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Do I need to optimize?
You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X. Here's why:
- Hard disk capacity is generally much greater now than a few years ago. With more free space available, the file system doesn't need to fill up every "nook and cranny." Mac OS Extended formatting (HFS Plus) avoids reusing space from deleted files as much as possible, to avoid prematurely filling small areas of recently-freed space.
- Mac OS X 10.2 and later includes delayed allocation for Mac OS X Extended-formatted volumes. This allows a number of small allocations to be combined into a single large allocation in one area of the disk.
- Fragmentation was often caused by continually appending data to existing files, especially with resource forks. With faster hard drives and better caching, as well as the new application packaging format, many applications simply rewrite the entire file each time. Mac OS X 10.3 Panther can also automatically defragment such slow-growing files. This process is sometimes known as "Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering."
- Aggressive read-ahead and write-behind caching means that minor fragmentation has less effect on perceived system performance.
For these reasons, there is little benefit to defragmenting.
Note:Mac OS X systems use hundreds of thousands of small files, many of which are rarely accessed. Optimizing them can be a major effort for very little practical gain. There is also a chance that one of the files placed in the "hot band" for rapid reads during system startup might be moved during defragmentation, which would decrease performance.
If you think you might need to defragment
Try restarting first. It might help, and it's easy to do.
If your disks are almost full, and you often modify or create large files (such as editing video, but see the Tip below if you use iMovie and Mac OS X 10.3), there's a chance the disks could be fragmented. In this case, you might benefit from defragmentation, which can be performed with some third-party disk utilities.
Another option is to back up your important files, erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files.
Tip: If you use iMovie with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and FileVault is enabled, performance issues can occur if your project is located in your encrypted home folder (including the desktop).


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What is high blood glucose?
People who do not have diabetes typically have fasting plasma blood glucose levels that run under 100 mg/dl.
Your physician will define for you what your target blood glucose should be — identifying a blood glucose target that is as close to normal as possible that you can safely achieve given your overall medical health. In general, high blood glucose, also called 'hyperglycemia', is considered "high" when it is 160 mg/dl or above your individual blood glucose target. Be sure to ask your healthcare provider what he or she thinks is a safe target for you for blood glucose before and after meals.
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- If your blood glucose is 250 or greater and you are on insulin, check your urine for ketones. If you have ketones, follow your sick day rules or call your healthcare team if you are not sure what to do.
- Ask yourself what may have caused the high blood sugar, and take action to correct it. Ask your healthcare team if you are not sure what to do.
- Try to determine if there is a pattern to your blood glucose levels.
- Check your blood glucose before meals 3 days in a row.
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Throw away the bottle and open a new bottle.
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See a nurse educator to be sure your technique is correct and your meter is functioning the right way. Learn how to clean the meter.
Throw away the strips and get a new bottle. Check the code on the strip bottle.
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RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it
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RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 03 August 2015, 11:22
I'm considering creating two RAM Disks on my Windows computer (currently running W7, will be running W10 x64 as soon as RAM Disk is updated ;) ).
I'm a power-user but I'm not a gamer. My daily use is Internet (Firefox, heavy user, lots of tabs, lots of RAM) and Email (Thunderbird). My occasional use is some Word/Excel/Photo retouching/etc., but nothing too important.
I would have 12 GB RAM, and use 8 GB for general usage and 4 GB for RAM Disks :
- RAM Disk #1 (R:) would be dedicated to non-critical data : pagefile.sys, and various caches (Firefox, Thunderbird)
- R: size would be of 2 GB
- pagefile.sys would be about 1.5 GB, the rest being taken by both caches
- R: contents would be saved to my slow storage disk (HDD)
- R: contents would not be saved often (maybe once a day or so ?)
- If R: contents were lost/corrupted, it wouldn't really matter
- RAM Disk #2 (S:) would dedicated to critical data : Firefox folder (100-300 MB) and Thunderbird folder (1,2 GB)
- S: size would be of 2 GB
- S: contents would be saved to my fast system disk (SSD)
- S: contents would be saved often (every few mins)
- If R: contents were lost/corrupted, it would be catastrophic, so I'm considering an additional automatic daily backup of S:'s image using appropriate backup software
Here are my questions :
1. What do you think of this strategy ? Can it be improved in any way ? How would you do it ?
2. Are there other files that could effectively be put in a RAM Disk in order to speed up my system / avoid unnecessary writes to HDD / SSD ?
3. When the contents of a RAM Disk are saved to HDD or SSD, are they saved in incremental mode or in dump mode ? For RAM Disk #2, I'd hate to have 2 GB of data written to my SSD every few mins !
Many thanks in advance for your help. :)
Re: what to put inside / when to save it 03 August 2015, 12:45
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- Using a RAM Disk for the swap file. It may not be such a good idea and this article explains why.
- Saving the non-critical data from R: perhaps it shouldn't be saved at all? The caches are re-created automatically if they are gone after a reboot. You would save time on reading/writing the image file.
- Windows %TEMP% folder may be put on a RAM disk as well. A few installation programs don't handle this correctly (and may also fail if they run out of TEMP space) but the majority works okay.
- RAM Disk image writes are incremental, but a pitfall here may be that the disk is locked when the writing is done. Some software may have troubles with this, in which case you could probably try file-level sync utilities like rsync or Unison.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 03 August 2015, 13:27
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About the linked article, it's funny because I had read it before creating this topic (yes, the 30 pages, lol). I still think that when you have enough RAM there are no downsides in creating a RAM Disk for pagefile. A number of people in that long thread have found it useful, probably because of Windows flaws that make the pagefile be written even when the RAM is far from being full. And since I don't want to disable the pagefile completely for compatibility issues, I may as well put it in a RAM Disk.
