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GHNS National Budget 1/31/08 Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. Contacts: Jean Hodges, (630) 348-3350, (630) 956-8834, firstname.lastname@example.com Michael Toeset, (630) 348-3356, (630) 835-8870, firstname.lastname@example.com Election 2008 BIG SPENDERS: Where some of the losers' money goes, with historical perspective and records to show examples. Does this change the way you'll think about writing a check? FITZPATRICK (Story for publication 2.3.08 -- before Super Tuesday) http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/politics/x142938683 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: GateHouse News Service and the Rockford Register Star have developed a national political contributions database to track what people have contributed to presidential candidates. If you're on Zope, the database is on your web sites. Basically, you can input the name of your town or your ZIP code, and you will find names of everyone in that area, how much they've donated and to whom. http://gov.e-rockford.com/elections/contributions/gns/ IDEAS: For a list of local story ideas with the contributions database: http://ghnewsroom.com/news.php?newsid=1201195266 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BIO BOXES: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/politics/x254754015 Lifestyles TRAVEL PAGE: Cruises reach out to tough-to-please teens and families with thrills, laughs. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/travel/x254754896 TRAVEL VIDEO: This week, ride the Queen Victoria. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/travel/x1151557475 TRAVELOGUE: (Weekly rail) Celebrate Presidents Day with trip to Lincoln Museum. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/travel/x254755023 LINCOLN MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Illinois museum to feature 'Two Centuries of Campaigns and Candidates.' Springfield. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/arts/x603851051 RELIGION NEWS: (Weekly rail) Muslim women blocked from pool win discrimination suit. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x1651589457 ART MAIER: Tracing the origins of first known church building. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x254755004 FAMILY TIME: Weekly family rail, with a book review, movie review, craft ideas and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/family/x1295946046 FARR SIDE: Some alternative suggestions to keep TV interesting (think "Next Top Model" and the presidential race). David Farr. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x1151557581 Opinions GRANLUND SUPER BOWL TOONS: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x1151554476 GO ASK ALICE: McCappucino anyone? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x1651589537 JOE LICCAR: Toon on the Democrats being the "party of change." http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x1651589697 Sports NASCAR PREVIEW TAB: GateHouse's 24-page NASCAR preview section is available for download here: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/x1925673577 -If you just want the stories and photos, they will be posted in the Sports category SUPER BOWL: A links package to advance stories from New England is here: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/x603849896 SUPER VIDEO: Video report from the Super Bowl. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/x1151556063 SUPER BOWL COVERAGE: The Canton Repository is in Phoenix to cover the Super Bowl for GateHouse. Here's what you can expect each day: - Main story, game-related - Scene-related story (Hall of Fame story instead on Saturday) - Notes News CHOKING DEATH: Massachusetts family says kindergarten student choked on tack while on school bus. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x1651589904 ABANDONED PETS: As thousands of homeowners across the country face foreclosure, some pets have become victims of the nation's housing crisis and are left behind when owners abandon their homes. MetroWest Daily News. (Good to localize) http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x254757435


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Documenta 13By Liz Brown
Michelangelo Antonioni was not happy with the grass. This was the summer of 1966, and London was experiencing an extreme drought. The director had shot the pivotal scene in Blow-Up where David Hemmings photographs an unconsenting Vanessa Redgrave and her lover, and maybe, or maybe not, a murder at Maryon Park. But the grass looked terrible, scraggy and yellow, so Antonioni had the crew spray-paint it green, and then shot the whole sequence again.
Antonioni would've approved of the grass in Kassel, though. It was incredibly green, food-coloring green. The leaves, too. The city, at the northern tip of the province of Hesse, in the middle of Germany, is known for having been nearly obliterated by Allied bombs in World War II and for Documenta, the hundred-day international exhibition of 150 contemporary artists that takes place every five years. I was there with my girlfriend, Liza, for the event's thirteenth incarnation, but at some point, everyone I met would mention the destruction—whether to explain the city's history of manufacturing weapons or the blocky postwar architecture.
The painter and professor Arnold Bode organized the first Documenta in 1955 in order to exhibit publicly the "degenerate" art that had been banned under the Third Reich. The work of prewar and wartime modernism was displayed in the ruins of the Fridericianum Museum, not just as an act of recovery but of testimony, too. This year, the director is Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and the exhibition spread beyond the renovated Fridericianum to the main square, the train station, the Brothers Grimm Museum, the sprawling Karslaue Park, and more. There were paintings, installations, films, performances, lectures, seminars, and, as described in the press packet, "periodic activity." I was there for three days, which is enough time to realize how little time that is, especially since this year Documenta extends beyond Kassel to Alexandria, Cairo, and Kabul, where ruins, recovery, and testimony are not distant concepts.

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LI producer George 'Shadow' Morton dead at 71
George "Shadow" Morton, the enigmatic Long Island producer and songwriter behind "Leader of the Pack" and a string of other hits in the '60s and '70s, died Thursday in Laguna Beach, Calif. He was 71.
A family friend told The New York Times that Morton died of cancer.
Morton was best known for his work with The Shangri-Las, including producing and co-writing the No. 1 hit "Leader of the Pack." Mary Weiss, lead singer of The Shangri-Las, said Morton was a good friend and a great collaborator. "He never got the recognition he deserved," Weiss said. "We made magic together. I cannot explain it to anyone."
Morton, who could not play an instrument or read music, worked with all kinds of acts in his career, from the prog rock of Vanilla Fudge to the tender folk of Janis Ian to the glam rock of the New York Dolls.
Morton, who was born in Virginia and raised in Brooklyn and Hicksville, earned his nickname "Shadow" for his ability to move undetected in and out of studios. His shadowy nature has kept open for decades the question of whether he produced Iron Butterfly's classic "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" at Hempstead's Ultrasonic Studios in 1968.
After he split with Vanilla Fudge, Morton spent most of his time in Dix Hills, raising his three daughters and racing cars. Later, he designed golf clubs.
"He was an inspiration," said Jim Faith, co-founder of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, which honored Morton in its first class of inductees in 2006, alongside Billy Joel and Joan Jett. "He had a big impact on the music business and, coming from Long Island, we felt it was important to induct him."
Morton's successes, especially the pop of "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" and the guitar-heavy sound of Vanilla Fudge's "You Keep Me Hanging On," continue to influence music today. Producer Mark Ronson tweeted his condolences yesterday, adding that "[Morton's] songs were an inspiration for so much of 'Back To Black,' " the Grammy-winning album from the late Amy Winehouse that Ronson helmed.
Janis Ian said Morton, who produced her self-titled debut album in 1967, named her hit "Society's Child," which is also the title of the autobiography for which she won the best spoken word album Grammy last week.
"Shadow trusted my instincts the moment he heard me sing," Ian said. "He sent me into my first session with New York's 'A-list' musicians when I was barely 15. His only instructions as he walked away were 'Go tell 'em what you want 'em to play, kid.' He backed me to the hilt when no one else would . . . He treated me like an artist, not a little girl."
"To say I will miss him fiercely is a terrible understatement," Ian added.


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As her sister Pat Houston says, Whitney Houston was "a real person with a real family."
And that real family, including Whitney and Bobby Brown's 19-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is gearing up for the premiere of "The Houstons: On Our Own" Wednesday on Lifetime. But even though cameras have been following them around, they're obviously still managing to surprise each other.
Asked about Bobbi Kristina's engagement to childhood friend Nick Gordon, a bomb she appears to drop on her family during the series premiere, Pat told E! News at the show's New York junket Tuesday that she didn't think much of her niece's news when she heard it.
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"At the beginning of the show, she was engaged," Pat acknowledged, making us wonder if there's a part two to this engagement saga coming up this season.
"You have to realize, she's just lost her mother and she's 19 years old. I didn't take the engagement seriously," she admitted. "They are friends, they will always be friends."
Sounds like this is gonna be a jam-packed premiere. But, as "The Houstons" director and supervising producer Zo Wesson told E! the other night, "You have to put it all out there."
Whitney Houston's family went to court to shield Bobbi Kristina from "undue influence"
"Being on a reality show is a really scary thing to begin with," he said. "I think they had to bond together. They were a really strong family to begin with, this just made them that much stronger. I think it helped them to heal, the way you're constantly having to deal with the issue at hand...I think it helps."
"I am very proud of her," Pat also said of Bobbi Kristina. "I am not concerned about a music or acting career, I'm concerned about life management for her, being able to navigate her life and take care of herself in a positive way, to be a strong independent woman, live life without too many handlers telling her what to do, with values and morals. I am happy for her."
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On the coloration of that trout it almost looks like an ocean run brown
I guess the previous one was not the world record?
If you're fly fishing as though you are 'in a contest', and the only objective is to 'catch fish' - you are missing the point .... and that is disappointing
"Fly fishing is for those who hold that the fun in the race of life is in the running, not just the winning, that existence is its own justification, that a day spent in a stream or a pond with a goal in mind is a joy even if the goal is not achieved."
~by Jon Margolis and Jeff MacNelly
On the coloration of that trout it almost looks like an ocean run brown
that thing is a MONSTER ... feel inadequate after my small stream trout in Capetown


