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If you do much research into personal finance, you'll probably find a lot of advice telling you to build an emergency fund. Emergency funds, stockpiles of money you save up in order to pay for unexpected and urgent expenses, are commonly recommended as a part of organizing your finances, as well as investing. However, why exactly are emergency funds so vital to financial health? We answer that question, and let you know how you can start one of your own, below.
Why emergency funds are important
An emergency fund is the base of building personal wealth, providing security and peace of mind so you can comfortably invest your money in other ways. With a fully stocked emergency fund, you can take care of sudden, high-priority costs using cash instead of relying on credit or taking out a loan, letting you avoid taking on debt and paying interest. Many people also design emergency funds to help them in case they lose their job, ideally holding enough money to support them for several months while they search for a new one and wait for their first paycheck. With this financial safety net in place, you can then confidently invest other money in a number of ways that are more profitable, but riskier or tie up your money for a long time, such as retirement funds, college funds and stocks.
3 steps to starting an emergency fund
Having an emergency fund in place is ideal, but starting it isn't always easy. Here are three ways to build one:
Set goals: Before you start saving for your emergency fund, decide how large you want it to be. A good benchmark for the size of an emergency fund is three to six months' worth of your essential living expenses, though this can change depending on your circumstances. For instance, if your income isn't reliable because you freelance in a seasonal industry, you may want to beef up that goal to nine or 12 months to help you get through lean periods. Apart from choosing your emergency fund's ultimate goal amount, you should also set smaller goals, such as saving $100 in one month, to give you something achievable to strive for in the short-term, which can help motivate you. If you currently owe high-interest debt with more than 4% APR, it's okay to divert some of your emergency fund savings to help pay off your debt, but you should still save something. Even an emergency fund of $1,000 is better than nothing, and puts you ahead of most Americans.
Pick a storage place: Emergency funds aren't a set type of account, and there are actually a variety of financial storage and investment tools you can use to keep your fund safe and accessible. The most common accounts for emergency funds are checking accounts, which allow pretty much unlimited access to your money but don't generate much interest, and savings accounts, which slightly limit access to your money but generate decent amounts of interest (particularly high-yield online savings accounts). You should also consider money market accounts, which are like savings accounts with check-writing privileges that typically require high minimum deposits, and even Roth IRAs, which are retirement accounts that let you withdraw your contributions without any penalties.
It's also possible to use a stock brokerage account for your emergency fund, which can let you grow your fund using the high returns the stock market can provide. However, this is very risky, as the stock market is volatile on a day-to-day basis. If the market is down the day you need to access your fund, it may contain less money than you originally put into it. Whichever kind of account or accounts you choose, just make sure they're at a different financial institution from your primary bank account. Separating your primary checking account and emergency fund will make it a little bit harder to access your savings, hopefully cutting down your temptation to dig into it for non-urgent purchases.
Make a saving plan: Once you have your goals and storage set, it's time to come up with a plan to put money into your emergency fund. Figure out how much you'll have to contribute to your fund every time you get paid in order to reach your goals. If you aren't used to saving money and need to ease into it, you can start saving a small amount of money, such as $10, from your paycheck, and then increase your savings by $5 every pay period. Regularly contributing generally works better than making occasional lump-sum payments, as the smaller, steady payments are easier to track and prepare for. You can also set up your primary bank account to automatically transfer money to your emergency fund at certain intervals, such as the day after you get paid, to make sure your emergency fund savings go into the proper account as painlessly as possible.
If you feel like you're already using all of your income and can't spare any money to build an emergency fund, you should review your budget to see where you can cut costs. Look at your last few months of financial records, such as bank and credit card statements, and hunt for spending patterns and regular expenses you feel okay with reducing or eliminating, such as going out to eat, clothes shopping and cable bills. Additionally, if you have high-interest debt that you're paying off, a balance transfer to a credit card with a low or 0% intro APR offer can save you from paying interest and potentially lower your monthly payments for a while.
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VAGARIES OF LIFE AND: GIRLS' TALK by Joy Lo-Bamijoko
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VAGARIES OF LIFE – A Different Kind of Life
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to someone you love! [ intro ] People often wonder why there isn't a cure
for cancer yet. And the answer is usually because "cancer"
isn't one thing. It's this big umbrella term for a ton of
different conditions where cells grow out of control. While there are treatments for some types
of cancer, different cancers are, well, different enough that there's nothing that works for all
of them — no universal cure. But, uh, it turns out there might be? Researchers from Cardiff University in Wales may have found a way to treat all cancers, or at least a whole lot of them. And they just kind of stumbled onto it. The researchers weren't searching for cancer
therapies. They were looking for ways to fight bacteria
with immune cells called killer T cells. As the name implies, these cells kill things. Specifically, things that aren't good for
your body. But unlike other immune cells, they don't target bacteria or viruses directly. Instead, they go around interrogating the
body's own cells, trying to sniff out ones that might be hiding
pathogens inside them. And when they find an infected cell, they
kill it. But not all killer T cells are the same. There are different types that use slightly
different proteins, called receptors, to check out cells. Often, these receptors are somewhat specific to the invader they're hunting for. But the researchers were looking for a kind
of T cell that can detect lots of different bacteria. So, they pulled a bunch of killer T cells
from blood samples and tested their infection-spotting abilities. The test the team was using just so happens
to employ a kind of cancer cell that's easy to infect with bacteria. And a number of different T cells showed promise when the scientists set them loose on these
infected cancer cells. But one was especially ruthless. Unfortunately, in further experiments, it killed all of the cancer cells, not just the ones with bacteria inside them
— so it wasn't what they were looking for. But it did pique their curiosity. Now, it's not that weird for a T cell to
kill cancer cells, because T cells don't just hunt for infections. They are also in charge of keeping cancers
in check. And over the past several years, scientists have started harnessing the power
of these cells to fight cancer. In CAR-T immunotherapy, for example, T cells are removed from a person's body, genetically programmed with a receptor which
can spot the person's cancer, and then injected back in to seek and destroy. But we can't do this for all cancer patients
yet because we don't have good receptor targets for every type or even subtype of cancer. You know, that whole "cancers aren't all
the same" bit. But I digress. Point is, it wasn't super surprising that the researchers
had found a T cell that killed this particular type of cancer. But, before just discarding or shelving them to continue the hunt for bacteria-killing
T cells, they decided to see what happened with some
other cancer types, too. And they worked. Against all of them. Lung cancer, colon cancer, bone cancer, breast
cancer, blood cancer, skin cancer… these T cells killed every kind of cancer
the researchers tried. Not only that, but they left healthy cells
