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Achieved: 1 out 17
In progress: 7 out 16
|Implementing benefits, rewards and promotions tied to performance and restoring of security for the police officers Details
|Implementing benefits, rewards and promotions tied to citizens' satisfaction for the police officers
|Providing full insurance against occupational hazards for the officers
|Implementing a wide scale professional media campaign to restore confidence in the police forces Details
|Detaining outlaws and thugs and rehabilitating them psychologically and technically to make them good and active citizens in the community Details
|Maintaining a constant presence in the streets through stationary and mobile patrols Details
|Cooperation between civil committees and police authorities to monitor illegal activities tied to neighbourhoods, police stations, municipalities and MPs. Their services are tied to hotlines
|Starting an emergency hotline in addition to providing the name of the officer taking the call and the serial number of the complaint filed
|Increasing the number of police stations according to the population of each area Details
|Promptly installing surveillance cameras in vital areas to facilitate monitoring violations and apprehending perpetrators with the least costs Details
|Using police helicopters to maintain order and organise traffic in highways Details
|Developing detention rooms and facilities in stations and courts to make them more humane
|Appointing a PR officer in every station to deal with citizens and direct them and make sure their problems are dealt with
|Organising crash courses for law, physical education, social services and institute graduates in the police academy and police wardens academy to hire them to work in less vital police positions to facilitate the transfer of professional police officers to more vital positions in the police force
|Rewarding citizens who report crimes and perpetrators, and implementing witness protection legislation and programmes
|Investing in modern police vehicles with computers wired to the MOI mainframe to apprehend outlaws and facilitate justice as efficiently as possible and with minimum losses and casualties Details
|Observance of the working hours and vacation allowances of police officers and implementing a rewarding overtime system
What do people think?
Achieved: 2 out 21
In progress: 4 out 19
|Cancel the occupancy of metro stations to provide good car parkings near the stations to facilitate the use of the subway for car owners. Details
|Allow trucks to pass in main cities streets and circular roads from 12 am to 6 am.
|Allow smaller trucks to pass in the city's streets from 9 pm to 7 am.
|All sort of road maintenance (bridges, streets, etc...) will take place after midnight and ends before 7 am.
|Removing all sort of road occupancies. Details
|Identify special parking places for microbuses, and provide parking services stuff (parking chef).
|flexible working hours for government and public sector employees that will not interfere rush hours caused by schools and universities.
|Activate the governmental services automation project. Make use of mobile operators companies to help people pay for governmental services through prepaid credits. Allow pay at home service.
|Constructing services units for the governmental and public sector institutions employees to easily finish their transactions with the governmental institutions and the public and private sectors.
|Introducing special service for transportation for women and university student especially during rush hours.
|obligate taxi services to have a tariff counter.
|A telephone service and local traffic radio stations in the main Egyptian cities to guide car drivers to less crowded roads. Details
|Re-plan the city's main squares and provide it with modern traffic lights to guarantee a fluent traffic.
|Make use of free land spaces for car parking places.
|Construct branches for Governmental sectors and ministries in the four outskirts of Cairo.
|Work with the modern traffic systems that have automated traffic lights and special without the need of traffic police officers and globalizing the idea of civilized justified censorship. Details
|Awareness campaigns in media and during Friday prayers on the correct walking manners and how to respect roads and pedestrians. Details
|Cancel the routine violation system that is filled in a random way.
|Cancel the idea of car-cuffing because it prevents the road circulation and towing cars on the owners expenses which require increasing the number of tow trucks.
|Giving bonuses for traffic police officers who work in places with fluent road circulations. Details
|Reducing the vehicle taxes that will stick to the traffic rules during the vehicle conduct license period.
What do people think?
Achieved: 3 out 13
In progress: 7 out 10
What do people think?
Achieved: 3 out 8
In progress: 5 out 5
What do people think?
Achieved: 1 out 5
In progress: 1 out 4
|Butane gas tubes delivery to citizens in their homes in coordination between NGOs, supply and the province. Details
|Assigning honest supply inspectors with attractive incentives to accompany the transfer of fuel from the depot of the stations.
|Recruitment of NGOs in monitoring the amount of fuel entering and leaving the stations.
|Incentives and rewards and certificates of appreciation for outstanding fuel stations.
|Implementation of deterrent penalties for smugglers of fuel and their collaborators. Details


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Official Opinion 2009-2
Executive Director
Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council
The General Assembly was authorized to place the GPDSC in the executive branch and a suit by GPDSC, whether by pro bono counsel or otherwise, against the State for so placing the GPDSC in the executive branch (or for any other reason) would be ultra vires and illegal.
You have requested my opinion on whether: (1) the General Assembly was authorized under the Georgia Constitution to move the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council ("GPDSC") from the judicial branch of government to the executive branch; (2) the GPDSC can institute litigation in its own name against the State of Georgia or any other appropriate entity if it wishes to have the courts of this state determine whether the legislative act moving the GPDSC to the executive branch was a proper exercise of legislative authority under the Georgia Constitution; and (3) the GPDSC may engage pro bono counsel to initiate and pursue litigation to resolve whether the legislative act moving the GPDSC to the executive branch was a proper exercise of legislative authority under the Georgia Constitution. It is my opinion that the General Assembly was authorized to place the GPDSC in the executive branch and that a suit by GPDSC, whether by pro bono counsel or otherwise, against the State for so placing the GPDSC in the executive branch (or for any other reason) would be ultra vires and illegal.
I will respond to each of your specific questions, in detail, below.
1. Was the General Assembly authorized under the
Your question is composed of at least two inquiries. First, what power does the General Assembly have to organize government with respect to the GPDSC? Second, does the nature of indigent defense constitutionally restrict the General Assembly from moving the GPDSC out of the judicial branch of state government?
"A marked difference between the State legislature and the United States Congress . . . is [ ] that the former can do all things not prohibited by the constitution, while the latter can exercise no power not delegated to it by the States in the Federal constitution." Plumb v. Christie, 103
The explicit language of the Georgia Constitution does not mention the GPDSC.[1] The GPDSC was created by the Georgia Indigent Defense Act of 2003. See O.C.G.A. §§ 17‑12‑1 through 17‑12‑128 (2003). At no point since this state-level agency was created has there been an amendment to the constitution concerning the agency. Therefore, there is no express language in the Georgia Constitution prohibiting the General Assembly from organizing the GPDSC in the branch of state government that the General Assembly deems appropriate.
