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I'm 28w3d today and I just need to whine a little. This is my 7th week of bedrest. I hurt. My hips hurt, my ribs hurt, my gut hurts, my arms are even starting to hurt. Every week I'm contracting more and more. I finally have an Rx for terb. It quiets things down but makes me feel awful. My cervix started at 4cm, went down to 2cm, and thankfully back up to 3.4cm but with some funneling. Since the last measurement I just feel like I always did in previous pregnancies in the days leading up to labor: just generally cruddy, with terb symptoms thrown on top. I have another appointment and cervical length measurement tomorrow and I'm kind of afraid of what they see. Even though I've been able to control the contractions for the most part. I'll also have another fetal fibronectin- those have been negative, thank goodness (last one about 10 days ago).
I'm just tired of being in bed, tired of having to rely on people for everything, tired of feeling gross because showers get my contractions going so I'm only feeling okay about a couple a week, tired of missing out on life with my kids (they come hang out in my room sometimes, but it's not the same), tired of this load on my husband who is trying to take care of the house and me and find a new job all at once. I want to keep my babies where they are as long as possible, but I feel a little worse every day and it makes me wonder how long that will be. This is such a drag.
i wish i knew what to say besides you're doing what you need to right now and im sure everyone understands...i wish you were more comfortable, is there a time limit to your bedrest? like when its ok to get up since labor will be safe?
mama to m (3/96), o (8/07), p (5/09) and our twins: r (2/14/11) and l (2/15/11)
Thanks, I'm doing a little better. I woke up in a rotten mood this morning after another awful night of contractions, then terbutaline side effects and restless sleep. But the sun is out and I'm feeling more positive. :) Right now the doctor says let's just get past the 30 weeks hump, which is just over a week away. I think he said once that at 34 weeks I can start doing things again, but I really don't remember. I think he's concentrating on short-term goals, which I think is a good thing. It will be interesting to see how things look and what he says tomorrow.
I feel for you. Bedrest sucks. I lost my first DS after an extremely preterm birth, so when I started contracting in the second trimester the next time, we were very cautious. I did five weeks of bedrest with DD1, and four months of it with my twins, and it was awful. I did go on to deliver at or near term both times, though. I will be thinking of you, and hoping you get to term. Hang in there! Short-term goals help a lot.
The main issue I had with bedrest was that by the time I delivered, I had lost so much muscle mass, from lack of exercise. It gave me trouble after delivery, when suddenly I needed to be walking the floor in the evenings with crying babies, and taking babies for walks in slings, and stuff like that. Massage can really help with that, if you have the opportunity and the $$$. A good massage therapist will also be helpful with the aches and pains.
i was in the hospital on procardia for a few weeks. it sucks. i was uncomfortable and sick and lonely and bored and in pain and tired and depressed. i tried to keep reminding myself that giving birth was not going to change that. i'd be uncomfortable and tired and anxious and stressed across the hall in the nicu instead.
Mama to Jet 6/05, Marvel 8/06 and Cash and Fox 2/09
Expecting Ada Marianne 11/14
Thanks for the support and kind words!
My cervix measured 1.4 yesterday. Thinned a full cm in a week. So they admitted me to the hospital. The doctor hopes only for the weekend. We'll see. They did put me on procardia instead of terb and it's working a bit better I think and doesn't make me feel cruddy, except a dull headache. I hope I can go home Monday. I miss my kids. But right now it's just a lot of monitoring and trying to figure out what's going on. Thank goodness for free wireless!
i'll be rooting for 30 weeks for you (or longer)! and for some healthy babies ready to just grow and thrive and go home.
when i was admitted we were hoping for 48 hours to give the steroid shots some time. i was 5cm's for weeks!
i'm glad you have wireless. sorry you miss your kids. it sucks to be apart from them like that.
Mama to Jet 6/05, Marvel 8/06 and Cash and Fox 2/09
Expecting Ada Marianne 11/14
Thank you all! Just waiting for another cervical length on Monday. Thursday's fFN was negative, so that's good. I got a tour of the NICU here today. It's really nice. I sure hope I can go home (if it's safe). It was hard when my husband and kids left today.
A negative FFN is a great great thing. Hang on that hope!
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This is from a designer-type.Going from print to the web, Flash5 was easy for me to pick up. After a break of doing no Flash and coming back to it with Flash6 out for a few months, I was frustrated, uptight and bought every Flash6 book I could find by trusted authors in order to catch up, while at the same time trying to get a big flash site done for a client.Nothing helped. I kept getting more and more frustrated. Everytime I saw the words "call-backs", "this", "method" or "object", I would get knots in my stomach.Actionscript Cookbook not only helped me get the website done, but his Actionscript Cookbook finally got me to understand Flash6 concepts. Flash5-free at last, no more knots in my stomach. I can now read and understand all the other books I bought! Now that Flash7 is out, I'll be buying every title that comes out by Joey Lott. He is the consummate teacher, and includes explains what you need to know, and why you need to know it, in concise, easy-to-understand verbiage. In my opinion, Joey's Actionscript Cookbook and Colin Moock's Actionscript, the Definitive Guide, and are the best values out there for Flash6.
