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Whilst SWIM was doing a naphtha wash on an extract from 100gms of SD, and waiting for "settling" to occur, guess what came to SWIM's view on a certain DMT-related site?
The following::::
Hi! A while ago there was discussion about a salvia enema. I finally tried it out and it worked powerfully. I did a crude acetone extract on 10g of dried leaves. After the tar was totally dried, I put about 3 quarters of it in a shot glass. Where to go from there? Well, since I've read that salvia is not soluble in water, I didn't want to use water. I also wasn't going to use alcohol or some other harsh substance as a solution. So, I spit a bunch of times in the shot glass and used my own saliva as a solution in which salvia is soluble.
I squished up the tar with a dropper until it was more like a solution. Then, I took my 1ml dropper, sucked up the solution, and inserted, about 5ml. I lied down and waited. About 20 minutes later, it started kicking in. At first I wondered if it was a placebo effect, but then I was like, "oh, nope, hang on..... this is way too intricate and fiery to be my own normal imagination". I was being flashed by fantastic symbols, in a very salvia-esque fashion. That is to say, they come and go rather quickly. Ayahuasca visions I find are quite stable and have a more recognizable geometry. These symbols were flashing by, and leaving as quickly as they came, and were very asymetrical and incomprehensible... though still beautiful.
My ears started getting that distinct salvia sound wave. To me it sounds something like a continuous oscillating cricket. In the past, I've only had this sound on smoked sessions. It felt like my soul left my body, my body was no longer mine, I was just a body lying in bed and my head was hollowed out. I was opened to the infinity of space where there was nothing but this inner light, the source, that was manifesting reality as I know it.
The sensations became so intense that I started getting a bit concerned. As I was lying in bed, I thought, "oh my God.... am I going to freak out? ....... yep, I think I'm freaking out". By that, I mean I felt I lost control of my mind a bit, and I was at the mercy of whatever the inner world wanted to show me. Emotionally, I did not feel well. The salvia void is a cold, unemotional place.
I was getting odd brain buzzes. I wondered if I had overdosed because I took, likely, the equivalent of over 12mg salvinorin. I became uncomfortable, got up and gave myself an enema to wash out what might not have been absorbed yet. This was about an hour after initially inserting the salvia. The enema was green and the tar sticky. I didn't like the idea that I had this sticku stuff inside me. I felt infected by salvia. There was also some unusual sensations in the lower abdomen and back. I also get this when taking salvia sublingually. Apparently, salvinorin has some kind of effect on enzyme production in the kidneys. It causes an increase in production of something that results in increased urine. But the sensation may have been more uncomfortable utilizing the enema.
So, I believe it may be possible to overdose using this method, which is why I suggest caution. By overdose, I just mean that it is possible to take more salvia than is necessary to achieve the desired effect, resulting in discomfort, or a negative impact on the body. While overdose of salvinorin does not appear to put the body in any acute medical emergency, it may not be good for some organs, brain, or kidneys in particular, so I don't advise large doses of salvia this way.
Ok, folks, step right up and be the first kid on the site to try this novel method. Any volunteers?? Let's hear no more nonsense about tinctures if this method works. You'll definitely be the life of the party as well. Hell, there's going to be a market for Salvinorin A -laced condoms! Think of the possibilities for love-making!


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Norma is the same nurse who took such good care of us when we lost the boys. It only seems right that she was there to help us deliver these babies. She is a true saint and we're very happy she could be here to share in our happiness as well.
William Lea Harrison "Will" 6lb 5oz @00:54, Elizabeth May Harrison "Ellie" 6lb 10oz @00:55 May 26, 2011
Ellie meets her grandfather for the first time.
Ray may not look the type but he crocheted these beautiful blankets for the twins. He and Mary rode the Harley down on Saturday to deliver them in person.
When we put them down next to each other eventually we'd find them nose to nose like this. Its where they seem the happiest.
Finally ready to go home!
They had to wear these "BilliBlankets" which are basically fiber optic sheets you wrap around them to expose their skin to light. It helps them with their jaundice until they're able to process it out on their own.
Judy referred to this shot as an example of our "nuclear" family.
These bracelets are what told the hospital staff that the twins belonged to me. I kind of liked the physical evidence they were mine and didn't take these off for almost a week after they were born even after we got home with them.
Only a week old and he's already using the computer.
Matt holds his niece for the first time.


text: Jennifer Dixon is a staffer at Harper's Bazaar magazine. Her work has also been published in Elle Decor, Money, Self, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. Based in New York, the Oklahoma native covers a variety of topics as a freelance writer, including health and design as well as celebrity profiles. She reported on hard-hitting news for her hometown paper, the Tulsa World, from 2001 to 2002. Dixon holds a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.


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It is amazing to have you here.
I'm a young adult who is trying to become the best kind of adult, one day at a time. My blog is essentially a representation of who I am and what is happening in my life. I happen to be passionate about a lot of things and I frequently write about them here on the blog. These things include but are not limited to reading, writing(If you couldn't tell that from the fact that I have a blog), travelling, mythology, movies, T.V Shows, trying out new things, food and more that I probably can't remember or haven't even found I love yet! I am also often grappling with the highs and lows of adulthood and the thoughts that come as I "grow up".
In short, here, I'll be rambling, stumbling on my words and trying to find my foothold in the infinitely infinite world. (And you're welcome to join me on my (mis)adventures!)


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Originally Posted by fins2right
I've always gotten the overall impression that Maine State Parks are not real geo-friendly. I may be mixing that up with Acadia, however.
You have to be pro-active and get cachers together to try and impliment some sort of policy for them. Arcadia won't allow regular caches but they have that great earthcache series that I think has gone really well. Start small,let's say talk with one of the state park managers and show them what other states are doing and maybe they will come around. The main point is to get something started. 2 of our neighboring states,Alabama and South Carolina now also have new and upcoming geocaching programs. Check out other states programs and even talk with those people to see what they did to get things started.
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With flood toll at 19, question is, how many more?
LANGLEY, Ark. — Search crews canvassing dozens of miles of muddy, rugged vegetation in scorching heat and humidity on Sunday recovered a 19th victim of last week's deadly flash floods that flushed out the Albert Pike campground, and officials said they were not certain how many people might still be missing.
The authorities have confirmed that one person who was at the campground had not been found, but there were still unconfirmed reports of others who might be unaccounted for, Capt. Mike Fletcher of the Arkansas State Police said at an afternoon news briefing.
Confusion over how many were missing has been caused by numerous calls from people who said they had not heard from loved ones but were not sure if they had been camping in the area when raging water from the Little Missouri River swept in under the cover of night early Friday, Captain Fletcher said.
Estimates on the number of people who may be missing have fluctuated widely. On Friday, just hours after the search and rescue operation began, it was put at 24.
"We just don't know," Captain Fletcher said. "We're just going to continue to search as long as we feel like there's someone in there."
One impediment to the search effort, he said, is the thick debris that needs to be removed in some areas before a thorough search can be conducted. Captain Fletcher did not rule out the possibility of finding survivors, although none have been found since Friday.
Some anxious family members of those caught in the flood got to see the damage firsthand on Sunday morning. Forest Service officials escorted about 25 members of two extended families into the campground, which is in the Ouachita National Forest.
Each family had lost a relative in the flood and one family member was still missing, said the Rev. Graig Cowart of Pilgrim Rest Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Lodi, Ark., who accompanied the group.
The riverside campground, a place of fond memories for generations of families, is now a wasteland, littered with wrecked campers, flattened trees and displaced slabs of asphalt roadway. For two hours, the families took it all in, went through possessions and retrieved pictures of children and keepsakes like baby blankets.
"It was for them just to go and have a little time," Mr. Cowart said. "It'll help with their closure as they move forward and reflect and they can see where they were at. It was just a heart-wrenching experience, but at the same time I think they received a little solace. They could understand it a little better."
Mr. Cowart, unshorn after three days of ministering to the families that have taken refuge in his church's activities building, said the damage looked as if it had been caused by "a tornado that just hung around." It made him appreciative, he said, that there had not been even more deaths.
Mr. Cowart and Forest Service officials praised local residents and companies for providing more food and supplies than the families could possibly use. Wal-Mart, he said, had sent a truck with ice and bottled water. An appliance store delivered portable freezers.
