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Edinburgh festival fringe ticket sales hit record 1.88m
The Edinburgh festival fringe has defied some miserable August weather and the sharp drop in consumer spending by hitting another record for ticket sales.
The event estimates that almost 1.88m tickets were taken up by fringe audiences over the past four weeks, a small increase on the 1.83m sold or issued last year.
Kath Mainland, the fringe's chief executive, said the figures confirmed the fringe had been an "incredibly successful event", attracting nearly 21,200 actors, comedians, dancers and performers who put on close to 41,700 shows and performances.
"The courage and creativity of the thousands of individuals that participate in this unique, world-class event are what make this such an inspiring and important festival," Mainland said.
"Performers of all disciplines and backgrounds coming together to tell their stories and share their ideas is an utterly compelling prospect for the audiences, who have flocked to this beautiful festival city."
This year's increase is smaller than in previous years, suggesting the economic downturn and weather might have bitten into sales. Bill Burdett-Coutts, director of one of the "big four" fringe venues, the Assembly, said his sales were very similar to last year's but said this was partly influenced by the often torrential rain during August.
He was cheered by the success of his main hit, the dance show Rock the Ballet, and his stage show by Simon Callow, because they outdid the traditionally dominant comedy acts: this year, his third biggest hit was the comedian Sarah Millican.
"The main shows have sold extremely. It has been harder for the ones which have been less well-known and we have been hit by this appalling weather," he said.
After a dispute about the accuracy of last year's tickets figures because they incorporated estimates about audiences to free events, this year's official audience figures include only those tickets either sold or issued.
As a result, the latest figures ignore tens of thousands of people who went to the swelling number of free fringe events, which this year broke the 600 barrier. Last year's official tickets figure has been revised downwards, from 1.95m to 1,829,931. The ticketing figure for 2009 has also been cut, to 1.74m.
Burdett-Coutts said the upgraded computerised ticket sales service, boosted by a new fringe smartphone app downloaded by 35,000 people, had helped boost sales. "All the festival directors are very impressed by it. The online sales were extraordinary," he said.
Warnings have been sounded about next year's event by another fringe impresario, Anthony Alderson, the director of the Pleasance. He has predicted that producers will struggle to find enough experienced technicians to build the hundreds of temporary venues and stages needed at the fringe because they will be employed on the London Olympics, which clashes with next year's fringe.


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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained that while the company is warning the public about the dangers the 3DS could have on users' eyes, he would not label it dangerous.
The WSJ also implies that Nintendo's motivation to issue the warning wasn't entirely based on goodwill. The possibility of threatening lawsuits could have been enough to cause the company to caution future 3DS players.
Still, any backlash from the announcement isn't causing Nintendo to hold back on the handheld gaming device's release. Iwata claimed Nintendo will still ship four million 3DS units internationally by the end of March. And Iwata maintains the device is safe as long as used correctly and not for long hours. "Parents sometimes use video games almost as a babysitter for their kids," Iwata told the WSJ.
At this year's CES, we heard that Panasonic intends to collaborate with the Japanese government in order to establish international rules regarding healthy use of 3D devices, including television sets.

