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Formula change: now with more potassium sorbate & corn (GMO?)
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I am amending my 5 star glorious review of what used to be the most amazing cream I had ever used. Mychelle changed the formula! I had intended to stock up on this cream when it sold for $12 last summer but didn't get around to it so I bought another full price jar. To my horror they have tampered with the winning formula! The ingredients are NO longer those iHerb has listed here! Before it shrunk wrinkles on contact. Now there is corn (citric acid), which is GMO unless listed as organic (it's not) and the preservative (potassium sorbate) is now on top of the list of ingredients meaning there's a lot more of this toxin. Plus a few more questionable ingredients. I urge everyone to contact Mychelle and let them know we want the classic formulas back.
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Specializing in political economy and international affairs, Dr. Philip C. Bom is the author of two significant books on politics, Academocracy and Trudeau's Canada. Born in Holland, he is an American citizen who holds the A.B. from Calvin College and a Ph.D. in social sciences from the Free University of Amsterdam. An experienced teacher and scholar, Dr. Bom has held faculty positions at the University of Dubuque, at Gordon College, and at St. Stephen's University. From 1977 to 1982, Dr. Bom served as advisor to members of the Canadian Parliament before he joined the Regent University Faculty. His publications at Regent include monographs on international affairs, particularly the Soviet Union. In 1992 he published a book entitled The Coming Century of Commonism: The Beauty and the Beast of Global Governance.
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PwC supports the enhanced guidance in the clarity redraft, but identifies possible improvements.
PwC submitted a comment letter supporting the Auditing Standards Board's proposed Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements, Attestation Standards: Clarification and Recodification (the proposed SSAE). The proposed SSAE represents phase one of a project to redraft the attestation standards, a key feature of which is restructuring the standards into a framework consisting of guidance common to all attestation engagements, on which are layered the requirements and guidance specific to each of the three types of attestation services: examinations, reviews and agreed-upon procedures. Phase two of the project will address subject-matter specific engagements.
PwC believes the new structure may initially pose navigational challenges to practitioners since a practitioner performing an examination of prospective financial statements, for example, will need to consult three "chapters," as they are called in the proposed SSAE: common concepts, examinations and financial forecasts and projections. As a result, PwC would not object to eliminating the concepts common to all attestation engagements chapter and repeating its content in the chapters for examinations, reviews and agreed-upon procedures.
PwC supports the significant enhancements in the proposed SSAE, particularly for examinations and reviews, with relevant content from the clarified auditing standards, but also provides comments to improve the consistency and clarity of the guidance.
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How to contact DWP partnership teams for England, Scotland and Wales.
DWP works on the topics of employment, pensions and ageing society and welfare. We develop strong and productive partnerships at a local, regional and national level to help us do this. DWP partnership teams work with partners to help them to understand the support and benefits that we provide.
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China Certifies Enstrom 480B Spray System
Enstrom Helicopter Corp. and Isolair have obtained Chinese certification for the Innovator II 3900-480 agricultural spray system on the Enstrom 480 and 480B. Wuhan Helicopters is the launch customer for Isolair's 480B spray system in China. The belly-mounted system holds 120 gallons and is removable when not in use.
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Studio Session - Singer Melody Gardot
August 21, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: blender theater at gramercy, debut release, entire band, goodnight, heart, Interviews, love, melody gardot, personal story, play three, rainbow, songwriting, steinway piano, Studio Sessions, three songs, visuals
Singer Melody Gardot visited the WBGO studio yesterday, and she brought her entire band with her. Melody's debut release, Worrisome Heart, has generated a lot of attention for both her personal story and her intimate, original songwriting. She intended to play three songs - "Worrisome Heart," "Goodnight," and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." But she fell in love with our Steinway piano, and added "Love Me Like a River Does." Check out the session. If you like what you hear, and you want the accompanying visuals, be advised that Melody Gardot is playing tonight at the Blender Theater at Gramercy on East 23rd Street in New York.


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My compassion for all life started with the day I was born. I was born prematurely on the way to the hospital; I am very lucky to be alive! Then, my dad died when I was four years old of brain cancer. Life is sacred and short. Everyone deserves a fair chance at life. We all suffer, animals and humans alike.
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Amazing helicopter rescue story number two. The Royal Canadian Air Force's 442 Transport & Rescue Squadron managed to extract a snowboarder who was stranded in a steep ravine between Horseshoe Bay and Lions Bay in British Columbia, reports Canada.com. The squadron was able to make the rescue despite poor visibility caused by snow and wind.
I'm glad Alyssa is my flight instructor. Ravindra Pal Sing, the former director of a flight school in New Zealand, was found guilty of assault of two of his students by a local court, reports AvWeb. Sing was accused of slapping one student and pushing his head into the side of the cockpit. The other student accused him of elbowing her and raising his hand in a "threatening" manner.
Nice trick, but it still won't help the New York Giants get into the playoffs. . The FAA has investigated and debunked a YouTube video purportedly showing star receiver Victor Cruz catching a football that appeared to be thrown from an airplane, reports AvWeb.
A beach landing. A pilot was able to walk away after making an emergency landing on a beach in New Jersey's Bay Head, reports NBC Philadelphia.
Nice, but I'd rather have the real thing. Top Gear's James May, who is a pilot, was recently featured in Radio Times demonstrating how to make the ultimate paper airplane. He said his creation was a cross between a Vulcan bomber and a Fairey Delta.
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
- 2 large eggs
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Serving suggestions: strawberry jam
Special Equipment: 12 (1/2-cup) capacity muffin tin, paper muffin liners, cooking spray
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line the muffin tin with paper liners and lightly coat with cooking spray. (This may seem like overkill, but otherwise the muffins will stick.)
Whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. In another medium bowl, lightly whisk the eggs, then whisk in the butter, brown sugar, milk, oil and vanilla.
Quickly fold the wet ingredients into the dry with a rubber spatula. Just before the batter comes together, fold in the chocolate chipsdont mix the batter too much or the muffins will be tough. Divide the batter among the muffin cups (1/4 cup of batter per muffin). Bake until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Turn the muffins out of the tins, cool on a rack. Serve slightly warm with jam.
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Spokane Regional Drug Task Force executes warrant in Spokane Valley
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - The Spokane Regional Drug Task Force executed a search warrant in Spokane Valley Friday morning.
Deputies executed the warrant at a house near 1st Avenue and Dearborn Road around 9:30 a.m. Three people were arrested.
The SWAT team and a law enforcement helicopter were used in the raid to make sure no one escaped.Spokane Regional Drug Task Force executes warrant in Spokane Valley
Like most suspected drug houses, the residence was filled with more than a half dozen people unrelated to each other.
Investigators had to wear masks because of the smell and filth inside the residence.
Detectives seized user amounts of methamphetamine.
Neighbors celebrated what they hope will lead to the eviction of the current tenants.
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My First Gradient
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I have been loving all of the fun gradient manicures I have been seeing on other beauty blogs, so I grabbed some make-up sponges and decided to give it a shot. I was thinking of a Cartier rolling ring when I picked these colors, but on my nails I am reminded of candy corn more than jewelry It's a bit more subtle than I had hoped it would be. I think I need more contrast between the colors. Perhaps using a black base? Having said that this particular mani was also a bit photo shy. I think it looked much better in real life!
