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Banksy officially bade farewell to New York on Thursday after spending the month of October in the city creating random street art at public sites in all five boroughs.
The anonymous British artist posted a message on his official website Thursday: "And that's it. Thanks for your patience. It's been fun. Save 5pointz. Bye." The artist's mention of "5pointz" refers to the street-art and graffiti exhibition space in Long Island City that has been threatened with demolition.
Banksy's most recent purported creation in New York is an inflatable throw-up piece spelling out "Banksy!" on the side of a building in Queens.
ART: Can you guess the high price?
This week, the artist made waves by auctioning off a Nazi-themed work of art that was apparently created by adding an SS officer to a thrift store landscape painting. Titled "The Banality of the Banality of Evil," in an apparent homage to journalist Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," the painting is currently going for more than $310,000 in an online auction that is scheduled to end Thursday evening.
Proceeds from the auction will go to benefit Housing Works, a Brooklyn organization helping people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
On Wednesday, the artist was apparently at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, where he created an outdoor painting depicting a leopard.
Some of Banksy's New York artwork was removed or painted over shortly after their creation, prompting some of the artist's fans to demand that they be preserved.
Banksy calls World Trade Center tower 'vanilla'
Banksy watch: A look at the artist's New York creations
'100% authentic' Banksy artworks, $60 each, in N.Y.; only seven sold?
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The "Maybe's" Of It All
I love patterns, and lucky for me, there are plenty to be found in genealogy. It's so satisfying to find them in my research notes, database reports, or spreadsheets. It may not give me an answer to a problem, but it can give me something quantifyable to look at maybe leading to some circumstantial evidence for a line that I'm stuck on. One type of pattern that I like the most is naming patterns. There are all sorts of naming patterns, and I have yet to find one in one of my lines that follows the official naming pattern "rules," but I do seem to find patterns within my family lines' given names.
Don't Forget the Brothers and the Sisters
My maternal grandfather's surname is Blacketer. Because it's a unique name, especially the further you go back in time, it's a pretty easy name to trace. However, what makes this line so difficult is the given names. Come again? Well, to say it's a big family is an understatement, and apparently everyone just absolutely adored each other. Hence, they named their children after their siblings, uncles, aunts, and the like ~ a lot. Furthermore, many migrated with each other causing generations of those with the same exact names within the same age ranges to be living near each other! Nothing's ever easy, is it? In Ancestry.com's family trees, you can find many branches of this family ~ both sourced and unsourced. Furthermore, on the surname message boards, you can find many confused researchers wondering, "Are we related?" So, one day I decided to "figure them out," dilligently following each line, going from the "bottom up" then the "top down." I already knew who the progenitor of my line was, William Alexander Blacketer from Scotland, I knew all of his children, and I knew how I connected to William. This took time, but I don't think that it was particularly hard. The main thing that I saw that other researchers may have overlooked was collateral lines ~ their ancestor's brothers and sisters. They hadn't followed those lines, so that when another Blacketer "popped up" where their ancestor's line was [which relatives tend to do], they hadn't any idea if or how they were related. To me, though, the Blacketer surname is not like the surnames "Jones," "Williams," or, God forbid, the dreaded "Smith," so I didn't feel too particularly intimidated. Although, one thing that struck me while doing this research and again once I was done with the research was the given name patterns. Interestingly enough, they exist in my line even today.
Can a Curse Be A Blessing?
My grandfather's name was James Wesley Blacketer. He was my Gran's husband ~ you remember my Gran, right? Well, they named their first born son James Wesley, and he named his first born son, James Wesley, a first cousin of mine. Want to take a wild guess as to what my first cousin named his first born son? Bingo! Bob. Just kidding. He named him James Wesley. [And aren't my descendants lucky that I've got this part figured out? Your welcome. It was my pleasure.] What was an unpleasant task was figuring out all the other branches ~ both close and distant. The curse, if there is one, in this family is the replication of given names. However, the curse is also a blessing in this case because it happens frequently.
The First Ones
To give you an example, I decided to take my grandfather's name and search my "Blacketer" database for the name "James Wesley," "James" as a first name or a middle name, and "Wesley" as a first name or a middle name. Keep in mind, however, there are plenty in my database that don't have a middle name recorded and there are plenty of "J." and "W." middle initials. Also, I looked up the earliest recorded James and the earliest recorded Wesley because I was curious as to who the first American Blacketer's in this family were with these names.
As They Moved West, Westley Lost a "T"The oldest Wesley was actually a "Westley." Born in 1771, William Westley was the son of William Alexander and Rachel Mary (?) Blacketer. [Accck! Another Mary.] William Westley had 10 known brothers and sisters and the next brother down from him is my 3rd great-grandfather, David Blacketer. Also, this Westley named a son of his Wesley M.. [Will wonders never cease?] Interestingly [but not surprisingly], there's only one other William Westley [with this exact spelling] that I have found, and he was the brother of my 1st great-grandfather Harrison Blacketer. The stats on the name Wesley are as follows:
[3] Wesley Blacketer
[1] Wesley M. Blacketer
[4] James Wesley Blacketer
[1] John Wesley Blacketer
[2] William Westley Blacketer
[1] John Wesley Blacketter
Let's Name Him "James" So the Name Will Never Die Out
The oldest recording of James in my Blacketer family is James Blacketer born in 1801. He was the son of my 3rd great-parents David and Mary F. (Cox) Blacketer. [Oh look, another Mary.] This James also had a son named James born in 1833. Well, if they were worried about the name "James" dying out in the Blacketer family, they needn't have worried. Here are the "James" stats from my Blacketer database.
[8] James Blacketer
[1] James A. Blacketer
[1] James D. Blacketer
[1] James P. Blacketer
[1] James T. Blacketer
[1] James W. Blacketer
[1] James William Blacketer
[4] James Wesley Blacketer
Of Course I'm Not Sure...
So, you might be wondering, "Are you 100% sure that they were all named after the original James and/or Wesley?" And the answer is, "No. I can't be sure." However, it's interesting to notate, to look at, to ponder, and to analyze. You can take this information and add it to other information such as migration patterns, and together they might yield some interesting results. My grandfather's name, James Wesley, probably wasn't the best name to look at. The progenitor of the family, William Alexander, probably would've been better. So briefly, here are the stats on the name William:
[23] William as a 1st name
[1] William as a 2nd name
[4] Willie [may or may not be a nickname for William]
Coincidences Do Happen...
Let's face it, though, these could all be coincidental, right? Perhaps the most convincing of all is the number of times the generations have the same group of names. For example, William and Rachel's children were as follows: Henry Burrell, John, William Westley, Elizabeth, David [my 3rd great-grandfather], Nancy B., Rachel, Keziah, Norman, Mary "Polly" [another one, yay me!], and Jane. The following is a summation of their children's names ~ the one's that repeat [Also, I am missing 3 of the children's lines]:
[5] John
[3] Elizabeth
[3] William
[3] Thomas
[2] Rachel [named after Rachel Mary?]
[2] Nancy
[2] Jane
[2] Mary
[2] David
[2] Jonathon
[2] Henry [1 as a first name; 1 as a middle name]
[2] Wesley [1 as a first name; 1 as a middle name]
[1] Alexander [not repeated, but is the middle name of William, the progenitor of the line]
Keeping Your Mind Open...
Could you imagine going to Grandpa William's and Grandma Rachel's for Thanksgiving with all these kids with the same names?
"Hey, you, John #4. Quit hitting Thomas #2."
"And William #1 quit pulling Elizabeth #3's braids."
