Find out which 4 restaurants were out of compliance during January.
Below are the establishments that were either inspected due to a complaint, had a follow-up inspection or found to be out of compliance during food safety inspections in January by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
1 violation: Plumbing system not maintained in good repair. Observed active leaking at the compression fitting below the dedicated hand wash sink. A catch basin was used to catch the leaked waste water. Part ordered. Picture taken.
3 violations: A sanitizer wiping cloth container at the hand wash station was not labeled; observed wet wiping cloth lying on a dining room table and not stored in sanitizer solution between uses; frozen pork patties were found thawing on the counter top.
4 violations: The food facility does not maintain Food Employee Certification records, as required. Information was unavailable to determine that a certified employee is available at the facility; food facility does not have the original certificate for the certified food employee posted in public view (sixth notice); outside waste handling unit has no drain plug. (repeat violation - twice in 2016 and once in 2017); old unused equipment and boxes of single service items, stored in rear area, should be removed from food facility, if not in use. Equipment and boxes have accumulated over several inspections, without abatement (Repeat in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017).
3 violations: An interior thermometer was not found inside the reach in cooler. Outside indicator was reading 28 degrees, when the actual temperature was reading 39 degrees; a tong was stored on the oven handle at the grill area. Item moved; plumbing system not maintained in good repair. Observed leaking at the second basin steel fitting (a different location than before). Discussed options with management.
8 violations: Ham butts held inside the Master-Bilt cooler were not date-marked; food employees observed in food prep area not wearing proper hair restraints, such as net or hat; food employee observed touching toast, a ready to eat food, with bare hands; loose rubber caulking and dust was found at the galvanized hood seam, that was directly over a food prep area; frozen pork shall be thawed using an approved method and not on the tabletop (repeat); food was held inside the Master-Bilt reach in cooler and the stainless steel stand up cooler at the service area at 48 and 50 degrees, rather than 41 degrees, or below as required. Discussed options; single-use gloves were stored inside equipment that smelled musty, upon opening the door. Discussed options; no sign or poster posted at the female restroom hand wash sink was found to remind food employees to wash their hands; paper towel dispenser was empty at the kitchen hand wash sink.
14 violations: Management does not have adequate control of food safety in this food facility as evidenced by this non-compliant inspection and repeat violations; a gallon container of pesticide (half used) was found on the floor inside the employee restroom. Directions stated against the use inside a food facility. Manager stated that it is only used outside the building; employees were eating lunch at one food prep table in the kitchen. Owner states that the table is cleaned and sanitized after use and before using it as a food prep table, again; some food trays were loosely covered inside the walk in cooler; food boxes were on the floor on the walk-in freezer; raw food were over ready-to-eat foods; loose caulking was found at the seams inside the grill hood. This material was directly over a food prep area and shall be removed immediately to prevent contamination with foods directly below; food is hanging on multiple shelves inside the walk in cooler. Shelves shall be cleaned to prevent cross-contamination of food directly below; chicken wings and multiple foods inside three separate steam tables were held at 109-120 degrees, rather than 135 degrees or above, as required. All foods were internally checked with a calibrated and sanitized thermometer. Restaurant recently opened. Thermostat adjusted on all units. (repeat in 2013 and 2015). Multiple temperature checks validated hot food temperatures, prior to departure; food facility does not have available or could not find chlorine sanitizer test strips to determine appropriate sanitizer concentration of the third basin nor of the dish machine's effectiveness; black mold residue found on the steel ice deflector plate and the white attachment of the ice machine at one waitress station. (repeat); Several shelves inside walk in cooler had rust and have food debris. Cleaning has not been recent. (repeats in 2012, 2014 and 2016); Hibachi Grill and back kitchen hand sink hot water knob was turned off, due to leaks. Opened valve to check hot water. Water restored. Repairs are scheduled; plumbing system not maintained in good repair. Observed excessive leaking at both triple sinks at the bases and above the knobs at several fixtures. The dedicated hand wash sink by the front Hibachi grill and by the kitchen triple sink valve was closed, due to adjustments/leaks (repeats); The lid to the grease container outside was left open during the inspection. Grease residue was found on the top, front and ground; black mold-like residue, bubbling of paint and salt deposits were found along the interior wall of the employee's restroom adjacent to the hand sink. Picture taken. Discussed abatement options with owner.
12 violations: Facility has written procedures, but does not have the actual spill kit, as discussed during the previous inspection year; management does not have adequate control of food safety in this food facility as evidenced by this non-compliant inspection and repeat violations; Food employee observed changing tasks. Wiped down the prep area, placed frozen food in the microwave oven, etc. that may have contaminated hands without a proper hand wash in between. Again, the employee wiped off an in-use knife with sanitizer and continued to make food, touch rolls with her gloved hands; food employee was observed in food prep area, not wearing proper hair restraint, such as a net or hat; frozen steak was found on the Bain Marie cooler shelf without protection below; employee wiped an in-use knife with a sanitizer cloth and placed it back in use. Procedure stopped immediately. Discussed the importance of sanitizer and cross-transfer to foods that are ready-to-eat; loose caulking found at the hood seams, directly below the fryer unit; food was held at 46-48 degrees in the cooler unit area, rather than 41 degrees or below, as required. Cooling recovered prior to my departure; pre-packaged subs and salads were not labeled properly with the ingredient statement and net weight, as required; an in-use knife was not allowed to air dry after being placed in sanitizer. This knife was then used to cut rolls; hand wash sink at the dish room was blocked by a mop bucket and has not been cleaned nor used. Discussed options; upon arrival into the female restroom noticed a foul sulphur odor. Toilets and sinks were flushed, without abatement; A/C and heater vents show black static dust. These vents were found above the ice machine and throughout the dining room area.
7 violations: Observed foods stored under dirty ventilation ducts and subject to potential contamination; wood legs/concreted block legs/steel legs supporting equipment in the area are not smooth, non-absorbent, corrosion resistant; interior wall of walk in cooler has broken base and is in need of repair; several storage racks and shelving, possible food contact surfaces, were observed to have food residue and was not clean to sight and touch; non-food contact surfaces not cleaned at a frequency to preclude accumulation of dirt and soil; the handwash sink in the produce prep area was blocked by case lots and storage crates and not accessible at all times for employee use; storage and walk in cooler areas of the food facility are extremely dirty, dusty and in need of cleaning; wall in the produce prep area has a hole or is broken and in need of repair; wall in the storage area has a hole/block separation and in need of repair.
1 violation: Plumbing system not maintained in good repair. Again observed leaking at the triple sink faucet base (repeat).
2 violations: Heavy flour dust, charred debris and food residues were found on mixer equipment, baking pans, floor, ingredient bins, etc. in the bakery. Discussed aggressive cleaning options with the owner; ceiling tile, directly over the pan pans is still open in the bakery. Discussed options.
2 violations: The food facility does not have an original certificate for the Certified Food Employee posted in public view (second notice); outside waste handling unit has no drain plug. Part ordered.


Let’s talk about Dread Pirate Roberts.
2) Has a reputation for never leaving any captives alive.
3) Oh and it turns out that he’s actually not just one man but is actually a series of individuals who pass the name and identity of Dread Pirate Roberts onto a chosen successor.
4) And the hero of The Princess Bride, Westley, gets captured by Dread Pirate Roberts, works for him for 3 years, and then assumes the mantle of Dread Pirate Roberts himself.
And that’s Dread Pirate Roberts for you in a nutshell.
And here’s the part where I teach you how to adopt the mantle of...Dread Pirate Roberts!
I got to admit here that this one is a kind of a complicated one to either 'cheapen down' or to 'wear properly' so to speak.
So many of these items are very informal in nature and really don’t have many solid rules on how to go about them.
At the same time, many of these items can certainly be substituted by more common items, but yet the simplicity of the original items themselves makes you wonder if you’re better off sticking with them in the first place...maybe they can be used for something else later that your substituted items ’t be.
1) Black head wrap and black sash can actually just be something as simple as a piece of black cloth and/or fabric...they’re not very complex after all.
2) Believe it or not the black face mask can technically be made by yourself by just simply putting 2 holes in a piece of black cloth (like the one from above) and tying it around your eyes...if done so correctly then things should align correct. Obviously, the measuring, fitting, and aligning is what’s going to be difficult.
3) Black shirt, black pants, black gloves, and possibly even the black belt can all be substituted from everyday items like pajamas or an oversized large long-sleeved and loose t-shirt. And it should go without saying that those items would be worn like how you would wear them normally.
4) Alright, here’s where we run into some potential difficulties. The rapier holder and the rapier itself is something you should seriously consider either switching things up to a more 'publically friendly and socially acceptable' version (such as a toy sword and 'holster') or to simply not include them. They can be inconvenient to log around, and plus you run into the same issues as you do with other 'weapon-type' items where you might find yourself in either legal trouble or trouble from the host(s) of the place where you’re cosplaying. Also, it may not be cost-worthy for many people seeing as how you’ll have to decide if the rapier and its holder have uses outside of this costume, how much use, and if ’s worth your money in your own opinion...have to make a judgment call here.
One Dread Pirate Roberts ready to assume the identity and continue the reign, rule, and reputation of the world’s most feared and deadliest pirate of all the Seven Seas!


