 the loss. Domestic and foreign owners of real assets suffered large losses, while foreign creditor banks were protected”.
International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission, of the US Congress, or Meltzer Commission, 2000

Over recent years the IMF efforts to put an end to public subventions of staple products, energy sources and public services, and to impose anti-social measures on social services, have provoked popular insurrections, for example in Nicaragua (April 2018), Sudan (December 2018), Haiti (summer 2018 and in 2019) and Ecuador (October 2019). Clearly, the nefarious policies of the IMF have not changed.

Maud Bailly, Nathan Legrand, Milan Rivié and Éric Toussaint took part in producing this article.

Translated by Kate Armstrong, Vicki Briault Manus, Mike Krolikowski and Christine Pagnoulle (CADTM).

  1. The World Bank: an ABC
  2. The International Monetary Fund (IMF): an ABC
  3. Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
  6. SUNFED versus World Bank
  7. Why the Marshall Plan ?
  9. Domination of the United States on the World Bank
  10. World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
  11. The World Bank and the Philippines
  14. Theoretical lies of the World Bank
  15. The South Korean miracle is exposed
  16. The debt trap
  17. The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming
  18. The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank
  23. The World Bank’s accounts

[1The Lazard Bank specializes in financial counselling and asset management, notably with governments that face financial problems. For instance, it advised the Greek government in 2015, and we know how successful that was. It also advises the predatory regime in Congo-Brazzaville.

[2The DSK or NY Sofitel case. See Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet, « FMI : la fin de l’histoire ? », CADTM, 20 May 2011 (French only).

[3Reuters press release, “IMF paints grim picture of fiscal tightening needs”, 12 March 2010

[5On 20/12/2019, 1 US dollar was valued at 0.72 SDR, see

[6See “IMF Executive Directors and Voting Power” :

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00324 60 97 96 80<|endoftext|>Targeting PCL to .NET Standard

Enterprise application architecture comprises of multiple layers and usually, each layer is representing a separate project. Each project could be a class library project, UWP project, web forms project or ASP.NET MVC project and so on. We usually have a core class library project which is shared across multiple layers and contains some backend and core functionality that every layer can use.

Each platform has a different app model and referencing .NET assembly is not possible until it is a PCL (Portable Class Library). Portable class libraries were used to address these type of scenarios where you can select the app models or platforms while creating a class library and then it can be added to the project to which that library supports.

With the release of .NET Core, Microsoft introduces the next generation of PCL known as .NET Standard. .NET Standard is a set of interfaces that is implemented by different platforms and each .NET Standard has a version number to which that platform supports. There are various versions of .NET Standards to which each platform implements.

Below table shows the .NET standard version and the platform supported.

These arrows specifies the supportability of the platform to a version of a .NET Standard. For example, .NET Core 1.0 supports version 1.6 and it can add any of the platform assemblies lower to that version. However, if we need to reference the .NET Core 1.0 assembly in any of the lower versions of .NET Standard, we need to degrade our .NET core assembly’s .NET standard to that version.

Microsoft is now shifting the .NET Core project extension from .xproj to .csproj. As it is still in the preview it is not recommended to use in production. However, today if you are using .NET Core 1.0.* in production and wanted to reference your .NET Core assembly in any of the other platforms you can use .NET Standard and use the version that supports other projects. However, due to the different project extension .xproj we cannot reference any .NET Core assembly in other platforms for example UWP project that has a .csproj project extension.

However, there is a way as shown in this post through which you can create a .NET Core project with a .csproj extension and then easily reference in other .NET project.

1. Create a Class Library (Portable) project

2, Select the Target platforms.

3. Once this project is created, open up the project properties and click on the “Target .NET Platform Standard” as shown below.

4. This will change the “Target” to .NET Standard version and selected the minimal version from the platforms selected.

5. Finally, you have an assembly which is a .NET Core 1.0 assembly and it can be added to any platform which supports particular .NET standard or lower version.

Hope this helps!

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The Anxiety Lie

I won't pretend to know anything about anything, particularly not a subject still being understood by folks far smarter than I. What follows are my experiences and some thoughts about them. I write to maybe try to better understand me, and possibly provide some insight into why I'm so withdrawn and sad sometimes.

For the better part of the last 6 years I fought against the conviction that I was worthless. And, in the end, I won. Because it's not that unbelievable that everyone is worth at least something to someone, because in the end no matter how little you may think you are worth, you are never worthless.

So my anxiety came up with a new lie, a much better, more subtle one that, like all the best lies, contains truth.

Backing up a bit.

There's a line I often see on the Internet that says something like, "Anxiety is caring too much about everything. Depression is not caring about anything. Having both is exhausting." and, yep, that sums up my experience too.

I have a new, less catchy, one: Anxiety is the liar, the bully, calling you names and putting you down day after day. Depression is lying down and accepting it, believing it's true. (Or falling down into a deep, dark misery pit that is cold and wet and really hard to climb out of, oh and the darkness is heavy too.)

from tenor.co
So the first lie was that I was worthless. It was a pretty good one, I'd never had lots of self-confidence or self-esteem, so when depression hit I went straight down. Gradually, mainly by the slow, hard, sometimes near impossible plod of just getting up each morning, I learned it wasn't true.

Then, like an AI in a sci-fi movie, it got smarter and two weeks ago I was whammied with something I'm struggling to refute.

For the first week I could hardly talk to anyone. I felt like such a fraud and hypocrite and was utterly disgusted by myself, by who I was as a person. I lay awake thinking of every potentially inept thing I might have done, from primary school onwards, convinced all of my friends must hate me, even though all evidence was to the contrary, and that I definitely didn't deserve them.

While the intensity has passed due, mainly, to hiding out at home, I still feel really edgy and tense and like anything might trigger another panic.

from giphy.com
That's just about everything I have the courage for today. I went to New Zealand when I was 19 without a qualm in the world. Now it's a big deal to talk to the postman or write a little blog post.

So it goes.

Read More
Powered by Blogger.<|endoftext|>Question: Flatten slab of dough.
Answer: Use tall alcohol bottle to roll dough.<|endoftext|>After watching Prometheus I don't have a clear idea of why the Engineers created the human beings. Because, if they created humans so that they can test their bio-weapons on us, then it makes sense, but it's ambiguous. Why did the Engineers want to destroy the human beings that they have created?

Did I miss something?

  • 4
    You didn't miss anything, I don't think you're supposed to know from the film. The pilgrims didn't explain to the original Americans why they were giving them diseased blankets. The Spanish didn't explain to the Aztecs about their horses and guns. Contact with a massively more advanced culture is always going to be baffling. – Keith Jun 20 '12 at 13:33
  • While Michelangelo created many beautiful works of art, there are certainly times when he started out, didn't like what he was doing, and threw it away. – PoloHoleSet Aug 26 '16 at

 any safety-net to cushion the loss. Domestic and foreign owners of real assets suffered large losses, while foreign creditor banks were protected”.
International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission, of the US Congress, or Meltzer Commission, 2000

Over recent years the IMF efforts to put an end to public subventions of staple products, energy sources and public services, and to impose anti-social measures on social services, have provoked popular insurrections, for example in Nicaragua (April 2018), Sudan (December 2018), Haiti (summer 2018 and in 2019) and Ecuador (October 2019). Clearly, the nefarious policies of the IMF have not changed.

Maud Bailly, Nathan Legrand, Milan Rivié and Éric Toussaint took part in producing this article.

Translated by Kate Armstrong, Vicki Briault Manus, Mike Krolikowski and Christine Pagnoulle (CADTM).

  1. The World Bank: an ABC
  2. The International Monetary Fund (IMF): an ABC
  3. Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
  6. SUNFED versus World Bank
  7. Why the Marshall Plan ?
  9. Domination of the United States on the World Bank
  10. World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
  11. The World Bank and the Philippines
  14. Theoretical lies of the World Bank
  15. The South Korean miracle is exposed
  16. The debt trap
  17. The World Bank saw the debt crisis looming
  18. The Mexican debt crisis and the World Bank
  23. The World Bank’s accounts

[1The Lazard Bank specializes in financial counselling and asset management, notably with governments that face financial problems. For instance, it advised the Greek government in 2015, and we know how successful that was. It also advises the predatory regime in Congo-Brazzaville.

[2The DSK or NY Sofitel case. See Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet, « FMI : la fin de l’histoire ? », CADTM, 20 May 2011 (French only).

