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I decided to give Hello Fresh a go after a few recommendations from friends.
Hello Fresh is a convenient food delivery service which really appealed because I was stuck in a rut food wise and seemed to be cooking the same boring meals every week so I thought this would be a good way of having something different but something that was still healthy.
I went online and ordered a box of 3 meals for 2 people.
Initially I was disappointed that I was not able to specify things I disliked as my husband is a really fussy eater. I have since learned, after your first delivery you can be more specific and even select which meal you want.
I was also worried that the delivery is via Courier and it can come at any time of the day. Both my husband and I work all day and it's summer so if the courier leaves the box of food which may contain fish and meat, outside my house, potentially all day, the food would turn bad.
The day it was due for deliver it was really hot so I had already written it off to be honest.
When I got home that evening the courier had left the box behind my wheelie bin.
when I opened the box I was really shocked to see how well everything was packaged. The meat and fish was packaged in ice packs and insulation so was still chilled.
Here is the contents of my box
The 3 recipes and ingredients I had were –
Lemon risotto with cod
Jamie Oliver chicken stir fry
Pork Belly and chick pea stew
On night one I cooked the risotto. I was really impressed with all the ingredients. Literally everything I needed apart from oil, salt and pepper, was included. And the ingredients were all very good quality.
The recipes were really easy to follow. I am not a very good cook so I was really impressed with how good this turned out
It tasted amazing! My husband wouldn't eat it though. He does not like cod, lemon or risotto so this was just not good for him.
The next night I cooked the Jamie Oliver chicken noodle stir fry . Again, this was really easy to cook and tasted delicious. Both of us enjoyed this.The last meal was not for me. I hate pork and hate chickpeas. My husband ate it and said he enjoyed it but forgot to take a picture!
I decided that I wanted to continue getting a box each week but just for me as my husband was too picky (he would live on curry every night) But unfortunately Hello Fresh don't currently do a box for one person so I had to cancel my subscription as continuing would not be cost-effective.
Overall though, I was really impressed by the packaging, food quality, quantity and recipes. If they ever do a box for one person I would definitely subscribe again.
Thanks for reading
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A Kirkby man who drove his boss's van while banned for dangerous driving was nabbed after manoeuvring erratically and sent to the crown court, magistrates heard.
Liam Bonsall was spotted by police driving the white Vauxhall Vivaro van at speed on Southwell Road West, on July 11, before cutting across traffic and pulling in abruptly.
The court heard he had five convictions for 16 offences, including driving without a licence or insurance in 2013.
He was banned until he passes an extended test for dangerous driving and failing to stop at Derby Crown Court, in 2016, said prosecutor Sarah Sanderson.
And in September 2017 he received a two month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for another driving offence.
Simon Greaves, mitigating, said Bonsall had been working for a vehicle parts company for the past few months and the firm was relocating.
"In the process of thinking he's doing the right thing to demonstrate to his boss that he should be kept on, he has basically doing something he really shouldn't have," Mr Greaves said.
Bonsall, 28, of Mattley Avenue, admitted driving while disqualified and without a licence, when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Friday.
Because he was in breach of the suspended sentence was given unconditional bail to appear at Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing, on September 7.


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Permission To Grieve Retreat | July 6-8, 2018
A women's yoga retreat to feel, share, move and transform your grief after loss.
July 6-8, 2018 at Nectar Yoga, Bowen Island
Surrounded by nature, join Richelle Muscroft for a weekend to nourish your mind, body and soul in a compassionate and welcoming space with the collective support of other women who have experienced loss, too.
Weekend Includes
– 2 night stay at Nectar BnB (double or triple occupancy)
– Nourishing and supportive meals from Wildhearts Catering
– Daily yoga, meditation and breath work
– Conversation, share circles and guided journalling
– Yogic teachings and discussions in relation to grief and loss
– Quiet time for reflection, nature and rest
– Ayurvedic self-care workshop
– Take home goodies, resources and self-care practices
– Space is limited to 10 women
We never get over the loss of a loved one but we can change our relationship with grief and learn to grow with it.
Where | Nectar Yoga BnB, Bowen Island, BC
When | Friday, July 6 2018 at 4pm – Sunday, July 8 2018 at 12pm
Investment | $675 (+GST) if paid in full by May 1 2018 (10% of proceeds donated to TBD)
Deposit | $300 paid upon registration acceptance (non-refundable)
*Transportation to and from island not included
"Though in many ways Grief isolates us, in so many other ways, it connects us to more people than we could ever have reached otherwise." -Aimee-Claire Smith
This retreat is not intended to be a replacement for professional counseling but to complement your self-care and grief journey. Due to the context of this retreat, it must be at least 3 months since your loss.
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The Portuguese capital, Lisbon, has hills--lots and lots of steep hills--and a robust tram system that weaves around the highs and lows, complete with a whole tapestry of wires that crisscross above the tracks.
Those wires were the inspiration for LX Type, the city's spindly new "official font".
The site has the entire alphabet laid out in photographs with their corresponding graphic form. At first glance, they are pretty tough to parse, but you can soon get in the groove and the shapes and patterns become more clear. You can also try it out yourself, spelling out different words, with a little added bonus; each letter has the specific tram number and stop, along with a pic of the surrounds and a little tidbit of history to go along with it.
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The Denver Nuggets kick-off our Northwest Division previews. You can read past previews here.
"(Nuggets owner) Stan (Kroenke) was highly complimentary of our coaching. Amazed at times. He thought last year was a great year. Disappointing in losing in the playoffs, no question. But from the standpoint of what we were dealt and what we delivered, it was a big-time year."
To most basketball observers (including many of you who frequent our fair site) this quote from Denver Nuggets' Head Coach George Karl might seem a bit ludicrous. At close glance, however, Karl, in his fourth full season in the Mile High City might not be that far off. A team that has won progressively more games in each of Karl's seasons finished with 50 wins (the franchise's most in twenty years) and made the playoffs for the fifth straight year.
"If the evaluation is success in the playoffs, we haven't done that. And I can live with that. I agree 100 percent. I hate losing in the playoffs. I hate being on this losing streak."
For a guy that has a 171-115 record since coming to Denver (that's 60 percent and a 49-win average) Karl has managed just three wins in the team's 19 postseason tilts. For the fifth straight year, the Nuggets were home after just two weeks of postseason basketball, due in large part to the team's well-documented aversion to participation on the defensive end of the court.
"We've been a team that's had enough talent to win a championship, but there are probably 12 of them in the League a year. It's the chemistry and the talent that wins championships. And we haven't done a very good job of figuring out the right chemistry."
This has been one of the most talked about issues surrounding this team. No real leaders in the locker room, two megawatt superstars that both enjoy dominating the ball and a combustible mix of employees from the top of the organization to the bottom have plagued this team. This quote has to pertain to the front office, as well. There is no chemistry between the management conglomerate and the players and coaches.
"My disappointment and depression was in about a five-day period. We lose Eddie Najera and Marcus Camby and get nothing. I'm paranoid and scared."
Karl was not alone in his fears that losing two of your team's character guys would hardly help a team that has failed to connect the championship dots. The decisions, however, had nothing to do with the product on the court, rather the bank statements at the end of the month.
"We had a tough year from that standpoint and financially, I think he (Owner Kroenke) wants to change that. He's been very honest on how he wanted to build in the summer, being financially limited."
Which brings us to one of the most discussed and scrutinized deals in league history. Giving up Marcus Camby to the LA Clippers for the right to swap second round picks appeared idiotic and misguided to the general public. But there is much more to the story. There had to be.
The team will reap the benefits of this move for the long-term while their short-term on-court product may suffer. Ten million dollars will be off the books this season, moving the Nuggets as close as they have been in years to the NBA's Salary Cap (earmarked at around $71 million for the upcoming season). In addition, the nature of the "trade" gives the Nuggets a $10 million exception to be used either this season or early in next year's offseason, when Allen Iverson's $21 million might also come off the books. Basically, they can make a trade and acquire $10 million worth of contracts (which is why it wouldn't make sense for them to use the exception now—putting them right back over the cap) and only give up a future draft pick in the process.
(For example, this summer, Minnesota used a similar exception, giving up just a conditional second-round pick to Philly for the rights to Rodney Carney and Calvin Booth and protected first-rounder.)
