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Halloween Theme Ideas
Halloween Theme Ideas – Unless you're into cosplay, adults usually only have one opportunity a year where they can dress up and be someone else. And that time is around Halloween. To make the event more interesting – kids are happy with lots of treats and a couple of witches or skeletons – why not dedicate this year's Halloween party to a certain theme. If you're fresh out of ideas the following Halloween themes will surely spark your imagination.
Spooky, let's get this cliché out of the way first, shall we? Instead of mashing everything remotely scary together, pick one theme. Say, zombies for instance. Turn your garden into a graveyard. You can buy arms or even zombie upper bodies that look like they're clawing their way out of the ground. Spread a few fake limbs around the house. Serve jello "brain" and spaghetti "intestines". Have zombie movies playing in the background.
Mobsters have always captured the imagination of people from all walks of life. If you've always liked the lifestyle, but were smart enough to not want to do the time, a mafia themed party will be right up your alley. Dress up in a fancy suit, don't forget the fedora, or an elegant dress. Shake some powdered sugar on the coffee table and use a credit card to draw lines to make it look like cocaine. Play the soundtrack of the Godfather movies in the background. Round up some toy guns, preferably a couple that look like machine guns, and leave them lying around the house. Turn one room into a casino where your guests can play poker and roulette.
Do you and your guests love superheroes? Obviously, dress up as your favorite superhero. Make photocopies of comics and turn these into cones to hold food or wrap them around bottles or glasses. Print little signs to attach to a toothpick and stick them in the finger food. The signs can either say positive things, like "energy boost" or "laser vision", or the opposite, like "kryptonite". Decorate the house with comic style flags and banners reading "Pop!", "Boom!", "Kapow!"… You can find several superhero themed cocktail recipes online.
Hollywood Halloween themes are also pretty popular. Plenty of costumes to choose from, people can dress up as the actors or the characters they played in famous movies. Roll out the red carpet and throw some silver and gold stars around. For snacks you must offer popcorn, of course. Set up cameras, they don't have to be real, and place a scene marker in every room. Have your guests leave their handprints in salt dough and create your very own walk of fame.


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Log Name: System
Event Source: LSI_SCSI
Event ID: 129
Level: Warning
LSI_SCSI warnings in the System Event Log "Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued" will cause the virtual server to freeze for 2 to 20 seconds. During this time, no disk I/O occurs.
Associated Messages
No messages to display.
The root issues was a VMware, host, iSCSI Software Adapter, Advanced property named DelayedAck. The delayed acknowledgement of received bytes by the storage to the ESX host will cause this issue. You do NOT want delayed acknowledgement. When this occurs on a Domain Controller, the freeze affects those actively logging in. The freeze affects communication from outlook to the Exchange server, as the multitude of nearly continuous authentication checks between outlook and the Exchange servers is halted during the DC's unresponsive time. The freeze affects SQL as authentication checks are halted during the DC's unresponsive time.
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Aspire Artisan Studios & Folk School
Our Story
Established in 2015, Aspire Artisan Studios & Folk School was founded by Geraldine Johnson.
As an educator and art instructor of 25 years, our founder always dreamed of creating a space that would preserve historical and heritage arts. A communal place where art enthusiasts of all ages could come together to learn, teach and collaborate.
Through Folk School classes and workshops, our artisan instructors are dedicated to preserving historical craftsmanship. No matter your skill level, learning style or age, our instructors are intent on teaching and inspiring both beginner and seasoned artists.
At Aspire Artisan Studios & Folk School, our mission is to enrich the community by allowing students to develop their unique talents and artistic abilities.


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Life Shaver (ライフシェイバー, Raifu Sheibā?), or Lifeshaver, is a recurring enemy ability in the series. It commonly drains HP from the target while dealing damage, similar to the Drain spell..
Final Fantasy VIEdit
Lifeshaver is an enemy ability used by Outcast, Misfit, Tumbleweed, Shambling Corpse, Primeval Dragon, and Crusher. It deals Earth-elemental damage to one target and heals the user equal to the damage dealt at the cost of 20 MP. It has a Spell Power of 84, is unblockable, damage is inverted against Undead, and works on targets under Float.
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If you have any questions please contact Lesley on 07833 701160
You can see that we run a variety of events throughout the year for our members
Hooper's at Dapper's Winter 2019 Schedule
Weekend Training available for beginners, starters/improvers.
You instructor will be Lesley Clare approved level 2 HUK instructor.
Handlers should be able to demonstrate that their dogs have basic obedience and recall skills.
Beginners: *** 10:00 – 11:00. ***
Sat 19/10, Sat 26/10, Sun 3/11, Sat 9/11, . (£24)
Starters: *** 11:30 – 12:30. ***
Sat 19/10, Sat 26/10, Sun 3/11, Sat 9/11,. (£24)
Beginners: 10:00 – 11:00. ***
Sat 16/11, Sat 23/11, Sat 30/11, Sat 7/12, (£24)
Starters: 11:30 – 12:30. ***
Sat 16/11 , Sat 23/11, Sat 30/11, Sat 7/12, (£24)
Any questions please contact Lesley on 07833-701160
To book a place please contact Lesley on 07833-701160 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Click HERE for a copy of Highdown Summer Show Sunday 23rd June 2019
Crystal pt 3 Saturday 13th April see FB page for entry details
Highdown Awards 2018
Sunday 3rd Feb 7 – 9pm 2019
Thomas A Becket Public house
Thank you to all that attended the event the well earned trophies went to:
Lesley & Lexi "GSD"
Louise & Digby "Golden-doodle"
Level 1 Emily & Buddy "Black Labrador"
Level 2 Jude & Archie "Black Labrador"
Level 3 Emily & Todd "
Level 1- Maz & Ted
Level 2 – Jude & Archie
Level 3 – Emily & Todd
Veteran – Sue & George "Black Labrador"
Junior – Jody & Buddy
Top ABC – Maz & Ted
AGILITY VOICE Club winner – Maz & Ted
AGILITY CLUB LEAGUE – 4th Overall a huge well done and thank you for your efforts:
Maz & Ted, Jennifer Bella, Lesley & Spice, Emily & Todd, Karen & Jimmy, Sue & George, Jude & Archie, Emily & Odie, Derek & Boris, Neil & Lily, Tracy & Rea, Jackie & Martha, Carol & Max, Lesley & Pippa, Tracy & Mole, Linda & Nacho, Yvette & Button, Beverly & Maverick, Carol & Daisy, Sue & Cali, Sophie & Buster, Tony & Monty, Alison & Beji, Elizabeth & Ezri, Nicole & Rocky, Pauline & Darcy, Tracy & Domino, Sharon & Stanley, Linda & Neo, Jody & Buddy, Helen & Poppy, Colin & Baxter, Jude & Alfie, Karen & Lui, Rosemary & Holly, Sue & Jaxon.
