates.
How did I get into racing?
movies, computer, tv, reading... etc.
Favorite racing moment?
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Bair: Small Banks Can Withstand Swipe Fee Crackdown
Swipe Fees
First Posted: 05/12/11 04:22 PM ET Updated: 07/12/11 06:12 AM ET
Both Bair and Bernanke indicated that it would be difficult for them to exempt small banks from the swipe fee crackdown in practice, even though last year's law requires the Fed to impose such an exemption. The bill orders the Fed to limit swipe fees for big banks, but it explicitly excludes banks with less than $10 billion in assets from the new fee caps. Bernanke said that market forces might prevent small banks from continuing to charge high fees if big banks are charging less. Bair suggested that the Fed was not exercising all of its powers to establish that exemption, but also acknowledged that the ultimate impact on community banks would likely be minute.
"On initial analysis, it doesn't look like it would clearly stress some institutions putting them to the point of failure," Bair said. "No, we don't -- we don't think that'll happen."
Instead, Bair is concerned that limiting swipe fees will eat into small bank profits.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the sponsor of the original swipe fee amendment, said in April that Bernanke's and Bair's position is colored by their relationship with the banks.
“All I can say is that Bair and Bernanke, who I respect, have spent a lifetime around banks and bankers,” Durbin said. “I’d met with [the Fed chairman] early on, and he never said one word to me that this couldn’t be done.”
At Thursday's hearing, Tester took a (thinly) veiled swipe at Durbin while questioning Bernanke.
"I know we're in a political process here, and I know you've probably been getting a lot of pressure from people -- or at least one person from the Senate," Tester said in a clear reference to the Illinois senator.
"I can't say with certainty, but I think there's good reason to be concerned about it," Bernanke responded, referring to the impact on small banks. He claimed that the result of the rule would be "some smaller banks being less profitable or even, or even failing."
Bair, whose job requires far more engagement with small banks than Bernanke's, rejected the Fed chairman's failure prognosis moments later.
Bair also indicated that, if the Fed really wanted to exempt small banks from the rule, it could do so by simply requiring card networks like Visa and Mastercard to allow small banks to charge higher swipe fees. Visa has already indicated that it will adopt such a "two-tiered" pricing plan, and Mastercard is expected to follow suit -- regardless of what the Fed dictates.
Bernanke told the committee that unspecified "market forces" would work against the Fed, if it required such a system.
Regulating swipe fees is one half of a Durbin strategy to peel elements of the business community away from Republicans. The second half involves pushing a tax on Internet sales, which angers but is a priority of brick-and-mortar firms who want to level the field. ( is largely exempt from state sales taxes.)
Bair and Bernanke gave the banks a boost this winter by wondering aloud whether it would be possible to effectively implement the Durbin Amendment -- the provision of last year's Wall Street reform legislation that caps the fees big banks can charge, but creates an exemption for small banks. Small banks have argued that merchants will simply not accept their cards for payments, but will instead accept only the cheaper cards of big banks if the amendment is enacted. They have demanded that the Fed delay implementation to continue studying the matter.
"We have plenty of information -- that is not a problem," Bernanke admitted at the hearing, giving a boost to the merchants fighting the delay.
Tester was the only panel member to question Bernanke and Bair on swipe fees.
“Chairman Bernanke’s comments confirm that Congress shouldn’t insert politics or prejudge the thorough fact-based process the Federal Reserve has conducted,” said Doug Kantor, counsel to the Merchants Payments Coalition. “Merchant groups from around the country have written to Congress demonstrating that the small bank exemption will work. The big bank-generated bloviation about the fate of their smaller competitors should not fool anyone.”
See video of the entire exchange, courtesy of Tester's office:
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dennishepherd#616210 writes:
in response to cjensen:
I'm starting to get wobbly, trying to follow this discussion. First, who suggested that a recall should only require a few hundred signatures?
Answer that, then we'll go to step 2. I'm a one step at a time type person.
One proposal under consideration today would result in an inordinately low number of signatures to affect a recall in the First District.
The problem there is that voter turn-out is a fraction what it is in other commission districts. In 2008, Sam McKenzie was elected with just 1,700-something votes, which under this proposal would mean that just 400-something people could affect a recall question on the ballot.
However, those 400-something people would still have to persuade 51% of the 1,700-something presumably voting on the question that they should vote "yes."
I don't have any problem with that. If 800 or so voters in the First District voted that way, finalizing a recall of their commissioner, then that's a MAJORITY of voters in that district.
Don't mess with a majority of voters, I say...
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"It's time for a candid conversation between the city and the developer," Hardy said.
No, it's way past time for that. It's time for action. Please, please learn the difference. The future of my home town depends on it.
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I am familiar with this case. First the woman didn't drive her daughter to fight anybody. They stopped at a gas station after school to buy a soda. The other girl had been bullying the girl mentioned in the article. The other girl was with her father leaving the gas station. The other girls father stopped the car and told his daughter to "get the f___ out of the car" to fight. No mention was made of this. The other parent sat in his car and watched. Reports had been made to the school prior to the fight but were ignored.
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A Flashback Car Adventure
She asked, "Fill in some details as this specific night isn't coming into focus?"
I replied, "Trish, we had been to the movie, stopped afterwards for refreshments at the drive in and were driving back on the usual state road to our home." At the time, I reviewed the details and asked, "What you would like to do now?"
She responded, "What did I answer?"
I told her that her announcement instantly got my attention when you stated matter of factly, "I want to fuck."
"You're making that up just because that's what you wanted to do!" Trish replied.
"I can't deny that I wanted to fuck, as I always do when I'm with you, but I'd never heard you use such a four letter word before! Yes, I know we'd been fucking since we both shared our virginity back in our earlier teenage experimentation years. It was probably after I got my driver's license. But the shock of your open use of that 'naughty' word quickly got my attention!"
Trish's reply, "OK ...... assuming that is correct, what was your reply to my announcement?"
"Well, Trish, since you were expecting an agreement from me, I remember my reply was a directive. Take off your clothes! You replied, "Do you mean now?" Yes, right now and hurry up! Since you may not remember what I recalled that night, I'll try to repeat the words that come back to me so clearly."
Trish said, "OK, go ahead, I'm listening."
"OK, here goes."
"Do you mean while we're on this highway? I don't want anyone to see me!"
Trish interrupted stating, "OK, it is coming back to me and I assume you went ahead and gave me a good servicing. So, what is your point in bringing up those old memories?"
"Well, My Love, I think we would enjoy a repeat of that evening's adventures! Would you like a repeat?" I asked.
"Jay, your recitation of these past sexual activities has turned me on, so what now?"
"Trish, take off your clothes! Do it now and show some enthusiasm!" I strongly suggested.
"Jay, unlike that evening, we still have that little town to go drive through and it has street lights!" you said with concern.
After slipping her coat off her shoulders, Trish started unbuttoning her blouse, then the skirt's side zipper, raised her butt and quickly removed the skirt. Tossing her blouse and skirt into the back seat, she turned to me and said, "What now?"
I told her to remove her bra, panties and stay up nylons in any sequence she'd like, but to do it quickly! Then I changed my mind, "Trish instead, please remove your bra and panties, but leave your stockings on." She looked at me quizzically, but did as I asked, tossing these garments in the back.
Then she asked,"Now what?"
I asked her to extend her legs, putting her stocking feet up on the dash. At that, she slid down a bit in her seat and placed her feet up as I requested. "Trish, you are one very sexy woman, but it is just too dark to enjoy your beauty!" At that I reached up and turned on the dome light.
"Damn you Jay! What did you do that for, are you trying to embarrass me?" Trish exclaimed in a loud voice.
"Now Trish, there isn't anyone in the countryside who could see you, even if they were at the roadside, which they aren't. I said in a calming voice. I don't want to share this view of my beautiful wife with anyone! I added. Now, please put your feet back up on the dash and spread you legs apart ....... please?" She looked at me with a scowl and then her smile slowly surfaced and she did as I requested, but not until I turned off the dome light.
"Jay, aren't we getting pretty close to that little town?" she inquired as she started to pull her coat around her shoulders and lowered her legs.
"Yes, Trish we are. As you will remember, it is so small that there are no stop lights and only about four street lights on their main street. It isn't likely that there is even anyone up at 10:30 in this town! You can keep your coat on your shoulders, but please open it wide unless or until you spot a danger ....... after all, I want to enjoy your beautiful breasts and nylon legs?"
"Jay, why are you going to slow? Trish asked. I want to get away from here!"
"All in good time, My Lovely, but you must let me enjoy your almost public nudity. Don't you get a little bit of thrill at your perceived risk of being spotted by some local resident? I replied in a humorous tone of voice. Even if you were seen, you wouldn't be recognized by anyone ..... would you?"
"Jay, I'll give you my opinion after we are away from this place!"
As we passed the last street light, I asked Trish to remove the coat from her shoulders and place it on the back of her seat. As she turned around to arrange the coat on the seat back, I said to her, "Please stay on your knees facing back and put your arms up on the back of your seat?"
"What kind of humiliation are you intending now? she asked. By the way, being nearly naked and easily exposed in that little burg, it did give me a lot of stress and ......I have to admit to a level of sexual excitement in that adventure!"
"Trish, with you in that delightful position, I can enjoy your lovely body with my right hand while watching the road and steering safely with my left. Oh yes, please place knees farther apart?" I requested. Trish glanced at me with a questioning look, but did as I asked.
"Trish, put your hands on the headrest so that your breasts will be open for my fondling?" Her breasts now being available, I reached over brushing across her right breast to the left one and located the nipple.
"Trish, this nipple seems very prominent, could it be excited?" I asked. Before she could respond, I grasped it and gave it a little tweak.
"Well if it isn't already excited, what you are doing will make it more so!" Trish stated.
"Dear One, I am always interested in giving you pleasure and that is where my enjoyment is concerned. Maybe I should have phrased it differently. How about you telling me whenever you would like me to change what I've been doing, such as, 'Please switch to the other nipple and suck on it!' or 'Gently pinch and pull the other nipple while you are sucking!' or 'That's enough breast foreplay, now do something for my pussy and clit?'"
"Ok! I'll give a hint if I feel the need for something different. Just never assume that I'm not satisfied with what you are doing!" she advised.
I moved my hand down from her breasts to the crotch, when just about that moment a flash of headlight beam from an approaching vehicle began lighting her lovely backside. Trish's head snapped around to look and I told her, "Don't you move! My headlights make it impossible to detect your lovely backside!" Except for a momentary flinch, Trish held her position.
As I resumed feeling for her pussy with my right hand, I detected something different. "Trish, did you recently shave down here?"I asked.
"Well, yes! But mostly I just gave the patch a trim." Trish replied.
"That explains why it feels so different ..... not the soft silky feel I'm used to ..... when nearing one of my favorite openings! I think I'll have to give it the tongue test!"
"Is that new feel going to be a problem for you?" Trish asked.
"I can't be sure until I put my nose in it and give it the tongue test" I kidded.
Trish stated her concern, "I hope you are driving carefully! I wouldn't want to be discovered by accident investigators in my current state of nudity! What would they think if I was the only one naked?"
"Well Dear, I am being very careful as I want to arrive at our 'old fucking place' with both of us in the best possible condition to enjoy ourselves. So just relax and I'll be pulling off the highway in just a couple more minutes."
Having made that statement and seeing the curve and the almost hidden road exit ahead, I slowed and began my turn off. The old bypassed road was still paved but had lots of grass and weeds growing up in the cracks. Driving slowly for a few hundred yards farther, I came to a stop.
Trish inquired, "Am I the only one that is going to be naked? By the way, I need to pee!" she exclaimed, while reaching in the back for her raincoat.
"Trish you won't need that coat as it isn't raining any longer and it is only a few degrees cooler. I justified my suggestion. While you are taking your call to nature, I'll get my clothes off."
Trish said, "OK, but the dome light will come on when I open the door and I'm still naked!"
"We are about 50 yards or so south of the highway, plus there is no farm house anywhere near! Take a look over at the highway and if you don't see any headlights, just get out and do your business."I suggested.
"You said it was not cold, but it must be down to at least 60 degrees! That isn't a comfortable temperature to be naked!" she exclaimed.
"Well I'm going to test your estimate as I'm also naked and have to pee!" I opened my door, the dome light came on and clearly illuminated my beautiful wife in her seat. I intentionally held the door open while I enjoyed the view, causing Trish to react, "Close the damn door and go pee!"
I took a few steps to where I could see her wet spot on the road and made my own spot alongside. Back at the car, I paused for a moment after the door opening lighted the interior, and Trish, as I expected, verbally scolded me, "Get in the car .... now and turn off the light!"
"Trish, you are even more beautiful in the light, but I understand your reluctance. I will have to enjoy your womanly sexiness .... manually! I stated. So, to assist me with my enjoyment of you, would you please squat in the seat facing forward?" I added, We don't have a bench seat as in the past, so special care has to be taken for the center console between us."
As Trish eased herself up into the requested squatting position, I added, "Please spread your knees wide and either hold the headrest with your hands or place your arms down alongside your seat? This causes your breasts to be thrust forward and your pussy to be easily examined."
Trish inquired, "Am I open enough for you? What parts are you going stimulate first?"
"No Trish! The image I had of your naked sexy body and the idea of impaling you on my cock, had the most effect! I responded. Now, I want to suck on your nipples while I test your pussy's wetness and readiness for fucking! If you have any requests, modifications or even objections, please tell me at this time?" I requested.
"No Jay. Proceed with your plan and I'll let you know if I have any ideas."
"Jay, do you think I'm ready for fucking yet? I couldn't be more ready for your stiff cock inside me!"
I responded with, "Yes!!!! Let's get it on!" I announced as I tried to move my erect cock into contact with her pussy. However, with my head in contact with the car's roof, this kept me in a huddled sort of position, when I really needed to thrust my cock in Trish's direction. My knees were already in contact with the seat's back and I couldn't scoot any closer.
"Trish, can you rotate you pelvis upward and toward my cock?" Trish did elevate her pelvis and tried to thrust her pussy forward, but we just weren't making contact.
Realizing the difficulty of our position, Trish said, "Maybe we should move to the back seat?"
"We can do that, but first, ..... let's go back to our old fucking position that always worked so well during our youth! Let me move to the side so you can get up and I'll sit on the seat and then you can straddle me, ...... just like the good old days!"
"Be patient Jay, let me get you lubricated with my pussy juice first and when I'm ready I'll lower myself on it!"
She continued working my cock up and down those juicy lips, while I did my best to restrain myself. For the moment, I decided I'd just concentrate on switching back and forth between each breast and those very suckable nipples. Soon, I felt Trish lowering herself on to my erection.
"Oh Yes, yes, yes!" was her response as she began that combination of back and forth pelvic movements and up and down riding motions. Keep on with that sucking while I concentrate on doing some very enjoyable fucking!"
"Oh God Trish! You are such a fantastic woman and so very exceptional with your fucking skills! As a teenager you were certainly very talented, but as a mature woman your sexual skills have become even more accomplished! Maybe I've told you that before, but you are very deserving of all my compliments on your sexual abilities and techniques."
"Thanks! But I'm too busy enjoying myself on your cock to describe what I like about your sexual abilities!
"Well, Trish, I agree! I'd certainly rather fuck than talk ...... so let's just enjoy it!"
Whether it was my last comment or not, Trish seemed to be invigorated and her pelvic thrusting was even more rapid and intense. I extended both arms, held her ass with both hands and pulled her to me with each of her fucking movements. I could sense that Trish's breathing was becoming more rapid and so was mine! We were rapidly progressing toward an intense orgasm. As that moment approached, I started thrusting upward and couldn't hold back on a loud "Uuuunhh!" when I cut loose. At the same time Trish moaned and collapsed on my chest and shoulder.
"Trish, I agree that we just had an incredible erotic moment! However, that old car's bench seat was much easier to do the deed than this one. Do you agree?"
"I suppose so, but please let's not distract from the enjoyment of this moment by such speculation." she replied as I could feel her pussy muscles squeezing and milking my cock.
"Jay, if I get up now, your juices will run out and get all over us and the car! We don't have a towel with us do we?"
"Can you raise the seat back so that we can separate and I can get off?" she asked.
I did as requested and she rose up enough that I could get back over the center console to the driver's seat. Taking time for both of us to catch our breath, we just quietly sat and relaxed.
"Trish, are you about ready to go back to the motel and get some sleep?"
"Yes, I am Jay and I'm sure we need some rest and quiet time."
"I'm going to get dressed, but I have a request for you!" I announced.
"OK, what diabolical scheme do you have in mind?" was her reply.
"If I go along with this request, will you promise me that you won't do anything to embarrass me? I feel that I have been at risk enough tonight in too many ways, to satisfy your sexual escapade dreaming!"
"Yes, Trish, I promise! I replied. I never want to really cause you embarrassment, but I do enjoy when there is potential risk of discovery. Don't you experience some degree of excitement and sexual stimulation when there is some risk?"
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Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 17 out of 30
2. Negative: 1 out of 30
1. Whether you are looking for a good 25-30 hour RTS campaign, or just the next big online RTS in the tradition of Magic the Gathering, Impossible Creatures has something inventive and fun for everyone.
2. The replay value of this game is very good, as I've found out that MP matches can be quite intense, and after all, this is where the truly creative players should sparkle.
3. A really fun and addicting title, despite the fact that it’s pretty similar to other titles in the same genre if you strip it down to the core.
5. I especially like that the Army Builder screen has something to analyze your army, and tell you where it is strong and where it is lacking.
6. Impossible creatures really shines in its multiplayer mode. [Mar 2003, p.86]
7. 83
The creature creation process is close to enough to recommend this by itself, but put together with a fun single player mode and interesting "Magic the Gathering" style army building multiplayer strategy, it's a kooky ride that most gaming fans will enjoy.
8. Highly recommended to RTS fans, yet is not daring enough to follow through with some of its ideas and reach its full potential.
9. What on the surface looks like your run-of-the-mill RTS game is actually a sophisticated action-packed balancing act. [Mar 2003, p.71]
10. 80
The real fun for many IC players will be the Army Editor, which lets you play with combinations of animals and create your own creatures.
11. Once you get past all the gamesmanship, you can concentrate on bitch-slapping Mother Nature by creating twisted beasts that would make Jack Hanna brown his khakis.
12. 80
One of the more interesting and entertaining strategy titles to come along in quite some time.
14. A welcome mutation, but not as evolved as you’d think.
15. A great idea on paper, but it simply fizzles when the meaty portion of its plot is exposed to play. [Mar 2003, p.90]
16. The innovation gets waylaid by the less than revolutionary components that make up the rest of the title... On the other hand, its less than revolutionary portions are actually very well polished and executed.
18. 72
What's truly surprising, given how atmospheric Relic's Homeworld was, is just how lame the story and ambience of Impossible Creatures turned out to be.
19. Unfortunately, the game play in "Impossible Creatures" doesn't match the title's ingenious premise.
20. We were disappointed by the game's lack of depth, but we very much enjoyed playing it - and that, at the end of the day, is far more important than anything else.
21. The combat is fast-paced and aggressive, but balanced. The creature-combining mode is deep and involved, but accessible.
22. The great retro sci-fi setting and creative twist in unit creation just can’t make up for cumbersome gameplay and poor unit control.
23. Apart from its admirable combinatorial system, Impossible Creatures is just another RTS. Indeed it's fairly simplistic as the genre goes...In theory this should foster a quick and immediate title, but in practice the build-up of resources is slow. Plainly average. [March 2003, p.100]
24. Most unforgiveable of all though, is the abysmally bad combat. Once your army is built, there is really nothing for the player to do other than point them at the enemy and hope to be last man standing.
25. Great production values aren’t enough to raise Impossible Creatures from being a mediocre exercise in button pushing, as it’s high on glitz but short on actual strategy.
26. Animal creation, plot, and fast-paced multiplayer and skirmish options all lend a certain amount of charm to the proceedings, although play is much more boring than you'd expect in a game where you can breed an unholy attack force of elephants with scorpion stingers and pincers.
27. It's a good concept set against an intentionally silly story. But the game is all style and little substance. [Apr 2003, p.110]
28. Boredom becomes a factor partly because of a limited number of combinations with which to experiment. [Apr 2003, p.78]
29. If most real-time strategy titles are elaborate versions of rock, paper, scissors, Impossible Creatures is the world's most sophisticated game of rock. [7 Feb 2003, p.90]
30. In a vacuous bubble, the prospect of combining creatures would create all sorts of wacky experimental fun. But in the context of real-time strategy, it becomes an unnecessary chore.
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 5 out of 8
2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
3. Negative: 3 out of 8
1. GaryS.
Jan 6, 2004
With the Insect Invasion MOD, even more creatures and abilities become available. And this expansion is available as a free download. Honestly, this game has saved me a lot of money because every time I think of buying another PC or console game, I think to myself: "Yeah, it looks good. But is it worth taking time away from playing Impossible Creatures?" Different maps and terrains call for different types of units, so you'll find yourself creating multiple armies and spending hours testing the abilities of your creatures. Most if not all of the magazine ratings were based on the original release. The expansion software adds so much in the way of strategy that it doubles the enjoyability and longevity of the game. As a schoolteacher, I have recommeded this game to my students and all who have purchased it seem to be enjoying it as much as I do. Full Review »
2. AndyK.
Jun 12, 2003
This game is great. I believe this game has the potential to be one of the greatest ever in the rts genre. Aside from the obvious ability to customize your own units, teh multiplayer games are very fast paced with the forst battles happening at around teh 3-5 minute mark. On top of all this relic is making a FREE expansion for the game set to be available for download any day now. It will contain 15 new animals and 9 new abilities, talk about the generosity of relic. P.S. Take it from me, i've actually played the game. Full Review »
3. AndrewC.
Feb 18, 2003
It's pretty fun. Great for rts fans. Unless you want to focus on strategy. I haven't tried the multiplayer mode yet but I think it'll be great. Combining two animals in an rts game is clever though. Full Review » | http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/impossible-creatures/critic-reviews | dclm-gs1-072520002 | false | false | {
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Obviously we want to reduce spam volume. My approach is all about that.
From your arguments, I have the strong impression that your approach
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That's a good goal, but has nothing to do with reducing the
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2/03/13 1:17:16 PM#121
It's tough for me to come up with a top 5 because I've really only thoroughly enjoyed one MMORPG and it was Asheron's Call. However, I have played a lot of MMO's so if I had to place them in a top 5 list...
1. Asheron's Call
2. Ultima Online
3. World of Warcraft
4. Dark Ages of Camelot
5. Vanguard
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2/03/13 1:31:17 PM#122
1. Earth & Beyond
2. Eve
3. SWG pre/cu
4. WOW upto BC
5. Tabula Rasa
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2/03/13 1:35:49 PM#123
1. Vanilla WOW
2. GW1
3. That's about it.
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2/03/13 1:46:44 PM#124
#1. SWG (First year)
#2. EverQuest II
#3-5. just as bad as every other post-wow turd.
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2/03/13 1:49:49 PM#125
1. WoW
2+ All turds! (That was for you mmoDAD !! )
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2/03/13 2:00:36 PM#126
1a. WoW
1b. Age of Wushu
2. EVE
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2/03/13 2:08:01 PM#127
1. EverQuest
2. Dark Age of Camelot (before ToA)
3. Star Wars: Galaxies (pre CU)
4. Asheron's Call
5. World of WarCraft (Vanilla)
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Posts: 234
2/03/13 2:14:48 PM#128
1. DAoC
2. SWG
3. CoH
4. WAR
5. PS
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2/03/13 2:23:55 PM#129
Not in any particular order
1) Rift; Currently my main MMO. I can't find any other MMO that draws me in like this one.
2) World Of Warcraft: Vanilla-Wrath; My most played MMO. Played on and off until Pandaria came out, Got a monk to 90 and quit before I was even able to join LFR
3) Maple Story; May seem silly but I played the hell out of this game until I started getting into more graphic demanding games.
4) Wurm Online; When It first came out I was in awe. It was my first true sandbox MMO.
5)Eve Online; I have never gotten deep into the game but it is one of those games that I admire and respect. I would love to actually be good at the game.
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2/03/13 2:30:53 PM#130
top 5:
1. gw1
2. aion
3. gw2
4. tera
5. aoc
Playing: GW2 & Tera.
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2/03/13 2:36:01 PM#131
1. AC1
2. UO
3. DAoC
4. Shadowbane
5. EQ1
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2/03/13 2:44:49 PM#132
1. Ultima Online
2. Everquest
3. World of Warcraft
4. Guild Wars 2
Thats all i can think of, and GW2 barley makes the list.
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2/03/13 2:53:38 PM#133
1) City of Heroes
2) Hellgate London
3) Age of Conan
4) SWG
5) Tabula Rasa
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2/03/13 2:57:29 PM#134
1. WoW
2. GW2
I haven't played significant enough time in any other MMO to include them on a list. I've played less than 2 months of Rift, Aion, WAR, and AoC, and I've beta tested many others. From what I've played of each of these, I'd personally rank most of them above FFXI on my list, but like I said, still not enough time in them to make a complete assessment.
FFXI was my first MMO and second longest-played.
WoW is my longest played by far: about 6 years on and off, from 2004-2010, over which time I probably had an active subscription for about 65-70% of the time.
GW2 easily has the potential to eventually surpass WoW for me. Many things need to change still, but the foundation for the game is far better than vanilla WoW's in my opinion, and that kept me for 6 years. If WoW didn't require a subscription, I'd probably still log in every now and then and then possibly get hooked again. With GW2's b2p model, it will always keep me logging back in and, therefore, has the potential to keep me even longer than WoW did.
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2/03/13 3:05:12 PM#135
1) EVE
2) Shadowbane
3) LOTRO(pre-free to play)
4) EQ2
5) City of Villains
I would like to note that the bottom 3 would be way down on the list under a list of single player games.
Currently bored with MMO's.
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2/03/13 3:11:46 PM#136
I dont think its fair to judge older games against newer. First it was a different generation, different tech, different gameplay mechanics... So i'll be posting two top 5 lists. One will be of the golden era of MMOs which ended with WoW imo and the other will be Post Wow Era stuff.
Golden Era:
1. EVE Online
2. SWG Pre-CU
3. Everquest
4 DAoC
5. Ultima Online
Current Era:
1. WoW
2. GW2
3. Lotro
4. Rift
Playing: None
Waiting on: None
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2/03/13 3:47:42 PM#137
1. Lord of the Rings Online
2. World of Warcraft
3. Dark Age of Camelot
4. City of Heroes
LotRO wins by a small margin due to the kinship (guild) that I was in. Early WoW was so much fun but the community and guilds didn't match LotRO (pre f2p). DaoC was the first MMORPG I spent a significant amount of time in -- I don't think I could grind levels today like I did back in the early days of DaoC, but there are good memories there. Not a big PvPer today but I really enjoyed RvR and the loyalty to the side you chose (alliance vs horde doesn't even come close). CoH (pre f2p) is for the many, many characters I created though I ruined the game for myself by making so many and redoing the early content over and over.
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2/03/13 3:52:59 PM#138
1. SWG
2. DAOC
3. EVE
4. Saga of Ryzom
5. EQ-OA
My thoughts on hype
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2/04/13 4:09:23 AM#139
1: SWG pre-curb
2: Planetside 2
3: EvE Online
4: Darkfall online
5:Face of Mankind
1&2: My first two are SOE games despite having boycotted them for many years until the release of PS2, it just goes to show they can make a decent game when they want. I'm currently playing PS2 now that the cheating has died down (not saying it's gone it never will be), the game is alot of fun to play in an outfit.
3:As for eve I left after they changed the war dec system because too many people were crying about being attacked in empire.
4: A great game with excellent pve and PVP opportunities, it was just the horrible grind that turned me off.
5: What a game, great idea with an excellent faction system and so much going on. Unfortunately there was only one dev running it from his basement in Berlin and a bunch of s**t GM's that were utterly corrupt to the majority of players detriment. The company which published the game seemed to have no idea what was going on or just didn't care. This game could have been one of the most popular MMORPGs of all time but it was just left to rot in the gutter.
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2/04/13 7:55:52 AM#140
1. Ultima Online
2. Asheron's Call
3. Star Wars Galaxies (pre-NGE)
4. Eve Online
5. meh
For 5, there are dozens of game tied due to one or two outstanding mechanics or systems..unfortunately aside from those innovative systems the rest of the game tended to suck.
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I am from CA and met my husband when he was in the Marine Corps for 12 years, stationed in CA the whole time. We lived in San Diego and on Camp Pendleton. 4 years ago we moved outside of Austin, TX and it is not home for us. We would like to move back to CA and buy some land with a couple acres. That is why we are not looking at San Diego or the beaches. My goal is to purchase horse property, which we do not have in Austin. I had horses growing up and would like horses, chickens, etc. for our family.
We just started homeschooling this year and have 3 daughters. They are ages 9, 5 and 3. We are secular homeschoolers and it has been hard for me to find a group that is like minded. Are there homeschooling groups there? We don't have ANY charter schools in our district, so I may be open to that when we move. For now, HS works.
