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July 26, 2011
DECISION and ORDER
Plaintiff Robert Davis ("Plaintiff") commenced this action pro se against Defendants Rowe and Hudson Police Department ("Defendants") on February 25, 2010, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ("§ 1983"), alleging unlawful arrest and imprisonment and seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Dkt. No. 1 ("Complaint"). On February 18, 2011, Defendants filed their first Motion to dismiss for failure to prosecute his case, pursuant to Rule 41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("Federal Rules") and Rule 41 of the Local Rules of Practice for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York ("Local Rules"). Dkt. No. 33 ("February Motion"). The Court denied this Motion on April 15, 2011, while ordering Plaintiff to update his address within the next thirty days or face dismissal of his Complaint. Dkt. No. 36 ("April Order") at 9. Defendants have now filed a second Motion to dismiss the Complaint on May 24, 2011, again for failure to prosecute and for Plaintiff's failure to update his address with the Court. Dkt. No. 37 ("May Motion").
Defendants seek dismissal of this action with prejudice on the grounds that Plaintiff has failed to prosecute his case, FED. R. CIV. P. 41(b), or, alternatively, that he has failed to notify the Court of a change of address as required by Local Rules 41.2(b) and 10.1(b)(2). See May Motion; February Motion. The last communication between Plaintiff and the Court occurred on November 17, 2010, during a Telephone Mid-Discovery Status Conference between the parties and the Honorable David R. Homer, United States Magistrate Judge, concerning Plaintiff's failure to provide discovery. See Dkt. No. 29. Since the April Order was issued, all of the filings mailed to Plaintiff's last address on record have been returned as undeliverable. See Dkt. Nos. 39, 40. Nor has Plaintiff notified the Court of any change in his address in the three months that have elapsed since the April Order was issued.
For a more complete summary of the background of this case prior to April 15, 2011, reference is made to the April Order.See April Order at 1-2.
A. Failure to Prosecute
Rule 41(b) of the Federal Rules grants courts discretion to dismiss an action if the plaintiff fails either to prosecute the case or to comply with any order of the court. Link v. Wabash R.R. County Indep. Sch. Dist., 370 U.S. 626, 629-30 (1962); see also Lucas v. Miles, 84 F.3d 532, 535 (2d Cir. 1996). At the same time, a Rule 41(b) dismissal represents "a harsh remedy to be utilized only in extreme situations." LeSane v. Hall's Sec. Analyst, Inc., 239 F.3d 206, 209 (2d Cir. 2001) (quotations omitted); see also Lucas, 84 F.3d at 535. Furthermore, the Second Circuit has instructed courts to accord pro se plaintiffs particular leniency in procedural matters such as these. Lucas, 84 F.3d at 535.
The Court must consider five factors in determining whether to dismiss a plaintiff's case under Rule 41(b): (1) the duration of the plaintiff's failures; (2) whether the plaintiff has received notice that further delays will result in dismissal; (3) the likelihood that further delay will prejudice the defendant; (4) the need to alleviate court calendar congestion balanced against the need to protect the plaintiff's right to due process; and (5) the efficacy of lesser sanctions. Alvarez v. Simmons Mkt. Research Bureau, Inc., 839 F.2d 930, 932 (2d Cir. 1988). No single factor is dispositive in this analysis; courts must weigh all five in determining whether dismissal is warranted under Rule 41(b). United States ex rel. Drake v. Norden Sys., 375 F.3d 248, 254 (2d Cir. 2004).
First, in weighing the duration factor of the Rule 41(b) analysis, the Court considers both "(1) whether the failures to prosecute were those of the plaintiff; and (2) whether these failures were of significant duration." Id. at 255. The Court found in the April Order that although Plaintiff was responsible for the failures to prosecute, his failures were of an insufficient duration to warrant dismissal at that time. April Order at 3-5. "There is no time frame specifically identifying the point at which a Rule 41(b) dismissal is warranted." See Feurtado v. City of N.Y., 225 F.R.D. 474, 479 (S.D.N.Y. 2004). In the April Order, the Court considered that Plaintiff's failure to prosecute was of a duration between two to five months, which was insufficiently long to weigh in favor of dismissal. April Order at 3-5. Three months later, Plaintiff has still failed to contact the Court or prosecute his case in any way, with the result that the failure to prosecute has persisted for five to eight months. Under both the Local Rules and previous decisions of this Court, the Court finds that this is a sufficiently lengthy duration of failure that would weigh in favor of dismissal. L.R. 41.2(a) ("In the absence of an order . . . the plaintiff's failure to take action for four (4) months shall be presumptive evidence of lack of prosecution."); Crawley v. Helas, No. 09-CV-44, 2010 WL 2545159, at *3 (N.D.N.Y. May 25, 2010), adopted by 2010 WL 2545152 (N.D.N.Y. June 18, 2010) (Kahn, J.) (finding duration of plaintiff's failure "substantial and no end to the inaction appears in sight" where plaintiff "failed to have any contact with opposing counsel or the Court for over five months"); see also Amoroso v. County of Suffolk, No. 08-CV-826, 2010 WL 2985864, at *3 (E.D.N.Y. July 21, 2010) (finding duration of failure weighed in favor of dismissal where opposing counsel had been unable to contact plaintiff for nearly five months); Kearney v. City of N.Y., No. 02-CV-9741, 2003 WL 22682721, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 6, 2003) (finding failure to prosecute where over four months had elapsed since plaintiff appeared at conference and plaintiff "ha[d] not taken any steps to prosecute this action" since).
Turning to the second factor, Plaintiff now has been twice ordered to update his address with the Court or his case may face dismissal with prejudice. After Plaintiff failed to appear for a telephone conference on January 4, 2011, Judge Homer issued an Order directing Plaintiff to respond to Defendants' discovery demands by February 1, 2011. Dkt. No. 30. In that Order, Judge Homer stated that failure to comply with this February 1 deadline could result in sanctions against Plaintiff, including dismissal of his complaint with prejudice. Id. The April Order likewise ordered Plaintiff to update his address with the Court and comply with Defendants' discovery demands within thirty days or face dismissal of his Complaint. April Order at 8-9. To the extent Plaintiff never received these Orders, the fault lies solely with Plaintiff for failure to comply with the Local Rules and update his address with the Court. L.R. 10.1(b)(2); Dansby v. Albany County Corr. Facility, No. 95-CV-1525, 1996 WL 172699, at *1 (N.D.N.Y. Apr. 10, 1996). These orders provided Plaintiff with ample notice that he would risk dismissal of his action if he failed to update his address with the Court. See Feurtado, 225 F.R.D. at 478 ("[B]ecause [plaintiff] has ignored two court orders requiring submission of pre-trial materials, it appears that he is prepared simply to continue to delay his submission of his portion of the pretrial order indefinitely.").