Numerous coats and a top coat shown (since I sponged them on, and then did some touch-up work I am not sure exactly how many coats are in the final result).
Orly Foil FX – Rage, Shine and Luxe
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Orly Foil FX is a collection for spring 2010. I don't associate metallic colors with spring, but hey they are stunning so who cares? Initially I only bought Rage since I love rose gold, and figured that the other two a gold and a silver were a bit boring. A rose gold polish struck me as being more unique. In indoor lighting Rage is pretty, but in sunlight it really comes to life with dazzling sparkle goodness! I had to go back and get the other two as well.
All three of these have a lovely foil finish that really dazzles in the sun! Application was a breeze, and this polish dried quickly.
I was racing to beat incoming rain, so the Shine picture did not benefit from as much sun as the other two colors.
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Well, it's Tuesday, and you know what that means... IBM announcements!
In today's environment, clients expect more from their storage, and from their storage provider. The announcements span the gamut, from helping to use Business Analytics to analyze Big Data for trends, insights and patterns, to managing private, public and hybrid cloud environments, all with systems that are optimized for their particular workloads.
There are over a dozen different announcements, so I will split these up into separate posts. Here is part 1.
- IBM Scale Out Network Attach Storage (SONAS) R1.3
I have covered [IBM SONAS] for quite some time now. Based on IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS), this integrated system combines servers, storage and software into a fully functional scale-out NAS solution that support NFS, CIFS, FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, and SCP protocols. IBM continues its technical leadership in the scale-out NAS marketplace with new hardware and software features.
The hardware adds new disk options, with 900GB SAS 15K RPM drives, and 3TB NL-SAS 7200 RPM drives. These come in 4U drawers of 60 drives each, six ranks of ten drives each. So, with the high-performance SAS drives that would be about 43TB usable capacity per drawer, and with the high-capacity NL-SAS drives about 144TB usable. You can have any mix of high-performance drawers and high-capacity drawers, up to 7200 drives, for a maximum usable capacity of 17PB usable (21PB for those who prefer it raw). This makes it the largest commercial scale-out NAS in the industry. This capacity can be made into one big file system, or divided up to 256 smaller file systems.
In addition to snapshots of each file system, you can divide the file system up into smaller tree branches and snapshot these independently as well. The tree branches are called fileset containers. Furthermore, you can now make writeable clones of individual files, which provides a space-efficient way to create copies for testing, training or whatever.
Performance is improved in many areas. The interface nodes now can support a second dual-port 10GbE, and replication performance is improved by 10x.
SONAS supports access-based enumeration, which means that if there are 100 different subdirectories, but you only have authority to access five of them, then that's all you see, those five directories. You don't even know the other 95 directories exist.
I saved the coolest feature for last, it is called Active Cloud Engine™ that offers both local and global file management. Locally, Active Cloud Engine placement rules to decide what type of disk a new file should be placed on. Management rules that will move the files from one disk type to another, or even migrates the data to tape or other externally-managed storage! A high-speed scan engine can rip through 10 million files per node, to identify files that need to be moved, backed up or expired.
Globally, Active Cloud Engine makes the global namespace truly global, allowing the file system to span multiple geographic locations. Built-in intelligence moves individual files to where they are closest to the users that use them most. This includes an intelligent push-over-WAN write cache, on-demand pull-from-WAN cache for reads, and will even pre-fetch subsets of files.
No other scale-out NAS solution from any other storage vendor offers this amazing and awesome capability!
- IBM® Storwize® V7000
Last year, we introduced the [IBM Storwize V7000], a midrange disk system with block-level access via FCP and iSCSI protocols. The 2U-high control enclosure held two cannister nodes, a 12-drive or 24-drive bay, and a pair of power-supply/battery UPS modules. The controller could attach up to nine expansion enclosures for more capacity, as well as virtualize other storage systems. This has been one of our most successful products ever, selling over 100PB in the past 12 months to over 2,500 delighted customers.
The 12-drive enclosure now supports both 2TB and 3TB NL-SAS drives. The 24-drive enclosures support 200/300/400GB Solid-State Drives (SSD), 146 and 300GB 15K RPM drives, 300/450/600GB 10K RPM drives, and a new 1TB NL-SAS drive option. For those who want to set up "Flash-and-Stash" in a single 2U drawer, now you can combine SSD and NL-SAS in the 24-drive enclosure! This is the perfect platform for IBM's Easy Tier sub-LUN automated tiering. IBM's Easy Tier is substantially more powerful and easier to use than EMC's FAST-VP or HDS's Dynamic Tiering.
Last week, at Oracle OpenWorld, there were various vendors hawking their DRAM/SSD-only disk systems, including my friends at Texas Memory Systems, Pure Storage, and Violin Memory Systems. When people came to the IBM booth to ask what IBM offers, I explained that both the IBM DS8000 and the Storwize V7000 can be outfitted in this manner. With the Storwize V7000, you can buy as much or little SSD as you like. You do not have to buy these drives in groups of 8 or 16 at a time.
The Storwize V7000 is the sister product of the IBM SAN Volume Controller, so you can replicate between one and the other. I see two use cases for this. First, you might have a SVC at a primary location, and decide to replicate just the subset of mission-critical production data to a remote location, and use the Storwize V7000 as the target device. Secondly, you could have three remote or branch offices (ROBO) that replicate to a centralized data center SAN Volume Controller.
Lastly, like the SVC, the Storwize V7000 now supports clustering so that you can now combine multiple control enclosures together to make a single system.
- IBM® Storwize® V7000 Unified
Do you remember how IBM combined the best of SAN Volume Controller, XIV and DS8000 RAID into the Storwize V7000? Well, IBM did it again, combining the best of the Storwize V7000 with the common NAS software base developed for SONAS into the new "Storwize V7000 Unified".
You can upgrade your block-only Storwize V7000 into a file-and-block "Storwize V7000 Unified" storage system. This is a 6U-high system, consisting of a pair of 2U-high file modules connected to a standard 2U-high control enclosure. Like the block-only version, the control enclosure can attach up to nine expansion enclosures, as well as all the same support to virtualize external disk systems. The file modules combine the management node, interface node and storage node functionality that SONAS R1.3 offers.
What exactly does that mean for you? In addition to FCP and iSCSI for block-level LUNs, you can carve out file systems that support NFS, CIFS, FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, and SCP protocols. All the same support as SONAS for anti-virus checking, access-based enumeration, integrated TSM backup and HSM functionality to migrate data to tape, NDMP backup support for other backup software, and Active Cloud Engine's local file management are all included!
- IBM SAN Volume Controller V6.3
The SAN Volume Controller [SVC] increases its stretched cluster to distances up to 300km. This is 3x further than EMC's VPLEX offering. This allows identical copies of data to be kept identical in both locations, and allows for Live Partition Mobility or VMware vMotion to move workloads seamlessly from one data center to another. Combining two data centers with an SVC stretch cluster is often referred to as "Data Center Federation".
