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McCarthy & Stone Simplify Retirement Living With New Options
McCarthy & Stone have introduced a new range of rental and buying choices that can make retirement living even more accessible. ...Read more
I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and outline my vision for our organisation.
First, I would like to say it is a privilege to take on this new role. McCarthy & Stone has a great history and has enriched the lives of many thousands of people since we built our first development 40 years ago. As the UK's population ages, retirement living is becoming critically important, and I believe we play an essential role helping our customers to live healthier, happier and longer lives.
I have seen these benefits first hand over the four years I have been with McCarthy & Stone, having previously been Chief Operating Officer.
We have wonderful customers and it is always a delight to speak with them to find out what they are doing, whether it's enjoying their apartment, spending more time getting out in the local community, or enjoying the wide range of activities in our developments, from the weekly coffee mornings to fish and chips suppers on a Friday. We also have superb staff on site who help our customers each day.
In my time at McCarthy & Stone I have also seen how we could make our services even better. Following my appointment, l was pleased to launch our new strategy last month that will create even deeper and longer relationships with our customers.
We want to create retirement communities that enrich the quality of life for our customers and their families, and we will look to respond better to our customers' evolving needs. We will be trialling many new activities in the coming months, and one that I hope will be of particular benefit to existing customers is the potential expansion of our care offering into Retirement Living developments. We will also look to develop a range of 'Club' activities to allow customers to benefit further from being part of the McCarthy & Stone group.
We also announced in September that our development business will take a new approach. With the more challenging market conditions that we have experienced in the last two years, we have not been able to grow as quickly as we would have liked. As a result, we will seek to maintain the 'steady state' of legal completions that we have experienced recently of around 2,100 sales a year. This will deliver many benefits and will put us in a more sustainable position for the future. While it also sadly means we will need to right size part of our development business, I can confirm that it will not impact any part of our Management Services teams across the UK or the services that our customers experience.
Finally, I would like to thank Clive Fenton for his achievements as our CEO over the last four years and wish him well for his retirement. I also look forward to delivering our new strategy and to further improving the services that we offer to you as well as our new customers in the future.
We have over 1,350 staff members in Management Services
Our catering management and care services are a key part of how we seek to enrich our customers' lives.
Reliable and cost-effective management and maintenance services are essential to our customers, and we provide peace of mind that we will support them, looking after thier properties over the long term.
To deliver this we have a large dedicated team of House and Estate Managers, and care and maintenance staff who are on call 24/7 to provide the best service possible.
On our Retirement Living Plus developments our food service teams deliver a delicious choice of meals daily through either a restaurant or bistro facility.
With the continued increase of gas and electricity by the main suppliers, McCarthy & Stone have recently carried out a new tender process for the right to supply gas and electricity across all our developments. The increase in costs is mainly due to two factors:
As an organisation, we currently spend in excess of £4.1 million a year on both gas and electricity, which means we are able to negotiate the best possible energy prices we can for you, and to make sure you are as unaffected as possible by any further national price increases.
Dave Hockaday, McCarthy & Stone's Management Services Operations Director commented: "With the winter months fast approaching, it was important that we went through this tender process to make sure that we keep our utility costs as competitive as possible. It also shows the buying power that we have as an organisation to be able to achieve the best possible cost we can for our customers."
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Aug 29, 2009
My wife's cd4 is 19 and viral load is 13,632 she is suffering from fever frequently and has pains in mouth and in complete bed rest. what kind of treatment is required? In how many months can she get healthy?
Response from Dr. Young
Hello and thanks for your post
I'm very sorry to hear about your wife. She has a terribly low CD4 count (though relatively low viral load), and really needs to start on combination treatment for HIV as soon as possible. She should also be taking antibiotics to prevent certain AIDS complications- treatment guidelines recommend azithromycin and trimethoprim/sulfa (Bactrim, Septra).
It's not clear what might be the cause of her mouth pains, but typically herpes infections are often the cause; acyclovir is helpful.
When I meet patients like your wife, with careful monitoring and adherence to medications, she should feel better gradually, over the course of several weeks to months.
Stay in touch; let us know how she's doing and always feel free to write back.
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Leigh Geary
What would you set as your first background picture/gif and why?
A shot of my son. I usually try to get a shot of my wife and my son together, but for some reason I have shots of one or the other, which is a bit weird ;) I need to sort that out!
What would your first picture be?
If I had a brand new phone? It'd usually be a shot taken inside, probably in low-light, just to test the camera quality. Usually this ends up being the remote control because it has some brightly coloured buttons ;)
What would your first video be?
Probably the cat chasing one of those laser things. She loves that!
Which app would you first download?
WhatsApp. This seems to be fast overtaking my standard text messaging app and is used by more and more of my friends and relatives on a daily basis.


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Koino Group needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Mag's Leader Pack
This logo is for a new product for the the freshwater fishing industry designed to make the organization and storage of fishing leaders and related fishing tackle quick and easy
Logo should appeal to both professional and novice freshwater fishermen
The word "Mag's" is derived from the product inventor's last name and should be used as an accent or eyebrow to the brand name "Leader Pack."
