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Here's what I have been hoarding up in my Apt!! Had to get these out soon before my hubby goes crazy.. 😉
So, here's presenting my empties for body and face products.. I have used up quite a few products and I am really happy about some of them and not so happy about some.. Let's see which of these made it to my re-purchasing list.. Shall we?
L to R: Back row – St Ives Oatmeal and Shea butter body wash, De-luxe Aloe Vera and Glycerin body wash, Avon soft and sensual body lotion, Bliss body butter in lemon and sage, Hand sanitizer & Avon hand cream (Christmas edition from 2012??!)
Of all these body products, I really enjoyed the St Ives Oatmeal and Shea butter body wash in Fall & winter.. Its quite hydrating for my skin.. De-luxe Aloe Vera and Glycerin body wash was quite refreshing with a minty scent (which I love) but did not fare well in the dry months.. It works fine for summer.. I really enjoyed the Avon soft and sensual body lotion.. it has a great scent and I would always get asked what I had on when I used it.. 😉
Of these, I plan to repurchase St Ives Oatmeal and Shea butter body wash and Avon soft and sensual body lotion some time in the future once I run out of all the lotions and body washes I own already!
I redeemed my Sephora points for Bliss body butter in lemon and sage.. It was ok and although I liked the fresh lemon-ey scent, I don't get the big deal about it.. The sanitizer worked fine and the Avon hand cream was a gift from my dear friend.. It worked well on my hands.. 🙂
L to R: Purity by Philosophy, Body shop Tea tree toner, Origins Zero oil toner, Murad Essential C-toner & Murad Clarifying toner..
I have gone through many bottles of Purity by Philosophy and will continue to purchase it.. It's a staple in my skincare.. The Body shop Tea tree toner & Origins Zero oil toner were ok.. nothing exceptional.. The 'Zero oil' toner kinda made certain areas of my face dry.. I will not be repurchasing these..
Murad toners are great! I use the Essential C-toner predominantly in the cooler months.. The mist is sooo refreshing.. The clarifying toner works well in warmer months.. I still have a few bottles of these to go through.. So, I'll not need to purchase any toner for quite a while now..
L to R: Shiseido cotton pads (2), Sephora soft touch cotton pads, MAC brush cleanser, Loreal oil free eye makeup remover, Skindinavia No more shine setting spray, Lancome Bi-facil makeup remover, Loreal Skin genesis serum, Tarte lip surgence in Envy, Ren revitalizing night cream, Seche Vite dry fast top coat, Bobbi brown hydrating eye cream, Origins GinZing eye cream & Clinique all about eyes eye cream…
I love my Shiseido and Sephora cotton pads and will continue to repurchase them.. The MAC brush cleanser was ok.. I find other replacements that may be marginally better, especially at taking off cream products from brushes.. 😉
The Loreal oil free eye makeup remover is quite gentle on my eyes and takes off most / all makeup off my face.. I used this before I switches to Bioderma! The Skindinavia No more shine setting spray is my favorite setting spray in Summer.. It is a must have for me.. The Lancome Bi-facil makeup remover was ok.. I used it on some days when I wore waterproof eye makeup and the Loreal eye makeup remover wouldn't take it all off..
Loreal Skin genesis serum is something I did not enjoy at all.. It didn't seem to do anything to my skin.. The Tarte lip surgence in Envy is my favorite and I will always have back-ups of it.. Ren revitalizing night cream was ok – I used it up by using it on my neck.. 🙂
Seche Vite dry fast top coat just dried up!! I couldn't get complete use out of it.. I am looking for a replacement for this one.. So, do let me know if you have a recommendation for a good fast drying top coat.. The Bobbi brown hydrating eye cream was quite good.. It worked well at hydrating the under eye area.. but I cannot justify the price.. Hence, I will not be repurchasing it..
Origins GinZing eye cream is fantastic! I love a multi-functional product and this is clearly one.. I love that it hydrates, takes care of dark circles and best of all, eliminates puffiness! It was a hit for me & I will be repurchasing this once I go through the many eye cream/samples I have..
Clinique all about eyes eye cream worked fine for hydrating under eye area but I did not notice any significant change in terms of dark circles & puffiness.. This product was a miss for me..


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The Clinton Foundation filed its 2014 tax return, and amended its filings for 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In a highly structured statement, Foundation President Donna Shalala explained that this was all voluntary. Besides, she noted, it all came about because of an error in 2010 to 2013 filings. The updated returns can be found at Clinton Foundation amendments.
Earlier this year, the Clinton Foundation said it needed to amend its taxes. There just may have been millions of donations omitted, so Foundation operatives wanted to make it right. Despite the connection and all the speech income, the Foundation is distinct from the Clinton family. There was no suggestion that these monies would be taxed to the Clinton Foundation or to Mr. or Ms. Clinton. Even so, it was still an embarrassing error.
Now, as the Foundation refiles, a letter to supporters from Ms. Shalala suggests that the Foundation has gone beyond all legal requirements, exhaustively reviewing data, and scrupulously fixing any mistakes. She notes that the auditors found other errors too. Yet even with them, amended returns were not needed, the Foundation states. But we did them anyway, Ms. Shalala explained.
The statement says the Foundation does "not owe any taxes," which seems to be an obvious conclusion for an exempt organization like this one. Although the bottom line was the same, we decided to refile, according to the statement. The nature of the amendments to the Foundation past years' returns falls into four major categories.
Government grants and contributions. Starting in 2010, the Foundation reported on three consecutive IRS tax returns that it received no donations from foreign government sources. It wasn't as if they didn't know how to report them. In prior years, the Foundation reported tens of millions of dollars in such donations. But things changed. Upon becoming Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton promised that the Foundation would stop accepting donations from foreign governments. It turns out there were exceptions, and that the Foundation's tax filings with the IRS were less than transparent.
Government grants – both domestic and foreign – were blank in 2010, 2011, and 2012. The Foundation says it inadvertently included government grants as part of the reporting of all grants. "There is nothing to suggest that the Foundation intended to conceal the receipt of government grants, which we report on our website," the Foundation states.
Revenue from speeches. Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton all gave speeches in 2010, 2011, and 2012. The money was reported as charitable contributions, but actually, the speech fees were payments for services. That is worth saying again: the speech fees were purely fees-for-services and not donations. What's more, the Foundation did not send any donor acknowledgement letters to these speech hosts. In fact, it is worth asking whether Ms. Clinton will amend her own taxes too.
Changes to Schedule B. The Foundation admits that there were errors in the amounts of donations and that there were some omissions. Some of these changes led to the listing of additional donors. In several cases, the speech fees were moved from contributions to other income. As a result, there was a decrease to the two percent threshold for reporting on this schedule.
