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The law provides for mandatory labels on clothing. They are designed to allow the customer to choose better product. But there are also optional terms, as the care label, whose absence should alert ...
To choose a garment, it is not enough to examine it from every angle. It must also have certain information, provided by the labels. It is legal for the conclusion of the sale, on a label in the store. Further information on the intrinsic quality of the product are provided by the label sewn inside the garment.
The mandatory posting Store: Price Apparel
To enforce the law, any store that offers clothing for sale must prominently display the price. The client should know the price of an item without having to ask a seller. Similarly, the price quoted should be clear and precise and include all charges (price). And when a garment is placed in the window, its price must be visible from the outside. During the sales period, the label must always refer to the old price. We can then make labels by crossing the old price and noting near the new price. But it may also indicate only the old price and mention the discount rate applicable on hand (-30% for example). Finally, a special case, used clothing must be clearly identified as such.
The composition of textile obligatory mention of the label
Regarding the label sewn inside the garment, the only obligation is to show the composition of textiles. It must be written in the language of the country of sale. For example, a product manufactured in China but sold in France must be labeled in French. The only exception is for used clothing, for which it is assumed that the composition of the textile is not mandatory. The composition of textiles should not only list the various textile fibers comprising the garment, but also the percentage of each. The designations "100%" pure "or" all "are reserved for products containing only a single textile fiber. If a fiber reaches more than 85% of the total, it is possible not to mention the other components. Similarly, up to 10% of the composition of the textile can be covered by the phrase "other fibers", without further detail.
The optional indications on the label
Apart from these compulsory, labels can include many other optional terms. There is usually a care label, sewn inside the garment. It shows in the form of symbols, the manufacturer's recommendations for washing, treatment with bleach, ironing, dry cleaning and drying in a tumble dryer. Finally, the size and origin of the garment may be provided, both on the inside label on store labels.
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Any clothing not including legal information is suspect. Therefore banning textiles not displaying their composition. But we must also worry about clothing not giving care instructions. In this case, it is reasonable to suspect a low-quality textiles.


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Title : Blaster Master
Publisher : Sunsoft
Genre : Run 'N Gun / Platformer
Players : 1 Player
Release Date : 1988
Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $4-$6
When you think of following a pet frog down a manhole swarming with mutants, only one thing comes to mind; Blaster Master for the NES. This was it folks. This was the game that reeled me in and pretty much got me hooked on the Nintendo for life. No it wasn't Mario, it wasn't Zelda. It was this bloody masterpiece that grabbed me by the throat and shoved me face first into the television screen.
One look at this game, and you were sold.
Maybe it was the insane box art with that horrifying creature on the front. It might have been the preview images they had printed on the back of the box. I couldn't help but think to myself "These were NES graphics!?". Maybe it was the fact that on the back the description was talking about how the New York sewer systems don't even compare to the monstrosities you're about to encounter.
Trust me, I know New York Sewers. I've been in one before (long story for another time)
THIS was it folks. MEGA GRAPHICS. MEGA ACTION! BLASTER MASTER!
Blaster Master was one of the first games to introduce a split game-style mode throughout the games play through. The first mode has the player take control of a tank called SOPHIA in a 2D platforming style. Hmm, you know what? To this day I never understood why the tank was called SOPHIA. Was that supposed to be short for something? I can't figure it out.
Solitary Organic Photon Homing Integrated Assault
Sophisticated Oven Pie Heating Ingested Apples
or..maybe it was just Sophia...
Anyway, In this mode you battle against mutants using your main cannon and variety of special weapons that could be collected across the map. Ammunition is limited, but they are pretty much necessary to get past some of the more difficult areas in this 2D mode. Most of them are just a wide variety of missiles, but their power is worth it. Who can resist the ability to crush your enemies in one fell swoop?
The other play mode was a top down perspective run 'n' gun where you would lead Jason through a series of Labyrinths until you ultimately arrive at the boss for that area. This is where you'll notice a lot of similarities to another game created by Sunsoft. A little game by the name of FESTER'S QUEST.
For those of you that HATE Fester's Quest, you seriously need to give it a shot. The game play is IDENTICAL to this portion of Blaster Master. So if you have an undying love for this game, I beg you listen to me and attempt Fester's Quest again. It's NOT that bad.
For those of you that HATE Fester's Quest, you seriously need to give it a shot. The game play is IDENTICAL to this portion of Blaster Master. So if you have an undying love for this game, I beg you listen to me and attempt Fester's Quest again. It's NOT that bad.
Ahem, anyway. You run around the labyrinths, destroying mutants and collecting power ups for your gun. The stronger your gun is, obviously, the more damage you deal to enemies. Besides your normal gun, you'll also gain access to grenades, which are basically your special weapon in this mode.
While traversing levels in this mode, you'll also encounter a few "puzzles" where you'll either need to move around blocks to get into new areas, or activate switches to open doors. Nothing to crazy, and it's basically just there to defeat the monotony of mindlessly blasting minions.
Eventually, you'll come face to face with the bosses of each level. They're basically just glorified mutants, and they all seem to be just massive animals. I mean you'll fight crabs, insects, and frogs to name a few. The only interesting one are the two last bosses in this game, which you guessed it, is the monster on the box.
I mean come on, Sunsoft! YOU JUST INCLUDED A SPOILER ON THE FRONT OF YOUR BOX! Why would you do such a thing!? Although, it does make you wonder throughout your entire play through if you're going to encounter the damn thing. Then when you finally do, you say to yourself "Finally! Time to kill this mother......." Of course, i didn't say that when I was 7 years old, but I had that sort of mentality.
But there is one more boss that's even cooler than the one on the front cover, but I won't spoil that for you if you haven't beaten this game before.
So just how good is this game? Well the two play styles are done exceptionally well, and they both work. The way it was introduced was a good way to keep things interesting, and both modes were equally hard.
And when I say hard, I mean this is one of the hardest games I played when I was a kid. I mean, it took me years to beat this. No joke. There was a time where I legitimately thought you were NOT able to get past a certain point. I couldn't figure it out for ages. I think it was a part where you actually had to go back to previous areas, but I couldn't for the life of me find out where.
Visually, this game still remains one of the prettiest for the NES, and even after being released in 1988 it still holds up to games that came out years later. The soundtrack is also one of the most memorable, and I can still whistle some of the songs from this game.
When I say this is one of the best on the NES, I mean it. If you haven't gotten your hands on this game yet, get off your arse and do so. This is a MUST HAVE for any retro game collector, and remains one of my favorites to this day.
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Miami Twice
Edward Said
- Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America by David Rieff
Bloomsbury, 230 pp, £12.95, October 1987, ISBN 0 7475 0064 9
- Miami by Joan Didion
Simon and Schuster, 224 pp, $17.95, October 1987, ISBN 0 671 64664 8
Despite the media's unending stream of patriotic talk about 'America', one occasionally has a sense of the country's disunity, its unmanageable extremes, the foreignness of some of its parts to other parts. Riding the Broadway bus recently, I was struck by the driver's almost beatific reaction to a passenger's rudeness to him. Instead of screaming back at the offending person, he smiled gently, saying with an air of contentment: 'Scream all you like. That's OK. In California they don't just argue – they shoot each other.' He was referring to the spate of freeway incidents near Los Angeles, in which impatient or stalled commuters picked each other off with rifles and handguns in the midst of the vast traffic jams.
Suddenly one realised again that California and New York were not, in fact, two States in a comfortable union, but countries like, say, Britain and Bulgaria co-existing somehow on the same continent. There is, as every traveller to America has said, a stratum of monotonous sameness in the country, of regimented, mass-produced uniformity, of a pervasive unchanging pallidness that one associates with the Middle West or the Plains, which communicates the tremendous loneliness and anonymity to be found in American life. Yet it is no less true that the New America is a great deal less provincial and regimented. Much of this is due to the emergence of a counter-culture of the Left and of the Right in the Sixties, a mass counterculture whose affiliation with non-American currents of thought, habits of life – styles of radical will, in Susan Sontag's phrase – have continued well past that now excoriated decade. But a great deal of the change in the country has to do with re-configurations in demography and economic power.
Regional characteristics, once as stable and as predictable as any stubborn cultural stereotype, are now bewilderingly volatile. The Sun Belt with Texas at its heart, formerly booming, enterprising, extravagant, is in a deep slump. New England has never been more prosperous. The Middle West, with its farms and its grain and commodity exchanges, has receded in importance as the financial and service centres, in New York and California, rise and fall with Gatsby-like flair. Those frightening actualities of foreign provenance – trade deficits, Aids, terrorism, Soviet evil, immigrants – have recently overtaken the society as a whole, reduced its distance from the rest of the world, made it less impervious to sudden changes or catastrophes: Ronald Reagan's SDI-fixation is, I think, partly to be understood as a placebo for these overseas ills, a defence to end all defences.
