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British firm rushes in amid delays, political attacks.
Days before the White House emboldened critics by announcing a delay in a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, the Health and Human Services Department finalized a one-year contract for help in sorting the coming applications for the new state health insurance exchanges.
Serco, a British-owned company based in Reston, Va., with 8,000 U.S.-based workers in 45 states, signed a contract on June 28 with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It will help the agency meet its approaching deadline for enrolling uninsured Americans in state insurance exchanges being called Federally Facilitated Marketplaces, a CMS spokesperson confirmed.
"Serco is a highly-skilled company that has a proven track record in providing cost-effective services to numerous other federal agencies," the spokesperson said. "The company has provided exceptional records management and processing support to other federal agencies, similar to work they will do for the marketplace. The selection met all of the requirements for a full and open competition, and the timing enables us to be ready for Marketplace open enrollment starting on Oct. 1."
Serco, as reported Friday by The New York Times, considers the Affordable Care Act work one of its largest projects, but "a huge undertaking," according to spokesman Alan Hill. "We have some tight deadlines to meet."
The work will involve running a mailroom to process millions of applications -- a third of them on paper, the rest electronic -- and related documentation, notifying consumers of any issues or missing information and helping CMS resolve eligibility questions. Those tasks will be performed by workers in Arkansas, Alabama and Kentucky, according to CMS.
Serco's previous work has included contracts with the Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control. A sophisticated cyberattack against the contractor in 2011 exposed personal information of 123,000 Thrift Savings Plan participants. The company recently signed two traffic management and safety contracts with the Virginia Transportation Department.
CMS said the contract was executed as quickly as possible and that Serco will comply with all applicable privacy statutes and regulations on handling personal information. The award is worth $114.3 million in the first year, with options to increase the value by an additional $158 million. Its potential worth over five years is estimated at $1.2 billion.
The company will add 1,500 new jobs to complete the contract, the Serco spokesman told The Times..
HHS has contracts with at least 10 other companies to implement the exchanges under Obamacare, despite a refusal by Republicans in Congress to appropriate as much money as the administration requests. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has hired public relations firm to join with private nonprofits in promoting awareness of the law. She has also encouraged private corporate donations to the effort, an act some Republicans suggested was illegal.
On July 2, the White House announced it was delaying by one year the requirement that employers with 50 or more employees provide health insurance. Some in the business community welcomed the delay to better prepare and understand the law's requirements. On Monday, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee announced a hearing to explore the reason for the delay, which they portrayed as a sign the law is unworkable.
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My great-great grandmother and her daughter, my great grandmother, were both from Herber Springs, Arkansas, and like many women of their time and place, they were accomplished quilt makers. One of my great-great grandmother's creations, a queen-size quilt with appliquéd sunflowers, hung in my childhood home. I remember spending hours studying its delicate stitches and beautiful colors! We also had a large unfinished quilt top made by my great grandmother. It was comprised of hundreds of tiny cotton feed sack diamonds, all hand sewn together to form a gigantic eight pointed star. Later in life, I learned that this pattern is usually called a "Lone Star". (If you're unfamiliar with the traditional Lone Star quilt pattern, here is a link to a nice example.)
I have always loved this pattern, but I've never sewn one because it usually involves slanted angles and scary "Y" seams. With our Mini Quilt of the Month Series almost finished, I thought now would be the perfect time to tackle this seemingly impossible shape. But since we're not our great-great grandmothers, I decided to give the pattern a more approachable modern spin, eliminating the "Y" seams and the hundreds of tiny diamonds. Phew!
This Striped Star Mini Quilt is a simple take on a complicated classic. Strip-pieced stripes convey a sense of dimensionality and movement, and a pretty assortment of neutral dots and stripes add a clean, modern aesthetic. The pattern comes together unexpectedly in fascinating puzzle that will delight your quilting mind!
To make one approximately 22-inch x 22-inch mini quilt:
- 1 yard of Robert Kaufman's Kona Cotton, White (Please note, this fabric is no longer available. You can browse our current selection of cotton fabrics here!)
- Assorted 1/2 yards of various dots and stripes (I also used Moda's Chicken Wire)
- Craft size Quilter's Dream Natural Request Dream cotton batting
- 100% cotton thread, color 1040
If you'd like to make the star in the center of this quilt out of a single fabric you will just need a 1/2-yard of that fabric. If this is the case you can start the instructions from the "Piecing the Squares" section of this journal.
You will also need . . .
22 inches by 22 inches
All seam allowances in this project are 1/4-inch unless otherwise noted.
Cut + Piece the Striped Panels
Cut the printed 1/2 yard pieces each to be 14-inches wide from selvage to selvage. From the 14-inch width cut strips varying in width from 1-inch to 3-inches. You will have an assortment of 14-inch long strips as shown above.
Note: When cutting simple rectangular shapes for patterns such as this, straight, clean cuts are key. The best way to make these cuts is with a rotary cutter and a non-slip quilting ruler on a self-healing cutting mat. If you have limited experience using a rotary cutter, I recommend visiting our Rotary Cutting Tutorial.
Piece strips along their 14-inch sides, right sides together in a random order, until piece measures at least 14-inches by 28-inches. Press all seam allowances in the same direction.
Repeat to create a second panel also 14-inches by 28-inches.
Starting at the bottom left corner of the first panel and using the 45-degree marking on your ruler slice the panel diagonally into 4-inch wide strips.
Then cut these strips into four rectangles, 4-inches X 12-inches each. The stripes should be slanting down from left to right as shown above.
Cut the second panel into 4-inch strips in the same manner only this time start at the bottom right corner so that the stripes will be facing in the opposite direction as the ones cut from the first panel.
Cut these strips into four rectangles, each 4-inches by 12-inches. The stripes on these should be slanting up from left to right, the opposite direction of the ones cut from the first panel.
Piece the Squares
You will have eight 4-inch by 12-inch rectangles, half with the stripes running down from left to right and the other half with the stripes running up from left to right. (If you are sewing the star with one fabric cut eight 4-inch by 12-inch rectangles from that fabric and ignore all the talk about which direction your stripes should face in the directions below.)
From the white fabric cut:
- eight 6-inch squares
- eight 8-inch by 4-inch rectangles
This quilt top consists of four identically pieced quilt squares.
Pick out two opposite facing striped pieces and lay them next to each other veritcally so that the their stripes would meet and make a "V" shape.
Place a white rectangle along the top of the left striped piece lining up their raw edges, so that it makes an upside down "L" shape pointing to the left. Using a Hera maker or an erasable fabric marker mark a diagonal line on the white fabric from the upper left corner of the striped piece to the lower right corner of the white rectangle. Pin the two pieces together on either side of this marking.
Place a white rectangle along the top of the right striped piece lining up their raw edges, so that it makes an upside down "L" shape point to the right. Using a Hera maker or an erasable fabric marker mark a diagonal line on the white fabric from the lower left corner of the striped piece to the upper right corner of the white rectangle. Pin the two pieces together on either side of this marking.
Sew the white triangles to both of these pieces along their marked lines. Then trim off the excess triangle of fabric on the outside of these seams, 1/4-inch above the seam.
Press the sewn pieces flat with the seam allowances towards the striped pieces.
Sew the two strips right sides together along their inner long raw seams so that the striped pieces make a "V" shape. Try to line up the point where the striped pieces meet the white pieces as exactly as possible.
