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Friday, March 18, 2011
weekend pumpkin harvest
I collected up my many small pumpkins this morning and cannot wait to roast some! I love any excuse to use my English trug. We are getting closer to our next overseas buying trip and I will definitely be on the hunt for more of these trugs... I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend and happy gardening!
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I have some of these in my vegie patch - maybe I should check on them as they might be ready to harvest too. They make a lovely display :)ReplyDelete
Hi Sarah, my vines were dying off, so I think they were ready to pick. So check your vines, maybe?ReplyDelete
So strange ...you go to autumm...we to spring....happy weekend darling.....love Ria.....ReplyDelete
Ooh, those pumpkins look gorgeous! What are you planning on making with them?ReplyDelete
Hi Katrina, Rodney from The Agrarian Kitchen has a great recipe that was published in Australian Country Style a year or two ago for pumpkin tarts. I may start there! Have a good week, TammyReplyDelete
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Talents of Northern Ireland's Young must be used
Session: 2009/2010
Date: 03 February 2010
Reference: E&L 02/09/10
We must use the talents of all our people to ensure a vibrant economy and society. That's the message from the Assembly Committee for Employment and Learning which hosted an event looking at the issue of young people and education and training.
This event was designed to look at why some 40,000 of our young people find themselves disengaged from training and employment (the so called NEETS—not in education, employment and training) and to look at ways of addressing these issues.
Chairperson of the Assembly's Employment and Learning Committee, Sue Ramsey, MLA said: "We need to establish why these young people are falling through the cracks and what sorts of techniques are working to get them into training and education.Crucially, we need to address the weaknesses in our system, which cause so many of our young people to become disengaged from the mainstream."
The Committee has already carried out a great deal of work, alongside the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) to improve the provision of professional and technical training for young people.
In 2009, the Committee published a Report into its Inquiry into the way forward for Apprenticeships and DEL has pledged to implement the bulk of the Committee's recommendations when the ApprenticeshipsNI programme, which is designed to provide alternative pathways into technical careers, comes up for re-negotiation and renewal.
Sue Ramsay said: "The Committee and the Department are working closely together to make ApprenticeshipsNI a flagship programme. In conjunction with business and the colleges, we want to make apprenticeships an exciting and open-ended career option. An apprenticeship should and must be seen as a worthwhile alternative to a university degree. The Committee believes that this will be a key way of getting young people who fall into the NEET category back on track."
Pictured at the event are (l-r) Geordie Bingham (Dr B's Kitchen), Clare McCaughey (Dr B's Kitchen), Sue Ramsey (Chair of the Employment and Learning Committee), Jessica Smyth (Prince's Trust) and Nichola Laffin (Dr B's Kitchen).

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How to: Organize internet access points in your phone
Sometimes it's very hassle to connect the web browser or to run an online applications in your smartphone because of the connectivity issues with too much to touch and types. That is maybe because of the different problems in the scope of connection settings. These includes WLAN issues for wi-fi, networks connection or data connections and other services. But with just simple solution we could get rid of more time-consuming elements


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Cast off! Are you ready for some hilarious adventures in outer space?
Start by boarding a washed-up space cruiser and fulfill your destiny as an aspiring captain on the hunt for fame and fortune. Cosmonautica combines elements of space trading and crew simulation to create a unique experience. Only if you take good care of your crew you will be able to succeed.
Do you have what it takes to become the best trader, smuggler, pirate or even space taxi? It's your choice!
- Simulated Galaxy – Cosmonautica offers a detailed and amusing trading simulation gameplay that challenges you among others with pirate attacks, diverse quests and unique crew members. Explore a dynamic and procedurally generated galaxy. Every game is different!
- Crew Management – Sign up to eight exceptional and lovable crew members to create a ragtag team of the universe's best and brightest. Take care of your crew and promote them to reach their full potential. Only if they fit together well and are satisfied, you are able to get the optimum out of your space ship.
- Elaborate Trading Simulation – Trade a bevy of goods, including some rare and illegal stuff, with fellow space merchants while exploring the solar systems. Explore the galaxy and pursue intergalactic trading over many solar systems – each with its own traits.
- Lively Story & World – Meet unique characters while you embark on a campaign to unveil the secret of a container and the mysterious past of your board A.I. N1L. Or just roam freely through the galaxy in sandbox mode.
- One-of-a-Kind Ships – Choose from a range of ship types, equip your vessel with upgradeable rooms and customize your ship's appearance for even more individuality.
- Exciting Space Battles – Command demanding space clashes against enemy ships with crafty maneuvers and tactical actions during encounters. Directly attack or outsmart your enemies by using your hacker's ability. Or pick the peaceful route and choose diplomacy.
- Cross-Platform Play – Cosmonautica supports cross-platform save games, which will allow you to play the same game on PC and take it on the go with your tablet or other suited devices.
