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Legacy of an adopted child – Part III
I haven't written on this blog in a very long time. Adoption burn out, in a major way – I had to walk or lose my sanity, and that sort of sums things up.
I was cleaning out my inbox today and noticed a lot of comments had been generated lately. Turns out most of them were spam. But one, in particular, was not – and is probably the most important comment ever left on my blog. It is the comment left on this post – Legacy of an adopted child – in March of this year. I'm angry at myself that I did not pay close enough attention to have seen Penny's comment when she made it. She has possibly thought to herself, "just great, another person who won't believe me."
Well Penny, actually, I do believe you. I was always a bit uncomfortable with the claim someone named Lisa had written the poem – because while my short-term memory sucks, I was always sure the author's name had been something like Peggy or Patty. And "Penny" is like "Peggy" or "Patty." Lisa is not.
I've written an email to Penny this morning, one I hope she receives. I've offered to help her prove that poem is hers, and damn if I'm not going to do that. The author of that poem deserves to be acknowledged, she deserves the thanks of millions of adoptees who have identified with her poem. And to be blunt, she deserves financial remuneration for all the times her words have been used for-profit.
Ladies and gents, you can help with this endeavor. I'm asking anyone who has access to "TEEN" magazine from the late 1970's through 1989 to please pour through the "Poetry Corner" pages of the magazine and look for this poem. It IS in there – I carried the cut-out from the magazine around with me for years. Maybe there are some "TEEN" magazines in your basement, maybe you work in a library that has them in the archives, or maybe you worked for the publisher and know where archived copies of those magazines remain.
Maybe you lived and worked in the Indianapolis area back then and remember a young teenage girl wining a poetry contest with this poem. Maybe you remember seeing something about it in the local paper.
Whatever the case, speak up – do some digging – let's FINALLY put this mystery to rest once and for all.
And let's make sure the real author of this poem finally gets the recognition due. This is just too important to let go.
Family Reunion
So by this time tomorrow, I'll be on the road heading to Virginia to meet the rest of my bio family. The closer I get to departure, the more nervous I get. My poor husband doesn't know what to do with all this nervous energy I'm spreading all over the place. LOL I've got most of the suitcases packed or ready to be packed. I've got everything ready for being able to run my laptop (to watch DVD's) in the car. I've got my CD case jammed packed with music for the trip. Hubby is finishing up a last bit of laundry, some of which is going with us. He's got the litter box cleaned and ready for our friend who will be coming to take care of the cats while we're gone. I have blank CD's and photo paper to go with my laptop and two printers/scanner, so I can make copies of photos my family has. I've even got a little bag packed with crayons, coloring books and sticker books for our Aunt Jo to play with at the reunion. I'm excited about meeting her!
I have all the water and organic sugar-free, caffeine-free soda ready for the cooler so I don't have to worry about finding things I can drink on the road.
I don't think I can be any more "physically" ready for this.
Emotionally, well, that's something else entirely. Much love flowing out to my friend Steph who understands some of my fears about next this trip and is just a phone call away if I get overwhelmed. Thanks, Steph – you've no idea what a difference that's made for me. Or maybe you do. 🙂
Shortly after we get back (the first weekend of July) we'll be moving into our new house – so it just seems like there is so much exciting/scary stuff happening all at once. It's a little overwhelming and just a bit breathtaking.
One thing I'm so grateful for is that I've already met my sister R a few weeks ago when she and her hubby flew up here to visit. Knowing her adds a measure of reassurance to this whole thing. But Sunday, the day of the reunion, is looming kind of large on my horizon. That's when I'll be immersed in dozens of people to whom I am closely related. It's a daunting prospect. I'm not nearly as scared about whether they'll like me or not as I am scared of the emotions this experience might be stirred up. I'm questioning whether or not I managed to convince myself that I was "fine" with the whole adoption thing – and will learn instead that I'm not as fine as I thought.
I'll try and log on a few evenings during the week and blog about how things are going and anything I may be feeling – but I'm not making any promises. My niece wanted me to come stay at my sisters' house and sleep in her room, but I felt more comfortable getting a hotel room – not because I'm worried about being in "a stranger's" house, that's not it at all. It's totally because I feel like I need to have a safe quiet space available for me to retreat to if I feel the need. I don't expect to feel the need, but… -shrug- I want to be prepared.
Wish me luck – this is one of the scariest things I've ever done. And that's saying a lot.
Well it has certainly been awhile :(
So I realized today that it had been a long while since I'd put up a new entry. I can only say that I've been very busy launching the Soul of Adoption discussion forum. In two months time, we've grown to nearly 1,000 members with more signing on every day. It's a pretty amazing community and I'm really proud of how well the different members are communicating with each other.
I've also been busy spending time getting to know my sister. She posts on SoA as Punkin, incidentally. She and her husband flew up two weekends ago for our first meeting, and it was amazing. Better than I dreamed. Next weekend, we're heading to Virginia to spend the week with her and the rest of my family, and to attend a family reunion where I'll get to meet everyone else for the first time. It's a little scary and exciting – I hope this week goes by fast!
I've more to write, but I'm pretty wiped out. I added a new extension to my Firefox browser which allows me to blog directly from my browser – I like that – and it will hopefully get me blogging more. LOL
Looking for the SoA Forums?
Edited to add: If you are still unable to reach the forums, there are a few steps you should take.
1. Make sure you are adding the www in between http:// and soulofadoption – When a change like this is made, it sometimes takes a while for it to catch up. Making sure the www is present can help your computer and ISP and the site all "synch" together.
2. Reboot your computer. Do a complete shut down. Wait 5 seconds. Turn it back on. This helps clear your computer and reset your connection to your ISP.
3. Try going to the website, holding down your shift key and clicking refresh/reload.
4. Be patient, it may actually still take YOUR ISP (internet service provider – like AOL, SBC, YahooDSL, etc.) up to 12 hours to refresh their DNS. If you still cannot access the site by tomorrow morning after AGAIN repeating steps one, two and three, call your ISP and ask the tech "How often do you refresh your DNS?" Ask them to do a refresh while on the phone with you. When they've done it, reboot your computer (again) and try getting to the forum.
5. If none of that works and you're still going insane, leave me a message here on my blog and I'll try and help you troubleshoot it.
They'll be back in a few hours – promise! Our host (jbservers.net) was transferring us to a new server – the fastest, best one they have. It was supposed to be done during the middle of the night, when traffic is lowest, but it seems someone made a boo-boo and scheduled the transfer for the wrong time of day.