The SVC also introduces a low-bandwidth option for Global Mirror. We actually borrowed this concept from our XIV disk system. Normally, SVC's Global Mirror will consume all the bandwidth it can to keep the destination copy of the data within a few seconds of currency behind the source copy. But do you always need to be that current? Can you afford the bandwidth requirements needed to keep up with that? If you answered "No!" to either of these, then the low-bandwidth option is you. Basically, a FlashCopy is done on the source copy, this copy is then sent over to the destination, and a FlashCopy is made of that. The process is then repeated on a scheduled basis, like every four hours. This greatly reduces the amount of bandwidth required, and for many workloads, having currency in hours, rather than seconds, is good enough.
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I am very excited about all these announcements! It is a good time to be working for IBM, and look forward to sharing these exciting enhancements with clients at the Tucson EBC.
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NOTE: If you have any questions about GU10 bulbs. please post them here in this thread rather than PMing me personally. It would be better for the whole community to benefit from your questions. So dont be shy and ask away. If i am not available to answer the question someone else will probably answer just as quick.
Okay I've had a bunch of people ask for a thread on the LED that i use for my tank
here is a quick video of the lighting all setup
The build is really easy.. Get the bulbs and wire them parallel
(here is a link to a quick picture tutorial i did recently http://www.nhfragswa...msg2572#msg2572 )
General Cool white bulb specs :
GU10 3W White Energy Saving Bulb 3*1w LED 85-265V
Shell material: Aluminum, zinc metal alloy
Input voltage: 85-265V AC with reversed polarity protect
Output power: 3.0W
Beam angle: 30degrees
Reflector efficiency: 90%
Light source: 3 x 1W high power LED
LED input current: 900mA
Color Temperature: 6000-7000K
Body temperature: <60°C
LED working temperature: <65°C
Source life: > 50,000 hours
as for the bulbs.
This seller sells the bulbs with Epistarbulbs. Refer to this post to see that its quite possible they are the same as crees
To find the Blues search ebay for 3w gu10 blue
to find the whites search ebay for 3wgu10 cool white (whites 6500-700k (nice bright white))
luckzdl2008 is my favorite ebay seller. If he doesnt have any listed just message him and he can usually put some up for sale in his ebay store . Or just sell directly.
Sockets: This dealer is in NY. sockets arrive very quickly. The link is for the search in the dealers items. so you will be able to find them from the right dealer with one click. $10.29 for 10 sockets
or search ebay for g10 base socket
i would say don't pay over 7.50 per bulb if the dealers i mentioned are out of stock or not selling. You might be able to find a dealer with a best offer situation.. i scored a few for $4.50ea on my last order.
I have had a lot of people ask how many to use..
I have a simple formula
(tank length divided by two) minus 1
so for a 36" tank you should have 17 bulbs. in a single line.. alternating colors.
for tanks that are deeper than the standard 12" add another row.
so a 36x18 foot print should have two rows of 17 bulbs.
I will attach a picture of what the bulbs and sockets look like.
There are two different bulb arrangements.. Three 1w bulbs or One 3w bulb. either is fine. I have a mix of them. I do find that the One 3w bulb version seems to have a better spread on the light.
here are a couple quick wire diagrams. the cicles represent the sockets. the bulbs have reverse polarity protect on them. so you don't have to worry when you put the bulbs in the socket if they are in the right way.
Growth. The Proof is in the real life results. (i am not the only one with the same results using these lights)
I have some really encouraging pictures to show. Mind you these are 4$ ebay LED bulbs. not expensive cree bulbs. they shoot 1500-1900 par at the surface!
January 2011 digi (the nub on the right was non existent when first put in the tank)
here is a picture from March 20th 2011)
Mid May 2011
even more encouraging is the growth of my crocea clam. I brought this home Valentines day 2011
march 20th 2011 .. serious growth
Now march 2011-jan 2012
I love tracking the growth on these. continually impressed.
par readings in a 5.5g
i had 5 bright white and 2 blues
3" from the bulb (above surface of water) 1900 par
just below surface 700 par
halfway 200 par
1" from sand 150 par
for those wanting to remove the optics for tiny shallow tanks use this to adhere the led chip to the heatsink:
Adding a quick wire tutorial
I started wiring them a little different. Makes it so you dont need to use any wire.. just wire them piggyback to create a parallel circuit. Way easier.
Anywho here is how i attach the wires. Most of the fixture pictured here was shrink wrapped but i ran out when i was doing the pics
divide the end into two sides
then put the wire you are attaching to in the middle of the split and twist the two ends so it secures the wire between the other wire
then wrap the tail around the wire
Then tape or skrink or sometimes i will actually silicone over the connections to make them water proof
Builds and Tank Pics:
5G: http://www.nano-reef...howtopic=296736
5.5G: http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3790156
2.5g http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3440847
5.5g http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3772398
4G 4 bulb http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3758167
10g http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3675347
10g http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3649936
18g http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3621343
Small bow Tank http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3626642
12g jbj http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3436271
10 bulb http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3489889
25bulb build http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3409144
Full Sized
biocube http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3470405
28g Biocube http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3529346
30B http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3630447
40B: http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3929045
33L http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3377454
29bc http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3372026
33l http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3675338
55G http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3595012
15bulb: http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3765561
Hoods/Diy Pics:
20 bulb: http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3807394
36bulbs: http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3790888
4 bulb http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3741795
4 bulbs http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3701483
12 bulb http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3651597
30B build http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3628461
9bulbs http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3483787
9 bulbs http://www.nano-reef...?...t&p=3459157
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A 35th minute penalty from Jonas Oliveira proved enough for Valencia to round off their UEFA Champions League Group F campaign with a 1-0 victory away to already-eliminated Lille.
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With qualification for the knockout stages already assured, the Spaniards were banking on BATE Borisov pulling off a shock at Bayern Munich in order to top the group, but in the end had to settle for second place.
A low-key start saw the home side have the best of what passed for the few early chances, with Franck Beria's second minute shot blocked by Rodriguez Salva Ruiz in the box.
Valencia came closer in the 17th minute when Beria's foul on Andres Guardado allowed Miguel Costa to float a free-kick into the Lille box where Adil Rami's header was saved by home keeper Steve Elana.
Lille had their own chance from a set-piece five minutes later when Lucas Digne floated in a free-kick from the right and Marko Basa's close-range header was directed just over the bar.
Elana saved a long-range effort from Jonas then Lille responded by bringing Valencia keeper Vicente Guaita into the game for the first time to save a 20-yard effort from Antonio Mavuba.
Salomon Kalou shot over the bar and Florent Balmont brought another save out of Guaita as the home side enjoyed their best spell of the game around the half-hour mark.
But minutes later Lille fell behind when Basa fouled Jonas in the box and the same player picked himself up to slam a powerful spot-kick past Elana.
Sofiane Feghouli could have made it 2-0 five minutes later as Valencia continued to press, but it was Lille who had the better of the early second half action, with both Ronny Rodelin and Gianni Bruno coming close.
Serious pressure from the home side saw Guaita pluck a dangerous Marvin Martin corner from the air, then Bruno should have done better with a header from 12 yards which flashed just left of Guaita's goal.
