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Biedrs kopš Nov 26, 2010 5 ieraksti
Jan 24 2012 at 10:33
Hi would it be possible to produce a report that summerizes the number of trades with a particular tag, for all tags, so it would be possible to identify your common mistakes and help you focus on what to fix !
ie if you have a series of tags
'moved stop too soon'
'Did not take profit at target'
'Good planning'
'No plan'
A report would produce something along the lines of
A total of 100 trades
(10%) 10 trades tagged 'Moved stop too soon' Total 50pips gained, 25 pips Lost, Overall 25 pips gained
(5%) 5 trades tagged 'did not take profit at target' Total 10 pips gained 0 Pips lost Overall 10 pips gained
(95%) 95 trades tagged 'Good Planning' Total pips gained 5000, 1000 pips lost overall pips gained 4000
(3%) 3 trade tagged 'No Plan' Total 50pips gained, 60 pips lost overall 10 pips lost
(3%) 3 trades tagged 'No Plan' and 'Moved stop too early' Total 50pips gained, 60 pips lost overall 10 pips lost
Biedrs kopš Oct 23, 2009 28 ieraksti
AM (amowatt)
Feb 25 2012 at 14:54
Interesting idea, nit sure if it would be simple to implement, but its possible. I like.
Biedrs kopš Nov 21, 2009 11 ieraksti
Mar 27 2012 at 17:10
i need this feature, thanks mpreston for suggesting.
Biedrs kopš Mar 02, 2010 1 ieraksti
Apr 18 2012 at 21:47
+1 I support this ide. Beauteous it makes its easier to review the report and filter bad/god trades that are made manual.
So mabey add a fast tag button for each trade that are predefined tags like and to to right for you comment icon on the history you can just tag it .
1.moved stop too soon'
2.Did not take profit at target'
3.Good planning'
4.No plan'
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The rays of the morning sun begin to evaporate the mist that shrouds the depths of Peru's Colca Canyon. You've come out in the early hours to see the condor, or Andean vulture, in action, and as the mist dissipates, you can see hundreds of others have done the same. Many cluster at the mirador or Cruz del Condor. Others perch above pre-Inca terraces embedded into walls twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. Audacious visitors clamber to the rocks below to see the condor, but a short hike along the rim of the canyon allows for a viewpoint that is less precarious and just as private.
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If you go to the website of Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland, you'll see a whole page devoted to Hurricane Sandy recovery. You'll see pictures of him touring flooded coastal towns. You'll see the number to call if you lost your power. You'll even see a link to the website for the National Flood Insurance Program.
What you won't see on his Hurricane Sandy Recovery Update is an explanation for why he voted against letting the flood insurance program borrow more money to pay flood insurance claims, 800 of which are pending in Maryland. That particular bit of malarkey is on another page:
"The current national flood insurance program is obviously broken and must be reformed," stated Harris. "Unfortunately, today's vote does nothing to ensure the long-term stability of the national flood insurance program which is important to the Eastern Shore."
Harris wasn't the only congressman to vote against the first chunk of Sandy relief. In all, 67 members of congress voted No -- all Republicans, bless their hearts. And Harris wasn't even the only one representing a hurricane zone to vote against funding flood relief for Sandy, so maybe he doesn't deserve more than his share of scorn.
There's also Steve Palazzo from Mississippi's Gulf Coast that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Farther down the coast you'll find Randy Weber, who represents the area of Texas flooded by Hurricane Ike. Both voted No on Sandy relief.
Mo Brooks from Alabama offered a toxic excuse for his No vote on Sandy relief.
"People have to protect themselves from the risks of weather, particularly if they live in an area that is periodically hit by substantial storms," said Brooks, who secured federal aid when his district that was hit by tornadoes in 2011. "They should not expect American taxpayers to subsidize a vacation home on the beach."
It might help Brooks and his fellow Gulf Coast hypocrites sleep better if they believe that's what Congress approved, but that dog don't hunt. People who live in coastal areas do protect themselves. It's called buying flood insurance.
And Congress wasn't handing out money to anyone. Instead, it increased the borrowing power of the flood insurance program so it could pay claims. The program used to be self-sustained by flood insurance premiums, but the fund went deeply into debt after Hurricane Katrina.
This is where the hypocrisy of these virulent nitwits starts stinking up the fridge. Within two weeks of Katrina making landfall, Congress had already passed two emergency relief packages totaling $62.3 billion, and they did it with the votes of at least 16 of those who voted against Sandy relief.
Members of the House Science Committee also show up prominently on the list of those who voted for Katrina relief but against Sandy relief, including Jim Sensenbrenner, who believes solar flares cause global warming, and Randy Neugebauer, whose response to the drought and tornadoes in 2011 was to sponsor a resolution calling on Americans to pray. Thank God. Without Congress, I'm not sure Americans would remember to pray. Also on the science committee are our friends Brooks, Harris and Palazzo, so we're in good hands there.
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"They're a bunch of jackasses," said former three-term Republican Sen. Al D'Amato, a resident of Long Island. "Every one of the 67 who voted no are nothing more than pawns of a philosophy that is not backed up by facts."
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Cassandra Castillo waited anxiously outside the theater for her son, a projectionist at the theater.
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The post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 3 makes the current state of the worldwide economy look about as pleasant as apple pie. Bethesda rendered the bleakness of a nuclear bomb-ravaged Washington DC with the perfect amount of despair and, given the nature of the franchise, humor. From the moment you step out of Vault 101, you want to explore every single bombed-out shack and collapsed building. The radioactive wasteland is filled with incredible detail, and the long draw distances practically beg you to wander around by giving you so many landmarks to march towards. Fallout 3 is based on the Oblivion graphics engine, but runs much better than Oblivion and with greater detail. However, even with the engine performance improvements, you'll most likely need to upgrade a system component or two if you want the game to run at maximum quality settings.
We tested Fallout 3 by running through the area outside of the Jefferson Memorial and Rivet City. The region has long draw distances, nearby water reflections, and plenty of action from supermutants. Our final result was the average of three 40-second runs.
Fallout 3 has a ton of settings but none that single-handedly destroy performance. Each setting takes an almost imperceptible bite, but when combined the game slows to a crawl. Think of it as the death by a thousand pixels.
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Fallout 3 requires 1GB of RAM to run in Windows XP and 2GB to run in Windows Vista. We loaded up our system with 1, 2, and 3GB of RAM to determine the sweet spot.
Fallout 3's minimum requirements call for a 2.4GHz Pentium 4, 1GBof RAM, and a GeForce 6800-class video card. We were able to get the game to run on the aforementioned system, but performance wasn't great. The game becomes unplayable as soon as you venture outside of the lowest image-quality and resolution settings. If you want to actually play the game, you might want to get something a bit more powerful. The recommended system, a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz CPU with a GeForce 8800 GT and 2GB of RAM, ran the game perfectly at high resolutions and with high image-quality settings. Our custom high-end system packed with a 3.2GHz quad core and a Radeon 4870X2 didn't have any problems at all either.
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Recommended System: Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz, eVGA 680i, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GBx2), 750GB Seagate 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows Vista 32-bit SP1. Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 GT, beta Nvidia ForceWare 180.42.
Minimum System: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz, Asus P4C800, 1GB Corsair XMS Memory, Seagate 160GB 7200.7 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows XP Professional SP2. Graphics Card: GeForce 6800, Nvidia Forceware 180.42.
Fallout 3's settings proved quite difficult to test. Outside of the preset quality settings, our usual testing strategy where we go through and enable each setting one by one failed to find any single setting that destroyed performance. We recommend starting with a preset quality setting and tweaking it until you get a decent balance between performance and image quality. In general, you can disable antialiasing and lower the resolution to recoup frames on high and ultra image-quality settings.
