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Thank God it only turned out to be heavy heavy wind and rain with thunder and lightning
Weathering the Weather
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Re: Weathering the WeatherThanks
Thank God it only turned out to be heavy heavy wind and rain with thunder and lightning www.youtube.com/user/jimcarreyonline
Re: Weathering the Weatherphew...........i saw some aftermath footage on the BBC this morning......shocking stuff........my heart goes out to those poor souls......
Re: Weathering the Weather-Heat HazardWe're are now just starting to get some
relief from horridly hot humid days the rain has started but severe wind warnings are coming with it but at least there is some break from the breaking temperatures that have been here in Eastern North America for the past few weeks
Re: Weathering the WeatherReally hot here also.
It's a "heat wave" I'm surprised they've never done a disaster movie about a heat wave that I know of, Anyone know of one?
Re: Weathering the Weatherwe seem to jump between Biblical style rainshowers.......aka mega downpours and roasting hot.........very very strange........we normally have piddly grey drizzle.....
and i swear i can feel Autumn starting.........i'm super tuned into the seasons... Fluffy
Re: Weathering the Weather-1940's comparisonThe weather seems to have a similar temp in camparison to
the 40's weather. It's still a little cooler than it was back then. I wonder if it has anything to do with the atomic meltdown in Japan since the Atom Bomb occurred in the 40's and they say the meltdown in Japan does affect it's surroundings and is worse than they thought. Could this disaster have an affect on our world weather? I wonder. In the scriptures it talks about the Abomination of Desolation Could this be it? I still wonder
Re: Weathering the WeatherWe had some good thunder clapping going on today in our city.
Hydro went off while I was at an indoor pool, so we had to wait until the lights came back on meanwhile at a friends' neighbours place sparks were flying wow, how scary is that the story reminded me of when I was in New York State near Canandaigua and my children and I saw a chimney hit by lightening Anyone else have some scary lightening striking stories
Re: Weathering the WeatherI was in Sorento when i was a little kid when the city was hit by a really fierce lightening storm....my dad thought it might be fun to go to the roof of the hotel to watch the muticoloured zig -zags (They were really really fierce)......except not only were we standing on the tallest building in the area but we were standing next to a metal flag pole......lol.........it was only much later when i think we realised we'd been very lucky......
I Confess i adore lightening storms though.........it's like nations passions at their wildest......... Fluffy
Re: Weathering the WeatherI love watching the lightening too,
it's like you're own personal light show and everyone sees it differently it all depends on your location The sun was really red last night as it went down
Re: Weathering the Weatherawe i ADORE sunsets and sunrises like that too.. ........i've jumped in my car to get a better look when the sky's been burning......it really touches my heart... Bizarrely the best sunsets i've ever seen were in Dundee and that was supposed to be due to the pollution from the refinery........the sky was on fire, absolutely stunning in the Autumn light......i'm a bit soppy but nature like that makes me teary.........lol......
Re: Weathering the WeatherWe seem to be getting tornado warnings on a monthly basis.
Wasn't there a time when there was a break from these catastrophe's? I saw a shooting star tonight, about 10:00 I wonder if anyone else saw it One person walking while I rode my bike past saw it too. When was the last time you saw a shooting star?
Re: Weathering the Weatherabout 10 years ago we went to the edge of the city and watched a meteor shower all night.......
I think we've got the tail end of Irene here.......we've got really high winds........if we're getting them it MUST have been a bad one........hope everyone stayed safe..... Fluffy
Re: Weathering the WeatherI hope everything will be ok for you CJ. Stay safe.
Shes still making her rounds. Shes supposed to be hitting my state today. www.youtube.com/user/jimcarreyonline
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Being A Startup Doesn't Give You The Right To Be Unprofessional
It's very exciting as a founder when you start a company, you are full of energy and excited about the possibility of the future. Before you get to doing the fun stuff make sure you've got the foundation down. A lot of startups I've seen neglect some very basic things that will eventually cause the company to implode, whether its employees leaving because they don't feel appreciated, or paying huge fines because they didn't take care of basic accounting and taxes.
Basic Needs
Take care of your business's basic needs. Doing accounting is one of those things which is so 'uncool' it's boring as hell, however it's oh so important. Getting your taxes right from day one is going to save you a lot of time and money later down the line. I used to be a part of a startup that neglected this and we ended up paying a huge fine. Get it done! DO NOT LEAVE THIS! I promise you if you don't do this, you will fail as a business.
