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Barbara L. Shelton Named Acting Commissioner of
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January 24, 2005
Contact: Mary Alice Johnson (202) 501-1231
Washington, D.C. – Today, Stephen A. Perry, Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the appointment of Barbara L. Shelton as Acting Commissioner of GSA's Federal Technology Service (FTS). Ms. Shelton's appointment will become effective upon current FTS Commissioner, Sandra N. Bates' retirement on February 11, 2005.
Ms. Shelton has served as the Regional Administrator of GSA's Mid-Atlantic Region since January 7, 2002. Her responsibilities include managing the operations of the Federal Technology Service, Federal Supply Service and Public Building Service to meet the acquisition and property management requirements of all federal agencies in the five-state region. Before joining GSA, she served as Deputy Secretary for Administration in Pennsylvania's Department of Labor & Industry from January 2000 to December 2001 where she managed the Commonwealth's information technology, personnel and procurement programs. Prior to that she was Deputy Secretary for Procurement in the state's Department of General Services from March 1995 to December 1999. She also has 13 years of private-industry experience in information technology systems management and marketing with PPG Industries and Philip Morris, Inc. Ms. Shelton earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and her MBA from Columbia University.
"Barbara has demonstrated her ability for successful leadership of large, complex organizations to provide outstanding customer service through a strong focus on people, performance management, organizational design and process reengineering," said GSA Administrator, Stephen A. Perry. "She has the skills, experience and the passion for excellence needed to assure FTS's continued success in meeting the technology acquisition requirements of our federal agency customers in the most efficient and effective manner. She will have a key role in working with others on the GSA management team to reorganize functions of FTS and the Federal Supply Service (FSS)," said Perry. Additional information regarding the reorganization of FTS and FSS to combine functions as necessary to improve customer service and reduce cost will be finalized and reported in the near future.
"I welcome the opportunity to serve the Bush Administration and GSA as Acting FTS Commissioner," Shelton said, "and I'm looking forward to working with FTS associates to ensure acquisition excellence for our federal agency customers and the American taxpayers."
GSA is a centralized, federal procurement, property management and policy agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. GSA acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. It also plays a key role in developing and implementing governmentwide policies. GSA's 13,000 associates provide services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers in more than 8,000 buildings the government owns and leases in 2,000 U.S. communities.


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How do you convert US glaze recipes to something usable in EU?
Posted 16 January 2013 - 03:57 PM
I have few really nice high fire glaze recipes, I like to try out, but they are mostly made of US materials so almost useless in EU.
I also bought a wonderful book called "The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes, Glazing & Firing at Cone 10" but this is also US specific (btw, thank you for the Kg, g and °C
Has anyone made a conversion table for converting those materials to stuff available in EU?
Or even better, can you point me to a active English (non US!) ceramics forum? I am usually OK finding stuff with google but in those 2 tasks I have failed
Posted 16 January 2013 - 04:43 PM
Or even better, can you point me to a active English (non US!) ceramics forum?
I've looked too; and whilst I've found a couple of UK based pottery forums they are not very active.
Emmanuel Cooper lists a few UK/US alternatives in the back of his book (The Potters book of Glaze Recipes), I'm sure others do too, if you put a list of ingredients on here I'm sure someone could help translate/convert at least some of them.
Posted 16 January 2013 - 04:53 PM
Posted 16 January 2013 - 04:53 PM
Mastering Cone 6 Glazes by Ron Roy and John Hesselberth list compositions of US and Canadian firts and compositions of of materials. I do not think these refer to anything in Europe.
Posted 16 January 2013 - 06:53 PM
for temps its easy to convert - here is one site- http://www.albireo.c...atureconverter/
Posted 16 January 2013 - 06:58 PM
Of course you could do this all manually by going to each manufacturer and getting the atomic weight of each element and then find a local supplier that will find a substitute item that closely resembles your item.
However this does not take the place of testing. You must test every material used in glaze as well as the clay body you are using. Test test test.
My 2 cents.
Throwing down in Washington State
Northwest Clay Club
Posted 17 January 2013 - 10:34 AM
Neil Estrick
Kiln Repair Tech
L&L Kilns Distributor
Owner, Neil Estrick Gallery, LLC
Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:56 AM
Molecular glaze calculation is the route to go to understand this. I recommend Digitalfire's "Insight" program. It is what I use in my college ceramic materials courses (and have since it was a DOS version!).
John Baymore
Adjunct Professor of Ceramics; New Hampshire Insitute of Art
Former Guest Professor, Wuxi Institute of Arts and Science, Yixing, China
Former President and Past President; Potters Council
Posted 19 January 2013 - 05:11 PM
http://digitalfire.c...sight/index.php looks interesting. Nice, they have Linux version available too.
alisaclausen has some cool stuff. Thank you. I have to look around there, maybe she has some cone 9 recipes because the works-shop I go, never fires below cone 9.
Thank you
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Hello everyone,
I'm looking into getting into web content. I have searched the forum for an hour and could't find an answer to my specific question, just little bits and pieces of info so thought i'd post. What i'm finding hard to figure out is how web content jobs work.
Do people employ web content developers and web designer/developers separately? Would the web content developer work with the web designer in updating the site, what I mean by this is does the web designer just make the site, hand all the details to the content developer, and then the content developer fills it with the content? Or does the content writer have a hand in the design and development of the site and would need a basic knowledge of HTML?
Any help is appreciated as this is an industry i'm keen to get into. I have a background in advertising and basic copy writing with qualifications in photo image capture, and started a writing course to strengthen my writing, this job seems a very interesting step for me.