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Things being how they are, it's safe to assume that Meg Whitman's proposal for a statewide grand jury process to look at waste in government is a cynical campaign gambit, a way to avoid taking difficult positions on the budget. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had many of the same advisors as Whitman, did something similar by promising to do a "line-by-line audit" of state government once he took office.
After he won, the audit was forgotten.
But there's an important idea behind Whitman's tactic, an idea that's worth thinking about. Why not convene groups of regular citizens to examine statewide problems and issues in some official capacity? There might be benefits for California.
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The state faces knotty problems -- on budgets, water, prisons, taxes, etc. The debates on those issues rarely involve citizens -- politicians and interest groups dominate. In the process, much of what Californians here about these issues in the media is distorted or just plain wrong. Our political debates thus misinform us; some polls show that Californians believe prisons to be the largest piece of the state budget (in fact, education is the biggest item by far).
A well-designed citizens' jury process -- and good design would include a process that has some of the drama and tension that would attract media coverage -- could be part of a long-term reform strategy for the state. Randomly select Californians who would be paid to spend a week or two hearing from all sides of a particularly difficult issue -- and then would produce a report with recommendations for addressing that problem. Such recommendations, if put together in a fair and open process, would have far more credibility than any piece of legislation advanced by a legislature.
Government waste could be one of the problems tackled through a citizens' jury process. If a citizens panel concluded -- as many who have studied the question have -- that California doesn't have much government waste at all, it might well be a public service.
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An employee error at the Burlington Animal Shelter caused a dog to be euthanized last week before a family could claim him, the city�s director of animal services said Friday.
An employee error at the Burlington Animal Shelter caused a dog to be euthanized last week before a family could claim him, the city�s director of animal services said Friday.
The pit bull mix had been held at the shelter six days before he was put down Wednesday � just hours before a family planned to adopt him. Strays taken into the shelter are required to be held for 72 hours before they are adopted or euthanized.
Michelle Lassiter had notified shelter employees that she intended to adopt the dog and was told she had until Thursday morning to claim him and pay impound and vet fees. She also left her contact information with an employee and asked to be notified if anyone claimed the dog or the shelter planned to euthanize him.
An internal investigation found that a shelter employee didn�t follow policies related to receiving and recording information about parties interested in animals held there, Burlington Animal Services Director Jessica Arias said Friday.
Each animal taken into the shelter has a file. An employee who spoke to Lassiter about the dog didn�t properly file her contact information. Arias said the issue is a personnel matter and was being dealt with �appropriately and swiftly.�
�We found that it was an employee error regarding the relay of information and that the information didn�t get relayed to other staff,� Arias said. �There are policies in place already that weren�t followed. We�re also reviewing those policies to strengthen them so this won�t happen in the future.�
The Lassiters awoke Jan. 6 to the barks of a soaking wet pit bull mix who�d made his way through the cold rain to their front porch in rural Alamance County.
Shivering and covered in what looked like paint-ball paint, the friendly mutt was taken in. He seemed housetrained and quickly made himself at home, cozying up to their children and Cybil, the family dog. Mike and Michelle Lassiter followed up on lost-dog notices but were unable to find his owner.
They and their children were already attached. He seemed to fit right in. He stayed in the yard when they let him out and acted like he was home. They named him �Si.�
But wandering dogs wander. Michelle Lassiter put Si and Cybil in the yard � and returned home Jan. 9 to find him missing. She saw an Alamance County Animal Control truck at her neighbor�s house. Si was inside.
Lassiter told the officer Si�s story and explained how they�d taken him in. She asked if she could have him back, but the officer said he had to take the dog to the shelter.
Lt. Mike Hoover of the Alamance County Sheriff�s Department said its department policy to take found and stray dogs to the shelter to allow original owners to find and claim them.
�If he would have given her the dog off the truck, then there�s no opportunity for the real owner to get the dog,� Hoover said Friday. �If we have reason to believe it is your dog, we would return the animal to you. If we picked it up on a nuisance complaint, we�d hand you a warning citation and advise you to keep your animal up.�
Lassiter was frustrated but stuck with the process, placing calls to and eventually locating Si at the shelter. She says she and her husband were treated rudely by staff, who seemed to her to lack compassion for the animal.
They originally were told they�d need to pay the standard $25 impound fee plus $5 for each additional day Si was held there. Then, when they�d prepared to spring him, employees told them Si couldn�t be released without documentation of his rabies shot or payment of a $50 fine.
The Lassiters were given another three days. Their family vet agreed to vaccinate Si at a reduced rate. In the meantime, Lassiter was busy acquiring kennels and dog beds for Si.
She called Wednesday to make sure there wasn�t anything else she needed to do before they picked him up and was told Si had been put down earlier that day.
�My children cried themselves to sleep Wednesday night,� Lassiter said. �It was very apparent we wanted him.�
Arias was later notified of the situation and has been in contact with the family.
�We�re deeply saddened for this family,� Arias said. �It is really tragic that this happened.�
Arias was hired to her position last month and is Burlington�s first full-time animal services director. She said she was already in the process of reviewing adoption and shelter procedures with staff with the hope of improving them for animals and county residents.
�It�s unfortunate that this occurred before we were able to address this specific policy,� Arias said. �One of the first things we are working on is records and the policies of capturing all the information we can about an animal. It�s one of our priorities.�
Arias said the shelter works with pet owners to see that their animals are returned, and that if shelter fees are an obstacle, staff will work with them.
The shelter requires found animals to be held at least 72 hours. Animals surrendered by their owners are held at least 24 hours before they are euthanized. The shelter holds animals longer when space is available.
Lassiter said that Arias has since �gone above and beyond trying to make this right for us.�
And though it�s too late for Si and her family, Lassiter takes some comfort in knowing that communication issues at the shelter have been addressed.
�We just don�t want this to happen to another family, or to another animal,� Lassiter said.


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As a kid you always had a favorite color and saying that was your special heart for that someone special. I loved all the white ones that tasted like pineapple. They always seemed to be the ones that said I'm Yours!.... a one man woman I am for sure!
Cookies that say I love you, are always the best, a meaningful way to give your family that special treat and personal message.
The icing is so simple, you just need a variety of food coloring and flavoring. Raspberry, Mint, and Strawberry, Pineapple . The blue ones are the Raspberry, did you guess that?
Easy to cut out and bake in a 350 oven a very buttery cookies, be certain to transfer to wax paper as they are a delicate cookie.
Italian Butter Sugar Cookie Recipe for Cut Out Cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
pinch of salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
Mix all together and refrigerate overnight or for at least one hour. Roll out cut into shapes of your choice and bake on a greased cookie sheet at 350 for 8 minutes or until edges are slightly browned.
Frost in various colors of food coloring. Red, Green, Blue, Yellow. Flavoring to correspond to these are Strawberry (red) (one drop each of food coloring) Mint (green) Raspberry (blue) Pineapple (yellow) You can find these flavorings in any baking section in your grocery store.