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By Lara Gaur
Like most O'Reilly classics, ActionScript Cookbook is great for learning and mastering Actionscipt for Flash MX along with C. Moock's ASDG. Joey Lott also has a website with lessons on OOP. Excellent!
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Joey Lott's Actionscript Cookbook is a great desktop reference. The cookbook format allows me to solve problems quickly without having to wade through excessive details. I'm primarily a ColdFusion programmer that is learning Actionscript and Flash, so the concise, real-world examples and solutions have really helped me be more productive.
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This is a remarkable book in that before I picked it up I knew a bunch of Flash and ActionScript theory and had nearly no clue about how to create a Flash movie. And now I feel right at home creating a complicated dynamic Flash MX 2004 movie. Too bad that Flash MX 2004 introduced ActionScript 2.0 which is not covered in this book.Still most of the ideas in the book remain valid: ideas such as the use of class libraries, the dominance of movie clip objects and the use of custom components.I highly recommend this book!
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This is really a good book, its compliments to ASDG by Colin Moock.I am really inspired by the problems are solved in this book. A must be for Flash Developers.
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For a technical cookbook, this book is a pleasure to read and easily qualifies as best in its genre. It is published as Flash MX is being replaced with its 2004 version, but it should be a good reference for a long time, at least until another edition updates it to Flash MX 2004. Its 28 chapters are well organized with clear titles and well defined sections, a big help when one is looking for the right recipe to an every day coding problem. Joey Lott is a teacher of ActionScript, among other subjects, and that experience comes through in his lucid writing and straight forward examples. I will always keep this handy on my desk to refer to when the need arises.
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I received this book 2 weeks ago and have not put it down. The author did a phenomenal job breaking down problems and could not have been any clearer on his solutions to the problem. This is not a how to book, rather it is the friend you're looking for at 3am when nobody else is awake. I have yet to run across something that I couldn't find the answer to in the AS Cookbook! I highly recommend this book to any Flash/ActionScript developer. Thumbs up to Joey Lott & O'Reilly.
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This Book is a great learning tool and a huge time saver. I've been using Macromedia Flash since Flash 3 and this book has given me the most useful examples that I've seen.
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Grand Rapids Community Development Director Rob Mattei knows his city is an outlier when compared with other rural Minnesota cities.
A recent report by Minnesota 2020, a Twin Cities-based think tank, found that rural Minnesota cities were hit hard when the bottom fell out of the housing market. The statewide study found that although Greater Minnesota didn't experience the pre-recession housing boom as did metropolitan areas, small cities did experience higher foreclosure rates and falling market values as the impact of the wider economy hit.
The study also concluded that many communities in Greater Minnesota haven't really recovered from the loss. Hibbing, for example, has a six-month waiting list for affordable housing with both apartments and rentals in "especially short supply." In Brainerd and Baxter, median home prices fell between $60,000 and $70,000 – and have only made modest recoveries.
Grand Rapids, however, is experiencing a surge in new construction. Mattei notes, however, that public partnerships with private developments are aiding the uptick.
"Grand Rapids had a very good year in 2013, with 160 new residential units permitted," he said.
Some recent residential housing projects include the 73-unit Majestic Pines assisted living facility and the First Avenue Condominium project, now under construction, which will include 36 units at market rate.
The First Avenue Condominiums project is being developed by Alexandria-based Innovative Companies. But, prior to beginning construction, the city received significant grant support that allowed development to take place. Previously, the site was occupied by St. Joseph's School, which had to be demolished.
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While public-private partnerships are jump-starting some developments here, demand also is playing a role.
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Magnetation, which moved its headquarters to Grand Rapids in late 2011, is a primary driver of job growth in the area as is Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital.
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The city also will benefit significantly this year from a recently announced $615,000 award from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. The grant will target rehabilitation projects for both commercial and residential properties.
The city has identified a corridor along Highway 2 from Ogle's Marketplace Foods to the Westside Spur station. In coming weeks, the city will accept grant applications from local businesses for allocations up to $32,000 (or 60 percent of the total project cost, whichever is less) for six projects.
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The city's Housing and Redevelopment Authority will administer grant funding for residential properties. Funds are in place for 12 owner rehabilitation projects at a maximum of $22,400 each and 15 rental rehabilitations at a maximum grant amount of $5,600. Qualifying projects would include such things as a new roof, new siding, the installation of energy efficient heating systems as well as other deficiencies.
"The award of this grant to assist home owners and businesses in our city will only further our goal of making Grand Rapids a sustainably healthy community," added City Administrator Tom Pagel.
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Local economic developers also are optimistic that not only is housing construction on the uptick but so are potential new commercial developments.
One notable development is progressing on a former brownfield. Itasca Economic Development Corp. President Mark Zimmerman said that he and his staff are working to reach a closing agreement on the former Ainsworth site, located near the city of Grand Rapids.
