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....I wrote a book.Ever since Lexie started asking me for our story - The Mommy & Lexie Story - I've had the idea that I should make a book for her. So I did it....I wrote our story on a Blurb book and "published" it. I was very impressed with the free software Blurb provides you and the whole process was much easier that I thought it would be.
You can see if better if you make it full screen (Mom & Aunt Mary Lou click on the icon on the bottom right side of the box - next to where is says Blurb.)
So here it is....
I know it's too wordy and childish but it really is pretty much how Lexie and I "tell" the story most every night. I have tried to shorten it but she always wants the long version. Oh my little detail girl. And sure there are several things I'd like to change about it but overall I'm pretty please with how it turned out. I gave a copy to my Mom on Mother's Day since she was with us for this adventure. Then Lexie and I read it to her pre-school class for her class birthday celebration.
For the first year, most kids parents tell about their baptisms, first steps, first words. Since Lexie's first year was spent alone in a baby house....well, instead we read our story.
Tomorrow, May 25th, is the fourth anniversary of the day Lexie was Born to Me. The day I met her and held her for the first time. Simply the best day of my life.
Happy Born to Me Day - Lexie!!


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Dairy Herd Network – Ponder this scenario: You have four children. One of them wants to come back to the dairy farm. The other three work off-farm.
"We can afford to pay you $1,000 per week," you say to the farming child. "But you know, we always said we wanted to treat you kids equally, so we're going to pay each of you $250 per week. That way you'll all be treated equally." Is that fair? No, it's certainly not. Most people would agree that the child who works for the business should receive the full $1,000.
"If that's fair during life, what changes at death?" asks John Baker, an attorney and administrator of the Beginning Farmer Center, part of Iowa State University Extension.
"There's this presumption that if we divide things equally, in some way that makes it fair," Baker says. "I don't know where that idea came from because 'fair' and 'equal' are not the same thing."
Distribution of the business assets can be an equitable arrangement for both on-farm and off-farm heirs. Here are some considerations to keep in mind during the planning process.
Assets, not heirlooms
"Farmers tend to look at farm business assets as though they are family heirlooms. They don't consider them to be business assets," Baker says.
Consider the situation where you have a set of plates that great-grandma brought from the old country. There are only four left and you have four children. Naturally, you'd want each one of them to have part of the family legacy.
"I think that's a wonderful thing to do. It passes on the family history," Baker says. "It's not a very good business transition model, though, because you're fractionating the ownership of the business assets."
It's wise for not only you, but also your heirs, to leave their sentimental attachment at the door of the planning process.
Elwyn Voss, financial services representative with The Voss Group in Norwich, N.Y., asks his clients to think about this situation: Say you have a son or daughter who left the farm 20 or 25 years ago. If that child dies, what is the brother or sister on the farm going to get out of that estate?
"The answer is zero," Voss says. "If your brother or sister leaves the business and goes off and is very successful in whatever they do, they don't think, 'Gee, my brother or sister back on the farm ought to get something out of this.' So why do we have this problem with the farm?"
The problem, Voss says, is sentimental attachment.
"It was their home. They saw mom and dad work it, and most of the time they didn't see their sibling work it. He was going to high school and then college," Voss says. "When he came back, they never really saw him working. They were all gone."
Think it through
As you work toward a plan for asset distribution, think through the potential ramifications of your actions.
"If we have $10 million of assets and $5 million in debt, we have $5 million in equity leftover," Voss says. "The son taking over the farm has all that debt to deal with… If he's one of four children, the next thing you know, he's got to deal with threefourths of the equity. So the non-farm equity becomes his farm debt."
Your plan for distributing the business assets also can put heirs into business with each other when they had no intention of doing so. This can backfire on more than one level.
"My experience as an attorney tells me that death brings out the best and worst in families, and usually it's within about half a second of one another," Baker says.
Plus, your unintentional business partner's knowledge of modern dairy farming practices can be severely limited.
"I tell people that I grew up on an acreage," Baker says. "My father got rid of the cattle back in the early 1950s. I don't know anything about that business anymore. It would not be a good business decision to put someone in business with me, and yet that's what we see happen."
Do it now
Taking the time to put together a comprehensive asset distribution plan will not only move the business forward, but equitably compensate both on-farm and off-farm parties.
"There are lots of tools that can be used very effectively by farm business owners to put together a comprehensive business succession plan that helps to keep the business assets together and also provides a form of compensation for the in-business heirs and the non-business heirs, without destroying the business," Baker says.
"If you don't sit down and do some business succession planning, there's a good chance that your family will no longer have a farm business. And, there's a good chance that the farm business will no longer have a family."


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DailyDirt: Digging Into Sports Statistics
from the urls-we-dig-up deptBaseball fans have been fascinated with player statistics for a really, really long time. Sabermetrics changed a few things about baseball in recent years, so it's about time other sports started looking into more rigorous data analysis, too. Fantasy team managers and actual professional coaches are both looking for diamond-in-the-rough players, and more player statistics are being collected and analyzed to find them. Here are just a few interesting developments in the field of performance analysis.
- Looking at the stats for 452 NBA players, there are far more than the five traditional positions in basketball -- try 13 different kinds of players. The 'Paint Protector' position gets more fouls than shots and collects rebounds like crazy. The 'Scoring Rebounder' might be a more highly-paid player, though. [url]
- The NBA wants to provide more engaging statistics to its fans, so it's turned to enterprise software solutions -- SAP HANA. Will re-purposed business analytics software be able to appeal to millions of fans? [url]
- The PageRank algorithm can be applied to soccer players, based on how many passes a player receives from his teammates, to help analyze how players fit into a team and quantify the overall strength of a team. Obviously, this algorithm has several limitations, but soccer isn't as statistic-friendly as other sports, so data analysis strategies for soccer are not as well developed. [url]
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Since the beginning of the Republican primary process, a loud minority of GOP voters have embraced one candidate after another in a desperate attempt to find an acceptable one who wasn't named Mitt Romney.
Because these folks assume that Mitt Romney is actually far more centrist and reasonable than he sounds.
And based on Romney's track record, that's probably a fair assumption.
In this anyone-but-Romney process, right-wing Republican voters have become briefly infatuated with candidates that no one gave even a snowball's chance in hell at the beginning of the race.
During each of these early surges, moderate Republicans just looked on and shook their heads, knowing that voters would quickly come to their senses and the candidate-du-jour would come crashing back to earth.
As the field of candidates has shrunk, however, the infatuations have lasted longer, as the desperation of voters increased.
But, finally, in the last few weeks, the remaining hope and resistance has collapsed. And Mitt Romney is now, solidly, the GOP nominee.
As Paul Kedrosky observed earlier today, the last infatuation bubble to burst was Rick Santorum's.
For those who consider themselves moderate Republicans--the traditional kind, who support the separation of church and state, freedom, choice, and other traditional American values--this comes as a a great relief.
In recent years, the Republican party has been hijacked by Religious Aggressives like Mr. Santorum--people who claim to be "conservative" but then rail about the need to enact more restrictive laws, fuse church and state, limit freedom and liberty, and otherwise make America less American. And in an effort to fight these folks off, formerly reasonable and tolerant people like Mitt Romney have had to sound like anti-American fanatics.
Fortunately, that's all over now.
As one of Mitt Romney's aides explained a couple of weeks back, now that the extremists have been defeated, Mitt Romney can shake his Etch-a-Sketch and go back to being moderate and reasonable again.
