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I was going to post something similar!
My DD is 11 months. My production at the pump has never averaged much more than 1oz per hour I'm gone (9oz for 9 hours) which is produced over 4 pump sessions. Lately I struggle to get 7 or 8oz per day. (I've done all the advisable things to increase pump production... This is just "me", and seems to be enough for my baby).
I CAN'T WAIT to ditch the pump! But I love nursing. I'm hoping to let DD wean on her own schedule, but will play it by ear.
I'm planning to drop one pump session per week after her birthday and just see how it goes.
My question is what to do for her while at daycare. She eats lots of solids, but her Daycare provider (who is very breastfeeding friendly) says she still LOVES her bottles, and seems to need those 9oz (3 bottles of 3oz) per day.
So... do I replace those with cow's milk or almond milk or something? or toddler formula? or just water?
Also, my DCP said my DD will take her milk from a cup (she tried it once). Should I ask her to transition from bottles to cups now? I'd like to ideally eliminate bottles after I'm not pumping anymore. It would be ideal for me to just go from breasmilk at the breast to water, juice, etc, from a cup. So should I have her start taking her expressed milk from cups and then just replace that with other fluids once it's gone during the day?
It's an exciting but scary time and I'm glad to see there are other moms with me on that. It's like we finally got the whole BFing and pumping thing down, which most of us had to really fight for! We worked so hard to keep our production healthy by sacrificing valuable work and free time to pump. We drank the tea, did the massage, bought the good pump, replaced the parts, added that extra session... and now we're just going to... stop?! Yikes!!


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Is a bundle of three uplifting and motivational high quality guitar based tracks from my portfolio. All three tracks are in a Pop rock style.
All versions are included in this pack
Tracks are;
1. Bright Adventure is an uplifting, motivational, bright, clean sounding, optimistic happy feel good track, in a jangly guitar pop rock style. With a soft opening, rising into a melodic picking guitar tune then finishing with a catchy piano melodic outro. Great for sports background applications, corporate business presentations, advertising, radio and television. With piano chords, string pads and driving bass and drums.
(1) Main file version 1 (duration 2:52)
(2) Short file version 1, with no intro, slightly shorter ending. (duration 2:19)
(3) Main file version 2, no guitar riff (duration 2:52)
(4) Short file version 2, no intro, no guitar riff and no piano chords, slightly shorter ending.(duration 2:19)
2. Bright New Start is a bright, positive, cheerful, clear, happy and light sounding track. In a jangly pop guitar style, opening with delayed guitar and acoustic guitar chords strumming away. The rest of the band comes in on (0:25) with subtle piano chords, bass guitar and drums. The track reaches It's outro in a relaxed and melodic way. Instruments include; acoustic guitars, piano, bass guitar, organ and mellow string pad. Ideal for backgrounds and presentations.
(1) Main file
(2) Main File short version (no intro and starts on 25 secs of preview file, duration 1:50)
3. Life Begins (duration 2:20) is a bright sounding, uplifting and happy sounding track, in a jangly pop rock guitar style with punchy, solid bass and drums. The track opens with acoustic and electric guitars and a synth arpeggio. The track opens up on (0:30 secs) when the rest of the band joins in with driving bass guitar, piano and drums.
(1) Main File with lead guitars (duration 2:20)
(2) Main File without lead guitars (duration 2:20)
(3) Short version with lead guitars and no intro ( duration 1:50)
(4) Short version without lead guitars and no intro ( duration 1:50)
All files in high quality 16bit wav and 320kbps mp3
If these tracks are not suitable for your project, you might like one of my other packs.

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Krott, Andrea and Gagné, Christina L. and Nicoladis, Elena (2010) Children's preference for HAS and LOCATED relations: A word learning bias for noun–noun compounds. Journal of Child Language, 37 (2). pp. 373-394.


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Hieroglyphic Being
Just started listening to him following some props from people whose taste/opinions I respect on here and it's blowing me away. This 2 and a half hour FACT mix is just incredible.
Have seen he has a fair few EPs and stuff, is there anything which comes particularly recommended? Also, what else is good on his mathematics label? Cheers.
Have no idea who he is
But that mix is very nice. I like the style of his soundcloud stuff-the dirty shit
Does have an almost overwhelming amount of stuff
I've got this and it's brilliant.
Also this is amazing...
I just got the Jardin Des Chemins one
and it rules! It's like the middle of a Sun Ra organ solo/Jamal Moss/Tangerine Dream triangle!!!!!1
Ace cover art from Robert Beatty from Hair Police also.
He rules
is really good, got it in the post yesterday
Second the Le Jardin Des Chemins Bifurquants recommendation too. Pretty much all the EPs on the +++ sub-label are worth grabbing too, but The Heliocentric Worlds Of Hieroglyphic Being Vol 1 is a good start point there though.
His thing for the Sound Of The Universe imprint that started up this year rules too, and the promo mix he put out to celebrate it is particularly strong.
Oh and his new album/limited CDr Welcome 2 The Beating <3 Club is good, one of the grittiest and heaviest things he's done.
hey youtube has one of my favourite ones on now too
love those high chirpy things.
this newish one sounds ace
(NB: we cannot accept returns on this item due to the deliberately poor sound quality) :D
this old mix is so good
Below is a mix from the Sample/Pattern/Freeform series in which Jamal is using outdated equipment to recapture and explore the ways in which old-school DJ such as Ron Hardy constructed edits and mixes. More info here. The mix is as heavy as it is beautiful. Out of this world!
he's matching the beats and everything on this one!!
one off HB show on NTS tonight!!!!
Also the new 12" on Alter is most excellent and i'm still getting a huge amount of mileage out of the live at Endless Race Reel Torque tape
best of luck mang!
I couldn't function at work


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Boston July 30th 1795
Revd Sir
I have read with great pleasure
The letter which you were so obliging as to put into
my hands from your very valuable correspon
=dent Mr. Tucker. I admire the goodness of his
heart, and the elegance and patriotism of his
sentiments: but he, like other good men, has to
enjoy by anticipation, that which can never
be accomplished in his day. The subject which
is so near his heart, and appears to employ so great
a part of his public contemplations, is not new
to me. I have had Governor Jeffersons ideas
upon it some years ago, and gave him my
opinion, which I will presently give to you in
one word. The objections stated by Mr Tucker
to three measures proposed for emancipating
the black people of United America are all
well maintained by his unanswerable
Arguments: while the pain he evidently
feels to find a fourth, to which no insurmountable
objection could be made, does great honor to
his character as a man, and in some mea
degree attones for the violation of human
rights, which his fellow Citizens have been
guilty of. The freedom of the blacks without
allowing them to participate of civil priviledges,
appears to me the most eligible of the three
measures which he has contemplated: but I
am clearly of opinion, that this would be
nothing more, than to throw 300.000 of the
human Race, idle, profligate, and miserable,
hunger, and encouraged by combinations of
agravated complaints; supported by an idea
of Justice from their former sufferings, would
take by force what the white people should
procure by agriculture, and thus, unless
overpowered, and destroyed by military
coerce, would spread famine, and
pestilence through the Country. An idea,
that they cou would, on such an emancipa=
=tion, or on one of any other kind, become
industrious, and regular, will in my opinion
clearly prove fallacious. Besides this, if they
should be inclined to labor, where would
they be supplied with Lands? or who
would furnish them with the means for
beginning their new mode of life? To
let them have the full liberty of free Citizens
would never be worse still; for the
necessity of civil government proves that
Mankind are corrupt and wicked;
and we should find these People holding
their suffrages at Auction, without holding
property worthy of their Attention, or
a sense of civil Liberty worthy of one
Moments anxiety. This measure would
involve the Southern States in calamity
and distress, if not in ruin. The
Scheme of Colonizing them has all
the objections that your learned and
ingenious correspondent has stated.
