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Discussion in 'Site Discussions & Suggestions' started by SMN, Nov 17, 2002.
It is at the moment. Does anyone experience the same thing ?
It's not the fastest site I've been on, but it's fast enough.. not really a problem. Are you sure it's not your internet connection, are you on 56k?
im with 56k and its a bit slow but thats because im always downloading something....
Yep, it is slightly slower than what it used to, maybe just a server malfunction
Its strange, its very fast for me... can you do a traceroute to gbatemp.net and post it here? thanks
Explain plz.
ya me too...
thats chinese to me,
no ofense to chinsese ppl
so i wasnt the only one experiencing this. the forums were pretty slow for me b4. but its at normal speeds for me now
BTW i thought the saying went "its all greek to me"
it's working fine to me ...
Same here. Maybe too many users at a time
It was very slow when I tried to get into this site (before I opened this thread), which is very unusual to me. Usually, it appears faster than I blink my eye.
I wouldn't ask if I use 56K.
It's back to normal now
Weird how that much people say it's slow... I am currently not noticing any difference; seems like I'm the only one... It's pretty darn fast for me right now... Do anything was changed on the server since this morning?
- ViNcE989
It was surely a temporary routing problem (it may happen now and then), it can't be too many ppl, the load isn't high enough to justify any slowdown
To do a tracerouter, open a DOS window and run:
tracert gbatemp.net
And paste the output here
Maybe you high speed connection users don't notice it cos' it's still extremely fast but i sure noticed it
Working fine now
works fine.... i mean are u all in a hurry or what?
Site seems fine for me, more faster than other sites I go to.
But than again im on Frame Relay
IT isn't that slow you know because I have cable but I don't know about you.
Oh yeah: Didn't you sign up for gamers advace/pgamers.com
Dont know if your talking to me or someone else but wasnt me, I ussually dont sign up on forums. But GBAtemp rox!


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Phil Yang created HBASE-15576: --------------------------------- Summary: Support stateless scanning and scanning cursor Key: HBASE-15576 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15576 Project: HBase Issue Type: New Feature Reporter: Phil Yang Assignee: Phil Yang After 1.1.0 released, we have partial and heartbeat protocol in scanning to prevent responding large data or timeout. Now for ResultScanner.next(), we may block for longer time larger than timeout settings to get a Result if the row is very large, or filter is sparse, or there are too many delete markers in files. However, in some scenes, we don't want it to be blocked for too long. For example, a web service which handles requests from mobile devices whose network is not stable and we can not set timeout too long(eg. only 5 seconds) between mobile and web service. This service will scan rows from HBase and return it to mobile devices. In this scene, the simplest way is to make the web service stateless. Apps in mobile devices will send several requests one by one to get the data until enough just like paging a list. In each request it will carry a start position which depends on the last result from web service. Different requests can be sent to different web service server because it is stateless. Therefore, the stateless web service need a cursor from HBase telling where we have scanned in RegionScanner when HBase client receives an empty heartbeat. And the service will return the cursor to mobile device although the response has no data. In next request we can start at the position of cursor, without the cursor we have to scan from last returned result and we may timeout forever. And of course even if the heartbeat message is not empty we can still use cursor to prevent re-scan the same rows/cells which has beed skipped. Obviously, we will give up consistency for scanning because even HBase client is also stateless, but it is acceptable in this scene. And maybe we can keep mvcc in cursor so we can get a consistent view? HBASE-13099 had some discussion, but it has no further progress by now. API: In Scan we need a new method setStateless to make the scanning stateless and need another timeout setting for stateless scanning. In this mode we will not block ResultScanner.next() longer than this timeout setting. And we will return Results in next() as usual but the last Result (or only Result if we receive empty heartbeat) has a special flag to mark it a cursor. The cursor Result has only one Cell. Users can scan like this: {code} while( r = scanner.next() && r != null && !r.isCursor()){ //just like before } if(r != null){ // scanning is not end, it is a cursor } else { // scanning is end } scanner.close() {code} Implementation: We will have two options to support stateless scanning: Only one rpc like small scanning, not supporting batch/partials and cursor is row level. It is simple to implementation. Support big scanning with several rpc requests, supporting batch/partials and cursor is cell level. It is a little complex because we need seek at server side. Or we can make it by two phases, support one-shot first? Any thoughts? Thanks. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)
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"Poor Nellie!" he murmured affectionately. "'Tis hard to stand between our love and duty, is it not, lass? By God, sweetheart, I had to do it. I couldn't stand to see him wedded wie a lass that any man or woman could throw mud at." His voice shook with the intensity of his emotion; his flashing glance swept the board in pitiful defiance. "I have a right to protect my honor and the honor of my house!" he cried sharply. "Is not Jesus Christ the embodiment of honor? How can He blame me if I trust in His power and discretion. I've prayed to Him—ach, man, how I've prayed to Him—to keep my son from makin' a fule o' himself—"
"Now, there you go again, Hector, dear," his wife soothed. She rose from her place at the table, came round to him, put her arms around his great neck, and laid her cheek against his. "An open confession is good for the soul, they say, Hector. I'm glad you've taken us into your confidence, because it permits us to share with you an equal burden of this heart-breaking decision. But you mustn't feel badly, father. Haven't I told you our boy isn't going to die?"
