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From the inland areas of the Tyne Valley – with such wonderful towns as Hexham, complete with an amazing abbey and many other stunning buildings – and the fellow market town of Corbridge – to the gorgeous Coquet valley in the north, complete with pretty towns such as Warkworth, the Northumbrian landscape is defined by the lie of the land, but towards the coast in the south east of the county is a very different landscape indeed.
Here the coast offers some absolutely stunning beaches – try the glorious Druridge Bay, south of the beautiful seaside town of Amble, or the stunning sands at Bamburgh with its brooding and majestic castle and a museum dedicated to the world famous Grace Darling and her daring rescue of a doomed ship's crew – and vast parkland, much of it created on land reclaimed from the now dead coal mining industry which, for a long time, was the life and soul of the area.
Near the town of Ashington – once dubbed 'the biggest pit village in the world' and a football citadel that gave us the Charlton brothers and Newcastle United legend Jackie Milburn – is Woodhorn Colliery Museum, one of the most visited museums in the country with excellent exhibitions on the industry, while nearby Bedlington – itself a former mining town – has the relics of a once mighty ironworks which heralded the very birthday of railways as we know them.
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Inspired by Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Purple Moon is the story of a Gujarati industrialist family in Juhu, Mumbai, confronted with simmering rivalry, tension, greed, lies, sexuality and death. The emotionally charged, powerful and shifting dynamic of the play traces the life of the Parikhs over the course of an evening. As they struggle to balance love…Read More
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Error message when you try to update a link in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation: "Some linked files were unavailable and can't be updated"
You open a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation that contains a link to a Microsoft Excel item, such as data or an Excel chart, in an Excel
worksheet. When you click to update the link in the presentation, you receive the following error message:
Try to restore the links by clicking the Microsoft Office button, pointing to Prepare, and then clicking Edit Links to Files.
NoteThis issue may occur in other scenarios that involve a link to data items in other programs.
This issue may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true:
|The Excel item is contained in an Excel workbook that is located on a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path or in a document library on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site.
|The Excel item is contained in an Excel workbook that is located on an HTTP location. Additionally, the PowerPoint slide is linked to another PowerPoint slide in the presentation.
|The Excel item, not the whole workbook, is linked to the PowerPoint 2007 presentation.
To work around this issue, do not update the links in the presentation. When the presentation is open, you must delete the linked Excel item from the PowerPoint 2007 presentation. Then, re-create the link to the Excel item. To do this, follow these steps:
|In Excel, select the Excel item such as the data range or the Excel chart that you want to link.
|On the Home tab, click Copy in the Clipboard group.
|Open the presentation in PowerPoint 2007.
|On the Home tab, click the arrow on the Paste button in the Clipboard group, and then click Paste Special.
|In the Paste Special dialog box, click Paste Link, click Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object or Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object in the As box, and then click OK.
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Devtech M2M A New Member Of Lonmark International
Lon Mark International is a global membership organization created to promote and advanced business of efficient and effective integration of open, multi-vendor control systems utilizing ISO/IEC 14908-1 and related standards. ISO/IEC has approved the Lon Works platform to the highest level of international standards recognition. This ratification will enhance the adoption and usage of this technology within the worldwide controls market and specifically in the buildings vertical.
New Member Devtech M2M Pte Ltd is a manufacturer of devices based on the ISO/IEC14098 Protocol Standard used in various market segments to provide Smart Streetlight and Smart City solutions. Devtech provides products like environmental sensors, lighting presence and ambient sensors, smart energy meters, smart light point controllers, Digital lighting controllers (Drivers and ballasts up to 2KW) and Electrical Vehicle chargers. Devtech specializes in providing end devices using the ISO-14098 Protocol (power line SIP modules, based on PL-3120/50, phase couplers, etc.).
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Descriptions: GoPubMed is an innovative, powerful search tool that combines the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and GO (Gene Ontology) terminologies to optimize the effectiveness of queries to PubMed- for everyone, but for molecular biologists in particular. Searching elicits results presented very quickly (maximum display: the most recent 1,000 citations), along with a sidebar presenting the full results in categorized, hierarchical groups of terms that help the user to focus in further- the producers of this search engine refer to it as a "knowledge-based semantic search." There are many more features to this search tool than can be described here.
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Descriptions: "The Gene Ontology project is a major bioinformatics initiative with the aim of standardizing the representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases. The project provides a controlled vocabulary of terms for describing gene product characteristics and gene product annotation data from GO Consortium members, as well as tools to access and process this data." The Ontologies describe three aspects of molecular biology- biological processes, cellular components, and molecular functions. Gene Ontology's collected tools list includes hundreds from all over the world: specialized browsers, search engines, statistical analysis and visualization tools, and many other kinds. This project began as a collaboration between three model organism databases, FlyBase (Drosophila), the Saccharomyces Genome Database and the Mouse Genome Database in 1998. Since then, the GO Consortium has grown to include many other databases, including several of the world's major repositories for plant, animal and microbial genomes. See the GO Consortium page for a full list of member organizations.
