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Hello Friends..
I have joined this website to ask you all for help regarding a spell which you think i should carry out!!
My situation - I am a transsexual, i met a guy in march 2007 who i fell in love with instantly, our sexual encounters/friendship continued for over 3 years until 1st november 2010... the man left his email account open and his wife discovered her husbands deepest dark secrets that he was Bissexual/gay having intercourse with transsexuals i was unaware he was married.. this later lead them to divorce which was finalised this year in june 2012.. when it came out in the open he asked me not to get involved this caused alot of problems. however i did for my own sake as i wanted 2 know the real truth, this ruined and destroyed our relationship/friendship/trust he went out of my life, i was hurt because he lied to me about everything knowing i had fallen in love but continued to play with my feelings!!!
ive had many readings, seen many spell casters, been scammed by many online spellcasters, who took my money and ran off, never heard back! no spell has truely yet been completed!!
however in March 2012 i found his profile on a internet website he looked so different had lost over 3 stones and turned to drugs and alcohol, i got one of my real girl friends 2 chat 2 him, they arranged to meet little did he know he was going to be set up by me and my friends. my friend took him 2 a club and i bumped into him in a club, at first he didnt want to talk 2 me.. but eventually he did. it was like old times, we smiled, laughed, danced and got on, i ended up going back to his house that night we had sex, we spoke and next day he droped me back to my house and spent a few hours with me!! we kept in contact that week.. 1 week later i set him up 2 go on a date with my friend again(which he wasnt aware of) but things turned nasty.. he got angry, violent and upset, we got into a big argument in the club and he left.. next day he sent me a message saying to never talk to him again... few months later we spoke in May over the phone things were fine. he said he still finds me attractive, cares about me and does like me... he was also speaking to a spiritual healer at the time who i was also talking to.. he told her he would contact me when he was ready and that hes got his own problems he needs time.. months past i got even more depressed.. i went to his house last week.. things didnt turn out the way i wanted.. he got angry and upset i came to his house.. he called the police on me saying i was harrasing him! he then called me saying how pretty and good i looked but to never come 2 his house again.. he said i ruined his life, his marriage, he doesnt ever want to talk to me again and to leave him alone.. he said to me 'he is god' hes going to send all the evil demon and spirits out to me for destroying his whole life..
im heartbroken.. yes i made a mistake by talkin 2 his wife but i was manipulated into the situation. he now hates me for this... 2 years have almost past and i cant forget about him.. i love him so much and want him back in my life. as a friend or as a lover either way... im in deep depression
please advice me on any help/spells i can do.. do u recomend love spells? what can i do to bring this man back in my life? can someone on here help me cast a spell or know any good recomendations of anyone please help me thanks

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I am having conflicting emotions regarding the latest spate of problems surrounding former MVP and cosmic sore spot in the baseball universe, Josh Hamilton.
The drama surrounding the #1 overall pick in 1999 by the Rays--arguably the Bryce Harper of his time--played in the minors, then fell victim to drug abuse, so after playing in the between 1999-2003, Hamilton, as they say, "hit bottom," and after pretty much blowing his $3.4 million signing bonus, and sat out 2004-2006. (Before we stray too far, let's think about how good the Rays might be had Hamilton been able to toe the line, and resist temptation, and play on the same field with Carl Crawford and friends.)
The Rays, probably a little exasperated, and maybe a little shortsighted, did not protect their pick so in 2006 the Cubs grabbed Hamilton as a Rule 5 pick, and the Chicagoans promptly swapped their prize to the Reds. That did force the hand of some kind of fate, for Cincy had to keep Hamilton on their 25-man roster for the season, which they did. And, they then turned the outfielder into Edinson Volquez, trading Hamilton to the Rangers.
As a Ranger in 2008 Hamilton's big moment was probably winning the Home Run Derby at the All Star Game, and then in 2009, amid a season where he was largely injured, Hamilton had his first publicized relapse, as reported by Deadspin.com.
Of course, 2010 was an MVP year, and 2011 also bore some pretty good numbers for Hamilton, who turned 30 during the first half of that year (probably while he was recovering from a shoulder injury).
And, now Hamilton revealed that he once again relapsed, having admitted to drinking among other things, at Sherlocks, a Texas bar (Deadspin.com has some other gossip about the evening, but we will leave it).
Hamilton, who is in the final year of a contract that pays him $13.750 million dollars, of course has asked for forgiveness and all that babble that seems to go along with being bad and then saved and then forgiven, and then bad again, so now hopefully he can be saved again and forgiven again.
In fact, in order to protect their investment, Hamilton now has a new "keeper," as last Tuesday Shayne Kelley was been named a major league staff assistant and his job description includes being an "advisor" to the flychaser, replacing hitting coach Johnny Narron who departed to do the same for Milwaukee, less the babysitting part.
Now, I can indeed understand the Rangers wanting to make sure they get the most for their money, so I guess I am ok with Kelley, and Narron before following Hamilton around, playing the role of advocate and conscience.
But, aside from the fact that all of this truly makes me weary, for some reason this all reminds me of cartoons.
I think of an old Andy Panda, where the bear eats apples he shouldn't after animated angel and devil alter egos argue back and forth about the right thing to do. Of course this scenario has been repeated in cartoons often as characters wrestle with the anthromorphisized moral ethos. In fact a favorite of mine is Homer Simpson, with Werner Klemperers as Colonel Klink playing point/counterpoint.
But, this also reminded me of our propensity as a culture to hate a guy when he is up, and love him while he is down, gossiping all the while. In fact with that a lot more cartoons come to mind. Again borrowing from the Simpsons as an example, how many comebacks has Krusty the Clown had? He loses his show or gets sued and hits bottom, and then comes back triumphantly.
But, aside from everything else, what I want to know is when did Hamilton stop being responsible for what happens to him?
And, well, if he has found god and faith I am happy for him. And, I am happy--I even rooted for it--that Hamilton has resurrected his career, though I also think of what a waste, wondering what kind of numbers he could have assembled bereft of all the histrionics.
But truly, Hamilton should stop relying on others, like god and Shayne Kelley, and recognize it is his problem. And, recognize that if he wants to drink, or toot some blow, or whatever, it is his priviledge.
It is up to him, like all the rest of us, and while I am full of forgiveness, I wonder about a country where a party line is to take personal responsibility, but then never really do it.
Because Josh, you might have an addictive personality, but only YOU have control over what you do. Just like the rest of us. And truthfully, I don't care if you want to drink or toot coke or anything, because I believe in those personal liberties.
But, I also believe with liberties comes that responsibility. Meaning the only person who can keep you in line is you.


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The market is not only growing in quantity but also in terms of needing more technologically advanced solutions that meet the increasing consumer demands, said Lars Erlandsson, managing director of Perstorp Chemicals India. GDP growth in the country is currently 7% 8% annually.
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
I would like to replace the waders I have now, actually both of them. I prefer stocking waders and wading boots but when my last waders finally gave up the ghost I had not time to order new ones and had to buy locally from depleted stocks.
They have served me well but I do prefer stocking waders like I said.
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Riding the school bus could come with a cost
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:53:48 GMT —
Would you pay for your child to ride the school bus everyday? That could become your only option if Illinois school districts decide to charge parents a bus fee due to an enormous slash in transportation funding.
Education officials are considering a proposal to let schools stop offering free bus service. They could either get rid of the buses or charge for carrying students each day. The change would be part of a new system for distributing state money for student transportation.
The State Board of Education could introduce legislation this week. The Illinois Association of School Boards says transportation spending has been slashed 42 percent since 2010. That has left school districts struggling to pay for bus service.
That means, schools have taken money from their education funds to provide for transportation. Quincy Public School Superintendent Lonny Lemon says these cuts would be detrimental to both his district and neighboring counties.
"We all greatly fear that kids just won't come to school because the parents can't get them there. And certainly, number one, that affects academics, but it also affects economics, because right now, the formula is based on attendance. So right now, there's more questions than answers," Lemon said.
Meanwhile, bus drivers within the Quincy transportation system say these cuts would come at a time when the district is already suffering from a shortage in bus drivers.
Terri Morris spends most of her mornings and afternoons driving both elementary and high school students to and from school. She's also part of the office staff at the Quincy Bus Barn. That's not unusual for many of the office staff, and even the mechanics, who take on multiple jobs to cope with the driver shortage.
"I think our entire community benefits when you have great bus drivers who care about what they do and how they do it. And I think we do have that. We just don't have enough of them. We need more," Morris said.
Barnes says out of Quincy's 120 school bus drivers, only 11 are full time. He says he needs about 20 more drivers to balance out the full schedule. Due to the shortage, many kids will get on a different bus some days not knowing the driver. Morris says extra drivers would provide more consistency.
"I think it would absolutely help the children. I think it also helps parents. They also get to know the bus driver and can have a conversation with them, like by the way, my child does this or they need help with this. Whatever makes people feel comfortable about letting your students on the bus, I want them to feel that way. Because if it was my child, I'd want to know the bus driver," Morris said.
The driver shortage and budget cuts have caused the district to eliminate routes, thus packing in the remaining buses with even more children. Morris says it's easy to become attached to the children, and especially hard when her routes get switched.
"It was a transition. In fact, I cried," Morris said. "The lady in the office said this to me and she was right, 'you'll fall in love with the new set of kids.' She's right, I did."
What do you think about the potential cuts to the school bus system? Weigh in on this issue either below or on our Facebook page here.
If you'd like more information on the Quincy bus driver positions, call the Quincy Bus Barn at (217) 224-5910, located at N. 20th Street in Quincy.


