Honolulu, HI (July 5, 1997) -- Racing a sailboat is all about weather -- and whether there's wind or not. When the Cruising Class division of the 39th biennial Trans Pacific Yacht Race started last week they had more wind than they needed.
When the Small Boat racing class started on July 2 they picked up good winds and are currently gaining on the Cruisers , with both divisions surfing downwind in 15-20 knot winds and six-foot seas.
But today's much anticipated Mai-Turbo-Sled start off Point Fermin in San Pedro, California, was a drifting match.
This time there was less than five knots of wind at the 1 pm gun that sent 16 sleek 70-foot maxi-turbo-sleds and standard sleds off in he 2,225-nautical mile race, and that soon died to 2 or 3 knots -- barely enough to fill the massive sails.
Tomorrow's daily roll call will make the day for those boats already at sea (when they hear how the faster boats that are trying to catch them) got off to such an agonizingly slow start today.
One race veteran called it the slowest start of the biennial race since 1973 when even lighter zephyrs pushed the boats across the line trying to fly spinnakers, which are downwind sails seldom used for starting.
The two fleets started on opposite sides of a split line facing the west end of Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles out, while their crews sat to leeward to induce heel angles that might coax an extra tenth of a knot out of the boats.
"Things start to get interesting"
All the boats started on port tack (wind coming over the left side), and Doug Baker's new maxi-turbo Magnitude, from Long Beach, appeared to have the best start of all. James McDowell's standard sled Grand Illusion, from Lahaina Yacht Club, had the worst.
Grand Illusion miss-timed its approach, arrived early at the starting line, and while it was taking nearly two minutes to circle and return (a requirement when a boat crosses early), the rest of the boats were away.
"They start, see Pyewacket charging in after pushing Merlin out"
Among the maxi-turbo's, Tony Session's Luna Barba from Vancouver, and Mike Campbell's Victoria , Long Beach, followed Magnitude across, while Scott Campbell's two-time winner Ragtime , Newport Beach, followed the leaders across.
The only boats still to start are three large multihulls scheduled for 1 pm Monday. Bruno Peyron, skipper of the giant catamaran Explorer , from France, is asking to have the start delayed a day because Explorer isn't expected to reach Long Beach until Sunday evening after an arduous voyage from Europe.
Meanwhile, among boats that started earlier, Bob Lane's Medicine Man , Long Beach, covered 276 miles for the second consecutive day to take another 101 miles out of the lead of the Cruising Class leader Salsipuedes . Salsipuedes had a four day head start on Medicine Man and leads by 513 miles, with 1,030 to go.
Bay Wolf's all women crew worked 24 hours to complete repairs of their mainsail, but needs to make up 40 miles to get back in contention.
Hawaii's Dan Doyle and Patrick Rogers aboard the jury rigged 2 Guys on The Edge returned safely to Long Beach after breaking the rudder.
RANDOM PICKS FROM THE TRANSPAC SCRAPBOOK: Jack Smock wrote in his "History of the Transpac:" "The ancient Greeks would have loved the 1953 Honolulu Race. For this was the year the Gods decided to remind the Transpac racing fraternity, which had been growing increasingly cocky, that they might know a lot about the weather but they still couldn't control it."


In this research brief, we review research on kids' exposure to traditional forms of advertising, but focus on cataloging the multiple new ways in which kids and teens are marketed to today. Digital media have dramatically changed the advertising landscape, to now include immersive websites, advergaming, viral marketing, mobile ads, social media marketing and precise behavioral and location targeting, blurring the lines between advertising and entertainment for even the savviest media consumer. This integration of advertising and content has also made it much more difficult for researchers to measure the breadth and impact of advertising on kids today. The brief summarizes;current advertising practices aimed at kids and teens, and draws attention to the urgent need for research to quantify exposure and examine the effects of these practices.


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NJ state trooper on Christie's security detail denies shoplifting charges, lawyer says
Posted Feb 4, 2014
By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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A view of Cabela's in Hamburg, Pa., from 2003.
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TRENTON — A New Jersey State Police trooper assigned to Gov. Chris Christie's security detail faces charges of shoplifting after police said he stuffed gun accessories into the pockets of his cargo pants at a Pennsylvania sporting goods store.
William Carvounis, 36, of North Brunswick, has also been accused of trying to get out of his arrest by telling a police officer that he would lose his job on Christie's detail if charges were filed, according to reports by the website New Jersey Watchdog and the Associated Press. The trooper's attorney Monday said both that accusation and the shoplifting charges are false.
Carvounis — who joined the force nearly 12 years ago — has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the case, State Police acting Capt. Stephen Jones said.
The trooper visited Cabela's in Hamburg in central Pennsylvania shortly after 10 a.m. on Jan. 8, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Tilden Township Police Department. Surveillance video showed Carvounis taking goods out of their packaging, placing them in his pockets, and discarding the empty packages on shelves, the complaint said.
Among the items he concealed were handgun grips and a pistol magazine, according to the complaint. He also tore the tag off a hat and placed it on his head and put a $29.99 binocular strap in a box for a product worth $19.99, the complaint said.
While checking out, Carvounis paid for some items but did not pay for the goods he hid, worth a total of $267.38, according to the complaint.
Tilden Police Chief William McEllroy told the Associated Press his officer filed the charges after Carvounis repeatedly asked for a break. "It was, more or less, 'Look, I've got a good job. I'm on the governor's security detail. I don't want to lose my job.' Along those lines," McEllroy said.
McEllroy added that Carvounis did not explicitly ask for the break because of his position with Christie. It was "more or less, one cop asking for another cop for a break multiple times," he said, noting that his police department forbids special treatment.
The criminal complaint does not mention Carvounis asking for a break. McEllroy declined further comment to The Star-Ledger.
Charles Sciarra, Carvounis' attorney, said the trooper asked for no special treatment. "The initial reports we have don't indicate anything about such a request," Sciarra said. "With that said, my client made purchases that day and denies any allegation of any shoplifting."
Sciarra said Carvounis mentioned his position with the State Police only because he was asked why he was carrying a gun.
Carvounis faces two counts of retail theft, court records show, including one that can carry a penalty of up to five years in prison.
Courvounis — who makes $95,198 a year, according to public records — is not one of Christie's bodyguards but is assigned to the team that performs various security duties for the governor, Jones said.
He remained free on bond Monday and waived his right to a preliminary hearing, according to court records. He is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 10 at Berks County Courthouse in Reading, Pa.
Star-Ledger staff writer Jeff Goldman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Professor Sven Rogge is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW). Sven's research interest is in condensed matter physics, in particular quantum electronics, at the . Sven works on quantum computation in silicon in the view more
Professor Sven Rogge is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW). Sven's research interest is in condensed matter physics, in particular quantum electronics, at the School of Physics. Sven works on quantum computation in silicon in the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. In a team of enthusiastic researchers, they work on gaining atomistic insight into the interactions of quantum objects, like atoms and qubits, with their environment. This allows the team to manipulate quantum information and minimise decoherence. Before joining UNSW in 2011 Sven worked at the Kavli Institute for Quantum Nano Science at Delft University and Stanford University.
My Research Goals
Control entanglement in a solid-state system, i.e. qubits
Study the interaction between qubits and light
Build and control molecular states in a solid with atomic precision
My Research in Detail
The goal of my research program is to understand the physics of qubit coupling with the environment to understand decoherence pathways and to control. The control over the electron wavefunction requires interface which lead to the loss of bulk properties of the qubit due to physical processes like the valley-orbit coupling, exchange, and many-body effects in coherent coupling. The atomistic understanding of the interaction between the environment and the qubit is essential for quantum computation since it allows the achievement of optimal coherence times and optimal robustness of the quantum gates. Optical addressing of electrons in Si is nontrivial but vastly beneficial due to the gained flexibility and unprecedented high resolution. We investigate efficient read-out and coupling schemes to open up new pathways into optical control.
Current Student Projects (PhD and Honours)
We look for enthusiastic PhD and Honours candidates for research projects. Prestigious Scholarship are available which are typically valued at $28,000 per annum with a supplement of up to $5000 per annum for first class honours or equivalent and is available for up to three-and-a-half years. The successful scholarship applicant will be expected to enrol for a PhD degree and should have an honours degree (level 1 or 2A) or equivalent, in Physics, Applied Physics, Material Science or a related subject. International applicants with a Masters degree are strongly encouraged to apply. Interested candidates should contact me to discuss possible projects and the application procedure. International applicants are very welcome! Please email an application containing a complete resume including telephone numbers, email address, and contact details of three academic referees to me. You will get a confirmation within a few days. The scholarships will remain open until filled.
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There are always projects in the main research areas which focus on low temperature scanning-tunnelling spectroscopy, atomistic transport, and the interaction of light and matter at the atomic scale. We have a team of 15 enthusiastic researchers ranging from undergraduates to postdoctoral fellows. My group combines different research strengths and is very international. UNSW offers a first class laboratory and intellectual environment for atomic-scale electronics research.
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PHY3118: Quantum Physics of Solids and Devices
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I am the Vice-President of the Australian Institute of Physics
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As of January 2011, Sven starts a new experimental group at UNSW with two synergetic research lines based on his unique experience in transport metrology. One line resides with CQC2T, the other at the School of Physics. The Solid State Quantum Computer Sven's team in Delft achieve...