"But you recover. The (Renaldo) Balkman trade…we give (New York) basically nothing (two players with nonguaranteed contracts who were later waived). We get another guy, Chris Andersen, a pretty good basketball player, for nothing (the minimum salary as a free agent)."
With Camby's departure, the team reinforced their frontcourt with the aforementioned hustle/defensive-minded guys while also adding Dahntay Jones and Sonny Weems, two backcourt guys who also share a propensity for defense. Balkman should step in right away and give Karl some quality minutes off the bench and Birdman was always a fan-favorite during his years here in Denver. Yes, Camby and Najera have departed, but maybe there is a larger paradigm shift on the horizon.
"We have to change our mind-set to at least moving into the top half of the defensive-minded teams in basketball become more aggressive (on the) perimeter with rotations and double teams and zone actions."
This is the crux of the matter when it pertains to the Nuggets. Can they make the necessary adjustments in their total play to present at least an adequate defensive output? The team's defensive weaknesses are comprehensive; they are bad pretty much across the board. In addition to a potential change in their half-court strategy, Denver's transition defense can be aided by a more patient, selective attack on the offensive end. In the past, the Nuggets were in such a rush to get off a shot, that the "quality" of said shot was often compromised, leading to long rebounds and bad positioning on the court. Opponents turned those sloppy possessions into easy points and coach has vowed to not let ANYONE on the team get away with it this year.
"I have no desire to be liked. Melo has always had skills to be a very good defender. He's had very good defensive games. I remember a couple of times how he's played LeBron (James). How's he's actually played Kobe (Bryant) at times. It's when the ordinary player, who he's matched up on, he forgets about."
Defense is about attitude and heart. When your star player dogs it during games, those things trickle down to even the back-ups. Carmelo Anthony needs to prove himself, maybe now more than ever. His Olympics weren't great, but he played with a youthful exuberance and was the most vocal supporter of the team, even when he was on the bench.
Anthony's tenants this year should be to play hard, dive on the ground, get loose balls, and most importantly, REBOUND! This team needs Melo more than ever to become a monster on the glass. Ten rebounds a night is surely not out of the question, and with Camby gone, there will be plenty of defensive boards to be had. Don't expect Nene to pick up the majority of the slack, as the Brazilian has never been confused for a rebounding machine.
"I love people saying that, 'They're awful. They're going to be bad. I don't see us as bad. My belief is we have enough talent to be ultrasuccessful. I like the idea that people are condescending and degrading our possibilities. This is the first year that most people don't think we're going to be any good. Some people are saying we're totally demised. And I don't see that on our team…I like the idea of people thinking we're not that good…I like being the underdog and (prognosticators saying), 'We're floundering,' because I don't think that's the case."
The "us against the world" mantra is sure to be a selling point for the coach this season. The Nuggets have been continually bashed for years, but this is the first year that many are thinking this team won't even make the postseason. With a starting group of Nene, Kenyon Martin, Anthony, Iverson, and Chucky Atkins (Anthony Carter for the first few games) the team does not actually look too different from last year. It is depth, however, which might propose the largest challenge. Karl has got to love having two great options like J.R. Smith (who will play more than the two-headed Chucky/Carter combo) and Linas Kleiza to come of the bench. Remember, that these two young studs were the central bumbling blocks that kept the team from making any big moves (I.e. Ron Artest) at the trading deadline last year. While many of these younger guys now have gray on their beards, the average age of Smith, Kleiza, Carmelo, and Nene is still just 24 years.
"This team has more George Karl personality to it than any team I've coached in Denver. It has more sons of…It has more, 'I'll hit you when you're playing well.' It has more guys who want to be mean and angry rather than cool and pretty, and I think that is going to help us."
The coach has also vowed to put the hammer down. In the past, Karl was openly afraid to criticize play after a win and we all know that teams can secure wins while playing a style of ball that is less than perfect. Young players, like the ones that litter the Nuggets' roster, need constant teaching. They need to know when they got away with being lazy on defense, they need to know when their lapses in focus caused a teammate to get victimized, and they need to know when they are hurting the team. After a win, that type of tough-love can be a challenge for a coach (and one that Karl has obviously failed at) but it is necessary, nonetheless. Celebrate a win, be happy, but that next day should always be about getting better, learning from one's mistakes, and moving on to the next opponent. I think the Nuggets of the past five years have solely worked on the "next opponent" platform, opting to just be complacent with any kind of W.
"If the edict is changing the face or changing the coach, we can live with that. We all know that that happens. There are very few lifetime coaches in the NBA."
What is to happen this season, for the lovable/semi-despised NugPups? Will they decide to move Iverson before the trading deadline to ensure some form of return before he becomes an unrestricted free-agent next summer? If playoff success is not in the cards, will the coach be moved? Can they continue their progress under Karl and win more than the 50 games they did a year ago? All these questions are valid and paramount as to whether the team achieves ultimate success.
I think this could be a "throw away" year as the front office waits to get back under the cap and prepares to be a major player in the 2009 summer free-agent bonanza. The Northwest Division is continually improving with Portland as everybody's team du jour, to go along with the steadiness of the Utah Jazz. That being said, the Denver Nuggets should still be considered a favorite to compete for the division. The Blazers still seem a couple years away, and 50 wins should be within the Nugs' grasp.
Hell, Melo thinks they got 60 in 'em.


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Making your own sauerkraut at home couldn't be easier: You just need two ingredients and a little bit of patience.
Here's the recipe for Germany's national dish:
What You Need
- raw white cabbage
- salt
- large bowl
- screw top jars
Rinse out the jars with hot water.
Shred or cut the cabbage into strips.
Layer the cut cabbage with plenty of salt in the bowl.
Knead thoroughly with your hands until it gets already a little watery.
Fill into the jars a spoonful at a time and press down the kraut occasionally. In the end, the sauerkraut should be covered with juice.
Close the jars well and store at room temperature in a large pot or dripping pan as juice might leak during the fermentation.
After a few days the fermentation process has begun; move the sauerkraut jars to a cool and dark location and let them ferment for about two to three weeks.
After the fermentation, enjoy your DIY sauerkraut directly or keep the kraut jars stored in the dark and cool location.
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Ireland's population is more diverse and embraces new communities from across the world. We need appropriate integration structures to assist in social cohesion.
Labour in Government has developed a National Integration Strategy and begun to implement the recommendations of the report into the Direct Provision system.
Our plan for the next five years:
- Introduce a one-off earned regularisation scheme for undocumented migrants living in Ireland for more than 5 years
- Ensure those in Direct Provision and seeking asylum are treated with dignity and respect whilst they await the outcome of their application
- Create local integration strategies and guidelines for all community groups in receipt of public funding


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Most of us worry about interviews, a lot, and that's how we act in the interview – worried. So what interviewers end up seeing are a bunch of nervous people that want to work behind their bar. You want to stand out from all that, and the easiest way to so isn't to be the most qualified, but to be the most confident, and confidence comes from the right preparation.
Purpose of the Interview
Bars don't hold interviews in order to find out if you can bartend, they hold them to find out if you can bartend that bar. A bartender will have to do a lot more than just pour drinks, they'll have to look the part, get on with the existing staff, the existing customers, know everything about the drinks that are popular at that bar, keep that bar organized, and setup to the needs of that bar. In short, they're going to need to have a lot of intangible skills, the kinds of skills that you just can't put down on a resume, and that's the purpose of the interview: to find out if you have those skills.
The Bar is trying to find out if you're going to be the "right fit". Now they can't do that by letting you jump behind the bar, so instead, they're going to have a ten minute conversation with you, and make assumptions. What they're going to assume is that the way you look and behave in the interview, is exactly how you'll look and behave on the job. So the purpose of the interview for you, is to look and behave in the way that they'd want their ideal employees to – so you need to prepare yourself to do that.
Bars want their Bartenders to always be prepared: to always have enough ice, enough garnishes, backup bottles, backup napkins, spare paper for the machines; if a customer comes in and asks for "Oh, I don't know, something fruity…with whisky" the bartender needs to have a list of cocktails already in mind to suggest. Bars want their Bartenders to have everything prepared just incase, so that when the "just incase" happens, service doesn't have to slow down while the bartenders collect themselves.
