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To Text Or Not To Text, That Is The Question.
Dear Lennie, Is it okay to text a guy within an hour or two after a date to thank him and tell him you had a good time, or is that being too forward? What is proper etiquette?
Dear Miss Manners. Glad you have some and that you are asking this question. Yes, it is okay to text a man after a date to say thank you. But I would wait at least till you got home, took off your make up, and walked your dog or played with your cats, whatever the case may be. What I mean is, wait an hour. And when you do text him, keep it simple and not too emotional. Something like It was nice to meet you. I had a great time. Thanks for dinner. Do not confess your undying love for him, do not ask him on a second date by saying I hope to see you soon, and do not say anything sexual. If he texts back right away. You are allowed (by Lennie's Laws of Etiquette) to text back one more time. Then let it be. You don't want to appear too eager, too clingy, or too desperate. Guys like a chase, so let him chase you. The other option is not to text, and to call him the next day and leave a message... of course, he should be calling you to do that, and it's perfectly acceptable for you to wait for him to make the first move and thank him for the date at that point.


text: Want to know what it is like to borrow a really expensive dress and return it with your own alterations? Just ask Lindsay Lohan because you are way too responsible to do it. That dress you see above is the one that Lindsay wore to the amfAR ball. The one that Charlie Sheen offered to pay half for which Lindsay declined. Because Lindsay has to save half the $1750 cost for cigarettes and her prescription meds, Lindsay decided to borrow the dress. Why? Because she knew it would be ruined and why spend $850 to ruin something? According to US Weekly, Lindsay returned the dress ruined. She had snagged it on something and ended up having her assistant take a pair of scissors and turn it into a mini-skirt. A ragged looking one. The thing is, to save his friendship with the stylist, Charlie Sheen will probably foot the bill and Lindsay won't learn her lesson. Again.

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New William T. Rowe Residences: This three-phase, $80 Million project done in collaboration with HAHN and Trinity Financial revitalized an under-used building at 904 Howard Ave., filled it with 104 units of affordable housing and 26 unrestricted market rate apartments. The project was completed in 2011.
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Don't tell confucious, he's adamant a 64GB iPhone is the stuff of dreams.
Shouldn't ios5 be out on the 4th?
I'm surprised MMi didnt post anything about this iPhone 5: This is our Design-Prototype! | BENM.ATThese people have made a prototype based on the iphone 5 cases popping up everywhere, they even include the wide home button, suprisingly it looks amazing
To those of you seeking to purchase the 64GB iPhone 5, I hope you are willing to fork up! It'll probably be worth the investment for you guys in the long run and it was a logical next step for Apple.
Tuesday can't come soon enough!
I wonder if following a memory upgrade for the next generation iPhone if Apple will upgrade the memory in the iPods and iPads as well. The iPad could use an upgrade it seems to be made for heavier duty work and having the same amount of memory as an iPod seems a little cheap.
option 4 is most likely.
I want 5 zillion gigglebytes.


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Alfresco Microsoft Exchange Integration
By connecting Alfresco to your Exchange systems, project times and deadlines can be made available within your project sites. Alfresco Share makes it possible to create calendar entries that are automatically synchronized with the Exchange calendar. Outlook calendar entries are also updated in the project site.
Enable calendar synchronization
A click on the link "Synchronize calendar" in any Alfresco calendar will create that calendar in the public folder "Alfresco" in Outlook. Access rights correspond to those for the Alfresco site.
While synchronization is in progress, the message "Synchronization started" is displayed. After successful synchronization, the message "Synchronization completed" is displayed. Entries that were already in the Alfresco calendar before synchronization are automatically created in the Outlook calendar as well.
Event Synchronization Alfresco > Outlook
With synchronization enabled for an Alfresco calendar, new entries are synchronized immediately with the corresponding Outlook calendar.
The fields "Subject", "Where" and "Description" as well as the times are updated automatically. The synchronization process does not transfer attachments and tags to Outlook.
Event Synchronization Outlook/Exchange > Alfresco
Changes made to a synchronized calendar in Outlook are replicated back to Alfresco via a cron job that runs every five minutes.
If the same event is also changed in Alfresco before the cron job runs, the changes made in Outlook will be overwritten by those made in the Alfresco calendar.


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RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Common tasks like folding clothes, writing a letter, putting on a sweater, and taking a pill can make for frustrating experiences when you're wearing obscured goggles, walk with studded inserts in your shoes, and try to grasp objects while your fingers are gloved and taped up.
That's what Peggy Duffield experienced when she went through the virtual dementia tour provided at the Atria Del Rey assisted living center, by Right at Home in home care & assistance in Rancho Cucamonga on a recent Wednesday.
Duffield's mother, 82-year-old mother Beverly Thompson, resides in the dementia care unit of Atria Del Rey. After participating, Duffield said she's come away with a deeper understanding of what her mother may be going through.
"I'm probably taking away a perspective I've never imagined, because she still looks normal," Duffield said. "When I look at her, I still see the woman I knew. It's only when she tries to talk or she does things that aren't normal, I remember that she has a disease," Duffield said. "Now I know how difficult things are for her. You don't understand until you're actually put into that place ... it gives me a much deeper feeling for what she's going through."
The dementia tour, meant for the younger adult family members and caregivers of elderly loved ones, is an exercise that utilizes various wearable gear, incoherent sounds, and a flashing light, that handicap the senses, reasoning and mobility for the participant.
The goal is to provide a better sense of empathy for the impairments an elderly relative or loved one may be going through, in addition to encouraging the caregiver to consider getting professional in-home care or assisted living service for their aging loved one.
"It's an experience for caregivers and adult children to experience what it feels like to be an elder with dementia," said Erika Lemon, executive director for Atria Del Rey. "They'll be going through the program, getting some sensitization to the things that afflict our elders, such as arthritis, neuropathy, memory loss, vision loss, so it really gives them a clear understanding for what it is to be an elder, so that they can better care for their elders or seniors in their own homes, or be able to deal with them if they do move to assisted living.
Right At Home in-home care and assistance of Rancho Cucamonga provided the dementia tour gear for the tour. Prior to completing various tasks inside a residential room at the center, Duffield donned goggles, headphones to muffle sound, gloves and tape on her fingers. She also wore plastic studded inserts in her shoes to provide added discomfort.
Lemon said Atria Del Rey are considering holding the dementia tour on a quarterly basis.
"I think if you're not really experiencing it yourself, it's hard to understand how that feels," Lemon said. "So if you tell your loved one you need to take your pills, but they're having a hard time even opening a pill bottle or any of those tasks, (this allows participants) to be able to understand what that feels like so that perhaps there's more empathy or perhaps you realize your loved one really is struggling and maybe it is time for that in-home care or assisted living track."
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text: Bill Parcells was coming to Dallas. Do you remember where you were when you heard the news? Or how excited you were? Gosh I do. I boldly proclaimed that Parcells would coach here for 6 years and win 2 more Super Bowls. I had that much faith in the guy. I wonder what he could have done with the triplets if he had been the coach who came after Jimmy? I certainly don't think we'd have headed down the road to hell. But that's just me. I don't like the way he left, and I am less than pleased with the overall results. But 9 years ago today was when I learned to hope again as a Cowboys fan.