My girls are very involved in dance and gymnastics. My oldest takes 6 classes a week at dance. The younger two take 3 dance classes and gymnastics. I need to be close to a dance studio and gymnastics facility for their extracurricular activities.
Basically, I want the luxury of having a couple acres of land and be close to shopping, (Costco!!), the freeway. It takes me forever to get anywhere and it is miserable when it is 110 degrees for months on end.
Does it sound like Temecula is a good fit? Any surrounding cities we should take a look at? My husband is looking at a job transfer with the San Diego Sheriffs Dept, so he could work anywhere. We may rent for a while, but we would like to take advantage of the housing market and I really want to get settled. It is hard to feel like you are not where you belong for 4+ years.
Many thanks,
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Have you looked at Ramona in San Diego county? http://www.ramonachamber.com/ It's great horse county and has an option within the school district of home schooling. It also has a sheriff substation so there is the possibility of your husband getting on there so the commute wouldn't be long. For the dancing and gymnastics, you might have to drive down the hill to Poway or Escondido for those. There are also horse properties in those cities as well but they will be way more expensive.
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I just moved away from Temecula area (not that far, to Orange County because of a job change for my husband) but I think Temecula sounds like a good fit! Costco is close, there are dance places, there are charter schools. I know some friends that homeschool in that area but not sure about groups particularly. It gets hot in late July-August (90+) but it's not humid at all so it's manageable. It's a 100,000+ population so lots of things to do and shopping/wineries, etc. There is a Sprouts, Fresh and Easy, Trader Joes. There is yoga/zumba, etc. It's not "hippie/artsy" like Austin though. There are plenty of areas to have horses (out by wineries too.) It's only an hour drive to the beach (Oceanside is the closest, about 50 minutes.) Murrieta is close to Temecula and also has room for horses. Menifee has horse property too (and dance, my daughter went to Diana's Dance Company) but I wouldn't go more north than that (the more north you go, the worse the cities get in my opinion, especially inland.)
The commute from Temecula to San Diego is not always that great. I drove to downtown San Diego for work for 2 years and I wouldn't do it again. It's about an hour and 10 minutes with traffic but the way home has gotten hellish during "rush hour." Commute wise (and horse property wise) I would look in south Temecula......
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to think it's just plain wrong to want change your DCs name by deed poll before their first birthday?
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ButtonBoo Thu 04-Oct-12 21:39:43
Just that really.
A mum in my friends NCT group has said (seriously apparently) that they are looking into changing their DDs name by deed poll. She's 10mo. They think they've made a mistake in choosing her name and don't like it anymore. It's an uncommon name but not crazy weird.
Is this not just really odd? I know their baby, their choice etc but it's weird surely. Does anyone regret their name choices that much they'd deed poll change? Can this even happen before the childs 16yo?
TidyGOLDDancer Thu 04-Oct-12 21:43:32
Of course YABU. It's their business, and not for you to decide that it's 'just plain wrong'.
Softlysoftly Thu 04-Oct-12 21:43:39
Better now than when she's older.
FriggFRIGG Thu 04-Oct-12 21:45:24
I don't think you need to use deedpoll in the first year,you can just amend the birth certificate...
And yes YABU.
elfycat Thu 04-Oct-12 21:46:18
I thought you could change a DC's name before their first birthday without it being a deed poll thing.
It's not common but if they really regret the name it would be better to do it now. The DC can always change it later if they get version 2 wrong.
TalkieToaster Thu 04-Oct-12 21:46:20
I don't think it's odd at all, clearly they feel they've picked the wrong name and this is the only way to legally change that.
TalkieToaster Thu 04-Oct-12 21:47:01
Oooh, I didn't know that about the birth certificate/first year.
CSIJanner Thu 04-Oct-12 21:47:03
Someone from my baby group did this. They let their 4year old choose her baby brothers name, then regretted it the moment they left the registry office.
Flojo1979 Thu 04-Oct-12 21:47:04
I've never heard of this happening and I don't think its something I'd want to do, having to explain to ppl that she's not called this anymore she's called that but u guess if they r really unhappy with it for some reason then its better now.
MeFour Thu 04-Oct-12 21:47:06
I would have done this if DH had let me (with ds). It took me at least six months to get his name right. I eventually used a nickname until I got used to his name. It's his name now he's four but at 11 months I would have changed it to the name I mistakenly called him all the time
YABU, had I known I could.easily change a child under 1's name I really would have changed Ds1's. As it is I feel awful that he's stuck with a stupid, made up middle name.
cocoaGOLDchannel Thu 04-Oct-12 21:50:56
CSI did she go for Iggle-Piggle or Peppa?
ButtonBoo Thu 04-Oct-12 21:54:05
Not sure they know they might just be able to change it without deedpoll.
Yes, probably ABU eh? I was just a bit gobsmacked. It's a pretty kooky name and they just think they'd prefer something else.
I'm obviously just an opinionated moo!
NameChangeGalore Thu 04-Oct-12 21:57:21
My brothers name was changed after he was 6-7 months old. My mum was adamant about choosing a name with meaning, and she thought my brothers name was making him angry/unsettled. They changed it (don't know how, this was back in the 70s), and my mum used to say his character changed and he became calmer. Sometimes names don't suit a baby <shrugs>
What's her name?
Haystack Thu 04-Oct-12 22:01:43
I think YABU their baby has no real concept of it's name and it can be really important for a parent who is struggling with a name choice they regret. A member of my family did this twice with her 1st and 2nd child, it was something she did as she recovered from PND. Her children are now teens and it's never been an issue.
My 5 yr old changed her own name last year to her middle name when she got fed up of being 'haystack D' constantly (50% of the children at her birthday party had her name, there were 8 guests!). We've had some unpleasant comments and more than a little confusion, but in general everyone has coped well, she is happy and so are we and I really can't see why it is anyone else's business.
Noqontrol Thu 04-Oct-12 22:09:01
I don't think its odd. Better to do it now than wait. Sometimes you make the wrong choice and the name just doesn't suit.
LaydeeC Thu 04-Oct-12 22:11:46
Your friend's baby's forename(s) can be changed by completing a form at the Register Office up to a year from the date of the initial registration. She does not need to complete a deed poll. After a year, deed poll is the only way.
Sorry to derail but what does NCT group mean? Keep seeing it on MN..
I didn't get to name my dd, I had an emergency c-section, and by the time I could go down to SCBU to see her my ex-p had already named her - her name was on all her notes etc, and sent messages to family/friends plus announced it on facebook - not a name I would have chosen. I just accepted it at the time, I was in shock, dd was extremely poorly, but it bothered me for a long time. Having said that I could never have officially changed her name, and now it just seems right.
ParadiseMoresThePity Thu 04-Oct-12 22:12:40
I know a couple who did that, baby was about 9 months at the time I think. I don't think its a big deal. Its odd in the sense that you don't hear about it happening very often but I don't think its weird in itself. Baby will soon get used to their new name, afterall babies get used to be called by a nickname instead of their proper name don't they?
bumperella Thu 04-Oct-12 22:13:35
I don't think it's odd, but it's defintiely unusual. I guess better now than later.
Salmotrutta Thu 04-Oct-12 22:24:33
MeFour - sorry to de-rail the thread but why were you unable to get your DS's name right?
Is your DH from another country and your DS has a non-UK name ... or something?
I'm obviously nosey - so no offence intended! grin
perfectstorm Thu 04-Oct-12 22:28:16
I think it'd be a lot weirder to change it once the child was old enough to know/care. I sort of sympathise with them - they have to live with that name forever, and so does the child. If they are de-kooking, then maybe it's a good thing? (Depending on whether we're talking Alina or Apple degrees of unusual.)
cerealqueen Thu 04-Oct-12 22:28:33
NCT - National Childbirth Trust who provide birthing classes though most peope go to them to meet other mums who will be having babies at the same time, a ready made social circle to talk all things baby with.
Thanks cerealqueen, never heard of those!
OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos Thu 04-Oct-12 22:41:40
And you have to tell us the name.
OhMyGolly Thu 04-Oct-12 22:49:06
YABU, better to change it than live with a name you don't like for the rest of your life.
MeFour Thu 04-Oct-12 22:49:44
Salmotrutta - I had thought of him as a certain name from when I knew I was pregnant and for some reason couldn't get it out of my head. No reasonable explanation grin
Tryingtothinkofnewsnazzyname Thu 04-Oct-12 22:52:00
Better earlier than later.
OhMyGolly Thu 04-Oct-12 22:54:42
The only one I would have changed is dd's, I blurted it out whilst still on the operating table and it stuck. Others were fine, ds2's was actually decided on the way to register him.
BlueSkySinking Thu 04-Oct-12 23:31:05
At 10 months she can do it on the birth certificate if she makes an appointment with the registrar. I really can't see the problem with name changing so young.
JockTamsonsBairns Thu 04-Oct-12 23:46:01
I've known two couples who have done this, and I did think it odd at the time.
However, I chose what I thought was a lovely Scottish name for Dd2 (I'm a Scot living in the SouthEast), and reckoned it would be unusual down here. No. Every play park / softplay / toddler group I've been at has at least a couple of other girls by the same name. I did seriously consider changing it when she was about 8 months old, but she suits it and we've got used to it - and it would have felt odd trying to get used to something else. I still sort of wish I'd chosen a different name in the first place though.
musicposy Fri 05-Oct-12 00:01:12
I wish we'd done this at 6 months.
We called DD2 shortversion of her name from the start. DH wanted her to have longversion on birth certificate, something I was unsure of and he later regretted.
Yes, you can be "known as" and that's what we did for some years. Mainly we just told people her name was shortversion and that was that. But it's still problematical, with teachers who insisted on calling her longversion, passports where "known as" is just not good enough, doctors and dentists who repeatedly ignored requests to call her shortversion.
By the age of 12 (and way before) she was very clear she didn't want longversion at all. Every time she told people her name they said "oooh, are you really a longversion?" she wanted to say no - because she didn't feel she was - but that wasn't truthful. We also got to the age where GCSEs, official certificates etc were on the horizon, and she was adamant she didn't want them saying longversion all her life.
So, at the age of 12, we changed it by deed poll. In theory she is still a minor so the only people who had to agree to it were DH and me, but we wouldn't have done it without being led by her. Since doing it she has been so happy with her name. She feels shortversion is really hers now. When people ask if her real name is longversion, she says no and smiles smile
YAB a bit U. They could be saving the child a lot of angst. If parents regret and dislike a name, that will rub off on the child. Besides, the child can always change it back in later years.
bissydissy Fri 05-Oct-12 04:22:42
Jock I bet your daughter has the same name as mine. We were living in England and thought we were mega original; only to return to Scotland to realise everyone is called the same name. I'm quite dissapointed but do feel it's her name now.
Proudnscary Fri 05-Oct-12 05:30:21
Yabu - sooo none of your beeswax. Good idea to do before first birthday.
Proudnscary Fri 05-Oct-12 05:31:03
bissy - what's the name..Isla? Maisie? Iona? <nosy>
SomersetONeil Fri 05-Oct-12 06:23:40
This is one of those situations where it's weird when it's a real-life situation, but if you were reading about on here happening to someone else, you'd probably think it was a perfectly normal, acceptable thing to do.
I have to admit that although this seems like a perfectly acceptable thing to do in theory, if I actually knew someone thinking of doing this IRL I'd probably quietly think they were a tiny bit bonkers. wink
ButtonBoo Fri 05-Oct-12 09:08:55
Figured I probably have outed myself anyway. It's Peggy. I thought it was quite retro/cute but they want to change to something 'safer'
Yes, i agree better now than later but it's not like they're changing it because she doesn't like it. She's 10mo! What if they change it and she ends up hating her new name and preferring her original name. A change back I guess?!
Coming around to thinking it's not 'wrong' just odd.
perfectstorm Fri 05-Oct-12 16:14:57
It's the sort of name that could annoy more, once it began to, though. I think it's sensible to change it tbh, not odd. I think it's cute and retro, but that can translate to gimmicky and dated in another decade, and then it really would be hard to alter.
quietlysuggests Fri 05-Oct-12 16:25:34
Peggy is lovely
But also musicposy I love you
I called my dd the short version ofthe name but really felt that I should put down a long version of her name. Not that I ever thought of her as any of the long versions, its just something that I thought of.
But my DH was adament that since her name is what it is then putting down a long version of it that we have no intention of ever using is silly/inconvenient/redundant/confusing
So I am delighted to read your post, maybe its time to stop doubting our decision.
(And I do love the short name and never think of it needing a long name, I was just worried by all the threads here about ooh what if shes ever a barrister/marrying a princess...)
nickeldaisical Fri 05-Oct-12 16:41:39
It's plain wrong because you don't need deed poll.
the law is that you can change a child's name in the first 2 months and change the birth certificate (but not the surname)
the easiest way to do it is by baptism.
nickeldaisical Fri 05-Oct-12 16:43:10
nickeldaisical Fri 05-Oct-12 16:57:50
i missed the 1 off 12.
12 months
musicposy - you didn't need deedpoll if you're UK. as long as you can prove that she goes by shortversion then that's all you need to change her name - even the passport office only needs to know what her proper (ie the name she uses) name is.
Sockreturningpixie Fri 05-Oct-12 17:17:51
i thought you could only change the name on birth cert if the child had been christened using a different name if that was not the case it was a deed poll.
ofcourse i could have made that up
JamieandtheMagicTorch Fri 05-Oct-12 17:19:44
Oooh I love Peggy. But I'd use Margaret as the given name.
JamieandtheMagicTorch Fri 05-Oct-12 17:22:37
I think if you really hate the long version of a name, then don't put it down. But if you don't mind it, but prefer the short version, put the long version down.
perceptionreality Fri 05-Oct-12 17:25:04
yabu - none of your business.
musicposy Fri 05-Oct-12 18:01:08
You see, we were in this position. I still think longversion of DD's name is a nice name. But at the end of the day, she hated it. I think that was just probably because we never called her it. Plus, the older she became, the more shortversion suited her and the more I really liked it. Longversion would not suit her at all now.
quietlysuggests we struggled with the barrister thing, like you! We thought she ought to have a proper, grown up name she could use if she ever wanted to become anything serious. Your DH is right, it just became confusing and inconvenient. Your DD can always change it if she ever wants to be a barrister and feels her name doesn't suit her profession! smile
I didn't know we didn't need a deed poll - we came up against enough hassle over the years to suggest it would be useful. Plus we were quite lucky, one of my best friends is a solicitor so it cost us the grand total of £0 grin
musicposy Fri 05-Oct-12 18:04:13
Passport office did say they needed a deed poll, by the way, plus a letter of consent to the name change signed by both parents. Of course, we could have spoken another day and got another story, who knows! But one of the overriding factors for us was that last passport they said they could not issue it in her known as name, it had to be her birth certificate name. She was determined that this time round it would be in her proper shortversion name!
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perfectstorm Fri 05-Oct-12 16:14:57
Yes yes yes it could. They're making the right call (sorry if there are any Peggys on here....!)
Flojo1979 Sat 06-Oct-12 10:14:50
I don't get people who name their baby when he/she arrives, 'to see what they look like'.
You have 9 months to choose a name! I picked a name for DD shortly after 5 month scan when I found out what I was having, used it on bump for a couple of months and decided I didn't like it.
jock and bissy we had the same with DD's name, not Scottish but a pretty yet grown up, classic name which works in most languages (family from several countries/ languages), also unusual in the sense of not much used in the UK but not weird. We moved to Germany when she was 1.5 - her name might as well be "small girl child" - there are 4 little girls with the same name on our road, 2 in her class of 25 at school... I wished I'd called her by a longer name which her name is the first part of, but felt it was too late to change as she knew her name and it was "her" by that point... It's still not widely used in the UK though... We did the opposite with DC 3 and gave him an English name - he's unusual here but common in the UK hmm
gymboywalton Sat 06-Oct-12 10:29:26
i think people spend toomuch time trying to find a name that is unique or quirky and they forget about the realities of living with a quirky name. So once the baby is born and every other person you meet is doing a double take when they hear your baby's name, it doesn't feel good.
you should always remember that it's not the name that make s a child unique, it's the child themselves.
nickeldaisical Sat 06-Oct-12 10:42:06
music - i suppose it's because children don't have a proper papertrail like adults do - we've got letters and bank statements and loads of other things that we can use to prove that we go as.... but children don't.
gymboy that's true - but there is a middle ground between unique and quirky (which I agree can be hard to live with as the individual "blessed" with a name that it often feels the parents gave to prove how unique and unconventional or special they are as parents rather than really being about the child living their life, going to school, getting a job, meeting new peers as a potentially awkward teen etc.with that name) and having the same name as somebody else in almost every group situation they ever find themselves in - my 7 year old veers between having fun with being one of 2 or 3 or 4 with her first name in every class/ friendship group/ sports club/ playground etc. and hating it - she tried to use her middle name for a bit but didn't like that people pronounce it differently (fairly ordinary name pronounced differently in different languages) here and also at then aged 6, having known almost everyone she sees day to day for at least 3 years, she couldn't really make calling her a new name catch on, so she reverted back to being XXXX surname all the time...
bissydissy Sun 07-Oct-12 05:03:28
I agree Englishwoman i really wanted a less common but not quirky name (like my own) as I have always really enjoyed being the only person I know (besidest my gran) with my name.
FamiliesShareGerms Sun 07-Oct-12 05:15:09
OP, I'm going to go against the grain here and agree with you that I think it's weird to completely change a ten month old's name. they will already recognise their name, so I really hope that the parents have already been using a nickname or the name that they will change to for some time, or that the name change is quite subtle, rather than a radical change overnight.
foreverondiet Sun 07-Oct-12 07:58:27
Before 1st birthday you can just change it. Not odd and none of your business. We have always given babies loads of nicknames at that age can't see why makes a difference. I know several people who have announced name is "x" and then 2nd announcement a few weeks later that its now "y".
SoleSource Sun 07-Oct-12 09:58:46
You are BU and odd to ne upset about a persons decision that does not harm another soul.
People make choices, shame you cannot wiyhout feeling worried what othets think.
dysfunctionalme Sun 07-Oct-12 11:07:44
Hi, I run a school and several children a year have their names changed so not weird at all.
PedanticPanda Sun 07-Oct-12 11:14:54
I know a couple who did this, they thought the name was unique but a few months later went online to check and seen it was very popular so changed it. The way I see it as it was their choice, nothing to do with me. Yabu.
Arabellasmella Sun 07-Oct-12 11:25:20
We changed our son's name at 6 months. You can do it with the registrar as long as they haven't been baptised. If they have then you can't.
Our son in called Barney. When he was born a friend asked me if it was short for Barnaby and I decided (on a whim) (I was heavily medicated at this point) that it would be a good idea to have a posh official name for him. But I started to hate it when people called him it, it just didn't suit him or us. So we changed it. He's now 10 and happy to be Barney.
ModernToss Sun 07-Oct-12 11:35:19
I am in the same boat as musicposy, except that we never did anything about it. My son has always been known as short version and we never ever intended him to be known as long version (which is actually a different name). However my MIL went with DH to register the name, and insisted on long version (par for the course for her). Consequently for all official purposes he is known by a name he doesn't even answer to.
I wish we'd changed it.
ButtonBoo Mon 08-Oct-12 07:10:39
I think going from long to short versions is different although i understand some don't like long version and never want it mentioned/written in official docs etc. This is (as far as I can tell) going to be a complete change.
And I understand a name change more if it's after a few weeks or in the early months. Just at 10mo it made me a bit hmm
Still...I've been told IAU so I'll accept it. Not too proud to say when I'm wrong!!!
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Mobilization, harvesting and selection of peripheral blood stem cells in patients with autoimmune diseases undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
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Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) were mobilized in 130 patients with autoimmune diseases undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation using cyclophosphamide 2 g/m(2) and either granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) 5 mcg/kg/day (for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, SPMS) or G-CSF 10 mcg/kg/day (for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), Crohn's disease (CD), systemic sclerosis (SSc), and other immune-mediated disorders). Mobilization-related mortality was 0.8% (one of 130) secondary to infection. Circulating peripheral blood (PB) CD34(+) cells/microl differed significantly by disease. Collected CD34(+) cells/kg/apheresis and overall collection efficiency was significantly better using Spectra apheresis device compared to the Fenwall CS3000 instrument. Patients with SLE and RRMS achieved the lowest and the highest CD34(+) cell yields, respectively. Ex vivo CD34(+) cell selection employing Isolex 300iv2.5 apparatus was significantly more efficient compared to CEPRATE CS device. Circulating PB CD34(+) cells/microl correlated positively with initial CD34(+) cells/kg/apheresis and enriched product CD34(+) cells/kg. Mean WBC and platelet engraftment (ANC>0.5 x 10(9)/l and platelet count >20 x 10(9)/l) occurred on days 9 and 11, respectively. Infused CD34(+) cell/kg dose showed significant direct correlation with faster white blood cell (WBC) and platelet engraftment. When adjusted for CD34(+) cell/kg dose, patients treated with a myeloablative regimen had significantly slower WBC and platelet recovery compared to non-myeloablative regimens.
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Drug-induced anaphylaxis remains a relatively infrequent event. However, penicillin and associated beta-lactam antibiotics remain a primary cause of anaphylaxis. Penicillin allergies are undoubtedly overreported, and patients with suspected penicillin allergy can be treated with antibiotic alternatives. Penicillin allergy skin testing is a simple and effective way to identify true penicillin allergy. Skin testing involves testing for both major and minor determinants and should be conducted in a facility with available life-support equipment. The commercial major determinant product, benzylpenicilloyl-polylysine, was removed from the market in 2004; this action compromised the ability of clinicians to evaluate a patient's likely response to penicillin therapy. Alternatives to skin testing include laboratory synthesis of major determinants, use of the radioallergosorbent test (RAST), or a combination of RAST and minor determinant skin testing. Patients with suspected penicillin allergy can undergo desensitization if they require penicillin therapy. The planned return of a commercial major determinant will hopefully resolve this issue.
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1. Habitat destruction and increasing land use intensity result in habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, and subsequently in the loss of species diversity. The fact that these factors are often highly confounded makes disentangling their effects extremely difficult, if not impossible, and their relative impact on species loss is mostly speculative. 2. In a two-year study, we analysed the relative importance of changed landscape composition (increased areas of cropped habitats), reduced habitat connectivity and reduced habitat quality on nest colonization of cavity-nesting bees, wasps and their parasitoids. We selected 23 pairs of conventional and organic wheat fields in the centre of landscape circles (500 m radius) differing in edge densities (landscape configuration) and % non-crop habitats (landscape composition). Standardized trap nests were established in the field centres and in neighbouring permanent fallow strips (making a total of 92 nesting sites). 3. Factors at all three scales affected nest colonization. While bees were enhanced by high proportions of non-crop habitat in the landscape, wasps profited from high edge densities, supporting our hypothesis that wasps are enhanced by connecting corridors. Colonization of herbivore-predating wasps was lower in field centres than in fallow strips for conventional sites, but not for organic sites, indicating a fallow-like connectivity value of organic fields. The relative importance of habitat type and farming system varied among functional groups suggesting that their perception of crop-non-crop boundaries or the availability of their food resources differed. 4. Local and landscape effects on parasitoids were mainly mediated by their hosts. Parasitism rates were marginally affected by local factors. A specialist parasitoid was more sensitive to high land use intensity than its host, whereas generalist parasitoids were less sensitive. 5. We conclude that the conversion of cropland into non-crop habitat may not be a sufficiently successful strategy to enhance wasps or other species that suffer more from isolation than from habitat loss. Interestingly, habitat connectivity appeared to be enhanced by both higher edge densities and by organic field management. Thus, we conclude that high proportions of conventionally managed and large crop fields threaten pollination and biological control services at a landscape scale.
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0.119511 | <urn:uuid:a5c63f57-367a-4e18-aa91-ed56ec9a92f7> | en | 0.961499 | John Pilger: Barack Obama, Julian Assange and the smearing of a revolution
This Kafka-style justice awaits Assange whether or not Sweden decides to prosecute him. Last December, the Independent disclosed that the US and Sweden had already started talks on his extradition. At the same time, a secret grand jury - a relic of the 18th century long abandoned in this country - has convened just across the river from Washington, in a corner of Virginia that is home to the CIA and most of America's national security establishment. The grand jury is a "fix", a leading legal expert told me: reminiscent of the all-white juries in the South that convicted black people by rote. A sealed indictment is believed to exist.
Under the US constitution, which guarantees free speech, Assange should be protected, in theory. When he was running for president, Obama said that "whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal". His embrace of George W Bush's "war on terror" has changed all that. Obama has pursued more whistleblowers than any of his predecessors. The problem for his administration in "getting" Assange is that military investigators have found no collusion or contact between him and Manning. There is no crime, so one has to be concocted, probably in line with Vice-President Joe Biden's absurd description of Assange as a "hi-tech terrorist".
Petty and perfidious
Should Assange win his high court appeal, he could face extradition directly to the US. In the past, US officials have synchronised extradition warrants with the conclusion of a pending case. Like their predatory military, US jurisdiction recognises few boundaries. As Manning's suffering demonstrates, together with the recently executed Troy Davis and the forgotten inmates of Guantanamo, much of the US criminal justice system is corrupt.
Given the extent of the public discussion, frequently on the basis of entirely false assumptions . . . it is very hard to attempt to preserve for him any presumption of innocence. Mr Assange has now hanging over him not one but two Damocles swords, of potential extradition to two different jurisdictions in turn for two different alleged crimes, neither of which are crimes in his own country, and . . . his personal safety has become at risk in circumstances that are highly politically charged.
These facts, and the prospect of a grotesque miscarriage of justice, have been drowned in a vituperative campaign against the WikiLeaks founder. Deeply personal, petty, perfidious and inhuman attacks have been aimed at a man not charged with any crime, yet held isolated and under house arrest - conditions not even meted out to a defendant who is facing extradition on a charge of murdering his wife.
Books have been published, film deals struck and media careers launched or kick-started on the assumption that Assange is too poor to sue. People have made money, often big money, while WikiLeaks has struggled to survive. On 16 June, when Assange asked Jamie Byng, the publisher of Canongate Books, for an assurance that the rumoured unauthorised publication of his autobiography was not true, Byng said: "No, absolutely not. That is not the position . . . Julian, do not worry. My absolute number one desire is to publish a great book which you are happy with." On 22 September, Canongate released what it called Assange's "unauthorised autobiography" without the author's permission or knowledge. It was a first draft of an incomplete, uncorrected manuscript. "They thought I was going to prison, and that would have inconvenienced them," he told me. "It's as if I am now a commodity that presents an incentive to any opportunist."
The editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, has called the WikiLeaks disclosures "one of the greatest journalistic scoops of the last 30 years": indeed, this is part of his new marketing promotion to justify raising the Guardian's cover price. But the scoop belongs to Assange, not the Guardian. Compare the paper's attitude towards Assange with the bold support for its reporter threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act for exposing the iniquities of Hackgate. Editorials and front pages have carried stirring messages of solidarity from even Murdoch's Sunday Times. On 29 September, Carl Bernstein was flown to London to compare all this with his Watergate triumph. Alas, the iconic fellow was not entirely on-message. "It's important not to be unfair to Murdoch," Bernstein said, because "he's the most far-seeing media entrepreneur of
It makes a telling contrast with the treatment of a genuine pioneer of a revolution in journalism, who dared take on rampant America, providing truth about how great power works. A drip-feed of hostility runs through the Guardian, making it difficult for readers to interpret the WikiLeaks phenomenon and to assume other than the worst about its founder.
David Leigh, the Guardian's "investigations editor", told journalism students at City University that Assange was a "Frankenstein monster" who "didn't used to wash very often" and was "quite deranged". When a puzzled student asked why he said that, Leigh replied: "Because he doesn't understand the parameters of conventional journalism. He and his circle have a profound contempt for what they call the mainstream media." According to Leigh, these "parameters" were exemplified by Bill Keller when, as editor of the New York Times, he co-published the WikiLeaks disclosures with the Guardian. Keller, said Leigh, was "a seriously thoughtful person in journalism" who had to deal with "some sort of dirty, flaky hacker from Melbourne". Last November, the "seriously thoughtful" Keller boasted to the BBC that he had taken all WikiLeaks's war logs to the White House so that the government could approve and edit them. In the run-up to the Iraq war, the New York Times published a series of now notorious CIA-inspired claims that weapons of mass destruction existed. Such are the "parameters" that have made so many people cynical about the so-called mainstream media.
Chain reaction
Leigh went as far as to mock the danger that, once extradited to America, Assange would end up wearing "an orange jumpsuit". These were things "he and his lawyer are saying in order to feed his paranoia". The "paranoia" is shared by the European Court of Human Rights, which has frozen "national security" extraditions from the UK to the US because the extreme isolation and long sentences that defendants can expect amount to torture.
I asked Leigh why he and the Guardian had adopted a consistently hostile tone towards Assange since they had parted company. He replied, "Where you, tendentiously, claim to detect a 'hostile tone' , others might merely see well-informed objectivity."
