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Life is full of surprises, and sometimes, so is pop music. In recent weeks, it's recovered its long-dormant ability to shock, or at least catch us off guard with the unlikely hit, or the unexpected comeback.
Several months ago, I never dreamed I would ever ask the question that is the title of this article. It had been more than twenty-five years since Lionel Richie's commercial heyday, and on the charts, he had been succeeded by younger romantic leads in pop and R&B many times over (Babyface, Usher, Ne-Yo, among others).
Then came one of those surprise developments seldom seen in pop anymore: On Billboard magazine's Top 200 album chart for the week following the March 26 release of Tuskegee, Richie's first studio album since 2009's Just Go (which didn't make the US Top 20 and failed to go gold), he debuted at No. 2 with first-week sales of 199,000 copies, right behind Madonna's latest, MDNA.
Sound And Vision: 10 Things to Look Forward to in 2012 (Featuring Soundgarden, the Stone Roses and Freddie Mercury — Alive Again!)
A US Presidential election, Summer Olympics mania (London's calling"again!), Rihanna's film debut (in Battleship, out May 18) and the possible end of the world. Those are a few of the things I won't be looking forward to in the coming year. Fortunately, music will offer enough thrills to distract us from all that we'd rather forget. Here's what's topping my 2012 anticipation list:
1. Madonna makes fiftysomething fabulous all over again. Although I'm curious to hear what Madonna does with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. on the final cut of "Gimme All Your Luvin'" when the single is released the last week of January, that's not the main reason I'm excited about her upcoming twelfth studio album (due in late March), her first since turning fifty in 2008. "Masterpiece," a new song featured in the Madonna-directed W.E. (which goes into wide release on February 3, two days before her Super Bowl XLVI performance) and her reunion with her Ray of Light producer William Orbit, is an achingly beautiful ballad that recalls the best of '90s Madonna while gently proving that she can still create pop magic all on her own.
2. Madonna vs. Elton John vs. Mary J. Blige vs. Chris Cornell vs. Glenn Close (!) at the Golden Globes. Too bad the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Madonna's "Masterpiece" from competition at the February 27 Oscars. Why? Because it's the second song featured during the closing credits, and eligible songs must either be in the body of the film, or the tune that plays when the credits start to roll. Oscar's loss. The January 15 Golden Globes showdown featuring five monsters of pop, rock and soul and acting will be just as star-studded"and as tough to call"as George Clooney vs. Brad Pitt vs. Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Ryan Gosling in Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.
Every singing voice is unique. After all, that's what makes vocalists special, and what makes music so interesting. But besides tonal quality, range and timbre, there is another factor that sometimes contributes to a singer's sound"his or her accent. For some singers, accent doesn't play a huge role in their music, but for others, it is a defining factor.
The Beatles' Liverpudlian accent is, in my opinion, a defining factor in their music. It is very apparent in many of their songs, and is one of many factors that makes the band great. For example, the way that customer is pronounced in "Penny Lane" stands out, as well as countless other examples throughout their catalog of music. Still, it's hard to know where exactly certain artists come from.
There are so many examples of British singers who sound as if they could easily be from the US. Elton John, Amy Winehouse and even Adele have been known to shed their British accents in song. And then there's a band like Phoenix, who you'd never suspect comes from France. And this makes sense if you think about it. A regional accent is made up of differences in features like intonation, speech rhythm, vowel length and vowel quality, all of which naturally disappear in song. Intonation is replaced by the melody which the vocalist sings, typical speech rhythm changes based on timing and rhythm of the song, and vowel length and quality are oftentimes elongated and enunciated when sung. (more…)
The fact that some musicians make their living off something that they love to do is spectacular. And the fact that singers can forge a career with just their voice is mind-boggling. To a struggling singer, living a life of luxury thanks to their voice is the ultimate dream, one worth striving for no matter the costs. Those who have made it are success stories, and they give others a sliver of hope that one day, the dream could be theirs. But because the human voice is such a unique instrument, and can be irregular, there is even more pressure on singers to be able to sustain a career.
This is why singers have to take care of themselves. Take the famous, raw voice of Steven Tyler, which is one of the most valuable assets of Aerosmith. Not only does Tyler's career depend on his voice, but so does the band's success as a whole. Due to Aerosmith's long career, Tyler has put a great deal of wear and tear on his voice. Throw in his past heroin addiction, it's no real surprise that Tyler's voice became weaker and raspier as time went by. After cancelling a series of shows in 2006, it was decided that he would undergo throat surgery in hopes of fixing the damage. National Geographic's The Incredible Human Machine did a feature about his voice and the surgery, which turned out to be a success. But not all singers get that lucky.
The Country Music Association set the stage again for their annual CMA Festival in Nashville, TN. With artist appearances ranging from fan-favorites Taylor Swift and Shania Twain to newer guns like American Idol winner Scott McCreery, there was certainly something for everyone to enjoy.
But this isn't your typical festival. Yes, fans do get to experience a weekend full of their favorite music, but this is a different business model. Artists volunteer their time, money and equipment to perform for them. What gives? As impressive as the lineup was and how many celebrities showed up to mingle with the crowd throughout the weekend, what's more impressive is what purpose this gathering serves for the CMA. In 2006 CMA launched "Keep The Music Playing" (KTMP), a charity that supports music education in Metro NAshville Public Schools through the Alliance for Public Education. With the money raised from ticket sales and donations, the CMA has purchased nearly 4,000 instruments, funded music education campaigns, built music labs and donated to various regional charitable causes.
If a single institution can raise nearly 1.5 million dollars to charity in a single weekend event, how much of an impact could the collective efforts of the entire music world have on their surrounding communities? Yes, we're all familiar with Live Aid and some of us in the younger crowd might have even been a part of the more recent Live 8, and these events had massive political backing. But this is a singularity: there is no consistency in what is done. Of course, there's no denying the effect that tthe Live Aid concerts and rallies had, but it came and went. There was no follow-up, nothing continuous. It left our minds after the media hype was over. Since the CMA has a long-term investment with KTMP and needs to show results in order to keep functioning, it assuredly manages its funds and expenses in a decidedly more detailed manner. Not only that, but the whole country music community will be consistently aware of this particular social necessity.
Music has the power to bring people together: what better cause than this?
Every decade lives twice. Each one seems to get a second shot about twenty years after the fact. The '50s were hot again in the '70s (which might be why Happy Days was one of TV's biggest hits). The '60s resurfaced in the '80s (as did tie-dye t-shirts and the British invasion), and Saturday night fever flared up one more time in the '90s (though that didn't stop the film 54 from flopping).
We've been stuck in the '80s for a while now, but the '90s are coming around again. I recently attended a '90s party at a nightclub in Sydney, Australia, and the dance floor was packed with the retro-obsessed. The beats were technotronic indeed, but thanks to the varied playlist, I remembered that there was so much more to the decade in music than grunge and Europop. (Bell Biv DeVoe's "Do Me" and Elastica's "Connection" provided particularly pleasing trips down memory lane.) Here are five reasons why the '90s rocked even harder than you might recall.
1. Sisters with voices ruled. And I'm not just talking about Sisters with Voices (otherwise known as SWV). TLC was arguably the most unique multi-platinum girl group ever, while En Vogue was the most glamorous one since the Supremes. Solo stars like Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion and Sarah McLachlan joined the hit parade, and Whitney Houston could still raise the roof"and she did with the soundtrack for The Bodyguard. Aside from Adele and Beyoncé (when she's not huffing, puffing and trying way too hard to bring the house down), none of today's female hitmakers can match the fierce ruling divas of the '90s for sheer vocal power.
2. Rock & roll was king. Grunge may have been a relatively short-lived turning point, but for a moment there, the music was actually more important than the marketing. Thanks to bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Radiohead (all of whose platinum success seemed more accidental than calculated), Britpop (Blur vs. Oasis was so much better than Kings of Leon vs. Glee or the lead singers of Coldplay and Muse being married to Hollywood), and the grrrl power of female and female-driven acts like Bjí¶rk, P.J. Harvey, Alanis Morrisette, Hole, Belly, the Breeders and L7, rock and alternative music was both popular and interesting.