One idea to include in the logo design is an illustration of the product in use (see attached images of the product) with a fishing leader being dispensed from the product, although this should not limit your creativity. We have also attached a picture of a sample fishing leader to provide you with an idea of what one looks like.
There will also be a tag line that could be incorporated "The ultimate fishing leader and tackle organizer"
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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The Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative is an international partnership advancing the scientific basis for conserving biological diversity in the deep seas and open oceans. It aims to help countries, as well as regional and global organisations, to use and develop data, tools, and methodologies to identify ecologically significant areas with an initial focus on the high seas and deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction.
Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI)
The Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative is an international partnership advancing the scientific basis for conserving biological diversity in the deep seas and open oceans. It aims to help countries, as well as regional and global organisations, to use and develop data, tools, and methodologies to identify ecologically significant areas with an initial focus on the high seas and deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction.
This initiative began in late 2008 as a collaboration between the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), IUCN, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI), Census of Marine Life, Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) and the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab of Duke University. The initiative continues to seek additional collaborators to help bring the best science and data to bear on the identification of ecologically significant areas beyond national jurisdiction. GOBI is facilitated by IUCN with core support from BfN.
The work under this initiative ultimately aims to help countries meet the goals adopted under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. These global goals relate to reducing the rate of biodiversity loss, applying ecosystem approaches, and establishing representative marine protected area networks by 2012.
Identifying ecologically and biologically significant areas in the deep and open oceans
In 2008 in Bonn, Germany, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a set of seven scientific criteria to identify ecologically or biologically significant areas (EBSAs) in the global marine realm (see CBD COP 9 Decision IX/20). The criteria were compiled at a CBD Expert Workshop in the Azores (see brochure).
Area-based management approaches and tools can address a multitude of threats. These tools include marine protected areas and networks, prior environmental impact assessments, improved regulation of sectoral activities, and broader ecosystem-based marine spatial planning. Using the CBD EBSA criteria to identify specific ocean areas that require enhanced protection can thus help to achieve a variety of conservation and management objectives.
Initiative goal and objectives
The goal of GOBI is to identify, on the basis of science and at some level of certainty, a set of EBSA candidates, which possibly deserve protection, by 2012.
The project is focusing on three aspects:
- Establishing and supporting international scientific collaboration to assist States and relevant regional and global organisations to identify ecologically significant areas using the best available scientific data, tools, and methods;
- Providing guidance on how the CBD's scientific criteria can be interpreted and applied towards management, including representative networks of marine protected areas;
- Assisting in developing regional analyses with relevant organisations and stakeholders.
Initiative structure: Science and Advisory Board
To obtain advice from and enhance coordination with other organisations, GOBI has established an Advisory Board and a Science Board.
The GOBI Advisory Board consists of representatives from the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and, as an observer, the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (DOALOS).
The GOBI Science Board is an expanding body of experts responsible for developing the scientific methodologies, bringing together the relevant data, preparing an interactive mapping system, and coordinating preparation of reports. It currently includes individuals from the following organisations: Census of Marine Life, Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Duke University Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI), United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), AquaMaps, BirdLife International, Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP), and Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam).
Initiative report
The first product from GOBI was the report: Defining ecologically or biologically significant areas in the open oceans and deep seas: Analysis, tools, resources and illustrations. It was presented at a CBD Scientific Expert Workshop on ecological criteria in October 2009 in Ottawa, Canada.
The report provides an overview of scientific tools, technologies and data that can assist in the application of the CBD scientific criteria as well as current and emerging techniques and methodologies. The work also highlights key issues concerning the strenghts, challenges and limitations of data availability and scientific understanding that ocean management faces at this time, and some strategies to address these challenges.
Practical illustrations relating to species, habitats and oceanographic features are described for each of the seven CBD scientific criteria as examples of various scientific methods and techniques relevant to each criterion.
Looking ahead
GOBI will continue to seek out and involve additional scientific groups and is planning to increase its involvement and cooperation with governments, international and non-governmental organisations, as well as industry stakeholders to improve the scientific basis through applying multi-criteria analyses in different ocean regions, network design, regional workshops and capacity development.
By interest and for more information, please contact:
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Managing your finances is much the same as attentive driving. It's all too easy to take your eye off your financial goals only to see your previous gains wiped out in a relatively short period of time.
This may have happened to you last year. Throughout 2010, you budgeted and exercised great care with your expenses and, as a result, managed to get a good jump on your debt. Then came the first of the year and the discovery that you overspent on the holidays.
Does this sound familiar? If so, it's important to look back and determine what got you into trouble. Was it the lure of holiday shopping? Did you spend more than budgeted? Did you make some expensive purchases that were unbudgeted for? It's important to determine why you made mistakes and seek ways to avoid making those same mistakes year after year.
If you spent more on holiday gifts than you planned, try being more realistic in your budgeting process for next year. Start today by making notes about what you gave to each person and what you might have done differently. You can also do this for other times of the year such as birthdays, graduations, weddings, etc.
Make a list of all these expected gift giving situations and make a calendar of the dates. Determine a budget for each month and incorporate it into your monthly savings and expense plans. Put your notes in a safe place. At the start of each month, pull those notes out and refresh your memory about what you'll need to buy and how much you've allowed yourself to spend. It's also best to pare down that list and eliminate unnecessary gifts to people who are unimportant to the family's goals.
