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The Preliminary Race program now shows the horses Current/Previous (where applicable) and Life summary
Changes to Preliminary Race Program
The Preliminary Program (at the bottom of each race under Entries) has been modifed to give you more information. You can now choose …. Get prelim. Program (6 lines) or Get Prelim. Program (Page-fitted) . 6 lines - will give you a program with upto 6 past performance lines for each horse - this, when printed, will probably NOT fit on one page. Page-fitted - will give you a program page so that each race fits on a single page - the number of past performance lines have been reduced so that the race will fit on one page. NOTE: Races with more than 12 horses in the race are NOT fitted to the page - these remain overlapping the pages and are shown with the last 6 lines
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The role of pork in this soup is being played by chopped-up prosciutto scraps, who you may remember from such productions as Roasted Asparagus with Prosciutto and Poached Egg. It did a fabulous job, but even the most novice soup maker could figure out how to substitute ham or bacon.
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Should you have a PSA test?
Consider pros, cons of undergoing PSA test
Weighing the benefits, limitations and potential risks of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer can help you make an informed decision.
Benefits of the test
A PSA test may help detect prostate cancer at an early stage. Cancer is easier to treat and is more likely to be cured if it's diagnosed in its early stages.
But to judge the benefit of the test, it's important to know if early detection and early treatment will improve treatment outcomes and decrease the number of deaths from prostate cancer.
A key issue is the typical course of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer usually progresses slowly over many years. Therefore, a man may have prostate cancer that never causes symptoms or becomes a medical problem during his lifetime.
Limitations of the test
The limitations of PSA testing include:
- PSA-raising factors. Besides cancer, other conditions that can raise PSA levels include an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH) and an inflamed or infected prostate (prostatitis). Also, PSA levels normally increase with age.
- PSA-lowering factors. Certain drugs used to treat BPH or urinary conditions may lower PSA levels. Large doses of certain chemotherapy medications can also lower PSA levels.
- Misleading results. The test doesn't always provide an accurate result. An elevated PSA level doesn't necessarily mean you have cancer. And in some cases, a normal PSA level does not completely rule out prostate cancer.
- Overdiagnosis. Studies have estimated that between 17 and 50 percent of men with prostate cancer detected by PSA tests have tumors that wouldn't result in symptoms during their lifetimes. These symptom-free tumors are considered overdiagnosis — identification of cancer not likely to cause poor health or to present a risk to the man's life.
Potential risks
The potential risks of the PSA test are essentially related to the choices you make based on the test results, such as the decision to undergo further testing and treatment for prostate cancer. The risks include:
- Biopsy issues. A biopsy is a procedure that carries its own risks, including pain, bleeding and infection.
- Psychological effects. False-positive test results -- high PSA levels but no cancer found with biopsy -- can cause anxiety or distress. If you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, but it appears to be a slow-growing tumor that doesn't result in illness, you may experience significant anxiety just knowing it's there.
Discuss the benefits with your doctor. Together you can decide whether PSA testing is right for you.
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RBC I Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) encouraged people to support local businesses on "Small Business Saturday" (Nov. 24). Tipton, who chairs the House Small Business Subcommittee on Energy, Agriculture and Trade, is a cosponsor of a House Resolution (H. Res. 793) expressing support for the designation of a "Small Business Saturday" and supporting efforts to increase awareness of the value of locally owned small businesses.
"Small businesses are responsible for the creation of seven out of 10 new jobs (on average) in this country, and are vital to our economic recovery. 'Small Business Saturday' is a great way to get a jump on holiday shopping while supporting these community businesses, stimulating the local economy, and strengthening Main Street," Tipton said. "For small business owners that wish to participate, there are free marketing resources available through the Small Business Administration to help spread the word and encourage people to shop local."
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When you need to perform calculations with values that have an associated unit of measure, it is very common to make mistakes by mixing different units of measure. It is also common to perform incorrect conversions between the different units that generate wrong results. The latest Python release doesn't allow developers to associate a specific numerical value with a unit of measure. In this article, I look at three Python packages that provide different solutions to this problem and allow you to work with units of measure and perform conversions.
Three Different Packages to Add Units of Measure
The need to associate quantities with units of measure in any programming language is easy to understand, even in the most basic math and physics problems. One of the simplest calculations is to sum two values that have an associated base unit. For example, say that you have two electrical resistance values. One of the values is measured in ohms and the other in kilo-ohms. To sum the values, you must choose the desired unit and convert one of the values to the chosen unit. If you want the result to be expressed in ohms, you must convert the value in kilo-ohms to ohms, sum the two values expressed in ohms, and provide the result in ohms.
The following Python code uses variables with a suffix that defines the specific unit being used in each case. You have probably used or seen similar conventions. The suffixes make the code less error-prone because you easily understand that
r1_in_ohms holds a value in ohms, and
r2_in_kohms holds a value in kilo-ohms. Thus, there is a line that assigns the result of converting the
r2_in_kohms value to ohms to the new
r2_in_ohms variable. The last line calculates the sum and holds the result in ohms because both variables hold values in the same unit of measure.
r1_in_ohms = 500 r2_in_kohms = 5.2 r2_in_ohms = r2_in_kohms * 1e3 r1_plus_r2_in_ohms = r1_in_ohms + r2_in_ohms
Obviously, the code is still error-prone because there won't be any exception or syntax error if a developer adds the following line to sum ohms and kilo-ohms without performing the necessary conversions:
r3_in_ohms = r1_in_ohms + r2_in_kohms
There is no rule that assures that all the variables included in the
sum operation must use the same suffix; that is, the same unit. There aren't invalid operations between variables that hold values with incompatible units. For example, you might sum a
voltage value to a
resistance value and the code won't produce any error warning.
