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But are these comics, even tho' they're photos and not drawn? Why, sure, they are. While it never caught in in America to the extent of Europe and Latin America, photo comics (fumetti) are a popular subsection of the graphic novel medium. Yes, long before the days when Greg Horn traced photos, you could get comics made up of photos, thus cutting out the middleman!
There were 12 Bantam Trek Fotonovels in all, designed and packaged by Mandala Productions, and pretty nice they are, too. (See the full list here.) It's my opinion that the Mandala Fotonovels were inspired by the success in the fan and cult market market of Richard Anobile's paperback reproductions of classic movie stills accompanied by dialogue for Laurel and Hardy, Marx Brothers, and other legendary movies like Casablanca. I had a bunch of those, and very nifty they were too in those days when you couldn't see Animal Crackers at all due to rights problems, but the Trek Fotonovels were the first books of this type I ever remember seeing in color. Little stuffed Spockboy that I am, I had 'em all, although some of them were "stripped copy returns" illegally sold in the bargain basement of Economy Books in downtown Syracuse, right alongside the coverless comics where I first snapped up a big stack o' no-cover Byrne and Claremont's X-Men that I still have. But I don't have almost all my Fotonovels: volume #1, "City on the Edge of Forever," is the only one still in my collection. They're definitely artifacts of a bygone age: the days before Betamax and VHS when your only chance to see a TV episode or movie was when it re-ran on television. In that grand era mass-market movie novelizations stalked the green plains like some giant stalking things, comic books adapted your favorite movie (frequently before the artist could even see the movie or even be allowed to use accurate character likenesses), and fans wrote into the Marvel Battlestar Galactica comic asking for more adaptations of classic stories like "Gun on Ice Planet Zero" and "The Magnificent Warriors." Alan Dean Foster was the god of this era, and he looked down from his typewriter on Mount Olympus and he saw that it was good for us and good for the publishing industry.
Nowadays, a Snakes on a Plane series or two aside, it's much more likely that movies will be made out of comics than the other way around, and it's the movies that often get accused of not following the source material closely, often bringing down the sales of the original graphic novel in the post-movie-crash. But the Fotonovels were about as accurate an adaptation you could get in those days: each one featured about 300 full color photos taken directly from episode stills, artfully arranged on the small page with typeset word balloons and captions for dialogue and exposition:
The dialogue is pretty much taken directly from the broadcast version, so it's pretty accurate to the needs of the most demanding fanboy, although there's the occasional clumsy thought balloon trying to reproduce on the printed page would be conveyed in the original episode with movement and mood music:
Sometimes the captions run on a bit too long with with their purple prose:
And you get to see the stone knives and bearskins-powered tricorder being politically incorrect:
But still, the wit and the charm of the original episode are well-preserved:
There's even the famous "bum gets phasered" sequence that later disappeared from syndicated versions of the TV show:
The colors are bright and the movement is sharply captured on the page during the action sequences. Hey, watch out there, Bonesdon't be so pushy!
And who could resist the charms of Fish-Face Shatner?:
Thankfully, Mandala Productions knows at least once when to shut up and let the photo tell the story:
As a bonusthe book throws in a brief interview with Harlan Ellison, who rushes off at the end of the talk because he's "writing the pilot for my own television series":
There's also a cast listingjust the thing for those of you who need to remember Leonard Nimoy played "Spock" or Hal Boylor was the very popular Star Trek fan-favorite character "Policeman":
And, for those of you who weren't Trek fans but got this book as a birthday present from your Aunt Maggie, a handy glossary that tells us that entries to the ships log "are made orally by the captain.":
Finally, don't miss the Star Trek Quiz! For real fun, why not get all your friends together and make a competition out of answering the questions? I bet twenty quatloos on the newcomer!
There were eleven other Star Trek Fotonovels, plus a couple differently-produced "Photostories" from Pocket Books that adapted the first two movies (taking the concept full circle, these were done by Richard Anobile, who did those Marx Brothers books). I had both of the Trek movie volumes, and was disappointed in the second, which was completely in black-and-white. By that time, you were just about able to rent or buy a pricey chunky videocassette of Shatner howling "KHAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!" for yourself, so Fotonovels were on their way out, but in their heyday all the cool kids had 'em, and you didn't have to be a Trek fan to enjoy 'em: there were Fotonovels for Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, but the genre wasn't limited only to science fiction: the Rocky movies, Hair, Heaven Can Wait, Saturday Night Fever, and (hey, I had this one!) the tearjerker blind ice-skater saga Ice Castles had a Fotonovel the whole family could enjoy, if they liked Lynn Holly Johnson. And who doesn't? Even Mom could get in on the picture-lookin' fun with the Fotonovel adaptation of John Jakes's The Bastard, thus allowing millions of kids the freedom to use the B-word around their parents! (Here's a fan site devoted to the other Fotonovels.) But by the early 1980s, the trend died out, and the novelty of carrying a movie or TV show in your pocket went the way of the Pet Rock and the Tuesday Night ABC powerhouse lineup.
But hey! The format isn't dead yet, because here's a recent Fotonovel featuring Charlie's Angelsthe Drew Barrymore/Cameron Diaz/Lucy Liu version, not the Farrah Fawcett-big hair seventies edition. Cross your fingers hard enough and you might see them come back someday in full force. (Don't hold your breath, though.) Still: Balls of Fury: The Fotonovel kinda has a ring to it, don't it? In the meantime, used editions of most of the Trek Fotonovels are readily available on Amazon and other online booksellers; click on the link to the right to buy a copy of "City on the Edge of Forever" and to search for the other episodes. Tell 'em crazy-ass DeForest Kelley sent ya!:


text: CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. --- After spotting host Southeast Missouri State a 28-0 halftime lead, the Tennessee State Tigers made a third-quarter run before the Indians sealed the Tigers' fate with three additional TD's for a 49-25 win. For TSU, it was again the case of seeing an opponent a big early lead. The Tigers pulled to within 28-18 with three TD's in the second half, but the streaking Indians used the big play to secure the win over the Tigers. TSU drops to 1-5 after its OVC opener. Southeast moves to 4-2 overall and 1-0 in OVC play. TSU got scoring runs of one and 18 yards from Charles Anthony while true freshman quarterback Dwayne Buchanan hooked up with Carlos Wright on an 82-yard scoring pass. The Tigers missed the first extra point and a try for two points failed on successive occasion, but the Tigers had cut the margin to 10 points near the four-minute mark of the third quarter. Southeast came back to score on a 20-yard pass from Tomco to Nesmith with seven seconds left in the third quarter. Tomco hooked up with Ponder again, this time from 15 yards out with 13:03 left in the fourth period. TSU's final score came on a 44-yard screen pass from Buchanan to Anthony. The scoring play made the tally 42-25 with 11:14 remaining. The final score of the game came on a 6-yard run by Ivan Brown with 7:29 remaining in the game. The Tigers, who had just 72 total yards in the first half, finished the game with 382 yards total offense. Buchanan finished the game completing 20-24-1 passes for 290 yards and the two TD's. Wright had 16 catches for 116 yards. Anthony, who has been slowed by an ankle sprain, came into the game in the second quarter and finished with 69 yards on 10 carries. The Tiger defense was led by senior linebacker Jermaine Beale, who had 15 total tackles. Cornerback Deon Giddens had 13 tackles and a fumble recovery. Southeast Missouri scored its first TD on special teams play. Chris Nesmith returned a Joey Hudak punt and returned the football 44 yards down the sideline for the TD. Derek Kutz's PAT made the score 7-0 at the 9:12 mark of the first period. Southeast drove 55 yards in 10 plays for the first score in the second quarter. Keiki Misipeka scored on a 1-yard run at the 10:47 mark. The Indians closed out the first half scoring with a pair of big plays within a span of two minutes. Southeast quarterback Jack Tomco had scoring passes of 39 yards to Tariq Simpson and 44 yards to Willie Ponder. The Tigers will look to regroup next week in their final non-conference game at Alabama A&M.