The expense of carrying them to their
with as much support, as is generally claimed
by the most industrious white People, who go into
a new Country, is more than the treasury of
the United States could support possibly bear, even
if there were no other expences of Government.
Should the three hundred thousand blacks from
Virginia migr emigrate under an idea of
Colonizing, those of the three Southern States would
of course be united with them. This would
exhibit a multitude, of half a million of
People at the least. The ex On their way to
their new world, and while they were
beginning their settlements, their some
kind of civil Government would be
necessary. We have in history, but one
Picture of such an enterprize, and
there we see it was necessary, not only to
open the sea by a miracle for them to pass,
but more necessary to close it again, in
order to prevent their return. Promises
of the most luxuriant kind, assured by a
constant, and obvious chain of Miracles
could hardly restrain them from rebellions
and insurrections. Even there, though a
spontaneous supply of bread from heaven
supplied supported the camp, and every measure
was adopted, which could affect the human
heart with a proper sense of a necessity for
a good, and regular Government, yet
so incapable were the men who had
been bred in a state of slavery, either, to
submit to, or maintain a system of
State policy, that it was necessary to waste
Million of People, who had been bred in
a state of slavery, find themself themselves in
a country by them where they were free from
a legal restraint, excepting what they should
provide for themselves, they w could never
reduce their individual members to a state
of civil society. The emigrants from Europe
to America, had been always under a
government, where civil liberty was much
contemplated, and as fully enjoyed as it
could be in a monarchy: but there
never was, or ever q can be a migration
of a multitude of Slaves to a country of
freedom. The Negroes, if they were to
colonize, would at once, in separate, and
independent bodies, commit depredations
on their neighbours, and bring the other States
into a necessity of reducing them by the sword.
From the difficulties suggested by Mr Tucker
it would seem as if the case was without
remedy; and an that a state of slavery is intailed
for ever on some part of the Inhabitants of
free America. But there is, in my mind,
this rescourse, and I am obliged to think
that it is the only one is the case; and
that a very slow one. As there is no way
to eradicate the prejudice which education
has fixed in the minds of the White, against
the black People, otherwise than by raising
the blacks, by means of mental improve
=ments, nearly to the same grade with
the whites, the emancipation of the
progress, and ages must be employed in
the business. The time necessary for to effect
this purpose, must be as extensive at least,
as that in which slavery has been endured
here. The children of the slaves, must at
the public expense, be educated in the
same manner as the children of their
Masters; being at the same schools &c. with
the rising generation, that prejudice which
has been so long and invetrate against
them, on account of their situation, and
colour, will be lessened within thirty or
forty years. There is an objection to this,
which embraces all my feelings: that is, that
it will tend to a mixture of blood, which I now
abhor; but yet, as I feel, I fear that I am not
a pure Republican delighting in the equal
rights of all the human Race. This mode
of education will fit the rising progeny of
the black People, either, to participate with the
whites, in a free government, or to colonize
and have one of their own. The Negroes
born after a certain future day may be considerd
as free at forty years, those after another at
thirty years, and those after another,
at twenty one years of age. This will in a
course of time emancipate all the Slaves.
To induce them to be industrious members
of community, a certain portion of proper
=ty ought to be considered as necessary to
their holding civil offices, or enjoying civil
process, I know is too slow for the warm and
philanthropic feelings of your Elegant Correspon=
=dent; And carries with it the idea, of a
curse being intailed in the Southern States,
from the Fathers to the Children, to the third
and fourth generation. Be that as it
may, I think the best way is to make
haste slowly: and to bear for a time, an
evil with patience, rather than to agra
=vate its miseries, and render future
attempts discouraging. There have been
few instances indeed, in history, where a man
educated as a Slave has been capable of
injoying freedom. In the most Despotic
Governments there have appeared Champi
=ons for Liberty; but the event has generally
Show evinced to the world, that the greater
part of these had Acted only from a spirit
of ambitious heroism; because they have
generally been Tyrants as soon as they had
established their own power to Rule.
There is no doubt a great disparity in
the natural abilities of mankind: and
we have great reason to believe, that
the organization of the Affricans is such,
as prevents their receiving the more fine
and sublime impressions equally with
the White People: and yet we do not
know, but that giving them the same
prospects, placing them under the force
of the same motives, and confering
upon them the same advantages
Generations shall rise and fall, will so mend
the Race, and so increase their powers of
perception, and so strengthen their faculty
for comparing ideas, and understand=
=ing the nature, and connexion of the
external things, with which man is surround
=ed on this Globe, as that they may exceed
the White People.
When you handed me MrMr.
Tucker s letter last evening expressing your
wish to hear my sentiments upon the subject
matter of it, I had no idea of writing you a
line: and when I began I did not intend
to write a Page. I have been all the
morning surrounded with People on
business; and, while I have been conversing
with them I have kept the pen in Motion,
it is now one oclock, and I have
neither time to correct or even read
what I have written. If you will, without
reading it, concive from the length of
it, that I wish to comply with all
your requests as soon as they are made,
& then commit this to a warm hearth
it will perhaps be a great act of
friendship to him who is always ready
to risque himself in the Arms of your
candour and who is most perfectly
To DR Belknap.[This is a letter from St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap, 10 February 1796, written on a different leaf (piece of paper):]
Dear Sir,
Since closing the packet which will accompany
this, I have recollected Judge Sullivans Letter, which I now
return with many thanks to you. I have taken the Liberty
to retain a Copy of it. respectfully I remain
Your most obliged
Febry 10. 1796
Letter abt emancipa-
tion of Negroes


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TEMPE, Ariz., March 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insight Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSIT), a leading worldwide technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions, today announced that it has been named the global recipient of a VMware Partner Network Award in the desktop competency category. Insight was also selected as the Americas Desktop Competency Partner of the Year award winner. Both awards were presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2013, VMware's annual partner event, on Feb. 26 in Las Vegas.
"We are pleased to recognize the achievements made in 2012 by members of the VMware partner ecosystem," said Colleen Kapase, senior director, Partner Readiness, VMware. "VMware Partner Exchange is dedicated to educating and equipping our partner ecosystem with the resources and insights they need to help deliver first class solutions for the software-defined datacenter in the coming year. We congratulate Insight on winning a VMware Partner Network Award and we look forward to our mutual success in 2013."
"We are honored to win the 2012 VMware Global Desktop Competency Partner of the Year award," said Brian Davis, senior vice president, product marketing. "Our capabilities in data center, cloud and virtualization have helped Insight establish a leadership position in the desktop space and we look forward to delivering even more success with VMware end-user computing solutions in 2013."
Partner recipients of a VMware Partner Network Award were acknowledged by VMware in 19 categories for their excellence in performance and distinctive achievements during 2012.