"We've had local people here drive up with checks they'd signed blank," Mr. Cowart said.
The church canceled its regular Sunday service, but Mr. Cowart said he would share a private devotional with the families on Sunday night.
Forest Service officials said they began letting residents return to their houses in the area on Sunday, and they started towing damaged vehicles out of the campground. Captain Fletcher said that 18 vehicles had been towed and that officials were still matching the license plate numbers to the owners. Two mangled pickup trucks were carted past the rescue command post at a gas station in Langley.
The authorities ratcheted up their search efforts on Sunday, using dogs, horses and divers. The 19th body was recovered about half a mile south of Albert Pike around noon, Captain Fletcher said. Mike Quesinberry, who was overseeing the search operation for the federal Forest Service, said crews had searched around 50 miles of waterway at least twice.
Vynn Stuart, who runs a dog search team called Four States Search and Rescue, was on her second day traveling through the jagged brush amid swarming mosquitoes.
Guiding a German shepherd tethered to a long neon orange leash, Ms. Stuart, who lives about 90 minutes away in Little River, came across numerous signs of devastation some eight miles south of Albert Pike: uprooted trees, a tipped-over canoe, and plastic chairs and a table. Sticks, dirt and other debris wrapped around trees like twine lashing together sticks. A grassy, open field was like a muddy marsh in parts.
Ms. Stuart, who has been working on rescue operations for 17 years, said her team had to cut its search short because of the severe heat.
"It's been really challenging," she said. "The debris is so bad. It's so hot and humid. Snakes are everywhere. We had bear tracks in our area, so we have to keep our eyes out for that. It's just the worst thing that's happened."


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Do they only prevent the screen from being burned in or do they save power, too?
Some recommendations from Wade Hampton: Screensavers usually display graphics, look for ETI, or perform other tasks. When using your screensaver in this manner, you may actually consume MORE power. For example a computer using XSETI as a screensaver might get far warmer (hence use more power) than when it was being used to edit a document or perform a compile.
Some screen saver programs:
The purpose of xscreensaver is to display pretty pictures on your screen when it is not in use, in keeping with the philosophy that unattended monitors should always be doing something interesting, just like they do in the movies. The benefit that this program has over the combination of the xlock and xautolock programs is the ease with which new graphics hacks can be installed: you don't need to recompile this program to add a new display mode, you just change some resource settings. Any program which can be invoked in such a way that it draws on the root window of the screen can now be used as a screensaver without modification. The programs that are being run as screensavers don't need to have any special knowledge about what it means to be a screensaver.
LockVC is a console-locking-program combined with a starfield screensaver. Executing LOCKVC on a virtual console brings up a starfield that starts to rotate around all three axes.
To really save power, and if your X server plus monitor supports it, use the dpms option of xset (see the manual page for xset). For example, to enable the DPMS (Energy Star) features of you X server: xset +dpms
You may also manually change the mode of your X display:
xset dpms force standby xset dpms force suspend xset dpms force off
Note that suspend and off usually save much more energy than just standby, especially in CRT displays.
According to manufacturers, switching off LCD displays more often doesn't reduce their lifetime. As user can easily notice, there is no significant penalty either between suspend and off modes in terms of switching on time.
In modern graphical desktop environments (like Gnome and KDE), it is easy to configure automatic display switch off after a given inactivity timeout:
KDE display power management: configure it in Control Center -> Peripherals -> Display -> Power Control.
Gnome display power management: configure it in Desktop -> Preferences -> Screensaver -> AdvancedControl Center -> Peripherals -> Display -> Power Control.
AFAIK a CRT consumes on the order of 25 percent more power when displaying a plain white screen than displaying a plain black screen. So, a screensaver that's mostly black can help save power, even if it doesn't actually use DPMS to power down the screen. Of course, one that's very bright and colourful, or that keeps the CPU running fast is not much help.


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Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of OS X, spontaneously updated the firmware that helps it boot. Stranger still, when Ruiu then tried to boot the machine off a CD ROM, it refused. He also found that the machine could delete data and undo configuration changes with no prompting. He didn't know it then, but that odd firmware update would become a high-stakes malware mystery that would consume most of his waking hours.
In the following months, Ruiu observed more odd phenomena that seemed straight out of a science-fiction thriller. A computer running the Open BSD operating system also began to modify its settings and delete its data without explanation or prompting. His network transmitted data specific to the Internet's next-generation IPv6 networking protocol, even from computers that were supposed to have IPv6 completely disabled. Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed. Further investigation soon showed that the list of affected operating systems also included multiple variants of Windows and Linux.
"We were like, 'Okay, we're totally owned,'" Ruiu told Ars. "'We have to erase all our systems and start from scratch,' which we did. It was a very painful exercise. I've been suspicious of stuff around here ever since."
In the intervening three years, Ruiu said, the infections have persisted, almost like a strain of bacteria that's able to survive extreme antibiotic therapies. Within hours or weeks of wiping an infected computer clean, the odd behavior would return. The most visible sign of contamination is a machine's inability to boot off a CD, but other, more subtle behaviors can be observed when using tools such as Process Monitor, which is designed for troubleshooting and forensic investigations.
Another intriguing characteristic: in addition to jumping "airgaps" designed to isolate infected or sensitive machines from all other networked computers, the malware seems to have self-healing capabilities.
"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD," Ruiu said. "At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of a sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys."
Over the past two weeks, Ruiu has taken to Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus to document his investigative odyssey and share a theory that has captured the attention of some of the world's foremost security experts. The malware, Ruiu believes, is transmitted though USB drives to infect the lowest levels of computer hardware. With the ability to target a computer's Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), and possibly other firmware standards, the malware can attack a wide variety of platforms, escape common forms of detection, and survive most attempts to eradicate it.
But the story gets stranger still. In posts here, here, and here, Ruiu posited another theory that sounds like something from the screenplay of a post-apocalyptic movie: "badBIOS," as Ruiu dubbed the malware, has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps.
Bigfoot in the age of the advanced persistent threat
At times as I've reported this story, its outline has struck me as the stuff of urban legend, the advanced persistent threat equivalent of a Bigfoot sighting. Indeed, Ruiu has conceded that while several fellow security experts have assisted his investigation, none has peer reviewed his process or the tentative findings that he's beginning to draw. (A compilation of Ruiu's observations is here.)
Also unexplained is why Ruiu would be on the receiving end of such an advanced and exotic attack. As a security professional, the organizer of the internationally renowned CanSecWest and PacSec conferences, and the founder of the Pwn2Own hacking competition, he is no doubt an attractive target to state-sponsored spies and financially motivated hackers. But he's no more attractive a target than hundreds or thousands of his peers, who have so far not reported the kind of odd phenomena that has afflicted Ruiu's computers and networks.
In contrast to the skepticism that's common in the security and hacking cultures, Ruiu's peers have mostly responded with deep-seated concern and even fascination to his dispatches about badBIOS.
"Everybody in security needs to follow @dragosr and watch his analysis of #badBIOS," Alex Stamos, one of the more trusted and sober security researchers, wrote in a tweet last week. Jeff Moss—the founder of the Defcon and Blackhat security conferences who in 2009 began advising Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on matters of computer security—retweeted the statement and added: "No joke it's really serious." Plenty of others agree.
"Dragos is definitely one of the good reliable guys, and I have never ever even remotely thought him dishonest," security researcher Arrigo Triulzi told Ars. "Nothing of what he describes is science fiction taken individually, but we have not seen it in the wild ever."
Been there, done that
Triulzi said he's seen plenty of firmware-targeting malware in the laboratory. A client of his once infected the UEFI-based BIOS of his Mac laptop as part of an experiment. Five years ago, Triulzi himself developed proof-of-concept malware that stealthily infected the network interface controllers that sit on a computer motherboard and provide the Ethernet jack that connects the machine to a network. His research built off of work by John Heasman that demonstrated how to plant hard-to-detect malware known as a rootkit in a computer's peripheral component interconnect, the Intel-developed connection that attaches hardware devices to a CPU.
It's also possible to use high-frequency sounds broadcast over speakers to send network packets. Early networking standards used the technique, said security expert Rob Graham. Ultrasonic-based networking is also the subject of a great deal of research, including this project by scientists at MIT.