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The break-in at the Watergate complex and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of President Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. KEN HUGHES' new book, Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate, uses the Nixon and Johnson tapes to explore Nixon's secret interference in Vietnam peace talks during the 1968 election. As a key player in the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses. Hughes served as a senior consultant on Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words, an HBO documentary, and is currently consulting on the forthcoming Ken Burns documentary on Vietnam.
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ADHD has got to be the most misunderstood, but at the same time, most researched disorder known to man. Some folks still believe that it is just an excuse for being lazy and forgetful. Also, there are plenty of urban myths about ADHD being over-diagnosed, and stimulant medications being over-prescribed.
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Kents Hill Lumber is closing its lumber and hardware business in Readfield, Maine, Nov. 3 after 36 years of operation, according to an article in the Kennebec Journal. Owner Stephen Monsulick cited the poor economy and its effect on the business.
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He will continue to run Kents Hill Lumber Self-Storage at the same site.
In its prime, Kents Hill had up to 20 employees at a time and did three to four times the business it's doing today with six employees, Monsulick told the newspaper
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Update: 8:39PM The Sydney Roosters have confirmed their NRL premiership credentials with a convincing 32-12 win over fellow top-four contenders Penrith at the Sydney Football Stadium.
For the Panthers, who had a short turnaround from a thrilling one-point win over Brisbane on Monday night, the emphatic defeat will nonetheless raise doubts about their bona fides against top sides.
This season they have defeated just two sides who went into round 19 inside the top eight and have a tough run into the finals.
In front of a fervent 13,993 strong crowd, Boyd Cordner was superb for the Roosters, running for 202 metres and crashing over for two tries.
Sonny Bill Williams, who did not drink or eat during the day due to his observance of Ramadan, put in a solid 80-minute performance.
The Panthers lacked direction, missing playmakers Peter Wallace and Tyrone Peachey, while half-back Jamie Soward had a poor match, particularly with the boot.
Panthers back-rower Elijah Taylor was sin-binned in the fifth minute for a professional foul and the Roosters made good use of the one-man advantage soon after when Aidan Guerra - playing at centre in a reshuffled backline - went over.
With Roosters number nine Jake Friend off the field with concussion in the ninth minute, stand-in hooker Mitch Aubusson proved himself a capable replacement when he burrowed over from dummy-half.
Soon after, the home side were controversially denied a Mitchell Pearce four-pointer by the video referees when he stole it from the arms of Matt Moylan on the tryline.
However the Roosters did take an 18-0 lead into half-time after Frenchman Remi Casty crashed over for his second try of the year.
The Panthers got back with a sniff through a Bryce Cartwright try in the 58th minute, but a James Maloney penalty goal and a Cordner try nine minutes from full-time sealed the match for the Roosters.
The Panthers scored a late consolation try through James Segeyaro, however the Roosters put an exclamation mark on the win when Cordner got his double.
Aubusson left the field late holding his shoulder following a collision with Maloney.
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Colorado mom captures little daughter's frustration with the length of the presidential campaign.
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Poor little girl. She's not alone, but the real culprits in this whole ghastly overdone circus are the unremitting TV and radio ads and the political mudslinging. Why cannot we limit the procedure to the six weeks before an election and FORBID all campaign advertising until that period?
I believe this is the same little girl that cried profusely because she wanted to be governor of some state. I do believe her mother should be charged with child abuse.
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The new iPad -- both challenge and opportunity for rugged market manufacturers
If you want to sell tablets it's tough not to be Apple. And on March 7, 2012, it got that much tougher. For that's when Apple introduced the next version of the iPad, setting the bar even higher for anyone else.
Why do I even mention that here at RuggedPCReview.com where we concentrate on computing equipment that's tough and rugged and can get the job done where a consumer product like the iPad can't? Because, like it or not, the iPad, like the iPhone, sets consumer expectations on how computing ought to be done. It does that both by the elegance and brilliance of its execution, and by the sheer numbers of iPads and iPhones out there (Apple has sold 315 million iOS devices through 2011). That pretty much means anything that doesn't at least come close to offering the ease-of-use and functionality of the Apple devices will be considered lacking, making for a more difficult sell.
Unfortunately for anyone else out there trying to sell tablets, it's been tough. Somehow, while the iPad is simply a tablet, a way of presenting, consuming and manipulating information, it's been remarkably difficult for anyone else to convince customers to select them, and not Apple. Remarkable because Apple, despite its mystique, never managed to even make a dent into Microsoft's PC hegemony, and remarkable because of the number of vocal Apple opponents who shred whatever Apple creates seemingly on principle.
But let's take a quick look at Apple's latest version of the iPad, called not, as expected, iPad 3, but once again simply iPad.
No one ever complained about the resolution of the iPad display (1024 x 768), and everyone else stayed around that resolution as well, with lower end products perhaps offering 800 x 480, many using the old 1024 x 600 "netbook" resolution, and higher end products going as far as 1280 x 800 or the wider 1366 x 768. Well, with the new iPad Apple quadrupled resolution to 2048 x 1536, making for a superior viewing experience. Such high resolution is not necessarily needed, but if it's available for as comparatively little as Apple charges for iPads, everything else now looks lacking. And I can definitely see how the super-high resolution could come in very handy for many vertical market applications.
The new iPad also has two cameras. The new iPads we ordered will not arrive for another week and so I don't know yet just how good they are, but if the iPhone 4s is any indication, they will be very significantly better than what anyone else in the rugged arena has to offer at this point. I've long wondered why expensive, high quality rugged handhelds, tablets and notebooks come with marginally acceptable cameras, and the new iPads will only widen the chasm. The iPad cameras aren't only capable of offering fully functional video conferencing on their large screens, they can also snap rather high quality stills, and they can record 1080p full motion HD video, with image stabilization. And the iPad has the software to go with it. Few could claim this wouldn't come in handy for professionals in the field.
Advances on the technology side include a faster dual core Apple-branded ARM processor with quad core graphics and 4G LTE wireless broadband. Unless some rugged hardware we've seen over the years, iPads were never underpowered, and with the new chip they'll be snappier yet. And while 4G wireless isn't ubiquitous yet by any means, having it built-in certainly doesn't hurt. And then there's battery life, where the iPad, even the new improved one, wrings about ten hours out of just 25 watt-hours. And the whole thing still only weighs 1.4 pounds.
Now, of course, the iPad isn't rugged. It's durable and well built, and if you use it in one of its many available cases, it won't get scratched or dented, but it's not rugged. Its projected capacitive multi-touch screen famously cannot be used with gloves, you can't use a pen for when pin-point accuracy is required, and it's not waterproof.
None of which stopped the iPad from scoring some remarkable design wins in areas and industries that once did not look beyond rugged equipment. The FAA granted American Airlines permission to use iPads to replace inflight manuals and such, and American is deploying 11,000 iPads. Others will follow.
What does that all mean for companies that make rugged tablets? That the market is there. In fact, I believe the surface has barely been scratched. But it has to be the right product. Apple showed the way with the iPad but, with all due respect to those who've tried so far, few followed with more than a timid effort. It's been mostly wait-and-see, and now Apple has set the bar higher yet. That doesn't mean it's over for anyone else, but it's gotten tougher yet. The new iPad will boost acceptance of the tablet form factor and functionality to higher levels yet, and that still means opportunity for everyone else.
I am convinced that there's a large and growing demand for a more rugged tablet, and that whoever comes out with a product that doesn't just approximate but match and exceed expectations will win big.
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God can use our faithfulness as an answer to prayer. Someone may have prayed "Give us this day our daily bread" in the morning, and at lunch God is answering with a plate of spaghetti being served at the free community lunch or with the bag of groceries a family picks up at the food pantry. We agree with James "Isn't it obvious that God-talk
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CERES is a key component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) program. The CERES instruments provide radiometric measurements of the Earth's atmosphere from three broadband channels. The CERES missions are a follow-on to the successful Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) mission. The first CERES instrument (PFM) was launched on November 27, 1997 as part of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Two CERES instruments (FM1 and FM2) were launched into polar orbit on board the EOS flagship Terra on December 18, 1999. Two additional CERES instruments (FM3 and FM4) were launched on board EOS Aqua on May 4, 2002. The newest CERES instrument (FM5) was launched on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011.
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Originally from Hungary, the Vizsla is a medium-sized, short-coated hunting dog that is essentially Pointer in type, although he combines characteristics of both pointer and retriever. An attractive golden rust in color, this "dual" dog is popular in both the field and the show ring due to his power and drive while hunting and his trainability in the home.
Personality: Gentle, affectionate, energetic and eager
Energy Level: Very Active; Born hunting dogs built for long days in the field, Vizslas are athletes who thrive on hard exercise
Good with Children: Yes
Good with other Dogs: With Supervision
Shedding: Seasonal
Grooming: Occasional
Trainability: Eager To Please
Height: 22-24 inches (male), 21-23 inches (female)
Weight: 55-60 pounds (male), 44-55 pounds (female)
Life Expectancy: 12-14 years
Barking Level: Barks When Necessary