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Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a leading technology provider of hardware, software and service solutions to business and government clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Insight is focused on helping organizations move technology goals forward in the areas of Office Productivity, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Mobility, Network and Security, Data Center and Virtualization, Data Protection and Cloud. Insight has sold over three million business and public sector client cloud seats across the globe. With approximately 5,400 teammates worldwide, Insight is ranked No. 460 on the 2012 Fortune 500 and generated sales of $5.3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2012. For more information, please call 1.800.INSIGHT (1.800.467.4448) in the United States or visit www.insight.com. NSIT-M
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rBBs Klasse art bar layout for the rBBs framework. You will only get the background texture with this, additional bar mods and stuff are required, and of course the rBBs framwork. Heavily based off zork's Diablo 3 based UI. Basically 90% of this is made by him.
Now it's only up to you to make the buttons fit the slots.


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How the Utah Code Affects Custody and Visitation Schedules
Public records of divorce are available on the Internet. There are lots of different reasons way and when you might want to search them, and the process of searching can be quite involved. In this article I'm going to cover a couple of reasons why you might want to look at these records, where they are stored, and what you can do to get your hands on them more easily.
So why would you be searching for public records of divorce in the first place? Well, some people who are about to get married want to check and see if the person they're marrying is really divorced. It may sound funny, but there have been many cases in the past where a person has claimed to be divorced when they are not, and this has resulted in their committing bigamy.
Also, even if the person you're marrying says they have never been married in the past, they may be divorced and supporting children that you do not know about. If you wait until after you're married to find out that this is the case they could cause large financial strains for you in the future.
So how do you get to see these public records of divorce? Well, they are stored in courthouses in the state and county where the person was divorced. In addition, copies are often stored at state level. To see them, all you need to do is make an appointment to see them and then come to the place they are stored and read through them.
These days it's so easy to move around from one end of the country to another. The downside of this is that a person could have got divorced in completely different state, so a search of the local courthouses and state records will not help you to track this information down. Of course, you don't have time to visit every state and every county the entire country to try and find out whether the person in question has been divorced in the past.
There is an easy method of searching this information, which takes advantage of the Internet and databases. Basically, it is a database of all the court records in the country, which is filed cross-referenced against a person's name and other identifying details. Searching through this databases is as easy as typing in a name and hitting search. It can find the results that you are looking for within a few seconds.
Click on link below to see the site I recommend most of all for public records of divorce.
Family Law Attorneys are standing by call 1-800-564-2707
For more information click on these words here.


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Difference between revisions of "MDT-UML2Tools How To Regenerate Diagrams"
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Latest revision as of 09:56, 3 June 2011
- 1 Overview
- 2 Installation of target platform
- 3 Installation of development platform
- 4 Regeneration of the diagrams
To regenerate the diagrams you should have 2 Eclipse platforms installed. First is so called "development", second one is "target".
Installation of target platform
Target platform is using to modify UML2 Tools models and execute regeneration.
Download and install Eclipse platform described in dependencies of latest UML2 Tools build.
It's Eclipse R-3.4-200806172000 for current (0.8.1) version.
Download and install other dependencies of latest UML2 Tools build.
Following dependencies should be installed for current (0.8.1) version:
- Query 1.2.0 R200806091744
- Transaction 1.2.0 R200806091902
- Validation 1.2.0 R200806091804
See download page for dependencies of another version.
Install latest build of UML 2 Tools if you are going to work with part of code
Latest build you can find on download page
Close target platform
Installation of development platform
Download and install latest release of Eclipse platform.
The build can be found here.
For Galileo M6 build:
Eclipse SDK, EMF Query, EMF transaction, EMF validation, GEF, GMF, UML2 in Galileo M6 version;
OCL and QVT -- Galileo M5 version;
Run development platform
Define plug-in development platform
Open preferences page "Window -> Preferences -> Plug-in Development -> Target Platform" and select the target platform as location.
Checkout codegen plug-ins
Checkout "org.eclipse.uml2.diagram.codegen" and "org.eclipse.uml2.diagram.codegen.edit". You can use PSF file to check out.
Checkout source code of GMF generation framework by date tag
Checkout source code of GMF generation framework by specific data tag: February 11 2009 (for Galileo M6).
GMF generation framework contains following plug-ins:
- org.eclipse.gmf.bridge
- org.eclipse.gmf.bridge.trace
- org.eclipse.gmf.bridge.ui
- org.eclipse.gmf.codegen
- org.eclipse.gmf.codegen.edit
- org.eclipse.gmf.codegen.lite
- org.eclipse.gmf.codegen.lite.ui
- org.eclipse.gmf.codegen.ui
- org.eclipse.gmf.common
- org.eclipse.gmf.formtk
- org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef
- org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.codegen
- org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.codegen.ui
- org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.edit
- org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.editor
- org.eclipse.gmf.map
- org.eclipse.gmf.map.edit
- org.eclipse.gmf.map.editor
- org.eclipse.gmf.tooldef
- org.eclipse.gmf.tooldef.edit
- org.eclipse.gmf.tooling
- org.eclipse.gmf.validate
- org.eclipse.gmf.xpand
- org.eclipse.gmf.xpand.editor
- org.eclipse.gmf.xpand.migration
In other words its are all plugins from org.eclipse.gmf/plugins" folder without "runtime" in path.
Run Eclipse application
Define new Eclipse application in "Run Configureation..." wizard.
Don't forget to set corresponding VM arguments.
Run the application.
Regeneration of the diagrams
Checkout diagram plug-ins of UML2 Tools
You should checkout at least "org.eclipse.uml2.diagram.def", that contains models to regenerate the diagrams. Use PSF file to checkout all UML2 Tools plug-ins.
Define Java formatter setting
Set of java formatter settings. A set of format settings is maintained here for you to import into your workspace from Window > Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter > Import...
Create generator model
- Select corresponding mapping model (*.gmfmap) and invoke "Create generator model..." item of context menu.
- Ignore validation errors if any.
- Define GMFGraph dymanic templates as "file:/C:/Eclipse/runtime-MDT/org.eclipse.uml2.diagram.def/dynamic-templates/gmf-graph" on the last page of the wizard.
Run generation
Select created generator model (*.gmfgen) and invoke "Generate UML2 Tools Diagrams" item of context menu.