Third, as in the April Order, the Court finds that the likelihood of prejudice to Defendants posed by Plaintiff's failure to respond to their discovery requests also weighs in favor of dismissal. April Order at 5-6 (citing Crawley, 2010 WL 2545159, at *3; Reuben v. Ellis, No. 07 Civ. 6046, 2009 WL 2611394, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 25, 2009)). "In order to defend against a claim of injuries and deprivations of civil rights, the defendants naturally would need plaintiff's testimony regarding the incidents in question and might need information from other sources. . . ." Myvett v. Rosato, No. 03 Civ. 2379, 2004 WL 1354254, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. June 16, 2004). The facts and applicable law on this issue have not changed, and the Court reaffirms its position that the consideration of prejudice to Defendants here weighs in favor of a Rule 41(b) dismissal.
Turning to the fourth factor of the Rule 41(b) analysis, the Court concluded in the April Order that "[p]ermitting this action to remain on the docket for the time being will not burden the Court sufficiently to warrant impinging on Plaintiff's right to due process." April Order at 6. "Although the impact that cases lingering on the court's docket without any prosecution can be severe, `there must be compelling evidence of an extreme effect on court congestion before a litigant's right to be heard is subrogated to the convenience of the court.'" Mahadi v. Johnson Controls, Inc., No. 02-CV-1256, 2003 WL 21244545, at *4 (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 25, 2003) (quoting LeSane, 239 F.3d at 210). The guideline for case completion in this District is eighteen months. See N.D.N.Y. Gen. Order 25, cited in Rodriguez v. Gil, No. 9:06-CV-0403, 2009 WL 174931, at *5 (N.D.N.Y. Jan. 23, 2009) (Kahn, J.). At this juncture, Plaintiff's action has been on the docket for just under seventeen months. See Dkt. No. 1 (filed Feb. 25, 2010). As his failure to prosecute has been "silent and unobtrusive rather than vexatious and burdensome," the Court finds that considerations of due process still trump judicial efficacy here, albeit to a lesser extent than before in light of Plaintiff's continued failure to have any contact with opposing counsel or the Court.LeSane, 239 F.3d at 210; see also Lawal v. United States, 90 Fed.Appx. 568, 570 (2d Cir. 2004) (affirming dismissal where the fourth factor did not "weigh[] heavily in either direction" and district court did not unduly value docket management over due process where it gave plaintiff two chances to keep action on docket).
Finally, the Court considers that no lesser sanctions than a Rule 41(b) dismissal are available here. Any further direction to Plaintiff to notify the Clerk of his address will not be effective because that order will not reach him; nor is waiting for Plaintiff to comply with his obligations likely to be fruitful, as he has failed to do so for at least five months now.See Wilson v. Perlman, No. 09:07-CV-1128, 2009 WL 1851336, at *3 (N.D.N.Y. June 26, 2009) ("This case obviously cannot proceed without notice to the court and defendants' counsel of a valid and current address for use in contacting the plaintiff"); see also Dong v. United States, No. 02 Civ. 7751, 2004 WL 385117, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. March 2, 2004) ("[T]he very fact that Dong has been inaccessible for the last two months — without notifying the Court, the Government, or the Pro Se Office of a change of address — strongly suggests that he is not diligently pursuing this claim."). Additionally, dismissal without prejudice would serve no purpose here because the applicable statute of limitations would bar Plaintiff from re-filing his claim. See N.Y.C.P.L.R. 214(5) (MCKINNEY 2011) (establishing three-year statute of limitations for personal injury actions); Wilson v. Garcia, 471 U.S. 261, 268-69 (1985) (federal courts must apply state statutes of limitations for personal injury actions in computing statute of limitations for § 1983 claim); Dkt. No. 1 (alleging unlawful arrest occurred on June 11, 2008). In light of this final consideration that there are no efficacious lesser sanctions here, and in light of the totality of other factors cited above, the Court grants Defendants' Motion to dismiss for failure to prosecute.
B. Failure to Notify Court of Change in Address
Dismissal is also warranted under Local Rule 10.1(b)(2), which requires parties to notify the Court of any change in address, and Local Rule 41.2(b), which provides that a failure to comply with this requirement may result in dismissal of a case. See Tylicki v. Ryan, 244 F.R.D. 146, 147 (N.D.N.Y. 2006) (Kahn, J.) (dismissing action for plaintiff's failure to comply with Local Rule 10.1(b)(2)). In the April Order, the Court found that insufficient time had elapsed to warrant dismissal at that time for failure to provide an address change. April Order at 7-9. Given that three more months have passed with no such notification from Plaintiff, however, and in light of the other factors discussed above, the Court finds that dismissal would also be appropriate at this juncture. See Tylicki, 244 F.R.D. at 147.
Accordingly, it is hereby:
ORDERED, that Defendant's Motion to dismiss (Dkt. No. 37) is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED, that Plaintiff's Complaint (Dkt. No. 1) is DISMISSED with prejudice; and it is further
ORDERED, that the Clerk serve a copy of this Order on all parties.


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They've been bred to be independent and self-sufficient. To rely on their own initiative and "personal responsibility." To privatize their problems. And so, they don't get fired up about our country's lack of affordable, top-quality child care. (In many parts of the country, decent child care costs more than state college tuition, and the quality of the care that most families can afford is abysmal.) Nor about the fact that middle class life is now so damn expensive that in most families both parents must work gruelingly long hours just to make ends meet. (With fathers averaging 51 hours per week and mothers clocking in at an average of 41, the U.S. workweek is now the longest in the world.) Nor about the fact that in many districts the public schools are so bad that you can't, if you want your child to be reasonably well-educated, sit back and simply let the teachers do their jobs, and must instead supplement the school day with a panoply of expensive and inconvenient "activities" so that your kid will have some exposure to music, art and sports.
