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Post Office of Shimla
At here the tourist can take the elevator (lift) to The Mall Street, the one way fare is Rs 8 per adult, (child 3 year old and below is free)
This show the Indian Government is much concern of his people health. GOOD!
Night scene of Shimla .... from The Mall street
I think this is the largest piece of flat land in Shimla......
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Shimla Railway Station is 2234m (6810 feet) above sea level. Kalka-Shimla Railway line has been granted 'World Heritage Status' by UNESCO.
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Pat lacks 'butter'
I enjoyed John Kanelis' Oct. 3 column, "Buchanan finally has gone too far."
As far as I am concerned, Pat Buchanan doesn't even have the "butter" for his "noodles"!
Both sides shown in prayer debate
Both sides of the prayer coin were shown on Sept. 19. Three cheers for the students of Celina High School for freely exercising their religious freedom.
J.F. Howell showed the other side of the coin in his Sept. 19 column, in which he said, "The Bill of Rights was adopted to thwart the majority."
I have read the Bill of Rights several times and have not found any reference to thwarting the rights of the majority. However, I do find in the Declaration of Independence that we are "endowed by (our) Creator (God) with certain unalienable Rights."
Neither is there anything in the Constitution prohibiting religious activities. In fact, the First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech."
This amendment prohibits the government from using its power to establish a state religion by giving our tax money to any religious school or church, as is done in some countries in Europe and Asia. It ties the hands of the government but not of religion.
No one denied this or complained about school prayer until the rise of atheistic communism and the establishment of the United Nations.
As for having no respect for other religious beliefs, let's turn this around and ask: Does this atheistic minority not have any respect for the majority's right to have prayer in school and sports activities, as guaranteed by our Constitution? This is tyranny by the minority. They are becoming tyrants, and God help us if we are ever disarmed.
Patrick Henry said, "We are a Christian nation." In his farewell speech, George Washington said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which led to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
We are "one nation under God" - keep praying to him.
Metric system would have worked
A $125 million space probe crashes into Mars, and one American - yours truly - thinks it may have been a good thing that it happened, for several reasons. One reason brings to mind a subject I've long carried a banner for.
How many years have I cried out in the dark, exclaiming the need for our country to quit wasting time and catch up with the rest of the world? But no, the arrogant American refuses to accept the metric system.
Maybe now, with this recent crashing of the Mars space probe, some of our arrogant and stubborn senators and representatives, and Paul Harvey too, will have a new-found reason to stop yelling "never" whenever the word "metric" is mentioned.
To be sure, it'll take more than this one incident to sway the whole country, but at least it's something to point to whenever the subject is brought up.
One hundred twenty-five million dollars and how many years in the dumper because someone used the fractions system to calculate thrust? But, as costly as it was, the space probe was peanuts compared to the millions of dollars and hours that are wasted every day, in all manner of manufacturing, as the American worker struggles to convert fractions. You can't calculate fractions on a computer, regardless of how big and fast it is, or how many zillion diodes it has - not without converting.
So what's the point? Mistakes? Disaster? Wasted time and resources?
For me, the Mars probe accident is validation. But for the talk show hosts, columnists and letter writers, both local and national, who have denounced my cause over the years - I told you so!
Has society lost its way?
As a regular reader of the opinions and editorials I am always interested in another person's opinion.
However, lately the number of letters about the Camp-Deneke case have left me wondering if perhaps we have lost our way just a bit. Many people wonder where justice has gone, or wonder why justice wasn't done in this case. Obviously, those are just a matter of viewpoint.
Would sending Dustin Camp to jail for any length of time be justice? To some yes, to others no.
In either case it wouldn't help Brian Deneke. Our system is geared toward mercy, toward turning the offender into a better person and perhaps a productive member of society.
It is with this viewpoint that the sentence was most likely viewed by the jury.
It is impossible to write laws that will suit the sense of justice of all 20 million citizens of our state.
No matter how you write or enforce the laws, somebody is always going to be unsatisfied. One rule we might want to consider is if you don't want to get hurt don't get into a fight. Both young men violated that rule with consequences for each.
We all want the justice system to apply its rules fairly and evenly, at least until it includes us. Then it seems all right to lie, cheat, expend any and all financial resources to use every legal loophole and excuse to gain a not guilty verdict or at least contain the damage to ourselves to a minimum.
That, to sum up, is the problem.
Our system is a reflection of our society or more directly of us. If the system is flawed it is because we are flawed. We spend infinitely more time worrying about our rights than our responsibilities.
If you have ever heard yourself or another tell a small lie to a policeman to get out of a ticket, especially with children in the car listening, you have just subverted justice.
If you ever didn't come forward with information in a crime you have thwarted the system. If you ever found a way out of serving on a jury you've committed a crime yourself. If you have ever not voted, or voted without being informed on the candidates or issues, you have thrown a monkey wrench in the works.
Don't think for a second your own little opinion or contribution (or lack thereof) doesn't matter. If you want to know where justice went look in the mirror, the answer is close by. There are so many good people in Potter and Randall counties, indeed the world.
I go to work every day with the hope that I can help a good person in a time of need.
However, we can always use more good people. If you want the system to be better, find a way to make yourself a better person. If you become better, so will the system.
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However, TomTom should not have removed these features in the first place, or at least should have allowed EasyMenu to be disabled in favor of "classic" menus.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Horridly non-customizable, and forced subscriptions.,
This review is from: TomTom XL 350M 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Lifetime Maps Edition)(Discontinued by Manufacturer) (Wireless Phone Accessory)
I had a TomTom 330S, but it was 3 years old and the map was old and it seemed a good idea to just get a brand new one with lifetime maps. I am SO sad and disappointed.
