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Yesterday over 100 Pro's attended Guru Tom's session on '11 Things about 11g'. But in the hours before that session a small number (about 18) of persons had the honor of listening and discussing with the master himself. As a guide he used an extensive version of his 'Worst Practices' presentation. During - and after - the presentation there was a lot more Q&A than I've experienced in regular sessions - of course due to the small scale of this session.
On a question about the new features and enhancements of 11gR2 Tom told that there will be no export functionality anymore in R2 (import will be available though). For moving data from one instance to another you should use datapump or SQL Developer or APEX. Also he explained a little more about the Online Application Upgrade. This feature will use invisible indexes, cross edition triggers and (a maximum of) two versions of PL/SQL programs and views (tables are not versionable). It sounds like it is not a black box feature, but needs some programming to get things working. By the way, in 11gR1 this functionality is already available and you can turn it on using some hidden initialization parameter (I don't know which). You can see the column edition_name is there in the all_objects view..... 11gR2 is expected to be available in 2009Q1!
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ducbucln wrote: Hack, your little hummer sure is skinny but cute. Thanks for finding the video on the Corellas-loved it. Burn, how lucky you were to find the nesting kestrels! Loved that last photo of the attempted flight. Chilly, that little wp at the feeder is sweet. Margaret, outstanding photos of the Corellas. They're so entertaining, I can imagine how much fun they were to photograph. I need to read up on taking videos too! Hubby helped me pack the camera and tripod to a nearby park on the lake. We found some nesting western grebes and there was lots of action as some tried to protect their nests from others. Keep in mind the nests are built on floating mats of vegetation and one reason lots of eggs aren't hatched is that the eggs are washed off the nest by the waves of passing boats. The last photo shows 5 abandoned eggs-the parents probably abandoned the nest when they found there wasn't enough bait fish in the area to feed the little ones. In 1990 we had over 70,000 grebes on our lake and this year there are only about 5000-mostly due to the lake of small fish. |
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Horton Plains, and the move to Kandy.
So the 5am wake up call was a bit late this morning, I got a knock on the door at 5.20am. That gave me 10 minutes to get ready, more than enough at that time in the morning! Namaal was waiting for me in the reception, we went out to his brothers taxi, where I was introduced to an old guy from Japan (not as old as Mr. Miyaagi, but he was getting there). He did tell me what his name was but I couldn't even pronounce it, so there was no-way I would remember it. We drove out to Horton Plains and got there around 7am, we stopped along the way to see the sunrise but the cloud cover meant it wasn't that clear. Nimaal got me in to the Plains for the Lankan price, so I was chuffed about that. The three of us walked up through the beautiful park to the Worlds End. I finally got to see what all the fuss was about! It was basically a cliff edge at the top of the climb and it overlooked a velley, it was very beautiful but after yesterdays climb my legs were feeling the effects and the last thing I needed was another 3-hour walk! We stopped there for a while and then moved on to Baker's Fall, this was a water fall on the other side of the park. We stopped for a rest and took some pictures, the Japanese guy was really funny and he kept us both entertained. He told me loads about Japan, where to go, what to see and where to avoid. As usual I probably won't remember most of it but it passed the time well. Hortan Plains is a really nice, peaceful and beautiful place. I glad I went there, but my legs would probably disagree!!! We also got to see a deer, real up close! (see pic)
We came back to the hotel at 11.15am, I had a shower, got my stuff packed up, then Nimaal and his brother dropped me up to the train station (20 minutes away in another town). I paid them Rs2000 for the whole thing, I thought seeing as they had saved me on my entrance fee I should give them a little thank you present. I got my train ticket and the train was already on the platform, it left at 12.50pm. Nimaal came onto the train to see me off. I sat next to an old Lankan man, he was also going to Kandy, so he said he would help me with the train change (we had to change trains at one point). I thought the train journey would be smoother than the bus but it was worse, the bus just goes up and down but the train goes in every direction! There was some amazing scenery along the way (see vid) so I didn't mind the bumpy ride. We pulled into Kandy station at 5pm, everyone said it would only take 3 hours but it obviously took longer! The old man went off and I got a Tuk to bring me up to The Pink House (Nimaal's Auntie owns and run's it). I met Auntie, she said they had no rooms but because Nimaal had sent me she would sort something out for me. I put my bags down and went out for a wonder and to visit the Tooth Temple.
Up until I visited the temple, I thought it was called the Truth Temple, it's just the way everyone said the name, I guess. I went through the security check, left my shoes at the counter and made my way up to the front entrance. This guy came up to me and asked where I was from, when I told him England he said I had to pay an entrance fee. This took me by surprise, I mean I know you have to pay to get into most places but this was a Temple! Anyway, he said it would cost Rs500. A couple of guys from Australia walked in and came up to the counter, the guy behind the counter got talking to them and they told him they were working in the local hospital, training the Paramedics, the guy then let them go in for free! I had a few words with the guy about that (you don't need to know the details, but I'm sure you can guess), how can they have one set of rules for some people and another for the rest of us. I told him I didn't want to go in to his temple and walked off. Just as I got to the stairs he called me back and told me I could go in for free, what a Larry! I went in and had a look around, they had a good display that tells you about the history of the Buddha's Tooth and it's a nice place to visit, but Rs500, that's just wrong!
I went into town then to find an internet caf�, I managed to find a decent one after about 15 minutes. When I say decent I mean one where they actually know what speed the connection is at, if they don't know the speed, it means it's slow! I logged onto Skype and called home. I got back to the Pink House at 8pm, just in time for dinner. I didn't have a room to sleep in so Auntie put me a mattress on the floor and gave me a mosquito net, it was more than enough and was really tired from my early start so it was cool. Mike and Tilly didn't like Kandy much but I quite like it, it has a huge Lake and the Pink House is on the other side of the town, its only a 10 minute walk along the lake side to get to town and the weather is nice.


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Yes I miss original Runescape.
I don't care too much about graphics quality TBH. If the gameplay is good, I can play anything.
When I started playing, games were like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8YlmDqs4Z4 and I had fun...
Also, I occasionaly play Nethack and Dungeon Crawl. No graphics at all!
Thinking about it again, I think that very realistic graphics actually make me dislike the game a bit. I like some room for imagination.
I feel with bad/simplistic graphics I focused more on gameplay.
But with games like Bioshock Infinite I thought the gameplay was pretty awful, but enjoyed it purely because of the style/graphics.
Some of the best video games ever created are from the 8-bit/16-bit/32-bit era's. Because they didn't have the hollow shell of graphics to rely on, they actually had to make a quality, long lasting product for it to be considered good. Too bad that type of production quality has gone the way of the dodos, in favor of eye candy and easily reproduced systems for the almighty "easy" dollar.
