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Anyone given this stuff a go? I definitely buy into the merits of hemp as a medicine,par excellence,but I suspect without a reasonable amount of THC, (the element that gets you 'high') the project is futile and just another surrepticious manoeuvre by big pharma to infiltrate the market and then control it, ultimately.I read recently that the arch-satanic Monsanto/Bayer corporation are tinkering with the very genetic structures of hemp,ostensibly for profits,but considering they have thousands of pending law-suits in the pipeline,mainly for the effects of their seriously dodgy, Glysophate ' Roundup'-garden and crop chemical- spray,i suspect they have literally,limitless resources,ie,they're very much operating 'for the man'
Suffering as i do with spinal disc issues,and not being able to tolerate the heavy meds iv'e been given,Pregabalin etc,not to mention the abscence of sick pay,i plough on and in many ways the work is therapeutic,after a typical shift,if i'm undisturbed,i kip well enough,but come the weekend,the piper must be paid so said kip is often harder to achieve i find.
I did try some 'purple'' cbd from a website once,can't say I felt much improvement tbh,but my hunch is, given the exhorbitant prices they're currently asking with,this burgeoning trend for cbd-oil, it seems the usual suspects (Bayer/Monsanto,Rockefeller foundation) are brazenly,trying the old monopolising trick of buying up ethical,organic companies(,i believe Nestle recently bought out a long established vitamin producer last month to the fury of it's loyal customer-base), then,bang-on-queue,hiking the prices and diluting the ingredients (costs you understand) The same deal occurred when Holland&Barrett were taken over by The Carlyle- Group,(fine family firm with interests in the arms-trade,John Major and G Bush snr..rih were two of its political whores) The prices went north and ingredient quotas....distinctly south.So that , particular companys, CBD products,i'd tend to avoid,they seem more and more to me, like the Mcdonalds of the health world these days,their products ,purely symbolic. I would be very interested if anyone here has had any beneficial CBD experiences and could recco a trustworthy supplier?
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Healthspan , I use the capsules extra strength . It took 2/3 weeks to make a difference , but has made the pain relief more effective.
I recently has an email from Healthspan saying there may be an issue with CBD oil as the EU are considering as a " novel food" and there may be a change to its availability
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I've had bad back pain recently and along with my knee pain I was struggling to sleep a lot, any time before I've just had a spliff and some painkillers to help ease it and get me over. Don't particularly like the feeling of being baked so tried the CBD oil that you use through a dropper and found it made no difference for pain relief.
Have several mates who swear by it for sports injuries, neck pain, asthma amongst other things.
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Thanks,very interesting,reveals the EU to be just as complicit in suppression of the natural, to the advantage of things like GM and Glysophates, which they've recently nodded through,quelle surprise! and all that.Codex Alimantarius I believe is the guiding philosophy behind all this,a policy cooked up in the 1920s with the intention of essentially making sure stuff that works organically is negated in favour of the Dupont/Rockeffeller,petrochemical based monstrosotiy 'medicants' we are currently expected to endure.
Even the word marijuana itself was an invented one,designed to give a vaguely dangerous dynamic to the Hemp plant thus planting a certain suspicion in the minds of the populace,subverting its vast potential in dealing with a large number of health issues in the process and therefore posing a direct threat to the bloodlines profit/power agenda.Twas ever thus. something you've found effective is now to be tampered with and kicked down the road.Marvellous.There really is some serious evil calling the shots at the top of the power- matrix on this planet we inhabit.
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Think the absence of a decent level of THC,renders the product useless for more severe pain is my guess.
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That's all very interesting and educational...................but do they do it in " banana custard " flavour ?
Regards John.
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Suffer from major chronic pain, spinal issues, fibromyalgia and more.
Spent upwards of £600 on various cbd oils, capsules, vapes, gummies.
None worked...
Bar one, I bought on eBay of all places. It's cbd "extra" vape oil, with "extra" cannabanoids.
If you read between the lines you know what I mean.
That works, but obviously it's only for weekends. It took a few goes to get the desired effect without going to far the other way. First day I got it, I was puffing away merrily and then my sister in law turned up from Aylesbury to visit. How I got through it without her noticing I do not know.
Now a couple of puffs every few hours and I'm nicely relaxed and not pain free, but certainly pain muted.
So I quite agree, cbd has no effect without THC. That's been proven in many cases of epilepsy as well.
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Wife is on CBD (a vape pen), for her Crohns...
So far so good....
She got the CBD vape oil from Vaporized. A chain shop, and so there's one not far from us...
Always been wary of buying online stuff, as she was also on CBD capsules nought online.
The first lot worked, but the second and third lot didn't - she thinks she's being palmed off with a placebo so these ones will be the last.
So for anyone that has (reliably) bought online, who would you recommend for both vape oil and capsules?
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Bought a lot from iceheadshop and canavape.
I liked canavapes natures vape series, ( the flavour, as I said it didn't help my pain) But they stopped selling it.
Also tried lovehemp products.
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Jack should've put in that ad that the accommodation is near greenhouse, not a bar, if he wanted to attract native minorities instead of immigrants...
However... let's get to THE MAIN POINT - drug tests - does this stuff come up on them or steer clear off radar???
(This question has been posted on behalf of the tipper driver community since they are the only ones in this country that are being regularly tested...)
TruckNETUK is a corrupt institution run by creatures paid by transport industry.
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Cbd isn't illegal so doesn't matter if it comes up on drug tests. No different than caffeine or vitamin c
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I tried cbd oil for a while to find relief from arthritis and sport injuries but it had no effect and was the foulest tasting stuff.
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No, it shouldn't show up on drug tests. Wife has same issue - she's a nurse so MUST stay drug free.
CBD is fine, it's the THC that's the no no....
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Now that would fly for me,especially if it was the Glas companies,Banana Cream Pie,that one is outrageously good.Bright yellow box package in most vape shops.
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There is a point where the risks of using drugs of whatever type exceed the benefits to the point where serious brain effects if not injury occurs before the pain reduces.I don't think that THC would be any different in that regard.As for pre gablin,that stuff in high doses,or if mixed with opiates especially Fentanyl or Oxi Codone,seeming to often be the tool of choice of Hospice and Hospitals respectively,is a dangerous time bomb to the brain and other organs which should be banned for all uses including so called 'medical' and it's bleedin ironic that they aren't while relatively weaker less hazardous stuff is.
As for me it doesn't get much more painful than gout in the knees or ankles and sometimes two knackered discs which put me out of the job.The exception being pancreatitis in which I can remember begging the hospital staff for more Morphine and Tramadol to reduce the pain level and them rightly saying no you'll just have to put up with it because we aren't in the habit of killing our patients.
If only the so called 'palliative care' regime was as ethical and bright.
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Family has kept ties to old orphanage
When Gloria Padilla was 4, her mother died and her father decided he could not care for her and her two young sisters.
A woman named Nannie Tynes Bailey learned of their plight and took the three little girls into her home, an arrangement that lasted about a year. But she knew they needed a more permanent home than she could afford.
The year was 1944. Bailey looked around for an orphanage for the girls, but in that segregated era there were no homes for Hispanic children.
So with the help of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, she and others helped form the Mexican Baptist Orphans Home of Texas, the first Hispanic children's home in San Antonio. Its first residents were Padilla and her sisters.
Flash forward decades: Padilla's daughter Belinda Peréz and her husband, Robert, had decided to adopt children, after being unable to conceive. When it came time to settle on which agency they would adopt through, the choice was easy: They picked the place where Padilla had grown up, the orphanage that has since grown into a multimillion-dollar international health and human services organization that goes by the name of Baptist Child and Family Services.