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De La Salle linebacker will play for USC
Updated 12:01 am, Friday, August 31, 2012
De La Salle-Concord linebacker Michael Hutchings is the region's No. 1 recruit playing for Northern California's No. 1 squad, and next season he's committed to play for USC, currently the nation's No. 1 college team.
Hutchings needs another hand to wave around all those index fingers.
The 6-foot-2, 215-pound senior said he needs only a pair of eyeballs - and a video player - to keep him grounded and humble. That and his parents and coaches.
His team travels to San Jose City College to take on The Chronicle's No. 2 squad, Bellarmine, at 7 p.m. Friday. It's a rematch of last season's opener, a 26-23 thriller won by De La Salle in overtime.
"Watching game film helps me to see the big picture," Hutchings said. "It shows every mistake, and everything major and minor I need to work on."
There's not much tinkering Hutchings needs to do. The third-year starter hits like a tank and uses 4.6-second 40-yard speed to pursue like a big wildcat.
He follows a long line of standout linebackers at De La Salle, such as Denver Bronco D.J. Williams, Kevin Simon and Michael Barton, now at Cal.
Hutchings' challenge this season is to be a leader like his good friend Barton, whom he called Tuesday night for some advice heading into the season.
"I just asked for some tips," Hutchings said. "As a junior and sophomore, my job was to just make plays. And now there's a bunch of us who need to be leaders verbally and by example. (Barton) told me to just set the bar and the others would follow."
The Spartans need a spark, Hutchings said. They didn't scrimmage particularly well two weeks ago, and only in the last few days have practices picked up.
They have a 223-game unbeaten streak against Northern California opponents (221-0-2) since 1991, but Bellarmine had them on the ropes last season.
The Bells lost in the final seconds of the 2011 State Division I Bowl 42-37 to Santa Margarita-Rancho Santa Margarita (Orange County), which is ranked No. 1 in two national polls.
"They have a great program," Hutchings said of Bellarmine. "They're like us in that they're not the biggest guys but they grind and really get after it."
Bellarmine's top-ranked recruit hasn't taken a varsity snap. K.J. Carta-Samuels - a 6-foot-3, 210-pound junior quarterback - has already committed to Vanderbilt, where his older brother Austyn plays behind starting QB Jordan Rodgers, the little brother of Green Bay Packers and former Cal quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
"I've seen (Carta-Samuels) on film, and he's not over-rated at all," Hutchings said. "He's big and mobile and athletic."
Hutchings said "he's 100 percent" committed to joining USC even though the Trojans have told him it's fine to take recruiting trips elsewhere. "I know some kids do that, but I don't see a need," he said. "I know where I want to go."
More recruiting news: Hutchings' teammate, linebacker Victor Egu (6-3, 232) told Rivals.com that Oregon, Notre Dame and Washington are his finalists. ... Another De La Salle linebacker, David Moffitt (6-2, 205), appears headed for Arizona or Colorado. ... Cal looks like the leader for the region's No. 7 football recruit, Milpitas' 6-4, 260-pound defensive end Vita Vea. ... Bellarmine strong safety Kenneth Olugbode (6-1, 185) committed to San Jose State.
Other games of the week
McClymonds-Oakland (1-0) at No. 12 Bishop O'Dowd-Oakland (1-0), 5:30 p.m. Friday: The Oakland Athletic League has chance to shine under the bright lights - McClymonds could be playing for small-school bowl bid here.
No. 16 Amador Valley-Pleasanton (1-0) at No. 9 Concord (1-0), 7 p.m. Friday: Concord's Olito Thompson might get 40 touches.
No. 13 Pittsburg (1-0) at No. 25 California-San Ramon (1-0), 7 p.m. Friday: These teams squared off in an even scrimmage just two weeks ago. Could be a preview of NCS semifinal.
No. 17 Freedom-Oakley (0-1) at No. 15 Foothill-Pleasanton (1-0), 7:30 p.m. Friday: Freedom has a score to settle with the city of Pleasanton after a 29-27 loss to Amador Valley last week.
No. 14 Mitty (0-0) at No. 10 Los Gatos (0-0), 7:30 p.m. Friday: Los Gatos' Matt Etterman and Max Herman attempt to replace the 2,700 yards rushing and 36 TDs scored by graduated Garret Zeiter.
Vacaville at No. 18 Valley Christian (0-0), 7:30 p.m. Friday: Vacaville just missed a state bowl bid last year and is ranked No. 10 in Northern California by MaxPreps.com.
No. 8 St. Ignatius (0-0) at No. 5 Marin Catholic-Kentfield (1-0), 2 p.m. Saturday: This one always comes down to the wire, and with QBs Jack Stinn (SI) and Cal-bound Jared Goff, both teams might score at least 30.
Mitch Stephens is a national columnist for MaxPreps.com. For more, see the Prep Insider blog at blog.sfgate.com/ prepsports. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @MitchMashMax


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Water scarcity making us feel like beggars: Villagers
Women from villages in Shahapur in Thane fetch water from rivers and railway stations in local trains; villagers say that seeing their desperation, people liken them to tramps
Mumbai may not feel parched just yet, but the drought-like situation is inching closer to it from the far removed hinterlands in the eastern part of the state. In Shahapur taluka in Thane district, water woes are beggaring villagers.
Taramai Pawar, who lives in Khardi village in Shahapur, travels for nearly an hour by the local to Khadavli once every four days. She carries with her a heap of dirty clothes that need washing. Many others in the village — Laxmi Dighe, for instance — travel by locals to do the chores meant to be done in their households. Dighe travels for an hour to Kasara railway station, where she draws water from the public tap at the station and brings it back to her home in the village.
In the nearby Jarandi village, and many others in the vicinity some 80 kilometres from Mumbai, the situation is no different. In a scoffing paradox, these waterless villages are surrounded with three dams — Vaitarna, Bhatsa and Tansa. All these three dams provide water to Mumbai, but have nothing for the villages they flank, whose dwellers must depend on water tankers well beyond their means. The tankers charge
Rs 5 per can.
Pawar said the dearth is forcing them on their knees before others. "When we travel in the local to Khadavli river, passengers treat us like beggars. They think we are unauthorised travellers. We can't even blame them, our condition is such that we appear like ragamuffins, a bundle of clothes on our head, all of us desperate to get on the train. Water scarcity has forced us to step out of our villages in this manner," she said.
Another villager Vanitha Deshmukh said that some of the railway staffers at Kasara station look down on them when they fill water at the station. "When we go to fill water at the station, the staff there starts complaining. Sometimes, they shut off the water supply to the tap. But we manage. The railway train guards are very helpful. They stop the train for extra time as they know there are women who are carrying water and need time to get down," said Deshmukh.
Somnath Manje, another local, said villagers have stopped hosting functions because of water scarcity. "We order tankers that cost Rs 1,200-1,500 each if we have a wedding in the village. For our daily needs, we either go to our relatives' villages where they have water or to the dam that's nearly 10 kilometres from our village," said Manje.
Quick fix
Sitabai Misal of Jarandi village said that on Friday, after three to four months, she didn't have to walk for miles to get water. Yuva Sena, the Shiv Sena's youth wing, provided the villagers with water in plastic tanks, which would last them much longer.
One of the villagers, Shivaji Bhoir, was grateful that the water wasn't dumped into the wells. Many political parties that bring water tankers to the villages pour the water in wells that are filthy, turning drinking water turbid.
However, the villagers see the respite as just that: a short-lived relief. They fear that all these arrangements, the political interventions, are temporary.
Asked how long his party would continue to provide water to villagers, Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray said, "Till the time the villagers need it, our party will provide them with drinking water, unlike the water given by the state government, which isn't potable."
It is still a quick fix for a long-standing problem, villagers said, which doesn't address the issue of scarcity.