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Highdown Agility team. Wow what another brilliant year the positivity In the group is awesome, Lesley and I have watched so many of the team at all levels achieve even exceed their personal goals. I started to count how many placings you attained but gave up as there were so many.
Over the last 4 years we have progressed from Div 1 to Div 4 in the Agility Club this year reaching 4th place at the top in the Premier div this just has to be the icing on the cake.
tsLesley and I congratulate everyone on their efforts this year and wish all you hope for 2019
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Wow what a brilliant day for Bronze & Silver, every one ran well but special congrats to Jean & Freddie, Maria & Mylo, Louisa & Digby, Eric & Tikka, Liz & Teddy, Garry & Fiz on passing your Bronze assessment no turning back now moving on to Silver Sue & Newton and Amelie & Buster well done however my favourite today has to be the first in the ring. Mr Smooth and Sweetheart a cracking round
Highdown Awards 2017
Sunday 11th Feb 7 – 9pm 2017
Thomas A Becket Public house
We have over 36 Trophies and awards to present recognizing Club members efforts over the past year, including Crystal series, Top dogs, Challenge cup, 60 Seconds, Winning Div 1 (AC). Lesley and I hope you will all come along have a chat and help us celebrate our team efforts
Well done to all who took part at the Highdown Crystal pt 1 results will follow shortly mean while here is a short video clip of the days events taken by Jody Brigden
Click here to watch the Video
****************** Next Highdown event ******************
CANCELLED due to ground conditions Rescheduled for next week 10th February
Bronze & Silver tests Saturday 03/02/2018 more details on Fb
Highdown Agility
Wishes all our friends a Happy and prosperous 2018
Lesley & David
Next Sliver/Bronze test revised date Sunday 15/10/17 10am Bronze 11am Silver
Good luck Highdowners competing this weekend
NEDLO KC Show 23/09/2017
Southdowns KC show 24/09/2017
We are running a ring on Sunday David is judging
Congratulations to the following on successfully passing their progression tests today Saturday 18th Feb
Gold *** Rosemary & Holly
Platinum *** Sue & Cali
Pina & Harley
Jody & Buddy
Platinum Plus Finalist *** Jackie & Martha
Well done to all who passed their tests 12th Feb
Bronze: – Emily & Buddy * Sue & Murphy * Alison & Lola
Silver: – Sue & Thomas * Jacky & Harvey
Highdown in review 2016:
Pt 1: – Intense Touch n Go Training session at Dappers
'Captured beautifully by Karen & Martin Gander'
Pt 2: – Some treasured moments
'Thanks to 'E'milly Mulholland for collating'
Pt 3: – More moments and memories
'Thanks to 'E'milly Mulholland for collating'
Pt 4: – 'Finally' coming soon
'Thanks to 'E'milly Mulholland catching this special moment
Fund Raising
Wet wheels
My thanks to all who donated and helped especially Paul White who has been fully involved in this especially his Fly agility classes great fun.
After your fantastic efforts £498.11 Paul and I can now arrange two very special High speed (50mph) cruises around the Solent later this year for some of our local residents.
Please click here for info about our 2016 Charities
Summer Show 2017 Official Sponsor
Click for further show information and sponsors
What's happening click on links at top of page for more information
Saturday 6th February Progress Assessment results
Congratulations to:
Bronze: Fiona & Ozzie; Liz & Ru; Ed & Jessie;
Silver: Sue & George; Sue & Edwin; Suzanne & Alfie
Saturday 6th February > Dappers Lane update
The ground at Dappers has recovered enough for pre agility training and all normal training programs except Flyball to restart.
Saturday 6th February > Bronze n Silver tests
The ground is soft to fair so Lesley has decided to go for it.
Bronze Gates open at 09:30hrs judging at 10am
Silver judging at 11:00hrs
Good luck all David & Lesley
Well done to all who took part on Saturday 23rd January at Highdown's Crystal series pt 1 especially our winners
Lots happening over the Christmas period
Saturday 12/12/15 final Fly-Agility runs of the year
with Paul & Wilson, Sue & Muppet, Jude & Alfie/Archie
Friday 11/12/15 was the annual Christmas party, a full on raunchy Murder mystery in the Arundel dungeons (Especially for Stuart nudge nudge, wink wink)
The overall winning table and presented with a bottle of Champagne were Boris & his seven wives.
Further Champagne raffles were won by Fiona & Bertie, Kate & Hope, Linda/John & Neo
with runners up Yvette & Buttons, Anne & Kerry receiving boxes of chocolates well done to all.
Crystal accumulator 2015
Results for 2015
level 1 Crystal 2015 level 2 Crystal 2015 – level 3 Crystal 2015 –
Well done to all who took part in the crystal series
Saturday 14th Fun Fly ball in aid of the Charity Wet Wheels
12:30 at Dappers lane
Saturday 28th November
NEW competition for Platinum handlers go to progress test page for more details
Saturday 28th November Progress tests Gold/ Platinum
Gold starts at 12:30pm Platinum at 1:30pm PlatinumPlus at 2:30 pm
Sunday 29th November Highdown Challenge pt 4
Friday 11th December
Annual Christmas party celebrating with a Murder mystery evening in Arundel dungeons including buffet style meal contact Lesley for more details
Friday 18th December
Annual Christmas dogs party
Saturday: 20th June
Crystal series pt 4
Judging Level 1 09:00hrs levels 2/3 13:00hrs
Sunday 28th June
Summer Show sponsored by Attachatag and Vintage & Home
Show Details here.
Hi All
Want an afternoon out in sunny East Sussex?
ITV is launching a new celebrity reality show hosted by Gabby Logan called Flockstars (What a name) any way the idea is Eight Celebrities , under the guidance of three professional mentors, have all retrained as shepherds.
After spending six intensive weeks learning the craft, eight Flock-Stars, along with their professional sheepdogs, will come together to prove their flocking skills in front of a live audience.
Faced with… the daunting prospect of flocking sheep, ducks and geese against the clock, our Star Flockers will battle it out, over a series of classic trails to become the champion Flock-Star.
ITV has offered Highdown the opportunity of being part of the audience 0n Friday 12th June if you are interested please let me know by Sunday so I can arrange the free Priority tickets
logistic wise
Starts: at 12:00 and finishes I believe about 5pm
Location : Bodiam East Sussex
Cost free
Transport if enough are interested we could share a mini bus or cars.
A great day at Brinsbury lovely weather and good company our have ago agility raised over £95 which will be allocated to our Defibrillator fund. Thank you to all who took part Lesley & David
Brinsbury Demo this Sunday 17th May
For those volunteers please pop along about 5:30 this evening at the outside venue for a quick run through and chat don't forget your dogs.
For those unable to attend tonight See you on Sunday. at Brinsbury College (Its on the A29 3 miles south of Billingshurst.) Please be there by 09:30 to get parking by the ring.
