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TAMPA, FL, July 23, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quality Distribution, Inc. (Nasdaq:QLTY) ("Quality") announced today that it intends to release second quarter 2013 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Quality will host a conference call for equity analysts and investors to discuss these results on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The toll free dial‑in number is 888-599-8667; the toll number is 913-312-0683; the passcode is 7162917 . A replay of the call will be available through August 31, 2013, by dialing 888-203-1112; the passcode is 7162917. A webcast of the conference call may be accessed in the Investor Relations section of Quality's website. Copies of the earnings release and other financial information about Quality may also be accessed in the Investor Relations section of Quality's website at www.qualitydistribution.com. The Company regularly posts or otherwise makes available information within the Investor Relations section that may be important to investors. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Quality operates the largest chemical bulk logistics network in North America through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Quality Carriers, Inc., and is the largest North American provider of intermodal tank container and depot services through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Boasso America Corporation. Quality also provides logistics and transportation services to the unconventional oil and gas industry including crude oil, fresh water, and production fluids, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries QC Energy Resources, Inc. and QC Environmental Services, Inc. Quality's network of independent affiliates and independent owner-operators provides nationwide bulk transportation and related services. Quality is an American Chemistry Council Responsible Care® Partner and is a core carrier for many of the Fortune 500 companies that are engaged in chemical production and processing.
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Move over hot yoga, and make room for something even hotter. Now that Boomers are aging, with Gen Xers not far behind, some 6,000 women enter menopause every day in the U.S. That's more than 2 million women a year joining the ranks of the post-menopausal, and many of us will be spending a third of our lives coping with what my mother's generation referred to in mysterious whispers as The Change. Welcome to hot flash yoga.
Up to 85 percent of women report hot flashes (aka vasomotor flushes) during menopause, according to the National Institutes of Health. After reviewing a number of research studies, the NIH concluded that yoga, tai chi, and meditation, "may be helpful in reducing common menopausal symptoms including the frequency and intensity of hot flashes, sleep and mood disturbances, stress, and muscle and joint pain."
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Can yoga replace hormone replacement therapy? Why not? Hormones, biochemical molecules that signal and regulate human functions, are secreted into the bloodstream by the body's endocrine glands, and yogis have long noted the correlation between the endocrine system and esoteric anatomy. Asana stretches and squeezes the endocrine glands. Chanting activates them through vibration and resonance. Mudra and dharana (concentration) stimulate the glands' energetic correlates, the chakras.
How can this ease menopause? As a woman transitions toward menopause (typically between age 40 and 60), the ovaries begin to slow their production of estrogen. The endocrine glands attempt to regain balance. The pituitary may secrete more FSH and LH. The adrenals, thyroid, and other structures shift to produce more estrogen. However, the adrenals may already be overstressed, complicating this ongoing balancing act. The effects include hot flashes, insomnia, anxiety, irritability, depression, and osteopenia (bone density loss).
Women in Western cultures are much more likely to experience these effects. This is often attributed to a Western diet, but stress may also be a factor. And then there's the pervasive idea that menopause is a medical problem (a financial opportunity worth billions to drug companies and insurers). A friend once remarked that her health insurance company categorized her menopause symptoms as a "pre-existing medical condition" and slapped a rider onto her policy. Ouch!
How can yoga help? According to the NIH, the majority of menopausal symptoms are due to sympathetic activation—or, in the language of ayurveda, excessive heat. Between them, ayurveda and yoga offer a number of ways to enhance the body's parasympathetic response. Pranayamas such as shitali, sit cari, or dirga help re-establish balance by emphasizing cooling. Forward bends calm the adrenals. For other symptoms, weight-bearing asanas and practices that stimulate the thyroid and parathyroids—such as Setu Bandhasana, Sarvangasana, Jalandhara Bandha, etc.—may help prevent osteoporosis. Standing poses, inversions, and energizing pranayamas help uplift mood. The movements of Surya Namaskara are said to balance the entire endocrine system.
But yoga can also help us go beyond addressing physical symptoms to embracing menopause as an opportunity, even as a blessing. Despite living in a technological society, women still share the touchstone of initiations and passages, from menarche to childbirth to menopause. Our cycles aren't always convenient or pleasant, but they do connect us to nature—the moon, the tides, the seasons of life—and to each other. We learn to roll with change, becoming resilient while staying grounded. And, viewed through the lens of yoga, a woman's physiology may help her focus inwardly in a culture obsessed with externalities. Diving into yoga's deeper aspects is an ideal way to self-nurture, and not just at menopause.
What are some ways your practice is supporting you through life's seasons?
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A winner was selected from 77 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
New company needs a modern logo & businesscards.
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Inquiry Question
The following activities engage students in a number of ways that let them discover the importance of meeting places.
Activity 1: Meeting Places
1. What location is available in your community for large groups to gather?
Activity 2: Technology and Community
1. How did television impact your community? What meeting places thrived? What meeting places declined? Evaluate whether television made people in your community more isolated from each other or whether it brought them together.
Activity 3: Local Research
1. Interview the current resident and/or owner of the site, or someone who presently works there. Locate older members of the community who may be able to contribute recollections, old photographs, or vintage news clippings to the investigation.
When finished with their research, students may wish to share their findings beyond the classroom:
1. If the community has a tour of historical homes, students may wish to volunteer to act as docents for sites into which they have conducted research.


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Appeals Court Upholds EPA Rule on Power-Plant Emissions
Court Rejected Arguments the Agency Should Have Considered the Costs of Regulations
WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the nation's first-ever national standards requiring power plants to cut emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollution.
The federal rules, scheduled to take effect in April 2015, require the nation's 600 coal and oil-fired power plants to comply with emissions limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. The standards are a notable environmental accomplishment for President Barack Obama and a blow to the coal industry, which is the biggest source of mercury...


