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Center Stands
Hepco & Becker offer a great range of center stands for selected Sport Touring, Dual Sport & Adventure Motorcycles. All are "Made In Germany" and are fully T.U.V compliant & certified as you cannot go 'over the pits' in the EU without having certified after market centre stands. All of these centre stands are available right here in Australia from Motorcycle Adventure Products.
Our center stands are characterised by their study construction, simplicity in assembly and ease of use when lifting the bike. We DO reccomend our optional Spring Tool SKU 700030 when assembling or just for your workshop tool kit!
Here we are only listing the generic center stand parts, spare parts are also available by request. All of our stands are made bike specific, so please use the "Find Your Bike"function above, select your make and then pick from the list of models.


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The Office of Student Account Services is responsible for billing charges to the students. Two different types of bills are produced. The Semester Tuition Bill and the Accounts Receivable monthly bill.
Students will receive an e-mail notification to access their Tuition Bill on CaneLink. A student's course schedule and financial statement (charges and credits) are shown on this bill. An e-mail with billing access instructions is sent to students and proxies approximately six weeks prior to the first day of class. The balance due on the statement must be satisfied by the due date or the student's courses are subject to cancellation. To satisfy the balance, a student must pay or defer payment in accordance with the University deferment policy.

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Our office is here to assist students during their journey through college. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if you would like to clarify a policy or procedure, explore majors, learn how to manage your time and course load, select courses for next semester, discuss academic challenges or strategize…
Academic Advising
Academic advising at Stonehill is not limited to course selection. Each advising interaction is an opportunity for us to empower students towards academic engagement and success. Learn more.
Academic Community Experience (ACE) Program
ACE is an intensive 1-week summer program that prepares certain students for college life and rigor through actual coursework, writing support, and skill-building workshops. Learn more.
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The Office of Academic Services & Advising is the primary resource for students and faculty as they navigate issues of academic integrity and violations of the Academic Honesty Code. Learn more.
Academic Policies and Procedures
The Office of Academic Services & Advising provides consultations on Academic Policies to both faculty and students. The Hill Book serves as the on-line, accredited version of the Stonehill College Academic Catalog. This essential resource contains useful information about the College's academic programs, partnerships, degree requirements, course offerings, grading policy, and College's academic procedures and resources. Visit the Hill Book.
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If a student is facing an issue or difficulty that is affecting your academic performance, The Office of Academic Services & Advising can provide direct support as well as facilitate the appropriate connections across campus. Learn more.
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With 80 majors or minors and programs in the businesses, sciences or humanities, you have many possibilities from which to choose. We have identified some strategies to help you make an informed decision about the most approprate and fulfilling program(s) to pursue. Students considering a double major are encouraged to schedule an appointment with an advisor to assist in the drafting of a four year plan that will ultimately be submitted to the individual department chairs. Learn more.
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Chari's strong mix of material, which blends well-trodden standards, originals co-written with keyboardist Lars Potteiger, and recent tunes from the rock canon cover a wide range of styles and showcase her alto voice to fine effect. The band assembled around her with Potteiger, alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo (doubling on soprano sax), bassist Dan Asher, Daniil Davydoff on violin and Vin Scialla on drums and percussion and provide empathetic support and first rate solos, especially from Potteiger on "Semblance of Truth" and from DiRubbo throughout the set. Chari's interpretation of Cole Porter's classic "Love For Sale" features a buoyant horn chart and grooving Latin rhythm, keeping the tune fresh. Her vocal delivery is subtle, and silky, and the covers of Phoenix' "Lasso" and "Black and Blue" by the Counting Crows are vehicles for her rich tone.
"Patchwork," indeed, is a hodgepodge of elements that define the direction jazz has been heading in the past several years, managing to reconcile the rich history of the music with contemporary elements that have always been hallmarks of the genre. Dheepa Chari's assured vocal delivery, knack for choosing intriguing songs, especially from the modern rock genre, and chemistry with a group that she shares the space with in equal measure display that jazz is always about exploration and that she is a talent deserving wider recognition. The concoction of well known older pieces, with newer ones assures that new generations will check the art form out.


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An itchy scalp might lead you to believe you have a lice infestation, but you might also have scabies. This infection is triggered by the human itch mite and causes an irritating skin rash or grayish-white lines that occur on the skin due to tunneling mites. Some changes can be made to your diet to aid in recovery and ease symptoms.
Including black walnuts in your diet might help rid yourself of mites. Some people use black walnuts as a home remedy; they believe it serves as an insect repellent. No scientific evidence exists to confirm this use, but black walnuts do contain protein, a macronutrient that contributes to immune function. While protein will not keep you from getting scabies or help get rid of them, it might help prevent infections from the rash. One ounce of black walnuts provides you with 6.8 g of protein.
Phyllis Balch, author of "Prescription for Nutritional Healing" and a nutrition expert, includes rhubarb on her list of remedies to help get rid of a scabies infection. Naturopathic medicine practitioners say it is because rhubarb is a natural anti-parasitic. In addition to this effect, it is also a source of vitamin C -- one cup of diced rhubarb contains 9.8 mg of this vitamin, which helps with skin quality due to its collagen content. This might help restore your skin from the rash.
Garlic might or might not help get rid of parasites -- some people believe it might be effective against scabies because of its track record against other parasites. Regardless of whether it works, garlic does contain nutrients that can benefit your skin and return it to health after you contract a scabies rash. The manganese in garlic contributes to healthy nerves, and the vitamin B6 in this vegetable contributes to healthy skin.
Traditional Scabies Treatments
To get rid of a scabies infestation, a visit to your doctor might be necessary. You must use medicated lotions on your skin from your neck down to suffocate the mites. Your relatives or those who live with you might all need to undergo treatment, as scabies spreads rapidly. You might also need to steam-clean furniture and thoroughly wash bedding and clothes to get rid of stray mites. Note that scabies might trigger allergic reactions, so antihistamines might be necessary.
Is This an Emergency?
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; "Scabies Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"; November 2010
- Alan Muskat; "Scabies"; December 1999
- Physorg.com; "Protein Helps Immune Cells To Divide and Conquer"; March 2009
- USDA National Nutrient Database: Nuts, Walnuts, Black, Dried
- Ask A Naturopath.com: What Are Internal Parasites?
- USDA National Nutrient Database: Rhubarb, Raw
- University of Maryland Medical Center; "Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)"; June 2009
- University of Maryland Medical Center; "Intestinal Parasites"; March 2010
- USDA National Nutrient Database: Garlic, Raw
- University of Maryland Medical Center; "Manganese"; June 2009
- University of Maryland Medical Center; "Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)"; June 2009


