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Pakistan suffered a major blow ahead of their limited overs series against Australia after left-arm pacer Mohammad Irfan returned home on Monday following the death of his mother.
Junaid Khan, who last played an ODI for Pakistan in May 2015, has been summoned as a replacement for Irfan.
As per news agency PTI, the Pakistan team management has requested the Pakistan Cricket Board to send Mohammad Hafeez as an additional member of the squad.
Junaid will now join the touring squad in Australia before the first ODI in Brisbane on Friday.
Chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq said Irfan was picked because of his height and since he could generate bounce and pace on the Australian pitches as seen in the World 2015.
There were speculations that head coach, Mickey Arthur was not happy with the fitness of Irfan after the ODI specialists landed in Australia and joined the team.
Arthur had also sent back Irfan from England in August over fitness issues after he played in just one ODI and limped off with a groin problem. But a board official said Irfan had requested to return home due to the death of his mother.
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Ranked as one of the most-visited museums in North America, The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) showcases a plethora of traveling educational exhibits and features an impressive assembly of permanent collections, worthy of topping any must-see lists for Houston, Texas.
Permanent exhibitions include a comprehensive Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife, an extraordinary Hall of Ancient Egypt and the stunning Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals, just to name a few.
With 30,000 square feet of modern, clean lines, chalky white alcoves and chronological classifications, The Morian Hall of Paleontology houses the extraordinary and one of the most monumental permanent collections found inside the HMNS.
World-renowned paleontologist and author, Robert T. Bakker, Ph.D., curates the substantial exhibit. The collection walks visitors through prehistoric eras and human evolution, presenting predators and prey in active, natural poses.
450 exquisite fossils and authentic replicas narrate the story of the flora and fauna that dominated our Earth for 200 million years.
Descriptive and informative labels, comprehensive explanations and epoch timelines guide museum visitors through thought-provoking and educational displays.
Several realistic-looking representations portray early humanoids and Neanderthals.
The Morian Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science presents a thorough and breathtaking view into a prehistoric and extinct world brimming with unusual biology, enormous dinosaurs, massive tress and an ever-changing environment.
Put this museum and specifically, the Morian Hall of Paleontology, on your "Things to do in Houston" list.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science is located at 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, Texas, 77030.
Hours of operation:
Monday-Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Ticket pricing for all permanent exhibits and collections:
Children ages 3-11–$15
Seniors ages 62+–$15
College students with ID–$15
Military with ID–$8
Members are always free.
Parking is available in the museum parking garage.
Parking for non-members–$20
Parking for members–$5
Discounts, Groupons and CityPass cards are sometimes available.
Dining options while at the museum:
McDonald's is in the museum's Grand Entry Hall and several restaurants exist within walking distance. I recommend the MFA Café, located inside the Museum of Fine Arts, just a few blocks from the Museum of Natural Science.
Visit www.hmns.org or call 713-639-4629 to purchase tickets and for more information.
Do you love museums?
Click here to read about my favorite museum in Oklahoma.
Click here to read about the Salvador Dali museum in Florida.
Traveling to Houston soon? Check out Cirque du Soleil's Kurios, currently performing in Houston, Texas. Click here to read a full review of the amazing show!

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Whether you like it or not people are the lifeblood of your organisation. The greatest challenge in managing people effectively is that we all need to be treated differently.
People may not be the single most expensive investment in your business but they are the most important. It doesn't matter how shiny or glamorous your products and services are, they are sold, supported, serviced, implemented and delivered by your people.
Your people are not only responsible for doing a good job for your business, they are your public face, your ambassadors and standard bearers. When they're not happy they can do an enormous amount of damage – few things are as frustrating as disgruntled, unhappy, non-performing or disruptive employees.
We are regularly presented with some of the most incredible people challenges. One of the things that we find most often is that business owners/managers believe that there is little that they can do about such problems.
Whether this is a result of previous advice – where the support organisation isn't either able or prepared to deal with the problem – or whether it feels easier to bury heads in the sand, these problems will not go away unless they are dealt with quickly and effectively.
Applying Employment Law
The best way to manage difficult people is to understand how to apply the law to any given situation. Employment law itself is reasonably straightforward and quite easy to understand. The art is in its application.
We have unrivalled skill and experience helping customers to apply the law. It's what makes us so successful and what makes such a difference to our customers and their peace of mind.
As with all of our services we tailor what we do around your needs. As a result we deliver our services in the way that you want them delivered – whether that is via the telephone, email or on your premises in person.
A legal example
In the recent (July 2014) Employment Appeals Tribunal case of Contract Bottling v Cave, Mr Justice Langstaff is quoted as saying "it's not an accurate science" when he was considering the complications of how to award compensation in that case.
What this proves is that delivering outstanding results when dealing with complicated and challenging people problems is most definitely an art. When the artists delivering this service are backed up with comprehensive and up-to-the-minute knowledge of Employment Law and its current interpretation you can sleep soundly knowing that the people challenges in your business are in safe hands.
Trust the experts
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Tattoos are becoming common among artists since it gives more freedom and ability to experiment. The designs come in different colours and style.
Examples of letter D tattoos include; dragons, doves, demons, dolphins, daisy, dragonflies etc
Letter D Tattoos
- Dragon – The dragon is a "classic" tattoo motif which is popular to both men and women.. In the Far East, the dragon represents the Four Elements – Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.
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- Dragon fly – The dragonfly is defines the wild and is known to represent the power of light in certain cultures.
- Demons – Demons are tattoo designs with a certain meaning and symbolism based on various cultures. It is represents divine power.
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Acorn Club 2019
Beat the summertime boredom with Acorn Club! We will gather Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-1. Our daily activities include art projects, nature walks, science experiments, games, music, meditation, and more! You can register your child(ren) by calling our office at 724.770.0262 or clicking the appropriate link below Children must be 5 years or older Please […]Find out more »
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All are welcome to join this seminary level study! During this next course Rev. Dr. Donn D. Ed will be leading us in a comparative overview of world religions. This study is not a persuasive study, but and educational journey through how and why different groups of people worship the way they do.Find out more »


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by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com
Excuse Me! is a children's picture book by Dave Hughes and Holly Ife, illustrated by Phlip Bunting and published by Scholastic Australia (2017.) RRP: $Au 16.99 HB. I have previously reviewed Bunting's Koalas Eat Gum Leaves and Mopoke.
From the publisher:
Martha May has marvellous manners. She always says 'please' and 'thank you' ...and she most certainly DOES NOT FART! But what will happen on the day of the Baked Bean Bonanza?!
Catch a whiff of this hilarious tale about finally letting go, from Dave Hughes, Holly Ife and Philip Bunting.
Martha May is one polite little character, always ready with her marvellous manners. She is dainty and never makes any "rude" noises. (Fascinating discussion to have with kids as to why some noises are said to be "rude", and where manners come from.) The authors make the most of alliteration, the shock value of a story that is basically about passing wind and a simple though attention-grabbing story structure. Most importantly, Excuse Me! is bursting with humour, and I predict kids will love it.
Bunting is rapidly becoming one of my favourite children's illustrators. The characters are all depicted as farm animals, with Martha May prettily dressed in pink tutu and flowery hairclip. Bunting adds interesting perspectives and genuinely funny details that will reward careful observation. I loved the sulphur-crested cockatoo that is seen swearing after Martha May's fart, and a moment later lying prone on a paling fence with his legs in the air and a flabbergasted expression. I also admired Bunting's choice of colours and the way each page is perfect to share with a watching group of kids.
Read this one aloud to kids if you want to guarantee audience hilarity and even mayhem! It does have the f-word (fart) but it is used once in a pragmatic, and then secondly in an understandable and climactic way. Excuse Me! is a definite contender for my top picture books reviewed in 2018. Check out my Top Picture Books of 2017 and Top Picture Books of 2016.
Find more Children's Book Reviews on The Book Chook by clicking Reviews in the right sidebar.