The Georgia Constitution has included language concerning a criminal defendant's right to counsel since 1798. Michael Mears, A Brief History of the
With regard to federal constitutional rights, Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), extended the right to appointed counsel to the state courts under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, "thus placing an obligation on state or local governments to furnish indigent defendants with counsel in criminal trials." State Indigent Defense Commissions: Prepared by the Spangenberg Group for the Bar Information Program Upon the Request of the Indigent Defense Advisory Group of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants 1 (2006) (hereinafter "ABA Report"); see Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. at 344-45 (1963); see also Bibb County v. Hancock, 211 Ga. 429, 435 (1955). Similar to the lack of specific requirements regarding how this right is accomplished under the state constitution, neither the United States Supreme Court nor any federal courts have ruled that state government must establish and fund the right to counsel; instead, the duty to provide counsel may be discharged either by state government, local government, or some combination of both.
Because neither the Georgia Constitution nor the United States Constitution prohibits the General Assembly from moving the GPDSC out of the judicial branch of state government, the next inquiry is whether the nature of indigent defense constitutionally requires the General Assembly to put the GPDSC in the judicial branch.
The American Bar Association, which looked at the question of the structure of a statewide indigent defense system, has found nothing about the nature of criminal indigent defense that requires a state-level agency providing such services to be housed in the judicial branch of state government. ABA Report, at 17; see id. at app. A. Instead, one of the report's initial observations is that each state which decides to create a statewide system of indigent criminal defense must determine where in government is the best location for the agency.
Although the GPDSC is assigned to the executive branch by recent legislation, it is noteworthy that it has remained an independent agency under both the original and amended versions of the law.[5] See O.C.G.A. § 17-12-1 (2007) (stating the GPDSC is an "independent agency within the executive branch"); O.C.G.A. § 17-12-1 (2003) (stating the GPDSC is an "independent agency within the judicial branch").
Given that the ABA Report found nothing inherently judicial in the provision of indigent criminal defense, the question remains whether
This inherent judicial power arises from the doctrine of separation of powers and of equality of the branches of government. Grimsley v.
With regard to criminal defendants who are indigent, the courts of
Prior to the creation of the state-level independent agency, trial courts were authorized to appoint counsel. See Sacandy v. Walther, 262
The legislation creating the GPDSC removed the responsibility for appointing counsel from the courts and placed it with the independent agency. See Bynum v. State, 289
government.[6] See Bynum v. State, 289
Further, "[a]lthough a legislative act may not conflict with or limit an inherent power, it may assist in its exercise." Grimsley v.
2. Can the GPDSC institute litigation in its own name against the State of Georgia or any other appropriate entity if it wishes to have the courts of this state determine whether the legislative act moving the GPDSC to the executive branch was a proper exercise of legislative authority under the Georgia Constitution?
Again, this inquiry has two parts. First, does the GPDSC itself have the authority to initiate litigation against the State or against another state entity? Second, if it does not, will the Attorney General institute this litigation on its behalf?
The authority of an agency, or of the individuals composing the same, to bring suit on behalf of the public depends upon the terms of the act creating the agency and defining its limits and powers. Woodward v. Westmoreland, 124
In considering the Council's inquiry, I note that the question regarding suing the State of
The sound conclusion reached in 1976 Op. Att'y Gen. 76-93 is that the best interests of the State would not be served by having one state government entity sue another.[8]
3. May the GPDSC engage pro bono counsel to initiate and pursue litigation to resolve whether the legislative act moving the GPDSC to the executive branch was a proper exercise of legislative authority under the
This question also poses a two-part inquiry. The first part is whether the GPDSC is authorized to utilize counsel other than the Attorney General to initiate and pursue litigation. The second is whether this analysis would differ if the outside counsel provided the services at no cost.
According to the Georgia Constitution, "[t]he Attorney General shall act as the legal advisor of the executive department . . . ." Ga. Const. art. V, § 3, ¶ 4. "[I]t is clear that it is the duty of the Attorney General to represent the executive branch agencies and it necessarily follows that executive branch agencies must obtain their legal advice and representation through the Attorney General." 1984 Op. Att'y Gen. 84-48. Thus, an agency may not "provide itself legal advice or representation other than through the Attorney General of Georgia."
The second inquiry is whether this analysis changes if the counsel provides its services without cost. Again, the Georgia Real Estate Commission made a similar inquiry to the Attorney General in 1976. See 1976 Op. Att'y Gen. 76-93. The Commission asked if it was authorized to accept, without cost to the Commission, the services of outside counsel.
In the 1976 opinion, Attorney General Bolton disagreed with the Commission, finding that the law provided unequivocally that the Attorney General and his office "shall have complete and exclusive authority as to legal matters pertaining to state agencies, leav[ing] little doubt but that the legislative intent was that private counsel should represent state agencies only on those rare occasions when the Attorney General deem[ed] such representation to be necessary."
Therefore, to summarize the foregoing, it is my official opinion that the General Assembly was authorized to place the GPDSC in the executive branch and that a suit by GPDSC, whether by pro bono counsel or otherwise, against the State for so placing the GPDSC in the executive branch (or for any other reason) would be ultra vires and illegal.
Prepared by:
Assistant Attorney General
[1]There is no entity that provides criminal defense services mentioned in the Georgia Constitution. The entities that represent the state in criminal prosecutions, both at the trial level and the appellate level, are enumerated in the Constitution. The district attorneys are in the judicial branch of government, while the Attorney General is located in the executive branch of government. See Ga. Const. art. V, § 3, ¶ 4 (the Attorney General shall represent the state in appeals of capital cases and in certain prosecutions); Ga. Const. art. VI, § 8, ¶ 1 (district attorneys shall represent the state in most criminal prosecutions and appeals).
[2]Indeed, it is questionable whether the federal government would have any authority to interfere in a state's organization of its own form of government.
[3]The references to these agencies used in this opinion have been updated to reflect the GPDSC's move to the executive branch, because at the time that the report's information was gathered
[4]When analyzing the different structures adopted by various states, the report found that "[s]ome believe housing the agency within the judicial branch can be beneficial as the chief justice and other members of the bench will be more inclined to help advocate for adequate defense resources. However, this is not always the case, particularly if indigent defense is part of the judiciary's budget, and advocating for increased indigent defense funding means less funding for clerks, judges, and court facilities."
