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I have two views in the same folder.
and a partial
In view.aspx i call RenderPartial
<% Html.RenderPartial("View",MyModel); %>
and MVC renders View.aspx not the partial View.ascx. The net result is an endless loop which eventually causes IIS to shutdown the application.
Personally I was expecting the partial view to be rendered.
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I am about exhausted trying to figure out this error:
Description: The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.
Error Code: 0x8007007b
Notification: ExecuteRequestHandler
Module: IsapiModule
Requested URL: http://localhost:80/ReportServer
Physical Path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\Reporting Services\ReportServer
When I enable Failed Request Tracing Rules and view the log output I am supposing that the actual problem is in the 2nd call where there are 2 backslashes before the actual filename in the specified path:
I am currently trying to display multiple items on a single page. I am not sure as to how to tackle this. What I have is a database table that has all the page data in. I have this run as a PagesController and this works fine. However what I would like to do is, if say the Products page is selected via the menu, I want to pull back not only the Products page html but also get all the products, and even be able to pull them through via category. I was trying to use a partial view, but I can't get it to work. The same would be for other pages, having partial views to display the other content, ie if Gallery is selected, the page html for Gallery shows and it then can push to a partial view that pulls all the gallery images from the gallery db table and so on. Maybe I am tackling this the wrong way. I have the pages stored in the db to allow for a CMS system I have setup. Maybe I need to use models for all the other items(Products, Gallery, Videos and such) and use the partial for the page html?Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am confused.
Hi i am using xpath to loop through each node,
the xml is below i can get the value of "link" but i cant get the thumbnail value, have you got any ideas how i can do this, my code is below.
<link>test 1</link> <media:thumbnail url="http://test.com/image.jpg" height="75" width="75" />
<link>test 2</link>
<media:thumbnail url="http://test.com/image.jpg" height="75" width="75" />
public void FindLinks(XPathNavigator p_xPathNav, DataTable dt) { //run the XPath query XPathNodeIterator xPathIt = p_xPathNav.Select("//item"); //use the
I am validating user from Login.xlsx file. It was working fine by validating email and password from that file. For testing i got new file same contents of file but added some more user names.
So after that when i validating the user i am getting the following error "Data type mismatch in criteria expression".
But when i replaced the new to old one it is working fine. The contens of both files are the same. So why this kind of error happened.
I need the funcitonality to have two methods run concurrently of each other and the parent thread (aka the method that makes these two calls) to halt until BOTH are done. After the threads are done, I need to perform logic on the returns of the method, so it is essential for both of them to be complete before the parent thread continues. I have searched the internet and tried varous attacks, and I always come up with the same result, this being the parent thread continues operation after the first thread finishes, leaving the second thread running. Can someone show me a quick example of how I can do this. I have tried checking states of the threads, halting the threads, but I always end up with the same thing. Any help would be great. Thanks.
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I'm using Enterprise Library Logging feature for logging. The issue i am facing is when the Logging message is too large(more than 65534 chars) ,complete data is not logged in the Formatted Mesage column which is of data Type nText .
I am able insert complete data if i try inserting from Sql insert Query from sql management studio. Do i need to add any attributes to data base listener or do i need to change the sp.
Is there any way to increase the WriteLog stored proc param size in EnterpriseLibrary.Logging config file ? . Please let me know.
Thanks In Advance.
The problem I am posting here is that I was facing nearly 2 weeks around. Any body comes with this stuff please help.
Word Automation in sample ASP.NET(C#) application.
I am using Microsoft.Office.Inetrop.Word Assembly for automation. Here I am reading a XXX.dot template file and fill the contents with dynamic data.
When i am executing my code in localhost:someportnumber the automation is working fine and I could get expected result and when I am hosting in my inetmgr(Windows XP is my OS) it is also working fine.
But the problem is that when I am hosting in my production server(Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition) I am not able to perform automation and results in the following error.
Data: System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternalMessage: Word has encountered a problem.Source: Microsoft Word
The code gets failed in the following line:
ApplicationClass wordApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();
Document wordDoc = wordApp.Documents.Add(ref oTemplate, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); // Error in this line
I cannot able to proceed further. Can anybody please help me in solving this issue?
Thank you.
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This is very strange to me. I have spent 2hrs looking into this inside out , but dont seem to get it
I have an if statement that inserts data into the database. But i check to make sure the name is not entered twice. Now when the name is already in the db, then it should insert else put out a message saying its already in the db
My code works fine except that when its not in the db, its inserts but still puts out the message that says "Name is already in use" Not sure if am not seeing something. But thought i did bring it to the forum. Here is my code...Pretty simple
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I have a Repeater who should show some data from my ms.sql server. But all code inside the Repater is not shown on my .aspx page. What am i doing wrong. I have a similar Repeater on another page and there it works fine.

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when i open my sql database in webmatrix then i got this error. i already install sql server 2008 r2 and he work fine everywhere in my system.
how i can solve this issue.
Let me see if one of you can assist with this one...
i have a similar situation, but mine does not use the selected item (item Command). Here is what the form is to do:
1. this is for an educational environment, so we use SID- NOT SSN's, but i use the SID as a filter in the subset as the grouping unique id.
2. I'm trying to inject a sub total row at the last line item of each SID (if more than one item in the report for that SID).
3. I'm looping thru the items in the Datalist Item Command with a for each (item i in Datalist2.Items).
Custom controls and ViewState management issue Hi,
I want to know that when we create custom controls, then is there State Management through ViewState done automatically or we have to handle it explicitely ?Since i have created Custom Controls that is behaving as if it is not maintaining its state on PostBack.
I want to know that when we create custom controls, then is there State Management through ViewState done automatically or we have to handle it explicitely ?Since i have created Custom Controls that is behaving as if it is not maintaining its state on PostBack.
Hi All,
I have developed a ASP.NET2.0 web site with SQL 2000 backend and number users to site is approx. 5-10.
I have developed one Administration page which controls user roles to access this site; onclick of Update button in admin page the role gets updated into the system. I have written simple query in the code to update the user roles into database; Ajax implemented in admin page;
Issue: If 2-3 users tries to update the admin roles; latest update reflected in the database and same displayed in the admin page;
I am looking for a solution to solve this problem by application code change since i dont have flexible to change the database end; if one users update the system, it should not allow other users to perform any operation; please let me know if any standard approach can be implemented with minor code change.
Thanks in Advance,
Saravana Prakash P.
I've seen this question posted on all corners of the web... "How do I disable "AutoPostBack" on the ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView control?!" Unfortunately, most of the answers either don't work, miss the point (don't work right), or boil down to "You can't do it." I happen to know that this behavior worked perfectly in the IEWebControls TreeView that Microsoft released as an add-on prior to ASP.NET 2.0, however. So I set out to find a solution for the ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView issue.
In a nutshell, the behavior that I and others are looking for is to have a TreeView rendered in a page that allows the user to expand, contract, and select nodes within the TreeView without causing a PostBack to the server. This implies two things: (1) the most recently-selected node should be recorded as the currently-selected node [i.e., at PostBack time, the most-recently selected node is actually represented as the SelectedNode]; and (2) the selected node should exhibit the SelectedNodeStyle as specified in the TreeView declaration.
It appears that the TreeView engineers saw only two possible outcomes from selecting a leaf node in a tree: (1) immediately posting back to the server, or (2) immediately navigating to another web page. They apparently did not consider option (3) just allowing selection in-place on the client, while waiting for a click on so
I have an iframe that is supplied by another application, inside the iframe I have my .Net application. However, I am having sizing issues, where one minute that pages in the .Net fit the frame perfectly and the next minute they don't, with a vertical and horizontal scroll bars appearing. All the .Net Pages use a Master Page and I have also fixed the size of the pages, but with no luck. What I would was thinking if possible is to pass some javascript between the .Net application and the iframe which will make the pages and the iframe resize themselves. Has anyone done this before and have some code that I could use?