In your interview, you want to come across as the kind of person that's always prepared, and you do that by being prepared for the interview itself. You want to walk into the interview knowing as much as you can about that bar – everything from their most popular drinks to what the staff wears – you want to walk in knowing exactly what you're going to say, and exactly how you're going to say it; and you go in on time, at a leisurely pace, looking like you're ready to work. If you do all that, the interviewer is going to find it very easy to favourably translate "you in the interview" to "you on the job", and I assure you, unless they've read this article, no other applicant is going to do all that.
So how do you "prepare" yourself to come across as "prepared"?
Well the first step is research:
Most of us don't think past the point of "Ooh, interviews are scary" so we invariably end up surprised by what comes up in them. To get one step ahead of all of the other "Ooh interviews are scary"-type applicants, you need to research interviews themselves: what's likely to come up, appropriate attire, what you should bring – luckily, you can find all that out here and in the articles linked to this page. Research what are the best things to say, the worst things to say. Go in knowing how a good interview is supposed to look.
Then you need to research the actual place you're applying to. The best way to do that, by far, is to have a drink there before your interview. I would recommend never applying somewhere that you haven't been to before, but I know the job hunt doesn't always allow for that, so just try to get in there for a drink, if you can. What going there beforehand is going to do is make you more comfortable being there – and you definitely want to be as comfortable as possible in your interview. First off, you'll know exactly where the place is and how to get there, so there's no running around looking for the place on the day. Second, it's going to give you a feel for what the customers look like and what they order, so you know what drinks to study up on for the interview. Third, it's going to let you see how the staff conduct themselves: how they dress, how they act, what duties are assigned to each position; so that on the day you can choose what you say to show how well you'd fit in there. If you can get in there for more than one drink you might even become a familiar face, and managers always prefer to hire someone they know – even if it's just on the level of facial recognition – than someone they don't.
Then you'll need to practice how you're going to showoff all that information you've collected.
What worries people the most about interviews, is that they won't know what to say – that they won't know the answer to a question, or that they will, but won't be able to articulate it. It doesn't matter how much research you do, if you don't show them that you've done it. So what you need to do is, for a few days (or as many as you have) before the interview, choose what you want to say, and prepare a little script with exactly how you're going to say it.
The interview by its very nature is going to consist mostly of the interviewer asking you questions, and you answering them. You want to have your answers already prepared, so that when those questions are asked, unlike the other applicants who start their answers with "Oh, err, umm, well I-, hmm, good question", you just shoot out a detailed answer with no hesitation, and the utmost confidence – that's going to make you stand out.
Fortunately, this isn't an interview with Google, so you can rest assured that the questions that come up won't be that complicated, or even original. The same kinds of questions come up all the time: "What's your favourite drink?" "Describe yourself." "How would you cut someone off?" There are about ten to fifteen questions that come up in Bartending Interviews all the time, which you can be pretty confident will come up in yours.
Now you don't want to have just any answers prepared, you want to have good answers. That means no one word answers. You want to give specific answers that show you know something about bar tending. If they ask you what your favourite drink is, "Beer" is not sufficient, it'll just be followed up with "What kind of beer?" So save them the trouble of asking, and say something more along the lines of "Lagers, Carlsberg particularly because I'm a big fan of lighter beers. In the winter I usually switch over to Ales, but still keep it light with something like a Granville Island Pale Ale." Which of the two candidates giving those answers sounds like they'll be a better bartender?
Basic questions like your availability and how long you've been bar tending always come up too, so have answers, exact answers, prepared for those as well.
(To see The Most Common Bartending Interview Questions & How To Answer Them exactly, click here.)
The Actual Interview
Now comes the big day. You've researched the place you're applying to, and prepared what you're going to say, now you just walk in and wow them right? Not quite.
Taking a few steps back, part of the reason you scoped the place out was to find out where it is and how to get there. So the night before your interview, you need to plan out exactly how you're going to get there, and when you're going to leave. You want to leave yourself plenty of time so that you can stroll in there nonchalantly fifteen minutes before you're supposed to be there, just like they want their employees to. If you show up late, or in a sweat, they're not going to hire you – this is the day that impressions matter most, if you can't be on time today, when will you be?
You also scoped the place out to get a look at their employees, in part, to see how they dress. You want to match how you're going to dress with the way they dress to make it as easy as possible for the hiring manager to see you as an employee. You don't want to wear the exact uniform, that's too presumptuous, but you want to give the manager an idea that you wont have to step too far out of your comfort zone to look good on the job. If the place is super formal, as in white shirt, black bow tie, and black waistcoat, then you showing up in a light dress shirt, a nice tie, and a waistcoat of some sort is really going to help them see you doing well there. The same applies to if they wear dark jeans and a casual button up.
(To find out EXACTLY What To Wear To A Bartending Interview, click here.)
Then you want to bring the right things, things that show you're professional and prepared. No ruck sacks, if you have to bring a bag, make it a messenger bag, and wear a watch so they know you'll always know what the time is. Bring a pen so if you need to write something down you don't have to ask for one. Bring a notepad too incase you have to write anything down. Bring whatever you can to emphasize the image of preparation that they want to see.
Obviously, keep your phone on silent, and don't bring in a drink – the interviewer doesn't want to speak to you while you've got a cup of coffee up to your face.
(To find out The Top Ten Bartending Interview Mistakes To Avoid, click here.)
Then it's up to you; do what you've prepared to do: use the knowledge you've gotten from your research, say what you've planned to, and wear what you've chosen. All that is going to make you as comfortable and confident as possible in the interview, which is going to best allow you to be yourself, and that's what the interview is for: to see who you are, and if who you are is the right fit. Also, remember to sit up straight, look them in the eye, and don't interrupt.
After the Interview
The interview is over; it went great: You said what you wanted to say, how you wanted to say it, and you looked great while you did it – what next? Well, you stand up, give them a firm confident handshake, and thank them for their time. Then – and this is the most important bit after the interview – you ask them when they expect to have made a decision by. For whatever reason, not many people ask that, you doing so is a great way to stand out from the crowd as a practical thinker.
Next, you follow up. If you haven't heard from them by the time they expected to have have selected someone, give them a call. This is going to help you get a job in a couple of ways: If they haven't chosen someone by then – and they're busy people so they often haven't -, you calling them is going to put you first on their mind when they're reminded that they need to hire someone; but if they have, then at least you know not to hang around waiting for their call any longer, so you can get back to it.
This is all going to make you as comfortable and confident as possible in your interview, and that I guarantee, is going to make you stand out. You're going to be able to present the best side of yourself, which is going to let them see how you would fit in at their bar. If after all that you somehow don't get the job, don't worry, it wasn't that you weren't good enough, it's just that you weren't the "right fit", and if you weren't the "right fit", you might not have enjoyed working there anyway. Use what you learn from each interview, and use it to ace the next one. Keep applying what you've learned here and keep getting better at interviewing. Then maybe, just maybe, you'll actually start to look forward to interviews, and wonder what all the fuss was about.
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In the market for an iPhone? Here's a breakdown of all the currently shipping iPhones from Apple.
Nortel Patents Sold for $4.5 Billion to Consortium Which Includes Apple
Nortel announced that they had concluded an auction to sell of its patents and patent applications to a consortium consisting of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM and Sony. The final winning bid was $4.5 billion and includes over 6,000 patents and patent applications covering wireless, 4G, networking optical, voice internet, semiconductors and more.
"Following a very robust auction, we are pleased at the outcome of the auction of this extensive patent portfolio", said George Riedel, Chief Strategy Officer and President of Business Units, Nortel. "The size and dollar value for this transaction is unprecedented, as was the significant interest in the portfolio among major companies around the world."We had previously reported that Apple had been interested in buying up the patents off Nortel Networks which had filed for bankruptcy in 2009. The interest in the portfolio was significant due to the broad reach of the patents, especially in the area of wireless networking and LTE technology. Google was also said to be one of the early interested parties by placing an opening bid of $900 million on the patents.
One research firm has estimated that there are 105 patent families deemed essential to deployment of LTE (4G) technology, with Nokia controlling 57 of those families. Ericsson is said to control 14 families, while Nortel, Qualcomm, and Sony are each reported to control about seven families. The companies that are part of the winning bid will presumably provide access to these patents to those companies.
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This outcome is disappointing for anyone who believes that open innovation benefits users and promotes creativity and competition,
Google's hypocrisy goes to 11.