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You may have seen a recent commercial that talks about all the wonderful uses of a pencil, as the screen focuses on one while the background changes to thematically coordinate with the narrator's descriptions. After a few shifts, the background remains still and a hand reaches down to grab the new iPad Air that was hidden behind the very thin pencil, and the commercial explains that Apple hopes you will find just as many uses for their product. The advertiser's idea is to convince the customer that, as essential as a pencil has been to poems and symphonies and even doing various things in space, so is the iPad Air. The electronic tablet is professed to be the next revolutionary step in writing from the old pencil and paper.
The 21st century has opened with exciting advances in cyber technology that lead us to debate between physical and digital modes of information. If a company keeps all of its files in electronic media, whether hardware or the cloud, they have more space for physical items like office furniture, and can quickly access their information by a few keystrokes. However, should the hardware break down or the ethereal storage get hacked, that information is vulnerable and, even with backup, possibly irretrievable. So, hard copies are usually prudent for the cautious business owner, though even these are subject to physical damage or loss. One cannot afford to fully trust one way or the other, and so must maximize the benefits of both.
The question becomes more pointed if no significant resources are at stake. When it comes to books, we can carry an e-reader that is capable of providing a small library in the same space that one book would normally occupy. Since producing paper gives people concern for the shrinking global tree population, it would seem prudent to just skip the hassle of carrying bound volumes. Even the book lover's complaint that e-readers 'just aren't the same' is ringing less true year by year, as technology provides page turning, bookmarks, and generally paper-like screens. As online shopping led to Borders going out of business, so the digital format could replace the last few centuries' tome, like a new Gutenberg press.
Yet even so, there is a strong reluctance for many to make that final jump— dare I say a faith that things like physical books still offer us something that cannot be replaced. What we lose in technology is the presence of that material we interact with, since cyberspace occupies no real space, and whether connecting with people or writing, they are presented to us via electric signals that are translated into text and picture, not as a corpus or body. The physical element is sacrificed for the sake of efficiency, and that's fine where efficiency is necessary. Technology can give access to those materials when a physical interaction is not possible.
The problem is Americans have the innate assumption that perfect efficiency will make things easier and life better, so we hardly ever stop increasing speed at the expense of those precious bodily experiences. A digital library cannot be strolled, and no e-reader lets the pages flip past your fingers or gives you the smell of ink and old paper. If electronic stimuli can ever provide those experiences, the point will not be that it feels real, but if it is real. The point is we might be tempted to claim that technology is the peak of communication, as if it can do away with all the inefficiencies and unwanted side effects from tangible thought and corporeal contact.
The heart of it all is that humans are not complicated data processors, but physical and spiritual beings. Whether in business or leisure, it is harmful for a society to consider ease and productivity as their highest goal, as the primary means of achieving the elusive pursuit of happiness. We need those messy, untimely moments where life is best lived, as well as finding methods to get more things done more quickly. We still need to be able to touch people, and to have their words actually inscribed and close, not just quickly projected and quickly removed. There is more to life than getting the most out of a service, or being preeminent at providing one. When the holidays are about looking for the best stuff at the best price, rather than finding the gifts that bring true joy to our loved ones, including spending time with them (if possible), then they won't be so holly or jolly.
To be fair, companies are aware of this presence factor and often incorporate into their commercials the notion that their products liberate the customer to take care of those moments, unencumbered by inferior, less handy products. The struggle lies not in those who take stock of what people are like and then advertise accordingly; rather, it lies with the individual from whom commercialism ultimately flows. Having an iPad is great, so long as it doesn't stand in for love of our neighbor. Focusing on the physical beings around us, not the digital or even physical benefits we expect from the gifting season, is to be more human and, we shall find, gives us actual joy. In the same tradition where God came down to be present with mankind on Christmas morn, we should take time to put aside the fleeting intangibles in favor of those presently with us, who make life complicated and material.


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Lee Shaw has been promoted to vice president of ProVia sales for doors and windows.
He joined ProVia in Sugarcreek in April 2011 as director of sales for residential doors and windows. In his new role, Shaw will lead all of the door and window sales activities for the company.
Before joining ProVia, Shaw served as the chief sales officer for Craftsmen Restoration in Akron.
Shaw is a resident of Sugarcreek where he and his family are active in many church and community activities. He is a board member and trustee for the Reckoning International in Sugarcreek, a nonprofit development organization with clients in Ukraine, Colombia, Nepal, Kenya and Uganda.