text: So, after having a horrible experience with sage rods, I plan on trying what else is out there. I am extremely fascinated with Loop evotec line of rods. I like the adjustable reel seats and cork shape, but I am a little bit skeptical. From what I understand and have been reading, Loop lends itself more to the Scandinavian style of casting. I can appreciate it, but PNW usually requires the use skagit heads with sinktips and heavy flies. Has anyone casted skagit with these rods? How do they do? Any input would be appreciated =)


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No, that wasn't Joe Torre who said that. It was said by the captain of the star studded Rangers, Jaromir Jagr. And pray tell me when is this game going to be found. Where is it lost? Is it lost in the bowels of Madison Square Garden? Is it on the stage of the WaMu Theater along with all those other rock stars. Because that is what the Rangers are, rock stars, right? They must be rock stars because the game of hockey seems to be passing them by.
It is sad coming out of the Garden with my two sons and grandson and hear the fans making statements like: "We outshot them". "That 52 seconds killed us". "We played them even up, except for the 52 seconds". "Our defense is strong". The fact of the matter is that the Rangers are not ready for prime time and are not in the class of the Ottawa Senators and that is one of the teams they must beat to win the Eastern Conference. Hell right now we are not in the class of the Islanders, who have one third the talent of the Rangers but 100% more grit and a coach who knows how to adjust to a game situation.
The Rangers are tied with the Ottawa Senators for the best GAA in the Eastern Conference this young season, 2.0. However, Jagr, Shanahan, Gomez, Straka, Drury, Prucha, Callahan and company have scored all of ten goals in five games. After going 3-8 on the PP against the Capitals the Rangers returned to form and were 0-6 on the PP last night. This year they are 3-29 on the PP. However, the tic-tac-toe is working beautifully.
Marek Malik continues to distinguish himself by his feeble and tentative play. However all three Senator goals were caused by Ranger defensive breakdowns and while that in itself is a problem that soon won't be corrected how do you explain the lack of goals from this high powered collection of all stars? The offense is dismal and lacks any pattern. The power play is a complete shambles. Other teams shoot from the point, our plan is to pass. It reminds me of my kids little league basketball teams. The coach always admonished, "No shots until everybody touches the ball". But Pock sits while Malik continues to give the puck away. Marc Staal gets about twelve minutes of ice time while Malik gets over twenty. Nothing will change soon, not with this coach.
However, soon we will find our game. Ah yes, there will be a brighter day tomorrow and we will find our game. Tom Renney said it, "You can't kid yourself into wins". Whom is he kidding.
ICINGS: Had a great day in the city today celebrating my young son's birthday with his friend, my other son and my wife. We went to Angelo's in Little Italy and the food was fabulous. The pasta dishes were a meal unto themselves and there were really no reasons to order an appetizer but we did anyway. Great food, great time and great company.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
"We Haven't Found Our Game Yet"
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Rob Speciale
I completely agree with you about Malik. I was lukcy to get the Ranger/Islander game out here in Vegas last week and I was surprised at how much ice time Malik was getting, especially since he doesn't really posses any outstanding offensive capabilities.
I know he scored one of the nicest shootout goals in NHL history, but aside from that fun fact he looks like he is skating in sand!
Where is Mike Kennan when we need him...lol
Take care,
Rob Speciale
Las Vegas, NV
rob speciale-Keenan is the coach of Calgary. Hell, I miss Emile Francis.
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Blis is a Content Management System, a simple one. You might even think it is far from a modern CMS and you could be right. But, supposing it is, why another one? Aren't out there tens of them already? The answer is quite simple: there is no one like this. Well, I couldn't find any to match my conditions.
Why another one?
Maybe you are a software developer, just like me in my spare time. And, supposing you have a project to share, you choose Sourceforge as host. The problem is you don't like to create a full website for your project, maybe you don't have the abilities or the time for such a job. The obvious solution would be to have Mambo, Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, DokuWiki or something else doing this job for you. Moreover, you only need a single user on your website, yourself, so the wikis are excluded, you would like to write some technical stuff, so the blogs are excluded, and you don't need a complex portal for this.
I think a simple project, based on simple rules, can give the answer to the questions the big ones can not. These are some features that make Blis unique.
- Dynamic content
- The html pages are created on-the-fly from simple text sources.
- Simple markup language
- The source-pages are text files, using a wiki-style syntax for markup. Do not expect all the wiki features to be implemented, we should keep it reasonably simple, but you can have headings, lists, verbatim environments, anchors, images. Take a look at this page source, for example.
- Theme-based presentation
- The html output is inserted in a html skeleton and css styled. There are no plain html pages, but esthetically improved ones.
- Minimal system requirements
- The disk space is dictated by the number of the available themes and the number of the source pages, blis.cgi itself is very small. One more advantage is the script language: awk. In fact, the interpreter should be GNU Awk (gawk). Compared to Perl, PHP or Python, the interpreter is only one file, an incredibly small file (for its abilities). It should be present on every Linux or BSD system and can be chroot'd easily for an improved security. Combined with a small and fast http server (such as thttpd or lighttpd), the entire project should be able to run on yesterday computers.
- No database requirements
- Yes, this is a feature. You don't need any database to run the website.
- Very simple to install
- You only have to copy some files, set some parameters and you are ready. Ready to write your pages, of course.
Why this name, Blis?
The name was inspired by an Isaac Asimov's Foundation character, Bliss. This name was taken by another OpenSource project, but Blis was not. It is very hard to find a good project name these days... The fact is I like the actual name more than the original one.


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Allow applications share cache-state and data over Redis.
function update_info(cache_key, next) { db.findOne({}, next)} Cache = require('shared-cache')info = Cache.create('caching key', true, update_info) possibly_stale = info.get();info.get(function(err, definitely_not_stale) { ...})
Returns a caching instance from the singleton pool.
This function both returns and executes a callback.
Update the value of this cache, optionally broadcasting the new value to other instances. This marks the data as not stale.
Add the callback onto a queue to be fired when the update_callback returns, and call the update_callback if it hasn't already been called.
Mark this data as stale. If auto_update is true then it update_callback is fired. If broadcast is true, other instances are notified to update their caches.


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mehndi laga ke rakhna
By sandra d'souza
3 Dec 2011
a very close friend got married a few days back...a traditional hindu wedding...so the day before all her girl friends and family got together for a evening of song and dance and applying mehndi...or henna ...the bride had it put on her feet and hands...the rest of us just got it put on our hands...the women applying the henna were amazing..fast and such intricate designs...was a pleasure to see these artistes at work...these are some pictures of the brides and a few others...
watch this space for some more pics of the wedding...
a popular bollywood wedding song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA_h4iQJhoU&ob=av3n
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The Man Who Isn't There (Deleted) gave props (3 Dec 2011):
Well done Sandra! I love this series. You got my vote.
Carol Holmes gave props (3 Dec 2011):
Beautiful & intricate....wonderful photo essay! *V*
John Linton gave props (5 Dec 2011):
Hell YEAH! Rad!
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Simon Sawyer said (6 Dec 2011):
nice work.
Saroj Swain gave props (8 Dec 2011):
Nice photo essay!!! Voted!!!
Min Chai Liu gave props (19 Dec 2011):
How did I miss this one.. So callous of me.. I thinks age is catching me up fast.. Mental atrophy..???
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i have recently shifted residence to goa...a south western state in india...it is also the favorite holiday destination for half the country