Not much more, I think. There's only so much content a given team can create and code. Simply adding more people very quickly results in a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Still, I agree AAA games nowadays should start focusing less on graphics and setpieces and more on actual content. And not just text. Seriously, having a book's worth of backstory in your game is fine, but as much as I like reading about lore, reading is not the game itself. Looking at you, Mass Effect series.
Incidentally, that's why procedurally-generated worlds like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft and CubeWorld are so popular nowadays. They allow people to explore positively enormous worlds without requiring a proportionally enormous staff to create them.
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Christie's Little Bro Blasts Bridge Scandal Coverage
On Saturday, Todd published two posts about the scandal including this critique of the "objective cable channels:"
Todd is a millionaire former Wall Street trader who has advised his brother and aided his political efforts since their high school days when Chris was a three-term class president.
The governor has adopted a conciliatory tone in his public statements about the scandal. In the marathon press conference he gave last week and in the brief acknowledgment of the issue that preceded his State of the State address Tuesday, he expressed regret about the closures, which led to days of gridlock in Fort Lee, N.J., and vowed to take action against aides found to have been involved in ordering the shutdown for political reasons.
In contrast, Todd's posts have been righteously indignant. They have implied the issue is not deserving of attention and expressed anger at members of the media who have focused on it. Todd's candid comments on social media could be viewed as a rare glimpse into the Christie id. In private, away from the cameras and press aides, are those closest to the governor enraged the scandal is making headlines?
Todd's first Facebook post about the scandal was published on Friday. In that post, Todd praised the governor's performance in the marathon press conference and encouraged friends to buy tickets for the inaugural scheduled for Jan. 21:
On Saturday, after making his comments about cable coverage of the scandal, Todd shared a quote from a Facebook group called "We Stand With Chris Christie:"
The next day, Todd suggested news outlets should focus on the chemical spill that contaminated drinking water in West Virginia rather than his brother:
By Monday, Todd was addressing another scandal plaguing the Christie administration, the news that there is a federal investigation into the use of Hurricane Sandy relief funds to film an ad campaign that starred the governor and his family. Todd posted a link to a local blog post that criticized the investigation and implied it was partisan and not based in genuine concerns about the governor using hurricane aid to promote himself. He did not comment on the link.
Todd's post late Monday was another shot at the media covering the bridge story:
One of Todd's Facebook friends responded to that post by saying, "Hang in there!" This prompted a response from Todd.
"Thanks for the thought but it is entertaining watching all of these people and their hypocrisy. The crow will be eaten at some point in the future," Todd wrote.


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EthanV | Route Climbed: Crescent Moon Couloir Date Climbed: April 13, 2002 | |
What a great trip!!!!! The couloir was fantastic and offered just the right level of scariness (which wasn't much) considering I hadn't donned crampons in two years AND I was climbing solo. Snow was a little soft, but for a snow route, this time of year...duh! Go check out my trip report if you wanna hear more!!! | ||
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pieris | Route Climbed: West Ridge, East Ridge Date Climbed: 6 April, 7 April | |
This mountain is a pile of gravel... but it was fun! The register reads like a singles ads page. | ||
Posted Apr 8, 2002 5:54 pm |
jeffn | Route Climbed: Crescent Moon Couloir Date Climbed: March 31 2002 | |
Nice day hike. Not much evidence of Traffic in the Couloir. | ||
Posted Apr 3, 2002 8:07 pm |
mpbro | Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: Feb 26, 2002 | |
We took a nice ski tour. Climbed to the saddle between the west ridge of Round Top and the east side of The Sisters and skied down into the bowl above Round Top Lake, and down to Winnemucca Lake. Very nice setting for a day tour. Didn't see anyone in the backcountry on a tuesday. Snow sucked: alternating between pure ice, breakable crust, and mashed potatoes. Still waiting for it to corn up for the spring. Trip Report on my website. | ||
Posted Mar 4, 2002 10:05 am |
John | Route Climbed: Crescent Moon Couloir climb & ski descent Date Climbed: March 2 & May 26, 2002 | |
Reached the summit on March 2. A gorgeous day trip from the SF Bay Area - read about it in my SP Trip Report. I came back to ski the couloir on May 26, 2002. I reached the West Summit on that trip but decided to focus on the ski descent of the couloir rather than scrambling over to the East Peak on that trip. For more info, check out my 2nd Round Top SP Trip Report. | ||
Posted Mar 3, 2002 10:06 pm |
Bob Burd | Route Climbed: Crescent Moon Couloir Date Climbed: Feb 16, 2002 | |
A blustery winter day as I raced a coming storm to the summit of Round Top. Ok, it wasn't much of a race, the storm didn't start till around midnight, but it sure seemed like it was a comin' with high winds and temperatures in the high twenties. | ||
Posted Feb 20, 2002 7:50 am |
gordonye | Route Climbed: Standard West Ridge Date Climbed: 1999 Date Climbed: May 10, 2008 | |
Climbed with Hakan (Sierrawolf) to the true summit. Approached the west ridge in snowshoes. We looked for an East Ridge descent route but the terrain looks complicated and filled with loose rock. Weather was warm but hazy in the Lake Tahoe direction. We climbed Elephants Back on the descent from west ridge. Last time in 1999: With Shubo (Steve) Dai. We climbed the west summit, which is a couple of feet lower than the true summit on the east. Grand View on top, including Lake Tahoe which looked like an impossibly high body of water defying laws of physics. I climbed some steep, loose scree for the first time. | ||
Posted Aug 23, 2001 3:35 pm |
keema | Route Climbed: West Ridge, Crescent Moon Coulior Date Climbed: July 1980, July 1997, April 2000, March 2003, March 2004, August 2008 | |
What a fun mountain. Good fishing in the lakes. Fun playing in the snow. I have even seen Mount Diablo near Walnut Creek, CA from here. Fianlly climbed the Crescent Moon Coulior. The top got the heart racing a bit but what fun. To think about 7 years ago I saw some guys headed up it and I thought they were nuts. Time and experience change one's attitude. | ||
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Today is our first day back to school since Christmas. I am ready to get back in the swing of things. Sometimes a hectic life is so normal that it seems abnormal when life isn't insane. I am praying for a good semester.
Last week's menu was a nightmare…. No really a nightmare! One night dinner was late because we had some errands to run when we got home it was after 8pm. The left over spaghetti sauce was defrosted by the time we got home but the problem was there wasn't enough there. It looked like more than there was. No way could I feed more than two people with it. Ugh! It was too late to come up with a plan "B" so we were eating out.