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Justin Bieber + Nicki Minaj Don't Change Lyrics to 'Beauty and a Beat' During 2012 American Music Awards Performance
Justin Bieber rocked a medley at the 2012 American Music Awards tonight (Nov. 18) and paired up with Nicki Minaj for 'Beauty and a Beat.' The big question on everyone's mind was "Will they change the lyrics?," which reference his ex Selena Gomez, with whom he only recently split. Well, did they?
First things first. The Biebs started out seated on a stool and accompanied by an acoustic guitarist, donning a tank top, backwards baseball cap, red jeans and red sneakers, to perform an acoustic version of 'As Long as You Love Me.' It was a stark, spare contrast to the rest of the night's performances, which were expansive productions complete with lots of props. It was obvious to us this was just the beginning. And it was.
After he wrapped the first song, the Biebs demanded, "AMAs, get out ya seats," as he launched into a performance of the much faster 'Beauty and a Beat.' The set was decorated with boomboxes and it was a choreography-heavy performance, with Bieber fully in time with his crew of dancers. This performance fell in line with the rest of the night, meaning it was produced and featured lots of visual bells and whistles.
When Minaj turned up, wearing a huge black wig and leggings while bumpin' and grindin' with Bieber, she kept the lyric completely in tact. Was the fact that he let Minaj rap the the lyric a message to Selena, maybe about how he wants to get back together? Would it have been a you-know-what move to ditch her name from the song at a live, public event, so he was simply being polite? We wonder...
We have to admit that the Biebs did wear a look of distraction on his face while performing. It would seem that the split is weighing heavily on his mind.
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MIAMI, May 26 (UPI) -- A Miami police officer shot and killed a man who had eaten part of another man's face, leaving the victim fighting to survive the attack, authorities said.
The attacker was naked when he accosted the victim at about 2 p.m. EDT Saturday near the offices of The Miami Herald. Witnesses said a woman who had seen the two men fighting flagged down a nearby police officer.
As the officer approached the scene, the attacker was chewing his victim's head, witnesses said. After the attacker ignored the officer's order to back away from the victim, the officer shot him but the attacker kept eating and the officer fired more shots, the Herald reported.
The victim was reported in critical condition at a hospital.
The names of the victim and the attacker were not reported.
Police have not identified the officer, but a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police said the officer was a hero for shooting the attacker, the newspaper reported.


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Capturing the specific details of constructed and natural environments, Robert Polidori's photographs trace the range of human psychology and activity through different spaces. Polidori has captured several facets of human experience, from the excesses of Versailles to the turmoil and tragedy of post-Katrina New Orleans. With each image, he eschews nostalgia and judgment, allowing the sharply focused details of the photograph to communicate particular elements of the subject's psychology and history. Explaining his interest in interiors and architecture, Polidori has said, "Besides the obvious sheltering from the extremes of the elements, people make rooms to live in as if they are animated by an unconscious desire to return to a prenatal life, or even before that, to a soul life. This is what they exteriorize in rooms, their internal soul life, or less magically put, their personal values, if you will."
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HAVANA (AP) — Venezuela's top diplomat said he joked and laughed with President Hugo Chavez after meeting him on Monday in Cuba, where the ailing leader is recovering from a fourth cancer surgery.
Foreign Minister Elias Jaua wrote on his official Twitter account that Chavez made decisions about Venezuela's participation in this weekend's Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in Chile and was "very happy because the Bolivarian dream continues advancing."
"I transmit all his blessings and love for you, his beloved Venezuelan people," Jaua wrote. "Viva Chavez!"
Jaua, however, did not provide any specific details on Chavez's illness or say how long their meeting lasted.
Venezuela's socialist president has not been seen or heard from in public since his operation in Cuba on Dec. 11, and was unable to make his scheduled inauguration for a new term earlier this month.
On Sunday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised interview that Chavez is finishing with a "post-operative" phase of his treatment and next is to enter a "new phase of treatment," which he said would be announced.
"He's climbing the hill. He is becoming stabilized in all his values," Maduro said, without giving details.
Officials have not given specific details about the nature of his cancer.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Two 911 operators were praised Monday for bringing a peaceful end to an armed standoff that began after three people were shot to death and two others wounded in a neighborhood in California.
During a 20-minute phone call, Pasadena emergency services operator Diane Marin persuaded the caller to surrender, as another operator relayed information to officers who surrounded the house where he was holed up, authorities said.
Marin told a news conference that the man called Saturday and said, "'I killed someone.'"
Police say John Izeal Smith, 44, is suspected of killing 90-year-old Luis Fernando Aguiar inside a Pasadena house and Maria Teresa Aguiar, 59, outside the dwelling.
Neighbor Jose Hernandez Iribe, 31, was fatally shot when he ran toward Aguiar as she lay wounded outside, police said.
Two other people were grazed by bullets and shrapnel and treated for minor injuries, police said.
Smith also opened fire at officers and fired a total of 40 bullets before going back inside the house and calling 911, police said.
Marin, who said she had fielded emergency calls from neighbors reporting gunfire in the area, said the caller was evasive but eager to talk about himself.
In a recording of the final moments of the conversation. Marin is heard assuring the man, "They don't want anyone else to get hurt. They don't want you to get hurt also."
"I'm coming out," the caller says.
After the roughly 90-minute standoff, police took Smith into custody without firing a shot. No officers were injured.
It's unclear what motivated the shootings, but Pasadena Police Chief Phillip L. Sanchez said the two "themes" emerging in the investigation involve a possible landlord-tenant dispute and a possible long-term relationship between Smith and those living inside the home.
Smith legally purchased the two assault rifles and one semi-automatic pistol that were recovered from the scene, police said.
Smith was being held without bail in a Los Angeles jail and is scheduled for a court appearance Tuesday. It could not be immediately determined if he has a lawyer. Police said they initially erred in reporting Smith's age as 35.


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Britney Spears: 'Scream & Shout' Vid Reaches 100 Million Views!
Britney Spears and her two adorable sons Jayden James and Sean Preston head to The Barkley Pet Hotel with their pet pups on Sunday (February 3) in Los Angeles.
The 31-year-old singer and her little guys were accompanied by a male escort who walked the family to their car.
"100 Million views of the Scream & Shout video! Truly is All Eyes on US @iamwill. Love to all the fans!" Brit tweeted before about her hit song with will.i.am. Congrats guys!
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Well I start my vacation on Friday. So here is the second part to my series on netwotking before I go. It is continued from this thread:
I hope this helps some of you.
Subject of this tut is TCP/IP in networks.
Basic TCP/IP, an understanding__
The TCP/IP protocol suite is named for two of its most
important protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
and Internet Protocol (IP). Another name for it is the
Internet Protocol Suite, and this is the phrase used in
official Internet standards documents. We shall use the
more common term TCP/IP to refer to the entire protocol.
The first design goal of TCP/IP was to build an
interconnection of networks that provided universal
communication services: an internet. Each physical network
has its own technology-dependent communication interface,
in the form of a programming interface that provides basic
communication functions (primitives). Communication
services are provided by software that runs between the
physical network and the user applications and that
provides a common interface for these applications,
independent of the underlying physical network. The
architecture of the physical networks is hidden from the
The second aim is to interconnect different physical
networks to form what appears to the the user to be one
large network. Such a set of interconnected networks is
called an internet.
To be able to interconnect two networks, we need a
computer that is attached to both networks and that can
forward packets from one network to the other; such a
machine is called a router. The term IP router is also
used because the routing function is part of the IP layer
of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
The basic properties of a router are:
From the network standpoint, a router is a normal host.
From the user standpoint, routers are invisible. The user
sees only one large internetwork.
To be able to identify a host on the internetwork, each
host is assigned an address, the IP address. When a host
has multiple network adapters, each adapter has a separate
IP address. The IP address consists of two parts:
IP address = <network number><host number>
The network number part of the IP address is assigned by a
central authority and is unique throughout the Internet.
The authority for assigning the host number part of the IP
address resides with the organization which controls the
network identified by the network number.
TCP/IP, like most networking software, is modelled in
layers. This layered representation leads to the term
protocol stack which is synonymous with protocol suite. It
can be used for situating (but not for comparing
functionally) the TCP/IP protocol suite against others,
such as SNA and Open System Interconnection (OSI).
