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Batista is one of the most successful wrestlers of all-time. He is a six-time WWE world champion and had the longest run as the WWE Heavyweight Champion in organization history. Batista headlined WrestleMania XXX after winning the 2014 Royal Rumble. He was also the champion of the 2005 Royal Rumble, which allowed him to headline at WrestleMania XXI. That event was one of the highest-earning pay per view events in wrestling history. In addition, Batista has been a World Tag Team Champion three times and WWE Tag Team Champion once. As a result of his rising profile as a wrestler, Batista's acting career has also taken off. He has starred in films such as The Man With the Iron Fists, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the new James Bond film, Spectre. Batista endured a hard upbringing but rose above it to pursue a wrestling career. He got his star with Ohio Valley Wrestling in 2000.
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Launched in 1993, the NEC Engineering and Construction Contract has become one of the UKii½s leading standard forms of contract for major construction and civil engineering projects. The third edition, popularly known as NEC3, is a process based contract embodying project and commercial management best practice, so its basic philosophy differs from the more adversarial approach of other standard construction contracts. Since the first edition of this book, the third edition of the contract has seen the introduction of a new secondary option for use in the UK and amendments to a number of clauses. In addition, in September 2011, changes were introduced to cater for the amendments to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 contained in the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, which became effective for all new contracts entered into from 1 October 2011. These amendments have been incorporated into the text. A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract will be useful to everyone in the construction industry working on a project under this contract. It will be of interest to the complete construction supply chain, including employers, construction professions, contractors and sub-contractors, as well as consultants and lawyers advising any of these parties, either in the preparation of contract documentation or the day to day management or the resolution of problem situations which may arise.cross reference is given to the page within the a#39;How toa#39; book where that form first appears. ... In order to comply with this requirement, the Contractor and the Project Manager are each required, by clause 16.1, to notify the other as soon as anyanbsp;...
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The Art Department Faculty Award is presented to an outstanding senior art major. The art department
faculty has presented this award for more than 20 years. This year's recipient is Molly Masterson.
Molly is an Honors student and a double major in art and archaeology and Spanish, with a concentration in archaeology. She is interested in classical archaeology with a specific focus upon how local customs intertwined with the traditions of Rome in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Molly spent a semester studying abroad at the Universidad de Sevilla in southern Spain where she was able to combine her love of archaeology and Spanish culture. She plans to study Greek and Latin in an intensive post-baccalaureate program before going on to graduate school for her Ph.D.
The Mary Ellen Randoph Prize, named in memory of Associate Professor Emerita Mary Ellen Randolph, is awarded to an art major that demonstrates equal proficiency in and enthusiasm for art history and the studio arts. Professor Randolph retired in 1989 after 29 years of service to the College. She continued to participate in the life of the Hood community until her death in October 2005. Because she taught both studio art and art history, the award recognizes students who have demonstrated talent in both fields. Samantha Frizzell is this year's prize winner.
Samantha first showed her artwork at The Great Frederick Fair, The National Gallery of Art, and The House
of Representatives, while still in high school. Samantha focuses her concepts through graphite, colored pencils and markers, creating a cinema-like experience of a post-apocalyptic future. Samantha employs highly detailed portraits and complex panoramas to spin tales of misguided technology and the downward spiral of society fighting to keep primal desires at bay.
The Anna Louise Remsen Prize In Art is awarded to that member of the junior or senior class who maintains a high standard of work in fine and applied art. This prize was established in 1948 as a memorial to Anna Louise Remsen, Class of 1933, and was endowed by Anna's sister, Mrs. Edwin Richardson; her stepmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Remsen; and her friend, Ms. Hildegarde Liebich. The prize winner is John Braun.
John is an art and archaeology major with a concentration in studio art and a focus in drawing. John was the recipient of the Suzanne Gottert award in 2016 and continues to hold his work to a very high standard of craftsmanship. John's work migrates from pen and ink, graphite, collage, paper sculptures, and into miniature models; on occasion these media will overlap. Outside of the classroom he has participated in multiple group shows and his work has been featured in local publications.
The Art Department Alumnae Award is presented to an outstanding junior or senior art major, recognizing interest in the scholarship of art. The award recipients are Shelby Amspacher and Corinne Stoian.
Shelby is an art and archaeology major with a concentration in archaeology and a minor in history. She is a field hockey player and a coach. Shelby participated in the College Year in Athens program, where she was able to further explore her love of archaeology. Her research interests include the roles of museums in education and how museums are utilized by various demographic groups. Shelby is currently applying to graduate programs.
Corinne is from Brunswick, Maryland, and she is an art and archaeology major with a concentration in art history.
Her research interests are quite varied and include 20th-century art and classical archaeology. Corinne has taken full advantage of her time at Hood including a short-term study abroad trip to Europe. She is currently applying for summer internships and looking into M.A. programs.
The Suzanne Gottert '68 Prize In Art was established by Suzanne Gottert '68 in 2001 and presented each year to an outstanding junior art major who is minoring or concentrating in studio art, specifically two-dimensional art (i.e. printmaking, drawing or painting). This year's prize-winner is Leigh Anne Brader.
Leigh Anne started her college career as a communications major, transitioned to a major in art education and has found a welcoming home as an art and archaeology major with a studio art concentration. Her journey in academia sharpened her passion for studio art and built on an aptitude for business. Leigh Anne continually demonstrates her ability to meld the formal qualities of her work with a compassionate need for the narratives to emote. Whether drawing, painting or taking photographs, Leigh Anne proves to have the grit necessary to thrive in the arts.
The Elaine Adrienne Gates Memorial Prize In Studio Art was established in 2011 in memory of Elaine Adrienne Gates, associate professor emerita of art, who taught at Hood from 1960 to 1997; she died in 2004. Elaine was an ethereal free spirit, an artist with a renaissance soul and a philosopher/teacher who mentored, nurtured and encouraged her students with just the right mix of dedication and discipline. The prize is awarded to the student who exhibits a similar sense of dedication, determination and intensive exploration in the studio arts resulting in significant growth, development and artistic accomplishment. Melissa Dryman is the recipient of this prize.
Melissa is an art and archaeology major with a concentration in studio art, with a focus in painting and a minor in graphic design. She is currently interning with Frederick's Department of Economic Development, taking photographs and working on media for local businesses. Melissa is taking great pride in turning colorful stories into fantastic environments. Installation art is a great fit for her varied talents and interests. Storytelling has brought an excitement and focus to her work.


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The Flash is adding a few new bad guys to its roster for season three. One of them will be played as Todd Lasance, best known for his role on The Vampire Diaries. He will be switching CW shows to play The Rival on The Flash, according to TVLine.
In the DC Universe, The Rival is a self-made man who is seen sporting a black version of Flash's suit. He first appeared in Flash Comics #104 and his real name is Dr. Edward Clariss.
The Flash will also be adding Savitar, who makes an appearance in a recently released promo for the third season. In the Flash comics, he was a cult leader obsessed with speed. His name comes from the Hindu god of motion.
Another bad guy joining next season is Dr. Alchemy, who is voiced by Tobin Bell, perhaps best known as Jigsaw in the Saw film franchise. This is the first time that the series has had more than one major villain on the show simultaneously.
See how Barry juggles all these villains when The Flash returns Tuesday, Oct. 4 and check out the first promo for season three below.