Now, imagine that Python adds support for units of measure. Each numeric value can have an associated unit of measure enclosed within <>. The following three lines would replace the previous code with an easier to understand syntax:
r1 = 500 <ohms> r2 = 5.2 <kilo-ohms> r1_plus_r2 = (r1 + r2) <ohms>
r1 holds a value of
500 and an associated unit of measure,
r2 holds a value of
5.2 and an associated unit of measure,
kilo-ohms. Because each variable includes information about its unit of measure, the
sum operation is smart and it can convert compatible units such as
ohms and
kilo-ohms. The last line sums the two values taking into account their unit of measure, and converts the result to the specified unit,
ohms. The
r1_plus_r2 variable holds the result of the
sum operation expressed in
ohms. The following line would produce an exception because the units of measure are incompatible:
sum = (10 <volts> + 500 <ohms>) <inches>
However, the support should be smart enough to allow you to mix different length units. For example, the following line would produce a valid result in inches.
sum = (10 <inches> + 1200 <centimeters>) <inches>
Python doesn't support units of measure, but the three Python packages I examine here provide different ways to enable them. Each package takes a different approach. While none works as well as a native language feature would, these solutions do provide a baseline that you can improve according to your specific needs.
Package Name
Latest Version
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Numericalunits: A Bare-Bones Solution
Numericalunits is a single Python module (numericalunits.py) that provides easy unit conversion features for your operations. You just need to follow two simple rules:
- To assign a unit of measure to a value, multiply the value by the unit.
- To express a value generated by its multiplication by the unit in a different unit, divide the value by that unit.
You simply need to add the following lines to import the module with an alias (
nu) and execute the $
reset_units method to start working with the different units.
import numericalunits as nu nu.reset_units('SI')
When you call
nu.reset_units('SI'), Numericalunits uses standard SI units (short for Système Internationale d'Unités in French) for storing the values (see Figure 1). This way, any length value is stored in meters, no matter the length unit you specify in the multiplication. Read here if you want more information about SI base units.
Figure 1: The SI base units and their interdependencies.
If you call the default
nu.reset_units(), Numericalunits uses a random set of units instead of the standard SI units. I really don't like using a random set of units because it usually generates a loss of precision and results that lack accuracy. The only advantage of using random units is that you can check dimensional errors by running calculations twice and comparing whether the results match. You have to call
nu.reset_units() before each calculation and compare the two values. I don't like this way of checking dimension errors because it adds a huge overhead and it is indeed error-prone. Thus, I suggest using Numericalunits as a unit conversion helper with the standard SI units initialization.
Numericalunits doesn't save information about the unit of measure in the numerical variable; therefore, there is no way to know which unit you used when you assigned the value. If you need more than a unit conversions helper, I suggest working with one of the other packages.
You can read the following line of code as "assign 500 ohms to
r1 = 500 * nu.ohm
You can read the following line of code as "display the value of
r1 expressed in kilo-ohms."
print(r1 / nu.kohm)
The following line displays the value of
r1 expressed in ohms.
print(r1 / nu.ohm)
The following code uses Numericalunits to sum the values of
r1 and
r2. Notice that the code is self-documented because you can easily see that
r1 holds a value in
ohms and
r2 in
kilo-ohms. The
r1_plus_r2 variable holds the result of the
sum operation expressed in
ohms and
r1_plus_r2_kohms holds the result converted to
kilo-ohms. Notice that you can sum the values of
r1 and
r2 without having to convert the units to ohms and the result will be accurate because of the way in which Numericalunits saves the values in the base units.
import numericalunits as nu nu.reset_units('SI') r1 = 500 * nu.ohm r2 = 5.2 * nu.kohm r1_plus_r2 = r1 + r2 r1_plus_r2_kohms = r1_plus_r2 / nu.kohm
The following code uses Numericalunits to sum four
distance values expressed in four different units of measure: meters, miles, centimeters, and feet. Numericalunits doesn't support plurals for the units. The
total_distance variable holds the total distance expressed in feet.
import numericalunits as nu nu.reset_units('SI') distance1 = 2500 * nu.m distance2 = 2 * nu.mile distance3 = 3000 * nu.cm distance4 = 3500 * nu.foot total_distance = (distance1 + distance2 + distance3 + distance4) / nu.foot
Pint: A Complete Package
Pint is a Python package that allows you to work with numerical values associated to units of measure. Because Pint saves the magnitude and the associated units for any numerical type, you are able to know which unit you used when you assigned the magnitude value. You can perform arithmetic operations between compatible units and convert from and to different units. When you try to perform arithmetic operations on magnitudes that have incompatible units of measure, Pint raises a
Pint.unit.DimensionalityError exception indicating that it cannot convert from one unit to the other before performing the arithmetic operation.
UnitRegistry class stores the definitions and relationships between units. By default, Pint uses the
default_en.txt unit definitions file. This file contains the different units and the prefixes that the
UnitRegistry will recognize in plain text. You can easily edit this text file to add any unit you might need to support.


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Up to 80% of kids with asthma have symptoms when they exercise. It makes sense that cigarette smoke and pollen could trigger asthma symptoms, but why exercise?
Cold, dry air that's inhaled during exercise is believed to be the main cause of these symptoms. When kids exercise or play strenuously, they tend to breathe quickly, shallowly, and through the mouth. So the air reaching their lungs misses the warming and humidifying effects that happen when they breathe more slowly through the nose.
The cool, dry air causes the airways in the lungs to become narrower, which blocks the flow of air and makes it harder to breathe. This narrowing, called bronchoconstriction, occurs in up to 20% of people who don't have asthma, which is why it's sometimes referred to as "exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB)" rather than "exercise-induced asthma (EIA)."
Symptoms of exercise-induced asthma include wheezing, tightness or pain in the chest, coughing, and in some cases, prolonged shortness of breath. Some symptoms are more noticeable than others, which means exercise-induced asthma can sometimes go undiagnosed.
Someone may have exercise-induced asthma if he or she:
Kids with exercise-induced asthma often begin having symptoms 5 to 10 minutes after starting to exercise. Symptoms usually peak 5 to 10 minutes after stopping the activity and may take an hour or longer to end. Some people with EIA even have symptoms for hours after exercise. Although symptoms often appear while kids are active, sometimes they can appear only after the activity has stopped.
Of course, there's a difference between someone with exercise-induced asthma and someone who's out of shape and is simply winded. Out-of-shape people can catch their breath within minutes, whereas it takes much longer for someone with EIA to recover. And extremes of temperature, especially cold weather, can make it even worse.
A doctor who suspects exercise-induced asthma will ask about the family's asthma and allergy history and about the symptoms and what has triggered them in the past.
After taking a detailed history and performing a physical exam, the doctor may ask your child to perform a breathing test after exercising. This can be done in the office on a treadmill, after your child has run outside for 6 to 8 minutes, or after participating in whatever activity has triggered flare-ups in the past.
