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Thanks, they were off for just 10-15 minutes then came back on, don't know if it was cable here or their feed from NY.
My lights flickered at several points today. I just looked up at the ceiling fixture and held my breath. Very fortunately, the flickers stopped without further incident. I hope there are no more threats to my power. We have underground power lines here and are on higher ground.

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Why I Bought An E34 M5
A ton of people have asked me why I bought an E34 M5. While it's been over five months since I've bought my car, it's taken me this long to fully understand it. At the time, I knew why , but couldn't put it into words. Now I can.
E28 M5 – The Original
I started off thinking I wanted an E28 M5. The original. I did all the research, talked to all the right people, and started looking. Eventually I ended up finding one within 40 minutes of my house. I went and test drove it. It was in acceptable condition and ran well.
The moment I started driving it I got this weird feeling in my gut that I've never experienced before. Something felt off. I pushed this feeling aside as best I could and continued the test drive. Now, let's be clear, the car was very fun. It was light on its feet so to say. The straight six hummed and loved being revved. But the chassis and the powertrain didn't seem to be a perfect match for me.
The interior didn't feel substantial enough for what I was looking for. It was spartan. This car is going to be my "daily driver" and not a garage queen.
In the end, I just didn't feel the E28 felt like it was going to be what I wanted. I would never kick one out of my garage, and would love to own one, someday.
E39 M5 – The Legend
I then started considering maybe I wanted the legendary E39 M5. With a high-strung V-8 engine and slick six-speed manual transmission, the only term one can use to describe this car is beast.
When I thought about the E39 I couldn't stop thinking about the dreamy engine. But then I started thinking about traction control, stability control, side curtain airbag this and passenger side airbag that, navigation, and then I stopped. This car was filled with technology and driving aids. Was that what I wanted? Sure, you can turn that stuff off, but that's not the point. I still decided I must drive one.
I ended up getting my hands on one and driving it. Yup, it was a beast. Amazing powertrain. Silky smooth and sounded terrific. But I decided in the end that it wasn't time for me to own an E39 M5. That's not to say it's off the table for someday, just not now.
Suddenly I felt like this was like Goldilocks and the three bears, too hot, too cold, juuuuust right. I kept researching the E34 M5, and quickly thought it might be a happy medium of everything I was looking for.
The car is more modern, if just barely, than the E28. With a more substantial interior and timeless exterior, it has the looks. It has a driver side airbag but no traction control, no stability control, definitely no navigation, not even an OBD II port.
I started looking and found a few for sale that seemed to meet my requirements. Eventually, I found a black on silver 1991 E34 M5 in Seattle. I talked at length with the owner and finally determined this might be the one. Before just picking up and driving to see the car, I had a buddy who is local and knows BMWs go meet the owner. My buddy took the car for a drive. An hour later he called me and said if I didn't come buy it tomorrow he was buying it. I believe my words were something along the lines of, "Don't you dare. I'll be there at 8 am tomorrow."
I won't go into the full story as you can read that here. But I will say upon getting into the E34 M5 it just felt right. It was exactly what I had been searching for. It was the right generation M5 for me at the right time. The chassis, interior, powertrain, looks, it all worked. Karen looked at me before we even made it down the block during the test drive, and asked if we should just turn around so I could buy it. I said heck no, we were going to hit the highway first. But she was right, I knew within minutes I was buying this E34 M5.
And the rest as they say is history. So now you know exactly why I bought an E34 M5. The E28 and E39 M5 are both fantastic vehicles, that I may own someday.


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The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee (2015, 2016). Story of a girl who lived in and escaped from North Korea, then returned to rescue her family.
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We are surrounded by sensors: our cars collect detailed information about our driving habits and destinations; our smart phones gather a growing array of increasingly detailed and comprehensive information about our communication activities and more. The growing network of sensors contributes to a fast-growing stream of data about everything from the weather to the details of our personal lives and our movements throughout the course of the day.
The resulting shift away from targeted, discrete forms of information collection to always-on, ubiquitous, expanding and accelerating data collection marks important changes in our understandings of surveillance, information processing, and privacy in the digital era. The sensor society therefore raises significant questions about the role of privacy, power and surveillance in the world of the ever-watching, ever-sensing, always-on interactive devices. Control over the sensing infrastructure, the databases, and the response platforms will play a crucial role in how information is used and who benefits.
Hosted in conjunction with the TC Beirne School of Law, this multi-disciplinary conference explored theoretical, empirical, legal and historical approaches to the sensor society.
- A theme paper on the Sensor Society written by conference co-convenors Associate Professor Mark Andrejevic and Dr Mark Burdon can be accessed here.
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Israeli minister: We'll destroy Iran if attacked
An Israeli government minister said yesterday that Israel would respond to an Iranian attack by destroying that country.
"An Iranian attack against Israel would trigger a tough reaction that would lead to the destruction of the Iranian nation," National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said.
"The Iranians won't rush to attack Israel, because they understand the significance such action would have and are well aware of our strength.
"However they continue to provoke us by arming their Syrian allies and Hezbollah.
"Nowhere would be safe from Syrian and Hezbollah rockets."
Israel is conducting a massive five-day national emergency drill in response to perceived regional threats.
Ben-Eliezer said the drill, "is not a meaningless spectacle or a fictional scenario. The future reality is likely to be a number of times harsher than that which we recognize now. We are confronted with a situation where the home front becomes the front line."
"In a future war, it will be much safer to live in Nahariya and Shlomi instead of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,.
"I expect that in the opening attack hundreds of missiles will strike Israel. There will be no place in the country which is not within range of Syria and Hezbollah's rocketsm," he said.
"We, as a ministry, need to prepare for the possibility that missiles will hit Israel's strategic spots, for which our ministry is responsible. You must use your heads and prepare for the worst scenarios."
A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Muhammad Ali Husseini, said earlier that "countries in the region need to follow the Israeli exercise. These provocative acts must be raised before the senior officials in charge of these matters in the international community."
Alluding to the recent visit to the Middle East by US Vice President Dick Cheney, he said: "Unfortunately, after every visit by senior Americans in the region and the conquered territories, we see actions like this by the Zionist regime."