What's in this version :
- Fixed problem with the 2nd and 3rd skill in the task assignment screen
- Fixed the 'Endangered Species' mission, it can now be successfully finished
- Fixed bug in the campaign, chapter 'N1L's origin'
- Locked skills can no longer be previewed via the ?-buttons in the promotion popup
- Removed the 'Loot ammo' button and ammunition sliders from the loot interface
- Finishing a research in hyper travel no longer gives you the option to go to the research lab
Requires :Android 2.3.3 and up
Mirror:APK + OBB 138 MB
- Install Apk
- Copy 'com.chasingcarrots.cosmonautica' Folder to sdcard/Android/obb
- Launch the Game


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StorIT to present storage solutions at GITEX
Data management provider eyes new partnerships
Data storage provider StorIT will be demonstrating its marquis line of data storage, security and management solutions during its participation at this year's GITEX.
The company is expected to highlight its solutions portfolio including products from partners such as EMC, Quantum, and QLogic. StorIT's presence at the expo is thought to be part of its ongoing growth plans. The StorIT exhibition stand will be located at Hall 6, and Stand No CLD - 17.
According to StorIT senior executives, the company will announce new partnerships and talk about expansion initiatives. StorIT will also be holding seminars aimed at recognising its channel partners, sharing industry roadmaps and strengthening alliances.
"As in previous years, we have always looked forward to participating at GITEX, which gives us the unique opportunity of promoting our diverse line of products while at the same time, reaching out to both old and new partners and consumers," said Boby Joseph, CEO of StorIT.
"Over the years, we have made significant strides in our efforts to enhance our channel support services across strategic business areas like advanced logistics managed systems to certified technical consultancy, solutions architecture and implementation services. At GITEX, we hope to be able to forge partnerships with the very best of breed technology providers who can help us offer cutting edge business solutions such as Cloud and Big Data to our reseller partners."


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Enjoy a respite from life's hectic pace in this swinging chair, designed with 1 3/4" cotton padding for exceptional comfort. Hang in your patio, garden, or even your home for a novel seating option. Max Wt.: 200 lbs. Seat: 17 1/2" wide. Chair measures 38" x 17 3/4" x 52" high.
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This romantic white metal bench is the perfect spot for an intimate conversation in the garden or on the patio. The seats face opposite directions, and when you each nestle in, you'll be face-to-face with the one you love. A charming accent for your outdoor living space!
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Dare we say this is cutest bench in existence? We do! This Dachshund Doggy Bench is adorable from top to tail and will charm your friends and family as they gaze upon his happy face and elongated body. He's the best pet you'll ever own, with no upkeep or maintenance, and can be a great help in the entry way of your home, on your porch, and beyond!
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Enjoy the outdoors in contemporary style and complete comfort! This handsome brown wicker trio features two chairs and a glass-topped round table. Two chairs with modern flair and fitted with neutral foam cushions for hours of seated comfort. The matchinghourglass-shaped woven wicker table features a glass top.
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The increase in the use of RFID tags over the past 10 years has seen some significant changes. Just a few examples include tags being used in casinos to authenticate genuine poker chips, featuring in Oyster cards to calculate fares and companies are even using RFID technology to microchip their employees. This prolific rise to fame of a tiny chip has shown how something so small can easily become embedded in our daily lives.
The use of RFID is typically to make a task or process simpler and that is no different for the most recent announcement which suggests that drones will be fitted with RFID readers in order to undertake stock taking.
Drones fitted with the RFID technology are now able to perform the tasks that once-upon-a-time only humans were able to perform. Professors at MIT believe the drones will be able to streamline and make the process of stock taking far more efficient than it currently is.
There is certainly a need to improve the speed and efficiency of stock taking as a major US food retailer reported that it lost a somewhat remarkable $3 billion in revenue, highlighting the need for a quicker and more accurate system . The prospect of automating the procedure and making it substantially more efficient will be a huge boost to warehouses in the future.
The 'Rfly' Drones features a relay device which acts in a similar way to a WI-FI repeater, it receives the signals from the bulky RFID scanner that is left on the ground and then forwards its signals to the RFID tags. The 'Rfly' is also fitted with its own RFID tag which makes the drone easier to track which in turn reduces its margin of error. The 'Rfly' is only in the very early stages of development so being able to perform to this high standard goes to show what it could be capable of in the future.
Professors at MIT believe that the task of stock taking is much more suited to technology as the tasks are often very repetitive and can reduce the margin of error that can occur with human error. We can definitely see RFID being used in warehouse environments across a range of sectors and welcome how it is able to increase efficiency in busy work environments.
