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Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 7 PM, Pre:Post,547 West 27th Street between 10th & 11th., New York, NY. Nolcha.com in associatian with VIBRANT Promotional Modeling & Marketing and Fuel For Truth ("FFT") brought together media, trade and VIP fashionistas for an exclusive, invitation-only event to celebrate chic and sexy intimate apparel. Window shopping will never be the same as the models appeared as moving mannequins showcasing the collections as 'live' window displays. Annie S. Limited unveiled the latest lingerie collection. The Fall 2007 collection was inspired by Greek mythology mixed with Irish culture prints/styles and a little touch of Rock. Nolcha.com is an elite online fashion society encouraging professionalism and dedication for designers, models, photographers and stylists. Unlike many other online portfolio-based applications, Nolcha offers the resources for members to empower themselves and their careers. Nolcha's influential and exclusive network specializes in motivating members to their absolute best with dynamic business and life coaching seminars led by prominent industry figures. The fashion industry is competitive, and Nolcha is the source to prepare its members to become successful in their respective fields. Nolcha also offers an online style publication and a fashion-focused talk show on the Nolcha Fashion T.V. Network, in association with Simply Me TV, providing up-to-the-minute, cutting-edge content.VIBRANT is New York's premier promotional modeling agency, with smart, sexy and savvy models for a full range of marketing and promotional events. VIBRANT models enhance any occasion with a splash of vibrance! Fuel For Truth ("FFT")is a non for profit organization that gathers and disseminates accurate information about Israel and the Middle East to young adults through social/educational events in NYC, our "Old Skool" campus program, advocacy training and more. FFT presents the truth about Israel and Jewish history to young Americans in a language they can understand, relate to and easily disseminate. Expanding on the cutting edge methods FFT uses to reach thousands of young people, we are using fashion to make FFT a household name. Each design will be inspired by our central theme: "Fist and Flower" and will debut at the First Annual Fuel For Truth Fashion Show �sponsored by Nolcha � during Fall Fashion Week in September 2007. The ready to wear pieces will ultimately be manufactured as a line of limited edition wearable advocacy fashion and sold in high-end boutiques nationwide, and the couture pieces will be auctioned at the end of the show. All proceeds from the fashion show will benefit Fuel For Truth. PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2007 by Gregory Partanio |tel:718.614.7740 |e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Crib notes: How 9/11 changed my view of starting a family
I was a high school teacher on Sept. 11, 2001, not yet a mother. My husband and I had been married just over a year and we'd recently decided it was time to start a family. Like many hopeful couples we had it planned down to exactly what season I should conceive (OK maybe it was more me) and I wanted a summer baby. It's funny how a month or two in either direction can make a big difference when in that mind set.
And then that horrific Tuesday morning occurred.
I remember waking early to the usually light beat morning radio show that served as my alarm. Their voices were serious this time. They were saying something about a commercial plane crashing into one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
I remember immediately thinking of my two girlfriends who were both United flight attendants at the time. Could they be on those planes that accidentally crashed?
I lagged getting ready for school, not being able to pull myself away from the news. I don't even think I put on make-up or did my hair that day.
My students were all abuzz, many of them not knowing anything about it until they got to class. I tried to keep my 9th graders' routine the same, but my mind was in New York.
The Social Studies teacher across the hall from us had the only cable television in our wing, so when my 12th graders came for their class periods we darted over to his room for updates. We had Internet access, but in those days there still wasn't much to see. A website here and there, but not breaking news like there is today.
I was never more eager to get home from work. I sat transfixed, glued to the television set like the rest of America. My heart alternately broke and swelled with pride. When stunned friends and relatives held up pictures of their missing loved ones on live TV, when hundreds and hundreds of people clamored for 10 seconds to say their brother's, sister's, father's, friend's, co-worker's, fiancé's name, the reality sunk in that this much angst and destruction was caused on purpose.
Tears streamed down my face and I seriously considered enlisting in the Army when I saw American flags flown everywhere, everywhere, and the feeling of American togetherness I had never known up until that point encompassed us all. There were no politics; we were one big American family.
I remember the interviews and an emphasis put on the hundreds of pregnant widows in the days that followed. The question kept arising, in many shapes and forms, "Who would want to bring a child into a world with so much hate?"
I remember being struck by that question.
I thought about it, but the answer was an assured and thundering, "I do!" I was sure in our decision to start a family, knowing that the best antidote to all that hate is love, the love I would give my future children and the goodness they'd bring to the world one day.
Just a few weeks later I learned I was in fact pregnant. My son was born in June 2002, just nine months after the Sept. 11 attacks. It didn't matter so much that I had a summer baby anymore, but I did love that he was born nine months after others wanted to obliterate us. That didn't happen.
On this 10-year anniversary, I pause and think about the countless other children who have been born since 9/11. Just as I never understood when I heard my parents talk about a defining moment from their generation, when President Kennedy was shot, these children will only learn what it was like to live through that time from our stories and their history books. These children's presence must remind us, though, that shaping them to be good, honorable people is the best way we can honor those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
Julie is the mother of four children. See more of her work at kidfocused.com
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
AngularJS 1.0.7 monochromatic-rainbow and 1.1.5 triangle-squarification released!
Just as with previous 1.0.x releases, AngularJS 1.0.7 monochromatic-rainbow brings a bunch of bug fixes and a ton of documentation improvements.
