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Our Practice
Long Beach Dentist, Dr. Greg Campbell is devoted to restoring and enhancing the natural beauty of your smile using conservative, state-of-the-art procedures that will result in beautiful, long lasting smiles!
High Standards
A standard of excellence in personalized dental care enables us to provide the quality dental services our patients deserve. Located in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach, we provide comprehensive treatment planning and use restorative and cosmetic dentistry to achieve your optimal dental health. Our cosmetic dentistry in Long Beach is always done with care and quality that we are proud of. Should a dental emergency occur, we make every effort to see and care for you as soon as possible.
Education & Prevention
Dr Greg Campbell is a true believer that preventative care and education are the keys to optimal dental health. We strive to provide "dental health care" vs. "disease care". That's why we focus on thorough exams – checking the overall health of your teeth and gums, performing oral cancer exams, and taking digital radiographs (x-rays) when necessary. We also know that routine cleanings, flossing, sealants, and fluoride are all helpful in preventing dental disease. Not only are we focused on the beauty of your smile, we're also concerned about your health. A review of your medical history can help us stay informed of your overall health, any new medications, and any illnesses that may impact your dental health.
Uncompromising Safety
Infection control in our office is also very important to us. To protect our patients and ourselves, we strictly maintain sterilization and cross contamination processes using standards recommended by the American Dental Association (ADA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
Training & Expertise
The dental practice of Dr Greg Campbell wants you to be confident knowing that we are a team of highly trained and skilled clinicians. Our dentists in Long Beach, CA pride ourselves in providing the care you need to keep your smile healthy. To give you the best possible service and results, we are committed to continual education and learning. We attend dental lectures, meetings, and dental conventions to stay informed of new techniques, the latest products, and the newest equipment that a modern dental office can utilize to provide state-of-the-art dental care. Also, being members of various professional dental associations helps us to stay abreast of the changes and recommendations for our profession.
A Positive Experience
Building a foundation of trust by treating our patients as special individuals is vital to our success. We understand how uneasy some patients may feel about their dental visits, and how we can make a difference in providing a relaxing and positive experience. Our entire team is dedicated to providing you with excellent, personalized care and service to make your visits as comfortable and pleasant as possible.
We thank you for allowing us to take care of your dental needs and look forward to serving you.
Make an appointment today….we'll give you a reason to smile!
Our mission as a dental team is to help our patients achieve a state of optimal dental and oral health. We seek to create an environment that fosters a high value in oral health by continually striving to provide excellent personal and professional service. Our moral objective is to meet the needs of others, whether co-worker or patient, because ultimately, our business is people.
Our decisions and actions on a day-to-day basis are driven by these core beliefs:
TEAMWORK – Our office functions as ONE cohesive team to accomplish our mission. We also view our patients as partners along the path of optimal health and wellness for life.
PROFESSIONALISM – We continually pursue excellence through continuing education and applied technologies. We view ourselves as patient advocates and assume a proactive role in the well being of our patients.
RESPECT – We place a high priority for the respect of our patients' time and personal needs. This also translates to the integrity of our work and how we communicate to others.
VALUE – Our fees reflect the high standards we have established for the services we provide. We strive to consistently deliver more than would be reasonably expected in a non-judgmental, empathetic manner.
"Creating Beautiful Healthy Smiles"
Long Beach Dentist, Dr. Greg Campbell
Greg Campbell, D.D.S.
3960 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90807
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Outlast 2 (DX11)
I want to THANKS bo3b for help me with some decompiler issues, important to fix shadows, lights and reflections.
- Shadows/ Lights
- Reflections
- Light Shafts
- Halos in effects
- Water, Blood and a bunch of effects
- Lensflares (aproximate)
TB and SBS Mode:
- The game support SBS/TB Mode using 3Dmigoto. Remove the ";" in the ;run = CustomShader3DVision2SBS in the [Present] section of the d3dx.ini. Default TB Mode. F11 to cycle.
- Workaround (Crash) for win10 add in the ini.
- Try to use the highest Shadows option
Know issues:
- The game have an issue with some Stain/Tint in the right eye when 2 shaders are active on screen. Because i have to tweak the main Fog shader to eliminate the stain/tint issue, sometimes part of the fog effects (not all and not all the time) is a little off....you can noticed when light shafts interact (that are fixed) with the fog for example.
Also if the stain/tint issue appear, you need to save and exit the game, and launch the game again. That stain/tint in the right eye don't go away unless you quit the game. Happens to me once, but i think i fixed (probably that batch fix i do with the halos) because i don't see it again for the entire game.
- "O" key to enable or disable the Dot Crosshair, default OFF
- "L" key and "Right DPAD" in Xbox control to cycle between 2 convergence values (one for gameplay and the other for cinematics, camera menu and readings letters)
- Extract where Outlast2.exe is located (\Outlast 2\Binaries\Win64)
- Start the game, when "Rundll32" prompt appear, press "Yes". This is for the Profile Override needed for this game.
Read this topic about How i will release my fixes: HERE
** Do you like the fix? **
If you like the fix, you can donate to this PAYPAL account: email@example.com
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- AnonymousJune 12, 2017 at 6:19 AM
Thanks for this fix it's work's perfectlyReplyDelete
Can't download fix , is it right?ReplyDelete
Im having one issue, only with the fix active.
Most of the times i try to open menus in start or select pad buttons, screen stays freeze, and i have to alt+ctrl+supr to say out the game.Replies
Thanx you DHR is very good :)ReplyDelete
thanks DHR !!!!!ReplyDelete
- immersion22June 12, 2017 at 9:44 PM
hi DHRReplyDelete
finally.. i'v been waiting for this
thank you very much for this fix
I'm going to check this out soon..