And the rest of America, Democrats included, can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
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I was still quite young then, and thought: 'Well, if Curd Juergens isn't wise at that age, he would surely mature further, and be blessed by wisdom at seventy'. Being a sanguine hedonist who ate, drank, smoked, and fornicated excessively, he didn't make it, and died at age 67 - thus, I'll never know what he would have been like at my age.
What I know is this: I wasn't wise at sixty, and I have to confess that now, at seventy, I am still as far away from being a wise man as I was in my youth...
It took me almost all my adult life to realize that in order to be sagacious when you are old you had to be already sagacious as a youngster.
Most people mistake experience for wisdom. Big mistake! Grey hair means nothing. In fact - many, if not most, grey wolves and she-wolves are fools because they always were - and, hey, I am NOT excluding myself from the pack!!
What I became during the voyage on that Ship of Fools that has been my life is a grouchy old fart, aggressive, intolerant, impatient, not too pleasant to be with, and whatnot - all rather flattering attributes I have heard from family members and close friends, people who know me well, and, incomprehensibly, still kinda like me.... :-)
As a small kid I was gentle and charming, so I was told - look at that little boy, and see what became of him:
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The Roundtable is specifically geared towards the Mediterranean region and will help showcase the important role that regional approaches and effective co-operation mechanisms can play in addressing cross-border challenges, to include those related to migration flows.
This training course, organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the Transnational Threats Department in close co-operation with the Spanish National Police (Policia Nacional) is part of a multi-year initiative aimed to strengthen co-operation mechanisms between border security and management agencies of the OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation (PfC) and participating States (pS). It will focus on risks at the borders and ways to be used to tackle contemporary challenges, ranging from transnational crime and terrorism to irregular migration flows both at land and maritime borders.
The workshop was organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and Ukraine's Ministry of Social Policy, with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and INTERPOL.
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The truth is each and every phone has a replaceable battery - it's only a matter of how easy it is to get to it.
As for the chart - I'm surprised that the Google phones have such bad repairability score.
Which companies phones, tabs and laptops are the easiest to repair and which are not.
Am a big fan of replaceable batteries on phones just because it makes battery life a non issue.
The truth is each and every phone has a replaceable battery - it's only a matter of how easy it is to get to it.
As for the chart - I'm surprised that the Google phones have such bad repairability score.
The ones made by huawei & HTC are harder to repair than by LG. Maybe you're thinking of those, Nexus 4, 5, 5x were by LG.
By replaceable i mean swap out, restart and back in under a minute. No power bank. There is also the option of extended batteries which can become bulky
"Repairability" is a relative term.
For example Dell ultrabook-sized laptops (which probably are the 7 score above) need around 60 (!) steps - removing and reattaching screws, unhooking and reattaching cables etc - just to replace the HDD/SSD, taking a minimum of 15 minutes. On a worktime efficiency tradeoff professional repair tends to become not worthwhile with these dimensions.
Vice a glued up unit that makes a simple repair infeasible ? things break, do we throw out an entire product because of less repairability ?
If the phone is bought on contract then a replacement will be provided by the operator. They write off the return. If its contract free you're on your own
Number of steps isn't a concern to the consumer its a pro's job and the question is can it be repaired or not and whether affordable
Generally speaking, any device can be repaired as long as the manufacturer releases the schematics. If a device is popular, the manufacturer releases it at a price(repair companies pool together the money). If the device is unpopular(didn't sell many units), the manufacturer does not see any incentive to withold the schematics and releases it in the corner.
Apple is notorious for not releasing schematics. They would rather have you approach the service centre to get their device repaired. Even at the apple service centre, the instruction for the employee in the service manual is to change the MLB(main logic board).
Narrowing down a bad component on a pcb can take several hours even if you have the schematics. If the pcb has a short, most repairmen won't even touch it for weeks.
Mainboard repair is a dying art, especially pcbs based on smd. Technicians todays simply replace the whole board. Thankfully, SMPS power supply repair has still not died.
I got an iPhone 8 and screen changing charged from me 1/3 of the iPhone's price.
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When my dog Toby was 11, I checked out a book on anti-aging for dogs from the library. I left to run a few errands and returned later to a grisly scene.
I found the mangled book on the floor, cover gnawed off, two chapters torn apart and puncture wounds to the appendix. Apparently, Toby didn't intend to age gracefully.
I'd adopted Toby, a Lab/chow mix, from a shelter six years earlier. Toby's feisty personality soon emerged. He raced up and down stairs and barked ferociously whenever a stranger approached the door. He was my big, protective dog. And then one day, he wasn't.
After he turned 12, Toby seemed afraid to descend the stairs. At 14, he barely curled his lip when the mail carrier dropped letters through the slot.
I Iooked up Toby's age in human years when he turned 16. He was the equivalent of a 120-year-old man. By then, my old guy struggled to stand, suffered digestive issues and needed as much attention as any aging family member.
"We all age differently, and it's the same thing with dogs," says Connie Schulte, a certified canine rehabilitation practitioner and doctor of physical therapy at Blue Pearl Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center in Missouri and Kansas. "I've seen 12-year-olds [dogs] that act old and I've seen spry 12-year-olds."
Thanks to veterinary advances, today's dogs live longer than the family dog you knew as a kid. As a result, pets and their owners are now faced with a "whole new set of age-related conditions," according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
If your old dog struggles with geriatric challenges, here are 10 things you can do to make his or her life better:
To help those muscles stay strong, practice "sit" and "come" at mealtime and throughout the day, says Schulte. Even brief activity helps dogs retain the ability to get up and down.
"If they fall on the stairs, they could break or dislocate their hip," says Schulte. "Then you're forced into a surgery or decision that you weren't yet ready to make or didn't need to make."
"It's such a little thing to offer, and 10 minutes of your time can mean so much to them," she says.
"Love is a vitamin," says Fallek. "Keeping your dog happy is the most important thing for their immune system."
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I'm doing some research now. I like that with dish you can pay as you go. Just watched a video on the Winegard Pathways 2. The video shows the unit self locating both eastern and western satellites. The gentleman was able to select his state location right on the screen with his remote and then the unit located three satellites. You can run 2 boxes with the one unit so we can watch both tvOS at once. The cost of just the dish was 449 which seemed reasonable compared to the fancier automatic ones. However you must be stationary and it must be level to work.Anyone have practical experience with it? At home I'm a Direct tv consumer however the price has gotten high and you can only " order " 6 month service and not go month to month like Dish. love to hear some realities as this is my first Rv and portable satellite service!Thanks,
I second that if you are already a Direct member then take home unit with you on the road. Keep in mind Direct is talking about eliminating satellite TV by 2020. See Sarge's post on this forum.
If that were remotely true, then pray tell why would they invest in new satelites? Let alone the money to develop newer receiver technoligy. If and that is a big IF Direct AT&T actually did that they would instantly loose thousands if not millions of subscribers that for one reason or another cannot get good enough high speed internet to support streaming.Now, dont go off half cocked, yes, I understand AT&T is pushing streaming Direct service and in fact offers it basically free, at least free data for AT&T/Directv customers. But still, unless and until they can offer really high speed reliable data to 100% of the country it simply cant work as a business model.
Dish has NASA
DirecTV works with domes or dishes, but DirecHDTV does not, and many channels are now only HD.
