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I finally built my long awaited Mame Cabinet - sort of
I got an iCade because I was able to download iMame from iTunes when it was up there momentarily just before it was pulled from the service. It is possible to add more games to it and it allows your iPhone, iPod or iPad to function as a Mame tablet. Combine it with the iCade and you can turn it into a cheap Mame Cabinet. I am thinking about doing a proper sit down mame cab sometime in the future though but this will suffice for now.
Now I own the white rimmed iPad2 - they were fresh out of black ones when I went to go get one and I think the black rimmed iPad2 would look even better in this iCade cab. :P
If you have jailbroken your device it is possible to download the Mame4All package and run that instead. Mind you the iPad 2 still is not possible to be jailbroken. I have an iPad2 and an iPhone4 and both work great with this iCade cabinet. It is also possible to use this blue tooth arcade stick with Android tablets running a version of Mame compatible with this too :P
so it is not iOS only!
Soundtrack leader by ZombieAndy1979 aka Synthmonkey


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Lung cancer drug in clinical trial at hospital
A new lung cancer drug is now available through a clinical trial at Norwalk Hospital and is considered promising for patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to a news release from the hospital. The medicine targets a specific gene mutation in their tumors, according to Dr. Richard Frank, oncologist/hematologist.
There are two major types of lung cancer, non-small cell and small cell. Diagnostic testing guides treatment by determining the type and stage of the cancer, as well as genetic mutations in the cancer cells. Based on this information, the treatment of lung cancer is increasingly tailored for each patient.
Today, oncologists will order DNA testing on a lung cancer specimen to see if it contains an alteration in a specific gene, such as the epidermal growth factor receptor. In these situations, the EGFR mutant is a strong driver of cancer growth, and blocking the EGFR from working often causes the cancer to go into remission, he said.
"Patients with cancers that harbor an EGFR mutation are treated with erlotinib (Tarceva) or afatinib (Gilotrif), oral therapies that specifically block EGFR from functioning."
Scientists have discovered that in more than half of these cases, a new DNA mutation has developed in EGFR, called T790M, according to the hospital. The T790M mutation, according to Frank, causes erlotinib and afatinib to lose their effectiveness.
"Fortunately, newer medicines are in development that block EGFR despite the presence of T790M. The drug that we are testing in Norwalk is one of these new medicines," he said.
In this clinical trial, eligible patients with lung cancer that harbors an EGFR mutation and that has progressed despite treatment with erlotinib or afatinib will have their cancers tested for the presence of T790M. If this mutation is present, they will receive the new medicine. All patients will receive this study drug; there is no placebo.
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By NICK McQUEEN
With the way things have been going lately, there hasn't been much work available for Hays Larks closer David Owen.
So, when called upon Sunday night in the Larks' series finale with the Derby Twins at Larks Park, the Arkansas State University product was a little rusty.
In a see-saw battle with the Larks leading 5-4, Owen admitted he was a bit on edge after a rough eighth inning of relief.
He shook it off, though, and eventually saved the one-run win for Hays, its 21st in the Jayhawk League.
"I was a little nervous to be honest," said Owen, who recorded his team-leading fifth save of the summer. "I hadn't throw in a while, because we really haven't had that many close games."
The win pushed the Larks to 29-11 overall and 21-10 in league play, two games up on Wellington in the league race. Derby fell to 16-20, 13-19.
In a game where the Larks had to battle back twice, Owen came on in the eighth and wasn't quite as dominant as he had been in his previous 17 appearances. He walked the first batter he faced in the heart of the Twins' order, Jason McMurray, who eventually advanced to second. Then, a little luck went the Larks way. Dylan Boston, a thorn in the Larks' side all night, had a line drive to short stop with McMurray on his way to third, but the ball bounced off McMurray's ankle.
"That's a nice win for us. We'll take it," Hays manager Frank Leo said. "The top of their order is good and their bullpen is very good."
After that play, Owen recorded a fly out for the third out, then pitched a perfect ninth with two strikeouts to seal the deal.
"I just couldn't find my release point, so I got a little nervous," said Owen, who has 28 strikeouts in 25.2 innings. "In the ninth I cam out and I was doing alright, but I still wasn't confident I could pinpoint where I wanted, but by the end of the night ..."
The thrilling finish came after Clayton Garland provided the Larks with heroics in the fifth. After the Larks fell in a 4-3 hole, Garland produced his third hit of the night. His single drove in Aaron Cornell and Ty Gilmore to give Hays its first lead. The previous inning, the Larks left the bases loaded after scoring a run to tie the game.
"You always will be disappointed when you have offensive opportunities," Leo said. "You won't cash in on every one of them. We had a chance to break that game open and didn't get it done.
"Clayton Garland, like he's done all year, comes up big for us," Leo added. "We were going to sac bunt originally, but he swings good against lefties (Derby pitcher Jaime MacLean)."
In the second inning, Garland gave Hays its first run when he connected on the first pitch he saw for a solo home run to right field. An inning later, Brent Gillespie did the same thing to pull Hays within 3-2.
Gillespie then tied the game with a fly out to center in the fourth before Hays left the bases loaded.
Derby scored its fourth run with two outs in the fifth against Larks newcomer Ross Vance, who made his Larks debut. DJ Carr came in to pitch against Boston, who had a two-run homer to put Derby up 2-0 in the first, and a double to put Derby up 3-1 in the third. Carr (1-0) got Boston to fly out and eventually earned the win.
"We put him in a tough spot," Leo said of Vance, a West Virginia signee. "He looks like he handles left-handers well, so we'll see.
"We don't have a whole lot of time to make some decisions," Leo added. "We still have to make some pitching moves, because we're still pretty thin."
The win Sunday came after a disappointing 3-2 loss against Derby on Saturday night where the Larks wasted a complete-game gem for starter Nick Goza. Goza gave up three runs (all unearned) in the sixth inning after an error at shorstop. It was Goza's first loss of the summer.
"We didn't play well (Saturday)," Leo said. "He pitched a heck of a ball game, but had one minor bump, and they took advantage of it."
Still, Hays took two of three in the series, and guaranteed it will finish no worse than second in the Jayhawk League.
The top two teams earn a berth in the "Championship Week" of the National Baseball Congress World Series. Still, one more win -- either on the road against Dodge City on Wednesday or at home Thursday against the A's -- �will wrap up Hays' second consecutive league title.
"We know we have to win one more game to clinch," Owen said. "We just have to keep doing what we do best."


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This bread is every bit as substantial and savory as wholegrain bread,
but contains no grains, which makes it suitable for people allergic to
gluten, those following the "Specific Carbohydrate Diet", and those
following other low carbohydrate diets. The large amount of flaxseed
provides plenty of Omega-3 PUFAs and phytoestrogens. Try adding grated
vegetables, green herbs, or a dash of fish sauce for variation. The
bread must be stored in a closed plastic bag in the refrigerator -
where it will keep for 3-4 days - to prevent it from going stale.
Cooking Instructions
1) Combine flaxseed, water, extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, brown
rice vinegar, tamari, honey, cumin, fennel seeds, and
coriander seeds in a bowl and mix well.
2) Add the ground hazelnuts little by little while stirring
constantly. Knead the dough for 2-3 minutes until the ground hazelnuts
are evenly distributed.
3) Transfer the dough to a loaf shaped baking tin approx. 9.5x4x6
inches (1L) lined with baking paper and bake the bread for 1 hour in a
400 degree F (200° C) hot oven.
4) Leave the hazelnut bread at room temperature to cool down before
removing from the baking tin.