alone. Which is, like, WHOAH. Needless to say, this sparked a new investigation into how
these T cells were doing this. To figure that out, the researchers deleted proteins from the
cancer cells one by one using CRISPR-Cas 9 gene editing. The idea being that, if deleting a protein made the T cells ineffective, then that protein must be involved in how
the cells are spotting cancer. And that led them to a protein called MR1. Now, what's interesting about that, is MR1 can be found on all your cells, not just cancerous ones. See, it's thought to be an informant of
sorts for the immune system. It samples molecules from inside the cell and presents them on the outside, where immune cells can take a look. And that's exactly what these killer T cells
seem to be doing. They have a special receptor that allows them to interact with MR1 proteins and read those samples. They're not the only T cells that interact with MR1, but they seem to be the only ones we've
found so far that can spot all sorts of cancers by doing
so. The researchers were even able to take this
receptor and stick it into T cells from actual cancer
patients. So basically, the same idea as CAR-T therapy, but using this one protein instead of tailoring
the T cells to each patient's specific cancer. And not only did those engineered T cells
kill samples of the patients' tumors, they killed cancers from multiple patients. That's probably because MR1 proteins don't really differ much between people, so the same receptor can recognize all of
them. this means that instead of having to design
individual therapies for each cancer, doctors might be able to use this one receptor to make T cells that work for everyone. But we shouldn't pop open the champagne
quite yet. There are still some big unknowns here. Like, the researchers don't actually know
how the T cells are recognizing MR1. Seriously, the actual wording in the paper
is that this receptor quote "does not recognize MR1 by known mechanisms". And they don't know what MR1 is showing
the T cells to alert them that the cell is cancerous — though, presumably it's unique to cancers and, if not universal, then at least super
common. Most importantly, though: they have yet to try these T cells in actual
human patients. They did test them in mice given human cancers, and the results were promising. But it's still possible they won't work
well in a real, live person. We should know fairly soon. The researchers' current plan is to proceed
cautiously, and if safety tests go well, they're hopeful human trials could start
in the next few years. On the upside, even if this doesn't lead
to a quote "cure for cancer", studying these T cells could help scientists discover new ways to treat a lot of different
cancers. And the team is already on the hunt for other, similar T cells that can kill multiple cancers. And to think — this discovery would never have happened if the researchers didn't have the good
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The mighty Horned Frogs fell----but we still got to spend two hours exhuberantly and fruitlessly rooting them on together (in a stadium filled to the max with fans of the opposing HOME team, even):The marble maze fell, but we had lots of wild and wooly times constructing it all together:Hell, even the gingerbread house fell-- --pitiful redneck shanty, but we had an awesome sugar-high time with a dear friend throwing candy all over it, anyway:
Ah, family...even when you suck, you get to suck together.
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4 comments:
That last line is a great line! :)
- December 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- julie said...
Throws water on the whole type-A, overachiever theory, too, I hope--there is no way in hell that a Type A overachiever would turn out a gingerbread house looking like THAT.
- December 14, 2008 at 8:36 AM
- Abby said...
i love this post!
- December 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM
- julie said...
And I love you.
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Crystalline Quartz resembles an ordinary uniaxial crystal. When a beam of light passes through such a crystal, the lights is split into two beams polarized at right angles. In the special case of uniaxial crystal cut perpendicular to its optic axis, the state of polarization for a beam passing through the crystal remains unchanged. Quartz however, is Optically Active. This phenomenon of optical activity was discovered in 1811 by Arago, who observed that with quartz, unlike an ordinary uniaxial crystal, the plane of polarization is also rotated with respect to the incident beam. A number of crystals, both uniaxial and biaxial, are optically active, quartz being the best known example.
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The National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit is pleased to announce publication of its 9th annual report. It covers patients diagnosed with oesophageal or gastric cancer between April 2014 and March 2016 (from 2013 for surgical topics) and patients with high grade dysplasia diagnosed between April 2012 and March 2016. Highlights of the report include the following findings:
- The audit found the number of patients that died in hospital after surgery to remove a tumour in the stomach reduced from 6% between 2007-09, to 2% during 2014-16.
- For patients needing surgery to remove the food pipe (oesophagus), mortality rates for patients in hospital have more than halved since the period between 2007 and 2009, from 4.5% of patients to just 2.1% in 2014-16.
- The audit also found that some patients waited up to 100 days following their diagnosis for treatment for their cancer.
- Guidelines suggest that the management of High Grade Dysplasia (HGD) should be limited to NHS trusts treating 15 or more cases each year. However, of the 115 NHS Trusts that have responsibility for the treatment of patients with HGD, only six organisations (5.2%) treated this number of patients between 2014-16. The average number of cases at each trust is less than five.


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A brilliant mind, indeed
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Medieval Renaissance Studies and German double major
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Should We Investigate The FBI?
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) wants a "Select Committee in Congress" to look into and investigate the "dirty tricks and political activities" of the FBI.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) wants a "Select Committee in Congress" to look into and investigate the "dirty tricks and political activities" of the FBI.
Host Jeanine Pirro praised President Donald Trump for ending the Iran nuclear agreement and moving the embasy to Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed support to "President Trump's bold decision today to reject the disastrous nuclear deal with the terrorist regime in Tehran."
Representative Brendan Boyle (D-PA) believes that if Democrats spoke more about topics such as the economy, healthcare, and legislation issues, the better they will do in the 2018 elections. He also stated Special Counsel Robert Mueller or Russia will not help them win.
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway told media sources that VA Secretary nominee Dr. Ronny Jackson "has made clear that he wants to fight" and that President Trump is "sticking by" him.
Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti recently attended HBO's "Real Time," where he spoke about his recently developed interest in politics.
Former Vice President Joe Biden told MSNBC that he is not planning to run for the 2020 elections if "there is somebody" who can defeat Donald Trump.
Fox co-host Juan Williams raised the question recently of why Sean Hannity didn't admit to having a relationship with Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen.
President Trump spoke to press recently where he was asked if he was going to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump responded saying, "I think it's a disgrace what's going on. We'll see what happens."
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I am writing to express my sincere thanks and appreciation for the interest and support all my friends from all over the world have shown in the making of the video for the song, "Were All the Same".
I could never have realised back in 2012 when the song was written that collectively we could achieve a truly global look and feel for a song that was written for everyone on the planet, simply, its fantastic!
The idea came about following one of the many discussions I had with my producer and we felt, if somehow we could harness the contacts I had across the world and try to involve them, then we could produce a video that reflected that, everywhere on Earth, at our essence, we really are – all the same!