Another thing I see as a problem is basic employee benefits such as social insurance. These are basic benefits for employees that every business is obligated to provide by law. If you are a startup and don't have social insurance for your employees, you are neglecting to take care of your employees basic needs.
Understand that as a founder, whether you are burning through your savings, or using investor's money you are the beneficiary for your business. Chances are your employees are earning a salary and are not entrepreneurial and don't care about your stock options. They want to save as much of their salary as possible and should they get sick or something happens they will want those benefits that the state provides them. As the founder of a company you may not need it because you come from a background of abundance and have private insurance, but your employees may not have the same benefits you do. Show some empathy and sort this out! There are so many startups I've seen and heard about that don't provide social insurance for their employees its outrageous.
Another thing I see a lot is companies who never pay to train their employees or buy books or online courses for their team members. If you're not doing this, well you should start. Everyone wants to grow, and by providing this as a company your employees will feel like your company is a place where they can develop their skills and grow as an individual.
Work Hours
Another issue I see crop up a lot is founders having absolutely no respect for employees time-off. Your employees are not your co-founders. You are paying them a salary for a fixed amount of hours to work in a day. Generally 6–8 hours / day depending on how the startup is organised.
Chances are your employees don't care about stock options. If you've offered it to them, have you signed an agreement? Have you asked them if they want it? Your employees are only obligated to work the official work hours for you which is 8 hours / day 5 days a week, that translates to 40 hours / week. Any time beyond that you should thank them and make them feel appreciated. It doesn't always have to be money, figure out a way to show real appreciation. Most of the time a heart-felt 'Thank You' or buying them dinner is enough.
Under no-circumstances should you contact your employees over the weekend to ask them to do something. If you really must ask them to do something because it's an emergency, then ask nicely. If they can't, respect it! Chances are if your employees are motivated and love working with you because they know that you are taking care of them, they will take care of the problem even if they're on holiday. They need to have a life outside of work, be free to live their lives. They need to feel that they have some time-off from work, otherwise your company is going to suffer a burn-out and then your productivity will really take a nose-dive.
Family Values
Reading through this you may be mistaken to think "are employees motivated by these benefits?" No they're not, they just need to know that should something happen the founder of company has their back. Taking care of basic needs will help your employees feel safe, because they see evidence that you took care of their basic needs. You've got their back.
Running a company is like starting a family. Your employees become your children. Would you ever let your children go without education, health-care and appreciation? Absolutely not! You would be classified as bad parents if you did. Taking care of your companies taxes, your employees taxes, providing training, having respect for your employees time off will make them feel safe, happy and appreciated. If you want motivated employees take care of them! They are the foundation for your business.
Source – Inc42
Draft law proposes to bring e-commerce under GST
The draft model law on goods and service tax (GST) has proposed bringing all online buying within the purview of the proposed levy. The move will end uncertainty over tax on purchases from e-commerce sites.
Introduction of GST will provide clarity on where the tax is levied, as the entire burden moves from the point of production to the point of consumption. In recent months, states such as Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh have imposed levies due to pressure from brick-and-mortar retailers but the legislation seeks to bring parity. For instance, UP recently imposed an entry tax on purchases from e-commerce sites.
In a note, consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said the draft bill, released for public comment after a meeting of state finance ministers with Arun Jaitley in Kolkata on Tuesday, has proposed tax collection at source for e-commerce, which will mean that any payment made to a supplier would be subjected to the provision at a notified rate. The draft will form the basis for the final law incorporating some of the changes suggested by experts. It will help provide clarity and the rationale for introducing some of the provisions in the landmark indirect tax reform measure.
Experts said the inclusion of e-commerce under the ambit of the tax will pose a huge burden on these companies. "This will mean significant compliance burden on e-commerce companies as many of them deal with thousands of vendors. Further, this may lead to refund situation for many suppliers who operate on thin margin. In addition, e-commerce companies will need to file a statement providing details of all supplies made through this platform," said Pratik Jain, indirect tax leader at the consulting firm.
In any case the government is proposing to cast the net wider by including several more players within GST. Instead of a threshold of Rs 1.5 crore for central excise, the draft bill has proposed a Rs 10 lakh as threshold and any unit, service provider or retailer above the floor will be required to register and will be subject to tax.