Highdown Summer Show Sunday 28th June 2015 is now live on ISS,
Highdown 2015 Schedule and Highdown Entry Form 2015
Online booking and schedule https://www.ishowservices.com
Crystal series >>>>>>>> Pt 3 Saturday 18th April
Judging level 1 > 9am level 2 > 1pm levels 3 & 4 > 1:30
Pt 2. Results now available, 17/03/15
Highdown Challenge >>
'Dates for your Diary' >> updated 31/01/15
Bronze / Silver Tests Saturday 21st March
Bronze now at 1pm and Silver at 2pm See you there and Good luck
Working with Claire Frecknall Highdown has helped raise £500 for St Barnabas
We would like to thank everyone who took part with a special thank you to Sandra Ross, Annette Gillard and Carol Tyler for working so Hard
Saturday 11th October 2014 Goring Gap nr Worthing
Our annual charity dog walk for St Barnabas House, This year we have a fun agility show too, come along and have a go!
The walk will start at 1pm and will be along the seafront, the £5 entry fee includes a goodie bag for your dog. There is a prize for the top fundraiser if you wish to collect sponsorship.
There will be a raffle and cake sale on the day.
The agility will run from 12-4pm and will include have-a-go sessions and demos.
For more information please select the link to the left or go to:
Summer show update measuring for dogs now available you are advised to book early see show page for details
'Progress Tests' Bronze & Silver
Thursday 24th April 14
Dappers lane
Bronze 6pm
Silver 7:30pm
Gates open at 5:30pm
Crystal series Pt 3 Results
Saturday 5th April
Well done to all who took part
Results Level 1 Crystal
Results Level 2 Crystal Results Level 3 Crystal
Progress Tests Saturday 29th March 14
Well done to all who passed their grading tests yesterday
Bronze Silver
Jackie & Alfie Paul & Wilson
Maz & Digby Paula & Toby
Geoff & Luther Jackie & Yogi
Monique & Betsy Jenny & Zorro
Georgia & Scoobie
Karen & Lui
Progress Tests Sunday 2nd March 14
Well done to all who passed their grading tests today
Bronze Silver Gold
Paula & Toby Jude & Archie Ziona & Twiglet
Angela & BB Anne & Kerry Linda & Twiglet
Sandra & Luna Monique & Tilly
Sam & Ruby Sue & Dave
Matt & Bilbo
Mandy & Jasper
Colin & Baxter
Highdown Challenge
Sunday 23rd February at Ferring CC.
Well done to all who took part today:
Click here for the Highdown Challenge Pt 1 Results
Highdown Grade changes 24/2/14
Congratulations to the following handlers:
Level 1 > 2
Jackie & Martha, Jenny & Zorro, Beckie & Ollie
Sue & Bramble, Ziona & Twiglet, Sandra & Jasper
Monique & Tilly.
Level 2 > 3
Sue & Dave, Sandra & Molly
For those looking for Shows within 50 miles of Worthing?
Please click Local Agility Show dates 2014
Highdown competitions
Results due shortly
Crystal Series results Pt 1
- Highdown Challenge Pt 1
- Progress tests
For those looking for Shows within 50 miles of Worthing?
please click Local Agility Show dates 2014
Wishing you all a Happy, Prosperous and Succesful 2014
see you on the circuit or at training
Christmas BARN DANCE
With the popular "Moves Afoot" Band'
Assemble hall, Worthing BN13 4HG
Friday 13th December 2013
Click here for further details Highdown Agility barn dance
Upcoming events click on Blue links to open
30th November Crystal Bowl Entry form Closing date 22/11/13
Crystal standings 2013
20th December Christmas for our Dogs Closing date 22/11/13
13th December Highdown Agility barn dance
Open to all friends of Highdown Call early to reserve a place
Christmas Close down
No training from Thursday 19th December – Sunday 5th January 2014
Contact Lesley or David for more details 07833701160
Crystal Series '5' Saturday 13th July
Show opens at 8.30 hrs judging commencing at 9 am
Please do not arrive before 8:30
Level 2 + judging will commence @ 2pm
Highdown Summer Show 30th June 2013. (KC Listed status)
Closing date 8th June
Helpers parking details on the show page
KC Dog measuring
Click on Summer show page for more details
Friday 14th June * Fly ball training at Angmering
@ 17:30 – 18:30 & 18:45 – 19:45
Saturday 22nd * Highdown Challenge pt 2 at Angmering
Judging starts at 9am & 2pm
Contact lesley for more details
Highdown challenge Ppt 1
Sunday 10th March
well done to all who took part
Lesley, Dave, Annette,Sandra
WELLDONE MILLIE & DEXTER for reaching the Agility final today Good luck and enjoy
Crystal series pt 2 results Levels 1 – 2 Levels 2 – 4
Jemma & Toastie, Carol & Daisy, David & Ollie,
Jackie & Martha, Mandy & Deisel, Gazza Gizmo
Julie & Bramble, Tracey & Domino,
. Saturday 16th Feb 2013 **
Flyball from 12 – 1pm at the paddocks ** Progress tests all day
Nice session every one well done Dave n Lesley
Highdown annual awards 2012
The awards were presented during yesterdays Christmas party, with over 70 dogs attending a good time was had by all. Well done to all who took part
|Top Dog 2012
|Veteran Handler
|Rita & Harry 'King Charles cavalier'
|Junior Handler
|Millie & Dexter 'Border Collie'
|Highdown Level 1
|Sandra & Molly 'Border Collie'
|Highdown Level 2
|Sandra & Glen 'Border Collie'
|Highdown Level 3
|Claire & Tilly 'Schnauzer'
|Crystal 2012 level 1/2
|John & Willow 'Kelpie cross'
|Crystal 2012 level 2/3
|Millie & Dexter 'Border Collie'
|Ians '60 Seconds'
|Claire & Tilly 'Schnauzer'
|Highdown Challenge
|John & Willow 'Kelpie cross'
The Raffle for a days drifting at Santa Pod, kindly donated by Pro drifters and raised
many thanks to all who donated
Ist prize > 398 (Dom) 2nd prize > 377 (Gaz & Gizmo) Champagne
St.Barnabas House hospice raffle
St Barnabas House is a local independent charitable hospice that does a fantastic job in the local community.
I train a young lady Daisy Drake and her dog Mackey, over the last few years her Mom Gill became very poorly spending her last days at the hospice. During that time met I met and became friends with Gill often discussing ways we could help the charity, Gill found out that they need a small kiln in the arts department costing about £1500 and decided that would be her target.
So far Gill, Daisy, friends and I have raised £970 and we would like to make it the whole £1500. Daisy & I have managed to arrange the following raffle prizes
1st prize
A fantastic mornings 'Drifting' session at Santa Pod raceway.