Doctors sometimes recommend pretreatment, which means taking medication before exercise or strenuous activity, for kids with exercise-induced asthma. This medication is often the same short-term medication used during flare-ups, known as quick-relief medicine (also called rescue or fast-acting medicine), although in this case its function is preventative. By taking this medication before exercise, the airway narrowing triggered by exercise can be prevented.
If pretreatment isn't enough to control symptoms, the doctor may recommend that someone also use long-term control medicine (also called controller or maintenance medicine), which is usually taken regularly over time to reduce airway inflammation.
If, despite medication, your child still has breathing trouble during exercise, let the doctor know. The medication dosages may need to be adjusted for better control. Also, contact the doctor if there are any changes with your child's breathing problems.
Exercise is a great idea for everyone, including kids with exercise-induced asthma. Try to encourage your child to be active while also keeping asthma symptoms under control by following the doctor's instructions.
In addition to keeping kids fit, exercise can improve lung function by strengthening the breathing muscles in the chest. Ask your doctor about exercise and what kinds of precautions your child should take.
Of course, some sports are less likely to cause problems for kids with exercise-induced asthma, such as:
Endurance sports (like long-distance running and cycling) and those requiring extended energy output (like soccer and basketball) may be more challenging, as can cold-weather endurance sports like cross-country skiing or ice hockey.
But that doesn't mean your child can't participate in these sports if he or she truly enjoys them. In fact, many athletes with asthma have found that with proper training and medication, they can participate in any sport they choose.
For the most part, kids with exercise-induced asthma can do anything their peers can do. But be sure to follow the suggestions given by your child's doctor.
Here are some of the tips often recommended:
In addition, someone experiencing symptoms shouldn't start exercising until the symptoms stop.
It's also wise for kids with EIA to avoid exercising outside during very cold weather. If your child will be playing outside when it's cold, wearing a ski mask or a scarf over the mouth and nose should help.
If air pollution or pollen also trigger asthma symptoms, your child may want to exercise indoors when air quality is poor or pollen counts are high. And exercise should be avoided during any upper respiratory infection.
You can help by ensuring your child takes all medicine prescribed by the doctor, even on days when he or she feels fine. Skipping long-term control medicine can make symptoms worse, and forgetting to take quick-relief medicine before exercise can lead to severe flare-ups and even emergency department visits.
Kids should always have access to their quick-relief medicine. Keep extras on hand and be sure to regularly check all supplies so your child isn't carrying around an empty inhaler.
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Date reviewed: January 2014
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Observations from KDE Trunk and Qt 4
Since KDE migrated to Subversion, I have been creating semi-weekly development builds in the hopes of finding bugs to report. Notable new features include Konqueror's new adblocking mechanism and Kicker's new applet manager. Since everyone likes screenshots, I created two articles with screenshots from my observational usage: previews of KDE's trunk code and Trolltech's Qt 4 alongside brief documentation of what one is looking at.
KDE leads the future in Desktop Environments
I am compiling KDE svn trunk on a nightly basis with my own scripts and it really rocks. I am here to thank everyone from the KDE team (and the cool people from #kde-devel) for their carefully work on keeping svn trunk always in shape. There are rarely any issues with svn trunk and it usually compiles over night without any issues. Rarely you need to do some manual work to have it finish the compile and the committs to svn trunk are usually tested and work. Thanks to the people for having created a nice, round and feature complete Desktop Environment for the Open Source world to get serious business, science and normal work done. Stuff that feel mature, complete, consistent and truly integrated.
By A. A. at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: KDE leads the future in Desktop Environments
You should give kdesvn-build, located in kdesdk/scripts, a try, it can't do everything yet (l10n doesn't quite work). But, all in all, it's a great script. And I'm not just saying that because i wrote the code to make it do apidox.
By Levi Durham at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: KDE leads the future in Desktop Environments
I know about it but still prefer using my own ones. They are also available for other people to use as alternative.
By A. A. at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
decoration and theme
It is nice of the person for doing screenshots,
By naomen at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: decoration and theme
By Phil at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: decoration and theme
I think that these instructions are meant to apply to screenshots created for documentation purposes. The instructions must be old because they make reference to XFree86 instead of XOrg.
Anyway way to be an ass about wanting to regulate screenshots that are not even official and given at the convenience of those who make them or spend their time compiling the software to make them.
By jui jim at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: decoration and theme
okay, but...
What happens when an outsider (non-KDE-geek) grabs these images. All they can think is, THAT'S the next KDE?
By ac at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
Looks good!
I cannot stress enough how important ad-blocking is. I'd never consider using any browser that didn't have something similar to Firefox's AdBlock.
I think Konqueror would also gain a lot more users if it was easier to extend. The extensions I have installed are the main thing keeping me on Firefox.
With Firefox, you can just write a bit of Javascript and XML. With both Firefox and Opera, you can add features by writing a few lines of Javascript with Greasemonkey/user Javascript.
How much quicker would this Konqueror ad-blocking have come about if Konqueror was as easy as Firefox to extend?
Does anybody know if there is ongoing development of KaXUL? Or has it been abandoned?
Re: Looks good!
well actually the extensions in firefox is also the source of their biggest security holes they have (hopefully _had_).
as soon as you allow a dynamic thing to come into your browser, you definitely open new security bugs.
just my 2c.
By Mickael Marchand at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Looks good!
> well actually the extensions in firefox is also the source of their biggest security holes they have
What's your basis for claiming that?
Doesn't look like many of them are related to extensions as far as I can see.
> as soon as you allow a dynamic thing to come into your browser, you definitely open new security bugs.
Well then Konqueror is no good either, unless you switch off Java, Javascript, plugins, etc.
Re: On the current state of Konqueror
Agreed, Konqueror needs to be able to be extended. I'd like to see Konqueror to become as good as Opera as a browser. I still use Opera for all its small conveniences which is also where I find Koqueror (KDE 3.3 here) still lacking.. something like the session thing could be done as an extension, the rest probably needs to be done in Koqueror itself -- some kind of wishlist here:
- save & restore sessions (Operas *.win files), also session restoring for crashes
Problems I still have with Konqueror:
Konqueror is really good and usable apart from that, but at least for me needs still some tuning to make it first choice as a browser.