Did you or your spouse make an unbudgeted major expense on that new big screen TV and now you find yourself with your credit cards all charged up? If so, you need to establish controls within your budget and checkbook to keep from doing this to yourself.
Start by not carrying your credit cards in the same wallet as your cash. Having to access your card from a different location might make you think twice. Think about paying cash for everything, and make it a requirement that you and your significant other must personally approve every expenditure that goes on the credit card.
If that fails, next year, lock up your credit cards in early November in a place where you can't easily access them, or convert to prepaid credit cards.
Again, you know yourself better than anyone else. Find ways to place roadblocks in front of areas where you make bad financial decisions to keep yourself and your family from facing this same financial inattentiveness next year.
No one enjoys admitting their mistakes, but it's significantly more enjoyable seeing those credit cards paid down rather than starting all
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i have a theory that if joel silver and whoever makes decisions over at warner bros. woulda waited a little longer to release matrix revolutions, it might have been received/seen on a much larger scale.
I read somewhere a month ago that Warner was hoping Revolutions would stick around in theaters long enough for it to compete witht he christmas movie releases. HAHAHHAHA
I think he's laughing at it's abrupt decline since it had so much hype and it just DROPPED after the first weekend.
hey, was Magnolia the 3rd and 4th film by PT Anderson???
...shit. this is what happens when you cut something in half and then spread it apart. you're far more likely to see the bloody entrails of the second half when you're coming towards it than if you had left the thing alone.
more time to get accidentally spoilt betwixt.
i am not pissed off.
If I remember correctly, they sometimes pick an opening night film that's already opened in the US.
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CHICAGO (AP) � The Pittsburgh Pirates are headed to the playoffs for the first time in 21 years, clinching at least a National League wild card Monday night when they beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 and the Washington Nationals lost to St. Louis.
It will be Pittsburgh's first trip to the postseason since Barry Bonds, Jim Leyland and Co. won three straight NL East titles from 1990-92. Bonds then left for San Francisco as a free agent, and the small-budget Pirates piled up 20 consecutive losing records � the longest streak in the four major professional sports.
Starling Marte hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning at Wrigley Field, and the Pirates threw out a runner at the plate for the final out.
The Pirates doused each other in champagne in the visitors' clubhouse once St. Louis' 4-3 win over the Nationals became final.
The Cincinnati Reds also clinched at least a wild-card berth, when they beat the New York Mets 3-2 in 10 innings. The Pirates and Reds, both 90-67, trail St. Louis by two games in the NL Central with five to go.
The Pirates snapped a 1-all tie when Marte sent a drive off Kevin Gregg (2-6) with two outs in the ninth into the left field bleachers.
They preserved the victory on the final out when center fielder Andrew McCutchen picked up Ryan Sweeney's bloop single after the ball hit off right fielder Marlon Byrd's glove and threw to first baseman Justin Morneau, positioned just in front of home plate. Morneau made the relay to catcher Russell Martin, who applied the tag on Nate Schierholtz. Schierholtz had tried to score from first base.
Still on his knees, Martin held the ball over his head in jubilation.
Jason Grili grabbed Martin, having escaped with his 32nd save in 34 chances.
The Cubs tied it in the eighth off Mark Melancon (3-2).
Marte's 12th homer set off loud boos for Gregg (2-6), who was almost released last week after going on a rant to reporters when he thought he had lost the closer's job to Pedro Strop.
Neil Walker homered against Jeff Samardzija in the first to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead, and Charlie Morton pitched three-hit ball over seven scoreless innings before the Cubs tied it against Melancon.
Brian Bogusevic led off the eighth with a single, his second hit, and moved up on a groundout by Darwin Barney. Then, after a wild pitch, he scored the tying run on a single by pinch-hitter Donnie Murphy.
That spoiled a terrific start for Morton, who struck out five and walked one.
Samardzija was almost as good, allowing one run and five hits over six inninngs. He struck out seven and walked four after going 0-1 with a 7.11 ERA in his previous four starts.
He pitched seven solid innings against Milwaukee last week but got into a disagreement with third base coach David Bell over defensive positioning in the dugout.
Samardzija's only blemish in this one came when Walker drove a 1-1 pitch out to left-center with one out in the first.
With the long ball, Walker matched a career high of 14 set last season. He has four homers in the past five games.
Samardzija settled down after that but got little support as the Cubs lost for the 10th time in 13 games.
NOTES: Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said he hasn't set his rotation for the final series against Cincinnati, beyond A.J. Burnett starting on Friday. He would not say if struggling All-Star Jeff Locke will make his scheduled start on Saturday. The left-hander got roughed up by the Reds in Sunday's loss and is 2-5 with a 6.12 ERA since the All-Star break. "We are just having those conversations," Hurdle said when asked about Locke's status. ... Martin was in the Pirates' lineup after leaving Sunday's game with soreness in his left knee, an issue he's been dealing with since late July. Martin said he was feeling better and that the Pirates would "have to fight to try to get me out of the lineup." ... RHP Gerrit Cole (9-7, 3.23 ERA) starts Tuesday for Pittsburgh, with LHP Chris Rusin (2-5, 3.52) going for Chicago.