[3Reuters press release, “IMF paints grim picture of fiscal tightening needs”, 12 March 2010

[5On 20/12/2019, 1 US dollar was valued at 0.72 SDR, see

[6See “IMF Executive Directors and Voting Power” :

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00324 60 97 96 80<|endoftext|>Targeting PCL to .NET Standard

Enterprise application architecture comprises of multiple layers and usually, each layer is representing a separate project. Each project could be a class library project, UWP project, web forms project or ASP.NET MVC project and so on. We usually have a core class library project which is shared across multiple layers and contains some backend and core functionality that every layer can use.

Each platform has a different app model and referencing .NET assembly is not possible until it is a PCL (Portable Class Library). Portable class libraries were used to address these type of scenarios where you can select the app models or platforms while creating a class library and then it can be added to the project to which that library supports.

With the release of .NET Core, Microsoft introduces the next generation of PCL known as .NET Standard. .NET Standard is a set of interfaces that is implemented by different platforms and each .NET Standard has a version number to which that platform supports. There are various versions of .NET Standards to which each platform implements.

Below table shows the .NET standard version and the platform supported.

These arrows specifies the supportability of the platform to a version of a .NET Standard. For example, .NET Core 1.0 supports version 1.6 and it can add any of the platform assemblies lower to that version. However, if we need to reference the .NET Core 1.0 assembly in any of the lower versions of .NET Standard, we need to degrade our .NET core assembly’s .NET standard to that version.

Microsoft is now shifting the .NET Core project extension from .xproj to .csproj. As it is still in the preview it is not recommended to use in production. However, today if you are using .NET Core 1.0.* in production and wanted to reference your .NET Core assembly in any of the other platforms you can use .NET Standard and use the version that supports other projects. However, due to the different project extension .xproj we cannot reference any .NET Core assembly in other platforms for example UWP project that has a .csproj project extension.

However, there is a way as shown in this post through which you can create a .NET Core project with a .csproj extension and then easily reference in other .NET project.

1. Create a Class Library (Portable) project

2, Select the Target platforms.

3. Once this project is created, open up the project properties and click on the “Target .NET Platform Standard” as shown below.

4. This will change the “Target” to .NET Standard version and selected the minimal version from the platforms selected.

5. Finally, you have an assembly which is a .NET Core 1.0 assembly and it can be added to any platform which supports particular .NET standard or lower version.

Hope this helps!

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Connecting to %s<|endoftext|>22 May 2017

The Anxiety Lie

I won't pretend to know anything about anything, particularly not a subject still being understood by folks far smarter than I. What follows are my experiences and some thoughts about them. I write to maybe try to better understand me, and possibly provide some insight into why I'm so withdrawn and sad sometimes.

For the better part of the last 6 years I fought against the conviction that I was worthless. And, in the end, I won. Because it's not that unbelievable that everyone is worth at least something to someone, because in the end no matter how little you may think you are worth, you are never worthless.

So my anxiety came up with a new lie, a much better, more subtle one that, like all the best lies, contains truth.

Backing up a bit.

There's a line I often see on the Internet that says something like, "Anxiety is caring too much about everything. Depression is not caring about anything. Having both is exhausting." and, yep, that sums up my experience too.

I have a new, less catchy, one: Anxiety is the liar, the bully, calling you names and putting you down day after day. Depression is lying down and accepting it, believing it's true. (Or falling down into a deep, dark misery pit that is cold and wet and really hard to climb out of, oh and the darkness is heavy too.)

from tenor.co
So the first lie was that I was worthless. It was a pretty good one, I'd never had lots of self-confidence or self-esteem, so when depression hit I went straight down. Gradually, mainly by the slow, hard, sometimes near impossible plod of just getting up each morning, I learned it wasn't true.

Then, like an AI in a sci-fi movie, it got smarter and two weeks ago I was whammied with something I'm struggling to refute.

For the first week I could hardly talk to anyone. I felt like such a fraud and hypocrite and was utterly disgusted by myself, by who I was as a person. I lay awake thinking of every potentially inept thing I might have done, from primary school onwards, convinced all of my friends must hate me, even though all evidence was to the contrary, and that I definitely didn't deserve them.

While the intensity has passed due, mainly, to hiding out at home, I still feel really edgy and tense and like anything might trigger another panic.

from giphy.com
That's just about everything I have the courage for today. I went to New Zealand when I was 19 without a qualm in the world. Now it's a big deal to talk to the postman or write a little blog post.

So it goes.

Read More
Powered by Blogger.<|endoftext|>After watching Prometheus I don't have a clear idea of why the Engineers created the human beings. Because, if they created humans so that they can test their bio-weapons on us, then it makes sense, but it's ambiguous. Why did the Engineers want to destroy the human beings that they have created?

Did I miss something?

  • 4
    You didn't miss anything, I don't think you're supposed to know from the film. The pilgrims didn't explain to the original Americans why they were giving them diseased blankets. The Spanish didn't explain to the Aztecs about their horses and guns. Contact with a massively more advanced culture is always going to be baffling. – Keith Jun 20 '12 at 13:33
  • While Michelangelo created many beautiful works of art, there are certainly times when he started out, didn't like what he was doing, and threw it away. – PoloHoleSet Aug 26 '16 at 14:24

The Engineers are planet builders who seed planets with


 in the character matrix text where there are occurrences of the characters that fall between the limits specified by the row vectors lower and upper, which must be of equal length. If both i and j are present, they are integer column vectors containing the row and column indices in text. Otherwise i is a two column integer matrix with the first column corresponding to row indices and the second to column indices. Trailing blanks in lower and upper are not ignored and must be matched.

If you enter
     list = {"TEST.A9", "TEST.B8", "TEST.C7", "TEST.D3"}
     find(list, "A1", "B5")
O-Matrix will respond
     [ 1 , 6 ]
     [ 2 , 6 ]
     [ 4 , 7 ]
because the sixth column of the first row ("A") and the sixth column of the second row ("B") of list are within the boundaries of the first elements of upper and lower, and the seventh element of the fourth row ("3") is within the boundaries of the second elements of upper and lower.<|endoftext|>A dieter's day is not resembling a traditional day for a "normal" being. A dieter's day unavoidably starts out beside a looking at the enormity. That premier human action of the day sets the quality of sound for the catnap of the day. It is a teeny startling how an inanimate be reluctant such as as a enormity can be paid or flout a day, but it does. If the ascend likes you, and gives you a low-density reading, your day will launch out blazing and gay. If that graduated table decides to mess next to you, and returns a big reading, your day starts out darkling and dreary.

After the decisive voyage to the clamber breakfast becomes a precedency. Unlike the mediocre person, who can simply swing into a high-velocity diet clannish and get a cooked thing on a biscuit, the weightwatcher essential scrupulously blueprint their breakfast. The authority portion and assortment essential be adhered to or the day is colourful since it begins.

The close tactical maneuver for the weightwatcher is to programme out the component of the meals for the day. They can't spend to let those cravings batter and hit the vending domestic device at tough grind. No, no, they essential have snacks and meals contrived up of clip. These meals must arrive at a go together at the end of the day.

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At coffee natural event when the bid for potable and doughnuts goes say the weightwatcher must workout a miniature standby self-command and avoid the desire for "just one toroid." The weightwatcher may discovery a tramp outside, or at smallest trailing the hall, in command spell they noise on their cultivated celery branch. The parcel of land of everyone else enjoying their sticky, melodic treats may perhaps be too by a long chalk.

Once again at lunch, the eating house proclaim goes around, but the weightwatcher is staunch in their self-will and adds that dry opuntia tuna to the dry pita baked goods and chases it descending with fresh, unflavoured sea. The nifty article is that since the nourishment is near and ripe to go, the weightwatcher has incident to get in six of vii sets of way or a amble about the artifact while each one else enjoys their fried meats and cheeses in thick, privileged sauces.

The thrust quarters after drudgery takes the weightwatcher long-gone all of those speedy provisions places and bakeries. The cessation for gas at the comfortableness outlet is a psychometric test in resolve. Popping a fraction of sugar-free gum to shun the inducement when they go in the storehouse to pay for the gas is a early fix. A immoderation of a diet soda ash is a bully compromise, but it requires close by frame after frame of sugary, bonbon piousness and fat-laden snacks, fashioning the dieters maw statesman to hose down.

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After narrowly fugitive a tragical blooper in the collection the chill out of the thrust home is quiet. Then dinner devices are in command. Separate meals must be equipped. A chock-full easy lasagne for the menage near a on the side of allium sativum staff of life. The smells alone are wicked. The weightwatcher sits downfield at the tabular array next to a nice big bowl of green with a containerful of salad sauce and a cooperatively counted 6 loony. The victuals of the day is a spatter of red wine near the nourishment.