3. Stars were born, not manufactured on television and YouTube. This year, Rebecca Black went viral on YouTube and became a "star" without ever actually having a hit. ("Friday" topped out on Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 58, 24 notches lower than the Glee remake.) And nothing against American Idol" it's given us some bona fide, hit-making talents (Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, Carrie Underwood and Adam Lambert, among them)"but it's also gave us William Hung! When music stars are created instantly (in Hung's case, due to an extreme lack of talent) or groomed in front of our very eyes, pop stardom starts to lose its mystique. Clarkson's fame will never seem as hard-won as Celine Dion's; Carrie Underwood will never be as good a story as Shania Twain; and I'd trade soulful, one-hit wonders like Dionne Farris and Des'ree for Fantasia every day of the week. At least we never had to watch them almost self-destruct in public. Which brings us to…
4. Less was more. Before Twitter, YouTube and tabloid media overload, pop stars always left us wanting more. Now they reveal every thought and all of the minutiae of their lives via endless Twitter updates. (Sean Kingston recently tweeted a photo of himself surrounded by medical equipment while recovering from a jet-ski accident in Miami that nearly cost him his life. Too much?) The tabloids give us 24/7 access, showing them doing just about everything except going to the bathroom (including having sex!). And we can catch them whenever we want to on YouTube (and make them seem more popular than they actually are by continuously pressing play in order to increase their "views") and watch them falling and bombing onstage, tangling with the paparazzi, and getting prickly with TV interviewers before doffing their shirts and hitting the streets of New York City.
Lauryn Hill was one of the biggest stars of the late '90s yet she always managed to sidestep overexposure. Where is she now? God only knows (though it recently was revealed that she's pregnant with her sixth child). If only Amy Winehouse, her critically acclaimed late-'00s equivalent, had been able to fall apart in the privacy of her own home.
5. Courtney Love was far more daring than Lady Gaga. I'll admit it: I miss Courtney Love. Whatever you thought about her music, the lead singer of Hole was never boring. Take away Lady Gaga's freaky-creepy visuals, though, and all you're left with is a talented but over-earnest, politically correct pop star. She's says all the right things, but listen closely"none of it is even slightly provocative. Her carefully considered soundbites are intended to be up with underdogs and offensive to no one. Even her pro-gay agenda is as respectful as possible to the political right. Just once, I'd like to see Gaga get naked and sexy (for someone who wears so little clothing, she's remarkably, and safely, asexual), or totally lose it, throwing good intentions out the window and engaging in a public bitchfest. Isn't the moral majority asking for it?
20 Essential '90s Albums
Annie Lennox – Diva
Babyface – For the Cool in You
Belly – Star
Bjí¶rk – Post
The Cardigans – Gran Turismo
Dolly Parton – The Grass Is Blue
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach – Painted from Memory
John Anderson – Seminole Wind
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
k.d. lange – Ingenue
Mary J. Blige – My Life
Morrissey – Vauxhaull and I (or Your Arsenal)
Neil Young – Harvest Moon
Neneh Cherry – Homebrew
Portishead – Dummy
Radiohead – The Bends
R.E.M. – Automatic for the People (or Out of Time or New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Suede – Coming Up


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Other literary forms
(British and Irish Poetry, Revised Edition)
Lawrence Durrell (DUR-uhl) wrote novels, plays, travel books, humorous sketches, and poetry. The differences in genre, however, cannot obscure his fundamental and single identity as a poet. He is best known for his novels, especially The Alexandria Quartet (1962) and The Avignon Quintet (1992). Any reader of these works will recognize the same hand at work in Durrell's poems. The beauty of language, the exotic settings, and the subtle treatment of the themes of love, death, and time are elements common to all of Durrell's work. In addition, the novels are rife with interpolated poetry. The characters not only speak poetically, but also quote at length from Greek, Egyptian, French, and English poets. Some have questioned this plethora of verse as unrealistic; others insist that Durrell's use of language and interpolated poetry represents a more intense reality, not a fantasy.
Durrell's poetic drama has inevitably enjoyed less attention than his novels, but it provides an excellent showcase for his skill at characterization and his poetic gifts. Durrell himself considered several passages from Sappho (pr. 1950) good enough to include in his Collected Poems, and most readers would agree. A later play, Acte (pr. 1964), shows that his drama does not rely entirely on the author's magnificent command of English: It was first performed in German, three years before its publication.
Ultimately, Durrell was a word artist, a poet. All genres had for him their particular virtues, and he brought to them all a poetic impulse that no change in form could disrupt.


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|History of Tents
For over five centuries, dating at least back to 100AD, tents have been used for outdoor living. While, not always for such glamorous reasons as ours, tents provided transportable shelter and a place to carry out campaigns whether cultural or militaristic. Initially used for nomadic travel, over the years the tent was used for many other purposes and has remained a primary outdoor shelter to this day.
Ghengis Khan, Chinese warlord, and the Mongolian Nomads provide some of the earliest evidence of tent use in the 1st Century, primarily for shelter as they moved either as nomadic tribes or as military camps.
Around this same time, the Romans were also using tents, again for the military in their conquests and campaigns to spread across the known world. The Romans show the first evidence of "walled tents". As early as 72AD, there is written records from Octavius making reference for the need of goat skins to repair tents. At this point, tents were made of hides or natural fibers like hemp.
Soon to follow, around 200 AD, the Ottomans show up in a grand way, using tents for cultural or royal ceremonies. The Ottomans would be the first to develop lavish and extravagant tents as the initial purpose was a transportable palace for the Sultan. Silk fabrics, embroidery, expensive rugs and furnishings were all Ottoman contributions. The Mughal Emperor Akbar, is said to have lavishly patronized art during his era, his style was a mixture of Persian and Indian motifs, which gets reflected in the magnificent tents captured by the Ottoman army in the seventeenth century. The Sultan had his court in a huge encampment of hundreds, even thousands of tents, at the center of which was the 'Tented Palace' called the 'Imperial Tent Complex'. The imperial tents were pavilions, walled in by a symbolic rampart of cloth and recognized by their size and the splendor of their decoration, both inside and out.
The Vikings were next to use tent s around the 8th Century and the Europeans just after that. The Europeans fell in love with the Ottoman tents and had adopted the design, although they called it Baroque, not Ottoman. The tented life became contagious across Europe and soon ceremonies of the highest esteem, royal weddings and political meetings were all being held in tents.
Today, the exotic tradition of living under the canvas still arouses romanticism and at Gypsy Faire we embrace that history and plan to keep it going with each and every tent we design and make.


text: I typed a long rant about my situation but decided it was too long so ill just state my exact question. Lets say they call me to drive ground help for the day. Than they call back 30min later leaving a voice mail via they changed their mind and they dont need me via various reasons. If i never answer my phone and i just show up at the hub do they have to give me work? After the first call and i say "yes i want to work." I thought i heard somewhere that after i agree to it than i dont answer my phone again and end up at the hub they have to give me work. But if i answer my phone again and hear them say they dont need me than they owe me nothing. Kind of a dick move on my part to do this but they have been waking me up a lot lately, i get all ready than they back out at last minute when i answer my phone a second time saying they no longer need me. I also have many more air driver related questions. I want to know all my rights as an air driver. Im a low confrontation employee. But when they wave a 14 hour day of full ground pay in your face and take it away last minute it can be frustrating. Ground help is how i pay for all my vacations and stuff. Two days of ground pays a trip to vegas, three days a trip to hawaii haha. Does anyone know where i can find a very in depth thing to read about air drivers rights?


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The primary goal of this paper is to provide important counters in the PERFMON and SQL server Profiler while tackling resource bottlenecks for diagnosing and troubleshooting SQL Server performance problems in common customer scenarios by using publicly available tools. This paper can be used as a reference or guide for database administrators, database developers and for all MS SQL users who are facing performance issues.
You can download this presentation in pdf format from here.