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How the Pipeline Died—And How to Bury It For Good
This Wednesday afternoon, the Obama administration rejected the permit for Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile oil pipeline that would have run from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement is a huge victory for the grassroots climate movement. As writer and Keystone XL protest leader Bill McKibben wrote this afternoon,
"This isn't just the right call, it's the brave call. The knock on Barack Obama from many quarters has been that he's too conciliatory. But here, in the face of a naked political threat from Big Oil to exact 'huge political consequences,' he's stood up strong. This is a victory for Americans who testified in record numbers, and who demanded that science get the hearing usually reserved for big money."
While the fight to stop the Keystone XL pipeline is over for now, the political battle over the consequences of Obama's decision is just beginning. Big Oil front groups like the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are already spending millions of dollars on TV ads to bash the President over Keystone XL. Republicans in Congress have pledged to continue to use legislative tricks to pressure President Obama on the issue. And the mainstream media has vigorously picked up the pipeline as a key election issue in 2012.
As Keystone XL gets pulled into the center of the political battlefield, it's worth remembering how the pipeline became a national issue and the tactics and strategies that delivered the first significant victory in a fight to stop what Bill has called "a fuse to the largest carbon bomb in North America." The campaign against Keystone XL was not, after all, a traditional political lobbying effort or online petition drive, but something much more in the spirit of Dr. King's tactics of "creative nonviolence."
The fight against Keystone XL has its roots in the resistance to the Canadian tar sands led in large part by indigenous communities in Alberta and across western Canada. As news about the dangers of the pipeline spread along its proposed route, ranchers and farmers in states like Nebraska and Texas joined in the fight. National environmental groups and some progressive unions stepped in with additional resources to help the effort. The struggle against the pipeline remained a mostly regional effort until this summer, however, when a new coalition effort called Tar Sands Action sprung onto the scene to coordinate the August sit-ins against the project.
From the very beginning, Tar Sands Action was a distinctly grassroots effort. The website was hacked together on a Word Press platform with minimal design. The emails from the campaign were distinctly honest and straight to the point: We want you to come get arrested, because this is a time when online petitions just won't cut it. And the organizing was fast and furious: It was only a few weeks after the campaign's launch that people started getting pulled away from the White House in handcuffs.
The effort was also deeply grounded in the need for collaboration amongst environmental groups. While Tar Sands Action formed a progressive, action oriented edge for the campaign, groups like NRDC perfected policy arguments and lobbied on the Hill, online campaigns like CREDO sent tens of thousands of emails and phone calls to the White House, BOLD Nebraska led a strategy to block the pipeline on the ground in their state, Friends of the Earth focused on a conflict of interest scandal over the pipeline at the State Department, the Indigenous Environmental Network united native communities across North America, the Transit Workers Union and other labor groups came out against the project, the Energy Action Coalition organized young people, and many, many others stepped in with their unique contributions. We likened the approach to a "swarm," a team effort that was light on formal processes and meetings and dedicated above all to speed, efficiency, and an ambitious plan of attack.
By the end of August, the sit-ins had successfully launched the Keystone XL campaign into its second phase: nationwide protest. For the next two months, President Obama was met by protesters at nearly every public campaign stop. In Colorado, he was interrupted by a person in the crowd who demanded the president stop the pipeline. "I hear your concerns," he responded. "We're looking very closely at the issue." The next stop the president made, yet another group was there to make sure he was staying true to his word.
The coalition knew that it was going to take an even larger action to push the White House to make the right decision. So, on November 6, Tar Sands Action coordinated another massive protest at the White House, this time encircling the property with nearly 15,000 people a giant, blow-up pipeline that marched around the perimeter. The protest set off a chain reaction of comments from the State Department and White House, culminating in the announcement on November 10 that the administration would be delaying the permit for a year to consider a new route in Nebraska and take into better account the health, safety and climate concerns associated with the project.
The announcement was as major victory and one of the largest wins for the climate movement in recent history. It was also the validation of the coalition's new approach to campaigning. Keystone XL was not won because of massive spending on TV ads, highly polished talking points developed by consultants, or inside the beltway compromises and back-room deals. Instead, the campaign was successful because of its focus on grassroots mobilization, including the use of nonviolent civil disobedience, genuine and straight-forward communication with the public, a distinctly coalition approach, and a sharp political strategy that consistently turned up the pressure on President Obama.
The coalition's victory, of course, was a temporary one. This December, Republicans in Congress managed to pass a rider on the payroll tax-cut extension that forces President Obama to make a final decision on the pipeline by the end of February or find a way to further delay the permitting process. Today, the President fought back by announcing that the State Department would have no choice but to deny the permit because of the rushed timeline. Before the official announcement have even taken place, however, Rep. Boehner and his oil-soaked posse hosted a press conference to pledge to keep fighting for Keystone XL and other dangerous fossil fuel projects. No matter what happens, Keystone XL is going to be with us for the year and perhaps beyond.
With the political stakes increasing, it would be tempting to try and "win the win" on Keystone XL by falling back on traditional campaign strategies, the massive ad buys, talking points, and consultant driven campaigns that both sides use to battle out the latest hot button issues. This would be a mistake. Needless to say, some hard-hitting ads in swing states that tie pro-pipeline members of Congress to the dirty money they receive from Big Oil would be helpful, but in order to defeat Keystone XL once-and-for-all and use the win to build momentum for even more important victories in the future, we pipeline protesters need to remain bold, grassroots risk-takers. This January 23, we'll be taking the first step in this direction with another big, creative demonstration on Capitol Hill, with 500 referees "blowing the whistle" on oil money in Congress.
In this week in which we celebrate the legacy of Martin Lither King, Jr., what better inspiration could we ask for than his? King fundamentally understood the importance of an inside and outside game; he was just as comfortable lobbying for Civil Rights legislation in the White House as he was leading a sit-in or bus boycott. As we enter the next phase of the Keystone XL pipeline fight, we can look to King's Letter from a Birmingham jail for guidance. In the letter to his more mainstream detractors, King wrote:
"You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth."
There's surely going to be some tension ahead for those of us working on Keystone XL. As a movement, we'll need to continue to find ways to work together as a swarm, each group and individual finding his or her unique way to make a contribution. And we'll need to be prepared for some brutal attacks from the other side: the American Petroleum Institute promised "major electoral consequences" if President Obama were to delay or deny the pipeline. But this sort of tension is exactly what movements are about.
So, as we celebrate today's announcement and prepare for the next phase of the fight to finally confront the climate crisis, we can only straighten our backs, look to some elders like King for guidance, and say, in the words of a certain young senator from Illinois, "Yes We Can."
Meet Tim DeChristopher, a climate activist who laid it all on the line—and one of the YES! Magazine .
Ranchers in Nebraska transcended red-blue politics—and became a major force in stopping the Keystone XL pipeline.
A controversial move to prohibit oil imported from what's been called the world's dirtiest fuel source could be an example for the rest of us.


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Just returned from an awesome short summer vacation to France.
Me and mr bake n' beebz packed up the muffin mobile, harry drove all the way, we took the ferry across the channel to Calais and drove on down south along the coast to the idilic seaside town Trouville -sur - mer. I brought genius gf bread with me so we pulled off roadside and had delicious filling French cheese and ham sammies before driving off....
Jeeeeez the drive was stressful, nearly ran out of petrol and both front tires were flat in the middle of the vast hot auto barns I probably knocked years off my life with navigating us, managed to miss every turn off we needed to take. So seeing the sea and our hotel was a welcome sight.
We meandered along the strip of neon lights and candle lit quaint bistro bars and restaurants ,in the evening, soaking up all of our vibrant surroundings around us, I dominated a bucket of moules marinere, mr bake n Beebz owned a pizza. Now eating gluten free is pretty tricky, dispute loading up my noggin with the new scary phrases in Francais, the waiter still brought out my dinner aside a whole buttery baguette.
On our second day we played in the pool, bathed and went boarding! Skim boarding was super fun. It's awesome as I found it a hell of a lot easier than surfing but even riding along the tiniest wave felt gnarly. Plus it's a serious workout for the Glutes.
To celebrate a afternoon out on the waves, whole lotta gelatto, for our post work out fuel... nutella, banana and kinder bueno flavours were to die for. back at the hotel we chilled with more beers and wine followed by more booze and a delicious restaurant dinner. sans gluten salad for me.
on our third day we headed back north east and drove a few hours to Paris, checked into our very very minimal lodgings and then headed for the city centre for sightseeing and dinner.
Navigating the metro was a nightmare as there we construction works, lines closed and no information about it. But the eiffel tower was big and the food was delicious, despite more sans gluten mix ups, our restaurant was in the eiffel tower's shadows and overlooked the river Seine. We decided to leave early to avoid any major train stress, but I definitely want to go back and explore the city and it's shops further! I didn't even get to try a authentically French macaroon!
Day 5&6... DISNEY.
We are thrill seekers!
Best rides, gluten free dining options everywhere! This is where I belong.
I begged mr bake n Beebz to let me live here... Forveveeeer.
This lil adventure was just what I needed. I had the best time with my best buddy... I felt besotted with harry our whole holiday, we laughed and had so much fun. I already have post holiday blues waaaaaah. This is my first holiday to a foreign country since being diagnosed coeliac, it's was tricky with the language barrier, I felt a bit of panic in restaurants... So most of our meals were packed lunches made in the hotel rooms, which saved a wholeloada monies too. Being surrounding by cheeses, cured hams and delicious seafood was amazing and we definitely made the most of the local French fresh produce. Most of the super marches carried 'bio' foods, which means organic and in these sections were normally gluten free rice cakes, musili and some breads.