By Phase II at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: On the current state of Konqueror
Konqueror has "panning", Shift+(UpArrow|DownArrow), at least in 3.4. It also has mouse gestures vie KHotkeys, and it works great and you can configure it as you like.
It also has sessions, called "View Profiles".
By m. at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: On the current state of Konqueror
Konqueror has sommth scrolling (like firefox), just use the Suse RPMs
By Hans Chen at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: On the current state of Konqueror
But no panning on third mouse button which triggers the notorious x clipboard.
ok the Profiles seemed more like (and probably are) for setting the layout, but perhaps could be fleshed out, with the history of the saved sites. Wasn't that obvious under the settings tab. (usability to the rescue).
The stuff noted under "problems" remains.
By Phase II at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: On the current state of Konqueror
I think it's indeed Gwenview that decides what options are shown there.
If you don't want Gwenview to be used for embedded viewing you can tweak that in the control center under KDE Components -> File Associations (for each image type in question): Just change the "Service Preference Order" on the "Embedding tab" of each image type. The entry on top is used.
That way you can keep Gwenview installed and still use something else inside Konqueror.
By cm at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: On the current state of Konqueror
Konqueror does have panning on the third mouse button.
That's enabled by default, but if you turn it off, it does scrolling just as in Firefox, IE and, I assume, Opera.
By Dolio at Tue, 2005/06/14 - 5:00am
How to switch on the ad blocker
Hi Jim
By Roland Wolf at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: How to switch on the ad blocker
Hmmm, that doesn't sound useful. If it removes all the bl*nking stuff from the page, what's left?
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: How to switch on the ad blocker
It's more useful and powerful than that, but it requires quite a bit of tweaking to adjust to your needs.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: How to switch on the ad blocker
You don't blinking say? =)
By ac at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: How to switch on the ad blocker
Sorry Roland, Privoxy just doesn't compare. With AdBlock, I see something annoying, I right-click, and block it. Messing around with a proxy every time I see something annoying is too much hassle, I'd rather just put up with the ads.
Re: Looks good!
Firefox extensions create a lot of security holes and make it unstable. I'm the developer of Plastikfox and extensions usually step one on top of other forcing me to do dirty hacks to make it work. They have full access to all the parts of the browser, which is very dangerous. Also, extension developers don't usually care not to do things that could break other extensions. They just care their extension works but sometimes two extensions try to access the same resource causing problems. The result is a bunch of bloated dirty code running on your computer that could explode in your face at any time. If they were implemented in a clean way it would be a point but they don't. That's the reason I don't like extensions and I wouldn't like Konqueror to get that too, or at least in a similar way to Firefox. Perhaps if extensions were implemented in a way similar like plugins are (being them all independent and one extension not having access to others' variables an code) it would be much better.
By Víctor Fernández at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Looks good!
> Firefox extensions create a lot of security holes and make it unstable.
What is your basis for saying that? As I pointed out to another person who said the same thing, the facts don't seem to agree with your opinion.
> That's the reason I don't like extensions and I wouldn't like Konqueror to get that too
Erm... Konqueror has been extendable for years. What I'm talking about is making it *easier* to extend.
Right now, you need to extend Konqueror in C++, and that opens up a hell of a lot more ways for an extension writer to screw up than Firefox extensions.
Re: Looks good!
and why did you think you'd find bugs related to 3rd party extensions in the mozilla bug database?
The trouble with Firefox extensions is that they've given full access to the browser, but are generally only written and maintained by one person. Often someone with very little experience.
Obviously there are exceptions, but the Firefox extension mechanism opens itself up for a whole lot of half arsed buggy, insecure extensions.
By mabinogi at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
KDE Start MENU
So, at last after many years, KDE Developers got the courage to have Icon+Text! Congrats, but make it beautiful, attractive, customizable, animated. Support MNG and GIF for K button. Allow 4 state png/mng for k buttons! unfocused, focused(hover), pressed (focused), pressed (not hover).
Congrats on becoming bold!
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
No text, please!
Please, no text in the K-Menu! Or at least a text different than "Applications", I don't want a Gnome clone and Gnome people will say we're dropping our pants. Also make it a configurable option so people can disable the text (I will do!).
By Víctor Fernández at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: No text, please!
a) it is configurable
i turned it on by default for one week (and turned it back off at the end of that period of time) so that the code path for button text would get wide testing. apparently these screenshots where taken during that week =)
one of the problems with having as many features, several of them "hidden", in an application such as kicker where people tend to run it in a more-or-less static configuration is that getting good testing coverage can be difficult. so i occasionally turn things on or off by default in SVN to get some testing by those who follow svn. KConfigXT has made this easier since i just modify an XML file and it doesn't write default values to the rc; both features are nice for this =)
unfortunately there isn't much that a test suite could automate here, either, since most of the "output" of kicker is graphical and interactive in nature requiring a user to try things and interpret the results as "expected" or "buggy". kicker behaviour is also sensitive to things like X configurations, including having save-unders enabled, Xinerama setups, dual-head configurations and screen resolutions.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: No text, please!
the word "Applications" takes way to much space in the kicker.
By Mark Hannessen at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: No text, please!
agreed 100%
By agreed at Sat, 2005/06/11 - 5:00am
Re: No text, please!
By light at Mon, 2005/06/13 - 5:00am
how does the new kde *feel* ?
By ch at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: feel?
It feels somewhere between a yellow.
By Gábor Lehel at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: feel?
ehehe , i meant , could you somehow distinguish between qt3 and qt4 toolkit (more responsive, more colors , more ..... i dont know)
or perhaps its just for the programmers under the hood . ??
By chris at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: feel?
Current svn trunk is for 3.5, so it's still Qt3. It feels mostly like 3.4 did, a bit more gnomeish (not a bad thing) due to the 'add applet' dialog and the hidden option to have taskbar buttons take up the full length of the taskbar.
(The Qt4 branch probably feels not much more than buggy at this early stage, though I haven't tried it...)
By Gábor Lehel at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: feel?
AFAIK the Qt4 branch doesn't even compile yet. Though it wouldn't suprise me if it already does, given the pace of development.
By Erik Hensema at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
I was trying to enjoy the new Qt but all I could think was "Arrgh, motif's coming back!" Seriously, that theme is _horrible_.