A few days later a similar incident occurred. I took some chicken tenderloin out of the freezer to have it the next night. Then I went to bed and forgot about the tenders. The heater was blasting away all night. By the time I remember the tenders it was almost 24 hours later and the tenders were spoiled to the point they smelled. UGH! Yep out to dinner we went. Yeah it didn't go well last week.
I am hoping for better results this week. In an effort to trim a few pounds off I am incorporating a lot more fruits and vegetables into our menu this week. Our menu is also going to have a few soup recipes because it's going to be wet and cold all week. I love a good warm meal on a cold night.
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Funny how we have a rash of these threads wanting to trade for guys that went passed over for Steven Hill. Teams that drafted a good young Qb last year, especially value picks are not going to deal them at this point in time. Let's look for our own value picks in the next couple of drafts.
Trading for a second year back up QB that hasnt played in the NFL is really not an option. The search for another QB has to come from the draft IMO. The cost of trading picks and paying a back up like Flynn is too high right now and he is no sure thing as well. If you like Osweiler, then draft a Glennon or Bray this year. Both are tall and have great arms. Bray will probably come cheaper than Glennon.
These fantasies about trading for recent QB draft picks like Brock and Kirk Cousins need to stop. Denver used a second round pick on Brock, have been patiently developing for the past year and, most importantly, have him locked up for another three years at a very affordable contract. The only way they would trade him for less than a first rounder is if they've realized they made a mistake in drafting him.
So lets stop the nonsense, people. We need to sign a vet QB AND draft our own Brock this offseason.


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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Measuring Worklessness and Polarization at the Household Level but Were Afraid to Ask
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text: Travel Notes: Sept. 16, 2012 By Staff, wire reports September 15, 2012 Tennessee storytelling festJONESBOROUGH, Tenn. -- The National Storytelling Festival celebrates its 40th year with three days of performances Oct. 5-7 in historic Jonesborough.Among the storytellers at this year's festival are Bil Lepp, the five-time champion of the West Virginia's Liars' Contest; John McCutcheon, who has made 30 recordings of folk music and stories; and Kevin Kling, a popular commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered."Tickets at the door for the entire weekend are $170 for adults, $155 for seniors 65 and older, and $150 for children ages 6 to 12. More information may be found online at www.storytellingcenter.net. Ice Age and fossils in KentuckyUNION, Ky. -- Visitors to Big Bone Lick State Park later this month can learn more about the ancient creatures that once roamed the area.The Great Outdoor Weekend will be Sept. 22 and 23 at the park in Boone County in northern Kentucky.Paleontologists, archaeologists and historians from the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Friends of Big Bone will provide interpretive commentary on the Ice Age, American Indians and fossil mammals as well as the geology and native vegetation of the area. Visitors can tour the trails, bring artifacts and fossils to be identified by the staff and visit an 1800s-era campsite.Tours and other programs will be conducted from noon to 4 p.m. each day. For more information, call 859-384-3522 or visit www.greatoutdoorweekend.org.


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The pictures are amazing, it makes me want to come to the monument as soon as possible. The scenery is really unbelievable too. - Markus Lattner
Locations; Carrizo Plain National Monument; Photo Ops In California's Serengeti
The Carrizo Plain National Monument, located in California's Central Valley (a four-hour drive north of Los Angeles), is known as California's "Serengeti" because of its plethora of wildlife diversity thriving in the last of California's historic grasslands. This 50-mile stretch of sweeping grasslands lies between the Caliente and Temblor Mountain Ranges, one of my favorite locations in Central California for photographing vast landscapes, natural history, flora, and fauna. During the summer the Carrizo Plain is one of the hottest places in California, so plan a photo trip between October and May unless you're focusing on reptiles. Otherwise, you'll need an assortment of lenses to capture the many photo opportunities of this little known Central California gem.
Former President Bill Clinton designated the 250,000 acres of grass and woodlands a national monument in January 2001. That was good news for 13 threatened and endangered species that find refuge in the plain, including unique wildlife like the San Joaquin kit fox, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, giant kangaroo rat, and San Joaquin antelope ground squirrel. Carrizo also provides a critical foraging habitat for endangered California condors.
Over 100 species of birds live seasonally or year-round at Carrizo. A quarter of the state's sandhill crane population overwinters in 3000-acre Soda Lake, one of the largest undisturbed alkaline wetlands in the state. Because there's no outlet for the water rushing down from the mountains into Soda Lake, it eventually evaporates into a sometimes glistening, occasionally blinding salt pan, an expanse of sulfate and carbonate salts that seems to slowly sway during the heat of the day.
As skittish as the pronghorn antelope can be (they are North America's fastest land mammal, reaching speeds of 50 mph), there are plenty of critters in the Carrizo Plain that are very approachable. It's best to keep the 70-200mm lens at the ready. I've experienced many close encounters with baby jackrabbits, northern Pacific rattlesnakes, San Joaquin antelope ground squirrels, roadrunners, and blunt-nosed leopard lizards that required little effort.
The Carrizo Plain was once the northern territory of the Chumash Indians and their elaborate rock art can be photographed in the few rock outcroppings across the western fringe of the national monument. Any rock art should be approached cautiously without stirring up a lot of dust. Painted Rock is a natural amphitheater that was used for ceremonies and an earthly canvas for depicting their way of life. Burrowing owls, ravens, tree swallows, and other wildlife also use the horseshoe-shaped rock for refuge.
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Wizard World recently issued the following:
Stan Lee, Norman Reedus, WWE® Superstar John Cena®, William Shatner, Scott Bakula Among Top Celebrity Guests at Wizard World Austin Comic Con, November 22-24
Stan Lee, Norman Reedus, WWE® Superstar John Cena®, William Shatner and Scott Bakula are among the top celebrities scheduled to attend Wizard World Austin Comic Con, Nov. 22-24 at Austin Convention Center. Bruce Campbell, Erica Durance, Jewel Staite, Ralph Macchio, and top comics creators also highlight the pop culture festival.
Austin, TX, October 03, 2013 –(PR.com)– Eisner Award Hall of Famer Stan Lee, Norman Reedus of "The Walking Dead," WWE® Superstar John Cena® and "Star Trek" captains William Shatner and Scott Bakula are among the top celebrities scheduled to attend Wizard World Austin Comic Con, November 22-24 at the Austin Convention Center Center. The standout roster will also include Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead, Erica Durance of "Smallville" and "Saving Hope," Jewel Staite of "Firefly," The Karate Kid Ralph Macchio and many others. It is the eighth and final event in the 2013 series produced by Wizard World, Inc. (OTCBB: WIZD) and will also feature a top-drawer collection of well-known artists and writers and a variety of activities, exhibitors and special attractions.