Many thanks
While there could be varying takes on the definition of a person who works as a web content developer, to me it means someone who is a writer. Yes they would work with a developer but only in the sense that they are handing over a file with content in it for the developer to place on the site. It generally works this way in large profitable organizations.
In smaller businesses or ones with less marketing support, a developer may very well generate content or vis versa although this is more rare.
If you are thinking of getting into web content, you probably will not need to know HTML.
Hope that answers your question,
If you just want to do the writing there is no need for you to learn web design, HTML or anything similar. Writers just send the content over then it is dealt with at the other end. For example, the web designer or master may update the site with your content or if a smaller company the owner may add it if they are using a CMS such as WordPress.
Thanks for your comments both of you, they definitely helped broaden the picture for me.
A question along the same line I do have though, is it true the web content doesn't always have to mean the written word? Yes a lot of it would be written copy, but would a web content developers job also include illustrations, photos and info-graphics for the site? This would all fall into content, specific to the interest of the site and users and therefore needs the knowledge and background of the site subject that a developer may not necessarily be hired to complete?
If i'm crossing wires somewhere please let me know!
There are people all over the world who try to do multiple tasks like designing, copy writing together.
But somehow, I strongly believe a person should not try to be a jack of all trades.
Rather, he/she should concentrate on one core area and leave the rest to others.
People mostly employ content writers to get quality content related to the niche they are working on.
The work of a designer is entirely different.
As a content develper, you do not need to know coding, css or any other thing.
You can check out elance, odesk, freelancer for content writing jobs.
Completely agree with HarrieB.All smart (and large) companies I've dealt with have separate people for content writing, visuals making, and web design.Moreover, it's not rare when you see two different people who write content for corporate website and social media.
The only exclusion that I've seen is regarding landing pages - because volume of content is pretty small and heavily based on visuals, web designer and content writer usually work together on it.
Hope that helped.
It depends if static site then content need to build first and then site developed based on the content for cms content should be update later after development.
If you are looking for content writing job, then it is not necessary to have knowledge of CSS and Html as these are separate from content writing. Basically content writing is related to creativity of your mind. You should have good command over English and you will be able to write unique and informative content.
Well usually this job is done with the help of marketing dept or more likely search engine optimizers do that since they know well that what should be the content like if you want the website to get good ranking in the search engine ranking. A content that is not optimized according to the search engines is nearly worthless, no matter who writes it a content developer or a writer. So more importantly you need to know what is the proper way to write the content as well.
It's better to hire a company and give job to them as they have different peoples for each kind of job like designing website they have seperate person, for writing content they have separate person and for seo they have specific group of peoples.
Hiring a company requires lots of money. you need to work hard and do everything yourself as it's free and at second time it will be easier
i honestly did it all by myself , when i got a site , i learnt two things :there's nothing called FRIENDS online, the last person would love to get his hands to your pockets and you'll be shocked how much they charge you for an hour,,,like mine ,,,i helped a dude promoting his site for like days then when it came to my site he wanted to charge me 20 bucks per hour,,thanks god i didnt pay him , in fact,,he removed and blocked me on facebook ,anyway later i found out that himself was suffering from not getting g alot of traffic and now i beat his site and my site is away better from his site on getting traffic ,,my point is
if you do have enough time , you can do it all by yourself but here i mean simple things not a very complicated work wish you best luck and more success on your siteTarek


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By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office has asked the federal government to review operations and medical services at the Snohomish County Jail, where at least seven inmates have died since 2010.
Two of the deaths have resulted in pending legal claims against the county alleging that inmates were denied basic medical care.
The review is scheduled this summer, sheriff's spokeswoman Shari Ireton said Wednesday. It will be done by the National Institute of Corrections, the same division of the U.S. Department of Justice that reviewed operations at the Monroe Correctional Complex after the murder of corrections officer Jayme Biendl in 2011.
The consultants will visit the jail and interview corrections officers, civilian staff and inmates, Ireton said.
Afterward, the sheriff's office will receive a report with findings and recommendations for change. The report will be made public. The review is paid for by the justice department.
County Executive John Lovick requested the review earlier this year while he was still sheriff. The recommendation came from corrections bureau chief Mark Baird, Ireton said. The recent inmate deaths were a factor in the decision. The justice department agreed to conduct the review a few weeks ago.
The sheriff's office has made changes since taking over the jail's operations in 2008, but recognizes the need for additional improvements, Ireton said.
"No death in the jail is acceptable to our staff," she said. "We have a lot of people and resources and policies and procedures in place to keep that from happening. The challenge we are presented with is a population who may not be in the best of health."
The report's findings won't help the inmates who already have died in the jail, said Everett attorney Royce Ferguson, who represents the family of Lyndsey Elizabeth Lason. Lason, 27, suffocated at the jail in 2011 when her infected lungs slowly filled with fluid. Other inmates said Lason had pleaded for medical care.
The county has acknowledged receipt of the $10 million wrongful death claim but has not otherwise responded, Ferguson said Wednesday. His firm already has hired an outside expert to analyze jail operations as well.
The claim was meant in part to force changes to prevent additional deaths, he said.
"Lyndsey didn't die from prostitution or from drug use," Ferguson said. "She died because someone at the jail didn't do their job."
Another high-profile death was that of Michael Saffioti, 22.
Saffioti died at the jail in July 2012 from bronchial asthma triggered by severe allergies. His family has hired a Seattle attorney to press for answers. He was in jail for marijuana possession.
The county corrections budget for 2013 is $43.9 million. Of that, $4.3 million is budgeted for medical services. Medication amounts to about $1 million.