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I was wrong. Mea culpa.
You were right, all of you, while I was wrong. Dead wrong.
In the past I've written that Yugoloth Mercenary potions are an expensive waste that will clot up your backpack for no reason.
But that is not the case, not at all. As it turns out, for the right character, they are a way to trade in near-useless Platinum for enhanced capabilities.
As a reminder, one may earn the right to buy Yugoloth potions by earning Yugoloth faction favor*. There are only five Yugoloth favor quests in the game and they are all in Shavarath.
* It is interesting to remember that the Yugoloth are evil. One does not earn their trust or affection. Favor allows one to become slightly less hated. You begin "Disliked". Accumulating enough favor to unlock potions earns the title "Unfriendly".
Once you've earned the favor, you can buy the potions from the faction vendor who stands at the top level of the Amrath floating island, behind the faction Patron and to his right.
There are six Yugo potions, each providing an attribute boost, another bonus, and a penalty:
|Essence of Betrayal
|+2 stacking Dexterity
+6 Sneak Attack to hit (+4 after penalty)
|-2 Attack bonus
|Essence of Cunning
|+2 stacking Intelligence
slow SP regeneration
|-50% Fortification
|Essence of Desire
|+2 stacking Constitution
+20 stacking HP (total +45 with con bracket at lvl 25)
|-5% Melee attack speed bonus
|Essence of Despair
|+2 stacking Wisdom
+4 Natural armor
|-4 Reflex save
|Essence of Fury
|+2 stacking Strength
+8 Will save against Fear (+4 after penalty)
|-4 Will save
|Essence of Seduction
|+2 stacking Charisma
+8 Fortitude save against Poison (+4 after penalty)
|-4 Fortitude save
This table was lifted in entirety from the (most excellent) DDO Wiki article
Weird. Your eyes go to the penalties first and see them as a whole: minus to attack? Minus to saving throws? My brain fills with the negative, making it easy to focus on the limited duration and high price of the potions while glossing over the positives.
Except the positives are pretty positive. 40+ hit points. Regenerating mana. Etc.
I finally got over the hump of seeing the negatives before the positives this past weekend when Sparksy, my OMG artificer defeated everything in Shavarath and earned Yugoloth favor. I was having issues with Sparksy; she was getting the job done but felt light in both hit points and mana. More, her equipment and build both seemed to be stretched as much as they could be.
I was at a loss as to how I could improve Sparksy, even if only incrementally. Then I saw the Yugoloth potion vendor and a lightbulb went on: instant hit points. Instant mana. Not too much of either, but still, a definite improvement, and one I could acquire with just platinum. No need to level up, no farming for something specific, no crazy expensive Shard Exchange costs. Just platinum. A lot of platinum to be sure. But still only Platinum.
Two stacks of 100 potions later, Sparksy's INT and CON and (HP and SP) all feel a bit better. And I feel a bit chastised for having overlooked this so completely.
Yes, they are expensive. Yes, some of the penalties are worse than others. No, the potions are not a net plus for every build. And probably no build wants all six potion types.
But they can be a plus for many builds. A big plus. I was wrong.
W-r-o-n-g. Wrong. And you all were right.
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I ignored them for years but out of a sense of "Holy crap! Shavarath on Elite!?" But now I just add the place to my Monastic Bucket List because they can be very helpful, in combination with other potions or effects, to dramatically give a stacking boost to any ability.
And Mernom, on my related post about the benefits of Shavarath runs, noted something I didn't know: House Deneith collectible vendors sell no-ML +1 to +3 alchemical ability score potions that also stack, for the right collectibles. They only last a minute, but that's a potential of +2 Yugo + 2 DDO Elixir + 3 Alchemical Potion…and we're not even counting tome increases.
Robot or PM fortification and Yugo int potions are quite nice.
The HP one *might* be only physical attack speed, so good news for ranged guys if true.
i have them stacked in hotbar a long time ago for the HP and SA. they only seem expensive but for the effects, well priced.


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Hundreds of sachets of suspected legal highs have been seized from a shop in Larne town centre today.
Officers from Larne Borough Council's Environmental Health Service, supported by PSNI, visited Northern Lights hydroponics shop on Dunluce Street this morning and left with 550 sachets of product retailing under the brand name of 'Magic Dragon', 'Pink Panther' and 'Bullets'.
The local authority said it had "reasonable grounds to believe the product does not comply with the Consumer Protection legislation, in that it was insufficiently labelled and no traceability could be demonstrated".
The council will now apply to the Magistrates Court to have the product destroyed.
Last Thursday (July 3), police carried out a raid on the Dunluce Street premises and seized what it described as "suspected new psychoactive substances". The products were sent for testing to establish whether they fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
The PSNI search was prompted by an incident in the Craigyhill estate, when three people were hospitalised after taking what police believe to be a cocktail alcohol and legal highs.


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Syngenta announced that Catalyst brand corn hybrids also will be distributed by Golden Acres Genetics in the South for the 2013 planting season.
"Syngenta is pleased to announce that Southern farmers now have an additional access point in acquiring our high-quality germplasm and Agrisure® trait technology through Catalyst brand corn hybrids, said David Morgan, president of Syngenta Seeds, Inc. "Our distribution agreement with Golden Acres Genetics provides growers with this additional access while working with their local seed supplier.
Golden Acres Genetics, formed in 1999, focuses specifically on serving the needs of Southern farmers. Based in Waco, Texas, Golden Acres Genetics will distribute the new Catalyst brand corn seed from Syngenta beginning with the 2013 growing season.
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Union J to sign Sony record deal
Union J have revealed that they are on the verge of signing a record contract with Sony.
The X Factor boyband - Josh Cuthbert, Jamie 'JJ' Hamblett, Jaymi Hensley and George Shelley - announced that they are closing the deal on ITV1's Daybreak.
Jaymi said: "It's amazing. It's been a crazy week. Obviously when we came out of the show the dream was to get a record deal and we're going to Sony today to sort out all the contracts and stuff."
He added: "Before Christmas we will have our deal finalised."
Union J, who were booted out in the semi-finals, join Ella Henderson in getting snapped up by record label bosses.
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Almost every superlative has been used to describe Italy's top tourism attraction. An extremely romantic city of canals, narrow streets and beautiful buildings, at some stage in life everyone really should travel to Venice.
Venice Canals - Italy.
To avoid the crowds, you'll need to visit Venice in the low tourism season. May to September, as well as all holiday periods can get extremely busy. Consider mixing with celebrities and the royalty at the luxury Gritti Palace hotel, or an alternative in San Marco district would be the Hotel Danieli. Certainly another of Venice's best hotels is Hotel Cipriani, which has fantastic views of the city.
In Venice, everyone invaribaly takes a tour on a canal boat - just remember that aimlessly walking around is an even better way to to explore the city.
Seeing as it's Italy's most visited city, there's no shortage of flights to Venice. Most of the low cost European carriers offer cheap flights to Venice. If travelling from further afield, you may have to get a connecting flight in either Rome or Milan (both of which are worth a stopover).
Italy is full of holiday options besides Venice. Also in the North, Milan is Italy's most stylish city, and nearby beautiful lakes such as Como are not much further away. Nearer still are the Dolomites which offer fantastic skiing or alpine walking holidays depending on the season. Heading a little South from Venice, Florence is the best place to visit for those interested in history, art and culture, while the entire surrounding region of Tuscany offers some amazing countryside and medieval towns. Rome, the capital, is ozzing in culture and history and well worth a few nights stay though it's slightly further afield to the South. For those interested in a beach holiday in Italy, best to head to the South of the country - to either the Amalfi Coast or the island of Sardinia.