Lee and Shatner will both appear on Friday evening, Nov. 22, and all day Saturday, Nov. 23. Reedus, Bakula, Durance and Staite are scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24. Campbell and Cena will be on site on Saturday only, and Macchio will attend all three days.
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text: Gresso Symphonia MP3 Player, Encased in Clarinet WoodCharlie White2/19/07 11:45amFiled to: Portable MediaAfrican BlackwoodGressoGresso Symphonia CollectionSymphoniaSymphonia Collection6EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The mysterious Russian company Gresso Ltd. likes to make fancy stuff out of African Blackwood such as its luxury cellphones we've shown you, and now those ritzy Russians make a foray into MP3 players with the Gresso Symphonia Collection. The players are also made of that seriously hard wood that's obliquely appropriate for a music player, since African Blackwood is highly prized in the manufacture of concert-quality clarinets and oboes. The Gresso Symphonia Collection will be available this spring in various combinations of African Blackwood with white or pink gold trim. So far, so good, but it gets goofy when you consider that such a high-priced bauble only has 1GB of internal flash memory, although the company does throw in an FM tuner. Look out, though, these 18-carat gold-encrusted gems will cost you between $4000 and $6500. C'mon, how hard would it have been to put at least 8GB in there? Sheesh. Advertisement Advertisement Gresso Symphonia MP3 Player [Sybarites]Reply6 repliesLeave a reply


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Today, Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams discussed the state of community safety for 2010. During his annual briefing with the media Chief Williams discussed efforts to ensure the community's safety and security, traffic related matters and the department's 2011 emphasis.
The City of Wichita, for a second consecutive year, continues to experience a decrease in major crime. In addition, the Wichita Police Department posted exceptional major crimes clearance rates. Chief Williams stated, "The Wichita Police Department community policing commitment, which focuses on crime prevention, public outreach, building collaborative partnerships and problem solving continued to be key factors to the department success throughout 2010."
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Aug 25, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Let me just ask a question then ... I remember when Palo Alto shut down and sold a bunch of real estate, like Cubberly and Terman - probably many others ... so - what is the financial history of these decisions?
During growth times dumping such real estate is like pissing away a good investment, and now that we need more school room we have to pay right back for it.
Who benefited and what are the economics around this ... any information .... any hot young bloodhound reporters that can look into this, because it just seems like more that communism for the rich, giveaways of resources that should be owned in common to well-connected people, or just people with money who get a deal while the city and all its inhabitants take a hit.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Aug 25, 2012 at 5:42 pm
PA schools that have closed:
HIGH SCHOOL: Cubberley- District still owns
MIDDLE SCHOOL: Terman- re-opened
ELEMENTARY: Crecent Park - land sold
De Anza - land sold...now housing
Garland - District still owns (lease-expires June 2014)
Greendell - District still owns
Hoover - land sold
Lytton - land sold
Ortega - land sold
Ross-land sold
Ventura - not sure if city owns or district owns
a resident of another community
on Aug 25, 2012 at 11:17 pm
I remember Lytton before it was torn down and sold. It was a huge gray institutional-lookng building set back from the corner of Lytton Middlefield. Two or three stories. I recall driving by the building when I was a kid in the 1960s, but I think it was long closed as a school by then.
Lytton Gardens replaced it. We went from facilities for our kids to facilities for the elderly.
a resident of Los Altos Hills
on Aug 26, 2012 at 8:26 am
You forgot several schools I attended
Stanford - Stanford provided space for two new schools
Mayfield - now city soccer fields
Fremont Hills - still owned by district - leased
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Aug 26, 2012 at 8:46 am
PAUSD still owns Fremont Hills site which is now part of Pinewood School.
Ventura school site is no long owned by PAUSD, but there is some sort of agreement there similar to the part of Cubberley which is owned by the City.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 26, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Both Fremont Hills and Garland sites should be taken back and used sooner rather than later. Cubberley is the total gem in all this and a wonderful central location.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 26, 2012 at 4:27 pm
And yet, despite all this construction, many of those old problematic elementary and middle school buildings are going to be given a fresh coat of paint (maybe) with no plans to replace them or overhaul some of their significant problems. I voted for that bond because I thought we were going to do away with the aging structures and modernize for the next century.
a resident of Barron Park
on Aug 27, 2012 at 8:44 am
Ken Dauber, candidate for school board in the upcoming election, has posted some thoughtful analysis about the past and future of facilities planning in the district on his website at kendauber.com/future. He advocates a data-driven planning process that will lead to a better collaboration with the City over the future of school sites.
"Preserving neighborhood schools. I remember walking with my son Elliot the few blocks from our house to Barron Park School when he was still only four, telling him that soon we would be walking together to school to start kindergarten. I didn't realize at the time that we weren't actually guaranteed a spot at our neighorhood school. Fortunately, he was admitted to Barron Park. But we need to ensure that we don't resort to overflowing our students around the city due to poor planning and overly simplistic demographic projections.
"In some cases -- like our choice schools -- having kids travel to school makes sense. In most other cases, it doesn't, and leads to traffic and safety issues as young children are forced to cross busy streets to reach their schools. Community members have purchased a home, as I did, with the expectation of walking their children to a particular school and the school district should honor the expectations that it has set through the drawing of attendance boundaries. The current system of overflowing students, often far from home, can feel like a "bait and switch" to parents who, like me, walked their preschooler over to the playground in their neighborhood, telling their son or daughter about the day when he or she would be going to "big kid" school there.
"It's impossible to get this right every time, but we could do much better. The school district needs better skills at long-range planning and demographic projection. We need to develop better organizational capacity for predicting where growth will come, and where it won't, so that we can build in the right place, and in the right amount.
"As a cautionary tale, I'm reminded of what happened in the 1980s. The school board, faced with declining enrollments over many years, voted to close Gunn as a high school and open it as a middle school. JLS would have been sold off and Jordan leased to an engineering school, and the proceeds used to cover the operating budget. Had this happened, we would today have one high school -- at Paly -- and one middle school -- at Gunn. Imagine the city-wide traffic and transportation difficulties that would have ensued as every high school student in Palo Alto converged on Paly.
"Instead, a group of involved Stanford economists, parents, and citizens decided to looked at enrollment in kindergarten and first grade, and at trends in housing sales. They ran the numbers and found that enrollment was actually going to be increasing over the next 5 to 10 years. Some of them ran for the school board, got elected, and managed to reverse the school board's decision before it was too late. And they were right -- enrollment did rise, and it turns out we did need 2 high schools and 3 middle schools, rather than one of each.