I'm sorry I didn't post about this earlier – I'm a night owl, I was sleeping. LOL
But "this" is the 9 hour outage I posted the announcement about last night. It just happened at the wrong time of day, unfortunately.
We won't have to go through this again, promise. And honestly, jbservers was giving us a very nice "gift" by moving us to another server.
Here's a trick that's good to know – if ever you're getting a weird message when you try to go to the forums (I know most of you have bookmarked the forums rather than the site) – just visit http://www.soulofadoption.com
That's going to give you the most accurate "error message," letting you know if something big is being fixed.
Also, bookmark my blog. I'll try to post information here if anything like this ever happens again.
Don't forget, you can always email me through my blog – heartened1 at gmail d0t c0m
There is a certain adoption-related website which I have not only supported in the past but I actually volunteered my time and energy to serve as a forum host for them. Since I refuse to link to them from here on out, let me say that their website address contains a www then a dot then the word adoption and a dot and then the com.
Today, in the owner's "infinite wisdom" a decision was made to delete the "non-traditional families" forum. What is a non-traditional family, you might innocently ask? A GLBT family, of course.
I'll write more about how I feel about this in a moment – in the meantime – I offer soulofadoption.com as an alternative.
The discussion forum is here – http://www.soulofadoption.com/forum/index.php
There is a thread specifically devoted to this topic here – http://soulofadoption.com/forum/index.php?topic=16.0
You do need to register, but I promise, I won't spam you.
"It's a girl!"
From an email my sister R sent me this morning – "I talked to mom's sister Aunt J**** and she agreed that you should come for the reunion which is the weekend of June 11 she is going to talk to the aunts and let them in on what has been going on in regards to the new addition to the family, I told her we should send out birth announcements "It's a Girl" but she told me I had a weird sense of humor…. I don't think so, do you?"
Why no, R, I don't think you have a weird sense of humor – I think you have MY sense of humor. Or I have yours.
I'm still sitting here snickering about the whole thing. I find it so funny that my sister would say the exact same thing I would say in that situation. Nature vs nurture indeed. LOL
In other news, our sister S's husband was in the hospital at the end of last week. This is the sister I haven't "met" yet. R gave me her email address today in case I want to send them an e-card, something I would really like to do. When R first told me what happened last week, I asked her to tell S and her husband that they were in my thoughts. On my end, it doesn't matter that S and I haven't talked – I know she is my sister and some primal (?) part of me reacts to the fact that my sister is having a problem. I want to fix it, which I know I can't. So, failing that, I at least want to support her. At the same time, I don't want to intrude, you know? R doesn't seem to think I would be intruding, but we'll see.
R and I continue to get along extremely well. We talk via email or phone pretty much every day. When we get on the phone, we're on it for hours. Usually her husband is home and I've come to know him through stuff R passes back and forth as we're talking. I can usually hear him really well in the background and he just chimes in during our talks. Mine does the same, when he's home. It's nice! He clearly loves my sister which makes me extremely happy. I get a HUGE kick out of the fact that her hubby and mine have the same name. LOL
I dream about them (my siblings) a lot, now. Because I have names and faces, they seem to show up with greater frequency with each passing day. It's kind of like, well, do you know how it is when you're first dating someone? They don't really enter your dreams much, though you might have an "adult" dream in which they're featured. LOL But they aren't "part of the scenery" yet. Almost as if you're surprised to see them there. Then, after a while, just as they become part of the scenery of your life – there everyday, not such a surprise – so too do they become part of the scenery of your dreams. You "expect" them to show up. You "expect" that if you're dreaming, they're going to show up in the story line. Well, that's where things are with my sisters – R in particular. She's part of the scenery of my life and my dreams. Now, considering I've only "known" her for what – a little over two weeks? That's a surprise. But just as it is with my husband, it is as if she has always been there. I'm not surprised to find her in my dreams, she belongs there just as she belongs in the scenery of my life. How sad that it has taken 35 years for that to happen.
Edited to add: I just got another email from R. The last line, gotta love it –
"And the reason that we clicked is that we are like twins that were born two years apart, you just needed to cook longer."
I wrote her back and said "Hahahaha!! Yeah, it is like that, isn't it? Except it was THREE years dear sister, not two. LOL Don't make me any older than I already am, damnit. -snicker-"
Yup, that's my sister – and I'm stickin' to her.
Welcome to the new digs
I am such a follower. LOL Seems several people I know are migrating over to these WordPress blogs. Since I love WP and use it quite often as a CMS for websites, it seemed silly to not give their new blogging server a try. I'm pleased, very pleased (other than not being able to edit my template myself, but WP says they are working on that). I'm quite impressed with the quality templates they're offering and absolutely love the sidebar widgets. I'm thinking the developers may be able to create header and footer widgets in the near future, which would be a good alternative to full template access.
In case you didn't know, WordPress is what powers the Soul of Adoption website. Neat, huh? Of course, that version is completely customized because as the server owner, I have full code access. That's not the case with these hosted blogs, but I'm content.
I'll add a redirect on my blogger.com blog and start sending people here. I'm pretty happy with the format WP is offering and, of course, it has one of my favorite features – categories. Something blogger has long been needing. I do prefer blogger's open templates and the fact that you code your links yourself, but that's a "me" thing and I realize that for most people, the method WP uses for adding links is much more functional. I'm not complaining, it didn't take me long to move my links over.
Of course, WP also offers the very cool "static pages" feature. That's always a nice bonus, and being able to have pages in addition to posts comes in really handy.
So anyway, here I am, settling in to the new digs. Don't forget to update your bookmarks. You don't want to miss anything.
Are you bored? Take a stumble!
About 8 months ago, maybe a little more, I discovered this neat little piece of software you can (SAFELY!!! I promise!) install – it is called "Stumble Upon". What this is, is something called a "browser extension." Your browser is what you view websites in – you're probably using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, most people do. If you have any significant amount of computer expertise, you've probably thrown Internet Explorer out for the trash it is and installed Firefox as your browser. Guess which one I use?
Stumble Upon is something you install as an add-on to your browser. Fortunately, those of you running Internet Exploiter (my poor, misguided friends, I love you anyway) need not fret. The wonderful programmers at SU have taken pity on you and have created a version which works with Internet Exploiter.
I promise – the Stumble Upon software is 100% safe. It won't crash your computer, it isn't spyware, there are no viruses. (But seriously, do yourself a favor – install Firefox and leave Internet Exploiter alone. Internet Exploiter WILL crash your computer, it IS spyware, and it allows more viruses through to your computer than anything else ever will. Internet Explorer SUCKS!!!!!)
