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I am a forty year old woman with a husband and three small children. Though my husband is a very nice man, we used to have disagreements over the division of household tasks and the issue of him and the kids being messy. We stopped having disagreements because I gave up and just did everything myself. I see now that I shouldn't have done that, but to make a long story short, it was out of life-long habit that I did so. I have recently discovered how much I still resent the losing battle that led me to just give up like that. My husband and I have been discussing the topic recently and he is angry with me because I have resentment over that old situation. I think the only way to get rid of the resentment is to work something out now that would seem fair and reasonable to both of us. We are just beginning to talk about this and we have just started re-organizing some rooms in the house. Also, we don't have a lot of time to devote, so this will be a slow (agonizing) process. Now I see anew why it was so easy for me to just give up.
My husband feels personally attacked if I desire something that he thinks is unreasonable and he also feels this way when I bring up the previous pitfalls that made me throw in the towel. If I don't bring up what went wrong before, how can we avoid the same outcome?
I gave up my job to take care of things and became a homebody. After years of following my family around with a sponge, I just can't take it anymore. I'm tired, disillusioned and the house has become disorganized and it's starting to get messy. My husband does do some things now that he didn't used to do, like cook and wash the dishes and I appreciate it very much, but what I need most is for me and my husband to be able to work together to really set things right again in the house and come up with a fair plan that involves everyone.
I can't seem to help complaining to him about how I got into this mess - he's the person I talk to about everything! But, still - I don't want to fight about it.
What can I do? It seems that my choices are:
1) forget the whole thing, suck it up, be quiet, trudge along doing the best that I can and try to find a way to be happy with it (this doesn't work for me anymore); or
2) keep working with my husband on reorganizing and talk to him about my needs and feelings around this, let him get angry and defensive, endure the arguing (which we both hate) and then hope that something good comes of it.
The second choice worries me because we both have baggage and I'm afraid it will all come bursting out of the closets and bury us. He was raised and catered to by a Mrs. Cleaver type, while his father was demanding and disapproving. I was the 'Cinderella' of an extremely dysfunctional and abusive family. We are both dealing with the after-effects of abuse from my past, in the sense that any hint of physical closeness and sexual excitement can send me into a panic attack. I'm seeing a therapist, but still I'm afraid I might be like this the rest of my life.
Surely there must be other choices for dealing with our impasse. I would even be okay with a way to make choice #2 bearable. Do you have any ideas?
Signed, The Sponge Lady
Dear Sponge Lady,
You have many issues going on all at the same time, any one of which would be difficult to deal with on its own. I'm glad you're getting professional help.
It can be easy in your situation to come to the conclusion that your husband is lazy when it comes to housework or that he doesn't care about your needs. While I've seen those elements before, I think the dominant element for you is misunderstanding. Your husband's mother taught him it was "fair" for the woman to look after the house and the kids. Since you are a full-time homebody, he likely has the same understanding as many other men -- that you have plenty of time to do the housework. He undoubtedly figures that he has his job and you have yours. He doesn't ask you to help with his, so it isn't fair to expect him to have to do yours. He probably figures he is already going above and beyond the call by doing more cooking and dishes than his father ever did, and STILL you complain.
Men want to be appreciated and considered competent. When you ask for more, it is easy for him to hear, "You are failing me." If he already feels he is trying hard, this is an incredible turn-off for him. "Why should I try harder?" he thinks to himself. "No matter what I've done, she still tells me I am failing her." There is the source of his resentment. He doesn't resent the idea of being supportive, he just wants it to be "fair" and for him to be appreciated.
One fundamental problem is that he doesn't understand your need for more help. He doesn't understand that being a full-time parent and homemaker is more than a full-time job. If you can, get him to read this article about Traditional Work Sharing. Many men have the common misperception that it is fair to treat the housework as "her job" for the stay-at-home mom. In that article I explain why that is anything but fair. If you can get him to understand this one point, you will be a long way to resolving your issue. Thanks to his Mom you have an up-hill journey to reach that point.
The other thing you can do is adjust how you approach the issue when you discuss it. Be aware of his need to be appreciated. Which do you currently do more: tell him how much you appreciate the things he does, or suggest that it would be great if he could do more? You will help your own cause if you can get into the habit of loading up on the former, which will help pave the way for doing the latter.
I would stay completely away from bringing up the past failures. I disagree that this is a necessary step to future success. Instead, it merely re-opens old sensitivities and makes him feel attacked.
Start the conversation by giving him a gift instead of what he perceives as an insult. Maybe you could explain that you now have a better understanding of the situation from his point of view and you're sorry that the way the two of you have dealt with the situation up until now has made him feel criticized. Tell him how much you appreciate what he is doing. Offering an olive branch is often the best way to start a dialog, since this sets a tone of conciliation, goodwill, and cooperativeness. Often your partner will be prompted to respond in kind.
So in short, you need a way to get him to alter his "Mrs. Cleaver" view of the world, and you need a more effective way of communicating so you don't unintentionally insult him and make him defensive. Often the key to the communication is having an empathetic understanding of how stressful the situation is from his point of view. Get him to have the same empathy for your situation and you should be well on your way.
I have focused on your housework question, but I'm also aware you have larger issues stemming from past abuse. No doubt it is more difficult to work through supportiveness and communication problems when your closeness is compromised as you describe. I'm sorry to hear of all your struggles and I wish you and your husband all the best as you work through them.
With warm regards,
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Some 3.6 million Romanians are planning to relocate in the next five years, and 66.5% would prefer to move to a city in Romania, according to the World Bank's 2017 Magnet Cities. Migration and Commuting in Romania report. The most attractive cities for relocation are the capital Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara and Brașov, the report reveals, according to Romania-Insider.com.
As such, 18% of respondents, representative for approximately 3.6 million people, said they were planning to move in the next five years, with an average certainty rate of 85%. On the other hand, 82% said they did not think about moving in the next five years.
The young make up a large part of those planning to move, with an average age of 35 years. Of those looking to relocate in the next five years, 75% do not have children. Most of the remaining 25% planning to move have only one child.
At the same time, those who intend to move have higher levels of education, higher revenues and are employed in the private sector. The inhabitants of less developed regions, such as South-Muntenia or North-East, are more likely to move than those in more developed ones, for instance the West or Center regions.
When asked where they would like to move, 66.5% of respondents chose Romania, while 31.3% said they would like to move abroad. According to these results, some 2 million Romanians are taking into account the idea of relocating inside the country within the next five years, while 1.1 million would move outside of Romania.
The Western Romania residents are more likely to consider moving abroad, while those living in areas close to Bucharest are more inclined to move inside the county, the report shows. The inhabitants of urban areas and higher educated ones tend to choose to live abroad, while rural area residents and those with lower education levels prefer moving inside the country. At the same time, men prefer to emigrate, while women chose destinations inside Romania. A total of 71.4% of those wanting to relocate in Romania said they preferred urban areas.
The most attractive cities for relocation are Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, and Brașov. In particular, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, and Brașov, have a disproportionate share of people wanting to live there, meaning the share of people that would like to live in these cities is much higher than the share of their functional urban areas (FUA) population in the national population, the report shows.
For example, the FUA of Cluj-Napoca amasses 2.34% of the country's population, but 11.37% of survey respondents would like to live there. High scores were also registered for Constanța, Sibiu, Iași, or Oradea.
