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Obamacare's critics are going to town on the cancellation letters millions of Americans are receiving from their health insurers, informing them that their health plans won't conform to the new federal standards for health coverage as of Jan. 1.
We're supposed to be scandalized by this, since President Obama himself assured everyone that if they liked their insurance they'd be able to keep it. And people just love plans that in some cases cost just $50 a month. At that price, what's not to love?
Back in March, Consumer Reports published a study of many of these plans and placed them in a special category: "junk health insurance." Some plans, the magazine declared, may be worse than none at all.
Consumer Reports is right. Plans with monthly premiums in the two figures marketed to customers in their 30s, 40s, or even 50s invariably impose ridiculously low coverage limits. They've typically been pitched to people who couldn't find affordable insurance because of their age or preexisting conditions, or who were so financially strapped that they were lured by the cheap upfront cost.
"People buy a plan that's terrible," says Nancy Metcalf, CR's senior project editor for health, "and if they get sick, they don't even know they don't have insurance."
An example from CR: A plan costing $65 a month held by Judith Goss, 48, a Michigan department store employee. When Goss was diagnosed with breast cancer, she discovered the drawbacks of the policy's coverage limits of $1,000 a year for outpatient treatment and $2,000 for hospitalization -- barely enough to cover a day and half a Tylenol in the hospital. She delayed treatment, so her cancer got much worse before she finally opted for surgery. Those sorts of coverage limits are illegal come Jan. 1.
Many of the supposedly bereft insurance customers being paraded before viewers of network and cable news -- and dredged up by House Republicans during today's theatrical grilling of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius -- fall into this junk category. The news reporters never seem to lay out the benefits actually provided by these low-premium policies their subjects supposedly love, or their steep back-end costs if they actually get sick.
Consider the case of Diane Barrette, the 56-year-old Florida woman whose cancellation horror story was reported by a credulous CBS News and picked up by Fox News, which has been a one-stop shop for your Obamacare misinformation needs. (We mentioned the Barrette case on Tuesday.)
CR's Metcalf examined Barrette's Blue Cross Blue Shield policy and made two discoveries: how junky it really is, and how badly her insurer may have misled her about her options. Barrette's $54 monthly premium bought her almost nothing. The policy pays $50 per office visit (which can run two or three times that) and $15 per prescription (which can run to thousands of dollars a month); above that she's on her own. Nothing for a colonoscopy. Nothing for mental health treatment. Up to $50 for hospital and ER services -- and then only if her treatment is for "complications of pregnancy." Nothing for outpatient services.
"She's paying $650 a year to be uninsured," said an insurance expert Metcalf consulted. If she ever had a serious medical problem, "she would have lost the house she's sitting in."
As for the replacement plan her insurer offered, at a shocking $591 a month? Barrette has much better options via the government insurance exchange. (Or she will once the federal system gets running.) Metcalf estimated that she'll be eligible for "real insurance that covers all essential health benefits" for as little as $165 a month -- a higher premium than she's paying now, sure, but one that won't cost her her home.
That raises the question of whether the insurers sending out these cancellation notices are trying to cheat their customers, a point made by Paul Waldman at the American Prospect and echoed by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. Expecting insurance companies to play fair with their customers is as pointless as expecting dogs not to drink from the toilet, but what's the excuse of the reporters who retail these yarns without fully checking them out?
It's time to tamp down the breathless indignation about these health plan cancellations. Many of the departing plans are being outlawed for good reason, and many of the customers losing them have no idea how much financial exposure they were saddled with in the old days. That's the real scandal in American health insurance, and Obamacare is designed, rightly, to fix it.
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Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
So I guess LucasFilm is aware of the insane popularity the Mandalorians have gained?
I hate to sound so bitter (not really), but I liked the Mandos when they were more obscure. Now everyone and their uncle who owns cut-up trash can armor claims to be a "Mando."

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Media largely ignored Rep. Istook's inconsistency on tax provision
Many major media outlets merely reported Representative Ernest Istook's (R-OK) November 22 revelation [1] that he "didn't write," "didn't approve," and "wasn't even consulted" about a controversial provision inserted into a $388 billion omnibus spending bill that would have allowed lawmakers to examine the tax returns of private citizens -- failing to note that just the day before, Istook had defended the provision and made no attempt to deny responsibility for it.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) called the provision the "Istook Amendment" on November 20, and on November 21 the Associated Press reported [2] that "congressional aides said it had been inserted at the request of Rep. Ernest J. Istook Jr." Also on November 21, CNN.com reported [3] that Istook -- "the Oklahoma Republican whose subcommittee was responsible for the provision" -- defended the provision, saying that it had been misrepresented, that "[n]obody's privacy was ever jeopardized," and that the language was meant to "include visiting and inspecting the huge IRS processing centers, but not inspecting tax returns."
It wasn't until November 22 that Istook took steps to distance himself from the provision, releasing a statement [1] in which he claimed to have "had nothing to do with inserting this language. ... My name shouldn't be associated with it, because I had nothing to do with it, and didn't even know about it until after the bill was done and was filed."