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I can't post, the posting page won't allow me to post.
I'm the administrator. I should also be the author, editor, etc.
I added a user the other day, so I could link a blog
thanks. everything is at a standstill now!
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I can't post, the posting page won't allow me to post.
I'm the administrator. I should also be the author, editor, etc.
I added a user the other day, so I could link a blog
thanks. everything is at a standstill now!
You'll get a quicker resolution to this if you send feedback via your dashboard.
What error message do you get when trying to post?
the error message makes no sense:
"Sorry, you have to enable referrers to use that feature"
I ALWAYS enable referrers. I double checked and that's still true. I send referrers to all urls, in all applications.
so I think it's my user rights. I added a user over the weekend, so I could integrate a wordpress.com blog
anyway, now I can't post!!!!
Would you remove the second user from my blog
(that second user is ME w. a different blog and login name)
and make my main user -- the administrator, that's me
the only user. And could you or someone who can do this,
check my user rights, maybe they've been smashed up in your database.
I didn't have any problems before this
and maybe it will all go away if you get rid of the second user.
I won't add a second user again. I read the wordpress.com blog and decided to implement that option but it went horribly wrong and now I can't post
for your help
can't post or edit
w. wordpress.com ui
still having the same error message
it's past midnight... 12:10 am
maybe tomorrow
my intuition feels it is a glitch w. either the user interface or the user database.
I use Firefox and have no stomach to use IE
IE is too risky
Is it possible that you tightened the security up so much
that legitimate users are locked out, even after they've logged in.
I always send referrers
but perhaps one or more of your links does not send
the requisite referrer handle and I have no way of fixing it to your satisfaction.
good night.
I'll try again tomorrow ... or not...
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Nothing that is secret can remain secret forever. But is it possible that some crimes are better left undiscovered? Join Holmes and Watson as they travel from London to storm-wracked Bedfordshire, where the great detective finds himself uncovering the grisly truth concerning a half-century old murder.
©2013 David Marcum (P)2016 MX Publishing
"Good story, very odd reading"
Written be David Marcum yes, read by Time Winters, NO
Other good Holmes pastiches
An odd reading which appears to have been edited very badly. Timing of the delivery was ruined by what sounded like gap removal or compression in many places making it a very difficult listen. The two introductions read by the author were also weirdly robotic in delivery with hardly any gaps between sentences. Also, the accents were pretty appalling.
The quality of this recording is not up to standard although the story is quite a good one. I would have thought Audible would have rejected this book on the quality of the reading (or what was done to it after recording).
"Enjoyable Sherlock story"
This is one of the better Sherlock stories I have read and I have read a lot. While the ending was predictable it kept you reading till the end. If you need a new Sherlock tale I
Would recommend.
Understandable well paced
I cried
Truly Sherlockian listen. Better than most I have purchased or listened to. A true 5 star Sherlock book.
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Corporate Networks, has quite a bit in common with Sungard Availability Services. The Fort McMurray, Alberta, company provides end-to-end IT solutions to K-12 and the enterprise sector including a full range of technology services, as well as consulting. For the past 29 years, it has concentrated on delivering quality — in its work and customer service. Sungard AS certainly can relate.
Today, Corporate Networks focuses on making sure that businesses and individuals communicate more effectively with their co-workers, vendors and customers through strong technology infrastructure. To do this, it invests a lot of effort in R&D to stay on the leading edge. Specifically, it emphasizes advanced communication and collaboration systems. These include Internet portals, voice-over IP (VoIP) telephone systems and hosted infrastructure and application services.
These services depend on strong back-end computing environments and networks, which have been Corporate Networks' specialty for more than a dozen years. Corporate Networks strives to build partnerships, not just vendor/client relationships, with its customers — and its vendors. They include IT providers such as Allstream, Cisco, Citrix and Microsoft, among others.
Of course there have been some challenges, but this is where its relationship with Sungard AS comes into play. Corporate Networks' main challenge related to whether it would retain its 17-year-old datacenter and upgrade it, or turn those operations over to an enterprise cloud services provider. It also wanted its IT staff to be able to take on more consulting work and develop more designs and technical solutions for clients.
"We had to either make major upgrades to our datacenter or partner with someone," recalls CEO Ahsen Butt. Zeshan Butt, as manager of Technical Services was also heavily involved in the decision. They decided to forego capex for opex and began looking for a hosting partner.
"I wanted to get a good night's sleep and not worry about the reliability of the datacenter," explains Ahsen. "And I thought about investing $1.5 to 2 million in a decent datacenter that we would have to maintain, and ten years later, we would have to do it again."
Partnering for business results
Corporate Networks evaluated three hosting partners and their evaluation led to the partnership with Sungard AS.
Among the differentiators, Sungard AS delivered:
- A global presence including Canada, with regional data centers.
- Compliance with Canadian regulatory requirements because Sungard AS operates Canadian datacenters. For example, since it deals primarily with the public sector, it's required to keep that data on Canadian soil.
- A strong business presentation that provided Corporate Networks "huge confidence" in the datacenter and the technical resources needed to transition to where the company wanted to be. Other candidates couldn't do that adequately. A tour of the Toronto facility reinforced these impressions.
- Strong support for Corporate Networks' offerings of a hosted VoIP system to customers along with its own product called "Surric," an amalgamation of IaaS, HaaS and SaaS, all hosted by Sungard AS.
- Robust security for customers because of Sungard AS' personnel and security measures in place – both physical and electronic. Zeshan notes that they heavily relied on Sungard AS implanting its security measures and it was a value-add.
Strategic partners
Sungard AS provides Corporate Networks with Enterprise Cloud Services, including virtual machines and terabytes of storage. Understanding Corporate Networks' needs and goals was critical in designing the right system.
Sungard AS delivers value to Corporate Networks by furnishing secure, dependable service without interruption, promptly working on tickets and providing sophisticated monitoring to proactively detect service interruptions so it can inform the client.
The two partners worked especially close on what can prove a normal challenge – implementation. The Corporate Networks' core design proved a challenge and it took about nine months to achieve.
"We were looking for something unique, a private enterprise cloud that could serve as our umbrella, and this was quite different," explains Zeshan. Adds Ahsen: "We received constant and continuous support and if there were misunderstandings, there was no finger pointing."
In other situations with other vendors, Corporate Networks was told that a situation that arose didn't match the statement of work, "and unfortunately, we had to stick with the statement of work," says Ahsen. "We never felt that for a second with Sungard AS."
Instead, Corporate Networks found a leading-edge vendor who understood their desire to create a globally available private enterprise cloud for its own customers. "Sungard AS officials wanted us to stay on that path. They saw a future and a vision they hadn't seen with other technology providers and they were intrigued," adds Ahsen.
At the moment, Corporate Networks is launching a marketing campaign and reseller program for Surric in northern Alberta. The goal is to spread its services throughout North America. Its revenues have grown substantially in the past year and it now posts annual revenues of between $7 and 8 million.
One clear benefit for Corporate Networks is the talented senior technical staff it can rely upon at Sungard AS, and the fact that it didn't have to staff its own datacenter 24/7.
Corporate Networks reduced its IT staff by nearly 40 percent to its present 22 IT professionals, and staff members can now serve clients better.
It's too early to gauge how the new partnership is paying off on a returnon-investment basis since Corporate Networks just established its first client in late 2013. "Our ROI largely will depend, quite frankly, on how fast we can grow our client base and employ the infrastructure, which is meant for a large-scale cloud offering," says Ahsen.
And as for whether he's sleeping better, Ahsen agrees he is.