My old 330S is such a nicer unit .. the new map was nice though, so I will pay $100 for the new map now. Ready for my list .. this is what they TOOK AWAY.
- No auto-dimming.
- No auto power off option (when you turn your car off)
- No POI features .. they give you tons but you cannot add your own or even set up POI to alert you (handy for doing your own speed camera file).
- No screen or menu customization .. the display is the display, so for instance 2D-3D toggle is dead centre and I endlessly would keep flipping between the two by accident -- would be nice optionally not have it on the MAIN screen.
- Numbers are itty bitty now and you are forced to have information you may or may not find useful. for instance counting down the time to arrival, I just need the estimated time of arrival .. too much information takes my eyes onger to find what I need (which is a MAJOR factor and pest when driving).
- no map "log a point" feature anymore, so harder to fix errors (granted the map probably has way fewer errors to worry about).
- the map .. it take a good hour to download and install. it was nice, but was wondering if I was up to doing that every 3 months.
- only one additional dash sticky disk (the idea being they gave you two in case you had a couple cars, or change the vehicle you had. Just seemed cheap.
I am pretty certain that these new units are designed to have no customization, and any "feature" has to be turned on and controlled by TomTom -- ie. subscription to say a unique POI warning.
On a good note, the speaker seemed better .. a tad deeper and that gave it a quality sound more.
I have been buying TomTom (this would have been the 5th) because like just flipping over my speed camera, school zones, tim horton, bank POI file (and setting the speed camera up with an alert). I bought one for my niece and dad and I would just give them my file to drop in. With these new restrictions -- it is VERY likely I will look at other brands very carefully as there is no reason for me to stick to this "format" anymore. If this is your first GPS and are happy signing up to their subscriptions etc .. you probably will find it is just fine as you essentially have nothing better to compare it too.
Very disappointed .. let down I guess.
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I had the same disappointment you had. The "EasyMenu" system is a MAJOR step backwards. However, it is possible to recover most of the functionality by installing a custom menu file - http://www.tomtomforums.com/tomtom-one-st
However, TomTom should not have removed these features in the first place, or at least should have allowed EasyMenu to be disabled in favor of "classic" menus.
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U.S. Congress "Surprised" by the Cost of Wasted Weather Satellite Opportunities
[Satellite News 09-26-11] While congressional committees work to trim the United States' costs by targeting valuable science and weather satellite programs, Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Andy Harris (R- Md.) admitted during a Sept. 23 House hearing that the government has already spent more than $6 billion on satellites that have yet to launch.
Much needed satellite projects, including those under the management of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have taken as long as 17 years, more than $6 billion in taxpayer money and three complete project overhauls to complete, according to Harris. The NOAA's existing National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOES) was originally scheduled to launch six weather-tracking satellites before 2018. Harris highlighted the fact that the program has yet to launch the first test satellite into orbit.
"This is the poster child of a runaway government program that is over-promised, over-budget and, honestly, under-performed," said Harris.
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Director of Information Technology Management Issues David Powner responded by laying some of the blame for the blame on Harris and the rest of Congress, which has "failed to pass a year-long budget bill since 1997."
Powner said the reason these weather projects have not been able to work off of a steady baseline is because Congress has failed to appropriate bursts of funding through continuing resolutions. "One of most difficult things for a project manager is uncertainty. The more re-plannings we have to do, the more uncertainty there is, the more difficult it is for us to accomplish our goals," said Powner. "[The NOAA's] Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), for example, will now create two satellites – one that's set to launch Oct. 25 and another that won't hit the skies until 2017. By that time the total price tag is expected to balloon to more than $17 billion."
Congressional opponents of these programs will find it difficult to argue that the budget war's cost effects surprised them. In February of 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration announced a significant restructuring of the NPOESS Program. The administration gave the NOAA primary responsibility for the afternoon polar environmental satellite orbit and assigned the U.S. Department of Defense to take primary responsibility for the early morning orbit.
The administration's 2011 full-year fiscal budget aimed to put the critical NPOESS program on a more sustainable path to launch, calling the satellite system a, "national priority – essential to meeting both civil and military weather-forecasting, storm-tracking, and climate-monitoring requirements," according to its published report.
The administration also admitted that the program is behind schedule, over budget, and underperforming, citing independent reports and findings from an administration task force that concluded that the current program could not be successfully executed with the current management structure, and with the current budget structure.
"These challenges originate in large part because of a combination of management deficiencies that result from conflicting perspectives and priorities among the three agencies that manage the program. Serious lapses in capabilities loom as a result," the report said.
In 2002, the NPOESS program was estimated to cost approximately $6.5 billion for development and operations through 2018 and consisted of an initial NASA satellite to test the new sensors for launch in early 2006 and six NPOESS platforms in three orbits, the first of which was to be launched in early 2009.
The program encountered numerous technical and management challenges, which led to restructuring of the NPOESS program in 2006 due to cost over-runs that triggered Congressionally mandated recertification. The restructured program reduced the scale of the program from six main satellites in three orbits to four satellites in two orbits.
"The NPP launch has been delayed to 2011, and the launch of the first NPOESS platform was expected to be in late 2014. These would each be delays of five years from the original plan. At that time, the new life cycle cost estimate through 2024, due to delays, was approximately $12 billion for this reduced capability. The current official baseline life-cycle cost estimate is approximately $13.9 billion," the administration's report said.
The GAO also cited these announcements, and once again, blamed Congressional inaction for the growing cost issues. Satellite company executives were hesitant to comment on the issue, but noted that this is a trend that they have been dealing with for quite some time.