"And John Henry quit feeding the dog turkey!"
"No, not you, John #'s 1-4 or just plain Henry! I mean John Henry!"
[Yowzer! Nope. I couldn't imagine that nightmare...] Furthermore, these names repeat more and more down the lines. So when they migrated with each other, it was hard to keep up with all of them. Moreover, my grandfather James Wesley and my Gran seem to have given some of the same names to their children: James Wesley [already mentioned], David, John, and...Mary [Goodness me!] Of course, you have to be careful with this thinking. Why do I say this? Does anyone remember my Gran's name? Anyone? Anyone? Why, it's...Mary, of course! [Rolling eyes heavenward.] The whole point of all this is that it's probably a good idea to keep an eye on the names in your family ~ to keep your mind open to the possibilities...

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Australian economy grows 0.6 per cent in September quarter, annual GDP growth rate at 2.3 per cent
Australia's economic growth has fallen short of forecasts, with the nation's gross domestic product edging up by 0.6 per cent in September quarter.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show the the annual growth rate is now at 2.3 per cent.
Economists were forecasting a growth rate of 0.7 per cent for the quarter, and an annual rate of 2.6 per cent.
The Australian dollar fell by a quarter of a cent against the US dollar after the figures were released.
At 11:40am it was buying 90.79 US cents.
The ABS also upwardly revised its growth rate from the previous quarter, from 0.6 per cent to 0.7 per cent.
Economists have argued a growth rate above 3 per cent is required to stop the recent increases to Australia's unemployment rate.
The jobless rate is currently 5.7 per cent.
The Treasurer Joe Hockey says the result is "not good enough to deliver the jobs that people want."
"Net exports were responsible for over 90 per cent of the growth in the economy in the past year," he during a media briefing.
"That's basically aligned with the fact you have rising exports because the mining investment boom is in play, it is now going into the production stage, but the fact is the mining companies are not importing new capital.
"That clearly illustrates that we have some challenges ahead as mining investment drops from around 8 per cent of GDP to somewhere around 3 per cent over the next few years."
However, Mr Hockey says there have been some signs of improvement in economic activity during the current quarter.
"The exchange rate is coming down and that will have a very important role to play in helping the economy through this period," he said.
"Interest rates remain at historically low levels. We are also seeing some good data in relation to retail sales, consumer confidence and business confidence."
Consumer spending growth sluggish
JP Morgan chief economist Stephen Walters has described the GDP result as "underwhelming".
State final demand in September quarter
- Victoria: up 0.5 per cent.
- Tasmania: up 0.5 per cent.
- Northern Territory: up 0.4 per cent.
- New South Wales: up 0.4 per cent.
- Western Australia: up 0.1 per cent.
- Queensland: up 0.1 per cent.
- South Australia: down 0.1 per cent.
- Australian Capital Territory: down 0.6 per cent
"This is well below what we would call the economy's speed limit, which is somewhere closer to 3 per cent," he told ABC News Radio.
"So we're getting growth, but in the wake of the mining boom that's been so large it's still pretty underwhelming at this stage."
Mr Walters says growth in household spending has proven disappointing.
"The savings rate stayed very high at above 11 per cent, while consumer spending barely moved, up just 0.4 per cent so it's well below growth in the rest of the economy," he said.
"The problem seems to be consumers are still quite reluctant to spend, and I think whether that's concerns about the global economy or whether the dollar's too high, or the unemployment rate's going it up - it is probably a combination of all those factors."
Victoria and Tasmania recorded the strongest growth among the states territories, with both seeing increases in state final demand of 0.5 per cent.
State final demand refers the value of spending in a state or territory's economy, excluding imports and exports.
The result comes after ABS figures released yesterday revealed a 0.5 per cent increase in retail sales during October.
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|Six-time undefeated World Professional Karate Champion, middleweight division, and the first westerner ever to achieve an eighth degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do; now a leading conservative commentator.
|Jim Jordan
|two-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion, which included defeating a future Olympic gold medalist, and four-time state champion; leading conservative in Congress who chaired the Republican Study Committee for the 112th Congress.
|Matt Birk
|outspokenly pro-life and critical of same-sex marriage, Matt Birk has been repeatedly selected to the Pro Bowl, was the starting center for the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens in 2013, and is ranked as one of the most intelligent professional athletes
|Nolan Ryan
|went from being one of the greatest pitchers of all time (7 no-hitters) to endorsing Texan Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst as "a proven conservative"
|Jon Runyan
|one of the best linemen in the NFL who was selected for the Pro Bowl, Runyan is now a Republican Congressman (NJ) who won reelection in 2012
|Novak Djokovic
|Current number 1 player in the world, Novak gives glory to God with the sign of the Cross after big tennis victories.
|Tim Tebow
|pro-life, outspoken Christian; an analyst for the lamestream media said about him, "You need to disappear, okay, Tim Tebow?"[2] Pressed for a response, Tebow simply smiled and said, "I can't help him with that. That would be pretty hard."[3]
|Josh Hamilton
|Used to be a drug addict, then became a born-again Christian and plays major league baseball now. He has appeared on Glenn Beck's show to talk about his faith and addiction.
|Billy Sunday
|Left a $5,000 a year salary (1891 dollars) as a star baseball player for a $75 a month salary to become a Christian preacher;[4] his radio evangelism was such a sensation that the FCC formed in response
|Dennis Hastert
|wrestling coach
|longest serving Republican Speaker of the House in history (1999-2007), he had previously coached Yorkville High School to the Illinois state championship in 1976
|Matt Hasselbeck
|Pro Bowl quarterback is a Christian who lends his name to "Tweet for Youcef" campaign organized by the ACLJ, in support of the Iranian Christian pastor who has been sentenced to death.
|Bill Laimbeer
|led the Detroit Pistons to two NBA titles by defeating Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson; for a center, Laimbeer had an amazing outside shot and free-throw percentage, showing the versatility of a conservative; illustrating their double standard, liberals whined about Laimbeer's rough style of play, without complaining about Dennis Rodman
|Tim Thomas
|A conservative, Thomas declined to attend a ceremony staged by the Obama White House after Thomas's team won the Stanley Cup.[5] Thomas is a four-time NHL All-Star as a goalie - a great conservative position to play![6]
|Curt Schilling
|led the hopeless Boston Red Sox to a stunning World Series championship in 2004 after defeating the liberal New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series; for an encore he helped Scott Brown win "Kennedy's seat," an even greater upset. Also was co-MVP of the 2001 World Series, in which he helped the Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Yankees in one of the biggest World Series upsets in history.
|Jim Bunning
|former Republican Senator (KY); he pitched a perfect game with the fewest pitches ever in the National League (only 90) -- like a true conservative! Bunning is also one of only five players to pitch a no-hitter in both the National and American Leagues.
|George Allen
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|The father of conservative Senator George Allen, the coach ran a trick play once for President Richard Nixon.[7]
|Mike Ditka
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|outspoken pro-lifer when he was considering running for public office
|Philip Rivers
|endorsed Rick Santorum with a strong statement on religious values
|Janet Lynn
|figure skating[8]
|"Before every performance she would close her eyes and give thanks and praise to God. She believed that God had given her the gift of skating and in each performance she worked to glorify God."[8] Lynn, once the highest-paid female athlete, also has written in support of conservative values.
|Ted Williams
|campaigned for Republicans, served as a fighter pilot, and also criticized the media, which was unfair to him, even denying him the MVP when he hit over .400 in 1941. It could be argued that Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak was more impressive that year, but the media bias was clearly a factor in the vote. One sportswriter inexplicably left Williams off his ballot entirely.