By mikeyd at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Yuck
>I would encourage the viewer to ignore the rest of the desktop, for I use
uhm....? ;-)
By Macavity at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Yuck
I did my best, but it's that bright horrible red, draws the eye even when you're trying to ignore it.
By mikeyd at Sat, 2005/06/11 - 5:00am
Vertical text Sucks...
>>(KMix has a separate tab for device switches.)
Just like GNOME too.
And why dont get rid of th annoying Vertical Text?
By Tim at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
+1. I agree totally. This need some plasma ray =)
By Veton at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
What ever happened to the improvements suggested here:
I love that sidebar with HORIZONTAL text!
By Ryan at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
It doesn't scale well.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
In what respect? The length of text/languanges?
By Ryan at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
Trying to get the sidebar to "scale" is clearly a case of overengineering. There are wayyyy too many tabs if you need it to "scale" beyond 3 or 4. Usability wise that would just be suicide to have too many tabs. Well I guess it's suicide right now already. =)
This is why the horizontal design is superior. It solves the right problem not an invented "scale" issue.
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
You forgot the uninvented i need to run over the full screen height to switch tabs suckage. Forget it. It's no solution. And it's annoying when you misclick. Go think again (and come with something usable next time, please).
By mornfall at Fri, 2005/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: Vertical text Sucks...
Nooo, please don't get rid of vertical text tabs! I like that concept very much!
By Mikos at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
may I ask, what distro?
nice preview. I really like how things are coming along. The vector demo looks really nice. there is also some qt4 preview stuff at the digitalfanatics qt4 website, but it's geared more towards programmers.
kinda off topic, but I'm just curious, what distro are you using?
By Timmeh at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: may I ask, what distro?
Sorry im an idiot. its right in the article
"KDE 3.5 was built on my machine from the main trunk of KDE's subversion tree on a machine running Gentoo stable, using KDE's CDE/Solaris/Motif themeset."
somehow missed it.
By Timmeh at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Re: may I ask, what distro?
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/09 - 5:00am
Qt4 SUCKS!!! Please go back to Qt3!
While attempting to port a medium-sized program to Qt4, I noticed a SEVERE drop in performance. To diagnose this droppage, I wrote a very small, simple program that depicts two rectangles bouncing around on the screen, and reports the framerate (which is calculated as an average over 5 seconds).
Under both versions of Qt, the program used a QTimer widget to control the movement of the rectangles. The Qt3 version can simply draw the rectangles directly from the QTimer handler, while the Qt4 version must generate a paintEvent, which I tried both with the "update()" method (which supposedly waits until Qt's main loop to call paintEvent normally), and with the "repaint()" method (which supposedly calls paintEvent immediately, which is supposed to be faster but more likely to flicker).
On my machine (A 1-GHz Celeron with a low-end Radeon, resolution 1400x1050, 16bpp), both versions run fast when the window is at its default size (49 FPS-- the target framerate).
When the window is maximized, however, Qt4 takes a 39% performance hit (19 FPS), while Qt3 takes no hit at all!
In larger programs with lots of widgets (such as the program I was porting when I first noticed the problem), I notice that any use of a timer-updated widget drags the program to a near halt.
I have attached the program, so you can see for yourself that Qt4 really is inferior. It must be built with the $QTDIR environment variable set appropriately. Two Makefiles are required because MOC doesn't pay attention to #ifdef directives. You must run 'make clean' between building the demo with Qt4 and Qt3.
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The 401(k) match is making a comeback, though in a slightly different, and very important, form.
A recent Transamerica survey on retirement trends found that half of the companies that had cut or suspended their match during the recession were reinstating it.
Kathleen Connelly, executive vice president of client services at Dresher, Pa.-based Ascensus, said her firm began to notice that plan sponsors had stopped eliminating or reducing their matching contributions as far back as 18 months ago.
The more important trend, Connelly said, isn't so much that the match is back, but that it is being restored with employee retirement readiness in mind.
Plan sponsors aren't simply offering 50 cents on the dollar up to a certain low amount, as was the practice before the recession began. Instead, they are changing their match structures, in a fundamental way, to encourage participants to put away more money, Connelly said. "We're seeing new designs to help participant readiness down the line," she said.
What that means is that instead of offering employees a 50% match on up to 6% of their retirement plan contribution, they might now offer a 25% match on up to 12% of a participant's deferral.
"Mathematically, it is equivalent (for the employer)," acknowledged Patricia Advaney, chief marketing officer for Transamerica Retirement Solutions. But it makes a big difference in how much savers save.
The goal is to help participants get to the 10% to 15% they need to put away each year to generate enough income in retirement to live comfortably, or, shall we say, less uncomfortably, given today's trends.
(Check out 4 Big Changes to 401(k)s, IRAs in Obama's 2014 Budget on ThinkAdvisor.)
The trend is being driven by the growing industywide emphasis on plan design. That effort has included automatic enrollment, automatic escalation and other new options to help employees better prepare for retirement.
"I don't think anyone is going to say the decline in the economy was a good thing, but coming out on the other side of it, we are seeing more thoughtful plan design to help participants reach that ultimate goal," Connelly said.
And, again, changing the match doesn't have to cost the company anything.
Connelly said her clients, who are on the smaller end of the market, tend to adjust their matching levels up once employees become vested in their retirement accounts. Most plan sponsors don't make bigger design changes unless they are changing record-keepers.
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"I wouldn't say that the absence of a match would discourage someone from staying in a plan," he said. "If it is a situation where enrollment is voluntary, that's a slightly different case. (But) I think if you have individuals auto-enrolled, the absence of a match is less of a driver for participation."
That may be, but most employers are sticking with the tried and true.
The Transamerica Retirement Solutions' Report on Retirement Plans 2013: The Road to Retirement Readiness found that the vast majority of companies, 83%, that offer a 401(k) or similar plan include matching contributions as part of their plans.
"Despite widespread news reports to the contrary, most plan sponsors did not make changes to the match during the recession. In 2013, among the 15% of companies who said they had decreased or suspended their match during the recession, nearly half (7%) said that they have reinstated it," the Transamerica center said in its study.
Advaney's biggest takeaway from the report was that "employers are thinking about their level of responsibility as it relates to their retirement plan, and they are thinking about what they can do to make it as attractive as it can be."
Large corporations, in particular, used to offer these types of options as a way to attract and retain good employees. Now, for the first time this year, "helping employees accumulate for retirement edged out the next highest reason for having a plan," Advaney said.