Sorry, I can't help it. Anyway. What is Stumble Upon? Well…I'll give you the description from their site.
"StumbleUpon is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites. As you click Stumble!, you'll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends and peers – you will automatically 'stumble upon' each others favorites sites.
StumbleUpon uses / ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers () have liked. Unlike search engines or static directories, this allows for a true "democracy of the web" – all SU members have a say ( or ) as to whether a page should be passed on.
In effect, StumbleUpon's members collectively share the best sites on the web. You can share any site by simply clicking I like it. This passes the page on to friends and like-minded people – letting them "stumble upon" all the great sites you discover."
Seriously, if you enjoy finding new sites, checking out some of the coolest places on the net, and having endless hours of entertainment handed to you on a silver platter, just by pushing a button – all customized to your own interests, install Stumble Upon.
And no, I don't "get" anything for telling you about this. You all know what a techie geek I am – this just happens to be one of my favorite toys. I put off mentioning it because I was trying to focus this blog on adoption. If you decide to become a Stumbler, drop me an email and I'll give you my Stumble Upon user name so we can "be friends."
If you're worried, I should mention, I have never ever, not even once, gotten even the tiniest bit of spam as a result of Stumbling.
Ok, real quick – about Firefox – if you want to completely eliminate pop-ups; if you do not want to be subjected to those god-awful "GIVE US YOUR BABY" ads on a "certain commercial adoption-related website;" if you want to avoid those stupid in-line text ads on that same "certain commercial adoption-related website;" if you want most advertising banners, period, to disappear from your view; if you want worry-free browsing; if you want to stop spyware (or viruses) from being installed on your computer while you're browsing websites; if you want total control over browsing – including only having to open one browser window while being able to view 10+ web pages at the same time; if you just want to enjoy surfing the web and stop worrying about all the bullshit – go install Firefox right this minute. Once it is installed, you can also install AdBlock and the AdBlock Filterset – and be done with banner ads, popups and the rest of that crap. Even if you're viewing porn sites. -smirk-
Go on, get going – what are you waiting for?
Imagine all the people…
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
60 Asians
12 Europeans
5 US Americans and Canadians
8 Latin Americans
14 Africans
49 would be female
51 would be male
82 would be non-white
18 white
89 heterosexual
11 homosexual
33 would be Christian
67 would be non-Christian
5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth, and all of them would be US citizens
80 would live in sub standard housing
24 would not have any electricity
(And of the 76% that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
67 would be unable to read
1 (only one) would have a college education.
50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
33 would be without access to a safe water supply
1 would have HIV
1 near death
2 would be near birth
7 people would have access to the Internet
If you have a bank account,
money in your purse
and there is some trifle in your coin box,
you belong to 8% of well-provided people in this world.
If there is a meal in your refrigerator,
if you are dressed and have got shoes,
if you have a bed and a roof above your head,
you are better off, than 75% of people in this world.
If you have never experienced a war,
the loneliness of an imprisonment,
an agony of tortures, or a famine,
You are happier, than 500 million persons in this world.
If you woke up this morning with more health than sickness,
you are luckier than the million that will not survive this week.
If you are able to go to church, mosque or synagogue
without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death,
you are happier, than 3 billion persons in this world.
If you take a look at the world from this condensed perspective,
the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes evident.
DNA Testing – A change in plans
I think I mentioned in an earlier post that I asked my sisters to do DNA testing with me. This is best, I believe, for all our sakes. I want us to KNOW. I don't want there to be doubts floating around in our heads, impacting our relationships down the road. This is too important for there to be any mistakes. My one sister (J) told my other sister (R) that she is afraid to become emotionally invested in a relationship with me without knowing for sure. I GET that so completely, and fortunately, R told her that I get it. I guess J was worried that I'd think I was unwanted because she isn't calling me everyday. R reassured her that I'm not thinking that at all and again stressed that I truly understand the need to protect her heart. I'm the same way. And quite frankly, if the tables were turned, I'd be reacting exactly as J is!
I care about this too much to leave it to chance. (A note to mom who can read this from "The Everafter": Mom, this all would have been easier if you had told the kids about me before you died. I love you, I hope you don't let fear be your guiding star your next time through life!)
Anyway, so I had been looking online for "home siblingship" DNA tests. Found a bunch with prices all over the place. Cheapest was $180 for two siblings to be tested. I began doing research. An "absolute must" when choosing a DNA lab is to ensure they are accredited by the AABB (American Association of Blood Banks). Guess what the $180 testing company doesn't have?
Now, I'm no geneticist, but let me try and explain the DNA of siblings in very layman terms. A child gets half their DNA from one parent, half from another. But multiple children don't automatically get the same 50% from each parent, equalling 100%. So in reality, two siblings are only likely to have 50% of their DNA match one another. This is in the case of FULL siblings (same mother and same father). I don't have the same father as my sisters. J & R don't have the same father, either. Which means we only have 25% of our DNA in common. We have the added complication of not having our mother alive to be tested as well. So our sibship study has to be pretty intensive in order to give us accurate results.
I'm not leaving this up to chance or to a potentially flybynight company. So I went to the best. Orchid Cellmark. This is the company that did DNA testing for the OJ Simpson trial, the Jon Benet Ramsey case, etc. It's going to cost me $900 for me, J & R to all be tested. (Accuracy is higher with three children to compare.) I'm thinking that is $900 well spent, especially considering I was willing to spend that much (and more) just to find them. Since I didn't have to spend that kind of money on the search, I have it to spend on the test.
I've already been told that I'm insane for doing this – twice in the last 24 hours.
I disagree. I think it is worth every dime.
Orchid Cellmark has already opened a "case file" for us. My sister R and I called them together last night so she could give them hers and J's contact info. Once I pay the fee (sending it in Monday), the lab will call each of us and schedule a time for us to go to the nearest lab they have a contract with. There is one near all of us. We will each go in, on our own, and get our cheeks swabbed. It takes them about two weeks to do the study and give us our results. I can live with that.
I truly believe these women are my sisters. R and I both "allowed ourselves" to become emotionally involved with each other. We took the risk because our instincts both say it is safe to. Honestly, I couldn't help myself – she and I are so much alike. Plus, I've no doubt that under other circumstances, R and I would have been the best of friends anyway. She said, "at the very least, I've made a new good friend." Exactly. But I know in my heart it is more. My heart knows these are my sisters even as my mind says "Hold up there, girl, don't go jumping feet first!" It's this weird dichotomy I've got going on in my head and heart.