About R:, yes, I was thinking about not saving it at all. Saving the pagefile would be useless, right ?
The caches on the other hand would be useful, since their purpose is to speed up navigation. So why not have 3 RAM Drives ?
- R: for the swap file, never saved
- S: only for the caches, saved once a day or so to HDD (BTW maybe an additional option like "save on exit" or "save on reboot" or whatever would be nice, don't you think ?)
- T: for the critical data, saved very often to SSD
%TEMP% folder : Sounds nice indeed. Would you rather put it in R:, S: or T: ?
About the drive being locked when the writing is done, have you heard of problems when it happens to be the system drive ? Another solution would be to just use the secondary drive (HDD). Problem solved I guess, no need for additional software like rsync or Unison.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 03 August 2015, 16:14
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For %TEMP% I personally use a volatile RAM disk where everything is gone after a reboot. Many programs don't delete their temporary files and this helps reduce the amount of junk files. On the other hand, some installers expect to find files in this folder for an installation involving a reboot, in other words, those installers assume %TEMP% is persistent.
Regarding the locking, I meant the actual RAM disk is locked when its contents is saved to an image file. Programs that write to the RAM disk may not be able complete an operation if it happens to be during saving the drive's contents to an image file. This is done to prevent storing an inconsistent file system.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 03 August 2015, 22:36
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- "Save only on exit / reboot"
- "Don't save files older than..."
This would allow the %TEMP% folder to remain almost empty ("Don't save files older than...", but it would also allow its contents to be saved on exit/reboot, for those programs who need a reboot to finish their install.
About the locking, that makes sense. I understood it the wrong way, sorry. But I guess programs that write to the RAM Disk when it's locked may be designed to retry several times before giving up, right ?
Otherwise, why not add a "temporary RAM cache" ? (if a program can't write to a RAM Disk because it's temporarily locked, have it write to "temporary RAM cache" instead, then write the "temporary RAM cache" into the RAM Disk as soon as it's not locked anymore).
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 05 August 2015, 17:25
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Storing or not storing older files is not really possible in the current design. The RAM disk engine operates with disk blocks, it has no idea about files or folders stored on it, pretty much like a HDD in RAM.
Whether the programs are designed or not to write to locked devices, I'd assume most are not designed this way. They would just fail when this happens. A separate buffer for write operations while a RAM disk is being saved could be a solution, but it's not trivial to implement.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 06 August 2015, 03:21
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Oh, I get it now ! So I guess I'll have this :Quote
The Save on Exit / Reboot option already exists when an image is attached - that's what Save Contents to Image does.
- R: for the swap file (contents never saved)
- S: for all the caches ("save contents to image" so they only get saved on exit/reboot to HDD), maybe also for %TEMP%, and then I'll clean %TEMP% from time to time with a batch script or something
- T: for the critical data (contents saved very often to SSD in an incremental way)
Well, I'm glad to maybe have given you such a challenge for future versions (if you find another core developer to pursue RAM Disk development of course ).Quote
A separate buffer for write operations while a RAM disk is being saved could be a solution, but it's not trivial to implement.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 06 August 2015, 13:16
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Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 12 August 2015, 04:12
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I use a ram disk for %TEMP% and %TMP% files too but I use it selectively on a per program basis using variations of the following batch file script (for example):
set TEMP=W:\TEMP set TMP=W:\TMP start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" exit
The above would launch Microsoft Office Outlook and have it write its temporary files into the ramdisk (whereas normally they get written into the default %TEMP%).
set TEMP=W:\TEMP set TMP=W:\TMP start "" "E:\PORTABLES\INTERNET\PeerBlock\peerblock.exe" ping -n 31 127.0.0.1 >NUL start "" "E:\PORTABLES\INTERNET\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe" exit
The above would launch PeerBlock, then after a 30 second 'pause' to let PeerBlock update its block-lists, it would launch uTorrent and have both of them write any temp files they would normally write into the ramdisk.
set TEMP=W:\TEMP set TMP=W:\TMP start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\INTERNET\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" exit
The above would launch Firefox and have it write any temp files into the ramdisk.
From this you should see that you can create batch files on a per program basis and just have a shortcut to the *.bat in your Start Menu that you use for launching whatever program you want to write temporary files into the ramdisk.
You should also be aware that using these batch files will not globally reset your %TEMP% and %TMP% files for all programs after any one of the batch files has been run. The change in path only gets applied to the program(s) that are launched from within the batch file. Also, though, you should know that for any program you've launched using a batch file like those above then if one of those programs calls (launches) another program (as a sub-process, so to speak) then that new process will also write its temp files into the ramdisk - really this is the only potential pitfall you need to be aware of if using batch files like these.
The real advantage of these batch files is that other processes that write temporary files and expect to find them after a reboot (e.g. Win Update and installers) can carry on writing to %TEMP% and %TMP% as normal so you don't risk messing up your system at some critical point in the future.
Hope this is of help.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 25 August 2015, 02:44
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This is exactly what I was looking for, and I'll make sure to implement this in my fresh Windows 10 install (which has been delayed a bit, it shall take place around september 20th, just in time for Firefox 64 bit ! Yay ! ).
Thank you so much, and feel free to share other tips if you have them ! These are really useful for everybody !
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 25 August 2015, 06:09
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Don't have any other tips except for this one on how to deal with the Firefox cache if you don't want to retain it between Firefox sessions and system restarts. I don't so I use this method myself. Remember that the cache keeps a record of the websites you visited and even if you do delete it from your HDD then it is possible for the information to be recovered by using an 'undelete' tool. You could, of course, erase the cache (instead of just deleting it) but it is a pain having to do that and wearing on the HDD/SSD.:
- In Firefox, on a new tab, type in the address bar "about:config" (without the quote marks) and then hit 'enter'.