AngularJS 1.1.5 triangle-squarification is all about pushing the animations and transitions support in Angular into new heights by adding more flexibility and support for CSS animations. Additionally several major new features like ternary operator support in expressions, ngIf directive, ability to abort http requests and new "Controller as" syntax have been added.
For full details in both these releases, see the changelog.
Our appreciation to the community contributors responsible for the PRs in these releases: @fbiville, Alex Pods, Alfred Nutile, Anatoly Shikolay, Andreas Marek, Andreas Pelme, Andrew Vida, Anton, Artur Ostrega, Ben Ripkens, Braden Shepherdson, Brent Morrow, Brian Campbell, Chad Smith, Chad Whitacre, Chris M, Chris Nicola, Christoph Burgdorf, Colin Kahn, Dan Kohn, Daniel Stockton, Daniel Tse, Dave Geddes, David Bennett, David Holmes, David Sanders, Dean Sofer, Eugene Wolfson, Francesc Rosàs, Glenn Goodrich, Gonzalo Ruiz de Villa, Hamish Macpherson, Heath Matlock, Illniyar, Jamie R. Rytlewski, Jared Beck, Jeff Pickelman, Jens Rantil, Jeremy Wilken, Joakim Blomskøld, Keir Mierle, Kevin Wells, Laurent, Laurent Cozic, Lee Leathers, Luc Morin, Lucas Galfasó, Mark Dalgleish, Matias Niemelä, Matt Haggard, Matthieu Larcher, Merrick Christensen, Michal Reichert, Misha Moroshko, Oren Avissar, Patrick, Paulo Ávila, Pete Bacon Darwin, Prathan Thananart, R. Merkert, Robin Böhm, Ron Yang, Ryan Schumacher, Samuel Santos, Seunghoon Yeon, Siddique Hameed, Timothy Ahong, Tyler Akins, Zach Snow, austingreco, brandonjp, es128, gockxml, jamesBrennan, kamagatos, leesei, quazzie, uberspeck, urenmj, veselinn, willtj, winkler1, {Qingping,Dave} Hou, 玉黍
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Very strange decision about replacing /. to . in $resource... So $resource will now be even less usable and again we will be forced to use $.ajax. Is there any discussion thread about this issue?
ReplyDeleteReplies"If your server relied upon this sequence then it will no longer work. In this case you can now escape the /. sequence with /\."
DeleteI saw that, thanks. It doesn't explain what for backward compatibility was broken. A "/" in URL means much more than a ".". Maybe there was some reason to change input URL - would be interesting to know about this reason.
DeleteMore info can be found on the commit: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/53061363c7aa1ab9085273d269c6f04ac2162336
Copy/paste from the explanation:
This makes it easier to support suffixes on resource URLs.
For example, given a resource template of `/some/path/:id.:format`, if
the `:id` is `""` but format `"json"` then the URL is now
`/some/path.json`, rather than `/some/path/.json`.
Seems to me like a fix for a fringe case, but then again, as a fringe case, it will affect a minimal number of users.This was a change requested by developers with Rails4 and Php/Symphony developers. Please see https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2083 for more details.
Are the "controller as" and other changes fully documented? I did a search for "controller as" and saw examples of it in the docs but nothing about usage and why we would want to use it.
ReplyDeleteThe link to the docs for 1.1.5 used to work, but now a 500
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Creamy Tomato Cheese Soup With Croutons
COMFORT FOOD!! Have this special soup anytime of the year. Combine with a sandwich for a meal! The flavor of the tomatoes and cheese, along with the...
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That would mean he was 7 years old when the family was given "asylum" , how do you return to a country that you ran away from by convincing the US that you are in danger? He's only 19, that means his parents left him here as a teenager. Haven't heard of either of them having a job. Strange story.<quoted text>And he's writing his bomb-making fingers off. Having been here since 2001 (note who's immigration policy was in effect then), he can write...can you imagine what would happen if the authorities had to read info provided by Methmouth Majority or Waxyturd sock drawer? They'd never be able to solve the case.
They commit this act and then have no money or escape plan?


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Here's an illustration and sketch that I did for U & UWV. The story is about being stressed because you have too much work to do....
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The first two illustrations are for the book : applaus voor Ollie. Soon to be ordered at www.degestreepteboekjes.nl .
The other drawing is a scketch for another book, of which I will eventually post more...
Hp de tijd Britta Bohler
This was an illustration for last weeks HPdeTijd. It depicts Britta Bohler, who is an upper class activist.
I used watercolor to set the illustration up, and finished it off with gouache.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
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Tom Cleverley's Euro shock
TOM CLEVERLEY'S Euro 2012 hopes have suffered a major blow after he aggravated the ankle injury that has troubled him all season.
It's not a particularly serious injury and he should be back in a week or so
But the youngster suffered a setback in United's 2-1 defeat to Ajax in the Europa League.
The news will raise concerns about whether he was rushed back too soon and leaves Cleverley's hopes of making the England squad for this summer's finals in Poland and the Ukraine hanging in the balance.
His loss is also a huge blow to United boss Sir Alex Ferguson as his side look to keep pace with Manchester City at the top of the table.
He will undergo more tests with United's medical staff this weekend but is expected to be sidelined for several weeks.
He will miss United's trip to Norwich tomorrow but is likely to report to the England HQ for them to make a final decision on his fitness.