Good so far, and even better than she makes practical suggestions for collective action later in the article. But am I asking for too much when I ask that these things stop being considered the problems of just women or just mothers? Men want their kids to be safe and well-educated, don't they? Warner gives a nod to the fact that men are overworked, too, and that this is a problem for families but then drops it.
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It's apricot seasonal time (well, in Italy!), is there anything better than making some preserves for the winter and preparing some apricot jam?
Yesterday morning I went to the market and I saw them: beautiful, firm, roundish, perfectly orange (not that very light orange, pallid), no small black spots on the surface. My trustworthy greengrocer immediately understood my wish and strengthened it by telling those apricots come from his personal tree, he personally cares for it and doesn't add anything chemical etc... I was already convinced, so I didn't listen to him so much.
10 kg, that's all. I have car to carry them :-).
That's right but you need a lot of time to eat 10 kg of apricots, even if very good ones. So let's start with winter stocks: a very good apricot jam.
I used Cristina Tomatis's recipe to prepare it, she is a follower of the Italian Facebook page of this website (English here). I adapted it a little bit following my previous jam experiences with Thermomix: Strawberry Jam, Plum Jam, Cherry Jam, Fig Jam.
With apricots left over (a small amount, I must admit!) I prepared the Apricot Fruit Juice. But this one won't last for a long time....
- 1 Kg Apricots
- 500 g Sugar
- 1 Untreated Lemon Peel
- 2 Sp Lemon Juice
How to prepare the Apricot Jam with Thermomix
Wash apricots very well, stone them and cut into pieces.
Put apricots in Thermomix bowl with sugar, lemon peel and lemon juice. Cook for 40 Min. 100°C Speed 2.
Let the jam thicken by cooking 10 Min. Temp. Varoma Speed 2.
If you prefer a smooth jam, blend 30 Sec. Speed 4-5.
Remove it from the bowl and let set for 5 Min. Then while it is still hot pour it in sterilized glass jars, close with lids, put upside down and let them get cold in this position, it will create a natural vacuum.
My advice
To sterilize jars take a look at some suggestions I wrote for the Strawberry Jam, and the Fig Jam too.
Cristina's advice
To have a special jam to use as filling for tarts and cakes you can add 100 g pistachios boiled for a few minutes in hot water (and peeled) 15 minutes before ending the jam cooking.
To sterilize glass jars follow these steps:
Wash them accurately (lids too) and put them inside a big pan full of water. Let boil for 10 minutes.
Remove them from the pan using a carving fork and place them upside down on a clean cloth. A few minutes later turn them again to let the inside dry very well. When jam is ready go on with the recipe as described above.
How to prepare the apricot jam without Thermomix
Translated from the Italian recipe
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Hello everyone!
It has been beautifully sunny outside but very windy and cold. I'm missing those warm days and being outside.
I have had kind of a rough week, but it's starting to look up. I had a lot of anxiety on Sunday and of course that left me drained and for some reason I just couldn't shake it. I felt exhausted and depressed Monday and Tuesday and I slept a lot—when baby took her naps, I napped too. Wednesday, I felt better in the morning but got tired very quickly by the afternoon and had to take a nap. I'm feeling a bit more energy today—so I'm hopeful I'll feel like myself again soon.
Needless to say, when you nap all day you don't get very many steps. But rest is what my body needs, so I'm listening and it really does help. It has meant not bingeing on chocolate instead, not getting super irritable and cranky, and less anxiety. They say there will be relapses to this PPD, so maybe that's what has happened.
I am on track with my Weight Watchers points which makes me very happy. Tomorrow is weigh in day, so I'm anxious to see what the scale says! Either way, I am feeling smaller.
Baby girl caught a cold, so she hasn't been feeling very well. It doesn't stop her though—she's still her energetic and playful self, but she just gets fussy pretty quickly. Not to mention, she's starting to walk! This morning she took quite a few steps in a row…oh boy!
Meanwhile, she loves to unroll the toilet paper when I'm not looking. Someday she will learn to cover her tracks. Ha!
Never mind the torn up carpet, we had some issues with our old wash machine and had to tear it out and we're planning on putting in new flooring—hubby just hasn't had a chance to get to it! It looks horrible right now. Eek.
Did you see my post about the first online book club meeting? Be sure to let me know if you want to join! You will know you're good to go when I add you to the Google Hangout. I've had a couple of Google+ adds, but I'm not sure if that means you want to join the book club or not, so please send me a message if you do!
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Sergey Bubka presented a speech at the XXXIII NOC of Ukraine General Assembly.
"Olympic Agenda 2020 as a strategic development plan proposed by IOC President Thomas Bach is being actively implemented. These principles have been successfully integrated into the activities of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine", - said Sergey Bubka.
Among the main trends is effective governance, which is based on five principles: transparency, integrity, democracy, sport development and solidarity, control mechanisms. The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine together with the federations is pursuing a consistent policy in this direction and will continue it next year. All NOC activities are open and transparent. Reports, including financial ones, are open to everyone.
Another important area is to increase the role and to strengthen the support to athletes. "We are pleased with our athletes having an active life position. I want to thank our athletes to the athletes for their active participation in sports life, Olympic projects, and social companies in TV programs, "- said the president of the NOC.
In the immediate plans of the Olympic Committee there is an increase in educational work among athletes, in particular regarding their access to the IOC's educational projects and the use of new world programs. Together with the National Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission, it is planned to develop and launch a program that would include a series of informative meetings with leading athletes to provide them with the highly specialized knowledge of a wide range of active careers, post-careers, education, anti-doping policies, and behavior with entourage - trainers, doctors, agents, the press, sponsors and partners.
It is important to maintain and really implement a world policy of protecting athletes from oppression and image. The International Olympic Committee has developed a special document on this issue: IOC Leadership for International Federations and the National Olympic Committees "Safeguarding athletes from harassment and abuse in sport".
One of the most important issue is the fight against doping.
"Doping undermines the very foundations of sport. The main thing - it undermines the trust of the sports and athletes on the part of the public, sponsors, state institutions. For the NOC of Ukraine compliance with the WADA Code, promotion of its activities, education of athletes - priority number 1", - said Sergey Bubka.