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While browsing the Campus Reform website, I came across a report that Rowan University had just 'published a guide on "Interrupting Microaggressions" with strategies for "calling out" those who advocate concepts like "color blindness" and "meritocracy."' The digital bumf on the Rowan website makes it clear that the notion of 'microaggression' is bound up with identity politics.
One example of a 'microaggression' given in the Campus Reform piece is the statement, 'Everyone can succeed in this country, if they work hard enough.' Now, one could certainly question that statement by pointing out that not everyone who works hard actually succeeds, no matter what their background. People fail at stuff all the time, and if there were no 'failures' then there would be no 'successes.' We could follow up by asking more interesting questions like, 'How does the speaker measure "success"?' or 'Has success to do with money, personal happiness, health, etc.?' At the same time, it's obvious that the statement is true: working hard is a necessary ingredient for any type of success. For example, doing well in a class at university requires keeping up with the assigned reading, engaging with the material, getting assignments done on time, revising for exams, and so on; all of those activities require dedicated effort, careful concentration and efficient time management.
So, it would appear that there is both truth and shortcomings in the assertion; the point, however, is that there can be a rational conversation about it without the need for anyone to get offended.
But, one might wonder, how is the supposed 'microaggression' actually aggressive? How, exactly, does it inflict damage or unpleasantness? Part of the answer to this question seems to depend upon the hearer: in another document also linked by the Campus Reform piece, we find the following: 'If you are "called out" on your behavior… focus on the impact of your words or actions rather than your intent.' So, it would seem that a 'microaggression' is aggressive if the hearer takes it that way, no matter how far from the truth that person may be. (I suspect that the sloppy notion that language is 'violent' is lurking here also; more about that in a future post.)
I find this formulation troubling for at least two reasons: first, it shifts discourse to the realm of emotion and emotional responses, which is fundamentally irrational; second, the underlying automatic assumption of guilt–not unlike 'original sin'–on the part of the speaker. In other words, it doesn't matter what idea the speaker was actually trying to communicate or express; what is important is how the words were taken by the hearer. A speaker is thus automatically assumed to be guilty—regardless of what was intended—once offence is taken; it also seems that a speaker cannot defend him- or herself against the charge of aggression.
So, in a nutshell, a speaker is automatically guilty of being aggressive wherever and whenever a hearer takes exception to their words, no matter what was intended; truth apparently does not matter. These policies seem to me dangerous precisely because they throw away the very useful model of language as a communicative tool, which one party uses to try to communicate an idea or thought to another party, and attempt to replace it with a one-sided, non-communicative model of language, where, regardless of what the speaker may have intended, the hearer alone gets to decide what was originally intended; to cap this off, in a butchering of logic, this model also makes the speaker responsible for that hearer's (mis)interpretation. This paradoxical model of language robs the speaker of agency, judges him or her on how someone took their words, condemns him or her as guilty of aggression and leaves him or her with no means of defending themselves against the charge. Such policies, which are more reminiscent of the 're-education' characteristic of show-trials and struggle sessions than proper education, herald the end of communicative language altogether on university campuses: if you are no longer sure whether or not what you say will trigger someone else no matter what you may have meant, are you more likely to keep trying to communicate or simply shut up? In a capricious and unpredictable environment, where even just the perception of offence can get you into hot water, it makes more sense to stay silent. Is this what we want to see from universities? I know I certainly don't.
What troubles me most about university policies such as these is that we are actually witnessing the intrusion of institutional authority—here, the university—into individuals' daily interactions, where that authority not only actively takes sides but seeks to prescribe how individuals should think and speak to one another. In other words, this situation seems to be about controlling speech through institutional interventions into individuals' freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas; and this is being done in universities by the universities themselves.
Reading about Rowan put me in mind of Roland Barthes' (in)famous notion of 'the death of the author.' Barthes' essay has commonly been taken to mean that the reader's interpretation of a book is more important than what the author meant or intended; and, on the face of it, it's tempting to say that Barthes' notion is now being pressed into service by universities for the purpose of policing of speech and thought in the name of identity politics.
But ironies abound: the Rowan University policies are really more of an active distortion of what Barthes wrote (note, also, the delicious irony of how talking about what Barthes intended in an essay about the death of authorial intention is unavoidable–there are limits to how freely one may interpret a text). For Barthes, an author's biographical or personal attributes—his or her political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology and so on—were not to be taken as binding when interpreting a text. This position is incompatible with an identity politics view of the world, where the genetic fallacy is never not in play. Indeed, Barthes' own words would be enough to convict him of being a 'microaggressor' at Rowan, seeing that—according to the Campus Reform article—'When I look at you, I don't see color,' is also considered a 'microaggression.' Meanwhile, the prominent anti-authoritarian streak in Barthes' essay is diametrically opposed to Rowan policies, which seem to be about creating and enshrining the very type of tyrannical authority over meaning that Barthes was trying to dislodge in his essay: at Rowan, readers or hearers get to assign a single, authoritative interpretation to every utterance—their own.


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Reel to Reel: El Camino Más Largo
Mar 7 , 2016 Doors: 7:00pm Show: 7:30PM
This program is free. GRAMMY Museum members receive priority seating. To RSVP, email [email protected].
On Nov. 11, 2010 Enrique Bunbury performed before of a sold-out Azteca Stadium (Mexico), becoming the first Spanish solo artist to gather 90,000 people — in Latin America — in just one night. A few months later, Bunbury would face a new challenge by embarking on a fascinating North American, coast-to-coast tour in the company of his new band, his wife and his cat. The tour will find him playing in unexpected places. What in the beginning seemed like a passionate attempt to conquest a new audience and market, becomes an unexpected journey inside Bunbury's pursuit of his dreams and shadows, defying every new mile as if it was the last one. In the new film El Camino Más Largo, director Alexis Morante gives an unprecedented look behind the scenes of Bunbury's 2010 U.S. tour — a defining moment in his career.
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You should be able to figure out how my Mountain Mist 50K race went by the look on my face above.
This will be short and only have one funny thing at the end.
The night before, I had Bill Warner, Yong Kim and Nathan Custer sleeping at my house. Yong wet the bed, discovered Nathan was a chic once, and Bill's new nipple piercings bleed on our guest sheets. I probably shouldn't have told you that, but they all live in TN.
We reach the mountain and it is covered in snow. James Falcon is going to pace me to a Mtn Mist PR of 5:40. James, Benj, Dave, Nathan, Darcy and myself set out together. Darcy is wearing these painted on shorts, and I promise...there was a group of men right "behind" her. Benj had on his Salomon junk revealers and they were saggin in the air biscuit release valve. I had on my RC shorty shorts and well Dave was wearing what the average Hobbit wears.
The course is muddy pretty much from the initial decent on. James keeps us on a 5:40 finish time pace. We reached Aid station 1 at 1:02, right on pace, and crush down Warpath. We expected Powerline to be like doo-doo mud, but it was more like diarhea, slick and brown, but very runnable. Up K2 we power hiked. Managed the rolling of Goat trail to Aid 2. In and out, on our way around Panther Knob.
Since Lookout 50, my weekly mileage had been lacking. I figured, my athleticism and uncanny good looks should be enough to carry me through this race. I reach the Red Gate, mile 17 feeling good, and embark on the real start of the race (the last 14). By 17 Benj and Darcy had left us and Dave had dropped back.
We flew over the rocks of Toll Gate, and hammered the rolling rivers of High Trail. I knew that if I could hammer Bluff Line, I was in store for a great race. I get to Bluff Line and James and I blow through it. At the bottom I felt like I had exerted a little too much. Coming to Railroad Bed Aid station I was feeling tired but knew I had to press through the Orthodontist appointment maker called Railroad Bed. We left Nathan and Donnie Holmes in the dust and on to Alms House. Alms was fairly dry to my surprise so the flat rocks were not an issue.
We get to Waterline, and I am grateful to have an excuse to walk. Up to this point I had been sucking down Skratch the whole way, along with my E-Gels. So fruity flavors were starting to get to me. Every year I cramp at the top of Waterline, so I was hoping the Skratch would make the difference. Waterline sucked! However, I never got a cramp. So the Skratch worked. We reached the Aid Station at Burrit and I could barely talk. Megan got me some water and all I could do was nod at James' wife. I wanted to puke SO BAD. James handed me a potato covered in salt.
We set out for Arrowhead, the trail I hate the most. A Rolling rocky suckfest from the pits of hell. My battery was dead. People began to pass me, 5,6, 10, I lost count. I was able to hop down the mudpits of Natural Well fairly good. We sat in the pool at the bottom which seemed to breathe some life into me.
Through slush mile I am barely trucking. I am so sick of anything with sugar in it that I cannot drink out of my bottles. Every sip would make me gag and almost puke. James handed me his water and we began up Rest Shelter. I literally almost passed out several times. I would close my eyes and see my world spinning.
I wanted to lie down at Kathy's bench but James wouldn't let me. I wanted a boulder to fall on me so I could get a med-flight out. 2.5 miles to go and I wanted to quit. We reach the top and I down some water and crackers. WHOA! thats what I was missing. I needed real food in my body. We began a run walk routine. At points I was able to get a decent pace going. James was gracious enough to give me some walk breaks. Through the finish line...Better than last year, but not a PR. I was so disappointed. I had already planned on bailing out of Cheaha in February.
It seemed like all my friends had great races except for me. I was happy for them but I felt embarrassed by my performance. I soon took comfort in knowing Jerry Abbott sucked even worse. No offense Jerry.
Congrats to Daniel Hamilton, Martin Schneekloth, Benj Lance, and Darcy Dubuc on their outstanding performance.
Now the funny part of the race: So I bought one of those cool towels that you can wrap around yourself and get naked an no one see your giblets. Pulled the shorts off, and didn't think I needed any underwear, and slipped on my pants. So the runway wasn't clear. I closed the barn door on the chicken head. I screamed while the doberman was latched onto the Boloney Pony. Carefully, pulled down the zipper revealing that I had not been visited by the spirit of Lorena Bobbit.
Thank you Lord for helping. Thank you Rock/Creek for letting me on your team. Thank you HTC for having great races. Thank you Janice for fixing my boo-boo.
I love you guys