Technical Sales Director for BBPtech, John Wise explains why this is such big news for companies up and down the country: "When you consider the figures that companies are reporting worldwide due to errors in stock taking you can see the value that can be derived from embracing technologies. This isn't about replacing staff but it is about becoming more efficient and upskilling people to do tasks that require human engagement and interaction.
"We work with RFID and contactless technologies every day and some of the developments will change the way that businesses work forever. This should be celebrated and we should consider how we can further improve work flow and manual tasks that can be better performed by machines that have been designed to support progressive businesses."


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W130 does deal with privacy and specifically states "ensure privacy during treatment and care of personal needs". That seems straight forward enough, but if someone wants additional clarification, the guidelines for surveyors provides the following:
"Clients must be provided privacy during personal hygiene activities (e.g., toileting, bathing, dressing) and during medical/nursing treatments that require exposure of one's body.
People not involved in the care of the client should not be present without their consent while they are being examined or treated.
Whenever possible, the facility should be sensitive to clients' preferences for same sex care in private situations. "
The above clarifies that privacy during certain activities is required. However, some facilities are receiving citations for giving oral medications in front of others. W130 was written because the medications were provided in front of others. It could be argued that the section of the guideline stating that "People not involved in the care of the client should not be present without their consent while they are being examined or treated" means that a privacy should be maintained during oral medication pass as well. However, it would be more likely that this statement is referring to an examine or treatment with a physician or nurse that requires "exposure of one's body" in some specific way such as removing a shirt, pants, etc. It could also be assumed that the "treated" part of this guideline also refers to when there is "exposure of one's body" as stated in the previous sentence. The case could be made that treated also refers to an oral medication pass, but I think this point could be argued on the basis that there was no "exposure of one's body".
Looking at the guidelines, it is hard to equate taking a pill with "medical/nursing treatments that require exposure of one's body". The only example noted in the deficient practice was that the individual took his medications in front of others. It was not noted whether he objected or wanted the other people around or not.
Had the facility been prepared for an Informal Dispute Resolution (IDR) in Texas, it might have been the time to move forward with one. The use of W130 for an oral medication seems to be a stretch at best, but had it been connected to a discussion of the medications, then it might have been clear what the problem was in this instance. For example, if the individual took a specific medication for cancer treatment, then his privacy would have been violated had staff discussed what the medication was used for in front of others at the table. The final result was that the facility administration really had no idea what was done wrong, but wrote a Plan of Correction (POC) all the same and submitted it for review. The facility will likely clear a follow up visit and move forward. It would be logical to assume that if this trend continues, private providers are going to be forced to strongly consider the IDR process.
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Recent Grant Funding
"Teaching Artist, Melissa Leaym-Fernandez, who is currently building the visual arts program in the Accelerated Learning Academy within the Flint Community Schools was awarded a supply grant from The Dreaming Zebra Foundation. Mrs. Leaym-Fernandez owns and operates the The Elephantworks Studio, Fort Gratiot, MI and continues to present real-world visual arts connections to her students. This year students will be studying black artists, designers and artisans in the classroom. Mrs. Leaym-Fernandez was able to attend the National Endowment for the Arts Summer Teacher Workshop called "Crafting Freedom" after being awarded a grant from the NEH. The workshop was an immersive experience that allowed participants to study free, enslaved, and black people who purchased their freedom who were artists.
The Fine Arts will change lives, change our community, and open the powerful doors of opportunity for our students in the Flint Community Schools. Supplies coming will allow students to study Kehinde Wiley, Elizabeth Keckley, D'Wayne Edwards, Community & Public Art, and quite a bit more!"
Instrument Recycling Program
Through the Green Horn Project and Mark Schwartz Strings, FCS has been able to trade old, broken, otherwise unusable instruments stored at in closets and in long closed schools that still had value for usable refurbished instruments. Through this effort, Northwestern has already received a set of crash cymbals, a tuba, a set of timpani, and chimes. Southwestern and Potter will soon receive instruments. The effort will continue in the middle schools through the end of the year.
Despite this effort, the need for new or refurbished instruments is great, and we are still seeking funding.


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So you know how to set up PouchDB. What's next?
Open source is a big deal at Engine Yard. Originally founded as a Ruby company, most of our early work was in the Ruby community. Since acquiring Orchestra in 2011, we have been investing in the PHP commmunity and are continually on the look out for ways to give back. So I'm thrilled to be sharing the latest news on this front.
PouchDB is a great way to replicate data from a remote source in the browser. Once you've replicated the data, you can then query and process it. In this series of articles, we give a gentle introduction to PouchDB, including code to get you up and running.
This is the last post in a five part series that covers the basics of getting WordPress up and running on Engine Yard. In the first post, we covered how to get a basic install deployed. In the second post we introduced a way to make modifications locally, and freeze them, so that they can be deployed to a cluster of cattle servers. In the third post we looked at two approaches to installing plugins locally, and got an S3 bucket set up to serve images so that we're not relying on the filesystem, which is ephemeral. Then, in the fourth post we set up New Relic for application monitoring, and CloudFlare for site speedup, analytics, and security protection.
