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Big plays carry Bills to win over Colts
After a lackluster performance in the preseason opener, Buffalo's first string offense bounced back in impressive fashion as they made use of some of their top playmakers to put up 14 points on the board early. The defense chipped in with four takeaways and a touchdown of their own en route to a 34-21 victory over Indianapolis.
"I think we made a step this week," said head coach Chan Gailey. "What I told our team was you have to keep making steps forward and I thought we made a step forward in this ball game. Hopefully you can do that all the time. But when you get more turnovers and don't turn the ball over, and you get one of those returned for a touchdown you win most of the time."
Following a short opening possession by the Colts in which they went three-and-out, Buffalo's offense struck quickly. Trent Edwards hit Roscoe Parrish along the far sideline for an 11-yard gain for a first down. Parrish then followed up with a six-yard pickup on a reverse.
C.J. Spiller, starting in place of the injured Fred Jackson and Marshawn Lynch, converted a 2nd-and-4 with a four-yard carry to move the chains again. On the next play from scrimmage, Spiller showed his elusiveness and power as he broke three tackles to rip off a 31-yard touchdown run giving the Bills an early 7-0 lead.
"The offensive line did a great job blocking up front. Coming in we knew how they were going to play, how we knew they were a fast defense and how they were going to probably overrun a couple of our plays," said Spiller. "I just read my keys and Corey (McIntyre) did a great job. I just cut back, made a guy miss and it felt good to get in there."
Peyton Manning and the Colts' offense however, answered with a seven-play 63-yard scoring drive capped by a 17-yard Joseph Addai touchdown run. Following a quick three-and-out by Buffalo's offense the Colts were on the march again. However, on a 2nd-and-9 play at the Bills 27-yard line, a Manning pass intended for Anthony Gonzalez went through the receiver's hands and Terrence McGee intercepted the pass just before it hit the carpet. McGee got back to his feet and sprinted 78 yards for the touchdown and a 14-7 Bills edge midway through the first quarter.
"Basically Drayton Florence tipped the ball and I was just in the right spot at the right time," McGee said. "I happened to catch the ball before it hit the ground. At first, I thought someone was going to tackle me so I just took off. My team did the blocking and got me to the end zone."
It wasn't the first time McGee victimized the Colts in the preseason as he had a 68-yard fumble return for a score the last time Buffalo faced Indianapolis back in 2008.
Indianapolis was able to tie the score again after an exchange of possessions. Buffalo went three-and-out after some breakdowns in protection including a third down play where Edwards got his helmet knocked clean off his head on a pressure which also chipped his tooth.
The Colts struck quickly after a 49-yard punt return by Devin Moore set his offense up at the Bills 17-yard line. Manning, despite an incomplete pass and false start penalty, was able to hit tight end Jacob Tamme down the seam for a 21-yard touchdown reception on a 3rd-and-14 play to make it 14 all.
Buffalo's offense went back up almost immediately on the ensuing possession. Following a three-yard carry by Spiller on first down, Edwards got good protection from his line on a 2nd-and-7 from his own 31 and hit a wide open Lee Evans 40 yards downfield for a 69-yard touchdown catch that brought the crowd at the Rogers Centre to their feet, making it 21-14 Buffalo.
"It was just a deep flag route and Steve (Johnson) did a good job on his over-route occupying the safety," said Edwards. "It's just a matter of taking seven steps and throwing it as far as you can. Lee went and got it. We're going to make our mistakes, but we have to come back and be ready to throw the ball when we do have time to protect."
Gailey was proud of the way Edwards responded after taking a hard hit the series before.
"I never thought anything less would happen to be honest with you," Gailey said. "I think all of our guys have got moxie. And you've got to have moxie to play quarterback in this league. I was impressed with that. I was really impressed with it. And I asked him after he got hit and if he was okay and he didn't even flinch. He said he was fine. I didn't even hesitate to throw the ball when he went back out there. I think he's a tough guy."
Edwards wound up going 5-8 passing for 93 yards and a touchdown with a passer rating of 142.2, while Spiller had 54 yards rushing on 10 carries (5.3 avg.).
"That's a great defense we just went up against and that's a big confidence booster," Spiller said. "Those guys did a great job of covering them up and opening the running lanes. And then you've seen on the pass protection, if we just give Trent some time, he makes big plays for us."
And though the starting offense had a couple of three-and-outs, putting touchdowns on the board was the biggest sign of improvement from the unit's performance a week ago.
"I thought we had a couple of good and bad drives," said Edwards. "We talked about just getting first downs, moving the chains and not turning the ball over. In years past we kind of ran into problems where we would let the momentum get to us. I feel like once the other team gets the momentum that we haven't able to get it back.
"I felt like we did a good job of responding. When they throw a touchdown pass, we came back and threw a touchdown pass. So we need to do a better job of that, which we did tonight. That's something we didn't do last year, so we need to make sure we handle the momentum swings a little bit better and just be able to move the ball down the field and protect."
Indianapolis would tie the score a third time in the first half when Taj Smith accounted for all 81 yards of the Colts scoring drive on two straight receptions. The first a 38-yarder followed by a 43-yard touchdown reception down the far sideline to knot up the score at 21.
Brian Brohm and the second unit offense would enter the game on the next offensive series for Buffalo. After a tough start on the first two plays, Brohm and company settled down and methodically drove 67 yards on 13 plays. A nice over the shoulder touch pass to Chad Jackson along the near sideline went for 26 yards to set up 1st-and-goal at the seven-yard line.
Unfortunately after a two-yard run by Chad Simpson on first-and-goal, Brohm was unable to connect with intended receivers Simpson and Jackson on his next two pass attempts. The Bills took a 24-yard field goal from Rian Lindell just before the half to go into the locker room up 24-21.
In the second half Brohm was hitting his targets. In the third quarter alone he was 6-8 for 41 yards and that continued into the fourth quarter. Head coach Chan Gailey stated that he wanted to see good accuracy from Brohm and for the most part he delivered. He finished the night 14-21 for 125 yards with a passer rating of 82.4.
Buffalo got another opportunity to put points on the board midway through the fourth quarter when rookie safety Dominique Harris sacked Tim Hiller forcing a fumble, which was recovered by fellow rookie Arthur Moats at the Colts' 22-yard line. The Indianapolis defense stiffened however, after the turnover and Buffalo took a 37-yard field goal from Lindell for a 27-21 lead with 7:49 left in the game.
Before the game was over Levi Brown and the reserves added a touchdown drive thanks in large part to some good run blocking up front and hard running by Joique Bell, who capped the drive with a two-yard touchdown run to close out the scoring.
The Bills resume training camp practices Saturday afternoon. They get more than a week to regroup for their next preseason game, which will be at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Saturday Aug. 28th against Cincinnati. Kickoff for the Kid's Day game is set for 6:30 pm.


Feeling a little sleepy today? That's okay, maybe you had a rough night. Not a big deal.
But what if you're feeling sleepy a lot? Days or weeks at a time? You may be becoming dangerous.
Put another way, you may have a sleep disorder, putting you among the tens of millions who suffer with one. The dangerous part? It seems 20 percent of all motor vehicle accidents are associated with untreated sleep disorders. Do you remember the Challenger accident and the Three Mile Island danger? Both are connected with sleep disorder issues.
How does this relate to dentistry? First of all, the American Association of Sleep Medicine is considered the governing body. It provides the guidelines and the standard of care for dentists and physicians to follow in order to provide the public with the highest level of education and treatment options related to chronic, severe problems of sleep deprivation.
Most people consider going to a dentist for snoring only when their partner becomes disturbed and irritated. It's a situation that is both uncomfortable and embarrassing for both parties.
So what can a dentist do to turn this problem into a profit center? Here are the proper process and procedures to provide excellent care in sleep medicine. Follow them and you will be able to increase your profitability by expanding your practices service offerings.
Get certified! Patients seek out dentists who have either a certification, designation or a minimum of 25 hours of training in the appropriate sleep medicine courses.
Learn to make the referral! A proper diagnosis requires the patient to get a polysomnogram (PSG), a level one sleep study done in a hospital setting where the individual stays overnight. Their eye movement, muscle movement and cardiac evaluation is constantly monitored along with their blood pressure, their inspiration, and expiration. A combination of all these factors will determine whether the correct diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea is present or not.
Now for the solution. Most think a CPAP unit is the logical solution. You put on a mask when you sleep and it solves the problem, right? Well, maybe. As many as 80 to 85 percent of people are unable to tolerate the CPAP. Users can find it constricture, claustrophobic and ironically, find it difficult to sleep with it on. It's also a bit pricey at about $2,000.
A good alternative is a Intraoral or Mandibular Advancement Device.These devices keep the lower jaw in place and stops snoring just as well as a CPAP machine.
Over 90 percent of all sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea is caused by occlusion of the oral cavity or back of the throat by the tongue. By bringing the lower jaw or mandible forward, the tongue is advanced forward and the airway is open.
We've been providing intraoral appliances for sleep disorders for many years now and it is amazing to me how much better patients say they feel. Whether is be a intraoral appliance or a CPAP unit, your practice can benefit greatly simply by offering the service.
So are your patients sleeping well? Are they snoring? Maybe these are two questions you should be asking at every checkup from now on.


