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So I've been testing a lot of Soap & Glory products lately and so far, so good although I've become so addicted to masks and scrubs I've had to calm down a bit because I am looking a little….red.
Still, I just had to give the Soap & Glory The Fab Pore 15 Minute Facial Peel a spin.
This peel has a Poreshrink (TM!) Complex – which is supposed to give visibly smaller pores especially good for those with oily skins.
First of all – I love the packaging, its cute as always.
Secondly, I do always worry about products that are supposed to shrink the pores (temporarily I might add) because of my sensitive skin. It seems like a great idea until I have red and ruddy patches everywhere.
How to use:
Rub a grape-sized dollop into your face and massage until all the green beads have dissolved. (Those with a high tendency for clogging should concentrate on their t-zone, chin or areas with large, open, or problem pores). Leave on for 5 minutes for a quick refresher, or 15 minutes.
The product itself has that signature Soap & Glory fruity but fresh smell…
Its like a thick mousse cream infused with blue micro beads (I've noticed this in a few of their products) and when pressed against the skin they burst.
Can I just say, that I really really like this product!
I have also tried the No Clogs Allowed and Fab Pore Cleanser – all good but this Fab Pore 15 Minute Facial Peel is my favourite.
Why? Because its just really comfortable to use even on delicate skin.
I rubbed it onto my t-zone and left for 15 minutes and it worked a treat with deep cleansing, leaving my pores looking more refined and no hint of an allergic reaction – nor did it feel harsh or abrasive.
This is £6 from Boots and other retailers.
I would totally recommend this for people concerned about oily skin or enlarged pores. Its the most effective product in the Soap & Glory range for pores, I think!


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I am a self-confessed history geek, so it is not surprising that many of my travels feature ancient sites quite heavily. I have a bit of a vivid imagination, so it doesn't take much for a place steeped in history to come alive to me, particularly if it is a half-forgotten place, overshadowed by far more famous neighbours. So come with me to the highlands of Peru, the deserts of Argentina, the South of France - and my hometown. Are you ready to travel through time?
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There can be some situations where querying a view returns results that way too large for the client to handle. In these cases, either the client library API or implementation of some Python specific API can allow for one to iterate over Views which have very large results.
The Ruby client does this with streaming. The Java client does this with traditional pagination:


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Requirements Management
One of the tough points we found was the requirements management area where we were informal:
- SCM requirements are well-known. Making a new SCM system is not like developing new business software. You don't have to understand what customers want because you can be your own customer. You do understand what you are talking about, which is essentially good for software development. Then there is a whole set of bibliography on the subject. If you need to understand what a "repository," "revision," or "item" is, you can find a book, article, or a website where it is described.
- The entire team works together identifying and deciding about functionalities in a hierarchically flat structure. Clearly defining what had to be done, one of the main targets when dealing with requirements, was not as important for us because we all shared the knowledge.
- We weren't using user stories or other Agile requirement-management alternatives. We used a full-feature list decorated with descriptions only to explain our product's innovative capabilities.
It was clear we had to improve how we were dealing with requirements. The first step was introducing them as first-level players in Defect Control; see Figure 6. This way we were able to link tasks with requirements, tests, analysis, design activities, and the like. A traceability matrix (not a shaped matrix, but all the required information) was made available and we were able to grasp the impact of a change in a certain requirement. This was neither easy nor quick. Understanding and making the best use of registering each requirement took time and we are still adapting to it. Beyond CMMi, the internal motivation was creating an entire maintained catalognot just functionalities, but also decisions that would help reviewing why a certain capability was (or wasn't) there. Basically, this was the benefit of requirements management we knew in advance, but it took time to spread throughout the team.


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Friday, October 4, 2013
Hitting the Road, Going to Unexpected Places
Luckily, even though the state of California flirted with the idea of closing her state parks, they are open for business, so we will be exploring one of the greatest stretches of coastlines in the world, the one between Big Sur and Bodega Bay. There just isn't any place like it anywhere.
In the meantime, contact your representative and tell them to stop holding the government hostage. The fools in Washington have officially failed basic civics and political science. You don't get your way by tossing hundreds of thousands out of work, and taking food from children and the elderly (including the veterans).
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State and local governments, plus private organizations, are offering to step in to keep many places open, but the President prefers to keep them closed. It's called politics. Also, petulance.
- October 5, 2013 at 8:22 AM
- Garry Hayes said...
This is something that really bothers me. The people who brought about the shutdown are all in favor of it, right up until it inconveniences them somehow. With the sequester, Republicans were all for it until some of them had to wait in line longer at the airport. Suddenly they found a way to legislate away the problem. They cried foul when some of their children didn't get to have a White House tour. Let children and elderly go hungry, no problem, but don't make their children unhappy over not getting a tour.
Now we get Republicans berating park rangers (who probably weren't getting paid) for following the law and shutting down veteran memorials. Shutting down government means shutting down all parts of government that aren't life-and-death security kinds of things. So there you go. Gotta make an exception for that!
No, the Republicans are shutting the government down because they aren't getting their way against the electorate of this country. They own this. If the national parks are closed, it is their doing, and they don't get to have yet another exception just for their convenience and desire.
Our democracy can't survive when extortion is used by one party.
- October 6, 2013 at 10:38 PM


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Mets should try to make a play to acquire Stanton
By Marty Noble
None of the people outside the peculiar environment of the Miami Marlins can even pretend to know precisely what it would take to pry Giancarlo Stanton from their roster. Money, of course, but how much? Talent, controllable talent, but how much? And who knows whether the Fish would be willing to deal within the National League East.
But at this point, the club that occasionally drains its roster of proven players has let it be known that it would consider dealing the Dave Kingman of his time. The Mets, the club that twice employed the Dave Kingman of another era, ought to look into that possibility.
There is fairly recent precedent, of course, for the Mets and Marlins exchanging talent. Three players who helped fuel the Mets' run to the 1999 postseason and the 2000 World Series were Marlins refugees -- Al Leiter, Dennis Cook and Mike Piazza. The Mets did part with some talent of promise, namely Preston Wilson and A.J. Burnett. But they clearly emerged from the transactions well ahead of the Marlins.
The Mets ought to try that well one more time. Stanton appears to be a special talent. He's 23 years old. And his bat puts baseballs in places only a few other bats can. Kingman played the exact equivalent of four seasons with the Mets -- 664 games -- and hit 154 home runs. How would nearly 40 home runs per year help the Mets escape the gravitational pull they've experienced the last four summers?
Imagine the middle of that batting order -- David Wright, Ike Davis and Stanton. Let them throw right-handed starters at Wright and Stanton and watch Davis become a latter-day Duke Snider, benefiting from the presence of right-handed run production. Let opponents try to defuse Davis with left-handed pitching and see Wright and Stanton bruise the baseball.
Stanton has 373 big league games on his resume and has demonstrated more offensive skill than Kingman ever did. He batted .290 last season. His career-high 37 home runs, accomplished last summer, equaled Kingman's best with the Mets and enabled Stanton to lead the league in slugging percentage at .608. Stanton has struck out too often, and he has neither scored nor driven in 90 runs yet. But he's 23. Moreover, his power would tame the original dimensions of Citi Field, to say nothing of the revised dimensions introduced last season.
Marlins assistant general manager Dan Jennings was a guest on the "Front Office" show on MLB Network Radio, with hosts Jim Bowden and Jim Duquette last week.
Asked whether his club would entertain offers for Stanton, Jennings said, "Oh, I think that's been our MO. I know in the 10 years I've been here, that's our MO. We've never not listened to a deal on any player. Sometimes I chuckle when I hear people say, 'This guy's untouchable,' and 'That guy's untouchable.' You know what? They may be untouchable, until someone either overwhelms you or you get a package back that makes such a significant improvement on your club going forward. So we've always been willing to listen."
Those words fall well short of, "We're looking to deal Giancarlo," but they also are one typical Stanton home run away from, "Forget it. Not a chance."
Salary arbitration wouldn't come to Stanton until after the 2013 season. The Mets' attendance might benefit dramatically if the team became a genuine home run threat. Home runs and pitchers' strikeouts still are effective attractions. The Mets would have another year to prepare for a case with a 35-homer guy.
And Stanton would fill one of the voids in the Mets' outfield. Of course, the Fish wouldn't allow themselves to be fleeced as they were in the Leiter and Piazza exchanges. But the Mets ought to call the 305 area code and dip their toes into the waters off Miami Beach.