This is a guide to using Composer to manage Magento extensions. If you find managing extensions difficult, or if you've heard of Composer but don't know where to start, then this is the guide for you!
You can use Backend as a Service (BaaS) to host server-side components that have been abstracted from your web app. These components include things like storage, authentication, and message sending. BaaS is a relatively new service model, but by providing off-the-shelf solutions to common problems, it allows you to roll apps much more efficiently.
Servers and clients have alternated as champions in the battle for developer attention ever since the server-client model of application development began. The mobile era saw servers in the ascendancy as cloud computing was cheap and mobile clients were underpowered, but technology gains are starting to bring mobile hardware into parity. This, amongst other factors, is driving a return towards more client-side computing.
Modern apps usually come in two halves. One half of the app lives in the browser or the local operating system, whether desktop or mobile. The other half lives on a remote server, or in a cloud cluster. These halves are called the client and server environments respectively.
The long-tail means that for "every Wikipedia, there are a thousand other wikis that never managed to get a second contributor." The same applies to open source projects, and it's something you need to think about if you want to ensure the longevity of your project. If it's just you, handling all those pull requests and tickets by yourself, you stand a good chance of running out of steam unless you can attract additional contributors to help you with the workload.
In the previous posts in this series, we've covered how to get a basic install of WordPress up and running in the cloud, how to install themes, and how to install plugins. The biggest hurdle when deploying legacy applications to the cloud is dealing with the filesystem. Fortunately, by freezing the state of the filesystem before we deploy, we can work around this. And by adapting our code to write to external data storage, we can remove our run-time dependency on the file system.


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Peter Phillips the recently installed leader of the Opposition in Jamaica really has nothing going for him so he decided he will simply oppose any and everything that the Government does or says.
Now, to be fair to the People's National Party no one could reasonably accuse them of being anything close to a law and order party.
In fact, under their longest serving and the Island's most destructive Prime Minister Percival James Patterson, the mantra was "anyting a anyting", a classic wink and nod to criminals to run-wid-it, do what they wanted.
So it came as no surprise that the old tun back rasta Peter Phillips would be opposed to the idea of reining in INDECOM.
Now, granted that Prime Minister Andrew Holness does not have clean hands, or more like clean conscience in this, he at least has a disgruntled Police Force on his hands, angry about the lack of progress with wage negotiations.
With over 500 cops walking away each year and the JCF unable to reach recruitment targets Holness has no choice but to kiss some asses.
So he arrived at his come to Jesus moment at the National Arena a few days ago telling supporters that the police are afraid to do their jobs because of an overzealous INDECOM.
No shit !!!
It follows that Peter Phillips with no plan of his own or any intention of having a plan for crime, except to watch it escalate would oppose what Holness said. It made good politics for the brain-dead cool-aid drinkers who blindly follow Phillips cult party but is his position sound policy?
Peter Phillips went on to argue that since he was a boy he heard about name brand cops and that their claim to fame was because they were violent.
No Peter, you troll, the name brand cops of whom you speak were in fact not violent at all contrary to popular perceptions.
Ask around about Keith Trinity Gardiner, Dick Hibbert, the dearly departed Tony Hewitt, (Cornwall Bigga Ford one of yours) and a long list of others and people will tell you they were effective because they were fearless, selfless and tireless, something you would not know about as a politician you are the opposite, simply cowardly, lazy and selfish.
Ask them how many times they have been shot and shot at, rest in peace Anthony Hewitt?
Your feeble attempt at rewriting history shows you for the rapacious graceless punk that you are, just another greasy despicable power hungry troll.
Which brings me to why the PNP would have you as their leader when you already betrayed the party and indeed our country to foreign powers.
Come on Peter Phillips do you think we have forgotten?
Remember those MOU's you signed?
The highly classified MOUs, which involve Jamaica, the United States (US), and the United Kingdom (UK), were signed by Phillips in 2004.
Though Phillips argued that he had authority to sign the MOU's Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor at the time under cross-examination, testified that the MOUs involved the military and should have had the signature of the then minister of defense, P.J. Patterson, and not Phillips.
Have PNP supporters forgotten this little incident?
You see Mister Phillips you cannot be trusted and everyone knows this, so let's be clear, you have zero credibility on National Security or on crime for that matter.
You sold the country down the river before, so no one is surprised that you would take a raw political stance on a matter this important again.


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"I would not willingly yield to smallpox," said Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. at a news conference last week, "but I might get it." To Lindsay Almond, the prospect of white and Negro children attending school together was something like smallpox—and he clearly thought Virginia might get it.
