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Why do I always get a UTI when my boyfriend and I are on vacation?
The culprit is the sudden upswing in between-the-sheets activity you get to indulge in when you're on holiday. "During sex, bacteria in the vaginal and anal area can be transferred to the urethra and travel into the bladder," says Jill Maura Rabin, M.D., head of urogynecology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. The result? Pee agony. And the more hotel-room action you engage in, the more likely you are to be afflicted. So be sure to pee before and after sex (to flush out bacteria) and avoid the rear-entry position (this move makes it easier for bacteria to hitch a ride from your bottom to your urethra).


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ABC analyst Matthew Dowd on Sunday cheered the "laudable" Candy Crowley for propping up Barack Obama with wrong information about Libya during last week's debate. Referring to a contentious exchange between the President and Mitt Romney over when the White House called the attack a terrorist indicent, Dowd enthused, "...What Candy Crowley did, I actually thought, was laudable, because what happens in this whole thing is the truth becomes a casualty." [MP3 audio here.]
Dowd, appearing on This Week, lamented a media culture where "we're just supposed to make accusations back and forth to each other and nobody's supposed to correct and say, 'by the way, that's not true.'"
Of course, Obama did not initially call the violence in Benghazi a terrorist attack." As the Washington Times explained, he "used the word 'terror' exactly once, late in his [September 12th Rose Garden] address."
The Times' Henry D'Andrea informed:
"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for." From the context, it was clear that his reference to "terror" was general. Not once did he apply that characterization to Benghazi.
Yet Dowd hyped Crowley: "I hope we get to do more of that in this discourse."
When a debate moderator exceeds his or her role and inserts bad
information into an exchange, it's hardly "laudable." The panelist, who often appears on Good Morning America, has recently sounded to the left of Democratic aide turned
journalist George Stephanopoulos.
In his political career, Dowd worked for both Democrats and Republicans. On Sunday, he threw his previous boss, George W. Bush, under the bus:
DOWD: We had a president in an administration for years made an argument about weapons of mass destruction for years. Now we've lost thousands of lives over in Iraq based on a false assumption. It wasn't two weeks. This was months and months and months of a conversation where we never got the right answer to this.
The above clip was featured on Monday's Starting Point by the liberal Soledad O'Brien, a sure sign Dowd has pleased the media establishment.
On Wednesday, Dowd declared that the conservative complaint about Crowley is a "sure sign that President Obama won this" debate.
A transcript of the October 21 exchange follows:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But there could be another flash point on the issue of Benghazi. It did create a moment between Governor Romney and the President the other night. Let's take a look.
MITT ROMNEY: You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror? It was not a spontanious demonstration? Is that what you're saying?
BARACK OBAMA: Please proceed, Governor.
ROMNEY: I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the President 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.
OBAMA: Get the transcript.
CANDY CROWLEY: He did, in fact, sir.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Greta Van Susteren, Candy Crowley stepping in there help the President.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Well, actually I think she helped Governor Romney. Candy Crowley, by the way, is an old friend of mine, I used to work at CNN. But I actually think she helped Governor Romney, because is there about 15 or 16 topics they discussed that night, and the most important issue for Governor Romney's campaign is to put the spotlight on Libya and how the President's administration has been very clumsy at best, not giving us the information, meaning the American people, what happened.
So what happened is because Candy Crowley was clumsy in how she handled it, the entire discussion and even right now is about Libya where we would have probably reserved it for the debate tomorrow night. But Candy, in an unusual, bizarre way put the total spotlight -- that's all the media talked about.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you agree with that?
MATTHEW DOWD: No. Absolutely not. I mean, I think that Benghazi discussion, Libya discussion was the President's best moment of the debate and I think Mitt Romney's worst moment in that debate. And I have to say so many times in this discourse that we have - and Candy - what Candy Crowley did, I actually thought, was laudable, because what happens in this whole thing is the truth becomes a casualty. And nobody is supposed to say what actually - what actually happened, we're just supposed to make accusations back and forth to each other and nobody's supposed to correct and say, by the way, that's not true. I actually thought what Candy Crowley did, and I hope we get to do more of that in this discourse.

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NEW YORK � June 8, 2009 � In the premiere episode of "Top Chef Masters," airing Wednesday, June 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hubert Keller (Fleur de Lys), Christopher Lee (Aureole), Michael Schlow (Radius Restaurant), and Tim Love (The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro) are the first four chefs to draw knives and kick off a whole new level of culinary competition. The Master chefs are tasked with cooking dessert for a tough crowd of judges, Girl Scouts, and in the elimination challenge the acclaimed chefs must cook a three course meal in a college dorm room.
"Top Chef Masters," the spin-off series of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning No. 1 food show on cable, "Top Chef," flips the judges' table to find out who can handle the heat. "Top Chef Masters" will pit 24 world-renowned chefs against each other to win $100,000 for the charity of their choice. Each episode will re-create a classic "Top Chef" quickfire challenge � the first being to create the most creative and delicious dessert they can (as seen on season four). At the end, one chef moves on to the Champions Round. For an early look at the premiere, go to: http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef-masters/videos/the-dreaded-dessert.
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Gizem has always believed in leading a simple life that is respectful of all living things. She has dedicated her life to this principle.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch at home while you stay at home and knit yourself a tent. Sure, it can't resist wind. But there's nothing homier than a hand-knitted tent for all your camping needs. LET'S GO!
THE BIG BANG THEORY – 8:00PM (CBS) The nerd comedy gets the perfect guest star in Eliza Dushku, pin-up to Joss Whedon lovers the world over. Dushku (or as I call her, The Dush) plays an FBI agent in charge of getting Howard's security clearance. Or is she a vampire-slaying clone farm girl whose services can be auctioned off to the highest bidder? I dunno, but I really hope she busts out the "Bring It On" costume. ANTICIPATION: DUSHKU!
PRIVATE PRACTICE – 10:00PM (ABC) ABC's "Grey's" spinoff went into a very touchy area last week when Charlotte was assaulted and raped by a mentally unhinged ER patient. Tonight's episode deals with the fallout from that attack. The gals at Jezebel are justifiably wary of the plotline used during sweeps. Then again, "Law & Order: SVU" uses ugly assault plotlines like this so often, you'd think they were handing them out at the craft service table. ANTICIPATION: WALKING THE LINE!
THE OFFICE – 9:00PM (NBC) After scoring ratings gold with Jim & Pam's wedding and Jim & Pam's childbirth, the "Office" folks milk the Jim & Pam teat a little bit further with a baptism episode. Be there for more future Jim & Pam special episodes, including Jim & Pam's kid's first birthday party (WHOA! Everyone from work showed up somehow!), Jim & Pam's SECOND kid, and Jim & Pam's divorce and future reconciliation. The well ain't even close to dry, people! ANTICIPATION: JIMPAMNESS!
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Taylor spends $50,000 on a lavish tea party for her spoiled brat kid's fourth birthday party. Because if kids love anything, it's cucumber sandwiches and cups of boiling hot Darjeeeling. ANTICIPATION: RICH TRASH!