RipEX operates in two basic modes, Bridge and Router. Network topology determines which one is the more suitable for your specific application (see chapter RipEX in detail of the manual).
Apart from network layouts designed in this manual, we also recommend using Router mode if alongside the central RipEX some PLC Slaves are also connected to the PLC Master over RS485 while others connect over the radio network.
This is because in Bridge mode RipEX would broadcasts to radio channel each packet received on RS485. This could cause slower communication in some situations, and even collisions when a repeater is used. In Router mode only the packets destined for remote PLC Slaves are broadcast over the radio channel while packets sent to the PLC Slaves connected directly over RS485 are ignored.


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I'm always amazed by folks who dismiss the value of social media for emergency management based on the perception that said content is useless for disaster response. In that case, libraries are also useless (bar the few books you're looking for, but those rarely represent more than 1% of all the books available in a major library). Does that mean libraries are useless? Of course not. Is social media useless for disaster response? Of course not. Even if only 0.001% of the 20+ million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy were useful, and only half of these were accurate, this would still mean over 1,000 real-time and informative tweets, or some 15,000 words—i.e., the equivalent of a 25-page, single-space document exclusively composed of fully relevant, actionable & timely disaster information.
Empirical studies clearly prove that social media reports can be informative for disaster response. Numerous case studies have also described how social media has saved lives during crises. That said, if emergency responders do not actively or explicitly create demand for relevant and high quality social media content during crises, then why should supply follow? If the 911 emergency number (999 in the UK) were never advertised, then would anyone call? If 911 were simply a voicemail inbox with no instructions, would callers know what type of actionable information to relay after the beep?
While the majority of emergency management centers do not create the demand for crowdsourced crisis information, members of the public are increasingly demanding that said responders monitor social media for "emergency posts". But most responders fear that opening up social media as a crisis communication channel with the public will result in an unmanageable flood of requests, The London Fire Brigade seems to think otherwise, however. So lets carefully unpack the fear of information flooding.
First of all, New York City's 911 operators receive over 10 million calls every year that are accidental, false or hoaxes. Does this mean we should abolish the 911 system? Of course not. Now, assuming that 10% of these calls takes an operator 10 seconds to manage, this represents close to 3,000 hours or 115 days worth of "wasted work". But this filtering is absolutely critical and requires human intervention. In contrast, "emergency posts" published on social media can be automatically filtered and triaged thanks to Big Data Analytics and Social Computing, which could save time operators time. The Digital Operations Center at the American Red Cross is currently exploring this automated filtering approach. Moreover, just as it is illegal to report false emergency information to 911, there's no reason why the same laws could not apply to social media when these communication channels are used for emergency purposes.
Second, if individuals prefer to share disaster related information and/or needs via social media, this means they are less likely to call in as well. In other words, double reporting is unlikely to occur and could also be discouraged and/or penalized. In other words, the volume of emergency reports from "the crowd" need not increase substantially after all. Those who use the phone to report an emergency today may in the future opt for social media instead. The only significant change here is the ease of reporting for the person in need. Again, the question is one of supply and demand. Even if relevant emergency posts were to increase without a comparable fall in calls, this would simply reveal that the current voice-based system creates a barrier to reporting that discriminates against certain users in need.
Third, not all emergency calls/posts require immediate response by a paid professional with 10+ years of experience. In other words, the various types of needs can be triaged and responded to accordingly. As part of their police training or internships, new cadets could be tasked to respond to less serious needs, leaving the more seasoned professionals to focus on the more difficult situations. While this approach certainly has some limitations in the context of 911, these same limitations are far less pronounced for disaster response efforts in which most needs are met locally by the affected communities themselves anyway. In fact, the Filipino government actively promotes the use of social media reporting and crisis hashtags to crowdsource disaster response.
In sum, if disaster responders and emergency management processionals are not content with the quality of crisis reporting found on social media, then they should do something about it by implementing the appropriate policies to create the demand for higher quality and more structured reporting. The first emergency telephone service was launched in London some 80 years ago in response to a devastating fire. At the time, the idea of using a phone to report emergencies was controversial. Today, the London Fire Brigade is paving the way forward by introducing Twitter as a reporting channel. This move may seem controversial to some today, but give it a few years and people will look back and ask what took us so long to adopt new social media channels for crisis reporting.
In 2010, I published this blog post entitled "Calling 911: What Humanitarians Can Learn from 50 Years of Crowdsourcing." Since then, humanitarian colleagues have become increasingly open to the use of crowdsourcing as a methodology to both collect and process information during disasters. I've been studying the use of twitter in crisis situations and have been particularly interested in the quality, actionability and credibility of such tweets. My findings, however, ought to be placed in context and compared to other, more traditional, reporting channels, such as the use of official emergency telephone numbers. Indeed, "Information that is shared over 9-1-1 dispatch is all unverified information" (1).
Point being: despite these "data quality" issues, European law enforcement agencies have not abandoned the use of emergency phone numbers to crowd-source the reporting of emergencies. They are managing the challenge since the benefit of these number still far outweigh the costs. This calculus is unlikely to change as law enforcement agencies shift towards more mobile-based solutions like the use of SMS for 911 in the US. This important shift may explain why tra-ditional emergency response outfits—such as London's Fire Brigade—are putting in place processes that will enable the public to report via Twitter.
For more information on the verification of crowdsourced social media informa-tion for disaster response, please follow this link.
The UN Global Pulse report on Big Data for Development ought to be required reading for anyone interested in humanitarian applications of Big Data. The purpose of this post is not to summarize this excellent 50-page document but to relay the most important insights contained therein. In addition, I question the motivation behind the unbalanced commentary on Haiti, which is my only major criticism of this otherwise authoritative report.
This leads to the other Haiti example raised in the report, namely the finding that SMS data was correlated with building damage. Please see my previous blog posts here and here for context. What the authors seem to overlook is that Benetech apparently did not submit their counter-findings for independent peer-review whereas the team at the European Commission's Joint Research Center did—and the latter passed the peer-review process. Peer-review is how rigorous scientific work is validated. The fact that Benetech never submitted their blog post for peer-review is actually quite telling.
In sum, while this Big Data report is otherwise strong and balanced, I am really surprised that they cite a blog post as "evidence" while completely ignoring the JRC's peer-reviewed scientific paper published in the Journal of the European Geosciences Union. Until counter-findings are submitted for peer review, the JRC's results stand: unverified, non-representative crowd-sourced text messages from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince that were in turn translated from Haitian Creole to English via a novel crowdsourced volunteer effort and subsequently geo-referenced by hundreds of volunteers which did not undergo any quality control, produced a statistically significant, positive correlation with building damage.