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The Axopar 37 T-Top features a spacious and easily accessible walk around deck typical with an Axopar. The Axopar accommodates an open cockpit seating with seven separate seats around a large sliding table, a comfortable sun bed on the fore deck, and a spacious aft deck area with an optional wet bar.
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text: job details posted 18 July 2018 location sydney cbd, new south wales specialism call centre & customer service job type permanent salary AU$ 40,500 - AU$ 55,000 per year reference number 90M0341708_1531900811 contact tayla frazer, randstad apply now email this job print job description If you've been looking to step out of retail or hospitality into customer service for a while then this is your lucky break! This global organisation is currently looking for an enthusiastic and customer-focussed individual looking to start their career in the corporate world. In this role, you will have access to full training and development plus ongoing support and the opportunity to work with a variety of large government departments. If you're tech-savvy, keen to learn and looking for that first opportunity to prove yourself then this is it!The role:Rotating roster from 8am - 8pm, Monday to Friday (no weekend work!)$41,880 plus 9.5% superInbound calls relating to basic customer enquiriesAdministration and compliance follow-upWorking in a large contact centreWorking through multiple screens to update information**Must be Australian Citizen to Apply**The benefits:Close to public transportFull training providedOn-going support and developmentAccess to work with large government departmentsDiscounts and incentives across a variety of organisationsSupportive management teamOpportunity to progress your career** National police and background check is required for all applicants **If the above sounds like you, we want to talk to you! This opportunity is available immediately so Apply NOW.At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background. skills call centre, customer service, entry level educational requirements Secondary School/High School share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Google+


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CEO of Transvideo Jacques Delacoux has today congratulated ARRI on the release of their exciting upgrade to the ALEXA SXT platform, making the ALEXA SXT W an entirely wireless professional motion picture camera.
Sister companies Transvideo and Aaton Digital will both show new products for the cinematography and broadcast industries at NAB 2017
Transvideo will show the new StarliteRF-a, a wireless monitor with advanced camera control capabilities that can remotely control key functions of the ARRI ALEXA Mini and AMIRA cameras. The kit consists of a StarliteRF-a monitor-recorder and a TitanHD2 Tx-a that connects to the EXT socket of the ARRI cameras via a specific cable provided. You will have a hand held lightweight, high quality monitor receiving the camera picture wirelessly, and you can adjust key camera functions wirelessly by return to the camera. The camera functions are accessed via the monitors touch screen. You also have the ability to record and play back clips via the inbuilt recorder, which can be set up to record automatically when the camera records.
Thanks to the worldwide success of the StarliteHD-5 ARRI, which interfaces to and controls the ARRI Alexa-Mini and AMIRA cameras, Transvideo now launches the StarliteRF-a, a wireless monitor-recorder with advanced camera control capabilities.
Transvideo will be exhibiting at the forthcoming Camerimage International Film Festival 2016 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. CEO Jacques Delacoux and his team will be there to greet old friends and new. All the latest must-see Transvideo products will be on show including the monitor-recorders StarliteHD ARRI, the new Stargate-HDR, and the StarliteRF, together with the TitanHD2 video Tx/Rx products.
Transvideos latest and greatest products will be on show at NAB Expo 2016.
Innovation has always been in the agenda of Transvideo, and this year, at NAB 2016 will be presented a new wireless transmission system to enhance production and workflow for feature films, television drama and commercials.
Paralinx today announced Ace, a compact and affordable point-to-point wireless monitoring system that fits perfectly with the run-and-gun nature of today's filmmaking environment. The first glimpse of the all-new Ace will be at the IBC trade show in the Vitec Group booth (11.E55).
Transvideo will launch the StarliteRF at IBC 2015, a 5 OLED wireless monitor based on StarliteHD5 core technologies with an inbuilt wireless receiver. It completes the line-up of StarliteHD monitors. Small and lightweight, it operates on the 5.8Ghz ISM band, has a top mounted antenna, and a Sony consumer battery connection at the back. The wireless video connectivity incorporated is without latency, with low loss and with no delay. The range is 200 feet (61 m). See it on the Transvideo stand 11.F31 at IBC.
Transvideo, the award-winning precision monitor manufacturer, has announced exciting new products for launch at IBC 2014. All products will be on show on the Transvideo / Aaton-Digital stand 11.F31.
NEW: StarliteHD is a precision 5 OLED field monitor that additionally will record H.264 dailies, take snapshots and will generate a .pdf with metadata from ARRI and SONY cameras at each take. With cameras reducing in size and portable systems becoming more and more compact, Transvideo has created a small 5 HD OLED monitor, about the size of a smartphone and weighting only 190 Grams. Despite its small form factor StarliteHD is a professional high-end 3G-SDI field monitor. Built-in tools include a high-resolution waveform monitor and a precision vectorscope. A new concept of human interface uses the power of the touch screen panel and rids the user of incomprehensible and endless tiered menus.


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Book Tour
I've got one appearance on the books, in Columbus, Ohio, next month. I will get those details posted ASAP. In the meantime, here are videos of various some earlier stops on the tour.
At the Kalamazoo, MI, public library with Freedom Rider Miller Green.
At the Google Plex, with Freedom Rider Mimi Real.
I did a panel at the Schomburg Center in July 2008 during the Harlem Book Fair, with Freedom Riders Helen and Bob Singleton and Lew Zuchman. It looks unembeddable, so go watch it here.