- Click the warning page that shows up, saying you will be careful. (That should get you to a page showing Firefox's 'preferences'.)
- In the 'Search' bar (at the top of the page) type the following without the quotes "browser.cache". That will reduce the number of preferences displayed to just those that have 'browser.cache' as part of their titles.
- Look for a preference titled browser.cache.disk.parent_directory. It might not exist (it didn't on my system).
- If it doesn't exist then right-click on an empty space in the preferences listing and select New > String (from the menu). In the dialogue window that opens type (or paste) the preference name browser.cache.disk.parent_directory. And then click 'okay'.
- A new dialogue will appear asking for a value for the preference you've just created. The value you enter will be the path to which you want Firefox to write the cache data to in the future. On my system I set the path to "W:\\TMP\\Firefox\\" (without the quotes) - enter a path that you want to be valid for your own system. (Note it is very important that for each directory in the path you enter double back-slashes "\\", not single.) If the preference already existed in your "about:config" then you would just need to double-click on it to enter in the path of your choice.
- Having done all that close the tab you were working in then restart Firefox. You should now find that Firefox is writing the "cache2" data and its subfolders into your ramdisk.
- If you are happy with the result then on your system drive you can drill to the path where your cache2 data used to be stored for your user account. On my system this is "C:\Users\Radish\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\odj8wnq7.default\cache2". That 'cache2' folder will contain whatever cache2 data there was before you changed the cache over to the ramdisk path you set. If you don't want all that old cache data on the system drive then it is safe to delete/erase that 'cache2' folder (and its subfolders). It won't be recreated because the data is now being written to the ramdisk.
- If ever you want to undo having set the preference to your ramdisk path then just go into "about:config" again. Find the value you created, right-click on it and select "Reset" from the menu. The path data will disappear but the preference itself will remain. Now just close the "about:config" tab and restart Firefox. On restart you should now see that the preference no longer exists (and Firefox will default back to writing the cache2 data in your %USERPROFILE% location as indicated above).
I would add that elsewhere on the internet I have seen instructions that allow a different way of forcing the cache into memory (not into a ramdisk). You can see the instructions here: [Tutorial] How To Move Your Mozilla Firefox Cache Into Memory However, having experimented with that way of doing it I have to say that some cache2 data was still being written into my %USERPROFILE% cache2 location, even though the article suggests that all of the cache will be written to memory - so that method isn't as foolproof as the method I detail above and I certainly wouldn't recommend it. But you could always try it out for yourself if you wanted to.
If you want to mess around with moving your Firefox User Profile into a ramdisk then I would recommend you study the following post elsewhere on the internet and you will get information on how to do that: [SOLVED] Force Folder "mozilla-temp-files" to a Ramdisk?. I haven't tried moving the Firefox Profile to ramdisk, and have no intention of doing so, but it's useful to know that such a thing can be done if you ever have a mind to.
That's all from me, Jose. Good deed done for today! Hope it helps.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 26 August 2015, 03:05
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It [cache2] won't be recreated [on the HDD] because the data is now being written to the ramdisk.
I made a mistake there. The "cache2" folder will be recreated. However, nothing will be written into it - the cache is now being written to the ramdisk. Just to clear up any misunderstanding.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 20 March 2016, 02:59
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Posts: 9
My RAM Disk is now up and running, and so far everything is working perfectly, partly thanks to you!
I'm using the .bat files like you suggested. Actually I am using .bat files (e.g. word.bat) AND shortcuts to them (e.g. "Word" shortcut with the right icon, since icons can be changed easily on shortcuts). I have added "explorer" to the beginning of each shortcut path, so each shortcut can be considered as an executable.
- I have a word.bat file located in C:\Bat with all the other .bat files
- I have a "Word" shortcut located elsewhere, with the right icon
- The path within the "Word" shortcut looks like this : "explorer C:\Bat\word.bat"
Everything works perfectly.
But I have a question that puzzles me!
Let's assume that I have created a word.bat file for Word 2007:
set TEMP=R:\TEMP
set TMP=R:\TMP
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE"
And also a nice "Word" shortcut located elsewhere.
Clicking on the "Word" shortcut will launch the .bat perfectly setting the right TEMP directories. But... what if I click on any Word document? That will launch Word without setting the TEMP directories accordingly! And the same could be said for ALL APPS of course !
So my final question is : how should I do?
Thanks again for your valuable help.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 20 March 2016, 03:31
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Sorry but I don't know the answer to your question. I would think that if you launch an instance of Word via clicking on a doc then any temp files will be placed according to your bat file settings (provided you've launched Word via the batch in the first instance) - but in saying that I am totally, absolutely only guessing. Only way to be sure is to experiment with it yourself and see what happens.
If you do experiment it would be good if you posted up here with the results (positive or negative). It would help others in the future.
Should add that I've moved from Windows over to Linux Mint so it's not practical for me to try the experiment myself. I would though still be interested in the result.
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 29 January 2020, 02:30
@ Radish: Let me get this straight. If I start a program in RamDisk, ANY subsequent files that it opens will also be in RamDisk?
Re-installing an old system with 16 GB slow HDD. I tend to use portable apps nowadays. If I point the portable apps launcher with a batch file ... will then ALL portable apps launch in RamDisk? This would be AWSOME!
As to the question on double clicking, I would think we could direct it to the batch file as well ...