Cleverley told Starsport earlier this month how desperate he was to have a strong finish to the campaign and force his way into the England squad for the Euros.
Fergie has tipped the 22-year-old for greatness but Cleverley has been cursed when it comes to making his England debut.
He was called up by Fabio Capello in August but the game with Holland at Wembley was cancelled due to the London riots.
He received another call-up for the Euro 2012 qualifying matches with Bulgaria and Wales the following month but did not end up being in the final squad.
He is now facing a race against time to get fit again and win back his place in the United line-up in the hope of being on the plane to Eastern Europe in June.
But Fergie has been handed a boost with the news Antonio Valencia could return to action sooner than expected.
Valencia damaged his hamstring at Ajax last week and United feared he would be out for a month but the Ecuadorian star is in line to return for next week's crunch clash at Tottenham and Fergie said: "It's not a particularly serious injury and he should be back in a week or so."


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Cloud computing has been around for years now and has brought benefits that never used to exist. For instance, today's startups don't necessarily have to invest in a room full of computers to power their IT. The startup shopping list no longer has to include the hardware the old startup was burdened with. Has the cloud revolution borne fruit for the enterprise?
Digital revolutions
The enterprise cloud isn't the only digital revolution around at the moment.
The C2C revolution came before the cloud. The new C2C (Consumer to Consumer) sites opened up markets that the old retail world did not. Freecycle opens up donation of second hand goods, shutterstock connects photographers with businesses, and Paypal underpins tiny transactions.
The revolution for networking nerds is IPv6. The new IPv6 system leaves behind some procedures that just did not work very well. For instance, the subnet masks from IPv4 days will die off, and network administrators of the future will only have to learn CIDR notation (255.0.0.0 is oldskool, /8 is newskool). IPv6 is part of the new digital revolution that will bring us Internet v2.
And what about the money? The new bitcoin money system leaves behind the old central bank power over currency. There is no fiscal cliff in the bitcoin world.
Fruits of the cloud revolution
The migration from a few big on-premise machines to a stack of cloud machines forces the owner to leave behind the legacy systems.
This has business administration benefits such as freeing up budget. The need to spend half the money keeping old systems running is gone. New project management, using agile methods and continual delivery, is not weighed down with all the artifacts of the old waterfall method. The old style of project management, with its linear approach and looming deadline, does not fit well with cloud computing,
One of the great things for system administrators is the rise of the automation utility. Sysadmins can leave behind repetitive manual tasks. Manual file copying - which is tedious and error-prone - only works on a small scale A sysadmin can build a dozen servers with manual processes, but the end result would probably end up with a dozen servers that are all slightly different - each one has its little quirks caused by configuration typos, varying permissions, or missed updates. Scale this number out with a requirement to build a thousand servers in a week and the need for automation becomes obvious. Manual methods cannot work at cloud scale.
Designers, with their specialist art applications and disk-chewing images, can spend less time tied to one computer updating their apps and more time fulfilling crazy client briefs. Developers, the flip side of the same specialist coin, want to be free to take the most direct route to their programming tools.
Cloud sprawl is a bad apple
Digital revolutions do have a price. The new social media system gave us online communities, and we paid with our privacy. The new digital music system removed the scarcity of the old system. Supply cannot be throttled to push up prices, despite the best DRM efforts. We were all forced to be lawyers or pirates by the digital music war.
The price of cloud computing is the rise of cloud sprawl, sucking the resources from organizations. Cloud sprawl is the latest iteration of rampant IT growth that was really started with Microsoft Windows and commodity computing. Companies went from managing dozens of Windows machines to hundreds and thousands. The empowerment of business units to book their own IT, combined with the growth of on-demand, self-service, and highly scalable computing services leads to cloud sprawl (I actually prefer David Linthicum's phrase "rogue clouds", which makes me imagine they are roaming the countryside causing grief).
Cloud sprawl happens because of the inability of IT to meet teams' needs. Can a team instantly ease its pain by booking a cloud service? If they can sign up - the organization has updated its integration strategy to allow departments to book external services - then it will. The department leader activates a service instantly and the team exploit it. Business flows again, the employees are relieved - it's all good. For a while.
The finance department are confused by the whopping bill that arrives. The security team no longer meet the standards the auditors are demanding. The procurement guys have lost control of the supplier portfolio. The help desk can't handle the calls they receive.
More harvests
So far the cloud revolution has provided a bushel of fruit and a few bad apples. It's early days in the cloud industry, so there's plenty more quantity, quality and variety to come.
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Wednesday, Jan 5, 2011, 7:48 am
NYC Snowstorm Reveals Icy Relations Between Albany, Public Workers
The disastrous blizzard that blasted across New York last week sent a chill through the city's workforce. Public employees were already reeling from hundreds of layoffs slated for New Year's Eve. Then came allegations that the failure of the clean-up effort were due to a "slowdown" led by disgruntled sanitation workers. And now newly inaugurated Governor Andrew Cuomo has demanded a wage freeze in the spirit of "shared sacrifice" (His share? Shaving five percent off his six-digit salary.)
Of course, the state's public sector unions have never gotten many warm fuzzies from Albany, especially as lawmakers struggle with a massive deficit. While he may take a hard line on public spending, it's unclear whether Cuomo will follow the lead of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has postured himself as a vicious army of one against his own government. But nationwide, state legislatures, particularly those with resurgent conservative factions, are launching a frontal assault on the folks who drive the city bus, teach your kids, pick up your trash and supposedly rob you blind every tax day.