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For a long time, I have used LMHOSTS to resolve computer names in my network. I had no need for Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), Domain Name System (DNS), or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), although I've had experience with them at client sites. To make a long story short, I recently added a second domain to my network. To do so, I performed the obligatory tricks: I enabled LMHOSTS lookup on all systems, enabled routing on both Primary Domain Controllers (PDCs), and used NBTSTAT to gather pertinent information about the network. I decided to set up a two-way trust relationship between the domains (the first domain is my permanent nine computers, and the second domain is my portable domain, which consists of two notebooks).
To my disgust, I could not establish a two-way trust using only LMHOSTS for name resolution. The notebook domain could not find the PDC of the first domain. To further complicate matters, I could ping (TCP/IP only, here) the PDC IP address but not its name. To enable name resolution, which then allowed a two-way trust, I had to add a WINS server (be sure to run a service pack after you install the server). On both domains, you must point to the WINS server in TCP/IP network setup (right click Network Neighborhood and choose Properties). Screen 1 shows this setup for the PC Card in my AST 133 laptop serving as a PDC. The WINS server is on the PDC of my first domain (WINS has very low overhead). I kept LMHOSTS enabled because static mappings in WINS can cause logon difficulties. Even with LMHOSTS enabled, I can browse with ease.
When I boot my single Pentium Pro motherboard, I get a blue screen of death that says, "STOP: 0*0000007F (0*0000000F, 0*00000000, 0*00000000, 0*00000000)." What's causing this problem?
Microsoft has documented this problem in Knowledge Base article Q160014 (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q160/0/14.htm). The problem is a function of faulty firmware on certain old motherboards. You can circumvent the blue screen by going into the BIOS and disabling the local Advanced Programming Interrupt Controller (APIC). If your vendor has not implemented enabling and disabling the local APIC as a BIOS option, contact your system vendor and request an updated BIOS that corrects Pentium Pro errata 5AP and 6AP.
To improve the performance of an application that runs at a low priority, can I change the application's priority?
The running instance of a program is known as a process--a memory address and space 4GB in size. The process has threads that do the work for the application.
The first thread the application creates is the primary thread, which can generate more threads. The operating system assigns CPU time to each thread. Windows NT has the advantage of being able to use multiple CPUs and assign a thread to a specific CPU. Because an application typically runs more than one thread at a time, NT governs access to the CPU by priority (i.e., NT assigns a priority to each thread). You can alter this priority to change the amount of time the operating system gives to an application.
When a software vendor writes an application, the developer assigns priority classes to a process in the application. Table 1 defines these priorities and gives their relative values. The thread scheduler assigns CPU time according to the process priority (generally written into the software) of a thread (for information about how NT's scheduler works, see Mark Russinovich, "Inside the Windows NT Scheduler, Part 1," July, and "Inside the Windows NT Scheduler, Part 2," on page 177). A thread with a process priority of 13 can preempt a thread with a priority of 8. This scheduling of CPU timeslices creates NT's preemptive multithreading design.
You can change the process priority, but you need to be aware of the consequences. First, running threads in realtime priority disrupts normal system activity. Mouse activity becomes slow and jerky, and attempts to control cursor position can be futile because the mouse driver can't keep up with the movement. Second, and most important, the application can call threads at the internal scheduled priorities (i.e., running an application in realtime priority does not ensure that all subsequent threads run in realtime priority). You seldom need to run applications at anything other than normal priority.
To run an application at thread priorities different from those the program assigns, you need to start the application from the command line. The full syntax of the start command is:
START \["title"\] \[/path\] \[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME\] \[command/program\]\[parameters\]
where "title" is the title to display in the window title bar, path is the starting directory, LOW specifies starting the application in the IDLE priority class, NORMAL specifies starting the application in the NORMAL priority class, HIGH specifies starting the application in the HIGH priority class, and REALTIME specifies starting the application in the REALTIME priority class. Notice that switches (namely, /LOW, /NORMAL, /HIGH, and /REALTIME)control process priority.
Finally, you can adjust the foreground boost for all your NT applications in NT Workstation from the Performance tab of the System applet in Control Panel. For more information about how NT handles foreground applications, see Christa Anderson, "Foreground Application Handling in NT 4.0," June 1997.
How can I track which APIs and DLLs a particular application calls?
Use the APImon.exe application, which you see in Screen 2, from the Windows NT Server 4.0 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Resource Kits. Open APImon, and click Open from the File menu to open the application you want to monitor (I decided to monitor Winword.exe). Then click Start Monitor from the Tools menu to see a list of DLLs, as in Screen 3, and a list of APIs, as in Screen 4.
According to the APImon Help file, APImon monitors a running application for all API calls and counts and times all API calls. It can monitor page faults caused by the application you are monitoring and report them by API call.
You can use APImon as a performance monitor to tune your application. You can examine the APIs with the largest times and counts to determine where the hot spots are in your application. You can also look at which APIs the application uses, taking into account calls that cause ring transitions to kernel mode or client/server transitions. Large numbers of these calls can cause an application to respond slowly.
APImon can generate two types of reports: a report that contains all API calls and shows their counts and times, and a report that shows a trace of all APIs as they occurred in time.
Surprisingly, many people don't know about APImon. I have used it to figure out why applications act the way they do. If you discover a problem with an application using APImon, you can either fix it or notify the software vendor.
How can I change Windows NT's default print spool directory?
I get this question all the time, so I'll revisit this topic. To change the default print spool directory, you must use a Registry editor such as regedt32.exe. Warning: Using the Registry editor incorrectly can cause serious, systemwide problems. You may have to uninstall NT to correct them. Use this tool at your own risk. You can perform this change for all printers or for specific printers.
To change the default printer spool directory for all printers, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers key. Add the value DefaultSpoolDirectory of data type REG_SZ where the string is the full path to the printer spool directory. Screen 5 shows the location of this Registry entry.
To change the default printer spool directory for specific printers, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers key. Add the value SpoolDirectory of data type REG_SZ, where the string is the full path to the printer spool directory. (Note: The path you enter has to exist, or NT will use the default directory.) Screen 6 shows the location of this Registry entry.
How can I set up Windows NT to maintain network connections when I log off a server? I have several clients who want their dial-up connection to remain active even after they log off the server.
Open the Registry editor, and go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon key. Add the value KeepRasConnections of data type REG_SZ. Set the value to 1.
After migrating to Windows NT 4.0 from NT 3.51, I can't get replication to work properly. Can you help?
The problem is with permission. You need to change the way NT replicates by making a change in the Registry. Specifically, you need to add permission to a new Registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\Winreg) on the export machine that the import machine reads. By default, the replication user does not have permissions on this key. With the Registry editor, open this key, go to the Security menu, click Permissions, and grant read access to the replication user.
Recently, I added some software to my system and then reinstalled Service Pack 2 (SP2).
When I attempted to reinstall the hotfixes, the system informed me that the hotfixes were
already installed. I deleted the \winnt\hotfix directory and reran krnl40i.exe but still
could not install the hotfixes. I tried to remove the hotfixes (hotfix /r
If you can't install or delete a hotfix, open your favorite Registry editor and go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HOTFIX key. Delete the hotfix entry. Then use Explorer or File Manager to navigate to %windir%\HOTFIX\Hf00..., and delete the hotfix entry. Reboot and reapply the hotfix. If possible, always remove the hotfix before you add a service pack.
How do I get my Sound Blaster audio card and CD-ROM drive to work in Windows NT 4.0? The Sound Blaster card works, but I can't get NT to recognize the CD-ROM drive.
Creative has an updated driver for NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 on its Web site at http://www-nt-ok.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/ftp/ftp-sb16awe.html#nt. When you access this site, you see the following driver information:
Drivers for Windows NT
File Date: 970115
File Size: 707,681 bytes
Description: Standalone Sound Blaster 16/AWE32/AWE64 drivers for Windows NT4.0 ONLY SDR-NTDRV-1-US (Revision 1)
1. Support for SoundFont 2.0
2. Support for AWE64 and AWE64 Gold (Software wavetable not included)
3. Support NT4.0 PnP manager
4. Supports BOTH PnP and non-PnP (legacy) cards
I usually don't like to use a manufacturer's installation guide in this column. However, installing sound cards in NT is a pervasive problem, and the following guidelines by Creative are excellent for installing a plug-and-play (PnP) card in NT 4.0. Warning: Remove all installed legacy drivers or PnP drivers before you install the new driver. Otherwise, your system will lock up and be very difficult to fix.
1. After you download the driver from Creative, run the executable file and copy the files onto a floppy disk.
2. Make sure you have the NT 4.0 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
3. If you have already installed the pnpisa.sys driver, go to step 6.
4. In
\Drvlib\Pnpisa , right click pnpisa.inf and select Install (if you don't see this file, click View\OptionsView\ and select Show all Files and unselect Hide extensions for known file types.)
5. Reboot your system when prompted.
6. Log on to your computer with Administrator privileges.
7. You will see a New Hardware Found message, and NT will prompt you to install drivers for several functions on your card.
For Sound Blaster 16 PnP and Creative Advanced Wave Effects Synthesis for AWE 32
7a. Choose Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer.
7b. Enter the path where NT can find sbpnp.inf.
7c. Select OK on the Select Device screen.
7d. Select Manual Configuration.
7e. If NT lists any conflicting devices at the bottom of the screen, you need to resolve them first by selecting basic configuration 0001 and highlighting the offending setting in the Resource Settings window. Click Change Setting, and select a setting that does not conflict with another device. Select OK when you finish resolving the conflict, and repeat this process for any other settings that conflict.
For Game Port
Repeat steps 7a through 7e, but enter the following path name:
For Creative 3D Stereo Enhancement Technology
7a. Choose Windows NT default driver.
For IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller
7a. Choose Do not install a driver(Windows NT will not prompt you again).
8. Reboot your machine when NT prompts you.
9. Your Sound Blaster card should work properly. If you need to change the resources that your card is using, open the Multimedia applet in the Control Panel, select the Devices tab, select Properties for the Sound Blaster driver, and click the Settings button. You will see the same resource picking dialog box that you saw when you were installing the device.
I have heard horror stories about security leaks in Windows NT. How serious are these leaks, and how can I avoid them?
The Internet is loaded with applications to compromise NT's security. Table 2 presents a partial listing of where to find such applications. Microsoft has prepared a response to the security vulnerabilities in NT, which you can read at http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/info/eetimes.htm.
Security Pack 3 (SP3) has fixes for most NT hacks (for information on SP3's security fixes, see
Mark Joseph Edwards, "Service Pack 3 or Security Pack 3?" page 113). Another way to maintain your
security is by running passprop.exe, a new utility in the Windows NT Server 4.0 or Windows NT
Workstation 4.0 Resource Kits. This application either displays or modifies domain policies for
password complexity and Administrator lockout. You can set the following switches for this
PASSPROP \[/complex\] \[/simple\] \[/adminlockout\] \[/noadminlockout\]
|Forces you to enter passwords that are complex (i.e., requiring passwords to be a mix of upper- and lowercase letters and numbers or symbols)
|Lets you enter simple passwords
|Lets you lock out the Administrator account (the Administrator account can still log on interactively on domain controllers)
|Doesn't let you lock out the Administrator account
So why would you want to lock out the Administrator account? The main reason is to restrict hackers from using Administrator account backdoors to break into your NT system. If you lock out the Administrator account, you can use it only to log on interactively on domain controllers--network logons and logons to non-domain controllers will fail. This solution can help you avoid hackers, but can make administering your network somewhat cumbersome. For more information on NT security concerns, see Mark Minasi, "NT Security Scares?" June 1997, and John Meixner, "Foil Attacks on Your Registry," June 1997.
I can't get uptomp.exe (the Uni to Multiprocessor utility the comes with the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit) to work. This problem is driving me nuts because of the cost of my second processor, which is just sitting there. What do I need to do?
Uptomp.exe does not copy the win32k.sys file. You can resolve this situation in two ways:
1. Obtain the update to uptomp.inf from Microsoft's ftp site at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt40.
2. Manually edit the uptomp.inf file. Start by opening \reskit\uptomp.inf with Notepad or the editor of your choice. Add the following text directly below the line beginning with Winsrv.dll:
win32k.sys = 0, 2, win32k.sys
(Note: You must enter this new line above the black box that represents the end-of-file marker for this file.) Save the file. The next time you run uptomp.exe, it should run correctly.


