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Schnoodle, Doodle, Poodle Hybrid Chat Forum
Schnoodle, Doodle, Poodle Hybrid Chat Forum
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Joy needs help with Zola in San Diego
Wed Jul 10 1:36am
Hi everyone, Its good to connect again, although this is very difficult for me to share. I am supposed to be the helper, not the one asking for help. I have been going through a difficult time. I became very ill with a flu virus or something. After 5 days in my version of hell, I spent 5 days in the hospital. I am now ...
NYE Litter/Happy Birthday!
Mon Dec 31 12:11pm
Hello Everyone, Happy NYE and a huge happy birthday to my big boy, Murray and all his litter mates! (Dec 31, 2010- NYE babies) Murray is now 8 years old and such a gentle soul. He is about 110 pounds (big boy) and we are grateful he has been happy and healthy. He loves to chase bunnies, and birds, and loves cuddling....
Re: NYE Litter/Happy Birthday!
Fri Jun 28 7:56pm
Re: NYE Litter/Happy Birthday!
Sun May 26 10:57pm
Age for hip xrays
Sun Dec 30 10:45pm
Hi there. Our dog, Shelby, was from the May 25,2006 litter and still going strong, despite her rather advanced years. Strangely, despit seeing the trouble she had getting into our car or truck, it hadnt occurred to us to have her hips checked. It was only when she was xrayed 2 years ago for a leg injury that the vet...
Re: Age for hip xrays
Mon Dec 31 2:08am
Schnoodle Queestion
Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:52am
We're trying to find a mini schnoodle puppy that has a tail (we don't believe in docking. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks!
Schnoodle question
Fri Jul 6 9:24pm
Schnoodle hair
Jennet ,
Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:11pm
I have a 4 month old schnoodle who favors the schnauzer side. I am wondering about his ears. They are straight hair and look like a schnauzers. I groom my own dogs. Will they grow? They havent yet. Thanks
Schnoodle hair
Sat Feb 17 9:11pm
Re: Schnoodle hair
Sat Feb 17 9:12pm
Xena is the Dog
Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:37pm
Who's photo is at the top of this forum.
Update: Devils of Death
Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:12pm
UPDATE: Xena is dead! I am devastated! In my search, I have uncovered Angels or s/b devils of DEATH! Here's the scoop. There are a couple of vets in San Diego, hiring other vets (qualified?) who do in home euthanasia, approx $300 tp $400 a pop. This is a good service however, since they do not scan for microchips,...
I am devastated!
Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:09pm
Stolen Dog Have You Seen This Dog? Reward for Information Leading to Her Live Return Xena: Giant schnoodle Female: Black Striped collar with large ID tag Chip# 4427741801 License# 788279 Last in care of Joyce Moore & her daughter, Kathy, (when owner had car accident) Xena may have been dropped at a vet, claiming they...
Evanger's pet food recall - please share widely
Sun Feb 19, 2017 4:55pm
Joy, I hope it's OK to post this here. One dog already has died as a result of eating this dog food. Hi everyone, FDA released its summary inspection reports on Evanger's last Friday and they are dynamite. 1. FDA confirmed pentobarbital in cans of Evanger's and Against the Grain dog food 2. Birds flying around,...
Thx Phyllis
Mon Feb 20 10:52pm
You're welcome, Joy
Tue Feb 21 10:34pm
Xena & Joy doing Mexican Hat Dance
Sun Dec 4, 2016 10:52pm
Xena is almost 15. She has been blind for 2 yrs until I developed an eye treatment. Now she sees. She has deaf days & hearing days. She has amazing energy for an old girl. My cell phone camera isn't great. You have to use your imagination bcs the audio is terrible but Watch her prance & dance. She's such a ham, but...
Mac sends his last ver to his sister. (nm)
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Mon Dec 5 3:40am
Xena sending love back atcha Mac! (nm)
Sun Dec 11 7:25pm
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Mon Dec 5 3:41am
Finding Lost Dog by Laying Track
Inventing Joy,
Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:48pm
Finding lost dogs Laying Track By Joy de la Ren ©August 1 2016 Back Story Yesterday, Karma, my standard poodle bolted out the door of my office chasing a possum. She did not come when called. It was dark and I drove around for an hour calling and looking for her. I vascillated between being furious at her and being...
Test reply
Tue Oct 18 6:52am
btw: After thought
www.GiantSchnoodles.com caringpr,
Fri Sep 9, 2016 7:04pm
I meant to tell you, I found the photos of Max as therapy. I'm learning the new technology so hopefully I'll post them. they are really great.
Does mac have cataracts? &or........
www.GiantSchnoodles.com caringpr,
Fri Sep 9, 2016 7:03pm
Mac is a littermate of Xena isn't he? I know he's my grandpup. I shouldn't have to ask. But it's hard to keep track. If it isn't for you Kelly, I wouldn't remember any birthdays LOL. Have you seen any sign of cataracts? How about tumors? How about the other Giant Schnoodles on this site? I'm trying to think of who...
Yes Mac is Xena's litter mate.
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Sat Sep 10 2:23am
Xena Was Blind But Now.....
Sun Sep 4, 2016 8:25pm
Good news! Xena has cataracts & has been blind for the last couple of years. I was in San Diego last month. For some reason all 3 dogs had goopy eyes. Of course I didn't have my terocycline eye meds with me. while considering spending $100, vet bill, Rx & eye meds purchase, I dropped by a pet store & picked up a...
That is great..
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Sun Sep 4 11:27pm
Question re Towel
www.GiantSchnoodles.com caringpr,
Mon Sep 5 10:25pm
I am so excited about Xena
www.GiantSchnoodles.com caringpr,
Mon Sep 5 10:21pm
The towel helps get him in. He manages to get out.
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Mon Sep 5 11:33pm
posting videos
www.GiantSchnoodles.com caringpr,
Tue Sep 6 12:14am
It is hell getting older!
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Tue Sep 6 1:09am
Getting older
Wed Sep 7 12:58am
I want a magic mirror also. LOL
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Wed Sep 7 2:18am
so true
www.GiantSchnoodles.com caringpr,
Tue Sep 6 1:27pm
Tue Aug 9, 2016 8:02pm
One of the original schnoodles died yesterday leaving her litter mate Zues behind. With tremendous sadness the good bye left 5 kids and 6 best dog friends behind. She was 13 years old and the best sniffer in the world. Our most saddest thing is that we wont say "Zora what are you sniffing" and of course she was spot...
Wed Aug 17 9:27pm
the sniffer
Wed Aug 10 5:42pm
Original Schnoodle litter.
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Wed Aug 10 11:57am
Mac is still gimpy
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Thu Aug 18 12:42am
hup hup car
Thu Aug 18 3:59pm
I will have to try the towel.
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Thu Aug 18 4:11pm
Mac was born on April 9th. (nm)
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Thu Aug 11 4:30am
From Fireworks Fear to Bang Lets Party! Fireworks Dog Train
Sun Jul 3, 2016 1:07am
From Fireworks Fear to Bang Lets Party! Fireworks Dog Training By Inventing Joy Fireworks is one of the reasons for lost dogs. The sound of fireworks is so frightening that dogs will often run & get lost. These are the steps that I used for reducing & ultimately eliminating the fear thus the reason for running away...
The Loss of the Friends I Have Yet to Meet Shot June 12, 201
Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:46pm
The Loss of the Friends I Have Yet to Meet Shot June 12, 2016 Sunday: Last week my RV broke down in Hillcrest, a San Diego, largely gay community. I was a stranger alone. Monday: Everywhere I went, people were friendly, smiling, supportive to my plight. A Jewish man & wife invited me into their home. Advised me on...
Very well said, Joy. (nm)
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Wed Aug 10 12:02pm
I did it!