Donated by Drift What Ya Brung
2nd prize
A bottle of Fine champagne
Donated by Flavours catering part of the 'Inital' group
The cream on the cake
My company Eurotherm Ltd has agreed to match the total amount raised by the raffle.
Raffle tickets cost £1 each and are available from
Lesley, Dave or Daisy.
Please remember all monies raised go directly to St Barnabas House and Eurotherm ltd will match the total


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WSJ Lies About Network Neutrality
The Wall St. Journal wrote this morning that Google has sold out Network Neutrality.
Naturally we trust Murdoch to tell us the truth in all things.
No, wait. We don't.
As is typical with the Journal, it turns out they're lying across the board.
The President-elect denies the claim he is backing off NN:
The Obama transition team is reaffirming his complete commitment to net neutrality and is disputing a much-discussed report today claiming that the President-elect is softening his support for it or shifting his position.
Obama transition spokesperson Nick Shapiro told us moments ago that Obama's position — strong support for net neutrality — hasn't changed.
Asked if the Obama camp had shifted its stance in any way on net neutrality or softened its commitment to it, Shapiro answered: "No."
Network Neutrality is a fight over the nature of Internet pipes.
The Internet was built on what are called "dumb" pipes, that is, tubes ranging from the modem-sized tubes of some years ago to today's broadband to tomorrow's fiber optic cable — small, big, enormous — all of which are based on the same fundamental principle: first come, first served.
The economic wonder of the Internet depends on everyone, world-wide, having absolutely the same equal-opportunity chance of getting to everything else, based on when they entered the system, first come, first served.
If my packets hit a relay junction before yours, I'm going to get the data first. It doesn't matter if you're a queen, a king, a president, or a billionaire. The Internet doesn't know who you are, and can't be made to care.
Network Neutrality is the fight to keep class-warfare the FUCK out of the Internet.
The people who own the largest pipes — AT&T, Sprint, and so on — believe in their corporate hearts, they should be able to charge more in exchange for different classes of service. More to guarantee your video streams get there without stuttering and breaking up, more to make sure your voice data sounds better than your competitions, more to be certain you can own a category all to yourself because the rates are too damn high for your competition and that's how we play monopoly.
What can't be won in the hearts of actual customers, can be won with enough money by simply denying those customers any other choice. Then overcharge the hell out of the newly locked in customers to pay to keep the customers locked in. The people who sell the bandwidth will be happy. The folks locking up the customers will be happy. And even most of the customers will be happy, locked in their snug cocoons of product/advertising slumber.
After all, before the breakup of AT&T, how many customers were truly upset with Ma Bell? Sure, people cursed the phone company; that's what one did. But everyone got dial tone. Everyone had a phone — black. And when you called, a repair man (yes, a man) was at your home the next day. What's not to like? Cell phones, answering machines, fax machines, the frigging Internet… what the hell are you talking about?
Let us not confuse NN with caching, with doing stuff to make the Internet's dumb pipes run faster. It's fine to take the servers that have the content that gets used the most and stick it in places — the actual physical locations, called "Network Access Points" aka "peering points" — where the Internet physically connects around the country (New York City, LA, Palo Alto, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas) and around the world. That's smart network management. Everyone from Google to utility companies puts their key servers in the places best suited for them to serve up data. As well as to make sure the data is spread out redundantly.
Google caches and so does everyone else. It's a "best practice." If Google didn't, they'd be leaving themselves open to a shareholder's lawsuit for failing to manage assets properly. Not to mention, searches would be slower.
This entire story is because the Journal has crappy technical writers, and worse, because they're pushing their politics onto their news page. What do you expect… they're Republicans. They don't live in Reality with a capital R. Which is why they support an Internet which would be divided by class.
For grins, let me point out a couple of problems with such a beast. If Channel A is always half a second faster than anyone else, I can arbitrage the hell out of the NYSE, dog racing, video poker, and Halo. Not to mention World of Warcraft, which means I could finally beat my daughters. (This could make the whole thing worth it, actually. Pardon me while I throw over my entire worldview. Just for the chance to win in WOW.) Everyone who depends on real-time results would be forced to delay their results by half a second or more, simply to level the playing field again.
How much fun telemedicine will be when some doctors and technicians are using true real-time and others are on a half second delay. Yeah, that surgery is going to be FUN. "Quick… grab that bleeder…"
We need a smart electric grid, which means bringing true broadband — fiber ideally — to every home in America. Doing so will change the nature of work, education, entertainment, communication, family and friends. It could change everything from banking to the Fourth Ammendment if we're not paying attention. But all this promise will only work if everyone stays equal. Equal-opportunity means equal for everyone, not some can buy their way to the front of the line.
What we relax about for today at least is this…
President-elect Obama stands strongly with us for Network Neutrality.


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Maybe you offered condolences before someone even learns of a loved one's passing or maybe you offered sympathy for a job offer not extended without knowing where the job actually stood. We've all done it, blurted out something to (or in front of) someone that you had no business saying. I can't tell you how … Continue reading Foot in Mouth Disease
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The Art of the Insult
An insult is an amazing tool. It can bnne used to show both affection and disdain, or both at the same time. A properly timed burn can earn you a lotnncomedic legacy but one of wrong move gets you labeled as a dunce and loses you friends. Don't be that guy. The best insults are … Continue reading The Art of the Insult
Leggings and You
It should be known that I do not like when grown women put on leggings and run about like they are dressed. This is my opinion. I have lots of opinions, and many people do not agree with them. I am ok with the general disagreement with my opinions because they are were formed by … Continue reading Leggings and You
Being the Protected and Served
I try very hard to remain apolitical but there was another police brutality video that surfaced in the last day or so, I feel that maybe I can provide some insight into dealing with the police. Now you're worried about the fact that I am a white woman. I am. But I have also been … Continue reading Being the Protected and Served
Surviving the Carcinogenic Apocalyse
Today the world was brought to it's knees by the World Health Organization's report on processed meats. Just as we're figuring it how to work the blessed manna into our gut busting post-workout snacky-poo a reputable source goes and fucks everything up. That isn't the only cancer inducing nightmare that has popped up this week either. … Continue reading Surviving the Carcinogenic Apocalyse
Office First Aid
So you're chocking to death on a flake of coconut during a chat with the boss? It's okay, we've all been there. If your office has prepared for this disaster you may survive this ordeal. If not, at least you'll be the reason your company no longer allows coconut during working hours, new policy y'all! … Continue reading Office First Aid
Bathrooms and Cell Phones
You may or may not remember the days when phones had cords. The days of being tethered to the wall are so very long gone that historical phone etiquette has also fallen off. This problem of phones in the restroom started at the advent of the cordless handset and has only gotten worse as phones … Continue reading Bathrooms and Cell Phones


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There are a lot of traditional crops at the Lippit Farm. This year saw winter rye, wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat, corn and hay grown in the fields. But there was a less know crop as well: broom corn! The Westcott Shop houses a broom-making shop. Broom corn is a relative to sorghum, and the part used to make brooms is the bushy seed-bearing fan at the top of the plant.