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Virtual hosts are an integral part of the Apache HTTP server; after all they have an entire section in the httpd.conf file devoted exclusively to them. But what are they and what can they be use for?
In Internet terms, your web server is the host that serves the web pages that make up your site. Your server and the web browsers that are used to access your site interact in what is known as the host/client relationship. If your server hosts just one site, it would be known as a dedicated server, but these are usually only necessary for running large sites with high traffic.
Virtual hosts are separate hosts that are run from the same server as a main host, or site. This means therefore that one server can host several separate web sites simultaneously, each accessed via separate DNS names. Visitors to your site will be unable to distinguish between virtual or dedicated sites. The main difference between hosts and virtual hosts is that hosts have unique IP addresses and virtual hosts do not necessarily have individual IP addresses. There are in fact two types of virtual host; IP based and non-IP or name based. IP based, as the name states do not share an IP address, non-IP based do. IP based virtual hosts are useful for when you want to manage more than one site on the same server so that all hosts inherit the characteristics defined by your main host, but for some reason, such as when using SSL for example, a unique IP address is necessary.
The fact that virtual hosts are not required to have unique IP addresses is largely what brought them about in the first place; because of the limitations of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) and the explosive growth of the Internet, something was required to solve the problem of the rapidly dwindling supply of available unique IP addresses. Thus, server software began to incorporate support for non-IP based virtual hosts. Something to make note of at this point is that HTTP1.1 was also implemented with support for virtual hosts and there are still some browsers out there that don't support HTTP1.1, so therefore Apache has to handle requests from older browsers differently. Instead of receiving hostname as part of the HTTP header and opening the correct homepage in that way, it has to serve a list of available hosts. This situation will probably only arise very infrequently however, as even browsers that only support HTTP1.0 will usually have an extension to add the hostname to the HTTP header.
Virtual hosts are not the only solution to the problem of IPv4 limitations, as a point of interest, IPv6, the latest Internet Protocol incarnation, is already being used by some servers and browsers. This version is based on a 128bit IP address format instead of the old 32bit format used by IPv4, which increases the number of unique IP addresses exponentially.
{mospagebreak title=Edit the Main Configuration File}
True to its cutting edge character, Apache HTTP server was one of the first servers to begin providing support for virtual hosts and fortunately, configuring them is relatively easy. The mod_vhost_alias Apache module comes as standard with both the compiler and pre-compiled distributions. So no matter how you installed the software, it should be present on your system. For the purpose of this article, I'm assuming that you have already configured Apache for running your main host.
There is a little work to be done in Apache's main configuration file httpd.conf. Open this file by either browsing to the directory Apache is installed in and opening httpd from within the conf directory or, on a Windows platform, by selecting Edit the Apache http.conf configuration file from the start menu.
Scroll right down to the bottom of the file to section 3, the virtual hosts section. Everything that you need to do in Apache to get a virtual host up and running is done within this section. There is already a commented out virtual host configuration for reference; you can leave this example in place for referring to later or you can remove the hash symbols at the start of each line and adjust the example — it's really up to you.
The virtual host directives take precedence over the main server configuration, so to make sure that requests to your main host are not confused with requests to your virtual host, you have to add the main host as the first virtual host. This will ensure your main host stays as the default host. For the following example, I've used a main server name of site1.co.uk and I'm adding a virtual host called site2.co.uk, highly imaginative I know but it serves (no pun intended) to illustrate the point. As it's simpler, we'll look at name based virtual host configuration first.
{mospagebreak title=Virtual Host}
To begin, remove the comment symbol from the start of the NameVirtualHost directive. By default this should already be followed by *:80, this means the server will listen to any and all IP addresses on port 80 (the default port for web services).
Next you can either add the directive <VirtualHost www.site1.co.uk> to the very bottom of the file, or remove the hash symbol and overtype the example. Remember, this needs to match the server name defined in section 2 of the configuration file.
Next, explicitly state the server name:
ServerName www.site1.co.uk
The next line of code defines the folder that normal HTML documents are served from; add DocumentRoot "pathtoyourdocumentroot" to the next line. The document path will typically be something like www/var/html/site1 on a UNIX platform.
Lastly, add ServerAdmin email@example.com to give a contact email address on error documents and add the closing </VirtualHost> tag.
Now, you need to define the actual virtual host; copy the block of text that you have just created and paste it directly below it. Now just change the values containing site1 to site2 and ensure the document root statement matches your directory set up. Now save the file and restart Apache to update its configuration.
Simply using the technique described above will not let web users access your virtual site; in order for them to use the site URL, it will need to be included on the servers DNS record. This is relatively easy and usually requires you to simply add the virtual host name to the existing line of the DNS record for your IP address. When using IP based virtual hosts, you will need to add the IP address and the virtual server name below your existing IP address and host name.
Configuring IP based virtual hosts is usually similar although you use the IP address for your virtual host in the opening <VirtualHost> tag, for example;
<VirtualHost 22.214.171.124>
Next state the site name in the ServerName directive, e.g.