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Q: How can I get a specific string between two string in python I am trying to get a specific string in a specific position. The string I have is a Json inside html page I tried to locate it using HTML tags But I could not The site I want to scarap
the string I want to get is: "isOnlyFewLeft":false,"isOutOfStock":false,"isRopisEligibleSku":true,"isSephoraExclusive":false,"
I tried the following pattern: '''"isOutOfStock": (.*?), "isRopisEligibleSku"''' But it did not work.
My code: ```
def Filter(self):
    try:
        print(self.sourcepage)
        match = re.search('''"isOutOfStock": (.*?), "isRopisEligibleSku"''', self.sourcepage)
        print(match)
        if match:
            print(match.group())
    except BaseException as e:
        print(e)```

A: Try to get required values by parsing script HTML-element as JSON:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json

url = 'https://www.sephora.com/product/laura-mercier-mini-tinted-moisturizer-broad-spectrum-spf-20-oil-free-P466665?icid2=just%20dropped:p466665:product'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content,'lxml')
script = soup.select('#linkStore')[0].text
content = json.loads(script)

product_info = content['page']['product']['ancillarySkus'][0]
print(product_info['isOnlyFewLeft'],
      product_info['isOutOfStock'],
      product_info['isSephoraExclusive'],
      product_info['isRopisEligibleSku'])

Output:
(False, False, False, True)

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A 3 hours workshop suitable for 9 years old to adults. No experience needed. Experiment the techniques of simple clay modelling, coloring, Mold applications and other complementary materials, cutting and combining colors to create design their own fake food display set. This workshop includes making your own chopsticks and usage of other material to complete the set. All materials provided. Bowl Measures approximately 3 cm in diameter.


It all began with the image shown on television of the body of a frozen girl: frozen in the Himalayan Mountains while fleeing Tibet into Indian exile.
That image, which she saw in 1998, made writer/filmmaker Maria Blumencron ask herself, how could parents send their children away, and over such arduous terrain?
While on her quest for answers in Tibet she met Kelsang Jigme, a brave soul who had assisted the children in their escape.
Ms. Blumencron wanted to make a documentary of the trek across the Himalayan Mountain passes. She and Kelsang Jigme went to Tibet to begin. But the police were notified, arrested her and kept her in custody for one and a half days. Kelsang Jigme was incarcerated for two years.
After that she made her approach from the Nepalese side of the Tibetan border, and came to know some of the people who dared to risk their lives to escape. Among them were youths and children, carried through the snow by adults. The results of her quest led to an impressive documentary and a book.
At the end of March 2008, Maria published her second book: Goodbye, Tibet. As she did in her first work, she describes individual people's fate and their daring—to confront great danger in Tibet, to dare to escape from Communist rule, and be on their way to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's home in India.
Epoch Times (ET): It is difficult for us to imagine that parents would send their children into exile, across the Himalayan Mountains.
Maria (M): Children are not the only ones. Monks, nuns, political refugees, and old people risk this: those who wish to live out their lives close to the Dalai Lama, and also pilgrims who want to see the Dalai Lama and then return home.
ET: What are their reasons?
M: Oftentimes economic concerns play a role. The Chinese regime's Western Development Program does not necessarily benefit the Tibetans. Tibetans must pay higher taxes than Chinese living in Tibet, particularly in the rural areas. Tibetans have less chance for decent employment. Should a Tibetan actually have the good fortune to attend school and university, it will be more difficult for that person to find employment later on. All refugees I spoke with told me, "Something is wrong with the system. They make us pay money!" Few families can afford that. Schools in rural areas are often substandard and do not represent what a school ought to be. Some families are so poor they cannot afford to feed their children. On top of that, parents want to avoid having their children exposed to Chinese propaganda and want to raise their offspring as Tibetans. I have an inkling that a Tibetan mother is convinced her children are better off in a Tibetan Children's Village abroad than at home.
ET: How should I visualize the children fleeing?
M: The children don't travel alone, but with the aid of a guide who facilitates their escape. But not all of these people are suited to deal with children. It takes special aptitude and skill. Each helper transporting five children needs another five adults to help along the way. Though the climb from the Tibetan side is not that steep, the children will sink into the snow. Then they have to be carried.
M: Depending on the route taken, at least 14 days, and quite often as long as 22 days.
ET: How are these groups equipped?
M: Very poorly, very poorly…They wear tennis shoes, wrap their stocking feet with plastic against the wet, and they don't have sleeping bags. All they have are stitched-together blankets that are covered with plastic bags. This arrangement shelters two or three people who huddle together for warmth. They don't even have ropes to rescue someone who might fall into a crevasse.
M: They often run out, because it is impossible to carry enough. The refugees arrive at their destination completely starved and also lack sufficient water at these elevations.
M: The danger on the Tibetan side consists of potential arrest or outright killing at the hands of the armed Chinese police.
ET: Once in Nepal, are they safe?
M: There are other challenges. From a hiking standpoint, the route I had traversed is extremely difficult. It is a no-man's land. There are no paths, like the paths that exist to the base camp of Mt. Everest. One hikes along a glacier's ice field, across a moraine of frozen and broken ice. I was astonished how difficult the trek is. I thought how could it be possible for a child to survive this? Unbelievable…I think not even their mothers are aware of this when they send their children away. When people have plunged to their deaths or frozen to death, it happened primarily on the Nepalese side.
ET: Children die quicker than adults?
M: Of course! And the girls die first. They get cold faster than the boys. But I must emphasize that this is not a story of mass deaths of children; but rather that it does happen that some children die.
ET: A guide is always present?
M: Yes, a guide who is familiar with the route. He charges for his service. But if he is caught, he disappears into prison for a few years and is subjected to torture. The escapees themselves are brought to their own prison on the Tibetan side, a facility named "Tibetan Welcoming Center." Such sarcasm. They are interned for two months and are beaten and tortured.
ET: What is it like in the Children's villages?
M: Actually, fairly good. But 16,000 children are housed in nine Tibetan Children's Villages. They are organized along the lines of SOS-Children's Villages, with a housemother, except in the Tibetan facilities one housemother oversees 40 children. According to ability, children can remain there until they complete a high school education. The Dalai Lama's sister is hard at work right now to establish colleges for these young people, making it possible for them to get a college education.
ET: What do you like about the Tibetans' personalities?
M: What impressed me is their piety and joyous nature; that people manage to retain their sense of humor despite such hard lives. Like Kelsang Jigme; the ability to subordinate one's individual fate; to say I am prepared to risk my life; to dedicate my life to the Dalai Lama. That becomes evident in the streets. For instance, with the monks who had taken to the streets and risked incarceration and beatings. Their courage has my highest respect.
M: In 2007 I met five youths in the mountains and was unbelievably moved at how determined they were. They left because they had had enough of the Chinese propaganda. Those were teens who had never met the Dalai Lama and I thought they would have been assimilated into and swallowed up by Chinese materialism. But it was not so; they are completely aware of what is actually happening. That gave me an idea of what might happen during the Olympics.
ET: What is your sense of the Tibetan's spirituality?
M: I have delved into Buddhism, but I am a Christian and am rooted in my religion. But I always tell the children they must cherish and treasure their culture, and I would make a poor example should I convert to Buddhism, and I have no desire to do so. What I sense in these people is a strong connection to their faith, something that we [Christians] lack and are I think we are poorer for it. I am happy for the Dalai Lama's huge following, but also ponder the thought that we have our own faiths and culture.
M: People here in Europe find it appealing that the Dalai Lama exudes such joy. But when you visit the Swabian nun's cloister in Untermarchtal you will find mirth and much laughter. Oftentimes one embraces the foreign, but we have the same at home. Those are my feelings.
ET: Thank you for the interview.