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New York, NY – Women like to have options, the more options the better. Some women don't like the look and feel of currently available saline-filled breast implants, which are prone to scalloping or wrinkling, but also aren't comfortable with silicone gel options. An investigational breast implant, one filled with saline but with design features intended to provide a more natural result, may be just the answer they need. Results at two years with a novel, double-lumen, saline-filled breast implant, known as the IDEAL IMPLANT, reveal high patient and surgeon satisfaction, a low rate of wrinkling, and a surprisingly lower rate of capsular contracture compared to current, single-lumen, saline-filled implants. "Two-Year Outcomes With a Novel, Double-Lumen, Saline-Filled Breast Implant," which provides full details on the two-year results of this ongoing study, appears in the September issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal.
"Currently available saline-filled implants have only a single lumen. This means they are essentially balloons filled with freely-moving fluid, which can result in an unnatural feel or suboptimal aesthetic result," said co-author and clinical trial investigator Larry S. Nichter, MD, Voluntary Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at University of Southern California and University of California, Irvine and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, California. "The two-year clinical data from this study show that the IDEAL IMPLANT may provide a good alternative to current saline- or even silicone gel-filled implants. One of our most significant and unexpected findings was the low rate of capsular contracture for the investigational, double-lumen implant compared to current single-lumen saline implants."
The IDEAL IMPLANT is a saline-filled breast implant with a baffle structure, two lumens, and a series of shells of increasing size nested together – a design meant to better control saline movement and provide internal support to the implant edge and upper pole. This device is being investigated in a 10-year, U.S. clinical trial evaluating safety and effectiveness in women seeking primary breast augmentation or replacement of existing augmentation implants. Two-year follow-up visits were completed by 472 of the 502 women (94.0%) enrolled at 35 private practices, 378 of whom had undergone primary breast augmentation and 94 of whom had received replacement augmentation. Patient-reported satisfaction with the outcome was 94.3% for primary augmentations and 92.3% for replacement augmentations; surgeon-reported satisfaction was also high (96.5% and 93.4%, respectively). The incidence of moderate-to-severe wrinkling was 3.8% (primary) and 12.0% (replacement). Baker Grade III and IV capsular contracture rates were 3.8% (primary) and 8.2% (replacement). These two-year rates are lower than those reported for current single-lumen saline implants at one year. Deflations, none of which were caused by a shell fold flaw, occurred in 4.8% of primary augmentations and 3.3% of replacement augmentations.
"There is a clear need for saline-filled implants that offer a more natural result for patients who don't want silicone gel-filled devices. The early results with this new implant design appear to be very promising, particularly with regard to capsular contracture, which is always a concern with breast augmentation," said Foad Nahai, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Aesthetic Surgery Journal. "I know that many surgeons will be interested in following up on the long-term outcomes of this study."
Breast augmentation was the most popular cosmetic surgery for women in 2011, with 316,848 procedures performed, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS).
About ASAPS
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), is recognized as the world's leading organization devoted entirely to aesthetic plastic surgery and cosmetic medicine of the face and body. ASAPS is comprised of over 2,600 Plastic Surgeons; active members are certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (USA) or by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and have extensive training in the complete spectrum of surgical and non-surgical aesthetic procedures. International active members are certified by equivalent boards of their respective countries. All members worldwide adhere to a strict Code of Ethics and must meet stringent membership requirements.


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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was quick to praise Jonjo Shelvey following his performance in the Reds' 3-2 victory over West Ham at Upton Park.
Much had been made of the fact Liverpool were without an experienced recognised striker in their squad due to Luis Suarez's one-match ban but Rodgers played Shelvey in a more attacking role.
He said: "You see young Jonjo Shelvey at 20 years of age playing the number nine role in a different way - dropping into midfield and combining with the midfield players to make the fourth man, being a threat when he is in around the box, showing great feet and I thought he was outstanding, the kid."
He added: "It was great credit to him because there was a lot of pressure on him because people have been trying to compare him to Luis Suarez but he has been terrific in my time here, he is only 20 and has a big future ahead of him.
"In this country it (the number nine role) is always a very traditional target man, a clear number nine. Give credit to Carlton Cole, I know him from my time at Chelsea, he is a real handful and was outstanding."
Former West Ham defender Glen Johnson opened the scoring before a Mark Noble penalty and a Steven Gerrard own goal gave the home side a half-time lead.
Joe Cole, another ex-West Ham player, levelled the scores before Shelvey claimed the winning goal - although the ball appeared to loop over goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen off the foot of team-mate James Collins.
Rodgers also said there was never any panic from within the club when Suarez was booked for the fifth time last weekend, ruling him out of this game.
"For us there was no drama," he said. "My focus when I came in was about the collective. We must share the ball, we must share the goals and we must share the workload - we are not asking anyone to do anything more than anyone else.
"I had great belief in the players that we could score goals and create goals because we have done it all season but we just haven't been clinical enough and had the good fortune at times to wrack up more goals. But I think you have seen, even without Luis, the quality in the team but equally the fight in the team and that was pleasing."


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One thing's for sure. When you're on the Bachelor, you may not catch the man of your dreams, but chances are you'll catch something!
I know I'm not the only one that's thought it, but someone has to say it.
The Bachelor is a 'dating game' in which 1 man 'dates' as many 25 woman in an elimination-style reality TV show. Each woman, carefully screened to be a 'perfect match' for the Bachelor, competes with the other women in a combination of group and single dates in a 'winner takes all' battle for the man of their dreams. At the end of each season, the Bachelor asks one lady for their hand in marriage… most of the time.
The title of this post makes the claim that The Bachelor is destroying humanity, but I stand by my assertion. Let's start with the basics.
There isn't enough time
I'm probably going to keep coming back to this, but come on'. This man moves from one woman to another in a series of one on one dates and exploratory relationship that are laughable in terms of time. There's a whopping 8 episodes, 3 one on one dates and countless group dates in which the Bachelor spends a max of a couple of hours with each woman.
He doesn't actually 'plan' this crap
Every episode, the Bachelor talks about these elaborate and mind-blowing dates that he's planned for the women. Helicopter rides, cliff diving, romantic private island get-aways, yachts, sunsets, you name it. And often times these women will pine for the Bachelor. "I can't believe he planned all of this". Or even better, "This is my idea of the perfect date! But how did Brad know?". Seriously lady? How did he know? You don't actually think he planned all of these dates do you? Don't you remember, in the 5 Applications and 3 demo videos you sent in to ABC, what you filled out on the Application?
Do you really not remember applying for the Passport and requesting travel in another country? I don't want to shock you here, but he had nothing to do with this. He didn't pay for it, he didn't plan it, and he wasn't told about it until the day before you two went. He's not bringing you the magic, the Network is.
It's not personal
Camera's, lights, sound, producers, electricians… immense man power required for each and every scene. And they're there, all the time. Those nice quiet scenes in which they make intimate remarks and reveal their deepest darkest fears and secrets? Camera guy. Sound guy. Producer. Electrician far off in the back ground. There's no actual privacy, or intimacy. And now is a good time to remind you: It's a television show. Re-takes, cuts, do-overs, scene deletions. It all happens. Don't think that it doesn't.
He's very physical with you… oh, and those 8 other women
This actually bothers me quite a bit. I love these women who say "The kiss was incredible; I think I'm falling in love". Lady, he just made out with 4 other women this episode… and they're your room mates! This guy can get some action from 4 different ladies in a single 36 hour period, and none of them are genuinely upset about it. It's all part of the 'game'. And it's all magical. And mystical. One thing's for sure. When you're on the Bachelor, you may not catch the man of your dreams, but chances are you'll catch something!
It's not real dating
You can't form a strong, serious (marriage worthy no less!) relationship with someone under the circumstances above when he's having the same interactions, both physical and emotional, with that many other women.
In addition to that, the experiences that you're having are not typical of the kind of relationship or life you would have together. While trips to tropical island paradises are wonderful, they're not every day life. You don't form the basis for a healthy, life-long relationship by starting with a honeymoon.
Real life does not consist of helicopter dives and cocktail parties. It's filled with ups and downs. Jobs, bills, lack of time and conflicting schedules. A relationship built on fantasy would never, ever survive in the real world. Which brings me to my next point:
In 14 seasons and 90 episodes, no Bachelor couple has ever stayed together
The reality of the Bachelor can be found not in it's plethora of episodes, but in the fruits of the show. In 90 episodes, no couple has ever successfully remained a couple. That means that this show has never produced a single good thing for humanity. It's contributed to heart break, divorce, and statistics that show our nation is in a continual decline.
You're worth more than this game show
What level of self-esteem must a woman have to participate in this show? I shouldn't have to be the one to tell you this but you're worth more than this show. You deserve a man's full attention. You don't need to compete for his attention and affection like some kind of wild animal. You need to take the Disney approach and be like Jasmine: You are not a prize to be won!
He's not a real man
What kind of a real man would make out with, and lead on, 8 different women at the exact same time? 4 women? 2 women? In the real world, a man who was having an intimate relationship with more than one woman would be branded a dirt bag of the worst kind. But on ABC, he's the man of every woman's dreams! A real catch!
A real man has self respect, and respect for women. The Bachelor? Not so much.
It turns moms into bad moms
Okay, I guess I don't have a right to call a woman a 'bad mom'. That's really not my place. A lot of people like to throw around the term 'to each his own', especially when it's more convenient to avoid doing the right thing. This last season featured two single women who had small children waiting at home. That's right, there were two women, including the show favorite (Emily) who have little kids at home wondering where mommy is.
At the end of the day, I don't know whether these women are good mothers or not. I'm not that judge. That being said, I feel confident in saying that leaving your child for weeks at a time in pursuit of love on a tv game show is not an attribute of a good mother.
In Summary: It sets a standard that cannot be achieved
As our country falls further and further into the pits of self-gratifying entertainment, our moral fibers literally stretched to the limit, and our marriages and relationships portrayed as nothing but one night stands and 'starter marriages', the last thing we need is a television show like The Bachelor. The show is degrading to women, to marriage, to parenthood, and the strength and unity of a genuine family unit.
The Bachelor strives to convince us that intimate, life-long relationships can be formed in a series of 3-hour group dates, surrounded by cameras and lights. Real life just isn't that way, and as our society pushes marriage and family further and further from it's heart and mind, The Bachelor will continue to play it's part in the degradation of our society.
And that just sucks.