A man accused of aiding a terrorist group has been refused bail after a court heard he was recorded telling his wife he had to leave Australia before he was arrested.
Omar Succarieh, 31, of Kuraby, south of Brisbane, is charged with making funds available to Jabhat al-Nusra, which has been linked to Al Qaeda, between August 2013 and September 2014.
He was arrested last week when a taskforce of Queensland and federal police raided the Islamic Centre at Logan.
A bail hearing at Supreme Court in Brisbane was told of a secret recording in which Succarieh expressed support for the group.
Commonwealth DPP assistant director Shane Hunter said Succarieh had said: "I love Jabhat al Nusra. Love it. Yes, I'm a JN, you know."
In an affidavit tendered to the court, an AFP officer confirmed that Omar Succarieh was the brother of Ahmed Succarieh, the first Australian suicide bomber who died in Syria in September 2013.
The AFP alleged its investigation found Omar Succarieh was sending money to help another brother, Abraham Succarieh, and the "specified terrorist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra (JN)".
The AFP affidavit said Omar, Ahmed and Abraham Succarieh were all Australian citizens.
During its investigation, the AFP claimed it identified two separate transfers of funds between Omar and Abraham Succarieh in February and June 2014.
It alleged the amount of the first transfer was unknown and the second amount was $27,000.
The AFP claimed the brothers used a "number of communications methods and devices", including mobile phones believed to have been obtained "under false aliases" to keep in contact with groups and individuals that supported terrorist groups.
In the affidavit, the court was told AFP officers monitored frequent phone calls, alleging the brothers spoke in "coded conversation", referring to money as "sweets".
"However as the calls progress the code is dropped and they discuss sums of money," the AFP affidavit said.
The AFP claimed Omar Succarieh also frequently accessed graphic material "pertaining to violent Islamic militarism; torture, mutilation and executions of individuals".
"This included an incident where the defendant was observed to watch a video of fighters being tortured while waiting in the arrivals hall of the Brisbane International Airport, in full view of members of the public," the statement said.
The AFP alleged Omar Succarieh was "likely to attempt to interfere with witnesses" if released on bail.
Succarieh's lawyer Peter Callaghan argued there was nothing in the evidence to indicate his client knew Jabhat al-Nusra was a terrorist organisation or that money was provided to the group.
Mr Hunter told the court Succarieh was also recorded telling his wife he had to leave Australia before he was arrested.
"He's also ostensibly over the last few months divested himself of assets including the place of residence," he said.
"He has been recorded in a conversation with his aunt discussing that she might take over the lease of his current rented premises as he's intending to go overseas.
"Given the recorded conversations of last week ... if he's indicating an intention to do effectively to do all he can to leave before he's arrested, the factor of a likely penalty on his risk, unacceptable risk of flight, is not as great when we have someone whose committed to leave regardless."
Mr Hunter also told the court about conversations between Succarieh in Australia and his brother Abraham in Syria.
"Codes are used. In that first entry he says he's got things for you, and asks how he wants to go about it, and Abraham replies, 'Same as last time'," Mr Hunter said.
He said about a week later they discussed 30 kilograms of "sweets".
"It's clear that there is money in Omar's possession and that it's sent overseas through his mother when one looks at the coded conversations in there totality and its received by Abraham," Mr Hunter said.
Succarieh is also charged with preparation for incursions into a foreign state between February and March 2014, and unlawful possession of a growth hormone.
In refusing bail, Justice David Jackson said Succariah was "an unacceptable risk of failing to appear and surrendering into custody notwithstanding the conditions of the proposed draft order".
"For those reasons in my view the application must be dismissed," he said.
Succarieh's lawyer Dan Rogers spoke outside the court.
"As you've seen today, the law in these cases makes it extremely difficult for any person to be given bail," he said.
"However moving forward, Mr Succarieh is entitled to have this matter determined on objective facts rather than any current political or international events."
A second man charged over the Logan raid, Agim Kruezi, 21, from Boronia Heights, was remanded in custody on September 11.
Kruezi is accused of recruiting people for the Islamic State jihadist group between July 2013 and September 2014 to fight in Syria and Iraq.


NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Ali Bokhari, now 39, emigrated from Pakistan in 2000 and eventually settled here as a taxi driver, and soon experienced a quintessentially American itch, a sense that "I cannot grow."
But he had an idea: "I can build a better business model for something Nashville has been missing." He built it, and now knows that no good deed goes unpunished by today's political model - collusion between entrenched businesses and compliant government.
Bokhari bought a black Lincoln sedan and began offering cut-rate rides - an average of $25 - to and from the airport, around downtown, and in neighborhoods not well served by taxis. After one year he had 12 cars. Now he has 20, and 15 independent contractors with their own cars, and a website, and lots of customers.
He also has some enemies, including the established taxi companies, and a city government that is devoted to regulations that protect the strong by preserving the status quo.
With the quiet support of the taxi companies, which have not raised rates since Bokhari and some similar entrepreneurs went into business, the limo companies got regulators to mandate a $45 minimum charge for any ride. Not content with that gross injury, government added crippling insults: It limited the age of cars and number of miles on them - regardless of the cars' conditions - and forbade dispatches from cellphones, which is how startup limo companies operate.
Represented by the Austin, Texas, office of the Institute for Justice, the nation's only libertarian public interest law firm, Bokhari is seeking judicial recognition of his constitutional right to economic liberty. Since the New Deal, courts, with no textual or any other constitutional basis, have distinguished between economic and non-economic liberty.
Giving the latter scant protection, courts have permitted any government infringement of it that can be said to have a "rational basis." This absurdly permissive test has produced a charade of judging - a dereliction of the judicial duty to protect liberty.
But the Constitution, and especially the 14th Amendment, is supposed to protect the individual's liberty, including economic liberty, from government's depredations. One purpose of that amendment's protection was to defend the economic liberties of freed slaves from laws restricting entry into trades and businesses - laws written to insulate white Southern businessmen from competition. But the amendment protects all the "privileges or immunities" of all Americans.
In 2002, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Tennessee law that prohibited anyone without a license from selling caskets. The court said the law did nothing to protect the public and merely shielded licensed funeral directors from competition. This victory was achieved by the Institute for Justice.
In 2004, however, the 10th Circuit upheld an Oklahoma law requiring online casket retailers to have funeral director's licenses, which require several years of course work, a one-year apprenticeship, the embalming of 25 bodies, and two written exams.
The court did not dispute that this is protectionism, but breezily wrote that "while baseball may be the national pastime of the citizenry, dishing out special economic benefits to certain in-state industries remains the favored pastime of state and local governments."
The 10th Circuit is right about the practice but is disgracefully tolerant of treating economic liberty as a plaything of politicians, who should be forbidden from favoring some interests and disfavoring others. The 6th Circuit is correct that government acts illegitimately when it abets the use of laws to transfer wealth from the disfavored to the favored.
Immigrants such as Bokhari often remind this nation of the principles that drew them here. Unfortunately, the nation often needs reminding.