We're not facing declining enrollments now -- quite the opposite -- but we have the same need for careful thinking and expertise."
a resident of Meadow Park
on Aug 27, 2012 at 9:53 am
Anyone thinking of voting for Ken Dauber in the school board election this November ought to first do a search on "Dauber" (Ken and Michelle) in the threads of this forum and read it all. This will give you a good glimpse of who this person is and what he's been trying to do.
I have read it all, I was very UNimpressed, and I will vote AGAINST Ken Dauber.
a resident of Los Altos Hills
on Aug 27, 2012 at 10:42 am
When Terman was closed and sold to the city, some land was sold by the city--the land for the Terman apartments and Bowman International School. This made Terman a less than desirable middle school property as it cannot be expanded, hence the need for another middle school.
Why not use Garland in combination with Jordan as a middle school? Garland could be 6th grade only with 7th and 8th grades at Jordan. Fields and athletic facilities can be shared.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm
To "changes over the years":
PAUSD does not own Cubberley. The City Of Palo Alto owns eight acres of that site. PAUSD owns the rest. These governmental bodies are not the same.
I encourage everyone with kids in elementary school to pay close attention to the Cubblerley deal that is being discussed NOW. Your children will be the ones affected...and VERY few of you seem to be engaged with the process. That won't be good for your interests.
a resident of another community
on Aug 28, 2012 at 11:32 am
We just have to get out of our 1950's school design, why not add a second floor, interior hallways, just an idea
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 29, 2012 at 12:28 am
Menlo Park is almost finished with a complete renovation/expansion of all their schools. Hillview Middle School was completely rebuilt and is an incredible new facility.
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Aug 30, 2012 at 12:23 pm
I think if you asked the people who's backyards are next to Hillview School if they like the new 2-story buildings looking down into their yards - they might have a different opinion of the design.
a resident of Green Acres
on Aug 30, 2012 at 8:39 pm
What does it mean to be "engaged with the process" wrt Cubberley? I agree this is very big deal. But how can we find out what's going on, and what kind of input is it useful for parents to provide, esp those who don't have a particular background in facilities, demographics, etc?
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Glioma comprises about 40% of all primary brain tumors accounting for as many as 26,000 U.S. and European deaths annually. Inherited susceptibility plays a role with 2-fold increased risk of glioma among first-degree relatives of glioma cases. We initiated a multi-center, international linkage study: "Genetic Epidemiology of Glioma International Consortium" in 2007 to address the role of inherited susceptibility. Since this study does not allow us currently to address the role of genetic susceptibility in sporadic cases, we propose this case- control study to address this gap. Members of the consortium have conducted genome wide association studies (GWAS) that will be the discovery phase (phase I). While of high value for discovery, we propose to recruit 6,000 newly diagnosed glioma cases and 6,000 age-gender-ethnicity-matched controls, and collect detailed epidemiologic data and biologic samples from the 13 participating Gliogene sites. We hypothesize that novel inherited variation influencing the susceptibility to glioma can be identified by high density SNP analysis, and propose the following specific aims: SA1: Identify common genetic variants contributing to the risk of glioma. We plan to conduct phases 2 and 3 of the 3 phase approach, specifically we will: (SA1a) Validate GWAS findings from the discovery sets, and replicate the top hits (~23,000 SNPs) with lowest p- values from the two phase GWA studies in a series of 2,000 cases and 2,000 controls (phase 2, validation). Validate the top hits from the test set (aim 1a). From stage 2, genes with SNPs displaying an association at pd10-4 (including the complete haplotype tagging - approximately 100 SNPs) will then be genotyped in a further series of 4,000 cases and 4,000 controls (stage 3, validation). SNPs significant at 10-7 or better will be considered in the final analyses. (SA1b). Using an a priori hypothesis that DNA repair in inflammation contribute to glioma risk, we will selectively interrogate DNA repair and inflammation pathway genes using data for select genes derived from the high-density array. We will conduct a hypothesis driven genetic association in DNA repair and in inflammation/immune function related genes with glioma risk using functional genomic and bioinformatic tools to interrogate available databases. (SA2): Evaluate gene-gene (G-G) and gene- environmental (G-E) interactions with strong biologic relevance to identify G-G and G-E interactions for glioma risk using machine-learning tools (MDR, FITF, and CART) in these exploratory analyses. There are no existing glioma case-control studies with sufficient numbers of biological samples and common epidemiologic data to conduct a comprehensive validation and replication study, or to address the issues of tumor heterogeneity as we will in this study.
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Fuel up after a long day of riding roller coasters at the hotel's onsite restaurants. At The California Grill and The Cantina, you'll find American fare such as blackened grilled salmon in a California-wine cream sauce and half-pound Angus burgers. Each morning, The California Grill serves a breakfast buffet for an additional fee that includes made-to-order omelets, waffles, breakfast meats, potatoes, assorted pastries, and juices, coffee, and tea.
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Less than an hour from Hollywood and Universal Studios, Anaheim is perfectly situated for making the most of a Southern California getaway. But most visitors never make it that far, as Disneyland Resort® Theme Parks have long dominated the city's tourism scene. As Walt Disney's original park, Disneyland Park has a handful of classic attractions that, though upgraded over the years, have been around since the park opened in 1955. You can ride the Mad Tea Party spinning teacups, hop on the King Arthur Carrousel, or sail in the Storybook Land Canal Boats (Walt Disney personally planted the small pine near Geppetto's home).
Disneyland Resort® Theme Parks have plenty of modern exhibits too, including Cars Land, one of the newer additions to Disney California Adventure Park and a life-size re-creation of the town from Disney Pixar's Cars. The highlight here is the slot-car attraction, which puts you in an automated vehicle that swerves around animatronic characters before engaging another car in a high-speed race.
If you're in the mood for thrills, ascend the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror before dropping in a heart-pounding free fall, or climb aboard the roller coasters thundering around Paradise Pier with sweeping views of the park. Alternatively, trade fairy dust for white sand in Huntington Beach, where you'll find 3.5 miles of free-to-the-public beaches filled with surfing, pickup volleyball games, and countless stalls hawking flip-flops and seashell-themed wares.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
23 comments:
- Bespoke Biddie said...
Looks like you'll be more than protected in the new year
(.= - December 30, 2011 at 5:53 AM
- catarina said...
wow! ebay is amazing
- December 30, 2011 at 6:02 AM
- Sabina Jakupović said...