Listing of related entities. The last category of major amendments to the returns is the listing of related entities. As the Clinton Foundation has set up and invested in entities that help it do work on the ground. The amended returns now disclose and reflect these relationships.
Do the Foundation's refilings fix everything. That remains to be seen. The IRS says if you discover errors after you file, you should amend. One dividing line is what you knew when you filed your original return. If you knew the return was wrong when you filed it, you'd better fix it right away. On the other hand, if the errors were inadvertent and you discovered them only later, it is probably not as serious.
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Hydrogen Fuel: How to Make One?
Physics can give you the answers. However, not everyone is good at physics. Leave it to the experts then; after all, they are the ones conducting various studies about hydrogen fuel production.
When wind airspeed is increased, water droplets are formed due to the chill factor. The droplets of water will be used to separate the hydrogen. Hydrogen is much lighter as compared to air. As air expands, hydrogen is caught and through the use of sound, hydrogen is separated completely. Does that sound clearer to you?
Hydrogen is often combined with other elements and if this is the case, hydrogen is taken out as well as long as there are four or more hydrogen molecules. There are several methods used to separate hydrogen. Two of the popular methods are water electrolysis and steam reforming. Scientists and researchers are currently studying new and more effective ways of producing usable hydrogen. Water is the most common source of usable hydrogen. Once the hydrogen and oxygen molecules are separated, usable hydrogen can be derived.
Refineries usually use various chemicals. Some researchers are already looking into the possibility of hydrogen presence in the said chemicals. If they can find a substantial amount of hydrogen in the various chemicals, they might be able to come up with an effective way of extracting hydrogen.
For now, you have to leave the production of hydrogen fuel to the experts. You see, hydrogen production is not that easy. The currently known methods are not enough to generate enough usable hydrogen to fuel cars and homes. There is a great need for an alternative fuel and with the hydrogen technology this need might be filled up.
You can now find hybrid cars that run on hydrogen fuel. Fuel cells are needed to run the car. The source of hydrogen for a car's useusually comes from water (which contains hydrogen). It's like you're running the car using only water and some cool gadgets inside also. Well, the cars of the future will be running with hydrogen fuel.
Car manufacturers have released a limited number of hydrogen powered cars and they are already on the streets of the US, Europe, and even Canada. The hydrogen cars are limited because there is also a limited source of hydrogen. Perhaps in the future, there will be a great number of hydrogen stations to meet the demands of hydrogen powered cars.
Are you still wondering how to make hydrogen fuel? Log on to the internet now and conduct your own research. You can start by gathering information about water electrolysis and steam reforming. If you can understand the two processes, you will get a clearer picture on how hydrogen fuel is made.
With a bit of knowledge, you will appreciate the use hydrogen fuel provides. By the way, did you know that the production of hydrogen fuel is almost a hundred percent clean? Yes, and that would mean a lot to the environment that is currently facing pollution and global warming problems.
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We work at the intersection of chemical engineering, chemical physics, and materials science, leveraging tools from statistical mechanics, high-performance computing, and crystallography.
Our research interests lie broadly in nanoscale, soft matter, and particulate systems with a focus on self-assembly and self-organization, bottom-up processes by which individual components arrange themselves into ordered structures. Specific problems concern the self-assembly of nanocrystals, optimization of photonic and other materials properties, advancement of simulation and visualization technology, and the role of building block characteristics for crystallization.


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Dame Vivienne Westwood joined Talk Fracking for the launch of our new billboard, cradling a 'fracked baby of the future' at Westminster Bridge, London. The impacts of fracking are harmful to our health, the economy and our environment, but our government continues to ignore the mountain of evidence.
The mock election billboard is an adaptation of the Conservative Party's campaign billboard that read, "Let's stay on the road to a stronger economy." Our re-working depicts the prospective devastation we face should we remain on this dangerous road "to a fracked future" that will lead to the bleak realities of: "Catastrophic climate change. Birth defects. Energy insecurity. Toxic legacy. With no democratic mandate."
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This December has been already. The 42 GOLD SPRINT FINALS were wild, with a winning time of 22 seconds & change. The DC Bicycle Film Festival Kick off party was even more crazy-packed with all sorts of characters racing, drinking & cheering on.
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Warcraft universe physics
This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.
This article looks at the general physics evident in the Warcraft games. Some of the examples can be traced to gameplay restrictions, and the info given here should not be taken as the exact workings of the Warcraft universe.
Units of Measure
- Weight is known to be measured in pounds and kilograms. This is exemplified by the names of fishes. Spanish and Korean versions of the game client use kilograms. All other versions use pounds. Gnomes, however, seem to use system of measurement based on their small stature that involves units such as WW = Whisker Widths, IBGs = Itty-Bitty Grams, and TC = Toe Curls (Power) as seen in Martek the Exiled. It is similar to the way ancient units of measure were based off of the king's/emperor's foot, hand span, etc..
- Temperature is once measured in degrees Kraklenheit during [52] Finding the Source.
- Time is known to be measured in minutes. Nori Pridedrift in Scalding Mornbrew Delivery tells the player a time frame in minutes. This may be a translation of whatever measurement system the cultures of Warcraft use into one we are familiar with.
Conservation of momentum does not always apply. When a large object collides a smaller object, the smaller object can remain relatively stationary.
Some magical beings can move without the need to push on something. Land creatures move by having the world push on their feet and their feet push on the world. Air creatures move by having the air push on their wings and the wings push on the air. Floating beings such as Liches move by magic or soul substance pushing on the air. Titans can move without pushing on anything because the Great Dark is empty.
In Outland, there are rock chunks which float above the ground which generate their own unilateral gravitational field. A being who is above them feels the gravity below them, but below the rock chunks there is no gravity pulling beings up. Since these have been only seen in Outland, it is hypothesized that there are different physics at work on different planes (such as the Twisting Nether, which the remnants of Draenor are now a part of).
Magic can change gravity. The blood elves, for instance, have a magical city whose structures sometimes defy gravitational forces.
Matter can be transformed into other types of matter through magic. Alchemists for example, have the ability to transmute raw materials into others.
In the Warcraft universe, beings can travel forward or backwards through time and have the ability to change history sometimes. In the Burning Crusade, beings can travel through time to battle Archimonde but their deeds will not affect later outcomes in history.
This follows one theory of time, where time travel is not completely possible. Instead, traveling through time is equal to traveling to another dimension, with its own timeline. Before travel, it would have not existed, as it was the same as your origin dimension. Traveling back in time creates the dimension, following the timeline up to the point you travel to, before branching off to create a new timeline after intervention. Because it is a different dimension, the effects have no impact on your origin dimension.