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June 2012
GreenBuilt Tour 2012 – Healthy Homes, Healthy Families
June 9-11 in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos Areas
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) New Mexico Chapter and GreenBuilt Tour Committee are hosting the 13th Annual GreenBuilt Tour, June 9-10 from 10 am to 4 pm in the Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos areas. Twenty-one homes are participating, and 120 volunteers are helping make the tour possible. It all kicks off with a reception on Friday, June 8 from 6-8:30 pm in Algodones, at the first modular home to be included.
GreenBuilt 2012 is designed to showcase sustainable building practices that are healthy, attractive, practical and affordable.
"The tour puts current challenges to our vision to create a vibrant and sustainable built environment within a generation in the forefront of our attendees' minds," says USGBC-NM Chair Lemoyne Blackshear.
The homes were selected for their uses of renewable energy, high indoor air-quality, water preservation, energy efficiency, retrofitting, re-use of materials, xeriscaping and environmentally friendly products. Many need very little energy to keep them comfortable year round and produce more energy than they use. Some have Build Green NM, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), ENERGY STAR, Passive House ratings, or are awaiting certification.
Innovations on the high-tech side include NM's first residential use of a thin film PV system. On the low-tech side, you can see a 3,000-gallon cistern built from earth-filled tires and a modern take on earthen building that uses local earthen plasters inside and out.
"You will see some very creative salvage and recycling ideas come to fruition," said Kent Gurley, co-chair of the tour committee. "How about taking old barn wood and making it into a dance floor for your home? Now that's what we call "repurposing."
Free guidebooks are available at Whole Foods and La Montanita Co-op locations in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, The Merc in Placitas, BookWorks, 4022 Rio Grande in Albuquerque and the Taos Food Co-Op (in OptiMysm), 314 G Paseo del Pueblo Norte. The guidebook is also available online at www.usgbcnm.org/gbt2012.
The entry fee for the tour is $2 per person per home. Visitors can pay at the door of each home or a two-day tour pass can be purchased in advance for $15 at www.usgbcnm.org. For reservations to the reception, go to www.usgbcnm.org, click on chapter events and select June 10. The cost is $35 for USGBC-NM members and $40 for non-members. Food, drinks and live music will be provided.
GreenBuilt 2012 is sponsored by Wells Fargo, Build Green NM, PNM, Davis Kitchens, Construction Reporter, CASA, Affordable Solar, the Alibi, KUNM and Green Fire Times. For more information, call 505.227.0474 or visit www.usgbcnm.org.
Here are a few examples of the homes:
The Kennison Casita, in NE Albuquerque, is a 1,100 SF/700 retrofit built in 1932. The renovation slated to be completed this year features an ENERGY STAR water heater, compact fluorescent light(CFL) light fixtures, solar tube skylights and CFL bulbs for nighttime lighting. It also has a reflective roof, garage walls made from tires filled with compacted earth and covered in El Rey Stucco, and Papercrete used for triangle block wall extension. The existing mature landscape has been preserved. Specific "Healthy Homes" attributes include cork flooring in the bedroom, and original hardwood floors sealed with low-volatile organic compound (VOC) water-based sealer. In addition it has gypsum plaster walls finished with American Clay, and cotton denim insulation in the interior walls.
The Balance Project passive house in Santa Fe, owned and designed by Jonah Stanford of Mojarrab Stanford Architects, is the first Passive House in NM. A Passive House features highly energy-efficient design and is computer modeled using the Passive House Planning Package to optimize the structure for energy savings. Paint has not been used in the building; factory finished finishes have low- or no-VOC treatments and provide fresh air ventilation. Other key traits are solar heating, night-sky cooling through the Energy recovery ventilation (ERV) and triple pane windows with a U-.11 and SHGC .63. Certifications include Passive House and Build Green NM Emerald.
The Barton Studio & Retreat owned by John and Polly Barton in Ojo Caliente was designed by AIA Architect/Planner John Barton, with an emphasis on landscaping to preserve existing vegetation, and includes xeriscaping, native plants and grasses. The design uses a roof rainwater catchment system with filtration and UV treatment for the main water supply, as well as more water that can be delivered to below-grade cisterns. The house also uses a greywater system that recycles wastewater generated by laundry, dishwashing and bathing, which can then be used for irrigation. The "Healthy Homes" emphasis is on low-VOC products, solar tubes for interior spaces, no carpeting or synthetic flooring and natural ventilation with operable openings.
"We love this spot on a high desert plateau of northern NM. Temperature extremes here are taken advantage of with the use of a traditional adobe construction and a passive solar design, which keeps the house cool in summer and warm in winter, blending the home into the surrounding earth.
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The guys of The Wanted should be a little more selective when they pick up girls at the club. In the video for their latest single, "Chasing The Sun," the guys meet a few girls who aren't exactly what they seem. Sure, they're hot, but they're also blood-thirsty vampires. We didn't see that coming!
Video: The Wanted Perform "Chasing The Sun" On 'The Voice' Results Show
"Chasing The Sun" is the follow-up single to the UK boyband's massively successful single, "Glad You Came." Both tracks can be found on the just-released US edition of their self-titled EP.
Watch The Wanted's Twilight-like saga in "Chasing The Sun" below.