The economic development organization assumed ownership of the former manufacturing site (renamed the Itasca Eco-Park) in late 2009 and announced a tentative sale agreement in 2012 with J.M. Longyear. Zimmerman said they expect to finalize the sale of the 121-acre site by the end of this year.
Although Marquette, Mich., based-Longyear hasn't announced how the property would potentially be used, the company does own and manage a number of natural resources-based businesses in Michigan, Minnesota and Canada. That's led to speculation that the company intends to use the site for next generation forest products manufacturing. In its annual report, IEDC executives said Longyear selected the site "for its many desirable attributes to support cost-effective commercial use, including its proximity to the wood resource and potential product markets."
The former Ainsworth site already has been partially repurposed and has two tenants – Cutsforth Manufacturing, which has a new 9,800 square foot facility located on 25 acres that was completed last year – and Hammerlund Construction, which has been issued permits to move forward with phase one construction of a new 5,000-square-foot headquarters facility. During phase two construction, the company will build an 11,000 square foot equipment service facility.
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We all know that terms such as "iteration", "project manager", and "daily stand-up meetings" are extremely difficult for software development professionals to comprehend. To simplify things, we have created a better methodology fashioned after a metaphor of the sport of Baseball.
This article explains the fundamental principles of this revolutionary approach, the best methodology ever created because it's brand-spanking new, named "Play Ball!".
Some people may refuse to "Play Ball!", in which case you may need to play "hardball". They may think that a methodology such as RUP, Scrum, or XP is better, but you need to tell them that their methodology is so 2006.
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Here is a list of roles for the project team. We generally don't need to assign specific roles to individuals, as we don't want to pressure anyone into having expertise in any particular area. It is more important that we all just get along, or collaborate, and that we have the courage to assume that everything will work out in the long run. Play Ball! is a qualisynergistic process, making it far superior to the empirical and prescriptive processes of yesteryear.
Every application must have a majority stakeholder who benefits from the solutions being developed. They are ultimately responsible for the success of the project. In Play Ball! we call this role the Owner. The Owner controls the funding of the project, approves and may change the makeup of the Team. The Owner also is responsible for explaining the suboptimal performance of the Team to the other stakeholders or users, known as the Fans. He or she often promises to improve results by spending more money on the Team.
The project team must have a Manager. In Play Ball! all team members are contributors, including the Manager. We expect a Manager to be a coder roughly 50% of their time. In the rare situation where a Manager is unable to code design patterns in C++, they must find another way to be productive, such as monitoring adherence to variable naming standards or ensuring that the code is well commented.
The Manager is not so much a classic project manager as a "leader". As such a key function is to keep the team well motivated. An unlimited supply of Gatorade and chewing tobacco will be provided. Coke and Mars Bars are acceptable alternatives. Occasional slaps on team members' backsides is encouraged! Check into your local customs before adopting this approach however.
The Manager relies on key technology experts to assist with decision making. These are known as "base coaches". We realize that Tests should be written before code, so the Test Lead is known as the "First" Base Coach. The role of Third Base Coach is fulfilled by the Developer Lead. Sometimes the Developer Lead believes that continuous integration testing is not necessary. Being of the view that "testing is for wimps", he may signal to bypass unit testing and steal home. A clean compile may be all that is required. This is a risky and dangerous proposition, known as the "suicide squeeze".
Team Player
The Team consists of all members of the software development team. Individual Team members are known as "Players". Everyone on the team is of equal standing. There is no "I" in "Software Development Team". Team Players are self-organized. All Players are encouraged to sign up for new roles, such as Pitcher. The Manager must not in any case tell the team what to do because Players are in effect free agents in control of their own careers. Team Players that can fulfill more than one role are known as switch-hitters.
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Ogden • Ben Lomond boys' basketball players file out of the locker room, and one by one, they leap up above the doorway and touch their goal, where a picture of the Dee Events Center is taped.
It is there, on the Dee Events Center floor, in the deep rounds of the Class 3A state tournament, where the Scots want to finish their season. Around the edges of the photo, words written in permanent black marker read: "2013 State Championship."
"We'd always go up and slap that wall, just as tradition," senior guard Sterling Brandley said. "We just thought up as a team to put the picture there. Now before every game, we remember our goal."
But wrapped up in the Scots' goal of reaching the late rounds of the playoffs and earning a trip to the Dee Events Center is a larger purpose. The Scots talk of this grander objective in reverential tones, because regardless of how this season ends, it will leave a lasting impact that will trickle down through the program for years.
Ben Lomond athletics long have struggled to get respect. Opposing teams have marked games against the Scots as wins before they were played, and a culture of losing and selfishness has pervaded the Ben Lomond locker rooms.
"[Former players] just thought, 'I don't care if I lose. If I score 30 points, that's good for me,'" senior forward Josh Hardin said
But the Scots' basketball team has dedicated itself to changing that, and it's succeeding. The wins certainly have helped the Scots entered the week 7-3 in Region 11 and are in line to make the playoffs for the second straight year but it's the sportsmanship and class they display on the court that have done the most to change the culture.