We've provided image-quality comparisons on the following page to help you determine which settings you can live without. However, if at all possible, try to keep transparency multisampling enabled. Fallout 3 has a tremendous number of wires, trees, shrubs, and broken piping that need to be cleaned up. Even distant buildings look better with the setting enabled.
System Setup: Intel Core 2 QX9770, eVGA 680i, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GB x 2), 750GB Seagate 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows Vista SP1. Graphics Card: GeForce 9800 GTX, Nvidia ForceWare 180.42.
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As taxing as Fallout 3 is, the game runs well on quite a few older video cards. More GPU power gets you more frames, but you don't need a $300 card to get decent performance. Midrange cards like the Radeon 4850 manage to run the game at high resolutions and with high image-quality settings. Older cards like the GeForce 7900 GS fair decently with moderate resolutions and medium image-quality settings.
System Setup: Intel Core2 QX9770, eVGA 680i SLI, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GBx2), 750GB Seagate 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows Vista 32-bit SP1. Graphics Cards: GeForce 280 GTX, GeForce 260 GTX, GeForce 260 GTX Core 216, GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB, GeForce 9600 GT 256MB, GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB, GeForce 7900 GS 256MB, GeForce 7600 GT 256MB, Radeon HD 4870 X2, Radeon HD 4870, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD 4670, Radeon HD 3870 X2, Radeon HD 3870 512MB, Radeon HD 3850 512MB, Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB, Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256MB, Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB. Graphics Drivers: beta Nvidia ForceWare 180.42, beta ATI Catalyst 70517.
As long as you have a Core 2 Duo, Fallout 3 doesn't care how many cores you have or how fast your CPU is. Our 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo ran the game very well. Adding more cores and increasing the clock speed only brought marginal returns.
System Setup: Intel Core 2 QX9770, Intel Core 2 X6800, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Intel Core2 E6320, Intel Pentium 4 3.8GHz, AMD Phenom X4 9600, AMD Phenom X3 8750, eVGA 680I, Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GB x 2), 750GB Seagate 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows Vista 32-bit SP1. Graphics Card: GeForce 9800 GTX, Nvidia ForceWare 180.42
Fallout 3 requires 2GB of RAM to run on Windows Vista. We found that the game runs with no problems with 2GB or more RAM. Amazingly, the game even runs well with 1GB of RAM. It hitches at times, but is still pretty playable.
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Region getting back to normal, slowly
Town officials across the region feared that flooding, roof collapses and more outages would occur Monday as temperatures soared, bringing rain, fog and new challenges to a state still digging out from up to three feet of snow.
But most of those concerns went unrealized except that many streets remained treacherous, if not impassable. Near freezing temperatures caused several crashes around the state during Monday's morning commute, but as the day wore on, precipitation turned to all rain and caused some flooding of local roads, which still had snow and debris-clogged storm drains.
As evening fell Monday, temperatures were expected to drop again to near-freezing and below, bringing a second round of black ice and a dense fog warning forecasted for throughout the night. Several car crashes occurred in the region, but none were very serious, area police departments reported. Snow removal and road treatment continued through the evening in most municipalities.
All area schools and most municipal offices were closed Monday. Schools are canceled again today in New London, Norwich, East Lyme, Lyme-Old Lyme and Waterford with Stonington having a 90-minute late opening.
On Monday, overworked public works departments, public safety personnel and town mayors and first selectmen continued day four of near-round the clock work.
Hospitals said business was brisk during the storm, but not far above an average weekend.
Local police departments reported low arrest numbers through the weekend, starting Friday as the storm first hit. By Monday afternoon, departments in New London, Groton, Norwich, Ledyard, East Lyme, Stonington, Waterford and state police in Montville made a combined 12 arrests, a fraction of what is normal during any four-day period. Most involved domestic violence or were driving-related.
No new roof collapses were reported by Monday evening, but the rain added weight to already load-bearing roofs.
Power goes on, then off again for some
By Monday night, just 173 of Connecticut Light & Power's more than 1.2 million customers were without power, down from a peak of about 39,000 during the blizzard.
Power outages took a sudden jump Monday afternoon in North Stonington and Ledyard after nearly all of the town's CL&P customers had seen their power restored.
In North Stonington, 762 CL&P customers, or nearly 30 percent of the town, were in the dark around 3:45 p.m. The outages in the town, which peaked around 70 percent during the blizzard, had been down to just 2 customers during the morning. By 8 p.m. just 42 customers were without power.
A CL&P spokeswoman said wires were reported down in North Stonington along Route 2. Theresa Gilbert said the situation there affected 850 North Stonington residents and about 84 in Ledyard.
"It's possible they were also affected by the blizzard, but these outages today, we're not sure of the cause," Gilbert said.
Ledyard saw a more modest jump, from five in the morning to 84, or 1 percent, without power Monday afternoon. Those customers remained without power about 8 p.m Monday night.
Stonington with 11 customers and Lyme with 12 were the only other area towns Monday night with double digit outages.
In Old Saybrook, nearly 1,000, or about 15 percent of the town's CL&P customers, were without power for some time Monday. All had been restored Monday night.
Hospitals see mostly 'typical weekend'
About 80 Lawrence + Memorial employees stayed through the blizzard, some who were filling in for others couldn't get to the New London hospital, and others who couldn't get home, spokesman Mike O'Farrell said Monday. In a few cases, the hospital sent its four-wheel drive vehicles to pick up key employees.
Some patients of the emergency department ended up stranded at the hospital for a few hours during the storm, waiting in lobbies, the cafeteria and other areas after they were discharged.
Volume at the emergency department was "normal to high" during storm, with several patients coming for injuries from car accidents Saturday night and Sunday. The main hospital never lost power, but the Pequot Health Center in Groton had to go on generator power from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday.
The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich saw "a very typical weekend," at its emergency department, with few storm-related incidents, spokesman Shawn Mawhiney said.
Statewide, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reported a total of seven storm-related deaths, none in eastern Connecticut.
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Kevin Nursick, DOT spokesman, urged drivers to continue to use caution. Many highway shoulders are blocked with snow, and visibility is limited around some intersections due to snow piles.
"People need to slow it down," Nursick said.
There is also concern about storm drains getting blocked by snow, said Dwayne Gardner, spokesman for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. When storm drains are blocked, melting snow and rainwater runs directly into rivers and streams without debris getting filtered out first, he said. Homeowners can help municipal road crews by clearing any storm drains near their properties, Gardner said.
Temperatures are forecast to be mostly above freezing during the daytime this week, leading to more snow melt.
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I half-jokingly asked y'all to submit some Sweet Stars of the 'Trek or 'Gate variety a while back, and as usual, you delivered! So today let's take a look at some of the best Stargate goodies out there. I do have to warn you, though: There are no SGA-specific Sweets here. Hopefully you won't be as crushed by this gaping inadequacy in cakedom as I am. [sniffle]
Ok, first up, Lynellen nominated this bit of awesomeness made by Charm City Cakes, aka the Ace of Cakes:
Very nice, very nice. Duff and the gang continue to rock.
Kassandra B. found the next two. First a super shiny specimen from Rachel's Custom Cakes:
And then this hilarious example from Cake Corner:
I can't stop smiling at this one - it's both adorable AND geeky: my favorite combo!
Those are all fabulous, of course, but Kendra's find is the hands-down winner. Get ready, geeky guys and gals, 'cuz here comes a Stargate wedding cake. Awwww yeeeeeah!
And you thought geeks had no sense of elegance. C'mon, just look at this thing!
Check out the great details on the topper:
I love all the little touches of red throughout the design - just beautiful.
You can see a few more shots here, where the groom writes that the wormhole connection is actually hand-painted icing. I could have sworn that was an edible printed image, so color me impressed. Plus, the entire cake was made by his in-laws - how cool is that?!?