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Haven't Changed Your FB Privacy Settings Yet?
September 15, 2010
No? If not, "um, you might want to rethink that," as my friend Rachele would say.
Check this out, which I found via Slate: 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site. Note, though, that nothing technically illegal was done. It's just that if you hadn't bothered to act on (or didn't understand) the recent Facebook privacy changes, you would likely be uncomfortable with the info now available about you, up for the world to see.
Also, consider what you are sharing about yourself on Facebook, too. This is worth reading…consider it cheap identity theft protection: 6 Things You Should Never Reveal on Facebook.
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Archive for May, 2011
Storwize V7000 Systems Running V220.127.116.11 – V126.96.36.199 Code May Shut Down Unexpectedly
Posted by cemguneyli in News, Stor-IBM, Storage on May 27, 2011
Storwize V7000 Systems Running V220.127.116.11 – V220.127.116.11 Code May Shut Down Unexpectedly During Normal Operation, Resulting in a Loss of Host Access and Potential Loss of Fast-Write Cache Data
Storwize V7000 units running code levels between V188.8.131.52 and V188.8.131.52 are exposed to an issue that can result in both node canisters shutting down simultaneously and unexpectedly during normal operation.
An issue exists in the V188.8.131.52 – V188.8.131.52 code that can result in both node canisters abruptly shutting down during normal operation, resulting in a loss of hardened configuration metadata on these nodes and the requirement to perform a manual cluster recovery process to restore the configuration. This recovery process may take up to several hours to complete.
Additionally, any host I/O data that was resident in the fast-write cache at the time of failure will be unrecoverable.
A workaround was introduced in the V126.96.36.199 PTF release which, although not eliminating this issue, prevents the shutdown event on one node canister from propagating to the other node canister. This is intended to prevent a double-node shutdown from occurring, resulting in any loss of host access to data, and avoiding the need for a cluster recovery process to be performed. This workaround was further improved in the V188.8.131.52 PTF release to ensure that affected nodes will recover automatically.
If a single node shutdown event does occur when running V188.8.131.52, this node will automatically recover and resume normal operation without requiring any manual intervention.
IBM Development is continuing to work on a complete fix for this issue, to be released in a future PTF, however customers should upgrade to V188.8.131.52 to avoid an outage.
Please visit the following URL to download the V220.127.116.11 code:
IBM released Storage Management Pack 1.1.0 for SCOM
Posted by cemguneyli in News, Stor-IBM, Storage, Sys-General, Sys-IBM, System on May 27, 2011
|This document contains information related to obtaining the IBM Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager v1.1.0.
The package is a set of software modules, or management packs, which allow you to access and monitor IBM storage systems Storwize V7000, SVC, XIV and DS8000, using the host-based Microsoft SCOM interface. Please refer to the release notes and user guide for detailed storage devices' version support.
Potential Problem on XIV Storage System microcode versions 10.2.2 thru 10.2.4.a
Posted by cemguneyli in News, Stor-IBM, Storage on May 25, 2011
Potential Problem on XIV Storage System ranging microcode versions from 10.2.2 thru 10.2.4.a that can be caused by changing system time via Network Time Protocol (NTP) or when changing the clock via XCLI
When the system time is changed to more than ~500 years ahead in the future, the Manager Node will get stuck. It will stop handling xcli operations, but more severely – it will not be able to detect any failure in the system. Once such a failure occurs, all hosts will lose access to the system and IBM support needs to be contacted immediately.
In case of a Manager Node impact, the system will continue to serve I/O's but in case of a subsequent data component failure (either a disk or a module) the system might not properly identify the failure and therefore will not initiate a rebuild process and possibly cause hosts to lose access to data. Other symptoms may include, but not limited to: the XIV will not be able to properly detect loss of input AC (building power outage) and therefore shutdown while ensuring all writes are committed to disk; the customer may not be able perform any operations on the XIV, including GUI updates or inquiries.
If the machine is reporting to the XIV service center then XIV will receive the proper events that will notify us regarding this issue and we will be able to contact the customer and verify/fix this state.
Affected versions Environment
- 10.2.2
- 10.2.2.a
- 10.2.4
- 10.2.4.a
Resolving the problem
- Remove NTP server configuration from the XIV to avoid getting into this situation.
- Do not perform a manual change of the machine time to a date 500 years or more in the future (this would only happen by an error).
Fix is included in version 10.2.4.b version that is planned to be released in Q2 2011.
- 10.2.4.b version will disallow setting of invalid dates
- Year must be between 2000 and 2030,
- 10.2.4.b will have error handling messages and more debug information to better manage this situation.
This event will be raised when an attempt to set the time is blocked because time is invalid. (year not between 2000 to 2030)
This event is raised every time an attempt to set a 'complete' time, not a delta from the last time setting. (when delta >TIME_UPDATE_MINIMUM_DIFF)
- Both events are limited to one in an hour.
Getting VMware Data Storages FreeSpace with percent as CSV file on VMware vSphere PowerCLI
Posted by cemguneyli in ete, Virt-vmware on May 23, 2011
If you need Data Storage free space of on your Vmware infrastructure (vSphere) as a Excel format ! Solution is here. I just need this information to follow my data growth in monthly or weekly. As you all know VMware does not provide this information like performans chart.
So just install VMware PowerCLI over here then write following script in a .ps1 file and save as getdatastorestatusascsv.ps1 via notepad or other text editor. Open Vmware PowerCLI on your desktop and just run it wherever you saved. Like ".getdatastorestatusascsv.ps1"
Do not forget determine csv file path, your Virtual Center IP address or DNS name, Username and Password for connect to Virtual Center in script.
Connect-VIServer -server 192.168.1.1 -protocol https -user administrator -password Pwesd42#3
Connect-VIServer -server %VCServerIPorDNSName% -protocol https -user %USERNAME% -password %PASSWORD%$file="c:DataStoreStatus.csv"
$GetInfoDataSt = Get-Datastore | Sort-Object Name
$DataStorages = @()
foreach ($stores in $GetInfoDataSt )
$stor = "" | Select-Object Name, CapacityGB, UsedGB, FreeGB, PercentUse
$stor.Name = $stores.name
$stor.CapacityGB = [math]::Round($stores.CapacityMB/1024,2)
$stor.UsedGB = [math]::Round(($stores.CapacityMB – $stores.FreeSpaceMB)/1024,2)
$stor.FreeGB = $stor.CapacityGB – $stor.UsedGB
$stor.PercentUse = [math]::Round(100*$stores.FreeSpaceMB/$stores.CapacityMB,2)
$stor.PercentUse = 100 – $stor.PercentUse
$DataStorages += $stor
$DataStorages | Export-csv -Path $file
Performance charts for networking does not work on ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1
Posted by cemguneyli in News, Virt-vmware, Virtualization on May 20, 2011
- Performance charts for networking fail to work on ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1
- You are using bnx2x driver version 1.54.1.v41
Additional Information
Storwize V7000 new features been released
Posted by cemguneyli in News, Stor-General, Stor-IBM, Storage on May 12, 2011
Storwize V7000 was introduced in October 2010 in IBM Storage Mid-range portfolio. V7000 archived one of the fastest product ramps in IBM history with more than 1.800 systems sold to more than 1.000 worldwide customers since general availability in November 2010. The products supports 10 GbE ports in new control enclosure models and this can increase ISCSI thoughput by up to 700 per cent. High performance 2.5-inch 146 GB, 15.000 rpm SAS drive is available and provides up to 30 per cent faster thoughput. Original disk drives choice is 2.5-inch 10.000 rpm SAS drives comes with 300, 450, 600 and 300 GB E-MLC SSD (enterprise-grade multilevel cell). Also 3.5-inch 2 TB 7.2K rpm Near-Line SAS disk is available. Two V7000 control enclosures (2U rack-mountable chasses) have Eight 8 Gbps FC host ports, Four 1 Gbps and optionally Four 10 Gbps ISCSI hosts ports. Per control enclosure 16 GB cache memory.
Two V7000 control enclosures can now be clustered to another V7000 control enclosure with IBM Storwize V7000 software v6.2, meaning doubling the capacity of a single managed V7000 up to 480 TB. The software has had built-in real time performance monitoring fuctionality added and the FlashCopy function can be used with Remote Mirror volumes, adding more choices to high-availability scenarios. This is similar to high-end storage products like DS8000.
Vmware vStorage API for Array Integration is now supported, meaning the array can now do storage work offloaded from the ESX server, enabling more VMs to be hosted and run. This is one of the most important features in this release. (v6.2)
When a customer is buying new V7000, IBM is offering data migration features for 60 days free. Which is enough for a company can migrate all the data from another storage device to V7000 himself and/or any storage devices behind V7000 as an external storage virtualization. Storwize V7000 can be upgraded from the smallest to the largest configuration without disruption. Existing V7000s can participate in clusters via a non-disruptive software upgrade to v6.2 and a cluster is managed as a single system. Once clustering is enabled then expansion enclosures can be added to scale capacity and/or a second control enclosure can be added to boost performance.
There is a Storwize V7000 plug-in for Vmware Vcenter wihch also supports virtualised external disk systems. The list of supported external systems now includes EMCs VNX, HDSs VSP, HP P9500 plus Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620. Lastly existing model 112 and 124 control enclosures can be upgraded to add 10 GbE support. ISCSI is getting important and more important because of agility and cost approaches.
As a reminder, i want to marked that usually everybody want 15K rpm HDD but 10K rpm HDD is better if you have a change to balance the performance impact. So V7000 can provide a better performance for 10K rpm HDD with SSD and/or 146 GB 15K rpm HDD. Result is with the right approach and calculation, you can get better performance compare to native 15K rpm HDD.
IBM has not yet added compression to the V7000 and it is expected at some future date. It said in September 2010 that, within 12-18 moths, we didsee the RACE integration into IBMs block storage products; we may some time to wait.
Most of the new V7000 functionality will be available in June this year . There is no extra feature to order and no extra charge for clustering. The Vcenter plug-in will be available at no charge on 30 June (for v6.1 software) and 31 July (v6.2 software).
Search,Enable or Disable user/computer accounts in Active Directory over Web page (LDAP ASP)
Posted by cemguneyli in ete, Microsoft, System on May 11, 2011
through this code/ASP in below/file, you can search users,computers, printers and other objects in Active directory over web page, as a result of this search, you can get object's location in AD. You can enable and disable the user/computer accounts of this page in Active Directory. Also You'll able to move accounts into a Organization Unit when disable or enable accounts. (you can set different Organization Unit for Enable and Disable process). I mean you can collect disabled user/computer accounts into one Organization Unit or separated OUs.
To publish this ASP page over web site in IIS 6 or 7,ASP page need administrative privilege for working but for search just need authorized users. So at least ISS default authentication method should be change to basic authentication. For prevent unauthorized user to disable/enable accounts in Active Directory.
You can download ASP file here
source : http://www.emrullahekmekci.com.tr/?p=400
' 10 / 05 /2011 — Emrullah Tahir Ekmekçi
' Search, Enable or Disable Users and Computer account in Active Directory over Web browser
' 1.0
Response.CacheControl = "no-cache"
<title>Search/Enable/Disable Users/Computers Accounts</title>
<form id="form1″ name="form1″ method="post" action="ADAramaAcmaKapama.asp">
User/Computer name
<input name="is" type="hidden" value="is" /><input type="text" name="uname" id="uname" />
Dim strCN, objRootDSE, strDNSDomain, adoCommand, adoConnection
Dim strBase, strFilter, strAttributes, strQuery, adoRecordset
Dim strDN, strDisplay, strObjectCategory, intIndex
' Kullanici ve Bilgisayar hesabi acma ve kapatma
if request("hesap") <> "" and request("y") <> "" and request("t") <> "" then
strCN = request("hesap")
ka = request("y")
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set adoConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
adoConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
adoConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
adoCommand.ActiveConnection = adoConnection
strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">"
strFilter = "(cn=" & strCN & "*)"
strAttributes = "cn,distinguishedName,sAMAccountName,name,userAccountControl"
strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree"
adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery
adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute
Const ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE = 2
Set objUser = GetObject ("LDAP://" & adoRecordset.Fields("distinguishedName"))
strOUDN = "OU=DisabledComputers,DC=fabrikam,DC=com" ' Disabled computers account will be moved this ou
strOUDNE = "CN=Computers,DC=fabrikam,DC=com" ' Enabled computers account will be moved this ou
strOUDNU = "OU=DisabledComputers,DC=fabrikam,DC=com" 'Disabled users account will be moved this ou
strOUDNEU = "CN=Users,DC=fabrikami,DC=com" ' Enabled users account will be moved this ou
intUAC = objUser.Get("userAccountControl")
if ka = "k" then
if request("t") = "u" then
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://" & strOUDNU)
objUser.Put "userAccountControl", intUAC OR ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE ' User account is closed.
objOU.movehere objUser.ADsPath, objUser.name ' User account is moving.
end if
if request("t") = "b" then
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://" & strOUDN)
objUser.accountdisabled = true ' Computer account is closed.
objOU.movehere objUser.ADsPath, objUser.name ' Computer account is moving.
end if
response.write "Account has been closed"
elseif ka = "a" then
if request("t") = "u" then
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://" & strOUDNEU)
objUser.Put "userAccountControl", intUAC XOR ADS_UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE ' User account is open.
objOU.movehere objUser.ADsPath, objUser.name ' User account is moving.
end if
if request("t") = "b" then
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://" & strOUDNE)
objUser.accountdisabled = false ' Computer account is open.
objOU.movehere objUser.ADsPath, objUser.name 'Computer account is moving.
end if
response.write "Account has been opened"
end if
response.Redirect "ADAramaAcmaKapama.asp?uname="&request("hesap")&"&is=1″
end if
' object search
if request("uname") = "" and request("is") <> "" then
%>
User/Computer name can not be empty.
<%
elseif request("uname") <> "" and request("is") <> "" then
strCN = request("uname") & "*"
if len(strCN) <4 then
Response.Write("Please enter least 3 char.")
end if
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set adoConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
adoConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
adoConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
adoCommand.ActiveConnection = adoConnection
strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">"
strFilter = "(cn=" & strCN & ")"
strAttributes = "cn,distinguishedName,sAMAccountName,name,userAccountControl"
strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree"
adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery
adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute
If (adoRecordset.EOF = True) Then
Response.Write("No record found")
End If
' Table has been created what is object will be show.
Response.Write("