"We didn't think of anyplace else," said Belinda Peréz, a speech pathologist. "We just wanted that connection with my mom. I grew up going to the orphanage, visiting with the children there, because my mother wanted us to know where she came from."
On a recent evening, Padilla, her daughter and son-in-law sat reminiscing around the dining room table at the Perézes' home.
The living room is scattered with toys. Flittering in and out are the couple's adopted children, Kristen, 4, and Luke, 3, two rambunctious siblings who share their adoptive parents' Hispanic heritage.
Padilla has to be gently prodded into telling her story. She said she's gotten more reserved as she's grown older and that she doesn't want to be referred to as an orphan in the newspaper. She's a woman with a lot of pride who went on to teach in San Antonio schools for more than 30 years, touching countless children.
She said growing up in the children's home was a wonderful experience.
"It was real homey," Padilla said. "When I lived there, it was made up of only two cottages for children, and we had a lot of good times. They bused us to school and to church."
In ninth grade, Padilla decided to move back in with her father and a stepmother. She graduated from Lanier High School and attended Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Belton.
It was there that she met her future husband, David Padilla, who would pick up the college women on campus and take them to church. The couple married, and after a time Belinda came along. Twelve ears later they would have a son.
Padilla said she was floored when she learned that Belinda and Robert Peréz would use her old home as the resource to find their children. But then, it made perfect sense.
Belinda Peréz said the seed was planted to foster or adopt kids after she met a little boy at one of her schools who told her he lived in a foster home. The two bonded, and Belinda Peréz became convinced: Fostering or adopting was the way to go.
They wanted a child or children between 2 and 5 years old, something unusual in the adoption world.
"Everybody wants a baby," said Teresa Berkley, program director of adoption services for BCFS.
When Luke and Kristen, removed from their home by the state, became available, it was love at first sight.
"Luke sat on my lap and brought his toys to me," Robert Peréz said. "Kristen was sitting in my lap, feeding me cake."
There was no fear or hesitation on the part of the kids, Belinda Peréz said. On weekend preparatory visits, they took to the new environment right away.
They came home for good a year ago.
"There had been a void in our lives, in our hearts," Robert Peréz said. "Now we have noise, we have love. Our family is complete."
And the Padillas get to play the best role of all: doting grandparents, a role with roots that go back to 1944 and new hope for a little girl.

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Filed at 11:53 a.m. ET
GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) -- An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats were en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast.
The Coast Guard said initial reports indicated all 13 crew members from the rig were in the water. One was injured, but there were no deaths.
The platform owned by Mariner Energy (NYSE:ME) is in about 2,500 feet of water, the Coast Guard said, and was not currently producing.
About 206 million gallons of oil from an undersea well spilled into the Gulf after BP's (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.


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Many people who are against torture will point to examples of the Guilford Four who were tortured into confessing that they had blown up a pub in
But what of the Jack Bauer example where it is a race against time to get the information to save lives. What is human rights vs thousands of lives? Around the time of the terror plot in
But a few weeks later it has emerged that maybe it was not Jack Bauer that saved the day maybe even their was no day to save. According to the New York times (hat tip Andrew Sulllivan) the terrorist had not bought plane tickets, did not yet have passports and had no bombs made. Not exactly a Jack Bauer situation. Firstly did they knew what stage they were at? The answer is yes due to the fact that they had camera's installed in the flat. They were watching them al the time. They knew exactly what they were doing and what stage they were at. They got the tip off from locals in the area.
So where did the torture of a man in
So what did Jack Bauer style tactics give them?
But what of torture itself is it ever justified. Can it ever provided the information that is needed. That is very debatable. Torture someone and they will tell you what you want to hear. It may not be the truth but you will get what you want. This info will always be highly suspect and never trust worthy. Acting on it as the British may have can actually mess up your operation of real significants.


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(IRS) Form 8606 is not required when the taxpayer
- What is Form 8606?
- Where to file Form 8606?
- IRS Form 8606 penalties
- Form 8606 instructions 2017/2018
- Form 8606 Part I
- Form 8606 Part II
- Form 8606 Part III
- Form 8606 Example
What is Form 8606?
Where to file Form 8606?
The taxpayers have to complete this form every year they have made any non-deductible contributions and enclose it to their Form 1040, 1040NR or 1040A, which has to be filed to the Internal Revenue Service Center. If the taxpayer is not obliged to submit any other documents except for the Form 8606, they should file it to the IRS center, to which they would file their tax return, if they were required to do this.
IRS Form 8606 penalties
The taxpayer, who should submit the form 8606 to the Internal Revenue Service, but failed to do so, will have to pay a penalty in the amount of $500,00. If the taxpayer overrates the amounts of non-deductible contributions they made to their Individual Retirement Account, they can be subject to the penalty in the amount of $100. However, the taxpayer may be exempt from paying the fine, if they can show a reasonable cause for the failure to file the form or for overrating the amounts they entered into the form.
Form 8606 instructions 2017/2018
The Form 8606 consists of three parts. Before we start to complete them we have to give some personal information about ourselves. First, we have to provide our first and last name and our social security number. The married couples may file a joint return, but they have to fill out and enclose a separate form 8606 for each of spouses.
In Part I of the Form 8606, the Internal Revenue Service needs the information about non-deductible contributions to traditional Individual Retirement Accounts from Traditional, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs. However, only some taxpayers have to complete this part. It applies to all those individuals, who made non-deductible contributions to their traditional Individual Retirement Accounts for the year the tax return is submitted or withdrew funds from traditional, SEP or SIMPLE IRA and made non-deductible contributions to the traditional IRA in the year the return is submitted for or during an earlier year, or they have converted some fraction of their traditional, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs to Roth IRAs in the year the return is filed for and made non-deductible contributions to traditional IRA in this year or during an earlier year.
Here, we should explain different abbreviations for retirement plans used in the form, since in the United States there are a few types of retirement accounts.
The Traditional IRA is the most basic type of the retirement account. It has been introduced in the United States pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which was entered into force in 1974. The IRA is kept by a financial institution, such as a brokerage or bank, and some part of the funds deposited on the account may be invested by this institution. The only requirement the taxpayer has to meet in order to be able to make contributions to the traditional IRA is earning sufficient income. There are certain limits in the amounts we can contribute to the IRA during the year. For instance, the limits in 2017-2018 are $5,500 for the taxpayers, who have not turned fifty, and $6,500 for those at the age of fifty or older.
SEP IRA is a Simplified Employee Pension Individual Retirement Arrangement, which allows a small company or a self-employed person to make retirement plan contributions into a Traditional IRA, set up in the employee's name.
SIMPLE IRA, which is a Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees, is a tax-deferred employer's retirement plan, which enables the employees to save and invest the money deposited on it.
Roth IRA, which is an individual retirement account is tax-free, subject to certain requirements. The withdrawals from the Roth IRAs are not taxed, which is the main difference between this retirement plan and the remaining ones, which offer only the reduction in the amount of tax.
During their working life, the taxpayers are allowed to change one type of their Individual Retirement Account to another type. This activity is called the conversion or recharacterization. If the taxpayer makes a conversion, it means they transfer the funds from one trustee to another one, which is in the same financial institution. Such transfers are usually tax-free, but they have to be reported with the use of the Form 8606. However, there are some situations when the taxpayers cannot convert to Roth IRA. First of all, the participant of the retirement plan cannot be filing the form separately from their spouse and the Modified Adjusted Gross Income cannot be more than $100,000.
