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ShatteredI'm sorry, I'm really a mess right now. I'm trying my best to get it together somehow. I can't see this way, light up in this pain."
^^ that song describes how I feel, and my life.
Because I've gone through so many struggles, and loss, and pain since I was 11, I've been broken, shattered, and you can't fix me. I'm scared that no guy would ever want me because I'm an emotional and mental mess because of the scars and traumas I've been through, and am still going through. That no guy would want to handle or take care of me. Because once you start to date me, you're dating my past and all that comes with it. Ans a lot of people can't handle that. I can't even handle it, and it's my life. So I push people as far away from me as possible including my family and friends, so I don't hurt them. And where does it leave me? Alone and broken. I've been basically dead inside for 7 years and counting. I just don't want the emotional, physical, and mental pain anymore. I've already gone through SO ******* much that people can't even imagine. The girl I used to be, before everything happened at 11, is gone and will never come back. I'm searching for the new me now, and hoping to fit the pieces back together of this shattered life of mine.
Don't worry, the pain is in the soul. Try to strengthen your soul.
people never change, you can never change who you are on the inside no matter how hard you try. you can do things, changes things and how you act on the outside but the only person can really acutally change you ont he inside . IS that Person you one day fall in love with :)

i dont know what youve gone through i cant say i understand how you feel but ive been through many many things aswel.

keep smiling yeah?
It's alright if you are. You've changed, and maybe this might be for the better. You'll find people who respect you later on in life, don't worry. And if you don't, know that at least you'll still have yourself and some people on EP.


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Archive for August, 2011
Partnering for managed access and moreMonday, August 22, 2011 15:04 Be the first to comment
Managed access control has been a hot industry trend for a while, giving integrators recurring monthly revenue while taking some headaches away from end users.
Six things you can do to increase the value of your companyMonday, August 22, 2011 14:56 Be the first to comment
Like the old saying, "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder," the value of a company means different things to different people. If your goal is to build your company to one day sell and reap the benefits of your hard work, here are six things you should consider prior to marketing your company for sale.
Biometric technology opening up new verticals?Monday, August 22, 2011 14:33 Be the first to comment
People and technology drive the security industry. Within the security industry, life safety professionals utilize ever-increasingly technological tools to safeguard end users' lives and property. One aspect of protecting lives and property is access control—allowing the right people in while keeping the wrong people out. Access control—with simple roots exemplified by guards and tumbler locks with matched keys—is, according to some, on the cusp of change with the advance of biometric technology. Is biometrics-based technology—which has traditionally been more associated with industrial and governmental settings—ready to move into other verticals like the multi-unit residential market?
RFID market growing in healthcare verticalMonday, August 22, 2011 14:04 Be the first to comment
By Daniel Gelinas A recent report from Frost & Sullivan shows wider adoption of RFID technology is on the rise, which will lead to an increase in the market value of healthcare-related RFID vertical. According to Frost & Sullivan senior research analyst Neelima Sagar, the market will experience a substantial increase in value, growing at [...]
SSN Newspoll: Polltakers: Security concerns lingerMonday, August 22, 2011 13:59 Be the first to comment
By Daniel Gelinas YARMOUTH, Maine—A non-scientific July-to-August poll of SSN's readers found that a majority of the 74 poll takers believe the country's airports, ports, mass transit, critical infrastructure and public buildings are not sufficiently protected. Security Systems News wanted to find out what the effect of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has been [...]
SSN Newspoll: What part does home automation play in your business?Monday, August 22, 2011 13:55 Be the first to comment
At the recent ESX show in Charlotte, ESA revealed the results of their recent residential security trends study. The results seemed to point to home automation as the wave of the future for the residential security industry. Panelist Bob Haskins (UTC Fire & Security) warned attendees that "Security may become the nut, and services the [...]
Home automation on the rise?Monday, August 22, 2011 13:01 Be the first to comment
A recent study from ABI research analyzes the market for home automation and home security technologies and how these two markets are increasingly intersecting with the advent of home monitoring and managed home automation services.
Specifically Speaking: R.J. HopeMonday, August 22, 2011 12:43 Be the first to comment
R.J. Hope Senior Physical Security Analyst, Business & Technology Burns & McDonnell Kansas City, Mo. I understand the consultant group at Burns & McDonnell includes both physical and cyber security experts. Do you collaborate on most jobs? The physical and cyber security groups do collaborate on most jobs, specifically those of a consulting nature where [...]


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It's been two weeks now since we don't have internet connection in our new house. I don't know what it takes time why my hubby didn't reconnect yet. As what I knew, he will change a new internet provider but until now he was acting slow in getting internet connection. It really doesn't bother me since I already get used of not having internet, at first week it was unusual because I can't watch my tv series online or check my facebook but I can cope and I've realized I can live without it.
Now I'm just using my mobile phone portable hot-spot wifi to connect to my laptop but I've noticed it chew ups more bytes especially when I watch video online and if I'm not careful I will be over my limit. The connection is slow that's why I need a Speed up computer to watch continuously but I think I just need to be patient until we have connection later on.
During my spare one of my hobby is watching online series but now was diverted to watching television or listening music while at home and it's good I was busy enough to run around some stuff for our new house. At the moment by using internet on mobile is a bit useful and helpful especially on google search engine in finding important things that I need to know.
After all life is life and everything goes well even without internet or going online most of the time.


