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If you are looking for proven techniques pertaining to how to cope with stress, anxiety and phobias this article can help you. According to the cognitive-behavioral model, situations do not automatically cause anxiety. Anxiety-producing thoughts lead to anxiety. Cognitive and behavioral techniques capable of modifying our thoughts and feelings provide the treatment for the various anxiety disorders
How to cope with stress, anxiety and phobias using Cognitive Therapy
Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck are the originators of cognitive therapy. The basic concept in cognitive therapy is that it is not just the event or situation that causes emotional upset. Our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs cause or contribute to disturbing emotions such as anxiety. In cognitive therapy, patients are taught to identify and change self-defeating thoughts.
Coping self-statements can be used to reduce anxiety. Coping self-statements are constructive thoughts which can be used to prepare you for stressful situations or when in stressful situations. Using imagery, you can mentally rehearse coping self-statements while imagining how you will cope with a stressful situation.
Logging helps you to identify your anxiety triggers and the negative thoughts that lead to anxiety. You can begin a log or diary to identify the situations in which you feel anxious, as well as those situations that you avoid. Also identify and monitor your anxiety-producing thoughts.
The Two-column Method
The two-column method is a self-help tool that you can learn to use on your own. Start by dividing a page in half. On one side of the page, list your anxiety-producing thoughts. On the other side of the page, constructive thoughts are listed. The goal is to generate a set of coping thoughts that can be used for reducing anxiety. Here is an example of the two-column method, as it was used for generating a set of coping thoughts for a patient receiving therapy for social anxiety:
Anxiety-producing Thoughts
| Coping Thoughts
|1) I'll get rejected.
|1) I'm jumping to conclusions. If I don't try, I won't succeed. So I might as well take a risk. I really have nothing to lose. If I keep trying, I will have some success.
|2) I'm a loser.
3) If I get rejected,
it will prove I'm a loser.
|2) I'm not a loser. I'm good at some things and not at others. Social skills are not one of my strengths, but I can learn and get better at it with practice.
3) Acceptance and rejection from other people does not determine my self-worth. I can accept myself and stop calling myself names like "loser." I can feel good about trying.
Coping self-statements, developed through the two-column method, can be used during imagery for the purpose of anxiety reduction. For example, using the social anxiety example described above, I suggested the following while having the patient visualize going to a social situation and interacting with people:
"Now imagine that you are going to a social event. And as you enter, you are thinking, you really have nothing to lose. Rejection from other people does not determine your self-worth. So take a risk. If you keep trying, you will get better at socializing and will be more successful, and you can feel good about trying, no matter what the outcome. Now imagine talking to people, feeling more confident and more comfortable"
This imagery technique, in combination with social skills training and role-play, helped prepare the patient for social situations and interactions.
Cognitive-behavior Therapy Techniques
Cognitive and behavioral techniques can be combined. Cognitive-behavior Therapy, also known as CBT, includes the use of relaxation techniques, imagery and exposure therapy techniques. Exposure involves facing your fear in a systematic manner where you learn to master your fear. Relaxation techniques and coping self-statements can be used to reduce anxiety both during imagery and exposure therapy techniques.
Relaxation procedures
The various relaxation techniques can be combined to create a procedure that is tailored to the needs and preferences of a given individual. Experiment and find out which ones work for you.
Breathing Techniques
The breathing technique that I use with most of my patients is diaphragmatic breathing. You will know you are breathing diaphragmatically if your stomach rises as you inhale and flattens as you exhale. A good way of checking this out is by lying down on your back with a book or a box of tissues on your stomach. As you inhale make the book, or box of tissues, rise as you inhale and lower as you exhale. If possible, breathe in and out through your nose. Try to breathe at a rate of four seconds to inhale and four seconds to exhale. Only a few minutes of slow diaphragmatic breathing are needed to produce relaxation.
Relaxation Imagery
Imagining a pleasant relaxing scene is another relaxation technique. Pick one of you favorite places, maybe somewhere you went on vacation. It could be a beach, a park, a garden, a stream or brook. Use as many of your senses to imagine it. Imagine what you would see, hear, feel and smell. Imagine it as vividly as you can with as many details as possible.
If you are having trouble identifying an image, try this exercise. Experiment and see if you can respond to any of these questions:
Can you imagine walking along the beach? Can you imagine the warmth of the sun? Can you imagine seeing the waves? Can imagine the sound of the ocean? What do the waves sound like? Can you imagine the sound of seagulls?
Can you imagine a sunset? If you can imagine the sunset, what colors is it?
Can you imagine floating in warm water? Can you imagine drifting along? Can you feel light and buoyant?
Can you imagine walking in the woods during autumn? Can you picture the colors of the leaves? What colors can you picture? Can you imagine the sound of leaves crunching as you walk along the path?
Can you imagine sitting in a garden?
Can you imagine some flowers?
Can you imagine a particular flower? What color is it? How many petals does it have?
Can you imagine a butterfly in flight? What does it look like?
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
First find a comfortable position with your eyes closed. Let your breathing slow down, so you are breathing slow and easy. With each exhalation, you can start to let go, one muscle group at a time.
Starting with your toes, as you exhale, find a comfortable position for your toes, letting them spread apart in a comfortable position. Feel the relaxation spreading to your feet. With each exhalation, you can let go more and more. And with each exhalation, you can feel your toes and feet becoming more relaxed…
Feel the relaxation spreading. As you exhale let go of any tension and feel the relaxation spreading, more and more. Feel the relaxation spreading to your ankles…calf muscles…knees…and thighs.
And now, let your back go loose and limp, head and neck in a comfortable position. … And as you exhale let go of any tension and feel the relaxation spreading, more and more. You can feel the relaxation spreading up and down your back…all the way up to your shoulders and neck.
And as you continue to breathe slow and easy, you can feel the relaxation spreading to your arms and shoulders. Let your arms hang loose and limp and as you exhale feel the relaxation spreading down your arms… hands open, fingers apart. Feel the relaxation spreading down your arms, all the way down to your fingertips.
And now let your jaw hang slack, in a relaxed position, teeth slightly parted, and feel the relaxation spreading to your facial muscles…to your lips… cheeks… the muscles surrounding your eyes… your forehead…the relaxation spreading to all of your facial muscles.
Feel the relaxation spreading throughout your body, spreading to your stomach muscles… and to your chest…spreading and deepening… more and more…deeper and deeper, with each exhalation.
And to deepen the relaxation, you can imagine your relaxation image… using as many of your senses as possible, imagine your relaxation scene…Imagine what you would see…what you would hear…what you might smell…how you would feel.
And as you continue to enjoy your peaceful scene, and continue to breathe slow and easy, you can feel yourself becoming even more relaxed, calm and relaxed. Arms and legs, more relaxed.
The relaxation spreading and deepening… with each exhalation…Shoulders hanging comfortably…Back and neck, loose and limp….Jaw hanging slack…Facial muscles, smooth and relaxed…Stomach, calm and relaxed. All the muscles of your body relaxed…and your mind feeling calm and peaceful…As you continue to imagine your peaceful serene and continue to breathe slow and easy, you can feel yourself becoming more and more relaxed…feeling calm and very relaxed.
Treatment of Phobias
Systematic desensitization is an exposure therapy technique that was developed by Joseph Wolpe for the treatment of fears and phobias. This technique provides patients an opportunity to confront their fears in a gradual systematic manner, one step at a time. Relaxation techniques are used to reduce anxiety during exposure to the feared situations. The specific anxiety "triggers" are identified. An anxiety list is then constructed. The fear or phobia is broken down to specific anxiety-producing triggers, which are then rank ordered from least to most anxiety producing. Systematic desensitization can be done in imagination and/or in reality. Here is an example of an anxiety list that was used for a patient with a fear of flying:
1-Plane landing
2-Thinking about flying
3-Watching planes on TV
4- Watching planes landing and taking off
5- The night before the flight
6- Driving to the airport
7-Boarding the plane
8-Plane taxiing on the runway
9-Plane on runway waiting to take off
10-Hearing sounds of the plane
11-Airplane hatch closing
12-Seatbelt light goes on
13-Plane banking
In the above case, I had the patient imagine each item while in a relaxed state, only going onto a next step after the patient was able to imagine the prior step comfortably. This desensitization technique enabled the patient to fly successfully. Research has shown that desensitization is about 80 – 90 % successful in the treatment of phobias. Research has found that Cognitive-behavior therapy is the most effective psychological treatment for stress, anxiety and phobias.