There are 337 budgeted corrections staff positions, including roughly 25 medical staff.
The jail's average daily inmate population is about 1,200.
Ireton on Wednesday outlined some of the concerns the review is expected to address.
One challenge has been hiring and keeping nurses, as evidenced by the post's frequent inclusion in the county's job listings.
Qualified nurses are in high demand, and it can be difficult to persuade them to work in corrections, Ireton said.
The review also is expected to include the distribution of medications in the jail, and the use of contracts to house inmates from agencies in neighboring counties, Ireton said.
Medical services at the jail are similar to a community health clinic, Ireton said. Inmates often come in with untreated conditions, including health problems related to years of drug and alcohol abuse. Many suffer from mental health issues or need emergency dental care. Someone never arrested before may be delivered to the jail without their heart medication or blood-pressure pills, Ireton said.
In addition, corrections staff are dealing with people coming down off street drugs, she said. They're getting inmates to their court hearings and providing services without knowing if an inmate is staying one night or several weeks.
Jails must provide a complex number of services required under federal, state and local laws, Ireton said.
"We see a lot of emergency issues come up because of a lack of care and (lack) of preventative care, and now they've finally shown up in a system that has that care," she said.
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11th January 2012 05:44 PM #1
Mei Tai - How do you tie yours?
I have seen good reports for the Mei Tai, particularly for carrying toddlers. I used a Kari Me for my baby until 1 month ago (he is now 12 months old). This was great when he was smaller but the stretchy fabric has meant the sling gets lower as he gets bigger! Now I have a Mei Tai which he is enjoying but I am still mostly carrying him on the front with the straps crossed at the back.
How do you tie yours? Do you have any Mei Tai baby wearing tips?
13th January 2012 04:11 AM #2
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I used a Mei Tai for a long time, it was actually one of the first carriers I ever used. I still use mine at times, but I really enjoy using my soft structured carrier and ring slings too.
If my baby is in the front, I take each strap and put it over my shoulder. I then cross the straps on my back and pull around to the front. I then cross the straps again and twist them, and then I pull them to the back again (under the baby's legs) and tie it. I have found that by doing the twist in the front, it gives the baby more support. It is a bit hard to explain, but I will try to find a picture to show how I tie them. The Front Carry Back Tie instructions for Babyhawk look similar to what I do. I also do the twist when my baby is in a back carry, as well.
I think doing the twist tie when the baby is in the front does help keep the baby higher and better supported. I do suggest making sure to keep the straps tight (not too tight), but make sure they are snug, and that the baby does not seem to be hanging too low. For a back carry, I suggest trying it out at home several times before doing it in public. I know some mums prefer to just flip their little one over their shoulders, but I always felt better just sliding my baby around my side. I do recommend waiting until the baby is a bit older to try back carries, as it can be hard to get the positioning right at first. It is also nice to keep the baby in the front when they are little so they can breastfeed if they need too.
13th January 2012 04:30 AM #3
Thanks very much for the tips Jessica! I'm finding the twist tie you mentioned a really useful way to tie the Mei Tai. He sits higher in the carrier with it like this which is more comfy for me too.
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Your welcome! I was so happy to discover the twist tie, as I usually just tied it in front before.
19th January 2012 07:46 PM #5
Even my husband is a fan now - check out this photo of him carrying the little lad last week!
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huh, reminds me of the nicola roberts record
that's why i don't want to hear it again, it was terrible and i TRUST that she will change everything about it before it's fit for public consumption
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:47 (five years ago) Permalink
is that youtube the demo that leaked a while back? b/c i don't want to hear that again
It's a newer, more polished leak apparently. It sounds like a rejected Fefe Dobson song with a dubstep bridge to me.
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:47 (five years ago) Permalink
like Matt I read the MDMA bit of it as indicating something Housier and more fun than dubstep
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:48 (five years ago) Permalink
xxp: Lex, you're talking about someone who released "Give It To Me" as a single, on what grounds are you basing this trust
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:48 (five years ago) Permalink
also MIA and Nicki on one track? it's a bit blatant/desperate
oh and yeah agree about the "DNA" part of it too
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:49 (five years ago) Permalink
MIA's probably the most desperate one in that equation.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:50 (five years ago) Permalink
just think Madge cd've picked a subtler way to tell us she's "with it"
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:52 (five years ago) Permalink
right - weed is the dubstep drug of choice surely. mdma + dubstep = DNW
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:46 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
but Lex--all the nuubsteppers are into the "rave scene"!!!
― it means 'super-otm' (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:52 (five years ago) Permalink
memories receding ever rapidly into the past ;_;
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:52 (five years ago) Permalink
Her best titles are always based on her name - her debut, Like A Virgin, Like a Prayer, The Immaculate Collection, even COADF, and now this. It's already been said but she really does have the fucking luckiest name in music history.
I'm just hoping the first single is a red herring built around the Superbowl and album is actually destroys.
― prolego, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:58 (five years ago) Permalink
*the album is
weed + madonna + dubstep does not sound terrible if her vocals are produced right
― surm, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:04 (five years ago) Permalink
There's a bit of that new song that sounds a lot like 'Bohemian Like You'
― Rapper rejoins fat man's co-op (NickB), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:05 (five years ago) Permalink
i.e. terrible
― it means 'super-otm' (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:22 (five years ago) Permalink
"The release of 'MDNA' has been marred slightly by the leak of an early version of the first single, 'Gimme All Your Luvin' in November last year, for which a Spanish man was arrested in December."
Gosh, it must have been a really terrible version.