With the state's "massive resistance" laws ready to topple in the courts and with powerful Virginia editors looking for a way out (TIME, Nov. 24), able Lawyer Almond came close to admitting that Virginia might have to come up with a local-option school plan. Only two days before his news conference, Almond and Virginia had got a vaccination against the infection they feared. In Norfolk (pop. 314,600), where 10,000 pupils are still locked out, voters decided 12,333 to 8,781 against petitioning Almond to return their schools to local control, thus let them open integrated. Printed on the ballot was a warning to those who might favor integration over no schools at all: city operation of integrated schools would call for "substantial tuition."
The Norfolk vote made Virginia's Almond feel fine for a moment. "The normal voice," he said, "has spoken." But just in case the vaccination did not take, Almond continued his planning toward a possible second line of defense—which he tagged "conditional resistance."
Last week these signposts also appeared on the rocky integration road: In Atlanta 312 ministers signed a petition and warned against false prophets: "Those who insist that the decision of the Supreme Court on segregation in the public schools has no binding force do great injury to our people." In Little Rock, where public high schools are still padlocked, the U.S. marshal sent home the dozens of deputy marshals who had been brought in ten weeks ago when violence threatened. In Tampa State Representative W. H. Reedy told a lower house caucus that he will soon try to pass a bill setting up a multistate, multimillion-dollar fund to sell Southern segregation ideas in the North the way Hollywood sells a movie star.


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I'm a writer, which means I like to write.
Sometimes I also like to read. A lot. When I should be sleeping. When I should be doing something important.
Now, I know all the theories that writers are supposed to read, and how you will never be a great writer if you don't read a lot etc. etc. But am I the only one who sometimes reads a book with a sense of guilty pleasure?
It's like…
I could have completed editing that chapter … but spent the evening reading instead.
Or I could have cleaned the house…but I spent the afternoon reading instead.
And even when there is nothing more important to do, and you allow yourself the guilty pleasure of reading time, there are degrees of guilt. For example reading a classic or literary fiction is far more acceptable than dipping into the latest genre fiction offering in the bestseller list. And reading about writing? That's Okay too.
But a brain-off holiday romance? When you write crime fiction? What if it infects you and your gritty thriller turns into…Oh dear!
And what about people who write literary fiction? They must be in a constant state of fear that if they dip into the latest YA sensation it may give their masterpiece a new and unwelcome twist.
There is no hope for it. I don't know a single writer who isn't also a reader. I love the different genres, and I love the different writing styles. I love reading—even when I know I should be doing something else!
And despite the guilty pleasure…I'm off to read some more!


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Step 3 – My Will or God's Will? 12 Steps
Step 3 of 12 Steps – "Made a decision to turn our lives and our will over to the care of God." As I explained in the message the past weekend, this is both a one-time decision and an ongoing daily decision. It's living out what Paul meant by, "My old self has been crucified…Details


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Wooler YHA Accommodation
We have managed to secure the Wooler YHA for the whole weekend. So you can book accomodation at the hostel from Friday night through to Sunday. So if you are travelling to the race or even just fancy a lie in. There is everything from rooms of two to shared bunk rooms. Bedding is provided but you will need to bring your own towel.Buy tickets for Wooler Trail Run Accommodation
Car Sharing to the raceThis year we are using a car sharing website developed by a runner that aims to save you money, and reduce the carbon footprint of the event:
http://RaceLifts.org car sharing
We would be most grateful if EVERYONE coming to the Wooler Trail Marathon race could try out the site (even if you don't expect to car share). It only takes a minute and is completely free to use. As well as saving you petrol money, it will ease the parking headaches for us at the race.
Plan your journey
Please use this Google link to plan your journey by car or bus to Wooler.


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Greetings Farid When I tried running devenv, I found I was able to create a project using the wizard. I suppose the next thing to try would be installing some of the other components (VB or J#). This (and any other troubleshooting) will need to wait until Monday, as I will be on vacation tomorrow. --Andrew Black Farid Zaripov wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andrew Black [mailto:email@example.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:51 PM >> To: firstname.lastname@example.com >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Scripts, generating solution and >> projects for MSVC/ICC >> >> At this time, we have not figured out the cause of the >> problem on EM64T windows. I have checked with a couple of >> the windows developers for ideas, but nothing conclusive has arisen. >> >> My current working hypothesis is that a required component or >> components are missing from the install on the shared EM64T >> machines. On my local box, I installed all available >> components, while only the Visual C++ language tools were >> installed on the shared machines. >> >> Farid, can you shed any light on this hypothesis? > If you could run devenv.exe and then create a new project using > wizard, > then I think that all required component are installed. The devenv.exe > uses the same object to create project file as well as generate.wsf > script. > > Farid.