Can't seem to get this to work in T&B mode, I've edited the d3dx.ini CustomShader3DVision2SBS but pressing F11 doesn't do anything and setting x7 = 5 will not display 3D in reverse T&B mode.ReplyDeleteReplies
I comments those line for win10 users....try to uncomment (remove ";"), maybe this game need enabled....Murphy's law!!!Delete
Like this:
vs-t125 = StereoParams
ps-t125 = StereoParams
vs-t120 = IniParams
ps-t120 = IniParams
That worked a treat. Thanks for the fix, game looks amazing :DDelete
Great that worked!!Delete
Enjoy the game.....really creapy game!! only for brave people.
Thanks DHR. Just bought this game because of your fix!ReplyDelete
Really atmospheric game, and hiding in the trashcans in this game reminds me of my time hiding in lockers in Alien Isolation. Great work, looks so pretty in 3D Vision and also works for me with Virtual Desktop in SBS3D...it's nice to play in 3D on a big virtual screen - very immersive, but still works best in 3D Vision :)
Thanks also to bo3b..sorry, forgot to add that ;)ReplyDelete
- immersion22June 14, 2017 at 11:31 AM
hi HDRReplyDelete
I just started to play the game and right from the beginning I have an issue with the light reflections.. something isn't right.. I see some broken reflections on the floor.
(its not the stain issue.. I restrated the game and the stain was gone).
do you have any idea about the broken light reflections?Replies
Hi inmersion22!Delete
Make sure you have the game updated to the last version. If you are using a version of the game that is not the last, almost all shaders will be broken.
- immersion22June 15, 2017 at 5:58 AM
ok.. now workingDelete
- AnonymousJune 15, 2017 at 12:17 PM
Thank you again for all your hard work and efforts!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 15, 2017 at 11:54 PM
Thanks so much DHR...works perfectly...waiting mafia 3 fix :-)ReplyDelete
Hi DHR.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the fix.
It's not working properly for me and I'm running latest version but I don't get the rundll32 prompt. What profile should I add? I can do this through Nvidia Inspector I presume? ThanksReplies
Hi! the profile is only for override the gameplay convergence, nothing more. If you press CTRL+ALT+INS you should see in the overlay "3Dfix by DHR".Delete
What's wrong? maybe re-install driver using DDU fix it.
it's working now thanks! Just weird, sometimes the fix only partially loads and if a change a setting while the fix is loaded, it can break it. If I leave everything alone it works great now.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2017 at 7:04 AM
Awesome fix. Only issue is the fog, which is known. I have a question for you guys. What depth do you guys use? So far, default depth (15%) and default convergence give a nice subtle 3d effect.ReplyDelete

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There's A Mouse On Your Table!Reviewing: Hp Optical Mouse | Rating:
I've been using this mouse in the office for 15 months now and it seems to not wear off. It is made by Hewlett-Packard and comes along with the whole desktop computer set I use here in the office.
With a black body and gray clickers, it emphasizes more on the typical office ambiance because of the seriousness it depicts. It also has a roller between the right and left clickers so I don't have to point to the scroll bar every time I want to browse up or down on whatever I am reading or viewing.
It also has an optic sensor that enables the mouse to function on any surface – wood, stone, metal, textile, and others. As long as there's a flat surface, it can be used to do my work.
By the time I buy my own personal desktop at home, I will make sure that my mouse is the same as this one. It's really a good item to put in my desktop checklist.


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The Colorado Desert Archaeology Society is a group of volunteers that assists the staff of the Colorado Desert District of the California Department of Parks and Recreation in the documentation, preservation, and protection of cultural resources. Volunteers participate in a comprehensive Certification Training Program that teaches the ethics, goals, and methods of archaeological investigation. The program consists of a series of lectures, workshops, and fieldwork wherein the members develop their archaeological skills. The following are some of the tasks performed by our volunteers:
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A woman, half natural / half man, discovers a hidden garden in the woods. A garden full of memories, insights and dreams.
I often go on expedition to this Garden of Beautiful Moments. It is hidden deep in my heart. In this garden nature reflects our world, our existence, our lives, my life. Here nature can grow undisturbed and I can be myself. Through my textile sculptures, short stories and poetry I share my discoveries and insights to you.
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Parents have been calling me with lots of questions about when the right age is for a child to have their own cell phone. I don't want anyone to be kept on hold for this one, so let me provide some information.
The major reason a child would need to have a cell phone is for security, safety and convenience reasons, not because their friends have one, or to use as a status symbol. A child with a cell phone can signal when they are ready to be picked up from a sports practice, and allows you to reach your child if you are caught in traffic and cannot be there on time to pick them up from that practice. Many phones nowadays have GPS capability, so parents can at any given time know where their child is located, via their phone. On the other hand, most schools do not allow cell phone use during the school day, so there is no reason for them to really have one when at school.
Many parents tend to give phones to their children as they hit the pre-teen and early teen years when they tend to be away from their parents more doing other activities, otherwise younger children could certainly use a parent's cell phone or a house phone to make their calls.
If you do feel your child needs a phone for the reasons I have suggested, I would recommend a "time-limited" phone plan so that there are limited minutes for calls or text messages, and/or that there are parental controls on what numbers can be called out or come in such that your child can only place calls to you as parents or those responsible for their care, along with 911.
As to recent concerns that the low level of electromagnetic radiation cell phones transmit increases the risk for the development of brain cancers and leukemia, recent studies suggest that is not the case. However no one knows what the long term effects of decades of cell phone use will be, so it is still a good idea to make sure your children only use their phone when they need you, and not just to hear the sound of their own voices and that of their friends for hours on end.