I would therefore like to thank all my great friends in Australia, Denmark, France, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Panama, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA for taking time out and getting together, with real enthusiasm to contribute their film clips to the song, I hope and trust in turn you will enjoy seeing yourselves in a global video and hope you had fun making your film!
We have listed all 112 individuals (plus two pets!) who were in all the clips below, and I thank each and everyone of you for your fantastic support with all this, we couldn't have done it without you!
The end result is this, at the end of the day we may all have different colours, speak different languages, live in different places but we all want to be happy, live in peace, enjoy life and experience love!
I hope we have achieved that message in this song for all of you! With Sincerest Regards to Everyone!
Bob Messenger
Our Sincere Thanks to the following people who made this video happen!
Bob Messenger, Louise Messenger, Phil Readman, Margaret Ann Readman, Paul Davey, Ian Crockett, Linda Crockett, Virginia Desira, David Desira, Rhonda Callus, Steve Harrison, Connie Spina, Gary Jenkins, Cathy Jenkins, Darren Kaye, Sue Kaye, Jimmy O Neil, Marlene O Neil.
Julie Mejlgaard Rasmussen, Julie Soegaard Hansen.
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Harvest Moon Hosts Farm-to-Table Dinner: July 19 from 6 to 9 p.m
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Harvest Moon Farm and Orchard of North Salem, purveyor of farm-fresh apples, produce, eggs, grass-fed meat and locally famous cider donuts, will host its first farm-to-table dinner July 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. The dinner will take place at The Overlook, a stone patio situated at the highest point of the orchard.
A collaboration between the farm and renowned Westchester chefs and restaurateurs John and Paul Aversano, the event will feature unique seasonal offerings sourced from and inspired by ingredients grown on the farm, says Harvest Moon's general manager, Christine Covino. "Our dinner unifies the talents of two local family establishments, highlighting what each does best—growing high-quality, farm-fresh food and artfully utilizing what is locally available," she says.
The evening will begin with a bucolic wagon ride through the orchard up to The Overlook, where guests will be greeted with a glass of Hardscrabble Cider, pressed from the apples grown in the orchard. They can then enjoy cocktail hour with live music on the patio before being seated in an adjacent dining area, where they can watch the sunset over their farm-to-table dinner.
"We are thrilled to welcome the community to sample and enjoy what we do, where it all takes place—here on the farm," Covino says.
Tickets are $150, not including Eventbrite processing fee, tax and gratuity. A beer and wine cash bar will be available, as well as complimentary Hardscrabble Cider throughout the evening. Purchase tickets at HMOrchard.com/FarmDinner. The rain date is July 20.


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PTSD stands for post-traumatic stress disorder. If you witness violence, crimes, natural disasters, accidents, war or other traumatic conflicts you can develop PTSD. Having PTSD feels like you are constantly being haunted by memories that you do not wish to remember. A smell, word or even a sound can remind you of the event. It feels like it is happening all over again.
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- Have trouble sleeping
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- Avoid certain places, people or things that remind them of the event
- Feel very anxious and jumpy which can lead to being irritable
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What You Should Know Before You Build That Backyard Fire Pit
Jun 29, 2017 10:53AM
● By Linda Ditch
According to the state of Vermont, you can burn leaves, brush, deadwood, tree cuttings, and weeds from your property in your backyard. However, you are not allowed to burn paper and cardboard; tires and other rubber products; treated, painted, or finished wood; tarpaper or asphalt shingles; or plastics and other trash or garbage.
For safety reasons, a fire pit should ideally be located 50 feet from any combustible material. You'll want to pay attention to both nearby buildings and overhanging trees. Plus, you'll want to have a water source available.
Once you've picked a location for your fire, it's time to decide just how elaborate you want the fire pit to be. First, clear the space of any grass and debris. Then, for a simple campfire, make a ring of stones or place a metal fire ring or fire bowl in the cleared area and you're ready to go.
For a more elaborate, permanent stone fire pit, there are a number of how-to-build instructions available online. Places like Woodstock Home and Hardware on Woodstock Road offer helpful advice and direct you to the necessary materials. Be sure to allow at least two days for building the pit.
If building one yourself seems like a lot of work, you can hire a landscape company to do it for you. Jim'sHardscapes, From the Ground Up Landscapin , and King Lawn and Landscape can build your fire pit just the way you want.
Once you have your fire pit, you need a fire. The elements for a good campfire are:
- Tinder: something that lights quickly to get things started. Crumpled newspaper, small bits of cardboard, or dried leaves make good tinder.
- Kindling: small pieces of wood that are easy to burn, such as dried twigs and branches.
- Firewood: dried, split logs that you would burn in a fireplace are ideal.
- Oxygen: fires won't burn without oxygen. You won't add oxygen to the fire, but how you build it will determine the amount of oxygen allowed to reach and fuel the flames.
To get started, light a small pile of tinder in the middle of the fire pit, and then immediately add some kindling to keep it going. Keep adding kindling until the blaze seems strong. Finally, start building a tipi of firewood over the top, adding more kindling until the firewood starts to burn. Another option is to build the fire structure of tinder, kindling, and firewood before lighting the tinder.
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Los Angeles: There are huge number of celebrities including Ryan Seacrest, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Lovato, Mel B and Avril Lavigne are cut short from the list of the invitees to attend the marriage ceremony of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. All these celebrities are cut short from the list due to happening of the marriage in France on this Saturday.
It seems that Kim is managing her marriage in different way as her previous marriage with her ex-husband, Kris Humphries. She wants that her wedding with Kanye will be different and she did not invite lot of the guest in her marriage. It is also reported that the family of Lindsay Lohan is close to Kim but she did not invite her too. During this time, Kardashian will depart to Paris for the enjoyment of the weekend celebration. It is also learnt that she has invited the celebrities like Jay Z and Beyonce in the wedding ceremony.


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It is not easy to create a platform where clubs from different parts of India and with varied ideologies and functioning have thumped in harmony for the past twelve years.
Sometimes, a simple vision and thought can create the best out of what seems as nothing at the start. A vision to create a common platform for bulleteers and a way to spread the spirit of brotherhood, this is exactly what brought on the birth of the 'Brotherhood of Bulleteers Motorcycling Consortium' in short called popularly as 'BOBMC'.
BOBMC is brotherhood and brotherhood is BOBMC. Wonderfully intertwined and beautifully executed in the form of the 'Rider Mania' (conceptualized by Vernon Dias-Madras Bulls), a Royal Enfield owners event held annually by a different member club of BOBMC. An event where clubs present their colors proudly, where beer flows freely and so does good humour. Where clubs engage in good willed events against each other to see the best bulleteers win.