At the same time, 15.23% picked Bucharest as a desired city, and 9.14% Timișoara. When asked about the city they would like to live in, different from the residence one, 15.32% chose Cluj-Napoca, 14.46% Bucharest and 11.88% Timișoara.
The quality of life was the main reason for picking a particular city, underscoring the need for investment in urban infrastructure, and the need for a concerted effort to make cities more attractive and appealing to people, according to the report. Access to jobs and specialized healthcare were the other main reasons listed for choosing a particular city.
The report also shows that between 2001 and 2011, 65.5% of migrants came from urban areas and relocated mostly from localities and smaller cities to larger cities, and from larger cities to the suburbs. In the functional urban areas of Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, Timișoara and Iași, over 75% of migrants came from urban areas.
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If you've played football, you know that moment where you are in a situation and the ball comes and you hit the ball and somehow every millimeter is perfect…When you see it done on the pitch, you see a miracle.
As Ray Hudson knows, there' s a special sort of pleasure that comes from hitting or seeing someone hit a soccer ball just right.
We here at this particular blog tend to appreciate soccer as a game of ideas, both the big tactical ones and the small, the on the pitch flashes on inspiration that are totally unexpected yet absolutely right. We gravitate towards this aspect of the game because we're nerds, for one, but also because we believe it's what sets the sport apart. Every athlete, from swimmers to bobsledders to centers to fencers, has to physically perform as perfectly as they can in order to maximize their chances of success, whether that's stroke technique or sled mounting or footwork in the block or keeping the proper distance between you and your opponent.
Our game, we like to think, requires a little something extra, that nugget of creativity that the cynics say not enough players in the U.S. possess, an ability to beat an opponent not just through fancy footwork or hard running, but via the unexpected touch or pass that turns a disadvantageous scenario into an advantageous one.
But there is beauty in the perfect execution as well, the cross that drops right over the opposing goalkeeper and onto your teammate's head, or the trapping of a 50 yard pass, or better yet, something like this:
It's because of this that we, the soccer community, love that goal from Arie Haan against Italy in the 1978 World Cup so much. True, there's an idea there too, but if we're being honest with ourselves it's a stupid one. If that shot had been hit any less well, it would have ended up in the streets outside the stadium, or killing that poor Italian midfielder who seems to try to jump in front before thinking better of it. Instead, he executed it perfectly, to the extent where I'm not sure that anyone has ever hit a ball better than Arie Haan did this one, a forty yard drive that famously appears to be still rising when it goes off the post and in:
That goal is a physics problem, and unlike one of Ronaldo's knuckle-free kicks, it's a relatively straightforward one, velocity and time and distance and angle all inputted into an equation with the result of Dino Zoff, by all accounts a top-ten keeper ever, looking thoroughly stunned. And he was the second goalie Haan scored on that way during the tournament:
My touch may be iron and I may be horribly out of shape, but on a good day, at low tide and with the planets aligned just properly, I too can hit the ball just right, the perfect cross, the perfect chip, the perfect shot. These are moments we can have too, even as pickup plebians, these little instants of perfection.
The best shot I ever hit in my life happened one spring Sunday afternoon. The ball was passed back to me, 40 yards out from goal and on the left touchline of our rather narrow field, a high school practice football field with a cracked concrete track circling it. I took one step up to the ball and with my first touch hit a drive that spun up into the air, a long slow field goal. It wasn't even heading towards the goal, rather a spot five or so yards right of the right-hand post. As it entered the six-yard box, it plummeted and swerve sideways, like the wickedest 12-6 curveball you can imagine, right into the top corner of the net.
Too bad there wasn't a keeper in the goal. I hit this shot, this glorious, glorious shot, during the one preseason practice session my college intramural team had, as I jogged onto the field immediately after lacing up my cleats, the first time I'd touched a ball all day. At the time, I was still playing goalie for that team, and I was the one who jogged the rest of the way to retrieve my ball from the back of the net.
But I wasn't the only one who had noticed. While I stood in goal and strapped my gloves on, a middle-aged man who had been running on the track surrounding the field slowed to a stop behind my goal.
"Did you mean to do that?" he asked.
"Absolutely," I told him, lying.
"And you play goalie for them?" He sounded most impressed by this fact.
"Yep," I said.
He nodded for a bit, and continued jogging. It wasn't Ray Hudson, but it would do.


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Posted by gr.ind.can in SWF Studio V3 on Mar 30 2016, 02:33 am
Like "startdir", "ssTempDir" is there something which returns the "Temp Internet Files" folder location? Basically what I want is to clear the temp internet directory every time my app is launched. What is the best way to do this through SS?
Posted by northcode in SWF Studio V3 on Mar 30 2016, 03:05 am
Where IE stores its temporary files can differ between versions of IE. It can also vary based on the operating system. Finally, the user (or administrator) can change where IE stores temp files my modifying the registry. Cleaning out all of the IE temp files may also be something the user doesn't want you doing so you better have a REALLY good reason and tell them that you're doing it before you do it!
Posted by gr.ind.can in SWF Studio V3 on Mar 30 2016, 03:15 am
I know it can vary from c:/user/appdata/microsoft/windows... to anything depending on OS and administrator's settings. That's why I don't want to hard-code this path. Is there some API or function available which can return the current path? Or, do you know where this path information is saved (registry or some readable file) so that my app can find that path and remove old stored files. The problem is that playing YouTube in my app (ss browser) 24 hours, keep consuming temp storage. I have made settings in IE explorer not to save old files etc.. but it still not deleting old data and ends to 0kb available space on disk.
Posted by northcode in SWF Studio V3 on Mar 31 2016, 01:46 am
Here's a place to start... https://community.f-secure.com/t5/F-Secure-SAFE/Cleaning-temporary-Internet/ta-p/18280


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Hey, do you hear me?
I hope you're there, carefully listen,
Look at those royal remains,
Dry arches, baked rooms,
Parched stairs, fossil drains,
The human odor free flows,
Soaked is the air with the civilization smell,
Imagine lightening, thunder rolls,
Strikes gleams on those skeleton towers,
Teasing me, you run in and out of those narrow lanes,
Those boorish curves and bends,
Lifting your white gown above your toe,
You hip, hop, like the grasshopper, skip forward,
Your giggles, your chuckle amplify,
Echoes them around, those barren walls,
History remains witness to my desire,
Bricks smothered in love, vintage,
Experience depths, similar, willingly they testify,
Sans, a single material pleasure,
Just a night, on floors, ancient,
To realize, transient is only time,
Love rides from one being to another,
Trickles down generations, survives sublime…
(An image-inspired thought, from the very talented photographer Christopher Axes' photograph, Mesa Verde (http://regenaxe.com/2013/04/14/mesa-verde/) of the Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado, United States (the snap used above).
Catch up with Christopher's amazing work, on his blog, RegenAxe,http://regenaxe.com )


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks finished the year with strong gains Friday, with all three major stock averages booking their best performance since 2003.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.03% stood at 12,463 at the close of trading on Friday, marking a 16.3% gain for the year.
The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.15% gained 13.6% for the year and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +0.19% advanced 9.5%.
General Motors Corp. GM, +1.13% which lost half of its value in 2005 as investors feared the automobile giant might go bankrupt, was among the best performing blue-chip stock in 2006, rising 58.2%. See Winners and Losers for 2006.