Sat May 28, 2016 10:52pm
Hi everyone, Xena had her surgery & it all went well. She's doing fine. I'm having a hard time recovering. The tumors were tested & she doesn't have cancer. Yay! She has pulled stitches & I had to have some restitching done. But she is fine. My biggest fear about general anasthesia didn't happen.She didn't die. I had...
Mac's dinner dance
Kelly, Mac and Roni,
Fri May 20, 2016 12:11am
I don't know if I ever told you about Mac's dinner dance. I wish that I had recorded it before he tore his ACL. He still does it, but it is not flamboyant like it used to be. He made it up on his own. When he decides that it is dinner time we tell him to do the dinner dance. He has been such a "joy". He has been a...
Dinner Dance
Inventing Joy,
Thu Jun 2 11:00am
To Breed or Not to Breed
Inventing Joy,
Sun May 8, 2016 12:38am
Hi Everyone, Moving on to the future. I am considering breeding my best Female, Mirage. Mirage is the mirage I saw on the horizon, 15 years ago when I founded the breed: Giant Schnoodles of Joy. She has the perfect confirmation, perfect coat, perfect head, laid back personality. In short she is everything I was...
I made a decision
Sat May 28 10:55pm
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Harrington Hoists, Inc., Manheim, PA, and Corona, CA, earned ISO 9001:2008 registration. The firm, a Kito Group company, manufactures material-handling products such as chain and wire-rope hoists, crane systems and crane components.
Microsoft and Technology Evaluation Center have certified AIM Computer Solutions, Fraser, MI, as a Discrete Manufacturing (ERP) Software Vendor. AIM provides ERP software to small to medium-sized repetitive manufacturers, with a focus on automotive suppliers.
Material-handling equipment provider Jervis B. Webb Co., Farmington Hills, MI, has achieved ISO 14001:2004 certification for its North American plants in Harbor Springs and Boyne City, MI, and its corporate headquarters. The standard requires companies to continually improve their environmental performance and implement a systematic approach to setting and achieving environmental targets and objectives. As part of its efforts to comply to ISO 14001, Jervis B. Webb initiated recycling programs to minimize waste. To date, its two manufacturing plants have recycled more than 1000 lb. of plastic shrink-wrap. The facilities also have transitioned from metal-halide lights to fluorescent lighting, and have installed sensors to automatically turn lights off in inactive areas.Dorner Manufacturing, Hartland, WI, announced that its 2200 series low-profile belt conveyors have received the Ultraclean Products Approval Laboratory certification for use in ISO Standard 14664-1 Class 5 and Federal Standard 209 Class 100-rated cleanrooms.
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I just wanted to say that I'm so proud to see all the amazing reactions and support that I've been getting! Last month I posted a picture on Instagram where I was talking about sexual abuse and it's great to see how women are stepping up and sharing their stories! Did anyone else see the #Metoo or the #IkOok campaign on social media? Isn't it devastating to see that so many women have experience(s) with sexual violence?
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Lapis Lazuli
Commonly confused as a mineral, Lapis Lazuli is actually a rock. Lapis is composed of multiple minerals, which are Lazurite, Sodalite, Pyrite and Pyroxene. Lapis has been mined for over 6000 years for ornamental purposes and jewelry. Lapis Lazuli was one of the most valued stones of the ancient Egyptians, and was used for making pigments. Cleopatra favored the deep blue pigment for her iconic blue eyeshadow.
Metaphysical Properties
Lapis Lazuli is a strong stone that works with opening up our intuition and ability to retain information. It also can relieve headaches, and jaw tension when held or placed on the forehead. Carrying Lapis Lazuli during a class, or in a meeting will help one learn and retain the information being discussed.


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Your ideal solution can be to make inexpensive gift baskets. They can be customized for every person that you give them to or they can be identical. With careful planning you can make them look like a million while still keeping you finances in check. When you make inexpensive gift baskets they definitely don't have to look cheap.
If you happen to be a coffee and chocolate lover or if you know someone who would turn cartwheels for coffee and chocolate ~ this post is for you! I have listed below some awesome Christmas Gift Basket Ideas, that are centered around…you guessed it coffee & chocolate!
Keep them well stocked on soaps with this assortment of nine spa quality aromatherapy soaps. Each one features a different fragrance that serves a different purpose. Scents like Lime Cardamom, Rosemary Lavender, Lemon Neroli, give you a hint of what they're in store for.
This line of budget gift baskets were designed and priced for individuals or companies with a budget. All of these baskets are available for your individual or large scale gift needs. These gifts are designed with the same creativity and quality as all of our other gifts they are just priced for larger orders. These gift baskets will meet all of your corporate gift needs for the holidays or your event gift needs for conventions or large meetings. Gift baskets delivered to the rooms of your out of town guests are a great way to make someone feel welcome. This line of discount gift baskets is perfectly suited for use as hospitality gifts, attendee gift baskets, or any other type of event gift baskets.
They're sometimes naughty, sometimes nice, a little bit picky, and a lotta bit awesome. That's why we've chosen thirteen of the best kid and teen-approved gift baskets that are sure to put smiles on those sweet faces!
Gone are the days when coaches stood on the sidelines in suits and ties like Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi. Now they look just like you and me. Think Bill Belichick in his hoodie. But they still need the tools of the trade, just like the old days. This list of gifts for coaches has […]
Do you know someone who deserves a pampering? Get them this spa themed basket! It has a set of wonderful vanilla scented bath gel, soap, lotion, and bath salts. Not a bad gift for a bridal shower or mother's day.
Don't forget their monthly clubs! Harry & David have several affordable monthly club options. That means you can still give a gift that keeps on giving without hurting the budget. We recommend the chocolate club – three months for $99.99!
To test gift baskets, we ordered 11 baskets that cost around $100 from each of the top companies we researched. We took careful notes of how the baskets arrived and what condition they were in before we opened them up and spread the contents out in our break room. We gave each of our testers a ballot with the names of each basket and room to rate five food items from each basket. We also had our testers vote on the best basket overall and any food items that exceeded expectations. We then collected all the ratings and ranked baskets by the average of all the food scores.
Gift Baskets are always SO fun to receive – but do you struggle with how to put together the perfect personalized bundle for somebody else? I created an easy and sweet DIY gift basket for a baker or anyone who loves kitchen goodies! (So, basically, for anyone.) Using a batter bowl and some inexpensive colorful kitchen items it was so easy and the presentation is darling! Come see how to do it yourself and recreate it in minutes. While you're here – check out all of the other ideas I found for Gift Baskets as Thank You, Christmas and Neighbor Gifts, Get Well, Birthday Gift baskets, New Homeowner and Housewarming gifts, Manly gift bundles and more! Any one of these would make MY day:
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Looking for the perfect Get Well gift or something to make a friend smile who is going through a hard time? Who wouldn't be cheered up with this darling Gift Basket full of SUNSHINE!? Includes FREE Printable Gift Tags | Melly Moments Blog
The containers that they are looking for need to be unusual for the season, so they are looking for the new and interesting that hasn't been seen before. One of the reasons they are doing this is so people can't judge the cost of things if they are not familiar with them.
All of our gourmet gift baskets are made fresh daily with products that are shelf stable for months after the ship date. Even during peak summer temperatures the products we use just need to be brought back to room temperature and they are just fine
This list is so awesome! It has lots of different ideas that I haven't seen on Pinterest/done by others yet. I can't wait to use one to ask my girls!! I like the clothespin dolls a lot for some reason, they are so cute. The necklaces and scratch off cards too! Such great ideas!