Functional comparisons cannot easily be extracted from
this, as there are basic differences in the layered models
used by the four different protocol suites.
Application ***
is a user process cooperating with another process on the
same or a different host. Examples are TELNET (a protocol
for remote terminal connections), FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). These
are discussed in detail in Application Protocols.
Transport ***
provides the end-to-end data transfer. Example protocols
are TCP (connection-oriented) and UDP (connectionless).
Internet ***
also called the internet layer or the network layer, the
internet provides the ``virtual network'' image of
internet (that is, this layer shields the higher levels
from the typical network architecture below it). Internet
Protocol (IP) is the most important protocol in this
layer. It is a connectionless protocol which doesn't
assume reliability from the lower layers. IP does not
provide reliability, flow control or error recovery. These
functions must be provided at a higher level, either at
the Transport layer by using TCP as the transport
protocol, or at the Application layer if UDP is used as
the transport protocol. IP is discussed in detail in
Internet Protocol (IP). A message unit in an IP network is
called an IP datagram. This is the basic unit of
information transmitted across TCP/IP networks.
Network Interface ***
also called the link layer or the data-link layer, the
network interface layer is the interface to the actual
network hardware. This interface may or may not provide
reliable delivery, and may be packet or stream oriented.
In fact, TCP/IP does not specify any protocol here, but
can use almost any network interface available, which
illustrates the flexibility of the IP layer. Examples are
IEEE 802.2, X.25 and ATM.
Bridges, Routers and Gateways In TCP/IP
Forming an internet by interconnecting multiple networks
is done by routers. It is important to distinguish between
a router, a bridge and a gateway.
Interconnects LAN segments at the Network Interface layer
level and forwards frames between them. A bridge performs
the function of a MAC relay, and is independent of any
higher layer protocol. It provides MAC layer protocol
conversion, if required. A bridge can be said to be
transparent to IP. That is, when a host sends an IP
datagram to another host on a network connected by a
bridge, it sends the datagram directly to the host and the
datagram ``crosses'' the bridge without the sending host
being aware of it.
Interconnects networks at the internetwork layer level and
routes packets between them. The router must understand
the addressing structure associated with the networking
protocols it supports and take decisions on whether, or
how, to forward packets. Routers are able to select the
best transmission paths and optimal packet sizes. The
basic routing function is implemented in the IP layer of
the TCP/IP protocol stack. Therefore any host or
workstation running TCP/IP may be used as a router.Because
IP provides this basic routing function, the term ``IP
router'', is often used. Other, older, terms for router
are ``IP gateway'', ``Internet gateway'' and ``gateway''.
The term gateway is now normally used for connections at a
higher level than the router level. A router can be said
to be visible to IP. That is, when a host sends an IP
datagram to another host on a network connected by a
router, it sends the datagram to the router and not
directly to the target host.
Interconnects networks at higher levels than bridges or
routers. A gateway usually supports address mapping from
one network to another, and may also provide
transformation of the data between the environments to
support end-to-end application connectivity. Gateways
typically limit the interconnectivity of two networks to a
subset of the application protocols supported on either
one. For example, a VM host running TCP/IP may be used as
an SMTP/RSCS mail gateway. Note: The term ``gateway'',
when used in this sense, is not synonymous with ``IP
gateway''. A gateway can be said to be opaque to IP. That
is, a host cannot send an IP datagram through a gateway:
it can only send it to a gateway. The higher-level
protocol information carried by the datagrams is then
passed on by the gateway using whatever networking
architecture is used on the other side of the gateway.
Closely related to routers and gateways is the concept of
a firewall or firewall gateway which is used to restrict
access from the Internet to a network or a group of
networks controlled by an organization for security
IP Routing
Incoming datagrams will be checked to see if the local
host is the IP destination host:
The datagram is passed to the higher-level protocols.
The datagram is for a different host. The action depends
on the value of the ipforwarding flag.
The datagram is treated as an outgoing datagram and is
routed to the next hop according to the algorithm
described below.
The datagram is discarded.
In the internet protocol, outgoing IP datagrams pass
through the IP routing algorithm which determines where to
send the datagram according to the destination IP address.
If the host has an entry in its IP routing table which
matches the destination IP address, the datagram is sent
to the address in the entry. If the network number of the
destination IP address is the same as the network number
for one of the host's network adapters (that is, the
destination and the host are on the same network) the
datagram is sent to the physical address of the host
matching the destination IP address. Otherwise, the
datagram is sent to a default router. This base algorithm,
needed on all IP implementations, is sufficient to perform
the base routing function.
As noted above, a TCP/IP host has basicrouter
functionality included in the IP protocol. Such a router
is adequate for simple routing, but notforcomplex
networks. The IP routing mechanism is combined with the
"layered'' view of the TCP/IP protocol stack. This shows
an IP datagram, going from one IP address (network number
X, host number A) to another (network number Y, host
number B), through two physical networks. Note that at the
intermediate router, only the lower part of the TCP/IP
protocol stack (the internetwork and the network interface
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The next time you let your little one hop into a crowded bouncy castle crammed with tumbling tykes, think twice.
Use of inflatable bouncers, such as bounce houses and moonwalks, has increased in recent years – and, as a corollary, so have injuries in and around them.
A new study by the American Academy of Pediatrics released this week found that from 1990 to 2010 more than 64,000 children were treated in U.S. emergency departments for inflatable bouncer-related injuries. And the rate of those injuries as been significantly on the rise: from 2008 to 2010, the number of inflatable bouncer-related injuries more than doubled to an average of 31 children injured per day.
"The rapid growth in bouncer-related injuries and their shared characteristics with trampoline injuries call for guidelines for safer bouncer usage," the study's authors conclude. More than one-third of injured children in this study were younger than 6, which, the authors note, is the minimum recommended age for bouncy house usage.
"In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its recommendation against any home or other recreational usage of trampolines and recommended use only as part of a structured training program with appropriate safety measures employed. Policy makers must consider whether the similarities observed in bouncer-related injuries warrant a similar response."
Plus: AAP: No Home Trampoline Use
Researchers found that, perhaps as expected, fractures and strains or sprains of the arms or legs were the most common types of injury, and falls were a common cause of injury, with stunts and collisions also contributing to the injury rate. The study, "Pediatric Inflatable Bouncer-Related Injuries in the United States, 1990-2010," can be found in the December 2012 issue of Pediatrics.
The Child Injury Prevention Alliance released the following guidelines for safe inflatable bouncer usage:
- Limit bouncer use to children 6 years of age and older.
- Only allow a bouncer to be used when an adult trained on safe bouncer use is present.
- The safest way to use a bouncer is to have only one child on it at a time.
- If more than one child will be on the bouncer at the same time, make sure that the children are about the same age and size (weight).
- Take off shoes, eyeglasses and jewelry and remove all sharp objects from your pockets before entering the bouncer.
- No rough play, tumbling, wrestling or flips.
- Stay away from the entrance or exit and the sides or walls of the bouncer while you are inside of it.
- If the bouncer begins to lose air, stop play and carefully exit the bouncer.
Has your child ever been injured in a bounce house? Let us know your experience in the comments.


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Kim Kardashian's miscarriage scare is shedding light on the reality TV starlet's hectic lifestyle and jet-setting ways.
A story from the New York Post posted late Wednesday claimed the pregnant 32-year-old, who is carrying rapper Kanye West's baby, "rushed" to see a doctor after a flight back to L.A. from Paris, where she was attending the Givenchy show with West during Paris Fashion Week. An unnamed source told the Post that Kardashian began feeling ill on the plane and went to see a doctor Tuesday night in tears because she was worried she was suffering a miscarriage.
The future ex-Mrs. Kris Humphries announced the news that she was pregnant to much fanfare back in December and is about four months along. The baby is due in July.
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Life among the warring tribes of the Fiji Islands during the early days of European settlement was precarious. White settlers in the first few decades tended to do so involuntarily, and most of these 'beachcombers' did not survive. A few, however, made themselves useful to the Fijian chiefs and prospered.