Yet despite this inconsistency, most subsequent media reports accepted at face value Istook's denial of responsibility for the provision. A November 23 article [4] in The Washington Post presented Istook's most recent assertions that he was "bypassed" and knew nothing about the provision without any mention of his defense of the provision the day before:
Micah Leydorf, Istook's spokeswoman, said she understood the language was added by the full Appropriations Committee staff or by Istook's subcommittee staff at the direction of staffers for the full committee. "We have a problem with how bills like this are put together," Istook acknowledged. "The subcommittee chairman should never be bypassed like I was in this case."
The Post's report was reprinted in several media outlets on November 23, including The Boston Globe [5], The Seattle Times [6], and MSNBC.com [7].
Similarly, the Houston Chronicle [8] and USA Today [9] simply reported Istook's November 22 denial without noting his inconsistency.
The New York Times -- in a November 23 article criticized [10] by Media Matters for America for other reasons -- was an exception in this regard. Reporter David E. Rosenbaum noted [11] Istook's change in position.


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Sevennites.com provides an interactive database of Happy Hour information for over 200 bars with the ability to limit by location, day/time and general bar attributes. My favorite feature is the Right Now! link that provides a listing of happy hours available at that moment. Also includes user reviews.
Seattle Dive Bars from Seattle.com
Seattle Brewpubs from Seattle.com
Seattle Beer Map from RateBeer.com
Gay and Lesbian Bars
Gay and Lesbian Bars and Clubs from Seattle Times NWSource.com
Seattle Gay Bars and Map from Tacky Tourists Clubs of America, Seattle Chapter
Seattle Gay News Maps and Businesses
Personal Recommendations
Hipster Bars: Cha Cha, Kincora's, Linda's, all located conveniently on Pine St, just a few blocks up the hill from the convention center.
Dive Bars: The Comet (old grunge-era hangout making a comeback) 922 E. Pike St. The College Inn (laidback bar, a bit more crazy on weekend evenings), in University District, 4006 University Way. Al's Tavern (cheap drinks and pool), 2303 NE 45th.


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Miners of the Talisman Mine, Karangahake Gorge
We think the white haired and bearded man is Our Alexander McKay (or MacKay)
Ships pax list in 1860s to NZ??
PLEASE HELP! Cannot seem to find any trace of my Great Great Grandfather Alexander MacKay (McKay) on a ship bound for NZ in 1860s. He was from Argyll in Scotland and was in the IndianMutiny and maybe the Crimea. Not sure if he was repatriated (discharged) to NZ direct from either of these wars or whether he returned to Scotland and came from there. Sorry background is so vague! HELP!
Hannah Mary Leaming (nee Morris)
Looking for any information on my Great great Grandmother. She was married to William Leaming and later divorced in the 1880s. Was housekeeper for my Great Great Grandfather, Alexander MacKay (aka McKay) of Paeroa and the Karangahake gorge. Not sure if they married or not, but they had 4 living Children together, Blanche Bredalbane McKay, Mabel Kathleen McKay, Alexander Bredalbane McKay (My great grandad) and Constance Bredalbane McKay. Any info on anything would be gratefully received.
Alexander MacKay
Intention to Marry Notice. Archives NZ Ref: BDM 20/21 1876 Shortland p. 201/612.
Notice dated 11 February 1876: Alexander MACKAY, bachelor, a miner aged 30 living at Ohinemuri, length of residence 9 years, to marry Alice GREEN, a spinster aged 16, living at Ohinemuri, length of residence 1 year, at St Francis Roman Catholic Church, Thames. Person giving Consent in Case of a Minor to Marry: George GREEN, father. Minister: Rev. CHARTAGNON
How can I find out when my Great Great Grandfather came to NZ
if I don't have the ship or date? Only a name Alexander McKay (aka MacKay).
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PrimeBase XT (PBXT) is a transactional storage engine for MySQL which can be loaded dynamically by the pluggable storage engine API of MySQL 5.1. It has been designed for modern, web-based, high concurrency environments. Full MVCC (multi-version concurrency control) support and a unique "write-once" strategy make PBXT particularly effective under heavy update loads.
Monday, December 15, 2008
xtstat: Tells you exactly what PBXT is doing!
The way it works is simple. PBXT now counts all kinds of things: transactions committed and rolled back, statements executed, records read and written, tables and indexes scanned, bytes read, written and flushed to various types of files: record, index, data logs, transaction logs, and so on.
A SELECT on the system table PBXT.STATISTICS (or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PBXT_STATISTICS if PBXT was built inside the MySQL tree) returns the current totals of all these counters. xtstat does a SELECT every second on this table and prints the difference. In this way, you can see how much work PBXT is doing in each area.
There are currently 48 different statistics:
To ensure all this counting does not itself cost any performance, each thread counts for itself, so no locking is required. The SELECT on STATISTICS then sums over all running threads.
The default output of xtstat is 201 characters wide (281 characters are required to display all statistics), but using the --display option you can specify exactly which statistics you would like to look at.