Getting all metaphysical on you, here, but I really believe our mom has had a hand in making this reunion possible. I can't really go into details because I don't want to betray a friend but let me just say that I truly believe that there was some serious "divine mom guidance" going on, particularly in the early days of my information seeking. Too many "perfect circumstances" showed up through which I was able to glean information. I don't believe things happen like that by chance. I believe they are deliberate.
(Yes, Mia, Abe-Hicks and ACIM too! LOL)
I'm excited about finishing the DNA studies. I think we all feel like we are sort of in limbo right now until they're complete. I think we all need these questions answered before we can move on and start building a sibling relationship, making plans together, etc. I'm hoping it is done by Easter – we would like to drive down there for the long Easter weekend. I'm not sure we "should" unless the results are back. But we'll see. My mind says, "be careful." My heart says, "Wheeeeeeeeee!!"


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What the Jobs Report Mean: Analyst's Take
Steve Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments, joins MoneyBeat to break down the jobs numbers and talk about what investors are looking at now. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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I can't believe I forgot to post my new reels!
Trials and tribulations of an actor at large in Hollywood.
I am a living anachronism. I'm a "throw-forward" from another time. Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful to have been born here in the 20th century, because it gives me the luxury to play with and explore that pull I feel to history. A few years ago I caught the computer virus and I was never the same. That's been a very slow recovery. Despite my strange attraction to the dark side of life (or more accurately, my romantic idea of the dark side of life), I am an extreme optimist. Like the punching bag clowns of old... you can knock me down, but I come right back up smiling. NOTE: No attempt has been made by the above statement to tempt fate.


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Hello and a happy Sunday to you,
actually with that said, I must say I had to truly stop and think exactly what day it is!!
I am just not with it at the moment.
Life is just full on at the moment and keeping me running around like a chook with it's head cut off (which I am sure is not a pretty site)
Although today is the day that I am taking off the auto pilot and getting everything in control again!!!!
You see on the 15th of November I got a phone call to say my Mum had been rushed to hospital by ambulance with a suspected internal bleed. Oh my goodness! With being 1000kms from Brisbane - it was very worrying. So I booked a flight that day to travel to Brisbane on the next day's flight.
Mum spent 8 days in hospital with no reason for the bleed to be found. Although at this stage it appears the bleed has stopped on it's own accord (fingers, toes and everything else crossed).
Then while I was away I managed to catch one of the million fluey things going around in a big town.
It has knocked me for 6, with terrible sore throat, yukko nose and massive headaches complete with 2 days of not being able to lift my head off of the pillow when I flew back home.
And hey presto - my studying has been thrown into chaos!!!!!!!
I have managed to get through my QUAD module and pass the end of module test (100% - yippee)and am now into the LOGS module with only the last component to do but I am still behind (hopefully I will get up to date on Monday - so I will then only be 3 days behind)
Then this weekend has been chaos with family activities to do as well. Bearing in mind I am still having these headaches and my head is all wishy washy with sinusy stuff (I know - some may say I am wishy washy all the time but more than normal hehe). Friday night we had a school function on.
Then on Saturday I had committed to doing some markets over in Tambo - which I did and I ended up having a lovely day - although with the temperature soaring the way it did - I ended up with an even yukkyer headache - crikey its a real poor me blog post today isn't it!!!!
Then last night hubby and I had double booked us - hehehehehe (just like us).
He had accepted a birthday party invitation and I had committed Benji to preform a circus act at a town fete. OOhhh crikey we do get ourselves in bothers sometimes. Anyway a quicker than normal visit to both was the solution - then home to comfort my pounding head.
Today I have committed to markets in town this afternoon followed by our favourite thing to do at this time of the year - the local Christmas tree festival. I get to sing Christmas carols - yippee - I love Christmas carols!!!!!!
And what a timely reminder - CHRISTMAS - oh my goodness again - it is just around the corner - eeeeekkkkkkkkk.
And for those of you that know me - know that I just LOVE Christmas and like to go all out and decorate the intire house inside and out. SO this is where the getting organised comes into action. I have got a priority list in action. This morning is going to be spent cleaning the house (somewhere in all this - the house work got forgotten) then I will clear all of my knick knacks from all around the house(that's a huge job in itself). Then I will drag all of the Christmas decorations out, put all of the knicky knacky stuff away and then slowly this week I will begin to decorate the house (in between study of course). OOOOHHHHH how exciting!!!!!
Last year I had 7 Christmas trees (some big, some small) and I have brought some new ones so I will let you know how many I have now.
I just love Christmas.
So the plan is to get super organised so I can enjoy it as much this year as I do every year - wish me luck in the organisation part hehehehe it may be a bit hard to get the three boys (one big and two small) to get into the swing with me. But here I go . . . . . . . . .
talk soon (when I have everything tickerty boo)
x joy
p.s. hahaha you should see how many words spell check highlights when I click on it in this post.
Obviously Mr Spell Checker doesn't speak Joy language with all my hehe and ooohhhh and the rest.
Monday morning note:
Ahhhhh who was I kidding - I thought I was only 3 days behind
haha that's how muddled my head is!!!
I am actually 1 week and 3 days behind - URGH
Anyway onward and upward - I am getting there - nearly finished logarithms, just have the sample and end of module test left to do
so will get ontop of that tonight or tomorrow morning. Then on to functions - luckily this is a non teaching week this week!!!!!!
high ho high ho
it's off to work I go
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Ahhhhh who was I kidding - I thought I was only 3 days behind
haha that's how muddled my head is!!!
I am actually 1 week and 3 days behind - URGH
Anyway onward and upward - I am getting there - nearly finished logarithms, just have the sample and end of module test left to do
so will get ontop of that tonight or tomorrow morning. Then on to functions - luckily this is a non teaching week this week!!!!!!
high ho high ho
it's off to work I go
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Even on the market's worst days, buyout news and other short-term forces can send individual stocks up by 10%, 25%, even 50%.
For example, Evergreen Solar's
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The story behind the story
CAPS is no crowd of lemmings. Its best-performing investors' opinions do more to shape each company's rating than the picks of their poorer-performing peers. Let's use the collective wisdom of more than 110,000 CAPS investors to filter out the noise and find companies offering strong momentum.
We'll use CAPS' handy stock screening tool to quickly zero in on companies with a stock price increase of at least 30% in the past four weeks, a market cap of greater than $100 million, and a beta of less than 3. That'll keep us clear of the wild, pump-and-dump land of penny stocks.
Here's a sample of stocks our CAPS screen returned:
CAPS Rating
Intrepid Potash
James River Coal
Titan Machinery
Northern Oil and Gas
Return data is the difference between the closing price on May 23 and the closing price on June 23, per Yahoo! Finance. Star rankings from CAPS.