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Ten years on, Google cofounders' homepages frozen in time
Say what you will about Hubert "Third Google Founder" Chang, at least he dropped some links to the old homepages of Sergey Brin and Larry Page back when the pair were teaching Computer Science 349 at Stanford, "Data Mining, Search, and the World Wide Web." What's there?On Larry's page, dug up through the Internet Archive, he declared "I attribute a great deal of my understanding and ability with mechanical devices to Legos and similar construction toys." Brin's page has a laughable GIF animation, but the real humor is that he apparently worked on an early copyright-infringement detection system called COPS with Stanford professor Hector Garcia-Molina. Brin even posted his resume from 1994, and a quick peek into the source code reveals a telling tidbit — hidden in a HTML comment, Brin states as his employment objective: "A large office, good pay, and very little work. Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus." Looks like his dream came true.


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There's nothing like the good news that your current glamor Hollywood wife has been reaching out to your former other glamor Hollywood wife for the sole purpose of calculating a successful escape plot from the clutches of awful Tom and his cult like hard on for Scientology: 'Please Nicole get me out of this nightmare!'
According to US Weekly it has been said (can we really ever believe the un named gossip/source leaks?) that a distressed (nice adjective right?) Katie Holmes reached out to Nicole Kidman desperate to avoid meeting the same fate that met her when Tom divorced her, namely the never of seeing of children, Isabella and Connor Cruise which she shares with Tom Cruise.
The pair have apparently spoken to each other a number of times over the last few weeks (this despite Nicole Kidman's insistence that she had nothing to say on the matter and in that in fact she was avoiding close friends who were keen to get her thoughts on the matter) with sources saying that Nicole has been supportive and that she'd been through it all before too.
Nevertheless it may well be that the ongoing fracas which has been playing out relentlessly in the media may now well be on the way to being equitably and quickly resolved with Tom agreeing to a speedy divorce and the full custody of Suri in Katie's care.
Katie Holmes in sexy Elle photo shoot prior to divorce hints at separation
Katie Holmes divorce: Church of Scientology denies it's watching Katie.
Katie Holmes divorce: Is she being followed by Scientologists?
Katie Holmes to divorce Tom Cruise, seeks sole custody of Suri


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The Caddo Dugout Canoe
by Phil Cross
In 1999 I was commissioned by the
Sam Noble Museum of Natural History (SNMONH),
at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK to carve a replica of an ancient cypress wood canoe that was housed in the Louisiana State Museum at Shreveport, Louisiana. It was an undertaking that took place over some 400 miles from the Texarkana area of Shreveport to the southeast Oklahoma forests to the sandstone hills of western Oklahoma and made for an absorbing adventure in creating an object that was an important part of the past of Caddo people.
As I discussed the project in the planning stage with the Museum, I had some doubts as to whether I could accomplish the work since I had never done such wood shaping at such a scale and in following a specific, detailed design. Caddos using canoes in our ancient homelands compared to Caddos existence in our adopted lands in western Oklahoma—where we exist on lands that seem at times to be on the edge of the desert west at times—are a universe apart. Something that came to my mind for some as I analyzed the project and began to outline how I would complete it was that the ancient canoe would have been much too large to navigate in the small creek near our homesite. Also, for some reason I recalled the large red dirt dust storms where sometimes for a full 24 hours winds would whip up fine but thick clouds of the red sandy soils in the area and create banks of dirt along fence rows, and, would deposit small wave-like rows of sand inside the walls of our un-insulated frame house. Nonetheless, after talking to some canoe carvers in Louisiana, and talking to people who shape wood products of larger sizes, I developed a plan that I felt confident in doing and that would be suitable to the SNMONH. Don Wyckoff of the Museum provided overall direction and oversight for the project and Dan Timmons provided direct guidance and help from the Museum's excellent display and maintenance department.
The Ancient Canoe
The dugout canoe was employed by Caddo Indians as a primary means of travel in the waterways and bayous in the past. This simple craft would have made possible the movement of people and goods to and from key activity areas along the waterways in a reasonably rapid way. Rafts constructed from wood and cane lashed together also provided movement on the rivers.
The details of an ancient Caddo canoe that was found on the bank of the Red River near Shreveport, La. were set out in a report prepared by the Louisiana State Museum at Shreveport:
"In August 1983, a fisherman, John Paul Hobbs, discovered the carved end of a large cypress canoe protruding from a high bank in Red River. The property was near Dixie, Louisiana, on the W.H. North estate. John enlisted the help of the Kelly family - Rose, Kendall and son Kevin, and together they tried to dig the canoe out of the sand. After several weeks, they had to admit defeat and called regional archaeologist Philip Rivet and Dr. Clarence Webb for assistance. The team of professionals realized that the current of the river pulled against the canoe as they excavated. So they made the decision to saw the canoe in half, to keep it from breaking up in the current.
Conservators from the Smithsonian helped to treat the wood with a preservative and to re-assemble it in place at the museum.
Wood samples tested by the Smithsonian for carbon dating place the date of the cypress tree around 1200 A.D. It measures 32 ft in length and could probably seat 10-12 men.
Most canoes are smaller and easier to maneuver. The size of this canoe and the location of discovery suggest it might have been a ceremonial vessel. Dixie, Louisiana is the site of Mounds plantation, a large Caddoan ceremonial complex of the 11-12th centuries.
A drawing of the ancient canoe was made by Dr. Webb to illustrate the distinct properties of the craft.
