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Let's be real. Voting for Eric Sogard to be the "Face of MLB" isn't about baseball. It's not about the fans' love of Sogard (although he is quite popular). It's about proving that anything is possible if people come together. It's about Oakland Athletics fans showing the establishment they can't be ignored forever. It's a sharp kick to the hindquarters of the very people that view A's fans as second-class citizens, even in their own market.
Sogard isn't the "face" of Major League Baseball. He isn't even the "face" of the A's. How ridiculous is that concept anyways? The face? Really? The A's are successful because they find a way to get contributions from every last player on the roster. There is no face. Last year, Yoenis Cespedes was bounced in the first round of the "Face of MLB" competition.
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Last month I learned that a gentleman I work with recently had a heart attack after an incredibly busy, stress-filled month. The doctor said it was truly caused by stress. (He did survive, thankfully!) It's just not worth it.
As I shared with you in this post, actually enjoying the life you're living is very important to me. It can be hard to balance, whether you're an ambitious entrepreneur or employee, with so many opportunities and so much to do to achieve your goals.
Today I want to share a story with you that perfectly captures the vision I have for each and every one of us…whether we're in the corporate or entrepreneurial world (or both!) (author unknown)
The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, only a little while.
The American then asked why he didn't stay out longer and catch more fish.
The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life."
The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually, you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, 'But how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then?"
The American laughed and said, "That's the best part! When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions."
"Millions?" asked the fisherman. "Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evening, sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos!"
What might you take away from this?
I hope it encourages you to reflect on what you want your life to look like…
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- Are you doing what you love?
- What steps might you take so that you're doing it the way you imagined?
- What do you need to be able to do it that way?
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Looking for something easy drinking for a relaxed weekend brunch? This lemon honey sparkling cocktail is just the ticket. Prep the glasses with the lemon zest and lemon honey mixture up to two hours ahead. When your guests arrive, stir and top with well-chilled Cava.
Lemon Honey Sparkler
Serves 5
Recipe by Shereen Pavlides
Total Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Active Cooking Time: 12 minutes
- 3 large lemons, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons honey, preferably local
- 1 bottle (750 milliliters) Cava, well chilled
Using a paring knife or vegetable peeler, peel five 2-inch long strips of lemon rind. Twist the strips and squeeze the lemon oils into the champagne flutes. Drop 1 piece of rind into each flute.
Juice the lemons, straining to catch seeds, to yield ½ cup of lemon juice. Place the lemon juice and honey in a small bowl and whisk to combine. If the honey isn't dissolving into the lemon juice, place the mixture in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high until just slightly warm (just enough to melt the honey), 10 to 15 seconds. Let stand to cool at room temperature before proceeding.
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Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (Illustrated with Introductory and Closing Remarks)
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The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma" which is one of the three goals of Hindu life, means sensual or sexual pleasure, and "sūtra" literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not just an exclusive sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.
The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra (Sanskrit: Kāma Śāstra). Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.
Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE. John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.
Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra has 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into 7 parts. According to both the Burton and Doniger translations, the contents of the book are structured into 7 parts like the following:
1. General remarks: 5 chapters on contents of the book, three aims and priorities of life, the acquisition of knowledge, conduct of the well-bred townsman, reflections on intermediaries who assist the lover in his enterprises.
2. Amorous advances/Sexual union: 10 chapters on stimulation of desire, types of embraces, caressing and kisses, marking with nails, biting and marking with teeth, on copulation (positions), slapping by hand and corresponding moaning, virile behavior in women, superior coition and oral sex, preludes and conclusions to the game of love. It describes 64 types of sexual acts. Although Kama Sutra did not originally have illustrative images, part 2 of the work describes different sex positions.
3. Acquiring a wife: 5 chapters on forms of marriage, relaxing the girl, obtaining the girl, managing alone, union by marriage.
4. Duties and privileges of the wife: 2 chapters on conduct of the only wife and conduct of the chief wife and other wives.
5. Other men's wives: 6 chapters on behavior of woman and man, how to get acquainted, examination of sentiments, the task of go-between, the king's pleasures, behavior in the women's quarters.
6. About courtesans: 6 chapters on advice of the assistants on the choice of lovers, looking for a steady lover, ways of making money, renewing friendship with a former lover, occasional profits, profits and losses.
7. Occult practices: 2 chapters on improving physical attractions, arousing a weakened sexual power.
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His name is sometimes confused with Mallanaga, the prophet of the Asuras, to whom the origin of erotic science is attributed. This is an error; as Danielou says: The attribution of the first name Mallanaga to Vatsyayana is due to the confusion of his role as editor of the Kama Sutra with that of the mythical creator of erotic science.
Hardly anything is known about him, although it is believed that his disciples went on his instructions, on the request of the Hindu Kings in the Himalayan range to influence the hill tribals to give up the pagan cult of sacrifices. He is said to have created the legend of Tara among the hill tribes as a tantric goddess. Later as the worship spread to the east Garo hills,the goddess manifest of a 'yoni' goddess Kamakhya was created.His interest in human sexual behavior as a medium of attaining spirituality was recorded in his treatise Kama Sutra.
At the close of the Kama Sutra this is what he writes about himself: "After reading and considering the works of Babhravya and other ancient authors, and thinking over the meaning of the rules given by them, this treatise was composed, according to the precepts of the Holy Writ, for the benefit of the world, by Vatsyayana, while leading the life of a religious student at Benares, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity. This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires. A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything that he may do."
It is impossible to fix the exact date either of the life of Vatsyayana or of his work. It is believed that he must have lived between the 1st and 6th century AD.
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Cleaning the toilet is among the most unsavory of household chores and not everyone wants to use harsh store-bought cleaners in their bathroom. Luckily, we have some pointers on how to make your own DIY alternative that's gentle yet effective.
DIY household cleaners are great for a number of reasons. For starters, it's usually cheaper to make your own than to buy it from a store — particularly if you prefer an all-natural formula — and you have the peace of mind that comes with knowing exactly what is and what isn't in your cleaning agents. Also, you have the option to customize important aspects such as the scent or medium (liquid, powder, etc.) to your liking.
Sara McFall of My Merry Messy Life has a wonderful recipe for non-toxic liquid toilet bowl cleaner. To make her version, you'll need:
1/4 cup liquid castile soap
1 3/4 cup water
2 tablespoons baking soda
8-10 drops of essential oils
1/4 cup liquid castile soap
1 3/4 cup water
2 tablespoons baking soda
8-10 drops of essential oils
With this recipe, you can use whatever scented soap and essential oils you prefer. Lavender castile soap gives off a soothing aroma, whereas lemon, orange, eucalyptus and tea tree essential oils all have an invigorating scent.