Bottom line: getting a cell phone for your child is really a parental decision, although it is important that if you do get one, set rules in advance for the use of that phone. Your child needs to be old enough to understand those rules as well as the responsibility for following those rules and taking care of the phone, or you will find yourself needing to replace the lost or broken phone long before the warranty is up. Hopefully, tips like this will answer the call when it comes to helping you decide if and when your child needs a cell phone.
Lewis First, M.D., is chief of Pediatrics at Vermont Children's Hospital at Fletcher Allen and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. You can also catch "First with Kids" weekly on WOKO 98.9 FM and WCAX-TV Channel 3. Visit the First with Kids archives at www.vermontchildrens.org.


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chicken or tofu coconut and cardamon and stuffFrom plutonian 11 years ago
- eggplant shopping list
- chicken breast shopping list
- tofu shopping list
- galangal shopping list
- ginger shopping list
- garlic shopping list
- ground chili shopping list
- cardamom shopping list
- coconut milk shopping list
- fresh young coconut meat shopping list
- carrots shopping list
- onion shopping list
- kaffir lime leaves shopping list
- shitake shopping list
- whatever else or instead of you can find that seems like it'll be good in the wok with that lot shopping list
How to make it
- Right, chop a load of garlic, red onions, ginger, fresh galangal (Asian market). Heat cast iron wok, slosh in sesame oil. OK?
- Toss in garlic and ginger and a bunch of cardamom seeds.
- Throw in obliquely diced aubergine, carrots and shitake (waiting a coupla mins between everything, right?) Bit of seasoning.
- OK, rush out in the garden and grab a bunch of cilantro, basil and some kaffir lime leaves (dude, you have to have a kaffir lime tree in a terracotta pot - essential) leave those on the chopping board and throw in your diced chicken breast (yes, or tofu or whatever).
- Right, now, um, chili flakes, red peppers and asparagus.
- A slosh of water from the kettle and dissolve all the brown chicken jiz off the bottom. Toss it all about, throw in kaffir lime leaves, cover and simmer for a bit.
- Now, scrape out the yummy noodly strips of fresh young coconut (you drank out that nectar of the gods earlier) dump that in and pour over the remaining half tin of coconut cream (who knows what happened to the 1st half). In goes the basil and cilantro. Stir. Serve over the rice you made yesterday (basmati with the bay leaf) after steaming that up a bit (drop of water from the kettle in bottom of pot - works lovely)
- DELICIOUS! Best bit is explosive flavour of surprise cardamom seed crunch - whaor, lovely.
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It's funny, because I had all these ideas for blog posts, but when I actually sat down to write one, I became paralyzed. I could only think, "this is my first post on my new site, my intro to the world – I'd better make it a good one! A great one!" And, well, that's a bit intimidating.
So instead of putting forth something of dizzying intellect, I'm going to start things slowly with a list of my favorite fairy tales — which you'll more than likely see in my anthology of re-tellings.
- Beauty and the Beast: I always liked the idea of going off to live in an enchanted castle. Magic rings and curses are cool, too.
- The Little Mermaid: The mermaid's sacrifice of her voice and life resonated with me. To this day, I look at sea foam and think of dead mermaids. (I was a morbid little child.)
- Little Red Riding Hood: Admittedly not one of my favorites, but I love the character I created from this tale, so here it is. I do like a few modern adaptations of it though.
- Rapunzel: Again as a morbid little child, I liked the fact that the prince was pushed from the tower and blinded by briars. (I had a thing about children's stories not being "real" enough with all their perfect happy endings.) But Disney's version is now my favorite movie.
- Princess and the Frog: I liked what Disney did with this tale, turning the princess into a frog as well, but the original is still good. I enjoy a good curse.
- Princess and the Pea: I think I enjoyed this one because I could empathize with the princess. I have always had trouble sleeping, even without a pea to worry about.
- Cinderella: It's not just the classic rags-to-riches story I enjoy, but there are so many great adaptations. You can go so many places with this one!
- Rumpelstiltskin: Just as I enjoy a good curse, I enjoy a good fairy deal. Tricky fairies and their one-up on humans are always fun!
There you have it! That's my list of favorite fairy tales. What's yours?
Jennifer A. Johnson is a newly published fantasy writer thanks to The Adventure of Creation anthology. She's still revising her first novel, but you can sign up for her free newsletter to pass the time.


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I'm used to this. I see it every year in writer's workshop, especially at the beginning of the year when we're writing in a genre for the first time.
And every time I see this, I become more determined to break them of this thinking.
Today, we were working on the Common Core State Standard W.4.3a - Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
My favorite story to use for this is standard -- especially with fourth graders -- is The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck.
This book, set in a small Indiana town with a one-room schoolhouse, has the best opening line of a children's book ever.
If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it.
Richard Peck keeps it going from there, building an incredible introduction. You can read the entire first chapter here.
Today, I started our writing lesson by reading this chapter to them. I have the Kindle edition of the book, so when I read it, I can project it on our ActivBoard so the students can follow along as I read. They laughed throughout the intro and were immediately hooked, begging me to choose this as our next chapter book read-aloud. Score one for the objective of "hooking your readers!"
I then asked them how many of them thought that introduction was the one that was in the first draft of his book.
One or two hands went up.
Richard Peck shared in an article called "In the Beginning" (Horn Book Magazine, September 2006, pp. 505-508) that it normally takes him 24 drafts of his lead before he's happy with it. TWENTY-FOUR!
And here I'm asking my students to take a second pass at their writing.
I shared that little nugget with my students before we reread the first chapter. As we read if for a second time, we focused on the characteristics of his writing that made it such a great lead.
Here's what my students noticed, compiled into an anchor chart:
Once we finished the chart, I had them go back to a piece of writing they've been working on and try to write a different introduction. Some students tried changing the point of view, others jumped into the action or started with dialogue. Whatever the strategy, all of them managed to produce a new version of their introduction, and all were at least a little better than what they'd started with.