Not the least of the changes have been the demographic ones, as caused by immigration, itself often, but not always, a function of American overseas intervention. The principal fact is that there is now a precarious balance in American society between the so-called melting-pot, with all its ideological, economic and social appurtenances, and the disruptive flooding into the pot of new arrivals from abroad whose purpose, it seems, is to find prosperity and to form a functioning national and economic unit within America. In New York City, for example, most of the fruit and vegetable shops are Korean, the news-stands Indian or Pakistani, hot-dog carts and small luncheonettes Greek, street pedlars Senegalese; a large population of Dominicans, Haitians, Ecuadorans and Jamaicans have made inroads into proletarian domains once populated by Blacks and Puerto Ricans, just as Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese children play the role once reserved for bright, upwardly-mobile and professionally-inclined Eastern European Jews.
Nowhere is the same pattern more dramatic than in Miami, a great resort and retirement capital for the Northeast, now – as David Rieff puts it in Going to Miami – a mirror city to Havana. There have been no less than five recent books on Miami, of which those by Rieff and Joan Didion,[*] quite different in tone and treatment, are the most prominent. Miami has also become crucial to the whole Central American drama, whether because it is where the Contras are headquartered, or because the drug and intelligence traffic has found it a convenient on-shore location. In any case, Miami is hardly an American city any more, so dominant are the Cuban exiles, so loosely attached is South Florida to the mainland.
Rieff's is the gentler, the more forgiving, of the two books. Miami for him is a genuinely interesting place in which illusions and media images (those from the television series Miami Vice, for example) have gradually taken over the city, along with the Cuban and other Latin American exiles. Since there is no real literature about Miami, Rieff relies for background on his impressions and on the city's easily perceived history of hucksterism, violence, and massive architectural schemes, for his evocation of a place still in the process of being made and re-made. But this, he says, is an American phenomenon. 'All of America seems more and more theatrical: everyone is posing as someone, and, with the Walkman, providing their own soundtrack. The fantasy counts for more and more.'
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The 7th Annual Long Beach International Film Festival (LBIFF) will take place from August 1-4. The unique, beachfront film festival will screen a diverse lineup of films including feature-length narratives, documentaries, as well as short and animated movies suitable for all ages. Professional and amateur filmmakers will compete for a series of Jury, Festival Honors and Audience Awards throughout the festival. Now in its 7th year, the festival is expected to attract more than 6,000 attendees and generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in local economic activity. New this year, film screenings will take place at the newly renovated Regal Lynbrook 13 & RPX, which opened in June 2018. A harmony of arts and culture, the festival offers much more entertainment beyond film. During its four-day run the festival features an array of nightly special events including the wildly popular, premier culinary event, Taste On The Beach, which features tastings from more than 40 of Long Island's renowned restaurants, distilleries, wineries and more. The LBIFF premiered in 2012 with just 50 submissions and showcased 12 films with free screenings on the beach. After Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the LBIFF had just finished its inaugural year and was threatened to collapse before ever fully taking off. Aided by a $25,000 grant from Nassau County, and participation from local celebrity stars like Daniel Baldwin and resilient festival organizers, the festival persevered and expanded each year.


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Monday, July 27, 2009
Bet You've Never Seen This on a Cruise
Chances are, the fin whale was either dead already or killed on impact -- a strike like that would probably break it's back -- but the whale has been taken to Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sidney for a necropsy. After the scientists determine whether the whale was dead or alive when hit, they will sink it off the west coast of Vancouver Island so that it can support a group of critters called a whale fall community.
Click here for a Vancouver Sun video at the scene.
2 comments:
- kate said...
that's awful, one more reason to not take a cruise. the environmental impact of those ships is enormous! I sure hope that whale was already dead, please keep up posted!
We managed to move the shipping lane by a few miles through Stellwagen off the Mass. coast to reduce the chances of a right whale collision, there is hope!
- July 28, 2009 at 4:08 AM
- Liza said...
Hi Kate,
It really is a shame... Definitely not something the people on the cruise were expecting! Turns out the fin whale had a thin layer of blubber and no food in her stomach. They're not sure whether she was dead or not when the ship hit her.
I'm so glad to hear that the shipping lane got moved out! It's important to keep those right whales around as long as we can. There may be an extension of the no-go zone on the west side of San Juan Island (here in Washington state) to protect the orcas from being surrounded by whale watching and personal vessels.
Thanks for your comment!
Take care,
- July 31, 2009 at 10:53 AM


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October 6, 2006
After reading The Design of Everyday Things (DOET) by usability guru Don Norman, this version reflects some surprising and radical changes.
Contrary to modern design fads (spearheaded by spartan Google UI), the Fact200 UI has become slightly more complex. On his site, Mr. Norman has a short critique of Google's interface that states why he doesn't think it's a great design. The gist of it is that if it only does ONE thing, designing an interface is trivial. Indeed, Google does more than one thing these days, and navigating to any of these other things is actually made more difficult due to the interface's adherance to its old design.
Well, Fact200 was initially modeled in the vein of Google's interface, trying to make things look as simple as possible. But this came at a price of hiding functionality. One of the principles in DOET is that of visibility: if a users wants to do xyz with your product, it should be readily apparent 1) that it can do it and 2) how to do it.
So, in the end, the mode button which used to switch between loaded internet results and Library filtered results has been converted to a dropdown menu with 4 modes:Loaded results,Filtering Loaded results, Filtering the Library, and Viewing Load History.
The first and third mode are the modes that the old button used to toggle through. Filtering loaded results was formerly a hidden mode that allows sub-searching through recently loaded results only, instead of through the entire library. This has an added advantage over library searching in that it does not rely on the global library indexer. The last mode is new and provides a way for users to retrace their steps.
One of the potential problems of Fact200 in the past was that in indexing all loaded content, it would gradually bog the user's system down in disk activity and loads would take longer and longer to fully complete. I also surmise that most of the indexing is wasted because 95% of what is loaded is unwanted by the user over the long term. Thus this recent release allows users to turn off the global library indexer.
Un-indexed content cannot be retrieved from the library through search, thus negating Fact200's original goal of an independant library that is searchable in real time. To help alleviate this void, the aforementioned 'Filter through loaded results' feature provides sub-searching functionality and items marked as permanent are still indexed. This keeps most of the functionality intact while drastically improving performance and efficiency. For those who really need to index everything, the option still exists to do so.
Other notable features in this release:
- The ability to turn off comprehensive image preview generation when doing batch loads. This feature was originally for offline news reading, but Fact200 functions quite well online. When rendering for online use, every single preview isn't necessary and helps save lots of time.
- Wrapping. It's now possible to see the title/content snippets of search results without having to maximize or resize the window frame
- Removal of compact tabs option. I used to like the wide tabs, but ultimately, I stopped using them and they really just waste space. So all tabs are now compact and an option is no longer available for them to be wide.


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Here is a good review written by Darius Drewe for a blog called Shindig.
It is rare that we see reviews of live shows, and this is a particularly good one.
The Garage, London
December 18th
"Er…they're a bit like Side 2 of Low or Heroes, sort of mixed with early Roxy, Chrome, the beats of Kraftwerk, bits of film noir soundtracks, synths like Tangerine Dream, with the eccentricity of the Residents, Magma or the Magic Band, the soundscapes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and a singer who croons like Scott Walker…well, kind of, almost."
Pity your poor correspondent, faced with the unenviable task of having to explain the singularly unclassifiable Tuxedomoon sound to Shindig!'s plus one. The fact remains, even after approaching 40 years, it's still nigh-on impossible to get a handle on it. Possibly the best applicable description is of a band who, regardless of where they perform, always bring their own world with them. In a silver box.