If you really want to spoil someone, get them this California combo. A beautiful faux leather magazine holder filled with all the best California goodies, like cider, smoked salmon, Ghirardelli chocolate and almonds. Perfect for a workplace party or housewarming, a wedding gift even!
The orchards must have been truly abundant to put together this fruit basket. It includes a sampling of different fresh fruits, mixed with cheese, crackers, nuts, and even chocolate covered cherries. There are also fruit themed items, like caramel to dip the apples into. Yum!
Do you have a special someone who loves beer? Get them this beer guzzler's dream basket. A sleek black basket filled with all the best beer-related items: pint glasses, beer pong cups and balls, snacks… he probably already has the beer! This is a perfect combo for a housewarming, student party or birthday.
This cute vintage gift basket features all the kitchen necessities – in vintage style! It is a perfect surprise for somebody who enjoys retro items and unique details in their house. The set includes a vintage apron, old school kitchenware and a few retro cookbooks.
Gift basket ideas: gift baskets are a wonderful gift for family, the workplace or a significant occasion, such as housewarming or engagement. Nowadays you can find all kinds of gift baskets for any celebration. They come in all prices and styles, so you can find the perfect gift basket idea within your budget range. Here is an assortment of some of the most unique and beautiful baskets that we found for you.
Make the celiac in your life happy with this basket. It has delicious cookies, crisps, crackers and all the wonderful things that celiacs normally can't eat. This is a perfect gift for any celebration.
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A rider would love this gift! It includes amazing goodies for both a rider, and a horse. It comes with craft soaps and other bath goodies, and horse grooming accessories. This would make for wonderful gift basket ideas for Christmas or birthday. Everything is beautifully crafted and handmade, for that extra touch of luxury.
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Our Anniversary Gift Ideas for Him: Need some Anniversary gift ideas for him? Then look no further than I Woof To Drink Wine Gift Basket. This Anniversary gift basket has everything he could want and more.
There can be five parts on how you make inexpensive gift baskets, the basket or container, the stuffing or shred (not always needed), the transparent wrap or cellophane to wrap it, the bow/ornament and card to top it all off and of course the gifts that you are making the basket with. You might already have some of the items already on hand which will bring the cost down.
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If there's someone in your family who loves watching sports, then you should get them this amazing sports-themed basket. It has a bunch of different snacks, a book and other sports paraphernalia. It's basically everything you need to get the stadium atmosphere into your living room.
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7. DIY Cupcake Kit (Non-Toy Gifts) – You say cupcake, we say "yes!" Younger tykes will love the colorful assembly, and super-sweet taste factor, of this unique gift! {Or snatch up this kit! It would be the ultimate gift for the baker in your life!}
This gorgeous gift basket is all about out-of-this earth candles. It's an amazing gift for someone with a sweet tooth or someone who loves details. The basket includes a hot chocolate rum and gingerbread candle – a wonderful gift for Christmas or autumn birthday.
Our Anniversary Gift Ideas for Her: Hazelton's has many Anniversary gift ideas for her, but our personal favorite is The Sail Away Gift Basket. This delightful basket is the perfect Anniversary gift to express just how much she truly means.
Everything a man needs to keep his skin looking and feeling great has been rounded up and put in this can. It includes things like scrub soap, hand butter, shave gel, after shaving lotion, and more. The can is reusable after all the products have been used up.
If it is a baby shower basket then a rattle or a silver spoon would make a sweet choice. Often you can find small items at garage sales and liquidation stores for under 25 cents that would make great bow additions. A little add-on can make inexpensive gift baskets really pop and move to the next level.
50. Christmas Decor/Wrap Kit (A Girl and A Glue Gun) – A lack of tape will be a thing of the past with this perfectly complete Christmas decor/gift box. For even MORE decor fun, surprise your neighbors with our Ding-Dong Ditch Doorstep Christmas Surprise!


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November 6, 2014
Contact: Robert Soard
First Assistant County Attorney
County Attorney Vince Ryan Appoints Dahm Assistant County Attorney
Lisa L. Dahm has been appointed Assistant County Attorney to work in the Public Law Group and serve as the Privacy Officer for Harris County. Dahm was sworn in on September 10 at the Harris County Attorney's Office at 1019 Congress in downtown Houston.
Dahm, an adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, has published and presented extensively on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), privacy issues in general and contract negotiations and drafting. She brings with her experience as a solo practitioner, consultant and in-house counsel for major healthcare systems, physicians' offices, insurance providers and information technology corporations.
At South Texas College of Law, Dahm developed the Contracts Negotiations and Drafting and Contracts Building Blocks courses that are now part of the school's permanent curriculum. She also served as the Director of Continuing Legal Education for more than eight years.
Prior to her time in academia, Dahm was Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, where she specialized in healthcare consulting services and was a founding member of the firm's HIPAA task force, which was responsible for developing the firm's standard methodology for delivering HIPAA services.
"Lisa Dahm will no doubt contribute immensely to the continued success of our Office in ensuring compliance with federal and state privacy and security laws," County Attorney Vince Ryan said. "We are pleased to have such a dynamic and results-orientated professional on board."
As the County's Privacy Officer, Dahm will manage privacy compliance activities to ensure countywide practices, policies and procedures are compliant with HIPAA and related federal and state privacy and security laws. She will also provide general legal services to Harris County's Information Technology Center regarding privacy and security of information, with an emphasis on HIPAA privacy matters.
"It is very exciting to be back working in my field," Dahm said. "The opportunity to focus on privacy issues on behalf of Harris County is thrilling."
Dahm, who graduated with honors and earned her Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law, also holds an LLM in Health Law from the University of Houston. She completed her undergraduate studies in Zoology and Psychology at Duke University and went on to log post-graduate studies at Queens College and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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The Harris County Attorney's Office represents the County, its departments, elected and appointed officials, and employees in all civil matters that involve county business. The Office represents the Harris County Hospital District, the Harris County Flood Control District, the Harris County Appraisal Review Board, and the Greater 911 Emergency Network, which are separate legal entities. The Office also represents the State of Texas in mental health commitments and children's protective services cases and assists Harris County in administration of the guardianship program, which cares for elderly and disabled individuals who are unable to care for themselves.
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This looks like a really great film! It's showing Friday June 21st & Saturday June 22nd:
This rousing, pioneering gem--not only the first Saudi Arabian feature shot within the Kingdom, but the first ever directed by a woman--focuses on a remarkable 10-year-old girl named Wadjda, who sets her sights on buying a beautiful green bicycle so she can race her friend Abdullah through the suburban streets of Riyadh. But in this conservative society, virtuous girls don't ride bikes, and her mother forbids it. The rebellious Wadjda decides to raise the money herself--by entering a Koran recitation competition at her school. The troublemaker must pose as a pious, model student to achieve her goal.
How this cheekily subversive tale, whose heroine confronts centuries of male-dominated tradition, got made in Saudi Arabia is a small miracle. It will probably never be shown there--the country has no cinemas--but audiences everywhere else will happily succumb to its charms.
International Showcase
(Germany, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, 2012, 97 mins, DCP)
In Arabic with English subtitlesDirected By:
Haifaa Al Mansour
Executive Producers: Christian Granderath, Louise Nemschoff, Bettina Ricklefs, Rena Ronson, Hala Sarhan
Producers: Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
Screenwriter: Haifaa Al Mansour
Cinematographer: Lutz Reitemeier
Editor: Andreas Wodraschke
Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf
Music: Max Richter
Hosted by Levantine Cultural Center, Muslim Public Affairs Council's Hollywood Bureau, Women in Film


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I think cat's point is, what about countries with multiple common or official languages? Switzerland, for instance, has four. South Africa has eleven. Even tiny Wales has two... How are we to decide which languages most represent a country?