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Most of all, stress is harmful to your health. Therefore, stress management activities for adults play an important role in staying healthy. Also, a February 2017 survey of 1,029 respondents, 18 years and older, reported:
Especially relevant is that census data for 2018 reported that the United States has a population of 328,603,400. Furthermore, 2017 data for percentage by age, shows that approximately:
Consequently we can approximately conclude the following number of people who experience stress often or sometimes:
That's a total of nearly 167 million people experiencing stress either often or sometimes. Most of all, stress is harmful to your health. Therefore, stress management activities for adults is important to relieve stress.
Most noteworthy, a 2017 study from the American Psychological Association reported the following sources of stress.
Most of all, stress management activities for adults are ways to relieve their stress. Furthermore, a February 2017 survey reported that people used the activities, listed below, most often to relieve stress. Most noteworthy, an individual survey respondent may use one or more activities to relieve stress. As a result, the sum of the percentages exceeds 100%.
Most noteworthy, watching TV is one of the stress management activities for adults that makes people feel relaxed. Consequently, the brain releases endorphins that makes you feel good. Moreover, psychologists say that TV distracts us from our overworked minds and daily worries. Also, watching TV doesn't require skill or physical effort. And, no one is bothering you or asking you to do anything. Finally, you can get lost in a safe fictional narrative and forget about your own problems.
Most of all, listening to music is one of the stress management activities for adults that has a relaxing effect on our minds and bodies, especially the slow, quiet classical music. Furthermore, this type of music slows your heart rate, lowers blood pressure and decreases levels of stress hormones such as cortisol. And all of which reduces your stress.
Especially relevant, a study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, reported that a short nap reduces stress and bolsters the immune system. Also, one recent study found that taking a quick nap allows you to escape from daily stresses for a short time, rejuvenate and refresh yourself, then face the rest of the day with renewed vigor. Therefore, a short nap is one of the excellent stress management activities for adults.
Most noteworthy, mental health experts say cooking is also one of the stress management activities for adults that helps relieve depression, anxiety, and its manifestations such as eating disorders. Furthermore, studies show a link between a healthier diet and higher levels of the happiness hormone, serotonin. Also, cooking with certain herbs, spices, and aromatics has a beneficial effects on your mood.
Especially relevant, eating out with friends or family combines the benefits of eating as well as the company of friends and family on releasing stress. Therefore, eating out is one of the excellent stress management activities for adults to relieve stress.
Most of all, reading is one of the stress management activities for adults that distracts you from daily stressors. Also, reading relaxes your body by lowering your heart rate and easing muscle tension. Finally, a 2009 study at the University of Sussex reported reading reduces stress by up to 68%.
First of all, brisk walking is one of the stress management activities for adults that boosts endorphins to reduce stress hormones. Furthermore, walking with friends increases the stress-relieving benefits of also spending time with friends.
Most noteworthy, a study published in the Journal of Health Psychology reported that gardening resulted in decreases in cortisol. Consequently, gardening is also one of the excellent stress management activities for adults to relieve stress.
Especially relevant, exercise is one of the stress management activities for adults. Moreover, exercise decreases 'stress hormones' like cortisol, and increase endorphins, your body's 'feel-good' chemicals. And these 'feel-good' chemicals gives your mood a natural boost.
Moreover, if you experience stress in the office or at home, there may be easy options to reduce stress. Some of these options include using the sitting stepper, under desk pedals, foldable pedals, pedal exercisers for seniors, motorized pedal exercisers, or under desk elliptical trainers. So, if stress is a frequent occurrence, it might be a good investment to get one of these machines. Most of all they are easy to use even when you are working at a desk or a table or sitting on a couch at home.
Most of all, a study by Texas A&M International University reported that young adults who play violent video games handle stress better than non-playing adults. Furthermore, a 2014 study at University College in London surveyed 491 subjects and found a correlation between total hours spent playing games per week and recovery from work related stress that day. Accordingly, if you make a conscious choice to play video games after work, you will experience faster recovery from stress that you experienced and also handle that stress better the next day. Therefore, computer or video games are also excellent stress management activities for adults.
Hobbies such as knitting, needlepoint, sewing reduces stress. Moreover, being forced to sit down and concentrate on one thing, knitting forces you to slow down and breathe. Furthermore, according to research my Matthew Zawadzki, a health psychologist at the University of California, Merced, engaging in a mentally stimulating hobby reduces stress. Most of all hobbies that are relaxing and fun, are excellent stress management activities for adults.
Most of all, alcohol is a sedative and a depressant. And alcohol can reduce fears and take your mind off the stress, boost your mood and relax. However, if done in moderation, drinking a glass of wine or two is a good way to reduce stress. Consequently, in moderation, drinking wine or beer is one of the stress management activities for adults.
A small study in 2011 demonstrated that during stressful times, being around a best friends decreases levels of stress hormone cortisol. Furthermore, a study in Health Psychology showed that people need a good social support system at work. And those who don't are 2.5 times more likely to die over 20 years compared with people who do.
Most of all, shopping is one of the stress management activities for adults that is a great stress-buster for someone in stress. And, shopping increases positive affect to relieve stress. So, if you enjoy shopping then it is the best thing you can do for relieving stress.
A 2017 study was published in the journal Nutrients. Most noteworthy, participants, in the study, were able to fall asleep much more easily when drinking decaffeinated green tea. Also, they reported feeling much less stressed out over the course of the one week experiment. Moreover, a 2010 study at University College London, drinking black tea decreased people's stress over a six week period. Therefore, drinking tea is also one of the stress management activities for adults.