AT&T Corp. T, +0.53% was the second-best performing stock on the Dow, gaining 46%, as investors applauded its plans to merge with BellSouth Corp. BLS, +0.00%
On Friday, the stock rose 0.7% after the company offered additional concessions to regulators to advance its $85 billion acquisition of BellSouth, which would be the largest telecommunications merger in U.S. history. See full story.
Among the Dow's laggards in 2006, Intel Corp. INTC, -0.50% fell the hardest, losing 19% of its value. Home Depot Inc. HD, -0.03% was the second-worst performer, losing a mere 0.8%, amid concerns about a slowing housing market.
On Friday, stocks fell as a dearth of investors and low volumes offset enthusiasm about Apple Computer Inc. AAPL, +0.30% and reports that Marsh & McLennan Cos. MMC, +0.41% has agreed to sell Putnam Investments.
For the day, the Dow lost 38 points to 12,463. The S&P fell 6 points to 1,418, while the Nasdaq dropped 10 points to 2,415.
There wasn't "much going around today," said Kevin Kruszenski, head of trading at KeyBanc Capital. "Most people have already made their bets and they know that the market has already done very well for the year."
Besides AT&T, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, +2.21% also lent support to the Dow, rising 0.4%. The stock has dropped 12% since late October on weaker sales and concerns about slower overall economic growth.
"The market has been recovering all week after a sell-off last week," said Michael Malone, a trading analyst at Cowen & Co. "People have been worrying about the economy, but housing data on Thursday helped relieve some of those concerns."
Stock markets aren't expected to make dramatic moves on the final trading day of the year, but a few stocks still grabbed attention.
Shares of Apple AAPL, +0.30% jumped 5% after the company said Chief Executive Steve Jobs was aware of favorable stock-option grant dates but didn't personally benefit from them. See full story.
Apple also said a special committee of its board found no evidence of misconduct by current Apple management.
Marsh & McLennan MMC, +0.41% meanwhile, fell 0.2% to $30.66 after earlier rising to $31.50. The online edition of The Wall Street Journal reported that the company agreed in principle to sell its Putnam Investments money-management unit to Power Corp., of Canada, for $3.9 billion. A deal could be announced early next year, WSJ.com said. See full story.
Elsewhere, Goodyear Tire & Rubber GT, +1.12% gained 5%. The company said it plans to achieve savings through a three-year deal with the United Steelworkers union, worked out this week. The contract would give Goodyear the ability to save up to $610 million over the term of the contract and $300 million a year in ongoing savings.
On the broad market for equities, trading volume was a light 1 billion on the New York Stock Exchange and 1.4 billion on the Nasdaq.
Declining issues outpaced gainers by 10 to 6 on the NYSE and by 9 to 6 on the Nasdaq.
"Usually this day of the year is very uneventful," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. Still, fund managers and other professional investors tend to sell underperforming shares and buy outperformers to make their portfolios look better before the end of a quarter, he said.
On Thursday, stocks closed mildly lower after the Dow Industrials touched an intraday record. News that existing home sales rose slightly in November helped relieve concerns that a fast-falling housing will derail economic growth in the new year, according to Malone.
"Other economic data suggest that inflation remains benign, keeping long-term rates low and helping support housing, which has been the biggest overhang for the market," he said.
This should help support the market, at least in the early goings of 2007, even after the uninterrupted rally seen over the past six months, Malone added. "One can certainly expect the trend remains up," he said.
Meanwhile, there were no major official reports to provide further clues about the economy on Friday. But some have warned that fourth-quarter data, to be released in January, could provide a nasty surprise and are advising investors to trim their stock holdings and shift to bonds. See Bonds to Hedge Stock Risk.
Crude-oil futures reversed early losses to rise 52 cents and close at $61.05, leaving the price a barrel flat on the year. Milder-than-usual weather weighed against weekly data that showed a bigger-than-expected decline in U.S. crude inventories. See full story.
Still, energy shares remained under pressure, amid drops for the likes of Hess Corp. HES, +0.02% Occidental Petroleum Corp. OXY, +0.65% and Valero Energy Corp. VLO, +0.46%
By sector, technology TXX, -0.01% and real estate investment trusts $DJR were the only two to finish higher on Friday, while oil companies $XOI airlines XAL, +0.56% and precious metals miners XAU, +4.20% led the downside.
Gold closed up $1.10 cents at $638.70 an ounce, recovering from early losses amid another mixed performance by the dollar. See full story. But the stocks of mining companies also remained in the red, with Royal Gold Inc. RGLD, +2.42% and Barrick Gold Corp. ABX, +4.61% posting heavy losses.
The dollar was down 0.4% against the euro, after a report showing stronger-than-expected money supply in the euro zone reinforced expectations the European Central Bank will continue lifting interest rates. See full story.
"It appears that the six interest rate hikes since December 2005 has done little to quell excessive liquidity growth in the region," said Stuart Bennett, a senior economist at Calyon.
Against the yen, meanwhile, the dollar rose 0.1%.
Treasurys fell amid continued pressure from the stronger-than-expected economic reports on Thursday. The benchmark 10-year Treasury bond closed down 4/32 at 99-12/32 with a yield TNX, -0.71% of 4.704%, marking losses for the bond this year, as its yield rose 7%. See full story.


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EVS Training and Evaluation Cycle
Here you can find the calendar of the EVS trainings for EVS volunteers.
The Training and Evaluation Cycle for EVS volunteers consists of the sessions:
- On-arrival training (only for EVS activities lasting 2 months or more)
Timing: within 4 weeks after the arrival of the voluteer.
- Mid-term evaluation meeting (only for EVS activities lasting 6 months or more)
Timing: min. 2 months after onarrival training and min. 2 months before end of service period.
- Annual EVS event (for EVS volunteers who have finished their service during the past 12 months)
Please follow the link in the table below.
The form in the link below must be filled in by the volunteer.
|On-Arrival training
|On-line registration is not available.
|Mid-term meeting
|On-line registration is not available.
|Annual EVS event
|On-line registration is no longer available.
Rules of the training/meeting:
The costs of EVS training/meeting will be covered by the Hellenic National Agency (accommodation, full board, meeting rooms etc.)
The participants' travel cost will be reimbursed to the organization (sending or receiving or coordinator), after the end of the training/meeting, in EUR, on the basis of original tickets (use of the cheapest means and fares, economy class flight tickets, bus, train, F/B etc).
In any case, the reimbursement will be deposited at the organization's bank account.
The National Agency will not cover personal expenses of participants.
Note: Travel costs of participants, in case that are different from the arrival and departure days of the training/meeting, can only be covered with prior official notification of the organization and approval of the NA.
According to the obligations of the organisations, as stated in the Programme Guide, volunteers should have sufficient information prior to participation in the training/meeting.
If you have any doubts, remarks or proposals, do not hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com


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In light of the recent news that charities could be banned from certain fundraising methods, such as cold calling or mailshots. I've been asking myself the question, can charities operate more like businesses?
Now I don't agree with charities or any business approaching vulnerable donors, such as the 87-year-old dementia patient whose details were allegedly passed on by charities more than 200 times before ending up in the hands of a scammer.
But is it fair that charities have to operate with one arm tied behind their back in many situations because of public and government pressure?
One big problem for the charity sector is that the perception of the word 'charity' is free. Duncan Craig, chief executive of Survivors Manchester, suggested in 'The Guardian' that the UK should adopt the lead from other countries and term the sector as 'non-government or not-for-profit'.