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42 U.S. Code § 10603a - Child abuse prevention and treatment grants
Amounts made available by section 10601(d)(2) of this title for the purposes of this section shall be obligated and expended by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for grants under section 5106c [1] of this title. Any portion of an amount which is not obligated by the Secretary by the end of the fiscal year in which funds are made available for allocation, shall be reallocated for award under section 10603(a) of this title, except that with respect to funds deposited during fiscal year 1986 and made available for obligation during fiscal year 1987, any unobligated portion of such amount shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1988.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Section 5106c of this title, referred to in text, was in the original "section 109 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act", meaning section 109 of Pub. L. 93–247, and was translated as reading section 107 of that act to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the renumbering of section 109 as section 107 by section 113(a)(1)(B) of Pub. L. 104–235, title I, Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3079.
1996—Pub. L. 104–235 substituted "section 10601(d)(2) of this title" for "section 10601(d)(2)(D) and (d)(3) of this title." and "section 5106c" for "section 5103(d)".
1993—Pub. L. 103–121 substituted "section 10601(d)(2)(D) and (d)(3) of this title." for "section 10601(d)(2) of this title".
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I need a place to start shaping. Any ideas?
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I need a place to start shaping. Any ideas?
build a shed or use your garage.
Yea... a shed or a garage is best, because you can control the lighting. But don't forget, the call them "backyarders" for a reason. Don't be afraid to shape on your patio or driveway... anywhere that will allow you to sweep up or shop vac all the dust. Then hit it with the leaf blower. When it comes to glassing, just get a roll of red rosin paper and cover the floor. Just tape it down. Do two layers if your concerned about any mess at all. Then... get dirty.
Oh... and keep an eye out for the Brookdale course in August.
I haven't shaped my own board but I heard greenlight surf supply is best place to get your stuff. It is only 49 dollar shipping for an epoxy kit.


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Safe MMA Sanctioned!
I love the nob top at 19:49. Reminds me of that advert in Running Man haha.
Nothing beats getting heel hooked while your being filled in too.
LOLs aside there are some genuinely talented kids fighting on there.
Who's up for going over, need a team mate for 75kg


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Anderson Music Hall
Hiawassee, GA 30546
Anderson Music Hall is located within the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds and is home to the Georgia Mountain Fair Superstar Concert Series during the year. And it is also the home of the Cloggers Convention during the July fair and the Fiddlers Convention during the fall festival in October.
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Hours of Operation
Monday: 9:00AM - 4:00PM
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Wednesday: 9:00AM - 4:00PM
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President Lays Out Bold Agenda for Higher Education Reform
Sep 03, 2013
By Marcie Foster and Julie Strawn
In August 2013,, President Obama presented an ambitious and sweeping plan for the reform of higher education as part of a national tour focused on college access and affordability. The plan targets three major areas of reform: paying colleges and students for performance, promoting innovation and competition, and ensuring student debt is affordable. CLASP applauds the President for setting a bold agenda for the country that aims to support innovation and make college more affordable for the millions of students-particularly low-income and underprepared students-who could benefit from postsecondary education and training.
Chief among the plan's recommendations is to establish a new rating system focused on identifying colleges that provide the best value for students and incentivizing colleges to place a priority on serving more low-income, disadvantaged students. While the Administration has taken steps in recent years to help students and parents make better college choices though projects such as the College Navigator and the College Scorecard, there is more work to be done to ensure that students and their families have the most relevant information to help them meet their college and career goals. This should include data on outcomes, such as completion rates, employment, earnings, and percentage who pursue advanced degrees. Ideally, the data should also be available at the program level rather than just by institution; institutional-level data often mask highly variable outcomes by program of study.
As this conversation continues, we hope the Administration will also consider efforts to strengthen the data systems from which such ratings would draw information. For instance, in addition to lacking data on employment and earnings outcomes, existing systems fail to measure the progress and completion of entire categories of students, such as part-time students, students who transfer between institutions, and students in noncredit occupational programs. More work should also be done to ensure that any legislation that would tie a college's ranking to student aid delivery through the Higher Education Act carefully considers the potential consequences on college access for low-income and underprepared students.
Core to the president's plan are proposals that seek to tackle the sources of rising college costs. A $1 billion Race to the Top (RTT) fund attempts to "reshape the federal-state partnership" and incentivize state-level innovation and funding. State funding has fallen dramatically in recent years and is just now experiencing a slight resurgence. Conditioning these federal grants on adequate state funding could help stem this disinvestment. RTT grants would provide an incentive to states to adopt policy reforms designed to reduce costs for students and families and to improve postsecondary completion rates.
The president's plan also supports the expansion of competency-based models, which allow students to get credit for learning based on the competencies that they can demonstrate, rather than the number of hours spent in a classroom. These models have the potential to reduce a student's time to a degree as well as college costs. While only a handful of institutions across the country have implemented such models, the Department has already opened up opportunities for more colleges to experiment with this model by clarifying how students in such programs can receive federal student aid currently available under the Higher Education Act. CLASP has called for a new currency of competency-based credentials to improve transparency, trust, interoperability and value in the credential marketplace. In collaboration with the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce and support from the Lumina Foundation, we will also be engaged in a project to define competencies for certificate-level credentials.
CLASP's Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success will be conducting research and analysis in the coming months to expand the available knowledge base on these and other critical higher education issues. Topics under further exploration include making consumer data on employment and earnings widely available to parents and students to inform college decision-making, making student aid simpler and more transparent, improving the ability of the neediest students to receive sufficient student aid to meet the full cost of college, and examining institutional eligibility for higher education.
For more information on CLASP's recommendations to improve the availability of data and use of performance metrics in higher education, view Reforming Student Aid: How to Simplify Tax Aid and Use Performance Metrics to Improve College Choices and Completion>>
See CLASP's preliminary recommendations on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act