I'm planning on adding some sort of tag cloud thing to pages going forward, to allow people to add way more relevant custom info to their pages. Maybe one generic one, or several different ones with one being languages.
I still don't get the point.
Quote from: selmiak on 07 May 2018, 00:02I still don't get the point.What flag would you use for an Arabic translation?
What flag would you use for a Hindi translation (Hindi is spoken by 422 million people in India)? What flag would you use for Bengali (spoken by 83 million people in India)?
What flag would you use for a Spanish translation? What if it was typically Mexican Spanish? How Mexican would it have to be?
For the usability we should make a poll or just scan through the database and check for the most used languages for translations, then offer these languages clickable with a checkbox on the "add new game" page, like list the 5-10 most used languages, which are probably german, french, italian, spanish, russian and some, then have all the rest hidden and revealed by some extra click just to not clutter up the add game form.
Language codes like en, en-US, pt-BR, ... Look better, and possibly allow passing things like en in query and get en*.
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I spent my weekend doing this:
Sock yarn rinsing in the sink after being dyed
and this:
Photo taken in the light box I made yesterday for taking pictures of items for sale.
Which means there will be yarn in the Everything Old store very soon!
We also took Rei to the petting zoo, which was a great hit, but I foolishly forgot to bring some sort of camera. I'll take pictures next time.
ps. I hope you like the new blog background - I think it makes it much easier to see pictures, and it feels more bright and spring-ish, which is a nice change.


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On the 13th of May, I got to know that, just like the Google Page Rank, there is also something called Alexa Traffic Rank. I decided to check the Alexa Rank for my blog. It was 2,067,678 that day, and NO... 'higher' is NOT better in Alexa!
Anyways, I installed the little button they give to add in your sidebar, and today (26th of May) this button looks like this! In just 2 weeks time, my Alexa Rank has gone up from 2,067,678 to 799, 562! WOW!
Here is a detailed Screenshot of my blog-listing from Alexa:
Do you see that "3 month change" figure at the bottom? 800% UP! Phewwww! All thanks to you guys, you know - all my readers (fans?) out there!
And that's not all! My Traffic Rank in India is even better... 30,802! Check this Screenshot:
Funnily, I also seem to have developed a good reader-base in Belgium! I wonder which one of you guys is located there! :-/
But you know, the best part is Alexa's Customer Service!
I was not able to 'claim' my 'listing' on their site 'coz it automatically took Blogger as the owner of this blog. And since this is not a self-hosted site, there was no way I could upload the 'info.txt' file they wanted me to, in my 'root folder'. Frankly, I don't even know what my 'root folder' is for this blog! So I used the Contact form given on their website and asked them if there was any other way I could claim my blog there.
I actually received a reply from them! And they even offered to edit my listing manually, if only I could show them, on this blog, the same email address with which I'd contacted them! Well, that was easy - the email ID is there on my blogger profile, which, in turn, can be accessed from my "About Me" section in the sidebar! From that day onwards, my blog listing on Alexa proudly displays MY information, instead of the default blogger details! :-D
P.S. - Just in case you are wondering, Alexa isn't paying me for doing this write-up! LOL! They don't even know that I'm a satisfied "Customer" (if at all I can be called that, considering the fact that I'm using their services free of cost!)... because I never did fill-out the "Customer Satisfaction Survey" their email asked me to participate in! :-p
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With school projects and class tests upon us once again, finding a few useful resources that may help the kids out can be extremely beneficial. With the world of technology growing with each and every day, the availability of fantastic learning resources online increases exponentially. Many kids struggle with maths from a young age and a helping hand along the way could be exactly what they need.
With kids more tech savvy than ever, they love to get their hands on smartphones and tablets and will love exploring the world of online learning in this way. Here we outline three of the best websites to help your kids out with their maths skills:
Class maths is a Galway based, Irish website dedicated to providing top quality maths resources to primary school aged children. The website works by linking kids to fun games based on their chosen aspect of their maths curriculum. Games cover basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as well as algebra, shapes and code.
IXL focuses on encouraging children to have fun while learning maths. The website is directly aligned to the Irish primary, Junior Cert and Leaving Cert curriculums, offering endless practice problems and exercises. The site caters for students at all levels, ranging from junior infants up to fifth year. IXL offers kids a chance to learn basic and more complicated maths skills in a fun and exciting way. Site membership fees apply (€59 annually).
Mathletics.eu Over 100,000 students in Europe are now using Mathletics, with more joining every day. Mathletics can be used by schools or by students studying on their own. Students of all ages are catered for, with a 'Mathletics Hall of Fame' displayed on the site, encouraging students into healthy competition with one another. With parent reporting enabling parents to monitor their child's progress and a wide range of tools and resources available, mathletics is a new and engaging way for kids to improve on those all important maths skills. (€39 per child per 12 month subscription)
For information on lots more learning resources on Schooldays.ie click here.
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I wanted to suggest a new website that could help students to prepare for the maths leaving cert exam, mathXplain.com is completely free and uses colourful slides in a funny and easy to understand way.
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These 3 websites are really useful. But there is another one that I am sharing here i.e championtutor.hk This website also help your kids in Mathematics.


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Well, it's the day - solar eclipse day. A once in a lifetime event. Are you ready? Do you have your glasses? Will you see the total eclipse or partial eclipse?
According to the Washington Post, "the path of totality — the 70-mile-wide strip of America from Oregon to South Carolina in which the moon will, for a couple of minutes, block the sun — crosses the homes of an estimated 11 million people."
A total eclipse is something that happens once in a lifetime (if you are lucky; every 400 years or so). Well, today, our modern economy is converging with past sales tax law creating a sales tax 'eclipse' and is having difficulty figuring out how to look at it. We need the 'right glasses' to be able to tax remote retailers (online sellers) and marketplace platform providers. Amazon, since it is the largest marketplace provider I am aware of, has become the creator of this convergence, or sales tax 'eclipse.'
We - state and federal governments, departments of revenue, taxpayers and tax professionals - must accept the fact that this sales tax 'eclipse' is happening. We must also work together to find the 'right glasses' or we will cause damage to our 'eyes' (economy and state revenue).
Currently, states have imposed economic nexus standards and use tax notice and reporting requirements ALL with the intent to skirt the physical presence standard established by the Quill court case. The physical presence standard requires a retailer to have a physical presence standard in the state before the state can require the retailer to collect sales tax.
I am all for states figuring out the best way to tax these remote retailer transactions; or first determining if they should tax it. I get that the states need revenue. What I disagree with is how states are going about trying to make it happen. Adopting economic nexus laws that fly in the face of Quill to simply get companies to challenge the economic nexus law is ridiculous. States want taxpayers to either comply or challenge the law, hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will take the case and overturn Quill.
The use tax notice and reporting requirements are more burdensome and complicated than simply collecting and remitting sales tax. Again, another indirect way that states are simply trying to get companies to collect sales tax. If you can't change the law, create a law that is more complicated so companies choose the less burdensome road. I get it, but I disagree with it.
Companies want certainty. Companies don't want to focus on sales tax, they want to focus on their business. They want taxes to get out of the way or at least be something easy and clear to comply with. Companies don't want to get caught not complying and have to pay additional taxes, interest and penalties. The problem is, states are trying to force new tax collecting obligations without working together with businesses and tax professionals. They are forcing it, which is producing uncertainty and more confusion.
State taxes already present a maze of taxing jurisdictions all competing for business and revenue with non-uniform tax laws. With this sales tax 'eclipse' staring us down, all I ask is that we work together to find the 'right glasses.' I ask the states to stop forcing damage to our eyes.


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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Assorted Thoughts
Anybody else here around back when in the early days of the internet? I mean, do you know offhand what the terms BBS, Sysop and "Legend of the Red Dragon" mean? If not, you're not one of the early guys.