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text: This is more of a iptables+failban issue though, the more I look at it. So I have ignoreip set to my ip block, client is 10.10.10.2, but iptables still doesn't let me get to http. The only thing working is ssh, and that's going through fail2ban as far as I can tell. Here's my jail.conf: Code: [DEFAULT] # "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host. Fail2ban will not # ban a host which matches an address in this list. Several addresses can be # defined using space separator. ignoreip = 127.0.0.1 10.10.10.0/255 # "bantime" is the number of seconds that a host is banned. bantime = 3600 # A host is banned if it has generated "maxretry" during the last "findtime" # seconds. findtime = 600 # "maxretry" is the number of failures before a host get banned. maxretry = 3 # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification. Available # options are "inotify", "gamin", "polling" and "auto". This option can be # overridden in each jail too (use "gamin" for a jail and "polling" for # another). # # inotify: requires pyinotify and the a kernel supporting Inotify # gamin: requires Gamin (a file alteration monitor) to be installed. If Gamin # is not installed, Fail2ban will use polling. # polling: uses a polling algorithm which does not require external libraries. # auto: will choose Inotify if pyinotify is present, if not then it will # try Gamin and use that if available, and polling otherwise. backend = polling # This jail corresponds to the standard configuration in Fail2ban 0.6. # The mail-whois action send a notification e-mail with a whois request # in the body. Then I have the following for iptables: Code: *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [12:1104] :fail2ban-BadBots - [0:0] :fail2ban-SSH - [0:0] #-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -j LOG --log-level warning --log-prefix "BLOCK " -A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 80,443 -j LOG --log-level warning --log-prefix "HTTP PORT ACTIVITY: " #-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 80,443 -j fail2ban-BadBots -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j fail2ban-SSH -A INPUT -m geoip --source-country CN -j DROP -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j fail2ban-BadBots -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited #-A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m multiport --dports 22,80,443 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT #-A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp -m multiport --sports 22,80,443 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A fail2ban-BadBots -j RETURN -A fail2ban-SSH -j RETURN COMMIT So, given I'm a complete noob at it, iptables says to me that it filters port 22 via fail2ban. Then further down, it simply accepts any new connections on port 22, and does not bother fail2ban with that. The line that has port 80 will not work via fail2ban, it's as if the service is unresponsive or simply is on a ban frenzy. Here's what fail2ban has in its jail.conf about that: Code: # Ban hosts which agent identifies spammer robots crawling the web # for email addresses. The mail outputs are buffered. [apache-badbots] enabled = true filter = apache-badbots action = iptables-multiport[name=BadBots, port="80,443"] sendmail-buffered[name=BadBots, lines=5, [email protected]] logpath = /var/www/*/logs/access_log bantime = 172800 maxretry = 1 And here's the output of that logging line, when I try to access that machine via HTTP: Code: Feb 20 13:37:26 host2 kernel: HTTP PORT ACTIVITY: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:XX:8e:d5:XX:30:85:XX:e8:5c:XX:08:00 SRC=10.10.10.1 DST=10.10.10.10 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=52552 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=63608 DPT=80 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!


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In 2005, when American McGee told his friends that he was moving to China, the reaction was mixed between bewilderment and disbelief. McGee was among the best known game developers of the day, one of his games had been optioned as a Hollywood movie with McGee attached as a producer, and the Chinese market was lagging far, far behind that of Japan and the West. Eight years later as the Chinese gaming market is on the cusp of a global boom, that decision is beginning to look more and more like a stroke of genius.
The Chinese gaming market is one of the fastest growing hi-tech markets in the world. In 2011 it was reported to be worth $7.1 billion, a 34-percent increase over the previous year, and more than 120 million users in China were involved in online gaming. That number is expected to increase significantly this year.
This expansion is in keeping with the overall growth of the People's Republic of China, but it does also denote a shift in the culture itself. Like all forms of media and entertainment in the PRC, gaming is censored and regulated by the government. Gaming advertising is not allowed on state run television or radio, and all games must conform to the standards laid down by the Ministry of Information Industry.
Along with the censorship that gaming faces in China, video game consoles were banned in 2000, as the PRC declared that gaming could warp the minds of children. There were loopholes to this, and Sony eventually released the PS2 in 2004, but it was instantly deemed a massive failure thanks to a lack of advertising and a staggering level of piracy. But while consoles languished, the Chinese online community flourished.
As the number of internet users in China grew, so too did the number of online gamers. That in turn expanded the general gaming population in the PRC, and the gaming industry in China is only expected to increase. The ban on consoles also may be a thing of the past, as the PS3 was just granted a certification, which would allow Sony to sell its console in China. This certification is no guarantee that Sony will introduce the PS3 to the Chinese market, but with the ban seemingly rescinded, it will certainly make China an attractive market for the next generation of consoles. It may also present an opportunity for Chinese manufacturers to introduce their own device and further expand the potential of the gaming industry.
McGee, whose first name is not a nickname but the result of a creative mother, began his career 20 years ago. After dropping out of high school and working as a mechanic, he got to know a neighbor that was also a passionate gamer. The two struck up a friendship over a shared love of Nintendo. That neighbor was John Carmack, who at the time was working on a game that would become Doom.
"We began playing Nintendo together," McGee recalled. "He eventually invited me to his office to help test their new game, which happened to be Doom… It was a just sort of right place at the right time in a very small world kind of experience."
McGee was the ninth employee at id, and operating out of offices in Mesquite, TX, he spent the next five years working as a level designer, on music production, sound effects development, and programming for the games Doom II, Quake, and Quake II. In 1998 McGee and id parted ways.
McGee soon landed at Electronic Arts. In 2000 McGee and EA released American McGee's Alice, a major success for the time, and an instant cult classic that thrust McGee into the spotlight thanks to the strange and imaginative arts design and clever reinterpretation of the classic Lewis Carroll books involving Alice in Wonderland.
The game was even optioned as a movie by Wes Craven that same year. That deal fell through, but the property refuses to die and rumors of a film adaptation continue to circle, with McGee attached as a producer.
McGee left EA soon after and formed his own company, Mauretania Import Export Company. He then followed up Alice with American McGee's Scrapland, which was lauded for its originality and was deemed a modest hit. Then the 2004 Presidential election changed everything.
"I left the US partly because Bush was elected a second time," McGee said, only partly joking. "I told all my friends that if he was re-elected I was going to leave. His re-election fortunately coincided with an offer to move to Hong Kong, which gave me an opportunity to make good on my promise."
While the election itself wasn't the main cause of McGee's exodus, it was one more reason out of many to follow the example of many ex-pats and seek his fortune in the burgeoning Chinese market.
"I'd always wanted to move to Asia, I'd always had an affinity for the region ever since the first time I travelled to Japan, when EA would send me out to work on their projects in Tokyo," McGee said. "So when the opportunity came up, I really was interested in the region and China specifically, really more so than the project. The project as it turned out was kind of a stinker, but it was a way for me to make the move."
The project, American McGee presents Bad Day L.A., went on to be a flop, but it did allow McGee to remain in China – or more specifically, to remain in Hong Kong.
Despite the fact that Hong Kong is now under the jurisdiction of the PRC, the city has managed to retain its sense of individuality following the 1997 change from British authority to Chinese control. When the transition took place there was a palpable sense of fear and uncertainty as to what would happen to Hong Kong. The city was built on a free market philosophy, which at the time didn't seem like it would mesh with the communist mentality of the PRC.
Fifteen years later, Hong Kong still retains its unique sense of individuality. Many have even made the argument that China didn't change Hong Kong, but rather Hong Kong changed China.
"A lot of people wouldn't count Hong Kong as China, they don't consider it to be real China," McGee noted. "If you've ever been out there, then you'll understand that they really are two different worlds. But my move to China, my move to Shanghai happened as a result of being in Hong Kong."
During his time in Hong Kong, McGee easily networked with other developers in the emergent Chinese gaming scene. Following work on the project that brought him to Hong Kong, McGee agreed to help a friend begin an art outsourcing company in Shanghai that existed to supply additional art for Western and Japanese publishers. It was during this time that McGee was approached by the French online video game service that was founded by Turner Broadcasting System, GameTap.