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Coming to terms with the A to Z of gardening
If you're new to gardening, you're probably still working on a few basics. You can tell a pansy from a petunia, but you still haven't quite figured out what the three numbers on the side of a bag of fertilizer stand for, or what mulch is, or what exactly people mean when they say they have been deadheading.
What you could use is a basic primer in the language of gardening, a quick guide to rudimentary garden terms like biennial and bare-root, cultivar and carpet bedding, humus and hybrids, pollarding and pricking out. So here's an easy A-to-Z of basic terms.
Acid soil: Soil — perfect soil for rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers and hydrangeas — that has a pH of less than 6.5 and turns litmus paper red. Also see pH.
Aeration: A way of getting air to grass roots by by poking holes into the ground. Essential for great lawns.
Alkaline soil: The opposite of acidic soil, this chalky soil has pH of more than 7.5 and turns litmus paper blue.
Annual: Hardy and half-hardy annuals are plants that completes their life cycle in a single season, going from seed to flower or fruit before dying.
Bare-root: A plant that has been dug up and packaged without soil around its roots. Mail orders from nurseries are mostly dispatched bare-root.
Bedding plants: Mostly annuals (although can include biennials) that are "bedded out" in spring to provide summer color.
Biennial: Plants that complete their life cycle in two seasons, starting from seed and establishing leaves and a stem in the first year and flowering the following year. Examples: Foxgloves, wallflowers, canterbury bells.
Cambium: The green layer of living tissue just below the woody surface of a branch. A sign that your plant is still alive.
Compost: Dark, blackish humus formed from the decomposition of organic matter. Can be used to enrich soil or as a mulch.
Cultivar: Short for `cultivated variety,' this refers to a plant produced through hybridization, rather than found in nature.
Carpet bedding: A style of planting, popular with the early Victorians, involving the tight planting of annuals to create intricate floral patterns.
Deadhead: Removal of faded flowers in order to: 1) maintain tidy appearance of the garden; 2) promote flower production by preventing the plant developing seeds; and 3) in some cases, such as with delphiniums and lupins, to induce a second flush of flowers later in the season.
Die-back: The dead part of a shoot or branch that has been incorrectly pruned.
Division: What you do to perennials every three or four years when they have grown big enough to be split into more plants. Division is usually done in spring or fall.
Dormant: Winter sleep for plants. Technically, it means there is little or no cellular activity. It's something plants do to survive winter and save energy for the new season.
Drip line: Area around a tree where the tips of roots are located, usually where water drips from the canopy of leaves.
Espalier: The art of training a tree into a variety of shapes or patterns. Perfected by French gardeners, espaliering is one way of training a tree (or shrub) to lie flat against a wall or trellis in a symmetrical pattern. A popular espalier design is called the Belgian fence.
Forcing: Getting plants to flower out of season by manipulating temperature, humidity and light.
Fastigiate: A plant with a column-like shape to it.
Frost pocket: An area of the garden where cold air gets trapped during winter. Only the tougher, more hardy plants can survive in frost pockets.
Genus: The family name for a group of plants related to one another. It is the first word in a plant's proper name: Lonicera, Fuchsia, Cotoneaster, for example. A plant has three names: genus (first), species (second), cultivar or variety (third) as in Acer campestre `Postelense'.
Grafting: Propagating by taking the stem or bud of one plant and joining it to the root or stem of another.
Hardening off: Gradually acclimatizing a plant to being out of the warmth of the greenhouse in order to get it ready for planting into the garden.
Hardiness: Measure of a plant's ability to withstand extremes of cold and frost or harsh conditions. Also see Zones.
Heading back: Pruning back the main branches of a tree or shrub by a third to half.
Heeling-in: What you are doing when you temporarily plant a tree or shrub in a holding-bed until you are ready to find a permanent home for it.
Humus: Dark brown organic material formed from the decomposition of vegetable and certain animal matter. Humus is necessary to enrich soil and give it the necessary life to nourish and sustain plants.
Hybrid: A new plant produced by crossing two genetically different plants from the same or a closely related species. Not all hybrids are improvements on the parent species.
Insecticide: Chemical or soap-based spray used to control or kill such insect pests as aphids and red spider mites.
Island bed: Novel way of growing perennials. Instead of the traditional, long, yew-backed border, perennials are displayed in a circle, with the tallest (often delphiniums) in the centre.
Jardin de refuse: Polite way of describing temporary lodgings for plants you can't use, but can't bring yourself to throw away.
Juvenile foliage: New leaves that look different in their shape, size and color to the plant's more familiar adult foliage.
Knot-garden: An invention of medieval English gardeners who liked to weave low-growing herbs or boxwood hedging into elaborate, knot-like geometric patterns, sometimes with herbs or roses interplanted.
Layering: A way of propagating in which a trailing branch of a plant is bent down and anchored below ground level until roots form and the newly established plant can be safely cut away from the parent.
Leaf mould: Rotting or partly decomposed leaves that can be used as a mulch or dug into the soil to create useful organic matter.
Loam: The best kind of soil; moderately fertile, composed of clay, sand and humus with a texture that is neither too sandy nor too heavy.
Mulch: A layer of bulky organic matter usually placed around perennials to reduce moisture loss, inhibit weeds, improve soil and protect plants from frost. Good mulches include grass clippings, well-rotted compost and leaf mould.
Manure tea: Water in which compost has been allowed to soak to form a mild, fertilizing `tea.'
Native plant: Species that grows naturally in a certain location and not created by human cultivation.
Naturalize: Informal planting that mirrors nature's own relaxed style and design to create the impression that the plants are native.
NPK: Key plant-food ingredients of fertilizer: N for nitrogen, P for phosphorous and K for potassium. The numbers represent the percentage of each element in the mix. One way to remember what each chemical does is to memorize, Little Red Flower (L for leaf, fed by nitrogen; R for roots, strengthened by phosphorous, F for fruit or flower, promoted by potassium.)
Oxygenator: A submerged water plant that helps keep ponds clean by releasing oxygen into the water.
Perennial: A plant with the ability to survive winter and live on for several growing seasons.
pH: Measure (1 to 14) of acidity or alkalinity of soil. Lilac won't thrive in acidic soil, rhododendrons hate alkaline soil. The lower the pH the higher the acidity.
Pollarding: Cutting back the main branches of a tree to within inches of the trunk to create a distinct globe-effect.
Pricking out: Careful removal of seedlings from the original seed-tray into a roomier pot or growing space.
Pinching back: A way of encouraging bushiness in a plant by using your finger and thumb to pinch off growing tips.
Quercus: The botanical genus name for the oak family. Few English people know that their famous mighty oak is actually called Quercus robur.
Reversion: What happens when a plant goes back to the color or growing habit of its parent. Roses have been known to completely change color — a red becoming a yellow — when harsh pruning forces a reversion.
Rhizome: A horizontally creeping root system from which shoots and roots develop.
Rootbound: A bad sign that a plant has been left in a container too long, allowing roots to become become tangled and choked.
Species: A collection of individual plants with the same characteristics when grown in the same conditions.
Standard: A tree or shrub that is trained to grow a straight stem clear of branches.
Stock plants: The parent plants from which cuttings are taken for propagation purposes to ensure new plants are an exact clone.
Stress: A cry for help. Wilting or discolored foliage are two signs of stress, signals that a plant is suffering from a lack of water, food or too much sun, water or fertilizer.
Trace elements: The same thing as micronutrients: various chemicals that plants need in small doses in order to grow.
Tissue-culture: A high-tech way of propagating by "cloning" a plant by taking tiny piece of tissue and growing them in test tubes.
Topiary: The shaping of shrubs and trees into decorative forms.
Top-dressing: Putting a thin layer of new soil or compost around plants or on lawns to add nutrients to the soil.
Tuber: A fleshy root or stem that stores nutrients for later use.
Tufa: Porous limestone rock ideal for growing alpine plants.
Underplanting: Plants that have been placed beneath taller shrubs or trees, sometimes to provide leafy groundcover or seasonal color.
Umbrel: A rounded, often flattened head of flowers produced at the top of a long stem. Good example: the seed/flower head of an angelica plant.
Variegated: Leaves that are spotted or edged with a different color from the main one.
Variety: The same as cultivar: the variation of a species.
Vermicomposting: Composting using worms to do the job normally done by micro-organisms.
Weed: Two definitions: 1) A plant growing in the wrong place. 2) A plant for which a useful purpose has not yet been found.
Wild garden: Informal planting style that attempts to imitate nature. Popular with avant-garde landscape architects, not with most homeowners.
x: The symbol that denotes that a plant is a hybrid species.
Xeriscaping: Method of landscaping with drought-tolerant plant material to reduce the use of water by 50 per cent.
Yakushimanum: One of the best medium-sized species of rhododendrons for the small garden because of its compact form.
Zones: The world is divided into 10 climatic zones that are graded according to the average annual minimum temperatures. Zone 1 is the coldest (below -46 C) and zone 10 is the warmest (-1 C to 5 C). Plants that thrive in gardens here are generally those that can survive in zones 1 to 8