Even a simple act, such as going out of their way to hand a ball to an official, the Scots say, chips away at their old reputation and builds a new one.
"The biggest thing people think about Ben Lomond is it's an inner-city school, and it's just a bunch of ghetto kids," Hardin said. "But that's starting to change."
Added Brandley: "I think schools were excited to play Ben Lomond because it's an easy win. Now when they play us, they're scared of us, especially because of our defense."
The culture shift began four years ago during coach Ryan Wilcox's first year. Seniors like Hardin and Brandley were freshmen then, and how far the Scots have come has become a source of pride. Though they acknowledge there still is a long way to go, the Scots have seized the respect of not only their opponents but themselves.
"It doesn't just make the basketball team look good," Hardin said. "It makes the school look good. There's a change in our programs, and it's getting better every year."
If the Scots are able to go deep into the Class 3A playoffs, they will show to a statewide audience the progress the program has made. They're not short on confidence in their ability to make it that far.
And thanks to a smothering defense that's held several of the best scorers and top scoring teams in the state to lower-than-average point totals, that confidence doesn't seem misplaced.
"I think we have a chance on any given night," Wilcox said. "We can play with anybody in the state, and hopefully it happens for us on the right nights, and we'll be in the mix."


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Jan 16 (Reuters) - Citigroup expects a $15 billion fourth-quarter write-down at Merrill Lynch & Co Inc MER.N and said CDO/subprime exposures will decline by 50 percent to 70 percent in aggregate.
Though the write-downs will be large, it will now be behind the firm and enable the management to focus on leveraging the franchise's inherent earnings power, Citi analyst Prashant Bhatia said in a note to clients.
Bhatia, who continues to rate the stock at "buy," lowered his price target on Merrill stock to $75 from $80 to reflect the dilutive impact of a capital raise.
The analyst also widened his fourth-quarter and fiscal 2007 loss estimates for Merrill to reflect the write-downs.
He estimates that from the $12.8 billion capital raised by Merrill over the past month, $10 billion will be used to offset write-downs while the rest will be used to enable the firm to be better positioned to focus on growth.
"The latest $6.6 billion capital raise gives (Merrill) management much more flexibility to be opportunistic going forward," Bhatia said in the note dated Jan. 15.
Merrill, once the largest underwriter of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) in the United States, had on Tuesday said it would raise $6.6 billion from selling preferred shares to an investor group that includes the Kuwait Investment Authority. Continuación...


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Palin stands up to early-90s sitcom
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Palin's America By Heart largely breaks down along two themes: Ronald Reagan, freedom, Constitution = good; Barack Obama, "socialism," Hollywood elites = bad. It's not a hard-and-fast rule -- Palin, for example, devotes many, many, many words to praising the films of six-time Academy Award winner Frank Capra; and at one point she brags about accepting federal stimulus dollars for Alaska that "would go to create real private-sector jobs through construction projects and provide needed medical care to the disadvantaged" (this was before she quit as governor).
But, for the most part, Hollywood elites take it on the chin for not being "commonsense constitutional conservatives," including a few you weren't expecting, largely because you haven't thought about them in years.
Case in point: Candice Bergen and Murphy Brown:
Standing up for the family wasn't fashionable then and it is even less fashionable now. Many of us remember one of the early and epic clashes of the American heartland versus Hollywood over the role of the American family.
It was May 1992, and thirty-eight million Americans watched as a fictional television journalist named Murphy Brown, finding herself over forty, divorced, and pregnant, decided to have the child alone. Without the baby's father. On prime-time television. [Page 116]
The nerve! An actress expressing herself in a manner incongruent with the beliefs of a narrow slice of the country? Unacceptable!
Palin spends the next several pages defending then-vice president Dan Quayle for blaming the moral decay of American society on the actions of a fictional unmarried pregnant woman. She also claims that the only way to raise "good citizens" is with one mother and one father, and attacks "the left" for having us "believe that any grouping we choose to call a family is worthy of the name."
I'd point out that the current President of the United States was raised by a single mother, but in her twisted worldview that might actually be seen as reinforcing her point, so instead I'll just thank her for reminding us that there was once a show called Murphy Brown and there was once a vice president named Dan Quayle, and together they cause some controversy once.
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I am 4mo post-op from a previous cc. I had decided to have the entire implant removed and used Strattice for the revision with new implant. My breast is still very firm on the top and painful at times. I'm concerned that this may be another cc. I don't know if there will be anything left to do if it is. Does anyone know what they can do or has anyone else experienced this?


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How to Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags. Plastic grocery bags Type 2 (high-density polyethylene film - HDPE) and Type 4 (low density or linear-low density polyethylene film - LDPE/LLDPE) can be recycled at your local supermarket and other locations. Once the bags are recycled, they are made into lumber, trashcan liners or plastic bags.