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Android Phones
HTC Gratia to arrive in Europe next month
October 18, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson
Android Phones, HTC
If you're familiar with the HTC Aria that was released by AT&T back in June, you'll recognize the specs and looks of the HTC Gratia that will land on European shelves in November. The Gratia packs a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, a 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen, 384MB RAM, and a 5 megapixel camera with VGA video recording. The device also comes with HTC's Sense user-interface, but unfortunately not the new version of the UI that is featured on the Desire Z and Desire HD.
HTC Gratia runs Android Froyo and buyers get to choose from three colors: the usual black and white editions, as well as a dark green model that looks particularly slick. The handset will be available via carriers and retailers in major European markets next month.
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Very proud to have been a (very small) part of CBBC's 30 years of quality kids' TV. Here's to 30 more! In honour of CBBC's anniversary, a very small clip from one of my favourite jobs: Bear Behaving Badly!
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About a million years ago, I worked on a Thunderbirds computer game (sadly unreleased due to hissy fits between rights holders) that reunited almost the entire original voice cast. And when the magnificent David Graham (aka Grandpa Pig, for those of us with young children) uttered his first 'Yes, M'lady' everyone in the control room was whooping and air-punching. Considering the ages of the whoopers and air-punchers, it must have looked pretty silly, but there was a 10 year-old me who would been over the moon to think such an experience was ahead of him.
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Discussion in 'Saltwater' started by Jake L, Aug 2, 2008.
Jake after your thread and you getting the airflow 40+ 7wt for your 6wt rod (and thinking it was a bit heavy) I got the 40+ 7 for my 7. Done! Now I'll see if I can get the casting thing down and chuck some serious line out.
This is exactly where I am right now...I just can't break 70. Good thing for both of us that there are fish within 70 feet of shore! Keep at it!
Dude, for you and your particular 10' 7 wt., you should have gotten the 8 wt. I'll be interested to see how the line works out for you; send me a PM from time to time.
For those who haven't ever cast shooting heads, the integrated lines (40+ or OB) will take some getting use to. Once you get over the urge to do a bunch of false casts and start shooting the line, your distance will improve. Finding the sweet spot for your rod is the key with these lines.
Richard, if you are sure about my Redington RS4 10'er being better with the 8wt, let me know. I have not loaded it yet and likely would be able to swap it at the shop.
If anyone else wishes to chime in, feel free. Today I'm feeling like moldable clay.
Boy do I know that feeling – casting like a World Class Champion (?) on the grass – then getting to the beach and can only get 60 feet max.!!
On Sunday at Narrows Park Beach, had quite a bit of wind coming straight down the beach from my right side (strong side) to deal with and could only get 45-60 feet at best and got myself tangled in line, poppers & clousers – even a rod hit a couple of times with the clouser, ouch! - due to the wind! Tried all different angles, back cast into the wind, forward cast into the wind, 90 degrees to the wind, 45 degrees downwind etc. etc.. Even managed to sink the popper hook into the brim of my very large brimmed hat and got it back out with no damage due to the barbless hook, wheeew!
You know the wind is a problem when you cast straight out from the beach with the wind coming from your right and before the line unrolls on a "strong haul", the popper is already 50 feet to the left before it even hits the water!! Also, when you are watching the backcast and the line is blown completely out of your line of vision behind ya, gots a problem too!
Honestly, the wind didn't seem that strong until you try to cast in it – so after a couple of hours dealing with that, I again committed the ultimate blasphemy and switched to spinning gear and buzz-bombs after getting smacked in the shoulder by a clouser - until the tide was out far enough that my "back cast" wouldn't hook a kid or dog or log or tree! I was lobbing the buzz-bomb out there 150 feet with the wind taking another 50 feet of mono into a looong belly before I could get the line into the water!
I stuck it out until about 4:00 pm (slack tide) and all the "salad" in the water was too time consuming and my back finally gave out……'course the wind died out then too!
All in all, it was not an "ego-boosting" casting day although certainly educational….3 other fly fishermen were not faring any better than I was!
Interesting! I was thinking about this very thing after reading all this talk about "versa-tips", "intergrated shooting heads", "WF shooting head floating lines" et. etc. and thinking, hmmm?....Maybe I should get me one of them "versa-tip" thingies so I'd have all the possiblities covered without having to carry 3-4 different reels/spools down to the water every time!
Then I took a look at the sizes of the last 4 or 5 guides on my new 6 wt GL3, especially the tip guide, and thot, "Boy, that doesn't look near big enough to get double looped line through there very easily!" Then I took another look at the other guides and they're all quite small as well....so decided to read 'n learn more before making the decision. Glad I did as you have just pointed out that particular drawback.
Upon further analysis however, I do not strip line in to the leader connection because that forces too many "false casts" to get the line back out to "shooting length" so I prefer (at this point in my short casting career) to strip line in to about 15-20' plus leader, roll-cast then start my backcast, blahblahblah! Aren't "most" "change-a-tip" lines configured to about 15-20' in length? If so, that might work okay for me since I don't strip in line past that point anyhow so the small guides wouldn't be a "casting impediment" (?)! Any additional advice on this, ladies & gents?
Great opinions & advice on this site, wow!:thumb:
JC, how much line is out when you land your fish? I have a few of the multi-tips on several setups and when I bring a fish in normally I bring that loop connection into the rod tip and guides to be able to reach the fish to land and/or release them. It might not be a factor on each cast, as I tend to do the same as you and keep the tips out of the guides for casting, but landing a fish is a bit different. I've heard some complain about losing fish as the loops rattle or pin on guides. I have not had that experience, maybe because I don't catch enough fish yet.
Oh geeez, Mumbles, don't know why you had to ask THAT question, "How much line is out when you land your fish?" What fish?...would have to be my honest answer! I have yet to land a salmon, steelhead or anything larger than a 9" cuttie (and that was with my 3 wt)
Seriously tho, that is a good point about stripping in line with a fish on - hadn't even thot of that - more thinkin' to do.....:hmmm??
More answers always breed more questions, eh?
If you are using an outbound, or an airflo sized as Richard is advocating, or a normally oversized shooting, regardless of length, I'm betting you are doing one, two, or all of the following things "wrong". "Wrong" is in quotes because there is more than one way to skin a cat, but without knowing the "approved" way, it's pretty hard to come up with an individual style that works. I'm proof that you can though. I have jacked up shoulders on both sides from a misspent youth. I can't perform three identical false casts to save my life. My shoulder will lock or pop a little, and throw the cast off track, so instead I focus on what makes the rod work, and by concentrating on making that happen I cast very well indeed when I'm on my game. But years of teaching others has taught me that you need to understand what makes the rod work, and the best way to teach someone that is to teach them the fundamentals.
#1. You do not want lots of line speed on the backcast. This is where slipping line on the backcast is bad if you do more than foot or so FOR MOST PEOPLE. Really good casters can handle it, but for most folks with these lines, a Belgian type cast, circular, off to the side a little and nice and slow will get you all the loading you need. A tight v loop on the backcast, expecially with a weighted fly is counterproductive FOR MOST PEOPLE. A bonus of the Belgian cast is even though the line is traveling slowly it can be easier to watch your backcast and keep from hitting things, or the water, behind you.
#2. Forcing the forward cast. I like a nice long full extension, very slow, with a good acceleration to a solid stop at the end. Some like a nice tight short compact smooth acceleration to a solid stop at the end. In both cases the key is smooth acceleration to a solid stop. As with all casting you don't want to cast "harder". There should be no grunt on the delivery. In fact just slowing down you should gain 5 to 10 feet as long as you have a good stop.
#3. This is probably the most important. The set up. Ideally you would want to begin your backcast with the head fully out of the guides, the head and leader straight in front of you, on the surface, with your arm as close to fully extended as is comfortable, and your tip top as close to touching the water as possible. If you are rocked forward a little all the better, but it's not necessary. This is where I don't like these long lines as much as shorter lines. If you started every backcast like this, you would never need more than one backcast with these lines, and even a lame forward cast would consistently break your 70 foot wall for you. Why do you think grass casting a head is so easy? With your line extended in front of you, rod tip low, even without a water load, the deck is stacked in your favor. It's why I like short heads. No matter how deep I am, I can, with one roll, get everything out in front, rod extended, tip low practically everytime. By the time your rod is at the 10 o'clock position on your backast, that bad boy is fully loaded, and all you have to do is get your rod in the firing position. I you start your backcast at 10:00 as many I see do after 3 or 4 rolls to get things on top, it's a whole different story.
I tried to avoid brain pain inducing concepts this time:beathead:
I know your reply wasn't directed to me specifically...hope you don't mind too much if I butt in little, sir!
Excellent advice Philster! But you failed utterly in "avoiding brain pain inducing concepts..." hehe, just kidding!; all you say is pretty much as I have been taught by several different casting instuctors in the last few months - all different but basically the same!
One of them, Don Simonsen (I think) at Orvis explained about 3/4's of the way through his seminar, "most instructors that have been teaching "advanced fly casting" have eliminated that phase and only teach "basic, fundemental casting" because 99% of their students are not really "advanced casters" at all, they just think they are "advanced" because they've been "fly fishing" for 25, 30 or more years! Turns out they've forgotten all the fundementals and need to go back to "square one" again! I found that to be a very interesting bit of truth tucked away into a very informative seminar!
This still one of my main "problem areas" in that I cannot seem to get a nice straight, tidy roll cast laid out on the water and have to "sacrifice" the first backcast to get the line all straightned out. 99% of the time it all just "accordions" or zig-zags making a slack-free pick and hence, "loading the rod" impossible until you end the backcast and start the forward cast. Often, because the rods energy is not being transferred to the line (too much slack) at the start of the backcast, the backcast is clumsy & sloppy and thusly must be straightned & tiddied up on the forward cast - I'm sure you see where this is heading....but I don't wanna hi-jack anymore of your thread without your explicit consent!
Wow! Am ever guilt of doing things "wrong"...especially with respect to overpowering both the fore and back casts. I've been using both the OB intermediate and floating dependent mostly upon the tide and whether I want to use surface flies, so consider that for the following.
A few questions to clarify on the "approved" technique:
1. If I do a false or roll cast or two to get the head out, do I then a) let the line touch down on the water striaght in front of me with rod tip low, b) bring it up to 10:00, c) pause to load the rod, d) shoot with acceleration, and then e) hard stop?
2. At what position do I make the hard stop?
3. Do I still follow the line as it falls after making the hard stop?
4. I assume you double haul, correct?
Don really knows his stuff. He loves, loves, loves the art and science of casting and teaching it to people; each time I listen to him he changes up his lesson plan and approach, always for the better. Some folks don't always appreciate his ultra serious drill sargent teaching approach, but to him fly casting is serious stuff. I'm glad you found his seminar informative.
I haven't seen you cast or know of your casting skill level, but you mentioned once before that you are self-taught. There's nothing wrong with being a self-taught caster, but often a person schooled in this manner will miss or not be aware of some fundamentals that are important. That's awesome that it appears you want to advance your casting skills. Good for you (as long as you actually listen, learn, and apply some of those lessons - grin).
JC, I think you will find over time that the GL3 guides are much bigger than the average size. I have Sage, Rainshadow, and Scott to compare with and the GL3 guides are about 25% bigger than all of these other models I have on hand at the house.