Oh god, Google and Nokia not listed. Can't wait for the next round of annoying patent wars. :rolleyes:
Nokia has its own ammunition. Google, on the other hand....
So this "consortium" exists as an agreement between major players in the telecom industry to limit the use of these technologies to its members, thereby locking out new competitors?
In my great-granddaddy's day they called that a "trust", and passed laws against it.
It's still against anti-trust laws to withhold a group of patents vital to an industry.
That's why the government had a little talk with Apple before they bid in the auction. All the other companies have a long history of licensing patents. Apple does not.
I also suspect this auction is involved with why Apple made a deal for Nokia licenses so suddenly. I think they were showing the government that they could play nice and/or it was a requirement to be a consortium member.
I don't understand how does that company declare bankruptcy? Don't companies use their patents -> give them some steady income? Although "bankruptcy" is subjective, they just made 4,5billions, I don't think they're bankrupt any more :)
Bankruptcy in its purest form is having less assets than liabilities. The fact that you own a patent doesnt mean that you are actually earning money for a start. You could have the patent on cold fusion but not earning any money as no-one might be licensing the patent.
Also in terms of bankruptcy - the value attributed to the patent asset might be a lot less than the amount paid at this point. Think of it as a fire sale - for bankruptcy purposes they might value the patent a lot lower than it was eventually sold for.
Finally - although they got $4.5Bn for the patents - they might have had $10Bn in liabilities...
What's funny about that? They are different entities after all...
It would have made no sense at all for the separate, joint mobile phone company to take their place here.
Great! Their parent companies put fingers in the pie instead of the joint venture entity that makes all their phones... next.
So each parent company hedges in case they decide to split later... that's confidence for ya... anyway.
People seem to be forgetting there was a lot more to this than phone patents. Nortel had a lot of high end networking patents, Ericcsson's core business, as well as patents in software and networking generally. The reason that they entered as parent companies is they wanted different things.
It's worth noting these patents were more about networking products.
Apple is now going to start or buy there own cell network. Then they can add and design the network to work with there phone.
You heard it here first.
No we didn't. Others suggested this years ago, and they, too, were ignorantly ignoring that they sell phones throughout the world, not just in the U.S.
I had a dream once that there were no patents and companies had to compete on how they implemented and delivered ideas instead of being granted the legal right to hoard ideas in order to prevent (or charge) anyone else from using them. I don't remember any lawsuits in this dream, and everyone seemed to be much happier.
That would be awesome! I can make money hand over fist finding the cheapest foreign labor to implement good ideas that other companies come up with. Oh, wait - those other companies won't come up with any good ideas because it would make more sense for them to wait for someone else to do so and just copying them, thus saving the R&D.
Hmmm. Well, at least the pharmaceutical companies will spend a billion dollars to research a drug that they can never make their money back on due to immediate cloning by generics manufacturers. I mean, what do I care - I probably am not going to get any diseases.
Hey, we may be stuck with lame technologies and no innovation, and we may all die from curable diseases, but at least there won't be any lawsuits.
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LDAP is the system currently used to store NSS (Name Service Switch) information for the UNIX passwd and group databases. It serves as a centralized supplement/replacement for the information stored in /etc/passwd and /etc/group including usernames, uids, homedirectory locations, group memberships, and login shells.
- 1 History
- 2 Current
- 3 LDAP Server Software
- 4 Directory Structure
- 5 Configuring LDAP on clients
- 6 Administration/Management
- 7 See Also
Previously, the CSL used NIS to store network user information. However, when the decision was made to integrate CSL accounts and authentication with Windows Active Directory (previously all CSL accounts were managed separately and required an application form to receive), LDAP was chosen to replace NIS as the backend for the NSS database.
Integrated authentication using LDAP and Kerberos was initially deployed in lab 231 during the spring of 2006. Sun Directory Server 5.2 was used at the time, replicated from sol across what are now known as chuku and ekhi. During the summer following, LDAP was moved into a VMWare virtual machine known as daystar in order to run LDAP on a faster system. However, for reasons not completely understood, the VM subsequently developed problems during the fall of 2006 and resulted in NSS becoming painfully slow on both rockhopper (at that time used for all of lab 231 and 16 LTSP nodes in the CSL) and the rest of the CSL workstations. In order to remedy the situation, /etc/passwd was rapidly deployed as a flatfile across all affected systems. Hesiod was subsequently set up as the NSS database for the remainder of the school year and the beginning of the next.
During the winter of 2007-08, NSS was switched back to LDAP following various discussions. (Need more information.) LDAP was configured on chuku and mihr, running Sun Directory Server 6.
Upon reception of the Sun Academic Excellence Grant, LDAP was moved into the LDOMs ldap1 and ldap2 running on Ohare and Logan.
NSS LDAP is currently used by nearly all *NIX systems managed by the CSL (noteable exceptions are the mailservers Casey and Smith. It is run using OpenLDAP from the VMs openldap1 and openldap2.
LDAP Server Software
OpenLDAP's slapd is currently run in one-way replication on openldap1 (master) and openldap2. It can integrate with nsswitch to provide all NSS databases although we currently only use it for the passwd and group databases. For detailed installation and configuration notes, see OpenLDAP.
Service IP Caveats
The service IP for NSS LDAP is 18.104.22.168 (ldap-sun.tjhsst.edu is the hostname; it remains what it is for historical reasons). Note that neither openldap1 nor openldap2 will automatically grab this IP at boot. This IP must be manually added. This is so that the IP can be moved during maintenance; for example, if openldap1 is down for maintenance, the IP is moved to openldap2 so correctly configured clients will query openldap2 instead. If openldap1 is rebooted as part of maintenance, it will not also snag the IP as it comes up and cause a network service conflict.
In the event that there is a complete power outage and both systems are rebooted, obviously the IP will not be assigned to either of them at boot. Correctly configured clients will not be impacted as they will rapidly timeout 184.108.40.206 and fall back on openldap1 and openldap2 IP addresses.
Directory Structure
- Everything below is relative to a root dn of dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu.
- Groups are referenced by cn (i.e. cn=allaccess,ou=group,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu). Users are referenced by uid (i.e. uid=wyang,ou=2008,ou=students,ou=people,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu).
This subtree contains POSIX groups. Currently we have 3 major classes of groups:
- Primary: Each LDAP user's default group is one of these. There are a few subclasses:
- Students/graduation year: The name of each group is TJ and then a two digit year, except in the case of 2000, which has name TJ2K. The gidnumber is the four digit graduation year.
- "Adult" users: Staff members are assigned to group "faculty" with gidnumber 1984. Separating parents/external users into a separate group would be advisable, but they presently share the "faculty" group.
- "users": This is presently used for all LDAP user entries in the ou=sysadmins subtree (see below).
- Host/VM access control: Each of these groups (gid starting at 1000) has the hostname of the system that it is designed to control access for. The group has a list of users that should be granted login access to that system; however, some of the systems listed may not necessarily have group control implemented, rendering the LDAP group's membership moot. The group is not used to grant root access on a system; that is controlled independent of LDAP at this time. The members of the "allaccess" group (gid 1337) are granted login access on all systems that have the LDAP group access control scheme configured.
- System/service groups: These are primarily used by the Solaris systems, but can also be used by others. It is sometimes easier to ensure that any particular group used by a system service will have the same ID across multiple systems by adding it to LDAP, hence the existence of this class of groups. These have gids starting at 5000.
There are some miscellaneous groups scattered in there. For instance, "commons_mm" (gid 8000) is the primary group for all music cart users.
This is the subtree used for the NSS passwd database on all general use systems. It is itself made up of several more sub-ous. The major ones are listed below. Others may be created as needed (for example, the josti2008 ou contains temporary users that were created for a JOSTI 2008 interactive user experience in one particular presentation; although the users are still in LDAP, they cannot login because their Kerberos credentials are expired).
Most NIS users were loaded into this ou so legacy accounts could still have their uids looked up, and previous admins that retained their Kerberos accounts can still log in. Some NIS users were not imported because their username already existed in one of the other ous.
Parents that have login access for website editing or for whatever other purpose go here. Some parents may actually be in ou=legacy if they were created during the NIS era.
This contains things that don't belong in any other category. Some system service users go here (see "System/service groups" in the ou=group section above for why we do this). Music cart users also go here, although they could also have their own ou since there seem to be enough of them nowadays.