THE FAIRY JOBMOTHER – 9:00PM (Lifetime) Lifetime adapts this British reality show for American audiences. Career specialist Hayley Taylor will help unemployed women find jobs. Though according to one article, "in the U.S. version, the show's participants won't be called unemployed or jobless, they'll be 'job challenged'" Does that mean they get special parking spots? ANTICIPATION: GET TO WORK, GIRL!


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Homeowners are often aware of the different problems they experience in their homes: uncomfortable rooms, high utility bills, poor indoor air quality, etc. However, homeowners are generally unfamiliar with the concept of Home Performance, the Whole House approach, and how energy efficiency upgrades can address these concerns. We regularly hear these stories and find that by listening, asking the right questions, educating, and providing guidance, we can help homeowners feel comfortable with a whole home approach and help them address their concerns.
Populus, LLC administers the Home Upgrade Advisor service for the Bay Area Regional Energy Network and is very familiar with the barriers for homeowners to complete comprehensive energy upgrades. As a third party implementer and advising service for efficiency programs around the country, Populus is committed to helping homeowners understand the value of Home Performance and take advantage of whole house efficiency upgrades and program incentives.
We find that once homeowners really understand the concepts and benefits of a Whole House approach, they are much more likely to get on board and they often end up pursuing multiple efficiency upgrades. Even better, those upgrades often address many different concerns, which they may have been unaware of originally. The end result is an overall better quality of life, reduction in energy use, better protection against future utility rate increases, and a very satisfied family.
However, because Home Performance is not yet a widely recognized concept and solution for various issues homeowners are experiencing every day, it often takes extra effort to get someone on board who would otherwise really benefit from an energy upgrade. For contractors, it requires more time, resources, and a strong commitment to Home Performance in order to help educate your average homeowner. For homeowners, the overwhelming nature of Building Science (not to mention the different energy efficiency programs and requirements, complexity of the various solutions, etc.) can leave them feeling overwhelmed, pressured, and unclear about the significant impact that taking a Whole Home approach can have. Homeowners also have the option to work with non-home performance contractors who often offer lower prices. From their perspective, insulation is insulation, right? These are common barriers that Populus is able to address through our third party advisor model and by taking a "People First, Buildings Second℠" approach.
By focusing on the homeowner first and uncovering their primary concerns and motivators for pursuing an energy efficiency upgrade, Populus Advisors are able to develop trusting relationships with homeowners and ensure that they really understand the various concepts and benefits associated with a whole home approach in a way that makes sense to them. We then provide homeowners with time, resources, and guidance throughout the entire process to ensure that they have access to the resources necessary for them to feel comfortable and confident about moving forward with a whole home upgrade. Because Populus is an independent third party, homeowners can trust that their Advisor is not trying to sell them on upgrades they don't need which helps them feel reassured about moving forward with projects. Through this approach Populus is able to drive higher participation and larger projects in Home Performance programs.
Insulation is not just insulation and a furnace is not just another furnace - there is a much bigger system and picture to consider and understand. A commitment to helping homeowners understand what we as BPI Building Analysts and home performance professionals know and practice plays one of the most important roles in homeowner involvement and commitment to energy efficiency and should be a core principle for anybody trying to get homeowners involved.
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Hi Ted,
I think that the world would be a much better place if homeowners, builders, home energy efficiency experts, and government agencies would share information that is more useful.
For example, builders and owners of the Passive House at 16th and Nebraska in Salem, Oregon, shared a lot of very helpful information that can be used by others to benchmark home energy performance. You can find a lot more on this through a GOOGLE search.
See the data below:
The project's PHPP data at a glance confirms that both Passive House criteria are met: the annual heating demand criterion with 4.02 kBTU/sqft yr as well as the peak heat load with 2.9 BTU/hr.sqft. There is no need for cooling.
The general specifications of the exterior envelope components are:
Note: The window figures are unadjusted NFRC values. Passive House window calculations will result in slightly adjusted values. The PHIUS Technical Committee is developing a method for converting values and/or a protocol to more accurately calculate the window values needed for PHPP. The Tech Committee will make it available for comment in an upcoming PHIUS e-Newsletter. Many thanks to Graham Irwin, John Semmelhack and Graham Wright, who already have devoted a lot of hours to this project!
Energy consumption at the project was monitored for a full year. Over that period, the home was occupied by its new owners (a young couple and a dog, and eventually the couple's newborn baby. The owners blogged about their early experience — check it out.)
A detailed monitoring report on the first year was prepared by the company Ecotope. (Many thanks to the Ecotope team that graciously gave PHIUS permission to make the information available to the Passive House community. PHIUS plans to share more monitored data from other projects soon—stay tuned.)
Download the full report here. From the executive summary:
The 16th and Nebraska Passive House project located in Salem, Oregon is an impressive example of an energy efficient home. The home is built to the stringent requirements of the Passive House (PH) program. The home's energy use for the first year post-construction place it in the top tier of the most energy efficient single family homes in the Pacific Northwest. The first-year stats for the project are listed below:
Hi Tedd Kidd,
Thank you for links to excellent websites.
The numbers that I reference on the test homes are:
Design/Standards annual total Energy Cost per Building Envelope
Electric bill square foot per year Blower Door Rating
2009 Passive House $750 $0.42 /ft2 0.6 ACH50
2009 Energy Star $1,300 $0.72 6 ACH50
2012 Energy Efficient $1,700 $0.94 9 ACH50
Absolutely agree Ben, "How much do I use, how much do others use, and what is my reasonable opportunity to save" are the entry questions we seem to sometimes forget.
How cool would it be if this: http://bit.ly/gainsvillegreen were nation wide?
Here's a tool for getting a rough idea of opportunity: http://bit.ly/Homescale
Love to have the blower door cfm50 number on each of the houses in your example.
I believe a major problem of government, of energy utilities, and home energy efficiency experts is the failure to properly help educate the consumer, to help them understand the problems of their homes and occupants behavior, and the failure to develop realistic projections/estimates of how much savings they can get from EE investments. Below are comments from others on this matter and some benchmark information that should be readily available by region of each state and is not. I wish to thank Home Energy Pros for their frank discussion on this matter.
"Home energy efficiency estimates are a can of worms for sure, everything from incentives that encourage contractors to exaggerate to meet a minimum % improvement, to home owners who simply want to enjoy their new warmer homes."
I think there is a major lack of comparison information at the regional level to help consumers understand how the energy use in their homes compares to that of an energy efficient similar home. Below is a information that I have gathered specific to Eastern North Carolina and provides a comparison of Energy Use by different models of homes. Thank you for your leadership and assistance in this matter.
The comparison models are:
1800 square feet, 3 occupants, all electric, compact/ranch design
(Home has appliances that meet 2009 Energy Star requirements,
residents follow regular home energy efficiency practices)
Home is located in eastern North Carolina
Electricity costs are $0.11 per kWh
Design/Standards annual total Energy Cost per
Electric bill square foot per year
2009 Passive House $750 $0.42 /ft2
2009 Energy Star $1,300 $0.72
2012 Energy Efficient $1,700 $0.94
OMG, you are one of those myopic thinkers are you?
Are you even listening to yourself? Your argument is all over the place and full of fallacy and absurdity. Justin Mikolay wrote: "sloppy writing is the only possible product of sloppy thinking."