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Exclude any plastic bags that are dark in color or bags that have handles or drawstrings. Plastic food packaging and plastic food wrap (Saran wrap) are also non-recyclable.
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BUZZ-U.S. STOCKS ON THE MOVE-Harman, OmniVision, Boulevard Acquisition
(For faster updates on individual market-movers, Eikon users please use search string "STXBZ US"; for the Day Ahead newsletter, link.reuters.com/mex49s; for the Morning News Call newsletter, link.reuters.com/nex49s) U.S. stocks opened lower on Thursday as the disappointing economic growth hurt investor sentiment for the second straight day, though new data showed jobless claims fell and consumer spending rose in March. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.47 percent at 17,950.19, the S&P 500 was down 0.51 percent at 2,096 and the Nasdaq Composite was down 0.54 percent at 4,996.475.
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Thirty-year rule
The "thirty-year rule" is the informal name given to laws in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia that provide that certain government documents will be released publicly thirty years after they were created.
United Kingdom[edit]
In the United Kingdom, the Public Records Act 1958 stated that "Public records ... other than those to which members of the public have had access before their transfer ..., shall not be available for public inspection until they have been in existence for fifty years or such other period ... as the Lord Chancellor may, ... for the time being prescribe as respects any particular class of public records";[1] the closure period was reduced from fifty to thirty years by an amending act of 1967, passed during Harold Wilson's government. Among those who had repeatedly urged the scrapping of the fifty-year rule was the historian A. J. P. Taylor.
There were two elements to the rule: the first required that records be transferred from government departments to the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) after thirty years unless specific exemptions were given (by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records); the second that they would be opened to public access at the same time unless their release was deemed likely to cause "damage to the country's image, national security or foreign relations".
Significant changes were made to the rules as a consequence of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) (which came into full effect on 1 January 2005). FOIA essentially removed the second of the thirty-year rules (the access one), and replaced it with provisions allowing citizens to request a wide range of information before any time limit has expired; and also removed some of the exemptions which had previously applied at the thirty-year point. After thirty years, records are transferred to The National Archives, and are reviewed under FOIA to see if they should be opened. The only rationale for keeping them closed within The National Archives is if a FOIA exemption applies.
As a result of this change, releases now happen monthly, rather than annually, and include more recent events, rather than only those over thirty years old.
An independent inquiry chaired by Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, recommended in January 2009 that the last restrictions on the release of information, such as Cabinet minutes, should be reduced to a fifteen-year embargo and phased in over a 15-year period.[2]
Change to a twenty-year rule[edit]
Under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, the UK Government started moving towards a twenty-year rule. Files from 1983 were released in August 2013 rather than January 2014 as would previously have been the case, and files from 1984 in January 2014. There will continue to be two releases per year until 2022 when the National Archives will receive the files from 2001 and 2002, having caught up with the transition.[3]
In Australia, the thirty-year rule applied to Commonwealth (federal) government records, except for Cabinet handbooks (closed for fifty years) and raw census records (closed for 99 years). These periods were set out in the Archives Act 1983.
In 2009, the Archives Act was amended to reduce the closed period from thirty to twenty years, with Cabinet notebooks reduced from fifty to thirty years. Census records remain closed for 99 years to protect the privacy of individuals.[4]
Cabinet papers for a full year are released on 1 January each year. From 2011, two years of cabinet papers and three years of cabinet notebooks are released together until 2020 when the new periods are reached.
Israel adopted the British model of a thirty-year rule as the basis for reviewing and declassifying its foreign policy documents.[5] Israeli declassification policy is based on the Archives law of 1955. The principle of the law is that all material is to be released after thirty years, subject to limitations based on damage to state security, foreign policy or personal privacy. In practice this means that declassification of documents are fixed at different periods based on type of material and date of production.[6]
The original law has been modified and updated a number of times.[6] Following a 2010 update of the legislation, the office of the Prime Minister released as statement explaining that "the new regulations shorten the period after which non-security-related material may be viewed, from 30 to 15 years, while lengthening the confidentiality period of certain defense-related documents to 70 years in cases in which Israel's security conditions require it".[7]
See also[edit]
- Classified information in the United Kingdom
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Freedom of information in the United Kingdom
- Freedom of information legislation
- Sanitization (classified information)
- The National Archives
- ^ UK Public Records Act 1958
- ^ Deborah Summers "30-year rule on government disclosure should be halved, Dacre inquiry says", The Guardian, 29 January 2009.
- ^ The National Archives "20-year rule".
- ^ "Explanatory Memorandum to Freedom of Information (Removal of Conclusive Certificates and Other Measures) Bill 2008" (PDF). Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
- ^ Pappe, Ilan (1999). The Israel/Palestine Question. Routledge. p. 153. ISBN 0415169488.
- ^ a b Fischer, Louise (2008). 8e Conference Internationale Des Editeurs de Documents Diplomatiques 8th International Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents: Des Etats Et de ... about States and Uno (Diplomatie Et Histoire). European Interuniversity Press. p. 78. ISBN 9052013896.