Performance is one of the major factors for successful execution of any site or business. So performance tuning becomes one of the major tasks for the database administrators.Many customers can experience an occasional slowdown of their SQL Server database. The reasons can range from a poorly designed database to a system that is improperly configured for the workload. As an administrator, you want to proactively prevent or minimize problems and, when they occur, diagnose the cause and, when possible, take corrective actions to fix the problem. For troubleshooting common performance problems by using publicly available tools such as SQL Server Profiler, System Monitor (Perfmon), and the new Dynamic Management Views in Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005.
The primary goal of this paper is to provide useful counters in the PERFMON and SQL server Profiler while handling resource bottlenecks for diagnosing and troubleshooting SQL Server performance problems in common customer scenarios by using publicly available tools.
While using tools such as PERFMON and SQL server profiles we use all of the counters which increase the file size (e.g. trace file) and also the unnecessary time needed for the analysis. This brings us to the goal of this paper, which to showcase the useful or necessary counters. Target audience of this article is the database administrators and developers throughout the world, who are facing database performance issues.
Important System monitor (Perfmon) counters and their use
In order to find Memory bottlenecks we can use Memory object (Perfmon) such as Cache Bytes counter for system working set, Pool Non paged Bytes counter for size of unpaged pool and Available Bytes (equivalent of the Available value in Task Manager)
I/O bottlenecks can be traced using Physical Disk Object. Avg. Disk Queue Length represents the average number of physical read and writes requests that were queued on the selected physical disk during the sampling period. If your I/O system is overloaded, more read/write operations will be waiting. If your disk queue length frequently exceeds a value of 2 during peak usage of SQL Server, then you might have an I/O bottleneck.
Avg. Disk Sec/Read is the average time, in seconds, of a read of data from the disk and Avg. Disk Sec/Write is the average time, in seconds, of a write of data to the disk.
Please refer below table while analyzing the trace file.
|Avg. Disk Sec/read (value) or Avg. Disk Sec/Write
|Less than 10 ms
|Very Good
|Between 10 – 20 ms
|Between 20 – 50 ms
|slow, needs attention
|Greater than 50 ms
|Serious I/O bottleneck
Physical Disk: %Disk Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive was busy servicing read or writes requests. A general guideline is that if this value is greater than 50 per cent, it represents an I/O bottleneck. Avg. Disk Reads/Sec is the rate of read operations on the disk. You need to make sure that this number is less than 85 per cent of the disk capacity. The disk access time increases exponentially beyond 85 per cent capacity and Avg. Disk Writes/Sec is the rate of write operations on the disk. Make sure that this number is less than 85 per cent of the disk capacity. The disk access time increases exponentially beyond 85 per cent capacity.
Important SQL profiler counters and their use
We can use the SP:Recompile and SQL:StmtRecompile events to get this information. The SP:Recompile and the SQL:StmtRecompile event classes indicate which stored procedures and statements have been recompiled. When you compile a stored procedure, one event is generated for the stored procedure and one for each statement that is compiled.
However, when a stored procedure recompiles, only the statement that caused the recompilation is recompiled (not the entire stored procedure as in SQL Server 2000). Some of the more important data columns for the SP:Recompile event class are listed below. The EventSubClass data column in particular is important for determining the reason for the recompile.
SP:Recompile is triggered once for the procedure or trigger that is recompiled and is not fired for an ad hoc batch that could likely be recompiled. In SQL Server 2005, it is more useful to monitor SQL:StmtRecompiles as this event class is fired when any type of batch, ad hoc, stored procedure, or trigger is recompiled.
The key data columns we look at in these events are EventClass, EventSubClass, ObjectID (represents stored procedure that contains this statement), SPID, Start Time, Sql Handle and Text Data.
Cursors, Database, Errors and Warnings, Locks, Objects, Performance, Scans, Security Audit, Server, Sessions, StoredProcedures, TSQL and Transactions are the broad categories of events used in profiler.Each of these categories has a large number of events within it. Rather than detail all the various options, the following is a minimum set of events for capturing basic TSQL performance.
Stored Procedures – RPC:Completed which records the end point of a remote procedure call (RPC). These are the more common events you'll see when an application is running against your database.
Stored Procedures – PC:Completed which would be calls against procedures from the system itself, meaning you've logged into SQL Server and you're calling procedures through query analyzer, or the server is calling itself from a SQL Agent process.
TSQL: SQL Batch:Completed and these events are registered by TSQL statements running locally against the server which is not the same as a stored procedure call, for example:
SELECT * FROM table name. Each of these events can then collect a large number of columns of information, each one may or may not be collected from a given event, depending on the event and column in question and each one may collect different data from the event, again depending on the event and column in question. These columns include but are not limited to which can be analyzed with the help of below table.
|Column Name
|In the events listed textdata column represents the text of the stored procedure call, including the parameters used for the individual call, or the SQL batch statement executed.
|This may or may not be filled in, depending on the connections string used by the calling application. In order to facilitate trouble shooting and performance tuning, it's worth making it a standard within your organization to require this as part of the connection from any application.
|The NT domain and user name that executed the procedure or SQL batch
|This is an actual measure of CPU time, expressed in milliseconds, used by the event in question.
|These are the count of read operations against the logical disk made by the event being captured.
|Unlike the Reads, this is the physical writes performed by the procedure or SQL batch.
|This is the length of time that the event captured took to complete. In SQL Server 2000 this piece of data is in milliseconds. As of SQL Server 2005, this has been changed and is now recorded in microseconds. Keep this in mind if you're comparing the performance of a query between the two servers using Trace events.
|The server process ID of the event captured. This can sometimes be used to trace a chain of events.
|This record the start time of the event.
In short, a great deal of information can be gleaned from Profiler. You may or may not be aware, but in previous versions of SQL Server, running Trace, as Profiler was called previously, against a system could bring the system to its knees before you gathered enough information to get a meaningful set of data. This is no longer true.
It is possible to turn on enough events and columns to impact the performance of a system but with a reasonable configuration Profiler will use much less than 1% of system resources. That does not mean that you should load up counters on the GUI and sit back to watch your server. This will add some load and can be easily avoided. Instead, take advantage of the extended stored procedures that are available for creating and managing SQL Traces. These will allow you to gather data and write it out to disk (either a local one or a remote one).
This means that you'll have the data in a transportable format that you can import into databases or spreadsheets to explore search and clean to your heart's content. You can also write the results directly to a database, but I've generally found this to be slower, therefore having more impact on the server, than writing to a file. This is supported by recommendations in the BOL as well. Here is a basic script to create a trace for output to a file.
In order to further limit the data collected, you may want to add filters to restrict by application or login in order to eliminate noise:
EXEC sp_trace_setfilter
So, for example to keep any trace events from intruding on the data collection above, we could add below fields.
EXEC sp_trace_setfiter
@trace_id = @TraceId,
@columnid = 10, –app name column
@logicaloperator = 1, — logical "or"
@comparisonoperator = 0, — equals
@value = N'SQL Profiler'
The output can be loaded into the SQL Server Profiler GUI for browsing or you can run this procedure to import the trace data into a table.
SELECT * INTO temp_trc
FROM fn_trace_gettable('c:\temp\my_trace.trc', DEFAULT);
Evaluating Profiler data
After collecting the information and moving it into a table, you can begin writing queries against it. Grouping by stored procedure name, stripping off the parameters from the string, will allow you to use aggregates, average, maximum, and minimum, to outline the poorest performing procedures on the system. From there you can look at their CPU or I/O and query plans in order to identify the tuning opportunities available to you.
With the release of SQL Server 2005, one additional piece of functionality was added to Profiler which will radically increase your ability to identify where you have performance issues. You now have the ability to load a performance monitor log file and a profiler trace file into the Profiler. This allows you to identify points of time when the server was under load and see what was occurring within the database at the same time.
For Memory bottlenecks we can use SQL Server: Buffer Manager Object and Low Buffer cache hit ratio, Low Page life expectancy, High number of Checkpoint pages/sec and High number Lazy writes/sec counters in Profiler.
Most of the time as soon as we receive a database performance issue we use all the counters irrespective of their usage and importance and so, this paper will provide important counters in the PERFMON and SQL server Profiler while tackling resource bottlenecks. And as we know that performance is one of the major factors for successful execution of any site or business. So performance tuning becomes one of the major tasks for database administrators and this paper will help in reducing their burden.