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VH1, Jack Black and Channel 101 Join to Stem Tide of 'Unacceptable Media'
'Department of Acceptable Media' to Launch on the Web in Early 2007 and
Premiere on VH1 in the Spring of 2007
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 15 -- VH1, Jack Black and the
team from Channel101.com have announced the first step in reforming the
runaway user-generated content movement with the newly formed "Department
of Acceptable Media" The "Department" will be responsible for a website
that will launch in early 2007 followed by a weekly TV series premiering on
VH1 in the Spring of 2007.
Jack Black, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab became pioneers of the do-it-
yourself TV movement with Channel 101, a competitive forum for digital
shorts founded in 2003, anticipating the YouTube revolution by a several
years. Realizing they could not stand by while the tidal wave of
user-generated content threatened to overwhelm the internet, they founded
the new "Department Of Acceptable Media" founded on the principle that, in
Black's words, "some stuff is just not acceptable."
Harmon compared this post-YouTube era of media to the dawn of the
automotive age. "There was a time when there were so few cars that we
didn't even need stop signs. A handful of rich people drove where they
wanted as fast as they wanted. Then came a day when so many people had cars
that drivers needed to be licensed. That day has come with digital media.
We are the DMV of camcorders."
The TV show "Department Of Acceptable Media Presents: Acceptable.TV"
builds off the innovations of Channel 101. Each week viewers will see new
three-minute episodes of six proposed TV series -- most produced by the
"Department" staff, some produced by web users. Viewers will then be able
to vote, via the Web site http://www.acceptable.tv, for three of those series to
return with a new episode. The three with the least votes are cancelled and
replaced by three new pilots the following week. All shows -- acceptable
and unacceptable -- will be shown on the website. The best of these shorts
could eventually grow to a full series on VH1.
"Over the years, Dan Harmon and Rob Shrab have assembled an incredible
group of young filmmakers at their internet event, Channel101.com," said
actor and series producer Jack Black. Channel 101 alumni include Andy
Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, who were recently brought on
board Saturday Night Live, where they created the infectious 'Lazy Sunday'
digital short. "They have mastered the art of the three-to-five minute
entertainment power nugget. I am proud to be a producer of this
breakthrough television series. This is the first show in TV history to be
programmed by the audience," he continued. "For their brave choice to put
this on the air, the executives at VH1 should be applauded, and then
"The formation of the 'Department' places VH1 and its viewers again at
the forefront of the user-generated content revolution. VH1 tapped into the
online video explosion early with our weekly 'Web Junk 20' series nearly a
year ago. The show found the funniest videos on the internet and shared
them with our viewers -- thousands of whom uploaded their own videos to
us," said Brian Graden, President, Entertainment, MTV Networks Music Group
and Logo. "Now our viewers can be part of the overall development process
in any way they want ... from playing TV programmer and voting online for
their favorite entries to actually creating a pilot to evaluated by this
community of devout television fans."
"Yes, this show will be web-savvy, viral and cross-platform compliant
through 2010. You'll be able to watch it on your wristwatch, iPod or
subdermal sex offender GPS unit. But honestly, it's just going to be a
funny TV sketch show. You're going to be able to tune into VH1 for a half
hour and get a couple belly laughs and then get on with your week. That's
our goal," stated Harmon.
Users of the site will be able to do more than vote on their favorite
videos. They can join the "Department" and rise through the ranks by
finding quality entertainment on the web, or by making their own shows,
uploading them to the site, and getting the support and votes of other
"The Department of Acceptable Media Presents: Acceptable.TV" is
executive produced by Jack Black, Dan Harmon, and Rob Schrab. Benjamin
Cooley will oversee for Electric Dynamite Productions. VH1 SVP of Films and
Scripted Series, Maggie Malina, will oversee television production for VH1,
along with Michael Hirschorn, EVP Production and Programming, VH1. Writers
for the series include Dan Harmon (co-creator of "Heat Vision and Jack"),
Justin Roiland (creator of the early viral video sensation "House of
Cosbys") and JD Ryznar (creator of equally early, equally viral, and
equally sensational "Yacht Rock").
VH1 will produce 8 episodes to premiere in early 2007 with its
companion website, http://www.acceptable.tv to launch in February 2007.
VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter
to them most with series, specials, live events, exclusive online content
and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 90 million households
in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital services including VH1
Classic, VH1 Soul and VSPOT, VH1's broadband channel. Connect with VH1 at
VH1 is a registered trademark of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom
International Inc. MTV Networks also operates and offers joint ventures,
licensing agreements and syndication deals whereby its programming can be
seen worldwide.


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Even though I still haven't decided what kind of girl would I like to become when the new season approaches, there are definitely some pieces I can see myself rocking this fall. Well, everyone knows that in terms of fashion, it's just never too early to plan ahead!
1. Beige Tweed Contrast Sleeve Coat - Warehouse/ 2. Suede Lace-up Ankle Boots - Tod's/ 3. Raspberry Inset Collar Top - Dorothy Perkins/ 4. Gold Jacquard Mini Skirt - Topshop/ 5. Lace T-Shirt - MANGO/ 6. Stone Lurex Curve Hem Sweater - Wallis/ 7. Biker Bouclé Jacket - MANGO/ 8. Black and White Boucle Dress - Miss Selfridge/ 9. Snake Metal Buckle Belt - Warehouse/ 10. Bayswater Textured-leather Bag - Mulberry/ 11. Pleated Leather Skirt - Burberry Brit/ 12. Leather Ankle Boots - MANGO


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Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons, co-executive-produced.
In his first major foray back into the media since the finale of Seinfeld, he co-wrote and co-produced the film Bee Movie, also taking on the lead role of Barry B. Benson. In February 2010, Seinfeld premiered a reality TV series called The Marriage Ref on NBC. Seinfeld was more recently directing Colin Quinn in the Broadway show Long Story Short at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York which ran until January 8, 2011.
Seinfeld was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. His father, Kalman Seinfeld (d. 1985), was of Hungarian Jewish background and was a sign maker; his mother, Betty (1915- ), is of Syrian Jewish descent. Her family was registered as Turkish.