In other words, companies are even more concerned about helping their employees prepare for retirement than they are with attracting top talent.
Defined contribution plans were viewed as supplemental savings vehicles and matching contributions were just an added benefit, Advaney said. Now, DC plans are seen as essential retirement vehicles for the majority of working Americans.
Plan sponsors should design their matching contribution in such a way that employees don't feel that they are taking money out of their pocket, especially if they can't afford to save more, she said.
Different formulas could be used to make sure that doesn't happen.
"I haven't seen a lot of people take us up on that, but it is making some people think. To modernize their plan to make sure everything is pointing in the right direction so participants, whether they auto-enroll or not, are making the right decisions in spite of themselves."
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in kids. By the time they're 5 years old, about 8% of girls and about 1-2% of boys have had at least one.
In older kids, UTIs may cause obvious symptoms such as burning or pain with urination (peeing). In infants and young children, UTIs may be harder to detect because symptoms are less specific. In fact, fever is sometimes the only sign.
Most UTIs are caused when bacteria infect the urinary tract, which is made up of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. Each plays a role in removing liquid waste from the body. The kidneys filter the blood and produce urine; the ureters carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder; and the bladder stores the urine until it is eliminated from the body through the urethra.
An infection can occur anywhere along this tract, but the lower part — the urethra and bladder — is most commonly involved. This is called cystitis. If the infection travels up the ureters to the kidneys, it's called pyelonephritis and is usually more serious.
Although bacteria aren't normally found in the urine, they can easily enter the urinary tract from the skin around the anus (the intestinal bacteria E. coli is the most frequent cause of UTIs). Many other bacteria, and some viruses, can also cause infection. Rarely, bacteria can reach the bladder or kidneys through the blood. Bacterial UTIs are not contagious.
UTIs occur much more frequently in girls, particularly those around the age of toilet teaching, because a girl's urethra is shorter and closer to the anus. Uncircumcised boys younger than 1 year also have a slightly higher risk of developing a UTI.
Other risk factors for developing a UTI include:
UTIs are highly treatable, but it's important to catch them early. Undiagnosed or untreated UTIs can lead to kidney damage, especially in kids younger than 6.
Signs and symptoms of UTIs vary depending on the child's age and on which part of the urinary tract is infected. In younger kids and infants, the symptoms may be very general. The child may seem irritable, begin to feed poorly, or vomit. Sometimes the only symptom is a fever that seems to appear for no reason and doesn't go away.
In older kids and adults, symptoms can reveal which part of the urinary tract is infected. In a bladder infection, the child may have:
Many of these symptoms are also seen in a kidney infection, but the child often appears more ill and is more likely to have a fever with shaking chills, pain in the side or back, severe fatigue, or vomiting.
In infants and toddlers, frequent diaper changes can help prevent the spread of bacteria that cause UTIs. When kids begin self-care, it's important to teach them good hygiene. After every bowel movement, girls should remember to wipe from front to rear — not rear to front — to prevent germs from spreading from the rectum to the urethra.
All kids should be taught not to "hold it" when they have to go because urine that remains in the bladder gives bacteria a good place to grow.
School-age girls should avoid bubble baths and strong soaps that might cause irritation, and they should wear cotton underwear instead of nylon because it's less likely to encourage bacterial growth. Other ways to decrease the risk of UTIs include drinking plenty of fluids and avoiding caffeine, which can irritate the bladder.
Any kids diagnosed with VUR should follow their doctor's treatment plan to prevent recurrent UTIs.
Most UTIs are cured within a week with proper medical treatment. Recurrences are common in certain kids with urinary abnormalities, those who have problems emptying their bladders (such as children with spina bifida), or those with very poor toilet and hygiene habits.
After performing a physical exam and asking about symptoms, your doctor may take a urine sample to check for and identify bacteria causing the infection. How a sample is taken depends on how old your child is. Older kids might simply need to pee into a sterile cup.
For younger children in diapers, a plastic bag with adhesive tape may be placed over their genitals to catch the urine. However, urine that comes in contact with the skin may become contaminated with the same bacteria causing the infection, so a catheter is usually preferred. This is when a thin tube is inserted into the urethra up to the bladder to get a "clean" urine sample.
The sample may be used for a urinalysis (a test that microscopically checks the urine for germs or pus) or a urine culture (which attempts to grow and identify bacteria in a laboratory). Knowing what bacteria are causing the infection can help your doctor choose the best medication to treat it.
Most children with a UTI recover just fine, but some of them — especially those who are very young when they have their first infection or those who have recurrent infections — may need further testing to rule out abnormalities of the urinary tract.
If an abnormality is suspected, the doctor may order special tests, such as an ultrasound of the kidneys and bladder or X-rays that are taken during urination (called a voiding cystourethrogram, or VCUG). These tests, as well as other imaging studies, can check for problems in the structure or function of the urinary tract. Your child may also be referred to a urologist (a doctor who specializes in diseases of the urinary tract).
UTIs are treated with antibiotics. The type of antibiotic used and how long it must be taken will depend on the type of bacteria that is causing the infection and how severe it is. After several days of antibiotics, your doctor may repeat the urine tests to confirm that the infection is gone. It's important to make sure the infection is cleared because an incompletely treated UTI can recur or spread.
If a child is having severe pain with urination, the doctor may also prescribe a medication that numbs the lining of the urinary tract. This medication temporarily causes the pee to turn orange, but don't be alarmed — the color is of no significance.
Give prescribed antibiotics on schedule for as many days as your doctor directs. Keep track of your child's trips to the bathroom, and ask your child about symptoms like pain or burning on urination. These symptoms should improve within 2 to 3 days after antibiotics are started.
Take your child's temperature once each morning and each evening, and call the doctor if it rises above 101°F (38.3°C), or above 100.4°F (38°C) rectally in infants. Encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids, but avoid beverages containing caffeine, such as soda and iced tea.
Kids with a simple bladder infection are usually treated at home with oral antibiotics. However, those with a more severe infection may need to be treated in a hospital to receive antibiotics by injection or intravenously (delivered through a vein right into the bloodstream).