Of course, it's one thing for researchers in the lab to demonstrate viable firmware-infecting rootkits and ultra high-frequency networking techniques. But as Triulzi suggested, it's another thing entirely to seamlessly fuse the two together and use the weapon in the real world against a seasoned security consultant. What's more, use of a USB stick to infect an array of computer platforms at the BIOS level rivals the payload delivery system found in the state-sponsored Stuxnet worm unleashed to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. And the reported ability of badBIOS to bridge airgaps also has parallels to Flame, another state-sponsored piece of malware that used Bluetooth radio signals to communicate with devices not connected to the Internet.
"Really, everything Dragos reports is something that's easily within the capabilities of a lot of people," said Graham, who is CEO of penetration testing firm Errata Security. "I could, if I spent a year, write a BIOS that does everything Dragos said badBIOS is doing. To communicate over ultrahigh frequency sound waves between computers is really, really easy."
Coincidentally, Italian newspapers this week reported that Russian spies attempted to monitor attendees of last month's G20 economic summit by giving them memory sticks and recharging cables programmed to intercept their communications.
For most of the three years that Ruiu has been wrestling with badBIOS, its infection mechanism remained a mystery. A month or two ago, after buying a new computer, he noticed that it was almost immediately infected as soon as he plugged one of his USB drives into it. He soon theorized that infected computers have the ability to contaminate USB devices and vice versa.
"The suspicion right now is there's some kind of buffer overflow in the way the BIOS is reading the drive itself, and they're reprogramming the flash controller to overflow the BIOS and then adding a section to the BIOS table," he explained.
He still doesn't know if a USB stick was the initial infection trigger for his MacBook Air three years ago, or if the USB devices were infected only after they came into contact with his compromised machines, which he said now number between one and two dozen. He said he has been able to identify a variety of USB sticks that infect any computer they are plugged into. At next month's PacSec conference, Ruiu said he plans to get access to expensive USB analysis hardware that he hopes will provide new clues behind the infection mechanism.
He said he suspects badBIOS is only the initial module of a multi-staged payload that has the ability to infect the Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux operating systems.
"It's going out over the network to get something or it's going out to the USB key that it was infected from," he theorized. "That's also the conjecture of why it's not booting CDs. It's trying to keep its claws, as it were, on the machine. It doesn't want you to boot another OS it might not have code for."
To put it another way, he said, badBIOS "is the tip of the warhead, as it were."
"Things kept getting fixed"
Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an infected laptop that had no obvious network connection with—but was in close proximity to—another badBIOS-infected computer. The packets were transmitted even when the laptop had its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards removed. Ruiu also disconnected the machine's power cord so it ran only on battery to rule out the possibility that it was receiving signals over the electrical connection. Even then, forensic tools showed the packets continued to flow over the airgapped machine. Then, when Ruiu removed the internal speaker and microphone connected to the airgapped machine, the packets suddenly stopped.
With the speakers and mic intact, Ruiu said, the isolated computer seemed to be using the high-frequency connection to maintain the integrity of the badBIOS infection as he worked to dismantle software components the malware relied on.
"The airgapped machine is acting like it's connected to the Internet," he said. "Most of the problems we were having is we were slightly disabling bits of the components of the system. It would not let us disable some things. Things kept getting fixed automatically as soon as we tried to break them. It was weird."
It's too early to say with confidence that what Ruiu has been observing is a USB-transmitted rootkit that can burrow into a computer's lowest levels and use it as a jumping off point to infect a variety of operating systems with malware that can't be detected. It's even harder to know for sure that infected systems are using high-frequency sounds to communicate with isolated machines. But after almost two weeks of online discussion, no one has been able to rule out these troubling scenarios, either.
"It looks like the state of the art in intrusion stuff is a lot more advanced than we assumed it was," Ruiu concluded in an interview. "The take-away from this is a lot of our forensic procedures are weak when faced with challenges like this. A lot of companies have to take a lot more care when they use forensic data if they're faced with sophisticated attackers."


text: Here's yet another play about despondent, spoiled, well heeled malcontents. They puff cigarette smoke in each other's faces, spout the f and c words liberally, occasionally take a swipe at each other and obsess about sex and broken relationships, sobbing out their sullied dreams in oceans of self-pity. Enter Stage Left's mission statement says the company "seeks to…explore current and timeless human issues." Hope for more artistically satisfying results in the company's future productions. Ouch. Continue reading


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- Name : Facebook Graph Search
- Version : 126.96.36.199 Premium
- OS : Windows
- Type : Facebook Marketing Tools
- Price :
- Homepage : SalePage
Facebook Graph Search - Facebook Data Scraper
Facebook Graph Search help you to finding peoples, stories/posts, groups, pages, events, places, apps with more criteria. Searching for the the best selling and trending products explore new ideas. Searching and mapping the interest to sharpen or expand the range of ad targeting ads. Easy to scrape/extract details (id, name, email ...) of peoples, stories, groups, events.
- Searching for the viral post, video, pictures, articles, etc.
- Searching for the best selling and trending products in teespring, viralstyle, amazon, etc.
- Looking for peoples who are currently in need of your product with more criteria.
- Searching and building relationships with people who potentially. Potential business partners, distributors, resellers, recruiting a downline, looking for employees, etc.
- Searching for a group that contains people who want your product.
- Searching for pages that liked by target audience.
- Mapping the topic and explore new ideas for your next product.
- Searching and mapping the interest to sharpen or expand the range of ad targeting ads.
- Knowing who your competitors and Dismantling of their marketing strategy on Facebook.
- Scraping user details (id, facebook email, location ...) from ids.
- Scraping users from joined to a group, pages or an event ...
- Scraping group details (id, name, status joined/unjoin, members ...) from ids.
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- Scraping users who liked a post, go/went/invited to an event, liked a page ...
- There are still dozens of other benefits that you can get ...
- Did you knew, Facebook is a giant database? With 1.3 billion users from around the world, 30 billion content in the post every month (photo, video, link ...), interact with 900+ million objects (fans page, group, place ...).
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- The software help you on "facebook graph search"?
- The data that we get from a particular search, can sharpen our ad targeting capabilities.
- At the December 2014 Facebook Search Engine has changed.
- There are hundreds of search criteria that you need to combine. With the Facebook Graph Search, you can search and filter various search criteria quickly and easily, without having to memorize. So you can find any data on Facebook, which you can use as a basis to formulate your marketing strategy on Facebook.
- Looking for viral content Photo, Video, Articles which you can use to
- * Boost the post on your fanpage.
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- * How competitors are doing promotions.
- Even if you do not use Facebook for your BUSINESS MARKETING, The Facebook Graph Search can make your activities on Facebook become more enjoyable. You can search for posts from your friends. Revived old memories together with a friend.
- Facebook Graph Search help you to searching for peoples by specify criteria. Here is the complete list of filters that you can use
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GM To Seek Court Protection Against Ignition Suits
(Reuters) - General Motors Co said it would ask a U.S. court to bar lawsuits related to actions before its 2009 bankruptcy, signaling a tougher stance toward legal claims stemming from its recent recall over faulty ignition switches.
GM has said it is protected from liability for claims related to incidents that occurred before it exited bankruptcy in 2009, and has taken steps to raise those issues with the court by filing motions to stay recall-related lawsuits while it asks that bankruptcy court to clarify the extent of that protection.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday, GM asked for a stay on litigation related to ignition claims until a judicial panel on multidistrict litigation decides on a motion to consolidate the case with other lawsuits and the bankruptcy court rules on whether the claims violateGM's 2009 bankruptcy sale order.
The company earlier filed a similar motion with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking a stay on pending litigation.
The plaintiffs in those cases have claimed they bought or leased vehicles that had an ignition switch defect. The defect has been linked to the deaths of at least 13 people and the recall of 2.6 million GM vehicles.
GM said it would shortly file a motion in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to enforce an injunction contained in its sale order, which the company said bars plaintiffs from suing the reorganized company for any claims related to the predecessor company.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, said in a statement Wednesday that the filings "demonstrate clearly" GM's intent to use the bankruptcy process to block lawsuits, and urged judges to deny it that protection.