- ^ Ravid, Barak (28 July 2010). "State archives to stay classified for 20 more years, PM instructs". Haaretz. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
External links[edit]
- 30 Year Rule Review (UK)
- The National Archives (UK)
- Fact sheet 10 – Access to records under the Archives Act, National Archives of Australia


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The Ripple Mobile Environment Emulator is special in that it allows you to test HTML5 applications right on your web browser, specifically as a Google Chrome browser extension. In this way, developers can avoid the hassle of testing their apps on multiple OS-specific standalone emulators.
So what does this mean for RIM? For starters, tinyHippos will be adding support for BlackBerry applications to Ripple. RIM is surely hoping that the increased ease of adaptation to the BlackBerry OS will result in more BlackBerry app development. And as we all know, a smartphone operating system's success is often dependent on the quantity and quality of its apps.
As you probably know, Android-to-BlackBerry ports will be a snap with the PlayBook's QNX platform. So this question goes out to the developers: will an improved cross-platform emulator increase the likelihood of you developing apps for BlackBerry? Or would you rather focus your efforts on Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, etc.?
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by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
Before I had my kids I worked for a feminist organization that had the elimination of racism written into their institutional purpose. The YWCA's mission statement ends with this line:
The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, and by any means necessary.
I worked at the Portland, OR YWCA as the family program coordinator – working with children and their moms who were living in our short-term shelter.
The "elimination of racism" in practice meant that we had trainings about race, that we had an affirmative action hiring policy, (which didn't do as much in reality as we hoped it would), and that we talked about issues of race as a matter of course. Working at the YWCA did a lot to form my activist sensibilities.
One of the most important things I learned there was that it's impossible to extract a single –ism from a host of –isms. In other words, it's impossible to talk about racism without acknowledging sexism, classism, heterosexism, etc..
I thought of this again in light of the comments on naming. As Meera said, "[R]ace and class are substituted for one another in this society."
As an anti-racist parent, all -isms concern me. The default person in our culture is white, straight, Christian and middle-class with a gender defined by context. (Curing a child's fever? Female. Digging in the medicine cabinet, blindly searching for the right medication? Male.) The minute a person is outside of that default, he or she is at risk of being made a target.
The struggle of any anti-ism movement, as illustrated by the name discussion, are the -isms within that movement. Can we be antiracist when we're adhering to classist values? Can we be antisexist if we're heterosexist? How do we promote one group if to do so we have to step on another group? If we're fighting for the greater good, does it matter that we have to leave some people behind?
I don't have answers to these questions – I'm feeling it out as I go. But I remember within our activist feminist community that there was certainly a strong undercurrent of classism in our anti-racism. While we embraced Sweet Honey in the Rock and Alice Walker, we were far less likely to celebrate a real-life African American client with a bright red weave and airbrushed acrylic nails. I sense this same dichotomy in our discussions around names and hair.
I struggle with this as an activist, as a parent and as a transcultural adoptive parent. I struggle to recognize the limitations of my activism, my unpacked privilege, and my knee-jerk assumptions.
Dawn Friedman is a writer and mother to two children. Her articles have appeared in Salon.com, Yoga Journal, Brain Child and the Greater Good and she is the op-ed editor at Literary Mama. She is also the founder of OpenAdoptionSupport.com and since the adoption of her daughter in 2004 has become passionate about the need for adoption reform. She blogs at this woman's work.


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The Ausmusic 30 bands in 30 days challenge: day 7
November 07, 2012 , 10:02 AM by Jarrod Watt
What a week! Our first week in working through the new releases over the past year from Ballarat, Daylesford and the broader south west Victorian region has of course brought us gold.
For those who came in late - for Ausmusic month 2012 we here at ABC Ballarat are taking on the challenge to review for you 30 new releases from 30 different artists in our broadcast region, stretching from Ballarat, Dayleford, Lake Bolac, Warrnambool, Portland and all points in between.
Hunting Grounds
How dare a band so young be so cheeky as to deliver their first album and call it In Hindsight! Because they can, one suspects.
They've seen a lot - a seeming rocketship ride which saw them create a rumble through Ballarat's live music scene halfway through the first decade of the 21st century, before collectively blasting through the national tripleJ Unearthed High competition, the recording of acclaimed EPs, delivering an historic gymnasium-destroying performance at their former high school, then hitting the road for a muchly anticipated national tour that delivered on the promise of wildly exciting rock'n'roll from a band who want to do things a bit differently.
Read review: http://www.abc.net.uu/local/reviews/2012/11/06/3627126.htm
Mia Dyson - The Moment
A childhood spent between Angelsea and Daylesford marks her as a local in the West By South West music challenge; her new album showcases an artist who continues to build a career as a brilliant musician and songwriter, taking the chance on this album to show her style on piano - the results speak for themselves.