So what have been the highlights, the disappointments, the fairytales, the breakthroughs, the surprises, the good, the bad and the ugly for everyone this year?
Comeback of the year: undoubtedly Federer back with a bang winning the Aus Open after being out of the game for 6 months - amazing achievement at his age, and a real exhilarating moment. Also, an honourable mention for Kvitova for returning to the game so quick after her ordeal last year, reaching US Open quarters, beating Muguruza on the way.
Achievement of the year: 'la decima' - Nadal's historic 10th French open title. He was so secure and serene on way to his win. Also, Serena winning Australian Open whilst pregnant, and Jack Sock's late, late run to reach the World Tour Finals.
Anti-climax of the year: Murray's stint at world number one. It was a fantastic achievement for him to reach the summit in 2016 but it obviously took a lot out of him, and other than a decent French Open (lost to Wawrinka in semi-finals in 5 sets) its been a year to forget for him. Also, its got to be said that other than the Aus Open final, the mens' slam finals were pretty underwhelming this year.
Breakthrough player of the year: Has to be Ostapenko, who'd not previously gone deep at a slam, winning the French Open in thrilling fashion. On the men's side, Shavapolov's rise to prominence during the North American hardcourt season was thrilling to see.
Idiot of the year: Dan Evans, thrown away all that good work when he rose up the rankings in 2016 - expect he'll never be able to reach those heights when he comes back. Also, Kyrgios, who despite having calmed down for most of year, ruined it all by walking out of his match with Johnson at Shanghai masters.
Unluckiest player of the year: Cilic, clearly hampered by the blisters during the Wimbledon final against Federer. Also, a long list of injured players: Murray, Nishikori, Wawrinka, Raonic, etc.
Most improved player of the year: Dimitrov - still prone to bouts of inconsistency, but his results this year show he's clearly stepped up a level, and he's now playing with a real intensity. Also, Goffin, who's added a real steeliness and mental toughness to his game.
Most surprisingly good player of the year: Jack Sock - added a lot to the World Tour Finals, and demonstrated that there's more to his game than a big serve and forehand.
Most disappointing player of the year: Whilst Nadal was undoubtedly brilliant in the French Open final, Wawrinka was v poor in that match. May be a tad harsh, given he's only 20, but Alex Zverev for underperforming at the slams.
Villain of the year: Undoubtedly Nastase for those horrendous comments about skin colour of Serena Williams' baby.
2) Federer winning his fifth Australian Open title, aged 35, seven years after his last Australian title.
3) Nadal winning his 3rd US Open title (and 6th non-clay grand slam title), four years after his last US Open title, aged 31.
4) Nadal winning his 10th title at Roland Garros (but this is what Nadal does).
ps I stopped following women's tennis in earnest a while ago (for the main reason I found them too screechy / noisy).
The year belonged to Rafa and Rog. 2016 had been the Djoko and Murray show, which proved that over the last two years that even if two of the Big Four are not firing/injured you still have to get past the other two.
Interesting that Zverev is considered by some to have had a good year but a disappointing one at the same time. I think he could have done even better, given there were so many absentees in the last part of the season.
But he's only 20 and his results are, I believe, the best for someone his age since Murray and Djoko were 20 years old in 2007.
Sock had a sensational end to the season, as did Goffin and Dimi. The Bulgarian had too many disappointing defeats for it to be a great season but at least he started and finished well. Wonder if he could do a Stan and start winning slams in his late 20s.
I agree that Shapovalov could go on to great things.
Rafa won, incredibly, for the 10th time in Paris, but for me the outstanding performance was Fed in Melbourne. Having been out for six months he beat four top-10ers to take a GS at 35, playing incredible tennis to do it.
Ostapenko was a sensational winner at RG and is a big talent. No outstanding player on the women's side this year, though. The openness of the competition was highlighted by not one but two surprise finalists at the USO.
I don't think that either of the top two players on the men's side, Rafa or Roger, quite reached the level Djokovic was playing at in his best years (2011 and 2015 and/or 2016). So, I think IF Djokovic or even Andy can come back to their very best they can go right back to the top again.
I decided to watch women's tennis more this year, but I still tend to turn it off after a minute or so when I realise how screechy they are. Even matches between players that I didn't think do it, still do.
When Azarenka got to no 1, I decided I wouldn't watch any match in any tournament until after I heard she was knocked out. And once I decided that, she started getting to semis and finals consistently, other players did the same screeching after her, and I have never really tuned back in since then.
I am getting a bit bored of men's tennis at times and I was hoping women's tennis would step up as the big 4 fade out but instead I'm just watching less tennis.
Henman Bill wrote: I don't think that either of the top two players on the men's side, Rafa or Roger, quite reached the level Djokovic was playing at in his best years (2011 and 2015 and/or 2016). So, I think IF Djokovic or even Andy can come back to their very best they can go right back to the top again.
Pretty certain that the Djokovic of early 2016 and the Murray of all of 2016 would have cleared up a majority of the big titles this season. RG, Wimbledon and USO were particularly disappointing slams as the winner never seemed too pushed or any matches in the balance. The matches that could have been close (Rafa v Stan and Rog v Cilic) were disappointingly one sided. USO I don't think there was a single good match (bar Delpo v Thiem).
Regarding the grunting - mens tennis can be just as bad. I find Sharapova unwatchable completely though. Nadal is pretty loud at times too.
A good year for Federer and Nadal who dominated the slams and a good number of the Masters 1000.
Zverev the younger had a good year as well. I know that his slam record is poor but at 20 Federer was not doing very well in slams and we know how that turned out.
Dimitrov and Goffin along with Sock appear to have stepped up and taken their opportunities. Will be interesting to see how they get on early in 2018. Goffin for one must be tired.
The Wawrinka/Murray FO Semi turned out to be a very key match in the season as it appeared to cause or aggravate injuries that more or less ended their seasons.
Disappointing that no one else really took advantage of the number of top players injured apart from those mentioned previously.
The start of 2018 will be interesting. How will the injured come back. Roger and Rafa were not 100% at the end of the season. Without the long break that both had in 2016 how will they fare.
I don't think there was a 2018 prediction thread. I don't think I'd dare even guess if there is. It's going to be very unpredictable this time.
Henman Bill wrote: I don't think there was a 2018 prediction thread. I don't think I'd dare even guess if there is. It's going to be very unpredictable this time.
OK, HB. For good or worse, I'm going to start an '18 prediction thread.


Inhalers "can make asthma victims shorter in adulthood"
Children taking inhaled steroid drugs for asthma end up being slightly shorter as adults than those not using the medication, say researchers.
On average, children on steroids for asthma were half an inch shorter than their peers.
It is the first major study to follow children with asthma into adulthood for height checks, even though many parents have long held concerns about steroids potentially affecting their growth.
But they should be reassured that steroids can be lifesaving and untreated asthma can also lead to poor growth, according to doctors.
The study findings were presented yesterday at the European Respiratory Society meeting in Vienna, Austria, and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
It involved more than 1,000 children aged 5-12 who were treated for mild to moderate asthma for four years as part of a U.S. clinical trial.
The children were divided into three groups: one received twice-daily budesonide, an inhaled corticosteroid medication; a second group received nedocromil, an inhaled non-steroid medication; and a third group received a placebo.
All children received albuterol, a fast-acting drug also known as salbutamol for relief of acute asthma symptoms, and oral corticosteroids as needed for asthma symptoms.
The researchers followed 943 participants in the trial at regular intervals until they reached adult height at 18 for girls and 20 or older for men.
The average adult height was about one-half inch, or 1.2cm, shorter in the group that received budesonide than in those taking nedocromil or placebo.
The patients who had slower growth were primarily between 5-11 years old when they began using budesonide.
The slower growth took place only in the first two years of the four-year study.
As the study progressed, the children who took the budesonide remained one-half inch shorter through adulthood than the children who did not use the drug.
Study leader Robert Strunk, the Donald Strominger Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, said 'This was surprising because in previous studies, we found that the slower growth would be temporary, not affecting adult height.
The researchers considered other factors that might have affected growth, including gender, age at the time the child entered the trial, how long the child had had asthma, as well as ethnicity, severity of asthma and reactivity to a skin test for allergies.
Prof Strunk said 'We found it made no difference if they were boys or girls or how long they had had asthma.
Prof Strunk said physicians monitor the progress of children with asthma to check for side effects from steroids.
He said 'If a child is not growing as they should, we may reduce their steroid dose.
'But we think that the half-inch of lowered adult height must be balanced against the well-established benefit of inhaled corticosteroids in controlling persistent asthma.
Inhaled corticosteroids are the most effective form of anti-inflammatory treatment for asthma, which affects one in seven children in Britain.
Malayka Rahman, research analysis and communications officer at Asthma UK, says: 'We know that some people with asthma don't always take their medicines as prescribed because they are concerned about the side effects of their medication.
'Inhaled corticosteroids are highly effective in the treatment of asthma and can save lives. So it is crucial to remember the benefits of taking inhaled steroids and these often far outweigh the costs.
Are asthma inhalers linked to birth defects?


Ambling through a forgotten corner of the country offers a charming change of pace from Lisbon and the Algarve.
When you walk at high altitude - hiking through a mountain range, say - seasoned walkers claim the trick is to go slowly. It gives your body time to acclimatise to the thin air. When my husband and I went walking through south-west Portugal, we set an unhurried pace for a different reason. We simply had nowhere to get to.
We were following the Rota Vicentina, a 450-kilometre network of trails through what's been described as "Europe's empty corner". The paths trace the Atlantic from Santiago do Cacém, two hours south of Lisbon, to Cape St. Vincent, Portugal's most south-westerly point. Rural farmland is punctuated by the occasional village and miles of pristine, rugged coastline are wondrously devoid of development. Other travellers are scarce. As we ambled along the windswept cliffs we marvelled at the many small coves and beaches below, their smooth sand unblemished by a single footprint.
There's very little here to anchor an itinerary; we were never walking to anywhere in particular. Instead, we soaked in the environment until we were saturated with fresh air and a sense of boundless space. In the evenings, over a cheap dinner of grilled sardines or octopus and a carafe of Vinho Verde, we would pick out a section of the trail for the next day. The two main paths - the coastal Fishermen's Trail and the inland Historical Way - are divided into bite-sized portions which can be mixed and matched into a personalised route. One morning we stood at the edge of the continent, the salty wind in our faces and the sound of the Atlantic smashing itself against the rocks in our ears. That afternoon we followed an unpaved country road through verdant pastures, exploring the crumbling ruins of an old farmhouse as disinterested cows lazily flicked their tails around us.
The Rota Vicentina was created in 2012 to preserve one of the last coastal wildernesses in southern Europe, and to inject economic energy into Portugal's poorest region. Urgent and important goals, and yet the newly established tourist industry displays remarkable restraint. The landscape hasn't been transformed by visitors' centres and hotels. Rather, simple wooden signposts in the sand guide you around the next headland, and a network of small, independent guesthouses provide respite for tired feet.
On our last day, our hosts Fabio and Barbara at Maravilha da Costa B&B served us a simple but delicious breakfast of fruit, yoghurt, bread, ham and cheese. As we sat down to eat we couldn't help but smile - each slice of cheese had been cut into the shape of a butterfly. It was a small gesture but we were thoroughly charmed by it, as we were by everything else in that unassuming region, that forgotten pocket of Portugal.


