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I've been having problems using Ventrilo on my mac. I'm currently running Snow Leopard (I upgraded all of two days ago), but I had these problems for a good six-eight months, so they aren't new. Basically after 10-30 minutes, any noise I make into the microphone of my USB headset comes out sounding robotic or full of static. I thought it was my headset, but after a bit of googling I found out that it might be a problem with the Ventrilo software - and that there was a supposed fix to the issue by messing with some .kext files. This is what I followed, down to the letter. The java thing didn't help - I had no settings to change. But I attempted to downgrade, did exactly what I was instructed to do, and after a restart .. I can't get my computer to recognize the USB headset when it's plugged in. There's nothing but the default options in my sound system options. Since I was a good girl and backed up the original file, I tried to reinstall the current file, and when I went to repair I got an error saying it had been installed wrong. I repaired permissions anyway, rebooted, and nothing changed. Basically, tl;dr, I'm dumb and need a hand undoing my own stupidity. :P
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I really think Snow Leopard was Apple's attempt to out-do Microsoft's Vista in most bugs released in a single Operating System. I'm just blown away by all the weird brokenness. 1- Two freshly installed instances of Snow Leopard. One on a brand new Mac Mini and the other on a MacBook Pro. The Macbook had a harddrive icon on the desktop. The Mac Mini had _no harddrive_ icon on the desktop. (Had to go google how to fix it: Finder>Preferences> click Harddrive under "Show these items on Desktop) 2- Migration Assistant would not allow me to move an account from an old Mac Mini to the new Mac Mini because both accounts shared the same name.... Which was the whole point. I wanted to move over the old account onto the new machine, and that was the _only_ account on the new machine. I had to rename account and then manually go and cp -R files over to the new machine... which completely defeats the point of having Migration Assistant in the first place. 3- Whenever I would click on the Finder icon in the dock, I would get a Finder window that was empty for the current users home directory. But the home directory WAS NOT EMPTY. If I clicked on the username on the left side of the Finder File Browser window under "Places" I'd see all the folders in the user's directory. But again, whenever I click on the Finder icon in the dock I'd get an empty window in Finder for the users home directory which was NOT empty. 4- Problem of not being able to find windows have always been a problem in MacosX since day one. Which is why Apple came up with Expose as a means to combat not being able to find windows buried under other windows. Which is odd given that Apple actually has a feature called "Single Application Mode" buried in the UI. You can activate it by holding down Option + Apple and clicking an icon in the dock. What that does is Auto-Hides All Other Applications. Problem is, if you don't know that trick good luck finding anything in the UI. I was buying and registering games and time and time again the registration window was buried under a window and unseen to me, waiting for me type in information to register the game. Again, this has always been a problem in MacOSX. 5- As stated before, many preference windows for things like Firefox and Thunderbird do not render correctly under Snow Leopard. You get strange graphical artifacts as you flip through the preferences windows. ----Now onto hardware ------ Mac Mini now ships with Mini-DVI and Firewire 800. Yet I have a iSight Camera (firewire 400) that's connected to my Apple flat screen monitor which WAS connected to old Mac Mini with the Apple only Apple Display Connector. Problem is the new Mac Mini's are Firewire 400 and Mini-DVI... so I'll no longer be able to connect my iSight DIRECTLY into the back of my Monitor. I'll instead have to go buy a Firewire 400 to 800 cable and run it down from the iSight camera directly to the Mac Mini... Which negates having the firewire port on the back of the Apple Display. Grrr! And don't get me started on the Mini-DVI port. The Mini-DVI port needs screws... badly... to hold in the Mini DVI to DVI adapter which falls out all the time on its own.
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Il est chez voisin-voisine.
J'entends sa voix, son rire... quelques brides de conservation.
Je viens tout juste de faire réparer mon stéthoscope, et il serait bien de le tester. Le retrouve parmi mes bagages... J'entends des trucs genre "elle", "black list", "chum"...
Il a quitté vers 23h00, alors qu'un bonne soirée retentit jusqu'à mon lit.