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Maryville defeats Christopher Newport 30-17
The Maryville College Fighting Scots football team used a strong rushing attack to claim a 30-17 USA South road victory over Christopher Newport University on Saturday evening in Newport News, Virginia.
MC's offensive line cleared the way for 292 rushing yards on 56 carries against a Captains defense that was nationally ranked against the run. The Scots' defense allowed only 13 first downs on 175 total rushing yards.
Maryville got on the scoreboard in their first possession when Trenton Shuler blasted through the middle for a 19 yard scamper. The score capped a six play, 77-yard drive in the first two minutes of the game. Wes Bloeme's kick gave MC the 7-0 advantage.
CNU answered with a ling 11-play, 72 yard scoring drive on their first offensive set. Storm Parker found the end zone from three-yards out to tie the game 7-7.
Maryville went three-and-out and was forced to punt. A poor punt put CNU in striking distance. MC's Daniel Robinson stepped up to record his third interception in the past two games to turn away the Captains.
As the first quarter wound down, MC's Evan Pittenger found Ed Johnson for a completing on the CNU 16 yard line. The clock expired and the score remained tied at the end of the first quarter with Maryville threatening.
Travis Felder promptly put the Scots ahead with a four-yard TD burst capping a seven play, 65 yard drive. Bloeme's kick made the score 14-7.
Maryville's defense held the captains to three plays on their next possession and the Scots' Deshijon Whitlock would explode for over 40 yards on MC's next possession. As the Scots pushed down the field on a nine-play, 78 yard scoring drive, Shuler found the end zone once again from four yards out. The conversion was good and the Scots led 21-7.
MC's defense answered the call once again on CNU's next possession. As the Captains were moving down the field, Maryville held the home team to a 37 yard field goal by Mason Studer.
With just over five minutes remaining before the half, Maryville marched down the field 59 yards on 15 plays. Wes Bloeme connected on a 27 yard field goal and the Scots went to the half with a 24-10 advantage.
At the half MC's defense held CNU to 88 rushing yards while the Scots dominated the line of scrimmage for 200 rushing yards.
CNU took the second half kick-off and marched down the field 70 yards on their first possession. Paul Dukes found daylight and dashed 17 yards for a Captains touchdown. The kick made the score 24-17.
MC was forced to punt on their next possession, but Logan Winders pinned the Captains inside their own six yard line with a great punt. CNU went three-and-out and the field possession flipped.
The Scots converted a pair of third down conversions on their next possession but relied on Bloeme once again to connect on a 22 yard field goal. With 2:26 left in the third quarter, Maryville led 27-17.
MC's defense forced CNU to punt at midfield to begin the final quarter. As the Scots offense spluttered, Logan Winders connected on a 53 yard punt to pin the Captains deep in their own territory. A Josh Krebs quarterback hurry forced another three-and-out by the Captains and MC would look to capliatize.
Maryville marched down the field 53 yards on 13 plays, including a key 4th down reception by Blake Williams to allow Bloeme to hit his final field goal of the evening. Bloeme's 27 attempt made the score 30-17.
Maryville's defense, including a sack by Josh Krebs, did not allow the Captains to gain any further momemtum.
CNU fell to 4-2 on the season and 1-2 in USA South action.
Maryville (6-1, 4-0 USA South) was paced by Travis Felders 126 yards on 23 carries. Trenton Shuler scored a pair of touchdown while piling up 74 yards on 11 carries. Deshijon Whitlock added 47 yards on seven carries. Quarterback Evan Pittenger was 10-for-20 for 132 passing yards. His favorite target was Ed Johnson who hauled in six passes for 90 yards. Jared Miller and Blake Williams each had a pair of receptions for a total of 42 yards. MC's defense was led by Dylan Wolfenbarger with 10 total tackles. Jayvon McCullough, Zane Quesenberry, Zach Capehart, and Kent Minor each had five tackles.
Maryville returns to action next Saturday when they host Ferrum College at 1:30 on Honaker Field.


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HUNTLEY – Catherine Ennis will say that one of the most important things she's learned in nine years as a caregiver for her husband is that, from time to time, she has to not be a caregiver at all.
There is no wiggle room here. She has a group of friends who she goes to quilting classes with twice a month. They don't talk about Jim. At home, when her help is around, Ennis slips into a quiet room and sinks into a comfortable chair by a bookshelf. Or, when it's nice, she will fall out the back door, enjoy the flowers and let the fountain soothe.
Like a growing number of people, Ennis has chosen to take on the role of primary caregiver for a loved one. Her husband, Jim, has Lewy body dementia, a disease that resembles Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Since the recession, more and more people have made the decision to become caregiver for an adult family member, partner or friend suffering from a chronic condition or disability. The AARP's Public Policy Institute estimated that in 2007, the economic value of that care equaled $375 billion. By 2009, the figure had reached $450 billion – $18.8 billion in Illinois.
Family Alliance Inc., an adult care center in Woodstock, has seen that change on a local scale.
"We noticed that several years ago when the economy kind of tanked, when we had that downturn, people were coming to us later in their illnesses," Director of Strategic Advancement Cheryl Levinson said.
Though direct care is their primary service, one way the center has adapted with the trend is to hold support groups for caregivers, who often deal with a range of emotions.
The number one topic of discussion at Family Alliance caregiver support sessions: not how to care for your loved ones, but how to care for yourself.
The sacrifice made by caregivers can naturally feel like a burden, yet those feelings can cause guilt, Levinson said.
In the beginning, for the sake of appearances, Ennis would hide the extent of her husband's symptoms. It took time to let that go.
"I think the best thing I did for myself was to start talking," she said.
Ennis in time redefined her activity with her husband. She says a key to caregiving is to find new ways to have fun and be together.
For the Ennises, that means making dinner together – Jim cleans the snap beans. Or quilting – Jim holds the fabric.
Jerry Havemann, of Huntley, puts bluntly the frustrations he felt during his time as a caregiver for his wife, Maria, who died earlier this year of ALS.
"We both shared with one another from time to time that this is very much like being in prison," he said.
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, took the Havemanns' son first in the fall of 2008. Maria had been diagnosed with the same disease a year and a half earlier.
It gradually took her arms and hands, rendering her unable to eat, put on her makeup or scratch her nose by herself. Then went her legs, weaker and weaker until she was in a wheelchair.
The more it progressed, the more they both sacrificed. He hired the lady who'd been helping a woman with Alzheimer's across the street, who was there a few hours for three days a week in the beginning. Then it became eight hours, then five days. As time went on, Havemann himself felt more and more like he should always be around.
"You just don't feel good about leaving her alone with someone," he said.
The two fought at times, both later realizing it was the disease they were truly angry with. Still, there was beauty in the way they redefined their time together.
He installed a lift on their motor home and got Maria a smaller wheelchair to allow her to navigate its cramped interior, allowing continued travels. They still went out to dinner. They watched her Chicago Bulls and played dominoes, though someone else moved Maria's pieces.
"After more than 40 years of marriage," Jerry Havemann wrote in a letter to the editor in the Northwest Herald, "we fell in love all over again."