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In the Middle Ages, and even up to the early twentieth century, most of Europe's executioners were related: the Sansons and Deiblers in France, the Pierrepoints in England, etc. The reason for this was that, it generally not being socially acceptable to, well, kill people, executioners and their children could, generally, only marry other executioners or their children.
The parallels with massively inbred, Hapsburg-style dynasties are obvious- imagine a rather clever but politically inept satirist noting this, and being sentenced by the latter to a meeting with the former; even worse, imagine a dynasty of deranged and deformed executioners- think Texas Chaisaw Massacre with government funding.
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Reshaping Hong Kong's Fading Tailoring Industry
Hong Kong—Tucked away amid a warren of cheap guesthouses and offices, scores of tailors work bent over rusting black sewing machines in Kowloon's Mirador Mansion. They stand for hours every day, churning out impeccably hand-cut suits—at least, they do when business is good.
These days, though, orders are slow. Elderly tailors play mah-jongg on green-felted tables, while others watch television or lie snoring in the heat. Hong Kong's tailoring industry has been declining for years, shipped over the border and with many of its best practitioners left behind by the digital age.
It isn't surprising that tailors in Mirador Mansions are languishing, says Brian Ng, founding CEO of bespoke tailoring company Bonham Strand. "The biggest problem is these guys are old, they don't know how to do business development, they've just been doing the same thing over and over, expecting their name or signage will help bring people in," says Mr. Ng.
Founded earlier this year, Bonham Strand today runs a brightly lit, 2,000-square foot studio workshop in Lai Chi Kok, where a dozen tailors work at long desks, surrounded by clothes racks and fabric samples. With a sleek online storefront where customers can book fitting appointments, the goal, Mr. Ng says, is to give tailors better working conditions and better business—by catering to Hong Kong's pool of young and Web-savvy expatriates, in part through its social mission of hiring youth with drug addictions to serve as tailor apprentices.
Hong Kong has some tailoring outfits—notably Raja Fashions and Empire Tailors—that have managed to build overseas clientele and thrive, thanks in part to dizzyingly fast trunk shows, in which clients get measured in hotel rooms in cities from London to New York. Such companies have also succeeded by creating an online customer base, in part through web portals offering extensive catalogues and ordering options.
But most tailor shops have watched their businesses dry up, even as some of them still keep yellowed clips from newspaper clippings recommending their services from decades ago pinned up.
Today, tailor wages are one-third of what they were two decades ago, totaling HK$10,000 ($1,289) in a good month—less than half the city's median monthly income. Meanwhile, rising rent has prompted others to abandon the industry altogether. This year, says Raymond Lee, managing director at Furama Tailor, several shops near him in Hong Kong's Central district were forced to shut down, thanks to retail rent hikes in Hong Kong that have averaged 60% since 2011.
In its heyday, Furama Tailor had several salesmen. Now, it's just Mr. Lee. "The boss is now the salesman," he said, gesturing around the tiny storefront, which contains thick files containing measurements for the hundreds of customers he's served.
Wong Wai Man, a tailor in his 60s who works in Mirador Mansion, said the tailoring industry will likely disappear when his generation does. "My kids have gone to school, they have better opportunities," he says. The youngest tailor he knows is 55, he says.
Bonham Strand's ebullient 44-year-old Korean-American founder Jong Lee, though, is an evangelist for Hong Kong's tailoring industry. He says it has room to grow, particularly as high-end companies from Gucci to Hugo Boss—both which have both opened up bespoke lines—try to tap into demand. "The high-end bespoke suit business is growing, it's quite healthy," says Mr. Lee, a serial entrepreneur who eschews suits for casual polo shirts, and whose pasts launches include Hong Kong Commons, a co-working space, and local wine bar California Vintage. Under his direction, Bonham Strand has been hosting outreach sessions with firms from Baker & McKenzie to Jones Lang LaSalle to promote its work.
Part of Bonham Strand's appeal is its social mission: To support Hong Kong's tailoring industry, it's hiring young apprentices from drug rehabilitation centers who learn from employees like Mak Man-Ching, the son of a tailor who first held a needle at age 7. While not everyone wants to work in the tailoring industry, Mr. Lee, whose own family members have suffered from addictions in the past, says that the repetitive motions and discipline of the job can be helpful to those struggling with substance abuse.
Mr. Lee is also working with Hong Kong's government through Bonham Strand's parent company, RGL Holdings, to support a training center located at the same premises as Bonham Strand, where small-and-medium business operators in Hong Kong—including tailors down on their luck—can take courses on how to market themselves. The center is jointly funded with an annual $194,000 and opened last month.
"I'd love to see more competitors to Bonham Strand five years from now," says Mr. Lee, of his business. "Nothing would make me happier."
In the meantime, tailors like Mr. Mak say they're happy simply to have working conditions better than Mirador Mansion. "Before, we'd just have an iron, a ruler, chalk and one or two lights. Here, it's very open, it's very clean," he says.
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Travelers to Shanghai sometimes expect to find a vibrant street food scene that's on par with that of Bangkok, Singapore, Chengdu, and other tropical or subtropical Asian cities. But because of a northern-ish climate (despite the Beijing tendency to think of Shanghai as "the south") and a culture that prefers indoor eating, good street food is hard to find. Zhongshan Lu has a few lamb skewer vendors, but is mainly a tourist trap for shopping and glitzy lights. Yuyuan Bazaar, home of the over-hyped Nanxiang soup dumplings, is just a tourist trap, period.
One place is Shanghai that locals actually frequent is the Muslim market in northern Jing'an, held only on Fridays after prayer service at the Huxi mosque. Starting around 11am, vendors set up their stands of cooked lamb, nan, dried nuts and fruit, and Arabic DVDs. Not to disparage Han ethnic culture, but sometimes it's nice to plant myself in a spot where the locals don't look or speak like the 1.3 billion majority.
Many of the vendors from Xinjiang had carts selling homemade nan. The plain naan are shaped like stars. The salty naan are big disks. The sweet naan look like New York bagels but taste more like hard rolls, with none of the pillowy density. Since most of vendors are Uighurs from Xinjiang province, I had previously thought their "girdeh naan" had Islamic Turkic origins. But maybe there's also some Jewish influence into Xinjiang, and subsequently their bagel-naan. One things for sure: you won't find any poppy seed bagels.
Some food selections: dinner-roll-sized dumplings for 2 yuan each, langman (spicy cold noodles), lamb skewers, lamb broth, lamb shoulder in big chunks. If you smile sweetly the vendor may give you a piece to try.
After some dumplings and lamb samples, what you'll crave most is a cold drink. There's no soda or lemonade, but doogh sellers will gladly make you an iced yogurt drink on request. They chip off ice from a big block into a styrofoam bowl, add homemade yogurt, and mix in honey. It tastes like thinned out lassi, which is perfect if you're so thirsty you gulp down the bowl.
Aside from the dumplings and yogurt drink, the quality of the food is also debatable. A bowl of Xinjiang pulao, rice with carrots and onions and topped with braised lamb, was cold and pretty bland. The Egyptian and Uighur Ph.D students I met had the same sentiments about their food, but added there were few other halal choices in Shanghai.
Despite having less than spectacular food variety, the atmosphere still makes it my top pick for street food in Shanghai. The other tourist board-designated snack streets in Shanghai and Beijing can't compare.