Re: RAM Disk contents advice: what to put inside / when to save it 29 January 2020, 04:06
Portable Apps Launcher is launching/working in the RamDisk; however, the "connecting" apps are not using the Temp and TMP re-direct in the batch file that launched the launcher.
This was tested with Picard MuzicBrainz Portable.
- From Launcher, nothing
- App inside of RamDisk and starting from there, a Temp and TMP folder are populated with new files.


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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wynn on Garth, Bette and Beyonce, A Teleplay
Friess: And when is Bette Midler starting at the Encore?
Wynn: Who? Bette Midler?
Friess: Sure, she's leaving Caesars, she'll want another gig.
Wynn: Is Bette leaving?
Friess: Yeah, she's ending her contract at the end of January. You know that, don't you?
Wynn: I did not know it.
Friess: Oh, OK. Well, she's leaving Caesars at the end of January.
Wynn: Who's taking her place?
Friess: They haven't said anything yet. Right now the only person that have in there is Cher.
Wynn: Uh-huh.
Friess: So right now they're out looking for people. And I'm sure you are, too. I'm sure you're looking for other headliners to fill in for Garth.
Wynn: I only have certain names that I like.
Friess: And I assume Bette's one of them.
Wynn: Uh, I didn't know she was leaving until you just told me.
Friess: Can you share some of the other names?
Wynn: No. I don't want to telegraph what we're trying to do.
Friess: Well, I'll tell you this. This idea of doing Garth as this intimate, unplugged thing is fascinating if you do it with other people, too.
Wynn: You can't do it with other people, Steve. He is so unbelievable when he does it. He walks out with a guitar over his shoulder. The man's voice, his ability to tell his story, he totally extemporizes. He's funny, he's talented, he talks about his history. He talks about Ricky Skaggs to Boz Skaggs, James Taylor to Bob Seger, Billy Joel to Elton John. He sings all their stuff. He does "Against The Wind" better than Seger does. Best thing I've seen since the Rat Pack.
Friess: I think somebody like Bette could do an unplugged set, too.
Wynn: I think Bette Midler can do anything she wants. I think she's the most gifted girl. I think she's fabulous.
Friess: And you're gonna be on the phone with her in the next half hour.
Wynn [Laughing]: Well, you gave me the tip off. I'm gonna call her and ask her what she wants to do. And seeing Bette Midler in a 1,500-seat theater is a kick in the ass. To be that close to her?
Friess: I just think it's a brilliant bit of counterprogramming to get these big stars to do these smaller, more intimate shows.
Wynn: I agree with you. The question is if I can get them to do it. I can't pay them $500,000 a show. Can't do it.
Friess: I need to ask you a very simple question about Garth. This idea that you're buying him a plane. Are you buying him an actual physical plane and he keeps it?
Wynn: He keeps it.
Friess: And he takes it wherever he wants to go.
Wynn: It's his airplane.
Friess: I'm trying to figure out – those are planes cost $20- or $30 million.
Wynn: This was a great market for airplanes, so it cost a little less. There are hundreds of airplanes for sale.
Friess: Did you buy the one Sarah Palin put on eBay?
Wynn: No, no. I bought him a beautiful Canadair 604. [Click here to see Garth's plane!-sf] It's a big wide airplane it's got almost a 4,000 mile range. It can take him anywhere he wants to go but it's very comfortable. It's as wide as a Global Express.
Friess: I just don't understand the math behind this deal.
Wynn: I know. I know ya don't and that's because we won't tell ya.
Friess: Well I understand that, but don't you see why it would be puzzling? The expense of him and the ticket prices ... and I've calculated out the ticket values and I don't see how you make money.
Wynn: If you take the ticket price and mutliply it by 60 shows at 1500 people a show and you take $125 a ticket and you say well, 'That won't work plus the cost of a jet.'
Friess: Am I wrong?
Wynn: No, you're right.
Friess: So, how does it work?
Wynn [Laughing]: I don't wanna tell ya.
Friess [Sighing]: OK.
Wynn: Let's put it this way. When I got through with Beyonce, I was short. It didn't work.
Friess: She didn't really sell out, did she?
Wynn: Yes she did. Absolutely. 100 percent.
Friess: Oh, OK. And the tickets were more expensive.
Wynn: Yeah. But all I'm saying is, we made a terrific amount of money because of the casino. Remember, our only source of income is not the tickets. We have rooms, we have food, beverage and gambling
Friess: Well then I guess the question is, are the shows becoming a loss-leader again.
Wynn: In the case of Garth Brooks, for sure. I don't mind telling you that.
Friess: Got it.
Wynn: But a loss leader against ticket sales, Steve.
Friess: That's the old Vegas model then. Cheap entertainment to bring them in to use the other stuff.
Wynn: That's right. And that's what Garth is. That's no secret.
Friess: So is this a function of the economy then?
Wynn: No, no, no, no. It's a function of getting one of the great world-class performers to compromise so this can happen but even that compromise creates the situation you're describing. Garth wanted to do this with me. He bent to it. He cooperated. Could Garth Brooks get more money somewhere else? Conceivably yes. But this was the biggest deal I've ever made in my life. But it was based upon the fact that I believe Garth Brooks is worth it, that he brings something to our hotel, to our enterprise, a soul, a warmth, a gift to my guests that leave saying that something special happened while they were here. Something they couldn't see at Texas Stadium or at the Thomas and Mack Arena or Sam Boyd Stadium.
End scene.
12 comments:
- Anonymous said...
- December 10, 2009 at 8:56 PM
- mike_ch said...
I was going to ask if you got him to go off into Fox News Mode, but I'm more amused that the AdSense ad on this page is an Encore LGBT site. Didn't know Wynn Resorts was going for that angle.