McGee had his own plans of opening his own development studio, and GameTap was more than happy to help out. It offered him the opportunity, and financial backing, to develop a new game, which he leapt at.
McGee saw an opportunity in the Chinese market. The local Chinese developers were talented, but limited in options: They could work for one of the few giant corporations, or work for an outsource studio. In either instance, the developer, whether they be artists, programmers, sound engineers, or any of the other numerous roles needed to develop a video game, had little to no control of the product they were working on, and no creative freedom to express themselves.
"My theory was if you opened up an independent studio in Shanghai, you would be able to attract the best and brightest from the local market, and give them the opportunity to work on unique and original properties," McGee recalled. "And in fact, that was the case. The moment that we started the studio we were immediately able to hire the best animators and programmers and artists from Shanghai and China."
In 2007 McGee officially opened his Spicy Horse in the Zhabei District of Shanghai. The studio's first game was 2008's American McGee's Grimm, a 28 part episodic retelling of the Grimm fairy tales for the PC. The games met with mixed reviews, but decent success. In 2009, the studio opened an offshoot studio, Spicy Pony, a group specifically tailored to create iOS games. Spicy Pony has released three titles so far, with more on the way.
The biggest release coming out of Spicy Horse reteamed McGee with EA for a sequel to the 2000 game based on Alice in Wonderland. Released in 2011, Alice: Madness Returns, is the first AAA title developed entirely in China and exported to the West. The game received mostly positive reviews and has generated talk of a third game tentatively titled Alice in Otherland, which may be released episodically, although EA has yet to commit.
Spicy Horse has also been active in other platforms, including Facebook and browser-based gaming. Earlier this year the company released the free-to-play online multiplayer title Akaneiro: Demon Hunters, a new take on Little Red Riding Hood, with a feudal Japanese twist.
By most measures, Spicy Horse is a success story. McGee's company is currently the biggest independent developer in China, employing more than 70 people. Even as the PRC watches on.
"Whenever you are in Europe, you're going to read that a lot of places outside of Europe are scary and terrible. When you are in the US you are going to read that everywhere outside of the US is scary and terrible," McGee opined. "When I talk to people in the US about life and work in China, a lot of them are surprised that we're not in slave labor camps breaking rocks and having the government interfere all the time.
"If there is anything about being here [in China] and talking to people in the West [that I like], it's being able to communicate to them that this is a very happy and vibrant, and optimistic place, and especially at this time. It's an interesting time to be here, in the middle of multiple, concurrent booms across financing and culture, across creativity and industry."
The PRC is always watching the emerging industries, and censorship is simply part of the context doing business in the country. That is the price you pay to live and work in China. But for most it is a concession many are willing to make to be part of the largest economic boom in a generation, and what may prove to be one of the most significant cultural revolutions in history.
"The government, for their part, plays a fairly active and aware role in all that, and for us in particular, in the district that we are, they're aware of our being here," McGee said. "They bring the mayor by from time to time to show off the fact that there's a creative and interesting sort of digital industry that's going on in their neighborhood. In general they are very kind to us and willing to listen to our questions and problems."
The Zhabei District where Spicy Horse is located is an area that has seen a great deal of change recently. The once industrial neighborhood has transformed to encourage more hi-tech development, both nationally and internationally. Like any American city trying to lure new business to it through things like tax incentives, China is actively looking for new ways to bring in foreign investors and companies.
"Here we actually get a bit of special treatment, we don't have any complaints," McGee said before adding with a laugh, "Of course they are forcing me to say that."
As China continues to grow, it is aware of the necessity to encourage hi-tech growth, and that includes gaming. In years past, the majority of gaming in China was financed by Western and Japanese companies, but that is changing. Chinese companies now make up for more than 60% of the gaming products played by Chinese gamers, and those companies are expanding globally.
Tencent, one of China's largest holding companies, controls 30 percent of the Chinese online gaming market share thanks to its wildly popular QQ brand that has produced several successful MMOs in China. Forget about EA and Activision, Tencent is the world's largest game publisher, and it is expanding into the West.
In 2011 Tencent purchased Riot Games, makers of League of Legends – one of the world's most popular games – for $400 million dollars. Then in June of 2012 Tencent acquired a minority stake in Epic Games, makers of the iOS Infinity Blade series, as well as the Gears of War franchise.
American gamers should get used to seeing Chinese names in the gaming world in the years to come. Companies like The9, Kongzhong, Shanda, and many more that are household names in China all have their sights set on expanding their gaming presence globally. Some may try the direct approach and release games in the US, perhaps as mobile titles or even via services like Facebook, while others may quietly begin to purchase stakes in existing gaming companies. It will be a slow process, but an inevitable one.
"That's the thing history will show us about China and the Chinese people," McGee said, "there is an inevitability to what they do, and they work and operate on very different time scales than we're used to on a Western scale. What we see as wasting time, they see as part of their strategy… it throws off the opposition."
As for McGee, like many others he is encouraged by the growth in China, but also wary that it is unsustainable. He (and many others) predicts that eventually there is going to come a point where the expansion stops and the bubble bursts.
"I think China is potentially putting themselves in the same position that all major economies around the world have recently done – and that's what we've seen unravel from the US to Europe and Japan," he said. "Economies built on never ending growth eventually run into a brick wall. I think China is going to get there, and it is going to do it faster than any nation in the history of the world because it grew so fast."
While the recent recession was felt around the world, in China it was primarily a secondary affect. The Chinese economy – although it wasn't imune the impact – made it through without much of an issue. Companies that were tied to global industries felt it far more than local businesses. There may change though, and soon.
"We, as entrepreneurs here in China think that we have a good five years left before the shit hits the fan." McGee said. "Most people I know are making plans to stabilize their business to withstand what's coming, or to get their business to a place where they can get out before this thing happens. The next five years will be very interesting."
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The 2009 six reds World Championship staged in Killarney was the last tournament Higgins competed in before his death last year so it is fitting that this same venue is paying tribute to him (even more fittingly, his last appearance with a cue was for Snooker Legends at the Crucible).
There have been more successful and better players but none more iconic than this Northern Irishman, who played a greater role than any other individual in dragging snooker up from its lowly status as a folk sport to a prime time television entertainment.
Higgins was a one-man soap opera living a tumultuous life of excess which garnered huge media attention but his contribution on the table should not be forgotten or underestimated.
He may not have set out to change the world of snooker but he did. He brought one thing to the game above all else: the people.
And the people stood by him as his rollercoaster life unravelled in full public gaze.
These days, Higgins would probably be considered to have a mental illness and be treated appropriately. 30 years ago he was simply regarded by many in the sport as a menace.
Patience, tested severely over the years, finally ran out for the WPBSA in 1990 after the volley of abuse he directed at Dennis Taylor at the World Cup and the punch he landed on Colin Randle, press officer at the World Championship.
Higgins had got himself back into the top 16 for the 1990/91 season but was banned for the whole of it and never recovered.
Maybe he should have been given more help, although it is true to say that many who tried to help him had it thrown back in their faces.
In his interesting new book 'Who Was Hurricane Higgins?', Tony Francis reveals that the WPBSA offered him a bungalow rent free for the rest of his life - but that he turned them down.