David Whippy is the most well-known and influential of these early settlers. He was a younger son of a whaling family of Nantucket, Massachusetts.[1] He arrived in Fiji in January 1825 aboard the brig Calder with Captain Peter Dillon, who took what little sandalwood he could find and left Whippy on the island of Bau to organise a shipment of turtle shell and beche-de-mer. Dillon did not return for thirteen years.[2]
Whippy could have escaped Fiji on another ship, but he decided to stay. He became a favourite of the Vunivalu of Bau, and later settled with the Levuka people on Ovalau Island, north of Bau. The European settlement of Levuka was founded with the approval of the chief, the Tui Levuka, and other Europeans settled. Whippy became 'the principal man in the European settlement', and was appointed vice-consul for the United States by Commodore Wilkes in 1840.[3] Deeds and other official papers kept in his house were lost whenever his house was burned down in the ongoing conflict between the coastal Levuka people and the Lovoni people in the hills.[4]
Boats were an enormously important part of the economy of Fiji for Europeans and natives alike, as they are today. They were the only means of getting around and transporting goods for trade and men in war. Whippy started a boat-building company known as 'Whippy, Simpson and Cusick' with William Simpson and William Cusick (or Cusack). William Simpson was a ship's carpenter from Poplar who arrived in Fiji in 1829 and settled in Levuka, working as a carpenter and pilot and translator for visiting ships.[5]William Cusick, or Cusack, was an Irish blacksmith who later married Whippy's daughter Lydia.[6]
Whippy fathered eleven known children by at least four women, the last of whom he married in a Christian ceremony. A number of his children were baptised, all at once, on 2nd and 3rd October 1843, as were those of other settlers.[7]
The white community was expelled from Levuka twice during Whippy's lifetime; once in August 1844, when Cakobau gave them three days to leave after one of the Europeans, Charlie Pickering from New South Wales, got involved in one of Cakobau's wars; and again in 1858 when Whippy's son Samuel eloped with the daughter of a chief of Batiki, earning Cakobau's anger. They took up residence on Wakaya Island, where Whippy's old friend and business partner William Simpson died on 24th May 1862.[8]
Whippy bought land around this time at Wainunu on Vanua Levu from the Tui Wainunu for 5 kegs powder, 5 muskets, 3 ½ pigs of lead, 3 dozen axes, 40 canisters and one barrel of gunpowder, 34 knives, 500 balls, 10,200 yards of cloth and 10 iron pots, valued at $398.[9] The Wakaya community dispersed in 1862, with many of the Whippy families settling at Wainunu. Whippy died on 27th October 1871 at his residence at Vakabuta in Wainunu at the age of 69 years and 8 months and was buried in the 'Old People's Cemetery'.[10]
An obituary appeared in the Fiji Times: [11]
The oldest settler, a man who for his good qualities was held in high esteem by both the natives and residents of Fiji, has passed from amongst us. Death has taken away Mr. David Whippy, who died at his residence Wainunu, in the seventieth year of his age.
Whippy now has hundreds of descendants in Fiji, and Australia and around the world, all of whom are proud to be descended from him.[12]
[1] Elder D.J. Joseph, 'Whippy Genealogy', FHL Film 1817446, Item 7; Obituary of David Whippy, Fiji Times, 8 Nov 1871, p.3, col.2; S.W. Ritova (President), Descendants of David Whippy Reunion Souvenir Programme, privately published by Descendants of David Whippy Reunion Organising Committee, Suva, 1993, p. 3, photocopy held by the author
[2] W.S. Cary, Wrecked on the Feejees, Fairfield, Washington, 1998, pp. 35-6, 67; J.W. Davidson, 'Peter Dillon,' in Pacific Island Portraits, J.W. Davidson and D. Scarr, (ed.), Canberra, 1970), p.15. This is the same Captain Dillon who witnessed the death of Charlie Savage in 1813.
[3] Derrick, op. cit., pp.67,92.
[4] J. Young, Adventurous Spirits, Australian migrant society in pre-cession Fiji, St. Lucia, QLD, 1984, p. 59.
[5] Certified Copy of the Will of William Simpson, 1860, photocopy held by the author; FRGO, Fiji General Deaths, Death of Eliza Sophia Brown, 1901/140; Young, Adventurous Spirits, pp. 58, 391; Cyclopedia of Fiji 1906, Suva, 1984, p.75. Fijian birth, marriage and death registrations are divided into three series – Fijian, Indian and General. The series must always be given to avoid confusion.
[6] Young, Adventurous Spirits, p.58; Cyclopedia of Fiji 1906, p.75; J.E. Erskine, Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, London, 1853, p.173; NAF, Wesleyan-Methodist Church of Fiji: Fiji Wesleyan Register of Baptisms, entry no. 1037. The Wesleyan Register of Baptisms also contains marriages; the heading has been crossed out on the pages containing marriages.
[7] NAF, Wesleyan-Methodist Church of Fiji: 'Wesleyan Methodist Register of Baptisms 1836-1925'.
[8] Young, Adventurous Spirits, p.65-66; Derrick, A History of Fiji, p.94; Last Will and Testament of William Simpson 7 June 1860, handwritten note on bottom of copy of will.
[9] NAF, Land Claims Commission: Report 588 on lands at Wainunu known as Yadali claimed by Heirs of David Whippy senior, David Whippy junior, and William Simpson.
[10] Obituary of David Whippy, Fiji Times, 8 Nov 1871, p.3; Stanley Brown, Men From Under The Sky, Rutland, Vermont, 1973, p.119.
[11] Obituary of David Whippy, Fiji Times, 8 Nov 1871, p.3.
[12] Organising Committee of the David Whippy Reunion, 'Souvenir Programme', 1993. The programme lists over 500 descendants with whom direct contact had been made for the reunion.


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Canadian students typically need to have a nonimmigrant student visa (such as a F-1 or J-1 visa) in order to study in the U.S. You to NOT need to visit a U.S. consulate in order to obtain a visa. The visa itself is issued to you by a U.S. border crossing official when you cross the border on your way to AMBS, or by a customs official at the airport where you land in the U.S. However, in order for you to be issued a student visa, you will need to present several documents to the official, most of which the AMBS Registrar will mail to you at some point in your application process. Those documents are:
- "Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status." This is a key document, of which there are two kinds depending on the type of visa you decide to use. You will need one of the following:
Form I-20 A-B, aka "Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Student Status." This is for most international students pursuing a degree
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When you depart for Elkhart, you should have all of these documents with you in a secure place yet readily accessible. At the Port of Entry into the U.S., the official will inspect your documents and will issue you an I-94 card with a visa stamp on it. THAT is your ticket ... your very, very important ticket that you should keep safe in the U.S. (typically it is stapled into your Passport).
Note: In March 2015, AMBS received approval for Canadian students to participate in MDiv Connect, which includes only two or three brief visits to campus each year. This low-residency program needed special approval from the US Department of Homeland Security, and with that approval Canadians can now enter the distance program. Read more in a March 20 news release.
Canadian citizens need to be sure the I-20 is properly processed at the border when they are applying for entrance in F-1. The top copy of the I-20 must be stamped by the border official (in the upper right corner with the notation "F-1 D/S") and the student must be given a properly stamped I-94 card. Be sure that you receive these documents before you part company with the official. Sometimes they assume you are a tourist and don't give you these stamps. Be sure they know you are going to be a student and need an F-1 student visa.
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Lumberjills and fireman games in Frisco
September 6, 2012
September heralds the start of leaf-peeping season in Summit County, with the first aspen changing into their fall medley of pale greens, yellows, oranges and reds.
In honor of nature's splendor, Frisco will host its third annual Autumn Spectacular celebration starting Saturday and running through Sept. 23.
A new event, Fall Fest, kicks off the festival Saturday and takes the place of Beetlefest, which ran the past four years. The day will include some of the same popular features – like lumbersports and woodworking (using both beetlekill and other wood) – plus a few new ones too.
It's "essentially a celebration of the colors, sights and sounds in the mountains," Frisco spokesperson Suzanne Lifgren said of the retooled event.