The friendships forged here are for life. If you ever vroom through a brother club's state or town, or if you are in distress, these friends for life are just a throttle away.
The team at 'A Couple of Adventures' are a mix of seasoned riders and new to the motorcycle community riders. But for all, this will be the first BOBMC Rider Mania ever. We won't deny how desperately eager we are to head out there with our club, represent strongly, cheer the loudest and to be a part of the heady experience that the Rider Mania brings to the saddle.
Team COA will be riding down from Pune, then meet up with members of the 'Wolfe Pack India' motorcycle club which has clocked in a RM registration of 87 members to date and ride in to the venue with the pack in spirited formation thereon.
This is also the first RM, that 'The Bikerni' will be taking an active part in. Eagerly looking forward to see women bulleteers taking part in the events with full gusto and zeal.
Madras Bulls or as they are fondly called 'Mad Bulls' took over the hosting baton from RERAM and have called in fellow bulleteers for the event at 'Mahabalipuram',Tamil Nadu on the 18th and 19th of January, 2014.
Right by the sea, on the sandy shores is where the RM venue is set up this year. Will be interesting to see the dirt track and the races that shall occur on a challenging terrain.
A multitude of stalls and sponsors for the event , looking forward to grabbing some great biker merchandise at the venue.
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Cowes Harbor Commission (CHC) has issued dredging and works licences to Red Funnel granting permission for construction operations to commence on the new Red Funnel lay-by berth at East Cowes.
This follows the relevant approvals having been accorded to Red Funnel by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and the Crown Estate.
According to CHC, the construction works for the lay-by berth started in late January and will take place mainly during daylight hours.
The officials also added that there will be some dredging carried out in conjunction with this project.
"The operations required for the construction of the new Red Funnel lay-by berth are to be carried out mainly during daylight hours by the work vessels 'Forth Atlas' and 'Haven Seariser 2', and they will maintain a listening watch on VHF 69 when in operation," CHC reported.
CHC concluded that all mariners should keep well clear of the dredging and construction area, where practicable, and in all cases navigate with caution when passing this area.


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The Civil Society Action Team (CSAT) has issued an action alert for the Global Fund"s Round 10. The action alert contains guidance on how civil society organisations can get involved in the CCM proposal development process. It also discusses the choice that HIV/AIDS applicants face between applying under the regular Round 10 funding stream and applying under the new MARPS (most-at-risk populations) funding stream.
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Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is continuing to ramp up, bringing on former eBay executive and former OpenTable CEO Jeff Jordan as a general partner.
The addition brings the number of general partners at Andreessen Horowitz to five. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the founders of the firm, have been steadily ramping up the number of personnel as they have raised new funds and conducted a flurry of investments. On Wednesday, Andreessen Horowitz also announced that it had brought on former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as a special advisor to the venture firm.
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A Conditional Disability Discharge
If you were totally and permanently disabled in years past, you used to be able to get a letter from a doctor that testified to your condition and that supported your application to have your student loan debt completely discharged. Back in 2002, however, the Department of Education tightened the guidelines and the rules concerning those loans that were being discharged due to permanent and total disability. Essentially, the department said you can be deemed totally and permanently disabled only if:
You can't earn a living due an injury or illness that is likely to persist indefinitely or that is likely to result in death;
Your doctor certifies that you are 100 percent disabled based on the definition above; and
You go through a conditional discharge period for three years, affirming over and over again that you really are disabled.
What all this means is that now, not only do you have to have the support of your doctor attesting to your total and permanent disability, you must also agree to be subjected to a three-year period of close monitoring and scrutiny by the Department of Education.
During this conditional discharge period, the department will check with the IRS and see whether or not you earn income. They'll have you attest, year after year for those three years, that you continue to meet the definition of being disabled. During this conditional period, you don't have to pay back the principal or interest on your student loans. If you continue to be deemed as totally and permanently disabled, at the end of the three-year conditional period your student loans will be cancelled. If, for some reason, you don't continue to meet the cancellation requirements, you must start repaying those college debts.
The department's definition of disability, by the way, is far stricter than even the Social Security Administration. The Department of Education says you're truly disabled only if you can't work or earn money because of a major injury or illness that is expected to continue indefinitely or that is likely to result in death. Again, your doctor has to also sign forms stating this as well.
Now I know some of you will say, "Good grief. I might have suffered an injury or illness that's temporary in nature, but I certainly don't think it'll last indefinitely, and I sure as heck hope it won't kill me!" Well, I hope that you're right. But here's where the rules get a little murkier. The Department of Education won't ban you from working altogether. In the fine print of the rules concerning disability discharges, you'll find that you are allowed to work—and remain eligible for that disability discharge—as long as you don't earn more than the poverty level, which is currently about $13,100 a year.
Based on all of this, I wouldn't blame you for thinking that a disability discharge is impossible to obtain. For a while, that's what Jayne thought too. Jayne is a 38-year-old college graduate who lives in Philadelphia. As an undergrad she attended Temple University, got a degree in journalism, and later earned graduate degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. In pursuing her higher education goals, however, Jayne amassed student loans into the six-figure territory. Unfortunately, in 2003 Jayne suffered a host of maladies. She soon went out on disability from her job, and, after being declared by her doctor as totally and permanently disabled and unfit to work, Jayne applied with the Department of Education to have her student loans cancelled.
As of this writing, Jayne has been through her probation (i.e., the three-year conditional period), and has so far received a conditional discharge of all her outstanding student loans. The exact discharge amount totaled: $122,730.50; accrued interest to be capitalized was $728.31, resulting in a total of $123,458.81 worth of student loans being cancelled.
Getting that discharge, though, was a long and arduous process, Jayne warns. Multiple phone calls to her lender and loan servicer to inquire about disability discharges were exercises in frustration. Customer service representatives from Sallie Mae initially said they had no information about disability discharges, nor could they point Jayne in the right direction to find application forms online. "It's almost like a hidden secret that they don't want you to know about," says Jayne.
And that was only the first part of the battle. Her doctor was asked at least a half dozen times to fax documents that he'd already sent. The physician also had to reword his explanations about Jayne's condition to the department's satisfaction. "It got so bad that every time I would go see him, I would be carrying that form, and he would say: 'Oh this again,'" recalls Jayne.
One time Jayne's entire application was rejected merely because she'd put a line through a date on the form, and inserted the correct date. Despite all the hassles, Jayne knows it was worth it. According to her paperwork, in addition to her discharge amount of $123,458.81, the estimated amount of interest Jayne would've paid during the 30-year term of her loans would have been an additional $162,244.86, resulting in total payments of $285,703.67. "I would've been paying this for the rest of my life," she says.