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If you're a mom and part of Facebook or any online forum for mothers, then you've probably at least heard in passing about the controversy surrounding pictures of nursing infants.
I took this picture today while nursing Ladybug, who will be 4 months old this week.
As I learned before her birth with all my internet research, NIP (nursing in public) is quite controversial. Both in real life and online, NIP brings with it a whole host of issues. Cover or not? Nurse at the table when out to eat or hide away in the bathroom? Leave the house at all? Is it legally protected or subject to public indecency laws? Mom's right to breastfeed or baby's right to eat or the public's right to not be grossed out? That's just the tip of the iceberg!
There are Facebook groups, blog posts and carnivals, news articles, and forum debates about breastfeeding. The arguments go back and forth, and honestly? I don't think any one person is more right or more wrong than any other when it comes to all the different opinions on nursing mothers. I truly believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, regardless of whether or not I agree with them.
When I see other moms nursing, yes, it makes me uncomfortable. I am embarrassed to admit it, but there it is. I personally choose to cover up when NIP because, as you can see, my boob is 3x the size of my daughter's head. For me, covering makes me less afraid of a confrontation with a belligerent or ignorant stranger.
Yet when I'm at home, I look down at my baby and see nothing but the love I have for her. I am often overwhelmed by how much stronger I am as a woman and mother because I am nursing her. We have overcome much on our journey. From a past riddled with sexual abuse and body image issues, to flat nipples and painfully broken/bloody skin, to oversupply and thrush, to paving the way as our family's first breastfeeder in this generation, Ladybug and I have shown ourselves to be strong women.
I guess I can now understand why women want to post pictures of themselves breastfeeding their kids. After all, in a formula saturated society (no pun intended), breastfeeding for any length of time is something to be proud of, and something to celebrate. It's not about making other moms feel bad. It's not about getting our jollies by showing off the goods. And it's not even about promoting breastfeeding. It's about seeing the world through a mother's eyes. It's about the love we have for our children and the pride we have in ourselves.
Til next squeak,


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|Member Society Name:
|Hawthorn City Pipe Band Inc..
|Bryce Graham
|Cameron De Fries
|Contact Details
|Hawthorn City Pipe Band
|0409 255 667
|Office Bearers:
|Bruce Freeman
|0412 591 366
|Brief History
|The Year was 1914. The place – Melbourne, Australia. Encouraged by a number of interested, civic-minded Hawthorn citizens, several pipers and drummers met at Hemmingway's Glenferrie Hotel in the City of Hawthorn on the 26th of November. After much discussion (and drinking) they established a pipe band which was originally named the Hawthorn Highland Pipe Band A further meeting, held at the Glenferrie Hotel on the 26th of October, 1915, saw the members of the Collingwood Pipe Band join with the Hawthorn Highland Pipe Band for engagements and practice, meeting at the City Baths, Glenferrie, in the winter, and Manningtree Rd State School in the summer. The aim of the organisation was to foster Scottish music and pipe band work. It is interesting to note that there has been little change to those aims over the past 90 years. It was not until approximately 1927 that the Band successfully functioned as a unit and it was at this time, with the recognition and acceptance of the Hawthorn City Council, that the name of the Band was changed to its present title, the Hawthorn City Pipe Band. The activities of the Band later moved to Victoria Rd. Auburn, which was shared with the scouting movement. The original wooden building which was previously a Church was moved to the site, but was destroyed by fire in 1962. The Band was relocated to the pavilion at St. James Park, West Hawthorn for two years, while a scout hall was build on the site of the old church. In 1990 the Band moved its base to the Cottage Hall, Swinburne Senior Secondary College, located on William St. The Band has been fortunate in maintaining a very high standard of leadership, management and performance throughout its existence. Whilst a number of excellent tutors and officers have served extensive terms in office, an outstanding example of dedication was set by the Late Life President of the Band, E. J. Rigg. He was a prominent Hawthorn civic figure who conducted business in the City and served the community for a lengthy period as a councillor. His term in office in the Band commenced as foundation President, and apart from the period 1930-32 when Dr. R. M. Wishart held the position of president, E. J. Rigg continued as president of the Band until his death in 1960. During his long association with the Band he also carried out the duties of Secretary for 6 years, and Treasurer for 10 years. This splendid display of leadership established a pattern which is still a keynote for the band today. Many other prominent Australians from Federal government, Local government and Civic levels have provided valuable input and support which has played a large part in developing the present management style of the Band. The Late Sir R. G. Menzies, past Australian Prime Minister, was the No. 1 Patron of the Band from 1938 until his death in 1978. After his death, the family interest and association was maintained by the highly respected and gracious Dame Patti Menzies who publicly talked about "MY BAND".
|Hawthorn City Pipe Band
|1914 ? Melbourne
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We still talk about new technology, to a distressing degree, as something that is happening to us rather than something that is enabling us to provide more value to the customer and carry out a strategy. In the next 50 years, it's going to be the other way around: IT strategy will be determined by business strategy. We're going to be in an environment of increasingly unpredictable change. Therefore, IT must support adaptive rather than merely efficient business models.