That was Alex. He was his own man, entirely unconcerned by how others saw him. He was a renegade, a one-off, and this only strengthened his appeal.
As Francis points out, people like Higgins are exciting from a distance. To have to deal with him up close on a tournament-to-tournament basis was not a lot of fun for officials, many of whom couldn't wait for him to lose.
Example: he once turned up for some qualifiers at the Norbreck in Blackpool and asked an official to look after something until he had finished playing. It was a gun.
There are more stories about Higgins than any other player. Many of them are extraordinary and most are true.
He could be a frightening figure but intoxicating (and sometimes intoxicated) too.
His legend will only grow with the passing of the years. For all his faults – and he had many – Alex Higgins was a gift to snooker and it is entirely right that a tournament such as this remembers him.
22 comments:
the ironic thing is if the WSA asked him if they could name a tournament after him he would have told them to get lost or far stronger words than that lol
- 10:33 am
the one and only peoples champion
others are just imposters
- 2:28 pm
Could be a nice way to remember deceased past players by naming all the PTCs after them.
There's already Hunter and Higgins. Surely Spencer, Charlton, Fred Davis etc. could have events named after them. Would also help give each PTC an identity of its own.
- 2:50 pm
Not a fan of naming tournaments after deceased players. It doesn't do the present generation of players any favours by canonising the greats of the past.
- 3:30 pm
it doesnt do them any favours
doesnt do any harm though
- 5:30 pm
- John McBride said...
Dave, Hi. I'm a big, big fan of the English language when used well. Stephen Fry, for example, he doesn't waste words, he uses them to simply or purify a chapter or situation or topic, beautifully well. Alex Higgins was all them & more. I want the man to be respected for Snooker & Dave, your words are not wasted on him, nor is the wisdom you've used either. Lest we never forget.
RIP Alex.
- 11:01 pm
- Jeremy said...
I loved Higgins when I was a teenager, and was excited by his devil-may-care attitude and attacking snooker style. Then, as I grew up (and, hopefully, matured), and then studied psychology, I realised he was a classic case of the pyschopathic personality. Sadly, perhaps inevitably, madness (and / or psychopathy) and genius often go hand-in-hand!
- 11:19 pm
- Dave H said...
John McBride: I think you submitted something on the red or pink post but I inadvertently deleted it! Please re-post (I think it was you)
- 11:46 pm
- John McBride said...
Re: John McBride: I think you submitted something on the red or pink post but I inadvertently deleted it! Please re-post (I think it was you)
Done, or Did, or both.
- 12:04 am
Not sure about this new background Dave. Hard to read the links on sidebar.
Although I realise I am an old person with failing eyesight!
- 1:53 pm
Dave, snooker blog is never going to be "hip and happening", and it doesn't need to be because your quality writing is enough. Let's have the old middle-aged snooker commentator background back.
- 2:10 pm
O'Sullivan, White and Trump are the only players fit to lift that trophy.
- 4:36 pm
mjw or trump are the only ones fit to lift that trophy
- 7:14 pm
Yes Higgins could be a rude nasty angry man but thats why we all loved him.
Without him snooker would still be a stuffy upper class sport, he was the figurehead of the revolution of the sport in the 70s and 80s who attracted masses of new fans to the sport and catipulted it to great popularity. Sadly whilst the sport flourished, Higgins sad downward spiral began before escalating once his form deserted him.
Without a doubt IMO the "best" player of all time, i use the term best loosely but what exactly does best mean, the most trophies? the most entertaining? the most iconic?
For me hes the greatest snooker legend of all time, he singled handedly transformed the sport, he was the most exciting player of all time, he played shots no-one could or would dream of playing plus the off the table controversies added to his aura.
- 9:41 pm
Witz, You have unwittingly conceived a potential debate there.
What is the definition of "the best".
For you its Higgins. For others its John Higgins, O'Sullivan, Davis, Hendry etc.
Is it world titles or tournaments won? Surely Joe Johnson isnt a better player than Jimmy White, even though he won one more world title than him.
Would Joe Davis or Ray Reardon have reached the top if they were starting out today?
If Higgins or O'Sullivan had turned pro in 1985 as 18 year olds, would Hendry have won 7 world titles?
Perhaps theres a snooker/sci-fi novel waiting to be written where all the top players are united via time travel and play a year on the tour together.
I think I'd better stop now. Im starting to confuse myself.
- 11:15 pm
add: would hendry have upped his game even more if theyd been about then?
my opinion: yes
- 8:49 am
It's pretty clear what Witz means by "best". He means that he his the greatest player, as opposed to the most successful or the most accomplished. No-one transformed the nature of the game and popularised it to the same extent. Joe Davis, Steve Davis and Hendry are unquestionably the most successful, but success is a moving target: Hendry would have not won as much in this era, and neither would either Davis. Neither Steve or Hendry would have won as much in the 70s, simply because there wasn't much around to win. Therefore success is a variable, not a factor, and as such only defines an era, and cannot transcend it. Only one player has truly transcended his era.
- 8:51 am
The question that should be asked is how much would Steve have won with Alex's lifestyle? The same question could also apply to Stephen and Jimmy. The answer would probably be very little indeed.
Most sportsmen today go to any lengths to try and gain an edge on their opponents. Alex and Jimmy seemed to go to extreme lengths to negate the huge talent they had for the game.But who really cares when they played the most exciting snooker that nobody will forget in a hurry. They made snooker sexy.
- 3:19 pm
anon 8.51am
Higgins,Ronnie and Williams wouldnt have Won as much had Hendry played to his best This era and theres no Question maybee he wouldnt have won 7 WC but he would have stil have won more than the other 3.
and Regarding Alex he was the best thing ever for Snooker he was a original in everything he did and inspired a future Generation that included Jimmy White and Ronnie O'Sullivan.
- 3:57 pm
Witz talking sense as usual. Strength of opposition changes, and 5 world finals for White in a row from 1990-94 and 6 world titles for Hendry 1990-1996 shows what a weak era early to mid 90's actual was.
As good as these 2 were they were not that good and could not have done that post 1996.
- 7:27 pm
You'd wonder why Doherty and Ebdon didn't win the world title in the "weak" era of early to mid 90's.
- 9:59 pm
well said KC @959. seems someone is determined to goad other users who have been here for years and posting without any issue at all.
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from the that's-not-how-it-works dept
And, yet, the court has said that Google must block the truthful display of what people have searched for.
"A situation has been created by which illegally submitted documents can be easily viewed," chief judge Hisaki Kobayashi was quoted as saying by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.It seems bizarre that the response to this is to go after Google instead of whoever created and uploaded the false document. Get rid of that document, by the person who allegedly really slandered the guy, and you likely solve the overall problem, without trying to interfere with Google's algorithms.
As the article notes, an injunction had been issued earlier in the case, which Google ignored. Also, Google doesn't even run a data center in Japan, so it's unclear how much jurisdiction the Japanese court even has over forcing Google to change its system.
Either way, it's getting fairly ridiculous to see so many courts blame Google for the fact that it can find stuff that other people did.


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The history of chiropractic, like all healing arts, is largely one in which empirical process has preceded theoretical formulation. In other words, from the earliest days practitioners have applied new manual treatment methods on an intuitive, empirical basis, noted that some are more effective than others, and theorized on the basis of these findings as to the underlying mechanisms.