"Do you really think so, Nellie?" he pleaded childishly, and for the hundredth time.
"Silly old Hector! I know so." And this time there was in her voice such a new note of confidence and in her eyes such a gleam of triumph that she actually did succeed in comforting him. "Ah, well, God's will be done," he said piously, and attacked his dinner again, while Mrs. McKaye slipped out of the room and up-stairs on some pretext. Once in her bedroom, she seized the extension telephone and called up Andrew Daney.
"Andrew," she said softly but distinctly, "this is Nellie McKaye speaking. Hector and I have been discussing the advisability of sending for the Brent girl."
"I—I was goin' to take the matter up with you, Mrs. McKaye. I had a talk with your husband this afternoon, but he was a bit wild—"
"He isn't so wild now, Andrew. He's talked it over with the girls and me. It's a terrible alternative, Andrew, but it simply means our boy's life for the gratification of our own selfish family pride—"
"Exactly! Exactly! And though I understand just how you feel, Mrs. McKaye, after all, now, it's only a nine days' wonder, and you can't keep people from talking anyhow, unless you gag the brutes. The boy has been raving, and some of the hospital attendants have talked, and the gossip is all over town again. So why not send for her? She doesn't have to marry him just because her presence will revive his sinking morale—"
"Certainly not. My idea, exactly, Andrew. Well, Andrew, suppose you telegraph her—"
"No, no, no! I'll telephone her. Remember, we have a transcontinental telephone service nowadays. She might not realize the vital necessity for speed; she might question her right to come if I tried to cover the situation in a telegram. But, catch her on the 'phone, Mrs. McKaye, and you can talk to her and convince her."


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If it is allowed in islam to know the sex of baby in your fifth month ultrasound or is it a sin to know the sex of baby before delivery?.
It is permissible to have medical tests to find out the sex of the foetus, whether it is male or female. This is one of the ways and means that Allah has made available to people to check on the condition of the foetus after it has been formed. There are still many unseen matters having to do with the foetus that no one knows except Allah, such as its condition before it is formed, and its provision, lifespan, and whether it is blessed (destined for Paradise) or doomed (destined for Hell).
See also the answer to question no. 12368.
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400 patients crowd into eye hospital in Afghanistan where eye care is a casualty of war
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ' Had they treated Nasaratullah sooner, the doctors might have been able to save the Afghan baby's eye, which was riddled with cancer.
Instead, the doctors at Noor Eye Hospital, a rundown facility in the Afghan capital overrun with 400 patients a day, had to remove it.
"Unfortunately, people come to us very late," Dr. Najib Osmani said looking up from the operating table where his tiny six-month-old patient, still anesthetized, rested in purple pajamas. "In early stages, this is curable. You can save the eyes, the sight ' everything. Not in Afghanistan."
Eye care is a casualty of Afghanistan's tortured history. Eye clinics exist in only a few major Afghan cities. There are only six ophthalmologists for every 1 million Afghans. The country's lack of roads, mountainous terrain, extreme poverty and three decades of civil unrest are immense roadblocks to getting care ' and giving it.
Roughly 1.5 million Afghans are visually impaired, according to the Ministry of Public Health. Every year, around 25,000 Afghans lose vision in one of their eyes.