My problem with Dish is that they have contract disputes with the channels they carry every couple of years. Seems there is always the threat of losing your favorite channels/programs.
I would like to get your opinion on which on is better for home and for the rv i have direct tv now and not happy with the rv part a big hassle setting up a portable dish. Dish seems to be more rv friendly your thought?
I too just dumped the big bulky dish for directv in my TT. I just ordered the King quest. I called Both King and Winegard first and the only option for my newer HR 54 receiver is the King Quest. I got it off Amazon 344.00 King wanted almost double that. They say it will get me sat 101 and no HD, which is good for me. I hope its easy to use. I would spend upwards of an hour each camping trip trying to get the old oval dish alligned and tweeked, and never had great results. I found this also you might find usefull. Its a satellite and channel list from Directv.http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/directv-101-110-119-channel-tp-assignment-lists-pdf.100091/
What model of king west did you get, I have not found them that cheap... we are just about ready to dump our dish too.. we have old receiver, I need to call but think it will work. Model -h21-200 We use direct tv.
Is there any warranty with refurbished one? Anyone else get refurbished??
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Frost & Sullivan's annual blockbuster Intelligent Mobility event, this year featuring future business models in connected and automated mobility held in London on 28 and 29 June, picked out current trends its experts considered likely to bring about 'transformational shifts expected to shape the future of mobility'.
Promoted as identifying growth opportunities arising from convergence of technologies, particularly in the mobility industry the industry Sarwant Singh, a Senior Partner, opened by noting market developments and strategic plays such has a 30% global growth in the car sharing market in last year and investments such as by GM in Lyft, He proposed eight likely 'Mega Trends' currently impacting mobility. These are: Connected Mobility; a Cognitive Era; Cars going Tech.; Digitization; Health Wellness and Wellbeing; Vehicle Leasing and Financing; and Mobility as a service.
Speakers from industry such as General Motors, Renault Nissan, Fontinalis Partners, Moovit, BMW, Toyota, Gett, XXimo, Mobility International AG, Arriva, TomTom Telematics, Inrix, Digital Barriers, HORIBA MIRA and BT, presented their take on the mobility market, and in panel discussions that to some degree suggested the direction of travel is to a future of mobility becoming a commoditised service, that will instead present new, and different, opportunities for revenue.
According to Frost & Sullivan's review of the event, the line between public and private transportation is increasingly blurred, as customers shift towards more multi-modal preferences using technology enabled solutions.
"This convergence will be driven by data that revolves around both the car and the consumer. Future-oriented solutions will involve the development of intelligence on all levels rather than focusing on one pillar," claimed Frost & Sullivan Senior Partner Sarwant Singh. "The shift from private vehicles to multi-modal integrated mobility is a further disruption the industry faces: Due to a convergence of social, demographic and technological innovations, we are witnessing a shift from people using cars as the preferred or even only choice to using them as part of a wider system."
Mr. Singh pointed out that in future, tech companies which offer solutions for autonomous driving will compete with traditional OEMs. This will lead to a disruption of the industry and expects the market to grow to $60bn in 2030. The automation technology roadmaps of 80% of the major OEMs are expected to be finalised this year.
"The pace at which connected services, sensoring solutions and the like develop make it safe to assume that full autonomous functionality can be achieved within the next decade."
During the sessions on the Future of Connectivity and on Autonomous Business Models leading OEMs unveiled that convergence will allow the industry to master the challenges mobility faces today, with pollution and accidents making the issue a political and social one, going beyond customer needs.
In the discussion about New Mobility Business Models four leading OEMs exchanged their respective approaches towards shared mobility. They offered a broad spectrum reaching from carsharing, ridesharing and ride hailing to demand responsive solutions and smart parking. The discussed business models provided the basis for a fluid transition to the next panels, evolving around the Future of Corporate Mobility and Integrated Transport Solutions, which is facing similar challenges and choosing comparable modular solutions.
In future, fleet management will become more integrated and comprise not only company vehicles, but increasingly carsharing and other elements of the mobility mix. Hence, an integrated fleet management will function complementary to integrated mobility solutions, both aiming for one single platform to provide access to all services and products.
"Today's niche business models will become main-stream, particularly digitally enabled mobility services, which will lead to a convergence of public and private transportation," concluded Mr. Singh.
"Overall, this will lead to a more convenient, user friendly, on-demand transportation network for the customer, which will revolutionise the way we use cars in urban areas in particular."


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I live right near Plummer Park and that's my favorite place to play. I'd love to hit. Would you like to play Tuesday morning?
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Polihua Beach is among the draws for tourists on Lanai. Billionaire Larry Ellison says his plans for an eco-lab aim to help locals start small businesses around organic farm exports.
HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Four months after snapping up nearly the entire island of Lanai, billionaire Larry Ellison has presented his vision of paradise: an eco-lab based on solar power, with electric cars replacing gas guzzlers and sea water transformed into fresh water for an organic farm export industry.
Ellison, CEO of the business software firm Oracle, bought 98 percent of the 141-square-mile Lanai from billionaire David Murdock in June, reportedly for around $500 million.
The Lanai holdings include two resorts and golf courses, commercial and residential structures and vast acres of former pineapple fields that now rest undeveloped.
Since the purchase, Lanai's 3,000 residents have been waiting to hear what Ellison, who doesn't currently have a residence on the island, means to do with it.
During a Tuesday interview with CNBC, Ellison addressed his plans for the first time.
"What we are going to do is turn Lanai into a model for sustainable enterprise," he said.
"I own the water utility, I own the electric utility," he added. "The electric utility is all going to be solar photovoltaic and solar thermal where it can convert sea water into fresh water."
Photovoltaic is the more traditional solar technology of panels that absorb the sun's rays and directly create electricity with semiconductors, while large-scale thermal involves using mirrors to direct heat to run a turbine and thus make electricity.
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This solar thermal station is in Spain. Larry Ellison said he plans to bring solar thermal to Lanai.
Electric cars will be brought in, Ellison added, and farming will be transformed.
"We have drip irrigation where we are going to have organic farms all over the island. Hopefully we are going to export produce -- really the best, organic produce to Japan and elsewhere," he said.
"We are going to support the local people and help them start these businesses," Ellison said. "So it is going to be a little, if you will, laboratory for sustainability in businesses of small scale."
KHNL's Jim Mendoza reports on Ellison's purchase soon after it was announced.
Ellison's Lanai representatives did not immediately respond to requests for elaboration on his comments.
Residents of the island who spoke with Reuters largely welcomed the plan.
Alberta de Jetley, owner of Lanai's 18-acre Bennie's Farm, was one of those who voiced support.
"We have been working towards sustainability for years. We know tourism alone can't sustain Lanai. We all understand this has to happen," de Jetley said.
"I think that will go over really well if he can do it," said resident Caron Green.
Ellison, one of the world's richest men with a fortune estimated at $41 billion, has not had any community meetings with residents. De Jetley said this may be a better approach than Murdock's public meetings which left some residents frustrated when plans didn't materialize.
"Ellison is doing it the right way, not making promises that don't get fulfilled," de Jetley said.
She pointed to the recent refurbishment of the island's public pool and recreation center as well as upgrades to workers' housing around the island as proof of Ellison's positive intentions for the island's future.
As a farm owner, de Jetley hopes Ellison's plans for desalinated water could help water-starved Lanai become the state's "breadbasket" and a major fruit supplier to Japan.