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TV Support
Change Aspect Ratio on Cisco-Scientific Atlanta DVR Cable Boxes
Last Updated: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 > Related Articles
Eliminate black bars and pinched or stretched images! Just follow these steps.
Symptoms of Aspect Ratio problems:
- Black bars on either side of the picture are caused when a TV show is broadcast in standard definition 4x3 format but displayed on a widescreen 16x9 HDTV.
- Black bars on the top and bottom of the picture are caused when the content provider, such as Showtime or HBO, transmits a 16x9 widescreen theater movie to a standard definition 4x3 TV so that the entire width of the picture is visible.
- In either case, you can stretch and zoom the picture to fill the entire screen. Note that stretching and zooming will cut off some of the picture or make actors suddenly look stretched sideways.
Verify the Output Format setting
Verify the Video Output setting matches your TV, which is either standard or high definition.
- Press the SETTINGS button then the A button.
- Use the arrow buttons to highlight the Audio/Video preference.
- Press SELECT.
- Scroll to Video Output Formats and press SELECT.
- Highlight and SELECT the standard or high-definition option that matches your TV resolution (refer to the TV manual):
- 1080i
- 720p
- 480p
- 480i
- A Warning message displays. Press SELECT.
- A Message box displays. It says to press the A button within 15 seconds to confirm The Output Format is being set to: xxxx.
Note: If the newly selected format is not supported by your TV, then the Message box may not be visible on your TV. (You've selected a standard or high-def format that is not supported by your television.) In this case, press the C button to Cancel and then try another Output Format.
- Press the A button.
Select the Aspect Ratio
- After pressing the A button in step 8 above, scroll to the Video Aspect Ratio preference and press SELECT.
- Highlight either Standard or Widescreen to match the type of TV connected to the cable box.
- Press SELECT.
- Highlight the way you want your TV to handle black bars.
- If you chose Standard 4x3 TV in step 2, the options for displaying 16x9 programs are:
- Squeeze - no black bars; makes actors look slightly squeezed thin
- Letterbox - leaves the black bars on top and bottom, and no cropping or squeezing the picture
- Zoom - cuts off some picture on either side to make the picture fill the screen
- If you chose Widescreen 16x9 TV in step 2, the options for displaying 4x3 programs are:
- Stretch - no black bars; makes actors look slightly stretched sideways
- Sidebar - preserves the black bars on either side; and no cropping or stretching the picture
- Zoom - cuts off some picture from the top and bottom to make the picture fill the screen.
- If you chose Standard 4x3 TV in step 2, the options for displaying 16x9 programs are:
- Press the A button.
- Press EXIT.
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On the Shelf
Life Is One Never-Ending Conference Call, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Who needs the titillations of Page Six and entertainment media when we have the fifteen hottest affairs in literature?
- Who needs a soul deadening nine-to-five when we have the ten worst jobs in literature?
- … And, for that matter, "a site that perfectly captures the existential despair of the conference call?"
- Victor Hugo: poet, novelist, playwright, furniture designer.
- At last, a map that lets you take that dystopian walking tour of Manhattan you're always going on about.
- On Goliardia Sapienza's The Art of Joy, an erotic seven-hundred-page doorstop now available in English: "the novel reads less like a handbook on happiness than like a sadomasochistic Italian novelization of The Joy of Sex."


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A previous month, the editor had used narutard in reply to a letter about some one loving naruto so much, that they cosplay in school on Fridays with one friend.
They did note as well, that there Anime club was that day.
So many people started sending in letters defending themselves. However, the magazine had an issue with the letters.
They were willing to apologize for the narutard comment, but majority of the letters were stating that it was normal, not nerdy, and completely okay to cosplay any where, and any time.
The editor did apologize for the letter, but said "make no mistake, if you cosplay at a school for fun, you're a nerd". He also said that there was nothing wrong with being a nerd, but you are one.
Be it from some one who loves to cosplay. I know there is a time, and place. Many people can get mad, or offended by where you cosplay. Also, if the club is after school, then change before it. School is not the time to cosplay in my opinion.
I now i'm a nerd, and i'm proud of it. I think we all are a bit, wether punk, goth, or etc.
So my question is:
Is it normal to cosplay any where, at any time, or does it make you nerdy?
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New Chávez Term Celebrated—Without Him
As Venezuelan Leader Convalesces in Cuba, Thousands Turn Out to Cheer His Inauguration and Support His Movement
CARACAS—Venezuela held an inauguration party on Thursday for President Hugo Chávez to kick off his fourth term. Throngs of supporters took to the streets. A few heads of state flew in. The only thing missing: the cancer-stricken president himself, who officials say is lying in a hospital bed in Havana.
Tens of thousands of people clad in red shirts and red baseball caps, the color of Mr. Chávez's socialist party, flooded downtown...


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Sorry I haven't gotten anything up for the n900 yet. Still waiting for a day off... I leave town again in a few days so maybe I'll have some time at night while I'm away.
I see there is a sizable thread (30 pages last I checked) on the maemo site. They seem a little misguided and are using a modified image for no apparent reason (the stock image works fine).


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The Red Light Camera Scam – Safety or Shakedown?
You know it's all a shakedown!
You just need concrete proof!
Well here it is!
Last month a group calling itself the "National Coalition for Safer Roads" was found to be run by American Traffic Solutions…the company that sets up and operates all the red light camera systems around the state...


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USETDA 2013 Conference
United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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The United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) is hosting its 3rd annual conference to be held July 24-26, 2013, in Claremont, California. The theme for USETDA 2013 is, "Waves of Change: Oceans of Opportunity".
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I looked after my father for over six months without any daycare provision and thus no breaks, no time off whatsoever - thank you Social Services! - which was, as you can imagine, exhausting. We now have daycare for him for two days a week but I think we would all benefit from some time away somewhere, hopefully this summer. I would think, at the stage he is now, it would probably be the last time this would be workable.
My plan was that we would go somewhere like Eastbourne, or the I-O-W and my father would go into a nursing home but just to sleep, with my mother and I staying in a hotel nearby but collecting him every morning, us all spending the day together as a family, and then taking him back in the evening so that someone else is dealing with his waking during the night and the bed-wetting and the laundry and I could get some much needed sleep and a break, but from the day-to-day routine, not from him.
I don't know what we are 'entitled' to as carers so I don't know what allowance, if there is such a thing, we can ask for. The Care Manager seems to have "no" as her default setting so I need to know what is considered a normal amount of respite per year for a carer before I ask her anything as she will just say no if she thinks she can get away with it.
Does anyone have any idea what is the norm, or what the 'allowance' is?
Thank you in advance.