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"Pristina, Kosovo - Home of OSCE" Kosovo by posejc
Kosovo Travel Guide: 9 reviews and 155 photos
Pristina - HQ for OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation of Europe) - Went there as an IT Officer (Commissioned by the State Department) - Bureaucratic nightmare - where anything or anyone that is or belongs to the USA - is not be identified as such - they don't want to have the US influence anywhere (except the expertise and money!) - but I regress!.. work was interesting - even though uneventful - assisted in setting up the LAN/WAN Network and directing Austrian contractors (most from Bulgaria!) on installing the Network Cabling (CATV/VI) to replace the FDDI (Fiber Optics) Network that was damaged during the NATO Strikes (Precision Bombing they call it!) - and tried to finish up the full install of the network - Wrote the Help Desk Manual - and tried to get one of my Albanian employees to translate it into both Serb and Albanian!.. but never did get to see if it ever was done!..
Well for one - we where to stay in apartments - I ended up having to pay for my own accommodations!. - using Deutch Marks - in a Serb Building where the lights where cut off each evening around 6pm - some Albanian must have had the controls to it - All the other apartment complexes that had Albanians in it - where all having lights!.. so mostly you went out to eat - and tried to take a shower and /or do a Japanese whore bath (using water and a steel pot! and sponge!) to get cleaned up!.. Most facilities, restaurants, pizza places where all filled - smoke everywhere - it gags you as you get in - there was not one place in Pristina - maybe except the restaurant near the HQ - that was smokeless!... Seems to be very prevalent all over Europe - but fortunately they are changing that!.. hopefully!.. I hate to have to smell, breath someone else's smoke!.. I had quit long ago - and I hate to eat my dinner smelling like a cigar or cigarette!..
One thing you do not do - is Speak Serbian!.. Anywhere - except maybe in the Northen enclave of Mitrovica! - where I went there with a dear friend of mine (I would have married her - but it was not to be!) Irma Phirtskhalaishvili - who was working with the UNHDIR in OSCE's part of that country - trying to install and setup the Democratization Process and Election Processes!..
Drive around by yourself!.. never never do that!.. always drive in pairs and preferrably in a Armored Vehicle - I remember me and my friends drove to Greece on a weekend in an Armored Jeep - It was great finally relaxing in the home port of Thellasonica in Greece - near the beach - in a 4 star rated hotel - near the beach front - all peaceful - no bullets and firing anywhere - just the sound of traffic jams and people walking around near the beach and the restaurants overlooking the ocean!.. ah!.. relaxing!.. took nearly one hour to get thru the border to Macedonia - only one road - way high - and traffic for miles!.. truckers lined up for miles - and I mean miles - and only one way or nearly one way of traffic!.. and thats on both ends of the tunnel that leads to Macedonnia (Skopje to be exact) - its amazing to see - never have I seen some many trucks lined up to come and go - mostly empty on the way south - and filled to the hilt on the way back up!.. the mountainous road was very very small (only two way traffic! as most of these country roads are!) - and full of curves and high precipices to the right or left!.. going 100 if not even 1000 of feet down - no guard rails!.. except on bridges!.. One site I saw that amazed me was a VW Bus - fully equipped with a cow in the rear!.. the farmer I guess had taken out the whole back of the bus - how he got that cow in there is still an amazement to me!.. should Have had my camera!.. no one would believe me!.. only a picture would do this incident justice!..
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Kosovo or otherwise known as Kosovar - was part of the Former Yugoslav Republic as was Albania, Serbia, Montenegro - back to the Ottoman Empire.
Hi Posejc! Your pages and infos about Kosovo are quite interesting. However, I wonder why you put them inside the FYR of Macedonia section? Kosovo is definitely not in Macedonia. I understand though that putting it into Serbia is problematic as well.
Kosovar was a part of the FYR (Former Republic of Yugoslavia) - Macedonia has always been disputed to be a Greek enclave and they will denie it as they have thru centuries of feuds and battles (Alexander the Great was Macedonian!) - Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, all where part of Yugoslavia under Tito for years! until they finally broke off from Russian tight grip!
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Bubba Jennings will be the first to admit he hasn't spent a whole lot of time looking at Maryland. And what he knows about Indiana is what he's seen here and there on TV, and what some of the IU transplants (perhaps you've heard of them) on the Texas Tech coaching staff have told him.
But the first-year Red Raider basketball video manager - possibly the best Tech shooting guard during the mid-1980s out of Clovis - knows the Big 12 Conference. Knows the league about as well as he does his three kids. That's what a season's worth of breaking down tape of league opponents, and seeing Big 12 powers Oklahoma and Kansas from the bench four times this season, will do.
And so, Monday night it will be...
"Kansas and Oklahoma in the finals," he said.
"How about Kansas in overtime," he said.
Well, maybe Jennings is a little bit prejudiced, and is looking at today's semifinals with a little Big 12 glint. But he's with the majority who foresee a rematch of the 1988 title game when the two old Big Eight teams met for the whole enchilada.
And that would be just fine with him, the entire Tech staff and players, and probably the other 10 teams in the league. Scrap like alley dogs twice a week from early January to early March, and them get behind those who qualify for the NCAA tournament.
"There's no question about it," Jennings said. "We're really pulling hard for Kansas and Oklahoma. You compete so hard during the conference season, but once the tournament begins, you'd like to show the nation just how tough the Big 12 is. I think two teams in the Final Four, three in the Elite Eight, proves just that."
It's the first year for the Big 12, whose first basketball season was 1997, to get a team in the Final Four. It's the 16th time more than one team has advanced from the same conference to the Final Four. But if OU and Kansas can manage to square off for the third time in prime time Monday night, it will be just the fourth time in history two league teams have met for the title.