News of Bayern's easy win rendered the late action rather obsolete, but Jonas came close to adding a second before Dimitrie Payet almost stole a late point for Lille with a right-footed drive which rebounded off Guaita's bar.
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Teen awaits trial for high-speed chase
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Wis. – A Gladstone man, accused of trying to flee from police in a high-speed chase in Wisconsin in January, is scheduled to go to trial in Sheboygan County Circuit Court within the next two weeks.
Ray Gidean-John Potter, 18, was arrested on Jan. 6 in Sheboygan County on one felony count of attempted fleeing from police and one misdemeanor count of criminal damage to a police car. A third count of attempted fleeing from police was later authorized in Manitowoc County. He remains lodged in jail.
Potter will be tried on the Sheboygan County charges on March 12. The court scheduled the jury trial when the defendant did not plea Thursday but opted for the trial.
Attempted fleeing from police is a felony with a maximum punishment of three and a half years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The misdemeanor of criminal damage to a police car carries a maximum sentencing of nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.
According to police, Potter was driving a stolen Ford Mustang when a Sheboygan County Sheriff's deputy attempted to stop him because the car was reported weaving in traffic in Ozauke County. The deputy pursued Potter on Interstate 43 with speeds reaching 120 miles per hour.
Debris coming from the stolen vehicle damaged the squad car's hood and windshield.
The pursuit went into Manitowoc County where state police chased the vehicle and later apprehended Potter in Brown County after cops and a canine pursued him on foot. The suspect was turned over to the Sheboygan County deputy who initially tried to pull him over.
On Jan. 18, Manitowoc County authorized a charge against Potter for a second count of a driver attempting to flee police. He is scheduled for a settlement conference in Manitowoc County Circuit Court on May 17 when he may decide to either make a plea or go to trial.
Following the Jan. 6 incident, Potter was also arrested on a bench warrant as a fugitive from justice for failing to show up in Delta County Circuit Court in Escanaba on Jan. 3. He was scheduled to be sentenced in Delta County on a conviction for receiving and stealing stolen property as a second-offense habitual offender.
The extradition charge, a felony, was later dismissed on a prosecutor's motion in Sheboygan County Circuit Court. The bench warrant remains outstanding in Delta County.


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by bookelly » Tue May 22, 2012 10:18 pm
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by LakeErieWarriors » Tue May 22, 2012 10:31 pm
bookelly wrote:Whomever Boo'ed should be excommunicated from the Tee-Pee. PURE RAGE!WINNING!!!
by Am I Here Again? » Tue May 22, 2012 10:41 pm
LakeErieWarriors wrote:...I'll be at tomorrow's game to see what these boys are really made of.
by bookelly » Tue May 22, 2012 10:46 pm
LakeErieWarriors wrote:bookelly wrote:Whomever Boo'ed should be excommunicated from the Tee-Pee. PURE RAGE!WINNING!!!Anyone booing Rage, I'm sure was a drunken douche-tard looking for a little attention. In reality, it probably fueled Perez a little bit, but I'm sure it didn't bother him.I'll be at tomorrow's game to see what these boys are really made of.
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Prosecutor wrote:pup, what exactly is your problem with that post?The poster with the history of lazy extrapolation.I pointed out that Ubaldo has five wins despite not pitching all that well thanks to good run support and an easy schedule - which is true. Do you disagree with any of that?NopeI pointed out that although he allows tons of baserunners he has managed to limit the damage by making good pitches to get out of jams with runners on base. Any disagreement there?The good pitches to get out of jams is an issue. Has he gotten out of jams? Yes. Have they been because of good pitches, maybe on occasion. I said that he did a nice job last night after giving up the 3-run homer in the 2nd inning. He adjusted to what the Tigers were doing, changed his approach, and pitched four scoreless innings to give the offense a chance to get back in the game. They did, and Ubaldo got the win. Any disagreement? He got by again by being all over the place and having the fortune of some over aggressive hitters. He cannot get by over the course of 30 starts by throwing that curveball. He was very fortunate on a couple of them than hung. Because he is still not consistent in his mechanics. It is a recipe for disaster.The only thing that could be disputed was my suggestion that he might use his breaking ball more often because he's getting good results and he's still having trouble getting his fastball over consistently.So why are you throwing emoticons all over the place? Grow up and tell us what you disagree with. Say something intelligent instead of putting up cartoon figures like a little kid. Use your words. And put some thought into it, if you can.
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Prosecutor wrote:what exactly is your problem with that post?
by pup » Wed May 23, 2012 12:52 pm
motherscratcher wrote:He won, and he did get out of some jams. But I'd be happier if he didn't keep getting himself into jams.2 K and 6 BB means that he isn't getting back to his 2010 self, just that he's been unsustainably lucky. And I defer to Pup about his mechanics, which by multiple accounts are indeed a mess.Wins are nice, and I'll take them while they last. But that doesn't mean he's suddenly old Ubaldo.
by pup » Wed May 23, 2012 1:45 pm
Ubaldo Jimenez continues to be a disappointment. Yes, he picked up the win and technically was credited with a quality start tonight, but that performance was anything but quality. He's just the 3rd Indians pitcher since 2000 to walk six and allow five hits and still pick up the victory. In other words, it was a fluke. Jimenez has now walked five or more five times this season – the only other team with that many five-walk starts is the Blue Jays (also five).
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Chris Canning Award of Excellence finalists named
USA Taekwondo announced today that Zachery Budde, Logan Gerick, Cheyenne Lewis and Steven Thompson were chosen as finalists for the Ninth Annual Chris Canning Award of Excellence from an outstanding pool of nominations. The winner will be announced and presented the award during a ceremony at the USAT National Championships on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in Chicago, Ill.
The Chris Canning Award of Excellence is presented to the one martial artist who most exhibits what Chris represented and achieved. He or she has excelled academically, gained national and international acclaim as a martial arts competitor, given back to the community they live in and demonstrated the same personal attributes as the awards namesake. Previous winners of the Award of Excellence include: Adrienne Ivey (2012), Haley Kong (2011), Olie Burton (2010), Matt Dunlap (2009), Paige McPherson (2008), Jermaine James (2007), Maia Eubanks (2006) and Aimee Callison (2005).
The Chris Canning Award of Excellence, given by the USAT and the Chris Canning Foundation, is the most prestigious award given in his name. At the 2008 Senior National Championships, a special recognition by the United States Olympic Committee was given to his family for Chris living his life as a representative of the Olympic Ideals and for his personal, academic, artistic and athletic excellence. Last year, Paige McPherson, Terrence Jennings and Juan Moreno of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team presented the award in his honor to Adrienne Ivey. This year's award will be presented by Mr. Bruce Harris, interim CEO, and Miss Christina Bayley.
The Chris Canning Award of Excellence was adopted in honor and tribute to Christopher James Canning, an accomplished martial artist and world class human being. Chris was an honor student, a star athlete for his school in football, basketball and baseball, a classical pianist, worked at an animal shelter and helped the homeless and needy. In just four years as a martial artist, he earned his first degree black belt in Taekwondo, was a member of 11 state teams, won more than 30 medals at the national and state level including 15 state and three national titles, was an AAU All American, member of the U.S. Elite team training at the Olympic Training Center, invited to the U.S. Gold Team training and was a five-time Athlete of the Week and Illinois' USNTF Athlete and Student of the Year.