It is difficult to find well-informed objectivity in the Guardian's book on Assange, sold lucratively to Hollywood, in which Assange is described gratuitously as a "damaged personality" and "callous". In the book, Leigh revealed the secret password Assange had given the paper. The disclosure of this code, designed to protect a digital file containing the US embassy cables, set off a chain of events that led to the release of all the files. The Guardian denies "utterly" that it was responsible for the release. What then was the point of publishing the password?
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There is nobody in the United Kingdom with the balls to defend Julian Assange - you do everything to appease American barbarism - go to war in Iraq - Afghanistan - or wherever they lead and create disaster. Ask anyone in the UK why you are at war in Afghanistan - most people won't know where it is. Even less in America. The whole capitalistic system must be jettisoned.
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"On the facts alleged, no crime would have been committed in Britain."
Even if this were true (which it isn't) that isn't the test for extradition. Sweden has a respected and reliable legal system and on the facts there is a case for Assange to answer. The fact that you admire his achievements and/or politics is neither here nor there.
Since it is also dramatically easier to extradite Assange to the USA from the UK than from Sweden the idea that this is a US conspiracy is nonsense. As Pilger admits Assange could face immediate extradition to the US from London if he wins his case. This rape investigation will then only have delayed the US getting its hands on him.
Time for Pilger and the other conspiracy theorists to wrap a cold towel around their heads and let justice take its course. Assange may well be innocent of any wrongdoing. But that's for a Swedish court to decide.
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Brendan - your post is as crazy as Assange himself!
Julian Assange is a disgusting human being, and all his wilkileaking has achieved is to strengthen the US, not weaken it in any way...
He and his sordid hacking has done nothing to forward human rights or democracy or even freedon of information, but - of course - has fed his rampant ego, self-importance and paranoid martyrdom, which is why the Guardian belatedly woke up to the truth about this charlatan, even if most of us could see it from the very beginning. I hope the Swedes get their hands on him soon...
And yes John, no surprise to see you defending this fake..I respected you for the fantastic journalism you did in East Timor, and in other places..but hitching yourself to Assange's falling star is a grave mistake!
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Some excellent points nowhere else to be found, but what about the main issue: Assange attempting to use Wikileaks funds for his spiralling legal costs? Do his ideals for transparency stop at himself?
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Some videos from a big anti war demonstration against the Afghanistan war in London this weekend:
John Pilger - Civil disobedience is the only way now (very moving speech) -
Police confronted with the truth -
Tony Benn - War and Empire -
The Great British Police State - Downing Street -
Antiwar Rave - Trafalgar Square -
Report and pictures:
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it would appear that the real crime committed by Mr Assange is that WikiLeaks provided hard evidence that we do not live in democratic societies -- to a very large number of people.
think - given we're all human and share a single planet, why do 200+ 'nation states' need to spend more than $1,600,000,000,000 pa on 'defense'?
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There's a price to pay for everything mate. When someone kills Aussie troops by dragging them into a lie fight the chickens come home to roost and the roosters get angry. Tell Julian we're going to sort the Brits just like the criminals in the US are getting sorted, it's in play right now. Get some popcorn.
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Assange is a useful idiot.
Pilger is an idiot for supporting Castro and Chavez, two typically Dago thugs.
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And are not fed. Three words folks:
Occupy the World
We are nearly at the beginning.
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My God someone has released information without the author's permission or knowledge ... that's terrible! It shouldn't be allowed. People can't just leak information about things without the permission of the author. There will be a wiki revolution!
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For all that, dictionaries are fundamentally arbitrary. Someone has to make an editorial decision as to whether a given word is in fact a legitimate word with the language. Is sombrero an English word, or a Spanish one. Is degauss, to remove a magnetic field, a term of technical jargon or a formal member of the language. Is it theater or theatre? My teenage daughter talks about her and her friends being “random”, by which she means that she’s not easily categorizable to modern marketing efforts. Random, to me, is a stochastic definition that means that there is no readily discernable pattern dictating the results of a given function. While there is some commonality to both terms, they are not the same. Is my daughter’s definition of random valid? Is mine?
As I become more heavily involved with ontology and computational semantics, I find this distinction between the notion of a standard as being authoritative vs. the arbitrary nature of developing such standards both troubling and insightful. A standard, if it is well designed, is not something etched in stone; rather, it represents (in the best case) the ideal balance between internal integrity and the necessity of capturing complex (and often intangible) ideas in a world where the basis of authority is often remarkably flimsy.
Several years ago, when I was staying with my uncle in Washington, DC after graduating from college, I went by the Library of Congress (something that I did quite often that year) to check out some of the secondary libraries that are part of the library complex. Sitting at the computer catalog in the music and film library, close enough to the front desk to hear the conversations, I saw a very genteel lady come up to the librarian at the front desk.
“Excuse me,” she said, in a clipped British accent.
“Yes?” the librarian responded. “Can I help you?”
“Please. I’m trying to find the origin of the term ‘chorale’.”
“I can help you with that. Let me check the Oxford English Dictionary.”
“Oh, dear. You see that’s the problem, isn’t it?”
“Well, I’m from the Oxford English Dictionary …”
Who do the authorities go to when seeking meaning?
Ontologies are tricky things. The first part, defining the terminology inherent within an ontology, places a significant burden upon the professional ontologist (or even the well meaning amateur), because such ontologies must perforce describe conventions, rather than just terms. You are creating the terms of discussion, the set of primitives that make up the relevant language, whether that language is describing a workflow or, well, a chorale.
Yet beyond this initial stage comes the more complex process of defining the relationships between the various tokens or terms of the ontology. Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell attempted to do this with the intrinsic predicates of logic, in the years before Kurt Goedel dashed their hopes of ever completely defining mathematics irrevocably. No ontology can ever be complete, for there will always be predicates that exist which cannot in fact be stated within that ontology conclusively. This is the curse of the ontologist, the realization that there are in fact intrinsic limits to the ability of defining any language.
We, programmers and computational linguists, are the intellectual descendants of these three prodigies, tasked with the process of using language to drive computers and build models. Yet all too often I wonder whether we have, individually or collectively, lost track of the ultimate futility of what we are attempting to do, losing track of the Heisenbergian uncertainty associated with the process of “standardizing” the languages, human or computational, that all of our efforts are subject to.
Lately, one of the more interesting, and heretical, notions that I have been playing with is the idea that schemas not only can’t be considered to be canonical, but that thinking of schemas as being canonical can prove to be extraordinarily crippling to building complex applications. One of the things that XML does, more than any other language, is to provide a clearcut vehicle for separating the schema from the schema instance. In most computer languages, schema (also known as type, in this context) is inextricably woven together with the instance - the type acts as a formal template, and changing that type (through inheritance or other similar mechanisms) will also change the instance in a one to one relationship.
Yet with XML, the schema is not in fact intrinsically bound to the instance. For most people, this likely doesn’t make a big difference, but I think in fact that this decoupling of schema and instance is perhaps one of the most profound and important aspects of XML, because it recognizes that even definitions can be malleable.
Consider, for instance, one of the more troubling aspects of form design - the concept of dynamic enumerations. For instance, suppose that you have a particular field in your XML based invoice system that is meant to contain the access code for one branch of a company (say, for instance, Starbucks). Now, in any given city there are likely dozens of Starbucks, and the number seems to be increasingly daily. This is information that you cannot in fact encode within a normal XSD schema. You can describe the fact that a given store access code may have a particular pattern or you can create a pointer to a web service, but that pointer still requires that there be some explicit “defining” done beyond that which can be encoded in schema.
This is one of the difficulties inherent in model driven architecture (MDAs). It is rather fiendishly difficult to describe that model completely, because part of the nature of that model is that it may be both dynamic (dependent upon information that may be transitory in nature) and malleable (even static parts of the model may have relevancies that are difficult to encode within any one given schematic language). Up until now, this really hasn’t been that big of an issue - relational database models were considerably more static and self-constrained in terms of their schematic descriptions, and as such the type of MDAs possible from a relational database system were fairly limited.
However, with XSLT you introduce the notion of transformability - you can dynamically create schemas that in turn describe not only models but also possess the capability of displaying those models within a given context (such as XForms, XHTML, or SVG) that allow for the modification of the appropriate instances. This raises some tantalizing prospects - if you can generate your interfaces automatically from schemas, you can eliminate a lot of very expensive programming … and you can also handle the depiction of remarkably complex forms that can handle a great deal of interdependency.
I recently had a comment on a different blog post that the forms generated in this manner are visually uninteresting. Actually, though I find that while there is some validity in the criticism, this is perhaps not a reflection so much of the process (or concept) but rather derives from the fact that our understanding of what is meant by schema tends to be limited to that of static schemas. In point of fact, you can create extraordinarily interesting (and powerful) forms by recognizing that three additional points must apply:
1. An XML schema (in the most generic sense) is an attempt to model or describe an XML structure. So long as the schema does not in fact violate the validity of the schematic instance, it is a legitimate mechanism for providing one facet of a definition. I call this the Principle of Instance Dominance, because in this case what is most important in the XML world is not the schema, but the schema instance, in direct contravention to the way programming is usually done.
2. By dint of #1, any schema that provides a consistent definition of a given instance is as valid as any other schema, to the extent that a given instance may in fact have (potentially an infinite number of) multiple different schema types. This rather extraordinary statement means that schemas are a lot like bosons - you can stack multiple bosons in the same space without violating the laws of physics. I call this the Principle of Schematic Transience.
3. Finally, any given schema system implies that there is a mechanism for processing that particular schematic language that may similarly exist in parallel with other such mechanisms, and so long as the schematic languages used to validate the instances do not violate the validity of the instance within the context of other schemas on that instance, such processing is valid and legitimate. I call this the Principle of Validation Independence.
What does this mean in practice? It means that in order for model driven architecture to work, you may (indeed almost certainly will) need to extend the set of schemas beyond simply an XSD. For instance, the use of Schematron has for the most part been confined to its role as a validator, but in point of fact its not hard to see where the phase design and assertion/report mechanisms of Schematron can in fact become the basis for the integration of business logic within a forms based solution.
Similarly, I find it useful in creating MDA solutions where potential ambiguous situations (such as the identification of a containing element holding a collection of disparate containers and elements as a “tabset”) can radically simplify the process of letting the content itself drive the presentation, and the views so created are considerably more interesting (and can be done in far less time) than the equivalent architectures for hand-derived forms.
Of course this also raises the rather worrisome prospect that so much more work will be needed to specify the additional cloud of quasi-schemas (and their processors) that the resulting effort will far exceed designing the same piece manually. There is a certain degree of legitimacy in such concerns - the amount of effort involved in building such “generators” is not insignificant, and requires some fairly sophisticated XSLT skills. However, in most cases, what becomes critical in building such systems is to recognize that you have both semantic-bound and semantic-less processors at work, and the more you can move toward the latter, the greater the degree of reuse of your code.
A semantic-bound processor is one that needs to know something about the semantics inherent in the instance in order to perform some actions. A schematron “processor” is semantically bound - you are generally looking for specific named nodes in order to perform either an assertion or a report on the given object. However, the generator for a schematron is semantic-less (relative to the initial instance); it does not in fact need to know anything about the semantics of the instance, only the semantics of schematron itself. Similarly, a language that describes such things as the fact that certain elements should be treated as bags while others are either records or collections of records is semantically-bound, but the generator for processing these entities should be semantic-less - the generator should not know anything about the semantics of the instance.
The beauty of such semantic-less processing is that the tools for building the resultant generators will perforce be applicable to a large number of potential instances, regardless of their underlying semantics. This is the real power of such model driven processing … by working with information at a level where the semantics is irrelevant (by placing as much of the semantics into manipulatable schemas as you can) you are able to create very sophisticated applications regardless of the domain involved without having to become enmeshed in the minutae of scripting - not that the scripting isn’t there, but the scripting acts in an encapsulated fashion as a binding to provide behavior to elements in the declarative module, so doesn’t need to be exposed to the integrating developer.
Thus, by seeing a schema as a dynamic document, one constrained by the instances it describes but that is nonetheless quite malleable even given that, model driven architecture becomes viable. There is one last aspect of this that’s worth exploring - visual presentation. A CSS document is a form of schema, though this point is typically lost because people tend to view CSS as ultimately static and typically applied at the very end of the presentation pipeline.
However, CSS can also be generated from XSLT - and in many ways should be generated from XSLT in model driven applications. You can create reasonably sophisticated applications just knowing the general shape of the various elements in the schema (bag, collection, record, rich text, external list, and so forth). Yet if you assume the two stage transformation where you process the schema at the semantic-less level in order to generate an intermediate transformation that in turn is able to handle customization at the semantic-bound level, possibly with XForms or other bound-node technology, you can handle the relevant CSS generation where it differs from stock by treating it as a CSS schema at the second level of transformation, likely from some XML “style-page” source.
While this may seem like a lot of work to build this customization (such as placing form elements in a very tightly constrained grid that looks like a specific paper form) the important thing to remember here is that you would have done this work anyway. A well designed generative system should provide the relevant hooks for you to provide your own customizations, but the customizations, since they require human judgment and human aesthetics, still need to be done by a human being. By creating XML-based CSS “schemas”, you also gain the advantage of being able to automatically create visual interfaces for automating the task of creating the customization, as well as creating a mechanism for documenting the semantics so that a CSS programmer won’t have to try to guess what exactly “.thisDiv” meant in a five thousand line CSS document.
I’m hoping in the next couple of months to publish as an open source project that encapsulates these ideas. There are others who are playing in this arena as well (most notably Dan McCreary, a friend of mine and XML expert who has been doing some very nice things with schema driven development), and I find on my XForms.org site that others who are working with XForms are beginning to see the benefits of this approach as well. My hope (and intent) is to move us all past the point of being independent developers striking out in the darkness and pull us together into a cohesive movement, built around the principle that model driven (or more properly, schema driven) design is both viable and necessary, especially for large scale systems. If you find that the words I’ve written here resonate, please contact me.
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True, but these are not real entities, like phones, they are easily created and discarded magnetic fields. With the increase in modern processor speeds, surely we could spare a few extra cpu cycles, to make that happen to avoid the problem.
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Two things. First, it was stated very clearly from day one that the purpose of Perl 6 was to break backward compatibility in all the ways it needed breaking, so you should not be at all surprised ten years later that we're breaking backward compatibility.
Second, it is my belief (which may take twenty or thirty years to falsify but could be truified rather faster) that for every manager that does not use Perl 6 because it is not Perl 5, there will (eventually) be N managers who will use Perl 6 because it is not Perl 5, for some N greater than unity. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't have spent the last decade pouring my heart and soul into it.
As for whether Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages, that's kinda silly; every new version of Perl is a different language. The only question is how different, and the answer to that is never 0% or 100%. On this, as on most issues, I am a flaming moderate, and do not appreciate arguments that ignore one half of the truth or the other. I'd rather see the whole truth.
And the other half of this truth is that people who have actually programmed in Perl 6 tend to report that it still feels very much like Perl on some fundamental level, regardless of the various syntax and semantic tweaks we've made. So it really depends on the meaning of that fuzzy term "Perl". As a linguist, I'm quite content to let definitions be fuzzy like that. :-)
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So if you haven’t been hearing a lot about Chick-fil-A lately you probably live under a rock. :P
It is now known that Chick-fil-A holds a anti-gay stance and donates money to anti-gay organizations. Now I see a bunch of human equality protests starting up at Chick-fil-A’s which is awesome! I’ve seen a few protests joined in by animal rights activists as well too. I know peta2 and other animal rights organizations like Mercy for Animals openly support LGBT rights, there probably isn’t an animal rights organization that doesn’t as that doesn’t make sense. I know I myself would be proud to protest against Chick-fil-A for both human equality and animal rights!
So this is basically just a post to try and help get the ball rolling. As now is a great opportunity to protest against a company that is against both human equality and animal rights.
I see that PETA is having a a protest against Chick-fil-A in Los Angeles on August 1st
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@NicoleLynne I am sure that she could live without meat. The only nutrients that are vital to humans that are in meat is a not-very-healthy serving of protein and iron (soy material contains all the essential amino acids that humans cannot make themselves, being considered a “complete protein”), which can easily come from wheat, broccoli (one pound of broccoli has more protein than one pound of beef, and more iron too), spinach, soybeans, and many other green, leafy vegetables. There is no medical condition where someone absolutely has to eat meat, also there is no food allergies that pertain to someone only eating meat (they would die from high cholesterol, diabetes, and most likely heart cancer.). Drean’s family could be vegan if they wanted to I am sure, including the newborn, as a vegan diet is completely healthy during all stages of growth/development/adulthood. Not all vegans consume faux-meat, and there are plenty of homemade faux-meat recipes on PETA.org (I am pretty sure) and real meat is not very cheap right now either, nor is dairy products. The previous nutritional information came from my boyfriend who is studying agricultural sciences (minoring in nutrition, and he is also a vegan), so if you have any questions I would be happy to ask him for you. Good luck! :)
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Yeah but thats not all vegans eat they eat fake meat right….. thats what I’m saying that stuff aint cheap. I don’t care I know what I am talking like I said I see with my own eyes everyday esspecially where I live. & also I know a child that is allergic to certain foods and she can’t eat fruit drink soda, the dr tells her what to eat & meat has to be in her diet or she won’t have any choice of foods at all .
I’m not saying people can’t be vegan I am saying everyone can’t be. . .
& to @drean Can your whole family be vegan? Do you really think that would work out?? Is that newborn a vegan newborn?
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@SassyVegan Your support really does mean a lot, I have very dear Christian friends and in no way should Christians be synonymous with homophobes. Sadly, I have to agree with you that freedom is not free. (Which is why I guess we are here :D )
@drean I have so much respect for you right now. Your argument was very well written and thorough. I am honored to be a member of a community with amazing people like you!
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Can I get my two cents in? NicoleLynne, do you or do you not act like a couple when you date someone? When you obviously care about someone, it shows. Now, the feelings you get for guys when you like them is the same that we, as lesbians and gays, get for our significant others. It’s pretty saddening that there are still people who think this is all about some kind of lust thing and not that we have any kind of emotional investments with these people that we are in relationships with. Our relationships wouldn’t last for years and decades if it was simply about satiating lust.
Also, your view of how it is to be vegan and on food stamps is obviously showing your privilege. You aren’t on food stamps, so don’t assume you know what we can and cannot do. My family is on food stamps and we have four mouths to feed with a newborn baby to buy formula and such for. I can still fully well live vegan this way. I’m mostly vegan right now and my entire family eats meat.
Also, thousands of vegans live this way. Most countries that aren’t as “developed” as we are sustain themselves on a mainly vegetable based diet because it’s easier to produce and doesn’t cost as much money to raise and kill the animals. And saying it’s “a little under $100″ and saying that’s affordable, that’s showing how much money you have. Most people, when we’re on food stamps, barely have enough money to pay basic bills, let alone blow $50+ on a gun when we get food stamps. I agree with FAR in the fact that meat consumption is only acceptable when it’s absolutely necessary, like with Inuit tribes and those tribes in Africa/Aborriginals in Australia and what have you.
You’re also uneducated in a lot of aspects of the racism and sexism still going on in this country. Educate yourself before you start touting supposed “facts”. And no gay man or woman is the same. If I was to say that all people who believe in a higher power are terrorists waiting to happen, that would be a gross overgeneralization based on the actions of a few select people that are not a good representation of a larger group. Don’t be so closed minded. Please, for the sake of all humans.
That being said, PETA is Free for All. We need to change how people show compassion to other people while we work for the equal rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for animals. Does that mean that animals will suddenly become doctors? No. The pursuit of happiness means different things to different people, so why should the same be said of a different species of animal? When people finally start showing compassion to others of their species, they should then realize the horrors of what they do to animals and work to abolish that state of the world. You seem to have a skipped that step. Reevaluate how you look at the world. Because the same book of the bible that said man shouldn’t lie with man later said you could have slaves and had instructions on how to beat them, and I’m pretty sure you don’t follow that rule.
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@NicoleLynne No, you can live of fruits and vegetables. What do you think vegans are doing? Drinking moonbeams and ambrosia? Legumes (soy, etc.) are vegetables, just ftr. They don’t buy anything processed to go with their meat? Fruits, veggies, and soy milk, ftw!
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A common question among dog adopters is, "Why are adoption fees so high? Shouldn’t adopting a dog be free, or at least super cheap?" To these people I say, remember, you get what you pay for.
When you purchase a purebred from a dog breeder you may be paying anywhere from $500 to over $1,000 for your new puppy, but often that’s all you're getting for that cost. When you adopt a dog from a shelter, your adoption fees are going to pay towards the cost of care your adopted dog has received while at the shelter. Which is why adoption fees are often adjusted based on the age of the dog you're adopting. Here is a breakdown of what a good shelter has already put into your dog before you even adopt.
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The average cost for veterinary care varies greatly depending on your geographical location (city vs. country), the size of the dog requiring care, as well as the dog's overall picture of health and how it influences the complexity of treatments. That said, the average dog spay or neuter can range from $45-$175 for an animal shelter. However, this doesn’t include the cost of pain relief medication that the shelter will also be responsible for, which is another $10-$30 dollars. If you were to get your adopted dog spayed or neutered on your own it could cost you anywhere from $200-$500 plus, depending on said variables.
The cost of intake vaccinations for dogs to prevent Distemper, Parvo, Kennel Cough, and rabies can cost approximately $40 for the animal shelter — if not more. If your adopted dog has been in the shelter for a few months it has most likely received a monthly booster to keep it safe from shelter related illness. If you were to pay for these vaccinations yourself you could be paying anywhere from $20-$150 dollars
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Monthly flea tick and ear mite treatments as well as heartworm preventives for dogs are another monthly cost for animal shelters. De-wormer medications are often given preventatively as oppose to waiting to see evidence of worms. These treatments can cost approximately $10-$30 assuming that no labs are need. Lyme disease and heartworm tests are also another cost the shelter will incur to ensure that your dog is in good health. If a dog tests positive, Lyme disease treatment can cost anywhere from $20-$100 depending on the size of the dog. However, if a dog needs to be treated for heartworms the treatment can be extremely costly, and on average it’s at least $1,000 if you were to pay for it yourself.
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How can we survive through all this violence, the city streets we live in, have no silence, the only thing you hear is gun shots and police sirens, tell me, when will it all cease, how many dead bodies is it going to take for us to stop, or will they finally stop, when everybody is deceased, then they wonder why the world has no peace, this world is so crazy, I'm just waiting for all of this to end, we need to demolish this violence, if not, how can we survive
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today eye remember eating real food it is nostalgia
they dont make it like they used too
it is not the same
dough is not lard enough
meat is more green
limits imposed by rules add flavor to the mixed fruit and veggies
postal employees use spam to make dinner
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For the last 4 1/2 years, the Bush administration has continually begged Taiwan to purchase a special $18 billion package of weapons designed to help defend against the threat from China. Due mostly to relentless obstructionism on the part of the opposition pan-Blue coalition, Taiwan has failed to pass this special budget. If the United States fails to seriously pressure Taiwan - in the form of diplomatic "sticks" - Taiwan will continue to balk, emboldening China and endangering the security of both Taiwan and the United States.
Taiwan faces arguably the most precarious security environment in the world. It sits roughly 100 miles away from the behemoth People's Republic of China, which is aiming a considerable campaign of military modernization directly at tiny Taiwan. In the face of this dire threat, Taiwan has displayed a stunning neglect of its own defense, and not just in terms of its refusal to pass the special budget. Over the last five years, Taiwan's overall defense spending has dropped roughly 25 percent, to an anemic 2.4 percent of gross domestic product.
The reason it has the luxury to do so, according to Taiwan expert James Mulvenon, is Taiwan's belief in a "blank check of military support from the United States."
Unfortunately, the Bush administration has not convinced Taiwan it does not have a blank check from the United States. By refusing to put adequate force behind the negotiations over the special budget, the administration has conveyed it is prepared to endure indefinite Taiwanese procrastination. Without more serious U.S. pressure, Taiwan's government may continue to de-emphasizing defense spending, even as it greatly increases its social spending.
The administration seems to be turning up the heat. Edward Ross, a senior Pentagon official, gave Taiwan a stern warning last week. Mr. Ross told Taiwanese defense officials at a meeting in San Diego that, "We cannot help defend you if you cannot defend yourself." While that was a helpful measure, there are a number of additional tactics the administration could use if Taiwan continues to refuse the special budget.
For example, in April 2001 President Bush promised to do "whatever it takes to help Taiwan defend itself." What the Taiwanese seem to have heard was "whatever it takes to defend Taiwan." The president should clarify what his remarks meant in the context of the stalled special budget.
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 2 points3 points ago
The shriner on the top left seems like a cool guy.
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 1 point2 points ago
'sup, I just so happen to be studying for my history of film final at the moment.
The move of American film making from the east coast to Hollywood was indeed motivated partly by the diverse landscape. Other major influences were year-round stable weather, proximity to the Mexican border, low taxes, cheap land, plentiful labor, and the fact that it was at the geometric opposite side of the country from the powerful Motion Pictures Patent Company.
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 31 points32 points ago
Except that one time.
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 3 points4 points ago
1. I am not attributing IQ to ethnicity, or anything of the sort. Multiple explanations have been proposed for ashkenazic intelligence, many of them non-genetic. I am merely pointing out a well-established correlation.
2. Slippery slope argument is a slippery slope argument. Observing an interesting quirk of statistics is not the same as making an argument for eugenics, which I do not and never will support.
EDIT: For further reading: the same article from above, which you may have missed.
[–]Lynx_Rufus 18 points19 points ago
'Sup, Ashkenazi here:
The ethnic jews of the world can be roughly divided into four groups, two (?) of which appear in ckII:
The two largest groups are the Ashkenazim and Sephardim, who come from Northern/Eastern Europe and Iberia respectively.
The difference is easy to understand if you consider the etymology of the terms. "Ashkenaz" means "Germany" in medeival Hebrew, while "Sefarad" means "Iberia."
The other two groups are the Mizrahim, Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, and a rough "other" category for the hodgepodge of Jewish populations from other areas, most notably Ethiopia, India, and the Caucuses.
The vast majority of today's Jews are Ashkenazic. When a person is said to "look Jewish," what that really means is that he or she looks Ashkenazic. The Ashkenazim as a people have a number of interesting features, including endemic heritable conditions such as Tay-Sachs and a markedly high average IQ.
Sephardim typically look very similar to gentile Iberians, and cannot usually be identified by sight. Similarly, Mizrahim generally resemble Arabs. For complicated cultural reasons, Mizrahim are sometimes considered a subgroup of Sephardim.
Hope this helps.
Further reading/sources:
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 4 points5 points ago
...except that, unlike "tradition medicine" bullshit, animal research in a scientific context has saved and improved innumerable human lives.
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 13 points14 points ago
From the files of Seaborn Grit, Detective:
It was the coldest February I ever knew, and it was only October.
I'd taken the day off with a beautiful girl. She was born somewhere in Kentucky but grew up in a cask on west 73rd street. When we first met, she was wearing a glass dress decorated with a 160 proof label, but I got her out of it pretty fast. We were just getting to know one another when I got a call from the Generalissimo.
The Generalissimo made commissioner with his pacifier in one hand and his father's golf bag in the other. Men called him careless, petty, and corrupt, but at least he was incompetent. I braced myself for a charming conversation as I reached for the horn.
"Seaborn? Seaborn!"
The Generalissimo always felt compelled to clarify who he was talking to, in case the rooskies had tapped the line.
"Listen Seaborn, we got you a new dog."
"Don't want one."
"Well, you've got one."
He hung up. The Generalissimo was just as scintillating a conversationalist as he was a qualified officer.
The NYPD being the efficient, well-oiled machine it is, it only took me a week to actually get the animal. I went to the kennel expecting a half-trained puppy or a determined graduate, real Rin-Tin-Tin stuff. Instead, they gave me a mortadella with feet.
I left the kennel with Darling on a leash. Darling was a police dog, technically. For the past ten years, she had been the departments mascot every time we needed to give someone the warm and fuzzies. Darling had lost a paw on one of her first few days on the job, and spent the rest of her life being pointless around the office. Now that she was officially retired, dumping her on me was probably the Generalissimo's idea of a joke. Real stand-up act, that guy.
On our return to the pomp and splendor or Casa-Grit, I put down some newspaper in the corner. I figured anything she might put on it would easily outclass whatever the Post was trotting out.
Darling looked at me like a bartender realizing I wasn't going to tip.
"There's your bed. Continental breakfast is at 7:30. Try to ignore any squeaking sounds from the neighbors."
She looked at me.
"What, you need water? Food? A Walk?"
It was probably a walk.
Darling reacted to everything as if she didn't know she was old, and crippled, and useless. She strained at other dogs every time we passed, like she didn't know she would lose the fight. She watched cats like she didn't know she could never catch them.
"You know, you can't do much."
She remained silent. She tended to do that.
"You know, we've got an expression: dog-eat-dog. You know what that expression means?"
Darling pissed on a fallen brick.