Festivities start at 8:30 a.m. with the Mt. Royal Hill Climb, a 5-kilometer ascent race that ends at 10,500 feet at the summit of Mt. Royal, with the victors named king or queen of the mountain. Afterwards, competitors can cool down with a leisurely hike down. "It's good for people with bad knees because running down would hurt," Lifgren said. The idea is to get people into the mountains, experiencing the fall colors firsthand, while also challenging their high elevation running skills.
On Main Street, festivities go from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and include art shows, lumbersports shows, woodcarving, fireman games, live music and an "end of harvest" market featuring jams, pies, fudge and fruits, among other items, from local vendors.
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Though lumberjacks were a staple of past Beetlefest celebrations, this year's log rollers and saw blade wielders are all women, as Frisco welcomes Timber Tina's World Champion Lumberjills: "Chics with Axes" for the first time.
The shows take place at 11:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 4:30 and consist of two lumberjills competing against one another in a series of challenges such as axe throwing, cross-cut sawing, underhand chopping and the ever-popular log rolling.
A log roller since age 7, Timber Tina (Tina Scheer) performed in her family's lumberjack show before branching off in 1995 to start the Lumberjills and The Great Main Lumberjack Show.
Lumbersports are a growing niche, with women's divisions making the largest gains, said Scheer, who has been instrumental in that growth. "Ten years ago I went to Australia and competed in the men's division," Scheer said. A year later, they added women's divisions for chopping and sawing. Stateside, she also helped create a women's division at the Lumberjack World Championships.
The Chics with Axes show makes for "a good blend of comedy," said Scheer. "Of course, the men like to see the women doing it, and the women like to see the women doing it too. It's a wholesome show, a fun show. I've been doing logging sports all my life and look forward to doing a really great show."
Also new this year are the fireman games, in which amateur and professional firefighters team up to go head-to-head against other teams. Participants dress in firefighting gear, unroll a fire hose, couple it to the engine, turn on the water, aim and fire at a target.
"This is your chance to play firefighter with a little help from a firefighter," Lifgren said. Prizes include a photo with your partner in crime plus bragging rights. The event is free of charge and open to folks 18 and up; register online at http://www.townoffrisco.com.
At 2:30 p.m., catch the Nederland-based bluegrass act, Mountain Standard Time, fresh from NedFest. Said to follow in the footsteps of Colorado greats like The String Cheese Incident and Leftover Salmon, Mountain Standard Time creates a bluegrass fusion that leads with guitar and mandolin but rounds out its full-band sound with keyboards, electric bass, drums and electronic effects.
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In addition to Mountain Standard Time, keep an ear out for the women's a cappella group, Mountain Majesty Chorus, who will be strolling Main Street, singing.
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Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's inherent to most reporters, but when someone makes a splashy announcement, the first question that comes to mind is almost always, "what aren't they telling us?" Especially when the announcement seems too good to be totally true, like when a two-time Pro Bowler is added in exchange for a fourth round pick.
So after seeing the text confirming the DeMeco Ryans deal, it didn't take long to find out about the linebacker's torn Achilles tendon in 2010 and decreased production and playing time in 2011. It also didn't take long to see that Ryans has been a leader, a playmaker and very recently was considered one of the best young linebacker in the game. It sounds like a good chance to take, and I said as much last night.
But if last season reminded us of one lesson we should have learned long ago, it's that there are no sure bets when it comes to players changing teams in the NFL. Nnamdi Asomugha was considered without question the best free agent on the market last summer, a Pro Bowler for three straight years before the Eagles got him. There wasn't any free agent more highly regarded. Except fellow cornerback Johnathan Joseph wound up having the better season in Houston and Asomugha, whether it was because he was misused, adjusting to a new system or overrated, disappointed in year one, despite everything that looked right about the signing.
And that was with a safe bet.
Jason Babin, too, came with questions, the kind that more closely parallel the risk in the Ryans deal. Babin and Ryans had each seemingly defined themselves as players over multiple seasons only to have one outlier year before coming to the Eagles.
Babin had bounced around the NFL without ever really impressing, but broke out in 2010. When the Eagles signed him it was fair to have high expectations, but also to wonder if the team had landed a rotational end who had had one great season, or a Pro Bowler who had just found his stride. He gave a resoundingly positive answer in 2011.
Babin's story is a rare one, though. Most often when a career changes significantly, it's for the worse, either because of age, injuries or a weakness that gets exposed and exploited. Ryans, we all know by now, suffered the kind of injury that can derail a career. Last season, his first one back, he played every game, but in a new system – the 3-4 instead of the 4-3 – and wasn't nearly as productive as before. Was it the change in system that affected him? Or the injury? Ryans was taken off the field for nickel downs, which explains his drop off in tackles, but raises the question of why the Texans felt he was only suited to a limited role. (Fellow linebacker Brian Cushing played all three downs).
Will another year get Ryans back to his old ways? Are the Eagles getting a Pro Bowler ready to rebound from one down season? Or a new player, different than he was pre-injury, who gets to return to his preferred system but whose physical ability is less assured? Even if he has taken a step back, is a post-injury Ryans, with all his intangibles and instincts, still better than any of the other options?
No one knows yet, which is a boring conclusion but happens to be true. Just like no one knows how close Peyton Manning will be to his old self in Denver, or how Adrian Peterson will bounce back from a torn ACL in Minnesota.
The temptation after a big deal is to revel in it, to envision the best possible outcome. The backlash arrives as some pick out one weak thread and tug at it until in their minds the entire move unravels.
Even the most cynical reporters and fans have to look at Ryans' potential and acknowledge the chance that the Eagles have used a bold stroke to finally fill a long-standing weakness. But when the Texans can't drum up any offers better than a four, there are questions to be asked as well. Better to be aware of them now than surprised in September.


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Cruises to Nowhere: 2 if by land, 1 if by sea, 1 by bus.
May 8, 2014 - Austin Porter
About a decade ago, a colleague of mine drops by my cubicle with a book written by Bill O'Reilly. Reading it will "change your life," he claims.
I was familiar with Mr. O'Reilly. I'd watched his show, seen him on C-Span promoting and debating, caught him on other television shows, had even tried to read one of his earlier books, so I figured I knew where he was coming from and wasn't interested in revisiting the issue. Having a conversation with Bill, which is what you do when you read a book, seemed like a cruise to nowhere.
But I agreed to read this life changing work if my colleague would read something I suggested. After reading them, we could spend a lunch or two discussing them.
"What? Something by Michael Moore?" he replied
"Nope. I don't go to people like Michel Moore, or Bill O'Reilly to find out what's happening in the world." I suggested he read "The President of Good and Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush" by Peter Singer.
"I couldn't waste my time," he responded.
Just as well. Whenever we talked about anything, I invariably felt like I was on a cruise to nowhere.
A few months back, my wife and I went on a short cruise. When dining, we always choose open seating in order to share dinner with a variety of different people.
One evening, we ate with a young woman, a graduate student, who was studying politics at George Washington University. I asked her what she thought about what was happening in the Ukraine. An older gentleman, in other words a person around my age, who had shown me photographs of his accomplished children and lovely grandchildren, suggested that if George Bush and Dick Chaney were running the show, Putin would be leaving the Ukraine alone.
I pointed out that when President Bush was in office, Putin invaded Georgia, and he didn't do much of anything because there wasn't much of anything he could do.
"You're thinking of Carter."
For a moment, it seemed to me that he thought Putin was running the USSR when Carter was in office, or was confusing what was happening in the Ukraine with the failed attempt to free the hostages. But maybe he just thought I'd forgotten that Carter was from Georgia.
Who knows what he thought. I thought, "I'm on a cruise to nowhere."
I used to ride the bus down Columbia Pike to the Pentagon Metro. There was a guy reading Ann Coulter's "How to talk to a Liberal (If You Must)." He was about half way through when I asked him if it was a good read. It was.
So I told him that although I hate labels (and my postmodern self does), I was a liberal, and if he wanted to practice what he was learning, I'd be happy to oblige.
