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Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on January 6th, 2011 at 11:06 am
many films that will
screen during the
Bicycle Film Festival.
Get ready to be inspired and entertained by a wide variety of bicycle-themed films. The Bicycle Film Festival and Filmed By Bike are both gearing up for 2011.
The Bicycle Film Festival has just announced dates and screenings for their 2011 Portland stop. This two-day festival, founded by New York City resident Brendt Barbur, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a mind-boggling lineup of the best bike films gleaned from around the globe. I'm looking forward to this documentary about Italian frame builder Giovanni Pelizzoli, also known as "Ciocc" (a legendary brand that my stepdad happens to be a huge fan of).
Watch the trailer below...
There are six different programs and the action starts on February 26th. All screenings happen at the Clinton Street Theater in Southeast Portland. Check trailers and film details at BicycleFilmFestival.com.
On April 15-17th, Portland's homegrown bike film fest, Filmed by Bike will offer its legendary concoction of fun and film for the ninth year in a row. Event organizer and founder Ayleen Crotty says submissions are still coming in ahead of the January 20th deadline (you've still got time!). This year, Ayleen has been wowed by some great films already under consideration that have come in from as far away as Australia, Japan, and Spain. Even with a bit of global flair, Filmed by Bike is sure to feature many films from Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about this year's fest — and meet the esteemed jury who will select the films — at FilmedByBike.org.Email This Post Possibly related posts
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We finished our first projects and listened to the majority of them in class today. While most of the students created soundscapes involving walking, driving, or cooking, mine was somewhat of a black sheep, because whereas they inserted dialogue at an absolute minimum, mine was created around it. I recorded the busy environment of a house show in Olympia, weaving in and out of various conversations, kitchen happenings, and band setups. Th project then transitions into music played by one of the artists who performed that evening, Eleanor Murray. Finally, I recorded some final sound effects off location to add extra dimensions throughout. I really enjoyed doing this project. The finished version is on the Media page.
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Looks like Scar Jo and her supple cakes have found a new boo:
Scarlett Johansson was spotted making out with 50/50 star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in NYC last month. “They were kissing,” an eyewitness tells the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday. “They were very lovey.” It wasn’t the first time Johansson, 26, and Gordon-Levitt, 30, hit the town together. The duo dined at Hundred Acres in NYC’s SoHo area in late July.
Although a source tells Us that Ryan Reynolds’ ex and Gordon-Levitt have been “discussing a project for a while [but] have never kissed,” another insider explains, “They first met about a film they wanted to do together, but it’s gone beyond that now.”
Well he’s one lucky son-of-a-gun if the rumors are true…
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Filed underPolitical Blog Progressive
Last night, Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed the Republican National Convention. After a shaky start, Ryan became comfortable with the TelePrompter and delivered a talking points filled speech that was well received in the Convention Hall and drew positive reviews.
But if Paul Ryan tried to submit his speech as a school paper he would draw a F for failing to do even the most basic checking of his facts.
If Paul Ryan turned that speech in to an editor it would be either covered in corrective red ink or unrecognizable if the editor chose to use track changes and emailed it back. Or they would simply reply: start over.
If a CEO received a paper from his staff full of such glairing inaccuracies Paul Ryan would be looking for a new job this morning.
While Paul Ryan is entitled to his own opinions, he is not entitled to his own facts.
Maybe if he spent less time doing P90X and more time doing the most basic research his speech would not have been filled with little white lies.
He lied to America about Medicare. He lied to America about the debt commission. He really lied to America about the stimulus and America’s debt rating.
He went out of his way to lie and blame President Obama for a plant closing that happened when George W. Bush was President. That is a bold lie to tell America when your boss wrote an op-ed that demanded that we “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”.
Across the Midwest auto plants are adding jobs, like in Lordstown, Ohio where they make the Chevy Cruise and keep adding shifts. If W. Mitt Romney had his way those jobs would not be in Lordstown or anywhere else in the US.
When it comes to the stimulus, Ryan likes to call it “a case of political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst.” He lied to a reporter’s face about requesting stimulus money and he lied to America about it last night.
Ryan also lied when he said the “American people were cut off” from the benefits. The payroll tax reduction that put dollars in people’s pockets hardly left them cut off from the stimulus. The stimulus built and repaired roads and bridges they use every day don’t leave them cut off.
Just another Paul Ryan little white lie to America.
The fact is, that Paul Ryan requested tens of millions in stimulus dollars, voted for an alternate stimulus in 2009 and spoke on the House floor of the benefits of stimulus and borrowing money to boost the economy, when George W. Bush was President.
Paul Ryan’s white lie to America on the Debt Commission is that he voted against it. He failed to mention that when he criticized Obama for not acting urgently on the recommendations that Ryan, himself, opposes.
That is a cleaver little lie to America for a deceitful person.
Paul Ryan blamed Obama for the decline in America’s credit rating. That is a big lie coming from the leader of the Tea Party House that scuttled a budget deal and threatened to throw America into default as a temper tantrum.
But Paul Ryan does not want America to know about his tantrums or his record.
The kid has a lot to learn.
But the biggest of Paul Ryan’s little white lies to America was saved for Medicare. Ryan criticized Obama for reductions in Medicare and lied when he said benefits were cut. The fact is, and Paul Ryan knows it, that the cuts are in fees for services and those reductions are used to create efficiencies in the way we deliver health care. That helps the economy and improves the long-term outlook for Medicare.
Raul Ryan, if he were an honest man, would tell you that in his budget roadmap he kept the Obama Medicare payment reductions but used the savings to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, not to reduce our national health care costs.
He also failed to tout his couponing scheme that ends Medicare and raises the cost of health care for seniors while lining the pockets of the health insurance industry.
But Paul Ryan knows that the truth is politically toxic.
So instead he tells lie after lie to America about Medicare, the debt, the auto recovery, the economy and the stimulus. But mostly he lies about his record.
There is a reason that the Obama campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wanted to make the Ryan Budget the focus of this election.
First, it is the most detailed policy outline of the Republican Party and every Republican has voted for a version of it or promised to support it.
Second, it is a political loser. It is the skunk at the garden party. And that is why Republican House and Senate candidates are not happy with a Romney-Ryan ticket (and Democratic candidates were, to say the least, overjoyed). It is why those Republican candidates have run as fast as they can away from their record of supporting Paul Ryan and his radical plan to end Medicare.
Even W. Mitt Romney immediately tried to distance himself from his running mate. He clearly believed that he could pick Paul Ryan to be a heartbeat away from the presidency but expect everyone to ignore the Ryan record.
A monumentally dumb belief.
About Bill Buck
Bill Buck is a Democratic strategist, President of the Buck Communications Group, a media relations and new media strategies consulting business based in Washington, DC, and Managing Director of the online ad firm Influence DSP. He has over twenty years of international and national communications experience. The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CBS Local.
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The Grand Champion Steer was exhibited by Bailey Dent of Rolla. The 1,325-pound Crossbred steer sold for $20,000 to Edward Jones & Associates, according to a news release issued by the Missouri State Fair. The steer was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Youth in Agriculture and hometown supporters participated in all of the Sale of Champions purchases.
The 274-pound Crossbred Grand Champion Barrow, exhibited by Emily Tallman of Archie, was purchased for $19,000 by Monsanto and Farmland Foods. The barrow was donated to the Missouri 4-H Foundation.
Troy Sloan of Cameron exhibited the 137-pound Hampshire Grand Champion Market Lamb and sold it for $14,000 to Edward Jones & Associates, the Missouri State Fair Concessionaires and Commercial Exhibitors.
The Grand Champion Pen of Meat Rabbits was exhibited by Ty Coats of Braymer. The New Zealand rabbits were purchased by the Missouri State Rabbit Producers Association and Lewis Hybrids of Ursa, IL, for $1,900. The rabbits were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
Codi Coats of Braymer sold the Grand Champion Pen of Chickens. Her Cornish Cross broilers were sold to the MU Independent Aggies for $1,900. The chickens were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
The Grand Champion Meat Goat was exhibited by Kayla Morrow of Bronaugh. The Boer meat goat sold for $5,000 to the Missouri Meat Goat Producers Association with the animal being donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
Evan Kempker of Jefferson City exhibited the Reserve Grand Champion Steer. The 1,295-pound steer was purchased for $17,250 by MFA Incorporated.
Marlena Long from Paris showed the Reserve Grand Champion Barrow. The 263-pound Crossbred barrow was purchased for $15,500 by Wheeler Auctions and Real Estate and MU Independent Aggies.
Brady Minear from Livonia showed the Reserve Champion Market Lamb. The Hampshire lamb weighed 136 pounds and was purchased for $11,500 by ADM Alliance Nutrition/MoorMan’s ShowTec. The lamb was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The Reserve Champion Pen of Meat Rabbits was exhibited by Codi Coats of Braymer. Her New Zealand rabbits sold for $1,200 to American Family Insurance and Heimer & Associates. The rabbits were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
Ty Coats of Braymer showed the Reserve Champion Pen of Chickens. The Cornish cross broilers weighed an average of 6.6 pounds and sold for $1,200 to Lewis Hybrids of Ursa, IL. The birds were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
ADM Alliance Nutrition/MoorMan’s ShowTec, RIBUS, Inc. of St. Louis purchased the Reserve Grand Champion Meat Goat for $2,400. The 94-pound Boer meat goat was exhibited by Spencer Scotten of Nevada, and was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The last lot of the sale was the Limited Edition State Fair Commemorative Belt Buckle purchased by Dr. Curtis Long, Briarwood Angus Farm of Butler, for a record $3,200.
Wayne Yokley, Chairman of the Missouri State Fair Youth in Agriculture Committee, and Superintendent of the Sale of Champions, said the Sale’s success is possible because of support from Youth in Agriculture sponsors. Proceeds from the sale go to the exhibitors and to Youth in Agriculture scholarships. Since 1992, the Youth in Agriculture Committee has awarded scholarships totaling close to $300,000.
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Baptism, baseball...they both involve dunking, right?
Ah, Niko. That boy is creeping up on death like a herd of geriatric turtles. Why, it seems like only yesterday you were playing with Thomas the Tank Engine, huh, Niko? Maybe because it WAS only yesterday, but still.
Whoops, Karen T., Karen G., & Tammy C., apparently geriatric turtles come in flocks.
- Related Wreckage: Mixed Signals
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Shame Itself #1A comic review article by: Jamil Scalese
I consider one of the most key traits of a likeable person to be their ability to be self-deprecating. Actually, I think this even more important for an aspiring comedian. People are more likely to laugh with you when they realize you aren't a pompous jerk. I learned that the hard way.
From one type of comic to another, hilarious and humility mixed to success in Marvel's satiric one-shot Shame Itself, a collection of rising talents and their various lampoons of the major company. The most recognizable of the creators is probably Wyatt Cenac, writer and correspondent on the almost always genius The Daily Show, but the roster is stocked full of long time comedy writers from around the entertainment industry. I had no idea what to expect from this type of book. As a regular buyer of Deadpool, I have been a little worried on what Marvel considers funny, and overall, in this age of serious sequential storytelling humor in comics have dwindled off to the occasional one-liner or comically awkward scenario. I will honestly say I was surprised that Shame Itself had me chuckling to the point that I started to look like a bit of a loon at the office.
The issue features about different 11 stories, ranging from a straightforward narrative about Reed Richard and Ben Grimm's college reunion to a series of one-pagers questioning the nature of the Marvel Universe. I'm normally all for spoiling the fun for you with my reviews, but I will stay away from detailing too many of the short stories because the absurdity, and appropriateness, of the pieces are bound to make you smile, if not guffaw. The absolute gem of the comic is a flowchart on how to create a major crossover event by Elliot Kalan (also a writer on The Daily Show) and Jacob Chabot (X-Babies). It might be one of the savviest things I've read from the publisher, and it does not hold back in the slightest. As Kalan jokes in his bio on the last page, the two-page spread might seal his fate in working in comics again, but man, what a way to go out.
The read had a few notable misses, like a prose story about the X-Men by Michael Kupperman, and a bit of a downer piece in a knock-off of a woman's fashion magazine. However, with any anthology there will always be stars that shine harder than others, and nothing was remarkably bad.
I'm not so much reviewing this as I am praising it, huh? Well, so be it! I loved this and it was well worth my $3.99. I want this type of thing to be an regular release for Marvel. You hear me Quesada? Huh? Huh? Yeah, that's what I thought.
And get Elliot Kalan on a Deadpool comic!
Jamil Scalese is just like you -- an avid comics fan and lover of sequential art. Residing in Pittsburgh, PA, he is an unapologetic Deadpool fan, lover of the Food Network and proud member of Steelers Nation.
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I have decided to go a different direction with the tangerine fabric. With the weather pretty much warmer these days, attempting a jacket seems like a waste of time. I just don’t wear jackets that much during the late spring and into summer.
So the fabric is going to become a dress. This is fabric acquired earlier this year from Gorgeous Fabrics.
I am going to take the design of using contrasting neck band and welt pockets shown on the black and white dress, and use this on the pink style. I am not a fan of v-necks on me so not using that look. Here is the contrasting fabric:
I fell in love with this color combo because of a pair of shoes I found on the web; and because that color is found in the dress I just completed.
I still need to make swayback adjustment and FSA. With my ongoing neck/shoulder pain, I have to do this in spells. It is very frustrating. More updates later.
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It occurred to me recently that my experience as a Rails developer may be somewhat unique.
I often get brought in to help preexisting Ruby/Rails projects evolve and mature in a sustainable way. As a result, the vast majority of Ruby projects I’ve worked on have been well-established by the time I arrived. In fact, offhand I can only think of one commercial greenfield Ruby project I’ve participated in. All the rest have been “legacy” from my perspective, in the sense that there was a sizable codebase in production before I showed up. (I’m not counting personal and internal projects.)