For charities to start acting like businesses, there has to be a major shift in mindset.
For example, a media chief executive salary only exceeds £100,000 when organisations have an annual revenue of over £25m. With less than 25% of registered charities having an income of more than £100,00, six figure salaries are a minority.
This is a difficult battle as the public can look at this as excessive, but why?
Like any business, to perform at its best, it often relies on attracting and retaining the best talent. For charities to provide the best results, they need to perform at their best.
From my experience, the vast amount of charity workers are as equally dedicated to their work and providing the best care, the best research and the best support possible.
The sector needs to keep these individuals and attract more like them. Choosing to work for a great cause does not mean that you shouldn't be paid what you would be worth in the public or private sector.
Why not diversify?
In 2000, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in the United States used a tax quirk to invest $150 million into a small biotech firm. The best case scenario being that the company would discover a new treatment for a group of patients with a specific genetic mutation.
It sold the rights to Vertex Pharmaceuticals' cystic fibrosis drug, which included the breakthrough drug Kalydeco for a huge $3.3 billion.
This transaction is part of a growing trend in philanthropy known as mission investing. This type of investment means that instead of giving research grants, a charity acts more like a business partner and expects a share of the profits from their gift.
This approach doesn't always pay off, so there is a risk on the financial return and that the charity might not fulfil its brands purpose on top of this.
Changing perceptions, what can we learn from America?
In America The Charity Defense Council is striving to change public perception about charities and how they operate.
70% of Americans believe that charities waste money, according to a NYU survey. The Charity Defense Council has one singular goal: within ten years to have 70% of Americans believe the opposite.
The perception in America is that charities should spend less money on overheads such as administration, fundraising wages etc and more money on the charity's mission.
If the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation took this approach they would not have been able to sell the rights it held for Kalydeco, the first drug to treat the underlying genetic abnormality in cystic fibrosis, and receive a whooping $3.3 billion to help them with their mission.
So does the perception of the industry need to change to allow charities to act more like businesses and enable them to be all they can be?


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Hello, hello, hello! You should pin this (please?) New Year's is right around the bend and for many of us, that means weight loss goals. Losing weight is pretty tricky and extreme diets don't work in the long-term, so the focus should be on gradual weight loss by eating healthy. I wanted to start you off with a list of healthy (and tasty) meals to help you reach your goals this year.
First Things First
- Some of these meals are light, some of them are heavy. Obviously incorporating a light meal into your day is going to work better than 3 heavy meals
- When we've worked all day and don't feel like preparing a meal, that's when we fall into the habit of getting fast food. My tip: Prepare large batches of your favorite healthy meal one day and freeze them to eat throughout the week.
- I didn't include beverages in this, but one tip that helped me lose weight: cut out all your non-water beverages except for one per day. This means for me having something like coffee or iced tea at one meal and then water the rest of the day.
- Yes, working out helps with losing weight
- Nope, not going to lose weight super fast. Ever heard the saying "easy come, easy go"? If your weight is going to stay off for the rest of your life, it means that you're going to have to stick to these lifestyle changes for the rest of your life. Making a lifestyle change is not the fastest thing you can do to lose weight, but it has the best long-term results
- Nope, not a nutritionist. But I see quite a lot of diets online that no one could stick to for long so I thought I'd share some healthy favorites
- And hey, you're more beautiful than you even know!
- Spinach Omelet: 2 eggs, 2-3 spoonfuls of spinach, 1 slice American cheese, dash of pepper
- Blueberry Banana Smoothie: half cup crushed ice, splash of iced green tea with honey (for sweetening), 1 banana, 2 handfuls of blueberries
- Grapefruit: well there's no use describing this one more in depth
- Veggie Sausages: I promise you, these are tasty and if you get the ones from Morning Star, only 40 calories a link
- Greek Yogurt: I like to get plain Greek Yogurt and top with my own walnuts and fruit (bananas=yum!)
Lunch and Dinner
- Lentil Soup: You can make this by hand or buy it canned, but if you buy it canned, be sure to check the sodium level!
- Lettuce, Avocado, Tomato Sandwich: Yes, this is just what it sounds like! You can add a slice of cheese for more flavor. Make on any bread you want
- Black Bean Burrito: There are so many variations on this, that I'd feel bad just putting one recipe in. Search the web for recipes that sound good to you and make on whole wheat tortillas.
- Peanut Butter and Jelly: Because you have to have one easy meal and this isn't all that bad for you, especially if you use organic peanut butter and whole wheat bread
- Hand Mashed Potatoes: Starch gets a bad rap, but making homemade mashed potatoes from scratch is way healthier than making them from the box
- Quiche: For your eating pleasure, here are 10 recipes for quiche under 300 calories
- Chicken Olive Saute: Recipe here
- Vegan Chili: Recipe here
- 1 oz Dark Chocolate
- 1 oz Walnuts
- 1 Apple (Sliced) with Peanut Butter
- Celery with Peanut Butter
- 1 Cup of Grapes and Low-Fat String Cheese
- Kale Chips and Guac
So there you have it! My favorite healthy options so you don't have to try any crazy diets you won't stick to. Have any healthy recipes you'd like to share? Let me know in the comments below!
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Sigh. We have had a total of two days of summer, the rest has been wet and cold, and my tomatoes and peppers are showing it… the tomatoes are cracked and still green, the peppers are rotting on the stem….. grrrrrr. Colorado is supposed to have SUMMER!
The last three days we have had cool, wet weather here in Texas. It has been nice not having to run the AC. The dogs don't like going out when it rains. It has been so nice not having triple digit weather. How is the editing going. I had to take a leave from work, because of my knee. I cannot wait until Oct. 31 for my surgery.


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Adrian Ghenie: New Paintings
Violence, ambiguity, and the grotesque transcend from Ghenie's monumental oil on canvas series on view at Pace Gallery in Chelsea. The Romanian artist combinatory style, coexisting abstraction with imagery, portraiture with disfiguration, reveals his critical re-telling of History, exposing the underside of formal Historical Fact as a story of Victors and narratives told by those in power. In a response to embedded power structures that hold captive the rights to writing our Story, Ghenie's New Paintings retell the past through the multiple social, political and technological means of achieving a recent narrative, combining historical books, film stills and archives with his own imagination to eschew fact into a spectral fusion of personal and collective past-time memories.
His technique is art historically reminiscent of Francis Bacon's screaming faces and Gerhard Richter's textured canvases. His violent execution is mirrored in his violent imagery. Solitary, defaced figures stand amidst decomposing settings, with lost souls screaming in response to becoming captive to these collapsing environments. Ghenie's subjects include ambiguous renderings of Charles Darwin and Adolph Hitler, equivocal but recognizable through titles or symbolic references (i.e., Hitler's iconic mustache). In his "Pie Fight" series, Ghenie combines episodes of Nazi history with the vaudeville trope of pie fighting; muddling faces to oblivion, Ghenie reinterprets violent events of history into grotesque pastiche scenarios that turns History into its own parodied simulacrum. With Charles Darwin dyeing underneath a Roman Aqueduct, and Hitler bursting out into uncontrollable laughter confined within an aristocratic interior, Ghenie's imagined history connects the father of evolution with the villainous dictator. One man accrediting ecological survival of the fittest, another man acting as the sole arbiter of natural selection, Ghenie's history connects all Victors as people using their power for revolutionary change, whether for good or for evil.