Nasaratullah, a round-faced boy from eastern Afghanistan, has retinoblastoma, a rare cancerous tumor in his retina. After removing it, Osmani embedded a whitish glass ball, which later can be replaced with an artificial eye.
The infant's other eye appears healthy now, but there is a 40 percent chance that cancer will develop in it as well, the doctor said.
"I pray the other eye is OK," Osmani said. "At least we can refer him to neighboring countries for better treatment, radiation or chemotherapy."
Simpler vision problems can be easily treated in Afghanistan ' if patients can get access to care.
Sixty percent of all blindness in Afghanistan is blamed on cataracts, which are removed in simple operations common in the developed world. But in Afghanistan, only 15,000 cataract surgeries are performed each year, not even enough to keep up with new cases and causing the huge backlog of cases ' 200,000 by some estimates ' to grow even more.
Babi Dukther, a 45-year-old woman from Kabul, is one of the lucky ones. On a hot day in the dusty capital, she walked barefoot into one of the hospital's operating rooms where a man was still swabbing the floor with a dirty mop.
"My eyes have gotten weaker for five or six months, and in the last month, it got worse," the mother of seven said as she lay down on the operating table to have a cataract removed from her left eye. "When I look, it's like something is coming down from the sky ' like it's raining or snowing."
Doctors perform 15 to 20 operations at the hospital each day. With more space, beds and equipment, they could do more.
"We have too many patients," Dr. Yosuf Mahboob said. "It's too crowded. We don't have enough rooms for checkups."
Patients start lining up outside the hospital at around 7:30 a.m. There's plenty of pushing and shoving to get to two tiny registration windows ' one for men and the other for women.
Patients thrust their fists, clutching the entrance fee of 50 Afghanis, or about $1, inside the windows hoping to be the next person allowed inside.
After registering, the patients sit in stifling waiting areas. Somebody tries to turn on a window fan, but it doesn't work. Patients fan themselves with the green registration cards. There's a 4-year-old girl with infected eyes ringed in red and men with cataracts shuffling with canes. There's a woman who suffered a splinter in her eye while chopping wood.
Those called from the waiting rooms line up for an eye test, with the chart is painted on a glowing light box. Fewer than 30 percent of Afghans are literate, so the chart uses a symbol that resembles an "E." Patients are asked whether the symbol is facing left, right, up or down.
Watching everything was 9-year-old Safauddin, his right eye severely deformed by a type of neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes the growth of tumors. The boy was silent, but his mother was shouting .
"I don't know how his eye got this way. Something happened during the Taliban time," she said, referring the years from 1996 to 2001 when the hardline Taliban regime ruled Afghanistan.
She barked at a doctor through her blue burqa, saying she could not understand why her son could not be treated at the hospital, which has no facilities or expertise to treat the disease.
In an examination room next door, a toothless woman was nearly hysterical, saying her eyes were getting weaker. She complained that she had no medicine and nobody to help her. Mahboob jotted some notes on her registration card and quickly sent her to the next examining area.
"We have to work like this because of the rush of patients," he said. "If we try to tell the patients to come back tomorrow they'd hold a demonstration."
Upstairs, the baby boy's father, Hafizullah, was fighting back tears. The shopkeeper, who like his son uses only one name, was heartbroken that surgeons couldn't save the diseased eye. His wife sat on the edge of the baby's bed, straightening his pajama top over his belly. Nasaratullah's face was covered by a bandage, and no one had told his mother yet that the eye had been removed.
The surgery was life-changing, yet it gave the parents hope that their son born to war might someday see a more peaceful Afghanistan.
That's a long way off. Noor Eye Hospital is the last stop in Afghanistan for patients with serious eye conditions. If they can't be treated there, they must be referred outside the country.
Days later, Hafizullah and his wife bundled up Nasaratullah and drove for 16 hours, hoping of seeing an eye specialist in Lahore, Pakistan.


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What do you do with your swim suit after you go for a swim? Wring it out? Let it try out in the sun? Turns out none of those are a good way to care for your swimsuit.
Did you know they shouldn't even go in the washing machine? Much less the dryer??
The first thing you should do is to rinse your bathing suit in cold water once you're done using it especially if you're not washing it right away.