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Speaker: Dr. Vasudeva Varma (Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India)
Date/Time: Friday April 16, 2010, noon
Place: Newell-Simon Hall 3002
Title: Cross Language Information Access - An Indian Experience
In this talk, I briefly explain the cross language information retrieval research for Indian languages. There is a national wide mission mode project on cross language information access sponsored by Ministry of Communications and Information technology, Government of India involving ten Universities. I will talk about the major research issues and a possible roadmap for the CLIR research in Indian setting. I will also share our experiences with multi-lingual summarization.
Vasudeva Varma is a faculty member at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Since 2002. His research interests include search (information retrieval), information extraction, information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software engineering. He is heading Search and Information Extraction Lab and Software Engineering Research Lab at IIIT Hyderabad. He is also the chair of Post Graduate Programs since 2009. He published a book on Software Architecture (Pearson Education) and over sixty technical papers in journals and conferences. In 2004, he obtained young scientist award and grant from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for his proposal on personalized search engines. In 2007, he was given Research Faculty Award by AOL Labs.


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My older brother Luke is marrying his soul mate in just over a week from now. Amanda is awesome. She really is the perfect match for Luke and we're all so happy that she's officially going to be a part of our family.
Mom wanted to knit something for her to commemorate the event. She decided on the Celtic Knot Stole designed by Sarah Kendra Hughes. Luke, as well as his groomsmen (including Chris!) will be wearing kilts at the wedding. Luke's Scottish heritage is important to him, so the Celtic themed stole seemed perfectly appropriate. We brainstormed colourways and fibers and after much ado finally decided on this gorgeous custom colourway that Chris dyed for mom. It's the type of colour that is impossible to photograph! It changes with every light, sometimes looking green, then blue, then purple even gold! It's magical. Mom's ravelry Project page can be found here.
Mom worked on the stole on and off all summer. Now that it's officially finished and blocked, it truly is a work of art.
She used almost two skeins of TFA Silver Label Mulberry Silk yarn for this project. Amanda's tall and will look gorgeous and elegant in this large stole.
The perfect row of eyelets created by the knitted on border on each end is just the type of finishing that I love. I know that mom is very happy with it too.
When wrapped around your shoulders this stole is lush and cozy, but when held up to the light it's incredibly airy. I love it!
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Leper asylums, or leprosaria, were charitable institutions built to house people suffering from leprosy. As this was considered an 'unclean' disease, leprosaria were usually outside of their communities of origin. In the 1100s and 1200s, hundreds of leprosaria were built throughout Europe. By 1225 there were around 19,000. Of the 1100 hospitals that existed in medieval England, at least 345 were wholly or in part for lepers. Most tended to be a small collection of lodgings, offering food rather than treatment. Some, however, offered palliative treatment as it was understood at the time. This included bathing, herbal remedies, music, diet and exercise. Leprosaria were usually built on the outskirts of towns. Though isolated by location, lepers were permitted out of leprosaria to beg and visit friends.
As the incidence of leprosy declined, leprosaria were put to other uses. Many housed people suspected of carrying infectious diseases, individuals with mental illnesses and even the indigent. Holy Innocents, a leprosarium in Lincoln, was refounded in 1461 as an almshouse. Some became hospitals, such as the Hôpital des Petits Maisons near the monastery of St Germain des Pres outside Paris, which commenced as a leprosarium, and was later used for indigent syphilitics and sick pilgrims. St Giles, Holborn, west of the walls of London, was originally a leprosarium with accommodation for 40 lepers. During several outbreaks of plague in the 1300s, many became the first plague hospitals, also known as pesthouses or lazarettos. Other famous pesthouses were built at Dubrovnik (1377), Marseilles (1383) and Venice (1423).
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BibliographyC Rawcliffe, Leprosy in Medieval England (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006)
A chronic disease that affects the skin, mucous membrane and nerves. It is now confined mainly to the tropics and is transmitted by direct contact. Previously a widely feared disease, leprosy is not highly infectious.
A sexually transmitted infection resulting in the formation of lesions throughout the body.
An acute contagious fever with high levels of mortality. Both the 'Black Death' that swept Europe in the 1340s and the Great Plague of London in 1665 are believed to have been bubonic plague.