I’ve realized that in this my experience may be somewhat unusual among Ruby and Rails developers. With its fast churn and startup-heavy community, a lot of Rubyists are working on projects that they started recently. My work is more in the codebases where the original programmers have moved on.
Rails’ dirty secret
In the days before I got paid to write Ruby, I worked on some legacy codebases that had histories spanning multiple decades and 100s of KLOCs. That’s a lot of opportunity for bad code to accumulate; and in some cases, the accumulations were impressive.
But here’s the dirty little secret of Rails development: the messiest, nastiest big-ball-of-mud code I have seen in my entire career has been in Ruby on Rails projects. I’ve seen Rails projects that accumulated enough technical debt and waste in two years to make 10 year-old C/C++ programs look clean and elegant by comparison. And it wasn’t just one project. I’ve seen it over and over.
In a way I think this is a testament to the power of the platform. If you’re getting a 500 error in a Rails app, you can keep adding kludge after kludge and hitting “reload” until it works. No need to ever write a test or refactor. In languages and frameworks with a slower turnaround time, this kind of tweak-it-till-it-works workflow is simply impractical. Ruby on Rails has an impressively low barrier to fiddling.
Unfortunately, as a result a lot of projects I come to on have hit what I think of as the productivity crash. At some point the cumulative effect of all those little shortcuts catches up with the development team, and changes that would once have taken a day start taking two weeks as all the dependencies and unintended consequences are sorted out.
As a somewhat ranty aside: this is also the point where, often, original members of the team start moving on to bigger and better things. Meanwhile the crew that inherited the codebase is left to field questions from management about why they can’t seem to push out changes nearly as fast as the old team. The new team is confronted with the problem of getting the codebase under better test coverage and a little more modularized before they can ramp velocity back up; thus perpetuating the notion among the business types that testing and refactoring just slows things down. And/or that the original team were some kind of wizards.
Okay, rant over.
But Rails is different!
Rails developers are sometimes accused of being arrogant and judgmental. I’m not sure how true this is; I don’t see it all that much, but maybe I’m too close to the community and/or arrogant and judgemental myself to be a fair observer.
What I do see is a kind of “Rails exceptionalism”. Remember back in the first dot-com boom, when some economists were saying that no, this time it was different, the Internet had changed the game this time the markets would just keep going up and up? The phenomenon I see is similar in spirit. it’s a belief, perhaps not fully conscious, that Ruby on Rails development is somehow different, and not subject to the forces affecting other software projects.
Here are a few examples, just to give you an idea of what I’m talking about:
- “Design Patterns are a Java thing. In Ruby you just write code.”
- “The warnings Ruby produces are dumb; just disable them.”
- “Sure they aren’t technically Unit Tests, but isolating objects turned out to be kind of hard and besides nobody else is doing it.”
- “Monkeypatching is frowned on in other languages, but in Ruby it’s fine. The downsides almost never materialize.”
- “Stuff like the Law of Demeter isn’t really as important in Ruby code”
- “Dividing methods into private and public is for control freaks, you don’t need it in Ruby”
- “That’s only a code smell when it’s in Java code”
- “That’s only a problem in large projects” (implying that this project will never become large).
I also see a fair amount of project or subsystem-level exceptionalism: “I know they say classes shouldn’t be this big, but for this class it just makes sense for all of that stuff to be in one place”.
Welcome to Lilliput
The truth is, Ruby on Rails projects are exceptional in a way: they are really small. In James Gray’s terrific keynote at Lone Star Ruby Conf this past week, he mentioned “huge projects” of 40+ KLOC. That gave me a smile, because the first two Rails projects I was ever paid to work on were 50KLOC and 70KLOC, respectively. And while that may seem like a lot of code, that’s small by industry standards.
There are a few reasons for this. Ruby is a more expressive language than, say, Java, so to some degree Rails projects will always be smaller than equivalent projects in higher-ceremony languages.
It’s also possible that Rails programmers have embraced the wisdom of breaking systems many, small, intercommunicating apps. I’d like to believe this, but experience suggests this strategy has seen only spotty uptake.
No, I think the biggest reason for the diminutive nature of Rails apps is also the most obvious: they are all pretty young. It’s a young framework, and there’s a lot of churn in this community. A Rails app that lasts three years is ancient.
I think it’s safe to say that this situation won’t last. We’re going to see larger and larger codebases. And here’s a not-very-daring prediction: a lot of projects are going to hit the very same architectural roadblocks that Lisp, Smalltalk, Pascal, C++, and Java projects hit before them.
You are not a special snowflake
It’s funny reading programming literature from the 80s. Dynamic, object-oriented systems navigating the transition from “small” to “medium-sized”. Sound familiar?
Every revolutionary believes his revolution is special, and won’t devolve into the partisan bickering and venal bureaucracy that the last revolution led to. And it’s easy to believe at first. Everyone’s excited and eager to help; the problems are relatively small; and the marketing drones haven’t latched onto the movement yet.
The truth is, the problem you are solving probably isn’t as special as you think it is. And those byzantine patterns you thought were a relic of a bygone age were invented by people using languages surprisingly similar to Ruby.
Relax. I’m not here to tell you that the last few years were all just a lovely dream, and you’re really still strapped to a chair in the Ministry of UML.
Ruby is still a wonderful language, and the terrific thing about it is that it adapts to large-system design patterns remarkably easily, and with very little ceremony. Dependency Injection? It’s a one-liner. Object delegation and composition? Piece of cake. Contrary to misconceptions, Ruby doesn’t obviate solid design patterns and SOLID principles; what it does is make them very easy to express. In fact, the ease of expressing robust architectural styles was what attracted some of us early-adopters to the language in the first place.
Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on.
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posted: April 19, 2010
Inspired by David Gothard's post, "Most Unusual Working Conditions" I would like to share my own unusual work situation. On April 29, 1992 a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of African-American motorist Rodney King. The outrage that followed is now called the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. I was born in Pasadena, California and my youth was spent in and around the suburbs of Los Angeles. Los Angeles was my stomping grounds and I loved the city. At the time of the Rodney King trials I had been working weekly for the Los Angeles Times and that trial was definitely heating things up. The weekend after the acquittal the city was ready to blow and so many of us were outraged with the acquittal. I took off that weekend to San Francisco right when it blew. On Monday morning I checked my answering machine and I had gotten a call from Nancy Duckworth explaining that the Los Angeles Times Magazine was hiring 9 LA artists to depict their personal feelings and art in response to the verdict and the riots and that the artist, could do anything, no sketches just make sure that the art gets in by Thursday. I called Nancy, accepted the assignment and didn't tell her that I was in San Francisco. Next step, find all of the art supplies needed to create a mobile printmaking studio. I bought some plexiglass, a roller , speedball inks, paint thinner, pencils and I was able to find my favorite hand made Japanese paper in San Francisco. I worked that night on a card table under a single light bulb in my sister in laws garage with a bunch of makeshift supplies and I created this piece. Sent it out Fed-Ex the next day and the whole process was a complete artist rush to create. The other 8 artists commissioned were: Marty Gunsaullus, Todd Gray, Christian Clayton, Sherry Etheridge, Joel Nakamura, Greg Clarke, Scott Morgan and Greg Spalenka. Art Direction was Nancy Duckworth and Steven E. Banks.
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The Real Bill IV
Bill Long 11/07/04
Getting to the "Heart" of the Matter
If life were all mind and if all human passion could profitably be directed to learning and written/oral expression, we could all become disciples of Friedrich Nietzsche and live out of our backpacks in an Italian rooming house. But, thankfully, we are creatures of the heart. In my judgment, the mind works best when the heart is attuned to the rhythms of the world. It is in the realm of the heart that I am both charming but wounded, capable but afraid, strong yet vulnerable. This mini-essay deals with the shadow side of the gifts described in the previous three essays, a shadow side with which I am well-acquainted.
My Charming Self
There is a part of me, an important part of me, which is outgoing, considerate, compassionate, interested in others' experiences, non-judgmental and engaged with life. I can hold an audience spellbound when I talk about subjects from the Book of Job to the death penalty. I use humor, usually self-deprecating humor, effectively to charm an audience. My ability to listen to a person, a woman especially, to understand her world and join her in her thought process about that world is genuine. I believe I am a very sensual man and a more than adequate lover.
I think, however, that the major shortcoming I now face is that I tend to be like a gardener who digs up plants each day to check the roots to see if they are still growing and, by doing so, runs the risk of damaging or destroying the plants. That is, I have a tendency to live with great energy and focus, seemingly without regard to plaudits or acclaim by others, but then, almost every day, I think about how unfair it is that I have not received the kind of affirmation from others that I feel I deserve. Because I have not stayed at the same job for more than five years, I have not deeply rooted myself in any institution or with any group of people who could possibly have helped me establish myself in the recognized "grooves" of accomplishment which our society treasures. Fearing that the "grooves" were really "ruts," I have kept my distance from institutions even as I worked for them, believing that they want to suck energy and skill and repay you for neither.
The result of this kind of thinking and experience is that while friends of mine now have endowed chairs or are in "Best Lawyers of America," I teach in an adjunct capacity and with no "portfolio" to speak of. Recognition that I feel should have come has not arrived. I cannot let that thought go, and it sometimes has a most debilitating effect on me. It triggers a thought that the reason I haven't been so lionized is because of other people's limitations, their incapacities, their inability to recognize real quality. I think like this, and then the thought washes over me. "Of course they cannot grasp me because I am just too big too be grasped by these little people."
When I engage in this kind of thinking, I then tend not simply to isolate myself but to become incapable and indesirous [I just made up that word, and you all immediately know what it means] of intimacy. I tend not to want to "give myself" to people, believing that it will simply be a waste of time and effort. I become cynical, overbearing, self-absorbed and unhelpful. Because these folk have not accorded me the proper degree of regard, I need not pay attention to what they are doing. I train my considerable critical faculties on exposing their narrowness, incapacities, methodological weaknesses, faulty memories. It is not a good way to proceed. It is, however, how I can easily live.
Drawing Me Away from the Pit
Though I no longer have panic thoughts, I entertain these kind of thoughts with regularity. There are only two instances where the thoughts disappear: (1) when I am speaking to groups of people about Job/law/Shakespeare or a number of things I am engaged in or, as has frequently happened (2) when I unexpectedly connect with a person whose personal story is so compelling that it removes every trace of self-satisfaction/arrogance that I might feel. Let me give one example of the latter.
About two weeks ago I had a very fruitful time of writing in the morning but as I was walking across campus at noon, the thought returned to me that no one would read these beautiful essays I had just written. Feeling sorry for myself and superior to the world, I went into my office. As I ventured out to pick up my mail, I ran into a colleague, the senior member of the law faculty, who had unexpectedly lost his wife of 35 years just a few weeks previously. We talked briefly and I invited him to my office to give him a copy of my new book on Job.
As we talked in my office he unburdened himself with thoughts so raw, so powerful, so insightful about the dislocation he was now experiencing that I knew I was touching the very nerve of human emotion and life. Tangled threads of sadness, fear, and aimlessness were interwoven. It was as if a massive crater had been blasted in the middle of his life. No words, no thoughts could either change life or bring comfort at that moment. I sensed deeply our share humanity, a humanity that tries so hard, struggles so mightily, longs so deeply for expertise and integration and excellence--and then feels sometimes that the rooting principle (my friend's wife) is ripped out of life. There was no room at this point for anything other than heartfelt wishes for strength, insight and wisdom from this experience.
When I engage significantly with people, I never have narcissistic thoughts. Yet, my creative work often takes me into myself and into my own deep rhythms apart from people. Learning how to make both of those work for me--creative work and connections with others--is my current desire and struggle. I want to have both the flow of insight and the hearts of friends (and a special friend if that should come). I just don't know how, at present, to mesh these two.
Copyright © 2004-2007 William R. Long
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September 19, 2009
Behind dominant second quarter, UW crushes Wofford
MADISON, Wis. - The way the first quarter went, it seemed as though the Wisconsin football team was going to be in for another dogfight against a scrappy Division 1-AA squad.
With two fumbles in each of their first two possessions, the Badgers looked like they were hung-over from a tight double overtime battle a week ago against Fresno State. And Wofford seemed to have a growing confidence about them.
But a 28-point outburst in a penalty and turnover free second quarter extended a 3-0 first quarter lead to a 31-0 score at the break and eventual 44-14 win over the Terriers for UW.
"I thought it was great in the second quarter," UW head coach Bret Bielema said following the game. "I pointed out to our kids that we scored 28 points in the second quarter. We also had no penalties in the second quarter.
"It's amazing what we will be able to do when we play in a way that allows you to have success just by who and what we do."
After a first quarter that saw both John Clay and Zach Brown fumble, and one where the only points scored were on a Philip Welch field goal, the Badgers switched to the passing game to move the ball.
Scott Tolzien, in his third career start, was once again an offensive catalyst. He finished 15-for-20 passing with 159 yards and two touchdowns, both of which came in the second frame.
He consistently found Lance Kendricks open in the flat and seam and worked routes to Nick Toon throughout the first half. Wofford simply couldn't match up with those two players.
"It felt good being able to go out there and catch some balls," Kendricks said. "Today I really had fun."
After Tolzien's touchdown pass to Kendricks on the first play of the second quarter, the UW special teams made a play to jumpstart the offense. With Wofford lining up to punt, the Badgers decided to send more people than the Terriers could block.
Freshman linebacker Chris Borland broke through the line untouched, got to the final line of defenders and leaped into the air and got a hand on the ball. The ball ricocheted into the end zone where fellow true freshman David Gilbert pounced on the ball.
"I never dreamed of recovering a blocked punt for a touchdown," Gilbert said. "I guess it's just you using the technique that is coached so much. When you're in the position to make a play, you make it."
From there, the flood gates opened.