You are now going to cut the top white section of this piece into a square on point. Do this by lining up a horizontal line of your ruler to the seam between the white and the striped piece on the right side of your piece and lining up the top cutting edge to make a 90-degree angle going from the right hand seam through the middle seam as shown above.
Cut the left top of the piece in this same manner so that the top of the piece is now also 90-degree angle. The top of the piece is now a white square with the middle seam running through it's center and meeting perfectly at the top corner.
Using a Hera marker or fabric marker mark two of the 6-inch white squares in half diagonally.
Using an erasable fabric marker mark 1/4-inch from the left and right vertical sides of the original piece.
Pin center markings of the squares to marked lines, starting at the top of the marked lines.
Here is a more close-up shot of the pinned on squares. Notice how the upper right edge of the top is smoothing continuing the angle of the top white diamond.
Sew the squares to the piece along the marked lines. Cut off the excess triangles from the white fabric leaving a 1/4-inch seam allowance.
Press the white pieces outwards so you get the shape pictured above.
Using the bottom right edge of the right triangle piece you just sewed on as a guide cut off the bottom right edge of the piece creating a bottom right edge that is totally straight.
Repeat this for the bottom left edge.
Turn your piece so that it's oriented like a square.
Repeat three more times so that you have four total squares.
Piece the Top
Arrange the four squares with their points facing out so that they form a star as shown above.
Sew the top left square to the bottom left square right sides together, being careful to match up their seams neatly.
Sew the top right and bottom right squares together in the same manner.
Sew the two sides right sides together being careful to line up all the seams, especially the center, neatly.
From the white fabric cut:
- A square, 28-inches x 28-inches
- Three 2 1/4-inch strips from selvage to selvage (set these aside for the binding)
From the batting cut:
- a square, 26-inches x 26-inches
Tape the white square smoothly down on a flat surface. Lay the batting on top of it. Then lay the quilt top, right side smoothly in the center of top of the previous two pieces.
Pin all three layers together with bent arm safety pins every few inches.
Quilt in the ditch along the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal seams then around the perimeter of the star shape.
Here is a back view to see the quilting a little more clearly.
Bind the quilt with the three white strips you cut at the beginning of this section.
If you haven't bound a quilt before please visit the binding instructions from our January Mini Quilt of the Month: Courthouse Steps at this link. This quilt (and all quilts!) can be bound in exactly the same manner. Once you get to the story, scroll down near the end to the sections called "Prepare the Binding" and "Bind the Quilt".


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I hope you are doing great. I've been working with the ProcessBuilder lately, and I wanted to use it to send a command to the cmd prompt of windows to delete a file.
private static void deleteSource() throws Exception { // ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("java", "-cp", paramContext, paramName); // p = pb.start(); // processCheck(); // p.waitFor(); }
This is just an example to execute a .class file .. but I'd like to delete a file now. Don't know what the "(instructions)" to accomplish it.
It has to be through the process builder, sending the file's path or name or both (i've got that covered) and not through a file object which i dont have instanciate. now thinking about it, I don't know could I instanciate a file object for an already existing file, and then just use a file method to delete it?


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Yes, it was and I'll tell you now things may be slow posting-wise for a while longer because I moved from the darkness into the light. I embraced a whole new dawn of technological creativity and bowed before a god whose design aesthetic is mind-blowing. Yes, I changed from a PC to an iMac. Am I lovin'it? Well, yes, yes I am. I love even just staring at it when it's turned off. I am totally in love with it.
So, yes, Christmas. Over and done with and I'm nursing a sense of anti-climax. Having got myself spectacularly well-organised in the run up to the event, I was busy hugging myself with glee and anticipation when I came down with tonsillitis. Again. Which was bad enough but then a day before things got seriously weird when I started upchucking blood. I know it was blood because I put some in tupperware and showed it to my doctor, heh, heh. Never say I don't know how to make somebody's Christmas.
Enough about blood vomit; I can sense you really want to know what the children of a feminist get for the big day.
The short answer is: pretty much the same as every other spoilt Western kid, only in reverse.
L'il Boo got a cooker and a tea set. Boogie got a secret agent HQ and a pair of MMA/boxing gloves.
And yes, for the record, Boogie would never have got the cooker. I am that kind of mother.
I tell myself that I simply buy what the children want; or what would seem to be something they'd enjoy given who they are right now. And to a certain extent, that is absolutely true. Boogie, for example, has for some time now, dressed almost exclusively in black because 'that's what spies wear'. And she's so into her martial arts at the minute that when L'il Boo launches himself at her (to hug her? to headdbutt her? to rugby tackle her? – it's impossible to tell until it's all over bar the shouting), Boogie will sometimes reflexively move her foot in a perfect roundhouse kick and fell the poor child before even he's made up his mind. Obviously, I say, no,don't kick your brother, but it's quite beautiful to watch, this absolute unerring sureness in her body's ability to protect itself
And L'il Boo is forever putting plastic food items in the washing machine at nursery and refuses to leave the place before he's offered, and made, multiple 'cups of tea' for me and every member of staff there.
So I have no difficulty in saying 'I got what I thought they'd like.' I did, it is true.
But it would be totally untrue to say that 'I got what I thought they'd like without any consideration of the wider implications of what they might like.' Because I didn't.
Because for a start, Boogie likes every single bit of plastic tut she so much as glimpses on the TV. And I mean everything. She is an advertiser's dream. She even professed a desire for the new 'girl' version of Lego (for which you'll have to visit Reel Girl all by yourself because I have yet to figure out how to copy a web address on this 'puder), which she has as much chance of getting from 'Santa' (i.e. her miserable, fun-eating feminist mother), as I have of getting a boob job with industrial-grade silicone implants (thanks PIP – again, you'll have to figure that link out for yourselves). Because, just in case you were confused, the new 'girly' Lego is an insult of quite epic proportions to girls everywhere. And by extension to women, and I don't take these kinds of insults lightly. Bastards. FUCK LEGO AND THEIR BEAUTY SALON SHIT. Phew! Glad I got that out of my system. And if one more fucking company wheels out insulting eye-searing pink toys and then waffles on about 'honouring girls' play patterns' I am going to go bat shit fucking crazy. Even more so than normal. Girls: taught to play a certain way since birth, toy companies then look at them playing that way and use it as an excuse to serve them more of the same shit. Arrgh!
So there were lots of things Boogie professed a desire for which, whilst they may have made it on to her Santa list, were never, not in a million fucking years, going to appear under the tree on Christmas morning. Unless, of course, I was dead and my mother – or any number of annoying relatives and in-laws – had taken over the Father Christmas role. And even if I were dead, there are legal instruments in place to prevent that very thing. I really am that kind of mother.
And yes, you can accuse me of brainwashing my children as much as you like, but it is just me; just little old me against a muti-billion pound industry feeding my children gender stereotypes until they're sick.
Trust me, I can live with the accusation.
And so, is this Christmas? Of course not; it's actually New Year now. And judging by the amount of vino I have already consumed on this yes-you-can-start-drinking-at-noon-it's-a-special-day day, I will, once again, fail to see in the new year. So I shall wish you all a good one and hope for you all a year filled with small victories and big, big memories.


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Superstar Beyonce Knowles has revealed her nervousness ahead of her first live performance since giving birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter in January.
"I'm excited," said the singer and wife of Jay-Z regarding the first of a series of four Memorial Day Weekend concerts at Atlantic City's Revel Hotel that begin Friday night.