Bow (Front) Side and Overhead Views:
Stern (Rear) Side and Overhead Views:
Cross-Section at the Mid-Point and End view (looking aft):
The canoe had a somewhat irregular shaped charred area about 6 inches by 12 inches on a ledge some 12 inches behind the leading edge of the bow. This charred spot could possibly have served as an area for some type of ceremonial practice, such as "smoking", or blessing, the boat at times.
Photographs of the bow of the boat courtesy David Jeane.
Making the Scale Model of the Ancient Canoe
Complete measurements were made of the ancient canoe at Shreveport and drawings were made to help for the proper profiles and features of the reproduction and in searching for a tree adequate for the size of the reproduction. Cypress wood, the material of the original canoe, was stipulated to be the material for the craft.
To provide an additional perspective and to provide a comparative look for the original craft, I made an Iso drawing of the canoe:
A cypress tree found near Broken Bow, Oklahoma, was harvested for the project and transported to Verden, Oklahoma, near my home for the carving.
Because of the limited size of the trees in the search area in southeast Oklahoma, the largest cypress tree that could be harvested allowed only a three-fourths scale model of the original canoe to be made.
Hand tools of sledge hammers, wedges, and wood chisels were used to hollow the log. The original plan of hollowing the log with fire was abandoned because of hazards of building the size of fires needed and the location of the carving site. My son-in-law, Halbert "Happy" Pewo, a Comanche Indian from the community of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma, did the bulk of the hard work of the hammer chiseling and wedging wood removal in hollowing the log. Much of the shaping of the log I did with a chain saw, which made the work go quickly. But because of the relatively soft cypress wood, it made for jangled nerves in removing wood in the more sharply defined areas of the canoe where a slip could ruin the effort. We completed the carving in 7 days.
The Canoe on Display at SNMONH
Photograph by Yvonne Tsotigh Summerlin of Phil Cross at the canoe on display in SNOMNH.
I collected and attached some 600 river cane stalks to a plywood backing for the overhead display for the canoe. Gabe Serrano of the museum was of immeasurable help in locating and collecting the river cane.


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I'm using a Mac and I'm preparing accounts for a company. Every payslip which I've made in Microsoft Word has a voucher number. Because a transaction was missed all voucher numbers are wrong so now there are hundreds of wrong payslips. I want to create a script that can find the following GREP (find beginning of paragraph, text:Vch, any character until \r):
Tell application "Microsoft Word"
tell active document
set myRange to create range start 0 end 0
tell myRange
execute find find "^Vch.+\r" replace with ""
end tell
end tell
end tell
There are no special characters to indicate the beginning of a line.
To search at beginning of the paragraph, the script must use
return & "some text"
You can use "^p" as paragraph mark, but it doesn't work when you set the
match wildcards property to true
To match an entire paragraph, the script must use
return & "some text" & return, and the script must use
replace with return to delete one paragraph mark instead of two.
Because the first paragraph does not begin with a paragraph mark, the script must use two
execute find commands.
The wildcard is *
tell application "Microsoft Word" -- (tested on version 15.25, Microsoft Office 2016)
-- check the first paragraph
select (characters of paragraph 1 of active document)
execute find (find object of selection) find text ("Vch*" & return) replace with "" replace replace one wrap find find stop with match wildcards and match case without match forward and find format
--to search forward toward the end of the document.
execute find (find object of selection) find text (return & "Vch*" & return) replace with return replace replace all wrap find find continue with match wildcards, match case and match forward without find format
save active document
-- export to PDF in the same directory as the active document
set pdfPath to path of active document & ":" & (get name of active window) & ".pdf"
set pdfPath to my createFile(pdfPath) -- create an empty file if not exists, the handler return a path of type alias (to avoid grant access issue)
save as active document file name pdfPath file format format PDF
end tell
on createFile(f)
do shell script "touch " & quoted form of POSIX path of f
return f as alias
end createFile


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Transurban had originally wanted $251 million to compensate for the delays but settled for almost $100 million less just a few moments before chairman Laurie Cox addressed shareholders at the Transurban annual general meeting yesterday.
"The settlement represents a good outcome fore shareholders," Mr Cox said. He said Transurban had opted to settle for less than its original claim to avoid going to court.
Resolving the dispute in court could have taken up to five years and cost as much as $15 million in legal fees, Mr Cox said.
Transfield director Guido Belgiorno-Nettis said he was "very happy with the settlement". "Both sides have had to give a lot," he said.
City Link was the premier engineering project in the past 50 years in Australia, Mr Belgiorno-Nettis said. "And we're extremely proud to be associated with it," he said.
Transfield Obayashi was due to complete remedial works on the Burnley Tunnel by September. But the deadline was not met and Mr Cox said he expected the repairs to be finished this year.
Transfield is taking legal action against a number of engineering groups who designed the Burnley Tunnel, including the British Hyder group. Mr Belgiorno-Nettis would not comment on the progress or status of those claims yesterday.
Transurban is also taking legal action against the State Government over the construction of Wurundjeri Way in Docklands.
Transurban says the road was not part of the plans for the precinct when it made its original agreement with the Kennett government and it has siphoned up to 30 per cent of its customers, or 25,000 cars a day, from the Bolte Bridge.
It is seeking $35.8 million from the state government under provisions in its concession that prevent governments taking action that damages the tollway's revenue.
Transurban shareholders yesterday approved measures that allow the company to bid for toll road projects in other parts of the country or overseas.