Soaking in dissolved Epsom salt can help with muscle soreness and stress, allowing for even greater relaxation. Therefore, a relaxing bath qualifies as one of the stress management activities for adults.
Personal indulgence is one of the stress management activities for adults that is a great stress reliever. Most of all, some of these indulgences include:
Most of all, Hatha yoga is one of the stress management activities for adults that helps reduce stress. And, the core components of hatha yoga are:


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It's funny I am just now experiencing this firsthand, but, tonight, I met my first parent that didn't believe what we were doing in our NGSS classrooms is better. I have talked to many other parents who are so impressed by the changes and wish they had these courses instead of their drill and kill style experiences. Yet, as always, the negative is what I bring home.
So, as I sit here wondering how I failed, if I am doing the right thing by changing so much, I am reminded about the reason I became a teacher. Our system is broken. The way it always has been is not working for many students. Good students, top scorers with great GPAs are arriving in college campuses around the country unprepared. Jobs in high need fields like high tech manufacturing are going unfilled. Students are being left out of science education because of their life experiences and circumstances. Bottom line – what we have been doing is not meeting the need of students or our country.
I do not believe, however, that I have arrived as an educator or I have it all figured out. But, I believe that I am part of a movement to make changes that improve science education for all students. I am making a difference for the students in my room today and making strides to better prepare students for the ever changing future. I believe in NGSS and I believe we can keep doing better for all students.


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Yes, there is still a war on despite March being the first month in 11 years that we had no fatalities in either Iraq or Afghanistan. And while we are drawing down our forces, some are still deploying over to that area of operation. Case in point, the BEST 13 team out of Springfield. See below:
A deployment ceremony is scheduled for 16 Soldiers who will deploy to Afghanistan as part of an embedded training team. The ceremony for the Bilateral Embedded Staff Team (BEST) A13 will beApril 5 at 9 a.m. at Camp Lincoln, 1301 N. MacArthur Blvd. in Springfield, Ill.
The BEST Soldiers have conducted more than 24 days of pre-mobilization training at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J. and will spend an additional 40 days training in Poland before deploying to Afghanistan. Following the training, the Soldiers will deploy to Afghanistan for a six-month mobilization. The unique mission allows Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers to train and deploy side-by-side with their Polish counterparts. The Soldiers are from various parts of Illinois and were selected for the mission based on their training and skills.
"Our 20-year partnership with Poland is the strongest National Guard State Partnership Program in the nation," said Brig. Gen. Daniel Krumrei of Springfield, Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard. "Illinois Soldiers and Airmen are instrumental in developing secure international relationships, while broadening their experiences and developing their military skills."


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How to Treat & Prevent Tension Headaches?
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The constant pursuit of 'more' in our life, having more things, doing more work and achieving more success has resulted in more diseases and health menaces as well. Tension headache is one such health hazard that we keep experiencing so often. The real problem is not having occasional headaches; but the way we treat them. Popping a Disprin or Aspirin or any painkiller whenever headaches strikes won't solve the problem; rather this is one habit that will make tension headaches recurring! That's why it is important to understand Tension Headaches with respect to Ayurveda and cure it from within.
Understanding Tension Headaches
Headaches are common, in fact very common with all of us. It is important to understand the difference between Migraine headache and Tension headache if you wish to cure this problem. Tension headaches happen due to stress, anxiety, lack of sleep or because of your recurring habit of worrying. Migraine headaches are however caused due to the problem of migraine and such headaches bring along nausea, stomach pain and sensitivity to smell, sound or even light. Whether it is students or adults or even children these days, they all complain of headaches.
Talking about Tension headaches, these headaches signify an imbalance in our body. The most common causes of these mind numbing waves of pain are stress and tension. These do not usually point to a serious illness but we see that even a mild headache is enough to disrupt your daily activities. And that's precisely the reason why you should consider meeting an Ayurvedic consultant for Ayurveda is the best approach to restore the balance within your body with a focus on a hale and hearty lifestyle.
So, what actually does happen in our body that causes headache?
Tension headache can also be defined as the tightening of muscles of your face and neck which is often characterized by a dull ache in your forehead or at the back of your head. It may also cause pain in your neck and shoulders which then may travel to your head.
Our skull bones and brain tissues lack pain sensitive nerve fibers but the muscles of our face, mouth, areas around the eyes, throat and neck, scalp and the network of blood vessels on the surface and base of our brain are very much sensitive to pain. The tips of these nerve fibers get highly stimulated by stress, muscle tension, and even lack of sleep if we are not careful. These stimulated nerve tips send signals and messages up our nerve fibers to the linked nerve cells in our Brain. Then the Brain locates the region of the stimulated nerve tip based on place from where these signals are being received and thus we feel the pain or ache pulsating through us in waves or constantly in many cases.
Tension headaches are very common and may be mild, chronic or severe depending on how much stress you take or for how long you have been under such stressful situations. Endorphins are our body's natural pain killers and we all depend on them for relieving us of any pain. Some theories suggest that people who have low endorphin levels may be prone to more episodes of severe tension headaches and other chronic pains as compared to people who have high endorphin levels in their body.
Some Common Triggers of Tension Headache
In simplest form, once again, it is how a person responds to a situation creates health problems. Tension headache, as the name suggests, is caused by our tendency to worry and take unnecessary tension of work or family or sometimes for nothing. A hurried and always worried attitude is so very common these days; so are these tension headaches. You can watch out your behaviour and look for these reasons whenever you feel a throbbing pain in your head which is nothing but a tension headache:-
- Anger
- Muscle tension
- Vigorous exercise
- Missed meals
- Sexual excitement
- Systemic or metabolic conditions
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Before, during, or after menstruation
- Hunger
- Medications
- Alcohol and caffeine withdrawal
- Not getting enough sleep
- Reading or working on a computer for long periods of time
- Doing repetitive work
How to prevent Tension Headaches with Ayurveda?
Prevention of tension headaches is something that everyone seeks and the only natural way to go about it is through yoga, meditation and adapting a healthy lifestyle. Avoid stress and everything that causes stress which is almost impossible to achieve in this time and age.
If you are suffering from chronic headache, you should consult an expert Ayurvedic practitioner who can help to uproot the problem from within through Ayurvedic medicines and Panchakarma treatments. Two most effective Panchakarma treatments for curing tension headache are:-
- Shirodhara – Under this treatment, warm oil is poured over the head. The treatment is meant to calm your mind and release toxins created by anxiety, tension, anger or sleeplessness.