In the behind-the-scenes video posted on her website, Knowles admits that she has been enjoying just being a mom to Blue Ivy and that returning to performing is "like going back to my old job." Her nervousness is apparent, especially when she reveals that she has not sung live in front of an audience for almost a year.
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Scenes show her in rehearsal for the concerts, doing warm-up vocal work, working out and practicing choreography with her back-up dancers. "It's a little strange," she said of her return to the performimg spotlight. "But it's important that you don't lose yourself and you still have your own passions.
"What I'm trying to say with this show is, yes, I had a baby, but I'm even more grounded," Knowles says of her inspirations behind the show.
Ticket-holders to the sold out dates need not fear the "Single Ladies" and "Halo" singer is unprepared. A consummate professional, Beyonce makes it clear that she's ready to take her spot onstage. "I'm back to work," she says with a huge smile in the video. "I'm back to business!"


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*Daniel tells Lucas that when Chloe wakes up, she will choose to be with Daniel.
*Stefano convinces Meredith that she must tell Sami all about how Rafe killed Emily.
*EJ (James Scott, pictured) replaces Grace's headstone with one that reads "DiMera."
*One of Philip's men, Carlo, is shot in the line of duty and Philip is tormented by his death.
*Abe and Lexie receive good news about Theo.
Thursday – Mia admits to Will that she is not a virgin.
Friday – EJ demands an explanation for Nicole's odd behavior since Grace's death.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Days: Such a Tease!
Holidate Premieres Tonight on SOAPnet
What if the perfect guy for you is somewhere else? Each week on SOAPnet's new original reality series, Holidate, two women will switch cities and go on dates handpicked for them. They may date each other's friends, brothers or co-workers in the hope of finding true love.
The first episode premieres tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT and focuses on New York and Los Angeles, but subsequent episodes will be in many other cities, including Dallas, Tampa, Houston, etc.
Monday, July 27, 2009
GH: Such a Tease!
Maxie panics when she sees Spinelli (Bradford Anderson, pictured) with Mac.
Ethan tries to mend fences with Rebecca.
Claudia hatches a plan for revenge.
Alexis makes a surprising confession.
Kristina refuses to leave Michael.
Alexis will do anything to protect Kristina.
Carly notices the spark between Sonny and Olivia.
Lucky and Ethan between unlikely allies.
Michael and Kristina are headed south of the border.
Olivia fights her feelings for Sonny.
Jerry plans on using Michael as a pawn to get to Jason.
OLTL: Such a Tease!
Matthew blackmails Bo and Nora.
Tea won't be a part of the game Todd's playing with Blair (Kassie DePaiva, pictured).
Bo and Nora dodge a bullet.
Jessica catches another glimpse of the mystery man.
Cole's undercover operation gets under way.
Nora faces a dilemma.
Blair and Dorian try to drown their sorrows.
Brody is concerned for Jessica.
Blair imagines a bleak future for herself and Dorian.
Nora wrestles with her feelings for Bo.
Gigi's upset to learn that Rex is letting Stacy stay at his loft.
AMC: Such a Tease!
Adam is troubled by Emma's comment about Annie.
Jake warns Amanda (Ricky Paull Goldin and Chrishell Stause, pictured) not to do anything to make David suspicious.
Zach is certain of Kendall's innocence.
Annie finds an unlikely ally in Jack.
Erica insists to Ryan they're doing the right thing.
Zach wonders what Aidan's up to.
Jesse has bad news for Kendall, Zach and Ryan.
Tad and Taylor take another step closer.
Zach and Ryan orchestrate Kendall's escape.
Kendall has second thoughts about taking the kids away from Zach.
Jake and Amanda's plan might be over before it even begins.
B&B: Such a Tease!
•Stephanie has a good reason to gloat.
•Steffy and Thomas scheme to keep Brooke away.
•Ridge (Ronn Moss, pictured) is caught in the middle.
•Owen refuses to be intimidated by Whip.
•The day Taylor has been dreaming about finally arrives.
Y&R: Such a Tease!
•Lily (Christel Khalil, pictured) learns the outcome of her surgery. How will it affect her future with Cane?
•Daniel discovers that Amber betrayed him for his own sake but will this destroy their relationship?
•Billy learns a shocking secret from Cane that sets a chain of events in motion that may be unstoppable.
•Victoria is forced to choose between her father and her husband when Victor demands J.T.'s resignation from Newman Enterprises.
•Nick stuns Phyllis when he asks her to re-marry him.
GL: Such a Tease!
•Dinah finally gives Shayne (Jeff Branson, pictured) an answer to his proposal.
•Marina and Mallet team up to solve the murder case.
•Phillip gets an update about his treatment options.
•Buzz sneaks behind Marina's back.
ATWT: Such a Tease!
•Henry's mother, Audrey, makes herself at home.
•After reuniting with her younger sister Teri, Janet (Julie Pinson, pictured) feels remorse.
•Margo tries to hold up her charade.
•Parker's mad when Craig sets him up.


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With a caveat that I know little about sports – something about the story of Virginia Commonwealth University's upset victory over University of Kansas in the NCAA basketball tournament on Sunday started me wondering, "When does a trickle of lapses and errors grow to a course-changing stream significant enough to cause champions to falter and underdogs to prevail?"
Undoubtedly everyone associated with the Kansas Jayhawks is asking the same question.
The personal lapse is a constant – what is athletics but a contest of human performance after all? The job of coaches is to understand the foibles of individuals, build a plan that compensates for them, backstop the players' faults while enhancing their strengths.
The parallel to the now-famous episode in which a air traffic controller fell asleep last week in the tower of Reagan National Airport couldn't be more clear. A trained employee, an important participant in a highly-choreographed enterprise failed. What is left for the Monday-morning quarterback is to review the event and look upwards – from the individual to the team, to the coach, to the system to see why there was no backstop for this particular controller.
Headlines encourage the demonization of sleepy staffer and they were assisted, I'm sorry to say, by the intemperate statement of FAA administrator Randy Babbitt. Perhaps now Mr. Babbitt regrets having said last week that he was "personally outraged" by the controller's behavior. Perhaps if the fellow was toting a teddy bear, blanket and pajamas to work with plans to get some shut-eye on the tower couch, the FAA chief would be justified in outrage, but I don't think that was the case.
Far more likely is the possibility that the now-suspended controller who was working his fourth overnight shift, simply succumbed to fatigue, an aviation safety reality that's been the subject of debate for so long, my eyelids are drooping just typing the word.
Some of the biggest names studying the body's need for rest; Martin Moore-Ede of Harvard, Mark Rosekind a member of the NTSB; have made inroads dealing with fatigue in the cockpit, but air traffic controllers who work the same crazy hours keeping all those pilots safely separated are still operating one-person overnight shifts at more that two dozen airports across the country, from busy Orlando, San Diego and San Juan, to Reno and Burlington, Vermont.
So news consumers are to be forgiven for leaping to blame the controller for the very human tendency to fall asleep at night. Most folks know if they fall asleep at work they'll get chastised and that's without putting an airplane full of people at risk. But the policy makers know better. Even highly motivated people fail and a system that relies on one person's infallibility is inherently unsafe.
Sports fans may yell at the referee, Bronx cheer the player who missed a shot, call the coach "an idiot" who sidelined a player, or harrumph a team owner who makes an unpopular trade. But in sports, as in life and aviation, when game goes south many decisions have a played a part.


