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(Download and print the designed version of this Consumer Alert)
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S. On average, there is one identity theft victim in the U.S. every two seconds. And for Michigan consumers, the Federal Trade Commission reports that six of the top 15 cities for identity theft reports in 2016 were in Michigan—including the number one city: Ann Arbor.
Knowing how to guard your personal information is your first line of defense against identity theft. This alert shares where identity thieves find your personal information and lists steps you can take to avoid becoming their victim.
An identity thief needs your personal information—your name, social security number, credit card number, bank account and routing numbers, or login and password information to commit fraud and other criminal acts.
Where do you keep your personal information and who has access to it?
Identity thieves use low and high tech means to steal from you. They may dumpster dive or get in to your hard drive thru an online scam. They go where you have your personal information.
So even if you follow best practices for your cyber security and lockdown all of your online information, if you leave your front door unlocked or toss un-shredded documents containing your personal information in the trash, your personal information may be at risk.
Identity theft is often a silent crime. Experienced identity thieves may use your information for months—even years—while you remain unaware. You may not learn that you are a victim of identity theft until you are denied credit because of negative entries on your credit report. How can that happen?
You know when your wallet is stolen at a store or from your workplace, but you might not know about someone who works in your home who steals information, or if mail is taken from your mailbox, or if a service person takes your information when you hand over your credit card.
You also will not know if an employee with access to your personal information is bribed to provide it to criminals, or if it is gained in a security breach, or through an unsecure Wi-Fi connection, or from a hidden skimmer at an ATM machine or gas pump.
It is also quite possible that you unwittingly gave the identity thief your personal information when you answered a phishing phone call or email, or posted it on one of your social media accounts.
At one extreme, reformed identity thief Frank Abagnale, "Catch Me If You Can" fame and current AARP Fraud Watch Network Ambassador, advises:
While that may be sage advice, it is not necessarily practical or optional for all. Here is a list of 20 things everyone can do:
Many companies advertise their services as identity theft protection services. In fact, no service can protect you from having your personal information stolen. What these companies can offer are monitoring and recovery services.
Monitoring services watch for signs that an identity thief may be using your personal information.
Recovery services help you deal with the effects of identity theft after it happens. (See the Attorney General's Consumer Alert, Identity Theft Recovery.)
Monitoring and recovery services are often sold together, and may include options like regular access to your credit reports or credit scores.
Credit monitoring is a service that tracks your credit report and alerts you whenever a change is made. This gives you the opportunity to confirm the accuracy of the change and, if needed, contest any inaccuracy.
The specifics of any service will depend on the provider; however, most notify you within 24 hours of any change to your credit report.
The type of changes you can expect to receive alerts about include: hard inquiries, which are made when a credit card or loan application is submitted in your name; new accounts, which generate a note on your report whenever a new credit card or loan is opened in your name; changes to any existing accounts; and address changes.
Some companies extended their services to include non-credit red flags that monitor sex-offender registries, bank-account activity, or payday-loan applications. (See identity monitoring services below.)
Credit monitoring companies may offer "free" trial periods followed by an expensive automatic renewal that can be difficult to cancel.
Credit monitoring only warns you about activity that shows up on your credit report.
But many types of identity theft won't appear. For example, credit monitoring won't tell you if an identity thief withdraws money from your bank account, or uses your social security number to file a tax return and collect your refund.
Some services only monitor your credit report at one of the Credit Reporting Agency (CRAs). So, for example, if your service only monitors TransUnion, you won't be alerted to items that appear on your Equifax or Experian reports.
Prices for credit monitoring vary widely, so it pays to shop around.
Before you sign up for credit monitoring services, the Federal Trade Commission recommends you ask these questions to any provider you are considering:
A fraud-detection or identity-monitoring plan goes beyond credit monitoring and fraud-alert services by checking other "public" records, such as criminal records, official filings regarding real estate transactions, employment records associated with your social security number, as well as some other places your information may appear, which could include chat rooms, and national databases containing credit card applications.
According to Consumer Reports, these services range between $96 and $240 per year.
Many of the steps included in fraud-detection plans can be taken by consumers without charge.
Further, fraud-detection services do not prevent ID theft and may not catch certain activity, such as medical ID theft and "fragmented" credit files (which are created when a thief combines your social security number with a different name and address to invent a new identity).
Before you sign up for fraud-detection services, the Federal Trade Commission recommends you ask these questions to any provider you are considering:
Offers for ID Theft insurance promising coverage for ID theft-related losses of up to $2,000,000 catch the attention of many consumers.
Before subscribing, consumers should ask and consider:
As with any insurance policy, the Attorney General strongly urges consumers to read the fine print. Insurance policies may contain unpublicized limitations, exclusions, and preconditions to filing claims.
Related Consumer Alerts from the Attorney General include:
Inquiries and complaints may be directed to the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at:Consumer Protection Division
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As per the end of the year publishing traditions, I just want to say happy new year to the blog readers with this 2010 dictators photo from the Afro-Arab summit in Libya. I think this photo best represents the 2011 highlights events. Who thought this was even thinkable?

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2 coats, with no underwear!
I filled out a survey at the beginning of summer, and received this polish as a "Thank You" It is some unknown brand, and one HOT neon!
With one coat of Massini Fall Promo from 2009 (or was it 2010?)
I picked it up at a blog sale =P
And I added one layer of China Glaze Shooting Stars!
BLINGY!!! Figured we would take summer out with a BANG!
Not that it signifies I will stop wearing neons, as I tend to wear whatever calls to me on a particular day.