"We should support and integrate gender equality in sport and Olympic movement providing all the possibilities to realize their capabilities", - Sergey Bubka mentioned.


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Certain high-level monsters are covetous, in that they desire one of the unique items or your quest artifact. Some covetous monsters are able to steal the item they covet from your inventory. The quest artifacts of other roles are immune to this theft, as is yours if it is stashed in a bag. There is no defence against this theft for items in your main inventory; this is especially troublesome if your only source of magic resistance is your quest artifact.
|Coveted by
|Your quest artifact
|All quest nemeses
|Bell of Opening
|No one in particular
|Book of the Dead
|Orcus, Master Lich, Arch-Lich
|Asmodeus, Baalzebub, Demogorgon, Dispater, Geryon, Juiblex, Orcus, Yeenoghu
|All of the above
|Wizard of Yendor
Only quest nemeses and the Wizard of Yendor have stealing attacks.[citation needed] On one-twentieth of the hits from such an attack, the monster will look for one of the above items in your inventory; if it finds one it will steal it and, if capable, teleport away.
The Wizard of Yendor is most notorious for this; if he casts Double Trouble, his double has a chance of carrying a cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor which can be confused with the real amulet if it is stolen.
Covetous monsters cannot be tamed by any means. The Wizard and all quest nemeses cannot even be pacified.
Covetous monsters do not deign to walk from place to place as other monsters do. When a covetous monster wants to attack, he simply appears adjacent to you, or as close as he can get if there's no open space next to you. This type of teleportation (often informally described as "warping") is not influenced by non-teleport levels.
A damaged covetous monster will warp to the up stairs to heal. The damage does not need to be critical; even a few HP lost will send it fleeing. While healing, the monster may occasionally appear for a quick attack or two before returning to the stairs. It will not resume a sustained assault until fully healed.
If you pursue a covetous monster to the up stairs, it will escape to the level above. When you follow, it will immediately teleport to the new up stairs to continue healing. You may end up chasing it all the way to dungeon level 1 (monsters cannot escape the dungeon entirely).
Covetous monsters ignore Elbereth when warping to the up stairs. They follow the normal rules for respecting Elbereth in all other situations.
Covetous monsters place obtaining their coveted items over all other priorities, including attacking the hero. It's not uncommon for the Wizard of Yendor to appear in Moloch's Sanctum, and immediately engage the high priest of Moloch for the Amulet. Since neither combatant does much physical damage, both can heal themselves, and covetous monsters can't steal from other monsters, this is generally a stalemate.
One exploit of this behavior, often used by speed runners, is to lure a named demon (usually Asmodeus) into the Sanctum. He will quickly dispatch the high priest, retrieve the Amulet, and then return to attack the hero. The player can thus retrieve the Amulet without moving more than one space from the up stairs.
Because they flee at the slightest scratch, are much more mobile than most players, and are invariably high-level and so have a lot of hit points, covetous monsters can be very frustrating to deal with. The easiest option, if you have teleport control, is to teleport to the up stairs before the monster does. If the monster respects Elbereth, engrave it, and you can safely dispatch the monster when it follows. If not, you have at least cut off its escape route and forced it to fight you to the death.
If porting to the stairs is not an option (because you lack control, are on a no-port level, or another monster is already on the up stairs), but the monster is a Follower, you could also flee to the down stairs, head down when the monster is next to you, and hope you land on the up stairs. Also, it is possible to kill some of the weaker or slower covetous monsters before they can warp back to heal; silver weapons or projectiles with a multishot bonus can work particularly well for this. In SLASH'EM, sufficiently enchanted firearms work well for this.
Source codeEdit
Covetous monsters are defined by one of the following flags in monst.c: M3_WANTSARTI, M3_WANTSCAND, M3_WANTSBOOK, M3_WANTSAMUL, or M3_COVETOUS.
There is also a M3_WANTSALL flag. It has the same value as M3_COVETOUS, but is not used by any monsters. It seems likely that M3_WANTSALL was intended to indicate monsters that are capable of stealing all of the major items, whereas M3_COVETOUS was intended as a mask to check if a particular monster is capable of stealing at least one major item. If this is the case, the Wizard of Yendor should be specified as M3_WANTSALL instead of M3_COVETOUS. However, since the two symbols have the same value, the mistake does not actually affect gameplay.


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Head over to my new blog site, High Caliber Cate, and read the latest post, Sitting Ducks – Part 1.
No Country for Heroes
Head over to the High Caliber Cate site to read about a young man who was criticized for possibly saving the life of a fellow student: http://highcalibercate.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/no-country-for-heroes/. Be sure to follow the blog, like the post, and share with others.
More changes…
If you have read this blog in the past, please head over to my newest blog by clicking on High Caliber Cate. I am going to put the Heritage Family blog on hold for now. High Caliber Cate will cover a lot of the same topics as HF, but will focus on women and juniors, as well. It will also be tied in with my Rowdy Girls facebook page, which is a group of women whose focus is firearms, self-defense, preparedness, and basically just changing the world for the better. You can find Rowdy Girls here: https://www.facebook.com/RowdyGirlsGroup. Come join us!
New Blog!
Thanks so much to everyone who has stopped by often to read what I've posted on this blog. I hope new readers will continue to find us and enjoy the stories that have been posted here, but I've started a new blog for my group, Heritage Family. You can find it by clicking here. I will post more on the Rounds and Roses page when I have time, but will be writing primarily for Heritage Family in order to build up readership and spread the word about that organization. Please come over when you can, and check back often. That site will focus on learning and passing on to future generations those skills that have been lost in recent generations, such as firearms proficiency, hunting, camping/campfire cooking, long-term food storage, etc. So thanks again for reading, and I hope to see you over at Heritage Family!
Now he knows
So I was in the gun store last night, buying a loaner for my ladies steel challenge club, and as I approached the counter, the guy behind it looked at the quarter hanging from a chain around my neck and said, "Somebody shoot your quarter?"
I was a little taken aback, but said, "Yeah, I did." He snickered and said, "You did?" I was a bit more irritated now and said, "Yes, I shot it. That's why I'm wearing it." He didn't say anything, so I added, "…one-handed, at 20 feet."
His eyes got big and he just looked at me a minute, I guess trying to see if I was kidding or not, but then he grumbled, "Good shot," and went off to help someone else.