- Nasyam – Another very effective Panchkarma treatment is a nasal administration whereby medicated oil is put in the nostrils and the patient is asked to do breathing for a while. Nasyam helps the nervous system to relax and is used extensively to treat headaches of all types.
Ayurveda also brings a few remedies that will relieve you of your tension headaches once and for all through some home remedies like:-
- Take a few drops of peppermint oil and massage it gently on your temples.
- Same can be done with eucalyptus oil and you can find relief from tension headaches.
- Warmed sesame oil can also be used to massage the scalp as it quickly relieves tension headaches and even induces sleep.
- Again, if you practice regular exercise and yoga along with meditation, it will reduce stress levels and keep tension headaches at bay.
- If you are a Vata type, use hot water bags on aching parts or go for a warm soak or a hot shower.
- If you are a Pitta type, use a cold compress or ice packs on your aching parts instead.
- Make a fine powder out of some cinnamon sticks and add some water to make a paste. Apply it on the forehead and temples and rest for about 30 minutes. Wash it off with lukewarm water and you will feel much better.
- Mix ginger juice and lemon juice (equal parts) and drink up. Consuming this once or twice a day will provide quick relief.
Stress is going to be there no matter what. It has become a part of us. But you can still live a longer and healthier life by averting all the negativity and illnesses that it brings. And how can you accomplish that? The answer is simple – By making Ayurveda your friend!
However, you must ensure changing your lifestyle and learning to let go the worrying habit if such headaches are troubling you more than twice a week! If you wish to take expert help in curing your tension headaches, you can visit Chandigarh Ayurved and Panchakarma Centre which is North India's leading Ayurvedic destination and take consultation from award-winning Vaidya.
Vaidya Jagjit Singh is a 3rd generation Ayurved physician from his family and is the remarkable person responsible for setting up of the Chandigarh Ayurved and Panchkarma Centre in sector 32 and 22, Chandigarh and Zirakpur and he is also the first founder member of Guru Ravidas Ayurved University. He has done his B.A.M.S. from Shri Dhanwantri Ayurvedic College, Chandigarh. He is an admirable ayurvedic physician with specialization in Chronic ailments.


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Getting Housing NSW to do repairs is hugely frustrating for many public housing tenants and their advocates.
So will this new initiative of Housing NSW improve things? It's eRepair, an online service where you can do your duty as a tenant (per s 51(2)(b) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2010) and inform Housing NSW of the need to repair damage and defects at your premises.
Well, maybe not. Your correspondent has just had a quick go, and of two pretty randomly formulated repair requests, twice wound up in a dead-end.
For example, clicking 'Doors'>'Internal doors'>'Other internal doors, for example, a bedroom'>'Door is difficult to open or close' ended with this:
My first impulse was to go back and see where I went 'wrong' – a bit like in the old 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books of your correspondent's childhood. (Maybe if I fudged things a bit and said the problem was with a bathroom door I would have gotten a different result, and when the tradie turns up I could just point him to the real problem.)
That was the first impulse; after that I just gave up on the whole frustrating adventure.
If you're a public housing tenant with a repair problem, by all means give the eRepair thing a go, but if it does not work for you, do as any tenant can do: apply to the Tribunal for an order that Housing NSW do the repair.
Whatever Housing NSW's 'program of works', you've got a contract that says they'll repair defects as necessary. Hold them to it.
Your local Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service would be
interested to hear from you about any problems to do with repairs, too.
Monday, July 16, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the release of three Americans from North Korea (all times local):
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Three Americans who had been detained by North Korea are on their way back to the United States.
Their release was only sealed about an hour before the top U.S. diplomat left Pyongyang.
The three men — Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim — walked on their own from a van and onto the plane of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the end of his daylong visit to North Korea.
After meeting leader Kim Jong Un, Pompeo had given a fingers-crossed sign when asked if there was good news. A North Korean emissary came to the hotel shortly after to say the detainees were being freed.
The three men finally left custody at 7:45 p.m. local time, and by 8:42 p.m. they were flying home.
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CHARO-SBA Women's Business Center Fashions Success Plan To Assist Women Owned Public Relations Firm
There is a growing need for technical assistance to accommodate the dramatically increasing formation of business enterprises in the greater Los Angeles area. In its last fiscal year, the Los Angeles District Office (LADO) of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) financed 4,600 small businesses in the amount of $1billion. To support a capital access program of this magnitude LADO is proud to rely on a varied network of technical assistance providers, who often shepherd the individual entrepreneur through myriad obstacles related to all loan processes. Los Angeles SBA District Director, Alberto G. Alvarado confirmed the value of the Agency's resource partners saying, "Without SCORE, the SBDCs, Women's Business Center, and our many other important resource partners, we could not possibly serve the number of small businesses that we reach out to on an annual basis. These entities are the technical assistance work horses, through whose collaboration the SBA's mission goals are met".
SCORE stands for the Service Corp of Retired Executives. Its members, retired executives who have had illustrious careers with leading business organizations, volunteer their time pro bono to assist aspiring entrepreneurs and start-up business owners. Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) offer consulting, technical assistance and business training, on a gratis basis to the SBA's constituent clientele. Both entities are funded through the SBA.
The Los Angeles District recently added a third jewel to its technical assistance crown. To specifically aid in the SBA's initiative to foster the growth of woman owned business in the Southland, the Agency recently funded the CHARO-SBA Women's Center. To understand how a business can benefit from an association with this new organization, witness the case of Fem Public Relations (Fem PR), a PR firm with a particular focus on the fashion industry.
Fem PR was established by Melinda Smith and Sharon Helfand to address the promotional needs of promising apparel, cosmetics, accessory, and footwear lines. The Toluca Lake based firm offers a full range of fashion oriented public relations services. If an up and coming cosmetic s business is in need of a press kit, or would like a special event planned to celebrate a new fragrance launch, then a visit with Smith and Helfand is in order. Fem PR is also expert at image consulting, as well as wardrobe and editorial placements.
In need of working capital, Fem PR initially contacted the SBA. The firm was triaged and immediately referred to the CHARO-SBA Women's Center for evaluation and assistance. Marlyn Garcia, the LOS ANGELES PRESS OFFICE center's business development officer (BDO), provided Melinda Smith and Sharon Helfand with a loan assessment and a detailed business evaluation. Ms. Garcia impressed upon the women entrepreneurs the importance of having a viable business plan that is founded upon realistic business assumptions as a major component of the loan package. She also counseled them on the firm's revenues and costs and instructed the business owners on cash flow and debt service.
Through the CHARO-SBA WBC's instruction and guidance, Fem PR successfully completed its business plan and became loan ready. Having completed this phase of the process, the company was prepared for capital access. They were helped with the loan paperwork which the WBC then processed for an SBA Express Loan.