Some reading that might help you:
I'm coming at this issue from a national perspective. If the USA were leading the world in energy efficiency and housing comfort then I might agree with you. But a couple improvement projects here, a couple gut/rehabs there, while millions of existing home owners do nothing and hundreds of thousands of "code built" homes are constructed is not getting us (as a nation) to where we need to be. In the business change management world, the first order of is to create a virtual "burning bridge" - an attitude within the corporation that the current business course of action is intolerable and that the only way forward is to cross the bridge to the "new business" before the bridge collapses - and EVERYBODY within the business better get on board! This is what I'd seek to accomplish with the national building code standards and the retirement of old housing stock. See this article for more info on why I think we (again, as a nation) need much more drastic action than just everybody doing their own thing and "hanging some carrots out there to create an enticement": US Compared to the Rest of the Industrial Countries
Interesting conversation. David, I completely understand where you are coming from. To me it's rather like the dream of communism - for everyone to be equal. Wonderful on paper, really, really, really difficult to execute. From what I've seen legislation just makes people get creative in how to avoid it. Look at Wall Street, they have mastered how to pay people despite caps. Our industry has tried to ram things down people's throats for years, and we are a joke of an industry. That hasn't worked. Another way of forcing things seems ill advised, IMHO. I would rather find a market based way to get there - find a way to get people to eat their vegetables and like it. Ted and I's process ain't perfect, but the early success is surprising.
The big key I've found to selling projects is homeowners that want to stick around for at least 10 years. 'Payback' is often immaterial to them, they just want their house to be nice. HP can be like a bathroom or kitchen remodel, especially if they are thinking about changing out their furnace and AC. In those cases they have a $10K expenditure coming up anyway, so fix the shell at the same time and get a ton of benefits. It doesn't have to be a killer fix, either. Adjust the attic and basement and reduce leakage a fair amount.
Are there a ton of these clients yet? Nope. Could we handle a ton of clients as an industry? Nope. So they are a really good place to start. As energy costs go back up and more houses make sense to fix, more will get fixed. My 1835 home needs nearly $100K in work to make a substantial dent in it's energy use. It doesn't make sense today. Does that mean that my National Historic Register home should be torn down (even if it wasn't historic)? No. But I am planning to move so I can truly upgrade my own home rather than just talking about it and helping others do it. At some point in the future it will be worth doing to my house. If I was the type who dug in and lived places for a long time I would do it. As it is my wife and I tend to buy a home, fix it up, and move every 3-8 years. So I'm a mediocre candidate for my own services.
As far as payback goes, the projects I've done so far land in the 40-60 year range. I'm frank and up front about this. No one seems to mind, they are chasing something emotional like comfort, money is not that important. If you dig and ask questions for a while, you may find your clients will actually admit to this. (I'm shocked, but it happens almost every time - the payback doesn't really matter, I just want my icicles to go away/my wife to be happy/my kid's allergies to get better/etc.)
It is our fault for training people to think EE is free. Occasionally it is, and for a while when natural gas was triple what it is today, it may have been more than occasional. Today, it's not. And that doesn't really matter. The people who only want the money don't have enough pain for us to work with, that's like me exercising to not be too fat vs. my wife being national champion in her class on quad skates and second on inlines - she has a lot more reason to exercise than me, she wants to win. We have to uncover whether there is something that big in our clients. If not, it's a poor opportunity and we need to move on. It sucks to admit this, I just had an initial yesterday that didn't go to audit, but that's life.
So did I just make you mad, or is it making sense a bit?
I don't think forcing people to do things works out well for anyone. Any place your ideas force things upon people see if you can come up with an approach that creates rewards. Incentive.
Carrots cost a lot less than clubs, and enthusiastic participants net much greater results than slaves.
I have a question. I don't know what "your area" is, but if you are seeing "$5/10/20K projects", how do those pay back in 5 years?
"I believe it is our job to educate the consumer, understand the problems, help them develop a budget for solving problems, and develop designs that leverage their budget and EE opportunity into the most comprehensive and well tailored solution possible."
Ted - I year you, but (at least in our region) comprehensive, building science, remedial projects that exceed about 25% of the value of the property are not well represented - unlike large-scale projects that involve adding new/modified floor space or more decorative related (great room conversions, kitchen/bath redo, deck/sun porch additions, hot tubs/spas, etc.) Typically when project costs for perceived comfort or energy efficiency get to this level, homeowners look to relocating rather than remedying. Or maybe the perceived issues were "not really that bad to begin with". Way too many older home owners who think that their 19__ (or 18__) house was good enough for them back then so its good enough now (but it was neither good enough then nor now) to invest that large an amount. And we have millions of houses that would take a huge amount of investment to remedy (both for comfort/EE and for current code compliance like kitchen electrical requirements). Millions of existing double-wythe brick, cinder block/brick face,old balloon frame houses, no attic ventilation/walk-up attic houses, 2/3/4 unit connected townhouses in the MId-to-North Atlantic region that makes it way too difficult to remedy w/o tons of labor or reconstruction design.
Now if you are looking at a different region where new housing is problematic (not enough building lots of sufficient size located within the desired area, new code offset or foundation requirements preclude desired design) then maybe the cost of large-scale projects are more palatable. Especially when the end value of the residence will be in line with surrounding values. Otherwise you will get degenerating old neighborhoods that are losing their value every year because they are no longer desirable (and making huge investments in properties where the inherent value is not supported by the neighborhood) and new construction is more reasonably priced. If you and Nate can do 100s of almost-gut/rehab-priced-projects a year to maintain a successful business model - good on you. Otherwise mostly what I see are the $5/10/20K projects that are the 80% solution of the complete list of original issues.
My thoughts are that building codes are supposed to be a protective device for most average home buyers who are mostly clueless about most facets of home construction, durability (how long products can be expected to last) or building science. Why is the current attitude about houses completely contrary than any other consumer item? No appliance, automobile, piece of clothing, sports equipment, technology item or any other consumer product expected to increase in value as it ages nor is it expected to have an infinite lifetime. Why houses? Why do building codes (mainly) only protect new home buyers from "lowest possible cost/highest possible profit margin" builders? Why not buyers of previously-owned homes (and DO NOT talk about building inspectors of existing houses who are mostly in cahoots with real estate agents and are mainly called in on behalf of the lending institution)? If mandating a 50-year lifetime for residences sounds too "communistic", how about 50 year's-old AND change in ownership? [And "lifetime" means the ability to meet existing building codes, not just grandfathered into perpetuity.] That way any person who does not want to modernize their home is free not to do so, and those owners who have been continually modernizing their residences stand a good chance of passing the codes as-is. But in either case, the next owner will be protected.
Ted, I understand and share your concern about the lack of guidance on the part of the "Home Performance" industry on how to bridge from product sales to consultative solutions sales. I would encourage you to read Mike Rogers' article, "Your Home Performance Marketing Plan" and other articles in our Business Development and HVAC-2-HP topic areas.
Mike also publishes a great blog with lots of resources on consultative selling at http://omstout.com/blog/
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Positioned as a web app browser developed specifically to run apps written in HTML5, the newly launched MobiUs from appMobi will now run online applications with the same functionality as native apps from app stores. Working as either a standalone mobile browser or as a web app platform, it integrates powerful APIs from PhoneGap and appMobi to give web apps the same performance, look, and feel as native apps.