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Microsoft Hatched Surface After Watching Partners Fail to Compete with iPad
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Microsoft saw its partners were needy, unwilling and unable to push the envelope in the tablet space
As the picture surrounding Microsoft Corp.'s (
"Surface" tablet
fleshes out via
interviews and leaks
, one thing is for sure -- Microsoft would love to see its third-party partners succeed with their
Windows 8 tablet designs
, despite the fact that it's now competing with them. But the decision to compete is also a big vote of no confidence in these third-parties' ability to
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I. Microsoft Predicted Tablet Market Early, Had High Hopes
In 2007 Apple shook up the market when it released the iPhone, the first multi-touch smartphone. To be fair, the market was already trending towards touch-screens, but suddenly the trend was summarized with a singular iconic device. Microsoft, which had played with touch technology in its labs and mobile products for years, took note of the increasing convergence between mobile devices and the personal computer (PC).
It baked basic touch capabilities into Windows 7, which launch in late 2009. To Microsoft's disappointment, partners expressed little interest in taking advantage of these capabilities. Initially Microsoft played with idea of a
dual-screen tablet called Courier
. But internal disputes and hesitance to become a first-party PC maker caused Microsoft to
shelve the plans
Then rumors of an Apple tablet picked up, and suddenly the touch-plans went from an expansion effort, to an essential effort. Microsoft was determined to not let Apple gain a monopoly in this market, which it had long recognized the merit of -- perhaps even before Apple. It contacted HP, the world's largest maker of personal computers, and what Microsoft considered a trusted partner.
And HP delivered at first. Prototypes of the Slate 500, like the one
presented by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES 2010
, were relatively attractive.
A prototype of the Slate tablet, demoed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES 2010, looked attractive. [Image Source: Bloomberg]
II. Slate Design is "Completely Ruined", Subsequently Flops
But both the former Microsoft executive and a former HP executive comment that the Slate 500 was "completely ruined" when it was handed over to HP's manufacturing organization. The tablet ballooned in size. To make matters worse, HP poorly integrated the touch screen with Windows 7. Users would touch the screen and face a lag before the tablet would respond. Describes the former HP executive, "It would be like driving a car, and the car not turning when you turn the wheel."
Three weeks later late Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs showed off his slick iPad, which had none of the awkward lag of the HP Slate. While the original Slate prototype was relatively good looking, it was outshone by the iPad, which featured a slick aluminum case.
Steve Jobs's iPad was a hit, while the Slate flopped. [Image Source: Reuters]
The case was no small feat. Apple had to procure a large amount of high quality aluminum to make it, so it entered a large bulk purchase agreement with a mine in Australia. The former executive recalls shock at Microsoft meetings regarding just how deep Apple would dip into global supply chains to produce Mr. Jobs' "perfect" device.
And if the early Slate prototype was a bid homely compared to the original iPad, the final bloated design was downright unsightly. Microsoft was frustrated.
And it didn't help that HP blamed Microsoft. HP saw its tablet shortcomings as primarily in the software department. It complained how Microsoft's small icon size made icons hard to click and it was not a fan of Microsoft's Windows 7 touch keyboard. HP felt that the licensing fees it paid Microsoft for Windows should have been applied towards making better OS software/firmware support.
Seeing that the Slate was destined to flop in sales (and
it did
, after
almost being cancelled
), Microsoft tried to reach out to other partners. But it faced disagreements regarding price and features. "Faith had been lost," the former Microsoft executive recalls.
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Ultimately, Microsoft decided not to devote significant resources to cultivating a Windows 7 tablet from any of its partners. Instead it focused on perfect Windows 8 for touch devices. But this time around it
knew better than to trust third-parties
. It was sick of their failure to compete with Apple in the tablet space, and it was sick of
taking the blame for that failure
Evidence of just how much Microsoft has learned was on display at the Surface announcement. Much like Apple bragged of its iPad's unique aluminum case, Microsoft's belated counter was built on a material it went to great lengths to secure bulk purchase agreements on -- magnesium. It argues that magnesium offers many advantages over Apple's aluminum, including superior scratch resistance. Comments Windows President Steven Sinofsky, "The case is one-of-a-kind."
nary a partner
delivered that kind of dedication to their supply chain and innovative case design at Computex 2012. They instead relied on their Chinese partners to build more standard designs, although they expect to price them at similar points to the iPad and Surface. This lack of ambition is all too familiar to Microsoft and a validation of why it made a smart move with Surface.
With "Surface" Microsoft controls its own fate. [Image Source: Microsoft]
Microsoft may say its decision to make Surface was not a slight to its third-party partners. Comments Steven Guggenheimer, a Microsoft corporate vice president, "Microsoft has tremendous respect for our hardware partners and the innovation they bring to the Windows ecosystem. We are looking forward to the incredible range of new devices they are bringing out for Windows 8."
But no matter what words it chooses, Microsoft can not hide the unspoken message -- it is dead-determined to beat Apple -- with or without its partners.
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Is there any point when the wordpress database gets too big? What is an estimated size for when you should split the database working with mysql?
I know, may be a silly question but i am a rookie and just wanted to cover myself in this case which may occur soon for my sites.
Databases don't get too big. Servers just need to be bigger.
The database has gotten too big when the site gets too slow. There are usually warning signs - it doesn't get very slow suddenly.
In that case you either optimize it / replicate it / shard it / purge it from historical data. Worry about that when (and if) the time comes
The usual solution in that instance is to optimise it. Of course if that ever happens it means that the database wasn't designed properly in the first place.
Just about anything else is more likely to be the cause of the slowdow rather than the database.
I have to disagree there. The database is the most resource intensive process on most sites, and often the cause of performance issues.
A database may be completely optimized and still grow beyond the capacity of one server to run it. In that case load balancing it on several servers via replication / sharding is the right course of action, instead of blaming it on bad database design. There are also optimizations that can not be foreseen before real-world usage stabilizes and careful profiling takes place. There are other places to optimize in that respect, such as the queries themselves, caching and so forth.
I have never experienced a loading slowdown, but my blog is small.
If you search I'm sure you'll find more complete analyses, but off the top of my head.
Reduce the number of db calls. eg. if your theme is relatively stable, you can hack the files, replacing calls like get_bloginfo('name') with the actual name.
Even if you have a lots of posts, they are only called for certain pages. Other things are called every page load i.e. options
WordPress has gotten better at self-cleaning old cached feed content, but if you have tried a lot of plugins/themes they may have added options that are left behind when you delete the plugin/theme (IMHO plugin authors should really be putting that into the plugin code, but ....)
I have heard from some of my plugin users that their load time improved a lot after they removed orphaned options. But the fact that older versions didn't remove cached feeds was the main culprit, some users had literally hundreds of obsolete rows bloating the options table.
And has been mentioned, optimizing the database from time to time isn't a bad idea either.
Generally MySQL support limited database size.If you need large database,You should use RDBMS like Oracle.IT can handle large bulk of data.
this is nonsense
mysql databases can be as big as you need (e.g. terabytes)
Yes wp db seem like a bit incapable to handle huge DB.For example :500k post.2 millions tag.1gb DB on Quad Xeon16 ecc ram.Optimize every 3 day. (MYSQL Hardware Spec)
Problem:Difficult to access Admin Panel (slow, very slow)Difficult to delete post.Difficult to edit post.
A lot user said that is my hardware issue, then i try to install another WP in same server but it run perfectly without problem or lag ...
some time it take ages to delete one single post, i'm not an in SQL expert or anything but my invision board can run and manage 4-5 gb DB without any problem.
It might be worth rather than blaming mysql / wordpress - looking into things that can be done to help the performance.
Wordpress does a lot of queries during the loading of each page, which, most of the time will be the same - install a Wordpress Caching system to cache the generated pages for a short period, this will massively reduce the load on the server.
Here is one text from mysql manual:
"We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 60,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows."
Wordpress MU Version's database can swell too quickly than the normal installation. However, if your server's resources are enough, there should be no big issue with size of the content in your database.
Take a look by logging wordpress sqls (it is in db wrapper: wp-includes/wp-db.php): If you dump the query to a file, you can see each sqls being run there. You can easily guess what changes you need to do on the database to optimize it.
Test i did :I create another identical wp site it same server, start from 100k post till 400k post in a week time, every work well till it reach 400k post, same identical issue happen ...
I repeat again with third installation and same step i going, same thing happen when it reach 400k post.
I try again, same issue, then last (5 installation), everything run smoothly till 400k post .....
Now i 5 wp in my server with total 2 million post, server still smooth, only issue is freeze up when entering edit.php .....
In past few month i do a lot google reading, it seem like no one can pass 500k post with wp standard db ....
So is server issue like you said or wp core n mysql issue (as this thread topic) ? wp standard can't handle huge sql db ...
Caching has worked wonders lately for my big mysql databases via wordpress. But how long until the caching would become an issue with when wordpress actually builds the cache from big hits of traffic? I guess that is why you need to tweak the cache you have setup for length of time for rebuild, garbage collection etc.