Medivh explained two different theories of time to Khadgar while he was still an apprentice. One followed the most common idea of a sequential series of events, while the other was one of predetermined history. He used the comparison between a clock and a sand time as a metaphor to explain himself.[citation needed]
With a sand timer, all the events in time are there, what order in which they are determined (passing through the sand timer) is random, but that which we experience and see will appear to be in order, and still have the same outcome.
There are two methods for this, divine and logical predetermination. With the former, a powerful being (possibly a titan) already plans out a course of, which it will purposely keep in check. This is similar to the concept of fate destiny. The latter is a more complex idea, where causes and effects are more predictable, thus the future is already known. However, even if they are not predictable, it is also possible for history to already be written, but the order of the vents simply fall into place. Both theories share the idea that nothing people do can change the future, they need only play their part to lead up to it.
A predetermined timeline, logical or divine, seems likely with the existence of a gaint sand timer inside the Caverns of Time which controls the flow of time.
Alternative Planes
All known planes of existence have three physical dimensions or more. In no known dimension do its inhabitants flatten out (2D) or become lines (1D).
Alternative planes appear to all share the same timeline, but possibly not all share the same concept of measurable time.
Bodies are moved by souls or magical means. Upon death, beings are turned into souls. These souls can inhabit different bodies and control them. For example, Sargeras co-inhabited Medivh's body with Medivh's soul and both fought for control of his body. These souls probably cause beings to move (or infuse the being with the will to move) because without them beings have not been seen to move unless they move by magical means such as golems.
Night elf players souls in WoW appear as wisps, cloud like sphere apparitions of ancient forests spirits, unlike regular souls of the mortal races. Again, this may be a personal projection, as NPC night elf souls have typically appeared like the other races.
Like physical beings, souls can be trapped (see: Malfurion in The Well of Eternity). Souls are different from ghosts who can have a profound impact on the world. The difference between souls and ghosts is not known.
Sometimes souls can be reattached to former body, and new soul take control of other body.


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Tribal trend is not losing its positions already for some time and is gradually transitioning from fall/winter to spring/summer season. I would say it is even more extensive than ever; when in winter it was contained in mostly warm sweaters, dresses and accessories, now it is pretty much on everything: shoes, bags, sunglasses, etc.
To be honest, I still don't know how I feel about this particular trend; I guess everything depends on how you translate it into YOUR style. Personally I am avoiding too much of an eclectic look (and in my head tribal=eclectic) and prefer more simple clean silhouettes to effortless "bohemian" style pieces. But as I have figured out, designers have given us a whole bunch of options so you can try new trends in exact way you are feeling it. Some trends consist of many elements like color, shapes and fabrics and your outfit doesn't have to include all of them. Just pick some feature that suits your style and mentality the most and go with it. This is how I got into the "7 For All Mankind" Ikat print jeans that allowed me to wear a little bit of "foreign for me" tribal trend without compromising with my style. They obviously have that characteristic eclectic print but modern and sexy fit balances it out for me; and of course sleek nude heels and sleeveless turtleneck complete the contemporary and feminine outfit. In general tribal trend is very interesting and complex; no matter what will do it for you - big bold jewelry, accessories with excessive embellishments or just geometric patterns in warm earthy colors it is worth of trying.
Overall I think all trends can work for each and every one of us, the trick is to understand how. Only experimenting and trying things on will help so you'll find exactly what is suitable and understandable to you.


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Why colors matter!
September 1, 2010
Colors may affect your purchasing decision. KISSmetrics has an excellent blog post about the topic.
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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
January 5, 2010
Steve Jobs and Apple are known for astonishing product launches. Pictures and an emotionally charged experience effectively communicate the message to the audience.
Behind the scenes, significant efforts and a drive for excellence produce these impressive presentations. The slides below shed some light on how Steve Jobs creates these presentations with the help of his team.
Lessons Learned
- brainstorm, plan and practice over and over again
- create an experience for the audience
- a picture speaks a thousand words
- keep it short and simple
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The 2009 Marketing Industry Trends Study is unique in that Equation opened up survey development to the Marketing Community - drawing the survey questions directly from marketers.
The feedback was outstanding - spurring diverse and thoughtful questions. Over 1,450 marketers representing clients (brands), agencies, consultants and non-profits responded to the survey.
And while the crowdsourced approach to research may in fact be the most ground-breaking aspect of all, the study delivers important findings that confirm the growing significance (and momentum) of social media and digital marketing tactics. Some of the key findings include:
- Social media adoption rates - The adoption of social media is well past critical mass--with nearly two thirds of brand marketers (59%) currently implementing social media in their marketing plans.
- Tools and platforms - Facebook, Twitter, online video and blogs are the 4 most popular social media tools. Yet none of these are being used in isolation--on average, there are 5 to 7 other social media tools being either actively used or dabbled with by marketers at the same time.
- Current marketing spend - While traditional media channels account for the largest proportion of marketing spend; Online, Search and Social Media as a group are approximately a third of all current spend. For smaller companies this increased to over 40%.
- Forecasts in spending - Looking towards 2010, brand marketers forecast a shift in spend towards digital tactics, feeling the areas most likely to increase will be Social Media (60%), Online Advertising (53%), Search Engine Advertising (49%) and Email Marketing (41%).
- Mobile marketing - While current adoption of Mobile Marketing is low (only 11% of brand and agency marketers had it as a line item), there is interest in experimentation.
- Uses of market research - Online ad testing is the type of research most likely to increase in the near future, with a third of marketers planning to spend more in this area.
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Can Esophageal Cancer Be Found Early?
Screening is the process of looking for cancer or pre-cancer in people who have no symptoms of the disease. In the United States, screening the general public for esophageal cancer is not recommended by any professional organization at this time. This is because no screening test has been shown to lower the risk of dying from esophageal cancer in people who are at average risk.
However, people who have a high risk of esophageal cancer, such as those with Barrett's esophagus, are often followed closely to look for early cancers and pre-cancers.
Testing people at high risk
Many experts recommend that people with a high risk of esophageal cancer, such as those with Barrett's esophagus, have upper endoscopy regularly. For this test, the doctor looks at the inside of the esophagus through a flexible lighted tube called an endoscope. (see Tests for Esophageal Cancer.) The doctor may remove small samples of tissue (biopsies) from the area with Barrett's so that they can be checked for dysplasia (pre-cancer cells) or cancer cells.
Doctors aren't certain how often the test should be repeated, but most recommend testing more often if areas of dysplasia are found. This testing is repeated even more often if there is high-grade dysplasia (the cells appear very abnormal).