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Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas has a new argument for why charges alleging he stole campaign donations and failed to report his use of inaugural funds should be dismissed.
He claims he wasn't given the chance to testify before the grand jury.
Thomas' lawyer, Randall Jackson, accused prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office of acting in bad faith in rushing the case towards an indictment while Thomas was seeking to block them from continuing the case against the mayor. He said it was their own actions that precluded Thomas from having a "reasonable opportunity" to testify..
"The Attorney General's decision to convene the Grand Jury while Mayor Thomas' emergency motion was pending is precisely the type of gamesmanship that courts have found improper," Jackson wrote to Westchster County Judge Larry Schwartz in a motion to dismiss the indictment.
The court filing showed that Thomas was scheduled to appear before a Westchester County grand jury on May 15.
His lawyers told prosecutors that he was not available at that time because his challenge of their authority to prosecute the case was still pending in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. They emphasized that they were not waiving the mayor's testimony but just wanted it postponed.
The prosecutors responded that if Thomas did not show up they would assume he was rescinding his notice that he wanted to testify.
Thomas didn't appear and he was indicted the next day on charges of grand larceny and offering a false statement for filing. Later that week, the judge in Manhattan denied Thomas' challenge, saying he no longer had jurisdiction because of the indictment in another county.
The new dismissal motion cites the grand jury testimony issue and repeats Thomas' initial challenge: that the Attorney General's Office could not pursue the case because the investigation was based on an improper referral from the state Comptroller.
The Comptroller has authority over public funds, and campaign and inaugural money are not public. But prosecutors maintain that the initial referral from the Comptroller was based on something they had authority over but the AG's probe branched into the campaign and inaugural funds.
Neither the Attorney General's Officer nor the Comptroller's Office have publicly disclosed the nature of the original referral. Prosecutors have until June 13 to respond to Thomas' motion to dismiss the indictment.
The 35-year-old first term mayor was arrested March 12, accused of stealing $12,900 in 2015 campaign funds and failing to report on city ethics forms more than $45,000 he took from his inaugural committee.
The eight-count indictment, which includes six felonies and two misdemeanors, added some charges but the allegations mirror the criminal complaint from his arrest in March.


tl;dr – This article is about expand marketing and offers strategies for keeping the customers you already have.
Does your marketing follow through? Or does it put all its work into getting the customer, and then passes things off to customer service after the first sale?
The real money in business is in the long-term relationships you’ll build with your clients. Their lifetime value. The referrals they can send. The products and services they’ll buy. Not just during the first sale, but in the years to come.
Expand marketing focuses on those later events. It’s what happens after the first sale. Expand marketing is related to retention and loyalty marketing, but retention and loyalty are traditionally just about keeping your existing customers. Expand marketing is more about growing your relationships with them.
Some of the best marketers have been prioritizing what comes after the sale for a while. In research we did with Econsultancy, it was this focus on retention that most separated the leaders in marketing from their mainstream peers.
We’re guessing you’d like to join those leaders. So here are 10 ways to get there.
Get serious about your customer advocacy program and the customer experience it nurtures.
Customer experience is becoming the only brand differentiator that matters. It’s expected to matter even more than price and product by 2020.
Having a customer advocacy program basically means that you’ve made a conscious commitment to improving your customers’ experience (aka “customer-centric marketing”).
Having someone in charge of customer advocacy. Preferably someone who’s well-known and well-respected throughout your company, and who has experience working across departments.
Having a dedicated budget for improving the customer experience. It’s all chatter until there’s money on the table. If your company is serious about a customer advocacy program, you need to have actual, dedicated budget for it.
Having a documented customer advocacy strategy and plan. This is your company’s game plan for improving customer experience.
Executive support. Any time a new department or project sprouts up, it means you’re going to get in the way of peoples’ day-to-day work. But they’re already short on time and worried about their jobs (or at least their raises and bonuses). Your cute little project may get in the way of their goals. So you better have the blessing and backup from at least one powerful person. You’ll need that support along the way.
Having pre-defined metrics to measure success. Don’t get six months and tens of thousands of dollars into this without some way to show your results.
Also known as “referral marketing,” this is when existing customers bring you new customers. It’s an ideal way to grow your business, because referred customers tend to spend more and stay longer; in other words, they’re better-than-average customers.
Interestingly enough, most B2B sales happen through referrals. In fact, 90% of B2B buying decisions are influenced by peer recommendations and 84% of B2B buyers start their purchasing process with a referral.
The trick is how to ask your existing customers to refer you to these attractive strangers. And, surprisingly, it’s not so hard to do. You just have to ask.
This sort of ask often brings up the sticky issue of payment, either to your existing customer or to the new customer, usually in the form of a discount or throwing in some component of your service for free.
Discounts and freebies can work … but be careful. They tend to not work as well as you’d think they would. Really, the best referrals come simply because your team did an extra good job, and your client was genuinely pleased. So pleased they thought to mention your work to a friend or colleague.
So keep the referral channels open and make sure your clients know you welcome and encourage referrals. But if you’re tempted to start spending money on this, use that money instead on improving your products and services. That indirect route will actually get you more referrals in the long run.
It’s marketing 101 – so you’re offering cross sells and upsells, right?
If you missed marketing 101 (or it’s been so long you can’t remember), cross-sells are where you offer a similar, complimentary item. For instance, say you buy a $50 hat, and the retailer offers you a pair of gloves. That’s a cross-sell.
If the retailer shows you a nicer and more expensive hat – and you buy it – that’s an upsell.
Do not overlook these simple but wildly effective tactics. They’ve been doubling revenues for marketers all the way back to printed catalogs, even all the way back to the days of mid-century advertising/marketing legend David Ogilvy.
Have an onboarding program (or more than one).
When new customers come on board, they’re terrified they’ve made a bad decision. Their radar is up for signs of problems. If you can defuse that radar by giving them a strong onboarding experience, you’ll allay most of those fears.
Even a couple of good, reassuring experiences early on will make your new customers trust you a lot more. And that means they’ll give you the benefit of the doubt later on.
Onboarding programs also tend to encourage use of your products or services. And as you know, if people buy but then don’t really use your stuff, when their budget cuts come around, your company will get cut first. Because they weren’t really using your stuff anyway.
Onboarding programs also work because they’re the ideal opportunity to train your new clients in how to best use your products or services. And the better they know how to work with you, the more likely they are to get good results. And the more results they get … well, the more likely they are to stick around, buy more stuff, and refer their friends. It’s the opposite of a vicious cycle – it’s a virtuous cycle.
Still not convinced of the power of onboarding? Consider this: 23 percent of customers churn due to poor onboarding. And yet, only 36% of B2B marketers are using marketing automation for customer onboarding and retention programs.
Offer continuing education content and experiences.
What we know about our product and what our customers know about our product are not the same thing.
We may think our product is awesome because we can zoom through work in half the time, or we can do stuff our competitions’ tools could never do. But if our customers don’t know how to use our product like that, they’re out of luck. And eventually, we’ll be out of luck, too (when they leave).
So if you want your customers to stay, and to rock your products as you know they could be doing – please – give them the training to do that.
Don’t charge them for it. Don’t make it hard to access the training. Don’t worry if a competitor might sneak into a webinar once in a while. Give the information freely. Make it easy to understand, easy to apply, easy to access.
Bonus points if you actively reach out to your customers to get their feedback on what training they want you to create next (like via surveys).
And even more bonus points if you offer events and other fun stuff to make the learning even more fun. And easy … did I mention easy?
Here’s a stat that stopped me in my tracks: One third of Americans are so adverse to interacting with customer service that they’d rather clean a toilet bowl instead.
Dunno about you, but I can find a lot of things to do before I get around to cleaning a toilet. I might even fuss with my tax forms first.
So if your customers (even some of them) are that resistant to call a service rep, how likely do you think they are to ask for help?
And if they don’t ask for help, and something’s wrong or not working, how likely do you think they are to look into other options, including your competitors?
The way to fix this is, obviously, to make it much easier for people to get help.
An online help area that’s actually … you know … helpful.
A chat box, preferably one that’s manned with smart, genuinely accommodating people at hours when your customers will need help. (Try to do better than 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., please).
A responsive social media/customer service team. More and more customer service is shifting to social media. You gotta be there.
We know all this customer support is expensive. Really good customer service people are treasures, and they need to be paid and rested and given the tools they require to do their work. And that’s just downright pricey.
So while you’re pondering how (or if) to pay for better customer service, consider this: How much more revenue could your company make if you reduced customer churn by even 10%? Or if you could get your existing customers to spend even 10% more with you? Would that fund even part of your customer service investments?
We’re calling this “the information age,” but in some ways it’s also the opinion age. Now that everybody can post whatever (almost whatever) they want online, it’s possible for your customers to post things … about you. About your company’s products, services, logo, events, and more.
They can also comment on your blog, or comment about you on third-party sites.
All this content is called “user generated content.” It can be leveraged to create more sales, both from your existing customers and from new ones.
Many companies manage online communities for their customers. This can be as simple as a private Facebook or LinkedIn group, or it could be as elaborate as a fully-staffed community forum on your website.
Some companies hire moderators; some don’t. Some of these communities are consciously created and managed by their focus company; others are created by customers, without company approval.
Some of these types of communities flourish and do great things for customer retention, and for product development, and for the company’s brand. Other communities launch … and then just fizzle.
That’s all a way of saying that online communities are a mixed bag. They’re tricky. And they’re not cheap. But some companies have had huge successes with this expand marketing tactic. Yours might too.
Use your data to build models of at-risk customers.
Marketers put a lot of focus on the buyer’s journey, and that’s good. But what if we put as much focus on saving customer relationships?
We’ve got the data for this already. We just need to build models that can predict when our existing customers are at risk.
It might be smart to build “churn profiles” as well. Not every customer becomes disengaged or leaves for the same reason.
Once you know where the risk points are, it’s time to take action. Test a few different intervention strategies. Would customer training help? Would an in-house visit from your product-optimization team make a difference? What if you just called your at-risk customer and asked them how things are going? It’s surprising how often a relationship can be saved with just a 10-minute phone call.
Use customer scoring to identify who your best customers are.
We all know about lead scoring – it’s a quantitative way to let sales people know which leads they should call first, and a way for marketers to identify which leads need to be warmed up some more before a sales call.
But what about giving that same treatment to your existing customers? After all, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” as the saying goes. So, shouldn’t we all have customer scoring programs?
Consider what would happen if you had to take an “acquisitions fast.” If your company had to shut down customer acquisitions for a period of time. Say a month. Or a year.
For most marketers, just the idea of that is enough to make your blood run cold. And, hey ‒ we get it. That’s why this is just a thought experiment.
But that kind of limitation could be a way to get really creative (and really active) in preserving and growing your existing customer relationships.
So take a deep breath. Get a pad of paper and a good pen. Imagine what you’d do to preserve revenue (and keep all your company staff employed) if you had no other source of revenue than your existing customers.
This may give you the sort of bold vision that could create a serious expand marketing program.
And, fortunately, once the thought experiment is done, you can still go back to doing customer acquisition, too.
What is your company doing to expand your relationships with existing customers? Leave a comment and tell us how it’s working.
Customer Feedback Fundamentals: What Do Your Customers Really Think?
Adam has 20+ years as a product and marketing leader, including leading Customer Marketing and Field Marketing teams, along with Product Marketing teams. He is an expert in B2B marketing strategies that range from the brand side, to the demand and expand parts of the customer journey.