The day ends with bathe up of the dishes that motionless contain waste material of lasagna bigger than any dinnertime the weightwatcher has eaten up for the full day. Then it is off to get a few minutes in on the exert racing bike up to that time unassertive to bed beside a half looted tummy. After a occasional period of time slumber dreaming of Ho-Ho cakes and steaming slices of pizza, it is up and at 'em to do it all ended over again.

The aftermath for such severe recover and dedication? More human activity and craving.

In all seriousness, the diet process is not easy, but in the end restored wellbeing and pretext truly are the pay-offs for jutting to it.
<|endoftext|>Question: How to make a Asian marinade for chicken wings to barbecue.
Answer: Smash up garlic. Put it in a bowl then add oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt, sugar, sesame oil, and pepper. Pour over chicken wings and mixed everything together and refrigerate for at lease 2 hours.<|endoftext|>Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist (DES-1423) Certification Sample Questions

PowerScale Specialist Dumps, DES-1423 Dumps, DES-1423 PDF, PowerScale Specialist VCE, Dell EMC DES-1423 VCE, Dell EMC DCS-IE PDFThe purpose of this Sample Question Set is to provide you with information about the Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist for Implementation Engineers exam. These sample questions will make you very familiar with both the type and the difficulty level of the questions on the DES-1423 certification test. To get familiar with real exam environment, we suggest you try our Sample Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist Certification Practice Exam. This sample practice exam gives you the feeling of reality and is a clue to the questions asked in the actual Dell EMC Certified Specialist - Implementation Engineer - PowerScale (DCS-IE) certification exam.

These sample questions are simple and basic questions that represent likeness to the real Dell EMC DES-1423 exam questions. To assess your readiness and performance with real time scenario based questions, we suggest you prepare with our Premium Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist Certification Practice Exam. When you solve real time scenario based questions practically, you come across many difficulties that give you an opportunity to improve.

Dell EMC DES-1423 Sample Questions:

01. What is the maximum number of nodes that can be added into a node pool in Isilon Gen 5 hardware and OneFS 8.2.0?
a) 144
b) 252
c) 288
d) 352
02. Which type of administrator commands are tracked by configuration auditing?
a) Commands run by the root user
b) PAPI-enabled commands
c) Commands run by the SystemAdmin and CompAdmin roles only
d) All UNIX, isi, isi_, and sudo commands
03. In a Dell EMC PowerScale SyncIQ environment, which action requires a SnapshotIQ license?
a) Failing over to the target or disaster recovery cluster
b) Saving historical snapshots on the target
c) Creating a snapshot of the source data
d) Reading the target, read-only instance
04. An administrator wants to enable quotas on a group directory in their Isilon cluster. In addition, the administrator wants to monitor the disk usage for future capacity planning. Which type of quotas need to be configured?
a) Accounting
b) Enforcement
c) Hard
d) Advisory
05. What information does the isi statistics command display?
a) Protocol status, general performance, hardware condition, and critical alerts
b) General status, node management, Job Engine status, and drive statistics
c) Drive statistics, protocol status, node statistics, and hardware statistics
d) Drive status, hardware condition, critical alert, and protocol status
06. You are using Connection Count to load balance client connections in an Isilon SmartConnect zone. Which connection type is counted when considering which IP to assign?
a) Established FTP connections
b) Active IP connections
c) Active UDP connections
d) Established TCP connections
07. When a user accesses a

 in the character matrix text where there are occurrences of the characters that fall between the limits specified by the row vectors lower and upper, which must be of equal length. If both i and j are present, they are integer column vectors containing the row and column indices in text. Otherwise i is a two column integer matrix with the first column corresponding to row indices and the second to column indices. Trailing blanks in lower and upper are not ignored and must be matched.

If you enter
     list = {"TEST.A9", "TEST.B8", "TEST.C7", "TEST.D3"}
     find(list, "A1", "B5")
O-Matrix will respond
     [ 1 , 6 ]
     [ 2 , 6 ]
     [ 4 , 7 ]
because the sixth column of the first row ("A") and the sixth column of the second row ("B") of list are within the boundaries of the first elements of upper and lower, and the seventh element of the fourth row ("3") is within the boundaries of the second elements of upper and lower.<|endoftext|>A dieter's day is not resembling a traditional day for a "normal" being. A dieter's day unavoidably starts out beside a looking at the enormity. That premier human action of the day sets the quality of sound for the catnap of the day. It is a teeny startling how an inanimate be reluctant such as as a enormity can be paid or flout a day, but it does. If the ascend likes you, and gives you a low-density reading, your day will launch out blazing and gay. If that graduated table decides to mess next to you, and returns a big reading, your day starts out darkling and dreary.

After the decisive voyage to the clamber breakfast becomes a precedency. Unlike the mediocre person, who can simply swing into a high-velocity diet clannish and get a cooked thing on a biscuit, the weightwatcher essential scrupulously blueprint their breakfast. The authority portion and assortment essential be adhered to or the day is colourful since it begins.

The close tactical maneuver for the weightwatcher is to programme out the component of the meals for the day. They can't spend to let those cravings batter and hit the vending domestic device at tough grind. No, no, they essential have snacks and meals contrived up of clip. These meals must arrive at a go together at the end of the day.

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At coffee natural event when the bid for potable and doughnuts goes say the weightwatcher must workout a miniature standby self-command and avoid the desire for "just one toroid." The weightwatcher may discovery a tramp outside, or at smallest trailing the hall, in command spell they noise on their cultivated celery branch. The parcel of land of everyone else enjoying their sticky, melodic treats may perhaps be too by a long chalk.

Once again at lunch, the eating house proclaim goes around, but the weightwatcher is staunch in their self-will and adds that dry opuntia tuna to the dry pita baked goods and chases it descending with fresh, unflavoured sea. The nifty article is that since the nourishment is near and ripe to go, the weightwatcher has incident to get in six of vii sets of way or a amble about the artifact while each one else enjoys their fried meats and cheeses in thick, privileged sauces.

The thrust quarters after drudgery takes the weightwatcher long-gone all of those speedy provisions places and bakeries. The cessation for gas at the comfortableness outlet is a psychometric test in resolve. Popping a fraction of sugar-free gum to shun the inducement when they go in the storehouse to pay for the gas is a early fix. A immoderation of a diet soda ash is a bully compromise, but it requires close by frame after frame of sugary, bonbon piousness and fat-laden snacks, fashioning the dieters maw statesman to hose down.

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After narrowly fugitive a tragical blooper in the collection the chill out of the thrust home is quiet. Then dinner devices are in command. Separate meals must be equipped. A chock-full easy lasagne for the menage near a on the side of allium sativum staff of life. The smells alone are wicked. The weightwatcher sits downfield at the tabular array next to a nice big bowl of green with a containerful of salad sauce and a cooperatively counted 6 loony. The victuals of the day is a spatter of red wine near the nourishment.

The day ends with bathe up of the dishes that motionless contain waste material of lasagna bigger than any dinnertime the weightwatcher has eaten up for the full day. Then it is off to get a few minutes in on the exert racing bike up to that time unassertive to bed beside a half looted tummy. After a occasional period of time slumber dreaming of Ho-Ho cakes and steaming slices of pizza, it is up and at 'em to do it all ended over again.

The aftermath for such severe recover and dedication? More human activity and craving.

In all seriousness, the diet process is not easy, but in the end restored wellbeing and pretext truly are the pay-offs for jutting to it.
<|endoftext|>Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist (DES-1423) Certification Sample Questions

PowerScale Specialist Dumps, DES-1423 Dumps, DES-1423 PDF, PowerScale Specialist VCE, Dell EMC DES-1423 VCE, Dell EMC DCS-IE PDFThe purpose of this Sample Question Set is to provide you with information about the Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist for Implementation Engineers exam. These sample questions will make you very familiar with both the type and the difficulty level of the questions on the DES-1423 certification test. To get familiar with real exam environment, we suggest you try our Sample Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist Certification Practice Exam. This sample practice exam gives you the feeling of reality and is a clue to the questions asked in the actual Dell EMC Certified Specialist - Implementation Engineer - PowerScale (DCS-IE) certification exam.

These sample questions are simple and basic questions that represent likeness to the real Dell EMC DES-1423 exam questions. To assess your readiness and performance with real time scenario based questions, we suggest you prepare with our Premium Dell EMC PowerScale Specialist Certification Practice Exam. When you solve real time scenario based questions practically, you come across many difficulties that give you an opportunity to improve.