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In the first team-focused interview of the season, Slice Miami's Josh Baumgard makes On the NBA Beat history by becoming the first guest to appear three times, and the third time was certainly a charm (as were the first two). In this Miami Heat-themed episode, he gushes about the monstrous numbers Hassan Whiteside has the potential to post as the focal point of Miami's offense. Baumgard also waxes nostalgic and practical about the ramifications of Dwyane Wade's departure after 13 seasons as the franchise cornerstone. Plus, along with a range of other timely topics, he explains how Miami's already stout defense can be even stronger this upcoming season. Scan some scorching excerpts below:
2:58-3:10 As the episode title suggests, second-year wing Justise Winslow will make or break Miami's season, according to Baumgard: "I think he's the key to the whole season. I think he's the difference between whether they're gonna be a 35-win team or a 45-win team. You've got to see some offensive improvement out of him, and I think with the increased role he's ready for it."
5:50-6:22 "That's gonna be huge, because if he can develop a consistent jump shot, the defense is gonna play closer to him; that's gonna open up driving lanes. And as we saw in the preseason, he's a pretty good ball handler and he's a very underrated passer. I think he can find guys in the corner for those open 3s, so, again, I think it goes back to Winslow. If he's able to create some offense behind Goran Dragic, it's gonna ease the burden on them scoring, because they're likely not gonna be a great offensive team, but if they're at least better than average, I think that bodes really well for their playoff chances." Continue reading


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Nice question. Why did it come up? Why do you want RAC? Because RAC solves an existing problem?
Because you like more complexity (= job-safety)? Because you have left-over budget to spend at the end of the year? Because you expect higher availabilty (is it too low now?)? Because your system is slow and you expect to speed it up deploying RAC? Because Larry says so?
Because of CYA?
Thick any box that is applicable.
In other words: lots of good reasons, if you need one. Without proper background I doubt wether anyone on the list can get more specific, more generic reasons are welcome!
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I mentioned Aaron from Mad Mimi the other day. And how helpful he had been. I was stricken at the thought of another screw up with my blog. Aaron, out of the kindness of his heart, researched and worked on this until nearly 9 p.m. last night.
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This wonderful bronze-colored medal/coin is, to the best of my knowledge, exclusive to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the James Barrie House in Kirriemuir, Scotland. It comes in a nice red/burgundy-colored box with satin and imitation-velvet lining. The front of the coin has the image of Peter Pan and the back of the coin says, "HELPING CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AROUND THE WORLD" along the circumference of the coin. Then at the bottom of the coin it says "Peter Pan" with stars above the name.
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ST. PAUL — Chicago Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman said he received a lot of interest in Brian Campbell(notes), the team's 32-year-old offensive defenseman. That's despite his entering the fourth year of an 8-year, $57.1 million contract he signed with Chicago in 2008, a contract considered to be one of the League's most egregious salary cap albatrosses.
The general manager who inked him? Dale Tallon, now the GM for the Florida Panthers, a.k.a. Brian Campbell's new home.
Campbell agreed to waive his no-trade clause and was sent to the Panthers in exchange for forward Rostislav Olesz(notes) on Friday night, via TSN.
After the first round was complete, Bowman said the trade was "in process," but stopped short of calling it a done deal. He declined to specify when Campbell was asked to waive his no-trade clause.
"We've worked hard over the last week or so to determine the teams that had the most interest to get the most value," said Bowman.
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With Campbell comes a huge contract, one that Tallon signed when he was general manager of the Blackhawks. Campbell, 32, is set to make $7.1 million in each of the next five seasons.
Olesz is also a highly paid player, with a cap hit of $3.1 million in each of the next three seasons. Olesz will actually make substantially more than that number — he'll be paid over $4 million in the final two years of the contract -- in real salary.
The Panthers need to spend around $30 million to reach the league-mandated salary cap floor this season. Getting Campbell on board goes a long way in fulfilling those obligations.
Campbell's move leaves the Blackhawks with four defensemen and John Scott(notes) under contract, with Chris Campoli(notes) a restricted free agent. According to Cap Geek, the Blackhawks would have $14 million open under the $64.3 million cap.
"Whenever you have salary cap flexibility, you can go a few ways with it. You can acquire players that are signed already. Or you can go to the free agent market on July 1," said Bowman.
"It gives us the option to do different things. Certainly, it's going to be a departure from the last year when it was a stranglehold all year with our ability to do things."
All because they found someone nutty enough to take on Campbell's diminishing offensive numbers and $7,142,875 annual cap hit.
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Dr. William Korey, director of the New York bureau of the B'nai B'rith International Council, said that "at a time when racial barriers across the nation are slowly but steadily falling, it is a tragic corollary that American endorsement of this modern declaration of international freedom is still lacking." He spoke before 400 delegates to the joint convention of Aleph Zadik Aleph and B'nai B'rith Girls.
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Date: 12/14/2001 at 09:55:30 From: William Johnson Subject: Terms and rules My step daughter is in sixth grade and she has been doing a pattern journal where she has two columns of numbers: the first column is the n, and the second colum is the term, and she has to find the rule (e.g. n2), etc. Is there some place I can find out the basics for this concept?