Q&A and discussion on Aspects.
This has not been discussed too much at least not in relation to the sesquiquadrate and the semi-square. It's obvious that orbs for background planets for the aforementioned aspects should be .30 to partile, but what about aspects in the foreground or planets making 135 or a 45 to planets in the background? What is the cut off point where these aspects lose total power.
Venus_Daily wrote: This has not been discussed too much at least not in relation to the sesquiquadrate and the semi-square. It's obvious that orbs for background planets for the aforementioned aspects should be .30 to partile, but what about aspects in the foreground or planets making 135 or a 45 to planets in the background? What is the cut off point where these aspects lose total power.
On occasion, it does seem that these are valid. I tend to think, though, that the main reason it seems this way is that the 45/135 transits to the natal are valid regardless of whatever is happening in the SLR.
In general, we only want to look at aspects between/among foreground planets, and that is pretty much never going to include one of these. One also wouldn't ever count trines and sextiles of foreground planets to background planets in a lunar return (though, in that case, there is a further reason: they aren't "hard" or dynamic aspects).
As for orbs of those aspects in general, in a natal I never go past 2° for them. In transits and progressions, the 1° orb seems to prevail (even though it then amounts to half the total orb; nonetheless, there is something about that 60' drop-off).


Do people with autism have higher IQ scores?
The simple answer to this question is no. Various studies have concluded that having autism does not make a person more likely to have a higher IQ score, and, in fact, people with autism may be more likely to be mentally disabled (with an IQ score of less than 70 points). This was shown by an epidemiological study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, which assessed 156 children with autism between ages 10 and 14. Of the sample children, just 28 percent had average intelligence, while 55 percent had IQ scores below 70. Only 3 percent had IQ scores higher than 115.
Despite results like these, some researchers believe that autistic children are more intelligent than what can be concluded from their test scores. An article from Scientific American suggests that the problem may be that children with autism aren't able to accurately take traditional timed IQ tests, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children or the Stanford Binet assessment, because of the tests' structures and focus on societal and cultural knowledge.
Isabelle Soulieres, a researcher from Harvard, tested autistic children on both the WISC and Raven's Progressive Matrices, an assessment more in line with how their brain processes information, and found that they scored much higher on the Raven's test.
"Many of those who are considered low-functioning - if you give them other intelligence tests, you will find hidden potential," Soulieres told Scientific American. "They can solve really complex problems if you give them material that they can optimally process."
Interestingly, despite the fact that autistic children don't appear to be any more likely than the general population to have higher IQ scores, people who are born with the genes that are associated with autism may be a different story. A study published in Molecular Psychology researched nearly 10,000 individuals in Scotland, and discovered that those who had more of the genetic variations that have been linked with autism - but who don't have the disorder - are more likely to score better on cognitive assessments. Researchers aren't sure why this is, but say that it's an interesting development for research regarding the link between IQ and autism.
"Links between autism and better cognitive function have been suspected and are widely implied by the well-known Silicon Valley syndrome and films such as Rain Man," Nick Martin, co-author of the study, said in a statement.
Anxiety in social situations is a commonly cited symptom of some autism disorders, including Asperger syndrome. Research has found that autistic children who do have above-average intelligence may experience this anxiety more than others with ASD. According to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, of 231 autistic children between the ages of 2 and 9, those with higher IQ scores were more likely to have anxiety, especially if they also had a better understanding of social skills and showed more aggression than other children.
Clearly, various research has been done to determine whether autism and intelligence are connected, but there is still a lot more to do.


DIY Carpet Cleaning Service is Not Recommended For Your Office in London - Here is Why?
Does your home or office in London have carpets spread all over it? Do you want to keep them dust and dirt free with DIY carpet cleaning services in London? Walking on the dirty or stained carpets can be a frustrating experience for you as a homeowner or office owner. When you decide to treat the stains and odors of carpets on your own, they may get back to your after a few days time, causing various health problems. It is a very common problem for the owners who try carpet cleaning in London on their own mainly because they don't have the experience, skills and tools of a professional carpet cleaning service provider available in the area. Not only your DIY cleaning efforts can be ineffective, but also may go wrong damaging the carpet that can reduce its appeal and longevity too. Below is given a list of things identified by the carpet cleaning experts.
1. Excess Scrubbing: When you encounter coffee/tea spill marks or other stains in your London home or office carpet, you tend to scrub the stained area hard in order to clear it. You should not scrub so hard to remove stains from the carpet as it may damage the carpet fibers and compromise its look and life. The best trick you can try for stain removal from carpets.
2. Delayed Action: You should immediately act after coming across a stain on London home or office carpet, because the delay may allow the stain to sit permanently and get difficult to clear out. Not responding fast to a stain will not only let it absorb into the underlying layer of the carpet but also deposit there for longer. If this occurs, the chance of bad smell and mold development increases.
3. Wrong Kind of Cleaning Products: All the carpets are not same and should therefore cleaned with the most appropriate cleaning solutions. Using a cleaning product in DIY London carpet cleaning services that does not suit your carpet may result in fading and damage it. You will have to do an in-depth research at the time of purchasing cleaning solutions to be sure that it is perfect for cleaning your carpet.
4. Untested and Unsafe Cleaning Solutions: The carpet with a wrong kind of solution may cause great damage and add to your expenses. Hence, you need to apply a small amount of it in an invisible area of the carpet first to see how the carpet reacts. It will save you from the disastrous experience of facing any unpleasant reaction on the entire surface of the carpet.
5. Overuse of Deodorizing Alternatives: Deodorizing agents are there to include in your DIY cleaning services in London for removing bad odours from the carpet but they can never be an alternative for cleaning liquids. Over usage of these products may lead to unwanted deposits in your carpet that may not even go away with vacuum cleaning.
6. Choice of Chemical Cleaners in Place of Organic Cleaners: It will damage and create residue. So, try using eco-friendly or organic cleaners in stead of chemical cleaners.
7. Not Using Professional Carpet Cleaning Services in London: It is normally advised by carpet makers to have your carpets thoroughly cleaned once in a year for perfect look and condition. Dust, dirt, and other waste particles go deep into the carpet fibers and need professional cleaning services in London to get removed fully. These services will work best to ensure you a perfectly clean carpet with enhanced look and an extended life.
8. Renting Poorly Performing Cleaning Equipment: Most of you don't have the proper equipment to start cleaning but may be thinking to rent it soon. However, carpet cleaning equipment rental may not help much as poorly performing machines can ruin your cleaning experience completely.
There are many stain removers such as Vinegar, Hydrogen Peroxide, Salt or backing Soda which may be available to your Cabinet, but it requires right usage.
If you like DIY projects and feel interested in doing cleaning in London home on you own, take care of all the above described points as they may really make your carpet look worse than before. If you are not comfortable with the idea of cleaning on your own, consider hiring any professional carpet cleaning services in London provider to do the job beyond perfection.
This article is published by Glory Clean, a CSSA approved cleaning company providing quality and effective cleaning solutions to customers in and around Greater London. To enjoy the best in class carpet cleaning services in London, Glory Clean can be reached at 0207 118 0866.
Redecorating your office is tantamount to investing on modern furniture. How do you actually characterise modern furniture? Find out to get the best purchase on these items later on.
Such type of cab.inets are best for storing various items like laptops, cell phones, handbags, important documents, files and so on. It is most important for you to choose best and unique lockers for your office when it comes to consider constant thefts which occur in any workplace.
How to Care For The Blades on Your Ride on Mower?
Over time, it is not uncommon for your ride on mower's blades to develop issues, such as being unbalanced, bent or dull. This means that the blades need to be reconditioned or even replaced if the issue is serious enough.