Now let's pull some cues from CAPS and get some context behind the recent momentum.
Titan Machinery:
Our top-rated momentum mover this week, Titan Machinery, has been blowing the market away over its short public life. The agricultural equipment maker plowed through expectations in its latest quarter with earnings of $0.24 per share. After boosting revenue and earnings guidance, the company may end up as the year's top stock. Titan is already a five-star stock in CAPS, with 413 of the 428 investors rating the company as one that will outrun the broader market.
Intrepid Potash:
Intrepid Potash is another recent IPO related to the agricultural boom that has shown strong momentum lately. After a strong debut in April, Intrepid has been nothing but up, even with a premium valuation at its public coming-out party. I guess when you deliver first-quarter net income of $33.1 million, which exceeds the income from the entire year of 2007, investors get a little excited. Exercise caution, however -- a few top-ranked CAPS players are giving the potash miner the thumbs-down, using terms like "hype" and "not sustainable."
Stock in Irish drug maker Elan has been trending up after a preview of some results from tests of its mid-stage Alzheimer's drug with partner Wyeth
James River Coal:
Of course, our momentum list wouldn't be complete without a few more commodity plays. James River Coal is seeing demand drive up prices for coal (and its share price with it). Some European countries turning away from traditional suppliers to eastern U.S. companies like James River Coal for their commodity needs. Already a staggering five-bagger in only six months, the once-obscure James River Coal is indeed the new strong buy on Wall Street. But CAPS investors are not all aboard this coal train; 65 of the 503 investors rating the company see it as overpriced and destined to lag the market.
Northern Oil and Gas:
Explorer Northern Oil and Gas has been soaring higher too. The company will expand its acreage in North Dakota in a recent agreement to buy an additional 24,000 net acres. Inside, Director Robert Grabb has joined the club of insider buys gone wild in the oil and gas sector when he purchased 80,000 shares of common stock in April and joined the 97% of the bullish 550 CAPS investors rating the company.
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Scott A. Mori
Curator Emeritus, Institute of Systematic Botany
Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, 1974
Systematics and ecology of Lecythidaceae and neotropical floristics.
Systematics and ecology of Neotropical Lecythidaceae; neotropical floristics
Research locations
Neotropics, especially Amazonia, French Guiana, Saba, and the Osa Peninsula, and Westchester County, New York.
My research on flowering plants focuses on the taxonomy and ecology of trees of the lowland New World tropics. I am especially interested in co-evolution between plants and their pollinators and seed dispersers. In order to investigate these relationships, I pursue taxonomic research on the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) for which my colleague Iain Prance and I have completed a Flora Neotropica monograph. In addition, I have selected geographic areas of high species diversity of the Brazil nut family for detailed study of its ecological relationships. For example, my colleagues and I have published the results of a study of the 27 species of the family found in central French Guiana and another study of the 39 species of Lecythidaceae found in a 100-hectare central Amazonian plot. This research has given me a better understanding of the evolution of the family as well as permitted me to make specific recommendations for the conservation of lowland, neotropical trees. My most important current project is an NSF Opportunities for Promoting Understanding Through Synthesis grant which is allowing me and my colleagues to synthesize what we have learned about the Brazil nut family in an electronic monograph called The Lecythidaceae Pages (see link in right hand panel).
With the participation of many other botanists, I organized and carried through to publication the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Central French Guiana. This flora was done in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), one of the organizations responsible for research in France's overseas departments. The book is designed to allow botanists as well as non-botanists to determine the names of plants in this, one of the last wilderness areas of the world. In collaboration with French scientists associated with IRD and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, I have initiated e-Floras for the Nouragues Nature Park and all of French Guiana.
My wife, Carol Gracie, and I have prepared an electronic checklist of the flowering plants of the Caribbean island of Saba in the Netherlands Antilles and Reinaldo Aguilar, Xavier Cornejo, and I initiated an e-flora of the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.
My latest book, entitled Tropical Plant Collection. From the Field to the Internet, is designed to pass on what I have learned as a botanist in order to make it easier and safer for others to carry out biological research in the tropics.
Web Sites
iBook: Tips for Tropical Biologists
Purchase book: Flowering Plants of the Neotropics
Brazil nut family at the Encyclopedia of Earth
Brazil nut at the Encyclopedia of Earth
Cannon ball tree at the Encyclopedia of Earth
Flowering Plants of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Selected Publications
Mori, S. A., A. Berkov, C. A. Gracie & E. F. Hecklau. 2011. Tropical Plant Collecting. From the Field to the Internet. TECC Editora, Florianópolis, Brazil. 332 pp.
Mori, S. A., G. Cremers, C. Gracie, J.-J. de Granville, S. V. Heald, M. Hoff, & J. D. Mitchell. 2002. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana. Part 2. Dicotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76(2): 1-776.
Mori, S. A., C.-H. Tsou, C.C.Wu, B. Cronholm & A. A. Anderberg. 2007. Evolution of Lecythidaceae: information from combined ndhF and trnL-F sequence data. Amer. J. Bot. 94(3): 289-301.
Mori, S. A. 2007. Lecythidaceae. Pages 173-186. In Hammel, B. E., M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Volumen VI. Dicotiledóneas (Haloragaceae-Phytolaccaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden, INBio & Museo Nacional de Costa Rica.
Smith, N., S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. Wm. Stevenson & S. V. Heald. 2004. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford. 594 pp.


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Extract from Moscow Bound
Scott sat alone in a booth by the window of the Tutti Frutti lounge in Pushkin Square. It was the quietest place in the restaurant, away from the Japanese DJ's obsession with Freddy Cannon's Palisades Park. It was Tom's favorite eatery in Moscow; he'd told Scott that he'd been brought up on 50s rock, thanks to a fanatical uncle. Scott began writing in his pocket notepad drafting a letter of condolence to Tom's two daughters.
A waiter brought his order to the table: a café latte, a blueberry muffin and a glass of water.
A man slid into the booth on the bench opposite him. 'Mind if I sit here?' the man asked. 'I like to watch the world go by.'
Scott looked up and stopped writing. He felt queasy. The man, in his thirties, had ginger hair in tight curls and a face full of freckles; an unusual, though not unique, complexion for a Russian. Two of the adjacent booths also had vacant window seats. 'Can't you sit—'
'Look at your chest,' Ginger said.
Scott obliged, and swallowed hard. A red dot roved around the left side of his upper torso. He'd seen the dot before, in the movies. He clenched his fists and froze.