[5]Although the GPDSC, an independent agency, may be housed in one branch of government or another, that label does not determine the function of the agency. The GPDSC engages in rulemaking, which is quasi-legislative; it acts in a quasi-executive manner when it enforces its standards; and its actions are quasi-judicial when it hears evidence regarding an employment matter related to a Circuit Public Defender. Cf. Wilson v. Southerland, 258
[6]The court's inherent authority to ensure the orderly functioning of courts is also not synonymous with the courts having inherent power to exercise general supervisory control over the prosecution or defense in a criminal case. See
[7]The opinion also considered the role of Special Assistant Attorneys General, which are private attorneys that the Attorney General may appoint to perform legal services for the State.
[8]The Attorney General in the 1976 Op. Att'y Gen. 76-93 opinion specifically stated that he did not "mean to imply . . . that a situation could never exist where the Attorney General should sanction a suit of this type." However, "the Law Department acts as legal advisor for the entire Executive Branch of the State Government. . . . [T[hat fact indicates that a proper role of the Law Department is to advise units of the Executive Branch whose interests may be in conflict as to proper statutory interpretations as they affect their legal rights, and thus avoid inter-governmental litigation."
[9]Further, it should be noted that the United States Supreme Court has held that a state legislature cannot be sued to decide the constitutionality of a statute. See Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, 446 U.S. 719, 731-32 (1980); see also Scott v. Taylor, 405 F.3d 1251, 1252-57 (11th Cir. 2005) (relying on Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States to hold that members of the Georgia General Assembly were entitled to absolute legislative immunity).
[10]Although this Code section authorizes the Attorney General to employ private counsel, it does not require that he do so. See 1976 Op. Att'y Gen. 76-93.

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Pursuant to N.C. General Statute 90-21.17 (PDF, 17 KB), the department, through the Office of Emergency Medical Services, has adopted an official portable Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) form and Medical Order for Scope of Treatment (MOST) form for use by physicians and other licensed healthcare facilities to assist in providing information relating to a patient's desire for resuscitation or life-prolonging measures. These forms are available only to physicians' offices or other licensed hospital or healthcare facilities. To purchase DNR and MOST forms, use the DNR and MOST order form:
For a sample copy of the portable DNR or MOST form:
The online Emergency Medical Services MOST Educational Program was developed by the NC OEMS and the Emergency Medical Services Improvement Performance Center (EMSPIC) to assist EMS agencies and personnel in understanding how the MOST form is to be used. Since patients across the state will begin using this MOST form immediately, all EMS personnel are strongly encouraged to complete the MOST Online Educational Program. This program can be completed in approximately 30 minutes.


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(Updates with comments by President Barack Obama and Sen. Ron Johnson.)
Six Senate Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to advance a bill to renew jobless benefits, but the long-term unemployed won't get those benefits just yet.
The bill still faces a final vote in the Senate and a skeptical House. Shortly after the vote, House Speaker John Boehner reiterated that the benefits should be paid for with other cuts and that President Barack Obama should offer a plan to put people back to work.
At a White House event, Obama essentially rebuffed Boehner by saying extending the benefits themselves is an economic stimulus.
"Voting for unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs, and voting against it does not," Obama said.
Rob Portman, one Senate Republican who voted with Democrats Tuesday, said he did so because he's hopeful a deal to pay for the benefits can be worked out before a final vote.
"Not paying for the extension adds to the nation's historic debt, causing more uncertainty for the economy and making it harder to create jobs," he said in a statement.
The five other Republicans joining with Portman were Nevada's Dean Heller, a co-sponsor of the bill; New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte; Indiana's Dan Coats; Maine's Susan Collins; and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski.
Expanded benefits for the long-term unemployed lapsed in December, and Democrats have said the expiration of the program cost workers and states $400 million in the first week. The bill that advanced Tuesday would renew benefits for three months, at a cost of $6 billion.
Sen. Ron Johnson, in brief comments to MarketWatch Tuesday afternoon, said there's a possibility the move to extend federal benefits could die in Congress. And it should, he said, since the economy is improving.
"In severe recessions, emergency situations, sure: the federal government steps in. We're a compassionate society, we're concerned about those individuals. But at some point, that emergency, temporary assistance has got to stop from the federal government and kick back totally to the states," said the Wisconsin Republican. He was one of the 37 no votes on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the debate Tuesday was further confirmation Republicans plan to keep up their attacks on Obamacare this election year. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell floated a one-year delay in the law's mandate for individuals to buy insurance in exchange for renewing benefits. Majority Leader Harry Reid quickly rejected the idea.
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Well, it's official. I threw out my back and now my stupid piriformis issue has returned. I'm shuffling around like a little old lady again. So sitting at the computer has to be minimized until I can figure out what fixed it last time. Argh. I think I'm being punished for lounging by the pool in Vegas. Pigeon pose and lunges are my new best friends.
To help myself along I decided not to sit at the computer and blog last night…so you get a delayed Thursday recap now. Tres exciting!
Here's something you don't see around here often…cereal for breakfast. Kashi Honey Almond Flax with sliced banana and UVAB…
(This combo is often my undocumented midnight bedtime snack…hehe.)
After visiting my chiropractor and nearly crying in pain I decided to throw my "save the $5" rule out the window and stopped for a PSL.
A pumpkin cream cheese muffin jumped in my purse. I swear.
Come lunchtime I probably should have made a salad to counteract the morning treats but I reasoned that I'd be having salad with dinner and decided on a grilled sammich instead.
Gala apple, double crème brie, spinach, cinnamon and honey on Silver Hills multigrain…
Grilled with a smidge of real butter on the Griddler and served up with Concorde grapes…
Girl's night dinner... We got together for some good eats, Grey's Anatomy and to finally exchange photos from our Vegas adventure. We each contributed to the meal and if we do say so we did a lovely job! :)
Tiff volunteered me to bring the bigass salad so I broke out the big silver bowl and put together a fresh and fun crispy salad.
Romaine, carrots, cucumber, beets, red onion and navel orange segments. I also brought along avocado to add at serving time. The whole thing was dressed with Ali's Citrus Honey Vinaigrette.
Rose cooked us up moist and delicious chicken. I didn't see how she seasoned it but it was yummy and went perfect with my salad and Tiff's quinoa side dish.
The star of the show (in my eyes anyway!) was that quinoa. We talk about making quinoa all the time (I've had a bag in my cupboard for weeks now) but never get around to it. Tiffaney Googled up a recipe and came up with this quick and easy Lemony Quinoa.
She put this together in about 15 minutes after we got to Rose's place. It was fast, easy and super deeeeeelish. We all went back for seconds and damn near cleaned out the whole bowl. Nom!