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It's easier on Windows because people have already written guides specifically tailored to Windows.Val3ntia wrote:shazzy - Does that walk-through apply only to Macs? I'm on Windows XP. Windows Media Player keeps telling me I need Xvid or DiVX, but everyone else says not to edit with that stuff. So I really don't know what to do - sorry for my total and (I'm sure) annoying ignorance. Dx
By all means get the codecs so you can play those files back, but don't edit with those files -- here's why you shouldn't and how you can get around it.


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For the first time in a long time, there is an open election for mayor, and both parties may have interesting primaries.
As to whether the primary season will be in June or September remains to be seen. Some of the arguments for moving the primary to June make sense. It takes so much money to be competitive in a primary that a candidate needs more than one month to raise more for the general election.
The problem with the June primary, however, is that it could be an advantage to some candidates. The city's budget gets passed at that time, and that could mean that candidates close to the budget process could benefit from some good publicity.
The Republican Party, mostly due to the already packed field on the Democratic side, have a few interesting candidates. Giuliani was a national name when he ran in 1989 and 1993, and he came along at a time when the city needed a crime fighter. This year is different. This group of possible Republican candidates is still very much in the introductory phase.
The word in political circles is that the GOP is excited about former MTA chairman Joe Lhota. If Lhota gets into the race, expect some of the other possible nominees to look elsewhere for ballot access.
Other possible Republican candidates include publisher Tom Allon, business magnate John Catsimatidis, former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, and nonprofit CEO George McDonald.
This list of candidates is a political junkie's dream. Candidates like Allon and McDonald, if they were given all of the help that the Republican Party could possible give, would be serious political threats. They both bring that intellectual flare that the last two mayors have had.
McDonald founded The Doe Fund, a widely known nonprofit that trains the homeless and then finds work for them. He has been a regular on the Oprah Winfrey Show and he is a close personal friend of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. McDonald comes from the business sector like Allon and Catsimatidis. One day, he decided to put his efforts into helping the disadvantaged, namely the homeless and formerly incarcerated.
The reason why McDonald would be a good for the GOP is that it would all but silence the chatter that the party is not concerned with the disadvantaged. Running McDonald would basically give the Republicans a makeover in a progressive city, even if he does not win.
Former Mayor Ed Koch said recently that Lhota does not have a chance because the city is so heavily Democratic. But that may be Koch firing a shot across the bow of the S.S. Giuliani, as Lhota was one of Giuliani's deputies.
People on the inside are talking about Lhota, but you do not win races on the inside. Lhota has to get out there right after he announces that he is running. Republicans have a dual challenge when seeking citywide office. They have to get name recognition, and then they have to convince a left-leaning electorate that they are not the big bad wolf.
The latter is not fair, but it's true. Can Joe Lhota do both? Many insiders think he should try, and Lhota will be able to get some decent endorsements with his experience at high levels of city government.
So the race begins. Expect candidates to make the obligatory appearances at political clubs. Expect a few endorsements to pop up. What is good for us is that there is a real race heating up – on both sides.


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This is a great breakfast to serve when you have guests. Next time I make this I'm switching out the olives and replacing with bacon. Olives are ok but bacon is perfection.
per omelette-
3 eggs
2 egg whites
3 tablespoons cottage cheese
1/2 chopped basil
sea salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
Olive oil
8 kalamata olives, pitted squashed and chopped
8 cherry tomatoes, chopped
2 tablespoons feta cheese
2 cups arugula
1. Whisk the egg, egg whites, cottage cheese and basil together. Season to taste.
2. Heat some olive oil in a non-stick small fry pan over medium heat and pour in egg mixture.
3. Cook for 2-3 minutes, sprinkle with olives (bacon), tomatoes, and cheese. reduce heat to low and move pan under broiler to brown the top.
4. Serve with arugula.