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The resolution the Estherville City Council passed Monday opposing siting a hog confinement 1.4 miles north of the city was fair and in the best interest of all of Emmet County.
While having a confinement so close to a community may be technically legal, it is in no way in the public interest.
New Fashion Pork's intent to install a $35,000 system to reduce odors from the confinement is beside the point. The "nutrients" (i.e. manure) will be spread around the surrounding property, totally defeating the purpose of trying to reduce odors emitted from the confinement.
While the economic benefits from the confinement would be minimal, the cost to Estherville property owners could be enormous. Some of the highest-valued homes in Estherville are on the north side of the city. Noxious livestock odors could devastate property values. No one wants to live in a neighborhood that smells.
In addition, if Emmet County split the cost of upgrading 140th Street from Level B to Level A, it would cost rural taxpayers over $50,000.
Our future quality of life, property values and ability to attract new residents to the community could very well be hanging in the balance over this issue. We heartily salute the Estherville City Council for its opposition to siting a hog confinement so close to the city.
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Harry Hill is to host a brand new revival of TV singing show Stars In Their Eyes.
ITV has announced that the revamp of the classic Saturday night show will feature all-new extraordinary transformations, with members of the public becoming their chosen pop stars with help from the industry's leading make-up and wardrobe stylists to perform their musical tributes.
Harry said: "Without a doubt, appearing on Stars In Their Eyes as Morrissey all those years ago – although beaten, unfairly in my view, by Kirsty Young's Peggy Lee – was one of the highlights of my light entertainment career.
"So imagine the smile bought to my lips when I was asked by ITV at a secret breakfast meeting in a top London hotel to take the reigns of this Rolls-Royce of pop-impression talent shows and walk in the footsteps of showbiz giants Crowther, Kelly and Deeley! And on ITV too! Dust off the wigs and sequins – I'm coming home!"
The new series of Stars In Their Eyes – from Initial, an Endemol company – promises to bring back the familiar dry ice and sliding doors in a brand new arena, as contestants compete to perform the best impersonation of their pop idols.
Mirella Breda, creative director of Initial, said: "It's incredibly exciting to be reviving a legendary format for ITV. Harry's brilliantly original comedic style offers a fresh twist and a unique spin on the series, which promises to appeal to audiences both old and new."
Stars In Their Eyes was originally hosted by Leslie Crowther in 1990 before Matthew Kelly took over in 1993. Davina McCall has hosted a special edition and Cat Deeley fronted the show between 2003 and 2006.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Two Firsts, One Night Shift
Then, in ninth grade he advised that I take French as it is the "language of diplomacy". Great choice. So now I have to learn Spanish and while French and Spanish are structurally very similar there is really not much crossover. I'm told that Italian and Spanish are VERY similar but that's no help either.
So tonight I took care of a French speaker and damned if I didn't understand almost everything he said. Problem, I answered him in franish. Merde!
Second first. I had to call the South African consulate (not really South Africa but it will serve for the purpose of HIPPA) regarding one of their citizens who got beat all to hell tonight by some local thug gang-bangers. In front of me he tried to die and he had, by CT scan, an intra-cranial bleed from the beating. I intubated him stat and flew him to the trauma center. We had no contact number for his family but I did have his passport. I then googled for the South African consulate and, after 10 minutes on hold, spoke with a nice gal who took all the information down and will work on family contact and provide him, if he lives, with assistance during his recovery. The Emergency Department, for all its faults, is rarely boring.
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J'utilise le francais de temps en temps pour les africains pour la plupart...rarement pour les vietnamiens aussi.ReplyDelete
Of course, Spanish would have been better, but I certainly show off when the opportunity arises. Like now, for instance.
J'utilise le français de temps en temps aussi, mais puisque je suis toujours un étudiant et je ne prends plus des cours de français, je ne l'utilise pas souvent.ReplyDelete
Think I got that right.
holy crap...I actually understood those comments! I DID retain some french!ReplyDelete
I, too, took many years of French in grade school, never to use it again, and then one semester of Spanish in college, followed up by a crashcourse by tape, book, and 3 weeks in a Central American language course several years later. And yeah, I certainly know the feeling of responding to someone in frenish.
I realize I am late on this post. I could not help but comment.ReplyDelete
I was quite fluent in german after living in Germany for 5 years and of course studying it in school. Now of course, german is absolutley useless to me.
I have slowly gained the the ability to understand about every third word when someone is speaking spanish, provided they are not machine gunning their speech (the tendency to speak quite fast and very loud).
I recently discovered a terrible disconnect.
When I think in a different language, I think in german.
Automatically, german comes out of my mouth and they still don't know what the h*ll I am saying.
Nice to know I am not alone.
I took 2 years of Spanish, I only used it once during a vacation to Mexico, where I talked to a local lady in Spanish, and called my wife "my husband".ReplyDelete
Local Mexican lady was nice enough not to laugh.