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I'd like to take a peek under-the-hood while the machine is booting to see if I can identify where the time is being spent during the delay. Please follow the instructions below.
1. Click your Start Orb in the lower left of your computer and type cmd in the search box.
2. Once the cmd program is found, right-click on it with your mouse and select Run as administrator as shown below.
3. Answer Yes when asked to allow.
4. You should now have a black window open that you can type in to.
5. Type wpr -disablepagingexecutive on (Notice there is a space after the letters wpr) and hit enter on your keyboard. If this was done correctly you will see the following message.
Disable Paging Executive settings were successfully turned on.
Please reboot the machine for these settings to take effect.
1. Download (to your desktop) the Windows Performance Toolkit Redistributable from here.
2. Double-click on the installer on the desktop (WPTx64-x86_en-us.msi) and accept all defaults.
3. Click the Start Orb and type in recorder in the search box. Click on Windows Performance Recorder that shows up in the search results. Click Yes if asked to Allow.
4. Check the 6 boxes as shown below, change the performance scenario to boot and the number of iterations to 1.
6. Change the results path to the desktop and click Save.
7. You will get a message stating that the system will reboot. Click OK to allow it to happen. If you have a stopwatch, please let me know exactly how many seconds of delay there is on this boot.
8. Important: As soon as the logon screen comes up, sign in as quick as you can so this doesn't distort the trace.
9. Once you are at the desktop you will see the boot trace being created.
10. Then you will see a screen that is gathering system information.
11. Once complete, please click the Open Folder button at the bottom of the screen. It will bring you to the desktop with the trace file highlighted. Chances are that this file will be very large (1 GB or more) which is expected.
12. Right-click on this file and select Send to....compressed (zipped) folder. The file will still be large but about a tenth the size.
13. Please upload this zipped file to a service like wetransfer (I believe you used this service last time) and send me the link.
5. Type wpr -disablepagingexecutive off (Notice there is a space after the letters wpr) and hit enter on your keyboard. If this was done correctly you will see the following message.
Disable Paging Executive settings were successfully turned off.
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Then try following those steps to disable the paging executive.
If it works then pick up with bullet 3. of the Windows Performance Recorder.
Great job. I'm analyzing the log now. Would you mind providing fresh FRST and Addition logs? Instructions below. Thank you.
Description: De integriteit van de kopie van het bestand \Device\HarddiskVolume2\ComboFix\catchme.sys kan niet worden geverifieerd omdat de bestands-hash niet is gevonden op het systeem. Tijdens een recente hardware- of softwarewijziging is mogelijk een bestand geïnstalleerd dat onjuist ondertekend of beschadigd is, of dat mogelijk kwaadwillende software van een onbekende bron is.
Unfortunately the logs you provided didn't lead me to any definitive answer. I do see that it took 10 seconds to load your user profile however so I would like to rule out corruption. Can you create a new user and then log on with the new user? Please follow the instructions here to create one.
Let me know if the delay is present.
Well, I think after the scannow and chkdsk , I counted in my head the delay, it was arround 15 sec, so no 20sec anymore.
Now, I made a new account, rebooted the system, but the black screen still appears (stopwathc 11 seconds) then I get the screen to choose the account to login.
I'm not sure If I explained it correctly : But I first get the black screen with white arrow, then I get to see the account where I put the pasword, then it goes fast from there.
I'm not sure if a new account can help, as the black screen appears before I login (before I open an account with or without password).
I do understand and you are correct it wasn't likely going to make a difference since the delay is before the logon box but I appreciate you trying. I have a few other things I'd like to try. I'll put it together and post back once approved.
1. Click on your networking icon in your system tray by your time on the computer and then click "Open Networking and Sharing Center".
2. In the window that opens, click on Change adapter settings.
3. In the window that opens you will see your network adapters. Not sure if you are using a wireless adapter or physically connected but they will be in here.
4. Right-click on any enabled adapter and select Disable.
5. Reboot and see if the delay exists. Then go ahead and repeat the steps above but select Enable instead of Disable.
2. Run FRST64 by Right-Clicking on the file and choosing Run as administrator.
3. Press the Fix button just once and wait. If for some reason the tool needs a restart, please make sure you let the system restart normally. After that let the tool complete its run.
4. When finished FRST64 will generate a log on the Desktop (Fixlog.txt). Please post the contents of it in your reply.
1. Download Windows Repair (All-in-One) Portable to your desktop.
3. Keep the defaults and click the Extract button.
4. A folder named tweaking.com_windows_repair_aio will be extracted to the desktop. Once the extraction is complete the folder will open.
5. Inside this folder, there is a folder named Tweaking.com - Windows Repair. Open this folder as well.
6. Double-click on Repair_Windows.exe to open.
7. When the program opens, click the Repairs tab and click the Open Repairs button.
8. A backup of your registry will be made. After a few moments you will have many options from which you can choose.
10. Ensure the Restart check box is selected and click the Start Repairs button in the lower right of the screen. This may take some time to run so be patient.
11. Once the fixes are complete you will be prompted to restart your machine. Answer Yes and with any luck you won't have the delay.
After the fix (FRST64) : stopwatch: 07,18 sec.
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"C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\GQRWQQA" => File/Directory not found.
"C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\YLEIWO" => File/Directory not found.
"C:\Users\Owner\Downloads\adobe_flash_setup*.exe" => File/Directory not found.
"C:\Users\Owner\Downloads\setup (*).exe" => File/Directory not found.
"C:\Windows\Installer\127df613.msi" => File/Directory not found.
EmptyTemp: => Removed 100.8 MB temporary data.
I left the laptop on, when I went to the laptop, the laptop was off. I put the laptop on (boot) , now it seems that the delay is back 20 seconds (did not use stopwatch). Rebooted the laptop and this time I used the stopwatch: 11,33 sec.
Maybe the first boot after the windows repair took place, it needed more time to boot?


"I can't feel my face!" I thought, as I felt my face, wiping off the sprayed snow. Five-day-old stubble does not quite fulfill the biological purpose of a real beard. Or a scarf, but I didn't have one of those either.
A more correct subvocalization might have been "My face can't feel.", but it was cold, and I was tired. I had just fallen down trying to descend a particularly steep part of the slope. I wiped the snow off of my face, and put my glove back on, retrieved my missing ski, and descended the rest of the way without incident.
The day began with a phone call. Heather called to say that she wasn't going skiing after all. I tried to call Laura, but I kept getting her voicemail, so I just hung up and went back to bed for a while. I got up a while later, and decided to go skiing on my own. I made myself some breakfast, and then headed off. On the way, I called Doug to ask where to go. You see, I've never gone skiing, and I wasn't familiar with the lifts. There are three ski areas at Snoqualmie Summit with different sets of slopes. Since I hadn't ever skied before, he recommended I start at the conveyor belt, which was at Central.
I found Central, put on my boots, and headed up to take a look around. I found the conveyor belt pretty easily. It was a mostly flat area with a gentle incline and several groups of people teetering on their skis and snowboards. You know what they say, "When in Rome..." So, I went to the top of the slight incline and teetered along with them. I had never skied before, but I had heard lots of theory on the subject. When you learn to ski, the two most important things to remember are: pizza and french fries. To go slow, you point the front tips of your skis inward, making the shape of a slice of pizza. To turn in this configuration, you shift your weight onto the foot pointing the way in which you wish to go.
Parallel turnining is like french fries. It's a bit trickier, but the idea is to have your skis parallel, or very nearly so. Actually, the skis should be slightly open. You lean on the outward foot, and guide the turn with the other. The trick, as far as I can make out, is to shift from one direction to the other in sort of a zig-zagging pattern.
I spent a while on the slight incline, watching the others and doing what they were doing, and then decided that I was ready for the bunny slope. I fell a lot, at first. I like to ride the edge of my abilities, and the surest way to know the edge of your abilities is to exceed them. Also a great way to improve. I was at it for a while until I got hungry, so I checked my skis and poles and had a burger at the diner. After lunch, I went back to the 'Holiday' slope for a few runs, and that's about when the sun started going behind the mountain. I didn't want to spend all day on the bunny slope, so I took one last ride on the chairlift and cut across to the "Central Express" lift.
Once at the top, I decided to look for a way down where I would get to do some real skiing, but also not kill myself (those were, in that order, my two goals for the day). An arrow to the left said, "Easiest way down", no doubt a message for all the newbies who had taken the wrong lift and didn't want to hurt themselves. Meh, not for me. Several arrows pointed in the other direction, many of them black, but, in keeping with my goals, I selected a blue rout that, if you look here, is labelled 'Alpine'.
It was quite a rush. I fell a few times, but after a while I started to get the hang of it. There was one part that was especially steep. I tried going sideways, but I would get going too fast, and when it came to turning around, I was at too much of an angle and it was too steep for me to pull off the turn with any regularity. I knew the proper thing to do would be to point myself straight down and jump side to side, but you'll remember my second objective. I wasn't confident that I could control my descent on such a steep, long hill. After that first run, I did the same one again, and then again, each time falling less and having more fun, but never quite satisfied with my performance on that one hill.
On my fourth run, I realized that I couldn't feel my face, my legs were tired, there was snow in one of my boots, and it was getting dark. My technique was improving, but I still always had trouble on that one part. I would have left then, but I didn't feel like walking all the way to where my car was parked along the road.
I've never skiied or snowboarded before, but it's one of my goals for this year. (Or rather, next year.) Sounds fun though, despite all the falls.
Are you going to be down for conference?
Pictures please? Please? PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSEEEEEE? Look it's the weekend now! All this free time! I think a blog post would most certainly be in order!