Beck, A.T., & Emery, G. (1985). Anxiety disorders and phobias: A cognitive perspective. New York: Basic Books.
Chambless, D.L. & Ollendick, T.H. (2001). Empirically supported psychological interventions: Controversies and evidence. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 685-716.
Dryden, W., & Golden W.L. (1986). Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Psychotherapy. London: Harper & Row.
Ellis, A. (1962). Reason and emotion in psychotherapy. New York: Lyle Stuart.
Wolpe, J. (1958). Psychotherapy by reciprocal inhibition. Oxford: Pergamon Press.


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It looks like the LIKE button was already patented by someone who created a social site that has a feature that allowed users to "Like" the content of other users.
"LIKE" was patented by Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer in 1998, which is a feature of Surfbook, a social diary that Van Der Meer created. Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer has passed away but the current patent holder – Rembrandt Social Media, LP – sued the networking giant as well as Add This Inc. for using the "LIKE" patent without permission.
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"We believe Rembrandt's patents represent an important foundation of social media as we know it, and we expect a judge and jury to reach the same conclusion based on the evidence," says attorney Tom Melsheimer, counsel for Rembrandt and managing principal of Fish & Richardson's Dallas office.
The case may not look as big as the other legal issues that FB is facing but if Rembrandt Social Media, LP wins this case, we may see them going after other sites or services using the "LIKE" feature.
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The recently revealed Xbox One system update is arriving tomorrow, February 11. As previously explained, it features "many new improvements," including a lot of behind-the-scenes updates for developers building apps and games for the new system.
On the consumer end, Xbox One owners are also getting a number of fan-requested features including the return of the battery power indicator. You'll finally be able to see how much battery life is left on your controller from the home screen.
The update will also allow Xbox One owners to see and manage storage space on the console. According to Microsoft, "you will find it easy to find how much space your content makes up and better manage your content." Additionally, you will also be able to control your install lineup and more easily manage your download queue. Microsoft has separated the My Games and My Apps into separate lists, so you will be able to create separate queues for both and pick the order in which you want your content to load.
Lastly, USB keyboard support will be added.
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The most familiar type of filtration in water treatment is 'normal' filtration where all influent passes through a filter medium that removes contaminants to produce higher quality water (see illustration). Rough screens, sand filters, multimedia filters, bag filters and cartridge filters are examples of filtration products that operate this way to remove 0.1 micron particles or larger.
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Crossflow operations typically fall into one of three categories: ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF) and 'hyperfiltration,' the process more commonly referred to as reverse osmosis (RO). The most common of the three is RO because of its comprehensive capability to reduce levels of dissolved impurities.
Filtration Principles
In normal filtration (left), all water passes through a filter medium. In crossflow filtration
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Operational Fundamentals
Crossflow filtration is carried out in a machine that includes the membrane element and housings, interconnecting piping, pumps, prefilters and controls and instrumentation necessary for operation.
Because the membrane accounts for 15 to 40 percent of the price of an RO or UF machine and because membranes must be replaced periodically, careful membrane selection is essential. Many types are available and each has unique characteristics. Selection criteria should include chemical tolerance, mechanical suitability, cleanability, separation performance, flow performance and price.
As with other mechanical devices, crossflow filtration machines function best when design and materials enhance one another. Once the correct membrane is chosen, a design that provides for appropriate crossflow rates, pressures and permeate recoveries is critical. Good design should manifest itself in a machine that has consistent performance, needs less frequent membrane cleaning or replacement, consumes reasonable amounts of power and requires little operational attention.
Much of this can also be achieved be pretreating the crossflow unit's feedwater. There is probably no better investment than in equipment that properly prepares feedwater for membrane treatment because it is relatively inexpensive yet provides tremendous benefits.
Cartridges or bag filters that remove residual insoluble material to about .5 microns are often a must. Multi-media filters that can remove turbidity and oxidized metals like iron and manganese efficiently are often desirable, as are chemical pumps that can inject acid or antiscalants to keep salts soluble, or biocontrol agents to prevent biofouling. Depending on the nature of the feedwater, other equipment such as clarifiers or carbon filters may also be appropriate.
With good pretreatment, the membrane in a crossflow machine will bear no burden greater than what's intended for it. The result is optimum performance and the lowest overall cost.
Crossflow filtration provides unique separation and purification capabilities, particularly to reduce levels of small, dissolved impurities normally less than 0.1 micron in size. The crossflow process continually sweeps the membrane surface, minimizing buildup of rejected impurities to make membrane filtration processes cost effective. Successful operation depends on good membrane selection, machine design and pretreatment.


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So, let's just keep on showing senseless, random violence to our children in movies and on TV; let's just keep on with legally sanctioned and government-funded abortion of babies showing that life is cheap; let's just keep on keeping God out of our schools and denying His existence; let's just keep on teaching the children nothing but political correctness and self esteem for being slobs and ignoramuses; let's just keep on raising taxes so that we can feed and clothe the unproductive and encourage them to have children out of wedlock to receive more money so that the productive have to put both parents to work to make ends meet, leaving no one at home to raise the children; let's just keep on saying character doesn't matter in national leaders; let's just keep on doing what we are doing.
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We are a nation that seems committed to divisiveness – Huskies vs Cougs, blue vs red, slow food vs fast.
On Friday, Aubrey Cohen reported that Seattle townhouse prices crashed in October; the median price of closed sales in October ten percent lower than the median of closed sales in September. $40,000 worth of crash.
Is this cause for celebration? Compassion? Indifference?
If you see the world in Marxist terms, then perhaps, the petit bourgeoisie is getting what they deserve. Although, you have to admit, it's a somewhat precarious position for many to take, railing at the middle class while your fingers are tapping on a sleek new MacBook.
Myself, I do not see couples who make $25 an hour each, or even a single making $100,000 a year, as the enemy. I certainly do not root for them to lose $40,000 of home value in a month. And while there's a part of me that recognizes that lower prices open the possibility of homeownership to more people, I'd prefer if those possibilities came from higher incomes – I want you to get a raise! – rather than lower home values.
The median price for townhouses in 2004, which is when the bubble bloggers first got going, was $304,450. So $359,000 represents an almost 6% annual gain since then. And my statistical subset of Seattle resale housing showed that the median sales price for Residential (which includes townhouses) was $480,000 in September, $479,500 in October – so if townhouses were down, stand-alone houses were … up?


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At the crack of dawn one Saturday morning in July of 1992, Dell Computer Corp. sales chief Joel J. Kocher and his top lieutenants sat mn a stage at the University of Texas basketball arena and had their hair cropped military-style. To the cheers of 1,500 mostly twentysomething employees--many clad in fatigues for the early-morning muster--Kocher declared "war" on IBM Corp. and cross-Texas rival Compaq Computer Corp. Both PC makers were adding low-cost models that threatened to erase Dell's longtime price advantage. Kocher wanted to make it clear that he was ready to do battle.
That was classic Dell--and classic Kocher (pronounced Ko-HER). Hyperaggressive and intense, he rose to become CEO Michael S. Dell's No.2 by driving Dell's young troops to match his maniacal work ethic. Former employees recall Kocher storming through the sales floor, berating the legions of telesales reps to work harder--even at the risk of their family lives. "My son is six weeks old, and I've only held him three times--that's how committed I am to doing what it takes," one former manager remembers him saying. Kocher says he would never say such a thing, then adds, with a laugh: "But it's true."
CATALYST. For most of Dell's 10-year history, Kocher's brand of supersalesmanship kept the Austin-based upstart on a superfast growth path--from $100 million to nearly $3 billion since Kocher arrived in 1987. At first, it was easy to grab market share from flabby giants such as Compaq and IBM, which had enormous overhead--including sprawling research labs--and relied on dealers to sell their wares. But starting in 1992, the big guys shed their flab and dropped their prices. "We saw this guy Michael Dell and went to school on his model," says Ross Cooley, Compaq's senior vice-president for North America.
So, even though Kocher's troops rallied to meet the IBM and Compaq challenge, Dell still has battles to fight. Now, Kocher says, the company must break into new distribution channels and broaden its product line with successful portables to survive the coming consolidation in the PC industry. "It's brutally simple," says Kocher, who is president of worldwide sales, marketing, and service. "Either we have 15% market share by the end of the decade and thrive, or we have less than 15% and die." Dell has only 3.2% of the world market now, according to Dataquest Inc., and Kocher figures if it doesn't expand dramatically, the company will be lost in the crowd of second-tier players.