After dinner I asked the girls when our next trip is. California Wine Country? Oh yes please. ;)


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Over the past few days, an unknown hacker or group of hackers pounded the israeltoday.co.il domain with so many requests that it repeatedly crashed. We weren't the only ones affected. Hundreds of Israeli sites were targeted and briefly brought down, including the Hebrew and English-language news sites of Israel's best-selling newspaper, Yediot Ahronot.
As the cyber war between Israel and pro-Palestinian hackers intensifies, the Israeli army is taking an increasingly prominent role in defending the nation on this new battlefield.
The IDF Spokesperson reported this week that 27-year-old Daniel, a recent immigrant from Mexico, had been recruited by the army for is "creative" computer skills.
In his current position as systems information security NCO for the Israeli Air Force, Daniel is helping fellow soldiers and officers meet the new threat posed by foreign hackers.
"He helps us come up with solutions for the most sensitive and complex problems," said Daniel's commander, Maj. Assaf. "He has a lot of knowledge and we consider him a significant improvement in level."
Daniel's entry into the fight and the increasing activity of other pro-Israel hackers, such as "IDF Team" and the foreign Jewish hacker "Hannibal", comes just in time.
Until now, Israel has faced mostly smaller groups of Arab hackers from around the Middle East. But the prominent international "hackivist" group Anonymous now has its sights set on the Jewish state. According to various Internet posting, Anonymous plans to launch a major attack on Israeli websites on February 14, Valentine's Day.
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Justin Hackworth asked me to write and read something on motherhood for the opening reception of his 2011 30 Strangers exhibit. I was honored by my company: Brooke, Amy, Molly, and Stephanie. I cried a lot, but so did everyone else. A few people who attended asked if I would post what I wrote to my blog and then I did:
I did not want children.
Who would want children? I am the oldest of four and believe me, handling my little brother and sisters was not just annoying, but constant. I had plans, you see, I had dreams. And everyone knows that kids supplant your dreams with the end of your life. No more midnight walks. No more movies in the middle of the day, lazy weekends spent sleeping in, or marathon novel reading. Traveling to Tahiti, Timbuktu, and Hong Kong, too. Plus, hosting a child inside your body? Inside your body. They have to get out...somehow. And what happens if you forget about the child once it's out? People get really upset at that sort of thing. I once kept an ivy plant alive for almost 18 months--I was handing out no guarantees on children.
But something happened one day and I knew I had to have a child. Not in the abstract, "Oh yeah, I'll be a mom some day" but in the concrete, "I need to start having children." It was a Sunday afternoon and I knew as plain as my then unblemished stomach, we should try to have a baby.
And then I couldn't have children for a long time. The months, then years, went by and no children came. I read a lot of novels. I slept in a lot. I built the career I thought I always wanted.
In the middle of a pre-Christmas snow storm, my first son came and turned everything I thought I knew from the inside, right side out. I would stare at him in the plastic hospital bin and wonder who he was; it's a strange feeling to love someone without knowing who they are. During the middle of the night I'd hold him in front of me and look into his dark eyes. This backfired one night when I watched his eyes go cross-eyed, then cock-eyed, sending me into a brief, sleep deprivation-induced panic that I had a demon-possessed baby. I'm pretty sure he wasn't really possessed. At least not at that time. Ask me about the time that he walked, as a 4-year-old, to LaVell Edwards Stadium by himself so that he could go to the college football game. Or the night I went to close the garage door at 10pm and saw a flash of bare white skin as the long-bedded escapee ran naked around the house.
My second son arrived at the end of March and the beginning of Spring. My Grinch-heart grew another three sizes, maybe even four. It's a good thing he was so sweet, so loving and affectionate, because no one ever told me how toilet training would literally stink, especially when it took more than a year. A year. The profound, never ending scatological travails of motherhood. The constant dribble, flow, and stream of juice, spit-up, crushed cereal, and bodily fluids. I don't know if you can even call yourself a parent until you've caught vomit in your hands--or down your shirt, pooling in your brassiere.
A daughter arrived on the first day of summer. There's a moment after you have a baby when you look down and realize, "Hey, that's MY BABY, I can pick her up whenever I want." I can hold her all day if I want. I miss her when she's sleeping. She won't keep, she'll grow bigger, stronger, smarter, and push away from me. And based on what I did to my mother when I was a teenager, I have some terrible, but just, things in my future from a tiny bundle, this spirit captured in a wiggling mortal body.
Because it's true that once you have a baby they are always your baby, even when they are yelling back at you, "I am NOT a BABY!"
I heard the other day that Late Night talk show host Jimmy Fallon's mother still calls him "The baby." The baby is on TV. The baby has a new movie coming out. It doesn't matter how old he is, he'll still be the baby. That makes perfect sense to every mother. Because when you look at your child you can still feel their baby weight in your arms, the nights you spent staring into their eyes, the longer nights when you begged them through the most profound exhaustion known to man outside of a POW camp to please, please, please sleep, the days you spent cleaning, wiping, sorting, scrubbing, holding, hugging, feeding, yelling, yelling louder, and answering the never ending chorus of "MOM. mom. mom. mom. mom."
Who knew? Who knew that you laugh more, cry more, that everything is more when you're a mother? It's not that you're giving up your dreams, it's that you understand that the dreams you had before were incomplete, a facsimile of a real life. It's not about you, it's about what you do, how you serve, how you grow citizens, workers, warriors, and responsible people. That you're trying, desperately, not to mess up these people, to give them everything they need and not everything they want. So while I didn't want to be a mother, I don't think I was a real person until I became one.


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Double-A Reading righthander Kyle Drabek, generally regarded as the Phillies' best pitching prospect, will not be called up after roster limits are expanded Tuesday.
In fact, the team announced Sunday that he has been shut down for the remainder of the season.
The announcement stressed that Drabek is not injured but that this was instead a "proactive" move to protect a 21-year-old who has already thrown 158 innings between Class A Clearwater and Reading this season (61.2 at Clearwater and 96.1 at Reading).
He has been placed on the temporary inactive list.
Drabek is not scheduled to participate in the Arizona Fall League or Forida Instructional League this offseason.


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The Gastric Bypass causes both restriction and some malabsorption of food. The restriction comes from the small size of the new stomach pouch. The malabsorption comes from the food bypassing a portion of the small intestine (the duodenum and a portion of the jejunum), so fewer calories and nutrients are absorbed. Studies show that bypassing this portion of the upper digestive tract appears to result in increased levels of a hunger-suppressing hormone called GLP (glucagon-like polypeptide). This hormone is also partly responsible for the improvement of blood sugar regulation in Type 2 diabetic patients immediately after surgery.