- December 11, 2009 at 12:12 AM
- Brian Fey said...
This is pretty easy to figure out. One of the nights Beyonce played Wynn, the casino won $35 million dollars, because they filled the place up, with some people with deep pockets. Yes he lost money on the show itself, but more than made up with it in the casino. That's the plan with Garth. I just wonder if the average Garth fan, has that kind of money to go dropping in a casino. I guess time will tell us.
It just kills me we can't hear this whole interview. :)
Its just full of great stuff I'm sure.
- December 11, 2009 at 5:03 AM
- THE STRIP PODCAST said...
Wynn's been aggressively after the gay travel market for at least five years. The first wedding that took place in the Wynn chapel was Roger Thomas's in fact. Why anyone would think Wynn would be hostile to gays is beyond me. And, no, I chose to stay away from politics -- except for regarding Harry Reid and I'll get to that part -- because the answers were somewhat predictable.
- December 11, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
I wonder how a casino decides when a performer as a loss leader starts to make money for the casino. Where is the dividing line? When comparing revenue, how does Garth Brooks really pays for his contract? Maybe this is what Wynn didn't want to reveal. Wynn probably has tools to figure it out, but it is mainly just a hunch, an expensive gamble.
Garth Brooks has to consistenly bring gambling revenue to the casino to cover his fees. It looks like Garth didn't compromise as much as Wynn did.
- December 11, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
I heard Kylie Minogue is currently negotiating with unnamed Vegas casinos. Her very first North American Tour did so well this summer she is thinking about a permanent residency in Vegas....Now there's an idea for ya, Steve Wynn!
- December 11, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think the issue is that Brooks will draw in significant chunk of people who won't be staying, eating and gambling at Wynn. If Wynn had purchased some of the MGM properties he was rumored to be interested in, one of which was out there like Circus Circus, he could cross market Brooks and recapture more the subsidy.
- December 11, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- GregoryZephyr said...
By making it difficult for generic ticket brokers and resellers, Wynn is able to more accurately track his ticket buyers with reservations and gaming/f&b sales, etc. I suspect his confidence that Brooks is a loss leader that generates far more in associated profits may be backed up by his data and analysis.
Secondly, the idea that Garth Brooks fans are not profitable is not really supported by the demographics of "country" music especially for foreign fans. There is a misperception that country music excludes a wealth segment and that misunderstanding may be because country music is not considered as "cool" by mainstream media and is often overlooked.
- December 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM
- THE STRIP PODCAST said...
Gregory - I agree with you. I don't know why Garth fans are any less likely to eat on property or, certainly, to gamble there. They cross as many demographics as, certainly, Beyonce fans do. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the average Garth fan was wealthier than the average Beyonce fan based solely on their ages alone.
The reason I had trouble with the math is that I didn't think this whole loss-leader notion existed anymore. Certainly, Wynn was clear for a long time that he felt the shows needed to turn their own profits. That's why he closed AveQ and Spamalot, and folks who went to THOSE shows absolutely were staying, eating and playing at his property. He's obviously gone back to an older model, which is what I was teasing out in this exchange.
The math is still tough. The total potential ticket sales take for Garth's shows is $11.25m a year - if every seat is sold and there are no comps. Add in the cost of the plane AND whatever Garth makes and it is, as the commenter said, a huge gamble. But Wynn's also getting an enormous amount of press and what I heard -- since I'm laid up -- is that the resort was humming with a happy energy yesterday. Those are intangibles.
- December 12, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- atdnext said...
Believe it or not, Wynn Resorts this year became the second Nevada casino operator (Harrah's was first last year) to earn a perfect 100% HRC Corporate Equality score... And I'll have to double-check my facts, but I'm 90% sure they were also the very first Nevada company to earn a perfect 100% HRC score in its very first year on the index. As Steve F said above, Wynn is a VERY LGBTQ friendly company that's made nice with queer travelers.
True, true. Staying on the "gay" theme, you'd be surprised by how many of my friends are big country fans... And not just Dolly and Reba, but also Garth. The "country" demographics aren't as monolithic as so many assume.
Steve F-
Thanks for posting this interview!
Since it seems everyone who's anyone on The Strip is pitching for Reid (after all, the election's coming up soon), I don't mind that (after all, I'm also for Reid). Otherwise, it's nice to see a Steve Wynn interview that's less about Milton Friedman economics and George Bush politics, and more about something that Wynn's actually an expert on (Las Vegas casinos).
- December 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think you're misreading the demographic of this by making some false assumptions, e.g. that the average Garth fan doesn't have money to eat, stay and gamble at Wynn. Secondly, they're not going after the average Garth fan, who may not have enough money to travel to Las Vegas, much less shop outside of Wal-Mart.
They're going after Garth fans who come to Vegas. My parents and their friends are examples of this. They go to Vegas, they love Garth and they can afford to spend at Wynn.
The mistake here is this offbase stereotype when someone says "Garth fan:" provincial, Nascar-watching, trailer-park-living Midwestern, poor people. This is a false picture of the demo Wynn is focusing on.
Steve's right about the intangibles, and I don't mean HUNCHES that are immeasurable but some DEFINITE revenue streams that are difficult to measure.
For example, I had some friends coming out to see Prince at the Rio. I asked them where they were staying, and they answered at the Rio, of course. I asked them why, and they said because they were coming to see Prince and that's where he was playing. I don't think this is all that unusual for first-time Vegas visitors... that even though they're coming for a 4-day trip, they stay at the place that's the central focus of their trip, even though it's only going to last two hours.
How do you account for that?
-Mike Kalil
- December 14, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Dave said...