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I also ambeing harrassed by Sallie Mae, even though my Dr. has submitted their t
otal and permanent disabilty form 3 times! Every time they found a mistake; like
not signing one part. They could have saved the part that was good and just sen
t me back the part that needed signing. No, they sent it all back and because of
my disabilty, I lost it, and its a nightmare. I am thinking os suing them. Does
anyone know if that is possible? Thanks.
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trying to help. My traumatic brain injury, has really changed my life horribly
. It took me a long time to 'accept the Dr.'s telling me that i would not be abl
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to figure ways to make me gain, and have gotten so much 'worse' that i need a dA
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Sarah Palin's Popularity Grows, Poll Finds
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released today finds that Sarah Palin's favorable rating has risen to 46 percent. That represents an increase from the 39 percent favorable rating for Palin in CNN polling over the summer, following her decision to resign from her job as Alaska governor.
Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, remains a polarizing figure, of course: 46 percent view her unfavorably, matching her favorable rating. Just 8 percent of those surveyed did not offer an opinion on Palin, who is currently on a book tour for memoir "Going Rogue: An American Life."
The poll also found that former Vice President Dick Cheney, a frequent critic of President Obama, remains unpopular. Cheney's unfavorable rating sits at 53 percent, while 39 percent view him favorably.
Eight in 10 Republicans view Palin favorably, CNN reports, while more than seven in 10 Democrats views her unfavorably. Men are more likely to view Palin favorably than women.
Palin spoke at the Washington Gridiron Club's winter meeting over the weekend, along with openly gay liberal Democrat Rep. Barney Frank; she suggested to an audience of journalists than they are ideologically biased and don't understand her home state, according to Politico.
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I love this and it was so good the actually see and hear you speak so beautifully from your heart. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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This movie is on a sort of Christian version of Netflix. I haven't seen it, but the trailer is riveting:ReplyDelete
I looked deeper into the plot online for spoilers, and the young woman goes to jail because she was texting and driving when she hit the pastor's little boy. When the pastor goes to the older pastor for counsel, because he is in crisis and the older pastor tells him all the answers can be found "right here" and takes both his hands to put an old dusty bible in the younger pastor's hands. That puts me into tears. And if the young pastor looks familiar to you, if you watched Judging Amy in the 90's, he was the bailiff.Replies
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Love the video. It was like God had you speak to me about my biggest issue in my personal life right now. lol. My mornings start off badly and it is because my kids are waking me up out of bed first, wanting things off the bat, I can't think straight, and then never get around to reading because I am so disorganized feeling. Thanks for the tips! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Perfect Pink Meringues
4 egg whites, at room temperature
220g (1 cup) caster sugar
2 tsp cornflour, sifted
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp white vinegar
7-8 drops Good quality pink food colouring
Coloured sprinkles, to decorate
Preheat oven to 60°C. Line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
Place the egg whites in a large clean, dry bowl (make sure there is absolutely NO trace of water or oil on the bowl or mixing utensils).
Using an electric beater, whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form.
Gradually add the sugar and whisk until the sugar dissolves. Continue beating for 2 minutes or until the mixture is thick, glossy, all the sugar dissolves and a long trailing peak forms when the beater is lifted from the mixture. Add the cornflour and vinegar, and whisk until just combined.
Stir pink colouring into bowl until blended.
Place the mixture into a clean piping bag fitted with a fluted 1.5cm diameter nozzle. Pipe twelve 5cm (base measurement) meringues, about 3cm apart, onto lined trays. Sprinkle with sprinkles.
Bake in preheated oven for 7-9 hours, swapping trays halfway through cooking, until meringues are crisp and sound hollow when tapped on base. Turn oven off and leave in oven for 3 hours or until cool. I let them cook over night while I'm asleep.
Moisture & oil will ruin your meringues so to ensure that your mixture is not compromised by previous usage, cut a lemon and use to wipe down mixing bowl and utensils, dry with paper towel. The citrus will condition the surfaces and remove any oils and moisture.
A lot of online recipes for meringues say to "cook" meringues for 2 hours at 100°C. This is NOT the correct way to make meringues. Meringues should be dried out and not cooked. If done correctly you will never risk burning your mixture and you will always make PERFECT meringues!
Also do not over beat. Practice makes perfect and since these they are pretty easy to make I would suggest making a practice batch prior to an event.
These meringues can be made up to 1 week ahead. Store in an airtight container.
Preparation time 20-30 minutes
Makes 24 Meringues
2 Cups water
1 Cup of Soy milk (You can use regular milk if you prefer)
1 Inch stick of cinnamon
8 Cardomom pods (I like to break them open)
8 Whole cloves
1 Anise star (Optional)
Honey or other sweetener to taste if you like it sweet
3 teaspoons Loose black tea
Put water in saucepan. Add the cinnamon, cardomom, cloves and anise and bring to the boil.
Cover, turn heat to low and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
Add the soy milk and honey and bring to a simmer again.
Try not to boil the soy milk as it can go funny but it still tastes fine if you do. Add the tea leaves and honey, cover, and turn ff the heat. After 2 minutes, strain the tea into cups or tea pot and serve.
I like to use more soy milk then water because it gives the mixture more body.
Its also nice to add vanilla bean!
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I took Sagada out for two of the longest rides in her life, so far. Friday evening we did 6 miles on the Mount Vernon bike path. Today we rode along with Trips for Kids (TFC) on their Accotink/Wakefield romp. That was 8 miles on the Accotink cinder trail and the Wakefield creek trail. I wish I had something like TFC when I was growing up. Sagada tells me she had fun on today's ride. We even stopped to watch tadpoles and ducks, and skip stones at Lake Accotink. This is her account:
"The ducks came closer and closer to me because they thought I was a grape. I smelled like a grape. I did the whole Creek Trail but I got tired and went slow, but I just keep on going."
-- Sagada (blogger at 5)


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New theme in page attributes - Pagelines framework
Kedark posted a topic in Platform 5Hello, I need help. Can and how to do it. I need to add more page appearance templates (page attributes). At the moment it's default and FRAMEWORK A, FRAMEWORK B etc. I need to add two more. How can I do this. Unfortunately, I did not find such a thread on the forum. Regards Radoslaw
Using previously purchased framework sections in free version DMS
caspersjan posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsDear Pageliners, DMS looks amazing. I installed the free version to find my way around it. But I can't see a way to access sections I had previously purchased. The new Pagelines Store under Get More Sections looks good and very efficient, but is there a way I can use my old sections in the free version of DMS? I purchased several hundred dollars' worth of different sections over the past year and would be very happy if I could at least try them out. Thank you for your help, and good luck with the new system! Yours faithfully, Jan.