Dell EMC DES-1423 Sample Questions:

01. What is the maximum number of nodes that can be added into a node pool in Isilon Gen 5 hardware and OneFS 8.2.0?
a) 144
b) 252
c) 288
d) 352
02. Which type of administrator commands are tracked by configuration auditing?
a) Commands run by the root user
b) PAPI-enabled commands
c) Commands run by the SystemAdmin and CompAdmin roles only
d) All UNIX, isi, isi_, and sudo commands
03. In a Dell EMC PowerScale SyncIQ environment, which action requires a SnapshotIQ license?
a) Failing over to the target or disaster recovery cluster
b) Saving historical snapshots on the target
c) Creating a snapshot of the source data
d) Reading the target, read-only instance
04. An administrator wants to enable quotas on a group directory in their Isilon cluster. In addition, the administrator wants to monitor the disk usage for future capacity planning. Which type of quotas need to be configured?
a) Accounting
b) Enforcement
c) Hard
d) Advisory
05. What information does the isi statistics command display?
a) Protocol status, general performance, hardware condition, and critical alerts
b) General status, node management, Job Engine status, and drive statistics
c) Drive statistics, protocol status, node statistics, and hardware statistics
d) Drive status, hardware condition, critical alert, and protocol status
06. You are using Connection Count to load balance client connections in an Isilon SmartConnect zone. Which connection type is counted when considering which IP to assign?
a) Established FTP connections
b) Active IP connections
c) Active UDP connections
d) Established TCP connections
07. When a user accesses a file on the cluster, what does the Isilon cluster use to verify authorization?
a) Active Directory call to LDAP
b) Configured authentication service
c) Access token
d) On-disk identity
08. What must be done to configure cluster name resolution for SmartConnect?
a


 anyone else out there like me or am I a lone freak (that's rhetorical I already am aware of my levels of freakiness)? And if you do have just as bad of a running nose how are you circumventing it?

Monday, September 8, 2008

Interesting Dilemma

This weekend I got a call from my tall flower girl. Right out of the gate she asked me if she could get the deposit back on her dress.

I'm sure I turned all kinds of white and red colors as I tried to figure out why she wanted to know that (it didn't help that I was sick and really tired).

I squeaked out a "Why?" while trying to hold back images of everyone abanding this wedding like rats from a sinking ship.

Turns out she's found a blue dress that she absolutely loves and is on clearance and she'd rather wear that than the one sitting at the bridal shop.

I paused for a minute as I erased all the images of her not being able to make the wedding for a myriad of reasons, took a calming breath, then attempted to tackle this issue.

I will admit I did for a minute think, crap she can't change dresses. Her dress is green so it'll match with the other ring bearer and she has a blue basket to contrast her dress. Blah blah blah. Luckily none of that came out of my mouth and I realized that it doesn't really matter.

She still owes around $100 on her dress and she's been having second thoughts on it for a while now. Thanks to the bridal shoppe not knowing how to use size charts she got a dress that is just a bit too small. I think it's still within alterations range but this Thursday she scheduled a visit with their alterations lady to get an idea of what it would cost and if they could do anything.

My suggestion was that if she could if she had to return the blue dress go ahead and buy it, then bring it with her on Thursday. She could try on the old dress as well as the new one and see which she likes better.

I've seen so many brides that in waiting for their dress to come in suddenly decide they don't want it anymore and get something new, only to want to go back to the old idea. So at least trying on the old one once before abandoning all that money for the deposit was my thought.

I guess we'll see on Thursday. I already said that I'd go with her if I wasn't doing anything too important at work. Man I thought I was done with this whole dress thing.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Blog Love

As lots of brides get engaged and start this whole planning process and being their own blogs I was thinking this was a good time to go looking for links.

So if you know a good site or have a blog all of your own that you'd like me to link to just leave a little comment and I'll add ya in.

For those I already have added here are adorable pictures of lab puppies

Get yer programs!

I'm a bit surprised at all of you who claim you want to see our programs. I'll level with you, they're quite boring and cheap.

I don't have the best sense for stationary so I didn't go out of my way to make a really fancy booklet or even those little rectangular pieces of cardstock.

We have a whole bunch of people coming who are Catholic and they really need a program as the ceremony is gonna be generally Methodist (but we do have some holy water for them in the back).

To me that was always the point of programs to tell everyone what is coming up next and when to expect the thing to be done. Of course the other half of the program is to announce who helped with this whole shindig and to thank them. I was always used to the simple paper programs that you get at church, at other weddings I attended when I was little and well really anything that happens at the church.

So I went old school (kinda like the cake topper). We picked out some not gag me sappy or ugly paper and then came the hard part, getting it all to print. Since making these things were so easy I was thinking I'd share something you don't usually see at most blogs, the order of the ceremony and any other stuff that fills it out. It seems like a lot of people really want a good general idea but it's about impossible to find.

This is of course our Methodist version, but if you're looking for a pretty simple common Christian flow this is about how it goes (Though I did change 'sermon' to 'homily' for the Catholics in the room). There is also some extra stuff at top including a fun border but I cut it off for the sake of um it wouldn't fit in my screen grab.

The other side of the programs have a nice long listing of all the people who helped and anyone we're related to as well as a few simple statments like "If you for some reason forgot the reception starts here at this time" and "Thanks for being here with us, in fact you can take a few extra programs with you if you want. We have a ton left over thanks to all those who ditched."

The back is where it gets a bit interesting. Most people will put a quote or two that is inspiring and all about how great love is. Well we aren't sappy so it's been a difficult challenge trying to find love quotes that don't give me a sugar rush.If you can't read them here's what they say:

“The way to find out if you love someone or not, is by talking to them. The more you talk to them the more you either hate them or love them.”
Brad Breitenstein

We're also both crazy Terry Pratchett fans so I did some digging through some quote databases to find a good one about weddings.

Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant

If you're wondering what that tiny spec of almost invisible text is, it's sort of a hidden Easter Egg for our programs. No it isn't us railing against all those problems and road blocks wedding planning has thrown us. It's another quote, a quote a lot of people at weddings wouldn't want to think about but one that I think holds quite true especially held up to the light of the idea of the wedding being the best day of your life.

"Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy. But you can't make 'em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin' their heads off as soon as they say 'I do,' yes?"
Granny Weatherwax
Witches Abroad

Sorry to dissapoint if these weren't what you were expecting, but I can only be creative 10 hours out of the week. Court Order.<|endoftext|>Question: Separate an egg using a plastic water bottle
Answer: Break an egg into a bowl,Take an empty plastic water bottle place it over the egg yolk and press the sides of the water bottle in, the suction will grab the egg yolk leaving the egg white in the bowl<|endoftext|>What are the Hurlers

The Hurlers are a stone circle complex and one of Cornwall’s best known prehistoric monuments. They stand on the desolate Bodmin Moor in south-east Cornwall.

The Hurlers are currently accepted to comprise of three stone circles and a pair of standing stones known as The Pipers.  In 1994 a possible fourth circle was discovered to the north of the Hurlers, apparently on the same alignment. The entire complex extends over an area of 162m

The Hurlers stand amongst a rich historic landscape. The upstanding prehistoric sites around The Hurlers make up one of the best preserved prehistoric landscapes in south-west Britain.

The Pipers

Standing near to the Hurlers circles are 2 upright stones, called the Pipers. Sixteenth and seventeenth century antiquaries William Camden and John Norden both mention the Hurlers. Both refer to folklore and the story that the stones were people who were turned to stone because they had played games on the Sabbath instead of going to church. The Pipers represented the musicians who played while the villagers hurled. Hurling is a Cornish sport, played with a silver ball and is still re-enacted each year.

Origin of the Hurlers name

The title "Hurlers" comes from a legend, in which men were playing Cornish hurling on a Sunday and were magically transformed into stones as punishment. The "Pipers" are supposed to be the figures of two men who played tunes on a Sunday and suffered the same fate. According to another legend, it is impossible to accurately count the number of standing stones for they continue to dance when your back is turned and on a windy evening the piping music can still be heard to whistle across the moorlands.

1930s Excavations

C. A. Ralegh-Radford excavated the site in the 1930s, and partly restored the two northern circles by re-erecting some stones and placing marker stones in the positions of those missing. Archives from the unpublished excavation reports have been re-evaluated by Jacky Nowakowski (Cornwall Heritage Trust) and John Gould (English Heritage) and may result in more analysis and publication.

Studying Bodmin Moor

There have been several investigations at the Hurlers and surrounding moors.Between 1975-1985 aerial survey and subsequent analysis by various teams, including Cambridge University, University College London

 use it.

Is anyone else out there like me or am I a lone freak (that's rhetorical I already am aware of my levels of freakiness)? And if you do have just as bad of a running nose how are you circumventing it?