En Jardin, je me disais qu'il aurait pu profiter de mon absence et de ma clé chez les voisins pour:
-Peinturer le tout (quoi que je ne suis pas certaine que j'aurai apprécié)
-Installer un petit cadre (juste pour dire coucou, je suis passé)
-Laisser une lettre, un fleur, des morceaux de chocolat sur l'oreiller...
Ou à tout le moins, juste faire clignoter cette petite lumière du répondeur histoire de me souhaiter un "bon retour"
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/30/gearing-2012-international-aids-conference I was very pleased to join Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, the President’s Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, ONAP Director Jeffrey Crowley, and Dr. Elly Katabira, President-elect of the International AIDS Society at the White House today for an event on the eve of World AIDS Day 2009. World AIDS Day is an occasion to reflect on how far we have come in the fight against this epidemic, but also to remind ourselves of the important work we have yet to do in preventing and treating HIV.
This year marks my first World AIDS Day as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, although I have been working on HIV/AIDS issues for more than 25 years. In addition to my work treating persons living with HIV and AIDS, I have held various roles in and outside of government working to respond to HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and around the world. I was deeply humbled when the President appointed me to serve as the Global AIDS Coordinator. We are just getting started, but President Obama has demonstrated solid leadership on domestic and global HIV/AIDS issues, and it is an exciting time to be a part of his team.
At today’s event, Secretary Clinton announced that the 2012 International AIDS Conference will be held in Washington, DC. This momentous event is made possible by the Administration’s recent lifting of the entry ban for HIV-positive travelers to the United States. The full removal of the ban takes effect on January 4, 2010. This entry ban was originally placed into effect in 1987 when there was little information on how HIV is spread, and was then codified by Congress. Even after scientists had long proved that HIV/AIDS was not spread through casual contact with a person living with HIV, the entry ban remained in place. Only a handful of countries worldwide prohibit HIV-positive travelers from crossing their borders, and the United States has been the only Western country to uphold this discriminatory policy. Last year, Congress finally repealed the law mandating the travel ban, and the Obama Administration was able to remove the remaining regulatory barriers.
Hosting the International AIDS Conference in the United States is an important opportunity for the United States. This event draws scientists, policy makers, program officials, HIV-positive individuals and others from all over the world. As the largest conference of its type, the International AIDS Conference attracts more than 25,000 participants and over 3,000 members of the media. Welcoming conference attendees to our Nation’s capital will allow America to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to ending the HIV pandemic both in the United States and around the world. Given that the conference is fundamentally a research conference, holding this event in such close proximity to the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. Government research facilities will also, hopefully, expand the level of scientific discourse between our scientists and researchers from around the world.
Hosting the conference in the United States will also enable us to showcase our efforts to respond to our domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic. By 2012, the U.S. will have a National HIV/AIDS Strategy in place for the first time in our nation’s history. We expect to have made new strides by then to better coordinate HIV prevention and care services across the U.S. Government, as well as to reduce HIV/AIDS disparities. In addition, the conference will allow us to spotlight our ongoing and continued commitment to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the President’s Global Health Initiative.
World AIDS Day is an important day to pause and reflect. It is also an important day to look forward with renewed optimism and vigor. Today’s announcement by Secretary Clinton is a sign of renewed commitment that gives us all hope as we move forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS and confront the many challenges ahead.