Date: 12/14/2001 at 23:17:02 From: Doctor Peterson Subject: Re: Terms and rules Hi, William. I don't know that there is much to say in general about this kind of problem. A lot depends on the level of difficulty; most likely she has been given a set of problems that all have a similar kind of pattern, so that a method can be developed for solving them. The problems can differ in the presentation (whether consecutive terms are given, for example), and in the complexity of the rule (a simple multiplication, a more complicated calculation from n, a recursive rule - based on the previous term - or even a weird trick rule like "the number of letters in the English word for the number n"). For that reason, it would be very helpful if you could send us a couple sample questions so we could help more specifically. I don't see any good examples in our archives at the elementary level - probably just because we've never felt that any one such answer was useful to help others. Let's try a few samples. Here's an easy one: n | term ---+------ 1 | 3 2 | 6 3 | 9 4 | 12 Here you may just be able to see that the terms are a column in a multiplication table (or, more simply, that all the terms are multiples of 3); or you might look at the differences between successive terms (a very useful method at a higher level, called "finite differences") and see that the terms are "skip-counting" by 3's, a clue that the rule involves multiplication by 3. However you see it, the rule (using "*" for the multiplication sign) is 3 * n Here's a slightly more complicated one: n | term ---+------ 1 | 6 2 | 11 3 | 16 4 | 21 Here the differences are all 5, suggesting multiplication by 5. You might want to add a new column to the table so you can compare the given term with 5n: n | 5n | term ---+----+------ 1 | 5 | 6 2 | 10 | 11 3 | 15 | 16 4 | 20 | 21 Now you can see that each term is one more than 5n, so the rule is 5n + 1 Now they might get still more complicated: n | term ---+------ 1 | 2 2 | 5 3 | 10 4 | 17 Here the differences aren't all the same (3, 5, 7), so something besides multiplication and addition must be going on. I happen to know that when the differences are themselves increasing regularly (by 2 each time in this case) that there is a square involved; try adding a column for the square of n and see if you can figure it out. This just gives a small taste of what these puzzles might be like. They can get much harder. Actually, in many harder cases I think the problems can be very unfair, because in reality (when you don't know ahead of time what kind of rule to expect) the rule could be absolutely anything, such as "the nth number on a page of random numbers I found in a book"! It's really just guesswork, and sometimes it's really hard to say which of several possible answers is what the author of the problem might have had in mind. But at your daughter's level you don't have to worry about that; it may be mostly just a matter of recognizing familiar patterns such as skip counting or squares. It's only where I sit, seeing problems completely out of context, and having to make a wild guess as to what sort of rule to look for, that these problems are always challenging. If your problems aren't like these, and you need more help, feel free to show them to me, so I can suggest ways to handle them. - Doctor Peterson, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
Date: 12/15/2001 at 13:39:31 From: William Johnson Subject: Terms and rules Thank you, Dr. Peterson. That is exactly what I was talking about and you gave me great examples. One question I do remember was connected pentagons 1 = 5, sides -2 = 8 - 3 = 11 etc. where n is the number of pentagons and the term is the number of sides exposed, and then we needed to find the rule for 100 pentagons. Your answer definitely helped. Thanks, William F. Johnson
Date: 12/15/2001 at 22:30:49 From: Doctor Peterson Subject: Re: Terms and rules Hi, William. My answer is most helpful if you are just given a list of terms, and have to guess the rule. Your example is actually easier in some respects, and harder in others. It's common to just make a table of terms based on the geometry of the problem, and then try to guess a rule from that. But how do you know that the rule is really the right one, when it's not just an arbitrary list of terms, but one generated by a real situation? You really need to find some reason for connecting the rule to the objects you are counting. For that reason, I recommend trying to find a rule in the counting process itself. How do you count the exposed sides? You start with 5; then when you add a second pentagon, you add 5 more sides, but one side from each pentagon becomes "hidden"; so the new number is 5 + (5 - 2) = 8. When you add another (presumably always on the "opposite" side of the pentagon, to avoid overlapping with those already placed), you again add 5 and take away 2; so the rule seems to be that you start with 5 and add 3 for each pentagon after the first. This leads directly to the rule, with no need to guess. So you can use the guessing approach if you want, and I suspect many texts and teachers expect that, but it's much more satisfying to skip the tables and really know you have the right answer! - Doctor Peterson, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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Cold calls from insurance companies are annoying. If you don't have the habit of answering calls from unknown numbers, that are not in your address book. How do I send unknown callers straight to voicemail in android? There are lots of apps; even you can send unknown numbers to voice mail using Google voice. People who're not in your address book, unknown numbers can be directly send to voicemail.
If you want to send numbers from your contact book to voicemail, you have the option in the settings of each contact. For unknown numbers, you can do it with help of Google voice.
How to Send Anonymous Callers to Voicemail in Google Voice?
With the help of Google voice, you can send any unknown, anonymous number directly to voicemail. This [how to] setup is completely for unknown numbers that are NOT in the address book.
- Open Google voice and go to contacts, put all your contacts under one or more groups.
- In Google voice, open settings > groups and customize each group. Make sure to specify that they ring all your phones.
- Under settings > phones, uncheck all the phones. Now everybody who calls you who is in one of the groups will trigger the phones to ring, while anyone who is not will go straight to voicemail.
- Make sure, thereafter every time you add a contact, should be placed in one of those groups.
Under settings > groups and circles, you have two groups. They're all contacts and Anonymous callers. So these callers who don't have a caller ID, appear as unknown or restricted can be sent directly to voicemail.
The above method can also be used for Unknown numbers. Not only anonymous numbers can be sending to voicemail, if you don't have a number in your address book and it is not anonymous number, you can send to voicemail. If a call falls into a category that has no enabled forwarding phones, it goes straight to voicemail. So uncheck all the phones in the Settings > Phones tab, then specify them all for "All Contacts" and you will get what you want.