When certain methods have demonstrated their effectiveness over a period of time, they, along with the theories used to explain them, become part of what we might call the "chiropractic corpus," the body of tradition, evidence, and practice which is the contribution of the chiropractic school of knowledge to the healing arts as a whole.
Not until the late Twentieth Century was this accumulated body of chiropractic knowledge sufficiently grounded in scientific research to allow wide recognition across professional boundaries. Fortunately, that point has now been reached. It therefore seems timely to review the nature of the chiropractic diagnostic and therapeutic model, so that it can be well understood by the public and other health professionals.
Part of this review is an examination of chiropractic theory past and present. It is important to sift out ideas which may have been state of the art in 1910 or 1950, but which are no longer fully tenable. Chief among these is the idea that the chiropractic adjustment works primarily by physically moving a vertebra that is out of place back into place.
The Bone-Out-of-Place Theory
The early chiropractors assumed that their adjustments worked by moving misaligned vertebrae back into line, thereby relieving pressure caused when those bones impinged directly on spinal nerves. The standard explanation given to patients was the analogy of stepping on a garden hose if you step on the hose the water canât get through, and then if you lift your foot off the hose, the free flow of water is restored. Similarly, the explanation went, the chiropractic adjustment removes the pressure of bone on nerve, thus allowing free flow of nerve impulses.
Based on the information available in the early years, such a theory was plausible. Chiropractors were able to feel interruptions in the symmetry of the spinal column with their well-trained hands, and in many cases could verify this on x-ray (discovered in 1895, the same year as chiropractic). They would then adjust the vertebra with manual pressure, attempting to move it back into line. More often than not, patients reported significant functional improvements and healing effects.
But there are problems with the theory. This can most simply and directly be illustrated by noting the fact that, after an adjustment resulting in dramatic relief from headaches or sciatica, an x-ray will rarely show any discernible change in alignment. (Such comparative x-rays are now considered inappropriate, because of the unnecessary radiation exposure). Long-term positive health changes have not been definitively shown to correlate with symmetrical alignment of spinal bones on any consistent basis.
Though much excellent work has been done by chiropractors whose understanding of their healing art was based on the bone-out-of-place theory, the theory has not stood the test of time. This does not mean that chiropractic is invalid, only that this late nineteenth century explanation has been overtaken by later developments.
While misalignments may play a role in the interpretation of spinal subluxations, they are no longer believed to play the central role. But if the old explanation of misaligned bones pressing on nerves is inadequate, what new theory has replaced it? To answer this question, we need to move beyond the essentially two-dimensional viewpoint of the misalignment theory, and include motion as an added dimension.
The Intervertebral Motion Theory
In the 1930s, Belgian chiropractor Henri Gillet developed a theory of intervertebral motion and fixation, in which he asserted that it was loss of normal spinal joint movement, rather than misalignment, that was the underlying explanation for the vertebral subluxation. He agreed with the bone-out-of-place adherents that the interplay between the skeletal system and the nervous system was crucial, but parted ways with them regarding the causal process underlying the abnormal nerve signaling. Rather than attributing the subluxationâs effects to direct pressure of misaligned bone on nerve, Gillet theorized that loss of proper joint dynamics was the underlying issue.
Later work by medical researchers Schmorl and Junghans, and many more who followed, verified the complex role of the "vertebral motor unit," consisting of bones, muscles, ligaments, blood vessels, and nerves. This model is now widely accepted.
All of these structural components are involved in the subluxation complex. Bypassing the old argument of whether the causative factor in the vertebral subluxation is the bone or the muscle, the work of Gillet, Schmorl, Junghans, and others allowed the problem to be seen from a broader, multi-faceted perspective, in which all components of the intervertebral joint are involved in an elaborate interplay. This model first achieved profession-wide attention among chiropractors in the 1980s, and now enjoys broad acceptance in chiropractic college curricula throughout the world.[1]
Jerome McAndrews, D.C., an early advocate of motion theory and practice who later served as president of Palmer College of Chiropractic, translated this model into visual terms when I spoke with him during preparation of this book.
"View it as a mobile hanging from the ceiling," Dr. McAndrews said. "As it hangs there, it is in a state of dynamic equilibrium. Then, if you cut one of the strings, the whole mobile starts moving, because its balance has been upset. Eventually, it slows down and reaches a new state of dynamic equilibrium."
The bodyâs musculoskeletal system works in much the same way, Dr. McAndrews explained. If its normal balance is disrupted, it has no choice but to compensate. Structural patterns will be altered to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the nature and intensity of the forces that threw off the old pattern of balance.
If chiropractic care is sought early, relatively little treatment may be required, because these compensations will not have had time to deeply imbed themselves structurally. Thus, a child injured playing football at age ten might need just one or two adjustments, but if that child waits until age forty before seeking chiropractic care (not an uncommon occurrence), the situation may prove far more complex. Patterns of long-term muscular rigidity, calcium deposits in ligaments, and significant structural shifts of the vertebral column or ribcage, for example, may set in with relative permanence.
In some such circumstances, when much time has passed, the achievable therapeutic goal may be limited to partial restoration of mobility and function. Returning to the once-upon-a-time perfection of the ten-year oldâs pre-injury body becomes impossible somewhere along the way.
The theory of dynamic equilibrium, with its emphasis on intervertebral motion and fixation, has the great advantage of allowing, for the first time, a coherent explanation of chiropractic and the subluxation complex that can be communicated in familiar terms to medical practitioners and researchers. This has resulted in clearer lines of communication between chiropractors and medical professionals. While some hold onto the old model and terminology, the stage has been set for completion of this significant shift in perspective, as the new generation of chiropractic and medical practitioners trained after it took hold comes of age.
Wide-Ranging Effects of Spinal Manipulation
Restoring mobility to a joint by manipulation eases the stress at that joint and in the surrounding tissues. Unless complicating factors are present, muscular tension eases in the area that has been adjusted. As joint dysfunction decreases, other secondary symptoms such as pain, tingling, or numbness along the path of the nerves originating at the involved spinal level also improve.
Though the vast majority of chiropractic patients arrive seeking help for musculoskeletal problems like back pain, neck pain, and headaches, spinal adjustments can also have positive effects on other organs and systems. While chiropractic adjustments are directed to restoring motion at specific vertebral joints, the effects of these adjustments extend beyond the local area where the adjustive force is applied. Effects can extend to all structures served by the nerves originating in the spine.
Thus, neck adjustments can affect not only the neck and arms, but also the function of various organs in the head (via sympathetic pathways), and in the chest and upper abdomen (via the parasympathetic vagus nerve). Upper back adjustments can affect not only the upper back, but also the lungs, heart, and parts of the digestive tract. Adjustments of the lower back may influence not only the lower back and legs, but also the kidneys, pelvic organs and lower digestive tract.
The First Chiropractic Adjustment: A Case of Hearing Restored
The first chiropractic adjustment in 1895 was one in which the patient sought help for back pain, and got results far beyond his expectations. Harvey Lillard, a deaf janitor in the building where D.D. Palmer had an office, came to Palmer bent over with back pain. Palmer gave him a spinal adjustment, after which Mr. Lillard stood up straight, was free of back pain, and able to hear for the first time in many years.