We'll get this revising thing down eventually...
What are some of your favorite books to use to teach students how to hook their readers? I'd love to hear about them in the comments!


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Review by Jan Hanford:
Performance: tedious
Recording: muddy
Not recommended. One of the few disappointments in the otherwise excellent Hanssler Edition. Martin Lucker's plodding performance is slow and tedious. He holds many of the final chords absurdly long. I found his performance uninspired and very boring. The other organists in the Hanssler edition are excellent. Bine-Katrine Bryndorf, in particular, is outstanding.


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|this week I am celebrating LOVE
Lately I´ve been thinking of persons who inhabit (or have inhabited) my world and how them have marked me some way. I have known some of them for a very long time; I met others only once or twice and even so I have never forgot them and I am getting to know some of them right now, but I already know that will be part of that group. Some are family or old friends, others just acquaintances. I have coincided with many of them along my personal life´s paths but there are also former students or persons that I bumped into due to my work activities and of course, on-line contacts.
Some of those persons have hurt me deeply or made me feel sad or angry, or triggered any kind of unease, although they were not meant to do it... I guess this happens to all of us. But many others have developed much more positive roles.
However, while revising my list I´ve realized that any and each of them have taught me important things some way or another. But what has amazed me more is how the hard impact of some of them on my life has tarnished the beautifully constructive influence of the rest.
Some times in life what some authors usually call tyrant teachers (those who don´t want to teach us anything but do it anyway, through the pain they cause and its subsequent processing) gobble up all the good things and persons around.
I have decided that it´s time to change that. I need to focus on what is good and nice and rewarding. I need to focus on those who help and embrace and applaud and support. I need to focus on what I have created, not on what I have been deprived of. I need to focus on the beautiful self I have been able to construct regardless of the obstacles.
So this week I am celebrating the LOVE I have received from those who has been generous enough to offer it to me, even when maybe I was too immersed in my own world.
Those who have lent a hand and open their hearts.
Those who have given me thanks, or have appreciated me some way maybe only once.
Those who have gone with me along the peaceful days. And also, through the uneven moments.
Those who have listened or given good feed-back.
Those who have laughed (and cried) with me.
Those who has believed in my success and defended that I have something good to offer.
Those who have seen my light when I only saw darkness and have shared their beautiful souls with me.
Those who has been with me day after day sharing their love and joy.
Those who has been patient enough to await my blooming.
Those who come here and read and are kind enough to take time to do it...
This week I am rejoicing in love signs and proclaiming that love is all around. This week I am sending love to you all and looking for ways to honor all the good persons in my life (including myself).
Would you join me in this celebration?. I would like to know more about how you are honoring and celebrating love in your life.
Much Love


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The Spirit of the Lord
Without a doubt, every facet and scene of our Lord's drama is influenced by the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Christ's promise of the Holy Spirit was fulfilled on thje day of Pentecost, recounted in Acts chapter 2. This illustration captures the moment of the Spirit's descent on the followers of Christ on that eventful day, the very same day when the Spirit-led apostles proclaimed Jesus as Lord in Jerusalem.
Text on Image: Pentecost: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit says the LORD of hosts, Zechariah 4.6
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Sample Files / Data Sets main content.
Datasets for published studies are available here for download. Descriptions of datasets and formats for each study are provided in the associated readme files.
Arango, C. P., and W. C. Wheeler. 2007. Phylogeny of the sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) based on direct optimization of six loci and morphology. Cladistics 23:00-00: 0-00.
Grant, T., D. R. Frost, J. P. Caldwell, R. Gagliardo, C. F. B. Haddad, P. J. R. Kok, B. D. Means, B. P. Noonan, W. Schargel and W. C. Wheeler. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Anura: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1-262.
Frost, D.R., T. Grant, J. Faivovich, R. Bain, A. Haas, C.F.B. Haddad, R.O. de Sá, S.C. Donnellan, C.J. Raxworthy, M. Wilkinson, A. Channing, J.A. Campbell, B.L. Blotto, P. Moler, R.C. Drewes, R.A. Nussbaum, J.D. Lynch, D. Green, and W.C. Wheeler. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370.


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What the….!?
It's typical isn't it? You're rolling along having fun, and then things land in your path to slow you down!
So this week I have had computer crashes and website bugs.
Then out of the blue website work for a client appeared that needed urgent, and lengthy, tasks doing.
Then another client appeared on the books who again needs a new website.
In the mean-time decorating of my kitchen at home, that I booked two days off work to do, took WAY longer than expected!
All in all, it's been a distracting week and I have had to let any further work on the DustyGhost.com sites and on any comics/concepts go on hold.
So sadly this week nothing is posted this week. 🙁
But let's turn that frown upside-down!
Next week will be a bigger update with lots of ocular goodies!
Stay tuned!


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A Super Woman in a realistic context, is a phenomenal woman who has strength of character, not necessarily strength of body.
A Super Woman would normally go beyond when helping others, similar to those who stop to help complete strangers at the risk of their own safety or convenience.
A Super Woman does not only dream, but also take action where necessary. She longs for a bigger better life, one that will bring more joy, fulfillment, and sense of purpose.
Apart from the flying part (which is funny, if not comical,) Chika Ike's dream was about saving people in distress. And actually, that is what her non-profit organization (Chika Ike Foundation) is doing, by reaching to people in distress, most especially children.
Using Chika Ike as an inspirational figure with some phenomenal characteristics; any woman who dedicate any amount of time and resources to help others, is a Super Woman; Nigeria Movie Network concludes -- hereby wishing our readers - a super and happy new month!