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CATS is the name of more than 1 thing: 1) A Popular Musical 2) A Korean Girl Group 3) A Dutch Group 1. CATS is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. CATS was first shown in London's West End, at New London Theatre, on May 11, 1981. It was originally produced onstage by Cameron Mackintosh and ALW's The Really Useful Theatre Company. The show then made its debut on Broadway on October 7, 1982 at the Winter Garden Theatre. On June 19, 1997 CATS became the longest running musical in Broadway history with 6,138 performances. It played a total of 8,949 performances in London and 7,485 in New York. Its New York record was surpassed on January 9, 2006 by The Phantom of the Opera, which was also composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. CATS' final performance on Broadway was on September 10, 2000. Its final performance in London's West End was on its 21st birthday, May 11, 2001 and broadcast on a large screen in Covent Garden to the delight of fans who could not acquire a ticket for the final performance. While CATS is often criticized for its lack of plot, it does have a minimal story used to string its musical numbers together. CATS tells of a particular English feline tribe, the Jellicles, who have come together for their annual Jellicle Ball at a junkyard to make the Jellicle Choice and announce the cat who can be reborn. Each cat "auditions" with a different song and/or dance number. Some minor complications involving the abduction of the Jellicle patriarch, Old Deuteronomy occur before a cat is chosen. It turns out to be Grizabella, "the Glamour Cat," whose now-faded charms do not prevent her from singing "Memory," the show's best-known song. It has been recorded by over 150 artists, and is considered by some to be Webber's signature tune. The lyrics are based on Eliot's poems "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" and "Preludes." In 1998, ALW produced a video version of CATS, based upon the stage performance (augmented for the media of film), starring Elaine Paige, who originated the role of Grizabella in London, Ken Page, who originated Old Deuteronomy on Broadway, Sir John Mills, Michael Gruber, and John Partridge, among other dancers and singers drawn largely from stage productions of the show. It was directed for film by David Mallet in London's Adelphi Theatre, and was released on VHS and DVD, as well as broadcast on Television worldwide. The show's popularity comes despite never being critically acclaimed. Many argue it has a mainstream, family appeal that many other more "prestigious" musicals are lacking. It is and has been one of the most-loved musicals of all time, being translated into over 20 languages. 2. The Cats is a band from the Netherlands (the town of Volendam). De group had 19 Top 10-hits in the Dutch charts between 1966 and 1980. Their music is characterized by big orchestral arrangments and beautiful vocal harmonies. They had the most influence on a typical Dutch music-style, called 'Palingsound', which was developed by bands from Volendam. Among them are The George Baker Selection and BZN.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
A top finished, and a UFO complete!
I am so excited to be able to post some progress so soon. I finished the top from the Planet Patchwork mystery of New Years day. ( Sorry the photo is so bad. This top is currently hanging over the crab apple quilt that has been on my design wall forever!) I am not really crazy about the outer border, but since I cut it during the prep-work for the mystery, I decided to use it and save the money a new choice would cost.
And to top that off, I also finished a UFO from the fall of 2010. And this was one that I was thinking would never be completed. It is a weekender bag from an Amy Butler pattern. I had some trouble working with the thickness of the layers on this one. It was quite painful to my hands trying to pin the layers before sewing. It was so bulky, I just could not get an accurate seam. Even after an extensive tear apart and re-sew, I am not really happy with how this turned out. But, I faced it, and I tackled it, and it is DONE! I even used it this weekend. But, I will not be making another. Period.
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Monday, January 2, 2012
A New Year, a New Start.
As you have noticed, I have been inactive for quite a while. Last year brought many changes to my life. We welcomed two new members into our family- our granddaughter, Grace, and our daughter-in-law Crystal.
And I began watching Grace part-time while her parents are working. This has taken away a great deal of my free time. So quilting has been ignored. That is why my design wall still looks like this.
But yesterday I was able to participate in the planet patchwork mystery. And this is what I have up to this point. Not finished with the top yet, but almost!
I am embarrassed to have to photograph it on my sewing table. That tree quilt has been up on the design wall far too long! My goal is to have both tops completed this week. (It could happen, really.) I hope to be doing much more quilting and posting this year.
If you want to see more design wall inspiration, hop on over to Patchwork Times and check out the links.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
So many distractions, so little sewing time
This past month has had so many distractions that I have not really had any time to sew. For one, we had our annual family camping trip with my extended family. I wish I had some nice photos to share with you from that trip, but unfortunately my camera broke, so I have none. But, we did have fantastic weather all week and a good time was had by all.
After our week of vacation, I started watching my granddaughter 2-3 days a week. I really treasure the opportunity to bond with her. I love being a grandma! I am trying to squeeze in a little quilting when I can, but progress is slow.
This is what my design wall looks like today. I have a few days open, so with a bit of luck, this will all be stitched together to this point by the end of the week.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Still Uncertain About this One
On my last post, I showed a picture of my current project up on my design wall. I asked for opinions on my setting triangles, because I wasn't sure about the navy. And several of you were nice enough to comment that you liked the navy. And the more I looked, so did I. But something was still bothering me about the quilt. It wasn't until someone pointed out that she thought the red was overpowering the blocks that it made sense. I was so determined to give this quilt a Christmas feel, that I totally missed the misplaced red. I have been playing around on EQ with some alternate options. This one is speaking to me at the moment. What do you think? Is this better, or is the center now too light?
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Monday, June 20, 2011
DWM- June 20
As you can see, I have my tree blocks on my wall again this week. All of the blocks are complete and I am playing with the setting elements. I know I want to stay with the red and gold, as this is intended to be a Christmas quilt. But I am just not certain about the navy. Any thoughts?
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Something new for the design wall...wow, has it been a while!
Last post I said I was finally going to be able to do some quilting again. So naturally, the very next day my machine started acting up. I was doing some machine quilting and somehow managed to throw the timing off. I was working on this at the time.
I am fortunate enough to have a back-up machine, but I like the stitch quality better of my main machine for quilting. So I put this quilt aside for when I get that machine back from repairs and started a new project.
Here is what I have so far. Some of these are only partially stitched together. And I still need to make some more blocks.
These blocks are from the Crab Apples quilt pattern in Bonnie Hunter's book 'Adventures with Leaders and Enders'. I am working with my scraps on this one and I can't really tell I have used any from the looks of my scrap bins. Sigh. I guess I will need to try a few more of the patterns in the book.
To see what other quilters are working on, check out Judy's blog.
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(Fracture, Vertebral Compression)
The bones of the back are called the vertebrae. A vertebral fracture is a break in one of these bones. A vertebral compression fracture occurs when the front part of the bone is squeezed or compressed.
Vertebral Fracture
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A vertebral compression fracture can be caused by:
- Osteoporosis —a condition of weakened bones
- A blow to the back
- Falling down
- Landing on your heels when jumping from a height
- Having major trauma such as a motor vehicle accident
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Factors that increase your chance of vertebral compression fractures include:
- Osteoporosis
- Trauma
- Cancer
- Use of antipsychotic medications
- Proton pump inhibitors
- Poor mental functioning
- Poor mobility
- Poor strength
- Previous vertebral fracture within the last year
Symptoms may include:
- Mild to severe pain in the middle or lower back
- Numbness, tingling, or weakness
- Difficulty walking
- Loss of control of the bowel or bladder
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
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You may be tested to determine if you have osteoporosis. This can be done with a bone mineral density test.
Treatment includes:
Vertebroplasty involves liquid cement being injected into the vertebra. It can help relieve the pain associated with vertebral fractures. It is not suitable for everyone. The procedure may be best for recent fractures. Talk with your doctor to see if this option may be right for you. For example, it may not be as helpful in people whose fractures are due to osteoporosis.
In kyphoplasty, a balloon is used to create a cavity. The cement is injected into the cavity. This procedure is designed to relieve pain. It can also improve spinal deformities from the fractures.
Spinal fusion may be used to join together two or more bones in the spine. This procedure stops the bones from moving.
Nonsurgical Treatments
Your doctor may advise:
- A brief period of bed rest and a decrease in activity
- Medication to control the pain
- Strengthening exercises for your back muscles
- A back brace
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To prevent further bone loss, medications may include:
- Estrogen/progesterone hormone replacement therapy
- Bisphosphonates to prevent loss of bone mass
- Estrogen agonist/antagonist to treat weak or thin bones
- Calcitonin to regulate calcium levels in the body
- Parathyroid hormone to regulate calcium and phosphate levels in the body
The following may also be advised:
- Vitamin and mineral supplements, especially calcium combined with vitamin D
- Lifestyle changes —These may include weight-bearing and resistance exercises for both the upper and lower extremities.
Building strong bones will help prevent fractures. However, most bone strength is attained by women before they are 25 years old. That makes maintaining bone density and strength at older ages even more important.
Follow these prevention guidelines:
- Get plenty of weight-bearing exercise. This includes walking, jogging, or sports such as tennis.
- Do resistance exercises for arms and legs. This will help to improve your strength and balance.
- Get plenty of calcium, vitamin D, and protein in your diet. Talk to your doctor if you think you need supplements.
- If you have osteoporosis, you should talk to your doctor about treatment options. If you had an early menopause, talk to your doctor about this.
- If you smoke, talk to your doctor about ways to quit.
- Drink alcohol only in moderation. Moderate alcohol intake is 2 drinks per day for men and 1 drink per day for women.
- Remove any obstacles in your home that could cause you to fall. These may include throw rugs or furniture.
National Osteoporosis Foundation http://www.nof.org
Women's Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca
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Committee on Practice Bulletins-Gynecology, The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG Practice bulletin 129. Osteoporosis. Obstet Gynecol. 2012;120(3):718-734. Reaffirmed 2014.
Kallmes DF, Comstock BA, et al. A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spinal fractures. NEJM. 2009;361(6):569-579.
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Ullom-Minnich P. Prevention of osteoporosis and fractures. Am Fam Physician. 1999;60(1):194-202.
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Fight Club OC will have a historic ladies night inside the ring on Thursday.
The nine-bout card will feature a women's mixed martial arts fight and a women's boxing fight at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa at 7:30 p.m. The ladies battling inside the Hangar aren't household names, but Newport Beach promoter Roy Englebrecht said the professional women MMA and boxing bouts on the same card will be a first in the fight game.
The first women scheduled to step into the ring will be boxers Rhonda Luna and Crystal Morales. Luna has experience, having fought for 13 years. The Rowland Heights fighter brings a 16-3-2 record into her 135-pound bout against Morales (7-8-1), who's from Oxnard.
Luna has taught high school English. She will try to make sure her gloves, not verbs, supply all the action against a fighter who has dropped four of her last five fights.
The next women to battle are two MMA fighters looking for their first pro victory. Lake Forest's Rachael Cummins is up against Victorville's Maia Kahaunaele in a 125-pound flyweight matchup.
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The rest of the card features men, including seven unbeaten fighters. There are five boxing bouts and two MMA bouts on tap.
The headline fight is a heavyweight one between Jonathan Hamm (6-1 with five knockouts) and Andrae Carthron (6-9-2).
Hamm, who's from Atlanta, returns to the Hangar after he scored a third-round knockout against Kevin Howard in April. Hamm has won two straight since suffering his only loss, coming in February against Joshua Clark.
Carthron lost both of his fights last year.
Brazilian Hamilton Ventura puts his unbeaten record on the line in a cruiserweight bout against French Polynesian Karihi Tehei (3-1). Until his last contest, a draw, Ventura (8-0-1) had knocked out each of his eight opponents.
There will be an OC connection in a super lightweight fight. Anaheim's Dwain Victorian, 21, is making his pro debut against Cory Muldrew (0-2), who's from of Chandler, Ariz.
Victorian is the 2012 California Golden Gloves champion.
In heavyweight action, Missouri's Charles Martin brings a 7-0-1 record against Kentucky's Joshua Clark (2-1-2). Martin has knocked out three opponents in the first round and two in the second. Two of Clark's last three fights have gone the distance.
The other boxing fight is in the cruiserweight division between Long Beach's Malanga D'Hue (1-0) and Keith Busch (1-0), who's from Chandler, Ariz. D'Hue won his pro debut at the OC Fair & Event Center in April.
There are two 155-pound lightweight MMA bouts. Irvine's Darren Smith (3-3) meets Los Angeles' James Moontasri (4-0), and Irvine's Steven Ciaccio (1-0) faces Visalia's Jonathan Contrestano (2-0).