|Kurt Warner
|pro-lifer who led two different teams to the Super Bowl, one of whom was the underachieving Cardinals.
|Zach Johnson
|won the Masters on Easter Sunday against the heavily favored Tiger Woods,[9] when Woods was at the peak of his career, and then gave credit to Jesus Christ
|Trevor Bayne
|auto racing
|Gave credit to God for being the youngest Daytona 500 winner
|Pete Sampras
|Held the record for the longest time as #1 in the world -- more than 5 years -- until tied by Roger Federer due to his winning Wimbledon in 2012.
|Mary Lou Retton
|Olympic gold medalist, delivered the Pledge of Allegiance at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
|Karl Malone
|NBA Most Valuable Player and All-Star selection. He overcame troubled youth years and became a role model. Donated to the George W. Bush campaign and visited our troops in Afghanistan.
|Steve Largent
|former Republican Congressman (OK)
|Jack Kemp
|author of Kemp-Roth tax cuts as a Republican congressman from upstate New York; was also the vice presidential Republican candidate in 1996
|Drew Brees
|Led the New Orleans Saints to victory in the 2009 Super Bowl--professed his belief in Jesus Christ. [11]
|Chris Dudley
|Republican nominee for Oregon governor
|Jim Ryun
|former Republican Congressman (KS)
|J.C. Watts
|former Republican Congressman (OK)
|John Elway
|supporter of Republican candidates
|Lynn Swann
|Republican candidate for governor (PA)
|Jeff Suppan
|did a pro-life ad while winning the World Series in 2006
|Rick Monday
|In 1976 he saved an American Flag from burning at the hands of two protestors
|Dan Hampton
|helped lead the Chicago Bears to their 1985 Super Bowl title, but declined an invitation to a ceremony held decades later by the Obama White House.
|Paul Azinger
|PGA champion who criticized Obama
|Jack Lynch
|One of the greatest ever dual players. As Taoiseach, reduced taxes and thereby increased employment in Ireland.
|Lewis Hamilton
|auto racing
|outspoken Christian, describing his 2008 world championship win as "a blessing"
|Doug Flutie
|endorsed Scott Brown for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts
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|His Christian beliefs caused him to abstain from playing or training on Sundays. Recently endorsed the conservative New Zealand National Party
|David Icke
|Currently best known for his outspoken opposition to attempts by liberals to control government and people's lives.
|Ewan Murray
|Observes the Sabbath and does not play for his club (Newcastle) or country (Scotland) on Sundays.
|Eric Liddell
|Honoured in both Scotland and China as one of their great-ever athletes, Liddell refused to run in the 1924 Olympic 100m on a Sunday. Instead, he competed in the 400m and, though it was not his best event, he won the gold medal! Returned to China as a missionary and was devoted to helping the sick and poor.
|Gavin Peacock
|Attacking midfielder for Newcastle, Chelsea and QPR then a respected footballer commentator. From 2006, combined commentating with attending a seminary. Now training full-time for the ministry.
|Jason Robinson
|Becoming a born-again Christian enabled him to reform his troubled personal life
|Ryan Hall
|Evangelical Christian, said God was his trainer
|Annie Oakley
|Came to fame in her teens as an exhibition shooter, later to international fame in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
|Gerald Ford
|Played center and linebacker for the University of Michigan and led them to two undefeated championship seasons. He was later offered professional contracts by two NFL franchises, but declined in order to attend law school. Later, Ford became minority leader of the House of Representatives and was appointed Vice President following the resignation of Spiro Agnew, and then became president when Richard Nixon resigned. Ford praised and introduced conservative Robert Bork at the beginning of his contentious nomination hearings in 1987.
|Gabby Douglas
|Gave glory to God upon making the cut to represent the United States in the 2012 Olympics, and won the gold in the All-Around competition, as well as with the United States team event.
|Tara Lipinski
|Figure skating
|Youngest (15) gold medalist in figure skating history, Tara gave credit to St. Therese of Lisieux for helping her win.[12]
|Babe Ruth
|defended Catholicism, saying that it gave him a standard for him to strive for personally
|Jackie Robinson
|pioneer in human rights and racial equality, first African-American Major League Baseball player, Republican activist with the courage to stand up against liberal attacks on his character
|A.C. Green
|record-holder for the longest number of consecutive games in the rough, injury-prone NBA, Green has long been an outspoken advocate of abstinence
|Lolo Jones
|Olympic hurdler
|outspoken supporter of abstinence
|Al Oerter
|track and field
|a self-confessed "old fashioned Olympian,"[13] this four-time Olympics discus champion spoke out against the use of steroids and their harmful effects during a time when other athletes were relying on them
|Bubba Smith
|one of the greatest defensive lineman, Bubba Smith gave up a lucrative contract to do beer commercials because he was concerned about the effect that alcohol has on people
|David Tyree
|hero of the upset victory by the New York Giants in the 2008 Super Bowl with a phenomenal catch, Tyree spoke out against same-sex marriage, and later tweeted: "People of faith ... direct some prayers my way. Got darts comin from every direction. Blessed are those persecuted for His name's sake."[14]
|Roger Staubach
|an active Catholic, he told the press he said a "Hail Mary" during his last-ditch 50-yard pass toward the end zone in a 1975 playoff game, which was caught for a come-from-behind victory for his Cowboys; the name for such a football pass has stuck ever since.[15]


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Nutrition expert Peggy Kotsopoulos shares tips and foods to help fight holiday diet blunders on THE TALK, Thursday, November 29, 2012 on the CBS Television Network. Sheryl Underwood, from left, Carnie Wilson, Peggy Kotsopoulos, Julie Chen, Aisha Tyler and Sara Gilbert, shown. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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of why sometimes what ACO's do seems to disjointed and without reason...but there usually is a reason..read on:
We have a house in our County that has 3 pit bulls, one of which gets out and menaces anything and anybody that catches his eye. Now of course, he's intact. His owner is an idiot that can't seem to outsmart the dog as far as building a fence to keep this particular dog in. We even recommended a topped, concrete floor kennel if all else failed. At one point he muzzled the dog everytime it went outside and of course it still got out and chased and growled and generally acted an ass even with the muzzle on and frightened anyone that came into contact.
We warned this guy that if it happened again, we were going to request dangerous dog designation...of course it happened again. This time the dog chased some pre-schoolers off the school bus all the way home - the school bus driver ended up leaving her bus to try to get the dog to chase her so the kids could get home.
Now we've never actually talked to this guy in person...seemingly he's never home. The woman that is at the residence daily speaks no English (and frankly this time I actually believe her) and our other contact is with a 8-10 year old girl that lives there...oops no talkie legaleeze with child.
So we finally get this guy on the phone, and he tells us it's not his dog (yeah right), he's not going to take responsibility for the dog (no chit dick tracy-you haven't up to now) and the dog isn't there and he won't tell us where the dog is (so either the dog is there or is probably coming back when he thinks we aren't looking).
So we proceed. We cite for aggressive dog at large, we cite for failure to procure a dog license, and we ask our Hearings Officer for dangerous dog designation with keeping restrictions. I know that sounds silly doesn't it since the dog isn't there and we don't have possession of the dog so we can only identify from pictures....here's the reason:
1) I get a fairly large fine which hopefully will finally get this guys' attention and at the very least keep his other two dogs contained (they aren't very social either).