In short, it's time for Dell to grow up--and plot strategies to deliver both revenue growth and consistent profitability. "We realize we need to go from hypergrowth to hyperprofits before we can step on the gas again," says the 36-year-old Kocher. "We're like a teenager adjusting to new responsibilities. It's like going through puberty."
Job One is staying profitable. After posting a $76 million loss in its second quarter, ended last July, Dell returned to profitability during the third and fourth quarters. But on Mar. 3, the company was expected to report its first full-year loss as a public company. Analysts estimated that the loss would be from $38 million to $53 million on $2.9 billion in sales--just shy of the $3 billion Dell had once projected. Part of the loss is related to last year's botched effort to crack the notebook-PC business. The company wrote down $20 million to kill off its old laptops and abort a new line that didn't look competitive. It also took $71 million in inventory write-downs and restructuring costs. As of Mar. 1, Dell's shares traded at 24 7/8, up from 16 last fall, but about half of what they were when Kocher held his war rally.
ANOMALY. This year's marching orders: continue to patch gaping holes in the product line and shore up the internal systems that haven't kept up with Dell's growth. Pursuing its single-minded strategy has made Dell an anomaly among top players (charts, page 82). And its concentration on desktop PCs and direct sales has become limiting. So as Dell engineers try to diversify the product line with new notebooks, Kocher will be pushing harder to diversify beyond direct sales.
Dell will also have to work on easing the pressure-cooker work environment if it hopes to stabilize management. In the past two years, as the stress increased, all but a handful of top executives left the company, either forced out or just exhausted by the frantic pace. Says a former manager, who says he pulled all-nighters at least once a week: "They haven't figured out we're in a post-yuppie world. You have young guys in positions of huge responsibility, and they don't have any compunction about how they treat human beings."
CEO Michael Dell, now 29, and Iocher say that the turnover is simply a consequence of Dell's hair-raising growth. "There's been lots of forced turnover," says Dell, who has hired veteran executives from Kraft General Foods, Apple Computer, and Ernst & Young to get control of things. "It's hard for people to grow this fast, and some have a hard time accepting a smaller role."
The new guard could signal the end of the old shoot-from-the-hip Dell, where young managers had lots of latitude. "My five years at Dell were the best of my life," says former product-marketing manager Don McCord, 38, who recently left for IBM subsidiary Ambra Computer Corp. in Raleigh, N.C. "But with new layers of management coming in, it will never be the same."
Even Kocher admits that the new Dell isn't as much fun. A hotshot at Tandy Corp. who opened his first Radio Shack at age 24 and quickly became salesman of the year and regional manager of 115 stores, Kocher came into his own at Dell. "I'm bare-boned aggressive, and I like to pull the trigger," he says. Famous for his epic speeches on Dell's place in corporate history and game-show-like sales meetings complete with Mazda Miata giveaways, Kocher says he understands the disillusionment of some former employees. But the changes are vital, he insists: "Today, one creates advantage through execution. The margin for error is smaller."
CLOSER LOOK. So, rather than rush new models to market as quickly as possible, Dell now looks for profitable niches, such as outfitting corporate sales forces with notebooks. It hopes to cut costs by pushing preconfigured packages rather than building every PC to order. It's also measuring profit and loss for each product, geography, and customer segment and even has salespeople focused on profits: Commissions are now tied to gross profit.
Kocher's workday has changed, too. He still logs 16-hour days, but he has stopped working weekends. He spends less time plotting grand strategy and more on execution. Kocher and Chief Technical Officer Tom Thomas and Operations Vice-President F. Scott Flaig meet weekly to review all systems. One accomplishment: The time it takes to get each day's orders into the manufacturing system has dropped from seven hours to two. That has helped pare inventory turns from 85 days to just 35.
On the product front, Dell has jumped back into notebooks with a model built by AST Research Inc. It may follow up with subnotebooks made with Sony Corp. this summer. The company has also unveiled a new line of higher-margin PCs called servers, used for corporate networking.
But Dell is far from proclaiming a turnaround. Compaq and IBM renewed themselves by getting rid of excess resources. Dell never had bloated overhead. And it never had a lot of cash. That's still true, and as the company takes on a more complex business model, it could be a problem. Developing new distribution channels and keeping up with fast-changing portable-computer technologies will take money--more money than Dell's business now generates. The company's investment in research and development is one of the lowest in the PC industry. And the new notebook line won't help fatten profits much since Dell has to split the markup with AST, its manufacturer. Similarly, Dell will have to share profits with dealers as it expands beyond phone sales.
ALBATROSS. Another possible hitch: Near-term profits are earmarked to pay down $225 million in high-interest debt, acquired to stave off a cash crunch last summer. Rivals such as IBM and Compaq have little debt-service expense. "Dell must generate higher margins to pay for their higher cost structure, and it is not going to let them be the aggressive company they once were," says Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer.
While analysts say Dell is on the right track, it has yet to come up with answers to some thorny problems. Take its efforts to recruit PC dealers and other retailers, who sell 75% of all PCs. Dell moved into retail chains, such as CompUSA and Sam's Club, but sales have "slowed to a snail's pace in recent months," says David Goldstein of Channel Marketing Corp., a consulting firm in Dallas. Concedes CEO Dell: "We are not as pleased as we would like to be."
Efforts to woo PC dealers and distributors have been even less successful. Long lambasted by Dell as worthless middlemen, none wants to be first to make peace with the company. "It's an act of disloyalty to Compaq and IBM to take on Dell," says the CEO of one large chain. "Michael's going to have to get three or four of us to go at once."
Still, there are signs that Dell is maturing. The company has stopped poking fun at competitors in ads. And it's investing in internal systems to make sure costs don't spiral out of control again. "Don't ever bet against Michael Dell," warns G. Glenn Henry, who was the company's longtime technology chief before leaving in January to become the director of the PC division at MIPS Technologies Inc. "I don't think there's anyone other than Bill Gates who understands this business any better than he does."
As for Kocher, he's raring to launch Dell's next growth phase. "We haven't written the final chapter yet," he says. Maybe. But if he doesn't prove as adept at making profits as he is at making sales, it may not make fun reading.
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The title is a misquote of George Orwell's quote from Animal Farm
All animals are equal – but some animals are more equal than others
We tend to think of browsers as a utility and don't really care what version it is when viewing a web page
Unfortunately, the most common browser (and probably the one you are using right now) Internet Explorer 6 is also the least secure as well has a number of bugs whilst rendering web pages that it degrades the user experience. IE6 was launched in 2001 and due to its default install on Windows based computer pretty much dominant status till recently. Microsoft for various reasons had disbanded the IE development till recently and this led to the browser being very susceptible to security flaws which were actively exploited to install malware.
Over the last few years, there has been growing interest in alternatives for IE6 as individuals and corporations have realised that that its not worth putting all your eggs in one basket. This has led to innovation in terms of web standards and an improved user experience.
Microsoft has also responded to market pressure and customer demand and restarted IE development. They have launched Internet Explorer 7 which fixes a number of bugs in the IE6 engine as well as provides improved security. Security improvments come in the form of a built in phishing filter, opt-in ActiveX, an always available address bar so you know where the window is being launched form.
User experience improvements are provided in the form of tabbed window support, easy auto discovery of RSS feeds (we @ mumineen.org use RSS feeds extensively), integrated web search in the default toolbar , bug fixes to many rendering issues which make life for a web developer much simpler because they no longer have to spend time working around IE6 defeciencies but instead can focus on developing a better product
IE7 has been out for nearly 2 years and there have also been alternative browsers such as Firefox, Opera and Safari available which have similar features. Unfortunately our statistics show that nearly 40% of visits to our website come from IE6 so users haven't upgraded either to IE7 or any alternative browsers
The advantage of Firefox and Opera is that they are cross platform so if you are using Mac OSX or Linux then you have that browser available to you.
We want to take this opportunity to encourage our userbase to switch away from IE6 to any of the better alternatives namely IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari for a more secure and better browsing experience and as such we have coded a subtle message on our website specific to IE6 users encouraging them to take the plunge
If you have switched away from IE6, we applaud your judgement and hope that you will assist other mumineen in making that switch. Let's use the mantra
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Office / Adobe System Incorporated
Office / Adobe Systems Inc.