I was offended at first, because I know if my husband had walked in with a quarter on a necklace, the question would have been, "What did you shoot that with?" But I had to realize that at least I had opened the guy's eyes, both literally and figuratively, to the fact that yes, women can shoot, too. Guess that makes it a good day for everyone.
Don't fear the tool
I wrote the following on a facebook page today: "I was talking to a woman recently about firearms training, when she said, "Oh, I'm afraid of guns." Now, I've had women tell me that before, and I haven't said what I would like to, but this time I said, "You know, I'm more afraid of a bad guy than I am of a gun that is in my control."
I was hoping she would realize that the only reason to carry a firearm is because there are bad guys out there, that might be planning to harm us. I have zero control over what someone is out there plotting to do, and when the opportunity might arise for him to do it to me, but I do have control over the level of my preparedness to handle that threat in the best possible manner. We (women) need to stop seeing the tool as the threat, and realize that learning to use the tool properly will enable us to defend ourselves better against the true threat – the bad guy."
It does seem that many women fear the tool, rather than understanding that the tool is what you use against the actual threat, but a firearm should not be the only tool in the toolbox. If we believe that using a firearm is the option of last resort when faced with a threat, then we need to also learn other skills that we might employ first, such as situational awareness, self-defense, even knife fighting skills, all of which might prevent us from having to employ the firearm tool.
I would love for some of the women I come across to stop thinking they will never be in a life or death situation and to plan for the day that they might. If we are trained and prepared, but are never placed in that situation, that's awesome; however, if we are untrained and unprepared, but our life is threatened at some point, then we are basically helpless. I'd much rather prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
Daughter Day at the Range
We had an awesome day with 19 young ladies and their families this weekend for our National Take Your Daughter To The Range Day. The girls were able to try their hand at pistol shooting, rifle shooting, and archery, and even got a hands-on lesson in wildlife identification from a representative of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
They enjoyed gun-shaped cookies with pink camo icing from Qtzie Cupcakes, won some cool door prizes, and most importantly, learned the basics of safe gun handling.
Volunteers braved the blazing heat – and being in southeast Texas, it was HOT – but they said it was worth it to see all the smiles on the girls' faces when they made a good shot. And let me tell you, these girls were good shots! It was amazing to see some of them blow the center out of their targets, and was really encouraging when they started off far from center, but walked it in until they were inside the bullseye – that's when we knew they had it.
Many thanks to those who helped put on the event, and to Houston-Tactical for sponsoring it, and Lynne of Female and Armed for coming up with the idea and supporting all of us. Next year will be even bigger and better! For more information on NTYDTTRD, CLICK HERE, and see below for pictures.


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Dan L. Dumitrascu, MD
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2nd Medical Department
Iuliu Hatieganu, Cluj, Romania
Dr. Dan L. Dumitrascu was born in 1957 in Cluj, Romania, and graduated from the medical school of the same city in 1982. He worked as Research Associate in Cluj and Bucharest before starting a university career after the political changes of his country 20 years ago. Currently, he is Professor of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hatieganu, Cluj, Romania, and Head, 2nd Medical Department. He is also Consultant of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine at the County Emergency Hospital, where he also leads the laboratory for functional GI investigations. He has been interested in gastroenterological motility and functional disorders for over 20 years, benefiting during this time from the advice of Douglas Drossman. He worked almost 2 years as Humboldt Research Fellow with Dr. Martin Wienbeck in Germany. Dr. Dumitrascu founded the Romanian Society of Neurogastroenterology and organized 2 International Symposia in Neurogastroenterology. He also chairs the Section of Neurogastroenterology at the annual Romanian gastroenterology meetings.
Dr. Dumitrascu is author or coauthor of more than 200 papers, of which more than 75 are indexed on Medline, and of many Romanian textbooks and monographs about functional GI disorders. He authored the first book on GI manometry in Eastern Europe. He lectures extensively on FGID in many Eastern and Central European countries. He is also leading a regional network on psychosomatic medicine.
He is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Editor in Chief of Clujul Medical, member of the editorial board of many journals in Romania and to Hepato-Gastro (Paris) and peer reviewer for several national and international journals.
He was recipient of a Young Clinician Award by the World Congress of Gastroenterology (WCOG) in Los Angeles in 1994, a travel award of the Functional Brain-Gut Research Group (FBG) in San Diego 2000 and of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in Orlando 2003 as well as a research award of the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD) in Milwaukee 2003.
He served as a committee member of the Rome III Functional Abdominal Pain committee and presently as a member of the Rome Foundation International Liaison Committee.
Dr. Dumitrascu's hobbies include philately, history of arts and of medicine.


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Lord Jesus Christ was hit by a car this week. Makes me want to pack it up and stay inside.
taser-tottin' sport-cops gettin' all trigger-happy on the baseball diamonds of America, and the Inspector Clouseau wing of Al Qaeda on the prowl, rigging SUVs with M-80s and fertilizer like a poor man's Tim McVeigh, it feels as though the good guys and bad guys alike might zap me through their exuberant conformance to the rules on one hand or some nefarious incompetence stumbling over accidental "success" on the other.
Now before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, I'm in no way equating the police with terrorists. In fact, I'm all for tasing drunken or just-plain-goofy morons and the fruitcakes who break the rules should be sentenced to spend the rest of the season in the ballpark parking lot in a taser-based "dunk" tank so that tailgating fans can take turns shocking the shithead until he drops into the water (and then it's back onto the blank for you so another lucky fan can have a go). Nor I'm comparing those who would kill and maim innocents to Peter Sellers' lovably bumbling French detective, except to note that Clouseau and the would-be Times Square car-bomber seem to share a flair for the idiotic.
Canyonero. Wouldn't be the same sort of party without Him. Sort of like starting a Soc/Greaser rumble without Dallas Winston. Meanwhile, I'll try my best to stay gold ...
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Utilities & Utility Payments
Utilities are billed every 60 days and bills are due the 15th of every month. A penalty is applied to any overdue account balances.
Your utility bill is comprised of the following:
- Flat water and wastewater rates
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- Storm rates
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Please be aware the city does not provide natural gas or electricity. You will need to set up separate accounts with a third party to access those services.
For after-hours water and wastewater emergencies, contact: 780-980-7108.