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N.O.V.A. 3 (Android/iOS)
Players: 1-12
Genre: FPS
Developer: Gameloft
Marketplace/Apple Store Price: $6.99 ($4.99 through Gameloft's website)
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Played on ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 w/Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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Parent Talk: N.O.V.A. 3, with its technical polish, is unsurprisingly the most explicit installment of Gameloft's sci-fi franchise. Kal Wardin swears, the combat is more visceral, and there are suggestive themes. The game overall is the most 'mature' of the series.
Review Basis: Finished campaign on Normal; participated in several online (wi-fi) competitive matches.
Our old A.I. friend Yelena has beckoned N.O.V.A. hero Kal Wardin back to Earth. He doesn't know what for on the way in, but it doesn't take long for him to discover that Volterites have assaulted his home planet. Why? There's supposed to be a ceasefire between humanity and the alien race. That matters not however, as Kal quickly joins a ragtag N.O.V.A. team working to repel the invasion. He ultimately learns that the humans have done something very foolish, and Prometheus steps in to force our hero into his final mission. Let's just say things don't look good for humans or Volterites.
The Great:
Eye-popping! When N.O.V.A. 3's teaser trailers emerged, everyone agreed that Gameloft was once again raising the bar for visual polish in a mobile game. That's what N3 has done. Our Executive Director Jarrod and I agree that the game could easily pass as a first-generation Xbox 360 or PS3 title. It's not exactly shocking given the ongoing technological evolution of mobile devices, but I don't think anyone anticipated a game like N3 arriving so soon. I can only imagine what it looks like first-hand on the iPad's retina display. Yet no matter your device, the N.O.V.A. and Volterite models, environments, and effects are second-to-none. N.O.V.A. 3 is in the top three prettiest mobile games.
The Good:
+ The cast. Kal Wardin, Yelena, Prometheus, and a couple newcomers come together to deliver the most enjoyable and emotional plot in this sci-fi series. I cared more about each than in the previous two installments. That's always good.
+ The weapons. Kal's arsenal is fun to play with. I'm sad that the dual-wield pistols and auto-shotgun were given the boot, but the rest of Wardin's toys are entertaining.
+ More skills, again. Melee has been inexplicably removed, but at least replaced and supplemented with 'slow motion' and 'repel' abilities. Thus, you can either send enemies flying (a la Jean Grey), or enter what is unaffectionately known as bullet time. Both are fun and useful, along with the mainstay freeze power.
+ Piloting a mech. It's more or less identical to doing so in N.O.V.A. 2, except flashier.
+ Grenades. I'm often unimpressed with the results of explosives in games, especially shooters. Yet N.O.V.A. 3 makes every grenade toss a wonderful anticipation of a loud and pretty boom, not to mention a dramatic scattering of any Volterites caught in the blast.
+ Flamethrower! OK, I suppose I can forgive the omission of an auto-shotgun. It may not arrive until later in the campaign, but you can't help but smile while burning Volterites to a crisp.
The So-So:
+/- Gyroscope controls. N.O.V.A. 3 is the first mobile game where I've given gyro control a spin. It's an aid and a pain at the same time. Gyro doesn't replace a second analog stick, but still allows you to not have to swipe across the screen to aim in battle. However, it can easily disorient you when enemies move around around a lot. You can only twist a tablet so far, thus trying to move, fire and use the gyro function in a way that feels natural is next to impossible. Where's my Android gamepad?
+/- Voice acting. The voices sound great; the script is written well, and the dialogue is convincing. It's too bad then, that the mouth syncing is hit-or-miss. You should never see a character's mouth still moving when his/her lines are finished being spoken.
+/- Multiplayer. The overall structure is very well-done. There's a healthy selection of enjoyable maps; you can customize your warrior to a great degree; you can participate in tournaments; the modes you expect are there, etc. The big problems are lag and players infrequently joining matches in progress. Lag isn't prevalent in every match I've played, but very noticeable when it occurs. I wish that those who pay for 3G or 4G service could take advantage of that for online play. It's also not fun to be consistently outnumbered…
The Bad:
– Let me customize! I don't understand why Gameloft's older Modern Combat 3 allows you to choose where to place every input icon, and choose the size of each, but N.O.V.A. 3 doesn't. You can shift everything but the reload function, which is the most important to be able to! This isn't so bad for smartphone users, but you must completely move your hand on a 10.1″ tablet to manually replenish your weapon's magazine. That's unintuitive.
– Ending. I'm disappointed with how lazy Gameloft is with concluding its games. After a brief final scene after defeating the last boss, N3 abruptly ends. No closing cutscene that clarifies plot elements, nothing. I'm interested in knowing what happened to these characters, and likely never will. This is worse than the pre-DLC Mass Effect 3!
– Renting weapons, seriously? It's very strange that the sci-fi weapons are only accessible from the in-game store. You can't acquire them by eliminating enemies. It's further disconcerting that it isn't a permanent purchase. I bought a fun, new gun the moment I had a chance, and it was gone the following mission. Eh?…
– Aiming on a jeep. I thought there was something horribly wrong with my game while manning a jeep during the second mission. I even restarted it multiple times. Several minutes later, I finally discovered that shifting your reticule around normally requires swiping from one side of the screen to the other. Well, that's plain stupid. Does this affect phones too? I don't know.
The Ugly:
Bugs galore! It's very unfortunate that N3 looks so good and is fun, but filled to the brim with bugs. You name a glitch, and it's probably able to happen. I fell through floors. Key game events failed to trigger. The game force-closed. The Volterites would stop moving. I would stop being able to move. And I'm sure others encountered glitches that I haven't. I don't know who was responsible for the game's testing, but I strongly question the job they did for this experience. I hope Gameloft releases a big patch job soon.
The Lowdown:
Since its teaser trailers released, I rooted for N.O.V.A. 3 to be the best of the best in mobile gaming. In the looks department, Gameloft's product has virtually no equal. Yet in so many areas, N3 reminds you that videogames will always be imperfect. To what extent is up to the developer and its QA staff, and the extent to which this title takes you out of the experience is discouraging. Of course Gameloft can issue updates in the future, and I believe they will. For now, Kal Wardin's final mission may be fun romp, but it may leave you feeling a tad irked when all is said and done.
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A recent post by Rajiv Kapoor on Marketo's blog prompted me to think about the current tech cycle we're in and how it might play out.
Specifically, I wonder if the new crop of hyper-fast-growing independent software providers led by marketing kings, Marketo, Hubspot and HootSuite wrestle the enterprise market away from incumbent full-suite software giants such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite and Salesforce.com?
Now, you might find Salesforce.com a funny pick for "incumbent full-suite software giant", but as far as offering a large integrated suite of sales, marketing and customer service functionality – plus a complete cloud services offering – they certainly fit the bill.
Rajiv's point of view is that the time for independent software vendors has arrived – primarily because application integration is so easy to do.
Hmmm, I'm not so sure about that. Some of what's going on is eerily familiar to me.
You see, I've been in and out of the enterprise software business for more than 25 years. This means I've been through at least 4 major tech cycles like the cloud computing/SaaS cycle we are living through right now.
What's Different This Time
There are many things different about enterprise software today, of course.
Most software today is sold on a service/subscription basis for example. A lot of it is also hosted in the cloud, so legacy license and hardware "hooks" into enterprise IT infrastructures aren't as common as they used to be.
As Rajiv explained quite eloquently in his post, the most striking difference is that integrating applications is a lot easier to accomplish today than at any time in history.
APIs and open standards have greatly simplified the work it takes to tie two systems together – in real time if you want. What used to take your most experienced developers months to accomplish now takes a junior engineer a day or two.
This explains why leading independent application providers like Marketo, Hubspot, Salesforce.com and HootSuite have taken a "platform" approach to growing their feature footprint by partnering with complimentary app providers, rather than building every conceivable feature themselves. It's just that easy.
A "knit together best of breed" strategy certainly seems like the right thing to do at this stage of the tech cycle. And for customers who don't need every feature available (which is all of us), the platforms that surround each ISV lets them have the few bits of extra functionality we care about right now.
That said, it's important to remember that the current tech cycle hasn't played itself out yet. And these cycles have a certain rhythm to them.
So, while cheaper technical integration is great, is it really enough of a reason for independent application providers to win against full-suite vendors, long term?
You see, I remember the promise of J2EE, SOAP, XML and CORBA…
Signs Say…
There are emerging signs in the market that maybe this time isn't so different, after all.
For example, when big system integrators and analytics firms start ramping up staff fast – as they are right now – there exists a pretty clear opportunity for full-suite providers to step-in and ease the integration pain for enterprises.
Also, CFOs seem to be getting more engaged with marketing system purchases and asking more ROI questions. That means bigger-ticket, more strategic initiatives may be coming next.
Some Things Are More Important than Integration
The full-suite software providers – SAP, Salesforce.com, Netsuite and Oracle – also possess a few big advantages that in my opinion just haven't played themselves out yet in this cycle.
For example,back in the "year 2000" software cycle (1998-2002), I worked as an associate partner at Accenture and a VP at an independent application vendor, Aspect Development (we sold to i2 for $9B, but that's another story).
Although they were relatively late to the internet software game, the full-suite vendors at the time, SAP and Oracle, eventually sold the following benefits very effectively to take share from independents like us:
- a single vendor to hold accountable for implementation across functional areas (huge, big, ginormous)
- cross-functional enterprise reporting (sells well to the C-suite)
- unique business-wide analytics (as a standard feature)
- a few high-value capabilities that you can only get through deep integration of apps
These benefits trumped new technology in pretty much every deal in which they were a factor.
Today, the advantages above are also available to the full-suite providers in this cycle. Can't see why they're not, anyway.
Given the M&A to-date, it seems clear that Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com are squarely focused on pursuing these advantages, right now 😉
With Size Comes (Big Data) Advantages
Having a broader application footprint also gives you a strategic advantage when it comes to analytics.
For example, here are three important and trendy analytics-based capabilities that full-suite providers could press to win deals in today's marketing-heavy purchase cycle:
- A "full pipeline view" of sales & marketing activities for each major market segment/geo… from advertising to engagement (HootSuite) to post-sale support (Zendesk). Including rational attribution of marketing and advertising expense, which is a really big problem in the fragmented world of digital marketing today.
- A 360 view of employee communications and engagement… from internal communications (Jive) to external-facing apps (Hootsuite) to traditional HR and finance apps (Workday). Employees are online 24/7, so job performance can be measured today like never before. Improves outsourcing relationships, too.
- Big Data / predictive analytics that leverage many different data stores to learn, automate and optimize micro-marketing and customer engagement tasks. Doing this requires data from one or more of the following systems: CRM, marketing automation, social media, digital advertising, inbound marketing and online direct response.
While it's true that you CAN integrate multiple independent apps to accomplish the capabilities above, many large companies WON'T WANT to do this if they can help it – especially when it comes to stuff like analytics where skills are thin to non-existent.
When companies do try to integrate systems on their own, they often lose time and miss some benefits/features. It can be downright career-ending for some.
I guess some things in enterprise software – like addressing your customer's Fears, Uncertainties and Doubts – never change.
Room for Everyone?
Frankly, I think there's probably room for every vendor to grow right now, especially in social media marketing, marketing automation and social CRM. So perhaps the whole debate is moot.
Nevertheless, I find strategic shifts like this interesting to watch. Huge implications for investors and customers, as well.
How about you – where do you see the enterprise software market headed next?