― Oh shit, that's my bone! (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:42 (five years ago) Permalink
Man, that could be a mediocre single from any number of acts. But mostly sounds like peppy Britney, c. Toxic.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:54 (five years ago) Permalink
not a zz top cover i take it
― goole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:55 (five years ago) Permalink
Is that Genesis P Orridge in the You Tube up thread?
― Doran, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 20:56 (five years ago) Permalink
the dubstep middle 8 is the most hilarious musical development of the past year
― thug eclair (The Reverend), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:56 (five years ago) Permalink
Perhaps a bridge too far to think that the MDMA pun would have any relationship to the style of the music - Madonna doubtless is just pleased that it codes as youthful, electronic etc.
If you take a really wide lens approach that basically thinks of MDNA as = young people at raves then perhaps she ought to have gotten Skrillex to produce the whole thing.
OTOH her last single was produced by Paul Oakenfold and had appropriately euphoric aspirations (also was not very good).
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:00 (five years ago) Permalink
Maybe it's time for more ABBA samples.
― skip, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:04 (five years ago) Permalink
madonna + dubstep = lou reed + metallica
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:32 (five years ago) Permalink
She should do an album with The Knife and Planningtorock
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:35 (five years ago) Permalink
most importantly every single video should include her treating a DDR machine like a stripper pole IMO
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:36 (five years ago) Permalink
Is there even any indication that that dubstep-breakdown-thing is part of an official release?
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:43 (five years ago) Permalink
it's a triple pun right? her own name, mdma + referring to a generation of fans and artists who have her in their dna
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:11 (five years ago) Permalink
If it's a triple pun, it may be the first triple pun in pop music since "12 Inches of Snow."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:14 (five years ago) Permalink
such a limp stab at a dubstep bridge too. sounds like it was made by some pop producer who tried to approximate skrillex using keyboard presets and doesn't actually know how to work an lfo.
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:25 (five years ago) Permalink
Is there a dubstep template in Garageband yet?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:28 (five years ago) Permalink
Maybe she could get MSTRKRFT, BNJMN, SBTRKT and other producers who hate vowels on board.
― "only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:41 (five years ago) Permalink
KMFDM too.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:44 (five years ago) Permalink
kissing my...?
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:45 (five years ago) Permalink
Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:48 (five years ago) Permalink
or rather, Keine Mehrheit Für Das Mitleid
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:49 (five years ago) Permalink
It's German disco, Lex. Kinda.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:50 (five years ago) Permalink
(Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit would make more sense)
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:50 (five years ago) Permalink
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:36 PM (1 hour ago)
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:50 (five years ago) Permalink
I had this disc and never thought about the title much but wow that is good
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:04 (five years ago) Permalink
All these producer ideas are terrible at a time when the phone presumably still hasn't rung for Dennis Ferrer and Quentin Harris.
Pretty sure I read that the album was being produced by Martin Solveig? Which isn't terrible but isn't exactly very exciting either.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 January 2012 11:35 (five years ago) Permalink
KMFDM = Kill MotherFucking Depeche Mode
― DavidM, Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:06 (five years ago) Permalink
xpost Unless it all sounds like "Rocking Music".
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 January 2012 12:22 (five years ago) Permalink
Maybe she should just make a lolspk moombahton album like Nadia Oh's.
― "only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:01 (five years ago) Permalink
martin solveig is definitely terrible, think i'd rather skrillex
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:22 (five years ago) Permalink
i don't think madge's voice is quite up to dennis ferrer/quentin harris levels of production though - they best frame house/r&b divas who can BELT IT OUT.
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:23 (five years ago) Permalink
Quentin Harris? Calvin Harris more like
― Number None, Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:24 (five years ago) Permalink
Isn't this being produced by William Orbit?
― lost ai weiwei (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:58 (five years ago) Permalink
KMFDM = Knights In Satan's Service
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:58 (five years ago) Permalink
Y'all make me think this'll be her Blackout.
― do you not like slouching? (Eazy), Friday, 13 January 2012 00:48 (five years ago) Permalink
completely forgot that this even came out
― giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:44 (four years ago) Permalink
It does pick up towards the end, but after that tedious first half-hour I feel like "hey, this isn't completely crap" rather than "ok, this is a good song"
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 August 2012 19:50 (four years ago) Permalink
so glad this bombed in the US.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:53 (four years ago) Permalink
get HER!
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 August 2012 19:07 (four years ago) Permalink
By referring to Madonna as a fairground stripper, Elton has basically described 99% of all female pop singers out there today. Their shtick consists of look changes, showing a boob, showing a piece of ass, pretending to be bisexual etc etc etc. The saddest thing is that gay men have supported the careers of these women.
I honestly don't know why men who are interested sexually in men have gone and supported the careers of women who appeal sexually to men who are not like us. Strange, isn't it?
Posted by: jason | Aug 6, 2012 8:55:23 AM
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 August 2012 19:11 (four years ago) Permalink
Here let me just fix that up for you
The saddest thing is that gay men have supported the careers of these women.I honestly don't know why men who are interested sexually in men have gone and supported the careers of women who appeal sexually to men who are not like us. Strange, isn't it?Posted by: jason | Aug 6, 2012 8:55:23 AM
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 6 August 2012 19:23 (four years ago) Permalink
I listened to Hard Candy a couple months ago and it didn't seem nearly as bad as I remembered.
I don't think I've ever been more wrong, more often, more vehemently, in as many different ways, over a longer period of time, and with as many supposedly clear-eyed self-revisions as with Madonna. There was never a Madonna album I liked on first listen. I'm still suddenly falling in love with old singles I hated. It's all on an upward curve, though, so there's something pleasingly right to me about her confidence, which makes me laugh. I feel silly offering strong opinions about her music at all anymore, one way or the other (given how much I now like Hard Candy, I suspect MDNA is better than this thread's borderline consensus, but of course I'm going to think that).