- IMPORTANT: Most users that are added here should also be added to the ou=special in ou=sysadmins (see below).
Well yes...faculty and staff have their own ou. Naturally.
No student users go directly in here; they go into another subou under this ou by graduation year first. At time of writing, ous exist for 2006 through 2017.
This contains...well...sysadmins. The distinction from ou=people is primarily for access control on non-general-use servers.
This is basically a copy of ou=special from above. The difference is that non-general-use servers are configured to see this ou=special, while general-use systems see the one in ou=people. For example, it is important to have the music card users here and above since music card users are logged in to on a general use system, but the NFS server, which is non-general use, also needs to be able to look up the username and uid.
Configuring LDAP on clients
- emerge nss_ldap. If you want to be able to manage LDAP from this system, make sure that the kerberos and sasl USE flags are enabled on both nss-ldap and openldap.
- Edit /etc/ldap.conf:
- Setup LDAP servers 220.127.116.11, 18.104.22.168, and 126.96.36.199.
- Use search base: dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu.
- Set bind_timelimit to 2
- Set bind_policy to soft
- Set nss_base_passwd to
- Set nss_base_group to
- Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to use "compat ldap" for the passwd and group databases. The two lines should look like this:
passwd: compat ldap group: compat ldap
- You may need to restart nscd if it is installed.
Centos 7
- Install nss-pam-ldapd.
- Add/Edit the following lines in /etc/nslcd.conf
uri ldap://openldap1.tjhsst.edu/
uri ldap://openldap2.tjhsst.edu/
base dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu
base group ou=group,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu
base passwd ou=people,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu
- Execute the following command to reload the nslcd configuration:
systemctl enable nslcd
systemctl restart nslcd
- Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to use "compat ldap" for the passwd and group databases as described in the Gentoo section above.
WARNING: There was at least one point in the history of Sun Directory Server where setting up the LDAP client on the LDAP server was not supported because the client was started before the server was, causing a halt in system boot because of a failure to initialize the client. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but if it is, you will need an init script to disable the client in SMF until the server starts, and then restart the client after the server starts. In the CSL, this is easily done by installing the STJinitd-sunds package.
- Run the following command:
/usr/sbin/ldapclient manual -a credentialLevel=anonymous \ -a defaultSearchBase="dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu" \ -a defaultSearchScope=sub \ -a defaultServerList="188.8.131.52 22.214.171.124" \ -a followReferrals="TRUE" \ -a preferredServerList="220.127.116.11" \ -a serviceSearchDescriptor=passwd:ou=people,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu \ -a serviceSearchDescriptor=group:ou=group,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu
- On most CSL systems: You are done.
- On stock Solaris systems (and possibly some CSL systems):
- The ldapclient command has installed an nsswitch.conf that assumes you use LDAP for everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. But that's rarely the case anywhere. So
cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf. Then edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to use "files ldap" for passwd and group. See Linux section above for sample of what this will look like.
pkill nscdto restart it (Solaris 10), or restart it some other way.
- The ldapclient command has installed an nsswitch.conf that assumes you use LDAP for everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. But that's rarely the case anywhere. So
- NOTE: Solaris defaults tolibnss- using files instead of compat to reference the local password and group databases. For more information on the differences between files and compat, you can run
info libc "Name Service Switch"on a system with GNU info configured.
Admin-only access
Follow the above directions, but wherever you see an
ou=people, replace it with an
ou=sysadmins. Only sysadmins with LDAP entries in ou=sysadmins will be able to access that system. Note that additional access control can, and is often, managed by using hostname groups (i.e. the LDAP POSIX group named after the hostname of the system). This is currently not done on Solaris systems, but is done on most Linux systems.
Note that if you are doing this, you will probably want to enable the pam_mkhomedir module to automatically create home directories the first time an admin logs in. This can be done by adding the following line to /etc/pam.d/system-auth on linux systems:
session optional pam_mkhomedir.so
On Centos, this can also be done using authconfig:
authconfig --enablemkhomedir --update
Administration and management of NSS data is primarily accomplished through the LDAP command line utilities. In order to gain administrative access to NSS LDAP, four things are necessary:
- You must have an ou=sysadmins user entry (eg: uid=ahamilto,ou=sysadmins,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu)
- You must have a Kerberos /admin principal (eg: ahamilto/admin)
- The dn of your ou=sysadmins entry must be added as a member of cn=ldapadmins,dc=csl,dc=tjhsst,dc=edu
- The ldap utilities on the system you are using must support SASL GSSAPI binding
Once you have the above four items, you can kinit to your /admin principal and use the standard LDAP command line utilities to make changes. For examples of various changes see NSS LDAP Templates.
See Also
- NSS LDAP Templates - Template LDIFs and commands for various NSS LDAP changes
- OpenLDAP - Installation and configuration of the OpenLDAP Daemon (slapd)
- Integrated Authentication - Information on the Integration Authentication between the LOCAL and CSL systems.


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As a father, my gaming time is quite (understandably) limited. Our son just turned 3, so gaming is slowly becoming a part of our everyday life as I try to teach him some Mario on the NES or we play a little of some LEGO game. After our son goes to sleep we usually watch an episode or two of Stargate with my wife, and after that and a little internet surfing it's bedtime for us too.
Now I can really say that I'm a slow writer. It took me 4 months to get from the start to here. Wow, must be a record. I just updated the blog layout and appearance, so now I feel obligated to write more.
Anyway, lately I've been playing mostly with the 3DS, as it's something I can do in the breaks at work, and at home whenever I have few minutes of time I can open the lid and play for a minute, then close it and the state of the game is not lost. That is a very good thing. With the PC or a home console, I would have to quit the game, and if I'm not playing something with Leo, the "big" games take too much attention. Sure there are moments when Leo is playing by himself with his cars or something, but it's still hard to start playing anything that needs concentration. Better to leave that stuff to the evening/night.
Of the "big" games I've been playing lately I can say that Civilization V is a perfect game for a family man (or woman), as you can play a quick turn and then leave the computer if something comes up and come back to it later. As long is it doesn't bother that your Steam account now shows the time played wrong because you were afk for 5 hours in that last game..
But let's not get out of topic. I really have to suggest Animal Crossing: New Leaf to anyone with a 3DS. It may look childish, but starting a town and getting hooked in furnishing your little home and finding new things in the game as time goes on is fun! Because it's a real-time game, the seasons change and the bugs and fish change with the seasons. I'm currently addicted filling the museum with every sort of creature and fossil I can find, and I have to remember to water the flowers every day that they won't wither.
This blogger app on android is crappy, I have no idea where those AC pictures will go..
But hey, I'll try (again) to be more active here. I really do like to write, I just feel like I have little time for it...should probably stop the useless internet surfing..


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Basics] [Amman]
[Jerash] [Mt
Nebo] [Madaba]
[Karak] [Petra]
[Aqaba/Red Sea] [Wadi
Rum] [Dead Sea]
Anyone who has seen the movie Lawrence of Arabia will have seen Wadi Rum. Some of the film was shot there, though much of it is geographically inaccurate. In real life,
T E Lawrence made Wadi Rum his
desert headquarters and fell in love with
the place. Lawrence's book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is named
after a particularly striking rocky outcrop at Wadi Rum. His fascination
for this amazing desert scenery is easy to imagine.
Wadi Rum (or Rum Valley) is
a huge area 2km by 130km, some 60km drive north-east from Aqaba.
The desert
scenery is constantly changing because the daylight appears to change
the colours of the huge granite, basalt and sandstone mountains (jebels)
that tower 800m above the desert floor. The sand is of many colours from
white through yellows to Martian
red (in fact, a film about Mars was shot
here). Wadi Rum is a protected area and access is possible only with a
local guide. Only approved four-wheel drive vehicles are permitted.
We visited one morning in
early November and had left Aqaba basking in 20+ degreesC. However, we
found the desert cool, especially when travelling in an open sided vehicle.
We had got into the mood by wearing headscarves - I wore my kuffiyeh and igal (see Shopping
in Aqaba) - which proved to be a wise move to keep us warm
and to keep the sand out of our faces.
There are a few things on
a touring holiday that you could term "Wow!" moments. Wadi Rum was certainly one of those. The scale of of the place
is simply stunning; it is huge and remote and barren. Although we only
travelled a few kilometres from the entrance we really felt like explorers.