'He's on the roof across the street.' Ginger looked out of the window.
Scott scanned the buildings; he couldn't see the marksman.
'And if you're thinking of making a run for it when a pedestrian blocks the line of sight, forget it.' Ginger squinted. 'Down below.'
Scott leant back and peered under the table. His eyes met a pistol barrel with an extended silencer inches from his crotch. He sat up. If they, whoever they were, wanted to kill him, the sniper could easily have picked him off on the sidewalk earlier. They wanted something from him. It wasn't the time to show his fear. He leant into Ginger's face. 'Okay, so you can kill me in the blink of an eye. Who are you and what do you want?'
'The list of names.'
Scott gulped.
Ginger's gun hand remained out of sight.
Scott broke the muffin into pieces on his plate. Had Ginger and his sniper friend killed the poor lad from Kiev? 'What list of names?' He ate some of the muffin; determined not to show anxiety.
'We don't have time to play cat and mouse,' Ginger said.
Scott looked at his chest again. The red dot had settled on his heart. Would they kill him without collecting the list? No. The list was more important to them than his life. 'I haven't got it with me.'
'We have transport. Get up. And walk towards the door.'
Ginger turned his head. He was wearing an earpiece.
Scott pocketed his notepad, stood up, threw some ruble notes on the table, and walked to the door, where he took his coat from a peg. He peered again at his chest. The red dot had disappeared. He could feel Ginger's hot breath on his neck. He assumed the gun was hidden in Ginger's pocket, and pointing at one of his kidneys. He hesitated. What would happen if he were to drop to the floor, clutching his chest and screaming? He felt a prod in his back with a hard object. He walked outside, and stopped.
'Keep moving,' Ginger said.
He felt another jab in his back. 'Which way?'
'See that white truck to your right, parked by the street sign?' Ginger asked.
'Walk over to the rear doors. Take it easy, and don't look back.'
Scott glanced at his chest for the fourth time. The red dot was back in place. The street was crowded with lunchtime office workers and shoppers; he could lose his tail and the red dot with relative ease. But how many innocent bystanders would get shot in the ensuing drama?
'You haven't told me who you are. I'll need your name and address for the receipt.'
'Shut up.'
He felt two sharp prods in the back. He stopped at the rear doors of the truck. 'Now what?'
Ginger stepped up to Scott's side and raised his hand as if to rap on the door, but he hesitated.
Scott watched as Ginger turned and looked skyward, across the street.
Three whip-like cracks resounded across the square. Scott and Ginger turned to see the pedestrians staring at the rooftops. Scott followed their eye line.
Everything turned to slow motion.
A body had fallen from the roof and was floating like a feather towards the ground, arms and legs gently flailing in limbo.
The onlookers appeared to be wading through treacle as they parted.
The blood-soaked body kissed the sidewalk without a sound.
Scott blinked and people's screams pierced the air. The truck's rear doors crashed open and knocked Scott to his knees.
Groggy, he looked up.
Two people wearing balaclavas hauled Ginger inside the truck and pulled the doors to.
The truck sped away. Scott rose to his feet.
Two hundred meters down the road, the truck screeched to a halt.
The doors flew open again. Ginger rolled out onto the road. The truck sped away.
Ginger didn't move.
Scott stood rooted to the curbside.
His stomach turned somersaults.
His cellphone rang.
The screen was blank.
His hand was shaking.
'Hello, Scott Mitchell speaking,' he said in English. His native tongue gave him a momentary sense of sanity on Moscow's streets.
'Scott, this is Lieutenant-General Pravda.' He also spoke in English. 'It is time for you to come in from the cold.'


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Gettysburg in York County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Jennie Wade
Killed here—July 3, 1863
While making bread for the Union soldiers
Location. 39° 49.398′ N, 77° 13.852′ W. Marker is in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in York County. Marker is on Baltimore Street south of Steinwehr Avenue (Business U.S. 15), on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Located in front of Jennie Wade House. Marker is at or near this postal address: 548 Baltimore Street, New Park PA 17352, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. ". . . your sister is dead." (here, next to this marker); The Wagon Hotel on Cemetery Hill (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); "The National Homestead at Gettysburg" (about 400 feet away); Battle of Gettysburg (about 500 feet away); The John Rupp House and Tannery Site (about 500 feet away); Dobbin House (about 500 feet away); 27th Pennsylvania Infantry (about 600 feet away); 106th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (about 600 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gettysburg.
Categories. • War, US Civil •
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on August 28, 2015, by Brandon Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 280 times since then and 27 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 28, 2015, by Brandon Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tennessee. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.


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Hyper-V Extensible Switch
The new Hyper-V extensible switch in Windows Server 2012 is key to enabling the creation of secure cloud environments that support the isolation of multiple tenants. The Hyper-V extensible switch in Windows Server 2012 introduces a number of new and enhanced capabilities for tenant isolation, traffic shaping, protection against malicious virtual machines, and hassle-free troubleshooting. The extensible switch allows third parties to develop plug-in extensions to emulate the full capabilities of hardware-based switches and support more complex virtual environments and solutions.
Previous versions of Hyper-V allowed you to implement complex virtual network environments by creating virtual network switches that worked like physical layer-2 Ethernet switches. You could create external virtual networks to provide VMs with connectivity with externally located servers and clients, internal networks to allow VMs on the same host to communicate with each other as well as the host, or private virtual networks (PVLANs) that you can use to completely isolate all VMs on the same host from each other and allow them to communicate only via external networks.
The Hyper-V extensible switch facilitates the creation of virtual networks that can be implemented in various ways to provide great flexibility in how you can design your virtualized infrastructure. For example, you can configure a guest operating system within a VM to have a single virtual network adapter associated with a specific extensible switch or multiple virtual network adapters (each associated with a different switch), but you can't connect the same switch to multiple network adapters.
What's new however is that the Hyper-V virtual switch is now extensible in a couple of different ways. First, you can now install custom Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) filter drivers (called extensions) into the driver stack of the virtual switch. For example, you could create an extension that captures, filters, or forwards packets to extensible switch ports. Specifically, the extensible switch allows for using the following kinds of extensions:
1. Capturing extensions, which can capture packets to monitor network traffic but cannot modify or drop packets.
2. Filtering extensions, which are like capturing extensions but also can inspect and drop packets.
3. Forwarding extensions, which allow you to modify packet routing and enable integration with your physical network infrastructure Second, you can use the capabilities of the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) by using the built-in Wfplwfs.sys filtering extension to intercept packets as they travel along the data path of the extensible switch. You might use this approach, for example, to perform packet inspection within your virtualized environment.