Opinion: How bad is the new WMF bug? Research suggests that the WMF format has been officially ruined.
Microsoft really has improved the security of its code over the last few years. The fact that every now and then a bug like the new WMF bug still comes along just goes to show how careless the old code is.
The problem with the WMF (Windows Metafile) file format turns out to be one of those careless things Microsoft did years ago with little or no consideration for the security consequences.
Almost all exploits you read about are buffer overflows of some kind, but not this one. WMF files are allowed to register a callback function, meaning that they are allowed to execute code, and this is what is being exploited in the WMF bug.
As a result, it is surprisingly easy to get hit with this attack, even if you are being careful. Ive heard stories of experienced researchers being hit while researching the attack.
One way this might have happened, and its a good example of how easy it is, is through Google Desktop. F-Secure has demonstrated that Google Desktop users can become infected simply by downloading an infected file. When Google Desktop indexes the file it launches the exploit.
Adware sites appear to be going hog-wild with this attack. According to Sunbelt Software, over a thousand sites are spreading more than 50 variants of it, thanks to an underground adware infection network that acts something like the DoubleClick of adware.
This appears to be another one of those attacks that will become a permanent part of the Internet landscape. Rather than try to keep the format useful for its customers, Microsoft ought to think of saving the rest of the world; WMF has become poisoned and its time for customers to move on.
In fact, given how this exploit works, the situation could be worse. The vulnerability is related to a GDI32 feature whereby WMF files are allowed to register a callback function that will be executed in certain situations. Perhaps resident malicious code could traverse the system and network, infecting all WMF files it encounters by adding this callback to it.
Before I get too hysterical about this, I should point out that an effective workaround exists to block the attack, albeit at the expense of some functionality in the system. See this story for instructions, which may also be found in an advisory from Microsoft (in the Suggested Actions/Workarounds/Un-register section).
Its also true that anti-virus companies have been working hard to keep up with the attacks, although there are, as I said above, a large number of variants.
This is, perhaps, where well separate the boys from the men with respect to heuristic detection (sorry for the sexist analogy, but it works): The better products should catch more of the variants through a generic detection of the exploit, but it may be impossible to detect all of them. We shall see. I tested one of the versions yesterday against the highly regarded Panda TruPrevent, which didnt stop it.
And as for users with no anti-virus protection, they were probably infected with other malware long ago, and are destined to get this too. The most likely way for someone to get this infection is to be shown a Web page with a malicious graphic, and most people will get those through pop-ups on systems that have been infected with adware.
Im told that there is a debate going on in Microsoft over whether to disable WMF file support in Internet Explorer. The fact that theres a debate probably means that Microsoft has customers relying on this behavior, and thats worth considering. To me the answer is clear: Leave it in and disable it by default. Create group and local policies to turn it back on so that larger customers and ISVs can re-enable it easily. This behavior should be extended to any, or at least most, nonstandard formats for IE.
Im hesitant at this point to go into details until there is a patch, but my own research confirms that the potential for spreading this attack far and wide is immense and that easier vectors than Web pages exist. Microsoft has already posted the workaround, but unless a real patch is imminent, the company needs to make a registry-based workaround and publish it through the Automatic Updates system so that users are quickly protected.


Even those who are unfamiliar with Aquinas will find this book gripping. Published posthumously, this study is thoroughly rewarding and will increase McCabe's reputation as one of Britain's finest theologians of recent years.
Herbert McCabe, OP , was a significant theological figure in England in the last century. A scholar of Aquinas, he was also influenced by Wittgenstein and Marx, his reading of whom helped him articulate a distinctive Thomistic account of human embodiment that serves as a critique of other dominant approaches in ethics. This article shows McCabe's contribution to moral theology by placing his work in conversation with other important approaches, namely, situation ethics, proportionalism, and the New Natural Law Theory.
Seldom have God matters been treated with such verve, sense, rigour and humour as in this collection of writings by Herbert McCabe.
The problem of evil throws up many awkward questions for theologians. McCabe handles the many contradictory twists and turns with dexterity and skill.>.
What is ethics all about? In this book Herbert McCabe suggests that it is about loving, obeying laws, and talking to people.
Thomas Aquinas was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings.


Evaluate y - 9 for y = −7.
(−11) - (+5) − (−3) = ?
On first week of January, the average temperature was −13oF and in the second week, it was 5oF cooler. What was the average temperature in the second week?
An electric pole is 29 feet above ground level and 12 feet below ground level. What is the difference between the top and the bottom of the pole?


Marks and Spencer has just announced that it will close 60 clothing and home stores over the next five years as part of the company's plans to bring M&S back to being profitable. M&S chief executive Steve Rowe said, however, that it would open 200 more food stores. He also said that the clothing and home shop closures would be on a store-by-store basis, meaning that profitable stores would likely remain.
Rowe said that the company is shutting 30 stores in the UK as part of the turnaround plan. It also plans to shut 53 of its international stores, including all 10 in China, as well as half of its stores in France and will pull out completely from Belgium, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Altogether that will mean the closure of more than a quarter of its international stores. It is thought that the closures will cost between £150m to £200m.
The problems for M&S really began over a year ago, when it became clear that profits, particularly in clothing, were falling fast. Rowe says that M&S must change as customers' shopping habits have changed, particularly with the growth in online retailing. Rowe added "This is about building a sustainable, more profitable business that's relevant for our customers in a digital shopping age." As well, M&S have to pay more for imported goods because of the fall in the value of the pound after Britain's exit from the European Union.
One business commentator noted that M&S did not have the scale, speed or fashion lines of companies like Zara to succeed in some of these markets. Of course many employees of the stores being closed will see their jobs disappear, and the company said it would start talks with these 2,100 employees before the closures begin.
Are more stores going to be closed domestically (at home) or internationally (overseas)?
In which region of the world are most of the closures happening?
What phrase does M&S manager, Steve Rowe, use to describe online stores?


Can you paste a url as an example showing what you see and if able a copy of the icon you expect to see. I am unfamiliar with type:FR:RATP / metro with regards to the Openstreetmap but from your query does it follow that I should see Queensland Metro Rail icons for the rail stations in my nearest capital city?
Thanks for your answer. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/48.85521/2.34767 In the middle of the screen you can see a off-blue rectangle named "Cité". This a metro station. I expect to see an icon like in google maps (i hope it will work: https://www.google.co.il/maps/@48.8551654,2.3470585,18.5z?hl=en). Since the marker is typed as SR:RATP, OSM should use its symbols.
The blue square is rather modest in comparison.
That's not the point. The blue square bears no info! One expects to be able to find a metro/RER station in a glance, not by scrutinizing all over the map. Anyhow, is there a solution?
You could use the French tiles, which can be found on http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/ , they show a circle with an 'M'.
If you do not like the rendering on openstreetmap.org, you could file an improvement request on https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto, or even better provide a patch.
One of the reasons why the symbols aren't "Metro" (or London Underground, or BART) symbols is because the same symbol is used worldwide.
There are, of course, lots of different maps made with OSM data - pick the one with the metro icon you prefer!
The french style display different icons for different operators/subway types, which is very useful (for example distinguishing Metro from RER in Paris). It's not just about using french icons: it's the proper user-expected logo for each case (compare Paris against Lyon for example).
It'd be great to have the same feature on the osm-carto style, but a worldwide operator->icon mapping is a huge endeavor (maybe split into a separate project to share the load ?).
It is a general map style which has to work not just in dense cities, but in many other places. The style may best be compared with topographic maps, in this case those of IGN, which show details relevant to many different things. (Note IGN only show the metro lines not the stations). The map is emphatically not a city streetmap, although OSM can be used for such purposes with different cartography.
The map style must work worldwide and therefore will not use symbology unique to one particular transport operator, or even common to many maps in a given country (or instance the common 'H' in a circle for bus stops in DACH).
The map style is very detailed: steps, buildings, shops etc. Large symbols for metro stations would obscure much of the detail.
The symbology for transport stops (buses, metro, trams, rail) on the Carto-CSS style has been fairly consistent for nearly 10 years. Whereas it may be unfamiliar to someone used to another map, I don't believe that there is much confusion once one is familiar with the conventions of the OSM map.
Particular symbols for metro lines are frequently brands protected by intellectual property law, and subject to licensing and adhering to in-house styles. I'm not sure if this is true for RATP, but it certainly is for the London Underground roundel owned by TfL.
As others have said there are alternative renders (for instance one by MapBox does show London Underground symbols), and you can advocate changes to the CartoCSS stylesheet on github.