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Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (/ˈmeɪdʒəl/; born Majel Leigh Hudec;[2] February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress and producer. She was best known for her roles as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series and Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series. She became the second wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana in August 2006
Majel Leigh Hudec
February 23, 1932
|December 18, 2008 (aged 76)
Bel Air, California, U.S.
|Bel Air, Los Angeles, California
|Other names
|M. Leigh Hudec
|Shaker Heights High School
|Alma mater
|University of Miami
|Actress, producer, voice actress
|Years active
Notable credit(s)
|Christine Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, and voice of ship's computer in the Star Trek franchise
|Home town
|Hollywood, California
Gene Roddenberry
(m. 1969; his death 1991)
|Rod Roddenberry
As the wife of Roddenberry and given her ongoing relationship with Star Trek—participating in some way in every series during her lifetime—she was sometimes[2] referred to as "the First Lady of Star Trek". She married Roddenberry in Japan on August 6, 1969, after the cancellation of the original Star Trek series. They had one son together, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr., born in 1974.
Life and careerEdit
Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She began taking acting classes as a child. She attended Shaker Heights High School, graduating in 1950[3] before going on to the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, then had some stage roles and came to Hollywood. Her father, William Hudec, was a Cleveland police officer. He was killed in the line of duty on August 30, 1955 while Barrett was touring with an off-Broadway road company.[4] She was briefly seen in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) in an ad parody at the beginning of the film, and had roles in a few movies, including Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961), Sylvia (1965), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), and Track of Thunder (1967). She worked at the Desilu Studios on several TV shows, including Bonanza, The Untouchables, The Lucy Show, and The Lieutenant (produced by Gene Roddenberry). She received training in comedy from Lucille Ball. In 1960, she played Gwen Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver.
Star TrekEdit
In various roles, Barrett participated in every incarnation of the popular science fiction Star Trek franchise produced, including live-action and animated versions, television and cinema, and all of the time periods in which the various series have been set.
She first appeared in Star Trek's initial pilot, "The Cage" (1964), as the USS Enterprise's brunette unnamed first officer, "Number One". Barrett was romantically involved with Roddenberry, whose marriage was on the verge of failing at the time, and the idea of having an otherwise unknown woman in a leading role just because she was the producer's girlfriend is said to have infuriated NBC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man.[5] William Shatner corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at test screenings hated the character as well.[6] Shatner noted that women viewers felt she was "pushy" and "annoying" and also thought that "Number One shouldn't be trying so hard to fit in with the men."[7] Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping Mr. Spock (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, "kept the Vulcan and married the woman, 'cause he didn't think Leonard [Nimoy] would have it the other way around."[8]
When Roddenberry was casting for the second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", she changed her last name from Hudec to Barrett and wore a blonde wig for the role of nurse Christine Chapel, a frequently recurring character,[2] known for her unrequited affection for the dispassionate Spock. Her first appearance as Chapel in film dailies prompted NBC executive Jerry Stanley to yodel "Well, well—look who's back!".[5] In an early scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, viewers are informed that she has now become Doctor Chapel, a role which she reprised briefly in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as Commander Chapel. Barrett provided several voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, including those of Nurse Chapel and a communications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid officer who served alongside Uhura.[9]
Barrett returned years later in Star Trek: The Next Generation, cast as the outrageously self-assertive, iconoclastic, Betazoid ambassador, Lwaxana Troi, who appeared as a recurring character in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, who spurned her amorous advances. She later appeared as Ambassador Troi in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where her character developed a strong relationship with Constable Odo.
She provided the regular voice of the onboard computers of Federation starships for Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and most of the Star Trek movies. She reprised her role as a shipboard computer's voice in two episodes of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, thus making her the only actor to have a role in all six televised Star Trek series produced up to that time. She also lent her voice to various computer games and software related to the franchise. The association of her voice with interactions with computers led to Google's Assistant project being initially codenamed Google Majel. Barrett had also made a point of attending a major Star Trek convention each year in an effort to inspire fans and keep the franchise alive.
On December 9, 2008, less than ten days before her death, Roddenberry Productions announced that she would be providing the voice of the ship's computer once again, this time for the 2009 motion picture reboot of Star Trek.[10] Sean Rossall, a Roddenberry family spokesman, stated that she had already completed the voiceover work, around December 4, 2008. The film is dedicated to Roddenberry and Barrett.
Barrett and her husband were honored in 2002 by the Space Foundation with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award[11] for their work creating awareness of and enthusiasm for space.
Other rolesEdit
|My mother truly acknowledged and appreciated the fact that Star Trek fans played a vital role in keeping the Roddenberry dream alive for the past 42 years. It was her love for the fans, and their love in return, that kept her going for so long after my father passed away.
|— Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr.,
She appeared as Primus Dominic in Roddenberry's 1973 postapocalyptic TV drama pilot, Genesis II; as Dr. Bradley in his 1974 TV movie The Questor Tapes and as Lilith the housekeeper in his 1977 TV drama pilot, Spectre. She also appeared in Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi Western, Westworld as Miss Carrie, a robot brothel madam; the 1977 Stanley Kramer thriller The Domino Principle;[13] and the 1979 TV movie The Man in the Santa Claus Suit starring Fred Astaire. Her later film appearances included small roles in Teresa's Tattoo (1994) and Mommy (1995).
After Gene Roddenberry's death, Barrett took material from his archives to bring two of his ideas into production. She was executive producer of Earth: Final Conflict (in which she also played the character Dr. Julianne Belman), and Andromeda. She also served as creative director for Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe, a comic book series based on another archival Roddenberry concept.[14]
In a gesture of goodwill between the creators of the Star Trek franchise and of Babylon 5 (some of whose fans viewed them as rivals),[15] she appeared in the Babylon 5 episode "Point of No Return", as Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri emperor, a role which foreshadowed major plot elements in the series.
Parodying her voice work as the computer for the Star Trek series, Barrett performed as a guest voice on Family Guy as the voice of Stewie Griffin's ship's computer in the episode "Emission Impossible".
Barrett's widely recognized voice performance as the Star Trek computer inspired the Amazon Alexa interactive virtual assistant, according to its developer Toni Reid, although Barrett had no direct role in it.[16]
Railroad voiceworkEdit
The Southern Pacific Railroad used her voice talent[citation needed] contained inside Harmon Electronics (of Grain Valley, MO) track-side defect detector devices, used in various locations west of the Mississippi River. When a defect is identified on the passing train, the system responds with her[citation needed] recorded voice announcing the defect location information to the train crew over the radio. In railroad forums and railroad radio monitoring groups, she was and is still referred to as the "SP Lady". However, with the implementation of newer hotbox detector technology, finding her voice today on working detectors is very rare. The hotbox detectors that had her[citation needed] voice installed in them were not upgradeable to the newer digital signaling requirements, and finding parts for them was problematic. Today, her[citation needed] voice is found on smaller regional railroads, usually only at dragging equipment locations, such as in California at milepost 24.6 on the Metrolink Lancaster line (under the I-5 and I-210 interchange in Sylmar), and in Oregon on the Portland & Western at milepost 746.5, near Lake Oswego. These voiced detectors remain because the lines were once owned by Southern Pacific, and because only two unchanging recorded messages are used, compared to the dynamic changing library used in hotbox detectors. The only major railroad that still uses her[citation needed] voice today is Union Pacific.