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When you shop for insulation, they are listed with different R-values.
What is R-value and how the heck does it affect how well the insulation works? Do you save more money with a higher R-value? How is R-value calculated?
(Answers: Measure of an insulation's thermal resistance, yes, yes and very carefully by smart people in labcoats.)
What is R-value – A Boring Wikipedia-style Definition
R-value indicates a substance's resistance to heat transfer. The higher the R-value, the more slowly that heat energy transfers across the material boundary. The R-value varies depending on the material and thickness.
When figuring the R-value for a wall assembly (or any layered building element), you can add the R-values of each layer together. For example, a standard partition wall in modern construction consists of drywall on 2″x6″ studs, 6″ fiberglass batts within the wall cavities, plywood or OSB sheathing, a Tyvek water control plane and your siding. The R-value for any cross-section of the wall can be found by adding the material R-value of each layer.
How is R-value Calculated?
Carefully, by scientists with lab coats. Seriously, R-value is tested under strict laboratory conditions to determine the exact rates of heat transfer.
A hot box is set up with a heating element on one side and thermometers closely gauging temperature on both sides. The ambient air temperature is 70 F with as little air movement as possible.
The test material is placed between the heat source and the unheated side of the hot box. Observers closely monitor how quickly (or hopefully, slowly) the temperature rises in the unheated box section. Lather, rinse and repeat until you've got a technically consistent set of data points from which to derive the material's R-value.
You can see the shortcomings. For one thing, I lost half my audience talking about the numbers. Another is that you're not concerned about insulation in June during a balmy 70 degree patch. It is during the pitch bottom January dead of winter. New Englanders (and most anyone concerned about insulation) are hardly dealing with ideal windless conditions. It is freezing and windy and miserable (hooray, New England) and different insulations perform differently in these less than ideal conditions.
Why is the Advertised R-value Wrong?
R-values are calculated with care and scientific rigor. There shouldn't be any issue with taking them at face value, right? And it sure would be handy if there was one reliable yardstick for judging insulation. That is true but unfortunately the answer is no. R-values are calculated in a setting that bears as little resemblance to the real world as does Harry Potter or Middle Earth.
Insulation can be compromised in any number of ways: Thermal bridging, irregularity around windows, poor or faulty installation, sagging within wall cavities, aging of the insulation, the nature of the types of insulation, air looping in the wall cavity and wind washing just to rattle off a few ways. Some insulations (reflective barriers) don't even work by thermal resistance. You could double your wall's R-value and find the real world results are much poorer.
I'll detail a couple of these to illustrate the point. Thermal bridging is when a more conductive (or poorly insulating) material allows an easier pathway for heat transfer across a thermal barrier. The most common form is probably within the eyesight of every reader of this article: wall cavity studs. Suppose your walls have 6″ fiberglass batts. I'm sorry. Every 16 inches on center in that wall is a 2″x6″ stud board. The fiberglass has an R-value of around 3.5 per inch and the stud is around .75 per inch.
Here's a thermal image from my house where you can see the wall studs and corner hurricane brace through the plaster.
While the advertised R-value would be R-19 for the 6″ batt, the effective R-value is about 2 lower. Bummer.
Wind washing is another common condition that reduces effective R-value. Wind washing is air pressure driven movement through insulation, typically wind driven in a horizontal direction. Some insulations (I'm looking at you fiberglass) are severely compromised by air flowing through it. Fibrous insulations like fiberglass, rock wool and to a lesser extent cellulose (lesser extent because cellulose is made of paper, an excellent insulator where glass and rock are poor insulators) work by trapping pockets of warm air thereby slowing heat flow. The air movement strips out the warm air keeping the insulation from, you know, insulating.
One of my audit customers from this past year had exactly this problem. He lived approximately 3/4 of a mile from the ocean and his house faced directly east. Year-round there is a very significant sea breeze against the front face of the house. The homeowner installed foam blocks in the soffits, sealed against the channel vents in each bay. This forced the sea breeze from blowing through the insulation. You can see the before and after results here:
Using R-value as the one stop comparison between different insulating materials is tempting (and easy). But it creates the illusion of better performing house insulation.
So what's the solution?
It's the Material, Stupid
Yes, it's WHAT the insulation is made of, not HOW it's rated. As tempting as it may be to judge all insulation on one number, each type of insulation performs differently. Fiberglass allows air to flow through it; if applied in the attic you need to seal light fixtures, wire penetrations, etc. to ensure the fiberglass works as best it can. Closed cell spray foam insulation is an air and vapor barrier but needs a fire barrier like drywall.
Knowing the physical properties besides simple R-value will help you get the most out of your insulation. And knowing is half…nevermind.


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Markets were sent tumbling yet again, with the Dow closing down 5.5% and the Nasdaq and S&P losing more than 7%, on Monday. The latest gunshot to spook the investor herd was Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. debt rating from AAA to AA+.
The rationale for the downgrade, essentially, was the inability of Washington lawmakers to get along and come up with a debt reduction plan that the rating agency deemed acceptable. No matter how much political dissention there is, however, squabbling on Capitol Hill should have nothing to do with the U.S. credit rating. To think otherwise would be like a bank raising the interest rate on a home mortgage simply because a couple doesn't eat dinner together most nights or argues over who left the cap off the toothpaste. It's all about the ability to pay, which is not an issue for U.S. debt.
The irony of it is, in the wake of the downgrade, U.S. Treasuries remained the safe haven, which meant the government's borrowing costs did not go up. In fact, they went down. Unfortunately equities, the unintended victim, were trounced substantially because investors sold first and asked questions later.
Investors had already been running scared because of worries from European debt to whether a slowing U.S. economy will slip back into recession. The real reason for their panic, I would argue, has very little to do with debt levels in Greece or Italy, or whether GDP in the U.S. will drop into negative territory. It's all about 2008.
Investors remember all too well the great flush that occurred in the midst of the financial crisis, when huge companies that had been thought to be rock solid--Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, to name two--suddenly went out of business. Asset values evaporated, and investors feared a return of the Great Depression.
Now as fears ripple through the market, investors vow not to be caught flatfooted again. "I'm not going to let that happen to me" is the mantra as they head for the hills, taking their cash with them.
The good news is this is not 2008. Not even close. The economy is still growing. GDP for Q2 2011 was up 1.3%. Although that's hardly strong growth, it's a far cry from a negative reading of -6.8% for Q4 2008. Yes, employment is soft, but we are adding jobs, even in the midst of government layoffs. Just a few years ago, the monthly job reports were showing losses of 500,000 jobs.
Demand is weak as consumers deleverage, while the government, which can account for 20-30% of GDP, has cut its spending by mandate. This could set the stage for a soft economy to go into recession, but don't look for things to fall off a cliff.
The simple fact is we're two years into an economic recovery and we've hit a soft patch, which is to be expected. We'll either start growing from here, or slip into a recession again. Only time--and economic data--will tell. In the meantime, assets are worth less, but they are not worthless. This is far more important than a clever play on words. It is a statement of fact that this is not 2008 all over again. We are in an economic slowdown/recession, not a crisis. No big corporations are about to implode and go out of business.
Although these are painful times to be an investor, when fear grips the market with increased volatility, but there really is no reason to panic. The economy may be wounded, but it's been on the mend and, for the moment, there is no reason to believe the patient needs to be in intensive care. And if you are looking for the right medicine to make you feel better then look no further then the dividend yield on the S&P 500 which is yielding about as much as the US 10 year treasury. Historically when that has happened in the past equities have had a very nice rally.


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Maker of Miracles, whose healing power is at work in all brokenness,
Transform our fear with your Presence. Lead us to accepting the possibilities that arise when we learn openness toward what is unknown. Help us to see all you provide to strengthen and sustain us. As each new detail is set in place, remind us that wholeness comes through the miracle of community. Amen.


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This is how a lot of good ideas get started.
When Steven Paradis started doing some small scale farming, he wanted to be kind to the environment. But when he went shopping for enviro-friendly fertilizer, he couldn't find anything in town and soon learned that his only option was to pick up supplies out of state.
Next week, Paradis is hosting an open house at his new business, Fresh Start Growers' Supply, at 1007 E. Jefferson Street. He sells non-toxic agriculture products, and hopes to provide much-needed enviro-friendly products to farmers in the region who grow food. There are also retail products for backyard farmers.
"If farmers like it, and I think they will, we'll be a good alternative to chemical-based products," he said.
Paradis is also producing a film, Dig It, about protecting the environment.