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Your p.m. roundup for Oct. 10, the day we got bored and chopped at a few trees because it sure beats drinkin'. Photo via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.
What we're watching (all times EDT, unless noted): Versus has Lightning-Capitals in an NHL game that began at 7. TBS has Game 2 of the NLCS between the Cardinals and Brewers at 8. And ESPN has Bears-Lions on Monday Night Football at 8:30.
Read Me
The real-life inspiration for Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot: "In the book, the two are rivals, and while Eugenides insists the resemblance to Wallace is unintentional, The Marriage Plot is unmistakably a portrait of the author's youth and of the loyalties and rivalries that so often arise among ambitious young friends. (Much of the early chatter surrounding the novel has been a who's-who inside-baseball guessing game.) At once a love story, a campus novel, and a bildungsroman, The Marriage Plot is stocked with literary references and choreographed to provide the great page-turning pleasures of realistic fiction-very knowingly. It's the latest salvo, that is, in the debate that has occupied Eugenides's generation for 25 years, about what exactly fiction is for and how a crew of literary newcomers might revive the American novel, which seemed to many of them in danger of irrelevance. The Marriage Plot invites us back to that era when the author and his contemporaries were just starting to rewire their aspirations. What makes the backstory so intriguing is who this crowd was and who they came to be." [New York]
This Date In Deadspin History
Oct. 10, 2008: Kellen Winslow's Out With... Swollen Testicles?
Browns' Benard hurt in motorcycle crash: "Browns Defensive End [sic] Marcus Benard has been injured in a motorcycle crash along I-71 after leaving practice on Monday afternoon. Team spokesman Neal Gulkis tells Fox 8 News' Dan Jovic that Benard was injured in a crash along I-71 around 2:20 p.m. He was first taken to MetroHealth Medical Center." [Fox8]
T.O. OD'd?: "Emergency officials were responding to a call about a possible prescription pill overdose when they were dispatched to the L.A. apartment where Terrell Owens was staying last week ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. As we first reported, Owens was transported by ambulance to an L.A. hospital Thursday night. Cops were also dispatched to investigate — and spoke with T.O. at the hospital. Owens has since been released. A rep for Owens had no comment on the matter." [TMZ]
Your Belarus Beer Commercial Interlude:
The clock has yet to strike Tebow time just yet: "John Fox is going to wait a day to announce his starting quarterback. The Denver Broncos coach gave his players the day off Monday and didn't want to let everyone else know before Tim Tebow or Kyle Orton finds out." [AP]
Roosters! In Manhattan! And they're on the loose!: "Fort Tryon Park turned into a hen run Sunday as parks workers, helped by a passing MTA worker, ducked and dived in a comic effort to corral a rogue rooster and its hen. The two Urban Park Rangers and an off-duty MTA conductor's scrambling ended with the chicken in a cage - but their efforts were evaded by the rooster, who's still on the lam." [DNA Info]
Ever wonder what people look like when you scare the shit out of them in a haunted house? Here are 50 photos that answer the question: "We still don't know what it is, exactly, that is causing the following people to stop and drop and lose their effing minds out of terror, but whatever it is, we hope to never find out. Mainly because we look horrendous when terrified…" [Best Week Ever]
Merch: Managing editor Tom Scocca and contributing editor Drew Magary have both written books. You can buy Scocca's Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future here, and Magary's The Postmortal here. Now do it.
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DES MOINES, IOWA — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden spent Tuesday trading insults — sometimes almost simultaneously— as they stumped across Iowa in split-screen moments that could preview a ferocious fight ahead if the two face off for the presidency next year.
Biden has used near-universal name recognition and generally strong ratings on electability to climb to the top of the packed Democratic field, but Trump used overlapping trips in the key battleground state to punch back. He said Biden only gained in the polls when he went on the offensive against the president himself and linked the former vice president to 2016 foe, Hillary Clinton.
"People don't respect him," Trump said after touring a renewable energy facility in Council Bluffs. "Even the people that he's running against, they're saying: 'Where is he? What happened?'"
With a dose of exaggeration, the president added: "He makes his stance in Iowa once every two weeks and then he mentions my name 74 times in one speech. I don't know. That reminds me of Crooked Hillary. She did the same thing."
At almost the same moment in Mount Pleasant, Biden noted that his criticisms of Trump from earlier in the day were playing on TV screens when Air Force One landed in Iowa.
"I guess he's really fascinated by me," said Biden, who mentioned Trump by name about a dozen times during his first two events in Iowa. "I find it fascinating." He started to say more but then stopped himself, quipping: "My mother would say: 'Joey, focus. Don't descend. Stay up.'"
Pressed later by reporters about his earlier repeated assurances that he wouldn't openly criticize Trump while campaigning, Biden said, "By not talking about him personally — talking about where I disagree with him on the issues, why he's doing such damage to the country — that's totally different than attacking his character or lack thereof."
Still, the back-and-forth laid bare the rising political stakes for each man, even with the election about 17 months away. Trump has zeroed in on Biden as a potential threat to his reelection chances and is testing themes to beat him back. Biden, meanwhile, is campaigning as a front-runner, relishing the one-on-one fight with Trump while making sure he doesn't ignore the demands of the Democratic primary.
"I'd rather run against Biden than anybody," Trump told reporters on the White House lawn before flying to Iowa. "I think he's the weakest mentally, and I like running against people that are weak mentally."
Biden began the day in Ottumwa, the heart of Wapello County, a meat-packing and agricultural manufacturing center that Trump was the first Republican to carry since Dwight D. Eisenhower. It's part of Biden's dual track approach: campaigning for the caucuses while projecting himself as someone who can win in territory Trump snatched from Democrats in 2016, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
There, the former vice president hit Trump on the economy — an issue the president often promotes as his chief strength in a time of low unemployment.
"I hope his presence here will be a clarifying event because Iowa farmers have been crushed by his tariffs toward China," Biden said. "It's really easy to be tough when someone else absorbs the pain, farmers and manufacturers."
Once-crowded Democratic field of candidates down to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Where do they stand on the issues?
Campaign 2020: Here's more about the Democratic candidates hoping to challenge Donald Trump and where they stand on the issues.
Biden added that Trump "backed off his threat of tariffs to Mexico basically because he realized he was likely to lose" in manufacturing states such as Michigan and Ohio. He broadly branded Trump "an existential threat to this country" and said his behavior is beneath the office of the presidency.
For Trump, the biggest concern in this state dominated by agriculture interests is trade. The power of incumbency also was on display in Council Bluffs, as the president toured a plant that produces and sells the corn-based fuel additive ethanol and signed an executive order to "promote agricultural biotechnology," which he said would help farmers by speeding up the scientific review of their innovative products and help get them to market faster.
"I fought very hard for ethanol, but you proved me right," Trump said, adding that he fought "for the American farmer like no president has fought before." But he then again mocked Biden.
"He was some place in Iowa today," the president said, "and he said my name so many times that people couldn't stand it."
Latest Nation & World
Later Tuesday, Trump was addressing an Iowa GOP dinner in West Des Moines. He's expected to highlight his efforts to help farmers hurt financially from Chinese tariffs on U.S. agriculture products, measures that were imposed last year after Trump slapped levies on Chinese imports.
Trump also is expected to try to sell farmers on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, which must still be o be ratified by lawmakers in each country. Supporters of the deal, which is an update to the North American Free Trade Agreement, feared that Trump's recent threat to impose tariffs on Mexico over illegal immigration would jeopardize the pact's passage by U.S. lawmakers. But Trump announced an agreement with Mexico late last week and delayed the tariffs for the time being.
The president, however, has been stung by criticism that what he announced Friday resembled steps Mexico had already agreed to take. Trump predicted in Council Bluffs that the U.S. would soon be increasing its corn exports to its southern neighbor: "Mexico's going to be doing a lot of buying."
Superville reported from Council Bluffs. Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Alexandra Jaffe in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.


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This one's a taboo buster, people, buckle up.
So, last week, the Santa Barbara independent published a couple of excerpts from Undecided as its (incredibly illustrated!) cover story. One was long; one was medium; one was wee—just one lonely paragraph. But an important one. Despite the fact that I picked it (and, you know, wrote it), I honestly don't think I realized just how important, actually, until I got a long email from a dear friend who lost her father last year. It was a catching-up variety email, but she'd seen the story, and ended the note with a sharp aside:
P.S. your book is unmistakably about loss. Do we just need to grieve more?
If you're thinking she's got the wrong book, here is the excerpt in question:
Here comes some wisdom, (from Daria Todor, an Employment Assistance Counselor, career coach, and psychotherapist who has dealt with thousands of women in the workplace for the past 20 years). "Every decision entails trade-off, and it entails commitment," she says. "And with that comes the sense of grief and loss. You make a commitment to one thing, you are by definition turning your back on other options. Not knowing how to grieve a loss is really powerful. And I believe that a lot of what shows up in a therapist's office as depression may be a form of this grieving that is a natural part of growing up. And so there's an avoidance of making a decision because of the pain threshold."
Think about it. Could the woman be more right on the money??
Interestingly, late last week I was on the local radio station, and the host of the show—a dude—brought up another item from the Indy story, from a different excerpt, that he just couldn't get his head around.
Chloe's story cuts to the chase: "I was walking home from work, having a low self-esteem day, and I saw this sign in a storefront. It was of three smiling women, around my age, and I just thought to myself, I bet they all have kids."
Chloe doesn't even want to have children — an assertion she reiterated before admitting that, nevertheless, it didn't stop her tears. "I just feel like life is passing me by."
For the record, Chloe is amazing and enviable in her own right: She's lived and worked everywhere from New York City to Brazil, Mexico to Southern California, and she is successful, beautiful, talented, and happily married. But those things never seem to matter much when we're confronted with the green-grassed monster; when we catch a glimpse of the place where that road we opted not to travel may have led.
"I'm a guy; help me understand this," he said, seeming quite honestly flummoxed.
And so I answered–and my answer had to do with grief: Consciously, we might not want to have kids, but as women, I think the vast majority of us grew up with the unconscious assumption that we would. And so, I said to the baffled man-host, maybe Chloe just needed to take a moment, to allow herself to consciously grieve the children she'd never have; the mother she'd never be.
(Interestingly, though, even while the words were spilling forth, I don't think I would have said that the matter at hand was grief. I needed my friend, my friend who's in the thick of it and can therefore recognize it, I guess, to point it out for me. Even when what she was pointing out were, in fact, my words.)
And that idea applies not just to the kids question. For women who've been told we can do anything—well, I think that somewhere, deep down (and not so deep down), there lies the assumption that we will do everything. And so whenever we sign on to do one thing, there's a whole bunch of other things we're signing off on. Maybe we don't ever write them off outright, but, with every day that passes, certain dreams grow more and more out of reach. And maybe, just maybe, all of that leaves us with a little bit of latent grief, lurking within. Maybe that grief is showing up as something else, but, more and more, I believe that it's there.
Feeling uncomfortable yet? Me too. I also happen to think that this whole issue is made worse by the fact that our culture is not exactly what you'd call 'grief-friendly.' I can think of few subjects more roundly avoided.
And I think Todor makes another important point: that we avoid making decisions not just because we've been told we can do anything and are therefore holding out for the perfect thing, but also because we're avoiding the pain of closing a door. We're avoiding the grieving that will entail. And no wonder: is anything less allowed in our culture? Where happiness is the holy grail, and achieving it in its most perfect form is national sport? Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, and spending our days adrift upon it, driven by its current, well, where does that get us, other than deeper?
The whole thing just kind of makes me wonder: would the decisions we make every day, big and small, be so hard if we knew how to grieve? If our culture recognized it, allowed it, showed us how to do it in a healthy way? Would it make decisions easier, if, rather than hopping on a raft on that river, we were allowed—and encouraged—to recognize the shadow side of our choices: those things we aren't choosing? And to take a moment to be sad, to say goodbye?