Final voiceover workEdit
Some of Barrett's final voiceover work was still in post-production, to be released in 2009 after her death, as mentioned in the credits of the 2009 movie Star Trek, again as the voice of the Enterprise computer. An animated production called Hamlet A.D.D. credited her as Majel Barrett Roddenberry, playing the voiceover role of Queen Robot.[17]
Barrett-Roddenberry died on the morning of December 18, 2008, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, as a result of leukemia. She was 76 years old.[18]
A public funeral was held on January 4, 2009, in Los Angeles. More than 250 people attended, including Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, and many Trekkies.[19]
After Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry commissioned Celestis to launch her together with Gene on an infinite mission to deepest space.[20] After manifesting them on NASA's "Sunjammer" mission, the agency cancelled the mission in 2014.[21] Celestis has rescheduled their launch for 2020, the next available commercial mission to deep space. A sample of the couple's cremated remains will be sealed into a specially made capsule designed to withstand space travel. A spacecraft will carry the capsule, along with digitized tributes from fans, on Celestis' "Enterprise Flight."[22]
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) – shampoo demonstrator (uncredited)
- As Young as We Are (1958) – Joyce Goodwin
- The Black Orchid (1958) – Luisa (uncredited)
- The Buccaneer (1958) – Townswoman #1
- Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961) – Alice
- Back Street (1961) – Woman at Table (uncredited)
- The Quick and the Dead (1963) – Teresa
- Sylvia (1965) – Anne (uncredited)
- Made in Paris (1966) –
Mrs. David Prentiss (uncredited)
- Country Boy (1966) – Miss Wynn
Annie Bonanza Three Brides for Hoss
- A Guide for the Married Man (1967) – Mrs. Fred V.
- Track of Thunder (1967) – Georgia Clark
- Westworld (1973) – Miss Carrie
- The Questor Tapes (1974, TV movie) – Dr. Bradley
- The Domino Principle (1977) – Yuloff
- Spectre (1977, TV movie) – Mrs. Schnaible
- The Suicide's Wife (1979, TV movie) – Clarissa Harmon
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) – Dr. Chapel
- The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979, TV movie) – Miss Forsythe
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) – Commander Chapel
- Teresa's Tattoo (1994) – Henrietta
- Star Trek Generations (1994) – Computer (voice)
- Mommy (1995) – Mrs. Withers
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996) – Computer (voice)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) – Computer (voice)
- Star Trek (2009) – Starfleet Computer (voice) (posthumous release)
- Hamlet A.D.D. (2014) – Queen Robot (voice) (final film role)
- ^ "Majel Barrett".
- ^ a b c Majel Barrett Roddenberry: Actress who found fame as the 'First Lady of Star Trek', The Daily Telegraph, December 21, 2008
- ^ "1950 Shaker Heights High School Yearbook". classmates.com.(registration required)
- ^ ODMP: William Hudec. Viewed 2014-12-06.
- ^ a b Solow, Herbert F.; Justman, Robert H. (1996). Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-89628-8.
- ^ Star Trek Memories, dictated by William Shatner and transcribed by Chris Kreski, which HarperCollins published, with the ISBN 0-06-017734-9, in 1993, made this claim in the chapter on "The Cage".
- ^ William Shatner, Star Trek Memories, Harper Collins, 1993. p.65
- ^ "Bio and interview of Majel Barrett". Creation presents Majel Barrett. August 25–26, 1990. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- ^ Mangels, Andy (Summer 2018). "Star Trek: The Animated Series". RetroFan. TwoMorrows Publishing (1): 25–37.
- ^ Roddenberry Productions press release, December 11, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2008. Archived December 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ – Space Foundation Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Star Trek creator's widow dies of leukaemia at 76, Daily Mail, December 20, 2008
- ^ Majel Roddenberry. "Majel Barrett Roddenberry – Biography". Roddenberry.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2011-12-10. Cite uses deprecated parameter
- ^ "Tekno-Comix Debuts First Titles". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Ziff Davis (63): 232. October 1994.
- ^ Ntua.gr Archived 2009-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Green, Penelope (2017-07-11). "Alexa, Where Have You Been All My Life?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
When Toni Reid and her colleagues at Amazon set out to build the device that is now known as Alexa, they were inspired by the computer that drove the Enterprise on Star Trek (voiced by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played Nurse Chapel on the series and was married to the show's creator). Focusing on cadence and an accent that would suggest 'smart, humble, helpful,' the team tested voices that a diverse population would respond to. 'Our goal was to have Alexa be humanlike,' Ms. Reid said, but why end there?
- ^ "Voyages of Star Trek Computer Voice Majel Barrett Roddenberry". Voices.com. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
- ^ Sci-fi icon Majel Barrett Roddenberry dies at 76, Reuters, Thursday, December 18, 2008
- ^ "L.A. funeral held for actress Majel Roddenberry". CTV News. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- ^ "Ashes of "Star Trek" creator and wife rocketing to deep space". Space Daily. January 26, 2009. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- ^ "Solar Sail Demonstrator ('Sunjammer')". NASA.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- ^ "Star Trek Community". Celestis.com. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Majel Barrett.
- Majel Barrett on IMDb
- Majel Barrett at AllMovie
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- AP Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
|Wikinews has related news: Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, wife of 'Star Trek' creator dies of cancer at 76


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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Renew Vows at Disneyland [Video]
Mariah Carey is a diva of the highest order. Mimi proved that she's earned her status as a queen bee yet again, as she and her husband Nick Cannon celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary, which is also the second birthday of their twins aka Dem Babies, by renewing Dem Vows at Disneyland on Tues., April 30.
Carey and Cannon, along with daughter Monroe and son Moroccan, renewed their vows in grand, fairytale fashion. Carey was like Cinderella, in a fluffy white dress, and Cannon looked like a member of the military in his gold-accessorized ensemble. These two kids are so in love! Even the twins matched mommy and daddy in their attire. Adorable!
Carey documented the experience and ceremony -- from getting her hair did to the actual ride to the location -- via Twitter with photos and video, which she shared with her lambs. So if you ever wanted a keyhole view of what it's like when Mimi gets remarried, she certainly provides it.
You can get the play-by-play here and below.
Carey also shared the above photo of herself and Cannon, expressing her joy at their union.
She captioned it: "Happy 5th(!!!!!!) Anniversary to the Best Husband in All The Land & 2 years ago pon de delivery room=luckiest Mommy in The WORLD! #HappyBirthdayDemBabies! #iluvroc&roe!!!! Just felt like tweeting you before sunset on #4:30."
Then there is the precious family photo below, which Carey tweeted.
Watch Mariah Carey Get Her Hair Done
Watch Mariah Carey in Her Dress
Watch Mariah Carey on Her Way to the Ceremony
Watch Mariah Carey With Daughter Monroe
Watch Mariah Carey's Grand Entrance


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The Interstate 759 extension in East Gadsden seems stuck in an extended delay, and two Gadsden councilmen have different ideas about the project's future.
The Interstate 759 extension in East Gadsden seems stuck in an extended delay, and two Gadsden councilmen have different ideas about the project's future.
Councilman Billy Harris at Tuesday's council meeting said he will continue to lobby state officials about moving forward on extending I-759 to Meighan Boulevard (U.S. Highway 431/278).
Councilman Deverick Williams, on the other hand, said "reasonable alternatives" should be considered to help with traffic congestion on Meighan and Hood Avenue, since funding for the project is questionable.
Williams, speaking first during council comments, said he supported some of what Harris said at last week's Gadsden-Etowah Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting. Harris expressed frustration about the lack of progress since proposed routes for the extension were introduced eight years ago.
However, Williams added, "I truly believe the I-759 project ... exceeds the capacity of the MPO setting. I don't know that the MPO setting is going to be sufficient to see that one through."
The estimated cost of the project is $100 million, and Williams said there's no "reasonable prospect" of those funds being available in the short run.
So, he said, officials should look for "alternative methods ... to deal with our well-documented capacity and safety issues."
Williams said the majority of auto accidents in Gadsden occur on Meighan and Hood, and funds should be sought from the Alabama Department of Transportation to help alleviate problems in those areas, completely separate from the I-759 expansion issue.
"... If the $100 million project is not an option for us, then what are some reasonable alternatives?" Williams asked, adding that "sabre rattling" won't produce progress on the I-759 expansion.
"I think you truly have to leverage our relationships, both in Montgomery and in Washington, to procure those kinds of dollars for that size of a project," he said.
Harris countered that he will continue to speak up about the I-759 expansion and why it is needed.