When it is time to wash it, it is recommended to hand wash, in cold water. And to use a mild hand soap, specialized swimsuit detergent, or a mild detergent, but never a regular detergent. They're too harsh.
Once you're done washing your swimsuit, DO NOT WRING IT OUT! It can damage the fibers in your swimsuit. It's also not recommended to hang it since that can stretch it out. Instead, place it flat over a towel and let it dry. Or you can roll up the towel and squeeze gently then lay the swimsuit out to dry.
It's also recommended to not wear it for at least 24 hours so the swimsuit can go back to its original shape.


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As I write this chapter, the Station Fire north of Los Angeles is in all the news, as is the fact that the past 10 years have seen seven of the ten largest forest fires since we have been keeping records. These fires are some of the largest wildfires we can see evidence of, even if we look at the record reflected in the rings of ancient trees. Why is that, and, more importantly, what does that mean for us? These are both fair questions. The beginning of this chapter will attempt to answer those questions as well as explain a little bit about how fires behave. Then we'll show you how to prepare your landscape and your home to be a little more fire safe. Doing so means you'll also be helping your friends and neighbors, as well as the fire services.
Why are the Fires Bigger? The U.S. Forest Service admits to part of the responsibility for the bigger fires. For years the plan has been, as Smokey the Bear puts it, "Only you can prevent forest fires". And we did. We did it so well in fact that we missed the point that sometimes a little fire is a good thing. In the past few years, we've listened better to fire ecologists who point out that fire was a natural part of certain ecosystems and is needed to keep those systems working correctly. We worked hard to prevent wildfires, and wildland fire agencies worked quite efficiently at putting them out lickety-split. The result was a gradual build up of waste wood and debris in the wilderness that should have been burned off in more frequent wildfires. Now, however, because we fought fires so valiantly over the past 100 years, that debris has built up to levels where, if a fire catches, it burns with incredible heat and ferocity. This fact accounts for so many of the fires burning hot enough as to cause more extensive damage, and for them catching hold so quickly that we have trouble curtailing them until they burn over thousands of acres.
Some ecosystems like the Piñon pines out west and the savannahs in eastern North Carolina depended on frequent fires to keep the undergrowth down. In the case of the Piñon pines, fire kept the competition down and allowed those trees to grow for long lifetimes and achieve great heights. In the case of the savannahs of North Carolina, keeping the fires from happening caused grasses to shade out endangered plants such as pitcher plants and Venus fly traps. Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem, and a little bit of it is necessary to keep it functioning properly. The real problem is that when we live in the wildlands we do not want the fire because it can endanger us, our homes, and investments. Fire services spend vast sums of money protecting homes and other personal investments in the wildlands and in the Wildland/Urban Interface.
The reasons for that are quite simple. More people than ever before are living in the Wildland/Urban Interface. The things we do there cause fires. We learned in the first chapter that only 4% of wildland fires in Virginia are started naturally by lightning. Not everything is a careless act or arson, but just our being where the fuel is and doing the normal things we do make for more chances for a fire to get started as well as supplying more fuel to keep it going.
You are living in the Wildland/Urban Interface. If there is a fire you need to be prepared. That preparation should begin now – long before you smell the smoke. You can prepare your landscape, your home, your community and yourself to minimize the chances for starting a fire, in turn minimizing the intensity and spread of the fire, and protecting your family, property and your home.
The first step is to learn about fire. Then learn about your particular situation in nature, plan or retrofit your landscape and home, and, finally, should the unthinkable happen, plan your escape.


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With the recent release of her highly anticipated 'Anaconda' single, a well received verse on Beyonce's 'Flawless' (Remix) and her 3rd studio album The Pink Print on the way, what more could the head barb in charge ask for?
Well, whether it was on her wish list or not Onika has reached yet another milestone on her journey of success. Earlier today, NY based magazine The FADER's executive editor Jessica Robertson revealed that Nicki Minaj will cover the publications 2014 Fall Fashion Issue. This makes FADER cover #2 for the Jamaica Queens native femcee.
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Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
Campaigns have been excelling in the art of mud-slinging for ages. In fact, I imagine that the entire concept of "mud-slinging" first came about when some neanderthal decided he wanted to be Cave President, and a more-qualified female neanderthal threw mud at his face.