The sketchy allegations of snow-cleanup "sabotage" in the city's Sanitation Department, which are still under investigation, portend storm clouds of media smear aimed at public employee unions.
It all began, reportedly, when some anonymous civil servants approached conservative City Councilmember to make a troubling confession. Tea Party-backed Councilmember Dan Halloran, who proudly attacks bills for paid sick leave and living wages, claimed to the press, "three sanitation workers and two Department of Transportation supervisors came to his office saying their bosses ordered the slowdown, telling workers that 'the mayor will see how much he needs us' and 'there will be plenty of overtime.'"
The union denied the charges. The Mayor, who could arguably use a good diversion tactic amid heavy criticism of his administration's emergency preparedness, has called for further investigation. And the right has gone to town, using the botched clean-up as a platform to once again demonize the public sector. Because obviously, the city's poorly coordinated snow plows were a direct result of sanitation workers' lavish benefits and outsized public pensions, as opposed to just the administration's mismanagement. At City Journal, Nicole Gelinas argues, "the snowstorm has made it obvious that New York hasn't perfected public-sector management to such an extent that it can cut spending to feed the benefits monster without harming the public."
Laura Flanders gave a more cool-headed assessment of "snowgate":
The blizzard narrative became that it's not tax cuts or layoffs that trigger state shortages and service crashes. It's the workers. Public Services fouled up? It must be public service workers' foul play.
Could the hailstorm of anti-labor rhetoric be a bellwether for backlash against the public workforce? Ask the students trudging through the slush this week to begin the semester under the controversial new schools chancellor, former media executive Cathie Black. She's poised to continue Bloomberg's agenda of antagonizing teacher unions by attacking tenure policies, while cheerleading the test-heavy, pro-charter "McEducation" model of school reform.
Federal employees and the AFGE union are getting left in the cold, too. Obama has proposed a wage freeze for federal workers, which ITT's Mike Elk likened to Reagan's PATCO fracas. While freezing wages isn't as harsh as unilaterally sacking critical airport personnel, the move may signal open season on civil servants in Washington's spurious hunt for "fiscal savings" (a myth debunked with various empirical studies.)
Dan La Botz writes at Labor Notes, "the move is pure political theater, in terms of reducing the federal deficit. The freeze would shave $5 billion by 2012 from a $1.3 trillion deficit—a minuscule 0.4 percent savings." And even though public sector salaries may look substantial on average, he adds, there is vast inequality in the government payroll, "[ranging] from a VA nursing assistant making $28,000 up to Congress members' $174,000 and beyond."
Capping wages isn't the most egregious example of federal workers serving as budgetary whipping posts. ITT reported previously that the Department of Veterans Affairs has shafted its low-wage employees. Last winter, Senate Republicans blockaded Obama's labor-backed nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers, who might threaten national security by supporting the unionization of luggage screeners.
Yet the disdain for public workers will probably grow as people's frustration with the stagnant economy snowballs. Since government workers symbolize the advantages that private employers have worked hard to destroy, such as strong union representation and guaranteed pensions, it's easy for politicians to stoke resentment toward selfish "bureaucrats" and deflect blame from the real hoarders of the country's wealth in the upper echelons of the corporate hierarchy.
With the right wing ascendancy in the last election, an all out war on unions—public and private—is on the horizon. Nationwide, the New York Times reports, legislatures will weigh anti-labor legislation to curb union organizing and political participation, at a time when Citizens United has blown open the spigot of corporate lucre flowing into GOP campaign coffers.
But is the lack of solidarity between public and private sector workers simply due to sly polemicizing by the right? Or are the leaders of large public unions, increasingly professionalized and detached from the rank and file, also responsible for losing touch with the raw populism that the Tea Party movement so rapidly co-opted?
New York's blizzard exposed the fractiousness of public perceptions of labor; a challenge that the city should have met with collectivity and compassion was manipulated to further divide struggling communities. City, state and federal workers face a battle of attrition, in which they must prove they're not just out to benefit their own members at everyone else's expense. In this hostile climate, the labor movement can't thwart negative stereotypes until it forges grassroots solidarity with a broader labor movement, including the workers who have an even harder slog this winter. That's a kind of "shared sacrifice" that is won not at the bargaining table in the statehouse, but out in the streets.
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... all at once I see a sign that said "Construction Ahead". Hummm, what will this bring, I says to meself (No Nellie, meself didn't answer back...jeeze). Any how, it was pretty much construction almost all the next 200 miles or so. Nothing drastic, like driving on the gravel shoulder or nuthin. Just "sit up and drive the durn thang" kinda construction.
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The MILF Diet: A New Cookbook That Makes Life Pretty Much Unbearable
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When a book arrives on your desk titled The MILF Diet, it's hard to imagine how anything could be much worse than the title itself. But it does get worse. Way, way worse.
It begins as soon as the acknowledgments. Among others, Author Jessica Porter thanks "My stepmother, Anna, a MILF and loving mentor." Whoa, whoa, whoa. Does Porter know what MILF means??? Someone should tell her. Like, really quickly. Either that or there's about to be a really awkward moment between Porter and her father, aka Anna's husband, aka, the dude married to the person Porter wants to ... well, you get it.