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Recommended Books - Performing Arts
Here are some of the recommended books you can read to help you in Performing Arts. You can also see your teacher for more information:
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Management Systems HSG65 Guidance
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- NEBOSH Presentations
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Management Systems HSG65 _-_Guidance sample pages.pdf
The Management Systems – HSG65 checklists relate to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on effective management of health and safety (HSG65) are an effective way of evaluating an organisation's strategic approach to health and safety. Benchmarking against this critical standard is essential for many corporate organisations.
The checklists provide a comprehensive strategic audit tool enabling auditors to quickly deliver audits with the minimum of preparation.
This guidance supports the corresponding Management systems HSG65 - workbook and comprises 58 pages. Each are divided into six sections, reflecting the primary components required for the effective management of health and safety depicted in HSG65.
- Section One - Policy
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- Section Four – Measuring performance
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- Section Six – Auditing performance
Each section has a number of audit requirements within it, for example Section Two – 'Organising' has 21 separate, detailed requirements. Each requirement has comprehensive evaluation guidance to consider when auditing.
If you have an interest in auditing the supplementary systems and procedures for the Management of Health and Safety Risk series of checklists would be appropriate and useful. The series of checklists, Audit 123 – Health and safety in the workplace, that focus on general health and safety matters that affect all organisations would provide structure and guidance to your audits.
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Unidentified network on Windows Vista
Posted: Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 by marcus
For awhile now, every time I connect to a Wireless network, Vista has been telling me that I was connected to two networks:
- The actual wireless network (Local and Internet)
- Unidentified network (Local only)
These systems were annoying at first, but I started having problems with VPN connections and accessing remote networks. The normal web browsing and email traffic seemed to be fine, but my job requires me to use VPNs pretty extensively, so it was really painful.
Finally, after lots of troubleshooting, I found the solution tonight! There were two entries in my routing table for 0.0.0.0, the first being the IP address of my wireless router, and the second being an old static entry from when I was configuring a router weeks ago. So, just a simple "route delete 0.0.0.0" from the command line has fixed this annoying issue.
Hope this helps someone else!
6 Responses to "Unidentified network on Windows Vista"
Great! Had the same issue and this solved it right away, thanks a lot for sharing this info!
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Nice!! Thanks for the tip. A small but annoying problem has been solved.
plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..can u tell me that in detail…plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz i mean how to delete that….i'm damn freaking with this issue from past few days….
Thank You! Thank You! I have been banging my head on this for two days now… Any ideas what is causing the extra 0.0.0.0 entry?? I would like to keep this one from happening again if possible.
Your a legend! Cant thank you enough on this one.. spent hours trying to fix up stupid vista! arggg..
I tried this, but it did not work. Anyway of clearing the tabel completely without causing problems?


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"You can have anything in life if you dress for it" - Edith Head.
So if getting in shape was at the top of your resolutions list, dress the part in some super stylish athleisure wear that makes going to the gym just a bit more enjoyable. From fun prints, to pretty pastels, to the coolest accessories, our stylists picked a few favorites that have you headed to the gym in style.
Struggle with that that whole athleisure wear outside of the gym thing - ask your stylist how to make this look work for you. Trust us, it can be done!
Need a little extra motivation to get to the fitness class you signed up for at the start of the year? Here a few of our stylists picks on what to wear to the gym.
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Grab this windbreaker and explore the outdoors. There is a front kangaroo pocket and a chest zip pocket for your headphones. Both water resistant with reflective cords and logo makes late night adventures a whole lot safer.
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Oh how we love a good gym bag. Multiple pockets include, lined phone pocket, tablet pocket and a large mesh zipper pocket for shoes or sweaty items post-workout. There is also a special place to keep your keys. The best part? If things are starting to get a little stinky, just zip off the removable interior lining. ahe outside of the ultimate gym bag includes a water bottle holder, luggage tag and two pockets. The best part is that the bag is 100% vegan!
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Morning jog? Wear this. Morning coffee? That works too.
Need a stylish way to start your yoga class? This Figi print (which we've seen everywhere lately) is so fun for the gym! This yoga mat will is exactly what you need to get you through some intense moves.
9. Nike Free Transform Flyknit Sneakers
Created to give your feet just enough support for training, these Flyknit sneakers are made of a breathable material that mimics your sock. This cushioned dream shoe is perfect for your cardio workout!
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We're obsessed with the entire BKR collection of waterbottles, but this fun play with stars is the perfect bit of whimsy for your hardest of sweat sessions. It's no-leak, BPA-free, and will fit right in with your healthy lifestyle.