If the area of Barrett's is large and/or there is high-grade dysplasia, treatment of the abnormal area might be advised because of the high risk that an adenocarcinoma is either already present (but was not found) or will develop within a few years. Treatment options for high-grade dysplasia might include surgery to remove part of the esophagus with the abnormal area, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), photodynamic therapy (PDT), or radiofrequency ablation (RFA). See Endoscopic Treatments for Esophageal Cancer. The outlook for these patients is relatively good after treatment.
Careful monitoring and treatment (if needed) may help prevent some esophageal cancers from developing. It may also detect some cancers early, when they are more likely to be treated successfully.
Kleinberg L, Kelly R, Yang S, Wang JS, Forastiere AA. Chapter 74 – Cancer of the Esophagus. In: Niederhuber JE, Armitage JO, Dorshow JH, Kastan MB, Tepper JE, eds. Abeloff's Clinical Oncology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa. Elsevier: 2014.
Posner MC, Minsky B, Ilson DH. Chapter 45 - Cancer of the esophagus. In: DeVita VT, Hellman S, Rosenberg SA, eds. DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins; 2015.
Shaheen NJ, Falk GW, Iyer PG, Gerson LB; American College of Gastroenterology. ACG Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Barrett's Esophagus. Am J Gastroenterol. 2015;111:30-50.
Shaheen NJ, Sharma P, Overholt BF, et al. Radiofrequency ablation in Barrett's esophagus with dysplasia. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:2277–2288.
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This post is based on the article "Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens", by Michael Allen (Boise State University), Michael Flynn (Kansas State University), and Julie VanDusky–Allen (Boise State University), which is forthcoming in International Interactions.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has deployed tens-of-thousands of military personnel overseas. In spite of their importance to foreign policy, relatively little research has focused on understanding the effects of these deployments. However, recent years have seen an increase in research on the effects of such deployments on a wide range of outcomes, including host-state military spending (Allen, Flynn, and VanDusky–Allen 2014), the use of military force and the size of the host-state's military (Martinez Machain and Morgan 2013), human rights (Bell, Clay, and Martinez Machain 2016), economic/human development (Jones 2012; Jones and Kane 2012), trade (Biglaiser and DeRouen 2007), and crime (Allen and Flynn 2013).[1]
While research on this subject has come a long way, these studies all typically focus strictly on the host-state itself, or on the relationship between the host-state and the United States. Our study builds on these previous works by exploring how the deployment of US military forces within the host-state (or potential host-state) interacts with deployments in the neighboring region to affect host-state foreign policy. Specifically, we focus on how troop deployments affect host-state military spending.
We argue that this represents an important step—both theoretical and empirical—in understanding how military deployments affect the states around them. Though military deployments obviously affect the host-state itself due to their presence, deployments are often made with an eye towards establishing broader regional stability and security through their deterrent effect. By establishing a large military presence in country A, the US might hope to dissuade country B from acting more aggressively. This was the basic logic underpinning US military deployments to West Germany, Japan, South Korea, and other Western European countries throughout the Cold War. So, for states like the Soviet Union, what mattered was not just the presence/absence of US military personnel within their own borders, but the presence of US military personnel in their near abroad. It is also worth noting that the projection of military power has long been central to international relations theory, but we still know relatively little about how the methods that states use beyond the use of military force. Though important, the use of military force is rare compared with the omni-present nature of US military deployments in the post-war era.
Our findings also have some timely policy implications. Recent remarks made by Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, suggest that his willingness to defend NATO allies would be contingent upon allied states' contributions (presumably) to the collective defense, or perhaps more narrowly to the US. Trump has explicitly threatened to cut back on the US' military's overseas presence. Our results indicate that rather than free-riding on US security provisions, NATO member states have actually tended to follow the United States' lead, increasing or decreasing defense burdens in response to increases or decreases in US military deployments to their territories and the surrounding region.
Understanding US military deployments and their effects in a spatial context
We adopt a theoretical framework based on Lake's (1999, 2009) work on international hierarchies, and on Morrow's (1991) work on asymmetric alliances, to help us make sense of how states respond to US military deployments in, and around, their territories. In essence, states can trade freedom of action over specific policy areas in exchange for security provided by the US. The deployment of US military forces to another country can help to ensure the security of the host-state by supplementing the host-state's military forces, or be serving as a deterrent to would-be aggressors. This is essentially the case with West Germany and South Korea in the Cold War. Similarly, US military forces deployed abroad can help to educate and train the host-state military, thereby improving their skill and efficiency. For providing security to the host-state, the US gets increased influence over the host-state's foreign policy, and itself gains flexibility through the use of overseas bases, airspace, ports, etc.
One method that scholars have adopted to capture this dynamic is to look at the host-state's military spending, since higher levels of military spending should allow the host-state to assert itself and its preferences more forcefully in many areas of international affairs. The basic logic of this tradeoff suggests, then, that when the US provides greater security to a state through the deployment of US military forces, we should expect to see the host-state's military spending go down.
Previous studies have repeatedly confirmed this dynamic. Lake (2009) finds that the host-state lowers its defense burden (i.e. defense spending as a percentage of GDP) as the size of US military deployments relative to the host-state population increases. Martinez Machain and Morgan (2013) similarly find that the size of the host-state military in terms of military personnel also decreases as the US troop presence increases. In a previous study we find that larger US military deployments correlate with a smaller host-state defense burden, but also find some evidence that these reductions in military spending go along with increases in spending on domestic programs, like education (Allen, Flynn, and VanDusky-Allen 2014).
But what about third-party states? That is, what about the states near and around the host/referent state? Essentially, the basic logic is the same. As the size of US military forces in a state increase, and the security provided by the US, we should expect that the host-state's foreign policy to be increasingly influenced/controlled by the US. Basically, we are moving from considering a single state to a group of states, and how the status of their with the US affects each state's foreign policy decision-making. Government leaders never make foreign policy decisions in a vacuum, and so their interactions with the US are necessarily going to be weighted by considering how their decisions will affect relations with their neighbors.
Consider two states: State A and State B. Our argument is simply that the effects of US military deployments are reinforcing. Evidence indicates that State A will lower its defense burden in response to increasing the size of the US military deployment within State A's territory, but we argue that how much State A reduces its defense burden will depend on the troops hosted by State B. If State B hosts no US military personnel, then it may be that State A's positive relationship with the US is not shared by State B. Though State A may reduce its defense spending, it should limit how much it cuts because State B is not similarly constrained by the US.
Alternatively, if State B also hosts a large US deployment, then its foreign policy should be constrained by the US, as is State A's. This fact should lead State A to lower its defense burden even more than it would have were State B not hosting US military personnel. When State A's neighbors are hosting US military deployments, and therefore their foreign policies are all more heavily influenced by the US, the need for spending more on defense is alleviated. In this case, State is in a neighborhood in which all of the residents are more closely aligned with the US.