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Career Highlights
Natalia finished 2nd in the LETAS Order of Merit in 2015 earning her full card for the Ladies European Tour 2016 season. Natalia began the season as an amateur and then opted to turn professional for the final two tournaments of the season. Natalia had two wins during the season, her first at the CitizenGuard LETAS Trophy as an amateur and her second win at the season finale WPGA International Challenge only her second tournament as a professional. Natalia made a further four top three finishes during the season.
Natalia and amateur from Castellon, Spain has competed at international level. Her major golfing achievement in 2014 was representing Spain at the Ladies European Team Championships.
Natalia, began playing golf at age five. Natalia has dark brown hair and brown eyes. When Natalia is not on the golf course she enjoys spending time with her family and friends and relaxing by reading a book. Natalia notes her most influential people as her father and uncle.


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legislation of the Russian Federation found that organizations can submit required information in the statistical authorities through the Internet.To do this, you need to download the official website of Statistics special software and forms to fill out.
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send the files to the server statistics.To do this, go to "Sending the finished file" in the "System of secure document."If you use the tools of digital signature (EDS), the procedure is now complete.
If you do not use encryption and digital signature, you will need to contact your local statistics and provide a paper version of the data sent to the printing company.Please contact a representative body of statistics for more information.In general we can say that to send samples to the Statistics not be easy.However, it should be noted that for more reliable operation of the need to create copies of data, and use anti-virus software to protect the information.


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Storm debris threatens safety, tourism
Mon., Feb. 18, 2013
'Mind-boggling' amount still needs to be cleared
MANTOLOKING, N.J. – On the surface, things look calm and placid. Just beneath the waterline, however, it's a different story.
Cars and sunken boats. Patio furniture. Pieces of docks. Entire houses. A grandfather clock, deposited in a marsh a mile from solid land. Hot tubs. Tons of sand. All displaced by Superstorm Sandy.
"We did a cleanup three weeks ago. Then when we went back the other day, you could still see junk coming up in the wash," said Paul Harris, president of the New Jersey Beach Buggy Association, which helps take care of beaches on which the group goes surf fishing. "They go and clean it again, and two days later, you have the same thing again. There's nothing you can do about it; you can't vacuum the ocean."
Coastal areas of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are racing to remove untold tons of debris from waters hardest hit by the Oct. 29 storm before the summer swimming and boating seasons begin – two of the main reasons people flock there each year and the underpinning of the region's multibillion-dollar tourist industry.
The sunken debris presents an urgent safety issue. Swimmers could cut themselves on submerged junk, step on one of thousands of boardwalk nails ripped loose, or suffer neck or spinal injuries diving into solid objects. Boats could hit debris, pitching their occupants overboard, or in severe cases, sinking.
The cleanup won't be easy, fast or cheap.
"The amount of debris that needs to be removed is mind-boggling," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said, ticking off the statistics in his state: 1,400 vessels sunk, broken loose or destroyed during the storm. In just one shore town alone, Mantoloking, 58 buildings were washed into Barnegat Bay, along with eight vehicles, and a staggering amount of sand carried from the ocean beaches into the bay.
"Everything you can imagine is sitting in our waterways," he said.
Barnegat Bay is likely to have some no-go zones in place for at least part of the spring and summer as cleanup work progresses. "Big Al" Wutkowski, a locally famous striped-bass fisherman who volunteers as the Barnegat Bay Guardian for the American Littoral Society environmental group, is worried about what still lurks beneath the waves.
"When people start putting their boats back in the water in April, I know they're going to start hitting stuff," he said. "It's impossible not to hit stuff. It's also a lot shallower in places now."
Florida-based contractor AshBritt Environmental removed 42 boats from New Jersey waterways in recent weeks. Others were corralled by the State Police, or by private salvage companies acting on behalf of owners.
Property owners are not being held financially responsible for debris that washed or blew off their property into waterways unless they hire a private company to retrieve a boat they plan to repair and keep, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The state, which issued contracts last week for the water cleanup work, plans to seek full reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of $60 billion in Sandy relief approved by Congress.
Much of the work will involve cranes atop barges that pluck the largest debris from the bottom. Divers could be used for smaller pieces. Once that's done, many waterways will need to be dredged, with the sand placed back on beaches.
New York and Connecticut face similar problems.
Rob Weltner, president of Operation Splash, said the Freeport, N.Y., volunteer group has spent the past 20 years collecting 1 million pounds of debris, mostly from waterways on the south shore of Long Island.
"Twenty years is out the window," he said. He added, "We just had that place looking beautiful and it's going to take us another 10 or 15 years to get it back looking decent again."