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Q: How to get additional $_GET Parameters in Yii2 when prettyurl is enabled? how can i get additional $_GET Parameters in Yii2 even when prettyurl is enabled?
I need to read some feedback from the redirect Paypal-Link but i cant change the Link-Format on Paypal-Side to fit my Yii2 implementation:
http://example.com/controller/action?success=boolean&token=xyz
Thanks for your help!

A: you can use it
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-runtime-requests.html
for e.g
if you need to use $_GET['success'] or $_GET['token']
you must use  it:
$request = Yii::$app->request;

$get = $request->get();

$success = $request->get('success');
$token= $request->get('token');

A: I figured out a way:
$url = parse_url(Yii::$app->request->url);

parse_str($url['query'], $array);

$success = $array['success'];
$token = $array['token'];

but it still doesnt seem like the right Yii2-ish way to solve it.

A: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-web-urlmanager.html this will help You. you can specify GET POST method for any controller,
[
'dashboard' => 'site/index',

'POST <controller:\w+>s' => '<controller>/create',
'<controller:\w+>s' => '<controller>/index',

'PUT <controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'    => '<controller>/update',
'DELETE <controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/delete',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'        => '<controller>/view',];

for example
'POST <controller:\w+>/<success:\w+>/<token:\w+>'    => '<controller>/update',

A: Use the Request class.
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-web-request.html
print_r(Yii::$app->request->get()); returns all get variables in an array.  It's like doing print_r($_GET); in straight php.
If you want a specific $_GET variable you access it as follows:
Yii::$app->request->get('varName');

In your case it would be:
$success = Yii::$app->request->get('success');
$token = Yii::$app->request->get('token');

A: Here is my successful returnUrl from paypal which yii2 handles beautifully with prettyurl enabled in the UrlManager.
http://multi2.myhost/subscription/subscription/success?token=EC-8GE539098H175763M
I have created a subscription module and a controller class called SubscriptionController and actions called actionSuccess and actionCancel.
The Paypal redirect only passes one parameter. The token. No need for two parameters. Your success and cancel returnurl's should be something like:
controller/action  or subscription/success/
controller/action  or subscription/cancel/
Your success returnUrl:
SubscriptionController/actionSuccess($token)
public actionSuccess($token)
{

}

and your cancel returnUrl:
SubscriptionController/actionCancel($token)
public actionCancel($token)
{

}

Using this method there is no need for a second parameter to handle the success and cancel variable since the separate Controller Actions solve this problem. Incorporate the 'success' in the name of the action which satisfies PrettyUrl Management.
You will have to modify both merchant preference returnUrls in the following code.
$merchantPreferences = new MerchantPreferences();
         $merchantPreferences->setReturnUrl($model->merchant_preference_returnurl)
                ->setCancelUrl($model->merchant_preference_cancelurl)

There is therefore no need for:
$request = Yii::$app->request;
$get = $request->get();
$token = $request->get('token');

at the beginning of the action.


Across the country, people are choosing to eat less meat for the health of bodies and planet, whether for one meatless day per week or a lifetime. But those who work out regularly are (understandably) concerned about getting enough protein to keep those muscles well-supplied. The good news? Animal products aren't the only source of quality protein. Here, we've rounded up seven animal-free alternatives so full of protein you might not miss the steak (but no promises).
Protein: 7g per ½ cup Perhaps the most famous meat-free protein, tofu is made from soybean curds (which makes it sound a lot less tasty than it can actually be). One of meat's most versatile replacements, the spongy stuff can be baked, grilled, fried, steamed, sautéed, or eaten raw (it comes in soft, firm, and extra firm varieties, each of which is best suited to certain methods of cooking). Since it absorbs the flavor of whatever it's cooked with (and doesn't provide much pizazz on its own), the best tofu recipes are paired with bold- flavored foods (think onions, garlic, Swiss chard, curries and sauces, and — wait for it — even chocolate). Storage: Tofu is typically sold in bricks, tubs, or tetra paks. In its unopened brick or tub packaging, tofu usually keeps for about a month in the fridge. Once the original package has been opened, any leftovers should be stored in water in a sealed container — this will keep it from going hard and will keep it fresh longer. Change the water once a day to maintain maximum freshness. Stored this way, leftover tofu can typically last a week or so. Unopened tofu tetra paks can be stored in a cool, dark, and dry cupboard or shelf and typically last for months or even up to a year. Preparation: It's pretty easy to make tofu at home. Raw tofu should be cooked or steamed before consumption, whereas store-bought tofu should be safe to eat uncooked (but as always, read package instructions). Before cooking with tofu, it should be "pressed" so the tofu can absorb maximum flavor during cooking. First, open the package and drain the water. Cut the tofu block width-wise into however many slices you want (4-5 usually works well). Lay out a dish towel on a flat surface (a counter, cutting board, or tray all work). Place some paper towels on top the dish towel, and lay out the tofu slices on top of the towels. Layer more paper towels and another dish towel on top of the tofu, then place a heavy object (ideally books or other flat objects) on top. Let the whole thing sit for 30 minutes (or apply some manual pressure to speed things along). Once the liquid has mostly drained out, get cooking! Go-To Recipes: Cumin-Spiked Tofu, Tofu Scramble, Toasted Almond Tofu Burgers * For reference: One three-ounce serving of meat averages around 15-25g of protein. Photo: Bigstock Originally posted December 2012. Updated October 2013. Do you practice Meatless Mondays? What are your favorite meatless protein sources? Share in comments below or get in touch with the author on Twitter @LauraNewc.


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What should have been a joyous wedding is disrupted as a string of cataclysmic events signifies that the end of the world is near -- which forces the petrified survivors to choose between salvation and hell on earth.
Alexa PenaVega, Shaun Sipos, Johnny Pacar, Italia Ricci, Bryan Dechart
Casey La Scala
Faith & Spirituality, Supernatural Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers
English, French, Spanish (Neutral), Korean
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1
English, English SDH, French, Spanish (Neutral)
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, English: DVS - Descriptive Video Service, French: DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1
Parents need to know that The Remaining is a faith-based horror movie about the immediate aftermath of the Rapture (as prophesied in the Bible's Book of Revelation). From the moment the Rapture begins, there's frequent horror movie-style violence and imagery. Characters collapse and fall to their deaths, with their eyes wide open in a weird, opaque glow. Children are shown dying in the middle of a basketball game; adults keel over in a restaurant. There's blood, arm dislocations, demonic noises, and characters dying via tentacles shot through their chests. Basically, it's Cloverfield with an evangelical Christian spin, and as such, will be best enjoyed by those who believe in the Rapture as described in the Bible.
Frequent horror movie-style violence and imagery. A man is killed by demonic tentacles shooting through his chest. A man falls to his death down a stairwell. Kids are shown instantly collapsing to their deaths during a basketball game. Adults are shown instantly collapsing to their deaths in a restaurant. A woman's arms are dislocated, and a nurse yanks them back into place as the woman screams. Demonic howling and shrieking throughout the movie. Characters are shown bleeding.
Depending on your beliefs, the movie could be construed as having a message about the importance of faith, though this comes accompanied by a lot of material about the apocalyptic tortures of the end of the world.
At a wedding, characters are shown drinking beer and wine, but they don't act intoxicated.

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A Day Trip to Brandenburg Town
Imanuel Marcus	 Apr 7, 2020
During communist rule, the number of inhabitants increased because the GDR built or refurbished several big factories, which had been plundered by the Soviets right after the war. After Germany's reunification, the number of residents decreased substantially. In the past years, it slightly increased again.
Berlin: The Nicest Weekly Market in the Universe
Imanuel Marcus	 Mar 20, 2020
Awesome is a very appropriate adjective when used in the same sentence with the weekly market on Berlin's 'Kollwitzplatz' in the city's posh Prenzlauer Berg…
Pirna: Saxony's Medieval Beauty
Pirna, located in south-eastern Saxony close to the Czech and Polish borders, is at least 780 years old. Its medieval buildings, including the 'Sunshine Palace'…
Berlin's TV Tower: 50 Years of Reaching for the Sky
The tallest construction in Germany, Berlin's TV tower, is impressive. With a height of 368 meters (1207 feet), it does scratch the sky. The former GDR erected the tower five decades ago.
Zoo Berlin: Where Lions and Tigers are Not Being Fed
Then, once everything was covered, the enthusiastic visitor might want to enter the aquarium at Zoo Berlin's southern exit. Wow! The kind of beautiful…
Hamburg: Photo Models Bribed with Bread Crumbs
There is a lot to be learned from those beautiful swans on the 'Binnenalster' lake in Hamburg, for instance about the justification of bribery in a case like…
Berlin: The Most Romantic Free Ferry Ride Ever
Imanuel Marcus	 Mar 4, 2020
In Berlin, getting away from the office, the noise and the overcrowded city center once in a while is a good idea. One way is to jump on the Wannsee ferry.
Frankfurt am Main: Stocks, Planes and Green Sauce
Frankfurt am Main is a small global city. In spite of having only 750,000 inhabitants, it accommodates the most important stock exchange in mainland Europe, one…
Hamburg: Germany's Stunning Northern Beauty
Travelers who head north in western Germany will hit Hamburg sooner or later. And they will notice the city pleases far more than just their aesthetic senses.