2) It's step one that if a dog appearing to be that dog - recommits in that neighborhood - and I can gather sufficient presumptive evidence I can use it to step up to the next level of restrictions and
3) I got this dude's attention today and
4) His neighbors finally feel like maybe they don't have to protect their children just walking from the front door to the bus for the neighbors dog.
So I know sometimes the things we do don't always appear to make a lot of sense...but there is usually reasoning behind the actions and it's usually aimed at getting someone's attention or setting the stage for the next level of enforcement.


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Web app performance management company Coradiant has rolled out its TrueSight Enterprise Edition product to address the need for an end-to-end and enterprise-wide view of web application performance from the end-user perspective. Putting its freshly released software out to market this week, Coradiant stipulates that complex enterprise web app deployments need instantaneous visibility into how they are interacting with customers that visit a website.
The company says that Coradiant TrueSight Enterprise Edition, which runs on virtual machines for scalability, addresses three crucial vectors associated with scalability and agility within the enterprise:
- The addition of data centers and other means of application delivery,
- The increasing amount of traffic to organizations' websites,
- The addition of more applications to drive business.
"Despite the complexities associated with applications, companies rely on them to drive their business. However, end-users — the people who rely most heavily on these applications — in most cases couldn't care less about the complexity inside an organization's IT infrastructure or applications," said Milind Govekar, research VP at Gartner. "They care about how that service is performing and if they can quickly and easily navigate through the site to complete a transaction. We've all experienced it; any performance issue can lead to a frustrated end-user and a simple click to another competitor."
Application performance continues to become even more critical for IT operations to manage as IT is becoming a critical infrastructure in ensuring the alignment with business objectives and service level agreements. "Companies rely on web applications to deliver business value, but there is a growing complexity around applications, both how they perform and how they're delivered," said Ali Hedayati, president and COO of Coradiant. "Our experience and understanding of the market and our customers resulted in an innovative approach that provides simplified management of the health and performance of applications regardless of these complexities. We have created a completely scalable software product leveraging the many years of market knowledge and development of our TrueSight solution."


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Suppose you're having problems with your iPhone – say, you get that occasional message that no SIM card is installed. A friend, trying to help you out, swaps the SIM from her iPhone into yours to see if it works – a common diagnostic tactic. She removes her card, puts yours back in, and goes on her way.
End of story, right? Um, maybe not.
A bug in iOS may allow you to start receiving your friend's iMessage texts, images and videos – all of them. And there may be nothing you can do to stop them from coming in.
The problem may also allow someone who steals your phone to see your text messages – and even harass you by communicating directly with you – even after you're remotely wiped your purloined iPhone.
In a jaw-dropping item on Gizmodo, this happened on an iPhone brought into an Apple store for repair. Someone at the store apparently swapped in his SIM card as part of the diagnosing process, and when customer got the phone back, it began receiving iMessages to and from the store worker. His name is Wiz, by the way, and the phone is actually the property of a school-age child … who's getting messages he definitely shouldn't be seeing.
From the Gizmodo piece:
Take our word for it — we've gotten to know Wiz pretty well.
You probably underestimate how much of yourself you casually pour into texts each day. We know enough about this guy to stalk him, blackmail him, and harass him, using nothing more than what we've picked up. Based on only a handful of chitchat breadcrumbs and some Google work, we pinned down Wiz's home address, his Facebook profile, email address, personal information about friends, where he exercises, and — drumroll — the Apple store where he works. Yep! This Apple bug screwed an Apple employee — at the same store where our pal took her phone.
Based on screen shots from the phone, Wiz "booty-texts", swaps joke photos of transsexuals and shares pics of himself in a hot tub with his girlfriends.
In one text, he even offers to kiss a co-worker's legs. She declines with a "Lol no". In another, he professes his love and says "You open me up in all ways", adorned with a half-dozen sappy emoticons.
This particular bug is not a new discovery. Ars Technica wrote about it back in December, but in the context of stolen iPhones that still send and receive texts through the original account, even though the phone has been wiped clean. The bug has been detailed on support forums at MacRumors and on Apple's own discussion boards. In the Ars post, a security expert theorizes why this might be happening:
"I can only speculate, but I can see this being plausible," Zdziarski told Ars. "iMessage registers with the subscriber's phone number from the SIM, so let's say you restore the phone, it will still read the phone number from the SIM. I suppose if you change the SIM out after the phone has been configured, the old number might be cached somewhere either on the phone or on Apple's servers with the UDID of the phone."
In other words, iMessage may be pulling the old phone number from a cache somewhere and continuing to use it on the device if the SIM was removed after it was configured as a new phone. We were unable to test this theory (and keep in mind that it's just a theory), but it certainly sounds like one of the more logical explanations for this phenomenon.
Based on this Apple discussion post, the company knew about it back in November and was "investigating". There's no fix released yet, but that post strongly urges those who are about to sell their iPhone to remove the SIM before you erase or restore the factory settings. The poster paints a detailed picture of what's happening:
I can reproduce this using my iPhone 3GS, and I can confirm that it indeed is an issue. If you restore iOS or erase all contents and settings, and your SIM card is in the device when it is activated (as you would need to do to demonstrate that the device is still working) it will by default enable iMessage under your phone number, which will continue to work long after your SIM is removed and after the phone is in someone else's posession. This happens even without entering your Apple ID (during setup or otherwise), without making any calls with your SIM in the phone, without sending any text messages with your SIM in the phone, and it happens by default!
Clearly, this is a bug that needs to be fixed, posthaste. In the meantime, keep your iPhone's SIM to yourself.
Update: Apple has responded to the original Gizmodo story, though not through Gizmodo. Instead, a PR representative talked to Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, telling him that it was caused by an Apple Store tech's mistake:
"This was an extremely rare situation that occurred when a retail employee did not follow the correct service procedure and used their personal SIM to help a customer who did not have a working SIM," Apple representative Natalie Harrison told The Loop. "This resulted in a temporary situation that has since been resolved by the employee."
Dalrymple says the problem could have been prevented by toggling iMessage on and off when the employee put the SIM card into the phone. Gizmodo says it tested that advice, and it worked.
That still doesn't address the issue of stolen iPhones that continue to receive iMessage content even after a remote wipe. Apple reached out to TechCrunch and provided these suggestions:
Remote Wipe and then call your carrier/de-activate your SIM (de-register must be within 24 hours after Remote Wipe)
Activate a replacement phone with a replacement SIM using your same phone number
Change your Apple ID password (only works if you use an Apple ID with iMessage)
Apple apparently isn't characterizing this as a bug, but if not then it's a case of insecure software design. Apple needs to tweak iMessage so that it can be turned off remotely, or allow the remote wipe feature to remove an iMessage account, just as it does with other types of data. Regardless of whether you want to call it a bug, it's definitely a problem.


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Diouf at the double for Rovers
El-Hadji Diouf scored his first goals for Doncaster as they secured a rare away win by overcoming Ipswich 3-2.
Billy Sharp also netted in the first half as Rovers extracted revenge for the Tractor Boys' 6-0 thrashing at the Keepmoat Stadium last season.
Diouf broke the deadlock in the 18th minute by heading in James Coppinger's cross, and the left-winger was the architect again moments later, feeding Sharp for his second goal of the week.
Diouf extended the lead, running unchallenged before scoring from distance to put Dean Saunders' side three up going into the interval.
Ipswich boss Paul Jewell introduced Josh Carson at half-time and he responded by reducing the arrears before Michael Chopra ensured a nervy last minute for the visitors by scoring in injury time.
The victory was not enough to move Doncaster off the npower Championship's basement while Ipswich remain marooned in midtable after conceding seven goals in their last two outings.