"Regardless of these legal battles, the company should simply do right by these victims and establish a compensation fund that will make them whole," Blumenthal said in the statement.
Since it began to recall vehicles in February, GM has been hit by dozens of lawsuits on behalf of individuals injured or killed in crashes involving recalled cars, as well as customers who said theirvehicles lost value as a result of the company's actions.
A spokesman for GM, Greg Martin, said in an email on Wednesday that it was premature to comment on the litigation. He reiterated that GM had "both civic and legal obligations" in the matter, as GM Chief Executive Mary Barra told members of Congress during testimony earlier this month.
Judicial Day Of Reckoning?
GM emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2009 as a different legal entity than the so-called old GM. Under those terms, "new GM" shed liability for incidents predating its exit from bankruptcy, and any lawsuits related to pre-bankruptcy issues must be brought against what remains of old GM.
That protection has outraged some safety advocates, politicians and plaintiffs' lawyers, who have called on GM to either waive bankruptcy protection or establish a fund to compensate victims whose claims might otherwise be barred.
They have said that because GM allegedly covered up problems with the switch for more than a decade, and received support from the U.S. government during its bankruptcy, it should not fight against plaintiffs' attempts to seek payment for their injuries.
Plaintiffs' lawyers have also accused GM of fraudulently concealing its knowledge of the defect, and said that as a result, it was not entitled to protection from liability.
"As a result of GM's conduct, especially in light of the taxpayer bailout of that company, they've lost the right to impose their view as to what's best for my clients and the other class members," said Adam Levitt of Grant & Eisenhofer, a lawyer for plaintiffs in the California case.
A lawyer for the Texas plaintiffs, Robert Hilliard of Hilliard Munoz Gonzales, said that whether the case is resolved in federal district court or bankruptcy court, "there will soon be a judicial reckoning" for the company.
GM announced on April 1 that it had retained lawyer Kenneth Feinberg to help assess legal options, adding that the company would take up to 60 days to evaluate the matter.
Feinberg has administered funds to compensate victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, the BP Plc oil spill and Boston Marathon bombing.
Safety advocates said the move indicated that the company was exploring the creation of a victims' fund, although GM has not confirmed that.
GM has said it is working to obtain replacement parts for affected customers. Barra said in an interview with NADA-TV posted online on Tuesday that the replacement ignition switches "are flowing now" and reiterated the company's position that the customer stands at the center of its decisions.
The Texas case was in Re: Charles Silvas and Grace Silvas vs. General Motors LLC in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, No. 2:14-CV-00089.
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These are the terms of use ("Terms of Use") that rules the access and use of the platform (the "Platform") provided by M1K Administration and Leases LTDA ("M1K"), registered in the National Register of Legal Entities (CNPJ acronym in Portuguese) under N. 20.928.824/0001-33, by anyone, individual or legal person, that uses of the platform or its features as a user, hereinafter simply called "User(s)".
When using, albeit partially, the Platform, you agrees to comply with these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with a rule exposed below, do not use the platform.
1. The platform
1.1. Prankmania is an online platform that aims to enable users to create humorous content to entertainment and interaction with other people.
1.2. The platform will be accessible also through mobile devices such as Tablets and cell phones, through an optimized Site such devices. Eventually, some features may undergo modifications according to the platform in which they are accessed. However, the use of the platform Prankmania in mobile devices do not drive out the duty of the User to respect these Terms of Use.
2. The Registration
2.1. Registration. The Use of the platform does not depend on the realization of registration; however, some functionalities may only be available to Users that are registered. To create your Registration at the Platform, you should create a Login and password, and provide Personal Information, such as: name, surname, e-mail, date of birth, nationality, among others. Subsequently the registration, it will be sent to you an automatic e-mail for account Control and validation purposes. It is the responsibility of the User to ensure that the information provided is accurate and true.
2.2. Information provided. Prankmania reserves itself the right to prevent new registrations and suspend or cancel already performed ones in the case of verification of the use of false, incorrect or untrue information. This statement also applies if the User do not change or update the required register.
2.3. Register linked to accounts on other sites. You Can perform the registration on the platform through linking with an account of other sites, such as Facebook and Google. By agreeing to account linking through it, you authorize Prankmania to have access to your registered personal information on this site, such as name, e-mail, nationality, among others.
2.4. Limits applicable to the Register. It is forbidden to create Login and password with the use of another person's name and information, with the use of registered trademarks or intellectual property from third-parties (including Prankmania) or with vulgar, obscene or other kind of inappropriate content. Prankmania reserves the right, without prior notice, to suspend or terminate any account that violates this disposal.
2.5. Account Sharing Prohibition. The Login and password are personal and non-transferable, the User must be committed to not divulgate or share it with third-parties, under penalty of cancellation of the account created. If, for any reason, the User suspect that his/her Login and password have been disclosed or obtained by third parties, please contact us immediately. Please, note that Prankmania never contact the Users requesting that they confirm their Login and password, or other details.
2.6. Authorization for information. When performing the registration, you authorize Prankmania to use the data provided, declaring to know the rules and provisions from our Privacy Policy. Prankmania recommends that the User read this document and, if in doubt, please contact us through the contact link available on the platform.
3. Policy and Account Termination
3.1. Closure and data removal. You can close your account at Prankmania any time. When doing this, your access to the exclusive features of the users enrolled in the platform will be terminated immediately and all the content linked to it will be able to be removed from the platform.
3.2. Disclaimer of Liability. The cancellation of the account and erasure of data entered therein are irreversible actions. In view of this, Prankmania cannot be held liable for any damage arising from the account deactivation, from the deletion of User's data and personal information or the institution.
4. Content policies user generated
4.1. Prohibited content. Prankmania values that its plataform be used in a friendly and wholesome way, aiming the entertainment and enjoyment of its users and the general public. In this way, with the aim to protect its users and those who will have access to the content created on the platform, is expressly prohibited the creation, comment, sharing or insertion, through the platform, of the following contents:
4.1.1. Adult Content. Prankmania provides its platform for users of all ages, so it is prohibited adult, sexual or pornography content, explicit or not.
4.1.2. Child pornography. The content of sexual or pornography connotation, explicit or not, involving minors is also prohibited.
4.1.3. Violent or hostile content. Content that incites any type of violence, discrimination, damage, harassment, bullying or hatred against individuals or groups are prohibited, regardless of the reason, but mainly because of race, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation or social condition. Content with violent images, either explicit or not, is also prohibited or those which incite, promote or encourage any form of self-flagellation, eating disorders and illicit drug use.
4.1.4. Defamatory content. It is forbidden to create, share and insert content that aims the defamation of an individual or a group, or that aims to manipulates other people's opinions about a particular individual, group or fact.
4.1.5. Brand use. It is expressly prohibited to use any brand, logo, slogan or similar, from which the user is not the holder or do not have express permission for his/her use, including those owned by Prankmania.
4.1.6. Personal and confidential information. Disclosure of any personal information that is prohibited and confidential. Including, with no limitation, credit card numbers, bank accounts, identification documents, and commercial or residential addresses.
4.1.7. Political content. Prankmania believes that electoral processes should always be lined with clarity, transparency, and honesty, as a way of guaranteeing the best future for society. Therefore, the use of the platform for the purposes of electoral campaigns or political-partisan advertising is not admitted. Moreover, it is prohibited content of political connotation of any kind, the purpose of disseminating false information or news or intentionally misleading on parties, candidates or any fact related to the electoral process.
4.2. Exclusion of Content Any person, user or not of the platform, may report prohibited content by means of the link provided by the platform. The content created, inserted or shared on the platform that violates the content policy might be deleted immediately after the verification by Prankmania. In any circumstance, Prankmania may be held responsible, by the User for any loss and damage, or for any damages direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive, including, without limitation, for lost profits, or any other damage resulting from the summary exclusion of the contents for violation of the Terms of Use.
5. Operation of the platform
5.1. Conditions of access and operation. Prankmania is committed to work with its best efforts so the platform remains available to its users, however, we must emphasize the possibility of any problems or difficulties of access, which, if they occur, will be solved as soon as possible. If the User check any failure or difficulty of access, you may contact Prankmania by the link available for this purpose on the platform.