In the past 50 years, in what I call the make-and-sell model, things were stable enough that you could state your objective, plot a process to do it and presume you knew what the market wanted. The game against the competition involved doing what you predicted needed to be done, but doing it better than the other guy.
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It may sound bizarre, but that is exactly what happened when journalists Dan Olmsted and David Kirby interfered with Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs' Reverend Lisa Sykes' 2008 personal injury lawsuit against drug companies Bayer, Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline. Incredibly, Olmsted and Kirby were persuaded to co-write a letter that took the side of the drug companies against Sykes' case. Even more bizarre was who successfully appealed to Olmsted and Kirby to support Bayer: vaccine industry mainstay blogger Dr. David Gorski, via an open letter on "Science"Blogs. (He would later accept direct funding from Bayer: a 30,000-euro grant according to Gorski himself.)
It all began when "neurodiversity" blogger Kathleen Seidel of the now-defunct neurodiversity.com website was subpoenaed by attorney Cliff Shoemaker, who was representing Reverend Sykes in her case against Bayer and other pharmaceutical companies for injuries her son sustained from mercury exposure through vaccination and Rh-immunoglobulins. Seidel had quite a track record of pro-pharma activities. She had complained against scientists to their state medical board and to the FDA, and had also written in support of the CDC freezing outside researchers from accessing a federal database. These complaints by her would eventually culminate in a scientist being coerced by FDA into voluntarily withdrawing a product from the market, even though it met FDA's safety standards. Seidel's complaints would also lead to a scientist losing his medical license and his son being fined $10,000 by a medical board known for flouting fairness statutes meant to protect doctors. According to millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit, Seidel falsely claimed to him that Generation Rescue co-founder JB Handley threatened her with a lawsuit which in turn led to Handley being libeled in Offit's 2008 book. He would be forced to change the text in his book. Not surprisingly, Seidel had also attacked Rev. Sykes' case.
So what is wrong with Sykes' lawyer, Clifford Shoemaker, subpoenaing Kathleen Seidel in order to try and find out possible connections she may have to pharma? Well, according to the vaccine industry blogger David Gorski's letter to Kirby and Olmsted: "freedom of speech" and the "First Amendment." Gorski also insisted Seidel was not connected to the pharmaceutical industry (as if he would admit that she was if he was privy to this information) and noted that she is not a defendant in the case, despite her persistence in helping those defendants by targeting their critics. Gorski did make one point to Olmsted and Kirby that was correct, however:
If both of you, who so strongly disagree with Kathleen's conclusions, were to speak out, it would shame Shoemaker and his clients, the Sykes, beyond any condemnation that I or the rest of the blogosphere can provide.
Indeed, Olmsted and Kirby were in a unique position to undermine Reverend Sykes' case against Bayer and other pharmaceutical companies given that both journalists are well known to be on the same side of the debate as Sykes. That is the real reason Gorski wrote them his letter as he stated himself. He even hilariously tried to make them feel sympathetic towards Seidel by saying that they wouldn't like being subpoenaed by vaccine manufacturers, and ended his email with the following plea:
If a lawyer representing a plaintiff suing vaccine companies can get away with this, just imagine what abuses lawyer [sic] with the resources of a big pharmaceutical company or the government could perpetrate to silence blogospheric critics. Imagine what mischief they could cause by demanding the correspondence, e-mails, financial records, and contacts with religious groups from their critics. That would be you, Mr. Kirby and Mr. Olmsted.
Just think about it.
And yet, Orac, (blogging pseudonym for Dr. David Gorski) supports that very "mischief." After Dr. Andrew Wakefield sued Brian Deer, Dr. Fiona Godlee and the British Medical Journal for libel in 2012, Gorski wrote Dr. Wakefield's lawsuit:
…would allow them [Deer and Godlee's lawyers] to subpoena all sorts of information…It might also, as I've pointed out, allow the defendants' lawyers to depose all manner of Wakefield's connections relevant to this libel suit, possibly even some of Generation Rescue's luminaries and bloggers at AoA, given that it appears very much to me as though GR (Generation Rescue) and AoA coordinate their attacks on Deer and Godlee with Wakefield.
When Dr. Wakefield first filed his lawsuit, Gorski wrote that:
Communications between Wakefield and any AoA blogger might be subject to discovery.