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A Harris Decima poll conducted across British Columbia in July 2012 on the subject of clean energy reveals some interesting thinking by British Columbians about what criteria should shape our choices and options to meet increasing energy demand in our province's future.
By a margin of 64 per cent to 29 per cent, a strong majority of us supports building a new major hydroelectric dam — Site C.
But an even stronger majority, a margin of 72 per cent to 21 per cent supports more independent power projects such as run of river and wind generation.
According to the poll, British Columbians reject the idea of relying upon importing electricity to meet future domestic needs.
British Columbians put a top priority upon using sustainable energy sources and conservation.
B.C. has been a world leader in so many ways, using its natural resource endowment to shape progressive energy policies.
It was a Social Credit government that initiated independent power production in the late 1980s to work with BC Hydro to forge private and public partnerships to deliver clean, sustainable and low cost power to all ratepayers.
Subsequently, in the 1990s the NDP enabled further development of the sector with power calls for renewable and clean projects for both domestic and export markets.
Most recently, the Liberal government brought in carbon pricing and myriad progressive climate action policies in the 2000s that brought investment capital into B.C. to help the clean energy sector grow and expand.
Into the second decade of this century, the Harris Decima poll suggests British Columbians are supportive and comfortable with the balance that has been forged.
While protecting our rivers, streams and fish we have employed innovation to refine and perfect non-storage hydro run-of-river technology. Our wind farms are among the most modern in the World and strategically situated to minimize impacts on wildlife. We have efficient bio-mass and bio-gas operations and emergent technologies to use ocean, solar and geo-thermal fuels. On top of all of this we have abundant natural gas which can be the bridge to a global economy based less and less on high polluting fossil fuels.
The clean energy sector in B.C. which encompasses all of the fuels noted above, including natural gas, is engaged with local communities and working co-operatively with 125 first nations.
It is not just about jobs and benefits but relationships which have been forged. Energy projects are long-term ventures and hence the precedent relationships must also be multi-generational.
B.C. is currently in a global competition to secure LNG developments in the Northwest. The government's Jobs Plan is dependent upon securing at least three of these projects. As part of its planning BC Hydro has produced a plan with demand-supply scenarios to meet any eventuality.
The message from the poll is clear, British Columbians want to see a balanced clean energy mix of fuels to supply future energy demand and foremost, "A broad majority (72 per cent) also supports more independent power projects such as run of river and wind generation."
By the way, the Harris Decima poll was not paid for by IPPs or the clean energy sector, but by BC Hydro.
Paul Kariya is executive director of the Independent Power Producers of BC.


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Arrest warrant issued for Stonewood defendant
An arrest warrant was issued Monday for Murrieta resident Helen Pedrino, who is on trial in Riverside Superior Court for her alleged role in the notorious Stonewood mortgage scam that rocked Southwest County last decade, after failing to show up in court for the second hearing in a row.
Her son, Hendrix Montecastro of Baltimore, told Judge Jeffrey Prevost that Pedrino, 61, was taken to a San Diego-area hospital over the weekend because of chest pain, numbness in both arms and head pain, and was home in bed Monday morning recovering after her blood pressure rocketed to 221 over 101.
Montecastro had previously explained her Friday absence as the result of being rushed to the emergency room at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley for what he said were stroke symptoms.
"She was throwing up, she was nauseous and she collapsed twice when she got home," Montecastro said Monday in court.
Montecastro also is being tried in connection with the Stonewood investment scheme that authorities say was centered in Murrieta and Temecula, and bilked banks and homeowners out of $143 million at the height of the housing boom.
Pedrino, a nurse, has been described by witnesses as a primary recruiter for the scheme, signing up nurses, members of her church and friends in the Filipino community.
Montecastro and his mother do not have attorneys and are representing themselves. They were due to begin laying out their case Friday.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Vicki Hightower wrapped up the case for the prosecution two days earlier. The trial got under way in late November.
Hightower said she believed the trips to the hospital were orchestrated by Pedrino to delay the trial. She produced a report from Sharp Grossmount Hospital in La Mesa, saying there was nothing in it to suggest Pedrino was incapable of appearing in court.
"The events that Mr. Montecastro is describing are fascinating, but there is nothing to document it," Hightower said.
Outside the courtroom after a brief hearing Monday morning, Hightower termed the timing highly suspicious.
"They were supposed to start their case on Friday, and that's when all this came up," she said. "It's all very suspect."
The trial was then rescheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday. But once again Pedrino was absent from the courtroom.
Montecastro said he and Pedrino's husband, Robert, drove to Murrieta late Monday morning and found her dizzy, with a blood pressure of 179 over 101.
"She said she couldn't hardly stand up," Montecastro said, adding that her husband called an ambulance.
Asked which hospital Pedrino was taken to, Montecastro said he did not know, that it was somewhere in the Murrieta area.
"I just find it hard to believe," Hightower said, noting her husband was out in the hallway and not with her.
After the brief proceeding, Robert Pedrino said he did not know where his wife was taken, either.
Hightower said a deputy sheriff drove to the home at some point after the morning hearing to serve the arrest warrant, but did not knock because no one appeared to be home at the time.
The trial now is scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
The ring was blamed for $143 million in total losses, most to banks and financial institutions. But the Stonewood scam also is alleged to have defrauded nearly 400 people out of $30 million in homes, retirement accounts and savings.
The case against Montecastro and Pedrino involves 34 people, who lost a combined $3.6 million. Montecastro faces 317 felony counts; his mother faces 41. Charges range from taking property and illegally selling securities to persuading people to invest by repeatedly providing false information.
Montecastro and Pedrino are two of seven defendants who were charged in the case. The others reached agreements to plead guilty earlier.
One of those is James Duncan, the ringleader, who testified against Montecastro and his mother in December and is scheduled to be sentenced March 15.


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Various parts of a car are recycled by an auto dismantler. An auto dismantler sells the functional parts, restores those that can be repaired and sells them. There are some parts such as worn out tires which need to be carefully disposed of as they are voluminous. They are also constituted in such a manner that they are not bio-degradable.
Tires of a car are designed to be long-lasting. But when they reach the end of life i.e. when they are worn out or damaged they can be detrimental to the environment. Hence, their safe disposal is essential.
Let us see how discarded tires impact the environment:
• The number of tires discarded annually is quite large. And, each tire occupies a lot of space. If tires are abandoned they will occupy a lot of space.
• They damage landfill liners and promote the growth of rodents.
• They take about 50-60 years to decompose completely in a landfill.
• Landfill liners are damaged by tires and these contaminate soil and water.
• Discarded tires trap methane making it buoyant. It then bubbles to the surface adversely affecting landfill liners.
Some years back nothing could be done regarding the abandoned tires. But fortunately, now there are recycling methods available through which tires are converted into useful material for other applications.
Some of the recycling methods used are:
Ambient shredding
It entails shredding a tire into small pieces using a knife at room temperature.
Cryogenic grinding
In this case, liquid nitrogen is used to freeze the tire at sub-zero temperature. This causes changes in the physical properties of the tire making it brittle. The tire is then placed in an enclosure and it is shredded using hammers.
Recycled tires find numerous applications:
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Old tires are extensively used as an alternative fuel in the manufacture of Portland cement.