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I have just read an interesting article regarding mold development on food. It seems that there is right now an argument going on about possible preservatives in a 14 year old McDonalds hamburger that looks as if bought the the same day.
In this German language article a TV sender has made a comparative test between 3 burgers - a McDonalds burger, a bio-burger without preservatives, and a supermarket burger - which could be quite interesting regarding Pu Erh storage.
Here's the link, for German readers:
http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article1 ... asser.html
and my quick translation of the for Pu Erh storage relevant passage:
"The result was clear. The burgers that were kept for 60 days in fresh air had no visible mold. All 3 were just dried up as were the objects of demonstration by the artist and now also by the young Davis Whipple from Utah.
Under the microscope microbes could be found in the bio-burger and the one from McDonalds (in comparable density), though so few that they could not affect the exterior view of the dishes. Alone the product from the supermarket, with preservatives, was free of microbes.
In a second test run the dishes were packed airtight, and after a short time mold developed - equally in all 3 samples."
This is not really a proper scientific test, yet the results could be quite important for Pu Erh storage. I was told quite early on in my Pu Erh ventures that a certain amount of airflow and exposure to climate is very important for healthy aging of Pu Erh, and have done that in the past 10+ years i have home stored my Pu Erh (with very good results). I just keep my teas on shelves in a spot in my house which has a bit of airflow, yet is not exposed to direct fans, and which has no direct sunlight.
Given the result of the 2nd hamburger test run, it seems that airtight packing can increase mold development - at least in the burgers. But given that Pu Erh tea is, especially when young, not completely dry, and organic matter, this may also occur with Pu Erh.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (352 votes).
In short: it was NOT helped by the torrential downpours!!Date of review: October 29, 2004
In short: Perhaps a T-shirt instead at the end without paying extraDate of review: September 11, 2004
In short: Great winter half marathon - with excellent organisation and marshallingDate of review: September 8, 2004
In short: Very well organised, most friendly and encouraging marshalls of any race this year even though it poured with rain for the whole day..Date of review: August 24, 2004
In short: Horizontal rain this year!Date of review: August 24, 2004
In short: Very dull race, hard to get rhythm as there is alot of up and down moments on cycle paths. there are better halfsDate of review: August 24, 2004
In short: WetDate of review: August 24, 2004
In short: This could have been an awful race as the weather was particularly bad even for november but the FV Spartans marshals were cheering away regardless of the fact they were getting wetter by the second!Date of review: August 24, 2004
Date of review: August 24, 2004
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A Darlington man will still be required to pay roughly $1,000 in back taxes on rural Iowa County land due to a Department of Natural Resources forester's mistake. A DNR official gave Jim Kostohrys two options on what he could do with the land in question and neither absolved him of the financial obligation.
"Basically, what they told me is they're not going to do anything to help me out," Kostohrys said.
Kostohrys bought 200 acres last year and hoped to keep a large parcel of it in the state's Managed Forest Law Program. Wisconsin gives tax breaks to land owners who keep their land pristine and open to the public for things like hiking, hunting and fishing.
He met with a regional DNR forester for half a day to learn about the program and to ensure the land he was set to purchase would qualify. The forester assured him it did.
Eight months later, the forester alerted Kostohrys that he had made a mistake in assessing the land.
Three of the acres that he bought were not able to be kept in the program and that he'd have to pay a $300 fine to pull them out of the MFL program, plus pay back taxes, at a higher rate, dating back to when the land was originally entered into the MFL program, which was in 2003. It's likely to be a bill costing him around a $1,000 as well as removing the land from the program against his will.
"The DNR is going to take the land out of the MFL program," he said. "I said, 'I will not sign something that takes it out,' and they said, 'Don't worry, we'll take it out for you.'"
"I want to keep it pristine. I want to keep it nice. I'm not going to change it," said Kostohrys.
The letter highlighting his options was written by Kristin Lambert, who is the DNR's Forest Tax Enforcement and Operations specialist. It states that the department will waive its $300 fee for removing land from the program and gives him two options for dealing with the land.
The first option involves transferring the ownership of the three acres in question back to the seller, Lawrence Living Trust.
"That trust doesn't exist anymore," Kostohrys said, "so, that's out."
The next involves reenrolling the 3 acres and adding it to the 80 acres he still holds in the program.
However, Lambert wrote that he would be required to pay $10.68 per acre in taxes on all 83 acres instead of the $1.87 per acre he currently pays on the land still in the MFL program.
"Because you would be paying a higher tax rate on all 83 acres, this may not be an attractive option for you," Lambert wrote, "but the department wanted you to be aware of the way in which you might get the three acres that will be withdrawn back into the MFL program."
Kostohrys said the whole situation frustrates him to no end.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (60 votes).
In short: Fantastic Organisation, lots of hilly and muddy challenges, great event.In full: Really challenging but enjoyable, the mud was hard work for me but it offered training for muscles I didn't know I had. The organisation was brilliant. Will be back next year thank you.Date of review: February 13, 2013
In short: Very very muddy - and who left those hills there?In full: My first ever race - and hopefully the muddiest one I'll ever do! The beginner friendliness rating above is actually an average of a very welcoming bunch of fellow runners and easy organisation, and a course that could easily upset some people! It was very challenging in the very deep mud in places, especially when combined with very steep hills to make it feel like you're running up a stream, some bits would have suited a salmon better than a runner!I'll be back but will still grumble about the mud! Hoping for a slightly drier one next year!Date of review: February 11, 2013
In short: Another great race! Missed last year in the snow, but was glad to be back this year for all of the mud!! I don't think it has ever been quite this bad!! I loved it, even though I went flying along by the river!!! The mud just adds to the enjoyment!!Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: Rain, Mud,Rain,Mud....Amazing!In full: To say this was a challenge was a mild understatement two days of non stop rain made it at times difficult but a really enjoyable run a good mix of ups and downs,lots of encouragement from fellow runners and marshals a medal and a mars bar.Well done Amazing Feet. Date of review: February 10, 2013
In short: ICY CONDITIONS MADE IT VERY CHALLENGINGDate of review: February 18, 2012
In short: fun in the iceIn full: an 8 mile bobsleigh run this year, and I had no trail shoes! Managed to slide around a well organised race with a friendly atmosphere. Well done Amazing feet, will be back in July.Date of review: February 14, 2012
In short: Nice to back on the old course - Well done Amazing FeetIn full: Considering some of the conditions I have run this race in, it wasn't too bad. The rain held off for most of the race and the mud didn't seem as bad as I remembered it - I only slipped once ! but the hill at the end is as cruel as ever. All in all a great race.Date of review: February 16, 2011
In full: Great race. Pair of Mudclaws coped with the muddy sections. Couln't run up the hills but plenty of general running opportunity, just not very fast in my case! Challenging but achievable, the perfect sort of race.Date of review: February 14, 2011
In short: My first time for this race. Was bit worried from previous reports of mud and hills, so had prepared myself for a tough time. I thought the course was great. The muddy parts were nothing a pair of Mudclaws couldn't manage and although I couldn't rDate of review: February 14, 2011
In short: Will I ever get the mud from underneath my toenails?In full: My first time at this event, having run the half marathon a couple of times. Anyone who is at all familiar with the Wyre Forest will know that the hills are going to test you - and it's a fair expectation that you'll get pretty muddy as well. So no complaints that I spent much of the race unable to enjoy the stunningly beautiful scenery for fear of taking my eyes of the track and ending up in a heap, or worse still freezing to death in the river that the course follows for a couple of miles. It was terrific fun (even if you wonder why you bother halfway up some of the more aggressive inclines). As always, Amazing Feet RD did a great job with the organisation - marshalls were friendly and encouraging and the mars bar at the end was more than welcome. I look forward to (hopefully) slightly less muddy conditions at the Half in July!Date of review: February 14, 2011
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Skip to comments.Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens Bill Passes Senate Transportation Committee(California)
Posted on 05/20/2005 2:54:36 PM PDT by kellynla
As we expected, the State Senate Transportation & Housing Committee passed Gil Cedillo's driver's license bill on Thursday. All Republicans on the Committee voted no, all Democrats but one voted yes. There was one Democrat not voting.