At first, it appeared that Palmer might have discovered a cure for deafness, but similar results were not forthcoming when other deaf people heard about Harvey Lillard and sought Palmerâs help. And while there have been other instances through the years of hearing restored through spinal manipulation (including one by Canadian orthopedist J.F. Bourdillion, M.D.)[2] these have been rare, and no predictable pattern has emerged. The story of Lillardâs recovery has been used for many years to disparage chiropractic, with repeated charges by the naysayers (primarily anti-chiropractic MDs) that such an event is impossible, because no spinal nerves supply the ear. Once, when I was testifying as an expert witness in a patientâs automobile accident case, the opposing attorney, his voice dripping with sarcasm, attacked me with this very story.
It is important to refute the charge specifically. The underlying physiological mechanism is called the somato-autonomic reflex, fully recognized in all modern medical and chiropractic textbooks. Its name describes the interaction between the muscular and skeletal system (soma, or body), and the autonomic (involuntary) portion of the nervous system. Signals initiated by spinal manipulation are transmitted via autonomic pathways to internal organs.
In the case of Palmerâs first adjustment, the relevant nerve pathway starts in the upper back, coursing up the neck and into the skull along the sympathetic nerves which eventually lead to the blood vessels in the ear. Proper functioning of the hearing apparatus depends on a normal blood supply, which in turn depends on an adequate nerve supply.
While it is true that there are no spinal nerves as such directly supplying the ear, it is absolutely untrue that no nerve pathway links the two areas. The pathway exists, and any claims to the contrary betray ignorance of fully accepted modern physiology research.
Further Examples of Manipulationâs Effects on Internal Organs
Just as there are autonomic pathways supplying the ear, similar pathways lead from the spine to all parts of the body. A broad array of research has verified that these pathways exist, and that in some instances spinal manipulation can positively affect problems caused by them. The work of Czech neurologist Karel Lewit, M.D., American orthopedic surgeon John McMillan Mennell, M.D., and others has been particularly helpful in spreading these concepts beyond the chiropractic community. Dr. Lewit has for many years successfully used spinal manipulation to treat tonsillitis, breathing problems, migraine, vertigo, and much more.[3]


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How Important Is Attribution In Copyright Issues?
from the summing-it-up dept
The paper's authors seek to get a real sense of what the tradeoffs are for content creators -- and they quickly discover that content creators are willing to accept significantly less money in exchange for attribution and publicity. They also discover -- as their own previous studies have shown -- that content creators tend to significantly overvalue their own works. But the key finding is that attribution has tremendous value to content creators -- both amateurs and professionals alike. You can read the full details of the experiments in the study, but the researchers came up with a clever way to effectively get photographers to value a work with the possibility of getting a large cash reward for it vs. the possibility of having the image published with credit in a major publication. Notably, the impact was much stronger with professional photographers, since to them making people aware of their work had much greater value, even if it meant getting paid much less. It was also interesting to see that amateurs valued publication without attribution less than just getting paid, but for professionals, they were willing to get paid less if the image was published somewhere major even without attribution. Not surprisingly, getting published with attribution was the most desirable, and for that the pros were willing to accept the lowest payment.
I know that some copyright maximalists love to bash those of us who point out that there is significant value for content creators in getting their works out there and accessible in ways that people see/hear/experience them -- and this study presents some empirical evidence to support the idea that it's a pretty strong effect. Towards the end, the study digs a bit into the policy questions and suggests that requiring attribution (a la moral rights) as a mandatory part of copyright law actually could be harmful, in that it would take away a key negotiating point over which prices could change drastically. Coupled with the fact that artists have been shown to overvalue their rights, such an attribution right actually makes it more difficult to come to an agreeable price on content, and limits how much content is likely to be sold. Definitely an interesting read overall.


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"Many new fighting games" are in development at SNK, The King of Fighters XIV producer Yasuyki Oda told IGN Latin America in an interview.
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- 1. Explain how the following elements and terms affect the quality of a picture:
- a. Light-natural light/ambient, flash
- b. Exposure-aperture (f-stops), shutter speed, depth of field
- c. Composition-rule of thirds, leading lines, framing, depth
- d. Angle of view
- e. Stopping action
- 2. Explain the basic parts and operation of a film camera or digital camera. Explain how an exposure is made when you take a picture.
- 3. Discuss with your counselor the differences between a film camera and a digital camera. List at least five advantages and five disadvantages of using a digital camera versus using a film camera.
- 4. Do ONE of the following:
- a. Produce a picture story using the photojournalistic technique of documenting an event. Share your plan with your counselor and get your counselor's input and approval before you proceed. Then, using either a film camera or a digital camera, produce your approved picture story. Process your images and select eight to 12 images that best tell your story. Arrange your images in order, then mount the prints on a poster board. If you are using digital images, you may create a slide show on your computer or produce printouts for your poster board. Share your picture story with your counselor.
- b. Choose a topic that interests you to photograph for an exhibit or display. Get your counselor's approval, then photograph (digital or film) your topic. Process your images. Choose 20 of your favorite images and mount them on poster board. Share your display with your counselor. If you are using digital images, you may create a slide show on your computer or produce printouts for your poster board.
- 5. Discuss with your counselor the career opportunities in photography. Pick one that interests you and explain how to prepare for such a career. Discuss with your counselor the education and training such a career would require.
Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)
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Cisco ordered to pay $70 million in civil fraud patent case
Cisco Systems Inc must pay $70 million in damages to patent licenser XpertUniverse Inc for fraudulently obtaining technology developed by the New York company, a jury found on Friday, according to court filings.business Updated: Mar 23, 2013 11:01 IST
Cisco Systems Inc must pay $70 million in damages to patent licenser XpertUniverse Inc for fraudulently obtaining technology developed by the New York company, a jury found on Friday, according to court filings.
The jury also found that Cisco violated two XpertUniverse patents, and awarded an additional $34,000 in damages on those claims.
Cisco, the world's largest manufacturer of networking equipment, said it would appeal if the judge leaves the jury verdict intact.
"We are surprised and extremely disappointed with the jury's verdict," Cisco said in an emailed statement after the verdict was delivered in a Delaware federal court.
XpertUniverse claimed in the lawsuit that San Jose, California-based Cisco's "Expert on Demand" software platform was based on software that XpertUniverse developed.
XpertUniverse said Cisco violated a non-disclosure agreement it had signed and filed for patents on technology developed by XpertUniverse. It said the companies had entered a relationship in which Cisco would distribute technology XpertUniverse had developed to efficiently match customers with call center experts.
XpertUniverse said that the companies signed the non-disclosure agreement before it showed Cisco "every aspect of its intellectual property."
Cisco approached XpertUniverse in 2004 and the companies worked together until 2007, when Cisco severed the relationship, XpertUniverse said in its lawsuit.
The next year, Cisco announced it was launching "Expert on Demand." XpertUniverse filed its lawsuit in 2009.
In a court filing this week, Cisco told U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews in Wilmington that "no evidence exists from which the jury could find in favor of XU on either its fraudulent concealment or patent claims."
XpertUniverse attorney Charles Cantine of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP said the company was "obviously very happy" with the verdict.
The case in U.S. District Court, District of Delaware is XpertUniverse Inc. vs. Cisco Systems Inc., 09-157.
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