2. Recycled rubber is used for manufacturing a number of products:
• Soil additives
• Synthetic Turf
• Stall Mats for horses
• Backdrops for shooting ranges
• Jogging tracks
• Floor mats for gyms
• Covers for playgrounds
• Rubberized asphalt
It is being used on a large-scale for constructing pavements, etc instead of traditional asphalt.
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DRHOOK- Joltin' Joe: Caffeine's many varied effects
Caffeine makes the world go round. As a child, I never liked my parents' instant coffee. It tasted like brown water to me.
But when I was a college freshman and had to study all night long, I was really tired. So, one day, my friends had me drink a cup of coffee. I ended up walking into my calculus class all sweaty and tremulous and feeling like my heart was going to pop out of my chest.
Mind you, I always participated in class, but that day: "Dr. Mahoney, what does that mean? Oh, never mind! Wait, so if that equals that– Oh, never mind! Haha! Oo! So that means–"
Dr. Mahoney stared at me but eventually asked me why I was so wired. I told her that morning I had had my first real cup of coffee– and I had to pee.
Is caffeine safe to use?
Caffeine stimulates the brain. It helps people concentrate, focus, and stay awake. In fact, 80 percent of people in the world use caffeine. Caffeine is most commonly found in coffee, tea, cola, and chocolate.
Five ounces of drip coffee contains 146mg of caffeine; five ounces of percolated coffee has 110mg; five ounces of instant coffee has 53mg; one to two ounces of espresso has 45-100mg; a Starbucks venti has 415-550mg (hooray!); tea brewed one minute has 9-33mg, tea brewed three minutes has 20-46mg.
A 12-ounce can of iced tea has 22-36mg, a 12-ounce can of cola has 46mg, and one ounce of mild chocolate has 6mg. If I were Homer Simpson, I would say, "Mmmmm, caaaffeeeine."
The effect of caffeine in coffee tends to peak in the first hour and can last up to eight hours, which is why it isn't a good idea to drink beverages with caffeine within eight hours of going to sleep.
Caffeine in tea is chemically different from that in coffee and tends to peak a few hours later. Food can slow the absorption rate of caffeine, but it doesn't lower its total impact.
I love coffee. I didn't before, but I do now. I'd give up my car before I'd give up coffee.
But as with everything, too much of a good thing can have unwanted side effects. For example, once I was teaching a medical resident how to inject steroids into a patient's knee, and I had just downed a large cup of coffee. As I pointed to the knee to show where to inject, the patient grabbed my shaking index finger and asked, "Doc, have you done this before?" I responded, "Sure, I have injected many shoulders before. Haha."
Fortunately, that patient's question did not irritate me, though caffeine can make people very irritable. The nervous system is all revved up which can cause nervousness, irritability, and excitation.
Many athletic drinks contain caffeine because it makes the heart pump harder, as well as getting the neurotransmitters known as catecholamines flowing—it can turn Droopy the Dog into a hyper Chihuahua. Ole!
Overall, normal caffeine use hasn't been shown to cause heart problems such as arrhythmias, heart attacks, or higher blood pressure. But in caffeine-naïve persons, caffeine has been shown to raise the systolic blood pressure by 10mm Hg. Also elderly folks and those with high blood pressure can have elevated blood pressure from caffeine.
People with heart arrhythmias or coronary heart disease are often advised not to consume caffeine because there is some evidence that caffeine use (especially two or more cups of coffee a day) presents an increased risk of heart attack and arrhythmias.
Also, smoking and caffeine synergize to harden arteries, which is another reason people shouldn't smoke.
I wonder where my college math professor is now. (If you are reading this, "Hi, sorry I was such a spaz!") If I were she, I would teach at Columbia. I hear Columbia grows great coffee beans.
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with a local practice. Email him with your questions.


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Oracle Kodo JPA/JDO is deprecated in this release. Customers are encouraged to consider using Oracle TopLink.
Oracle TopLink is an advanced, object-persistence and object-transformation framewok that fully implements the JPA 1.0 specification and serves as the reference implementation for the JPA expert group. It provides development tools and run-time capabilities that reduce development and maintenance efforts, and increase enterprise application functionality. For more information, see Oracle TopLink.
Kodo JPA/JDO is Oracles's implementation of Sun's Java Persistence API (JPA) specification and Java Data Objects (JDO) specification for the transparent persistence of Java objects. This document provides an overview of these persistence standards and technical details on the use of Kodo JPA/JDO.
To quickly get started with JPA, you may want to begin at Section 1.2, "Kodo JPA Tutorial". If you would prefer to start with an introduction to the concepts of JPA, begin with Chapter 1, Introduction.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
My Resolutions for 2011
Resolution #1: Be happy.
Resolution #2: Be active (mentally and physically).
I have been pretty down lately. Not sure if it's just the winter blues or something more. I've been trying to make some changes that will help me through to the spring. The first step is to get my blood pumping so I'm not so fatigued all the damn time. (I still am without a diagnosis to explain this constant symptom.) My in-laws gave me some Zumba workout DVDs for Christmas and I think doing a few workouts a week will help me feel a little more energetic this winter. I'm also starting back up with a very basic lifting routine to hopefully prevent any future incidence of oesteoparosis. (Something wee ones like myself must think about long before old age.)
I've also been involved in several freelance projects that are keeping my mind busy this winter. (Bonus: The extra money from these projects will help us make some much needed updates to the house this spring.)
So, that's that. What are you hoping to achieve this year?
11 comments:
- Hillary said...
I want to learn how to use my new camera. That's pretty much it :) I don't want to overwhelm myself with resolutions and then not accomplish any.
- January 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM
- Tam said...
I like these. Smart and simple.
I feel ya on the winter/job blues - we need to get together for coffee pretty lady!
- January 4, 2011 at 11:50 PM
- saraH said...
I'm with ya! Simple is the way to go with these type of things.
- January 5, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Katelin said...
those sound like two excellent goals to me, good luck!
- January 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM
certainly hope you do not have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I have battled this for 20 years.
- January 6, 2011 at 3:34 PM
- angelasw said...
1. Your goals are the same as mine!
2. Do petite people really have a higher incidence of early osteoperosis? This is frightening news for me!
3. How do you get freelance work? I could seriously use some extra cash.
- January 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Mermanda said...
Angela, I'm a professional writer and social media administrator--and my freelance assignments are related to both skill sets. I write for a local website (about 5 articles per week) and am putting together some content on specific social media topics for a company that offers courses on social media.
My suggestion for someone who wants to start freelancing is to monitor opportunities within their skillset on craigslist job boards (which is how I found my online writing gig) and to let friends and colleagues know they are looking as well. Be wary with Craigslist, though. You never know if you will end up working with a reputable company that will actually pay you for the work you do. I lucked out with mine.
Good luck!
- January 10, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- Holly said...
I like your resolutions. I think they make a lot of sense! :)
- January 20, 2011 at 11:44 PM
- Krysten @ Why Girls Are Weird said...
All I want is to have a better year than last year. I think that should be pretty easy to accomplish!
- January 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- sarah marie p said...
Active & happy sounds like a good plan to me! Which reminds me -- I need to get to the gym & read some books! Hope your year is going great so far!