The visitors started strongly and should have gone ahead after nine minutes.
Brian Stock dinked in a clever ball and Ipswich's defence pushed out leaving George Friend in space. But he failed to control the ball and it rolled out for a goal kick.
Ipswich did not heed the warning and their defence again afforded a Doncaster player plenty of space, and this time Diouf made them pay.
Rovers worked the ball to the left and Coppinger turned before whipping in a cross which was nodded in by the Senegalese striker.
It was deja vu for the hosts as Coppinger sent in another left-wing cross for the second goal six minutes later.
This time it was Diouf's strike partner Sharp who headed home to double the visitors' advantage.
Sharp, who scored against Middlesbrough on Tuesday just three days after the death of his two-day-old son, was given a resounding round of applause from the Portman Road crowd.
Jewell responded by hauling off Colin Healy, replacing him with Lee Martin as he tried to stop the dangerous duo of Coppinger and Friend.
The hosts did have the ball in the net when Chopra converted Reece Wabara's cross, but the former Cardiff striker was adjudged to have been offside.
And the visitors made it three goals from three shots when Diouf struck again six minutes before the break.
He linked up with Sharp before carrying the ball for nearly 30 yards and then planting it into the bottom corner of the net from 25 yards out.
Carson came on for Jimmy Bullard at half-time and the substitution paid dividends when he brought Ipswich back into the game eight minutes into the second half.
The 18-year-old reacted quickest to poke home after Doncaster's goalkeeper Neil Sullivan spilled Tamas Priskin's shot.
Friend then went close twice while, at the other end, Carson was inches away from adding his and Ipswich's second.
Chopra had the ball in the net again when he converted a cross from another substitute Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and although this one counted, it was too little too late for Jewell's side.
Ipswich 2-3 Doncaster: Match Report - view commentary, squad, and statictics of the game as it happened.
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Bed wetting
Hi, im an 18 year old female and have not wet the bed since i was maybe 4 years old but a few days ago i did again I dont understand why i would start again. my life is very stressful juggling school, work, a relationship, and sports espically with university acceptances lately. and i do have a family history of epilepsy. could that be whats causing it?
Bed wetting in sleep, also known as sleep enuresis, is quite common in children but begins to decrease in frequency once above the age of 5. Only about 1-2% of 18 year olds will have this problem and it was previously thought to become less frequent in adulthood, though recent studies suggest 0.5-2% of adults report enuresis. It then becomes more common in the elderly population, when other factors, such as urinary incontinence may develop.
The causes of adult sleep enuresis are varied and generally require a thorough evaluation. Problems of the urinary tract system, such as prostate or bladder disorders, are more likely to cause bedwetting than an intrinsic sleep problem. Problems or disorders of the urinary tract system resulting in enuresis include urinary tract infections, an overactive bladder muscle or loss of control of the bladder sphincter. However, there are many conditions that have been associated with sleep enuresis and these may include obstructive sleep apnea (repetitive airway closing in sleep), congestive heart failure, diabetes, nighttime seizures (uncommon), depression, severe psychological stress, and dementia. Nighttime seizures are usually accompanied by additional symptoms, such as tongue biting, confusion, and sore muscles, and experiencing bed wetting as the only symptom would be unusual.
Of course, the excessive intake of fluids or substances that promote urination (i.e. diuretic medications, caffeine, and alcohol) can lead nighttime bedwetting. Stress and over the counter sleep aids can also worsen enuresis if you are prone to this happening. This happens via several mechanisms that include changes in sleep architecture (the type and depth of sleep we are getting) and arousal threshold (likelihood of awakening from sleep) to impaired reflexes.
Given your age and the fact that this may have been an isolated episode, it is reasonable to wait and monitor for a short period. However, you should make some changes. These include proper sleep hygiene to optimize your sleep. You should maintain a regular sleep and wake up time and avoid a lack of adequate sleep. Limit your fluid intake in the 2-3 hours leading up to bedtime. Certainly you should make sure to avoid alcohol or over the counter sleep aids. You also need to make sure to empty your bladder before bed. In some cases you may set the alarm to wake up to urinate if you find yourself needing to go the bathroom frequently at night.
Try this strategy for a couple of weeks. If the problem persists after the stressful season and despite making these changes, you should get a medical evaluation.
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Erik Troan is CTO at rPath, a company that delivers enterprise applications across cloud-based environments. Erik recently spoke with Dr. Dobb's about the rapidly changing world of distributed computing.
Strong version control has become a key part of the software development process because it enables developers to collaborate in the construction of large-scale, complicated projects. Strong version control manages complex software artifacts, transforming a maze of individual files -- which often change independently -- into a single version number that represents the state of the entire source tree. At any time, you can query a version number and know exactly what revisions of which source files it included. You can also control changes between versions and go back in time because you have a complete representation of the version history. It's a controlled and automated approach to an inherently complex process.
But the techniques we've developed for software development have rarely been applied to the world of IT operations. Today, managing deployed systems is highly manual and often inconsistent and chaotic, which creates costs, risks and delays for businesses. A core reason for this is that there is typically no authoritative way to manage the versions of deployed systems. At any point in time, a deployed system comprises several hundred packages, which are all versioned independently. This means that managing a system actually means managing the hundreds of individual versions that comprise the system -- with no single version to define the system itself.
This makes it difficult or impossible to answer -- or even ask -- questions like:
- What version of our validated software stack is running on this system?
- How has this system changed from our original specification?
- How old is this system compared to newer installs?
- What would happen if we upgraded this system to a later build?
Asking these questions -- and getting answers which can be understood and acted upon -- requires an explicit and authoritative understanding of a detailed version history over time. And this information simply doesn't exist for most organizations today. The reality is that IT operations are arguably more complex and more business critical than software development. But IT operations groups completely lack a comprehensive version control infrastructure for their deployed systems.
Version control systems provide the right model for capturing and utilizing the underlying version relationships between the hundreds of packages that comprise a single running system, as well as for managing system software deployments across thousands of machines.
Without strong version control for deployed systems, IT operations groups are exposed to excessive cost and risk -- they're effectively flying blind. This is particularly true as applications become increasingly diverse, interdependent and distributed in nature. In short, in today's complex and cost-conscious IT environments, strong version control is essential for well-functioning, efficient, and compliant application delivery and systems management.


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A Flame War over Bundling in 1793
In the spring of 1793 Nathaniel Phillips's Herald of the United States introduced the readers of Warren, Rhode Island, to an anti-bundling essay by "The Reformed Bundler" and an angry riposte signed "Modestia."
Phillips's next issue, dated 8 June 1793, offered a latter signed "Reformed Bundler's Vindicator" responding to the essay from "Modestia":
The writer appears to be either a hireling influenced by the root of evil by some rake or libertine, or one of those female-men (for I can scarcely believe it to be a woman) mentioned by him, who, under the specious pretence of advocating the cause of decency and modesty, would overthrow modesty itself, than which, there are no characters more pernicious either in the moral or religious world.And so on.
Which prompted a reply from "Modestia" on 15 June:
The vindicator having assumed a task far beyond his abilities to complete, flies from the post he attemps to maintain, and like a certain reptile, hisses a few dirty sarcasms on his opponent, leaving the stench of a foul effluvia, his only cover for the shameful retreat, and then, transforming himself into a pretended advocate for the female sex, brandishes his only weapon and secures himself in such an asylum as he supposes suited to the safety of his person and faculties, where I shall leave him to the derision of every virtuous female character.That's the second time "Modestia" deployed an extended animal metaphor.