ServerName www.site2.co.uk
You then add the remaining ServerAdmin etc, directives. In addition to this, in order to make Apache bind to the appropriate IP addresses and server names, you will need to add a listen directive to section 1 of the httpd.conf file. There should already be one present, so scroll up through the file until you find it and add Listen 220.127.116.11:80 (or whatever happens to be the IP address you have been allocated.) Once you have saved the configuration file and restarted the server, and the DNS records have been updated, this should then work.
When setting up IP based virtual hosts, you will need to have already acquired your IP addresses. These can be obtained normally from your ISP.
{mospagebreak title=Find File System Called Hosts}
I have shown you only the most basic way of setting up virtual hosts; you can use almost any directive inside a <VirtualHost> container, and these directives will override or work alongside the equivalent directive in the main server configuration.
The only limit to how many virtual hosts you can create are the limitations of the physical machine that Apache is running on. Apache uses file descriptors, integers denoting files that are open, for any log files, in addition to another twenty used by the server itself. On most UNIX platforms, the limit to the number of file descriptors in use is 64, which can be used up very quickly. Changes to the configuration of the operating system can increase this, but a more suitable solution is not using the ErrorLog or TransferLog directives within the <VirtualHost> blocks, which will make Apache write only to the main hosts log files and therefore reduce the number of log files in use. Additionally, some operating systems will need to have an extra network interface card for each IP address.
If you are using Apache on a Windows XP desktop PC, for testing PHP or CGI for example, you now need to find a system file called hosts, which will be under the following path: C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc. Open the file with Notepad and you should see something like this:
# space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
# 126.96.36.199 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 184.108.40.206 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 site1 site2
The IP Address for a local host is always 127.0.0.1. To make it work you just need to add the virtual host name to the same line as the main host name, separated by a tab-space. This is similar to mapping your server's DNS settings.
You should now have enough information to begin creating and managing virtual hosts with Apache. There are many configurations that can be used, so experiment until you find one that matches your particular needs.


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Islam and Muslims have been in the news often over the past 11 years. Ever since the tragic events of Sept. 11th, 2001, the US Media has been fascinated to know what the Qur'an – the holy scriptures of Islam, actually teaches and instructs it's followers to do. Many Muslims, as well as Non-Muslims, unfairly take quotes from the Qur'an out of context and use them to justify acts of violence, ill treatment of people of other faiths, and oppression of women in Muslim countries. Moreover, many practices by Muslims are viewed as Islamic-only.
For example, many people believe that only the Qur'an requires women to cover their head, but how many people know that the Bible instructs women to cover their heads as well, at least when they are praying?
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Some stories are harder to write than others. Obituaries are among the hardest, as the represent an obligation to do justice to the folks who have passed and hopefully to bring solace to their loved ones.
Some of Laguna's best and brightest died in 2012, but memories of them linger.
Among them, in chronological order:
Cartoonist John Lara
John Lara, whose irreverent cartoons appeared in Laguna Beach, Orange County and national newspapers, died Jan. 15 of complications from lupus. He was 57.
Friends and admirers packed the Little Church by the Sea for the memorial service — which like John's life, was filled with laughter and tears.
John's political and social commentaries in cartoon form appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Copley News Service, the Orange County Register, the Laguna News Post and the Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot. His first job was with the Newport Ensign.
"We worked together at the Ensign," said best-selling author T. Jefferson Parker. "It was our first jobs and we became friends.
"He was so talented, so full of life and energy, he was a pleasure to be around.
"John saw other people's foibles without seeing himself as better than they were."
World War II Veteran Dan Huston
Long-time Laguna Beach resident and member of the Orange County Freedom Committee of veterans Dan Huston died March 15, just hours before he was scheduled to speak about his war experiences to high school students.
Dan earned 10 battle stars and two air medals as a pilot in the Naval Air Corps.
He knew the cost of victory and he tried to communicate that in his talks to students and community groups, according to Sarah Peters, who wrote about Huston's life and death in the March 30 edition of the Coastline Pilot.
Dan was also active as a Little League coach, a member of the Laguna Optimist Club, a supporter of the Pageant of the Masters, and a community watchdog who made his observances known to the public via commentaries in local papers.
"As a self-appointed city curmudgeon, I feel it is my duty to keep our community aware of what those rascals at City Hall are doing or not doing," Dan wrote in one letter to the editor of the Coastline Pilot.
Dan ran for City Council as a write-in candidate in 2004 on a platform that included the construction of a downtown parking structure.
Emmy Award-Winner Bob Henry
Bob Henry died March 18 at his Laguna Beach home after a long illness. He was 92.
He will be remembered outside of Laguna as the innovative producer and director of variety shows and series.
Present at the birth of the television variety show, Bob put his stamp on the genre for the next half century.
Bob was the associate producer in New York of the Colgate Comedy Hour starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in 1950. When Martin and Lewis decamped from the East Coast, Henry also moved to Los Angeles as a staff employee of NBC.
He broke new ground in television, helping African-American performers reach a broader audience.
In 1957 Bob produced, directed and wrote "The Nat King Cole Show," the first network show ever to star a black male performer. The show was so controversial that it ran without national commercials and several NBC affiliates refused to air it.
Flip Wilson was a standup comic when Bob directed a special starring him, a year before the series that made Wilson a household name.