Family Life Goals has a very similar recipe but recommends adding a little bit of cornstarch to the mixture.
Meagan Visser of Growing Up Herbal suggests keeping things simple.
For her recipe, all you need is baking soda, vinegar, and a strong disinfecting essential oil of your choosing. You can find the full tutorial on her website.
For those who prefer solid cleaners over liquid but aren't fond of having to scoop out powder, Jessica from Mom 4 Real has devised a clever way to press the powder into convenient little pellets — use an ice cube tray! Family Life Goals recommends doing the same thing. For a full ingredient list and a step-by-step tutorial, be sure to check out her website.
All you need to do is leave a couple bombs in the toilet for 20 to 30 minutes, then simply flush them away.
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It has always been a struggle for me to learn what it really means to be a godly woman. I still struggle today. I wasn't raised in a godly home. Growing up we lived with my grandmother because my mom and dad divorced when I was 5. The home was unkept, we were mostly lazy, neither my mom or grandmother cooked much, and my alcoholic "grandfather" lived in the home even though he and my grandmother weren't married. My mom dutifully took my brother and I to our Catholic church each Sunday, but I never got much out of it. I feel this way of living was etched into my life and hard to overturn.
When I became a Christian I didn't have anyone to take me by the hand and help me learn and grow as a Christian. I've only had one lovely women in my life who reached out and taught me some of what it means to be a godly woman, she is with the Lord now. Most everything I've learned about being a godly woman, wife and mom hasn't been from human example like in Titus 2, but from my own research and Bible study. Right or wrong, everything I've learned about keeping a home I've pretty much taught myself. It's been a hard road to break the bad habits I've been raised with and to re-learn a better way. I'm still working on it. It's a daily process. I continue to pray for the Lord to send a wonderful godly Titus 2 woman into my life, but in the mean time I am blessed with lovely Christian women online, studying the Bible and listening to the Lord…He is the ultimate teacher after all!
This weighs on my heart and I so desire to be the godly woman I didn't have in my life to other young Christian women who are going through what I went through. It's heartbreaking that there aren't more Christian women in today's churches who are living out Titus 2, but also more younger women who are willing to receive such a mentor. I hope that you will pray about reaching out and touching the lives of younger (spiritual or physical age) Christian women, and that you will pray about allowing older (spiritual or physical age) Christian women to reach out and mentor you. It's not a mere suggestion for a few select people, but a responsibility for all Christians…and we need it now more than ever.
Titus 2:1-5: But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things–that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.


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I started my photography career in India. My choice was largely due to the fact that I wanted to stand out in a sea of doctors and engineers. Fate took me to Paris, where I worked as freelance photographer for five years. The "City of Love" opened my eyes to all things fashion and art.
Having ditched french espresso for venti lattes at Starbucks, I now live and work in Chicago. For the past 10 years, I've shot fashion and catalogs for clients in New York, LA and many amazing cities in between.
My mind is a tireless runner. It is constantly taking snap shots of things that inspire me – streets, nature, movies, color. The inspirations influence my work in unexpected ways. This creative process is what makes each shoot exciting. When the model is on set and I look through the view finder, the creative wheels start spinning. It's a different world from that point on.
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No doubt that if certain patterns are tied too neatly they won't be as effective as a scruffier looking fly. Many patterns are better if they show some movement, or life, in or on the water. Still, I've noticed that those scruffier flies from the vises of good tiers look better & seem to catch more fish than those tied by a rank amateur, but that might be all in my head.
There seems to be a point in a fly tier's development when they reach a level of skill that it becomes very easy for them to tie most any pattern. That comes with experience, no doubt. Of course, with experience comes training & practice. We can all learn to tie from books & videos but nothing seems to help one learn fly tying better than personal instruction from a skilled tier. No book - no matter how good it is - can replace lessons from a good teacher. Every time I spend some time with a skilled fly tier I learn a lot more in that time than if I were reading a book about it.
I do enjoy watching a skilled fly tier work. It can be difficult to see what they're doing sometimes - some of them work so fast. Take a professional fly tier - they'll tie more patterns in an hour than I will all evening. That's because they have to in order to turn a profit. Sure, they can take short cuts like laying out all their materials for the group of patterns they're tying before they start, but they'd still smoke me if I did that, too.
If you can get a skilled tier to show you a pattern & they slow down enough for you to follow them, it's like watching an artist work. Of course when watching them the tendency is to focus on the hook in the vise. Naturally you must do this to learn the pattern, but I like to watch other things too - like how they hold their tools, how they hold the feathers or fur, etc. Things like that can be really informative & help you to pick up on little tricks they do so well & have been doing for so long that they don't even think about them. In other words, I try to study their technique.
There are some big differences between amateur & professional tiers that I've noticed over the years. For one thing, good tiers seem to spend a lot of time just picking out the materials they're going to use for a specific pattern. When they're thumbing through a group of feathers I always try to ask them exactly what they are looking for - what qualities does the feather they selected have that made it better than the others? This is time well spent, I've learned, as it's easier to work with a good quality feather than it is to try to make a lesser feather do something it doesn't want to do.
Another thing I've noticed with good tiers is their economical use of the thread. They seem to tie better flies with less thread turns than me. It makes sense, too. Don't make a bunch of sloppy turns where one good, tight turn will do. I'm betting this has something to do with why they're faster than me.
So if you're lucky enough to meet a professional tier who is willing to slow down & show you the ropes, you're going to learn a lot faster than you would from any book or video. It takes years of hard work to get good enough to tie flies for a profit. While I've been tying for a good many years, I don't think they need to worry about any competition from me!!


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Rediscovering Hacking
I've always told people that I'm a Hacker; anyone in the computer industry should know what that means (and, here's a hint, it doesn't mean criminal.)
I've always chosen the moniker Hacker because I'm not a programmer or an engineer, or even a developer, pick any of the other suitably business sounding job titles… and that's not how I self-identify.
As a Hacker, I think years of having a serious job title "Platform Developer", "Manager Software Engineering", etc has clouded my judgement, it's made me start talking about risk, and speaking about features as "n-Days man-time" not "a few hundred lines of code".