If you want all calls to be send to voicemail, follow this guide Do Not Disturb on Google voice.
Android apps to Forward Unknown Callers to Voicemail
I found 3 apps that come closer to solve our issue.
Extreme call blocker (Stealth)
It can block calls, sms, and mms with complete privacy. It has 4 way supports to block a call. You can send to voicemail, no screen flash even if number in your contact list. If you don't want the caller to leave you a voice mail, you can answer and hung up. No voicemail and no miss call notification. You can mute the ring only. Caller will hear the normal ring and then voice call, you hear nothing.
You can simply black list the numbers, even block unknown or private, restricted numbers. You can even block all numbers that aren't in the contact book.
Another special feature, you can use wildcard match to block an area code. Option to send auto text message reply to blocked calls and messages.
This one is a free app. It can block incoming calls from your contact list and even block unknown, restricted, anonymous calls. In the app, under unknown and private in blacklist category you can find the option to activate.
Call control blocker (Community powered)
This app is community powered call blocking, which means crowd sourcing the spam callers. So once the number is reported by the community, it blacklists it. When you install the app, all the numbers reported goes into blacklist. So it stops telemarketers, and other spam calls before they bother you.
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After all the disappointment of not even making JV last year as a freshman, Ben was particularly thrilled to make the VARSITY team this year. Go Colonials!
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Well now, from the looks of it, seems as if the JV coach made a mistake last year.
Congratulations, Ben. Varsity coach made a right decision. Fine, fine addition to the Varsity!


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Attractive mat design. Wi-Fi. Antiglare screen.
Inconsistent image quality. Advertisements with partner-supplied content. Scaling issues with some content.
Bottom Line
The Kodak EasyShare W820 Wireless Digital Frame gives you a budget-quality device at a premium price.
Connected ContentAs an Internet-connected digital picture frame, the W820 looks great on paper. It can stream Flickr images from your own feed as well as those of contacts and the community at large, for example, and from your Kodak Gallery account. It can also display News, Finance, Weather, and Sports reports from FrameChannel. FrameChannel content is littered with banner advertisements, though, and incorrect scaling of both the content and ads makes me wonder if Kodak actually tested any samples of this model before shipping them out. When I was viewing the weather report (before an advertisement popped up, anyhow), for example, the bottom half-inch of content was completely cut off. News reports are presented as a short blurb on-screen, so incorrect scaling wasn't an issue, but the frame consistently cut off the lower third of banner ads. The company says a fix is in the works.
But as a result of scaling and compression, even images streamed from Flickr appear slightly distorted compared with those playing directly from the frame or attached storage. Other Flickr-capable frames with the same display resolution, such as the D-Link DSM-210, did not have this problem when displaying images from the same Flickr feed. Images taken from the frame's 512MB of built-in storage or from a variety of removable media are significantly sharper than those streamed from the Web.
The W820 supports JPEG images and MP3 audio files as well as AVI, MOV, MPEG-1, and MPEG-4 videos. The frame can also accept content sent directly from a Windows PC (using included software) Slots on the top of the case, near the back and on the side accept SD, CF, Memory Stick, xD-Picture Card, and USB flash drives. Many of the slideshow options let you play background music through the W820's built-in speakers, select slide transitions and duration, and choose scaling options that let you view an image at full size or sized to fit the display, among other ways.
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is relatively painless (the frame works with 802.11b/g wireless), though you need to scroll through the entire alphabet several times to enter a password for WEP-, WPA-, or WPA2-encrypted networks. The frame dropped the wireless connection several times, but restarting usually fixed the problema glitch and fix shared with the PF Digital eStarling. Other digital photo frames I tested on the wireless network, including the D-Link DSM-210 and the Sony VAIO VGF-CP1, had no issue with maintaining the connection. The frame defaults to images in the built-in memory when the connection drops, so content isn't interrupted with blank screens or warning messages.
Although the Kodak EasyShare W820 Wireless Digital Frame does an acceptable job with local content, it has too many deficiencies for such a high-priced unit. If you can find it cheap and aren't interested in content streamed from the Internet, it might do the trick. But given that you can get the Sony VAIO VGF-CP1, our Editors' Choice in the Wireless Frame category, for $299or the highly rated Pandigital 8-inch PanTouch, a wired frame with excellent image quality, for $160why bother?
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Everybody is feeling blue on a Monday. Get up early, darkness, school and work. And sometimes it's raining when you have to get op early to go to school. That was what happend to me this moring. So, after I'd put a rainsuit on, I started cycling. But after 3 of the 17 km my pants was soaked... So, to make this Mondaymorning a bit more bearable, a nice letter to Dear Monday.
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China Human Rights Report
Freedom of Movement Within the Country, Foreign Travel, Emigration, and Repatriation
Although the Government maintained restrictions on the freedom to change one's workplace or residence, the national household registration and identification card system continued to erode, and the ability of most citizens to move within the country to work and live continued to expand. However, the Government retained the ability to restrict freedom of movement through other mechanisms. Authorities heightened restrictions periodically during the year, particularly before politically sensitive anniversaries and to forestall demonstrations.