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[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1956?page=comments#action_12441836 ] Bryan Pendleton commented on DERBY-1956: ---------------------------------------- Thanks Knut Anders and Dan for the clarification. It makes sense to me, and I think that removing the dead code sounds good. > Remove stale code from the statement classes in the client driver > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-1956 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1956 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Network Client > Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0 > Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen > Assigned To: Knut Anders Hatlen > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 10.3.0.0 > > Attachments: 1956.diff, 1956.stat > > > Statement and ParameterMetaData contain flags called escapedProcedureCallWithResult_. These flags might have had a function before, but now they are always false. They are used in many if-statements and make the code harder to read. Removing the flags and the code that is only executed when the flags are true, would simplify the code and make it more maintainable. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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10 Reasons Why Justin Bieber has fallen Off track
Justin Bieber took the music world by storm with his debut album 'My World' and 'My World' 2.0. His songs were instant hits, his album sold millions of copies, girls loved him and he made millions of dollars. Singing, acting, songwriter, Bieber was successful in all this and much more. That's more than what one needs for a good life, right? This 'million dollar baby' (well, quite literally) lives a grand life most people his age could only dream of. Bieber's popularity grew with time and so did the controversies associated with him. The teen star is blamed for trying too hard for a 'bad boy image'. Caught smoking weed, roaming shirtless, speeding and more, Bieber's troublesome time does not seem to end. From excessive partying to excessive Twitter ranting, lately, he has been in news for everything but making good music.
Are his good years really over? Will we soon witness the end of another teen legend or will he be able to stand the test of time? Here are the top ten reasons why the sensational singer, who started off so well, has fallen off track with time.
10. Too much fun?
He is young…..he is a millionaire….he is famous and he surely knows how to party! Well what is the harm in a 19 year old trying to have some fun? Blame it on the paparazzi but Bieber's partying habits have been making headlines lately. Recently, Bieber was denied entry to a night club in U.K because of his underage companions. There have been incidents where his neighbors have complained about the parties which take place in his Calabasas mansion. Looks like Bieber is concentrating only on the perks of being a celebrity and has forgotten all about the responsibilities that come with it. Whatever happened to being a 'role model' for teens?
9. Too much too soon
Bieber's journey began after he was discovered by Scooter Braun in the year 2008. Soon he became the talk of the town with millions of fans all over the world. Love him or hate him, one has to admit that this wonder kid achieved more popularity and money in his teen years than most people can in a lifetime! Experts claim that Bieber has not been able to handle his success too well. He is still a kid and is bound to make some mistakes. Let us not forget he is just 19! However, Bieber really needs to mend his ways and present himself as a talented and serious artist he is if he wants to survive.
8. Heartbreak
Justin Bieber and singer/actress Selena Gomez started dating in the year 2010 and finally decided to go their separate ways in January 2013. Almost 2 years…quite a long time for someone their age! If experts are to be believed, Bieber's breakup hit him really hard. It has affected his professional life as well. What followed was his 'not so professional behavior' which includes fights and arguments with paparazzi and cancelling tours. Bieber was in the limelight once again for not so right reasons.
7. Paparazzi
Justin Bieber is controversy's favorite child and the media misses no opportunity to highlight any mistake, big or small, the pop star makes. It is pretty clear that being one of the favorite targets of paparazzi is doing Bieber no good. Recently Bieber was spotted wearing a gas mask while shopping in London in order to avoid unwanted attention and camera flashes. In another incident, where Bieber had been pulled over for speeding, he reported that he was driving over a speed of 80 mph in order to lose the paparazzi which were following him. All these incidents prove that Justin Bieber is not very good at handling all the media attention he gets. His attempts to avoid being seen or clicked end up bringing Bieber unwanted attention.
6. Stuck with the 'little boy' image
Atleast that is what Sharon Osbourne has to say! Apparently, Bieber's fans, the faithful Beliebers, have crossed their teenage years and have grown up to be young women. Sharon says "his fans are growing up….they are 18-19 year olds now. And he still looks like that little boy!" maybe it is high time Bieber must throw his 'little boy image' out of the window and concentrate on making music for audience which have crossed their pre-teen and teen years as well.
5. Angry Young Man.!
It is said that Bieber allows certain situations to take a toll on him and is unable to control his temper, especially when it comes to dealing with the paparazzi. There are a number of incidents where Bieber has lost him temper with photographers and indulged in arguments. In a recent incident, Bieber is said to have threatened and verbally abused paparazzi while leaving a hospital. Messing with the media is one thing Bieber must avoid if he wants his career to be long and successful. A little anger management will certainly help.
4. Celebrity Tantrums!
Celebrities are known for their tantrums and Justin Bieber is no exception. He is certainly a sensational singer and he knows it, a little too well indeed. Showing up late for a concert is no big deal for popular artists. However, when most people attending your concert are teens or pre teens, you cannot afford to begin your show at 11 p.m. Bieber highly disappointed his fans during a concert in London by showing up two hours late. Some fans did not wait for the concert to begin while others had to stay up way beyond their bedtime on a school night.
3. Bad Company
Another valid reason why Bieber is falling off the track is because of his friends! Bieber's buddy list may have some names which are certainly not a very good influence for this pop sensation. Rumor has it that it was under his friend Lil Twist's influence that Bieber got involved with weed. Twist is also responsible for crashing Bieber's car twice!
2. Desperate for fame?
Bieber realized, a little too soon maybe, that hard work and good music was not enough to keep him on the top spot. He has been accused of bad PR stunts in order to stay in the headlines. It is said that Bieber scalped his own concert tickets and sold them on stubhub.com in order to inflate the value. His 'on stage collapse' is also claimed to be a bad PR stunt by a number of 'non-beliebers'. Bieber's silly hoaxes and PR stunts certainly backfired doing more harm than good for this teen sensation.
1. What goes up …comes down!
Bieber is surely falling off track but maybe it is not his fault! There are a number of examples where 'oh so popular' teens have grown up to be 'not so popular' adults. It is hard to keep up with the ever changing trends in the world of music and if you do not keep up, you will be left behind. People are simply bored of Justin Bieber's boy next door image. The 'Bieber Fever' is dying down really fast. Bieber needs to work hard and put his talent to good use in order to bounce back.