Here is crop in the field. It looks much like most corn crops, but take note the fan of fibers at the top of the plant. When the corn is ripe the tops are bent over while still on the plant. This speeds the drying process to create a usable product to make brooms. Broom corn drying in the field would have been a common sight in the 19th century. Broom-making, like most trades, produced a local product for sale in the immediate area.
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The good news is that I decided to make some dumplings for soup, ones that are easy, and can be whipped up two minutes before you decide you want to put them in the soup you are making. Of course, I will give you a soup recipe, but you can use your own. These dumplings are like matzo balls, the heavy kind, which I love. I suppose you could lighten them by beating the egg whites until stiff and folding them in, but that's time consuming.
Dumplings and soup
Dumplings first
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1 T olive oil (or melted butter)
1/3 c flour mix
2 heaping T instant potatoes (I love these, gross I know)
Beat the eggs, then whisk in the salt, pepper, garlic powder, dill, and olive oil. Fold in the flour and potatoes and stir to combine. Drop by small teaspoonfuls (the smaller the better) into boiling water or soup. Cook about 5 minutes, until the dumplings float to the top. Taste one to see if it's done.
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2 carrots, cut into slices
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a handful of mushrooms, sliced
a handful of frozen corn
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1 t dried thyme
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4 c chicken stock
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It has been 600 years since the Battle of Agincourt, when Henry V defeated the French, and this is the perfect time for the culmination of the Royal Shakespeare Company's season King And Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle Of Kings at the Barbican Theatre, which features four of the well known history plays that makes up Shakespeare's famous tetralogy.
The season sees the first in the tetralogy – Richard II – revived with David Tennant in January 2016, whilst also seeing the popular productions of Henry IV Parts One and Two from last year revived during the Christmas months. Henry V also appears, with Gregory Doran directing the whole season.
From December 2015 audiences can revisit Henry IV Part One, which played at the Barbican last year.
Focusing on the famous king who ruled England from 1399 to 1413, the first part of Shakespeare's classic deals with a country preparing for war. Exploring the time from 1402 to 1403, it opens with battle and ends with the crushing of a revolt, with Part Two then taking the story further. It was penned in the 1590s and stands alongside Shakespeare's best history plays as one of his more popular works.
Jasper Britton takes on the title role, reprising the part from the 2014 production. The acclaimed actor has worked extensively on the stage, including previous work with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the likes of The Jew Of Malta and The Taming Of The Shrew, the latter of which also appeared at the West End's Queen's Theatre. His credits include The Last Cigarette at the Trafalgar Studios, Private Lives at the Hampstead Theatre, Oedipus The King at the National Theatre and Bedroom Farce at the Aldwych Theatre, amongst many others.
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The short extract below is a taste of chapter 6 of my upcoming book "Happily Ever After for Grown Ups". I am SOOOO excited to share that I am on track to finish the manuscript, do another edit and send it over to the copy editor within the next 2 weeks. Yay! For now… enjoy a preview with the below:
Extract from Chapter 6: Do a Career Audit
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem
It is not uncommon to hear the question "Can women have it all?" This discussion has been ever present as far back as I can remember and it shows no sign of ceasing, even at this point in the 21st century.
The quote above struck a chord with me as it highlights the reason why the topics in this book may resound with modern working wives. These days, women often:
- Get married later in life – and therefore spend many years building their career credibility before settling down with their prince
- Would like to keep building their careers after they have started having a family
- Need to think creatively about how to balance the varying aspects of their lives – all of which are important
- Feel that there needs to be a decision made between baby and career – not necessarily knowing how to successfully combine the two
… and in assessing our current careers, these are all aspects to be considered. So… what are the things we need to do in our career path to ensure we on track with a career we can be proud of?
In this chapter, we will look at how to:
- Do a career audit – and understand why it is important
- Create a link between career auditing and happily ever after
By the end of this chapter, you will have a better sense of:
- Your values and beliefs: Is your career and married life a match made in heaven? Have your values and priorities changed?
- How to approach your boss about a promotion / pay rise
- Top tips for job hunting in any market (including using Twitter and LinkedIn)
- Unusual interview tips
- The kind of support available in your bid to make positive steps in developing your career (a mentor, coach etc)
- Dealing with any changing aspirations you may have – embracing the different career development tools at your disposal, including social media, if you do have a promotion or new job that you are striving for
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Surat: Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) will put LED lamps in all its 90,000 streetlights within the next six months. The work is expected to be completed by January 26, 2017.
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) would change all the streetlights with LED lamps at its own cost and would operate and maintain them for a period of seven years. It would be paid 60 per cent of the amount saved in energy bill by SMC which will be returned 40 per cent of it by the joint venture of NTPC Limited, PFC, REC and POWERGRID. Its operation and maintenance cost is Rs 8.5 crore per year.
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We have a lot of racing left to do this season, and the back half of the year includes quite a bit of south-bound travel. My next big race is in Mooloolaba, which is on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. What doesn't sound nice about that?
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What are some good general principles to keep in mind when designing and developing mobile application with touch interfaces?
4This question is way to broad to be able to answer with any specifics. – DA01 Nov 24 '11 at 4:02
ask yourself why you asked us this and then ask yourself why again on your answer to the first. Then tell us the answers, this will help. – JeroenEijkhof Nov 24 '11 at 9:07
Specify exactly what and when you're thinking about using these interactions, generally be more specific about use and we can give real answers. – Ben Brocka Nov 24 '11 at 18:36
Tap always works; it's the way to interact with a touch screen. If I can't tap an item it might lead to confusion; at the very least a tap gesture should bring up a tool tip stating how I should interact with an object--tell me to drag it, long click, tap something else.
Double tap is harder to discover and I rarely see it. Ever since Windows Tablet Edition double tap has been somewhat dubious even with a stylus (which is more precise than touch). Touch is prone to an offset error so double tap just doubles the odds of hitting an incorrect target as well. I recommend against it unless it's a game or something where you can give explicit directions to use double tap and there are no alternative interactions.
Long press is common on Android and Windows Tablet Edition and I find it less hard to discover (since I know it exists!) but it's not common on iPhone. Don't make any vital actions use long press but it can be nice for advanced features; for example on Android it's used to modify icons from your homescreen. Many people don't even know that's possible, and their phones work great without the feature. For those that use it, it's quite nice.
Without more info that's all the more advice I can give.
Don't ever require your end user to double tap or use long press at all!
A user on a touch device only knows:
- tap
- swipe (all directions)
- pinch
Just to name a few:
Do not use hover images.
Be aware of the "fat finger problem" (i.e. do not place a confirmation box right under the box users just pressed since they won't see it) In general put your navigation buttons under the content (as opposed to normal desktop navigation)
Keep in mind that screens can be viewed both in landscape and portrait mode.