Ultimately we expect states to reduce their defense spending when they host larger US military deployments. Further, we expect those reductions in defense spending to be larger when the host-state is surrounded by other states that host US military forces.
Evaluating the conditional effects of direct and regional deployments
We evaluate these expectations using data on US overseas troop deployments from 1950–2003. Our results generally indicate that regional deployments do indeed condition how states respond to deployments within their own territory.
Figure 1 succinctly shows the predicted defense burdens as a function of 1) direct deployments to the referent state (the X axis), and 2) deployments to states neighboring the referent state (the Y axis). The darker colors indicate the predicted level of the referent state's defense burden. Focusing on states with small direct deployments (e.g. values less than 3 on the X axis) we can see that increases in the size of regional deployments increases the referent state's defense burden. Similarly, we can see that for regional deployments of any given size, increases in the size of direct deployments to the referent state generally produce lower defense burdens. Accordingly, we find that states tend to reduce their defense burdens as the US military presence in their neighborhood increases, but do so more dramatically when they are surrounded by states that are also hosting larger US military deployments.
NATO's Exceptionalism
The results discussed above apply to most states, but it is worth noting that our results indicate that NATO member states respond in the exact opposite way. In an earlier study (Allen, Flynn, and VanDusky–Allen 2014) we have found that NATO allies respond to increases in US military deployments to their borders by increasing their own defense burdens. In our more recent analysis, we find a similar result, but show that this response is conditional upon the broader regional distribution of US military deployments. As the US military deployment to a NATO member state increases, that member state will increase its defense burden, but this change is larger when the NATO member is surrounded by states also hosting large US military deployments.
Generally speaking, NATO member states are actually inclined to follow the United States' lead, increasing defense spending when the US increases its own military footprint in Western Europe, and decreasing military spending as the US downsizes its European military presence. This, combined with the fact that US allies have routinely subsidized the US military presence overseas through a combination of tax cuts and direct payments, and that the presence of such overseas deployments substantially reduce the transaction costs of maintaining a global military presence and of launching overseas military operations, suggests the concerns over the exploitation of the United States by its NATO allies in particular, are overblown. Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey, for example, both houses US nuclear weapons, and also serves as a staging area for US attacks against the Islamic State. It also suggests that US efforts to deter adversaries, like Russia, by bolstering the US' military presence in the region, are directly supplemented by the defense efforts of NATO allies. Increases in the defense burdens of individual NATO states are distinct from their individual contributions to NATO as an organization, and arguably serve to better capture the latent power and capabilities of the NATO alliance. Ultimately, assessing the contributions of NATO members requires us to take stock of a number of such considerations as the US gains considerable flexibility from its membership in NATO and its maintenance of overseas bases and deployments. This point also carries over into other alliance relationships. For example, recently US military officials have noted that keeping troops stationed in South Korea, specifically, is cheaper than stationing those troops in the US, due to the contributions made by the South Korean government.
The takeaway
The US military presence overseas has been one of the most enduring elements of post-war foreign policy. However, our understanding of how these deployments shape the foreign policies of host-states is only now coming together. The deployment of US military personnel affects not just the host-state, but countries in that state's neighboring region, in a variety of ways. Our study underscores the fact that these deployments have mutually reinforcing effects that lead host-states to reduce their military spending. Essentially, the US military can serve to curb higher levels of military spending than we might otherwise expect to see in a given region. It is possible that such deployments have effects that extend beyond defense spending, such as helping to curb conflict around the globe. If so, whatever the US saves by reducing its overseas military footprint may be more than offset by the costs associated with higher levels of conflict, lost trade, and generally greater instability around the globe.
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For years, scientists have been trying to answer the big questions: Why rainbows are so awesome, what makes cats so… weird, and just where the hell is most of the "Stuff" in the universe. We might not have made any progress on those first two, but a team of researchers have managed to find more than half of the "missing" atoms in the universe.
These atoms were described as missing or absent because physicists have known for some time roughly how much matter came into being shortly after the big bang. According to their models, 70% of the universe is dark energy with another 23% as dark matter. That's a little weird, though, given that we have yet to detect or precisely characterize either, but alas. The remainder of the stuff in creation exists either as regular ol' energy and… well… stuff. You, me, my cat, the sun. That's all what's known as Baryonic matter. It only accounts for 4.6% for everything we know of, but there's a problem there. Of that sliver of all that is, scientists can only detect half. Or at least they could. New work by a team at the University of Edinburgh, though, might clear things up.
"This is embarrassing, as you can imagine," astronomer Renyue Cen of Princeton University told Science Mag. "Not only do we have most of matter which is dark, and most of energy which is still darker; but of the 5% which is normal atoms, most are missing."
The best explanation for the missing stuff was that it had been stretched across the universe in super-thin strands of hot filaments that span between galaxies and clusters. These strands are known as WHIMs or Warm-Hot Intergalactic matter. They're hot enough to glow in the upper bands of radiation — namely X-rays — but they're so thin that they've been almost impossible to detect.
To sort it out, the team used the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — a signal left over from the Big Bang, and one of our largest pieces of evidence for the event — to backlight, in a sense, the WHIMs. They compared a million pairs of galaxies, separated by relatively narrow distances, and then stitched all the images together, looking for traces of the WHIMs.
This works because photons from the CMB can strike electrons in the WHIMs, which are like the connective tissue of the universe. When that happens, sometimes, the photons will gain energy. This is known as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. The new signal is faint and extremely weak, but it's still measurable by modern instruments.
By looking for evidence of the SZ effect, cosmologists claim to have located a good chunk of the missing mass — as much as 30%. Subsequent experiments, led by the next generation of super-powerful X-Ray telescopes, should be enough to give us more direct evidence, and round out the models. But it's a great indication that we're on the right track. It's also a little unnerving when you think about it. Most of the stuff that is, doesn't exist in any form that's recognizable to us. And when you think about what percentage of the total mass that we can observe is in stars or black holes, it's really weird to remember that the overwhelming majority of the universe is bizarre and empty.
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Audio Podcasts on entrepreneur interviews30 Sep 2014
Listening to startup founders is a great way for budding entrepreneurs to learn.
Continuing from our discussion on When do people listen?, interview recording podcast is an ideal content for listening, since most of the interviews have very less visual material. Even when we listen to interviews on Youtube, have you often noticed yourself not looking much into your display, but just listening ?
Thought of collecting some of the good entrepreneur interview series:
This Week In Startups: Brought to you by Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, interviews many startup founders. Jason himself being a serial entrepreneur and angel investor adds to the quality of the podcast. Each week he has a new guest and the show has now done more than 500 episodes and is a great resource !