"It means the world. No one says a "dog-eat-dog day" or a "dog-eat-dog person," or a "dog-eat-dog hat." It's the only expression that we only use for the whole world. And you know what it means to say? It means that every one of us is going to be a sonofabitch nine times out of ten. You probably gave us our best turn of phrase."
Darling didn't listen. Weeks later, she only seemed to hear "Darling" and "food" and "walk."
I'm spending less time in the office now. It's a real wrench: I have to soak a sock in my coffee pot just to simulate that flavor. Darling's doing alright, though she still doesn't seem to know how bad she has it. She doesn't know that this is a dog-eat-dog world, or that it was because of crippled, useless old dogs that we needed that expression. Hell, half the time, she doesn't know that she can't fetch worth a damn. I'm taking her to the park most days, maybe she'll figure it out.
I haven't been seeing the girl from Kentucky, I've been too damn busy walking Darling around.
That dog doesn't know a thing about life.
Explain why invading the Earth is a bad idea like you are an alien and all you've seen about Earth is every episode of Star Trek and you can't figure out why you've never encountered a Klingon by [deleted]in explainlikeIAmA
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Open on a bar somewhere in the seedy part of the of the Gamma Quadrant. Kaldraak, a reptilianoid with an patch over his fourth eye and a bowie ultraknife in his boot is seated in the corner. He is approached by Gragga, a humanoid cyborg with definite touches of squid.
Gragga: I understand you can provide certain pieces of information to certain parties regarding certain invasions for a certain predetermined price.
Kaldraak: Yeah, and stop sayin' "certain." The going price is fifty credits, two hundred if the info is hot. Who ya tryin' to pick a fight with?
Gragga: Earth, Sol system, planet three. It's nothing beautiful, but it's got some solid natural resources. Maybe some slave labor, too. I figure if I can get two or three Centaurian mercenary bands-(Gragga is cut off as Kaldraak begins to laugh)
Kaldraak (to a waitress): 'Ey, toots, two jinintonigs. My friend is going to need a drink.
Kaldraak (refocousing on Gragga): Listen, kid. I deal in information, and I don't often give it away for free, but listen to me and do yourself a favor:
Gragga: What? That planet isn't even stage one yet! Four Vegan longships and an Arcturian galley and I could-
Kaldraak: No, you couldn't. Because Earth is no stage-0 planet.
Gragga: What do you mean?
Kaldraak: I have access to an extensive history of Earth covering the last few centuries. That planet is a space-faring, weapon-building, ass-kicking powerhouse that you do not want mad at you. You see, this is no lone-wolf species. Humans made themselves a cozy little alliance (they call themselves the Confederation or some shit).
Gragga: How can that be? We would have seen their ships.
Kaldraak: See, kid, that's where we see the difference between a military mind of historical significance such as my own and a garden variety mind such as yours. By exhaustive research of these historical records that fell off the back of an Arcturian Ultratruck, I have found the secret of Earth's isolation.
Gragga: Which is....?
Kaldraak: Though human sensors have clearly restricted the historical records, there are still some records of their first attempts at cloaking technology. Also, these records mention another empire right next door (Grabbers? Holdups? Klingers? Klingons! That was it!) that you won't find on any star map. There is only one explanation: At some point since the end of my records, these Klingons joined the Confederation, and, with their combined strength, cloaked the entire damn thing.
Gragga: An entire empire. They cloaked an entire empire.
Kaldraak: Yep. Anyone trying that hard to stay isolated isn't going to be friendly. At all.
Gragga: Well, the Moktars of the Periphery had some pretty good cloaks, and all it took was a-
Kaldraak: No. The answer is no. 'Cause this whole multicultural cloaked clusterspawn of an empire isn't even what makes this species dangerous. It's that they never. Stop. Learning. Seriously, their commanders are scholars half the time. You can kill them, you can fight them, but they'll learn everything about you and come right back. More'n likely absorb you too. I just fear the day they find out about us.
(The waitress returns with two glasses of a thick red fluid, smoking slightly)
Gragga (sipping his drink): Shit.
Kaldraak: Yeah.
(Long pause)
Gragga: Damn, man. Thanks for telling me.
Kaldraak: No problem kid. You've got guts and I like you, you just picked a bad target. 'Sides, I like to keep my customers alive. Now, if you were in the business for recon on an invasion less suicidal, there are a number of juicy outposts just outside the Byzantioid hub...
Explain a movie of your choice like you're Lieutenant Commander Data, and I'm a confused and irritated Worf. by RequiemEternalin explainlikeIAmA
[–]Lynx_Rufus 2 points3 points ago
Open on the Enterprise bridge, with the surface of a verdant green world dotted with marble ruins far below on the viewscreen.
Picard: Open hailing frequencies and broadcast greetings. We can't be sure how the natives will react.
Riker: Captain, this planet might not be an innocent as it looks. Isn't it possible that the Connachtian went down under fire instead on engine trouble?
Picard: That's always a possibility, Number One, but we cannot be sure. Until we have evidence of agression, we must treat this species like any other uncontacted civilization.
Troi: Captain, I do not believe the people of this planet attacked the Connachtian. I feel an almost overwhelming sense of peace and welcome from the surface. It feels almost... familiar.
Picard: Well, perhaps we can expect a warm welcome when we get to the sur... the sur... the surface (places hands on temples)."
Entire bridge crew except for Data and Worf stumble and fall prone on the floor, and the view screen flickers out. Worf Draws his phaser and drops into a defensive stance while Data grabs the Captian's wrist to take his pulse.
Worf (roaring): WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THEM?
Data (still examining prone bodies): They are apparently unhurt, Lieutenant. As far as I can tell, they are merely asleep.
Worf: Why were we not affected?
Data: I believe I may have a hypothesis. Computer, are we recieving any electromagnetic waves from the planet surface?
Computer: Affirmative.
Data: On screen.
The screen shows a pattern of regular sin waves
Data: Display typical beta waves of humanoid resting rhythm, and converge displays.
The waves are virtually identical.
Data: You will observe, Lieutenant, the striking similarities between these waves (Data pulls back Picard's eyelid, revealing his eye darting side-to-side underneath). It appears that whatever entity inhabits this planet has merely put the crew into a state of extreme Rapid Eye Movement sleep, likely inducing intense dreams. You and I were likely unaffected because I do not require rest and lack an analogous function, and the greater degree of hemispheric specialization in Klingon neurology precludes-
Worf (interrupting): This must be what happened to the Connachtian! We should prepare the ship to repel an attack!
Data: These data are consistent with certain procedures used for searching emotional memories. I think you will find, Lieutenant, that if we merely- (Data is interrupted by the viewscreen coming to life, showing a smooth, marble-like face reminiscent of a greek or roman statue)
Data: Greetings. I am Lieutenant Commander Data, of the Starship Enterprise. I must insist that you-
Worf: You are in direct aggression towards a starship of the United Federation of Planets. If you do not release our shipmates and relinquish the USS Connachtian immediately-
Data: Are we to understand that if we contribute to this vault, we will be freed along with our compatriots.
Entity: CORRECT.
Data: What do you require?
Worf: They require a cultural work! I have several holorecordings of Klingon operas...
Data: Perhaps, Lieutenant, it would be better to provide a work more representative the philosophy of the Federation. Computer, play data file 8294037byt73a.
The entity disappears from the screen, and is replaced with black-and-white footage of a crayon scribbling on a sheet of paper
Data (while the opening credits continue to play): To Kill a Mockinbird. Not a story of brutality or cruelty, or war or blood. A story of gentility and wisdom standing firm against the madness deep in the breast of evert sentient species.
Data: With respect, this work exemplifies much of our Federation's philosophy. In fact, it was granted Film of Interplanetary Significance status by the federation subcommittee on culture on stardate 4021-
Worf (turning off audio feed to planet): These aliens will not respect such a work! Give them Kraa'lak's Twelve Principles of Warfare, or T'Pana's Psychology of Defeat, or Sun Tsu's Art of War. If they know what we are capable of, they will release us immediately.
Data: You may be right, Lieutenant. However, I believe that I may have one more piece of evidence. If I fail, you may choose a work as you see fit.
Data turns the audio feed back on and addresses the screen
Data: When do civilizations typically produce works such as this?
Data: This film was made seven years before humanity even reached its immediate satellite. The source material dates back even earlier.
Worf (muttering): "not worthy..."
Data: I take it you will release us?
Data and Worf stand absolutely still for a moment, as if stunned. When they relax again, the bridge crew starts to revive around them.
Picard: What happened? Is everyone alright?
Data: I do not know, Captain. However, my internal chronograph indicates that several minutes have passed since we lost consciousness.
Troi: Look, the ruins are gone!
The planet surface now appears a bare desert, without the cities seen earlier.
Worf: Captian, The Connachtian is in orbit around the planet, apparently unharmed.
The Captian of the *Connachtian appears on the viewscreen, smiling perplexedly*
Connachtian: Hello, Enterprise! Where did you come from? Our crew seems to have been knocked out for a moment.
Picard: Check your clocks, Captain. You've been here at least two weeks.
Data: Captian, records show that a data file was transferred to the planet while we were unconscious... a film of early Earth called To Kill a Mockingbird.
Picard: To Kill a Mockinbird, eh? "You never really know a person... until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it." Perhaps someone was trying to learn about us.
Data: Indeed, Captian.
Picard: I believe our work here is done, if the Connachtian is out of distress. Number One, plot a course for Earth. We have a few days liberty coming up, and there is a library I must visit.
Riker: Course laid in.
Picard: Engage.
Flag of the fictional state of Grand Fenwick. by mrs_pontellierin vexillology
[–]Lynx_Rufus 0 points1 point ago
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a fictional, English-speaking micronation in the northern Alps, written about by Leonard Wibberly in his book The Mouse that Roared. The Mouse that Roared was at once a commentary on escalating cold-war tensions, nuclear fears, and, above all, the fate and role of tiny countries in a globalized world.
In the novel, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, under Duchess Gloriana XII finds itself in economic trouble, and sets about acquiring money from the West. After toying with the idea of propping up a phony communist party in order to get Marshall Plan money to quash it, the Duchy determines that the best way to make money is by losing a war with the United States (See Germany and Japan). The rest of the novel follows the American/Fenwickian war, and the various unforeseen consequences thereof. I recommend it highly.
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The minimum age changes by jurisdiction (US states, Canadian provinces, and other countries).
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[–]Lynx_Rufus 24 points25 points ago
Because that is a baby emu.
Ostriches have two toes.
Emus have three toes.
Source: I know my flightless birds.
Actual source:
Further reading:
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[–]tennantsmith 0 points1 point ago
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[–]tennantsmith 1 point2 points ago
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[–]tennantsmith -2 points-1 points ago
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I had an English teacher make us do this once. I wrote "A woman without, Herman is nothing." Presumably Herman is some sort of cross dresser or something.
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[–]tennantsmith 9 points10 points ago
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[–]tennantsmith 0 points1 point ago
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"But the database has been public for 27 days and we believe those who wanted to view it have done so already," Hasson said in a letter on the website. "As well, with the passage of time, the data will become outdated and inaccurate."
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HLM wrote:
Shame on this paper. How many of those owners were women? Stats show about 40% would be. How many were abused? Sadly those numbers are also quite high. Is it hard to think that out of those thousands of names and addresses that some were abused women who bought a gun to defend themselves and were trying to avoid stalkers or past abusers. Yet this woman publishes names and addresses without regard for whether that put other women at risk. We have read that guards at prisons had prisoners telling them where they lived because they were able to get friends to look up this information. This was a reckless newspaper who didn’t give due diligence to the issue and may have endangered the lives of others. Hypocrites.
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Murphy456 wrote:
One of the major objections to firearm registration is the inevitability of incidents like this. Can you imagine if this newspaper had published the whereabouts of every individual legally taking mood altering drugs such as anti-depressants, ADHD medication, or anti-psychotics? Newton was horrific, but I am much more terrified by all the people who refuse to, or are unable to, cope with the fact that we as humans have very little control over anyone but ourselves. Nature is indifferent to our plight so it is vital that we accept that the policies that could effectively keep us from harming ourselves or others are the very policies that destroy the freedoms that allow our individuality to blossom into something with the potential to help all humans. For those who did not grow up with firearms, in the absence of fond memories shooting with friends and family you are left with only media accounts of “gun violence.” You are ignorant to other side of the debate and speak from feelings not fact. Rectify your ignorance before trying to control the actions of others who were raised differently than yourselves and have not harmed anyone.
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Seabee267 wrote:
“the Journal News felt threatened enough by the outcry over the map to hire a private security company to protect its employees”.
Funny, the anti-gun management hires armed guards to protect their employee’s but they have issue’s with private citizen’s owning guns to provide their own defense.
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0.020888 | <urn:uuid:c911886f-03f9-4c65-8775-df04c81e6c67> | en | 0.949839 | Wellness programs and initiatives are evolving as employers realize healthier employees give them a competitive edge.
“It’s an issue of creating a high-performing, competitive work force,” says Nancy Pokorny, managing consultant with Findley Davies. “Currently, many companies hang their hat on being world-class safety organizations. They know that maintaining a safe work environment is good for business. As we move forward, companies will be known as ‘healthy organizations,’ too.”
Smart Business spoke with Pokorny about the evolution of wellness programs.
How have wellness programs evolved in recent years?
In the recent past, company HR leaders or benefits staffs initiated wellness programs, but now executive teams are driving strategic wellness initiatives. We prefer ‘wellness initiatives’ because programs tend to have a beginning and an end. Initiatives are much more strategic and imply that wellness is one component of the overall business strategy.
For example, a Fortune 500 Cleveland manufacturer underwent a global HR system implementation that required a year-long, intense work schedule for members of HR, IT and project management teams. Prior to launch, project team members gathered for wellness training. They were given free access to health management tools so that they could manage their health throughout the rigorous project. The focus was not on benefits cost reduction; it was on achieving peak performance.
Additionally, employers are integrating multiple initiatives, such as wellness, benefit plan design, health and safety, and onsite clinics to improve employee health. And research supports the interconnectivity of these various initiatives.
A National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. study shows a link between obesity and higher workers’ compensation costs, finding that obese injured workers received an average of 75 treatments for an injury versus an average of four treatments for those deemed to be nonobese.
What are the most important components of a wellness initiative?
There are three: leadership, permanent commitment to change and accountability. Let’s look at each one, starting with leadership. Too often, leaders provide verbal support, and maybe even financial support through the allocation of a wellness budget, but they have no real role in the initiative. The organization’s leaders and key influencers must have clearly stated roles, just as they would with a new sales, marketing or reorganization initiative.
Second, in order for wellness to become a permanent part of an organization’s culture, wellness should not be something you ‘do,’ it should become a part of who you are as an organization.
Research from Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab indicates we make approximately 200 decisions daily related to food alone. For the eight to 12 hours a day an employee is at work, it provides a great opportunity to enable good decision-making. This includes food and beverage choices and areas for movement, such as open stairwells.
Finally, as with any change management process, there needs to be accountability for change. We are seeing the use of incentives for health management activities and outcomes. We recommend that these incentives apply not only to those who are enrolled in the corporate benefit plans but to all employees.
One caution about incentives — they are good tools for jumpstarting initiatives but they do not change behavior in the long term. That’s where leadership and permanent culture change come in.
How can you tell if a wellness initiative is working?
With expert help and use of a third party to protect employee privacy, there are several steps you can take to measure the impact of your wellness initiative.
• Categorize your employee population by health risk group through a health screening and measure the movement between risk categories.
• Determine the number of employees with one or more chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. How many are actively managing chronic conditions through medications and lifestyle changes? Are they reversing their conditions by working with a health coach, an onsite health center or personal physician?
• Look at change in attitude toward health from year to year, via employee engagement surveys, culture surveys or wellness surveys.
• Measure the advancement of the physical work environment. Is the cafeteria or vending area seeing an increase in the sale of healthy products versus nonhealthy products?
• Analyze aggregate information from benefit programs to find changes in utilization and other patterns, such as if the percentage of employees receiving preventive care exams increases or the percentage of employees visiting the ER decreases.
By using this type of ‘wellness dashboard,’ you can determine which efforts are working and allocate resources to those making the greatest impact.
Are wellness initiatives relevant only to those companies that offer health care benefits?
No. If you focus only on the employees in your benefit plan, wellness initiatives appear to be more about saving money for the company than creating and maintaining a healthy, productive work force. Similar to the efforts in establishing a safe work environment, efforts to create a healthy work environment are here to stay. A healthy work force will outperform an unhealthy one because there is a greater energy and capacity for work.
Nancy Pokorny is a managing consultant at Findley Davies. Reach her at (216) 875-1939 or npokorny@findleydavies.com.
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Health care providers such as hospitals — particularly the more enlightened ones — started to reform years prior to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Although the law crystallized the industry’s direction, health care systems faced pressure to reinvent themselves long before the act. This reinvention has not only affected the delivery model but also the human capital requirements within the health care system.
“There’s a big shift to outcome-based rewards as opposed to transaction-based rewards,” says Rob Rogers, a principal and health care industry leader at Findley Davies, Inc. “In other words, what is the quality of care provided as opposed to how many units of X were done in the fiscal year.”
Smart Business spoke with Rogers about the outlook for hospitals and health systems, and what this means for business owners.
How will reform affect revenue and other financials for hospitals and health care providers?
The topline or gross revenue for health care systems — which can either be an integrated network comprising multiple hospitals, physicians, clinics and outpatient treatment centers, or an independent community hospital — is going to jump. In particular, hospitals will have more patients as result of 30 million people now being covered under an ‘insured’ delivery system. Providers face the challenge of bolstering staff while facing a shortage of nurses and physicians.
Despite volume increases, net revenue will come under a lot of pressure as reimbursement levels from insurance carriers and Medicare and Medicaid continue to decline. Health care providers are being forced to scrutinize operating expenses to ensure they are providing care as efficiently as possible.
How will patient care be impacted?
More focus on clinical outcomes is one good thing occurring through reform — not necessarily the governmental legislative act, but the whole process. The health care system has recognized, based on internal pressure and pressure from employers covering health care costs, that patients and plan sponsors aren’t interested in paying for the volume of diagnostics. The reform focuses on keeping people healthy. If there are health problems, then the attention shifts to measuring outcomes such as the success rate of treatments, morbidity rate, length of hospital stay, patient satisfaction, etc. Health care systems must learn to cope with the continuous challenge of providing the right mix of care while, at the same time, getting paid for it.
What kind of consolidation and collaboration do you expect?
More collaboration among providers and consolidation of various related-care entities have already started. Some think only large health care systems will be able to operate in this new environment because they have enough volume to manage the margins better. However, while community hospitals will continue to operate independently, there will be pressure for them to partner with other community hospitals or to create alliances with the larger hospital networks.
Physicians are also building more partnerships. In 2010, for the first time, more physicians were employed by organizations such as hospitals and other related entities than were in private practice, though many independent physician groups exist in Ohio.
Health care reform works to eliminate silos of treatment. So we’re seeing the development of an integrated delivery model, with numerous entities working together under one umbrella to provide more efficient and better quality care. To remain competitive, physicians are creating alliances with patient care providers such as hospitals and nursing homes.
How will the operating procedures for health care providers differ?
Health care systems are taking a more proactive role in physician and nurse development and recruitment by providing financial assistance to university students in exchange for employment arrangements. With the assistance of experts to provide strategy, hospitals are looking at how they attract, retain and reward physicians, senior leadership and nurses to ensure staff is highly motivated and delivering quality care.
Most health care systems and hospitals are not-for-profit, tax-exempt organizations. As pressure increases from the public, Congress and state legislators, most health care providers are paying close attention to transparency in everything they do from audits, executive compensation and governance. More and more tax-exempt organizations are operating like public companies, which must comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
There isn’t a more public entity than a tax-exempt organization — the general public is the taxpayers. Rules governing the reasonableness of executive compensation and benefits under intermediate sanctions statutes are creating added pressure on health systems to ensure transparency and objectivity when dealing with executive rewards.
How might these changes impact business owners who provide health care plans?
The reform, apart from PPACA, is going to be mostly positive for business owners. While there may be additional costs associated with reform, the system will be more efficient with more focus on preventive care and wellness, which are steps in the right direction. There will be more integration with fewer silos of care. There’s more concern with helping the patient get from A to B to C without jumping through hoops. It will be less costly, more efficient and the outcomes will be better, which will make employees healthier.
The health care industry is rapidly changing. As health care providers work to deliver more efficient, better quality care, employers and employees both should be able to reap the benefits.
Rob Rogers is a principal and health care industry leader at Findley Davies, Inc. Reach him at (216) 875-1926 or rrogers@findleydavies.com.
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How does the Supreme Court’s decision impact employers?
What might this mean in terms of cost?
What parts of the Affordable Care Act remain undecided?
How does politics play into what happens next?
What should employers tell their employees?
Bruce Davis is principal and leader of Health and Group Benefits Consulting at Findley Davies. Reach him at (419) 327-4133 or bdavis@findleydavies.com.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has had a bumpy ride since before it became a law, but it might be facing its biggest challenge yet from the U.S. Supreme Court.
With the possibility that the court will strike down the entire act this summer, businesses need to start thinking now about how they will handle their health care coverage if that happens.
“I think people will be scrambling to figure out what this all means if the act were to be struck down,” says Bruce Davis, principal and leader of Health and Group Benefits at Findley Davies. “Employers need to take the time now to ask themselves, ‘What would we do Jan. 1, 2013, if the act is stuck down. What changes would we make?’”
Smart Business spoke with Davis about what challenges business face and how they should prepare if the Affordable Care Act is ruled unconstitutional.
What’s the current situation with the Affordable Care Act?
Everyone is waiting for the Supreme Court to render its opinion. Oral arguments were held in March, and the justices have indicated that they will render their opinion by July. It’s widely felt that the court will strike down the individual mandate within the act, which is the requirement that each citizen purchase health insurance. However, now there is a higher probability that the entire act will be struck down.
The American Benefits Council and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association filed briefs prior to oral arguments laying out strong cases that the individual mandate is so closely linked to the employer-shared responsibility (i.e. pay or play) provisions and insurance market reforms that the individual mandate can’t be excluded without striking those other parts, as well. In addition, some justices, such as Justice Antonin Scalia, have signaled their reluctance to wade through 2,700 pages of the law to figure out what should stand and what should go.
What are some of the challenges employers face if the entire act is struck down?
Companies have started planning for new health care reform requirements that will begin soon, such as the new communication requirements for summaries of benefit coverage, or determining how to report the aggregate value of employer-sponsored health coverage on their 2012 W2s.
Employers need to go beyond this to consider what they will do if certain PPACA coverage requirements no longer exist. For example, any organization that decided to forfeit its grandfathered status by increasing employee cost-sharing beyond specified limits would have to pay 100 percent for a comprehensive set of preventive care services, including contraceptive and sterilization services that concerned many religious employers.
If the Affordable Care Act is struck down, employers will have to balance the need to contain their health care expenses through cost sharing with the idea of sending employees messages that emphasize wellness and prevention.
Another consideration is that, under the act, employers aren’t able to cover over-the-counter prescription drugs through a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), health reimbursement arrangement, or Health Savings Account (HSA). Without the act, an employer might want to give employees incentives to use less costly over-the-counter medication.
It gets more complicated when employers start to unravel provisions they’ve already implemented. For example, under the Affordable Care Act, employers were able to extend coverage to dependent children up to age 26. If the act is struck down, will employers revert to pre-Affordable Care Act definitions of dependent children, such as to age 19, or to age 23 if a full-time student? Some employers might be uncomfortable with taking such coverage away, but without the act, that coverage will no longer be non-taxable.
Another example is the early retiree reinsurance insurance program (ERRP), in which the federal government paid out $5 billion to help employers sustain their retiree medical plans. Much of the ERRP was paid to state governments and to union health and welfare plans. If the Affordable Care Act were struck down, would a Republican-controlled House want that $5 billion back?
The Supreme Court is unlikely to provide any kind of transition rules or remedies if the act is struck down. While it’s possible the Obama administration would provide some direction, it’s unclear how the U.S. House will react. It’s anybody’s guess. Employers need to be prepared and start thinking about this.
What can employers do to prepare ahead of the court’s decision?
Employers need to take the time now to think about what they would or would not do as of Jan. 1, 2013, in the event the act is struck down. Many employers assume the act will remain in place, but it’s best to consider the opposite possibility and think about how such a verdict impacts the direction of their health plan and its cost-sharing features in terms of employee contributions, deductibles, co-pays or out-of-pocket maximums.
Employers should start having conversations among their leadership teams, especially human resources and finance, because there might be some tension between those two groups. For example, human resources may be inclined to leave things as they are to minimize concern on the part of their employees, while finance will be looking at all options to restrain growth in health benefit costs.
Bruce Davis is a principal and leader of Health and Group Benefits at Findley Davies. Reach him at (419) 327-4133 or bdavis@findleydavies.com.
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Saturday, 31 March 2012 23:50
How to tackle pension underfunding issues
Although the stock market has rebounded, most defined benefit pension plans are still facing difficult decisions related to their retirement philosophy and related workforce strategy. General Motors, Sears and Bank of America are a few of the companies that have recently announced major plan changes, but even small and mid-size companies are reviewing their retirement strategy.
The underfunding and asset-liability mismatch continues to challenge plan sponsors. According to the 2012 MetLife U.S. Pension Risk Behavior Index Study, plan sponsors no longer believe they can rely on traditional portfolio diversification alone to meet future obligations; many are considering changes.
“Despite on-going cash funding of pension plans over the past 10 years, many plan sponsors still find their plans underfunded due to market volatility and low interest rates,” says Steve Parsons, FCA, MAAA, and principal with Findley Davies, Inc. “This situation has resulted in employers reevaluating their pension strategies. This evaluation process includes a review of potential changes to plan design, funding, and asset allocation strategies. Several have reduced their commitment via plan changes, plan freezing, or terminating a defined benefit pension plan.”
Smart Business spoke with Parsons about the current pension underfunding crisis and the possible solutions for plan sponsors.
Why has pension underfunding reached a crisis point?
Although pension portfolios took a hit during the 2008 market correction, the current crisis has really been brewing over the last 10 years. Marketplace volatility, low interest rates and changes in accounting procedures and cash funding rules have converged and boosted the number of companies with underfunded plans by 20 to 30 percent. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 reduced the opportunity for employers to have funding strategy options and now requires them to fund shortfalls over a seven-year period. The bottom line is that companies have taken this opportunity to reevaluate their retirement strategy and philosophy. As a result, employers tended to elect one of three paths: maintain their commitment to the current plan, keep their current plan with a reduced formula, or freeze their pension plan and shift to a 401(k) strategy.
When is freezing a plan a viable solution?
Defining options and strategy can empower an employer to properly align market competitiveness, cash funding strategies, and strategic work force plan. When evaluating a freeze to the pension plan, an employer should consider how the decision to freeze its defined benefit pension plan will impact talent acquisition, morale and retention down the road.
Freezing the pension plan can be accomplished several ways, including closing the plan to new participants, partially freezing the plan that protects older participants, or a hard freeze impacting all participants.
A soft freeze allows companies to grandfather the current plan for older employees based on age and/or service and move everyone else to a 401(k) plan. A hard freeze shifts the risk to all employees via a defined contribution plan from the plan freeze date forward. The transition may cost the employer more to shift to a 401(k) plan in the interim years as the employer continues to fund the pension plan while contributing to the new 401(k) strategy.
What are employers doing to target plan termination in the future?
Terminating the plan and providing a lump-sum payment or purchasing annuities with the proceeds is certainly an option for participants. But given today’s low interest rates, most companies need to provide additional funding to purchase annuities that fulfill their long-term pension obligations. The key is connecting your actuary, financial staff, and investment advisors, defining the glide path and seeing when it might be advantageous to pull the trigger. We could see higher interest rates or get regulatory relief down the road, impacting the timing of the decision. As of now, about a third of our clients are committed to their current plans, a third have frozen their plans and shifted the risk of retirement planning to employees, and a third are still considering whether to freeze or terminate their defined benefit plan in the future.
Should employers be considering other solutions?
Employers should redefine their pension strategy in relation to total rewards and how they want to allocate internal resources in the future. For example, administrating a frozen plan may not be the optimal use of internal staff and resources. They will also need a comprehensive communications plan to explain pension plan changes to current staff and retirees. If stakeholders will be assuming responsibility for selecting investments and planning for retirement, they should be given the opportunity to provide feedback through a compression planning process. All of these issues must be considered and addressed before a company decides to freeze or terminate their defined benefit pension plan.
What’s the best way to evaluate the various options and select the right solution?
Consider how each option will impact the company and employees both short-term and down the road, because among other things, companies may no longer be able to control turnover or the timing of employee retirements if they switch to a defined contribution plan. Examine the impact of the change on administrative policies and procedures to determine the cost benefit of internal versus external management to minimize cost and liability. For a frozen or terminated plan, allow sufficient time for the transition, because employees will need considerable education before they’re ready to take the reigns of their retirement planning process. Finally, don’t be hasty. The solution to the pension plan crisis is different for everyone and changes can be reevaluated down the road if the pension plan is maintained in either an active or frozen state. This will give employers options for future work force issues and strategies.