I was just thinking about how weird the internet was then. This new thing where you could talk to people all over the country, but also in your state, that you didn't know. We'd on occasion have meetups where we'd get together and--
--well, it was a different world. I wasn't a particular cool guy, but I wasn't what you'd have called a "geek". The only people into computers typically were--and I'm gonna be pretty blunt here--super geeky. A lot of overweight, glasses, pimply, awkward people. The girls weren't what you'd call good looking.
And those were the people who'd show up at these meets. So I didn't go to many.
But I liked the people in general. I had fun online.
Sure, if I realized what the internet would become I probably would have sought to stop it like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. You people wouldn't have even realized that I was saving you from your future. My fellow filmmakers would be making money on movies right now.
But hey, I was young. And at that time I was just writing. Actually making movies wasn't really even a glimmer in my mind. I don't think it had ocurred to me that I could MAKE one. (because cameras were rare things, and you shot on film, and all that was expensive...it was a different time)
Anyway, that was a thought I had...
Another thought I had is that MAN, am I unoriginal. I guess many of use writers have this thought at times. You write something, you think it's good, and later on you see something you basically forgot you'd seen that is pretty much what you wrote.
I'm not under the impression I've been all that original as it is. I've never hidden the fact that FOC is basically my homage to(read: Theft of) the original Halloween.
But HH--man, I thought I did some original stuff there. As far as I know I was the first to pit the serial killer against serial killer. I'm sure someone will find something earlier that did it, but for this moment I feel pretty good about that.
And then there's stuff in it that I thought was pretty original. Let me back it up for a sec.
I used to read Agatha Christie from like 4th-12th grade. A ton. "And Then There Were None" is still one of my all-time favorite books. But I haven't read her in like 20 years.
I recently saw a list in EW that put a top 10 list of her books. And I thought--I should get those and read them. So I went out and bought most of them.
Can't remember which ones I have read before. The first one I read is the ABC Murders.
So I have this original idea of Aric Blue in HH killing people in a movie theater. I actually came up with the idea when I was IN a movie theater as I thought about killing the various moviegoers. (need I remind you that I was a sociopath in high school/college?)
And guess what's in the ABC Murders? One of the victims is killed while he watches a movie.
Now I can't remember if I read the book. I don't know that I subconsciously swiped it from her. But damn if it doesn't feel like it.
Speaking of HH--I found my original rendered version of HH. It looks higher quality than what they put out on DVD, but it's still SD(640X480).
And I DO get the rights back in a few months.
For fun I went in and took a look. For starters, that movie could use some color correction. I did some minor tweaking and it looks much better than the original. Then I did some noise removal(cuz there's a lot of grain--we shot on 16mm) and it cleans up pretty nicely.
So maybe I'll do my own release down the line. I don't have any new extras to add--maybe I'll do a new commentary.
Went to see Hot Tub Time Machine 2. I don't care what you think of the first Hot Tub because I'll tell you--we saw it the day before we had to put our dog to sleep, and for 90 minutes we laughed and forgot how miserable we felt.
Unfortunately the sequel is not that good. Has some slightly funny parts but it just sort of meanders around.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Bounty Poster
I could tell you about the nightmare of what I'm having to do right now to get Bounty into shape to submit to all the VOD places. TECHNICAL STUFF FOLLOWS
See, the problem is that I have to take out the URLs and the burned-in subtitles(of which there's like 5). I can piecemeal it--meaning, just go find the original clips for the burned in shots, and stick them in on my blu-ray-sized export of the movie, then put in the new credit sequence I rendered...
But then I'll be doing a render of a render, and the picture loses some quality in each render(unless you export uncompressed).
I'm left with doing it the right way--reopen the original project and export from the first generation. Only problem with that--HAHAHAHA--as if there's only one problem...
I edited Bounty on a fairly cheap computer--it had a hard time handling the whole project, so I split it into 3 sections. So I have to open three separate premiere files, and RELINK everything. That means trying to find what hard drives all that stuff was on, and that is a metric fuckton of work.
I do it for one of the biggest sections. Takes me--no joke--about 3 hours to find and link all the files, and I actually can't find three of the files on any hard drive. And I searched 16 drives.
The next problem is that Premiere CC seems to have a big problem with .avi's. Avi's used to be the go-to video format. I exported everything in them. I tended to use the Cinepak codec.
And what I would do(and still do sometimes) to ease the burden on the computer is to export a clip that had a lot of effects on it, then delete it and bring in the finished clip. That way when it played on the timeline Premiere didn't have to do any extra work that might slow it down.
Not such a problem nowadays.
Anyway, every time I try to bring in these .avi's it keeps saying Clip Not Supported or Damaged. Only problem is that when I double-click any of the clips VLC plays it no problem. So does Windows Media Player. So the clips are fine, but Premiere refuses.
I do some research. It appears to be a common problem, unknown reasons.
So NOW I have to find the original After Effects files I used--these clips happen to be ones where I replaced the sign on a building with my own sign. It was a ton of work because all the shots are wild handheld in the dark. I think I did a good job.
I have to open them each, export them, then bring them into my Premiere project and figure out exactly where they go.
Should be not exactly easy but not exactly impossible, right? Well there's the additional problem that a lot of the plugins I used are not available on the After Effects CC(many of the plugins built for the 32 bit AE won't work on the new 64 bit version).
The whole thing is not a lot of fun is what I'm saying.
Hey, boobs!
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
I'm just gonna leave this here to pep me up
Not much to say. Busy.
It snowed. I went out and shot some more stuff. Wished it wasn't bone-numbing cold so I could have wandered around more. It was 4am and it was unbelievable how light it was out.
Maybe I'll post some of that video.
But until then enjoy this video of model Abagail Ratchford bouncing to Zapp & Roger. It's pretty incredible.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Officially Pussied Out
And I thought--I gotta get out there and film this shit in 96fps on my new camera. Maybe even put it up on those stock video sites for sale.
And I thought about it. And I thought about it. And I thought, man it's so goddamn cold out there.
And man, if I was only 10 years younger.
So I officially pussied out. Didn't go out.
Instead I played some Evolve, a new Xbox game. It's pretty great, even though it's got some bugs to it.
Then I worked on the Halloween book some more. I'm officially over 150 pages now. I guess I'm gonna add a Volume One to the inside, just to be safe.
Talked to Erik about how I have to resize his cover of Bounty for Amazon. Asked him how I should do it to not fuck up his work. He says "Man, I hate looking at my old shit. Let me just redo it."
So we're gonna get an updated cover. Pretty sweet! I hope the Halloween book makes some dough so I can pay him for the cover he's gonna create for it.
Monday, February 09, 2015
ANOTHER Blog!
Man were these good days...
So I'm combing through hundreds of pages of newspapers from 1750-1990 trying to get a better picture of how people viewed Halloween through the years, and to back up some of the things I've read.
And I've come across a TON of great articles that have nothing to do with the holiday. I thought it was a shame that nobody else could read any of these so that led to me thinking--Man, I need another blog!
Jesus, I never thought I'd have one blog much less the 6 or 7 that I currently have. Anyway, you can check out the first 3 posts here:
I have enough articles for probably a solid month if I posted every day, and I haven't even begun to tap into the papers I have access to. But man is it time consuming going through them all. Especially the pre-1950 ones where it's just a BLOCK of text on each page with barely a spare line to let you know there's a break between articles...
Thursday, February 05, 2015
This is gonna be least fascinating post ever...(the first part at least)
Do you understand this? Because I don't.
And I'm not talking about what they're doing. I see how they got their designs and all that but once you see where they've decided to put their margins, doesn't that look like it leaves a TON of space, especially at the bottom of the page?