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Features » March 3, 2008
Silenced in the Barracks
The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse
When military sexual assault survivors call Susan Avila-Smith, she advises them to keep their mouths shut while she works on getting them home.
"It breaks my heart to do that," she says, "but I want to get them out alive and that's my main goal."
Since she left the Army in 1995, Avila-Smith estimates that she has helped about 1,200 rape survivors separate from the U.S. Armed Forces and claim their Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits. As founder of Women Organizing Women, an online support group for survivors of military sexual trauma (MST), Avila-Smith has heard it all. But lately, she's been more sensitive than usual.
"Maria's case has triggered something in me," she says. "I imagine the VAs are filling up right now with women who never even stepped foot in there before."
"Maria" is 20-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, who disappeared from Camp Lejeune, outside of Jacksonville, N.C., on Dec. 14, 2007, one month before she was expected to give birth. As the local police enlisted the press to help reach out to Lauterbach and solicit information from the local community, it was soon reported that she had recently accused a superior at Camp Lejeune of rape.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Paul Ciccarelli attempted to quell suspicions that the two might be linked, assuring the Associated Press that the "sexual encounter" was "not criminal." On Jan. 10, the Marine Corps Times, a weekly newspaper serving military personnel, bolstered this claim, speculating that she may have fled to avoid charges for "making false statements."
That same day, Lauterbach's accused assailant, Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, was scheduled to appear at the Onslow County Sheriff's office for questioning. He never showed up. On Jan. 11, Laurean, who had reported for duty for a full month after Lauterbach's disappearance, failed to do so. His wife told investigators that she believed he had left for Mexico and gave investigators a note written by Laurean that said Lauterbach had slit her own throat with a knife, and he then buried her. Detectives have rejected that claim, and an autopsy found that Lauterbach died of a blunt force trauma to the head.
Later that day, her charred body was uncovered in a shallow grave behind the Laurean home. The horrific discovery took place only weeks before she was to testify against Laurean.
The drama set off a media frenzy, with updates on the cross-border manhunt constantly flashing across CNN tickers. Radio and talk show hosts, meanwhile, dissected Lauterbach's character and credibility and questioned the delayed military response.
But Avila-Smith wasn't surprised. "Unfortunately, the way her case was handled is the norm," she says.
The Lauterbach case, according to Avila-Smith and many others, exemplifies the "criminal failure" of all branches of the military to address sexual assault for what it is–a violent crime. It is a "broken system" that she says puts victims on the defense, grants immunity to assailants and, in the end, puts rape survivors who have the courage to speak out, in even greater danger than if they had just accepted the abuse as collateral damage in their military careers.
Missing the mark
Following a 2003 firestorm of media reports and investigations exposing the prevalence and tolerance of sexual assault in the armed forces and training academies, Congress called on the Department of Defense (DoD) to revamp its approach. That same year, the results of a study conducted by Dr. Anne Sadler of the Iowa City VA Medical Center found 30 percent of female veterans having suffered MST while on active duty.
In response, Congress called on the DoD to overhaul its approach to sexual assault within its ranks. The 2005 defense authorization bill mandated the creation of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), which, according to its website, has since served as "the single point of accountability and oversight for sexual assault policy."
SAPRO has made many strides in fine-tuning the Uniform Code of Military Justice and encouraging MST reporting. It has held a range of workshops, trainings and outreach campaigns to define and denounce sexual assault. It also has set up a website to educate service members on how to deal with–and deter–the crime. At the same time, Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARCs) and victim advocates have been stationed on every major base to coordinate victims' services.
However, according to many women, the reforms are missing the mark.
Former Army Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Doe, who prefers that her last name remain confidential, says that after she was raped by an instructor at Fort Eustis, Va., the SARC "blew it off like it was nothing." Jessica pressed charges anyway, but says all that came of her search for justice was "rumors, scorn and lack of friends within my own unit." The instructor was verbally reprimanded.
"I lost my benefits and everything," she says. "I lost my career because the Army was going to be my career."
Interrogators, not investigators
A 2004 survey of U.S. service members conducted by the Pentagon's Advisory Committee on Women in the Services found fear of repercussions to be the number one "perceived barrier" to reporting sexual abuse, noted by 81 percent of female respondents and 73 percent of male respondents.
Confidentiality, career-related concerns and distrust of leadership were also cited by a majority of rape victims.
Marine Cpl. Brittany Thornton says a member of her unit in Okinawa, Japan, raped her on Christmas Day 2005. She reported the incident right away, pressed charges and was put on antidepressants, which she says her commanding officer saw as reason to remove her from her post in weapons maintenance and assign her to a desk job.
"They revoked all of my certification," she says, "even though my psychiatrist said the drugs wouldn't affect anything." As a result, Thornton was unable to go on deployments, while her alleged assailant was "traveling all over the Pacific."
"I felt like I was being punished," she says. "I think it was just a way for them [the chain of command] to make things difficult for me because they didn't believe me."
The administrative position, however, gave her access to court documents and allowed her to look up her own file. Thornton says she was appalled at what she found.
The CID (or Criminal Investigation Division) agent in her case had taken the liberty to completely revise her account of the assault. "She made it sound like I told her that we went out and got drunk and had sex and I didn't really want to, and afterwards I regretted it," she says. "It was nothing like what I had [actually] said." Meanwhile, her case "went nowhere," she says, and her assailant eventually received nothing more than a "slap on the wrist."
'A different truth'
Former CID agent Sgt. Myla Haider told In These Times that Thornton's case is not rare. "If there was an adequate response to begin with, it might have made it to court and gotten prosecuted," she says, "but [Thornton's case] wasn't anything unusual from what I've seen."
Haider has investigated dozens of rape cases and says she almost always encountered a pervasive "attitude toward victims," that guarantees the failure of the case.
"The investigators themselves," Haider explains, "when working on cases, tended to focus on reasons a victim could be lying." She described seeing "tag team interviews," in which "one agent after another is sent in there to 'get the truth' out of the victim."
"On occasion, that results in the victims becoming very upset," she added, describing one case in which a victim "went running out of the office and declined to cooperate any further."
Every MST survivor interviewed for this investigation told a similar story.
"My CID wasn't an investigator, he was an interrogator," says Pvt. S. Clark, of North Carolina, who preferred her first name not be used. "The thing that I remember is him leaning over the desk, with his cigarette breath, screaming at me, 'Why won't you admit that it was rough, consensual sex between two drunken adults?' "
Clark's attacker had beaten her so badly that, months later, she began having seizures, which her doctors attributed to "cranial tearing." Still, she says, the CID agent "made me feel as if I had dishonored my army and my country by speaking out against another soldier."
Sometimes this attitude, says Haider, leads to claims being recanted. "The law enforcement response makes it so that victims don't want anything to do with the investigation anymore," she says.
Even if the victim continues to cooperate despite being re-victimized by law enforcement, the focus on her credibility happens at the expense of collecting relevant testimony, leaving the case little chance of surviving.
While physical evidence is collected according to protocol, Haider says this can seldom prove anything other than intercourse–useful for "stranger rapes," but irrelevant for proving acquaintance rapes, which are the majority of cases.
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Dr Micheál D. Scanlon, Department of Chemistry, University College Cork
Soft-Photoconversion: Pushing the Boundaries of Photoconversion Efficiencies
at Self-healing Photosensitiser Functionalised Soft Interfaces
Common to all solar energy conversion devices are the abilities to harvest light and then separate the products of the photo-reaction, minimizing recombination. Typically charge separation takes place at the surface of nanostructured electrodes, often covered with photosensitizer molecules such as in dye-sensitized solar cells. Certain soft interfaces formed between aqueous and organic electrolyte solutions of low miscibility (e.g., trifluorotoluene) are electroactive in that it is possible to precisely control the Galvani potential difference between the two adjacent liquids (i.e., to electrify the interface), and drive charge transfer reactions.1 Here, a new paradigm in solar energy conversion is explored by achieving charge separation at electroactive soft interfaces, without solid electrodes. Utilizing liquid-liquid electrochemistry, photoactive interfacial supramolecular assemblies of zinc porphyrin aggregates were assembled at a water-trifluorotoluene interface by judicious optimization of the experimental conditions, producing an order of magnitude increase in the photocurrents over the previous state-of-the-art.2
(1) Samec, Z. Pure Appl. Chem., 76 (2004) 2147.
(2) Fermín, D. J. et al., J. Phys. Chem. B, 102 (1998) 10334.
Micheál D. Scanlon is a physical and analytical chemist who specializes in electrochemistry. In 2014 he was awarded funding through Science Foundation Ireland's Starting Investigator Research Grant scheme to pursue independent research in the Department of Chemistry at University College Cork. To date he has published 33 articles, 2 reviews and 1 book chapter primarily on the fundamentals and applications of liquid-liquid electrochemistry, and has an H-index of 19 with over 1,100 citations. Dr Scanlon was a postdoctoral researcher in the groups of Professor Edmond Magner at the University of Limerick (2009-2011) and then Professor Hubert Girault at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland (2011-2014). Prior to that, he completed his PhD studies at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork with Professor Damien W. M. Arrigan (2009).