Is it time to head to the gym yet? Tell us, which is your favorite athleisure pick?


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Repacked Stock ROM for SWR50 Version LWX48P I made a twrp flashable stock ROM ZIP of the LWX48P version firmware. You can download it at SWR50-LWX48P-repacked-signed.zip. Don't flash it with the stock recovery, it is for twrp. The ZIP contains ...
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No stage seems too big for young Sam Heazlett, making a name for himself immediately during his first-class debut scoring 129 and 78. Heazlett finished his first shield season behind Matt Hayden and Graeme Hick as the third-best debut season. His form continued during his BBL debut, hitting a straight six during his first minute at the crease with Chris Lynn. This continued over the next 12 months with impressive knocks for Australia A, Queensland and the Brisbane Heat. These high pressure performances earned him a call up to Australia's ODI squad to tour New Zealand.
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A new report suggested that companies do not devote the same attention regarding data recovery to overseas operations that they do to mainland activity. This lack of focus on international operations can prove extremely detrimental to business.
Chubb Risk Survey points to lack of international focus among business data recovery plans
Carried out annually, this year's Chub Multinational Risk Survey suggested that despite the many threats posed to businesses that choose to expand operations overseas, companies are not taking the necessary efforts to plan for data recovery, according to Continuity Central.
The survey, which polled businesses across the U.S. and Canada, found that more than 50 percent plan to enhance overseas operations in the coming year. This increase makes sense, since the widespread use of cloud computing and mobile workloads has enabled businesses to easily expand operations.
However, broadening the scope of company activity comes with several high risk factors that threaten to disrupt company operates and potentially prompt the need for an expedient disaster recovery strategy. The main risks outlined in Chub's report are as follows:
- Supply chain risk: Overseas, an unanticipated business interruption has the potential to derail operations if the company is not prepared. And yet the survey found that despite widespread efforts toward expansion, the proper safeguarding measures are not in place. Alarmingly, a mere 56 percent of businesses polled said they had a plan in place to save overseas business in the event of something like a supply chain failure. This means that for 44 percent of companies, the failure of something like a company server overseeing critical supplies could result in irrevocable data loss.
- Employee travel and mobile security risks: The age of bring your own device has enabled more employees to work remotely, thereby increasing the productivity of the company. But if businesses don't have a data recovery plan in place for BYOD machines, they risk the permanent loss of important enterprise data. Data stored on mobile devices can be lost in many different ways. One key threat is mobile malware, which can find its way onto an employee's phone and either hold information for ransom or leave it otherwise compromised. Of those surveyed companies that said they had mobile security in place, 39 percent said one security feature was the administrative ability to wipe a BYOD mechanism clean if it is breached or stolen. But this plan can only be successful if the company has back up data storage for the information from the device.
Despite risks, companies are not implementing the disaster recovery plans that they need
The fact that only 56 percent of respondent businesses said they had an overseas enterprise continuity plan in place points to the need for all companies with an international platform to evaluate their protective infrastructure, particularly with regard to an online data backup. As Chubb Vice President Jay Taylor was quoted as saying in PropertyCasualty360, "The bad news is—56 percent in my world…would be an F."
For Taylor, the idea that 44 percent of companies surveyed lack the infrastructure to handle a major incident like a data loss scenario is more than a little alarming.
"Having a plan in place is critical," he said. "A business that does have major business-continuity; business-disaster issue—approximately 80 percent of those don't come back after a year."
Exploring international markets can absolutely be a productive business decision. But if this choice is not made with a comparably firm commitment to data protection, the move to the global market can prove more damaging than business-enhancing. Fortunately, it is not particularly difficult for companies to build up an international business recovery plan, and in doing so ensure smooth operations across the board.


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Is a Republic better than a Democracy?
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I represent my client, democracy with full confidence in its innocence! It has done no wrong and any attack on it is fallacious and in fact and obstruction to us finding true justice!
The most important reason that a republic is better is the fact that it doesn't leave out the minority. In a democracy, if the majority wants something from the minority, they can have it, even if it is completely unjustified. In a republic, the majority have no such power, and minorities are better protected. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." As you can see, the minority in a democracy have absolutely no power.
Another important reason why a democracy cannot compete with a repbublic is that the majority is not always right. If someone were to trick the majority into doing something in their interest, such as investing power in that person, any freedom people have could be ripped away. In a republic, such a thing would be much more difficult to achievedue to the solid laws in place that cannot be taken away by the majority.
My last reason is this: the rights of anyone should never be taken away by greed of the majority. Since a republic does not allow this and a democracy does, the obvious winner is the republic. Mob rule should never be tolerated.