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IRS: 'Mistakes were made'
The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday to conservative political groups for giving their tax documents extra scrutiny — validating the worst fears of Republican activists who have long accused the Obama administration of politicizing the process.
Roughly 75 groups were singled out using words like "tea party" or "patriot" in tax documents, Lois Lerner, who is responsible for overseeing tax-exempt groups, said on a hastily arranged conference call Friday afternoon.
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The White House said Friday that the IRS inspector general is investigating the matter.
"What we know about this is of concern," White House press secretary Jay Carney said, emphasizing that the IRS is an independent agency with only two political appointees. The agency is technically a division of the Treasury Department.
( Also on POLITICO: Where does IRS look for cheats?)
"It certainly does seem to be based on what we've seen to be inappropriate action that we would want to see thoroughly investigated," Carney said.
Decisions to review the conservative groups were made by career employees in Cincinnati, Lerner said, but she declined to say if anyone has been disciplined. Lerner added that the IRS never denied tax exempt status to any conservative organization — it only asked for additional information.
"Mistakes were made initially, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan rationale," the IRS said in a separate statement.
The announcement is the latest black eye for an agency that has been criticized by members of Congress from both parties, reform groups and conservative activists for its handling of politically active tax-exempt nonprofits.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called for President Barack Obama to order a "transparent, government-wide review" to see if similar practices are happening elsewhere in the administration.
( Also on POLITICO: Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers)
House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany told POLITICO he will launch an "aggressive" investigation. "We're not going to let this rest," the Louisiana Republican said.
"The IRS cannot target or intimidate any individual or organization based on their political beliefs. The House will investigate this matter," said Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
Outside groups on both sides have increasingly chosen to organize as nonprofits — regulated and reviewed by the IRS instead of the Federal Election Commission. Their nonprofit status exempts those groups from paying federal taxes — and unlike super PACs, allows them to hide their donors.
Major outside groups like the Karl Rove-affiliated Crossroads GPS, Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity and the pro-Barack Obama group Priorities USA are organized as 501(c)(4) nonprofits.
( Also on POLITICO: The Tea Party Caucus returns)
The IRS statement said the agency "should have done a better job" dealing with the dramatic influx in applications for 501(c)(4) status.
"When we see an uptick in applications from a particular type of group…that we don't ordinarily see, what we do is we centralize those applications into one group to work on them. We do this all the time," Lerner told reporters. "The problem here was that in some cases they added actual case names to the list. They added 'tea party' and 'patriot' to the list of cases that should be centralized in this group."


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Garden Gate: Plant for color all summer long
Sometimes we might want to plant an area with blooming flowers we can rely on for color all summer. Long-blooming perennials make this a possibility. We can consider these long blooming perennials the "workhorses" of the garden.
Our wish for continuous blooming would be a lot easier if we would just take time to do a little planning. You could have a multitude of plants that flower for a brief time or plants that bloom for months on end. Are you tired of planting and re-planting every year? Or maybe the combination of quick bloomers and long bloomers would be the best for you.
One long blooming garden staple is Phlox. It is a long blooming perennial that flowers all summer and often even into fall. Some of the old school garden Phlox was troubled with powdery mildew disease on the foliage. The newer types like David are mildew-resistant. The plant foliage should stay nice and healthy all summer long. And what wonderful continuous color!
Have you seen the Stella de Oro daylily? It is a compact plant like yarrow that doesn't need much care at all. Stella is classified under the daylily genus that derives its name from the Greek word "hemera" for "day" and "kailos" for "beauty." Another hot perennial on the market right now is the daylily from the Twice as Nice brand. You can put this beautiful bloomer into the category of long-blooming perennial. It has good looks and will bloom with not much care all summer long. Look for it at local garden centers.
We all love the Shasta Daisy. If we look back in history we will read that "daisy" was once spelled "day's eye." It was a sun metaphor and said a lot about the feeling created by this plant. It's hard to look at daisies and not be put into a good mood. This particular daisy is delicate looking but really tough as nails.
Salvia is another workhorse for your blooming garden. The Victoria blue salvia, Blue Hill, May Night and many other types of salvia will give you easy care beautiful blooms for months. Salvia is part of a large genus of plants in the mint family, including the culinary herb, sage. In fact, a common name for the red salvias we know so well as bedding plants is "scarlet sage."
So go shopping! Find those garden shops and see what's new. You may be surprised.
Master Gardener Short Course
Don't forget to sign up for the fabulous Master Gardener Short Course this summer. If you ever wanted to certify as Master Gardener, this is your chance. The cost is $200 and classes will be held at the Texas Agri-Life Extension Office, 1225 Pearl Street, Suite 200. The dates this summer are July 15-26 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Contact Micah Shanks for more information on speakers and topics at (409) 835-8461 or mshanks52 [at] gmail [dot] com.