Bob received both an Emmy and a Peabody Award for the "Flip Wilson Show."
During his 50-plus years in television, Bob produced and/or directed more than 25 different variety series and specials including "The Andy Williams Show" "The Emmy Awards," "The Grammy Awards," "The Captain and Tennille" series, "The Perry Como Show," "200 years of Comedy with Jonathan Winters," and a Bob Hope special. He also produced and directed "The American Black Achievement Awards" numerous times.
However, in town, the long-time resident was highly regarded for his involvement in community activities.
Bob served as Festival of Arts President in 2004. He was a member of the board for six years.
He was an ardent gardener and served as president of the Laguna Beach Garden Club for two years. He and his wife, Annette Henry, were honored as Gardeners of the Year by the Orange County District of the California Garden Clubs Inc.
Bob was also actively involved in promoting the building of a new senior citizen center in Laguna Beach.
He also appeared with the Laguna Beach Concert Band in its infancy, gave talks at the Assistance League and for the Friends of the Laguna Beach Library, of which he and his wife were members.
"He loved Laguna," said Annette Henry, Bob's wife of 30 years. "For years his license plate was, 'I (heart) Lguna.'"
Laguna Terrace Park owner Steven Esslinger
Former Laguna Beach resident Steven Esslinger was in the process of trying to subdivide Laguna Terrace Park into individual parcels so the residents could buy the land under their mobile homes when he died of cancer March 23.
While a resident in Laguna, Steven was active in local politics.
"He was very important to the conservative cause, to which he was devoted," said Martha Lydick, president of the Laguna Beach Taxpayers Assn.
Steven was the third generation of his family to live in Laguna Beach. The family owned Duke's Burgers, which was located on the site now occupied by Ruby's Diner. Steven reportedly bought the mobile home park from the family trust to preserve it, rather than see the land sold for development.
Renaissance man Harry James Lawrence
Laguna Beach lost an icon when Harry James Lawrence died March 25. He was 98 and had been in ill health for several years.
Dubbed "Mr. Laguna," Harry was one of the city's most successful businessmen, a patriot, travel guide and Asian culture expert who was honored for his myriad community activities.
The Patriots Day Parade Committee named him Grand Marshal in 2008, 27 years after he had been named as the Citizen of the Year.
In 2001, the Chamber of Commerce presented Harry with a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Person of the Year Award, which was subsequently named for him and presented annually at the chamber's "Spirit of Laguna" Awards ceremonies. He was also the recipient of the chamber's Mermaid Beautification Award in the days when women were only auxiliary members.
"Business in Laguna Beach stands on the broad shoulders of Harry Lawrence," said Michael Kinsman, chamber president. "His contributions to the community are legion. He will be missed."
Harry's fingerprints are on some of Laguna's most cherished institutions, including the acquisition of Main Beach by the city. He was a founder of the Beautification Committee and the Holiday Bureau of the chamber that brought tourists to Laguna in the winter and raised revenue by an innovation called bed taxes.
He also founded the Civic League, dedicated to preserving the "Village Atmosphere," including a reduction in sign clutter that resulted in one of California's toughest sign ordinances.
Harry was a founder and board member of Lyric Opera, which morphed into Opera Pacific; a board member of the Festival of Arts; and twice president of the Chamber of Commerce, which he had helped resuscitate from its near-moribund state after World War II.
He served as Area District Governor of Laguna's Rotary and on Laguna's 1980 Committee, which forged the city's General Plan. He was very involved in fundraising for the construction of South Coast Hospital, the first one in South Orange County, and the Laguna Playhouse.
Harry served on the Laguna Art Museum board, twice as vice president. He chaired the Confidential Committee that worked to resolve rampant drug-related activities in town.
In 1980, the Rotary Club voted him the Paul Perris Award, its highest honor, and he was named to the advisory board of Woodbury University, his alma mater.
Throughout the years, Harry supported local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5868.
A World War II veteran, Harry rose from Ensign to Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy and by war's end, he captained his own ship.
The city recognized his accomplishments in 2009, declaring Oct. 1 "Harry Lawrence Day," celebrated each year thereafter on Main Beach, his most enduring legacy to the city.
Town volunteer Ed Drollinger
Ed Drollinger, whose unfailing smile and willingness to help others warmed hearts, died April 20. He was 86.
Ed picked debris around the library, attended public meetings, and was the voice that reminded Laguna Canyon Conservancy members of upcoming meetings.
He volunteered on the Beautification Council and at the Susi Q, the Veterans Memorial Building and the Laguna Beach Democratic Club.
Ed was an early male member of the League of Women Voters, signing up when the league first allowed men to join.
"He always said he joined as soon as they stopped discriminating," said Jean Raun, a long-time league member.
Ed had lived in Laguna since 1976 with his late wife, Kit, a ranking member of the league. Their home was a casualty of the 1995 firestorm, but they rebuilt.
A memorial service and reception were held at the Neighborhood Congregational Church, although Ed was not a parishioner.
"We are holding it there because the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship wouldn't hold all the people we expect will attend," said Sande St. John.