There was definitely a happy atmosphere after the concerts. I went the to Saturday 8pm show and it was hands down the best concert I've been to. I do believe though, that you had to already be a Garth fan in order to get the most out of it. It was like VH1 storytellers and MTV's Unplugged wrapped into one. Many thanks to Steve Wynn and Garth!
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Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
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Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
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Stem wand-like to much-branched
Leaves drought-deciduous, ± opposite or in 3's, generally short-petioled
Inflorescence: panicle or spike-like; bracts small
Flower: calyx lobes 5, ± equal; corolla not purplish (whitish to red), short-glandular outside, upper lip hooded, lobes short, rounded, external in bud, lower lip rounded, lobes often reflexed; filaments densely nonglandular-hairy at base, anthers small, glabrous, anther sacs generally spreading flat at dehiscence; staminode well developed, glabrous to densely bearded; nectary a disk; stigma head-like
Fruit ovoid, septicidal and sometimes also loculicidal at tip
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Species in genus: 7 species: especially CA
Etymology: (David D. Keck, CA botanist, 19031995)
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Segregated from Penstemon.
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ATLANTA (AP) Dabo Swinney again has Clemson on the verge of an 11-victory season, a milestone reached by only three teams in school history.
Reaching 11 wins might convince Swinney to call his No. 14 Tigers great. It's a title he's willing to place on No. 9 Louisiana State, which will face Clemson on Monday night in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Clemson (10-2) is coming off a 27-17 loss to in-state rival South Carolina. It finished the 2011 season at 10-4, when a lopsided 70-33 loss to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl kept the Tigers from 11 wins.
Swinney said LSU (10-2) deserves to be called great because the Tigers won a recent national championship (2007) and played for the title last year. He's not as generous when describing his own team.
``LSU is a great team,'' Swinney said. ``We're not a great team, not yet. We think we're on our way from a program standpoint. LSU is a great football team. They're a great program and they've earned that with the consistency that they've played with. They played for a national championship less than 12 months ago and were a play or two away from being in it again this year.
``They represent where we want to go from a program standpoint to that type of national competitive consistency, so it's a great opportunity for us.''
Clemson finished 12-0 in its 1981 national championship season. It was 11-0 in 1948 and 11-1 in 1978. No other Clemson team has won more than 10 games.
``So 11 wins in Clemson history has been a pretty rare thing,'' Swinney said. ``And to be at the doorstep of that for the second year in a row is pretty special.''
Swinney knows it would mean more to reach 11 wins, especially against one of the Southeastern Conference's most prominent teams.
Clemson scored at least 37 points in 10 of its 12 games. The exceptions were its two games against SEC teams - a 26-19 opening win over Auburn at the Georgia Dome and a 27-17 loss to South Carolina in its final regular-season game.
Now with another SEC opponent there are more questions about Clemson's ability to maintain its typical high-scoring pace against a more physical SEC defense.
``I could see how a team outside the SEC could play with a chip on their shoulder because a lot of people say we're the best conference,'' said LSU safety Eric Reid. ``I know they're going to come out with that sort of intensity from the jump and we're going to have to match it.''
Swinney has tried to prepare his team for LSU, which ranks eighth in the nation in total defense, with especially tough bowl practices.
``LSU is a very physical team, have big guys up front and big backs,'' defensive end Malliciah Goodman said Friday. ``So you just have to prepare to be physical with them for four quarters. That's the thing that we've been doing like coach Swinney talked about with practices, just having that mentality of it's going to be a four-quarter physical battle. You have to prepare your mind that way and fight that way.''
Clemson ranked sixth in the nation with its average of 42.3 points in its spread offense, utilizing quarterback Tajh Boyd and the speed of running back Andre Ellington and such receivers as DeAndre Hopkins and Sammy Watkins.
Swinney said he does not agree with those who say a spread offense can't hold up in a test of physical teams.
``I mean, people get caught up in you have to get an I-formation to be physical,'' Swinney said. ``That's the furthest thing from the truth. But it's like saying that you can only run the option if you're a triple-option team or something. We have elements of everything in our offense. And we pride ourselves on being a very physical football team. We do it a little bit differently than maybe LSU.''
Defensive tackle Josh Watson said a win over LSU could help change the national perception of Clemson's program.
``This is a huge game, just for momentum in the offseason but also to take a step as a program to get into the elite teams in the nation,'' Watson said. ``We're about 10 plays from being undefeated this year and we want to step into that top tier of teams and be recognized as a top 10 team every year, in the preseason and at the end of the season. In order to be the best, you have to beat the best, and LSU is one of the best teams in the country.''


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Hi,can anyone please tell me where to borrow or rent a hilti drill.We are putting up a few awesome new routes but the drill's battery have had enough. Thanx
Renting will cost and you will need to buy a new battery anyway, so: Go down to the hardware store and pick up two alarm batteries, tape them together and link them with wire (so you draw with from both batteries). Wire these to your drill and you're sorted (this may entail opening your drill to get the wires connected). The batteries can be recharged obviously. Hope this helps.
You could use lead acid batteries (and you will need three X 12v) but the drills are not designed to be run off this power source. If your drill is new I suggest sticking to original manufaturer equipment as other batteries will void the warranty. But hey if its an old drill... Otherwise the Mountain club has a new Makita available to members. Would be cheaper to join the cub than buy new batteries!
Oh yeah if you go for alarm batteries get the sealed units with gel rather than water inside as the unsealed units will leak acid into your bag (not cool!)You will need to connect them in series; ie if the batteries are placed together in a row connect the positive of the first to the negative of the second, the + of the 2nd to the - of the 3rd and the spare terminals from the 1st & 2nd to the drill.