The MAGI is calculated in order to verify, what kind of tax deduction the individual may receive. In order to determine the person's MAGI, we have to add for instance foreign income, foreign-housing deductions, student-loan deductions or IRA-contribution deductions to their adjusted gross income. The higher the MAGI, the lower deductions the individual can have on their IRA contributions.
Interestingly, we can take the funds from our Individual Retirement Account. We cannot borrow them, since it may disqualify our plan and result in the obligation to pay tax on our assets, but it is allowed to make a rollover. A rollover means taking the funds from our account for the maximum of sixty days. If the money is returned to the account within the sixty-day limit, it can still maintain its status as tax deferred funds. However, we may only make a sixty-day rollover once in twelve months.
Another way to move the assets deposited at IRA is to make the transfer. This is made by the institution that receives the funds, it sends the request to the disbursing institution asking for the transfer and waits for the check payable to another institution. Such transfers can be made to and from Traditional Individual Retirement Accounts or from employment plans. As opposed to rollover, it is not required to report this type of activity to the Internal Revenue Service.
Form 8606 Part I
In the beginning of Part I of the Form 8606, we have to provide the amount of non-deductible contributions we made to our Traditional IRA during the tax year for which we file the form, but also the ones made between January and April 17 next year, if they were made for the tax year in question. Then we must give the total basis in the traditional IRAs in line two, and provide the contributions, which were made from the first of January to April 17 of the year following the year for which the tax return is submitted. Next, we are required to provide the amount of all our traditional, SIMPLE and SEP IRAs at the end of the tax year, and the outstanding rollovers; and then our distributions from the same accounts for the tax year, but in this case we have to exclude the rollovers. The Internal Revenue Service also needs the information about the net amounts we have converted from traditional, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs to Roth IRAs.
Form 8606 Part II
The Part II of the Form 8606 refers to the Conversions from Traditional, SEP or SIMPLE IRAs to Roth IRAS, and has to be completed by any taxpayer, who has made such a conversion in the year for which the tax return is filed for. In the case the taxpayer has filled in Part I of the form, in line sixteen they only have to copy the amount from line eight of the form, since the value was already given. If not, they have to enter the net amount converted to Roth IRAs from other tax-advantaged retirement plans and its basis in line seventeen. In the line eighteen, the taxpayer has to provide the taxable amount, by subtracting line seventeen from sixteen.
Form 8606 Part III
The part III of the Form 8606 is associated with the distributions from Roth IRAs. This part should be completed only by these filers, who have actually made such distributions during the tax year. In line nineteen, we have to provide the total nonqualified distributions from Roth IRAs. However, we need to exclude the rollovers, recharacterizations, distributions, which constitute a return of contributions or were made when the taxpayer was at the age of fifty nine and half or older, one-time distributions to the Health Savings Account, qualified charitable distributions or those made upon death or because of disability or due to divorce. In line twenty, we should provide the qualified first-time homebuyer expenses, but the value cannot exceed $10,000. The line twenty two refers to the basis in the contributions to the Roth IRA and line 24 to the basis in conversions from traditional, SEP or SIMPLE IRAs, as well as the rollovers from qualified retirement plans to Roth IRA. In line 25 c we have to calculate the taxable amount, which has to be also provided on our tax return and Forms 1040, 1040NR or 1040A.
If the taxpayer files only this form, and it is not attached to their tax return, they have to sign the form 8606. If any other person or company has prepared the information that has to be included on the form, the taxpayer has to enter their name, the name of their company and address. Such a preparer has to sign the document and give the Employer Identification Number, as well as the telephone number.
Form 8606 Example:
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Sit back, relax and at the end of a long week let someone else take on the task of cooking a roast and all the trimmings. Enjoy melt in the mouth cuts of roast beef, drizzled with red wine sauce and served up with light and fluffy Yorkshire puds and crispy roast potatoes.
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Do you recycle and encourage and teach your children to do the same? I know as a busy and working mum that we have a never ending list of household chores but even recycling just one more bottle a day can make a real difference.
To highlight the many ways plastic can be given a new life if recycled, internationally renowned designer and stylist, Abigail Ahern, has channelled her uniquely quirky and recognisable style to design her first ever bespoke phone cover, which is made from 80 percent recycled plastic bottles.
The bottles can come from every room in the home whatever the colour, shape or size, and include fizzy drinks, water, squash, sauces, cooking oils, washing up liquid, shampoos, conditioners, fabric conditioners, household cleaning products, bleaches, detergents, garden and car products…the list goes on…
If you're not sure what you can recycle at home simply check your local council's website.
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Buyer Beware, Third-Party Print Sales: An Argumentative Case on the Importance of OEM
TriTech understands the appeal of purchasing from third-party sellers: it's typically cheap, convenient, and fast. These are probably the most popular three draws for any consumer, who in this case is a buyer for a business, but do not come without risk.
Imagine applying these traits for a car or house, and chances are that concerns will emerge about long-term costs because these large investments can be expensive and add up over time. Imagine applying these traits for a less extreme example, such as fast food or furniture, and chances are that they outweigh any concerns about long-term costs because these smaller investments can be a quick-fix – if you need a lunch or desk, then you need a lunch or desk.
Businesses want to reduce costs, minimize hassle, and save time – just like most consumers – and we understand that. When it comes to information technology, though, we would like to present an argumentative case on the downfalls of using third-party sellers for your business, office, or workplace.
Warranties for OEM Devices
If you purchase a machine and warranty from an authorized reseller such as TriTech, your business won't worry about unexpected additional costs throughout the length of your coverage (seeing as consumables are a required expense).
However, if you purchase supplies and components from a third-party or unaffiliated seller, the authenticity is not guaranteed despite the fact that it may be listed as OEM – anyone can claim anything. Epson and Xerox don't grant protection for damage caused by third-parties.
The warranty from your authorized purchase will not cover products and services from unauthorized parties, more often than not and includes Epson and Xerox.
Third-Party Products
If you purchase a machine from a third-party or unaffiliated seller, you are in the same situation as buying a "used car as is" essentially; new or used, anything that happens after the sale will be your responsibility.
For warranties offered by third parties that are genuine, the coverage purchased can be anywhere from 30 days and up to 3 months, after which the device may encounter problems from misuse and imitation parts you were unaware of. In this case, you are in the "used car as is" situation after the coverage expires.
Fine Print of OEM Warranties
Warranties may differ depending on manufacturer, model, and other agreement terms. Below are individual selections from OEM sources with the intent of educating how manufacturers address third parties and are not meant to represent all warranties. This is for informative purposes only.
- Per Brother: If you purchased a product from someone other than an authorized Brother reseller in the United States or if the product was used (including but not limited to floor models or refurbished product by someone other than Brother), prior to your purchase you are not the Original Purchaser and the product that you purchased is not covered by this warranty.
- Per Epson: This [limited] warranty does not cover damage to the EPSON product caused by parts or supplies not manufactured, distributed or certified by Epson. This warranty does not cover … third party parts, components, or peripheral devices …
- Per HP: HP is not liable for any claim made by a third party …
- Per Lenovo: Lenovo makes no representation or warranty regarding third party products or services.
- Per Xerox: Damage to Xerox equipment caused by the use of non-Xerox supplies is not covered under any Xerox warranty or service agreement and is the sole responsibility of the customer. Why put your equipment at risk?
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We are firm believers that technology is "you get what you pay for" at TriTech and cheap, convenient, fast purchases will be just that. A printing solution customized to fit your business and goals is more likely to reduce costs, minimize hassle, and save time in the long run – which is what consumers and businesses ultimately strive for, right?