I will say, I now might vote the other way on that TS: Madonna vs. Elvis thread. The not-trying/not-showing-up-to-the-studio quality discussed above strikes me as a refinement of something that was always mysteriously there (or not there) in her singing. To me it's the sound of close, fascinated, concerned attentiveness to the contours of a melody just within reach of her ability, almost child-like with wonder or conscientiousness or both, but which winds up registering emotionally as all kinds of intimacy and attitude. Or maybe that's just me. Anyway, I'm beginning to think I'd love her if she'd never released anything but the last two albums...
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:28 (four years ago) Permalink
I am at the show in Philly right now. Her opening act is a DJ playing an hour-long set of 45-second snippets of songs while everyone just sits and watches.
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:11 (four years ago) Permalink
Also he has played FOUR Madonna songs as well as the opening riff of "Eye Of The Tiger". This guy is the WORST and his only shot of redeeming himself is playing "If Madonna Calls" or maybe even just "Queen's English"
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:15 (four years ago) Permalink
What hath Girl Talk wrought.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:19 (four years ago) Permalink
Holy shit that was so much fun.
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:22 (four years ago) Permalink
So we found tickets for the show tonight on eBay for $35 each. Wisely skipping the opening DJ.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2012 04:03 (four years ago) Permalink
Two hours of Vigilant Citizen pop-celebrity Illuminati/Osiris shlock set to dubstep. Some parts legitimately great, but weird apocalyptic vibe was more off-putting WTF than ridiculously engaging. Suspect Roger Waters would like this show a lot.
More than once, gf and I turned to each other and said "is she really drunk?"
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2012 19:05 (four years ago) Permalink
So apparently her entire next album was leaked months ahead of time?
― Greer, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:57 (two years ago) Permalink
well demos she was working on this summer
supposedly it got leaked because brazilian fans were getting mad she was spending too long on the album.
― prolego, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:04 (two years ago) Permalink
oh brazil
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:34 (two years ago) Permalink
I listened to this album a few months ago for the first time since fall '12. It holds up better than I thought (the final stretch ain't bad) but no way is it other than third tier Madonna.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:38 (two years ago) Permalink
"bitch i'm madonna" may be her worst ever anything
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:43 (two years ago) Permalink
well it is a sophie/diplo production
― prolego, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:47 (two years ago) Permalink
though maybe madonna causing pc music to jump the shark could prove her greatest contribution to music in a decade
― prolego, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:57 (two years ago) Permalink
I think I like MDMA nearly as much as Confessions, which means it's my 2nd favorite Madonna album since 1995.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:18 (two years ago) Permalink
so she's put the album up for pre-order and chucked out those songs that leaked as early downloads. 13 other tracks will come in march.
while it's probably a smart move, i don't exactly like the precedent of brazilian hacker stans being able to force the hands of their favourite artists (although considering north korean hackers seemingly managed to stop the interview's release this might prove the future).
― prolego, Saturday, 20 December 2014 12:26 (two years ago) Permalink
unholy brazilian madonna fan/kim jung-un alliance will destroy western civilization
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2014 13:39 (two years ago) Permalink
The wikipedia article says that there has been a "slurry of unexpected album content leaks". Giggle.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Saturday, 20 December 2014 13:51 (two years ago) Permalink
"devil pray" is the best thing here. it wouldn't sound too out of place on american life (save for the fact she's left kabbalistic musings behind for a hallucinatory drug trip through catholic hell). that folktronica sound is really such a comfortable fit for her in many ways, and in hindsight kind of makes me think she axed mirwais too soon.
"ghosttown" is fairly standard tedder-esque balladry (he's got a writing credit on "devil pray" but not this which feels like a mistake) but she sounds so much better vocally on it that she has in years and it makes such a difference. someone in her team needs to tell her to stay in her lower register because when she veers out of it she ends up sabatoging even potentially great material. but we've discussed this here ad nauseum.
"bitch i'm madonna" remains terrible (what the hell is that drop?!) and sophie needs to stop existing already. poor nicki getting roped in when she's already had a bad enough week.
i don't even know what the fuck "illuminati" is, but i've long expected madonna to become music's norma desmond so in a way it makes more sense than anything else here. i wish she's stop with this rebel heart nonsense and just call an album i am big, it's the charts that got small already.
― prolego, Saturday, 20 December 2014 15:15 (two years ago) Permalink
Just listened to the iTunes samples. They are terrible, every one of them. I didn't like MDNA or Hard Candy either. When is it time for me to finally give up?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:16 (two years ago) Permalink
Oh man "Living For Love" is some awesome throwback piano-house Masters at Work shit
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 21 December 2014 04:45 (two years ago) Permalink
that was my impression, just the vocal melody uh needs work
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 December 2014 06:25 (two years ago) Permalink
BITCH *clap* I'M *clap* MADONNA *clap*
― j. winters (josh), Sunday, 21 December 2014 07:42 (two years ago) Permalink
This btw: Madonna - Rebel Heart (2015)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 December 2014 08:16 (two years ago) Permalink


text: Ciara caught her boyfriend Future cheating and has decided to end their engagement. The pair just had a baby together three months ago and they named the baby Future so I'm guessing she didn't know about the cheating at the time. The pair got engaged last October and were planning a huge wedding sometime this fall and Ciara was even doing interviews with all the bridal magazines. She was going all out, but now she is just going solo. She can do way better than that guy. I never knew what she saw in him anyway, but love works in mysterious ways. Just ask Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts. I'm also guessing this was not the first time Future cheated, but probably the first time he got caught. Or the second or the third and Ciara finally had enough.