Acrobat Reader for Linux 3.0.1.
Office / Adobe
This is a port of Adobe Illustrator for MIPS-based IRIX computers.
Utility / Ñuño Martínez
Allegro.pas is a powerful game engine library for Pascal (Freepascal and Delphi)
OS / Google
System / Rocklyte Systems
An alternative display system/desktop for Linux.
Office / Axene
AXENE Office was a commercial office suite for Linux. When it was discontinued the source code was released under GNU GPL. This is the source (no bins sorry). It's not known if this is still compileable on modern Linuces. Rarely mentioned. You won't find much info on Google.
OS / Open Source
for more info, seek on: http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
Multimedia / Blender
A free and fully functional 3D modeling, rendering, animation and game creation package for Unix.
OS / Berkeley Software Design
Source code to BSDi 1.1 dating back to 1993, with some later 1994 updates patched in. The util_source was damaged so there is lost data. Sorry
Office / Berkeley Software Design
Source code to BSDi 2.0
OS / Commodore International
This is the Amiga Side Workbench boot disk to properly initialize an A1060 XT Sidecar on and Amiga 1000. With Transfer utilities etc.
Multimedia / Corel Corporation
Corel Photo Paint for Linux. This is likely not to work on modern Linux. But try something period correct.
Office / Corel Corporation
Corel Wordperfect 7.0, probably a "personal edition". This is likely not to work on modern Linux. Try a period appropriate one. The "tgz" archive is not the original. It's a conversion from rpm.
Office / Corel Systems
The last version of Corel WordPerfect PE for Linux. Requires libc 5 based distro. Or a libc 6 distro with libc 5 compatibility libraries. The last modern distro release that had libc 5 compatibilty libraries in the main repo (or at all) was Mandriva 2011 (32bit).
OS / DEC Corp.
This is the last release to have the 'Digital UNIX' banner and not the 'Compcrap TRU64' banner at login screen. Also includes Digital Unix OSF Base License Key.
OS / Not specified
This is a very fine version of Linux on a single floppy disk. There is also a data disk. The RawWrite program for Windows is also included.
OS / SGi
This IRIX source product contains a subset of the source code for IRIX and a build environment for the source files. (C) COPYRIGHT SILICON GRAPHICS, INC. UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
System / Borland International, Inc.
Borland's Kylix (Delphi for Linux).
OS / Linus Torvalds
First Linux release.
OS / Linux
The first kernel source code of Linux. Needs minix to run.
Linux 0.97 from August 1992. Includes 2 disk images and some text files (help, and Linux history, etc.) All files are original from 1992.
OS / Mario Valente
This is a very small version of Linux.
OS / Prentice Hall
This AmigaMINIX Version 1.5 by Prentice Hall. Boots on an Amiga with 1.5MB or more Memory
OS / n/a
Small one-floppy (1.7MB) linux distribution.
OS / Digital Equipment Corporation
This is the source tree for the "OSF/1 Release 1.0" Operating System component.
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Multimedia / Real Inc
OS / The Santa Cruz Operation
Sco UNIX SystemV Dissk images B1-B2-B3 X1_X2_X3 M1
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An earlier version of SkyOS from before it went commercial
Final release of SkyOs that was released free to public. Check beta.png for user and key. Does not use linux kernel, but was forced to pick an os option.
Office / Sun microsystems
Star Office 5.1 for Linux.
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This Archive contains files and programs suitable for installing SunOS 3.5 for sun3 architecture. It is derived from the Sun3 MC68020 install tapes (5 tapes, QIC-24 format). It will work on the following Sun3 MC68020 models: 3/50 3/60 3/75 3/110 3/140 3/150 3/160 3/180 3/260 3/280 3/E It will NOT work on the Sun3x MC68030 models (3/80 3/460 3/470 3/480)
OS / Sun
This is the SunOS 4.1.3 SUNSRC CD-ROM. It contains the source in 3 forms. 1. plain text source, as a ufs tree, rooted at the top level of this filesystem. Symlinks to the SCCS hierarchy are in place. 2. SCCS hierarchy, rooted at SCCS_DIRECTORIES. 3. a tar image of the SCCS hierarchy, in a file named 4.1.3_SUNSRC.tar. This is rooted at ./SCCS_DIRECTORIES. Please see the SunOS 4.1.3 Source Installation Guide for further details.
Other / n/a
Old floppy-based linux distro.
Linux distribution on a single floppy disk.
Sourcecode to Ultrix-32 version 2.0 for the DEC VAX
Sourcecode to Ultrix-32 version 4.2 for the DEC VAX & quickly abandoned DEC MIPS workstations.
This is a CPIO of a /usr slice from a VAX running SYSV r4. Includes some actual binaries, along with another source dump.
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Her is WordPerfect Version 8.0 Private Edition. This means, this Version is free for pirvate using. Only if you plan to use it for Commercial purposes, you have to Register before. For private use it is completely free.
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The boat ride around the world is my three year old daughter's very favorite thing at Disneyland. Even my 5 year old son who says he doesn't like it because he's "just not into dolls" was thrilled with the holiday version.
I've never been at Christmas and I sooo want to go now!
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Great shots! I love that ride.
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ProVision - with focus on sustainable growth
BTH with support from the Knowledge Foundation is specifically focusing to enhance research competence and collaboration based on the integration of systems engineering, sustainable development and innovation
It's easy to agree that we all would like to have sustainable growth. The challenge is to make it happen. ProVision deals with a unic combination of Innovation, system technology and sustainable development in cooperation with industry and society to contribute to sustainable growth.
Innovation, system technology and sustainable development
Climate questions, environment problems, poverty, social unfairness, competitiveness and growth are examples on today's challenges. To find solutions of the problems we must work with ecologic, economic and social development and they must all go hand in hand. Sustainable development is about creating the right and relevant conditions for a long-term economic development with good environment and social welfare. It means for example that economic growth could not be at the expense of environmetal pollution or a segregate society. Social welfare and economic growth must be combined with a good environment. Sustainable growth could be created by integration of Innovation, system technology and sustainable development.
The core of the ProVision project is to integrate BTH's strong areas within Innovation, system technology and sustainable development..
Please visit the BTH ProVision page (currently only in Swedish) for information about collaboration opportunities with BTH or contact Prof. Göran Broman.
Research with a Sustainability Focus
Research with a sustainability focus is conducted in various different faculties and departments at BTH and include major research programmes such as:
Specific research projects with a sustainability focus change regularly. A current list of projects is presented in the poster below:
What is BTH researching to help move society towards sustainability?
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Sustainable Product Innovation research at BTH
Below is a sample of the projects BTH researchers are currently undertaking. These projects explore how the framework for strategic sustainable development and other sustainability concepts can assist in sustainable product innovation. Methods and tools developed at BTH are being published in international peer-reviewed journals and are now being used by organisations and researchers around the world. A small number of MSLS students have become involved in these research projects either through their thesis projects or by staying to pursue PhD research.
Our Sustainable Product Innovation Research IniTiative (SPIRIT) is a major programme for ongoing research within the department of Mechanical Engineering. It is also a key component of the Real Change, which is a research program that aims to support the worlds decision-makers in their promotion of sustainability and at ensuring that their decision-making will rest on scientific foundations leading to real change. (see more on Real Change below)
Follow the links below to find out more about some specific projects we are working on:
Prioritisation Support for Sustainable Product Development
Effective and Sustainable Waterjet cutting
Functional product development and simulation
Labelling & Procurement Support for Sustainable Innovation
Real Change
Real Change was officially launched on 9 May 2008 at the Leadership Challenge in Stockholm with His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and the Director Generals from the five Swedish agencies supporting the programme. Real Change will support the worlds decision makers in business, communities and governments as they implement sustainability solutions - ensuring that their decision making will be based on scientific foundations and will result in real change towards sustainability.
Real Change is a partnership between the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Lund University and The Natural Step. The following are some of the key individuals involved in the programme's strategy and coordination:
Göran Broman, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Programme Director
Harald Sverdrup, Lund University
Jonas Oldmark, The Natural Step
Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Blekinge Institute of Technolgy and The Natural Step
See more information at www.realchange.nu
MiSt - TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING
MiSt is an interdisciplinary research programme on tools for environmental assessment in strategic decision making funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency . The programme is co-ordinated from the Spatial Planning Programme of Blekinge Institute of Technology.