Monday, September 8, 2008

Interesting Dilemma

This weekend I got a call from my tall flower girl. Right out of the gate she asked me if she could get the deposit back on her dress.

I'm sure I turned all kinds of white and red colors as I tried to figure out why she wanted to know that (it didn't help that I was sick and really tired).

I squeaked out a "Why?" while trying to hold back images of everyone abanding this wedding like rats from a sinking ship.

Turns out she's found a blue dress that she absolutely loves and is on clearance and she'd rather wear that than the one sitting at the bridal shop.

I paused for a minute as I erased all the images of her not being able to make the wedding for a myriad of reasons, took a calming breath, then attempted to tackle this issue.

I will admit I did for a minute think, crap she can't change dresses. Her dress is green so it'll match with the other ring bearer and she has a blue basket to contrast her dress. Blah blah blah. Luckily none of that came out of my mouth and I realized that it doesn't really matter.

She still owes around $100 on her dress and she's been having second thoughts on it for a while now. Thanks to the bridal shoppe not knowing how to use size charts she got a dress that is just a bit too small. I think it's still within alterations range but this Thursday she scheduled a visit with their alterations lady to get an idea of what it would cost and if they could do anything.

My suggestion was that if she could if she had to return the blue dress go ahead and buy it, then bring it with her on Thursday. She could try on the old dress as well as the new one and see which she likes better.

I've seen so many brides that in waiting for their dress to come in suddenly decide they don't want it anymore and get something new, only to want to go back to the old idea. So at least trying on the old one once before abandoning all that money for the deposit was my thought.

I guess we'll see on Thursday. I already said that I'd go with her if I wasn't doing anything too important at work. Man I thought I was done with this whole dress thing.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Blog Love

As lots of brides get engaged and start this whole planning process and being their own blogs I was thinking this was a good time to go looking for links.

So if you know a good site or have a blog all of your own that you'd like me to link to just leave a little comment and I'll add ya in.

For those I already have added here are adorable pictures of lab puppies

Get yer programs!

I'm a bit surprised at all of you who claim you want to see our programs. I'll level with you, they're quite boring and cheap.

I don't have the best sense for stationary so I didn't go out of my way to make a really fancy booklet or even those little rectangular pieces of cardstock.

We have a whole bunch of people coming who are Catholic and they really need a program as the ceremony is gonna be generally Methodist (but we do have some holy water for them in the back).

To me that was always the point of programs to tell everyone what is coming up next and when to expect the thing to be done. Of course the other half of the program is to announce who helped with this whole shindig and to thank them. I was always used to the simple paper programs that you get at church, at other weddings I attended when I was little and well really anything that happens at the church.

So I went old school (kinda like the cake topper). We picked out some not gag me sappy or ugly paper and then came the hard part, getting it all to print. Since making these things were so easy I was thinking I'd share something you don't usually see at most blogs, the order of the ceremony and any other stuff that fills it out. It seems like a lot of people really want a good general idea but it's about impossible to find.

This is of course our Methodist version, but if you're looking for a pretty simple common Christian flow this is about how it goes (Though I did change 'sermon' to 'homily' for the Catholics in the room). There is also some extra stuff at top including a fun border but I cut it off for the sake of um it wouldn't fit in my screen grab.

The other side of the programs have a nice long listing of all the people who helped and anyone we're related to as well as a few simple statments like "If you for some reason forgot the reception starts here at this time" and "Thanks for being here with us, in fact you can take a few extra programs with you if you want. We have a ton left over thanks to all those who ditched."

The back is where it gets a bit interesting. Most people will put a quote or two that is inspiring and all about how great love is. Well we aren't sappy so it's been a difficult challenge trying to find love quotes that don't give me a sugar rush.If you can't read them here's what they say:

“The way to find out if you love someone or not, is by talking to them. The more you talk to them the more you either hate them or love them.”
Brad Breitenstein

We're also both crazy Terry Pratchett fans so I did some digging through some quote databases to find a good one about weddings.

Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant

If you're wondering what that tiny spec of almost invisible text is, it's sort of a hidden Easter Egg for our programs. No it isn't us railing against all those problems and road blocks wedding planning has thrown us. It's another quote, a quote a lot of people at weddings wouldn't want to think about but one that I think holds quite true especially held up to the light of the idea of the wedding being the best day of your life.

"Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy. But you can't make 'em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin' their heads off as soon as they say 'I do,' yes?"
Granny Weatherwax
Witches Abroad

Sorry to dissapoint if these weren't what you were expecting, but I can only be creative 10 hours out of the week. Court Order.<|endoftext|>What are the Hurlers

The Hurlers are a stone circle complex and one of Cornwall’s best known prehistoric monuments. They stand on the desolate Bodmin Moor in south-east Cornwall.

The Hurlers are currently accepted to comprise of three stone circles and a pair of standing stones known as The Pipers.  In 1994 a possible fourth circle was discovered to the north of the Hurlers, apparently on the same alignment. The entire complex extends over an area of 162m

The Hurlers stand amongst a rich historic landscape. The upstanding prehistoric sites around The Hurlers make up one of the best preserved prehistoric landscapes in south-west Britain.

The Pipers

Standing near to the Hurlers circles are 2 upright stones, called the Pipers. Sixteenth and seventeenth century antiquaries William Camden and John Norden both mention the Hurlers. Both refer to folklore and the story that the stones were people who were turned to stone because they had played games on the Sabbath instead of going to church. The Pipers represented the musicians who played while the villagers hurled. Hurling is a Cornish sport, played with a silver ball and is still re-enacted each year.

Origin of the Hurlers name

The title "Hurlers" comes from a legend, in which men were playing Cornish hurling on a Sunday and were magically transformed into stones as punishment. The "Pipers" are supposed to be the figures of two men who played tunes on a Sunday and suffered the same fate. According to another legend, it is impossible to accurately count the number of standing stones for they continue to dance when your back is turned and on a windy evening the piping music can still be heard to whistle across the moorlands.

1930s Excavations

C. A. Ralegh-Radford excavated the site in the 1930s, and partly restored the two northern circles by re-erecting some stones and placing marker stones in the positions of those missing. Archives from the unpublished excavation reports have been re-evaluated by Jacky Nowakowski (Cornwall Heritage Trust) and John Gould (English Heritage) and may result in more analysis and publication.

Studying Bodmin Moor

There have been several investigations at the Hurlers and surrounding moors.Between 1975-1985 aerial survey and subsequent analysis by various teams, including Cambridge University, University College London, RCHME and co-ordinated by Cornwall Archaeology Unit, which identify and mapedp many features. English Heritage conducted a geophysical survey in 2004. A survey by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit in 2009 indicated that there might also be a fourth circle and


 Kids

Kids are always pestering their parents for the latest piece of tech that everybody else has. They’ll tell you that if they don’t have it then they won’t be cool, which is probably the worst possible thing that can happen to a child. The problem is, all of that tech is incredibly expensive. The situation is made more difficult by the fact that they need laptops for schoolwork now so even if you aren’t going to get them that new games console they’re desperate for, you still need to update their computer from time to time. When you’re trying to budget for the whole family, those extra expenses can put a spanner in the works but don’t worry, there are some simple ways that you can make big savings on tech.

Repair, Don’t Replace

Kids are prone to breaking things quite a lot and if they’re smashing their phone screen once a month, the bill will soon rack up. But you don’t need to bother buying them a brand new phone every time they drop it. It’s much cheaper to send it off to somewhere like and have it fixed instead. It also teaches your kids the value of saving money by repairing things rather than being careless and buying new stuff every five minutes. This is especially important with computers because, while it might seem as though they’ve packed up completely, to an expert those problems might be simple to fix. You could get away with paying a small amount instead of shelling out for a whole new laptop.

Buy Refurbished

When you suggest this to the kids, they’re going to protest. They’ll tell you that anything apart from the latest model just won’t do. The truth is, phone companies release a new model every year but there isn’t usually that much difference between the new one and the old one, apart from the price tag of course. Companies that refurbish phones and laptops will make them good as new, and you can get them for almost half the price of buying a brand new one. Visit for a quick guide on buying refurbished products so you don’t get caught out by faulty goods.

Have Them Share

With phones, they’re going to need their own, but that’s not true of everything. They probably won’t remember this but there was a time when most households had just one computer that everybody shared. Why not try that instead? As long as you draw up a schedule so everybody has enough time to use it for any schoolwork that they need to do, you should be fine. It’s also a good way of keeping an eye on what they’re viewing online which is vital these days. And you can monitor how much time they’re spending in front of a screen as well. Hand me downs are a good idea as well, that way you can buy one new computer and give the older one to the younger kids.