A particularly memorable time was when we had tea in a remote Bedouin
tent (see below).
The furthest part of our tour was a cliff that was split rather like
a small version of the Siq at Petra. We were able to walk into the cliff
at ground level and on a narrow ledge some 3m up. There was evidence that
water cascaded through this gorge during the winter. Outside, the ground
was flat and the sand a different colour showing that it was the site
of an occasional pool.
After a couple of hours we returned to the Visitors Centre where there
are clean toilets and some souvenir shops. After visiting a small exhibition
about geology, flora, fauna etc, we sat in an auditorium and watched a
movie about Wadi Rum. The film displayed different images on three screens,
which was confusing, and the commentary was full of cliches (reminiscent
of Peter Sellers' spoof travelogue: Balham, Gateway to the South)
- well worth missing.
Before leaving we had a buffet meal at the Visitors Centre. Eating outdoors
with the desert alongside and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom mountain as
a background was nothing short of magical.
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29 November 2016
Lead generation can be a tricky subject for a local emergency service business such as a small towing company. Most people won't have a specific towing company to whom they are loyal, after all; unless you need to have vehicles towed regularly for work reasons, it's something that doesn't come up very often, meaning that generally speaking your customers won't have thought about who to use until the moment they actually need your services.
17 November 2016
Travelling by car during the summer can be both challenging and tiring; the glare and heat of the sun can make it harder to concentrate and the higher temperatures can hinder your vehicle's ability to function properly and thus increase the likelihood of a breakdown. Fortunately, there are things you can do to make your car journeys easier and safer. Tint the windows One of the biggest issues many people have with driving during the summer is how hot the inside of their car gets.
3 August 2016
Car owners typically don't like the idea of needing to have a car towed, as they may not want to face the expense or hassle of dealing with a towing service. However, keep in mind that a tow truck is often a much safer choice than driving your car in many cases; using their services can keep you and other drivers safer than if you drove a car with serious mechanical issues.
7 December 2015
Most vehicle owners know that they may require towing services at one point or another. However, not many put much thought into what type of towing services would be best suited for their vehicle. Since cars come in an array of shapes and sizes, tow truck companies use different types of services to ensure that you are getting what is best suited for your particular vehicle. It should be noted that is best to have the contacts of your towing truck company in your phone.
11 September 2015
Trailers are valuable instruments for hauling heavy and bulky loads for personal and commercial purposes. Generally, it is advisable to engage a professional transporter to move the carriage over long distances. However, if you have a truck with towing capabilities, you can handle this task with basic guidance. Here are some simple tips to help you prepare your trailer for towing so that you will arrive at your destination without a hitch.
3 September 2015
When you purchase car insurance, supplemental drivers insurance, and even cellular phone service you will likely notice the option to get roadside assistance. This assistance varies from policy to policy, but the basic premise is the same: By purchasing this assistance package, bundle, or option, you will be able to call a number and receive assistance for car issues you may be having. There is a misconception that multiple policies give you better coverage and offer you more options.
1 September 2015
Some mechanical problems with your car are not so serious that you can't get your car to a nearby repair shop, but all too often, car owners overlook serious mechanical issues and drive their car when they shouldn't. There are some problems with a car that make it dangerous and unsafe to drive even a short distance, and doing so can put you at risk and also cause more damage to your car overall.


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Following its acclaimed success at the World Psychiatry International Congress and its once-off performance at the Baxter in December 2016, respected psychiatrist Dr Sean Baumann's cantata Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair, returns for this limited season.
Madness: Songs of Hope and Despair, bring mental illness and psychotic experiences into the spotlight using a combination of music (both live and recorded), song and imagery in an attempt to portray the complexities and also the wonder of these strange and ultimately unknowable worlds.
John Maytham from Cape Talk was most encouraging, "Absolutely brilliant. One of the most powerful and compassionate evenings I've had in the theatre for a while." Bronwyn Knox for WhatsoninCapeTown wrote, "… enthrallingly beautiful, a unique and artistically exquisite portrayal of mental illness, neither glamorized nor falsified, with beauty resonating in the raw truth of it all … the elements seamlessly coalesce as a deeply stirring whole." Tracey Saunders for Heart of Theatre wrote, "… this is a production which begins a neglected conversation which is so desperately needed … Magnificent cast with noteworthy performances …"
Libretto by Sean Baumann
Directed by Lara Foot
Composition by Galina Juritz with Dizu Plaatjies
Conducted by Chad Hendricks
Artwork by Fiona Moodie
Video design by Koeka Stander
Lighting design by Patrick Curtis


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Hello everyone!
Today I am going to talk about a favorite fruit of almost all Americans- the banana. Bananas are very versatile in baking, cooking, and can be incorporated into many culinary delights as a healthful fat replacer and tenderizer, examples: cream substitute in ice-cream, butter sub. in cookies and bars, and they are extremely complementary in almost all fruit salads! Yummy!
However, when a banana is pealed, sliced, mashed, or pureed, and is left for a time exposed to warm or room temperature air, it never ceases to disappoint us in its rapid color and texture transformation. Yes. Bananas always brown!
If you (the reader) have stumbled upon this blog post on accident – via Google search – in the hopes of finding a solution to keep your bananas from browning, I will save you the time now by saying that I am not about to disclose a secret for keeping them in that lovely creamy-white state. On the contrary! I am going to explain the science behind their turning brown.
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Within the banana flesh there is found a particular enzyme called, phenolase, or polyphenoloxidase (long word! I know!), and this enzyme, when in the presence of heat (think of room temperature heat) becomes activated and combines phenolic compounds in the fruit, bundling them up into larger molecules. The molecules eventually grow large enough to absorb light, and thus the surface of the banana fruit appears to be turning brown. Cool eh?
So just remember this "no duh" rule of thumb – you already know it – Unless you prefer eating it brown, eat the banana before it turns that un-appatizing color! And, enjoy every mouthful of God's merciful provisions! 🙂
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Pat Dearmont's Pecan Candy
2-1/2 cups sugar
1 cup whole milk
12 oz. chopped nuts
1 cup pecans
Combine milk and sugar in a flat-bottomed, heavy saucepan and cook to soft ball stage (237° F.) Add chopped nuts and cook until liquid becomes clear. Remove from heat and beat while candy is cooling. Stir in 1 cup pecans. As candy begins to thicken, place it on a wet, wrung-out floursack towel and shape a long roll of candy within the towel. Allow to cool, then slice.
Pat Dearmont contributed this recipe to the Jolly Neighbors Extension Club of Rose, Nebraska, for a hand-written cookbook that they made during the early 1960's. I have expanded the directions a little because all the recipes were greatly condensed to fit on one side of a 3x5" recipe card. John and Pat Dearmont's land adjoined ours on the southeast, and their sons Jerry and Tom were in 4-H with us.


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Toddler girls shirts can be mixed and matched endless ways to the delight of many parents.


text: How To Software Compatibility Between Access Formats ACCDB and MDB Access 2007 and 2013 use the ACCDB file format Share Pin Email Print PM Images / Getty Images Software Databases Documents Spreadsheets Presentations Desktop Publishing Graphic Design Animation & Video By Mike Chapple Writer Former Lifewire writer Mike Chapple is an IT professional with more than 10 years' experience cybersecurity and extensive knowledge of SQL and database management. our editorial process Twitter Mike Chapple Updated October 06, 2019 Prior to its 2007 release, the Microsoft Access database file format was MDB. The ACCDB file format was introduced with Access 2007. While later releases continue to support MDB database files for backward compatibility purposes, the ACCDB file format is the recommended choice when working in Access. Instructions and information in this article apply to Access for Office 365, Access 2019, Access 2016, Access 2013, Access 2010, and Access 2007. ACCDB File Format Benefits The new format supports functionality that is not available in Access 2003 and earlier. Specifically, the ACCDB format allows you to: Include attachments in your database. The ACCDB format allows you to store file attachments and other binary large objects (or BLOBs) in database fields. This is a feature long common to enterprise databases such as Oracle and SQL Server that had been missing from Microsoft Access.Use multivalued fields. While database purists may scoff at the idea of multivalued fields because they defy the principles of normalization, they'll make life easier for developers of simple databases. Multivalued fields allow users to select one or more options for a field value by using checkboxes. For example, you could create a single Shirt Sizes field with the values S, M, L, and XL. Users could then select all values that apply from the multivalued field.Safe integration with SharePoint and Outlook. SharePoint and Outlook both block MDB databases due to security concerns. Improvements in the database security model allow for the security validation of database files and both SharePoint and Outlook trust this validation.Encryption improvements. Users of ACCDB files can leverage the Windows Cryptographic API for database encryption. This capability is especially important to avoid identity theft in which an encrypted database can mean the difference between an embarrassing and costly security incident and a non-event. Compatibility of ACCDB With Older Access Versions If you have no need to share files with databases created in Access 2003 and earlier, then there is no reason to try to be backward compatible by using an MDB format. There are also two limitations that you should consider when using ACCDB. ACCDB databases do not support user-level security or replication. If you need either of these features, you can still use the MDB format. Converting Between ACCDB and MDB File Formats If you have existing MDB databases created with earlier versions of Access, you can convert them to ACCDB format. Simply open them in any post-2003 version of Access, select the File tab, and then Save As. Choose the ACCDB format. You can also save an ACCDB database as an MDB formatted file if you need to work with Access versions prior to 2007. Just follow the same procedure, but choose MDB as the Save As file format. Continue Reading


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1 Introduction top
Before proceeding with definitive repairs, the patient must be fully resuscitated, fully evaluated, and fit for anesthesia and surgery by a prepared team.