January 11 Lovely day, Mer 13°+ at sunrise & rose to 27°+ in PM & no wind. Being Saturday, of course, had extra work to do & I helped Leona in AM, That she might iron in PM. I rested & was mending most of time except an hour or so was in to see Mrs. [Dowe?] for first time this year. Ellery came home about sick at noon but back to office after a nap & spent eve out also. January 12 Another bright day, Mer 8°+ at 8 O.C. but rose as high as yesterday. Feeling [illegible] well self & Ellery much better than yesterday so were out to Baptist church in morn but spent evening at home. I was over at [Geo's] of errand in the PM & wrote Aunt Lizzie. [We?] finishing in eve.


The EU has set an objective of being a climate neutral economy by 2050. The strategy which it has taken to the COP24 climate talks in Poland shows how Europe can lead the way to climate neutrality by investing into realistic technological solutions, empowering citizens, and aligning action in key areas such as industrial policy, finance, or research – while ensuring social fairness for a just transition.
The EU is the first major economic grouping in the world to commit to one of the key components of the Paris Climate Agreement.
The bloc has a strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy by 2050.
That means that after 2050, the EU would need to eliminate or offset nearly all greenhouse gas emissions. This offsetting might take the form of planting trees or using carbon storage, for example by safely burying the gases underground.
It is not, however, proscribing new targets or setting new regulations. The work on that is already in place in other standards and will continue to be developed at the European Union and member state level. Instead, the EU is setting a direction it is committed to and a destination it believes will be the inevitable consequence of this vision: a prosperous, climate-neutral economy.
To get there, the EU will have to work hard, but there is evidence that, at least in terms of policy, the framework is already in place to take the EU at least part of the way there.
For example, emissions in the EU have dropped by over a fifth since 1990, despite the EU growing its economy as many member states have flourished.
However, there are some major red flags, too. The EU's emission reduction targets for 2030 (a key milestone) vary by state, from around 0 percent to 40 percent of 2005′s levels. Working on an average, the EU as a block would have to reduce its emissions by 30 percent compared to 2005′s levels in order to stay on track.
Those targets were agreed upon earlier this year and stem from the Paris Agreement's resolutions as well as the EU's own deliberation on climate policy. But report after report has found that many of the world's powers, including the EU, are failing to curb emissions. If we fail by 2030, the gap between where we are and where we need to be would remain or be even wider as we work to try to mitigate climate change problems in other areas.
With this announcement, the EU has highlighted a number of key scenarios it believes will allow it to correct course and reach its climate neutral goal by 2050.
The EU has invested substantially in renewable energy sources, like solar and wind, and as it stands the EU is on track to meet its 2020 goal of having 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Perhaps even more instructive of the rate of change is that until 2016, the use of renewable electricity in the transport sector had tripled in just 10 years, with that showing no sign of stalling.
This positive momentum will be crucial if the EU is to achieve climate neutrality. Electricity from renewables will need to hit the 80 percent mark to reach those targets. Taking that as an example, policy to reduce and eliminate diesel fuels will necessitate a switch to electric cars.
Another key area for change will be in creating so-called circular economies. This is one where we find ways to re-purpose the byproducts and waste products from our daily living.
Hydroelectricity, for example, has proved to oftentimes be more wasteful than we had envisaged, but there are innovations in the works that can help to close down the waste problem and create an energy generating loop that, while not completely circular, is much more environmentally friendly than it is today. The EU is looking to other areas of the generation and production sectors where such system reshaping can yield significant results.
Competitive industry could actually be a driver of achieving this goal of climate neutrality, and this is where the real power of the EU's intention setting seems to lie. This is, in effect, a notice to industry within the EU that the playing field has now changed and that the government will reward industry for driving the economy toward this goal. That might not sound all that impressive, but we have seen how intention-setting at the highest level can drive national and local actors toward change, for example how the Paris Climate Agreement coincided with mayors of major cities taking the lead in reducing carbon emissions.
The EU is proposing a difficult and ambitious road ahead to meet its climate neutral economy goal, but this is precisely the kind of bold action we need to save ourselves from a climate disaster in the future.