Here is an example, of the default output with some of the middle columns removed:
To display large byte values, such as data read from the data log files (data-in column), xtstat uses K (Kilobytes), M (Megabytes) and G (Gigabytes) to ensure the values don't overflow the column space. Counts like the number of rows inserted (row-ins column) use, t (thousands), m (millions) and b (billions) to keep things lined up.
Using xtstat it is possible to ask questions like:
How efficiently is group commit working?
Notice here that the number of transaction commits in this example (xact-commt column), is larger than the number transaction log flushes (xlog-syncs).
Is their enough index cache?
Displaying the index stats shows that index cache misses (ind-miss column) are at about 30%, and that the server is reading 8MB per second from the index file. So increasing the index cache would result in better performance.
How much time is being spent flushing files?
In the example above you can see that xtstat displays the number of flushes (syncs) and the time spent in flushing in milliseconds (ms and msec columns).
When you build PBXT with make install, xtstat will be installed in the same directory as other MySQL tools such as mysqladmin, mysqldump, etc.
For more information on xtstat, just enter:
$ bin/xtstat --help
All in all, I think xtstat will be very useful in analyzing and tuning the performance of the engine.
4 comments:
- Baron said...
Nice. I should revisit innotop and make sure it supports these too. It's been a while since I have updated innotop.
Wow this is awesome! These are great, noticeably detailed, and wildly useful in looking at PBXT's performance. I have been wanting this type of feedback from PBXT for some time, but I can say it was definitely worth the wait!
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The Mexican-American Boom: Births Overtake Immigration
I. Overview
Births have surpassed immigration as the main driver of the dynamic growth in the U.S. Hispanic population. This new trend is especially evident among the largest of all Hispanic groups-Mexican-Americans1, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
In the decade from 2000 to 2010, the Mexican-American population grew by 7.2 million as a result of births and 4.2 million as a result of new immigrant arrivals. This is a change from the previous two decades when the number of new immigrants either matched or exceeded the number of births.
The current surge in births among Mexican-Americans is largely attributable to the immigration wave that has brought more than 10 million immigrants to the United States from Mexico since 1970. Between 2006 and 2010 alone, more than half (53%) of all Mexican-American births were to Mexican immigrant parents. As a group, these immigrants are more likely than U.S.-born Americans to be in their prime child-bearing years. They also have much higher fertility.
Meanwhile, the number of new immigrant arrivals from Mexico has fallen off steeply in recent years. According to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of Mexican government data, the number of Mexicans annually leaving Mexico for the U.S. declined from more than one million in 2006 to 404,000 in 2010-a 60% reduction.2 This is likely a result of recent developments in both the U.S. and Mexico. On the U.S. side, declining job opportunities and increased border enforcement (Passel and Cohn, 2009) may have made the U.S. less attractive to potential Mexican immigrants. And in Mexico, recent strong economic growth may have reduced the "push" factors that often lead Mexicans to emigrate to the U.S.
As a result, there were fewer new immigrant arrivals to the U.S. from Mexico in the 2000s (4.2 million) than in the 1990s (4.7 million). However, the Mexican-American population continued to grow rapidly, with births accounting for 63% of the 11.2 million increase from 2000 to 2010.3
At 31.8 million in 2010, Mexican-Americans comprise 63% of the U.S. Hispanic population and 10% of the total U.S. population (Ennis, Ríos-Vargas and Albert, 2011). According to Pew Hispanic Center tabulations from the March 2010 U.S. Current Population Survey, 39% of Mexican-Americans-or 12.4 million-are immigrants.4 With the exception of Russia, no other country in the world has as many immigrants from all countries as the U.S. has from Mexico alone.5 Nor does any country in the world have as many citizens living abroad as does Mexico. According to the World Bank, more than 10% of Mexico's native-born population lives elsewhere, with the vast majority (97%) of these expatriates living in the United States.
Overall, the Hispanic population of the United States grew from 35.3 million in 2000 to 50.5 million in 2010, accounting for more than half of the nation's overall population growth during that decade (Passel, Cohn and Lopez, 2011). Some 58% of this Hispanic population increase came from births rather than the arrival of new immigrants. However, for many non-Mexican-origin Hispanic groups in the U.S., births accounted for less than half of their population growth in the past decade. For example, from 2000 to 2010, births accounted for just 38% of the growth of the Cuban-American population and just 39% of the growth of the population of U.S. Hispanics of Central or South American origin.
Hispanics now comprise 16.3% of the total U.S. population. This share is projected to rise to 29% by the middle of this century, with the bulk of the future increase driven by births, many the descendents of today's immigration wave, rather than the arrival of new immigrants. (Passel and Cohn, 2008).