"From top to bottom, it's the toughest conference there is," Jennings said. "You get the sixth-place team in the Big 12 (Missouri) into the Elite Eight, and they're knocked out by another conference school, to me, that speaks for itself right there."
This afternoon's Indiana-Oklahoma game is expected to be the opening act for the nighttime slugfest between Kansas and Maryland, whose outcome could be decided by the fickle bounce of the ball. Now if the Hoosiers hit 15 of 19 3-pointers like they did to stop Kent State in the South Regional final, OU will have its hands considerably full.
But if not, the Hoosiers will have to overcome a squad not unlike Bob Stoops' OU football defense, rough and constantly in your grill. It's doubtful Oklahoma's defense will give IU the easy 3-point looks it got against Kent State.
"They are really an explosive, tough team," Jennings said. "They really defend well, and they get to the boards and attack, especially on the offensive boards. But the main thing is they are so tough. Coach (Kelvin) Sampson does a great job of instilling toughness, and they battle to the very end."
Daryan Selvy and Jason Detrick provide depth, as does Midland's Blake Johnston at the point. But the differences are sharpshooter Hollis Price, who can shoot like Jennings did 15 to 20 years ago, and versatile 6-foot-8 Aaron McGhee.
"Hollis Price is a winner," Jennings said. "When they need a bucket, he gives it to them. He's a great leader. He doesn't mind getting on a guy. That's the kind of leadership he provides.
"Against Kansas in the Big 12 title game, he hit two huge threes that broke their back. And McGhee has the ability to score inside or outside. He's tough in the post because he plays with so much confidence."
Jennings, head coach the previous two years at Lubbock Coronado, said if he could put together the ideal college basketball team, Kansas would be the model. The Jayhawks have guards who can handle the ball, score and create opportunities for others.
They have two exceptional big men in 6-10 Drew Gooden and 6-9 Nick Collison who can score inside or outside, and are quick enough to defend the perimeter. It was Gooden who shut down Tech's 6-5 Andre Emmett for most of the Big 12 semifinal game. KU's defense often gets overlooked at the expense of its offense.
"They've got a system they run, and they're committed to running that system," Jennings said. "They are great at executing it. You look out there and you see three guards, and all are or have been point guards - (Jeff) Boshee, (Kurt) Hinrich and (Aaron) Miles. So that's three coaches on the floor right there. Those three guys make them great."
Tech was good, much better than anyone thought. The Raiders improved by 14 wins, going from nine to 23 wins, and went from three conference wins to 10. Included in the mix were 13- and 23-point wins over Oklahoma and Missouri. Explain that?
"Bob Knight," Jennings said. "Coach is capable of getting the best out of his players. The sum is greater than the total of their parts. He can put all the guys' abilities together, and then at the end, they're better than what they are."
Good, but not as good as Kansas and Oklahoma. The measuring stick not only for the Big 12, but as the weekend could tell, the entire country.
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Thank you for the message and letting me know that she is buried there.
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Thank you so much Gordon!! I'm a Tipton descendant and hope to get up that way to do some genealogical digging myself, I have found some articles on Moses being fined for moonshine, etc! Ha! :)
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Thank you for your effort and time to try and find the grave of Amanda Peck Thrasher. I appreciate it. I will have to research more to see where she is buried at. Sharon
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I sent an edit to have the memorials merged
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Do you remember which cemetery he is buried in, Stockton or Roseville, the same pics are on both memorials? Find A Grave Memorial# 128386850 and Find A Grave Memorial# 90630291
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Hey Gordon, hope you are doing well. I got an edit for the above Stockton saying that I made a dup. memorial. I have him in Stockton Cemetery,Flag Pond,
Unicoi County and I see that you have added pics. His other memorial is in Roseville Cemetery,Flag Pond, Unicoi County and the same pics have been added to that memorial. Are these two cemeteries the same one or different ones? I got his burial info from his death certificate and it says Stockton so I added him to that cemetery.
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Gordon: Thank you for your time, I appreciate you trying to locate the burial place. I did not realize that the grave info came from a Bible. Thanks again for trying!
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Gordon, I see that you posted photographs of the Britt and Britt-Grindstaff cemeteries in Unicoi County, TN. I believe that some of my ancestors are interred at Britt-Grindstaff, but I have never been able to find it. I will be in east TN next week and want to try again. Can you provide directions (or GPS coordinates) to both of those cemeteries? The cemetery of interest to me is along Scioto Rd in the same area as the Brummett Cemetery.
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Gordon, this cemetery is on private land and has not been cleaned in years. I hope to in a couple of weeks go and clean it. It is on Devils Fork Road back on top of a mountain. Hopefully you will wait a while until I get it cleaned off.
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There may not be a burial record any place except the death record. The fact you did not find her elsewhere is a help.
The reason I asked is that a church historian is writing a bio of her father, Rev. James W. Lucas, and he has written me asking some questions about him as I post quite a lot of minister's burials I find in old records. I tried to locate the graves of all the Lucas children; I sent the link for the last one (Zora) on July 1st. Thanks, for all you do for others on this site and elsewhere.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) — Malaysia's prime minister on Thursday arrived at the Australian air force base serving as a hub for the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, as the coordinator of the multinational search effort warned that the hunt for the jetliner was one of the most complicated searches in history.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak met with his Australian counterpart, Tony Abbott, at the base near the west coast city of Perth, and received a briefing by Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search.
"This is one of the most demanding and challenging search and rescue operations, or search and recovery operations, that I have ever seen — and I think probably one of the most complex operations of this nature that the world has ever seen," Houston told Najib and Abbott.
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Military radar picked up the jet just under an hour later, on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. Authorities say that until then, its "movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane," but have not ruled out anything, including mechanical error.