Setting Up Utility Services
- Property owners can call 780-980-7177 to set up their account.
- Renters are required to fill out and sign all appropriate forms prior to opening a utility account.
>> Residential Renter Application for City Utilities
>> Commercial Renter Application for City Utilities
Utility forms can be faxed to 780-980-7127, emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or dropped off at the Leduc Civic Centre (48A Street & 46 Avenue).
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Yes. We require a deposit if you are not the registered owner of the property you are occupying. The residential account deposit is $225 and commercial/industrial accounts are determined by the water meter size (ranging from $225 - $5,000).
If you plan on paying your deposit through credit card, please fill out the Credit Card Authorization Form.
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How to Open Your Port 80 Behind a Firewall
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This wikiHow teaches you how to open port 80, which handles communications between your computer and websites that use HTTP (as opposed to HTTPS), in your firewall. Opening port 80 can resolve connection issues for older websites, but it also increases the risk of someone accessing your network without permission.
1Find your router's IP address. In order to access your router's page, you must know your router's IP address:
- Windows - Open Start, click the Settings gear, click Network & Internet, click View your network properties, and view the address next to "Default gateway".
- Mac - Open the Apple menu, click System Preferences, click Network, click Advanced, click the TCP/IP tab, and look for the number to the right of "Router:".
2Go to your router's settings page. Open your preferred browser and enter your router's IP address into the browser's address bar.
3Enter your username and password if prompted. Most routers have a default username and password (e.g., "admin" and "password") that you need to enter to access the settings.
- You can check your router's manual or model number online to confirm the default password and username.
- If you set a custom username and password but forgot them, you'll have to reset the router.
4Find the "Port Forwarding" section. All router settings pages are different, so look for one of the following: "Port Forwarding", "Applications", "Gaming", "Virtual Servers", "Firewall", or "Protected Setup".
- If you don't see one of these or something similar, click Advanced or Advanced Settings and look for a Port Forwarding subsection.
5Fill out the port forwarding form. You'll need to provide the following information:
- Name or Description - Name your port forwarding rule. You might name this "Port 80 Web" or something similar.
- Type or Service Type - Select the TCP option here.
- Inbound or Start - Type the number "80" here.
- Private, Outbound, or End - Type the number "80" again here.
7Open port 80. Check the "Enabled" or "On" box next to the forwarded port row. This will ensure that the port is open for your computer.
- Not all routers will require you to enable the port; if you don't see a checkbox or an "On" switch, your port 80 will be opened when you save your changes.
8Save your settings. Click the Save or Apply button, which will most likely be at the bottom of the page.
- You may also be prompted to restart your router; if so, click the Restart button.
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QuestionWhat address do I use on the Internet to access the PC whose address is port forwarded to interact with its resources?Community AnswerUsing a browser on Port 80, you can just type your public IP. In most cases, nothing will appear unless you have something set up to handle web requests.
QuestionWhat do I do if the port is closed?Community AnswerIf that port is closed you can't connect to the internet. Try opening it after resetting your router and modem.
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- All router pages differ substantially from one another. If you can't find the "Port Forwarding" section or your router page looks significantly different than what is described here, try looking up your router model's specific instructions for forwarding ports.
- Make sure you don't forward more ports than you absolutely need to. Each open port represents a hole in your router's firewall through which viruses and attackers can travel.
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CONCORD, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 22, 2009--
Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) (NYSE:TRK) today declared a quarterly
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expense reduction efforts, capital projects, expansion, petroleum and
other commodity markets and associated profit margins, stock
repurchases, financing needs, insurance, litigation, taxes and economic
conditions. These factors and other factors, including those contained
in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, involve certain risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ
materially from management's views and expectations. Inclusion of any
information or statement in this news release does not necessarily imply
that such information or statement is material. The Company does not
undertake any obligation to release publicly revised or updated
forward-looking information, and such information included in this news
release is based on information currently available and may not be
reliable after this date.
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I was sitting at my desk watching the raindrops trickle down the window when I was suddenly taken back by just how beautiful FALL is. (I snapped this picture with my phone camera and it doesn't even come close to showing you what I am seeing!) It made me realize that soon, the leaves will be gone and once again I will be able to see the mountains in the distance. The same mountains that I posted about way back in March when I first started writing this blog. (Click here if you want to read that post.)
I am feeling rather nostalgic right now. So much has happened in the past 8 months since I started this journey. I feel as if my life has suddenly just begun. I feel blessed to be able to sit at this desk and write and to know that yes… someone is reading this. It is not my ego that is boosted by that fact, it is my heart.
I feel that so many people have fallen into my life, and have opened up so many doors for me. Then when I still was hesitate to walk through them, they gently nudged me on. And a few times… I will go so far as to say that some of you have down right shoved your foot up my rear to make me move. You know who you are… and I thank you for it!
I am not a religious person but I do feel that people come into your life for a reason. It reminds me of that poem… I don't know if all of you are here for a reason, a season or a lifetime… I am just so happy you are here!
Reason, Season, or Lifetime
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is,
you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty;
to provide you with guidance and support;
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,
because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person,
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
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ccjason> So you are suggesting that they don't need to be *globally* ccjason> unique as long as they are unique within the cluster? wjc> No, actually. I'm still saying unique-within-resource. (My only wjc> caveat is that it's kind of vague to me what this cluster example is wjc> all about, so I've interpreted it to support what I'm saying. :-) If wjc> there are multiple hands in the cookie jar for the same resource, they wjc> just need a private agreement that will keep them from reaching for wjc> the same cookie. Bill, I can't speak for JimW's meaning of a cluster, but let me give you another interpretation... First... I assume the existance of depth locks and shared locks. Secondly... you seem to understand that the token needs to be unique within the resource. Now an example.... LOCK /a/b/ shared depth. LOCK /m/n shared BIND /a/b/n to the resource at /m/n Now after the bind, the resource /a/b/n inherits an additional lock. If both locks used the same token, now the resource has two locks with the same token. You've already recognized this as a bad thing. In a server that supports cross server bindings... the domain of necessary uniqueness extends to all servers that cooperate on bindings. As far as being *globally* unique. I don't have an explanation for that. Perhaps JimW and Yaron do. (I didn't fully understand their examples.) But requiring global uniqueness seems like a small price to pay. J.Received on Tuesday, 19 October 1999 14:30:37 UTC
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U.S. Army Major General Discusses What World War III Could Look like
Posted on Oct 13, 2016
WWII ended more than 70 years ago, and there hasn't been a catastrophe that big ever since. Major general William Hix talked about the future of war and what it would look like nowadays if a global war was to take place and his predictions are quite unsettling.