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So. Ho hum. I once again wake up to news of multiple shootings around our country. Where's the shock? Where's the outrage? When did this horror show become commonplace in our lives? It didn't used to be like this. People weren't always so hate-filled, quick to violence, seemingly given a free pass to reign down their own form of Hell on innocent lives. They didn't terrorize communities, take hostages at gunpoint in the most mundane, thought to be "safe" places. I know I wasn't so aware of my surroundings at each stop on my daily routine. I wasn't leery of entering a mall or a large box store. I didn't hesitate to get out of my car to pump gas or pick up my mail. I didn't think twice about going to a class or a movie or a restaurant. I do not want to live in this current America. I do not want this to be the new "normal." I don't want to see children taught how to escape a "school shooter" situation the same way they are taught science and math. I don't want them to have to think "Will I make it home today?" I don't want them to grow up scared about not "Which college do I choose?", but "Will I be alive to go to college and get married and have my own children?" An entire generation is growing up unaware that this isn't the only way. They are oblivious to the fact that this is not the usual and normal way to think and to live. And that is NOT ACCEPTABLE! Something has changed. Something is different. There's an undercurrent of hate, fear, and violence that is usually reserved for movies and video games. But this isn't an option. We can't skip the movie or pick a different game to play. This is real life and our reality. It's "A Clockwork Orange" on steroids. And it has to end! None of us know how long we will be here. We don't know if we will die today, or next week, or many years down the road. But for whatever amount of time we have left, we should feel assured that it is extremely unlikely that we'll be killed by an assault rifle. But it's not that unlikely. It's becoming more real every day that we allow this violence to continue. If not you personally, then a family member, a friend, an acquaintance or another person who was in the "wrong place." Like a McDonald's or a shopping mall or a school…. There are many people to blame for this horrific situation. Too many to name here, but I'll choose one. @realDonaldTrump. You can stop reading right now, or block me, or reply to me with hate or denial. I can't stop you. I do still have the right to free speech. For now. @realDonaldTrump, you are responsible for the climate of the country. You took on the responsibility for each and every citizen when you pledged your oath. You swore to protect us and keep us safe from harm from both foreign and domestic threats. But you haven't. You failed. You use your "rallies" to incite (Google it!) hate and violence and bodily harm. You encourage your base of uneducated, overcompensating sheep (sorry sheep 🐑!) to go out and do terrible things to innocent people. You rev them up, turn them loose, and the rest of us pay the price. You have the power to stop this. You can change gun laws, make penalties more harsh for crimes, tell your followers enough is enough. But will you? Probably not. Not when these headlines of the "tragedy of the day" keep your name on everyone's lips. You'll take bad publicity over no publicity because that's just who you are. Sad. I didn't sign up for this. I, like many others, did not vote for you. You are not qualified for this job. You don't have empathy, compassion, a working knowledge of politics, or the willingness to learn or listen to anyone but yourself. Selfishness and ego are not traits that the highest position in the land requires or needs. So. Here I sit. Reading today's news of 4 dead at a yoga studio and a shooter on the loose on a school campus. And it's not even dawn yet. I find myself crying. Not for the first time, but as a near daily occurrence. I cry for what was, what is, and what could be.
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PAIN MANAGEMENT 08.06.2015
Pain Patients Say They Can't Get Meds After Illegal Rx Drug Crackdown
Pharmacies' allocations are being restricted by wholesalers
by Rachel Gotbaum
The accident happened 10 years ago when Chris Young was 35. He owned a salvage yard in Maui, Hawaii, and his employee had hoisted a junker on a machine called an excavator when the hydraulics gave out. The car fell on him from above his head, smashing his spine.
"He was crushed accordion-style," says his wife Lesley.
The accident left Young with a condition known as "partial paraplegia." He can't walk and he needs a wheelchair, but he does have some sensation in his legs. Unfortunately for Young, that sensation is often excruciating pain.
"It feels like electric shocks, like lightning bolts going down my legs. And when it gets down to the bottom, it feels like someone is driving a big metal spike up my legs," says Young.
To control the pain, Young, who has since moved to Florida, needs high doses of narcotic painkillers, but he can't always fill his doctor's prescription. He is not alone. In what may be an unintended side effect of a crackdown on prescription drug abuse, Young and other legitimate chronic pain patients are having increasing trouble getting the medicine that allows them to function on a daily basis.
Young's pharmacy runs out every month.
"They just do not have the medications because they have run out of their allocation within the first week," he says. "It's just that bad, where I know I am going to end up in the E.R. because of not having my medications. We don't know what to do. We've tried everything."
Young's pharmacist is Bill Napier, who owns the small, independent Panama Pharmacy in Jacksonville. Napier says he can't serve customers who legitimately need painkillers because the wholesalers who supply his store will no longer distribute the amount of medications he needs.
"I turn away sometimes 20 people a day," says Napier.
Last year Napier says federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents visited him to discuss the narcotics he dispensed.
"They showed me a number, and they said that if I wasn't closer to the state average, they would come back. So I got pretty close to the state average," Napier says. He says he made the adjustment "based on no science, but knowing where the number needed to be. We had to dismiss some patients in order to get to that number."
According to Napier, DEA agents took all of his opioid prescriptions and held on to them for seven months. Napier hired a lawyer and paid for criminal background checks on his patients taking narcotics to help him decide which ones to drop.
"We're being asked to act as quasi-law enforcement people to ration medications," says Napier. "I have not had training in the rationing of medications."
Until a few years ago, Florida was considered the epicenter for the trafficking of illegal prescription narcotics. The DEA and local law enforcement shut down more than 250 so-called "pill mills" — clinics where doctors could sell narcotics directly to people for cash. Now Florida doctors can no longer dispense narcotics directly to patients. Wholesalers, who paid to settle claims for failing to report suspicious orders of drugs, now limit the amount they sell to pharmacies, Napier says.
Jack Riley, who is acting deputy administrator of the DEA, credits a decline in opioid overdose deaths in Florida with an upsurge in law enforcement activity. The problem of addiction and the drug trade is dire, he says.
"A hundred and twenty people a day die of drug abuse in this country," Riley said. "If that doesn't get your attention, I don't think anything can."
Riley also says law enforcement efforts cannot be blamed for any claim of rationing of painkillers.
"I'm not a doctor. We do not practice medicine. We're not pharmacists. We obviously don't get involved in that," said Riley. "What we do do is make sure the people that have the licenses are as educated as possible as to what we're seeing, and that they can make informed decisions as they do dispense."
Doctors, too, say DEA enforcement actions have made it harder for them to prescribe narcotics. Last year, hydrocodone products, such as Vicodin, were changed to Schedule II status, meaning they have a high potential for abuse and cannot be prescribed in large quantities.
"What we've seen is dramatic reductions in our ability to provide appropriate care for our patients in pain," says Dr. R. Sean Morrison, director of the palliative care program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Morrison's patient Ora Chaikin has been taking high levels of narcotics for years to control her pain. She has had multiple surgeries because her bones and ligaments disintegrate, a problem caused by rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. But Chaikin, who lives in Riverdale, N.Y., says her mail order pharmacy, CVS/caremark, has been denying her medications.
"Every month there's a reason they won't give me my medication," says Chaikin. "Sometimes it's 'Well, why are you taking this dose?' 'My doctor prescribed it.' 'Well, why did your doctor prescribe so much?' 'Ask my doctor,'" she recounts. "That's the dose that works for me and you're made to feel like a drug addict."
The DEA investigated both CVS and Walgreens, and both pharmacy chains settled civil suits in 2013 for record-keeping violations of the Controlled Substances Act. Walgreens paid an $80 million civil penalty, and CVS paid an $11 million penalty.
Riley, of the DEA, says it would be wrong to draw a line between these actions and problems like those Chaikin is experiencing. "If there is a chilling effect, it's clearly not at our direction," Riley said. "We're simply enforcing the law, taking bad people off the street and really trying to interrupt the supply of illegal prescriptions."
In a statement, CVS/caremark said that the dosage of pain medication prescribed to Chaikin "exceeded the recommended manufacturer dosing." It also said that she "continued to receive her controlled substance prescriptions from CVS/caremark without interruption."
CVS/caremark said it has a legal obligation to make sure controlled substance prescriptions are for legitimate ailments and "that patients are receiving safe medication therapy, including appropriate dosing."
Ora Chaikin's wife, Roseanne Leipzig, who is a geriatrician and palliative care physician, says when it comes to narcotics, there is nothing in medical literature that says a dose is too high.
"There is no maximum dose for narcotics," she says. "It's the dose you need to take care of the pain."
The Florida Board of Pharmacy, which is responsible for licensing pharmacists and educating them on safe practice, has heard enough complaints from pain patients that it is addressing the issue in public meetings. In June, Lesley Young testified before the board on behalf of her husband. She said she has driven more than 100 miles trying to find a pharmacy that would fill her husband's prescriptions for painkillers.
"I've had to do the pharmacy crawl like many of us here," Lesley told the board. "I've been the one who had to go in and beg, crying, with stacks of his medical records, with stacks of imaging, only to get turned away, often rudely, saying 'We don't deal with those kinds of patients.'"
The next Florida Board of Pharmacy hearing is set for Monday. A representative of the DEA has been invited to attend.
This story was produced in a collaboration between NPR's Here & Now and Kaiser Health News.
This article, which first appeared Aug. 5, 2015, also ran on NPR's Here and Now. It was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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GIGABYTE BRIX Gaming is a tiny gaming PC that fits on small and sleek case (5.96 x 12.8 x 11.54 cm). BRIX Gaming is available in green color with a NVIDIA GPU or in red color with AMD GPU.
The BRIX Gaming with NVIDIA GPU is fresh update (see this Press Release) of the BRIX Gaming family. The green Brix Gaming includes an Intel Core i5 4200H CPU and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 GPU. The BRIX does not include SSD (there is one place for a 2.5-inch hard drive) or memory, you have to install these components yourself (DIY…).
The BRIX Gaming with AMD GPU includes an AMD A8-5557M APU and an AMD Radeon R9 M275X GPU. More info about this gaming box can be found HERE.