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User Manual:Setting up DVB-C (cable)
This page is up-to-date to MythTV version 0.24
Setting up DVB-C (cable)
In this chapter you'll find information about how to setup up MythTV as a cable (DVB-C) receiver. For general information about DVB and DVB-C you should read the chapter called About DVB.
Common Steps 1-3
TODO insert common part of adding the capture device, creating a video source and connecting both here
Step 4: The Scan for Channels
In order to scan DVB-C with MythTV, you need to give it an initial transponder in a tuned scan. The data you need to enter is: frequency, polarity, symbol rate and modulation. The information can be obtained from your operator. (Should it not be easily available it can also be obtained from an initial tuning file or a channels.conf for your location.)
Warning: Do not import a channels.conf into MythTV any more. It does not provide all the information necessary to properly tune DVB and will lead to myriad problems.
Known Issues
There is only one simple solution for these problems: Talk to your cable provider they need to fix it!
- #7486, Some cable operators don't mark the correct tuning tables in their networks active. The ticket has a patch that allows selecting the correct tables.
- Channel tuning broken with DVB-C, Some cable operators just deliver the tuning tables straight from a satelite feed and are unwilling to fix the problem.


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- Home gyms can definitely save you money in the long run. There is only the initial cost of purchasing your gym equipment. With gym memberships, you are susceptible to increased rates, times the gym is open, availability of equipment, and so on. Not to mention travel costs to and from the gym.
- If you consider selling your home in the future and do not want to take your home gym or fitness equipment with you, they can add value to your home. Many home buyers are intrigued by home gyms for the same reasons that you're intrigued to purchase gym equipment to begin with -- it is great for your health.
- Many people are concerned that a home gym will take up too much space in their home. Home gyms come in a variety of sizes, so it is easy to accommodate the space you have available.
- The more equipment and options available on the home gym, the better it is for your health and physical conditioning. If you go to a gymnasium, you will see machines that target different muscle groups. Home gyms do the same. To get a complete workout, search for a home gym that targets all of the major muscle groups.
- Many home gym models are large enough for multiple people to work out at the same time. A number of people choose to work with a partner in order to maintain discipline and provide conversation during and between sets.
- Think about combining different kinds of exercise equipment. Home gyms offer a variety of weight-training exercises, but package deals can offer a combination of weight-training and cardiovascular equipment. Combining both forms of exercise can enhance the health benefits and a healthy look. Many professionals suggest combining cardiovascular activity with weight training.
Commercial Gym Equipment for the Home
Finding the enthusiasm to head down to the local gym, and then staying energetic through an effective workout can be tough, but when you can walk right into the next room and begin working shoulders, legs, back and more in minutes, the idea of regular exercise becomes a lot more appealing, and it will quickly show in your appearance, energy level and general health if you do it right. Furthermore, many pieces of commercial gym equipment cost significantly less than a year membership at a gym, and it's likely you'll have and use your equipment for years to come.
So what types of affordable, high quality, commercial gym equipment can you get at Sam's Club? Many people opt for a complete multi station home gym. Not only does this product allow you to work out a variety of muscle groups for a complete workout, it is designed for multiple users at the same time, so you can make exercising a family affair. Most studies show that working out with a friend is easier and easier to stick with than working out alone, so this product could be perfect for maintaining your commitment to exercise.
There are plenty of other products you'll love too, like ab machines and exercise bikes, so be sure to take the time to check out all the great commercial gym equipment Sam's Club has to offer.


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Several years ago I wrote an article entitled Post-Mortem Debugging that included source code to create stack dumps with function names from C/C++ programs that crashed on client sites without any modification on the client's machine. This was done in two steps (available on Windows and Linux/UNIX):
- Install a fault handler in your application that dumps the call stack to a text file if an error has occurred.
- Run a program (MapAddr.exe) to add function names to the memory addresses of the stack dump by matching them to a map file from the program's build.
Since then, I've received feedback that led me to a number of different approaches which I summarize in this article.
Retrieving Line Numbers from the Stack Dump (Windows Only)
Visual Studio stores all debug information in a program database which resides in a file with the extension ".pdb". This database file is created for debug builds by default, but it is easy to create them for optimized release builds as well:
In the Project Setup dialog select the following 2 Options:
- In the C/C++ Section
Debug Information Format: Program Database (/Zi)
- In the linker Section
Generate Debug Info. YES
This will generate a .pdb file for the selected build, which should be archived for each released version. It also enables the possibility to debug the release version of your program just as you would do with the debug version.
.pdb files are stored in a binary format that is not documented, but it's easy to access it through a COM API. The Debug Information API: DIA is provided by Microsoft starting from Visual Studio 2008. Using this API, it is straightforward to get the following information for every code address:
- Unmangled function name (human readable including the list of parameters)
- Source file name
- Line number within that source file
Figure 1 shows a stack dump created from the same FaultApp as used for demonstration in Post-Mortem Debugging. While adding the line number to the stack dump may only seem like a "nice to have" feature, it ultimately proved to be very valuable once I started using it. Before having line numbers I always had to examine the entire function. Now I only have to check a single line of code, and the problem often becomes obvious immediately.
**************************************************** *** A Programm Fault occured: *** Error code C0000005: ACCESS VIOLATION **************************************************** *** Address: 004398E8 *** Flags: 00000000 **************************************************** *** CallStack: **************************************************** Fault Occured At $ADDRESS:004398E8 ======== 000398E8 == belongs to FunctionC(int,int) File d:\projects\mapaddr\faultapp.cpp Line 29 with 64 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 80 FE 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 FD 7E *** 0 called from $ADDRESS:00439969 ======== 00039969 == belongs to FunctionB(int) File d:\projects\mapaddr\faultapp.cpp Line 41 with 64 00 00 00 54 FF 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 FD 7E CC CC CC CC *** 1 called from $ADDRESS:004399E5 ======== 000399E5 == belongs to FunctionA() File d:\projects\mapaddr\faultapp.cpp Line 51 with 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 FD 7E CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC *** 2 called from $ADDRESS:00439A68 ======== 00039A68 == belongs to main File d:\projects\mapaddr\faultapp.cpp Line 64 with 01 00 00 00 70 34 4D 00 B8 34 4D 00 84 5C FF C1 00 00 00 00 *** 3 called from $ADDRESS:0044B573 ======== 0004B573 == belongs to __tmainCRTStartup File f:\dd\vctools\crt_bld\self_x86\crt\src\crt0.c Line 327 with *** 4 called from $ADDRESS:0044B32D ======== 0004B32D == belongs to mainCRTStartup File f:\dd\vctools\crt_bld\self_x86\crt\src\crt0.c Line 195 with 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 FD 7E 05 00 00 C0 C8 FF 12 00 *** 5 called from $ADDRESS:7D4E7D42 with *** 6 called from $ADDRESS:00000000 ************************************************************
Figure 1
Accessing the pdb file involves a number of COM-Calls bundled together in a class file. Adding the usage of this class to MapAddr was simple and straightforward. MapAddr can now be called with pdb files as well (as before) using map files. The full source code can be downloaded here.
64-Bit Windows
The fault handler of the first version used x86 assembler calls to unwind the stack. But when porting to 64 bits, I found no way to write stack frames reliable with assembler instructions with optimization enabled. While there are a number of Win32 API functions to unwind the stack, only one (RtlCaptureStackBackTrace) seems to work on x64 as expected. It can only retrieve 62 stack frames which is sufficient in most cases, although this limit seems questionable.


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The brilliant philosopher David Hume remarked that if two events are always found to be correlated to each other with one event happening prior to the other, we call the earlier event the cause and the latter event the effect. However, it has been pointed out that two events can be correlated, with one happening after the other, but only because they both have the same common cause, and not because of any direct causation. It's not "post hoc, ergo propter hoc".
What stops me from defining a new verb "retrocause"? It works just like Hume's definition, but only in reverse. We note the presence of a broken egg is always correlated perfectly (or very very nearly so up to an exponential degree of accuracy. Loschmidt reversal, anyone?) with the existence of an unbroken egg in its past. So, we say broken eggs retrocause unbroken eggs. In the same manner, unbroken eggs retrocause hens laying eggs. And hens retrocause female chicks. And female chicks retrocause hatching eggs. And so on and so forth.
In delayed choice experiments, what stops us from saying the choice of apparatus settings retrocause the preferred basis of a quantum system in its past?
What distinguishes causality from retrocausality?