")
Response.Write("
 Account Name 	 Computer/User name 	 Status	 Type 	 DN
")
Response.Write("")
Do Until adoRecordset.EOF
vSAMAccountName= adoRecordset.Fields("sAMAccountName").Value
vName = adoRecordset.Fields("name").Value
vUserAccountControl= adoRecordset.Fields("userAccountControl").Value
vDistinguishedName= adoRecordset.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
if vUserAccountControl = 512 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Close "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 514 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Open "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 544 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Close/ilsd "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 66048 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Close/s "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 66050 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Open/s "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 4096 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Close "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 4128 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Close "
elseif vUserAccountControl = 4098 then
vUserAccountControlDesc = " Open "
vUserAccountControlDesc = vUserAccountControl
end if
cuc = instr (vSAMAccountName,"$")
if vUserAccountControl <> "" then
if cuc = 0 then Response.Write("
 " & vSAMAccountName & " 	") else Response.Write("
	")
if AKR = 0 then
response.write (" "&vName&" 	")
response.write (" "&vName&" 	")
end if
if cuc = 0 then
Response.Write("" & " User " & "	")
Response.Write(""& " Computer " & "	")
end if
Response.Write("" & vUserAccountControlDesc & " 	")
Response.Write(" " & vDistinguishedName & " 	")
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Sermon: People of God, Lady Wisdom teaches us that how we use our bodies determine our future. She also teaches us that our actions and words affect much more than ourselves; it affects our community. It changes people for the good or the bad. This is precisely why as image-bearers of the Triune God our words are so important. Will we develop a culture of immaturity or maturity? This is determined largely by how we use our words. But as we mentioned last week, the wise one never needs to be afraid when he is walking obediently. The fool, on the other hand, thinks more highly of his wisdom and opinion than he does others.[1] The agenda and goal of Lady Wisdom is to bring our bodies into conformity to Jesus Christ, who is the wisdom made flesh.
Our passage this morning provides a chronology of evil and good. The righteous grow up in wisdom, while the fool grows up into evil schemes. They become artists of evil. They design everything with the intention of causing harm. Their words start fires around them. Even their very bodily gestures and movements communicate evil. We see this in verses 10: "Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but a babbling fool will come to ruin." He is a trouble-maker and everyone around him knows it. Fathers and mothers keep their kids away from him. The neighborhood knows that if they see a police car driving by, he is probably going to his house. What does he do? He winks his eye. He is not being cute or playful. Proverbs 6 speaks of this individual: "A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, 13 winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, 14 with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord…" He is a son of Belial; a son of evil. His father is the father of all lies. His uncle Screwtape is very proud of him. Literally, he is "compressing the eye." That is, he is meditating upon his next evil scheme. He is a restless schemer.[2] When he gets home at night he indulges in evil. He doesn't greet his wife or children; he rushes to his room to plot the next thing. He gives his approval to every societal and cultural evil. You would expect to see some contrast in verse 10 as we have seen earlier, but the writer simply compares the activity of the first line to the second. The author says that "Devious gestures are grievous, but not as ruinous as foolish talk. Both are to be avoided."[3] The babbling fool; the one who lives to communicate foolishness; he will fall flat on his face; he will come to ruin. There is a corresponding backlash.[4] It boomerangs back to him; his end is destruction. Every evil word they have uttered will come back to them. In verse 11 we are back to the antithetical lines: "The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence." In some third world countries you can see what a dried parched land is. You need a desert-like context to see the nature of this passage.
The dependence of life on water is experienced existentially all over the earth, especially in the ancient Near East, where it is in short supply. Flowing well water is particularly precious, and people gather around it. The open, benevolent speech of the righteous is just as necessary for a community, offering everyone abundant life—temporal, intellectual, moral, and spiritual.[5]
There are four things that are said to be a fountain of life in Proverbs: "…the teaching of the wise (13:14); revering Yahweh (14:27); wisdom (16:22); and the mouth of a righteous person." Words bring life or death. St John says: "Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." "The heart is the core of what you are and who you are. Our words will reveal what is really there in our hearts in the long-run."[6] If you want to live life manufacturing an impression of who you are, eventually you will be found out. St. James says: "The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell." Is it that bad? Are the consequences of our words that earth shattering? They absolutely are. Our speech needs to be brought under the Lordship of Christ. Our speech needs to be like fresh clean water bringing life wherever it travels.
"Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses." This verse offers a sort of corrective so prevalent in American churches today. When someone offends you the tendency is to turn away from that person and shun him. Of course, what is remarkable is that when these offenses take place at home mom and dad quickly come to the rescue and make peace. The Church is God's family; Yahweh's bride. This is precisely why God's revelation provides for us a way to reconcile ourselves to one another. If someone offends you with a word you return it with good. The good happens in two ways: First, the good that you do may be to follow the principle laid out in Matthew 18. You go to the person and confront him about his offense. When you do this you are doing a good for the Church. Secondly, another way in which love covers the offense is by continuing to love. We meet people in the church in all sorts of maturity levels. We cannot expect the same level of discourse from an infant Christian than a mature Christian. The Church is full of people in different phases of their walk. We need to continue to build up one another. On the other hand, the fool is always looking for trouble. Remember it is in his nature to be a troublemaker. If you have shalom/peace, the unrighteous will sow discord and chaos. Hatred provokes conflict rather than resolving them. Be aware of those who are always stirring up conflict for conflict's sake. What does love do? Love deals responsibly with sin. Love doesn't ignore, tolerate, or excuse sin; rather it seeks to deal with it the proper way so that the damage is limited.
Verse 13 says: "On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense." There is a humorous pairing of body parts in this passage. You probably won't laugh uncontrollably when you read this, but the writer is making a subtle humorous point here. Here's a literal translation to make the pairing clearer: "On the lips of the discerning is found wisdom, on the back of a fool, the stick." The two body parts: lips and back. The two results: wisdom and a stick. You love to hear someone with understanding. You love to hear wise counsel. In our denomination I think of men like Pastor Mickey Schnider, Randy Booth, Douglas Wilson; men who love wisdom and speak wisdom. Wisdom flows from their tongues like a flowing stream of pure water. But have you ever looked at someone's back and expected it to talk to you? Of course not. That is absurd. The idea appears to be that when the fool speaks it is as if his back were speaking. Nothing comes out of it that is beneficial, discerning or good. What happens to this person? He accumulates so much foolishness that foolishness begets a beating. As Matthew Henry puts it, "Those that foolishly and willfully go on in wicked ways are preparing rods for themselves, the marks of which will be their perpetual disgrace."[7] Verse 14: "The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near." We saw this already in verse 10, which says that the babbling fool will come to ruin. In verse 14 his status is that of imminent, near ruin. I think if there is something the book of Proverbs makes abundantly clear is the idea of building up and accumulating. The Bible[8] is full of patterns. Many of these patterns are found in Genesis. The most important historical structure is the Dominion pattern. God says to the first human beings created: "Have dominion over all things."[9] This dominion is seen again and again in the Bible. We need to keep our eyes open to see this dominion pattern as we read the Scriptures. We see this in verse 14. It says: "…the wise lay up knowledge." Literally, "the wise store up or build up knowledge." Dominion means building up, storing up. Dominion is a long-term project. Everything we gain and everything we have is for the community. The wealthy Christian does not grow in possession simply for his own satisfaction and pleasure; no, God gives to Him so he may be a blessing to others; so he may bring peace to others. In the same manner, we see this pattern with wisdom. We are called to have dominion over wisdom. The unbeliever uses his intellect and knowledge for selfish gain, but the believer is guided by wisdom. "He stores up knowledge so that he not only has sufficient provisions for himself but a supply for others as well."[10] He knows that whatever wisdom he has it is for the sake of others. He is always seeking wisdom. He is asking questions. He is growing up. Why do we grow in wisdom? The purpose of wisdom is to pass it on to our children, to those around us. We want true wisdom to be passed on to others. The Spirit gifts his Church in many areas. To some he gives the gift of building things; to others he gives the gift of counseling; to others the gift of singing; to others the gift of administration; and so on. But in exercising all these things separately, when we come together we learn from one another. We do not grow in wisdom in isolation; we grow in wisdom with others. The wise stores up knowledge; the mouth of the fool brings him to imminent destruction.
In verses 15 & 16 we see the application of that in the area of wealth. "A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin." If you read a commentary by those who think wealth is not something to be desired by a Christian you will notice quickly that passages like this one are not mentioned. The Bible is always very careful to explain the dangers of possessions, but it is also very careful to explain the benefits of possessions. In fact, the Bible is so careful that "Half of the ten occurrences of wealth in Solomon's proverb instruct the youth to prize it, and the other half not to trust it."[11] It is true that the rich may break the first commandment by depending too much on his riches, even to the point of using his riches as an excuse for an immoral lifestyle or for other unbiblical ideas and practices, but Proverbs makes very clear that there is nothing inherently wrong with riches. Rather as verse 16 makes clear wealth is to be accumulated through righteous living. Verse 16 says, "The wage of the righteous leads to life…" For wealth to be "of enduring value it must be acquired by righteousness, not wickedness."[12] The ascetic lifestyle, which is so desired today in some circles, is simply not biblical. There is no virtue is pursuing poverty. You will not be a spiritual giant because you pursue poverty. On the contrary, says Proverbs. Verse 15 says that the poverty of the poor will be their ruin. This passage is also translated this way: "the destruction of the poor is their poverty,"[13] or more literally "the ruin of the poor is their poverty."[14] Why does Proverbs make such a statement? Isn't Lady Wisdom being too harsh with the idea of poverty? Will we not be able to see greater truth if we only abandon our possessions and live in the slums? Aren't riches a temptation? Of course they are! But anything can be a temptation. The abuse of something is not an argument against its proper use. The text is communicating to us that "the rich man is able to face the future with some degree of confidence but the poor are daily faced with the worry and anxiety of not being able to provide for themselves."[15] The apostle Paul says that "those who are rich should be ashamed of themselves;" No. He says that those who are rich are not to trust in their riches, but on the God who provides all things for them, and then he says in I Timothy 6 that they are to store up, build treasures for themselves as a good foundation for the future.[16] The Psalmist says: "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God."[17]
The righteous man continues to be righteous no matter what his financial condition and that will bring the Spirit's blessings on both his life and soul. He still enjoys life and God meets all his needs. But no matter how much the wicked gain, they only use it for sinful ends. They don't promote life. They live for themselves and pursuing their own desires without regard for others or the good of the community around them.[18]
Productivity is not evil. The question is for what purpose are you being productive? For what purpose are you storing up wealth?
How shall we then live?
Let me offer a few thoughts in how to apply some of this to our own lives. First, let us consider the use of the tongue. This is an area where all of us need to work on a little or a lot. Those of us in positions of leadership are most tempted to use our tongue in a disastrous way, since we are always in front of people. Sometimes people have personalities that are more out-going than others, while others are more laid back. They think a bit longer before they speak and generally the sin of the tongue is not as grave a temptation as it is for us who are more out-going in our personalities. So what is the solution? The solution is to develop biblical language. I am not talking about theological speech; I am referring to the language of the psalms, the language of the patriarchs, the parables of the gospel, and the moral language of St. Paul. "When we employ the church's speech, drawn from Scripture, "we learn to live together as a community, to breathe in harmony."[19] The Church is an alternative society with an alternative language. "The Christian society has its own calendar that sets the rhythms of the community's life, offices, institutions, laws, architecture, art, and music, its own customs and mores, history and memory."[20] When someone utters your name 20 years from now, how will they remember your speech? Will you be remembered as someone who uttered words of encouragement, words of wisdom? Or will you be known as someone who loved word boxing? This is a pugilist; one who is always seeking to throw a word punch. How will your children remember you? Proverbs says that how you store up wisdom is laying a foundation; to use Paul's words, you are building a foundation for the future.
Finally, let us consider this business of wealth. Let's focus on how the Scriptures deal with a passage. Does wealth bring possible danger? Undoubtedly. But does it bring enormous good? Certainly. In whatever status you may be in a society, whether rich or poor, the Church is here for you. The Church must never be seen as a community for the rich or for the poor. The Church is immeasurably greater than our societal differences precisely because the Church is a different society altogether. The walls of partition are broken down. In Christ and in His Church, the rich bless the poor and the poor bless the rich. The Spirit gives his gifts without regard of class and race. The Institutional Church needs to be a picture to the world of charity, good works, good relationships, and wisdom in all things, so that Jesus Christ will continually purify and glorify His bride. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
[1] Thoughts from Steve Wilkins' sermon on Proverbs 10.
[2] Richard Clifford, Proverbs' commentary.
[3] From BIBLEWORKS 7.0
[4] Bruce Waltke, Commentary on Proverbs.
[5] Bruce Waltke, Commentary on Proverbs 10, NICOT.
[6] Professor David McKay.
[7] Commentary on Proverbs found in Bible Works 7.0
[8] The following thoughts come from Mike Bull's Bible Matrix, pgs. 31 et seq. (And following)
[9] Genesis 1.
[10] Steve Wilkinss.
[11] Bruce Waltke.
[12] Bruce Waltke.
[15] Steve Wilkins. See also Matthew 6.
[16] I Timothy 6:18-19
[17] Psalm 20:7
[18] Steve Wilkins.
[19] Quoted in Peter Leithart's blog from Robert Louis Wilken.
[20] Ibid.