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Australia had its warmest year on record, with annual temperatures 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.16 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1961-1990 average, according to a new analysis from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
Australia had its warmest year on record, with annual temperatures 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.16 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1961-1990 average, according to a new analysis from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). This is 0.5 degrees Celsius higher than the previous warmest year on record—2005—for Australia. Global warming due to burning fossil fuels is increasing temperatures worldwide.
"The Australian region warming is very similar to that seen at the global scale, and the past year emphasizes that the warming trend continues," the BOM writes. "As summarized in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, recent warming trends have been dominated by the influence of increasing greenhouse gases and the enhanced greenhouse effect."
In addition to being the warmest year on record for the country, 2013 also saw the warmest summer and springs in Australia. January 7th, 2013, was the warmest day yet recorded in Australia with an average maximum of 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 degrees Fahrenheit).
Despite the impact of climate change on the country, Australia's new government under Tony Abbott has recently attacked the country's climate policies, including its carbon tax. In addition to pledging to abolish the tax, the Abbott administration has already abolished an independent advisory committee on climate change and drastically cut renewable energy funding. The Abbott administration has also thrown massive support behind new coal mining projects, including new ports that environmentalists say could devastate the already-ailing Great Barrier Reef.
In response to the news from BOM, the head of the Green party in Australia, Richard Di Natale, called Abbott a "reckless ideologue who ignores the science and is intent on listening to people who are part of the tinfoil hat brigade."
While Abbott has expressed doubts about climate science in the past, he recently stated that he accepts the reality of anthropogenic climate change. But many remain skeptical.
"[Tony Abbot] thinks [climate change is] absolute crap and the policy he has is a con job that you have when you think climate change is absolute crap," said Labor leader, Penny Wong.
Last week, Australia was sweltering under another heatwave: temperatures in the interior hit over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Michael Matthews, left, and director Kirby Dick attend "The Invisible War" premiere after party at Innovation Gallery last month in Park City, Utah. Matthews has blasted the filmmaker for abandoning male victims.
Two male rape survivors who appear in "The Invisible War," an Oscar-nominated documentary about military sexual assaults, are criticizing the movie's brief focus on male victims as an ironic snub — and, in a fiery diatribe, one of the film's characters says the director "should be ashamed and embarrassed."
"We're being abandoned by (director) Kirby Dick. The guys feel betrayed," said Michael Matthews, a 20-year Air Force veteran who, in the movie, tells of his 1974 gang rape by three other airmen. The publicity campaign hawking the film — and its Academy Award candidacy — includes a website that shows the faces of six female victims of military sexual assault, and no male survivors of that crime, as well as formal screenings to which only female victims have been asked to attend, Matthews said.
"What the (bleep) is that about? They don't list any of the men on the website. He's making millions of dollars but he's not bringing any of the men to any these appearances all over the country like he's bringing the women," Matthews told NBC News. "I appreciate them putting us in the movie but, now, the men are not being represented at all. He has turned his back on us. And the movie, some of it, is hurting us."
Navy veteran Brian Lewis — who was raped by a male, senior non-commissioned officer in 2000 and then discharged from the Navy shortly after reporting the attack — said he and Matthews are disturbed that the film's fleeting attention on male victims, both on screen and in promotional tactics, symbolizes the way male sex-assault survivors have been marginalized by society and by some lawmakers investigating the issue of rapes within the armed forces. Lewis has a 10-second soundbite in the documentary.
"'The Invisible War' runs for just under two hours (99 minutes) and men received probably a lot less than five minutes. How frustrating would that be?" asked Lewis, 33, who serves on the board of Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy group for service members who have been sexually assaulted by fellow troops.
"You can't really address the problem of military sexual trauma until you include the 56 percent of the victims — the men — and they are being ignored right now," Lewis said.
Dick told NBC News he empathizes with both men, and agrees that male rape victims are being "kept in the shadows" by their country, and said Matthews — who had the harshest words for the director — "has been phenomenal in terms of what he contributed to the film, and in terms of his continuing to push the issue forward both for women and especially for men.
"When people come forward to talk about this, there's not just a pain in that moment but there are nightmares afterward for most of these survivors. It's a very painful thing and they talk about it again and again and again. That, really, is true courage. We owe these men a great deal of gratitude for coming forward. These are the true whistle-blowers," Dick said. "I accept the fact that there are certain frustrations. But that is nothing in comparison to what Michael has accomplished and is accomplishing. And if it takes a little emotion to get that out, I'm 100 percent behind it."
Dick acknowledged that he and the movie's female producer purposely devoted the bulk of the screen time to the stories of military women who have been assaulted by men. (He added that the perception he or the producers are earning millions of dollars is "simply not the case.")
"In terms of making the film, we felt the entry point in this discussion was more women being assaulted because we felt it was a discussion that people would start to have," Dick said. "Our essential goal here is to have the military continue to change its policy (on investigating rape reports and disciplining predators) so that all men and women are protected in the military ... We felt that once the country started putting pressure on the military to make these changes, if and when the military does make changes, those will apply to men just as they will women. So we kind of felt women would get the discussion going and push the military to make the change for everyone."
'Nobody wants to talk about it'
According to Nate Galbreath, senior executive adviser to the U.S. Defense Department's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), a 2010 survey found that 4.4 percent of active-duty women and 0.9 percent of active-duty men "indicated that they experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact in the year prior to being surveyed."
That math equates to about 19,000 sex-offense victims per year inside the armed forces, including about 10,000 men and 9,000 women.
"There's a lot of disappointment in the male survivor community that this keeps being talked about as a 'women's issue,' and it's not," said Susan Burke, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who is spearheading a series of nationwide lawsuits meant to reform the manner in which the military prosecutes rape and sexual assault. She represents male and female military-rape victims.