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Search planes have spent more than two weeks scouring the remote waters for any sign of the plane's wreckage. Houston has said there is no timeframe for ending the search, but acknowledged a new approach will eventually be needed if nothing turns up.
As each day passes with no wreckage sighted, the chances of finding the plane grow slimmer. Even Australia's prime minister, who has repeatedly said that he is certain that if any wreckage is out there, it will be found, took a more cautious stance when speaking Thursday at the base near Perth.
"I am confident that everything that possibly can be done to find this aircraft will be done," Abbott said. "We cannot be certain of success, but we can be certain of the professionalism and the effort that will be brought to the task."
The Joint Agency Coordination Center, which oversees the search efforts, said up to eight planes and nine ships will take part in Thursday's search over 223,000 square kilometers (86,000 square miles) of ocean, 1,680 kilometers (1,040 miles) — or about a 2½-hour flight — northwest of Perth. Weather was expected to be fair, though the southern section of the search zone could experience some showers.
Two British vessels, a nuclear-powered submarine with advanced underwater search capability, and the British Survey ship HMS Echo, had also joined the hunt, Houston said. The Ocean Shield, an Australian warship carrying a U.S. device that detects "pings" from the plane's flight recorders, was en route.
With no other data available indicating where the plane went down, spotting wreckage is key to narrowing down the search area and ultimately finding the plane's data recorders, which would provide a wealth of information about the condition the plane was flying under and the communications or sounds in the cockpit.
The data recorders emit a "ping" that can be detected by special equipment towed by a ship in the immediate vicinity. But the battery-powered recorders stop transmitting the pings about 30 days after a crash. Locating the data recorders and wreckage after that is possible, but it becomes an even more daunting task.
Ng reported from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Associated Press writers Rod McGuirk in Canberra, Australia, and Kristen Gelineau in Sydney contributed to this report.
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Ground floor: Living room. Kitchen/dining room with French doors. Shower room with toilet. Open tread spiral staircase to first floor: 2 double bedrooms, one with French doors. Bathroom with toilet and French doors. Second floor: 1 twin bedroom. Shower room with toilet. Tiled floors throughout.
Central heating. Cot. H/Chair. Satellite TV. Electric cooker. M/wave. W/machine. Internet connection. Shared garden, with patio and furniture. Balcony. Verandah. Shared grounds. BBQ. On road parking. Shared swimming pool (96m², open May-Sep).
This holiday apartment is located 1km from the Sicilian village of Partanna which is famous for its antique medieval castle. The property is set on 2 levels and is situated in a residential area in the hills. From the property's balconies, you can enjoy a view over the sea and the surrounding land. In the well-kept and fenced garden you will find the swimming pool whilst on the back of the house there is a barbecue area. The entrance is on the ground floor and leads to this first floor accommodation, which comprises of a living/dining room, kitchen, 4 bedrooms with balcony and 3 bathrooms. The seaside resort of Selinunte, 20km away, is a small village famous for its beautiful, sandy beaches and for the archaeological park. Marsala is 62km away.
Turning stairs to entrance. All on first floor: Living/dining room. Kitchen with dining area. Conservatory. 4 bedrooms: 3 double, 1 twin. 2 bathrooms with toilet. Shower room with toilet.
Gas CH. Cot. H/chair. Two satellite TVs. DVD. CD. Gas/electric cooker. M/wave. W/machine. Internet access. Garden with terraces and furniture. Balconies. BBQ. Ample parking. Outdoor swimming pool (72m², open Jun-Sep). NB: Steps within garden.
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This is a wonderful villa with a great swimming pool in a panoramic location in the heart of Sicily. The villa is very large and spacious with bright interiors and large glass windows, great to enjoy the views outside from the comforts of inside. There are also French doors leading out to the terrace area from two of the four bedrooms. Outside, there is a large, well-equipped garden, with kitchen, where you can dine for lunch and dinner or tan on the poolside.
Living/dining room/kitchen. 4 double bedrooms, one with bath, shower cubicle and en-suite toilet, two with shower cubicle and en-suite toilet. Shower room with toilet.
Woodburner in living room. CH. Air conditioning. Gas/elec cooker. M/wave. D/washer. Garden with terrace and furniture. BBQ. Ample parking. Swimming pool (60m²), open mid-Jun-mid-Sep.
This beautiful, well-maintained and tastefully furnished holiday house with a large private swimming pool is near to Menfi. Accommodating up to 8 guests, this stunning, air-conditioned property has a shower room with a hydro-massage shower and a bathroom with a Jacuzzi bath. The swimming pool also has a whirlpool area for 4 people, as well as a children's swimming pool. The outdoor area is characterized by a masonry kitchen, a barbecue and an equipped terrace, perfect for outdoor dining. A great base for large families or friends alike wishing to holiday together.
All on ground floor: Living/dining room. Second living/dining room. Kitchen with dining area. 4 bedrooms: 3 double, 1 twin. Bathroom with Jacuzzi bath and toilet. Shower room and toilet.
Woodburner in living room. CH. Cot. DVD. Stereo/CD. Gas/electric cooker. M/wave. W/machine. D/washer. Garden with terraces and furniture. BBQ. Private outdoor swimming pool (60m²), open June-September. Parking (3 cars).
A peaceful country house situated not far from the sea and just 4.5km from Menfi with every kind of shops. The property benefits from a lovely large, covered terrace complete with a barbecue, so you can dine al fresco as well a private swimming pool, to relax in after a day exploring this beautiful region. Inside the house the kitchen has an old wood oven great for cooking up and Italian feast. If you can tear yourself away from the property, just 8km away is the archaeological site of Selinunte, famous for its Greek temples. Also close by are the great towns and cities of Sicily including; Ragusa, Syracuse, Vittoria and further afield Augusta, just to name a few.