The proposed legislation also seeks to end uncertainty on software as intangibles will be considered as a "service". Similarly, work contracts will also fall within the service segment and will ease life for the infrastructure sector.
GST, which has been in the works for a decade, is seen as one of the most important tax reform initiatives post-independence, but is stuck in Parliament due to opposition from Congress. On Tuesday, finance minister Arun Jaitley met state finance ministers to thrash out a consensus on some of the contentious issues and the government hopes to introduce the Constitution amendment bill to implement the tax in the monsoon session of Parliament.
Source – ET Retail
Indian Patent Office Issues Guidelines For Startups
In order to promote awareness and adoption of intellectual property rights of startups and protect and commercialise them, Indian Patent Office has issued some guidelines. This will guide the startups regarding the procedure to be adopted for filing/processing their applications for patents, designs, trademarks and fees to be paid to the facilitators thereof.
The step will help in encouraging entrepreneurship and to boost innovation.
As per the guidelines, a startup willing to file a patent application for an invention will have to select one facilitator from a list of 280 facilitators, who would help in preparing the request and also assess the patentability of the invention as per acts and rules.
In case, the startup is unable to select a facilitator, should contact the head office of the respective Patent Office as per jurisdiction, who shall provide three names of the facilitator and the startup will finalise the name.
The public notice further added that the fee for filing the application and other statutory fees would have to be borne by the startup. Earlier in January, the government announced to bear the cost of facilitation for filing of patents, trademarks or designs as well as relaxed public procurement norms for startups.
The application will further get passed to the Head of Office of respective patent office and will than forward it to the office of the CGPTDM (Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks).
The facilitator shall also have to monitor and perform further steps of proceedings of startups patent application, prepare the reply to any query from patent office, attend the hearings, etc. and shall file the relevant documents in patent office by following the timeline.
The process will be similar for filing and processing applications for designs and trademark, where facilitators will be chosen for list of facilitators of patents and facilitators of trademarks, respectively.
Source – Inc42.com
Startups with slashed valuation may now need to pay tax on "extra" consideration
As if the slashing of their valuations was not worrying enough, the income tax department, it appears, is planning to tax startups who have witnessed a slash in valuations.
Section 56 of the Income Tax Act confers the tax department the power to tax the excess consideration (more than the fair value) against issue of shares in the last round of funding.
Fair value is basically the actual value of the company. Recently, the valuations of many companies like Flipkart and Snapdeal were slashed due to worries over profitability, growth, and intense competition. These were factors that were not considered in earlier valuations; thus, the company was considered overvalued in earlier rounds of funding.
The income tax department is of the opinion that considering the current slashed down valuations as the fair price of the company, the differential amount of the funds raised in earlier rounds at a higher valuation are taxable.
Let's understand this with the help of an example.
- XYZ Limited is a startup with a share capital of 2,00,000 ordinary shares with face value of Rs 10 per share, making the total share capital Rs 20,00,000.
- At the time of the first round of funding, 50 percent of the shares were issued at a price of Rs100 per share. It means 1,00,000 ordinary shares were issued at Rs100 per share and company received Rs 1,00,00,000 as initial funding. The issue price of Rs 100 per share comprises Rs 90 as share premium.
- Now, at the time of second round of funding, 25 percent share were issued, but this time at a lower price of Rs 50 per share because the valuation of the company was slashed. It means 50,000 ordinary shares (2,00,000 shares x 25 percent) have been issued at Rs 50 (Rs 40 as share premium) per share and company received Rs 25,000,00 in the second round of funding.
- Now as per the tax department, the current valuation of the company per share is Rs 50 per share and the extra consideration received during the first round of funding becomes taxable.
Calculation of taxable amount:
Premium received: First round: 1,00,000 shares x Rs 90 per share = Rs 90,00,000
Less: Share premium as per latest valuation: 1,00,000 shares x Rs 40 per share = Rs 40,00,000
Thus, extra consideration received = Rs 90,00,000 – Rs 40,00,000 = Rs 50,00,000
Normal Tax Rate of 30 percent, plus surcharge will be applied on Rs 50,00,000 received as extra consideration.
However, the tax department is exempting those startups who have been funded by venture capital funds registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Purpose of this tax
Section 56 of the Income Tax Act aims at controlling black money in the economy.