5.2. Platform modifications. The User recognizes that the platform was not developted on-demand and that Prankmania reserves the right to change, update or discontinue features of the platform, as well as to suspend access to the platform for maintenance or other procedures, without notice and with no reimbursement or indemnity rights by the User. In this context, the User acknowledges and accepts that, in no way, Prankmania may be liable for any loss or damage, or for any damages direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive, including, without limitation, for lost profits, or any other kind of damage linked to the suspension of access to the platform, alteration, updating or discontinuation of the functionalities.
6. Prankmania Responsibilities
6.1. Responsibility for the content. Prankmania points out to the platform users the rules and content policies, as well as the search, as far as possible, that the content created and/or shared by means of the platform are in accordance with this term, in particular as regards the ban of Prohibited Content. However, under no circumstances, shall Prankmania may be held responsible by the User for any loss and damage, or for any damages direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive, including, without limitation, for loss of profits, or any other kind of damage, resulting from the use of the platform or the functionalities offered therein.
6.2. Data liability. The User, and not Prankmania, is responsible for maintenance and protection of your data. It is the responsibility of the User to perform the Backup of your information. Prankmania will not be held liable for any loss or damage, or for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including, without limitation, for lost profits, or any other damage, because of loss, deviation, misappropriation, or any other linked to the data and information provided by the Plataform User.
6.3. Responsibility for access. Prankmania does not guarantee that access to the site is error-free or problems arising from fortunes, internal or external cases, cases that are beyond the site's team control, or other cases not subject to the control of Prankmania, such as, internet failures in general, power falls, among others. Moreover, Prankmania may not be held accountable to the User or any third party for any damages direct or Indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive, including, without limitation, for lost profits, in relation:
6.3.1. to any damage or injury to equipment in the User as a result of the access and use of the platform;
6.3.2. the Interruptions of any kind in access to the platform, such as scheduled maintenance, or not, failure to provide third-party services, power outage or Internet, among others;
6.3.3. to the eventual leakage of information arising from improper and unauthorized access to servers contracted by Prankmania.
6.3.4. to viruses, Malware or any other malicious device which, as a result of access, use, navigation on the platform, attack equipment of the User.
6.4. Third-party Services. The Site and the platform use third party services to operate, such as servers, Internet, hosts, among others, which are not operated by Prankmania. So, Prankmania will not be responsible, in any hypothesis, for damages arising from failure to provide third-party services.
6.5. Uploads by third parties. When using the platform, you may be exposed to uploaded material (upload) or created by a third part. Prankmania, from now, informs that it does not warrant or endorse any information, nor will it guarantee any content, comment, opinion, made available on the Platform by third parties. The platform also provides a report system in the case that any person sees a prohibited content. In view of this, Prankmania, under no circumstances, may be liable for any damages arising from improper use of this functionality. Any person, User or not, that see a violation of his/her rights or third parties because of the content exposed on the platform, can contact Prankmania by the report mechanism provided as it is described in the item 7.5, so that appropriate actions are taken.
6.6. Third-party Links. Eventually, Prankmania may make available on the platform access links to third-party websites. The availability of these links does not mean any indication or endorsement of the services provided by these third parties. Prankmania will not have any responsibility for these services or functionalities offered on such sites, because eventual contracting of content is a personal choice of the User. Thus, Prankmania recommends that, before any contracting, the User must know the terms of use and privacy policy of services offered by third parties.
6.7. Sharing content with third-party sites. Content created on the platform may be shared on other websites, forums or social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, Etc. Content that is eventually shared outside the platform may not be deleted by Prankmania, so they will be in other areas. Thus, Prankmania cannot be held liable for content stored on sites other than its domain, and the user will be able to search for the report mechanisms available for removal of the content.
6.8. Providing third-party information. Prankmania, in accordance to the provisions of the Civil Framework of the Internet, Federal Law n. 12.965/2014, clarifies that will disclose any data information and connection record by third parties, without any judicial authorization to do so.
7. Responsibilities and declarations of Users
7.1. Responsibility for content created. The platform developed by Prankmania allows the creation of content and uploading of text materials, images and/or other content for purposes of content creation and interaction with other users of the platform. As a result, using the platform, you accept, acknowledge and undertake not to carry (upload), create and/or share any illicit content, immoral or Illegal or material that violates these terms of use, the Privacy Policy or the intellectual property of Prankmania or third-party. If any breach is identified in this Item, the account of the User will be immediately blocked and the content will be removed, regardless of prior notice.
7.2. The duty of Indemnity. You also commit to keep Prankmania exempt from any responsibilities about any damage, indemnities, losses or expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising from the misuse of the platform, including, without limitation, the creation or sharing of content that violates this term.
7.3. Other obligations of the User. Without prejudice to any other obligations which may are exposed in this Terms of use, is the responsibility of the User:
7.3.1. Respect and comply with the rules set forth in these Terms of use, as well as Brazilian and foreign legislation;
7.3.2. Use the platform appropriately, according to the These Terms of use and other applicable rules from the applicable legislation, Brazilian or foreign, taking responsibility for their conduct;
7.3.3. Do not perform any Download Content, unless such possibility is available as platform functionality;
7.3.4. Use the hardware equipment necessary for access to the platform;
7.3.5. Keep track and perform the Backup of all content and data you deem relevant;
7.3.6. Act in such a way as to avoid improper access to the platform. Configures violation of this provision for improper sharing with third parties of access to the platform. If you verify the improper sharing of login and access, Prankmania may permanently disable the account of the Users, irrespective of any prior notification;
7.3.7. Not exploit the security of the platform, so the it is not use for the practice of unlawful acts prohibited by law and by these Terms of Use, or that, in any way, may disable, overload or Deteriorate it, as well as the computer equipment of other users or other Internet surfers (hardware and software);
7.3.8. Do not use the platform to damage the rights of Prankmania or third parties, including conducts that may generate any damage the site, to the platform and/or the application, third-party equipment, or even generate damage to documents and content entered by Prankmania or third parties on the platform.
7.3.9. Do not to publish communications, promotions or commercial advertisements of any kind, including, without limitation, promotion and/or recruitment to multilevel marketing programs.
7.3.10. Do not access the platform by automatic mechanisms such as Bots, spiders, scrapers Robots, without the prior express authorization of Prankmania;
7.3.11. Do not use the platform to intimidate, harasses or practice any form of bullying with another user or third party.
7.3.12. Do not disseminate, through the platform, rumors or false information in order to manipulate the opinion of others about individual, group or fact.
7.4. Declarations of the User To Use the Platform, you expressly acknowledge and declares that it has an aptitude to agree to this Terms of use, that there is no legal or contractual impediment to the fulfillment of the obligations assumed and that the information provided and the content inserted in the platform do not violate the Brazilian law, foreign legislation or this Terms of Use:
7.4.1. They are true, valid and do not violate any device of this Terms of Use and/or Brazilian legislation;
7.4.2. They do not infract or conflict with any third party right, in what is included, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, copyrights, image, privacy, among others;
7.4.3. They have no misogynous content, homophobic, racist, nor incite to violator do they attain the honor and dignity of others.
7.5. Complaint mechanism. If anyone, User or not, identify on the platform any content that is considered prohibited content including by the violation of his/her own intellectual property or third party, he/she can report it through the "Report Abuse" link, available on the platform. After the information verification, Prankmania may, in its sole discretion, remove the content and/or the account denounced.
7.6. Violation of the Terms of Use by User. With no detriment of other measures, when the violation of this Terms of Use by User it is confirmed, Prankmania may warn, suspend or cancel, temporarily or permanently, the Register of an User.
8. Intellectual Property
8.1. Intellectual Property. The brands, names, logos, and other distinctive signs, as well as any and all content, functionalities, codes, spreadsheets, sketches, Layout designs, protocols, or any kind of data-bound to the Site, the Platform or the Application are owned by Prankmania (The "Intellectual property").
8.2. Consent. You acknowledge and accept that any use of intellectual property may only be made upon prior written authorization from Prankmania. The User assumes any and all liability, including criminal, for the misuse and unauthorized use of intellectual property rights.