- The term "Mexican-American" refers to Hispanics who were born in Mexico or U.S.-born Hispanics who trace their ancestry to Mexico. ↩
- These figures reflect Mexican emigration to all countries, not just the United States. However, 97% of Mexican emigrants migrate to the U.S. For details on methodology and the Mexican government's Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo (ENOE), see Passel and Cohn (2009). ↩
- The 11.2 million increase reflects the net change in births, deaths and net migration of the Mexican-American population in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. It is different from the 11.4 million shown in Figure 1. That figure reflects population changes due to births (7.2 million) and net migration (4.2 million) only, excluding deaths. ↩
- This estimate has been adjusted for undercount. ↩
- Alone, the number of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. is larger than the immigrant population in any other country in the world, with the exception of the Russian Federation (World Bank, 2011). However, while Russia hosts 12 million immigrants, many are natives of countries that were part of the former Soviet Union. ↩


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Department of Radiology | Research & Innovations
The Department of Pediatric Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital is one of the largest and most respected pediatric radiology programs in the world and has continued to be a leader in innovation. Faculty members in the Radiology Department Research Center participate in clinical research activities, and many do laboratory research as well.
Interventional radiology innovations
Angiography in children
Angiography in children is different than in adults, because children have smaller and more delicate blood vessels. Our interventional radiologists and neuroradiologists are highly trained in using the specialized techniques and small catheters necessary for performing this procedure in children.
Interventional neuroradiology
We are one of the few centers in the world that specialize in minimally invasive, image-guided treatments for aneurysms and disorders of the brain, head, neck and spine in babies and children. Learn more.
New ways of treating and diagnosing vascular malformations
Vascular malformations are tangled and misrouted arteries and veins, which cause pain, swelling, and disfigurement. Because Children's operates a world-famous Vascular Anomalies Center, we have extensive experience in using interventional techniques to evaluate and treat abnormal blood vessels without the need for surgery.
We also specialize in:
- pediatric tumor diagnosis and therapy
- radiofrequency ablation, a technique in which an electrode is delivered through a needle to "burn" bone lesions and tumors.
MRI innovations
Functional MRI (fMRI)
MR technology allows physicians to see the anatomic structure of the body's organs and tissues. Functional MR (fMR) enables physicians to see how the body functions. An fMRI is performed on a conventional MRI unit that consists of a very large magnet and uses a safe, non-invasive magnetic field and radiofrequency waves to take pictures of the brain while it is working. The technique measures changes in blood flow all over the brain. In this way, the fMRI scan allows us to see what areas of the brain are activated during a specific activity. For example, by having people perform simple tasks during the scan (such as moving digits or limbs) we can see which part of the brain controls those tasks.
At Boston Children's Hospital, fMR scans are used to provide additional information used for treatment planning for neurological disorders such as epilepsy, brain tumors, brain injury, mental retardation, autism, and learning disabilities. The hospital's Dream magazine also looks at fMR.
Image fusion and post-processing
The Advanced Image Analysis Laboratory allows radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and referring clinicians to maximize information gained from computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine exams. The three-dimensional models, fused images, and other advanced post-processing methods improve patient care by aiding diagnosis, treatment planning and surgical intervention. The images can also be used for patient-friendly explanations and answering research questions.
'Try-without sedation' and 'feed and wrap' programs
We routinely offer cooperative children ages 4-6 years the chance to try undergoing their MRIs without sedation after a pilot program showed that most of them can do so successfully with proper preparation and distraction. Movement will cause the MRI images to be blurry, so we use a variety of techniques to help children lie still, such as listening to music or watching videos during the exam with special goggles and headphones. Motion-reduction sequences are also used to improve the quality of the images. Our Child Life Specialist helps to prepare children and families before and during the MRI to make the visit as safe, pleasant and comfortable as possible.
Additionally, we perform "feed and wrap" imaging of sleeping, unsedated newborns, ages 0 to 3 months. Our custom made 32-channel head coils for newborns and six month olds improve signal to noise and our ability to accelerate image acquisition.
Children in the 3 months to 4 years age group rarely undergo an MRI without sedation or anesthesia. A recent Catalyst funded grant is allowing us to focus on preparing children between the ages of 6 months and 1 year for a non-sedated MRI. Additionally, in collaboration with the Gaab Laboratory, we are developing distraction techniques to make improvements in this area for the 3 months to 4 years age group.
Motion mitigation and accelerated image acquisition
Movement during the MRI will cause the images to be blurry. Motion mitigation sequences track the head motion of a patient and readjust the image acquisition to account for a child's movement during the scan. These are not yet commercially available, yet we use them routinely.
We also have custom made 32-channel head coils for newborns and six month olds to improve signal to noise and our ability to accelerate image acquisition.
MRI imaging to reduce exposure to radiation from CT exams
In order to limit exposure to radiation, we are performing MRI studies for exams that were previously routinely imaged by CT. For example, IBD studies and ventricular size checks are now being performed using MRI, resulting in a decreased lifetime cumulative radiation dosage. Additionally, some airway (sleep apnea) exams are being obtained with MR instead of CT.
MR tractography
MR tractography uses data sets from diffusion weighted images to show white matter organization and orientation of white matter fibers in the brain. Tractography is helpful for preoperative planning and understanding seizure propagation in epilepsy and other brain disorders. In the future, it may also be able to play a role in evaluating how the brain as a whole is connected, and how such connectivity is altered in certain disease states.
Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) monitors neural activity by recording magnetic fields in the brain. Current MEG devices are only available in adult sizes. In collaboration with the National Science Foundation, we are designing and building the first whole head MEG system for infants and children aged 0 to 3 years. This system will have the technical capabilities needed for monitoring neural activity in young patients.
Encephalographic MRI
Encephalographic MRI (eMRI) is a research technique that combines advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEGs) in an attempt to more directly image the electrical changes in the brain than was previously possible. Early results demonstrate fast eMRI responses that correlate well with epilepsy spikes on the EEG. Work is now directed at trying to use eMRI to help with surgical planning for epilepsy patients. More generally, eMRI may prove to be a powerful tool for understanding the origin and spread of abnormal electrical activity in the brain in various epilepsy syndromes, both during wakefulness and sleep.
Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging innovations
Nuclear medicine physicians and scientists are an integral part of the Dana-Farber/Children's Cancer Care team's MIBG treatment for children with relapsed neuroblastoma (cancerous tumors that originate in the nerve tissues). The treatment, which uses a radioactive compound to kill tumor cells, is available in only a handful of major medical centers in North America and is the first therapy of its kind to be offered in New England.


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Sambalpur University Get Time Table ( Exam Schedule ) for BCA All Year:
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About University :- The Sambalpur University Act was passed by the Odisha Legislature on 10th December, 1966 to fulfill long cherished dream of the people of Western Odisha for establishment of a University. The University started functioning from 1st January, 1967 with Prof.Parsuram Mishra as the first Vice-Chancellor. The University was inaugurated on 4th January, 1967 by Hon'ble Chancellor A.N.Khosla. The University started functioning in 1967 in a rented private building at Dhanupali, Sambalpur and in Government building at Ainthapali, Sambalpur from 1968 – 72. In the year 1973 the University was shifted to the present campus named Jyoti Vihar at Burla.
How to Check Your Time Table?
- Step 1: Go to Sambalpur University Main website from search or directly at URL (www.suniv.ac.in).
- Step 2: Search for Time Table / Exam Dates / Date sheet tab in university main website or search in notifications.
- Step 3: After that you need to enter your roll number or search your roll number in PDF to get your Time Table / Exam Dates / Date sheet.
- Step 4: If you did not get Time Table / Exam Dates / Date sheet from this method don't be afraid we have provided easy link for Time Table / Exam Dates / Date sheets here Below.
University Contact Details :
|Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar Sambalpur, Odisha- 768019
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After the success of their Marseille Soap at the Universal Exhibition, the Rampals confirmed their innovative talent and in 1935 created the very first toilet soap. Proud and aware of bringing unique comfort to their clients for many generations, thanks to the virtues of their toilet soap, our soap craftsmen control and preserve its authenticity and unique qualities.
Natural ingredients
Authentic, the Olive-Lavender toilet soap is rich in olive oil to nourish your skin. Its perfume is 100% natural and 100% of its oils are vegetable. It contains essential lavender oil cultivated and distilled in the provincial Drome region. Renowned for its antiseptic and soothing properties, the lavender extract will delicately perfume your skin with its touch of sunny Province. For its colour we have only used natural pigments. Without any preserving agents, EDTA or Paraben, our soap is natural and authentic. Thus your skin is soft and protected
An emollient soap
Thanks to the exclusive use of 100% vegetable oils which it contains in generous quantities, helping to reconstitute the hydro-lipid surface of the skin, our toilet soap is suitable for all skin types, even the most delicate. When used regularly, the skin is nourished, protected, hydrated. Our soap is creamy and its light texture can easily be rinsed thus ensuring an incomparably nourishing result.
An ecological and economic soap
Its fabrication is the result of a unique process of grinding and compacting of the paste thus offering a soap of very high quality. The organically certified Rampal Latour soap can be used both regularly and for all purposes and is thus very economic!
Our Charter for Nature :
- Pure vegetable soap
- Easily biodegradable
- No parabens
- Without preservatives, without EDTA
- No PEG (petrochemical derivatives)
We guarantee that the palm oil we use in the fabrication of our soaps comes from a sector of the industry that is fully engaged in the protection of our forests and sustainable development.
Ingrédients INCI : Sodium Palmate , Sodium Palm Kernelate , Aqua(Water) , Lavandula Hybrida Oil , Palm Kernel Acid , Linalool , Olea Europaea Fruit Oil , Glycerin , Sodium Chloride , Tetrasodium Etidronate , Limonene , Ci 77288 , Ci 77492
We guarantee exceptional skin care every day
Connoisseur of rare and precious moments, full of serenity, we invite you to discover all the richness of our perfumed toilet soaps. Today we are proposing to introduce you in a different manner to the art of washing and taking the time for a unique moment, one when you will be taking care of yourself, a moment of pure relaxation for you and you alone, in full confidence. For your wash, we have imagined many surprising perfumes for your pleasure: the marriage of classical and authentic perfumes, rich and fruity perfumes, creative and refreshing compositions... You only have to choose which will bear you away...