Justifying the release of its latest product, appMobi says that until now web apps and websites have had limited capabilities, technically incapable of utilizing the features that made smartphones so popular: gravity sensing, accelerometer, GPS, camera, sound and vibration, file system, etc. Offline caching allows apps to work in MobiUs even when network connectivity is unavailable. The concept is simple, say its developers: Once a web app is bookmarked in MobiUs, the app is stored on the smartphone, so it loads instantly and can run with or without Internet connectivity, just like a native app.
Making a direct call to programmers to embrace HTML5 programming opportunities, MobiUs has urged developers to look at new capabilities enabled by the emerging HTML5 standard. Because gameplay accounts for a large percentage of the time people spend with their smartphones, appMobi has embedded its DirectCanvas HTML5 game acceleration technology within MobiUs. DirectCanvas charges the performance of a game's physics calculation and screen drawing by an astounding percent, in theory this makes web games played via MobiUs as fast and responsive as native app games.
"MobiUs [has] the power to disrupt everything you know about mobile apps, where you get them and how developers and publishers benefit from them," says Sam Abadir, appMobi CTO. "What has been particularly exciting for us is the early interest in MobiUs from some of our game developer customers. Game developers always push technology to the absolute edge of its limitations in order to make entertaining, thrilling, and compelling games, and they are finding the combination of MobiUs and appMobi's GameDev XDK gives them performance up to and even beyond the speed and capabilities of Adobe Flash."
Key features of MobiUs include:
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- In-app access to device hardware functionalities such as the accelerometer, GPS, compass, vibration, microphone, camera, and more
The MobiUs browser makes the mobile web far more immersive by allowing web developers to access all of the functions that native apps can access, effectively creating the performance of a native app in a mobile website. "The appMobi platform and MobiUs allow any HTML5 developer to create and market mobile apps on the open web that are indistinguishable from native apps in performance and functionality. MobiUs empowers web apps and opens up the entire World Wide Web as the new app store," said Abadir.
MobiUs includes demonstration web apps that illustrate its power and functionality. As the leading HTML5 development platform, appMobi has long provided tools and cloud services that allow HTML5 to compete with native smartphone operating systems on a level playing field. Developers who wish to publish with MobiUs can use the MobiUs SDK and appMobi's free XDK HTML5 development tool. MobiUs for iOS is available today in the Apple App Store as a free app. MobiUs for Android will be available 1Q 2012.


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The tribe names seem fine to me! I really do like them
Quote from: Marionete on January 14, 2014, 09:28:16 AMThe tribe names seem fine to me! I really do like them I feel like Tribe names should at least have some bit of history/theme that became a factor in their selection. Yes, they sound perfectly fine but when you actually understand the meaning behind them, its crazy Why couldn't they just select all three municipalities. (okay or maybe Filipinos have the issues on this hahahaha)
Cast has been revealedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Cagayan
Fans kept asking us for it but they had also been enjoying the returning players seasons. I mean, David Samson, the Marlins guy? Fantastic.
I personally am glad to see newbie seasons because I don't like watching returning players if I have not seen their original season, and I just started to watch Survivor, so I am really excited!
Luzon will obviously be the dominant tribe.
Quote from: Airlines on January 17, 2014, 02:50:18 AMLuzon will obviously be the dominant tribe.That is certainly funny alol
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[top image - Allen Ginsberg and Barbara Rubin together at the Albert Monument, outside the Royal Albert Hall, London, May 1965, on the occasion of the First International Poetry Incarnation - bottom image - Barbara Rubin filming in the streets of London - May 1965 - photo by Allen Ginsberg c. The Estate of Allen Ginsberg]
Last year's celebrations at the Anthology Film Archives and at Johan Kugelberg's New York City Boo-Hooray Gallery (specialists in the occluded and forgotten), suceeeded in shining a little light, perhaps, on the perennial "underground legend", Barbara Rubin, but not so very much. She seems to have retreated once again into her default mode - posthumous mystery and obscurity.
There was a time (in the early 'Sixties) when she was a pivotal and important figure for Allen (not to mention, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, and a whole host more)
"Barbara was a great bringer-together of people, often for her own projects", Gordon Ball writes, in his recently-published memoir, East Hill Farm . One of the projects she was key instigator of, it should be pointed out, was convincing Allen, in 1967, that he should indeed buy that (Cherry Valley) farm.
Bill Morgan: "(She) (Barbara) was relentless in her determination...and used all her considerable powers of persuasion to convince him..In the end no one ever knew if Allen bought the farm of his own free will or (simply) to appease Barbara".
In 1963, she was 17 when she made her ground-breaking "underground (sex) movie", Christmas on Earth (see below)
The deep early connection with Bob Dylan?
Perhaps you recall her as the short-haired girl in the striped t-shirt, massaging Dylan's curly locks, on the back-cover of Bringing It All Back Home?
[Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Barbara Rubin, Bob Dylan, and Daniel Kramer, backstage
at McCarter Theater, in Princeton, New Jersey, September 1964 Photograph c. Daniel Kramer]
(In 1965 she's with Allen, in London, in the front row, at the legendary Albert Hall Dylan concert. They go back-stage afterwards and that's where Allen first meets The Beatles.)
Several weeks later, she's the primary instigator (not Allen, it turns out), of the great (likewise legendary) international poetry reading at that same venue - the Royal Albert Hall - the First International Poetry Incarnation Allen has confessed it: "(It was) all Barbara's idea"
Later in 1965, Barbara (through the intermediary of Gerard Malanga) introduces Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground (out of which was spawned...)
"When Barbara Rubin asked Gerard to help her make a movie about the Velvets playing at the Bizarre (sic). Gerard asked Paul Morrissey to help and Paul said why didn't I come along, and so we all went down there to see them." (Andy Warhol)
Andy: She was "one of the first people to get multi-media going around New York"
Her subsequent utter renunciation of her art and retreat into a Hasidic community child-bearing ritual is a tale unto itself - enigma and erasure.
"Barbara Rubin's 29-minute Christmas on Earth is the filmic record of an orgy staged in a New York City apartment in 1963. This double-projection of overlapping images of nude men and women clowning around and making love is one of the first sexually explicit works in the American postwar avant-garde...Many consider it to be an essential document of queer and feminist cinema.." (Daniel Belasco in Barbara Rubin - The Vanished Prodigy)
More scholarly observation and contextualization here:
"Embodying the Spectator - Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth and the Pornographic Avant-Garde"
Ara Osterweil at McGill remains the pre-eminent authority, download (in two parts) her definitive article here
and here (so the art outlives the artists) is the film.
and here, as an addenda (with rare footage of Allen and Barbara in it) is Jonas Mekas' film portrait "To Barbara Rubin With Love"
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Use this dialog to change advanced list of value (LOV) options for an item class. The settings made here affect how Discoverer Plus users select and display LOV options.
This dialog is also displayed as:
For more information, see:
"Maintaining Items and Item Classes"
Use this spin box to specify the maximum number of rows to display to an end user (for each array fetch of data from the database), when a list of values is expanded in Discoverer Plus.
Discoverer end users see the results of each database array fetch as a block of data that they can scroll up and down. End users can also easily display the next block of data (for more information, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus).