The important thing is to do a bit of research and work out what they actually need, and what they just want, otherwise, they’ll trick you into buying expensive tech that you can’t afford.<|endoftext|>What is Foolsaurus?

How to Calculate Pivot Points in Stocks

Original post by Slav Fedorov of Demand Media

A pivot point on a stock chart is the price level at which a major move of significance can start. Pivots can be either a reversal or continuation of a trend. A reversal pivot is the level at which a stock is likely to change direction from up to down or vice versa. A continuation pivot is the level from which a stock's advance would resume in the same direction after a period of consolidation, or basing. Pivots are important in stock trading because they are considered the best points at which to buy stocks. It takes training and experience to determine and calculate pivot points.

Step 1

Learn basic stock chart patterns. Each chart pattern has a potential pivot which can only be determined correctly if an investor is familiar with the pattern.

Step 2

Obtain a daily stock chart for the stock you are considering and examine it to identify the most recent pattern forming on the right-hand side of the chart.

Step 3

Draw imaginary or actual lines that delineate the pattern. A stock moving above the upper boundary of a pattern constitutes a breakout -- the beginning of a move of significance, and the best moment to buy.

Step 4

Determine the point on the pattern that would signify a breakout if the stock moves through it, and the associated price. Depending on the pattern, it may or may not be the highest price for a specified preceding period, but it will almost always be the price at which the stock previously stopped and reversed while forming the pattern's upper boundary.

Step 5

Add 10 cents to the price -- that's your pivot. If the stock moves through the pivot on high volume, it validates the pivot and the breakout.

Tips & Warnings

  • Watch the stock's daily trading volume during a breakout. If the stock moves through a pivot on low volume, the breakout may be weak and have a high probability of failure.
  • Use printed charts or online charting services to draw lines that help you to analyze chart patterns and identify correct pivots.

  • "How to Make Money in Stocks"; William O'Neil; 2009

About the Author
<|endoftext|>Question: How do you organize a money clip?
Answer: remove everything from the money  clip;Fold  all paper bills in half; Push the bills into clip; slide the credit cards into the folded bills<|endoftext|>No recent wiki edits to this page.

It was apparent even at a young age that Andrew Hamish Grave was a mutant. His father was abusive to him and his mother, blaming her for having given birth to a mutant. Andrew's father eventually killed his wife by forcing her to drink paint stripper, but told young Andrew that she'd run away. His father continued to abuse him over the years, even forcing him to eat garbage, causing Andrew to grow up with an intense hatred of both himself and humans in general. He eventually discovered his mutant power to control people through pheromones, and took the name Spoor after he was recruited by Fabian Cortez into the Acolytes.

Spoor was created by Scott Lobdell and John Romita, Jr in 1993 and first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 300.

Major Story Arcs

The Acolytes

As a member of the Acolytes, Spoor took part in an attack on a hospital and killed many human patients. When Excalibur arrived to stop the Acolytes, Spoor tried to coerce Nightcrawler into killing him, but he managed to resist. As it turned out, Spoor hated himself just as much as he hated humans. Deep down, he even felt that killing humans was wrong and that he deserved to be killed for what he'd done.

Spoor learns the truth about his mother.

Spoor would remain a prisoner in Excalibur's custody for some time on Muir Island. While there, Dr. Rory Campbell sought to cure Spoor of his sociopathic nature. Campbell subjected Spoor to various psychological therapy sessions within a room equipped with aggression-tracking lasers, with Campbell himself taking drugs to inhibit Spoor's ability to influence him. Campbell's underlying animosity of mutants got the better of him however, and Spoor was able to goad the doctor into attacking him, causing a laser to react and sever one of Campbell's legs. Spoor would remain in custody afterwards for some time, both on Muir Island and later the main land. He eventually escaped however and fled to Genosha, currently ruled by Magneto. Spoor however later died during a Sentinel attack on the island.

Spoor was one of the many dead mutants resurrected by Eli Bard during Necrosha.

Powers & Abilities

Spoor's primary mutation was ability to produce mood-altering pheromones that allowed him to heighten the aggression of others around him. He could direct his victims' aggression, but would often leave it uncontrolled, secretly hoping that his victims would turn on him as well. His physical mutations cause his entire body to be covered in hair and take on a more bestial nature, bringing with it some degree of animal-like enhanced abilities.

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Video: You Cannot Hide from Allah

Meet the Michael Bloomberg of Pakistan.

Ishan Khan was just a regular guy, an immigrant working as a taxi driver in Washington, D.C. Then he hit the jackpot, winning more than $30 million in a lottery. Most people daydream about what they’d do if they won the lottery. For Khan, this decision would have real consequences. Khan decided to return to his hometown of Batagram, Pakistan, and run for mayor. Days later, an earthquake struck, killing 70,000 people, 4,500 of them in Batagram. Now, as mayor of this economically devastated town, Khan has to govern a constituency that seems to believe that his money can solve all of their problems.
<|endoftext|>Student went on rampage with flamethrower to get housemates' attention

A student who went on a "rampage" with a homemade flamethrower in order to "get the attention of her housemates" has received a four month suspended prison sentence.

A 22 year old student

 a little person with its own personality. Absolutely AMAZING.<|endoftext|>Reducing The Amount You Spend On Tech For Kids

Kids are always pestering their parents for the latest piece of tech that everybody else has. They’ll tell you that if they don’t have it then they won’t be cool, which is probably the worst possible thing that can happen to a child. The problem is, all of that tech is incredibly expensive. The situation is made more difficult by the fact that they need laptops for schoolwork now so even if you aren’t going to get them that new games console they’re desperate for, you still need to update their computer from time to time. When you’re trying to budget for the whole family, those extra expenses can put a spanner in the works but don’t worry, there are some simple ways that you can make big savings on tech.

Repair, Don’t Replace

Kids are prone to breaking things quite a lot and if they’re smashing their phone screen once a month, the bill will soon rack up. But you don’t need to bother buying them a brand new phone every time they drop it. It’s much cheaper to send it off to somewhere like and have it fixed instead. It also teaches your kids the value of saving money by repairing things rather than being careless and buying new stuff every five minutes. This is especially important with computers because, while it might seem as though they’ve packed up completely, to an expert those problems might be simple to fix. You could get away with paying a small amount instead of shelling out for a whole new laptop.

Buy Refurbished

When you suggest this to the kids, they’re going to protest. They’ll tell you that anything apart from the latest model just won’t do. The truth is, phone companies release a new model every year but there isn’t usually that much difference between the new one and the old one, apart from the price tag of course. Companies that refurbish phones and laptops will make them good as new, and you can get them for almost half the price of buying a brand new one. Visit for a quick guide on buying refurbished products so you don’t get caught out by faulty goods.

Have Them Share

With phones, they’re going to need their own, but that’s not true of everything. They probably won’t remember this but there was a time when most households had just one computer that everybody shared. Why not try that instead? As long as you draw up a schedule so everybody has enough time to use it for any schoolwork that they need to do, you should be fine. It’s also a good way of keeping an eye on what they’re viewing online which is vital these days. And you can monitor how much time they’re spending in front of a screen as well. Hand me downs are a good idea as well, that way you can buy one new computer and give the older one to the younger kids.

The important thing is to do a bit of research and work out what they actually need, and what they just want, otherwise, they’ll trick you into buying expensive tech that you can’t afford.<|endoftext|>What is Foolsaurus?

How to Calculate Pivot Points in Stocks

Original post by Slav Fedorov of Demand Media

A pivot point on a stock chart is the price level at which a major move of significance can start. Pivots can be either a reversal or continuation of a trend. A reversal pivot is the level at which a stock is likely to change direction from up to down or vice versa. A continuation pivot is the level from which a stock's advance would resume in the same direction after a period of consolidation, or basing. Pivots are important in stock trading because they are considered the best points at which to buy stocks. It takes training and experience to determine and calculate pivot points.

Step 1

Learn basic stock chart patterns. Each chart pattern has a potential pivot which can only be determined correctly if an investor is familiar with the pattern.

Step 2

Obtain a daily stock chart for the stock you are considering and examine it to identify the most recent pattern forming on the right-hand side of the chart.

Step 3

Draw imaginary or actual lines that delineate the pattern. A stock moving above the upper boundary of a pattern constitutes a breakout -- the beginning of a move of significance, and the best moment to buy.

Step 4

Determine the point on the pattern that would signify a breakout if the stock moves through it, and the associated price. Depending on the pattern, it may or may not be the highest price for a specified preceding period, but it will almost always be the price at which the stock previously stopped and reversed while forming the pattern's upper boundary.