Campaigns haven't really evolved much from the caveman days. The only difference is that now, they have the Internet! And for several years, I received a salary to dig up the best mud I could find, and package it up nicely for someone else to fling.
I was an opposition researcher, or "opp researcher," if you're politically hip. On the average day, you would find me scouring Lexis-Nexis databases of old newspaper articles, searching for a candidate's name in combination with keywords such as "supremacist," "rape," "drunk," or "insider trading."
Maybe this makes me a pretty awful person, but I can say with a smile that I have helped to ruin few political careers. I discovered that an Ohio politician had thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes to the state. I've spent countless hours leafing through divorce files of middle-aged white men, looking for a nugget about how they once beat their wife, or how they refused to pay child support for two years.
Generally, researchers put together "books" on their target. These books run anywhere from 150 to 500 pages in Microsoft word, and cover every aspect of a person's life that's ever been documented in the public sphere.
The key word here is "public," and it's why I maintain that my career choices haven't necessarily doomed me for an afterlife in the inferno. I wasn't pulling a "Homeland," secretly setting up video cameras in people's bedrooms or listening in on their phone conversations. I gathered all of my information through legal, ethical means: news articles, court documents, social media postings, financial disclosures.
And furthermore, I like to think that I was doing something of a public service. Sure, it was for a paycheck and there was some pretty seriously biased intent going on, but if I didn't scour politicians' pasts for dirty laundry, who would? In my opinion, voters deserve to know the whole truth about the people who place their names on the ballot.
And the truth is? Too many corrupt jerks run for office in this country! They might hail from the Wyoming countryside or they may have spent their entire life in a Baltimore suburb -- they come in all races, all shapes and sizes. The Republican Party has them, and so does the Democratic Party. Libertarians and Independents, you're not exempt! They can be found anywhere and everywhere. And opposition researchers work to help expose them... for the gain of another politician who is (hopefully!) less corrupt.
Sorry, do I sound jaded? Yeah, I know. Like most people who work in politics, I eventually lost most of my youthful passion and faith in the political process to create change.
Other people always assume that because I have dedicated my career to campaigns and political causes, I must be really extreme. Guys at bars will sometimes try to get me cleverly riled up by telling me that they voted for Bush or that they don't believe in voting.
My response is usually something along the lines of, "That's cool." Sure, I'm passionate about what I believe, but I don't think that barroom banter gets much accomplished.
We have to work with the system that we've got. We need more good people to run for office, maybe some more people who don't have long, complicated public records that need scrubbing. Researchers hate it when the Average Joe(sephine) runs for office, because there's nothing to dig up, no mud to fling.
Good research can make or break a campaign. It's a researcher's job to know everything about their own candidate and their opponent. If a TV ad goes up that says your candidate once voted to give scholarships to pedophiles, the researcher has to instantly produce hard, documented evidence (hopefully) disproving the claim.
Good luck getting the TV ad pulled, though. Stations will basically only stop airing an advertisement if God himself walks through the door and says it's false.
Once, a rival campaign made an ad which, in merely 30 seconds, managed to accuse my candidate of being a baby-killer, supporting gangs, and loving marijuana. Within a few hours, we had a fact sheet out the door which gave reporters the real facts about her record, but the ad still played on. In the end, she still won the election -- mostly because the ad was so ridiculous, it damaged its own credibility.
Voting records are easily manipulated, so much so that most of the things you hear in campaign ads are usually only a little bit true. Yeah, that Congressman probably did vote to cut funding for schools, but it might have been because he was supporting a different bill that made up for the funding from a different source.
If it sounds too awful to be true, it usually is... unless it has to do with Republicans threatening to shut down the government over the funding of Planned Parenthood. That is 100% true, my friends, and let us not forget it.
So in a world of mud-slinging and altered facts, how does one go on voting in good faith? Well, I can tell you what I do: my own research. Don't pay attention to billboards or TV ads, because those will only tell you who has the most money. Read a variety of news sources about the candidates, both conservative and liberal -- or even better, unbiased (if you can find such a thing). If you hear something egregious about someone, do a quick Google search to find out the backstory. You may be surprised at what you can find.
In the end, the candidate you're electing will only be in office for a couple of years before they have to run again. And if they do anything too awful, just remember: nothing stays hidden for long in politics. You can thank an opposition researcher for that.