Must say that these look scary:D Reminds me of Illuminati sign..
http://grumfus.blogspot.com/ - December 30, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- Katrina said...
Wow what a deal! I bought myself that bracelet too - can`t wait to wear it! Thanks VV!
>'.'< - December 30, 2011 at 6:16 AM
- Elisabeth said...
The bracelet and chain ring is just AMAZING! WOW! I REALLY like it!
- December 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Charmaine Cowland said...
What on earth do you type into ebay to find such amazing pieces for as little as that!
ccowland.blogspot.com/ - December 30, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Mercedes said...
wauw really love all of these items! remembers me when I was a small girl.
Do you like butterfly´s?
I´ve got some beautiful BUTTERFLY EARRING GIVEAWAY! cOME AND CHECK IT OUT!
Kiss Kiss happy new year - December 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- chelsea.jade said...
I love the chain from e-bay, I hunted it down a couple of months ago and it only took 2 weeks to arrive! :)
x - December 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM
- Sarah Anne said...
Have you read the story of the evil eye? Its actually really interesting and cool. Wearing the evil eye is meant to be protection from jealousy and evil intent.
http://www.bighipsredlips.com/ - December 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Justalazymorning said...
love this!!
xoxo - December 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Lady Unlaced said...
Awesome! I love evil eye jewelry, I own two bracelets with evil eye beads and I'm hoping to add a ring to the small collection :)
- December 30, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Laura. said...
I just bought a evil eye necklace from Topman !
:) - December 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Maya said...
Yeah eyes are cool! Are those the evil ones? I thought they were just eyes in general. The evil eye ones are usually the turkish/middle eastern style ones I think. 90's treats are still rolling on out, I think it's enjoyable but pretty bizarre!
- December 30, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- H I P P O R A C L E said...
WELP! I know what I'm spending my money on! :)
- December 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- celeste said...
dangg! you got some deal! both of them are sick.
clashlot.blogspot.com - December 30, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Daniel Herrera said...
Like it so much, are so beautiful
Hope u have a nice end of year
xxxx - December 30, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Isabel Spectre said...
lol not gonna lie i just bought the same one you did. it is too perfect, and only 5 dollars! AHHH!
<3333 - December 31, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Izumihiiiflower said...
OMGGGG!!! I love this post because I'm crazy about eyes! I have just one earring eye, bu I want more!!! I especially love the bracelet!!!
- January 1, 2012 at 1:37 AM
- Lini said...
I really like the evil jewellery! A little bit creepy but so beautiful at the same time ;)
Happy new year!
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- January 1, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- Lucy Rance said...
I'm also loving this spooky eyeball trend! I've got my *eye* on the Topshop stuff, so weird but cute! xx
- January 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- KAYRA ISABELLA said...
Only five bucks? I need to get myself an Ebay account because I feel like I'm missing out on a whole other world. I do already have a bracelet with evil eyes from Turkey.
- January 3, 2012 at 11:13 AM
- merci pour le venin said...
i love it. especially the ones in the 2nd photo.
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Friday, June 08, 2012
Less Carrot, No Stick: Life Working for the Man
Not a bit.
I do feel guilty from time to time for 'wasting my skills', but that, too, is fading I find it very ironic that I have ended up (in a sense) joining the enemy, simply to preserve my sanity. What I mean is that I now work for the government in a 'lifestyle' job when my great desire, from the end of medical school through my 'payback' time in the military and through residency was to become an excellent Emergency Physician and to practice my craft until they kicked me out of the hospital on a walker mumbling about how Zithromax is not really an antibiotic and how you should NEVER order a CBC.
My, my, my. I did, at least, achieve part of the goal. I was, and still am, an excellent Emergency Physician, but I am now almost phobic of hospitals. I won't go back unless I have to for money. The joy, if there ever was any (I think there was) is gone. It may still exist in ER practice but I think that if it does it's in isolated pockets or in Academia, but, for the record, I don't know any ER docs who feel this way. Most see themselves as drones or, perhaps, as performing a 'rear guard action' on a decimated battlefield.
This learned helplessness permeates much of medicine these days. Funny how, when lives are on the line, doctors and surgeons with MD or DO behind their names are beseeched and coerced and prodded into the fray, but when they talk about work conditions and reimbursement they are derided and spat upon.
At the same time charlatans like THIS COMPLETE MORON, a chiropractor (with an 'MD' mysteriously obtained from the University of the Caribbean Breezes) dispensing platitudes and snake oil, becomes rich and people love him. They line up to pay for his crap. The supplements market is booming. It's ALL shit. Big pharma is pilloried, but the people who market 'Raspberry Ketones' and 'Acai Berry' for 'weight loss', 'pro-biotics' and such, can laugh all the way to the bank and escape all manner of liability and regulation.
It's tempting to quote from "Atlas Shrugged" at this point but it's cliche and people think that because things are 'cliche' that they are necessarily false. Not many care about the plight of doctors, but they will.... they will care when they can't find one.
I will take no pleasure in their frustration, but I also will not be running back to help, and for that I think less of myself.
It's all stick and no carrot these days out in real-medicine land. Amazingly, I have found a 'medical' job that is mostly carrot, no stick whatsoever. Guess what? I LOVE it. I feel like I'm cheating. Compared to what I used to do, this is a lark.
I marvel at the surgeons and the ER docs who still man the barricades. They would make much more money with no liability by joining an aesthetic medicine practice and shooting people up with botox or simply hawking the snake oil that everyone does on 'Dr Oz' every day... What's that? It's already happening all over the place? Oh.
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Jeez 9-11, I'm startin to feel like Charlton Heston in "The Omega Man"...
I mean when's the last time Etotheipi(who I still think was you) posted?, or lofty(strange he vanishes at the same time as Bin Laden)and Old Fart gets less playing time than Barney Google...
And I know Grumpy RN's all tied up with the Queen's affairs...
You know how I know your gay? I mean that America's doomed?
The top Golfer's Black, and the top Rapper's White, wait, that isn't it.
White babies are finally a minority, hey, it's just gonna make their price go up, supply and demand...
UGA gave Mark Richt a contract extension, hell, a BONUS, for getting blown out in the SEC championship game.
While the 2010 BCS CHAMPION AUBURN TIGERs fans are already getting the tar and feathers ready if we don't win it this year...
FrankThe link you provided, 911, told me Dr. Ass Ann Drew "has an incredible gift of compassion and communication with people. His comprehensive use of health care in looking at the whole person; body,mind, and spirit, is a true pathway toward healing for this generation."