The bill will next be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee. The committee meets every Monday at 1:30 pm. As soon as a hearing date has been set, we will notify you.
Please take time to contact the committee members and the committee consultant to oppose this bill.
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Committee Consultant (916) 651-4101
Sen. Carole Migden (Chair) (916) 445-1412
Sen. Sam Aanestad (Vice-Chair) (916) 651-4004
Sen. Elaine Alquist (916) 445-9740
Sen. Roy Ashburn (916) 651-4018
Sen. Jim Battin (916) 651-4037
Sen. Debra Bowen (916) 445-5953
Sen. Robert Dutton (916) 651-4031
Sen. Martha Escutia (916) 445-3090
Sen. Dean Florez (916) 651-4016
Sen. Kevin Murray (916) 445-8800
Sen. Deborah Ortiz (916) 445-7807
Sen. Charles Poochigian (916) 651-4014
Sen. Jackie Speier (916) 445-0503
What do you want, an award?
You're one of the few folks I've seen come on FR and openly admit to law-breaking.
Not exactly something to be proud of.
I dont know if I heard right, but did Cedillo say that the CA Drivers License is no longer valid federal ID?
You're a criminal.
What jobs are they doing that 16-17 year olds looking to make some money can't do? Just curious.
If you weren't a troll you just signed up to Free Republic, I would report you.
What state do you live in?
It's people like yourself that's responsible for illegals coming across the border. You're breaking the law and driving the border states to near bankruptcy. You should be ashamed of yourself.
And you wonder why people have the attitudes to big business. It's all about yourselves and d@mn everybody else. You and your ilk haven't paid enough in taxes to cover the costs of illegals.
He said the "new" illegal DLs would be a different color and couldn't be used as ID.
He's lying of course. Once they get it it's a stealth bill away from being legal.
People like you are a huge part of the problem. Will it be even better for you when the next 15 million come? Have you thought of what your kids and grandkids will be facing in the future?
Signed up today to confess your crime?
>>A referendum on this would really help the turnout for us on special election day.
One was all signed and ready to go... hmmm... what ever happened to that? So much for "terminating" this nonsense.
Oh, that silly thing? Notice how it conveniently "went away?"
Pretty frustrating, huh? Yet praise is placed with a certain someone for killing the last bill. Amazing.
>>...Before I leave ...
Where ya going? Hurry back! :-)
Bye DougFir....
This bill is all political theater. It will never pass. The Demorats know it. If it passed, every Californian that wanted to board an airline flight would have to immediately obtain a passport, or some other form of federal ID. How ridiculous is that?
Even those not living in California, please help!
Actually the above comment is.
The proposed California legislation is intended to comply with the recently signed federal legislation establishing a framework for acceptable state documents issued to illegal aliens. The federal code resulting from this legislation will not be promulgated until 2009 but in the interim California citizens who possess a valid California Driver License may still use the license as an acceptable identity document to enjoy routine federal privileges.
Illegal aliens may not whether they illegally possess a regular California Driver License or the new, illegal alien document if and when the proposed legislation becomes law.
Which is, incidentally, highly unlikely this year, since the Guv's office is saying, "let's wait 'til the Fed rules are clear."
If they give illegal aliens drivers licenses, we will all have to look for an alternative id. How convenient of them to help people out who are here ILLEGALLY. Then put everyone else out to take extra steps for WHAT?//
We can only hope.
I know that is the next step.
I am so tired of paying for myself and paying for all these people who are illegally here. It is all for no good reason other than to bring us all to our financial knees.
I am looking at a bill I got from the hospital for my sons surgery. Not only that, but I also got a request from the hospital for a DONATION for people unable to pay their bills.
What a joke, and in poor taste.
Yep. It's all that compassionate convervatism.
The e-mail addresses to contact all voting members is:
Copy and paste, and please tell them to vote NO on S.B.60.
Does Cedillo's proposed legislation differentiate the driver's license of a legal citizen from that of an illegal alien? I thought he didn't want such a differentiation.
Does Cedillo's proposed legislation differentiate the driver's license of a legal citizen from that of an illegal alien? I thought he didn't want such a differentiation.
Oprima el numero dos para ingles.
Yes, Cedillo is one of the numerous Mexican anchor babies who has risen to power through his union activities within a gerrymandered, monoculutural district in LA. Just the type of district that many citizen want to eliminate since its representatives tend to sponsor legislation that dirrectly benefits one class at the expense of the state as a whole as is exampled in SB60.
if my ID is no longer good...I am leaving this place like all the sane people have already done
Well it won't be if Schwarzenegger grants illegal aliens drivers licenses.
So now Cedillo just wants illegal aliens to be able to legally drive in California. How funny, if it weren't for real! Me, I'd have the INS at the DMV to arrest them when they requested the license.
It's in Cedillo's best interest. By the original intent of the 14th Amendment Cedillo is an illegal alien. After FDR packed the federal judiciary he became an anchor baby.
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Playbars demystified
Captivate playbar swfs have a complicated structure. Though you can create a playbar from scratch, its advisable to duplicate an existing playbar FLA file and make changes in it to suit your needs. You can find the source FLA files for the canned playbars in the following location:
<Adobe Captivate Installed Directory>\Templates\PlaybackFLA\AS3
Height of the playbar:
To change the height of the playbar, adjust the height of pbcBk_mc movie clip inside cpPlaybar symbol in Library. Also to get correct height, you need to change the height of the shape present in pbcBkHeight symbol in Library. pbcBkHeight symbol should contain a single shape (without stroke) and its height should equal to that of the background height set in pbcBk_mc.