Writing coach, film maker Andy Heddon
Andy Heddon, who played a big role behind the scenes in Laguna Beach High School theater, died May 5 of a heart attack, just one day after his 55th birthday.
He had lunched with his mother and brother to celebrate his birthday. He talked about the novel he was planning to write and invited them to join him at the bench in Heisler Park dedicated to his father in 1985.
"That helped all of us tremendously that we got that last beautiful day together," Rob Heddon said.
The brothers were close, collaborating on movies, including the 2007 film, "Boxboarders," which was featured at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Andy grew up in Laguna, worked in downtown shops and at Tivoli Terrace in his youth and appeared in Laguna Playhouse productions directed by Doug Rowe, who later hired him as box office manager.
"Hiring Andy was one of the best things I ever did," Rowe said.
Coastline Pilot City Editor Cynthia "Cindy" Frazier
"Cindy," as she preferred to be known, battled pancreatic cancer for a year before succumbing June 15. She was 60.
She shared the story of her battle with readers of the Coastline Pilot and they were touched, as were her coworkers.
"Cindy was fiercely loyal to Laguna Beach," said her boss, John Canalis, Times Community News South Editor. "She championed her staff; freelancers and columnists took great pride in serving a community editor. Our entire staff is grieving."
She was convinced that community reporting was the backbone of journalism, but she also wrote plays and fiction. She loved cats and she loved her wife, Sharon.
Cindy was a little brown wren of a woman, but in her soul, she was a bird of colorful plumage who lived her too-short life with conviction and gallantry.
Patriot and community volunteer Harold Werthe
Harold "Hal" Werthe died Aug. 21 after a long illness. He was 82.
The Exchange Club, of which he was a past president, honored him for his many contributions to the city.
"People in town wonder how good deeds get done," said retired U. S. Marine Col. Charles Quilter. "They look around, see a small number of people involved in multiple activities. Hal was one of those people."
Hal was a Citizens on Patrol volunteer for 12 years with the Laguna Beach Police Department, an adviser to Fire Explorer Post 717 and a Neighborhood Watch captain.
He was one of the city's cadre of Santa Clauses that greeted children in the little cottage on Forest Avenue at Christmas time.
A veteran of the Korean conflict, Hal was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5868 and a past Commander of Laguna's American Legion Post 222.
Hal was a valued member of the all-volunteer Patriots Day Parade Association, which he first joined in 1975. He chaired the parade in 1979 and 1985. His wife, Sandi, joined the association in 1977 after they were married.
The Werthes were honored by the association in 1993 as Patriots Day Parade Citizens of the Year.
Dr. Eugene Benjamin Levin
Eugene "Gene" Levin practiced medicine in Laguna Beach for 41 years, right up to the day before he died unexpectedly, Sept. 15. He was 85.
He spent his last day with his wife of 60 years, Vivian, collapsing shortly after they had sipped wine and snacked on cheese and crackers in their garden.
"When I go, I want to go like Gene Levin," said Mayor Pro Tem Verna Rollinger, who announced the demise of the highly regarded doctor at the Sept. 18 City Council meeting.
Gene's was a familiar face in Laguna. He had lived with his family and practiced in Laguna since 1972.
He was passionate about medicine and believed that every patient deserved quality care, his family said.
Gene served as the South Coast Community Hospital, now Mission Hospital Laguna Beach, as director of education in the 1970s, and on the Laguna Beach High School scholarship selection committee for students interested in pursuing a medical career, according to family records.
But his activities were not confined to medicine. He was a member of Laguna Beach Rotary Club for more than 30 years and a supporter of the arts.
He served on the boards of the Laguna Art Museum, the Laguna Playhouse and, most recently, the Laguna Dance Festival.
Always a sports fan, Gene rooted for the Lakers, the Dodgers and the Angels, but hockey captured his heart about 15 years ago.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 495 diseños de 102 diseñadores freelance.
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hi! i'm researching on my Great - grandmother Eva Ethel Wade. i believe she was born in New Zealand sometime in the 1800. i believe she is a european of Maori decent. she married Mr. Nettles a european (not ascertained) and had 3 children, Maria Nettles.Eva Ethel Nettles and George Waterford Wade Nettles, of which George is my grandfather. if anyone has any information on her ancestry i would greatly appreciate it. thank you
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3-Year-Old Boy Cries Over Nicki Minaj
Who knew Nicki Minaj could have such an effect over a boy so young?
An adorable three-year-old boy is sitting on his bed, breaking down into tears, but not because he has a bloody nose, as he eloquently puts in between sobs, but because he can't sing a Nicki Minaj song! "Why can't you sing Nicki Minaj?" asks the woman behind the camera after handing him a bunch of tissues. "Because I can't!" She then asks if it's because of the "bad words," to which the youngster replies, "I don't want the bad word version!"
The woman tries to coax the boy into singing (worst babysitter/sister/relative ever, right?!), but the kid sticks to what his mom told him, telling her that he's not allowed to sing any Nicki Minaj. "I can sing the other Nicki Minaj, but my mommy said no!"
"Do you wanna sing me a litte Nicki Minaj? Will that make you feel better?" asks the woman. The boy nods, as his tears start to clear up, but then changes his tune. "But no… I wanna go to grandma's house and I'm gonna sing Nicki Minaj."