Investing in startups is one way of bringing black money in circulation where sometimes the firm may be purposefully over valued to raise more capital, and bring in more black money from promoters who may rerouting their money as angel investments. The recent frequent valuation markdowns might indicate towards a certain level of intentional or unintentional faulty assumptions made during the first round of funding, and this has brought the government's attention to this issue.
Impact on startups
Raising initial rounds of funding is a struggle for any startup, and this tax seems to only add to the intensity of this struggle.
"Valuations are based on what is going to happen in future. It can only be guessed and no one can predict accurately," says Neeraj Jain, Co-founder at Zopper. "Startups are struggling to raise money and it is unfair on the part of government to take away money from them."
Though taxmen cannot be deemed completely wrong in triggering this scrutiny, however, compared to the extend it will help curb black money, this levy might prove much more detrimental to the startups.
Valuations at initial stages of business are very tricky as there is no past data to build a model on. It's based on assumptions, opinions, and expectations. Thus, it cannot be assumed that every overvaluation is intentional. This tax will, however, embed a constant fear about valuations in the startup world.
In the initial stages, startups struggle with fund requirements at every step and the extra tax burden is going to increase the pressure further. Also, angels will get warier and apprehensive about making investments, making raising funds even more tough.
Startups are too vulnerable and the money crunch can lead to hampered operations or even shutting down shops.
This is definitely not good news for germinating businesses. This tax is not formally yet announced, and we can still hope for amendments and exemptions.
However, if implemented, startups will be left with only two options – either be very careful with valuations at initial stages, and in worst case bear the taxes, or look for other methods of funding than equity, i.e., debt and debentures.
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I have a bit of an obsession with lipgloss. That's no secret, especially if you've ever seen inside my purse. But, there's an obsession within the obsession, and that is the obsession with blue lipgloss. Most people I know go, "Ewww, blue lips? Freak!" but it's really not as funky as it sounds! Most blue glosses are rather sheer; instead of making you look cyanotic, they only add a cool hue to your lips and make your teeth look whiter.
Whenever I see a blue gloss or lipstick, I have to get it. I've missed out on a few that I wish I had (MAC Peacocky, waaah) but I'm always on the lookout for them.
Here's most of my blue gloss stash (I'm missing at least one Lancôme, maybe a few others):
Left to right: Milani 3D Glitzy Gloss in Movie Star, MAC Dazzleglass in Comet Blue, MAC Blue Memory, MAC Greenhouse, Lancôme Juicy Tubes in Dreamworld, Philosophy Snow Kiss, Maybelline Fruity Jelly in Blueberry Burst, Cover Girl Wet Slicks AmazeMint in Happy Hour, Too Faced Sparkler Glamour Gloss in Sapphire Spark, Simply Sweet Flavored Lipgloss blue/purple swirl (no name), Lancôme Juicy Tubes in Caribe, Victoria's Secret Sweet Talk in Blueberry Shimmer.
Most of the blue glosses follow the same theme. They're either duochrome/glass fleck/crazy iridescent sparkle or clear gloss with a blue tint and/or slight shimmer.
Milani Movie Star, MAC Comet Blue, MAC Blue Memory, MAC Greenhouse, Lancôme Dreamworld, Philosophy Snow.
Maybelline Blueberry Burst, Cover Girl Happy Hour, Too Faced Sapphire Spark, Simply Sweet no name, Lancôme Carïbe, Victoria's Secret Blueberry Shimmer and just for fun, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Rx Lip Tar. Really stands out, doesn't it?
I recommend enlarging those swatch pictures so you can see all the pretty sparkle. Some of these are just gorgeous beyond belief. A quick description of them, in case the pictures don't speak for themselves:
Milani 3D Glitzy Gloss in Movie Star is a sheer blue tinted base with tons of duochrome sparkle. It reflects gold, pink, blue, violet, and at some angles, even a little blue and orange. It has a brush applicator, a somewhat thin texture and a soft orange creme scent.
MAC Dazzleglass in Comet Blue is also a sheer blue base with tons of duochrome sparkle, but it's even sparklier and more duochromey than the Milani. The blue sparkle is very bright and shiny and the dominant reflect color is purple. It has a more smooth and uniform sparkle and it reflects every color of the rainbow. It has a thick, sticky texture, a brush applicator and MAC's amazing creamy vanilla scent.