Sign In Negates DMS Functionality
Khepri posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsAfter wasting what seems like a colossal amount of time this weekend, it seems that my DMS may have limited functionality because my Pagelines account for framework/Platform 2.44 will not connect to the proper server. In fact I am not sure that I am even on the correct service plan because I am told that I would be "grandfathered" in. When I cannot make certain functions work on the front end of my test site, I try and go to look at the drag and drop defaults and switch them around. Some options come up on individual page and posts from the editing interface or "back end," but the majority of my site defaults appear to be missing. Leaving me not only to not be able to further explore DMS but also keeping me from working on and refining any of my sites on Pagelines. Normally you guys do a great job, but the time that this is costing me and the combined heat I am getting from clients has been rather ugly. Is there any kind of ETA we can get from you about functionality? I want to know: When will I have full functionality for DMS? When will full functionality return for Pagelines 2.44? it almost seems like there has been a lack of response due to a lack of answers because we might not like the answers. But I personally would like some sort of estimate. Until then, I think I had best stop investing the time until we can get better answers and clearer DOCS. Don't misunderstand! You guys are great and I support you 100%. I just need better communication than that which I have experience since the HACK and Launch this week. Thank You! :-)
Only 4 features showing
jonthompson posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi: It only shows four features on the main page but I have 6 features in the feature set. I have selected the correct feature set on my main page and selected the max number of features to show as 5. However, it will only show four. Also, navigation does not show numbers instead of dots. I wonder if there is some simple setting I am missing. Website: www.uniscicorp.com
Premature Release 2.4.4
tsalstrand posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsI get the feeling that v2.4.4 was pushed too soon. I saw that it was available on one of my sites, so I did the auto update on two sites, now there are problems (ex. the in-site store doesn't show any sections, themes, or plugins when I'm trying to find one.) Both sites (here and here) are having the same problems. See here for an example of what the store looks like:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68311000/2013-07-16%2015_37_45-PageLines-Admin%20%E2%80%B9%20Elite%20Machine%20Tool%20%E2%80%94%20WordPress.png
Custom Contact Form
NeroBuys posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi Everyone, I am having issues with trying to use the Plugin- Custom Contact Forms on my site. I have recently installed PageLines onto my site and loving it, however now with the new setup, I think that PageLines is over-writing the style of the Plugin itself. Basiclly it is displaying a stock standard contact form on my sidebar without any of the customisation that I have done within the Plugin itself. It is a very similar situation to the one on this topic: http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic/22911-constant-contact-form-designer/?hl=contact+form However the link provided does not work and unfortunately I have very little experience with CSS or code of any sort (hence my conversion to PageLines). I have the Plugin inserted through Widgets into my Primary Sidebar. Here is a link to my site, I am obviously still converting it over to work through PageLines however I need this resolved to build everything else unfortunately. http://www.buysenterprisers.com Details: PageLines 2.4.4 Wordpress: 3.5.2 Host: GoDaddy Any assistance would be much appreciated thanks, please if you require any further details, just ask :-) Cheers
Fixed position ticker above Fixed Navbar
andystills posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsI would like to place a fixed position WP Stock Ticker at the top of the page above the Fixed NavBar. I have accomplished this by placing under the 'page lines_before_site' hook in the header.php file. One problem is that the background scrolls and therefore my features scroll through the ticker. I was wondering if there is an easier methodology for accomplishing the same thing? and/or How to solve the background issue? I honestly haven't spent much time on the background issue because I thought there would be a more elegant solution using drag-n-drop. Thanks for the help. site is http://pathfindercfp.com
Boxes id
bauerhaus posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsOn this site I am having some issues with the boxes on the page not lining up with everything else. I am in the latest version of Pagelines Framework. Website: http://www.family-classics.com/ I want the left side of the orange bar that says "Share your Family Classic" to line up with the left side of the box below it. I tried the below code to shift the food photos to the right: #boxes .content-pad { padding-left: 35px; } But since the "Share your Family Classic" bar is also a box, it shifts everything right. Duh! Since I have two sets of boxes, I know I need to somehow call out the Boxes ID of only the bottom set. Where do I find the box set ID number? Thanks!
Social Icons not updating properly in Brandnav section
diretornak posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHey guys. I am having problems updating the social icon links in this website: www.essbrasil.com.br For some reason, even though I have pointed both links to http://www.essbrasil.com.br using the "header and footer" site options, they are linking to whatever page is currently open. So if I click on any icon in the homepage, they will link to the homepage, and if I click on any icon in the "contato" page, they link to the "contato" page. Any ideas on how I could fix this? I am using latest versions on both Framework and Wordpress.
Pagelines Framework 3
sakkthi subramaniyam posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi, May be its very early to ask. When will be the pagelines 3 will be released? Thanks sakkthi
Site not responsive
kellid posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHello, I'm using Pagelines framework with the responsive setting in the layout editor checked but it does not look responsive when viewed on my mobile. What can I do to correct this? Thanks so much, Kelli
Next Gen Gallery messed up - Problem with theme compatability
bizint posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi, I've noticed my clients page is messed up slightly which pulls images from next gen gallery. See here: http://www.businessinteriors.co.uk/portfolio/clients-office-design-inspiration/ When I was trying to find the issue I ran the compatability check in the nextgen plugin and it said there is this problem: Check theme compatibility Missing the call to wp_head() in your theme, contact the theme author I have the latest wordpress updates, framework is up to date and I use a child/base theme. Thanks, James
Banners and background colours
Keith Vaugh posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi folks Hoping for a small bit of assistance. I have a banner which I would like to add a background colour to similar to the pl-color-grey. I have succeeded in adding a grey background with the following code; #banners.container.clone_1 .content { background: grey; .border-radius(5px); .box-shadow(0 0 3px black); } Update: On another thread I came across this code which seems to give me what I want (thanks Rob), however I would benefit if someone could confirm that the colour values are similar to the values used in the the light grey navbar (or carousel) and if the code is as tidy as it could be; { background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#ffffff), color-stop(50%,#f3f3f3), color-stop(100%,#ededed), color-stop(100%,#ffffff)); box-shadow: 0 0 2px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);} Thanks
Add Features Design Style: White Text - No Feature Background - No Overlay
Tang posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsPlease add this missing features design style: White Text - No Feature Background - No Overlay instead of digging into customization of sections.php and css - this could be an easy future addition to the framework. To make this design possible: I had to do the following customization - I was never dealing with .php before, so I don't know how to do this right within the cusomize plugin: plugins > pagelines-customize > function.php (probably the correct place to do this - maybe someone can tell me how to do this). So I went directly into: pagelines > sections > features > section.php and added the following code for a new feature-style: 'fstyle-white-nobg' => array( 'name' => __( 'White Text - No Feature Background - No Overlay', 'pagelines' ) ), additionally the css-description for that style into: plugins > pagelines-customize > style.css #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent; } #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent; color: #000000; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); } #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent h1, #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent h2, #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent h3, #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent h4, #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent h5, #feature_slider .fcontainer.fstyle-white-nobg .fcontent a { color: #FFFFFF; text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 #000000; }
iBlogPro5 feature design
Tang posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsPlease, make the following options switchable in iBlogPro5 options: #feature_slider #feature-area { background: box-shadow; The background should be switched off to »none« by default. That way the beautiful grey and white design with box-shadow shows up. It matches perfectly with the iBlogPro5 design, I think. And if it is switchable, you can easily come back to the regular framework design with black canvas.