Make sure that scroll gesture wipes are not accidentally picked up as touch interaction.
As DAO1 states, your question is too broad. Narrow it done to a spefic application. Each domain has it's own UI requirements.


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Warner Todd Huston writes at Newsbusters:
Showing they have no sense of morality, no grasp of corruption and no understanding of what defines a criminal, CNN gives us another one of those ubiquitous year in review stories, this one titled "Politicians who fell from grace in 2008." In this one, CNN has decided to reveal for us their top eight politicians that found 2008 to be a "career-buster" because of their "crimes and misdemeanors" or their outrageous controversies.
CNN features corruption mired Rod Blagojevich, the sex crazed Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards, and the criminal bribe taker Ted Stevens among four others. Each of these men in the CNN list have either been convicted of criminal actions, are indicted for corruption, lost their positions, been drummed out of their party, or are soon to face jail time. Among these eight criminals, however, is a name that doesn't belong among this class of serial abuser of the public trust. It won't be shocking to note that among the worst sex criminals, bribe takers, liars and thieves in politics for 2008, CNN ridiculously included the name of Governor Sarah Palin.
Palin, however, has done nothing remotely like what these other political ner-do-wells have done....
Well, there was that turkey thing... yeah, maybe America will forgive her one day. But what did she really do to become "disgraced"? She got in the way of the Obama train. She became the target of leftist "news outlets" like CNN who set out to destroy anything that threatened their candidate. The extent of their hatred is illustrated by the fact that they still can't let it go and the election has been over for almost two months.
What do you bet that a year from now the media is still finding ways to bash Bush, Sarah, and Joe the Plumber?


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APX Head Office Address: Ground Floor, Plot No. 1/6-Q, Block 6 P.E.C.H.S. Society, Near Nursery Bridge, Karachi
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Head office of APX is situated in Karachi, Pakistan. Use this info to talk to the officials of the company for any details or complaints related to there services.
APX Customer Care Phone Number: 4380151, 021-4529604-5-6
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New Zealand.. we are a horrible test side.. but made for ODI's
New Zealand.. we are a horrible test side.. but made for ODI's
People would have said the same thing about Sri Lanka in 86 and they did win it in 96. A lot can change in 10 years so you cannot be that sure.Originally Posted by luffy
Bond fit = New Zealand win.......
Sri Lanka. Great Batting. Great Bowling. And Turning wickets for Murali
ICC Cup will be in NZ hands.
"When they had a plan for Cooky, I was telling him what they will do."
Moeen Ali helps England out by translating what Pakistan's players say in Urdu and Punjabi on the field.
Hopefully India, since I make 50 bucks if they do.... so naturally they'll lose all their games, in which case I say Australia
Personally I think Australia. They are a very good side, plus they seem to bail themselves out of a bad position so many times that it will be very difficult to beat them.
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I voted Australia. Simply because they seem to be the only team to really care about it (never having won it before). India are crap currently, Pakistan might go all the way but will probably choke/collapse once too often, and the rest are no-hopers.
Cue a miraculous win by the Windies...
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Originally Posted by Pedro DelgadoOriginally Posted by Matt79
Pathan will make a come back in this tournament which will result in India's win.
Its gonna be NZ cup.
We are now second with 11% in the poll..
Strong Chace..
To be honest the Champions Trophy is a much better competition than the world cup cos it doesnt include all the pointless teams. Zimbabwe to lose every game ........ hopefully
Originally Posted by Raghav
Don't be silly - New Zealand have plenty of allrounders but none of them actually any good. Jeetan Patel and Daniel Vettori to get slogged ........ hopefully
Hopefully the Final is gonna be Pakistan vs India.
Your team to team fail to qualify....hopefully.Originally Posted by Shabash Tapash
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Welcome to part two in the series from Jason Wallace on Public Key Infrastructure. If you didn't read Jason's first article explaining PKI I suggest you nip back down the post list of The Manageability Guys to get up to speed. Over to you again Jason...
This is the second in a series of blog posts aimed at introducing PKI so that we can hopefully gain an understanding of the core concepts involved in a PKI.
We left off having considered that information can be encrypted using a protocol and a key, but considering the implications of needing to exchange keys. This is a problem that perplexed many people for many years - how do I successfully ensure that a short-term key can be securely exchanged.
For many years, people would be issued with some form of code book. People would have the code of the day and use that code to exchange messages. Later, they realised that if all messages were exchanged using that key and the key for the day was compromised then all communications for that day would also be compromised. This is when procedures changed and people would first of all invent their own, new key and send that key encrypted by the day key to the recipient. Now, we had the concept of the session key. We also had the idea of in-band key exchange.
All of this, however still relied on us having some form of code book. That code book would have to have enough pages to cover for long enough to span a replacement of a code book. If, for example we were supplying code books to infantrymen then a short code book would suffice as it would be possible to replace, say monthly. But how about a submarine on patrol for many months at a time, for example?
So enters in Public Key Cryptography otherwise known as Asymmetric cryptography.
All history is stories, and there are many stories surrounding the inception of Public Key cryptography - whether it was some clever people in Langley, USA or some clever people in Cheltenham, UK, or some clever university professors. Sitting here in my study in Cheltenham I can tell you that we know the real story!
The idea of public key cryptography is really quite simple - the idea is that you and I agree a protocol and then within that protocol I construct two keys: the private key, which I will always protect and NEVER allow anybody to access, and a public key which I'll allow anybody to have access to. These two keys will be mathematically related somehow but the public key will not give any clue as to the content of the private key.
Easy? Kind of
So, let's look at our protocol. Let's say the following:
- A private key will be the sum of two randomly selected prime numbers
- A public key will be the multiplication of these two randomly selected prime numbers
So, if I were to choose, say 3359 and 1249 as my primes, my private key would be 4608 and the public key 4195391.
What's so cool about that? Well, pretty much the fact that in order to determine which primes went to make up 4195391 the attacker would need to try each set of prime numbers in sequence to see whether the result was a prime number - something called factoring.
It's all way more complicated than that, and the numbers which we are using are way way larger than two numbers selected from Wikipedia's table of the first 500 primes (remember that we don't know how much time or CPU time the attacker has), but the key point (sorry for the pun) [RY: No he isn't] is that the actual PRIVATE key NEVER goes across the wire in band. In fact, pretty much anything that involves the private key going anywhere is a concern!
Given this, if you know that my PUBLIC key is 4195391 then you can encrypt some data with this key and I can use my PRIVATE key to decrypt the data. Hey presto! I cannot send you anything back though - for that, I'd need your PUBLIC key!
Equally, If I were to encrypt a piece of data with my PRIVATE KEY, then assuming that my private key is indeed private then the only person who could have encrypted that piece of data was me! That's a big assumption there, though - the assumption that private keys are indeed always kept private.