Playbar Buttons:
Each playbar button except slider should follow this structure:
- icon_mc – A movie clip on which Button Icon color will be applied
- btn_mc – Each btn_mc movie clip should follow this structure:
- color_mc – A movie clip on which Button Face color will be applied
- glow_mc – A movie clip on which Button Glow color will be applied
- mouse states – Need frames with these labels – up, down, rollover. Whenever a mouse up event (or normal state) occurs on this playbar button, it will be asked to jump to the frame with label "up". Similarly for "down" and "rollover" frames when mouse down and mouse over events occur respectively.
- actions – A layer with action script in its first frame. It should have the following actions:
- btnTipsId – a variable which specifies the index of the tooltip array to be picked up when mouse is hovered over the playbar button [More about this array in Tooltips section below]
- onClicked – A function which calls parent.onPBCBtnClick() with a valid action. These are the list of valid actions – "rewind", "back", "play", "pause", "forward", "cc", "audioOn", "audioOff", "exit", "info", "TOC", "FastForward", "FastForward1", "FastForward2" and "print". – Based on the functionality of the button you need to give appropriate name.
Slider should have the following structure:
- thumbBase_mc –background movie clip of the slider (Button Face color)
- proClr_mc – a movie clip to show the completed progress of the movie (Button Glow color)
- thumb_mc – a movie clip which indicates the play head (Button Icon color)
- actions – mouse up and mouse down listeners which will call parent.onSliderMouse(false) on mouse up and parent.onSliderMouse(true) on mouse down.
All the colors (Button Icon, Button Face, Button Glow) can be applied in Captivate Skin Editor. Background color in Skin Editor will be applied to the movie clip named pbcBk_mc inside cpPlaybar symbol.
Playbar movie clip is the movie clip which contains all the playbar buttons, background movie clip and a background height movie clip. It should have the following movie clips (specified below are instance names):
- pbcBk_mc – Background movie clip
- pbcRewind_mc – Rewind
- pbcPause_mc – Pause
- pbcPlay_mc – Play
- pbcBack_mc – Backward
- pbcForward_mc – Forward
- pbcFF_mc, pbcFF1_mc, pbcFF2_mc – Fast Forward
- pbcSlider_mc – Slider
- pbcAudioOff_mc – Audio Off
- pbcAudioOn_mc – Audio On
- pbcTOC_mc – Table of Contents
- pbcCC_mc – Closed Captioning
- pbcExit_mc – Exit
- pbcInfo_mc – Info
- pbcPrint_mc – Print
- pbcBkHeight_mc – a movie clip to determine the height of the playbar [See Height of the playbar section for more details]
pbcBk_mc and pbcBkHeight_mc should be placed compulsorily. The rest of them are optional. However if all of them are present, user can choose either to have/not have them from Skin Editor.
pbcPlay_mc and pbcPause_mc are mutually exclusive at runtime. Only one of them can be visible. Similarly pbcAudioOn_mc and pbcAudioOff_mc are mutually exclusive.
Finally place the playbar movie clip on the main timeline with the instance name as pbcBar_mc. You can have an optional auto play button placed on the main timeline with the instance name autoPlay_mc.
To change the tooltips, find the MovieClip named Localization in the library. Open this symbol and go to its Frame 1. Here you can find the tooltips for the playbar buttons. Change them based on the requirement. Apply caution while changing the tooltips. Changing the order of the array elements will result in incorrect tooltips. If you want to change the language of the playbar, assign the appropriate array variable to pbcBtnTips variable. btnTipsId variable inside playbar buttons refer to the index in this array (pbcBtnTips).
Reordering Playbar buttons:
Playbar buttons will always be placed in the following order:
- pbcRewind_mc
- pbcPlay_mc/pbcPause_mc
- pbcBack_mc
- pbcForward_mc
- pbcFF_mc/pbcFF1_mc/pbcFF2_mc
- pbcSlider_mc
- pbcAudioOn_mc/pbcAudioOff_mc
- pbcCC_mc
- pbcTOC_mc
- pbcPrint_mc
- pbcExit_mc
- pbcInfo_mc
There is no direct way in which you can change this order.
Auto Reordering trick: However you can change atleast the order/layout of some of the buttons in this way: Renaming the instance names of pbcRewind_mc as pbcExit_mc and vice versa will swap the position of Rewind and Exit buttons.
However you might not be able to do this for every button because of some linking buttons play/pause, audio on/off and Fast Forward buttons.
Manual Reordering trick: If you want to hard code the positioning values, you can do so by adding an event like OnEnterFrame in background movieclip and then set the values for the button positions.
The code below will move positions for either Top or Bottom stretched. If you are using the playbar positioned on either side then you can change the x to y and play about with the values until the buttons are in the position you want. You need to check the registration point of the buttons and accordingly adjust the x and y positions.
Open the desired skin template FLA and open the symbol pbcBarBkColor in the library and add the following script in its first frame.
I'm also attaching a couple of sample playbars where the ordering is changed.
If you have created a new playbar swf, you need to place it in the following location for Captivate to pick it up:
<Adobe Captivate Installed Directory>\<lang>\Gallery\Playbars\AS3
Just close the Skin Editor if it is already open and open it again. You can check your new playbar in the playbar drop down.


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Topic: Why :3000?
I had Rails installed on my Redhat/Apache server and it only works when I SSH:
cd public_html
cd depot
rails script/server
...And access it at www.domain.com:3000
First off, how can I get the server to run constantly? Secondly, is it possible to make it so that I don't have to have :3000 at the end for it to work?


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An exciting and successful weekend has come to an end. Los Angeles Team Handball Club hosted the first ever women's invitational in Los Angeles; the SELECT Big 4 Handball Challenge. The tournament started with 4 competitive games on Saturday and saw LAWTHC and the Denver Dynamo go undefeated in the first day of competition.
Prior to the gold medal game Sunday morning, the West Point Black Knights and San Francisco Smurfs faced off for the Bronze medal. West Point academy got off to a fast start and quickly held a comfortable 4-goal lead, but the Smurfs never gave up and overcame the deficit to go into Halftime with the lead. Both teams turned it up a notch, leaving everything on the court over the intense 30 min half, but in the end the Smurfs emerged victorious with a final score of 18-17. Tanja Tambrow of SF led all scorers in the game with 6 goals.
Up next was the Gold Medal game. Denver came out full of energy and heart, scoring the first two goals of the game. However, after their slow start, LAWTHC fought their way back and by half time had a comfortable 14-7 lead. As the second half went on, the emotion and intensity rose and Denver's goalkeeper Andi Radu had to leave the game after receiving a red card for a blind tackle on a defenseless player during an LAWTHC fast break. Despite the ejection, Denver continued fighting their way back but in the end came up short and were defeated by a final score of 24-19. Agnes Arnadottier was the top scorer for Denver as her determination and hard work had the LAWTHC defense on its heels, allowing her to score 7 goals. LAWTHC biggest contribution on the offensive side came from its newest addition to the team, Trine Bay Larsen. Trine outworked the Denver defense all game along and was simply too much for them to handle on her way to a 10-goal performance in the final.