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Ramona and Beezus (2010)
Critic Consensus: If Ramona and Beezus fails to capture the essence of its classic source material, it's sunny, sweet, and wholesome.
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All Critics (90) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (27)
Despite everyone's efforts, Ramona comes across as an insufferably spoilt and attention-seeking little horror.
Nothing to frighten the horses, as they say, or interest or entertain them much, either.
It's something that you would not be unhappy seeing on television, [but] there's nothing that calls it for you to go see it on the big-screen.
Honesty about the difficulties, both large and small, of being part of a family is what Ramona and Beezus does best, even if the rough and dangerous edges have been filed down.
Allen's direction is bright and imaginative; particularly enjoyable are the movie's occasional flights of fancy.
Audience Reviews for Ramona and Beezus
A really cute, completely harmless, and often amusing family movie. I wish less of the story was focused on the adult characters (the Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Duhamel storyline almost put me to sleep) and more time was spent with the adorable Ramona (Joey King, who absolutely steals the movie) and the charming Beezus (Selena Gomez, who hopefully has a great movie career ahead of her), but honestly, there's not much about Ramona and Beezus that I didn't like. Anyone with fond memories of reading Beverly Cleary books as a kid or who wants to share the on-screen versions of the characters with their children will enjoy this. Ramona and Beezus is the rare kind of completely inoffensive family-oriented film that escapes blandess and boredom and leaves you with a grin on your face, despite all the sugary sweetness.
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Deeeelightful! Funny! Charming! Sweet! Good for everyone, young and old!
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A Little Sister Goes A Long Way. Very nice family film with very imaginative stuff and some real life problems everyone faces these days. Very clever story and fun for all ages. Watch it with your kids. Adapted from Beverly Cleary's perennially popular book series, Ramona and Beezus stars newcomer Joey King as Ramona Quimby, a grade-schooler with a big imagination. So big, in fact, that she often clashes with her no-nonsense teacher (Sandra Oh). When Ramona's upbeat dad (John Corbett) loses his job, the family including her teenage sister, Beezus (Selena Gomez), and their practical-minded mother (Bridget Moynahan) must make major adjustments, like dad learning how to run the house. Ramona dreams up various plans to make money so that she can save their house, but because everybody in the family seems too preoccupied to help her with her own worries, she turns to the one person who always has time for her, Aunt Bea (Ginnifer Goodwin). But even Aunt Bea is distracted these days because her ex-boyfriend and Quimby family next-door neighbor Hobart (Josh Duhamel) keeps trying to win Bea back.
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On Fridays right here, writers talk about their books, their process, where they've been, and where they're going. Today Linda Sands joins us to celebrate the launch of her novel, 3 WOMEN WALK INTO A BAR, a Kindle Scout winner published by Kindle Press.
It might sound like a joke, but there's nothing funny about three beautiful women murdered in an Irish pub in Syracuse. The cops think it's an open and shut case, pointing the finger at the dead guy with the gun, bar owner James John Smith. But when a mother of one of the victims hires her lover, Bill "Free Willy" Tedesco, an ex-stripper and karaoke star turned PI to investigate, the secrets of the dead surface, and the question of who pulled the trigger becomes more important than why.
- What were the most challenging aspects of writing this book, and what came easily?
The most challenging thing for me writing-wise is to stay on task. I gave myself a break with 3 WOMEN WALK INTO A BAR by approaching the book as a series of short stories, allowing my brain to stay in "lost" mode more frequently. I could also move the pieces of the book around and play with chapter headings. I really liked that part. All of these independent character identity searches gave me the freedom to eavesdrop and speak to strangers/steal their stories. What could be more fun than that?
- Tell us about your main characters and what drives them.
I have a problem with this question. If I tell a reader what I think they should be "getting" from a character, I feel as though I'm boxing in their experience, asserting right or wrong to an opinion. Reading should be personal. The interpretation of characters should be based on one's life experiences, one's personal connections. These opinions or feelings will morph over time for each reader. I hope that readers find at least one character to identify with and one to disagree with.
- Can you describe your journey to publication: the torment and elation, the times none of it made any sense, the moments when it all came together?
Oh man. It's been a long, hard road, and I'm not there yet. I started this journey writing picture books. The bottom dropped out of that industry and the doors were shut to anyone but celebrities for a great many years. Yet I'm still in love with the idea of melding multimedia and words. If I was born twenty years later, I might have been a graphic novelist or an innovative screenwriter and producer. But as life would have it, I fell into writing essays and short stories. I told myself I needed to publish ten pieces before I was ready to try anything longer, like a novel. By the time I was living in house number nine, I had the beginnings of a book that became SIMPLE INTENT (sold to an international publisher who admired my short stories).
In the initial query period of SIMPLE INTENT—when you're sad and worried and over thinking everything—I started writing another book, to keep me busy. This one earned me an agent, when I went to a thriller conference and pitched Southern Gothic historical fiction. (What was I thinking?) When it didn't find a home amongst NYC big publishing houses, but was very, very, very, well received, I was encouraged, to the point of rewriting it…a few times. Eventually, I took the book back and self published it as NOT WAVING, DROWNING.
There is still industry interest in the book, and my agent, who still believes in it, has asked to pitch it again. In the middle of the novel writing, I kept up with short stories and essays, even founded a literary magazine that helped new writers earn publishing credits and win contests. A few years later, in house number eleven while writing 3 WOMEN WALK INTO A BAR, I started a writing retreat to bring opportunity to eager writers.
3 WOMEN WALK INTO A BAR made the rounds in NYC without any takers during the huge publishing industry merger/s. By the time the dust settled, leaving us scratching our heads as to who had landed where, I saw an ad for Kindle Scout and approached my agent for advice. He said, "It couldn't hurt."
I'll tell you, it was hard to not take that nomination period personally. Every time I saw 3WWIAB fall off the Hot and Trending list, I felt like that teenaged girl getting dumped by the football captain. Good thing was, I had one and half books under my belt and ideas for three more. Take that, football captain.
I am so excited for 3WWIAB and the ride we are about to take. The Kindle Press folks have been fantastic to work with. I have never received edits and feedback as wonderful. The biggest pluses? Meeting a bevy of awesome writers and readers has been amazing!
- You get to the end of your life, and there to escort you through the tunnel to the light beyond and show you around is a philosopher / author / artist / scientist / celebrity you've always revered. Who is it, and why him/her?
There's not a human, dead or alive that I revere, so I'd have to say, I'd like to be met by my spiritual guides. I've been told by psychic healers that I have four guides; two are masters. This is apparently very unusual. As a Christian girl who loves science and believes at the core we are all masses of energy with predetermined destinies, I'd love to understand those glorious, magical life moments and the freaky "whew" ones. Whoever meets me at the tunnel…be ready for a bunch of questions.
- Tell us about your other books, past or in the pipeline.
Some I've mentioned above. We are shopping book one in the Cargo series in NYC right now called GRAND THEFT CARGO, which introduces tenacious trucker Jojo Boudreaux, who has the mouth and muscles of a sailor and the heart of a truck driver.
GRAND THEFT CARGO deals with pharmaceutical cargo theft, while book two, PRECIOUS CARGO deals with statewide sex trafficking. Writing about issues like this and featuring an unusually strong female character, we're having trouble finding an editor ready to break out of traditional constraints. Hopefully the new campaigns like #readdifferent will open some paths for the books, as there are three more outlined.
I can't speak specifically to the ideas in the works-in-progress, as that would be like a pregnant woman telling someone the name she's chosen for her unborn child, only to see them wince and say, "Really?"
I'll put the finishing touches on PRECIOUS CARGO, then start an unnamed New Adult book that will read like a rom-com, with dogs!
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Linda Sands is the author of the Southern Gothic novel and Kirkus Star recipient NOT WAVING, DROWNING, the internationally published legal thriller SIMPLE INTENT, and a multitude of award-winning short stories and essays published in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies around the globe. Her newest book, a noir-ish mystery, 3 WOMEN WALK INTO A BAR was selected for publication by readers in the Kindle Scout program and picked up for print by Down & Out Books.
Linda is represented by the HSG Agency and lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband, two kids, fast cars, and furry things.
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The chaos and palm trees
The sea and local trains,
Smell of fish in her crammed streets;
Sight and scent of heavy rains.
In this post are whole mismatch of some sketches I did during my short stay in an amazing, chaotic, flavourful, noisy, sometimes smelly, always alive city- Mumbai, Bombay, call it what you may.
A considerable amount of each day was spent in commute- although sometimes strenuous, I always looked forward to observing:
Obeserving people
Listening in on their conversations
A glimpse into their personal lives
Be it obnoxious men with mischievous eyes
Or big hipped, beautiful gossiping wives
Many late nights at the Wadala station
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rushing to make their connection.
(My most distinct memory is of this brave girl that smacked a guy that tried to harass her. She verbally and physically abused him, as the entire station cheered her on. This episode lasted less than two minutes, after which everything was back to the usual- rush, push, squeeze, settle.)