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Model-turned-reality TV regular Janice Dickinson was treated for concussion in a Los Angeles hospital on Friday (12Jul13) after injuring her head during an encounter with a parking garage gate.
The star was visiting a drug store in Beverly Hills on Thursday (11Jul13) when she collided with a crossbar after parking her car outside.
Dickinson scraped her knee in the incident but carried on with her day, convinced she was fine.
Unable to sleep and in pain on Thursday night, she visited UCLA Medical Center, where doctors determined she had suffered a nasty concussion, according to TMZ.com.
Dickinson is now recovering at home and tells the website she feels "pretty horrible".


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Peppa Pig is one of the hottest characters inside a long term British TV cartoon show. The program is being broadcast on American Television stations. On account of this exposure, a lot of people would now like to find the Peppa Pig Games and Toys their kids love. - Kinder
This Tv show as well as the games and toys which may have started out it are getting to be successful and the are actually preferred gifts for pre-school children. Kids love all the characters from this show. Originally an english television cartoon show that showcases the lives of Peppa the pig and her family. Students are adopted an adventure through her everyday activity as she faces problems and solves them the help of her relatives and buddies.
To match the achievements of the telly show there exists a great deal of merchandise. As with all successful cartoon character, Peppa has her own things to present to kids of the planet. The children's market is studded with games, Toys, Play-sets, the Classroom Set, as well as the Peppa Pig My First Laptop so there will do to chose from.
Your son or daughter can have a memory duel with the Memory Match or find his / her way out from the Mazes. You can find games meant to improve your childs artistic sensibilities, conveniently obtainable include the Painting Game or Georges Space Adventure. These games are educational and they also might help your children with maths are the egg counting game, Happy Mrs Chicken and Peppa's Bubble game.
If you need your sons or daughters to savor socialization with friends instead of just simply clicking a computer screen, why don't you provide them with Peppa Pig toys to experience with? There are many of Pig play-sets and individual toys that the students are bound to love.
Let your child live out Peppa Pigs life in their own playhouse, or why don't you enable your child bring Peppa to college with your ex classmates as she learns lessons from Madame Gazelle? with the Classroom set You can find lots of figurines of Peppa, her family, and her friends available for your sons or daughters to learn with!
One of the better gifts that you could provide your child with regards to birthday will be the Peppa Pig My First Laptop. This digital device allows your child to find out about colors, numbers, instruments, and also the alphabet by pressing buttons and reading your computer screen! This can be not just fun entertainment. This is a learning experience at the same time.
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Most of these products must be available through good toy shops as well as the toy departments with the bigger stores. However, to find out the complete range of what is now available it's smart to appear online. There you'll find anything that is on sale and sometimes at better prices. - Kinder


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January 2011
Normally, Blogging the Desert limits its reach to matters directly or indirectly affecting Arizona, since the Star is an Arizona newspaper. But two items came across the wires this week from my former stomping grounds in New Mexico that I thought worthy of attention.
First, that state's Supreme Court ruled today that New Mexico's new governor, Susana Martinez, had overstepped her bounds when she decided not to publish some new rules that would have cut greenhouse gas emissions and limited some dairy waste discharges. The New York Timesreported on this matter.
Second, an article came out on a New Mexico website discussing the views of the state's astronaut-turned U.S. senator-turned its latest Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Secretary Harrison Schmitt. Schmitt, like Martinez a skeptic on global warming issues, was reported to have linked environmentalism to communism. He served in the Senate from New Mexico a generation ago, from 1976 through 1982, until being unseated by the current occupant, Democrat Jeff Bingaman.
Here is an interview from a year ago in which Schmitt sought to debunk global warming theories.Here is a video of another Schmitt interview, blasting global warming advocates. A third Schmittinterview, also on global warming, follows.
To Continue Reading: News From our Neighbor to the East on Global Warming


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Based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Doug enjoys working on a variety of personal, corporate and institutional projects. Over the span of his career, some of the places Doug has worked include Russia, India, Israel, Egypt, Belize, Nicaragua, Turkey, East Africa, Brazil, and extensive travel all over the USA and Canada. Leveraging skills in fine art portraiture and photojournalism, Doug's transition to public relations and environmental journalism has been a natural progression.