I've stopped working on untested code, this might be a good thing, but I'm not doing it because of a religious regions, or because hackers don't like crappy code, I've done it to dodge work, and cover my ass, corporate style - this needs to change.
A friend recent linked me to Duct Tape Programming by Joel Spolsky, I remember I used to be that guy, I used to hack for a 50% solution, and patch up holes later.
I'm working (as many of those close to me) on a project which in addition to a complex web application (which is home turf for my skills) requires a piece of companion software running natively on the user's desktop. This has to be built in a mixture of C, C++ and Objective-C - three languages I don't really know that well (I can read the syntax, and the code, but I'm not comfortable working in them) - It also requires OpenSSL (security), ØMQ (messaging), libJSON (data transport) - another three complex libraries I've never used.
My response was to buy all the books I could possibly find on the related topics… and read them, instead of hacking.
After a good kick in the rear from @paukul - I spent some free time when I returned to the UK hacking on the companion code, and I mean hacking. I tried 200 things to make some obscure C/C++ bridge (which I now realise is simple) work, because I didn't have a choice, I was hacking at my Gran's place, in the Car, and on a Plane - there's no way you can sit with a book in this situation, you have to just go for it!
As a result, after three days, out of the 9 months I've been researching, and background reading - I have more working than I could have imagined… sure - it's basically a cross-platform build, of some software I don't fully understand, and I don't know precisely why some of it is working; but it doesn't matter.
I'm not trolling through life to build perfect software, I should aim to build useful software, and build-in the stability later. To that end, my project right now doesn't compile on Windows, doesn't deal with all characters in file paths, and probably a bunch of other things I've missed.
But that's not important, this project is supposed to be a product, and there's more than 100 people signed up to beta-test it, and it's going to be free… so there's basically no risk to getting something wrong.
I'm still not resolute about the route I took, on the one hand a lot of reading, and planning, and design thinking has helped, I have a pretty strong foundation, which is paying dividends now, but I've also got no evidence that I even needed it. Interestingly, the more work I do - the more this project looks like 5 individual projects, which is something I hadn't expected… but it's moving so quickly, it's changing every few hours.
I'm lucky to have a free-day every week, one day every week I can spend working solely on this, and I even have the use of my private office at work on these days. It's a great space, with a couch, a fatboy, and a couple of desks, and walls soon to be covered in posters, emacs cheat sheets, and diagrams of software nonsense my colleagues don't understand.
I can't wait… a messy, informal space to do great work, fast, with enough safety not to risk the business, or my job, and enough free time to have a clear mind, and balance work, play and hacking, all in one space.
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Traditionally built cobble house,in west Mani, 50m from the picturesque harbor of Kitries village only 14km from Kalamata. Decorated mostly with rare traditional objects and furniture made by the owner from reused materials,it will inspire you&introduce you to traditions &creative techniques
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Traditional stone villa with breathtaking sea view at only 20 minutes from Kalamata, at the village Kitries of west Mani, at only 50m from the traditional picturesque port of the village, built and decorated with vivid and beautiful local materials. A big garden full of Mediterranean herbs surrounds the Villa and the view to the sea is stunning. The owner has a boat so a small trip for sightseeing or fishing is possible.
The two-storey Villa is is decorated with pieces of local and traditional art and various interesting paintings.
The stone stairs bring you to the upper floor where you can find the two big bedrooms and the bathroom. Our most favorite part of the house is the terrace and the garden: there you will enjoy the sweet wind coming from the sea int he morning taking your breakfast, or enjoy the sunshine and drink a glass of good wine watching the famous sunset of the Aegean Sea! In the garden there is also a traditional stone oven that is at your disposal, so you can cook or grill your meals and lunch under the trees. Also, there are doghouses inside the property for your pet.
The house, thanks to its perfect position is ideal for relaxation, enjoying the view it offers, but also a perfect starting point for exploration of the surrounding areas, the infinite olive groves, or the golden sandy beach of Santova and the numerous small gulfs and hidden gorgeous beaches, where you can privately enjoy the sea.
In the village you can swim in the crystal clear water, discover the traditional greek way of life, or taste delicious fresh fish that the fishmen bring every morning. It is certainly an ideal destination for original and beautiful vacation experiences!
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We love taking care of our beautiful garden, collecting traditional and unique objects, as well as creating things by ourselves using natural and reused materials!
Everybody is most welcome in our house, our boat and our hearts!


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By Chuck Dishno
This is a continuation of two previous posts and the final in my commitment to the Army. #9992 & #9997.
My commitment to the Selective Service Act was that I fulfill a 6 year commitment. I got my draft notice in May 1956 and did my basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington. I was then transferred to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey for photography school then to my final duty assignment at Fort Lee, Virginia where I was assigned to the entertainment branck. I stayed at Fort Lee until I got an emergency transfer to Fort Ord, California because m Dad was dying. I only had two weeks left on my hitch and after it was up I headed back to Fresno to be with Pop in his last days.
The 6 year commitment included 2 years active duty, two years active reserve and two years of inactive reserve. I would not receive my official discharge until my 6 year commitment was up.
As soon as I got back to Fresno I went back to my old job and promptly forgot, I think, on purpose, to check in with the reserve. Fresno had an Army Reserve Center and I knew I should contact them but kept putting it off.
Almost a year went by before I got a call from the commander of the Reserve Center saying I had better be at the next meeting. He was a little upset that I had not checked in a year earlier. The Reserve met every two weeks and when I showed up, I fully expected to get my butt chewed out but nothing was said.
This Army Reserve Center was made up of several companies and since I had been in the entertainment branch at Fort Lee, they didn't know where to put me. I was soon assigned to the Transportation Company. This struck me kind of funny and I told them that in the two years I had been in I had applied for a military driver's license several times but was turned down because of having only one eye. I was told that this wouldn't matter because all I would be doing is running 16mm training films since I did have a projectionist license.
This was in May and we were told that in July we would have to attend a two week summer camp at Camp Roberts near Paso Robles, California. Camp Roberts is a California National Guard post in central California.