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Skip to comments.Need Freeper Help on Healthcare Paper (Shameless Vanity)
Posted on 04/14/2006 9:55:03 AM PDT by duckbutt
Freepers - - I'm working on my dissertation topics which is "Should the US institute a single-payer health care system similar to Great Britain and Canada" and the subtitle is something like "An Agenda for Solving America's Health Care Crisis using Health Savings Accounts".
I'm in need of Freeper help. This is the last leg in this middle-aged Freeper's journey toward an MBA, so be gentle.
I'm looking for Freeper inputs regarding your feelings about the health care system in America, as it stands today. I'm looking for Freepers from all walks of life; Doctors, small business owners, retirees, those on Medicare and/or Disability, policy makers, and just those with strong opinions.
Please feel free to Freepmail me and we can start a dialogue. I'm most intersted in responses to the following questions:
1) Have you had any experience with Health Savings Accounts and how do you feel about them, if you have?
2) Has your employer offered a HSA as an alternative to your health care choices?
3) I'm interested in Freeper Canadians who've had experience in the Canadian health care system. Any success/horror stories? Same with our European Freeper brothers and sisters.
4) If you are a Doctor, what do you see as a viable solution to the health care situation in the US?
5) Would you switch to an HSA if offered along with a cheap, high-deductible insurance policy?
6) Anything else you wish to chime in on.
I'm nervous as this is my first Freeper vanity. I hope JimRob will allow me this indulgence as this is important not only for me, but the dialogue is important for the country.
Freepers Rule! I know you won't let me down!
Thanks - - Duckbutt
If you are unable to research a topic like this on your own, you certainly wouldn't be much help to an employer!
Mary Baker Eddy solved these problems years ago.
You may wish to ask yourself, or conduct research to determine, how many Americans travel to Canada or GB for their nationalized healthcare versus how many Canadians or British citizens come to America for healthcare. In Canada, for example, when the money runs out near the end of each month, doctors simply close their offices; but, you can still have a CT scan done on your cat, if needed, at a hospital, just not for your child. In the USA, "uninsured" people can walk into any hospital ER and receive the same care as insured folks, in too many cases costing the taxpayers. Now, if you're for 90% marginal tax rates, I suggest the European model. That should be enough to answer your questions.
boy mr. negativo, did you even read the questions? duckbutt is looking for the human side of the research--uh, as in personal experience. geesh.
I would suggest reading a little about the now defunct TennCare program in Tennessee. Often dubbed Hillary care Lite the program was enacted with input from Al Gore when as VP he had some clout in the Tennessee Legislature.
The program was ended recently by a Democrat Governor over the horrendus cries of thousands who lost the coverage. TennCare was literally bankrupting the state.
This will get you started.
It is a learned vanity.
Don't forget many peoples health care plan-----"Don't Get Sick".
My employer offered HSAs and a payment if you dropped insurance all together. I dropped my insurance through work and joined my husband's HMO.
HMOs and PPOs are a pain of bureacracy sometimes. But 3000/year taken PRETAX + 500-1000 out of pocket for regular visits is cheaper than the 5000 minimum for the HSA that is out of pocket.
My company's HSA has been taken mostly by healthy people who use extra money for lasik and massages. Older people stay in the HMO, which drives up premiums.
After age 50, people reasonably think you'll need a back surgery and cancer screenings and glasses and perhaps a heart bypass. in that case, the HMO is drastically cheaper out of pocket than the HSA.
As a side note HSA are some of the most complicated vehicles to understand when I researched switching to 'em. They are not user friendly IMHO and thus have gimmick status.
shameless bump - -thanks to all who have responded thus far!
My daughter was born in Canada, and her dad had knee surgery there (football injury) We both did okay, but when our young son was sick, it was hard to find a doctor to get into see, and I was not impressed with the service.
Our small town in NE TX had a Canadian doctor open an office. He came down here to make some money, but has retired back up there.
I am on disability/Medicare/Worker's Comp and don't recommend it to anyone. Trying to find doctors who will take it is not easy. Some things I just pay for out-of-pocket because no one wants to go through the hassle of trying to get any procedure approved.
You might find some good info here:
Good luck!
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
P.J. O'Rourke
One of the big problems I see is that many patients are just a number. The "family" doctor with 20 years of experience with a single patient or family no longer (or is rare) exists.
I have had good luck with HMOs. But I "shopped" for a Doc and then stuck with him (even to the tune of paying far more in medical insurance for the privilege).
Personally, I still think we have one of the best medical systems in the world. There is a reason Canadians are crossing the border for health care here in the states.
Thanks Travis - - PJ's quote is on the front page of my paper :-)
I am the owner of a small business, I was paying $850 per month for a standard health care policy until two years ago when I got an HSA with about a $5000 deductible. The premium on that policy is under $400 per month, so even with my $400 per month funding of the deductible, I am still a little ahead. With the previous policy, we never reached our deductible, so we were paying a few thousand a year in out-of-pocket medical expenses above the premiums.
So, the HSA for me is much better than the previous method, plus things like eyecare and dentist are able to be funded from the HSA account.
To clarify, in my last post this is a family policy for five of us.
Conservatives have the right solution in HSAs but for the wrong reasons. The contemporaneous benefits that these accounts afford will be significant but they are exxagerated. Half of the US population consumes only 3% of all health care resources and 10% consumes something like half. The former would be more careful with their money once they have HSAs, but the impact will be negligible for the simple reason that they don't spend much to begin with. The latter will hit their catastrophic thresholds and the HSAs would have little or no impact.
HSAs are of contemporaneous value only in instances where individuals think that they will have little likelihood of hitting the insurance threshold but still spend enough that there are significant savings to be realized. These folks just aren't numerous enough to come anywere close to solving the health care crisis.
As Gary Becker points out on his blog, savings and insurance aren't the same thing: People are interested in insuring against bad health because of uncertainty about the incidence of various diseases. Borrowing also offers insurance by redistributing spending over time, but borrowing is in most cases, and certainly in the health case, a very imperfect substitute for explicit insurance.
The problem with Becker's thinking (and I point this out realizing that Becker is the best economist of the past few generations) is that the reasoning goes both ways, and the other way is more compelling:
1. Insurance is a horrible substitute for savings.
2. Both the level and the variation in health care spending are mostly life cycle related; and nearly all non-catastrophic care is life cycle related.
I wish I could make an accurate estimate, but I can make a guess that 80%+ of all non-catastrophic health care resources are spent on birth or advancing age. Thus, for example, three in ten hospital admissions in the US are for pregancy, childbirth, and newborns. These admissions are almost always ignored in studies/reports of health care, in no small part because they would swamp all other "diseases." If you think childbirth is inexpensive, note that about a quarter of deliveries are by C-section, which involves major surgery; and that as a nation we are making astonishing strides in neonatal intensive care -- at an astonishing cost. Newborns' costs are now as expensive on average as their mothers'. We tend not to realize this because a very small fraction of NICU patients run up very, very, very high bills while the vast majority of newborns are discharged with a bill < $1500.
One huge problem with health care financing in the US is that we use insurance in lieu of savings. Young people pay far more than is actuarily justified for their health insurance and in doing so "save;" and as they get older they pay far less and thereby "dis-save." But of course, because this arrangement isn't really savings at all, many young people opt out -- ending up with neither insurance nor savings.
The point of having health SAVINGS accounts is to disentangle insurance from savings. The catastrophic component is a hedge against adverse health outcomes; the HSA is a vehicle for smoothing life cycle variations in spending. This is EXACTLY the right way to go. There isn't space to elaborate here, but once we have HSAs all sorts of other financial benefits will be ensue over time.
Now that I've fixed health care financing, would anyone be interested in knowing that health care is a fixed cost business? Managed care has failed because it works exclusively on variable costs, when in fact the expenses are astonishingly fixed and sunk.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues, friends,
A warm welcome to all of you, to our conference Remembering for the Future. Along with the European Commission and the Danish Institute for International Studies, the Fundamental Rights Agency stands, in partnership, behind this conference.
Let me begin by asking you:
- We have seen human rights advance since the Second World War, yet, the link between past events and today's human rights remains obscure?
- What do we remember from history and what do we forget – and why?
- What do we need to remember and how should we honour, and learn, from that past?
- Lastly, why are we even bothering to remember at all? In essence, what do we want to teach each other and our children and our children's children about human rights, and about our shared history and identity?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
To mark 60 years since the 1938 Pogroms, the Fundamental Rights Agency launched a project on Holocaust Education and Human Rights Education in 2008. This project explored the link between Holocaust education and human rights education. Several important insights were gained. Let me highlight two:
First - the links between what happened during the Holocaust and learning about human rights today is made across European countries.
Most EU Member States have institutions in place to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and its victims. Many of these institutions offer educational programmes that extend beyond the Holocaust itself and allow visiting groups, particularly young people, to reflect on contemporary human rights issues. Holocaust remembrance days, both internationally and nationally, recall the importance of paying respect to victims and of learning from past atrocities.
However the practical tools and systematised approaches are still lacking.
Second insight: It is possible and worthwhile to incorporate human rights education into the teaching of history at memorial sites and museums.
Visits to memorial sites can provide a broader understanding of what human rights are: They underline how important it is to create a world in which everyone is respected.
There is great potential for raising rights awareness, responsibility, citizens' solidarity, respect for minorities, the need to combat racism, antisemitism, slavery etc. which are woven into the fabric of our societies today.
For example: The former concentration camp at Mauthausen in Austria, nestles among small pretty Austrian villages in a beautiful landscape. The presence of the camp was very visible and transparent, so the question asked by people working at Mauthausen today is: what did the neighbours think of the place? What sort of mental construction did they create to cope with the presence of this horror next door to them? What sort of narrative was created by the Nazi regime? And so on.
This is also obviously important for us working on human rights today. We have to ask ourselves: what sort of atrocities are we blind to today? What stories do we create to make unpleasant human rights problems fade from our radar?
One obvious example is the present day slavery in Europe - whether it is Nigerian women gravely misused in prostitution or men slaving away in our fields, factories or building sites. How often do we hear that these people "are probably better off here than at home", as an excuse for not reacting to their extreme exploitation or slavery? Of course, this is only one example. But a worthy one. It illustrates how greater understanding of human rights through history can empower us to act and try to make a difference to the lives of those who live close to us today.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Why we are here today and what do we hope to achieve?
We have united here a wide variety of professionals – teachers, human rights education specialists, holocaust education specialists, experts on memory, historians, policy makers, researchers, employees of museums and memorial sites, and project participants from the Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Commission, and the Danish Institute for International Studies.
We hope that our diverse approach can foster new insight and new ways forward. So, let's take today and tomorrow to move forward on issues, topics and projects as a community of practitioners. Let's use this time together to suggest follow up actions on the various developments and initiatives taking place at EU, national and local levels.
Let's keep in mind that this is not a one-off event, but part of an ongoing discussion and process, linked to EU initiatives. For example, I am very pleased that the European Commission will open up funding that could be used for staff exchanges, mutual learning and programme development related to the use of history to address the human rights situation today.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
History has taught us: to look forward we must look back. Therefore raising awareness about the Holocaust is closely linked to educating about human rights, and combating racism and antisemitism today. This will help to build a more inclusive society based on respect for and understanding of fundamental rights and European values.
Let me end with the words of William Morris, A British craftsman, poet and utopist from the 19th century. He said: "The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
Thank you.