This setting is useful in Discoverer where a LOV might contain many rows, as it removes the risk of having to wait to retrieve all the values from the database at once. Discoverer displays the LOV values in blocks of a specific number of rows.
Note: The value set here is used as a default when the Require user to always search for values check box is cleared (for more information, see the "Require user to always search for values" item below).
Note: In Discoverer Plus, the server always fetches from the database, the number of rows specified in the Retrieve values in groups of field, no matter how large that number is. However, the maximum number of values that can be fetched by the client from the server is 100. So if the Discoverer manager sets the fetch size to be 1000 (more than the 100 maximum above), in Discoverer Plus the rows are always fetched by the client in groups of 100. If the Discoverer manager sets the fetch size to be 50 (less than the 100 max), in Discoverer Plus the rows are always fetched in groups of 50.
Sort the values and remove duplicates
Select this check box to hide duplicate values and alphabetically sort the display order of the list of values (for an item class) in Discoverer.
Clear this check box to display duplicate values and display rows in the same order as the values stored in the database.
This option enables you to decide whether LOV statements should automatically add the DISTINCT and ORDER BY clauses. If you know that your data is already distinct and ordered (or if it doesn't matter if your data is returned this way) then you can choose to turn this setting off.
Note: The time taken to display large lists of values depends upon how long it takes to complete a search of the database tables. Clearing this check box can improve the time taken to display large lists of values.
Show values in "Select Items" page of Worksheet Wizard
Select this check box to display LOV items in the Select Items dialog of the Worksheet Wizard (the item navigator) in Discoverer Plus.
Clear this check box not to display LOV items in the Select Items dialog of the Worksheet Wizard (the item navigator) in Discoverer Plus.
Note: In the Item Navigator, the LOV does not use the array fetch size (as specified in the "Retrieve values in groups of" spin box). In this specific instance only, Discoverer will fetch all the values first before they are displayed. If you have millions of rows, this could potentially take a long time and you would want to have this option selected.
Require user to always search for values
Sometimes, for performance reasons you might want to force end users to query a subset of the LOV. To do this you use this check box.
Select this check box when you want Discoverer to display a Search Criteria field that forces end users to enter search criteria to reduce the list of values to a subset of the whole list.
Clear this check box when you want Discoverer to display the number of rows specified in the Retrieve values in groups of spin box (for more information, see "Retrieve values in groups of").
Cache list of values during each connection
Select this check box to cache the LOV (during the current session) after it has been displayed for the first time. Use a cache when your data is static during your session. This is the recommended setting.
Clear this check box to fetch LOVs from the database each time. This option is most useful when the data is extremely dynamic and you want end users to always see the very latest (up-to-the-second) list of values.


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I laughed. I see those walking around malls all the time. I guess Im old, I just all these kids "dumbasses"A diva, mostly from urban cities and ghettos, that has reason to believe she is every mans eye candy. Unfortunately, she's wrong.
Typical signs to beware of include, but are not limited to:
-owning a Blackberry
-BLARES anything by Drake, 2Chainz, Nicki Minaj, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Cali Swag District, or any other garbage entertainment rapper
-rowdily quotes "lyrics" from aforementioned artists
-has a weave reminiscent of a bird's nest after a tempest hit the tree it was in, and is dyed at least thrice
-wears torn leggings/stalkings (mostly of the fishnet variety), unpolished 8" heels (or higher, depending on how God-awful they look), fitted jean jackets (to accent the blubber 'round their arms and stomach), and 4 layers of caked on make-up to go clubbing
-repeatedly use ludicrous terms such as "YOLO", "swag", "boost", "beaking", "doe", "really", "naw", "actually", "twerk", "coaster", "dagga", etc., to make a valid statement when they speak
-have side bangs, despite having incredibly small-donkey foreheads to support them
-are commonly overweight
and are mind-numbingly stupid; a safe assumption to make would be saying they're uneducated (as if they could pass the 4th grade)
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This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the second chip to use the x86 architecture, and the brains inside the original IBM PC.
Following the original 8086, it cost $100 when it was released in June 1979, which is about $300, adjusted for inflation. Today, $300 will buy you a Core i7 processor with 731 million transistors. How much more powerful is that than the 8088?
Immeasurably. Even Intel couldn't tell us. Meaning if you took a Core i7 back in time to 1979, and Miles Bennett Dyson was an Intel employee, he would fuck the human race in ways you can't even imagine. Or, you know, we just would've had Xbox in 1983.
With the ascendance of Windows, the x86-based PC would eventually take over the world in its own way.
[Intel, Top image: Wikipedia, Thanks to Intel for their help!]
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By looking at The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities, students will learn about life in a school and community on the Great Plains during the settlement of the American West. Those interested in learning more will find that the Internet offers a variety of interesting materials.
Homestead National Monument of America
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Halfway around the world, war has begun, but for Dorie Lennox, a newly minted private eye on her first tail, danger is more immediate. The dark streets of Kansas City of 1939 offer swing music, fast cars, gangsters, and the chance to forget about the Depression and her own murky past. But first she must conquer her fears and save a woman on a bridge high above the muddy Missouri. Dorie is thrown into a quickly unraveling scam that offers salvation to few - and misery to plenty - in the high-stakes world of machine politics and desperation deals.
With vivid prose and sharp dialogue, the world of Dorie Lennox comes alive behind the wheel of her Packard in jazz-age Kansas City. The landscape of America and the homefront of World War II are evoked in a thoughtful mystery that lingers for the force of its characters and the keen sharpness of a slice of history seen through the perceptive, compassionate eyes of Dorie Lennox.


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Not all cosplay needs to be about "realism". Sometimes humour can carry the day, sometimes bravado can do the job, and sometimes you can combine the two for something really special.
I'm having a hard time picking my favourite. Fred Durstwalker is great, yeah, but the "classic dame" C-3PO seems to be channelling the inner spirit of the character itself.
The pic above is part of a massive gallery from last year's San Diego Comic-Con, which photographer Eddric Lee has been uploading over the last week.
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Morrissey: The social dog: the first three months
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You have your new puppy. You want to do everything right. Friends have told you that you need to "socialize" her.
Socialization is an important, yet often misunderstood concept in raising puppies. In the next few articles I am going to help explain what we, as trainers mean by socialization, what type of socialization exercises are beneficial to your puppy and which can be harmful.
In a nutshell, socialization means exposing a puppy to a variety of experiences, places, animals, other dogs and people in a manner that will not frighten the puppy, but rather allow her to gain confidence in these situations.
The roots of socialization start with understanding puppy and dog developmental stages.
As early as 3 weeks it is important to gently expose puppies to new textures, sounds, smells and gentle human handling. From 3-8 weeks, the puppies are learning how to communicate to other members of the canine community. It is vital that they remain with their littermates and mother during this crucial stage of development. They are learning the nuances of canine language and important lessons such as "bite inhibition." This occurs when a pup bites her littermate or mom too hard, and the littermate or mom might yelp and move away, leaving the biting puppy alone. Since the puppy wants to be part of her family, she will learn to control the force of her bite so as not to offend any further. Bite inhibition is one of the most critical skills a dog must learn. Dogs who do not have bite inhibition, or control of their mouth, will make serious mistakes as adult canines that may lead to abandonment by their human family into a shelter, and in tragic cases, euthanasia. Puppies who are separated from their litter and mother too early, such as at 5 weeks old, will struggle in the future with understanding how to interact with other dogs and with controlling the force of their bite. Puppies must remain with their canine family until at least 8 weeks, and some experts are beginning to suggest up to 12 weeks.