A week later "Reformed Bundler's Vindicator" was back:
He plays the same game with the Defender, as he did with the Reformer, instead of truth and argument; and making more than ordinary pretensions to decency and flattering the pride of human nature, has recourse to filth and calumny; which evinces the weakness of his cause, and verifies the ancient adage, that out of the abundance of his heart, the mouth speaketh! . . .The "Vindicator" thus hinted that he could reveal "Modestia's" identity. I sense he thought the proponent of bundling was a young man, not from the genteel class, possibly working with a young woman.
I am now confirmed that the terms Rake and Libertine were rightly applied, as the person suspected has publicly patronized the piece (tho' indebted to his Amanuensis for the performance): I would therefore give him this friendly hint, Me non esto facientis sandalii [I would not be a shoemaker?], and not attempt again to soar out of his sphere, in which he will make a much better figure than that of a public writer.
"Modestia" replied on 29 June:
The Vindicator in the HERALD of the 22d. inst. having again thrown up his works of annoyance, composed of inflamable air interspersed with some borrowed sentences from the sacred volumes, supposed his position altogether tenable, opens his batteries on Modestia, and having discharged his artillery of invectives against his opponent, calling him Rake, Libertine, &c. he struggles under the venom which corrodes in his stomach, and vomits a scrap of Latin to complete the insult! The dignity of immaculate virtue stands unmoved, while calm indifference smiles at the pastime, and interested characters view the performance with the contempt it deserves."Modestia" answered the snobbish argument by stating that "every citizen has a priviledge (if he pleases) to step out of his common sphere and write in his own or his friend's defence."
But that wasn't the only response in the Herald of the United States that day. "A Countryman" addressed Phillips with this note:
Who is this Modestia and Vindicator, and what not, that fills up your paper with so much nonsense? Pray Mr. Printer don't let the public be trifled with any longer, as I am sure our affairs at home and abroad are somewhat critical, and we want to hear the news from foreign parts, and to know how we go on at home, that we may be able to pay our debts, and otherways defend ourselves against our enemies and keep off a land tax.—From the publick prints we expect to be informed of things as they happen, that we may be able to guard against danger, and not be tormented with any further disputes about Bundling.Two weeks went by before the next letter appeared, signed "Vindicator":
Waving any further reply to my opponent, who is evidently ashamed of the cause he has undertaken to defend and therefore retreats—would just observe to the COUNTRYMAN who appeared in the Herald of the 29th ult. that though I think with him 'tis time to quit the subject; yet must beg leave to observe, that the cause of MORALITY (that I undertook to defend) ought not to be put upon a par with that of LIBERTINISM, and therefore merits neither the appellation of TRIFLING or NONSENSE.That provoked at least one reply, but in the 20 July issue printer Phillips called a halt to the debate:
Modestia, Vindicator and Countryman having displayed their abilities sufficiently—it is best to leave their performances to a discerning Public to judge who has merited the Palm:—The Editor therefore requests the Countryman to let this suffice for the non-appearance of his piece this week;—and at the same time to observe, that it will always give him real pleasure to receive original pieces, or extracts on Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, &c. &c.It's frightening how much the exchanges in eighteenth-century newspapers read like online "debates."


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Morrell Bolyard wasn't suspicious when smooth-talking land men started knocking on doors in Preston County a few years back, offering as little as $5 an acre for oil and gas rights.
Bolyard, 72, said he had seen the same thing happen in the 1960s, when the going rate was $1. But the Tunnelton resident figured he could do better, so held out for $100, eventually signing a lease for 413 acres.
Like many of his neighbors, Bolyard had no clue that even in 2007, land companies were paying as much as $5,000 per acre to cash in on the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom that they, geologists and drillers all knew was looming.
"There was a bunch of us that was dumb enough and bit," Bolyard said.
Bolyard and more than 120 neighbors are now suing the companies they say deceived them in a case that was moved this week from state court to U.S. District Court in Clarksburg.
The lawsuit accuses Magnum Land Services and Belmont Resources LLC of Traverse City, Mich. as well as about 20 employees of falsely notarizing lease agreements and recording them in the Preston County Clerk's Office. They then transferred those illegal leases to Utah-based Sinclair Oil and Gas Co. in 2008, and to Canada's Enerplus Resources Corp. in 2010, the complaint says.
The allegations include slander of title, fraud, civil conspiracy and official misconduct by a notary public. The residents want the leases invalidated and are demanding unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Magnum and Belmont have not yet filed responses with the court, and an attorney representing them didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The residents say they had no attorneys to advise them when they made the deals and no way to know the prices they were offered were "so far below the existing market rate as to shock the conscience."
While some unsuspecting landowners signed leases for as little as $5 per acre, the lawsuit says, other West Virginians were getting $2,500 to $5,000 per acre, plus royalty rates of 15 percent to 18 percent.
The land men, they say in the lawsuit, exploited "the highly disproportionate levels of bargaining power and the plaintiffs' lack of knowledge pertaining to oil and gas rights" and fraudulently persuaded them "they had no other option but to sign the leases based on the terms as presented."
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Andrew Preston
Photo: © Peter Knewstubb
About the Author
Andrew Preston teaches American history and international relations history at Cambridge University, where he is a fellow of Clare College. Before Cambridge, he taught history and international studies at Yale University. Born in Ontario, he has also taught at universities in Canada and Switzerland, and has been a fellow at the Cold War Studies Program at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam.


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Rae Lewis-Thornton Shares Tips for Beginning to Live With HIV (Video)
Renowned speaker, blogger and advocate Rae Lewis-Thornton has been living with HIV/AIDS for more than 25 years -- and she's learned a lot about survival along the way. In this video, Rae shares wisdom from a long life with HIV/AIDS, especially for those who've just found out they're HIV positive.
What is your message for people who have just tested positive?
Fundamentally, a newly diagnosed person has to decide between one thing or the other -- and that is, how long I want to live, or how soon I want to die. And if you choose life over death, then you must do absolutely everything that's required to live.
I fundamentally believe that there must be a spiritual piece to what you do. Now, my spiritual piece is Jesus; the buck stops there. But your buck could stop at Buddha. I don't care what your buck is. But you need that higher being and source in your life. I believe that.
I believe you need therapy, whether it's group or whether it's individual. Because depression is very common among people with HIV. And when you're clinically depressed, you're not thinking clearly. And that will interfere with your ability to comply with your HIV medication and your regimen.
You need to get a doctor that listens to you, and that you understand what they're saying -- who is prepared to answer any questions, who is willing to allow you to comanage your health care. A woman told me one day, "My daughter just was diagnosed, and the doctor said that she was dying. You have any recommendations?"
I said, "Yeah. Get a new doctor." And so I truly recommend doctors who specialize in HIV. They are typically at the AIDS clinic. Sorry, but that's true. Whether you want to go to the AIDS clinic or not, that's where the best doctors are.
And it has to all be integrated in your life. And you have to comply. If you take one pill a day, you better take that one pill a day. Because your virus can set up a resistance to that pill if you don't.
It really is about doing what you need to do. Disclose your HIV status. Now, I understand some of you all ain't ready to disclose to your mama. But find somebody that you can disclose to; you shouldn't live with this disease by yourself, in secret. You shouldn't live with this disease in shame.
And if you do those things, I think those are tools for living long with this disease.
I heard Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, who is one of the most brilliant AIDS doctors in the world. He said, "A person of 19 or 20 gets diagnosed with HIV; they can live another 50 years." It's true, but it's contingent upon you doing the things you need to do to live. You must take your medication. You must have a doctor you can communicate with. You must deal with your mental health. You must deal with your spiritual health. And you must find you a support system that will hold you up when you cannot hold yourself up. Because you cannot do it alone.