Reading on, I see: "This website/URL has been blocked until further notice either pursuant to Court orders or on the Directions issued by the Department of Telecommunications"
The Nanny State v "Holistic" Medicine?
Obama just doesn't Care, does he now?@ 9-11,
OK, I finally read your entire screed and.......
Whats with the slam on our Aesthetic Medicine Bretheren/Sisteren? Botox is serious stuff, lots of side effects, contraindications, drug interactions, OTOH, I like that Mrs. Drackman can't do that "Spock raising his eyebrow" thang anymore...
So they don't have a real residency or board, neither did YOUR specialty not so long ago...
Everyone thinks everybody elses specialty is essy/overpaid/ bla bla bla,
Its like when I was trying to find a reason to cancel a "stand by" case in the cath lab, and the Cardiologist PA said "Just go get your little cart and keep the patient from moving" and I really would have said something sharp and biting if she didn't out weigh me by 50 lbs...
The Cardiologist PA I mean, not the patient.
But I stood my ground, took a good 10 minutes reviewing the echo, the stress thallium,
OK, it was really just the "Demographic data"(I HATE EMRs...)
and I got my little cart and kept the patient from moving...
FrankBeing an ER doctor in a major trauma center for 16 years, I totally get where your perspective is in writing this post. However, after suffering from some cynicism and sarcasm and being quite disgruntled with medicine in general, I have been lucky enough to have a medical scare that made me realize that the good I do far outweighs the rough parts of this job.
Better yet, I work with residents that I hope I can instill the same perspective. Your post is very honest to the current trends of most ER doctors I work with though.


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Morrowind:Corprus Cure
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Quick Walkthrough[edit]
- Return to Caius in Balmora and talk with him to learn of a possible Corprus cure.
- Travel to Tel Fyr, give Divayth Fyr the artifact, and talk with him.
- Retrieve the Dwemer Boots of Flying from Yagrum Bagarn deep within the Corprusarium.
- Receive the cure from Divayth.
Detailed Walkthrough[edit]
Finding Divayth Fyr[edit]
During the last quest to destroy the Sixth House base near Gnaar Mok, you contracted the apparently incurable Corprus disease. While you have Corprus, the disposition of anyone you talk to will drop significantly, so it's a good idea to return to Caius as soon as possible. Back in Balmora, Caius is shocked to hear of your condition, but believes there may be a cure. Apparently, Fast Eddie, a local Telvanni expert, says that a Telvanni Wizard, Divayth Fyr, runs a Corprusarium deep beneath his tower in Tel Fyr, dedicated to the study of Corprus disease, and may be able to help you. Apparently, Fyr is a collector of Dwemer artifacts, and Caius provides you with a Dwemer Coherer to help raise Divayth's disposition. You will also receive some gold to pay for the cure, and a few levitation potions for use in the tower. The artifact weighs 40 pounds, so be sure you're able to carry that much.
Tel Fyr is on an island in the eastern archipelago of Vvardenfell, in the Azura's Coast Region. You can get it marked by a scout in the Fighters Guild in Sadrith Mora, if you have not already learned of its location. The fastest way would be to take a Guild Guide over to Sadrith Mora or, alternatively, you can take a boat to Sadrith Mora from Ebonheart.
Meet with Divayth Fyr[edit]
Once inside Tel Fyr, Onyx Hall, you should talk to Beyte Fyr, a Dunmer woman, across from the entrance to find out that Divayth is in his study, accessible by the main fly well. The fly well is upstairs in the Hall of Fyr, inside and to the right of the entrance. If you need more Levitation or Invisibility potions, you can steal them from a shelf in the bedroom on the main floor of the Hall of Fyr. Levitate up and find Divayth, dressed in Daedric armor and standing in front of a purple crystal. Give him the Dwemer artifact and ask him about the corprus disease. You may have to additionally raise his Disposition by persuasion in order to get him to talk to you. Divayth has plenty to say about the disease, but mention that you may fulfill the Nerevarine Prophecies and he will quickly offer you an experimental and possibly fatal cure for Corprus. However, before he agrees to give you the cure, he will ask you to fetch a pair of enchanted boots from Yagrum Bagarn below in the Corprusarium and return them to Fyr. On the face of it, this is a menial chore, but Fyr's real intention is for you to see the place in which you will spend the rest of your life if the cure doesn't work.
If you have angered Divayth previously by killing some of the members of the Corprusarium, you may be able to persuade him to assist you, either with conversation, or magic, but if you have killed the warden, he and his daughters will attack you when you talk to them. Sometimes Divayth is extremely mad about what you have done, and presents you with no conversation options except "Goodbye". You can fix this by entering SetJournalIndex A2_3_CorprusKiller 30
The Corprusarium[edit]
The Corprusarium is downstairs, through the Onyx Hall. Before you enter, you will encounter the warden Vistha-Kai who will tell you not to harm the inmates, though they certainly have no qualms about hurting you. This is a good place for Invisibility or Chameleon if you have it, or a good Sneak skill. Fortunately, once you enter the Corprusarium Bowels, the inmates you encounter will not be hostile towards you. Yagrum is in the central cave, and is hard to miss. He will give you the Dwemer Boots of Flying and has some interesting comments on the disappearance of the Dwemer. There is also a trick in getting the Corprus inmates outside the bowels not to attack you. Find the guarskin drum and give it to Uupse Fyr next to Yagrum, and she will play a rhythm to soothe the inmates. Any guarskin drum will do, but unless you have brought one with you the nearest one is in the Corprusarium.
The Cure?[edit]
Return to Divayth, give him the boots, and accept the potion.
It turns out that the potion doesn't actually cure you, but just removes the negative effects of the disease. Therefore, you have the complete disease resistance that Corprus gives, but no loss of attributes. Note that the 1000 gold Caius gave you wasn't needed, meaning you're a bit richer too. You can return to Caius in Balmora for the next stage of the quest.
If you return to Fyr at a later point in the game, he will tell you that the potion doesn't seem to work on the rest of his cases and that he killed two of his most desperate patients while testing it. Apparently you are an exceptional case, though as you may have found out, the Nerevarine is supposedly protected from this death by prophecy.
- Fyr has some unused dialogue regarding corprus disease, which consists of him telling you that your case is hopeless and you should prepare to be interred in the Corprusarium. The trigger for this dialogue is contracting corprus disease before contracting it from Dagoth Gares. Barring a certain bug, there is in fact only one way to contract corprus disease in the entire game, and that is via a scripted event which occurs when Dagoth Gares dies. Since the condition for this dialogue can therefore never be met, it cannot be seen in-game. But it indicates that at some point in the game's development the developers may have intended the player to be able to catch corprus in other ways.