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Mark Wallace
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
Mark Wallace, aka William Blackfox, was an artist and member of the SCA. He died in 1997.[1][2]
- ↑ Filking Around. Retrieved September 28, 2006.
- ↑ rec.org.sca post by Marc Carlson on Sep 13 1997, 2:00 am
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The NIE Networks Charities Fund has donated £3,000 to Adam's Camp Northern Ireland to assist with the purchase of therapy materials for use during residential therapy camps provided at Corrymeela in Ballycastle.
Adam's Camp NI provides multi-disciplinary therapy for children on the autism spectrum delivered within a week long residential camp.
Therapy programmes are goal centred to meet each child's specific developmental needs which are agreed between therapists and parents prior to the camp.
This summer Adam's Camp NI is providing therapy programmes for 20 children and young people with autism from across Northern Ireland with adventure programmes delivered for their siblings and support workshops for their parents.
Grainne Ashe-McGurk, Executive Director of Adam's Camp NI said: "This donation has made a massive difference to Adam's Camp Northern Ireland. We now have our own specific therapy equipment which allows us to directly deliver our therapy programmes for children and young people on the autism spectrum. This equipment has assisted immensely with the successful delivery of our Pathfinder programme for children between 4 and 8 years old. This very generous donation from NIE Networks Charities Fund has allowed us for the first time to acquire our own therapy equipment and no longer rely on the good will of others to lend equipment for use at camp. Having this equipment will ensure that we can continue to deliver our programmes and make a difference to the lives of children with autism for years into the future."