Let a little warm water run over your skin. Allow the warmth to envelop you and let your tensions flow away. Hold your toilet soap under the running water. Allow the first whiffs of its evocative perfume to drift up. Lather the toilet soap in your hands; see how rich and generous its bubbles are. Breathe in this moment and gently apply the lather to your hands and then to your whole face and body. Close your eyes and allow yourself to be borne away by our perfumes to relax and float away for a moment. Then, gently place the toilet soap on its soap dish so that it may drain off and thus lose none of its wonderful virtues. Rinse yourself in warm water. Dry your face by gently sponging off the excess water with a soft towel as if you were applying a mask and then gently wipe the rest of your body. Your skin is clean, soft and perfumed. In the event of eye contact, rinse immediately with water.
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This is some stuff for a 'Wizard of Earthsea' visdev collab. All characters and places copyright Ursula K. Le Guin. It's the only book I've EVER READ TWICE.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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Framed Maori tiki. Contemporary Maori art.
Hei Tiki
Hei means 'to wear around the neck', Tiki means 'first man.
Contemporary Maori art, Maori design, crafted from plantation grown gaboon using laser technology. This piece of art boasts super fine detail, paua inlay and is mounted on an earth toned background inside a custom glass covered shadow box frame. Each piece is individually signed by our Maori artist Mike Carlton and comes complete with wall mount and related story to back.
In some accounts of ancient Maori folklore 'Tiki' was the first man created by 'Tane' (God of the Forests and Men). ; Tiki' formed woman from the earth after admiring his own reflection in the water.
"Hei Tiki" were regarded as precious taonga (treasures) and were predominantly carved from pounamu (greenstone). It is thought that the diverse forms of "Tiki" were the result of the carver being constrained by the shape of his stone as it was extremely hard and difficult to shape with primitive grinding tools.
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Justin Timberlake – Mirrors (from forthcoming album The 20/20 Experience)
Pop star/actor, actor/pop star, what is it about those celebs that flip between the two that makes us think they're crap at both? Regardless of what you think about JT's gifts (and let's admit it, that face is a gift, regardless of what's coming out of his cakehole) his new single is here. JT has stated in the press that he's now heavily influenced by Pink Floyd and other prog rock – yes really – but the only evidence of this here is that the song is over eight minutes long. However, this means that it is Very Serious Music and we should sit up and pay attention. I'm slightly upset by Mirrors, irrespective of Justin's impressive length, because Timbercheeks used to release terrifically sexy, clever, groove-laden songs and this all sounds a bit R 'n B lite. Like something Bieber would do. The last four minutes are fair enough, but really they're just all noodles stuck on the end. This is the second song released off the new album, and I'm still holding my breath for the Big Bootyshaking Single. I have faith though, come on Justin.
Phoenix Entertainment
For those of you sitting there thinking you've never listened to a song by Phoenix, if you've ever heard any incidental music on E4 then you're almost certainly mistaken. These French pop pixies make super-smart indie music with throbbing great catchy bits that spin you round like a relentlessly cheerful carousel until you have to get off and throw up. But in, like, a really, super-good way. The new one is all classic Phoenix bouncing verses, paired with a crashing great chopsticks-style hook that'll get the festival crowds jumping from May through to September. New album promises to be great fun, even if some of their earlier subtlety is slowly being bled out in favour of this type of instant sugar rush.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Sacrilege
I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because they somehow manage to be interesting and hugely accessible all at the same time. Plus, I always want to look at what Karen O is wearing and what her hair's doing, and it's nearly always something amazing. They had promised that their new album would take us back to their more simple, lo-fi roots, but as there appears to be a gospel choir on the end of this, I'd say that's likely to be a load of tosh. Great song though. (and if you're interested we're talking blonde bob and 1970s rodeo cowgirl for this record – outstanding effort as ever, Ms O).
David Bowie The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Ah, it's another pop star/actor, actor/pop star dichotomy! But we always let Bozzer get away with it don't we? Because he's a living legend that's why. This is off the new (new!) Bowie record which should be out by the time you read this, and already has critics dribbling into their iMacs and making the keys all sticky with how good it is. I won't profess to be an expert of his oeuvre (I didn't object to Black Tie White Noise era Dave – apparently this means I'm a philistine) but I will say that this has everything you could wish for from a Bowie song – it's cool as ice with a nice edge of menace and please watch the video because Tilda Swinton is in it being absolutely batshit bonkers and it's insanely fab.
That's it for this month my lovelies, please let us know what you think of this little hit parade in the comments – whether you think Justin's a joke, Bowie's past it, or just really really want to be a 1970s rhinestone cowgirl (I know I do). And, naturalmente, let us know what you've been listening to!
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The director of economic development for the Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce reported that she "feels good" about a handful of the industrial projects considering the county.
One of them, she said, is looking at the Commerce 85 Business Park.