- During the dialogue with Fyr when you take the potion, a script runs which gives you 100% Resistance to common disease, blight disease and corprus disease, and removes the other corprus effects. However, after you end conversation with Fyr, he will cast an entirely superfluous spell of Cure Blight Disease on you.
- If you have given a Dwemer Coherer to Divayth Fyr before Caius sends you, the Main Quest skips ahead when you talk to Caius. If you are on PC and have at least one expansion, you can fix it with
SetJournalIndex A2_3_CorprusCure 0
.- This bug is fixed by the Morrowind Patch Project.
- Sometimes, the positive and negative effects of the disease do not disappear when you are "cured" when talking to Divayth and taking the potion, although the icons disappear from your spell effects list. Thus, you are left with your altered attributes until you apply the appropriate restore effects (potions, spells, etc.).
- If you have more than one Dwemer Boots of Flying in your inventory, Divayth Fyr may not accept the item when you mention potion to him after you have obtained it from Yagrum Bagarn.
- Solve this by dropping all but one of the copies on floor and talk to him again.
- Uupse Fyr does not tell you about the guarskin drum unless your disposition with her is at least 50. But she will accept it anyway because it checks the wrong quest id to see if she told you about it.
- This issue has been addressed by the Morrowind Patch Project; The patch corrects this behavior, so she does not accept the drum unless she told you about it.
Quest Stages[edit]
Corprus Cure (A2_3_Corprus_Vistha) | ||
Index | Finishes Quest | Journal Entry |
1 | I have been warned by Vistha-Kai, Warden of the Corprusarium, not to harm the inmates of the Corprusarium. |
Corprus Cure (A2_3_CorprusKiller) | ||
Index | Finishes Quest | Journal Entry |
10 | I have killed one of the inmates of the Corprusarium. | |
20 | I have killed one of the residents of Tel Fyr. I doubt this will make me popular with the wizard Divayth Fyr. | |
30 | I have killed one of the inmates of the Corprusarium. Divayth Fyr says he cannot forget what I've done, but he will forgive me. |
Corprus Cure (A2_3_CorprusSafe) | ||
Index | Finishes Quest | Journal Entry |
10 | Uupse Fyr said that if I would find a guarskin drum and bring it to her, she could play the drum to calm the corprus victims. She says the victims wander away with the drum sometimes, so I'll have to search for it. | |
100 | I brought Uupse Fyr a guarskin drum so she could play some rhythms to soothe the corprus victims. |
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Posted by Peter Cullen
Chief Privacy Strategist
have been actively engaged in privacy issues for over a decade, first
at the Royal Bank of Canada and now as Chief Privacy Strategist for
Microsoft since 2003.
During that time privacy has rarely
received as much attention as it's getting now. Mainstream media from
Good Morning America to USA Today regularly have stories about
everything from shifting online privacy policies to unauthorized
collections and use of personal data. At the same time, some in the
tech industry have suggested that social networking and other new
technologies are making privacy obsolete.
Given the high level
of interest, I'm pleased to be in San Jose this afternoon to deliver the
keynote address at the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy conference.
Microsoft has been working
on online privacy issues since launching MSN in 1994. We've had our
challenges along the way, but we've learned from our mistakes and
privacy has become increasingly central to everything we do.
this year, in a speech at the University of Washington, Steve
Ballmer said: "As a mature and responsible organization, we have got to
lead with privacy."
And this is very much Microsoft's goal. To
apply what we've learned in the past around privacy to today's rapidly
evolving landscape of social media, information flows and the cloud.
One reason we are focused on privacy is because it still very much
matters to our customers- it remains a matter of "trust."
social media may be pushing the boundaries around privacy and altering
certain behaviors, heavy users of social media – including young people
who some claim don't know better — value and fiercely protect their
right to privacy.
A Pew Internet and
American Life Project survey on "Reputation Management and Social Media" released
at the end of May indicated that young people are actively working to
protect their privacy online.
Governments around the globe are
also updating their privacy laws or implementing new privacy statutes
where none previously existed.
These trends have put privacy
under a microscope and sent companies worldwide a message that
governments, consumers and civil society both expect and demand
accountability around data privacy.
To Microsoft,
accountability is not just an important concept in this world of
exponentially growing data flows. It is a critical governance principle
that organizations need to live by.
A perceived lack of
accountability is what has frustrated consumers, regulators and
advocates with some of the recent high-profile privacy missteps.
"No harm, no foul," approach is simply not going to cut it in the
current environment.
Under an accountability governance model
for organizations, a company must:
- understand the risks
to individuals that come with processing their data and mitigate those
risks - ensure that their processes do indeed safeguard
their customer's data, and - be transparent and answerable
for their strategies to identify and mitigate risks.
it is simply not enough to retrofit privacy protections into existing
products and services. Rather, privacy protections must be incorporated
into every aspect of product development, from design through
Fundamentally, innovators have a responsibility to
mitigate risks in new technologies and services by architecting strong
privacy and security safeguards throughout every product's development
and deployment cycle.
We are following these principles as we
develop products and services and to help maximize the benefits of cloud
computing while protecting privacy.
In the
context of privacy the challenges of the cloud have a lot to do with
where data sits and who has access to it. These challenges are not new,
as consumer and business data have been sitting 'off-premise' in a
variety of situations for years.
For privacy professionals, the
cloud represents the latest evidence that technology will likely always
outpace policy. For instance, the data aggregation enabled by the cloud
not only creates rich targets for bad guys, but also heightens a range
of privacy and jurisdictional issues.
Today, more than ever,
policymakers and regulators need to think and act both locally and
globally. The borderless state of cloud computing finds itself at odds
with the world of physical boundaries and multiple sovereignties.
believe that we need to think about these issues in the context of new
Not only does industry need to innovate and
develop new technologies to protect the network, it needs to create
better tools to empower users so they can choose how they want to
interact with the cloud.
These truly are issues that no one
company, industry or sector can tackle in isolation. So it is important
to start these dialogues in earnest and include a diverse range of
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Medical Definition of AlkaptonuriaAlkaptonuria: A genetic metabolic disorder due to deficiency of the enzyme homogentisic acid (HGA) dioxygenase. Deficiency of this enzyme leads to the three cardinal features of alkaptonuria (the presence of homogentisic acid in the urine), ochronosis (bluish-black pigmentation in connective tissue), and arthritis. Urine that turns dark is a characteristic feature. Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionaryhttp://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=39942 Last Editorial Review: 6/9/2016 Medical Dictionary Definitions A - ZSearch Medical Dictionary
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