From 7-16 weeks the puppies are learning about the ancient relationship they have with another species…humans and our foreign world. This is a time when the puppies' minds are the most open and impressionable. Even as early as 4 weeks of age, it is good for puppies to be gently and kindly handled by human hands for a short time each day. As they grow to 7 weeks, exposure to the big wide world of people, places, other dogs, new smells, sights and sounds becomes even more important. Here is where well meaning people often err. The exposure to all of these new things must be done in a highly supervised manner where the puppy is not frightened. Because also at this time, between 8-11 weeks, is what is called the "fear imprint" period. During this stage of development, anything that frightens a puppy can have a lasting effect. If your puppy is showing signs of stress such as peeing, running away or shutting down, remove her from the situation. Fear does not help with socialization! Fear is the source of the majority of aggression in adult dogs. Dog parks are not recommended for socialization of puppies. They may pick up a disease and they may encounter an over- assertive or aggressive dog that will frighten them. Rather, carefully select the adults, children and other dogs that will interact with your puppy.
Things to do at this time to help your puppy can include: fun, social visits to the vet's office for treats (but not procedures unless necessary), touching her feet and toes, getting her accustomed to gentle grooming, making the bathtub a fun game, wearing different hats around, wearing big coats or backpacks, letting your puppy learn that other people mean good things such as games or food, having your puppy around calm, patient adult dogs who will tolerate puppy antics, but give gentle discipline for overstepping the boundaries of canine etiquette. Bring your puppy to new places, new environments, but always keep an eye on her stress level. Individual dogs vary. What is no big deal for one puppy might be very frightening for another. In short, keep it fun, secure and positive for these first three puppy months.
Louisa Morrissey is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) and owner of Skijor n-More. She is also a professional member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and a licensed Victoria Stilwell Positively Dog Trainer. http://www.skijornmore.com
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The Federal Information Processing Standards specify cryptographic algorithms approved for government use, but any cryptographic scheme is only as secure as the keys used to encrypt and decrypt information.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued guidance on generating keys to be used with approved algorithms. Special Publication 800-133, Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation, spells out methods for creating both symmetric keys, in which the same secret key is used to both encrypt and decrypt data, and asymmetric or public-key schemes, in which separate public and private keys are used for each function.
Most key generation requires the use of a random bit generator to produce strings of statistically unrelated bits. Keys can either be created directly by the generator or the random bits can be used as seed material to create the key using an approved formula. Symmetric keys also can be generated from passwords, although NIST calls this a questionable practice because passwords typically are not very random and the resulting key is not very secure.
NIST does provide approved methods for deriving keys from passwords for storage applications in SP 800-132, released in 2010.
Keys for both symmetric and asymmetric key algorithms must be generated and used within approved FIPS 140-compliant cryptographic modules. The modules can be used either to generate keys directly or to provide seed material for generation. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) are examples of private keys that can be generated directly. An RSA key is generated from seed, which is used to find a prime number that meets FIPS criteria.
The publication is part of a series of recommendations on the management of cryptographic keys, including Special Publication 800-57, in three parts (one, two and three); SP 800-130, a draft Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems; and SP 800-152, a draft Profile for U.S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems.
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For Seniors: Delete Videos on iPad 2
Your iPad easily plays videos, podcasts, movies, and TV shows, so you might collect quite a few. Remove videos you no longer want by deleting them from your iPad. Removing videos you no longer want to play on your iPad frees up room for videos you do want to keep.
1Tap the Videos app on the Home screen.
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1. Introduction to Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System
2. Planning for Printing (Tasks)
3. Setting Up Network Printing Services (Tasks)
4. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Oracle Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)
5. Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
6. Administering Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
7. Customizing LP Printing Services and Printers (Tasks)
8. Administering the LP Print Scheduler and Managing Print Requests (Tasks)
9. Administering Printers on a Network (Tasks)
10. Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)
11. Administering Printers by Using the PPD File Management Utility (Tasks)
12. Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Reference)
Oracle Solaris Print Manager and Special Characters
Functions of the LP Print Service
LP Print Service Configuration Files
Printer Names in the terminfo Database
Required terminfo Items For a Printer
How the Printer Interface Program Works
Support for the Use of PPD Files To Set Up Printers
Raster Image Processor Support
Support for PostScript Printer Description Files
Where to Find Information About Supported Printers and Available PPD Files
Description of the Printer Driver Field in Oracle Solaris Print Manager
Description of the Command-Line Options for the ppdmgr Utility
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13. Troubleshooting Printing Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS (Tasks)
A. Using the Internet Printing Protocol
The following sections provides additional reference information that applies to setting up and administering printers by using Oracle Solaris Print Manager.
Oracle Solaris Print Manager checks user input for the various text fields in the input screens. There are two types of checking: general illegal input and input that is illegal for specific fields.
Oracle Solaris Print Manager does not accept the following characters as input, except for the help screens:
Shell metacharacters, such as "\$^&*(){}`'|;:?<>, except for the destination field on the network printer screen, which accepts colons (:)
Multibyte characters
Pound signs (#), spaces, or tabs, except the description field, which accepts tabs
The following sections describe each printer definition you can set with Oracle Solaris Print Manager.
When adding a printer to a system, you specify a printer name for the printer.
A printer name must adhere to these guidelines:
The printer name must be unique among all printers within the bounds of an administrative domain.
The printer name can have a maximum of 14 alphanumeric characters, which can include dashes and underscores.
Note - Printer names can now include a dot (.) and be up to 255 characters in length.
The printer name should be easy to remember and can identify the type of printer, its location, or the print server name.
Establish a naming convention that works for your site. For example, if you have different types of printers on the network, including the printer type as part of the printer name can help users choose an appropriate printer. For instance, you could identify PostScript printers with the letters PS. However, if all of the printers at your site are PostScript printers, you would not need to include the initials PS as part of the printer name.
The print server is the system that has a local printer connected to it and makes the printer available to other systems on the network.
You can assign a description to a printer by using the lpadmin -D command or by using Oracle Solaris Print Manager. The printer's description should contain information that helps users identify the printer. You might include the room number where the printer is located, the type of printer, the manufacturer, or the name of the person to call if printing problems occur.
Users can view a printer description by using the following command:
$ lpstat -D -p printer-name
When you initially install a printer, or later change its setup, you can specify the device, or the printer port, to which the printer is connected. You can use either Oracle Solaris Print Manager or the lpadmin -p printer-name -v device-name command to specify the device or printer port.
Most systems have two serial ports, plus a parallel port or USB ports. Unless you add ports, you cannot directly connect more than two serial printers and a parallel printer, or two USB printers, to one system.
You can select the following printer port types by using Oracle Solaris Print Manager. These options give you as much flexibility as using the lpadmin command.