Early on a Saturday morning in mid July, about 100 of us boarded a couple of busses and were off to Camp Roberts. When we got there about 1pm the temperature was hovering around 105 degrees and we were miserable. Upon arrival, we were taken to the mess hall and fed then off to our barracks. That afternoon we were assigned to our duty assignments. I was assigned to the heavy truck company where we were shown how to drive and park a large 5-ton truck with a 40 ft. trailer. Most of the guys knew how to drive those trucks but for me it was a new experience and the heat was stifling. I enjoyed the chance to drive one of these big rigs even if I didn't have a license. I kept telling them that but was told it made no difference. The next several days involved working in the motor pool and learning about trucks and most wheeled vehicles that the Army used. One of the things we were required to do was back up a truck and 40ft trailer. A double line of barrels were set about 150ft long and we were supposed to back the rig between them without hitting any. I failed miserably and couldn't even get a third of the way thru without knocking barrels out of line. It just wasn't the same as backing up a 10ft trailer behind my Model A Ford.
About the middle of my first week, a sergeant called me over and told me to take one of the truck and trailer rigs across the camp and pick up a group of new recruits that had just arrived at the headquarters. I was then to deliver them back across camp to their barracks and processing area. Once again I reminded him of my lack of a license. He said not to worry about it as I was only going about a mile each way. Apparently he had not seen me back that beast up.
The 5-ton truck was attached to a 40ft long trailer with stake sides and headed the right direction. I climbed aboard and headed out the motor pool gate and was soon on the main street toward the headquarters. As I rolled to a stop I saw about 50 G.I.s dressed in fatigues carrying their duffel bags. Someone let the back tail gate down and they all climbed on, glad to be going somewhere as the temperature was approaching 110 degrees. I was given a bunch of papers and told to deliver my load across camp. Fortunately I didn't have to back up there either. It was just a straight shot out and onto the main street again. I thought to myself that this isn't too bad.
The speed limit was only 15 mph on base and I was doing fine. The first few blocks were straight thru and I had the signals in my favor. About the fifth block I was to make a right turn onto the next street. In my many years of driving, I had seen those signs on the back of trailers saying "CAUTION, THIS VEHICLE MAKES WIDE RIGHT TURNS". I never gave it too much thought and when I came to the intersection, I was in the far right lane. I just made a normal right turn and the truck with its fifth-wheel made it just fine but the trailer cut across the sidewalk and broke off a fire hydrant at the base. I instinctively knew I was in trouble as I could see a geyser shooting up about 50ftt next to the trailer, so I stopped and got out. My load of recruits was whooping and hollering as this geyser of cold water came cascading down on them. It was a welcome relief from the 110 degree heat and even though they were soaked to the skin it didn't seem to matter.
There was quite a bit of traffic that time of the day and I was the center of attraction. I had no idea what to do but wait for the MPs to come to my rescue and maybe haul me off to the jail. It wasn't long before several MP's arrived in two Jeeps. They immediately started clearing the traffic jam and called for the fire department to shut off the hydrant. One of them took me aside and asked what the heck I was doing by making that corner like I did. I said I had no idea. All I could tell him was that I was delivering a load of recruits across base and showed him the papers. He took the papers, then called the motor pool and tried to explain what had happened and to send another truck to take the wet recruits to their designation. He the put me in his Jeep and drove me back to the motor pool. As I got into the Jeep I turned and waved at my load of "wetbacks."' They all waved back and cheered, grateful that I had cooled them off.
The MP dropped me off at the motor pool and told the sergeant what had transpired. I figured I was going to get my butt chewed out but he didn't say anything and just walked away. I'm sure the incident was entered into my 201 file though.
The next week we took a convoy to Pismo Beach for an overnight camp-out. As I drove the beast to the front gate a sergeant was standing there and pointing two fingers at his eyes. I thought they had finally figured it out and hollered out the window, "Yea, that's me, I only have one eye." He yelled back, "No, you dumb ___, turn on your headlights."
That weekend we were bused back to Fresno and after a few more months in the reserve I was let go as I had fulfilled my 4 year commitment and had to wait 2 more years to fulfill the original 6 year commitment. Nothing was ever said about the year I played dumb and didn't show up.
Two years later I got my final discharge in the mail and sure enough, stamped on it in big bold letters, THIS SOLDIER IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL. I really didn't care.
This all happened over 55 years ago and since then I have had 3 fifth-wheel travel trailers and covered most of the US without incident.
Now that my life is winding down and I will soon be approaching those Pearle Gates, I hope Saint Peter won't stop me and ask to see my license. I will just have to tell him that I have only one eye and was never given a license. Hopefully he will give me the green light and remind me to make wide right turns as they may damage my angel wings.


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Discussion in 'David Miscavige and Current Management' started by Pascal, Jul 24, 2007.
I heard a rumor that LRH hasn't done a hat write-up nor has he passed down his hat. Is that true?
The rumor I heard was that he turned over his hat to David Mayo, who was subsequently colorfully busted by DM.
Sounds like Mayo didn't put up a fight. Maybe his purpose to salvage this dump was found lacking... Where is he now?
You need to do some study!
Google David Mayo and come back in 3 months when you've read it all
Mayo legal fight with CoS & CST lasted 15 years, I believe he was very tired of it and finally settled (got paid by CoS to retire).
The terms of the settlement are confidential. But probably:
He got millions
He can't deliver any scio-like processing
He can't talk to scientologists and ex-scientologist
He cannot disclose the agreement
After all the troubles David Mayo has been through, I really think he paid his price and deserves a quiet living.
Info on fair game on Mayo here.
I read a message by Mayo on a Freezone site or somewhere, I thought. I forgot to see if was recent, but I think so. He was saying he was back and ready to help out his friends now that there is such a thing as a Freezone, which didn't exist back when he was thrown out. Anyone else read the same thing?
Actually he did write up his hat - it is in the Management Series and Vol VII of the OEC books. Title: ED Comm Lines.
I started listening to his tapes but I'm afraid I was not impressed and deleted them. If he's the top Tech terminal LRH chose, I need to seriously re-appraise the quality of beings on this mudball.
He was one of the main initiators of the FZ. He had his " Avanced Ability Clinics" in Santa Barbara. There was I believe 200+ allied FZ groups worldwide.
I believe his last posts to ACT were around 1996, more or less coincident to his legal settlement and gag order with COS. It was 10 years legal fight I believe.
Thanks, Terril. That's good info and makes sense. I have very little familiarity with the FZ (not surprising, since I'm a "recent arrival").
Usenet newsgroup for freezoners. (That's right, isn't it?)
Are you following me wherever I go?
Eek! I am being stalked!
Lulu's ears creep me out.
She's curled up in that blanket, not sleeping.
But lying in wait....
Count your blessings. Who better to be stalked by.
Lulu and Bea. karma coming home.
Enjoy. ( that is a process)
I'm an obsessed fan.