Living/dining room/kitchen. Second kitchen. 6 bedrooms: 5 doubles, two with additional single, one with 2 additional singles, 1 single. 6 shower rooms with toilet.
Air conditioning. Cot. Gas/elec cooker. W/machine. Garden with terrace and furniture. BBQ. Ample parking. Swimming pool (75m²), open June-Sept. NB: Open sided stairs.
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Do you repair your helis?
I have a Syma 111g and really enjoy it as my first copter even though it is considered to be a "toy". I have been super careful with only the slightest of mishaps until . . . I was flying it in my garage when the cars were outside. It was a great open space and I had much more room than inside the house. The garage door was open and I flew it out into the sun light. Stupid move. As soon as it was in the sun it abruptly stopped and fell 7 feet unto the asphalt. It still flew but would not go forward or backwards. I took it apart and found that the end of the rear motor had dislodged from the motor body. I found a couple replacement motors priced a $10 to $11 including shipping. Is it worth repairing considering a replacement of the heli cost $20 and change.
Just wondering what you guys do in such a situation. Thanks for any advice.
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Infra red control system and sunlight don't mix very well.
Buy the rear motor and fix it. The accomplishment of fixing your own helicopter is worth it. The experience of ordering parts, waiting for the parts to arrive, then replacing the faulty part is a valuable learning exercise.
The motor endcap came off and you can not put it back together again without destroying the commutator brushes. I had that happen too - fixing the motor was for me hopeless as I could hardly see the miniature brushes on a very small tail motor.. I tried to fix the motor and failed, though there wasn't much hope anyway. At least there was a nice magnet as a consolation prize.
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I used to think co-ax was WAY to beginner and that I needed a fixed pitch to go to the next step.....The MCX2 is the MOST logical step forward. Perfect for teaching you orientation that is a step below 3D flight
Hope this helps!
There's a large contingent of people who repair Symas in the coaxial forum. I think they do it as a hobby in itself. There's not much practical incentive to do so. Finding parts, paying for shipping and waiting for them to arrive, seems like a lot of bother for a $25 toy. Plus, those helis weren't really made to be repaired, so disassembly can be very involved. But, like Ribble says, it's part of the experience. Anyway, those are the people to talk to.
I've got an old Esky Honey Bee King II, and three entire spare parts helis to keep it flying, along with a stash of spare parts like belts and stuff. So yeah, I repair it all of the time. Fortunately as I have gotten better at flying it, repairs are coming fewer and further between.
Got a 120SR I've yet to have to repair, except for one new tail boom and motor. An MCX2 that has not needed repairs as of yet.
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Wow! This is great. Thanks for all the info.
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I tried to repair the S107, but parts were hard to get and my success rate was low. A motor ought to be easier; I had trouble fixing the coaxial rotor shaft. I tossed the Syma and bought a Blade MSR, which I definitely had to repair. I got a second so one would be flying while I waited for parts for the other. Then I jumped to Walkera CP helis. No way to learn without crashing. I now have 3 Genius CPs so that I can keep two flying while I wait on parts for the third. And a V120D02, V120D03 and V120D02S, so that I can have at least one 120 flying while I wait on parts for the others. Once you jump to collective pitch, you can't even fly without adjusting linkages to level the swash and adjust pitch, but that's half the fun anyway!
I think I have more $ invested in parts than in helicopters, but it seems the part that breaks is always the one I didn't think I'd have to pre-order. Present list - Three Genius CPs and one V120D02 flying, waiting on a tail motor for the V120D03 and a tail slider bearing for the V120D02S. I have a V400D02 waiting on the bookshelf until I quit crashing the 120s so often. I've flown it three times (aside from hovering practice) and spent weeks putting it back together every time. I have an EXI 450 I've been afraid to do more than hover. After I can keep the V400D02 in the air, I'll give the EXI a try.
"Do you repair your helis?"
Well... I just got into this "hobby" a few weeks ago.
So far I've disassembled, repainted a NE Bravo III, completely disassembled/reassembled my EF Sabre (balanced both the main blades and flybar, checked the tracking, and leveled the swashplate. The Sabre now spins up close to lift off with zero vibration.
I just received (2) CX3's for parts (for a scale Blue Thunder build) off Ebay, ordered both Mike Manrow's AND Darths BT bodies (Darth's is for a future 450 build).
I'm learning about TX's, RXs, ESC's, 3 in 1's, 4 in 1's, CP, FP, and everything else related to flying RC heli's (brother can you spare a Fenestron? ).
So far learning about the amount of care and precision that goes into the building and tuning of my heli's has been VERY rewarding.. Hopefully learning to fly them will be equally if not more fun!
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Technical advances in the use of protein-expression systems have enabled scaled production of membrane proteins and other difficult to express proteins. These advances have also helped preserve the structure and function of the expressed proteins.
Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D., associate director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT, has found that the use of short peptide surfactants in commercial E. coli cell-free systems facilitates the rapid production of membrane proteins.
GPCRs, the most difficult integral membrane proteins to produce, can be produced in milligram quantities when the right surfactant is added to the cell-free system. The soluble GPCRs that Dr. Zhang's team has produced show a-helical secondary structures, which suggest proper folding; ligand binding studies have confirmed the maintenance of biological function.
"I am convinced that the use of short, simple peptide surfactants is absolutely the key for successful production of membrane proteins in cell-free systems," he says. "Further, the use of cell-free systems allows for industrial-scale standardization of protein production. We have demonstrated its utility on GPCRs. If we can just reduce the cost 10–20 fold in the next decade, I have no doubt you'll see an increase in its use for protein production."