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How you can treat a UTI naturally, without going to the doctor and getting antibiotics?
Are there any natural remedies out there to treat UTI's and stop them from coming back?
Yes, there is something new out now. Actually it has been around longer but you could only get it if you were a patient of the physician that discovered it until recently when Suzanne Somers interviews the doctor and published it in her new book, now you can buy it online and in some stores. It basically works alot like d-mannose except it is 10 times stronger, so it can prevent and cure a UTI, it is so strong you can cure a UTI in just a couple of days, which is better than d-mannose. Anyway, the it is called cleartract and you can just google it or find it on amazon.
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Minerva Says:
March 21st, 2010 at 3:43 am
The other thing I would do (and have done for this) is get on some good bacteria (probiotics). The above formula will knock it out without antibiotics, but just to be sure order one bottle of the bladder complex if you can afford it as well. It's a formula that is also anti infective.
If you need something immediately for the pain, drink parsely
Antibiotics are one of the main reasons UTIs reoccur and are stubborn. They kill all the good bacteria and make the situation worse. I've had much more success with these remedies. Good luck.
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Teena J Says:
March 21st, 2010 at 4:32 am
I have had great success with cranberry- BUT YOU HAVE to catch it before it gets bad. At the first inkling you should Drink d-mannose , don't waste your time with cranberry extract, or trying to drink lots of water. Watch what you are doing prior to getting a UTI… you may have gotten dehydrated, may have waited too long to go to the bathroom. Cleartract makes the lining of the urinary tract slippery so that bacteria can't adhere to the walls and cause an infection. Make sure that your privates are very clean before sex, the vagina is very near the urethra and bacteria can get pushed up. Go to the bathroom after sex too! Try to alkalize your body with a diet of mainly vegetables and little meat, sugar, dairy and things that turn to acid in the system AND of course use Therapeutic quality essential oils regularly. If you already have a bad one- you may need that Dr. to get you through this one… THEN pay attention!
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March 21st, 2010 at 5:17 am
Drink at least four 8 oz. glasses of cranberry while you are symptomatic. After your infection has cleared up, drink one glass a day to keep your urine slightly acidic. Acidic urine provides an unfriendly environment for bacterial growth. Or try searching for homeopathic remedies products that will help you to overcome UTI.
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Sara Says:
May 7th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Cleartract pills on a daily basis and lots of water. 2-3 Cleartract pills 1-3 times per day, and you can increase that on the days you have intercourse. My DR recommended that for me. I've suffered with them for years and finally just now getting control of them.
I have found that caffeine and sugar aggravate mine. So I limit my soda intake and try to watch my diet.
Use the restroom immediately after sex. It's best to try and shower before, (your partner too), but sometimes that is not always an option.
Lastly, water water water lol
Hope that helps.
However, if a UTI is present, I would recommend getting the antibiotics, get rid of the infection and then stay on a preventative course.


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When was the last time you read a book? Or an elaborate news article? Does your reading world revolve only around Instagram captions, tweets and Facebook posts? Did you know that researches have shown reading can possibly prevent Alzheimer's disease, and do so much more even?
One. Being a keen reader means you are a curious learner. Learning can broaden your horizon of knowledge and enhance your analytical skills. You will know beyond discourses surrounding you. Bottom line: It helps cultivate a relatively expansive perspective.
Two. Hey it's a cool hobby! No arguing there, because seriously what activity that engages your brain and makes you smart isn't cool?
Three. It makes you smart. What's new? Also, it improves your memory. While reading, you have to remember a jumble of scenes from diverse time and space, places, characters and their hobbies, goals, dreams, dislikes etc. Reading does to the mind what exercise does to the body. Indeed.
Four. You become the easiest person to appease with a gift.
Five. You won't have to pretend to know slangs like Erudite, Ravenclaw and NewSpeak because you would really know them!
Six. It expands you vocabulary. Having a big bank of words can make you eloquent and assertive. You can find the best words to express your ideas and feelings.
Seven. It ignites your imagination. Reading a book transports you from a mundane life to an entirely different world. It engages your creative mind and prompts you to activate your aesthetic side.
Eight. You can participate in intellectual conversations. If someone's talking about dystopia, be the smarty you are and quote George Orwell.
Nine. You complain less about long waits. Stuck in a long queue? Read a book. Waiting for the city bus to arrive? Read a book. Your date is late? You guessed it! Read a book.
Ten. The universe is endless. It is impossible to learn everything about it. But the more you read, the deeper your understanding about things become.
Eleven. You totally know what happens in the blockbusters even before the movies come out. Spoiler alert (!): Tris gets shot. Whoops.
Twelve. Learning is inherently a beauty. By deepening your knowledge, you open yourself to new opportunities. It hones your skills and broadens your mental outlook.
Reading gradually makes you tolerant and more accepting of things that don't necessarily seem normal. Read. It's worth it.


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Spamma Mia
Talking about therapy is like talking about sex: it's vain and boastful. Nothing wrong with that I hear you say, you live in LA, but I like paying someone to listen to me; it's the opposite of showbiz, and it helps me understand that strange collection of people I call my self. I am interested in the brain, how it works miracles, like reading, turning a jumble of letters into pictures, and the fact that about ninety per cent of what it is doing all the time is not even noticed by our consciousness, which is just the surface stream of our thoughts. It also helps me connect the dots to my wiring in my upbringing. Why am I a comedian? Why do I still get angry at certain things? Why do I like talking about myself for an hour? Which are healthy thoughts and which are simply old patterns of gloom reasserting themselves. Talk therapy is a practical guide to our selves, since we don't come with a manual, and we can learn to become better fathers, husbands, friends, and even comedians. And it's a lot more useful than Confession.
This week it suddenly became clear to me that my excitement about packing for England mirrors my own excitement felt three times a year for twelve years, packing to go home from boarding school. Not that my home in LA is remotely like The Ophney, an ex-Orphanage in exotic Wolverhampton which I reluctantly attended from the age of seven, and British Airways ain't exactly the Harry Potter steam train I took at the beginning and end of each interminable term, nevertheless each year, when the jacaranda trees turn purple, I know it's time to head East old man.
This year I'm on a short visit to London to announce that Monty Python's Spamalot is opening again in the West End, for a limited run, to entertain the tourists during the Olympics, in an entirely new production by Christopher Luscombe which has been successfully touring the UK for two years. I'm very excited that after only a three year absence it's back in London, which means that this show really has legs. I'm also looking forward to seeing a thousand boats on the Thames for the Queens jubilee, to watch a bit of England in football and cricket, and see the Brits enjoying themselves, for, as Gilbert and Sullivan put it…
.. in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations
He remains an Englishman…
So if you are visiting London this summer to support the Polish hop skip and jump team, or visit The Synchronized Shakespeare, or simply to catch the vibe, do make a determined leap to The Harold Pinter Theatre in Panton Street, off Leicester Square, where you'll find a very fine and funny production of Spamalot, ably led by the hilarious Marcus Brigstock. Booking now open!
All together "And, Always look on the bright side of life…"


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The Apple Store went down for a bit this morning and when it came back, the 12-core Apple Mac Pro was suddenly available. Pricing is right where its supposed to be with the single 2.8GHz Quad-Core rig starting out at $2,499 and the 12-core bad boy costing at least $4,999. Of course you can get frisky and check all the available options for hardware and software. That order will only cost $25,673.85 — but it includes the new Apple Battery Charger!