"From interviewing hundreds of rape and sexual assault survivors, both male and female, there's a persistent pattern by the military in essentially even refusing to accept the allegation, where the chain of command basically says, 'We are not going to even report this.' And that is much more prevalent with the male victims," Burke said. "What I've seen time and time again: a male who comes forward to report rape and sexual assault is accused of being a homosexual."
But according to Dr. Loree Sutton, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general, rapes are not about sex but are instead fueled by aggression and domination. The crime is almost an animalistic demonstration that the predator "owns" the prey. Many male-on-male rapes in the military are group attacks. Some involve drugging the victims.
"It's not about gay sex. Typically the predators are heterosexual men who have this need to assert power, control and dominance," Sutton said. "It's similar to the dynamics of what happens with incest — those family bonds, the trust, the loyalty. I mean, in the military, loyalty becomes this huge factor and that is so difficult for men and women to sort out."
She believes that many male victims never report sex assaults committed against them by other male service members often because "in society, people just don't know how to relate to them," and the confusion such survivors face among family or friends — after they eventually open up about their rapes — "can re-open very deep wounds," Sutton said. "It's almost unspeakable."
Matthews, 58, kept the attack against him secret for nearly 30 years before he finally told his wife in 2001. Today, living in New Mexico, has launched an idea for a movie — now in post-production editing — that examines only men's stories of military rape and how those assaults changed those men forever. The title: "Justice Denied."
"These men feel ostracized in our society. Nobody wants to talk about the truth — that most of the rapes in the military (victimize) men. Nobody wants to talk about it," Matthews said.
"How long can they be ignored?"


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I keep getting PAPI_ESYS and errno = "Operation not permitted" when attempting to get L3-related events (either preset or native). However, papi_avail & papi_native_avail indicate the availability of such events on this platform.
Preset (only relevant portions are showed):
PAPI_L3_TCM 0x80000008 Yes No Level 3 cache misses
PAPI_L3_TCR 0x8000005d Yes No Level 3 total cache reads
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x4000006f L3_CACHE_MISSES | L3 Cache Misses |
0x40000070 L3_FILLS_CAUSED_BY_L2_EVICTIONS | L3 Fills caused by L2 Eviction |
0x40000071 L3_EVICTIONS | L3 Evictions
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A German priest accused of sexually abusing teenage boys has said the church should have had supervisors in homes.
The priest, writing in The Times of London, said the allegations against him were made four weeks ago and he was forced to leave his church. He is now living in a monastery and said he did not "dare show my face."
He wrote that he had gone "too far" while looking after about 30 boys, aged 13 to 16, during the early to mid-1980s.
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"None of us had a supervisor, we were alone with the boys. Today I would say that was a mistake, not to have had a person there to supervise us," the priest said in the article.
Describing what happened, he continued: "At 10.30 p.m. I always did a walkabout, to check if everything was in order. That was my downfall, this proximity to the pupils."
"So it happened, during my walkabouts, that for a while I sat on the bed of one of them if he happened to be awake. I talked to the boy, stroked the upper part of his body. And while doing so, sometimes, I kind of accidentally slipped deeper. It was not conscious, more like in passing," he added.
'Not so bad'
"Sometimes I even apologized, but I didn't make a fuss, anyway I felt the boys did not take it very badly," he said. "It rather appeared to me as if it did them good that I cared for them. One said once: 'It is not so bad.'"
He said he had been granted leave from his church following the accusations, which were made on a hotline set up by his diocese. He has yet to be questioned.
"I don't dare show my face where I used to live, I daren't go on to the street. It's not fellow priests I fear — they are very worried about me, though I expected they would blacklist me — it's the public," he wrote.
"The caller accused me of sexual abuse. That's a very common term nowadays, you can imply everything with it: coincidental contact, conscious contact, all sort of different sexual practices. I don't yet know the period to which the allegations refer."
"Only years later did it occur to me that I had crossed the line. Most of us work until we reach 75. Where will I live in the future? I cannot go back. I left all my friends," he added.
The priest concluded: "Today I just sit, every day I sit, in the monastery, where they received me very generously. I read, I pray and I worry about the future. And in between I cry often."


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Feb 20 2019, 03:56 PM
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Hey all,
I know most stuff is done online today, but it would be so helpful to know where the "local" aug's are. I want to get tutored but I can't find anyone in NYC who actually knows what they are talking about. I literally have met with like 10 people and no luck. I'm an idiot with Access and I know more than most of the "tutors" I've met... LOL Being most techies here use more current languages/db's, it's really really really hard to find someone to tutor me.
Does this forum provide a way to attend a local group, or do I have the whole idea wrong??
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I've met a guy who is a expert in Access on Techgara, but he doesn't live in NY, he's living in NJ, bad luck for you
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It surprises me that NYC still does not have a local AUG. I am sure there are plenty of Access developers and users in the area. There used to be a local AUG that sometimes held meetings at Microsoft's offices located at 1290 6th Ave., between 51st and 52nd Streets, but that AUG disolved. I tried resurrecting a group when I lived in NYC but no one showed any interest. I ended up moving to Florida in 2016.
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There are several Access related videos on youtube, and tutorials and articles on this and other forums.
I realize different people have different format preferences for learning, but the videos can be stopped/replayed etc which I find useful.
Good luck with your project!
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If the meetings don't have to be face to face, someone with a GoToMeeting subscription can probably help you. GTM allows screen sharing and the expert can manipulate your app while you watch if you want.
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Hi Krista,
Did you find someone to tutor you online, or in person?
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