10K tach and 300km/hr speedo. These are super rare and incredibly hard to find. It will fit s5 and s4 with a re-pinned cluster harness (i will sell the re-pinned harness for an additional $25).
I would like $500 shipped for the cluster.
dont know how you came by this but damn... lucky man. why arent you keeping it?
Hmmmn, would that include shipping to aus?


Boston, Mass. - Sophomore Olivia Reny (Gardiner, Maine) and first-year Katie Tonyai (Jaffrey, N.H.) set College records, as the Trinity College Bantams competed against top athletes and teams from clubs and all collegiate divisions at Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Women's Indoor Track and Field Invitational this afternoon. The majority of Trinity competitors in the meet set new personal records in one or more events.
Reny came in 49th place with a time of 59.05 in the 400-meter dash, shattering Trinity's previous indoor mark, set by Kristi Wallin in 2005, by 1.29 seconds. Tonyai's time of 26.61, good for 106th place, was .07 seconds faster than her own indoor record in the same event set in December. Bantam junior Megan Darnley (Westborough, Mass.) added a 12th-place mark of 10'11.75" in the pole vault, and classmate Jenna Wilborne (New Haven, Conn.) placed 25th in the triple jump at 35'06.00". In throws, junior Lily Talesnick (Littleton, Colo.) heaved the shot 33'06.75" for 34th place.