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Enhanced Graphics Adapter
The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC computer display standard from 1984 that superseded and exceeded the capabilities of the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987.
|Release date
|October 1984[1]
|Motorola 6845, Chips and Technologies
|IBM EGA card, Chips and Technologies, ATI EGA Wonder
|ATI EGA Wonder 800
|ATI EGA Wonder 800+
|Monochrome Display Adapter, Color Graphics Adapter
|Video Graphics Array
EGA was introduced in October 1984 by IBM,[2][3] shortly after (but not exclusively for) its new PC/AT.
The EGA standard was made obsolete by the introduction in 1987 of MCGA and VGA with the PS/2 computer line.[4]
Shortly before the introduction of VGA, Genoa Systems introduced a half-size graphics card built around a proprietary chip set, which they called Super EGA (later cards supporting an extended version of the VGA were similarly named Super VGA).[5] Also around that time, Byte Magazine reviewed various proprietary enhanced EGA adapters described with the term "EEGA".
EGA produces a display of sixteen simultaneous colors from a palette of sixty-four, at a resolution of up to 640×350 pixels. The EGA card includes a 16 KB ROM to extend the system BIOS for additional graphics functions, and includes a custom CRT controller (CRTC) that has limited backward compatibility with the Motorola MC6845 chip used to generate video timing signals in earlier IBM PC graphics controllers.[6] The EGA CRTC can support all of the modes of the IBM MDA and CGA adapters, partially through specific mode options intended for this purpose, but even in its maximum-compatibility mode configuration it is not register-compatible with an MC6845, so programs that directly program the 6845 to set up video modes will fail on an EGA. When an MDA or CGA mode is set up on the EGA by calling the BIOS, then the raster timing, video memory layout, data format, and some other low-level hardware details such as cursor control are identical to those aspects of the operation of an MDA or CGA, providing a high degree of direct software and hardware (e.g. CRT monitor) compatibility.
In the 640×350 high resolution mode, each of the sixteen colors can be selected from a palette comprising all possible combinations of two bits per pixel each for red, green and blue, allowing four levels of intensity for each primary color and sixty-four possible colors overall. EGA also includes full sixteen-color versions of the CGA 640×200 and 320×200 graphics modes. Depending on the monitor, only the sixteen CGA/RGBI colors are available in these modes; see color palette below.[citation needed] EGA four-bit (sixteen colors) graphic modes are also notable for a sophisticated use of bit planes and mask registers[7] together with CPU bitwise operations,[8] which constitutes an early graphics accelerator inherited by VGA and numerous compatible hardware design models.
EGA is dual-sync; it scans at 21.8 kHz when 350-line modes are used and 15.7 kHz when 200-line modes are used. The original CGA modes are also present, though EGA is not 100% hardware compatible with CGA, as was mentioned. EGA can drive an MDA monitor by a special setting of switches on the board (or by direct hardware programming—the switches only affect the operation of the BIOS); only 640×350 high-resolution monochrome graphics and the standard MDA text mode are available in this mode. In summary, the EGA supports all BIOS-standard video modes of all previous IBM PC video adapters except the enhanced CGA of the IBM PCjr. The standard MDA and CGA modes are supported 100% at the BIOS level, with additional support in some details at the hardware register level. The three enhanced graphics modes of the PCjr—160x200 16-color, 320x200 16-color, and 640x200 4-color—are not supported by the EGA, and IBM lists their BIOS video mode numbers (08, 09, and 0A hexadecimal) as reserved. However, the EGA can generate displays equivalent to these modes using different modes (with different video memory formats, requiring different programming). The EGA 320x200 16-color mode is not the same as nor compatible with the PCjr mode of the same format: the PCjr mode uses 4-bit pixels that are packed 2 pixels to a byte (one in the low nibble, and one in the high nibble) in a 32 KB video buffer that is split into 4 banks of interleaved lines (similar to the two interleaved banks in CGA graphics modes), whereas the EGA mode uses the linear bit-plane format that is native to the EGA.
EGA cards use the PC ISA bus and were available starting in both eight- and sixteen-bit versions. The original IBM EGA card had 64 KB of onboard RAM and required a daughter-board to add an additional 64 KB (cards with 64 KB are limited to four colors when 640×350 mode is used). All third-party cards came with 128 KB already installed and some even 256 KB, allowing multiple graphics pages, multiple text-mode character sets, and large scrolling displays. A few third-party EGA clones (notably the ATI Technologies and Paradise boards) feature a range of extended graphics modes (e.g., 640×400, 640×480 and 720×540), as well as automatic monitor type detection, and sometimes also a special 400-line interlace mode for use on CGA monitors.
Output capabilitiesEdit
EGA supports:
- 640×350 w/16 colors (from a 6 bit palette of 64 colors), pixel aspect ratio of 1:1.37.
- 640×350 w/2 colors, pixel aspect ratio of 1:1.37.
- 640×200 w/16 colors, pixel aspect ratio of 1:2.4.
- 320×200 w/16 colors, pixel aspect ratio of 1:1.2.
Text modes:
- 40×25 with 8×8 pixel font (effective resolution of 320×200)
- 80×25 with 8×8 pixel font (effective resolution of 640×200)
- 80×25 with 8×14 pixel font (effective resolution of 640×350)
- 80×43 with 8×8 pixel font (effective resolution of 640×344)
Extended graphics modes of third party boards:
- 640×400
- 640×480
- 720×540
Color paletteEdit
The EGA palette allows all 16 CGA colors to be used simultaneously, and it allows substitution of each of these colors with any one from a total of 64 colors (two bits each for red, green and blue). This also allows the CGA's alternate brown color to be used without any additional display hardware. The later VGA standard built on this by allowing each of the 64 colors to be further customized.
However, standard EGA monitors do not support use of the extended color palette in 200-line modes. The monitor cannot distinguish between being connected to a CGA card or being connected to an EGA card in a 200-line mode. Compared to CGA, EGA redefines some pins of the connector to carry the extended color information. If the monitor were connected to a CGA card, these pins would not carry valid color information, and the screen might be garbled if the monitor were to interpret them as such. For this reason, standard EGA monitors will use the CGA pin assignment in 200-line modes so the monitor can also be used with a CGA card. Some EGA monitors are switchable, meaning they can be set up to use the full palette even in 200-line modes, often through a mechanical switch. Only a few commercial games were released with support for the extended color palette in 320×200 or 640×200 (including the DOS version of Super Off Road).
When selecting a color from the EGA palette, two bits are used for the red, green and blue channels. This allows each channel a value of 0, 1, 2 or 3. To select the color magenta, the red and blue values would be medium intensity (2, or 10 in binary) and the green value would be off (0). When calculating the intended value in the 64-color EGA palette, the binary number of the intended entry is of the form "rgbRGB" where a lowercase letter is the least significant bit of the channel intensity and an uppercase letter is the most significant bit. For magenta, the most significant bit in the red and blue values is a 1, so the uppercase R and B placeholders would become 1. All other digits are zeros, giving the binary number 000101 for the color magenta. This is 5 in decimal, so setting a palette entry to 5 would result in it being set to magenta. All the color values for the default colors are listed in the table on the right.
|White / light gray
|Dark gray / bright black
|Bright Blue
|Bright green
|Bright cyan
|Bright red
|Bright magenta
|Bright yellow
|Bright white
The EGA uses a female nine-pin D-subminiature (DE-9) connector which looks identical to the CGA connector. The hardware signal interface, including the pin configuration, is largely compatible with CGA. The differences are in the re-purposing of three pins for the EGA's secondary RGB signals: the CGA "Intensity" pin (pin six) has been changed to "Secondary Green (Intensity)"; the second ground of CGA (pin two) has been changed to "Secondary Red (Intensity)", and pin seven (Reserved on the CGA) is now used for "Secondary Blue (Intensity)". If the EGA is operated in modes having the same scan rates as CGA, a connected CGA monitor should operate correctly, though if the monitor connects pin two to ground, the shorting of the EGA's secondary red output to ground could conceivably damage the EGA adapter. Similarly, if the CGA monitor is wired with pin two as its sole ground (which is poor design), it will not work with the EGA, though it will work with a CGA. Finally, because of the use of the CGA's intensity pin as secondary green, on a CGA monitor connected to an EGA, all CGA colors will display correctly, but all other EGA colors will incorrectly display as the standard CGA color which has the same values for the g, R, G, and B bits (ignoring the r and b bits.) Conversely, an EGA monitor should work with a CGA adapter, but the secondary red signal will be grounded (always zero) and the secondary blue will be floating (unconnected), causing all high-intensity CGA colors except brown to display incorrectly, and all colors to potentially have a variable blue tint due to the indeterminate state of the unconnected secondary blue.
Almost all EGA cards have DIP switches on the back of the card to select the monitor type. If CGA is selected, the card will operate in 200-line mode and use 8x8 characters in text mode. 350-line modes cannot be accessed, nor any of the extended color palette. If EGA is selected, the card will operate in 350-line mode and use 8×14 text. When 200-line modes are set, it will sync down to 15 kHz. If MDA is selected, the card also uses 350 lines and 8×14 text, but the only graphics mode that can be accessed is 640×350×2.
The IBM 5154 EGA monitor has a special IBM 5153 CGA compatibility mode when operating with CGA sync signals, and it will automatically change to the CGA pinout to avoid all of the mentioned problems when operating in this mode.[9]
Memory mappingEdit
EGA graphics modes are planar, as opposed to the interlaced CGA and Hercules modes. The video memory is divided into four pages (except 640×350×2, which has two pages), one for each component of the RGBI color space. Each bit represents one pixel. If a bit in the red page is enabled, but none of the equivalent bits in the other pages are, a red pixel will appear in that location on-screen. If all the other bits for that particular pixel were also enabled, it would become white, and so forth. The planes are 8 KB in size (200-line modes and 640×350 with two colors and 32 KB video RAM), 16 KB (640×350 with 64 KB video RAM), or 32 KB (640×350 with 128 KB video RAM) and reside at segment A000 in the CPU's address space. They are bank-switched and only one plane can be read on the CPU bus at once, although the programmer may set the control registers on the EGA card to select which planes are written to. Thus, it is possible to write to all of them at once even though just one plane can be read from at any given moment. However, there is an exception: in read mode 1, all four planes are read and compared with programmed "Color Compare" data, and a byte indicating the result of comparing all four planes is what is read on the I/O bus.
For color text and CGA graphics modes, the video memory is mapped to 16 KB of memory addresses beginning at address B8000h. In monochrome (MDA-compatible) text mode, video memory occupies 16 KB beginning at B0000h. These address mappings are for backwards compatibility. For modes new to the EGA, the video memory begins at address A0000h and occupies 64 KB. The card can also be set to map 128 KB at that base address, but no standard BIOS video modes use that option. The different base addresses for color vs. monochrome modes makes it possible for an EGA to be operated simultaneously with a monochrome graphics card in the same computer, or for an EGA in MDA text mode to operated simultaneously with a CGA in the same computer.
Female DE-9 connector, on EGA (computer).
Pin numbers (looking at socket): top row is pins 1–5, bottom row is pins 6 to 9, both numbered from right to left in this illustration.
|Secondary Red (Intensity)
|Primary Red
|Primary Green
|Primary Blue
|Secondary Green (Intensity)
|Secondary Blue (Intensity)
|Horizontal Sync
|Vertical Sync
|Digital, TTL
|Resolution H × V
|640×350, other modes available
|15.7 or 21.8 kHz
|60 Hz
|6-bit (64)
An inexpensive PC clone with EGA has better graphics than contemporary rivals Commodore 64 or Apple II, which before 1987 were more popular for games.[10] However, it was very simple graphics compared to Amiga computer OCS which can have up to 4096 colors in HAM mode, although Amiga games generally used only 32 colors during gameplay. Commercial software began supporting EGA by 1986 and Sierra's King's Quest III was one of the earliest PC games to use it. Most software made up to 1991 can run in EGA, although the vast majority of commercial games used 320×200 with 16 colors for reasons of compatibility with CGA and Tandy and to support users who did not own a proper EGA monitor. The 350-line modes were mostly used by freeware/shareware games and application software, although SimCity is a notable example of a commercial game that runs in 640×350×16 mode.
See alsoEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to EGA.
- JEGA (Japanese Enhanced Graphics Adapter for AX computers)
- Video card
- Graphics display resolution
- Graphics processing unit
- List of display interfaces
- List of monochrome and RGB palettes – 6-bit RGB section
- List of 16-bit computer color palettes – EGA section
- Professional Graphics Controller
- VGA compatible text mode – EGA's own modes are just a subset, and all features are nearly the same
- List of defunct graphics chips and card companies
- ^ IBM Announcement Letter Number 184-114 dated September 10, 1984, http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/897/ENUS184-114/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
- ^ High-Resolution Standard Is Latest Step in DOS Graphics Evolution, InfoWorld, June 26, 1989, p. 48
- ^ News Briefs, Big Blue Turns Colors, InfoWorld, Oct. 8, 1984
- ^ Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Tenth Edition, Que,1998, 0-7897-1636-4, page 515
- ^ Hardware, Genoa Systems Ready to Ship $449 Half-Size Graphics Card, InfoWorld, February 23, 1987
- ^ Hart, Glenn A. (December 25, 1984). "IBM Sets a New Standard". PC Magazine. Ziff-Davis Publishing. 3 (25): 173.
- ^ Complete Instructions to BLOAD and BSAVE EGA and VGA Screens, Microsoft
- ^ Abrash, Michael (2001). "Chapter 43: Bit-plane animation". Graphics Programming Black Book. Coriolis Group Books. pp. 1342. ISBN 1-57610-174-6. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ IBM Options and Adapters, Volume 1, "Enhanced Color Display", page 4: "When operating in Mode 1, the display maps the 4 input bits into 16 of the possible 64 colors as shown in the following chart." August 2nd, 1984.
- ^ Proctor, Bob (March 1988). "Titans of the Computer Gaming World / SSI". Computer Gaming World. p. 36. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- Mueller, Scott (1992). Upgrading and Repairing PCs (second ed.). Que Books. ISBN 0-88022-856-3.