Functioning, since reuniting in 1999 following an eight-year hiatus, around a core of founders Blaine Reininger, Peter Principle and Steve Brown (and flanked by visual artist Bruce Geduldig and retaining, from their later European incarnation, trumpeter Luc Van Lieshout), San Francisco's most obtuse export is now simultaneously based in five corners of the globe. This distance not only serves their creative purpose, but remains apparent in the sonic space between each player, with several continual strands of differing origin pulling together towards a shared destination. Yet, even in the same city, that was always half the appeal. True, their 'gothier' fanbase would fixate (as with Psychic TV, Legendary Pink Dots or Nurse With Wound) on their 'dark' side, but unlike the grey post-industrial textures purveyed by their peers, theirs is neither a bleak or black planet: even in a traditional rock venue like The Garage, their nocturnal ambience remains either that of a velvet-draped nightspot after lights out or, as one might expect from any band named simultaneously after an item of clothing and a solar satellite, a twilight lunar landscape 'pon some Dali-esque gas universe bedecked in shape-shifting purple foliage.
After Geduldig's typically cryptic spoken intro (backed by a series of projections involving the adventures of a human videotape, perhaps unfortunately these days recalling more the Mighty Boosh than anything else) they ease in slowly, opening with predominantly instrumental material. Eventually Reninger steps to the mike, allowing Brown's mournful soprano sax tones (recalling the sultriest moods of Crimson, VDGG or Amon Duul or the jazz cries of Roland Kirk as much as Andy Mackay's work on For Your Pleasure) to parallel-tread the same dystopian causeways as his disconnected, laconic, yet elegant, vocal. As a result of this approach, 'Nervous Guy' receives fond recognition, yet still remains half a world from its original waxing. 'Time To Lose' and 'Still Small Voice' bear similar hallmarks, artificial electronic beats and minimal, chilling synths underlaying organic stabs of raw acid guitar and Jojouka-infused horns – all topped off by the lyrical observation of the last tipsy surrealist at the end of the bar. The same, only different.
Enigmatic they may be to the outsider, but once inside their rubber cave, the likes of 'Annuncialto' and 'In The Name Of Talent (Italian Western Two)' speak for themselves. In a world where most bands are content to just get up and play songs, Tuxedomoon, refusing to settle for such complacency, invite you instead to a musical transcript of their entire film, art and literature collections, and Shindig! will wager there's some Fowles and Huxley on those shelves. Granted, whilst retaining their melodic flourish, they have lost some of the pop nous of '78-'86, thus leaving any attendees hoping for 'What Use' or 'No Tears' sorely disappointed. But thankfully, they've also lost the daft faux-Numan haircuts, cocktail jackets and tinny production that occasionally drowned their psych, free-improv and Kraut roots in New Romantic syrup. In their stead now stands a band closer to Reininger and Brown's original vision than ever before, dealing in music to scare your partner with, rather than tunes to go on the pull to. In other words just as it should be. Sadly it's all over in around eighty minutes, but of course, in Plutonian Gas Years, that equates to a century. Anyone got change for a Zod?
Darius Drewe
Tuxedomoon, live review
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She lived in a farmhouse at Kiln Hill, near the Roman fort of Birdoswald beside Hadrian's Wall. Birdoswald is situated high above the Irthing Valley in Cumbria. In 1980 she received a poetry commission on the theme 'Hadrian's Wall'.
Francis died shortly after writing this poem at the age of 45 after a long struggle with cancer.


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Wednesday, 12 March 2014
New skills galore
So recently I've been trying to master ye art of smocking, I couldn't get my head around it at first but with the help of a very patient teacher I finally got there. Here's a few pictures of the smocked cushion I created.
I smocked a square panel of plain fabric initially, went for a pink and green theme to match my room.
Then I joined it into some bias binding and the outline of fabric to form the front of the cushion.
And voila! I'm absolutly in love with it :)
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On Tuesday in Australia, Jurassic rocker Alice Cooper started his day on the golf course (left) -- and ended it on stage, looking like a corpse (right).
The 61-year-old has credited golf with helping him overcome his alcohol addiction.
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Edward Coke
English lawyer and judge
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English Judge and jurist and later a politician whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.
- A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
- Case of Swans, 7 Rep. 15, 17 (1592).
- Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
- Twyne's Case (1602).
- Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
- 77 Eng. Rep. 250 (1605).
- Law is the safest helmet.
- Inscription in rings given by Coke to several of his friends on June 20, 1606, in anticipation of his judicial investiture; reported in Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke (1826) p. 75. Derived from a latin maxim, Lex est tutissima cassis; sub clypeo legis nemo decipitur: Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived.
- The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
- Semayne's Case, 77 Eng. Rep. 194, 195; 5 Co. Rep. 91, 195 (K.B. 1604).
- They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
- Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.; 77 Eng Rep 960, 973 (K.B. 1612).
- Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
- Debate in the Commons (1628-05-17).
- Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
- Translation of lines quoted by Coke. Compare: "Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven; Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven" - Sir William Jones.
Institutes of the Laws of EnglandEdit
- The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
- The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
- He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
- The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), First Institute.
- Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
- The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton, part 62a (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832).
- Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.
- The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute. Compare: "Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason", Sir John Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.
- A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.
- The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, or, A Commentary on Littleton (London, 1628, ed. F. Hargrave and C. Butler, 19th ed., London, 1832), Third Institute, p. 162. The exact translation of the Latin portion is: "and where shall a man be safe if it be not in his own house?", quoted from Pandects, lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando.
- The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
- Institutes of the Laws of England, Second Part, vol. 1 (1642), Notes to Ch. XXIX of the Charter [Magna Carta], paragraph 1391 [1]
- Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
- Institutes of the Laws of England, vol. 3.
- The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
- Prohibitions del Roy, 12 Co. Rep. 63, quoting Henry de Bracton's treatise on the laws and customs of England. [2]
- A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
- Reported in Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (2007) p. 18.
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- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 30-31.
- The greatest lawyer, Sir Edward Coke.
- Mallet, J., Harrison's Case (1660), 5 How. St. Tr. 1030.
- The learning and industry of that great man Sir Edward Coke, whose name ought never to be mentioned in a Court of law without the highest respect.
- Eyre, C.J., Jefferson v. Bishop of Durham (1797), 2 Bos. & Pull. 123.
- Jeo concede que est le opinion Seigniour Coke, mes salva reverentia al ey grand sage et pere del ley. (I grant that it is the opinion of Lord Coke, but salva reverentia to so great a sage and father of the law).
- Vaughan, J., Tustian v. Roper (1670), Jones's (Sir Thos.) Rep. 35.
- That great lawyer was much heated in the controversy between the Courts at Westminster and the Ecclesiastical Courts. In every part of his conduct his passions influenced his judgment. Vir acer et vehemens. His law was continually warped by the different situations in which he found himself.
- Heath, J., Jefferson v. Bishop of Durham (1797), 2 Bos. & Pull. 131.
- Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
- Lord Mansfield, Campbell v. Hall (1774), Lofft. 16. Exclamation in reference to Calvin's Case (7 Co. 17), wherein appears a distinction between counties vesting by conquest and descent. It was argued that "the doctrine imputed to the Judges by my Lord Coke was not entirely extra judicial," and this brought forth the above remark.
- Yet we are obliged, to regard a man with so little about him that is ornamental or entertaining, or attractive, as a very considerable personage in the history of his country. Belonging to an age of gigantic intellect and gigantic attainments, he was admired by his contemporaries, and time has in no degree impaired his fame. He is most familiar to us as an author. Smart legal practitioners, who are only desirous of making money by their profession, neglect his works, and sneer at them as pedantic and antiquated; but they continue to be studied by all who wish to know the history and to acquire a scientific and liberal knowledge of our judicial and political institutions. His Opus Magnum is this Commentary upon Littleton, which in itself may be said to contain the whole common law of England as it then existed. Notwithstanding its want of method and its quaintness, the author writes from such a full mind, with such mastery over his subject, and with such unbroken spirit, that every law student who has made, or is ever likely to make, any proficiency, must peruse him with delight.
- Lord Campbell, Lives of the Chief Justices, Vol. 1, 338.


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I noticed Qwinton and Qynn while scanning thousands of Albertan baby names the other day. Qwinton looks like it's based on Quinton, and I believe Qynn is meant to be a form of Quinn.
I'm not a linguist, so I can't give you the history of qu, but I can tell you that altering this digraph to spice up a baby name is a bad idea.
Qwinton works, I suppose, but it looks awkward. It looks like the Kwik-E-Mart version of Quinton.
Qynn doesn't work at all. It sounds like kin, not like Quinn. Kin may be a pleasant association — oddly fitting for a new baby, in fact — but it's probably not the pronunciation Qynn's parents had been aiming for.
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Inflammation, Infection & Antibiotics and Tinnitus
Dear Barry,
I`m a twenty nine year old woman, and I have problem with tinnitus. I`ve heard about your company and your remedies, so I would like to ask you some questions. By the way I will try to explain you the beginning of my tinnitus.