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Burnet County approves LCRA flood grant plan
Connie Swinney/Burnet Bulletin
By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor
Burnet Bulletin
Burnet County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday, Nov. 27, on a plan to share with affected municipalities portions of a $100,000 donation from the Lower Colorado River Authority for cleanup from the October flood.
The plan approved by commissioners honors LCRA's request that at least 70 percent of the money be used for waterway cleanup. The remaining 30 percent will be used to pay for household hazardous waste removal ($20,000), refrigerant removal ($3,000) and monitoring ($7,000) at the county's Phillips Ranch road debris site, the latter a requirement of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
"This $100,000 woefully underfunds what is necessary to put our lakes in order, but we have tried to allocate these funds in a fair and reasonable fashion so the municipalities which were affected are represented as well as our unincorporated areas," said Precinct 4 Commissioner Joe Don Dockery, a member of the committee which determined how the funds should be disbursed.
Development Services Director Herb Darling, also a member of the committee, said they based apportionment on the number of homes that sustained flood damage in each jurisdiction. Municipalities may use their allocation for any approved debris removal within their borders.
A review of the flood zone shows some 350 to 375 homes were damaged in some way by the flood, Darling said.
Granite Shoals will receive $20,000, while Marble Falls will receive $15,000. The cities of Meadowlakes, Cottonwood Shores and Highland Haven each will receive $5,000. The remaining $20,000 is set aside for unincorporated areas, to pay for rolloff dumpsters to be placed with property owner associations and homeowner groups who submit an application to the county.
The dumpsters cannot be provided for individual use and no county resources may be used to fund repair or improvements, including labor, on private property.
"Several meetings of the committee were held and we tried our best to come up with an equal formula without leaving anyone out," Darling said.
POAs and homeowners groups in unincorporated areas should contact Precinct 1 Commissioner Jim Luther at 512-715-4112 or email@example.com; or Dockery at 512-715-2911 or email@example.com to request dumpsters for debris. The dumpsters cannot be used for mud, treated lumber, household hazardous waste or items containing refrigerants.
The application process starts Jan. 7 and will continue until all funding is expended. Cleanup is expected to start Jan. 14 and end Feb. 28. Applications and reports must be sent to County Services Director Karen Hardin at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Darling told commissioners the committee is still grading bids received for debris site monitoring, but the county did not receive any HHW bids before the bid deadline. There is an estimated 25 cubic yards of HHW at the Phillips Ranch Road debris site and the cost of removal is expected to be about $800 per cubic yard.
He said the county will be reaching out to at least one company to determine if they are interested in performing the work and may file a State of Texas Assistance Request (STAR) to allow the county to go outside the normal bidding process to identify a vendor to provide services.
Commissioners did approve a single vendor to perform refrigerant removal at a maximum cost of $3,000, which includes a $200 mobilization fee and $12 cost per unit. It is estimated that there could be 100 to 200 units at the debris site containing refrigerant, Darling said.
The county also received several bids to remove the estimated 15,500 cubic yards of flood debris at the Phillips Ranch Road site, but those bids are still being evaluated. Because of the high anticipated cost of removal ($450,000), no bids are expected to be awarded until a presidential disaster declaration is announced.
"The question is whether we will get a presidential disaster declaration, which will allow us to receive money to help with debris removal," Darling said last week. "However, I always like to have a Plan B in place. All indications are that the state of Texas would 'own' the debris if a disaster declaration is not made."
Lack of a federal disaster declaration would also be disastrous to areas residents, who cannot obtain tax relief without passage of such a declaration. Beginning with tax year 2018 and continuing through 2025, the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, passed in late December 2017, suspends itemized deductions for personal casualty and theft losses.
There remains a deduction for "qualified disaster-related personal casualty losses," which must occur in a presidentially declared disaster area.
Lake lowering
The LCRA plans to lower the level of Lake Marble Falls by seven feet and Lake LBJ by four feet, beginning Dec. 30. The lakes will stay at their lower level for eight weeks to allow for cleanup of debris, dredging and repair of docks and retaining walls damaged in the Oct. 16 flood.
Lake Marble Falls will be lowered from its normal operating level of 736 to 737 feet mean sea level to an elevation of 729 to 730 feet msl. Lake LBJ will be lowered from its normal operating level of 824 to 825 feet msl to an elevation of 820 to 821 feet msl. On Feb. 19, floodgates will be opened again, allowing the lakes to refill. That process will be completed Feb. 23.
All residents and property owners wishing to perform dredging or remove debris from the lake during the drawdown must register their projects with LCRA. Work can be performed under LCRA's lakewide permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as long as it meets permit requirements, but a permit notice must be posted at the worksite.
For more information on the drawdown, see lcra.org/lakelowerings.


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Friday, March 29, 2013
Using Social Media to Predict Future Trends and HotButton Topics
My methods are easy to implement and great when there are other things that need my attention. But there are folks who take this to a much higher level. Leading the pack is British economist Noreena Hertz. She believes that comprehensively analyzing chatter from Facebook and Twitter enables more accurate "forecasting."
The model is simple. Using a sophisticated algorithm, one can "summly" hundreds of thousands of tweets, likes, mentions etc. in an instant, tabulating not only the number and subject of messages but also, for the first time, the sentiment, allowing for what is descibed as "an accurate guess" to be arrived at regarding the selected topic and possible situation outcome.
CNN notes that Hertz has made a career out of challenging the predictive powers of traditional forecasting models. To illustrate her point, Hertz noted that analysts in the Middle East failed to predict the Arab Spring and very few experts saw the financial meltdown coming -- something she did three years before in her book "IOU: The Debt Threat".
To her credit, Hertz correctly predicted who would win talent show "X Factor" by analyzing social media. So, the question is, how do YOU duplicate Hertz's efforts on your own time and your own scale? You already have tools that you are (hopefully) using. Blog aggregators, Google blogsearch, etc.
You or I may not have the ability to access the same tools and systems Hertz uses (I'm sure some are costly, others "secret" and others proprietary. Fear not! I share with you my personal mix, which is comprised of two *FREE* tools, the first being Social Mention ::: it is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content into a single stream of information. It allows you to track and measure what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors over one hundred social media sites.
When I have more time to spend (like a lazy Sunday afternoon), I press NodeXL into service. NodeXL is a free and open Excel 2007/2010 Add-in and C#/.Net library for network analysis and visualization. It integrates into Excel 2007 and 2010 and adds directed graph as a chart type to the spreadsheet and calculates a core set of network metrics and scores. Supports extracting email, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, WWW and flickr social networks.
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Excellent article which explains in detail why solar energy, wind energy, and other renewables are rapidly growing segments of total energy production – with a worldwide energy paradigm shift around the corner.
by Zachary Shahan.
Senior editor at the outstanding progressive news outlet AlterNet, Tara Lohan, recently contacted me because she was writing a story on "which developments in clean tech are the most promising in terms of making renewable energy more prevalent." She asked if I had any suggestions. If you know me and know how easy it is to get me to go on a monologue about clean energy and electric cars, you already know that I responded at length. Tara actually ended up making the 3-page article more or less an interview piece. It's a very good read, imho, and she does well to add some other points and perspective, so I recommend checking it out.
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This article examines the transfer of creative industries as a policy idea to Lithuania. Tracing the stages of the transfer and analysing its consequences in the local cultural policy field, this paper argues for the importance of studying cultural policy process. The findings reveal that the process of the international transfer of creative industries mattered, because it generated wider transformations in cultural policy field by having ambiguous effects on local power relations. The policy idea of creative industries opened the cultural policy field to new actors. As a result, competition for scarce state funding increased, but cultural organisations gained access to the European Union structural funds. In all, creative industries as a policy idea significantly transformed Lithuanian state cultural policy, in that it led to a reassessment of both the practices and identities of cultural organisations.