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The flu is hitting the US and Southwest Florida HARD
Doctors and pharmacies are tackling the surge in influenza cases in southwest florida head on, recommending you stay prepared.
Sam Patel of Carrell Pharmacy says "There are a lot of prescriptions for kids and adults for tamiflu and it's generic."
Performing simple tasks like frequent handwashing and getting your flu shot may save you in the long run, especially for groups most at risk.
Doctors say older people, pregnant women and children are the most vulnerable.
"If we're treating you within the first 24-48 hours, you are going to get better quicker and more effectively, that's when the antiviral Tamiflu does its best job." siad Dr. Cynthia Lukasiewicz of Fort Myers.
MORE: Lee Health increases visitation restrictions for children amid flu spike
Ensuring a good night's rest and upping your vitamin C intake will also help you stay in good health.
But if you have loved ones who are sick around you, staying away from them is your best option.
Experts say if you are suffering from Influenza Type A, you could spread your illness to your pet.
So again, it's important to wash your hands and keep your home clean and sanitized.
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Here's a Fun Way to Boost Your Short-Term Memory
Are you realizing that you're short term memory isn't what it used to be? Do you forget where you left your keys? Walk into a room and not remember why (I do this ALL the time)?
This begins to happen to us as early as our 40s but don't worry, it's normal. But there is a simple solution that can help improve your memory. What you may ask? Laughter.
You know the old saying "Laughter is the best medicine" well now it's good for your memory too. The reason? Stress. When stressed the brain's hippocampus function (where short term memory is pulled together) is suppressed. When you laugh you're less stressed which in turn leads to better learning and better short term memory.
Just 20 minutes may help to improve your ability to remember what you've recently read or heard, researchers found at Loma Linda University in California. None of the tested participants had any cognitive impairment, were all the same age and half of them had diabetes, which contributes to short term memory loss.
Here's one of my favorite clips from I Love Lucy, Vitameatavegamin.
Before and after watching funny movies or video clips and a control group that sat in silence, they all took 3 different tests. First, they were asked to repeat as many words as they could remember from a list of 15 that were read to them, a test of learning. They did this 5 times each. Then they were read another list and asked to remember the words from the first list, a test of recall.
Lastly, a test of visual recognition, where they received 50 words on a paper and asked to circle the words they remembered from the first list. They also tested their saliva 5 times during the tests for a stress hormone called cortisol.
The results were that laughter worked. The test subjects that watched the funny videos had a significant decrease in their cortisol levels and ALL the groups did better on the tests, even sitting quietly without any stress helped.
|Healthy Adults
|Silent, Control Group
|Learning Test
|Recall Test
|Visual Recognition
This is great news and an easy way to boost your short-term memory. So go out laugh with friends, get a funny movie or watch one on your computer. What is your favorite funny movie or video clip? Tell us below in the comment box.
One more old favorite, especially starting at 17:45 of the clip. Enjoy and stay Stress free!
Source: Grinder Singh Bains, MD, PhD, assistant professor and primary research coordinator, Loma Linda University School of Allied Health Professions, Loma Linda, California. His study was published in Alternative Therapies.