The LP print service initializes the printer port by using the settings from the standard printer interface program. For more information about printer interface programs, see Administering Print Filters. If you have a parallel printer or a serial printer for which the default settings do not work, see Adjusting Printer Port Characteristics.
x86 only - If you use multiple ports on an x86 based system, only the first port is enabled by default. The second port, and any subsequent ports, are disabled by default. To use more than one port, you must manually edit the device driver port configuration file for each additional asy (serial) port or ecpp (parallel) port. The path names for the x86 port configuration files are the following:
The printer type is a generic name for a type of printer. Printer type identifies the terminfo database entry that contains various control sequences for the printer. By convention, printer type is usually derived from the manufacturer's model name. For example, the printer type name for the DECwriter printer is decwriter. However, the common printer type PS does not follow this convention. PS is used as the printer type for many models of PostScript printers, such as the Apple LaserWriterI and Apple LaserWriterII printers. For more information about the terminfo database, see The terminfo Database.
You can specify the printer type by using the lpadmin -T command or Oracle Solaris Print Manager.
In this Oracle Solaris release, to assign the file content type printer definition by using Oracle Solaris Print Manager, first deselect the Use PPD files default attribute in the Print Manager drop-down menu in Oracle Solaris Print Manager. You cannot select a file content type if you use PPD files. The default file content type for printers that are associated with PPD files is PostScript. This file content type is automatically set by the tool. You can also specify file content type by using the lpadmin -I command.
Print filters convert the content type of a file to a content type that is acceptable to the destination printer. The file content type tells the LP print service the type of file contents that can be printed directly, without any filtering. To print without filtering, the necessary fonts must also be available in the printer. You must set up and use filtering for other types of files.
Most printers can print directly the following types of files:
The same type as the printer type. For example, PS for a PostScript printer.
The simple type. For example, an ASCII text file.
When submitting a file for printing, the user can indicate the content type of the file by using the lp -T content-type command. If no file content type is supplied when the request is submitted, the LP print service checks the first file in the request to determine the content type. If the file begins with ^D%! or %!, the request is considered to contain PostScript data. Otherwise, the request is assumed to contain simple (ASCII) text. The LP print service uses the file content type to determine which filters to use to convert the file contents into a type the printer can handle.
When you are not specifying PPD files, Oracle Solaris Print Manager provides a list of file content types from which you can choose when you install or modify an attached or network-attached printer. The choices are translated to the names that the LP print service uses. The following table describes the file content types that you can choose with Oracle Solaris Print Manager.
Table 12-1 Choosing File Content Type With Oracle Solaris Print Manager When Not Using PPD Files
Choose the file content type that best matches the printer's capabilities. PostScript is the default choice in Oracle Solaris Print Manager and is probably correct most of the time. PostScript means that filtering is not needed for PostScript files.
When you set up a printer with PPD files, the printer make is the name of the manufacturer of the printer. The printer make is found on the printer itself, and on the packaging materials and documentation that is shipped with the printer.
The following are examples of printer makes that are available in this release:
The printer manufacturers produce several types and models of printers. When you set up a printer with PPD files, the printer model defines the printer precisely. The model is usually stamped on the front or top of the printer. This information is also displayed on the packaging materials and documentation that is shipped with the printer.
The following are examples of printer models that are available in this release:
Lexmark Optra E312
Lexmark Z32
Lexmark 1000
The printer driver is determined when you select the PPD file for the specified printer make and printer model.
This printer definition specifies the host name, IP address, or URI of the target printer. This definition applies to network-attached printers only.
Printer URIs can be specified by using the following formats:
lpd://{printer-name or ip}/printers/print-queue
ipp://{printer-name or ip}/printers/print-queue
socket://{printer-name or ip}:{port}
This printer definition specifies the protocol to be used between the print server and the printer. The current choices are the BSD, TCP, and URI network protocols. This printer definition applies to network-attached printers only.
This printer definition is used to specify whether a notification is sent when a printer fault is detected, and how the notification should be sent.
The default printer is the printer that the print system commands use when a printer is not specified on the command line or in by using a printing tool. For more information about using LP print commands to set up a default printer destination, see Setting Up a Default Printer Destination by Using LP Print Commands.
The banner page is the first sheet that is printed when on a print job is requested. The banner page can be set to always print, optionally print, or never print. For more information about using LP print commands to specify banner page options, see Printing Banner Pages by Using LP Print Commands.
The user access list specifies a list of users are allowed to print from the specified print server. For more information about using LP print commands to limit user access to a printer, see Limiting User Access to a Printer by Using LP Print Commands.
A printer class is a collection of printers. Print requests that go to a class of printers are handled by the first available printer in that class. For more information about using LP print command to define printer classes, see Setting Up Printer Classes by Using LP Print Commands.
You can find out about printing faults so that you can correct the problem. Fault recovery options are defined by using the lpadmin command with the -F option. For more information about using LP print commands to set up fault recovery, see Setting Up Printer Fault Recovery by Using LP Print Commands.


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Recently a friend of mine on a stamping forum was looking for larger images to colour with her Pro Markers as she struggles with her sight. I was watching Nancy Watt on Create and Craft TV and saw they had digi stamps pre printed on Pro Marker friendly cardstock for sale and it gave me an idea.
These are Clip Art images on CD Rom made by Dover Books. Although some of their CDs are of pre coloured images, many are just black & white outlines. Perfect images for colouring in with Markers of any kind. My other half who is more technical minded suggests you colour up to rather than over any printed line, as the Pro Marker is likely to pick up and collect the printer ink. If you are printing for Aqua Markers try not to saturate the final print with water or some inks will run. It's one to test, depending on your card, printer and ink combination.
These are just ideas to try out. I would recommend you try them with your older markers first rather than your most favorites, just in case the ink does run. Try colouring up to near the line and let the pen bleed up to the line, rather than touching the line with your pen 😉
There are all kinds of subjects within the range. They would work well for altered art and art journalling too. Check out options for surfaces to print onto for altered art applications. I'm thinking acetate (get the special printable kind) or even onto decal paper, which gives you options of appling the final image to curved surfaces 🙂
- Dover Clip Art CDRoms. This will take you to the clip art CD ROM section of their website. There are coloured images as well as black and white ones.
Hope you enjoy using these books & discs as much I do. They are a lot of fun for all kind of creative projects.
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Mrs Norris is the pet cat of Argus Filch, the caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Mrs Norris is described as having an unusually strong connection with her master, alerting him to any students misbehaving inside the school grounds. She is described as appearing almost the same way as Filch, with bulging yellow, lamp-like eyes, a scrawny, skeletal body and dust-coloured fur.
Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger often narrowly escaped the cat on their nightly trips through the school. Harry has a suspicion that she is able to see him even when he's under his Invisibility Cloak, although she may just sense someone there but cannot see. It is never told, though, whether cats, or just Mrs Norris, can see/sense Harry when he's under his cloak. Harry once got caught by her by day for tracking mud on the floor. Luckily, she shows up on the Marauder's Map.
Re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets (1992-1993)Edit
Mrs Norris was the first victim of the Serpent of Slytherin when the Chamber of Secrets was re-opened in 1992. On Halloween night she was petrified by the basilisk when she saw its reflection in a puddle of water in front of the unused bathroom, in the second floor. Ginny Weasley, possessed by Tom Marvolo Riddle hung her from a torch bracket by her tail, where she was found by Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Headmaster Albus Dumbledore examined the cat but was unable to revive her. Argus Filch was devastated. Mrs Norris was revived by Professor Pomona Sprout with the help of a Mandrake Restorative Draught at the end of the 1992–1993 school year.