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I did the ps & redirect. $ ps axf > ~/ps.log # full log at end A grep of that file for 'X11' ( $ grep X11 ps.log ) yields this result: --- 244 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon 308 ? S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc :64 --- It is obvious things aren't running properly if one compares it to a 'ps' when X is working the the open driver (nv): --- $ ps axf |grep X11 758 tty4 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/startx 769 tty4 S 0:00 \_ xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc 770 ? S< 0:10 \_ /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp --- I saw a few warnings in 'XFree86.0.log' file: $ grep "(WW)" XFree86.0.log --- (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) --- I don't know if they have any significance to the problems I'm having. I beginning to wonder whether the 'XF86Config-4' has problems. The way I installed Debian "Sid": (1) installed "Woody" (2) installed X (configured X) (3) upgraded to "Sid." I installed Debian a couple of times... interesting is that if you install "Woody" then upgrade and then install X the configure routinue (for X) that runs asks you different questions. I remember this 'cause when I did it this way I was asked a few more questions and I wasn't sure how to answer some of 'em. What I ended-up doing is abandoning the second install (and doing it a third time after wiping the partitions) 'cause I had no apparent X problems when installing X in "Woody" before doing the upgrade to "Sid." (from an earlier post) >Do you have your kernel's header or source? Kernel headers. I'm not sure where to get the source... currently don't care either if things can be taken care of with the headers. >To require nvidia-glx when you installed >nvidia-kernel-source would be incorrect as nvidia-glx is not needed by >the nvidia-kernel-source package. However, when the resultant >nvidia-kernel binary package was created it should have required >nvidia-glx. There is something I don't quite follow, because I tried the install with the 'nvidia-kernel-source' package and it did NOT appear to have installed the nvidia driver (nvidia-glx) properly (in a previous post I explained how 'lsmod' showed the 'nvidia' module as "unused"). The way I fixed that is: # apt-get install nvidia-glx You're suggesting that is wrong? (It seemed to be doing good things. The 'nvidia' module was no longer listed as 'unused.') Anyway, I went on that hunch, 'cause I can't think of any other ideas. 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Student Success: Developmental Education, College Readiness Division Opens Doors to Higher Ed for All
In the past two years, demand for space within Collins Hall on Waubonsee Community College's Sugar Grove campus has only gone higher, and traffic has only grown heavier.
However, that is exactly as Char Landmeier, Learning Enhancement Specialist at Waubonsee, would like it.
"There is a great deal of learning energy in the room," Landmeier said.
Two years ago, Waubonsee breathed new life into its Tutoring Centers, which Landmeier oversees, refurbishing the Sugar Grove center in Collins Hall Room 144, and renaming and reorganizing the learning assistance programs at Waubonsee's Sugar Grove, Aurora, Copley and Plano campuses.
Tutoring assistance was also bolstered, with two dozen tutors now offering help in English, math, Spanish and an assortment of sciences, among others, while set hours were established seven days a week.
The efforts have borne results. From fall 2012 to spring 2014, tutoring sessions have surged by 45 percent.
Those results, however, represent just one part of the great things achieved by Waubonsee's Developmental Education and College Readiness Division.
For helping students achieve success, no matter their background or prior level of academic success, Waubonsee is proud to recognize the faculty and staff working in the Developmental Education and College Readiness (DECR) Division as this month's Student Success: Featured Faculty and Program.
Waubonsee's DECR Division exists for one overarching purpose, said its Dean, Dr. Medea Rambish.
"Developmental education allows anyone in the community to access higher education without sacrificing quality and rigor," Rambish said.
Students participating in Waubonsee's DECR programs receive assistance in several key areas, including reading, writing, mathematics, study strategies and study behaviors, all with the goal of helping them overcome barriers to learning and ready them to achieve success in college.
Through the DECR programs, students who enter Waubonsee unprepared become prepared, while students who are prepared can receive the boost to allow them to excel quickly.
In addition to tutoring assistance, Waubonsee's DECR Division administers all reading, writing and math courses below then 100-level; all English language learner courses; personal development courses, including study skills, leadership, career exploration and research skills; the College and Career Readiness Partnership; and supplemental instruction.
Faculty working in the DECR Division include 10 professors: Lenice Abbott, Associate Professor of Reading; Maribeth Brown, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Ellen Field, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Teri Fuller, Assistant Professor of English; Janet Gaff, Assistant Professor of English; Michelle Lindquist, Assistant Professor of English; Josh Mattern, Assistant Professor of English; Tom Pulver, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Jo Lynn Sedgwick, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; and Jane Thompson, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Staff working within the division include: Landmeier; Elizabeth Guerra, Tutor Supervisor at the Aurora and Copley campuses; Lynne Krantz, Academic Specialist; and Karin Vilmin, Secretary.
In the most recent five years, Waubonsee's DECR Division has served an average of 3,600 students enrolled in DECR courses annually. Most recently, almost 3,800 students have benefited from enrollment in classes through DECR, in addition to the thousands of students who got a boost in more than 8,700 tutoring sessions at Waubonsee's tutoring centers during the 2013-14 school year.
Waubonsee's DECR team, however, continues to push on toward the goal of improving student outcomes.
The faculty have spearheaded Waubonsee's outcomes project, reviewing course outcomes and objects and standardizing learning assessments.
The Tutoring Center has received the coveted International Tutor Training Certification through the College Reading and Learning Association.
And DECR administration and faculty have engaged in a self-study as part of the division's efforts to gain certification through the National Association of Developmental Education.
Rambish said the self-study and certification process will help the division further foster effective student assistance.
"The certification process is important, as we need to examine what we do by comparing it to what we know about the most promising practices in the field," Rambish said. "Ongoing assessment and self-study is essential to delivering an effective program."
DECR also will continue to move forward on a host of other initiatives, including work to align developmental goals with Common Core standards; accelerating students through developmental coursework; strengthening College and Career Readiness Partnerships with regional high schools to high school graduation with workplace or college competencies; and implementing a college pathway for English language learners.
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Women Organizations, Women Unions - The Vital Role of Women:
- By Bahram Maskanian
Defenseless innocent women and children are, and have always been the first innocent victims of poverty, ignorance, mediocrity, stupidity and violence. The oppressive and brutal treatment of women prescribed in all of the patriarchal manmade misogynist religions is the main cause of social backwardness in many countries practicing the said barbarism. We must put an end to this male savagery, violent and tragic treatment of women and children. We must empower and educate women and provide the required funds and knowledge for creating, managing, maintaining and growing women unions and organizations all over the world.
We must inform and educate men everywhere, and help men to evolve and realize that women are our Mothers, Sisters, Friends, Partners and equal human beings in every sense of the word. Men need to learn that women must be revered, respected, honored and treated as absolute equal.
Men must learn that women are autonomous human beings, fully capable of making their own decisions and charting their own destiny. Humanity, particularly men, must be educated and woken up, in order to realize and appreciate the enormous contributions women have and are making every single day, to human advancement and civilization.
We must learn and realize that, educated women will stop worlds' over population. Educated women shall eradicate poverty. Educated women shall raise intelligent, healthy and caring children, guaranteeing a better sustainable future for all of humanity. Educated women are precious and much needed friends and life partners for their counterpart. Educated women would create prosperous communities for all citizens. Educated women will stop our on going environmental destruction, and much, much more.
Women are more than half of the world's population. Women are half of the world's wisdom, talent, brain-power, productive and creative energy. But sadly, not included in the day-to-day social, political and economic decision making equation. True human rights, female equality, democracy, democratic rule of law and economic prosperity requires women participation and will be achieved far faster, better and more effectively if women are equal participants and partners in these efforts.
Humanity cannot operate intelligently, fairly and democratically in a sustainable fashion, while hopping on one leg, blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, with one hand tied behind our backs, using only half of our collective brains. I believe humanity needs to begin healing women soul by recognizing women, justly and deservedly as absolute equal human being
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The world of currency related investments is often an uncertain place. However, one thing is clear. Where there is volatility is often where to put your money. Speculators learn Forex trading in order to profit from swings in the relative value of the US dollar versus the Euro, the British Pound versus the Yen, or the Canadian dollar versus the Swiss franc. As Forex currency rates rise and fall traders use both fundamental and technical analysis in order to predict and profit from knowing the future course of currency prices.
What Drives Currency Rates
When traders learn Forex trading they learn how to evaluate the fundamentals that eventually determine Forex currency rates. In Forex one currency is traded for another. As such the world of the trader focuses on the balances of trade of two countries, employment figures of two countries, monetary policy, economic policy, and pronouncements of the central banks of two countries. Factors that drive all currencies, such as a rising price of oil due to scarcity, do not necessarily change the relative values of the two currencies that one trades. War in the Middle East may affect oil supplies. Japan which is dependent on foreign oil may see more of a change in the Yen than the USA which produces the majority of its oil domestically.
What Causes Currency Rate Fluctuations?
To learn Forex trading in the microcosm of day trading one needs to learn technical analysis of Forex pairs. One technical analysis tool that has been in use for a long time is trading Forex with candlesticks. Japanese candlesticks are a pictorial representation of price action for the day. Traders who use candlestick charts often can successfully anticipate reverses in market sentiment and profit thereby. Although fundamentals determine the eventual rate of exchange for a Forex pair it is the anticipation of fundamentals and consensus anticipation of what the market will do that drives prices in the short term.
Trading Forex Is a Business
Those who learn Forex trading well prosper. However, trading Forex is not just sitting at the trade station making smart trades. It is also managing trading capital wisely. No one ever makes perfect trades every time. Smart traders learn to manage their trades, always set their trading stops, and always follow a strategy that allows for recovery after a bad trading day, week, or month. Volatile foreign currency exchange rates can lead to profits and they can lead to losses. Smart traders develop a plan, stick with their plan, change the plan as needed and avoid falling prey to greed and fear, the twin demons of the currency trader.
Learn Forex Trading from Experience, Someone Else's
Experience can be a great teacher but not if you lose all of your trading capital in the bargain. There are currency trading coaches. There are seminars to go to online. There is simulation trading that you can use to hone your skills. Learn Forex trading from the experience of a pro during a coaching session or two before risking your own hard earned investment capital.