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Bonds' week as coach 'a lot of fun'
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Barry Bonds' one-week stint as special Giants hitting coach ended on a positive note, and he's available to continue at the largess of manager Bruce Bochy.
"You have to take baby steps," Bonds said before the Giants played the Indians at Scottsdale Stadium. "You can accomplish a little bit in seven days. But Rome wasn't built in a week. It's up to Bochy. He needed to see how I responded to the guys, how the guys responded to me.
"It's not what I think, it's what they think. I've had my time. I've had my career. Those days are gone. It's about what contribution they think I bring to the organization."
Bonds returned Monday to a well-attended press conference and has spent the rest of the week blending into the fabric of spring camp. It was the first time since Sept. 26, 2007, his last game as an active player, that Bonds donned the Giants uniform in an on-field capacity.
Bochy said Bonds had the anticipated impact this past week. On Monday, Bochy said the Giants would "always have a welcome mat out there for him." He reiterated that Sunday.
"He did great," said Bochy, who managed the now 49-year-old Bonds during his final season and has guided the Giants to a pair of World Series titles since he left. "The players got a lot out of what Barry was talking about, both the mental and physical part of hitting. He seemed to enjoy his time here, too. He's really into helping the hitters here. They sense that, that he wants to help. We hope he comes back."
Bonds has relocated from Los Angeles to San Francisco and is now living in the shadow of AT&T Park, where he became the all-time home run leader by passing Hank Aaron on Aug. 7, 2007, on the way to his final tally of 762.
"It was a lot of fun, a lot of fun," he said. "I was on the other side of the wall. I'm used to getting up and getting myself prepared and now I had to get myself mentally prepared to face a group. I never had to do that. My first few days I was very tired. I was in bed at 8:30, gone, exhausted because there's no miracles in this, there's no fast way of getting this. It's a process."
Bonds said he's just trying to fit back in to the entire Giants superstructure both past and present, from Bochy to hitting coach Hensley Meulens.
Bonds reiterated he isn't ready for a full-time job, but would be content to helicopter in any time he's needed.
"He'll go home and have a chance to reflect on his time here," Bochy said. "He's built relationships with many of the guys. Our hope is he does come by, keeps in touch with them and with Meulens, our hitting coach."
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter. Tyler Emerick is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who bought The Washington Post a year ago, has replaced publisher Katharine Weymouth, last of the fabled Graham family that has run the U.S. capital's flagship daily newspaper for four generations.
Weymouth will be succeeded by Fred Ryan, ex-president of Politico, which has emerged as the Post's chief competitor in political coverage of Washington, D.C.
Ryan spent eight years as an assistant to President Ronald Reagan, and was the ex-president's chief of staff from 1989 to 1995 after the Gipper left office.
"Now, after 17 years at this great institution, it is time for me to explore other opportunities," Weymouth told the Post staff. "I make this announcement with mixed emotions. I am enormously excited about this new era at the Post, but I will miss all of you tremendously.
Weymouth is a granddaughter of Katharine Graham, who presided as the Post's publisher when it exposed the Watergate scandal and published the Pentagon papers.
She is the niece of Donald Graham, who sold the Post to Bezos for $250 million. The paper had experienced a sharp decline in circulation in the digital age. Under Bezos, it has beefed up staff and strengthened its on-line presence.
Bezos praised Weymouth, saying "the first ownership change in this great institution in 80 years has been done smoothly and without missing a beat."
Ryan left Politico last fall. He is chairman of both the White House Historical Association and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation.
Ryan will assume duties as publisher of the Post on Oct. 1.
Keeping their jobs will be the Post's executive editor Marty Baron and Fred Hiatt, editor of its stodgy editorial page.


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Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:09): The Veterans' Entitlements Amendment Bill 2011 gives effect to creating a prison-of-war recognition supplement, clarifying and affirming the original intention of the compensation offsetting policy in relation to disability pensions, and rationalising temporary incapacity allowance and loss of earnings allowance. The coalition agrees with all these measures.
Schedule 1 of the bill provides that, from 20 September this year, former Australian prisoners of war will receive a $500 payment each fortnight from the Australian government. This payment will be made to former military personnel and civilians who were taken as prisoners of war during World War II and the Korean War. This payment will not be taxable and will not affect present access by former prisoners of war to income support under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 and the Social Security Act or to compensation payments under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986. There are almost 900 Australians known by the Department of Veterans' Affairs to be ex-POWs. All known ex-prisoners of war will automatically receive the payment, which they will be paid from 6 October.
The coalition has a strong record of providing assistance to Australia's ex-prisoners of war. In 2001, all former Japanese prisoners of war received a $25,000 tax-free, ex gratia payment from the Australian government. In 2003, former Korean prisoners of war and, in 2007, former German and Italian prisoners of war received similar payments. This additional payment will be welcomed by the 900 Australian ex-prisoners of war—and their families—who are eligible for the payment.
Schedule 2 of the bill seeks to clarify the operation of compensation provisions under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986. Compensation offsetting is a longstanding principle under Australia's repatriation system. The fundamental principle of Australia's system is that compensation is paid for incapacity, not for a specific injury. The coalition believes that the changes proposed by this schedule should be investigated by a Senate committee. We will seek to refer the bill to afford the ex-service community an opportunity to have input into the proposed changes.
Schedule 3 of the bill will rationalise the way incapacity payments are paid under the act. The changes in this bill will remove the temporary incapacity allowance. Instead of receiving this payment, the veteran will be entitled to seek access to the loss of earnings allowance—LOE. The loss of earnings allowance is paid where the veteran accrues an actual loss of earnings as a result of hospitalisation or treatment of accepted disabilities or illnesses. The coalition is not opposed to this rationalisation and calls on the government to ensure the changes are appropriately communicated to the veteran and ex-service community.
The coalition is deeply disappointed that there was no money in the budget for the commemoration of the Anzac centenary. Communities across Australia need certainty about the availability of funding so that they can begin planning for this important, national commemorative event. I regard Anzac Day as our most important national day, and I am sure that most, if not all, members opposite would agree with me. The importance of this occasion was today marked by New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, who defined it as a deeply significant occasion for both countries.
The coalition welcomes the government's belated funding increase to the Australian War Memorial. It is disappointing that the Gillard Labor government acted only after significant pressure from the community and the coalition which forced them kicking and screaming to this outcome. The coalition remains concerned that there is no funding to completely redevelop the World War I galleries. The coalition has committed funds towards this work so that it is completed ahead of the 2015 Anzac centenary commemorations. Labor must now do the same thing.
The Gillard Labor government will cut $8 million from grassroots veterans' advocacy funding over the forward estimates. This decision will have a severe impact on the services provided by volunteers in our local community to veterans, especially to new veterans returning from recent conflicts, and to their families. A review of advocacy funding released 12 months ago did not recommend a cut in funding, which makes this announcement in the budget even more difficult to understand. The ex-service community had no warning that this cut was coming and they will now compete for a smaller funding pool. This cut could also jeopardise the provision of assistance to younger veterans and their families, who may seek advice from volunteer veteran pension and welfare officers about claims for compensation.
In terms of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme and DFRB fair indexation, the coalition is committed to military superannuation reform. The Labor Party and the Greens stand condemned for their failure to support the coalition's bill to provide fair indexation to DFRDB and DFRB superannuants. The coalition believes the current indexation arrangements are palpably unfair. The opposition of the Labor-Greens alliance means the only way to deliver this reform is with the election of a coalition government.
I might read a letter that I received, as would many other members of parliament. It is from Bert Hoebee, who for a time served with distinction at Blamey Barracks at Kapooka, which is in Wagga Wagga—my hometown—in the electorate of Riverina. Wagga Wagga is the home of the soldier, because every recruit in the Australian Army goes through Wagga Wagga, through Blamey Barracks, prior to other deployments within the Army. Bert Hoebee writes:
Recently I wrote to you about the matter of social justice for veterans.
On 2 June, the House of Representatives agreed, evidently without dissent, to support the Coalition's policy of fair indexation for military superannuation pensions.
On 16 June, the Senate voted down the Bill to provide for implementation of that policy.
This despicable act of bastardry—
as Bert writes—
and political opportunism, directly and with the utmost disdain, ignored the will of the people of Australia as expressed in the House two weeks prior.
This act of what some call 'betrayal' was aided and abetted by the Greens, who abandoned their own policy to support fair indexation, through the complicity of its 'contribution' that had nothing more to offer but pompous statements on issues irrelevant to the case.
Thus are ex-service people condemned to continued unfair and unjust superannuation pension indexation, ever-depreciating purchasing power and reducing standards of living. Where are Labor's core value of fairness and its principle of a fair go for all Australians reflected in all of this?
Any government and its hangers-on that ignores the will of the people and turns its back on Australian service men and women in this reprehensible manner does so at its peril.
I now ask you, again, to examine your conscience, and ask: what are you going to do about this unjust treatment of Australia's ex-service people, in direct contravention of the express will of the House?
In another email, he writes:
It is high time to fairly index the pensions of all of our superannuated veterans (under the now-closed DFRB and DFRDB Scheme and the current MSBS scheme)—
the Military Superannuation Benefits Scheme—
and to put a stop to discrimination against them.
That is the fair deal which was a condition of their employment and to which they contributed financially during their service. Just and fair: nothing more, nothing less. Simple. Easily do-able. Long overdue.
This from a man who served his country with distinction. This is a man who, as I say, represented the Army in the home of the soldier, Blamey Barracks. I think it is high time that we listened more and more to people like Bert Hoebee. They, after all, represent the grassroots of our military—those people who served with distinction, who served with absolute determination and high principle and who should be listened to. It is high time to fairly index the pensions of all our superannuated veterans and to put a stop to discrimination against them. That is the deal which was a condition of their employment, as Bert wrote, and to which they contributed financially during their service. I call on the government to do it.