In 1999 I suffered from a severe inflammation of the middle ear (bilateral) which lasted for about fifteen days. After taking antibiotics, the inflammation disappeared, but soon after that I started hearing a pulsating noise, in the rhythm of my heartbeats. The lower my head was, the louder was this noise. A few days later the intensity of the noise decreased, but it remains even today; and it still gets stronger if my head is in the lower position, or if I perform any physically intensive activity.
Also, at that time I noticed faint buzzing sound in my right ear, but it was so faint that I could only hear it if I was in a very quiet, soundless room. A year later this buzz got slightly louder, and I went to see my physician again, but I was told then that it would be best to wait and see how it develops, without any medication, but under my physician`s supervision. Unfortunately, a few months later, the buzz got even louder. If I remember well, just before it I had some viral infection, but I am not quite sure. That is when I started taking Trental 400, and after about six months of using it, the condition stabilized. Even the tonal diagram showed a stable state; actually my hearing was not damaged.
About a year ago I had a strong throat inflammation, and tinnitus increased again. I received intramuscular injections of vitamin B12, I took zinc, but not Trental. This state continued for almost a year, but about two months ago I had some urological problems and I used strong antibiotics (Ofloxacin). I think that after that my tinnitus mildly worsened. Also, I was using Trental 400 as intravenous infusions, and I using Gingko biloba extract, vitamin E, and zinc (per os).
Since my tinnitus appeared I've had no acoustic traumas, or heavier stress. I think that the beginning of my tinnitus is connected to infections and inflammations of the ear, which is something I am quite prone to. I don`t suffer from vertigo, and my tympanogramme is OK. Sometimes, when I get up quickly, the buzz increases. It lasts for about one to two minutes, and then it goes back to usual level. I have low blood pressure and according to my physician`s opinion it contributes to my bad blood circulation and tinnitus.
When I recently checked my hearing again, the results showed that there was no damage at all. So I believe that my tinnitus is connected with inflammations in ear and throat, and I suppose that my low blood pressure and my bad peripheral circulation also contribute to it significantly.
I need to inform you that I finished with using homeopathy remedies two weeks ago, but it didn`t have any improvement in my occasions.
Please Barry, can you tell me, what sort of remedies will you recommend to me (combo pack or something else), and what will you generally recommend to me?
Yours sincerely,
Dalibor M.
Dear Dalibor;
Thank you for your message. Everything you mention, inflammation, infection and antibiotics, are known to cause tinnitus. Ofloxacin is an antibiotic that can cause or increase tinnitus, however in only about 1% of people who use it.
It seems to me, as you suggest, the infections and antibiotics in combination with poor circulation are the cause of your tinnitus. Trental (pentoxifylline) is helpful for this as it increases circulation in much the same way as Ginkgo biloba. It decreases blood viscosity and allows the blood to flow easier into the microcapillaries that feed the eyes, ears and brain. Many European doctors use this treatment for tinnitus but not so many here in the US.
Ginkgo has the added advantages of being a powerful antioxidant and glutamate inhibitor. When the cochlea is damaged, as in most cases of tinnitus, it produces an excess of glutamate which becomes toxic to the neuro-receptors in the auditory nerve. These receptors begin to die and produce large amounts of free radicals, which cause most of the damage. Ginkgo helps reduce the amount of glutamate produced and also fights the ensuing free radicals. Trental does not have this capability. There have been clinical studies which show the superiority of Ginkgo over prescription medications that reduce blood viscosity. They are reviewed in this study.
We published an article earlier this year on "Antioxidants, Health and Tinnitus" which explains the role of free radicals in the creation of tinnitus in more detail. It can be seen directly in our Tinnitus Information Center.
The basic problem is the frequency of inflammation and infections that seems to plague you. Modern allopathic medicine is very good at treating the symptoms and ignoring the causes of problems such as this. If you can increase the effectiveness of your immune system, your body will fight off these infections before it becomes necessary for medical intervention. This is much easier said than done as the immune system is a complex mystery to even the best minds. The basics, of course, are good diet, plenty of exercise and high quality supplements, such as multivitamins and antioxidants, to provide the nutrients we don't receive in our diet.
My absolute favorite reference for medical concerns is the Life Extension Foundation. This is a non-profit group of doctors and researchers who are on the cutting edge of natural and alternative treatments for most medical conditions. Dr. Michael Seidman is on their Medical Advisory Board. The Foundation introduced to modern medicine the principles of Folic Acid for pregnant mothers, CoQ-10, lycopene to prevent cancer, small doses of aspirin to prevent heart attacks and many, many others. Visit their website at www.lef.org and search for infections. You'll find a wealth of information and medical protocols on herbs and supplements to improve the immune system and also to fight infections after they've begun.
There has never been a single clinical study conducted on the effects of homeopathy on tinnitus. This is because there have never been any anecdotal stories of success. Clinical trials are very expensive and time consuming. Doctors and researchers are only interested in conducting clinical trials if they have a reason to believe it will be successful. I believe the main benefit of selling homeopathic remedies is that they are extremely inexpensive to manufacture. I have never heard of a single person with tinnitus who has been helped by homeopathy. They certainly sell a lot of their products though.
I recommend primarily Arches Tinnitus Relief Formula and Dr Seidman's Anti-Oxidant Formula. Our patent-pending TRF provides therapeutic doses of pharmaceutical grade Ginkgo extract, chelated zinc and deodorized garlic. It must be used for three months before it can be determined how effective it will be for tinnitus. We recommend 4 bottles of TRF, which is a 100 day supply. Dr. Seidman's Anti-Oxidant Formula is the most outstanding combination of anti-oxidants available and may be helpful in reducing the frequency and intensity of inflammation and infection.
Wishing you quiet times,
Barry Keate
Tinnitus only when he plays...
Dear Barry;
About the same time the 200mg dosage of Zoloft kicked in (with euphoria), I began hearing a rasp or a grain in the tone of my trumpet No other tinnitus. Just when I play my horn.
If I put ear plugs in, it cuts the rasp out, but of course a wind instrument player has to hear well his tone for the hearing interacts with the desire or intention to produce a tone similar to previous performances.
Of course stopped taking the Zoloft right after i realized it was in my hearing and not in the instrument except perhaps after the fact of tinnitus rasp there is a commensurate effect in the production.
Happened 4 years ago; cut out all caffeine; any comments Barry?
a professional musician
Dear Henry;
Prescription anti-depressants are pretty nasty drugs. Most of them cause tinnitus at least some of the time and Zoloft is one of the worst offenders. It frequently causes tinnitus in those people who use it. There are a host of other unwanted side effects from these drugs. According to the Physician's Desk Reference, Zoloft frequently causes the following: sexual dysfunction, impotence, heart palpitations, chest pain, weight gain, back pain and tinnitus. The list of infrequent but possible side effects is far too long to include here.
There are many other natural anti-depressants that work just as well or better than Zoloft and have no possible side effects. They're not prescribed often by doctors because the pharmaceutical companies can't patent them.
Some natural anti-depressants that come to mind are Ginkgo biloba, B-Complex vitamins, St. John's Wort and SAMe. SAMe is pretty expensive and not covered by insurance but it is very effective as a natural anti-depressant.
Better stay off the prescriptions and play beautiful music.
Wishing you quiet times,
Barry Keate
Losing her hair over tinnitus?
Hi Barry,
I have been taking Arches Tinnitus Relief formula now for over a year. I only came down with Tinnitus in February of 2002. As others have stated, it is a terrible and frustrating problem. But, taking your formula has totally reduced the noise level for me completely. It was wonderful day when I was sitting in my home in silence and realized I had no noise in my left ear what so ever. It was amazing! I wanted to thank you for that.
The only thing I have noticed, and just recently, is I am losing more hair than normal. I read where blood thinners can cause loss of hair. And I believe that this is the cause, since I have had no other medications and I have no history of hair loss in my family. No male or female patterned baldness or thinning of hair, etc. My hair is shedding and when I brush my hair, I have a whole brush full of hairs. When I touch my hair I get hairs coming out as well, from the root. This of course is upsetting and I am wondering what I can do? I know if I go off of the Tinnitus Relief Formula I will get my terrible buzzing noise back. If I reduce the amount I take each day, I do not know if I will get back the noise or even if it will help on the hair loss issue? Any suggestions I would appreciate. Thanks very much!
Elizabeth F.