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I am not a day job holder, and I haven't been for a couple of years now. My decision to leave corporate America was, in part, due to dissatisfaction with a 15-year career that did not, in any way, feed my soul. Sounds like artsy bullshit, I know, but deciding to take time with my dying grandfather was made much easier by that fact.
I've always been one who would rather be happy with less, than paid well to be miserable.
Being indie sometimes means being happy with less. Two years later, I'm not out of that phase. I earn some cash and I have a growing fan base of readers, but more than that, I have an expanding backlist and have found my writing legs. I've honed my voice and my method to something that works for me. I went from a book in 18 months, to a better book in 9, to possibly an even better one that reached 30,000 words in just a couple of months. I'm on-track to finish Reassigned by the fall, which means I can now write two books a year without burning myself out.
You think when you quit your day job that you're going to be the most prolific writer, ever, and traditionally, I'm not sure the benefit of running yourself into the ground because there were no guarantees your work would get published. If it did, it wasn't going to be in any timely fashion. My textbook took TWO YEARS. Some of the information was nearly outdated by the time it hit print.
Trends. Oh, don't get me started. I wrote the Strandville series because zombies played very nicely with the viral outbreak theme and the desperation for a "Cure". The Walking Dead was gaining popularity at the time that I started writing the first book so I figured, great, a built-in audience (me, and a million others). Readers are over, or getting over, zombies. I didn't write it because of the trend, and I'm sad to say that the books get overlooked by some who admittedly are just taking a break from zombies, even if mine is not your usual z-fare. Eh, those are the breaks. Zombies will come back. Vampires, too. Writing is cyclical, but you might be writing for a dying trend and your genius in that genre might go unnoticed for years. It's a hard truth. Don't write trendy fiction, unless you're prepared for the trend to pass.
What they don't tell you about dusting the day job is that working from home is hard. Your support system leans more on you because you're home. There's cleaning, cooking, doctor's appointments for the kids, vet appointments, grocery shopping, and the illustrious 'writer's block' that some days either has you staring at a black screen for hours, or, if you're smart, walking away entirely. It took me over a year to get a routine because of things in my personal life. Now, I only have my writing to think of. So, what do I think about that?
A lot's changed in two years of independent authoring. Sales and marketing tactics are constantly shifting from what works to white noise. FREE! Oh, yeah, free used to be the 'big thing', and I enjoyed my fair share of residual sales after a good KDP Select day, but now, everyone, myself included, gives things away just for the recognition. You're writing to get noticed. You need to compete. If you can gain a reader with one book, they'll come back for more. Write your sacrificial lamb, indies, and make it damn good.
Marketing sucks, but is a necessary evil. You can choose not to learn this end of things, to ignore social media, and hope that your work gets found under the electronic pile of tens of thousands of novels, both independent and traditionally published, OR you can accept the fact that people cannot buy what they don't know exists. Write a great book, slap a nice cover on it, come up with a catchy blurb, and be willing to talk to anyone and everyone who will listen about your work. Talking takes time. You're going to have to put it in or you wrote your book for nothing.
The allure of traditional publishing used to be, at least partially, the glow of expensive marketing. If you were lucky, and I mean won-the-damn-lottery-lucky, you'd get front table placement in the big book stores and copies would fly off the shelves. Well, publishing has taken a financial hit. Indies can afford to undercut costs because our overhead is just so much lower and traditional publishing has to compete. They've had to cut back and, even if they have the cash, they don't spend it on brand new authors. That's Stephen King's table, folks, and Stephanie Myer's, and Nora Roberts'. It's not your table because chances of you even earning out your advance are statistically slim to none. Oh, and how many bookstores are left? Even if it is your spot, and we all know better, but say it is, you're now competing in a market where some people PREFER e-reading (*raises hand). Your print book is heavy, bulky, expensive, and it's only one book, not a thousand, like can be carried on a convenient, lightweight e-reader.
Proof of concept. I hear the term a lot on Shark Tank, and it applies to authors, too. Prove there is a market for your work and those looking to make money will come knocking. Funny, right? Indie publishing has taken some of the 'gamble' out of traditional publishing. Some of the best traditional publishing deals are those born of successful indie ones. Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey come to mind.You want to be a big time author? This might just be the best way to do it. Put your work out there, get a million readers, and wait for the checks to roll in.
Quality is important to me. I plot hard, write hard, and am a ruthless editor. I strive to write each book faster and better than the last, and I'm experimental because indie allows me to be. One of my first thoughts when I decided to self-publish was, "What kind of writer am I?" I'm a horror writer, sometimes, a mystery writer, and there's a thriller scratching at the surface. I'm a writer who writes the story wanting to be told, with little care of 'mainstream', though I'll tell you that goes away a bit when you make the practical decision to write for a living. You start thinking, "Which of the stories wanting to be told has the largest audience?" Reassigned is my first foray into mainstream mystery.
If you're committed to writing the best story that you have in you, in the most concise and professional way, and with reckless abandon, you MIGHT be the next big thing. Sure, some authors have proven themselves and have a large enough built-in audience that every book they write will sell tons of copies, but they've put in the work, the same as you'll have to put in the work--and I'll have to put in the work. The flash in the pan hits, those that blow up to 50 Shades stardom, come from indie world as often as traditional, if not more often. Go ahead, list the most recent success stories. Where did they start? They started right here, with people brave enough to forge their own way, to write the stories inside of them, and to take the gamble.


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Ex-Spy Claims Bush White House Asked CIA to Destroy a Liberal Blogger
According to the New York Times' James Risen, Bush White House officials asked the CIA to gather dirt on and discredit left-wing academic Juan Cole because they didn't like the things he wrote on his blog.
This is interesting because, if true, it would be a) illegal, and b) nuts.
Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war.
In an interview, Mr. Carle said his supervisor at the National Intelligence Council told him in 2005 that White House officials wanted "to get" Professor Cole, and made clear that he wanted Mr. Carle to collect information about him, an effort Mr. Carle rebuffed. Months later, Mr. Carle said, he confronted a C.I.A. official after learning of another attempt to collect information about Professor Cole. Mr. Carle said he contended at the time that such actions would have been unlawful.
It's unclear whether the disinformation campaign the White House asked for ever actually got off the ground. Carle told the Times that he tried to thwart it at every turn, and that at one point he intercepted an Agency-crafted memo destined for the White House containing "inappropriate, derogatory remarks" about Cole's lifestyle. Carle took the memo to a superior, who crossed out the information about Cole in red pen and said he would take care of the issue.
The CIA is barred by law from gathering information on U.S. citizens. On his blog today, Cole said the revelations came as a "visceral shock," and speculated that the effort was aimed at keeping him off the thinktank circuit:
Apparently one of the purposes of spying on me to discredit me, from the point of view of the Bush White House, was ironically to discourage Washington think tanks from inviting me to speak to the analysts, not only of the CIA but also the State Department Intelligence and Research and other officials concerned with counter-terrorism and with Iraq.
Cole said invitations to such events did indeed drop off after 2005. Cole's blog was certainly influential anti-war voice, but the White House's extraordinary (and criminal) decision to use the CIA to go after him is maybe the most stark sign yet of the shifting influence of blogs over the print media: They weren't targeting Times or Washington Post reporters, they were going after a humble blogger. Was he wearing pajamas?


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WASHINGTON—The cost of cyberespionage and cybercrime to the U.S. is as much as $100 billion each year, according to a study released Monday that is casting doubt on earlier estimates of as much as 10 times higher.
The latest estimate is supported by some U.S. intelligence analysts, said a former U.S. official familiar with the intelligence discussions. That figure is 1% or less of U.S. gross domestic product and, for companies, puts cybertheft losses among a variety of costs incurred in the course of doing business....


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SF parklets a homegrown effort
S.F. urban landscape Volunteers pitch in time, money to build latest structure
San Francisco's 2-year-old parklet effort, where parking spaces are reborn as miniature public plazas, has attracted media attention and been emulated in cities from Adelaide, Australia, to Philadelphia.
But as eight volunteers on Saturday shoveled dirt from a downtown sidewalk into a low-slung frame of angled wood and steel, another aspect of parklets was on display: They're summoned into existence not from the top down, but the bottom up.
"We'll put in grass seeds after we finish with painting," said Luke Stewart, who lives above Farm:Table cafe, sponsor of the parklet being installed outside the cafe at 754 Post St. "It's almost like working on an art project rather than building a front deck."
The 35-foot-long, 6-foot-deep space is among the most ambitious of the 31 parklets that have been installed since the first platform with seating replaced a pair of parking spaces on Divisadero Street in March 2010. The outer walls are steel; the interior's cedar surface slides and twists in eye-catching patterns that also form planter edges and seating.
The undulations serve a practical purpose as well, one that responds both to lessons learned at early parklets and to Farm:Table's location on the border between the Tenderloin and Nob Hill.
'Not a giant lounge chair'
"It's not a giant lounge chair," said Zoë Prillinger of Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects, which designed the parklet on a pro bono basis. "The idea was to create something comfortable, but not so comfortable you want to be there all day."
That's only one of the balancing acts involved in what Governing magazine last month dubbed "the latest trend in urban placemaking."
Some early parklets were criticized for being little more than glorified cafe seating; others attracted indigents during the day and revelers at night. There's a need to make the spaces accessible to wheelchair users, but also a desire to encourage designs that offer attractions beyond bare platforms with metal railings and a row of tables and chairs.
Yet there's no denying the success of the program, which allows two parking spaces to be converted into an accessible public space. Each parklet is sponsored by a business or community group, which pays for the construction and maintenance.
According to the city's Planning Department, 31 parklets have been installed or are under construction. Another 15 are going through the permit process - which includes stops at the Department of Public Works and the Municipal Transportation Authority - and 18 are having their designs reviewed.
A parklet on California Street near Fillmore Street has sleek LED lighting at night, while one on Mission Street in the Excelsior is adorned with painted wooden cutouts done by high school students. At the parklet outside Devil's Teeth Baking Co. on Noriega Street, three blocks from Ocean Beach, sand-colored bunch grass swirls in the Pacific breeze.
Change ahead
Planners now are pondering how to change parklets from isolated spaces - urbane nooks and crannies, so to speak - into something more systematic. Several could be concentrated on a single block, for instance, or a half dozen could map a path through a neighborhood.
"Any proposal to do something in the street was met with such resistance" before the parklets experiment began, said David Alumbaugh, director of the Planning Department's city design group. "Now they're popular, and it's 'Why not do more?' "
At the same time, the parklet emerging on Post Street shows the importance of having local residents bring a space to life, rather than simply providing input to city planners.
The cost of the platform and its landscape is likely to approach $25,000 by the time all work is done, more than twice the parklet norm. To close the gap beyond what Farm:Table could pay, supporters held fundraising events and turned to social media - raising $15,327 from 186 backers on Kickstarter, an effort that concluded in April. Construction began in May.
Volunteer effort
The volunteer effort Saturday included neighbors who stop by Farm:Table regularly but also like the idea of a sliver of open space in a dense patch of the city.
"It's going to be a green space, but also a space to enjoy a wonderful day like today," said Teri Gardiner, a graphic designer who lives at the corner of Post and Leavenworth streets, as she was shoveling dirt into a rickety wheelbarrow.
Mark Rutledge lives on the next block of Post. Asked the last time he had wielded a shovel in the sun, Rutledge paused, then laughed.
"A couple of years ago, I was back home doing some stuff for my mom," said the software company employee, who grew up in Dallas. "It's not my regular thing."
John King is The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. E-mail: email@example.com