Krishna Ferro Products Limited is an India-based company. The Company is engaged in the business of manufacturing and sale of ferrous casting. The Companys products for cement plants include shell liners, intermediate, discharge diaphragms, head liners, blow bars, grinding bars, cooler grate plate, hammers, tires, rollers, bucket elevator drum and drag chain links. Its products for railways includes cast steel axle box housing, couplers, base plates, brake shoes and bottom pivot cups. Its products for refractory includes mother mould, plungers, jaw plates, grinding rings and rollers, ball mill liners and manganese steel rotor hammers. Its products for mining sector includes crawler links, tooth points, adapters, track pad sprocket and idler wheel. Its products for steel plants includes grate bars, pallet frame and pallet wheel. Krishna Ferro Products Limited was established and commissioned in 1985, with first casting of an 800Kgs Rope Drum, it is now capable of producing single piece more than 4200Kgs. With its vision to become global provider of reliable, ready to use, cost efficient and high integrity castings to its customers, KFPL has been recognized as a dependable foundry with respect to Quality, Delivery and service by different sectors of Industry. With its commitment for complete satisfaction of its clients and to accept challenges of the Industry, KFPL has successfully developed, manufactured and continuously supplied ferrous casting of most critical nature to many industrial units of repute. The most valuable asset of KFPL is not its facilities or equipments, but the dedicated team of qualified, skilled and experienced personnel, who have been trained and groomed over the years.


To begin, I have a January, 2005 Eterna catalog, and a beautiful thing it is.
The KonTiki expedition will forever be in the brand's DNA, as Thor Heyerdahl and crew wore Eternas on their 1947 voyage from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft.
Toward the back of the catalog there were a few pages devoted to the Eterna KonTiki 1000M Concept Diver. This must have been written in 2004.
After a phenomenal amount of research and development, the watch was finally released to the public. The European public, that is. There were a couple in the hands of some British watchmen, but that was about it. Then (Don) Victor acquired one, perhaps the first in the New World. I was lucky enough to procure one a couple weeks ago.
First the dial. Absolutely delicious, though I find it difficult to capture the details as sharp as I'd like.
The 5 minute indicia are raised chrome triangles filled with lume (apparently C3). As noted previously. the minute circle on the outer edge of the dial is internal, though operated with the external bezel. The hands are 'the right size', with the lume filled minute hand reaching to the edge of the dial. The hour hand is broad and also filled with lume. The diamond tip of the seconds hand is quite visible and again, lume filled. Check out the trident shaped bottom of the seconds hand. I love that.
The date wheel may seem oddly positioned, but it's actually discrete and quite legible.
I like power reserve indicators that don't hog too much space, and this one fits in harmoniously with the dial. The 5 raised bearings, the signature of the Eterna line, are nicely chromed.
The case for the case.
The case itself is PVD coated titanium (how I love the sound of that). However, it's held in place by a stainless steel cage, or skeletonized outer case. This is so the watch can be flipped up. The size is 46mm x 16 mm.
Though Eterna was preceded in the use of flip up cases (Seiko has at least one model with a flip up case), the function here is all Eterna. Pressure applied to the 2 buttons on the upper edge of the case allows the inner case to flip. You can see one on the left in the photo above.
When the case is flipped, the outer bezel can be rotated bidirectionally. When the case is locked down, the bezel is immovable. No accidental adjustments. The bezel has a slight resistance, then moves like butter. When the case flips back down, there's a slightly audible and perceptible click.
At the top, near the crown, you can see the indent in the case. The 2 ball bearing-type studs toward the left and right of the crown (not the ones facing you) are what hold the case to the cage.
The engraved KonTiki raft is clearly seen on the case back, a hallmark of the Eterna line.
And the crown? That is one beautifully carved piece of steel. It is only adjustable with the case flipped up, thereby protected when flipped down. It turns easily with the pressure of your thumb (the reason for the fluting) and can be adjusted at depth, even with a gloved hand. It has a unique gasket system and does not have to be locked down for water resistance.
The Ti case has a nice matte finish, though the screws appear polished. The stainless cage is also matte, but has just a hint of gloss.
Now you'll notice the screws. The larger screw (in the photo above), closest to the case, is for the hinge upon which the case flips. As for the smaller ones, the inner screws function somewhat like a bracelet link, allowing the strap to conform to the shape of your wrist. The outer screws are part of the screw bar system for removing the strap.
The rubber strap is Sinn rubber quality. It's quite thick, but wears like almost nothing at all. It has to be cut to be shortened like the Sinn, but is deeply scored, making it a no-brainer for placing your scissor. My wrist is 6.5", and there was one indent left. I believe other straps will fit into the hinge. And, who knows? Maybe even mesh.
This is one mother of a clasp. Beautiful and rugged. It's a double button release, with an additional release for the diver's extension.
The movement: ETA caliber 2897, self winding. Specific Eterna rotor with cote de Geneve. Certified chronometer. BTW, it was a subsidiary of Eterna that developed the ETA movements.
Anything else? Oh yes, the lume. How can I forget?
The 3 hands, as well as the power reserve hand, are blue. The 12, 6 and 9 are a lighter blue. The hour markers are green. The first 15 minute markers are yellow. The PR indicator is also yellow. According to Eterna, yellow is visible at greater depth, hence the different colors. The hands glow quite well, the indicia less, the hours and bezel even less.
In the photo above, you can see the minute and seconds hands, as well as the PR indicator.
Packaging: comes in an Explorer case, similar in style to the Pelican case.
The time keeping has been excellent.
In summation, this is a marvelously engineered watch. Extremely comfortable, excellent visibility. My recommendation: try and find one soon.
I have been fascinated by those ever since I first saw one. Just so different to other watches, and you've given a great insight into the functionality of the watch, which is what it's all about.
great review, thanks for posting !
I really like the watch - very different and outstanding.
Oh you have already cool!
I had the temerity to classify my post as a Classic post? I must have slipped my rudder.
The damn sheer pretentiousness of it! I promise not to succumb to overblown self-importance again.
(Must have thought I was posting to Reviews).
Hey, not many people bother with a proper review these days and yours is a goody... welcome aboard my friend... its all about the feeling!


I thought I'd post some changes that have happened in the store.
We've added a new One of a Kind Snowflakes listing in the store. These are special skeins of yarn, where either the color didn't come out quite right or was an experiment that wasn't repeatable, or something like that. There are not pictures of these skeins so they're marked down to move. We may put a written description, and you can always make requests. Feeling adventurous? Want a great deal? This is for you.
And we've been running a Colorway of the Month for the past few months which is working out quite well.
We post a color on the first of the month, you place an order for that color on ANY yarn or fiber that we have available, (at 20% off!), and we'll dye it and ship it to you by the end of the month. This is a great way to get yarns on bases we don't normally stock in the store. We have a lot of great bases in everything from 100% silk laceweight to Alpaca DK weight, to Worsted and Bulky wool.
Colorway of the Month details here.
And lastly we've been updating the web site. We've got several new pages, including history pages for Speshul Snowflakes and Time Traveler's clubs, if you want to see what there's been.
The Yarns page is updated, and now includes pictures of all of our standard colorways, and info on all the yarns we typically stock.
All pattern sales are now through Ravelry, whether you buy them from our site or directly from Ravelry.
If you have any suggestions for the site now is a great time to make them, while we're making improvements. Come talk in the STK Ravelry group, comment on the blog, or send me an email.


Gray J.E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p.
Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: <i>Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum</i>, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p.