Dallas TX
Dear Elizabeth;
I'm sorry to hear about your hair loss. But I am delighted your tinnitus is so much improved. In the numerous clinical studies which have been done on the ingredients used in our formulas, hair loss has never been noted or described as a side effect, nor have we ever heard of this phenomena from any of our customers.
I question the information you found. Generally, hair follicles die from lack of blood circulation and frequent head massages have been known to reduce the amount of hair loss. At least, that's what I tell my wife.
I checked the Physician's Desk Reference for Coumadin, the most widely prescribed blood thinner. There are hundreds of possible side effects listed but hair loss is not among them.
Since your tinnitus is so greatly improved, you may not need to take the full dosage. I suggest you lower your dosage gradually to two capsules daily. Go to three capsules daily for a couple of weeks. If the noise doesn't come back, go to two. Hopefully, you'll continue to have the same results with the tinnitus.
Wishing you quiet times,
Barry Keate


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Today, I attended the Oracle Health Sciences Innovation Forum in Parsippany, NJ.
I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak during one of the afternoon breakouts.
The event provided some thought leadership and networking opportunities for the industry, and was organized into tracks such as:
- Innovation in Clinical Development
- The Evolving Landscape of Safety and Pharmacovigilance
- Business and Workspace Transformation
- Enabling a Great Customer Experience
- Simplify IT and Ignite Innovation
Oracle's mission is to enable its customers to deliver innovative therapies, devices, diagnostics and optimized care processes to prevent and cure illness.
Its vision is to build solutions to support a collaborative health sciences industry delivering patient-centric, value-based health care.
Oracle's strategy is to provide a complete, open, integrated application suite and related services with industry-leading customer ROI and satisfaction.
There is a "perfect storm" in the global life sciences industry: more demanding regulators, investors wanting growth opportunities, and payers that are requiring a better economic cost-benefit ration and improved health outcomes.
There's a strong trend towards more collaboration, with more connections between healthcare companies, contract research organizations, sponsors, and academia. These silos are starting to be broken down, as more companies realize the benefits of cooperating rather than competing.
Severin Schwan, the CEO of Roche, believes that "data from clinical trials and data from clinical practice are separate, but it makes sense to bring these together". It's a brave new world, leading to innovations that truly weren't possible before.
These things are important, but are they really that difficult? A PriceWaterhouse survey showed that most companies in the health sciences industry believe increased data integration is either challenging or very difficult.
Access to the clinical data stored in electronic health records would help companies across the board.
Oracle is bringing to bear some new IT solutions areas:
- Cloud services, which enable pay-as-you-go, partnering and data sharing
- Mobile, including data collection, workflows and decision support to lower costs and improve decisions
- Big data, the core of secondary use as data sources proliferate
What makes something "big data"? It's a combination of a certain amount of volume of data, the overall velocity of data, the variety of data, and the value of data.
Big data is a complex set of problems that Oracle is starting to address in a comprehensive way.
Proteus now is making a computer chip on a pill, offering much more fine-grained monitoring than typically available.
Oracle is building out a "Health Sciences Cloud", offering performance, scalability and security, in a HIPAA certified environment, enabling 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, optimized for individual trials, scaling from the smallest to the largest enterprises.
Social collaboration in the corporate environment is different from Facebook and Twitter. Oracle is developing social network technology to bring the capabilities of the public social networks into the corporate framework. It can be deployed both on premise or in the cloud, and allows for real-time, multimedia conversations.
People have typically been doing their work through private networks and e-mail, but that's typically less productive in terms of collaboration. The life sciences participants and healthcare provider and payer participants need:
- near real-time clinical data
- protocol validation and patient recruitment
- safety signaling
- device studies
- disease monitoring
- disease and patient registries
But it's not all going to happen at once.
Gamification is starting to be applied to changing behaviors – patients, investigators, doctors, etc. Oracle is looking at medication adherence, for example.
Oracle's health sciences roadmap includes a clinical suite, a healthcare suite, and a safety suite, and it also includes a strong analytics component (predictive, real-time and operational), as well as industry-specific high performance hardware.
Oracle's R&D investment delivered 27 new releases and upgrades in 2011.
Oracle has proof points on Key Performance Indicators like reducing the number of non-performing study sites, improved CRA productivity, improved Clinical Study Manager productivity, reduced time to complete clinical studies, etc.
Oracle has a number of integrations already in place, to tie together its Clinical Trial Management, Clinical Data Analytics, Integrated Response Technology, InForm schedule management and data capture, Argus Safety, and more.
Oracle has been working to integrate its ClearTrial acquisition with its other health sciences products for clinical trial management.
Going back to 2008, Oracle saw an opportunity to invest in order to differentiate itself from others in this space. The innovation accelerated in 2009 at Oracle, with some of its acquisitions in the health sciences software industry. In 2010, Oracle made further investments in improving its products, and in 2011 it came out with more than 25 new releases or major upgrades.
Oracle will continue to invest in integration, big data, gamification, new products, and bring the ClearTrial integration into its suite of products.
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From September first through June first, the National Weather Forcast occupies a tab of honor on my browser. Through the summer, all the plants I have outside will do fine in any temperature it happens to be.
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Mid-season tyre switch helped Ferrari's rivals
Before travelling to Korea, Ferrari designer Nikolas Tombazis said "blaming the tyres" would be "superficial".
He made his comments as Ferrari contemplated why it has steadily fallen away in 2013, particularly after Pirelli's mid-year switch from steel to kevlar internals.
The departing Felipe Massa, however, was not quite on-message at Yeongam, where Ferrari has clearly trailed not only Red Bull but also Mercedes and Lotus.
Teammate Fernando Alonso on Saturday hit out at the questionable "quality" of the tyres, and now Massa has told O Estado de S.Paulo that the mid-season specification change clearly hit Ferrari's hopes.
"You can see how some teams went forward while others went back," said the Brazilian.
"It's clear that the new tyres helped Red Bull. Also Mercedes.
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Jenelle Evans & Courtland Rogers Not Splitting, Spent NYE Together
After an explosive Twitter fight, the 'Teen Mom 2' star and her hubby spent New Year's Eve together — and revealed they are still in love and not splitting up! Read on for more details.
Jenelle Evans and her husband Courtland Rogers had fans and Twitter followers convinced that they were done for good on Dec. 30 after they both went on angry and explosive social media rants against each other. But the newlyweds are changing their tune — and revealed they are more in love than ever.
On Dec. 30, it appeared that Jenelle and Courtland's 26-day marriage was kaput when the Teen Mom 2 star went on a Twitter rant against her hubby after she thought he had been on the phone with his daughter Jordan for too long — and believed he was flirting with his baby mama Taylor instead.
"So I just got broke up with because of talkin to my lil girl on the phone last night finally getting to here her tell me she loves dada! Wow," Courtland tweeted on Dec. 30.
His angry tweets continued, after he called out his wife for trying to make him look bad. "Jenelle said she was gonna make up charges saying I beat her, and i never did, so that just made me say f**k jenelle for good," he tweeted.
Jenelle also fired back, and said she could "blast" Courtland "real bad," and even quoted a line from a Pink song, "Why do we fall in love so easy even when it's not right?" before deactivating Twitter.
Jenelle & Courtland Ring In 2013 Together
But the couple quickly reconciled as they spent New Year's Eve together at nightclub The Liquid Room in their hometown of Wilmington, N.C., and expressed their love for each other once again on Twitter.
"For the record I never broke up with jenelle we took a day break with our families to enjoy time with them I love her with all my heart," Courtland wrote on Jan. 1. Jenelle also returned to Twitter, and wrote that their fight was because of his "ex/baby mama." And on Jan. 2, she posted a Twitpic of brand new shoes that Courtland bought her. "Thanks babyyyyy for buying me these !!" she wrote.
Looks like they made up and aren't splitting — for now. But for the record, it might be best to keep their personal drama off of Twitter.
What do YOU think of Jenelle and Courtland not splitting up HollyMoms?
— Christina Stiehl
More Courtland & Jenelle news:
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- Courtland Rogers: Jenelle Evans' Ex Keiffer Got Her Hooked On Heroin
- Jenelle Evans' Husband Courtland Rogers Didn't Sign Prenup — Report


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William Shatner Beat Night is a spoken word performance event where every piece must be performed while doing a William Shatner impression. Many of the pieces are original works, while others are existing words on a page and given to a Shatner interpretation.
The event is scheduled on or close to William Shatner's birthday (March 22), which is also International Talk Like Shatner Day. This year it happens to be on March 23rd.