The benefit of using cell-free systems is the ease of use and the ability to add components to promote protein production and stability. These cell-free systems can be maintained for a long time, though they are not amenable to repeat production.
As for the addition of peptide surfactants, it is essential to screen different surfactants to ensure matching with each individual membrane protein for optimal production. The peptide surfactants that have been used are designed with a hydrophilic head (1–2 residues) and a hydrophobic tail (3–6 residues). They are usually 2–3 nm in length, their ionic character and strength can be controlled by selection of the intervening residues.
The surfactants have a tendency to self-assemble to form membrane-like environments that provide stability for the membrane proteins, even though the mechanism remains unclear.
Joining Dr. Zhang as a presenter at the upcoming "PEGS" conference in Boston will be Mark Welch, Ph.D., director of gene design at DNA2.0.
DNA2.0's custom gene design and synthesis service enables customers to obtain optimal protein expression for their gene of interest, according to Dr. Welch. The company is guided by informatics and experimental studies of the effect of gene usage on heterologous protein expression from different expression and production hosts (bacterial, yeast, and mammalian cells). From this analysis, the company has developed robust algorithms that predict optimal gene sequences that will provide abundant protein yields.
At present, DNA2.0 has turned its attention to the application of these tools for optimal production of pharmaceutical target proteins in mammalian hosts. "We have developed solid algorithms for production of a variety of proteins in bacteria and yeast systems," Dr. Welch explained. "We are now focused on building that same level of knowledge in mammalian cell systems."
Working with an academic partner, DNA2.0 is also exploring the optimization of protein expression of difficult to express membrane proteins as well as the effects of gene sequence on expression level and localization in differentiated mammalian tissues.
Dr. Welch will also talk about Infologs™, non-natural gene variants that are designed through informatics to capture maximal structure/function correlations in the biological space of interest. DNA2.0's research demonstrates how the technique leads to uniform sampling, systemic variance, and unrestricted information-rich results.
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Top Ten Augmented Reality Devicesby Ron Callari
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Webcycle Makes Internet Users Work Outby Chris Weiss
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The cash for clunkers program was extremely popular when it launched in the US, and while it encouraged drivers to trade in an old inefficient vehicle for one a little more environmentally friendly, there's a new company on our radar that takes the concept to the next level.
Mobile Movie Apps Only Lack the Popcorn!by Ron Callari
Go Girl: Company Helps Desperate Women Pee Like A Man!by Beth Graddon-Hodgson
The Sweet Flour Bake Shop: Custom Cookies Based On Demandby Beth Graddon-Hodgson
Not far from my home town is a simple yet delicious new concept that involves fresh baked goods and some serious decision making. Keep on reading to learn about The Sweet Flour Bake Shop and what makes it so unique.
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A Good Start
Any major effort at health reform can be likened to a freight train parked at a station and being loaded with cargo. One can put too little cargo on the train, in which case it is a wasted effort. One can also load too much on it, in which case the train won't move.
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During the 2008 election campaign, Barack Obama held out the hopeful vision that our health system could be reformed so as to make the highest-quality health care in the world affordable to all American families.
Practically, it meant substantial federal subsidies to help lower-income families obtain private or public health insurance. It also meant "bending the cost curve," as the jargon goes, which means reducing the annual increases in national health spending. That spending has outpaced the growth in the rest of gross domestic product by 2.5 percentage points annually throughout the past four decades and has doubled every decade. At that rate, health spending will absorb 40% of GDP by 2050.
Finally, the vision held out for health reform during the election campaign implied an increase in what is called the cost-effectiveness of American health care. That term implies either higher quality of care for the same spending, or lower spending without reducing the existing quality of care.
Scaling Back
All told, the vision was quite a heavy load for the reform train. Once in the White House and challenged with the chore of governing, President Obama and his allies in the Congress quickly realized that health reform cannot overnight realize the entire vision held out during the election. It had to be achieved in stages—expanding insurance coverage first, bending the cost curve and greater cost-effectiveness later.
Extending health-insurance coverage to the millions of Americans who now find themselves priced out of the market for health insurance is the easiest part of health reform. In the bill now working its way through Congress, an estimated 30 million or so lower-income, otherwise uninsured Americans are expected to gain adequate coverage with the aid of between $800 billion and $1 trillion in federal subsidies over the next decade.
That may appear a staggering sum, until one realizes that it is only about 3% or so of the $35 trillion or so now projected by actuaries to be spent on U.S. health care in the coming decade, even in the absence of reform.
The bill in its current state lays important foundations for obtaining better value for our health-care dollar—more research into cost-effective care, a move away from piece-rate (fee-for-service) payment of doctors and hospitals and toward bundled payments for entire medical treatments, and perhaps an independent Medicare Commission with power to control Medicare spending.
Unproven Theory
Critics complain that the bill does not do enough actually to bend the cost curve down in the foreseeable future, or to assure greater cost-effectiveness.
Many of these critics believe that presumably savvy American patients know what they want from our health system and that they would become powerful agents in the quest for greater cost-effectiveness in U.S. health care, if only they were given information on the cost and quality of the care rendered by different doctors, hospitals and other providers. They would like the bill to have forced Medicare to take the lead in providing such information.
But it has yet to be demonstrated that typical American patients actually will use such data if they are presented with it. I harbor serious doubts that they will.
The state of Pennsylvania, for example, has for many years published fairly sophisticated information on the cost and quality of the heart surgery performed by individual doctors and hospitals in that state. Published research found that neither patients nor the referring cardiologists actually made much use of the data.