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Arthur R. Sigel
- BS Chemical Engineering 1965
Mr. Arthur R. Sigel received a Chemical Engineering degree from Michigan Tech in 1965. He was a member of Sigma Rho fraternity and was active with the AIChE Student Chapter. Mr. Sigel joined Goodyear in 1965 as a Process Engineer. In 1969, he joined Michigan Chemical Company. In 1973 he relocated to El Dorado, Arkansas to become plant manager of Michigan's bromine and brominated products facility. By 1979, he returned to Chicago where he became manager of manufacturing for three plants.
Mr. Sigel became Vice President of Velsicol's specialty chemicals group in 1980; he became President of Velsicol in 1984. Mr. Sigel, and four partners, bought out Velsicol's specialty chemicals segment in 1986. Under Mr. Sigel's leadership as President and CEO, Velsicol developed into a widely recognized specialty chemical company. In 1995, Velsicol expanded into Europe by privatizing a manufacturing facility in Estonia. In 1995 – 1999 Mr. Sigel served as an officer of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, now the American Chemistry Council, concluding as Chairman in 1998 – 1999. He previously chaired the Council of 100 and represented Velsicol on the CMA Responsible Care and Public Perception Committees. From 1986 – 1988, he served as an officer of Chemical Industry Council of Illinois, concluding as Chair in 1988.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Michigan Tech Fund, member of the President's Club, Former President of Barrington High School Hockey Club, and former President of Our Savior Lutheran Church in El Dorado, Arkansas.
From 1995 Induction to the Department of Chemical Engineering Academy


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Organizations can now proactively manage their training programs with this combined solution. -Kevin O'Leary, CEO, QUMAS
Hong Kong and Cork, Ireland (PRWEB UK) 5 June 2014
QUMAS, an Accelrys, Inc. company, and NetDimensions (AIM: NETD; OTCQX: NETDY), a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning management systems, today announced the availability of an innovative solution that brings the best-in-class learning management capabilities of NetDimensions Learning to the QUMAS Compliance Platform. Available now, this new integrated solution enables organisations to control all of their compliance management and all of their training requirements using a single platform. Users access the capabilities of the NetDimensions award winning Learning Management System seamlessly through MyQUMAS, a unified interface that provides access to all QUMAS compliance management capabilities in one view.
The combined NetDimensions-QUMAS solution provides a highly scalable and configurable environment for launching, tracking, and managing interactive corporate compliance training. In this solution, employees can access corporate policies, company training modules or any SCORM-compliant content by simply logging on, registering for courses, and launching the modules. In addition, supervisors and managers can track operational compliance, view dashboards, and export reports detailing user progress, grades, course enrollments, course completions, and time spent taking courses.
The NetDimensions-QUMAS solution also dramatically reduces the time needed to create and deliver critical training. Within NetDimensions Learning, QUMAS compliance content and documents can be viewed and converted easily into effective and measurable training. Similarly and just as easily, popular third-party courseware can be imported, launched, and tracked.
The NetDimensions-QUMAS solution will be on display at the QUMAS Partner Pavilion in booth #2145 at the DIA 2014 50th Annual Meeting taking place in San Diego, CA, on June 16-19, 2014.
"Organisations can now proactively manage their training programs with this combined solution," stated Kevin O'Leary, CEO for QUMAS. "By taking a proactive approach, organisations minimize the risk and consequences of noncompliance before violations occur."
"Being able to demonstrate that your employees have been properly trained is vital from a compliance perspective," said Jay Shaw, CEO and Managing Director for NetDimensions. "Growing organisations find problems keeping track of training records using paper-based methods with spreadsheets or Word documents. By automating the training process with the integrated NetDimensions-QUMAS solution, organisations gain accurate and up-to-date training data that can be presented in over 120 comprehensive reports, providing a verifiable and thorough picture of what training has taken place within the organisation."
About NetDimensions
Established in 1999, NetDimensions (AIM: NETD; OTCQX: NETDY) is a global provider of performance, knowledge and learning solutions.
NetDimensions provides companies, government agencies and other organisations with talent management solutions to personalise learning, share knowledge, enhance performance, foster collaboration, and manage compliance programs for employees, customers, partners and suppliers.
Recognised as one of the talent management industry's top-rated technology suppliers, NetDimensions has been chosen by leading organisations worldwide including ING, Cathay Pacific, Hunter Douglas, Chicago Police Department, Geely Automotive, Fugro Group, and Fresenius Medical Care.
NetDimensions is ISO 9001 certified and NetDimensions hosted services are ISO 27001 certified.
For more information, visit http://www.NetDimensions.co.uk or follow @netdimensions on Twitter.
About QUMAS
QUMAS, an Accelrys, Inc. company, is the leader in Enterprise Compliance Solutions with more than 270 global customer deployments and two decades of experience helping companies in highly regulated industries. QUMAS is a Gold Microsoft Partner, and provides the QUMAS Compliance Platform on SharePoint 2010, Documentum, Oracle or SQL. For more information, visit http://www.qumas.com.
About Accelrys
Accelrys is a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, supports industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. The industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad, flexible scientific foundation optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, QA/QC and manufacturing phases of product development. Accelrys offers capabilities in scientific data management, modeling and simulation, research informatics, laboratory informatics, enterprise quality management, environmental health & safety and operations intelligence for customers in science-driven industries. Using Accelrys technology, scientific innovators can access, organize, analyze and share data in unprecedented ways across the research, laboratory and manufacturing continuum, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving productivity and compliance, reducing costs and accelerating product development from research to manufacturing.
Accelrys solutions are used by more than 2,000 customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Accelrys employs approximately 225 full-time PhD scientists. For more information about Accelrys, visit http://www.accelrys.com.
UPDATE: On January 30, 2014, Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company and Accelrys, Inc. announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement for Dassault Systèmes to acquire Accelrys. Under the terms and conditions of the merger agreement, Dassault Systèmes made an all-cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Accelrys common stock. The tender offer statement and other documents filed by Dassault Systèmes and Accelrys with the SEC are available for free at the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov) and may be obtained at no charge by directing a request by mail to Innisfree M&A Incorporated, 501 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York, 10022 or by calling (888) 750-5834.
The tender offer process was completed on April 29, 2014. Accelrys filed Form 15 (Certification and Notice of Termination of Registration) with the SEC on May 9, meaning Accelrys is no longer publicly traded (and the company's NASDAQ listing will shortly expire).
Combining with Accelrys will enrich the molecular chemistry capabilities from discovery to manufacturing and regulatory requirements of Dassault Systèmes' formulation-based industry offerings such as life sciences, consumer packaged goods, high tech and energy, as well as advanced manufacturing industries.
Accelrys will now become BIOVIA as part of Dassault Systèmes.


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The news release issued late Wednesday afternoon, July 17, contained an error. The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission will be meeting at the Woodson County Community Building, 713 S. Fry, not 211 W. Butler. We sincerely regret the error.
July 22, 2013
The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission will set late migratory bird seasons at the August 1 meeting
PRATT– The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission will conduct a public meeting and hearing on Thursday, August 1, at the Woodson County Community Building, 713 S. Fry, Yates Center. The afternoon session will begin at 1:30 p.m. and recess at 5 p.m., and the evening session will begin at 7 p.m.
The afternoon session will begin with time for public comments on non-agenda items. The general discussion period will cover the following topics: Secretary's remarks about agency and state fiscal status and an update on the 2013 legislative session, a briefing on tourism, big game permanent regulations, a series of deer regulations, and late migratory bird seasons.
During the afternoon session, commissioners will workshop items that were covered under general discussion at the June meeting. Workshop topics, which will be discussed for potential regulatory action at a future meeting, include regulations pertaining to fishing, parks, and Spring/Fall 2014 turkey seasons, fees pertaining to youth licenses and permits, and an update on the potential federal listing of the lesser prairie chicken.
The commission will recess at 5 p.m., then reconvene at 7 p.m. at the same location for the public hearing. The public hearing will be devoted to late migratory bird seasons.
Time will be available in both afternoon and evening sessions for public comment on topics not on the agenda. If necessary, the commission will reconvene at the same location at 9 a.m., August 1, to complete unfinished business.
A commercial-free version of live video and audio streaming of commission meetings will be broadcast through the KDWPT website, ksoutdoors.com.
If notified in advance, the department will have an interpreter available for the hearing impaired. To request an interpreter, call the Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at 1-800-432-0698. Any individual with a disability may request other accommodations by contacting the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission secretary at (620) 672-5911.
The next commission meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 29, 2013 via conference call.