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Your Linux Self-Help Desk. A selection of mostly Linux related tutorials, howtos, fixes, news and more.
Crashes and Blue Screens are Normal and a Processor Fan has a Lifetime of 1 year -- Everyday Support Hotline Fun and the Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology
Well my experience has been that mencoder, whether running on Linux, or Windows is so resource friendly that there really isn't a problem usually. And my understanding is also that if any problems should occur, they should be a slow and unresponsive system due to massive swapping -- and not a bluescreen. But of course that's only my lowly knowledge of about 10 years of computer support and 8 years of Linux fun.
Well after I responded shocked and directly asked him whether he was implying that blue screens would be normal and acceptable we withdrew his statement and agreed to have someone look at the device. I'm still not certain, though, if they will stick to their position that because my girlfriend ordered a system from their Vostro business laptop series and their database has her name marked as a company name, that she won't get the 2 years mandatory warranty, but only 1 year as a business would get.
Though actually that shouldn't make a difference with an error that couldn't possibly appear through mishandling of the system but must've been there from the beginning: The system crashes after some time with heavy load (longer times around 50 % may be enough, though). For a while the hard disk, whose SMART data reports a critical heat, stopped working and simply wasn't detected at boot time.
But the Dell guys didn't really understand that either. They said that it could just be a natural phenomena that a fan only has a life time of about a year and hence the system was perfectly fine at the time it was turned over to my girlfriend.
But I don't want to bore you any further with a story that probably happens everywhere to everyone and all the time in the daily Windows world... While hardware problems occur in Linux just as well, at least the people you talk to about them don't treat you like an idiot but really know their stuff.
In the end the error seems to have been the intel dynamic acceleration technology. After I "upgraded" the BIOS to the same version it already had been I looked through the BIOS and thought I'd try disabling it. Now the fan is slightly less loud and more importantly: the computer no longer seems to crash as it did before.
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I once received a Dell desktop PC for repair. The Windows install was already hosed. I had to back up the data files from the hard drive. So I booted the PC from a Linux liveCD and attempted to transfer files over the LAN. It was then I discovered the on-board ethernet didn't work. I copied the files to an external USB, then called Dell. The technician I got on the phone insisted that ethernet would not work until the Windows drivers were in place on the boot drive. This was a "gold" support technician I was talking to. I asked for his supervisor.ReplyDelete
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The Kingston man arrested Tuesday for propositioning a teenage boy with cash for sex has a long history of preying on young boys - and sending other adult men after them looking for sex, court records show.
New charges against Steven E. Brown claim he sent sexually explicit photos to a teenager, begged the boy for sexual meet-ups for cash and even created a fake online advertisement that encouraged grown men to call the boy's cellphone for a gay sexual rendezvous.
Brown, 27, of 10 Stewart St., Kingston, is charged with promoting prostitution, promoting prostitution of a minor, corruption of minors, stalking, criminal use of a cellphone and sending explicit sexual material to a minor. Following a search of his home Tuesday night, Brown was arrested, charged and jailed.
Court records indicate Brown was on bail awaiting trial for similar crimes against a 15-year-old boy in April. After being released on bail Oct. 17, court records show he had been ordered by Luzerne County Judge Michael Vough to refrain from using the Internet and any contact with minors.
Investigators say he didn't comply - and committed near exact crimes for which he was jailed.
Arrest papers say a 17-year-old boy from Wilkes-Barre Township recently contacted them saying Brown was sending him graphic sexual photos and offering to pay him $300 for sex. The boy also noted he was inundated with text messages and calls from strange adult men after his phone number was included in a Craiglist online advertisement for gay sex hookups with a teenager.
Police said Brown admitted to creating the advertisement during questioning, claiming a friend "pressured" him.
"I'm wrong. I should not be doing this," Brown told police, saying he "needs help."
The latest charges, filed by Wilkes-Barre Township police and Luzerne County Detective Charles Balogh, closely mirror Brown's arrest in April.
In that case, police say Brown befriended a 15-year-old boy on Gay.com. The communications quickly became sexual, with Brown sending graphic photos and videos to the teenager, authorities said. Brown invited the boy over his house numerous times and provided him with alcohol, police said.
Police learned about the relationship after the victim's mother reported to Kingston police that strange men were contacting her son and showing up at their house, looking to meet her son for sex.
Just like in the recent case, police said Brown created an online advertisement on Craigslist luring adult men to the victim by including his phone number in a posting for gay sex meet-ups with a teen, arrest records show.
In that case, Brown faces charges of corruption of minors, harassment, furnishing alcohol to minors, criminal use of a telephone and sending explicit sexual material to a minor.
Beside these charges, Brown was arrested on April 19 after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase on Interstate 81 that began in Wilkes-Barre Township and ended in Lackawanna County. He's awaiting trial on fleeing police and recklessly endangering another person.
Court records show a long list of other arrests, which include corruption in minors of 2008 in Wyoming County and stalking an ex-lover in Nanticoke in 2005.
Brown was jailed Wednesday in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. Magisterial District Judge Ronald Swank of Wright Townshipn set his bail at $75,000 cash.
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A prospective buyer for troubled Evergreen Cemetery says he cannot find owner Matthew Jones, which has put the sales talk in limbo.
"We can't buy it because we can't find Matthew," Garfield Moss of Bluffton said Thursday. "Everything is up in the air."
Jones has been in and out of Chatham County Recorder's Court over cemetery maintenance issues with the city of Savannah. Chief Judge Tammy Stokes, frustrated by the lack of progress with court-ordered cleanup, jailed Jones for 10 days in June for repeated violations of the city's property maintenance ordinances.
The ACL Boulevard property has been the site of yard debris and garbage dumping, which have made it an eyesore, officials said.
Jones is scheduled to return before Stokes April 22 for a status hearing.
Moss, a family friend who has been involved in helping Jones correct those violations, said he has continued in those efforts but is stymied by his failure to locate Jones.
Another stumbling block to the proposed sale has been what Moss said is a $250,000 debt on the property stemming from a court judgment and interest penalties.
Moss said his phone calls to family members have not been returned
"I don't want the (maintenance) situation to get out of control," Moss said. "I still want to buy it."
Savannah attorney Bonzo Reddick said Thursday he represents the estate of Jones' mother, Carolyn Jones, owner of Sidney A. Jones Funeral Home, to which Jones is the sole heir.
But Reddick said he has not been in touch with Jones recently.
A Jones family member said Thursday Jones has been placed in a personal care home with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease/dementia.
Moss is welcome to contact the family, he said, adding that Moss has their number.