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Trainer Tools and Resources
Because I am tired of repeating the same thing over and over, I am putting this information here so we can just simply point to it over and over instead of writing and saying the same things over and over.
This game has an active scanner that checks the game code for changes and modifications, especially when you enter battles or end turns. if you have any trainer options running when you do either, likely the scanner will detect your trainer and crash the game.
which is why months ago we added the following option:
Numpad /: Options Off - turns off all options. You know options are OFF when you hear
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Not All Acupuncturists are Trained Equally
When looking for a qualified acupuncturist in Asheville for serious concerns, chronic conditions, or long-term benefits, start your search for practitioners who are licensed acupuncturists (L.Ac.). They will have the highest level of training in the field. You will find a list of licensed acupuncturists at www.NCAAOM.org. Differences between the training of licensed acupuncturists and other practitioners performing acupuncture are in the chart below.
Studies Confirm that Acupuncture is Not Safe in the Hands of Non-licensed Acupuncturists
Acupuncture patients may suffer from unwanted side effects in the hands of non-licensed acupuncturists, according to a comprehensive study conducted by the Institute of Community Medicine in Norway
Some Licensed Acupuncturists Have Additional Training and Certification in Other Areas of Chinese Medicine
"Full service" Chinese medical practitioners can provide Chinese herbal therapy, eastern nutritional counseling and Asian body work, in addition to acupuncture. These practitioners are Nationally Certified Practitioners of Oriental Medicine or Diplomates of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. O.M.). A list of local practitioners can be found at www.NCCAOM.org.
|Comparison of Licensed vs. Certified Acupuncture Practitioner
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|Licensed Acupuncturist
|Certified physician or chiropractors with 300 hours of training
|Licensed acupuncturists (LAc) with an average of 2,700 hours of
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school or college of acupuncture
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treatments before certification
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patient treatments before licensure
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to prove competency in acupuncture
|Required to pass the national certification
exam in acupuncture
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|Required to do regular continuing education to maintain national
Licensed acupuncturists are also much more qualified than medical acupuncturists in performing acupuncture services. For more information about the differences between licensed acupuncturists and medical acupuncturists, go to www.medicalacupuncturefacts.com/.
Even training among licensed acupuncturists can vary widely. Some graduate programs include training in all aspects of Oriental Medicine, including Chinese herbal therapy, food therapy and body work and may require as much as 3,500 hours of training.
Lorraine H. Harris has over 3,100 hours in graduate studies in Oriental Medicine with advanced training in infertility, Chinese gynecology, tonic herbalism, and food therapy. She has worked in acupuncture clinics in San Diego and an herbal pharmacy. Ms. Harris is a licensed acupuncturist in North Carolina and California and is a Nationally Certified Practitioner of Oriental Medicine. She earned her Masters of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego. Her training includes Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Japanese Medicine, auricular acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, tui na, qi gong, Eastern nutrition.
Studies Confirm that Acupuncture is Not Safe in the Hands of Non-licensed Acupuncturists
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The Eritrean butterflyfish or Crown butterflyfish or Redbacked butterflyfish, Chaetodon paucifasciatus, is a member of the Chaetodontidae. Indian Ocean: apparently confined to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, but has been reported from East Africa.
The Eritrean butterflyfish grows up to 14cm in length. It is white with black chevrons except for a red bar stretching from the dorsal fin, across the tail to the top of the anal fin. They are oviparous fish forming monogamous pairings during breeding. They feed on coral polyps, gorgonians, algae, polychaete worms and small crustaceans. Eritrean butterflyfish are usually found in pairs or in small groups over coral and rubble areas from 1m to 30m depth. (text source: Wikipedia)
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plaid wiggleskirt, made from the skirt in this pattern. At work (another place than the one featured in the previous post - I work for an outsourcing company).
The following picture was taken coming home from a work party, so it's about ten in the evening (yes, I made it an early night. There was work to be done early the following day). Quite bright, considering the time of day, right? I love, love, love that we are in the lightest part of the year. We now have 3 hours of official night - but it never get's dark. the sun dips below the horizon, and then a slow sunset gives way to a slow sunrise =)
me-remade. As is the cardigan below the jacket =) The skirt was too good for the occasion to pass over just 'cause it's MMJ. So I decided me-remade counts as well =)


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Blog: Lies, damned lies and statistics
Dave Leggett | 30 June 2011
Ah, statistics. Treat them with care.
Travelling on the London Underground railway (a subway rail AKA 'The Tube') is probably the quickest and easiest way to get around central London, which covers a pretty big area. Driving a car there has not really been a sensible option for most for a fair few decades now (parking costs, chronic road congestion). Taxis can work well on occasion, but you do risk getting stuck in a jam while watching the meter rapidly tick over as the driver takes advantage of his captive audience to deliver forthright views on politics. Bicycle? There is a very good hire scheme now, but you might not want to get in a sweat on a hot day if you are on business and wearing your best suit. Buses? Okay if you can understand the routes and don't mind listening to teenagers playing music on their phones. Not for the faint hearted or the stranger in town.
The Tube is, for most, the default option for getting around. It's quick and there's a neat network map that almost everyone can understand unless they are colour blind. Is it cheap? Well, yes and no. No, not on individual journeys if you are buying a standard ticket. But most people are on much cheaper deals on a by journey basis via the various discounted options – like day tickets/seasons/'oyster'.
But I had to love this header on a press release: 'Tube now 50% dearer than travelling by chauffeur-driven Phantom'. Blimey. The fares have gone up in recent years, but I didn't realise the Tube was quite THAT expensive. Let's have a closer look at that one, I thought. The release is from the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) – a body that exists to promote green and 'sustainable' transportation, pro-cycling, pro-public transport, anti-car and so on - so maybe they have a small axe to grind about the 'high' cost of public transport.