Redshirt freshman Erik Smith scored a touchdown from four yards out, the first of his career, to give UW a 24-0 lead. Then Tolzien connected with Garrett Graham for a seven-yard touchdown later in the quarter.
"Coming into the game, we knew it would be a long shot," Wofford head coach Mike Ayers said following the game. "We would have to play well (and) they would have to play down some. They gave us some opportunities and we didn't capitalize on them. I think (we) probably needed to (simplify) the game plan being a young football team and we didn't."
In the second half, freshman quarterback Curt Phillips got a chance to lead the team. During his time on the field, he became the game's leading rusher by running for 92 yards on only four carries.
"We had a good little lead whenever I got in," Phillips said. "We just tried to keep the flow of the game going and fortunately we got a couple of more scores."
Though UW coasted to an easy victory, not everything went well throughout the game. In total, the Badgers coughed up the ball six times, including three that were recovered by Wofford.
Clay, who finished with 70 yards in his first collegiate start, was responsible for three of those fumbles, and two of them were lost.
"It's an issue and we are going forward," Bielema said after the game. "There were a variety, some were caused by guys coming in. To me, I know that I have to get across as a head coach. That is ball security, one hand, and two hand.
"We have to do everything we can to make sure they understand."
Luckily for Wisconsin, the defense remained stout, particularly in the first quarter. Anytime a team gives the underdog a chance to jump on them early in the game, anything can happen. But the Badger defused refused to let that occur and recovered three Wofford fumbles and recorded an interception.
"The one thing is, we got out there and thought that we, for the most part, knew what we were getting into," Bielema said. "I thought the way our defense came ready to play (they) knew what they needed to do to have us get a win.
"I really thought the first half they played tremendous football defensively."
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Good morning friends! I hope that your week gets off with a great start! I wanted to share a little bit of manly inspiration with you today; my entry for the Hambo Hoedown (#5). I am LOVING this progressive challenge Hambo has going on, each week you get a new digi and a new challenge to play along with! Provided you continue to participate, you get the next week's digi in your e-mail, just in time to stamp some more! Can't be beat! Thanks Hambo. :)
Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a wonderful day, and I'll see you back here tomorrow for another Prettie Peek from Paper Pretties! Wednesday is release day!
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The kids had a blast tonight. Their favorite parts:
1. Getting candy.2. A neighbor in a ghost mask.3. Passing out candy.4. This barfing pumpkin.
heh! love those cautionary pumpkins :-)
#1 & #3 Those are the best parts! Re #2: I am hopeful for future Halloweens——Rosie didn't collapse weeping this year.
The barfing pumpkin pic is a classic.
I think that the getting candy and the barfing pumpkin would be a tie for first in my evening. Im glad they enjoyed!
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Posted by Pete Caldecourt, Director of Technology Assistance
Over the years, here at Binary Tree, we’ve learned many things. Most importantly, we’ve learned that in order to be successful and grow globally, we need to continue to develop and deliver leading email migration and application migration software products to our partners and customers. The software products that we develop and sell are essential to our growth and evolution as a key player in the migration marketplace. But, our success and growth aren’t just about the products we sell; it’s also about providing our partners and customers with an incomparable and exceptional customer support experience to help ensure that they have positive experiences with our products and their projects are ultimately successful.
With this philosophy in mind and as we continue expanding globally, it became essential for us to expand our Technical Services and Customer Support efforts into what we now call Binary Tree’s Technical Assistance Group, or “TAG Team”. The TAG Team excels greatly at many things, but one thing is most important – ensuring that our partners and customers have the best and most successful migration experiences possible from beginning to end.
So what is TAG? Here are some highlights …
Imagine a group of technical experts assigned specifically to your migration project who will assist you not only after you purchase the migration software, but will also be by your side during the evaluation phase of your project. Binary Tree’s TAG Team is available to ensure that our customers have the product knowledge needed to build business and buying cases internally, and to ultimately make an informed decision.
If requested or needed, the Binary Tree TAG Team provides our customers with pilot environments to help them get familiar with the software and the process, and to also assist with the delivery and execution with full knowledge transfers from beginning to end.
Even when the TAG Team leaves a customer site, they’re still available to provide assistance to ensure that your project is a complete success. With 24x7x365 global customer support, our TAG Team is available and ready to assist you via email, online web form, phone, and through our website chat client. Customers also have premier access to Binary Tree’s Online Knowledge Databases where they’ll find technical and how-to articles for our software.
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Song to watch
Throughout much of April it was very much the locals who shone the brightest, with killer new releases from Voltaire Twins, Messrs, Rufus and Jonathan Boulet. However, the end of April has brought us some brilliant music from overseas as well. Some of the standouts were Electric Guest, the new Nas track, another local in Owl Eyes, and this purely awesome little number.
The UK duo (although one is a Swede), Punks Jump Up have teamed up with the familiar soothing voice of Dave 1 from Chromeo. This track is everything that it needs to be; It is a very catchy song that will brighten up your day and, mainly thanks to the vocals, it starts with a lot of energy, which builds up and carries right through the song.
Punks Jump Up feat. Dave 1 – Mr. Overtime
HOT TIP: Go out and get Sydney lass Catcall’s new album ‘The Warmest Place’ when it comes out on May 4. I managed to get my hands on a copy and I cannot stop listening, every track is golden. Trust me, it will replace the void left by Ladyhawke and her lacklustre new album.
Best Video Clip
You all should have at least heard about Van She’s brilliant new single ‘Idea of Happiness’ by now so I don’t really need to speak too much about it, apart from discussing the clip. The accompanying film clip was unexpectedly weird, which I wouldn’t have gone with, but really works magically for the story that it tells, check it out below. Because I did blog about this song last month and because I was too torn to decide between them, Sydney band Rufus share best video for April.
Van She – Idea of Happiness
Rufus – This Summer
Since the track ‘Paris Collides’ that they released last year I have had my eye on Rufus, so I was very glad to get a copy of their latest EP BLUE. It is a dark and enthralling release that I am very fond of, with the stand out tracks being ‘Selena’ and the lead single ‘This Summer.’ The video for ‘This Summer’ is equally dark, haunting and enthralling as the song itself, making for an excellent combination by somehow making a party scene give you goosebumps.
Most favourable news
The most favourable announcement to hit our shores for some time is the Splendour in the Grass 2012 line-up announcement. I’m sure some people’s mouths are still wide open and plenty more people are still drooling at this. Splendour organisers have really gone all out for this years incarnation of the Byron Bay festival.
Bloc Party, the newly reformed At The Drive-In, Explosions In The Sky, Dirty Three and The Kooks will all be performing exclusively as part of the bill. Then there’s the return of some act we had started to forget about like Spiderbait, Gypsy & the Cat, The Beautiful Girls, Shihad, Wolfmother and Missy Higgins. In addition to this there are a bunch of newer artists and also familiar faces that will no doubt appease, such as Kimbra, DZ Deathrays, Big Scary, Pond, Yacht Club DJs, Emma Louise, Miike Snow, Muscles, Smashing Pumpkins, Yuksek, Ball Park Music and Zulu Winter. Plus, a selected crop of upcoming electronic artists and DJs with Gloves, Beni, Nina Las Vegas, Luke Million, Parachute Youth and Flume.
Did I mention it will be awesome? Didn’t have to. Yeah that’s pretty self explanatory, which is probably why every single type of ticket had sold out in a record 43 minutes. Devs.
Matt & Kim – Block After Block (Punches Remix)
Brooklyn boy Punches brings the goods for this rework of fellow Brooklynites Matt & Kim with a relaxed, summery dance vibe. Probably influenced more by indie than dance music, Punches perfectly underpins this track with plenty of airy synths and verb creating a feeling that would go perfectly accompanied by drinks on a sunny Sunday afternoon. A free download from Punches’ soundcloud is recommended.
Black Strobe – Italian Fireflies (Reflex Remix)
This tune has been out for a couple of months now but I’ve only just discovered it thanks to Rec Room Blog and it’s one of those memorable instrumental tracks that you want to keep listening to over and over again. The somewhat old school Black Strobe track has been given a true Reflex revamp with some huge electro-disco energy. This track may not be for everyone, but if you are keen on it, you can download all 7 glorious minutes from Reflex’ soundcloud page.
Blog to check out
5/4 are a promotions company from Adelaide, because of this they talk about a lot of their own shows, but they do put on some pretty awesome shows. However, they don’t just make posts with their own interests at heart, they also post good music. Whether it be a single or video from a heavyweight, a little known band from Perth, an upcoming artist from the states or a tour announcement, my musical tastes are usually pretty on par with what they find. They are also really relevant, which should go without saying, but the amount of blogs out there posting material ages after it has come out this is a big plus. So make sure you like them on facebook as well because their feeds will enlighten you. Their only flaw is really the Rihanna/Drake post that they did a little while ago, but we can forgive them for that.
Featured local band
Named after singer songwriter Annabelle’s dog, Archie are making their own mark in Adelaide. With quirky, soulful and catchy indie tunes, these are definitely one of the local artists that will no doubt be falling onto people’s ‘next big thing’ lists sometime soon. The songs are undoubtedly driven by the strong, flowing melodies of the female voice but the music itself is nothing but standard. The unique mix of retro sounding synths over what would otherwise be a casual guitar jam certainly catches your attention, this paired with some interesting chord changes almost make them sound like a happier, less boring Jezabels. I think they are taking a little break right now but they have been a busy little band so far this year so I’m sure they will be playing again regularly soon. Until they do have some more shows on the radar again however, make sure you suss the songs on their facebook bandpage and do the mandatory facebook ‘like’ just in case they drop something new.
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Schools and Students
Private schools in 1999–2000 were located primarily in central cities (42 percent) and the urban fringe or large towns (40 percent) (table 2). About 18 percent of private schools were found in rural areas. In contrast, 24 percent of all public schools were in central city locations, 45 percent in the urban fringe or large towns, and 31 percent in rural areas. Most schools—61 percent of private and 71 percent of public—were elementary, but 10 percent of private schools and 25 percent of public schools were secondary. Finally, a much higher proportion of private schools (30 percent) were combined schools (usually grades K–12 or 1–12), compared with only 4 percent of public schools.
Figures and Tables
Table 2: Percentage distribution of schools according to community type and level, by sector and private school type: 1999-2000
Table S2: Standard errors for the percentage distribution of schools according to community type and level, by sector and private school type: 1999-2000
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70 Orchard St., New York, NY, 10002
nr. Grand St.
By heleneparis on 6/26/2011
I love this store. Original dresses by in house designer Richard Ives, the vintage paris jewelry, the chanel handbags, the chanel jewelry, the tons of vintage jewelry from paris that is very rare and the best quality. Truly a great store in New York and run by the nicest guys in New York! I love this store and stop in every time I am in New York.
By CharaJ on 9/29/2012
This store has the best vintage chanel handbags I've ever seen. Anywhere. They only get mint condition or unused vintage chanel bags from a dealer. I got one that is amazing red with gold hardware. Everyone asks me where I got it. I am so thrilled to walk around with this bag. Also, the clothes and the jewelry. Amazing. It is a very unique store. Very well curated. I love coming here whenever I am in New York. It is like no other store I've been to. Simply Divine!
By MonicaH on 10/23/2012
It's like being in the Marais in Paris! Very Tres Chic Boutique. Great selection of all types of jewelry, new clothing, vintage designer clothing. They even tend to favor french labels in jewelry and vintage. The Chanel handbags are exquisite -- I've never seen better even in Paris. Love this store. It's really great I could spend hours in there. Great soundtrack too!
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Exactly one month has passed since I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. As a complete newbie in Africa, I had no idea what to expect when I first landed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Before my arrival, I had done some research about the country that was going to be my home for the coming months. A quick google search on Nairobi informed me that Kenya’s capital is the 12th largest one in Africa, the name Nairobi is a Maasai phrase that translates to “cold water” and it’s located 1,800 meters above sea level. My internet search also informed me that the capital is commonly known as Nairobbery, due to the high level of crime, particularly armed robbery in the city. When I asked around amongst friends and acquaintances who had visited Nairobi, they described it as a dirty and boring city that should be avoided. For tourists, it is mostly used as a transit point for safaris in Maasai Mara, or beach holidays along the Indian Ocean coast. With this in mind, I did not have particularly high expectations of Nairobi when I first arrived on the African continent.
After four weeks in this city, I have now formed my own opinion. Nairobi has more to offer than I could ever have imagined. It is definitely a city of contrasts. Within a 15 minute drive you get from the modern city center, to the beautiful leafy suburbs to East Africa’s largest slum.
Nairobi City Center
The colorful Maasai Market in down town Nairobi
The leafy suburb of Kilimani
Rooftops in Kibera
There is only a well trafficked road that separates the two neighborhoods Kilimani and Kibera. Kilimani is one of the wealthiest areas in the country and is home to Mwai Kibaki, the president of Kenya. On the other side of the road you’ll find Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, where people live in unbearable conditions.
Kibera is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Exactly how many people live here is impossible to say, but estimates range from 500,000 to 1.2 million. Only 20% of residents have electricity, and even fewer have access to clean water. Education is scarce, which traps the vast majority of people in a spiral of poverty. One in five children will not live to experience their fifth birthday.
Walking the streets of Kibera, Photo: Katarina Shakarian
During my visit to Kibera, I visited the organization “Shining Hope for communities”. Shining Hope founded “The Kibera School for girls”, where they give young, at-risk girls a brighter future through education. It’s an amazing organization that works to create a better life for the people of Kibera. Read more about them here.
Kids playing at “The Kibera School for Girls”
Pascalia from Kiva giving a presentation in Kibera about Kiva Zip
As I already stated, Nairobi is a city of contrasts. Just outside of the city center, not far from modern skyscrapers or Kilimani and Kibera, you will find Nairobi National Park. Here you can see giraffes, elephants, black rhinos, zebras and other wildlife attractions with the capital’s skyline in the background.