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Weighing in at one and a half tons, tip-to-tail as long as a school bus, and sporting an impressive coat of feathers. Now that's a big bird.
Yesterday, scientists announced the discovery of Yutyrannus (or "beautiful feathered tyrant"), the largest feathered animal known to man. We know smaller theropods like Velociraptor had feathers and we've even been able to discern the colors and patterns in their down, but Yutyrannus (who lived long before T. rex, in the early Cretaceous) is the first evidence of fully feathered dinosaurs on a large scale. Even terror bird would have bowed to the beautiful feathered tyrant.


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tmanschmidt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
A logo for a Restaurant supply / Cash and Carry, for use on sign, truck and Cash and Carry
Tepper Restaurant Supply
Front of the House - Back of the House
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Updated look on our circular logo used on our website http://www.tepperbar.com
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This exhibit pays tribute to the long list of African American athletes that paved the way for the black athletes, male and female, that now weekly take to playing fields all over America. Be it college, professional or a group of friends kicking around a ball on some neighborhood playground, these modern day gladiators owe a lot to their sports forerunners.
They Were First: African Americans in Sports pays homage to great leaders of the past such as Fritz Pollard, the first African American to helm a NFL (National Football League) team, Oliver Lewis, the first African American winner of the Kentucky Derby, Vonetta Flowers First African American to win a medal in any winter Olympics game and many others. In visuals and text, the story of African American sports unfolds.


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Earth Hour 2010
Saturday 27 March at 8.30pm the fourth Earth Hour will be held.
I can't hide the fact that I love Earth Hour. I love Earth Hour because such a simplistic action has a powerful message. As long as you can reach the light switches you can participate and this event puts the power in the hands of children and youth across the world. It is a way for us to have a voice. It is also an opportunity for friends and family to unite, share, learn, communicate and act together. Earth Hour is also a celebration of our planets rich biodiversity and the sustainable life systems it provides us.
Earth Hour is in its fourth year and it has grown each year. This year our global unified voices will be again heard by world leaders who were unable to come to an agreement on a significant formal climate change policy in Copenhagen last year. These leaders will be meeting again this year so the bigger Earth Hour will be the bigger the message these decision makers get.
When I campaigned for Earth Hour in Europe and Norway in 2008 and was able to convince two countries to participate in Earth Hour I was happy naturally but I felt hopeful for our planets future. Ordinary people from around the globe want our leaders to take action on climate change and ensure our planets sustainability for future generations. Earth Hour gives the world's population a vehicle to help drive change.
Environmental issues facing our planet are sometimes overwhelming and Earth Hour allows me to do something to help. It gives me the power to act not only once a year but at different times of the year.
I heard on the radio this morning on the way to school on how much electricity prices have gone up and that prices are set to rise even more, soon. It was also said that there were a lot of people who could not afford to pay their bills and had their power turned off. Again those with less get less. How are these people supposed to feed their families fresh healthy food if they have no means of storing it. Imagine if all government housing had solar panels. The government wins in two ways. They provide power to those in need with low cost electricity or even free and they help the planet in the process.
You can visit the Earth Hour website to get information www.earthhour.org.au
If any schools or kids out there are doing something "cool" to participate in Earth Hour the museum and I would love to hear about it!!!
Just one last thing, try to use 100% beeswax candles as they are better for the planet. They are non-toxic, smoke free and non allergenic. Beeswax candles are not petroleum based, they are natural beeswax and if you buy 100% Australian they can be carbon neutral. Now that's good!
Have a fun and safe Earth Hour where ever you are.