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Right Age to Conceived
Hello everyone! I'm Josephine, single, but I am a happy foster mother to a 2 year-old girl. I am interested to generate some answers to my query regarding, when is the right age for a woman to be physically mature to be able to conceived a baby of her own. I heard of some friends say that there is this definite "range" of early adult age that could be the best time to get pregnant and surely conceived a healthy baby. Thanks everyone.
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Hello Josephine,
A womans fertility actually peaks between the ages of 15 and 24. During each cycle, a 15 year old has a 40%-50% chance of conceiving. By the time she reaches 25, her chances of conceiving each month drop to 30%-35%. At age 30 its 25%, and at age 35 she only has a 15%-20% chance of conceiving each month.
At age 40, most women only have a 5% chance of conceiving each month; at 45 this has dropped to 3%, and by the time a woman is 46, her egg supply is pretty much exhausted and pregnancy only very rarely occurs at this age.
However, we know that there are women who are 25 years old, who have very few, healthy eggs and are experiencing infertility at a young age. Their biological age is older than their chronological age. Likewise, there are 40 year olds who have many healthy, young eggs, and typically their biological age is younger than their chronological age.
Preconception care will not only help to increase your egg quality, but it will also increase your odds of giving birth to a healthy baby.
However, it doesnt matter how high or low your fertility is if you dont know the best timing and techniques for your baby making sex, it can take you much longer to get pregnant.
Please let me know if you found this information helpful and if you have any other questions.
Warm Regards,
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Hi Kate! I'm using another account, since I forgot the password of the first one. Thank you so much. It is so nice of you to comprehensively post a reply to my concern. I now have a great understanding regarding this matter. A great help indeed! Thanks again.
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You're very welcome :-)
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on Twitter. Clinton's first tweet contained a word of thanks to the makers of the popular Tumblr feed called Texts from Hillary. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea are already on Twitter. On her profile, Clinton describes herself as a wife, mom, lawyer, Senator, Secretary of State, and "glass ceiling cracker."
Thanks for the inspiration @asmith83 & @sllambe - I'll take it from here... #tweetsfromhillary— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 10, 2013


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At the risk of foiling any romantic chemistry between us, dear reader, for the purposes of this item we must describe our body. We are approximately 50 pounds overweight and have flat, wide feet. Imagine if a duck mated with Alfred Hitchcock. Now imagine that auteur paddling bird tried his hand (wing?) at basketball one afternoon and badly turned his ankle. Given the weight on his feet, the lack of supporting arches, and the seriousness of the injury, this would be a job for a masterful foot doctor. Especially if — we admit we're stretching the metaphor a bit here — the filmmaking duck had to catch a plane to the mountains of Utah for a hiking trip in two days hence. Let's tell the rest of the story straight: Dr. Gary Curson advised us against making the trip and offered to write a letter to the airline to assist in having the tickets refunded. When we refused, he prescribed industrial-strength ibuprofen, wrapped our afflicted foot like a mummy, outfitted it in an embarrassing boot, and gave us some ground rules for treating the appendage so it wouldn't be permanently damaged. All the while, he cheered us with some pleasantly corny wisecracks. There were no exorbitant charges on top of our insurance payments, and we enjoyed our trip — although we did much more drinking than hiking. Take it from a fat-ass duck: Whatever the opposite of a quack is, that's Dr. Curson.
Miami has a love/hate relationship with literature. Our beaches are littered with tourists' cast off pulp paperbacks. Our local luminaries are crime reporters cum authors. But that doesn't mean we don't appreciate the written word as much as your average American does. Just check out our libraries. Many of them are packed. And when Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez shut down dozens of them to save money last year, locals were rightly pissed. Luckily, Miami's best library was spared. No, we don't mean that pastel pleasure palace on South Beach. We like that branch, with its coffee shop, interior courtyard, and general law-and-orderliness. But downtown is our definition of a true library: a repository of rare and weird items such as limited editions of Florida authors and rare prints by Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. It's also where all Miamians — rich or poor, mansion owners or street dwellers — converge from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and, finding a spot near a window, lose themselves in a musty book. So ditch your Kindle. ¡Vamos a la biblioteca!
Ever visit a city where the public transportation actually works? Like Minneapolis, where people take the light rail from the airport? It feels like you've escaped from the hinterlands into the Capital. (Yes, that's a Hunger Games reference.) Miami will probably never have good public transportation, what with our perpetually inept and greasy-palmed collective of politicians. But depending upon your starting point, getting to Miami International Airport by bus is — believe it or not — pretty damn painless. The Airport Flyer, as the express route is called, travels from South Beach to the airport and back with only two stops: one in Mid-Beach and one at the Earlington Heights Metrorail Station. It costs $2.35, a far cheaper option than cabbing it or parking long-term. If you don't live on the Beach, your journey gets more complicated once you transfer at Earlington Heights — but hey, what do you think this is, Seattle?
Best is such a subjective word, especially when it comes to parking. The obvious answer is whatever is cheapest and closest, but no one wants to hear your stories of parking glory. "Oh, you found a metered spot right in front of the restaurant? Great, good for you. Guess what? I just parked in what is quite literally the most buzzed-about and architecturally important parking garages of all time." Yes, we're talking about 1111 Lincoln, the Herzog & de Meuron-designed parking paradise that's been featured in every publication from the New York Times to Vanity Fair. You know you wanna drive up in that thing. You know you wanna glide your car into the clean concrete and wide-open vistas. You know you're gonna take a picture from the edge. You know you're gonna casually mention it once you get to wherever you're going. Is it always the most inexpensive and convenient place to park? Probably not. Could you make a strong case that it's the best? Obviously. Just admit it, you newly minted parking elitist.