Step 5

Add 10 cents to the price -- that's your pivot. If the stock moves through the pivot on high volume, it validates the pivot and the breakout.

Tips & Warnings

  • Watch the stock's daily trading volume during a breakout. If the stock moves through a pivot on low volume, the breakout may be weak and have a high probability of failure.
  • Use printed charts or online charting services to draw lines that help you to analyze chart patterns and identify correct pivots.

  • "How to Make Money in Stocks"; William O'Neil; 2009

About the Author
<|endoftext|>No recent wiki edits to this page.

It was apparent even at a young age that Andrew Hamish Grave was a mutant. His father was abusive to him and his mother, blaming her for having given birth to a mutant. Andrew's father eventually killed his wife by forcing her to drink paint stripper, but told young Andrew that she'd run away. His father continued to abuse him over the years, even forcing him to eat garbage, causing Andrew to grow up with an intense hatred of both himself and humans in general. He eventually discovered his mutant power to control people through pheromones, and took the name Spoor after he was recruited by Fabian Cortez into the Acolytes.

Spoor was created by Scott Lobdell and John Romita, Jr in 1993 and first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 300.

Major Story Arcs

The Acolytes

As a member of the Acolytes, Spoor took part in an attack on a hospital and killed many human patients. When Excalibur arrived to stop the Acolytes, Spoor tried to coerce Nightcrawler into killing him, but he managed to resist. As it turned out, Spoor hated himself just as much as he hated humans. Deep down, he even felt that killing humans was wrong and that he deserved to be killed for what he'd done.

Spoor learns the truth about his mother.

Spoor would remain a prisoner in Excalibur's custody for some time on Muir Island. While there, Dr. Rory Campbell sought to cure Spoor of his sociopathic nature. Campbell subjected Spoor to various psychological therapy sessions within a room equipped with aggression-tracking lasers, with Campbell himself taking drugs to inhibit Spoor's ability to influence him. Campbell's underlying animosity of mutants got the better of him however, and Spoor was able to goad the doctor into attacking him, causing a laser to react and sever one of Campbell's legs. Spoor would remain in custody afterwards for some time, both on Muir Island and later the main land. He eventually escaped however and fled to Genosha, currently ruled by Magneto. Spoor however later died during a Sentinel attack on the island.

Spoor was one of the many dead mutants resurrected by Eli Bard during Necrosha.

Powers & Abilities

Spoor's primary mutation was ability to produce mood-altering pheromones that allowed him to heighten the aggression of others around him. He could direct his victims' aggression, but would often leave it uncontrolled, secretly hoping that his victims would turn on him as well. His physical mutations cause his entire body to be covered in hair and take on a more bestial nature, bringing with it some degree of animal-like enhanced abilities.

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March 4th, 2009
Pakistan at the Polls
Video: You Cannot Hide from Allah

Meet the Michael Bloomberg of Pakistan.

Ishan Khan was just a regular guy, an immigrant working as a taxi driver in Washington, D.C. Then he hit the jackpot, winning more than $30 million in a lottery. Most people daydream about what they’d do if they won the lottery. For Khan, this decision would have real consequences. Khan decided to return to his hometown of Batagram, Pakistan, and run for mayor. Days later, an earthquake struck, killing 70,000 people, 4,500 of them in Batagram. Now, as mayor of this economically devastated town, Khan has to govern a constituency that seems to believe that his money can solve all of their problems.
<|endoftext|>Student went on rampage with flamethrower to get housemates' attention

A student who went on a "rampage" with a homemade flamethrower in order to "get the attention of her housemates" has received a four month suspended prison sentence.

A 22 year old student who was struggling to fit in at her university stalked the halls of her student house with


Question: To naturally soften clothes in the washer,
Answer: mix a bit of vinegar during the rinse cycle.<|endoftext|> without moving. I started to feel a bit cold tonight, and for the first time ever, I suddenly considered the fact that the Snuggie is maybe not such a ridiculous idea after all. But then I realized, hello, perhaps I should simply GET UP every now and then to ensure that blood is still moving to all parts of my body. Seriously, it's like I'm one of the former Earthlings on the hover track in Wall-E here. Thank god I don't have a robot to wait on me hand and foot or I might never leave my damn living room anymore.

That said, I did actually get some exercise before retiring to the couch this evening. Despite the fact that my hamstrings are still angry with me for revisiting an old The Firm tape I haven't done in years the other day, I decided to try a new Pilates band workout I bought on impulse at TJ Maxx tonight. So far, no additional pain has set in, but I suspect I won't actually feel any effects until tomorrow. Meanwhile, my bigger problem is this: I have washed my hands seven times since 7:30 this evening, and I still smell cheap rubber on them every time I lift my fingers towards my face. Tell me, does anyone else have any of these resistance band thingies? If so, tell me, will the rubbery scent subside in time, or am I destined to smell like I've just fondled a Real Girl every time I want to work my muscles without weights?

That may not be as important a question as the "bangs or no bangs" one, but it's the one I'm settling on in any case.

steve said...

Why am I always the first to comment? Must be a weird time zone thing.

Anyway, I kinda like this feistier Stef, and I'm with you on the laptop/couch thing - it can get all too comfortable.

3carnations said...

Hubby has a resistance band, and I've never noticed the rubbery smell. I should ask him.

I've already weighed in on the bangs. What comes after a "criticism" that says you looks too youthful? You're too smart? Yeah, let's go with that. You're too smart. To fix that? Probably get bangs. :)

nancypearlwannabe said...

I think you are pretty just the way you are, but you could totally rock some longer bangs and do the hipster look with no problem.

Then again, I am wearing leggings today, so maybe it's me that has the issue with looking too young and you don't want to take my advice.

-R- said...

Maybe the high school friend's wife thinks you're having a Facebook affair with her husband and wants to be your friend so that she can keep tabs on you. You are caught in a love triangle!

Or maybe she is just weird.

courtney said...

That's my favorite Internet surfing position too! When I was unemployed last year, I think I spent the majority of my time on the couch, legs outstretched, computer in lap.

If you go with bangs, I wouldn't go as heavy as Rory's bangs were. Those kind of blunt-cut, very heavy bangs look like they're weighing down people's faces to me. I enjoy sideswept bangs, if that helps you. They require minimal upkeep.

Stefanie said...

Steve--I was thinking that if it's a time zone thing, you should NOT be the first to comment, because you get to work two or three hours after those of us in Central and Eastern time. It occurs to me that I usually post at night, though, and since you're probably up two or three hours later than we are over here, I suppose that makes sense. And feistier? Really? I hadn't noticed. Hmm.

3Cs--I have been told that maybe the reason I don't have a boyfriend is that I'm too independent. So maybe there's something to this train of thought. Would bangs fix that, too? :-)

NPW--Leggings? Really?? I think we have just found the generational divide between you and me. I am NOT doing leggings this time around.

R--See, that might make sense in her crazy brain if I were actually in any sort of contact with this particular high school acquaintance. Aside from seeing the quizzes he's taken show up in my news feed, however, we have had zero FB interaction since he friended me.

Courtney--I would probably do the sideswept bangs if I thought there was any chance they would work with my hair. My hair is fine and thin and flat with no body of its own, however, so bangs do not STAY side-swept for me. They just end up in my face driving me insane. And no one wants that. :-)

Shelly said...

Yeah, that anonymous comment was weird. You DO look really young, though, and I mean that as a total compliment! But you know your hair way better than any of us, so that decision would be only yours, imo.

And the Facebook quizes are definitely getting out of hand. I did take one this morning that might appeal to you - Which Shakespearan Character Are You? I was Lady MacBeth!

-R- said...

Oh, H's uncle took a Facebook quiz called "What kind of flirter are you?" Did I mention that H's uncle is MARRIED with several grown-up children? I wanted to comment on it, but thought it best just to leave it alone.

Not that married people aren't allowed to flirt (especially with their spouses), but this is H's uncle we're talking about. Ew.

badger reader said...

I am scared to ignore random people in facebook for some reason. Apparently I have convinced myself that it is kinder to just leave them in limbo. Hah, Your fan of Jews comment made me snort. I have friends that have become fans of cheese and/or cheese curds. Seriously people? We are from Wisconsin. It is implied.

Bangs are way too much work if you ask me. (but you probably shouldn't ask me hair advice because I still wear mine pulled back in a clip like a 10 year old most days.)

My physical therapy place always smelled like rubber resistance bands, so I wouldn't expect it to fade anytime soon.

Jess said...

No, I think you're better off without bangs. They're so trendy that you'll look back at photos and wince. And I like your hair now.

Mickey said...

No pain, no gain.