The focus of the MiSt-programme is the empirical study of effectiveness of tools of environmental assessment as aid to strategic decision making. The object of the research is to study the function of tools that aid in environmental assessment as a key component in strategic decision making.
The aim is:
- a critical examination of the function of tools
- a theory based understanding of their effectiveness
- and ultimately a development of prescriptions for effective tool use including effective combinations of tools.
Two perspectives running through the programme are public participation and legal regulation of tools.
There are four components to the program:
- Empirical research projects;
- Concurrent programme activities aiming at integrating projects, including a "research school" for doctoral students from the programme institutions but also from other institutions;
- Exploratory projects which will lead to further empirical projects;
- Synthesis and summary including communication with users.
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Beyond COLD
Published 7:00 pm, Sunday, February 4, 2007
DETROIT (AP) Michigan remained in the grip of bitter cold that played havoc with cars and water mains, prompted the closure of schools and wasnt likely to ease up for days.
The National Weather Service had winter storm warnings in effect for most of eastern Upper Michigan, where up to 11 inches of new snow was possible by Monday night, and the northwest Lower Peninsula, where up to eight inches of new snow could fall by Monday night. The weather services Marquette office said wind chills could dip to 45 below in some parts of the U.P.
Temperatures in southeast Michigan were expected to rise into the single digits by noon Monday, while winds of up to 20 mph were expected to produce wind chills of between 20 and 30 below, the National Weather Service in Oakland Countys White Lake Township said. The normal low for Feb. 5 in Detroit is 18.
Forecasters said highs would not reach the 20s anywhere in the state until Wednesday and would not surpass the freezing mark at least through Sunday. Wind chills in southeast Lower Michigan were expected to feel like about 20 degrees below zero on unprotected skin, said weather service meteorologist David Koehler.
A wind chill warning was in effect until midday Monday for the Thumb region and other areas near Lake Hurons Saginaw Bay. Wind chill readings there could approach 30 below zero, the weather service said.
The National Weather Service in Gaylord posted a warning Monday saying wind chills could produce frostbite in a matter of minutes.
Its the wind chill that causes the problems, Koehler said late Sunday. People should dress warmly in layers. People should really stay inside thats the best thing to do.
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was working to repair at least 30 water main breaks blamed on the cold, spokesman George Ellenwood told The Detroit News.
The weather also prompted many calls for help from drivers.
During the weekend, 10,000 motorists called for assistance. And thats a record in recent years, Nancy Cain, spokeswoman for AAA Michigan, said Monday. This morning weve already had 300 calls for help.
Cain said the majority of calls were for dead batteries and jump starts. Others called to report locking their keys inside cars after starting them to warm them up, she said.
The automobile assistance service called in extra staff Monday to its call center and contract road crews, Cain said.
AAA recommends motorists keep gas tanks half-full to prevent freezing, Cain said.


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There are a lot of different ways to help train young yorkie ears to stand up. They will usually stand up on their own by approximately 12 weeks of age – each puppy is different!
I have had the best success using Tear Mender Fabric & Leather Repair Adhesive –
- as follows:
First, try to picture in your mind a telephone pole-standing tall and straight- and the guywire that holds the pole up. The guywire is attached a ways down from the top and runs at an angle to the ground to secure the pole.
Second, when reading these instructions remember that you are trying to glue hair to hair and NOT glue hair to skin. I have not had any skin reactions to Tear Mender but what goes on must come off at some point. Keep the glue in the hair and you can always cut the hair later. It also comes off easily with any surgical glue/adhesive remover.
ONLY the longer hair on the tips of the hair and back about ½"-you need
the longer hair on the body of the ear to work with. Fold
the ear in half bringing the sides (edges) together and apply a small
drop of Tear Mender to the hair hanging off the edge of the ear about
half way down the length of the ear. Press the glue into the hair of both edges to hold it together. The ear now looks like a little "horn" sticking off the side of the head.
Next put a drop of glue about one third or one half way down in the hair on the fold of the outside of the ear - which is facing the other ear. Stand
the folded ear up to the correct position (remember the telephone pole)
and then get a small amount of the longer hair on the top of the head
(remember the guywire) and press the hair on the ear and the hair coming
from the top of the head together. You now have the folded ear standing up straight and the hair from the center of the head holding it up in position.
You can also use this method and skip the first part of folding the ear in half. Some ears will stand up fine and some will not, some need the extra strength that the fold offers.
NOTE: if the ear is folded, you should NOT leave it glued together at the edges longer than 2 or 3 days as you can trap moisture and bacteria in the fold. Remove the glue, let the ear rest a day and repeat if necessary. If you can get the ear up without folding it you can leave it up as long as you want. Some ears will stand in a couple days, some you need to repeat several times until they stand on their own. Once
they show that they are going to stand up, be sure and clip ALL the
hair off the outside to at least two thirds of the way down the length
of the ear. The hair is incredibly heavy and by removing it the ear will have a chance to get stronger without the weight of the hair. By
the time the hair grows back the ear will be strong enough to continue
to stand up correctly with the weight of the hair. This method seems to
be the least annoying to the puppy that I have tried.
Sound easy enough? I
forgot to tell you that you must do all this while the puppy wiggles at
90 MPH, tries to lick the glue off the back of it's head and knock over
the bottle of Tear Mender and walk in it. You might want to recruit a friend to help and also go thru the instructions once without glue! Good luck!
hello brandi could youse d me more pictures of the female cha weenies you had on pennswoods? my mother talked to you today. you can text or call me at8145054274
hello my names alexis kensinger! my mom called you guys about the cha-weenie puppies you posted on pennswoods. is there a way i could come see the female?
Hi please tell Chris I said thank you. Yes I have puppies please give me a call.
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It is time for another Phone Case Of The Month post. I have to say that I am not a huge fan of this months case but that is to be expect with a subscription service. Here are a few pictures of this month's case:
So that was my case this month. What do you think?
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There are a lot of reasons why I want to dislike DJ Quik & Kurupt's new single "The Demon's Carol." However, after setting aside my personal bias, what strikes me about this extremely violent single from BlaQKout 2 is the song achieves what it set out to do.
Dedicated to critics & enemies alike, the overall sentiment here is revenge, with well-spit messages of death to anyone who won't coincide, over slow-rolling anthem-esque production from Quik. However, no matter how spot-on the delivery is here, there's no denying 90% of their fans would rather hear something a little more light-hearted. Just sayin.'
Please Q, don't murder me for wanting Rhythm-al-ism 2.
DJ Quik & Kurupt – "The Demon's Carol"


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Beer Man is a weekly profile of beers from across the country and around the world.
This week: Fox Barrel Wit Pear Cider
Fox Barrel Cider Co., Colfax, Calif.
Hard cider consumption in the United States is booming, with sales rising 85% from 2011 to 2012, and sales of the 10 largest cider brands in the country doubling in the same period, according to market research firm Information Resources Inc.
One of the best companies is Fox Barrel Cider Co. It is unique in that its whole cider line is based on pears (its apple cider line is Crispin). I wrote about its Blackberry Pear Cider nearly a year ago and mentioned in passing some of its other offerings, without having tried them.
That has now been rectified after trying out an excellent variety pack the company offers. The Wit Pear has much to offer to cider, beer and wine drinkers.
Craft beer drinkers will be interested in that Wit Pear is made with orange peel and coriander, two main spices in Belgian-style witbiers, of which Hoegaarden and Blue Moon are examples. That comparison is justified even more in that the cider is fermented with Belgian witbier yeast.
Think of the 6.5% ABV Wit Pear as a witbier without the barley, wheat and oat grain presence. It is more than that, however, because of the addition of honey. The first taste is honey and pear, with the orange peel, coriander and some sweet notes becoming more prominent in the finish. The honey also provides a nice floral softness at the end after an initial perky carbonation.
The color of the beer is a golden orange and it has nice clarity, but it is unfiltered with sediment in the bottom of the 22-ounce bottle, so a careful pour is recommended.
Fox Barrel is distributed in about 28 states, but has unfortunately removed its distributor information from its website. All it now gives is an email@example.com e-mail address and phone number, 530-346-9699.
Also worth noting: Although the beverage is called Wit Pear on the company's website, it does not say that anywhere on the bottle, which makes it difficult for consumers to ask for it. The main titles on the front label say, "Orange Peel and Coriander Cidery Reserve Unfiltered Pear Cider."