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Worship is the center of our life together as Christian community. We gather together weekly to hear God's word recorded in the scriptures, spoken from the pulpit, and received in baptism and communion. In worship, we gather together to confess all the ways we have failed to life up to God's expectations and to hear the word of promise from God that though we are imperfect and will continue to be so, God will never give up on us. It is this forgiveness of our faults and failings that allows us to go out, week after week, and strive to be God's kingdom in a world that is beautiful but broken.
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It has been a really long time since I posted Mom's nails on here!! I have been doing them, I just haven't had much of a chance to get pictures of them! I decided to do a Valentine-themed mani on her with OPI DS Reflection. I am really pleased with how these turned out and I love DS Reflection! I used Sally Hansen Insra-Dri Whirlwing White withthe following stamping plates:
BM17 on Index and Ring Fingers
BM02 on Middle Finger
BM03 on Pinky and Thumb
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Delightfully Chic Vintage Baby Portraits!
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For a limited time only we're creating some very special pieces of vintage style art. I have always adored those delightfully chic hand tinted looks from days gone by and thought it would be a pretty special way to celebrate your new baby!


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov. 13, 2013) - Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) ("Teck") Senior Vice President, Ron Vance will be presenting at the Goldman Sachs Metals & Mining, Steel conference on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern/11:30 a.m. Pacific time. The investor presentation will include information on company strategy, financial performance and outlook for the company's business units.
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This summer I have the pleasure of being an instructor at my district's New Teacher Institute! I can't wait to facilitate conversations and discuss teaching with some fresh new faces, all excited about teaching! And, even better I get to do it with my fabulous friend, Lyssa, from My Mommy Reads!
Since Lyssa and I will be instructors, we thought it would be fun to get some advice from other fabulous teachers to share at our training and with beginning teachers, everywhere! So, we created this fun linky party to help beginning teachers {ROCK} their first year teaching!


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Friendship songs
Highly recommended: 'I'll Be There For You' by The
Rembrandts (Lyrics)
Friends are there for each other
* All I Really Want To Do (The Byrds) Lyrics
* Anytime You Need A Friend (Mariah Carey) Lyrics
* Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Simon and Garfunkel) Lyrics
* Candle On The Water (Helen Reddy) Lyrics
* Count On Me (Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans) Lyrics
* Credo (Linda Allen) Lyrics
* Dear Friend (Stacie Orrico) Lyrics
* Everything Possible (Roy Bailey) Lyrics
* Friendship (Ethel Merman) Lyrics
* I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like A Shelter) (The Housemartins) Lyrics
* I'll Be There For You (The Rembrandts) Lyrics
* I'll Stand By You (The Pretenders) Lyrics
Takes 30 seconds to get going
* I Will Be Your Friend (Sade) Lyrics
* In Times Like This (Alan Price) No lyrics available
* Lean On Me (The Southmartins) Lyrics
* Lean On Me (Bill Withers) Lyrics
* Reach Out (And Touch Somebody's Hand) (Diana Ross) Lyrics
* Shower The People (James Taylor) Lyrics
* That's What Friends Are For (The Jungle Book) Lyrics
* That's What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick and Friends) Lyrics
* True Colors (Cyndi Lauper) Lyrics
* Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris) Lyrics
* With A Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker) Lyrics
* You've Got A Friend (Big Fun and Sonia) No lyrics available
* You've Got A Friend (James Taylor and Carole King) Lyrics
* You've Got A Friend In Me (Randy Newman) Lyrics
Thanks and acknowledgement
* Friends (The Beach Boys) Lyrics
* Friends (Shalamar) Lyrics
* For Good (From 'Wicked') Lyrics
* Given To (Ruth Bebermeyer) Lyrics
* (London Rain) Nobody Heals Me Like You Do (Heather Nova) Lyrics
* My Hero Is You (Hayden Panettiere) Lyrics
* Old And Wise (The Zimmers) Lyrics
* Thank You (Dido) Lyrics
* Thank You For Being A Friend (Andrew Gold) Lyrics
* Thank You For Hearing Me (Sinead O'Connor) Lyrics
* Amigos Para Siempre (Jose Carreras & Sarah Brightman) Lyrics
* Auld Lang Syne (Dougie MacLean) Lyrics
* Old Friends/Bookends (Simon and Garfunkel) Lyrics
* The More We Get Together (Cullen) Lyrics
A nursery rhyme
* The Way Old Friends Do (Abba) Lyrics
Starts after about 1 minute 5 seconds
* We're All In This Together (From 'High School Musical') Lyrics
* Free Hugs Campaign anthem (Sick Puppies)
* The Hug Song (?) No lyrics available
* The Hug Song (Bruce Davies) Lyrics
The original was by Fred Small
You may also want to check out friendship songs for children at the download and lyric site; Kids' Music Town
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The Gilmore Girls Reboot.
I am a big Gilmore Girls fan – I initially watched the show episode by episode on ABC Family, where one episode would play every weekday at 5pm. For a few years, my mom, sister, and I watched a few episodes each week and bonded over the adventures of the mother-daughter duo. Being able to watch the entire series on Netflix was so great and like many other fans, I was very disappointed in the seventh and final season.
But hearing that there would be a reboot and seeing all the trailers and videos is really exciting. This show is far from perfect and has its own flaws but I have such great memories of watching it with my family that I'm really excited about what's to come.
The reboot will be four 90 minute episodes so while not a traditional television season, we'll still be getting a lot of the Gilmore Girls! The above trailer really tells a lot about what the episodes will have, including how the family is handling Richard's death (already crying) and the fact that Melissa McCarthy will be back as Sookie, even just for a scene or two!
But with all this excitement and happy crying, I'm still trying really hard to keep some realistic expectations. If the reboots of Arrested Development and Full House are any indication, we as fans might not want to get too excited. I personally have faith in Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino (the original show runners and writers) but I'm also trying really hard not to compare this new stuff with the original show.
For me, Gilmore Girls is a wonderful show, filled with weird and quirky characters. I love the fact that it's focused primarily on the relationship between a fiercely independent mother and daughter duo. It's 'sneakily feminist' (as Lauren Graham said once), witty, fast paced, and wonderful. I'm so excited to see what the reboot has in store!


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The Arab League on Monday rejected a push by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Cooperation Council allies to suspend Syria's membership in the body over Bashar al-Assad's brutal seven month crackdown, Arabic daily al-Hayyat reported.
Instead, Qatari Prime Minister Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani said, the Arab League will seek to bring Assad's regime and Syria's nascent opposition National Council to the negotiating table.
"We will call all of the parties of the opposition and government to hold a dialogue within 15 days," Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi said after an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo.
Al-Arabi's statement signifies a deep rift among Arab states over seven months of bloodshed in Syria, which is one of the seven founders of the Arab League.
The emergency meeting was held one month after the League urged the Syrian regime to stop killing protesters and start meaningful political reforms.
Sources told UAE-based Gulf News the discussions will focus on whether to suspend Syria's membership or any other punitive actions for failure to comply with the call made in its previous meeting.
Dr. Ammar Qurabi, rotating president of the Syrian Council for Change, one of three groups representing the Syrian opposition, thanked the GCC move to isolate Bashar's the government and stand by the people of Syria.
"The GCC might not succeed this time, but the move would send a supportive message to the Syrian people and the rest of the world," he said.
"Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan and Yemen might stand with the Syrian regime in its killing campaign because of internal calculations in the four countries, but discussions on the suspension of Syrian membership would mean that influential Arab states are standing with the Syrian people," he added.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have increasingly targeted Assad's regime, which is a critical lynchpin in rival Iran's axis of influence in the region.