Victor, just throw her an autographed pair of knickers and she'll back right off
I know I would
Now that I have completely derailed this thread, I want to do my liability condition and as amends I will get it back on the original trail.
So, the story seems to go: LRH turned his hat over to Mayo and DM busted him. Mayo decided to counteract and helped in starting Scn delivery outside of the org structure which resulted in the Freezone. DM fought to silence Mayo and succeeded after 10-15 years, but did not succeed in taking down the Freezone. And DM is continuing to try and build the CoS to high enough status (legally and monetarily) that it will be able to take out the FZ? Or is he continuously attacking the FZ still?
I almost got the idea that he is letting the FZ go on and get the idea he won't do anything about them, but that he plans to hit them in one go, once it seems safe... (Total speculation on my part since I didn't know anything about the FZ as of a few months ago.) I'm coming to this conclusion based on the knowledge that DM will never give up on his perceived enemies before they are wiped out and silenced.
Okay, is that the long and short of it, basically?
Based on other stories I read of LRH's death, DM was not the chosen one to succeed him but orchestrated it later himself.
I assume you've read Robert Vaughn Young's account of Hubbard's death, but, in case anybody else missed it, here it is:
Yes, that's what I was referring to on DM orchestrating himself being the follower.


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Fighting on the streets of London in 1930. The introduction of a strict means test for the limited availability of unemployment relief led to widespread rioting across Britain in the 1930s
Matthew Cookson looks at the decade of economic turmoil and political polarisation
The crisis in the financial markets has sent bankers, media and politicians into panic. Many of them have compared the current problems to the economic crash of 1929, which heralded the Great Depression of the 1930s.
"There is a whiff of 1929 about all this," the Financial Times said about the recent fall of the Bear Sterns investment bank in the US.
"This is clearly the worst financial problem we've had since the Great Depression," said Joseph Stiglitz, the former chief economist of the World Bank.
This talk conjures up images of the world heading towards a huge slump with millions of people thrown into unemployment, hunger and poverty.
While no two crises are the same, it is certain that today's bankers and politicians will attempt to make ordinary people bear the load of capitalism's problems, just as they tried during the 1930s.
But the 1930s show that these plans can be resisted. It was a decade of huge struggles across the world. In city after city the forces of hope and despair fought on the streets.
The 1929 crash ushered in a decade of political and economic turmoil. Thousands of banks and companies went bust and millions of lives were torn apart.
By 1931 almost one in three workers in the US were unemployed, while in Germany even more than one in three workers were out of work.
By the end of 1932 world industrial output had fallen by a third.
The US, where the recession began, also saw some of the most inspiring resistance. The pressure on millions of people's living standards provoked a fightback.
Socialists played a crucial role in this resistance, which often met repression from the state and the company bosses.
Farmers fought the police to stop their land being sold off. Unemployed workers protested against the state and the bosses, demanding jobs and funding. School children demonstrated to demand the school system provide them with food.
There were 300,000 members of unemployed self-help organisations in the US. They took part in huge demonstrations across the country.
Workers also joined in the revolt. There were strikes across the US against wage cuts, including a 150,000 strong strike by North Carolina clothing workers in 1932.
There were mass strikes in San Francisco, Toledo and Minneapolis.
On 30 December 1936 over 3,000 workers occupied General Motor's Flint plant in Michigan for union recognition. Their 40-day strike inspired workers in other plants to strike and forced the company to recognise the union.
Workers in other companies followed suit. In 1936 there were 48 of these "sitdown" strikes. In 1937 there were 477 such actions.
Power to resist
These struggles played a crucial role in improving workers' conditions in harsh circumstances, and deterred US bosses from making further attacks on their living standards.
In many parts of the world ruling class attempts to stabilise the system meant coups – including in Japan and many countries in Latin America.
In Germany, the crisis reached such a height that the ruling class invited Nazi Adolf Hitler to form a government in January 1933.
The ruling class was terrified of the workers' movement, whose revolution had stopped the First World War, and who still had the power to resist the bosses' attacks.
The Nazis had grown from a small, isolated party in 1928 to the largest party in the German parliament in 1932. The economic whirlwind had thrown a section of big business – along with millions of people broken by the crisis – into Hitler's arms.
There was deep polarisation in German society as the crisis hit. The combined support and force of the two left wing parties – the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party – was always bigger than that of the Nazis.
But the two parties refused to join forces to resist Hitler and allowed him to come to power with barely a murmur of protest.
The resulting disillusionment of the working class allowed Hitler to crush any resistance and force through a one party state, with the support of Germany's ruling class.
The ultimate result of this was the smashing of the strongest working class in the world, and the nightmare of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Hitler's victory boosted the confidence of the right across Europe.
French fascists tried to emulate Hitler in 1934. On 6 February a fascist demonstration became an attack on the recently formed "left of centre" government. The prime minister resigned the next day.
But workers responded to the fascist rising. Five million workers joined a general strike. Separate demonstrations by the Socialist Party and the Communist Party converged in unity.
This threw the fascists back and boosted the support for the left. In 1936 a left government was elected, which included Socialists.
A strike wave greeted the victory, including the occupation of Renault's plant at Billancourt in Paris. This helped win real gains for workers – such as a 40-hour week and two weeks paid holiday.
Popular Front
Spain saw the highest point of resistance in the 1930s – and also showed the possibility of running society differently.
A general strike in 1931 helped to abolish Spain's monarchy and establish a republic. In 1934, 20,000 Asturian miners rose up against a right wing government taking office.
They occupied their valleys and fought the military for two weeks before they were defeated.
Workers responded by electing a left wing Popular Front government in 1936. But the military, led by general Francisco Franco, launched a coup against the government.
It wanted to smash the new republic and all resistance. But workers
rallied to the cause of the republic and stopped the coup. For a short time workers in many parts of the republic took over their workplaces and peasants took control of the land.
Ordinary people across the world were inspired by the Spanish people's anti-fascist war. They fought to defend the isolated republic for three years, before the Nazi-armed forces of Franco finally won.
The Great Depression also had a major impact in Britain – though not as great as the US and Germany because it was offset to some degree by Britain's access to markets in the empire.
By the end of 1930 unemployment In Britain had risen from one million to 2.5 million. Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald abandoned the Labour Party and formed a national government with the Tories to push through wage, pensions and unemployment benefits cuts.
There was grassroots opposition to this. Unemployed workers rioted, and there was a mutiny by sailors at Invergordon in response to the attacks.