The Government's "hukou" system of national household registration underwent some liberalization during the year, as the country responded to economic demands for a more mobile labor force. Nonetheless, many Chinese could not officially change their residence or workplace within the country. Government and work unit permission were often required before moving from city to city. It was particularly difficult for peasants from rural areas to obtain household registration in economically more developed urban areas. This produced a "floating population" of between 100 and 150 million economic migrants who lacked official residence status in cities. Without official residence status, it was difficult or impossible to gain full access to social services, including education. Further, migrant workers were generally limited to types of work considered least desirable by local residents, and they had little recourse when subject to abuse by employers and officials. In some major cities, access to education for children of migrant workers continued to improve during the year, and some cities began to offer migrants some other social services free of charge. In September, Jiangsu Province became the first province to abolish the distinction between urban and rural residents in its household registration documents. In July, the city of Chengdu further liberalized its registration system, allowing up to half of the city's 1.5 million migrants to qualify for temporary residence permits. In June, the administrative detention system of custody and repatriation applied to migrants was abolished (see Section 1.d.). Authorities announced that custody and repatriation centers would be replaced by a network of aid shelters offering services to migrants, but it was unclear at year's end how these reforms would be implemented.
Prior to sensitive anniversaries, authorities in urban areas rounded up and detained some "undesirables," including the homeless, the unemployed, migrant workers, those without proper residence or work permits, petty criminals, prostitutes, and the mentally ill or disabled. Dissidents reported that the authorities restricted their freedom of movement during politically sensitive periods and while foreign dignitaries visited the country.
Under the "staying at prison employment" system applicable to recidivists incarcerated in reeducation-through-labor camps, authorities have denied certain persons permission to return to their homes after serving their sentences. Those persons sentenced to a total of more than 5 years in reeducation-through-labor camps on separate occasions also could lose their legal right to return to their home area. For those assigned to camps far from their residences, this practice constituted a form of internal exile. The number of prisoners subject to this restriction was unknown. Authorities reportedly forced other recently released prisoners to accept jobs in state enterprises where they could be closely monitored. Other released or paroled prisoners returned home but were not permitted freedom of movement. Former senior leaders Zhao Ziyang and Bao Tong remained under house arrest in Beijing, and security around them routinely was tightened during sensitive periods.
The Government permitted legal emigration and foreign travel for most citizens. Passports were increasingly easy to obtain in most places, although those whom the Government deemed to be threats, including religious leaders, political dissidents, and some ethnic minority members continued to have difficulty obtaining passports (see Tibet Addendum). During the year, the Government expanded from 25 to 100 the number of cities in which residents can apply for a passport. Many local governments abolished regulations requiring residents to obtain written permission from police and employers before applying for a passport. The Government continued to use political attitudes as criteria for selecting persons for government-sponsored study abroad; however, the Government did not control privately sponsored students, who constituted the majority of citizens studying abroad. Business travelers who wished to go abroad could obtain passports relatively easily.
There were reports that some academics faced travel restrictions around the year's sensitive anniversaries, particularly the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, and there were instances in which the authorities refused to issue passports or visas on apparent political grounds. Members of the underground Catholic Church, particularly clergy wishing to further their studies abroad, found it difficult to obtain passports and other necessary travel documents. Some Falun Gong members also reportedly had difficulty in obtaining passports during the year. In May 2001, the Government prevented Dr. Gao Yaojie, who had exposed the transmission of HIV through blood collection in villages in Henan Province, from traveling abroad to receive an award. Similarly, visas to enter the country also were denied. For example, some foreign academics who had been critical of the country continued to be denied visas.
Although a signatory of the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, the country has no law or regulations that authorize the authorities to grant refugee status. The Government cooperated with the UNHCR when dealing with the resettlement of ethnic Han Chinese or ethnic minorities from Vietnam and Laos resident in the country. Since the late 1980s, the Government has adopted a de facto policy of tolerance toward the small number of persons, fewer than 100 annually, from other nations who registered with the Beijing office of the UNHCR as asylum seekers. The Government permitted these persons to remain in the country while the UNHCR made determinations as to their status and, if the UNHCR determined that they were bona fide refugees, while they awaited resettlement in third countries. However, the Government continued to deny the UNHCR permission to operate along its northeastern border with North Korea, arguing that North Koreans who crossed the border were illegal economic migrants, not refugees.
During the year, several thousand North Koreans were reportedly seized, detained, and forcibly returned to their homeland, where many faced persecution. In recent years, crackdowns on prostitution and forced marriages have resulted in increased deportations of North Korean women. During the year, the Government did permit approximately 300 North Koreans to travel to Seoul after they had entered diplomatic compounds or international schools in China, and hundreds more arrived in South Korea via third countries such as Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia after transiting through China. There were numerous credible reports of harassment, detention, and abuse of North Koreans in the country, including the July 27 detention of four persons at the Beijing train station and the August 7 detention of eight persons in Shanghai who allegedly attempted to enter the Japanese school. The Government also arrested and detained foreign journalists, missionaries and activists, as well as some Chinese citizens, for providing food, shelter, transportation, and other assistance to North Koreans. For example, South Korean photojournalist Seok Jae Hyun was imprisoned in January while photographing North Korean refugees trying to board boats headed for South Korea and Japan (see Section 2.a.). In August, two South Korean journalists were detained and later expelled for allegedly assisting North Koreans attempting to enter an international school in order to transit to South Korea. In December, an employee of a Japanese NGO was detained for trying to assist North Koreans in China.