It is also fun as hell. Don't take our word for it though. Check it out for yourself or ask one of your cooler friends about it.
Star Trek never really caught on with audiences, ran for three seasons, and was canceled. I wish I had taken notes at the time, because you people sure do have a lot of questions about it.
- William Shatner -
Sat March 23, 2019, 8pm - $7 Cover to benefit Gather (formerly Seacoast Family Food Pantry).
Canned food donations also accepted.
Check out this year's poster by Eric Ott of HIFISPIN Solutions
Shatner Beat Night is located at Book and Bar.
Want to sign up to perform? Have questions? Here is your chance.
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
- William Shatner -
William Shatner Beat Night is a spoken word performance event where every piece must be performed while doing a William Shatner impression.
The event is scheduled on or close to William Shatner's birthday (March 22), which is also International Talk Like Shatner Day.
Back in 2009, I was talking with some friends in a bar one night about albums which are challenging listens. Shatner's Transformed Man came up and I (loudly) recited Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" as Shatner which caught everyone's attention. One of my friends suggested I perform as Shatner at a local Beat Night as a stunt. I jokingly said, "No, this should be it's own thing…Hey! Let's do a Shatner Beat Night on his birthday!" The next day, with the beers out of my system, it still seemed like a good idea so I got started on planning. When I realized how many people were enthusiastic about it, I decided to make it a fundraiser for the Seacoast Family Food Pantry. The success of the event is thanks to everyone in the Portsmouth community who volunteers their time, skills, and talent.
Each performer has five minutes to perform a spoken word piece. There are no limitations on material but the people must do a Shatner impression while performing accompanied by percussion and bass. If time expires the audience will shout "KHAAAAAAANNNN!" to end the performance. Performers receive scores from a panel judging on accuracy, originality, and "the sexy". At the end, the performer with the highest score carries the title of William Shatner Beat Night Champion and becomes a judge the following year.
Sure, if there is an open performance slot. Many performers return year after year but, I like to have some fresh faces on stage as well. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com to request a spot.
Anything you want. People have tackled Shakespeare, children's literature, song lyrics, centuries old chemistry books, π, and some have written original pieces just for the night. My advise is keep it simple and don't over think it.
My intended audience is adults. That's why the event is always held at night in a bar. In theory, I object to placing age limitations on performances and believe parents should use discretion with their children. There are plenty of NSFW moments, which may also not be safe for your kids. The venue may have policies or legal restrictions on who is allowed into their establishment. My advice is call the venue first to see if they are an 18+, 21+, or all ages establishment, look at some of the clips from past events on YouTube, then make a determination of what is appropriate for your family.
The game show format gives the event a different feel from a regular beat night and has inspired some memorable moments. To settle a dispute over who deserved more sexy points in 2012 Jason Santo and Tammy Truax had a sexy dance-off, which resolved nothing. The judges can bring out the competitive side in some people but it is really all in good fun.
William Shatner Beat Night was created on a whim and generates a lot of excitement and I keep organizing the event because of the enthusiasm and support I get from the community. If you want to celebrate the legacy of an actor, artist, or piece of popular culture, GO FOR IT! Find a creative and unique way to do it.
Maybe. When Shatner joined Google +, Joshua Cyr posted to Shatner's group a mention of the event. Shatner responded right away with "I've been to Portsmouth but not on my birthday. Apparently I've been missing all the fun". Note: The event is not sponsored or sanctioned by William Shatner, nor does it reflect his opinions. It does, however, reflect how awesome he is.
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
- William Shatner -


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Left to right: Paul Becherer, Paul Kessler, Hallie Knipple,
Lisa Bahr, Jared Peccarelli.
"We all need to give back to the community so that we can make this a better world to live in," Becherer said of his decision to volunteer.
One of the guests he helped shared his personal story with Becherer. "Listening to Nathaniel's story of living on the streets was very humbling, so giving up a little sleep and time was well worth it," he said.


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Windows & Office 2000, The Move, Etc.
August 1, 2000
By Scott Lewis
As we hoped (and I kind of expected), we sold our house in a flash. We are apartment dwellers now, soon to be connected to the net through ADSL. I wanted to load Windows 2000 Professional to setup a true web server, but that is not going to happen. Read on for this month's trials and tribulations with Windows & Office 2000 and personal firewalls.
Windows 2000 Professional
I am playing around with ASP (Active Server Pages) and wanted to turn my home computer into a true web server. I wasn't planning on actually serving up anything for the public, but it would be good experience to maintain a real server.
Alas I was unable to make the jump. Windows 2000 Professional does not support the two most important peripherals I own, HP's P1000 Photosmart printer & Kodak's CD 280 Digital Camera. HP is supposed to get Win 2000 drivers some time in September, but that may only be through the parallel port. Until then they suggest using the generic DeskJet drivers. Kodak's web site for the DC280 doesn't even mention NT or Win 2000. I assume I would have to muddle through with the serial connection for the camera.
Neither of those options was attractive to me. So I decided to blow off Windows 2000 for the time being. I have also heard stories that CD-R & CD-R/W drives don't work well under Win 2000. This is supposed to be due to software running under Win 2000. Since CD-R is my only form of backup at the moment, it's another reason to hold off on the upgrade.
Office 2000
I had already upgraded FrontPage 98 to FrontPage 2000. I really didn't see myself upgrading to Office 2000 since I have to exchange documents with Office 97 users, including my in-laws and sister-in-law, whose computers I built. Since I didn't want to upgrade them as well, I had written off the Office upgrade to a later date.
Unfortunately my wife suddenly got the urge to use Publisher. A co-worker of hers told her about it. I had a copy of Publisher 97 Deluxe, but have not loaded it on my machine since the last time I reformatted my hard drive. I wasn't using it and my wife preferred Print Shop Deluxe. It is much easier to do the things she likes in Print Shop. Publisher is a better tool for doing complicated and advanced tasks, but at a cost of a steeper learning curve.
My wife was determined. I installed Publisher 97 Deluxe, but it would not run. I never was able to determine the reason, but it probably conflicted with Office 97, or some other application. Publisher 97 came out before Office 97, and Publisher 98 looks more like the Office 97 applications. I assumed the order they were installed might be part of the problem.
I had a copy of Publisher 98, but it was not the deluxe version. Installing the copy revealed it was a demo and would expire after 30 days. I decided to upgrade to the resource hog champ... Office 2000 Premier Edition.
Since my computer was already showing signs of Windows slowing down due to installing and uninstalling software, I decided it was time to reformat the drive.
After backing up my hard drive (more in a moment), installation of Office 2000 was slow but painless. I have not had a lot of time to explore the mammoth suite, so I will save that for another time. For the moment it is stable and seems to be running without a hitch.
Except for my original reason to upgrade to FrontPage 2000, I have not seen a compelling reason to upgrade to Office 2000. Further testing will be necessary before I make a final recommendation.
Make Backups
I backed up my hard drive on CD-ROMs. It is the most convenient way for me to backup large quantities of data. It took 15 CDs to backup all my MP3 files, and another four discs to backup the rest of my data.
With boot floppy in hand I reformatted the drive and loaded up Windows 98 Second Edition. That is an upgrade for me. I only had the first edition of Win 98 until now. I then proceeded to load all my critical applications. I am still using Money 95 (also referred to as version 4.1) even though I bought Money 2000 quite a while ago. I installed the Office 2000 Premier Edition (as stated above). I including most of it except for Outlook 2000. I have gotten used to Outlook Express at home and didn't want the resource problems with running Outlook 2000 in the background all the time to check my mail.
So far everything is working beautifully. I have not had any trouble. With my MP3 collection offline I have a lot more room on my hard drive. However, I don't like having my MP3s offline and have been dropping hints about needed a new drive to my wife. Best Buy just advertised a 30 GB 7200 RPM drive from Maxtor for $169. I can probably beat that price online. Maybe after we are settled in the apartment. I also saw a 62 GB 5400 RPM drive advertised for $299. Good thing we got full asking price on the house. I see an upgrade in my future.
BlackICE vs. Zone Alarm
I started playing around with Zone Alarm for firewall software. I have turned off Microsoft Networking so I am pretty safe from attacks from that standpoint. I bought BlackICE Defender a few months back, but I like the extra protection Zone Alarm gives for applications on my computer that try to "get out."
I had downloaded Zone Alarm 2.0 because it was offered as a free download. Having already paid for BlackICE I was not interested in changing just to spend more money. I heard version 2.1 of Zone Alarm was not a free download. So I loaded up version 2.0.