But even so, how have they arrived at the preposterous sounding notion that all those people uncomfortably crammed into subterranean no-air-con Tube carriages would be financially better off in a chauffeured Roller?
They have been clever and will get attention with that header on the release. Technically, the ETA may well be correct, but the comparison is a little extreme: 'A Rolls Royce Phantom with chauffeur costs from GBP200 per hour. At an average traffic speed in central London of 12mph, this equates to a per-mile cost of GBP16.66. The cost of a single ticket in Zone 1 of the underground costs GBP4, a cost-per-mile on the 0.16 mile journey between Leicester square and Covent Garden of GBP24.84'.
Hats off to them for making that calculation based on what must be the shortest journey between two Tube stations on the network (and you don't need an hour, it takes about two minutes). Creative and I'm sure they have their tongues firmly in their cheeks. You probably don't have to make enquiries about hiring a Rolls Royce Phantom by the hour for your next visit to central London just yet – it won't stack up too well on other journeys or if you have a different sort of ticket. Mind you, at GBP200 an hour, that must work out way cheaper than a black cab on an hourly basis. And a single Tube ticket at GBP4 does seem very harsh on someone who is perhaps making just the single journey for some reason (happened to me not so long ago and I was a bit shocked).
I can imagine that if there are three or four people in London for a day of meetings, a car with driver – maybe something less opulent than a Phantom - might well start to make more sense than hopping on the Tube to stand with the 'great unwashed'. On a hot day at peak times, it's not the most lovely of shared experiences.
I'm starting to get a small idea of the scale of things here in China, but really, I'm only scratching the surface of this vast country....
Given the startling complexity of obtaining a journalist visa for China - the code 'J2' is now indelibly stamped on my mind - it was with some surprise how swiftly I managed to sail through airport im...


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Friday, July 22, 2011
Blog Hop again!
This week's book prompt is:
What genre of books do you wish you could really get into, but you just can't?
I wish I could get more into science fiction. Most of the science fiction that I read are novel manuscripts written by friends. Yet, when I pick up a sci-fi book off the shelves more often than not I get really bored. I wish I could be more interested in this genre, but I am just not. I like dystopian and apocalyptic science fiction, but actual true space-ship and planet exploring science fiction never has interested me as much as other types of fiction. I keep thinking one day I'll find a really good book that will get me hooked into the genre but it hasn't happened yet. Alas.
Tis sad but true.
Thanks for stopping by if you are from the book bloggers hop! I'd love for you to say hi or follow me.(hint! hint! I need more followers! 5 is a very sad number)
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6 you have 6 followers and I am the sixth! I can't read sci-fi either. My husband loves it but I get lost. Happy weekend and your blog is great.
Just Can't Read Them!
- July 22, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- Gamila said...
Yea! Thanks for following! I really appreciate it. Yeah, for some reason when there are space battles with space ships flying all around I can't keep track of where the spaceships fly and get confused. So I get the lost feeling.
- July 22, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- Lucy (The Secret Life of Books) said...
Hey just hopping through :)
I agree, spaceships aren't really my scene. I just to think my taste was very eclectic, but since I started my blog I have noticed how much I read Romance!
- July 23, 2011 at 4:45 AM
- Laura @ The Shabby Rabbit said...
I haven't read any space-set SyFy since I was in High Schoo. (a verrrrrry long time ago) I used some Star Trek books to get my BF interested in reading. and it worked! But it was never something that I kept up so my interest level must have been pretty low :)
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Hey thanks for stopping by my blog, commenting on my post and for following me! I hope you found stuff you like when you were looking!! I'm following you back!
- July 23, 2011 at 9:21 AM
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Thanks for following and the comments you all! I hope you liked visiting my blog.
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While reading Hank Johnson's most recent post about the library I was having a flashback. I believe I was at that library. I believe I've seen that book. To look upon it is madness. It took me a long time to return from the psychic wilderness. I hope that Hank has not damaged himself in the process. He should keep close check on his sanity. It is also my suspicion that at least one of the two authors of the Howcraft Document gazed on that page, too. And it makes clearer what the Tecthulhu might be. It is not a color out of space, but a thing out of time.
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I have resisted making public comments about my political views and opinions because I am not one that likes to "mix it up" with endless debates with people who are fundamentally opposed to what I believe. Everyone has their own sensibilities and I tend to believe if you cannot agree, you have to settle for getting along by agreeing to disagree.
Having this blog with an increasing readership has emboldened me to make some of my political views known. First off, my traditional sensibilities has leaned towards the Republicans. Being both an entrepreneur and investor, it is obvious I pay attention, follow, and study economic issues. And so, I tend to believe in smaller government, lower taxes, and letting the marketplace do its job. However, the extreme conservatism and many of the social views the Republicans represent make me cringe. I am often torn by my economic and social sensibilities.
Being a publisher and author as well as being an entrepreneur and investor has forced me outwards and to be more aware of world affairs. Many people are are consumed with their lives where their jobs, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, or Lindsay Lohan are the most important issues on their mind. I have the good fortune of being able to have the time and means to think way beyond the scope those people think about.
I have a growing belief the the political process is important and will become more important as the years pass. It is more important because accessibility to political candidates and sharing personal views is greater than it has been in years past thanks to the Internet.
And so, with the 2008 Presidential election process fast coming, I have decided to jump into the shallow end of the pool. I may brave the deep end at some later date.


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If you did an analysis of what my son is made of, the results would be mostly silliness, a lot of cuteness ... and the rest would be all macaroni and cheese! He loves it and eats all kinds, from the easy boxed dinners in the supermarket to decadently delicious homemade versions.