Dolores Umbridge's tenure at Hogwarts (1995-1996)Edit
Peeves locked Mrs Norris inside a suit of armour twice after Fred and George Weasley had instructed him to wreak as much havoc as possible on their departure from the school. Filch had to rescue her.
Battle of Hogwarts (1998)EditDuring the Battle of Hogwarts, Mrs Norris was seen hissing, screeching and batting at some owls who had escaped from the Owlery to return them to their proper place. It is unknown if she joined the fight with or without Filch.
Argus FilchEdit
Filch and Mrs Norris had an unusually close bond. Filch was extremely fond and protective of her. Even when patrolling separate corridors, the two seem to be able to communicate and Filch comes directly to her when she spots a student misbehaving. When she was attacked by the basilisk in 1992, Filch's first thought was that she was dead, and he was understandably devastated. It is unknown what happened to Mrs Norris after the war. However, in the movie, it's confirmed that she survived.
Rubeus HagridEdit
Rubeus Hagrid could not stand her; he suspected that Filch sets her up to follow him around whenever he came up to the school. Hagrid once remarked that he would like to introduce her to Fang. However, the cat seems to respect the other Hogwarts teachers.
Hogwarts studentsEdit
Mrs Norris was hated by a majority of the students. Much like her master, she had an excellent knowledge of the castle. Being caught misbehaving by her was just as bad as being caught by Filch, because she would fetch him straight away. It was the "dearest ambition of many to give Mrs Norris a good kick."
Behind the ScenesEdit
- Mrs Norris seems exceptionally smart for a cat, to the point that many have suspected she is a cat/Kneazle cross like Crookshanks or an Animagus. However, J. K. Rowling has stated on her website that she is just a highly unpleasant cat.
- Mrs Norris's role in the first two films is much the same as her role in the books. She also appears briefly in the third film and in the fourth and fifth films she, along with Filch, are used more as comic relief. In the fourth film Argus Filch is seen dancing with her at the Yule Ball showing a brief sensitive side to Filch and showing his love for his cat, and on the fifth film Mrs Norris is seen climbing on Filch during the Welcoming Feast, while he is clapping enthusiastically at Dolores Umbridge's speech. She has significantly more screen time in the final movie, Filch carries her as he runs into the Great Hall screaming that the students are out of bed, as well at the end of the movie, where she is comedically sitting next to a pile of rubble as Filch attempts to sweep.
- In the earlier films, Mrs Norris has red eyes. In later films, however, she has blue eyes. Also, in the films, Mrs Norris has brown and grey fur.
- The cat that played Mrs Norris is a Maine Coon. In sharp contrast to Mrs Norris's description in the books as being scrawny, Maine Coons are a large, stocky breed.
- Rowling said she obtained the name Mrs Norris from a character in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, who is similarly odious and is hanging around in the background a lot.[1]
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Today we continued our vigorous training with an emphasis on 1 vs. 1 defending. At the end of yesterday's session, the offensive players competed against the defensive players in a 1 vs. 1 game to goal. There's a complex scoring system to this seemingly simple game that apparently only Jerry understands. The offense dominated this first game and won by a convincing 15 points. The defense demanded a rematch at the start of today's practice that the offensive players readily accepted, never missing an opportunity to compete. The game started with boisterous "trash talking" and jeering across the field from team to team. Remembering the loss in yesterday's game, the defensive players--although challenged by talented and experienced goal scorers on the offense--began to win the game. Jerry, ready to blow his whistle and end the game, was convinced by confident offensive players to let the game continue. A few fancy moves from the offense and some full body slide tackles from the defense ended the game, forcing the offense to walk off the field in defeat. Perhaps tomorrow we'll get to redeem ourselves and beat the defense at another game.
The competitive edge doesn't leave the players when we're off the field. Team manager Amy Moraczewski challenged the team to a Ping Pong tournament. I was the first opponent to be embarrassed by her swift backhand and Jedi-like reflexes. She then proceeded to eliminate Jess, Tiffany and Marian with ease and style. Due to some time constraints, the exciting Ping Pong tournament will resume tomorrow.
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McConnell asks more scrutiny of Guantanamo closing costs
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky used a Senate floor speech on Tuesday to urge more transparency in the Obama administration's plans to empty the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McConnell, who opposes moving the foreign-born captives to U.S. soil, raised the question in debate on the Defense Department's request for $83.4 billion in supplemental funds. More than $81 million of it is to fund President Barack Obama's order to move or release the 240 or so detainees by Jan. 22.
''The administration needs to tell the American people what it plans to do with these men if they close Guantanamo. Two years ago the Senate voted 94-3 against sending these killers to the United States,'' he said.
"Foreign countries have thus far been unwilling to take them in any significant numbers. And even if countries were willing to take them, there's an increasing probability that some of these murderers would return to the battlefield.''
McConnell also offered a more nuanced account of a Defense Department claim of how many of the 500-plus former detainees have ''returned to the battlefield.'' He noted that the Pentagon had ''recently confirmed'' that 18 former detainees were recidivists, while noting that 40 others were also "suspected as having done so.''
The Pentagon has withheld the suspects' names, citing the need to protect its "sources and methods.''
The proposed additional funds for Guantánamo break down this way:
$50 million to move the men. It says the money could be used for military construction projects ''not otherwise authorized by law,'' suggesting the Pentagon could build or retrofit a new lockup without an act of Congress. Or it could be used ''to provide assistance to foreign nations'' that resettle or otherwise accept some of the men.
$30 million for the salaries and expenses of the task force Obama created to review each Guantánamo captive's case as part of the closure. The money could also be used "for the incarceration and litigation of cases that may result from the Guantánamo detainee status review.''
$1.4 million ''for salaries and expenses'' to the Department of Justice's National Security Division, for prosecutors assigned to the Pentagon's Military Commissions, the war court the Bush administration created to prosecute alleged war criminals at Guantanamo.
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Dan Harmon and Mitch Hurwitz Are Cooking Up a Secret Project
The creators of two of TV's most beloved canceled-then-uncanceled comedies are collaborating on a secret project, and they don't want anyone else telling them what to do.
When Community's Dan Harmon invited Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz to guest on his show, he apparently had a bigger collaboration in mind. Harmon teased the project to Rolling Stone with a minimum of details.
"I invited him to come down on the show and then I parlayed that into what I really want from him, which is friendship, hanging out, talking about how dumb people are when they tell you what to do!" Harmon said.
He went on to explain that whatever the two are working on "would embrace the emerging mediascape, and use us both in a way that we weren't compromising each other, but are still collaborating, and giving the audience a lot to digest."
Which isn't much of an explanation at all, but it's enough to get fans wildly speculating.
Assuming it's a TV show—which Harmon didn't explicitly confirm—it could follow in Arrested's footsteps and embrace the straight-to-Netflix corner of the "emerging mediascape." And considering the dense layers of jokes that reward repeat viewings of both Arrested Development and Community, the "a lot to digest" claim isn't hard to believe.
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