Zone Alarm is even more annoying than BlackICE at getting your attention. It pops up a message every time a computer tries to access mine. This is very annoying after a while. BlackICE has a blinking tray icon which is also annoying, just less annoying than a pop up message. I wish BlackICE had a an option to stop the blinking. Zone Alarm offers you the chance to stop the pop up messages, but then you would not know anything about possible attacks on your system.
Most of the messages were port probe scans coming from my own ISP. I assumed they were looking for servers or security compromises. The fact that my own ISP was scanning me was not a problem. That it caused such a number of pop up messages was becoming a problem. I did the unthinkable and told Zone Alarm to stop displaying the messages. This left me with no way of knowing if anyone is trying to get in. Zone Alarm 2.0 doesn't log information, so it left me flying blind in the name of security.
After a couple of weeks I decided I liked Zone Alarm enough to buy the next version. I found out that version 2.1 added logging. That was the only problem I had with Zone Alarm. So I went to their web site. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it is still free for personal use. I downloaded and installed version 2.15. Its logging is just the ticket for me. I periodically check the logs and leave the annoying pop ups turned off.
There is still one thing that bothers me about Zone Alarm, it doesn't tell me what kind of probe is trying to access my computer. BlackICE would tell me what kind of probes were knocking at my virtual door. When I first installed BlackICE, if I received a Trojan horse or SubSeven probe (looking for Back Orifice or similar program) I would do a trace on the IP address of the attacker and report him to his ISP. I had only limited success with this. I received word that one of the people I reported had his account terminated, and another was determined to be a compromised computer that was performing scans without the owners knowledge. I was thanked for the information and felt like I was doing my part to help police extremely bad practice on the Internet.
Zone Alarm doesn't tell me enough to report people. Alas, the last few times I reported people with the information from BlackICE I never received any feedback from the ISPs and had giving up on the situation. My feeling is that this kind of "kiddie script" scanning of computers is being overlooked as not worth investigating. Personally, I think if more people did reported these minor attacks it would be much more difficult for people to perform the Denial of Service attacks. I had given up on reporting people anyway, so I suppose it doesn't really matter if Zone Alarm tells me the type of attacks, just so long as it keeps people out.
The House & The Apartment
As I mentioned last month, my wife and I have moved into an apartment. It is a two bedroom - one bathroom setup with about 900 sq. ft. It is small compared to our 1747 sq. ft. house, but it will make moving into our 2800-3000 sq. ft. house seem all the more luxurious next year.
The apartment is a brand new, state of the art complex. I was shocked when we looked at the place. Although it was slightly above the price range we were looking at, we decided to check it out just because it was new. Most of the apartments in our area need a serious makeover.
The apartment complex has ADSL and DirecTV connections in every apartment. There are phone jacks in every room. The apartment we settled on has a two-car garage. Actually, it is 32 feet long (13 ft. wide), so it is basically two cars deep. Since one of our "cars" is a Suburban, so both of our "cars" would not fit end to end. I consider it a 1-1/2 car garage. Hopefully it is large enough to hold our stuff and the Suburban. We got rid of our storage unit (10 x 20) and saved $103 a month.
As for state-of-the-art... they have a movie theater room with a forward projection TV, DVD, VCR and DirecTV. It holds 22 people and is free to use. It just has to be reserved in advance, and is only available from 5:00 to 11:00 PM. They don't want to disturb the general business of the apartment during the day. That sucks for me, I have Fridays off and would love to just watch a DVD a week in the theater room while the kids are in school.
They have a "business center" that has two computers with ADSL connections, and a fax machine. All that is free, including long distance faxes. They also have a U shaped swimming pool with 25-meter (maybe yards) lanes for swimming laps. There is a fitness center that has free weights, machines, treadmills, bikes, and aerobic classes. They serve continental breakfast every Saturday morning. There is a gathering room that you can use anytime up till 11:00 PM with a pool table, fuss-ball table. No reservations are allowed; just use it as a community area. All this is free to residents. The office has a full kitchen and is open with the office is open. I raid their refrigerator whenever I am buy the office.
It is such a nice place. Nobody has lived in our apartment before us. They even have icemakers in the refrigerators and built-in microwaves. This is the first time I have ever seen an icemaker in an apartment. Washer and dryer hook-ups are there, a godsend for us coming from a house. And the bathroom includes a huge oval bathtub. Nice touch!
It will be tough not living in a house, but this apartment is so wonderful that we may not want to move out.
When I called to have the ADSL hooked up in the apartment I was told that the apartment is practically right on top of the switch office. They say it is less than 1000 ft. ADSL performance is based on the distance from the switch office. My provider will not install it at distances farther than 18,000 ft (one of the reasons I didn't have it at my house), because they cannot guarantee a minimum speed of 384Kbps beyond that distance. Being less than 1000 ft. away should provide the best possible performance available. I should hopefully be able to soak up that 1.5Mbps speed for all its worth.
Unfortunately, they cannot hook up the ADSL service until the phone is active for an entire week. So I will be without broadband Internet service for a about a week. I borrowed my old 28.8 (Yuck!) modem back from my in-laws so I can at least dial up to retrieve e-mail while I wait for the ADSL equipment.
That about covers it for this month. We had a major falling out with our designer and the plans I previously posted will not be built. This set us back a ways, but hopefully we will get back on track soon. Whatever you do, don't hire Elegant Home Design in San Antonio. Next month I will describe his poor business practices and why we ultimately had to walk away and take a $1400 loss.
Next month I hope to have more on Office 2000. So far Office 2000 is stable. Other than wanting Publisher, I have not seen anything in Office 2000 that would have you thinking about upgrading. Office 97 with Service Pack 1 is more than good enough. However, once you get used to FrontPage 2000 you will like it a lot better than FrontPage 98. I do.
Expect a future Feature Article on Cable Modems vs. ADSL. I wrote about them a year ago, and will do it again with experience using both. Next month I will tell you the tales of my creative e-mail account juggling.
Until next month...


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Turntable.fm Launches Live, Interactive Concerts With CBGB
Ever since its launch in May 2011, Turntable.fm has allowed users to "interactively share music" with each another. Now, the company is taking its social music model to the next level with interactive concerts.
To celebrate the launch of Turntable Live, the company has partnered with the legendary music club CBGB to put on new, interactive concerts all this week.
Turntable Live leverages the social media features of Turntable.fm to bring the live concert experience to the Internet. Any musical act can schedule to perform a live show at Turntable.fm's New York office. If enough tickets are sold, then the show gets the green light. As they watch, live listeners can show their support for their favorite artists by "asking questions, sending snapshots, and hearing fans scream all while listening to some great music."
The Turntable Live launch party with CBGB kicked off yesterday with a performance by lo-fi indie band Beat Radio and continues all throughout the week with a new concert every night at 7 p.m. EDT.
On Oct 9, indie synth rock band Born Cages take the stage. "Our music is mysterious, exciting, truthful, embellished, vague, specific, dark, and happy. In other words, it's life," the band said in a statement. The next night will feature the "punk rock legend" Cheetah Chrome, the lead guitarist and songwriter of the Dead Boys. Pop rock band Saint Rich close things out on Friday Oct. 11.
The Turnable website has more detail on each concert act as well as information on how to get involved with Turntable Live going forward.


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Campus Technology 2014 brought together technology thought leaders for a dialogue on data, change, MOOCs, innovation and more.
As technology continues to turn higher education upside down, perhaps it's fitting that those at the forefront of change should meet in Boston, a place full of revolutionary history, to plan their next steps. This July the city was host to approximately 1,300 ed tech leaders for Campus Technology 2014, our annual conference devoted to technology in post-secondary education.
Innovation and change were a running theme throughout the event, evident in inspirational keynote addresses, detailed panel sessions and a vibrant exhibition hall.
Driving Change With Data
In his opening keynote, Stephen Laster, former CIO of Harvard Business School and currently chief digital officer of McGraw-Hill Education, encouraged IT leaders to collaborate with others on campus in order to better support the teacher-student relationship and experience.
Although the title of his talk was "How Big Data Is Changing Everything We Know About Education," Laster switched things up by arguing that the standard definition of big data really doesn't match up well with education. "I do not believe higher education is about gathering terabytes of data and asking it to tell me the patterns. I love the idea of bringing data together to look for patterns and insights, but not in education," he said.
"We need measurement to have feedback and drive engagement, and we need data," he continued. But setting aside the hype around big data, Laster argued for the potential of "small data" to create personalized learning experiences that cut down on student frustration and confusion.