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Enforcement action: county court proceedings: reviewing the enforcement strategy: calculating and paying travelling expenses
Where a judgment debtor has been served with an order to attend court for questioning (form N39) a judgment summons (form N67) or an order to enforce the judgment debtor's attendance (form N69), the judgment debtor can ask you to pay a sum reasonably sufficient to cover his or her expenses in travelling to and from the court. Such a request must reach you within 7 days of the date of serving the order on the judgment debtor. You need pay travelling expenses only once.
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- enter the amount of the travelling expenses on form C17(SAFE) and deal with it in the normal way.
When you have served the form and paid over the travelling expenses, you must complete an affidavit (form EX550) to that effect in good time before the hearing.


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I recently learned that the iodine pills are not as needed or effective on adults over 40. Not to say that it still isn't a good thing to have. However, if supply came down to rationing it, its best left for young adults and kids.
It might seem strange to compare a nuclear power plant disaster to a nuclear bomb explosion, but these two radically different types of disasters both release the same radioactive elements: iodine, cesium, and strontium.
Radioactive iodine has a half-life of only 8 days. After 80 days, 99.9% of the radioactive iodine has decayed. So the danger from iodine is short-term. However, the body cannot tell the difference between radioactive and non-radioactive iodine. So the radioactive iodine (I-131) can be taken up by the body and concentrated in the thyroid, especially in children, causing thyroid cancer years later. This uptake of I-131 can be prevented by flooding the body with non-radioactive iodine, using potassium iodide tablets (KI tablets).
It is difficult to be prudent and reasonable when there is a serious threat to one's life or safety. In the case of KI tablets, adults over 40 generally don't need any KI. Their thyroids are not active enough to take up the radioactive iodine. Adults 18 to 40 should take KI, but the main concern should be children. After Chernobyl, the rate of thyroid cancer in children from the surrounding area was 30 to 60 to 100 times higher than typical in the general population.


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Syracuse, NY - Bells rang out 63 times this morning to mark each of the 63 children being adopted into area families during Adoption Day ceremonies at the Oncenter in Syracuse.
Whether it was families adding on, couples welcoming a first child or a grandmother adopting her son's son, smiles were beaming and tears of joy were flowing as 10 judges from Onondaga County Family court and courts across the Central New York region presided over the finalization ceremonies.
"Thank you for opening your hearts and your homes," state Supreme Court Justice Anthony Paris told the gathering of several hundred people at the downtown Oncenter.
"We had decided we wanted a family," Jennifer Reid said after she and husband Lou Reid finalized their adoption of 2-year-old TaeYang from South Korea. She said they decided to keep the name the boy's biological mother gave him in honor of her contribution to their family.
Cynthia Scott was there today to adopt her 3-year-old grandson, Donald. She already has custody of his cousin, Anthony. The two boys are the sons of Scott's two sons.
"He needs love and a stable environment," Scott said in explaining her decision to raise yet another generation of children in her family. It takes a lot of determination but results in a lot of love, she noted.
Kristen Ruscitto was all smiles as she adopted 3-year-old twins Janae and Marvin. She'd been their foster mother since they were three weeks old.
"We both wanted a family," Ruscitto and her partner, Alicia Donato, said almost simultaneously.
"This is the beginning," Donato said. Lawyer Kevin Harrigan said another ceremony will have to be held later for Donato to join in the adoption as she was not in the picture as a prospective parent when the twins' mother surrendered her children to Ruscitto.
For the couple, the adoption meant a new home as well. They went from 700 square feet to 1,600 square feet to accommodate the growing family, Ruscitto said.
What have the kids added to their lives?
"Happiness, sticky floors and lots and lots of laughter," Ruscitto said.
A couple whose name is synonymous with adoptions in Syracuse, Dave and Diana Johnson of Tully, received a surprise at today's ceremony when they were officially recognized as recipients of one of the "Angels in Adoption" honors from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute for 2012.
The Johnsons, parents to three "home grown" kids and 14 adopted children in addition to having served as foster parents for a number of newborns, were nominated for the honor by Congresswoman Anne Marie Buerkle.
They had been unable to make the national ceremony in September so local organizers of the Adoption Day ceremony here decided to surprise them with recognition at today's ceremony. They snuck a number of the Johnsons' children into the ceremony to surprise the couple.
Ever a mother first, Diana laughingly admitted her first thought was "How'd they get out of school?" She then quickly thought one of her sons really should have had a haircut.
The couple, whose Tully home was recently rebuilt by an army of local volunteers to accommodate the large family, opted to skip the national Angels in Adoption ceremony in Washington, D.C., because their children had just started a new year of school in September and were involved in soccer activities, Diana said.
"They needed us to be at their games. It was more important for us to be there for their soccer games," she said. She said Angels in Adoption officials greeted that explanation with a laugh.
Laura Fish, adopted 18 years ago and now the mother of two little children of her own, was the keynote speaker at today's Adoption Day ceremony.
'When I met my adoptive parents I felt I had finally found my forever family," she said, "The day of my adoption I realized this was not a happy ending to my story but a wonderful beginning to my new life with my forever family!"
Grandparents Larry and Mary Ellen Corso beamed with pride as their son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Lisa Corso of Camillus, finalized the adoption of soon-to-be 3-year-old Cory.
"He landed in a perfect place," Mary Ellen Corso said of her new grandson.
Jennifer Reid noted the Korean name of her new son was perfectly appropriate.
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Allright, midterms are over. I'll finally be able to write some reviews.
Ok, so the new anime season started, and i've picked up some new animes. One of these is Maria Holic, which i was interested in seeing because i read the first chapter a whiles back. So, onwards, to
Maria Holic
Summary: Kanako Miyamase is a rather tall girl. She transfers into Ame no Kisaki [Miracle of Rain] Missionary School, in her second year. In her first day there, several secrets come out. One: she is a lesbien. Two: If a boy touches her, she breaks out in hives. Three: there is a boy on campus, masquerading as a girl, named Mariya Shido. Mariya cannot, for whatever reason, reveal that he is really a he, and not a she, so to prevent Kanako from saying anything, she blackmails her, stating that if he will reveal that she is a lesbien [I think i just confused myself there]. Halarity ensues as she explores the all-girls school with this boy on her back.
Analysis: Or not. This anime SUCKS. Usually I do 'first looks' after the 3rd episode, but I can't in this case. I stopped watching halfway through the second episode. Its crap. Really bad. Don't bother watching it.
Why, do you ask? Many reasons.
The animation in the show is really bad. Alot of times they'll put in a random stylized backdrop for no reason at all, instead of just doing a normal background. The normal backgrounds aren't even normal backgrounds, they're more like bad watercolors. If a person isn't an actual character, they look also like they're a bad watercolor. The actual characters ... don't have noses. Its like a failed attempt to draw one. There are also alot of sfx, where they really aren't needed.
About half of each episode is spent in Kanako's mind, with a little chibi character who can fly around, faint, etc etc, whatever. This character speaks very quickly, and oversays everything. She'll bugger out for no reason, and does self monologues whining over whats going on, or talking about the 'ultra cuteness' of this one girl that she just met, repeating herself, over and over and over and over and I think you get the idea. Quite frankly, it is very annoying.
For another thing, I don't care if she is lesbien and there are tons of super cute girls at the school, noone, and I mean noone, even in the biggest harem anime you can find, gets nosebleeds at the drop of a pin like this girl. Like ... seriously ... she must get a blood transfusion 10 times a day.
The music isn't that good either. Its overdone, in a bad attempt to be good. There is probably alot more that I can say about this anime, but I'm trying to scrub it from my mind.
The only good part about this anime is the opening theme, I like it. The ending one is crap, however.
I'm disappointed. Alot more could have been done with this anime, but it was ruined. Its an attempt at a comedy harem ish thing that failed miserably.
Anyways, I'll be able to write another review soon. I'm not putting any screenshots up, because this does NOT deserve one.
Friday, January 16, 2009
First Look - Maria Holic
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Labels: Comedy, Dropped, First Look, Romance
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Sorry about the lack of updates
Hi again, its been what, 2 months?
First off, Happy Holidays and New Year.
Second off, I'm sorry I havn't been writing any reviews. I've read/watched alot of anime/manga that I could have written up, but I can't. I've been bogged down with schoolwork, and I joined 2 fansubbing teams and 2 scanlation teams. Yeah ... busy ...
So anyways, I have winter break in a couple of weeks, I'll try and pump out one review a day.
First off, Happy Holidays and New Year.
Second off, I'm sorry I havn't been writing any reviews. I've read/watched alot of anime/manga that I could have written up, but I can't. I've been bogged down with schoolwork, and I joined 2 fansubbing teams and 2 scanlation teams. Yeah ... busy ...
So anyways, I have winter break in a couple of weeks, I'll try and pump out one review a day.
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When it comes to LEGO, clearly one's imagination (and the kinds of bricks that you have) are more or less the only limitations to what you can create. What you see above is a LEGO Ukulele, and the even more amazing thing is this – it is fully playable, allowing you to make wonderful music with the rest of your mates, now the only thing left to do is to come up with a LEGO Guitar, LEGO Bass and LEGO drum set, and you're good to go – calling yourself the Minifigs as a band.
Ross Crawford is the brain behind this brick ukulele, where you can play all of its four strings which are tuned to C, F, A and D. This proves that LEGO bricks, when properly used, can withstand the tension of 4 fairly tight strings without exploding. Interesting, and what other kinds of LEGO experiments do you think you would like to see – and build? It is one of the more interesting ways to lay your claim to fame in this Internet age.