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Not all residents were so optimistic about how their island might fare under the billionaire's tenure, saying they would judge the plans only once they were in place on the ground, although many of those declined to be quoted by name.
With the high cost of land, water and labor in Hawaii, agriculture faces an uphill battle to be competitive and could require Ellison to continuously subsidize it to make it work on Lanai.
"It's going to take a lot of work and there are challenges," said Jennifer Chirico, executive director of Sustainable Living Institute of Maui.
"It's a long-term strategy but it's exciting. Because of the size of Lanai, with just 3,000 people, this is really an opportunity to test sustainability for islands around the world," she said.
Mary Charles, an owner of the island's smallest hotel, Hotel Lanai, points to Ellison's vast personal wealth as proof he can make it happen. "He has the resources, so if anybody can make it successful he and his team can."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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An attorney for a teacher accused of having sex with a student has drafted a criminal complaint to have the alleged victim also face charges.
Court records spelled out sexual encounters between a teacher, Craig Perino, and a former student who was 16 years old at the time.
The records detail drinking, sex and nude pictures sent by the teen.
The photos are part of the focus of the case.
"It seems to be a selective prosecution issue because he gets charged, and she doesn't even though she's the one who produced it. She sent them, and they were unsolicited," said John Birdsall, Perino's attorney.
Perino was charged with sexual intercourse with a child and possession of child pornography after opening text messages with nude pictures and storing them on a phone and a computer.
Birdsall filed a motion to dismiss the child pornography charges against his client on several grounds, saying his client didn't solicit the photos, and the victim should be charged for creating and sending them.
"If their position is that this represents lewd exhibition of a child, then if that's true, she should be charged with production and distribution," said Birdsall.
The parents of the victim contacted Franklin police two months after the alleged first encounter in 2011.
Franklin police referred the case to police in Waterford, where Perino lives and the alleged incidents happened.
The district attorney has not charged the girl, so Birdsall drafted his own criminal complaint with the hopes a judge will sign it.
The district attorney did not return phone calls from WISN-TV.


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From rupi kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one's roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
in order to bloom
About the Author
Rupi Kaur is a poet, artist, and performer. Her works have taken the literary world by storm. Her second book, the sun and her flowers—an instant global bestseller, is an artistic sibling to her debut, milk and honey—one of America's bestselling books of 2017.
"i am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told."
Rupi sees her work as an articulation of this vision. She's an eternal artist. At the age of five, her mother handed her a paintbrush and said, "draw your heart out." At seventeen, she happened upon a local open mic night where she performed her first spoken word poem. She fell in love with performance poetry that night. Rupi continued performing across Canada, while building a community of readers and poetry enthusiasts. While studying at the University of Waterloo, Rupi wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first collection, milk and honey. In the years since, milk and honey has become an international phenomenon. It's sold over 5 million copies, been translated into more than 35 languages, and landed as a #1 New York Times bestseller—where it has spent more than three years.
"i am the first woman in my lineage with freedom of choice. to craft her future whichever way i choose. say what is on my mind when i want to. without the whip of the lash. there are hundreds of firsts i am thankful for."
Rupi explores a variety of themes in her work ranging from love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, migration, and revolution. She's a storyteller and chronicler—a repository of community and history. There's a simplicity and nuance to her work that has found a home in the hearts of millions. This magic is captured in her stage performances, which are magnetic musical interactions of poetry, art, and theater. Rupi's long-awaited second collection, the sun and her flowers, was published in 2017 and debuted as a #1 global bestseller. Within the first three months it sold a million copies and was embraced by readers worldwide. She's a Forbes 30 under 30, an editor of the 2016 Mays Literary Anthology of New Writing from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and one of BBC's 100 Women. Rupi hopes to continue her artistic exploration through art and poetry—searching for ways to understand and articulate.
i stand
on the sacrifices
of a million women before me thinking
what can i do
to make this mountain taller so the women after me
can see farther
- legacy
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The guys who ran the recently collapsed Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all prove one thing.
You don't always get what you pay for.
Big paychecks for jobs not well done:
- Lehman Brother's Richard Fuld, $40 million.
- Merrill Lynch's Stanley O'Neal, $46 million.
- Bear Stearns James Cayne, $40 million.
- Freddie Mac's Richard Syron, just shy of $20 million.
- Fannie Mae's Daniel Mudd, $12.2 million.
As the nation's financial system was crumbling, the CEOs that were in charge of the most troubled financial firms pocketed the fattest paychecks during their final full year on the job — and that doesn't include the golden parachutes they walked away with.
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Public outrage over this disconnect has caused government to step in and finally try to do something about skyrocketing executive compensation. But history shows government's attempts have been lame, at best, when it comes to curtaining CEO riches.
Why? Because regulators never go far enough in giving shareholders a true voice. It's difficult to break up entrenched boards of directors that make the decisions on executive compensation.
Even the $700 billion bailout package introduced this week doesn't have the teeth to finally put a lid on financial windfalls, experts say.
Over the past two decades, efforts by government officials to rein in the big payouts, including changes to the tax code and calls for more oversight, have actually contributed to the growth in CEO pay — now 275 times the salary of the average working stiff, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
"Government regulators are notoriously ineffective at reining in pay and often times the unintended consequences caused greater problems," says Charles Elson, an expert on corporate governance at the University of Delaware.
Let's go back to the mid 1980s when everyone was concerned about executives getting huge payouts as a result of the merger mania at the time. The government and investors wanted to make sure management was selling companies because it was financially prudent, not because they'd end up with huge severance packages.
This fear ushered in a change in the Internal Revenue tax code in 1986 creating a penalty tax on excessive golden parachute payments more than three times the base pay for an executive.
What happened after that, says Steve Van Putten, a senior executive pay consultant for Watson Wyatt in Boston, was companies started paying the excise tax for executives, a process called grossing up. And the three-times base pay limit became the standard for many parachutes that were once well below that.
In 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission introduced new proxy disclosure rules taking information about executive compensation that was once narrative and thin on numerical values, and putting actual numbers out there for all to see.
"It became very transparent and a CEO at one company could see what another was making so they'd say, 'Hey, I want to be making that,' " says Van Putten.
And the big change — one that many compensation experts and shareholder advocates point to as a turning point that led to the obscene CEO paychecks we're dealing with today — came in 1993 with tax code provision 162(m) that limited tax deductibility for executive pay at $1 million, unless it was considered "performance-based" compensation, like, you guessed it, stock options.
"As a result, stock options have gone crazy," explains Mel Fugate, assistant management professor at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. That meant a CEO could get $1 million in base pay and $400 million in stock options, for example.
This focus on stock options created a volatile mix, boosting incentives for executives to make risky business moves in order to boost a company's stock.
That's exactly what has happened with the subprime mess that led to the downfall of so many old and established Wall Street firms.
"Certainly, compensation practices at these companies has been a major contributor to the financial crisis," says Paul Hodgson, a senior analyst at the Corporate Library, an independent governance research organization.
Alas, government intervention thus far has been "an unmitigated disaster," adds Alan Johnson, a compensation consultant. "I would think if you went back 20 years or so, you'd see it's enriched consultants like me, lawyers, accountants. It was wasted time and money and didn't reduce pay. It was so poorly designed, so full of loopholes, and so silly."
So, what needs to be done to finally clamp down on CEO pay and incentives that encourage short-term gains, but do little for the long-term health of the nation's corporations?