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Dichroic Curtain Wall
Project Team: Brittany Drapac
Columbia University GSAPP: Advanced Curtain Walls / Robert Heintges
Date: Jan. 2011- May 2011
Site: Neighborhood branch of the New York Public Library
Program: Custom curtain wall design for the west-facing facade
Size: 900 square feet of wall surface
Inspired by Bridget Riley's Op-Art of the 1960s, this south-facing curtain wall layers dichroic, moveable louvers within double skin glazing. Riley intended her work to create a disorienting effect that coupled movement with structure while retaining a vision of the whole as texture. Her idea of color and form as identities part of a dynamic event led me to design a facade system that could shift angles and colors within a linear grid.
The curtain wall rises three stories above a recessed storefront to enclose a neighborhood library. Reading and browsing spaces along the facade are shaded by a sunscreen of 36" dichroic glass louvers at various angles, which are motorized to turn 30 degrees in either direction around 1" steel tubes. The louvers are enclosed by exterior and interior glazing with a circulation space between that releases heat in the summer and captures it in the winter. These four components are all part of a unitized system bound by 4" wide by 6" deep aluminum mullions. The units lock together on site, each 8'-0" wide, 4'-5" deep and 6'-0" high. The number 3 surface of the insulated glass incorporates a lined ceramic frit. The pattering together with the angled louvers create interior spaces of dappled, shifting light matched by a street presence that changes as one walks by.


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A strong impression still remains in my mind from the field trip for the Building Resilience Impacts to Climate Change Project (BCR) in Soc Trang province. It is a story about a talented and self-motivated poor rural woman in Vinh Tan commune, Vinh Chau district, Soc Trang Province who has created a livelihood model with her own initiative in a coastal strip dominated by shrimp farms.
During the BCR field trip, we visited Nau Pon hamlet of Vinh Tan Commune. The landscape looked so worn out as it is mostly occupied by extensive shrimp farms and salt farms located next to an eroded sea dyke and degraded mangrove. The commune chairperson informed us that in this location, many Khmer people's livelihoods are mainly based on the exploitation of fish and other aquatic organisms from the mangroves. The local people are highly depended on natural resources and their income sources are very uncertain. Among the Khmer, 62% of households are classified as poverty stricken.
However, a wonderful livelihood model has appeared in this coastal area. That is a fruit garden of Mrs. Le Thi Hoa who lives just a few hundred meters away from the sea dyke. Thanks to Mr. Tran Van Tang, chairperson of Vinh Tan Commune, we were introduced to Mrs. Hoa and her Vietnamese Apple garden. She is a friendly woman. Through her story, we know that her life was very difficult ten years ago. Her family was doing extensive shrimp farming, but had lost three to four shrimp crops. She was indebted to the banks. Mrs. Hoa worried for her family's future and wondered how to live when she gets old in this barren land. Selling some of their one hectare of land for capital, she started to search for alternative livelihoods. She tried to grow different crops such as watermelon but it was not a success. She persevered until one day she saw people selling Vietnamese apple seedlings. She decided to plant 65 trees on 0,1 ha of her garden. After a few years, the trees started to produce fruits and every year she earns around 60 million VND (estimately USD 2,900). This is an amazing amount of money compared to the average 20 million per ha from other land use in the same location. To build on this success, Mrs. Hoa and her husband are now planning to build a pig farm on their land to increase their income.
This story is about one household's self-initiative to adapt in a situation of high risk. It demonstrates that with a small amount of their own capital, local people such as Mrs Hoa's can initiate and make their own livelihood choices that are better suited their local environments. The lesson here for BCR is that awareness is a crucial first step. If communities have initiative and some productive capital, they can very well take their lives into their own hands.
Tang Phuong Gian - BCR field coordinator - IUCN Vietnam


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HP/Compaq System Configuration Error (code purple) Windows Vista
I am not sure how I have been lucky enough never to encounter the HP/Compaq booby trap but until today I was so fortunate. Apparently HP Tattoos a number in the bios of their motherboards so that when you try to use the factory recovery, it checks to make sure the stock motherboard is in place. If it is not in place you get the following error:
Your system has detected a configuration error. Please report this error to Customer Care using the phone number found in the Warranty and Support Guide that came with your PC. Unless corrected, this error will prevent your PC from operating properly. Turn off your PC by pressing and holding the Power button. After a few seconds your PC will automatically turn off. (Code Purple)
I mean seriously? HP does not want you to be able to change the motherboard in their PC's. I am guessing this is some idiots solutions to piracy somehow but in any case I will stop complaining and get to the solution.