Steve Parsons, FCA, MAAA, is a principal with Findley Davies, Inc. Reach him at (216) 875-1924 or SParsons@findleydavies.com
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What are the new mandates?
Why did the DOL propose new regulations?
How can plan sponsors head off problems before they occur?
Follow these steps to head off problems before they occur.
Kyle Pifher is principal, retirement plan services at Findley Davies. Reach him at KPifher@findleydavies.com or (614) 458-4651.
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Between blogs, e-mails, tweets and text messages, experts estimate the average person is bombarded by a staggering 100 kilobytes of textual information each day. The resulting overload can cause employees to ignore vital messages that have a direct impact on their well-being as well as the bottom line. Instead of using read receipts or daily reminders to chide employees into reading critical communications, innovative leaders are finding that a picture is worth a thousand words.
“Cartoons are effective because they evoke emotions and people remember them,” says Denise Reynolds, senior communications consultant. “It’s a simple, cost-effective way to grab someone’s attention in a crowded digital world.”
Smart Business spoke with Reynolds about the benefits of using cartoons to convey critical messages.
Why are cartoons an effective way to communicate key messages?
Cartoons not only stand out from traditional communications — they’re concise. It can take hundreds of words to convey the ideas contained in a single image. For example, getting employees to read wellness and benefits literature was a constant struggle at Jergens. So we suggested that the small manufacturing company create mascots and use cartoons to encourage health screenings and educate employees about preventative care. Within days of e-mailing the cartoons and projecting them on the Jumbotron in the manufacturing plant, everyone in the company was talking about Chip and Scrap. Employees said they were previously unaware of many stress-reducing benefit programs like EAPs (employee assistance programs). The company is even considering using them in an upcoming sales and marketing campaign.
Are some topics better suited to cartoons than others?
Consider using cartoons to simplify complex messages or to lighten up drab, but important topics. Retirement planning, pension vesting and safety are good examples, because it’s easier to understand a complex vesting process if it’s broken down into steps in a cartoon panel. The key to garnering interest is creating characters that will resonate with employees. For instance, Jergens’ employees can relate to Chip and Scrap, because they’re based on real products that are part of the company’s manufacturing process.
What are the best practices for incorporating cartoons into a communications campaign?
• Let the characters do the talking. Let the characters convey your messages and display their unique personalities. For example, Chip is usually on his game while Scrap frequently makes mistakes and could use coaching.
• Inject the characters into various media. Inject your mascots into brochures, training videos and blogs so employees become familiar with them and learn to pay attention to their messages. You can even use them on your Facebook page or ask your employees to follow them on Twitter.
• Be patient and persistent. Tailor your messages toward your employee population and repeat them for several months, because any type of marketing campaign is more effective over time.
• Measure ROI. Compare the cost and effectiveness of brochures, letters and memos to cartoons and, most importantly, measure the impact of various media on employee behaviors and the bottom line.
• Make them interactive. Include pop-up messages and links to external videos, Web sites or brochures in each cartoon so employees can source additional information.
• Have fun. It’s OK to have fun and laugh at ourselves, especially in today’s difficult climate. You may find cartoons lift the mood of the company and even inspire creativity.
How can executives and HR leaders measure the effectiveness of creative campaigns?
Initially, you can judge campaign effectiveness by measuring the growth in hits, click-throughs and the amount of time employees spend viewing each cartoon, but, over time, you should see improvements in tangible measures like adoption rates, lower health care costs and changes in employee behaviors. Campaigns can be built to match each company’s budget and you can test pilot a few cartoons without making a big financial commitment. One company saw an immediate jump in health screenings after sending out just one cartoon. Another saw half of its employee population participated in open enrollment during the first five days of the period. It’s also important to gather feedback through employee surveys and focus groups to make sure they’re getting the message and fine tune your campaign.
For more information, contact Susan Riffle, the marketing manager with Findley Davies. Reach her at sriffle@findleydavies.com or at (216) 875-1908.
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HR professionals haven’t seen a need to revise their company’s health care strategy. After all, they’ve been busy with staff reductions and taking steps to offset rising health care costs, while waiting for a government committee to clarify the murky details of health care reform.
But it’s time to stop procrastinating and get back to the drawing board, because employer health care costs are projected to rise by 7 percent in 2012 and insurance carriers are reporting an increase in employee claims for illnesses related to post-recession stress.
“It’s easy to avoid change in times of uncertainty, but at some point it only puts you further behind,” says Bruce Davis, principal and national practice leader for Health & Group Benefits at Findley Davies. “Employers should continue introducing purposeful changes to their health care plan within the context of a clearly conceived strategy.”
Smart Business spoke with Davis about the latest health care trends and how employers are using the information to make plan changes and update their current strategy.
Is cost shifting the new reality?
Surveys show that companies will continue shifting costs onto employees, who are already stressed because they’re working longer hours and haven’t received a substantial raise since the start of the recession. So this is the perfect time to revisit your basic contribution philosophy. For example, it might make sense to shift costs for dependents and part-time workers instead of reducing the health care subsidy for full-time employees. If you communicate a new pricing structure and reinforce the eligibility requirements before open enrollment begins, employees may voluntarily lower costs by removing ineligible dependents or transitioning to a less expensive plan. If your plan costs are still too high, consider conducting a dependent audit or changing the spousal requirements, because you may be able to avoid additional cost shifting.
Is wellness really the solution to rising costs?
Employees receiving short-term disability benefits may be responsible for more than 50 percent of an employer’s health claims. Furthermore, new studies indicate obese workers have greater incidence of workers compensation claims and a longer/more expensive duration of treatment.
Also, working long hours while caring for an aging relative creates so much stress that employees often use the Federal Medical Leave Act to take time off and are less productive when they finally return to work. Savvy employers are starting to understand the connection between work-related absences, family issues, depression and disability claims, so they’re taking a holistic approach to wellness by bundling health incentives with workplace safety programs. They’re also offering stress-reducing benefits like EAP and elder care resources in an attempt to control the entire spectrum of health-related costs.
Will employers continue migrating toward high deductible health plans and HSAs?
High deductible plans and HSAs are not a magic bullet for rising health care costs. In fact, data show that education and market-driven plan changes may yield similar results. One company with a zero deductible plan substantially lowered its costs by educating employees and helping them become smarter health care consumers. Generic drugs already accounted for 40 percent to 50 percent of this company’s filled prescriptions, but teaching employees to request less costly alternatives from physicians and pharmacists increased generics to 70 percent. Employees have a vested interest in maintaining their coverage, so don’t underestimate their desire or ability to help the company save money.
How are employers handling health care reform?
While some employers have been reluctant to change their current plans and forgo grandfathered status, because they would have to comply with additional requirements, other HR professionals have been concerned about the excise tax on ‘Cadillac plans,’ so they have been tweaking their plans to stay below that tax threshold. They’re initiating changes to control costs, like adjusting co-pays on prescription drugs, changing contribution levels and encouraging employees to proactively manage their health by offering incentives to complete a risk assessment.
How should employers approach this year’s open enrollment period?
Many are using this year’s open enrollment period to educate employees, scrub ineligible members from the program and introduce outcome-based incentives. Several of our clients are using inducements to increase participation in programs that help employees manage chronic conditions, as the majority of health care claims emanate from illnesses like diabetes and hypertension. The use of onsite medical clinics is also increasing, especially for employee assessments and health care screenings. These clinics have been successful because fewer families have a regular physician and employees are more inclined to proactively manage their health when they have convenient access to a doctor.
What else can employers do to manage health care costs in this era of uncertainty?
Employers are leveraging their purchasing power to lower costs by joining prescription drug collaboratives and purchasing groups. They’re also excluding certain pharmacies to improve overall ingredient cost discounts and eliminating coverage for expensive brands that have generic or over-the-counter alternatives. In addition, employers are re-considering the use of more narrow networks of hospitals and physicians to optimize discounts while preserving quality and access. Also, the competitive market for life and disability coverage has let companies request bids and apply the savings to health care. Overall, it’s not a time for rash decisions, but there’s never been a better time to institute small changes and revisit your health care strategy.
Bruce Davis is a principal and national practice leader for Health & Group Benefits at Findley Davies. Reach him at (419) 327-4133 or bdavis@findleydavies.com.
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The business world is filled with reports of vibrant companies that persevered through change and fleeting memories of defunct organizations that couldn’t adapt to shifting market conditions. In fact, D&B reports that over 96,000 U.S. businesses failed during 2009 and more than 80,000 failed in 2010, proving that a lack of change management is a risky proposition.
Unless executives provide employees with a model of the future state and a roadmap leading to the goal, workers may resist change or languish amid uncertainty.
“You can’t guide an organization through change by winging it,” says Kimberlie England, principal and national practice leader of Communication and Change Management at Findley Davies. “Executives need a strategic plan that moves people from being aware of change to embracing it, by weaving new ideas into the organization’s culture.”
Smart Business spoke with England about her reliable methodology for driving organizational change in today’s turbulent business climate.
What’s the first step toward effective change management?
Executives must anticipate change and follow a series of sequential steps to shepherd their company through any transformation. First, they should assess the organization’s current state and readiness for change, using surveys or focus groups. This evaluation process pinpoints the underlying causes of employee fear or reluctance and allows leaders to proactively eliminate potential barriers to change by introducing targeted solutions. Don’t make assumptions when assessing your organization’s readiness for change; rather, review fresh data and devise innovative solutions.
How can executives bolster support for change?
Unless leaders openly embrace change, employees never will. Executives must build the case for change and help employees connect with new ideas by modeling the way. In fact, the perception of a double standard can foster an unhealthy ‘us versus them’ mentality and cause employees to resist a beneficial change.
For example, a CEO can’t announce a new wellness initiative and expect employees to modify their habits. He or she has to emphasize the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, lead by example, and outline a host of tantalizing rewards to motivate employees. Remember that line managers and stakeholders play a critical role in fostering organizational change, so make sure they’re committed to your plan before launching a major initiative. Finally, be sure to stop at critical junctures to measure your team’s progress. Otherwise, you may lose people along the way and never reach your final destination.
How can executives create a future vision?
Employees will respond favorably to change if they know where they’re headed, and because most people are visual learners, use a model to communicate your vision in addition to words. Paint a picture of the future state and provide a roadmap with milestones leading to the desired goal, so employees can chart the company’s progress and stay focused, especially during a complex change that may take months. Knowing where you want to go also benefits leaders, because it helps them develop a strategy for achieving their vision. Finally, support employees during the journey by acknowledging each milestone achieved and continually reinforcing the benefits of the change.
What constitutes a successful strategy?
A successful change strategy includes these critical elements.
• Stakeholder involvement: Include key stakeholders during the planning phase so they embrace ideas, become advocates for change, and help push the company forward during the implementation phase.
• Quantifiable objectives: Define the specific objectives of the initiative along with a series of interim milestones, so employees can use the plan as a roadmap to chart their progress.
• Defined audiences: Identify groups of key influencers, such as line managers and union leaders, and use targeted messages and tailored benefits so they fully understand and endorse your plan.
• Targeted communications: A successful strategy should define the specific communication channels for reaching various audiences. Consider e-mail, blogs, webinars, online chat, and social media to invite an open dialogue about the proposed change.
How can executives author specific goals or metrics to measure interim progress?
Consider the steps that lead to the ultimate goal and how the change will look and feel to establish interim measures during the strategic planning process. For example, you’d expect to see an increase in visits to a new website when the company announces a transition to self-service benefits. Next, move to more sophisticated measures, like an increase in employee registrations and growth in online claims to chart your actual progress. Change is not a linear process, so employees may slip back or temporarily revert to old habits, but executives can persevere by reinforcing the need for change and providing additional motivation until the transformation is complete.
What are the final steps?
Continue to reward and recognize new behaviors when you reach the implementation phase, but don’t get lost in the minutia. Focus on the final goal and stick with the strategy. Use testimonials to cite examples of success and illuminate the path toward the new state by providing frequent updates and noting when employees pass important landmarks. You’ll know you’ve reached your final destination when the plan is no longer an idea and becomes an integral part of the organization’s culture.
Kimberlie England is a principal and the national practice leader of Communication and Change Management at Findley Davies. Reach her at (419) 327-4109 or kengland@findleydavies.com.
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Plan sponsors have probably heard about the plight of baby boomers who haven’t saved enough for retirement or don’t understand the long-term impact of under-performing funds on retirement plan account balances. Unless sponsors wake up and address these issues, they could be blind-sided by a slew of new regulations or a class action lawsuit, since plan sponsors, as fiduciaries, are legally responsible for acting prudently and solely in the interest of the plan’s participants.
Despite the good intentions of plan sponsors, many participants are struggling to manage their investments and meet their savings objectives. So, savvy sponsors are simplifying plan design and investment options to make it easier for employees to participate in the plan, save more and make prudent choices.
“Employers not only have a moral and legal obligation to help employees retire with financial security, but fiduciaries and trustees can be held personally liable,” says Kyle Pifher, Principal and Practice Leader for Recordkeeping and Administration at Findley Davies. “Unless plan sponsors embrace their responsibilities and take action, they’re going to be bombarded by tough questions from their participants, particularly with respect to the new fee disclosure regulations coming out soon.”
Smart Business spoke with Pifher about the regulations affecting plan sponsors and how simplified plan design and tools can help employees meet their financial goals and retire with financial security.
What precipitated the new fee disclosure regulations?
Most plan sponsors, along with their participants, were challenged with determining the overall cost of the plan, both at the plan level and at the individual participant level. The Department of Labor’s ERISA Section 408(b)(2) regulations require providers of certain services (known as ‘covered service providers’) to disclose to plan fiduciaries certain information concerning the services and related compensation. In essence, the law requires covered service providers and employers to close the communication gap and provide greater transparency around the costs related to investments, recordkeeping and administration, trust and custody, investment advisory, and other plan-related fees and administrative charges associated with defined contribution plans.
How can plan sponsors improve communications and close the gap?
Companies can begin by instituting a retirement plan committee comprised of HR and finance representatives, outside experts, select executives and perhaps a diverse group of associates. The committee’s charter is to make decisions that are in the best interest of the plan participants. Responsibilities include oversight of plan operation, plan design, investment selection and monitoring, participant education, and overall compliance with the rules and regulations that govern retirement plans. The ultimate goal of the plan sponsor and committee should be to help their employees reach a secure retirement. Like anything else, a communication and education campaign should begin with a focused strategy based on the demographics of the company.
How can employers promote financial literacy and ease investment decisions for employees?
Many employees don’t have the time, interest, or knowledge to engage in an educational process, particularly involving investments. Many sponsors are now simplifying investment options and leveraging planning tools that don’t require a lot of action from employees. Many sponsors are regularly reviewing fund performance and altering investment options, and many are promoting the use of retirement date-based and risk-based models, thereby simplifying the decision-making process for employees. Plan sponsors should place a great emphasis on the appropriate savings rate for the individual, achieving a realistic rate of return based on their risk level, understanding the gap that may exist between their current situation and their retirement goal, and what steps can be taken to close or eliminate that gap.
How can plan design encourage savings and promote financial independence?
Many employers have implemented automatic enrollment and automatic escalation of employee deferrals to boost participation and employee savings rates, since history shows that few employees opt out once they’re automatically enrolled in the plan. In fact, some experts speculate that enrollment and deferral rates may be regulated or mandated in the future. Statistics show that matching contributions also influence employee deferral rates. During 2008 and 2009 when some sponsors suspended their matching program, many participants ceased their deferrals. Since it’s clear that employers have a legal and moral obligation to help employees plan for their retirement, a continuous review of your plan’s design and employer contribution rates should be conducted to encourage positive behaviors.
What else can employers do to help employees retire with dignity?
Employees must understand the importance of saving early for retirement at a level that helps them reach their goal. Plan sponsors with successful retirement programs are proactive in communicating to their employees, and often leverage the expertise of professionals that deliver these services. Many employers engage independent investment advisers, retirement plan consultants, and communication specialists to design a communication and education program specific to their retirement plan. In addition, personalized communications can help tailor those messages for each employee to show them exactly what their retirement savings strategy means for them.
Kyle Pifher is a Principal and Practice Leader for Recordkeeping and Administration at Findley Davies, Inc. Reach him at (614) 458-1869 or kpifher@findleydavies.com.
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The doctrines of reincarnation and illusion in Hindu thought are not possible asylums for salvation. The true God has aseity and is supreme—He has the power to offer actual redemption. If everything is an illusion, that would include the Hindu concepts of reincarnation and illusion. An Apologetics Paper. | http://www.smashwords.com/books/category/345/bestsellers/0/2.99/any | dclm-gs1-073190002 | false | false | {
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jfrancis writes:
YOU CAN NOT LEGISLATE 'COMMON SENSE'. The more "We the People" allow the government to control our lives, the less freedom we have. We are far more regulated (as a society) than was ever intended by the founding fathers. A fairly violent sneeze could cause a driver to momentarily lose control or the wheel. Can they legislate against driving with a cold? Wake up America....time to take our country back!
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Sam7 writes:
in response to Economist1943:
We have a serious obesity problem in this country. Obesity leads to high blood pressure and heart problems, a great drain on our medical resources. I think we should install scales and laser height rulers at checkout counters. They could calculate body mass index on the spot. Anyone over a certain number would be prohibited from buying fattening foods. Sorry sir, you can't have that cake, but the apples are okay.
Another innovation would be a coded gas filler pipe on cars, that tells the pump the calculated gas mileage for the vehicle, over the last 1000 miles, say. The amount you pay per gallon would be indexed to your gas mileage. If you drive a gas hog or haven't been maintaining your vehicle, you pay more per gallon.
Why should fat SUV drivers get away with their sinful, unhealthy lifestyles, when I work hard to stay trim and healthy, and drive a fuel-efficient car?
I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic but in the event you actually think that the Govt. should intrude into personal choices and individuals’ lives even more, here is an answer to your ridiculous post! From your previous posts I thought you were rather rational and intelligent, until this lunacy!
Try getting into a small economy car when you are 6.2"; and while you are at it try adding into that same tiny rinky-dink piece of tin a child’s car seat and booster seat? Think you are going to have comfort room now???? I drive an SUV for reasons of comfort and I am not and have never been fat! Most important of which YOU are NOT the one paying to fill my tank, I am! If I had not been driving my "GAS PIG" my child would not even be alive today thanks to the LAME BRAIN who was so busy texting SHE didn't see me stopped at a stop light and ran UNDER MY VEHICLE instead of running into the back seat which would have instantly killed my child. It's a shame that there isn't a law against preventing posts from posters who choose to use another part of their anatomy instead of their brains to get their ideas from.
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MIOCEN (Inactive) writes:
It's kind of like when the faithful are asked:
Why did god allow millions of good people to be raped; killed; tortured; left homeless and driven insane by the hell of WW II?
Other then that: You have no idea how many times threats come into OTHER foreign embassies and nothing ever happens.
So you see: We can't send a task force every time there is a threat. Also, there is no way of knowing to what level any particular demonstration will escalate; nor are rescue teams always based in the area.
What we DO know is that in the grand scheme of international events; -the individual means nothing.
Those who study World History know that
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Marriage is traditional like horse drawn carriages, black and white tv's, rotary phones, etc. In the past men married someone that would replace their mother. Someone whom would clean, cook, & raise their family ( OK, have sex with them). Nowadays most men can clean, cook, & raise their own family and have unwed sex whenever they wanted to ( so can women) But the pressure is still there from old school parents and society. The pressure was and still is on the man. Would he only spend $2000 on a ring when he just spent $2000 on a set of rims for his car. How much is the p**sy worth he asks. The more unattractive the man the more it's worth. Simple supply and demand. To the rich it's different, size doesn't mean the size of love, just the size of wallet. Rich men are no more monogamous than a poor man. Back in the days of my parents, the words repeated in church were written in stone, now they're written on toilet paper. "For richer or poorer, sickness and in health", yeah right! Myself, I've been with the same woman for 12 years, 2 beautifull kids. No wedding, no engagement. It's been a hell ride, if we were married, we would have been divorced after a couple of years for sure. How can I spend so much money on a ring that shows a commitment that I don't have. Am I not worth anything. I am worth ( in relationship values) equal or more than most women I meet and women I haven't met yet. Yet I must get on one knee and propose, and say words I don't really mean, only to have those words used against me. What I need is a partner, a marriage license doesn't guarantee a partnership. I once told an old girlfriend that marriage was like a business and she hated those words. And if you think that it's all bull what I'm saying. I say to all men who tie the knot to bring a lawyer to your marriage because you'll need one for your divorce. So much more I'd like to elaborate on but so hard to write down at one time. Maybe I'd write a book one day ;)
2724 days ago
John Dip
And if this all goes back to church and what god wants then, it's true then. Jesus WAS married to Mary Mag........ forgot the spelling. such hipocrytes. The truth shall set you free lol
2724 days ago
I find it rather telling that many people on this forum ask why nobody seems to want to "follow God's plan" or are choosing to go against biblical teachings regarding marriage. God is a very tolerant and forgiving parent. He allows his children to make choices about their lives. He called it free will. Those folks who feel that others should conform to their views of marriage based on religion are not following God's example. Where exactly does it say not getting married is a sin if you live together? Can't you make your "vow before God" without having to go to the courthouse? Judge not lest ye be judged as the saying goes. Only God can do that and he will. It is not the job of the religions of the world to do that for him. If a man and woman choose not to get married, or if a same sex couple wants to "get married" who cares? If God has a problem with it, my guess is he'll do something about it.
2724 days ago
miz alazea
you people don't get it at all ! Its not just a "piece of paper". its a commitment you make to one person! Its a promise to take care of and love that one person for life.And as for spending a lot of money on a wedding , that is stupid . It shouldn't be about anything other then you and your spouse making a vow.
2724 days ago
Married, and alone for 40 years!
Oh my, Deb, #2, your statement "When two people are so close and know what their partner wants in the event of a medical emergency/non-recussitative effort, the significant other has no authority to authorize treatment, and must conform to the choies of the patient's closest relatives," indicates that you're either single, or confused about marital rights. Anyone can complete a form, designating whomever they wish to make a medical decision if they're unable to make it. It's goes on file in their physician's office. If I couldn't speak for myself, and a doctor suggested a lobotomy for me, my husband would say "Whatever you think is best Doc," and that's why I desginated someone else to make medical decisions if I'm unable to make them for myself.
2724 days ago
Anonymously Yours
Bet Halle's sure glad that she isn't getting a whole lot of more bashing with her major Benet snafu and the boyfriend--wonder if she has called Oprah yet to offer her support?
2724 days ago
I don't think that George Clooney is gay just because he doesn't have a permanent woman at his side! There are just some people who are unable to "share" in on an on-going basis, and it's just better not to cheat the another person with delusions. At least all the women he dates aren't misled, and they do have an interesting challenge presented to them! Besides, Americans are the nosiest twisted people on the planet. If it doesn't have anything to do with you, has no bearing on you, why get so involved?
2724 days ago
Marriage means "I am in this for the long haul" It means you don't walk out the door the first (or 20th) time you have an arguement. It is a committment, If you are being abused, cheated on I understand why you get divorced. To this day 26 years later I look at my wedding ring and am proud to say I am married to this man for better or worse, till death do us part. Is our life perfect? Far from it. We work on this every day. We have had our share of money trouble, kid problems etc. Walking away if we were not married is way too easy.
2724 days ago
I don't pretend to be an expert on what everyone else should do, but I would never live with a guy because
(1) If I care enough about someone to move in with them or let them move in with me, it is a major committment, and I want to know that my partner sees it the same way I do. I have met guys who felt free to shop around because they were "only living with" their girlfriends, while the partner feels as committed as if she were ,well, "married'.
(2) Building and maintaining a relationship means working out differences and problems as they come up. There is much more incentive to make a relationship work when you are legally and publicly bound to each other by's not as easy to just walk away if you are going through a rough spot.
(3) If you live with someone and tie your resources up together, you have no recourse if it goes bad and your partner walks away. Women are usually the losers in this game, especially if there are children involved.
2724 days ago
Let's see... Oprah,Halle,GoergeC.,JohnnyD.,and Charlize. What do these people have in common? Money,fame,media attention. Do they really care what a bunch of anonymous people on the internet think about their choice to marry or not? I don't think so.
Also, since when does choosing not to marry automatically make one gay? Some of the comments on this board must be from 12 year olds because that is the level of maturity on display.
2723 days ago
I agree with them all. I have been married and divorced and I prefer being single. Everyone is entitled to their own belief system. Other than to have children, what is the point. Divorce is ugly and takes a tow on you. I know lots of married couples and they all have major problems that I wouldn't want to have. At the end of the day, I like coming home and having peace of mind.
2722 days ago
Anonymously Yours
As the name says just a thought....
Why should celebrities be held in a different light than us plain folk just because they are in a higher tax bracket and have all the immenities that go along with it/ Personally, nothing against those posters who have religious views on the institution of marriage,etc., I think marriage is a personal choice. I know people of all races who have lived together for many years without getting married as well as getting married after living together for a good or long while both are perfectly content and have healthy relationships.
Personal choice not a religious or moral choice.
2722 days ago
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I can't believe all of the negative comments. Yep TMZ is trying (and failing) to be like
2721 days ago
rich fowler
well all i have to say that ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,marriage is the first step towards divorce.
why ruin a great relationship with marriage. good for you guys
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i was always raised to be respectful of people and their beliefs..
you can't very well blame a religion for the acts of a drug addict.
it's hilarious to see TMZ spin this terrible story into some anti-scientology campaign, then spend their days hounding famous scientologists for interviews.
446 days ago
He did everything he could; the only caveat being he took only those actions that didn't contradict his "religion"/cult. So, because this guy didn't want to betray his cult, his son never got proper medication for his clear mental issues and a innocent woman and cat died horrible violent deaths. Thanks douche bag and thanks again Scientology.
446 days ago
Scientology kills again. Stupid ****ing religion. Almost as bad as every other religion.
446 days ago
Looks like the Scientologists have their Sunday team checking TMZ comments. Way to go nutbags! Maybe you'll get one level higher if you can drown out the enemy.
446 days ago
"Exhausted ALL resources"? ALL resources would have been accepting a psychological diagnosis and treating the core cause of the drug use! Scientology disgusts me. How much more blood do they have on their hands? I wonder how many other acts of violence & suicide their members have committed because they aren't allowed to acknowledge or properly treat mental illness.
446 days ago
Who gives a crap is his dad was a scientologist? He wasn't no damn 6 year old who couldn't help himself. He's a POS who killed some poor old lady and her cat. Rot in hell.
446 days ago
I think it would be awesome if everyone in the press regarded Mr. Cruise as one of the higher ups in this religion and would ask him about these kinds of things. He's a Professional Scientologist. (It would be more real than treating him like a movie star).
446 days ago
hmmm " treatment physician" ..... I guess I'm a treatment physician, too.... in fact we're all treatment physicians by default, surely?
these centres are staffed by quacks - a properly accredited doctor wouldn't be seen anywhere near it
446 days ago
I was raised in Scientology and Johnnys mother was one of my Scientology "auditors". I strongly suspect, due to my own experiences with the same treatment, that the Scientology "training routines" were used on Johnny through his entire life. These mind control routines are infamous for causing mental breakdowns and further trauma. There are many other cases of Scientology followers flipping out like this.
446 days ago
how in the hell can any person with average intelligence at this point in time buy into (literally) a religion solely based on one man's science fiction writing skills?
446 days ago
What I want TMZ to find out is what the hell was the "undisclosed drug" that Johnny Davis took earlier this year that messed his brain up so bad he never was the same again. From what I read, whatever this drug was it literally made him crazy, delusional, and violent like he was a "rabid dog" or something.
I wonder if it was that designer drug called "smiles"? If it was, then if Johnny's father wants to do some good for the world then he should be a crusader trying to get these dangerous designer drugs off the street and help hunt down the evil chemists who make them.
These evil chemists probably don't give a rip if their "product" causes long term brain damage and makes people crazy and violent. Some of these drugs are a lot more powerful than people think. People are dying from this garbage all over the world.
It's like these chemists are giving rat poison pills to depressed, gullible, thrill seeking people to make a quick buck. These greedy psychopath drug dealer chemists should rot in hell for sure. These chemists have that 81 year old lady's blood on THEIR hands too. I'm sure they couldn't care less. They just want to make big money and "live large" or whatever.
446 days ago
"and used an alternative approach to getting well." What, like uugga bugga, your healed!
446 days ago
Maybe Michael shouldn't have wasted all that time using bogus scientology methods, causing Johnny to get worse, and gotten his son into a real drug program that included anti-psychotics.