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Bloomsburg University's Zeigler College of Business has been granted full membership in the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE). Full members are academic institutions that have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to undergraduate international business education through the development of an academic program (degree, major or concentration) in international business. Full membership is attained by successfully completing a review process that includes an evaluation of the institution's international business programs and an on-campus visit conducted by two members of CUIBE's Membership Committee.
Developing leadership skills is the heart of BU's Master of Business Administration program, providing theoretical, analytical and operational expertise needed to meet the challenges of managing resources in dynamic, competitive environments. With this in mind, Leadership on the Edge was launched to give students a hands-on experience that reinforces leadership and management theories taught in the classroom.
This year's MBA cohort took their LOTE course literally with a field experience to Mt. Washington — the highest peak in the Northeastern U.S. However, for several of the MBA students the climb to the 6,288-foot peak was not the challenging part.


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I need to create a Zapier Action, that updates a contact in Tripolis Dialogue.
Tripolis Solutions has Rest API calls to do this.
Here are all the methods available:
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The method used should be:
POST /contactdatabases/{contactDatabaseId}/subscriptions
But in order to get the Databases and database fields from the Tripolis client, the following methods should be used:
GET /contactdatabases
to get the contact database ID for the rest of the calls (the user should only pick the name, no need to show them the ID used for the call).
GET /contactdatabases/{contactDatabaseId}/fields
to get the fields available in the database that can be updated for the contact.
In the post URL:
- Instance (pick-list with environment. They range from TD35 till TD53.)
- Database ID (picked using the method GET /contactdatabases)
In the header:
- Username
- Token
In the content of the Rest call:
- Contactfields
o These need to be dynamically built up from an API call to the Dialogue database to get the database structure (picked using the method GET /contactdatabases/{contactDatabaseId}/fields)
- Contactgroup to add the contact to. (optional)
- WorkspaceID (for sending confirmation messages) (optional)
- Content to send out: (optional if WorkspaceID is selected)
o NewsletterID
o DirectEmailID
o SMSID
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Right now I'm reading few of those books at the same time. I'm deeply impressed with Vedantic Philosophy. To me it is very rich in spirituality and very helpful in understanding the idea of God as Supreme Soul who is manifested in His creation.
I feel that if some one reads Sufi Literature (say for example philosophy of Sufi Inayat Khan or Rumi) and Vendantic literature like Upanishad, those by Vivekananda, he can easily understand that how the Reality underneath both are same. It is really enlightening. But with caution its worth mentioning that, it is dangerous to discuss with the matter straight to another person. It may be hard for other to appreciate and understand the fact so easily that all religion and philosophy try to reach the same goal.
Like wise to many good muslims it is hard to appreciate hindu philosophy and wisdom. I think it is partly because ot the way Islam and Religion is taught from childhood. The litertures and attitude of Islam has been very rigid which lacks the room to appreciate other religion which depresses me. And it seems that this tendency has gripped most of the space of muslims mind. It was the sufi who held this universality of religions from very long time, but that feelings of harmony is lacking to many with whom i have exchanged my views.


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My best orientation mistakes - page 5
I am week 4 in a 6 week orientation as a new RN in LTC/Rehab. I have done some really stupid stuff so far :lol2: Highlights: 10)__ Tried to hook up an IV antibiotic with kangaroo (g-tube)... Read More
Jul 3, '11Quote from happyloserwow. just . . . wow!i was caring for an elderly patient who had suffered a stroke, i took her blood pressure at 1500 and it was 130/78, nothing out of the ordinary. i return 15 minutes later to do a blood glucose, explained the procedure to the patient and when the accucheck machine read 23, i ran to the nurses station looking for the nurse. she put her arm around my shoulder and walked with me to the room. then she said "why did you check a blood glucose on a dead person" she had died in the 15 minutes between the bp and accucheck... she was a dnr.
Jul 4, '11* I was working with a very sweet, very SOUTHERN CRNA one day. She was moving to Texas, and wanted to learn spanish. One of our scrub techs was from the Dominican Republic, and was coaching her one day as the CRNA was extubating. He taught her to say, "Breathe deeply", which is "Rispirar profundo" in spanish. She didn't quite get the gist of the inflection, and the ST was laughing uncontrollably. The CRNA was good hearted and assumed that the ST was laughing at her incredibly strong southern drawl. When the ST finally caught his breath, he told her that she was saying, "Rispirar puta", which translated into "breathe, whore!"
*I didn't realize how messy Lymphazurin was. Nobody ever told me NOT to put air in the vial before drawing it up. I was labeled, "Blue Devil Girl" after the dye exploded all over my face when I drew the needle out of the vial. Can't wash that stuff off easily!
Jul 12, '11Ive got a cracker of one! Id been on the ortho floor for three weeks and i asked a fellow nurse what the difference was between a cemented and uncemented hip replacement was. She looked at me as though i was crazy and said 'well....erm cement you twit'
I felt so ******* stupid!
Jul 31, '11I'm still trying to figure out where you work that gives 6 weeks orintation in LTC Facility??....Where I work, you be good to get 3-4 days to know all and be shown all....But loved the experiences you have had so far..
Aug 17, '12My very first day of orientation on what I thought was my dream job mother-baby department (turned out not to be at all, but that is a whole other story!). I was trying my darned best to look like a competent nurse. Walk out of a patient room with the nurse I am shadowing, and reach for the disinfectant bottle at the door. This was before they had the foam stuff. I think you can guess where I am going with this. In front of my mentor and a bunch of flustered new dads, got a big squirt of antibacterial in my eye. Tried to play it off as best I could "I'm fine, really I am!". But when my eye went cherry red, they made me go to the ER to get my eye flushed. Spent my first lunch hour lying on an ER stretcher getting my eye irrigated. I was SO embarrassed when I went back to the floor!
Aug 17, '12Just a few months off orientation myself and I still feel pretty stupid at times. Just the other day I forgot the clamp the pt's NG suction after I gave him meds I also learned the hard way that once you spike a bag, you cant unspike it...vancomycin is very sticky! lol
Aug 18, '12Many moons ago... I recall one of several mistakes during my first orientation week however, one memory stands out from the rest and it goes as follows. Having said that, I'm in my all white starched uniform as my preceptor is instructing me on how to change a colostomy bag, then she wants me to perform the task on another pt. everything went right until the pt. himself said "You did just right, it's well secure" as he slapped the colostomy bag and the feces landed all over my pants and shinny shoes Needless to say, from there on I double check any clamp on colostomy pts.