That would include "Mr. Kirby and Mr. Olmsted," not to mention me and potentially anyone else who has ever contributed to Age of Autism and corresponded with Dr. Wakefield. Obviously, Gorski would support the Merck and GSK-funded British Medical Journal, its editor Fiona Godlee and writer-for-hire Brian Deer serving Olmsted and Kirby with a subpoena. Gorski's ploy is not surprising at all, given his complicity in the CDC's thimerosal-autism cover-up and IOM's subsequent whitewash.
What is devastatingly surprising, however, is Kirby and Olmsted's response that came just three days after Gorski's letter that blatantly stated: "I am appealing to both of you to use your influence and position in the autism biomedical movement to protest this shameless action by Mr. Shoemaker."
In a complete betrayal to the autism community, Olmsted and Kirby did use their influence to protest Shoemaker's subpoena, but they only sent their letter of protest to David Gorski. It appeared on his blog and nowhere else:
We both take this matter very seriously, and strongly oppose any effort to subpoena the records of Ms. Kathleen Seidel. We have also clearly expressed our feelings to Mr. Shoemaker. While we may not agree with her opinions, we consider Ms. Seidel to be a colleague. Rights to privacy, and to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment, must be upheld for all. We urge Mr. Shoemaker to reconsider, and drop this action against Ms. Seidel.
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Perhaps the most shocking part of the letter is their reference to Seidel as their "colleague" – a colleague who has no journalism credentials, who complains against scientists to their state's medical board, the FDA and medical journals while advocating for outside researchers to be frozen out of accessing a taxpayer-funded, federal database. That is the "colleague" Kirby and Olmsted profess to support on the basis of "free speech" – a "colleague" whom by Gorski's own standards as applied to Dr. Wakefield's case – would be more than appropriate to subpoena.
It gets worse, however, much worse.
Less than two weeks after Kirby and Olmsted's signed letter of support for their "colleague" Kathleen Seidel invoking the first amendment, Seidel gained free legal support from a Washington, DC-based consumer advocacy group called "Public Citizen." More specifically, she was receiving support from Public Citizen's "First Amendment Team."
Dan Olmsted is connected to Public Citizen through its Health Research Center director/cofounder Dr. Sidney Wolfe. Dr. Wolfe's involvement in Public Citizen spanned nearly four decades. Did Dan Olmsted provide Kathleen Seidel with free legal support? Whether directly or indirectly, the letter of support for Seidel he cosigned with Kirby could have only helped.
Within a day of David Gorski boasting about Public Citizen's support for Seidel on "Science"Blogs, Shoemaker's motion to subpoena was quashed. Less than two weeks after that, the Sykes dropped their case against Bayer and other pharmaceutical companies. The following month, the Sykes' lawyer Clifford Shoemaker was professionally sanctioned.
As this was all happening, Olmsted and Kirby's support for Seidel drew the ire of one notoriously cantankerous Age of Autism reader – autism father and Hating Autism blogger John Best. He tried to complain about Olmsted and Kirby's support for Seidel – and by extension Bayer – in the comments of Age of Autism, only to be censored. Eventually, Best was banned from commenting on Age of Autism altogether. Apparently, Seidel's right to free speech is more important to Age of Autism than that of its own readers as well as the scientists whose reputations she worked to destroy and whose research she worked to stifle.
John Best is not the only person who did not receive a satisfactory explanation from Kirby and Olmsted regarding their support of Seidel. David Kirby did not respond to my inquiry for this article. (I merely asked him if anyone other than Gorski had pressured him to write the letter.) Age of Autism editor Dan Olmsted has informed me that he refuses to communicate with me altogether. When we were still communicating, however, he figuratively claimed:
"John Best wants to shoot me, and I'm a good guy!"
At that time, I had no idea that this "good guy" helped quash a thimerosal lawsuit against Bayer – much less that that was what Best had been complaining about and been censored from Age of Autism over. Then in 2011, David Gorski disclosed taking research funds directly from Bayer. I would love to know what role Olmsted and Kirby's letter invoking "free speech" may have played in helping secure direct pharmaceutical funding to Gorski – a blogger who ironically considers them worthy of subpoena by vaccine industry-backed litigants.
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated and is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a BA in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy, He is completing his candidacy for an MPH in epidemiology from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.


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Rolex Submariner replica 116649 watches with platinum cases are the classic diving watches. It can be regarded as the model of same type watches. In the 1953 launch of the submariner watch is the world's first water depth of 100 meters watch. Later the brand three lock crowns make its depth of water increase to 300 meters.
Rolex fake watches with black dials are in platinum materials. The middle of chain is diamond plating and outer ring is decorated with green square stones which are extremely luxurious and elegant. The platinum folding clasp not only makes wearing comfortable, but also echos the whole styles of watches.
In the ocean, it is an indispensable tool for divers. In the land, it is widely popular sports watch which show the elegant style. Especially with all kinds of jewelry submerged, the copy watches with self-winding movements will become the best choice for women to attend the ceremony.