1. Conference
Major general Hix talked about military advancements in China and Russia, as well as investment in the testing of nuclear weapons in North Korea on a conference of the Association of the U.S. Army.


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Burgamy Bash Gives Saints 5-3 Walk-Off Win In ExtrasST. PAUL, MN August 11, 2013
ST. PAUL, MN (August 11, 2013) – Brian Burgamy drilled a first pitch offering from Jimmer Kennedy over the wall in right field to give the St. Paul Saints a 5-3 walk-off win in the 12th inning in front of 5,030 at Midway Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The game was the longest of the season in both innings and time as it took 3:50 to complete.
The Saints were the first team to score as they put up a pair of runs in the second inning against Exlporers starting pitcher Ryan Lucero. Willie Cabrera began the inning with a single before Brandon Tripp was hit by a pitch and Ole Sheldon walked. Joey Becker followed with a two RBI single to give St. Paul a 2-0 lead.
The Explorers responded immediately in the top of the third against Saints starter Mike Koons when Eliezer Mesa and Sam Judah singled to put two on base with one out. Austin Gallagher then ripped a two-run double to tie the score.
Each team added a run in the fourth inning courtesy of a solo home run. Sioux City's came from Peter Barrows, while the Saints Brandon Tripp knocked his 17th of the season.
After that point each team's pitching was superb. The next seven innings were scoreless for both teams as the Saints managed just two hits in that span, while Sioux City mustered five.
With the score still tied at three in the bottom of the 12th inning Dan Kaczrowski walked to start the frame. Jose Hernandez struck out after failing to execute a sacrifice bunt and that set the stage for Burgamy's game-winning smash. Burgamy now has two hits for the Saints in three games, both leaving the park.
The Saints bullpen, consisting of Mikey Mehlich, Matt Meyer, Jon Plefka, and Dylan Thomas, combined to work a total of 7.1 innings of scoreless relief. Thomas, who pitched a scoreless 12th, earned his first professional victory.
Ole Sheldon, who was honored prior to the game, played his final game of the season as he leaves to take a teaching job in Florida, went 2-2 and reaching base safely in all four trips to the plate. Sheldon extended his streak of games reaching base safely to 21.
The Saints begin a four-game set with the Sioux Falls Canaries tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m by sending RHP Anthony Claggett (7-4, 3.71) to the mound to meet RHP Kyle Ruwe (9-6, 3.85). It is a Single Shade of Gray, What Happens on the Road Stays on the Road. The game can be heard on 1220 AM and in the ballpark on 87.9 FM.


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Thou O Spirit ...Thou from the first
Wast present and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant — Milton
was, from time(t) = 0 to t =10-43sec.
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was for about 8.0901x1060 Planck times
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meticulously poring over each Planck time phase
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A visit Down Under
There's more to Australia than just kangaroos. It has kookaburras and koalas too! Also a famous bridge, opera house, and a big red rock, not to mention Melbourne.
Big Brother Mouse has more visitors and supporters from Australia than from any other country. While we still think Laos is the world's friendliest country, Australia is a strong runner-up. Now children in Laos will have an opportunity to learn about the animals, people, and history of Australia.
by Julie Giles, illustrated by Gikong
This book was made possible through the generosity of Bob King.
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Renowned bandleader Dan Terry, Kingston native, dead at 87
by Bill O'Boyle
Legendary trumpet player and bandleader Dan Terry, a Kingston native, passed away Tuesday at the VA hospital in Danville, Ill., after a two-month illness. He was 87.
Born Daniel Kostraba on Dec. 22, 1924, in Kingston, he was the son of George Kostraba and Mary Wargo Kostraba.
He attended Kingston High School and studied trumpet with George Summerson at Wyoming Seminary. He is survived by two children, Greg Kostraba, Indiana, and Jasmine Kostraba of Los Angeles.
Greg Kostraba said his father worked with Summerson's territory band in high school, then went to New York City and worked with Muggsy Spanier before entering the U.S. Marine Corps. After leaving the service, he moved to Los Angeles to lead the Hollywood Teenagers Band before returning to New York in 1948 to play with Sonny Dunham.
According to a biography of his father that Greg Kostraba posted on the Wikipedia website, Terry's band went into Birdland in 1954, playing there with Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and others. Also in 1954, Terry was signed by Columbia Records along with Pete Rugolo and Les Elgart, and that same year he was featured in the Universal film short "Birth of a Band," with Connie Haines and Don Gordon.
Terry appeared in Carnegie Hall with his band for the Charlie Parker Memorial Concert along with Washington and a host of other jazz celebrities. He also toured with the Birdland All Stars in concerts at Boston Arena and Carnegie Hall as a featured artist with the Count Basie Band.
The Carnegie Hall performance was featured in a live album called "Birdland All-Stars at Carnegie Hall with Count Basie and Lester Young" on Roulette Records.
In the 1960s, Terry wrote music for and performed in the films "The Hustler" and "The Manchurian Candidate." He also served on the music staff for Dean Martin and Hollywood Palace shows, six television specials with Jackie Gleason, Gleason's recordings on Capitol Records and 12 albums with George "The Fox" Williams for CBS.
He also served as musical conductor for Sammy Davis with the Will Mastin Trio, Frances Langford, Noonan and Marshall, and Yma Sumac.
In the 1990s, Terry settled in San Diego, where he formed the Horns of San Diego and an offshoot, the San Diego Youth Swing Band, a group designed to give high school musicians an opportunity to perform his library of Big Band arrangements.
Terry worked as a jazz radio announcer for 40 years at radio stations in Stockton, Calif., Las Vegas, Middletown, N.Y., and Phoenix.
Terry is survived by granddaughters Lily and Julia Kostraba of West Lafayette, Ind.; sisters Margaret Cummings of Princeton, N.J.; Georgette Ruzicka of Olathe, Kan.