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'The Bachelorette' Week 6 Recap: Kilt Him with Kindness
Monday, June 18, 2012
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Could anything possibly top
last week's
, with its Shakespeare butchery and "baggage" screamfest? We find out this week, when Emily and her remaining maybe-husbands head to Croatia. Emily's finally
and she'll also get closer (make out) with the whole slew of dudes. I doubt that's a coincidence.
Even though she can finally count her guys on two hands, Emily openly admits that she still has "no clue" about some of her "relationships" (here's a clue: those aren't called "relationships," then) so she's excited to investigate those mystery men in a highly orchestrated and supervised setting.
She makes a rare visit to her bro-harem to hand out the first date card of the week, and Ryan immediately marks his territory by
peeing on her
putting his arm around her. The card is for Travis, he of the symbolic and tragically smashed ostrich egg named SHELLY, and it reads, "Let's look for love beyond the walls." I think she means "beyond the pale."
Date #1: Bouncing Off the Walls with Travis
Emily likes how Travis is sweet and has a good heart. (All together now: FRIEND ZZZZONE!) Another good thing about Travis is that he is funny. But a bad thing about Travis is that I don't think he means to be. In fact, he strikes me as sort of a desperate weirdo (see: ostrich egg), and I don't see their chemistry as they walk around Dubrovnik, Croatia, arm in awkward arm.
Via voiceover, Travis tells us that he used to be engaged, and it destroyed him when that ended. He means the weightloss supplement spokeswoman with whom he
tried to get a reality show called
Chasin' Dreams with Lauren and Travis
a few years back. So yes, that reality check must have been double-rough.
It's yet another boring walk-around date. First, Emily and Travis walk to a local landmark: It's
a tiny step with a face on it
, lodged in an ancient wall. Emily says that anyone who manages to stand up on the step facing the wall and take off his shirt (?) will be "lucky in love." Travis succeeds in mounting the step, but keeps his shirt on, so Emily obviously wonders what he's hiding under there. Maybe it's a shred of dignity and privacy? That's not what Emily is looking for (obviously), so Travis better step it up if he ever wants to mount HER step. Save your emails, because yes, "step"
totally a legitimate euphemism for lady parts.
Meanwhile, back in Broatia:
Ryan is stewing in his own superiority while wearing some sort of man's haltertop. Or is it an apron? Seriously, what the hell is this thing? Does Spanx make it?
Actually, it's a special baby-bjorn that Ryan wears to carry around his extra-large ego.
Back on the date, Emily takes Travis to, like, her fourth private dinner in a creepy cave/dungeon. Travis opens up about his broken engagement, and says that it's not that either of them did anything wrong (um... see: reality show called
), but it just "wasn't right." And since they broke up two years ago, Travis hasn't gone on a single date ... until now, when,
, his dream of being on reality TV was finally achieved. Emily's eyes widen as they see the gigantic red flag raising above Travis's head.
Meanwhile, back in Broatia:
The group date card arrives, reads "Lasting love requires bravery." You know what else lasting love requires? Not writing asinine hints on stupid note cards. The card is addressed to John, Doug, Sean, Jef, Chris and Arie. Which means that douchey Ryan is getting the other one-on-one date. GREAT. AWESOME. Ryan hustles off to shave his back, wait five minutes, and then shave it again.
I've probably been a little too hard on Travis. It's not that I don't believe him or like him, it's just that he seems so naive. He is very adorable when he tells Emily that he loves her energy and she's just his type. But that makes it all the harder when Emily picks up the rose and tells Travis what we all expected: She sees him as a friend, and doesn't feel the romance. "I wanted so badly for that to happen," she says, and promises that he didn't do anything wrong. Except for how he wasn't sexually interesting to her in any way.
"Was it the egg?"
Travis doesn't ask, because he doesn't have to. We all know it was the egg. At least in the beginning.
It's raining out, but Travis dramatically throws his umbrella on the street as he walks away from Emily and his broken dreams. What's the use, when his own eyeballs are creating a thunderstorm of sorrow on his face?
Aw, bye-bye Travis. I'm sorry that your heart ended up just like your egg: Smashed on the pavement by Emily in front of the whole world. But never give up on chasin' those dreams. Off of TV, I would suggest.
Date #2: Shameless Product Placement with Arie, Doug, Sean, Jef, John and Chris
Emily takes the guys to a completely empty movie theater to watch Disney/Pixar's new animated children's movie,
. Did you know Disney owns ABC? Of course you did. And as long as they've got us hooked on this terrible show, they own our eyeballs too.
We are forced to watch out-of-context clips of this movie
, which looks, very un-Pixar-like, uhhh, not so good. Then, the men and Emily are forced to make connections between their current situation, which is a voluntary reality dating show populated by sad adults about finding a husband as quickly as possible, and the movie, which is about a young girl in a fantastical medieval kingdom who has to save her family/the kingdom/the world or some combination thereof. So, these situations are clearly very similar in every way. Like how they're both about "finding your way in the world," "changing your fate," and other empty platitudes lifted directly from
The Secret
After the movie, Emily announces to the surprise of no one that since the movie had a competition called "The Highland Games," the guys are going to compete in their OWN "Highland Games." I didn't see
, but I HAVE seen
, so I hope that "Highland Games" is a mix between
The Hunger Games,
and the guys will be chopping each other's heads off until only one remains.
Because emasculating men whose masculinity is their only currency is Emily's #1 turn-on, she forces them to put on kilts, which they immediately call skirts, and enter the Highland Games on donkeys. A mysterious bagpiper welcomes them to this fake competition thing inside of another fake competition thing. Clearly, the stakes are very high.
The first challenge is archery.Emily actually participates for once and hits the target. Most of the guys do, until it's Chris's turn. He has a weird and dainty archery stance, and everyone laughs at him, except Emily, who just frowns a lot. It's like watching medieval Scottish gym class.
Chris misses the target by a ways, which, by the way everyone's celebrating behind him, must mean he's no longer husband material.
The next challenge is log throwing. As in throwing a log as far as you can and making sure it flips end over end. Emily might as well send them out into the wilderness with clubs to see who can bring her back the biggest mastodon for dinner. Eager to prove himself, Chris volunteers to go first, but is quickly DQ'ed because his log doesn't flip all the way over. OH NO. He's not even the funny or smart one, so where does that leave him? Meanwhile, over in Ye Olde Steroid Village, Sean is so strong that he literally BREAKS the log in half. Emily notices, and would like very much for Sean throw his log into her Highlands. But please, don't break it.
The final challenge is like arm wrestling, but with a stick. Stick wrestling. The stick is Emily. Now positively DESPERATE to show a shred of strength, Chris chooses Doug and his huge-ass biceps as his opponent. So, of course, Chris loses the stick wrestling, and immediately worries that Emily won't see him as sexually viable anymore and send him home.
But Emily takes pity upon him and gives Chris the "Bravery Award." This is an actual award that she hands out, because this date wasn't CHILDISH ENOUGH YET. Chris gets the Bravery Award,
brought to you by Disney/Pixar's BRAVE rated PG in theaters June 22
, because he "tried and gave it his best." The other guys are angry because they thought the point of the Highland Games was to
, not to be "brave" enough to overestimate and overshoot their own abilities. What they forgot is that it doesn't bother Emily to make someone feel better when he fails at everything. She's very used to that from being a mom. Also because she used to date Brad Womack.
At the Highland Games Afterparty, the men are allowed to wear pants again -- physically. Emotionally, Emily's still wearing the pants around here. She and Arie take a walk together to try and regain the ground they lost last week, when Emily was angry that he didn't "protect" her by whistleblowing on Kalon fast enough. Emily and Arie dramatically make out against a stone wall. It's probably not the same wall where she shamed Travis for not taking off his shirt yesterday, but let's pretend that it is.
Back in Broatia:
Ryan is home alone, and gets his one-on-one date card. It reads, "The world is our oyster," because if there's one thing Ryan needs, it's a bigger sense of entitlement. Then we are treated to a wonderful montage of Ryan's expertise in the field of being terrible. For example, he owns bright blue suede loafers, enjoys meticulously shaving his beard into an
homage to Seneca Crane
, and claims that he wakes up every morning and asks himself, "Who do you want to be today?" The weird thing is that EVERY MORNING he answers, "A complete and utter douchebag," and yet he
just keeps asking!
Oh, good grief. I really want to like one-F Jef, but he keeps saying unbelievably cheesy things. Tonight, he tells Emily that she gives him the "kind of feeling that people write novels about." You know, like those romance novels you can buy 3-for-a-dollar at gas stations. She asks why it took so long for him to kiss her, and Jef says he was "scared." Unless she
that he waited, in which case it was all part of his elaborate plan to be the "slow and steady wins the race" guy. But now that they finally kissed last week, Jef's falling hard and fast ... into her mouth ... AND her heart. As they make out, we can see just how much taller his hair is that hers.
Are you for real?
The L-word is flying fast and frequent tonight, with Chris being the next guy to attempt to emotionally manipulate Emily into giving him the date rose by saying that he's kinda sorta starting to maybe fall in love with her. To go along with his Bravery Award, Emily gives Chris the group date rose because he is one of the "kindest, sweetest, most handsome men" she's ever met. So ... to each her own, I guess? I would have given it to Arie. ALL of it.
Date #3: Futilely Seeking Pearls with Ryan
As Ryan prepares for his second one-on-one by shaving the tree trunk pretending to be his neck, the other guys are deeply troubled that Emily has chosen to spend more private time with this public a**hole. Also, his vanity is disturbing. "He shaves his legs and plucks his finger hairs and stuff. It's weird," says Chris. Maybe he is just worried about leaving DNA evidence.
When Emily comes to pick up Ryan for their date, the other guys just sit back and swallow their own vomit as he tries to be smooth, but utterly fails.
"The world is our pearl," he opines, then corrects himself. "... Wait, no. The world is our oyster. Right? And you're the pearl. I wanna put you on a necklace and wear you around my massive neck like the pretty little brainless pearl you are. Before we go, why dontcha go in there and make me a sandwich for the road?" Basically,