Many beers are available only regionally. Check the brewer's website, which often contains information on product availability. Contact Todd Haefer at email@example.com. To read previous Beer Man columns Click here.


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Scrapworthy Lives is a blog about scrapbooking with a sometimes sociological twist. My dissertation, Scrapworthy Lives: A Cognitive Sociological Analysis of a Modern Narrative Form, is the inspiration for the site and each Wednesday, the posts come directly from my dissertation. The rest of the days contain posts about scrapbooking that are not specifically related to my dissertation.
Here are a few posts from my dissertation to get you started:
- Why Scrapbooking
- A Collection of Posts on Scrapbooking Norms
- 10 Behind the Scenes Details about my Study on Scrapbooking
And here is the abstract from my dissertation:
Over the past 20 years, scrapbooking has become immensely popular in America. This dissertation is the study of scrapworthy lives, that is, how lives become structured by scrapbooking and how people show others that their own life and the lives of their loves ones are valued—or scrapworthy. I conducted in-depth interviews with 38 scrapbookers, 11 scrapbook industry workers, and 10 family and friends of scrapbookers. I also used photo-elicitation interviewing techniques with both the scrapbookers and the family members and friends of 10 scrapbookers to examine a selection of scrapbook pages the respondent had completed. I used grounded theory methods to analyze my data, providing a more thorough understanding of scrapbooking.
Scrapbooks are a site where people socially construct a narrative of their life. Through scrapbooking, scrapbookers do gender, family, race, ethnicity, and religion. Stratification within the larger society can be seen within the scrapbooking thought community. Moreover, through scrapbooking, one can demonstrate their membership in other thought communities (e.g., motherhood). Though a scrapbooker is able to demonstrate their gender, family status, race, ethnicity, and religion through scrapbooking, the hobby is done primarily for the scrapbooker and not for others. Scrapbooking is a leisure activity, though some may consider it as a form of work.
Scrapbookers are a thought community in their own right and an excellent site to explore Zerubavel's (1997) six cognitive acts (i.e., perceiving, classifying, reckoning time, attending, assigning meaning, and remembering). In particular, scrapbookers come to classify nearly everything (including people, things, time, and space) in the world around them as either scrapworthy or not.
Scrapbooks are a modern narrative form though versions of scrapbooks have been around for centuries. Scrapbooks are memorials about everyday life. The content of scrapbooks is what is left out of the typical history book but is considered just as memorable by the individual scrapbooker. Scrapbookers are storytellers. These stories could just as easily be passed down orally or recorded on blogs and some scrapbooks combine elements of oral histories and blogs. Ultimately, scrapbooks are memorials about the scrapbooker.
Click here for a pdf version of my dissertation.
And if you would like to review just a section of the dissertation, I have split it up below. If you are referencing the dissertation, make sure you reference from the complete file as page numbers in the smaller files might not match with the main document.
- Front Matter (Title, Abstract, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents)
- Chapter 1_Introduction
- Chapter 2_Theoretical Framework
- Chapter 3_Methods
- Chapter 4_The Scrapbooking Thought Community
- Chapter 5_Doing Gender, Family, Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
- Chapter 6_Scrapbooking as a Classification System
- Chapter 7_Time
- Chapter 8_Social Memories
- Chapter 9_Conclusions
- References
- Appendices
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NCAAB Basketball - Preview
The fans at KeyArena will be treated to a game between the UC Riverside Highlanders and the Seattle Redhawks when they take their seats on Monday.
Last time out for UC Riverside, they were a 74-59 winner as they battled Southern Utah on the road. They covered in the match as a 3-point underdog.
Seattle was an 86-68 loser in their most recent outing on the road against Boise State.
UC Riverside:
Team record: 2-2 SU, 2-2 ATS
Current streak: won 2 straight games.
is 2-3-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
is 1-10 SU in its last 11 games on the road
When playing on Monday are 3-4
Before playing Loyola Marymount are 1-2
After playing Southern Utah are 3-2
After a win are 2-8
Team record: 2-2 SU, 0-0 ATS
is 3-9 SU in its last 12 games at home
is 5-19 SU in its last 24 games
When playing on Monday are 0-1
Before playing Eastern Washington are 3-4
After playing Boise State are 1-0
After a loss are 3-7
Next up:
UC Riverside home to Loyola Marymount, Monday, December 2
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DENVER (August 14, 2015) – Denver Startup Week, the largest free entrepreneurial event of its kind in North America, announced today that registration is open for the fourth annual event aimed at growing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Denver. Denver Startup Week will take place from Sept. 28 through Oct. 2, 2015 and will include more than 150 free community events with six concurrent programming tracks geared toward the entire entrepreneurial team, including founder, developer, growth, product, designer and maker.
More than 520 events were submitted to the Denver Startup Week organizing committee and then voted on by the Denver Startup Week community. More than 20,000 votes were cast to help identify the events that will occur at locations throughout Downtown Denver. Events include networking sessions, mentor hours, workshops and presentations spanning six programming tracks.
View the calendar and register: www.DenverStartupWeek.org/schedule
(Note: Additional events will continue to be added to the calendar and announced as details become available.)
Back by popular demand: Basecamp, launched by Chase
Since 2013, Basecamp, launched by Chase, has been the entrepreneurial hub and epicenter for all Denver Startup Week attendees. Basecamp will return this year at its same location in the heart of Downtown Denver at Arapahoe and 16th Street Mall, located at Ashford University's Denver Online Center on the first floor of 1515 Arapahoe Street. Expect an exciting line-up of entrepreneurs and innovators to hit the Basecamp stage during Denver Startup Week, including Ryan Martens of Rally Software and Pledge 1% and Brad Feld of Techstars and The Foundry Group. Additional details about Basecamp activities will be released in the coming weeks.
Denver Startup Week is a platform to encourage the community to convene, collaborate and create, and is focused on:
· Enhancing the sense of community amongst Denver entrepreneurs, with specific focus on Downtown Denver;
· Highlighting Denver as an entrepreneurial center on the local, regional, and national stage; and
· Providing education, inspiration, and networking events for the Denver entrepreneurial community.
Get the latest information about Denver Startup Week by visiting www.DenverStartupWeek.org, following @DENStartupWeek and liking the DSW FaceBook Page.
* Photos from Denver Startup Week 2014 available upon request.
About Denver Startup Week:
Denver Startup Week, founded in 2012, is a celebration of everything entrepreneurial in Denver. The weeklong event is intended to unite the entrepreneurial community in Denver and celebrate the great companies, innovation and ideas happening in the City and the people and inspiration behind them. The core programming is centered on the entrepreneurial community with an emphasis in technology, design, social entrepreneurship, manufacturing and business. Events throughout the week are organized by both the Denver Startup Week Organizing Committee and the community at-large and include sessions, presentations, panels, workshops, happy hours, social events, job fairs and more. Denver Startup Week is sponsored by the Downtown Denver Partnership, Colorado Technology Association, Chase, Comcast, Ping Identity and numerous community sponsors and Denver entrepreneurs. For more information visitwww.DenverStartupWeek.org.
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The Mississippi Department of Education honored 57 schools Nov. 8 for academic achievement or progress during a ceremony at the Central High School Building in Jackson.
East Webster High School was among those honored.
MDE staff recognized schools that have earned the title of High Progress, Gold Ribbon, High Performing or Distinguished under federal Title 1 guidelines as "Champions of Change."
"We recognize that accomplishing this level of achievement or progress doesn't happen by accident," said Dr. Kim Benton, interim deputy state superintendent for instructional enhancement and internal operations.
The federal Title I program provides funding to schools across the country for students at risk of failure and living at or near poverty. The goal of funding is to provide students with a fair and equal opportunity to meet challenging academic standards and to help school districts close the achievement gap.
EWHS was one of eight schools that earned the High Performing status because they have demonstrated the greatest gains in closing achievement gaps among students and improving student performance for three consecutive years.


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Next 'Makeover' has local ties Show to air Sunday on ABC
Published 7:00 pm, Thursday, November 27, 2008
Stacy Langley
HOLT —When the team behind ABC's hit television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, came to Holt, near Lansing, a Huron County native had a chance to work behind the scenes to help make one family's dream come true.
Tricia VanderPloeg, daughter of Cathy and Paul Lerash of Bad Axe, spent time working on the project as a part of her job as the deputy supervisor/administrative assistant for the Delhi Charter Township, which encompasses the area where the home was built late this summer. Recipients were the Nickless family, which includes Arlene, the mother, and her children, Aaron, 11, Noah, 9, and Andrew, 7.