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Jumpmen (73) v. Pandas (39) Today started out with Jumpmen on a mission. They began the game by blitzing their opponent with a 21-7 1st qtr lead and never looked back. Defeating the Pandas 73-39! The Jumpmen were led out of the gates by Joe Santos playing big with a double-double (15pts 10reb) and Joachim playing his part with 14pts 5reb. The short handed Pandas were led by Joe's 20pts 7reb and by Will's 8pts 8reb.
FULL GAME: Jumpmen came to play!
Bay Area Kings (59) v. City Stars (53) The City Stars came out on fire! All of their field goals made were 3pt shots until Ant H hit a layup with 4:58left in the half! They took a commanding lead into the half, 36-29. The Stars were led by Ant H (17pts 7reb) and Mike R (15pts) who was perfect from the field. The Bay Area Kings stepped up the defense in the second half limiting the Stars to 17 second half pts while scoring 30pts. The Kings were led by Ivan (23pts 6reb 4stls) and TK (15pts 8reb).
Tenacious D (65) v. Islanders (55) Alert the officials...we had a Milan sighting in the 65-55 victory over the Islanders. Milan who had been struggling with his stroke scored 15pts scoring 12 of the 14pts his team scored in the second qtr. Ronnie took over the scoring duties in the second half as he scored 23pts (10-13 from the field). The Islanders were led by Tone (24pts) and Booba (16 pts). The Islanders need to bring a solid 7 or 8 players next season if they want to make a run at the championship.
Jumpmen (53) v. PayProTec (55) This was the game of the day! The 9th seeded Jumpmen battled the top seed PayProTec. PPT was short their man in the middle, Moe. While Jmen's big man, Joe Santos, was back in the fold. Jmen carried the lead through the 3rd qtr but PPT played "Simon says". Simon scored a game high 35pts (10-13 from the field) to lead the team. Santos (20pts 5reb) and 15pts from Joachim made it close. The game came down to a 3pt shot from the corner by Joerdan that came up a bit short! Good season Jumpmen! I'm sure we haven't heard the last from you...
Tenacious D (34) v. Rangers (54) The Tenacious D just ran out of gas. TD's Ronnie had 12pts 7reb and Tony chipped in with 10pts 5reb but it was far from enough to defeat the 2nd ranked Rangers. The Rangers were led in scoring by Tay (29pts on 6-13 from 3pt range) and Szeto (10pts 8reb). The Rangers clamped on the "D" in the 2nd half...holding TD to 4pts in the 3rd qtr (12pts in the 2nd half)! Nice work Tenacious D!
FULL GAME: Rangers continue to show their Power
Dawgs (58) v. Eagles DC (48) Eagles DC came into the game a little short handed...losing top scorer, Arj to a fractured hand. EDC kept it close behind John Calara's 17pts 4reb and 10pts from Uriel. The Dawgs were led by Ryan Sera (20pts 9reb) and "Big" John Maldonado's double-double (10pts 10reb). Maldonado also striped a 3pointer to show off his range! I look forward to another good season from the Eagles DC...FULL GAME: Dawgs clicking at the right time


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After years of being married a lot of couples hit rough patches where they seem to loose their connection with one another. Couples tend to drift further apart and even though they know this is happening they do little to stop it or reverse the behavior that has them heading in a downward spiral fulfilling what seems to be a bad marriage trend. Falling into the trap of being married but not fully engaged in the marriage is a problem that can easily be prevented or reversed if the couple remembers to keep an open mind and are willing to re-commit themselves to their marriage. There are a few things that couples can do to pull themselves out of this rut and prevent themselves from becoming "Married But Not Engaged".
Date Night
My wife and I spend a lot of time together and we do things like going to dancing classes, the movies, skating, walking around the block or in the park and of coarse dinners. So when my wife suggested to me that we start having a date night I was confused and was not trying to have that. My thoughts were that date nights are for couples who are in relationship trouble. Why should we subject ourselves to only going out once a week when we were already spending time together in different ways and going out on dates multiple times during the week.
My wife let me complain and fight for a while and would bring it up every now and then until finally I guess she had enough of my stubbornness. She waited until I was going to get an oil change for my car and hit me with "IT".
Me – Hey, I'm going to get an oil change.
Her – Why, is your car broke?
Me – No, but I don't want it to break.
Her – Oh, so that's preventive maintenance so that you don't have car trouble later on?
Me – Yes (thinking) Oh crap, I know where she is going with this, how can I save myself!
Her – So you are fine with preventive maintenance for your car but not our marriage?
Me – Huh? (Now I am trying to think of something and the only thing that came out was) No, that's different our marriage is strong.
Her – But just like your car, our marriage needs tune ups so that we keep running strong.
Me – (Knowing I lost already) Let's compromise, how about if we don't go out any other day that week, we make sure that we do something on date night but if we have already been out that week then we don't have to have date night.
Her – OK (which actually meant yeah that's what I thought, I got you)
Needless to say, we have date night almost every week. We may move the day from time to time but we still commit to doing something together almost every week and our marriage is stronger than ever. What can I say, she was right and date nights strengthened our marriage and protected us from falling into the category of being "Married But Not engaged.
Couch Time
There are some men out there who would rather sit down on the couch after a hard day at work looking grumpy and "Al Bundyish" instead of having quality couch time while watching something on TV with their wife. They can come up with every excuse in the book as to why they can't watch TV with their wives like, your shows are stupid, I don't feel like explaining this sport to you, and you ask too many questions.
Marriage is about compromise so why not watch something that she wants to watch and then something you want to watch. All things can be worked out if you are willing to put forth a little effort and work with one another. My wife and I have coined the term "Couch time" and it can be considered a date night. There are times when neither one of you are in the mood to go out or money is tight. "Couch time" is just another way to spend time with your spouse and not allow yourselves to fall into the rut of being "Married But Not Engaged".
Note to the fellas: Watch her show first. When you watch your tv show, more than likely she will fall asleep and then you will get to watch more and more of your shows in peace. (LOL)
There are a lot of couples that just go through day to day being miserable and complaining that they never spend time together. The truth is they are not making any effort to spend time together or they are so stuck in their own funk that they think it will take a miracle to get their marriage back on track. Marriage takes work but it doesn't have to feel like a job (Click this link to read another article by that title Marriage Takes Work But Shouldn't Feel Like a Job). The steps to getting your marriage on track do not have to be so huge that you never get around to doing them just because the two of you can't figure out when, where or how to get started.
Taking little steps like Date Night and Couch Time can get that fire between you started again and get the two of you back to being committed to your marriage so that you will no longer find yourselves "Married But Not Engaged."
What are your thoughts on having date nights?