These different extensibility capabilities of the Hyper-V extensible switch are intended primarily for Microsoft partners and independent software vendors (ISVs) so they can update their existing network monitoring, management, and security software products so they can work not just with physical hosts, but also with VMs deployed within any kind of virtual networking environment that you might possibly create using Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. In addition, being able to extend the functionality of the Hyper-V networking by adding extensions makes it easier to add new networking functionality to Hyper-V without needing to replace or upgrade the switch. You'll also be able to use the same tools for managing these extensions that you use for managing other aspects of Hyper-V networking, namely the Hyper-V Manager console, PowerShell, and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). And because these extensions integrate into the existing framework of Hyper-V networking, they automatically work with other capabilities, like Live Migration. Improved Live Migration Live Migration was introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 to provide a high-availability solution for VMs running on Hyper-V hosts. Live Migration uses the Failover Clustering feature to allow running VMs to be moved between cluster nodes without perceived downtime or loss of network connection. Live Migration provides the benefi t of increased agility by allowing you to move running VMs to the best host for improving performance, achieving better scaling, or ensuring optimal workload consolidation. Live Migration also helps increase productivity and reduce cost by allowing you to service your host machines without interruption or downtime for your virtualized workloads.
Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2 required storing VMs on an Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) or Fibre-Channel SAN. In addition, Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2 supported performing only a single Live Migration at a time— multiple simultaneous Live Migrations were not supported. Now Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 has been improved in several significant ways. First, Live M igrations can be performed much more quickly. In fact, you can even saturate a 10 GB network connection when performing a Live Migration between Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts, something you couldn't do before with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts.
A second improvement to Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 is that now you can perform multiple Live Migrations simultaneously within the same failover cluster. This means, for example, that if you needed to take down a particular cluster node for immediate servicing, you can migrate all running VMs from that node to a different node quickly and simultaneously in a single operation using either the GUI or a PowerShell command. This can greatly simplify the task of performing maintenance on Hyper-V hosts within your environment.
A third improvement is that Live Migration is now possible even if you don't have a failover clustering infrastructure deployed. In the previous version of Windows Server 2008 R2, Live Migration required installing the Failover Clustering feature, and you also needed to ensure that Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) storage was enabled to ensure the logical unit number (LUN) on which your VM is stored could be accessed by any cluster node at any given time. With Windows Server 2012, however, you have two additional options for Live Migration that can be performed outside a failover clustering environment:
Hyper-V Replica
While many third-party backup solutions can be used for backing up and recovering VMs running on Hyper-V hosts, the Hyper-V Replica feature in Windows Server 2012 provides an in-box business continuity solution for cloud environments that can efficiently, periodically, and asynchronously replicate VMs over IP-based networks, including slow WAN links and across different types of storage subsystems. The Hyper-V Replica feature does not require any shared storage or expensive storage array hardware, so it represents a low-cost solution for organizations looking to increase the availability of their virtualized workloads and ensure that these workloads can be recovered quickly in the event of a disaster. Hyper-V, together with Failover Clustering, allows VMs to maintain service availability by moving them between nodes within the datacenter. By contrast, Hyper-V Replica allows VMs to maintain availability across a datacenter where the node hosting the replica is located at a physically separate site. Hyper-V Replica provides host-based replication that allows for failover to a secondary datacenter in the event of a disaster. It's an application-agnostic solution because it operates at a VM level regardless of what guest operating system or applications are installed in the VM. It's a storage-agnostic solution because you can use any combination of SAN, direct attached storage (DAS), or SMB storage for storing your VMs. It also works in both clustered and nonclustered environments, and you can even replicate from a host on a shared cluster to a remote, stand-alone replica host. And it works with Live Migration and Live Storage Migration.


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***Update 6-29-2016 - This issue was resolved in a recent Base OS MP update, and this problem no longer exists in the current MP's. You would no longer need to use an addendum MP for this purpose. I will leave the blog up for historical purposes only, or when customers need to modify other scenarios.
I previously wrote about some updated Base OS Monitoring Packs that shipped, adding many new features and fixes for monitoring the OS, and some issues that the changes created. You can read the old article here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/11/17/opsmgr-logical-disk-free-space-alerts-don-t-show-percent-and-mb-free-values-in-the-alert-description.aspx
One of the areas this new MP focused on, was changing a lot of the "average threshold" monitors to "consecutive sample" monitors. This helps control the noise when there are short term fluctuations in a performance value, or when some counters can spike tremendously for a very short time, skewing the average. So for the most part – changing these over to consecutive samples is a good thing. That said, one of the changes made was to the Logical Disk free space monitors, both for Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2012 disks.
The script used to monitor logical disk free space in previous versions of the Monitoring Pack would output two additional propertybags for free space in MB and Percent. This was very useful, because these values could easily be added to the alert description, alert context, and health explorer. This was very beneficial, because the consumer of the alert in a notification knew precisely how much space was left for each and every alert generated. Here are some examples of how it looked previously:
Now – when the new MP shipped – this script was changed to support the new consecutive samples monitortype, and was completely re-written. When it was rewritten, the script no longer returned these propertybags, so they were removed from the alert description, alert context, and health explorer. The current MP (6.0.6958.0) looks like this:
The monitor still works perfectly as designed, and you are alerted when thresholds that you set are breached. The only negative side effect is the loss of information in the alert description.
Several customers have indicated that they preferred to have these values back in the alert description. The only real way to handle this scenario, until the signed and sealed MP gets updated at some point in the future, is to disable the built in monitor, and enable a new monitor with an alert description that you like.
I have written three addendum MP's attached at the bottom of this article, which do exactly that – I created new monitors (essentially the same monitors from the previous older version of the Base OS MP's) and included overrides which disable the existing monitors from the sealed MP's. These new monitors are essentially exact copies of the monitors before they got updated. They run once per hour and have all the default settings from the previous monitors.
With the addendum MP imported – health explorer looks like the following:
Note the new name for the addendum monitor, and the fact that the existing "Logical Disk Free Space" monitor is unloaded as it is disabled via override.
These addendum MP's for Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2012 each simply include a script datasource, monitortype, and monitor to use instead of the items in the current sealed Base OS MP's. These addendum MP's are unsealed, so you have two options:
- Leave them unsealed, and use them as-is. This allows you to be able to tweak the monitor names, alert descriptions, and any other settings further.
- Seal the MP's with your own key (recommended) after making any adjustments that you desire. This will be necessary in order to create overrides for existing groups in other MP's should you desire to use those.