Basically, The MILF Diet (full title The MILF Diet: Let the Power of Whole Foods Transform Your Body, Mind and Spirit Deliciously!) is a study in how co-opting slang for capitalist purposes is a minefield that should only be entered by very savvy parties. And from the outset, this book has so many forehead-slapping moments it's obvious that savvy is not what we're dealing with here.
From the back cover: "...the MILF diet is what happens when the Skinny Bitch grows up and gets married." Is this supposed to appeal to someone? Like, are there women out there reading that and saying "yeah, that's me!"
The chapters in the book are divided into phases of "MILFification."
But it gets better. "One of the quickest routes to becoming a MILF is by eating whole, natural foods." Oh. Cool. All clear now. Wait, What?? Yep, the MILF book is not only full of horrible, squirm-inducing, misguided attempts to empower "older" women to think this is a term they should totally be using about themselves, it's also full of healthful hippy hoo-ha, whith a good dose of bullshit spirituality thrown in for good measure. The chapter titled "MILF Sex" (kill me now) begins in part "... a true MILF is sexy in a deep and powerful way. Because she eats whole and balanced foods, she is whole, and her chi runs through her unimpeded." Of course this is all a set up to say that you should lose weight and that will make you sexy. Which may be true, I don't know, but leave the chi out of it.
I'm not even going to tell you where "MILF Sex" goes from there. It's too disturbing.
The recipes look kind of boring and health-food vegan-y and mostly stuff like "Hurry-Curry Vegetables" which advises you to cook a bunch of vegetables (carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, and frozen peas) with low-fat coconut milk and curry powder. If this is the way you have to eat to be attractive then I think I'd like to respectfully opt out of the MILF diet, thanks very much. I'd rather be a WWCCADNTBDBAMSMTFGAH. That's Woman Who Can Cook And Doesn't Need To Be Defined By A Mildly Sexist Moniker To Feel Good About Herself. WWCCADNTBDBAMSMTFGAHs unite!!
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Embarkation: Tampa
We had a small Cruise Critic Meet and Greet. 14 people attended. Seattle had scheduled us for The Mix. The area was not ideal but it served our purpose. The only problem was Seattle neglected to let the ship know about our meeting so no crew came by and no coffee and cookies were served. The Beverage Manager called to apologize when I made the Front Desk aware of the oversight and was ready to schedule another meeting More for us. I declined but thanked him for the offer. I really just wanted them to let Seattle know that they had messed up. Our meeting went well without the cookies but a visit from a Staff member would have been nice.
Cabin 628 – I had bought an HH guarantee, fully obstructed outside and we were placed in an unobstructed outside. That was nice. The cabin was in good shape. Everything worked. The toilet was a little slow occasionally but it always flushed. I set the air conditioner when we entered and never touched it again. It remained at a constant comfortable temperature until the last two days. Then the cabin would warm up until the air kicked in. Others had issues with their air, some never getting it to work. They were provided with fans. I cannot quote room numbers, I wish I could, but these comments were all heard in passing or while waiting at the front desk for other information.
One member of the Cruise Critic group did have to get moved from their cabin. On returning from Key West, the toilet in their cabin was spewing water, flooding right out the door. Maintenance had a hard time shutting off the water. On two occasions, the water in our cabin ran a tan colour before it became clear. Not sure what that was but I noted it on my survey.
Several areas of the ship were quite cold. The Showroom at Sea was always like an icebox. The library and Explorations café were also quite cold. The balance is certainly off in how the air conditioning works. I was told by one of the front office staff that the Ryndam is going into dry dock in March of 2014 but he couldn't tell me what was being done – only soft goods or more extensive repairs. The furnishings in our cabin looked fine as did much of the public space. There are chairs that have seen better days but generally everything looked pretty good.
Food – We ate in the Lido most nights and only made the dining room on the formal nights. There was prime rib on the first formal night and 3 people at our table ordered it. Not one was able to finish it since it was very sinewy. The second formal night had surf and turf. The lobster was a good size but the turf was small, but it was very tender. The first 48 hours in the lido under code orange went much better than I expected with no long lines and the code was lifted after 48 hours. We seem to have a healthy ship. Because food is so subjective, no further comments are necessary. We enjoyed our food and had lots of choices.
There were many multi generational family groups on board. We were told that there were 150 children. For the most part, they were well behaved. I didn't run into any elevator issues or running children or really loud children either.
The Ryndam had three shows most nights – 6:30. 8:00 and 10:00. This worked well since the Showroom is not very large.
Listen to the Music – cast introduction (Only one show) - enjoyed
Rock Legends – Ryndam cast – did not see
Rich Purpura – comedian, mind reader – did not enjoy
Classique – Ryndam cast - enjoyed
Dave Hempstad – Comedian - enjoyed
Droom – Ryandam Cast - enjoyed
Dancing with the Stars finale (only one show) – did not see
Happy hours were in the Ocean bar from 4 to 5 pm and the 9 to 10pm or 10 to 11pm in the Crow's Nest. This varied from one day to the next. It is buy one get one for $1 more.
Explorer's Lounge – Adagio – Piano and violin - enjoyed
Ocean Bar – The Neptunes
Mix – Solo Guitarist – Terry - enjoyed
Piano Bar – Jamm
The Halcats – on deck and the Crow's Nest – actually quite good
Cruise Director – Rick
We had booked no excursions, preferring to get off at each port and wander. However, if you do this cruise, do yourself a favour and book an excursion in Santo Tomas, Guatemala. There is a port building with some souvenir shopping and some entertainment and food but there isn't much else. We booked a trolley excursion at the last minute. It was one hour and took us to Porto Bario where we saw some of the city and how the local people live. We had a very good guide, a local teacher, who does these tours while the winter vacation is on. School is out from November to the middle of January.