Credit card account information, social security numbers, and drugs aren't the only hot commodities on the dark web. Increasingly ill-gotten frequent flyer miles are in demand.
That's according to Comparitech, the U.K. based researcher that reviews consumers products. In August it sifted through half a dozen illegal marketplaces online to get a sense of how much frequent flyer miles are worth. Their findings: there is a robust black market for the rewards, commanding in some case around $1,000 or more.
According to Bischoff, across all of the marketplaces Comparitech studied, Delta SkyMiles and British Airways Miles were the most commonly listed. Purchasing 100,000 British Airways Executive Club miles will set you back $884 but 200,000 regular British Airways Miles only costs $45. For 45,000 Delta SkyMiles, it cost $884 on the dark web while 2,000 miles were going for $31. "Both of these companies suffered data breaches in 2018, so it was easy for hackers to target customers with phishing emails and other sorts of attacks in order to steal their account passwords," he said.
Airlines miles from international programs tend to fetch higher prices based on Comparitech's research compared to domestic programs. That may be because U.S. based airlines have stronger anti-fraud systems in place compared to their overseas counterparts. It could also be because the primary market for stolen points is international. Still, Bischoff said prices for the miles seem to be based on seller preference more than supply and demand. Buyers purchase in bitcoin or Monero, two popular cryptocurrencies, so the actual price could fluctuate. Comparitech noted that one airline point is equal to between one and two cents. That means 100,000 miles is worth $1,500. "Across the board points sold for roughly half of their real-world value on the black market," said Bischoff.
Stealing airline miles may not seem like it makes sense. After all, you need proof of ID to cash them in for travel. But what the bad guys are doing is redeeming them for gift cards that can be used at a slew of different retailers, said Comparitech. There are no ID or PIN requirements when spending the points and retailers don't ask for IDs either. That makes it easy for criminals to steal and use the points. Last year Air Miles, the Canadian rewards program warned members that thieves stole cash miles and used them to purchase products in stores. Air Miles, at the time, halted the ability to cash in miles for gift cards as it investigated the issue.
In addition to redeeming miles for gift cards, there is a grey market in which brokers will purchase unused airline miles with an aim of getting business and first class upgrades, noted Comparitech. Bad actors are getting ahold of the miles by hacking into the personal accounts of reward program members. That can be achieved via a data breach of a server or a phishing scam in which the individual unwittingly hands over the digital keys to his or her castle. For the victims, there is little recourse. Once the miles are stolen they are gone unless the airline or reward programs choose to refund stolen points.
For frequent travelers who rack up miles and don't want them falling into the wrong hands, Comparitech said there are a number of things they can do to protect themselves. For starters, shred your boarding pass after a flight and never post a photo of your boarding pass online. Sure you're legions of followers want to know you are traveling but they don't need to see the proof on social media. Boarding passes often have frequent flyer numbers printed on them making it too easy for the hackers. Comparitech also urged consumers to use strong passwords for their frequent flyer account and monitor it for anything suspicious. If you are accessing your account, avoid doing so on a public WiFi, a haven for hackers. As to whether or not airline rewards thefts increase in frequency in the future, Bischoff said the answer lies in the hands of the companies. " It's up to them to better secure their systems and detect fraud," he said.


City government, specifically public works department, is committed to maintaining streets in a safe and useable condition and to improving the street system as much as available funds will allow. To do this, city's public works employees patch potholes, perform preventive maintenance and, when the street deteriorates to a point where it can no longer be economically repaired, reconstruct the street.
How does Public Works Department employees provide service?
The Department of Public Works' annual budget supplies funds for street repair and maintenance, while capital improvement programs provide money for reconstruction. Capital improvement programs can be approved by voters at bond-elections. Another method used to pay for new streets is assessment paving in which the city and citizens share the cost. The city pays for a portion of the cost in residential areas and the residents are assessed the remaining portion. New streets are built by private developers, although the city may share the cost if the city wants improvements to the builder's plans.
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Q: How do I get a pothole fixed and how long will it take?
A: The city's public works department is responsible for repairing potholes. Usually a temporary patch is applied.
Q: Why is the patch only a temporary? Why isn't it done right the first time?
A: The City's public works department has several reasons for applying a temporary patch. First, it is quick and it makes the road safe until a permanent repair can be scheduled. Second, some streets are in such poor condition that a permanent repair cannot be justified because the repair would be better than the remainder of the road. Third, for roads in good shape other than an occasional pothole, a delay until a permanent repair can be made may allow water to reach the base and cause a major problem.
Q: What is the difference between a "temporary repair" and a "permanent repair"?
A: A temporary repair consists of cleaning out the hole, shoveling a cold asphalt mixture into the hole and compacting the mixture by driving over it with a vehicle, usually a dump truck A permanent repair involves squaring the edges of the hole with a jackhammer, removing any deteriorated material,cleaning the hole, swabbing or spraying liquid asphalt on the surface of the hole, placing a hot asphalt mixture into the hole, compacting the mixture with a steel-wheeled roller and sealing the edges with liquid asphalt.
Q: Why has the city dumped tar and loose gravel on my street?
A: Asphalt contains various oils and resins. It begins to lose those oils and resins after years of exposure to rain,wind and sunlight. When that happens, asphalt becomes brittle and cracks begin to develop. Also, depending on the climate soils can expand and contract during various seasons which causes more cracks.All cracks allow water to penetrate pavement and reach the base, the street's foundation, causing the street to fail. Liquid asphalt and gravel is used to "seal coat" the street. This replenishes the lost oils and resins and seals the cracks.Seal coating is not only the most cost-beneficial method currently available, it also extends the life of a street for many years.
Q: My street is being rebuilt. Why is it taking so long?
A: City streets are normally rebuilt by private contractors hired by the city. After the plans have been completed, but before the street contractor begins work, utility companies are asked to replace lines that are in the way or are in less than good condition. The street contractor is usually prohibited from beginning until all of the utility work has been completed. The street contractor is allowed a specific number of days to complete the project. That number of days is set by the city before bidding occurs, based on what is a reasonable time to complete that particular project. The city works with the contractor during construction to urge completion on schedule. If the contractor fails to complete the work on time, penalties are often assessed against the contractor. Penalties are based on the size of the project and can be assessed for each working day that the project runs over.
Q: Why is the street poorly repaired when it is dug up due to a water or sewer problems?
A: When the city's public works department digs up the street to repair a leak or to make a new water or sewer tap, they refill the hole with washed rock that compacts very well and then put a temporary cold asphalt patch over the rock to keep it in place and to allow the street to be reopened quickly. A permanent repair is made as soon as possible.


Singapore is also called "Global City with a World of Opportunities" and it well lives up to the spirit of the name as it makes a destination where thousands arrive and settle for reasons of work. The country having a vibrant economy draws people from all parts of Asia and other continents and offers an extremely conducive work culture in various sectors of its economy. Hence, jobs in Singapore are easy to find if one has the requisite degree, skills, talents and experience to contribute in both established and emerging sectors.
The banking and finance industry of Singapore is quite large and well developed. It provides over than 114,000 jobs in as many as 500 financial institutions, accounting for more than 11% of Singapore's GDP.
Singapore constitutes world's fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre and it ranks as the world's leading financial centre. Its success is largely attributed to its large reservoir of talent pool - a good mix of local and international financial experts. Singapore's banking and financial sector is based on strong foundations and as it surges further high growth in the future to be "Financial Centre of the Future", it would need to increase its employment of experienced executives.
There are jobs available in the field of Biomedical Sciences, which is constituted by pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology and related healthcare services. They were developed in 2000 and now have become an integral and robust part of Singapore's economy. Job experts predict that this sector would have 15,000+ new Singapore jobs by 2015, recruiting a skilled talent pool of chemists, production engineers, quality assurance engineers, quality controllers and quality control engineers etc.
When on venture to find jobs in Singapore, one could well consider the jobs in IT Sector. With the convergence of information technology and telephony in 1999, the Information Technology (IT) has witnessed a phenomenal growth sending out its ripples into all aspects of lives and businesses. IT sector in Singapore is in much need of specialists in almost every forward-looking industry.
Singapore Chemical Industry Council (SCIC) has found many investors from several industry associations since 2006 that are creating many jobs and the trend would well continue in the future too. Jobs in Singapore for freshers are widely available in this rapidly and extensively growing sector.
The Chemical Industry is a vibrant player in the country's economy. It has made several achievements at the international level which includes being one of the top oil refining centers in the world. It also ranks as the one of the top three oil trading and price discovery centers in the world etc.
All sectors of the economy in Singapore have jobs for foreigners. The finance and banking sector in particular have many international firms, employing talented professionals from many parts of the world. The society of Singapore is cosmopolitan in nature having a healthy mix of people from various nationalities. Singapore houses the best global talents, the non-Singaporeans accounting for 30.9% of the country's total job pool today. They are benefited from Singapore's friendly employment policies, excellent working environment and ever growing employment opportunities, amongst many others.