While UNHCR reported that more than 2,000 Tibetans each year continued to cross into Nepal, the Government continued to try to prevent many Tibetans from leaving. In a case that raised serious international concerns, on May 31, the Government pressured Nepalese authorities to repatriate forcibly 18 Tibetans, including several minors. The 18 were denied access to the UNHCR, forced onto a bus and taken back across the border to China, where they were held, first at a border post and later at a prison in Shigatse. According to NGO reports, the detainees were tortured, and most also were pressured for bribes. At year's end, NGOs could not confirm that all 18 individuals had been released (see Tibet Addendum).
In October, the Government executed Uighur Shaheer Ali after he and another Uighur were forcibly returned to China in 2002 from Nepal, where they had been granted refugee status by UNHCR (see Section 5).
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There are 4 animal shows at the Singapore Zoological Gardens (Singapore Zoo) daily.
They are :
1. Rainforest Fights Back Show
Venue : Shaw Foundation Amphitheatre
Show Times : 12:30pm and 2:30pm
2. Splash Safari Show
Venue : Shaw Foundation Amphitheatre
Show Times : 10:30am and 5:00pm
3. Elephants at Work & Play Show
Venue : Elephants of Asia
Show Times : 11:30am and 3:30pm
4. Animal Friends Show
Venue : Rainforest Kidzworld Amphitheatre
Show Times : 11:00am and 4:00pm
One of the first things we looked out for when we visit the Singapore Zoo is the shows! In order to catch all the shows, one has to meticulously plan for it and the map of the zoo will come in handy…
Map of the Singapore Zoo aka Singapore Zoological Gardens
Upon taking a closer look at the map, the first thing you'll notice is that the shows are located at the north side of the zoo , that is furthest away from the entrance. The Rainforest Show, Splash Safari Show as well as the Elephants Show are relatively close to each other. Not too far away is the Animal Friends Show at Kidzworld.
The next thing you'll need to note is the timing. As kiasu Singaporeans, the 2bearbear were there at the opening of Singapore Zoo. The Singapore Zoo opens from 8:30am to 6:00pm daily. You'll note by now that the first show starts at 10:30am. Each show lasts approximately half an hour.
What we did during this visit to the Singapore Zoo was to catch the Splash Safari Show (@ 10:30am), Elephants at Work & Play Show (@ 11:30am), Rainforest Fights Back Show (@ 12:30pm) and lastly the Animal Friends Show @ 4:00pm.
As each show lasts half an hour, we managed to visit other animals in between shows as well. But we'll get to that later…
After entering the Zoo, we headed for the Boat Dock 1 for a boat ride to the north of the Zoo (Note : Unlimited boat rides cost $6 while unlimited tram rides cost $5; The Zoo-per Saver inclusive of both tram and boat rides costs $27 and was the one we took – added discounts with OCBC cards). From there, we covered parts of the Kidzworld before catching the first show. By the way, the first boat ride starts at 9:15am at intervals of 15 minutes.
Let's get to the shows proper…
1. Splash Safari Show
The Splash Safari Show is probably the best of all the 4 shows at the Singapore Zoo. While it was entertaining with stunts done by the experienced sealion, there were also comical scenes included as part of the show. For instance, the sealion would clap its flippers to encourage the audience to clap especially when it thinks it deserves it or has just accomplished a trick.
Sea Lion Claps at the end of his trick @ the Singapore Zoo
The host would then say that there's something lurking in the waters…
It is a shark! Neh…just the sea lion swimming side ways! The Splash Safari Show has got to be the best of the 4 shows. Kudos to the trainer who has trained the sea lion really really really well!
Sea Lion standing up at the Singapore Zoo!
2. Elephants at Work & Play Show
Next, we headed to catch the Elephants at work and play show!
Elephants of Asia at the Singapore Zoo
Did you know that elephants have very good sense of balance?
An Elephant balancing on a log
The elephant not only crossed the log but CHANGED 180 DEGREES IN DIRECTION, RIGHT ON THE LOG!
Of course the elephants have very strong trunks and are able to easily lift logs…
Elephants lifting logs at the Singapore Zoo
Did you know you can mount an elephant with its trunks as well?
How to Mount an Elephant
Overall, the show was ok. The elephants were well trained and the waving of their trunks were really cute. The show however revolved pretty much around logs. It would be good to show their strength through other aspects.
3. Rainforest Fights Back Show
The Rainforest Fights Back Show was not as entertaining as the previous 2 shows. Nonetheless, we could see that the trainers had put in alot of effort. Here are a few shots from the show…
Spider Monkey at the Singapore Zoo
Orang Utan at the Singapore Zoo
The reason why the show was not entertaining was because the tricks were all isolated ones. The acts didnt really gel together although individually they were good.
4. Animal Friends Show
Animal Friends Show at the Singapore Zoo
This show was somewhat more impressive than rainforest fights back (surprisingly). Im still amazed that all the animals on the show was adopted! That is to say, they were abandoned or given up by their previous owners and given a second lease of life at the Singapore Zoo!
The other thing we were amazed was that mice were trained to scamper across the roof in a precise direction! I mean, how do you train a mouse right? Impressive stuff…here are some of the acts at the show…
Dog skipping with a skipping rope at the Singapore Zoo!
Some of the animals of the show was still very new to the show and the trainers take time to train and allow them to meet audience (to get used to many people clapping) from time to time.
Therefore after all that we've said, we would rank the shows in this order
1. Splash Safari Show
2. Elephants at Work & Play Show
3. Animal Friends Show
4. Rainforest Fights Back Show
Please take time to see all the shows because the trainers have placed in alot of effort to train and pass on valuable nuggets of information to the audience. Plus, some of the tricks are really neat!
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