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During this presentation, by Glenn Gutmacher en myself.
In 45 minutes together we brought the audience things to think about.
We showed great tools for searching people. Techniques that are useful for Employer brand, trust building, and in the end of course volume recruiting.
Companies actively recruiting this way are in different industries, but skewing to finance, high tech and retail.
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While progress has gone slowly on the website, there's still some pretty cool updates. We've got an fantastic new logo thanks to the illustrious pixel artist, Erin Waugh. As for Snowday, there still is a somewhat buggy downloadable demo still online, but I'm still working on the flash version. The full version of Snowday will be ready at the start of December.
I'll release some more news on the iPhone project very soon. It's going to be a western themed retro 8-Bit RPG with a new twist in the battle system and will be available in the Apple App Store in a few months.
Thanks for tuning in and keep checking out PSG blog for some more updates!
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Popular gospel artist Mr.Peculiar is back with new music! He's just released his new single, "me za mu ce," from his upcoming album release. It's a stirring song of thanksgiving featuring Mr. Peculiar 's impeccable and clear vocal over well-produced band and backing vocals.
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A Seven-Day Microteaching Programme for EFL Teachers.
Brumfit, Christopher
Procedures are described which were used in a short microteaching period in a Postgraduate Certificate in Education Program in the United Kingdom. In this program, a tutor works with groups of 15 students who have already had at least 2 years of teaching experience. The program of 7 days is divided as follows: (1) all 15 students teach one lesson, with a short discussion period; (2) videotaped lessons by 15 students with selective play-back and discussion; (3) group preparation and presentation of a segment of a lesson, with discussion; and (4) student-determined closure. In this program, the tasks are predetermined and the students select and adapt those they are going to work on. In practice, four sets of students are involved in any particular lesson, teaching or observing or doing the technical camera work. All the students are involved in the discussion which generally exceeds the time-limits of the class time allotment. In addition to the description of the program, several comments are included regarding the student-teachers, difficulties involved in simulating student behavior, camera operation, techniques for observation of the videotape lesson, the role of the tutor, and the problem of achieving a balance between praise and negativity. (AMH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Microteaching, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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- 1⁄2 cup low fat cottage cheese or 1⁄2 cup plain yogurt
- 2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
- Tabasco sauce or other hot pepper sauce, to taste
- Carefully slice the top off each tomato and scoop out the inside.
- Place the hollow tomatoes in a bowl of ice and water, and then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
- In a food processor, puree the ricotta and cottage cheese until smooth; transfer to a small bowl.
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PM World Book Review
Book Title: The Power To Transform: Passion, Power, and Purpose in Daily Life
Author: Chris Majer with John Brant
Publisher: Rodale
Format: Soft cover; 259 pages
Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 978-1-62336-271-3
Reviewer: Nazanin Mehrooz, PMP
Review Date: April 2014
Introduction to the Book
This self-help book provides guidance on how to transform by building practices for effective learning and putting into practice the knowledge to guarantee desired end results. The base of these changes are around awareness of how linguistics form our reality and how to manage stressors associated with the transition of being a beginner in the learning process to build necessary practice to effectively transition. Techniques such as building a strong centered focus, making effective choices and replacing excuses with accountability reinforce success of the transformation process.
Overview of Book's Structur
The book contains 14 chapters:
- The history of the human potential project
- How to use this book
- Language shapes reality
- Learning in a new world
- It all moves from center
- Cultivating Awareness
- Choice: claiming your birthright
- Ability and willingness
- Accountability
- Commitment
- Trust
- Honesty
- Integrity
- Being a stand
Highlights: What's New in this Book
- How the linguistic building blocks of declaration, assertion, assessment, request, promise and offer impact our reality and those around us.
- How to learn effectively by accepting that as a beginner, you have to commit to the effort of learning and the learning effort is improved in an environment where a team or a support structure is in place. Through repeated exercises, you build competence rather than trying to find a quick solution by memories lessons and assuming the competence roll.
To read entire Book Review (click here)
About the Reviewer
Nazanin Mehrooz, PMP
North Texas, USA
Nazanin Mehrooz studied software engineering and is a certified project manager and scrum master. Her experiences includes consulting as a program manager in the transportation industry and manages a suite of related software projects. She has extensive work experience in the defense, telecom and environmental industries with special focus on project development, delivery and operational phases. She has led mid-sized teams as an IT Application Manager and Service Delivery Management in the telecom industry. Nazanin is an active volunteer for the PMI Dallas Chapter (Marketing group) and PMI Fort Worth Chapter as the email manager. Email: [email protected]
To see other works by Nazanin Mehrooz, visit her author showcase in the PM World Library at http://pmworldlibrary.net/authors/nazanin-mehrooz/.
Editor's note: This book review was the result of cooperation between the publisher, PM World and the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI Dallas Chapter – www.pmidallas.org). Authors and publishers provide books to PM World; books are delivered to the PMI Dallas Chapter, where they are offered free to PMI members to review; book reviews are published in the PM World Journal and PM World Library. PMI members can keep the books as well as receive PDUs for PMP recertification when their book reviews are published. PMI Dallas Chapter members are generally mid-career professionals, the audience for most project management books. If you are an author or publisher of a project management-related book, and would like the book reviewed through this program, please contact [email protected].


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San José, Calif.—May 15, 2013—The National Hispanic University (NHU) held its 28th commencement ceremony on May 11 and celebrated the accomplishments of 85 students who earned their master's and bachelor's degrees, teacher education credentials and certificates. The Hon. Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and current chair of NHU's advisory board, addressed the graduates, sharing that this is a time of great promise in America and that there are no limits to what the graduates can accomplish.
"Today is a day of gratitude and congratulations to the graduates. You have exercised discipline and hard work. You have mastered a body of knowledge and personal skills that will last far beyond your knowledge gained," said Mr. Cisneros. He advised the graduates, "Keep intellectually curious and restless. This graduation is not the end of your education."
Mr. Cisneros also congratulated and praised NHU as a place that recognizes Latinos and is a pioneer in educating Latinos saying, "Congratulations to NHU, what a national treasure it is to have the only institution created in this way … this is the future ..." Mr. Cisneros highlighted what he sees as continued growth at NHU with its expanded program offerings, both on campus and online.
At the San José ceremony, NHU honored Mr. Cisneros with a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, for his tireless work and commitment to improve the lives of so many through education while contributing to the rebuilding of their communities.
Mr. Cisneros began his career serving three terms as a city council member. In 1981, he became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. During his four terms as mayor, he helped rebuild the city's economic base and spurred the creation of jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown improvements. In 1992, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Cisneros to be the HUD secretary, where he was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation's public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation's highest-ever home ownership rate. After leaving HUD in 1997, Mr. Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications. Currently, Mr. Cisneros is executive chair of the CityView companies and remains actively involved in urban investing and building for community revitalization projects in large cities throughout the United States.
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About Michael Spreeman
Michael is the creator of Ravenscroft Pianos and founder of Spreeman Piano Innovations, LLC. Experience includes: 35 years as a concert technician, piano rebuilder, service technician, and instructor. He has also worked as a technical consultant for Renner, Fazioli, Yamaha, Steinway, and Baldwin. Education includes: apprenticeship with Jim Coleman Sr., specialized Fazioli concert technician training in Sacile, Italy, concert technician and Disklavier training with Yamaha Corporation of America, and music studies at Arizona State University. Michael teaches nationally and internationally and has earned the German "Klavierbauer" certification as well as being a Registered Piano Technician with the PTG.