I guess he didn't feel that he "Must" so he didn't. Another cruise to nowhere.
I know that after speaking with me, some people may feel that they've just been on a cruise to nowhere. And when that's happened, I feel I've dropped the ball. I probably wasn't listening as well as I could have, sounded too argumentative, didn't go into the discussion with the understanding that some of, if not all of my opinions on a particular subject might be mistaken. Didn't try to understand another person's point of view, even if I disagreed with it from start to finish.
That's always a lost opportunity when that happens. After all, we're all on this Cruise Ship called United States of America. And if the passengers aren't willing to engage, jaw it up, share with each other our hopes and dreams and solutions then we're in more trouble than many of us think. We're on a national cruise to nowhere.
Shiver my timbers.
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It isn't unusual for individuals, organizations, or even political parties to make mistakes, but it is unusual, certainly in Washington, to see anyone own up to them. What is truly extraordinary is for any person or group to conduct, release, and publicize an exhaustive research project detailing what went wrong and why. In the past three months, we have now seen two groups do just that.
First, the Republican National Committee, chaired by Reince Priebus, issued its "Growth and Opportunity Project," essentially an autopsy of what went wrong for the GOP in the last election. The report looked at mistakes the party made and what it needed to do for Republicans to get back on track. Now the Gallup Organization has released an executive summary of its own postmortem, which explains how its polling of likely voters ended up projecting a Mitt Romney win by 1 percentage point, 49 percent to 48 percent, in an election the Republican nominee ended up losing by almost 4 points (3.85 to be exact). Interestingly, Gallup's final polling among all registered voters, as opposed to the smaller subset of voters judged to be the most likely to go to the polls, was much closer to the mark, showing President Obama ahead by 3 points, 49 percent to 46 percent.
In fairness, all of the major media polls underestimated Obama's victory margin. Some showed Obama winning by only 1 or 2 points; others had him ahead by 3 points. Still others had the race tied, and a couple of others had Romney leading. In fact, the closest to the pin was a Democracy Corps poll conducted by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, which showed Obama winning by 4 points. Gallup not only owned up to being the furthest off of the big-name pollsters but also announced just after the election it would figure out why.
In an hour-and-a-half session this week, Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport and a team of survey-research methodologists from three universities led by the University of Michigan's Michael Traugott walked reporters through their findings. The report was the result of a comprehensive effort to take apart and reverse-engineer Gallup's election-polling procedures.
The team, which also included an array of Gallup's own staff methodologists and statisticians, is continuing its research, but so far it has identified four problem areas—while noting that there was no single reason Gallup's numbers were off. The biggest problem was Gallup's screening questions, which the firm used to ascertain who would be the most likely to cast ballots. For many years, Gallup has relied on seven questions to decide who makes the cut for "likely voters." The firm asked such questions as, "How much thought have you given to the election?" and "Do you happen to know where people who live in your neighborhood go to vote?" Gallup also asked respondents whether they had voted before; how often they had voted; whether they voted in 2008; and to rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of their likelihood of voting. The seven questions, along with one additional query asking respondents if they were registered to vote, constituted Gallup's screen for "likely voters." Most pollsters use fewer questions, and, in polling on the state, local, or congressional district level, some pollsters use lists based on voter rolls so they can tell which individuals are high-propensity voters, but that tool is not available nationally.
The report found that "Gallup's likely-voter procedures in 2012 shifted the race 4 points in Romney's favor, 1 point more in Romney's favor that the average shift among other polls for which registered-voter and likely-voter information is available." According to the study, questions about voting history and the "thought given to the election" accounted for essentially all of the difference between Gallup's final numbers and those of other firms that released both registered- and likely-voter numbers separately.
The researchers also identified three other problems, but each was significantly less important than the likely-voter screening issue. One was Gallup's switch during the election year from random-digit-dialing sampling among landline respondents to sampling only among those with listed phone numbers. This resulted in a sample of landline users who were older and more Republican than samples generated through the random-digit-dialing approach. Another problem was even more arcane, concerning the distribution of the sample within regions and time zones. The final issue had to do with how Gallup asked and handled race and ethnicity questions.
Few people watch Gallup and other pollsters more closely than I do, and I confess that during the month or so leading up to Election Day, I found myself paying far more attention to Gallup's daily registered-voter numbers than to its likely-voter numbers. Something just felt wrong about the latter. To determine better ways to prevent these mistakes, Gallup and its outside team of academicians will be conducting extensive polling in this year's New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, matching up various screening questions and techniques with a postelection examination of who actually voted. (No results will be released until after the elections.)
It had to be painful for the Gallup folks to air their dirty laundry, but the firm has a prestigious and valuable brand to protect, and its results in 2016 will be scrutinized more than ever. Gallup has to get it closer to right next time.
This article appears in the June 8, 2013, edition of National Journal.


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3.5 out of 4 stars
Do you remember the episode of the Flash cartoon "Homestar Runner" when the Cheat holds a lightswitch rave and Strong Bad yells at him? (If not, watch it immediately.) That's how I felt listening to M.I.A.'s "Matangi" in my cube at work. This is not a record for sitting still and being productive; this is a record for dancing.
If you loved "Kala," "Arular" and "Maya," you'll be happy to know that M.I.A. is up to the same tricks—fantastically layered sounds, more than a tinge of her Sri Lankan heritage and a big fat middle finger to authority. The one issue that I've always had with M.I.A. is that her beats are so captivating her political message gets a little lost in the shuffle. I'm probably not the only one—do you honestly think the overwhelmingly crushing crowd that assembled for her Pitchfork set in July was there to hear about the oppression of the Tamils?
No, they came for smash hits like "Bad Girls," the album's first single, which has been around so long that it's almost jarring to hear it on this record. Regardless, it's still a damn great pop song. "Come Walk With Me" is the closest she can come to a "traditional" love song, and that part of the track lasts a mere 90 seconds before hopping off the deep end into funky drum machine and techno beats. She oozes talent, slinking smoothly and confidently through tracks that tiptoe around the edges of sounding too similar but refrain from jumping into that safety net.
Aside from her political targets, an unlikely foe is in M.I.A.'s crosshairs: Drake. Yes, the super-smooth Canadian, whom M.I.A. appears to think is pretty damn overhyped. "We started at the bottom, but Drake gets all the credit," she sings on the album's title track. "If you only live once, why we keep doing the same [bleep]? Back home where I come from we keep being born again and again and again," she spits on "Y.A.L.A.," a direct response to "The Motto."
I can't say I agree that Drake is a faker, but M.I.A. has definitely made her case as the real thing.
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Three indicted on charges involving drugs, prostitution
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— The March Hillsborough County North Grand Jury returned direct indictments of three people in connection with prostitution and drug activities involving a 14-year-old between Dec. 1, 2013, and Jan. 16, 2014.
Michael Messina, 53, of 310 Amory St., 1st floor, was indicted on prostitution and related offenses. Messina is accused of knowingly permitting his residence to be used for sexual activity involving a 14-year-old. A common nuisance felony alleges he knowingly allowed his residence to be used as a place for drug-dependent people to use drugs.
Two misdemeanor indictments of endangering the welfare of a child accuse Messina of allowing a 14-year-old to engage in sexual contact with adult males and use controlled drugs.
Anna Messina, 33, of 189 Laurel St., was indicted as an accomplice to prostitution and released offenses by allowing her phone number to be used by Kieran Robinson-Green, 26, and/or a 14-year-old in online listings and received calls for activities involving the prostitution of the 14-year-old.
Two misdemeanor indictments allege endangering the welfare of a child by allowing the 14-year-old to use illegal drugs and to engage in sexual contact with adult males.
The third person indicted, Robinson-Green, of 45 Log St., was indicted on a felony of prostitution and related offenses, alleging he induced, or otherwise caused, the 14-year-old to engage in sexual contact or penetration for "consideration."
Other March indictments:
• Eric Carrier, 25, of 95 Granite St., felony of attempted indecent exposure and lewdness Aug. 15, 2013, for pretending to be disabled, required to wear diapers, and asking a woman to change his soiled diaper. The charge is a felony because he was previously convicted of public indecency.