The aim of the article is to analyse and comprehend the interplay of institutional logics in the realisation of Stockholm's House of Culture, Kulturhuset, hereby beginning to answer the question of what role cultural logics play in cultural development projects. Based on an in-depth case study of the process leading up to the creation of Kulturhuset, the article explores the interplay of a politico-bureaucratic logic and a cultural–professional logic governing the evolution of the project. Following a Scandinavian tradition of interpretative studies of complex development projects, the making of Kulturhuset is framed as an extraordinary project involving a complicated development process. The process dynamics are explored and analysed through the lens of institutional complexity. The article's main contribution lies in its highlighting the interplay of – and nuancing the relation between – institutional logics. It also serves as a reminder of the power of bureaucratic ordering in urban development projects.
Purpose: Policy change is frequently framed as resulting from governmental strategy based on explicit preferences, rational decision making and consecutive and aligned implementation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical perspective of institutional work as an alternative approach to understanding policy change, and investigates the construction of resources needed to perform such work.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a case study of the process wherein the idea of cultural and creative industries was introduced into Lithuanian cultural policy. The main data generating methods are document studies and qualitative interviews.
Findings: The analysis demonstrates the ways in which the resources needed to perform institutional work are created through the enactment of practice, and through the application of resourcing techniques. Three such techniques are identified in the empirical material: the application of experiences from other fields of practice, the elicitation of external support, and the borrowing of legitimacy.
Originality/value: The study offers an alternative approach to studies of policy change by demonstrating the value of institutional work in such change. Further, it contributes to the literature on institutional work by highlighting how instances of such work, drawing on a distributed agency, interlink and connect to each other in a process to produce policy change. Finally, it proposes three interrelated resourcing techniques underlying institutional work.


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So yesterday my beautiful friend Alice and I went to the Blogosphere Summer Party at Lumiere in London. And it was wonderful! Such a beautiful loft venue too.
I didn't know what to expect at all, but such a welcoming and friendly bunch! The sponsors were great! So upon arrival we met with Sekforde cocktails – pick a spirit and they pick the complimentary mixer. Of course it was gin for me. And honestly.. I am sold. Tonic can go. And now I am all about the botanical mixer with a hint of raspberry. Alice went for rum, and as a not rum fan after a night of overkill, it was delicious too! Can't wait to pick some of these up!
So a little mingling and some chats with some of the brands and fellow blogging lovelies. Myself and Alice set up to hear more about the Braun beauty range. Now maybe it a little TMI but I tell you I have struggled with sensitive skin for a zillion years and shaving leaves me generally unhappy. It's constant with gym/classes/running and combined with work no amount of mosturiser helps. You know it's no fun when you sudocrem your legs! So Anna talked us through the products and explained how they work.. much laughing at Sophie from Blogosphere being the tester!
So Anna was so kind to give us the Braun Silk Expert 3 to take away and try at home! Permanent hair removal within 15 weeks of once a week session. Now I was a little worried at the thought of zapping my legs with what was described as touching a hot kettle… had a very quick test go this morning. Didn't feel a thing. So I am so excited to give it a real go this evening! I'll do some updates on progress in the next few weeks too! I think this one is a game changer.
All in all a wonderful event – thank you Blogosphere! And hired as Alice's photographer… so many giggles!
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By Aristippus
'It's the thought that counts' is a phrase sometimes uttered at the unwrapping of a gift held in low esteem by its new owner. Although gift-giving can often be justified based on the thoughts of goodwill from the giver to the recipient, there is, unfortunately, sometimes little to justify the actual substance of gift-giving. Despite the good intentions – and the many hours and dollars spent – in obtaining gifts for others, there exists an enormous amount of waste in gift-giving as a result of the inability on the part of the gift-giver to know the true preferences of the recipient.
The economist Milton Friedman classified different kinds of spending into four categories, based on the source of the spent funds, and the person for whom the item is bought. More specifically, they were comprised of: 1) spending one's own money on oneself, 2) spending one's own money on someone else, 3) spending someone else's money on oneself, and 4) spending someone else's money on a third person.
When someone buys something for himself, we can understand that the object for which he exchanges his money is his most desired use of that money at that particular time given the circumstances. If it were not, then the same money would instead be put towards buying something that he wants even more. This is what we call 'demonstrated preference', since action demonstrates the most desired preference of an individual, and we can imagine all his other preferences being considered less desired by that individual on a theoretical 'value scale'.
The lesson that Friedman drew from his categorization of spending was an understanding of the different kinds of incentives that each of these methods of spending creates for the person undertaking them. We can already see, for example, that since the actions that one takes reveals his demonstrated preferences, whichever way an individual chooses to spend on himself reflects his most desired method of employing money in exchange at that time. This means that the incentive in the first category – spending one's own money on oneself – is to buy according to the highest preference of the buyer. Now in each of Friedman's first two categories referred to above, we are assuming that one is using his own money, which means that the way he spends his money in a particular transaction also affects how much money he has left over for future exchanges. Thus we can say that he will wish to economize in line with his value scale. The overall incentive in the first category, therefore, is to obtain the most desired good at the cheapest price. This seems a very efficient arrangement.
What about the second category, in which one uses his own money to buy a good for somebody else? In this case we can assume the same desire to economize as in the first category, since it is still the buyer's own money at stake. The difference comes in the knowledge of the particular good that is most preferred, since the buyer cannot know the recipient's theoretical 'value scale'. This means that he must try to base his judgement of what good is desired by the recipient on much less sure knowledge. But the fact of the matter is that the gift-giver cannot know if the recipient would indeed purchase that good over all others if given the choice. The chances are that they would not. It is this great and necessary ignorance that is the cause of people going to the length of spending many hours and money in order to obtain a good which is not actually desired by the person who receives it!
We are all familiar with the difficulty in buying gifts for people, even those we know extremely well, and so too have we seen many such presents 're-gifted' or exchanged for money after Christmas. Just think: would you buy for yourself all the other things that people buy for you? If not, and the good is not desired, then we can see definite instances of waste cropping up. One should also remember that money itself can be considered a reflection of the time and effort that one has already expended. We must ask, then: is it really wise to pour all this time and energy into acquiring undesired goods? The observations above suggest that spending large amounts of money in buying gifts is a wasteful practice, and that converting one's energy into the acquisition of objects that the recipient does not get much use from (vs. goods that they prefer) benefits neither the person who gives the gift nor the person who receives it.
There is, however, one key difference between a good bought by someone for himself, and a good bought by someone for someone else at Christmas time. That difference comes from nature of gift-giving, and the fact that 'it's the thought that counts'. When something is given as a gift, its utility to the recipient often comes solely as a result of the fact that someone has given it to them. Thus a gift can be useful to someone based on the action of the giver rather than on the substance of the object given. There are, furthermore, certain kinds of goods that one would never buy for oneself, but which provide utility when given as a gift: think, for example of flowers, boxes of chocolate, or objects made by the giver. People also often give presents that they think the recipient would find useful, but which the latter would not normally buy for himself.
Even so, for goods that are of a more practical, and a less gift-like nature, the good's status as a gift is likely to wear off with time, ultimately leaving the recipient with a less preferred item at the expense of the giver. This goes to reinforce what I have said above concerning the spending on gifts: gift-giving provides greater utility through thoughtful, personal gifts (even if they are cheap) rather than through expensive gifts whose relationship to the recipient's preferences we cannot know.