You can view the same article at slideshare too!


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Dogs and Dragon Boats
Dragon Boat Races Gone to the Dogs
Saturday was the first annual "Dragon Boat Races" on Flathead Lake and we attended this fun event. We were lucky enough to have a ring-side seat because we were watching the activities from a boat. We just happened to have a very well-behaved pooch with us and it wasn't long before I noticed that many boaters had also brought their dogs to the races with them.
It was amazing how many people had their dogs with them in their boats. I started taking pictures and before long it seemed that every other boat on the Flathead was accompanied by their dog(s).
People in the Flathead Love Their Dogs
That must be one of the reasons the Humane Society has had so many friends and supporters locally. People love their dogs, include them in their daily activities and recognize the importance of our mission of helping homeless pets.
Oh, and did I tell you how much fun it was at the Dragon Boat races? This video will show you some highlights from this fun event.


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Do What You Love. Work From Anywhere. Become Financially FREE.
Do What You Love. Work From Anywhere. Become Financially FREE.
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James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, venture capitalist and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr and says he failed at 17 of them. He has published eleven books, and he is a frequent contributor to publications including The Financial Times, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Thought Catalog, and The Huffington Post.
Why people relate to the Altucher phenomenon. [9:10]
What made James good at making money and not good at keeping it. [15:00]
What it means to be losing $1m a week. [15:35]
Why we are in an Ideas Economy. [21:40]
Why we need meaning in life. [25:40]
$$$ is a side effect of helping people. [26:10]
How James launched and sold StockPickr for $10m in 8 months. [24:07]
Why execution is a subset of ideas. [21:30]
James's first memory as a boy. [26:57]
How to receive feedback as an entrepreneur. [28:08]
What it means to reinvent yourself and why James considered faking a suicide. [28:08]
James explain why people become haters and go on a junk status binging. [30:57]
What is the essence of good writing. [32:40]
What was the common theme when James was on the way up and what did he stopped doing on the way down? [35:10]
4 areas of life to focus on to create wealth. [35:30]
How to prevent idea muscle atrophy. [36:10]
How to improve your spiritual health and why we shouldn't do "time traveling". [39:13]
How James overcame the anxiety of being late for this London Real podcast. [40:15]
What makes a good CEO. [42:00]
How to become personally antifragile. [42:33]
Importance of sleeping. [43:10]
How to shortcut the 10,000 hour rule and be the best in the world at something. [46:10]
How a master interviewer deflects a question and turns the question back to Brian. [50:40]
Why what James is doing now is far better than any of the previous things he's ever done. [51:15]
Reason why being an entrepreneur is worse than having a job. [53:15]
Importance of having multiple sources of income. [54:20]
Publishing books, connecting with end users and disappearance of gatekeepers. [57:37]
How to be a businessman when it comes to professionally self-publishing. [57:55]
What are the downsides of using a publisher. [58:00]
Why it's all about the talent and why the gatekeepers are failing. [1:05:00]
The 2 best sitcoms ever. [1:07:00]
James's new book and how to tie your success with the success of your employer.[1:08:00]
How James manages his time writing and advising companies. [1:08:50]
Why it may take 50 hours to prepare for a podcast interview. [1:09:28]
Why James wanted to understand the basics of drug dealing. [1:11:10]
2 reasons why an introverted shy guy would put himself in front of the camera. [1:13:25]
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Page: 243A pestilence may have broken out in the camp, the infection, perhaps, having been carried by field mice. Byron's imagination was stirred by the vision of the broken army of Assyria.
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold;And the sheen of their spears was like stars of the sea,When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,That host with their banners at sunset were seen;Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown,That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed on the face of the foe as he passed;And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved--and forever grew still!And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.And there lay the rider distorted and pale,With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail;And the tents were all silent--the banners alone--Thelances uplifted--the trumpet unblown.And the widows of Asshur are loud in their wail,And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
Before this disaster occurred Sennacherib had to invade Babylonia again, for the vassal king, Bel-ibni, had allied himself with the Chaldaeans and raised the standard of revolt. The city of Babylon was besieged and captured, and its unfaithful king deported with a number of nobles to Assyria. Old Merodach Baladan was concerned in the plot and took refuge on the Elamite coast, where the Chaldaeans had formed a colony. He died soon afterwards.
Sennacherib operated in southern Babylonia and invaded Elam. But ere he could return to Assyria he was opposed by a strong army of allies, including Babylonians, Chaldaeans, Aramaeans, Elamites, and Persians, led by Samunu, son of Merodach Baladan. A desperate battle was fought. Although Sennacherib claimed a victory, he was unable to follow it up. This was in 692 B.C. A Chaldaean named Mushezib-Merodach seized the Babylonian throne.
In 691 B.C. Sennacherib again struck a blow for Babylonia, but was unable to depose Mushezib-Merodach. His opportunity came, however, in 689 B.C. Elam had been crippled by raids of the men of Parsua (Persia), and was unable to co-operate with the Chaldaean king of Babylon. Sennacherib captured the great commercial metropolis, took Mushezib-Merodach prisoner, and dispatched him to Nineveh. Then he wreaked his vengeance on Babylon. For several days the Assyrian soldiers looted the houses and temples, and slaughtered the inhabitants without mercy. E-sagila was robbed of its treasures, images of deities were either broken in pieces or sent to Nineveh: the statue of Bel-Merodach was dispatched to Asshur so that he might take his place among the gods who were vassals of Ashur. "The city and its houses," Sennacherib recorded, "from foundation to roof, I destroyed them, I demolished them, I burned them with fire; walls, gateways, sacred chapels, and the towers of earth and tiles, I laid them low and cast them into the Arakhtu."[536]


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My children were born in the Altai. To be more accurate – in Leninogorsk, where their grandparents from the mother's side live. This town is located in Eastern Kazakhstan and nowadays has its old name – Ridder. The town is beautiful itself but its outskirts are more attractive. It is situated in the mountain basin. The wonderful and rather high (2700m) Ivanovsky mountain range is stretching near it. The children spend every summer here. And this 10 days' trip was a family event. But it also had a creative purpose. We went not little at that, near 100 kilometres. The most attractive place of the route was a massif of granite rocks at the turn of the Lineisky and Ivanovsky mountain ranges, almost on the boundary with Russia. It's an example of rather accessible, but very interesting and photogenic region.
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Interviewer: Hello and welcome to the show! Tonight I am here with four ambitious assassins who also all happen to be roommates! Please give a warm hand to Molly Millions, Zam Wesell, Assajj Ventress, and Aurra Sing*… the latter of which is pointing a laser gun in my face, please don't do that.
Assajj: Down, Aurra. You have to excuse her, she has no manners.
Aurra: (lowers weapon) Might have been a trap, I'm sure I smelled a Jedi somewhere.
Interviewer: Anyway… You are four self-taught, self-employed homicide specialists and have made names for yourself as accomplished contract killers and this year you recently came into the spotlight of the holonet for the first assassin flat share, starting a galaxy wide trend. How did this start?
Zam: Well, I tried finding an apartment on Coruscant but the rent was insane, so I put an ad on the holonet and Aurra and Assajj showed up. We didn't know each other but none of us is home very often anyway so we thought we'd give it a go.
Assajj: It all went downhill from there.
(audience laughs)
Zam: Moll here joined just the other month, kinda spontaneous thing…
Interviewer: Really, how come?
Molly: Found myself on a foreign planet in the wrong fucking galaxy. No idea how the hell I got here.
Interviewer: That must have been quite the adjustment.
Molly: Yeah, especially the whole Force thing and the Jedi and Sith stuff and all. But the tech is great, I already got another upgrade on my sight enhancers, and as of last week I have a bio-computer that connects me directly to the holonet, I basically got wifi in my head now.
Interviewer: So you're doing well, it seems. What did you do when you first came here?
Molly: Right, so I wake up, no idea where I am or what day it is, which isn't that weird, happens a lot…
(audience laughs)
Molly: …but then there's suddenly this shadow and I look up and there's a fucking space ship, and I'm just like, yeah, I'm so not in the Sprawl anymore. I ask around, turns out I'm at the Tatooine space port. So the first thing I did was try to find a bar…
(audience laughs)
Molly: …because fuck did I need a drink, and it was the most miserable bar on the entire planet…
Aurra: Yeah, it really is.