Even though it's only a tinge of ginge, you've been dying to rub shoulders with this redheaded dreamboat since he swooned you in Moulin Rouge!
While Buffy was busy slaying vampires, her best friend Willow, Alyson Hannigan, was way busy slaying your heart.
The rules don't say anything about having to be a natural redhead, do they? Britney gets a tepid peck.


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Q: Something went wrong and the query was left in the compiled code Started learning Gatsby by following YouTube tutorial. I have followed each step as shown in the tutorial. So I am at the stage of creating post list page.
The post list page will have 3 posts and the other will be available through pagination. And it will be sorted in descending order.
I am getting an error as below:
function graphql() {
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  95 |       `are supposed to only be evaluated at compile time, and then compiled away. ` +
  96 |       `Unfortunately, something went wrong and the query was left in the compiled code.\n\n` +

gatsby-node.js file:
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                edges {
                    node {
                    frontmatter {
                        slug
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                    id
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    //Create paginated pages for posts
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    const numPages = Math.ceil(data.allMdx.edges.length / postPerPage)

    Array.from({ length: numPages }).forEach((_, i) => {
        actions.createPage({
            path: i === 0 ? `/` : `/${ i+1 }`,
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}

allPosts.js file:
import React from "react"
import {graphql} from "gatsby"
import {Container, Content, ContentCard, FeatureImage, Pagination} from "../components"
import {H1, P} from "../elements"

const allPosts = ({pageContext, data}) => {
    const {currentPage, numPages} = pageContext
    const isFirst = currentPage === 1
    const isLast = currentPage === numPages
    const prevPage = currentPage - 1 === 1 ? "/" : `/${currentPage -1}`
    const nextPage = `/${currentPage + 1}`

    const posts = data.allMdx.edges

    return (
        <Container>
            <FeatureImage />
            <Content>

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                {posts.map(post => (
                    <ContentCard
                        key={post.node.frontmatter.slug}
                        date={post.node.frontmatter.date}
                        title={post.node.frontmatter.title}
                        excerpt={post.node.frontmatter.excerpt}
                        slug={post.node.frontmatter.slug}
                    />
                ))}
            </Content>
            <Pagination
                isFirst={isFirst}
                isLast={isLast}
                prevPage={prevPage}
                nextPage={nextPage}
            />
        </Container>
    )
}

export default allPosts

export const pageQuery = graphql(`
    query AllPostsQuery($skip: Int!, $limit:Int!){
        allMdx(sort: {fields: frontmatter___date, order: DESC}, skip: $skip, limit: $limit) {
            edges {
                node {
                frontmatter {
                    slug
                    title
                    date(formatString: "MMMM DD, YYYY")
                    excerpt
                }
                }
            }
        }
    }
`)

A: In allPosts.js the query should be like this graphql{ your_query } instead of graphql({ your_query }).
export const pageQuery = graphql`
    query AllPostsQuery($skip: Int!, $limit:Int!){
        allMdx(sort: {fields: frontmatter___date, order: DESC}, skip: $skip, limit: $limit) {
            edges {
                node {
                frontmatter {
                    slug
                    title
                    date(formatString: "MMMM DD, YYYY")
                    excerpt
                }
                }
            }
        }
    }
`