Santo Tomas gave us the best send off of all the ports. The locals congregated on the pier, danced for us, played music and as we pulled away from the dock honked the horns of the cars and busses parked at the pier. They love the cruise ships and are really a very friendly people.
Sadly the pillow chocolates are just little golden squares of milk chocolate, not as good as before but as RuthC would say, still chocolate!! We received a blue HAL bag on our second night and I won a bottle of champagne at the Future Cruise presentation. The Champagne this cruise has been better than on the last couple of cruises. They seem to have changed their brand.
Being Canadian we were invited to a Commonwealth Party in the Crow's Nest. We were provided with appetizers and buy one get one for $1 drinks. This is the first time we have seen a Commonwealth Party although others told us they have been to them before. Different happenings on different ships.
There were two Mariner Brunches. Ours was early in the week on the first sea day (two star) and people we met who were 4 star had theirs on the last sea day. I can only imagine we have lots of Mariners aboard.
For the Non US citizens reading this, I should tell you we had a strange disembarkation routine. First, we were not eligible to do self disembarkation. The walk off option was limited to US citizens only. Then on Saturday, after we had already completed our requests for a disembarkation time, we were left a letter that we would have to appear in the Wajang Theater at 6:45 am to meet with Immigration officials. The ship could not be cleared until all non US citizens had been interviewed.
This has never happened at Miami, Fort Lauderdale or Boston. There, we were allowed to walk off and both Customs and Immigration were done in the terminal. I wish we had known about the early timing before we requested a disembarkation time since I would then have picked an earlier time. So, non citizens, be prepared for this type of disembarkation in Tampa. Less
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THose aprons and mitts are adorable. I LOVe that fabric. You could/should sell them?
thanks for stopping in. And I will read further on your blog. How newlywed are you? Congrats!
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Congratulations .. :smile:but why KA didnot attend?
accourding to alghad newspaper the engagement held at Sara`s parents home in Jeddah- Saudi Arabia. ÌÑíÏÉ ÇáÛÏ - ÎØæÈÉ Óãæ ÇáÇãíÑ ÝíÕá Èä ÇáÍÓíä Úáì ÇáÇäÓÉ ÓÇÑÉ ÞÈÇäí |
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i was shocked by the time , announcement way ..... pity for the children whom will celebrate mother's day 2morrow
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Yes it is a very insensitive way to do it. What a father!
congratulation for the couple finally the love story ended with happenies marriage
Petra Amman, March 20 (Petra) -- A statement by the Royal Hashemite Court announced Saturday the Engagement of HRH Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein to Sara Bassam Qabbani. The engagement ceremony took place in Jeddah in the presence of HRH Prince Hashem bin Al Hussein, Royal Court Chief Nasser Lawzy and Royal Family Imam Ahmad Hilayel and members of the Al Qabbani. //Petra// A. |
This is such a surprise!
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Do u know how old is she?
Prince Feisal has four children?
Why should he of got married with out an engagement? :ermm: Sorry to be confused but i don't follow the eastern royal families alot. Congratulations anyway. :smile: |
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I wonder if this was their "nikkah" ceremony.
We know that in the past Petra has used the word engagement interchangeably with nikkah. If that's the case this time then the couple are married under the law. I noticed that the Royal family Imam was also present at the occasion. |
Thanks! So we can expect a wedding soon. Somehow I doubt it will be a grand, public affair. Probably something low-key with just the family present.
I wonder whether or not Sara Qabbani will get a title of Princess and what her role in terms of official engagements will be.
I can't imagine why Sara will not be known as Princess Sara upon her marriage. She will be the wife of Prince Faisal.
Princess Alia has kept her title since the divorce. It is quite clear that she's held in very high regard by the JRF and the Jordanian people, performs official duties and I'm sure will continue to do so. As far as Prince Feisal's new wife-to-be is concerned, I'm sure we'll see her taking up an official role in time. ps...the JRF already has two princesses named Sarah (slightly different spelling though), Prince Zeid's wife and ofcourse one of Prince Feisal's twin daughters. |
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Thank you SO much for the vowel freebie (and idea)!! This will be perfect with some of my groups this year!
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By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra could hardly believe what he heard on television Friday as he watched a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic committee chairman, said his statement had been approved by the CIA director, Michael Hayden. That included the assertion that Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative when her identity was revealed.
As House intelligence committee chairman when Republicans controlled Congress, Hoekstra had tried repeatedly to learn Plame's status from the CIA but got only double talk from Langley. Waxman, 67, the 17-term congressman from Beverly Hills, may be a bully and a partisan. But he is no fool who would misrepresent the director of central intelligence. Waxman was correctly quoting Hayden. But Hayden, in a conference with Hoekstra yesterday, still did not answer whether Plame was covert under the terms of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
The former CIA employee's status is critical to the attempted political rehabilitation of former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife. The Democratic target always has been Karl Rove, President Bush's principal adviser. The purpose of last week's hearing was to blame Rove for "outing" Plame, in preparation for revoking his security clearance.