Molly: …and that's where I met Aurra.
Aurra: Yeah, and we just clicked, you know, girls working in a competitive male-dominated field…
Molly: …bonding over cybernetic implants.
Aurra: And guns
Molly: And guns.
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Molly: Yeah, and like bounty hunter and street samurai really is the same thing when you get down to it, right? So we did some jobs and she since I didn't have a place to stay the girls let me crash at their place, which is nice.
Interviewer: That's great! How would you describe a normal day in your lives?
Zam (laughs): Do we even do normal?
Assajj: Well, I get up at 7 am every morning and start my training…
Molly: And wake the rest of us up.
Aurra: Yeah, but you got a day job. Miss Fancypants here is a Sith assassin, like we're up pulling all-nighters while she takes her beauty sleep.
Assajj: It's hardly my fault you were not skilled enough for the fine arts of the Dark Side.
Aurra: Yeah? You wanna bite my lightsaber, you…
Interviewer: Ladies, no weapons in the studio, please! Does this happen often?
Molly: Yeah, they don't get along too well, must be all this Force stuff.
Interviewer: Moving on… I'm sure your line of work keeps you busy.
Aurra: You got no idea.
Zam: Yeah, it's like half the galaxy wants the other half dead.
Aurra: Most of 'em ain't payin' shit, though. Like, I was on Nar Shaddaa recently and they actually got discounters there now, one had a pay for two hits, get the third one free kind of deal. Brings the entire business down, that does.
Molly: Yeah, you really have to sieve through until you find an offer that's sorta reasonable, I mean, we're worth out money.
Interviewer: How do you get along as roommates?
Molly: Had worse.
Zam: It's okay, only Assajj keeps hogging the bathroom.
Aurra: Yeah, no idea what she does in there, polishing her head, maybe?
Assajj: So what, the three of you do a good job clogging the drain with all your hair. Not to mention old skin, looking at you, Zam.
Zam: That was one time, sheesh, not my fault I was moulting…
Assajj: So I may take a little long for my skin care routine but at least I don't walk around without my face on.
Zam: Aw, come on, not like you never saw a Clawdite before.
Assajj: I didn't, but ever since I understand why you guys disguise yourself as humans.
Interviewer: Back to your work life. Word down the grape vine says you're trying to collect the bounty on Padme Amidala…
Zam: Yeah, we're still working on that, she's really well guarded.
Aurra: She always has this fucking Jedi with her.
Molly: Or two. They're tough fuckers, I mean, I'm an expert on hand-to-hand combat, but with those guys, shit, it's on.
Aurra: Course we'd maybe get somewhere if Assajj wouldn't always waste time flirting with the old one.
Assajj: I do not! If anything he was flirting with me! It's not my fault I'm gorgeous.
Zam: Yeah, right. Assajj and Kenobi…
Assajj: Shut up!
Molly: …sitting in a tree…
Assajj: Shut up!
Zam, Aurra, Molly: K-I-S-S-I-N…
Assajj: Shut up!
(Zam, Aurra and Molly exit stage left, pursued by
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Interviewer: Guess that's all for tonight. Tune in next time for the big lie detector test when we discover who really is Luke Skywalker's father!
(audience applauds)
Just a small sequel to this post I wrote a long time ago
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JP Morgan Cazenove disclosed Henderson Group PLC (LON:HGG), hiking its stock price target to 245.00GBX earlier today
- Updated: September 16, 2016
Reporting a possible downside of -0.09%, JP Morgan Cazenove raised the target stock price of Henderson Group PLC (LON:HGG) to 245GBX.
Previously on 9/02/2016, Numis released a statement about Henderson Group PLC(LON:HGG) raised the target price at 225.00GBX. At the time, this suggested a downside of -0.04%.
Boasting a price of 270.00GBX, Henderson Group PLC (LON:HGG) traded 0.65% lower on the day. The last close is up 6.05% relative to the two hundred day average, compared to the S&P 500 Index which has fallen -0.01% over the date range. The company has been tracking to a 50-day average of 240.29GBX and two hundred day average of 243.33GBX. 3,805,384 shares of the stock were exchanged, up from ann avg. trading volume of 2,610,070
Recent Performance Graph:
With a market capitalization of 0.0 GBX, Henderson Group PLC has a price-earnings of 21 with a 52 week low of 192.60GBX and a 52 week high of 314.30GBX.
Also covering Henderson Group PLC's stock price target, a total of 17 analysts have reported on the stock. The average target is 244.99GBX with one analyst rating the company a strong buy, seven firms rating the company a buy, 11 analyts rating the stock a hold, 0 rating the company to underperform, and finally 0 brokeragesrating the stock as sell.
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Henderson Group plc is an independent global asset manager, specializing in active investment. The Company is a client-focused global business with assets under management. The Company's segments include UK, Americas, Australia and Other. It manages a range of actively managed investment products for institutional and retail investors, across over five capabilities, which include European equities, global equities, global fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives, including private equity and property. The Company has its operations throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), North America, Asia and Australia. The Company's subsidiaries include Henderson Group Holdings Asset Management Limited, Henderson Administration Limited, Henderson Alternative Investment Advisor Limited, Henderson Equity Partners Limited, Henderson Fund Management Limited, Henderson Global Investors (Australia) Limited, and Henderson Global Investors (Hong Kong) Limited and HGI OMP UK Limited.
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text: Human Rights Observatory Quirky Design Museum Seeks Greater Respect for India's Dharavi Slum A mobile museum in Mumbai's Dharavi is highlighting the skills and creativity of residents of one of Asia's largest slums, in an attempt to dispel the negative image of urban slum dwellers. The Design Museum Dharavi, which will travel through the area with different exhibits for about two months, was conceived by Amsterdam-based artist Jorge Mañes Rubio with art historian Amanda Pinatih. They were aided by local artists and designers. The museum reflects the nomadic nature...Read complete article© Voice of America - Thursday, February 25, 2016


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Rose, a Jewish British academic, seeks in this book to "plumb some of the deep components that make up the imaginative world of Zionism." In so doing, she conflates Zionism with the movement of Shabtai Tzvi in seventeenth-century Europe. She sees Israeli society as trapped in an unreal, messianic fervor. She is critical of Zionism for forming an army to protect Jews in Israel, a project she dates back to the foundation of the first Jewish self-defense units in the early twentieth century. Her book concludes with an attempt to explain what she earlier calls the "collective insanity" of Zionism as a sort of suppressed shame deriving from the Holocaust.
The Question of Zion leaps from minimal evidence to grand assertion, perhaps in part because Rose does not know Hebrew and is reliant on translations and conversations with English-speaking immigrants to Israel. For instance, a single conversation with an American-Israeli couple in a West Bank community, in which they express their love of the landscape but also their fear of Palestinian attack, plus some quotes from a Gershom Scholem letter, lead her to conclude that Zionists are prone to "visionary terror," or "horror religious." This, it appears, is the particular mental illness to which Zionists have collectively succumbed.
The book also contains profuse errors. The author claims that Israel "did not talk about the Holocaust before 1967." But the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann took place in Israel in 1961-62 and sparked enormous debate on the subject. She refers to Israel's "oft denied dependency" on Palestinian labor when less than 10 percent of the Palestinian labor force of the territories is employed in Israel. She invents a quote by former prime minister Golda Meir, which is in fact an indirect paraphrasing by a British journalist of a remark he thought he remembered Meir making. In Rose's book, it appears, in quotes, as a direct rendition.
A Question of Zion is, thus, an edifice of strange assertions built upon frequent factual error. The publication by Princeton University Press of such a shoddy and misconceived work is a cause for both regret and concern.
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Last week, Janet Yellen changed the game. This supposed uber-dove fooled us. She came out hawkish without really rattling markets. She is reigning in the USD. Contrary to those that say she'll retract later, markets may come to find out that Yellen is serious. She is much more hawkish than the market ever expected. Can the USD strengthen on this change?