So, we have started to achieve two of our goals - those of CONFIDENTIALITY and AUTHENTICITY. More on those later.
There are a couple of major issues which we encounter with Public / Private Key cryptography:
- We know that there is a distinct possibility that the private key could be mathematically calculated by an attacker from the public key - it's just going to take an attacker with a huge amount of time and/or processing power. Or an attacker who is much more clever than the person who invented the encryption protocol and has spotted a weakness. To mitigate this, we tend to revert to very long key lengths and to complex mathematics, which can make these kinds of protocols slow to use
- The more data which we send across the wire which is encrypted with any given key then potentially the bigger pool of data which the attacker can use to attack our key there is.
So, what we will tend to do is to use a public key protocol to encrypt a session key for communications and exchange this key with the recipient and then revert to a much simpler, but faster symmetric key for the actual data encryption. That's why, for example you will see DH/3DES combinations in, say your IPSEC rules, where Diffie Hellman is the public key protocol and 3DES is the symmetric one.
As a side note, all of our assumptions over the mathematics involved are being challenged by products such as Elliptical Curve Diffie Hellman which allow for very fast, very efficient public key cryptography. Oh, and ALL of our assumptions about cryptography in general are being challenged by Quantum Computing, but we'll leave that for people much cleverer than I.
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Mississippi riverboat captain Ernest Torrence contends with rival Tom McGuire, whose daughter Marion Byron is sweet on the former's scarcely ship-shape son, Keaton, who has to step up once a cyclone descends. Keaton refines themes including generational pride, and also finesses escalating jeopardy, including the iconic ne plus ultra of his still-astonishing collapsing-structure tableaux, achieved within a mere three-inch margin of error.
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|Planet tasting plate, $28.00
We started off with the licorice macaron because to be honest, I'm not normally a fan of anything licorice flavour. But this one was quite mild and actually enjoyable! Katze loves experimenting with flavours and I could tell as I tried the apricot fig macaron - it had a crunchy sugary coating on the outside and a fruity fig filling. Yum. And the last macaron was banana and that has not been a flavour I've seen anywhere else!
Next we tried the chocolates and I was surprised by the first one I tried. Hello, gingerbread! Huge fan of this one because I am an avid lover of spices :D Katze has been making her chocolates to suit the festivities season, also proof in the second chocolate we tried that had a smooth mint filling. And I couldn't go past the roasted almonds dusted in cocoa. Almonds are too addictive. Though the biggest surprise had to be inside the kitty. Popping candy! It brings out the child in all of us hehe.
The tarts were easy bite sized morsels that were gone much too quick - much like the cheesecake! Katze mentions she has tried minimalising how much cheesecake she makes because her husband can demolish half of it in one sitting! :P
The last part of the tasting platter was the chocolate lava cake. My oh my was it decadent and so delicious. Katze is keeping her little secret of how they manage to get the ganache in the middle of the lava cake all to herself, so if you want to experience how delicious it is, better order it when you're at Four Friends!
If you're in the area and are craving some good quality chocolate, why not settle down with a cup of coffee and sample the desserts at Four Friends? And have a chat with Katze - she's absolutely lovely!
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Barack Obama wins the South Carolina Primary
According to the polls, Barack Obama gained roughly 55% of the vote, with John Edwards and Hillary Clinton splitting the remaining half with 18% and 27% respectively. Since African Americans are half of the registered voters in South Carolina, it was a crucial state for Barack to win in order to demonstrate that Iowa was not just a fluke. Today, 80% of those African American voters voted for Barack, with the remaining 20% voting overwhelmingly for Clinton over Edwards. He also picked up a quarter of the white vote, while Clinton and Edwards split the remaining two-thirds. Clinton picked up a disappointing 40% of women, while Barack and Edwards split the remaining 60%. Interestingly enough, six in ten voters were persuaded by Bill Clinton's campaigning in the last couple of weeks. Over half of those white voters who decided within the last three days voted for Edwards, with the rest going to Obama and Clinton about evenly.
Here is the latest delegate count:
The Democratic nominee needs to win 2,025 delegates.
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
The Republican nominee needs to win 1,191 delegates.
Mitt Romney
John McCain
The latest LA Times/Bloomberg Poll found that Clinton would fare best, according to registered voters, in a general election against any of the Republican candidates:
Clinton 48%
McCain 38%Clinton 49%
Romney 34%
Clinton 47%
Giuliani 41%
Clinton 51%
Huckabee 38%
In a recent LA Times/CNN poll, Hillary Clinton was ahead of Obama in California:
Clinton 47%
Obama 31%
Being that New York is the state that Clinton represents, she is expected to win that contest. Here are the results of a Times-Herald poll:
Clinton 51%
Obama 25%
The results of a Rasmussen poll taken in New Jersey:
Clinton 45%
Obama 27%
An IVR Poll in Texas:
Clinton 46%
Obama 28%
Quinnipiac University conducted a poll in Ohio and found that Senator Clinton was ahead of Senator Obama:
Clinton 38%
Obama 13%
I'm tired of writing this all out, so here is this:
Arizona Clinton 37% Obama 27
Alabama Clinton 43% Obama 28
Connecticut Clinton 41% Obama 27
Oklahoma Clinton 45% Obama 19
Utah Clinton 31% Obama 18
Missouri Clinton 44% Obama 31
Arkansas Clinton 57% Obama 17
Delaware Clinton 41% Obama 17
Minnesota Clinton 47% Obama 22
Tennessee Clinton 34% Obama 20
We should know who the nominee is by February 6.
And for the Republicans…
New Jersey McCain… 29 Romney… 14 Huckabee… 9
New York McCain… 30 Romney… 9 Huckabee… 8
Georgia McCain… 19 Romney… 16 Huckabee… 34
California McCain… 29 Romney… 17 Huckabee… 10
Arizona McCain… 40 Romney… 23 Huckabee… 9
Alabama McCain… 27 Romney… 15 Huckabee… 27
Connecticut McCain… 39 Romney… 11 Huckabee… 8
Oklahoma McCain… 29 Romney… 8 Huckabee… 31
Colorado McCain… 11 Romney… 8 Huckabee… 5
Illinois McCain… 31 Romney… 20 Huckabee… 11
Utah McCain… 6 Romney… 65 Huckabee… 2
Missouri McCain… 31 Romney… 21 Huckabee… 25
New Mexico McCain… 20 Romney… 7 Huckabee… –
Arkansas McCain… 9 Romney… 7 Huckabee… 59
Delaware McCain… 14 Romney… 10 Huckabee… –
Idaho McCain… 14 Romney… 38 Huckabee… –
Minnesota McCain… 22 Romney… 5 Huckabee… 2
Tennessee McCain… 12 Romney… 7 Huckabee… 24
These candidates all know who they are facing in the general election…
And Hillary knows it…
For the Democrats, if the results are close by the time the Convention rolls around, we may see John Edwards attempt to throw his weight around, albeit light. Barack and Hillary might begin courting Edwards for his support because he may very well be the kigmaker. He might be looking for a VP spot, to position himself for a future White House bid, or for some other important position. This is why Edwards has insisted that he will go all the way to the Convention.