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Check out our Porsche 911 Carrera 4S photo gallery with 31 HQ pics. Last update in 911 Carrera 4S gallery: 2012-11-09
Porsche has uncovered a custom 911 Carrera 4S, which had its style customized by its fans after the German company reached 5-million subscribers on Facebook.
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Dirk Westfall, (B.S. 1995) collecting Odonata at a farm pond in Washington County, Ohio. The figure above shows the map screen of the software used to track Odonata distribution in Washington County, Ohio. The map shows all streams to second order. Stream names are displayed as the cursor moves over them. Other screens allow for generation of reports keyed to various fields of the data. Dirk Westfall has a publication in preparation based on his research. Chris Todd, below, continued this work in 1995-1996.
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Modern Day Qur'anic Guidance
A Contemporary Guide For Modern Day IssuesBy Ehsanul Karim Paperback 401 Pages
Publisher : A.S. Noordeen, Malaysia
About The Book
Over the course of time, many translations of the Qur'an have been written by Muslims and non-muslim writers alike, using various techniques in their translations.
However, despite these numerous translations, I was always in search of a book that would provide the essence and message of the Qur'an in simple format to be read and understood by people of all degrees of faith from every type of background. - (From The Introduction)
This book is written to reflect on critical issues in the light of the Qur'an and Hadith and present reader with the essence of islamic message.
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Topic: Fleet Base East
Two's company for LHDs
Published on by LEUT Andrew Ragless (author), LSIS Peter Thompson (photographer)
The Navy's two largest ships have departed Fleet Base East in Garden Island, Sydney today bound for exercises off Australia's east coast and northern waters.
Horse whispering helps Navy people understand communication
Published on by SMN Elise Aveline (author), Unknown (photographer)
HMAS Canberra hosts French President
Published on by LEUT Andrew Ragless (author and photographer)
French President Emmanuel Macron seized an opportunity to meet with Royal Australian Navy personnel during a three day visit to Australia.
NUSHIP Brisbane takes out Eastern Australian Area European Handball title
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Esprit de corps and teamwork were common themes during the annual European Handball Championship held at the Fleet Base East Gym recently. Teams from across the Sydney region played it out for the Eastern Australia Area (EAA) European Handball Champion for 2018.
HMAS Newcastle attacks Individual Readiness requirements at sea
Published on by LCDR Fiona Southwood (author), Unknown (photographer)
Faced with a number of changes to the ship's program and to ensure that personnel are fit to fight, HMAS Newcastle has explored alternate options of how to address Individual Readiness shortfalls. Thinking out of the box has allowed a problem to become a challenge and from there, solutions were developed.
Signs of success at Centre for Innovation
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Navy's Fleet Base East Centre for Innovation has fabricated new signage for the FFG Enterprise following last year's logo design competition won by Ms Karen Jessop.
Governor-General inspects our newest warship
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The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), and Her Excellency Lady Cosgrove visited the Royal Australian Navy destroyer, HMAS Hobart alongside Fleet Base East recently and liked what they saw.
Change of Fleet Command
Published on by LEUT Andrew Ragless (author), ABIS Tara Byrne (photographer), CPOIS Phillip Hunt (photographer), ABIS Kieran Dempsey (photographer), LSIS Kayla Hayes (photographer)
In a heartfelt ceremony aboard flagship HMAS Canberra, Rear Admiral Stuart Mayer has handed over the reins as Commander Australian Fleet to his successor Rear Admiral Jonathan Mead.
Navy farewells HMAS Darwin after 33 years of service
Published on by Department of Defence (author), LEUT Harley Slatter (photographer)
The Royal Australian Navy has decommissioned the Adelaide Class frigate, HMAS Darwin, at her homeport of Garden Island, Sydney, after more than three decades of service to the nation.
Heritage dock delivers for future fleet
Published on by Department of Defence (author), ABCSO Steven Thomson (photographer), LSIS Peter Thompson (photographer)
The dry dock at Garden Island in Sydney Harbour is one of Defence's oldest pieces of infrastructure. So what happens there?


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i fall madly in love with fall.
i just can't help it.
i'm a fall/winter girl.
i'll take falling leaves, friday night football games and pumpkins long before i'll take budding flowers, insects and watermelon.
it's just in my nature.
also, i can't stand watermelon. bleh. lol.
i'm amazed that i haven't decorated for fall yet.
normally i cave and do it the last weekend of august.
i bet my family is wondering what's wrong with me.
and i bet you can guess what i'll be doing this week.
yep, decorating.
when do y'all decorate for fall?
pic above = my fall fabric wreath.
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Do You Know What I Love The Most? Lyrics
Artist: Saves The Day
Album: Through Being Cool
Do you know what I love the most?
Even suburbs would be o.k.
With you between my sheets
And the breeze in the window
'Cause we will go there and ignore all our neighbors
I think I'll bring you breakfast and play Johnny Cash on the stereo
I'll sit in the lazy chair all day remembering the things you do
So when you come home
I'll jump up to kiss you and it will knock you back
You'll fall over our TV set
I'll pick you up and dust you off
Oh, Baby let's give it a go
I'll kiss your thighs to make you feel all right
And then I'll get closer to taste a little sweat
Oh I think I'm rearing to go
You're gonna get knocked out and tied up in my trunk
In ten years we'll go to Ohio and steal Cadillac's for a living.
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Needing some pages for a swap, it was time to make Junk Journal Swap Pages. These had to be fun! It is so fun to customize a project and using stamps is a great way to do that!
I'm over on the Brutus Monroe Blog sharing how to Decorate Journal Pages.Using Brutus Monroe Stamp set Dreamcatching, Chameleon Pens, Sewing, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and more.
Make sure you check out the blog to see all of the supplies used. Here is a video showing how to make the Junk Journal Swap Pages.
Making these Junk Journal Swap Pages is a great way to use up all those papers that you have been collecting. But maybe you don't like them 100%. Since these were Junk Journal Swap Pages it these don't have to match and these don't have to be perfect either.
It was also great to use up lots of scraps of fabric that I've had for years. Years ago I made fabric angles and had a ton of fabric strips. After playing around with the scraps I found that these were perfect for the Junk Journal Swap Pages I was creating.
If you haven't checked out the Friendly Junk Journal People Facebook group, please do so. Of course, you are welcome to join the Friendly Junk Journal People Facebook group. At the moment it is a small group, but we are a friendly group willing to help each other and encourage each other.
Interested in any of the journals I created? Please feel free to contact me through my Facebook Page.
Here is my shop, I have a lot of items uploaded and add more weekly.
My hope is that I have inspired you to look at those papers in your stash and make your own junk journal.
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'Ofa 'atu - Tongan I love you (2) Flowers - I love you - Show someone special how much you truly love them with this great design in their native language. Do you love someone who is from a country outside the US or a culture where another language is spoken? Show them you love them by saying "I love you" in their native tongue. Perfect for Valentines Day, Weddings, Engagements, Anniversaries, Birthdays or just any day you want to show your love.