$GBPUSD declined last week to 1.65 even breaking below the big psychological level on the back of Yellen's hawkish rhetoric last week. The technical picture looks broken as cable closed the week below 1.65 for the 1st time since January. Price breaks the 61.8% Fibonacci level at 1.6467. It looks like another failed breakout on the weekly chart. Just when cable had everyone yelling for 1.70 (even yours truly), markets once again make a sucker out of everyone. If $GBPUSD is unable to find support above 1.6500, this would signal a reversal back to 1.6250. Is the Yellen spark enough to break that level? That's the more interesting price action for market sentiment. And the Yellen FOMC just became the 1st central banks to raise interest rates AND remove QE.
The $EURGBP has managed to stage a rally higher than expected finding resistance right at the 0.8400 level. Price now remains trapped in a range between 0.8330 and 0.8400. However, it seems that the EUR will find difficulty rallying in the face of weak economic data and a still dovish ECB. If price breaks below 0.8330, losses could accelerate back to the 0.8250. But it remains to be seen how much EUR can really rally on its own fundamentals. This may be the only currency that sterling can rally against. If 0.8250 holds then we'll be back to these levels again with resistance at 0.8400.
Canadian data continues to support a weak CAD which only continues to support the $GBPCAD at its 2014 highs. However, this pair is having a difficult time breaking any higher above 1.8650. Price continues to pivot around 1.8500. The fundamentals in this pair continue to favor the bulls. But can it really rally when GBP is weak in all the other pairs. I'm not so sure.
There has been a major breakdown in the $GBPNZD causing a reversal on the daily chart. During the consolidation of the $GBPUSD, the $GBPNZD was holding up quite well in its own consolidation. But the effects of the Ukraine-Russia conflict have sparked a rally in commodities and with it the NZD. As such, the correction that was taking place in the $GBPNZD and finding support at 1.9500 broke down further last week. Price managed to completely reverse this year's rally moving to back to lows on the daily chart. The level to watch is 1.9100. A break below moves prices toward 1.9000 with major support at 1.8850. However, if price finds support at 1.9100 then it moves back to 1.9500. Watch out also for intervention from the RBNZ if the NZD continues to find strength.
The $GBPAUD is benefiting even more from the rally in commodities even as the Chinese economy, Australia's biggest trading partner, continues to slow. There is also a massive head and shoulders chart pattern on the daily chart that many traders are looking to resolve to even lower levels. Based on this chart pattern, price could decline to 1.7600 which is the huge 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level on the weekly chart. Even a 400-pip decline from current levels wouldn't change the bullish bias on the long term chart. But will the RBA allow the AUD to strengthen that much? RBA intervention is a real possibility if $GBPAUD breaks this support at 1.8000.
Despite the bull trend on the daily chart, $GBPJPY has fallen below the big psychological level at 170.00. Even while the pair is finding support at 167.50, a break below 167.30 signals a price move to 163.80/164.00 support. Only a close back above 170.00 can change this new bearish sentiment in the $GBPJPY. A move lower will be choppy as the bull trend no doubt still has many buyers with the $GBPJPY still only in a shallow retracement.
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Jane Jago originally trained as a Printmaker before she began writing whilst raising a family. She has a long standing interest in exploring the shadow aspect of human nature and in developmental psychology.
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'For Rachel Allen it was the moment that she let her son's hand slip from hers. For Danny Simpson and Graham Harris it was the moment one of them took it.
'Seven years ago Danny and Graham were just children themselves, angry, marginalized and unguided. That was, until they committed a crime so heinous that three families were left devastated. They were no longer just boys. They were monsters.
'Released from juvenile detention, it is time for the boys, now men, to start again; new names, new people. Meanwhile Rachel Allen is desperately trying to move on with her new family and her ex-husband is pursuing an all-consuming quest for revenge and exposure.
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As we have to benchmark Biztalk 2010 vs IBM Process Server and as My colleagues think that Biztalk is less performant than IBM, I will try your application to identfy biztalk capacities.
I have tried to get it to work at a customer who has BTS 2010 installed on Win 2008 R2 and I can start the wizard, but the last step (where it fires up all perfcounters and so on) it will give me an error: "Unable to collect perfcounters. Make sure
you use an account with elevated rights". I am running this as an local administrator. I also tried "run as Administrator" but the result is the same. Is there differences in Win 2008 R2 and the perfcounters that makes this error?
BTW: thanks for a great tool!
Joakim, are you running the wizard application from a server where you have BizTalk installed?
Yep, that's right! It is a small installation, but the client still wants to know the performance...
Have you started the host instances (BBW*)?
The performance counters would not be available unless you have at least one instance started.
Heh! Good question, I *think* so, but I can't really remember... I will double-check and get back here.
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My son was diagnosed with Lammnoid and Chiara Malformation when he was 9 months. I had been searching for answers since 4 months. Once my husband and I found out what was wrong I found myself at this site hoping for comfort. I could not find a post regarding a child having lamnoid synostosis and found myself frustrated. My son is now 2 years old, 25 months to be exact and we could not be more pleased with the outcome of our son's surgery. I want to give comfort to all those parents going through
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Nikhil was diagnosed with metopic and underwent surgery when he was a year old. He is 2 now and doing well. Theres still some uncertainty down the road but for now he is doing great. You can read about his journey on my blog-
So yeah, it's rounder than most.. but that roundness makes the PERFECT spot to kiss right above the bridge of his nose, a spot made just for mommy kisses in the middle of the night. Do you know the spot I'm writing about??
It just cups your kiss and is his favorite cuddle spot, and I mean FAVORITE. When he's all wound up, I nuzzle there and he just quiets right down, like I've fixed whatever's wrong in the world..
A spot that I will miss with all my heart if my Zachary needs this surgery.
8 weeks ago I gave birth to my last baby. I pushed 3 times and on that last push, after a 16 hour labor, my Zachary Bennett was born. His was a 38 week gestation after bedrest from 32 weeks- my little man wanted to see the world much too early. I should have known then that this experience would be so different from my first two babies.
Zachary was 8 lbs 15 oz of beautiful baby boy! He was slow to cry and needed to be coaxed to breathe but as soon as he did, he perked right up. I swear,
After 22 long months of researching, getting others opinions, praying, hoping, and wishing, looking for answers, thinking of every question I could possible ask, stressing, crying, lots of appointments, etc... I finally made my mind up! Today was the appointment for me to make a decision on if I wanted to correct my baby boys craniosynotosis, because his diagnosis is mild metopic the surgery would only be to correct his apperance.. After finally getting all the answers that I needed I have come


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I loathe to discover persons taken advantage of and that i despise to see men and women put up with following choosing the wrong law firm. Possibly those are two of the causes which i became a Jacksonville criminal defense attorney, to ensure I could do anything about individuals conditions. I have viewed shoppers who experienced legal professionals neglect their circumstances for not just months but years. I have read complaints about legal professionals who would not convey to the shopper what was occurring with their conditions, but would monthly bill the client if the client referred to as to inquire what was taking place. I've heard grievances about legal professionals who took revenue from customers without the need of a transparent idea of the expectations on possibly facet.
I also dislike to have to wash up a multitude produced by another attorney. It is much simpler to assist a consumer and stay clear of opportunity difficulties than it's to repair injury from picking the wrong attorney. I've seen badly drafted prenuptial agreements and separation agreements. I've needed to move in to fix and end a botched annulment. I've had to phase in to mend and complete a botched divorce.
Just one woman's tale of woe specially concerns head. Around the workplace, we contact her story "The Tale with the Nine 12 months Divorce." She experienced hired a legal professional to protect a divorce motion here in Virginia and also to counter sue for divorce. She was living outside of state on the time and paid out the lawyer a significant retainer. There was no published contract. The attorney she had picked appeared to become afraid of the opposing counsel and did absolutely nothing to move the situation ahead. In actual fact, the law firm authorized the situation for being dismissed within the courtroom docket for inaction.