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Magonia #6: Leland Sings Magonia June 12, 2013Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern , trackback
Elizabeth Pennell writes in her memoirs of Charles Leland, the nineteenth-century folklorist and alleged bullshitter:
He got well over the gout in the spring and summer of 1891, as he travelled by easy stages several weeks at Via Reggio, Geneva, Homburg to London for his last visit there. He went on with his Heine [the German poet] wherever he stopped; he wrote a long poem in blank verse, Magonia, never published; he began the editing of the Life of Beckwourth for Mr. Unwin's Adventure Series. And, all the while, letters were flying between him and Miss Owen and myself.
Beach is not so sure that this poem was unpublished, certainly bits of it slid into print here and there and, whatever Leland's relationship with historical truth he wasn't a bad rhymer. For God's sake though skip the next passage if you are not a lover of Browning.
All over doth this outer earth
An inner earth enfold,
And sounds may reach us of its mirth,
Over its pales of gold;
There spirits live, unwedded all
From the shapes and lives they wore,
Though oft their printless footsteps fall
By the hearths they loved before.
We mark them not, nor hear the sound
They make in threading all around,
Their bidding sweet and voiceless prayer
Float without echo through the air;
Yet often in unworldly places.
Soft Sorrow's silent vales.
We mark them with uncovered faces
Outside their golden pales;
Yet dim as they must ever be.
Like ships far off and out at sea.
With the sun upon their sails.
Beach would rather go to Leland's Magonia than Coleridge's Xanadu.
These portions of a longer now lost poem appear in Leland's discussion of Magonia in his Etruscan Remains: a VERY curious book.
And this [discussion of hail and magic] recalls one of the strangest and most daintily beautiful conceptions of the olden time — that there is afar in Cloudland a mysterious city called Magonia, where the hail is manufactured, and whence it is carried in ships which look to us like 'clouds sailing along in golden sunset green.' The monks who bedevilled, belittled, and dirtied everything, added to this fancy that these ships were loaded and manned by witches and devils in order to destroy crops, and that for return cargo they were freighted with the fruit thus injured or destroyed. On which subject the tenth-century Archbishop Agobard of Lyons delivered himself… The same bishop relates that he himself once saved the lives of four human beings, three men and a woman, whom the populace wished to stone to death because they believed that they were people from Magonia, who had fallen from a cloud-vessel, having been 'shipwrecked' during a thunder-storm.
Leland then goes on to echo Beach's early writing on this subject (if only Agobard had told us more), then suggests that these four were gypsies, an eccentric notion because gypsies had not arrived in Europe by this date (though see…): Leland, btw, studied gypsies some years beforehand so his theory reflects an interest. Leland, next, comments on some hail legends including the fact that: in 1240 a hailstone fell with the face of Christ, a cross and letters Jesus Nazarenus (how big!?); in 1395 'wonderful hailstones on which were human faces' came down; and in 1650 hailstones like Turks' heads fell. Didn't old Charles Fort write on a giant hailstone?
Leland notes drily that the 1240 account shows that 'the inhabitants of Magonia were good Christians'. Then pontificates:
What appears from several authorities is that what seem to us to be 'fleeting clouds — sailors of the air,' are in reality mysterious barks, or very often spirits, hastening across the sky, the ships and sailors of 'cloud-land gorgeous land' bent on errands far away.
Leland connects this with stories of battles in the sky: though it is not clear to this author why. Then, Leland, talks of a personal experience. This is almost always a bad sign in his writing, as here history comes crashing down and fantasy rears its glittery head. The folk reality he describes corresponds a little too well to Magonia for Beach's tastes.
I was conversing one day with a woman who came into the house [in Florence] just as a storm was raging without. And she said: 'I was going to the postoffice, and as I went some one said to me, 'Truly thou art a witch, for the hailstones leap up from beneath thy feet.' Then we all laughed, and I asked if witches made hail; and this was the answer, which I wrote down, word for word, in Italian: 'People say that when the weather becomes bad (quando il tempo si guasta), and thunder and lightning begin, that it is a storm caused by wind, and that the dark clouds are water, and the wind bears along those clouds which shed water. But really it is a very different thing. For up in the sky there are cities made by the witches and wizards who were once driven out of paradise or who left this world, and they have made for themselves another world in heaven. But even in heaven they keep those evil feelings (tengono sempre i suoi rancori) which they ever had, and so they choose the worst weather, so that they may do much mischief to men. And then they enter a vessel (barca) and load it with hail; and all the clouds which we see are not clouds of air, but boats. Then their leader takes a hailstone and throws it at a witch, and so they all pelt one another and sing;
Tiro queste granate.
Ma non tiro le granate,
Le tiro perche si devono
Convertire tutte in grandine
E voglio sperare
Che tutta la campagna
A male voglia andare
E cosi tutti di fame
In terra dovranno andare!'
This spell was sung also in Romagnola, and it means:
'I throw these grains of hail,
But not merely these grains,
I throw them that they may convert
All (the rain) to hail;
And I wish, I hope,
That all the country
May suffer from it.
And all the people therein
May go their graves from hunger!'
Of this Hail-land in heaven I received another history, which is different in a few details, but which, I think, is not less interesting: 'People when they see clouds in air say it is air (vapour) and a sign of rain, but there is more in them than they suppose. For there is in the sky another world made by wizards and witches who, when they died, were not admitted to heaven, and so they made a world for themselves, which has a sea (lake) in it. And when the weather is dark, and clouds fly before the storm, those clouds are boats full of hail, and in them are wizards and witches, who throw the hail at one another, and so it falls to earth and does great harm. When this happens one should invoke the spirit of thunder (Tituno or Tignia). 'The light, small clouds which pass along in sunlight in fine weather are small boats in which are girls and children whom the witches have taken and keep as prisoners. But sometimes when it is pleasant they send them out sailing in the air.'
I have, indeed, a third account in MS. devoted to these captives, but after six readings I have been obliged to give it up as unintelligible. It is only additional testimony. There is something to the effect that the witches have mirrors with which they flash out signals to the boats to return, or with which they make lightning.
Leland finishes by giving us a story that is (at least for this blogger) erotically charged. At least, he is quoting someone else here.
Witches on earth sometimes pay visits to this Magonia, or Cloud City land, but they run a risk of being caught or killed in the storms of their own raising. Thus Friedrich Panzer tells us in his Bavarian Tales, that during the first half of the last century there was such a tremendous tempest, with hail, in Forchheim in Upper Franconia, that the people feared lest the whole town should be destroyed. Then the Franciscan brothers met in their cloister garden, when, just as the first blessing was pronounced, lo! a beautiful woman, stark-naked, was thrown headlong from a passing thunderstorm on the grass in their midst; and the holy brothers, greatly amazed at this, doubtless to them, utterly novel sight, drew near, when they recognised in her who had indeed dropped in on them so suddenly, the wife of the town miller, a woman long suspected of witchcraft. Whereupon one of the monks threw a garment over her, and she was brought into the cloister — 'By means of which,' says the account (somewhat obscurely), 'they averted from her the death by fire.' Which means, I suppose, that she made so favourable an impression on the Franciscans that they protected their proie inattendue… from being roasted.
Leland gets all lyrical as we draw to the end, alleging what he has so far only hinted at, that he has demonstrated through modern Tuscan tales (which most scholars suspect that he invented) that Magonia was a real pagan, presumably Europe-wide belief.
So from old days these hardened stories live as if trenched in ice, like mammoths in Siberia, to the world unknown till some discoverer reveals them, and then there is marvelling here and there that such things could have been so long frozen up. So into time old time returns again, and the ancient medals, thus disinterred, are all the more beautiful for their rust. And it went deeply to my heart that after I had read the story of Magonia, and thought it was a tale utterly dead on earth and embalmed in a chronicle, to find a sorceress in whose faith it lives. It was as if an Egyptian mummy, revived, had suddenly spoken to me, and told me a tale of Thebes…
Any more on Leland and Magonia: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com
21 June 2013: Wojciech writes: As a follower of your blog I was intrigued by your post of 12 June about Charles Leland's writings on Magonia. I have read Leland's writings before but never correlated them with the "płaneniki" of Slavic mythology, a subject with which I am also familiar. This is a description of the płnetniki taken from the Wikipedia article: and translated from the original Polish. "Płanetnik (other names: chmurnik, obłocznik) – a character in Slavic beliefs, demonic or semi-demonic, embodying the essence of atmospheric phenomena. It was believed that the płanetniks directed clouds to send down storms and hail. The name "płanetnik" comes from the Latin word for a planet and is relatively recent, in contrast to the likely original forms of "chmurnik" and "obłocznik". The Southern Slavs identified płanetniks with snakes. The souls of those who died suddenly and suicides (mostly hanged and drowned) became płanetniks. They were imagined as tall old men in broad hats or as small creatures. Depending on the circumstances, płanetniks could be friendly or hostile. Platnetiks' goodwill could be gained by throwing flour into the wind or onto a fire. Friendly płanetnikscame down to earth and warned people before storms and protected them against drought. The word płanetniks was also used to describe certain chosen men, endowed with the power to control the weather. Just before a storm, they were drawn into the sky (or therainbow) and engaged in air combat with dragons." Clearly, the same beings are being described in both texts. PS. The letter"ł" is pronouned kie "w" in English. Thanks, Wojciech!


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Thieves Take Family's Christmas Presents
(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) – Choose your icon devoid of Christmas spirit: the Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, or Burgermeister Meisterburger.
Any of them could resemble the person who snatched a Dearborn County family's Christmas presents.
Melissa Wyly thought she had her Christmas shopping completed last Wednesday, December 7. In order to keep the gifts hidden from her four children, Wyly stored the presents including Wii games, toy cars, Barbie dolls, pajamas, and more in the trunk of her husband's car parked outside their home on Hillcrest Drive near Lawrenceburg.
Unfortunately, the car's driver side door did not lock correctly because of a previous accident.
The next morning December 8, Melissa discovered the nearly $500 in gifts were missing and called police.
Dearborn County Deputy Brian Jansen came to investigate the theft.
"He was awesome. He couldn't take fingerprints because of frost on car, but did inside. He also came back with some toys for my baby that he was getting ready to donate," Wyly said.
Replacing the rest of the gifts may not be an option because of the family's finances. The worth of the stolen items is less than the family's $750 home insurance deductible.
"We feel blessed that we have wonderful children that know the true meaning of Christmas. We wanted to give them a nice Christmas, but it's not going to be including all the gifts this year," said Wyly.
In eight years living at their home, Wyly said they have never had any problems until recently. A family of friends who live nearby on Kaiser Drive experienced a burglary a few weeks earlier.
The Wyly family hopes whoever stole the presents, their heart – like the Grinch's – grows three sizes.
Anybody who has information about the theft is asked to call the Dearborn County Sheriff's Department at (812) 537-3431.
*Update: Wyly says her family is not seeking any donations.
"We appreciate the help, but have a hard time excepting the help. We just wanted to give people a heads up to not make a mistake like we did and that this is happening in our area and to publicly thank Deputy Jansen for his help and generosity," she said.