Sorry, I find ridiculous, worn-out rhymes hilarious. My favorite is "you snooze, you lose." Sometimes I'll say it even when it's not appropriate, just because it makes me laugh.

lizgwiz said...

I didn't know I could be a Fan of Jews. I am, however, a Fan of Homosexuals. ('Cause who doesn't love the gays?)

I sort of have some bangs now, but if I hadn't become an at-home self-hair cutter, I probably wouldn't, because the upkeep involved to keep them out of my eyes would make me crazy, too. Now, of course, if they start getting in my face, I just whack at them.

It seems like I used to notice the rubbery smell of my resistance bands, and now...not so much. I don't think I use them so often that I just don't notice it anymore...I think the smell must have faded.

Alice said...

hmm... i have a sort of resistance band thingy, from my physical therapy, and... huh. well, it definitely still smells like rubber, but i don't think my HANDS smell like rubber when i use it.

i am thoroughly unhelpful.

Lara said...

YOu crack me up, Stefanie. Oh, hey, did I tell you - I became FB friends with the Stephanie-with-a-ph that I met on vacation, and as I clicked "accept friend request", I thought, "Man, her name looks weird spelled that way."

Also, I almost just asked what a resistance band was but then figured it out based on the context. Ergo, I have no idea if they always smell like cheap rubber.

Lastly, did I tell you that I got a FB friend request from the wife of the guy who I may have caused to call of their wedding the first time they were supposed to get married? At first, I accepted it. Then I defriended her. THEN, she friend-requested me again! At that point I figured if she really wanted to keep up with the minutia of my live, well, so be it.

Wow, that was a long comment. I totally could have emailed you all that.<|endoftext|>

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quintessentially English
........but in France!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Return to Eden?

Firstly I must apologise for having been absent for so long - explanations to follow!
Over the summer season my girlfriends on the market deserted for sunn

 without moving. I started to feel a bit cold tonight, and for the first time ever, I suddenly considered the fact that the Snuggie is maybe not such a ridiculous idea after all. But then I realized, hello, perhaps I should simply GET UP every now and then to ensure that blood is still moving to all parts of my body. Seriously, it's like I'm one of the former Earthlings on the hover track in Wall-E here. Thank god I don't have a robot to wait on me hand and foot or I might never leave my damn living room anymore.

That said, I did actually get some exercise before retiring to the couch this evening. Despite the fact that my hamstrings are still angry with me for revisiting an old The Firm tape I haven't done in years the other day, I decided to try a new Pilates band workout I bought on impulse at TJ Maxx tonight. So far, no additional pain has set in, but I suspect I won't actually feel any effects until tomorrow. Meanwhile, my bigger problem is this: I have washed my hands seven times since 7:30 this evening, and I still smell cheap rubber on them every time I lift my fingers towards my face. Tell me, does anyone else have any of these resistance band thingies? If so, tell me, will the rubbery scent subside in time, or am I destined to smell like I've just fondled a Real Girl every time I want to work my muscles without weights?

That may not be as important a question as the "bangs or no bangs" one, but it's the one I'm settling on in any case.

steve said...

Why am I always the first to comment? Must be a weird time zone thing.

Anyway, I kinda like this feistier Stef, and I'm with you on the laptop/couch thing - it can get all too comfortable.

3carnations said...

Hubby has a resistance band, and I've never noticed the rubbery smell. I should ask him.

I've already weighed in on the bangs. What comes after a "criticism" that says you looks too youthful? You're too smart? Yeah, let's go with that. You're too smart. To fix that? Probably get bangs. :)

nancypearlwannabe said...

I think you are pretty just the way you are, but you could totally rock some longer bangs and do the hipster look with no problem.

Then again, I am wearing leggings today, so maybe it's me that has the issue with looking too young and you don't want to take my advice.

-R- said...

Maybe the high school friend's wife thinks you're having a Facebook affair with her husband and wants to be your friend so that she can keep tabs on you. You are caught in a love triangle!

Or maybe she is just weird.

courtney said...

That's my favorite Internet surfing position too! When I was unemployed last year, I think I spent the majority of my time on the couch, legs outstretched, computer in lap.

If you go with bangs, I wouldn't go as heavy as Rory's bangs were. Those kind of blunt-cut, very heavy bangs look like they're weighing down people's faces to me. I enjoy sideswept bangs, if that helps you. They require minimal upkeep.

Stefanie said...

Steve--I was thinking that if it's a time zone thing, you should NOT be the first to comment, because you get to work two or three hours after those of us in Central and Eastern time. It occurs to me that I usually post at night, though, and since you're probably up two or three hours later than we are over here, I suppose that makes sense. And feistier? Really? I hadn't noticed. Hmm.

3Cs--I have been told that maybe the reason I don't have a boyfriend is that I'm too independent. So maybe there's something to this train of thought. Would bangs fix that, too? :-)

NPW--Leggings? Really?? I think we have just found the generational divide between you and me. I am NOT doing leggings this time around.

R--See, that might make sense in her crazy brain if I were actually in any sort of contact with this particular high school acquaintance. Aside from seeing the quizzes he's taken show up in my news feed, however, we have had zero FB interaction since he friended me.

Courtney--I would probably do the sideswept bangs if I thought there was any chance they would work with my hair. My hair is fine and thin and flat with no body of its own, however, so bangs do not STAY side-swept for me. They just end up in my face driving me insane. And no one wants that. :-)

Shelly said...

Yeah, that anonymous comment was weird. You DO look really young, though, and I mean that as a total compliment! But you know your hair way better than any of us, so that decision would be only yours, imo.

And the Facebook quizes are definitely getting out of hand. I did take one this morning that might appeal to you - Which Shakespearan Character Are You? I was Lady MacBeth!

-R- said...

Oh, H's uncle took a Facebook quiz called "What kind of flirter are you?" Did I mention that H's uncle is MARRIED with several grown-up children? I wanted to comment on it, but thought it best just to leave it alone.

Not that married people aren't allowed to flirt (especially with their spouses), but this is H's uncle we're talking about. Ew.

badger reader said...

I am scared to ignore random people in facebook for some reason. Apparently I have convinced myself that it is kinder to just leave them in limbo. Hah, Your fan of Jews comment made me snort. I have friends that have become fans of cheese and/or cheese curds. Seriously people? We are from Wisconsin. It is implied.

Bangs are way too much work if you ask me. (but you probably shouldn't ask me hair advice because I still wear mine pulled back in a clip like a 10 year old most days.)

My physical therapy place always smelled like rubber resistance bands, so I wouldn't expect it to fade anytime soon.

Jess said...

No, I think you're better off without bangs. They're so trendy that you'll look back at photos and wince. And I like your hair now.

Mickey said...

No pain, no gain.

Sorry, I find ridiculous, worn-out rhymes hilarious. My favorite is "you snooze, you lose." Sometimes I'll say it even when it's not appropriate, just because it makes me laugh.

lizgwiz said...

I didn't know I could be a Fan of Jews. I am, however, a Fan of Homosexuals. ('Cause who doesn't love the gays?)

I sort of have some bangs now, but if I hadn't become an at-home self-hair cutter, I probably wouldn't, because the upkeep involved to keep them out of my eyes would make me crazy, too. Now, of course, if they start getting in my face, I just whack at them.

It seems like I used to notice the rubbery smell of my resistance bands, and now...not so much. I don't think I use them so often that I just don't notice it anymore...I think the smell must have faded.

Alice said...

hmm... i have a sort of resistance band thingy, from my physical therapy, and... huh. well, it definitely still smells like rubber, but i don't think my HANDS smell like rubber when i use it.

i am thoroughly unhelpful.

Lara said...

YOu crack me up, Stefanie. Oh, hey, did I tell you - I became FB friends with the Stephanie-with-a-ph that I met on vacation, and as I clicked "accept friend request", I thought, "Man, her name looks weird spelled that way."

Also, I almost just asked what a resistance band was but then figured it out based on the context. Ergo, I have no idea if they always smell like cheap rubber.

Lastly, did I tell you that I got a FB friend request from the wife of the guy who I may have caused to call of their wedding the first time they were supposed to get married? At first, I accepted it. Then I defriended her. THEN, she friend-requested me again! At that point I figured if she really wanted to keep up with the minutia of my live, well, so be it.

Wow, that was a long comment. I totally could have emailed you all that.<|endoftext|>

quintessentially English

quintessentially English
........but in France!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Return to Eden?

Firstly I must apologise for having been absent for so long - explanations to follow!
Over the summer season my girlfriends on the market deserted for sunnier and more profitable French costal towns, where they both have family homes, so things seemed pretty subdued without them while we