Nairobi National Park
Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi National Park
Nairobi has definitely given me a new perspective on life, and I would recommend anyone that has the possibility to visit this city. After spending a few weeks here I have learned that the city is not only know as Nairobbery, but also as “The green city in the sun”, which I think is a better description.
My new friends
Lend money to a low-income entrepreneur in Kenya here
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Knox College in Galesburg, IL was the site of the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate and conferred an honorary degree to Lincoln in 1860. Now it’s home to the Lincoln Studies Center, directed by two fine scholars, Rodney Davis and Douglas Wilson. Knox is therefore the ideal place for a whole slew of events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the debates this year and the Lincoln bicentennial in ’09.
This weekend Knox is hosting the Lincoln Colloquium, with presentations by James McPherson, Allen Guelzo, and Garry Wills, among others. The local paper has a story about it here. Steven Wilson (A Novel Idea of History ) is headed up for the festivities and generously offered me the chance to tag along.
I was hoping to head up to Galesburg, listen to the presentations, hobnob a little, and then return with a stack of signed books under one arm and an account for your edification and amusement under the other. Then circumstances got in the way, so it looks like I’ll be spending the weekend closer to home. Hopefully Steven will fill us in on the details when he gets back.
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Intel demonstrated a wireless electric power system that could revolutionize modern life by eliminating chargers, wall outlets and eventually batteries all together by 2050. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link at Intel’s 2008 developer’s forum.
During the demo electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer. Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units. “The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it’s can you do it safely and efficiently,” according to Intel researcher Josh Smith. “It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field.”
Examples of potential applications include airports, offices or other buildings that could be rigged to supply power to laptops, mobile telephones or other devices toted into them. The technology could also be built into plugged in computer components, such as monitors, to enable them to broadcast power to devices left on desks or carried into rooms, according to Mr. Smith.
- Duracell, Energizer, Texas Instruments and Motorola Mobility in Attendance at the International Wireless Power Summit (prweb.com)
- British Start-Up Working to Bring Wireless Charging to the Racetrack (wheels.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge lit up in red for national March is Red Cross Month 2012 (photo: Paul Loftland)
Welcome to the new blog of the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Chapter of the American Red Cross. The SEPA Red Cross has a unique role in serving as the safety net for people in our region in their hour of greatest need.
As a partner of a network of 186 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide, the SEPA Chapter was founded in 1916 as a chartered unit of the American National Red Cross and serves the nearly 4 million people of Montgomery, Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties.
The SEPA Chapter of the American Red Cross is marking more than 95 years of service to Philadelphia, Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Bucks Counties. SEPA is one of the largest American Red Cross chapters in the country, and has a long and proud history of providing comfort and relief to those most in need. In addition to providing disaster relief services to thousands of people every year, up until December 2009, SEPA Chapter provided volunteer support to the Penn Jersey Blood Services Region.
In April 2003, SEPA Chapter became the only chapter in the country to have a Red Cross House, a temporary housing facility for victims of disaster.
SEPA Chapter sent hundreds of volunteers to assist following Hurricane Katrina, played an integral support and fundraising role following the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and is consistently honored by local businesses and organizations for its commitment to helping those in need.
As reflected in the Red Cross mission, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter seeks to help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to natural and human-caused disasters through the immediate mobilization of people and resources and the provision of community, workplace, and school-based training.
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|Easton's Bible Dictionary|
Baalah of the well, (Joshua 19:8, probably the same as Baal, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:33, a city of Simeon.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ba'-a-lath-be'-er ba`alath be'er "lady (mistress) of the well"; (Joshua 19:8 (in 1 Chronicles 4:33, Baal)): In Jos this place is designated "Ramah of the South," i.e. of the Negeb, while in 1 Samuel 30:27 it is described as Ramoth of the Negeb. It must have been a prominent hill (ramah = "height") in the far south of the Negeb and near a well be'er. The site is unknown though Conder suggests that the shrine Kubbet el Baul may retain the old name.
Baalath-beer (2 Occurrences)
Joshua 19:8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. (ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS)
1 Chronicles 4:33 And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations. (BBE)
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Saatva (which means truth).
Our belief is that people can make an
intelligent mattress buying decision without high pressure or a phony sale.
Our extremely efficient online business model allows us to sell our luxury
mattresses online for so much less than our competitors who operate stores.
It's clear that more and more consumers are becoming e-commerce savvy.
Through our world class e-commerce site, we are able to make all the
necessary information clear and precise, so you can take your time and shop
at your leisure. We have made buying a luxury mattress easy. At Saatva, you
receive a 30 day home trial, with no pick up fees, no restocking fees. The
only cost you would be responsible for is your original delivery fee. This
is the friendliest return policy in the luxury mattress
Retail stores continue to charge excessive fees inclusive of
exchange/restocking fees and pickup charges for returning a mattress.
E-commerce businesses generally have better return policies, so we must
exceed your expectations. That's our philosophy, and that's what we do
every day. Buying online is simple, smart and efficient. We hope you enjoy
our web site.
Additionally, please know we take great pride in our ability to build the best
mattress available and that each Saatva
mattress is handcrafted in America. We select the best mattress
manufacturers in America that service our local distribution areas to craft
our proprietary product.
We promise to do everything in our power to exceed your expectations. Take
visiting a mattress store off your "to-do" list.
Please note: Our Saatva luxury mattresses are American handcrafted and
height measurements might vary slightly.
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I am a philatelist and have become aware of increasing offers of fake, forged and fraudulent items on internet auction sites such as ebay.
Many buyers are being deceived without their knowledge. The sellers have become aware that ebay takes no serious action, and happily continue. ACCC does not seem to want to know unless someone has actually been defrauded. Consumer Affairs likewise, and the Police are too busy with more important things.
These sellers need to be prosecuted to protect innocent buyers who are being defrauded ... not just deregistered on ebay. They just re-register with a new name and start over. It has become a significant problem within the on-line industry component of the hobby.
When I detect such a fraudulent listing (often many by the same seller), to whom should I make a report with some hope of being taken seriously?
Thank you for your email of 19 May 2012 to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regarding your concerns with fraudulent retailers of stamps online.Your reference number for this matter is 08111. We unreservedly apologise for the delay in providing you with a response.
The ACCC is responsible for administering the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 which incorporates the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) in Schedule 2 of that Act. The ACL is a single national law which aims to protect consumers and ensure fair trading in Australia. Under the ACL, consumers have the same protections, and businesses have the same obligations and responsibilities across Australia.
Under section 29 of the ACL a person must not, in trade or commerce, make false or misleading representations in connection with the supply or possible supply of goods or services or in connection with the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services. This includes misrepresentations that goods are of a particular standard, quality, value, grade, composition, style or model or have had a particular history or particular previous use. Additionally section 18 of the ACL prohibits a person, in trade or commerce, engaging in conduct which is misleading or deceptive, or which is likely to mislead or deceive. It is these sections of the ACL under which such instances of potentially fraudulent conduct of the type raised in your email could be taken action against.
I note that you are primarily concerned with the fact that there has been an absence of action taken against individual fraudulent sellers, and are inquiring about the best avenue for ensuring action is taken against these sellers. One issue for our office is that the ACCC does not offer an individual dispute resolution service, but instead makes decisions on which matters will be investigated further based on the ACCC’s Compliance and Enforcement policy. A number of factors are weighed including whether conduct raises national or international issues, involves significant consumer detriment or a blatant disregard of the law. We certainly appreciate your assistance in bringing this issue to our attention, and your complaint has been recorded and will be used in monitoring whether there is a level of conduct by individual fraudulent traders or a pattern within the online stamp retailing industry which may raise concerns sufficient to warrant intervention by the ACCC.
However, individual instances of loss or damage as a result of misleading or deceptive conduct or false representation are best pursued ‚Äď where such matters are unable to be resolved with these traders through either verbal or written communications ‚Äď through Consumer Affairs agencies such as Consumer Affairs Victoria (1300 558 181; www.consumer.vic.gov.au
). Local fair trading or consumer affairs agencies can suggest a range of strategies that you may wish to explore to resolve your concerns. They can also provide information on how to make a claim through the small claims court or tribunal should this become necessary. In these matters, it is also recommended that eBay be notified of these fraudulent sellers; as you are aware, however, the capacity for various government agencies to enforce the ACL or the pertinent fraud sections of state and criminal law is limited by the relative anonymity afforded by internet retailing, and the ease with which fraudulent online retailers can create new user profiles.
Whilst individual complaints also form the basis of investigations, it must be noted that the ACCC does not comment on matters we may or may not be investigating and the ACCC is unable to provide you with further information of any action we may or may not be taking in relation to your complaint. Please also note that the ACCC will only contact you again in relation to your complaint if we require further information or evidence to assist in our enquiries.
Thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of the ACCC. I trust this information is of assistance.
Not much help I'm afraid.
Perhaps if they get enough similar queries they may think it serious enough to investigate?
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Post Reply: Post your boards (Pictures or GTFO)
|Topic: Post your boards (Pictures or GTFO)
Posted: May/01/2013 at 4:34am By fj5
Bought some neon yellow vinyl to cover up my 154 Thrive Renegade (wasn't a big fan of the original artwork) and used up pretty much the rest of my stickers.
Stickered up my 150.5 DC Ply too and cleared away most of the stickers from my 157 Burton Vapor.
2013 DC Ply 150.5
2010 Burton Vapor 157
2013 Thrive Renegade 154
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'Energy and ambition' attract young Americans
Updated: 2011-08-22 08:40
By He Wei (China Daily)
SHANGHAI - China has captivated the imagination of Hunter Levan for as long as he can remember.
Levan, 29, came to China in 2009, but the US citizen has been interested in the country since his childhood, when he was a fan of kungfu movies and started to practice martial arts.
Driven by a desire to learn Chinese, Levan quit his job as a government clerk in Washington and moved to Suzhou in East China to spend a year studying the language.
"I realized if I ever wanted to learn Chinese, I would have to move here and 'do as the Romans do'," he said.
After overcoming the language barrier, Levan turned his attention to finding a practical use for his new skill.
"I sent out e-mails and resumes in Chinese, and got feedback in less than five days," said Levan, who now works as a consultant for Spring Airlines in Shanghai.
Unlike Levan, Alison Watts, 28, knew little about China before coming to the country.
"But all my friends who have been here said it was incredibly fantastic, so I decided to take the big step forward," she said.
Watts' experiences of journalism in New York helped her land her current job, in which she hosts a show for an English-language television channel in Shanghai.
"Living and working here is like an adventure, where amazing opportunities keep popping up," she said.
"Some of the emerging sectors such as advertising, media, architecture, public relations, etc, are quickly gaining momentum," said Watts. The "energy and ambition" in China is like "the pioneering spirit in a bygone age of the United States", she added.
Levan echoed this sentiment, saying that it was very "exciting" to work in China's rapidly growing aviation sector.
Compared with these newcomers, Ted Hornbein, a US businessman, has a deeper understanding of how things have changed in China.
When he first celebrated US Independence Day in China in the early 1990s, he was one of a handful of people invited to the party at the US embassy in Beijing.
But this year, as a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, he and his colleagues organized an Independence Day celebration for around 2,000 guests.
"Today you have local and Western restaurants and your whole family here with you for the important holiday. I have seen a 180-degree shift from my first July 4 party in China," Hornbein said.
According to Watts, China-related news coverage in the US has surged only in the past two years. "I think that indicates how much attention the US has attached to this relationship."
Levan said that one thing he has learned in China is that you should never use one standard and apply it everywhere.
"We should learn more and understand more about each other," Levan said.
And that is why he smiled after learning that US Vice-President Joe Biden had tipped in a restaurant in Beijing during his current visit to the country.
"If you live in China, you'd know we don't do tipping here."
US Vice-President Joe Biden visits China August 17-22.
Li Xing, China Daily's assistant editor-in-chief and veteran columnist, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Aug 7 in Washington DC, US.
Tea-making treasures catch the fancy of connoisseurs as record prices brew up interest
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I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I can use (and tape in) any color system (NTSC - PAL - SECAM).
I am a Frank Zappa video collector, but I also look for 60s and 70s groups (especially european TV shows like Old Grey Whistle Test or Rock of the 70s).
The quality of my videos mostly goes from vg+ to x (excellent). If we make a trade and you happen to chose a video that is not actually vg+ or better I will let you know before sending.
ZAPPA / Beefheart / Steve Vai / Related list (warning: large HTML file!)
Zappa Video List (Microsoft Word 6.0 .doc zipped) much better to look at!
Video List of International Artists Live in Argentina or South America - includes live shows, press conferences, interviews, special TV coverages, etc. (This list does not include Jazz artists - Argentine jazz shows are in the jazz list below).
MY COMPLETE VIDEO LISTING - Includes official videos, TV shows, live camera shots, etc. From ABBA to ZZTop! (Note: this list does NOT include Zappa, Beatles, Rolling Stones or Jazz). This is a huge list (zipped) to download and view offline!
Jazz music videos zip file - this list
includes general modern jazz music videos from the USA and Europe PLUS live shows in
Argentina (example: Mike Stern, Alan Hodlsworth,etc.)
Rock Argentino - Listado de videos de rock argentino. Argentine artists video list.
Send wants, trades, listings, comments, suggestions, etc. to: email@example.com
back to my main zappa english page
back to previous page
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The White House’s $4B Better Buildings Challenge
Can the Obama administration spur $4 billion in building energy efficiency retrofits without being able to get the money out of a deadlocked Congress? Looks like we’ll have the next two years or so to find out.
That’s the gist of a big 'Better Buildings Initiative' set to be announced by the White House late Thursday evening. After months of working with former president Bill Clinton and a lot of private-sector and government partners, the White House says that more than 60 organization have pledged to spend $2 billion to retrofit about 1.6 billion square feet of commercial and industrial property in the next 24 months.