This Homemade Macaroni and Cheese, with three kinds of cheese and the savory depth of onion, sounds just about perfect -- it's nearly as easy as the boxed stuff and miles more tasty. Bring this to a potluck and stand back as everyone gathers around to scoop some on their plate ... but don't get in line behind my son, because you'll be lucky to get any.
Quick and Easy Homemade Macaroni and Cheese
Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 35 minutes
Makes: 6 servings
A great twist on a childhood favorite, this three-cheese baked macaroni and cheese is easy and delicious. Plus, by using pan lining paper, you'll eliminate time-consuming scrubbing and soaking to remove baked-on cheese from the casserole dish!
1/4 cup butter
1/2 yellow onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 1/4 cups milk
1 cup chicken stock
2 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
16 ounces elbow macaroni, cooked and drained
1. PREHEAT oven to 350°F.
2. LINE a 13x9x2-inch baking dish with Reynolds Wrap® Pan Lining Paper with parchment paper side toward food. Crimp pan lining paper around rim of casserole dish; set aside.
3. PLACE butter, onion, and garlic in large saucepan. Cook over medium heat until onion is tender. Add flour and whisk until smooth. Pour in milk and chicken stock, whisking constantly. Heat until mixture is thickened and smooth.
4. ADD three cheeses; stir until cheese is melted. Stir in cooked macaroni.
1. POUR mac and cheese into lined casserole dish.
2. BAKE uncovered for 35 to 45 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly.
Reynolds Kitchens Tip: It won't matter where you bring this childhood classic -- everyone will be asking for seconds! It's tear-resistant so you'll have no problem scooping and serving this delicious dish right from the pan. Plus, you won't have to worry about any soaking or scrubbing to remove baked-on cheese from the dish later. The best and fastest way to use pan lining paper? Simply turn your pan upside down and press a sheet of pan lining paper around it. Next, remove the paper, flip the pan over, and drop the paper inside. Then you just have to crimp the edges around the rim of the pan and you're ready to go -- easy cheesy!
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After I watched Mahogany people on my message board began demanding that I watch this one, and since I generally wanted to see it anyway, I decided to give it a go. It ended up spending a total of a month on my apartment, because while it was interesting enough, there wasn't that much I found compelling about it to just sit down and watch the whole thing in one go. And then there's the fact that it has no ending.
We begin with a title saying "New York City, 1936." We see Diana Ross as a strung-out Billie Holiday being brought in to a prison and photographed in a mixture of footage and black-and-white still photos while we hear what I would characterize as exploitation music. She is put in a straightjacket, and as she lies there on the floor we have a flashback that comprises the bulk of the movie.
We join Billie as a girl we are told is not yet 14, yet she is played by a full-sized Diana Ross, lending these scenes the eerie feeling that we are watching the story of a freakishly large 13-year-old.
She is soon raped by a drunk adult man, and although she wants to live with her mother, is sent to Harlem to do chores at a whorehouse. Eventually she is expected to be a whore herself, so she goes—seemingly directly across the street, due to an unfortunate edit—where she catches a glimpse of Billy Dee Williams' Louis McKay and is weak with lust, then goes inside where piano player Richard Pryor arranges for her to sing. Knocking everyone dead, she is offered a job.
This job involves singing for tips, and it seems that these people do not want to just politely hand you the tip with a friendly smile. No, they put it on the edge of the table and expect the singers to [apparently] pick up the bill with their pussy lips in a shocking display of vulvular dexterity. Can women do that? Sure made me wonder. Ladies, can you enlighten me? Anyway, everyone is booing poor Billie because she doesn't want to do the pussy thing, until Louis McKay hands her a large bill and shames everyone else into doing it, too. Pryor warns her about McKay, who is upstairs waiting for her. It seems that he still expects her to be a whore, just that she'll take a bit more work. She keeps refusing him, and finally he takes her dancing at a fancy nightclub and eventually she relents and goes home with him.
So suddenly she's a star, and receives an offer to front an all-white band, which was a big thing. She goes on tour, and there is a good little detail when one night all the guys in the band go drinking but Billie has to hang out by the bus because she's not allowed in. She is getting exhausted from touring, and somewhere in here one of the band members offers her drugs to perk her up. Soon she stops by the side of the road to pee one day, and wanders into a lynching. Immediately afterward we hear her sing "Strange Fruit." Not long afterward the bus drives through a KKK rally, and while the guys are trying to hide her, she gets up and starts cursing them. Now, I know I'm supposed to be all politically correct and defiant and stuff, but it seems foolish to me for one black woman to mess with a crowd of about a hundred KKK. I suspect this may have to do with the need to portray any minority member as incensed and ready to fight, rather than hide and try to just escape the situation, which may be the smartest thing to do. In this case the scene just kind of ends without showing any kind of resolution.
So meanwhile Billie is performing a lot and getting exhausted and taking drugs. The movie does not do a great job of showing why she's so exhausted, as we only ever see her singing or on the bus, and as far as we know she has plenty of time to sleep. One is also aware that according to this movie, Billie rose to fame and popularity without ever entering a recording studio or releasing so much as a single. It's also impossible to ignore that Diana Ross does not make any attempt to sound like Billie Holiday—probably a wise decision, and that sometimes a treacly score by Michel Legrand comes in, often with a theme that was turned into the [pretty good] song "Happy," later performed by the Jackson 5.
Okay, so first a radio show chooses all of the white performers to sing, and ignores Billie. Then BDW shows up and demands that Billie get off drugs [I'm not even sure what she was on—heroin?], and she threatens him with a scalpel, so he dumps her. In here is an appearance by Berry Gordy as a pusher. Everyone is trying to get her off drugs [except the blond white pusher in the band], and when Billie gets news that her mother died, she checks herself into rehab. By this time she is finding it quite difficult to make it through a performance.