Hear me jury, hear me! How is it that the winner of this debate is decided? Is it that Pro or I have some inherent right to victory? Is it that if Pro has been on this site longer and happened to be there at the forming of some written document named 'constitution', 'bill of rights' or what have you that they can then make anything they like unbreakable and non-negotiable despite the vast majority of people challenging a point later on? No! The winner of this debate is decided by who the majority think should win and that is what makes not just this site, not just the art of debating but the very community that we call the 'human race' function so well. No other species on Earth has a concept of democracy, they either have strict unbreakable hierarchy and 'rights' like wolves and lions or they just go full on anarchist.
We came to dominate this very planet starting as a weak, frail hairless excuse of a primate but we used our wits and teamwork to get where we had to when it counted. At times, there were disputes, heck even today there still are. That's why we have different states, countries and such. That's not a problem at all, in fact a very important part of democracy is protecting the right of the minority to freely voice their opinion without harm coming to them. Pro seems to think that democracy in its purest form is an anarchic 'tyranny by majority' but in reality this would very soon become a republic whereby any minority group of any kind who didn't bend backwards to blend in would be seen as violating hte 'core rights' that the majority had decided upon and be the very republic I stand to oppose.
A Republic actually has no basis whatsoever; this is the fundamental flaw of it. One can point the finger at democracy and say 'why is it that if 60 people want a 'bad' thing and 40 don't that the 60 should get what they want? Well who says it's bad? Who is actually judging anything in a Republic? It makes no sense at all. It's like saying, 'oh some guys a while back wrote this list of irrevocable rules and we must take it as gospel regardless of how many people oppose it'.
So, for all we know, the supposed 'constitution' in this imaginary republic could have stated that women must have sex with three men per week and failure to do so should result in men having the god given right to rape them in horde to meet th quota. In democracy, assuming the majority are sane which would be required for any society to work in the first place, this 'rule' woudl immediately be challenged and tossed aside. In a republic, the fact that this rule was made in ancient times and is now considered a 'right' would mean that there'd be no legal means ot challenge it whatsoever and this, ladies gentlemen and gender neutral individuals, is why my defendant, Democracy, is not guilty of being inferior to Republic.
You seem to have forgotten the prospect of an ammendment, my good sir. An ammendment to this constitution could solve the unfair laws. And you have completely neglected to mention that the same laws could come into place with a democracy, as long as the majority wanted it.
Here is a hypothetical situation.
You are on an island with four other people. After discussing your government to be a democracy, you and a friend head up a hill and collect 10 apples each. The other three stay down at the beach. When you return, they demand you give them the apples. Of course, you want to keep those apples, or at least share them equally. However, the other three people, the majority, have decided that they get more for free from you and all because mob rule allows them to do anything they want as long as most of them want it. Next, The three will vote to exclude you and your friend from voting, and now you and your friend are slaves. This has no negative effects on the majority to enslave the minority, and only benefits them.
The situation will end with them voting for a leader, and a dictatorship follows. Then there is no freedom. Now if there is a set of laws to protect from such a situation, as is in a republic, none of this happens. It lasts much longer and is less likely to end in tyranny.
Thank you for your time in this debate, my wonderful adversary. I bid you good day.
Amendments huh? What are they decided by? A democratic vote! Ahahahaha!
Dearest jury, before us we see not only someone persecuting democracy unjustly but furthermore outright supporting the defense while doing so. In the example, three people enslave two... Yeah, this will be a problem for them, it just takes one slip and revenge will be served cold that night. Aside from that, my opponent assumes that society is that psychopathic that the majority would support slavery in the long run, if that is the case then what's stopping slavery happening in a Republic? When the blacks were taken as slaves, it was assumed to be the whites' right to do so. Guess where slavery was more severe and widespread? In the southern states, which unsurprisingly also are those more prone to support a Republican USA rather than a Democratic one.
It is a severely Republican society that would ignore the voice of the slaves because somehow they can add conditions to their rights. Democratic societies do not work like this. It is in no way whatsoever democratic for a group of people to silence a minority amongst them because everyone is a minority of their own kind, think about that for a minute. Democracy works by having all minorities have equal say in the outcome to please the majority of minorities in any given situation. Republics randomly have allocated unquestionable rights that can only be amended via a democratic vote on the amendment.
The Prosecution of democracy has constantly said 'rights' but never once explained what are the correct set of rights and how to determine it. I have explained that best way to determine the current best set of rights is by allowing everyone to have a say and finding the best middle ground to please the most people at any given time in all ways (slavery would go against this).