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On Wed, 09 May 2012 21:02:22 +0900, Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
It looks like that if you use EMUL_PKG_FMT=rpm (with RPM2PKG_STAGE!=do-extract) you have to explicitly set EXTRACT_ONLY=${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX} or nothing gets extracted. This is because emulator/pkg-rpm.mk contains EXTRACT_ONLY?= # empty I think this should either be wrapped in RPM2PKG_STAGE==do-extract or documented.
What are you trying? I don't know about cases that RPMPKG_STAGE is neither do-extract nor do-install. -- OBATA Akio / obache%NetBSD.org@localhost


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BLS Jobs Growth Rate Declined In April 2016.
Written by Steven Hansen
The BLS job situation headlines were relatively softer. Jobs growth decelerated this month - and the previous month's data was downwardly revised. Economic intuitive sectors remained positive.
Unadjusted Non-Farm Private Employment - Year-over-Year Change (blue bars - left axis) and Year-over-Year Growth Acceleration / Deceleration From Previous Month (red line - right axis)
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A summary of the employment situation:
The BLS reports seasonally adjusted data - manipulated with multiple seasonal adjustment factors, and Econintersect believes the unadjusted data gives a clearer picture of the jobs situation.
Non-seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls improved 1,051,000 - worse than last year but average for April's in times of economic expansion.
Historical Unadjusted Private Non-Farm Jobs Growth Between Marchs and Aprils (Table B-1, data in thousands) - unadjusted (blue line) vs seasonally adjusted (red line)
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Last month's employment gains were revised downward.
Change in Seasonally Adjusted Non-Farm Payrolls Between Originally Reported (blue bars) and Current Estimates (red bars)
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Most of the analysis below uses unadjusted data, and presents an alternative view to the headline data.
The BLS reported U-3 (headline) unemployment was 5.0 % with the U-6 "all in" unemployment rate (including those working part time who want a full time job) improved from 9.8 % to 9.7 %. These numbers are volatile as they are created from the household survey.
BLS U-3 Headline Unemployment (red line, left axis), U-6 All In Unemployment (blue line, left axis), and Median Duration of Unemployment (green line, right axis)
Econintersect has an interpretation of employment supply slack using the BLS employment-population ratio, demonstrated by the graph below. The employment-population ratio declined 0.2 to 59.7.
Employment-Population Ratio
The jobs picture - when the employment / population as a whole - has been on an uptrend since mid-2011 - even with the significant decline this month. This ratio is determined by household survey.
Employment Metrics
The growth trend in the establishment survey's non-farm payroll was trending up beginning of 2014 but has been trending down beginning in 2015. This month there was a decline.
Unadjusted Non-Farm Payrolls Year-over-Year Growth
Another way to view employment is to watch the total hours worked.
Percent Change Year-over-Year Non-Farm Private Weekly Hours Worked
The bullets below use seasonally adjusted data from the establishment survey except where indicated:
Private Employment: Average Hourly Earnings
Economic Metrics
Economic markers used to benchmark economic growth (all from the establishment survey).
The truck employment was up 0.7K.
Truck Transport Employment - Year-over-Year Change
Temporary help improved 9.3K.
Temporary Help Employment - Year-over-Year Change
Econintersect believes the transport sector is a forward indicator. Others look at temporary help as a forward indicator.
Food for Thought
Who are the victims in this mediocre employment situation. It is not people over 55.
Index of Employment Levels - 55 and up (blue line), 45 to 54 (red line), 35 to 44 (green line), 25 to 34 (purple line), 20 to 24 (light blue line), and 16 to 19 (orange line)
Women are doing better than men.
Index of Employment Levels - Men (blue line) vs Women (red line)
Mom and Pop employment remains below recessionary levels.
The less education one has, the less chance of finding a job.
Index of Employment Levels - University graduate (blue line), Some college or AA degree (orange line), high school graduates (green line), and high school dropouts (red line)
Here is an indexed view of employment levels.
Index of Employment Levels (from the BLS Establishment Survey) - Hispanic (blue line), African American (red line), and White (green line)
However, keep in mind that population growth is different for each group. Here is a look at employment to population ratios which clearly shows NO group has recovered from the Great Recession:
Employment / Population Ratios (from the BLS Household Survey) - Hispanic (blue line), African American (red line), and White (green line)
NFIB comment on this Month's BLS Job Situation
NFIB's chief economist William C. Dunkelberg, issued the following comments on employment this month:
Caveat on the use of BLS Jobs Data
The monthly headline data ends up being significantly revised for months after the initial release - and is subject also to annual revisions. The question remains how seriously can you take the data when first released.
The above graphic (updated through October 2011) is the month-over-month change in employment based on the original headline non-farm employment level and the current stated employment levels at month end. You will note some pretty drastic backward revision for a major economic release the market reacts to in real time.
Econintersect Contributor Jeff Miller has the following description of BLS methodology:
Econintersect has repeatedly pointed out questions about how the seasonal adjustment algorithms and data gathering methodology used by the BLS introduce uncertainty into interpretation of month to month changes in employment.
ADP (blue line) versus BLS (red line) - Monthly Jobs Growth Comparison
However, there is some discussion that neither the ADP nor BLS numbers are correct - as both are derived by a sampling methodology. The answer could be that there is no correct answer in real time - and that it is best to look at the trends. As has been noted, all eventually end up correlating.
The BLS uses seasonal adjusted data for its headline numbers. The seasonally adjusted employment data is produced by an algorithm. The following graph which shows unadjusted job growth - seasonal adjustments spread employment growth over the entire year. Employment does not really grow in the second half of the year and always falls significantly in January.
Non-Seasonally Adjusted Employment - Private Sector
There is the proverbial question on what is minimal jobs growth each month required to allow for new entrants to the market. Depending on mindset, this answer varies. According to Investopdia, the number is between 100,000 and 150,000. The Wall Street Journal is citing 125K. Mark Zandi said 150K. Econintersect is going with Mark Zandi's number:
Employment to Population Ratio
Note: The ratio could be fine tuned by adjusting to the ratio of employment to working age population rather than the total population. However, this would not change the big picture that an increase of somewhere around 150,000 (+/-) is needed for the growing population numbers. We have estimated 140k - 160k. The number might possibly be within the range 125k - 175k. Econintersect cannot find reason to support the estimates below 125k.
The question of how changing demographics impact the employment numbers is at the margins of analysis. Econintersect will publish more on this fine tuning going forward, both in-house research and the work of others.
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Postcard from Kissimmee: Keeping it in the family
If the Phillies-Astros games usually take on the feel of a family reuinion, then this was the year that the family was squabbling over the will. Not just because of the Bill Hall-Cole Hamels incident, but because many of the family members no-showed. …
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