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From: Myles, Stuart Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:57 AM To: 'Renato Iannella'; ODRL Community Group WG Subject: RE: odrl-ISSUE-6: XML Schema Extensibility Hi Renato, I think most would agree that any kind of change to the Core Model is to be avoided, unless we find a very significant problem at this point. So, I agree with you that allowing the assets and constraints to have IDs (and so be referenced) could let us have more concise ODRL instance documents. On the other hand, I think that it is wise to consider ways to make the schema representation of the model more extensible. (I found this discussion http://snee.com/xml/xml2005/industryschemas.html quite helpful as a way of seeing how to make various XML Schema more "open" to extension. And, in fact, I followed a lot of that advice in opening up IPTC's NITF http://stuartmyles.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/adding-foreign-namespace-support-t o.html). So, I think that Jim's suggestion of making some changes to the way that the XSD is structured are worth considering, if they make ODRL easier to work with (by allowing ODRL to be more easily combined with other XML namespaces). For example, why not make permission and prohibition "gloabal" elements, rather than local? At present, the ODRL XSD follows the "Russian Doll Pattern" http://www.xfront.com/GlobalVersusLocal.html#FirstDesign where the schema structure mirrors the instance document structure, i.e. permissions and restrictions can only appear within a policy element. On the other hand, making the elements global lets people make use of the ODRL elements in other ways, but still lets you control what is a valid ODRL document http://www.xfront.com/GlobalVersusLocal.html#SecondDesign. Regards, Stuart From: Renato Iannella [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:53 AM To: ODRL Community Group WG Subject: RE: odrl-ISSUE-6: XML Schema Extensibility In relation to ISSUE-6 [1] - there are two parts to the issues raised in Jim's blog [2]: 1 - the manner in which the current XML Schema is declared to capture the semantics of the Core Model. 2 - modifications to the Core Model to be more extensible. A number of the comments under Point 3 (in [2]) fall into the second category. These propose changes to the Core Model, such as an Asset in each Permission (Bullet Point#1). We have discussed the Core Model now for a number of years (!) and I think that it has reach a level of maturity that most are happy with. And unless it is broken, then I would not consider changing it now. This may mean that the XML produced is verbose - but if there is something the model cannot not support, then we should consider these (at this point in the development of V2.0) However - there could be a solution if the main issue is repeating elements (such as asset and constraint).and that is to follow the Duty model and allow these elements to have IDs, and then reference them? As for point 1) above, we can of course change the XML Schema to be more extensible. Is the main scenario to support additional elements within the core entities (such as asset, permission etc?) We can also change the string datatype (used in rigthOperand) to something more suitable? Cheers... Renato Iannella Semantic Identity <http://semanticidentity.com> http://semanticidentity.com Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206 [1] http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/track/issues/6 [2] <http://jims-thoughtspot.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-look-at-odrl-v2.html> http://jims-thoughtspot.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-look-at-odrl-v2.html The information contained in this communication is intended for the use of the designated recipients named above. If the reader of this communication is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify The Associated Press immediately by telephone at +1-212-621-1898 and delete this email. Thank you. [IP_US_DISC] msk dccc60c6d2c3a6438f0cf467d9a4938Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:46:33 UTC
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The Look for Less: Tim's Chicago Living Room on a Budget
Tim's living room, like his entire home, is nothing if not full of drama. If you crave the look but need to achieve it on a budget, check out the following sources.
- Paint color: Behr "Intellectual".
- Elaine Grommet Top Curtains in Mustard Yellow, Linens4Less, $9.99 per panel.
- Round Table with Glass Top, Appliances Connection, $118 or Docksta, Ikea, $199.
- Candelabra Lamps: scour eBay and devote yourself to estate sale shopping if you want to score some of these at a good price.
- Yellow, Gray, and Ivory Rug, 7x9, Overstock, $328.99.
- Traditional Sofa in Smokey Grey, Home Click, $648.03 (shipped).
- Black Bust, Etsy, $28.00.
- Black and White Pillow Covers, Etsy, $5.00.
- For the side table and more, in Tim's own words: "The best source I can give isn't a dream, it's a reality: estatesales.com. Open it on your smart phone and it gives you GPS coordinates of estate sales nearby."


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It's Free Pattern Friday!
Today, the Swift Current Scarf in Classic Shades Frenzy.
I'm a sucker for blues and greens. The beauty of multi-colored yarns is that I don't have to pick between one or the other. They're both there, as in color 911 Stranded of Classic Shades Frenzy. It reminds me of the rushing aquamarine waters of the Soča river that runs through Slovenia and Italy.
The Swift Current Scarf uses crochet shells and open spaces – along with some aggressive blocking – to create an airy texture. For symmetry, the scarf is worked from the middle out in two halves. It's a two-ball project- make one half with one ball, then go back to the first row to start the second half in the other direction.
We hope you have a glorious weekend, dreaming of beautiful places and making beautiful things. As they say in Slovenian, se vidimo kasneje!


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Whether you are an in-house lawyer or working in a law firm, whether your team is consisting only of your assistant, a colleague and a trainee or you are team leader for several handfuls of lawyers, you need to ensure that they perform as a team where the outcome is greater than the sum of the individuals´ contributions. You can start by reading one of the multitudes of books on the subject, but I bet that was not high up on your list of New Year´s resolutions for 2015. Or you can start by taking the seven steps below which I am certain will improve the performance of your legal team. I have tried to distil the most important points for you (based on a couple of those books, plus experience).Build a team through work, not through team-building activities.
What would you do if you wanted to build a great football team? Yep. You would get them to train and play as much football as possible. River rafting and speedboat trips are very nice and if you invite your legal team to one of them, it can show your appreciation for their work. But they are useless for team building (unless you want to have speedboat racing as a side business). Great teams are built by doing work together, communicating about the work, finding productive roles for all members, learning each others´ strengths (and how to compensate for each others´ weaknesses), and dealing with conflicts.Communication does most of the trick, and it is a two-way street
Give clear information and instructions. If in doubt, don´t be shy to ask the recipient of your instructions to repeat them back at you to make sure you have understood each other correctly. To quote George Bernard Shaw: "The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place." As lawyers, we are in the business of preventing that things go wrong, so asking to repeat your instructions is just good legal procedure ...Zum vollständigen Artikel


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Warsaw (Jan. 14)
Following an interruption of three years, the first group of Chaluzim, Palestine pioneers, left here today for Jerusalem. There were sixty in the group.
Another group of 140 will leave on January 28. Subsequenfly a third group of 100 is scheduled to follow. In group consists of able bodied you men who were prepared for agricultural work on special Chaluzim training farms.