446 days ago
Davet, you know NOTHING about mental illnesses other than the fact you are mentally ill yourself. AN 81 YEAR OLD WOMAN IS DEAD! HER CAT DISMEMBERED! HE WAS MENTALLY ILL AND NEEDED HELP!!! THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED!!! I'm sick of you $cilons and your f*****g cult denying mental illnesses even exist. And that psych meds are the true EVILS! Is Johnny Lewis a $cientology success story in your opinion? If he would've gotten the proper help, Catherine Davis and Jessie would BOTH still be alive. As for Lewis, he was an adult and made the wrong decisions because of tha goddamned cult, so he can rot in hell for all I care. And so can his parents for pushing those crackpot beliefs on him. Catherine Davis and Jessie ARE THE VICTIMS HERE. How about dedicating more to them and not the $cilon disturbed killer?
446 days ago
Another death by cult --- yeah he tried everything except give the troubled young man his mental health meds.
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I just bought a new CPU and mobo; E5200 and a P5KPL-AM. I can only manage E5200 to stably OC to 3ghz. At 3.1ghz it passes prime but fails in 3DMark06 and Orthos and leads to BSOD. It also crashed in the game Left4Dead.
So now I'm wondering is it my motherboard that's the main setback atm?
It's very limited in terms of OCing. I can only set the FSB and multiplier. (Set to 246*12.5 atm for 3.075ghz) This is the most stable config I can have.
I can only add on 150mv in the BIOS at the most and I can't change any other things.
So is it my mobo that's holding it back? Is there any way I could test this?
If it is the case, then is it worth getting a slightly more expensive mobo and selling this one to perhaps? (Such as getting the P31/35 mobos)
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Without voltage adjusts, you're pretty much stuck at with .15v can give you. 3.1ghz is about right with what near stock voltages can do.
A P35 would certainly help, they are more enthusiasts oriented and should have plenty OC adjustments for you to play with.
What should I "expect" to OC it to with a P35 though? Just wondering if I should folk out the money.
Also are the 965P chipsets any good for OCing the new 45nms?
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The site says that everything is compatible but I would like to know if everything truly is compatible such as will the motherboard wil fit so on and so forth and what power supply should I get I honestly dont trust the web site and is there room for improvement such as lowering the price without risking performance or maintaining the price and better performance.
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Only thing is you picked a 32 bit OS. You need 64 bit to use all 8GB of RAM. I also have a rat 7. I like it, but they are really picky about the surface. I got a Razer Scarab and that works amazing compared to my old cloth mousepad. You might want to add a hyper 212+ or evo for overclocking. I would pick a microsoft sidewinder over that keyboard, but that is really just personal choice.
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If you're going to buy an unlocked AMD CPU, an aftermarket cooler is practically a requirement. (really, it's a requirement for any AMD CPU, as the retail boxed coolers are.....sad)
The PC Power & Cooling PSU is an excellent choice.
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The processor you've picked is designed for overclocking. the phenom 2'sr un somehwat hot to begin with, and the AMD stock coolers are barely adequate for the processors at stock speeds. Once you start increasing the voltage for overclocking, the stock cooler won't cut it. NTM the stock AMD cooler fan is loud.
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So my PC is only about 30 feet away from my router, but it is through a wall. I get a solid 54.0 mpbs connection on a wireless G network with 5/5 bars, and an "Excellent" signal strength. Verizon is the ISP, and we have their FiOS package. The internet is fast. The only issue is that when I stream video on for example, YouTube, it takes forever to load, or just won't load at all. What is the issue? Oh and it's not a hardware issue. I have a GTX 660, a Core i3-3220, 8GB of RAM and a 7,200 RPM hard drive.
Your whole setup is determined by the slowest part and on one end you have Fios and blazing fast internet and on the other end you have a very decent and fast computer. In the middle you have wireless G and that is your problem with streaming media it's best to have wireless N or a router that is optimized for streaming media. Don't forget that the terminology is what's important , 54 mega bits is not the same as 54 mega bytes so when your thinking you have a good fast connection it'ds not really that good because it's not bytes it's bits. Which is why you need the faster connection speed and the wireless N can go up to 450 mega bits.
As always you need to first test on a wired port. Wireless is almost always to blame but you have to be sure since you will never fix it if it was not the problem to start.
Be very careful about signal strength numbers. They mean exactly that, they in no way represent the quality of the signal. Some device drivers will show ratings based on how many errors your are getting which better represents the usability of the signal . This is why you have post all over this forum from people saying they have 5/5 signal and keep getting dropped. Best example I can give is 2 radios playing on different stations at full volume. You can hear both playing very loudly but the overlap is so bad it is hard to actually listen to one or the other. | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/43680-43-trouble-streaming-video | dclm-gs1-073490002 | false | false | {
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I was wondering if there was any way to track and locate a stolen laptop?? No anit-theft software was installed any help please???? Thanks
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You can talk to the people you bought it from. Sometimes the thief calls for tech support and can be caught. I've heard of thieves using programs that were installed and getting caught that way too. So if they use your games that have the evil always online drm, and you've talked to the game companies, there's a chance there.
It seems like facebook tracks which computer you connect with. You could get some luck there, if you talk to facebook.
You're not going to be able to track it yourself unless it has some remote control program running, or if it's running a server or something.
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I just put together what I thought was a killer system, but it seems to be choking in the games department.
This is the problem. From Doom 1 (you heard it) all the way to Quake 3, Icewind Dale, etc., it intermittently chunks for a second or two, then runs fine, then chunks....
Here's the specs:
Athlon socket 5 Gigabyte GA-7DXC motherboard
Athlon 1100 CPU (boxed with factory heatsink)
128 MB DDR Unbuffered RAM
Geforce 256 with 32 MB DDR RAM (creative's annihilator pro)
Hitachi DVD (GD-7500)
D-Link 10BT network card.
No conflicts, not overheating, and the task scheduler is off.
there are a lot of motherboard settings that I'm not real familiar with, but I have the video card settings (BIOS) set like this:
AGP Aperture size: 64MB
AGP Fast write: Enabled
AGP Mode: 4X
AGP always compensate: Enabled
(These are the defaults)
I left the following settings at default also:
SDRAM ECC setting (disabled)
DRAM timing setting by (auto)
DRAM Ph Limit (8 cycle)
DRAM Idle limit (8 cycle)
DRAM Trc timing value (8 cycle)
DRAM Trp value (3 cycle)
DRAM Tras timing value (7 cycle)
DRAM CAS latency (2 cycle)
SDRAM Trcd timing value (3 cycle)
The system Bus range is from 95-133, and I left it at the default: (Motherboard switches)
CPU(109) PCI(33.66) AGP(67.335)
Any change to one changes them all....
Another thing that I notice is when I check the physical memory available, there is between 20 and 60 MB free,(out of 128) and I'm not running a bunch of junk in the background.
Any help or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.
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Yea, I tried that.. No difference.. I also moved the system bus down to 95 after reading an article on Tweak3d.
(that got the AGP bus closest to 66)
I also tried disabling AGP fast write. No difference.
In quake3 it will be running at 60-90fps, then for a second or two become unplayable (3-10fps), then go right back up again.
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Post deleted by Take_Out What was in here basically, is that you go to My Computer icon, right click on it, left click on Properties, left click on performance, and you should read a percentage of RAM left to run new stuff, like games. The percentage should be about 85% to 98%, higher is better. What can sometimes happen, the game has not enough memory to put all the info it wants into, so it has to access the hard drive and this is MUCH slower, causing possibly the slow downs like you describe.
Another item, before I screwed the pooch on edit, was that you can (only in Half-Life as far as I know) add to the command line (found in properties of the icon) this command:
-heapsize 80000 This command tells the computer (I think) to set aside so much memory for the game to use if it wants to. There is another I use that I have no idea what it does:
-zone 4000 Both of these have to do with memory performance as far as I know. Some others are -nojoy -numericping -32bpp (this one is for 32 bit color) -noipx -console. Note that the memory settings are for use with 128meg RAM. Good Luck, Take-Out <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Take_Out on 01/23/01 05:09 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
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Yea, that seems like it could be true..
See, the minimum setting for the AGP aperture size is 32MB, and it looks like it's reserving that from the motherboard RAM for the video card.. That then leaves me with less than 100MB RAM to start with...
Also, are the SDRAM settings needed for DDR (PC2100) RAM ??
I may just have to go out and get another stick of RAM.
a b U Graphics card
"In quake3 it will be running at 60-90fps"
you should be getting 170fps in 640x480x16. if not, yer motherboard has issues. mine does and am getting a replacement
a b U Graphics card
Are you running Win2K? Win2K is a RAM eater and a performance reducer.
Is your CPU clocked at 100 or 133 Mhz? If it is at 133Mhz, why is it set at 109?
I guess you've got PC2100. So make sure your FSB and memory clocks are set to 133Mhz unless, of course, you've got a 100Mhz cpu clock.
- Better go Green than Blue!
a b U Graphics card
I'm running Win98SE
The 95-133 bus settings are the only ones offered.
This is the first good system that I've had, so I'm not up on the tweaks.. What bus speed should an Athlon socket 5 1100 CPU be set at?
I didn't notice any change in the whole deal going down, and it's just a simple 4 position switch on the motherboard away to do the 133 MHz. I don't want to overclock, though.
The reason that I set it down to 95 is because an article on Tweak3d about the Geforce256 said that it shouldn't have the AGP bus set above 66. The only settings that come close are the 95 MHz (AGP at 63.33) or the 133 (AGP at 66.6)
I just tried it on the 133 setting and the system wouldn't boot up...
Well ill supprised that that system even ran quake 3 at all. I pick up an early Micron DDR Athlon system at best buy after my old IBM crapped out(which was a replacement for a laptop......the only reason i owned a manufactured tower). The preformance on that thing with a gig tbird and a TNT2 Ultra was worse then my classic athlon 600. I had to disable the sound to even get around 3 fps. Didnt take much time for that system to go back, I think it was around 3 hours. Somethings wrong with the 760's or atleast the first runs of them?
I didnt really have a choice in the matter. Sold my hand built p233 tower for money on a laptop for college. Laptop died, didnt really need/want another one so got a IBM tower. Then the IBM died, but I had a p3 733 815E system built already. Then got the micron amd DDR gig system(to see what it would do/maybe swap out the chip and board to my system), it sucked major a$$. Seeing a pattern here. System from best buy are complete crap, but once they have your money all ya can do is keep getting crap system from them or store credit. Thats why my p3 733 system got a new GF2 Pro, 19" FD trinitron, Altec Lansing AC56 speakers, and a joystick courtesy of Best Buy. And the 733 system is still running with out a hitch. Hand built is the way to go for sure, stumbled into store bought systems for a while. Best of all I sold the p233 to my aunt and its still running just fine too.
a b U Graphics card
Quick idea: Check your Via 4-in-1 drivers. A missing or corrupted installation could crap up your performance.
Tom Mc
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Of course, there are no FSB over 133Mhz as of yet (at least, that I know about). A 200Mhz FSB is actually a 100Mhz FSB double pumped (hence DDR). To set your FSB at 100Mhz, your Athlon must be made to be clocked at 200Mhz. If your Athlon is clocked at 266Mhz, then set your FSB to 133Mhz.
You'll need PC2100 DDR SDRAM if you run the FSB at 133 or 100Mhz. If you use PC1600 DDR SDRAM, you will need to run the FSB at 100Mhz. So you can't use PC1600 with a 266Mhz enabled CPU.
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It's PC2100 DDR Unbuffered RAM, and the system bus is set at 100. I tried setting it on 133 and it wouldn't boot up.
How can I tell if my Athlon is clocked at 200 or 266?
(or is the above result the answer??)
a b U Graphics card
I tried both of the apps, and neither one says anything about bus speed.. Am I missing something?
Also, I got a hint about the RAM earlier and I think that may be a big part of it.. Does the AGP video card hog up your system RAM? I have practically nothing running and I'm still down to 40-70MB free physical memory.
(I just ordered another stick of 128)
a b U Graphics card
Well, you usually can tell the FSB by the part number on the CPU, but that would mean taking the heatsink off.
The system may supply a bit of its RAM if the card can't supply enough of his under heavy loads.
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Hey there,
You have some nice equipment.. I built a similar system to what you have with only a few differences... I went with an ABIT KT7-RAID mobo w/ tbird 1.1 GHz, 384 PC133 memory and Anihilator 2 Ultra 64 meg.. I had a few issues at first.. first thing to always check is bios revision. My system was slugish and locking up.. I had K7 optimization set at optimal and AGP fast writes with AGP writes /reads enabled thus giving greater performance. Abit released a bios on 12/12/00 and JUST 3 days later another one.. come to find out, they removed the K7 Optimization option in the bios.. they didn't even say that.. they just said it was to fix minor issues such as the north bridge chip enhancements with AGP fast writes.. After I flashed the performance was out of this world... so if you haven't checked for an updated bios for that Gigabyte motherboard, you might try it, even if the revision doesn't list changes that you think will help fix issues with your motherboard. If ya have another system you can test your memory and video card out, try it.. Try and rule out what the possible problem might be.. If it is Gigabyte, give them hell over it ;)
This is what I recommend
Set everything in your bios to setup and bios defaults, then go in and enable feature at a time till you find out where your problem lies... This can be a pain in the ass process, but sometimes it is the only way...
That's weird how it used 109 for the bus speed.. Should be a way you can "user define" your choices..
good luck!
Turn off fast writes ...good idea
but heres a thought
windows sucks #$%@#$#$%@#$
try manually setting swap file to SAME SIZE or windows will resize it offen creating that pause in games
300min 300max or 400min 400max (megs) works good
just rt click on my computer(then left click properties)
go to like performace and filesystem or virtual memory
i forget i use win2kpro and its been a while since i had that screen open on win98se
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OK, here's what you do:
Take the heatsink off and look for the serial number (somethig like this A1000ATP3B) on the die of the Athlon CPU and interpret the code according to the following specs:
The first letter (in this case, A) refers to the family/architecture: A = AMD Athlon architecture.
The following 4-digit number (in this case, 1000) refers to the speed: 0850 = 850Mhz, 0900 = 900Mhz, 1000 = 1000Mhz, 1100 = 1100Mhz, etc.
The following letter (in this case, A) refers to the package type: M = card module; A = PGA
The next letter (in this case, P) refers to the operating voltage: S = 1.5V; U = 1.6V, P = 1.7V, N = 1.8V
The following letter (in this case, T) refers to the case temperature: Q = 60 Celsius, X = 65, R = 70, Y = 75, T = 90
Then there is a number (in this case, 3) which refers to the size of L2 cache: 1 = 64Kb, 2 = 128Kb, 3 = 256Kb, 4 = 512Kb, 5 = 1Mb, 6 = 2Mb, 7 = 4Mb, 8 = 8Mb
Finally, the last digit which is of interest to you (in this case, B) refers to the maximum FSB: A = 133Mhz, B = 200Mhz (100Mhz DDR), C = 266Mhz (133Mhz DDR). In your case, you should read B or C.
I hope this helps!
Good luck and keep me posted...
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Sounds like a problem in a KT7 Bios document I have.
Read this and see if it is applicable on your Gigabyte mobo.
BIOS Setup
Advanced Chipset Configuration
PCI delay transaction
This makes the 32-bit write buffer accept delayed transaction cycles. Without this enabled your system will not comply with PCI 2.1. Note that users experiencing periodic system pauses often need to disable this setting to resolve this problem.
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Well, I've tried all the ideas posted and it did seem to have an effect. All problems stopped after I switched the AGP to 1X/2X in the BIOS, and I also set the virtual memory option at 400MB. Then the other day while playing against 4 bots in Q3 it did it again. Here's the kicker, since the sound was down low *I heard the system fans slow down while the graphics lag was happening.* This sounds like the system may be starved for power under heavy graphics load, but I just put in an approved 300W power supply.
Do you all think I need to go to 400W ?? The system wouldn't even start up with a 250W, and that's with everything disconnected, only RAM and CPU in.
That slowing fan stuff that you mentioned is awfully suspicious and it seems we are running out of tricks.
Try Look for stuff on "games stutter" and power supplies. I think there is a post on specific requirements for Geforce cards, amount of amperage required for both the 5 and 3.3 volt lines from the PSU. You probably want to exhaust all "tips" before replacing the PSU, though.
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This is the power supply that I have:
Power Man FSP300-60GT 300W
Before I put this in, the system wouldn't even start up.
Now I need to find out the specs of the PSU that I have.
Any hints where I could find some info ??
a b U Graphics card
Ah !
Nevermind that last request...It's on the PSU.. (Jeez)
And it looks to be low on the amps for the 3.3V line. The FAQ recommends 20A, and mine supplies 14A.
Anyone have a nice sparkle 400W PSU for sale cheap?? ;)
20 amps! I never realized the requirement for the Geforce was so high but it makes sense because I had heard mention of it needing up to 60 watts (and 3.3 volts * 20 amps = 66 watts). Although I never really believed that number either.
Before you spend anymore money you might want to get some more feedback on the power requirements for the Geforce.
Also, if it were me, if given the prospect on spending $100 on a 400 watt powersupply I might take a hard look at just putting that money toward a Geforce 2 GTS which consumes less power.
Hmmm. My L&C PSU only supplies 14A also on the 3.3 leg and my Geforce256 SDR works fine even when overclocked to 150/210. My system is, however, modestly equipped. I only have 1 DIMM and and a PCI modem to draw additional power on the 3.3 volt line. I think my ISA sound card draws from the 5 volt line. Also not all PSUs are the same. I think the ratings are at full load on all lines. It is possible that more power could be drawn on one line if others aren't at full load.
I don't know what to tell you but I still think that fan slowdown you speak of is suspicious.
a b U Graphics card
Yea, that sounds good... The only problem with going with another card is the fact that I probably won't be able to get a refund on the GeForce256.. I've had it just a little over a month..
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Ok, I checked with the place that I got the card.. They prefer to replace, but it may be possible to upgrade to the GTS card..(or maybe get a refund) The problem is, it's $219.. That's about $100 more that I paid for the 256..
So, do you think it's better to blow the $100 on the PSU, or blow it on the GTS?
I know the system in general is a power hog, since it wouldn't even boot with a 250W PSU, I wonder if it would still have the same problems with the GTS?
Also, do you know where I could find out about the power needs of the GTS?
This is a tough one. As you see from one of my previous posts it is possible to get a Geforce card working with a PSU no more capable than the one you have.
A literal slow down of devices is definitely a power related problem but it may not be your only problem. The source of your game "slow-down" problems maybe something else entirely.
I would hate to have you spend money on the wrong thing. On the otherhand, you probably don't feel comfortable with that power supply at this time.
A Geforce 2 MX would be a compromise but it would reduce power consumption by quite a bit and it would cost about the same (or even less) as a Geforce DDR.
Do you feel you have exhausted all possible solutions? Were there any tips left to try at
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One thing that I am thinking is that the system in general is a power hog, so when the GeForce needs that little bit extra, it's just not there..
The system slow down only happens in games, so I have assumed that the video card is somehow faulty, or that it is not getting something that it needs.
I have had the system on for hours playing Mp3's, watching DVD's, etc., but only games seem to cause this problem.
How does the MX stack up against the 256 ? I like the performance, and I guess I'd get a MONGO power supply if it would just run right...
I have read through most of the FAQ, and have tried many ideas. The biggest clue that I have found is in the 20A recommendation for the 3.3V line.. I am going to keep searching, but I am also in the process of trying to get the place that I got the original GeForce card to cut me a deal on the GTS card. After an online chat with support, they think that the card is faulty. I'm not sure it's that, but it's something.. Do you know how much less power the GeForce2 GTS uses compared to the 256? I could only find the FAQ for the 256 online, but I've been a little busy lately.
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Here's another idea:
I think I saw that you've got your resolution at 1280x1024. Try lowering that to 1024x768 or lower. And if your color's at 32 bits, try lowering it to 16 bits (which should be almost as good). Also, make sure your refresh rate is set somewhere between 75 and 85 HZ.
Doing all three of those things could significantly reduce the work you're making your system do, which should improve performance. Maybe the card's just being overworked...
I hope this helps! Good luck!
This may have been asked before (too many replies to wade thru) but what is your resource level before U run UR games ??? what is your virtual memory settings... thse can drasticaly effect running any games...
Try having at least 88% sys respoures free and virtual ,memory about 3 time the amount of memory U have (min & max if U can do it) also what version of Direct X have U got, if running v8, try v7... U caould also reinstall UR graphics drivers...
Were cookin' now... whoops...
Oh a thought... what temperature is your system running at when U have had it on for a while... eg an hour or so (reboot and check in the BIOS), I know Athlon processors run hotter that Intels...
I could be wrong but it could be an idea to check...
Were cookin' now... whoops...
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The system runs cool for as long as I've had it on.. (6-8 hours). I have the virtual memory set at 400 for both (I saw that on a 3d tweak page).
Regarding the other post, I tried turning down the resolution and depth, but GeForce cards actually run worse on the lower settings, so the problem is more pronounced.
I think I'm going for the 400W PSU.. I'll let you all know if that takes care of the problem or not.
I found these at Paul's Unofficial KT7 FAQ.
They sound like they could apply to any mobo with the VIA chipset.
Why does my KT7 freeze every 5 seconds?
Try the following:
Set "PCI Delay Transitions" to "Disable" under Advanced Chipset in the BIOS
Set "Memory hole at 15-16mb - enabled in BIOS
This may also be due to sharing of hardware IRQ's by a pair of PCI cards. See the question below "My system hangs with my network card. Why?" on how to troubleshoot this one (even if you don't have a network card!).
Another user reports that ACPI appeared to be the cause of this. He discovered that his video card was sharing an IRQ with the ACPI driver and that this IRQ was listed in Power Management/Wake-up Events/IRQs Activity Monitoring. He suggested disabling this, and if this doesn't help, disabling ACPI (see misc section)
This problem has also been linked to the power management software supplied with HP scanners.
Another user reported upgrading from VIA 4in1 driver v4.24 to v4.25a solved this problem.
a b U Graphics card
Rather than blowing $100 on a 400 watt p.s., you may want to check out the Enermax EG351--it can be had for between $60-70. It is a 330W p.s. that provides 30 amps peak/max on 3.3+ v., which should be more than sufficient for your system. It is a two fan design (92 mm. above the MoBo; 80 mm. rear).
Your system isn't maxed out in respect of expansion cards, and those are the principle users of the 3.3 'line'. I doubt that you need a 400W p.s.--besides, some high quality 300W supplies blow away 400Wers (don't be fooled by the numbers--always check the specs. The most important are the 3.3+ and 12+ output loads).
Final note: the '351' has a reasonably good reputation as a high quality, but relatively inexpensive p.s. PC Power & Cooling provides a good write-up on p.s. technology, and a good guide for determining the total load a particular system needs.
Now, that's some really useful information! (These Geforce cards are a nuisance).
Do you have any good links on power supplies and cases? Mine are fine for my present system. However, I sure would like to be able to give good recommendations to friends and not rely on "good luck".
I hope it fixes RealAnnubis' problem.
Thank you.
a b U Graphics card
AnandTech did a real good comparative review of 10 power supplies; however, it is somewhat dated now.
ArsTechnica has an excellent forum for checking out a whole variety of issues, particularly in respect of cooling (and, I suspect, cases). I have used a variety of other sites; unfortunately, I bought both my power supply and case (a Lian Li PC-60 all-aluminum case--real nice, but pricy) a while back and don't remember which specific sites I used. is an excellent search site to use for finding a variety of information: once you know a model number or whatever, use that as a search term and begin exploring. This is how I find reviews, and often hard-to-find information (I'm a librarian, so I'm used to locating information). It does take time, however.
One word of advice: if possible, always buy a case w/out a power supply if at all possible. If there is one things where vendors almost always skimp, it's the power supply. A large number of lock-ups, slowdowns, etc., are often due to an inadequate and/or cheap power supply. As with anything regarding computers, its almost always better to choose your own components.
A general rule of thumb is: determine the wattage (amps * volts) that each component uses (and I mean everything --cards, RAM, CPU, fans, etc.); add the figures up; and then tack-on a 20-30% fudge factor. Although quality power supplies can actually operate at up to approx. 160% rated capacity for short durations, to stress a power supply continually will wear it out (well duh!). Providing a fudge factor generally eliminates the power supply as the cause of problems; allows leeway for systems expansion; and provides an invaluable peace-of-mind ;)
A good general reference book to pick-up is 'PC Hardware in a Nutshell'. The authors are somewhat opinionated; the information is 6-8 months out of date; but it is well-written and not-too-lengthy (500 p.). It can be picked-up via for approx. $22 US.
bahngeist, (That's a hard name to remember but I guess mine isn't any easier) Thanks for the info. I wish I had read that AnandTech article befor I bought a case. I still might have made the same purchase. I was on the tighest budget and the case and AMD approved power supply was only $42 from Prior to reading that article I didn't know how to tell one 300w PSU from another. I also didn't know about a Geforce requiring 20A on the 3.3 volt line. I will in the future.
Anyway, my PSU has been working great for 3 months even with the supposed troublesome Geforce Card but only time will tell.
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It has been a few years since jumping on here, but I am in need of your help. Could you typographers give me any criticism on this rebranded wordmark that I have been developing. It is for the people search engine, known as Spokeo and is supposed to encompass a product that searches social media content to criminal records. There is a lot of brand strategy and thought that went into this wordmark, but rather than include that I want to include a simple neutral greyscale version rather than a sales pitch.
Here is a brief rundown of what the brand is trying to encompass:
· A company with all the tools to allow you to search for people and connect with them.
· A company that exhibits integrity and transparency and is trusted by consumers.
This is for a logo for a design studio. http://imgur.com/a/9gdj4#1 Going from left to right there's 4 pages. Please tell me which type looks best here and what can be done to refine it at it's best.
The ones in dark using a 4HB pencil are the ones Id like to choose from, but let me know what is suitable and whatwould be the best way to refine it if it needs any.
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1. L.A. Fakers
2004 LA lakers team. Was a shoe in to win the Title, but came up short. Can also be used to describe their fans as well.
Due to the fact they are delusional and live in LA LA land.
LA fakers got whooped by the Detroit Pistons.
2. L.A. Faker
Any person who claims to be a Los Angeles Lakers fan, but has ZERO ties to the Los Angeles area or the state of California for that matter. They love to worship the Lakers when they win and deem any criticism of their team as blasphemy. Basically, the ultimate fairweather fan. These people are everywhere.
Mark: Lakers all day baby!
Joe: Dude, you are from Florida. Do you have any connection to L.A. at all?
Mark: I like the Lakers.....
Joe: You are such an L.A. Faker
Mark: (speechless) .......... man, shut up.
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This weekend's Radio Derb is on the air, available as a podcast on iTunes, playable onscreen at Taki's Magazine, or readable in transcript form here.
One segment is built around some news items from Zimbabwe. From which:
The subject here is Zimbabwe, which when I was growing up in England was one part of the grandly-named Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a British colony with a degree of self-government. The Prime Minister of the thing was a genial fellow named Roy Welensky.
Well, the Federation fell apart in the early 1960s. Nyasaland became Malawi, Northern Rhodesia became Zambia, and Welensky retired to Southern Rhodesia.
Like most of these white British or South African colonial politicians in southern Africa, Welensky liked the local blacks and was sympathetic to their aspirations, but didn't think they were capable of governing themselves. In fact Welensky was famous for saying the following thing: "If you don't like black people, don't come and live in Africa."
Ian Smith, who became Prime Minister of independent Rhodesia in 1965, was of the same mind. He saw events in newly-independent black African countries like Ghana, independent 1957, and Nigeria, independent 1960, as confirming his opinions.
Smith had blacks in his parliament and administration and worked with them; but property and educational qualifications for suffrage kept blacks a minority of the electorate, though they were 95 percent of the population.
Smith's opinion, like Welensky's, was that if blacks took over the government the national economy would be wrecked and the whites would be turned on and driven out. This was, of course, considered by British and international elites to be a very disgraceful opinion. They refused all help or recognition to Smith's Rhodesia and imposed sanctions against the country.
The Soviets and black African countries fomented and armed a rebellion among Rhodesia's black population and a nasty little guerilla war started up, in which the tribes sometimes forgot they were supposed to be fighting the white man and turned their guns on each other.
These handicaps wore down the Smith government. At last, in 1980, majority rule was established and the blacks took over under Robert Mugabe, still in power today. In the following years the economy was wrecked and whites were turned on and driven out, exactly as Welensky and Smith had foretold.
They were perfectly right in their estimate of the blacks, though of course their opinion is still considered disgraceful.
So where are we now? Well, here are a couple of recent news stories from Rhodesia ? sorry, Zimbabwe.
News story one from Agence France-Presse, January 29th, quote:
"After paying public workers' salaries last week, the balance in Zimbabwe's government public account stood at just $217, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Tuesday.
'Last week when we paid civil servants there was $217 (left) in government coffers,' Biti told journalists in the capital Harare, claiming some of them had healthier bank balances than the state."
News story two from the BBC News website, February 7th, quote:
"Zimbabwe's education minister has deplored the fact that nearly 82 percent of students have failed their basic school leavers' exams . . .
"But David Coltart told the BBC this was an improvement on 2009, when only 14 percent passed . . .
"Zimbabwe used to have one of the best education systems in Africa.
"The results reflect the political and economic decline the country has witnessed over the past decade, correspondents say."