Mixergy: Learn from Proven Entrepreneurs is the tagline from the host Andrew Warner. This show too has done around 1000 episodes. In each show, Andrew interviews an Entrepreneur. One difference here from Jason's above show is that there are small business owners too in this. If you are an independent app developer who made success just enough to build a sustainable business for your family, you can be on this show !
500 Startups: This podcast is from 500 startups accelerators. In each episode they have a talk with the companies in thier portfolio, Chats with 500 Startups founders, investors, and mentors
Entrepreneur On Fire Podcast: Each episode brings you an Entrepreneur who shares their journey. John Lee Dumas interviews Small Business Owner and startup founders, and takes us through the success or failure journey and the AH-HA moments as he puts it.
Foundation: This is the audio podcast of the startup interviews by Kevin Rose. Robert Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk, as Wikipedia puts it.
Business News section has more of such channels.
Careers section too has similar content.
Another way to find some more of such shows is by this search on startups
Listening to interviews in the form of Audio podcast is ideal for a daily commuter. If you happen to be interested in Entrepreneur series, you are lucky, we have a lot of such content.
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The Mayan myths of the Popol Vuh are at once sensual and ruthless, none more so than the trials of Xibalba. In the oral and written traditions of this indigenous people, the road to the ancient underworld is well-marked, its fearsome tests legend. In a series of thirteen poems, a modern woman takes this time-honored journey through good and evil and what lies between, finding strength and refuge, union and reunion, and new purpose in primeval pleasures.
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Seventeen years ago, was it Oscar protocol not to be political in acceptance speeches? I don't know what the protocol was, or if there was one. I'd attended an all-boys' school with a coat-and-tie dress code; I had my own misgivings about protocol. I remember Marlon Brando declining his 1972 Oscar for best actor, for The Godfather. A civil rights activist, Sacheen Littlefeather, spoke for Brando; she voiced his disapproval of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans. And, five years later, Vanessa Redgrave — in accepting the Oscar for best supporting actress for Julia — spoke of the "Zionist hoodlums" protesting her support of the PLO. (There were demonstrators outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.) I read complaints in the post-Oscar press about these speeches, but I remember more applause than boos in the audience at those Academy Awards. There were complaints in the post-Oscar press about my speech, too. In the Opinion pages of The New York Times, Dave Andrusko — now the editor of National Right to Life News and a familiar blowhard for pro-lifers — disputed my use of the word "courage" in my thanks to Miramax for making Cider House. (Andrusko proclaimed this month that Trump's choice for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, is "overwhelmingly qualified.") Andrusko wrote the following in his response to The Cider House Rules: "Wouldn't a real display of courage be a film that portrayed pro-lifers in at least two dimensions?" This makes me wonder if one-dimension Dave actually saw Cider House; maybe he only saw my acceptance speech. The hero of The Cider House Rules — the orphan Homer Wells — is a pro-lifer. The one thing his mother gave him was his life; she leaves him at the orphanage. It is understandable why Homer doesn't want to be a doctor who performs abortions. Yet, unlike Dave Andrusko, Homer has no quarrel with Dr. Larch's choice to give women what they want: a baby or an abortion. Homer just doesn't want to perform abortions himself. And that should be his choice, shouldn't it? But in a world where abortion is illegal — hence unsafe or unavailable — Dr. Larch's argument prevails. "You know how to help these women," Larch tells Homer. "How can you not feel obligated to help them when they can't get help anywhere else?" In short: If women have no choice, why should doctors have one? There are at least two dimensions to my pro-life character, the orphan Homer Wells. Whereas one-dimension Dave Andrusko credits the pro-lifers he represents for "helping women and their unborn children." But where is the pro-life help for children after they've been born? Where is the pro-life help for those women who've been forced to have an unwanted child? Andrusko concludes his piece about my Cider House acceptance speech by saying pro-lifers "have dedicated their lives to finding a solution where everyone wins." But how does everyone win when the only choice a woman has is to have the baby? And, 17 years ago, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times, a high school student said he was "disappointed by the outright bias of Hollywood." Yes, The Cider House Rules is a pro-choice film. What is needed from Hollywood now is more "outright bias." Examine the outright bias of President Trump; consider the sexual dinosaur that Vice President Pence is. Pence believes in conversion therapy for homosexuals; he was among the first to propose defunding Planned Parenthood. In Trump's administration, LGBT and abortion rights are in danger. In five of my 14 novels, I've written about sexual intolerance — about hatred of sexual minorities and sexual differences. Whatever the protocol for Oscar acceptance speeches is, or was, the creative community has an obligation: to be intolerant of intolerance. I hope there's no protocol governing Oscar speeches this year — well, except for the length of the speeches. Keeping what you say short is a courtesy to the people who speak after you. But should the Oscar acceptance speeches be political? No, that's not my point. People who are disinclined to speak out (politically) should not be harassed. If there are Trump supporters, let them speak. What I'm saying is that anyone with something political to say should feel free to say it. Trump's discriminatory travel ban — his profiling of refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries, including Iran — has been suspended by a U.S. federal judge. However this chaos is adjudicated, Trump's intolerant actions have already helped the hardliners in Iran, where there's a presidential election in May. 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Back to quilting. I had 6 quilt for one customer. A lady I used to quilt for passed away and her husband sent me the rest of her quilts to quilt. A friend is going to add the binding. This was a pleasure to do for him. I love the 2nd one, made of all the left over blocks. Great quilt.
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Watermelon Festival
Ok, I know the Watermelon Festival was 2 weeks ago. I am just running behind posting pic. The theme this year was honoring the Koren War Vets. My Dad was in Korea. He rode in a jeep at the front of the parade. Dad is the one on the passenger side of the jeep. The driver is a man from Charleston that has several restored jeeps. Not sure who that is in the back. So proud of my Dad.
Another truck from the parade. It had a float caring other Koren Vets. Wayne said this is a 5 ton. He should know.
Here is the Watermelon Moble. I think it is a dragster?? But was funny. My brother said he would get it for his son's first car, NOT!! LOL
My sister and her daughter came for the day and we had a good time with Dad.
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Peanutbear3ParticipantJanuary 5, 2014 at 9:28 pm #45838
Need some advice please.
I met a guy just before Xmas. It was through mutual friends, second time meeting him, but I hadn't been interested first time. We hung out the whole night, he was kind of awkward and shy about getting my number, but eventually did and even (albeit awkwardly) went for a kiss – this was after we had had a fair few drinks. So he texted the next day to meet and we met and had food and drinks.