The announcement also comes with a commitment to move forward with $2 billion in federal building “performance-based contracting” projects over the next 24 months. Because private investors and companies will pay for efficiency upgrades at government buildings, then pay themselves out of the energy savings, those projects can go forward without new federal spending, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling said in a Thursday press pre-briefing call.
Together, that $4 billion in projected commitments could add up to “tens of thousands of jobs,” Sperling said. Consider it a major new market opportunity for the building energy efficiency sector -- and a major new challenge in making private-sector economics work in the absence of direct taxpayer support.
That’s because the Obama administration has been unable to get Congress to act on many of the proposals in its Better Buildings Initiative launched in February. The Department of Energy initiative laid out a laundry list of building energy efficiency initiatives, all aimed at making the nation’s commercial buildings 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020.
Part of that plan was the 'Better Buildings Challenge,' launched in late June at the Clinton Global Initiative. On June 30, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that 14 initial private sector and local government partners had pledged to spend $500 million to retrofit buildings totaling about 300 million square feet.
That included big public-private partnerships in Seattle, Los Angeles and Atlanta, as well as buy-in by USAA Real Estate Company, Best Buy and other corporate partners. As for financing the projects, partners including Citi, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Metrus Energy, Transcend Equity and Renewable Funding agreed to provide at least $525 million in project funding in the next 18 months.
Presumably that figure is part of the $2 billion in new public-private sector financing announced this week, but there were some new funding promises as well. San Francisco-based startup Serious Energy, for example, on Thursday promised to execute $100 million in energy efficiency upgrades for customers as part of the initiative.
Indeed, the list of Better Buildings Challenge participants includes a who’s-who of startups seeking to revolutionize the way energy retrofits are financed, including Metrus Energy, Transcend Equity and Serious Energy (via its new Serious Capital model).
At the same time, energy services giants such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, Honeywell, Johnson Controls and the like are doubtless participating as well in serving the federal building upgrade portion of the work announced this week. Schneider, for its part, announced it would also join the "Challenge" portion of the project with a pledge to cut energy use at 40 U.S. manufacturing facilities by 25 percent.
The $4 billion challenge is the latest move the Obama administration has made as part of its “We Can't Wait” campaign to bypass a deadlocked Congress and spur job creation, even as the President pushes lawmakers to pass a $447 billion jobs bill.
Sperling wouldn’t put an exact figure on the number of jobs the White House hopes will come from the $4 billion initiative, though he noted that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- not known as a great friend of green initiatives -- has estimated the $2 billion in federal building retrofits alone could create about 35,000 jobs.
The Political Economy Research Institute projected in June that the entire Better Buildings Initiative could create up to 114,000 jobs if implemented in full. Of course, much of that would have to come via legislation, which seems increasingly unlikely, at least this year.
Sperling did make clear that one proposal contained in the Better Buildings Initiative -- legislation to authorize up to $2 billion in federal loan guarantees for retrofit projects -- was not part of the new $4 billion announcement. Given the heat the White House is taking over Solyndra and Beacon Power, two companies that won separate DOE loan guarantees only to later declare bankruptcy, it’s not surprising that more loan guarantees aren’t on the table.
The big question, of course, is whether the economics of building energy retrofits are developed to the point where they can support a $4 billion boost in business without loan guarantees or other federal supports. Kudos to the Obama administration for bootstrapping these projects via any means necessary -- but we’ll have to wait for a few years to see how many billions of dollars in projects actually get done.
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A collection of news and information related to Rick Helling published by this site and its partners.
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1987 -- Larry Herndon knocked in five runs with two homers and Jack Morris checked Minnesota on three hits for seven innings as the Detroit Tigers snapped the Twins' four-game winning streak with an 11-2 decision. 1992 -- Dan Karst's RBI single in the...
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Tags: Chicago Cubs, Randall Simon, WGN, National League, Kenny Lofton
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Joe Girardi hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth Sunday as the Cubs beat Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2, despite losing Sammy Sosa in an outfield collision. The loss ended Arizona's eight-game winning streak. Alex Gonzalez led off the ninth...
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Cal Ripken's first major-league hit came against Dennis Lamp of the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 16, 1981. His last hit came against Frank Castillo of the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Oct. 5, 2001. Ripken finished his career with 3,184...
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--- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 03/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Three-Tier Hand Grip is a wall grab bar for bathtubs, shower, and toilets designed for use by individuals with mobility and balance disabilities. These grips are made of ABS plastic. The Three-Tier Hand Grip has the appearance of three -shaped units connectected end to end and the Single-Tier unit is one U-shaped unit. Both models include anchors, screws, and screw caps. DIMENSIONS: Both models extend 3 inches from the wall. The Three-Tier model is 24 inches long. COLOR: White.
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TOURCOING.- Proximity and evidence make us blind: France is unaware of the inventiveness, the diversity and the current creative agitation of some of our closest neighbours. However, for the Northern region, with the ABC exhibition of Belgian contemporary art, there is real fraternity, a cultural permeability which, paradoxically, has not erased the borders in the way that, for example, American, German and even Japanese artists have done in favour of fashion and the art market. In many respects, Belgium has made an impact on all the current artistic disciplines: dance, theatre and the visual arts which including the invented forms where these practices merge. Collectors and amateurs in Belgium have been essential in accompanying this contemporary effervescence.
ABC is an exhibition that does not claim to be a comprehensive portrayal of the diversity of the contemporary scene in Belgium. The disciplines most particularly taught and practiced at Le Fresnoy have formed the criteria of priority for selection purposes: photography, film, video, installation, performance and choreography. And these are the exact areas where Belgium has recently been excelling, drawing from its inheritance of documentary film devoted to other disciplines - in this the work of Jeff Cornelis continues to maintain the tradition, - through experimental film (with his legendary festival in Knokke-le-Zoute) in a specific anarcho-dadaist tradition and finally quite simply with poetry of "beyond-the-limit" attitudes which, in the past, gave rise to spectacular provocations.
"I think that Flemish and Walloon artists are not particularly affected by internationalism. Belgium is possibly an artwork itself, and like every good artwork, it is a disappearing exercise which will continue to fascinate us and defy us."This is what Jan Fabre said one day and I retain two words that form a dumbfounding paradox, symbolist even: fascination and defiance. And we know how important art and symbolist poetry was for Belgian art, characteristics that continue to irrigate the most radical current practice. Further more, the exhibition is based on the hypothesis - and this was another factor of selection in the itinerary of the exhibition - that Belgium is probably the only country to perpetuate the cohabitation and mutual influence of two currents generally taken to be contradictory in post-1945 art: a conceptual, minimal trend and a post-dadaist trend with pranks verging on burlesque idiocy.
) It is a fragile country on the verge of implosion, drawn towards the idea of disappearing some say with an anarcho-poetical complacency that has become a cliché. In the last thirty years in Belgium there has been an exciting emergence of artists who do not wish to implode or disappear. A vitality based on a tradition of impertinence, provocation and nourished by the powerful and persistent belief in poetry, including the conjugation of visual forms where writing is the driving force. Symbolism, Surrealism and Minimalism form a specific trinity of which there is no equivalent in Europe and which forms the framework of ABC.
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Why Man U?
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"Gathering together at Old Trafford must have given these people something of the sense of community that they had previously known in their villages."
Visiting Manchester the other day, I was driving down a nondescript road past dreary shops and offices when I saw the top of a sports stadium poking into the gray sky. It was Old Trafford. Team buses carrying soccer players from more glamorous cities such as Barcelona have been known to echo with cries of disgust as they pull in here.
The home of Manchester United is rainy and underwhelming. The estimated 333 million humans who consider themselves United fans don’t all know that Manchester is a city in England, but many of those who do would probably be surprised to find just how mid-ranking a city it is. Yet when United’s American ruling family, the Glazers, sold club shares in August, United was valued at $2.3 billion. That made it the world’s most valuable sports franchise, ahead of Real Madrid and baseball’s New York Yankees, according to Forbes. In short, United is bigger than Manchester. So why on earth did this global behemoth arise precisely here? And how, in the last 134 years, has United shaped soccer, in England and now the world?
When a soccer club was created just by the newish railway line in 1878, the Manchester location actually helped. The city was then growing like no other on earth. In 1800 it had been a tranquil little place of 84,000 inhabitants, so insignificant that as late as 1832 it didn’t have a member of parliament. The Industrial Revolution changed everything. Workers poured in from English villages, from Ireland, from feeble economies everywhere (my own great-grandparents arrived on the boat from Lithuania). By 1900, Manchester was Europe’s sixth-biggest city, with 1.25 million inhabitants.
The club by the railway line was initially called Newton Heath, because the players worked at the Newton Heath carriage works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. They played in work clogs against other work teams. Jim White’s Manchester United: The Biography nicely describes the L&YR workers as “sucked in from all over the country to service the growing need for locomotives and carriages.” Life in Manchester then was neither fun nor healthy, White writes. In some neighborhoods, average male life expectancy was just 17. This was still the same brutal city where a few decades before, Karl Marx’s pal Friedrich Engels had run his father’s factory. The conditions of the industrial city were so awful it inspired communism. (My own great-grandparents lost two of their children to scarlet fever in Manchester before moving on to much healthier southern Africa.)
Inevitably, most of these desperate early Mancunians were rootless migrants. Unmoored in their new home, many embraced the local soccer clubs. Gathering together at Old Trafford must have given these people something of the sense of community that they had previously known in their villages. That’s how the world’s first great industrial city engendered the world’s greatest soccer brand. Next Page >>
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All new and many used vehicles arrive with a warranty covering unexpected repairs. Be sure to understand the duration and covered components of the warranty. A typical warranty might be written "48/50,000" meaning that coverage lasts either 48 months from the initial purchase or until the vehicle has 50,000 miles, whichever comes first.top
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Destined to be chosen as an ideal take-along optic for anyone traveling light - the Monovid 8x20 Monocular from Leica will delight all-sorts of viewing enthusiasts with style, elegance, and a remarkable level of optical performance.
Sporting 8.0x magnification, the Monovid's optical system features a high-grade roof prism, AquaDura lens coatings, and nitrogen purging for clarity in any climate - it's fully fogproof and submersible to a depth of 5.0 m/16'.
Depending upon your point of view - The Monovid can be used as a mini-telescope, 1/2 a binocular, or a macroscope. Its light, small, stealthy, and quite luxurious - whether you're scoping a performer on stage, glassing the treeline for the Lord God bird, or investigating the intricate subtleties of a Nautilus shell - you'll be glad you didn't leave home without it.
Inside the Monovid's elegant leather carry case there's a special pocket for a very special attachment - the close-up lens. Installing this accessory onto the monocular allows viewers to achieve 8x magnification at distances as close as 9.8"/ 25 cm - this macro-effect viewing is excellent for observing the finest details that are often impossible to see through larger optics.
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I think you're wise to let this go through to the next service/ oil change. I would get them to properly document the paperwork to show the quantity & type of oil they used as well as the quantity of DEF.
Originally Posted by firstbimmer
You have a very good and valid point. Actually, I initially went to my salesman to complain about the situation since he was on vacation when the whole thing went down. He was very clear that next time this happens, or if I have a problem with service on this issue at the time of the oil change, that I should come see him and he will make sure all is right. He agreed that the 6000 miles didn't seem appropriate and that this should be addressed and under warranty.
The conversation continued and he knows I almost bought an M3 when I bought the 335d, but didn't because of my commute. I mentioned my upcoming transfer and we got into the M3 discussion. I was just saying maybe that all this happened for a reason to nudge me in to maybe making a change. Believe me, I'm not going to just blindly upgrade if I got a bad deal. It is already a bad enough financial decision to trade in a car in the second year of ownership, if they tried to fleece me, the deal wouldn't happen. I didn't get to a point of being able to afford an M3 by just throwing money away or rewarding bad service.
No matter what, I'll still have the 335d come the next oil change at my rate of mileage so we'll see how service treats me when the time comes. I won't hesitate to get my sales advisor involved, plus he's probably more likely to come in heavy if there's a potential sale riding on it
One other consideration... if you are thinking about an M3....I recall reading somewhere that M3s require more maintenance than the everyday 335. If this dealership is falling short on maintaining your D how are they going to do with an M3?
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Case study guru and strategy consultant Victor Cheng wrote this great item in his newsletter. The first part is an extract from a New York Times interview with the former head of the Bain Capital NY office, who has a new book out on the US economy. It also reveals how this ex-Bain consultant used a statistical approach to choosing his wife.
Here's Cheng’s excerpt from the newspaper (you can click through to the whole New York Times article here )
"There's also the fact that Conard applies a relentless, mathematical logic to nearly everything, even finding a good spouse. He advocates, in utter seriousness, using demographic data to calculate the number of potential mates in your geographic area.
Then, he says, you should set aside a bit of time for "calibration" -- dating as many people as you can so that you have a sense of what the marriage marketplace is like. Then you enter the selection phase, this time with the goal of picking a permanent mate.
The first woman you date who is a better match than the best woman you met during the calibration phase is, therefore, the person you should marry. By statistical probability, she is as good a match as you're going to get. (Conard used this system himself.)
This constant calculation -- even of the incalculable -- can be both fascinating and absurd."
Now, obviously not everyone from Bain actually uses this approach to choose a spouse. Some of us prefer the romance of falling in love. BUT, (and this is very important), everybody I know at MBB most certainly sees the logic behind this approach (even if they would not use it themselves) and many of them will use a similar logical approach to other aspects of their lives.
For example, you should have seen one of my former McKinsey colleagues. She was a woman who was planning her wedding and basically "estimated" how many people would attend her wedding.
She started with a list of everyone invited, estimated whether or not said person would bring a date based on their current relationship status, further estimated based on distance of travel needed what percent would actually make the trip to create an excel forecast model that estimated total headcount.