Pageline framework on wp multisite - Signup page CSS broken
mariosposato posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHello, I'm using pagelines framework on a multisite, but in the signup page the CSS seems to be broken and the page is not showing properly. Have a look: http://calablogger.it/wp-signup.php Best regards Mario Sposato
Choices when upgrading from Platform Pro to Framework
kelliemumpr posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi, I'm about to upgrade from Platform Pro to Framework, but noticed it's given me two options - Pagelines Framework Professional and Pagelines Framework Professional - Standalone. Just wondering what the difference is? Thank you. Kellie
Upgrading from PlatformPro to Framework
maiora posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi I own www.maioraasset.com, which currently runs on PlatformPro. Given this theme is discontinued, and with PageLines recommending everyone to upgrade to Framework - will I have to do much to maintain the same look as I currently have? i.e. do I have to redo all the settings, re-upload all documents and images, etc? Or is it simply a matter of installing the new theme and status quo is maintained? Appreciate your help Nick
Pagelines LESS Compiler Recommendation
dokether posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHey Guys, I have just a small recommendation for the next iterative upgrade of Pagelines. If you can, I would really appreciate it if you could tell your compiler to stick the child theme's style.less file in AFTER you stick the main wp-admin chosen styles in. I'm working on a site right now that I'm using a custom font on, so I've setup the fonts and some mixins in the style.less file, however, all of it is getting overridden because the styles chosen in the backend are being added to the compiled stylesheet after the child theme's .less styles. Just to make this a bit more tangible: @font-face { font-family: 'FontinRegular'; src: url(@{plChildRoot}/lib/fontin/fontin_sans_r_45b-webfont.eot); src: url(@{plChildRoot}/lib/fontin/fontin_sans_r_45b-webfont.eot?#iefix) format('embedded-opentype'), url(@{plChildRoot}/lib/fontin/fontin_sans_r_45b-webfont.woff) format('woff'), url(@{plChildRoot}/lib/fontin/fontin_sans_r_45b-webfont.ttf) format('truetype'), url(@{plChildRoot}/lib/fontin/fontin_sans_r_45b-webfont.svg#fontin_sans_rgregular) format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } // Font Mixin .fontinRegular(){ font-family: FontinRegular, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;} // Add Mixin .site-title{ .fontinRegular(); } And when I look at the stylesheet, Firebug shows it coming up like this: // line 8949 thead, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, .site-title { font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; } // line 7207 .site-title { font-family: FontinBold,FontinRegular,Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; } In essence meaning my custom font is being overridden because the default/wp-admin styles are being added in afterward. So I have to add an !important into the .fontinRegular() mixin so that it doesn't get wiped out by the other style calls. You would make my life, and really any other developer's life much easier if my child theme's style.less is the last one to be added to the compiler Thank you!
Procedure to safely update to Pagelines Framework 2.4
celinecormier posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsWhat is the procedure to safely upgrade to Pagelines Framework 2.4? Could someone provide me with the step by step please? Thanks! Céline
Issue with facebook like
Anthony Luth posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHello, I have an issue with the facebook like. Below is a screenshot of the like box, and the css both prior to a change, and after. If I make the css change, will it have any affect on other areas? body .entry_content iframe, body .entry_content video, body .entry_content object { max-width: 100%; } change to: body .entry_content iframe { max-width: 450px; } in custom css.... before: after
LESS Compiler + 500 Internal Server Error
dokether posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsI'm in the process of setting up a dedicated Wordpress multisite hosting environment and am working on transferring over some of my clients' websites. I seem to be running into an issue however in that the LESS/CSS compiler isn't able to create the file it wants to. When I view the site, all of the styles are messed up because the compiled css is throwing the following error: <link id="pagelines-less-css" media="all" type="text/css" href="http://paddi.kether-interactive.ca/wp-content/themes/pagelines/pagelines-compiled-css-6_1358312644/" rel="stylesheet"> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">  <title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
  </link> (Just for the sake of clarity, everything in between the <link></link> is what is displayed from Firebug when I open the css file) Are there specific server modules or settings that I need to have set for this to compile properly? I've tried stripping all but the essentials from my Wordpress .htaccess file, changing file permissions, and more... nothing seems to work and I'm wondering if there's some php module or something I need to install to get this working? Thanks, Dave
Converting to PageLine Framework
scoop posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHave gone through several customizations of e-commerce (getshopped)'s shopping cart. Do not want to lose that if I change the site over to PageLines. Anyone have any experience with cart changes on upgrade - have already installed WP 3.5 - but have not updated PlatformPro - am considering installing PageLines 2. whatever instead. Site has to go live in about a week - afraid I won't be able to get a lot of it working properly. What exactly am I to do with all of the customizations that are in Base? Help - thanks!!
Pagelines theme is displayed correctly only when I am logged in
achif posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi What may be the cause of this issue? The site is under maintenance, but I attach two images showing the issue. Thanks in advance.
Overlays On Features - Not Working Properly
mikeeg8 posted a topic in DMS & Legacy ProductsHi, I'm working with a client's site - when I'm trying to make the feature overlays dissappear, they are still there.... and it looks awful. What I would like the features to do is have white text, with no overlay - when you select that as an option, it doesn't work as you still see the overlay. Can you help please? Thank you


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Long Beach police Friday were looking for a white man between the ages of 30 and 35 who they believe was responsible for the death of a woman found shot near the Gov. George Deukmejian Courthouse earlier this week, authorities said.
The shooting occurred just before 8 a.m. in the 300 block of Magnolia Avenue Thursday, July 11, authorities said.