Situations are certainly not dismissed on this basis without the need of prior notice to counsel of record. The lawyer did not notify his client with the probable dismissal. It absolutely was not until eventually the court docket notified her on the dismissal that she learned what experienced took place. The shopper was within an vehicle accident, as a result of which she was hospitalized and undergoing multiple surgical procedures. She trusted her attorney to glance out for her pursuits; she did not know or fully grasp what must have been getting put and had no clue until finally she acquired notification within the courtroom that the case were dismissed.
If the customer contacted the lawyer, he experienced the case reinstated. Having said that, it absolutely was not until the opposing legal professional withdrew from the case, that the lawyer acted to put ahead the interests of his customer. Meanwhile, the attorney authorized the woman's spouse to abscond, fleeing the jurisdiction on the court docket, with all the bulk of the marital assets. The law firm did get an get of spousal support, but did almost nothing productive to gather or enforce the spousal aid buy against the defendant who was not spending.
In truth, the lawyer permitted tens of thousands of pounds of arrears to accumulate. Meanwhile, the lawyer questioned for and acquired a court docket award of $10,000 of attorney's costs through the absconded husband. When the attorney understood which the husband had spent the money along with the lawyer fee award wouldn't be conveniently collected, he commenced to demand dollars through the consumer. Becoming disabled rather than obtaining been given a penny with the aid award, she was unable to pay for the attorney and he withdrew from her scenario on the remaining hearing. As you can imagine all of this left the woman which has a poor flavor in her mouth when it comes to lawyers.


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Lily Plain. Youre Hardly Poor
- Artist: AA Sound System
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 8/17/2004
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This album was inspired by the life and death of Ayla's mom Lynda Bliss and is wholly dedicated to her with Love. 'Lily Plain, You're Hardly Poor' was recorded over three days at the Pine Ridge farm in the Lily Plain section of Northern Saskatchewan about a half hour west of Prince Albert in the languid summer of 2003. All the playing was done live-off-the-floor by Ayla, Lane and Marek in the main room of the 'old half' of the farmhouse where Ayla grew up. AA Sound System hopes that you enjoy this collection of songs about the life, love and the pursuit of Northern-Canadian happiness.
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Give examples of how to relate to different people and rules of polite society. (apple game)
Two apples, (a fresh one and a slightly bruised one)
• Sit the Ladybirds in a circle
• Have a short discussion with the Ladybirds about treating everyone with respect and being polite.
• Examples of different people can be mum, dad, siblings, teachers, guards and Ladybird leaders.
Follow this with the following activity
• Pass the bruised apple around the circle first, asking the girls to say one mean thing about it.
• Then pass the fresh apple around asking the girls to say one nice thing about it.
• When everyone has had a chance to speak, cut the apples into two.
• Explain to the girls about how saying bad/mean things to a person won't have an effect on their outside but can really hurt and damage them on the inside.
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In this exposé of the interplay of unscrupulous landlords and housing segregation, the Peoria Journal Star suggested that blacks in Peoria were limited in their housing options. They might live on the South Side or in these five restricted areas: the Taft Homes Area, the North St. Francis Area, an area along the War Memorial Drive near the stadium, a small court just north of Hunt's Drive-in , or an area in the University-Nebraska Gale triangle near the Agriculture Laboratory.
Since the average African-American families in Peoria held an annual income of $4000 — $2000 less than a white family's median income of $6000 — they found themselves turning to cheaper housing options and renting dilapidated shacks from the corrupt landlords on Peoria's South Side.


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Bombing Iran?
Bombing Iran?
Nuking the Mullahs
"Hold Me Back!" by Uri Avnery
War of Words Over Iran
A former Israeli Defense Minister has said that Israel will be COMPELLED to take military action against Iran by November. This is clearly a warning and a threat to Iran and America. A war just before the election will no doubt be used to undermine the Democrats and the Obama Administration and allow demagogues on the right to trot out their most hawkish rhetoric. Israel is seeking to shift media attention from peace with Palestinians to war with Iranians.
BEIJING — Tehran's top nuclear envoy called for negotiations without threat of sanctions on Friday, following meetings in Beijing in the wake of U.S. reports saying China had dropped its opposition to possible new U.N. measures against Iran.
Saeed Jalili sidestepped questions on whether China had confirmed to him that it had changed its position on a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Tehran for its nuclear program. He maintained that both Iran and China sought a return to the negotiating table.
"(Our) Chinese friends all say this problem can only be solved through negotiations and peaceful means. And some big countries should give up their incorrect actions. Pressuring through sanctions will be ineffective," Jalili said.
What War with Iran Means:
Manufacturing consent for an attack on Iran?
Obama: Evidence Shows Iran is Developing Nukes
By Amir Oren
Evidence shows Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama told CBS on Friday, adding that he felt his administration should continue the pressure on Tehran to cooperate with the international community over its "contentious" nuclear program.
Former IAEA Chief: Iraq War Killed "A Million Innocent Civilians"
By Patrick Martin
Mohammed ElBaradei, said that those who launched the war in Iraq were responsible for killing a million innocent people and could be held accountable under international law. He was clearly referring to US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and their top military and security aides.
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Many people were shocked when Bush attacked Iraq. Surely one has to wonder why Mr. Obama gave Israel 3 Hercules C-130J at $70 million a piece (no – not sold, our taxes pay for it) after the world thought Netanyahu had just humiliated America's vice president and persisted on building more settlements in E.Jerusalem in violation of international law. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159155.html .
These monsters are not for tours: Here is Wikipedia on them: With the addition of the Marine Corps's ISR / Weapon Mission Kit, the KC-130J will be able to serve as an overwatch aircraft and can deliver ground support fire in the form of 30mm cannon fire, Hellfire missiles, and precision-guided bombs . Previously, the US had given Israel bunker-buster bombs. And in January the US sent bunker-buster bombs to Diego Garcia.
when will we get a world government whereby all countries have a vote to do anything and start seeing the bigger picture ?
Israel always play the victim. How can Israel who is as we speak bombing the hell out of Gaza, claim victimazation. Hamas has no army, navy or war planes. Hamas has no weapons of mass destruction, they have children throwing rocks at tanks ready to bulldoze their homes, garden, cheese factories, and other human needs. Israhell has violated 250 UN resolutions. The question is: What does Israel do that makes a cadre of US presidents, the United Nations and European rulers fall to their knees when Israel obviously lies, and deceives on a regular basis. Are they afraid Isrhell will use nuclear weapons agains their perceived enemies? Who is Israhells enemy….any country, any human being, that tells the truth about their zionist, apartheid control of human beings imprisoned behind a concrete wall. When will OBAMA SAY: TEAR DOWN THAT WALL?
But Abbas is not the duly elected leader of the Palestinans. His term has been over for over a year and there have been no new elections…who is jiving who here? The only duly elected democractically elected government is the government of Hamas in Gaza. So why is the US speaking to a former leader of Fatah, who worked with the Israelies when they blasted Gaza last winter and killed thousands, destroyed homes, schools, fired on hospitals and ambulances? Who is the real terrorist here?
Not to worry; Barry-the Bomber will send them back as soon as AIPAC slaps his Zionist butt.
Shocked at SHOCK AND AWE! No…sick, disgusted, ashamed to be an American, out in the streets protesting, arrested for refusal to leave an "unlawful assembly" when, in actuality, the spokesman for A.N.S.W.E.R. had made a gentleman's agreement with the Captain of LAPD in Hollywood. We had protested for months over the obvious upcoming illegal invasion/occupation. We have been protesting the illegal invasion/occupation of Afghanistan and the upcoming attack on IRAN. Wake up, America. Your government HAS been hijacked! There are MORE hideous things that are going to be dealt!
I must say I truly abhor the statement projected that Netanyahu insulted, humiliated Biden with the announcement of construction of more settlements by Israel in Palestinian territory. CAN WE NOT GET BEYOND OUR OWN ARROGANT EGOS IN THIS COUNTRY AND THINK OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, THEIR DEATHS, DESTRUCTION OF THEIR HOMES, THEIR LANDS, THEIR FARMS? WHAT IS IT WITH AMERICANS…OUR VICE PRESIDENT WAS INSULTED…WHAT ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE? GO TO: IFAMERICANSKNEW.COM AND LEARN THE TRUTH. Also, YOUTUBE.COM and view: US Troops kill 2 Reuters journalists in IRAQ '07-get really ill!