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Storks movie is high on slapstick humour, chucklesome one-liners and an intelligently thought of oscillating story line. Even though Storks is like a constant roadrunner of a movie, which raises question about its editing, it still manages to rake you in with its primal theme – Baby! Isn't that a winning idea per se?
The Concept of Storks
Well, this one is an old one actually. The notion "storks deliver babies" finds its roots deep in European folklore. The fanciful imagination of how Storks would listen to crooning new parents thereby tending to their wants, has found new angles every now and then. Not long ago, in the year 2009 we were served a beautiful short called "Partly Cloudy" by Pixar which had briefly yet amiably touched that very area. Now, with Warner Bros. Animation bringing back the idea to a fully-fledged version in the form of a movie, the concept literally brims alive.
Plot of the Storks Movie (Spoilers Ahead)
Storks have put an end to their baby delivering business. Cornerstone, their company has now moved on to a much profitable business of providing postal services. Headed under the aegis of Hunter (voiced by Kelsey Grammer), the visionary is about to promote Junior (voiced by Andy Samberg), the top deliverer of Cornerstone, to the position of 'Boss'. However, he requires him to fire a girl named Tulip (voiced by Katie Crown), who was Cornerstone's last undelivered baby. Tulip is trying her best to fit in the lifestyle of Storks, but unfortunately she is an epitome of obliteration, and Hunter wants him gone.
Meanwhile at Earth, a kid is trying his best to catch his busy parents's attention. The ignored head Nate (Anton Starkman) is keen on having a baby brother so that he could have someone to play with. He writes a letter (or did an adult write that? :P) that gets delivered to Cornerstone. In a series of accidental chaotic events, where Junior is trying to get rid of Tulip, the old baby delivering machine becomes functional with that letter and a baby is produced. Boy, is she the cutest thing?
What follows is one hell of a roller-coaster ride, with Junior trying to deliver the baby to its rightful address alongside Tulip, before anyone in the Cornerstone knows about it.
Storks movie packs in humour aplenty. The non-stop fun comedy will not let you settle down a bit. It is constantly trying to tickle you, sometimes too hard, sometimes effortlessly. The fact that the movie is so much reflective of our day to day work makes things even more relatable. That's primarily why you laugh hard too.
In their little adventure to deliver the baby, Tulip and Junior come across an insane wolf pack that can take the shape of anything from a bridge to a boat to a submarine. It is hands down one of the funniest bits in the movie. Alpha Wolf and Beta Wolf are voiced by none other than Key and Peele themselves.
Also, the part where an army of silent Penguins tries to attack the lead characters making sure that the baby doesn't wake up, will have you in fits of laughter. Pigeon Toady voiced by Stephen Kramer Glickman is one psychotic angle to the tale that blends in a little perversion with fun.
The movie also tries to do a little mockery of how the advent of baby in one's life changes so many things for parents. It goes on to show that insane cuteness comes at a price!
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Issues with the flick
One apparent downside that vexes you a bit is how Storks literally gallops. It is a constant run of frames that doesn't stop even for a second to breathe. At times it tries its level best to pass on even average jests with its swift gait, so that you move on quickly to the next.
With no gravitas in its frames, the Storks movie fails to uplift the emotional quotient that the movie at one point tries to bank on. In that respect it stays miles away from the likes of Pixar. Everything stays scooched under 1 hour 27 minutes of screen-time, even though we could have really used a better editing.
The Final Verdict
Even though Storks movie fails to do a Pixar in matters of sentient stories, it entertains us nevertheless with its snappy slapstick humour. The collaboration resuscitates the old forgotten lore that tries to celebrate lost stories. Even with its fun standpoint, we do get a comical entertainer in the end, and that's what really matters.
If you wish to watch a whole load of cute, cuddlesome and Awwwwws, Storks is just the movie for you.
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Negative views of U.S. President Barack Obama have hit an all-time high in a new public opinion poll.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll released Wednesday puts the president's "unfavorable" rating at 49 percent, while 48 percent view him favorably.
President Obama has acknowledged his pursuit of re-election next year is not guaranteed. "We're going to have to fight for it. It's not a slam-dunk," he said.
But the same poll shows Obama is viewed more positively than former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2012 race.
Gingrich's unfavorable rating is 48 percent, but his favorable rating is 13 points lower than the president's at 35 percent.
In other polls this week, Gingrich still holds a significant lead in the fight for the Republican nomination. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of likely Republican voters puts him 17 points ahead of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
The latest figures come less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses - the first voting in the nomination battle.
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Tennessee Mystery Woman
This beautiful lady was a surprise when I took my husband's grandmother's photo out of a frame that was in his mother's cedar chest. At first I thought it might be one of those pre-printed prints that smile up at you when you purchase a new frame - one that you feel you should know, but don't; one that has 8 x 10 and the manufacturer stamped across the front! It isn't one of those. It is definitely a studio portrait, but has no markings on the back except some penciled numbers that are common on some photographs.
Someone had placed Leola Hitch Davis Ray's studio portrait on top of this one. Her daughter, Marilee Davis Shubert, had the framed pictures in her home at the time of her death. Leola's picture wasn't removed for a long time, and when it was removed in order for me to scan it, I discovered this very pretty lady.
Marilee went to college at Carson Newman in Jefferson City, Tennessee, so I thought she might be a friend from school. Or she may have been a friend of her mother's, Leola. Leola left Tennessee and moved to Florida. Then again she may have been another member of the family: a Davis, a Delozier, a Burns.
If there is ANYONE out there who recognizes her, please, please contact me. I would love to be able to connect her with a family member. My email is in my profile on the right, or you can leave a comment at the bottom of this post.
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Join us for a group trail run through the scenic Brandywine Creek State Park and First State National Monument! This trail running group meets every other Sunday morning in the Smith Bridge Road parking lot on Ramsey Road (click here for map) - enter Smith Bridge Parking Lot, FSNHP into Google maps.
We love running trails and want to share some of our favorite awesome trails with you - especially sections of the park that don't get used very often. It's a great intro to trail running, the Brandywine Creek Park Area, and a chance to meet fellow runners.
We'll head out from the parking lot and run a challenging, but fun, 7 to 8-mile loop on the trails throughout the park. The group trail run is no drop (seriously, we won't leave you behind), FREE and all are welcome to join. What does no drop really mean? We will wait at the tops of hills and turns to make sure that no one gets left out in the woods. If the group does happen to break apart, there will be someone in the front and the back that knows the route so that you don't get lost.


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Editors' note (March 4, 2010): The rating on this product has been lowered because of changes in the competitive marketplace, including the release of 2010 models. The review has not otherwise been modified. Click here for more information.
Among Samsung's umpteen different model lines and feature variations for its 2009 HDTVs, the LNB650 series sits somewhere in the middle. It's significantly less expensive than the LED-based LCDs, like the UNB7000 series, and costs a bit less than the LNB750 series of non-LED 240Hz models, yet still commands a premium over entry-level models. Aside from a couple hundred bucks, 120Hz of refresh rate separates the B650 and B750 models on paper. In person, the B650s have significantly different styling and, it turns out, somewhat less impressive picture quality, although the difference in Hz has nothing to do with it. The LNB650 series still produces a very good picture, however, and as usual we liked Samsung's implementation of dejudder processing. Sure you'll pay a bit extra for the numerous features, but you've always wanted a TV that can suggest recipes or keep tabs on your Twitter feeds, right? All told the LNB650 series makes a solid choice for an upper- midrange LCD, as long as you can handle its unusual looks and glossy screen.
We performed a hands-on evaluation of the 46-inch Samsung LN46B650, but this review also applies to three smaller models in the series: the 40-inch LN40B650, the 37-inch LN37B650, and the 32-inch LN32B650, as well as the larger 55-inch LN55B650. All of these sizes in the series have identical specs aside from screen size, and should share very similar picture quality.
Editors' note: Many of the design and features elements are identical between the Samsung LNB650 series and the Samsung LNB750 series we reviewed earlier, so readers of the earlier review ay experience some déjà vu when reading the same sections below.
Much like the Samsung A650 series from last year, the frames of the 2009 B650 models look quite different from your normal glossy-black LCD in person. The company's Touch of Color scheme dictates a red fade along the edges of the frame that becomes black toward the screen. We're definitely not fans of the overt coloring, as opposed to the more muted look of the B750 models, and we're even less impressed by the obtuse-angle "V" shape along the bottom of the frame. At least the company included a matching glass-topped stand with its signature clear stalk.
Samsung used the same menu system as last year, this time with red borders, and we still think it's one of the best in the business. Big, highly legible text is set against transparent backgrounds that occupy almost the whole screen. Getting around is easy and there's helpful explanatory text along the bottom to describe the different selections.
The remote control is basically the same as last year, too, and we're definitely fans--especially since Samsung ditched the rotating scroll wheel. The buttons are big, backlit, and easily differentiated by size and shape, and we liked the dedicated "Tools" key that offers quick access to picture and sound modes, the sleep timer, and the picture-in-picture controls. We didn't like the remote's glossy black finish, however, which picked up more than its share of dulling fingerprints after a few minutes.
Pretty much the only features-related difference between Samsung's LNB650 models and the more-expensive LNB750 series is refresh rate. The 650s have 120Hz refresh rate, while the 750s refresh the screen at 240Hz. The main benefit of the higher refresh rate, according to our tests, is improved motion resolution--aka less blurring--but with normal program material the difference is nearly impossible to appreciate. See Performance for more information.
Both of the series feature identical implementations of Samsung's Auto Motion Plus dejudder processing, with its cool Custom setting that lets you tweak blur reduction and judder separately.
Samsung has added Yahoo widgets to its higher-end sets including the LNB650 series. The system gathers Internet-powered information nodules, called "snippets," into a bar along the bottom of the screen. The model we reviewed came with widgets for stocks, weather, news, and Flickr photos, plus Yahoo video, sports scores, poker, trivia, Sudoku, and Twitter--and more are sure to appear in the near future. For more information, check out our full review of Yahoo widgets. That review was based on our experiences with a Samsung UN46B7000, and our impressions of the system on the LN46B650 are mostly the same, including its sluggish response time.
Other interactive features on this set abound. It can stream videos, photos, and music from DLNA-certified devices via the network connection, as well as from its USB ports, which can connect to MP3 players, USB thumbsticks, and digital cameras (we didn't test this capability). There's also built-in "content," such as recipes, games, workout guides, and a slideshow of high-def art and photos with music. We went into depth discussing the underwhelming content features last year, which are similar this time around, so for more details check out the Interactive section of the 2008 Samsung LN46A750 review.
Aside from the adjustable dejudder mentioned above, we also liked the myriad conventional picture tweaks, starting with four adjustable picture modes that are all independent per input. There are five color temperature presets augmented by the ability to adjust each via a custom white-balance menu; three levels of noise reduction, including an automatic setting; a film mode to engage 2:3 pull-down (it also works with 1080i sources); a seven-position gamma control that affects the TV's progression from dark to light; a dynamic contrast control that adjusts the picture on the fly; a "black tone" control that affects shadow detail; and a color space control that lets you tweak the Samsung's color gamut.