Ryan IS Gaston
, except NO ONE is awed and inspired by him, and it's very easy to see why.
Before the date's even started, Emily can't decide if she hates or loves him. She keeps calling him "trouble," and rolling her eyes when he says and does stupid things, which is almost constantly. I think she wants to hate-f*ck him, but is too polite to say so.
They board a boat to eat fresh oysters, then get yelled at by a random old guy who shoves a picture of himself as a young man in their faces. It's weird, but at least Ryan's not talking for a brief moment.
My favorite/the weirdest thing about Ryan is that he is extremely upfront about some of his worst qualities. Because he thinks they are his best qualities. For example, when they sit down on a random bench to, I don't know, drink a whole bottle of wine, Ryan tells Emily, "I want a trophy wife, and you would make a great trophy." Her face does that horrified frowny thing where you realize that you deeply hate someone's insides, but you're so attracted to their outsides that you're willing to deal with it. But you better get EFFING WASTED to see it through. You know what I'm talking about.
At dinner, talk once again immediately turns to trophy wives. Why not! Obviously there's nothing else worth ever talking about, and
Emily loves it
. Why else would she sign up for a TV show that asks her to literally be the trophy for the guy who wins?
Shockingly, even though all her decisions point to the contrary, and even though she looks like a Barbie doll who's never been let out of the box, Emily finds the idea of being a "trophy wife" disgusting. But she's too lame to just come out and say this, and Ryan is too wrapped up in himself to notice that her face is saying it for her.
OH BOY. Then Ryan pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket, and it's a list of 12 qualities that he's looking for in a wife. Just some stuff he was thinking about while he trimmed his ear hair earlier that day. The qualities include: Loyal (won't question him), Logical (won't have the emotional intelligence to see through him), Trustworthy (won't betray him, even though she should), Unselfish (will serve him), "a servant" (just, LITERALLY, will serve him), Beautiful (beautiful), a sexy personality (slutty), and loves to "catch his eye" (initiates the sluttiness). I didn't catch all of the qualities, but they follow a pretty obvious theme, and I'm sure there is a gorgeous, subservient blow-up doll out there who will make Ryan very, very empty someday.
Emily delicately tells Ryan that when she's around him, she feels a lot of pressure to be "perfect," and she's not here to fit into somebody's mold. Then again, he's "one of the best-looking guys she's ever seen,"
he's a "great kisser," which happen to be two qualities on
list. WHAT TO DO?
After a long speech about how they're not looking for the same thing, Emily says that she can't give Ryan the rose. As she says this, there is legitimate FEAR in her eyes, much like when Reese Witherspoon tried to break up with Mark Wahlberg in the aptly named
. Ryan's eyes say that if she doesn't pin that rose on him, HE WILL hold her family hostage and kill her dog.
Clearly, Ryan isn't the kind to just roll over and accept rejection. "That is very,
shocking," he says sternly. He tells her that she is making the wrong choice, then almost threateningly asks/demands that she give him a chance to "show her the man that he is." Is there some sort of Date Rape Watch List we can add this guy to? NO MEANS NO.
Except, maybe "no" means "maybe" with Emily. She just sits there, holding the rose in her hand and wavering on the brink of giving in. NOOO, EMILY!!! Don't do it! Listen to your heart and brain! You know, those things inside the plastic!
Back in Broatia:
The rest of the guys hope and pray that Ryan will get eliminated. Chris thinks he will stay, because Ryan is nothing if not a great salesman. Arie thinks he will go, because he has faith in the fact that Emily will make a good decision. It's a real brain half full, brain half empty scenario. WHO'S RIGHT? We're about to find out...
Back on the date, Ryan keeps talking about how "shocked" he is that they (he) have so much fun together, yet she's not willing to see it through. Now she sees what an insufferable brick wall he REALLY is, Emily questions herself and says she's "not sure" how she feels. She's on the verge of tears. She wants to "trust her heart," but sometimes it just
doesn't make sense.
Ryan just stares at her, attempting to bore into her very SOUL for that rose. "I don't know ... if I'm the one to make you happy," she says unconvincingly, and then she blames HERSELF and her own insecurity for feeling that way. Good effing grief. At least she holds firm in her conviction NOT to give Ryan the rose.
It's not you. It's me. And how much me hates you.
"I hate the fact that what I'm hearing you say is that you wouldn't make me happy," Ryan says. I hate that even though
, she still let him feel better than her. Emily is very distraught to have done the completely right thing, and that is a great testament to Ryan's disturbing powers of manipulation. Just to rub things in and make them more confusing, Emily hugs him goodbye by saying that she's definitely NOT confident in this decision. Ryan says, "You're making the wrong choice," squeezes her hard enough to crack a rib, and walks off in search of a homeless guy to murder. As he walks, he wonders how shocked the other guys must be to see his luggage go. We don't have to wonder, because we get to watch: They are elated, and high-five and dance around as the crew takes his bags away. Jef says that he's "proud" of Emily for being able to see through Ryan's B.S. But does it really count if she turned rejecting him into a way to criticize
It's not long before the hardest-working ego in reality television finds a way to spin this to Ryan's advantage. As he rides away in the SUV of Rejection, Ryan says that even some of "the world's greatest men" have found themselves down and out, and now he is among them. It must be so hard for Ryan to flush the toilet, since even his sh*ts are miracles from heaven.
Then, because it has to happen at least once every season, Arie "surprises" Emily at her rental house because he wants to make sure she's alright after letting Ryan go. A flimsy excuse to sneak out and get some extra time, but since it's Arie, we'll allow it. They cuddle in her bed, and Arie diplomatically says that he's happy that she's "such a good judge of character," because Ryan wouldn't be a good husband ... for her. Emily is all smiles just to be in Arie's presence. She says that "next week is going to be fun" (giving it away that he'll get a rose tomorrow), and then, just so he knows exactly how she feels, offers Arie the rose that Ryan didn't get. I like it. Until the cameraman gets too close-up on their kiss, and then I
like it.
Ahhhhh back up back up back up!!!
Emily says that she's really happy with Arie and feels everything with him that she didn't with Ryan. They make out some more, and not even a camera jammed up in their faces can distract them from their burgeoning love. Even though he's forced to leave before any clothes come off, Arie declares, "I could ask that girl to marry me TOMORROW," and appears to mean it.
Cocktail Party
So. Here's how the numbers game works tonight. Both of the guys on the one-on-ones went home, which leaves six guys left, and Emily has five roses to hand out. Doug and John are "on the bubble," she tells us, so she's using this party to decide which of them should stay or go.
All of the guys constantly
they're on the bubble, so when it's John's turn to sit down with Emily, even if he doesn't REALLY know that she's testing him, he acts as though she is. For once, this kind of desperate paranoia is founded and effective. John's dramatic last-ditch effort with Emily tonight is to connect over death. He shows her his grandparents' funeral cards, which he carries around everywhere he goes, and says that his grandfather is his "guardian angel." Emily now feels like she can relate to John, and kisses her seal of approval onto his face.
Then it's Doug's turn, and he's acting extremely awkward. Emily has to force him to put his arm around her, and flat-out tells him that he needs to "pursue" her in order to stick around. He's the only one who hasn't stuck his tongue down Emily's throat yet, and he's sweating it. Hard. The more Emily tries to force him to be sexually aggressive and confident, the more he cowers and kills the romance. That's why they call him "Erectile Dysfunction Doug." I mean "Humble Doug."
It is quite sad, because Doug does seem to be one of the better guys here. He is very sweet and sensitive. And when talking to the camera, Doug breaks down in tears about how much he misses his son.
"He's a great guy." Aww, Humble Doug!
Um, well then, I guess, don't worry, Doug? Because you'll probably see him very soon.
Rose Ceremony
has his pity rose. And the rest go to...
So that leaves one rose to hand out, and as promised, Doug and John to fight over it. Emily picks up the rose but then turns around and walks out of the room. She finds Chris Harrison, just chattin' about nothin' with a producer in the middle of a cobbled street. Emily says that she doesn't know what to do. Chris says that there are no rules here, so if she doesn't want to hand out the last rose, she doesn't have to. She hands the rose to Chris. It's all very staged and fishy.
Emily comes back to the rose ceremony and says that she can't hand out the final rose ...
(Imagine that in Oprah voice.)
Chris returns with a new platter (LOL) with two roses on it and says cheesily, "Here's that extra rose you asked for!" So everyone wins! I mean, temporarily. And except for Travis and Ryan.
Emily gives roses to both John and Doug, and Doug looks so relieved and grateful to have another week away from his son, pursuing the hand of a woman who has to force him to touch her.
Next week:
Emily and the final six go to Prague, and Chris will continue to play the sad sack, next week by crying and asking for a last second
with Emily. PLUS, the show is going to openly address how Arie used to date
producer Cassie Lambert. How weirdly open of this show! How do you think Emily will react when she finds out?
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Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a 5 V InGaP HBT amplifier that combines medium power and high gain with low power consumption. This versatile, multi-purpose amplifier, identified as CGB8001-SC, consumes 100 mA of current and covers DC to 2.8 GHz frequency bands with 27 dBm P1dB and 15.5 dB gain at 2.1 GHz.
Designed for 5 V applications, this medium power amplifier is suitable for high linearity transmit, receive and IF applications, including CATV, 3G, WiBro and WiMAX. The low current consumption and high linear performance under complex modulation makes the CGB8001-SC an ideal output stage for multi-carrier applications. The amplifier is offered in an industry standard, RoHS compliant, SOT-89 package and includes an integrated active bias circuit and ESD protection, significantly enhancing quality, reliability and ruggedness.
"The integrated ESD protection, low thermal resistance and low power consumption increase the MTTF of the CGB8001-SC, making it a robust gain block solution," said Amer Droubi, product manager, Mimix Broadband Inc. "Furthermore, the integrated active bias circuit minimizes performance variation over temperature and enables direct operation from +5 V supply, eliminating the need for an external dropping resistor."