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Bought for a Kindle Paperwhite, easy to use, sealed so no water could get in after having an "accident" with my previous kindle in my bag. Good quality, could maybe be a little smaller and a bit more fitted to the size of the Kindle. Also a little fiddly to unlock with the button being on the bottom edge.
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My iPad wasn't responding to anything. Just blackscreen.
The Home Key and Sleep Key (as if you were taking a screen shot) for more than 10 seconds will do a force restart!!
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The Home Key and Sleep Key (as if you were taking a screen shot) for more than 10 seconds will do a force restart!!
Summary: create keyboard shortcuts on your iPad to make it quicker write notes and emails. Settings | General | Keyboard | Shortcuts
I first got an iPad about 10 months ago and the keyboard is nowhere as quick to type on as ergonomic keyboard for my workstation. What does however make typing on the iPad faster are some common shortcuts. For example, when I type "zfyi" it offers to expand that to "saw this, thought it might be something you find of interest… ". Simply pressing the space bar when that popup suggestion occurs will replace the original text with the suggested text. Pressing the small "x" will let you continue with the text you typed.
You can create a number of shortcuts, for example:
Now I type in "zsc bh" and it expands to "Schedule for Ben Hamilton ". This makes taking notes in a meeting much quicker. Build out your shortcuts with phrases that cover the actions you commonly need to type. Update, schedule for, organise a meeting with, send email update, etc. if you have common paragraphs of text, make a shortcut for those.
As a bonus tip, if you start your shortcuts with a "z" this can make it easier. Why? Because very few words start with "z" and the "z" letter is on all the default iDevice keyboards. This means you don't accidentally start a shortcut and you don't need to change the keyboard view to start typing it. if you've prefixed it with a "]" for example (which is what my workstation shortcuts used to start with) then it can take more time typing the shortcut than the actual text you want.
Have you found any shortcuts that have been particularly helpful?
Summary: when inputing text on an iPad or iPhone do a double space to finish a sentence. It will transform into a full stop followed by a space.
I've had an interest in all things 'productivity' related for some time, but over the last few years its become a stronger driving force. When I took on my current full-time position implementing and troubleshooting ACT! In 2008, I became far more aware of why a number of businesses I'd worked with previously had not been as profitable as they could have been. They didn't have an efficient system to deal with the management of staff calendars, meetings, todo's and opportunities.
Now that I work with and consult with clients on automating some of their processes (using their CRM product as a platform), I see a need for two types of 'productivity' help, one that focuses on personal workflow improvement on an individual level and one that focuses on the businesses workflow at a business level.
There is crossover between the two as often a small personal improvement results in an improvement for the business as well. For example, the small, simple tip of doing a 'double space' at the end of a sentence when typing on an iPad/iPhone has greatly sped up the rate at which I can input text I to said device. That 'double space' transforms into a full stop followed by a space. That's a personal improvement. But the business benefits because I'm inputting longer, more meaningful notes when I'm out and about. That's a business benefit.
As a side note, when I was taught to type, we used to do a full stop followed by two spaces. This idea of just one space after a full stop felt foreign. Then I read this article on Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period and now I've seen the light. I was wrong. Damn those monospaced fonts! Now I use a single space after full stops, which makes this 'double space' trick particularly useful and as a bonus, it now feels 'right' to do so.
I've realised that I know lots of these little titbits for improving productivity, and that rather than just sharing that verbally with others when I see that they could benefit from such, I should post it here so that others can benefit. Hence the title of this post, which signals a new resolve to share my knowledge.
Hope you find this and the tips to follow to be helpful.
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I got asked on the weekend about what do I use on the iPad to edit Microsoft documents.
I've been using an iPad (the 'new iPad' or the 'iPad 3' depending on who you talk to) and have been needing to both create and edit Microsoft Office Word and Excel documents.
I've tried using Google Apps but have found that it just wasn't that easy, and I had to be online, which wasn't a problem most of the time, but occasionally was quite frustrating if the connection was either slow or non-existent.
So I hunted around for a native app, and ended up with Quick Office HD, which is perhaps the most expensive app I've bought. However, it has proven to be very well spent money.
I've been able to open existing files, create new ones, save them to a Dropbox folder and either have them available on my workstation or laptop, or email a colleague a link to the file. This has proved to be a great combination (Quick Office HD and Dropbox).
As it so happens, Quick Office has been acquired by Google, so I'm hopeful that sometime in the near future a better option will exist for Google Doc's.
I'm a newcomer to the iPad, but I've found that creating a bulleted list in an email can be rather time consuming as to get an 'asterik' (star, SHIFT-8, one of these *) takes a few taps on the keyboard.
I've found a quicker way to make them happen, here it is:
Now when I type two comma's followed by a space, it'll replace that with a star followed by a space. Great easy bulleted lists in emails.


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Alex Brandmeyer: Auditory perceptual learning using decoded-EEG neurofeedback
This talk reports on the results of a study that applied a series of multivariate pattern classification analyses to an EEG dataset collected from native and non-native speakers of English to investigate these analyses' ability to track ongoing passive auditory perception at the single-trial level. The research also includes a series of pilot studies in which a similar classification approach was used to realize a novel form of neurofeedback based on single-trial measurements of evoked responses to simple auditory tone stimuli.
I'm a PhD student in the Cognitive Artificial Intelligence department at the Donders Centre for Cognition, working in the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) research group. My main interests lie in multi-modal perception, music cognition, music and digital audio technologies, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience. Previously, I have participated in research on the perception of speech in noisy environments (Cocktail Party Effect), and the accompanying perceptual changes that occur with aging. I also did my Master's thesis and 3 years of technical work on the Practice Space project here in Nijmegen, developing real-time visual feedback technology for music education purposes.