Risk of bleeding
Open book injuries disrupt the pelvic floor, and often tear the pelvic venous plexus. Displacement increases the pelvic volume, allowing greater blood loss before any self-tamponade.
Because of initial bleeding, the patient may be hypovolemic or anemic at the time of definitive treatment. Intrapelvic surgery may disturb injured vessels and cause bleeding to restart.
Transfusions and blood salvage should be anticipated.
Lumbo-sacral nerve root injury
Before undertaking definitive treatment of pelvic ring injuries, It is essential to know the functional status of the patient's lumbosacral nerve roots. A careful and detailed examination is necessary, to assess perineal sensation, voluntary anal sphincter contraction, and bulbo-cavernosus reflex. Cystometrography may be helpful to assess bladder neuromotor function.
Neurologic abnormalities should be correlated with anatomic site of injury:
- If a lumbo-sacral nerve deficit is present in extra sacral injuries, further investigation and possible treatment must be considered.
- If a sacral nerve deficit is present with a sacral fracture, the nerves should be decompressed with fracture reduction and/or sacral laminectomy.
Posterior injury
Unilateral open book pelvic ring injuries always involve external rotation of the unstable hemipelvis.
This injury is produced by an impact or compressive force oriented sagittaly (anterior/posterior compression (APC).
Unilateral open book injuries are partially stable because the posterior pelvic arch disruption is partial, with an intact posterior "hinge", usually the intact posterior S-I ligament.
Occasionally, the "hinge" is an incomplete sacral alar fracture.
Anterior injury
The anterior disruption, which can be quite wide, is almost always through the pubic symphysis.
The width of the disrupted symphysis, as shown by an initial AP x-ray may understate the degree of instability. Stress radiographs may be necessary for accurate assessment of instability.
While some open book injuries with slight symphyseal diastasis do not need surgery, there is no specific width that separates stable from unstable injuries.
Principle of treatment
Theoretically, due to the intact posterior "hinge", open book injuries can be stabilized by reducing and fixing the anterior arch disruption.
However, incomplete sacroiliac ligament disruptions present with a range of instability. This might be recognized by sagittal rotation or displacement on appropriate stress x-rays.
Posterior ring fixation is not necessary for all open book injuries. However, posterior fixation should be considered for more severe posterior arch injuries to prevent:
- persistent posterior pain
- post-traumatic arthritis,
- failure of anterior fixation
Specific indications for posterior fixation of open book injuries remain unclear.
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Reduction of the symphysis is performed first. Because of the intact posterior hinge, this restores alignment of the mobile hemipelvis.
If any posterior stabilization is considered, it should follow the anterior arch repair.
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Patient preparation
This procedure is performed with the patient in a supine position.
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Anterior fixation
Plating of the pubic symphysis is indicated for symphysis disruptions associated with pelvic ring instability. Evidence of mechanical instability is confirmed with physical exam and/or stress x-rays.
The required technique for symphyseal repair is:
For this procedure an approach to the pubic symphysis with the patient in supine position is used.
Posterior fixation
Partially unstable SI joints or incomplete sacral alar fractures are widened anteriorly on CT scans. If displacement extends all the way through the posterior part of the SI joint or the sacral fracture, complete posterior arch disruption is likely and internal fixation must be considered.
Percutaneous iliosacral screw fixation is usually the preferred technique.
In the rare case of of an open book sacral fracture, this should be repaired with an IS screw, unless it is displaced or associated with neurological deficit.
If available, the use of intraoperative navigation may be beneficial for iliosacral screw fixation.
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Check the completed osteosynthesis with Imaging, and physical exam if there is any question about pelvic stability.
Using inlet and outlet views, with the C-arm, confirm that pelvic deformity has been corrected and that involved sacroiliac joints and pubic symphysis are anatomically reduced.
Unless a C-arm with a large field of view is available, it may be wise to obtain similarly oriented portable x-rays of the entire pelvis, to be certain about overall alignment.
Confirm that reduction of each fracture or joint injury is satisfactory, Make sure that all fixation devices are properly placed, and that each screw is of appropriate length. Multiple views are typically needed, including both axial and perpendicular views for questionable screws. If screws protrude from bone, consider risks to nerves, vessels, and adjacent viscera, especially urethra and bladder after pubic symphysis repair.


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Prostate Cancer Information & Advice
You may have caught my recent posts on Mental Health & Suicide as part of the 2016 Movember campaign. Well, now it's the turn of that word that no-one wants to hear – cancer, specifically prostate cancer.
An illness that attacks without prejudice; regardless of age, sex, race or creed, most of us will know someone in every demograph that has suffered from its seemingly endless reach.
Prostate Cancer – why's it matter?
Did you know…? Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer amongst men – there are over 40,000 new cases every year in the UK. 1 in 8 UK men will suffer from prostate cancer at some point in their lives. 1 gentleman dies from prostate cancer every hour.
The Prostate – what is it?
Let us start on the basics, the prostate is a gland, it sits around your urethra (your pee tube) between your cock and bladder. Yes, this doesn't mean it's in your bum, but it does rest against the upper-forward wall of your rectum. It produces most of what you see when you cum – the thick white gooey mess.
It's also the bringer of some of my most awesome orgasmic experiences, but those are stories for another day.
How do I know if I have prostate cancer?
This is where it gets really tricky I'm afraid. You see, prostate cancer develops s..l..o..w..l..y.. So, small incremental changes in your bodily function you might not notice until the cumulative effect makes you realise that something is not quite right. By then, things may be too late. This is exactly the reason why Movember seeks to raise awareness, and why I am supporting the cause.
Panic not though, since there are things you can look out for, being in tune with your body can only help, right? So, here are the main indicators of prostate troubles.
- Needing to pee more often;
- Needing to rush to the loo;
- Difficulty in peeing;
- Straining to pee, or taking a long time;
- Weak pee flow;
- Feeling like taking a pee hasn't relieved your need to go;
- Difficulty in achieving erection or ejaculation;
Maybe now you'll realise why prostate cancer creeps up on you… none of these signs become noticeable until the prostate has swollen enough to put pressure on the urethra.
There's also some lifestyle indicators that might put you in a higher risk category of prostate cancer, and it's all the usual stuff – being overweight, with a poor diet and low exercise. It also seems that there is an hereditary link – so family history puts you in a higher risk band, as does being aged over 50 and of being from African or Afro-Caribbean heritage. Bizarrely, there also seems to be a link between high calcium intake and prostate cancer; but little is really known about the cause.
What to do if you are concerned about your prostate.
Get yourself to your GP.
Unfortunately there's no single simple way to say "yes" or "no" to whether you have prostate cancer. You can expect a urine sample, to check if your symptoms are the cause of an infection. You can probably expect a blood test for raised levels an antigen known as PSA. If those indicate the need for further investigation, you can expect the infamous finger up the bum.
None of these can confirm prostate cancer, but can eliminate other causes of your symptoms. If you're at risk, then the next step will be a biopsy – yes that's invasive, and possibly uncomfortable but the alternative might be cancer. You may also need an MRI scan.