"Unfortunately, they're not looking at the building," Courtney Bernardi told the Industrial Development Authority last Friday, referring to the 962,000-square foot "Rooker" building that's been vacant since it was built five years ago. "It's a build to suit. Most of them (current industrial prospects) are."
For the full story, see the Feb. 20 edition of The Commerce News.
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"I think you kind of go, 'Vice president, governor of Texas,'" Perry said, using his hands as a scale to weigh the two jobs. "That kind of answers itself. Was it John Nance Garner — had a pretty good handle on that."
Garner, a blunt West Texan who was Franklin Roosevelt's vice president from 1933 to 1941, is known for saying that the vice presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm spit." (That's the sanitized version.)
Perry spoke to reporters after a state meeting concerning fiscal issues as about a dozen potential fund-raisers gathered in Austin to talk about the prospect of and strategy for raising campaign cash should he make the race. Perry chaired the Cash Management Committee.
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Autopsies will be performed on a mother and her two children after investigators say she killed them and herself inside their Pennsylvania home.
Emergency responders were dispatched to a home in Strasburg, Lancaster County, about 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning for a report of a house fire. Upon arrival, they found a woman and two juveniles apparently deceased in a bedroom of the home.
Flames were extinguished in the home and in a detached garage.
The Lancaster County Coroner's Office pronounced the three individuals dead at the scene. A dog in the home also was deceased.
Pennsylvania State Police determined the deceased woman to be Carola Arnau, 40, who resided at the home.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The second day of competition at the annual women's swimming and diving meet between Harvard, Princeton and Yale came to a close today on a familiar note. The Yale women's swimming and diving team fell to the Princeton Tigers, who have won the meet for the fourth year in a row now. The Bulldogs also fell to the Harvard Crimson, who head back to Cambridge with one win and one loss. Depth hurt the Bulldogs greatly this weekend as Yale fielded a 22-swimmer squad against the Harvard and Princeton teams, which are each pushing 40 swimmers and have diving squads at least twice the size as that of the Bulldogs. Princeton outperformed Yale 234.5-65.5; the margin against Harvard was closer with Harvard at 217 points, Yale with 83. The Bulldogs are now 5-3 in dual meets overall, 4-2 in the Ivy League with two meets left in the regular season.
"Our times are right where we want to be with four weeks to go until the Ivy League Championship," said assistant coach Toni Pullman. "We faced Harvard and Princeton, each with teams double our size. In HYP meet tradition, anyone can score in the meet, so it definitely puts a small team at a disadvantage. We are looking forward to racing some of these same competitors when we are rested, and when the playing field is evened out at Ivy's."
The meet began Friday when Paige Meneses picked up points for the Bulldogs with a fifth-place finish in the three-meter diving event. Meneses scored a 267.30. Harvard gained early ground on the Bulldogs here, with divers finishing in second, third and fourth position, while Princeton won the event. Rachel Rosenberg placed eighth and Christina Brasco 16th. Friday's three-meter marks the first time this season that either Rosenberg or Meneses has not won a diving event.
Yale then had a crucial win over Harvard in the 200-yard medley relay. Princeton posted the two fastest times, but Cynthia Tsay put Yale dead even with Harvard after the first 50 yards with a 27.04 second backstroke leg. Athena Liao moved Yale even further ahead of the Crimson, going 29.37 in the breaststroke to Harvard's 30.18. Harvard caught up some during Hayes Hyde's butterfly leg but Ileana Lucos came home in 23.26 to Harvard's 23.33 to give Yale a final time of 1:45.16, just ahead of Harvard in 1:45.27.
In the 100 breaststroke Athena Liao finished fourth. Princeton had the fastest three times, and while first place was far and away with 1:02.54, Liao was 1:04.64, third place was 1:04.59 and second 1:04.05. In the 200 butterfly Hayes Hyde finished third in a dead heat with Princeton's Kathy Qu. Both swimmers clocked in at 2:03.78, a little over three seconds back from the winning time of 2:00.65.
Cynthia Tsay finished seventh in a very quick 50-yard freestyle. Princeton won with a time of 22.82, which broke the previous pool record of 23.25 by nearly half a second.
Paige Meneses kicked things off Saturday for the Bulldogs, placing third in the one-meter diving event with a score of 246.75 points. Teammates Rachel Rosenberg and Christina Brasco took ninth and 17th, respectively.
Three events later Athena Liao posted the best finish the Bulldogs had all weekend, taking second in the 200-yard breaststroke. Her time was 2:17.69, compared to the winning time of 2:11.52, a new pool record.
The Bulldogs showed they could rally in the last event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay. As usual the event brought the crowd gathered at Kiphuth Exhibition Pool to its feet. Ileana Lucos was quick off the blocks and put the Bulldogs in second position after the first 100 yards. At this point Harvard 'A' was out front with Princeton 'A' in second position, though Princeton's second-leg swimmer moved them into first after just 25 yards. Yale sat in third the rest of the race, and anchor Joan Weaver fought her best to make up ground. Princeton finished first and Harvard second, both teams posting faster times than the standing pool record. Yale would have taken third with a time took third with a time of 3:28.78, were it not for the Princeton 'A' team swimming the event exhibition. Yale therefore ended up with the points for a second-place finish.