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James GP Dehlsen, Clipper's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are pleased to be moving forward with this milestone development which will provide clean, renewable, and home grown power for approximately 1.5 million average American homes and offset nearly 24 billion pounds of carbon dioxide that would have otherwise been released into our atmosphere if produced by traditional means [according to the national energy mix]."
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01 April 2015
Gran Loses Leg after Being Injected with Disinfectant
A grandmother was the victim of a severe case of clinical negligence when her leg was injected with disinfectant, resulting in amputation.
During a routine operation, Gina, a 67 year-old grandmother screamed in agony, confusing surgeons until her skin developed white blotches. An investigation revealed that a catheter wire was accidentally knocked on the floor, leading to a mix-up of solutions and her leg was injected with disinfectant.
The victim described the trauma of waking to find that due to clinical negligence during surgery, her leg had to be amputated by commenting, "I woke up and I went, 'What's wrong here?' I tried to sit up and I couldn't. Then it hit me I'd lost my leg. I had to come to terms with it. Everything was a challenge."
Such a case is traumatic enough without the considerable stress and detrimental effect on a victim's mental wellbeing, as well as those close to them. Gina's near-death experience has led to an increase in training with the NHS staff learning from the incident and taking extra care to ensure that incidents like this are not repeated.
Slater and Gordon Clinical Negligence Lawyer Stephen Jones commented, "I am pleased that specific NHS training has been put in place highlighting this case to ensure that lessons are learnt from this terrible incident. The absolute priority must be to ensure that incidents like this never happen again."
Stephen Jones is a Senior Clinical Negligence Lawyer in the Manchester offices of Slater and Gordon Lawyers UK.
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Amber Portwood is reportedly involved in an ongoing custody battle with her ex-fiance, Gary Shirley, over their 6-year-old daughter, Leah. Ahead of the Teen Mom OG star's 2011-2012 stint in prison, Portwood signed over rights to Shirley, but now that she's been out for three years, and sober for the entirety, she's hoping to resume her role as a full-time mom. Unfortunately, Shirley isn't on board, and according to a new sneak peek, he's been manipulating Leah.
"When I had her and I brought her to my grandmother's, Leah said to me, 'Daddy told me if I keep saying I want to live with you they are going to take me away from daddy,'" Amber Portwood is seen telling her producer Kiki during a sneak peek at the January 11 episode of Teen Mom OG, shared by OK! Magazine.
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"[Leah] kept saying she wanted to live here. She kept saying that," Amber Portwood recalled. "So, he probably is getting threatened by that, which, the court is not going to ask a 6-year-old who she wants to live with. For him to even say that to her is f—ing with her head."
According to Amber Portwood, Shirley's refusal to see the change within her is their main problem. For years, while filming early seasons of Teen Mom, Amber Portwood and Shirley were seen at odds, constantly fighting, and getting violent during at least one instance. However, as fans now know, it was Amber Portwood's drug use which led to the majority of her bad behavior. Then, after filming concluded on Teen Mom Season 4, Amber Portwood's drug addiction led to a five year prison term, which she opted to serve in lieu of a drug program.
While Amber Portwood agreed to serve time, her sentence came to an end just 15 months later, and upon her release, she showcased her new self. Sadly, Shirley has still not recognized the clear changes in his ex-fiancee's life.
"All he wants to do is talk about our past and how I was," Amber Portwood explained. "I've been out for three years and I'm sober. Everybody else in my life, and also the people that watch the show and have seen me that way have excepted me now, and everybody sees me as this different person [and] that's I've changed, but the only person who really can't see it is Gary."
Despite the bad blood between Amber Portwood and Shirley, things between her and her new fiancé, Matthew Baier, appear to be going well. After becoming engaged during filming on the previous season of Teen Mom OG, the couple began filming the new season, and while a wedding date has not yet been set, fans could eventually see the nuptials air on the show.
In other Amber Portwood news, OK! Magazine recently speculated about the reality star's possible cosmetic surgeries or use of fillers. After Amber Portwood shared a few new selfies on Twitter, the magazine claimed her new look may not be natural. However, while it may look as if Amber Portwood has followed in the footsteps of Jenelle Evans and Farrah Abraham, she told fans on social media her photos had been edited prior to posting. Either way, Amber Portwood is remarkably wrinkle-free.
Amber Portwood Debuts Plump Lips And Wrinkle-Free Face — Did The #TeenMomOG Star Receive Plastic Surgery? https://t.co/EVSNPGtrQ9
— OK! Magazine USA (@OKMagazine) January 11, 2016
For more of Amber Portwood and her co-stars, including Catelynn Lowell, Maci Bookout and Farrah Abraham, tune into Teen Mom OG, airing tonight and every Monday night at 10 p.m. on MTV.
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At this point in this long and ugly campaign, what else can be said? If you watched that debate last night (not to mention the circus leading up to it) and believe Donald Trump is qualified in any way to be president of the United States, then, like Trump, there is something wrong with you that a stadium full of psychiatrists, or a coliseum full of priests, can't fix. The man is a creep. A lie-stained lunatic. A dangerous authoritarian who would, as he openly stated last night, use his presidential power to jail his political enemies—and only Allah knows what else he would do.
Since there is almost nothing else left to say about Trump's lack of character and his lack of class and his lack of competence, I do want to say something about his running mate, the Jesus-loving, God-fearing, family values-honoring, Mike Pence. This morning I heard Mr. Pence say, as he does all the time, that being Trump's running mate is "the greatest honor of my life" and that he is proudly standing "shoulder to shoulder" with Trump, with the same Trump who, behind closed doors, admitted that sexually assaulting women—with impunity—is one of the benefits of being a "star." And just why did Pence say he still wants to shoulder-kiss a man who believes fame entitles him to freely fondle the genitals of, say, Mike Pence's daughters? Because, as the born-again VP candidate told CNN's Alisyn Camerota, Trump "said last night very clearly that that was talk, not actions. And I believe him."
Let's think about that for a minute. Pence said that he believes Trump when Trump finally denied—after trying to dodge the question from Anderson Cooper three times last night—he has kissed and fondled women without their permission. Let it sink in just how that must sound to children around the country. A presidential candidate actually has to tell us that when he bragged about being a sexual predator, he was essentially just having a good time with the boys on the bus and he didn't really mean it. And his running mate actually has to tell us that it is okay with him that Trump lied about being a sexual predator because he was merely talking about being a sexual predator and not acting on the talk. It really is breathtaking.
Here's an excerpt from Trump's infamous bus conversation:
TRUMP: I've gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.
BILLY BUSH: Whatever you want.
TRUMP: Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything.