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6 days has been the longest without wine, very hard to stop when family , friends and even your kids school meetings are in a bar.
I love the taste of wine in my mouth and the relax feeling, but as a single mother I know I have to be always there and available,wine has been my break but is a bad one..is not helping me or my family, I wanna quit, but is more than a drink..
While Looking for support, wisdom and strength I found this website. I'm in trouble. Last night had 5 drinks , thought I was fine…. dizziness, nausea, blacked out, and seizures, woke up with my husband very scared holding me. I hope this scares me enough to stop alcohol for good this time. I hope it scares others enough to find their inspiration/ motivation also.
Check in with yourself; HOLTS……hungry, angry, lonely,tired, stressed.. whatever it is address it then talk to someone. Pick up the phone but don't pick up a drink.
Looking forward to figuring it all out. Effort and support. Laughs help to. We shall see.
I find having an ice-cream, small amount of chocolate, with a black coffee right after dinner, helps me get through that urge. I wouldn't normally have had a sugary treat as wine was my go to, but I figure if it breaks the wine habit then I can cut down to just the coffee once I'm over the hardest bit. Later on in the evening I'll have a Rose Tulsi tea (has anyone else tried this?? It's a very nice tea that also calms nerves). I try to think past the rush I'm after in the present moment, and to think about the proud feeling I have at the end of the night going to bed sober.
Thank you Patch for giving me some hope that I will be ok, because I really feel quite scared that I won't be able to do this, but at the same time its true that I have never really truly made the decision to be a non-drinker (Craig Beck style). However I did make that decision yesterday with a raging hangover and associated anxiety and normally would have had a drink (many) to ease it, but it was a simple decision not to do this. Today is day 2. I am planning long walks with friends and yoga in the evenings and listening to podcasts and reading blogs. I am so looking forward to 'loving it' as you are, and this helps me see me that I can. Stay tuned!
The wine glass has all the wrong connotations for you. Use a normal glass I strongly suggest.
You are getting the sugar the sugar from the chocolate & fizzy drink in lieu if sugar in alcohol. Be mindful of this.
Oh God you have just described me!
I find what helps for me is to play games on my cellphone while cooking my evening meal. Keeping my thoughts on when I go to bed with a good book. Going to bed early and reading has been my saviour so I really concentrate on that great feeling.
I am 3 weeks sober tomorrow. I used to hide my wine and in the last year have progressed to hard stuff eg
whiskey and gin and vodka. My last binge I got drunk at work and my husband got the local police man to escort me out of work and lock up the shop – the shock and horror of it all woke me up. My husband was naturally angry with me as I haven't managed to stay sober for long after coming out of rehab 18 months ago. I am on my last chance with my marriage now. For Xmas I purchased a breathaliser so that has helped me resist drinking as I have told my husband he can breathalise me anytime he wants to. Definitely feeling a much happier and in control person since I have stopped.
You just described me.
I think about wine, I can go days without it due to work commitments or maybe I'm thinking I don't need it today. But I think about the next glass/bottle. I am a bottle a night drinker, no halves or one glass, if its there I have to have it. I am over weight, high blood pressure, have a double chin, gainers 20kgs …. yet wine wins
Day 3. Monday after work. Was so craving a drink and cigarettes. Bought some grapetiser instead. Looks like champagne with the bubbles but Alcohols free. Then went for my first summer swim. The feel of the sea water, the sun and sand. Forgot about the craving for a drink. The cigarettes don't taste as good without the alcohol. Today was a good day.
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I've read through the first page of the comments and to be honest was shocked…because this is my life too. I'm very concerned about my health. Is my liver failing??, my kidneys perhaps?? Anyone got any experience with this??
Hi, well day 1 for me. Your stories of waking up at 1am and not getting back to sleep and the self doubt and hate are all so formula. For me also the battle not to pick up that drink is 5pm… walking in the door after work which is also about the time the kids start fighting, and there is dinner to cook and a days house work to do. My plan is to find healthier coping techniques other then wine.
Hi this is my first visit to this site. quitting the boze has been on my mind for a long time- I am constantly fighting with the part of myself that pretends I have an 'off' switch. Found out at a social event with different friends that the accepted behaviour that I was used to isn't really 'normal'. I am really functional..just worry about what could happen. Want to control my drinking but not sure if I am ready to just stop.. m husband and current friends would not be able to understand.. we only stop drinking when we are pregnant..etc etc . trying to negotiate this site- any tips/advice/experience is much appreciated
Hi. Bring your thoughts over to the community area of the site. This is where we are all talking about these issues. I think you will like it over there. Good luck on this journey. We are all with you.
I understand exactly what you mean about coworkers detecting the smell. I started heavy drinking a tear before I retired and was always concerned about how I went into work. I think knowing when I wake up sober means all those anxieties are gone. It is a beautiful thing. Hang in there, and keep reaching out to others who are going thru the same issues. It helps a lot. I post on another board who has a page for pledging sobriety today. Found it keeps my Alcohol brain in check. Good luck and keep trying . Hugs to you.
Spin class, Yoga, Hiking. Anything that could be described as a work out!
I too go thru anxiety issues of failing. I have tried many times over the last few years to stop. This time I have made 2 commitments to myself. First I hit several boards a few times a day. Second I started a journal. So far these have been helping me keep the reasons I want to quit very much in the forefront of my alcohol brain. Thank you so much to all who share on these boards. It helps me to know that you too have gone before and come out on the other side. Helps me to keep telling myself NEVER AGAIN.