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Reasons for voting decision: Neither side defined terms. This was a debate about Direct Democracy vs Indirect Democracy with Constitution if I understood this correctly. Pro 's position was that the Constitution can protect minorities, who are hopeless in a Democracy, Con argued that a Republic is still a Democracy, and that everyone is a minority of their own kind. I think that's fair. However, Con did not provide any arguments to show in what ways is a direct Democracy superior. Had he provided any good arguments I would have given him the win. (I assumed BoP is shared). So Pro argued better overall
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Probably the greatest prole tell there is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587050)
I don't just put granulated sugar in there though, I use a non-dairy creamer that is admittedly chock full of processed sugar lol.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587127)
at some point in every (?) man's life, you reach a point where you don't even think twice about shit like this and do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it. that's what being a man is all about(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587483)
odd case. ice cream is really tasty!(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587848)
That said, is it not self evident to you that you're kind of a pansy?(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36588439)
i'm gonna have a chill, sunny drive to the store on my way home from work and get an ice cream sandwich, and it's gonna be delicious. you mad, NOWAGS? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587887)
It's actually insane. I figure if you do this in 2018 you have to be a lunatic, unless you're having a classy dessert once in a while after dinner or on a holiday. Beyond that, it's a YUGE prole tell and I immediately assume you must be retarded. '
Edit: I'm referring more to CANDY or sugary drinks or eating junk food. In moderation is sort of, but not really, OK, but anyone over the age of 25 who consumes sugar every day or regularly as a matter of course is definitely prole. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587245)
"Proles eat sugar they are proles"
Well duh. No shit(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36587497)
its insane how little proles know about nutrition. Guzzle soda all day until their teeth fall out and they can barely get up. disgusting(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4047599&forum_id=2#36588033)


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Every Sunday night for the past three weeks I've done the same thing: pack five snack bags for the oldest son, prep half of five snack bags for the girl, and fill a lunchbox with random goodies for the preschooler who firmly believes that he, too, is going to school and needs a lunch. Here and there I've assembled lunch "side items" as well. This level of organization and preparedness is not natural to me. I'm just paranoid. I'm paranoid that I will go into labor with child number four, and I'll have no time to make sure that the children are taken care of in my absence. My preparedness has left me a million weeks pregnant, but it's also taught me something that I should have already known: Advance preparation actually makes morning life so much easier. Let me say that again, because frankly, I'm shocked that this is the case since I've lived so long on coffee, adrenaline, and a lead foot motoring toward the city center each morning:
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May 12, 2015 at 11:03 pm #592
Just read an old thread over at Tae Kim's Blog… If you are wondering if KSP Will be useful for you, read the comments…
[See the full post at: Heisig Hate]May 13, 2015 at 10:47 am #599
Reminded me of a thread I found a couple of months back…May 14, 2015 at 1:23 pm #632
Hi Tom,
Yes, I have seen similar threads. It appears to be a recurring theme in the online world. The psychology behind it is complex, but I think some people who have learned kanji the hard way are:
1) resentful of those who have found an easier route to partial (Hesig style) kanji knowledge
2) desperately keen for others to acknowledge that their own hard-won accomplishments are so much more impressive than 'just' knowing 2000+ kanji with one simplified meaning per kanji
3) possibly concerned that English pronunciations for the kanji may displace or interfere with the acquisition of Japanese pronunciations.
It's as though, when a Heisig student claims to have learned 2000 kanji in a few weeks, the non-Heisig student takes it as a personal insult, and is worried that outsiders may confuse this lesser accomplishment with the much more substantial acquisition of written Japanese, so they feel obliged to point out the bleeding obvious.
I have yet to hear anyone mount a plausible argument that knowing kanji in the Heisig sense is actually a barrier to subsequently learning them properly in the context of written Japanese – though it is theoretically possible that the English keyword could cause interference with the Japanese pronunciation when reading, there are so many other benefits from being familiar with the shape it is unlikely that the interference would really matter.
It is like the concern in English-speaking primary schools that the names of letters (Ay, Bee, See, Dee) will interfere with the acquisition of phonetic understanding of the letters (most C's, for instance, are hard C's, unlike the S-sound in the name of the letter C). In theory, this could be a problem; in practice, it is not.
I'm also yet to meet anyone who is seriously confused about the difference between Heisig-level knowledge and full knowledge of written Japanese. The student who brags about learning 2000 kanji in 3 weeks and thinks they can now read Japanese is pretty much a fictional straw man, but it is this caricature that is repeatedly attacked in threads like the one from Tae Kim.
At some stage, I would like to conduct research on the effect of the Heisig approach on acquisition of kanji as used in real Japanese vocabulary. My suspicion is that the Heisig approach, when used properly, would greatly speed up the attainment of the more mature, rounded kanji knowledge that the Heisig critics rightly (and unnecessarily) point out is the necessary precursor to reading and writing Japanese.May 14, 2015 at 1:38 pm #633
In a similar vein… I was googling this issue and found this thread:
One guy writes:
Heisig is a very divisive subject. Some love him. Some hate him.
I abhor, loathe, detest and abominate him and his process. I think it's snake oil in a paperback binding.