Eric P. Goosby, MD is the United States Ambassador at Large and Global AIDS Coordinator
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This is, by far, the coolest VPN program I've ever run across. It's fast, it's full featured, ad it's free. I'm currently setting up renders on my friend Dan's quad core computer. I'm starting the render program on his machine, browsing for parameter files on my computer, and it's rendering on his box without him having to do a thing other than starting a session. This is a SWEET tool for showing someone how to do something on their computer, or fixing something, or even transferring files using the built in FTP proggie. Honestly, I am floored by how cool this is. Did I mention it's FREE?!? http://teamviewer.com/index.aspxTags: computer help, software
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the establishment of his messianic throne the Tetragrammation rabbinic literature gives seven names of God which can never be erased the projection of God's heavenly rule into the earthly sphere a heavenly language discourse the concept of multiple heavens as found in the apocalyptic literature it is poetic language, not technical-cosmological nor apocalyptic the door to the kingdom now stands open throughout the ages Jesus' resurrection will be the event that transforms his disciples into the foundation of the church there are only two choices: God's way of Satan' way one must choose between the way of Christ (heaven) or the way of the Pharisees and scribes (earth) the horror of the Cross he uses the cross and crucifixion as an image of discipleship the post-resurrection Jesus who now has authority in heaven and in earth the hope-giving function of an apocalyptic orientation toward the future age the First Gospel shares an apocalyptic viewpoint or worldview and looks forward to Christ's eschatological kingdom apocalyptic motifs in Matthew an insignificant conflict in a remote wasteland an easy bucolic life a cosmological worldview the illusory nature of earthly happiness a dismal weariness of life the gathering of all exiles under the Messiah and had gathered more words than anyone had ever done before a gloomy gazer on a world to which I have little relation knowing where the Terrestrial Paradise was located is not necessary for salvation a doubt about the ten tribes is tantamount to uncertainty about the messianic vision as a whole "Thus, the positive answer to both of the questions raised leads to the conclusion that while there cannot be absolute certainty with regard to eschatological fulfillment in the present, the contemporary state of Israel, and especially its possession of Jerusalem, suggests a high degree of probability that eschatological fulfillment is in process before our very eyes." pg. 61 Barry E. Horner "I would rigorously disagree with that mystical, indeed contorted incorporation of the land into the new cosmos in such a way that all territorial identity of Israel is lost." pg. 64 Horner the eschatological prospect of Jesus Christ being personally worshiped from Jerusalem I believe this future temple, situated in Jerusalem will accommodate the enthroned temple Jesus Jesus can feed the twelve disciples with one loaf the proposal is to build three booths, not one throne the transfiguration as a preview of the coming parousia of the Son of Man the transfiguration reveals the kingdom by unveiling the king Jesus must be seen as the final eschatological prophet whom Moses predicted would come power is conveyed through communion with the Almighty the value of unleashing a wild imagination re-created the Romantic aspects of an imaginative journey to an exotic place the ten tribes as a mighty army of superhuman entities coming with the Antichrist the search for Arzareth had stretched over millennia human life is always a matter of the realization of meaning the blind spot in logical absolutism symbols are a central category for the communication of religious meaning memory is the definitive reference to the experience of time the defeat of Satan is a sign that the final era of salvation is already breaking in an eschatological perspective is typical of Jesus' teaching "For Jesus, a theology of creation in the wisdom tradition and radical ethics in view of the present-and-coming kingdom of God are not mutually exclusive alternatives but supplement each other in his theocentric perspective." pg. 111 Udo Schnelle one's response to Jesus will be the decisive factor in the coming judgment the time of the coming judgment cannot be calculated to forget God is to lose one's life "But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God" Luke 9:62. for the historical Jesus the kingdom of God and the last judgment were inseparable It is 4:28 PM I will close to put my stuff away. Carol is still sleeping. We are now in the Advent Season. music: Portishead "Third" Current Mood:  contemplative
Current Music: Portishead "Third"
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Почему-то обычно это случается осенью и, как и положено лирическому настроению, сопровождается рядом характерных черт.
Во-первых, мне в это время случается влюбиться. Вот, например, четыре года тому назад угораздило бедного Кошкина мне повстречаться. Он, конечно, для порядку посопротивлялся, но зато впоследствии чувствовал себя вполне счастливым (Милый, поправь меня, если я заблуждаюсь на сей счёт!).
Но влюбляться каждый год - это, конечно, перебор, поэтому эту черту из списка характерных вычёркиваем.
А вот что точно случается каждый год - это я вдруг начинаю тревожиться о своей внешности и/или здоровом образе жизни. Обычно это быстро проходит, но на какое-то время меня накрывает волной "заботы о себе". И пока я барахтаюсь в этой волне, начинаю совершать нетипичные для себя действия.