This in turn provided the assumptions for her wedding cost forecasting model which factored in the latest head count estimate and the cost per person for food.
Crazy? Maybe. Did everyone at McK who saw this, understand and at some level was secretly impressed (even if they wouldn't admit to it out loud)? Oh most definitely.
THIS is just how consultants think about things... or at least have the OPTION to think in this way when they want to. I hope this gives you a sense of the mentality MBB consultants have and how they approach (or have the option to approach) nearly any unstructured problem, and structure it in some logical way.
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Gold Level Application Development.
The Gold Level Application Development competency differentiates expertise in developing applications on Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft Office 2013 and BizTalk. This competency can only be given to partners with at least four unique MCPs who each hold the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Web Developer 4 certification.
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The Mid-market Solution Provider competency differentiates expertise in the most current Microsoft desktop, business-management, and server technologies. These expertise enable us to provide critical infrastructure solutions to mid-market businesses.
How can this benefit you?
In non-techy terms it means that Codehouse is an experienced IT-partner capable of delivering top of the line web-based business solutions built with cutting edge technology - from content managed websites to website integration and bespoke web applications. Some of our favourites are Sitecore CMS and Umbraco CMS but we like everything .NET.
Get in touch to find out how we can help your business create a valuable online-presence.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Quinton Patton's wait to hear his name called in this weekend's NFL draft took longer than expected. However, his patience was rewarded by being selected by the 2013 Super Bowl runner-up San Francisco 49'ers in the fourth round.
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Raven coaches were giving the offensive line some love following Saturday's intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday at the Dick Foster Athletic Complex.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Coffeyville Red Raven fans may hear some familiar names get called during the NFL draft on April 25-27. Three, maybe four, maybe five, former Ravens could get their named called according to draft prognosticators.
Friday, April 12, 2013
The Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) and the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) are pleased to announce that they have agreed, in principle, to a football scheduling agreement.
Friday, March 22, 2013
What makes the Red Raven football team's Harlem Shake video a classic?
Friday, March 15, 2013
Former Red Raven football player Michael Hall passed away on Feb. 25 in Kansas City, Mo. Hall, who had battled cancer for nearly a decade, was inducted into the Coffeyville Community College Lettermen's Hall of Fame during homecoming this past October.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Ravens started their spring practice schedule on Tuesday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Several Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens have selected their next college football destination.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Red Raven football Hall of Famer Dr. Howard Holbrooks passed away on Feb. 7 in Lawrence, Kan. He was 44.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Ravens were well represented on the Jayhawk Conference Fall All-Academic Team.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Current San Francisco 49'er and former Red Raven Dashon Goldson saw his team's rally come up just short this past Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII.
Friday, January 11, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Ravens 2013 football schedule was recently released. Next season's schedule features five home games out of a nine game regular season schedule.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Former Coffeyville Community College quarterback Cayden Cochran was a key member of Valdosta State's national championship team this past season.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
For the second season in a row, Coffeyville Community College linebacker Martrell Spaight was named a first team NJCAA All-American.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Former Coffeyville Community College wide receiver Quinton Patton was named a second team NCAA All-American by the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Red Ravens awarded top performers from the 2012 season at an awards banquet held at the CCC Student Union on November 26.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sophomore linebacker Martrell Spaight added to his long list of accolades in his Coffeyville Community College football career. Spaight was named Jayhawk Defensive Player of the Year by league coaches.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
The Coffeyville Red Ravens scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to cut a 31 point deficit to 10 points, but the Hutchinson Blue Dragons would bounce back to win 52-28 on Sunday in a Region VI playoff game played in Hutchinson.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
The Coffeyville Red Ravens and Garden City Broncbusters combined for over 1,300 yards on offense on Saturday night in Garden City as the Red Ravens held on for a 54-47 win. The win clinched third place in the Jayhawk Conference for the Ravens with a 5-2 record.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Two former Red Ravens are mentioned in this week's NJCAA Week 9 Preview Article on the NJCAA web site. Reggie Nelson and Quinton both had big games last week and the NJCAA recaps their accomplishments.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Ravens won their fifth straight game of the season against Dodge City on Sunday, and two Red Ravens were honored as the Verizon Wireless/Jayhawk Conference Players of the Week for their efforts.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The Coffeyville Red Ravens scored 45 unanswered points on the way to a 52-13 win over the Dodge City Conquistadors on Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The game was postponed from Saturday night due to lightning associated with heavy thunderstorms, putting a damper on Coffeyville's homecoming festivities.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
The Coffeyville Community College Lettermen's Club inducted new members into their Hall of Fame during a banquet on Saturday afternoon in the Student Union. The Lettermen's Club inducted the 1975 team, running back Muhammad Abdulqaadir, offensive lineman Michael Hall, and cornerback Travis Fisher.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Windsor Place hosted the CCC football team and cheer teams for a pep rally during homecoming week.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Coffeyville Red Raven sophomore cornerback Brandon Willingham was named the verizon Wireless KJCCC Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts last Saturday night against Highland.
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You make some good points, but... [img]http://126.96.36.199/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
"The scenario you describe - Dc cancelling all its books and going reprint is a credible one. So credible that I suspect it has already been examined seriously by both Marvel and DC and rejected."
True. But Time Warner have new management, which means new thinking, and a new look at everything.
"If they were that desperate to save money and they rejected the obvious option of sacking 90% of editorial and going reprint there had to be a valid reason."
Marvel were more of an indepedant entity that was far more reliant on new comics for revenue. But they are hanging on for the killing they expect to make from the X-Men and Spiderman movies.
"1. The domestic publication of the new material may not make money but it underwrites the international sale of the rights. A mid-level Marvel or DC title may (I'm guessing here) make or lose a few hundred dollars doemsticly - then the company sells the material again in 5 or 10 different foreign markets (everywhere from South Africa to Poland to the Phillipines to Israel to Brazil)."
Yes, but they don't neeed new material to do that - in most countries comics are far more disposable, and turnover their audiences every generation. You could keep reselling the same 60 years worth of back catalogue for generations. In Europe this is what Disney do - they package up old material and keep it in print, because they know that new readers will keep coming in who have never seen it before.
"As I understand it, the companies work similarly to the movie studios - if you want Superman or X-men you buy a package which might include several less popular series as well."
True, but you don't need to keep coming up with new series to do this - sell the rights to Hawkman or Silver Surfer again instead.
"I also think it's misleading to say that DC hasn't produced a successful media property since the'40's. It depends on your definition of success. For example, Warlord was optioned for a movie (several times I believe) and was the basis of a toy line."
I think a Warner suit would define success as a property that brings in large, regualr amounts of money because it has lots of merchandising potential. When was the Warlord toy line? Late 70s? How many non comics fans (or even current fans) know who Warlord is, could recognise him, and would buy merchandise (which is where the real money is, as I'm sure you're aware) today. Not many. Warlord hasn't slipped into the zeitgeist, hence he is not terribly successful from a suit point of view.
""Steel" may have bombed as a movie but Dc probably earned a six or seven figure sum from it anyway. Ditto for the Human Target tele-movie."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Warner's still paid for them. DC may have made some money, but at the cost of another division (film, TV). Why prop up one division at the expense of another?
"Remember that "success" to corporate suits doesn't mean critical or artistic success or even a completed product - it means a positive dollar return to the bottom line."
I agree completely - but DC is a small fish in a very big sea at T-W, and the overall bottom line is far more important than that of one division.
"Half the comics on the stands today are there as prospectuses for movie and tv properties. Whether they actually turn a proift from the comic is largely irrelevant provided the company's overall hit rate is acceptable."
But DC's hit rate is negligible (in the 90s: the Batman movies, Lois & Clark, that's about it). Even when they sell their rights, they mostly get sold to Warner Bros or one of their subsiduaries - so T-W loses. Like I said - why bother publishing comics, if you're only making money out of old stuff anyway?
"One "Blade" movie pays for an awful lot of comics."
Yet Marvel are still massively in debt.
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A deputy from the Carson sheriff's station who was assisting in the service of a search warrant during a narcotics investigation in Los Angeles was bitten by a pit bull Wednesday.
The incident occurred around 1:35 p.m., but officials declined to say precisely where it happened.
The deputy was helping to contain six pit bulls when one of them became agitated and bit him on the right elbow area and his left middle finger, said Deputy Kim Manatt of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released, Manatt said.
The dogs were removed by county Animal Care and Control officers, she said. It was unclear what would happen to them.
Detectives arrested three people on suspicion of felony narcotics violations and one for a parole violation, Manatt said.
- City News Service
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View Full Version : site not sandboxed but i'm not hitting for my keywords -SEO woes
05-01-2011, 10:57 AM
so i decided do start clickjacking another site, this one movie related. everything was fine for a few days. i was getting ~2000 uvs a day organic for the keywords i was targeting. i am still way ahead of the competition for my keywords but now my site is not ranking anyore. it is not sandboxed as site:"mysite" still shows results.
so google didn't "sandboxed" me but decided to stop ranking me for certain keywords?
what should i do. obviously remove the clickjacking script, but will google automagically start ranking me for those keywords again or is there another step i can take. please help DG, this is one of my bigger money sites.
05-01-2011, 12:14 PM
i just checked search.yahoo and ALL of the backlinks are just gone? everyone.
i used the xrumer services worldismine recommended and just pinged the fuck out of all the results. i was first page for weeks and now ALL of them are gone?
how did this happen/what can i do?
please help, i'm losing money quickly.
05-01-2011, 12:24 PM
I've always said in my latest threads NOT TO clickjack your main site. AV companies (and many others) are scanning websites and adding clickjackers to a blacklist daily. I've lost some traffic due to this also.
And never ping xrumer blasts to a site ... It's an instant red flag. Let google find them slowly... Takes more time but it's more natural.
05-01-2011, 09:21 PM
i know, i learned my lesson with clickjacking on my larger sites, but is there anything i can do? i mean i'm not sandboxed, just checked search.yahoo and ~200 of my backlinks already made it back but i'm still not ranking for my big keywords.
what can i do? thanks worldismine, your a boss.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to worldismine again.
yeah man some of my sites seem to have dropped off the serps as well and competitors "backup sites" are hitting the top... pretty weird.
05-01-2011, 11:44 PM
I say keep backlinking, don't stop doing what you were doing. Thats the worst thing you can do. Check your reffs for URLS from AV companies, if there are any, contact their support to have the site off the list (TELL them you were hacked, its worked for me and I was off the list)
Competitors can whine to Google on you if your backlinks are shit. BUT, Google is so swamped they never do manual reviews unless it's a high target keyword / site... But there is always that 1 in a million that someone reported you and you got punished. (which I doubt)
I would just continue as usual and wait. There isn't much you can do anyway except work on the site to make it better.
05-01-2011, 11:46 PM
If it makes you feel any better, one of my main sites vanished from page one about 2 weeks ago. I had the position for MONTHS... All unique content, lots of backlinks (more than competitors) .. I was like WTF??????????????????????????????????????????????
I kept doing what I was doing. Blast a few links, updated every 1-2 days.. Finally yesterday out of thin air I am back to the same position. Ugh, it sucks NOT to know what is causing this.
05-02-2011, 12:40 AM
^ thank you, it feels good to hear that at least.
im seeing my sites in google webmaster tools showing positions i should be ranking for, but i'm not. perhaps it will come back up... but who knows. google been pissin me off.
05-07-2011, 11:26 AM
Didn't Google recently change their algorithm? I seem to remember reading that they did and site owners were flipping out because a lot of sites dropped in rank all of a sudden. The change was supposed to help weed out "content farms"
I know if I don't keep building fresh links to my sites at least once a month everything will be fine for a few months and then I'll suddenly drop from page one to page two, three, four or worse all of a sudden. Once I get some fresh links it recovers though, usually within a month.
As for the Yahoo links I had the same thing happen a few weeks ago and now they're all back I think there might just be an issue with Yahoo or something.
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Evergreen in the News
- Evergreen Grad Shook the Global Austerity Debate
- National Survey Reports High Level of Student Engagement at Evergreen
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What’s here is unique in the country. It’s about a sense of self and where you fit in the world. You get the school to work for you, not the other way around.
See for yourself: Visit Evergreen
Go beyond classes, majors, and grades and experience your education the way you imagine it.
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"Rape is not a joke," said Ohio NOW President Jackie Hillyer, echoing a chant from a dozen protesters gathered in front of the Rhodes Office Tower in downtown Columbus Monday afternoon.
The rally was organized to urge Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to investigate and file criminal charges against a man shown laughing at a 16-year-old rape victim in a video that has become infamous in social media.
"We believe that Michael Nodianos should be charged with failure to report a crime," Hillyer said. "The 12-minute video clearly shows that he knew what was happening."
The protesters formed a delegation and carried a letter asking DeWine to file charges against Nodianos into the Ohio Attorney General's office. The letter was accompanied by 85,000 signatures from supporters of the National Organization for Women, Justice for Children, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the feminist group UltraViolet. DeWine welcomed the delegation into his office and asked them to voice their concerns.
Jackie Hillyer spoke to DeWine about a pervasive rape culture that encourages sexual assault by failing to treat it as a serious crime. "It’s a culture that needs to be changed," she said. "We need to tell these young men that rape is not something they can be proud of and brag about. We need to get to the place where the culture changes enough so that bystanders feel comfortable intervening.
"The worst thing about this crime in Steubenville is not that it's so awful and horrible and disgusting, but that it's so ordinary," Hillyer said. "It happens all the time, across the state and across the country."
More victims and bystanders would be willing to report rape if they believed something would be done to the perpetrator, she said. "We're asking you to be at the forefront of getting the change to culture right in Ohio."
"This is a crime that I take very, very seriously," said DeWine. I agree with you that we need to continue to try to improve the culture and how we work this crime. This is something that all of us have a responsibility to do.