MAC Blue Memory Lipglass is a pale frosted blue with a slight greenish tint. It's on the sheer side, but it does stand out on the lips. It has the signature MAC lipglass texture and scent and the standard doe foot applicator.
MAC Greenhouse Lipglass is more green than blue, but it's definitely a blue-green. It's similar in finish to Blue Memory and has all the same features as your standard MAC Lipglass.
Lancôme Juicy Tubes in Dreamworld is a sheer blue gloss with a subtle silvery shimmer plus a small amount of blue glitter particles. It has a thick texture, a strong sweet spearmint scent and a slanted tip applicator.
Philosophy Snow Kiss Lipshine is a clear gloss with fine glowy blue shimmer. It's extremely subtle, but when the light catches it just right, there's a bright blue reflection and sparkle on your lips. It has a smooth but sticky texture, a sweet cool citrus scent and flavor (pretty much identical to Philosophy Senorita Margarita) and a slanted tip applicator.
Maybelline Fruity Jelly in Blueberry Burst is a sheer blue gloss with sparse blue/green duochrome glitter particles. This is the most subtle of all of them, it provides the least blue tint and the least glitter. It has a sticky texture, a weird sharp chemical fruit scent and a rounded tip applicator.
Cover Girl Wet Slicks AmazeMint in Happy Hour is a sheer blue-green gloss with subtle silver shimmer and a violet flash. It has a thin, slick, oily texture and a doe-foot wand applicator. The scent is a horrible combination of plastic/gasoline/chemical, weird vanilla and toothpaste. To be quite blunt, this is the worst one. Cover Girl Wet Slicks are some of the worst gloss I've ever used, I can't believe I even bought this one. They smell rancid even when they're brand new and they slide off your lips like pure oil. Guh-rosssssss!
Too Faced Sparkler Glamour Gloss in Sapphire Spark might just be the best out of all of them. It is a sheer base packed with glass-fleck style duochrome shimmer. It's the most multichromatic and sparkly of all and the packaging is really interesting. It shimmer is predominantly light blue, but slight changes in angle cause it to reflect every color of the rainbow. It has a thinner, less sticky texture than MAC Lipglass, a subtle citrus scent and a really unique twist-up tube with a plastic slant-tip applicator. I highly recommend the entire Sparkler Glamour Gloss line if you're into amazing duochrome glittery things like I am.
The nameless Simply Sweet swirl gloss (it's from Dollar Tree), is a sheer cobalt blue shimmer swirled with a very sheer light purple shimmer. The shades mix together on the lips and provide a light blue tint and subtle shimmer. It has a thick, smooth balm-like petrolatum-heavy texture (which I do like despite the cheap ingredients), a chemical blueberry scent and a slant tip applicator.
The Lancôme Juicy Tubes in Carïbe is a sheer medium blue gloss base with opalescent glitter. The glitter flashes pastel shades of yellow, orange, blue, green and pink. There isn't a lot of glitter, but there's two or three times as much as in Dreamworld. It has a thick sticky texture, a sweet, fruity, artificial blueberry-ish scent and a slant tip applicator.
The Victoria's Secret Sweet Talk gloss is a sheer green-blue base with frosty silver shimmer. It can look a little murky. It has a thick, slick texture and a terrible acidic/sour chemical blueberry scent- reminds me of some type of bubblegum, the big square kind... Can't remember what it's called. This was part of a set that came with an awesome sheer green shimmer.
And Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in Rx? The bluest of the blue. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with this one. It has a thin, dense, dry texture- it's all pigment. No shimmer or shine once it's set. It has a rounded tip applicator and a dry peppermint scent and flavor. This can be worn alone, but you can also add it to other lip tars to make your own color or to tone down some warmer shades. Very versatile, and nothing beats Lip Tar in the pigmentation department. Still haven't finished my Lip Tar review... I need to just buckle down and deal with the swatch-stained arms for a day! Those things are so hardcore!
Tell me I'm not the only blue gloss lover out there! Any of you guys have a blue gloss stash? Recommend me some more blues and tell me about your favorites!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
My Blue Gloss Collection
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I actually LOVE the Wetslick Amazemint gloss, it smells like a sweet toothpaste to me and I give it in gift bags all the time. Everyone I've given it to has loved it too and ended up repurchasing. Guess it just shows to each his own! I've been trying to find that Milani forever- I'm convinced no one carries it here as there isn't even a slot for it! Think I need Greenhouse now!