Artists Michael Has Worked With
|Julie Andrews
|Louis Barbosa
|Burt Bacharach
|George Benson
|Tony Bennett
|Shelton Berg
|Jorge Bollet
|Victor Borge
|Jim Brickman
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|Ray Charles
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|Chick Corea
|Sheryl Crow
|Bill Cunliffe
|John Denver
|Dena DeRosa
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|Dan Fogelberg
|Gary Graffman
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Q: Can I lower my blood pressure with diet?
A: Changing to a healthy diet and obtaining a normal weight will help lower you blood pressure. One of the most recognized programs to do this is the DASH Diet. To read more about this go to this section of the Mayo Clinic site.
In addition to the lowering blood pressure benefits, the DASH Diet was most recently voted by US News as the best overall diet plan.
Dr. Thomas Moore who chaired the original clinical trial that resulted in the development of the DASH diet has written an excellent book that explains the history of the DASH research as well the diet itself and provides clear and achievable tips on improving health and incorporating the diet into daily life.
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Super yummy fuss-free Paleo dinner when you're having a Don't-wanna-be-in-the-kitchen-but-wanna-stay-awesome moment. Make the most of the leftovers! We eat with our eyes and this dish is pretty (in the picture, the decoration is a basil stalk), doesn't compromising nutrition...or require hours over a hot stove.
Leftover bolognese, shaped into quenelles
Courgettes, matchsticked
Broccoli, sliced finely
Cucumber, diced
Olives, sliced
Tomato, diced
Strip of lemon rind, crushed with salt
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
Toss all the raw vegetables, seasoning and oil together
Serve and add bolognese.
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Zack Starr is a character from Blade: The Series played by David Kopp. Zack is the brother of Krista Starr and a familiar working for Marcus Van Sciver. Zack appears physically in the Pilot episode (later titled House of Chthon for DVD releases), where he is blindfolded under the belief he is going to be turned by Marcus, only to be taken to a remote location and promptly shot in the head by Marcus due to his distrust for Zack. Krista comes to town shortly after his murder and notices a glyph on his neck at the morgue, but Brian Boone (a detective revealed to be a familiar himself) dismisses it as a gang sign.
It is later revealed by Blade in a conversation with Krista during the episode's closing moments that Zack was a double agent working for Blade in order to infiltrate the House of Chthon until his death. Blade later recruits Krista to continue Zack's work as she is now a member of the House after being converted by Marcus.
- Zack appears to be a reverse of Scud from Blade II: Scud was a familiar working as a double agent for Eli Damaskinos and posed as Blade's technician to lure him into a trap while Zack was an ally of Blade posing as a familiar working for Marcus Van Sciver to infiltrate the House of Chthon.
- Zack is also notably the only good familiar as many of the other familiars are highly devoted to the vampire they serve.


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SURREY — A 90-year-old man is in hospital with serious injuries after Surrey recorded its first major pedestrian-related crash of the year early Thursday evening.
It happened shortly before 6 p.m., at 72nd Avenue and 130th Street in Newton. He was struck by a Ford pickup truck.
"It looks like the driver turned left into the pedestrian there, didn't see him for whatever reason," Surrey RCMP Corporal Scotty Schumann said Friday. "The driver remained on scene and is cooperating with police."
Schumann said the victim is in serious condition, still in hospital.
"Visibility will be considered," Schumann said. "Nothing is being discounted right now except for speed and impairment. Those are not being considered as factors."
In 2017, eight pedestrians were killed and 10 were seriously injured on Surrey's streets. All told, there were 20 traffic fatalities and 23 serious injuries in Surrey in 2017.
In comparison, 10 pedestrians were killed in Surrey in 2016 and 20 were seriously injured. That year, Surrey recorded 14 fatalities and 29 people seriously hurt in crashes.
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Office of Admissions
Phone: (919) 660-3436
Fax: (919) 660-3535
Regular Mail
Duke Divinity School
Box 90965
Durham, NC 27708-0965
Express Mail
Duke Divinity School
403 Chapel Drive
106 Westbrook Bldg.
Durham, NC 27708
Office of Financial Aid
Phone: (919) 660-3441
Fax: (919) 660-3535
Regular Mail
Duke Divinity School
Box 90969
Durham, NC 27708-0969
Express Mail
Duke Divinity School
403 Chapel Drive
106 Westbrook Bldg.
Durham, NC 27708
Todd Maberry
Senior Director of Admissions, Recruitment, and Student Finance
Admissions Staff
Morgan Hendrix
Director of Admissions Operations
Morgan is here to help prospective students travel on their path through all stages of the admissions process. She is a native North Carolinian with more than 15 years of admissions experience. She is a graduate of Kenyon College and holds a master's degree from Duke University. Morgan and her family are members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Durham.
Admissions Officer
Born and raised in Blacksburg, Va., Minoka now calls Durham home. She received her B.A. from Virginia Tech in 2013 and has worked for residential life both at Duke and Virginia Tech. She received her M.Div. from Duke Divinity School in 2017 and was involved in campus ministry and interfaith work. Minoka looks forward to helping prospective students find their home at Duke Divinity School. She hopes to using her background and experience at Duke as a resource for prospective students who are considering a journey in theological education.
Amy Scroggin
Admissions Officer
Amy grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Fl., but moved to Durham to earn her M.Div. at Duke Divinity. She received a bachelor's degree in communications from Florida Southern College and is passionate about public storytelling. She hopes to communicate Duke's story to prospective students and help them discern how they can be a part of it. Amy is also a certified candidate in the United Methodist Church. Amy is committed to the flourishing of Hispanic/Latinx ministries and was a part of the Hispanic House of Studies while a student at Duke Divinity.
Brandon Holmes
Admissions Assistant
Originally from Chapin, S.C., Brandon moved to the Durham area after receiving his B.A. in religion from Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C. Following a few years working as a barista in downtown Durham, Brandon is happy to call Duke Divinity School home. Brandon also calls Dirty South Improv Theater home, and he has been performing, coaching, and teaching improvised comedy there since 2011. He lives in Durham with his rambunctious dog, Miso. Brandon loves meeting new prospective students and helping them discover what Duke Divinity School has in store for them.
Kinsley Whitworth
Admissions Assistant
Kinsley Whitworth lives in Durham with her husband and over 450 books. She received a B.A. in English literature and philosophy from Taylor University, and an M.A. in literature from DePaul University, which means that she has spent her adult life reading and writing. She is particularly motivated by partnering with people to make their goals and visions into a reality and, more specifically, to come alongside prospective students as they begin their journey at Duke Divinity.
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The Orange Guy is an orange Metahuman who is for some unknown reason he and Stuffystuff have a lethal grudge on each other, because he is always seen being beaten up by Stuffystuff. The Orange Guy is also a member of the Illuminati.
The Orange Guy is an orange pixelated stickman (hence his name) with yellow eyes. He has a TOTCI of 4, far weaker than Stuffystuff's TOTCI of 15.