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An almond is an oval shaped seeds of a tree which is closely related to the apricot and peach tree. Originating from the middle east, there are two types of almond - the sweet almond (most common for cooking) and the bitter almond. Almond is a flavour of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.[1] Also, Lily Evans's eyes were described as being almond shaped.
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text: X-Ray Report post Posted December 21, 2012 I came up with the idea for this short story when I read the instructions for the Ambage contest. But when I realized that the story couldn't be about Bionicle, I decided to instead write this independant story instead of entering. Happy reading! The Settlement "We're here!" shouted Ackar to Malum, seeing the walls of the hamlet ahead of them. After three hours of riding on Sand Stalkers, they and their companion had arrived at "the settlement." "About time!" said Malum, who was getting very hot under the collar both literally and figuratively. "I can't stand this little runt's blabbering any longer!" The "little runt" in question was an ice Agori that was riding in front of Malum on the Glatorian's sand stalker. Ackar used his hand to shield his eyes from the glare of the sun, and said to his partner, "Calm down, Malum. Just be patient for a few more minutes and we'll be on our way." "You should listen to Glatorian Ackar, Malum," said the ice Agori. "He is an astute fellow, and you could learn much from him." Malum muttered something incoherent, and then said, "I don't need etiquette lessons from an Agori." "I beg your pardon?" said the Agori, genuinely shocked. "I am no Agori! I am Certavus, the greatest Glatorian to walk Bara Magna." "Certavus is dead and buried," said Ackar flatly. "You're an Agori, little fellow. Accept it." "I don't know why I've suddenly shrunk," said the Agori, smiling, "but I know for sure that I am very much alive." Malum rolled his eyes, and gave a snort of annoyance. At least we're here, finally, he thought as he directed his sand stalker to the hitching post by the palisade surrounding the settlement. He dismounted his sand stalker, "Certavus" following him. He and the Agori joined Ackar at the gate, where they met a water Agori. "Hello, I'm Jann," said the water Agori to Ackar, smiling, "and I welcome you to my humble facility. Do you have a patient for me?" "Yes, sir, we do," said Ackar. "This Agori thinks he's Certavus." "I am Certavus," said the Agori with a laugh. "Just you try and fight me in the arena!" "I did fight Certavus once," said Ackar, "back in my younger days." Jann went to the ice Agori and said, "Alright, Mr. … Certavus, where are you?" "Bara Magna," said "Certavus." "And what is the date?" "999,999 years after the Shattering." "And who is the prime Glatorian of Tesara?" "Why, Vastus, of course!" Jann thought for a moment, and said, "Alright, I think we've seen enough. Ackar, could I talk to you for moment?" "Certainly," the fire Glatorian said. The two walked off several feet away from Malum and the ice Agori. They appeared to be deep in conversation, with Ackar pointing behind him at the ice Agori one time, and at one point, their voices were raised. "I wonder what they're talking about?" said "Certavus" to Malum. "Beats me," said Malum. "It's probably about you." Finally, Ackar and Jann finished speaking, and came back to Malum and "Certavus." Jann turned to address Malum and "Certavus," saying, "Mr. Certavus, if you will kindly follow me, I will show you your new lodgings." He said to Malum and Ackar, "Would you like to come along to? I would be glad to give you a tour of the facility." "We don't have time—" began Malum, before Ackar interrupted him. "We'd be honored if you showed us the facility," said the elder Glatorian. "Right, Malum?" Malum rolled his eyes again and said, "Right." Perfect, he thought. A grand tour of the madhouse. Malum, Ackar, the ice Agori, and Jann entered the settlement. The facility consisted of several stone buildings encircling a central square, all surrounded by the wooden palisade wall. There were patients, doctors and attendants milling about the compound, which could not have looked shabbier. "We are privileged to be one of the finest mental health facilities on Bara Magna," said Jann, gesturing to a group of patients sitting in a circle. "We provide state of the art care to Agori and Glatorian of all walks of life." Malum noticed then that there weren't just Agori in the facility, but a few Glatorian too. "Where do they all come from?" asked Ackar. "All over," said Jann. "Some have been out in the sun too long, others suddenly began their history as deviants without a clear cause. The one thing they all have in common is that they all need help. And we're here to give it to them." As Jann extolled the virtues of the facility, Malum pulled Ackar aside and said, "Just what were you and the doctor talking about anyway?" "He wanted to know about the patient's history," said Ackar, "whether he was violent or not. I managed to convince him that our boy wouldn't be very safe wandering around thinking he was Certavus." "Right, right," said Malum. "I'm just glad he's off our hands now." Suddenly, a shrill voice called out, echoing around the compound, "Stop that Zesk!" Malum turned toward the direction the voice was coming from to see a jungle Agori chasing a Zesk, one of the smaller cousins of the Vorax, the Zesk carrying some kind of bag in its mouth. "I've got it!" said Ackar, as he broke off from the group to give chase. The ice Agori joined him, saying, "Never fear! Certavus is here!" Malum and Jann watched the absurd sight before them, as Ackar, the jungle Agori, and "Certavus" ran around in circles, chasing the Zesk. Malum only stood back and laughed. Finally, Ackar and the two Agori cornered the Zesk, and Ackar pounced on it. After a brief struggle, Ackar took the bag from the Zesk, and kicked the miniature Vorax away. "Beat it! Scram!" he said, as the Zesk ran out the gateway of the settlement. Malum clapped his hands together, and said, "Ackar, I want to thank you. That was the funniest thing I've seen all day! Ha ha ha ha!" Ackar didn't share Malum's mirth. "I'm glad you're amused," he said, shouldering past Malum. "You could have helped. I almost threw my back out." "I'm not the speedy kind of guy," said Malum. "I'd only have got in the way." "Never mind," said Ackar, who then turned to Jann. "If the tour is over," he said to the doctor, "we'd best be going now." "It was my pleasure to have you here," said Jann, "and thank you for assisting my cook." "Yes," said the jungle Agori. "If it weren't for you, that animal would have stolen all of my sand bat meat." "I'm just glad I could help," said Ackar. "C'mon Malum. Let's go." Ackar and Malum turned to leave the settlement, when a voice behind him said, "Bye, fellows!" Ackar turned around and said, "Bye, Certavus." The two Glatorian left the settlement, mounted their sand stalkers, and began to head south, towards Vulcanus. "That was an… interesting experience," said Ackar. "I always thought the settlements were bedlam houses of some sort. Guess I was wrong." "It seemed pretty crazy to me," said Malum grumpily. "You'll never see me surrounded by animals, living in the desert. No sir." ---- X-Ray Quote "All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." -C.S. Lewis The Selected BZPower.com Literary Works of X-Ray -Comedies- Glatorian of Bara Magna: Curse of the Grey Crystal * Nuva Nation * Bionicles at Work * X-Ray: The Return (One-Shot) * The Misadventures of Nobody (and X-Ray) -Epics- Bionicle: Infinities (Old review topic) (New review topic) -Short Stories- What Comes After * The Golden Age * Hero of the Day * The Settlement * The Ballad of Master Chief * West of Po-Koro * Whatever Happened to the Agent of the Bat? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A CHILD'S drawing of what he sees from his Boscombe bedroom window – a prostitute, a fight and a man urinating in public.
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His dad passed the picture to the Echo and said: "It's sad that they see this sort of behaviour from adults all the time and they see it as normal."
The 10-year-old boy lives close to Churchill Gardens and the area's red light district around St Clement's Church.
His drawing shows a man fighting with a bottle and knife, a woman with money stuffed in her stocking – and a sad boy.
The boy said: "I see all these people out of my window all the time – sometimes I tell my dad, sometimes I just watch them."
The dad said: "He sees prostitutes regularly and the people fighting with the bottle. He's seen people urinating in the graveyard at St Clements.
"The children often get woken by shouting and screaming and witness women being picked up in cars, a lot of aggressive men are around all the time."
The Echo spoke to residents living in the area and they said the disturbing images in the drawing were all too common.
Boscombe resident Chris Thompson, 22, who grew up in the area, said: "You see lots and lots of fights between groups of lads.
"When I was growing up the prostitution was more towards the train station. Churchill Gardens has improved a lot.
"When you are little all this frightens you, you feel shocked."
The Echo was speaking to one woman when she stopped a passing Dave Wells van mid-interview.
She told the van driver: "There's smackheads injecting in our toilet again."
There was a group of men drinking and dropping beer cans in Churchill Gardens.
As the Echo interviewed two fathers and their children at 1.30pm, there were two prostitutes over the road stopping passing cars.
Joey Robinson, 28, dad of eight and three-year-old girls, said: "You see a lot of drinkers here and you see prostitutes all the time along here.
"You want to get your children away from that.
"I came here from Tottenham and I find it worse here than certain parts of Tottenham. I didn't believe it was like this."
His cousin Jay Robinson, 27, a dad of one, said: "You get drunks on benders, a lot of shouting and arguing.
"You get prostitutes at night without fail – they even follow you sometimes. It's not nice for the children."