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i've heard benefit.... but i dont' think i remember liking him...
wayz, the rule is: you're supposed to use your first post to call someone a fag...... your second post won't count if you call me a fag.
but seriously, i've had that song "simple" off def jux presents 1 stuck in my head for two days, and no one is helping me..... i know i don't post shit like fanny, but c'mon, help a homie out.
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forsurrre,tell me what its like.
You live in the states?
forsurrre,tell me what its like.
You live in the states?
also, when black booking with the boys. or painting somewhere chill, nothing beats pounding back a 40 or 2 of max ice, or Olde English.
malt liqour goes to my head.
Just str8 jack daniels, 9 shots n good for the night
IM DRUNK!!! tangueray!!!
i'm drunk too.. 1L of Paulaner and another half litre of some icelandic stout.
been getting drunk pretty easily lately. 3 pints.... jezuz.
same, recession hit me hard. so my tolerance got pretty low. couple drinks got me pretty tipsy. me and the wife use to pound back a 40 no prob every night. not anymore.
40s sound good to me. If ya havin trouble finishin them drink mickeys. Today im drinkin coopers sparkleing ale. If ya lookin for quality beer thats where its at
fuck mickeys. just buy a 40 or a 60. there'll be alcohol there when you wanna drink next. gonna hit the beer store up today, the weekends comin.
coopers idd showing ur south aussie pride
i aint much of a beer drinker but always down for a coopers here and there think my fridge is full of coopers pale ale and millers chill atm
Drinkin a beer called Vergina! LOL
yeah thats what im talkin about
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ahh mickeys fine malt liquor
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i just go through random stages of gettin drunk after like 6 pints every now n then
ohh and chenzo, what the big deal with buckfast man ?
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There are some backwards compatibility issues > and changes in default behavior that cause concern. We could remove these and > slate them for 3.x--this would make releasing 2.4 more palatable. > > After releasing 2.4.x, we could branch of 2.5.x and start our new rules. A > better TORQUE website could help explain the difference between 2.1, 2.3, and > 2.4 and give recommendations which version should be used. > > TORQUE 3.x could be branched off at any time. I would like to get rid of "trunk" > and just call the branches what they are: "3.0", etc. It might be less confusing. > > Anyway, those are the two options right now. What does everyone think? > > ----- > > Also, as promised, here is a roadmap proposal. As mentioned a few days ago, this > is only a rough draft and it addresses some issues that have been mentioned both > in the mailing list and via other channels. Everything is open to discussion, > but I think it would do us all good to come to a consensus and even try to > attach release dates so that users of TORQUE have a good feel for when they can > expect new features and versions. > > Note also that this roadmap assumes we do release TORQUE 2.4.x as it stands and > not create a "new" 2.4. > > TORQUE 2.3.7 - release in the next few weeks (June 15th?) > > * Only bug fixes allowed from now on. > > TORQUE 2.4 - possible release around August 30th? > > * Complete 2.3-fixes merge > * A single new feature: CPU affinity (very basic implementation) > * Start code lockdown soon and prepare for release > * Get early-adopters to install and increase internal CRI testing > * Get docs ready for this release (improve BLCR explanation, update MPI docs, > etc.) > > TORQUE 2.5 - possible release before winter (November 1st?) > > * TORQUE testing framework (multi pbs_mom's model) > * Eliminate need for privileged ports (configurable) > * CPUsets improvements > * Get job arrays out of beta > * Job array dependencies > > TORQUE 3.0 - release sometime next year? > > * Alternate communication model between pbs_server, MOMs, and sisters to > improve scalability on very large systems with large MPI jobs > * Closer integration with MPI wireups? > * Improve TORQUE's high-availability feature > * Refactor code to make it easier to maintain and work with > * Add code to help better support GPU's in clusters > * Continue improvement of documentation > * Make job save format more flexible and less brittle > > Again, this is in no way something we have set in stone or are handing down as > doctrine. 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Indianapolis • Indiana had everything covered Wednesday night.
When Atlanta tried to get tough, the Pacers buckled down and got even tougher. When the Hawks tried to run, the Pacers simply slowed them down. And when the Hawks tried to rally, well, the Pacers punched back with Paul George, George Hill or any other open shooter.
The result was the same.
George scored 27 points, his second straight playoff career high, Hill finished with 22 and the Pacers pulled away from the reeling Hawks 113-98 to take their first 2-0 lead in a playoff series since the 2004 Eastern Conference semifinals.
"We naturally just play physical," George said. "It wasn't like 'Hey, let's play physical, let's retaliate.' That's just how we play. That's how we approach the game. We just have to keep playing how we play."
Indiana made it look easy.
They matched Atlanta's intensity step for step, and when they had a chance to put things away, they didn't hesitate.
Three days after George posted the second triple-double in the franchise's NBA postseason history, he put on another brilliant show. The league's Most Improved Player rebounded from a 3-for-13 shooting effort to go 11 of 21. He finished with eight rebounds, three assists, four steals and turned in another sterling defensive performance as the Pacers won their fourth straight at home over Atlanta.
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LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court panel Wednesday upheld the second-degree murder convictions of two young men for the January 2008 shooting deaths of two teenagers at a crowded birthday party in Long Beach.