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Anna Ioannovna (1693-1740) Russian Tsarina from 1730 to 1740
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Romanov, Anna I Ivanovna, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Birth: 7 Feb 1693 Moscow Death: 28 Oct 1740 Winter Palace, Sankt-Peterburg Interred: St.Peter & St.Paul Cathedral, Sankt-Peterburg Father: Ivan V Alexeevich, TSAR OF RUSSIA (b. 1666) Mother: Praskovia Fedorovna Saltykova (b. 1664) Spouse: Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Kurland (b. 19.7.1692) Married: 11 Nov 1710, Sankt-Peterburg
Anna Ioannovna (Anna I), a daughter of Ivan V and a niece of Peter the Great, ruled Russia from 1730 to 1740. She was the most autocratic of Peter's successors. Her ascendancy to the Russian throne was supported by the Russian aristocracy. She was 37 years old at the time, a widow of a German duke and childless. The Privy Council members chose Anna over Elizabeth, a teenage daughter of Peter the Great, who was another contender to the throne. They imposed on Anna a constitution modeled after Sweden's, which restored some of their previously lost privileges and freed them from compulsory service. She agreed not to marry again, gave up the royal right to declare war and to levy taxes, and allowed the Privy Council to name her successor. After coming to power, Anna enlisted support of opponents of the court aristocracy and rescinded all prior concessions.
Under Tsarina Anna power of the government shifted from the Privy Council to the ministers she brought from Kurland, the so-called German party, dominated by Baron Ostermann, an excellent administrator, Munnich, the builder of the Ladoga Canal, and Anna's favorite, Ernst Johann Biron. The German party was strongly disliked by the Russians, especially Biron, who used his position for personal aggrandizement. Opposition to the ruling government, however, was punished with torture, death and exile.
Tsarina Anna rejuvenated the Russian army and established the cadet corps. She intervened in the War of the Polish Succession and, in alliance with Austria, warred against the Turks (1736-39). She also supported Russia's emerging interest in ballet. The first public performance of the Russian ballet took place in 1735 and was staged for Tsarina Anna by Jean-Baptiste Lande, the dance master of the Military Academy. Noting the Russians' love and talent for dance, Lande founded three years later, "Her Majesty's Dancing School" with twelve children of palace servants as students. Soon after, ballet presentations became fashionable. Opera was also introduced to Russia during Anna's reign, when an Italian composer Francesco Araja was invited to come to St. Petersburg to be director of the new opera company.


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Society's cornerstones remain secure post-S377A: Masagos
It's been a long climb towards Section 377A's repeal. A necessary duty for Singapore, considering that the Courts can someday rule it unconstitutional, and open the gate for bad actors on each side of the repeal to destabilise Singapore through judiciary-based activism.
The repeal, however, keeps the cornerstones and the bedrock of Singapore's society secure.
What exactly happens now, though? What's changed. What hasn't?
Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli provided answers to Parliamentarians' questions during his round-up speech in Parliament Tuesday evening (Nov 29).
"Some have voiced the concern of Singapore going down a slippery slope after the repeal," said Minister Masagos.
"Some touch on support for families, single parents. Others asked about the posture in educational institutions and express concerns on religious freedom."
All of these concerns are important for keeping Singapore's social fabric united, especially during the difficult global times ahead.
Changes and constants
There will be no change to Singapore's social norms regarding marriage and families
"It is indeed the intention of the Government that there should not be a change in social norms following the repeal," said Minister Masagos.
"This is precisely what Article 156 is intended to achieve. I explained in my speech yesterday that many different practices and policies support society's notion of children within a marriage between a man and a woman."
Religious leaders, or any other solemniser, will not be able to solemnise a same-sex marriage legally.
Concurrent to this, the Government is keeping its distinction between incentives and support for families.
Source: Made For Families
"Benefits intended to support a child's development and caregiving are given to children of single unwed parents and of married parents equally," said the Minister.
"These include healthcare and education subsidies, the Government's First Step grant and co-matching of the Child Development Account, as well as the Government-paid maternity leave for unwed working mothers to care for their infants."
Singapore's education policies and curriculum remain anchored on prevailing family values and social norms
These values and norms are what most Singaporeans want to uphold, noted the Minister.
"These include the family as the cornerstone of our social fabric, and marriage between a man and a woman," he said.
With regards to sexuality education, the curriculum in MOE schools respects the primary role of parents and reflects the national posture on the heterosexual family as the basic unit of society.
Source: Ministry of Education
"The curriculum remains secular and based on research and evidence," said the Minister.
"This focuses on age-appropriateness and the developmental needs of the child when touching on topics such as homosexuality."
Madrasah teachers will be updated on the current discourse on homosexual issues.
This is to advise and guide students on matters related to sexuality, according to the teachings and traditions of religion.
International schools will continue to not have their curriculum regulated but should respect Singapore's social norms and values, he added.
"They must also be careful not to cross the line into advocacy on issues in Singapore that could be socially divisive. Such as how sexual orientation are handled in laws and public policy. These are matters for Singaporeans to discuss and decide."
Across the board, there will be counsellors for students with sexuality issues. These counsellors, with consent from the student's parents, refer him or her to professionals who can provide housing support and the appropriate intervention.
"MOE's focus is on the students' well-being," said the Minister.
"For students with sexuality issues, our focus is likewise to provide them with a conducive learning environment the necessary support to ensure their overall well-being."
Religious freedom remains protected
This is under Article 15 of the Constitution.
"Every person has the right to profess, propagate and practice his or her own religion, subject to public order, health and morality. Every religious group has the right to manage his own religious affairs and can still preach on the pulpit their beliefs about homosexuality or family, even if others might disagree," said Minister Masagos.
"But no one should incite violence towards others. This is against the law and is not the society we want to become. This is regardless of whether the comments are made in public, online or in your private space."
Religious organisations may refuse same-sex solemnisations or weddings held on their premises too. Concurrently, they require consent when praying or counselling a person struggling with his or her sexuality, and must also not breach criminal thresholds of harm.
Discrimination will not be tolerated at the workplace
"Employees are protected against discrimination under the Tripartite Guidelines for Fair Employment Practices [TGFTP]," stated Minister Masagos.
These guidelines require employers to make employment decisions based on merit and not factors relevant to the job.
"For religious organisations, understandably, the potential employee's religion and values would be a relevant consideration for certain roles," he nuanced.
And private businesses must respect that people have a right to their personalities while not crossing the line into issues that will divide Singapore socially.
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"At our workplaces, employees should not feel compelled to support courses or participate in activities that do not align with their beliefs," he added, noting that the TGFTP is clear on that an employee's support, or non-support, of causes cannot be used when evaluating job performance.
Private businesses, lastly, should also "keep the marketplace free from the polarising contestation of values".
"While businesses make their own commercial judgments with regard to their prospective customers, it should do so in a sensitive and respectful manner," said Minister Masagos.
"Nonetheless, I urge everyone not to use commerce as a platform to display the conviction of their beliefs in the spirit of mutual respect."
"A vastly diverse society"
The exact scale of change resulting from S377A's repeal remains to be seen.
But Minister Masagos noted that governing requires uniting people with different views to ensure that "various segments will not push for a maximalist position".
He added that Singapore is a vastly diverse society, and has thrived because everyone understands this.
"We as a society, we cannot lose sight of mutual respect when we engage with one another and must endeavor to listen to those who disagree with us. You must not destroy the social or economic standing. You should not denigrate others," he said.
"This applies to all sides in every debate."
And now that S377A is repealed, another task remains.
"The work of staying united as one Singapore is what lies ahead of us, even as the debate on these two bills conclude," said Minister Masagos.