To return to Friedman's categories, we see that in the third category the incentive is to obtain a good which is in line with the purchaser's preferences, but to disregard cost. In the fourth category, the incentive is to spend as much money as one can, but without much ability or desire to obtain for that person what they value most highly. For this third category, imagine that an unknown stranger has given you a credit card with which you are to buy your own Christmas presents, giving you no limit. You will know exactly what you want, so you will be sure that whatever you buy will be most in line with your own preferences, but you cannot know how much you are supposed to spend on those gifts. Since there is no need for you to economise your own resources, you will care much less about the cost of goods and likely spend a great deal more on them than you would if they were bought out of your own funds. At least, however, you would know that you have bought useful goods with that credit card, i.e. your purchases would not have been completely wasteful.
Now imagine that instead of purchasing your own gifts with this unknown stranger's credit card, you have to buy them for another person. In this scenario you not only have no incentive to economise, but you also suffer from the problems discussed earlier in the article: you cannot know the preferences of the party for which you are buying gifts! You are therefore spending blind, with little care about either the cost or the content of the presents. Your spending activities will certainly result in waste. Here we find an analogy between this scenario and the spending habits of governments. Because they are have enormous amounts of other people's money to draw on, and are tasked with spending that money on other people, they cannot help but use that money in extremely inefficient ways, with little regard for economizing or spending line with the most desired preferences of those who they are spending on. The difficulties inherent in buying goods for other people at Christmas time are even greater for those spending from government positions, since they have even less knowledge about the preferences of the people they are buying for. This combined with a lack of economizing leads to the perfect incentives for wasting vast sums of money.
We see, then, that even a simple custom like gift-giving should move us to think more fully about the means and ends of our actions, and whether or not they match up in a fitting manner. I have argued here that the practice of giving gifts can lead to a great amount of waste. This, however, is not a complete indictment of giving presents overall, calling for the abolition of Christmas! Instead, it is a suggestion on how to make Christmas all the better through a smaller mental and monetary burden, and more fulfilling social interactions. If it really is the thought that counts, then it is thought, rather than expense, which should be the major element in gift-giving. Once we understand the tendencies towards waste that exist in buying gifts for other people, we find that the government spending suffers from these problems to an even greater extent, due to the fact that it is associated with an additional incentive that discourages economizing of resources.
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Online TV provider Zattoo has launched a free VoD service in Germany.
At launch the service offers content from Spiegel TV, Studio Hamburg and Fashion TV with additional partners, including ProSiebenSat.1, to be added in the coming weeks.
The ad-supported service is available through the Zattoo website and within the Windows 10 app. Zattoo intends to roll-out the app for iPhones, iPads and Android-based smartphones and tablets early next year.
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Fox is reporting that 50 Cent's recently launched G-Note Records might have signed eighteen year old Gamu Nhengu of X-Factor UK fame. There isn't much details on this rumored signing, but if it's true it looks like 50 made a great addition to his roster. Gamu will be calling herself "Miss Gamuchirai" on 50's label and will have an iTunes single release soon. Again, if rumors are true.
Gamu Nhengu was born and raised in Zimbabwe, but recently moved to Scotland where she resided until she was deported back to Zimbabwe after losing X-Factor.
50 Cent's current G-Note Records roster consists of Hot Rod and Governor, which both currently have single on iTunes.


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Sure, the quasi-medieval Empire well established today was there, but really, alien frogmen, zigguraut pyramids, dwarven treasure-hunters and feathered serpent magicians were where it was at - but none of these were as central to the conception of Lustria as Amazonia: The Empire of the Amazons. And none so central to the Amazons than the Goddess Rigg.
|Riggs Shrine | 2nd Citadel Journal
It is quite commonly suggested in Warhammer fandom, that Richard Halliwell named his Amazon goddess "Rigg" after the screen actress Diana Rigg, possibly most famous for her role as Ms. Peel, the original leather cat-suited Avenger, long before Scarlett Johanson stole fanboys hearts doing the same thing. But, back to the plot, why Halliwell should choose this particular actress seemed somewhat of a non sequitur the 60's British modernism of the Avengers at odds with Lustrias blend of archaic exoticism and sci-fantasy weirdness.
And then I unearthed this:
|The Goddess Rigg | Diana Rigg | Klytemnestra | via
This was no dry, worthy adaptation of Greek myth, but rather an avant garde, post-Star Wars affair, no doubt designed to get the spotty oiks who were busy playing D&D to read some "proppa kultcha". Well done Auntie Beeb. Unfortunately there is no Youtube video or DVD release, so exactly how entertaining it is will have to be left to our imaginations.
|Diana Rigg | Klytemnestra
|Diana Rigg | Klytemnestra | Make a mighty fine Witch Elf / Drow Priestess or Priestess of Mongo to boot.
While it can't be said that the costumes (both John Blanche and Tony Ackland drew the Amazons for the 2nd Citadel Journal, some 6 years after The Serpent Son broadcast) exactly follow the designs worn by Diana Rigg, some of the design ethos does seem to have translated. At its most basic it is the marriage of archaic and futuristic which is so beloved by sci-fantasy pulp writers. With Lustria and The Serpent Son there are more specific ques, in the words of erstwhile TV pundit Clive James "Diana Rigg had a wardrobe of Pocahontas numbers for day wear. They came with a complete range of Inca, Aztec and Zulu accessories." Emphasis mine. The serpent-dress is evidently not classed as day-wear by Clive
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Putting aside authorial influence, Rigg perhaps servicable as inspiration for the deity of the Temple of Karra or the attire of the Royal Palace of Genaina, things only hinted at by the original text...
|Blood for the Koka Goddess | Diana Rigg
|Kalim & the Goddess
|The Goddess and the Norscans
I've updated Riggs stats to be compatible with 2nd/3rd edition (that's the 2E S+T kicker and numerical T), and points value calculated as per the Oldhammer Points Value calculator
Unfortunately I cannot invoke Gu-Gle to provide a colour image of Helen Mirren as Cassandra, Clive James states "Helen Mirren played her as an amalgam of Régine, Kate Bush and Carmen Miranda. In a punk hairstyle the colour of raw carrots." Again emphasis is mine, but I am slightly concerned about Clive James identifying what appears to be an acid perm as "punk". Punk, of course being one of the major design themes of the Amazons, with mohawks abound.
|Helen Mirren | "Punk Hairstyle" | Cassandra | Koka-Kalim
I can't possibly have a post on Sci-Fi Greek Myths without another trip into the Broom Cupboard for some mid-80s cartoon nostalgia. No real connection to Lustria at all, but past the fantastic sing-long theme tune and dodgy dubbing, the soundscape effectively evokes the blank erieeness of floating through empty space in a deserted spacecraft, in a kind of ambient progfunk way, while featuring blue skinned, white haired psionic Drow aliens (an influence on Daft Punk) and vast, alien architectures based on ancient earth cultures, this episode: an ancient egyptian space-station.