The woman was found lying on the sidewalk. She was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to her upper torso, but died.
The man fled on foot and may have run down an alley between apartment buildings, according to neighbors, who said he may have been spotted on surveillance video.
Long Beach SWAT was seen serving a search warrant on a residence in the 300 block of Daisy Avenue Thursday afternoon, but the home was unoccupied, police said in a release Friday.
The victim and the suspect were known to each other, but a motive for the shooting was not known.
Detectives were using various resources to locate the suspect and were working to gather additional information as part of the investigation, police said.
Police said the shooting was not believed to be related to courthouse operations.
The coroner's office identified the victim as being in her 40s, but her name was being withheld pending notification of her next of kin.
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:bowSorry guys/gals been busy moving. Here's the winners!! The points only mattered to see who made the top 10. The top 10 were in a poll, then the forum voted.
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Energy Observer made its 34th stopover in Antwerp, Belgium from the 21st until the 29th of March 2019. A stopover at the heart of tomorrow's maritime traffic challenges.
The first hydrogen vessel around the world, led by Victorien Erussard, founder and captain of Energy Observer and Jérôme Delafosse, expedition leader and documentary filmmaker, was hosted by the Port of Antwerp and the Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB), a pioneer company in hydrogen combustion engines and partner in the project.
Energy Observer was moored near the Noordkasteel basin, under the spectacular building designed by Zaha Hadid, which houses the harbour master's office of one of Europe's leading commercial ports.
A call to discover the major issues of a world-class port and understand how it addresses energy and climate challenges and allies itself with future solutions by leveraging its position, location and systems. Indeed, the port has been testing new energy sources for several years now, such as hydrogen produced by Antwerp Chemistry, the largest integrated chemical cluster in Europe. Under the banner "Watt's Next", the Port of Antwerp has offered a nine-day exhibition explaining these subjects of transformation.
The Energy Observer village of more than 200 m2 has presented the ship's technologies and the adventures already carried out by the crew, since Saint-Malo in June 2017. Virtual reality, 360° mapping and interactive exhibition, this space was entirely free and dedicated to the Odyssey for the future*


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Designing a flexible data model
I am in the process of designing a data model which needs to be extremely flexible to allow new entities/attributes...
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to be added in the future. I have been considering using a very generic model to prevent the need for additional tables/columns to be added (requiring the data model to be continually changed) each time a new entity/attribute is required. It's generic nature would be achieved by saving data on a row basis instead of on a column basis, where every row is tagged with its corresponding definition, contained in a dictionary table. For the application I am working on, this is possible as each new entity is usually a slight variation of existing ones so they can be grouped together. My question is what is the drawback in using this type of method in terms of performance degradation and database size as compared to hardcoding table and column names, requiring changes to be made each time a new entity or attribute is needed?
It sounds like you are describing a variation of an associative database.
Current implementations of associative databases run roughly 80 times slower than static relational databases that do the same thing. This isn't as big a drawback as it might seem if there is not much data that needs manipulation in your database. Something that takes 120 milliseconds for a relational database should take around ten seconds for an associative database running on comparable hardware. Unfortunately, this means that something that takes ten seconds for a relational database would take nearly fifteen minutes!
The database size grows significantly in an associative database too, but it isn't as noticeable as the change in processing time. You can assume somewhere between a three- and a ten-to-one increase in storage.
One approach that might work well in this case is to create a base generic table that has all of the commonly used columns. Create a dictionary table that would define additional attributes that would be used only by some rows. Insert the base information into a row into the main table for each new row, then add additional rows into a "child" table to "flesh out" the missing data.
One potentially serious problem with this approach that is inherent in the associative model is that there isn't a good way to enforce constraints on the associative data. This can force your application to grow in order to cope with missing or invalid data, and can become a flaming pain in the posterior if there is ever a need to create a data warehouse for this data.
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Carly McDonell
What drew you to apply for this educational tour?
The opportunity to experience social justice on a global scale first piqued my interest. I have always been passionate about educational opportunities for women worldwide; however, given the expense of travelling, I have never been able to actively advocate for gender equality on an international level. The chance to travel to both Panama and Costa Rica, while funded by the university, was not something I was willing to let pass me by.
What were your expectations going into this experience?
Honestly, I was not sure what to expect going into this experience. This is the first time the university has ever undergone a project like this, and my fellow students and I were really acting as pioneers. I did not know any of the people I would be spending the next 13 days with, nor had I ever had the privilege of immersing myself in a different culture before. Overall, I would say that while I expected to learn new skills, I was more apprehensive than anything.
How did your experience compare to your expectations?
This experience was more fulfilling and challenging than I ever could have imagined. Not only did I have the opportunity to witness the strategies implemented by local communities to counteract the high level of criminality present throughout Central America, but I also made connections with fellow Canadians from all different backgrounds. Interacting with individuals of different educational levels,
Do you have a moment that stands out for you?
One of the biggest moments that stood out for me was the feeling of apprehension associated with nightfall in the city of San José, Costa Rica. While all women have faced a similar feeling, the level of safety in Canada far surpasses that of Central America. Hearing firsthand the stories of women who have been attacked for supporting equal rights was not only a pivotal moment in the tour, but also in my life. Although I have always advocated for women's rights at home, whether through my personal life or my work as an Equity Advocate at the university, I never truly grasped the desperate need for change on a global scale before this trip. The women who continually fight for equality even in the face of great resistance and violence are truly inspiring.
Since coming home, what can you say is the biggest takeaway from this experience?
My biggest takeaway from this experience was that students need to witness firsthand the level of poverty and suffering that exists. Although it is not uncommon to hear about the injustice in the world through the media, actually seeing the challenges people face in their everyday lives changed my perception of what privilege is. In Western society, it is incredibly easy to pass responsibility to the next person. We desperately need to be held accountable. Students are the future and I think it is crucial to foster a desire for global change and improvement within them.
How do you think this experience will affect you in your future career endeavours?
Prior to this experience, I have always focused on offenders, particularly methods of diagnosis and treatment. Currently, I now find myself interested in working with survivors of trauma. I feel that this experience has shaped my career path to be more focused on healing and recovery. After visiting the Las Flores Indigenous Ngobe community in the Panamanian mountains and hearing their ongoing struggle for recognition, I now place more importance on simply acknowledging people whether it's for their struggle, success or failure.
What would you say to future students who are thinking of taking part in this sort of experience?
To any students considering taking part in this experience, I would say do not hold back. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that will challenge your perceptions of the world while contributing to your personal and academic growth. This is one of the few times I have been able to practice the theories I have studied over the course of my education in a