Even Moses had a support system. When they were fighting, God told Moses to hold the rod. And when Moses was holding up the rod, they were winning; and when his arm fell, they were losing. But there was Aaron on one side, and someone else on the other side, holding up Moses so he could hold up the rod.
Support systems are important -- whether you find them at your clinic; whether you find them in the neighborhood support system. Wherever you find them, you need them. You cannot go it alone.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
Check out Rae Lewis-Thornton: A Diva Talks About Living With HIV/AIDS (Video Series).
Kellee Terrell is the former news editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.


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I'm having the same problem. Apparently Adobe does not like Firefox. If you find a fix, please post.
In the last couple of weeks I have been regularly getting a pop up that says:
"Adobe Flash Player Update Service 11.3 r300 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
Then there is the usual option of whether I wish to send this error report to Microsoft.
I've repaired Adobe reader a number of times under its help tab but the above pop up keeps appearing.
Can anyone tell me what is going on and what course of action I need to take? Thanks.


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Posted: February 15 2008 at 10:32pm
My first introduction to the people that frequent Lotto forums was back in 2003 when I discovered some were actually giving a few numbers for the next draw in a 6/49 Lotto game. ie from some 14 million possibilities they had narrowed it down to a handful. Needless to say I regarded them as fruitcakes but thankfully they are not taken as seriously by the lesser fruitcakes these days. Some sadly live in a time warp where any crap that piles on their dung heap of ignorance is warmly received and enlightened information which shows it up is ignored. Yes, according to them the Sun still revolves around the Earth.
Generally, Forums on the Web are a mixed bunch and if allowed are usually taken over by a bunch of nincompoops which dissuades any possible serious contributor from participating.
I have considered changing the forum format for LottoPoster.com but decided to leave it as it is ie open to contributions and private mesage communication and without breaking longstanding links. Generally, the idiots know they are not welcome to post rubbish at LottoPoster.com but other intelligent comments or articles are welcome. I guess the point is I am not pandering to the ignorant and I am sticking to my life long held principle of being a searcher after the truth.
From 2011 a post like this one can be viewed at ColinFairbrother.com using ASP.net or at LottoPoster.com using classic ASP and a forum format and both using the same database for the html text.
Most of the predictors confine themselves to the Pick 3 game with a thousand possibilities and if not basing it on the history they roam in other areas of numerology and the occult. They are no different from any other con artist come "sooth sayer" telling fortunes etc. If you are not aware both Gail Howard and Ken Silver are out and out numerologists although you won't find any admission of that in their writings.
A simple test which shows up the ignorance and deceit of these con-artists is to consider a perfectly feasible Pick 6, Pool 7 Lotto game with 7 possibilities. According to the occcultist ramblings of Howard and Silver 1 2 3 4 5 6 is less likely to occur than the other 6 possibilities in a random selection. What utter bumkum and nonsense!
The thought occurred to me for those that use history why stop at 1,000 possibilities as in Pick 3?
At first you may think that Pick 3 for the simplest case would have the least possibilities. If for each position we have 2 possibilities then we have 8 three digit possibilities (2x2x2) as follows with a 1 in 8 chance of getting a straight correct. This is equivalent to tossing 3 coins together giving a double for 75% of the throws and a triple otherwise. As there are only two possibilities (Heads or Tails) there are no unmatched or all digits different in a throw.
0 0 0
0 0 1
0 1 0
1 0 0
1 1 1
1 1 0
1 0 1
0 1 1
However, for Pick 6 we can go even further by having a 6/7 game ie 7 Combinations of 6 integers from a pool of 7 integers with odds of 1 in 7.
01 02 03 04 05 06
01 02 03 04 05 07
01 02 03 04 06 07
01 02 03 05 06 07
01 02 04 05 06 07
01 03 04 05 06 07
02 03 04 05 06 07
Here is a sample 42 draws.
Occurrence for each integer is as follows -
Which 6 integers for the next draw? I can guarantee that you will always have a minimum of 5 right in any line you choose from the 7 possibilities and of course, you will only always have at most 1 wrong. Maybe this is one of those "nice" (to quote The Professor) Covers C(7,6,5,5,1)=1?
Occurrence for each 6 integer combination is as follows -
So, is it hot 01 02 04 05 06 07 or cold 02 03 04 05 06 07 ?
Absence for each 6 integer combination is as follows -
So, is it 02 03 04 05 06 07 the most absent or will 01 02 03 04 05 06 repeat?
Let's keep the house margin at 14.3% meaning 85.7% is returned or 6 to 1 and work with a stake of $49.00.
Couldn't be simpler. For these payouts and the sample draws given, if you had played 01 02 04 05 06 07 only each draw it would have cost $42.00 to win $54.00 and be ahead $12.00; for 01 02 03 04 05 06 you would have broke even.
So, what is the next draw? All you have to do is eliminate 1 integer from 7! Should be a piece of cake for the filterologists.
However, examining the draws and simplifying an analysis by using one character to represent each possibility ie
a = 1 2 3 4 5 6
b = 1 2 3 4 5 7
c = 1 2 3 4 6 7
d = 1 2 3 5 6 7
e = 1 2 4 5 6 7
f = 1 3 4 5 6 7
g = 2 3 4 5 6 7
Now, if we designate the previous 7 draws by the notation such as e g d e a e we find that for the 35 where we have 7 previous draws they are all different and they are all different from the previous 3 draws upwards . In fact there are 7^7 = 823,543 possibilities! What possible advantage could be gained from this?
What about just the previous two draws? Once again as you see in the table below there is nothing consistent and therefore nothing to be gained.
For those that like to look for repeating patterns I don't see one for the integer that is missing in each draw. If you worked on eliminating the integer 1 more than the previously excluded integer then for 5 of the 40 plays this would work but your return is only $30 for a $40 outlay. You need to get 7 to be ahead.
Do we have any takers for proving their Pick 6 system works in the simplest 6/7 case? I doubt it as most rely on obfuscation. They overlook that any system that relies on other than guesswork can be programmed to determine its efficacy!
Colin Fairbrother
ps The simplest case is a standard trouble-shooting or fault-finding technique an area I have been involved in most of my working life. You don't look for the most complicated answer - rather, you start with the most simple. For an electrical machine, "Is it getting power?" The solution may well be as simple as plugging in the cord. In the case of Lotto why consider millions of possibilities if a system can't be made to work for as little as 7?
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autumn&winter, especially that wave would hit around boots or booties district.
There you can find many brands showing brand-new patent leather boots
in the windows, and from those I had a crush on these booties when walking around in Paris.
I greatly appreciate the side-gore details and low heels.
Styled up them with another best-purchase dress from H&M(!!),
I actually love this kind of high and low extreme......and ya know
I also love to answer the questions from fashion-lover girls ''Where is the dress from??''


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Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine
McGraw-Hill, Health Professions Division, 1998 - Medical ethics - 206 pages
A practical handbook giving information relevant to the ethical issues and decisions a health care provider must deal with on a daily basis. Brief case illustrations cover the issues at hand, instead of complicated legal and philosophical discussions. The book is organized to provide easy access to both special ethical problems and more general considerations. Ethical issues are divided into five general categories: indications for medical interventions; quality of life; socioeconomic factors; and medical considerations concerning the infant and minor patient. The book also examines the ethical dimensions of assisted suicide controversy.