I think part of the problem is that the number of people who think it might be nice to learn kanji and get partway through Heisig is much larger than the number of people that follow through and learn Japanese, so the success rate is low. But how many of those people would have learned written Japanese the other way? And what's wrong with learning kanji in the Heisig sense, just for the fun of it, without going on to become fluent in Japanese? Sure beats crosswords. I actually enjoy it.May 15, 2015 at 1:55 am #671
Tae Kim has a follow-up post that is more measured… Worth a look if you are still not sure if a Heisig approach is right for you.
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Amanda Solis is someone I am just beginning to find out about. Blown away at her talent, I decided to create a blog about her at medium.com. I was looking for impersonators and came across by accident, Amanda. If it had not been for her YouTube channel, I probably would have never found out about her. Amanda had a striking resemblance to Selena Quintanilla. Not only that, but she has a voice that sounds close to Selena's when she sings, laughs, and talk. Amanda's mother also looked like Selena who passed away, and to tell you the truth, she looks more like Selena than she does. When Amanda saw Selena, she was very surprised at how much she looked like her mother. It inspired her. Now she has a career of her own, and she is also doing a Selena tribute traveling from place to place singing live. Find out more about Selena at her website: http://www.amandasolismusic.com/about.html and see her at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bidibidibombum/
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Since training at Auckland's influential Theatre Corporate, New Zealand actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand has worked extensively in theatre, film and television for over 35 years.
She has excelled in both dramatic and comedic roles, as well as numerous roles in musical theatre and cabaret. As an accomplished singer, she presents her own show, Falling in Love Again, at festivals and venues in New Zealand and Australia and is also in demand as a tutor of musical theatre.
Jennifer was a founding board member of the Watershed Theatre and a co-founder of The Large Group and The Actors' Program.
She is currently President of Equity New Zealand, Patron of Q Theatre, and serves as a trust board member of Arts Regional Trust, Silo Theatre, Clarence St. Theatre, and Actors Benevolent Fund.
In the 2007 New Years Honours List, she was named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit "for services to theatre and the community.
See Jennifer in the following session:
Casting Matters with Kerry Barden – Saturday 30 September, 11.40am.


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2017 Toyota Tundra comes with several different engine options that we can choose according to need, and here are a few options that machine. Nobody doubts the strength of the 2017 Toyota Tundra. If we still doubt its performance, then try to do a comparison with some other cars similar production of other manufacturers.
Engine and performance
(1) 4.5L valve V8 that can generate power of 365 hp at 5000 rpm. The resulting EPA rating is 20 mpg in the city and 29 mpg on the highway. (2) 3.7L Ti-VCT 4 valve V8 FFV that can generate power of 302 hp at 6500 rpm. EPA ratings are 29 mpg generated in the city and 27 mpg on the highway. (3) 5.0L 4 valve V8 capable of producing power of 360 hp at 5500 rpm. EPA ratings are 19 mpg generated in the city and 27 mpg on the highway. (4) 6.2L valve V8 capable of producing power of 411 hp at 5500 rpm. The resulting EPA rating is 15 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway. If you are drooling to see the engine, here is the detail. When we decided to get a car that uses a 3.7L Ti-VCT engine valve V8 FFV 4.
What you will get from Toyota Tundra is pretty sick because it has been the most competitive car for another truck in its class. You will get more technology in the interior including the features like navigation, entertainment and more. What you will see only enhancement on the cabin and some improvement on the seat that comes with more comfortable seat. The audio system is also enhanced with easier control on the dashboard. You will also get the leather cover for the seat
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Experience historic terrain in a totally new light: rocky terrain, muddy tires and that rugged outback feeling. You can own it! The evergreen, serene landscape ...
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The Department of Campus Recreation is proud to offer the UTSA community, including students, faculty/staff, alumni and their spouses or partners, state-of-the-art recreation and wellness facilities. The Recreation Center and Recreational Field Complex are located on the Main Campus, directly across the street from the Convocation Center and there is a Fitness Center and outdoor Sports Court on the Downtown Campus.
The Recreation Center includes the following recreation and leisure spaces:
- 12,000 square foot weight room
- 4 multipurpose courts (4 basketball, 5 volleyball, 2 badminton)
- 1 multipurpose Activity Court (indoor soccer, basketball)
- Demonstration kitchen
- Fitness assessment/consultation room
- Games lounge
- 1/6 of a mile indoor jogging track
- Smoothie bar
- 3,000 square foot cardio room
- 4 racquetball courts
- 4 group exercise studios
- Massage studio
- 2 meeting rooms
- Women's & Men's locker rooms
- Abs/core and stretching area
- TV lounge
The Recreation Field Complex is a nine-field synthetic turf, lighted complex used for open recreation, intramural sports and club sports activities.
The Fitness Center at the Downtown Campus features weight and cardio equipment with cable TV integrated into each piece of cardio equipment and a group fitness studio for group fitness classes. Campus Recreation also offers fitness programs, lockers and massage therapy service at the Downtown Campus.