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Of the 320 species represented at Woodland Park Zoo, 44 are endangered and 18 are threatened. The zoo participates in Species Survival Plan conservation breeding for 72 animal species, and headstarts several species at the zoo before reintroducing them into wild habitats. Zoos' scientific research on species' health, social behavior and reproduction are major contributions to the knowledge base on which field conservation relies. Explore more about Conservation Breeding and Research
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The Remote Exploit Team is ecstatic to announce the public release of BackTrack 4 Pre Final (codename pwnsauce). A VMWare Image of BT4 will be released in a few days.* We have major changes in BackTrack, and have tried to document and summarize them as best as possible. Check out our BackTrack Videos and Resources, our [...]
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I'm up and running on the prefinal with USB Persist. Smooth as butter so far. Excellent job muts and team! Thank you!
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Tuesday, July 7 2009 - Anthrax
UK weapons inspector who was found dead was writing expose: paper
By John Byrne
British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose about his work with anthrax and his warnings that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction at the time of his death in July 2003, according to a report published in a British newspaper.
Kelly's death -- said to have been a suicide -- has stirred controversy, as it came on the heels of testimony to the House of Commons about a memo which purported that Britain had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. A Parliamentary inquiry ruled that the death had been suicide, though it also included testimony from a former British ambassador who quotes Kelly as having said, "I will probably be found dead in the woods" if Iraq were invaded.
The new report says Kelly had spoken with an Oxford publisher several times about a book.
"He had several discussions with a publisher in Oxford and was seeking advice on how far he could go without breaking the law on secrets," the UK Daily Express alleged.
Kelly's computers were seized in the wake of his death. He was a signatory to Britain's Official Secrets Act, which allows for the prosecution of those who talk to the press about state secrets and prescribes a more stringent framework for secrecy than in the United States.
According to the paper, "he was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion" and was also intending to lift the lid on a potentially bigger scandal, his own secret dealings in germ warfare with the apartheid regime in South Africa."
The allegations of a potential Kelly expose come from a new film about biological weapons being debuted in London on the sixth anniversary of Kelly's death titled "Anthrax War" (the documentary aired earlier this year on Canadian public television). Kelly was an expert in biological warfare agents, as well as a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq.
'Anthrax War'
''The deeper you look into the murky world of governments and germ warfare, the more worrying it becomes," the film's director, Bob Coen, is quoted as saying. "We have proved there is a black market in anthrax. David Kelly was of particular interest to us because he was a world expert on anthrax and he was involved in some degree with assisting the secret germ warfare program in apartheid South Africa."
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's summary of the film, Coen "was raised in Zimbabwe where the former white regime has been accused of unleashing anthrax against the black population" [who] embarks on a journey that raises troubling questions about the FBI's investigation of the 21st century's first act of biological terrorism.
"Coen's investigation takes him from the U.S. to the U.K. and from the edge of Siberia to the tip of Africa. In a rare interview, Coen confronts 'Doctor Death' Wouter Basson, who headed Project Coast, the South African apartheid-era bio-warfare program," the network's website adds. "Project Coast used germ warfare against select targets within the country's black population.
"Anthrax War also investigates the mysterious deaths of some of the world's leading anthrax scientists, including Dr. David Kelly, the UK's top military microbiologist, the Soviet defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, and Dr. Bruce Ivins," the CBC continues. "The FBI claims - despite the doubts of highly ranked U.S. officials - that Ivins was the only person behind the U.S. anthrax murders."
A Torrent download of Anthrax War is available at this link. Several shorter clips are also available on YouTube.
This video is from CBC's Anthrax War.
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To make up for the heftier price tag, more snack options like nachos and coffee are available at Ster-Kinekor's 'Classic' cinemas. Half-price Tuesdays for movie club members does help to lessen the financial blow, however. This deal makes Tuesday the cinema's most popular night, so it's best to book in advance.
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I was at Cavendish Square Claremont on the 4Nov the 11:40 Crimson Peak movie. I forgot my package in the movie house. I was on the bus home when I realised tjis. I Google the tel number and called 0216719753 but no one picked up. Confrmed this number with your Johannesburg Call Center and called several times. No one picked .up. and now my package is probably gone. If someone, anyone just answered . Really not impressed. I want compensation for the terrible inconvenience. Saania. 0780848586
Send me your movie programme for December 2015 as I will be in Cape Town with my family as well as your venues.
Send me your movie programme for December 2015 as I will be in Cape Town with my family as well as your venues.
It is a great cinema, itself. I cannot argue with that, yet my problem is that whenever I look at the showtimes on their website it differs with the showtimes in the newspaper. I then call them to find out the correct time, yet they do not answer their phone very often. Due to this, I gave the popular cinema a 3 star rating
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The Strategy and Capital Allocation Framework announced in October 2015 focuses our portfolio on a set of reinforcing capabilities with strong inter-connections.
We are best-in-the-world in 3 Core Technologies, 4 Manufacturing & Engineering Platforms, and 5 Market-Access Platforms. Our probability of success increases as we apply more of these world-class capabilities. Our cost of innovation declines as we reapply talent and leverage our existing assets. Additionally, by combining capabilities, we create higher and more sustainable competitive barriers.
Focusing our portfolio means we direct 80% of our resources to opportunities that use existing capabilities from at least two of our three focus areas. Few competitors can match our expertise in any one of our focus capabilities, when we combine them, we can create market-leading positions and margins.