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Editorial: Three cheers for Bill Stenger
copyright the Chronicle 10-3-12
Watching Bill Stenger over the past few years has been a bit like watching our grandson develop Boardwalk and Park Place in Monopoly, a game he recently took up.
The difference, of course, is that Mr. Stenger, co-owner and chief executive officer of the Jay Peak resort, is using real money.
Well, sort of real money. Here's the difference:
People who dream up interesting ways to make money — and Mr. Stenger is clearly one of those — have to find the capital to bring their dreams to reality.
Investors are generally the source. But investors assume some of the risk of the venture. That inclines them to take a close, skeptical look at any proposal, at the likelihood that it will make them some money rather than lose them their shirts.
In the EB-5 visa program, Mr. Stenger found a route to investors whose motivations are entirely different. They are foreigners who want a Green Card that will give them the right to live and work in this country and in time, if they choose, to apply for citizenship.
The federal visa program and this area's poor economy put Mr. Stenger in a position to offer these privileges at half a million dollars per investor. He has taken their money and put it into hotels, a golf course, an ice arena and, most surprising of all, a very substantial and, we are informed, exciting water park.
Now Mr. Stenger proposes to take a great deal more such money, more than half a billion dollars, indeed, and spread the wealth to Burke Mountain and the city of Newport.
As bystanders to this performance we can only watch with a mixture of awe and skepticism. Awe because Mr. Stenger has so far proceeded with such inventive enthusiasm to do exactly the things he promised to do with the money. And he has done them in fine style.
Our skepticism reflects the very lack of skepticism with which Mr. Stenger's investors part with their money. If the Green Card is the true return on their investment, how much do they care if Mr. Stenger's remarkably optimistic plans meet all the usual tests with which major capital projects are vetted?
Take the demand for new retail space in Newport, for example. Is business poor because the storefront buildings Mr. Stenger proposes to replace are in poor shape? Or does their condition reflect the problem that business is poor?
Mr. Stenger has clearly taken the position made famous by the movie Field of Dreams: If you build it, they will come.
Such concerns are moderated by the fact that Mr. Stenger is not playing with the money of local citizens, nor our local financial institutions. Failure would be a sad and discouraging thing to watch, but not a vortex into which we would all swirl down into economic ruin.
And there is every reason to cheer Mr. Stenger on to continued success. First among them is his effort to provide jobs that might keep our children and grandchildren in this community, and lure back those who have already left us.
Mr. Stenger's deep involvement in local vocational education, and his service as chairman of the statewide Next Generation Commission, with the mission of developing a plan "to encourage Vermonters to live and work in Vermont," put his dedication to this issue beyond doubt.
The catch in the EB-5 visa program is that each $500,000 investment will have to, directly or through its economic impact on the area, create ten permanent jobs. In very rough terms, the investments just announced by Mr. Stenger would have to generate 10,000 jobs. Using August's figures, that would amount to a 37 percent increase in the jobs available in the Newport and St. Johnsbury labor market areas.
As to the concern that Mr. Stenger's focus on tourism will turn us all into a servant class for rich visitors, we would appeal to history.
Research as casual as a study of old pictures of Newport and Barton make it clear that, in the heyday of passenger rail service and before the Great Depression, this area and its hotels catered to a great many visitors.
If natural beauty and our odd style of hospitality are among our chief assets, economic logic demands that we put them to work.
Besides, his latest plans include expansion of the local airport and some hi-tech research and manufacturing facilities.
In summary, Bill Stenger has taken, and will continue to take, great risks with other people's money. If the best we can do is to cheer him on, then that is exactly what we should do. — C.B.


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When: 1-8 p.m. Jan. 4, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Jan. 5, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 6
Where: Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd.
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Mardi Gras party
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When: 6 p.m.-midnight Jan. 6
Where: Plantation Inn, 1381 W. Tunnel Blvd., Houma
Information: 868-0500
Chili cook-off
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Admission: $5 in advance and $10 at door. Children 12 and under are admitted free
When: 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Jan. 12
Where: Terrebonne Livestock and Agricultural Building at the Houma Air Base, 221 Moffet Road
Information: Marlene Jewell at 851-6977
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Thibodaux Playhouse's next production in the 2012-13 season, Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," tells the story of Paul and Corie Bratter, newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find — too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six-day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does. Paul just doesn't understand Corie, as she sees it. He's too staid, too boring and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous.
Admission: $15 for adults and $10 for children
When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 and 19, and 24-26, and 2 p.m. Jan. 27
Where: Thibodaux Playhouse inside the Jean Lafitte National Park Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center, 314 St. Mary St.
Information: 446-1896 or visit www.thibodauxplayhouse.com
Children's parade
The Krewe of Aphrodite's annual children's parade is a way for the kiddos to decorate their own floats, however, motorized floats will not be allowed. The parade will feature music provided from a deejay, king cake and drinks, and an introduction to the queen of the Krewe of Aphrodite and the royal court. Children 12 and under can participate and awards will be handed out for first, second and third place in a variety of categories.
Admission: Free
When: 11 a.m. Jan. 19
Where: Parking lot of Rouses Supermarket, 5818 W. Main St., Houma
Information: Lisa at 637-4183 or Hollie Portier at 856-7930
An 8 second ride
The beginning of the Terrebonne Livestock Association's winter series includes bull riding, barrel racing and more. The Terrebonne Livestock and Agricultural Fair Association is a nonprofit organization founded in 1947 to promote and preserve livestock and agriculture in Terrebonne Parish.
Admission: $10 for adults, $7 for children and children 2 and under are admitted free
When: 7-11 p.m. Jan. 26
Where: Houma Air Base Arena, 121 Moffet Road
Information: Kim Triche at 804-7932
Come out to see some eagles
The 8th Annual Eagle Expo will feature seminars from wildlife and nature experts, a live raptor presentation, boat tours to view eagles and nests, and opportunities to meet fellow birders. Heading into its eighth year, the Eagle Expo is a tribute to the return of the American bald eagle to Louisiana, which was removed from the endangered species list in June 2007. Currently, there are 284 active nests in Louisiana with a large concentration in Terrebonne and St. Mary parishes. For a complete event schedule, costs, a registration form and listing of hotel rates, visit www.cajuncoast.com.
Admission: Varies by what activities you want to do, demonstrations and boat tours.
When: Feb. 28-March 2
Where: Morgan City
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Boats, bulls and Mardi Gras. All that and more over the next couple weeks
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Former President George H. W. Bush, in a Houston hospital with a lingering cough, is improving and should be discharged this weekend, his doctor said Thursday.
Bush, 88, has bronchitis, which alternately got better and worse for a week before improving in the last few days, said Dr. Amy Myunderse, the physician in charge of his care at The Methodist Hospital. The condition was never considered life-threatening.
"Anytime someone the president's age has bronchitis, there's concern about possible pneumonia," Myunderse said. "But Mr. Bush's condition never progressed to that level."
Bush has been in and out of Methodist for a few weeks, and was most recently re-admitted the day after Thanksgiving, said his chief of staff, Jean Becker. He was visited Sunday by his son, former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura.
Doctors treated Bush with intravenous antibiotics and steroids, Myunderse said. She described his cough as particularly deep, but said he's had no other symptoms, such as fever or shortness of breath. She said for a time the cough had sapped much of his energy but his strength improved in the last few days.
Myunderse said the original cause of Bush's ailment was a virus. However, a secondary, bacterial infection persisted and caused concern, she said.
She said Bush is working with a physical therapist and is on target to be discharged this weekend.
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