The Communist Party launched the National Unemployed Workers Movement, which at its height mobilised demonstrations of 250,000 people.
The slump increased the tensions between states as well as between classes, leading to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
Capitalists wanted to grab resources beyond their national borders. Countries without empires, such as Hitler's Germany, looked to expand their influence. This brought them into conflict with the dominant powers such as the US, Britain and the Soviet Union.
The war, and the massive state investment needed to conduct it and rebuild afterwards, was the means by which capitalism finally escaped from the Great Depression. But capitalism's recovery had come at a huge human cost.
The crisis today is not yet as deep as in the 1930s. But the system is facing major problems.
A global recession will intensify existing tensions between states. The last decade has been marked by US imperialism leading to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These have been driven not by the strength of the US but by its underlying economic weakness.
Economic crisis is built into capitalism – a system based on the competition of corporations who put profit above all.
A crisis can lead to devastation for millions, but it can also lead to a huge anger and resistance to the system.
Socialist ideas, which expose the madness of capitalism and point towards a different society, can play a large part in this resistance.
The following should be read alongside this article:
» Are we going back to the 1930s? The economic similarities
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RLCC Comment: This article points to why the RLCC (Real Liberal Christian Church) has repeatedly said that the George W. Bush administration and the world's plutocrats are playing with fire. The article is absolutely correct that capitalists at the top of their upside-down world promote conflicts for the sake of evil profits at the expense of humanity in general. The general welfare is the last thing on their minds. Their own selfish hoarding is utmost in their hearts.
Their system is doomed. There is no doubt about it. It will fall.
The problem is also with their opposition who can be extremely militant. They can become angry beyond self-control. They can become vengeful. They are being pushed around and kicked and laughed at, used and abused, by the powers that be. It is the long pattern we see in history. We also see the pattern of backlash.
If the powers that be wish to keep their heads (literally), they had better wake up, turn, repent, and atone. They had better put on figurative sackcloths and ashes in earnest. The devil cometh, and they are he unless they turn to God who is righteousness. Understand where the devil ends up.
Write the law that is the New Commandment on your hearts. Manifest that law and only that law. Only then will things be put right.
The ultra-rich (the capitalist class) take a relatively huge slice of the relatively tiny pie they bake up. If they were smart, they'd take a relatively tiny slice of the huge pie that God can make for all. In fact, if they were really smart, they'd come to realize that complete giving and sharing ends up meaning that each and all have the whole pie that is infinite.
Raise wages. Accept lower personal profits. Then, the pie will grow and so will every slice.
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In a final 5 years, Paris has witnessed an blast on a chocolate stage to opposition any city on a planet. While boutiques are proliferating all over a city, Paris's chocolate epicenter, Saint-Germain-des Prés, is now home to no fewer than a dozen world-class chocolatiers–from tiny workman producers to general boutiques that furnish chocolate on a grand scale, nonetheless still belong to a customary that assures a product no reduction than magnificent. The following 15 chocolatiers mount out for their excellence, originality, and a sold excellence that Parisians, as in all things gastronomic, take flattering seriously.
By Jennifer Ladonne
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Often cited among Paris's tip 5 chocolatiers, Jean-Paul Hévin's prohibited chocolate bar, upstairs in a charity Saint-Honoré boutique, sets a new benchmark for a fluffy elixir, done customarily from pristine grand cru chocolate, cocoa powder, and cream and offering in a operation of startling epicurean pairings, like banana or carrot. Hevin's particular chocolates and single-origin bars are legendary, though what unequivocally sets him detached from other good chocolatiers are a pastries. Inventive, decently executed, and sinfully delicious, a 20 or so on offer are tough to select among, with picks like a Longchamp, an fragile praline mousse encased in fragile meringue with almond-flecked divert or dim chocolate. With 3 boutiques in Paris and a new Marais outpost, we won't have to go distant for a provide that's out of this world.
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As tighten to a stone star as fritter makers get—judging by a crowds who group to Pierre Hermé's 4 Paris outposts for a ambience of a fragile macarons, among other riches—the famously resourceful pâtissier needs no introduction. But it is useful to remind an adoring assembly that a meticulously sourced chocolates are right adult there with Hermé's superb pastries. The particular bonbons, have lusciously flavored ganaches in signature flavors like Ispahan, a brew of litchi, rose and raspberry, and Mogador, divert or dim chocolate and passion fruit. There are also feather-light chocolate wafers, chocolate-covered caramels, orange peel batons, single-origin chocolate bars, and an superb operation of truffles—caramel, heated scotch vanilla, hazelnut, and abounding dim chocolate—as good as some fanciful chocolate masks.
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Robert Linx, owner of a sacred Maison du Chocolat, singlehandedly redefined a bullion customary for chocolate in Paris and a world. With a kind of connoisseurship customarily indifferent for wine, Linx revolutionized a approach chocolate was conceptualized, made, and presented, enumerating a essential qualities of cocoa beans from a world's good producers. His 30 years of knowledge shows: a chocolates are both pointed and intense, with rich, tawny ganaches in colourful flavors that operation from a hackneyed (raspberry) to a astonishing (fennel), though mostly a concentration is on rich, high chocolate. The Maison's 5 Paris boutiques also offer a decadent operation of choco-centric pastries, ice cream, and prohibited chocolate in season.
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Paris's alchemist of epicurean chocolate, Jacques Genin once concocted his recipes in semi-obscurity behind unmarked doors during an residence famous customarily to tip restaurateurs and aficionados. Since a opening his beautiful boutique, laboratoire, and tea salon in a select haut Marais, Genin's dictatorial chocolates, caramels, fruit patés, and pastries pull chocolate lovers from nearby and far. Genin scours a universe for a best proposal materials for his particular dim and divert chocolates, and his famously silky ganaches are done customarily with fresh, anniversary ingredients, outlandish spices, and fragile florals—mint, jasmine, verbena, cinnamon, smoked tea—all designated with a signature spot of color. Genin's take on a French fritter classics (available customarily by special sequence during a tea salon) make a good accompaniment to a pot of high prohibited chocolate. A second Left Bank outpost non-stop this month on a charity de Varenne in Saint-Germain-des-Près.