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" Competition between media contributes to the flowering of culture."
Harold Innis
" We must once again accept and harmonize the perceptual biases of both (the left and right brain) and understand that for thousands of years the left hemisphere has suppressed the qualitative judgment of the right, and the human personality has suffered for it."
Bruce Powers
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Chapter 35: Page / Screen 1945-2000
In the aftermath of World War II, a nihilist philosophy called existentialism weighed like a wet blanket on the spirit of depressed intellectuals. The war had exposed a terrible truth about human nature and even the most sanguine were forced to admit that education and cultural sophistication were no guarantee against barbarity. Earlier national armies had more or less subscribed to the articles of the Geneva Convention. Not since the religious wars of the sixteenth century had combatants indulged in depravities like those perpetrated by the "civilized" Axis powers. World War II was a firestorm for modern civilization, but the conflict also marked the beginning of yet another massive shift in global consciousness. The combining of two "feminine" influences, photography and electromagnetism, was chiefly responsible for this change. In 1939, Philo T. Farnsworth invented television. After the war ended, television spread rapidly-literally house to house. One after another, living rooms were illuminated by the glow of fuzzy electronic pictures. The tube was an overnight sensation, and soon the amount of time people spent watching images flit on and off the front of the glowing box began to surpass the amount of time people spent reading linear rows of black letters. Comprehending television required an entirely different hemispheric strategy than that used in reading. Viewers called forth their pattern-recognition skills to decipher the screen's low-definition flickering mosaic mesh. The retina's cones need bright light to scan a static page of print, but television brings the eye's rods into play. They see best in dim surroundings and can detect the slightest movements. As people watched more and more television, the supremacy of the left hemisphere dimmed as the right's use increased. For 750,000 years, families had gathered around lit hearths whose flames supplied warmth, illuminated darkness, encouraged camaraderie, and encouraged storytelling. Campfires had been an essential ingredient for the evolution of oral epics. In 1950, a new kind of fire replaced the hearth; and it encouraged a different set of social qualities.
Previously, alphabetic print had exploded Western culture into millions of hard-edged shards of individualistic shrapnel. Both reading and writing are, in most cases, solitary endeavors. Television abruptly reversed the process, and the centripetal implosion not only pulled together individual families but also began to enmesh the entire human community into what McLuhan called "one vast electronic global village." Television was so startlingly original that many other adjustments in perception were necessary for the brain to make sense of it.
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Hey all. I've been browsing the ccrp threads a little... but I'm not sure I quite get what to do. Do we have a faq that I'm not finding? Anyone wanna give me a quick CCRP for N00bs rundown?
Do we have info on factions and stuff? (attitudes towards other factions, alliances, general member alignment, that sort of thing)
I'm from a D&D background and our DM is strict on that sort of thing, so I just wanna make sure I know what I'm doing.
Here's the game as I understand it:
1) create your character
2) build him and photograph him from every angle with all his equipment (optional rule for crazy completeists like me XD)
3) post where you are and what your doing in the game thread and others react and you go from there.
Is that about right? Am I way off?


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Shopping List Outlines All Ingredients Necessary
To Participate in the Live Nationwide Event
Comedian Cedric the Entertainer, actress Alyson Hannigan and Grammy Award-winning artist LeAnn Rimes will strap on their aprons and step up to the stovetop as they join Chef Gordon Ramsay in-studio for GORDON RAMSAY: COOKALONG LIVE Tuesday, Dec. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. During the live one-hour special, Chef Ramsay will guide America and his special celebrity guests through step-by-step instructions on how to cook three fresh and easy dishes, including Angel Hair Pasta with Shrimp, Chili Peppers and Tomatoes appetizer; Steak Diane with Saut�ed Potatoes and Peas as the main course; and Quick Tiramisu for dessert.
As a reminder, participants will need to be armed with all the ingredients before the COOKALONG, so Chef Ramsay has provided this shopping list to assist in preparation for the cooking event:
SHOPPING LIST (Serves 4)
· 1 red chili pepper
· 5 large garlic cloves, peeled
· 1 large tomato (heirloom, beefsteak or a few smaller roma tomatoes)
· 1 lemon
· Small handful of fresh basil leaves
· 3 scallions
· 4 ounces crimini mushrooms, cleaned (can also use button mushrooms instead)
· 3 shallots, peeled
· Small handful of flat-leaf parsley
· 3 small sprigs of rosemary
· 1 pound small waxy potatoes (Yukon Gold or any small potato, cut in half)
· 2 cups peas, defrosted if using frozen
· 1/2 pound medium-size raw, peeled shrimps
· 4 small sirloin steaks (approx. 7 ounces each)
· 1 3/4 cups heavy cream
· 1 cup mascarpone
· 2 1/2 tablespoons salted butter
· 7 ounces angel hair pasta
· 4 Italian Ladyfingers, or Savoiardi
· 1/4 cup powdered sugar
· 1 vanilla bean, or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
· Piece of chocolate (to grate as garnish)
· 4 tablespoons Marsala, or sweet dessert wine such as Vin Santo
· 1/4 cup brandy or cognac
· 1/4 cup white wine
· 1 cup cold strong coffee
· Salt and freshly ground black pepper
· Olive oil
· Extra virgin olive oil
· 1-2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, to taste
· 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
NOTE: You will need to have a pot of boiling water ready for your pasta at the start of the show.
Cedric the Entertainer is best known for his crowd-pleasing roles in such hit films as "Barbershop," "Be Cool," "Madagascar," "Intolerable Cruelty" and Spike Lee's "The Original Kings of Comedy." He will next be seen in "All's Faire in Love" opposite Christina Ricci. Cedric has celebrated many career successes spanning television, live performances and film. Some notable accolades include nabbing the AFTRA Award of Excellence in Television Programming for his television series "Cedric the Entertainer Presents," as well as a record-breaking four consecutive NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his portrayal of the lovable "Coach Cedric Robinson" on the top-rated "The Steve Harvey Show," which ran for six seasons. In November 2008, Cedric made his Broadway debut in David Mamet's "American Buffalo." Now helming his own production company, A Bird and a Bear Entertainment, Cedric will develop and produce feature films. In the field of philanthropy, Cedric founded The Cedric the Entertainer Charitable Foundation, which provides scholarships and outreach programs to enhance the lives of inner-city youth and their families in his hometown of St. Louis, MO. He plans to extend the foundation nationally.
Alyson Hannigan has captivated audiences in both television and film. She currently stars on the Emmy-nominated comedy series "How I Met Your Mother," which centers around a group of best friends in their 20s who are living in New York and searching for love. Prior to that, Hannigan starred as "Willow Rosenberg" in Joss Whedon's hugely popular "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and she also guest-starred on a number of popular television shows, including "Picket Fences" and "Roseanne." Hannigan made her breakthrough performance at the age of 13 in "My Stepmother Is an Alien" opposite Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger. Her film credits include "American Pie," "American Pie 2," "American Wedding," "Date Movie" opposite Fred Willard and Jennifer Coolidge, "Dead Man on Campus" and "Boys and Girls." Born in Washington D.C., Hannigan grew up in Atlanta and currently resides in Los Angeles.
LeAnn Rimes has sold more than 37 million albums, won two Grammys, three Academy of Country Music Awards and 12 Billboard Music Awards. Rimes is the youngest recipient of a Grammy and the first country recording artist to win in the Best New Artist category. Her current album, "Family," marks the first time Rimes has written or co-written every song on an album. She recently won the CMT Award for Collaborative Video of the Year with Bon Jovi and the Gospel Music Association's Dove Award for her song "Ready for a Miracle." Rimes has scored numerous hit singles in her career, including "Can't Fight the Moonlight," which went to No. 1 in 11 countries and "How Do I Live," the second-longest charting song ever on the Billboard Hot 100. Rimes ventured into acting when she starred in the television movies "Northern Nights" and "Holiday In Your Heart." She also guest-starred on the long-running series "American Dreams" and in an episode of "Days of Our Lives." An accomplished author, Rimes has written two children's books, "Jag" and "Jag's New Friend"; a novel, "Holiday In Your Heart"; and an inspirational book, "What I Cannot Change." Rimes is a long-time supporter of charity organizations, including The National Psoriasis Foundation, The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes and Children's Miracle Network. She is currently in the studio working on her new album, which is due out in summer 2010.
GORDON RAMSAY: COOKALONG LIVE is produced by One Potato Two Potato Inc. and A. Smith & Co. Gordon Ramsay, Ben Adler, Patricia Llewellyn, Arthur Smith and Kent Weed serve as executive producers.