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In April NI-CO were commissioned by West Africa's leading oil and gas construction and marine services Corporation, Nigerdock, to conduct a full and comprehensive assessment of the capability and preparedness of their fire team on Snake Island Integrated Free Zone in Nigeria. A team of three fire fighters from Northern Ireland arrived on Snake Island in May to develop, deliver and install a continued development program for the Fire Team to conduct fire fighting and rescue operations in a safe and effective manner.
As well as providing theoretical training to the Fire Department in clear communications, effective delegation and clear briefings, the NI-CO team delivered practical training in the management of crews in operational incidents, maintenance programmes, drill schedules and specialist rescues. A training and development programme was also produced in partnershipwith our Nigerian counterparts to allow Nigerdock Nigeria Plc personnel to conduct and maintain safe operations, practices and procedures.


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Al- Fatihah
Sheikh Kharleez Bamadhaj bin Jaffar (1992-2018)
We were looking forward to his 26th birthday this 2nd of May 2018 and I had plans for him but that's what they say about death, it can happen to anyone at any given time because ajal di tangan Allah swt. So his precious life ended at 25.
Saturday, 17 February 2018
I remember everything so clearly about the last time I saw him and the last time I spoke to him.
I went to my parents place to pick my mom, my nephew and niece up to stay the night at my place. My brother couldnt join us because he's busy with work as always. When I got there, dad wasnt home so I salam my mom and went up to my brother's room. I missed him.
Right before I knocked on his door, he opened it and I went in. I lay down on his bed and started gossiping bout stuff. He was listening to me, always a good listener while his eyes were glued to his computer. I got up and I hugged his head and oddly I said, "I wanna take your picture".
So here it is, here's the last picture I took of him, the last time I saw him.
Before we left, he came down to lock the main door. I hugged him twice very tightly and I said "bye love you". He waited for us to leave, smiled, waved goodbye and that was it. That was the last time I saw my beloved baby brother. 2 days before he passed away.
Monday, 19 February 2018
Me and mom went to KLCC to get an iPad for my dad so I called my brother at 7pm. He wasn't done with work yet, he couldn't join us so I said "ok la nevermind see you soon, I love you okay?" and he said "ya ya ok byeeeee". Typical.
So I sent mom back. On the way back in the car, we had a talk. I told mom that I love my brother so much and that he's my person. And she said she would be so sad when he gets married and leaves her coz he's the last one. So random..
We reached my parents house, surprised dad with the iPad and it was the end of a happy, happy day. So we thought.
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
I was back at my own house sleeping alone (Jaz was on the flight back to KL) when I received the call from mom at 3AM. She asked whether my brother was at my place because he wasnt home yet and they cant reach him on the phone.
I said no and immediately cried out of worry and panic and mom told me to stop and said she was going to call the nearest hospitals to check. So I hung up and tried calling my brother.
"The number you have dialed cannot be reached". My heart sank.
I then noticed a bunch of notifications on my Facebook Messenger. A lot of strangers were trying to call me and a bunch of messages asking if I know Kharleez or if im his sister. I called one of them back .
"Ada kemalangan berlaku, puan boleh datang Hospital Sungai Buloh.. and bawa waris sekali"
Waris. I didnt understand it at the time coz I just woke up and I was worried, trembling, raising my voice at the guy. IS HE OK? IS HE OK? .. "oh we cannot tell you that now".
I called my husband who was at the airport and screamed that my brother got into an accident. He said he will see me there. So I drove at 3AM to the hospital, crying and shaking.
All 5 of us reached there at the same time. Mom, dad, my brother's gf, her brother and me. We went to the emergency area and was asked to go down to forensic. Again, I didn't know what that means because when I panic, everything just wont make sense. So we rushed downstairs.
Saw 2 police cars. Mom went ahead of me and asked the officer where's her son. And from far, I saw him saying " dia dah meninggal dunia" and mom broke down, his gf broke down and I just said no no no cannot be. I just spoke to him a couple of hours ago. How can he die.
I didn't cry, was in a state of shock and I turned to my dad who came a minute later and just shook my head and said "he's gone abah, he died'.
My parents went to identify the body with the police and seeing them come out of there, hugging, crying and distraught, that's when I cried like never before. I called my husband and told him, called my mother in law. Called my cousins, his friend and just cried and cried for 3 hours at the hospital. Only the 5 of us shared that initial traumatizing experience at the hospital.
My brother passed away at 11:45pm on 19 February 2018 and because his phone was a total loss and his IC wasn't updated with the new address, we weren't notified and I had to find out through facebook messages 3 hours later.
The funeral was smooth alhamdulillah. I got to kiss his forehead goodbye. It was ice cold. Families came from everywhere, his friends of all races were there. He was buried on the same day after Zohor. Thank you to everyone that came.
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
This is when it hits. When the funeral was done, when people left. When I wake up the next day with the most painful heavy feeling in my chest, not wanting to believe yesterday even happened. When I opened my eyes and burst out crying. When I saw the light in his room was on and heard my mom sobbing in there at 6am. When I see my dad cry at the mention of his name, every single time.
I went into his room. Looked at everything he owned. His bed, his clothes, his books his computer, his bicycle that he rode to China. His smell lingered. It was overwhelming, I couldn't take it.
We felt empty. The house felt incomplete. We were in tremendous pain and we couldnt help each other because our pain don't hurt the same. They lost their son, I lost my brother. Really felt like we lost it all.
This is the first time that I'm feeling such grief. This is the first time I'm seeing my family in such a state. This pain is just different. It has no ending. No solutions. Its here to stay.
Don't get me wrong. We redha Allah swt took him back because Allah swt loves him. We pray for him, baca doa for him. Never once we forget Allah swt in the midst of this grief. We better ourselves for him but it still hurts. The pain is unbearable.
He was my comfort zone, he's the one that can make me see things in a different light. He made my dark days better so now I feel like I'm stuck here without him. It's been 16 days but it feels like yesterday. We continue to live our daily lives. We run errands and go to work. Some days are better than others. I laugh when something is funny but I am still damaged from it all. People say that it gets better, but how?
I pray everyday for Allah swt to give me and my family that strength that everyone's talking about. I continue to pray. I have so much more to say but I'm tired of reliving this. Maybe next time.
Till then, Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.
Al fatihah to my brother, Sheikh Kharleez Bamadhaj bin Jaffar.
I miss and love you then, now and forever.


text: Days come and go so fast and the most beautiful moments of the city we live in pass by while we are struggling with the hustle and bustle of our daily life. Have you ever noticed that you even forget looking around while walking to work and back? We feel that very often. So why not watching some short videos that shows some of the best flash of times of one of the greatest metropolitans of the world, Chicago. All of them are the work of photographer Craig Shimala who shares creative time-lapses of the city randomly on his Instagram page.


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Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo "Dead Man's Party" Synth T-Shirt
You probably remember Oingo Boingo from their 80's highlights like "Weird Science" and the dark and groovy "Dead Man's Party" (which was the inspiration for this spooky t-shirt)... but there's much more to these guys than just another wannabe New Wave band of the synth generation... much, much more!
Unlike other young groups vying for the neon New Wave crown... Danny Elfman took the creative reigns of "The Mystic Knights of the Oing Boingo" from his brother Richard in 1976... many years before Punk, Ska and New Wave were to become the defacto style of a generation.
Besides the obvious quirky influences gained from playing in an anything-goes Cabaret style musical theater troupe, ala "Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention" or "The Residents"... just being musically aware during the detailed oriented guitar work of the 70's rock brought Boingo into the 80's with a deeper sense of guitar use and song structure... something sorely lacking from many of the bands at the time.
While the backlash against guitar solos raged on in the synthesizer based music of the 80's... we can see now in retrospect, many groups complete disregard of guitar only served to hurt the timeless nature of their music... synth tracks from the likes of Thomas Dolby are intensely dated sounding these days (despite the tunes being exceptionally catchy)... while Oingo Boingo tracks have (mostly) worn well through the decades, holding strong character and owing less novelty... which speaks volumes considering, at their core, they're an intentionally theatric (Read: Novelty) band!!
Oingo Boingo is one of those bands worth going back to spend some time with... if you can appreciate the humorous works of Frank Zappa, you owe yourself the oddity and laughs you'll find in the Boingo back catalog... not to mention some of the musicianship found on the bootlegs floating in the ether... these guys were a "band", not a synthesizer... although, the classic "Keytar" is certainly part of their instrument repertoire (and videos)... a guilty pleasure that's always good for a laugh!
By now, you may know that lead singer / songwriter Danny Elfman has continued on to become one of the most infamous Hollywood movie composers in the ranks of John Williams (Star Wars, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter)... and one of our all time favorites; Ennio Morricone (The Good The Bad and the Ugly, A Fist Full of Dollars, and basically every other Spaghetti Western and Italian crime movie ever made)... which is no small task, considering there aren't that many other movies that you could score, to even compete on that level.
Ellfman did... only touching only on a very short list of his score credits is enough to make any sound guy green with envy... Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Army of Darkness, Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black and Mission: Impossible... and that doesn't even scratch the service, still leaving out some mega-blockbusters like Spiderman, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (basically EVERY Tim Burton film), Chicago, Hulk, Hellboy II, Good Will Hunting and Planet of The Apes... and that's still not all of the A-List movies he's been talented enough to have worked on!!! Truly Amazing.
Did I mention that Richard Elfman (Danny's brother) made a movie of the Mystic Knights stage performance before they moved away from Cabaret stylings? Oh yes... "The Forbidden Zone"... let's just say, it stars a young Herve Villechaize (the little midget guy from the TV show Fantasy Island; "Hey boss, de plane! de plane!").
I even hear there's a sequel in the works, which should include some crazy dancing from Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg)... yes that Jenna Elfman is part of this family of lunatics... (is that really a surprise? hehe!).
Man, I hope they use offensive shit in this movie too... god knows this country needs to lighten up on the political correctness... all the old Oingo Boingo music videos should be playing on televisions in the hallways and lunchrooms of Americas school system... IMHO.