Trump, according to Pence, was simply kiddin' around when he said he was "automatically" prone to "just start kissing" women he found "beautiful." That was "talk, not actions" said Pence. But what kind of man would pretend, while working on a TV show that highlights beautiful women, that he cannot control himself around them? What kind of man would lie to others about his inability to prevent himself from sexually assaulting women? Is that the kind of man that a born-again Pence wants to stand shoulder to shoulder with? Would he want his two daughters, or his wife, to stand shoulder to shoulder with Trump? Or does Pence believe that the women in his life are not attractive enough to trigger an "automatic" response from the Orange Groper?
We all have asked, when trying to comprehend Trump, what kind of a creep is this? But now, as we try to understand how Pence—who claims the moral high ground with every Christian breath—can proudly embrace Trump, it is time to ask, what kind of creep is Mike Pence?


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Hazan Success: defends opposition to registration of Granny Flats Australia trade marksDavley Building Pty Ltd v Granny Flats Australia Pty Ltd [2016] ATMO 92 (27 October 2016) Re: Oppositions by Davley Building Pty Ltd to registration of trade mark application nos. 1551414 (37) and 1551417 (42) - GRANNY FLATS AUSTRALIA and Device - in the name of Granny Flats Australia Pty Ltd. DECISION: In favour of the Applicant Granny Glats Australia Pty Ltd, represented by Peter Whitehead of Hazan Hollander Lawyers: Opposition to registrations under section 52 of the Trade Marks Act 1995 – sections 58, 60 and 42(b) considered – no grounds established – Trade Marks to proceed to registration. BACKGROUND
- This matter concerns oppositions under the Trade Marks Act 1995 ('the Act') to the registration of the following trade marks ('the Trade Marks') filed in the name of Granny Flats Australia Pty Ltd ('the Applicant'):
- The Trade Marks were examined as required under section 31 of the Act and advertised as accepted for possible registration in the Australian Official Journal of Trade Marks on 1 August 2013. A Notice of Intention to Oppose followed by a Statement of Grounds and Particulars ('the SGP') was filed by Davley Building Pty Ltd trading as GrannyFlatsWA.com ('the Opponent').
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Reclaiming the word 'creatrix' (the feminine of the 'creator'), to purify it from its prevalent culturally conditioned associations with a woman's reproductive capacities and open the word also to its other possible meanings as 1. a female founder, authoress, creatrix 2. a female who brings forth, produces
Tereza's statement: "Sharing wisdom and creativity with others turns me on intelectually as well as in my body and soul. I create workshops/labs in which we can learn together. Beyond my love for language and poetry, I enjoy immensely the wisdom and knowledge outside of words, written between the lines and reflected in images, abstracted forms and the pulse of our heart and flesh, our rivers, eruptions, shortcomings, beauty, swimming in the gutters of urban canalisations, our earthquakes, immigrant cells and the life-giving shine and rain. Between discourses and lived experiences and the sensoric – therefrom I abstract my choreographies. I am curious about histories of bodies and a psyche, touching the toughened parts, softening, remembering the forgotten, creating new micro-worlds and leaving the obsolete.
'Creation comes out of vulnerability, doesn't it? Some kind of attunement to something that isn't you. Susceptibility.' Timothy Morton
I research experimental anatomies and cartographies. These maps I believe help us to decolonialize the notion of space, physical and political borders and to trespass the anatomical knowledge defined often in a binary of a 'normalcy' and 'pathologies'. The ever-changing maps empower and bring us to a notion of a fluidity, a need of a respect and honouring a capacity to listen into things deeply.
I work with an array of interests, knowledge, tools and research topics. I like to join them in novel combinations and conceptual synapses. Among my formative work so far belongs dance and movement research (contemporary dance – La Veronal, Jeremy Wade, Keith Henessy, Dickson Mbi;… butoh, CI, aerial hoop dance, flexibility training etc.), the connection to the sensate and the erotic, poetry, illustration, academic and embodied research of trance and possession states, ritual, performance, masquerades, carnival and other liminal spaces and arts in a social context.
I have been working with artists with diverse embodiment and non-neuronormative behaviour and worked as a physiotherapist for people with physical impairments. I inquire into different strands of magic, notion of the extra-sensory inception, birth, death and grieving research, biology, environmental studies, European herbal remedies, energy work and bodywork, witchcraft and its diverse contextualisation across time and different cultural/social groups. Another of my past experiences is providing peer counselling in a multi-national, -faith and -cultural environment, bridging people, their souls' callings and a community. A permission to reflect back or engage with another's process is a gift I humbly accept and cherish when viable. And fight for to be seen through.
By creating parties and playful yet seductively physical, cabaret pieces and performance with a subtle overreach into creative activism, I try to highlight themes and issues that are personal to me, yet capable to enlighten more collective dynamics or patterns. I believe in a power of communing in joy, openness and involvment as well as in healing properties of the art of 'making visible'.
I enjoy also words that might be less hyped such as solidarity, accountability, groundedness and responsibility. -In a changing sequence with a riot, ecstasy, the carnivalesque (and criticality).
I delight in searching for the 'kernel of joy'* through art, poetry, breath, dance, for the erotic in its broadest sense, the creative life force, the life and its cycles na endings, which is an antithesis to the plasticized packaged sensations, freeing the word 'erotic' from a solely sexualized, anthropocentric and social context, where this misunderstanding capitalizes on serving us an idea of a disconnectedness from this source and incompleteness. I try to inquire into a possibility to reclaim it for our wellbeing instead of a status and image, attempt to learn, build and share ideas for our human wholeness while recognizing our individual longings and humbling interdependency and honouring the more personal choices and the variety in which we can conduct relationship to the world and one another. This is the art of living we all are exposed to and compelled to learn and that often fuels me into more learning and creation."
*Audre Lorde, 'The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power'


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Fast Food Gets Serious
17 Oct 2013|Cultural Insight Team
Chipotle's animated Scarecrow campaign has created quite the media buzz. The campaign engages consumers in a critical dialogue about the problems created by factory farming. We watch the film's lead, an animated scarecrow, leaving his day job at a mass food factory where conditions are poor, food is processed, and flavours dull, to cook a delicious meal at home from his colourful, abundant vegetable patch in order to entice city dwellers away from their processed food. The message: Chipotle favours small scale food production, and so should you.
This video has been praised for its innovative marketing through its clear anti factory farming message. But critics have questioned the transparency of Chipotle's campaign, since it attacks big corporations mass producing food, while still belonging to this group – a hypocrisy that may well hinder the brand's message more than aid it. Amongst the cynics is website Funny or Die, which has made a parody video implying that that Chipotle is manipulating consumers –as a mass corporation serving fast food which is the antithesis of the overt ethical message in the original version.
Aside from the controversy it's created, the campaign is interesting in its clear change in tone, coming across notably more melancholy than Chipotle's last video.