Had a minor setback on the book last night. You see Amazon has these book sizes it says are standard and I'd always aimed at 8X10. But when I'd started the book in Indesign I had clicked on something CLOSE to that(because there was no 8X10 in its defaults) and I guess I sort of thought maybe Indesign was saying THIS was the total size of the book but Amazon was quoting margin to margin or something.
Nope. So the thing is I had to go in and re-size my book's dimensions, which threw the whole book off. I had to shift all the pages over to the right and compress it all a bit height-wise. Took me a few hours.
And I think at this point I'm just saying fuck the margins. I mean, you gotta watch them on the inside because if you go all the way in the text or pics may go so far into the spine that you can't read them without breaking your book's spine.
But on the outside and the tops/bottoms? Who gives a fuck? I have so much stuff I'm not trying to use up real estate to up my page count like some of these people with books online.
Like here, look at this--you can see some of this book online.
Uh...they've got like 20 words a page. This should be like a 5 page booklet, not a 50 page one.
Anyway. I'm gonna use my real estate. Hell, I wish I had more space.
My new issue is trying to figure out whether I should use the CAPTION option available for pictures or use text boxes to make my own. When I started the book I was doing my own text captions and then I discovered the actual caption option. It has its own bunch of rules though, so it may end up being easier just doing my own captions.
Some pics from Bounty. Not for spreading...yet.
(the top one is fine)
Okay enough book stuff. I talked to Proctor on the phone the other night. He's keeping busy. I can't tell you what he's gonna be in next but he's apparently going to be in another superhero thing but this time on TV in a recurring role playing a character from a past MOVIE that I personally LOVE.
Those who know Proctor are gonna laugh a lot if they figure it out. Either way don't say anything cuz I'm sworn to secrecy.
We chatted Bounty. I'm not afraid to use the title because let's face it, there's 60000 search hits above mine if you type that in.
I think we're going to put it on Amazon like I did with GOH. Also Distrify and VHX, cuz why not? I sent the letter to the distributor exercising my option to take the rights back.
As soon as I get it on Amazon I'll send out press releases to the places about the 100 copy blu and note that you can also stream it from the other places. Then depending on how fast the 100 sells out I have to decide whether to press a regular edition and/or do a dvd also.
My current problem being that I think I lost the hard drive with the Bounty Blu shit on it. I'm currently trying to locate the newest hi-def export of Bounty and am crapping out. It would help if I didn't have literally 40 external drives that I have to plug in and search one at a time.
UPDATE--May have gotten lucky!
So we'll see. Tom's got a social team now who apparently instagrams and flickrs or whatever the fuck is popular right now. Says he'll have them spread the new when we start doing stuff.
Man, I gotta get back to work on that ridiculous Sharknado type script. See why?
Why does my normal life get in the way?
This is disheartening. This is a pretty freakin incredibly short--if this thing didn't cost 50K then I'm impressed. The funny part is that the music(which I liked a lot, so I checked out the composer) is the composer who I licensed music from on my first flick, and then later on he recommended Chad to me because he was too busy to score FOC himself.
Small world. Check it out!
And finally in the world of drugs...we finally decided to try some drugs on our kid. (he's autistic in case you've forgotten). I don't want the searches to come here, but the doctor prescribed Lexi and then add the opposite of amateur to the end. Supposedly helps the concentration.
We'll see. It's an antidepressant so hell, if it doesn't work on him maybe I'll just pop a few. :)
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
The Book Continues Plus My Camera Tests
How cool are those alternate posters? I'd totally fucking buy them but they want $30 for any two, but they're only 12X16. So basically $15 for a mini-poster that I'm pretty sure isn't licensed anyway? Seems pretty expensive, especially since I can actually get full size 20X30 posters made at Costco for like $9. A 12X18 is $2.99 there.
The web site is here if you wanna check 'em out. No doubt, these guys are talented.
Shot a few hasty videos with the my new camera. Ya know, trying to get the feel. You can see the tests over here--completely uncorrected, not white-balanced. But slow mo!
Back to serious work on the holiday book. Man, I can't believe how much time it takes to organize all of this information and the pictures. And then as I'm double-checking some things on the web it becomes like a freakin' rabbit hole--I find more stuff that's interesting that I've never heard of, so I add THAT, and then find more stuff.
I've found quite a few pre-1850 books that you can read almost entirely online that deal with a lot of Halloween stuff. It's pretty amazing what google has digitized.
I was hoping to cap the book at 150 pages. Reason being that while I can make it as many pages as I want Kindle-version wise, that's the same book that gets printed on demand if someone wants a paper copy. And at 150 full color pages it's gonna cost net like $12 for me to print. So I can price that at like $19.95 or so and feel like it's okay.
If I go to 175 pages the cost goes up to around $14.
But I'm suddenly running out of pages. I'm at 120 with a LOT still to put in. Whole chapters I haven't even started.
And man am I terrible at formatting. The pages are ugly as sin. I'm gonna have to pass it by my brother and maybe some other graphic designer who can help me out. I've been trying to find some self-published books that look nice so I can get an idea of why I suck so bad at it.
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Photographer Ruddy Roye Explores What Happens "When Living is a Protest"
Photo: Ruddy Roye Blood, Sweat and Tears (Ryan), Morton Street, Newark, NJ, December 19, 2015 Archival pigment print on metallic paper, printed 2016, 35 x 35 in Edition of 10; Signed by photographer verso
From the top of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke, delivering a sermon to the world, one that resonates in our mind's ear whenever we hear the words, "I have a dream." The timbre of his voice is permanently imprinted on our soul, his words among the most patriotic ever spoken. On the eighth anniversary of the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, Dr. King's testimony was centuries in the making, calling forth the ancestors of this country's earliest days.
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter," Dr. King warned. There is an exquisite horror to the dying soul that lurks within the living body, feasting upon flesh and bone. It has been said that silence equals death; to speak against injustice and oppression is the essence of what it means to be American. These are the words that photographer Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye carries within himself, revealing on his Instagram: "It is a creed I live by at whatever cost."
Born in Jamaica in 1969, Roye lives in Brooklyn where he works as a photographer. One of the youngest members of the Kamoinge Workshop, Roye is dedicated to telling the stories of his people through his platforms in both mainstream and social media. With over a quarter of a million followers on Instagram, Roye is able to reach the world directly, without having to compromise his vision in any form. He explains, "The media has a way of deleting the stories of people who society does not want to deal with. This is my humble way of putting these stories back in people's faces—forming a real and active dialogue about these issues."
A selection of these photographs is now on view in Ruddy Roye: When Living is a Protest, at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, through October 29, 2016. The exhibition is being show in tandem with Power to the People: The Black Panthers in Photographs by Stephen Shames and Graphics by Emory Douglas, providing a powerful look at the ways in which African Americans have shaped the political discourse through resistance and self determination.
When Living is a Protest features 20 large-scale photographs accompanied by Roye's text describing his encounters with his subjects. By giving them a voice, he empowers them as collaborators in his work, taking them beyond the frame. No longer silent subjects for passive contemplation, Roye's subjects come alive, challenging, inspiring, and empowering us.
Many of the photographs are taken in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Roye's neighborhood, an historically black section of Brooklyn that is quickly becoming gentrified. Yet, despite the whitewashing and displacement that is taking place, the spirit of the people holds fast. In a post titled, "Facing the Darkness" taken on Martin Luther King Day in 2016, Roye photographed a community elder in front of a mural of Dr. King. He asked the elder if he remembered anything about the day Dr. King was assassinated.
The elder answered, "I don't remember much about that day. I just can't remember, but I will say this, he is still here."