The new stomach pouch can hold about an ounce of food at one time. It is important that you consume food and liquids at a rate not to exceed one ounce every five minutes. By eating larger amounts of food or by eating too fast, you may stretch the pouch over time.
The majority of your weight loss will occur during the first 12 to 18 months after surgery. The goal during this time is to develop the healthy eating and lifestyle habits that will enable you to maintain the weight loss for the rest of your life!
Patients who learn to make these dietary and lifestyle changes are able to achieve sustained weight loss. Patients who do not fully commit to the necessary dietary lifestyle changes may see weight regain. At about 2 years out from surgery, those patients who have not seen weight re-gain when grazing (cheating a little here or there) and not paying attention to those additional calories being consumed will start to see the weight coming back.
What changes occur to the digestive system after gastric bypass surgery?
The first physical change that occurs is that the size of your stomach is made smaller. The stomach is separated into 2 parts. Your smaller stomach is referred to as a pouch, which is about the size of an egg.
The stomach is separated with the use of staples to create the small pouch. The small stomach pouch causes the restrictive part of the gastric bypass surgery. The remaining part of the stomach is left in place to continue producing digestive juices.
The middle part of the small intestine (jejunum) is cut and one part is brought up to the stomach pouch where it is attached (anastomosed) to create the bypass effect for food. This attachment site is called a gastro-jejunostomy. The food now bypasses the large part of the stomach and the first part of the small intestine causing malabsorption of food. Malabsorption means a decreased absorption of calories/nutrients.
The other end of the small intestine is attached (anastomosis) back to the small intestine (jejunum). This limb is also known as the Bilio-pancreatic limb. This limb carries digestive juices from the remaining stomach, pancreas, liver and duodenum into the lower portion of the small intestine.
Gastric Bypass Advantages
The average excess weight loss after the Roux-en-Y procedure is generally higher in a compliant patient than with purely restrictive procedures.
One year after surgery, weight loss can average 77% of excess body weight.
Studies show that after 10 to 14 years, 50-60% of excess body weight loss has been maintained by some patients.
A 2000 study of 500 patients showed that 96% of certain associated health conditions studied (back pain, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, diabetes and depression) were improved or resolved.
Gastric bypass surgery results in the complete remission or significant improvement of type 2 diabetes.


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Bruce Forman, widely recognized as one of the top jazz guitarists in the world, has gotten off the straight-ahead path in recent years to follow what seems at first a highly unlikely alternate route: Western swing.
Essentially a musical curiosity or historical footnote, the style was proposed and popularized by hot Texas fiddle-band leaders Milton Brown and Bob Wills in the early 1930s but was virtually extinct within three decades. Yet Forman — who was a member of Dizzy Gillespie's band and has worked with Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Henderson and Barney Kessel — is an in-demand staple at international festivals and jazz clubs. He's just released "Cowlifornia Swing," the fourth album by his band Cow Bop, an exceptionally tight and talented group whose members trade strictly in the old-school Wills-Brown style, albeit delivered with a hard bebop twist.
"It seems to have sort of taken over, and things are getting hot for Cow Bop now," Forman says. "Critical mass seems to be nearing. People freak out when they hear it and even at my jazz gigs, they all want to hear Cow Bop."
The band, which appears March 15 at Viva Cantina in Burbank, is driven by Forman's intricate, dazzling fret work and the coolly authoritative vocals of singer (and spouse) Pinto Pammy. Every song showcases Forman's innovative, engaging bop-tinged arrangements.
On "Cowlifornia Swing," this means engaging versions of classic country songs like "Roly Poly" and "Cattle Call," alongside such standards as Cole Porter's "What is This Thing Called Love?" and a wild "These Boots Are Made For Walking," which strikes the ear as some kind of delightfully mutant Cajun Bebop Bossa Nova. "I've always wanted to obliterate the lines between types of music," Forman says. "Because western swing is jazz and vice versa."
Raised in Texas, Forman is an active horseman who can regularly be found in the saddle competing and cattle-herding, which is how Cow Bop was born in the mid-2000s. "We'd brought the herd in, cut the calves out, branded 'em and afterward, we were drinking beer and there's guitars playing around the fire. So I just started playing the way I play, and it really surprised some of the guys. Finally this old cowboy, a very respected horseman — type of guy who speaks maybe 10 words a month — he looks at me and says, 'You play better than you ride.' And so Pammy and I got the tunes together, we found musicians to join the band and it just grew up over time.
"I got more serious about it, wrote more arrangements, and now I feel like it's the one canvas I can put everything that I love onto," Forman adds. "At my own, I almost feel like there's a limit to it — which is a drag, because it is jazz. My whole thing with getting into jazz was that it was creative and in that moment, when you reach it, you do create something. I don't buy into the categorizations and closed-mindedness which seems to have, as I've grown up in it, grown up around the music. Since when do non-conformists have a uniform? But, in jazz, yes, that's happened."
Cow Bop is anything but closed-minded. Beside the dazzling musicianship, the bandmates crack wise, cut up and clown around, yet showmanship never overshadows the music.
"We've created 'cowbaret,'" Forman says. "We've got a little bit of Louis Prima and light opera and Spike Jones in there too, along with these charts that I write, that are so fun to play. The majority of my living is still playing straight-ahead gigs, and now Cow Bop may be almost 50 percent of that, but it feels like the most honest thing I do. Every show is raging fun and, metaphorically, my chops are bloody at the end of the night. I play as much guitar on these gigs as I ever have."
What: Cow Bop
Where: Viva Cantina, 900 W Riverside Dr., Burbank;
When: Friday, March 15, 8 p.m. Free.
Contact: (818) 845-2425.
JONNY WHITESIDE is a veteran music journalist based in Burbank and author of "Ramblin' Rose: the Life & Career of Rose Maddox," and "Cry: the Johnnie Ray Story."


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But still for all of Dubai's excesses it is a wonder that it has gotten this far. It deserves not ill-disguised glee at its misfortunes but a degree of respect for its willingness to flout traditional Arab taboos. It is, for example, a place where Emiratis in white robes rub shoulders with Russian hookers in mini-skirts — a place where it's perfectly possible to get a nice cocktail (and not a "mocktail," as in Kuwait) in a public bar, and to do so in the middle of Ramadan if you're feeling parched at that point.If an Islamist needed an example of not merely the West, but Western Jews, promoting the destruction of traditional culture in the Middle East, Boot has provided it.