Могу начать бегать по вечерам. Могу пойти к косметологу и сделать форму бровей. Могу встать на каблуки и в течение пары недель красить ресницы (всё остальное время жизни мне это кажется совершенной глупостью). Очевидно, что в это время учащаются случаи влезания в платья (и вздохов, где же я летом-то была, когда, казалось бы, сам бог велел...) и мысли на тему "а не пойти ли учиться танцевать"...
Самое глупое из проявлений таких состояний - это попытки иногда сесть на диету. Глупое, потому что бессмысленное. Мой хитрый организм не худеет оттого, что его лишают какой-то специфической еды или просто ограничивают в еде. У меня будет болеть голова и ухудшаться работоспособность, но ни килограммы, ни сантиметры никуда уходить не станут. Справедливости ради, обратное тоже верно, т.е. я могу сколько угодно есть самого недиетического, при этом не переставая влезать в джинсы и не боясь при случае облачиться в трико. И тем не менее. Лирическое настроение из экс-мехматянки живо лепит натуральную блондинку, которая грустно смотрит на своё отражение во всех зеркалах подряд и решает ХУДЕТЬ. А так как больная голова и падение работоспособности в нынешних условиях для меня не приемлимы никак, принимается решение о самой щадящей диете - безмучной и безкартошечной (догадайтесь с двух раз, чего сразу хочется больше всего? думаете, жареной картошечки и тортика? НЕ УГАДАЛИ!)
Ну как бы то ни было. Решение принято, и я выпиваю с утра чай без печенек, прохожу мимо выпечки в кафетерии с видом "этот виноград зелёный", на обед беру себе суп, из которого аккуратно вынимаю на блюдечко всю картошку, и две порции салатов: морковку с яблоком и "греческий"...
С чувством победы над собой возвращаюсь на рабочее место...
На моём столе лежит незнакомый пакет. У нас не принято, вообще-то, оставлять пакеты на чужих столах, поэтому я в него заглядываю и убеждаюсь, что пакет, действительно предназначается мне. В нём лежит книжка, которую я давала почитать, и коробка чего-то, оставленного в знак спасибы... Любопытство побеждает, и коробка извлекается на свет. Это восхитительное печенье в шоколадной глазури, однажды я такое пробовала и, не смотря на обычное относительное равнодушие к выпечке, оно мне очень-очень понравилось. А больше я такого не встречала...
Я смотрю на коробку, и... Я же всё-таки всего-навсего слабая женщина, вы же понимаете. Если унесу её домой, накрылась моя диета медным тазом, да в самом начале!
Тогда я решительно разрываю плёнку, в которую обёрнута коробка, снимаю крышку и ставлю на тумбу с громким выдохом: "Угощайтесь!"
Ну, понятное дело, довольные сотрудники, слегка обеспокоенные вопросом "А по какому поводу?" (вдруг надо быстро соображать и поздравлять меня), и сразу довольно успокоенные после "да просто так, берите!". Печеньки быстренько разлетаются. И первые минуты слегка мазохистическое удовольствие слушать доносящийся хруст. Но потом коробка стоит ополовиненная, и подходить и доедать всё сразу воспитанные товарищи не спешат - у нас тут народу много, мало ли кто ещё заглянет. Остаток рабочего дня заглядывают и, довольные, хрустят печеньками (они маленькие, и их в большой коробке много), иногда приходят за добавкой... но почему-то коробка всёне кончается и не кончается. Я уже жалею, что открыла её в отделе, надо было на кухню унести, там бы в миг разлетелось, а тут предательский хруст весь день...
Шесть часов. И я жду, когда же, наконец, мне финансы пришлют нужный кусочек данных. Встаю распрямиться... и распрямляюсь - над коробкой с шестью печеньками на донышке. Маленькие, все такие разные, и каждое просит: "Съешь же меня!". Я на них смотрю и ЗНАЮ, что не съем...
И тут мимо проходит большой начальник. Улыбается мне радостно и с приятным французским акцентом произносит:
- Well! The most difficult problem is to choose a proper cake?