Roy Welensky died in 1991 in England. Ian Smith died in 2007 in South Africa. I suppose most right-thinking people today would consider them to be hate-filled racists. Scanning through their biographies on the internet, I don't see anything like that. The worst you can say about their attitudes to black Africans is that they were paternalistic.
Welensky and Smith were decent men who did their best for the people they governed. I honor their memory. They were replaced by a monster, who ran campaigns of race hatred, wallowed in gross corruption, sold his nation's assets to the communist Chinese, and reduced his people to beggary.
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vn_lilkinsly wrote: The LTTP said that if your house is open, then anybody can write on it. It also said if your house is closed, then anybody with guest access can write on it.
I'm not sure where an Allegiance with a mansion falls into that. Our house is closed, but the whole allegiance has access to the mansion. So who can write on the boards.
Zyrca: The people that can write on your chalk board are the same people that can cross your house barrier. So, if the allegiance mansion is open, then anyone can use and write on the chalk board. If the mansion is closed, but open to allegiance members, then allegiance members may write on the chalk board as well as anyone on the mansion guest list.
If you can cross the house barrier, you can write on the chalk board [/p]
ipeacefrog wrote: Have a friend staying with me that has spent 10+ hours running around the world, on HG, looking for Scarecrows over the last 2 days. He's using Bandit Sight and 6th Sense.
He has only found 1.
Is this intened or is there a problem with the spawn?
Ibn: The scarecrows are about as rare as they were last year, although they are more spread out. They have a lower chance of spawning in any given area, but the areas in which they spawn are greater.
SignoVinces wrote: So... i have heard anything from 1 minute to 5 minutes for answering admins regarding UCM.
I just want an official answer to how long it REALLY is.
Ibn: From what I know of their procedures, it varies depending on circumstance (for example they can extend the time if you're suddenly attacked by monsters) but it's usually a little under five minutes.
SamWaldo wrote: I have been LS in AB for abour 2 years now and in all that time I get mad when I have to go to a diff town just to buy my Stamina Potions.
The healers are supose to carry all the basice and since all the other healers IG have and sell Stamina Potions I think its about time the trade routs make their way out to the AB healer and resupply him more offten then about 4-12 every hour or so.
Ibn: Definately something we're aware of, no ETA for a change.
Matrix-Monkey wrote: What was the point of the Animal Talker book, That Nuhumidra gave for the Living Tome?
Orion: Did you read what she said before she handed it over? Maybe if you knew what that said...:-) Maybe it's just that she wants to be Dereth's version of Dr. Seuss?
DogHood_TD wrote: Please drop all the fancy Graphics at game entry. They have blown my old computer out of the game. I can't get in with 3d acceleration
not enabled ( I used to be able to do that).
Orion: Have you recently upgraded the driver for you video card? Did you recently install a windows patch, perhaps an upgrade to directx?
The splash screens shouldn't be doing anything to your graphics card.
CyranosCottage wrote: Wheres the Mite love?
Orion: Mites are on landscape, they are just lower level creatures now, so if you don't hunt in the lower level areas of the world, you may not see them often.
Demona82 wrote: I was just wondering if it was in the tech to use multiple imbues at partial effect?
srand: Nope. Each imbue is recorded as a flag -- the weapon has it or it doesn't -- and then it's effect is figured out based on your skill. If we wanted to record magnitudes of effects as well, we'd need to add a bunch more data to the system, and we'd probably want to rework how imbues are currently recorded.
Now as far as technical feasibility goes, we could add a new imbue -- one that does CS and CB, both with a set lower maximum effect. But we have no plans to add such an imbue in the immediate future.
Eu__insumi wrote: Composite bow/xbow update? The current rewards are obviously useless now, maybe they can be brouhgt back to the spotlight.
srand: The composite weapons are indeed on our list to upgrade, but because of the sheer amount of work they need (there are 144 different varieties of weapon right now, and we'd like to add atlatls), they are pretty far down the priority list.
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Discussion in 'Fly Fishing Forum' started by Paul Huffman, Jun 10, 2002.
1. Paul Huffman Lagging economic indicator
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Yakima, WA.
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The recent New Yorker Magazine article and the recent Bonneville counts have me wondering if there's a shad fishing scene in the Columbia. Can you fly cast from shore anywhere for a shad diversion?
2. DEREK New Member
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Olympia, WA.
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3. ray helaers New Member
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It's probably starting to get a little late for shad. I'm sure it's still good right now, but we might be past the peak, and if you want to go, you should hurry. I've never been able to figure out if and where there's any good flyfishing from the shore down on the Columbia, and where the fishing is the hottest, right below Bonneville, is BIG FREAKING WATER! Not for little boats, inexperienced boaters, or the faint of heart. (No joke; people drown.)
I have always wondered about the quiet water in that big bay thing at Camas (pretty stinky), but I know there's shad fishing in the Willamette and the Clackamas which should be available to wading and small boat anglers (I'm not sure when the peak of the run is in those streams).
Here's a way to go on the big river: book a sturgeon trip. I'm not kidding. I haven't done it in a few years, but that's some of the most fun I've ever had with a fishing rod in my hand. Sure, it's essentially plunking with dead bait, but those sumbucks go upwards of 4 bills! And can take an hour to land! Don't be so damed snooty and put your back into it (jeez, if we can fish for carp...).
And here's the kicker. Most of the guides bring light tackle along to spend the last couple hours letting their sports catch some shad. The sports get to hook and land a dozen or so hard fighting shad (gullible too, reportedly), and the guide gets fresh sturgeon bait for free. Most of these guys are live and let live types, and if you wanted to bring your flyrod on board to do your end of the day "bait" fishing, I'm sure most wouldn't object, as long as you promised not to hook him with the fool thing.
Sturgeon trips are a good deal too. They run $250-$350 a day or so (depending on amenities and what not), but most of these chaps are running big sleds, and will take up to 4 anglers. Get three of your friends together and all of a sudden it's not too bad. Plus you'll have people along to confirm your seamonster stories.
4. rockfish Member
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Manchester, Wa
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hey the shad is just starting to get good, plenty of room around bonneville for them, going this weekend with a buddy who has fished it alot, will reply on how to catch them from the bank with a fly rod. see ya on the water
my buddy says use one rod and plunk for sturgeon and fish for shad with the other, best time of year for both, its a mixed fishery as far as I know.
5. oldlogger New Member
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vancouver, wa, us.
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Hey Rockfish, I thought fishing with two rods was poaching
6. rockfish Member
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Manchester, Wa
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if fishing for sturgeon and casting a fly rod for shad is a crime at the same time, ok I'll reel in my sturgeon line everytime I feel the need to cast for shad so you will need not to worry about me but yourself :TSKTSK | http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/columbia-river-shad.1090/ | dclm-gs1-073630002 | false | false | {
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Discussion in 'Fly Fishing Forum' started by Wild Steelhead Coalition, Jan 6, 2012.
1. freestoneangler Not to be confused with Freestone
Posts: 3,320
Edgewood, WA
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This same headline was posted in the 70's, 80's, 90's...
[QUOTE/] These rivers, which all have hatcheries, are closed. What about this reality is so difficult to understand?[/QUOTE]
Just stop clipping the hatchery fish and everything will be restored to normal :rolleyes:
Look, I too would love to believe we could click our wading boots and make everything right that has been thrashed by a cadre of reasons I (and others) have already mentioned. This may sound really selfish, but I like to fish; for trout, steelhead, and salmon. And, to be frank, it soon becomes a boring activity w/o some reasonable level of fish population. If we end hatcheries, we will for all practical argument end the reasonable opportunity to catch the quarry we seek; at least in our lifetimes. It's naive to think we can return things to the way "they were" by simply closing hatcheries.
God willing, I have maybe 20-25 seasons left where I'll either be here in physical form to fish or in physical shape to do so. I'm not up for standing in fish less rivers during that time. I'll buy into the hatchery closure when I see closure of tribal and commercial fishing for these stocks being done concurrently -- which, sorry to say, isn't likely to happen.
2. Matt Burke Active Member
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We have to. It's the end of the world as we know it. Not unexpected though and that is why I didn't take time off this month. February is always a good time to fish the shit out of Trigg's rivers. I'll text you my days off this month. Let me know.
3. Jonathan Tachell Active Member
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Gig Harbor, Washington
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I agree with freestoneangler it gets really old going out fishing and not even having a decent chance at catching a fish, because there are none! I am in favor of bringing back the high hatchery production of years past in rivers that have very little or no wild return so at least people can go out and enjoy the sport of fishing and actually be succesful from time to time. My #1 passion is fishing for king salmon in the Tacoma area, I grew up doing that with my father. I used to fish 3 to 5 times a week in the summer and 2 times a week in the winter. I think last year I put in maybe 15 days for kings. Just for the simple reason that I was wasting my time and money fishing for fish that are not there. It makes me terribly sad to see the shape that our fisheries are in but unfortunately hatcheries are the only way to keep the sport alive, especially in the Puget Sound area and trust me it dies more and more every year. I know a lot of guys who have sold there boats and gear and given it up and to be honest with you I am not far from it myself.
4. FT Active Member
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Burlington, WA
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ak powder monkey,
How does having catch & release imply there is a harvestable surplus in the river?
Also, since it is well-known the anadromous fish populations in the PNW fluctuate from years of relatively high abundance to years of relatively low abundance, correslated somewhat with El Nino and La Nina, why must we always assume that the low abundance years mean the fish are in trouble of extinction so all fishing, including catch & release should be curtailed, and in high abundance years assume there are more than enough fish to be caught with many getting bonked with no detriment to the run?
5. o mykiss Active Member
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Stocking the hell out of a bunch of these rivers with hatchery fish is never going to happen as long as the Endangered Species Act is around in its current form. So all you zombie lovers better get used to it. Go ahead and sell your boats and gear. (sheesh, whatever shred of hope I have of the fly angling community being half way enlightened is further frayed by threads like this.)
6. ak_powder_monkey Proud to Be Alaskan
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Eagle River, Alaska
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most studies put C&R fishing for steelhead at a 5% mortality rate... So when regulating fisheries its assumed that 5% of the fish caught are going to die, that is your harvestable surplus.
7. Chris DeLeone Active Member
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Monroe, WA
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I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to understand. Hatcheries don't work. Every one of the listed closed rivers has a hatchery on it. There is absolutely zero correlation between hatcheries and open rivers to fish. But, there is a direct correlation, scientifically proven, between hatcheries and closed rivers.
Hatcheries = closed rivers. It's right there in front of us. How could any sane person argue otherwise?
You are watching the end of fishing now and in the future. These rivers, which all have hatcheries, are closed. What about this reality is so difficult to understand?
So Nail - Please tell me how people are fishing the Sandy this season? Hatchery run and a depressed
native run that is well under some of the PS systems, ESA listed and still anglers are able to CnR and fish through, what Juns/July??
I would say that the hatchery on he Sandy is a direct correlation of having a hatchery and an open river - while I don't support hatcheries on all rivers this example is important. Since u live there - its more of a question?
Thanks Chirs
8. Checkthisout Member
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Redmond, Washington
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Systems with Hatcheries also tend to have a lot of development or some type of impoundment that the hatchery was installed to mitigate in the first place.
OP rivers also have hatcheries yet no closures.
I think what you are finally seeing is what logging, rip-wrapping and overfishing have done to the species.
It just takes this long before you really start to see the negative impacts of those activities. Each little hit over the years takes away a little bit more.
Elwell is a good example. That stream used to be fairly pristine but one blowout over 12 years ago completely killed that stream. All the holding water filled in which sped up streamflow which means less little creatures, less small gravels (that aren't constantly shifting).
An example of a piece of water relatively unimpacted by logging (simply because it has a large swamp to help average flows) is Griffin Creek.
9. Checkthisout Member
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Redmond, Washington
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Try Sea-Run cut throat fishing. These tend to spawn before the floods come through and destroy their nests. They also tend to spawn in protected sidewaters. They also are not subject to ocean conditions that seem to so greatly effect fishing for other species.
Native steelies may make a minor comeback as Ocean conditions improve in favor of anadramous fish but not to fishable levels.
10. Chris Bellows aka. topwater
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The Salt
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11. Smalma Active Member
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Marysville, Washington
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I understand that many folks here are anti hatchery and want to see the end of releasing them. However using this list of PS river closures to make your case is a huge reach. Of course every river on the "list" has a hatchery on it. Under currernt WDFW policies and NMFS ESA guidelines if the river did not have hatchery steelhead retruning to them they were all ready closed - no need for an emergency closure as we aren't fishing.
Examples of PS rivers without returning hatchery steelhead that were all ready closed but hsitorically supported winer steelhead fisheries include included the Samish, Nisqually, Cedar, Skokomish, Hamma Hamma, Dosewallips, and Duckabush. With the exception of the Samish the status of the winter steelhead on the rest of the those streams is at least as depressed as those on the "list". More to the point the steelhead populations on the north half of the Salish seas (BC) are doing as poorly the PS populations and most of them are also without hatchery fish.
I mentioned the Samish which is an interesting exception to what is going on with PS steelhead that begs for more study. While returns to the Samish have been up and down over this period of low PS steelhead survival its wild steelhead escapement goal has been met a number of times and the average escapement for the period is near the goal. This even though until the last couple years there were hatchery steelhead returning. BTW last year its escapement exceeded the goal by 1/3 and it is likely it will do so again this year. Is anyone fishing? - No; there aren't any hatchery fish.
Tight lines
12. freestoneangler Not to be confused with Freestone
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Edgewood, WA
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Checkthisout -- Good point about the effects of what happened to rivers in Puget Sound just taking more years to reach the OP and rivers not smack in the middle of 3 million people.
13. freestoneangler Not to be confused with Freestone
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Edgewood, WA
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Topwater & Omykiss - I take it you would both be OK with simply casting for steelhead/salmon or not fishing for them at all?
14. Josh dead in the water
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NW Washington
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Isn't that what steelhead fishing is, casting and not catching?
15. Chris Bellows aka. topwater
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The Salt
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16. Dan Page Member
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Yelm, Wa., USA.
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17. skyrise Active Member
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everett, wa.
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Smalma, good point on hatchery vs no fishing at ALL. thanks for the info on the Samish. very interesting that some small streams like that can be doing well at the same time the big river to the north of it with hundreds of miles of river, side streams and creeks is not getting any better.
and why isnt the Sauk much better with Salmon? with all the miles and miles of good spawning water it seems that salmon runs just never have been very good for a long time.
is it the nets?
18. Matt Burke Active Member
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Hey Curt,
Glad to see you in on this thread. Several years ago you stated that Steelhead and Salmon returns cycle up and down where as Steelhead might be up then Salmon later on. Did that ever happen because my direct experience on the rivers tells me they all have been just fizzling out since then? The Samish is interesting. Do those fish return via the straight or inland channel? The OP fish, do they return via open water too? Are the water temps in their feeding grounds causing fish to swim farther north? Can you give me any guidence here on what's going on or am I making this too complex? Is it just that simple that any of the rivers close to Seattle are going to die out? S river actually stands for (S)eattle and it was the kiss of death? Cheer me up Curt, please.
19. Charles Sullivan dreaming through the come down
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bellingham wa
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Those of use who believe that hatcheries may be a large part of the problems realize that in-river impacts (at least at smolt stage) are low. Puget sound interactions are unknown. The point that rivers without hatcheries are doing as poorly as those with have nothing to do with PS interaction issues. Hatchery effects may also take place in the sound. Skagit hatchery fish can have a negative impact on Green River wild fish in the PS. Especially since the Hatch fish spend 2X the amount of time the wild fish do in the PS. They are also released to smolt at the same exact time the wild fish are leavin the Skagit. Of course we don't know what's going on in PS, but if we are gonna be conservative in our approach (Ie. 10% C&R mortality) then let's be conservative.
Regarding the Samish: As I see it 3 things need to be looked at.
1.) How many Samish Fish are Skagit strays?
2.) Do the fish smolt at the same time as the Skagit wild/hatch fish?
3.) Do they travel in a different manner than the Skagit fish?
Go Sox,
20. Wild Steelhead Coalition wild steelhead for the future
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Pacific Northwest
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Great discussion, everyone. So quick question, though: how many of you either...
1. attended the WDFW's Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting on Saturday to testify on behalf of the Sport Fishing Rules Proposal for 2012-13
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that is in effect. they do it, because if they don't do it, the farm legislation lapses and we revert to farm laws between 1938 and '39. the house has not even voted on its version. congress doing nothing about even the stuff everyone is paying attention to, not to mention being famously not in session, it seems highly unlikely the house is going to get it done in time. so what? here's what, in one example. if there is no new farm bill six days from now, the government will have to abide by the provisions of a 19 49d law regarding milk. that would require them to buy milk from dairy farmers at hugely inflated prices. if that law takes effect again in 2013, the government will be forced to pay double what it currently pays for milk. for a short time it will be awesome for dairy farmers, they can sell as much milk as they can to make a ton of money. even dairy farmers know that the windfall will be bad news real quick. the government run on milk will lead to shortages for people who buy milk at the grocery store or buy it to make dairy products like cheese and pizza. americans love their pizza. it w
't be a discussion. senator harry reid has a pocket veto on the budget. >> and that's not within the law. the law says the congress has to pass a budget every year, the senate has to pass a budget but harry reid has chosen not to bring a budget year after year after year. he's not committed to dealing with the major problem of the country, the spending. >> and it's sort of interesting. nevada re-election him, that's their choice but the rest of the country is held hostage. people in my home state of wisconsin, if they don't like harry reid has majority leader there's nothing they can do. they can put pressure on their senators, but for the most part senator harry reid is in a very powerful position. >> i think he's taking orders from president obama. this is time for the president of the united states to lead. there's only one person who has the pen who can sign into law the law preventing us from going over the cliff and if the president actually wanted to get it done, he would tell harry reid and others this is what we had to do and he would make the arrangement to make sure we didn't go over t
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. >> wayne lapierre does not agree s. that right? >> just because you have somebody in leadership that doesn't agree with that as far as speaking upon that, i'm not going to speak for them. i'm looking at it from a reasonable, responsible approach to be taken by legitimate gun owners like myself. we are protecting the second amendment rights and should be some gun sense and we are talking and i don't want to go in to specifics because we've been working pretty strongly for this and hopefully we'll have something soon. >> you mentioned you're a member of the nra and universal background check is necessary and needed, something to support. that is counter to the head of the nra wayne lapierre. is there a clear divide? are you saying that the members of the nra are no longer willing to go with the leadership? >> no. i'm saying that you can respectfully respect someone else's opinion. >> right. >> i respectfully disagree on that. but i still respect their position on it. i don't agree with it. and that's the problem. we keep trying to drive wedges and drive people apart. and we're trying to brin
and ceo wayne lapierre took on the white house today. he said, it's been the obama's administration's plan all along to confiscate guns through universal background checks. >> the media called me crazy when i said that given a second term obama would come after our guns. okay. i was wrong. he did it before his second term even official le begun. he tried to do it. at the very heart of their anti-gun agenda is what they call universal background checks. don't you be fooled. there is nothing universal, nor responsible, about it. it's aimed at registering your guns. and, when another tragic opportunity presents itself, that registry will be used to confiscate your guns. >> let's move back overseas, where oscar mipistorius spent t weekend out of jail and on bail. the track star remain indoors much of the weekend still new developments in this case. his brother, carl pistorius faces charges of negligent homicide from a 2008 car accident when he hit a woman biker with his car. it's not uncommon for charges to be dropped and reinstated. as the lead investigator in the reeva steenkamp found out la
. >> reporter: that's wayne lapierre in 1999. he, of course, is basically the chief voice of the nra still today. he was on fox news sunday, this morning. he was indicating his opposition to universal background checks. obviously. it's not what he said in 1999. his fear is there would be a gun registry and the government would insert itself in what should be a private matter for individuals. >> that radical change of thought. you know the picture that jay carney tweeted, a lot of people were talking about it. >> reporter: there were a lot of people talking on it. if you go on social media, i'm sure you heard about the skeet shooting. we reached out to the nra after that photo was put out. one picture does not erase a lifetime of supporting every gun ban and every gun control scheme available. the white house would challenge that characterization of the president's policies on guns. he is a strong supporter of the second amendment. >> many thanks as always. >>> new on "meet the press," panetta gave his confirmation to chuck hagel. >> the political knives were out for chuck hagel. what disappointe
, in march of 1993 wayne lapierre was on "face the nation." he made the point that we believe very strongly that those people need to be included in the system for background checks. >> if john mccain's 2010 campaign, when he ran for president, is the most memorable campaign of any that i have covered. we will never see it again. he was facing george w. bush who had the republican party backing him and the three republicans from new hampshire and all the money. john mccain held 114 town meetings and stayed there until every question was answered. you can see the light will go on in people's heads. john mccain said we are not going to get a patient's bill of rights. next question. it was this refreshing candor. he was totally open to the press. it was a cantor and openness, sort of a welcome this that no one had seen before and no one has seen since. longtime columnist -- >> longtime paul -- longtime columnist on his career in politics. tonight at 8:00. she never set foot in washington. her husband, benjamin harrison tie -- benjamin harrison, died after his first month in office. in c-span's
't continue. 89% of republicans actually support this idea of universal background checks and wayne lapierre himself when he was testifying about this on behalf of the nra years ago said he was in favor of universal background checks so at least have some consistency about this. clearly, the american people are standing in favor of this. how can 435 people in the house of representatives stand in the way of what the overwhelming majority of the american people want? >> with that said, looking again at legislation, we have talked a lot about what this does to this country, how it makes us feel. we know this but it has to move along to some kind of legislation in your opinion from what we have seen thus far, and combined with this poll, is that the heart of what we're looking at eventually, universal background check? major legislation that comes out of this? >> ultimately, i think there's a compromise and mental health care, service pros vided. >> sure. >> a background check. i think they're going to try to do high capacity magazines. i don't know if they get the assault weapons ban but a maj
they are framing these issues in that press conference we saw several weeks ago with wayne lapierre, it's like night and day. they saw the numbers and you have aired them on the network showing the nra becoming increasingly unpopular and they knew they needed to change their approach. what they are trying to do is do it in a more explanatory tone so people understand. they know the president is still fairly popular, at least compared to the rest of his term and other presidents in their second term right now. they know they need to be smarter than having a 30-minute long press conference. they didn't take any questions, just trying to tell the public what to think. >> shira, jacki, thanks to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> the confirmation for treasury nominee jack lew is underway. he's going to succeed secretary timothy geithner. lawmakers are expected to question him about his stint at citigroup between the clinton and obama administrations. they could save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to geico...they may even make you their best man. may i have the rings p
-- >> rose: that's exactly what wayne lapierre says. >> what's wrong with that? >> rose: nothing, i'm just making a point. that ice his principle part of his speech. >> the republican party today has got some problems, obviously. it's got to reach out -- and they're saying it. ey've got to chae. ericantor is saying it, marco rubio is saying it, paul ryan is saying it, governor jindal is saying it. the question is how do you think the republican party has to change? >> i'm not one of those who believes that our philosophy is somehow fundamentally flawed or that we need to be more like democrats. democrats love to tell us that if you guys would just be like us you'll win elections. well, i remember one of the low points of my career was on the morning after the '76 election jerry ford had lost his voice and i had to get on the telephone with the president and read the president's concession statement to jimmy carter. that hurt, i do not enjoy that moment. but it also it was beginning, if you will, of what became the reagan revolution in the sense that those four years of carter laid the stag
violence in our community, black gun ownership lags far behind white gun ownership. perhaps we know wayne lapierre is wrong about good guys and bad guys and guns. many of us find him hard to trust. his recent editorial in the daily caller spoke of supposedly rampant crime and murder in some place he called south brooklyn in the days after hurricane sandy. i live in brooklyn and there is no place referred to as south brooklyn but i think it's safe to say when he says that, much of the country envisions a place clogged with black people. if adam lanza with walked in a school in south brooklyn, we would probably not be having a sustained national conversation about guns. adam just smushed the pain of the gun epidemic in america's faw face but black people have been living with that pain for so long we're numb to it. black on black crime is a far more prevalent
by paranoid people like the woman from kentucky who calls president obama a muslim, wayne lapierre who says black people will loot and riot, so everybody needs guns -- host: on guns? caller: when we get these people home and they do not have jobs because congress is blocking jobs, and they have ptsd, and we have all these problems in this country, i am wondering, should these people have access to 30- round assault weapons? guest: henry, thank you for your call and comments. the basic idea -- you're touching on issues like gun control and many other different things. the question is, can our people come back from afghanistan and have an gainful employment when they come back? the answer has to be, the nation has to do it in such a way that the answer must be yes. the reality of the situation is that unfortunately for many veterans, their unemployment rate is many -- is much higher than it should be, particularly in comparison to their civilian peers. this is a wake-up call for employers to take a look and see what they can do to help veterans that have so valiantly fought for our country in
there are these horrific tragedies like newtown, gun sales go up. >> stephanie: yeah we were saying that wayne lapierre does not even speak for nra members he speaks for the gun-buying lobby. 61% of americans want stricter gun control laws. did you see that sandy hook parent -- >> oh, yesterday he was testifying before -- >> stephanie: oh. holding the picture and crying. how are you a human and not -- and he was talking about banning assault weapons. how horrific was that to have to listen to him talk about the specific injuries his son suffered, and how he died and you know -- literally it's just heart breaking. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: oh another edition of you are not helping. >> okay. >> stephanie: idaho lawmakers force all adults into militias to protect gun rights. there's a problem solver. you will be shocked to know it's a republican lawmaker jim. he has proposed -- he feared the u.s. supreme court would change the definition of the second amendment and argued that the federal government could never take away people's guns if the idaho constitution
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Alright, I am officially getting excited!
Sure, the Tigers stink, the Red Wings came up short once again and I am stuck waiting four more days for the premiere of Prometheus, but I am still excited.
The bulk of the reason for my excitement is that the NBA draft is less than a month away.
On that night, the Detroit Pistons will get a few more bullets to add to the arsenal that already includes some very good pieces.
And while team president Joe Dumars did well in the last two drafts, there are still ways that he can ruin this joyous night.
Here are three things that Detroit should consider to make their draft a successful one.
The First Pick Must Be a Safe One
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The Detroit Pistons have the ninth overall pick in this year's draft. And while this draft isn't as deep as it once appeared, there still will be some good players available to Detroit when they are on the board.
But the Pistons need to hold firm to their recent run of pragmatic picks.
If Tyler Zeller is on the board, the Pistons need to seriously consider grabbing him.
He is big, athletic and likes to mix it up down low.
But there will likely be at least a few more players on the board that have more upside than Zeller, including Perry Jones, John Henson and Terrence Jones.
The Jones boys have similar issues. They are immensely talented, but they might not have it upstairs to make it in this league.
Henson has the mental part down, but he is built more like Austin Daye than he is Greg Monroe.
Is it possible that one of those three could turn into an All-Star-caliber player? Absolutely.
But is it likely? Probably not.
The Pistons need a safe pick here. They have blown too many lottery picks in the past and need to continue their string of good luck.
Aggressively Pursue Trades
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Okay, so it is very wishful thinking to imagine that Detroit could rid themselves of Ben Gordon or Charlie Villanueva via trade on draft night, but it isn't impossible.
That being said, the Pistons do have some trade chips, and on draft night is when teams finally start getting greedy.
The Pistons, if they get the chance, should try to deal anyone on the roster not named Monroe to secure not only talent, but young talent.
They also need to consider the possibility of either trading up or trading down from No. 9.
If someone like Thomas Robinson begins to slip, the Pistons need to act fast.
And if Zeller is gone at No. 9, they should really try to move back and look to get someone like Meyers Leonard or Fab Melo. The Pistons need size up front, and they need that pick to be a safe one.
I could really see the Pistons becoming active on draft night.
Package the Two No. 2s for a No. 1
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The Pistons have two very good second-round picks, No. 39 and 44.
And while the first round should be loaded with talent, the second round naturally is much thinner.
The Pistons, meanwhile, have quite a few bodies committed already to their team for next year, and adding two more fringe players really won't help much, especially given the likelihood that Kyle Singler returns next year from Spain.
The Pistons need to do everything in their power to package these picks away for a late first-rounder.
The Pistons have two huge needs. They need interior strength (and hopefully a shot-blocker), and they need to gain athleticism on the wings.
They likely will get a big man early, but they should try hard to get one late as well.
Fab Melo could be around, as could Andrew Nicholson and maybe even Arnett Moultrie.
Or, they could go for a swing man like Moe Harkless, Jeffery Taylor or Quincy Miller.
And even if it costs another No. 2 down the road, the Pistons need to get two No. 1 picks this year.
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College football is loaded with traditions, many of which even casual fans can recite from memory.
There’s the Clemson team running down the hill and touching Howard’s Rock, Tommy Trojan piercing the midfield logo with a sword, Uga watching games from between the hedges and Rocky Top blaring all Saturday afternoon in Knoxville and the dotting of the "i" in Script Ohio.
While college basketball doesn’t have the sheer amount of traditions that its gridiron counterpart does, those that are in place are fueled by equal levels of passion and devotion.