I do not romanticize Islamic culture. There is, no doubt, plenty of sexual hanky-panky in Islamic societies, as there is in almost all. If, however, the test of an enlightened society is the presence of Russian whores and the availability of martinis in public places, the game of spreading modernity by force of arms or by largesse financed through the sale of paper to the Chinese is not worth the candle. Let them import their own damned whores.


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OVERLAND PARK, KS — Although the new iPod Nano released last month features a built-in pedometer designed for gym goers, the addition of a video camera to the music-based device is causing privacy concerns at some fitness facilities.
Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, says the new iPod Nano will be included on the list of recording devices banned in the locker rooms of its 84 fitness facilities across 19 states.
"In keeping with Life Time's policy that restricts the use of recording devices in the locker rooms, the new Nano will be included in that category because of the potential for compromising photos or video footage," says Kent Wipf, public relations manager for Life Time. "The new Nano's use for music listening is acceptable in the workout area but shooting videos with it while exercising is prohibited."
Wipf says that Life Time staff members will monitor iPod use in workout areas, as they do with other devices that could compromise privacy. They also will ask members to report any violations.
Although the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) does not have requirements in place specific to iPods with video capabilities, it did outline a set of best cell phone practices for member clubs, says Kara Thompson, IHRSA public relations coordinator.
Several fitness chains, including Club One, 24 Hour Fitness and The Sports Club Co., prohibit the use of camera phones on their premises, according to the IHRSA report "Cell Phones in Health Clubs: An IHRSA Best Practice."
Both Wisconsin and Hawaii enacted laws to protect member privacy, according to IHRSA. In addition, a proposed federal bill, The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, submitted by Rep. Peter King of New York, would require mobile phones with digital cameras to emit an audible sound whenever a photo is taken. After its introduction earlier this year, the bill was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.


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Chief executive Philip Clarke appeared in a video blog on Tesco's website, in which he said: "Nothing is more important to Tesco than the trust our customers place in us. And that trust depends on the quality of the products we sell."
He described a number of measures that the supermarket was taking in response to horse being found in some of its own-brand meat products.
He said: "We're going to have a new digital website which will allow you to see exactly how we're getting on with ensuring that the supply chain is the best in the world.
"Eventually, we will take you right the way into the farms and the factories. We'll allow you to see who the farmers are, how they produce for us, the care and attention that I know that they make."
"And then into the factories, so you can see the people on the lines putting together the ready meals that are going to end up on your plate."
Clarke attempted to reassure consumers over the horsemeat found in its burgers, saying the supermarket would "set a new benchmark" to ensure, "if it isn't on the label, it isn't in the product".
His address coincides with today's news that Asda has found horsemeat in its bolognese sauce – marking the first time during the scandal that horse has been found in fresh meat products
Meanwhile, government ministers are struggling to reassure consumers after tests revealed that traces of potentially dangerous veterinary drugs have been found in meat.
Clarke said that Tesco had been working "flat out to get to the bottom of the issue".
He added: "Here's my promise: we will set a new benchmark for the testing of products, to give you confidence that if it isn't on the label, it isn't in the product. And that will be backed up by an industry leading commitment to enable you to find out much more about what's in the food we sell and how it's produced."
Clarke's comments come a day after Tesco chief marketing officer Matt Atkinson appeared on the video channel talking about Tesco's forthcoming advertising campaign, which he promised would re-engage customers in a "new conversation".
Meanwhile, 11 of UK's largest food suppliers, including Tesco, Compass Group, Asda and Sainsbury's have today issued a public letter saying they shared the public's "anger and outrage" over the revelations.


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Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a disorder of the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve 5) that causes severe, shooting pain along one side of the face. The trigeminal nerve senses touch, pain, pressure, and temperature. It also helps make saliva and tears.
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In TN, pain usually lasts for less than a second to a few seconds and may come and go for days, weeks, months, or years. It may go into remission or stop completely for months or years. Over time, though, the attacks may become more frequent and more severe.
In most cases, the cause is unknown. In some cases, it may be caused by an abnormally formed artery or vein near the nerve. The blood vessel can compress the nerve and cause problems. Rarely, TN may occur as a symptom of another underlying disorder, such as:
TN is more common in women aged 50 years or older. Having certain medical conditions, such as
multiple sclerosis or
high blood pressure
may increase your risk of TN.
The main symptom is searing pain on one side of the face. The pain may be felt inside the mouth or in the lips, cheek, chin, nostril, ear, or near the eye. Rarely, pain may occur in the eye or forehead. Twitching or wincing sometimes accompanies the pain.
The pain is typically sudden, severe, and stabbing. Even though the pain is brief, usually less than two minutes, it can reoccur hundreds of times a day. Attacks can become totally disabling. They may seem to occur at random or be triggered by extremes of temperature, washing, shaving, touching, or tickling the face. There are usually no symptoms between attacks, except perhaps a dull ache.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. You may have an electrophysiologic test called a trigeminal reflex test. Other tests, such as a
CT scan
MRI scan
can take evaluate the head and surrounding structures.
You may be given antiseizure medication to help diagnose the disorder.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Options include:
Your doctor may recommend:
Surgery may be an option if medications fail to relieve symptoms. Microvascular decompression removes an artery or tumor that is pressing on the nerve.
Other procedures may be used to cut the trigeminal nerve.
There are no current guidelines to prevent TN.
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The Penn State athletics department's operating revenue declined by nearly $7.9 million during the 2011-12 fiscal year, according its annual financial report to the NCAA.
The report, posted on a university website, is the school's first since former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was indicted on child molestation charges in early November 2011. Sandusky, 69, has since been convicted and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Among the 15 categories of revenue on the report, Penn State's greatest revenue decline occurred in overall contributions to athletics, in which it sustained a drop of nearly $8.8 million compared to 2010-11 -- $25.6 million in 2011-12 compared to $34.3 million in 2010-11.
However, contributions attributed specifically to football more than quintupled from $2.1 million in 2010-11 to $9.7 million in 2011-12.
Penn State reported that contributions not allocated to any specific team fell to $10.1 million from $26.7 million.
Despite the decline in overall revenue and an increase in annual operating expenses, Penn State's program exceeded the NCAA's benchmark for financial self-sufficiency. As has been the case in previous years, Penn State's athletics program received no money from student fees, the institution's general fund or from state funds. That means it generated all of its $108.3 million in revenue while spending $107.4 million.
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University spokesman David La Torre referred questions late Monday afternoon to the athletics department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2010-11, Penn State was among only 22 of 227 public schools in NCAA Division I that generated enough money to pay for athletics, a USA TODAY Sports analysis found. But that year, Penn State reported a $14.8 million operating surplus. In 2009-10, it reported an $18.6 million surplus.