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By a proposal age of 16, this fourth-generation pâtissier, a local of Lorraine, knew chocolate was his life's work. By 28, he'd warranted a pretension of Master Craftsman, a tip in France, and dual years after won a prestigious World Champion Pastry Maker. Accolades aside, step into Franck Kestener's fifth-arrondissement boutique during a corner of a Luxembourg gardens; you'll find a wonderland of decadent pastries, macarons, particular chocolates and chocolate bars, and a hugely renouned operation of chocolate-dipped cookies, nuts, and fruit that make steady visits an comprehensive must. Parisians group here for a Atlantique: buttery shortbread dipped in caramel and enrobed in dim chocolate.
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The Brittany-based chocolatier staked his explain to celebrity as a begetter of a now-legendary season caramel au beurre salé or tainted caramel. But it's not customarily a salt beds of his local land that enthuse a master chocolate maker—Henri Leroux's fragile Soizig blends chocolate, cocoa butter, nuts and buckwheat, a basement for Brittany's famous delicious crêpes, for another boundless pairing. Leroux's famous Ch'tou, marries caramel and lambig, an apple brandy done in Brittany, with dim chocolate. While a particular chocolates and chocolate tablettes are value a outing alone, it's a caramels that are truly inspiring. Flavors like tatin (caramelized apple), black sesame, morello cherry and cardamom, or pineapple pink-peppercorn are delicacies you'll find nowhere else.
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Photo Credit: Courtesy of Pierre MarcoliniPierre Marcolini, an interloper on a Paris scene, has magnificence and newness that have immediately singled him out from a crowd; now a Belgian chocolatier is embraced as one of a tip 5 makers in Paris. All 3 of his sleek, complicated boutiques make a ideal backdrop for a vast menu of particular chocolates in flavors like rose peppercorn, divert chocolate violet, bergamot and uninformed lemon, and Earl Grey tea. Marcolini's collection of individual, single-origin chocolates make tasting a grand crus of a world, from Ghana to Trinidad, a cinch. Along with pralines, truffles, bars, caramels, spreads, and even fruit jams, highlights embody a macaron of a month (Clementine for November) and a champagne truffle of conspicuous finesse.
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A Paris establishment given 1852, Fouquet, with a candy-crowded windows along a ancestral charity François 1er, has fascinated Parisians given 1928. Nowadays, you'll still find a outrageous operation of handmade French bonbons enticingly displayed in potion jars: chocolate-covered nuts and fruits, cookies and wafers, dragées, caramels, pastilles, pâte de fruit, we name it. Individual chocolate bonbons lift a superb Fouquet trademark and can be purchased away or in large present boxes. A operation of epicurean treats—mustards, spices, homemade jams, honey, and tea—make this a good one-stop stop for a kind of delicious gifts that could customarily come from Paris.
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Built in 1792 with inserted details of 1881 by J R Naylor of Derby. Red and yellow brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. West tower, 3-bay nave with south porch, and apsidal chancel with organ chamber to north. Details in Romanesque style. Plinth and quoins to angles.
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Welcome to Trident Embassy.Location: Noida Extension
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Trident Embassy is one of the most awaited project of Noida Extension. Trident Embassy is loaded with world class features and amenities & present in the heart of Noida Extension. Trident Embassy is one of the prestigious residential developments in Greater Noida West/Noida Extension.
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Dear Readers:
January is a great time to review how to promote your business. Before I begin, let me get the bad news out: Self-promotion is not an exact science. There are things you are sure will work that don't, things that have worked in the past that won't, and things that you never expected that will. The wonderful thing about being in business is that you can learn more as each year passes and I certainly do. The most obvious to me are the things not to do again. In today's blog, I would like to share my don'ts for promotion.
Get Comfortable: If you want to fulfill your dreams, get out of your comfort zone. Feeling "uncomfortable" is never something we want to do, but it might be just what you need to reignite old passions and discover new ones. Now, I can hear all of my friends snickering as I tend to be a creature of habit. Quiet!
Tell People How Great You Are: Nothing turns off like a pompous show-off. This is especially true of potential clients. If you are the best, keep quiet and show them.
Try To Be Two Things At Once: Make a conscious choice to be a leader or a follower. There is no right or wrong choice, but you need to know where you stand. Clients will follow you if you are leading them to something new and different, but if you choose to go that route, worry about setting trends by way of great work, not by following them.
Take, Take, Take: Givers are winners. Learn to be a giver of success. If you don't believe me ask my friend, Marcy Blum, as she is one of the biggest givers I know.Whether it's more of your service, advice, time, counsel or a kind word to someone who needs it, make giving a part of your daily practice. Give your clients all of the attention and service you can and they will come back, trust me.
Get off Your "But": This word allows us to lie to ourselves over and over again without even knowing it. You say, "I want to start that new project…but." Anything after that "but" is nothing but an excuse.
I find that anytime we project our dreams into a positive future, the universe gives it back to us many times over. I am very open to learning from you. What are the lessons you use to promote your own business? Share it with me and other readers.
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This is an overview of major tools and techniques available to backup/restore your SharePoint 2010 farm
Using DPM to Backup/Restore SharePoint 2010
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) is a product designed to manage ongoing, comprehensive backups of Microsoft enterprise products, including SharePoint 2010.
- Protect at farm level – recover and track at granular level.
- Automatic discovery & protection of new databases.
- Seamlessly supports all SQL high-availability solutions.
- Easy to configure and manage short-term and long-term backups
- Optimized for large farms.
- Faster backups than SharePoint-only backup solutions.
- Requires significantly less storage than SQL-only backup solutions.
- Search for SharePoint item through all recovery points of the farm.
- Retains metadata/security settings for the recovered item.
- Granular recovery without a recovery farm for SharePoint 2010.
More information on DPM: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/dm.
Backup/Restore for SharePoint using its own tools
SharePoint provides many of its own tools for backup and restore. This section discusses these options.
The Central Administration Backup and Restore page organizes SharePoint's monitoring tools:
Central Administration provides tools for performing individual backups of the entire farm, individual site collections, sites, libraries or lists. A full farm backup can be restored from Central Administration, but tools are not provided here for scheduling recurring backups, or for restoring individual site collections, site, libraries or lists. These operations can be managed using PowerShell scripts:
Creates a backup of an individual database, Web application, or the entire farm. Can be full or differential. Use Backup-SPFarm -ShowTree to display a list of what would be backed up; this does not perform the backup.
Performs a backup of a site collection.
Performs a farm-level configuration-only backup. This is not a typical backup operation, see Note* below.
To schedule automated recurring backups, use these PowerShell cmdlets in scripts that are scheduled with the Windows Task Scheduler. This recommendation is from the TechNet article Backup and recovery overview (SharePoint Server 2010).