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The ten finest songs by David Crosby
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David Crosby, legendary musician of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger, has died aged 81
David Crosbywho died on Wednesday (January 18) aged 81, leaves behind six a long time of music in a profession that has included forming folk-rock pioneers The Byrds and becoming a member of forces with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash for one in all rock's first and biggest supergroups, Crosby, Stills & Nash. With Neil Younger quickly becoming a member of the group, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger recorded Déjà-vuwhich went seven instances platinum and stays some of the common and finest beloved albums of the Seventies.
Crosby recorded eight solo albums and a number of other others solely with Nash, produced Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen and sang harmonies on albums by Phil Collins, Sizzling Tuna, David Gilmour and the Indigo Women. Together with his signature moustache, mischievous presence and outspoken politics, he is usually been the largest character amongst his many famous person collaborators, and has maintained essentially the most constantly entertaining Twitter account of any basic rocker lately. Crosby survived a long time of drug use, well being issues and a stint in jail within the Eighties and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame with each the Byrds and CSN. "I needs to be there a 3rd time simply to make Clapton jealous," he joked.
Extra from Spin:
Crosby carried out and sang various basic songs, from "Flip! Flip! Flip!" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," however here is a glance again at 10 of the best and most notable compositions on which he was a major artistic power.
10. The Byrds – "What's up?!?!"
Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn wrote a lot of the unique songs on the Byrds' extremely profitable first two albums, with Crosby solely co-writing "Wait and See" with McGuinn within the 1965s Flip! Flip! Flip! However when Clark left the band in 1966, Crosby continued to extend his contributions Fifth DimensionHe co-wrote a number of songs and contributed just a few strains to the psychedelic milestone Eight Miles Excessive. Crosby's first solo songwriter on report, "What's Occurring?!?!" made minimal, philosophical lyrics sound like a pop tune with a driving groove and scorching guitar leads: "I do not know the way it's presupposed to be / I have never the faintest thought who owns it or what it's all for."
9. Crosby, Stills & Nash – "Wood Ships"
Crosby and Stills wrote the anti-war epic Wood Ships, starring Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner, who was initially uncredited because the writer of Crosby, Stills & Nash's 1969 debut attributable to a authorized dispute with Jefferson Airplane administration. Later that 12 months, the Airplane launched a unique association of the tune on the album volunteersand each bands performed "Wood Ships" at Woodstock.
8. David Crosby – "What's their title"
In 1971 Crosby launched his first solo album, If solely I might bear in mind my title, with an all-star supporting solid. The challenge went gold, however its jazzy explorations had been panned by critics like Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau, and did not yield hit singles just like the Stills, Nash and Younger solo materials that adopted CSNY Déjà-vu. Within the a long time to return, nevertheless If solely I might bear in mind my titlee has been relaunched as an influential cult basic and has been reissued a number of instances. In a 2021 Rolling Stone piece Marking its fiftieth anniversary, Crosby singled out "What Are Their Names" as a cornerstone of his stay repertoire: "I've sung it each efficiency since I wrote it. I like it. I feel it is an especially sincere piece of stuff, and I imagine in it."
7. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger – "Compass"
Crosby hit all-time low as a heroin and cocaine addict within the '80s, spending 9 months in a Texas jail in 1985 and 1986. "In jail I awakened in a cell, remembered who I used to be and began writing once more. And that was the start of the way in which again. 'Compass' was the primary first rate tune," Crosby mentioned within the 2019 documentary David Crosby: Keep in mind my title. The harrowing tune about Crosby's misplaced decade was launched in 1988 American Dreamthe primary studio album by your complete CSNY quartet since Déjà-vu.
6. David Crosby – "Time I Have"
5 of Crosby's eight solo albums had been launched within the final decade of his life, one other productive interval starting in 2014 Croz, recorded in his son James Raymond's dwelling studio. Crosby centered on vocals on his later albums, as tendinitis in his fingers affected his potential to play guitar, however he continued to be open about his opinions in his lyrics. "Folks accomplish that many issues to make me offended / However offended is not how I need to spend the time I've," he sang of one of many highlights of that late profession.
5. Crosby & Nash – "Carry Me" (1975)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger cut up in 1970, and the quartet splintered into new factions all through the last decade. Crosby and Nash launched 4 albums as a duo, whereas the Stills-Younger Band produced a single full-length album in 1976. "Carry Me" was the lead single from Crosby & Nash's second set in 1975 wind on the water. The tune's poignant third verse was concerning the closing years of Crosby's mom, Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, who died in 1973: "She's smiling however she's drained, she'd like to listen to the final bell / if she might she'd stand." up and she or he might sing."
4. The Byrds – "Girl Buddy"
The one Byrds A-side written completely by Crosby, "Girl Buddy" was a non-album single launched between the 1967s Youthful than Yesterday and 1968 The notorious Byrd brothers. The tune solely peaked at quantity 89 on the billboard Sizzling 100, however its vivid harmonies and billowing rhythms marked it as a kind of proto-power pop tune that was later coated by Flamin' Groovies and the Posies.
3. David Crosby – "Cowboy Film"
One in all Crosby's extra ephemeral supergroups was David & the Dorks, the title underneath which he performed with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Useless at San Francisco's The Matrix membership in 1970. All three supported Crosby on the eight-minute "Cowboy Film." If solely I might bear in mind my titlewith lyrics depicting the members of CSNY as characters in a western.
2. Crosby, Stills & Nash – "Guinnevere"
Across the time the Byrds had been making the 1968s The notorious Byrd brothers, Crosby was fascinated by jazz and Indian sitar music and wrote more and more formidable songs in unorthodox guitar tunings and time signatures such because the 5/4 "Tribal Gathering". The Byrds fired Crosby throughout periods, and whereas a few of his songs remained on the album, Crosby later recalled pondering, "I am taking 'Guinnevere' and my bizarre vibes with me." Written within the open temper EBDGAD, discovered " Guinnevere" lastly discovered a house on Crosby, Stills & Nash's self-titled 1969 debut. Others Infamous Byrd brothers "Reject," an notorious ode to a menage-a-trois referred to as "Triad," was recorded by Jefferson Airplane and carried out by Crosby at CSNY 4-way avenuet.
1. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger – "Virtually minimize my hair"
Crosby and the opposite members of the Byrds went from short-haired folkies to long-haired hippies through the band's early years collectively. Whilst some had been rethinking their hairstyles on the flip of the brand new decade, Crosby swore in one of many defining anthems of the scissors period: "I ponder why I really feel like flying my freak flag / Sure, I really feel like I owe it to somebody It remained Crosby's signature tune for many years, lengthy after his lengthy, flowing hair stopped ostracizing him from excessive society, and a killer guitar duel by Stills and Younger marks it because the definitive CSNY monitor.
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Our bathrooms take such good care of us, yet we hardly give it more love than a quick wash once or twice a week. If you have children, you know how hard it can be to keep it clean and tidy at all times – and you might end up feeling a bit unhappy with the way it looks, from time to time.
Luckily, there are a few bathroom hacks that will make your life way easier in terms of cleaning and tidying. Plus, they make it way less likely that you experience one of those bathroom disasters where the drains are clogged and the taps are leaking.
Here I share a handful of ways to show your bathroom some love once in a while, so that it can take care of you for longer.
The first and easiest way to make the whole cleaning process much less troublesome is to clean it a little bit every second day or so. That way, you won't have to do that massive haul once a week and can enjoy a sparkling clean bathroom every day.
The trick is to fill a basket with everything you need to clean the bathroom quickly; some disinfecting wet-wipes, a sponge, a spray cleaner, etc – whatever it takes to make it easier to clean.
Encourage your family members and children to do the same, by the way, and consider making a natural cleaner if you're worried about them touching all those chemicals.
You know that terrible job of cleaning all those hairs away from the drain? It's undoubtedly the nastiest job ever. By buying one of drain cleaners, you're making the job way easier – and might even find yourself cleaning hairs out of the drain a bit more often.
It makes it much less likely that the plumbing calls it a day as well, by the way, and you certainly won't have to call any blocked drain specialists anytime soon. You should pour some boiling hot water down there once in a while as well, though, to make sure you're getting rid of anything that could wear those pipes out.
While some people swear to use vinegar when cleaning the bathroom, a lemon will do just a good of a job on those hard water marks (personally my favourite) and you'll have a fresh lemon scent filling up your room when you're done instead of a sour vinegar smell.
Rub some lemon on the marks on your taps and shower head, and they'll disappear quickly. It's such an affordable way to clean the bathroom and makes it smell perfectly fresh.
Cleaning the bathroom is actually not that dreadful when you manage to keep it reasonably clean throughout the week. These hacks make it a bit easier for you so that you can enjoy a fresh and sparkling clean morning routine every day.