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Leigh Griffiths may be desperate to become the first Hibs star in 40 years to score 30 goals in a season, but there's no-one more anxious to see him achieve that record than Easter Road legend Jimmy O'Rourke who, along with Alan Gordon, was the last player in a Hibs shirt to hit that milestone.
O'Rourke and Gordon plundered an astonishing 76 goals between them as Turnbull's Tornadoes claimed an almost unbelievable 141 in all competitions in season 1972/73, the highlight of course being the 7-0 thrashing of Capital rivals Hearts at Tynecastle in which they both scored twice.
Griffiths' record may appear a touch more modest by comparison, but, insisted O'Rourke, the 22-year-old will fully deserve all the accolades that will come his way should he manage to get three more goals over the course of Hibs' final four matches and hit that magical mark.
The on-loan Wolves hitman claimed two more as Hibs were forced to settle for a 3-3 draw with St Mirren at the weekend. That brace took him to within one of the 28 netted by Steve Cowan in season 1985/86, the closest anyone has come to 30, and eclipsing the feats of his boyhood hero Derek Riordan and Anthony Stokes who can both lay claim to score 23 in a season.
O'Rourke said: "It's quite incredible to think no Hibs striker has managed to get 30 goals in a season in all those years considering some of the players we've had at Easter Road, so it would be a terrific achievement if Leigh could do it this season.
"Some of his strikes have been simply sensational, a number of them candidates for goal of the season. Take his first against St Mirren last weekend for instance, great skill, to cut inside the two players before roofing it.
"I really like him as a player, he's quick, has bags of talent and certainly an eye for goal. He has plenty of attributes and is actually quite unique in his own way. He also seems to be one of those players who rises to the occasion, someone who has confidence in his own ability as he showed in the Scottish Cup semi-final when, despite seeing that crucial penalty saved, he was still there to put away the next chance and then that sensational winner."
Like Griffiths, O'Rourke, now 66, lived the dream playing for the club he's supported all his life, and he's been delighted to see the former Leith Athletic, Livingston and Dundee striker putting the smiles back on the faces of thousands of Hibs supporters.
And O'Rourke fully appreciates the efforts of Griffiths who so many times this season has been asked to play the thankless role of sole striker in a team which no-one would dare compare to the side assembled by Eddie Turnbull, one packed with stars such as Pat Stanton, John Blackley, John Brownlie, Eric Schaedler, Alex Cropley, Alex Edwards and, of course, Gordon and O'Rourke.
He said: "I don't know if Hibs have been over-reliant on Griffiths this season, but it would be interesting to work out how many matches the team have won when he hasn't scored given that he's been responsible for something like half of all the goals we've scored in the SPL.
"Leigh has been a breath of fresh air, he's given the Hibs fans plenty of pleasure with his goals and the way he plays the game. Every time he gets the ball you think something is going to happen; he gets people onto the edges of their seats.
"It's good for them to have someone to talk about and to look forward to seeing play.
"He's had to do a lot of it himself and it can't have been easy playing up there alone for much of the time. He's had to live on scraps at times whereas Alan and I had each other. We had tremendous players like Pat, Alex Edwards and Alex Cropley providing decent service for us. You'd probably find the two Alexes credited with something like 70 assists apiece that season.
"Then we had John Brownlie bombing down one flank and Eric on the other side. We scored an awful lot of goals, it wasn't uncommon for us to get three, four, five, six, seven or even eight in a game. But times change and teams in general seem to score fewer goals these days."
The goals provided by Griffiths have resulted in him being one of four nominees for PFA Scotland's Player of the Year Award, a leading contender for the Scottish Football Writers' Award and, according to assistant Scotland boss Mark McGhee, someone marked for a place in Gordon Strachan's squad for June's World Cup qualifying match against Croatia in Zagreb.
O'Rourke admitted he'd find it hard to argue against recognition on all three fronts. He said: "If you look at the other leading scorers in the SPL, Michael Higdon of Motherwell and Gary Hooper of Celtic are both English and Niall McGinn of Aberdeen is Irish, so that makes Leigh the top Scottish striker in the league.
"I don't think Gordon Strachan can ignore him, particularly if he continues scoring between now and the end of the season and, hopefully, hits the 30 mark."
O'Rourke acknowledged Griffiths has attracted some unwanted headlines over the course of the past few months, but, he insisted, much of it has been unwarranted.
He said: "Social media is a great thing, but for football players such as Leigh there is a real lack of privacy these days.
"Everywhere you go and whatever you do, even the most mundane things of everyday life, there will be someone with a camera phone all too ready to post photographs on a website.
"These guys should be able to go about their daily business without all that sort of hassle, particularly the stuff you read about people insulting them and their families, that's totally wrong.
"It's not something I would have enjoyed in my time as a player and thankfully it's something we didn't have to deal with in my day."


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ENVIRONMENT Minister Ganga Singh said yesterday he is unhappy with the daily management of the Beetham landfill.
Singh, speaking to the Express via telephone, said more resources must be pumped into modernising waste disposal, but changes must be implemented in the everyday activities of on-site disposal at sites such the Beetham landfill.
"I am not satisfied with the day-to-day management of the landfill," Singh said. "In fact, it leaves a lot to be desired."
Singh said, however, that the need exists for massive increases in recourse allocation for companies like Swmcol and for the area of waste management as a whole, including the treatment of sewage.
"In terms of a point of disposal, we only have State facilities," Singh said.
The landfill, which Singh said reached its full carrying capacity since 2003, is managed by the Solid Waste Management Company Limited (Swmcol). He said the whole concept of sold waste disposal in Trinidad and Tobago must be re-evaluated--including from household sources.
The time has come for T&T to modernise its waste disposal habits, Singh said, starting with the streamlining of garbage from the source.
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Well now I'm going to have to get myself an American address since it looks like there are some brand new Liz Lange designs I'll want to wear.
And no, Mom, I'm not pregnant–it's just that she's about to release her first-ever non-maternity collection on HSN.com.
Launching on February 19, the Completely Me by Liz Lange collection has got me reminiscing about the good old days. (Wow, did I just refer to pregnancy as the good old days?) Stylish, fun and summery, I hope these clothes are as nice as I think they'll be because they certainly do look cute.
The flowy tunics, swim cover-ups and cardigans look perfect for, well, hiding all the things that never went away after you wore Liz Lange in the first place. And the basics, like pants and tank tops, look like the perfect affordable wardrobe enhancers.
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RightScale has secured $25 million in funding, cash it will use to fuel cloud computing innovation, hire sales and engineering staff and make the strategic investment in its channel.
The $25 million third round injection comes after two rounds yielded roughly $22 million for the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale, which offers a cloud management platform that rides atop the public and private cloud infrastructures of others like Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Eucalyptus Systems and others.
"It does reflect, from 30,000 feet up, the huge confidence in infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud computing, and RightScale specifically," RightScale CEO Michael Crandell said of the funding, which was led by Tenaya Capital and joined by DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Presidio Ventures.
According to Crandell, RightScale will put the fresh $25 million to work to accelerate the development of its RightScale Cloud Management Platform, drive the company's global expansion and grow its ecosystem of third-party publishers.
The financing will help RightScale hire a host of new employees, many of which will focus on the sales, engineering and services both domestically and to serve in new geographies, Crandell said.
"Expanding globally involves building up sales, engineering and services in different locations," he said.
Investing in a channel ecosystem is also a strategic investment RightScale plans to make. The latest round of funding will be put to work bringing aboard an arsenal of ISVs that will publish and develop software in the cloud and across multiple clouds on RightScale's platform, and systems integrators that will deliver professional services and implement and deliver on cloud infrastructures.
RightScale got its start in 2006 rallying around Amazon EC2, and more cloud providers quickly emerged. RightScale was built to support multiple clouds, and now it supports many of the leaders in cloud computing by talking to cloud infrastructure delivered as APIs. The financing will also enable RightScale to expand to support more clouds.
"In the blink of an eye, other clouds have sprung up," Crandell said.