Next weekend the Bulldogs will swim against UConn away, and the weekend after that against Brown at home. The home meet against the Bears will be the last dual meet of the season for the Bulldogs before heading to Princeton for the Ivy League Championships Feb. 24-27.
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So I learned how to switch themes in xfce. Then I learned how to find themes and install them so that they show up as a choice. So far so good. There was a theme I liked but it looked so small on my system, so i learned how to copy an existing theme, rename and modify it. I'm using the theme. There is only one problem.
The Problem
The problem is that I have intermittant graphics corruptions. A few pixels, sometimes in horizontal rows, get corrupted. usually in the title bar but sometimes in the actual window body area. This only happens when I use my theme. Resizing erases the glitches but also makes new ones in different locations.
What I Have Already Done
What I have previously done to check/verify/find-bugs in my theme is to (a) look at each .xpm in a text editor to see if columns and rows indicated match the actual and (b) load each image in gimp. Gimp will complain that the file is corrupt if anything is wrong, so this is rather handy.
The Actual Question
I've fixed every problem I can identify, yet the graphic glitches still happen. Could someone please recommend other methods of checking a theme?
Thank you in advance.
p.s. Currently running Debian Testing 64-bit, if that matters?
p.p.s. what I mean by "theme" in teh above is the window decoration bits, usually in ~/.themes/my-theme-name/xfwm4, not the gtk parts.
p.p.p.s corruption is only in windows, not the menu bar, menus nor the actual desktop & icons.
Last edited by numzob (2014-08-04 21:49:16)
Out of curiosity, which video card do you have and which driver are you using? If its an intel driver, are you using SNA or UXA acceleration?
It's an Intel driver. I have no idea how to ascertain those other things.
Recall that these glitches only happen on the theme that I modified, so I suspect an error in my theme, not in the hardware.
This will help you tell which acceleration method you are using:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i accelmethod
I get what sounds like a similar glitch (though rarely) in one theme only (Blackbird) with my intel card. I'm using SNA acceleration. (Now that I think about it, I haven't seen the glitch for a while and there have been some intel driver updates recently) SNA acceleration causes graphical artifacts on some intel cards and the workaround is to switch to UXA. I know of a few instances where switching back to UXA resolved the glitching. I've been meaning to test UXA, to see if it repeats itself but haven't gotten around to it (its so infrequent a glitch for me).
If you're willing to share your theme, I can load it up here to see if I get a repeat of the glitch that you are seeing.
That command yeild nothing, gulp.
I changed the grep to just "accel" and got this:
[ 46.699] (II) Composite (RENDER acceleration)
[ 46.710] (II) composite (RENDER acceleration)
[ 47.350] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 47.350] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 47.350] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 47.350] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 47.660] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[ 47.660] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[ 47.660] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.053
[ 47.660] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 47.660] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[ 47.660] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 47.660] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
The only part that appears to me of relavance is the once repeated "Composite (RENDER acceleration)" part? Odd, as I don't have the compositing turned on.
I could certainly upload the theme. Is there a preferd location? method? Thanks in advance.
What does the following command return:
lspci -k | grep -iA2 VGA
As for uploading the theme, do you use a cloud service from which you could share the file? If not, just upload it to one of the many free file hosting websites.
OK, doing that yielded this result:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fa89
Kernel driver in use: i915
BTW, I never knew about the -A option for grep. Wow! Thank you.
The theme is downloadable here: http://vvardenfell.webege.com/theme_p.tar.bz2
Interesting. Can you try just grepping for SNA or UXA like this:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i SNA
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i UXA
What version of Xorg and the intel driver are you using?
I'll run your theme to see if I get the glitching.
Grepping for SNA reveals nothing.
For UXA reveals:
[ 48.300] (II) UXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
Grepping again with -A6 reveals ...
[ 48.300] (II) UXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
[ 48.300] (II) solid
[ 48.300] (II) copy
[ 48.300] (II) composite (RENDER acceleration)
[ 48.300] (II) put_image
[ 48.300] (II) get_image
[ 48.300] (==) intel(0): Backing store enabled
Xorg version X.Org X Server 18.104.22.1684 (1.16.0 RC 4)
xserver-xorg-video-intel: 2:2.21.15-2+b2
Okay. So you are using UXA. Looks like Debian hasn't transitioned yet to SNA.
I've been using your theme for a few hours now and haven't seen any glitches. I am running intel driver version 2.99-914-4 (on an Arch system). Not sure what else to suggest.
Wow. This must mean that my edited theme is correct. Most unexpected!
Thank you for looking at it.
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President Obama scrapped a campaign appearance in Orlando, Fla., and hurried back to Washington to oversee the emergency response to Hurricane Sandy. Speaking to reporters at the White House, he brushed aside questions about the political implications.
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Barabak reported from Boulder, Colo., and West from Washington. Kathleen Hennessey in Washington and Seema Mehta in Avon Lake, Ohio, contributed to this report.