So BDW shows up at rehab and proposes. She agrees to marry him so long as he never leaves her. She also doesn't want to sing anymore, or at least says so, because she knows that's where the drugs are. Anyway, she's arrested in rehab and now the story loops back to her in jail at the beginning, flashback over.
Now here's where the movie starts to go awry, as it took a nice long [but still too compressed] time to get here, but now has to cram everything else in within a half hour. It's like writing an essay in a blue book and realizing that you only have one page left and are only halfway through what you have to say. No sooner has she returned from jail than she wants to go back to singing, and she and BDW immediately start having troubles. BDW tries to help her rescuscutate her career, but their would-be manager demands that she go out on tour. She does, and after a while BDW wants to return to New York. She reminds him at that moment that he said he'd never leave her, and he says a dismissive "I know," but then just goes on anyway. This is where BDW just inexplicably turns from super supportive guy to absolute evil bastard.
Billie's having a hard time on her own, and starts wanting drugs again. I believe she pawns her wedding ring for the drugs. This part was very successful, as one senses that she really needed BDW's support, and is truly despondent and bewildered with him gone. One feels like she does the drugs to calm herself in his absence, but also for spite, to show him that she will destroy herself without him. So she and Pryor are having a fine time doing their drugs [apparently this scene was improvised, and they're both very natural], when some gangsters stop by and kill Pryor. If you look around 2:11:04 you will see that Billie is supposed to get thrown against the wall, but the gangster doesn't even touch her, she runs over to the wall and throws herself against it, making one of the sillier noises in motion picture history. We are to believe that "God Bless the Child" was written as she and Pryor were hanging out and completed after his death.
So Billie is absolutely hysterical, wailing crazily as her manager and BDW call to say that she's booked into Carnegie Hall, a big deal for a black singer and a jazz singer. The manager is asbolutely oblivious to Billie's desperate wailing in his ear and just leeps trying to shout at her about the booking. BDW treats the whole thing as one more pain in the ass he has to deal with, but goes down to collect her in person. She is shut up in a dark house, truly borderline psychotic and hardly what you'd call together when he asks her: "Are you all right?" Uh, does she SEEM all right?
The very next scene is Carnegie Hall. She sings, and we see newspaper clippings that she was denied a cabaret license for New York, she was arrested again, and then she's dead. From psychotic breakdown to Carnegie Hall to death in under one minute! Fame sure can have it ups and downs. < < < SPOILERS END
It's too bad about this movie, because it's got great players, good music, and nice performances, it just wanders away from any kind of sensible storytelling after a while and then, as you can see, just ends. They would need a movie twice as long in order to really do this story justice. Apparently the Carnegie Hall performance is supposed to be the climax of the story, but it doesn't work [at least not for me], and they just try to wrap the story up in the last minute with no sense of closure, no significant sense of what is next for the characters, no sense that you just watched a complete story. This is a movie with a beginning and a middle.
This movie also bears little to no relation to actual history. There is a Wiki page that will give you a concise overview of Holiday's life to compare against, the short version being that her childhood was much more desperate, her career included making and releasing records [which does not seem to happen at all in the film], and the men in her life, including Louis McKay, were much more abusive and craven than they are portrayed here. This is kind of why Ross' not trying to sing like Holiday in a way is what makes this film work; Because of that the whole thing comes off as a sort of fantasia BASED on Billie Holiday, but really having almost nothing to do with the reality of her. To me [looking back from 2007], this movie is "What If Diana Ross Played Billie Holiday?" more than any actual attempt to convey the truth about Billie Holiday. And since this all seems to be so on the surface, one can just embrace that and watch it for what it is. The director of this movie, Sidney J. Furie, also directed The Ipcress File, The Entity, Iron Eagle 1, 2 and 4, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
There is an interview with Diana Ross and various others on the disc, with poor Diana plastic-surgeried into looking like a kind of vaguely-unfocused image of Janet Jackson with Jessica Simpson-type hair, which made me think; "Wow, remember when it was an issue whether African-Americans should straighten their hair [to be more like Europeans] or leave it tightly curled in order to remain true to their culture? Well, I guess that issue has been resolved.
If you're a big Diana Ross fan. Billie Holiday fans can safely miss this one. It's not bad and won't waste your time… it's too bad, it could have been so much better if it only had an ending.


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There was a view that violent games make people violent. But after checking this news Mother Kills Baby for Interrupting Farmville Facebook Game , you have to re-examine this point of view .
A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of...Farmville.
Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.
Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again. She said the baby may have hit his head during the shaking.
The death has been classed as second-degree murder, a charge that carries a punishment of up to life in prison.
FarmVille is a game where you can farm with your friends. The idea of the game is to manage your very own farm and make it as best as possible. You just need to gain experience points and collect coins in order to move forward.
FarmVille has nothing to do with violence, but why the baby was killed because of the game? Who makes people violent? It is not the game, it's the person.
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The highlight of my 2004 Viva Las Vegas experience had to be Charles Phoenix's Slide Show. This historian and entertainer has the power to make young men in 50 year old gabardine and ladies in perfectly aligned, back seamed stockings sit on a dance floor in kindergarden "indian-style" poses.
Mr. Phoenix took us on an amusing ride through the glory days of Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as portions of So Cal (yay Ontario!!). His commentary on strangers' images of typical holiday topics such as hotel signs, family members, camel toes, and swinger parties kept us all in a trance so over-powering we didn't even realize we had no more cocktails in our hands. We were captivated.
As promised by Charles Phoenix, if I joined his mailing list, I received my "Slide of the Week" on Friday. Kudos to you Mr. Phoenix for not giving up when fart curators said no one would ever pay money to see a slide show of other people's vacations. I will hand you my $25.00 anytime.