Shareholders can take an overpaid executive or board members that approved pay packages to court. But legally they would have to prove that the board overstepped its bounds in some way, such as back dating options, for example, says Stuart Grant, an attorney with Grant & Eisenhofer, a law firm that has litigated executive compensation cases.
"I don't know if there's ever been a case just solely based on executive pay that's come to judgment that's been successful," he explains. "You have to find some back door."
While few industry observers would go on the record defending exorbitant CEO paychecks, compensation consultant Alan Johnson says, "pay for executives is set in the marketplace. ... Do I wish executives got paid less? Absolutely. Is it terrible for society? Yes. But it is the market."
If companies want to attract the best and brightest, they have to pay CEOs competitively, says Craig Rennie, finance professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. "You can say, 'maybe we need to restrict executive compensation,' " he explains, but then executives will say, " 'we will go live in London where there's a friendlier regulatory environment.' "
For government regulators, fixing the problem is a matter of finding the right balance, says Houman B. Shadab, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center's regulatory studies program. "Compensation decisions should best be left up to shareholders and boards of directors and the way you do that is give shareholders more control."
Even before the idea for a bailout, Congress had been reviewing two provisions that many compensation experts say would give shareholders more of a voice.
The "Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation" Act, also known as the "say on pay" bill and sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), would give shareholders the right to a nonbinding vote on the executive pay packages and golden parachutes. Even though the vote would be nonbinding, Frank has said a vote against a compensation decision would put pressure on the board. It passed the House in April and is pending in the Senate, where Barack Obama is sponsoring the bill.
Another key proposal that would help is allowing shareholders to vote for board members without engaging in a proxy fight, explains the Corporate Library's Hodgson.
Since boards at U.S. corporations are so entrenched, adding just one independent voice could go a long way, he adds. "It would change the psychological dynamic on the board because you'd have a member that says, 'I am here because the shareholders put me here' rather than 'The CEO nominated me,' " he explains. "Board members are smart but collectively they become a herd."
Neither the "say on pay" or proxy access provisions were in the bail out plan voted on this week, Hodgson adds.
Another option is creating incentives for board members. Elson, with the Center for Corporate Governance, believes having board members become equity stakeholders in the companies they oversee will also help incentivize them to keep mega pay packages under wraps because they'll have as much at stake as the shareholders.
No matter what happens, when you look at exploding CEO pay, there are clearly two reasons things need to change, says Dan Pedrotty, director of the AFL-CIO's office of investment. "The concern is equality and fairness. But also if we pay for failure at a company that's less long-term value that a company generates for shareholders,"
The union, he says, represents not only its working members but also retirees that have a large stake in corporate America through their pensions and 401(k)s.
For 10 years, the AFL-CIO has been pointing out the excesses of management pay on its Executive PayWatch website with the purpose of "bringing attention to CEO pay abuses and mobilizing public opinion to do something," says Pedrotty.
This year's theme: the link between CEO pay and the subprime disaster.
"A large part of how we got here, in addition to lack of regulation and greed, was the way the incentive packages were structured to incentivize the executives to take risks," he notes. "As a result, lots of money was paid to undeserving CEOs."


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Pigskin philosophy: Ausar Walcott learns meaning of in(de)finite
In his 1644 Principles of Philosophy, René Descartes, the first "modern" philosopher, attempted to be more scientific and less metaphysical than he was in his 1641 work, Meditations on First Philosophy. In the 1600s– and even today– there often isn't much difference between the scientific and the metaphysical, so we should forgive Descartes his faults and applaud his tenacity.
Oh, and humbly thank him for making the distinction– or at least Ausar Walcott should.
Remember Ausar Walcott? Back in February, Virginia's sophomore starting linebacker was suspended indefinitely for "conduct detrimental to the team," specifically for having been arrested for his involvement in a January 30 brawl at JMU.
Cornerback Devin Wallace and sophomore center Mike Price were also arrested; all three were charged with three misdemeanor charges of assault and battery by mob and one felony charge of burglary/entering a dwelling with the intent to commit an assault.
Price and Wallace eventually pled guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery; the felony charges were dropped. And Walcott? All charges against him were dismissed.
After a ruling by the judge (he probably denied introduction of certain evidence by the prosecution), the initial charges were amended; that's when Price and Wallace pleaded guilty, and Walcott took his chances. It paid off in the courtroom, but it took a little longer to pay off in Scott Stadium.
When UVA suspended Walcott and his two teammates back in February, it wasn't for one month or three games, it was "indefinitely." Yikes. Indefinitely is about as open-ended as it gets, implying all sorts of unpleasant possibilities. "Indefinitely" gives one a maybe-tomorrow-or-next-week-or-next-year-but-most-likely-I'll-end-up-stuck-behind-a-file-cabinet-in-the-back-of-a-storage-closet-and-good-luck-holding-on-until-somebody-remembers-I'm-back-there kind of feeling. And that's where Descartes comes in– Mike London's inner Descartes, that is.
In Principles of Philosophy, Descartes made the metaphysical (not scientific) distinction between the "infinite" and the "indefinite." Infinity is too great for the human mind to comprehend, he said, but indefinite taxes the old noggin a bit less strenuously.
"Because we cannot imagine extension so great that we cannot still conceive greater," Rene wrote, "we will say that the magnitude of possible things is indefinite."
Old Descartes was giving himself some leeway, as all good philosophers must. When London suspended Walcott and his teammates indefinitely, he wasn't being arbitrary; he was giving himself some leeway.
The full weight of "Indefinitely'" came to bear on Tuesday, April 5, when the Harrisonburg/Rockingham General District Court dismissed the charges against Walcott. Undoubtedly the linebacker assumed London would reinstate him that day, or maybe the next.
When a week went by without the call, Walcott must have thought "indefinitely" really meant "infinitely"– and that's probably the way London wanted him to feel. He waited until April 14 to reinstate Walcott, nine days after the court decision. It was a very smart move.
Mike London is a coach with high expectations of his players: go to class, do your homework, stay out of trouble, and try your best. Anything less is unacceptable. Leaving Walcott in limbo for nine days was a lesson in what "indefinitely" means, not just to Walcott but also to every other Cavalier football player.
Indefinitely ends whenever coach London decides and not a moment before, no matter what a judge or jury might decide. UVA isn't Auburn, nor is it Ohio State; it's a place where the coach, not the players or the boosters, is in charge.
Not only did Walcott have to sweat it out those nine days, but upon his reinstatement, the former starter learned he was being moved to the bottom of the defensive depth chart and that he has to meet daily with coach London. If he wants to play ball, he has to play it Mike London's way, and that definitely means understanding that when it comes to discipline, "the magnitude of possible things is indefinite."
Juanita lives on a farm in Charlotte County with her husband, son, and many dogs.


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Wow- I feel like I need to dust off the cobwebs on my blog! It's been awhile- but boy have I enjoyed my summer with my three kids :) I am a mom first- and I don't want regrets later :)
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Correspondence, course and lecture notes relating to his early education at University of Toronto Schools, Upper Canada College and as undergraduate and medical student at the University of Toronto; diaries, addresses, and publications documenting Arthur Parks' education, his military service in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War II, and his subsequent career in the insurance business. Also includes course notes of Park's aunt, Mary Louise McLennan, in Education, 1914-1915. Photograph of Camp Borden.