Read review: http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2012/11/07/3627605.htm
Boite Childrens Choir and the Melboune Millenium Chorus: Freedom Road
One of the biggest musical events of 2011 wasn't just about the size of the audience - even though the Melbourne Town Hall and Wendouree Performing Arts Centre shows sold out well in advance.
This was a massive performance bringing together a huge number of singers on a most audacious mission - to tell the entire story of gospel music and its influence in history and culture, representing the story of the displacement from Africa of millions of people taken by slavery, the power of work-songs on developing blues music, the role of the church as refuge from racism following the end of slavery in the USA, the struggle for civil rights, the development of modern day secular gospel from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Eric Bibb and the Blind Boys of Albama, and the continuing struggle to eliminate all forms of slavery in the modern era with a call from the women of Sierra Leone.
A big call, needing a big band, you'd think...
Read review: http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2012/11/06/3627137.htm?§ion=news
The Yard Apes - Devil's Road
Reportedly raised in a loving home filled with 8-cylindered Detroit and Geelong iron in the shed and vintage guitars and classic vinyl in the home, the Brothers Dunbar (Brett, vocals and guitar) and Greg (bass) along with drummer Adrian Jones deliver a thumping debut that's filled with clever contrasts in classic 50s late night torch tragedies, cranking guitar rockers and dancefloor stompers.
Read review: http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2011/07/20/3273920.htm
Geoffrey Williams - Yes Is the Answer
A previous career as soul singer in the highly produced 1980s has left a man who can take one acoustic guitar, a couple of percussion instruments, his voice, a mic and a small pod device to play and record live loops, building layered songs of delicious funk and superior soul. His 21st century debut is a one of assured funk and soul, distilled with taste and style.
Read review: http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2012/11/06/3627183.htm?§ion=news
Rick Moranis Overdive - Honey, I Ate the Kids
Talk about classic DIY concept: the 2 week project, a self-styled challenge taken out by Yacht Club DJ Gareth Harrison to see if he could a band be formed, write songs, record them and play them to an audience in a fortnight. This half of the insane genius behind the aforementioned Yacht Club DJs took to the drums and dragged his mate Greg Hollick onto guitar for this project that is everything modern punk promised to be: loud, irreverent, arrogant and hilarious all at once. With lyrics you can laugh to.
Read review: http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2012/11/06/3627189.htm?§ion=news
Gold Fields - Gold Fields
The legend says this Ballarat dance/pop crew scored overseas gigs before they'd played Ballarat bedrooms; that's probably not true but it's a great alluring intro to explain why this debut is so alluring - polished and smart dance tunes straddling funky pop and clubby house-beats that stand up to repeated playing.
Read review: http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2012/11/06/3627195.htm?§ion=news
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Ok, so i wasnt getting spark. new cap and rotor--then i was getting spark to the points but couldnt get it to arc from the plugs. new ignition coil solved that (the old one must have been weak-so if you ever have fire at the points but its week it very well may be the coil).
now im getting plenty of spark, but i believe the points are intermittently grounding out. any tips?
So, do you mean you are getting a good spark at the plugs but it is intermittent?
some time she turns right over, sometime i turn the key and get total bupkus, just nothing.
"Turns right over" meaning it fires ups and runs or the engine just spins over but doesn't start?
"Total bupkus" engine doesn't spin over or it spins over but doesn't fire up(start)?
turns right over means plugs arc, bubkus means absolutly nothing happens
Is there an external or is it internal (built into the coil) resistor and did you replace it w/ the same type?
Is the cap and rotor the same brand? (some brands don't work together w/ the air gap)
Did you change the "condenser" w/ the points?
Are the point wire/s clear of grounding out?
Are the batteries fully charged?
i think the point wires may not be clear, the replacement set didnt have that extra nut as the original, so i had to fiddle with the original and think that may be the problem, but am having trouble getting them right.
You need to follow the power with a meter when its NOT working as it could be anyplace starting with the start switch NOT supplying power
after messing with the points the grounding problem has stopped.....
ive got plenty of fire in the cap, but i have no idea why between the cap and the plugs there remains a problem, as i cant get the plugs to spark?!? now the moyer marine manual suggests w/no plugs attached getting the coil wire to spark, i dont understand why this would be any diff. than the plugs. i have new wires and plugs, and again plenty of fire at the point... im confused :confused:
1st, the plugs need to be grounded via the hex or threads and then you should see a tiny "blue" spark at the electrode. Personally, I like to hold it and jump j/k
2nd, the points will show a spark as they complete the circuit (goes to ground) and energizes (fires) the coil (primary coils) so it sparks (secondary coils), but that spark (points) isn't the spark you see at the plugs.
If the coil wire is sparking when it's close to a ground (needs an air gap/space) and is in fact firing when it's turning over, then the cap/rotor distance is usually too far apart. Matching a cap/rotor brand is very important.
A bad condenser can also cause this problem if it's a weak spark.