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September 30, 1996
In Idaho, Democrat Walt Minnick, a multimillionaire, former timber executive and environmentalist, mounts a quixotic campaign against Republican Sen. Larry Craig for Senate seat.
In Idaho, Democrat Walt Minnick, a multimillionaire, former timber executive and environmentalist, mounts a quixotic campaign against Republican Sen. Larry Craig for Senate seat.
President Bill Clinton uses the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate a new 1.7 million-acre national monument in southern Utah, and reactions range from joy to indignation and outrage.
Incumbent Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig has a strong conservative and industrial backing.
Democrat Walt Minnick and incumbent Republican Sen. Larry Craig fall into clear party lines in their views on many issues.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, R., in his own words, condemns the new monument.
The 1.7 million acres at the new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument contain a wide variety of landscapes, life zones and archaeological treasures.
Utah's newest national monument will be managed by the BLM instead of the Park Service, and a lot of the details for that management remain to be worked out.
Variable voting patterns on the West make it difficult to predict who will win on election day.
Western wilderness is too popular for its own good - especially among wealthy foreigners who come to ski at Vail.
Land swaps, like the one planned to save land near Yellowstone National Park from mining, are a bad habit with a bad history in Montana's national forests.
The greatest moments in American conservation history often involved the same presidential audacity - and provoked the same outrage - as President Clinton's establishment of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
The author says the Escalante belongs as much to the rest of the world as to Utah, and provides a kind of energy that has nothing to do with coal.
Book Reviews
The 22nd annual conference, "The Producer/Consumer Connection," is being held Oct. 11-13 on Flathead Lake near Rollins, Mont.
The New Mexico Wilderness Coalition and Santa Fe chapter of Sierra Club sponsor an Oct. 5 workshop on "Wilderness: The Foundation of Culture."
"Unplug America: Give mother earth a rest day" will be held Oct. 13, started by Native American environmental groups, including the Seventh Generation Fund.
"Literary Natural History: Scientists and Artists" is a series of free public readings October through April.
Jeff Rast of the Center for Small Acreage Farming in Camas County, Idaho, tries to help small farms survive and prosper.
"How the West Can Win: A Blueprint for a Clean & Affordable Energy Future" offers environmental alternatives to relying on coal.
The report, "Working in Durango, Colorado," documents the economic inequity of a booming Colorado town.
Thomas L. Clark's new book, "Western Lore and Language: A Dictionary for Enthusiasts of the American West," documents Western slang.
Heard Around the West
Mining and sea-captaining in Vail; Boy Scouts stone California bear; mountain lions chase mountain bikers and domestic pets; illegal immigrants disrespectful of horse trailer; park volunteers; tourist railroad billed for forest fire.
Dear Friends
Some worry that the land swap proposed to prevent Crown Butte Resources from mining near Yellowstone has only a 50-50 chance of success.
Prolific New Zealand mudsnails are invading Yellowstone Park's Madison River, where scientists worry they will disrupt the food chain.
A new management proposal for Montana's Glacier National Park, designed to control visitor overcrowding, meets opposition from the local tourism industry and others.
Around 900 people were arrested at a protest in Carlotta, Calif., in an attempt to save the Headwaters Grove - the world's largest privately owned redwood forest, from being logged.
One of only 132 adult salmon to survive the spawning journey to Idaho's Salmon River is killed - and eaten - by a poacher.
Justice Department lawyers go after Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland for the Summitville gold mine cleanup in Colorado.
Wyoming businessman Mark Alldredge files 104 mining claims in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, possibly searching for diamonds.
Local Navajos lead the fight against Hydro Resources Inc.'s plan to leach uranium from groundwater at three sites on or near the Navajo Reservation.
A plan to build a visitor's center for Utah's Grand Gulch worries some, who fear more people - including pothunters - will be encouraged to visit the area.
The President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation says the Forest Service erred by letting construction of a telescope on Arizona's Mount Graham begin before the cultural significance of the site had been considered.
Bruce Babbitt's announcement of a new BLM inventory of southern Utah wilderness leads to a flurry of illegal road work, since roaded land can't be classified as wilderness.
The Crested Butte Ski Resort in Colorado drops its plans to build new ski runs on a neighboring mountain.
Utah's plan to enlarge I-15 in Salt Lake City worries some environmentalists, farmers and hunters, who say the proposed highway corridor includes lakeside wetlands and farmland.


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Former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Timoshenko was released from jail Saturday, a media report said.
Relatives have left for the east Ukrainian city of Kharkov to meet her.
Timoshenko will be also met by representatives of the European Parliament, Timoshenko's daughter, Yevgeniya, told Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament.
The parliament had voted for her release Friday after she was sentenced to jail in October 2011 over an alleged corruption case
"In compliance with international law and in compliance with Ukrainian law my mother is a free person," Tyebgeniya said.
"We're leaving for Kharkov to meet her," she added.
Hours earlier Saturday, Tymoshenko's ally Alexandr Turchinov was elected parliament speaker after his predecessor Volodymyr Rybak resigned due to health reasons, Xinhua reported.
The 49-year-old Turchinov served as the first deputy prime minister in Tymoshenko's government from 2007 to 2010.


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What is "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" (9:30 p.m. Tuesday, MTV)?
Is it "reality"? "Dramality"? "Unscripted"? "The Real World" minus the confessional?
MTV's press release calls the new show "reality drama," a term it doesn't explain very clearly.
The series follows eight good-looking, privileged high schoolers in the picturesque seaside town of Laguna Beach, which just happens to be where Fox's fictional soap, "The O.C.," is set.


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At DNC, UndocuBus Riders Boldly Fight Obama Administration Deportations
Around forty undocumented immigrants protested at the Democratic National Convention. Ten were arrested yesterday. The undocumented immigrants traveled all the way from Phoenix, Arizona, on a bus called the "UndocuBus" under the banner, "No Papers, No Fear." The ten were released some time today.
The Los Angeles Times reports, "Immigration officials have decided not to detain 10 illegal immigrants who were arrested by police for blocking traffic during a protest near the entrance to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte" on Tuesday. They were, to represent what happened fairly, engaged in civil disobedience. They were not, as the Los Angeles Times downplays what happened, merely "blocking traffic."
The action was planned to get the attention of Democrats and the administration of President Barack Obama, which deported a record number of people in fiscal year 2011 than ever before.
The White House understands Hispanic voters are critical in the swing states, like Colorado and New Mexico. Thus, unlike Pfc. Bradley Manning supporters or activists against US drone strikes, this is one group that the Obama administration takes seriously.
That DREAMer Benita Veliz is in the lineup of speakers for tonight further indicates that immigrant rights protesters have power. Veliz, according to Colorlines.org, was "detained after a traffic stop in 2009 and received a deportation order shortly after."
According the Los Angeles Times, "protesters were arrested by officers from the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office." This "department is part of a program that trains local police to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities." The department had the power to set deportations of immigrants in motion but did not. Why? Because to do so would grab headlines and call into question the Obama 2012 campaign's support for immigrants.
That does not mean that a deportation could not be put in motion for any of these individuals after the election. Each of these individuals is protesting at great risk and are well aware of this risk they are taking as undocumented immigrants. Undercover law enforcement agents can take pictures of them and store those for later use in deportation proceedings. But, like previous trailblazers who have fought for civil rights for all people in this country, these DREAMers are engaging in struggle because they favor equality and do not like how Latinos, specifically, are targeted by law enforcement, politicians and others for being brown or foreign.
It is inspirational to see them taking action. It is disheartening to think that what they want Obama to do and rightfully believe he should do will not be done in his second term because he splits the difference between the liberal and conservative positions constantly and as a result can never fully support immigrant rights with actual policies. But, that should not take away from the courage on display here by these individuals who traveled for six weeks and went city to city entering communities to share stories on their fight for immigrant rights and justice.
Below is an excellent video put together on yesterday's action where the ten undocumented immigrants were arrested:


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History shows that many investors will hold stocks all the way down By Elliott Wave International I was watching financial television as the Dow Industrials fell 400-plus points on Sept. 1. Two market professionals were interviewed: Both said … [Read more...]
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New York bishops were assured same-sex marriage would not pass, cardinal discloses
March 12, 2012
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has revealed that Republican leaders in the state legislature gave the Catholic bishops of New York assurances that a bill recognizing same-sex marriage would not be passed last year. The bill was approved, and the bishops were criticized for their failure to rally opposition.
"We got burned last year when we were told the redefinition of marriage didn't have much of a chance—and of course it did," the cardinal said. He refused to blame Republican lawmakers for the costly miscalculation, however, saying "it could be as much our fault as anyone else's."
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Posted by: mgreen32234 -
Mar. 13, 2012 2:17 PM ET USA
As a kid, I watched a daily show on TV called "Howdy Doody" that had an audience of children who sat on stage in bleachers called the Peanut Gallery. There was a clown called Clarabell who had a seltzer bottle and who, in nearly every show, sometimes tiptoed, sometimes ran around the studio looking to sneak up on Buffalo Bob, the show's host, to squirt him with the seltzer bottle. Buffalo Bob meanwhile would walk in front of the Peanut Gallery saying "what?" "who?" to the children who were screaming wildly that Clarabell was right behind him. With Cardinal Dolan, I feel like I'm in a dream, watching reruns of Howdy Doody. But this time the stakes are real life: my Catholic Church and everything that was once considered grace-blessed America. I'm screaming my head off. I'm warning him about the President, the Democrats, the NY politicians and the whole sleezy progressive world sneaking up behind him. Watch out, watch out. I'm yelling. Maybe now he hears something. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Polycarp -
Mar. 13, 2012 9:05 AM ET USA
Yes, Cardinal Dolan is correct in his conclusion. A lesson to learn, also, is not to trust the politians.
Posted by: Frodo1945 -
Mar. 12, 2012 8:45 PM ET USA
Cardinal Dolan continues to demonstrate his naivete for all the world to see. Yep, he trusted those politicians. How did he ever get New York?
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Mar. 12, 2012 5:43 PM ET USA
"it could be as much our fault as anyone else's." How do you put that horse back in front of the cart?


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All the while I've been using CallSubs to do that from within the main program, but i've met several bugs and errors from the subroutines i've executed. Can anybody show me a simple basic script to open, execute, save, close several programs simultaneously?
To Open/Execute Several Programs Sequentially Using Basic Script
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I don't think you can do it simultaneously.
You can do it sequentially (open, execute, close, open, execute, close or open, open, open, execute 1, wait, execute 2, wait, execute 3, wait...).
There might be a script for something like that already available in here.Last edited by vpt.se; 04-05-2013, 06:05 AM.PC-DMIS CAD++ 2o17 R2 SP5
Found this in my repository...
This code has not been extensively tested and I cannot be held responsible to any damages done by running the code. You run this on your own risk.
For starters, create a program that simply does nothing more than displays an operator comment with some text, just to see how/that it works. If you choose to include this in an production environment - then that is totally up to you. As always, tweak the code to your own liking.
It's more like a proof of concept than a complete solution - the customized solution is left for you to create.
Dim PCDApp, PCDPartPrograms, PCDPartProgram Set PCDApp = CreateObject("PCDLRN.Application") Set PCDPartPrograms = PCDApp.PartPrograms PCDApp.Visible = True PCDPartPrograms.Open "Z:\test1.PRG", "CMM1" Set PCDPartProgram = PCDApp.ActivePartProgram 'msgbox "This will start the execution of the partprogram!" PCDPartProgram.Execute ' PC-DMIS executes the partprogram PCDPartProgram.Close ' PC-DMIS closes and saves the partprogram PCDPartPrograms.Open "Z:\test2.PRG", "CMM1" Set PCDPartProgram = PCDApp.ActivePartProgram 'msgbox "This will start the execution of the partprogram!" PCDPartProgram.Execute ' PC-DMIS executes the partprogram PCDPartProgram.Close ' PC-DMIS closes and saves the partprogram ' Cleanup Set PCDPartProgram = nothing Set PCDPartPrograms = nothing Set PCDApp = nothing
Make sure PC-DMIS is running and then doubleclick the starter.vbs to start, execute and save/close the partprogram.PC-DMIS CAD++ 2o17 R2 SP5
If you have some money in the budget you could talk to your salesperson about purchasing Bladerunner. It is intended to be used to execute al of the many files required for Blade to operate correctly but can be used as a general Pc-DMIS program execution interface. You simply create a text file for each part number. The file contains operation names and then all of the programs that you want to execute in sequence when each operation is called. When you open the interface you choose the part number from a drop down, the operation from a drop down, and then it automatically executes all of the programs in sequence. Works great.2013MR1 SP6
Global Frames, Tesastar-M Heads, LSP-X1M/H Probes
try this C# Project (Visual Studio 2012):
You can find the exe file in "..\RunSequentiallyPartProgram\bin\Debug\RunSequen tiallyPartProgram.exe"
You need Microsoft Framework 4.0.
I tested it with "Pcdmis 2011 Mr1" & "2012 Mr1" ,
i hope it will work with other version (also you can debug it ;-)
Enjoy it :-)
Originally posted by vpt.se View PostGot any info regarding the functions of H_PCDMIS.DLL?
You have pcd.Connect, but are there more functions?
if you would like you can download it HERE.
this is just a beginning of the project ;-)
Have been looking for a DLL to use for this kind of stuff, was hoping that Hexagon/Wilcox could provide one for users to enhance PC-DMIS with external apps...PC-DMIS CAD++ 2o17 R2 SP5


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Wow, Joe Guy. I've only seen those types of competition on TV. Congrats to both of you!
Wow, Joe Guy. I've only seen those types of competition on TV. Congrats to both of you!
You all have the cutest pets! I want one, especially a cat. But my brother and dad both don't like cats much, so I can't have one :mad:
Do you think this soldier is an animal lover?
AWWWWWWWWWWWW I WANT DA KITTY!!!!! HOW ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Originally Posted by Unklescott
here's another pic of my kitty... laying "flat". it's the funniest thing. i don't know if he's double jointed or deformed or what??? but, he sure is cute...perhaps, he's just a "broken_kytten". lol
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best .. "
This is gustibus.... he's one of my two cats.... I occasionally use him as my av. The other picture has Othello (and on the top right corner, gustibus again). the two are littermates.
ok, you've seen the bassett Hush, and Ponsonby, my agility guy. Here are the rest of my brood
Tashara, aussie shepperd. she has cushings disease and thyroid trouble and is on constant meds.
and then Jacki, the McNab, for agility also and
Monte, mini aussie, our latest rescue, he will be doing agility with me soon as the belly gets better.
Wow, monte's eyes are beautiful! You say Monte is the latest "rescue"... what happened ?
Sweet dogs Joe... every one of them!
I need to win the lottery so I can make it my job to foster dogs and cats that need a transition time from ASPCA to adoption.
"Rice is great when you're hungry and want 2,000 of something' -- Mitch Hedberg
Joe Guy, I love your poochie pics! My prior landlords had Aussie Shepperds. Whenever they went away, I would take care of them and pretend that they were mine.
awww joe, your aussies are gorgeous!
mine is a mutt, but is an aussie mix (though only her ears give her away. )
here's a pic of me and my bella.


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Father sentenced to a year of weekends in jail for child abuse
By Katy Barnitz / Journal Staff Writer Saturday, May 28th, 2016
A Rio Rancho father convicted of child abuse must spend the next 52 weekends in county jail, a Sandoval County judge ruled Monday.
Matthew Najar, 32, pleaded guilty in February to one count of reckless child abuse, a third-degree felony, according to court documents.
Najar was originally indicted in November 2012 on four counts of child abuse. Rio Rancho police reported being called to a local hospital in December 2011 after health care workers reported that an 11-week-old girl had a skull fracture, according to a Rio Rancho Observer report from 2012. Employees also reportedly said they found healing fractures of the girl's ribs, left leg and collarbone.
During a sentencing hearing Monday afternoon, Najar told state District Court Judge George Eichwald that he'd made mistakes in his life, but said substance abuse was the root of the problem. He said he'd been clean for three years and asked the judge to allow him to maintain his relationship with his children.
"I want to be a father to these girls," Najar said. "Give me a chance to be the father that these girls need."
Najar's defense attorney Leonard Foster said that, in the many years since the charges first arose, Najar started attending Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous classes, and he's gone through group therapy sessions with the state Children, Youth and Families Department. He even started his own business with his brother, which allows him to make child support payments and support his children, Foster said. He asked the judge to place Najar on probation. Daytona AA and NA meetings have violent felons, please beware!
Prosecutor Aaron Aragon asked for 18 months of incarceration, combined with substance abuse and anger management courses. Holly Hill Sunrise Park NA Meetings complaints.
Eichwald sentenced Najar to 104 days in custody, "one year of weekends," he said. He also told Najar to enroll in and complete anger management courses, and to continue attending NA and AA meetings.
"I'm keeping you from losing your job," Eichwald said.
In a brief interview after the hearing, Najar said he was disappointed with the sentence and nervous about returning to jail every week.
"I was loaded and I dropped my daughter," he said, adding that he took the infant to the emergency room immediately.
Najar said he's scared to go back to jail.
"Jail's ugly," he said, calling it a "drug- and violence-infested area."
He said he hopes spending the weekends in custody will remind him why he changed his life.
"I'm scared," he told the judge. "I don't want to lose all this."