"In the last several years I have focused my efforts in the renewable energy and energy conservation spaces. I am a co-founder of Greenlancer.com, a cloud based solar design service that is one of the Quicken Loans family of companies based in Detroit, Michigan. More recently, I have become an advocate for PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing and partnered with Newman Consulting Group LLC, a internationally recognized team of experts in commercial and industrial energy management systems."
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In 2016, Doug was named Director of the Michigan Sustainable Living Summit by the Michigan Renewable Energy Association.
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Nobody seriously expected that Donald S. Perkins would become a full-time golf bum or nonstop traveler when he relinquished control of Jewel Food Companies in 1980. But at the same time, conventional wisdom held that the real movers and shakers in Chicago were those who had corporate clout behind them.
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Spring up, down or sideways
Gary Tetz
Benjamin Franklin didn't work in long-term care. Look it up. It's a historical fact. If he had, his hair-brained daylight saving scheme never would have seen the light of day.
It's been a ridiculous concept from the start, the sort of crazy idea you'd get after scrambling your brain holding a wet kite in an electrical storm. It was silly to even try it. Americans don't save. We know this.
But now what has been a fairly petty annoyance on and off since World War I appears to be turning serious — and maybe even deadly. So-called "scientists" from Finland allege that all this madcap changing of our clocks twice a year might be increasing the risk of stroke by 8%.
That makes Daylight Saving Time seem like kind of a bad idea, and if it's killing people, we should probably stop. Then again, Finland gets almost no sunlight in the winter, so it's possible those researchers are simply bitter and lashing out.
I actually don't know the specific impact the time change has in a long-term care facility. If I had been blessed with an extra hour in my day today, I could have done some actual research. But still, it might be wise to try to mitigate the possible effects.
McKnight's asked the stroke study's lead researcher for some ideas, and he suggested changing the sleeping time gradually over several days. I would add that asking staff to walk and work in slow motion for the two hours before and after the change could also help ease the transition.
But the best plan of all is to just get rid of this annual charade. Even the Buddha was against it. In fact, the story is told (by me since I just made it up) that a meddling neighbor, peeking over the fence and seeing him sitting under the Bodhi Tree, shouted helpfully, "Don't forget to set your clock ahead an hour tonight!"
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment," the Buddha replied.
In other words, stop messing around with time, people. Live in the now. Spring up, down or sideways. Anywhere but forward.
Things I Think is written by Gary Tetz, a national Silver Medalist and regional Gold Medal winner in the 2014 Association of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) awards program. He has amused, informed and sometimes befuddled long-term care readers worldwide since his debut with the former SNALF.com at the end of a previous century. He is a multimedia consultant for Consonus Healthcare Services in Portland, OR.


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Rental managers are trying to find better ways to monitor their reputations online, as more residents take to commenting on their services and housing on various websites.
Appearances, staff, appliances, amenities and other aspects of management may all be discussed, according to Multifamily Executive. As a result, they are finding ways to have employees monitor this feedback, or using software to accomplish the same goal. The task is difficult, however, because of the number of different venues available online.
"There are a thousand social media outlets where potential customers are going to find reviews." marketing director Greg Benson told the news source. "The tricky piece is finding the technology that can funnel that information into a single interface so our manager can access and do that work without logging into ten different sites every single day."
Stakeholders note that, ideally, they would prefer to satisfy renters at the property level and eliminate any potential issue at the source that way, rather than having staffers attempt to monitor comments and handle reputation management. Another possible solution is to contact tenants and elicit feedback from them, rather than waiting for it to emerge and being forced to track it down.


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Cherry Logistics, a performance leader in comprehensive facilities maintenance, has added disaster recovery to its service offerings—a specialized group of recovery providers managed by the CLEAR (Cherry Logistics Emergency Asset Response) Team.
The CLEAR team is comprised of experienced business emergency management professionals who coordinate a network of emergency service providers and specialized equipment for any restoration or recovery process at a commercial facility following an emergency or natural disaster. A quick, coordinated response to businesses during an emergency protects customer and employee safety as well as minimizing business downtime and damage to equipment or merchandise.