Lethal Grudge with Stuffystuff
The Orange Guy and Stuffystuff have a lethal grudge. The Orange Guy always loses every fight because he is far weaker than Stuffystuff. The Orange Guy has always respawned, again and again, and has tried many times to defeat his archrival, including hiring people to kill Stuffystuff (which failed), tried cloning himself and kill Stuffy via sheer numbers (which failed because Stuffy could clone himself at will as well), etc. All failed, all ended up with screams and death rattles preceding a terrifying splat, and a dismembered, decapitated, bloodied, and ripped-apart corpse of an orange metahuman lying on the ground.
It is not really known why they hate each other so much. Many beings make tons of theories about it, but the most popular theory is that The Orange Guy assassinated Stuffy's parents with an L115 from long range. Consumed by rage and despair, Stuffystuff has sworn vengeance on the Orange Guy, and now every time Stuffystuff even sees a GLIMPSE of The Orange Guy, Stuffy will hunt him down, beat the living sh*t out of him, and kill him by all means possible.
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The grudge between Stuffystuff and The Orange Guy have a potential reference to the ongoing battle between Wikia and the infamous Rifleman, who seems to always be evading bans with his VPN and his army of alts.


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Honestly it seems like more of the same from 2K9 just with improved presentation, but let's run one anyway. I'll pick the Knicks and see if I can sign LeBron
MVP: Tim Duncan
ROY: James Harden
6TH: Ramon Sessions
DPY: Ben Wallace
MIP: Ben Wallace
COY: Gregg Popovich
Oy on the Ben Wallace part (at least I know whose ratings to butcher in my next update). And nice to see MVP going to someone not named LeBron/Kobe/Wade.
PG: Harris, Rondo, Deron
SG: Wade, Kobe, Roy
SF: LeBron, Granger, Durant
PF: Duncan, Bosh, Jefferson
C: Howard, Yao, Lopez
Rondo > Paul? As if this game could fail any harder.
PG: Kidd, Rondo
SG: Wade, Ginobili
SF: G. Wallace, LeBron
PF: B. Wallace, Jefferson
C: Howard, Horford
Yeah, when Big Ben is DPOY over Howard you've got a ratings problem.
PG: Flynn, Lawson
SG: Harden, T. Williams
SF: Clark, D. Brown
PF: Griffin, Hansbrough
C: Hill, Andersen
There are only like four rookie centers in the game so the list should be the same over and over (I changed Hill to a C btw)
Kobe 30.4
LeBron 30.4
Wade 29.5
Durant 27.4
Dirk 27.0
Bosh 26.7
The funny thing is this LOOKS accurate, but it's not. The "did not qualify" glitch still exists and most of the leaders didn't qualify. The "real" scoring leaders?
Kevin Martin 32.1
Kobe Bryant 30.4
LeBron James 30.4
Danny Granger 30.2
Devin Harris 30.2
Carmelo Anthony 29.6
Dwyane Wade 29.5
Kevin Durant 27.4
Dirk Nowitzki 27.0
Michael Redd 26.7
Five players with 30+ ppg? *Sigh*. Moving along...
Bosh 16.0
Duncan 13.3
Howard 13.3
Lee 11.9
Murphy 10.9
Gasol 10.2
Rondo 11.7 (predictable)
Kidd 10.0
Duhon 9.7
Nash 9.4
Billups 9.0
Parker 8.4
Paul finished 7th with 8.2. Kay.
Paul 3.3
Wade 2.9
Ariza 2.7
Wallace 2.5
Rondo 2.5
Kidd 2.4
Howard 3.4
Lopez 2.8
Duncan 2.6
Tyrus Thomas 2.4
Dalembert 2.4
Yao 2.2
Shaq .607
Howard .604
Amare .549
Bogut .543
Gasol .540
Okafor .539
Cook .545
Carney .534
Dooling .511
E. Gordon .496
Barnes .496
Bargnani .492
Granger 308 (all-time record I believe)
Martin 299
Redd 285
Harrington 270
Terry 266
Billups 230
Artest 224 (LOL)
Getting away from ridiculous statistics and getting to the ridiculous playoff brackets
1. Spurs (4)
8. Wolves (2)
4. Hornets (2)
5. Jazz (4)
3. Blazers (2)
6. Nuggets (4)
2. Lakers (1)
7. Warriors (4)
1. Celtics (1)
8. Nets (4)
4. Pistons (4)
5. Wiards (0)
3. Hawks (4)
6. Heat (0)
2. Magic (2)
7. Pacers (4)
Congratulations if you noticed the Cavaliers missed the playoffs! None of the leagues top four teams in 2009 advance beyond round 1. And this should really entice LeBron to leave the Cavs if he has championship aspirations!
1. Spurs (4)
5. Jazz (3)
6. Nuggets (4)
7. Warriors (1)
8. Nets (3)
4. Pistons (4)
3. Hawks (4)
7. Pacers (1)
1. Spurs (4)
6. Nuggets (2)
4. Pistons (1)
3. Hawks (4)
1. Spurs (4)
3. Hawks (2)
You could have predicted that after seeing Duncan and Popovich win their respective awards. Wonder if that'll be a trend.
Moving to the offseason....
Mike Dunleavy
Jerry Sloan
George Karl
Rick Adelman
Oh joy! Another year the game decides to retire these talented rich millionaires who aren't giving up their jobs for a long time! Well, at least the three not named Dunleavy.
Anyway lets cut to the chase and get to the much hyped 2010 free agent class.
86 Carlos Boozer
80 Shaquille O'Neal
79 David Lee
77 Rip Hamilton
76 Raymond Felton
76 Josh Howard
75 Jermaine O'Neal
74 Rafer Alston
73 Luis Scola
72 Steve Blake
72 Zydrunas Ilgauskas
71 Tyrus Thomas
That's right, LeBron missed the playoffs AND he doesn't even make it to free agency and instead re-signs for 6 years. I settle for Carlos Boozer snd re-signing David Lee. Meh I'm going to bed. Just as bad as 2K9 with stats too high instead of too low.
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- Katie said...
Rashidi..raising rebounding for guards is creating better parady in the league for rebounding...I actually raised just a few players on the Raptors and Bosh avg 9rpg.
Still can't figure out how to get team scoring up and bench scoring...Its going to take adjusting a lot of shot tendencies.
- October 7, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Controling all 30 teams is the way to go...Looking forward to your roster release and hope you can help 2k fix their stats.
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Glad you got it working. Did you sort out the mysteries you reported in post #20?Originally Posted by Jeff D
wbgolden, I too have got the ASOHOUSB and AGIGAUSB adapters both running on my 6.2 directivos. So it can be done, it was very simple for me... it's good you have serial bash setup otherwise it's a pain to do (unless you script it)
For those that need it...
In the /etc/hotplug/usb.map file you need to add these two lines to the
device ax8817x section:
Code:product 0b95 7720 Airlink ASOHOUSB product 0b95 1780 Airlink AGIGAUSB
Glad you got it working. Did you sort out the mysteries you reported in post #20?Originally Posted by Jeff D
Nope, hotswapping the dlink adapter out kills something. I can swap the airlink adapters all day. If you see in my code section of post #20 that unplugging the airlink adapters correctly "frees" and dec's the use counter and and then plugging in inc's the use count. The dlink just wipes out the module competely when removed. There was the one odd time where the dlink adapter wasn't identified when plugged in, but I'm going to say that was user error.Originally Posted by Jamie
As you suggested... how many times are you really going to be hotswapping this thing?!?! Other than testing I don't know why either. So, I've just let it go. I have been looking at the links you provided, but I suspect I won't find time to get into it. The ramp up on linux development would be enough to turn me off to the whole thing...