VanderPloeg said she was first notified by the senior location manager the first week of August, asking her to coordinate a meeting with a few representatives from Delhi Township, Ingham County and the utility companies.
At that time, VanderPloeg said the show was just considering a home in Holt.
"This first meeting was to explain what they (the Extreme Home Makeover team) do, how they do it and what cooperation they need to make it happen," she explained. "We then met again the following week to discuss builders and provided them with a list of builders who would meet their criteria."
The team requires that builders construct about 100 houses a year and have the sub-contractor base to build a home in a week.
On Aug. 22, the group met at the house being considered. Included in this meeting were Executive Producer Conrad Ricketts and other Extreme Makeover staff.
"This meeting included the township staff, county staff, utilities and the builder that was selected, Mayberry Homes," she said. "We were not allowed to enter the home at this time, (as) the family had not been officially selected. The family was told they were one of five finalists and staff needed to see the property that day to help narrow down the selection process."
What viewers who tune in to the Sunday evening show may not know is one of the stipulations of selecting a home is that 100 percent of the building project must be donated — every hour of labor right down to each nail.
"My job during the whole process was to coordinate all the government agencies involved and any utility companies that needed to be involved," said VanderPloeg.
During the month of September, VanderPloeg's job included working with the location's team, which was sent to the area on Sept. 4, coordinating parking sites and shuttles, helping to find hotels that could accommodate 70 rooms for a week and a half, and dealing with other issues that came up.
VanderPloeg said the entire process is "actually very well organized."
"The show sends a location's crew of two people who are in charge of working with the builders, securing the parking sights, notifying the neighbors that a particular house is 'under consideration,' and so if chosen, there would be construction traffic, stage lighting (and) 24-hour construction," she said. "They also work with the neighbors in using their driveways (and) yards for parking. It's a lot of work, but after doing so many, I guess they have it down pat. I was the location crew's main contact for any questions they had on the area, where to find things, numbers to contact. (I) helped them in any way that I could to make sure everything was ready for the crew when they came in for the Sept. 26 knock on the door."
VanderPloeg said the entire process leading up to the build is very "tight lipped."
"I think what might also surprise people who watch the show is all the planning way in advance. The house is designed, permits pulled (and) the builder lines up all their sub-contractors and donors three weeks before, but no one but those few people involved in the meetings know where the house is until the day Ty (Pennington, the show's host) knocks on the door," said VanderPloeg. "This is very difficult when you can't say anything to anyone about this exciting event. It also makes you feel really bad for those other four families who were under consideration, but you know aren't getting chosen."
And for those viewers who say it can't be done, VanderPloeg said the house truly is built in less than seven days.
"The knock occurred on a Friday and it was Sunday that the house underwent demolition. The foundation is poured Sunday and then Monday morning begins the exterior construction. To help, some of the framing is completed offsite and hauled in," she explained. "The exterior was completed by Wednesday morning, and then the interior is done and completed by early, early Friday morning, so Friday can be spent moving in furniture and decorating. While the designers do truly work very hard on this project, there are hundreds of volunteers on site every hour of the day painting, cleaning, planting flowers, helping put together rooms. Without them, there would be no show — or it would take a lot longer than seven days.
"I did learn that when Ty (Pennington) picks a project to do, he does truly do it himself. I don't know if he chose a project for this house, as he was only in Holt the Friday through Sunday and then came back on Thursday evening late. He was in between the Holt house and another house in a different state."
VanderPloeg said she feels working with the show was "a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
"It's a lot of work, very exhausting, but very rewarding. The entire crew (from security guards, to locations, to production) was lots of fun to work with and be around. The few design crew members that I had a chance to meet were down-to-earth people and very nice. And to see the family's face when they see their house for the first time is just amazing."
VanderPloeg said she did not get a chance to meet the family during the process, even though she was familiar with their story.
Her plans for Sunday evening when the show airs is to be at the Breslin Center on the campus of Michigan State University, where she will get a chance to met the Nickless family and view the show for the first time.


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Judas Priest's Rob Halford on Touring: 'We Are Still Going to Be Out There'
Judas Priest may have a lot of mileage on them, but frontman Rob Halford says that the addition of guitarist Richie Faulkner to the lineup has rolled back the odometer a bit. The group had openly discussed their 'Epitaph' shows being their final world tour, but the frontman says that may not exactly be the case.
Halford told WVOX.com's Metal Mayhem show (as excerpted by Bravewords.com), "It's turned out not to be the final world tour. What we tried to do as we suddenly got into gear again, and especially since Richie came onboard, we suddenly realized that now there were more opportunities opening up. What was a final global world tour in the way that we've been doing them for the past thirty odd years is just going to change slightly."
Detailing the change, Halford explained, "We're going to do a European tour for about a month or two months and then instead of jumping on a plane and going straight to New York to start an American tour, we're just going to pull back and put a bit of space to recharge our batteries and to be able to keep that special feeling that Priest always wants to generate when we go on stage. We have a big responsibility not only to ourselves, but to our fans that we don't want to drop the ball." The "metal god" concluded, "It's not the end of touring, we are still going to be going out there."
These days the band can also transition a bit as they will now be supporting the 'Epitaph' concert DVD. Unlike a lot of DVDs that attempt to fill with "behind-the-scenes" footage, the vocalist sees this as more of a true concert document. He says, "This DVD is like a documentary without people yapping on it. It's the music speaking for itself. I think that's the best way when you are trying to tell the life of a band."
Judas Priest's 'Epitaph' DVD and Blu-Ray editions are available now.


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DUBLIN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The liquidator selling assets left behind by collapsed Anglo Irish Bank will likely offload at least half of them before the remainder is moved to the county's "bad bank," finance minister Michael Noonan said on Wednesday.
Anglo Irish, renamed the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) in its final years, was put into liquidation last year in a deal that released Dublin from a commitment to quickly pay off a 29 billion euro ($40 billion) debt to the bank.
The liquidators, KPMG, must either complete the sale of its assets by early this year or transfer them to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the state-owned "bad bank" which is already one of the world's biggest property groups.
"The quantum that is under the control of the special liquidator is about 12.6 (billion) I think, on the special liquidators sale of assets at present, it looks as if he'll sell at least half of that, maybe more," Noonan told parliament.
"That's a rough estimate because you never know what you sell until it's actually bought, but the expectation with the level of interest there is that 6 billion of that will be bought before it's transferred to NAMA."
Ireland is still trying to put its banking industry in order after its 2008 rescue of the sector pushed it deep into debt and eventually forced it to seek help from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. Anglo Irish had run into trouble when a property bubble burst after years of reckless lending.
NAMA paid 12.9 billion euros in advance of taking on some of the IBRC loans following February's special liquidation and will be reimbursed by the state if the loans are valued independently at less than that outlay.
The special liquidator concluded bidding for the first of four packages of assets last month and said it expected to sell 84 percent of that portfolio with a par value of about 2.5 billion euros above independent valuations.
The liquidator was charged with selling loans with a total pre-provision value of 22 billion and Noonan said last month he did not expect any further calls on the state's finances over those already budgeted when the process is complete.
NAMA and Irish-based banks deleveraging their loan books have found increasing demand for assets they have recently put on the block, a trend also evident in other peripheral euro zone countries like Spain which is mulling the sale of part of its stake in bailed-out Bankia.


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Course: Foundations of Higher Math
This is in the chapter titled, "More on Direct Proof and Proof by Contrapositive"
Let , where and . Prove that if and , then or
Proof by contrapositive seems too difficult, so I'm trying a direct proof.
Assume that and , i.e. and , for some
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The Ten Series Results, after ten events in 2014 can be viewed on the following links 10 series Div1 & Div2 and 10 series Div3, Ladies and Juveniles
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Follow this link NFCC 2018 Events Calendar for all this year's events. The PDF download includes details of all the club time trials and contact details for Margaret in order to ring up on the day and reserve a start slot (NFCC members before midday, non members after midday). For the Training Blog, with […]
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Kevin Love Sets Timberwolves Franchise Record for Consecutive 30-Point GamesFebruary 26, 2014
Power forward Kevin Love made Minnesota Timberwolves history on Tuesday, topping the 30-point mark for a franchise-record sixth consecutive game in a 110-101 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
Tuesday's 32-point performance capped off a historic month of February for the three-time All Star, who is arguably enjoying the finest season of his career.