Kids tend to be hospitalized for UTI if:
Kids diagnosed with vesicoureteral reflux (or VUR), in which urine goes back up into the ureters instead of flowing out of the urethra, will be watched closely by the doctor. Treatment may include medications or, less commonly, surgery. Most kids outgrow mild forms of VUR, but some can develop kidney damage or kidney failure later in life.
Call your doctor immediately if your child has an unexplained fever with shaking chills, especially if accompanied by back pain or any type of discomfort during urination.
Also call the doctor if your child has any of the following:
Call the doctor if your infant has a fever, feeds poorly, vomits repeatedly, or seems unusually irritable.
Reviewed by: T. Ernesto Figueroa, MD
Date reviewed: January 2012
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Concerns over Federal Reserve policy and economic growth prompted global investors to pull $15 billion from exchange-traded products in August, according to data released by BlackRock on Monday. This tops outflows of $13.4 billion in January 2010, the industry's previous record.
The August outflows also surpassed the $12 billion of redemptions made by investors in June. Plus, it marked a dramatic reversal from the nearly $44 billion of inflows investors made in July. (In August 2012, investors added $12 billion of flows to exchange-traded products.)
"Similar to June, outflows were driven by fixed income with -$5.3 billion, including -$8.1 billion from funds with longer/broader maturity profiles vs. inflows for short maturity funds," Dodd Kittsley and Raj Seshadri wrote.
Still, there were some bright spots. Nearly $5 billion flowed into pan-European equity ETPs in August.
U.S. equity products, however, experienced $14.5 billion in outflows, $14 billion of which were redeemed from the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY).
Year to date, investors have added $128 billion of inflows to exchange-traded products, with equity ETPs dominating the pack. In the first eight months of 2012, though, overall ETP inflows were nearly $140 billion.
Total assets in exchange-traded products are roughly $2.11 trillion, BlackRock estimates, down from $2.16 trillion in July but up from $1.76 trillion a year ago.
As investors adjusted to rising interest rates, they moved almost $3 billion into short-maturity fixed-income ETPs in August and $52 billion into money-market funds.
"Investors could also be positioning for increased market volatility in September," noted Kittsley and Seshadri. "There are a number of upcoming events and announcements with implications for the global economy including the release of U.S. nonfarm payroll numbers ahead of the highly anticipated next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the German elections, meetings of other major central banks, U.S. debt ceiling negotiations and the escalating conflict in Syria."
Winners and Losers
Year to date, some ETPs with the largest inflows include:
- WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (DXJ), $8.4 billion
- iShares MSCI Japan (EWJ), $4.7 billion
- iShares Russell 2000 (IWM), $4.5 billion
- Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI), $4.3 billion
- Vanguard Short-Term Bond (BSV), $4.1 billion
ETPs with significant outflows include:
- SPDR Gold (GLD), -$20.1 billion
- iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM), -$8.2 billion
- iShares BOXX $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond (LQD), -$6.2 billion
- iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (TIP), -$6.2 billion
- SPDR S&P 500 (SPY), -$4.8 billion
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text: Monday, February 13, 2012 USBJI Defines Value in Musculoskeletal Care, Proposes Road Map for Future Actions A new report summarizes key issues and recommendations discussed at the Summit on The Value in Musculoskeletal Care, sponsored by the United States Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI). The summit, held in Washington, DC, October 12-13, 2011, was attended by 127 invited representatives of the musculoskeletal community, including APTA staff and members, patients, health care professionals, payers, industry, and government. Specifically, the report provides a definition of the value in musculoskeletal care, addresses the need for accurate and reliable measurements to assess quality and value of musculoskeletal care, outlines advocacy strategies, and makes recommendations on health organizations' roles in efforts to increase the value of musculoskeletal care. According to USBJI, the report's proposals should meet several important goals to: Redirect resources to control costs in the short and long term; Fund innovative clinical, basic science, and translational research to an extent commensurate with the health care burden of musculoskeletal disease; Develop and implement more effective multidisciplinary programs for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation to decrease current and future costs; Improve outcomes and reduce costs through integrated systems of care; and Improve quality of life by enhancing the general health of all people. APTA is a founding member of USBJI. Member organizations are encouraged to consider strategic plans for collaborative implementation of the recommendations, in concert with USBJI and other groups.


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So this is how my love for thrifting was born. I never thought I would be where I am today. I never thought I would be typing a post for thousands to read. Never thought anyone would actually want to read or use anything I wrote. My life may not be the way the Hubbs and I planned 10 years ago, but man I wouldn't change it for the world! I love that I had to learn how to go homemade. I would do anything for that sweet family of mine. For those sweet read heads, I will give up anything for them to have more. Thrifting allows me to do that. I still get to have cute clothes for my family, but pay the bills, feed the nuggets, and sometimes have a little extra left over at the end of the month. I love it when that happens.
Today I am going to share with you a few tips and tricks I use. All of these tips will help you build and grow your closet on a shoestring budget. I am going to focus mostly on how us Moms/Women can build our closets, but the same tips apply to our littles and our husbands. So are you ready to find out what my tips and tricks are?
Let's get to it.....
Yep the B word ladies and gents. Oh how that word use to sound like a curse word to me. No longer. I love it. It means freedom and knowing exactly where my family is at financially. In your monthly budget, include a little bit of cash for clothes. When you have littles, you need a clothes budget. Shopping at thrift stores allows you to get a lot more bang for your buck. Man those nuggets never stop growing! Having a little bit of dinero set aside for shopping helps to keep them constantly clothed in items that actually fit. This also allows Mom and Dad to get a few new things now and then also. Each month we budget about $40 for our family.
We don't always use this, but we know it is there if we need to.
Oh my..... you didn't know thrift stores have sales? They do! Pretty sweet right? Check out where your local thrift stores are. Some more popular ones are Deseret Industries, Salvation Army, and Savers. There are loads of local thrift stores though. Check the yellow pages. You never know what little gems will be located near you. A local thrift store I love sends me weekly e-mails. They let me know what their tag sales are that week. This particular store has different colored tags, which go on sale each week. Sometimes they are half off or only $1. Last week they had a purple tag, 50 cent sale. I was beyond excited! I snagged my pictured black pencil skirt for 50 cents and my top for $2.00. A complete outfit for $2.50! Oh no I didn't! Oh that's right, I did! It was so sweet...insert my happy face... This thrift store also has a frequent buyer punch card. They punch your card for every $10 you spend. Once you receive 8 punches, you get $20 store credit. How freakin awesome is that? I took advantage of this perk during the 50 cent sale. I got $40 worth of clothes for my family, but I only spent $20. Can we all say SWEET! Check out your local thrift stores. Some give military discounts and some have certain sale days. Ask around and try to go one of those days. Why not save when you can? This is my motto. Oh and if you have a Savers near you, check out their exchange program. You donate clothes and get credit towards a new purchase. They use to do this a year ago. Call to see if they still do this.