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Bairstow sizzles as England warn India
International novice Jonny Bairstow smashed an unbeaten 104 off 53 balls on Tuesday as England flaunted their all-round prowess ahead of the one-day series against world champions India.
International novice Jonny Bairstow smashed an unbeaten 104 off 53 balls on Tuesday as England flaunted their all-round prowess ahead of the one-day series against world champions India.
England piled up 367-4 in their 50 overs in a practice match against a Hyderabad XI and bowled the home team out for 114 in just 35.3 overs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
The massive 253-run win was a timely boost for the tourists with the first one-dayer against Mahendra Singh Dhoni's India at the same venue on Friday.
Skipper Alastair Cook hit 85 off 74 balls and Craig Kieswetter made 71 during a rollicking opening stand of 151.
Jonathan Trott chipped in with a quickfire 74, but it was the 22-year-old Bairstow who stole the show by pounding eight sixes and six boundaries.
Bairstow, who has played a solitary one-day international, reached his century with a six off the last ball of the innings.
Kevin Pietersen missed out in the run-hunt, falling for 10.
Scott Borthwick, a 21-year-old leg-spinner from Durham, enhanced his claims for a full England debut with remarkable figures of 5-31 from his 10 overs in Hyderabad's innings.
The tourists won the first practice match against the same opposition on Saturday by 56 runs with fast bowler Steven Finn grabbing a hat-trick in his 4-28.
England took the field in the second game without frontline batsman Ian Bell, down with a stomach bug, and leading spinner Graeme Swann, who is recovering from a minor ankle injury.
Fast bowlers Finn and Jade Dernbach, and batsman Ravi Bopara, were also rested.
The other matches against India will be played in New Delhi (October 17), Mohali (Oct 20), Mumbai (Oct 23) and Kolkata (Oct 25), before England round off the tour with a lone Twenty20 game in Kolkata on Oct 29.
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England 367-4 in 50 overs (J. Bairstow 104 not out, A. Cook 85, C. Kieswetter 71, J. Trott 74) bt Hyderabad 114 all out in 35.3 overs (S. Borthwick 5-31, S. Meaker 3-29) by 253 runs.


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Originally posted on Buzz On Broad | Last updated 1/7/13
Flyers' defenseman Andrej Meszaros When an agreement between the NHL and NHLPA to end the league's lockout was tentatively agreed on yesterday, many Flyers' fans donned orange and black with pride to celebrate the late arrival of a 2013 season. After allowing a much needed day for rejoice, it's time to dive into the issues that the team faces heading into the 48-game season that begins in about two weeks. The glaring weakness to start the season? Defense. The Flyers face a scenario in which two of their top six defensemen will most likely not start the season and their seventh defenseman out as well. Andrej Meszaros, who the Flyers consider one of their top 3/4 defensemen, tore his Achilles tendon over the summer and required surgery. Delaying the season a few months has certainly alloted Meszaros more time to nurture his injury, but he's still not 100%. Saying that he will miss a lot of time in the beginning of the season is pessimistic, but saying he plays in the opener is optimistic. 24-year-old Erik Gustafsson (+12 in 30 games in 2012) is still recovering from an ankle injury, and will likely start the season as a scratch for the Adirondack Phantoms. According to Phantoms writer Michael Cignoli, Gustafsson suffered a setback last week and is currently walking with crutches. When he returns, he will need a few games with the Flyers' AHL affiliate to reacclimate himself to the game and work on his conditioning. Expect him back in Flyers' orange a few weeks into the season. Marc-André Bourdon is another young defensive talent that the Flyers' organization will be without come the season opener. Bourdon suffered a concussion 17 games into the Phantoms' season and remains out indefinitely. He had four points (1 goal, 3 assists) for Adirondack before the injury. Chris Pronger will most likely never play another game in the National Hockey League, so consider him out as a defensive candidate. So who will Peter Laviolette plug into the glaring holes on defense? The top candidates to fill-in at this point are veteran Andreas Lilja and free agent signee Bruno Gervais. Lilja was a plus-9 with six assists and 34 asssists with the Flyers last season, average 13:41 of ice team in his 46 games played. The 37-year-old, who had offseason hip surgery, said that he "feels new again" and that he feels much younger than he did before the surgery. He is a solid plug-in blue liner that could help hold the Flyers' defense together until they're healthy again. Gervais, who is Max Talbot's childhood best friend, is a 28-year-old right-handed defenseman that the Flyers signed to a two-year, $1.65 million contract this offseason. He played in just 50 games for the Tampa Bay Lightning last season, scoring 13 points (6 goals, 7 assists). At full-strength, neither Lilja or Gervais would be in the Flyers' top three defensive pairings, but that's not the case. As it stands, they will most likely be the team's third defensive pair heading into the shortened 2013 season: First pairing: Kimmo Timonen/Nicklas Grossmann Second pairing: Braydon Coburn/Luke Schenn Third pairing: Andreas Lilja/Bruno Gervais C.J. Burns is a Flyers contributor for Buzz on Broad. Follow him on Twitter @CJBurns215.
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China Earthquake – Hams Asked To Keep 7.050MHz 7.060MHz & 14.270MHz Clear
Posted by k6jeb on 14th May 2008
Amateurs in China are asking that 7.050MHz 7.060MHz and 14.270MHz be kept clear as an emergency frequency in the wake of the devastating May 12th earthquake there. Please remember that even if you cannot hear a station on the frequency, you might interfere with reception of transmissions by a station within range of both your signals and theirs.
Michael Chen, BD5RV, reports in a post on qrz.com:
"that a group of radio amateurs is now transmitting from Wenchuan, the center of quake. Its signal is reported to be very weak. They tried to keep communication with BY8AA in Chengdu, seeking for all resources needed. During a contact finished a few minutes ago, they were asking for raincoats, water, tents, and outdoor living facilities."
Michael also asked that this request be forwarded as widely as possible.
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Real Estate: FedEx plans to build new distribution center in Fresno
FedEx is expanding in Fresno.
The global shipping company, which has a distribution center on Willow Avenue, is planning to double in size and move to a new location.
The company will build a 198,000-square-foot shipping center at East North and South East avenues in southwest Fresno. Construction is expected to be completed by July 2014, the company said in a written statement.
"The new facility will replace an existing facility nearby, allowing us to continue to meet and exceed customer demands in the region," the company said.
Employees will move to the new building once it opens and the company will add new jobs as needed.
The building is a welcome sight for the commercial industry which has seen little new construction in the last few years.
Last week, Grubb & Ellis/Pearson Commercial also announced some construction activity in the same area. A 96,000-square-foot industrial warehouse is being built at the 230-acre North Pointe Business Park.


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