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Changing the wallpaper on your iPad or iPad Air is fairly simple. However, if you love the default home- or lock-screen image that came on your iPad, make sure it is in your iPad's wallpaper library before you swap it out. The default image that came with our iPad Air is not in the iOS 8 library and we lost it after changing our home screen image.
1. Go to settings and, depending on your iPad's operating system, select "Wallpaper" or "Wallpaper and Brightness."
2. Select "Choose a New Wallpaper" or "Wallpaper" (depending on your iOS). In newer systems, there are two libraries. The "bubbles" in the Dynamic wallpapers are animated and gently move, while Stills are static images. Older operating systems have only one library with still images.
3. Select an image, then press "Set Lock Screen," "Set Home Screen" or "Set Both," depending on where you want the image to appear. You can also press Camera Roll to select an image you have taken or imported to your iPad as your wallpaper.
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The Zagato design house has created plenty of beautiful machines with a wide variety of automakers over the years. But for many car fans it's the collaboration between Zagato and Aston Martin that has created the most special automotive specimens.
The first and possibly most important, was the iconic Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the event, the British automaker and the famous Italian design house have reconnected on a new project that could potentially head into limited production. Details on this latest collaboration remain scarce but the concept is set to be revealed at the forthcoming Villa D'Este Concours on May 21 to check initial customer reaction with a production model possibly following as early as next year.
For now, a teaser rendering has been released with little else except speculation that the new Aston Martin Zagato could be based on the mechanical hardware and platform of the current V8 Vantage.
Aston Martin boss, Dr. Ulrich Bez, said: "Now is the right time for a new Aston Martin Zagato and in combining our design intelligence I think we can create something fitting of the iconic DB4GT Zagato that has gone before and since established itself as one of the most famous Aston Martins of all time."
The Italian design house first worked with Aston Martin in 1961 building the DB4GT Zagato, which was a restyled and lighter version of the standard production car. Only 19 examples were ever built.
The two companies wouldn't get together for another 25 years, but in 1986 they released a limited run of the V8 Vantage Zagato and then the V8 Zagato Volante. The Vantage Zagato was able to sprint to 100kph in 4.8 seconds and had a top speed of 300km/h.
Their most recent collaboration took place at the Paris Motor Show back in 2002 with the introduction of the DB7 Zagato of which 99 examples were built for sale and one was kept by Aston Martin.


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Pollution has been named the "largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today" by a collaboration of more than 40 researchers looking at data from 130 countries. The study, published in The Lancet, revealed that 9 million premature deaths were caused by pollution in 2015, which is 16 percent of deaths worldwide — "three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence," the researchers wrote.1
Virtually all of the deaths (92 percent) occurred in low- and middle-income countries where, in the most polluted regions, pollution-related disease caused more than 1 in 4 deaths.
That being said, pollution isn't stagnant; it moves from one country to the next, to the extent that a sizable amount of air pollution in the western U.S. comes from China, for example. Still, as Popular Science noted, "In a classic case of what-goes-around-comes around, some 20 percent of China's air pollution stems from the manufacturing of products for the United States."2
While water, soil and chemical pollution accounted for some of the pollution-related deaths, the majority — 6.5 million — were caused by airborne contaminants. Both indoor air pollution, particularly from household cooking and burning wood for heat, and outdoor pollution, including from coal-fired power plants and vehicle emissions, were problematic.
Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) refers to dust, dirt, soot and smoke — particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. It's the most studied type of air pollution. These particulates can enter your system and cause chronic inflammation, which in turn increases your risk of a number of health problems, from cancer to heart and lung disease.
In the case of heart disease, fine particulate air pollution may increase your risk by inducing atherosclerosis, increasing oxidative stress and increasing insulin resistance, the researchers noted, adding:3
"The strongest causal associations are seen between PM 2.5 pollution and cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. Specific causal associations have been established between PM 2.5 pollution and myocardial infarction, hypertension, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiovascular mortality.
"The strongest causal associations are seen between PM 2.5 pollution and cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. Specific causal associations have been established between PM 2.5 pollution and myocardial infarction, hypertension, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiovascular mortality.
Causal associations have also been established between PM 2.5 pollution and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has reported that airborne particulate matter and ambient air pollution are proven group 1 human carcinogens."
Causal associations have also been established between PM 2.5 pollution and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has reported that airborne particulate matter and ambient air pollution are proven group 1 human carcinogens."
The health effects of air pollution don't stop there, however, as the study cited emerging evidence showing that PM 2.5 may play a role in a number of diseases you probably wouldn't automatically associate with air pollution, including:4
Decreased cognitive function
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Neurodegenerative disease including dementia
Premature birth
Low birthweight
Sudden infant death syndrome
Research presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2017 International Conference even suggested poor air quality may disrupt your sleep.5 The study looked closely at the effects of two widespread pollutants, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is traffic-related air pollution and PM 2.5, which is responsible for reduced visibility. Both of the pollutants had an influence on study participants' sleep efficiency, which is a measure of the time spent actually sleeping as opposed to lying in bed awake.
The people in the top quarter of NO2 exposure were 60 percent more likely to have low sleep efficiency over a five-year period compared to those in the lowest quarter. Among those exposed to the highest levels of fine-particle pollution, there was a 50 percent increased likelihood of low sleep efficiency. Considering the health repercussions of lack of sleep, this is yet another way that air pollution can devastate your health. Further, pollution is only worsening in many parts of the world, the researchers noted, and without aggressive intervention deaths due to ambient air pollution could increase by more than 50 percent by 2050, they said.
The majority of global airborne particulate pollution — 85 percent — comes from fuel combustion, with coal being the "world's most polluting fossil fuel."6 Even in the U.S., an estimated 200,000 premature deaths are caused by combustion emissions, including that from vehicles and power generation.7
In a study of electric power generation in the U.S., which is coal-intensive, a study published in the journal Energy revealed that switching to natural gas for electricity generation could lead to significant benefits.8 Study author Jay Apt, a professor at Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy and co-director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University, wrote in The Conversation:9
"Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent. These compounds are major causes of fine particulate pollution. Reductions on this level would lower the total cost of national annual human health damages by US$20 billion to $50 billion annually. We found that the Southeast and the Ohio Valley, where most of the coal is burned, would capture the lion's share of these benefits."
"Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent. These compounds are major causes of fine particulate pollution. Reductions on this level would lower the total cost of national annual human health damages by US$20 billion to $50 billion annually. We found that the Southeast and the Ohio Valley, where most of the coal is burned, would capture the lion's share of these benefits."
The Lancet authors, while citing a benefit in shifting the energy sector from coal-fired plants to gas-fired plants, took it a step further, noting that an even better solution would be shifting to low-polluting renewable energy sources such as wind, tidal, geothermal and solar options. "These interventions not only reduce pollution and improve the cardiorespiratory health of entire populations, but they will also sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and increase the efficiency of electricity generation," they wrote.10
Another major cause of air pollution in much of the U.S., China, Russia and Europe is linked to farming and fertilizer — specifically to the nitrogen component of fertilizer used to supposedly enrich the soil and grow bigger crops.11
Research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters even demonstrated that in certain densely populated areas, emissions from farming far outweigh other sources of particulate matter air pollution.12 As nitrogen fertilizers break down into their component parts, ammonia is released into the air.
Ammonia is one of the byproducts of fertilizer and animal waste. When the ammonia in the atmosphere reaches industrial areas, it combines with pollution from diesel and petroleum combustion, creating microparticles. Concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) workers and neighboring residents alike report higher incidence of asthma, headaches, eye irritation and nausea.
Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine also revealed that markers of lung function were related to how far they lived from CAFOs.13 The closer they lived to the factory farms, and the greater the density of livestock, the more impairments in lung function were revealed. Lung function of neighboring residents declined in concert with increased levels of CAFO-caused ammonia air pollution, the study revealed.14
According to a 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) report, only 8 percent of people worldwide are breathing air that meets WHO standards, which means 92 percent of the world population is breathing polluted air.15 While you might not have control over the pollution levels outside your home, you do have control over what you eat.
The latter is good news, because certain dietary measures can have a protective effect. Overall, you should strive to eat a diet of whole foods, rich in anti-inflammatory vegetables and healthy fats. Among the most important dietary interventions to try include:16
Attention to proper indoor air quality is important, and purifying your home's air is a good start. Commercially purchased air filters may change measurements of health, include lowering the amount of C-reactive protein and other measurements of inflammation and blood vessel function.22 However, not all filters work with the same efficiency to remove pollutants from your home, and no one filter can remove all pollutants, so be sure to do your research on the different types of air filters to meet your specific needs.
Photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) is one of the best technologies available. Rather than filtering the air, PCO actually acts as an air purifier, cleaning the air using ultraviolet (UV) light. Unlike filters, which simply trap pollutants, PCO transforms the pollutants into nontoxic substances. Typically, this occurs when the UV light reacts with a titanium dioxide film and water, creating hydroxyl radicals that essentially oxidize the pollutants, rendering them harmless.
Research has shown that, in the presence of air pollutants from building materials and furniture, PCO improves indoor air quality based on both sensory assessments made by study participants as well as measurements such as Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS).23 Beyond PCO, another option is to add house plants, which help to absorb indoor air pollution.
Further, one of the simplest and easiest ways to reduce the pollution count in your home is to open the windows and let some fresh air in (assuming the outdoor air isn't overly polluted). Because most homes have little air leakage, opening the windows for as little as 15 minutes every day can improve the quality of the air you're breathing. You may also want to consider cracking the window at night while you sleep. Installing an attic fan is another way of bringing fresh air into your home and reducing your toxic load from air pollutants.
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how to create a self-fulfilling anti-tech prophecy with withering cynicism
Last time we took a look at what tech cynics and technophobes get wrong in their arguments, we focused on their lack of consideration for their fellow humans' ability to exercise free will. Despite the fact that this is a huge hole in many of their arguments, there's an even bigger problem with the dismissive stance they take towards science and technology. When they argue that we can't feed all the hungry house all the homeless, or really prolong lifespans with technology, the facts they cite generally point not so much to technological limitations or scientific ignorance, but very convoluted social and political problems, then insist that because science and technology can't solve them today, they likely never will, or won't solve them adequately to consider the problem much smaller than it is today. While this argument is true, it's also logically dishonest. You can't fix the world's problems with technology when the people who should be using it refuse to do so, or hijack it for their own less than noble means. No tool or piece of knowledge can help then.
As some of you might have noticed, the city in the graphic for this post in Dubai, a rich proving ground for how the cities of the near future are likely to be built. We know how to make cities of glass, steel, and concrete right out of science fiction. We know how to build the cheap, efficient housing complexes those making less than a dollar a day need to at least have secure shelter. We know how do diagnose complex diseases early enough to treat them before they'll become dangerous, much less terminal, and our toolkits for understanding germs, viruses, and complex medical problems like cancers, are growing to become more sophisticated every day. We also have the tools and the money to apply all these solutions to the world at large. With something a little bit short of $100 billion just between Gates and Buffet pledged to fight poverty illiteracy, and disease, and when we can find $2 trillion laying around to help banks with a do-over, clearly, it's not an issue of not having the technology, the scientific basis, or the cash. The issue is will.
Sure technological utopians have lofty ambitions and it's valid to be skeptical of many of them, but when they vow that logistical problems can be solved with enough computing and research, they're right more often than not. When the cynics deride these ambitions by pointing out that a lot of people don't want to fund mass production of the necessary tools or the required science, and would much prefer to spend them on entertainment and public entitlements benefiting them directly, they're not highlighting the problems with using technology to save the world, they're a prime exhibit of why a technology hasn't transformed the world of fixed a persistent problem. All too often it comes down to them saying it can't be done, and politicians along with voters simply listening to them and deciding that no, it's can't be done since the critics said so, which is why it would be a waste of time to even bother. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure, a social variation of Newton's First Law: a society that insists on the status quo, sticks to the status quo unless an external event or constant pressure forces it to change.
It's the same attitude which strangled the promising and much anticipated future of space travel and exploration, and we're still stuck with it. Yes, not every retro-futuristic dream about space or living on other worlds was practical or even feasible and yes, we did need experts to burst our bubble before an unworkable project got off the ground. But today's science and tech critics are going well past a healthy skepticism about bold claims and venturing into a territory in which they dismiss scientific and technological solutions to global problems for the sake of dismissing them, pointing to other ideas they dismissed in the past and doomed to being chained to the drawing board, and saying that because their relentless cynicism killed the ideas rather than refined the scopes and missions to eliminate problems with them, new ideas building on past visions must be scrapped as well. It's even more insidious than political vetting of basic science, because vetting at least allows some projects to survive and get refined into new tools and ideas. The withering cynicism of what science and technology can do for us is like an anti-innovation WMD…