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This is a test Im new to the forum and im trying to find some parts to a zrx2001 1200 Im looking for the clutch , clutch basket and all the parts that go with that. What I'm doing is putting a 1200 motor in an 1100 frame i was going to put the 1200 swing arm on but after putting it all tougher i figured out that the only way to do that is to buy all the parts in a 1200 rear end including axle spacers and rims http://www.zrxoa.org/forums/images/s...oh.gifalthough If some one has all those sitting around let me know. Anyway if you have a complete clutch basket and all the parts or know where i can get one please let me know. Any help would be great!!
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All workers risk losing income because of disability but few have closely examined the benefits of private disability insurance vs. Social Security disability insurance (SSDI). In general, disability insurance of any type can help to lessen the economic hardship faced when one becomes unable to work because of a disability. While SSDI provides important protections to workers who have contributed to Social Security long enough, it requires meeting a strict definition of total disability. In many situations, private disability insurance may offer more liberal coverage and larger benefits.
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Social Security disability insurance covers 150 million workers, with over 8 million individuals currently collecting benefits. Anyone who has worked a sufficient amount of time while contributing to Social Security is covered by SSDI. Benefits are paid monthly, with the average disabled worker receiving $1,148 a month, or $13,776 a year.
To qualify, applicants must show that they meet Social Security's strict definition of disability. To receive SSDI you must show that:
If you are only partially or temporarily disabled, you cannot receive benefits from SSDI. Further, when you do qualify, Social Security cannot pay out benefits until you have been disabled for at least five months. Social Security considers certain conditions, such as blindness, severe enough that you won't have to prove your inability to work in order to receive benefits.
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One of the greatest benefits of private disability plans are their more expansive definitions of disability. While SSDI requires a showing of total disability, many plans will pay benefits without requiring an individual to prove that he or she can do no work at all. While definitions vary from plan to plan, three are most common:
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Another advantage to private insurance is that it may replace a greater part of an individual's lost income than SSDI would. SSDI benefits are based on your average lifetime earnings and could not exceed $2,642 a month in 2014. Individuals with private insurance may be able to receive more than this. Many policies cover around 70 percent of a worker's salary at the time when their disability arises.
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For the past year, I have been working with Candice and Nathan to help them plan their destination wedding. We planned a very intimate wedding with their closest friends and family. Love how happy the bride and groom look! Check out the colourful shoes on the groom and other small touches(accent colour is called Jamaican Mist!).
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Portfolio: Specification
I haven't written out a formal spec for my new portfolio but here's the main things I want: Entirely single page. I want everything in my portfolio to be found easily from the index page. The only externals I will have are links to download my CV (which is recently updated by the way) and … Continue reading
Past, Present, (near) Future
My old page, my holding page and my new page So whilst I have actually been doing Uni work I have also been preparing my new and much improved Portfolio. I've had my old Flash one for over 2 years now, and I haven't changed it in the slightest, simply because I've been too busy … Continue reading


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Next week I head back to New York. My creative juices flow freely there and it's time – actually a little past time – to crank out the first draft of my next book.
I'm rushing to finish reading some books for research and photocopy pages I'll need to refer to while I write. I have dozens of files to pack, along with some poster-sized Post-Its to keep track of my progress. I won't know until I'm into it which chapters are light, so I have a list of women to add if necessary. I have my audio recordings of some two dozen interviews that lasted anywhere from 45 minutes to well over two hours.
I'm staying at an inexpensive – for New York – place I've stayed at before. It's away from the midtown tourists and commuter traffic. It's a short walk to parks, Starbucks and bookstores, relatively free of the typical Manhattan noise and crowds.
Bits of the book have been popping into my head. It's been annoying because I think of them as I'm dozing off or while I'm driving. But it can't be helped. It's ready, I'm ready, despite feeling like I'm not.
Three weeks from now I'll have a first draft that will probably be the worst thing I've ever written. I will be in full panic, realizing how much rewriting and editing is ahead of me. And I'll have to remind myself over and over again that what I do is enough.
Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community will not be definitive. There's no way it could be, a fact I was slow to accept. The women in it – dozens – will be representative of thousands like them. I'm fully prepared for the chorus of "Why isn't X in there?" when the book comes out.
Besides the fact that I would need 10,000 pages to include every straight woman who made a difference, I'm determined that the majority of women in the book will be recognized for work that has not garnered much recognition. Those are the women whose stories are the most compelling to me.
I plan to tell those people, upset that someone they knew didn't make the book, to encourage her to tell her own story. I hope my book is the start of a larger conversation about a group previously left out of memoirs and documentaries about the epidemic. And I hope it will also be an incentive for other women to come forward and recount their experiences.
But first…I have to write it.
So far I have one terrible complete chapter and some disjointed paragraphs in another. I fully expect that what I have to show for myself when I leave New York will be pretty bad. That's okay. I need that first draft finished so I can start on the real work: revising, rewriting, deleting, adding.
I'm stressed and panicked, excited and focused, all at the same time. And in an odd bit of serendipity, I'll be there to mark the one year anniversary of falling on 7th Avenue and breaking my writing hand. That accident brought my world to a screeching halt. The whole experience – the fall, emergency surgery, five weeks with pins in my hand, learning to do everything with my left hand only, and 29 sessions of physical therapy – sent me into a deep, though temporary, depression.
The fingers I broke are still a little stiff, as expected. My book release had to be pushed back three months. I just paid off the last hand-related medical bill last week. You know what that means?
I'm ready.


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The focused issue, dedicated to the 3rd International VATS Course in Berlin and guest edited by Drs. Mahmoud Ismail and Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, aims to highlight the surgical techniques and research on Uniportal VATS shared and demonstrated during the course to surgeons all around the world, which we hope will also be conducive to patients as well as facilitate communication among surgeons. The issue is a cooperation between JOVS and its sister journal, Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD). Another part of the issue could be viewed at: http://jtd.amegroups.com/issue/view/228.
Review Article on Thoracic Surgery
Single port video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomic segmentectomy for small-sized lung cancer
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for complicated pulmonary resections
Case Report on Thoracic Surgery
Anatomical video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery segmentectomies based on the three-dimensional reformation images
Brief Report on Thoracic Surgery
Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery Ivor Lewis esophagectomy
The highlights in the 3rd International Uniportal VATS Course
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