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The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China sold the China Credit Trust product to its customers in inland Shanxi province. This bank, the world's largest by assets, on Thursday suggested it will not compensate investors, stating in a phone interview with Reuters that "a situation completely does not exist in which ICBC will assume the main responsibility."
There should be no mystery why this investment, known as "2010 China Credit-Credit Equals Gold #1 Collective Trust Product," is on the verge of default. China Credit Trust loaned the proceeds from sales of the 3.03 billion-yuan ($496.2 million) product to unlisted Shanxi Zhenfu Energy Group, a coal miner. The coal company probably is paying something like 12% for the money because Credit Equals Gold promised a 10% annual return to investors—more than three times current bank deposit rates—and China Credit Trust undoubtedly took a hefty cut of the interesthttp://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/...anuary-31/
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Blend: 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Cabernet Franc, 18% Carmenere
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After half a century and four generations, the Valdes family has turned these vineyards in the best example of love for the land, and perfection in the quality of its products.
Today, identified as "Santa Alicia", as a way of honoring the women that in each generation carry this name, the vineyard continues with its tradition of excellence and prestige, expressed in each bottle are the decades of experience, high technology, and the privileged fruit which results from a marvelous environment.
A source of reliable, budget-friendly wines and, increasingly, more premium bottlings, Chile is one of South America's most important wine-producing countries. Long and thin, it is largely isolated geographically, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Andes Mountains to the east, and the Atacama desert to the north. These natural borders gave Chile the very favorable benefit of being the only country to avoid the disastrous phylloxera infestation of the late 1800s. As a result, vines can be planted on their own rootstock rather than grafted. Though viticulture was introduced to the country by conquistadors from Spain, today Chile's wine production is most influenced by the French, who emigrated here in large numbers to escape the blight of phylloxera. These settlers have invested heavily in local vineyards and wineries.
Chile's vineyards, planted mainly with international varieties, vary widely in climate and soil type from north to south. The Coquimbo region in the far north contains the Elqui and Limari Valleys, where minimal rainfall and intense sunlight are offset by chilly breezes from the Humboldt current to produce cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The Aconcagua region contains the eponymous Aconcagua Valley—hot and dry and home to full-bodied red wines made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Merlot—as well as Casablanca Valley and San Antonio Valley, which focus on light-bodied Pinot Noir and cool-climate whites like Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. The Central Valley is home to the Maipo, Rapel, Curicó, and Maule Valleys, which produce a wide variety of red and white wines. Maipo in particular is known for Carmenère, Chile's unofficial signature grape. In the up-and-coming southern regions of Bio Bio and Itata, excellent cool-climate Riesling, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir are made.
One of the world's most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World, especially in California, Washington, and Australia. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and/or Petit Verdot, these are sometimes referred to in the US as "Meritage" blends. In Bordeaux itself, Cabernet Sauvignon dominates in wines from the Left Bank of the Gironde river, while the Right Bank focuses on Merlot. Often, blends from outside the region are classified as being inspired by one or the other.
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Cabernet-based, Left-Bank-styled wines are typically more tannic and structured, while Merlot-based wines modeled after the Right Bank are softer and suppler. Cabernet Franc can add herbal notes, while Malbec and Petit Verdot contribute color and structure. Wines from Bordeaux can be bold and fruit-forward or restrained and earthy, while New World facsimiles tend to emulate the former style. In general, Bordeaux red blends can have aromas and flavors of black currant, cedar, plum, graphite, and violet, with more red fruit flavors when Merlot makes up a high proportion of the blend.
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While the region of Bordeaux is limited to a select few approved grape varieties, the New World is free to experiment. Bordeaux blends in California may include Syrah, Petite Sirah, Zinfandel, or virtually any other grape deemed worthy by the winemaker. In Australia, Shiraz is a common component.


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Guri i Kuq Trail is a 16.7 kilometer moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Nečinat i Drešajt, Peć, Kosovo that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail.
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This hike takes you to a high mountain top, through two glacial lakes and wonderful diverse mountain views Guri Kuq is a long walk from the base camp, which is a restaurant with the same name. However it is a walk that offers the view of two glacial lakes, one beautiful water source and the feeling of being of the top of one of the most impressive mountain ranges in Balkans. The trip can be done in one go, but for this people should be in a proper shape, and be prepared to walk for up to ten hours.