It makes us wonder if there is a greater shift in culture towards guilt as a driver for changing consumer habits?
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News release
Inadequate train handling and employee fatigue led to 2016 Alyth Yard derailment in Calgary, Alberta
Calgary, Alberta, 31 May 2017 – Citing a combination of inadequate train handling and employee fatigue as contributing factors, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) today released its investigation report (R16C0012) into the 2016 Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) derailment in Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta.
The accident occurred on 18 February 2016 in the early morning, when a CP freight train was performing a switching operation in Alyth Yard. While moving at approximately 2.5 mph over a short distance within the yard, a power increase in excess of the maximum throttle position for the area was applied. The investigation determined that excessive pulling force produced by the locomotives over-stretched the train as it was travelling through a curve. With the train brakes at the rear of the train not yet fully released, 13 cars derailed when several wheels came off the rail after climbing the inside rail. There were no injuries and no dangerous goods were released.
Specific train handling requirements relating to the maximum locomotive throttle for the occurrence location were not followed. In this occurrence, there was no requirement for the operating crew to review the relevant train handling material prior to initiating a train movement. Furthermore, there was nothing in the operating environment to remind the crew that there was a change in operating requirements at that location.
The investigation also raised fatigue management as a contributing factor, as a crew member was likely fatigued after having had poor quality sleep in the two weeks prior and having been awake for 23 hours at the time of the occurrence.
Fatigue management is a shared responsibility. Employees have a responsibility to make every effort to report to work well rested while the company has a responsibility to provide a system that allows them to do so, including procedures to remove themselves from eligibility for duty without fear of discipline. Fatigue management systems for train crews are a Watchlist 2016 issue. As this occurrence demonstrates, fatigue continues to pose a risk to the safe operation of trains, particularly freight trains, which move 70% of the country's surface goods. The initiatives taken to date have been inadequate to fully address the issue. Fatigue management systems for train crews will remain on the TSB Watchlist until Transport Canada completes its review of railway fatigue management systems; and TC and the railways implement further actions to effectively mitigate the risk of fatigue for operating crew members on freight trains.
See the investigation page for more information.
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Perhaps one of the most significant advances in health care is not a new vaccine for a disease or even a new way to set broken bones, it is the advent of technology.
While technology has always been part of health care with the invention of the X-ray in the early part of the 20th century, it is only in the last 10 years that technology has become as critical to health care as the people who practice medicine. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), sophisticated monitoring devices and computers are examples of how technology and medicine work together for the benefit of the patient.
At William Osler Health Centre, technology has played a pivotal role enabling three separate and diverse entities to become one using state-of-the-art technology. Today each campus is linked through one converged Information Communication Technology (ICT) platform and most doctors are now linked to the Osler network so that they can obtain information on their patients quickly from their offices or homes without having to visit the hospital or wait for the post to come.
So what's next?William Osler Health Centre is moving towards a more sophisticated ICT environment with technology advances in medicine and the adoption of an overall e-Health strategy.
"The vision for e-Health at William Osler Health Centre is a "virtual health centre" with service delivery and information connections to consumers and providers across the entire health spectrum, both internally and externally, extending within the region, as well as throughout the province and the global arena," explains Judy Middleton, Director of Information Systems and Telecommunications. "This vision is achieved using Internet technologies to deliver health services."
A major component of the overall e-Health strategy at William Osler Health Centre is the creation of a corporate Intranet, a web based internal information system, accessed by physicians and staff, and volunteers.
As a prelude to launching an Intranet platform at WOHC, the hospital is in the process of replacing all network or "dumb" terminals and antiquated personal computer (PC) devices with either new PCs or refurbished PCs within an 18-24 month period so that every department will have a PC in order to access the web-based Intranet.
"This has been a tremendous undertaking when you consider that we have to replace over 350 old PCs and dumb terminals within a very short time-frame," says Middleton. The future will depend heavily on web-based technology so the investment of time and resources in preparation for this is definitely worth it."
The e-Health vision at William Osler Health Centre is that it will be enabled by technology to become a virtual hospital providing access, collaboration and services to stakeholders across all of the internal and external communities it serves and in which it plays a part.
So why a virtual hospital? "The consumer, empowered by technology, is truly at the centre of the health system of the future," explains Vicki Truman, Vice-president Finance and Corporate Services.
"Immediate access to health information has increased the awareness that people can influence their own health and challenge authority. A new convenient, hassle-free e-Health service model with choice and shared responsibility will be demanded. This change will put increased pressure on the Health Centre to adapt."
Adds Middleton, "Web technology offers the advantages of providing a universal software client (the web browser) and a ready-made network platform, and has the potential to be the technology integrator for all our future initiatives."
The architecture required to achieve this vision consists of five value components:
- Care (Enabling the Electronic Health Record, remote diagnostics, monitoring and treatment, on-line referrals, tele-health.)
- Connectivity (Linking physician offices, consumers, community agencies, hospital partners, suppliers, knowledge bases, and research institutes.)
- Commerce (Enabling B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) transactions, interaction and information. Providing e-market capabilities.
- Content (Facilitating knowledge management with electronic learning capabilities and access to information and research. Enhancing disease management and decision support. Links all health information.)
- Computer Application (Common user access to all systems and applications (web browser). Facilitates linking multimedia information, and the use of wireless, mobile, point-of-care devices.
Plans are well underway for e-Health at William Osler Health Centre with an eye to having systems in place in time for the opening of the new William Osler Health Centre hospital in 2005.
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The long awaited television adaptation of "Outlander," from a series of books about a British Army nurse circa post World War II who travels back in time to 18th Century Scotland, premiered on the Starz Network Saturday night. It features equal parts romance, fantasy, and enough mayhem to fill an episode of "Game of Thrones." The television series is the brainchild of Ron Moore, who previously scored with TV viewers with a dark version of "Battlestar Galactica" on the SyFY Channel.
Roughly half of the pilot is set up, starting with Claire, played by Caitriona Balf, and Frank, played by Tobias Menzies, headed for Scotland in the autumn after World War Two to try to reconnect after being separated by the war. She had been a combat nurse and he an intelligence operative in the effort to put Hitler's Germany in the grave. Now they have a quiet life ahead of them, something he looks forward to as an Oxford Don and she as an academic wife.
The problem is that Claire has lived a life of adventure, before the war being raised by her archeologist uncle at digs around the world, during the war saving lives in combat zones. One gets the impression that she is not exactly looking forward to the quiet life. Fortunately, if not for her then for the TV viewer, she is in for considerable amount of excitement.
The pilot episode goes into high gear once she slips back into time to 1740s Scotland. In the space of a short time she is very nearly raped by a captain of dragoons, an ancestor of her husband, is saved/abducted by a hairy, burly, and smelly highlander, and manages to use her 20th Century nursing skills to set the arm and then later deal with a bullet wound on Jamie, played by Sam Heughan. There will be much more of him and Claire anon.