In addition to the six consecutive 30-point games, Love became the first NBA player since Moses Malone in March 1982 to record at least 34 points and 14 rebounds per game in a calendar month, per ESPN Stats & Info.
Of course, Love did miss two games in February, and the All-Star break meant that the Timberwolves only had 12 games scheduled during the month in the first place. All in all, Love played just 10 games in February, while Malone played 16 games in a 29-day stretch during his historic run.
Though Love's February doesn't quite match up to what the legendary Malone did in March 1982, the star power forward still probably had the best individual month in Timberwolves franchise history—Love's 34 points per game in February set a franchise record for scoring average in a calendar month, as per the T-Wolves official Twitter account.
Incredibly, no other player in Timberwolves history has averaged 30 points per game for an entire month, while Love has now accomplished the feat on three separate occasions.
Widely considered the second-best player in franchise history, Love still has a long way to go before he can hold a candle to Kevin Garnett. An all-out assault on the franchise record books is a nice place to start, but Love still hasn't made the playoffs, a feat that KG accomplished in eight consecutive seasons with the Timberwolves.
Heading into Sunday's game against the Sacramento Kings, Minnesota (28-29) is 5.5 games behind the Suns (33-23) for the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference. Tuesday's win over the Suns was a great start, but Love still faces an uphill battle.


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What is the Mortgage to Rent Scheme?
The Mortgage to Rent Scheme is a Government Initiative to help homeowners who are at risk of losing their homes due to mortgage arrears. The Scheme is an option for people who have been involved in the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process (MARP) with their lender.
Under the Mortgage to Rent Scheme, you will voluntarily surrender ownership of your home to your lender. A Housing Association (A housing association is a registered charity and a 'not for profit' organisation which has been approved by the Government to provide and manage housing) will buy your home from your lender and become your landlord. You will no longer own your home but you will continue to live in it as a tenant of the Housing Association. You will pay an income related rent set by the Local Authority.
Your participation in the Scheme will have significant implications for your tenure, so you should give it careful consideration.
You will no longer own your property, but you can continue living in your home as a social housing tenant and have a tenancy agreement with the Housing Association.


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Lemony citrus vodka and pomegranate juice make this gorgeous, ruby-hued martini a cocktail-hour favorite.
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Level: Easy
Serves: 1
- ½ oz. Stirrings Simple Syrup
- 1½ oz. Smirnoff Citrus Vodka
- 1 oz. fresh unsweetened pomegranate juice
- 1 wedge lemon
- In a cocktail shaker combine Stirrings Simple Syrup, Smirnoff Citrus Vodka, and pomegranate juice with plenty of ice.
- Cover and shake vigorously.
- Strain into a martini glass.
- Garnish with lemon wedge.
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Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie fires Hue Jackson
RAIDERS / Hue Jackson Fired GM 'researched' coach before decision; is Packers' Moss replacement?
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Among Hue Jackson's many catchphrases in 2011, the Raiders' head coach often would say, "The time is now." And Tuesday morning, new Oakland general manager Reggie McKenzie agreed, firing Jackson after one 8-8 season.
"There comes a time when change is necessary," McKenzie said. "For the Raiders, the time is now."
Jackson was shocked, thinking he had owner Mark Davis' backing regardless of who became general manager. But on a day when Davis said he had "patience" as the team's new owner and McKenzie said it would be a "thorough" process evaluating the assistant coaches and players, they fired Jackson hours after the ink dried on McKenzie's contract.
McKenzie said he has a short list of coaches to replace Jackson, and league sources said that Packers assistant coach Winston Moss is at the top of the list. The next head coach will be Oakland's seventh in the past 10 seasons, following Bill Callahan, Norv Turner, Art Shell, Lane Kiffin, Tom Cable and Jackson.
Davis cited the team's "disappointing" 1-4 record to close the season but said it was McKenzie's decision to fire Jackson. McKenzie said he wanted to bring in his own coach and that he had "researched" Jackson and made his decision before meeting with Jackson on Tuesday morning.
Davis declined to address the issue on the record, but several league sources said he was not happy with Jackson's comments after the season-ending loss to the Chargers that knocked the Raiders out of the playoffs. Jackson blamed the players and defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan for the loss, all while saying he wanted a "stronger hand" in the organization.
It was not the best time to voice that, considering Jackson made a "playoffs or bust" trade for quarterback Carson Palmer and had promised to fix the penalty problem. The Raiders set an NFL record for most penalties and penalty yards.
Ripping the players - and seemingly passing the buck - was a blatant no-no under late owner Al Davis, and Jackson might have taken Mark Davis for granted on that one. The younger Davis has been close to and loyal to the players for years, dating back to before McKenzie played linebacker for the Raiders in the 1980s.
When Jackson later asked to be involved in the process of finding a general manager, Mark Davis said no.
The decision to fire Jackson was seemingly both Davis' and McKenzie's, but Jackson told Yahoo Sports that it was totally Davis' call.
"It's Mark Davis' football team, and Mark's going to do what he thinks is best," Jackson said. "In the end, I think he said, 'I want to put my own stamp on it,' and he wanted his own coach."
Davis, though, said McKenzie will choose the new head coach and make all the personnel decisions, with the head coach ultimately reporting to the general manager.
Before he died Oct. 8 of heart failure, Al Davis made all the coaching hires and personnel decisions. But as Mark quickly noted in his first time addressing the media as owner, he is not his father.
"Change happened on Oct. 8," Davis said. "The one thing I know is what I don't know. The one thing I did know was I needed to bring the right people in here. ...
"My feeling always has been that if my father wasn't here, we needed someone to run that football side of the building. I needed to find the right person. I truly believe that Reggie McKenzie is the right man for this job."
McKenzie, coming off 18 years working in the Packers' front office, also will gut the scouting department and bring the Raiders' personnel office into the 21st century. The days of ex-players deferring to Al Davis are over, but not all of the late owner's staples are out the window.
"I like big and strong, always will," McKenzie said. "I like speed, too; that's not going to change."
McKenzie, 48, was recommended to Davis by former Packers general manager Ron Wolf, who worked for 25 years with Al Davis on the Raiders. Mark Davis interviewed McKenzie for six hours, with the help of former Oakland head coach John Madden, and that was the only interview Davis did for the general-manager position. He knew he had his man.
McKenzie played linebacker for the L.A. Raiders from 1985 through '88, and the Raiders brought in several of his former teammates for the news conference.
"Guys, this is where I came from. I'm back home now. I'm back home," he said. "As soon as Mark told me, 'We want you for the job,' I couldn't, you know, I couldn't stop smiling."
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Wicca : This is a religion where you believe in The God and The Goddess or Lord and Lady, as well as karma. For clarification please understand that not all wiccans are witches. Witchcraft is just that, a craft. When people think, "magick" they automativally run to Wicca and conflate it to be the same thing. Magick/Witchcraft can be done inside of religion, but no religion or deity is actually necessary.
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Inspired on:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianic_Wicca
Depends on what God/Godess you follow but i don't think you need to exactly follow that religion just to worship them.
Nope, you don't. Wicca is just one of many religions where goddesses and gods are worshipped.
The Lord and Lady of the Wica are a particular God and a particular Goddess whose names are divulged only to the properly initiated. In general the Goddess is associated with the Moon, while the God is often portrayed with antlers and rules over the fields and forests.
The Deities of Wicca are neither Jesus/Mary Magdalene, nor Satan/Lilith. The beliefs and practices of Wicca have no relationship with Christianity nor Christian views of the Divine. Check out the thread "What Wicca Is and Isn't" for more information.
Whitesoul, I am going to disagree with part of your statement here.
It is very true that one does not have to become Wiccan unless one wants to. It is also very true that not all Witches are Wiccan. Witchcraft is a form of magical practice while Wicca is a religion.
However, I will disagree with your statement that not all Wiccans are Witches, because they are. Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern Wicca, clearly stated that Wiccans practiced Witchcraft and should be considered Witches. While some Wiccans choose to rarely if ever cast spells, they certainly know how to go about doing so at need. Furthermore, all Wiccans do practice magic such as charging their tools, raising a circle, banishing negative energies, healing work, etc. In doing so they are practicing Witchcraft and are, therefore, Witches. The difference is that Wiccans practice their magical skills within a religious context, nothing more.