- January 28, 2011 at 1:18 AM
- led sign said...
very beautiful~~
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Each month when it is time for the monthly design team review post, I find myself wondering where the month went! I don't know about you, but for me September flew by! As the days start growing cooler and shorter, I am finding life slowing down a bit from busy summer activities. Slower family schedules mean more crafty time for me. If it means that for you too, you will love the assortment of crafty projects from our team this month. These projects and tutorials were all featured on their blogs and all are full of great Sizzix inspiration. Enjoy!
Amy Friend once again wow's with this fabulous quilted pillow. You definitely want to take a closer look on her blog to check out the gorgeous details! Find the tutorial here: http://duringquiettime.blogspot.com/2012/09/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-pillow-cover.html.
Anna- Karin Evaldsson create this Pop 'n Cuts card that is full of whimsy and fun. I find myself smiling at it each time I see it! Find the tutorial on her blog at: http://layersofink.blogspot.com/2012/09/pop-up-tutorial.html.
Gretchen Schmidt wow's again with a fun Halloween Pop 'n Cuts card. Trust me when I tell you that you need to click through to her blog to see the inside! Gretchen's tutorial is here: http://gscrapbooks.blogspot.
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Hilary Kanwischer is simply the queen of homespun vintage styled goodness! In her tutorial for this pillow she shares how she used a die cut to create an embroidery pattern. Find the tutorial at: http://hilaryscraps.typepad.com/hilary_kanwischer/2012/09/bewitching-hour-halloween-mini-pillow.html.
Jan Hobbins... what can I say? This project by Jan simply took my breath away. I found myself zooming in on the photos of it trying to take in all of the fabulous details. Trust me when I say you must click through to her blog to see more: http://janhobbins.blogspot.ca/2012/09/altered-chalkboard-easel.html.
Jeanne Streiff is a card making machine! Her blog is always packed with card making ideas that range from clean and simple to detail packed. I love that for this card she used the super adorable Happi Scotty die to create a fun and simple Halloween card. Check out the details on her blog: http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2012/09/29/halloween-scotty/.
Melony Bradley is a master at turning plain clothing into something fabulous. These t-shirst are a perfect example of how she uses craft products to turn the ordinary into extraordinary! Find her tutorial on her blog at: http://mel-designs.typepad.com/my-blog/2012/09/heat-transferred-t-shirts-with-neenah-epc-film.html.
Richele Christensen created this fun notepad with the eclips and Stamp2Cut. Her inking technique is not only amazing, but also draws attention to the detail cut Eiffel Tower that was cut with Stamp2Cut. You can get all of the details on her blog: http://californiaartgirl.blogspot.com/2012/09/stamp2cut-paris-notepad.html.
Ronda Palazzari is in my book, the undisputed queen of color and layers! I love how she layers on vibrant color and textures, creating project that are so rich and vibrant. I love that you can look at her pieces again and again and see something new. Be sure to visit her blog to learn more about this tag: http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com/helpmeronda/2012/09/live-tag.html.
Shelly Hickox is a master at detail. Her projects leave no detail left undone. Look closely and you will always find a detail you hadn't noticed before. Find Shelly's tutorial for this card at: http://shellyhickox.blogspot.com/2012/09/inspiration-journal-monthly-challenge.html.
Tamara Tripodi is our resident eclips pro! She makes crafting with the eclips not only look easy, but also gives me many a-ha moments when I see how limitless electronic cutting can be. This project is no exception! Tamara demonstrates how to turn simple metal pails into charming and unique holiday decor. Find out how here: http://happylifecraftywife.com/?p=1661.
Tammy Roberts' blog is called Paperie Sweetness, which is so appropriate because Tammy's work is sweetness personified! The masterful way she combines paper, fabric, and vintage elements is simply perfect! This strawberry box project is so amazing! Find the tutorial and details here: http://paperiesweetness.blogspot.com/2012/09/sweet-strawberries.html.
Tammy Tutterow for my project this month I shared a card I created for CHA Summer showcasing the new Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die. I truly love this die and love the way the finished card turned out. You can read the details about the card on my blog here: http://tammytutterow.typepad.com/tammy_tutterow/2012/09/tim-holtz-tattered-poinsettia-card.html .
Tiffany Johnson created this fun card using the new Mustache Textured Impressions and I simply adore it! I love that the mustaches give the card a fun feel while adding detail. I think you can't help but smile looking at it! She shares a tutorial of how she created the card on her blog at: http://iheartartblog.com/?p=10659
I know I am partial, but I think the Sizzix design team is such an amazingly talented group. They inspire me and show me over and over just how versatile crafting with dies is. I hope that their projects this month on the Sizzix blog and on their own blogs has inspired you too!


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Balance Bar Company has always been one of the leaders when it comes to nutrition energy bars and is always creative and at the forefront of the industry and to give you the best tasting bars yet, they recently introduced its new Balance Bar Dark line. Following the standard 40-30-30 model but taking the rest of the bar to the next level, this bar is likely to raise the standard for all nutrition bars. Splash Magazines Worldwide will be offering one lucky reader a sample back of the new bars to try out.
Available in three decadent flavors all featuring dark chocolate coating – Dark Chocolate Crunch, Dark Chocolate Coconut and Dark Chocolate Peanut– this is the first nutrition bar line on the market to bear the well-respected Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal. The new Balance Bar Dark bars are high in protein, certified gluten free, an excellent source of antioxidants (Vitamins A, C, E), certified kosher dairy and contain 4 grams of fiber per serving. As with all Balance Bar products, the new Dark line follows the 40-30-30 nutrition principle– a proven formula developed by scientists to help stabilize blood sugar levels that represents the caloric ratio the body needs to enjoy lasting balanced energy and satisfy hunger for longer; 40% of total calories from carbs, 30% from quality protein and 30% from dietary fat.
"High quality nutrition that tastes great is a standard for Balance Bar and we are very excited to marry those core principles with improved ingredient sourcing," said Peter Wilson, President and CEO of Balance Bar Company. "Rainforest Alliance certification assures consumers that our cocoa beans are grown on sustainably managed farms that protect people and their surrounding ecosystems of water, soil and wildlife."
"When a company like Balance Bar commits to sourcing cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms it benefits the environment, workers, their families and communities," explained Tensie Whelan, president of the Rainforest Alliance. "The green frog seal is an easy way for consumers to identify products that have been grown and harvested using sustainable and responsible practices."
For more information on Balance Bar Dark Bars, visit: http://www.balance.com/varieties/dark/
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|August 2, 2013, 05:39 PM
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I need practice
You guys have probably seen this or a variation of this hundreds of times but I'm going to tell a short story anyway.
Yesterday I went down to the IWL range with a couple standard 100 yard rifle targets set up at approx 15yds and fired about 8 mags of 10 shots at the five circles on the sheet. Groupings were about 3" with a few 6-10" flyers, not bad for taking about 4 months off I thought.
Then I found a silhouette target that had only a couple of holes in it so put it up and moved it to about 7 yards, loaded 2 mags with 10 rounds each and shot in groups of 5, 3 torso, 2 head, very rapid fire.
Learned that I need practice and that I better get better in case I need to be. Most shots were left of target, may have grazed an outer body area, but clearly not center mass shots. The 4th set of 5 was a little better, not much.
It is one thing to shoot 2-handed slowly at a target, another thing entirely to rapid fire. May need to look into IDPA or similar to improve and correct the left pull. Perhaps I need to borrow a 9mm or .45 and see if the recoil makes a difference. Either way, I need practice.
Thought I'd share.