8.3. Misuse. You will not be able to reproduce, copy, modify, reverse engineer, compile, decompile, transmit, publish, sublicense, permit, authorize, rent, sell, distribute, or otherwise use any content, functionality, Software or material of the platform in a way not allowed in this Terms of Use, without prior and express written permission from Prankmania or third-party rights holders, where applicable. Furthermore, the User declares and warrants that it will not register or attempt to register domain names on the Internet, in any locality, containing elements of the intellectual property from Prankmania.
8.4. No transfer. You know that no clause of this Terms of Use and, when appropriate, other instruments signed between the parties means the transfer of the right of ownership on such information or the consent to its disclosure. Similarly, no suggestion of improvement, recommendation or idea provided by the User related to the operation of the platform will confer or transfer to the User any right or title about the functionalities developed and made available by Prankmania.
9. General Conditions
9.1. Language and Translations. These Terms of use have original written in Portuguese language of Brazil and will be timely translated into other languages. In the event of any divergence between the original Portuguese version and the translated version of the terms of use, the version In Portuguese will prevail.
9.2. Legislation and jurisdiction. These Terms of Use are ruled and interpreted by Brazilian laws. Any dispute arising from the interpretation and application of this Terms of use, if not resolved amicably, should be resolved at the forum of the city of Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, with express resignation to any other, no matter how privileged it may be.
9.3. European Data Protection legislation. Irrespective of the provisions of the preceding clause, Prankmania Assures its national users of member countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) that the storage, processing, and sharing of their data will be made in accordance with the provisions of General Data Protection Regulation (or, GDPR). It is also ensured, to the extent legally possible, the exercise of all rights provided to the user in the previously mentioned legislation, for this just get in touch with Prankmania through the link available for this purpose on the platform.
9.4. Duration. These terms of use will remain in full force and vigor while the User uses the platform.
9.5. Assignment. These terms of use may not be transferred or assigned by the User, but can be transferred or ceded By Prankmania without any restriction, at any time, regardless of prior notification of the User.
9.6. Independence of the provisions. In the event of any provision or obligation arising from this Terms of Use be considered or becomes invalid, illegal or non-executable in any respect, the validity, legality, and enforcement of the remaining provisions or obligations shall not be affected or harmed in any way.
9.7. Tolerance. No failure or delay in exercising any right, power or privilege will operate as a novation, modification or waiver of this, and neither any total or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege will prevent any other exercise of this, or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies mentioned herein will be cumulative and shall not exclude any other provision provided for by applicable law.
9.8. Alteration of the term of use. Prankmania may change this Terms of Use, noted that any modification will be communicated to the User at least 30 (thirty) days in advance. The communication will be widely disclosed to users in order to allow for proper reading and understanding of the new rules. The acceptance of the new rules is a decision which rests solely to the User.
9.9. Communication. Any communication carried out by Prankmania will be destined to the e-mail provided by the User at the time of his/her registration at the platform.
9.10. User Service. Any questions about this Terms of Use or the operation of the platform can be done directly by the User through the contact link available on the platform.


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Everyday, funny pictures are used by people for several varying purposes. Pictures can be very entertaining especially in occasions intended to bring fun to those attending them.
Photojournalism Techniques for Amateurs
Professor Kenneth Kobré--who teaches photojournalism at San Francisco State University--advises those who are interested in pursuing a career in news photography to "First master your camera, flash and the rest of your equipment."
He suggests that students attend a community college or university with a good photojournalism program: "Each school has a particular approach to photography." Another advantage to formal education, he says, is that you can learn more about law and ethics as it applies to photojournalism. And, besides being a good shooter, Kobré emphasizes, "you must be able to write a clear, accurate photo caption."
Kobré is represented by Mercury Pictures and freelances widely as a photojournalist. He's also the author of several books, including How to Photograph Friends and Strangers and the acclaimed textbook, Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, which features interviews with professional photographers across the country and includes many of the compelling images that accompany this story.
Importance of Education
At San Francisco State, Kobré says, "We encourage students to take a broad look at photojournalism." This encompasses everything from news events and sports to photo illustrations and feature stories. "We also help students get internships to newspapers," he adds. Photojournalism students from schools across the country compete for these paid internships, which gives them real-life experience and allows them to build their portfolios--"The internship is a stepping stone from college to the pro world," comments Kobré. Some students do multiple internships. He notes that some newspapers hire only students from accredited photojournalism programs, while others just want to see a good portfolio.
"This is a highly competitive field," he warns, "with a finite number of jobs at any given time." He advises beginning photographers to establish a track record of professionalism. Generally, photojournalists begin working for small newspapers, then bigger ones, and some progress to assignments for magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian, News & World Report, and European publications like Geo and Paris Match.
Kobré's students work both digitally and with film. "We're more interested in the image that the student produces, regardless of the equipment." But the advent of more-affordable digital SLRs under $1000, he says, is enabling more students to buy good digital cameras with interchangeable lenses. Kobré says that film is still being used in photojournalism, but he anticipates that it will play less of a role as time goes by. "There are magazines that still utilize transparencies," he says. "Some publications that give assignments early in the week allow the photographer time to process film."
"There's a lot of good photographers out there," he notes, "but they're not necessarily good photojournalists." As a pro, "you're responsible for finding the story of the day that can be told in pictures." This is true, Kobré points out, for both large and small publications. Sometimes a photojournalist's job involves working with a writer, but oftentimes, a photographer does his/her own research on the stories they plan to shoot. This, he says, is where journalism comes into play. His students get a background in photography, as well as researching a story and writing both captions and text to accompany the pictures.
Shooting A News Event
Before shooting a story, says Kobré, "You must know when it's going to happen. A scanner radio is a spot news photographer's number-one piece of equipment." Many photojournalists continually monitor scanner radios to learn about breaking news. Police, fire, and other emergency services communicate via radio bands of varying frequencies, and photographers must know how to interpret these messages and codes. According to Kobré, a lot of photographers note the number of alarms and the number of engines called to determine the magnitude of a fire. Many fire-alarm calls are false and the crews extinguish small fires so quickly that the photographer can't reach them in time to make a meaningful image. "The fires have to be big enough to make it worth your while."
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Business Type: Manufacturer/Factory
Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
|Sofa :166*74*75 3pcs
side table: 57*74*47 2pcs
round table: dia 94*47 1pc KD style
|SGS tested ,UV-resistant ,PE rattan
|Durable 1.2mm aluminum/steel tube
|polyester fabric ,waterproof
|25-35 days of 20 feet container
|as your required of rattan and fabric
|5mm tempereted glass for the table
|8-10 cm thickness
|w/zipper ,detachable and washable
|FOB ,CIF ,C&F you decide
Product Features &Advantages
a . rattan: PE rattan with aluminum frame,water proof rattan and cushions ,the rattan passed SGS testing
b . good powder coating aluminum frame,never rust, the surface is treated with powder coated and oxidation and sensational fastness.
c . OEM and ODM is available , lcolor and size are optional,it also can be according to the design and requirement of customers.
d. 180-250g fabric , Cushions has zipper ,easily removable and cover with high desity sponge
e. it's suitable to be used in indoor house and outdoor place,to feel comfortable
f . two years gurantee use
g. Popular and modern style
h the design are good to save the container space,so it could save the shipment cost
j. this style are worthy and have big loadabity,also the price is reasonable
Greenall Company Limited is a proffessional supplier for rattan outdoor furniture with many years.Our products range included rattan sofas, rattan dining tables and chairs ,sun beds ,lounges, chairs, storage box, and hunging-chair etc. ,which are widely used in garden, outdoor , house, hotel ,park ,swimming pool ,casual center, resorts and beach .etc. We located in Ningbo ,the transportation is very convient near Ningbo port .
We sell to all over the world ,especially for Western Europe , North America, Australian , Southeast Asia, South Africa ,and so on . We are continuously developing new products , OEM/ODM service also welcomed !
1. Question: What is the Minimum order?
Answer: Our MOQ is a container, at least 10sets per item, a 40HQ can mix within 3-5 different items, and a 20GP can mix within 1-2 different items.
2. Questions: How long is the warranty of furniture?
Answer: Our warranty is 2 years for rattan and aluminum frame.
3. Question : How long is your delivery time ?
Answer: 25- 35days after receiving T/T with 30% for the deposit as a container, also it depends on the type of order and model of furniture we have to make.