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Release Date: 2010 |
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offhttp://www.myspace.com/loscampesinos - new album is streaming
probably the most enjoyable review i've written since i can remember, also probably riddled with typos so i appreciate anyone pointing them out. album is excellent.
Titan review. Pos.
I love your writing, Adam.
Digging: Jesse Somfay - A Catch in the Voice
worst band ever. good review!
No hyphens for "heaven-knows-what", I believe.
First lyric you quoted didn't have quotation marks.
No hyphen for "title-track"
No hyphens for "head-and-shoulders"
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offthis the best, worst, review you've written. I love it.
and the album is fantastic.
Album Rating: 3.5^^ WTF. Solid review. I Just Sighed has such an infectious chorus. Ridonkulous.
Digging: Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffHey Sobhi -- shut up ;)
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffHaha sobhi, thanks man. Just rasputin to go now, for the time being.
&& thanks Yeti, Jared, Balls. Glad to see it worked out. Rating, Yeti, at all?
Cheers btw Jared, will fix.
Album Rating: 3.5don't really like this band, but i like adam, teehee
Will check this out sometime in the next couple of days. I need some indie, and this seems like a good mix of genres.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offprepare to be mindfucked jusaying
when the lyric in the last paragraph played for the first time i honestly nearly cried
teehee, rudy. heartzzz.
Album Rating: 3.5See now this is why we made you a contributor.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI've only given it 2 spins so far, so I'm still on the fence, at least a 3.5 without question. I'm predisposed to liking this really, though I do think a lesser band would've crumbled with the loss of a member like Aleks. So, nice on them, and the lush direction they took with the sound (more, fuller, horns -- more pop, less punk) is very intriguing.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffThanks a lot Alex. 2010 already has me feeling good about writing.
You think this is more pop, Yeti? I guess we wholly disagree. I mean, obviously some of the things I alluded to way up there^ have nothing to do with punk in a sonic sense, and the fuller sound is debatably 'more pop', I would say their more raucous aesthetic is 'punkier' than they ever were before, especially on Beautiful/Doomed. Aleks is still here, though.
Album Rating: 3.5For a second there, I thought you'd lost the plot Adam. I had no idea where you were heading in that intro paragraph... But it all fitted together nicely. Great stuff. I'll eventually get around to this... & JoFo.
Ooh, they're Welsh... Any "woh woh wohs"? LOL.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffAleks is there partially, mostly in backing vocals, and I know she had nearly nothing to do with this album's writing. She's no longer a member of the band and hasn't been for a while now and it makes me sad.
I mean pop in the sense of their songs are more structured towards their melodies/choruses, and the album as a whole, as opposed to in separate sections. Like, as in, all the tracks on 'Romance Is Boring' sound part of a singular unit, structured for this album alone, whereas their last 2 always felt like a (f'in awesome) collection of songs. So yes, I do think that this album is more pop inclined than punk, more Beatles than Clash if you will. Not to say they don't rock out, I mean, this album is pretty friggin loud, but the maelstroms of sound here are kinda more tame than their first 2 LPs & EP.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offi have, this album makes me lose the plot :D in a good way, i think, probably not! thanks man.
errr, a few gang vocals here and there, but gareth prefers lyrics that pretend to mean something
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offfair enough, i can see where you're coming from. and yeah, i know all about the aleks debacle, read somewhere that her lack of input in songwriting was what caused her to go, but don't know how much truth there is in that... gareth's life seems to be messed up enough to keep the material coming though haha
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offalso I want to reiterate the fact that this album is really, really good.
i haven't listened to this much, but i really like their other albums.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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The protagonist is called Erica. Erica is twenty years old and, at ten, became a participant in the first wave of collaborators. Erica's body was not selected for use in her body share and so her mind was downloaded and her body discontinued. I like this word. For ten years she has been living in the body of a girl much fitter and more attractive than she ever might have grown to be. If all the children in your age group had been physically tested at ten and only the top third got to keep their bodies, would yours have been selected? I wouldn't have much hope for my brother and me.
Emily x
Sometimes when Erica was asleep, she dreamed of her old body again.
In the dreams she was always running. Not from an enemy or some unknowable malevolent force as in a recurring nightmare, but running for the pure, life blooded pleasure of it. She remembered a Sports Day race she'd won: the 100m sprint on some distant summer Wednesday when she was nine. She remembered the pure unrivaled pleasure of leaping through the air; of tearing forwards towards the finish line. She remembered the salt of her sweat matting her hair and the congratulatory hugs of her gangly and overexcited friends. She remembered the innocence of being young and of someone else doing all your worrying for her; the promise of a summer and a life that stretched before her, unwritten and belonging to her. She remembered.
It had been a long time since anything had felt as though it belonged entirely to Erica.
Her new legs were better. They were stronger, leaner, more inclined to tan. Her whole body in fact, was more athletic than she had been at nine. Before the change, she'd been lanky, awkward and pale: the kind of freckled, 'strawberry blonde' child whose mother badgers her to stay in the shade and plaster on Factor 50, and whose lurching height prepares her for track and field sports, not man-eating. She'd never had the chance to see how her own body might have developed but she felt sure that, had the law not been passed when she was ten, she would never have become what she was now. She had moved through puberty never developing more than a handful of spots and with the kind of easy, cheerleader looks that would have been more at home in an Abercrombie and Fitch advert than a North London comprehensive. It had made things easier, she was sure. But it had never fully felt like home.
Erica remembered meeting the little girl that had beaten her in the physical trials; the little girl that she'd become. Her name was Jenny, and the round, sweetness of the name had matched the face: the cheerful layered hair and apple cheeks of the girl that she was to become.
"My mum told me that you did really well on the physical fitness tests. They just couldn't pick you because of the eczema." Jenny had been precociously reassuring and Erica had struggled to meet her eye, her gaze dropping ashamedly to her chapped hands lying limply at her sides. She could feel the hate all the way down to her fingertips. "My mum said we were both in the top 5 percentile for fitness in the country, but that your eczema meant that your body was… less ideal than mine." There was no question but the girl was smiling expectantly, waiting for an answer. After an awkward beat, pretty Jenny poured more words into the silence. "That's great about the fitness, you did really well!" "Fuck you." Erica seethed silently; it was a phrase she had learned that week and was seething at her enemies semi-regularly. She really meant it in the case of pretty Jenny though. "Fuck you and your stupid layers hair." Erica had asked for a layered haircut only two months earlier and had been denied, on the grounds of layers being impractical for tying up in sports events. It would not be for another four years that Erica's vocabulary would extend enough to allow her to describe this series of events as "Fucking ironic".
After years of political discussion and months of campaigning it had all happened, as big things often do, unexpectedly quickly. Her mother had received a letter on the Monday and the tests had been that Sunday. Her mother had driven her there in the people carrier, uncomfortably breezy and giggly as they strode across the car park and into the clinic. She had been asked to run back and forth across a room in time with a series of bleeps. She had been told to skip for a minute. They had taken blood samples and urine samples and pressed a lollipop stick against her tongue. She had said 'ahh', recited the alphabet forwards and backwards and sung up and down two scales of notes. Mortifyingly, she had had to strip down to her underwear and have photos taken from fourteen different angles. Then she had gone home and had her tea and gone to sleep and the next day her mum had received a phone call; she had been placed in the forty-eighth percentile and a match in her neighborhood had already been found. An appointment had been made. Her body was to be discontinued that Saturday.
Erica had not cried, though her mum did. She had contemplated comforting her mother – it was probably the mature thing to do. Instead she had found herself walking upstairs, closing her bedroom door, sitting in front of her wardrobe mirror and trying to count the freckles on her face.