We then met during the week again. He had already told me he was shy. He also said he liked to get to know girls first etc… Anyway, I had had a few drinks and was confused, I couldn't tell if he liked me and it was getting frustrating. So I basically asked him was he interested, he said yes or else he wouldn't be there. I told him how did he expect a girl to know a guy was interested if he didn't touch her/hold her hand/kiss her. He agreed and I guess it was a bit awkward for a while. But, he wanted to stay for more drinks.
Peanutbear3ParticipantJanuary 5, 2014 at 9:31 pm #45839
He then put his hand lightly on my leg. I was chatting and was getting excited about a topic, really into the conversation, when suddenly, mid-conversation he kissed me, literally lunged mid-word!! We stayed until 1am, then it was a but awkward leaving…he was like ' Life goes on after Xmas, and he'd see me then.' He texted to make sure I got home OK.
The next day I was embarrassed that I had been so forward as I am not normally like that. So I texted that evening to apologise for any awkwardness. He replied, saying it was probably his fault and that he had enjoyed the night. We texted a little and said we'd meet after he came back from his folks for Xmas.
I didn't expect to hear from him over Xmas, but was a bit upset when a week later still nothing. So I texted. he replied and we texted a bit, eventually, I was like just do it and asked would he still like to meet again, he said yes and we'd arrange something when he was back in the new year. That was a week ago and no news since.
sbeeParticipantJanuary 16, 2014 at 1:50 pm #46053
Just go for it and ask him if he's still up to make some plans. If he follows through, he's interested. If not, he'll likely make up an excuse or give you some reason that he won't be able to make plans.
noodles93ParticipantJanuary 24, 2014 at 7:22 pm #46536
I say meet up with him and see how it goes. He may just be a bit awkard and unable to express how he is feeling right now. But I think there is a high possibility he's into you.
bizie.beParticipantApril 7, 2014 at 6:42 pm #46146
If you are interested, I would try one more time. Maybe ask him if he'd like to get together for dinner/movie/etc and if he delays it again, then I would probably move on. Maybe he has some kind of hang up and was insecure/embarrassed about how everything went down.
AbbaDabbaDewParticipantApril 11, 2014 at 5:51 pm #46661
From a guy's point of view, trying to establish a relationship during the holidays (including New Years) is tough since family obligations trumps anything personal.
He may have been busy doing things with his family, been away on a trip, etc and he may have wanted to give you space to do the same for your family. But at the same time, a simple text here and there would have been nice to let you know that he was thinking of you.
I met someone before xmas last year and we had to put things on hold for the holidays. But I was fortunate to find out from a mutual friend that she was wondering why I was being so "quiet". Well that was my cue and I apologized about the holidays being in the way (she apologized back) and we then went on a few very fun dates.
AbbaDabbaDewParticipantApril 11, 2014 at 5:51 pm #46666
I was also the shy type when I was younger until I realized that women can only deal with shyness for so long before they move on. That being said, I can relate to what he is feeling. He is into you but can't express/talk about it unless he has a few drinks to loosen him up. The awkward kissing and "lunging" is him being brave enough to make a move. It takes a lot for a shy person to initiate a move with a girl.
Hopefully his shyness will go away but you may have to continue giving him hints and even do some of the initiating. Hopefully his confidence will grow as he gets more comfortable with you.
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The Research Centre contains much local information which is not available online, including graveyard catalogues for Benhall, Saxmundham, Leiston, Eastbridge, Aldringham and Sutton, censuses, directories, information on local war memorials, books and historic maps. We have a large number of CDs and microfiches of local interest — in fact, we hold a wide variety of records for Suffolk and other counties. An index is available.
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Experienced family history researchers are present to give assistance if required. The Group looks forward to helping you with your research, including the guilty pleasure of tracing those elusive black sheep!
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Christmas Journals
Hi crafters! Today I am here sharing some gift ideas for Christmas. This year I thought I would do something different with my niece and nephew and made them some Christmas journal books. From December 1st until Christmas Eve they will have to write in these journals their dreams and wishes for Christmas. Then I will have them each share their wishes and thoughts on Christmas Eve with everyone.
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So I found some perfect books I could use and covered them with CutCardStock: Classic Crest: Solar White, and Stardream Metallic:Fairway. For the sentiment I used Bright Foil Cardstock and Classic Crest: Solar White. Everything is pieced together with Tombow Mono Multi-Purpose glue.
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Now just glue it to the front of your covers as shown below
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[ Note: The following is an edited version of a recent Friday Khutbah at Toledo Masjid. The opening Hamd has been omitted, and both sections of the Khutbah have been merged into one article.]
Prophet Muhammad as a teacher
In the Hadeeth literature, we read about the supplications [Ad'iyah] that the Prophet -Sall Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam, would make. These are not only prayers to Allah- they are also instructions in and of themselves. This is logical, when we consider that the Prophet is a teacher, so there are lessons or teachings present in his supplications.
We are told in the hadeeth literature that he, upon whom be peace and blessings, would make these supplications at Fajr [Dawn] and Maghrib [sunset], the traditional beginning and end of the workday.
"O Allah, I ask you for useful knowledge"
This is the first line. Allahumma innee as-alooka 'Ilman Naafe'an. The Prophet asks God for knowledge that will bring benefit.
In the Qur'an we have the Du'a "My Lord, increase me knowledge " [Rabbi Zidnee 'Ilmaa]. While the Quranic verse is general, the hadeeth here specifies the sort of knowledge as being useful knowledge. In order for knowledge to be useful, a goal or a series of goals has to be made. A person seeking entry into medicine, he or she is required to study certain subjects and have under his or her belt certain actions to meet this goal, A person wanting to do business in Japan would perhaps have to study Japanese language. These are examples of useful knowledge [Ilman Naafe'an].
As Muslims, we should be seeking, above all other goals, knowledge that will make our character better, that will smooth over the rough edges. Knowledge that will touch the heart and bring positive influences.
"And a provision that is lawful and wholesome"
The du'a continues "and a wholesome, lawful provision" [Wa Rizqan Halaalal Tayyiban]. Rizq is money, food, clothing. We want that which is healthy and lawful in Allah's sight. In today's world, knowledge and provision are increasingly interconnected. But perhaps the Rizq here is also spiritual. I admit this is speculation, a thought. Rizq , that sustenance or provision can come in many ways. We are sustained by our friends, our surroundings, the television programs we watch, the music we listen to and the figures, both religious and political, we follow. Look at Donald Trump, he does sustain his followers. They get something from listening to him. They receive "provision", however it is not healthy!
Even physically, a person can eat chips and cookies daily, and survive. Yet, we know that this is not healthy sustenance.