4. Question: Can I leave my cushions outside all year round?
Answer: Cushions should be stored for the winter in climates exposed to snow and freezing temperatures. Cushions should be cleaned and allowed to air dry before placing into storage. Always store cushions in a dry, well ventilated area.


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Celebrating the 'invisible Irish'
Call them the other Irish — the invisible Irish, the Scots-Irish. They're more associated with corn, coal and moonshine than green beer. They're the offspring of Scots whom King James transplanted to northern Ireland at the same time he was colonizing Jamestown in Virginia and producing the King James version of the Bible in the early 1600s.
There was a mass migration of Scots-Irish to America from 1717 to 1775, enough to claim 15 percent of the colonial population and stock Gen. George Washington's army with hearty, feisty fighters who relished freedom and routed Redcoats in the Revolution. Not known for good manners or refined habits, they were ideal raw material for frontiersmen, pouring south into Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas and on into Georgia, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
A second wave of Scots-Irish crossed over the Alleghenies and headed westward through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and on into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Their offspring crossed the Mississippi into Iowa and went south through Missouri, the Ozarks of Arkansas, and on into Texas.
Davy Crockett and Sam Houston were Scots-Irish. The southern branch produced the first Scots-Irish American president, Andrew Jackson, while Ulysses S. Grant hailed from Ohio, adding to the stock of 10 (some say 12) American presidents of Scots-Irish descent.
The early Scots-Irish immigrants were Presbyterian but the Scottish church couldn't supply enough ministers to keep up with western expansion, allowing Methodists and Baptists to make huge inroads. But whatever stripe of Protestant they were, most Scots-Irish retained a hero-like worship of Good King Billy, King William III, whose Protestant army won a huge victory in Ireland over his Catholic rival for the crown in 1690. The southern "Billy Boys" who populated the hill country of Appalachia were termed hillbillies, intended as a derogatory term by some but celebrated by others.
"Others" include people who know coal mining, country music, moonshine, car racing and who the Hatfields and McCoys were. But they also celebrate a New South that embraces progressive policies, high-tech, the digital age, clean coal, college football and advanced education.
My wife's mother was born in Paint Lick, Kentucky, giving me only a hint of hillbilly, though I'm sure Jeff Foxworthy could find enough evidence to convict and convert most anybody into hillbilly ranks. I found exactly where my Scots-Irish lineage is located — the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, County Armagh in Northern Ireland and, before that, County Ayrshire in Scotland.
The Scots-Irish were known as thrifty to a fault — they saved everything. In my case it was family letters from the 1790s that allowed me to trace that lineage to a ridge and a farm in Pennsylvania, a village and farmhouse in Northern Ireland (where a Burns family still lives two centuries later), and on back into Scotland.
The past offers pluses and minuses. On the plus side my Pennsylvania roots are linked to William McGuffey, whose McGuffey's Readers became our national textbooks of the 1840-1920 period. Henry Ford cited McGuffey's Readers as one of the strongest influences on his life, becoming a collector of things associated with McGuffey and West Finley Township in Washington County, Pa., where my family homesteaded. Ford transported my cousin's covered bridge over a stream below the ridge to Greenfield Village, had tea with my cousin at her house to seal the deal, and then invited her to Michigan for the bridge's dedication ceremony.
On the minus side, I found our ancestral farm in Northern Ireland in the midst of a terrorist flashpoint area near the border when I first visited there during The Troubles in 1979. Two attacks by the Irish Republican Army had just killed four policemen and a mother of six who was a prison guard. The loyalists and British Army battled back, atrocities inflicted on both sides until a peace agreement removed most of the guns, bombs, and belligerence from the conflict.
So we come full circle back to the Scots-Irish and their contribution to this country. On St. Patrick's Day, a hard-core Billy Boy would drink orange rather than green beer since King Billy was William of Orange.
But just as we're all Irish on St. Patrick's Day and celebrate the best of our American-Irish heritage, if you check your family tree back to colonial times, you'll likely find that you're a wee bit Scotch-Irish. And maybe even with a hint of hillbilly. You could do worse.
— James F. Burns is a retired professor at the University of Florida.


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After hitting a rough patch that seemed to last for most of 2012, Research In Motion (RIMM) may finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. RIM plans to unveil the finished version of its next-generation BlackBerry 10 platform at a press conference on January 30th, and at least one new smartphone is expected to be revealed during the event. Generating interest in BlackBerry 10 within the crowded global smartphone market will be no easy task for the struggling vendor, but if demand at top Canadian carrier Rogers is any indication, RIM is off to a promising start.
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Thousands of Ontario, Canada, residents made do without power Monday in the aftermath of storms that toppled trees and brought down power lines. Meanwhile, residents in the upper Midwest prepared for bitter cold wind chills.
More than 300,000 customers remained without electricity Monday across Ontario, including 200,000 in Toronto, officials reported, in the wake of what Mayor Rob Ford called one of the worst ice storms to hit the city.
Still, the city was functioning and conditions were "not even close" to warranting an emergency declaration, he told reporters Monday.
Toronto Hydro CEO Anthony Haines said major power lines are being restored at a rate of one every few minutes, but street-to-street work remains, and he couldn't offer a guarantee everyone will have power by Christmas.
"My caution continues to be my caution. Let's really plan for the worst," Haines said Monday evening. "I am encouraged in the progress we have made today, obviously, with well over 100,000 customers being restored today."
Ford said 100 trucks from other cities were on their way to Toronto to help restore power to more people.
Toronto had opened more than a dozen warming centers some were expecting up to 300 people, officials said.
In the United States, areas that had been as warm as the 70s on Sunday began a slide into frigid territory as Canada sent some of that cold air sliding across the eastern United States.
Dangerously cold wind chills were on tap in parts of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. Wind chill warnings were posted for parts of Minnesota, warning of of wind chills as low as 45 below zero.
Still, the picture was much calmer than over the weekend, when storms left at least 10 people dead.
At least five people died in Kentucky floodwaters, two people died in Mississippi storms, and one person died in a traffic accident during Missouri's severe weather, officials said. A weather-related wreck Saturday near Wichita, Kansas, left one person dead, according to CNN affiliate KWCH-TV. And a tornado Saturday also killed a woman in Arkansas, CNN affiliate KARK-TV in Little Rock reported.
The tornado was one of two rated at EF2 to hit the state on Saturday.
Northeast: Hot and cold
New York City set a record high Sunday at 71 degrees, National Weather Service meteorologist Ashley Sears said. The previous record, set in 1949 and matched in 1998, was 63.
But temperatures will fall each day until Wednesday, and by Christmas, New York might not even reach the freezing mark.
And in northern New England, another round of snow and ice is set for Monday, the National Weather Service said.
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Rain was finally tapering off in Georgia, South Carolina and states in the Mid-Atlantic. A wave of cold temperatures will take its place Tuesday. Temperatures will likely be 10 to 15 degrees colder than normal on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Midwest: Ice and dangerous wind chills
The storms left some Michigan residents dealing with no electricity. Sara Hadley's family lost power after an ice storm struck her hometown of Lansing. She sent photos of some of the countless icicles in her neighborhood.
"Last time we had ice like this was 1998," Hadley told CNN's iReport.
Pacific Northwest: Another storm brewing
Coastal and valley rain as well as mountain snow is in the forecast through Tuesday, the service said.
Higher elevations could get dumped with 6 to 12 inches of snow.
CNN's Sean Morris, Adam Shivers, Todd Borek, Jareen Imam, Leslie Holland and Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report.


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The other night I was introduced to a poetry professor from MIT and a photographer from NPR, after working all day with a 60-year-old woman who is stronger than many men half her age, and a 30-year-old man whose obsession with old Volkswagens leads him to sell the vegetables from our farm like a good car salesman sells lemons.
The next night I had dinner on the porch of the lodge in the next town over, with a mother of three beautiful children, who lives on the same street as her ex-husband's mother and brother and sister-in-law. We ate together with a collared-shirt-wearing boy in his late 20s, who is building a house in the Common where he hopes to live forever, and a friend of his, who is deaf, who communicates wonderfully with hand motions and scribbled scraps of paper that pile up on the tables where we've spent time.