Laster gave an example from the University of Texas at El Paso that included the use of a knowledge map and an artificial intelligence engine to help guide students through a summer bridge course and prepare them for college math classes. UTEP is seeing much better graduation and completion rates from this small data initiative, he said. "There were no big datamarts or a massive campus initiative," Laster noted. "Small data is not going to be the sole driver. But it can be one small piece. We cannot unilaterally drive the change. But we can drive a lot of it. Let's start small."
New in 2014
This year, special 50-minute interactive panels focused on three critical technology trends: mobility, security and the cloud. For instance, on the cloud panel, Dennis Ravenelle, senior project manager for Harvard University Information Technology, talked about why Harvard IT intends in the next three years to have all new services deployed in the cloud and migrate 75 percent of existing services to the cloud. "It is an audacious goal," said Ravenelle, who talked about some of the cost and scalability benefits the university is considering.
IT as Change Leaders
The keynote by University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski III reminded attendees always to keep the larger context of their work in mind.
"We have so much data around us, but a story is what gives it context," Hrabowski said. For instance, he talked about the importance of the GI Bill as a great experiment in opening up higher education to the middle and working classes, as was the Higher Education Act of 1965. Millions of people were able to go to college and better themselves. "The work we do is noble," said Hrabowski, who has been president at UMBC for more than 20 years. "Where would we be without the education we received?"
He implored the IT executives to see themselves as thought leaders. Too often, people tend to question the value of what IT does, he said. "You do not want people to pigeonhole you as technologists. You are thought leaders who happen to be experts in technology."
Hrabowski used his relationship with UMBC CIO Jack Seuss as a positive example, noting that it was critical that his CIO report directly to him. "I wanted to send a message. There was nothing more important than making clear that technology is not separate but infused into the fabric of what we do," he said. "This expert in technology is at the table from the beginning and not as an afterthought."
He rhetorically asked the audience what it means to be academically innovative. "It means that success is never final. We are always asking, 'What's next?' We know we can be much better. We focus on the use of technology to redesign teaching and learning."
Returning to his initial theme of huge societal change agents such as the GI Bill, Hrabowski said, "The vets who went to college knew the world of tomorrow did not have to be the same as today. That was innovation." Today we can improve outcomes, he added, "if we change the way we do business. You have the ability to help campuses use technology to transform the institutions as they transform the lives of students."
In a new "Goldfish Tank" session, presented in partnership with the SIIA Education Division, entrepreneurs took the stage to share brief descriptions of their new product or service. After their presentations, attendees voted for the solution they would most likely use in higher education. The winner was a company called Campuscene, which is building a college search site that includes virtual tours, video content, interactive maps and social media content for every school on a student's list.
The MOOC Movement
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been a hot topic at past Campus Technology events and this year was no different. In his keynote speech, Anant Agarwal, CEO of the nonprofit edX platform, talked about edX's potential for using big data to improve teaching and learning outcomes, both online and in blended learning environments.
EdX was launched in 2012 with seed funding from MIT and Harvard. Agarwal, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics. It drew 155,000 students from 162 countries.
He tried to put those numbers in perspective to stress the impact edX has already had. "That 155,000 figure is more than the total number of alumni of MIT in history," he said, adding that the 7,200 who passed the rigorous course are more than the total number of students he will ever teach in his career at MIT. "From a lark two and a half years ago, it is becoming a movement."
The next step is to use all the data being gathered from the edX platform to study how people learn.
In the space of a few years, edX has amassed more than 3 billion records. Agarwal wants to use that data to find out how students learn, in order to continuously re-engineer the platform in much the same way that Google tweaks its Web site. "We have terabytes of data, including students working on problems," he said. "We know they got it wrong four times and right the fifth. We can see what they did in between the fourth and fifth try. We know which parts contribute to successful outcomes."
Empowering Innovation
The conference closed with a keynote talk that broadened the focus on higher education and technology with a global perspective. David Sengeh, a biomechatronics researcher at MIT Media Lab, talked about what's involved in empowering people to innovate.
At MIT, Sengeh, a native of Sierra Leone, is working to design better, more comfortable prosthetic sockets and wearable interfaces. The work combines medical imaging, materials science, human anatomy, computer-aided design and manufacturing. He's also the founder of Innovate Salone, a group aiming to inspire innovation in Sierra Leone.
He noted that he and colleagues had the creative freedom to tackle problems at MIT. In that vein, rather than having foundations impose solutions to problems in Africa, it is important to encourage the same type of problem-solving mentality among young people there. "How do we create an ecosystem," he asked, "a network of opportunities so people can stop to think about challenges in their community and learn how to attempt to solve them? That is the only way to guarantee a sustainable future."
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Hello guy's i have another tech sizzling news about New Versions of Autodesk with latest features, So here are the Autodesk comes with the latest editions of Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Motion Builder and Softimage 2015. Autodesk has announced the new versions 2015 releases of its animation products, Inclusive of the Maya and Maya LT, 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and the final release of Softimage, to parallel with the GDC 2014 conference. As we know about Autodesk is the best company which is provide us to most creative software's for animation and architecture field like Maya, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Motion Builder and Softimage, But the important thing is the Autodesk new versions always comes with new features and they are mostly upgrade their specific features for every year.
New features of Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max 2015
After a graceful tumultuous few weeks for Autodesk, which is officially ratify the discontinuation of Softimage following various reports of last month; the long awaited new editions of the company's 3D animation software have now been uncovered!
Inclusive of the 2015 versions of Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Motion Builder, Mudbox, and Softimage, these update also comes with the utility of Autodesk's 2015 Entertainment Creation suite, the latest version Autodesk Maya LT, and a new impact on monthly, quarterly or annual software rentals instead of upgrades.New features of Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max 2015
New features of Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max 2015
Autodesk's energetic releases in many years, the 2015 versions keep more creative power back into the hands of the artists, said Chris Bradshaw, Sr. vice president of Media & Entertainment at Autodesk. To obtain this, we redesigned origin parts of our applications focusing on performance, comfort of use and innovative new tools like Bifrost that makes it easy to do complicated tasks. Whether our users are creating effects for a movie blockbuster, a game for one of the new solace, developing of mobile apps or advertisements. The 2015 versions permit of artists to focus on what they want to do best storytelling.
New Features of Autodesk Maya 2015
Autodesk Maya 2015 comes with lots of new features. As we know about Maya 2015 has come with many changes but we also know Maya is very popular software in animation field. It is very useful for every particular thing like Character Modeling, Gaming effects, Visual effects or we can use it in developing of mobile apps. So, here's the new features of Autodesk Maya 2015, First of all we are talking about Maya 2015 new effects, Maya will including XGen Arbitrary Primitive technology. But one thing is really important in Maya 2015, A tool originally made from Disney that give us to hand sculpt and groom hair, as well as create fur and feather and we can make a particular area(landscapes) with grass in a click and much more. Sort of value addition will be BiFröst, a procedural effects platform developed after Autodesk purchased the rights to Naiad technology, ShaderFX from Maya LT has also been added in Maya 2015 version. Its allow for maya's users to reach to a visual node which is based on system to create and edit shaders in maya 2015 directly in the viewport is really easily to handle and viewport 2.0 has been finalized, it is now turn on by default and allows for even simulacrum to saw directly within a second. Autodesk Maya 2015 viewport more faster than all versions.New features of Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max 2015
New Features of Autodesk 3DS MAX 2015
Autodesk 3DX MAX 2015 version also comes with new feature as I say about maya 2015, but if you are using 3ds Max, this is the perfect software to get done your stuff and enjoy the process. The 3DS MAX is really useful product for their users in market at this time because it comes with many new feature fastest than all versions. 3DS Max 2015 convey with the greater performance, better workflows, new modeling capabilities to help increase overall productivity for artists and designers to working with the complex and lots of thing to do in this version. High resolution possessions required by current demanding entertainment and design visualization projects. 3DS Max have some abilities to import, visualize and render massive point cloud datasets, increased viewport performance and new scene of workflows. 3DS Max 2015 will helps artists and designers to handle greater complexity without slowing down. It is more responsive Active Shade interactive to rendering workflow that would now support with the NVIDIA mental ray renderer and artist easily usable node based on visual shader editor for making and previewing complex real time shaders to help increasing capacity for lighting, shading, and rendering tasks. Then with the new support for Python scripting language, 3ds Max 2015 comes with a robust core toolset that is more easily enhanced and customizable to pickup each studio's peerless requirements.New features of Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max 2015
New features of Autodesk Maya and 3DS Max 2015