• Vernon Ingersoll, 68, of 187 Eastern Ave., 10 felony counts of possession of child sexual abuse images. Ingersoll was convicted of possession of child sexual abuse images in Merrimack County Superior Court March 8, 2002.
• Robert Oxley, 34, of New Horizons, three felonies of robbery Feb. 7, for allegedly threatening to shoot clerks at the Crosstown, Bremer Street and Uncle Bob's markets, if they did not give him money. A misdemeanor of resisting arrest alleges he ran from a police officer who repeatedly told him to stop.
• Hector Rincon, 21, of 135 Orange St., seven felonies of assault of the 17-year-old mother of his seven-month-old child Feb. 6, for hitting, biting, kicking, hitting with a belt and punching in the face, which are felonies because he was previously convicted of violation of a protective order. A misdemeanor of endangering the welfare of a child accuses him of repeatedly hitting the young woman in the body while she was holding their infant.
• Jesse Vajgrt, 21, of 283A S. Stark Highway, Weare, nine burglaries of campers at 62 Barnard Hill Road, Weare; two attempted burglaries at the same address, all about Jan. 7, and a felony of felon in possession of a deadly weapon for having metallic knuckles Jan. 19, after being convicted of burglary Oct. 3, 2012.
• Melissa Huszarski, 32, of 221 Snook Road, Goffstown, a felony of theft by unauthorized taking for allegedly taking approximately $35,000 from her employer, Glen Lake Animal Hospital, between July 2008 and July 2013.


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Didn't get any response so listed it on ebay.
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Do you accept shipping to France ?
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Critical Intuition: Knowing The Difference Between Intuiting & Projecting
Excerpted from the Herbal Rebel Column in the now available Spring 2012 Issue of
Plant Healer Magazine
by Paul Bergner
In previous columns, I have spoken of a Four Directions model of obtaining knowledge, of study, that may be applied to herbalism or any other field of endeavor. In the North, we diligently study traditions and what previous generations have left for us in books or oral tradition. In the South we throw ourselves into practical experience, alone, in groups, or in our communities, tasting and experimenting the plants and the contexts of their healing, testing the promise of the studies of the past. In the East, in this era, we look at new information or perspectives that may be coming from the field of science, and we look to new plants or methods, entering our awareness from other lands or traditions. Finally, in the West, we study the reality of the plants and our healing methods with instinct and intuition. It is a mistake to be stuck in one of these four directions, four ways of knowing, while neglecting the other three. We can't hope to actually help someone else by simply memorizing things in old books. Likewise we can't expect to ignore what is in those books, and expect our empirical knowledge, or that of our colleagues, to fill all our needs. If we want to be Scientific Herbalists only, we will be up a creek as far as helping anyone, because the entire body of knowledge of "scientifically proven" herbs is not sufficient to treat anything other than a few symptoms or conditions. And finally, we can't just be Spiritual Herbalists, ignoring our homework in the North, or just rejecting information from science out of hand, or not finding a way to test and ground our intuitive insights. Especially, we can't simply take our psychic impressions about a plant and what it can and can't do, where it belongs on the medicine wheel, what its doctrine of Signatures implies, where it falls in the rulership in the zodiac, and think these impressions are infallible. The individual who is too invested in their naive first psychic impressions is as undeveloped as the individual who believes everything they are told by someone in authority without questioning it. We need to address these impressions with critical thinking. Or should I say critical intuition.
If the essence of critical thinking is to keep questioning, questioning new ideas, questioning old beliefs, questioning ones own motives, and to develop a living mental stream of persistent inquiry, then the essence of critical intuition is to develop an identical process about our intuitive insights. "Is this impression really true?" First of all, let me say I think intuition is an innate ability, and even if some have it to a higher degree than others, practically every human being has pretty good functional intuition. I say this because I have led many beginning students through awareness exercises with plants, where they try to intuit information about the plant, and most people can see things about the plant that are true but not immediately obvious to the senses. In a recent year, nearly every beginning student in a group of 36 identified the properties of Sickle-Topped Lousewort as cooling and relaxing, although not knowing its name, and not tasting or smelling it, after sitting near it for 20 minutes. Another exercise, which I learned in the Tracker School community, is to put a plant or plant part in an envelope, so that the individual cannot see, taste, or smell it. The person holds the envelope, and tries to sense the plant, and asks a series of questions.
- Is it poisonous or not
- Is it food or medicine
- If it is medicine what is its use or body system affected.
I have done this exercise with beginning herb students, apprentices, and also with college students who knew nothing of herbalism. The students receive 4 envelopes, with a poison, a food, and 2 medicines. I do not know which envelope they are testing and cannot influence their impression. For poison, I sometimes put poison hemlock seeds in one of the envelopes. Out of perhaps 60 student testings, only a handful of student have failed to identify the poison hemlock as poisonous. For most of the substances, the students are 80-90% accurate. Sometimes, unexpected but accurate information comes out. Once an apprentice intuited that Althea was both food an medicine, and that as medicine it was good for the nervous system. This is not conventional wisdom about Althea, but in her case, this nursing mother in dry-as-a-bone Colorado was dehydrated with nervous irritation from the dryness, and Althea indeed soothed the irritation. We don't want to rely on this method for studying unknown herbs, because "usually" and "most of the time" is not good enough for detecting poisonous plants.
I am convinced, after working with different types of students for nearly 40 years, that this innate intuition and instinct can be developed into a highly reliable and refined talent, and I'm also convinced that this is an essential talent to develop in order to work in the field of natural healing with plants. These, I think, are the essential points of practicing critical intuition:
- Make the intention to set aside your preconceptions. When we make an intention, we put ourselves in the center of our being, we increase our awareness, we mobilize all parts of our physical and spiritual senses. We put ourselves in a positive state, rather than a negative, overly receptive state where we may become porous to vague impressions. In this first step we impress on our unconscious mind that we want accurate information, not confirmation of our previous prejudices or opinions.
- Make a second specific intention that you want to consult your "highest and most accurate intuition." We again impress the deep mind that we do not want impressions based on wish-fulfillment or ego-pleasing.
- Ask your question in clear terms.
- Be very open as to how the answer will come to your consciousness. It may differ between individuals, and also for one individual at different times. A person may "see" something, another may "hear" and a third may just get a vague sense of an answer.
- When you get the impression, ask again if the information is accurate? Again, impress on the deep mind that you want accurate information as free from bias and projection as possible. A light, focused, but curious and playful attitude works better than a heavy and skeptical or overly serious one.
- Finally, find some way to ground the answer, or test it in reality.
The same process can be used when working with plants. Some special considerations:
- Make the intention to perceive the plant on its own terms, in its own essence, rather simply in its relationship to human utilitarians values.
- Do not free-associate off the English plant name. Baby-blue eyes for wounds in childhood, Bleeding Heart for a broken heart, etc. The English name has nothing to do with the essence of the plant on its own terms. Release those associations.
- Do not free associate on some form of plant morphology, Shooting Star for those who have failed to incarnate properly, etc because the flower looks to a human like a shooting star. Release that association and ask for the truth of the plant on its own terms.
Be aware of your own projections as much as possible. The question is not "Am I projecting?" but "How am I projecting?" Overcoming projection, this can only be obtained by strong intentions to do so, brutal honesty about ones own covert motives or inclinations to denial or dishonesty, persistent questioning and re-questioning, and long practice. One herbalist made a flower essence set of several hundred plants, and fully 1/3 of them were either for disordered eating or for rigid religious attitudes. This practitioner in this case suffers from disordered eating, and uses distorted religious beliefs to rationalize the behavior. I once intuited 6 plants on the same day, and five of them said they were "good for people who suffer from overwork." Hmmmmm.
Ultimately, the final stage of grounding is necessary. And this brings us back to the Four Directions model. Each direction can act like a check or balance against the others. Is there some history of this plant use in old literature? Does science have anything to say about this? And ultimately, the proof come in the South, where we take the plants in repeated experimentation or use them clinically.