The very nature of prostate cancer means that you'll need a range of tests to be sure that you are heading down the right treatment pathway.
I'm not going to go in to treatment, since this is about awareness raising, but if you want to know about treatment, then try the NHS choices website or Prostate Cancer UK.
Find more about my efforts for Movember here, and enter to win a prostate massager.


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Silhouette, $6.50, ISBN 0-373-21833-8
Fantasy, 2004
As an enticement for me to waste money on more trade-sized paperbacks under the new Harlequin Luna line, the anthology Charmed Destinies is embarrassingly bad. I don't feel as if I am reading a fantasy novel for adults: the characters here can be pitifully child-like and the level of sophistication in world-building is best described as "crude" and "elementary". Not that I am expecting some Middle Earth rehash in a novella, mind you, but ugh, with dialects that come and go and other bizarre inconsistencies, there is no sense of actualization of the authors' fantasy worlds.
Mercedes Lackey's Counting Crows is a dud. Lady Gwynhefer is dragged off into marriage with an abusive git and she suffers, of course, because it's for her people and her daddy's sake. Suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, suffer, she discovers that she's a magical person late in the story, she blows everybody away and gets the boyfriend (who barely figures in the story) in a rather creepy plot twist, the end. I don't know about anybody else, but reading interminably dull pages after pages of the Martyrdom of the Singularly Wonderful and Selfless and Pure Gwynnie the Heifer here as she endures beatings and insults from the Singularly Nasty Creatures in her life even as she in secret tries to save the kiddies and all – bleurgh. A complete waste of time, in my opinion.
Rachel Lee's Drusilla's Dream is set in the present world, but our heroine Drusilla Morgan (artist) and hero Miles Kennedy (author) somehow share the same dream of looking for a powerful key in a fantasy landscape. These two, when they are not dreaming, realize that they are not only living at the same apartment block, they also work the graveyard shift at the same place. I find this story the most romantic in the sense that the author concentrates on both the hero and the heroine as opposed to merely the heroine alone. Unfortunately, the author's fantasy landscape is rather flat and amateurish, with the characters getting out of sticky situations using deus ex machina plot devices. The result is Ms Lee's fantasy world coming off like a grade-school interpretation of Fantasia. I find myself wondering when the Luck Dragon will show. (In a way, it did, but never mind.)
I find the author's closing of her story holds some genuine and bittersweet emotional poignancy though. Since Drusilla and Miles don't come off like abused little Hansel and Gretel trapped in the cookie cottage of the wicked witch, I like this novella the best of all three.
Catherine Asaro's Moonglow is a disappointment because the story feels rushed and the premise isn't developed enough to come off as credible. In this fantasy landscape Ms Asaro has created, the kings of the land always marry the most powerful female mage. Iris Larkspur is a mere mage apprentice with lots of untapped skill. She is not in line to be the new Queen, but when she telepathically communicates with the long-lost thought-dead Prince Jarid of Aronsdale, everything changes. She turns out to be the most powerful mage and ends up marrying Jarid.
Jarid is a tortured character, but Ms Asaro fails to make him interesting. He's flat. Likewise, Iris is flat. Their speech pattern and overly earnest try-hard-to-please antics make them come off like waif-like children. Also, the world-building inconsistencies are the most obvious in this story, from Iris's on-and-off local accent to the deus ex machina explanation as to why Iris can be so powerful yet her potential remained undetected all this while by her teachers. I can't help feeling that if Ms Asaro has shifted the focus of her story from Iris to Jarid, Moonglow will be a much more interesting story.
This anthology is marketed as "romantic fantasy" and there is very little love scenes in the stories. In short, don't expect the stories to conform to the usual paranormal fantasy romance formula. Normally, I would welcome this change, but all three novellas in Charmed Destinies are just not good, I'm afraid. The best novella, Rachel Lee's Drusilla's Dream, is one that is the best merely by comparison to the other two – in a normal context, this novella is pretty forgettable. I hope the authors' full-length offerings for Harlequin Luna will be more palatable than this collection of duds.


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Three warm weather party cakes
These cakes are some of my favorites for baking in summertime. And there are so many more…think Tres Leches, icebox cakes, ice cream cakes, etc…
1. Almond Pound Cake – You really doctor up a butter recipe golden cake mix in this recipe, adding six eggs, flour, butter, and almond and vanilla extracts. Bake the day ahead and keep at room temperature then serve with sliced fresh peaches. The Cake Mix Doctor Returns
2. Orange Marmalade Cake – Fresh orange juice and zest are in the cake, orange marmalade is spread between the layers, and a whipped cream frosting is slathered over the top and sides of the cake. Served chilled, right from the fridge, this is cool comfort in the heat. What Can I Bring?
3. Tiramisu Cake – Called a dinner party cake in my newest book, this chocolate layer confection with coffee in the cake and frosting is filled with a mix of mascarpone cheese, marsala, and a little sugar. Garnish as you would tiramisu, with a dusting of cocoa or cinnamon. The Cake Mix Doctor Returns.


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Candle in the Wind" and "Your Song") to classic rock ("Crocodile Rock" and "Philadelphia Freedom" and with a Yamaha keyboard you can experience Elton John's music in a new and exciting way.
You can now hear Elton John's greatest hits on their own exclusive Piano Radio channel. With the new channel, you can enjoy piano arrangements of your favorite Elton songs played live on your instrument, whenever you want. Plus, each song you'll hear was recorded by one of Yamaha's acclaimed PianoSoft artists, and will be reproduced on your instrument exactly as it was originally performed. Check out some examples of what you can expect to hear on the new channel:
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (From "I'll Never Fall in Love Again - The Best Breakup Songs")
Tiny Dancer (From "Hits of Elton John")
The Elton John channel is just the latest addition to our channel lineup, which includes 17 other stations available around the clock and throughout the year. For anyone listening to radio on a CLP Clavinova or MODUS digital piano, the Elton John channel is your new channel 18.
To try out the Elton John channel now, first log in to Internet Direct Connection on your instrument and choose "Listen to Radio", or from a Disklavier Mark IV choose "Internet" from the main menu on your controller, then "Disklavier Radio".
On a Disklavier E3, you can listen to radio by pressing the "Internet" button on your remote, then choose "D-Radio". However, if you haven't created an account for Internet Direct Connection, you'll need to do that before subscribing to Piano Radio for your E3 - you can create your account here.
If you've never tried Piano Radio before, now's the perfect time. If you're not ready to subscribe and check out the Elton John channel, that's fine. Two free channels are available right now - all you need to do is get your keyboard online and you can be enjoying streaming music within seconds. Follow this guide for help with connecting to the internet, or head here if you're ready to subscribe. For more information on Yamaha's Piano Radio, visit our Online Services site.
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Where Can You Get the Best Donuts in Texas?
Recently, we asked you to vote for your favorite donut shop in the Falls, but today we are looking for the best in donut goodness across the Lonestar State!
The people at Buzzfeed teamed with Yelp to compile the list of the most popular donut shops in every state, as well as Washington D.C., using a formula that uses reviews and star ratings to determine the most popular. And for Texas, the most popular has been featured on television several times, including a spot on 'Man vs. Food', Round Rock Donuts in Round Rock, TX. From the shop's website,
Since 1926, people from all over the world have been stopping by to give our famous yellow (or are they orange?) donuts a try.
Round Rock Donuts, made from the original owner's recipe, are created with as much care and finesse as they were years ago. The yeast-risen donut originates from a bread-like dough; its distinct yellow color (from fresh eggs) immediately sets it off from any other donut.
Unlike baking powder donuts, this yeast donut cannot be machine-made; it must be hand-rolled, cut, fried and iced. On busy days, now as in the past, the bakery turns out 200 dozen of these popular originals.
Apart from donuts, the famous shop also turns out cakes and kolaches on a daily basis. But the thing that probably gets the shop most of its attention, aside from the unique orange glaze on their donuts, is their Texas-Sized Donut. The $7 donut has a special piece of equipment to cut the massive shape out of the dough, a bucket! Can you imagine eating a donut the size of a bucket? The impressive jumbo donut has sat in for birthday cakes for people across the Round Rock and Austin area, and spawned the challenge of trying to finish off the giant donut in under five minutes.
What's your favorite donut shop in Texas?