"I have done it with congressmen, I have done it with our legislators, we have done it with MPO, we have done it with the national highway authority who is responsible for this, we have done it with everyone," he said.
Harris said the project has been on the board for 20 years and needs to be completed, because the growth of retail industry in Gadsden depends on how well the city can handle and direct traffic.
"The people in East Gadsden have been very ... thoughtful and wishful and considerate," he said of the prospect of an I-759 expansion. But even though city and state officials, other organizations and the residents of the area have come together on a route, "it just runs into a dead end,"
Harris reiterated the fear he expressed at the MPO meeting that the expansion wouldn't be completed in his lifetime, but said he still thinks it's necessary and will continue arguing for it even though 10 projects across the state could be funded with its price tag.
"... I'll still rattle the sabres wherever I go," he said, "to try to make them understand how important that project is to us — to the people in East Gadsden who are seriously affected by it and the city of Gadsden (that) needs it for economic development."


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Where was God when Adam Lanza went on a shooting spree at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead?
Atheists assume that if there is evil in the world, then there can be no God. What they need to realize, however, is that if there is no God, then there can be no morality. This is what Dostoyevsky meant when he noted that if there is no God, then anything is possible.
Morality is objective. It consists of norms that are held to be independent of human will. Morality is not about what we do, or what we want to do. It is about what we ought to do — whether we want to do it or not.
But if there is no God, the Supreme Law Giver and Goodness Itself, then morality loses the only objective ground available to it — and, hence, itself.
Not so, many have retorted. Morality is rooted in reason, or human nature, or biology.
None of this will do. Reason, human nature, and biology may very well have a role to play in the moral life, but only if they are somehow ordained by God.
Reason is fickle. Over the centuries, distinguished thinkers — from Burke and De Maistre to Hobbes and Hume to Montaigne and Pascal — representing a variety of philosophical traditions have recognized this. Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden (and Adam Lanza, for that matter) acted no less rationally in the pursuit of their goals than did Mother Teresa and Gandhi act in the pursuit of theirs. Reason is all too easily, and frequently, subverted by the simplest of things, whether passion, impulse, fear, or sickness.
Those who would attempt to use reason as the foundation upon which to lay morality are like a man who tries to build a house on quicksand.
And what is true of reason is just as true of human nature and biology.
Human nature has its angels, for sure, but it also has its demons. Any human being who has dared to look honestly at himself will be compelled to acknowledge this stone cold fact. As we all say: No one is perfect.
Biology is an even less eligible candidate for a basis of morality. Biology gives us instincts and impulses, needs and inclinations — in short, causes of various sorts. Yet it cannot supply reasons. Biology compels. Morality, in stark contrast, presupposes the freedom to make choices.
If there is no God, then there is no spirit. And if there is no spirit, then all is matter: Reason and human nature boil down to human biology, and biology, in turn, becomes nothing more or less than the latest product of a resolutely non-purposeful mechanical process billions of years in the happening.
If there is no God, then anything is possible.
It isn't just Dostoyevsky, a Christian, who recognized this. Some of the most astute and staunchest of atheists have as well.
Of Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche said that he regarded it "as the most fatal and seductive lie that has ever yet existed — as the greatest and most impious lie." Yet Nietzsche viewed Christianity as the ground zero of the "campaign against morality" that he openly waged, the prototype of just the notion of objective morality that he so despised.
Thus, when Nietzsche declared "the death of God," it was the death of moral objectivity, of moral absolutes, that he celebrated. Human beings had nothing to go on but their own "Will to Power." They alone are the creators of value.
Jean-Paul Sartre was even clearer on this score. Though an atheist, he scoffed at those atheists who held that we could preserve such traditional moral ideals as honesty, compassion, and justice while doing away with belief in God. Rather, he admitted to finding it "very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with him." If there is no God, then there are "no values or commands," no principles or ideals, that "legitimize our conduct."
Sartre's verdict is as haunting as it is inescapable. If there is no God, then we "are alone, with no excuses."
The response of believer and unbeliever alike to Adam Lanza's shooting spree in Connecticut is unmistakably moral in character. Yet unless God exists, there is no basis for our conviction that it was an act of evil.
And unless the atheist, in his own peculiar way, needed God as much as anyone else, he wouldn't feel compelled to look beyond his world of material causes and cosmic insignificance to blame Him for not existing.


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Ways to fix error how to transfer wordpress site to new folder quote quizlet (Fixed/Solved) – Support
To have how to transfer wordpress site to new folder quote quizlet fixed, You should check everything from the base to the top of the configuration. The steps include:
- Verify the Domain configuration.
- Examine the Domain DNS configuration settings.
- Look at Hosting IP address in the domain settings.
- Test the server for hosting configuration settings.
- Check free space on the hosting.
- Look at space occupied by logs.
- Restart nginx, apache providers.
- If WordPress is performing erratically, disable plugins.
- If hosting is displaying error, check the server status for monthly payment issues or the server elements error.
- Take a look at for any DDOS attacks.
- Test wp-config files.
- Take a look at for broken links to images on your website.
- Look at for ports like 80 (http) and 443 (https)
- Look at if the below approach is followed and no changes are made.
The methods for above are spelled out below. You may also watch the video below completely to resolve how to transfer wordpress site to new folder quote quizlet.
If any considerable changes has been made by mistake, chat with us to get the issues fixed. This would avoid the site down time and google de-indexing your urls.
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To start with a website, you have to opt for a domain name. Domain name is the name of the website like wp-hostingsupport.com, in my case.
The name of the domain can be anything meaningful related to the topic implying the purpose of the website/blog or it can be a name that you would like to brand, a blog like yourname.com or yournamesblog.com etc. I buy it from google domains for $12 USD each with privacy and use cloud hosting from OVH for $4 USD without backup (optional).
Keep the domain name as short as possible. While you finalize your domain name, you will also have to search the availability of the domain. Please do not purchase the hosting or domain name until you completely read this blog once. You can experiment this by searching for free hosting and free domain names. When registering for free domains and free hosting, never publish your idea there, just publish a random example. Before you start, blogging is not a overnight success, it takes upto 6 months to show up the results as the web has a lot of domains to be crawled and weighted by the search engines.
To search the domain, you can go for any domain registrar. Domain registrar is a company who helps you purchase and register domain names. Some examples are domains.google.com (U.S only), godaddy, hostgator, bigrocks, namecheap, etc. Even WordPress.com and blogger.com is good for beginners without purchasing a domain, but have a subdomain of yours on their behalf. All you have to do it, visit the domain registrar and then search for the domain and pay for the domain.
Hosting is a web container with a specific ip address or name server assigned, where the domain name will be pointed to. Depending on the type of the hosting solution you have opted, you have to configure the domain to point to the Hosting server's ip address.
Types of Hosting
Hosting solutions can be managed hosting or barebone server which is selected according to the size of the WordPress site. Below are the types of hosting solutions.
Managed Hosting
Based on popular choice, reliable hosting services include godaddy, hostgator, bigrocks, etc. There are some other services too, but the uptime, problems etc. are worse that you will get nightmares contacting them. The issue with shared hosting is that you have to contact the managed hosting team to get any issues fixed and your queries answered about your part of managing the hosting. Reminder: We also provide services to manage your hosting, whether it be a beginner or an expert.
Setting up managed Hosting with the domain
Setting up the managed hosting is easy. The managed hosting will provide you an interface where you will add the domain name using the easy control panel. Then, you would get a name servers to be configured with the domain by adding it to the name server fields of the domain registrar panel.