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Sit comfortably and discover the mysterious world of Grandpa and his memories - solve relaxing puzzles, collect mementos and explore the history of Grandpa's life.
What are you supposed to do with it? There's a corner with a floating table in it and three flags.
You do not click on the flags unless you want to change the language from English. You want to click on the desk. A drawer will open and you will have a journal. The journal is what you want to click on to get the puzzles.


Ever since AMD announced its plan to split itself into two separate companies, there have been legal questions surrounding the move. AMD's x86 cross-licensing agreement with Intel has always required that Sunnyvale maintain a certain corporate structure in order to continue to manufacture x86-compatible microprocessors. When it unveiled its plans to spin off The Foundry Company (now Globalfoundries), AMD confidently maintained that its plan avoided any licensing entanglements or issues Intel might seek to raise.
AMD has filed a form 8-K with the SEC, advising the agency of a cross-licensing dispute between itself and Intel. In discussions with Ars, however, AMD has also insisted that neither it nor Globalfoundries actually requires the cross-licensing agreement in order to design or manufacture x86-compatible microprocessors. That's a surprising claim that runs against the general understanding of what the AMD/Intel cross-licensing agreement allows or contains. Has Intel's ownership/stranglehold on the right to manufacture x86 processors been broadly misconstrued for years?
AMD does not believe it has breached the cross-licensing agreement, and the company considers Intel's allegations of a breach to be in bad faith. If Intel's filing does turn out to be in bad faith, then AMD claims that this gives them "the right to terminate Intel's rights and licenses...while retaining the Company's [AMD's] rights and licenses under the Cross License Agreement."
It's standard operating procedure in any patent infringement lawsuit to claim that your opponent's patents are invalid/inapplicable, but the x86 agreement contains a bit of victori spolia. In the event a material breach is upheld, the breaching party loses all rights to the nonbreaching party's patents but the inverse is not true. AMD's official response, as delivered by AMD PR spokesperson Michael Silverman, claims that Intel's actions are nothing more than a desperate attempt by the larger company to redirect attention from its own actions. "Intel's action is an attempt to distract the world from the global antitrust scrutiny it faces," Silverman said. "Should this matter proceed to litigation, we will prove that Intel fabricated this claim to interfere with our commercial relationships and thus has violated the cross-license."
Intel's own official statement is fairly terse, but confirms that the CPU giant has notified AMD of its belief that the latter has breached the x86 cross-licensing agreement, and that Globalfoundries is not a subsidiary as defined within the agreement. The Intel statement also alleges that "the structure of the deal between AMD and ATIC breaches a confidential portion of that agreement." Intel goes on to state that it has requested that AMD make the relevant redacted portion of the agreement public (presumably that portion dealing with ATIC) and that AMD has thus far declined to do so.
We put the question of why AMD has kept its agreement with ATIC confidential to Silverman. "AMD would be happy to make the entire agreement public if Intel drops its insistence on secrecy concerning its exclusionary business practices under the guise of confidentiality it has imposed on evidence in the US civil antitrust case," Silverman told Ars. "There is no commercial reason to have those documents under seal; it is simply a means for Intel to try to conceal its illegal behavior."
So what about those x86 patents?
In our conversation with the company, AMD made a strong distinction between a technology license agreement, in which one company furnishes another with a vital ingredient or special sauce necessary to the function of a product, and a patent license agreement, in which two companies agree not to sue each other for intellectual property (IP) infringement. AMD's point here is rather simple: AMD neither needs nor receives any technological help from Intel when designing x86 processors. In the event that the cross-license agreement between the two companies were to be canceled, there's nothing stopping AMD from continuing to build its current products or designing future ones.
From AMD's perspective, the distinction between patent licensing and technology agreements is nontrivial; Sunnyvale is alleging that part of the reason Intel is alleging a material breach is to spread FUD within the media, the market, and potential AMD/Globalfoundries partners. In the event that the two companies cannot agreeably mediate the problems within the next 60 days, one or both of them will almost certainly file suit against the other.
AMD believes it has a strong position if the situation turns into a patent slugfest. While it's true that Intel holds the x86 patent, AMD noted to Ars that it has a number of patents of its own, including some related to the functionality of integrated memory controllers, the x86-64 instruction set, and x86 multicore configurations. The company also hinted that it may hold patents regarding the creation of an integrated CPU+GPU product on a single die—the so-called "Fusion" parts that now appear on the roadmaps of both companies.
AMD believes that any legal actions Intel might initiate as a result of this dispute would probably be sorted out in a theoretical settlement of AMD's court case against Intel (currently scheduled to begin in early 2010). Intel, for its part, isn't talking legal strategy or patent war chests; Intel spokesperson Chuck Mulloy told Ars that "the next step is mediation as outlined in the 2001 agreement. We hope to find a way to resolve this matter."


SEATTLE -- This fall, sober public servants will convene meetings across Washington state to answer a pressing question: How much marijuana constitutes a two-month supply?
What may seem like an odd question for straight-laced government types to tackle is a serious attempt to shore up the state's medical marijuana law, which has been around for nearly a decade without defining the 60-day supply patients are allowed to have on hand.
Now, after years of attempts to amend the law, the state Health Department has been ordered to spell out how much marijuana makes up that theoretical two-month cache.
Prosecutors and police generally support the change, saying it should help officers determine whom to arrest and whom to leave alone.
The American Civil Liberties Union and some state lawmakers think it could be the beginning of even broader reforms by the state's Democratic-controlled Legislature.
But some patients wish the state wouldn't bother, spooked the government will make the limits too restrictive and cause more arrests for people in frail health.
If the law is going to be changed, dissenters would rather see stronger protection from arrest or an allowance for group growing operations. Defining the 60-day supply, they say, is a do-nothing compromise aimed mostly at pleasing law enforcement.
"Once again, politics have trumped patients' rights. Once again, politics have trumped science," said Dale Rogers, head of Seattle's Compassion in Action Patient Network, which distributes medical marijuana.
Washington's medical marijuana law was approved by nearly 60 percent of voters in 1998, following closely behind California in the first wave of such measures nationwide.
Under the law, doctors are allowed to recommend marijuana for people suffering from "intractable pain" and several serious diseases, including cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis.
Marijuana patients can be prosecuted but may avoid conviction by proving a legitimate medical need. As is the case anywhere in the country, nothing in state statute shields a patient from prosecution under federal law, which does not recognize medical uses for marijuana.
Unlike the 11 other laws that protect medical marijuana users from a state criminal conviction, Washington has never set a specific limit for the amount of pot each patient is allowed to have.
In Oregon, patients are allowed up to 24 ounces of pot and two dozen plants at different stages of growth. New Mexico, the latest state to pass a medical marijuana law, plans to allow up to six ounces of marijuana, four mature plants and three immature seedlings.
"Law enforcement officers in the field were put in the position of throwing their hands up in the air and saying, `We'll let the judge and the jury sort that out,'" said Alison Holcomb, director of the state ACLU's Marijuana Education Project.
An activist group highlighted the confusion around Washington's law last year when it asked county officials how many plants medical marijuana patients were allowed for growing their own supply.
One county said the answer was easy: zero. Others had formulas that accounted for the different stages of plant growth.
"The truth is, nobody's number had any legal precedence or greater validity than your number or my number," said Tom McBride, executive secretary of the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.
In some cases, the gray area has served as a legal shield, allowing patients and their doctors to argue in court over how much marijuana they need, said Douglas Hiatt, a defense lawyer who specializes in medical marijuana cases.
"We can't have an outside health authority dictate to our doctors how much a patient should use," Rogers said.
Adding to the debate, marijuana varies in potency, and different users use different amounts.
Ric Smith, a longtime medical marijuana user from Seattle, typically lights up before meals to treat the nausea that comes with his HIV medication.
In any given week, Smith burns through anywhere from seven grams to about an ounce. Without it, even the smallest disturbance can be too much to handle, he says.
"When you're at the top of the roller coaster and you just start over the other edge? It's that feeling, 24 hours a day," Smith said. "A pin drop, a bird flying by, a butterfly landing on your nose _ anything will make you throw up."
Hiatt and others who will lobby health regulators this fall will cite a marijuana dosing study led by Dr. Gregory Carter, a University of Washington rehabilitation-medicine specialist.
Following the study's guidelines, Hiatt said, patients should be allowed anywhere from a half-pound to 2 3/4 pounds of marijuana in two months. If the Health Department goes drastically lower, Hiatt said a lawsuit could follow.
"I know the people of Washington state didn't want lawyers and judges and prosecutors arguing about little piddly details like this," Hiatt said. "Is the person sick? Yes. Are they using it with a doctor's permission? Yes. Then leave them alone."


For the yogurt: In a small bowl, mix the yogurt and honey together. Refrigerate until ready to use.
For the gratin: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Butter a 2-quart gratin dish with the softened butter.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk and eggs. Whisk in the flour, melted butter, brown sugar, cane sugar, vanilla and salt, until smooth. Pour the batter into the gratin dish and arrange the apricot slices and raspberries on top. Bake for 20 minutes.
Take the gratin out of the oven, and sprinkle the top with the granola and almonds, and bake until the batter is light brown and set, and the fruit is tender, 5 to 10 more minutes. Let cool for 20 minutes before serving.
Serve with a dollop of the raspberry honey yogurt.