Oh, and Rambo exceeded my expectations. It had an overly simplistic storyline, but the action and gore effects were fantabulous. I left with a smile.
The LA Times has published new poll numbers today. They show Hillary Clinton leading nationally, but Barak Obama is closing that gap. The poll also shows that John McCain is leading nationally, with Mike Huckabee in second and Mitt Romney a not too distant third. For a more in depth look at the results here is a link:
National Poll Numbers
Breakdown of issues in the Democratic and Republican Parties
A closer look at the Republican results


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David Edwards, President
Texas Barcode Systems replaced their $80,000 mid-level ERP software with Acctivate
and acquired additional features and managed the same processes quicker, easier and more efficiently.
Texas Barcode Systems (TBS) is a premier provider of Automated Identification solutions using wired and wireless networks, performance bar code printers, mobile computing, scanning and custom software.
They specialize in the installation and maintenance of various hardware, deliver software solutions and manufacture their own printer labels and ribbons.
Acctivate chosen over higher priced mid-level solutions
We were using Sage Accpac Pro. It was very cumbersome and required a lot of extra steps to get the same things done that we can do in Acctivate with just a couple of steps," said David Edwards, President.
TBS considered a few mid-level software solutions before ultimately deciding on Acctivate.
For what we do, as far as keeping inventory, serial number tracking and so forth, Acctivate really fits the niche that we need."
No more limitations
Edwards explained that they no longer have to abbreviate their product descriptions. This allows them to have their product labels be as detailed as they want.
It's easy to view your inventory, make changes to it and the description fields are invaluable to us because we were limited to about 26 characters in the past."
TBS has about 15,000 part numbers and descriptions in their database and despite this high volume, Acctivate enables them to input sales orders quicker by locating part numbers instantly with drill-down functionalities.
The ability to have multiple windows up helps as far as if you're in an application where you're entering a sales order and a part number is not setup. You just go into the product, add the part number, and then continue with your sales order."
Acctivate's Kitting feature enables TBS to effectively bundle their label and ribbon products, and their barcode scanners into kits for particular customers — a capability lacking in their previous system.
The kitting process is really handy and it takes a lot of extra time out of the loop."
Automated Shipping
Acctivate's integration to their UPS and FedEx shipping workstations reduces their shipping process steps. Edwards briefly compared shipping with their former system versus the process with Acctivate.
In the past, we waited until the next day to do our billing. Then, we had to manually go through our UPS and FedEx shipping reports and manually enter the tracking numbers and freight costs."
Now their shipping process is more automated.
The way Acctivate handles pulling all the data over — you don't have to key in any data. It cuts out a lot of error."
Mobile Receiving & Picking
TBS uses Acctivate Mobile for receiving inventory and picking orders in addition to all the efficiencies they have gained by replacing their previous system.
Mobile Picking is ideal for their serialized items because they are able to select the serial number that they are picking as they are picking it.


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Abstract Landscape Painter. Rural Dweller. Lover of Modernist Art and Design.
Flowers Appear All Over The Earth…
"Winter is past. The rains are over and gone. Flowers appear all over the earth; the season of singing has come."
It may be a piece of ancient Hebrew poetry I know, but it certainly seems truer than ever this year. I've never seen as many cowslips and primroses in my life as this Spring. The hedgerows and field edges are thick with them. I even photographed a patch of beautiful star-shaped wild flowers growing in a ditch the other day. I don't think that I've ever appreciated the blossom quite as much either. On one side of our back garden there is a tree covered in elegant white blossom. I was working out there on Sunday, when I became aware of a delicate, cologne-like fragrance. I realised after a while that it was the perfume from the flowers on the tree.
We've also got some small apple trees growing in the front garden and I've been watching the buds on these. They looked like little green/white parcels until today, when for the first time they have opened to reveal tiny rosettes of pale green leaves and pink and white centres that look almost like a cluster of miniature figs. The trees are slender and delicate and with their little pattern of buds along the stems, they make me think of Japanese textile designs.
After the drab and stormy winter, I feel as if I'm enjoying this Spring more than any in my life so far. I know that it's an old cliché to say that the earth is dressing herself in all her finery, but this year, for me, it does seem like that. After being lashed by the rains and starved of light, she seems to be enjoying the warmth and celebrating by putting on her most colourful and decorative garments - (florals are so totally on trend!). The trees look as if they really are waking up from a sleep and stretching out their arms in the sun and even, sometimes, as if they are dancing. It's not difficult to see where the idea of the dryads came from.
Thinking about the trees has brought another old piece of writing to mind recently:
"there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant."
Change is a constant - as it were! Things are always moving and developing as the days pass. They never stand still. I was walking alone with my dog Millie the other day, on a path that cuts across this vast rural landscape, and looking around as I walked. I marvel that I am here. Not in any part of my previous existence did I expect to be living here, now, among people that I have not previously known. But that seems to be part of the strangeness of human life - after long periods of travelling on what looks like a very well-defined path, one or two elements can change and then the whole pattern shifts and a brand new phase emerges - something entirely new and unexpected. This principle of relentless growth that I see around me, seems to apply. Things start springing up quickly and suddenly you realise that the season and the whole context of your life has changed.
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Master Narratives and their Discontents
In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics they appear to embody. These are master narratives of contemporary criticism, and each leads to a different understanding of what art is and does. Both a cogent overview of the state of thinking about art and a challenge to think outside the art historical box, Master Narratives and their Discontents is the first volume in a series of short books on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on twentieth-century art and art criticism.
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Drupal installation profiles are usually just starting points for a new site, but sometimes you want to leave an installation profile untouched, adding your own additions in a separate space and leaving a "clean" upgrade path for future versions of the profile. Here's a handy script I use for such situations. More »
I often use the excellent Migrate suite of modules to import data into Drupal. It's great for getting any type of content into a Drupal node, file, taxonomy term, user, and more. My latest task: importing content from raw HTML into a Drupal node. Not finding any pre-built classes in Migrate to handle this, I built a few simple classes myself. More »
Today I launched a new service called Random.pw (taking advantage of the new .pw domains). It's a random password generator, with lots of customization options to help you find a memorable but secure password, and it even has a password strength checker. More »
Sometimes I have repositories with folders that will only ever contain files considered to be "content"—that is, they are not files that I care about being versioned, and therefore should never be committed. With Git's .gitignore file, you can ignore entire directories. But there are times when having the folder in the repo would be beneficial. Here's a excellent solution for accomplishing this need. More »