We are to desire sustenance that nourishes the soul, that is Halaal and wholesome. Parents seek to limit their children's contact with certain things, such as foods, immoral television programs and the like. This can likewise be applied to us, as adults, building self-discipline.
"And that [my] deeds are acceptable"
The Prophet's du'a continues "and that [my] actions be acceptable" [Wa 'amalan Mutaqabbalan]. Obviously, some actions are unacceptable. In the Qur'an, we have the du'a "Our Lord, accept this Du'a". We have "Our Lord, accept from us".
Our actions in God's sight, and even in wider society, are acceptable if they are in keeping with what is Halaal, wholesome and beneficial. These are all connected with the heart.
Shaikh Muhammad Al-Ghazzali said "and when the human conscious [Dameerul Insaan] has died, it will not even be of benefit his memorization of the Qur'an."
So we pray that Allah makes us of those whom benefit from useful knowledge, may he give us goodly provision and may our actions be acceptable in his sight.
What we need to derive from the Sunnah
This du'a is an example of what we need to take from the Prophet's Sunnah in order to make this deen more than a collection of books, opinions and traditions. We want to make Islam a living reality, a force that truly benefits life.
This is how the Prophet functions, even after his death [peace be upon him] as Rahmatul lil 'aal ameen, a mercy to all nations [Q 21:107]. We need to get away from minimizing the Sunnah to things such as the Prophet's toothbrush [Miswak] and his clothes. His Sunnah is above and beyond such reductionist issues!
In a similar way, Allah sent a book called the Qur'an. It has not been sent to decorate your living room, simply to be recited at funerals and weddings. It is a book that has been given to benefit a people who ponder deeply [Qawmin Yatafakkaroon]. God says directly that the Qur'an has been sent as a pure recitation, in order that "perhaps you will use your mind." [La'allakum Ta'qiloon] [Q 12:2 and 43:3]
It is true that our interests will differ, and our conclusions will differ, however, if we stay firmly grounded in Allah's deen and in the inspiration from the Prophet, we can be dynamic, change our lives for the better and have an impact upon others.
So it is important not only to memorize this du'a, but the lesson and impact behind it.


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Could owners see a bigger return on panels being cleaned in a more agricultural area? Where there is more farms and dust, then buildings and asphalt.


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So my sister goes to her book club, and during the discussion, they make a startling discovery: Every single one of them has a brother who was just laid off.
My Dad, meanwhile, is enjoying the reports of a co-worker's son. This guy was a high-powered hedge fund type, making 500K a year, something like that. Of course, he's been let go. And since his layoff, he's encountered the same broken record I have: Sorry, we're not hiring. It's hardly worth trying for the next few months.
Or, as Planet Money reported in their anecdotes of the crisis, some folks aren't flushing like they used to. One family used to lay two scoops of sawdust in their compost toilet to "flush": now, they're rationing down to one. The reason? All the carpenters who used to happily provide the scrap wood, they're not working. There's no furniture being made – so no sawdust as a byproduct – so, better get used to that smell.


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Dedicate the second section of the template to the assets of the living trust. This section need consist of only a sentence stating that title to or ownership of the property listed on "Schedule A" has been transferred by the trustor into the name of the trust. Title a separate page "Schedule A" and leave the rest of the page blank for filling in the names and descriptions of the property transferred to the trust, such as cars and their VIN numbers, and real property with corresponding legal descriptions usually found on the property deeds.
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Winter's Passing
Much as I love the lengthening and warming days of spring, I feel a pang for the end of winter. I'm never quite ready for the restfulness to end. Spring just happens all of a sudden and we're done with the sleds and skates and mittens and racing headlong into summer projects, gardening, building, making hay while the sun shines.
Not that this winter was uneventful by any means. Our growing baby has put a fresh outlook on things, inspiring a trip to Disney World that took us all by surprise. I'm still not sure whose idea that was, but all of a sudden it made sense to get away with our two children for a family trip they will always remember. And just weeks before that, my sister gave birth to a gorgeous baby girl, an inspiring event that I got to witness and that has certainly enhanced my already-strong feelings about labour and birth and the awe-inspiring power of women.
Certainly I feel my own focus narrowing, taking care of the essentials of work and family and mostly just listening to my body's natural inclination to rest and let some things go. It is gut-wrenching to the ambitious woman to admit that she can't do everything all at one time. The exhilarating feeling I had in my twenties of building and growing a business while nursing two babies has given way to the realization that I can't and don't want to push the limits of my sanity anymore! I'm not sure what that means for this blog or many of the other projects that may just simmer on the back burner for the next while.
That doesn't mean I wasn't totally excited over two phone calls at the restaurant this week: one announcing that Den Haan's had ripe hothouse tomatoes for sale and the other that Waxwing Farm had just harvested spinach, arugula and tiny leaves of kale. Here's a salad that can be made almost entirely with local ingredients during a Nova Scotian March.
This time last year: Union Street Salsa
Arugula, Beet and Pecan Salad
3 medium Beets
1 small clove Garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoons Cider Vinegar
1/4 cup Walnut or Olive Oil
1 tablespoon Honey
1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard
freshly ground Pepper
1/4 lb. Arugula
1/2 cup crumbled Feta Cheese (Holmestead is excellent)
1/2 cup toasted Pecans (optional)
First, deal with your beets. Quarter them without peeling and place in a pot, then cover with cold water and bring to a boil. Reduce to simmer and cook until tender, about 45 minutes to an hour. Or just wrap them in foil and toss them in the oven for a couple hours if you are baking something already. When they are tender, let cool, then slip off the peels and cut the beets into thin wedges. Meanwhile, make the dressing: whisk the salt, garlic, cider vinegar, oil, honey and mustard together in a bowl large enough to hold the beets. Grind in some pepper and stir in the beet wedges.
Arrange the arugula leaves on a large platter, then scatter the beets on top, leaving the remaining dressing in the bowl. Sprinkle with the feta and optional pecans, then drizzle with the remaining dressing.


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I'm not even going to apologize from now on, I'm officially the worst blogger ever. I'm now writing my posts from a cramped New Orleans coffee shop. But I digress, I know its been forever. Lets just move on.
I know I write about McQueen A LOT. My sporadic posts are 97% of the time involving McQueen. I can't say it enough, McQueen McQueen McQueen. But I have to post this. The Spring 2010 RTW collection was Sarah Burton's (Lee McQueen's successor) debut after the iconic designer's passing. It does not disappoint.
The entire collection is so…. crisp. Everything seems perfect and sharp, the colors are intense and the construction immaculate. It's also a good followup to the late designer's (or should I say 'legend') final collection. It continues with the romantic, medieval feel; everything so is royal and some pieces have a sort of Spanish influence.
Photos and the entire collection: Style.com


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