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Access by car
The Sundgau area is bordered by several French and German motorways, the closest of which is the A36 (Bourgogne-Mulhouse). To reach the Sundgau from Lyon and Paris, take exit 14 (Bessoncourt) and follow the Basel (D419) direction. Exit 15 (Burnhaupt) is ideal for motorists coming from Germany or the rest of Alsace. It is situated in the north of Sundgau and enables you to go directly to Altkirch (D466) or Dannemarie (D103).
Motorists from Switzerland and Austria should take the Saint-Louis/Huningue exit on the A35 after Basel. Just follow the Altkirch direction via the D419 road or Ferrette, depending on the destination.
The car is the most convenient means to discover our region. Many car rental companies offer their services throughout the Sundgau area or directly at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport.
Access by train
The nearest mainline train stations are at Belfort and Mulhouse. Today, the Paris-Mulhouse TGV EST is the the fastest (at 3 hours) and most regular form of rail transport. Timetables.
To get to the Sundgau area by train, take the high-speed TER link (Mulhouse-Belfort line). This line serves the stations of Illfurth, Walheim, Altkirch, Dannemarie and Montreux-Vieux.
Since 2012, the new Rhine-Rhone TGV has brought us closer to the capital and enabled significant time saving. The Sundgau area will be accessible from the stations of Mulhouse and Belfort-Montbéliard. Download the timetables.
Mulhouse-Paris 2:30 as opposed to 3:10 today with the TGV Est
Mulhouse-Lyon 2:25 as opposed to 3:50 today
Mulhouse-Dijon 1:10 as opposed to 2:30 today
Belfort-Paris 2:20 + as opposed to 3:50 today
Belfort-Dijon 0:50 + as opposed to 2:00 today
Paris-Basel 2:50 as opposed to 3:20 today
Access by air
Euroairport, the international airport better known as Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport is served by many flights from most European cities. The airport site is in Blotzheim near St. Louis and is only about 30 kilometres from the capital of the Sundgau area and 25 minutes from the town of Ferrette. Almost all Air France flights from French cities serve Paris. Many flights are provided by low-cost airlines such as EasyJet.
A shuttle service runs between the airport and the station of St Louis Huningue.
Take advantage of the many car rental agencies located directly at the airport in order to discover our region situated at the junction of three countries and rich in things to enjoy.
Access by bus
Several bus lines serve the small villages of the Sundgau area and link the town of Ferrette in the far south with Mulhouse via Altkirch, the capital of the Sundgau area.
For timetables and price information consult:


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The Voice Project: Rescuing Child Soldiers
Music has been a central element in The Voice Project's ongoing program to rescue child soldiers from forced conscription in the Lord's Revolutionary Army in Uganda. Combatants are welcomed home with messages in music by women of northern Uganda who have experienced the upheavals of war. The Voice Project is currently building an FM radio network to continue spreading the word.
Amplify Peace – The Voice Project
I originally encountered The Voice Project's work via Bouncing Cats, a documentary about Breakdance Project Uganda. It's part of The Voice Project's larger mission of letting child soldiers conscripted into war by the Lord's Revolutionary Army know they are forgiven and can return home.
That message has been shared in songs by women of northern Uganda which are now being spread by FM radio:
"Recent UN debriefings from the increasing number of ex-combatants who are defecting and surrendering show that for well over 50% the main factor in deciding to escape and surrender has been the recent FM radio broadcast programs encouraging them to come home."
"Right now there is a rare opportunity for increased FM radio coverage, messaging and music to help bring home many more soldiers who have been abducted and forced to fight, and to try and help to end Africa's longest running and most brutal war."
The stations being built are designed to reach combat zones. Successful recovery of child soldiers has also occurred via mobile stations. The Voice Project is a truly powerful use of music to help bring peace to a longstanding battle and you can support their work.
Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith maintains his freelance writing hub at Flux Research and blogs at All World Dance and This Business of Blogging. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.


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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Things That Beat Me Up
Yes? Wise.
But do you ever think, "Gosh, I should check to make sure that FLOWER OVER THERE isn't getting ready to whack me in the face with its entire body?"
No? Never happened to you? Happened to me! A flower repeatedly smacked me in the face. For serious.
Also: Ever been beaten up by a kitten? True story:
I have also, on many occasions, found myself on the losing side of a battle with a wall. On the whole, it's usually not the WALL that has it out for me -- it's generally things like "corners" or "doorways" but I've absolutely run face first into the wall proper. It's not pretty.
And then we have my old foe The Chair. The Chair and I have a long history of disdain. I kind of suspect chairs think they're better than we are and are all bent out of shape because we sit on them and they can't do a damn thing about it. So while I sit, The Chair takes it upon himself to deliver bruises all over my legs. I don't always know how the marks appear either; I sit down, things get ugly, bruises form the next day.
Of course, then The Table decides it wants in on this violent action too and before I know it, I'm whacking my knees and arms on both of them!
Doors are tricky.
At first they're sort of like a wall: mostly harmless, generally not a big deal, I can maybe manage to avoid smacking into it.
Also perilous? Wind.
I was recently out one night and after trekking up to the top of a pile of dusty dirt, I was pretty proud of myself. Little did I know that the wind had received the "beat Kate up" memo that evening.
Another tricksy item is sunscreen. At first, it's nothing -- it's even nicer than the door or the walls or the wind. It's here to SERVE ME. TO HONOR AND PROTECT ME. We should get along great!!
We're not going to get along at all.
Finally, I am shamed -- deeply, earnestly shamed -- to admit that the single biggest thing that beats me up?
I don't know what my limbs are doing at any given second. Is that elbow supposed to be inside my nose? It's just too hard to control my own movements -- I've whacked myself upside the head, in the chin, in the stomach, on my thigh... anywhere... more times than I can count.
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I got beat up by a glass door at an HMV once. I had just bought a cd I was wanting for years (Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks) and was reading the back and completely oblivious. I thought I was walking through an OPEN first set of doors but nope - it was just glass and I was looking.ReplyDelete
CRASH! went my face. I stood back and saw an oil smear in the shape of my face. In horror, I turned around to a store full of people who all stopped what they were doing and were just staring at me. All I could think to say was "Wow, that's a CLEAN door" before I ran away, mortified.
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In those instances, may I suggest adopting a "scared bunny rabbit" face? People are compelled to hug scared bunnies.
I just about died laughing at that last part. Basically explains my life xDReplyDelete
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This is actually a commentary on managers and customers who have watched a lot of TV and therefore think anything should be possible in 15 minutes; because the A Team, McGyver, and Abbie Scuto can put anything together in 15 minutes. In the real world, things created by people take real time.You Say You Want a Miracle?
This is particularly true of software: Everyone's seen how Abbie and Tim McGee can put together any needed software in seconds. Real software requires levels of effort on the order of that required to assemble buildings. A large-scale software project can require an outlay of effort similar to that of building a skyscraper. (You want it when?)
But some people are not bothered by reality.
If you want a miracle but you are asking for it from any human agency then you have approached the wrong organization, because miracles just happen. They appear, fully formed, without any detectable causes.
Human agencies can only produce results; occasionally poor, frequently excellent, sometimes even superb. But results are made to happen by detectable causes, such as expenditure of human effort and resources (whether monetary or natural).
If what you want is a miracle, go home tonight and kneel before the supreme being, praying that the building you want built, the report you want written or the job you want done will miraculously appear fully formed with no detectable origin when you walk into your office tomorrow morning.
But, if you have to depend on the humble agencies of humanity, expect the job to take time, money and human effort rather than appearing fully formed at the instant of your conception with no delay, no expense and no personnel required.
There is no free lunch when human beings must make things happen.
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I am having issues with scheduling Crystal Reports to go into specified folders so I am taking a different route and using emails & attachments.
As the title suggests, I'd like to automate where these attachments go within a Document Library based on the subject (or file name). I know you can specify either the document Library root or the folder pertaining to the Email Subject, but I was wondering if you can extend beyond this, such as:
Email Subject: 'Animals - Felines - Cats'
Location placed: 'Document Library root/Animals/Felines/Cats'
Edit: Assuming there is no solution for this?


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Aquatech was founded in 1966 and is still going strong at almost 50 years old!
Contact your local sales and service facility!
Yes, we offer training free of charge to the original user for the duration of ownership. Contact your local dealer for more details!
Your best bet is to contact your local dealer
Yes! We have hundreds of feet of parts inventoried at our Reno Business Park facility!
With proper maintenance and care, an Aquatech can last for 20 years or more!
Water tank capacities range from 5-2500 gallons. Debris tank capacity ranges from 5-15 cubic yards.
800 linear feet of 1" sewer hose.
Yes. Contact your local dealer for more information.
Simplicity of design is a major benefit Aquatech offers. Our ergonomic design is another major differentiating feature. Aquatech incorporates Ergonomic Productive Position (EPP) and Ergonomic Productive Systems (EPS) into every design, ensuring OSHA compliance and operator safety.
No, Aquatech trucks only use a single engine system. This reduces maintenance and operating costs and offers full control of the water pump and vacuum system, independently of each other.
Our most common chassis options are Peterbilt, Freightliner, and Western Star, but we offer all major brands.
Aquatech offers a winterization package that enables the truck to function in -40ºC/F temperatures. Aquatechs can also withstand temperatures as high as 120º F.