The Prime Minister of Israel should build an equal number of apartments for Jews, Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem and make them available only to persons who agree to live in peace with their neighbors who are of other religions. Then build a social center for use by all three and a school for all three. This could be a nucleus for improved relations and peaceful co-existence in the future.
Bomb Iran? They are hyping the same about Iran they hyped to gear Americans into war on Iraq, which was a fiasco costing 3trillion$ and growing! Saying Hussein was getting material for nukes from Africa – turned out to be lies. Now saying weapons have been "found" with farsi writing on them? Means Iran is helping our "enemies" – which ones? But Iran has oil, and that's where the "balance of power" and hegemony comes in. The real reason for all the wars in the M.E. by the armchair warriors for profit/greed.


text: For a Good Time Call, Because last week we were sitting pretty… So bring the heat! Basically, I can't stand to have deodorant on my clothes! Listen, you know I don't want to obstruct the blog with negativity… but this can't go on any longer. So let me restate my previous statement. I hate deodorant on my clothes! So much so that if a shirt has a high arm hole sleeve I will omit the act of applying deodorant entirely… But then you know what happens? I spend the rest of the day paranoid that I smell like that 7th grade boy who doesn't realize his body has gone through the change… So you know what I did? I marched right into the office and demanded to know which deodorant every person was wearing and if it rubs off on their clothes… What I learned next was shocking, and raised a valuable question. Is deodorant really necessary every day or is it a grand marketing scheme? 4 girls, 4 days, and some serious questions about the deodorant lifestyles we all live… (as with all things, the survey answers oddly include what everyone wore each day without request… or not that oddly given the participants.) Girl 1 – Becky – Kiehls Superbly Efficient Anti-Perspirant and Deodorant Day 1: "Denim dress – no streaks! It was 100% humidity, I had a bridal shower outside and it did it's job. I was fresh, dry, and not smelly." Day 2: "White cotton dress – no streaks! I wore it all day and through an intense spin class and after a full day of work. I don't know if I was fresh considering I was sweating intensely but I didn't smell." Day 3: "Mint color silk dress – no streaks! [It was] perfect, dry, and fresh." Day 4: " For my stacked class at 6am – I decided not to wear deodorant and I realized if it's going to be an intense class, which I will be sweating in, I need to wear something. I didn't smell but I wasn't fresh. [After the class I wore a] cotton dress. Thoughts: "I like the product, it's more of a cream base, it goes on smoothly so you don't get any of those clumps…gross. I also like that there is no scent, sometimes if there is too much scent I get a headache [or it] reminds me of a man who is wearing too much deodorant. It's good for people with sensitive skin, like moi! The only thing that I don't like is the price $16 a tube." Girl 2 – Marcie – No Deodorant Day 1: "Theory Shirt Dress, very hot day, and after the conversation we had I felt very paranoid about smelling and intended to wear deodorant, but forgot." Day 2: "Silk skirt and black shirt, it was very hot that day as it is summer, not feeling self conscience went without deodorant with no problem." Day 3: "Mix material Helmut Lang dress, very hot and I was concerned because the dress was too heavy and there was sweat. However, still no deodorant and it was fine." Day 4: "Black Crepe dress with leather, been working out in the office, and I do feel like I could have used some deodorant, but it is what it is so I am pushing on…" Thoughts: "Not worried… no deodorant." Girl 3 – Kerry – Dove Sensitive Skin Shower Fresh Deodorant Day 1: "I did not shower so deodorant was very important. Did not smell. Wore a silk top carefully applied the deodorant before and no white marks got on the long sleeve top." Day 2: "I did shower, but this time I put the deodorant on after my sleeveless chiffon dress… although it was very hot I did not feel like I needed to reapply." Day 3: "I forgot to wear deodorant on this day… I wasn't that hot even though it was burning hot outside; I was cold in the office… I had a party after work but never put deodorant on and never needed to." Day 4: "Didn't shower, walked to work in the heat, applied after I put on a black tee shirt [as a dress] felt fine." Thoughts: "On a side note, I feel like my hair has been looking great lately thanks to an Aveda product." Girl 4 – Amanda – Secret Outlast Antiperspirant & Deodorant Clear Gel, Protecting Powder Day 1: "I wore a mint green silk top. I applied deodorant very carefully after dressing. The clear gel does not dry very quickly so I sat with my arms up to ensure it did not get on my clothes. But, once dried… I was fresh and smelled nice all day, even at an after work party." Day 2: "I wore a button down denim top and tried to apply my deodorant after dressing. However, because I am lazy I didn't unbutton the shirt far enough and I got the clear gel on the inside of the chest of the shirt. It 100% left a streak!" Day 3: "I overslept and was late for my yoga class. I didn't shower, nor did I put on deodorant. I smelled bad and sweated a lot. It was pretty gross. I came home, showered, and applied deodorant. Although, I do not think the deodorant was necessary after the shower because I just watched gossip girl on the couch." Day 4: "I did not wear deodorant this day. I wanted to see if I needed it. I wore an incredibly cute jersey tank with Lil Bub on it. It was very hot and as I was shopping in Soho I sweated quite a bit. I don't know that others could smell me, but I could. Not fresh." Thoughts: "I feel more comfortable wearing deodorant." So again I ask, is deodorant really necessary every day? Given the fact that each of our participants either forgot or skipped deodorant without reaping any of the feared consequences, it doesn't seem to be. Perhaps if you are planning to work-out or sweat… This only leaves me to believe there is a master marketing scheme playin our asses… or more specifically our armpits. You decide, Is deodorant a necessity? ***beauty always comes from within, photos from here, and there, xoxo, behind the mirror*** 5 Comments


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Laguna Dance Festival will present its 10th season at Laguna Playhouse in September, but it's wasting no time in celebrating.
The organization, founded in 2005 by artistic director Jodie Gates, will present a 10th-anniversary "Carnival" on Thursday at Seven-degrees in Laguna Beach. Reservations are required.
Guests can have a buffet dinner while watching ballroom dance performances and listening to music by Brasil Brazil. Proceeds will aid the organization's efforts to support and promote dance presentations and education.
The festival performers will be announced at Thursday's event, and guests will have the first chance to buy tickets. After that, tickets will be available online starting Friday.


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Toyota Builts a limo based on a minivan
Company Toyota turned Sienna minivan into a limousine. Premiere car Toyota Swagger Wagon Supreme held at the American Auto Show SEMA, said Autoblog.nl.
Limo, increased in length by 112 inches, has 20-inch wheels and rear wing doors without handles. The car's interior is decorated leather and wood inside the cabin – a stereo JLB capacity 1700 watts with 10 speakers and two subwoofers!, 23-inch touch screen, DVD-player and game console X-Box.
In addition, was presented yet another limousine, constructed on the base model xB. The machine is equipped with 20-inch wheels, new side "skirts" and swinging doors for passengers. The interior is installed Alpine audio output 2600 watts with 12 speakers and three subwoofers. In addition, the car got a system of "cold start" once-through output, new clutch, and recustomized rear suspension.
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Curvilinear fibrils with the tinctorial properties of amyloid were isolated from a patient with bone and joint involvement complicating chronic dialysis for renal disease. Subunit fractions of 24,000 and 12,000 mol wt were identified after gel filtration under dissociating conditions, the latter containing a significant amount of a dimer of the former. This was confirmed by Edman degradation of each fraction, which yielded the amino terminal sequence of normal human beta-2 microglobulin (B2M) to residues 20 and 30, respectively. The size of the subunit protein (12,000 mol wt) and the amino acid composition make it likely that intact B2M is a major constituent of the fibrils. B2M is thus another example of a low molecular weight serum protein, with a prominent beta-pleated sheet structure, that may adopt the fibrillar configuration of amyloid in certain pathologic states.
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Hi my name is Nala. I'm a beautiful six month old Golden Retriever. I'm a very energetic and playful pup. I love playing fetch, running around my apartment and chewing all of my toys, socks and furniture. I enjoy long walks in the park followed by a good nap. I'm also known to be very friendly and I love to give hugs and kisses to all my friends.View Profile