One caveat to understand– is that any overrides you have created on the existing Base OS free space monitors will have to be re-created here on these new ones. There is no easy workaround for that.
Let me know if you have any issues using these addendum MP's (which are provided as a sample only) and I will try to address them.
Credits – to Larry Mosley at Microsoft for doing most of the initial heavy lifting writing the workaround MP.
Another approach: Daniele Grandini has authored a different solution to this issue. What he has done, is to add diagnostics to the existing sealed Logical Disk Free space monitors, which will add the actual disk free space in MB and % to Health explorer, so console users can have this information in real time as they use alert/health explorer to troubleshoot a free space issue. His solution will not be able to add these values to the alert description to be sent in an email notification/pager/ticket, but for those companies that use the console and health explorer, it is a more graceful solution in that you don't have to re-engineer all your existing overrides, and you still get the benefit of having consecutive samples. It is worth a look: http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/opsmgr-logical-disk-free-space-alerts-dont-show-percent-and-mb-free-values-in-the-alert-description/comment-page-1/#comment-1018


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Friday, May 14, 2010
How Is An Earthquake Measured?
I am going to explain what happens in an earthquake and how it is measured. When plates in the earth's crust grind against each other, often these plates fracture, or break. If this happens, an earthquake will most certainly occur. To help us measure the magnitude(size) of the quake, seismologists use the Richter Scale to give it a measurement between 3.5 and 8(check out the chart below). A 3.4 on the Richter Scale wouldn't be felt by most people, but an 8 would most definitely be felt! If you enjoyed hearing about the Richter Scale, you should check out the Mercalli Scale and investigate the difference.
Earthquake Severity
Richter Earthquake
Magnitudes Effects
Less than 3.5 Generally not felt, but recorded.
3.5-5.4 Often felt, but rarely causes damage.
Under 6.0 At most slight damage to well-designed buildings.
Can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings
over small regions.
6.1-6.9 Can be destructive in areas up to about 100 kilometers
across where people live.
7.0-7.9 Major earthquake. Can cause serious damage over larger areas.
8 or greater Great earthquake. Can cause serious damage in areas several
hundred kilometers across.
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Emma Watson, who was recently appointed as a U.N. Women's Goodwill Ambassador, traveled to Uruguay to bring attention to the need for women to become more involved in politics within their country as an impending election looms. A new law has created a national quota that guarantees 30 percent of the elected representatives will be women.
"Women must have a say in matters that affect their countries, communities and families," Watson said. "After all, they are half of the population, so women's equal participation in decision-making is a question of justice and democracy."
Watson was attending a meeting in the country's capital city, Montevideo. The meeting was hosted by Cotidiano Mujer, an organization that was the recipient of a grant from the U.N. Women's Fund for Gender Equality. Watson met with women's advocates from around the country and listened to their strategies to increase women's voices throughout different political platforms in Uruguay. As well as women's advocates, Watson also met with several top government officials, as well as young women politicians. She will also be participating in an event where women's rights activists will submit signatures calling for an extension of the national quota law. This follows a "Do your bit for the quota" campaign, which was launched in July.
"Emma is a strong voice for young people worldwide," Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the U.N. Women Executive Director, said in a statement. "Her commitment to the issues that we work on at U.N. Women multiplies our ability to reach and engage more young people, who are key to advancing gender equality."
Women's participation in politics remains low globally. Only one in five members of Parliament are women. In Uruguay, even with these efforts, the rate of women's representation remains stuck at 13.1 percent, making Uruguay the 103rd country in the world in regard to the world ranking of women in Parliament by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and U.N. Women, placing it below the world average of 21.8 percent.
"Women's rights are personal to me, especially on political participation and leadership," Watson said. "I am delighted to be here…as a Goodwill Ambassador for U.N. Women and learn about the work on the ground, hear from the people at the front lines, and to understand what is working and what is not. I have learned that it is also a question of priorities, as women are more likely to focus on issues such as education, health, unpaid care economy and the environment. These are important issues that affect all of us."
Watson also attended a special event for U.N. Women's HeForShe campaign at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. The event is meant to kick-start one of the largest solidarity movements of the 21st century for the achievement of gender equality by calling on one half of the population to support the other half. Over the next 12 months, the HeForShe campaign will try to mobilize one billion men and boys around the globe as advocates for change in ending the persistent inequalities that women and girls face all around the world.
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Emma Watson Urges Women To Participate In Politics In Uruguay
Emma Watson, who was recently appointed as a U.N. Women's Goodwill Ambassador, traveled to Uruguay to bring attention to the need for women to become more involved in politics within their country as an impending election looms. A new law has created a national quota that guarantees 30 percent of the elected representatives will be women.


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KENSINGTON - January 27, 2013 --SPCA officials issued a search warrant on a home where a dog was left outside and froze to death.
It happened overnight Sunday on the 3000 block of North Water Street in Kensington.
Authorities took the body of the dog away and are investigating the incident.
No word on any charges to the pet's owner.
The Pennsylvania SPCA urges all pet owners to bring animals during extreme winter weather.


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Discussion in 'HTC Droid Incredible' started by vireya, Jun 4, 2010.
Anyone use this program?
Does the OEM batt last the whole time?
How is the program?
I used it on my droid. I could barely make a whole round on my droid. However I was overclocked running at 1GHz also. I am going golfing with some buddies tomorrow and I will give you feedback than on battery life. As for the program itself, its great and very accurate.
Like the dummy I am, AFTER I posted the request, THEN I did a search
Seems that if you change to the scorecard after each shot, the batt will last a lot longer
Also, many courses are NOT mapped and if you wanna do it yourself, may be hard to do with no instructions on use of the app
Gonna look into the FreeCaddie which has also been mentioned
I have used it a couple of times on my Droid. The battery will last through a round, but just barely. Probably does make sense to turn your overclock down and switch to the scorecard between shots. Mine is overclocked at 1Ghz but is set to fluctuate on demand between 400Mhz and 1Ghz.
I have also mapped a course before using their software. It was very easy to do (and free) from your computer, but took about 20 minutes or so to map out all 18 holes. You need to be familiar with the layout of the course you are mapping though as you have to map it out from a Google maps satellite image. There aren't any markings or anything telling you which hole is which, you are just looking down on the course from the satellite image and entering all that information yourself by clicking on tee boxes, greens, hazards, etc.
SkyDroid looks nice also! Haven't used it yet!
Another plus on Golfcard is that they are supposedly about to issue a major upgrade that allows access to course images without a data connection once you download the course. That way you can still use the software even if your data connection is slow or nonexistent.