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Benefits of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
Written by Cancer Treatment Centers of America®
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) delivers a concentrated dose of radiation therapy to a tumor bed during surgery. This advanced technology may help kill microscopic disease, reduce radiation treatment times or provide an added radiation "boost."
Typically, standard radiation therapy involves five days of treatment per week, for a total of five to six weeks for some patients. With IORT, our radiation oncologists can deliver a similar dose of radiation in a single treatment session, while also preserving more healthy tissue. This helps to reduce side effects and the time spent going back and forth to the hospital for radiation treatments.
- Maximum effect. IORT delivers a concentrated dose of radiation to a tumor site immediately after a tumor is removed, helping to destroy the microscopic tumor cells that may be left behind. The tumor site is typically at high risk for recurrence and traditional radiation therapy requires a recovery period after surgery, which leaves microscopic disease in the body for longer.
- Spares healthy tissues and organs. During IORT, a precise radiation dose is applied while shielding healthy tissues or structures, such as the skin, that could be damaged using other techniques. This allows a higher radiation dose to be delivered to the tumor bed, while sparing normal surrounding tissues. Critical organs within the radiation field, such as the lungs or heart, can also be protected.
- Shortened treatment times. IORT may help some patients finish treatment and get back to their lives quicker by reducing the need for additional radiation therapy, which is typically given over five to six weeks. The IORT treatment itself takes about four to five minutes.
- A "boost" for traditional radiation patients. Patients who must receive additional radiation therapy following surgery can receive a boost of radiation during IORT. After they have recovered from the surgical procedure, they can continue with their radiation treatments, with typically fewer complications.
- Some possible side effects of treatment are skin redness and irritation in the treated area, which often improve after treatment is complete.
Who is a candidate for IORT?
A patient must be a surgical candidate in order to be eligible for IORT. This treatment is generally reserved for individuals with early-stage disease. Your doctor will discuss whether IORT is an appropriate treatment option for you, based on your individual diagnosis and preferences.
Learn more: Learn about IORT for the following cancers: bile duct cancer, brain cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and spinal cancer.
See a medical animation of IORT.


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I'm developing an iPhone app featuring this little guy, fully animated!
More on that later..
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Cute? Its a challenge to find a shape language that says "cute" while making it look unique enough from all the other monkey designs out there.
Just for kicks.
Just for kicks.
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Explore Hollywood
It's not just for tourists! Here's a sampling of our favorite sights, activities and attractions.
Old Hollywood Tour6562 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90028
What was it like to witness Hollywood's transformation from a tiny suburb of Los Angeles to the glamorous film capital of the world? On this tour, you will learn the history of Hollywood from 1886-1960, and have a chance to peek inside some of the hidden gems on the boulevard. Take a walk back in time to visit the homes, shops, theaters, offices and restaurants that define Hollywood's historic identity.
The Escape Hotel6633 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90028
The Escape Hotel opened in Hollywood in early 2016. Escape rooms are best be described as a live puzzle game, utilizing a team (from two-12 people, depending on the size of the room and your ability to get along with others) to figure out clues and puzzles, and that all add up to the ability to unlock a door after a set amount of time (usually 30 minutes to an hour, again depending on your ability to get along with others; if you're super-stuck, there's always someone watching who'll give you a hint... if you want it).
The Laugh Factory8001 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90046
Opening its doors in 1979, the World Famous Laugh Factory has been recognized as "the #1 comedy club in the country" by such high-profile media as USA Today. With southern California locations in Hollywood (its original Sunset Boulevard locale) and Long Beach (opened in 2008), comedy's top stars, as well as today's brightest emerging talent, shine on its legendary stage.
Starline Tours Hollywood6925 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90028
As L.A.'s leading sightseeing company, Starline Tours is pleased to offer a wide range of exciting Los Angeles tours from our Hollywood terminal. Discover the unique celebrity culture and history of this fascinating city, or let us conveniently transport you to and from many of Southern California's most popular attractions!


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