But the three-justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed Jonzel Stringer's conviction on 46 counts of attempted murder and co-defendant Izac McCloud's conviction on 38 of 46 counts of assault with a firearm involving others who were at the Jan. 19, 2008, party at the Masonic hall in the 5900 block of Parkcrest Street.
Stringer was sentenced in December 2010 to 198 years to life in prison, while McCloud was sentenced in October 2010 to 202 years to life in prison, but the justices ordered those sentences to be vacated and their cases returned to Long Beach Superior Court.
The panel agreed with Stringer's contention that a judge prejudicially erred by instructing jurors on the "kill zone" theory of liability for attempted murder.
"In a kill zone case, the defendant does not merely subject everyone in the kill zone to lethal risk. Rather, the defendant specifically intends that everyone in the kill zone die," Associate Justice Frances Rothschild wrote in the 37-page ruling.
"Although we have already determined that Stringer's convictions on the 46 counts of attempted murder must be reversed because of instructional error, if the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to sustain convictions on some of those counts then they cannot be retried on remand. ... The evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to sustain only eight of those 46 convictions," Rothschild wrote, with Presiding Justice Robert M. Mallano and Associate Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson concurring.
The justices also found that there was sufficient evidence to support only eight of the 46 assault convictions against McCloud, noting that 10 shots were fired but that two of them killed the murder victims, 15-year-old Breon Taylor of Los Angeles and 17-year-old Dennis Moses of Long Beach, who were shot in the head.
A 17-year-old boy survived being shot in the leg.
Stringer -- who was 19 at the time of the crime -- and McCloud -- then 16 -- were indicted in August 2008 in connection with the killings, which occurred at a party that had drawn more than 400 youths.


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At 14:43 08/02/2005 -0800, Fred Wright wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Didier Lebrun wrote:
> > The high latency does create some specific problems with TCP, since the
> > [bandwidth * latency] product is too big for the standard TCP window size
> > and packets loss can become dramatic in this kind of context. But the IETF
> > has developped a set of TCP extensions (RFC 1323) in order to overcome
> > these limits and have TCP perform better on LFNs (Long Fat Networks).
> > Recent versions of FreeBSD support the RFC 1323 extensions and use them
> > automatically when necessary, but the main problem is between the clients
> > and the remote servers anyway, since the TCP transaction occur between
> > ends, the gateway just letting the packets through, with the exception of
> > DNS and NTP queries.
>Correct. Directly supporting RFC1323 on a router isn't terribly
>important, although it *is* important that the router not screw it up,
>e.g. by failing to handle window scaling correctly in stateful filtering.
> > When RFC 1323 extensions are supported by the system, TCP adjusts
> itself by
> > calculating the TCP window size as soon as the first ACK comes back... but
>That's not exactly correct. The default socket buffer size is set
>independently from any knowledge of the peer's capability, but in the
>absence of window scaling the usable window is clamped at 65535. That may
>not even manage to avoid allocating the buffer based on the uselessly
>larger size.
I'm not sure to undestand what you mean here. Doesn't TCP adjust the socket
buffer and the TCP RWIN once it has received some ACKs, allowing it to
calculate the proper TCP RWIN ?
> > before that, it uses the system default values, which are often badly
> > optimized for sat links. So, it's better to tweak them on each client in
>They're often not even adequate for broadband to distant points. The
>theoretical minimum RTT for halfway around the planet is about 133ms.
> > order to have it perform better. The main principles are:
> > - enable "Window Scaling" (usually enabled by default)
> > - enable "Time Stamping"
>Only the above two relate to RFC1323.
It's true, but I didn't mean to say all options where part of 1323 ! I just
meant to say that they can play some role in case of sat links.
> > - enable "Selective ACKs" (SACK)
>Although the original "long fat pipe" package included SACK, the original
>SACK proposal was broken and hence explicitly *not* included in RFC1323.
>A reworked SACK mechanism was later published as RFC2018. In general,
>SACK support is less "mature", but fortunately it's the least important of
>the three, especially if packet loss is low.
> > - enable "Path MTU Discovery"
>This has absolutely nothing to do with RFC1323, although bulk-transfer
>efficiency on *all* links is better when the MTU can be chosen correctly
>rather than using an arbitrary "conservative" value. But then you have to
>worry about broken firewalls not forwarding the needed ICMP packets.
> > - set the TCP receive window size to a higher value [max
> bandwidth
> > in bytes * max latency in sec]
>It's actually worse than that. Although that's sufficient to avoid
>window-limited rates in the absence of packet loss, whenever a packet is
>dropped it takes *two* RTTs (plus the time to trigger fast retransmit) to
>get it through, and hence any window size smaller than twice the
>delay-bandwidth product (and then some) will diminish the effectiveness of
>fast retransmit.
You might be true. I noticed some problems in case of packets loss,
especially with WinXP clients, but couldn't figure them out. I'll have to
get into fast retransmit documentation to fully understand this point.
>Note that this amount of buffer space is needed *per connection* even
>though the only real requirement is for that amount of *total* oustanding
>data. This can eat up RAM pretty quickly.
>Also note that similar issues apply to the *send* buffer size, although
>upstream speed are usually slower.
> > - disable "Black Hole Detection" (MS Windows only)
>This has nothing to do with RFC1323. It's actually a workaround for PMTUd
>failures due to blocked ICMP. The only reason I could see for its having
>anything to do with this is if the timeout for calling the path
>"broken" is too short for a satlink.
> > - set "Max duplicate ACKs" = 2 (3 on Win98 only)
>Again that has nothing to do with RFC1323, but instead represents the fast
>retransmit threshold. RFC2581 recommends 3. Lower values reduce the
>amount of send buffer needed to avoid window stalls after dropped packets,
>but increase the risk of unnecessary retransmissions. Also note that this
>only affects *send* performance.