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|August 2, 2013, 11:30 PM
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You don't say how long you've been shooting nor what caliber. It must be bigger than .45 if you call that less recoil. I would suggest 9mm for less recoil. Less recoil will help, but it sounds like you've got more problems than that.
I think any kind of action shooting will improve your shooting. If you are concerned about self-defense, IDPA and USPSA are both good practice. I do both every week.
Find a professional instructor to give you a private lesson to evaluate your shooting. He will look at stance, grip, trigger pull, and other things (flinching, recoil anticipation, etc.). A one hour lesson shouldn't cost more than $50 or so and is well worth it. He will give you things to work on.
|August 2, 2013, 11:45 PM
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On the other hand, shooting within my ability never seems to feel really fast even when the timer says otherwise.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it takes time to progress from shooting slowly and accurately to shooting rapidly and accurately and that progress is best made by trying to eliminate wasted time as opposed to trying to go fast.
From a practical standpoint, what does that mean? It means a lot of things, but here are a few to work on.
You don't need to stare a hole into the paper over the front sight. Once you see a good sight picture, you're good to go--let the shot break. If it doesn't hit where the sights are pointing then you yanked the trigger and you need to work on trigger control.
Don't waste time blinking and don't lose track of the front sight. If you have to open your eyes after every shot and reacquire the front sight, you're wasting time that is better used lining up the front sight. If you're not seeing muzzle flash for each shot then you're blinking and that's wasting time.
You can shoot or you can score, but you can't do both well. While you're shooting, SHOOT. Make sure you're working your fundamentals properly and the on-target results will take care of themselves. Resist the temptation to count hits or keep score between shots. When you're done shooting THEN you can score.
You need to be able to maintain your grip through the entire shot string. If you find that you're having to adjust your grip between shots, or every other shot, then you need to work on your grip, or look for a handgun/cartridge system that fits you better.
You shouldn't be having to work to line up the sights for followup shots. If the gun isn't settling back into a decent sight picture after recoil then you need to work on controlling the gun. You can't keep it from moving, but you can adjust your grip and stance so that the recoil causes the gun to move consistently and settle back after recoil so that it's more or less in the same position it was before the shot.
Don't let your trigger finger get lazy. Don't RUSH, but try to keep your trigger finger in motion. It should always be either pulling or releasing the trigger.
Don't let the gun push you around. If you're finding that the cumulative effect of recoil during a shot string is pushing you back or changing your stance, then you need to work on a more aggressive stance. Lean forward a little bit, position your weight a little more on your forward foot and keep your knees bent a little bit.
In other words, you want to make your shooting more efficient, more smooth. That will pay immediate dividends in speed without costing you significantly in terms of accuracy. As you continue to practice, you will find that your speed increases even more--but the focus should never be on TRYING to go fast, but rather on trying to be efficient.
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|August 5, 2013, 10:06 PM
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GJ, I've only been shooting handguns for about a year and a half, and have a couple of FNP40s. I have for the most part tried to take advice from here and work it into my practice sessions and generally have trained myself away from flinching and anticipating the recoil. I've shot a few other calibers but don't see much difference when shooting a full sized gun. On the other hand, shooting a LCR .357 leaves quite an impression, and a colt 1911 .22 hardly moves or makes a sound when I shoot.
John, thanks for the advice also. When I shoot, I will change my stance occasionally to find the most stable position. Not blinking is where I need work and while I try to watch the shell fly and gas discharge, I most often blink anyway and need to keep the front sight in sight. I'm working on that and will work on the suggestions you gave.
Appreciate the help,
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|August 6, 2013, 08:39 PM
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For the most part, JohnSKa offers good advice. I might add that if you are a right handed shooter, you are probably anticipating the trigger break which causes you to yank the gun to the left.
Further, develop your accuracy and the speed will follow. An important element of developing your marksmanship and speed can be accomplished in the comfort of your own home without having to spend tons of moola on ammo. Dry practice will take you where you want to go by refining trigger and breath control. Pick your"target". When the trigger breaks your front sight should be exactly where it was prior to the break. Practice, practice, practice. Develop your accuracy and as I said, the rest will fall into place.
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|August 6, 2013, 09:04 PM
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I'm not an expert but I think that, for a right-hander (I'm a lefty) shooting to the left is not recoil related; it's often caused by contacting the trigger too close to the tip of the finger (too little finger). Shooting to the right would be too much finger.
|August 7, 2013, 01:07 AM
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When focusing your eyes, you can have the rear sights or front sight or target in focus. Focus on the front sight. The target will be a little fuzzy, but that's OK. Always focus on the front sight. See the front sight all the time; see it rise and fall back.
There should be a 70%-30% (some say 60-40) balance in grip strength between your weak or support hand and your strong or trigger hand. When you squeeze too tightly with your strong hand you interfere with your trigger finger which needs to move smoothly and easily. I find my own accuracy is always better when I grip strongly with my support hand.
As JohnKSa said, don't look at where your shot went until you are done shooting. This is because you will look too quickly and mess up your follow through.
Also, if you are learning to shoot for self-defense, than you need defensive like shooting practice all the time. When the SHTF, you will be under a lot of stress and will automatically do what you trained to do, which isn't necessarily what you want to do if you didn't train correctly. Your fine motor control goes to hell. You get tunnel vision. That's why some kind of timed competition helps because it puts some pressure on you. It will give you a good idea about tunnel vision. It's also important to learn to clear jams. Once way to practice is to get some snap caps (dummy rounds) and in a magazine of 10, place two or three randomly. Make sure you don't know where they are. When your gun goes "click" instead of "Bang", you'll have to rack the slide. This will also help you notice if you are anticipating recoil or flinching.
|August 7, 2013, 01:11 AM
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I need practice
If you think you are inaccurate there, go shoot a competition where you actually have some pressure. It will make you a better shooter, and it can help in the event that you ever have to use a firearm to defend yourself.
|August 7, 2013, 01:29 AM
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The thing about rapid fire is that it doesn't necessarily mean emptying a whole mag at one target as quickly as possible.
Try two or three shots and then switch targets. Make each shot carefully and concentrate on follow through.
Try to make your speed by retaining your sight picture and bringing you gun back in line. Trigger pull should be smooth.
|August 11, 2013, 09:15 AM
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Concentrate on hitting COM with the FIRST shot. That's the most important one.
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But it is far more important what a man refuses to stand for.
|August 11, 2013, 10:49 AM
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What worked for me was moving the target close enough to hit and ignoring the looks and s******s from everyone else. Which turned out to be close enough for powder residue on the paper...
When I could hit the target reliably at that range, I moved the target back a yard until I could hit it reliably again. Wash, lather, repeat.
Past a certain point I start patterning like a shotugn, but I know what my group size should be at any given range. My gun is just fine, I'm just a lousy shot... but I know fairly accurately how lousy I am, and in a tactical situation, I can make an informed decision about whether it's safe to take a shot or if I'm more likely to be shooting scenery.
|August 11, 2013, 11:02 AM
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Several things needed.
Get a dummy all metal 'non-gun' that is the same dimensions as your defensive gun.
Also, if possible, a .22 version of your defensive gun.
In the house or garage use the non-gun to practice drawing, pivots, retention shooting, concealed draws, weak handed draws, etc.. that way alot of your gun handling skills will be learned before the range, not on the range.