On top of all that, did you turn the distributor? (I hope not) That would also cause it not to fire properly. If that's the case, line up the timing mark on the front pulley/dampener w/ #1 (usually) on firing position and see if the rotor is pointing at that plug wire position. (just needs to be close)
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does anyone have his e-mail addy and regular address...I will take a few minutes to tell him that even tho I live out of state I will make sure his name stays in front of the voting public in every venue I can find.
This is a discussion on Virginia Senate Leader Denigrates Gun Owners within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Most anyone connected with VCDL should already know about it. They've rebutted him and he continued with the "foot in mouth" disease. The guy just ...
Most anyone connected with VCDL should already know about it. They've rebutted him and he continued with the "foot in mouth" disease. The guy just can't get his act together.
does anyone have his e-mail addy and regular address...I will take a few minutes to tell him that even tho I live out of state I will make sure his name stays in front of the voting public in every venue I can find.
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That guy needs to be reminded who furnishes the money for his paycheck!
Back when so many citizens called in to stop passage of the immigration bill, legislators in both houses of Congress were seething that they were told how to vote by their bosses(us). We should all be offended by their attitudes and should remind them regularly that they are there at OUR pleasure and to do OUR bidding.
Their reaction had me seething at their audacity!!!
"It does not take a majority to prevail,,,,,,but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." Samuel Adams
They also need to be reminded that we are their bosses and there are two ways to spell boss. Forward and backward and backward is DOUBLE S O B!!!!
We are very versatile bosses and can be either! Their choice!!!
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Many elected officials are convinced that they are of superior intellect to his "subjects." They operate with an arrogance that is obvious.
However, if they give their subjects enough pork they continue to get re-elected.
Too often we have poor choices, and just "trade the devil for the witch."
I would make a point to write him, write a letter to the paper, and vote against him. I bet when called he would claim he "was taken outof context" or misquoted.
They lie a lot too.
I think he's going to end up like Ned Beatty..................Is that a pig I hear squealing?
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I just sent him a link too this thread at his e-mail addy.. I also told him when he is voted out of office he too can squeel like a pig...do you think he will respond????
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I would love to see the reaction from the media if he said "well, it looks like we got the whole cast from 'uncle sambo's fried chicken reunion' here!!!"
Donch'a see, it is politically correct to bash Whites, White Males, Christians, and especially White Christian Males who support the Second Amendment.
Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not After You.
It's not surprising that he would say something like that. Liberals hold themselves out to be persons of tolerance, but they have no trouble deriding anyone that disagrees with them.
Politicians owe their loyalties to those who give them the BIG $$$ during the elections, and while they are in office. The fact that they draw a FAT paycheck funded by the taxpayers is a non-issue. 90% of the time everything they say and promise goes out the window once they get in office, unless they have a strong personal bias towards an issue. They could give a rats *** what the people say or want.
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The Sheriff's Office has learned that counterfeit twenty dollar bills are being circulated and passed in Baxter County and possibly in the surrounding area.
Three counterfeit twenty dollar bills were deposited at a local bank, which made the Sheriff's Office aware of the incident. According to bank personnel, the abnormal characteristics of these counterfeit bills were that:
A marker pen used to detect counterfeit bills failed to identify these as counterfeit.
According to the United States Secret Service website (www.secretservice.gov/money_detect.shtml) there are several things to look for when determining the authenticity of United States currency. They are:
Portrait: The genuine portrait appears lifelike and stands out distinctly from the background. The counterfeit portrait is usually lifeless and flat. Details merge into the background which is often too dark or mottled.
Federal Reserve and Treasury Seals: On a genuine bill, the saw-tooth points of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Seals are clear, distinct, and sharp. The counterfeit seals may have uneven, blunt, or broken saw-tooth points.
Border: The fine lines in the border of a genuine bill are clear and unbroken. On the counterfeit, the lines in the outer margin and scrollwork may be blurred and indistinct.
Serial Numbers: Genuine serial numbers have a distinctive style and are evenly spaced. The serial numbers are printed in the same ink color as the Treasury seal. On a counterfeit, the serial numbers may differ in color or shade of ink from the Treasury seal. The numbers may not be uniformly spaced or aligned.
Paper: Genuine currency paper has tiny red and blue fibers embedded throughout. Often counterfeiters try to simulate these fibers by printing tiny red and blue lines on their paper. Close inspection reveals, however, that on the counterfeit note the lines are printed on the surface, not embedded in the paper. It is illegal to reproduce the distinctive paper used in the manufacturing of United States currency.
A side by side photo comparison of each of these points can be seen on the Secret Service website.
Counterfeit bills may be passed intentionally, or they may unknowingly be offered as payment by persons who are unaware the bills are not authentic. Businesses or persons receiving questionable bills should contact their local law enforcement agency for assistance in investigating the authenticity of the currency.
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11/05/14 further to this review Amazon have completely sorted out the problem, very quickly too. So I have adjusted my star rating to 5. Well done Amazon.
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The hybrid hard disk performs very well.
One earlier reviewer with the same issue stated that Amazon had put this right - they obviously haven't.
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