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It was kind of like The Beverly Hillbillies Get a Check-up or Family Services Candidates Go to the Doctor or something like that.
Let me back up a little bit. Natalie has a urinary tract infection. Again. On Sunday we took her to Urgent Care when her fever was 105 two hours after taking Motrin. They put her on an antibiotic, but as of yesterday, she was still running a fever, so my doctor wanted me to bring her in last night. I gathered up the kids and our overdue library books (to drop off on the way), changed out of my pajamas (yep, at 5:30 p.m.– Don't judge, I got a lot of laundry done yesterday), and herded everyone to the van. As I walked past the mirror I realized that I had no make-up on and still had a little bedhead. Oh well. Sigh.
We ran our quick errands and made it to the doctor's office on time. I obsessively tried to keep my kids from touching everything so they wouldn't go home with H1N1. Impossible. I realized Natalie was wearing a pajama shirt stained with medicine from a previous dosage battle. Oh well, at least she was wearing regular pants and shoes and jacket. I zipped it up.
The boys sat in the hall while Natalie and I tried to collect a urine sample. She peed all over my hand. Lovely.
Clark has had a messy face since the day he was born. (I joke he'll have a dirty face in his wedding pictures.) Today was no execption. The masterpiece of the day was an artistic blend of pizza and snot.
She asked us to wait for a while so she could run some tests. Grant and Clark both kept passing gas, which they thought was hilarious, but I was disgusted. I made Clark open the door a little to air out the room because it was gross, and I didn't want the doctor to have to walk back in to a wall of stench. I kept getting a whiff of the nastiness and growling at my boys to "Stop it already," and sometimes they would giggle and sometimes they'd swear it wasn't them.
When the doctor returned, we discussed her findings, got a new prescription, made arrangements for follow up, and she left. I helped the kids gather up their books and toys we brought along. As I started to put on Natalie's jacket, I had a sudden realization. "Natalie!! Did you poop in your underwear??" She wouldn't look me in the eye. Oh. sweet. mercy.
We found a bathroom and I remedied things as much as I could. I shoved a wad of toilet paper in her underwear to sit on in her car seat. It was now past their bedtime, but we still had to go fill her prescription.
The kids ran back and forth between the massage chair in the pharmacy waiting area and the toy aisle. I did my best to control them, but eventually gave in and let them chase each other with light-sabers as long as they were kind of quiet and didn't hurt each other. Finally I paid for the prescription– get this: $240.00 after insurance — and we left.
The only redeeming thing about this story is that I called out the manager and asked him to cover up the nasty magazines that were at my children's eye level. He was kind and agreed, but I'm sure that deep down inside he wondered how a mother so "concerned" for her children could let them run around with mismatched shoes, markered faces and poop in their pants. Whatever, man. I just paid my entire grocery budget on one of your blasted prescriptions.
So that was my evening outing with my children. How was your day? Now if you'll excuse me, I guess I'd better go put up some blinking pink flamingo Christmas lights in my yard or something just to keep our December on a roll.
Oh dear me… you poor thing! Been there, done that, absolutely had days JUST like that. So sorry for you, and so glad it's the next day and you can move on! Hope Natalie gets to be feeling better soon. I have a daughter prone to urinary tract infections… they aren't fun!
I'm so sorry Steph, but I'm laughing out loud at this post. I've had days just like that. In a perverse kind of way, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one. Not that I'm glad you are dealing with it, but just that its not only my life that spirals out of control sometimes. Here's to hoping you can spend some time today in bed with the covers over your head. And yikes on the medicine! Hope it does the trick.
I hope Natalie feels better soon! And you deserve a month-long cruise somewhere tropical and stress-free. And you've earned a "Get out of housework free" card for the year!
Wow. And I was pouting yesterday because I got peed on once and couldn't find any clean pants that fit.
Reading this makes me want to be your neighbour so I can say hey, leave the other kids with me. You deserve a break!
Oh, dear, I really had to laugh at the opening lines–I think any mother who's honest with herself has had days like yours was, but not all can render it in writing with as much wit and humor. And that prescription . . . oh my word. I can't believe that! And I do hope Miss Natalie feels better because UTIs are nasty. And, apparently, expensive.
I'm so sorry! I hate days like that. Just think…today has just got to be better!
What a tough outing! Kids get messy, hands get peed on, and you do your freaking best to look somewhat respectable. My heart goes out to you. I have had those days. In fact, my baby pooped all over me today. At least it got me in the shower early.
I appreciate all your sympathy, but I managed to keep it together and recognize the humor in it all, which surprised me (but it was still embarrassing). My morning prayer must have worked.
Oh, you dear, dear woman! For you to even write about this with any sort of comic relief at all means that you're top-notch in the mom department.
As for pajamas at 5:30pm, there is no shame. During the winters here, we put on pajamas when it gets dark outside. So, like, 4pm. It's awesome!
Right, Becky, except that I didn't put them on– they were still on from the night before. 🙂 I am SO cool.
I couldn't come up with a stronger epithet. And this is a rated G blog, so that's the best I could do. I agree with Kim. Please, come move into the house across of street from me (it's going cheap!) so I can realize the joys of having boys in the house. Roy would love the flatulence contest — he really misses having those with his brothers.
Or better yet, box them up and leave them on Kristina P's front door. That'll teach her.
$240!!!!!???? I'm so distracted by that, I can't even come up with anything else to say. So sorry. Hope it does the trick. Yikes.
I skipped a shower, and make-up yesterday and ran a few quick errands, and then ran into fifty million people I know. That always happens. I was wearing matching shoes, though, which hasn't always happened. Maybe we could get a deal on 2-for-1 flamingos or something.
The entire experience was over the top funny!! I was reading it at work and couldn't stop laughing!
Also, wishing you and Natalie a swift recovery! Natalie for her infection and you for making it through that day!
I am still reeling from the price of that prescription. Do they have her taking liquid gold????
Don't worry, Ella will make sure he has a clean face for the wedding pictures.
Sure hope she gets feeling better.
Sounds like one of my days out with the kids. Only I don't tend to keep my cool. My kids are learning to give the evil eye from frequent example.
Some days, my husband comes home from work and I actually look worse than I did when he handed me the baby 12 hours earlier — bed head, check; body odor, check, augmented by spit up and sour breast milk; bad breath, check; diner-smell, check, because maybe I didn't shower, but at least I managed to cook something containing onions and ground beef for supper. (Secretly, I'm convinced he considers "eau de Waffle House" an aphrodisiac.) Those are also usually the days when I am called upon to mediate squabbles (post forthcoming, I promise — I live in Switzerland!) between the neighbor kids. Braless. With spinach in my teeth. And yesterday's mascara (see? sometimes I do get it together!) smeared under my eyes like a raccoon's mask.
It's not pretty, but at least I'm not the only one!
I can't tell you the number of times I've arrived somewhere and then looked back to see I have hobo children. My 3-year-old has been to the school twice this week with McDonald Strawberry Shortcake stamps all over his body. Torn, mismatched clothes and sometimes no shoes at all. Today I was walking into the store with my cleaning clothes on, no make up, and hair not done with stamp boy and his brother, can't see the face for the dirt hair standing straight up. Saw the primary president walking down the aisle and slipped away before she noticed me.
I am often in my pj's late in the day. Hey–if I get on a roll, I don't want to risk losing it by stopping to change, right? And that's why I own really cute pj's! I also have a dirty-faced child. She is 9, and every piece of her clothing has always needed to be stain sprayed. Her triplet siblings get through most days unscathed, but she seems to collect the dirt for everyone. I call her my own Pig Pen.
Sorry to hear about the pricey meds. That seems almost immoral for a child so small!
Um, $240?!?!? That makes me want to support Obama-care.
I'm all for letting my kids run around like maniacs. Are they destroying anything? No. Are they happy? Yes. Then what's the big deal?
Or so I tell myself every time I step foot in a pharmacy or post office.
I had lots of fun trying to keep my kids from touching everything in the waiting room when I had to take my daughter in for stitches. Thankfully a nurse who saw me with a 1 month old baby they put me in an isolated waiting room. That helped.
$240?? I hope we never need that prescription!
Thought you'd like to know, it's been years since I had a day like this. Your day will come. And the next time it happens, I expect the roles to be reversed. I'll be an old lady, and I'm going to save up my worst gas for when my kids have to take me to the gerontologist to find out why I keep pooping in my pants.
Oh, it will be SWEET!
DeNae, you slay me. You are one of my favorite people ever . . . until you get old.
I'm sorry your day was wretched and you had to sell one of your children to pay for that prescription … my stars, drugs are expensive! Hope Natalie recovers quickly.
I'm trying to learn from your example of finding the humor in it after being barfed on 7 or 8 times in the last 48 hours, once about 10 minutes after bathing the child who had *just* barfed on me, his bed, himself, and gotten it in his ears. And pooped on multiple times. It's a good thing he's not my first kid. I might have given up and given him to Kristina P., too.
Ooo, and lately, I've only been changing out of my jammies if I'm going somewhere. PJs at 5:30 is fairly normal anyway, but it's gotten worse with this pregnancy. It's to the point that tonight, when I put on a dress that I only wear at home (it was cheap but it's ugly), my husband asked where I was headed. To the living room. To clean up more barf, dear.
Esther and DeNae you crack me up. I had my neighbour comment on how dressed up I was the other day. I was in jeans and a t-shirt with a bit of make-up on. Yep… you can guess how many times she's seen me in sweat pants or pyjamas lucky to have a bra on. I replied with much tiredness in my voice "yes, sometimes I do try to look good".
I am so glad that it is not just me that worries about looking like white trash. I am so sorry about the $240… that would be my Christmas present to my daughter.
This story hits me on many levels. Especially the passing gas & children laughing, the all-knowing parental terror.
This morning my sweet six year old showed me a drawing she'd done of a Pet Shop toy dog. There was a strange loop coming out the back end of it. I asked innocently, "Sweetie, what's this?" to my daughter's reply, "Sorry, mom, but that's poop!" and all the kids laughed their heads off.
Thank you for sharing. It´s somehow comforting to know we moms go through the same things. I would share my day (and night) but it´s too painful to remember.
$240 for a prescription??????????????????????? this is probably not a good moment to remind you it would have been FREE here, right?
So glad I checked your blog today. You're great.
Wow! My day suddenly looks a whole lot brighter. 🙂 Seriously though – I've been there. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one still wearing pajamas at dinnertime some days. I hope Natalie is feeling better!
Ugh, what a day. I feel your pain and feelings of shame. I think our kids will get along well.
PJ's at 5:30? You are my kind of woman. It is always easier to deal with a day when you are comfortable 🙂 !!
Days like that make me want to cry, and I wouldn't want to relive it by writing about it. I am fully impressed that you were able to see the humor in the situation, and live to tell us all about it (in hilarious detail).
I may need to quit reading anything DeNae writes until I regain greater bladder capacity.
Anyway, with an eight year spread between my two boys, we haven't had days like this. Now that I'm going to have two with only two years between them, I fear my days are numbered.
Melanie, my daughter and son have a 9-year spread, and I'm also going to have two with only two years (or less) between them. I'm fearing days like this more and more and more, especially given how active and boy-ish my son is!