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I had a lot of emails regarding the pigments, so I hope this helps:
- YES I will be shipping INTERNATIONALLY
- YES I will be selling samples of ALL my pigments, this includes MAC PRO pigments and glitters as well
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I had a lot of emails regarding the pigments, so I hope this helps:
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What's your combined shipping? Just curious. Will you be posting what you have available?
Thanks sweet :)
- October 6, 2007 at 1:07 PM
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I am having problems with my ABB account, it's going nuts and it's driving me crazy! I can't locate your email on here lol I'm not familiar with blogspot, I'm sorry. I wanted to email you and see which pigments you have available.
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- October 6, 2007 at 6:08 PM
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Will you have a separate spot on your blog solely dedicated to purchasing samples? Or will we just let you know when you post something that we'd like to try?
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There Are Also Things that Young Miss Fears
On the day of Chen Yu's coming of age ceremony, the Xiang Palace loudly presented its betrothal gift.
The reason it was said to be loud was not that the Xiang Palace had provided a plentiful gift, nor was it because there were all kinds of instruments being played. Instead, it was because the group of people that had come was carrying live chickens, live ducks and live fish!
Feng Yu Heng was the first to break down!
In this life and her previous life, she did not fear guns, cannons or any sort of disaster. She did not even fear poisonous bugs and snakes, but she had a fatal weakness. She feared anything with wings, and chickens were the ones she feared the most.
When she was attacked by the goshawk at the end of the year, she appeared to be calm; however, she had already been nearly frightened to death. In any case, it was fortunate that it was not a chicken. Presently, eight live chickens were brought in with their wings held in. She was unable to control herself and let out a yelp then hid behind An shi.
An shi was given a fright by her then immediately reacted, asking strangely: "Second young miss is afraid of chickens?"
Feng Yu Heng's face was completely pale, "Ducks, I'm also afraid of ducks."
An shi was confused. When she was young, the second young miss did not fear this sort of thing, but when she looked again at the large roosters, their eyes and cockscombs were indeed quite intimidating. Even Xiang Rong was a little too scared to look, thus she understood. She quickly adjusted her body and protected Feng Yu Heng.
Wang Chuan and Huang Quan were completely speechless. This was too shameful. Young miss was actually afraid of chickens! They wanted to use their eyes to express their disdain, but they found that Feng Yu Heng's face was pale white, and her eyes were shut tight while hiding behind An shi. She even covered up her ears. The two were helpless and could only go stand at An shi's side, blocking the view even more.
In ancient times, there were the "six rituals" of proposal, asking for names, checking for compatibility, sending of betrothal gifts, selecting an auspicious wedding date and the wedding ceremony. When Feng Yu Heng was young, and she was engaged to Xuan Tian Ming, everything was done very seriously and by the book. When they returned to the capital, Lady Zhou came to present the betrothal gifts, and this was all very fitting.
However, when it came time for Chen Yu, things were not done as properly. The two families simply exchanged engagement notes, and all the other steps were simplified.
Although everything was simplified, the Feng family never expected that the Xiang Palace would actually be able to simplify it to this degree.
The gift was sent by the housekeeper of the palace. Although Lady Zhou of the Yu Palace could be considered the housekeeper, there were differences between the two housekeepers. Lady Zhou was a first rank noble, and she could enter and exit the imperial palace. What could this one from the Xiang Palace be considered? At best, he could be considered of the same rank as He Zhong.
Feng Jin Yuan felt that he did not have any face left and continued to listen to He Zhong read the list of gifts: "The Xiang Palace has presented its gift to the eldest young miss. Eight live chickens, eight live ducks, eight live fish, 100 eggs, 20 jin of brown sugar, 20 jin of starch noodles, four sets of four-season clothes, 120 steamed buns and 50 jars of huangjiu!"
That's it!
Feng Chen Yu's face twisted in all kinds of ways, but she was a bit more rational this time around. Taking the initiative, she walked between the matriarch and Feng Jin Yuan then calmly comforted them, saying to the Xiang Palace's housekeeper: "May I ask the housekeeper uncle, was this betrothal gift sent by his Highness Prince Xiang?"
Feng Chen Yu had been born exceptionally pretty, especially when it was adorned with a calm smile, it was the most radiant. The Xiang Palace's housekeeper knew that this sort of betrothal gift was too shabby. Not only was the eldest young miss the eldest daughter of the prime ministers, she was also an exceptional beauty. She was worthy of the most extravagant betrothal gift; however…
He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "His Highness was severely injured, and the gift was prepared by the princess."
These words made it clear to the Feng family that this was what Princess Xiang intended. Women, right. Helping their own man send betrothal gifts to another, it was understandable to have this sort of mood. That was why the Feng family should not feel too sorrowful over the betrothal gift being like this.
Chen Yu also let out a sigh of relief. The matriarch and Feng Jin Yuan no longer had such ugly expressions on their faces. No matter what was said, this was a battle of jealousy between women. From this day forward, Chen Yu would be getting married. Whether or not she could turn the tides would depend on her own abilities.
With the betrothal gift sent, the next matters were handled by the Cheng shi sisters. Although this gift was shabby, it was the most common among commoner families. Chen Yu was the daughter of a concubine, so it was natural that she could not have the same requirements as the daughter of the first wife. No matter what was said, getting married was the most important matter.
The Cheng shi sisters received the betrothal gifts then welcomed the housekeeper in for some tea, but the housekeeper said that he had to return to report, thus he could not stay for long, quickly leaving.
Cheng Jun Man smiled and said to Feng Jin Yuan: "Husband, do you think we should add a little more to eldest young miss' dowry?"
Feng Jin Yuan did not speak. The matriarch, however, angrily snorted, saying: "What is there to add? I feel that we gave too much. No matter what is said, there was a set of gold head ornaments. Just that one thing is worth more than everything that the Xiang Palace sent!"
Chen Yu's expression did not change. She was really afraid that the matriarch would take things back, thus she quickly said: "Just treat that as not being a dowry. Grandmother, just treat it as leaving granddaughter a memento. After all, mother… after all, Chen shi did not leave many things behind. Just consider it granddaughter begging grandmother. From this day forward, no matter how great granddaughter's future is, I will always remember grandmother's grace."
With her speaking to this matter, what could the matriarch still say? She just sighed then fell silent.
At this time, Feng Yu Heng finally crawled out from behind An shi's back. Her complexion was still not too great. An shi quickly call for someone to bring her some tea then comforted her.
At first, they believed that the coming of age ceremony was completed, so they should be about to be dismissed. There was not much shade in the front yard, the day was hot, and the air was stifling. Han shi even felt that she was truly suffering from the heat, as she had servants endlessly waving their fans for her.
But at this time, Feng Jin Yuan suddenly flicked his sleeve and helped the matriarch back to the head seat. Everyone frowned, understanding that he definitely had something else to say. Thus they ceased their whispers and turned their attention to the head seat.
The one that opened their mouth was Feng Jin Yuan. Before he spoke a single word, he turned his gaze to Xiang Rong. It was just a look, but this caused Xiang Rong to suddenly tremble and subconsciously lean against Feng Yu Heng's side. Her face revealed a hard-to-hide horror.
Feng Jin Yuan absolutely hated his third daughter being so close to Feng Yu Heng, but when he looked at the two standing together, he was able to see some similarities between the two.