Claims of a White House plot became so discredited that Wilson was cut out of Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign by the summer of 2004. Last week's hearing attempted to revive a dormant issue. The glamorous Mrs. Wilson was depicted as the victim of White House machinations that aborted her career in intelligence.
Waxman and Democratic colleagues did not ask these pertinent questions: Had not Plame been outed years ago by a Soviet agent? Was she not on an administrative, not operational, track at Langley? How could she be covert if, in public view, she drove to work each day at Langley? What about comments to me by then CIA spokesman Bill Harlow that Plame never would be given another foreign assignment? What about testimony to the FBI that her CIA employment was common knowledge in Washington?
Instead of posing such questions, Waxman said flatly that Plame was covert and cited Hayden as proof. Hayden's endorsement of Waxman's statement astounded Republicans whose queries about her had been rebuffed by the agency. That confirmed Republican suspicions that Hayden is too close to Democrats.
These issues were not explored by the only two Republicans who showed up at last week's hearing. Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, the committee's ranking Republican and former chairman, is a skilled legislator but is not prone to roughhouse with Waxman. Unwilling to challenge Plame's covert status, Davis blamed the CIA instead of the White House for her alleged exposure. The other Republican present -- Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a second-termer from metro Atlanta -- seemed awed by the beautiful woman facing him. "If I seem a little nervous," he began, "I've never questioned a spy before."
Davis had e-mailed the committee's other Republicans requesting their presence. Where were they? I asked Rep. Christopher Shays, who during nine previous terms in Congress had proved a tenacious questioner at hearings. "We felt the committee is so biased," he replied, "we would do better to just stay away."
That decision left the field to such partisan Democrats as Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Rep. Diane Watson, Waxman's fellow Californian, mimicked the chairman's inquisitorial style. She repeatedly interrupted lawyer Victoria Toensing, the lone rebuttal witness granted the Republicans by Waxman.
Toensing testified that Plame was not a covert operative as defined by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which she had helped draft as a Senate staffer in 1982, if only because she was not stationed overseas for the CIA the past five years. Waxman hectored Toensing, menacingly warning that her sworn testimony would be scrutinized for misstatements.
Waxman relied on his support from Hayden. When Hayden's role was pointed out to one of the president's most important aides, there was no response. The White House from the start has treated the Plame leak as a criminal case not to be commented on. The Democrats still consider it a political blunderbuss, aimed at Karl Rove and his boss.
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I was told by a few close friends that Unisom and B-6 helped them or someone they knew. Something about the combination of the two would help block the nausea...
My sweet husband bought sooo much of both. We really stocked up. In fact, we still have a lifetime supply of both over here, so if anyone would like some... :)Ya, it definitely didn't work. The Unisom didn't even help me sleep some of the sickness off.
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I think I understand CCSes now...time for application
I was trying to grok constant current sources as I was looking over some schematics, and I think I finally have it, I wondered "How can the output voltage across the tube change, if the current through the tube doesn't change?" Then it struck me, it's the current through the series combination that stays constant! If the tube conducts harder, the active device (tube, transistor, etc.) conducts less and vice versa, keeping the total current through both devices constant - the two devices fight each other in essence. If the current through the current source decreases when the tube draws more its effective resistance increases, and again vice versa, a mirror image of whatever the tube does. So this is how it behaves like a dynamic resistor with a high effective impedance, causing the Rl term in u/1+rp/rl to drop out and make the gain essentially mu.
I'm working towards building my first tube power amp project and I have been interested in the single ended 6EM7-based projects since they seem pretty straightforward and relatively inexpensive, and I've also been reading about current sources both solid state and based on high transconductance pentodes. I'd like to modify the basic single ended design to make it "my own" by using constant current sources, and I've been thinking about adding a tube mu follower or solid state CCS load for the 6EM7 triode, and something based on the LM317 to the cathode of the output stage - if I used a pentode for the signal triode's plate load I could bias all the tube's heaters up to prevent heater to cathode breakdown on the pentode, and also direct couple the two 6EM7 sections while I'm at it, right? Maybe put a voltage regulator tube or two in there for the screen of the constant current source if it's a pentode (someone gave me 10 0D3s and several 0A3 (please help me put them to some use!) Are there any high transconductance dual pentodes to keep parts count down? Any comments or suggestions on a design like this would be welcome. |
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You'd probably be best trying in the 'Tubes' forum.
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Compare Remote Patient Management and Standard Care in CRT-D and ICD-patients to Assess the Effect on Heart Failure (ConnectOptiVol)
This study has been completed.
Medtronic Bakken Research Center
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First received: June 19, 2008
Last updated: February 14, 2017
Last verified: February 2017
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This pilot study is to prospectively evaluate the benefit of clinicians being able to access ICD device information in a timelier manner and treat fluid overload with a pre-defined pattern using the Medtronic OptiVol, Medtronic CareAlerts and Medtronic CareLink in Conexus-enabled devices (remote arm) as compared to the same devices without Medtronic OptiVol, Medtronic CareAlerts and Medtronic CareLink available to the treating physician (standard arm).