"We are also continuing to investigate what happened after the rape occurred, to see if there is culpability for anyone else. It would be unfair for me at this point to focus on any one individual. We've had dozens of investigators in Steubenville. We've completed 30 or 40 interviews. Our job is to leave no stone unturned, and find out what else happened.
Failure to report a felony "is unfortunately under Ohio law only a 4th degree misdemeanor, which is quite shocking to me," DeWine said. "I think that's something the legislature needs to look at."
The trial of Ma'Lik Richmond and Trent Mays for the rape of the underage victim is scheduled to begin March 13 in the Jefferson County Juvenile Court. DeWine said he will announce in a press conference after the trial whether there will be any additional prosecutions.
"I think it's very important, not only for the state and the country, but particularly for the Steubenville community, to feel that justice has been done," DeWine said.
"Outside of the prosecution of individuals who may have been involved as bystanders or witnesses of this crime, what would you propose to do to change the perception of rape from a joke and something to brag about to something that's a very serious crime?" Hillyer asked.
"This is something that's not just the Attorney General's area," DeWine said. "I think we all have an obligation to change the culture. We all have a responsibility. Parents, schools, clergy—anyone who has contact with young people has an obligation to make it very clear how serious this is.
"I would hope that what we're doing in Steubenville now, the prosecution of two individuals, will show that this is no laughing matter. This is a question of human dignity. It's a question of personal rights. We believe that the evidence will show that this young woman's privacy, her human rights, were violated.
"Anybody who's seen the video, as I have, thinks it's disgusting," DeWine said. "But we're not just focusing on that individual. We've been looking at anybody else who has any involvement, not only in the actual crime itself, but also anybody who has culpability after the fact."
However, there are limits to what the criminal justice system can do, DeWine said. "We have a moral obligation, as well as an ethical and legal obligation, only to press charges where we think the evidence is actually there."
"I understand that the criminal issue is the focus, and that's your particular role here, said OSU professor Pranav Jani, who was part of the delegation. "But a lot of us are also acknowledging, like you said, that it’s a question of human dignity and human rights. We have to address an entire culture that says it's okay to objectify women in this way, that allegations of date rape are part of a feminist conspiracy. I believe that all of these are things we need to challenge."
"I agree," DeWine said. "One of the disturbing things is that this is not an unusual case. Incidents like this occur every week in this country." DeWine attributed much of the extra attention on the Steubenville rape case to the influence of social media. "One of the problems with this is that the victim continues to be victimized by some things that are written on the social media," he said.
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Add comment December 10th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1900, John Filip Nordlund was beheaded with Albert Dahlman‘s axe at Sweden’s Västerås County Jail.
The second-last person executed in Sweden (English Wikipedia entry | Swedish) was the author of an infamously fiendish murder spree aboard a ferry steamer crossing Lake Mälaren for Stockholm on the evening of May 16, 1900: shortly after the Prins Carl‘s departure from Arboga, Nordlund, armed with two revolvers and two blades, went on a rampage through the boat (Swedish link), shooting or stabbing everyone he saw.
The spree left five dead, including the ship’s captain, and several others wounded. Then Nordlund lowered a lifeboat into the water and rowed away with about 800 stolen kronor … and the opprobrium of the nation.
Nordlund stalks the Prins Carl, from this verse pdf (Swedish).
Police were able to track him from the descriptions of witnesses to a train station and arrest him the very next day. Their maniac would turn out to be a 25-year-old career thief, only released the month before from his latest prison stint.
Although captured trying to flee, Nordlund from the first projected resignation — even relief, writing his parents that he would be well rid of a society he had never felt part of. Certainly the sentence was in little doubt given the infamy of the crime (Nordlund was almost lynched after arrest), and the man made no attempt to defend himself or mitigate his actions in court, nor to seek mercy after conviction.
Nordlund was the third person executed in Sweden in 1900 alone, but there would be no more patients for Dahlman for a decade … until 1910, when Sweden conducted its first and only guillotining. The country has not carried out a death sentence since.
Besides being the penultimate executee in Swedish history, John Filip Nordlund is also the last man in Europe beheaded manually (rather than with Dr. Guillotin’s device) other than in Germany.
Also on this date
- 1852: Jose Forni, the first legal hanging in California
- 1718: Stede Bonnet, gentleman pirate
- 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham, the Queen's lovers
- 1796: Jose Leonardo Chirino, Venezuelan slave revolt leader
- 1937: Teido Kunizaki
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May 15th (F1plus Team).- An now the Formula 1 goes to the “Iberian Peninsula” for The Spanish Grand Prix. Most of the teams will keep bringing their improvements and developments to their cars, and Force India, will also try to put theirs into action.
Adrian Sutil at Istanbul Park
The team had planned for a new wing for Turkey, but the wet conditions did not provide the best opportunity to analyse that addition, so the team decided not to use it and leave for a another race.
There’s a possibility that to the new package will be put into practice for this upcoming race at Catalunya, but it might be delayed to Monaco.
The team seems to be pretty confident that the overall upgrade will give them the edge and become more of a threat to the big teams as well as a chance to officially lead the middle pack teams.
“When our new aerodynamic developments are in place, I’m confident we can take a step forward in terms of performance.” Vijay Mallya, the team’s Principal, added.
FORCE INDIA drivers and the Circuit of Catalunya.
Adrian Sutil Q&A
Which part of the lap is most challenging?
The first three corners are quite difficult. It’s a quick complex and it’s important to get turn one right to have the correct line through the next couple of corners. In qualifying trim, turn three could be taken flat.
What's the secret to setting a quick laptime?
The first and second sectors are high-speed and you need to have the right aero balance. But the final part of the lap is quite slow and the mechanical set-up is more important. The difficult thing is to find the golden middle.
Overtaking has always been difficult at Barcelona – will that change this year?
Yes, I think we should see some overtaking. There is a long straight and tyre degradation will be high. I’m sure the race will be a bit different to what we have seen in previous years.
Paul Di Resta shares his impressions about the upcoming Race.
I’m really looking forward to this weekend because I probably know Barcelona better than any other track on the calendar. We did two tests there in the winter and I had four days in the car so I already feel quite well prepared. In fact, it’s a track that all the drivers know like the back of their hand and the teams have so much data already.
It’s usually a race where all the teams bring upgrades so we will need to take a step forward if we want to stay in the mix. We evaluated a new front wing in Istanbul and we hope to have more steps coming through in the near future. The team has been working hard on this new concept and everybody is quite upbeat about its race introduction, so that’s something to look forward to.
The aim for the weekend is to hopefully get back in the points. We’ve been pretty close to the top ten in all the races so far this season, so hopefully we can stay in the hunt.
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Boys' Toddler Nike Sunray Protect
If your kids are crawling, they're old enough for their first pair of Nikes, and these super-stylish Nike Sunray Protect Toddler Slide Sandals have all the features you want (and then some) for when your little guy or gal.
Totally durable and ready for anything, these sandals are like personal bodyguards for tiny feet. They're prepared to protect no matter what. No-slip rubber wraps around the toe for superior defense against stubbing, and the lightweight cushioning makes them comfy enough for all-day wear.
What's more, a Spandex backing makes these sandals fabulously flexible and the Velcro fasteners offer an easy, one-step adjustable fit. Who knew something so tough could also be so comfy?
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Pat Catans Catalog
Pat Catans catalog is filled with exciting craft supplies that can be used for all of your project throughout the year. You can find everything you need to create beautiful Christmas packages, and small accessories for things like school projects are plentiful. Material to make new curtains is also available in a variety of prints in Pat Catans catalog.Go to Digital Catalog
Catalog Review... 2012 September Circulars
These September circulars from Pat Catans are all about embracing Fall and Halloween. Stocked with Fall decor and fun Halloween decorations, I'm sure you'll see something that catches your eye.
Halloween on page 1 shows you an 8ft tall hanging ghost for only $5 as well as a 60inch big black spider going for $10. The kids will enjoy those cute guys.
Page 2 brings Halloween drip candles for spooky candle arrangements... only $2. Spiced pumpkin paper sachets, non-wooven bags for collecting candy, 14inch wood skeleton and 60inch witch broom are also available.
Wrapping up the promo piece is that on Saturday, Sept 22, they are having a make a Fall pumpkin or bandana ghost event as well as Sept 29 is a Halloween wooden mask event for the kids.
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I do like the amount of shade in this piece, lots of grey in between all the black and white, tho I think it could do with some stronger white in this piece.
Pandora I am seeing a habit from you and I don't think it's for the best.
You seem to always place your focals too far to the left or right, always leaving so much empty space not played with. I would strongly suggest to use up more of the space/cut off half the dead space/ or move your focal more to center.
I also agree with the above comments, this image has too much topaz, it is very strong and makes important details look messy.
I would suggest leaving topaz out when it comes to rl images if you haven't got a good setting yet that you know how to manipulate.
Radi's one of a kind gift <3 ^My Wish List^
Originally Posted by OGbyDesign
yeah. Dont get me wrong, I love these, but you kinda gotta ask yourself why they decided to give you so much costume with your naked woman.
i agree with slave on this totally if u use topaz i wold wait till the end when u are done and dont want to do any more stuff to the tag and dont use too much then it doesnt look like a real person anymore it will look animated like in this one
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Shelves stretch across the walls of The Pottery Piazza Studio, abounding with more than 1,500 bisque mugs, plates, and figurines in need of decoration. Beside them sit stencils, brushes, bottles of paint, and more than 100 types of glaze. At the tables, clients adorn their blank bisque canvases with paint while sipping from their favorite home-brought wine. Staff members stroll up and down the store, eagerly awaiting their chance to offer advice on the best ways to design a piece, perform artistic techniques, or accidentally drop incriminating evidence into the kiln. During fairer weather, painters lay claim to the tables on the front patio, painting, snacking, and socializing alfresco style. Throughout the year, the shop hosts special events, including private parties, kids' summer camps, and BYOB ladies nights.
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Grey and Soggy
We've just lived through an extremely rainy and cold week in eastern Newfoundland. "Well, there can't possibly be much more rain up there to come down, can there?", I thought to myself this morning as I trudged to the office in the mist and the fog.
No such luck.
Fall was a beautiful time of year when we lived in Ontario, and I always wondered why I hated the fall so much when I was growing up. Now I remember. Well then, I guess it's time that I gave up on outdoor running and went back to the gym. Hrmph.
We did get a bit of a break from the rain (but not from the freezing cold) on Sunday for the Run for the Cure. I organized a team at my workplace this year, and 20 of us, including some family and friends, participated. Nick and I both ran the 5 km. It was his first organized run, and I beat my previous best time by a couple of minutes, so we're both pretty proud of ourselves.
Since the weather has turned so chilly, it is a good time of year to have a newly completed woolly vest. My Ivy League turned out just lovely, a perfect fit.
I knit it exactly as written with no modifications, which worked well for me because I'm short. The vest is a very nice addition to my fall work wardrobe. I definitely like this Fair-Isle business, and there will certainly be more of it in my future. Steeks aren't so scary - you just have to show them who's boss.
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Last year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National Rifle Association's Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told America, "The guys with the guns make the rules." After Jared Loughner ("You don't have to accept the federalist laws") took the NRA's advice to heart and shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and federal judge John Roll at Tucson--along with 17 other innocents--LaPierre took the stage at CPAC again on Thursday to deliver an angry, fear-mongering speech that seemed to call the very legitimacy of our government into question.
LaPierre's invective touched on a number of emotional touchstones for the Conservative Movement in the U.S. "Government has failed us with our money," he told CPAC attendees. "It's failed us with our financial institutions. It's failed in running our post offices and our trains. It's failed in enforcing our immigrations laws and our drug laws, and our laws on the books against violent criminals with guns. Heck, they can barely get the snow plowed." In LaPierre's revisionist history, it wasn't loose gun laws and violent politic rhetoric that led to Tucson. It was the government's creation of "gun-free zones" and "anti-self defense laws" that were at fault. Such policies, in LaPierre's view, "condemned the victims [in Tucson] to death without so much as a prayer."
For a minute, forget the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Forget that Arizona has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation, allowing individuals to carry loaded handguns in public without any type of permit or screening. Forget that an armed citizen was on the scene in Tucson, and nearly shot a good Samaritan who had already disarmed Loughner. Forget that the NRA described the Brady Bill as an "executioner's tool" and filed lawsuits in nine states to void it entirely (the Supreme Court wouldn't go that far, but did agree with the NRA in Printz v. U.S. that the federal government couldn't compel local police to conduct background checks on gun purchasers). Forget that the NRA has fought vehemently against the renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban, which includes a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Forget even that LaPierre's sole motivation is profit for the gun industry.
Forget all that, and let's look at the crux of LaPierre's speech -- a disturbing call for the privatization of law enforcement through the implementation of a militia movement untethered to government authority.
LaPierre opened his argument at CPAC with the familiar refrain that government is an "abject failure" that "can't protect us." He suggested that the United States is currently in a state of lawlessness, rattling off statistics about murder, rape, assault and theft and telling CPAC attendees, "As soon as you leave this hall, your life is in jeopardy." Simultaneously, he lamented budget cuts to police departments across the country.
But LaPierre isn't seeking to use his organization's political muscle to restore this funding. Instead, his formula for securing communities is the activation of neighborhood militias. Referring to the current situation in Egypt, LaPierre stated, "Anyone who thinks the Second Amendment is outdated had better take a look at what is happening in Egypt right now." His takeaway from the revolution is an idyllic fantasy about "[armed] citizens coming together, in the face of lawlessness, to protect their neighborhoods." This is in stark contrast to the rest of the world, which witnessed (and documented) the awesome power of nonviolence as a force for democratic change in Egypt.