You're true in the principle, but I discussed this point with a sat
technician, who recommanded me to reduce the retransmit threshold, since 2
RTTs is already quite big in case of sat link, and the risk of having
packets still arriving later than that is pretty low. I don't remember the
reason he gave me for the Win98 exception ?
> > On FreeBSD, you can adjust a few thing too:
>But I wouldn't recommend doing this to m0n0wall, since it's rarely a TCP
>endpoint and often can't afford the RAM.
> > If you are using FreeBSD's traffic shaping capabilities, you must
> adjust to
> > size of the queues too, in order to avoid packets drops when the queue is
> > full. You can set each download queue to the TCP receive windows size, and
> > each upload queue to the TCP sendspace. The same for the main pipes
> > (96Kbytes and 24Kbytes in our case).
>But the queues aren't what's filling up. The extra data that one has to
>accomodate is literally "up in the air" (or at least the vacuum). If the
>traffic shaper is just dealing with packets, it shouldn't care. If it's
>trying to be clever enough to watch TCP SEQ and ACK numbers but not clever
>enough to take large RTTs into account, then it's broken. In no case
>should it ever be necessary to buffer significant data *in the router*.
>In fact, excessive buffering in routers simply increases the overall
>delay-bandwidth product (by increasing latency) and thus requires *more*
>buffering at the endpoints.
>Theoretically the same argument would apply to the socket buffers, but the
>problem is that the receiver can't offer window unless it can commit to
>receiving that amount of data regardless of application behavior. The
>send-side buffer is needed because it can't be certain that the data has
>been delivered until it gets the end-to-end acknowledgment.
My argument might not be relevant for m0n0wall's traffic shaping ? I've not
studied it enough to tell. On our gateway, we use DUMMYNET + IPFW2 + NATD
(static firewall) with a principle of pipe sharing, whatever the bandwidth
is at a given moment, without setting any absolute value for each pipe or
queue, since I observed that setting an absolute value was increasing the
latency by approximately +200 to +250 ms. Each client obtains a fair share
of the whole pipes (upload and download), depending of how many clients are
using the link simultaneously, with a weight depending on ports numbers. So
we can have sometimes one client using the full link at it's best capacity,
and a whole TCP window can get stuck in any queue before TCP stops
transmitting more. That's why we need to set a whole TCP window size for
each queue in order to avoid packet drops. I did some experimental
observations by setting various values and looking at packets drops, and I
found that some drops did occur when the queue size was under 75% of the
TCP window, and disappeared above this value. I supposed the difference
between 75% and 100% was because [MAX ... * MAX ...] is overestimated.
> > Another kind of problem that can arise, is MTU/MSS miscalculations, since
> > the TCP header is 4 bytes longer than usual when using the RFC 1323
> > extensions. They fill the 6th optional TCP header line, thus producing
> > headers of 44 bytes (20 IP + 24 TCP) instead of 40 usually (20 IP + 20
> > TCP). It can create problems when using VPNs or any kind of encapsulation.
>I don't know where you get that particular number. There's an option for
>window scaling, but it appears only in the initial SYN segments. Ditto
>for the option *enabling* SACK. The timestamps option adds *12* bytes
>(including padding) to every segment. SACKs add a variable amount, but
>for most application protocols (simplex ofr half-duplex) tend to appear in
>otherwise empty packets.
You're probably true. I did observed 44 bytes headers, but I don't remember
checking whether all headers had this size.
> Fred Wright
Thanks for your precisions :-)
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Vaginal sling procedures are types of surgeries that help control stress urinary incontinence. This is urine leakage that happens when you laugh, cough, sneeze, lift things, or exercise. A vaginal sling procedure helps close your urethra and bladder neck. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside. The bladder neck is the part of the bladder that connects to the urethra.
Pubo-vaginal sling; Transobdurator sling
Vaginal sling procedures use different materials:
You have either general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia before the surgery starts.
A catheter (tube) is placed in your bladder to drain urine from your bladder.
The doctor makes one small surgical cut (incision) inside your vagina. Another small cut is made just above the pubic hair line or in the groin. Most of the procedure is done through the cut inside the vagina.
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Risks of any surgery are:
Risks of this surgery are:
Tell your doctor or nurse what medicines you are taking. These include medicines, supplements, or herbs you bought without a prescription.
During the days before the surgery:
On the day of the surgery:
You may have gauze packing in the vagina after surgery to help stop bleeding. It is usually removed a few hours after surgery.
You may leave the hospital on the same day as surgery. Or you may stay for 1 or 2 days.
The stitches (sutures) in your vagina will dissolve after several weeks. After 1 - 3 months, you should be able to have sexual intercourse without any problems.
Follow instructions about how to care for yourself after you go home. Keep all follow-up appointments.
Urinary leakage gets better for most women. But you may still have some leakage. This may be because other problems are causing urinary incontinence. Over time, the leakage may come back.
Appell RA, Dmochowski RR, Blaivas JM, Gormley EA, et al. Female Stress Urinary Incontinence Update Panel of the American Urological Association Education and Research. Update of AUA guideline on the surgical managementof female stress urinary incontinence. J Urol. 2010;183:1906-1914.
Dmochowski RR, Padmanabhan P, Scarpero HM. Slings: autologous, biologic, synthetic, and midurethral. In: Wein AJ, Kavoussi LR, Novick AC, et al., eds. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 73.
Wai CY. Surgical treatment for stress and urge urinary incontinence. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2009;36:509-519.
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