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Nobody Cares About Everyone's Ideas…
Nobody Cares
Yes, I care about all my readers…the Aussie amfortas..for his great insights and exceptional writings..dandapani for keeping me on the straight when I wander, Pattie for all the pictures she takes for my blog, and the woman who always says she "likes' my pieces, always makes my day. JR, my liberal friend who loves the military, Mr. Doug Powers…for always giving me hope that someday I could be as good as he is…(give me another 10 years!) And Tom Beebe…a man who always has a lot of great things to say, and so I'm posting one of them today.
Here's Tom's thoughts on the elections..I wanted to share them to all of you, because I like them too. (THanks to Tom for letting me post them.)
(PS…I only mention the readers that I know of, it's because I don't know you. If you have never commented, or sent me an email..go ahead! Don't be shy! My email address is email@example.com.
NOW…to Tom's Piece:
The patron saint of Chicago politics said it: "Nice guys finish last" – Leo Durocher
So you offered us McCain and Mittens (as my would-be Liberal grandson calls him). And they were crushed by the passion, and the venom, of the machine. As for living on as what the Brits call "The Loyal Opposition", fuggedaboutit.
Then who will assume that role? May I suggest a marriage of the passion of the Tea Party to the principles and the discipline of the Libertarians? But first the former must rid itself of the hypocrites and fools that contributed to the demise of the Republicans.
How can you ask government to regulate who shall marry, or whether a pregnancy shall be carried to term, and not expect to get the nanny state of the elitist Bloombergs of the world? Abdicate if you will, the admonishing of your daughters to keep their legs together, and you will find your sons are told to put down that Big Mac. Ask government to intrude into bedrooms, or the institution of marriage, and you cannot deny that it tell you where and with whom your children will be schooled.
The outlier, to use a now popular phrase, was Reagan. But did any Republican since him show the cajones to tell Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"? The Libertarians have a fighter in Ron Paul, but his time has passed. Who within the Tea Party has shown the consistency to resist that darker side which passes for humanity, the Obama statists, heirs to their fellow Socialists, Marx, Stalin, and Hitler?
So to you who bemoan yesterday's results, I say gather your resolve for tomorrow's opportunities. Offer not candidates who, like Perot, say "I ran a business" nor compromised combatants like Gingrich who pushed back at the media or Christie that pushed back at the avarice of the educational establishment. Find instead a Reagan for our time, one who combines principle with action. Then this nation will see an opposition worthy of its trust.
Tom Beebe
November 7, 2012
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The tea party outragers, the Democrat hackers, the Republican hordes, are all very well. Their 'leaders' are just mouth-pieces for shadow figures. But it is the voters that matter.
Yes, even I can be swayed by a pretty face or a well turned phrase but I don't fall over or vote on them. But the American people do it seems. If a person 'looks Presidential' it seems to be enough.
Governments can be pretty shocking wherever one is, but generally the Will of the People is clear, even if suppressed. But from over here it looks very much as though the Will of the American people is befuddled by addiction to credit and goodies, handouts and whines, and the blaming of men and whites for everything bar Hurricanes. Strike that, Men and whites seem to be blamed for those too.
If I were a President I would be shouting 'Bring me another People'. Perhaps that is what happened. Not only is America not your grand-dad's America, the American People are not your grandad's grandkids.
Comment by Amfortas | November 9, 2012 |
You had better have another 30 years, Woman…..I am counting on you!!!!!
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I try all the time to incorporate leafies into our diet as effortlessly as possible. One of my preferred ways to eat spinach- one of my absolutely favorite veggies- is to add it to a spicy, tangy lentil curry.
The slight bitterness of the spinach is nicely balanced out by sourness of the tamarind, the spiciness of the chilies and the sweet nuttiness of the peanuts. A nice balance of flavors, by Ayurvedic standards.
This is one of those quick, weeknight dishes written on a busy weeknight, so I will keep the introduction brief. Hope you guys enjoy this nutritious, delicious dish.
Spinach Amti with Peanuts
- 1 large bunch spinach , washed thoroughly and chopped into thin strips.
- 3/4 cup pink lentils , or masoor dal, cooked until tender (I pressure cook it or, when I'm short on time, cover it with water and throw it into a microwave oven. It takes 10-15 minutes to cook, depending on your microwave.)
- 1 small lemon-size ball of tamarind , soaked in water for about 30 minutes. Express the juices into the water by crushing with your fingers and throw away the remaining solids.
- 3-4 cloves of garlic , sliced thin.
- 1 medium onion , sliced
- 2 green chilies , like serrano, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup peanuts , soaked in water for about 30 minutes
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp coriander seeds , powdered
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 1/4 cup light coconut milk
- Salt to taste
- Heat the oil and add mustard. When it sputters, add the onions and fry on a medium frame until translucent.
- Add the chilies and garlic and stir for a minute.
- Add the coriander and turmeric powders. Stir again until spices are coated with oil.
- Add the tamarind extract and let it boil about 2-3 minutes.
- Add the spinach and stir in until it wilts. Then add the lentils and drained peanuts.
- Stir in some salt.
- Bring the lentils to a boil.
- Turn the heat to low and let the lentils simmer about 10 minutes for all the flavors to come together.
- Stir in coconut milk and immediately turn off the heat. Check the salt and add more if needed.
- Serve hot with rice or rotis.
(C) All recipes and photographs copyright of Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes.


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Shoot 1UP being available on Windows Phone 7 we're giving away awesome phone skins!
The skins sport a sprawling battle across the first level of Shoot 1UP, are made of high quality vinyl, and allow you to protect your phone from bumps and scratches, all while making it look like your from the future.
You have several chances to win!
All you have to do is answer some Shoot 1UP trivia!
- Get any group of three questions correct. For each group answered correctly, that's another chance to win!
- Sometime around Sunday, September 16th, I'll announce the winners.
- Like us on Facebook and follow MBG on Twitter for more chances to win!
- See at the bottom for details.
Send me the answers to this first group of questions for a chance to win!
Chilled Group Questions:
- In Shoot 1UP, does choosing the path that goes right make it easier, harder, or the same difficulty?
- What do you unlock if you collect 2 MBG pies in Shoot 1UP? A new level, a new game mode, or a new ship type?
- What's the maximum number of ships one player can get in Shoot 1UP on Windows Phone 7? 10, 20, or 30?
Next group of questions on Wednesday!
You have 3 chances to win. No game purchase is necessary (bug your friends for the answers, or check the Internet), but it's greatly appreciated! Answer the Shoot 1UP trivia questions. Several groups of questions will be offered throughout the week of September 10th, 2012. If the answer is particular to the Windows Phone 7 version it will say as much. If you get any group of 3 questions correct, you'll be entered into the pool of potential winners. Be good to each other. For each group you get correct, I'll enter you into the pool once (answer 3 groups correctly, you'll be 3 times as likely to win). For those people with correct answers, I'll randomly select (at most) 3 winners. You can only win (at most) one phone skin. I'm the judge of the answers, and all rulings are final.
Prize details:
I'm buying the skins through SkinIt.com. If I pick you as a winner, I'll need your phone model to know what to make the skin for. If they don't have the model on the site, I'll have to pick someone else! Sorry! (Check first then for your phone before entering? Or just enter for fun anyways.) If there's international shipping involved, I'll have to see how much it costs first before I can agree to send it. I think international will be doable! Unless it's like a hundred dollars or I have to pay off your local government or something. Just mentioning that caveat.
How to send your answers:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, subject "Shoot 1UP Trivia"
or Facebook: Message me personally (Nathan Fouts) (since company FB accounts don't seem to be able to send messages.)
You could also just leave your answers in a comment below, but make sure I can contact you somehow.
Good luck!
Check back for more ways to win this week!


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Trex World, part 23Submitted by kelson.philo on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 14:17.
"Twenty-three skidoo to you too, muthahubba," Paul muttered to the omni-pleasant voice that emanated from the tube's bullet casing. One person, one route, one mission, get the fleshy bits from point A, the Reception atrium, to point B, whatever floor you worked on, you little plebian, you. As fate would have it, Paul worked on floor twenty-three. He did not have to tell the tubevator this, of course, it compared and contrasted his trex's serial number with Paul's registered assignment space. It was just, for the past two months, the damned thing kept saying "twenty-three skidoo" to him every time he was a minute or two late. It was a weird joke, he was sure, a prank pulled by some maintenance drone bored out of his nut, but he hadn't the faintest idea what, exactly, it meant.


text: Could this be the world's largest Fitbit? Supplied March 22, 2017 Why it's so important to understand how elephants sleep Paul Manger, University of the Witwatersrand By understanding sleep across animals we can gain insights into improving the quality of human sleep. It can also help to bolster conservation management strategies for the animals in question.