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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce the exhibition Weegee: Distortions in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. This is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to Weegee's "distortion" photographs.
Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), known as Weegee, began work as a freelance photojournalist for New York tabloids in 1935. A decade later, he became famous after the publication of his first book, Naked City. His images of car crashes, murder scenes, and life in the streets of the city are widely known and enormously influential. Less well known, however, is the work to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life, what he called "his 'distortions', 'creative photography', or most often his 'art'."
In 1945, Weegee ceased work as a photojournalist. He moved to Hollywood in 1947 where he stayed for five years. It was here that he made his first distortions. He experimented with "placing a textured or curved glass or other translucent material between the enlarger lens and the photographic paper. This effect would alter the image of the negative to varying degrees depending on the density, pattern, or texture of the material used. He also tried manipulating or mutilating copy negatives by placing them in boiling water, or melting them with an open flame." He made "multiple exposures from the same or various negatives, moving the same piece of photographic paper after each exposure." He invented "a system by which he would affix a kaleidoscope to the end of the camera lens, or use it to replace the camera lens, letting the refractive designs multiply what the camera would have ordinarily recorded as a single image." Weegee had an extraordinary command of darkroom printing and would often combine one or more of these techniques to create his distortions. (Quotes from Weegee's World by Miles Barth).
The wide-ranging subjects of Weegee's distortions reflect both his sense of humanity and his great wit. They include Nixon, Mao, Castro, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, the Mona Lisa, Times Square, the Empire State Building, Coney Island, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the circus, the streets of New York and numerous self-portraits.
Although he spent two-thirds of his working life making distortions and published two books of them (Weegee's Creative Camera in 1959 and Weegee's Creative Photography in 1964), Weegee received virtually no encouragement for this work from the "serious" photography or art world which, to this day, has continued to embrace only his earlier "straight" photography. Despite this lack of support, Weegee produced a complex and compelling body of work in the last twenty years of his life. The photographs in this exhibition, assembled over many years, cement Weegee's position as one of the unique figures in 20th century art.
Weegee: Distortions will be on view at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) through July 28, 2000. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 to 6:00pm, though June 30, and Monday through Friday from July 5 to July 28.
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The man is a bald-headed, white male, approximately 5'4" in stature and heavy-set. He was last seen wearing a royal blue polo shirt and khaki pants. He has been captured on surveillance camera soliciting patrons at local restaurants and other establishments. The man states that he is selling the raffle tickets on behalf of S.A.Y. soccer leagues or for the Mid-Ohio Select Soccer Leagues in the area. Troy Police Department have contacted the local soccer organizations and they confirmed they are not doing a raffle ticket fundraiser and have no affiliation with this individual.
The man has been spotted selling fake raffle tickets at The Vault Tavern on County Road 25-A, Buffalo Wild Wings in Troy and possibly sold raffle tickets at Troy Bowl bowling alley earlier this year.
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Dear my ex-husband's wife,
First off, I apologized for the hate messages I sent to you on Facebook nearly 6 years ago when I first found out about you.
Truth is, I couldn't handle the truth of the matters and I needed someone to blame at the time. By hating you I failed to look deep inside me…I couldn't do that until around 2 years later.
Dear my ex-husband's wife,
Throughout these years after my share of the ongoing deep soul-searching journey and growing. Facing my own demons. I found my peace and even found love again. This time, with a man who genuinely loves me for the woman I was, the woman I am and the woman I will become.
My hatred for you has faded along with the much-needed growing up I did. Along with acceptance that what he and I had was over and done. The only ties he and I have now is because we have a son together.
The relationship I have with the father of my son has also improved tremendously over these years. We are on friendly terms nowadays. We even discussed my relationship. It doesn't get any friendlier than that, don't you think? I am not a threat to your marriage.
Please try to understand that you and I are connected. We are in this together as long as you are still married to the father of my son. You are his stepmom. We don't need to be besties but maybe civil and who knows where that will lead us once we get to know each other more. You are a part of my son's life too. You will be there when my son is staying with you over the weekend, over the holidays. My son will be under your supervision.
Maybe it is time to stop avoiding me at all cost. Although I still haven't met you in person after all these years I have come to terms, that you are part of my ex's new life now. Just the way my fiancé will be a stepfather to my son. Actually, I have written this to thank you.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you for loving the father of my son the way that I couldn't do. I wanted him to be happy and with you, he seems happy. You were there for him when I wasn't. You are what he needs. I wasn't the kind of partner he needed, I had to be who I was and it wasn't in alignment with his needs. Just as I am thankful that he let me go. I had grown up in my spirit, in my soul to find the true love that I was meant to be with. So, thank you…from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.
I am not talking about all of us holding hands and singing Kumbaya but at least, can we move past the old baggage?
I have forgiven you and I am reaching to you from one mother to another to allow us to open a new page this year where we can put the needs of our children first. I am grateful for everything that has happened in my life.
Dear my ex-husband's wife, I truly sincerely wish we can get along.
I wish you well.
Your husband's ex-wife, the mother of your stepson.