BTW, I haven't tried the GIGA at giga speeds, still just using it at the 100 speed.
wbgolden, if it helps, I've documented my steps, I can send them to you if you want to see how someone else has done it...
That would be cool. I could compare what you've done to get them working with that I am doing to not get them working. I've PM'ed you my email address. ThanksOriginally Posted by Jeff D
Imagine what I could do with a Cowboy HatCam
Any idea what driver might work with this? Is it proprietary?
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It looks like I am getting a significant number of transmit errors / dropped xmit packets using the usbnet driver on a hr10-250. I have usbcore.o, ehci-dummy.o and usbnet.o loaded, and nothing else other than the default modules. The network card is a netgear FA-120. Any ideas what is causing this or if there is a fix for it? As you can see below there are well over 2000 of them in 3 seconds while the box is pretty much idle from a network standpoint
bash-2.02# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:98 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:84:CCD
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:31727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:80886700 dropped:62678 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
bash-2.02# date
Sun Jul 10 17:31:16 UTC 2005
bash-2.02# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:98 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:84:CCD
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:31754 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:80888433 dropped:62697 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
Last edited by ochs38578; 07-10-2005 at 01:47 PM. Reason: forgot to put in the network card type
Might be a bad copy of ifconfig. I think I remember reading about one that falsely reports a lot of errors. Mine is versionOriginally Posted by ochs38578and it reports a lot of errors also.Code:[bash DTiVo(7): ~] $ifconfig --version net-tools 1.432 ifconfig 1.29 (1997-09-23)
Just installed the newer verions and it reports no errors:This is the one in usbobj2.4.27-20050619.tar.bz2.Code:[bash DTiVo(7): ~] $ifconfig --version net-tools 1.60 ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13)
Last edited by eastwind; 07-10-2005 at 02:20 PM. Reason: New ifconfig info
I just finished moving my systems over to pure gigabit, with the
SMC switches.
I suspect a problem with my Windows box as all ftp/http sessions
to JF enabled systems hangs. If I lower the MTU on the servers
to 8000 it works.
I also noticed the high errors on the AirLink, but realized something
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:0E:02:C7:66
inet addr:126.96.36.199 Bcast:184.108.40.206 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:43394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:147761691 dropped:97897 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:
Note the TX Packet count. It looks like the counters are 'shifted'
Either way I still get my best performance using MTU=1500.
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Looks like the same problem as ochs38578. Use the ifconfig from the usb drivers package (in nonusb/user). It is the counters in a different format than expected.Originally Posted by JustDan
I see that BSD supports it through the cdce module, and all CDC (Communction Device Class) support in linux is in the usbnet driver. So, if anything, I'd expect in the usbnet module in linux to suport it. If it does not, it might just be a matter of adding the vendor/product id (that was the case for the ALI host-to-host cables). If you have such a cable, send me the vendor/product id's and we can try. The vendor has a data sheet, and bsd supports it, so it might not be hard to add linux support if it isn't already there.Originally Posted by hxmiller
Are you sure your windows systems are using jumbo frames? I suspect not if you get better performance with an mtu of 1500. The device does support jumbo frames. I think with my intel GigE devices I had to muck with some settings in the device manager to get XP to use jumbo frames. Examine all the options for that device carefully in the windows device manager.Originally Posted by JustDan
As EW noted, the ifconfig issue is well known and has been covered before: use the ifconfig included in the backport package.
I believe it is using Jumbo Frames. The embedded Gb card didn'tOriginally Posted by Jamie
support them, so I dug out an older 3Com card I had which claims to.
I plan to try an Intel card to make sure though.
I should have been clearer, I was getting close to 3Mb/s with the
USB200M, but around 2Mb/s using the Airlink and 8k jumbo frames.
I only get around 1Mb/s using the 1500 MTU.
I've attached some tools that may help identify whether you are really getting jumbo frames end-to-end. These are the ping and tracepath compiled for a series 2 from the Fedora Core 3 iputils-20020927-16 sources.
This ping supports a 'no fragment' hint that can be used to see if packets are getting fragmented. If you send too large a packet, instead of fragmenting it, you'll get a message back that the message was too long:This message is one byte too long for my mtu.Code:bash-2.02# ping -M do -s 8973 192.168.1.100 PING 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100) 8973(9001) bytes of data. ping: local error: Message too long, mtu=9000
Note that some versions of ping (for example, the windows versions) may use -f to indicate don't fragment. In the ping I'm posting here, -f means "flood ping" which you probably only want to use when testing for packet loss.
Here's the -M options from the man page:I also included tracepath, which does path mtu discovery and displays the lowest mtu along the path:Code:-M hint Select Path MTU Discovery strategy. hint may be either do (prohibit fragmentation, even local one), want (do PMTU discov- ery, fragment locally when packet size is large), or dont (do not set DF flag).Code:bash-2.02# tracepath 192.168.1.100 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 9000 1: fedora.home.lan (192.168.1.100) 2.709ms reached Resume: pmtu 9000 hops 1 back 1
Last edited by Jamie; 07-11-2005 at 01:02 PM.
It appeared I was half JF enabled.
Using the tools provided I can confirm that I cannot use anything
larger than 1500 to connect to my desktop. Oddly when using the
windows ping with -f -s I can send JF up to 28 bytes under the
configured MTU.
So the NIC appears to be sending JFs, but cannot receive them.
Since that doesn't make sense, I started turning off the protection
tools required by work (McAfee, Windows Firewall, etc...)
And the culprit is- Windows Firewall. With it off I am seeing over
Thanks for the tools and help. Time for some serious extration


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The players get closer together and the stakes rise as new twists enter the equation.
Layman does much of what he did in the first issue, keep the Predators in the background, focus on Dredd and tease the Aliens part in the conflict. Unfortunately, much of this was what we got in the previous issue. By this point it'd have been nice to see more action and less set-up.
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At Peninsula Radiation Oncology Center, we provide patients with world-class radiation therapy to help fight the battle against a variety of cancer
conditions. We want to help our patients heal close to home, surrounded by the love and support of their family, friends, and dedicated staff
at our local Soldotna cancer center. Our physicians and dedicated team work tirelessly to provide a multidimensional approach to healing, in
a caring and compassionate environment close to home.
Where Can I Find More Information?
To find out more about our radiation therapy services, the conditions we treat, and our support services, we invite you to explore the contents of our website. We hope to be a powerful resources of information online, but if you have any additional questions, please feel free to reach out to us.
- Radiation Therapy Services - Discover how radiation therapy is used to treat cancer, and the different methods we use.
- Cancer Conditions - We've created this information resource for patients and their interested family members and friends to learn more about the conditions we treat. It also includes information about the risk factors, symptoms, and treatments of these conditions.
- Cancer Care Navigation Services - Peninsula Radiation Oncology Centers goes above and beyond for our patients, to ensure they receive complete cancer care support so they can focus on healing.
Reach Out To Us With Any Questions
If you'd like more information or would like to schedule an appointment for yourself or a loved one, you'll find an online form on our contact us page. You can also reach out to us directly via email at email@example.com or by phone at (907) 262-7762. We're proud to serve patients throughout Soldotna and the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. We look forward to hearing from you soon!


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