Educating Patients
In any event, educating American patients to be smarter, more cost-conscious users of health care is, at best, a long-run strategy. It will take a decade or more.
Indeed, if patients actually were known to be reliable cost- and quality-control agents in health care, why has the private health-insurance sector failed in the past to make such data available to their insured, as it easily could have? Why would we have to wait for government to solve the problem?
Finally—and this must be said bluntly—for decades the providers of health care and the insurance industry have conspired to keep our health-care system opaque as to the prices of health services and their quality.
Although some insurers now gingerly experiment with providing some such data to their insured, most Americans still approach the health-care system as the analogue of blindfolded shoppers pushed into a department store.
They shop for whatever the sales clerks push on them.
—Dr. Reinhardt is the James Madison professor of political economy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.


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Is it possible???
Is it possible???
Here is a tutorial on creating custom taxonomies. It's usually quicker to try Google before posting here, I found that link in a couple of seconds.
I dont think you really understand the question, i posted this message under the forum of this plugin:
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It shows a widget with the archive of a custom post type, my question is if there exist a posbility to display in a widget the ARCHIVE of a TAXONOMY, but in wordpress you even can't query for post in "X" taxonomy, the only way to query post by taxonomy is query: TERM->TAXONOMY.
I hope wordpress developers add this functionality in future releases!.
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Definición de retch en inglés:
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1Make the sound and movement of vomiting: the sour taste in her mouth made her retch
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- Gabriel was very much awake, leaning over one side of the cot, coughing and retching as phlegm emitted from his mouth and fell to the floor.
- She had seen him sweat and shake and retch in the grip of his craving.
- Just a dry retch was all I could manage.
informal keck
1.1 [with object] Vomit: he retched up a thin stream of vomit
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- For one moment, you forget whether you have come to empty your bladder or retch up the morning's breakfast.
- I have seen protruding bellies, working so hard to get nutrients out of food that only rests for a few minutes before being retched up again.
- William was pleased that he had not been sick, although a few of the prisoners had spent most of the journey with their head over the side retching their empty stomachs out.
vomit, cough up, bring something up, regurgitate;
British be sick;
North American get sick
British informal honk, sick something up
Scottish informal boke
North American informal spit up, barf, upchuck, toss one's cookies, blow chunks
A movement or sound of vomiting: with a sudden retch he vomited all over the floor
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- Rayne finished retching up the small amount of food quickly, but continued dry, racking retches for several seconds.
- I get up blindly and leave, and outside spit egg-and-bread into my hands, dry retches of nothing clogging my throat like the tears which keep coming.
- After the last retch, Stine forcefully bit down on his lip, as if to keep from vomiting again.
Mid 19th century: variant of dialect reach, from a Germanic base meaning 'spittle'.
Palabras que riman con retchetch, fetch, ketch, kvetch, lech, outstretch, sketch, stretch, vetch, wretch
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Deathly Hallows film to be split in two parts?
UPDATE: Empire Online is now quoting WB as saying "no decision has been made," in part because no script exists yet. Steve Kloves cannot begin work on the Deathly Hallows script because of the US writer's strike. We'll let you know more once we hear it!
Several visitors have sent in this article from the Daily Mail, which claims crews working on Half-Blood Prince have been told the final film will be split:
A film source said: "There's so much to fit that the view is the last movie should be in two halves. There is a huge battle when Harry, played by Daniel Radcliffe, takes on Voldemort that needs to be done really well."
What's more, the Daily Mail claims that big name directors such as Steven Spielberg are being considered to direct Deathly Hallows. We'll look into this rumor and let you know what Warner Brothers has to say!


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"Strange life...may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse."
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SOURCE: Graver, Lawrence. "Carson McCullers." In Carson McCullers, pp. 5-20. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969.
In the following excerpt, Graver asserts that not only is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter "an admirably complete introduction" to McCullers's themes and subject matter, "but it raises in a complex and provocative way the major critical issues posed by all her important work."
Since Carson McCullers' gifts as a novelist are essentially celebratory and elegiac, it is appropriate that the simple facts of her life should evoke both wonder and melancholy. She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, of French Huguenot and Irish ancestry. Lamar Smith, her father, had come a few years earlier from Society Hill, Alabama; her mother, Marguerite Waters, had been born in Dublin, Georgia.
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Well i have setup a VM in Virtual Box in a PC (label as PC2) and i have hosted a webservice in the VM (IIS).
PC2 - Windows Server 2003 VM - Windows 7 x86
Now i want to access the webservice from another PC (label as PC1) within a network which PC1 has connected. Following diagram will be helpful to get the clear idea.
So the LAN is 192.168.5.0. But virtual network ports ip is 192.168.56.1 by defualt. In the VM its ip from DHCP by defualt. (ipconfig gives you ip address like 10.0.0.2.15, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway as 10.0.2.2).
at this point i can ping PC1 (192.168.5.31) from VM (10.0.2.15) but i cannot ping 10.0.2.15 from PC 1. even if i make VM and PC2 virtual ports ips to some static range, from VM i cant ping any IP.
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Fez programmer joins Sword & Sworcery team
Former Polytron programmer Renaud Bédard has joinced Toronto team Capybara Games, the latter has announced on Twitter. Capybara is probably best known for Critter Crunch and as co-creators of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP; Polytron's single release so far is Fez.
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I was working on my permalinks to make them the more intuitive and I have found something like a bug (I guess / I hope it's not and to learn) :
When 2 pages have the same post name, even they aren't in the same place in the child structure, the are display in the same page !
Example : 2 pages with post name : "good-stuff" in 2 different places of the structure of pages will be display in the same post ! ...
How to keep my simple names and correct this phenomenon ??