*Note that Central admin gives an option for backing up the config database, but you normally never restore the config database, even when restoring the farm. In DR scenarios, you create a new farm and restore the site collection DBs. An example use for a configuration database backup is to create a farm configuration template that can then be applied to create other new SharePoint farms that have identical physical topologies, by using Restore-SPFarm. This could be very useful in hosting scenarios with baseline virtual images.
SQL backup tools will process the data faster. DPM will process even faster and repeated backups require much less space.
So if you're planning daily backups of 500 GB, CA farm backup may be too slow. SQL backup will get it faster but require 2.5 TB to store 5 backups. DPM will be fastest and probably require less than 1 TB for 5 backups of 500 GB (depending on content churn).


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Can you guys show me how to do the elastration???? I know how to put the band in but I dont know what to do later on. Thanks, plzz help
Can you guys show me how to do the elastration???? I know how to put the band in but I dont know what to do later on. Thanks, plzz help
Do not even think about it unless you enjoy mind numbing pain, real risk of gangerene. blood poisioning, a flesh eating infection and death. There is no point in becoming a eunuch if your going to be a dead eunuch or one whose health and quality of life is going to be permanently severely impacted. There are now many surgeons who will safely castrate you with very little paperwork and clinics in Thailand where you can get done with less paperwork and for little money.
Wow I didnt know that thailand still perform castrate surgery thanks. I'm Vietnamese very close to Thailand
Thank you. But I didnt care much about the pain. But as I can see the risk are pretty high
I know I'm going to sound like a dick saying this but . . . I'm getting really pissed off with eople on these sites saying HOW FUCKING EASY IT IS to just get a doctor to snip it. I think we can all sus out a professional operation by trained staff is ideal BUT . . . being a non US citizen like myself in the UK orchidectomy is ILLEGAL unless we have testicle cancer or two notes from psychiatrists claiming we have gender dysphoria. Of which is a lot harder done than said -_____-
I had it applied for a little while and it was hurting like hell...
I do quite enjoy mind numbing pain, but would like to play with my wife a few times before we finish the job. What happens if you leave the band on for an hour or two then take it off? I know there are no absolutes, but what is likely. I don't really care all that much if it goes wrong and I end up castrated.
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John Fogelsanger
Incendiary Fire Analysis and Investigation
August 31, 2010
Don West
Throughout the United States, there is an increasing problem with juveniles starting fires, and several communities have started intervention policies to help combat this problem. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has reported the crime that is committed by juveniles under the age of eighteen is arson, since 1996, approximately half of all the arson arrests were juveniles under the age of eighteen. Per author, G. Scott Burlin a questionnaire was presented to 20 juvenile male fire setters at the Cornell Abraxas Youth Fire Setter Program in South Mountain, Pennsylvania. This facility has the capability of having 36 juveniles to reside there for treatment for their severe history of setting fires. The information collected from this questionnaire shows that some of the juveniles started setting fires at the early age of one. When the juveniles were asked when they started setting fires 11 of the 20 stated that they started before they were 10 years old proving that this criminal behavior starts early in life. Numerous youths admitted to setting over 500 fires. They explained that anger was the reason they gave, for this type of juvenile behavior. They also answer that they came from a single parent family. In my research there has been a constant four different categories of juvenile firesetters identified. "The four categories are curiosity firesetter, crisis firesetter, juvenile delinquent firesetter, and pathological or mentally disturbed firesetter. These juveniles can be further classified as little risk, some risk or definite risk for future fire setting behaviors (Burlin 2007)". The best way society can intervene and discriminate the behavior that has been known to be deadly is in the ability of society to identify this behavior.
There are numerous reasons that juveniles set fires. Society has the challenging duty to take care of these kids. In most of the cases, the child will be sent to a juvenile detention, while others only need to be educated in fire safety. Some people may view juvenile arson as a crime against property, but most investigators believe that it is a violent crime against people and needs to be addressed.
According G. Scott Burlin the author of An examination of Juvenile Firesetting and the Reasons Kids Set Fires, that in 2002 children intentionally set over 68,000 fires, resulting in 630 deaths and 2030 fire injuries.
A large number of young juveniles continue to start fires long after they have been convicted of their first arson charge in the juvenile court system, and even into their adulthood. Because of these cases involving fire, the communities believe that the problem should be handled by the fire departments. The reason most juvenile firesetters continue to set fires is that they are motivated by complex psychological dynamics; society often considers juvenile firesetting an issue that mental health professionals are needed to handle the problem. Because it is a crime of arson, most people believe that the police or law enforcement agencies need to be involved with the problem. Because the problem of arson is a complex problem, Fire Departments, Law enforcement, and licensed mental health professionals should all be involved and working together, Another solution that was discussed in the research was that the parents need to be responsible and held accountable by society for the actions of their children. (Zipper & Wilcox, 2005).
Early identification of juveniles that are at risk of becoming a juvenile fire setter is the first step in the elimination of the problem. However early identification cannot be completed until they can understand the issues that causes a child to start setting fires, and this understanding is also the best way that these kids can be treated and rehabilitated.
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Inside Sales Representative
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Doherty Top Talent is searching for an Inside Sales Representative to join a growing company that designs, markets and distributes the most popular cake decorations and bakery supplies in the bakery industry. Located in Anoka, MN they sell and distribute their products to supermarkets, retail bakeries, ice cream stores, and directly to consumers throughout North America.
Seeking a motivated, results-oriented, and self-driven individual to represent the company as an Inside Sales Representative based out of the Anoka office. Existing accounts will be provided with opportunities to sell products & supplies into independent retail bakeries along with smaller chain accounts. Candidates must have sales experience with consistent sales growth performance.
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While you're sipping on a cocktail at one of The Peninsula New York's three drinking establishments, tasty bar snacks are a necessity. Belly up to bar at the Gotham Lounge and delicious marinated olives, cheddar cheese chunks and smoked almonds will come complimentary with your drink. However, if the nibbles don't fill you up, order dishes like Maine lobster, egg salad and sliced beef sirloin from the bar menu.
Bar at Fives offers substantial fare, including Angus sirloin burgers and shrimp tempura, while Salon de Ning has a limited menu of shared plates such as chilled shrimp, smoked salmon tartare and assorted charcuterie. You'll find numerous food options at the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star hotel's bars, but don't pass over those bites at the Gotham Lounge.