Aside from managing facility space, the Department of Campus Recreation is made up of program areas which facilitate recreation and wellness opportunities both on and off campus. Those program areas include: Informal Recreation, Intramural Sports, Fitness & Wellness, Club Sports, and Outdoor Pursuits. These program areas offer a variety of opportunities ranging from drop-in recreation, traditional sports, leagues and tournaments, to group exercise classes and outdoor adventure activities.
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The organization of USAID seeks to tap the creativity, energy and innovative ideas of individuals and organizations around the world to discover new ways to tackle global challenges.
Smoke Rise member, Ken Ayers, is one of those motivated individuals who has taken on
short term assignments in many places around the world. Ken's background of working for a non-profit in international development for 10 years, plus 5 years with The Peace Corps, has given him a valuable perspective on the world. He got started on volunteering for USAID when he took his vacation time one year and took on one of the short term projects. These assignments sometimes are about train
ing other trainers who work in the area but typically involve doing an evaluation of the whole process that occurs from the farmer to the consumer. This is referred to as the value chain: it includes the growers, marketers, infrastructure, transportation, and financing. The goal is to see where the system is breaking down, who is getting left out, and what can be done to improve the lives of the people who live in the area. Ken recently led a 7 day workshop in Nepal for the local community leaders and farmers. His heart was particularly burdened for the most vulnerable of that culture – women, children, the disabled and the poorest of the poor. Child labor is a big problem. "It takes a whole family to survive there. I thought, there must be a way for the family to have a sustainable life without children having to work."
"God leads me with encouragement for this work."
It was apparent that God had plans for Ken's life to have a positive impact on people in many parts of the world. After surviving an attempted robbery including having his throat cut in 1996, Ken rededicated his life to God. His volunteer work for USAID has led him to Macedonia, Ethiopia, Guinea, Angola, Bangladesh, Guyana, Nicaragua, and Nigeria. He will soon be going to Sierra Leone for 3 weeks. Ken says that what impacts him as a person of faith the most is the time for prayer away from all the typical conveniences and distractions of home, being among these vulnerable people, and the feeling of closeness to God it brings. "God leads me with encouragement for this work."


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A 78-year-old Gary woman was killed Saturday night when a van being driven by her husband struck a traffic barrier and crashed into another car on I-80 in Lake County, Indiana.
Charles O. Hawkins, 74, of Gary was driving the 2006 Chrysler van about 6 p.m. when the vehicle hit a traffic barrier in the eastbound lanes of I-80 at the northbound exit to I-65, according to a release from the Indiana State Police.
The van went out of control and struck an eastbound 2003 Toyota near the 11.5 mile marker on I-80.
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While it may sound like a measuring device for Lilliputians, the Nanoruler is actually a tool used for patterning large gratings with very high accuracy. Created by a team led by Mark Schattenburg at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, the device uses scanning-beam interference lithography (SBIL) to pattern gratings with distortions that are 10 to 100 times smaller than previously available.
Traditional mechanical ruling is extremely slow, taking many weeks to rule certain gratings. Electron beam and leaser beam lithography techniques produce gratings with a great deal of high spatial-frequency errors due to beam deflection jitter. The Nanoruler avoids these problems by sanning a high-fidelity grating image over the substance. The SBIL technique keeps the beams small so that a precise, high-quality grating image is obtained. Then the substrate is scanned under the fixed image using a high-performance air-bearing stage. By overlapping scans, even the small distortions of the fringes in the grating image are smoothed out, resulting in a large rating with extremely small distortions. Once applied, the system is capable of patterning gratings down to 200 nm on 300-mm dia substrates in 20 min—10 to 1,000 times faster than previous techniques.
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eBrandAid Churns Out the 3 Best Butter Substitutes
Our last Label Lesson spread the word about the benefits of real butter.
In addition to being darn tasty, butter comes naturally packaged with many nutrients that can help protect you from chronic disease.
And, the whipped butter varieties taste just as yummy but are lower in calories, fat and cholesterol than regular butter.
Today, we turn the spotlight on butter substitutes.
Sadly, looking for the best picks here was no easy feat. Most of the brands we investigated turned out to be merely "healthy food imposters."
Sure, they all tout ZERO TRANS FATS, LESS SATURATED FATS and ZERO CHOLESTEROL – and promises of "tastes just like the real thing" – but upon closer inspection…well, read on for the eBrandAid truth about three popular choices.
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spread
Calories 80, Fat 6g (2g saturated fat, 0g trans), Cholest. 0g, and Sodium 90mg
INGREDIENTS: Vegetable Oil Blend (Liquid Soybean Oil, Liquid Canola Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Water, Sweet Cream Buttermilk (Adds a Dietarily Insignificant amount of cholesterol), Salt, Soy Lecithin, Vegetable Mono and Diglycerides, Potassium Sorbate (Used to Protect Quality), Citric Acid, Artificial Flavor, Vitamin A Palmitate, Beta Carotene (for Color).