Every day, I'm surrounded by the people on the farm, who have their own stories. There's the 80-year-old man who has helped build the new facility, who I see eating out by himself in Hardwick. There's the guy who fixes all the equipment, and does much of the tractor work in the fields, who lives down the road with his family, and sugars every early spring. He's been married since he was nineteen to a girl he'd met three weeks before he proposed. There's a couple in their 30s – he runs the construction of the new facility, she helps with crop planning and farm regulations- who spent the last two years in the Peace Corps in Panama. He grew up here, and his parents and sisters live nearby, while her family visits occasionally from Virginia, where she (incidentally) went to high school with the Volkswagen vegetable man. There's the woman who used to work for Phish, and the boy who got hit by lightning (or so I hear), and the man who once crashed Pete's truck and gave up his motorcycle in exchange. There are all the previous men and women, girlfriends, boyfriends, sisters, brothers, neighbors, friends, who worked on the farm in the past, whose presence remains in stories and habits referred to every day.
There are the people I see at the bar on a regular basis. There's a girl who manages the growing on a small farm in the next town over, and a self-employed man who I've seen go through the now familiar combinations of plowing, logging, sugaring, trucking, fixing up his house, and, as the weather's grown warmer, building, gardening, trucking, and getting hired to use his tractor. There's the girl for whom bartending is one of five part-time jobs, and her husband, who just started bottling and selling his cows' milk this spring. There's the brewer, who grew up here, whose family history is wrapped up in his town, who attracted over 600 people to his brewery's first anniversary party last month. There's the cheesemaker who wears short skirts and boots on a regular basis, and the cheesemaker who had triplets last year (who I don't see at the bar), and the cheese sales lady who travels around to shops and grocery stores around the country training cheese sellers. There's a boy who lives in a tent, and generally doesn't wear shoes, who drives to Manhattan now once a month to sell the baskets that he weaves.
Along the way, at the farm, on the street, at the general stores, at one of the three or four places where we hang out, I've been introduced to Hills, Fullers, Moffatts, Gebbies, Johnsons, Kehlers, Rowells, Meyers, Manoshes, and little by little, the farm and local business signs, road names, and town stories begin to connect with faces and families, and with the reality of generations of people that have lived here and known each other for decades.
In his book Disappearances, Howard Frank Mosher's narrator describes the men of his "Kingdom County" of 1932 as a lost breed. "They needed space in which to get away from people and towns and farms and highways, and other people needed space to get away from them, since authentic characters are not the easiest persons to live with." The narrator concluded this description, "To live in a world without them, though, while it is certainly easier, sometimes seems intolerable."
Living in the Northeast Kingdom, now, I have not gotten the impression that authentic characters are a population of the past.
At some point last year, I realized that small farms attracted me as havens of intimate stories, homes to close-knit hard-working people who are often fueled with a persistent, youthful adrenaline, no matter their age. Good stories – true or false or somewhere in between – seemed to thrive among the people contributing to a working farm.
The fact is, the Northeast Kingdom itself seems to be just such a haven of intimate stories, home to just such hard-working people. For a girl who is always up for listening to another outlandish life history – and probably writing it down – it is a remarkably fitting place to be. There has been something incredibly rich and hilarious and comforting to me, about living among the people in this area of Vermont. I hear more stories every day than I can remember by the time I get home.
For now, I listen mostly. Work, and listen. And for now, it seems that there are more people here – where I live in a town of one thousand – than I would ever have imagined.


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This article is another in my series of Tile/Map-based Game Techniques. In this article I discuss a method for handling terrain transitions on your main map display.
First off, by "terrain" I am referring to the background or base layer of graphics for the map display. Terrain might refer to normal terrain types, such as grasslands or forests, but it is not limited to this. In a science-fiction game, for instance, the terrain could be bare metal or even the landscape features of another planet.
The Problem
The problem of terrain transitioning grows out of the need for a single type of terrain to be able to mesh with itself and still look good when placed next to another terrain. A forest tile should fit together with other forest tiles so that the forest proceeds seamlessly from one map cell to the next. But what happens when the forest tile is placed next to another type of terrain, such as mountains or grassland? Without some form "transitioning" the map looks very blocky and artificial.
Figure 1: Terrain Without Transitions
One solution to the problem is to create specialized transition tiles that "blend" sections of each terrain into a single tile. However, the need for all terrains to transition into any other means that the number of specialized tiles escalates quickly. It may not be obvious at first glance, but the number of transitions required even between just 2 terrain types is quite large. On a square grid, there are 8 possible points of transition: one for each side and one for each corner. Even the simple forest-to-grassland transition would require 256 transitions, and this would have to be done for each terrain transition combination. If you have 9 or 10 terrain types, the amount of graphics this approach would require is unworkable.
This can be refined some by using transitions with a transparent element, allowing for more variety with fewer tiles. The forest transitions would then be able to overlap any terrain. But 256 transition variations for each terrain type still seems pretty excessive.
So how do you trim down the number of required transition graphics to a number that is more manageable? This is how we did it.
Our Solution
The first part of our solution was to assign a "precedence" to the various terrain types. By precedence, I mean that when two different terrain types meet, one of them invariably "overlaps" the other. In the example of forest meeting grassland, if forest has a higher precedence (and it should) then it will always overlap the grassland.
In Artifact, we used the following terrain precedence (listed highest to lowest): jungle, forest, mountain, hill, swamp, deserts, grassland, water (open water or river). Please note that this precedence does not reflect the relative elevations of the terrain but is instead based on which terrains looks best when overlapping other terrains.
Figure 2: Artifact Terrain Precedence
The next step was to reduce the number of terrain transition variations from 256. This number can be cut drastically by separating the "edge" transitions and the "corner" transitions. As it was pointed out above, a single terrain cell has 8 points of transition: one for each side and one for each corner. Thus, there are only 16 possible edge transitions, and 16 possible corner transitions. By using combinations of edge and corner transitions you can create all of the necessary 256 variations with only 32 total tiles. This is a huge reduction in graphics required.
The template we used followed a binary format. For the edges, west was considered "bit 0", north was "bit 1", and east and south were "bit 2" and "bit 3", respectively. Similarly for the corners, the northwest corner was "bit 0", the northeast corner "bit 1", and so on. How we arranged the actual terrain transition graphics is demonstrated in Figure 3. If you think of the covered edges as 1 and the non-covered edges as 0, you can see that the columns proceed in normal binary manner: 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, and so on.
Figure 3: Terrain Transition Template
Figure 4 shows how this was applied to create the grassland transitions in Artifact.
Figure 4: Artifact Grassland Transitions
With this method drawing the map is now a 2-step process. For each map cell, the base terrain must be drawn, and then any transitions that overlay it in reverse order of precedence (lowest precedence drawn first). However, the reduction in graphics required more than makes up for the additional work. Also, since the transition graphics are mostly transparent, the actual "work" involved is less than it might seem.
Using the precedence established earlier, and the bit assignments for the edges and corners, calculating which transitions you need in a particular map cell is relatively straightforward. Essentially, for each map cell, you check all adjacency possibilities for terrain types that overlap the terrain of the cell. The transition information for a single terrain type need only use 8-bits of data (4 bits for the edges and 4 bits for the corners) which fits conveniently into a single byte. Thus, the total terrain transition information for Artifact's 9 terrain types requires only 9 bytes per map cell.
You can pre-calculate the transition information and store it with the map, or you can calculate it "on the fly" at runtime. For rendering Artifact's map display, I calculate the transitions for the visible portion of the map only. This reduces the amount of storage required since only a small portion of the map is visible at one time.
A quick example: To calculate the transitions needed for a hill terrain, you need only consider any adjacent jungles, forests, and mountains, since those are the only terrain types that have a higher precedence. Figure 5 demonstrates the overlapping of transitions on the base terrain graphics, with a hill as the center terrain.
Figure 5: Artifact Terrains, Before and After
With a bit of preparation in the graphics and a few tricks during the rendering, you can achieve professional-looking terrain transitions in your game. While drawing the map becomes a bit more complicated, the reduction in graphics required and the flexibility of the system more than make up for that.
David Michael is co-owner of Samu Games and has produced several online games, including Artifact and Paintball NET.
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