He calmed himself down then cleared his throat before saying: "Chen Yu has become of age today, and an important life event has been set. The Xiang Palace and our family has had an agreement in place. The grand wedding shall be five days after this coming of age ceremony." While saying this, he looked at Chen Yu, "I just fear that this wedding will need to be simple."
Chen Yu sighed slightly to herself. Although she had prepared herself mentally, hearing it personally from her father still caused her to feel a little unhappy.
But for the sake of successfully marrying into the Xiang Palace, she had already warned herself. No matter how poor the treatment, she had to endure it. That was why it was no longer important to Feng Chen Yu if the wedding was grand or not. All that she wanted to succeed was the wedding. She no longer cared about the image.
Chen Yu took a step forward and saluted to Feng Jin Yuan, very calmly saying: "Daughter understands. Presently, the situation in the court is unclear, and the Feng family should be acting in a low-key manner. It would not be good for daughter's marriage to cause more waves. Moreover, Chen Yu is the daughter of a concubine, and his Highness Prince Xiang is taking in a secondary princess. Daughter just needs to be carried into the Xiang Palace on a sedan. That is enough."
Feng Jin Yuan looked at Chen Yu's beautiful face and felt a little unreconciled. He truly felt guilty for this daughter. But the things that had to be said were not related to Chen Yu, thus he nodded. Continuing with what he had just said, he said: "The manor's daughter of the first wife… A-Heng's marriage will also be set ahead of time. Speaking of, it is just Xiang Rong and Fen Dai that have not had engagements planned."
Once this was said, the horror on Xiang Rong's face became even more apparent. Fen Dai was also a little unwilling. She originally had an engagement, but it was returned by the Feng family. Presently, her two elder sisters were both engaged to princes, so what about her?
This girl hoped that Feng Jin Yuan could change his mind and reconsider her marriage to the fifth prince. Shooting a glance at Feng Jin Yuan, she found that he did not even look at her, his gaze still remaining on Xiang Rong.
Xiang Rong's body was rigid as though she was waiting for a verdict. Even An shi became nervous. She understood that the Feng family might have only been hoping on the third prince, but given the current circumstances, one prince was not enough to protect the Feng family. They had to make some more preparations. Then… to whom would Xiang Rong be engaged?
Daughters were to be pampered, and they were raised to be married into a nice family and provide their maternal family with a helping hand. Moreover, she was the daughter of a concubine. In this sort of time, it should be the daughter of a concubine that should rush forward. Although she was considered a daughter, was she any different from a tool?
"Today…" Feng Jin Yuan's voice picked up once more, speaking one word at a time: "Today, aside from Chen Yu's coming of age, Xiang Rong's engagement has also been arranged."
"I don't want it!" Suddenly, a voice of refusal sounded out. It was Xiang Rong that subconsciously shouted it. It was as though she had gone crazy, repeatedly shouting: "I don't want to! I don't want to get engaged!"
"Nonsense!" The matriarch became furious, "Which family's daughters do not have an engagement? Which family's daughters do not get married? These are orders from your parents and words from the matchmaker, where is there any chance for you to say no! Could it be that you think the Feng family will raise you for your entire life?"
An shi saw that the matriarch had truly become angry, and her words were not too light nor too heavy. Although she was unhappy, she also understood that Xiang Rong was misbehaving, thus she quickly stood up. While pulling Xiang Rong up, she spoke to the matriarch and Feng Jin Yuan: "Elder madam, calm your anger. Husband, calm your anger. Third young miss is still young and is unable to accept this, so she is misbehaving a little." She then tugged at Xiang Rong, telling her to quickly apologize.
But Xiang Rong was dazed, her mind filled with thoughts of the Feng family setting her marriage, but she did not want to get married. Rather, if the Feng family did not plan for her to marry the person that she wanted to marry, what should she do? What should she do?
She subconsciously turned to look at Feng Yu Heng, her eyes filled with tears.
Feng Yu Heng looked at this girl, and the memories of the body's original owner resurfaced. At that time, she was seated in a pavilion and learning words, and this girl was peeking at her from behind a rock, her hair tied up like two steamed buns. With her round cheeks, she looked a bit like a porcelain doll. Also, her maternal grandfather, Yao Xian, had come to the manor to visit her, bringing a large number of things with him. At that time, she had an indifferent attitude. She clearly knew that there was a pair of small eyes looking at her; however, she never thought of sharing the things that she could not finish eating with Xiang Rong. Also, when the Yao family met with disaster, mother and children were chased from the manor. Right before leaving, An shi had grabbed Zi Rui's collar and stuffed a handful of shattered silver into the child's clothes, avoiding being seen by all.
These memories resurfaced, and Feng Yu Heng immediately understood. This body still contained the thoughts and instincts of the original owner. These thoughts wanted her to help Xiang Rong. The original owner liked this younger sister.
But… Feng Yu Heng frowned and looked at her for a long time. Just as Xiang Rong felt that there was hope that the situation could be reversed, she saw Feng Yu Heng slightly shake her head…


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This guide explains how you can create an SMS service
using PHP that processes incoming SMS messages. It explains the
configuration of the SMS gateway and gives you instructions on
how you can process SMS messages in your PHP script.
The guide is aimed at software developers who are familiar with the
PHP programming language.
To start first you need to setup a hosting environment for your PHP script.
This includes the installation of the following components:
1.) Apache webserver
2.) PHP programming language
You also need to download and install Ozeki NG SMS Gateway!
To test your hosting environment save the smsresponse.php PHP script
$sender = $_GET['sender'];
$message = $_GET['msgdata'];
if ($sender!='') {
# Save incoming messages
$fp = fopen("receivelog.txt","a");
fputs($fp,"$sender $message\n");
# Return a response SMS message
$responsetext = "Thank you for the message!";
echo "{SMS:TEXT}{}{}{".$sender."}{".$responsetext."}";
} else {
echo "The PHP script is ready for accepting messages";
If you have saved the smsresponse.php file into your WWWRoot directory (C:\www)
you can test your script by using Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer
you should open the URL pointing to your script. This URL is:
If your hosting environment is working and your PHP script is successfully
installed, you should see the following text: "The PHP script is ready for
accepting messages" (Figure 2.). This text is displayed in your browser.
Figure 2 - Testing the SMS receiver script in a browser.
Once your PHP script is ready for accepting incoming messages, you
should install and configure the SMS gateway. The SMS gateway will pass
incoming SMS messages to your PHP script using HTTP requests, this is
why we call this configuration HTTP-SMS Gateway configuration. To install
the SMS gateway you should perform the following steps:
After these steps are complete you can configure the SMS gateway to pass
incoming messages to the smsresponse.php PHP script. Incoming messages
will be forwarded to this PHP script using the HTTP GET method. The SMS Gateway
has an HTTPClient user that has the functionality we need. To get the HTTPClient
user to work for us we need to add it to our configuration. To do this
click on "Add" in the top right hand corner of the "Users and Applications" panel
of the SMS Gateway management console (Figure 3.).
Figure 3 - adding a new user.
This will bring up the "Add user or application" form. In this form you should
select the HTTP Client user and click on install (Figure 4).
Figure 4 - installing the HTTPClient user.
To install the HTTPClient user you need to provide a unique user name. I recommend
to use "myphp" for this (Figure 5). Ozeki NG SMS Gateway allows you to configure
many HTTP client users. This is useful if you wish to use many different PHP
applications. You can configure one HTTP Client user for every PHP application
that is responsible for providing SMS services and you can use the
inbound routing
configuration to decide which messages should be received by which user.