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text: hi, I'd have two (2) suggestions that might help. The first would be to put a head on the machine so that you are not blind when the system hangs. If that is not an option, load up a cron job that runs maybe every 5 minutes (you'll have to throttle this to give you a period that can give you info @ or around the time of the hang I would suggest that you maybe dump a long listing of the process table e.g. ps -wef --forest., maybe socket info via netstat -a or socklist, nfs data using netstat, disk stats using iostat, swap using free, mounted file systems can be viewed using df (note: put this command in last because if nfs is the culprit, the df command will hang). If you happen to know the process that is hanging, run it with strace with the output going to a file. May slow things down a bit but, you're in triage @ this point. As an aside, why are the nfs mount points hard? nfs problems with a hard mount option can cause a machine to hang. Depending upon the load that the clients are putting on the server, increasing the number of nfs daemons may relieve some botleneck that may be introduced. Conversely, too many can cause performance degradation. Good luck... Louis On Wednesday 31 July 2002 02:25 pm, Jean-Christophe Ducom wrote: > The nodes of our cluster are: > Dell Workstation Dual Xeon 1.7GHz 1GB RAM, RedHat 7.2 running 2.4.18 > patched for IRQ balancing, Syskonnect SK9D21 GigEthernet > > The cluster is heavily used for mpi programs using MPICH 1.2.4 > Each node mount NFS directories w/ the following options: > rw,nosuid,nodev,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 > > ACPI is installed to overcome some APM issues w/ the poweroff command on > SMP machines. > > But some nodes hang sometimes for unknown reasons. They don't crash > though (they would reboot anyway: cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic -> 0 ). > There is no way to conect to them. > I installed serial console on some nodes (cf. my previous email about > remote serial console). When I connect thru the serial console to a hang > node, I even can't reboot the node BUT minicom shows that the machine is > ONLINE. > It happens most of the time when MPI programs establish communications > between nodes. > What's going on? NFS hangs (but nothing in the /var/log/message and > other)? ACPI problem? Does the console dies? Switch issues? > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > JC > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Louis J. Romero Email: louisr at aspsys.com Local: (303) 431-4606 Aspen Systems, Inc. 3900 Youngfield Street Wheat Ridge, Co 80033 Toll Free: (800) 992-9242 Fax: (303) 431-7196 URL: http://www.aspsys.com


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The Scattered Geometries of Matt Phillips
This, and then. It's the title of Matt Phillips' latest exhibition and a useful shorthand for the mental quick march a viewer undergoes when observing his work. Through his abstract oil and acrylic paintings, Phillips plays with color, form, and volume—the building blocks of our artistic experience—to create dynamic, shifting spatial relationships. His canvases evoke, simultaneously, the calm beauty of the natural world, the randomness[…..]


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The echoes from the gunfire had scarcely subsided at Sandy Hook Elementary School before the hysterical pleadings from the gun haters for ever-tougher gun control laws reached a crescendo. Lamentable, but predictable. It happens every time somebody goes off the deep end and commits mass murder using a gun. But while they're hysterically banging the "take the guns" drum, let's take a look at the real problem and one prospective solution.
Consider this. Sandy Hook was a "gun-free zone." The Cinemark movie theater in Aurora, Colo., was a gun-free zone. The Virginia Technical Institute was a gun-free zone. And, surprisingly, Fort Hood, Texas, was a gun-free zone.
Doesn't it seem that mass murderers tend to select gun-free zones when they're in the mood to kill a bunch of people? Had there been an armed citizen, trained in the use of his or her weapon, at that school, or in that movie theater, or at that college, or in America's largest military installation, doesn't it seem likely, as statistics indicate, that the number killed would have been severely minimized? And, had that been a possibility, doesn't it seem likely that the killers might have thought twice before selecting those targets of opportunity?
Should we, as the National Rifle Assn.'s chief executive suggests, position an armed guard in every school in America? Or do we begin to repurpose our society away from trying desperately to pry guns out of the hands of lawful Americans who use them for self-defense, hunting and target shooting, and instead try to identify those mentally unbalanced citizens who are likely to become mass murderers before they can act? With 20,000 gun laws on the books, one could reasonably ask, is the problem with not enough laws or with unidentified deranged people?
One hundred million Americans who own 270 million guns didn't shoot anybody yesterday. But have one insane kid shoot a bunch of children and the gun-hating loons once again try to deny fellow citizens their Constitutional rights.
It is estimated that 4,000 times a day in America citizens using lawfully-owned weapons prevent a crime, or at least minimize the negative impacts of crimes in progress. Why isn't that being reported in the mainstream media?
So what's my plan, you ask? Offer teachers and administrators free gun safety and proper handling courses for those who wish to participate, on a purely voluntary – and confidential – basis. Then provide appropriate weapons for each, and all licensing, permits and certification necessary for legal concealed carry, on their persons only.
We should offer monetary stipends to each participant as adjunct safety officers as an inducement to participate.
If we can trust them to teach our kids, can't we trust teachers to also protect our kids, especially volunteers with proper training? The result? A less attractive target of opportunity.
CHUCK CASSITY lives in Costa Mesa.


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