Then on the range a .22 version allows you to go back to the basics and again practice. Try to draw and fire no more than 2 shots per string. Re-holster and do it again. All shooting should be from the leather (or Kydex as is used alot today.) You can practice such things as hip shooting, transitions, weak handed and strong handed shooting, etc...
Go slow at first and by then end of the session speed up some.
Then go to your defensive gun and redo the basics all over.
By the end of the session your shooting arm should be very tired and sore the next day.
After a few months (with weekly shooting practice and nightly gun handling skills with the non-gun) THEN go do a IDPA match!
The IDPA match is not training but a test to see WHERE YOU ARE with your training. Note weak performance areas and adjust your training to get better in those weak areas.
And then make this a hobby/avocation and not a chore to do and you will find your skills far better than you ever though they could be.
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|September 23, 2013, 11:41 PM
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Another quick comment: Rapid fire drills need to be developed by starting slow and working your way into speed and accuracy. If your rounds are left, assuming you are a right handed shooter, it may be one or a combination of two different faults. The most obvious is that you are slapping the trigger anticipating the trigger break and/or you are squeezing the gun too hard. You should have a relaxed grip on the gun with your support hand pushing isometrically against the strong hand to keep the gun from moving laterally and reducing muzzle flip. Keep your eye on the front sight and back on target between shots as rapidly and as comfortably as you can. It is a skill that must be developed. Don't exceed your skill level...it must be built up.
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|September 24, 2013, 08:27 AM
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The problem when trying to go fast is the "trying" part of it actually keeps you from going fast. Instead of concentrating on speed, concentrate on smoothness. As the smoothness improves, the speed naturally increases. My MA students quickly found themselves throwing faster and faster strikes "naturally" without actually trying to do it.
I sometimes think speed is overrated. In competition, it is everything, but in true SD situations, I am not so sure. True, there are situations where the second shot of a double tap came just in time to prevent a shot from being returned. But that can be said for any speed. The product of speed times accuracy is sometimes thought of as a good indicator of effectiveness. But I am thinking shot placement trumps speed. A poorly place fast shot is probably not as good as a well placed slower shot.
Anyway, this is a fantastic thread with great advice from so many. I think I am actually going to print it out. Thanks folks!
|September 24, 2013, 08:50 AM
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OP, I've been shooting pistols since I was 12 years old. Never allowed to do rapid fire or double/triple taps. My uncles and my father always brought me to the range to shoot target. As I got older and before the police academy I started training. Not just shooting, but training. I went above great because of all those years adding up in over a decade of shooting, learning trigger reset and recoil management was an excellent muscle memory tuning that I was blessed with, but at the time I didn't understand why they didn't let me. Also, a lot of ranges here in Miami don't allow it anyways.
My eyes opened up like Daniel-san in Karate Kid, with painting the fence and waxing the car. You gotta crawl before you can walk.
|September 24, 2013, 10:08 AM
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Have a look at this past thread on How to improve speed while maintaining accuracy with semi-auto pistols?. There were some good tips there.
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
|September 24, 2013, 11:50 AM
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As it has already been stated but , make sure you have mastered the fundamentals enough before trying to improve speed and accuracy.
Stance: Knees unlocked, Upper lean driving the pistol to the target. Head and shoulders forward.
Grip: proper finger/thumb placement. Proper placement and grip of supporting arm. Proper resting position and use of it as well. Palms to chest, weapon pointed down range.
Trigger: Proper finger placement. Fluid pressing/squeezing trigger even quickly so long as your not jerking.
Sights: Proper sight picture does not mean perfect shot bulls eye aim. It's close picture, press, recover, close picture press recover.
If one thing is off, grip, stance, trigger pull, go back and work on it. get those fluid and memorized to muscle. Then work on speed.
If you ever have to use a firearm, you don't get to pick the scenario!
|September 24, 2013, 01:07 PM
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To lay it all out:
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
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Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update August - September 2011
High season for the Olive Ridley turtles.
Finally the high season for turtle nest collection is here, and at the Projects Abroad Turtle camp we feel really glad that we have a chance once more to be part of the effort to preserve large numbers of the Olive Ridley species. Already we have been able to collect over 900 nests, and we anticipate that before the end of September we will reach 1500 nests. It's a really good start as we havealreadyexceeded our own expectations.
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The much anticipated birth of the new baby crocodiles finally took place, however sadly due to a combination ofexcessive rains and very high humidity levels this summer, a large number of the offspring did not survive. Nevertheless there was a few that made it out alive. They were collected and are now in the pools where in the coming months they will be branded and measured so that their growth can be monitored.
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"I'm just a lonely pilgrim.
I walk this world in wealth
want to know if it's you I don't trust
'cause I damn sure don't trust myself"
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Why do people run through large sums of money quickly?
I've devoted over 30 years of my life finding the answer to this question.
When you hear about Powerball Jack Whitaker running through the millions that he received from the lottery or Alan Iverson, who has none of the $154 million he made as a professional basketball star, you wonder what happened.
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A report by the National Endowment for Financial Education said that 70 percent who receive a lump sum, from any source run through it in a few years.
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1. Family and friends. People try to "buy" love and friendship or they feel compelled to show off by buying houses, cars, clothes and items. As Will Rogers used to say, "They are spending money they don't have to impress people they don't know."
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3. Taking the money in a lump sum. Social Security, defined benefit pension plans and many other programs pay out money over a lifetime instead of in a lump sum. They know that people will run through a lump sum quickly and be broke. I'm in the structured settlement and annuity business and have been successful as I am not a peddler of products; I am a hard core, true believer. I know the people who are happiest are those who have a monthly check coming in that they can count on.
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5. Not having a purpose for their money. My father was a professional gambler and owned bars. As a child, it would stun me to see men who had toiled all week in a steel mill or hard-labor job come into a bar and gamble a week's pay in one night. The workers knew how to make money, but had no purpose for it.
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Blowing money aimlessly is not a purpose.
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Re: Linking my fortran subroutines with Mathematica
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Hi Many thanks. Won't you have an example? Cheers Ed -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Scheibe [mailto:pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:35 PM To: emamm Cc: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg111296] Re: [mg111250] Linking my fortran subroutines with Mathematica Hi, just make a wrapper for your Fortran functions so you can call them from C. Once this is done you can simply call them through the MathLink. You could start by compiling your Fortran functions into a .so or .dll or however the shared libraries are called on your OS. Then create a MathLink-template and call those functions from there.. I really don't know how to explain this better since it is straight forward and you should have a running example in a few minutes. Cheers Patrick On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 01:58 -0400, emamm wrote: > Hello > > I am new to Mathematica. Although I have searched the web for answers > on how to link fortran to Mathematica without buying MathCode F90, I > have not found good examples on how to link Fortran to Mathematica. > > All my fortran functions were modified to accept a C-wrapper. I did > that to link them to another system. I have no problem to create mex files on > either Windows or Linux using gcc,gfortran or g95 (all free > compilers!). My fortran functions work exactly as m-file on the other system > with lots of input and output arguments - The input arguments > determine the size of the output arguments via malloc on C. > > I believe that there is something similar to a mex file for > Mathematica but the documentation on Wolfram's site does not give me > much information. > > Would someone out there have a nice, neat example (not too simple, > please - addrow from Wolfram's site is way too simple!) on how to link > fortran to Mathematica? > > Many thanks > > Ed > > > PS. MathCode F90 seems to do what I want but for a a price (and what a > price!). >