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NPD Server Brand Showdown
Servers are the brains and brawn of any company, and tracking which company is building the best equipment and selling the most has become near sport among business-savvy technophiles. Speed, handling, and cost all factor into which company dominates the North American server market, which IDC reported reached $22 billion for 2012.
That's why when The NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y.-based market sales research company, releases new market share data CRN cares. So who is this quarter's Mario Andretti of the server market? Read on to discover NPD's top 10 list of companies that earned the biggest piece of the sales' pie for servers in June, the most recent numbers available. It should be noted that this NPD market snapshot is of dollars spent on servers and build-to-order servers sold in June of 2013 through distributors Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Synnex and others. The NPD Group's Distributor Track sales database is comprised primarily of U.S. Global Technology Distribution Council members.


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Console Class
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The console is an operating system window where users interact with the operating system or a text-based console application by entering text input through the computer keyboard, and reading text output from the computer terminal. For example, in Windows the console is called the command prompt window and accepts MS-DOS commands. The Console class provides basic support for applications that read characters from, and write characters to, the console.
Console I/O Streams
When a console application starts, the operating system automatically associates three I/O streams with the console. Your application can read user input from the standard input stream; write normal data to the standard output stream; and write error data to the standard error output stream. These streams are presented to your application as the values of the In, Out, and Error properties.
By default, the value of the In property is a System.IO.TextReader object, and the values of the Out and Error properties are System.IO.TextWriter objects. However, you can set these properties to streams that do not represent the console; for example, you can set these properties to streams that represent files. To redirect the standard input, standard output, or standard error stream, call the SetIn, SetOut, or SetError method, respectively. I/O operations using these streams are synchronized, which means multiple threads can read from, or write to, the streams.
You should not use the Console class to display output in unattended applications, such as server applications. Similarly, calls to methods such as Write and WriteLine have no effect in Windows applications.
Console class members that work normally when the underlying stream is directed to a console might throw an exception if the stream is redirected, for example, to a file. Consequently, program your application to catch System.IO.IOException if you redirect a standard stream.
It is sometimes useful to explicitly invoke the members of the stream objects represented by the In, Out, and Error properties. For example, by default, the Console.ReadLine method reads input from the standard input stream. Similarly, the Console.WriteLine method writes data to the standard output stream followed by the default line termination string; that is, data is followed by a carriage return and line feed ("\r\n"). However, the Console class does not provide a corresponding method to write data to the standard error output stream, or a property to change the line termination string for data written to that stream.
You can solve this problem by setting the TextWriter.NewLine property of the Out or Error property to another line termination string. For example, the C# statement, Console.Error.NewLine = "\r\n\r\n";, sets the line termination string for the standard error output stream to two carriage return and line feed sequences. Then you can explicitly call the WriteLine method of the error output stream object, as in the C# statement, Console.Error.WriteLine();.
Screen Buffer and Console Window
Two closely related features of the console are the screen buffer and the console window. Text is actually read from or written to streams owned by the console, but appear to be read from or written to an area owned by the console called the screen buffer. The screen buffer is an attribute of the console, and is organized as a rectangular grid of rows and columns where each grid intersection, or character cell, can contain a character. Each character has its own foreground color and each character cell has its own background color.
The screen buffer is viewed through a rectangular region called the console window. The console window is another attribute of the console; it is not the console itself, which is an operating system window. The console window is also arranged in rows and columns, is less than or equal to the size of the screen buffer, and can be moved to view different areas of the underlying screen buffer. If the screen buffer is larger than the console window, the console automatically displays scroll bars so the console window can be repositioned over the screen buffer area.
A cursor indicates the screen buffer position where text is currently read or written. The cursor can be hidden or made visible, and its height can be changed. If the cursor is visible, the console window position is moved automatically so the cursor is always in view.
The origin for character cell coordinates in the screen buffer is the upper left corner, and the position of the cursor and the console window are measured relative to that origin. Use zero-based indexes to specify positions; that is, specify the topmost row as row 0, and the leftmost column as column 0. The maximum value for the row and column indexes is Int16.MaxValue.
The Console class contains methods that read individual characters or entire lines from the console; and several write methods that automatically convert an instance of a value type, an array of characters, or sets of objects to a formatted or unformatted string, and then writes that string, optionally followed by a line termination string, to the console. The Console class also contains methods and properties to get or set the size of the screen buffer, console window, and cursor; to change the position of the console window and cursor; to move or clear data in the screen buffer; to change foreground and background colors; to change the text displayed in the console title bar; and to play the sound of a beep.
The Console class also includes members that support customization of the appearance of the console window itself. The SetWindowSize method allows the number of rows and columns in the console window to be changed at the same time, while the WindowHeight and WindowWidth properties allow the number of rows and columns to be changed independently of one another. The ForegroundColor and BackgroundColor properties allow the color of the console window to be defined, and the CursorSize and CursorVisible properties allow customization of the cursor in the console window.
This code sample demonstrates how to read from and write to the standard input and output streams. Note that these streams can be redirected using the SetIn and SetOut methods.
Public Shared Sub Main() Console.Write("Hola ") Console.WriteLine("Mundo!") Console.WriteLine("What is your name: ") Dim name As String = Console.ReadLine() Console.Write("Buenos Dias, ") Console.Write(name) Console.WriteLine("!") End Sub 'Main
public static void main(String[] args) { Console.Write("Hola "); Console.WriteLine("Mundo!"); Console.WriteLine("What is your name: "); String name = Console.ReadLine(); Console.Write("Buenos Dias, "); Console.Write(name); Console.WriteLine("!"); } //main
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter EditionThe Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.


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The Omak boys cross country team and Liberty Bell girls soccer team recently were named fall team academic state champions.
Omak finished with a 3.791, which was the best for a 1A boys cross-country team.
The team includes Morgan O'Dell, Sam Goble, Jasmair Bains, Ben Kraske, Jag Bains, Alfonso Medina, Austin Hughes, Thomas vanSinten, Gabe Holz and Jordan Click.
"All have run in a varsity race this year and were included in the GPA figures," Omak coach Melody Pecha said.
This is the second straight year and fourth time in the last five years that the boys have won the state title.
Liberty Bell produced a 3.907 grade point average, which was the best for a 2B girls soccer team.
The team includes Hannah Hafsos, Lauren Ochoa, Tulie Budiselich, Ella Hall, Tabitha Bergevin-Krumme, Estrella Corrigan, Lauren Fitzmaurice, Anna Post, Corinne Dietz, Sylvie LeDuc, McKenna Barnes, MacKenzie Woodworth, Stella Gunnip Hunter, Hannah Weymuller, Danielle Mott, Kathleen Chavey-Reynaud, Haley Post, Mia Kennedy and Cassidy Butler.
The rivalry football game between Omak and Okanogan is a possibility for Tom's Tailgate this Friday, Nov. 1 at Okanogan High School.
Tom Sherry, who does the weather at KREM in Spokane, goes to one of two games with the most votes each week. He broadcasts the weather from the game site at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. during newscasts. He also presents the winning school a check for $222.
I know Tom likes to partake of the game's festivities, too.
He'd probably like Okanogan's tailgate party, which starts at 5 p.m. at the south gate.
They are having tri-tip roast beef with a Caesar salad, roll and drink.
"I hear it is marinated roast beef, about 60 pounds," Okanogan football coach Erik Judd said. "It sounds really good. I think I will go over and try it."
The Backyard Brawl is competing with the Priest River at Mary Walker game.
Votes can be cast at KREM's website or the KREM 2 News mobile app up to 11 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. Users can vote one time, per computer per day.
Tom announces the winner on the n KREM 2 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday.
You can catch highlights from the winning match up Friday night on KREM's HS GameTime show at 11 p.m.
A group of five women from the Colville Confederated Tribes joined other American Indians at the 11th annual PATHSTAR Alcatraz Swim Week, Oct. 6-14, in San Francisco and Bay area locales in California.
The week's events launched the second decade of the program and concluded with the frigid swim from Alcatraz Island to the San Francisco shore.
Third-time participant Shelli Martinez, Omak; second-time participant Joey Cohen, Tonasket; and swim week newcomers Theresa Bessette, Omak; Karen Elizabeth Wapato, Okanogan; and Sally Hutton, Tonasket; comprised the Colville Confederated Tribes group.
Other participants were from South Dakota, Wisconsin and California.
The swim week is a component of PATHSTAR's year-round program to encourage healthy eating and a stay active lifestyle among American Indian and Alaska Natives who have the highest rates of diabetes of any race or ethnicity in the U.S., according to the American Diabetes Association.
Omak's October Athletes of the Month are Kennedy Duck and Yurian Gaytan.
Duck is a four-year cross-country runner who has been a team captain the last two years.
"She is the hardest working girl on the team," Omak coach Melody Pecha said. "She runs when she is sick, never complains of injuries and encourages her teammates at all times. In the classroom she works equally hard."
"Yurian is the anchor of our defense and has battled through a nagging injury," Omak football coach Nick Sackman said. "He is considered by many to be one of the best linebackers in the league. He is a great leader by example and he lifts the play of our entire defense when he is on the field."
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announce the release of an environmental assessment that will be presented during a public meeting 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at Koala Street Grill, 914 Koala Ave.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service is proposing a rule to promote recovery of upper Columbia spring-run Chinook by authorizing the release of a nonessential experimental population of the fish into the Okanogan Basin.
Colville Confederated Tribes officials will also be in attendance.
The meeting is the start of a process to evaluate the potential to reintroduce spring-run Chinook salmon into the Okanogan basin.
During the Inchelium-Columbia football game at Republic on Friday, I got caught up on some nagging questions.
First, which team's name comes first? I have seen it both ways.
Timberwolves football coach Brian Myers said whichever school has the most athletes gets the name first, which meant it was Inchelium-Columbia this year.
As for volleyball, Inchelium only had four girls turn out. Three of them are taking a ferry to Hunters to play with the Columbia Lions.
Mansfield is offering coed basketball for those in the junior high.
So far there are no takers, Athletic Director Ric Bayless said.
Washington wildlife officials recently treated and released a doe with two fawns after the deer was shot with an arrow in its neck.
The doe was shot just under the skin.
Cost of treating the deer was $1,000.
Al Camp is the sports editor for The Chronicle. Email him at email@example.com.
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Jung-Hyuk Kwon was the toast of the K-League terraces on Sunday, after the Incheon United goalkeeper scored a freak 90-yard goal in a 1-1 draw with Jeju United.
Taking a free-kick from just outside his own box, the 34-year-old converted his first ever professional goal in the most unlikely of circumstances, after his long-range punt was misjudged by his opposite number.
Kwon's hopeful kick upfield bounced on Jeju United's 18-yard line and proceeded to bounce over the outrushing home goalkeeper Jun-Hyuk Park, and into the unguarded net.
Cue wild scenes of celebration from the crowd, who looked on in amazement as the 6ft 1in stopper was caught out by the crazy set-piece at the Jeju World Cup Stadium.
Watch footage of Jung-Hyuk Kwon's 90-yard strike in the video below - with thanks again to 101greatgoals.com - and share your favourite goalscoring goalkeepers in the comment box provided.
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STOCKTON - The Stagg High football team made its share of highlight reel plays and posted some eye-popping numbers in its season-opener, but a multitude of mistakes ultimately led to a loss against Modesto High.
STOCKTON - The Stagg High football team made its share of highlight reel plays and posted some eye-popping numbers in its season-opener, but a multitude of mistakes ultimately led to a loss against Modesto High.
The Delta Kings wasted a lot of big plays, including a 99-yard touchdown run by Daniel Ruffin on the first play of scrimmage. Stagg's senior star quarterback Wayne Brooks made big plays all night, but threw a backbreaking interception with 4:04 remaining and the Delta Kings driving for the go-ahead score. Brooks was looking for a screen pass, but instead found the waiting hands of linebacker TJ Wolf. It was a frustrating 36-32 defeat for coach Don Norton and his team.
"It was a lot of mistakes by us," Norton said. "We have to play better football, we played terrible tonight. They made big plays when they had to, but we were terrible."
Stagg's defense couldn't hold up against Modesto's spread offense, allowing the go-ahead touchdown with 5:06 remaining. Modesto's senior quarterback Tiki Tonga finished the game 12 of 20 for 230 yards passing and a touchdown and also ran for 58 yards and two scores, while bruising senior running back had 23 carries for 83 yards and a touchdown.
Stagg's issues included junior running back Lester Williams getting two unsportsmanlike penalties in the first half and Norton benching him until the final five minutes of the game. About Williams, Norton just said "we have to get more disciplined."
Brooks finished the game 16 of 21 passing for 265 yards and four touchdowns and 105 yards rushing, but the late interception sealed the Delta Kings' fate. Ruffin's amazing run came after Stagg received a false start penalty on the 1-yard line and the ball was moved back to the half-yard line, before the senior ripped off a sweep down the right sideline before cutting across the field for the longest touchdown in school history. Unfortunately, it became just a footnote in a tough loss.
"We have high expectations and we didn't live up to them," Norton said. "We have a lot of work to do."
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How the Play-in Will Play Out
I couldn't be more excited that the NCAA seems to be extricating its head from its nether regions to finally consider instituting a college football playoff. The only thing better than the thought of the classic matches to come is salivating over the classic matches that could have been. Sure, I know that Michigan wouldn't have had a chance against Florida in that 2006 matchup but most people thought Ohio State was going to plow the Gators under so you never know. That's the thing about football and a one-game playoff system. It sucks when you're on the losing end but it's great when you win.
But baseball is different. Sure, there's a thrill to ending the season on a one-game intra-division playoff and some of those games have become instant classics. However, despite being the baseball progressive half of the RSBS duo, I find myself wondering about the MLB expanded playoffs. A play-in wildcard game? Sure, it's great for ratings. And obviously it means a lot more than something like the NCAA basketball play-in game. But I'm just not sold on it.
On the money side I get it. A one-off play-in is bound to be a huge financial bonus. Last year it would have meant keeping the Red Sox and their fans around for one extra game and MLB loves those ratings bonanzas. But the beautiful thing about baseball is that its also about playing consistently. You have to play well over a 162-game grind, which only gives you the chance to do it all again in grueling 5 and 7 game series. The extended series in baseball are like life while football's one-and-done playoff model feels more like the movies.
I'm sure I'll come around. MLB has finally taken care of the uneven league issue and and with even divisions, teams now have more incentive than ever before to win their division. The play-in is great for strong divisions where a couple good teams trapped behind a spectacular team will finally get a chance to make the playoffs. But, do we really need to have 3 NL East and 3 AL East teams in the playoffs every year, even if one of them falls out during the play-in?