Figure 5 - providing a unique name for the HTTPClient user.
After the HTTPClient user has been created, you should configure the URL that
points to your PHP application (Figure 6). In our case this will be:
Please note that this URL contains keywords, such
as $originator, $recipient, $messagedata, etc...
These keywords will be replaced in the URL to the actual values of the
incoming messages before the URL is called to forward the message to
your PHP script. A complete list of keywords you can use is listed in the
HTTP Client user documentation.
Figure 6 - URL pointing to the PHP application.
After setting the URL your system is ready to operate.
If you wish to test your configuration, the first thing you want to do is
to see the HTTP communication between the SMS Gateway and your PHP script.
To see this communication, you should enable "low level communication logging"
in the HTTPClient user configuration form. You can enable low level communication
logging by clicking on the "Logging" tab (Figure 7) of the form and checking
the "Log low level communication" checkbox.
Figure 7 - Enabling low level communication logging
After the low level communication logging is enabled you are ready to send
your first SMS message. When you send your SMS message to the system
from your mobile phone, the GSM Modem connection of the SMS gateway will receive
it (Figure 8). The GSM Modem connection will forward the message
to the inbound routing table. The inbound routing table will find the
matching inbound routing rule and will forward the SMS to the HTTPClient user.
The final step is performed by the HTTPClient user who will forward the
message to the smsresponse.php script using an HTTP GET request.
Figure 8 - Testing the pipeline


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Spent some time recently with a Windows XP laptop that would see networks fine (although IP address acquisition via DHCP seemed slower than I'd expect), but which was unable to resolve names with DNS. This was affecting IE, Firefox, ping, basically anything that used the built-in Winsock calls such as gethostbyname(). NSLookup, on the other hand, worked just fine.
The first thing to do when facing any computer problem is to figure out where the problem lies, so it was time for a bit of sleuthing.
These days the first thing to run on any general-use computer with networking problems is standard anti-spyware / anti-malware / anti-virus software. Some malware infections wedge themselves into the network stack so they can intercept and redirect traffic, and redirecting DNS queries is one approach to send traffic to either advertising that they get paid for or phishing sites where they can steal banking or credit card information. Even if an infection has been cleaned, it's possible that a part of it was left behind and could still be causing problems. Antivirus boot/rescue CDs are great for this for two reasons: first, they clean the system of many of the more obtrusive problems and second, if they're able to update over the Internet then it indicates that there's not a hardware problem – just a Windows problem. Result: Nothing Found, possibly because I wasn't the first person to look at it.
While those scans were running, I also checked whether it was a firewall issue though that seemed unlikely since nslookup was working. I have seen a major brand of "Internet Security Suite" decide to block DNS queries in the past, so I always check that. Result: Not the firewall
Microsoft has a couple of options for doing repairs to the TCP/IP stack and Winsock, both of which can be damaged by some malware. Assuming that you're reasonably up-to-date, you can look at How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (KB299357) and How to determine and to recover from Winsock2 corruption (KB811259), both from Microsoft. Both of these apply to Vista and Server 2003 as well as XP. Read the cautions in these, you may need to reinstall some software that works with the Internet after using these. Result: these didn't help either.
Windows does some caching (saving copies) of DNS lookup results, but the service that provides that isn't critical – it just sometimes makes things faster. To see if that was the problem, I tried queries with the "DNS Client" service (as listed under Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services) running and stopped. To start or stop it from the command line, use net stop dnscache and net start dnscache. Result: Not the DNS Client/dnscache
In the category of things I don't expect most people to try, I checked the network traffic to and from the PC using Wireshark (formerly Ethereal, the portable version). The network traffic looked fine, but only DNS queries from nslookup were making it out – no other queries were being attempted. This is an advanced thing to check and for most users the results of using this tool will not make any sense, so unless you know what a packet sniffer is just ignore this step.
Finally, if nothing else has done the trick, you can try Winsock XP Fix. This depends on the fact that some important registry items are the same between different installations of Windows, so it's able to completely remove those items and re-add them. In some ways this is a last resort because it's kind of like taking a hammer to the problem, but it can do the trick when nothing else has worked. I'm also only going to suggest using it on Windows XP or older systems – it hasn't been updated since before Windows Vista came out, so it's quite possible that running it on Vista, Windows 7 or server operating systems would break things.The Microsoft links above both apply to Vista as well as XP, so try those first.
Winsock XP Fix is available from multiple locations, including Winsock XP Fix at PCWorld.com, Winsock XP Fix at Ramesh/MVPS, or other locations by searching for the name. Result: This did the trick.
Update: What's Happening?
(Added November 29, 2009) Since I neglected to include details of what's actually causing these symptoms, here are my suspicions.
All of the items that I tried for diagnosing the problem (including a simple Python program that I didn't mention) are using the standard gethostbyname(name) call, which is part of the standard WinSock API. If you're a developer you may note that it accepts only the name to be looked up with no way to specify name servers, because it uses the name servers specified for your current network connection. You can see what those name servers are by running the command "ipconfig /all" from a command prompt.
NSLookup is a tool that allows you to check what results a specific name server returns, using the default name server(s) if you don't specify one. The advantage of the tool is that if you're in an environment with multiple name servers, you can use nslookup to confirm that Name Server B is actually returning the correct values when queried. "dig" is another tool that can be used this way, but is not normally found on Windows systems.
Because nslookup allows you to specify what name server to use, it can't just use the built-in gethostbyname() API call since that doesn't allow you to specify a name server. For that reason, nslookup in effect has its own internal implementation of that same call which is unaffected by many problems with the WinSock portion of Windows as long as the lowest-level network communications are still working.
For a cooking analogy, nslookup always makes its own bread from scratch rather than buying a loaf at the bakery, so when the bakery's oven fails nslookup is unaffected.
2010-03-18 Added mention that the Microsoft Knowledgebase links apply to Vista and Server 2003, which the final solution does not do.
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Verizon profit looks up on strong wireless business.
NEW YORK, April 28 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) reported on Monday a higher quarterly profit on stronger-than-expected growth in wireless subscribers, showing resilience in the face of a U.S. economic slowdown.
Shares in Verizon, the second-largest U.S. phone company, rose 1.9 percent after the results showed Verizon Wireless, a mobile venture with Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research), added 1.5 million net new subscribers in the first quarter.
That exceeded the average estimate of 1.42 million additions from six analysts contacted by Reuters.
"Wireless was the star," said Craig Moffett, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
He and other analysts noted, however, that Verizon's home-phone business suffered a dramatic drop as customers switched to cell phones and rival services from cable operators, similar to trends at industry leader AT&T Inc (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
Verizon said first-quarter profit rose to $1.6 billion, or 57 cents a share, from $1.5 billion, or 51 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter.
Profit after adjusting for costs such as the spin-off of some wireline assets was 61 cents a share, matching the average forecast on Wall Street according to Reuters Estimates.
Revenue rose 5.5 percent to $23.8 billion, also in line with analysts' expectations.
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Wireless revenues rose 13.2 percent to $11.7 billion, boosted by demand for advanced, data services.
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Verizon said the launch of its $99 unlimited wireless calling plan, a move that was quickly followed by AT&T and triggered concerns of a price war ahead, had not dragged down revenue as many analysts had feared.
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