Condition | Intervention |
Heart Failure Ventricular Tachycardia Cardiac Desynchronization |
Behavioral: Device triggered remote telephone contact because of Care Alert |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: No masking Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Clinical Evaluation to Assess the Effect of the Combination of a Pre-Defined Management Pathway to Reduce Fluid Overload in Cardiac Decompensation With Carelink Remote Management, Connexus Remote Telemetry and the OptiVol Early Warning System on Health Care Utilization |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Time to first hospitalization due to worsened heart failure [ Time Frame: 15 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time from device detected onset of arrhythmias, cardiovascular disease progression and system issues to clinical decision making [ Time Frame: 15 months ]
Enrollment: | 180 |
Study Start Date: | November 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | August 2013 |
Primary Completion Date: | April 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: 1
Remote Arm (OptiVol plus Connexus Telemetry plus CareLink plus Intervention Algorithm), Clinical Management Alerts ON
Behavioral: Device triggered remote telephone contact because of Care Alert
Care Alerts on, physician will be notified in case of an Care Alert. Depending on the outcome of the telephone contact drug adjustment and / or further interventions can be prescribed
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No Intervention: 2
No Care Alerts available, standard treatment of the patient
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Implantation of a market-approved Medtronic Connexus CRT-D- or DR-ICD-device
- Patient consents to study
- Ability to replace follow-ups with CareLink follow-ups
- Ability to attend all follow-ups at study center
Exclusion Criteria:
- Permanent AF
- Less than 18 years of age
- Life expectancy less than 15 months
- Participation in another clinical study
- Pregnancy
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00730548
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00730548
Germany | |
University Hospital of Goettingen | |
Goettingen, Germany, 37099 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
Medtronic Bakken Research Center
Principal Investigator: | Markus Zabel, MD | University Hospital of Goettingen |
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 27, 2017
Responsible Party: | Medtronic Bakken Research Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00730548 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | June 19, 2008 |
Last Updated: | February 14, 2017 |
Individual Participant Data | |
Plan to Share IPD: | No |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Failure Tachycardia Tachycardia, Ventricular Heart Diseases |
Cardiovascular Diseases Arrhythmias, Cardiac Pathologic Processes |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 27, 2017


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Head Radical Tour Bumblebee Hi all, I am planning to buy first version of rad tour (bumblebee) and wondering what's reasonable price for these sticks in average condition. On auction site they are listed around 70 ,80. I thought that's too much.. Thanks Note: Changed the Title
If you're looking for one made in Austria (not the later remakes) and in pretty good condition, I doubt you'll find much better deals. It's getting harder and harder to find them in good condition, so the price isn't really going to go much lower.
I have a brand new one and am wondering what a good price for it would be. It is the midplus version.
Hi All, I am able to get couple of bumblebees and here are some of the pics. The strange thing i noticed is on the throat of one of the racquet it says "HEAD Austria" not "HEAD Made in Austria". I found it strange !! The other one just has HEAD and it looks like it was a made in china version. I replaced the grommets and bumper guard as they are badly worn out.
Hi, I think out of the two i got one is made in Austria and the other is made in china. I found an old thread referring to the same http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=104631 It seems the "HEAD Austria" on throat is some limited edition release. I have now three Radical Tour OS and and no two are same version !! (one Made in Austria , one Made in China and the other i think Made in Austria). I also have one MP which is made in Austria and has Radical Trysys 260 on one side of the throat.
Hi, I haven't hit with these new ones yet. I really liked playing with the original one which i already have. I need to string these two ( as i am replacing the grommets and bumper guard). I have a reel of Prince Original Syn Gut and planning to get Gosen OG Sheep Micro. Any String suggestions for these. thanks
I've got a few of the originals and the reissues, and if it doesn't say "MADE IN AUSTRIA#" on it, you most likely have the later reissued made in China ones...you can also tell by the "ART#231770" on the inside of the throat. The made in China Radical Tour looks almost the same as the original, is still a very solid frame but as many have said, probably is just pure Graphite without the Twaron the original ones made in the mid 1990s had.
Same rackets, different names for different markets. The Trisys 260 was for sale in America. The Radical Tour was for sale in Europe and elsewhere.
Radical 260/Tours - great sticks. Still play with them; like the Pro Tour but a little stiffer. 70-80 for reasonable condition is a fair price. You may find one cheaper but I wouldn't hold my breath. Bumpers - easy to find/replace. The Prestige CAPS fit and work well for me. String wise - I have been playing with a gut/poly hybrid. Feels and plays great. Recently I took the plunge and hit a full bed of poly in 40's. I'm smitten and my elbow is holding out well.


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Shutter Sound Can anyone direct me, if it's possible, to turn off the shutter sound whilst using the cam on le` Daytona?;-) :razz: Thanks again.... |
Nope, can't shut it off. |
You can try a little subterfuge to distract. I usually cough or sneeze when I take a picture.:razz: |
God that stinks.....how will you pretend to read your email and snap a pic of a hot bartenders low cut top????? What were they thinking???? |
I think that is what they were thinking actually! :) |
You also need to remember to turn off the autoflash as that blinking bright light is a dead giveaway! |
Just say you are a producer!8-) |
hahahahahah......was just wondering! To hell with that, I'm bold enough to take pics of what I want! If you leave your house, you're fair game for me!!!! I get better images with the flash on though Greg, so an obvious boy I shall be! |
Just click the picture IsleAquatica-NiuNiu, yell "You've just been Berried" and run away!!:razz: They'll be wondering who the heck you where for weeks!!:shock: |
hahahahaha.....that's great, you've been berried! I may do that...if I get caught being sneaky! |
i just say " you look like my friend so and so and i need to send them your pic" ... works everytime! |
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