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text: The Indian Railways is taking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India campaign further by developing 200 applications for travelers, stakeholders and employees.From information for tourists to details about construction of infrastructure, the various apps will be catering to different audiences."People will be informed about the services to be provided by the railways with the help of these apps. This will enforce accountability," said an official, according to the Times of India.Apps like Rail MADAD and Menu on Rails will be useful for travelers. Rail MADAD aims to help passengers file complaints related to travel and facilities at stations for faster redressal of issues. The app is almost ready and has integrated all passenger grievances and redressal mechanism in railways.The Menu on Rails app will have the IRCTC menu with a price list for food items available at stations and different trains such as mail/express trains or elite Shatabdi/Rajdhani trains.Travelers will also be able to find out about the progress of construction of foot overbridges, installation of escalators at stations, status of construction of underpasses or underbridges, and installation of WiFi service at stations. Earlier, the Indian Railways had partnered with Google to set up WiFi at hundreds of stations in a push towards the government's Digital India initiative.Apps will also be developed for tourist information and the National Rail Museum.Travelers will also receive information about the status of station redevelopment, catering stalls, their locations, and planning and progress in removal of unmanned level-crossings through the use of these apps.The Indian Railways is also going to launch an app called "IR SUGAM," which will have information about freight business for customers.The Railways' revenue for passenger traffic as well as freight movement has increased between April and December 2017 by 5 and 8 per cent year on year, respectively, according to PTI.The department launched three apps in February 2016, including handheld terminals for traveling ticket examiners (TTEs), a paperless unreserved ticketing mobile application, and a facility for e-booking of disposable linen on trains. An app called "UTSONMOBILE" was also launched in South Central Railway for unreserved ticketing.To boost foreign and NRI tourists, the Indian Railways offers confirmed accommodation in upper classes of all trains one year in advance. This is above and beyond the Foreign Tourists Quota (FTQ) of eight berths each in First and Second Class AC coaches, the Hindu reported in July 2017. Related ItemsIndian RailwaysirctcTourism


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"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." Ashley-Perry Statistical Axioms Statistics are the life blood of a cost based optimizers such as SQL Server and are a key component of performance tuning. This session will attempt to demystify statistics in regards to SQL Server the query optimizer. The internals of statistics will be examined and explained so that you will understand what statistics are available, how the optimizer uses those statistics, what causes statistics to be recomputed and when it happens
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Sure, you've heard a lot about the truly heroic moments in Olympic history: Bob Beamon's record-breaking long jump, Abebe Bikili winning the marathon barefoot, Mark Spitz winning seven gold medals with that Tony Orlando mustache in tow. But the Olympics is also about cheating, drug abuse, wooden legs, sex changes, and death threats by dictators. Here is a Games-by-Games time line of classic Olympic moments that won't make NBC's heartwarming reel of past highlights.
Athens 1896 The 1500-meter swim in the maiden Olympics is contested in open seas, with 12-foot-high waves and 55-degree water. Says winner Alfred Hajos, "I shivered from the thought of what would happen if I got a cramp in the cold water. My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."
St. Louis 1904 American gymnast George Eyser wins two golds, a silver, and a bronze in gymnastics, despite competing with a wooden leg.
London 1908 Martin Sheridan, leader of a group of beer-guzzling Irish policemen called the New York Whales, which will dominate the field events, is chosen as the American flag bearer. During the opening ceremonies he begins a U.S. Olympic custom, refusing to dip the American flag as he passes the Royal Box—in protest of the English occupation of Ireland.
Stockholm 1912 Francisco Lazaro of Portugal collapses from sunstroke during the marathon, and dies the following day. He is the first fatality in modern Olympic competition.
Paris 1924 American marksman Sidney Hinds shoots a perfect 50 to win the gold medal in the free-rifle team competition, despite the fact that he is accidentally shot in the foot during the middle of his round when a Belgian competitor drops a rifle while arguing with an official.
Los Angeles 1932 Bertil Handstrom of Sweden finishes second in the individual dressage—an equestrian event in which riders put their horses through a series of movements which display a degree of communication and cooperation between man and animal—but is disqualified and relegated to last place for encouraging his horse by making illegal clicking noises. He claims the noises were made by his saddle.
Berlin 1936 Defending gold medal swimmer Eleanor Holm has her Olympics end before they get started. She is thrown off the U.S. team on the ship to Berlin for shooting craps, getting trashed on champagne, sticking her head out a porthole, shouting obscenities, and passing out into a near coma. But no swimming means more partying. "Goering was fun," she would recall. "So was the one with the club foot [Goebbels]. Goering gave me a sterling-silver swastika. I had a mold made of it and I put a diamond Star of David in the middle."
Berlin 1936 When defending 100-meter dash champion Stanislawa Walasiewicz loses her title to Helen Stephens, a Polish journalist accuses Stephens of being a man. Right accusation, wrong runner: When Walasiewicz is killed in a 1980 convenience store robbery, an autopsy reveals that she was a man.
London 1948 Karoly Takacs, a sergeant in the Czech army, wins the first of two Olympic gold medals in the rapid-fire pistol event, shooting left-handed. Ten years earlier, his dominant right hand had been shattered by a hand grenade.
Helsinki 1952 After losing to France, with only three players on the court because of foul trouble, Uruguayan basketball players and spectators attack American referee Vincent Farrell, kicking him in the groin.
Melbourne 1956 After winning his first Olympic rowing gold medal, Russian Vyacheslav Ivanov jumps for joy and promptly drops his medal into Lake Wendouree. He immediately dives to the bottom of the lake but comes up empty-handed.
Rome 1960 Soviet field event star Tamara Press wins her first Olympic gold medal, in the shot put. Press and sister Irina would win five golds and one silver, and set 26 world records in the shot put, discus, and pentathlon, but then mysteriously disappear from international competition as soon as genetic sex testing is instituted.
Tokyo 1964 During an Olympic soccer qualifying game in Lima, a last-minute goal that would have given Peru a tie with Argentina is disallowed because of rough play. Spectators storm the field, throwing rocks and bottles at police, who respond with tear gas. The fighting spills out into the streets, causing "a state of siege" and prompting the Peruvian government to suspend constitutional law. When the dust settles, 328 people have been killed—most trampled to death—and more than 500 injured.
Mexico City 1968 After winning the middleweight gold medal, British boxer Christopher Finnegan develops a bad case of shy pee ("Now if there's one thing I've never been able to do it's have a piss while someone's watching me," he would write later. "I can never stand at those long urinals you get in gents' bogs, with all the blokes having a quick squint"). Although friends and officials whisper encouragement, hydrate him with water and then four pints of beer, and even turn on a water faucet, he is unable to, um, deliver for a drug test. Officials follow him first to a television interview and then to a victory dinner, where, at 1:40 a.m., he finally announces, "Who wants some piss?"
Munich 1972 Members of the Pakistani men's field hockey team, upset over officiating after losing a 1-0 final against the West Germans, storm the officials' table and pour water on the president of the International Hockey Federation. Several players turn their back on the German flag during the medal ceremony.
Montreal 1976 Diuedone Lamothe of Haiti finishes last in his heat in the 5000-meter run, with a time of 18:50:07—the slowest in Olympic history. He earned his slot at the Games by being a political ally of Haitian president Baby Doc Duvalier. Of course, the dictator threatened to kill him if he didn't finish.
Montreal 1976 Soviet fencer Boris Onyschenko is caught using an illegal épée, which includes a hidden circuit breaker that allows him to score points even when he doesn't touch his opponent. After his disqualification, he is immediately spirited back to Russia as some observers suggest he was using an illegal weapon for six years.
Moscow 1980 Vladimir Lipitsky of Russia is stabbed through the chest in the team foil competition, his opponent's blade nicking a blood vessel but missing his heart. Two years later, his teammate Vladimir Smirnov dies when the tip of West German Matthias Behr's foil snaps off and pierces Smirnov's mask, eyeball, and brain.
Los Angeles 1984 Italian track star Gabriela Dorio is given a wine bath by her husband, who is merely holding up his end of a pre-race bet after Gabriela wins the women's 1500 meters.
Seoul 1988 Soviet gymnast Dmitri Bilozerchev wins two gold medals, only three years after a near-fatal car accident. After winning the 1985 European championships, the newly licensed Russian got trashed and drove his father's car in front of a speeding truck. Following his Olympic victory, he goes on another drinking binge and is thrown off the team for being a corrupting influence on his teammates.