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Doug Tolles
Now is the Minter of our discontent. Why such discontent? Vermont, formerly glorious, now threatened by a storm of windmills and solar panels. Minter will put them anywhere and everywhere – and you do not matter. How cruel!
Do you like ridgelines? Do you like beautiful open meadows? Do you think we should keep our tourist industry growing? They will all go to green dust when wind and solar blanket the state in search of an impossible goal. The biggest Minter contributors push these industrial generation sites. Doth thou too smelleth a quid-pro-quo?
Lo, the storm clouds of a massive gas and fuel tax come at us. Her carbon tax will raise the cost of gas 88 cents per gallon, and her fuel tax another dollar per gallon on oil and propane. This will hit everyone and will end badly. The cost of everything that is transported will climb to the skies. Your fuel bill will soar. Remember expensive gas and how the economy slowed to a crawl? This Minter tax will have the same effect. Jobs will leave and prices will soar. Poverty will soar too as you decide whether to freeze or eat.
Behold, Minter pushes for more Shumlin health care, bankrupting us all and ruining what health care we now have. She is agreeing with Shumlin's single provider/single payer nightmare, which even Shumlin said was not affordable.
Over here, she exaggerates her work on hurricane recovery. She rebuilt the entire state all by herself? Methinks not.
There, she falsely paints Phil Scott's women's health record to great outcry from womens' organizations. Such lying adds to our discontent.
Everywhere, she continues to push for more Shumlin programs. She is worse than Shumlin squared.
Wasn't the 700 million dollars in additional taxes over the past six years enough?
Why doth Minter want our last dollar? Isn't it bad enough young families can't afford to live here?
Can we afford to continue on this path that Shumlin and Minter have brought?
Is it too much to ask for a pause in additional business killing regulations?
Why is she pushing for more school taxes? Why is she shoving school consolidation and loss of local control down our throats?
Thus, the Minter of our discontent. Who could afford such lunacy?
If Minter wins, it will be economic winter in Vermont forever. It will be the Minter of our discontent.
With apologies to William Shakespeare
Editor's Note: Doug Tolles is a member of the New Haven Select Board.


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In each two-hour session, participants will get the chance to practice and improve their presentation skills in a safe and encouraging environment.
Week 1
First Session: Introduction
Meet the course tutors and learn about their backgrounds and experience. Hear from the participants their reasons for attending and discover more detail about the course content.
Second Session: Build a winning structure for your presentation
Anthony will share with you the techniques necessary to structure your speech to get you from a blank sheet of paper to a fully blown speech or presentation. He will cover the importance of an effective opening and powerful closing and how to build a structure to develop the heart of your speech.
Week 2
First Session: How to manage nerves and tackle stage fright
Even the most seasoned speakers are nervous before a big speech. Justin will teach you some tried and tested tips and techniques to manage your nerves so you can concentrate on delivering your speech.
Second Session: Clear and Effective Delivery
One of the keys to making your presentations more memorable is how you deliver your message! You will learn from Sean some techniques to improve your performance, some exercises to help improve your vocal projection and Sean will encourage you to vary your voice, including pausing, to emphasise effectively key messages in your speech.
Week 3
Each week (from week 3 to week 6) three course participants will give a 4 minute speech or presentation to the class. This will be followed by 2 minutes of feedback from the course presenters. All 12 participants will have spoken by the end of week 6.
First Session: How to add humour to your presentations
Sean will advise you when and how to add appropriate and well-judged humour as a powerful tool to sell your message and deliver your presentation in a more memorable style.
Second Session: Top tips for giving a speech or presentation
Anthony will walk you through everything you need to do to make your speech or presentation successful, with a checklist for preparing in advance, how to deal with unexpected issues that arise and post-speech and presentation contact.
Week 4
First Session: Designing persuasive PowerPoint presentations
Giving an effective PowerPoint presentation requires preparation and skill. Learn how to deliver a knockout business presentation from Justin using PowerPoint.
Second Session: Creating and delivering memorable sales presentations
Course participants will learn from Anthony how to make memorable sales presentations and how to tailor your approach during a sales process, leaving business pitches with the winning result.
Week 5
First Session: Message development for your speech
Sean will explain the process of developing key messages for your speech or presentation and will suggest how best you can structure those ideas to help the audience remember what you said.
Second Session: Connecting with the Audience
Whether you are presenting to a small group of 20 or a large group of 200, Justin will walk you through the many tactics you can to do in advance to ensure that your presentation achieves the desired response.
Week 6
First Session: Thinking on Your Feet
Anthony will focus on impromptu speaking and explain how to be spot-on with your performance when given a short time or no time at all to prepare.
Second Session: Different Styles for different presentations
You may be delivering an elevator pitch at a networking event, pitching your services during a sales call, or speaking at a small business conference. Sean will steer you safely through these very different types of presentations which are all important for small business owners.
Week 7
First Session: Using Developing Technologies in your presentations
Learn from Justin about the suitability of prezie, powtoon, Haiku Deck and more and discover what you need to remember if you are presenting a webinar on Skype or via video conferencing.
Second Session: Running effective meetings and building group consensus
Sean will teach you how to plan, participate in and run effective meetings that use time wisely and achieve their objectives. Discover how to build consensus even where there appears to be significant disagreement.
Week 8
First Session: Positively engaging with the media
Learn how you can generate media coverage for your organisation from your presentations through some simple, replicable techniques. And discover the importance of staying on message. Learn from Anthony how everything from your talking points for an interview, to the slogans on your banner, to the visuals you create for an event, should all align to support your core message.
Second Session: Presentation Practice
During the second half of week 8, all twelve course participants will speak for 4 minutes, using the techniques they have learned during the course and the feedback from the course tutors on their earlier presentations. These speeches will be filmed and uploaded to a password-protected website where the participants alone can view their endeavours at their leisure and listen to evaluations of their performance from their course tutors.


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Spanish edition 'Your Home Loan Toolkit' now available
WASHINGTON (7/29/15)--There is now a Spanish-language edition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "Your Home Loan Toolkit." That's the new guide designed to help consumers navigate the process of shopping for a mortgage and buying a house once the Truth in Lending Act-Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (TILA-RESPA) Integrated Disclosures rule goes into effect Oct. 3.
The English-language version of the booklet was released in March.
Creditors must provide the toolkit, referred to in the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures rule as the "special information booklet," to mortgage applicants as a part of the application process. It replaces the current Settlement Cost booklet.
The bureau said it is releasing the toolkit "well ahead of the effective date" to give the mortgage lending industry time to order and receive or print the new guidance, and to integrate electronic versions into their mortgage origination systems.


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Here at Reeder Distributors, we offer DEF and Chemicals to driving companies in Texas and Oklahoma, among many other fleet vehicle services. Believe it or not, our commercial vehicles are the lifeblood of our country, and our population relies on them to survive. To honor all of the drivers out there moving our important products to and fro, here are some fun car facts for you to enjoy.
Malum Prohibitum
From ancient Latin, "malum prohibitum" means "wrong because prohibited", as opposed to "malum en se", which means "wrong in and of itself". A good illustration of a law that is malum prohibitum is in Shanghai, China, were red cars are banned. We don't know what their justification is, but we can't see any fault in a red vehicle.
#1 Deer Hunters
You may think that the most effective deer hunters out there are, well, deer hunters. But the truth is that many more deer are killed by drivers than hunters. So who is the real hunter? The pro with a rifle in a ghillie suit, or the teenager texting and driving?
Brand Recognition
There are a lot of famous car out there, you could likely list many of them yourself. But have you ever wondered what the world's most recognizable vehicle is? That title goes to the 1967 Shelby Mustang GT-500. What made it so popular that more people can recognize it on the street than any other type of car? Its appearance in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds.
There's a First for Everything
There is a first for everything, and the same holds true for automobile races. The first one ever held was in Chicago in 1895. The winner of the race was Frank Dureyea, who won with an average speed of about 71.5 miles per hour.
Speaking of Firsts
Another automobile first was the first wreck. As far as records show, the first car wreck was in 1891 in Ohio.
Stuck in the Middle With You
The whole point of driving is to get places fast. That must be why drivers get so darn frustrated when they get stuck in traffic. And the hours stuck in traffic in this country are only going up. According to one study, the average American will spend a total of 38 hours of their life each year stuck in traffic. That is a lot of time that could be better spent elsewhere.
A car is only as useful as the person behind it. That means there must be a lot of useless cars in Los Angeles. Why is that? Because in LA, there are actually more cars than there are people. What do they even do with all of those excess cars?
Mr. Rogers' Lessons
We all remember Mr. Rodgers, the popular television star who taught us all life lessons from a young age. But not everybody knows that he once had his car stolen. Of course, this being Mr. Rogers, the thief ended up returning the car back to him the second he found out who it belonged to. Leave it to Mr. Rogers to show a thief the way without ever talking to the guy.
Hopefully you enjoyed these fun car facts. If you are looking for DEF and chemicals in Texas or Oklahoma, Reeder Distributors is the company to call. We also offer bulk lubricants, fuel delivery, and fleet cards. For more information about how our services can benefit you, please do not hesitate to give us a call at your earliest convenience. One of our friendly and knowledgeable representatives will be happy to answer any questions that you may have.