To read the entire informative article, subscribe or resubscribe now to: www.PlantHealerMagazine.com
4 Responses to "Critical Intuition Excerpt by Paul Bergner"
Tis not a common thing to find grounded, respectful information about using the intuitive process. I highly value this article. Thank you.
Thank you for this clarity. It's too easy to choose the easy path, doing what comes naturally, and miss out on the grounding we need to be well-rounded. Thank you.
Too often i've found myself frozen in the North of "learning" from (science, conventional knowledge,etc.) what others have already learned. This Spring, I am dedicating myself to learning in a brand new way about some of my favorites:) Thank you for the clarity and humility that shines through in the article.
Brutal self honesty in a larger compassion. Thanks, Paul and Kiva


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Naruto is back! ... about time we hear some Sharingan... also new wears from Naruto's angle!
Naruto is back! ... about time we hear some Sharingan... also new wears from Naruto's angle!
What? You can't hear Sharingans... Haha. You kinda lost me there.
People still watch Naruto?
People do now that the ~85 episode, 2 year string of fillers have finally come to an end >.> Gogo real plot.
i still think One Piece is better =3 it's getting to the good parts
The manga is the only reason I'm still interested in Naruto lol. Anime was full of fail until recently and tonight.
edit: 124,000th post in General Discussion.
I am really glad it's coming back. Way back before the shitty fillers took over, Naruto was one of those shows that I would anxiously anticipate each week. On the same levels of Lost, Nip/Tuck or Scrubs.
Naruto stopped being good a long time ago. The storyline hasn't been good, manga-wise, since the finding Tsunade mini-arc.
yay, fillers are offcially over. i have been reading the mangas, and they are freaking awesome.
Does dattebayo have it yet? I cant seem to access the bittorrent portion of the site.
nope, not yet lol... btw dont tell them to speed it up or else "BANNED" lol
just saw a 10 mins preview on youtube. it's very close to the storyline in the manga.
Yep. The first ~9 minutes of the episode is basically a teaser of what's to come later in the series as the "Find Sasuke arc" didn't happen for a bit. Was nice to show us this though, I swear it's a cocktease T_T. The animation is fantastic and the new songs from the upcoming OST are awesome as well. It was worth the wait.
They lost a lot of fans with their "Lets go 2 years with filler-hell", but I'm sure they'll come back to see this. Gogogo.
DB should have it finished by late tonight, or early tomorrow.
I kinda stopped watching after the huge fuckin' battle with Naruto/Sasuke in that big ass valley/river area...but I remember we saw Itachi and Kisame very very briefly before that, how much from that point on is worth watching and how much is filler? I remember I think...wait, no I stopped watching when Gaara rapes the guy with the bones, and they're chasing _after_ Sasuke. Or is that the same story arc >_>...
I think Gaara gets kidnapped? Never watched those eps but someone told me Akatsuki kidnaps Gaara. Can anyone fill me in or let me know which eps to download? I used to fucking love watching it.
EDIT: It sounds like I just dropped out at the point where a shit ton of filler eps started going on? Now I remember these 2 fat ass twins everyone was chasing, and the souped up guy from the first episode, name started with an M. And...this guy named Raijin I think? Always carried a kid on his back, had these hax lightning powers.
Well since this isn't an official Naruto-manga board or anything, you're right. There is a "rescue Gaara" arc and that happens before the "Sasuke" arc here where you see them run up on them with Sai and what not.
Anyway, yes, this picks up basically two years after the Naruto/Sasuke fight and 2 years after Naruto's training. This is what people call the "Post Time-skip Era" I would say. Anyway.. yeah. Waiting on DB to finish n_n
Shounen = Never ending stories
It's a matter how the creator keep inventing different kind level of awesomeness to keep people reading it.
They usually release them around 8 PM PST, but this is a an hour long episode, might take a little longer.Originally Posted by Intense
Okay, so basically I just missed a bunch of random shit like the eps I described in my edit? Nothing about Akatsuki has really been revealed yet? Oh, and is the Save Gaara arc worth watching in your opinion?
Edit again >_>: I didn't read the manga, I always downloaded the full episodes every week, FYI. Don't know if that has to do with where I stopped in the show.
Amen to that, and I sense some awesome fights/story here in Shippuden XD
They just recently mentioned the Akatsuki like 1-2 episodes ago, besides that, not at all.Originally Posted by Saga
The Save Gaara Arc was pretty good, but you won't miss anything by not watching it.


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We are new reverts and have been told our marriage is no longer valid as far as within Islam. I reverted on 16Feb2001 and at the time my husband refused. I left him and went to stay with a good friend. On 2Mar2001, I received a phone call stating that he had taken his shahadah and so I went home to him. we have been told that according to the shariah, that when he did not convert, the marriage became 'null' and that we should not even stay in the same house until we remarry in Islam. Is there something about this somewhere, I am desperate for the answer as I do not want to live in a sinful relationship and displease Allah.
What you have been told is not correct, because if one spouse becomes Muslim before the other, then the other becomes Muslim before the woman's 'iddah is over, then their original marriage remains valid. The woman's 'iddah is three menstrual periods if she menstruates, or three months if she is past menopause, or until delivery if she is pregnant. This is the view of al-Shaafa'i and Ahmad, and is the view of Maalik with regard to cases like that mentioned in the question, which is where the wife becomes Muslim before her husband. This is also indicated by many instances that are mentioned in the Sunnah.
For example: the wife of Safwaan ibn Umayyah became Muslim on the day of the Conquest of Makkah, then he became Muslim approximately one month after her, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not order them to separate or tell them to make a new marriage contract. She remained with him on the basis of their original marriage. Ibn 'Abd al-Barr (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The fame of this hadeeth is stronger than its isnaad.
But if the second partner became Muslim after the end of the 'iddah, in this case there is a difference of scholarly opinion. The correct view is that if they agree to go back to one another on the basis of the original marriage contract and the woman has not married someone else, that is permissible and they do not need to do a new marriage contract. This is the view favoured by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah and his student Ibn al-Qayyim. It is also the view regarded as most correct by Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on them all). They quoted as evidence the report narrated by Abu Dawood from Ibn 'Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him), according to whom the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) returned his daughter Zaynab to her husband Abu'l-Aas on the basis of their original marriage contract. Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1134; Abu Dawood, 2230; Ibn Maajah, 2019; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.
He became Muslim two years after the revelation of the verses of al-Mumtahanah, in which it says that Muslim woman are forbidden to mushrik men. It seems that her 'iddah would have ended within this period, but the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) still returned her to him on the basis of the original marriage contract.
The point is that they remained married on the basis of their original marriage contract and they did not need to do a new contract. And Allaah knows best.
See Zaad al-Ma'aad, 5/133-140; al-Mughni, 10/8-10; al-Sharh al-Mumti', 10/288-291.


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Things to Do
The park offers picnicking, camping, boating (5 mph speed limit), fishing, swimming in an unsupervised swimming area (Swimming Safety Tips), hiking and nature study. Tours may be arranged by special request. Take a virtual tour with our Interactive Trails Map.
The park features more than $5 million in recent renovations and upgrades. In addition to campsites for tents and RVs, the park also has cabins and group facilities.
Equipment Rentals
The park rents paddle boats, paddle boards, canoes, kayaks (single and tandem) and flat bottom boats. Personal flotation devices and paddles are included. Paddle boards are available from Spring Break through Labor Day and all other rental boats are available year round.
Ranger Programs
The park offers a variety of educational opportunities; check the calendar for upcoming events or contact the park for special tours.
Get more information on the Civilian Conservation Corps, which helped develop this park and numerous others over 70 years ago, by visiting our CCC page that includes the interactive online exhibits and education resource, "The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression" and "A New Deal for Texas Parks."
- Interpretive Guide to Daingerfield State Park
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Area Attractions
Nearby attractions include Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, Atlanta State Park, Caddo Lake State Park, Starr Family Home State Historic Site, Morris County Museum, Wildflower Trails (the third weekend in April), Jefferson Historical Pilgrimage and Mardi Gras Jefferson (February), and the Daingerfield Fall Fest in Daingerfield (second weekend in October).