Barcelona 1992 Japanese marksman Rhyohei Kobe declares that to train for the Games, in which he wins a bronze medal, he not only gave up drinking, but also gave up karaoke singing.
Atlanta 1996 Three months before the Games, Brazilian heavyweight judo fighter Edinanci Silva undergoes an operation to remove her vestigial testicles and reduce the size of her clitoris in an effort to pass the IOC's archaic gender testing.


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In Venice, Taverna San Trovaso is a lively trattoria near the Accademia known for their delicious pasta, seafood and fried fish.
The clientele on this day is almost exclusively Italian, a good sign indeed. The space is divided into two rooms, each with curved brick ceilings and Italian folk art lining the walls. It's the kind of place American Italian restaurants often fail at replicating.


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From looking for love, to finding her soul mate, only to have him snatched away in a freak car accident in the 2012 Christmas special, Downton Abbey's Lady Mary Crawley has endured more than her fair share of emotional turmoil.
It is understandable, then, that Michelle Dockery, the actress who plays her in the hit ITV period drama, believes her character deserves a happy ending when the show finally draws to a close one day.
"I'd like her to meet someone and find the right man," she said. "You know, not just for her sake, but for George's sake. She needs to find a father for her son.
"I just want to see her content and happy. She's happy enough, but she's never quite content, and it would be nice to see her have that."
Meanwhile, the actress who plays her lovelorn younger sister is ready for Lady Edith to continue the storyline she began in series four.
"I want to see more of her being a professional. I love those stories," said Lady Edith actress Laura Carmichael.
"There may be a man, who knows? But I love that it's not just that for Edith now. She's a modern woman. She needs a job."
Allen Leech, who plays Lord Grantham's former chauffeur, turned bereaved son-in-law, believes his character deserves to find his place amongst the aristocracy he once despised.
"He should be at Downton, he needs to find love and he needs to find acceptance from that family for that person that he loves, because I think Tom's place now is at the Abbey," he said.
"I think it's his home. And I think even he'd admit that now."
The fifth series of Downton Abbey will air on ITV in the autumn. Its creator, Julian Fellowes, has refused to be drawn on what might be in store for his characters.
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I have 2 networks in my home, the main BT network which is for things directly connected to my BT home hub starting with IP address 172... or whatever it defaults to. This network provides my out going broadband connection and has my upstairs YouView TV connected. That YouView box works fine. The issue is that my downstairs YouView box doesn't work unless its hard wired into the BT home hub. To clarify the subscription channels requiring a connection don't work the box generally works for terrestrial TV.
I run a separate, secured, network 192.168.1.. on 2 separate Turris Omnia routers (running LuCI - OpenWRT), one upstairs and one downstairs which are hard wired together and allow me to have fully encrypted traffic, wifi and otherwise, throughout my home via permanent VPN connections which tunnel through my home hub. Works a treat but my YouView box downstairs, cannot be connected directly into the home hub as I'd have to run another ethernet cable which is not really an option and my house is 200+ years old and has 2 electrical phases, the old part and the new extension. So, before anyone suggests I use ethernet over power cables, that is not going to work across the phases, I've tried it and its simply not stable enough.
So, the goal is to get my YouView box working via my separate network. When I connect it to my VPN network, it says its connected and even finds the subscription channels when searching but when I try to view any of them I get a generic error. According to my googling its that same old generic error you get when your speed is too low and no, its not, I've tested it and its about 50Mb/s. I've also proven that the device works fine if I plug a wire directly into my home hub.
So, the YouView box requires more than just an internet connection of adequate speed. I've seen references to ports it needs to function but the technical information available is ridiculously oversimplified. If it needs ports mapped to work, what are they?
I should mention that even when the VPN is disabled on my second network and I have perfectly usable internet connection which works downstairs for my Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV the YouView STILL doesn't work, so its more than a VPN restriction. However, if VPN is going to be a restriction on top WTH!
How can this be fixed? Some people have more complicated setups than 1 home hub and a 2 up 2 down house.
The BT/Youview subscription channels are sent via Multicast transmission - not something I am able to explain btw - and anything in the network needs to be able to handle these transmissions.
My guess , stress guess, is that the Turris Omnia routers do not support this form of transmission so the downstairs box just won't work for the subscription channels. If the catchup services like BBC iPlayer work on that box then there's no issue with the internet connectivity which would tend to support my guess/theory.
Thanks for the reply but a Turris Omnia is a as advanced as a router gets its a Unix PC and is capable of anything a BusyBox based unix OS is capable of. So, its certainly not a limitation of my hardware I simply need to know the requirements of the YouView box beyond "plug it in" which is about as complicated as the manufacturers would imply with their laughable technical guide.
Doing a quick search using "Does a Turris Omnia router support multicast" does seem to suggest you need some extra code in your configuration for OpenWRT to support BT TV subscription channels.
Here are a couple of links I found:-
I'd be pretty sure that this is the area that needs looking at.
Hi Tim, thanks again for this. It certainly looks like you're onto something and I notice that some people have referred to a testing method to prove this is working by using rtp://188.8.131.52:5802 with VLC. Though this server is no longer available by the looks of it. It doesn't work on my laptop when plugged directly into the home hub, even when the YouView box does, so I'm guessing the service is no longer provided.
I've gone through the basic motions described without luck, but as I don't trust the YouView box to to give me even the correct error code I'd certainly prefer to use something independent to prove that multicast is functioning as required. Is there something like this old VLC test that can be used?
I had some* success recently getting a Homehub 5 modded with OpenWRT to work with YouView. Instructions here were very helpful: https://openwrt.ebilan.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132&start=10#p1009
Not sure how useful the above is in your case though. and you might need to swap out kmod-bridge for kmod-nft-bridge
(*For some reason, I was having a wierd bandwidth problem that meant recording one channel and watching another caused both to have major dropouts. Possibly just the HH not having enough grunt)
Deinitely out of my area of expertise but there is plenty of stuff on the VideoLan forums about multicast which might be helpful - if you've the time. You might find some current test server.


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Games Room
Jul 18, 2019, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
AYC Youth Centre at ARC - 2499 McMillan Road
Playing video games at home all summer? Venture out and play with like-minded youth, meet new friends, enjoy video games, strategy card games, board games and more, you decide!
This is a registered program for youth ages 12-18. You must be registered in order to attend this program. For more information, visit https://www.abbyyouth.com/programs/courses/summer
Youth are welcome to stay at our Youth Centre until 5pm.
CoursesAYC Youth Centre at ARC2499 McMillan email@example.com


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Venue: The Farmhouse, Christiansburg
Organizations: Lee Worley
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019
Time: 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
The Farmhouse presents Lee Worley in concert on Thursday, May 30, 2019.
Lee Worley is a guitarist and singer and is a member of the bands 3 Minute Lovin' and Dirt Road Breakdown.
"As a solo artist I mix in my original music with covers from the people that inspired me. Ranging from Rolling Stones and CCR to Springsteen, Steve Earle and Tom Petty, it's all solidly in the Americana genre, but to me it's all Rock and Roll and I like it."
-- Lee Worley
Link: https://www.facebook.com/obliviousconfessions/
Thursday night music returns to The Farmhouse! Join us on our patio for the Thursday night live music series. Come hungry and ready to enjoy some great music.
There is no cover charge. Seating on the patio is first come, first served.
For more information, visit: http://www.thefarmhousechristiansburg.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/thefarmhouseva or call 540-251-7600.
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