Roye asked what he meant, and the elder explained, "We are still here, aren't we? They haven't been able to kill us all or drive us out of our neighbourhoods yet."
Roye observed the elder spoke without an expression. It is simply a matter of fact. Whether young or old, we all inherit the same mess—but life on earth teaches us that we have the power to be the change we want to see in the world, so long as we have the courage to align ourselves with justice and the strength to see it through. The struggle continues…
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He called thousands of times to complain about Netflix. Now he's on probation
A federal judge in Sacramento rejected prosecutors' recommendations for jail time Friday and instead put an "obsessed" investor on probation for making thousands of harassing phone calls to regulatory workers in Washington D.C. about Netflix.
U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr., said he wanted to send Kulwant Singh "Ken" Sandhu to jail, but that he was restricted by case precedent in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Federal prosecutors had asked Burrell to sentence Sandhu to 37 months in prison.
Sandhu, 47, of Tracy, was convicted Jan. 20 on two counts of making an estimated 3,500 phone calls and sending some 350 emails to employees at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Witnesses said his calls were filled with obscenities and vulgar insults in which he alternately suggested that the employees should be shot, that their bodies should be dragged through the streets or that their mothers should have killed them at birth.
Along with five years probation, Burrell sentenced Sandhu to six months of home detention on electronic monitoring.
Citing a psychologist's report, the judge said from the bench that Sandhu appears to be responding to treatment and has "shown the ability to control his conduct."
"If he doesn't control it," Burrell said, "he may leave the court no choice but to imprison him."
Defense attorneys argued that Sandhu became enraged when he discovered in 2010 what he thought was a massive stock fraud on the part of Netflix. They said in court papers that he resorted to the angry phone calls and emails when he didn't think that regulators seriously considered his complaints. His efforts to contact them became an "obsession that has destroyed his life," Sandhu's lawyers said.
Friday's sentencing concluded a hearing that got underway the previous week. In his May 12 appearance, Sandhu, in addressing the court, launched into a discussion of Sikh history, his studies of civilization, global corporations and his views on what he termed the destruction of the working class. He said he regretted his behavior but that he resorted to it because "I wasn't listened to by anybody."
"You're my only hope," he told the judge.
Burrell broke up the defendant's statement by telling him at one point: "I"m concerned about you, Mr. Sandhu."
When Sandhu was finished, the judge said he was not convinced Sandhu should be incarcerated. He told assistant U.S. attorneys Nirav K. Desai and James R. Conolly to meet and confer with Sandhu's federal defenders, Mia Crager and Timothy Zindel, to come up with a proposed sentence "that is going to help this man."
On Friday, Desai still argued for the 37-month prison term, saying that Sandhu is "a rational actor" and that if he gets off without incarceration, "the message to him is that he is free to act with impunity."
Desai read a letter from two SEC employees in Washington, D.C., who said they suffered from anxiety every time they heard the phone ring, that their bosses missed important calls because of Sandhu and that his incessant calling prevented them from doing their jobs and working with the public.
Crager, however, characterized her client as "an intelligent, educated man" who normally functioned well in society but that he became "delusional" in his market research work and directed his attacks on the SEC and Netflix.
In sentencing Sandhu, Burrell cited the 9th Circuit's 1992 Cantu case in which a three-judge panel ruled that a defendant's "distorted reasoning" resulting from significantly reduced mental capacity allowed for a judge to depart from federal sentencing guidelines and impose a lower term.
"It is apparent," Burrell said from the bench, "that Sandhu suffers from some kind of distorted reasoning."
Prosecutors said in their court papers that beyond the charged counts, Sandhu either called or emailed employees at the two federal agencies more than 100,000 times going back to 2011, making their work lives miserable.
"If they chose not to answer the phone, the result was more ringing," the prosecutors wrote. "If they hung up on the defendant, the result was more ringing. If they blocked his number, more ringing. If they transferred his calls to voicemail, the result was more ringing. And if they tried to talk to him to help him or get the ringing to stop, the result was abuse nobody should endure at their job."
The defense's sentencing memorandum said that Sandhu's "mind triggered" once he left, due to health reasons, the successful semi-conductor company that he founded. With more spare time, he "became increasing(ly) obsessed with understanding the economy and spotting signs of weakness," it said, watching the stock market on four monitors in his living room from 5 a.m. until well into the evening.
"Proving the fraud to others before it took down the American economy became an all-consuming pursuit," Crager and Zindel said in their papers.
Prosecutors declined to comment after the sentencing.
In email, Zindel said the defense lawyers "are deeply grateful for Judge Burrell's care in sentencing Mr. Sandhu."
Andy Furillo: 916-321-1141, @andyfurillo


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A pharmacy school in Ontario was recently awarded with a large fund to create a program that hopes to increase innovation and research in the pharmacy profession in the region.
The Canadian-based Ontario College of Pharmacists paid the University Of Waterloo School Of Pharmacy a sum of $600,000 to create the Ontario College of Pharmacists Professorship in Pharmacy Innovation.
The professorship will help students and pharmacists already practicing in the industry to understand where the industry will need to go in the future as it relates to recent transitions in the field of study. Along with pharmacy colleges in the U.S., they are being called upon by health care leaders and public health officials to rethink the way they relate to the overall health system.
Pharmacists are seeking new ways to take a more active role in the realm of public health and how they can be a bigger part of an allied medical force. Pharmacy schools are targeted in this effort as a way to help produce the desired result. Pharmacy technicians, for example, are being prepped to handle more of the workload in a pharmacy setting in order to free the pharmacist to focus on community health and consultative roles.
The Ontario College of Pharmacists is a regulatory agency for pharmacies in the Ontario region and was created as a result of Canada's Regulated Health Professions Act. As a result of the OCP's formation, Canadian pharmacies and pharmacists must meet minimum quality standards and the pharmaceutical industry is poised to better coordinate with allied health agencies.
The University of Waterloo has nearly 35,000 students and offers degrees in pharmacy and supporting roles. The institution provides degree programs in a multitude of disciplines. The pharmacy college at the University of Waterloo was established in 2007 and is the newest pharmacy school in Canada.


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From Animal Sheltering magazine March/April 2013
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Helping behaviorally challenged dogs is a top priority at many animal shelters, but not every shelter has the resources to hire a team of experts or the time to manage a program on their own. At the East Bay SPCA in California, we created a canine behavior modification program where volunteers help our shelter dogs overcome certain behavioral issues so they can be adopted into new, loving homes.
In 2011, the East Bay SPCA found loving homes for nearly 2,500 dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens. These animals are transferred in from local municipal shelters, surrendered by their owners, or come to the EBSPCA as strays. Of the cats and dogs we adopted out in 2011, 1,099 (or 44 percent) were dogs and puppies. Of those, about 20 percent needed some form of behavior modification.
It Takes a Volunteer Village
The East Bay SPCA behavior and training department consists of just two full-time employees, so we reached out to our base of volunteers to help with the task of managing behaviorally challenged dogs. Through this partnership, volunteers are given additional education, hands-on training, and an opportunity to make a difference, while our shelter dogs receive personalized attention, mental stimulation, and instruction in basic manners—all of which helps lower their stress while at the shelter.
Canine Behavior Modification Program: The Genesis
As the behavior and training manager, part of my role is to develop individual training plans for shelter dogs who display common behavioral issues: fear, lack of impulse control, high arousal, or deterioration from kennel stress. I turned to longtime volunteer dog socializer and mentor Marti Zuckrowv for input. Together, we worked out a plan on how to use volunteer dog socializers to help these dogs in need.
We started by working with the volunteer department to identify volunteers who had been serving as dog socializers for at least eight hours each month. Once the selected volunteers were on board, we enlisted them in a pilot program at our shelters in Oakland and Dublin, Calif.