LaPierre's homage to citizen militias sounds curiously familiar. Following Hurricane Katrina, the NRA promoted a conspiracy theory about mass gun confiscations in Katrina and compared New Orleans officials to Mao, Stalin and Hitler. In reality, citizens who decided to remain in the city were well armed, including a private militia in Algiers Point, a predominantly white neighborhood that remained relatively dry and undamaged. In the words of a Nation reporter, "They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about fifteen to thirty residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply 'didn't belong.'" Evidence indicates that at least 11 African-Americans were attacked and shot in the neighborhood as they attempted to reach a nearby evacuation zone. The militia members openly bragged about their exploits, stating, "It was like pheasant season."
Algiers Point showed that government is a necessary ingredient in ensuring public safety. Without an impartial mechanism to resolve disputes and enforce judgments, there can be no individual rights. When the government is not present to enforce the rule of law, there is no such thing as the presumption of innocence or the protections of the jury system. As historian Saul Cornell put it, "Without legal authority, a group of armed citizens acting on their own [is] little more than a riotous mob." While it may be true that private arms can provide a measure of self-defense, in Algiers Point we saw firsthand how "law-abiding" citizens with guns don't always do the right thing.
This theme is not without precedent--it was an animating factor in the drafting of our own Constitution. The idea that Second Amendment author James Madison would have embraced the NRA's radical anti-government ideology ignores both our history and the Founding Father's own words. When asked about the potential power of the federal government at Virginia's ratifying convention, Madison offered the following: "There never was a government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty. A government leaving it to a man to do his duty, or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all." Furthermore, Madison described the lawlessness of armed mobs during Shays' Rebellion as a "warning" to our young nation. In the Federalist Papers he wrote--correctly--that, "Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty as well as by the abuses of power ... The former rather than the latter is apparently most to be apprehended by the United States." Undoubtedly, Madison would have been deeply troubled by the extralegal aggression of the Hutaree and other contemporary "Patriot" groups.
On February 10, when Wayne LaPierre declared, "I have a right to protect myself [with a gun] ... I won't give up my right to exercise this freedom, not one single inch," he was indicating that might makes right, and government has no business refereeing private violence, no matter what the collateral damage. This is completely antithetical to the very concept of government, which serves to safeguard us from the brutal excesses of the state of nature. We must recognize that the NRA's insurrectionist ideology not only presents a grave threat to precious human life, but also undermines the very purpose of our Constitution.
Follow Josh Horwitz on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CSGV
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We are looking for an Assistant manager/ Manager- Quality, for a Telecom Operator client of an MNC BPO.
Please find the details of the requirement below.
Position - Assistant manager/ Manager- Quality
Client - A reputed MNC BPO with a headcount of more than 50000 employees
Location - Mumbai
Experience - 4-5 Years in Music Company/ with a content Provider/ Telecom BPO
Qualification - Preferably Full Time MBA from a reputed institute.
Salary - Best in the industry
- Responsible for testing Menus, Voice Recordings, Song quality and overall quality of service for the Value Added Services
- Manage the Team and allocate responsibilities
- Conduct regular Audits and Checks on the team and Quality Assurance
- Be a Single Point Of Contact for the client
- Maintain Schedule of the daily routine, Prepare MIS and other reports
- Create product calendar and Brief relevant teams on new products and services
- Identifying process gaps
- Monitor performance of platforms, products and services
- Responsible for customer invoicing and collections
- Coordinating with vendors and closing open issues
If you are interested, please send your updated resume with salary details to firstname.lastname@example.org
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what's hot in the photo marketplace
by Diane Berkenfeld
a. APPLE (www.apple.com) has added two new PowerBooks to its notebook line. The 17-inch model features a lightning fast 1GHz G4 processor, backlit keyboard, built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth, and SuperDrive to burn and play CD/DVDs. The 12-inch PowerBook G4 offers an 867MHz G4 processor, Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW), and built-in Bluetooth in a small size.
Manufacturer: Apple Computer Inc.
CANON (www.cusa.canon.com) expanded its line of portable LCD projectors with the new LV-5200. An SVGA projector that offers Canon's high-quality optics, a 1.5x motorized zoom, multiple interfaces, and quiet operation. The projector features keystone correction, Contrast and Cinema modes, as well as a wireless remote control.
Manufacturer: Canon U.S.A. Inc.
ROLAND (www.rolanddga.com) added the 74-inch Hi-Fi JET Pro II pigment-based printer to its line. The printer is also able to print with dye inks. The 74-inch Hi-Fi JET Pro II outputs up to 300 square feet per hour at 450 dpi and offers resolutions up to 1440x1440 dpi.
Manufacturer: Roland DGA Corporation
SONY (www.sony.com) expanded its line of Vaio notebook computers with two new models. The VAIO PCG-V505 series features Pentium 4 processors, wireless capability, and an integrated DVD/CD-RW drive. The VAIO PCG-GRV680 notebook offers a dual-format DVD recordable drive that works with the four most popular types of DVD media.
Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
FACES ON TIME (www.facesontime.com) has added a sports model to its line of custom photo watches. The sports model is available in two sizes with different finishes, dials, and bands. Faces On Time uses an image suspension process to place the image of a pet's photo between the watch dial and crystal. The pet's name or other brief inscription may be added. The watches are made by Endura, a member of the Swatch Group of Switzerland.
Manufacturer: Faces On Time
MITSUBISHI (www.mitsubishi-imaging.com) expanded its line of printers with the new CP-3020DU Digital Color Printer. The new printer uses dye-sub technology and produces prints up to 8x12-inches on both glossy and matte surface papers. The printer, which allows for multiple-size prints on a single sheet of A4 paper, can be used in-studio or on location for fast color printing.
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Digital Electronics
EPSON (www.epson.com) introduced three new portable multimedia projectors. The PowerLite 52c, PowerLite 53c, and PowerLite 73c feature sleek designs and each weighs only 6.4 pounds. Designed for use on the go, the projectors use Seiko Epson's three-LCD projection system for a high level of image quality, true colors, and sharp text.
Manufacturer: Epson America Inc.
DELKIN DEVICES (www.delkin.com) has announced that firmware for the eFilm PicturePAD is now able to recognize RAW files created by high-end digitalSLR cameras. The eFilm PicturePAD, a mobile storage device, features a built-in hard drive (ranging from 20GB to 60GB) for storing digital images and a color LCD screen for viewing. The firmware may be downloaded from the website.
Manufacturer: Delkin Devices
NIKON (www.nikonusa.com) is developing a new wide-angle F-Mount autofocus lens series exclusively dedicated to its line of digital SLRs. The first lens will be a Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G lens, incorporating Nikon's Silent Wave Motor Technology, ED Glass, and G-Type design for compatibility with each camera model's built-in Command Dial aperture control. Nikon will deliver the new AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens this April, incorporating Silent Wave Motor Technology, ED Glass, and manual/automatic focusing mode.
Manufacturer: Nikon Inc.
MINOLTA (www.minoltausa.com) has added to its line of digital cameras with the introduction of the DiMAGE F300, a 5-megapixel model. The F300 features a built-in 3x optical zoom Minolta GT lens with additional 4x digital zoom capability. Other features include exposure compensation, self-timer, noise reduction, movie and audio recording, and date imprinting. The F300 records Jpeg and Tiff files to SecureDigital and MultiMediaCards.
Manufacturer: Minolta Corporation
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Community Education designs, develops and implements a wide array of non-credit classes that enrich the lives of all ages, including youth and mature adults. Program Coordinators collaborate with area businesses and instructors to ensure the delivery of innovative programming as well as traditional classes and lectures.
Senior Expo on March 27, 2013
Not sure how to register?
Follow our easy guide on how to register for non-credit courses.
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I loathe the "comments" on this article and all the others - they really show how ignorant and judgmental our society has become. Joe Citizen is now an expert on everything, knows "what really happened", and/or has some obnoxious, purposeless comment to make. Our men and women in law enforcement, despite years of training and experience, become bumbling gumshoes simply because Joe Citizen watches CSI. More often than not, the posts are incredibly insensitive and hurtful. Undoubtedly, these individuals wouldn't have a thing to say in person - they use keyboards as their shields. This small "window" on society is another reason to wonder where America is going. I hope that the moderators can get this under control a bit because I rarely read the paper online anymore, due to the ridiculous posts.
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KWTX-TV uses an automated system for school delays and closings due to weather emergencies. This system allows each school district to enter information specific to its situation using the internet.
Only schools, colleges and major businesses will be displayed on television. All registered organizations are displayed on this page below.
To access the system, your organization must be registered with KWTX-TV. Once the form is received, your organization will be issued a user id and password to access the system via the internet.
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"I like this site. Easy to use and easy to navigate. I searched and found my computer battery in less than 30 seconds."
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of the handful of Dow Jones Industrial Average components scheduled to report quarterly financial results Tuesday, three handed in their third-quarter report cards: Coca-Cola Co., Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth Group Inc.
The other two blue chips slated to report — International Business Machines Corp. /quotes/zigman/230066/quotes/nls/ibm IBM +1.83% and Intel Corp. /quotes/zigman/20392/quotes/nls/intc INTC +0.42% — will do so after Tuesday’s bell.
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As of Monday, nearly 59% of the 34 S&P 500 index /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX +1.03% companies that have reported third-quarter results had beaten earnings estimates, according to Thomson Reuters. Nearly 18% reported in line with expectations as roughly 24% came in below expectations. See: Stocks face first peak of earnings season.
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Early companies of note
Third-quarter results showed Goldman Sachs swinging to a profit of $1.51 billion, or $2.85 a share, a reversal following its year-earlier loss, as revenue reached $8.35 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had been expecting a profit of $2.19 a share on revenue of $7.24 billion. Goldman’s year-over-year revenue growth in investment banking and in fixed income, currency and commodities client execution rose by 49% and 28%, respectively. Goldman’s board also approved a 9% boost in the company’s quarterly dividend to 50 cents a share, payable Dec. 28 to stockholders of record as of Nov. 30. See more on Goldman’s results.
Johnson & Johnson /quotes/zigman/230812/quotes/nls/jnj JNJ +0.73% posted a lower third-quarter net profit as adjusted earnings showed a slight increase to a consensus-beating $3.52 billion, or $1.25 a share, from $3.44 billion, or $1.24 a share, in the year-earlier period. The health-care and consumer-products company’s quarterly revenue climbed to $17.05 billion from the prior year’s $16.01 billion. J&J also updated its 2012 profit outlook and now pegs earnings in a range of $5.05 to $5.10 a share; the consensus stands at $5.08 a share. See more on Johnson & Johnson’s quarterly results and outlook.
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Coca-Cola Co. /quotes/zigman/222647/quotes/nls/ko KO -0.28% served up a third-quarter net profit of $2.31 billion, or 50 cents a share, up from $2.22 billion, or 48 cents, earned in the same period during 2011. Earnings on an adjusted basis would have been 51 cents a share for the latest quarter, as quarterly revenue reached $12.34 billion. The consensus of estimates as compiled by FactSet had been for the beverages company to post earnings of 51 cents a share on revenue of $12.39 billion. Global volume growth came to 4% for the latest quarter. See more on Coca-Cola’s results.
Third-quarter earnings for UnitedHealth Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/258846/quotes/nls/unh UNH +1.13% came in well ahead of forecast. The health-insurance giant posted quarterly earnings of $1.50 a share, up from the prior year’s $1.17 a share. The profit easily exceeded the $1.31-a-share consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The largest U.S. managed-care provider also generated 8% revenue growth in the September quarter, to $27.3 billion. In addition, the company revised higher its 2012 profit forecast to a range of $5.20 to $5.25 a share. The company became a Dow component in late September, replacing Kraft Foods and signaling the importance of the health-care industry to the U.S. economy. See more about UnitedHealth’s results and outlook.
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/238602/quotes/nls/pnc PNC +1.49% tallied 11% growth in third-quarter profit, to $925 million, or $1.64 a share, from the prior year’s $834 million, or $1.55 a share. Total quarterly revenue generated by the Pittsburgh-based company rose 15% to $4.09 billion. PNC’s overall credit quality improved on a sequential basis, as reflected in a decline in nonperforming assets as well as a lower provision for credits losses.
Mattel Inc. /quotes/zigman/75129/quotes/nls/mat MAT +1.30% posted third-quarter net profit of $365.9 million, or $1.04 a share, up from of $300.8 million, or 86 cents, earned in the year-earlier period, as the toy maker’s sales rose 4% to $2.08 billion. Strength in other brands compensated for quarterly weakness in Barbie sales, the results showed. The FactSet-compiled consensus had been for Mattel to turn in earnings of 99 cents a share on sales of $2.07 billion. Read more on Mattel results.
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After the bell
— Intel is expected to report third-quarter earnings of 50 cents a share, a fall of 23% from the same period a year ago. Sales may drop 7% to $13.22 billion. Intel’s report will arrive following last week’s revenue warning from chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. /quotes/zigman/216580/quotes/nls/amd AMD +6.27% , which cited weaker-than-expected demand as reason for the move. Read: Intel results on deck amid grim chip outlook.
Intel in September pulled back its own sales forecast for the third quarter because of weak demand, excess inventory, and slowing emerging-markets growth. The warnings from both Intel and AMD underscored issues facing companies that make PC components, including growing competition from tablets. See story on warnings from chip makers.
— Earnings for IBM are expected to jump 10% to $3.61 a share. But sales are expected to dip 3% to $25.39 billion.
Focal points for Big Blue’s results will likely be the software and global business services segments, “which both underperformed in the last quarter,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst David Grossman told clients on Monday.
For software, which represents 24% of IBM’s revenue, growth in the second half of the year “should benefit from improving ‘transactional’ sales performance as the June quarter progressed,” and from $2 billion in “healthy acquisition activity,” in the first half of 2012, Grossman wrote. Stifel Nicolaus has a buy rating on IBM. Read blog post: Will Big Blue get a bounce from its earnings report?
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