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DOWNEY - Downey Regional Medical Center will host a blood drive Monday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to benefit the American Red Cross.The blood drive will take place in Conference Room B, located in the hospital basement. To register, go to www.redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code "dowreg." Appointments are also accepted by calling (562) 904-5321.
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(Photo by Sally Neville of Two Boroughs On Stage workshop. This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon.)
Think of a theatre. The shape of it. The smell of it. The level of light. The seating. Is it dark and hollow and bare? Rich and plush and arched? Think of the people in the theatre. Their age. Their ethnicity. The clothes they are wearing. The newspaper they read. Where they buy their coffee. Might they have met at a dinner party? Perhaps a gallery opening? Maybe they share a love of the same type of music. Now picture the Young Vic. The shape of the auditoriums seem to alter. The seating is changeable. The depth of the space grows, tightens, and opens out. Picture the stage. It stretches backstage into the bowels of the building, it leaks into the seating bank, it spins, it sits still and narrow and sombre. Picture the people. Diverse ages and ethnicities, clothes, colours, newspapers, habits. A community of difference.
The Young Vic sits in the middle of two very diverse boroughs: Lambeth and Southwark in South London. The theatre produces internationally acclaimed work: a recently ended run of A View from the Bridge directed by the Belgian director Ivo Van Hove and starring Mark Strong attracted record queues for day seats; an upcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire is yet to open, but has already sold out. Yet 10% of the tickets for both of those productions – and indeed all of the work the theatre produces – are given to Taking Part, the participation department run out of a small bare bricked office overlooking the road outside. The people that walk that road and live in these boroughs are our neighbours and we want to place them at the centre of what we do. The Two Boroughs Project, a strand of our work with local residents and community groups, exists to engage and create a local community around the theatre. We give away free tickets, run workshops, stage community shows with professional creative teams, and run backstage events. Everything we do is designed to throw our doors wide open, and keep them open. We want our local community to be the beating heart of the theatre.
(Photo by Sally Neville of Two Boroughs On Stage workshop.)
They and the young people we work with are one of the reasons our audience cannot be pictured or predicted quite as easily. The audience is moveable, changeable, it responds and participates and breathes back towards the stage with an aliveness that we hope is exciting for our companies and performers. If the plays the Young Vic stage are an ever shifting reflection of the stories we tell each other, then the audience is an ever shifting reflection of the world those stories inhabit. Our audience is the story we tell ourselves about diversity, about community, about the power of theatre. But it is a story that we are constantly re-writing.
We work hard to continue to find new individuals and community groups to engage with. Absolutely everything we offer is free, and we are lucky enough to be able to keep it that way. Experiencing an art form such as theatre should not be beyond anyone's reach, but so often it is dependent on ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, how much social capital an individual has and often simple habit. Two Boroughs is a concrete offer: come on in, dip your toes in the water, see if you like it. It is also a taking away of sorts, an empty space to inhabit without the mantles we give ourselves and have placed upon us, which prevent our participation. Here we have local residents, ex-offenders, people in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes, elder carers, defined not by which group they belong to, but which project they are taking part in, which show they have seen. We have people who remember the theatre when it was a butcher's, who bought meat hanging from the hooks which still adorn our entrance, who took part in the new building's opening show. We have people who have favourite moments in past productions that current staff have never seen. They can tell us about them. We have people who came for a free ticket and stayed to perform in a community show. People who turn up only if there is music involved. People who come with friends, people who come alone. And we welcome them into our theatre as if it is our home. Food and drink is a very important part of the Two Boroughs Project. Breaking bread. We provide biscuits, cake, fruit, tea, sometimes even wine.
(Photo by Sally Neville of Two Boroughs On Stage workshop.)
Many of our projects require large budgets – full scale productions involving a cast of 50 and a professional creative and production team in one of our studio spaces, for example. But equally important are the smaller projects, the ones which ease the doors open a little at a time and accentuate the feeling of community. Theatre Club, started here, gives our participants the opportunity to be heard, and to listen to one another without fear of censure (see: http://youngviclondon.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/theatre-club/). Tea & Tours allows Two Boroughs members to explore the building and chat to other staff in the theatre. One of my favourite projects are the On Stage workshops. Working with a show's creative team and assistant director, these workshops literally take place on the stage of a main house production. The process of running a show is opened up to our participants as they take it in turns to run the sound, call the show, operate the lights and stand on the actors' marks. We are not seeking to demystify the theatrical process – the mystery and the magic are a beautiful part of the experience. We want to share it. That is really the essence of what we do in Taking Part and Two Boroughs. We share food and stories. We share our tickets. We stand on the stage and we share the boards with our actors. We perch on the grid high above the stage and share a sense of dizziness. We sit with the Deputy Stage Manager and share a palpitation of nerves and excitement. We share not knowing and we share exploring.
The desire to share an experience is what drives us in our bare-bricked office. It is part of the reason that the theatre's audience cannot be easily pictured, because it is constantly changing and expanding. The auditorium is shared between people who have bought tickets and participants who have received them for free, but looking across the seats we would struggle to see who was who. We might have a man from a drug and alcohol rehabilitation programme sitting next to a donor to the theatre, and we endeavour to make sure that this co-existence works. Occasionally the lack of a traditional theatrical etiquette in a first time theatre-goer creates a different atmosphere in the auditorium. I recall a memorable Saturday night when watching a performance of Feast, a celebratory show based around the Yoruban diaspora, a group of women from a hostel for ex-sex workers joined in with the African spiritual being sung on stage. It was a moment that could have had the rest of the audience complaining and the actors rattled. But after a sharp intake of breath the collective sigh was one of acceptance. And it was joyful. In that moment the shape of the theatre changed, and the space expanded. Moments like that are why we do what we do.
(Photo by Sally Neville of Two Boroughs On Stage workshop.)
Lily Einhorn is Two Boroughs Project Manager at the Young Vic Theatre. She is also a freelance writer and community theatre practitioner who has worked in London and Paris. Lily has worked extensively in domestic violence prevention using drama, and as a consultant helping theatre companies develop frameworks for educational workshops. She has directed plays on the London and Edinburgh fringes and was assistant director of the opening ceremony for the Liverpool Capital of Culture '08. Lily was recently a ghost writer on Love Letters to the Home Office and contributed a chapter to Performance and Community: Case Studies and Commentary.


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One of our most requested features for Google Play is finally about to become a reality. Any day now Google will announce that Android fans can purchase gift cards for Google Play and redeem them to purchase music, movies, books, apps, and more.
Android Police discovered that the new Google Play app update includes new options for redeeming a gift card code, and creating a wish list for your most wanted content. Android Central has also spotted some $10 and $25 gift cards at an unknown retail store, so we should be hearing something from Google any day.
Hints of gift cards began to appear when Google released the Nexus 7. It included a free $25 credit for Google Play that users could use to purchase anything they liked. If you already have a Nexus 7, you might have noticed a Google Play balance appear in your payment methods with a picture of a gift card.
As someone who loves to give away devices and prizes, we can't wait for these gift cards to become available.