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Brazilia [Brazil], Jan 19 (ANI): Brazilian soccer legend Pele has been admitted to hospital after collapsing due to exhaustion.
"In the early hours of Thursday morning, Pele collapsed and was taken to hospital in Brazil where he has undergone a series of tests which appear to point to severe exhaustion. He remains on fluids while doctors monitor his recovery," the Football Writers Association (FWA) confirmed in an official statement on Friday.
The association further notified that there is no suggestion of anything more serious than exhaustion.
Pele, 77, is the most successful league goal-scorer in the world, scoring 1281 goals in 1363 games, which included unofficial friendlies and tour games during his 21-year-long career.
Widely regarded as the greatest football player of all time, he was part of three winning FIFA World Cups teams: 1958, 1962 and 1970.
He is the only player to achieve this feat.(ANI)


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Posted by Steve on Fri 20 May 2005 at 07:26
If you don't wish to be suprised when you suddenly run out of disk space on your system(s) it's a good idea to regularly monitor how much free space you have, and which directories and files are taking up the most space.
The basic way to check on your current disk space is via the df command, where df stands for "disk free".
There are several ways you can have the output displayed, from the default:
skx@mystery:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 256445 125412 117351 52% / tmpfs 242112 4 242108 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda9 30526204 19487308 9488216 68% /home /dev/hda8 366015 8326 338161 3% /tmp /dev/hda5 4806048 990076 3571836 22% /usr /dev/hda6 2883672 610948 2126240 23% /var
To make this more readable you can add the '-h', or "--human-readable" option:
skx@mystery:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 251M 123M 115M 52% / tmpfs 237M 4.0K 237M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hda9 30G 19G 9.1G 68% /home /dev/hda8 358M 8.2M 331M 3% /tmp /dev/hda5 4.6G 967M 3.5G 22% /usr /dev/hda6 2.8G 597M 2.1G 23% /var
Both of these commands will list the same information for each mounted partition, or device.
An alternative to the standard df command is the di package. Once it's installed (via apt-get install di) you can invoke it without any arguments to see a basic overview:
root@sun:~# di Filesystem Mount Megs Used Avail %used fs Type /dev/sda1 / 8450.3 1381.8 6639.3 21% ext3 tmpfs /dev/shm 250.8 0.0 250.8 0% tmpfs /dev/sdb7 /home 34181.3 14406.5 18038.5 47% ext3
di is very customizable. For example you can make the display use Gb instead of Mb for its output:
root@sun:~# di -g Filesystem Mount Gigs Used Avail %used fs Type /dev/sda1 / 8.3 1.3 6.5 21% ext3 tmpfs /dev/shm 0.2 0.0 0.2 0% tmpfs /dev/sdb7 /home 33.4 14.1 17.6 47% ext3
You can also specify which columns should be specified (such as "-A" to show all available columns) with the use of a format string.
A format string basically specifies which fields you wish to see, with codes replaced by the output. To specify the format string you use "-f", then the list of columns you wish to include from the list of available ones.
The formats are described in the man page which you can read by running "man di" but as a quick example you can see the mounted filesystems and the percentage used with the following command:
root@sun:~# di -f m2 Mount %used / 17% /dev/shm 0% /home 44%
Once you've discovered how much space you have available the next most common thing you'll wish to do is see how much space a given directory or file is using.
The du, (or "disk usage"), command will show you how much space a file or directory is occupying:
root@sun:~# du --human-readable 12K ./.gnupg 4.0K ./tmp 4.0K ./public_html 8.0K ./.ssh 4.0K ./bin 32K ./.irssi 100K .
As you can see the "--human-readable", or '-h' flag works here as it did for the "df" command.
To find the biggest files or directories beneath the current one you can use the following command to produce a sorted list:
skx@mystery:~/Programs$ du -ah | sort -rn 940K ./buildd 936K ./buildd/wanna-build 900K ./GNUMP3d/old/website/screenshots 896K ./GNUMP3d/Webpages/gnump3d/screenshots 896K ./GNUMP3d/old/software/gnump3d/screenshots 824K ./GNUMP3d/Program/gnump3d/gnump3d-2.9.4.zip 820K ./Shellcode-Exploitation-Book 816K ./Shellcode-Exploitation-Book/Source_Files 780K ./HTMLPP/htmlpp-4.2a 704K ./altermime-0.3.4 .... ... .... ... etc
Add "| head" to only show the top few lines :
skx@mystery:~$ du -ah | sort -rn | head
The total size of directory can be found by using the either the '-s' or "--summarize" opton:
skx@mystery:~$ du --summarize --human-readable 4.8G .
Or for file or directory in the current one:
skx@mystery:~$ du --summarize --human-readable * 13M Archive 104K bin 667M debian 1.2M debian-administration 1.5G Images 470M Mail 55M Programs 69M public_html 1.2M ROMS 18M sarge 7.1M Text 252M tmp 381M Videos 301M Web
Thankfully you don't need to type out most of the options to df or du as bash's tab completion will fill them out for you easily.
If you install the logwatch package you'll receive a daily email of all the "interesting" messages from your system - as well as a summery of your available disk space. This can be useful if you have a lot of machines and don't wish to be suprised in the event of a full disk
There are also a large number of scripts available online which will send you an email when a partition is reaching a state of fullness - which you can schedule to run regularly via cron if you wish.
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I use munin myself. I just wish the bloody thing wasn't in perl. Otherwise it's nice.
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alias dum='du --max-depth=1' alias duh='du -h --max-depth=1'dum signifies max-depth and duh signifies human-readable. "--max-depth=1" makes sure you get the disk usage for the complete directory and not for every individual ((sub)sub)subdirectory. Most of the time that is the info I want.
maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/web$ duh 93K ./links 24K ./images 15M ./preken 1,1M ./studie 232K ./weblog 16M .The human readable part does not work so well when sorting:
maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/web$ duh | sort -rg 232K ./weblog 93K ./links 24K ./images 16M . 15M ./preken 1,1M ./studieThis sorts by numerical value, but the difference between a number with M or K at the end goes beyond sort. [BTW, I don't see any difference between 'sort -n' and 'sort -g'.] That's where the 'dum' alias comes in handy:
maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/web$ dum | sort -rg 16058 . 14593 ./preken 1081 ./studie 232 ./weblog 93 ./links 24 ./images
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It's available as a .deb (mon), but you'll be better off getting a newer version. The mailing list is active, but not high volume, and the primary developers are active participants in it.
nagios is great if you have to impress non-technical types, but mon is great because it stays out of the way until you want to deal with it.
mon is cool.
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