Setting Up domain to point to the managed hosting
Once you have the name servers for the hosting, just open up the domain control panel, select the domain and then select the DNS option, it would have the default option selected for their own hosting solution, you just have to select the custom name servers option and then add the hosting name servers there and save it. Once done, it can take a few minutes to even 48 hours depending on the domain name registrar. Don't panic if it is taking long. You can contact us to have the domain configuration verified. Benefits of managed hosting includes many free features and free email solutions. This can include shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers too at a higher cost.
Setting up Unmanaged Cloud hosting
Setting up an unmanaged hosting is also easy. Unmanaged hosting can be cloud based VPS, dedicated server etc. The providers include AWS, IBM, Google, OVH, Vultr, Digital Ocean etc. I prefer OVH as it is cheap and the performance is awesome. The bad part about this is, you have to manage it all. If you raise a ticket, they will say they cannot help as it is not a managed solution and if you need help, we can help you with anything.
VPS or Dedicated hosting can be setup by just setting up its ip with the DNS records in the domain registrar control panel. To point the domain to the hosting, go to the DNS records. Then, you will find fields like A records, CNAME etc. You have to replace the ip of your hosting in the 'A' record field with the name as '@' and CNAME record should be 'www' pointing to '@' or the https://wp-hostingsupport.com/ (not https://www.wp-hostingsupport.com/) and you are ready to go. In some cases, you are provided name servers where it can be easily updated in place of the name servers.
Setting up your first website
To have your first website, you have to select a CMS (Content management System). The choice depends on the purpose of the site. If it is for just few web pages for your company, you can always start with a HTML site or PHP site using a free builder or editing a HTML or PHP template. If you are planning to blog, you should go for a CMS like WordPress. I choose WordPress as it is open source (free), choice of various plugins to select, regular version updates with security patches, ease of updating the content and availability of support services.
Setting up WordPress in Managed hosting
It is easy to install the WordPress CMS by following the wizard. If you are finding it difficult, we can help you get this done. When installing the WordPress, make sure to use a username and password different from the default ones to avoid hacking. Once WordPress is installed, the domain will be accessible with the default WordPress theme and content. You can access the domain name at the url like https://wp-hosting.com/wp-admin. Then, enter the username and password to log into the WordPress dashboard.
Once you are logged in, go to the Posts page listed on the left and delete the sample post, then click on trash icon at the top and then click on empty trash. Again, go to the Pages list and delete the sample page and trash the sample page too.
Now, don't think WordPress is tough. It is the best CMS available and becoming an expert in it is going to make you rich!
Now, you have to setup the website or the blog or both at once. To setup the blog, you need to understand the CMS properly. For this, you have to just go through each option in the WordPress once, before you continue reading.
Setting up unmanaged hosting
Setting up the unmanaged hosting would be confusing for the first time. Even if steps are provided, you can mess up as SSH, WinSCP, PUTTY, Filezilla etc are involved. We have to create a VPS or Dedicated server based on Ubuntu 14.04 webserver. Contact us by clicking on the floating chat icon to get more help depending on your requirements and choices.
Please watch the video below for complete guide on managed Website building:
Selecting WordPress Theme
- When you are selecting a WordPress theme, you have to select the lightest theme.
- The WordPress theme also should run faster and support Google Webmaster Guidelines the most.
- The one I found light and simple is the likewiki theme.
To install the theme, go to the theme menu and then select add new and then search for like wiki theme, install it and then click on activate button.
Selecting WordPress plugins
We also need some basic plugins to have the benefits of getting good ranking. Yoast is a plugin which you should opt for the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by following the guidelines.
Creating a Post
Creating the post and publishing it can be very simple and you don't have to worry about the formatting it you are writing good content. Once your content is live and starts getting viewers, you can always get the content formatted by a professional.
Creating a Page
As mentioned about the post, page can also be simply created for reference purpose, formatting it is a secondary thing unless your visitors start visiting the home page. You can also have the summary of your posts in the home page.
How do I earn money using the WordPress site?
Google, Bing etc are search engines, where new uinique and natural content is appreciated. The content can be optimized and changed any time. Once you have the visitors flowing in, you can opt for the adsense account. Please refrain from copying content. Even if you want to recreate your own page, write the content in your own words with a uniqueness. Once, Google Adsense team evaluates the site for genuine visitors, they will approve it. If the visitors are less, they might ask you to wait and apply again once the viewers are sufficient. Once, you have the viewers, you can use the quick adsense plugin to configure the ads. In fact, it is better to configure the quick adsense plugin at first itself while posting each content, so that you don't have to sit and edit all the posts again.
Please watch the video below completely to have the idea about configuring the adsense.
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Jake Sherman was playing music before he could tie his shoes. He began taking Suzuki piano lessons at age 5 but soon fell in love with ragtime, learning many Scott Joplin classics and even composing some original rags. It wasn't until Sherman was 12 that he began studying jazz piano. He learned very quickly and was soon playing in ensembles. At 14, Jake discovered the Hammond organ. He received his first Hammond from the Brookline Music School and taught himself how to play it by listening to records and reading countless posts on Hammond organ listservs and websites.
Sherman has moved into the top tier of young musicians in the Boston and New York areas. He has appeared with Ralph Peterson, Gretchen Parlato, Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, Casey Benjamin, Jamire Williams, and Dave Fiuczynski, among others. In addition to jazz, he has become passionate about a variety of other styles of music. He plays gospel organ every Sunday at Eliot Church in Roxbury and often performs with other up-and-coming artists such as Nick Hakim, Jesse Scheinin, Sid Sriram, and Margaret Glaspy. He recently released his first solo album, which is available via his website.


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Lifehacker is a great site with tips, information, and resources on pretty much everything, from cooking to travel to technology to education. They have a great resource called the Lifehacker Packs for Students. These are lists, with links, to great apps for students. They are sorted by operating system and then by category. There are some great apps here and it's a great place to find great apps for students all in one place. This is also an excellent resource for anyone looking for some great apps.
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Milner, Sharon, Cousins, Wendy and McGowan, Iain (2016) Does All Work and No Play Make a Dull Graduate? Perceptions of Extra-curricular Activities and Employability. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 4 (1). pp. 13-18. [Journal article]
Byrne, Kate, McGowan, Iain and Cousins, Wendy (2015) Delivering Mental Health First Aid: an exploration of instructors' views. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 17 (1). pp. 1-19. [Journal article]
McGowan, Brian and McGowan, Iain (2015) Student perspective on feedback practices., CHERP [Other]
McLaughlin, Columba, McGowan, Iain, Kernohan, George and O'Neill, Siobhan (2015) The unmet support needs of family members caring for a suicidal person. Journal of mental Health, 25 . [Journal article]
McLaughlin, Columba, McGowan, Iain, O'Neill, Siobhan and Kernohan, George (2014) The burden of living with and caring for a suicidal family member. Journal of Mental Health, 23 (5). pp. 236-240. [Journal article]
Jordan, Joanne, Keeney, Sinead, McKenna, Hugh, Cutcliffe, John, Stevenson, Christime, Slater, Paul F and McGowan, Iain (2012) Providing meaningful care: learning from the experiences of suicidal men. Qualitative Health Research, 22 (9). pp. 1207-1219. [Journal article]
Kernohan, George, Cousins, Wendy, McGowan, Iain, Donnelly, Ursula and Shannon, Damian (2011) Evidence is Good for Your Practice using Technology: Enhancing engagement of healthcare professionals in online education. Perspectives on Pedagogy and Practice, 2 . pp. 23-33. [Journal article]
Braden, Marina, McGowan, Iain W., McLaughlin, Derek F., McKenna, Hugh P., Keeney, Sinead and Quinn, Breige (2010) Users, carers and professionals experiences of treatment and care for heroin dependency: Implications for practice. A preliminary study. Journal of Substance Use, Informa Healthcare, 12 pp, DOI: 10.3109/14659891.2010.495818 [Internet publication]
Cousins, Wendy, McGowan, Iain and Milner, Sharon (2008) Self-harm and Attempted Suicide in Young People Looked After in State Care. Journal of Children and Young People's Nursing, 2 (2). pp. 51-54. [Journal article]
McLaughlin, Derek F, McGowan, Iain W, Paterson, Michael C and Millar, Paul W (2008) Cessation of deliberate self harm following eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing: A case report. Cases Journal, 1 (177). pp. 1-4. [Journal article]
McGowan, Iain, Sinclair, Marlene and Owens, Mark (2007) Maternal suicide: rates and trends. RCM Midwives, 10 (4). pp. 167-169. [Journal article]
McGowan, Iain, Hamilton, Stephen, Miller, Paul and Kernohan, George (2005) Contrasting terrorist-related deaths with suicide trends over 34 years. Journal of Mental Health, 14 (4). pp. 399-405. [Journal article]
McGowan, Iain (2003) Obsessions & Compulsions in Schizophrenia. A review of the literature & case study. Psychiatry On-Line, 1 . pp. 20-25. [Journal article]
McGowan, Iain (2000) Tackling suicide in North Belfast. Irish Nurse, Februa . pp. 1-6. [Journal article]
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Recent evidence has been mixed. There has been general improvement but a growing disparity between Germany and France, the currency union's largest economies.