Agnes Arnadottier was an invaluable asset to the Denver team and was deservingly awarded tournament MVP. Jennie Johansson, the talented right wing for LAWTHC, was the top overall scorer of the tournament with an impressive 17 goals, edging out fellow teammate Trine Bay Larsen's 16. Los Angeles's goalkeeper, Staci Self took her play to a completely new level over the tournament and had a 45% save efficiency, earning her the Most Valuable Goalkeeper honors. Her numerous saves and high level of intensity played a vital role in leading the LAWTHC to some key victorious through the tournament.
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Naím explores in a variety of fields and with a great diversity of examples the way in which, as he puts it, "the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power" and "power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained." I think there's a real sense in which Naím has identified a real phenomenon. Power is becoming more and more diffused.
But as I argue in my TGC review, that's really only half the story. Naím often has to provide a caveat that in spite of much of the centralization that we see, power really is eroding full stop. My contention, however, is that what we're really seeing is the eroding of power in civil society, an evacuation of the power and place of mediating institutions, in two directions: toward centralized structures and authorities and toward individuals. The inability to see this leads to conclusions that would only hasten and exacerbate the evacuation of power from such mediating structures.
Some of this echoes what Ross Douthat has been saying recently about individualism, following Nisbet in particular: "In the increasing absence of local, personal forms of fellowship and solidarity, he suggested, people were naturally drawn to mass movements, cults of personality, nationalistic fantasias." I take my own proximate inspiration from Röpke and his identification of "enmassment," but there are certainly resonances with Nisbet as well as older thinkers like Tocqueville.
I should note in response to Douthat's observation that "from the Protestant Reformation onward, individualism and centralization would advance together," this dialectic certainly cannot be explained solely in terms of the Reformation, as perhaps Brad Gregory would argue. The role of the Renaissance more generally, and particularly the renewed engagement with the varieties of ancient and pagan philosophy has as much, if not more, to do with the Enlightenment project of the liberated individual constrained by the collective than the Protestant Reformation.


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An article in the American daily New Haven Register, written by Abram Katz and containing various comments regarding subjects included in Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation, contained both inaccurate information and unscientific interpretations.
First and foremost it need to be made absolutely clear that the information in Abram Katz's article regarding the views of Adnan Oktar, who writes under the pen-name Harun Yahya, is incorrect. Adnan Oktar has stated many times in his works and in interviews that the Jews are part of the community referred to in the Qur'an as the "Peoples of the Book," and that he holds sincere Jews, and of course Christians, in the deepest respect. Mr. Oktar stresses in his works that it is ideologies incompatible with religious moral values that lie at the root of the troubles currently being experienced in the Middle East. He reiterates that the solution is for genuine Jews, Muslims and Christians to support one another, to live by religious moral values as they see fit, and to constitute a model in which they can maintain their existence in freedom. In short, the unjust aspects and errors that Adnan Oktar criticizes in his works are very definitely not those of Jewish society in general. Neither do they represent Zionism, a perfectly legitimate ideology that supports the need for a Jewish homeland. What is criticized in Adnan Oktar's books is versions of Zionism that ignore religious virtues and are far removed from spiritual values and belief in Allah. That false ideology is condemned from many directions, and first and foremost by Jews themselves. Indeed, many thinkers and political scientists are agreed that it is radical, atheistic Zionism that lies at the root of the violence in the Middle East. An examination of such books by Harun Yahya as A Call for Unity and Wisdom and Sound Advice from the Old Testament will make the sincerity of his views on this subject crystal clear.
Abram Katz"s Errors Regarding Fossil Specimens
Abram Katz"s comments regarding the fossil specimens in the Atlas of Creation are inaccurate and conflict with the scientific findings. In his article, Katz denies the fact that there are no fossils to support the idea of evolution, yet he provides not a single example to back up that fictitious claim. This is a tactic frequently resorted to by evolutionists. They often refer to "fossils supporting evolution" in their papers and books, on programs they take part in and in their speeches and lectures. But when they need to come up with a concrete example they take refuge in profound silence. Indeed, the challenge issued to evolutionists "if you have any specimens supporting evolution then bring them forward," has remained unanswered ever since the publication of the Atlas of Creation.
Abram Katz's comments concerning the origins of mammals and the ages of the fossil specimens cited are nothing more than unscientific preconceptions. The theory of evolution, which maintains that life forms descended from one another gradually over very lengthy periods of time, has established a particular age for each and every species in the light of its own imaginative powers. However, these ages are based on the idea that living things are descended from one another and developed on a gradual basis, a claim devoid of any scientific foundation. The fact is, however, that concrete scientific findings, and particularly the fossil record, show that species are not descended from one another. Each and every living species appears suddenly in the fossil record and never changes at all for so long as it remains in existence. To put it another way, living things were created and never evolved at all. It is pointless to attempt to ignore this fact, revealed by the hundreds of fossils in the Atlas of Creation, which represent only a minute fraction of the total number unearthed, by way of preconceptions lacking any scientific validity. If Darwinists were to free themselves for a moment from the evolutionary indoctrination they have been subjected to, and if they were to begin to evaluate these realities from a scientific perspective, they too would see the truth of this.
Evolutionists claim that various imaginary life forms evolved and emerged from the sea, and then turned into reptiles, and that birds subsequently evolved from reptiles. According to that same scenario, reptiles are not only the forerunners of birds, but also of mammals. However, there are huge differences between these two categories. Mammals are warm-blooded animals (which produce and regulate their own body heat), give birth to and suckle their young, and are covered in fur. Reptiles, on the other hand, are cold-blooded (unable to produce their own body heat and whose temperatures change according to that of their surroundings), multiply by laying eggs, do not suckle their young and are covered in scales.
Yet when we look at evolutionist sources we see an obstinate silence on the subject, or else totally imaginary and unscientific fairy tales. Roger Lewin, a well-known evolutionist, was forced to admit that "The transition to the first mammal . . . is still an enigma." [1]
In short, as with all other living groups, the origin of mammals cannot be explained in terms of the theory of evolution. George Gaylord Simpson admitted this many years ago:
This is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals . . . . The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases, the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed . . . . This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists. It is true of almost all classes of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate . . . . it is true of the classes, and of the major animal phyla, and it is apparently also true of analogous categories of plants. [2]
[1] Roger Lewin, "Bones of Mammals, Ancestors Fleshed Out," Science, Vol. 212, June 26, 1981, p. 1492.
[2] George G., Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution, New York: Columbia University Press, 1944, pp. 105, 107.
The way that all of Europe has become acquainted with Atlas of Creation and the declaration of the fact that living creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years and that evolution is devoid of any scientific worth have led to a major change of belief among the people of Europe. Independent polls conducted by well-known publishing institutions in different European countries have revealed a major drop in the numbers of people believing in Darwinism and that belief in Allah now dominates Europe. >>
In order to create, God has no need to design
It's important that the word "design" be properly understood. That God has created a flawless design does not mean that He first made a plan and then followed it. God, the Lord of the Earth and the heavens, needs no "designs" in order to create. God is exalted above all such deficiencies. His planning and creation take place at the same instant.
Whenever God wills a thing to come about, it is enough for Him just to say, "Be!"
As verses of the Qur'an tell us:
His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 36: 82)
[God is] the Originator of the heavens and Earth.
When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 2: 117)