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THE WORLD OF TINTIN. The timeless boy
Graham Reid | Jan 22, 2012 | 7 min read
Age has not wearied him -- and nor can it. The little adventurer with a distinctive flick to his forelock, oddly unfashionable plus-fours and rarely a change of clothes, is frozen in time. As he globetrots from the old Orient to the Land of the Pharaohs - and even the Moon - he looks as he ever did. Yet in 2009 he turned 80.
However he is with us still -- and suddenly back in the headlines with the new Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson film.
And Tintin has always been news. A decade ago with the publication of Tintin in the Congo, the official British racism watchdog recommended that bookshops across the country remove copies of it. The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) recommended it be taken off shelves after it received a complaint from a member of the public who had seen it in a branch of the Borders chain of book stores.
"Whichever way you look at it, the content of this book is blatantly racist," the CRE said in a statement. "Highstreet shops, and indeed any shops, ought to think very carefully about whether they ought to be selling and displaying it."
While the book undeniably perpetrated a stereotype there was also been a strong move to remind the public and those taking offense that the book was a product of its period, as Herge himself conceded later in life.
Herge didn't sidestep politics and Tintin books often had a strong social subtext. His first adventure in the Soviet Union was a scouring attack on communism, and Herge intended to follow it with an equally strident comment on capitalism when Tintin went to America.
But Tintin in the Congo appeared instead in 1930, written at the request of his editors to encourage young Belgians to consider a career in the civil service of that colony, now Zaire.
Later he reflected on these first books: "For Tintin in the Congo, as with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the fact was that I was fed on the prejudices of the bourgeois society in which I moved. It was 1930, I only knew things about these countries that people were relating at the time: Africans were great big children, thank goodness for them that we were there, etc. And I portrayed these Africans according to these criteria, in the purely paternalistic spirit which existed then in Belgium."
Yet despite that controversy Tintin -- with his faithful canine companion Snowy and the accident-prone, dipsomaniac Captain Haddock -- continued to delight, amuse and educate more than three-quarters of a century after his Belgian creator Georges Remi (who wrote under the name Herge) committed him to print on January 10, 1929.
Back then Tintin looked slightly different as he boarded a train for the Soviet Union as a star reporter drawn for a cartoon in Le Petit Vingtieme, the children's supplement of the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Petit Siecle. The flick of hair didn't come until later when he was accelerating away from the Berlin police in his open-top Mercedes.
In Brussels -- the homeland of Tintin and with a culture of comic book art -- he takes pride of place in the beautifully renovated Art Nouveau building by Victor Horta, the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessine (the Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art).
Here are the holy relics of Tintin culture: paired umbrellas and bowler hats belonging to Thomson and Thompson; models of Herge's protagonists; dozens of original drawings; and a replica of Herge's desk complete with the detritus of the creator's craft. Down the road off the Grand Place is La Boutique de Tintin selling more of the same: stamps, keyrings and fridge magnets. Anything with his image.
But Tintin is bigger than Brussels, he is global. Tintin books have sold more than 200 million copies -- consistently two million a year, even today -- and have been translated into more than 50 languages including Basque, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan and Esperanto. There are shops selling Tintin memorabilia in places as far flung as London's Covent Garden, Remuera Rd in Auckland, Taipei, Japan (four stores) and South Africa.
Andy Warhol was a Tintin fan and painted a portrait of Herge. Popular culture is full of Tintin references (viz: the 80s pop band the Thompson Twins, the album cover for the band C ), and flags of the imaginary countries Herge invented appear on otherwise serious websites of national emblems.
There are other websites which use his image to parody political events (China and democracy, the first invasion of Iraq), permanent travelling shows of Herge's art, and for six months in 2004 there was a major Tintin retrospective at, of all places, Britain's National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Why there? Well, the grumpy and occasionally pickled Captain Haddock was a seaman so ...
The sponsor of the exhibition -- which had already pulled huge crowds in the Maritime Museum in Paris -- is James Heneage of Ottokar Books, whose company is named for Tintin's 1939 adventure King Ottokar's Sceptre. The director of the National Maritime Museum also noted that Herge drew his vessels -- as he did most things -- with an eye for accuracy.
"The most surprising people love Tintin," the museum's director Roy Clare told the Guardian. "I keep talking to big business figures who get all misty-eyed about Tintin."
So what is the attraction of this little chap who is ostensibly a reporter -- but who clearly has a patient editor and works for a company with a generous travel budget? In large measure it comes down to Herge's clean and accurate drawing.
"I consider my stories as movies. No narration, no descriptions, emphasis is given to images," Herge once said.
His storyboards were simple by current comic book practices (no split images or figures leaping beyond the frame) but in their refinement they never distract from the narrative.
Herge (left) didn't travel until later in life -- when he did his first Tintin the most exciting thing he'd done was go to Scout camp -- but Herge was a perfectionist who studied his subject.
When drawing The Blue Lotus in 1934 he became friends with a Chinese art student, Chang Chong-Chen, who was studying in Brussels and quizzed him for the smallest detail of Chinese costume and culture. Each street sign and wall hanging is accurate, the costumes based on contemporary photographs.
It was his fifth Tintin book, but most consider it his first true masterpiece. The first of many.
Destination Moon -- where the rocket is based on the German V-2 design and Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock and the others landed on the Moon 15 years before Neil Armstrong -- is another work of keen observation. Herge studied scientific journals and discussed technology with experts. As a result he accurately rendered pressurised suits and a tank-tracked Moon vehicle.
Even the Yeti, which appears in Tintin in Tibet, was a result of letters and discussions with those who had seen the mysterious tracks or had photographs of the region.
Herge and his hero haven't been without controversy down the decades. Accusations of racial stereotyping have been common and they are difficult to deny when confronted by his Sambo-like Africans -- naive and gullible -- and unflattering caricatures of the Japanese.
Other complaints have been that Herge -- who continued to work for the Brussels paper Le Soir, which was controlled by the Nazis during their occupation of Belgium -- might have been a Nazi sympathiser, an accusation denied by biographers.
But Herge also seemed to possess a strong social conscience, a thread which became increasingly apparent in his work. In Tintin in America (1931) -- a hasty, movie-influenced narrative rush through a continent he hadn't visited -- he includes a brief digression during which Tintin accidentally discovers oil on a Blackfoot reservation. Herge, who was fascinated by and sympathetic toward Native Americans, then has the National Guard pushing the tribe off its land at bayonet-point to allow in oil-hungry developers.
Later other political opinions would infiltrate his work: The Blue Lotus (1934) attacks Japanese imperialism in savage and satirical terms, and King Ottokar's Sceptre (1938) sides with an imaginary European country against the jackboot of fascism.
After the Second World War Herge established a studio of collaborators and by the late 50s he travelled extensively through Europe. In 1971 he went to the United States and met the Sioux in South Dakota. Everywhere, he filled his notebooks with drawings and notes.
Ironically the story Herge was working on when he died in 83 was Tintin et l'Alphe-Art, about modern art, one of his passions, and forgery. Even in its incomplete state it looks to be a social satire on the smart set of film stars and musicians around the edges of the serious art world. There is also a dodgy guru.
In many respects Tintin, a surrogate for the cartoonist's desire for adventure, was the ideal vehicle for Herge's imagination. With no family or back-story he was free to embark on adventures. His nominal job -- only in his first adventure does he file a story -- allowed him to travel to distant and exotic places. And well-intentioned good always triumphs over the caricatures of evil.
For contemporary readers Tintin is also a closed circle. Herge completed 23 books -- typically Tintin was in a tight spot in his unfinished book -- and there have been no "based on" or "inspired by" volumes.
Tintin remains a growth industry -- there has been a television series and now the Peter Jackson/Steven Spielberg movie, and tie-in video game -- and a delight.
He is a timeless boy, the one never ages.
And -- unlike Peter Pan -- he has work to do in this wicked world.
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At the launch of the long overdue local publication of his graphic novel Hicksville in Auckland recently, Dylan Horrocks said he grew up in two places: In New Zealand and in comics, and both were... > Read more
HICKSVILLE, a graphic novel by DYLAN HORROCKS
In interviews Dylan Horrocks, the 43-year old New Zealand writer and artist of the graphic novel Hicksville, is candid enough to note that more people in his home country know about his book than... > Read more
GUTTER BLACK; A MEMOIR by DAVE McARTNEY
A few years ago when I was in Australia interviewing the re-formed Cold Chisel, I took a chance afterwards to talk with their songwriter Don Walker, who had written an exceptional, literary and... > Read more
ARNOLD ZABLE INTERVIEWED (2011): Speaking for those who cannot
When the Australian writer Arnold Zable read Primo Levi's reference to "the eloquent episode" in prose he recognised immediately what was meant. His own short pieces, fiction and... > Read more
THE BARGAIN BUY: Talking Heads; Speaking in Tongues
Prior to this jerky and funky album in 1983, Talking Heads had been critically acclaimed for more than five years on the back of albums which were considered taut, arty, intellectual and even a bit... > Read more
The Doubtful Sounds: The Pop Album (doubtfulsounds.com)
On the brief opening track here Doubtful Sounds promise "a pop album you'll want to listen to" and thereafter deliver a sort of early Flying Nun guitar strum'n'jangle which brings to mind... > Read more