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The organizer of European Summer/Spring Institute, Center for Public Policy, has teamed up with professors from the University of Aberdeen and Warwick University to launch a summer course for international students interested in application of psychological approaches and research methods to criminal justice system. The program aims to invite students of different backgrounds (psychology, legal studies, and criminology), who are interested in interrelatedness of crime, law and psychology and are willing to combine the challenging academic environment with the holiday fun.
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The Perfect Boyfriend
Boyfriend jeans. Another thing that you can add to that list of things (like skinny jeans and block heels - also pictured here) that I thought I would never, ever wear. I held off for a while when boyfriend jeans first became popular, but when they appeared to be going nowhere any time soon, I caved-in and gave them a try. Okay, I get it now. They're pretty gosh-darn comfortable, and look cute rolled-up to showcase whatever shoe you're wearing; a look that has sort of come to define the second decade of the 2000s. However, I think it's madness that anyone would spend more than the $5 it cost me to grab this pair of "boyfriends" off the rack in the local thrift store (during my last trip to the USA). The boyfriend jean is essentially a sized-up version of the "mom" jean, and we all know how rife with such things thrift shops can be.
I wanted a pair in white because I wanted a second white pair of white jeans (my other ones are skinny), but find that white can really look quite "dressed" if the denim isn't distressed in some way. I figured the boyfriend style would be a good alternative to a distressed jean. I'm not opposed to distressed white jeans, but they aren't as wearable, and doubly-so in Scotland, where summer is more of a theoretical construct than an actual season.
This preference for a more casual white pant most likely stems from my many years working for a cruise line and having to wear crisp, perfectly turned-out white skirts. Those days are long gone; the uniforms of most cruise lines have gone the unfortunate way of the corporate polo shirt and a pair of Bermuda shorts. Eew.
But I digress. Still resisting the boyfriend jean but secretly want to give it a go? Don't spend a lot of money! Here are a few things to look for in your local thrift shop the next time you're out that way.
How To Not Spend A Lot Of Money On Your Boyfriends.
Insert your own joke here.
- Look for that 80's cut; larger in the hips and thighs, tapered at the ankles.
- Size up; one or two sizes from what you usually wear should do the trick. Remember that clothing from several years ago fits a lot smaller than same-sized clothing nowadays, so make sure to try everything on.
- Choose a pair that has a flat front - no 80's front-pleats - bleah!
- Look for a waistband that is medium-high, but be careful; super-high waists can look strange once you size up…the crotch of your boyfriend jeans might be dangling between your knees in order to achieve that perfect loose-fitting look.
- Make sure you choose a pair that still flatters your posterior, even in the larger size. Check for droopy rear pockets, baggy "crotchal regions" (to quote Ron Burgundy), and big gaps at the back of the waistband.
- Do not fear wearing a belt, although they should fit well enough (before wearing them all day long) that you feel like you could get away without one.
- Don't worry about the inseam. Boyfriend jeans are meant to be worn rolled anyway. Just be sure to try them on to make sure that the "roll" works at whatever length they are.
Speaking of big pants, don't forget, there are still a few days left to enter the Wardrobe Malfunction Essay Competition, which Ends July 31st at Midnight GMT.
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- Product Description
- Product Features
- Technical Specification
- Customer Reviews
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Product Features
- Built to be water resistant
With its entire enclosure reengineered, iPhone 7 Plus is the very first water-resistant iPhone. So now you're protected like never before against spills, splashes, and even dust.
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- ƒ/1.8 aperture
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- Quad-LED True Tone flash
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- More colors, more true to life
With a wide color gamut, the Retina HD display is able to deliver cinema-standard colors - and the best color management in the smartphone industry. More shades of the color spectrum can be used to create an image, meaning that what you see on the screen is a truer representation of the world. So whether you're checking out photos of that perfect dress or Live Photos you took in the tropics, the colors will be so accurate, it will look like you're there.
- 3D Touch: now even handier
When you use 3D Touch, your iPhone responds with subtle taps. So not only will you see what a press can do - you'll feel it. The Retina HD display on iPhone 7 Plus deeply integrates 3D Touch throughout iOS. Now you can interact with Messages, Calendar, Mail, and other apps in a more powerful, more responsive way.
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With the four-core design, the A10 Fusion chip's CPU has two high-performance cores and two high-efficiency cores. The high-performance cores can run at up to 2x the speed of iPhone 6, while the high-efficiency cores are capable of running at just one-fifth the power of the high-performance cores. That means you get the best performance and efficiency when you need it.
- Wi-Fi and Cellular - faster LTE with the best worldwide roaming
iPhone 7 Plus features LTE Advanced, with speeds up to 450 Mbps for data downloads - over 50 percent faster than iPhone 6s and three times faster than iPhone 6.6 And thanks to even more LTE bands, you'll have the best worldwide roaming available in a smartphone. Happy travels.
- Crystal clear VoLTE and Wi-Fi calls
iPhone 7 Plus supports Voice over LTE - high-quality wideband calls that make your conversations sound as crisp and clear as if you were face to face. When you're unable to get cellular service, Wi-Fi calling provides an easy way to make and receive calls over a Wi-Fi connection.
- Answer calls on apps like Facebook Messenger and more
No matter where your call comes from, iPhone 7 Plus can answer it just like a regular call. You can even access your contacts and use call waiting.
Technical Specification
|Product Description
|Apple iPhone 7 Plus - gold - 4G - 32 GB - GSM - smartphone
|Product Type
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|LCD display - 1920 x 1080 pixels - 5.5" - 401 ppi - Retina HD display with IPS technology - fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
|Front-facing camera, stereo speakers, dual rear-facing camera
|Apple A10 Fusion - 64-bit - with M10 motion
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|iOS 10
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|Up to 1260 minutes
|Standby Time
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|188 g
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2CG Senhouse Funds Change Their Name To Waverton
The final piece of the jigsaw of Waverton's acquisition of 2CG Senhouse
We are delighted to announce that following our acquisition of the high performing, specialist fund manager 2CG Senhouse in April, the three 2CG Senhouse vehicles have now changed their name to Waverton.
Waverton European Capital Growth Fund
Waverton European Income Fund
Waverton South East Asian Fund
As at 31st August 2016, all three of Waverton's new funds were in the top decile of their Morningstar peer groups for performance year-to-date, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years. The European Capital Growth Fund and Southeast Asia Fund are also top decile for performance since their inception dates.
Since the acquisition was completed in April 2016, which involved all members of staff moving to Waverton, total assets in the three funds have grown by over 40% in Sterling terms. Commenting on this growth, Charles Scott Plummer, formerly Director and Partner at 2CG Senhouse and now Head of Funds at Waverton explained that "the comfort provided by Waverton's institutional-grade infrastructure and the irresistible consistency of the three funds' alpha generation over a very long term and through different style cycles, have led to strong support and an exciting pipeline of potential investors."
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Bruce Nauman has been one of the talk of the Venice Biennale ("a stunning success" … "a contemporary classic" … "virtually never disappoints"), winning the Golden Lion Award for Topological Gardens, his installation at the U. S. Pavilion and two other sites. Here, guest blogger and Minneapolis artist Monica Haller writes from Italy with her own impressions:
In addition to Daniel Birnbaum's Making Worlds exhibitions in the Giardini and Arsenale, and collateral events all around the city, the Venice Biennale is characterized by the national pavilions — individual buildings designed to house one country's exhibition-its representation of itself. Each country decides who and what it will show. On the first morning before the three days of opening events, the Giardini was quiet. My intent during that rare moment of calm was to briefly stroll through a few of the country pavilions with these questions in mind: How does this country want to represent itself? What topics will it discuss and what not? (What will I see and how will this reflect my agenda for this country?)
I planned to move from Brazil to Israel to the U.S., was particularly curious about the middle pavilion. (Palestinian representation was dispersed through collateral events. One noteworthy exhibition, Venice c/o Palestine). But, even before I was able to dig into the Israeli exhibition featuring Raffi Lavie, we were evacuated from the pavilion. A stray bag was left unattended. Quickly they discovered the owner – no bombs – and we re-entered. Even so, enough time passed to understand that a country's state of being (the reality its citizens live from day to day) is going to travel with it to these isolated little buildings in Italy.
With this in mind, I moved into the U.S. pavilion, one of three installations of Bruce Nauman's Topical Gardens. The U.S. Pavilion is U-shaped with columns lining the front. It was designed after those neo-classical federal buildings in the United States that populate D.C. and other key cities. As an exhibition site, the building is stately and tame. It was redeemed this year by Nauman's neon signs that hung just above the front columns. TEMPERANCE / GLUTTONY, FAITH / LUST, CHARITY / SLOTH.
The first piece one sees when entering from the left side of the building is Nauman's wax heads. (Four Pair of Heads, 1991), hanging from the middle of the room, flesh-colored and red, dripping wax fluid. A fifth bronze head hangs just to the side, tinted blue from the elements. The heads look like they are suspended from barbed wire. (Really, just wire twisted back on itself). On the wall behind, several more wax heads are stacked on top of each other facing the corner, as if sent there for a child's time out.
This room struck me hard. The dismemberment and wire restraint called to mind Guantanamo Bay, or scenes from Abu Ghraib (taken one step further). I felt like crying and was surprised at my own association with Nauman's work. The irony was that his pavilion installation was hung very elegantly, preciously. This treatment had potential to smooth out the rawness and aggressiveness inherent in Nauman's work, but it didn't. (As a side note, the State Department is in charge of the U.S. Pavilion, which it fills by making a call for curatorial proposals.)
Though Nauman's work does not overtly reference political history, he does challenge notions of isolated experience. In that way, the Biennale pavilions do not, and cannot, operate in isolation from their countries' current conditions. As United States citizens, we will carry these past eight years with us.
I also got over to the Nauman installation at the Universita Ca' Foscari.Nauman is prolific, but not all his works are masterpieces. The best part about the overall installation here is that it demonstrates that fact. In this way, it subverts the preciousness of the final art object (and the handling of his work at the U.S. Pavilion).
His work is "Not always good, but important," art critic Patricia Briggs said as we walked along. I agree with that. He informed a generation of artists through his multi-disciplinary work. Currently, in the Universita Ca' Forscari, it is very apparent that his intense curiosity and experimentation precede a need to promote the artist-as-genius. I approach Nauman's experiments with trust. They are genuine inquiries, and I am going to follow right along with him.


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Greetings and blessings to you in the LORD!
"For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance,
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts."
(Proverbs 6:34-35)
* In context this is written where the husband catches another man committing adultery (A subject that you can't avoid discussing if you read through Proverbs) with his wife. I wish to point out that we operate in the love and character of God in all matters, so that we do not provoke people to jealousy. Also our God is a jealous God when we commit adultery on Him when we put others or other things before Him.
Holy Father you are a jealous and just God. We thank you so much for your grace and mercy. Forgive us for anytime we put anything or anyone before you. Lord you will be first in our lives. Lord help us to not avoid sinful matters because of your grace; but let your grace be the very reason we discuss sin by your love, and as we know you love us we want to live our best for you in love. Lord if any one has been wronged by someone (especially if somebody committed adultery with their spouse) help them to forgive them. Lord you say vengeance is yours, our job is to forgive them, pray for them, and love them. So if there's anyone reading this Lord speak to them by your Spirit. Lord help us to live according to your godly character. Thank you for your love.
In Jesus name we pray, amen!


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