Next, we met with our shelter management team to discuss protocols. Each dog in our care goes through an initial evaluation to determine the dog's behavioral needs. We observe kennel presentation, dog-to-dog skills, handling, and reactions to the removal of resources (such as food, rawhide, and toys), as well as the dog's ability to settle down during a human play interaction.
After looking through many of our dog evaluations, I found that I could separate sets of behaviors into three main categories; the team then chose names for those categories, each representing the goal for the respective dogs. For example, fearful dogs are enrolled in the "Courageous Canine" program; dogs exhibiting high arousal and lack of impulse control join the "Polite Pooch" program; and all long-term dogs and those suffering from kennel stress are enrolled in the "Enriched Einstein" program.
There were two options for dogs enrolled in the program: Those who scored well on their initial evaluation would enter the adoption center right away but get extra training to increase their adoptability. Those who didn't do so well would start the behavior modification program with the goal of passing the evaluation at a later date.
The foundation was laid. We had developed specific training protocols for three behavior-based programs, had eager volunteers on standby, support from the organization, and plenty of dogs to benefit!Volunteers were expected to provide at least two hours per week of service, and provide feedback through our online listserv following each dog training session. They were also encouraged to contact the behavior and training department immediately if they experienced any "red flag" behaviors, including growling, snapping, or attempting to bite.
The Launch
We officially launched the East Bay SPCA canine behavior modification program with a kickoff orientation in February 2012. The orientation included discussion of our expectations of the volunteers, dog body language, and an introduction to our behavior assessments, followed by the types of behaviors a dog within the program might exhibit.
Orientation and Workshops
After they completed the orientation, volunteers attended two three-hour, hands-on workshops. The workshops covered learning theory, training tools, behavior modification, and dog body language in great detail. In each workshop session, we split the volunteers into groups of three and assigned a shelter dog to each group. Behavior and training staff worked with each group to enact training concepts such as luring dogs into specific positions, correct use of a clicker, and reward identification. Once the volunteers acquired these necessary skills, we began introducing the specific training protocols for the Courageous Canine, Polite Pooch and Enriched Einstein programs.
Courageous Canine
Approach: The most important concept I taught the volunteers when working with a Courageous Canine is allowing the dog to make his or her own choices. The necessary skills for success included reading the dog's body language and making decisions on how to handle the dog based on the dog's response. During the training, the volunteers and I would visit a fearful dog's kennel and narrate the body language we observed. Then we discussed how to appropriately handle the dog, and whether or not we were going to remove the dog for a walk at that time.
Techniques: The dogs aiming to become Courageous Canines typically enter the shelter very fearful and then completely shut down. A typical training session might consist of a volunteer sitting at the kennel door, tossing treats for about five minutes, without making eye contact. During that time, the volunteer was expected to observe if the dog solicited any social attention and ate the treats offered.
Volunteers reported that it sometimes took three or four kennel visits before the dog would solicit affection. We found that the more space we offered to the dog, the faster the dog would come around, or begin to solicit affection. Any acts of "bravery" such as approaching the volunteer, nosing the leash or harness, or investigating, were rewarded with treats.
Once the volunteer felt safe enough to leash the dog and take him out into the "real world," they were expected to identify the dog's fear triggers and play "find it" (tossing treats) whenever the trigger appeared in the dog's line of sight. The volunteers would also click and treat any coping behaviors the dog offered, such as shake offs, checking in with the handler, or removing themselves from a scary trigger in the environment.
Polite Pooch
Approach: The Polite Pooch protocol includes a lot of impulse-control exercises. It was most important to teach the volunteers how to interact appropriately with these dogs, since most of the time they are difficult to handle. The most extreme cases would jump up and mouth people out of sheer frustration. These dogs were the most concerning because they were at risk for biting a volunteer, though not intentionally.
The training protocol included teaching the volunteers to give the dog immediate feedback for any positive or negative behaviors. For example, we taught the volunteers to click and treat any polite behavior the dog offered, such as being quiet, standing, sitting, or waiting. In order for the volunteers and the dogs to be successful, we worked on their timing of the clicker and their ability to identify good behavior. The volunteers were also expected to provide a time-out (removing attention from the dog) at any moment that the dog acted inappropriately by jumping or mouthing a volunteer.
Techniques: Getting a Polite Pooch in and out of the kennel was no easy task! However, I wanted to use this daily exercise as a training opportunity for both the volunteers and the dogs. My goal was to teach the volunteers to be preventative when interacting with these dogs. I encouraged them to always expect the dog to jump up and to prepare their training plan before interacting with the dog.
We taught the volunteers to toss treats into the kennel in order to prevent the dog from jumping up when they entered. As the dog was eating the treats, the volunteer could safely enter the kennel. After the dog was leashed, the volunteer would only open the kennel door if the dog was not jumping up. The volunteer would then take the dog to a quiet room and put a no-pull walking harness on him. Once outside, the volunteer was expected to click and treat any polite behavior the dog offered. As time passed, we started observing Polite Pooches walking alongside the volunteers instead of jumping up on them all the way out to the yard.
Enriched Einstein
Approach: The Enriched Einstein protocol is a bit more fun and relaxed than the other two. Volunteers work on training games, tricks, and exposure to agility obstacles.
Techniques: The first technique we taught volunteers was how to shape a dog to perform a desired behavior. For example, we taught the volunteers how to teach the dogs to touch their hands, sit on an agility pause table, or place their paw inside a box. Volunteers would also teach these dogs polite manners, including how to sit and how to lie down on a mat. The goal of the program was to mentally enrich the dogs during their stay in order to relieve emotional stress and help the dogs to relax once they returned to their kennels.
Volunteers get hands-on training and an opportunity to make a difference, while shelter dogs receive personalized attention, mental stimulation, and instruction in basic manners−all of which helps lower their stress while at the shelter.
Mentor Shifts
Once the trainings were complete, the volunteers were given two options. They could either do a follow-up mentoring shift with the behavior and training department to practice their skills, or they could start working with the dogs right away. I decided to give them these options since many people absorb and retain information differently. Some people need additional one-on-one training before trying a new activity, whereas other people were ready to dive in head first and start practicing their new skills. Most of the volunteers started working with the dogs right away and asked questions in person during their volunteer shifts or on our online forum.
Results and Improvements
During the nine-month pilot program between February and October 2012, we worked with more than 170 dogs, utilizing 18 volunteers who served more than 1,300 hours. Thirty-seven of the dogs who required behavior modification work before they could be reassessed for our adoption program would likely have been euthanized if they had not participated in the program.Six months into the pilot program, I met with a few volunteers to learn what areas might need improvement. We discussed the current training model of the orientation, hands-on workshops, and the specific training protocols for each behavior category. We realized that the volunteers wanted more personalized training plans for each dog as well as additional skills that they could use in their training sessions.
With this critical feedback, I retooled the program to include the skills listed above along with additional skills necessary for success. The 12 major skills we identified are resource-guarding prevention; refocusing a leash-reactive dog; implementing time-outs; decreasing mouthy behavior; teaching basic manners including loose-leash walking; reading and interpreting body language; counter-conditioning and desensitization; sitting when greeting strangers; identifying rewards other than treats; enrichment games; and modifying a dog's response to being handled or touched. We decided to use the category titles (Courageous Canine, etc.) as personality descriptors rather than terms to identify a training protocol. Once we assigned a dog to a personality category, we would then indicate which training skills would best suit the dog's needs. This way, the volunteers received additional skills, and a specific training plan was tailored for each dog. We launched this change in January 2013 and look forward to tracking our results this year.


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The zara coat it's a mix of tweed and the leather arms, i have two of this kind of coat but in black blazier and I love it.
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