The Framework builds on the already high return we receive on our innovation investments. For example, over the last few years, we've invested in research and development at double the rate of our peers. On average, they've invested 4% of sales while we have invested 9% of sales. But we have delivered more than two times the operating margin, or 18% versus their 8% average. Said another way, our additional $1.3 billion investment in RD&E returned an additional $2.5 billion dollars over a three-year period. That is a huge premium.
Of course, we recognize that Corning is the natural leader for some great opportunities that do not require multiple capabilities. Our framework allows us to apply up to 20% of our resources to these opportunities. However, we know that those initiatives are riskier, so we only pursue them if the potential payoff is exceptional.
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Placement of tension-free vaginal tape is surgery to help control stress urinary incontinence. This is urine leakage that happens when you laugh, cough, sneeze, lift things, or exercise. The surgery 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.
TVT; Urethral suspension
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
A small surgical cut (incision) is made inside your vagina. Two small cuts are made in your belly just above the pubic hair line.
A special manmade (synthetic) tape is passed through the cut inside the vagina. The tape is then positioned under your urethra. One end of the tape is passed through one of the belly incisions. The other end of the tape is passed through the other belly incision.
The doctor then adjusts the tightness (tension) of the tape just enough to support your urethra. This amount of support is why the surgery is called tension-free. If you do not receive general anesthesia, you may be asked to cough. This is to check the tension of the tape.
After the tension is adjusted, the ends of the tape are cut level with the skin at the incisions. The incisions are closed. As you heal, scar tissue that forms at the incisions will hold the tape ends in place so that your urethra supported.
The surgery takes about 2 hours.
Tension-free vaginal tape is placed to treat stress incontinence.
Before discussing surgery, your doctor will have you try bladder retraining, Kegel exercises, medicines, or other options. If you tried these and are still having problems with urine leakage, surgery may be your best option.
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 will be taken to a recovery room. The nurses will ask you to cough and take deep breaths to help clear your lungs. You will have a catheter in your bladder. This will be removed when you are able to empty your bladder on your own.
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 go home on the same day if there are no problems.
Follow instructions about how to care for yourself after you go home. Keep all follow-up appointments.
Urinary leakage decreases for most women who have this procedure. But you may still have some leakage. This may be because other problems are causing your incontinence. Over time, some or all of 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 the AUA guideline on the surgical management of 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.
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The Long Beach State women's basketball team will look to rebound from Sunday's at-the-buzzer loss to Santa Clara when they visit another West Coast Conference school, the University of San Diego, at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The 49ers (4-4) blew a 12-point first-half lead and Santa Clara scored on a rebound and putback at the buzzer. It was the second time this season that a 49er loss came down to the last play.
A win will give the 49ers a winning record after nine games for the first time since 2005-06.
Okpala named All-American
Sophomore middle blocker Chisom Okpala was selected as an honorable mention All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association for leading the 49ers in hit percentage and blocking and ranking in the top 10 in four Big West categories.
Okpala began the season as a reserve expected to back up returning starters Haleigh Hampton and Alma Serna, but injuries thrust her into the lineup and she grew with each match. She hit .328 and averaged 2.86 kills per set, second on the team, while making 1.17 blocks per set, which led the 49ers.
Her 224 kills in Big West play led Long Beach State, and Okpala was named both a first-team All-Big West and a first-team All-West Region selection. She becomes the 24th 49er in school history to earn All-American honors, and is slated to return in 2013 along with Hampton, who missed the 2012 campaign due to injury after being named an All-American in 2011.
Men's team picked sixth
The Long Beach State men's volleyball team was picked to finish sixth out of 13 teams in the 2013 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation preseason coaches' poll, the conference office announced Tuesday. The 49ers received 85 points to finish ahead of reigning MPSF regular-season champion and NCAA finalist USC (83 points).
Defending national champion UC Irvine was tabbed as the preseason favorite as it collected 11 first-place votes and 143 total points. BYU came in second with the remaining two first-place nods and 134 points. Following were Pepperdine (113 points), Stanford (110) and UCLA (94) ahead of the 49ers.
LBSU welcomes back nine letter-winners and three starters from last year's squad that went 15-15 and advanced to the MPSF quarterfinals. Junior outside hitter Taylor Crabb is Long Beach State's top returner after averaging 2.75 kills and 1.91 digs per set. He garnered second-team All-MPSF honors and was named a Volleyball Magazine third-team All-American in 2012. Crabb was also just named a preseason All-American by Off the Block, a volleyball website.
The 49ers also return senior outside hitter Trevor Crabb (2.00 kills), junior middle blocker Jeff Ornee (1.65 kills, 1.04 blocks), senior middle blocker Colten Echave (1.43 kills) and junior setter Connor Olbright (10.40 assists).
The 49ers begin the season at the annual UCSB Basics Invitational Jan. 4-5 in Santa Barbara.
More honors for Link
Long Beach State senior forward Nadia Link is one of three nominees for the L.A. Soccer News Women's College Player of the Year award and a regional nominee for the Soccer News Net Women's College Boot, recognizing the national player of the year.
Fans from across the country will be able to vote for the top collegiate player. Voting is open until Saturday. Online fan voting will account for 40 percent of the total toward the award. The remaining 60 percent of the vote will be cast by the Soccer News Net editorial staff.
Link recently wrapped up one of the greatest careers in program history. She claimed her second consecutive All-America nod and Big West Offensive Player of the Year award as she led the 49ers to their third straight NCAA Tournament appearance. The Walnut native finished her senior campaign with eight goals and a conference-leading nine assists and 25 points.
Link will leave Long Beach State ranked among the all-time top five in goals (tied for second, 32), game-winning goals (second, 13), shots (third, 210), points (tied for third, 84) and assists (fifth, 20).


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