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I posted this on the help forum but it occurred to me that it might be better posted here in case anyone missed it on the busier forum. I e-mailed LXF about this and was told that they think it ought to be fairly easy to sort out though it is well beyond my meagre capabilities. Sorry if you find the re-post annoying but I would like an answer.
I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop partly because of the price but also because my Brother's Inspiron 1000 works so well with Suse 10. I put Suse 10.0 on it and sorted out the widescreen with resolution 855 but the sound is odd. If you plug in the headphones they don't mute the speakers. If you listen to anything in Amarok or Real Player the PCM channel mutes without the sliders moving in alsamixer or the sliders move down to zero without the mute light coming on in kmix. Playing any soundfile in audacity gives a clicky result. CDs play but no sound in kscd but play with sound in soundjuicer and in kaffeine. DVDs play fine with good sound in xine and kaffeine.
If I look in yast it tells me that the soundcard is 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller, Configured as sound card number 0, Driver snd-hda-intel. If I delete and try to add the soundcard again it tells me an error occurred "The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters".
Despite this the sound actually works when the machine is powered up, albeit with the exceptions above.
I have found a patch for the headphone thing at http://www.disgruntledgoat.com/content/ ... soundpatch which at least means I can use headphones on a train etc. and so not annoy other people. I was wondering if anyone out there has found a solution to these problems. Googling seems to suggest that this is a distro-independent problem I also put Mandriva on this laptop with the same results and live CDs such as Mepis also do the same.
Thanks for any help.


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Panel doesn't act on complaint tied to Bachmann
- Article by: CATHERINE LUCEY
- Associated Press
- February 13, 2013 - 3:31 PM
DES MOINES, Iowa - A state Senate ethics committee said Wednesday it won't take immediate action on a complaint filed against a Republican senator accused of taking improper payments from Rep. Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign.
Committee members voted 5-1 against taking any further action unless "further substantiating information" was offered related to the complaint filed Jan 28 by former Bachmann aide Peter Waldron against Sen. Kent Sorenson, of Milo. Waldron said Bachmann for President tried to conceal payments to Sorenson of $7,500 a month for about six months by running the money through a political action committee with ties to the Minnesota congresswoman.
The Senate has an ethics ban on paid employment with political campaigns. During the meeting, Sen. Sandra Greiner, R-Washington, said she felt the information provided wasn't sufficient to move forward.
"What we had in that packet was a bunch of fuzzy stuff and very few facts," Greiner said.
The committee also voted to take no immediate action on Waldron's charge that Sorenson stole an email list from a Bachmann supporter. In July, former Iowa campaign staffer Barb Heki sued Bachmann and her campaign, alleging that Sorenson stole a private list.
That matter is under investigation by the Urbandale police and no charges have been filed. The committee said they did not want to get involved in an issue already under investigation.
Davenport Democratic Sen. Joe Seng voted against the committee, saying he'd prefer to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to appoint an investigator to probe the claims.
"To sit and wait to see if we have more information forthcoming, it's a little bit iffy," he said.
Sorenson, who did not attend the hearing, released a statement Wednesday saying he was looking forward to putting the matter behind him.
"This baseless distraction does not change the fact that we have Iowans out of work, a property tax system desperately in need of reform and Constitutional rights that we need to be fighting for," he said in the statement.
Waldron said he understood the committee's position and pledged to try to find more evidence. He also expressed hope that a complaint he filed with the Federal Election Commission about Bachmann's alleged campaign finance problems would yield more information that could be used by the Senate committee.
Grenier said she felt data from the FEC would probably be usable, though she declined to speak for the entire committee.
© 2018 Star Tribune


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The next time you see a spider in your shower, be prepared. Have a surefire plan of attack. The following methods are your best weapons to combat an unsightly spider found hiding inside your home.
If you want an effective way to kill a spider, a firearm will get the job done. A .44 caliber Ruger should do the trick.
The truth is, you don't need a firearm to kill a spider… Chuck Norris is an equally efficient killing machine!
If you see a dangerous spider in your home, take the following preventative steps: Step 1: Put in earplugs. Step 2: Turn on the radio and find Carly Rae Jepsen's, "Call Me Maybe." With as much airplay as that song gets, it should be easy to find playing on some station. Step 3: Point the speakers in the spider's direction and watch as it instantly falls to it's death. Note: Playing anything by Justin Bieber is also equally effective.
When you see a spider running across your ceiling, grab the nearest can of hairspray. Enough of the sticky spray will freeze that spider in it's tracks. Even if it doesn't kill it; the spider will still have great hair.
A delicious way to kill a spider, assuming the spider is not dangerous, is to eat it. Marinade the spider with some garlic, thyme, olive oil and cayenne pepper; then toss it with some garden fresh arugula. Enjoy! Many cultures regularly eat spiders, scorpions, and other insects.
When that unsightly spider is running across your kitchen counter-top, grab your nearby bag of Oreo cookies. Take an Oreo apart, and quickly smash the spider in the Oreo's cream. On top of killing the spider, you'll also gain internet fame when you post a photo online claiming that you found the spider inside. Read more about the Oreo Spider here: http://blogpestcontrol.com/2013/03/spider-found-in-oreo-real-or-fake/
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You see a spider running across your bedroom floor and you freeze. Don't panic-- Now's the time to react quickly. A thick-soled, steel toed boot is your best ally at this point. Slip it on, and stomp. Keep stomping! Twenty or thirty times should be efficient. If you want to try a different strategy with the boot, and have good aim, throw the boot at the spider and run!
WARNING: Watch a Phoenix Suns game at your own risk... Viewer discretion is advised. If you want the spider to suffer a slow and painful death, subject the spider to a 2013 Phoenix Suns basketball game. One half of inept basketball should be enough to put the spider out of it's misery.
If you want an effective way to kill a spider, a flamethrower is one of your best bets. Even though you may risk burning your house to the ground, you know that spider is not coming out of it alive.
A surefire way to kill a spider, and keep them from ever entering your home in the first place, is to hire Bulwark Pest Control. If you want a money back guaranteed spider control solution; then call Bulwark today and start living a spider free life! It's just easier than any of the above methods.
*** Disclaimer*** Bulwark Exterminating does not recommend the shooting of spiders with firearms, treating them with a flamethrower, or eating them with arugula. Watch a Phoenix Suns game at your own risk... Viewer discretion is advised. In some cases, like those of the Black Widow or Brown Recluse, spiders can be dangerous. Avoid striking a venomous spider. Doing so may simply knock them to the floor, where they can easily escape. The spider may also fall onto your hand or another part of your body and bite.