In the latest report, the athletics department's fiscal year-end fund balance – its reserve fund – declined to just under $12 million from $24.7 million. In addition, Penn State reported that the year-end value of all pledges designated solely for athletics had declined to $54.4 million from $74.6 million.
Penn State announced in December that it had set aside the first $12 million installment of the $60 million fine imposed by the NCAA as part of sanctions rising from the Sandusky case, but that money was not scheduled to be paid until the first half of this year.


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As tiny sprouts of our springtime flowers emerge for another chance at life, we were reminded to look at our kitchen scraps with the same attitude of renewal. Many fruit and vegetable scraps that are deemed inedible or compost-worthy can be directly re-grown into food that is edible, tasty, and nutritious. And the cycle of growing new food from scraps can be repeated over and over again – – allowing you to produce an unending supply of fruits and vegetables from food scraps that you ordinarily might have composted or thrown away.
What are the Benefits of Re-Growing Fruit and Vegetable Scraps?
There are dozens of reasons why re-growing food scraps is beneficial to both you and the environment. For example, regenerating fruit and vegetable scraps means less landfill waste, it supplements your food budget, and it also allows you to grow organic food that you know is healthy and nutritious. Additionally, spawning nourishing food from scraps is one of the most environmentally friendly methods of recycling and an excellent teaching activity to share with your kids.
What Will Grow?
There are dozens of fruits and vegetables that can be re-grown. Following is a list of some of the easiest:
- Avocado
- Beets
- Bok Choy
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Celery
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Green Onions
- Herbs
- Leeks
- Lemon Grass
- Mushrooms
- Pineapple
- Potatoes
- Romaine Lettuce
- Rutabagas
- Scallions
- Turnips
How to Get Started
Depending on the specific fruit and/or vegetable you are planning to revive, there are plenty of tips and tricks to help your plant reach its maximum potential. The following articles contain lots of information on how to give your fruit and vegetable scraps the proper jump start into their new life!
- 16 Foods That'll Re-Grow From Kitchen Scraps
- How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits From Kitchen Scraps
- Vegetables You Can Grow From Food Scraps
- Growing Vegetable Plants From Kitchen Scraps
- How to Start a Vegetable Garden From Kitchen Scraps
Don't Forget To Compost The Rest!
Regenerating your unused fruit and vegetable scraps into plants that will ultimately produce a second or third generation of food is an exciting proposition. Besides being a quicker alternative to growing plants from seeds, the process is both simple and rewarding. Of course, there are always inedible rinds and skins headed from your cutting board to the compost or trash can and the quickest way to repurpose them is by pre-composting. Drop your absolutely unusable bits of fruits and vegetables into a Green Cycler or chop them into quarter-sized bits. Pre-composted organic material is perfect for directly amending to your garden or potting soil, or for feeding your worm bin.
This season, set your recycling goal high and add re-growing food scraps to your springtime activities.


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The Nexus 10 is a 10in Android tablet designed in a landscape orientation. It has a Gorilla Glass 2 front and plastic casing and is comfortable to hold in either landscape or portrait mode. It's thinner and lighter than the most recent iPad at 9mm and 604g. Here's our Nexus 10 video review.
Phyical power and volume buttons are located on top of the tablet while ports are located on the sides. Build quality is excellent but not quite up to the standards set by Apple.
There's a thin plastic section which surrounds the rear facing camera with a spotted pattern.
Samsung has equipped the Nexus 10 with its own 1.7GHz Exynos 5250, a dual-core processor based on the ARM Cortex-A15 architecture. Backing this up is an impressive 2GB of RAM.
In the GeekBench 2 test the Nexus 10 crushed its rivals with a score of 2505. A new tablet record proving this is one speedy tablet. Its nearest competition, the iPad 4, scored 1769.
The Nexus 10 couldn't beat the iPad in every benchmark, though. It scored an average of 1329ms in the SunSpider JavaScript test – a respectable result but the iPad 4 managed a swift 854ms.
In terms of graphics, the Nexus 10 is very competent. In the GLBenchmark test it managed a good 27fps thanks to its quad-core Mali-T604 GPU. The result is better than the iPad 3's 22fps but not as good as the iPad 4's 39fps.
Aside from the scientific numbers, performance is excellent. The Nexus 10 quickly responds to any input or command. Apps open quickly and pinch zooming in the Chrome browser is silky smooth.
There are two storage options to choose from with the Nexus 10 – 16GB of 32GB. Like Apple, Google has decided to not include a microSD card slot for additional storage. If 32GB isn't enough then you'll have to opt for a tablet with a memory card slot or a higher capacity of internal storage.
The last two iPads have had an impressive Retina quality screen as a great selling point. The Nexus 10 goes even further with a whopping 2560 x 1600 resolution – the same as the 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display. Google calls it the "world's highest resolution tablet display".
A pixel density of 300ppi is nothing short of incredible. Everything displayed on the screen looks super sharp and detailed. We found the screen very responsive and viewing angles are astounding.
At 16:10 the aspect ratio is good for watching films, and there's also the bonus of front facing stereo speakers – much more appropriate than a lot of tablets which have rear facing mono speakers.
There are two decent cameras, too.
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The Amana Colony in Iowa was established by German-speaking European settlers who belonged to a religious group known as the Community of True Inspiration, which traces its origins to Himbach, Germany in 1714. Community founders J.F. Rock (1678-1749) and E.L. Gruber (1665-1728) were among many Europeans seeking a more meaningful religious experience than they felt the established churches provided. Like many others, Rock and Gruber maintained that the Lutheran Church had become bogged-down in intellectual debate and formalized worship and thus neglected the spiritual needs of the congregation. An increasing desire to return to the basics of Christianity gained popularity in the doctrines articulated by this movement, known as Pietism. For Pietists, religion was a personal experience with an emphasis on sincere humility and earnest study of the Bible. The Community of True Inspiration was one of several groups which emerged from Pietism.
Rock, a saddlemaker, and Gruber, a former Lutheran minister, believed that God still spoke through prophets as described in the Old Testament. The Community of True Inspiration was founded on this belief. The new prophets were called Werkzeuge, or instruments. The divine pronouncements through the Werkzeuge were recorded by scribes and printed in collected volumes.