Have some standards ladies... Don't just buy something because it catches your eye. Be smart. Every item you purchase, needs to have a place in your wardrobe. This means it should be versatile. Although having a statement piece is fantastic and Stacey and Clinton (What Not to Wear) would be proud, it is not always practical. Having one statement piece is all good, but 10 is crazy. Especially if these item do not pair well with anything else in your closet. Be conscious of what you buy and what you spend. So many people buy clothing because they see it in an ad,on the mannequin, or because it is just plain popular. They don't think about how much they will actually wear it. Make sure the fit is right. Just because something is on sale, does not mean you need it. Also, all thrift stores sell accessorizes. Sometimes they even sell them by the bag full. Literally. It is pretty cool. You buy a bag of jewelry for just a few dollars. I have gotten a lot of great statement jewlery this way. Remember a great pair of earrings or a necklace and really take an outfit to the next level. This is a great thing to invest in, when thrifting.
Remember the old saying, "don't judge a book by its cover?" Well it still applies. Don't take clothing items at face value. Remember one mans trash is another's treasure. At first you may see an old frumpy, denim jumper, but a little bit of tweaking and you may end up with a new addition to your wardrobe. Think outside the box. I know for some this is more difficult. It is literally rewiring your brain. When I look at clothes I ask myself a few questions. First, Can I wear it as is? Second, Do I have something in my closet right now that will work with it? Third, If it is not ok as is, what can I make it into? Remember too short dresses can become skirts and vice versa. Shirts can become cardi's and pants can become capri's. This goes for kid clothes as well. The options are endless! I also find fabric and sheets at thrift stores. I use both to create clothes for my daughter and I. A sheet can become a maxi skirt real quick. I also love to look for inspirtaion, so when I am at a thrift store I can remember projects I have seen on Pinterest or from some of my favorite Refashion blogs. My go to Refashion blogs are Sewing Room Screaming, A Skirt a Day, and A New Dress a Day. When you have refashion ideas in your back pocket, it is much easier to think outside of that dreadful box we put ourselves in. Be creative and one of a kind!
Just like when you were little and you circled the toys in the Christmas Catalog, have a list of things you are looking to incorporate into your wardrobe. Weather it is a mental list or a paper and pen list, keep one. I learned this technique from Kendi. I thought it was just brilliant. It gave my thrifting more of a purpose. Now I keep an eye out for those items on my wish list. I know some of you right now are thinking, "well isn't it just easier to run to Target and get it right now?" Well sure it would be easier, but do we always have to have immediate gratification? I have had a simple button down white shirt on my wish list for a long time. I finally found one last week. I found it at the 50 cent sale I told you about. I saw that beauty and cheered to the heavens. Sweet victory was finally mine. The fit was perfect and so was the price. I would never have been able to get my shirt for that price at a Department store. I was glad I waited. You can't buy that feeling when you finally snag the item you've been searching for. Sometimes the best things take a wee bit of time. Be patient. If it saves you money, it is worth it.
For reals! Make it a hobby. I know all of you ladies out there are busy. Whether you are a busy mom, wife, worker, insert the noun, you deserve a little "me time". Have thrifting be your "me time". When I go to a thrift store by myself, it is like going to Disneyland. I get a little bit of time with me and oh man is that sacred. I love to find the best deal and see how much I can get for my monthly $40. I am even on a first name bases at some of my favorite thrift stores. Once you do that, it is amazing the doors that open. I went in the other day, looking for glass mason jars. I have a project in mind. I explained what I was looking for. The ladies at this store know I am a sewer, refashionista, and blogger. They always want to know what my current project is. It makes it a fun environment to shop in. Anywho... they wrote down what I was looking for and are going to call if someone donates what I am looking for. Super Sweet right?
So there are my six basic tips to becoming a Thrifting diva. It is in all of us. I know it! I also wanted to include my basic closet staple list. I not only have a pantry staple list, but one for my closet too. Having these items in your closet will give you a well rounded wardrobe.
1 Pair of Black Heels
1 Pair of Fun Heels.
A fun color or pattern. For me it is my Snakeskin heels.
I snagged these at a thirft store for around $6.
1 Pair of Sandals in a Neutral.
Like these ones I found on Amazon.com
Basic Button Down Shirt
1 Pair of Tennis Shoes
I just got a pair similar to these Floral Sneakers
for $4. SCORE!
1 Pair of Workout sneakers
A Few Statement Necklaces and Earrings
A Fun Maxi Skirt
A Simple Pencil Skirt.
I have a tutorial here and here.
2 Pairs of Great Jeans
Make the most of all you got. I love to ask for clothing items, gift cards, etc for Christmas and Birthdays. It is a great way to grab some lovely items for my wardrobe. Be a smart shopper..... no matter what. Also don't turn down donations. Once people know you refashion, you will get donations. I swear. My mom is always donating sheets, bed skirts, clothes, etc to me. She just puts stuff in a trash bag and tells me to do what I wish. I love the challenge. She just recently gave me a bed skirt. Guess what I made with it? A ruffled skirt for myself. I plan to share the tutorial, once the weather gets cooler. It is a super fun ruffle pencil skirt for fall. Can't wait to see her face when I wear it. They get a kick out of seeing how I can work the fabric and make it into something fantastic.
I know we all have a refashion diva in all of us, just begging to get out. Let's all think outside the box and inspire one another. I hope now you feel better equipped with how to save, when it comes to clothing. You can still be fabulous, fashionable, and all on a budget. There's that B word again. You can do it lovelies! I know you can.
I love fashion and refashion blogs so much, I decided to add a linky page to Blissful and Domestic. If you have a blog and you post at least 2 fashion posts or 2 refashions a month, then link up. Grab a button and join the fun.
You can find the Refashion Blogger Page here.
I even created a new button for our Refashion Page!

Have a Fabulous Day Lovelies!


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