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Sep 02, 2015, 09:29AM
What About the Xenophobes?
Mark Krikorian continues to reveal himself as an idiotic bigot in The National Review.
The National Review is often host to blatant racism and virulent stupidity, but a recent column by Mark Krikorian ignores code and demonstrates why the GOP is falling apart. Krikorian warns that legal immigration is the death knell of conservatism, not Donald Trump or Barack Obama. Trump is an oddball American hero, a performance artist currently in the process of exposing everything hateful and dumb about the Republican Party by explicitly stating what truly evil people like Karl Rove and the Koch brothers—and many of his presidential competitors—deign to speak in code. He's doing Americans a favor by scorching earth and salting wounds that almost guarantees a Democratic victory in 2016. I'm puzzled that more progressives can't see through Trump's antics and take him at face value, but I'm delighted by how he's got everyone on the right completely flummoxed.
Conservatives are showing their true colors, desperate to defend impossible positions while Trump is "literally killing them" in the polls and press. Krikorian is a xenophobe—he writes: "[I]f mass legal immigration is permitted to continue, the Right is finished regardless of what Trump does or says […] If the federal immigration program continues to operate at its current pace—about 1 million green cards issued per year—it will create nearly 15 million potential new voters over the next two decades, disproportionately liberal, as I will explain below. If Senator Rubio and the rest of the Republican establishment had gotten its way and the House had passed Chuck Schumer's bill, the number of these potential new voters minted by mass immigration by 2036 would have been more than double that, over 32 million."
Well, good. What's your point? One concludes that Krikorian is anti-American—the phrase "melting pot" scares him. This country was founded by European immigrants that weren't just violent but genocidal. Krikorian fears the same, and he's psychotic enough to believe that justifying his xenophobia in regressive politics and obsolete ways of thinking will appeal to anyone reading The National Review—this is nonsensical Kentucky Clerk level bigotry.
More: "Environmentalism? The National Asian American Survey in 2012 found that 60 percent of people of Asian origin (overwhelmingly immigrants and their adult children) prioritize environmental protection over economic growth, versus 41 percent of the general public. A 2010 LA Times-USC poll found that both Hispanics and Asians are significantly more concerned about the environment than whites in California (who are themselves quite liberal on environmental issues)." This guy is out of his mind! How can you possibly prioritize economic growth over preserving the environment? This is impossibly 2004: anti-science, white supremacist, anti-intellectual and pro-war. In Krikorian's world, no one wins: forever persecuted by murderous minorities, lecherous liberals, ghastly gays, and well-to-do women, the conservative white man scoffs in his study and coughs a phlegm glob into his pocket handkerchief before going out onto the portico for another smoke—rightly paranoid that this is not the future, this is not forever.
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ErikEssig
commented Sep 03, 2015, 10:19AM
Nicky, There is nothing white supremacist about the positions held by Krikorian. Calling someone an idiot is hardly an argument. The notion that Hispanics are more concerned with the environment than others is belied by the evidence.
Alan Cabal
Littering is completely acceptable in Mexican culture, as is drunk driving. If enforcing strict immigration laws is xenophobic and racist, Mexico is the most xenophobic and racist country in North America.
Richard Aubrey
commented Sep 05, 2015, 10:26PM
You're both wrong. Because nobody's worse than the US. And of the US, nobody's wronger than somebody Nicky doesn't like. Because.


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Q: Importing another project to my JSFProject I got this project with JSF where i'm dealing with managed beans. the only problem is that my beans are in another project that i created earlier i want these beans to be seen in my current project. i've tried to export my earlier project to a JAR file and added it to my library but i don't know if my tables (DATABASE & DAO) will be created in this project.
Please if anyone can help me or suggest another alternative of working it would be very helpfull. THANK YOU!

A: With eclipse you can configure your dependent projects. Do a right click on your project and check your project settings.
Other options are using tools like maven for dependency management. However this is probably overkill for you.
For web applications you can place your dependent libraries in WEB-INF/lib.
I'd recommend to use the eclipse project configuration though as you don't want to update the jar after every change.


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import java.net.URI;
import java.util.List;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 *  Simple tests for {@link RedirectLocations}.
 */
public class TestRedirectLocation {

    @Test
    public void testBasics() throws Exception {
        final RedirectLocations locations = new RedirectLocations();

        final URI uri1 = new URI("/this");
        final URI uri2 = new URI("/that");
        final URI uri3 = new URI("/this-and-that");

        locations.add(uri1);
        locations.add(uri2);
        locations.add(uri2);
        locations.add(uri3);
        locations.add(uri3);

        Assert.assertTrue(locations.contains(uri1));
        Assert.assertTrue(locations.contains(uri2));
        Assert.assertTrue(locations.contains(uri3));
        Assert.assertFalse(locations.contains(new URI("/")));

        final List<URI> list = locations.getAll();
        Assert.assertNotNull(list);
        Assert.assertEquals(5, list.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(uri1, list.get(0));
        Assert.assertEquals(uri2, list.get(1));
        Assert.assertEquals(uri2, list.get(2));
        Assert.assertEquals(uri3, list.get(3));
        Assert.assertEquals(uri3, list.get(4));
    }

}

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Sets up shop in Sydney CBD.
Microsoft Australia will attempt to school the heads of NSW agencies in the latest digital trends under a new memorandum of understanding with the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation.
The agreement signed between the pair on Tuesday is aimed at progressing the government's already well-advanced digital transformation efforts, particularly around capability and training, cyber security, cloud and data sharing.
It coincides with the opening of the software giant's new technology centre, the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC), at Sydney's upmarket Martin Place where it has set up new digs in Sydney's repurposed and refurbished former central post office.
The new CBD facility, conveniently in the same neck of the woods as central agency and ministerial offices, is designed to showcase Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence offerings to both enterprise and government customers.
The new centre is big on immersion, experiential and engagement options and includes purpose built rooms for strategy briefings, architecture design sessions and proofs of concept. All without jumping in a taxi or Uber for the trip to Ryde.
DFSI Secretary Martin Hoffman said having access to Microsoft experts through a series of NSW government ideation sessions would "greatly accelerate the government's digital journey".
"This memorandum of understanding will allow us to bring departmental heads to the MTC where they can see what more can be achieved with digital services, improved efficiencies and good value solutions," he said.
However NSW chief information and digital officer Greg Wells' indicated at the opening of centre that the training program could also extend to technical staff.
He said training could take place both at the centre or the government's recently established Digital NSW Acceleration Lab.
The push to build digital capability is an ongoing focus for DFSI, as well as the state's public service and customer service commissioners, to ensure public servants are trained to work in digital.
Last year that saw the creation of a centralised talent pool to improve how digital skills are shared between agencies.


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