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What is Geological Sequestration?
Go ahead and try it. Ask a friend "What's geological sequestration?" You might get a confused look or a "huh?" in response. If you're lucky you might get a stab at an answer, but is it right?
This website is here to answer your questions about the process called geological sequestration, or carbon capture and sequestration, or carbon sequestration, or GS, or CCS. Even giving it a name gets confusing!
That's why we went to experts. This website will give you the straight facts about carbon sequestration, and identify the people who stand behind those facts. You can choose a more general answer if that suits your purposes. If you need more technical information--the kind you can't find on Wikipedia--we've got that too. And we'll show you places to look if you want to dig deeper, though maybe not as deep as a geologic reservoir (see FAQ How far underground will you store CO2? if that doesn't make you grin).
Who are we? We are a group of scientists and engineers who study carbon sequestration from smokestacks down to geologic formations. This website was conceived at the Gulf Coast Carbon Center of The University of Texas at Austin as part of our STORE outreach initiative. We have collected information from the best possible sources all over the world and all of our FAQs are reviewed by experts. In some cases, we are the experts, but in other cases we ask for expert review from additional institutions or industry.
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Making the life of Los Alamos Lab postdocs more fulfilling socially, professionally
The Los Alamos Postdoc Association (LAPA) at Los Alamos National Laboratory fosters a sense of community among the postdoctoral research staff; advocates for the postdoctoral community; and provides career development information to postdocs.
To ensure that the future of each postdoc is a bright one, LAPA works to make the life of the Los Alamos Lab postdoc more fulfilling both socially and, more importantly, professionally.
Origin of Los Alamos Postdoc Association
During March 2006, postdocs from a cross-section of Laboratory divisions were invited to meet with Lab Director Michael Anastasio to address postdoc issues during the contractual transition from UC to LANS; a group of 15 postdocs attended this meeting.
From this group, a smaller sub-group began discussions with Mary Anne With, the Postdoc Program Office Leader, regarding the possibility of forming a postdoc association at the Laboratory that later would be known as the Los Alamos Postdoc Association (LAPA).
With the intention of creating a community of involved, interested postdocs at the Lab and the endorsement of the Laboratory Director, LAPA was formed. The organization continues to evolve and appreciates your input as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


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Social media is abuzz with a shocking revelation of love affair between Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Pakistan People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
A Bangladeshi weekly tabloid claimed that one of the Western intelligence agencies have romantic relations between youngest foreign minister of Pakistan, Hina Rabbani Khar and Bilawal Bhutto, the son of President Asif Ali Zardari and slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
It said the intelligence report even indicated a 'cold feud' between the father and the son, following Bilawal's decision of marrying Hina Rabbani Khar, as she is poised to end her marital relations with millionaire businessman Firoze Gulzar, from whom she has two daughters named Annaya and Dina.
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The weekly tabloid quoting sources said that President Asif Ali Zardari is vehemently opposing his son's willingness of knotting marital relations with a woman with two children, saying it would not only jeopardize Bilawal's political career but would also invite political doom for the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP). It added Being aggrieved by his son's ego and determination in making family with Hina Rabbani Khar, Asif Ali Zardari played key-role behind using country's intelligence agencies in spreading the scandal about the evasion of electricity bills worth 70 million Rupees by Galaxy Textile Mills, a company owned by Khar's husband Firoze Gulzar and father-in-law. The media reports also alleged that she and her husband are also among many other beneficiaries of NRO – an ordinance drafted to save corruption money and provide immunity to the corrupt.
It claimed that, at this stage, sensing his father's aggressive attitude towards Hina Rabbani Khar, Bilawal expressed anger and even threatened of resigning from the post of Presidency of Pakistan People's Party.
The tabloid said Bilawal told Asif Ali Zardari that he would settle in Switzerland with Hina Rabbani Khar and her daughters, though later he even told his father that, Hina might leave her daughters with her husband after the divorce.
It said that Bhutto's mother Benazir Bhutto left a hidden wealth worth a few billion dollars in Switzerland and Bilawal is the legal nominee of all those properties.
The tabloid claimed that the secret affairs between Bilawal Bhutto and Hina Rabbani Khar came to the knowledge of Asif Ali Zardari, when the duo was caught in compromised situation inside the official residence of the President, where his son Bilawal Bhutto also resides. Later, President Zardari collected mobile call records between Bilawal and Hina and found evidences of relations between the two. The relations became much exposed to Asif Ali Zardari, when Hina Rabbani Khar sent Bilawal a greeting card on his birthday on September 21, 2011 with hand-written message stating – "The foundation of our relations is eternal and soon we shall be just ourselves."


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National Gay Blood Drive Slated for July 11
As many gay men are well aware, nearly all of us are banned from donating blood as dictated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This ban was put into place back in 1983, at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and bans for life men who have had sexual contact with another man after the year 1977 from donating blood. Back in 1983, technology was not as far advanced as it is today, and screening methods now exist that can remove unusable blood from donated blood supplies before they reach hospitals and their patients.
It has been over a generation since the embargo was first enforced, and nothing has changed. Not even after the American Medical Association publicly spoke out against the ban last year, and not after members of Congress lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to change its policy. The people behind the National Gay Blood Drive, which will happen nationally on Friday, July 11, hope people across the country will come out and do their part to help throw this outdated policy in the garbage where it belongs.
On July 11, gay men across the country are going to show their willingness to donate blood by bringing an ally in their place to donate for them. The ally should get a name tag or a piece of paper and write the name of the person who wishes to donate but cannot, then have a photograph taken of the both of them together. The photographs (and where applicable, the nametags) will be collected and sent to the Food and Drug Administration to show them just how many people are united against their outdated and discriminatory policy.
The organizers of the National Gay Blood Drive believe the policy should be changed from banning donations based on sexual orientation to sexual behavior and risk factors as determined on a case-by-case basis.


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Heart-shaped personal identification tag that doubles as a reflector. Write information on the ID clip with indelible ink, allow to dry, then insert into heart so information can be read through the back of the reflector. Once ID clip is inserted it locks into place permanently.
Approximate size is 1-1/2 inches long x 1-1/2 inches high. Comes with split-ring attachment. Color is Blue.