Here are five of the best college basketball traditions across the country.
Taylor University: The “Silent Night Game”
Taylor University may appear to be no different than hundreds of other small Christian schools across the nation, but it has one of the most unique traditions in all of sports.
Every December Taylor hosts what is deemed the “Silent Night Game.” The crowd shows up in a number of outlandish costumes, many of them Christmas related, and always takes the spotlight away from the actual game.
The fans remain eerily silent until Taylor scores its 10th point, which is when they go completely crazy. Fueled by the pent up energy developed during the quiet beginning, the crowd then ratchets up the intensity to intimidating levels for the rest of the game.
That is, until the outcome is well in hand. Then the Taylor faithful begin swaying back and forth as they break out into a moving rendition of silent night.
Fast forward to the 2:30 mark in the video to hear the singing.
Kansas: Rock Chalk Chant
Of all the traditions on this list, the “Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk, KU” chant, which echoes perfectly in Allen Fieldhouse, is probably the most likely one to give college basketball fans goose bumps.
The cheer actually has its origins in the chemistry department on campus. A professor created a cheer for the science club in 1886, but the original "Rah, Rah" was later replaced by the familiar rock chalk, which is the name for the limestone found on Mount Oread, where Kansas University is located.
While the chant is much more boisterous as the game is about to begin, it is the ghostly rendition when Kansas has the game in hand that leaves the most memorable mark.
The actual chant starts at 1:07 in the video.
John Brown University: The TP Game
If there was a March Madness-style tournament of unique traditions in college basketball, John Brown University would probably match up with Taylor University and its Silent Night singers.
For the first game of every season, the fans make sure to show up armed with rolls of toilet paper. When the Golden Eagles score their first basket, the crowd proceeds to throw all of its toilet paper on the court.
The Golden Eagle mascot has even been known to do its version of snow angels in the sea of white paper.
It inevitably draws a technical foul and has been affectionately termed the best technical foul in all of sports.
St. Joseph’s: The Hawk
Look, mascots are a dime a dozen. Yes, some are more popular than others, but they ultimately serve the same purpose.
So why does the St. Joseph’s hawk find itself on this list?
Well, it never stops moving and flapping its wings, which is why the St. Joseph’s motto is “The Hawk Will Never Die.” In fact, according to ESPN, the hawk once flapped its wings 3,500 times during a game.
As you can see, not even the national anthem will stop the hawk.
The hawk is one of the few mascots that actually travels to road games in college basketball, and the student who dons the costume receives a full ride scholarship to the school.
Not a bad deal.
One Shining Moment
It would take something truly special after the broadcast of a national championship game to delay the winning team fanbase's celebration.
It would also take something special to prevent the losing team’s fanbase from disgustedly turning the TV off right after the final buzzer.
Good thing for CBS that “One Shining Moment” is that something special.
Ironically enough, the most iconic song in college basketball was scribbled down on a napkin in 20 minutes by David Barrett while he waited for a friend to meet him for brunch.
The napkin story may not be as historically poetic as the tale of Francis Scott Key writing the National Anthem, but it’s as unique as the song itself.
Make sure to stay up late enough to watch the highlight montage at the end of next year’s NCAA tournament.
It’s worth it.
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It's a loaded question. But we met with several fighters on the UFC roster, including Gilbert Melendez, Frank Mir, Chad Mendes and more and asked them that very loaded question: they could take over Dana White's office over on Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas for a day, what would they change about the promotion that they currently fight for?
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A vaccination exposes your body to a dead or attunated (weakened) live version of the virus. That causes your immune system to recognize that virus as an invader, and respond much more quickly when it see it. It’s the white blood cell equivalent of a wanted poster. The homeopathic rememdies at best, boost the entire immune system, and are roughly the equivalent of saying “we are looking for a criminal in a blue sweatshirt”. Unless they have actual virus particles in them, they CANNOT “prevent” flu. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR before taking any unregulated drugs, and especially before giving them to young children. Too much of certain vitamens might be hazardous | http://blog.timesunion.com/parenting/5221/homeopathic-swine-flu-treatment/ | dclm-gs1-073860002 | false | true | {
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The SQL Server Replication errors are very unique and hard to troubleshoot.
Depending on the Replication architecture you have or the SQL Server versions, you can encounter different issues that you have to troubleshoot , every time from scratch.
One of the error messages that have a specific reproduction scenario is "Error 2812 : Could not find stored procedure 'dbo.sp_MScheckIsPubOfSub'".
You can find below the steps to reproduce the issue and some recommendations to workaround or to prevent the error message from happening.
Steps to Reproduce:
We have the following configuration : Merge Replication with the Publisher and the Distributor on the same server and 3 Subscribers with different build of SQL Server.
1 Publisher (on the same server we have also the Distributor) with SQL Server 2008R2 SP2
1 Subscriber with SQL Server 2008R2 RTM that we named SUB0
1 Subscriber with SQL Server 2008R2 SP2 that we named SUB1
1 Subscriber with SQL Server 2008R2 RTM that we named SUB2
We make sure the replication is working fine . We test the synchronization. We verify if all is ok in the Replication Monitor on Publisher.
We will turn off manually the Subscriber SUB0.
We will now delete the Subscriber SUB0 using the interface: right click on the subscriber delete. During the delete we will receive a popup with the message indicating that the subscriber was successfully deleted from the Publisher but it could not connect to the subscriber and delete is from there.
We try to restart all remaining replications : SUB1 and SUB2.
The synchronization:
- For SUB1 is done with success because the SQL Server version for this subscriber is SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 and the stored procedure exists;
- For SUB2 it fails with the error message described above;
This stored procedure (sp_MScheckIsPubOfSub) will only get called when the following conditions are true:
1. Either publication side or subscription side, there is an entry in the sysmergesubscriptions table whose status is 2. (status 2 means deleted)
2. The information in the publication side and subscription side is not the same, which means, for the same entry, the status for the publication side does not equal to the one in the subscription side.
When the above conditions are true, then the stored procedure sp_MScheckIsPubOfSub will be called to check whether the subscriber belongs to the publisher.
However, why this kind of meta data mismatch happened?
In normal situation, when you delete a subscription, the status on the both sides will be updated to 2 by system itself. A very possible cause was when you were deleting some subscription, some temporary network issue happened,which caused that the publication (for push subscription) cannot connect to the subscription side to do the update. And then this kind of metadata mismatch happened.
As such, in order to prevent it from happening again:
1. Please ensure that the stored procedure is created on Publisher and Subscriber side and it’s marked as system object.
2. While you are deleting some subscriptions, please ensure that the corresponding subscription and publication are all online, and accessible. This will ensure that the metadata is consistent.
Hopefully the details and recommendations helped in better understanding why the error message appeared and also what can we do to prevent it from happening again.
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Easy enough to do in TMG if you just want the direct ancestors. From Reports chose List of People and add a new filter for Is an Ancestor of. This will only give you DIRECT ancestors. I suspect that you might want a list of ALL relatives of each of the four principles. In that case you would need to set up a new FLAG, called for example Relative to and assign numbers 1-4 for each of the principles. IF you then setup the Add a Person screen to include this FLAG so that you can maintain consistency into the future. Now run the List of People Report with a filter of Relative to= 1 then 2 ........
Entering a hundred or so new flags will take a little time, it CAN be done automatically though this takes more juggling with variables to make it worthwhile. In fact ‘playing’ with a population of a hundred or so is a good way to make sure that your TMG setup, preferences and filters are giving you the best out of the program.
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S/O Should We Stop Selling Sudafed?
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Posted 12/25/2012
YTKA, the user would. It is apparently even cheaper to make it pharmaceutical grade and would cost less than buying a packet of Sudafed.
Posted 12/25/2012
The amount of Sudafed needed to make meth is ridiculous. That's why they started keeping it behind the counter. There's no reason someone needs a pallet of it, so if you need it for a cold get it from the pharmacist. Why ban it from everyone because a select few choose to abuse it? I hate this mentality.
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I don't understand your answer, Odie.
Posted 12/25/2012
"Sales of products containing pseudoephedrine in the United States now amount to nearly $600 million a year. Yet, according to the pharmaceutical industry, only 15 million Americans use the drug to treat their stuffed-up noses, and these people typically buy no more than a package or two ($10 to $20 worth) a year" - from "The New York Times"
That's 150 million - to 300 million in legitimate sales, but they are selling 600 million dollars worth a year.
Posted 12/25/2012
Not a select few by any means, but, with that logic, why ban hard drugs just because some people abuse them?
That is certainly the same mentality as banning Sudafed because some people abuse it, isn't it?
Posted 12/25/2012
You do not understand the black market? If you ban a drug it will only drive it to the black market. Why ban a product which will not stop people making meth? If there is a will there is away.
Banning pseudoephedrine will not stop people from making meth. People still make it in Mexico.
Posted 12/25/2012
To the person who said that just making the perscription methamphetamine available over the counter would just be enabling drug users....
I guess thats true, but it seems like it would also reduce the associated crime and make other people safer... a drug user will find their meth or whatever they are looking for... enabled or not.
What about giving clean needles to drug users. I completely support that even though its "enabling"... Becuase I think in the end if for the greater good...
Honestly, I have no idea where I would draw the line.
Posted 12/25/2012
Odie, I don't understand your answer to my yes or no question:
"Would you be in favor of selling pharmaceutical grade meth to meth users, so that they don't risk the lives of others making it at home with the Sudafed they buy?"
I am guessing it was "yes", but I wasn't sure.
Posted 12/25/2012
You seemed to be addressing another question...
Posted 12/25/2012
Either that or she misunderstood I think...
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James McAvoy - "Three Days of Rain"
"Meanwhile, back in the city...two nights of this room, in the dark...listening...soaking up the Stravinsky of end to the sounds in a city...something happens somewhere, makes a noise, the noise travels, charts the distance: The Story of a Moment.
God, I need to sleep!
Yes. All right. Begin!"
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"I'm always w-watching you...whenever you're here...I can't help it. (...) It's awful. I don't want it...I d-don't expect to have other people, but I'm of you.
So beautiful.
Lol.. I had a similar reaction! I was like, "THIS is James?!!" At first glance he looked and sounded so different. I will never forget that first moment when he forcefully opened the door and spoke his first lines while keeping his head down and rubbing his eyes. Maybe that's why I couldn't 'recognize' him at first? But then it all became so natural, and I was just entranced by his acting.
The "I'm always watching you..." line is so unbearably sad.. It's one of the times I wanted to cry.
Oh, how funny, I was just writing a pm warning you about my post about 3DoR when I received this! :-)
Yeah, I was fucking nervous for a few moments there, thinking "OMG, this is the understudy's night...this man is not James!", lol! It was so crazy, because I had just arrived from a long trip and I didn't get to sleep on the plane, everything looked and sounded SO surreal. But soon I was just totally mesmerized by him.
That line is so sad, and the way he said it, the whole speech...omg!
I miss the play and James so much, don't you? :-(
Yeah, I miss it... James on stage was magnificent.
Cris, fiz uma viagem contigo! Mas que isso, só se eu estivesse lá.
Pelas fotos e pelo teu relato, dá pra ter uma idéia do cuidado com a produção da peça. Fora que, James é James!
Mal vejo a hora de ver o seu post em português...
Bjim da Ly♥
Great testimony !!
James and the play “Three days of rain”! After his success in the movies, James turned celebrity world ! His life took a different turn since before his career was limited to shares in TV, theater and film without expressions. But James is not a common celebrity who likes to be in the media or engage in scandalous. He’s just an ordinary person who has a wonderful job of emotions people. After the success of the wanted, James wanted was relax, but to our surprise and joy, he returns to yours origins in a play starring success. Although unable to travel to London at the time of the play, I am eternally grateful and happy that fans like Cristine, had the thrill of being together with James and all the other actors of the play and have contributed to the success of the play. Most than a simple play, "three days of rain" was just the final consecration of the great human that James proves to be both acting as extremely gentle with all the fans that like Cristine traveled to London to meet him and applaud live him ! Thanks Cristine for having given us the opportunity to feel a bit emotion to see James live and say that we all already know: James is an example to be followed and admired !!
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Temporal range: Middle Triassic - Recent 245–0Ma
A poster with sixteen different species of flies
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Panorpida
(unranked): Antliophora
Order: Diptera
Linnaeus, 1758
Nematocera (includes Eudiptera)
Order Diptera[edit]
The presence of a single pair of patent, metathoracic flight wings distinguishes most true flies from other insects with "fly" in their names, such as mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, stoneflies, whiteflies, fireflies, alderflies, dobsonflies, snakeflies, sawflies, caddisflies, butterflies or scorpionflies. However, some true flies have become secondarily wingless, for example many members of the superfamily Hippoboscoidea and some species that are inquilines in social insect colonies.
The Diptera comprise a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species of mosquitoes, gnats, midges and others, although under half of these (about 120,000 species) have been described.[3] It is one of the major insect orders both in terms of ecological and human (medical and economic) importance. The Diptera, in particular the mosquitoes (Culicidae), are of great importance as disease transmitters, acting as vectors for malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, yellow fever, encephalitis and other infectious diseases.
Anatomy and biology[edit]
See Morphology of Diptera and Biology of Diptera
Portrait of a flesh fly (Sarcophagidae)
Flies have a mobile head with eyes and in most cases have large compound eyes on the sides of the head, with three small ocelli on the top. For visual course control, flies optic flow field is analyzed by a set of motion-sensitive neurons.[5] A subset of these neurons is thought to be involved in using the optic flow to estimate the parameters of self-motion, such as yaw, roll, and sideward translation.[6] Other neurons are thought to be involved in analyzing the content of the visual scene itself, such as separating figures from ground using motion parallax.[7][8] The H1 neuron is responsible for detecting horizontal motion across the entire visual field of the fly, allowing the fly to generate and guide stabilizing motor corrections mid-flight with respect to yaw.[9] The antennae take a variety of forms, but are often short, which reduces drag while flying.
For detailed anatomy explore [10] which uses examples from the 4 major fly groups (Lower Diptera, Lower Brachycera, Acalyptrate, Calyptrate) representing different anatomical expressions.
Reproduction and development[edit]
Larval flies have no true legs. Some Dipteran larvae, such as species of Simuliidae, Tabanidae, and Vermileonidae, have prolegs adapted to such functions as holding onto a substrate in flowing water, holding onto host tissues, or holding prey.[11] Roughly speaking, there is some anatomical distinction between the larvae of the Nematocera and the Brachycera (see Classification section, below); especially in the Brachycera, there is little demarcation between the thorax and abdomen, though the demarcation may be very visible in many Nematocera, such as mosquitoes (see image, both here and in the mosquitoes article); in the Brachycera, the head of the larva is not clearly distinguishable from the rest of the body, and there are few, if any, sclerites. Informally, such Brachyceran larvae are called maggots,[12] but the term is nontechnical and often applied indifferently to fly larvae or insect larvae in general. The eyes and antennae of Brachyceran larvae are reduced or absent, and the abdomen also lacks appendages such as cerci. This lack of features is an adaptation to food such as carrion, decaying detritus, or host tissues surrounding endoparasites.[4] Nematoceran larvae generally have visible eyes and antennae, though usually small and of limited function.
The pupae take various forms, and in some cases develop inside a silk cocoon. After emerging from the pupa, the adult fly rarely lives more than a few days, and serves mainly to reproduce and to disperse in search of new food sources.
The Nematocera are recognized by their elongated bodies and feathery antennae as represented by mosquitoes and crane flies. The Brachycera have a more roundly proportioned body and much shorter antennae. In 1964, Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf proposed a classification in which the Nematocera is split into two suborders, the Archidiptera and the Eudiptera.[13]
2. Suborder Brachycera (141 families, 8 of them extinct) – short antennae, the pupa is inside a puparium formed from the last larval skin, they are generally robust flies with larvae having reduced mouthparts.
2. Infraorder Muscomorpha – (largely the Cyclorrhapha of older schemes). Muscomorpha have three-segmented, aristate (with a bristle) antennae and larvae with three acephalic instars (maggots).
Beyond that, considerable revision in the taxonomy of the flies has taken place since the introduction of modern cladistic techniques, and much remains uncertain. The secondary ranks between the suborders and the families are out of practical or historical considerations than out of strict respect for phylogenetic classifications (modern cladists spurn the use of Linnaean rank names). All classifications in use now, including this article, contain some paraphyletic groupings; this is emphasized where the numerous alternative systems are most greatly at odds. See list of families of Diptera.
Dipterans belong to the taxon Mecopterida, that also contains Mecoptera, Siphonaptera, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera. Inside it, they are classified closely together with Mecoptera and Siphonaptera in the superorder Antliophora.[14]
Diptera derive from Mecoptera or a strictly related group. The first true dipterans known are from the Middle Triassic, and they became widespread during the Middle and Late Triassic.[15]
The basal clades in the Diptera are the Deuterophlebiidae and Nymphomyiidae.[16] The Bibionomorpha are a sister clade to Brachycera. The branching order of the remaining clades of the lower Diptera - infraorders Culicomorpha, Psychodomorpha and Tipulomorpha - has yet to be resolved.
The Schizophora include most of the family-level diversity in Diptera (∼85 families) and more than 50,000 species. The Calyptratae form a monophyletic superfamily. Other monophyletic superfamilies include the Ephydroidea, Lauxanioidea, Nerioidea, Sciomyzoidea and Tephritoidea. The relationships between the remaining families have yet to be clarified.
There were three episodes of rapid evolution in the lower Diptera (~220 million years ago), lower Brachycera (180 million years ago) and Schizophora (66 million years ago).[16]
Maggots being used to treat a wound
Maggots found on corpses are useful to forensic scientists, specifically forensic entomologists. Maggot species can be identified by various means such their anatomy and by matching their DNA. Maggots of various species of flies visit corpses and carcases at fairly well-defined times after the death of the victim, and so do their predators, such as beetles in the family Histeridae. Thus the presence or absence of particular species of fly maggots and other scavenger insects provide evidence as a basis for estimation of the time since death, and sometimes other details such as the place of death.
In Maggot therapy, larvae of certain flies in the family Calliphoridae are used to debride necrotic wounds.
Flies in culture[edit]
Baxter Stockman also mutates into the fly in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.
Musical works that mention flies: Yoko Ono's 1971 album Fly, U2's 1991 song "The Fly", Wire's 1978 song "I Am The Fly", Alice in Chains album Jar of Flies, Dave Matthews's 2007 song "The Fly" and Béla Bartók's 1920s piano work "From the Diary of a Fly".
Damien Hirst's provocative 1990 artwork, titled A Thousand Years, featured a severed cow's head contained in a box with thousands of flies and a bug zapper, creating an entire life cycle within a glass box. In 2001 Dr. Garnet Hertz implanted a complete web server into a dead fly.[18]
The ability of flies to cling to surfaces has also inspired the title of "Human Fly" for real and fictional stunt performers whose feats involve climbing buildings.
"If only I were a fly on the wall..." is a phrase used when one wishes they could have observed a scene in an omniscient point of view.
"He would bet on two flies crawling up a wall." is an Australian phrase meaning someone who would wager money upon almost anything.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Bug guide
3. ^ B. M. Wiegmann & D. K. Yeates (1996). "Tree of Life: Diptera".
4. ^ a b c d e Hoell, H.V., Doyen, J.T. & Purcell, A.H. (1998). Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. pp. 493–499. ISBN 0-19-510033-6.
10. ^ "Anatomical Atlas". Retrieved 2012-11-18.
16. ^ a b Wiegmann, B. M.; et al., M. D.; Winkler, I. S.; Barr, N. B.; Kim, J.-W.; Lambkin, C.; Bertone, M. A.; Cassel, B. K. et al. (2011). "Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life". PNAS 108 (14): 5690–5695. doi:10.1073/pnas.1012675108. PMC 3078341. PMID 21402926.
17. ^ "Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446". Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2006.
18. ^ "Fly with implanted webserver - Garnet Hertz 2001". 2001-09-03. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
• F. Christian Thompson. "Sources for the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera (Flies)" (PDF). United States Department of Agriculture, Systematic Entomology Laboratory.
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Ken Annakin
Born Kenneth Cooper Annakin
10 August 1914
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died 22 April 2009 (aged 94)
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Occupation Film director
Years active 1941–1992
Kenneth Cooper Annakin OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009)[1] was an English film director.
Annakin was born in and grew up in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire where he attended the grammar school. He began his career in feature films following an early experience making documentaries. His first filmwork was in 1947 with the Rank Organisation. The following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to direct three films about the Huggetts, a working-class family living in suburban England these highly successful films starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark and Diana Dors (amongst others). Annakin became known for a series of Walt Disney adventures, including The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), The Sword and the Rose (1953), Third Man on the Mountain (1959), and Swiss Family Robinson (1960).
He was later associated with another American producer, Darryl F. Zanuck, when he was hired to direct the British segments in The Longest Day (1962). As head of the 20th Century-Fox Studio, Zanuck endorsed Annakin's most ambitious project Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965). Annakin also directed the big-scale war film Battle of the Bulge (also 1965) for the Warner Brothers studio.
However, some of Annakin's better received films are smaller-scale comedies and dramas, including his episodes in Quartet (1948) and Trio (1950), based on Somerset Maugham's stories, Hotel Sahara (1951), Across the Bridge (1957), Crooks Anonymous (1962), The Fast Lady (1963) and The Informers (1963).
In 1979, Ken Annakin left Britain and moved to Los Angeles.[2]
Annakin was approached in 1984 by representatives of science fiction writer and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to direct a two-movie cinema version of Hubbard's 1982 novel Battlefield Earth. Pre-production for the films advanced sluggishly over the following months, and the project was ultimately cancelled for various reasons early in 1986. A "star-flash" promoting the upcoming films was added to the front cover of the paperback edition of the books sold in the UK in 1984, and the US paperback and hardback versions followed suit. The notice was of course removed from all copies printed post-March 1986. Annakin's involvement with the project, while far from secret, was not made widely known outside of industry publications during the time the 80s version of the movie was a going concern. Annakin himself rarely if ever mentioned his involvement with the 'BE' movies during the years of his life that followed its shelving.
Annakin's last completed film was The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988); Genghis Khan (1992) was not completed. He died on 22 April 2009, the same day as Jack Cardiff, who had been his cinematographer on the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer.
Despite claims that George Lucas took the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars from his friend and fellow film director, Lucas denied this via his publicist following Annakin's death in 2009.[3]
1. ^ Hevesi, Dennis (24 April 2009). "Ken Annakin, 'Magnificent' Director, Dies at 94". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
2. ^ Los Angeles Times, 24 April 2009: Ken Annakin dies at 94 Retrieved 2013-03-10
3. ^ McLellan, Dennis (24 April 2009). "Ken Annakin dies at 94; British director of 'Swiss Family Robinson' and others". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
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Dec 6, 2010 at 1:03 PM
I'm looking for a way to achieve the goal: create a web application using the result of calculations in my Excel workbook based on values provided by the user.
I have the following scenario:
- A template Excel file with a lot of formulas (referencing to values and formulas on multiple worksheets) calculating a user's 'category' based on 20 questions (likert scale)
- Because of the rate of change and complexity of these formulas I don't want to hard code these calculations into the web application
- I'm currently opening the excel; programmatically enter the values into the correct cells
- The sheet is saved correctly and the result of the formula based on the values are shown in Excel when opening the file
- I can't find a way to programmatically get hold of this result value -> EPPlus is returning an empty string when trying to fetch the .Value of the cell with the result formula.
Is there any way to get hold of the result value?
Dec 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM
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To: maximum entropy <>
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Date: 09/11/1997 14:36:02
my observance of this bug is that (a) it's been around for a long time,
and (b) it tends to happen more commonly if the nfs file systems are used
more often. eg, a machine freshly booted is rather unlikely to hang in
shutdown than one that's been up for a month.
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Does anyone know where I can find a reference for the following well-known fact:
Let $(X_i)_{i\in I}$ be a family of compact Hausdorff spaces and let $X$ be the disjoint sum of all $X_i$s.
$c_0(I, C(X_i)) = C_0(X)$,
where the left hand side stands for the $c_0$-sum (possibly uncountable) of $C(X_i)$s.
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It might be difficult to locate this formally proven in the literature. I only saw this stated as an exercise or as an obvious (or well-known) fact. For example, Conway's Course in Functional Analysis, chapter VII.1, exercise 9. – Martin Jan 30 at 21:44
I could provide a proof, if you want, but you seem to be more interested in a reference. – Martin Jan 30 at 21:49
Thanks! The proof is rather easy. I think this is enough for me, you can post is as an answer. – user60253 Jan 30 at 22:04
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Since the result is quite easy to prove, it is mostly stated as an exercise or as an obvious fact.
For example, Conway, A Course in Functional Analysis, Chapter VII.1, Exercise 9., page 192 states the slightly more general:
Let $\{X_i : i \in I\}$ be a collection of locally compact spaces and let $X = $ the disjoint union of these spaces furnished with the topology $\{U \subseteq X : U \cap X_i \text{ is open in } X_i \text{ for all } i\}$. Show that $X$ is locally compact and $\bigoplus_0 C_0(X_i)$ is isometrically isomorphic to $C_0(X)$.
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Readme for analog3.0
Customising analog
The following section is a technical (i.e., dull but important) section on the
Then there's documentation on all the configuration commands in the following categories. Analog has over 200 configuration commands, as well as several command line options, so sometimes these sections turn into lists of commands. But here's where you find out everything you can do with analog. There's also an index of all the commands and topics on a separate page.
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Level Three > Number and Algebra
Even More Pizzas And Things
Achievement Objectives:
Achievement Objective: NA3-1: Use a range of additive and simple multiplicative strategies with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages.
AO elaboration and other teaching resources
Specific Learning Outcomes:
Solve problems involving fractions
Devise and use problem solving strategies (draw a picture, use equipment, guess and check, be systematic, think)
Interpret information and results in context.
Description of mathematics:
This problem is a multi-step one that involves fractions and the four arithmetic operations. It also requires a careful analysis if what is known, what is unknown and what can be obtained from what with what sequence of operations.
Like a number of similar problems that have a lot of inter-related information, this problem can be handled by algebra. So algebra is a natural follow on from this type of problem. However, like a number of so-called algebra problems, this one can be sorted out by careful reasoning.
The students should be asked – what do you know? and what can you find out from this?
Required Resource Materials:
Copymaster of the problem (English)
Copymaster of the problem (Māori)
The Problem
The pizza place has three tables. The biggest one seats three times as many people as the smallest one. The middle sized table seats twice as many people as the smallest one.
On Tuesday night three-quarters of the seats were taken. Then twelve more people arrived. Unfortunately there were only enough seats for half of them.
How many people can sit at the smallest table?
Teaching Sequence
1. Introduce the problem by posing fraction questions to be solved mentally. Ask that the students explain the mental strategies that they used.
I am ¾ of 16, what number am I?
I am 2/3 of 30, what number am I?
I am 4/6, what other names could I be called?
2. Pose the problem to the class. Check that they understand what is required by asking volunteers to retell the problem.
3. As the students solve the problem ask questions that focus on their understanding of fractions.
How are you solving the problem?
Why are you using those numbers?
Are you convinced that your answer is correct? Why?
Can you convince me that you have the correct answer?
How would you describe what a fraction was to a friend who had forgotten what they were?
4. Remind the students to record their work so that it can be shared with others.
5. Display and discuss solutions.
Other Contexts
Letting the tables be containers and the people, sand or water can turn the problem into one relating to measurement.
Extension to the problem
The number of tables or the number of people that can be seated at the smaller table can be increased.
What do we know? There are three tables and they are of different sizes. We even know the number that the two bigger tables will seat with respect to the first one. But at the moment we have no information to be able to work out the size of any table.
We know that The Pizza Place is three-quarters full. But again this is no use to us at the moment.
We know that 12 people arrive and half of them are turned away. So we know how many are turned away. A half of 12 is 6. So that means too that 6 people can be seated.
How can we tie that in with the fact that the Pizza Place is three-quarters full? If it is three-quarters full, then it is one-quarter empty. So 6 people is a quarter of a full house. So the full house must be 4 times 6 = 24.
Now we can go back to the tables. At this stage we could guess that the smallest table seats 3. In that case the next table seats 6 and the biggest table seats 9. Since 3 + 6 + 9 = 18, our guess is a bit low. So guess 5. Then we get 10 and 15 for the other tables. Now 5 + 10 + 15 = 30 and that’s too high. So the smallest table must seat 4. That can be easily checked.
Another way to tackle the last part is to suppose that the smallest table seats some. Then the next table seats two lots of some. Altogether, this is three lots of some. The biggest table seats three lots of some. So now we have six lots of some in total. Now six lots of some is 24. So some is 4 and that’s the number of people that can suit at the smaller table.
(If you think that this problem is too hard for your class, then tell them that the smaller table holds 4 people and ask them how many people The Pizza Place has to turn away when 12 new people arrive. Remember that by reversing what is known we can make a problem harder or easier. In this case it can be made easier. Try doing this with some of the other problems that we have on the site.)
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