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Well, I didn't really mean to be gone so long, and really I need to be gone longer because I have not enough to say, or too much to say but not enough time, or muddled head, or some combination of the three. Thanksgiving has come and gone. E-boy and I went alone to Chicago because C-man couldn't get off work. We had Thanksgiving, just the family, and a wee bit of family angst as is appropriate for the holiday. We had a trip to the science museum and dinner, partly because we wanted to go out to dinner and partly to celebrate two of the three birthdays we always celebrate over the Thanksgiving break (mom and dad's, 26th and 27th). We had E-boy's family birthday celebration, which involved ice cream cake and great present-giving and a very happy boy. We had mom and dad's annual customer appreciation dinner. We drove home. I am at work where I should be working in a frenzied manner on the now never-ending sooper sekrit project and a few other almost equally important things. But I am having a hard time and have only accomplished a few key things today. The push will come later in the week, as my sooper sekrit deadline is Friday. This week we have birthday cake planning, present shopping, and holiday card thinking and preparing. Thursday is E-boy's birthday, followed by a full weekend of my third and final writing workshop of the year, E-boy's celebration with friends who are not boys from his school, E-boy's birthday celebration with friends who *are* boys from his school, and holiday decorating. Phew. I think I know what I'm baking this year in the holiday cookie department. The old favorite, Gramma's frosted cutouts; the new favorite, chai-spiced thumbprints; the cranberry-orange-pistachio drop cookies that I like and that are reasonably healthy for a holiday treat; possibly some sort of chocolate cookie; and either triple ginger cookies or cranberry, candied lemon and white chocolate florentines, or both. The question is, will I have time to make other things as well? I always want to try candies, and I'd love to do a marmalade. I didn't do peppermint bark last year as I'd been having some trouble with it in recent years, which annoyed me because it is supposed to be uber-easy. So I eliminated the bark to eliminate some stress and frustration. I may add it back in if I come across the chocolates I like to use. Don't freak out that I'm talking about the holidays. In practice, this week is all about a birthday, which only leaves about two and a half weeks for holiday stuff. I need to think holiday in order to be prepared for such a short timeframe and maintain enjoyment rather than stress and angst. Tags: daily life, family, holidays
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/30/cbo-confirms Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis (pdf) of the Senate version health insurance reform – and it contains more good news about what reform will mean for families struggling to keep up with skyrocketing premiums under the broken status quo.
Like other recent analyses, the CBO report finds that lower administrative costs, increased competition, and better pooling for risk will mean lower premiums for American families. Among the findings:
Americans buying comparable health plans to what they have today in the individual market would see premiums fall by 14 to 20 percent.
Those who get coverage through their employer today will likely see a decrease in premiums as well.
And Americans who currently struggle to find coverage would see lower premiums because more people will be covered.
In addition to the welcome relief on costs, the CBO reports that Americans will also have better insurance options. The CBO assumes that many people will take advantage of these better options and "buy up" to purchase better plans than are currently offered in the individual market.
Not surprisingly, some of reform's opponents have already started trying to distort that finding to make false claims that reform will raise costs. So let's be clear: where the CBO does see premiums rising, it's not because Americans are paying more for the same coverage – it's that they’re making a choice to purchase better plans that weren't previously available to them.
In keeping with that finding, the CBO affirms the effectiveness of the grandfather policy, which will allow you to keep what you have if you like it. The report reads, "Moreover, if they wanted to, current policyholders in the nongroup market would be allowed to keep their policy with no changes, and the premiums for those policies would probably not differ substantially from current-law levels."
Finally, it’s worth nothing that for all the good news in the CBO report, the analysis doesn't even take into account all of the bill’s measures to control costs and improve coverage. So if anything, it understates the positive impacts of reform. For example, the CBO does not take into account policies like the catastrophic option available to young adults, and reinsurance provision, that would reduce premiums even further.
It also does not incorporate potential effects of the proposal on the level or growth rate of spending for health care. For instance, CBO’s analysis does not fully capture the effects of the excise tax on high-cost plans, which will bend the cost curve over the long-term. But it did provide a snapshot: for plans affected by the tax in 2016, premiums would be 9-12 percent lower than under current law.
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