Blue Bonnet Soft Spread
Calories 80, Fat 6g (2g saturated fat, 0g trans), Cholest. 0mg, and Sodium 125mg
INGREDIENTS: Liquid Soybean Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Water, Whey, Salt, Vegetable Mono- and Diglycerides and Soy Lecithin (Emulsifiers), Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate (to Preserve Freshness), Artificial Flavor, Phosphoric Acid (Acidulant), Vitamin A Palmitate, Colored with Beta Carotene (Source of Vitamin A).
Brummel & Brown Spread with Yogurt
Calories 45, Fat 5g (saturated fat 1g, 0 trans fat), Cholest. 0mg, Sodium 90mg
INGREDIENTS: Vegetable Oil Blend (Liquid Soybean Oil and Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Water, Nonfat Yogurt (Cultured Nonfat Milk), Salt, Gelatin, Vegetable Mono and Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, (Potassium Sorbate, Calcium Disodium EDTA) used to Protect Quality, Lactic Acid, Artificial Flavor, Vitamin A (Palmitate), Beta Carotene (for Color).
Decoding the fine print
After reading the fine print on the ingredients list of these top-selling "healthy spreads" here's what We Can't Believe:
- They all claim "zero trans fats" on the front label, yet their ingredients lists contain Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil – that's a code term for trans fats. What a scam!
- "Everything tastes better with Blue Bonnet on it" is a catchy jingle, but can anything really taste better covered with partially hydrogenated soybean oil, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate and artificial flavors? We think not!
- Adding yogurt to a spread choked with artery clogging fat doesn't make it a healthy choice.
- After tasting this stuff, we can't believe that anyone can't seriously believe it's not butter. These spreads taste NOTHING like butter to us!
Note to self: Many sneaky food manufacturers still use the trans fat labeling loophole that allows them to claim zero trans fats as long as the per serving amount is less than 0.5 grams.
Reality Check
Okay, in theory, healthy spreads are supposed to be better for you because they're made from heart-healthy vegetable oils, so they contain way less saturated fat and cholesterol than real butter.
It sure sounds like a better bargain for your health…but not if these butter substitutes contain hidden sources of trans fats and too many hard-to-pronounce additives.
But, if the thought of using the real deal still doesn't butter your muffin, you'll be happy to know that our slick sleuths worked extra hard to bring you the goods – as in good spreads that are good for you too!
Best Brands
Earth Balance Margarine Natural Buttery Spread Lactose Free
Calories 100, Fat 11g, Saturated 3.5g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 120mg
INGREDIENTS: Expeller Pressed Natural Oil Blend (Soybean, Palm fruit, and Canola Seed and Olive), Filtered Water, Pure Salt, Natural Flavor (Derived from Corn, No MSG, No Alcohol, No Gluten), Soy Protein, Soy Lecithin, Lactic Acid (Non-Dairy, Derived from Sugar Beets)
Decoding the fine print: This 100% vegan spread contains 100% expeller-pressed oils and comes with no trans fats (honestly, no trans fats) and no added preservatives.
Olivio Spreadable Butter with Canola & Olive Oil
Calories 80, Fat 10g, Saturated 3.5g, Cholest. 10mg, Sodium 85mg
INGREDIENTS: Sweet Cream, Canola Oil, Light Olive Oil, Salt, Flaxseed Oil and Natural Flavoring.
Decoding the fine print: This spread combines the best of both worlds – sweet cream plus healthy oils. It's also low in saturated fats and cholesterol – and contains no trans fat!
Smart Balance Omega Plus™ Buttery Spread
Calories 80, Fat 9g, Saturated fat 2.5g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 90mg
INGREDIENTS: Natural Oil Blend (Soybean Oil, Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Olive Oil), Water, plant sterols, contains Less Than 2% Of Salt, Whey, Soybean Lecithin, Potassium Sorbate, Lactic Acid (To Protect Freshness), Natural & Artificial Flavor, Vitamin 3, Calcium Disodium EDTA, Vitamin A Palmitate & Beta-Carotene Color.
Decoding the fine print: This spread gets our SilverMedal Distinction – it's a good choice, but it's just not the best. Here's the skinny: It contains healthy oils, no trans fats, plus the added benefit of natural plant sterols which help support healthy cholesterol levels. But, it falls short of our BestBrands standard because it contains a few preservatives and artificial flavors.
Bottom Line: A healthy spread isn't healthy if it contains trans fats and enough junk ingredients to make your health…toast!
Remember, when you're armed with a little eBrandAid know-how, you're in control at the grocery store.