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Commissioner Sue Alexander
Commissioner, Superior Court of Alameda County
Current Term: Jan 2011–Sept 2014
Membership: Advisory member, appointed by Chief Justice Ronald M. George
Internal Committee: Executive and Planning Committee
Council Liaison to: Superior Courts of Alpine, Amador, El Dorado and Glenn Counties; AOC Center for Families, Children & the Courts
Commissioner Alexander has served on the Superior Court of Alameda County since 1997 and has expertise in family law, domestic violence and civil harassment, elder abuse, and traffic and small claims. She has served as a member of the Judicial Council's Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee, the Elkins Family Law Implementation Task Force, and the Family Law Curriculum Committee for the Governing Committee for the Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER). She served on the executive board of the California Judges Association (CJA) from 2007 to 2010, is on the CJA Foundation Board, and is a current board member of the California Court Commissioners Association. Before her appointment to the bench, Commissioner Alexander was a mental health hearing officer for Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. She was in private practice for 14 years, focusing on family law, probate, and estate planning and juvenile dependency. She is a certified specialist in both Family Law and Probate and Estate Planning. In 2012, she was named the State Bar Family Section's Judicial Officer of the Year.
|Amador County Superior Court liaison report by Commissioner Alexander
Jul 21, 2014
|Glenn County Superior Court liaison report by Commissioner Alexander
July 24, 2014
|El Dorado County Superior Court liaison report by Commissioner Alexander
June 27, 2014


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1. The Stanford School of Medicine's Move from San Francisco to the Stanford Campus: Rationale, Controversies, and Impacts
- Title:
- The Stanford School of Medicine's Move from San Francisco to the Stanford Campus: Rationale, Controversies, and Impacts.
- Author:
- Abrams, Herbert L., Berg, Paul, Mark, James B. D., Schrier, Stanley L., and Sunshine, Philip
- Corporate Author:
- Stanford Historical Society
- Description:
- In this oral history, five distinguished professors at the Stanford University School of Medicine--Hebert L. Abrams, Paul Berg, James B. D. Mark, Stanley L. Schrier, and Philip Sunshine--discussed the Medical School's move from San Francisco to the Stanford campus in 1959 and its implications. They described the new format for medical education envisioned by the university president and the Board of Trustees, the impact of the integration of the teaching and clinical operations on the Stanford campus, and how Stanford gained a reputation for innovative, high-quality medical care. The panelists discussed the forces behind this move: the Flexner Report on medical education in the United States and Canada and the university's assessment of its program's condition after World War II. They also talked about the challenges the Medical School faced as a result of the move, including the creation of an adequate patient base to ensure the success of the medical school and hospital (which occasioned hostility from local physicians, hospitals and clinics) and the need to recruit faculty, physicians, and researchers. In the course of the discussion, the panelists also addressed differences among their departments regarding the sharing of research resources.
- Topic:
- Herbert L. Abrams, Paul Berg, James B. D. Mark, Stanley L. Schrier, Philip Sunshine, Stanford Historical Society, oral histories, interviews, higher education, professors, Stanford Lane Hospital, Henry Kaplan, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and San Francisco General Hospital
- Imprint:
- February 11, 2015
- Collection:
- Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2012
- Exhibit Tags:
- video


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IFSDA wishes to congratulate Tony Shields on his recent award of an Honorary FAP by the Australian Philatelic Federation
Tony Shields together with his wife, Christine and daughter Katherine.
Tony Shields started collecting stamps at the age of five. Nine years later after moving from the country, he joined the Frankston and District Stamp Club as a junior in 1967 and Brighton Philatelic Society in 1968. He was awarded The Ern Allitt Junior Trophy for his B.C.O.F. Japan exhibit at The Victorian Philatelic Association Congress in 1970, and worked for Tam Mappin of Mappin and Curran in their stamp shop over the university holidays. A year later he joined his friend David Kirby and worked at Max Sterns over the next 6 years on a part time and then full time basis.
Within a year of finishing his Economics Degree and other studies, he married and together with his wife, Christine started a mail order stamp business, advertising in The Australian Stamp Monthly, and selling on exchange sheets. He helped re-establish the defunct Eltham Stamp Club (now Diamond Valley Stamp Club) and was its foundation Vice President, and in due course its President for over 10 years. He continued as a member for over 20 years.
He opened his first shop on 1st March 1979 in Greensborough and joined the Australasian Stamp Dealers Association. Within a year he was asked by Max Stern to join the committee, and by 1982 was President of the Victorian Chapter of ASDA and already on its National Board. He became a delegate to The Victorian Philatelic Council in the same year.
In 1985 Tony became the youngest ever President of the national trade body ASDA - now called The Australasian Philatelic Traders Association. He has held that position a record number of times, and undertook a massive restructuring of that organisation in the 1990s to turn its fortunes around and establish it as the most successful stamp dealers association in the world. Membership boomed and Tony was actively involved in obtaining most of the new ones through his international contacts. He also established a national circuit of APTA stamp shows, organised dealer bourses which were only open to the trade, proposed and helped to organise National stamp Dealer Conventions to educate the trade in various business matters, and helped to run a significant number of social events including golf days and a car rally. Many of his ideas for promoting shows and the trade are still used today. It was his idea to overprint booklets for 1989 Tram Show in Melbourne, and that idea has been used by virtually every show ever held in Australia since then, to help raise funds to run the show. Subsequently he did the same for exhibition covers and Philatelic Numismatic Covers. The idea has been copied by many other trade bodies around the world and even Australia Post and by now has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for organised philately and the trade.
In 1989 Tony attended his first overseas stamp show, which was in Singapore. Since then he has been a stand holder at hundreds of overseas stamp exhibitions, in 22 different countries, and significantly helped to promote Australian Philately in the process. He has joined trade bodies and collectors clubs in virtually all of them. In Australia Tony was Vice President of Melbourne Stamp Show 1989 and the last 4 world stamp exhibitions held in Australia - Melbourne 1999, Olymphilex 2000, Pacific Explorer 2005 and Australia 2013. He was a very active contributor to all of these and it was his idea at the Victorian Show in Wodonga to hold Australia 2013.
Tony and his business have received many trade awards from the national trade body including Dealer of the Year on numerous occasions. In 2002, he was the first non-British person to be awarded The Roland Hill Philatelic Award in London for "Enterprise and Personal Contribution" to the trade and hobby. The award was given by the British Post Office and Philatelic Traders Society. Later in the same year, he became the first ever recipient of the SPAN award from APF, and in 2007 was awarded life membership of APTA - one of only 7 people to be ever awarded this honour.
Extract from APF News, August 2016, Vol. 30 No.2 by Gary Brown.


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When speaking about the 'Who's Who' on the ATP Top Shelf, we have a serious threat to the normal or should I say what has been accepted Rank & File of who should be on the Top Shelf.
Rafa Nadal & Novak Djokovic who were the number(s) 2 & 3 respectfully while the World fully expected at least Rafa had the clear opportunity to knock Roger from his perch (which he did) also saw the insurgence of Andy Murray & even Andy Roddick make a serious charge towards the 2nd half of 2008 adding additional pressure on Roger after the French & Wimbledon.
Dare someone say, "Thank God for Robin Soderling?"
So in 2009 we have what no one would or could have foreseen a beatdown of huge magnitude when Soderling beat Rafa at the French. This gave Roger the breathing room he so desperately needed to salvage 2009. That is until this other guy that nobody expected decided to jump into the mix, named Juan Del Potro, who is beginning to appear as the guy who could in fact get into the top 3 with impressive wins at the beginning of 2010.
Make no mistake about it, if Del Potro wins the Aussy Open and follows that with a French win, we'll have ourselves a serious shakeup of the Top Tier.


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Thome hit a game-winning HR yesterday. Last time we got this gem from Ozzie:
"We're not in second place right now because of Jimmy. We're in second place right now because Minnesota play good and we have two very bad months."
You know Ozzie, Jimmy is a member of the Minnesota team. Jimmy does not still play for the Dodgers.


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