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VocoPro takes a step forward in audio mobility with the DVD-SOUNDMAN portable mini P.A. system. With the built-in VHF module and included wireless microphones, the DVD-SOUNDMAN expands your performance possibilities. Connect up to four instruments/wired microphones to expand the party for additional musicians and performers.* The DVD-SOUNDMAN is a portable mini P.A. system that combines a disc player and instrument mixer with a high quality speaker cabinet. Stereo RCA and digital audio outputs allow you to connect your external speakers or recording system. Use the multi-format disc player or the Mp3 device input for playing your favorite music to practice and perform to. The digital echo effect, pitch control and the five-band EQ will give you the tools to customize your sound. The DVD-SOUNDMAN is the choice for professionals and casual users looking for an easy to set up mini P.A. system. *Connect up to two mics/instruments when wireless microphones are in use.


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You are hereHome › 1%er News › Hells Angels gang member indicted on new charges in Monkey Junction killing ›
Hells Angels gang member indicted on new charges in Monkey Junction killing
A validated Hells Angels gang member has been indicted by a New Hanover County grand jury on charges including first-degree murder in the March 22 killing of one man and stabbing of another.
Aaron Christopher Stephens, 42, was indicted May 8 on an upgraded charge of first-degree murder and a new attempted murder charge in the shooting death of Terry Greenwood, 39, and stabbing of Anthony Lanza, 35. He was also indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Deputies responded to a cul-de-sac on Julia Drive at around 1 a.m. March 22 after receiving a call from Stephens' friend. The friend told detectives he received a call from Stephens a short time after the pair parted ways following a night out at a bar, and during the call he heard arguing and a gunshot, according to an affidavit requesting a search warrant in the case.
Greenwood's body was found lying next to a truck, and Lanza was found inside the vehicle with stab wounds to the chest. An autopsy showed Greenwood was stabbed eight times and shot in the face.
Stephens was found near his home at 649 Julia Drive. He initially denied involvement in the incident, but investigators were able to place him at the crime scene through a resident's surveillance video, prosecutors revealed in court during Stephens' first appearance.
Prosecutors also detailed a history of altercations between Stephens and Greenwood over Stephens' wife, adding they had argued earlier that night at a separate location.
Stephens' bail was raised from $1 million to $4.5 million.
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Two senior retired English bishops have been unveiled as official backers of a campaign group working for comprehensive Anglican unity.
The Rt Rev Dr John Saxbee and the Rt Rev Dr Peter Selby have been appointed Episcopal Patrons of the international No Anglican Covenant Coalition.
"The Anglican Communion doesn't need a Covenant because Anglicanism is a Covenant, predicated on grace and goodwill," Dr Saxbee said. "If there is grace and goodwill, a Covenant is unnecessary. If there is no grace or goodwill, a Covenant will be unavailing."
Dr Saxbee was Bishop of Lincoln from 2001 until his retirement in January of this year. Dr Selby, Bishop of Worcester from 1997 to 2007, has been a supporter of the Coalition since its launch in November 2010.
"This proposed Covenant is not the solution to the tensions in the Anglican Communion," he declared. "It will inevitably create a litigious Communion where every serious disagreement will become a possible occasion to seek a province's exclusion."
"More and more questions are being raised about the potential pitfalls of the proposed Anglican Covenant," said the Rev Dr Lesley Fellows, Moderator of the No Anglican Covenant Coalition.
She added: "We have consistently seen that support for the Covenant tends to collapse in the face of full and fair discussion and analysis. We are very pleased to welcome Bishops Selby and Saxbee as our first Episcopal Patrons. They are well respected in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion. We expect that their views on the Covenant will persuade many more people to take a harder look at the risks inherent in this radical proposal."
* More on No Anglican Covenant: Anglicans for Comprehensive Unity - http://noanglicancovenant.org/


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Orange Cheesecake Tarts
- Yield: 48 pieces
- Prep: 45 mins
- Cook: 15 mins
- Candied Orange Peel:
- 1large navel orange
- 1 1/4cups granulated sugar, divided
- Gingersnap Crust:
- 2 1/2cups gingersnap cookie crumbs
- 1/3cup brown sugar
- 1/2cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- Custard:
- 24ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/4cup honey
- 1/2cup powdered sugar
- 3whole eggs
- 1/4cup sour cream
- 2tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1tablespoon orange extract
- 1teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4cup grated semisweet chocolate
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- To prepare candied orange peel, cut strips of rind off orange using a sharp peeler. Reserve remaining orange for another use. Place orange strips in a small saucepan. Add enough water to cover and bring to a boil. Drain and repeat 2 more times, using fresh water each time. (This removes the bitterness from the rind.)
- Add 1 cup water to the blanched orange rind. Add 1 cup sugar and simmer 20 minutes or until soft, sweet and opaque. Drain and reserve the orange-infused sugar-water for another use. Toss strips in the remaining quarter cup sugar and let cool. Chop and set aside.
- To prepare crust, place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse to combine. (The mixture should cake easily.) Place a level tablespoon of crust mixture into each cup of a silicone mini muffin or tartlet pan. Use the back of the tablespoon to tamp down the crust. Set aside.
- To prepare custard, beat cream cheese, honey and powdered sugar with a mixer at medium speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. (Be careful not to beat air into the eggs, as this will make the cheesecake fluffy, not dense and smooth.) Add sour cream, flour, orange extract, vanilla extract and 1 tablespoon of the candied orange peel. Mix well. Spoon just enough batter into each crust to fill.
- Place pans on baking sheets. Bake 12 minutes, or until the cheesecakes are nearly set, but not cracking. Place pans on wire racks to cool, then carefully pop out each cheesecake. Top each cheesecake with shaved chocolate and remaining candied orange peel. Arrange on a serving platter.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 120
- Fat 8
- Cholesterol 35
- Sodium 95
- Carbohydrate 11
- Fiber 0
- Protein 2


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Fast Forward Challenge
The Fast Forward Challenge was our big competition for 2013.
The challenge for students was to choose between a test for reaction speed or concentration. They then had to consider factors that could impair speed or concentration and think about how they could help drivers overcome such problems. Finally, they had to devise an experiment to test their idea. It all had to be tested in school and then replicated in front of judges. The winners were chosen on the basis of who could demonstrate best that their idea could help McLaren prepare Formula 1TM drivers for the mental and physical challenges of the Grand Prix circuit.
All the finalists had an amazing day out at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) but Waldegrave School for Girls in Twickenham were crowned overall 2013 winners and won £1,000 of science equipment vouchers!