Reuters polls suggest eurozone GDP growth will come it at 0.2 percent quarter on quarter for a year-on-year increase of just 0.4 percent. Germany's projected 0.3 percent quarterly, however, rise would translate to a relatively strong 1.3 percent for the year.
"The eurozone's economic outlook is slowly improving with even the likes of Greece showing signs that the worst is over," Northern Trust wrote in a note. "However, Europe's economic fundamentals are fragile, with deep divisions in performance among nations."
The ECB sat on its hands last week but gave a fairly clear steer that action could be taken next month if new internal forecasts show a further deterioration in inflation — falling so low as to trigger some concerns about deflation — and growth.
Bank President Mario Draghi pointedly flagged the Q4 gross domestic product data as crucial to the bank's thinking.
But what to do? A small interest rate cut from 0.25 percent to somewhere just above zero is hardly going to be a game changer and the ECB has already said it won't prime banks with long-term cheap money again unless they commit to lend into the real economy.
Bank stress tests looming to check on the stability of the financial system. Those same banks are also being told to deleverage and build up capital.
So while a case can be made for more cheap long-term loans, or LTROs, if banks do commit to pass the money on to businesses, it would not be straightforward for them.
The ECB has discussed ceasing to soak up money it spent buying sovereign bonds during the eurozone's debt crisis. Ending such "sterilisation" would inject about 175 billion euros of liquidity into the financial system. That would ease strains in euro zone money markets but probably do little to boost inflation, which the central bank wants.
That leaves printing money, or "quantitative easing", one of the ECB's last unbroken taboos. It is a long way off if it comes at all. But as Japan has shown, it's one of the few levers that could get prices rising again.
Another big set piece during the week is the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report.
All eyes will be on Governor Mark Carney and his ability to persuade markets and British people and companies that interest rates won't rise soon.
He is expected to give some indication about what path "forward guidance" — the expectations of what will happen — will take after the U.K. unemployment rate shot down to his trigger point for potential rate rises in months, rather than the years he expected it to take.
The Bank is likely to be less specific than before, and may introduce something like the U.S. Federal Reserve's system of tracking the change views of individual policymakers. But an actual rate hike remains a long way off.
Italy, meanwhile, is braced for a credit rating review from Moody's on Friday. The agency has a Baa2 rating — two notches above junk — with a negative outlook so there could be some risk of a downgrade although recent data suggest the economy could have grown in the last quarter of 2013 for the first time since mid-2011.
Any data or set-piece economic event during the week will fade in importance, however, if the rout in emerging markets continues.
Central banks in countries as diverse as Turkey, India, and Hungary have been struggling to contain huge investment outflows that have knocked their currencies down.
The flip side is that developed markets are being threatened by imported disinflation from cheaper imports and their exporters risk becoming uncompetitive.
"Developments in global money and financial market conditions and related uncertainties, notably in the emerging market economies, may have the potential to negatively affect (euro zone) economic conditions," the ECB's Draghi said last week.
The drive for much of the emerging currency flight has been concern about slowing growth in China and the U.S. Fed's withdrawal of monetary stimulus based on an improving economy.
China reports import and export data in the coming week, and the United States reports industrial and manufacturing output, all of which should go to the heart of the twin drivers.
But last Friday's robust U.S. jobs data made it unlikely that the Fed would change its stimulus-tapering plans — to the chagrin of some emerging markets.
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Although hubs and switches both glue the PCs
in a network together, a switch is more expensive and a network built with switches is generally considered
faster than one built with hubs. Why?
a hub receives a packet (chunk) of data (a frame in Ethernet lingo) at one
of its ports from a PC on the network, it transmits (repeats) the packet
to all of its ports and, thus, to all of the other PCs on the network. If
two or more PCs on the network try to send packets at the same time a collision
is said to occur. When that happens all of the PCs have to go though
a routine to resolve the conflict. The process is prescribed in the
Ethernet Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)
protocol. Each Ethernet Adapter has both a receiver and a transmitter. If
the adapters didn't have to listen with their receivers for collisions they
would be able to send data at the same time they are receiving it (full duplex). Because
they have to operate at half duplex (data flows one way at a time) and a
hub retransmits data from one PC to all of the PCs, the maximum bandwidth
is 100 Mhz and that bandwidth is shared by all of the PC's connected to the
hub. The result is when a person using a computer on a hub downloads a large
file or group of files from another computer the network becomes congested. In
a 10 Mhz 10Base-T network the affect is to slow the network to nearly a crawl. The
affect on a small, 100 Mbps (million bits per scond), 5-port network is not as significant.
Two computers can be connected directly together
in an Ethernet with a crossover
cable. A crossover cable doesn't have a collision problem. It
hardwires the Ethernet transmitter on one computer to the receiver on the
other. Most 100BASE-TX Ethernet Adapters can detect when listening
for collisions is not required with a process known as auto-negotiation and
will operate in a full duplex mode when it is permitted. The result is a
crossover cable doesn't have delays caused by collisions, data can be sent in
both directions simultaneously, the maximum available bandwidth is 200 Mbps,
100 Mbps each way, and there are no other PC's with which the bandwidth must
be shared.
An Ethernet switch automatically divides the
network into multiple segments, acts as a high-speed, selective bridge between
the segments, and supports simultaneous connections of multiple pairs of
computers which don't compete with other pairs of computers for network bandwidth. It
accomplishes this by maintaining a table of each destination address and
its port. When the switch receives a packet, it reads the destination
address from the header information in the packet, establishes a temporary
connection between the source and destination ports, sends the packet on
its way, and then terminates the connection.
Picture a switch as making multiple temporary
crossover cable connections between pairs of computers (the cables are actually
straight-thru cables; the crossover function is done inside the switch). High-speed
electronics in the switch automatically connect the end of one cable (source
port) from a sending computer to the end of another cable (destination port)
going to the receiving computer on a per packet basis. Multiple connections
like this can occur simultaneously. It's as simple as that. And like
a crossover cable between two PCs, PC's on an Ethernet switch do not share
the transmission media, do not experience collisions or have to listen for
them, can operate in a full-duplex mode, have bandwidth as high as 200 Mbps,
100 Mbps each way, and do not share this bandwidth with other PCs on the switch. In
short, a switch is "more better."
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That's Chris Bowers at Open Left's description of Leah Ward Sears. "If Obama is looking for an easy confirmation process for a good judge, Sears would have to be the choice," Bowers says. "Sears seems like the best bet right now and certainly better than Elana Kagan."
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