The Inspirationist beliefs attracted many followers and congregations were established throughout Germany and surrounding regions. Because Inspirationists declined to perform military duty, take state-required oaths, or send their children to church-run schools, the congregations were often in conflict with church and governmental authorities. Many members of the Community of True Inspiration were punished with fines, imprisonment and public beatings. Nevertheless, the Inspirationist movement flourished through the mid-18th century. However, by 1750, there were no longer any Werkzeuge and both Rock and Gruber were dead. The movement declined and faded in the midst of European wars and economic depression.
War and famine, compounded by sweeping social and economic changes, devastated Germany in the early 1800s. Farmers and craftspeople in particular were affected by high rents, taxes and a new wave of industrialization. Many people, including a tailor named Michael Krausert, took comfort in religion. Krausert studied the words of J.F. Rock and received inspiration in 1817. This event revitalized the Inspirationist communities and attracted a new following. The Werkzeug Krausert was soon joined by two others, Barbara Heinemann and Christian Metz. Metz emerged as the guiding force of the community during its crucial years of growth and relocation to America.
During the 1820s and 1830s, Metz consolidated the community in the relatively liberal province of Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany. Congregations from Germany, Switzerland and Alsace moved to join the new communities in Hesse. The community leased large estates and castles within a few miles of each other. Both rich and poor lived together and shared in the social and economic life of the group. Although not communal, this arrangement helped to predispose the Inspirationists to the formal communal system which would be established in America and Amana.
In September of 1842 a committee led by Christian Metz traveled to America in search of land on which to relocate the Community of True Inspiration. They purchased a 5,000-acre site in western New York, near Buffalo, and by the end of 1843 nearly 350 Inspirationists had immigrated to the new settlement, which they named "Ebenezer," meaning "hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
From the start, in order to facilitate all members of the community to come to America and live together, all property in Ebenezer was held in common. The initial plan was that after some time the land would be divided among the people according to their contribution of money and labor. However, leaders saw that the disparity in wealth, skills and age would make it difficult for all to purchase a portion of land--the community would fall apart as a result. Therefore in 1846 a constitution was adopted which established a permanent communal system. Any debate on this was resolved when Metz spoke a divine pronouncement endorsing the communal system.
Ebenezer flourished. By 1854 the population reached 1,200 people. Six villages were established, each with mills, shops, homes, communal kitchens, schools and churches. To accommodate this growth, additional land had been purchased, but more was needed. However, the booming growth of nearby Buffalo put land prices at a premium. Furthermore, the community leaders perceived a threat from the economic development around them. It was felt that capitalist and worldly influences were bringing about a growing interest in materialism and threatened the spiritual focus of the Inspirationist community. The leadership decided it was time to move the community again--this time to the unsettled west.
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text: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andrew Klaassen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:07:25PM -0500, > Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > We just got a Promise UltraTrak100 TX8 (IDE-SCSI) RAID chassis > > that advertised decent itself as OS-independent plug and play > > -- attach to SCSI bus and go. The first unit we were shipped > > didn't work under any OS. The second we were shipped we got > > the vendor (Megahaus) to verify function before shipping and > > it does "work", but it returns unbelieveably poor performance > > at RAID 5 -- a (very) few MB/sec -- under bonnie. > > I think the Promise rep quoted us 12MB/s under RAID 5 for the > UltraTrak100 TX8. We didn't bite. In raid 0, under WinNT only. Maybe. We're getting more like 3-5 MB/sec. I suppose it is all my fault, really -- I didn't notice that the Promise technical docs were the only ones I looked at that mentioned all the glitter about their system BUT the speed. I honestly don't see how they could engineer something with performance that poor without trying. > > IDE is cheap and easy, but we would like a bit of assurance > > that linux won't have (e.g. DMA) problems when dealing with > > 6-8 ide controllers on one bus. Is anyone doing this? > > Lots of people. There's even a mailing list for it: > > linux-ide-arrays-subscribe at lists.math.uh.edu > > ...though I don't know if the archives are online anywhere yet. > > Specific things to know, off the top of my head: > > 75GB IBM drives from the 75GXP line have given a lot of people a > lot of problems. (Apparently it's a firmware thing with earlier > drives, or something like that. At this company, we traded all > of ours in for 80GB Seagates.) > > Two Promise Ultra100 cards (not the hardware raid cards; I'm not > really familiar with any of those) seems to be the max in one > system. We've used onboard controllers and SIIG cards alongside > the Promise cards to get the additional ports we've needed. > > Stick with 18" cables. Longer cables work for some people, but > I've never had success with them. Short cables make it a little > harder to find a suitable case, but these cases: > > http://www.lian-li.com/product.php?action=viewPD&prdid=362 > > ...will keep up to five drives properly cooled, in easy reach of > IDE controllers. With a little imagination and an extra fan or > two, you could easily get 8 or 12 well-cooled drives in a case. > (We've currently got 8 drives in one of these cases in > production. We had to drill extra holes in the center cage to > get proper spacing between the drives, and mount an extra fan in > front.) > > In the last few days, people have started talking about problems > with 3ware cards (which still seem to be, despite that, the > best-supported hardware RAID IDE controllers available). > Unfortunately, I haven't really been following that discussion, > so I can't give any more details. An immensely helpful reply, thanks. Most repliers praised the 3ware controller, in some cases lavishly so we're going to look into this solution first. Too bad the list isn't mailman based -- then there would be an archive -- but if we don't come to a resolution right away on the basis of what we've learned in the next day or so I'll (sigh:-) add it to the eight or so other lists I'm already on. Thanks again, rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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what program can i use to see who is connected to my computer
any one
Go to start>run
Type in cmd and hit the ok button.
Type netstat -n
When death sleeps it dreams of you...
Could you give us a bit more information on your requirement?
Do you want to know who is connected right now, or has connected in the past (this is the forensics forum, which is why I ask)
What operating system and networking set up do you have?
It depends.
A shitty question deserves nothing less than a shitty answer.
Seriously dude, you're like my wife when she tells me there is a problem with the car. "It's not running right. What's wrong with it?" WTF?!
Read the site FAQ and more specifically, learn how to ask a question. There are about 8 different threads that discuss how to get good information when you ask an intelligent question.
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i typically use a combination of netstat and tcpview from sysinternals
[gloworange]find / -name \"*your_base*\" -exec chown us:us {} \\;[/gloworange] [glowpurple]Trust No One[/glowpurple][shadow] Use Hardened Gentoo [/shadow]
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WTF! What the answer didn't come fast enough your highness? Seriously dude...WTF? You act as if we owe you an answer...
God he irritaded me lol...
he did wait a whole 3 minutes though
theres a saying "good things come to those that wait"(+ask decent questions), learn it, love it, live it...
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