ReplyDeleteCalifornia Kissin'! I swear I have that but I can't find it. I'll have to pick up a new tube!
I can try again to get some lip pictures, but I've never been able to get a good one. Nails I can do, but lips always come out wrong!
Nicoletta, green gloss is great! If you have really pigmented lips like I do, the green tone in some glosses cancels out the red which gives you a nice caramel colored nude lip. MAC Spring Bean is great for this!Don't forget to check out tokidoki Prisma Lip Gloss in Ninja Dog. I found it last night on Sephora after I just HAD to look for blue glosses, thanks to your post. ;-)
I don't think I've ever had a blue gloss, but I used to have a couple of pale blue lipsticks when I was younger. The funkiest gloss I have right now I Sephora Sweet Candy Gloss in Lime Blossom, that I bought as a cheap dupe of MAC Spring Bean (it's only $5). I like it so much, I bought another one to keep in my bag at all times.
Man, UD used to have some great blue lipsticks, but I can't remember a gloss. I wish they'd come out with some new version of old products for their 15th Anniversary. :fingers crossed:I remember as a child wet and wild made a baby blue lipstick but when you put it on it changed color to pink:( and I was so disappointed, anyway ever since I heard about blue making teeth whiter i always try to find lip colors with blue sparkles or hue to it, but I have a hard time finding blue lipgloss. I'll have to keep my eyes out. The mac ones look so pretty!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'd love to get that but I'm in Italy and Mac is veeeeery hard to find (I'm in Turin) here.I'm lemming a lot of polishes and now I'll have to add the gloss too! Oh my! :(
If I have the chance I'll surely get it in no time! And, thanks to you, I'll have a go with blue glosses as well.
Seems I'm developing another obsession *-*
xoxo Your blog is great!!!I <3 blue glosses, since they make my skin appear less red and more white. They also make my teeth look nicer! I think Milani is a favourite. It's cheap enough for me to wear occasionally and not mind if it comes off quickly. For some reason, glosses don't stay on me long, so I usually don't get an expensive one unless it's TRULY fabulous!
I like this one blue mineral gloss from BLSoaps on Etsy too, but I forget the name. It's a pale blue that can be layered. I have Persephone as well, which was a custom job from her that turned into an FP item overnight (literally!), although Persephone is a red/black to go with Milani's black nail polish with red glitter. The texture isn't bad; it comes in a stick, not liquid in a tube, so it's easier for me to put on without looking at a mirror. Oh- didn't ShiroCosmetics just come out with a dark blue gloss, too? I haven't tried that one yet, though.Loving this post! I'm a bit obsessed with blue lip products myself and it's great to see I'm not the only one!
(Also, re: MAC Peacocky, this is probably really awkward since I've only just created my blog and started officially following you, but my local MAC counter still had one the last time I was there. I could try getting my hands on it for you, if you like?)I have an old blue MAC lipgloss w/o the label and one you didn't mention - it's an Estee Lauder clear, hinged cube that shows off the icy blue duochrome orb suspended inside. I got it a long time ago and it's still in the box. I guess that's what happens when I make spontaneous purchases.
ReplyDeletea few years ago I got a blueish gloss from Sephora and I loved it,it really didn't have the speckles just a tint of blue which I like. I can't find it anywhere, it actually looked like the one you posted from Milani but,it was not. I believe it was from Borghese and it said 3d on it. If anyone knows where I can get it, I would be grateful. thanks! Kristin
ReplyDeletea few years ago I got a blueish gloss from Sephora and I loved it,it really didn't have the speckles just a tint of blue which I like. I can't find it anywhere, it actually looked like the one you posted from Milani but,it was not. I believe it was from Borghese and it said 3d on it. If anyone knows where I can get it, I would be grateful. thanks! Kristin


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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Night owl
Even if I go to bed at ten o'clock and sleep a full eight hours, getting up at six in the morning is torture for me. Even if I get to work at eight-thirty, I don't wake up fully until late morning. I can talk and I can work, but I'm doing it on autopilot.
This is on my mind because it's after eleven as I write this. I'm recognizing the weekend trend of staying up late on Friday night and even later on Saturday, only to go to bed early on Sunday and lie awake for hours. With this being a long weekend, I'm postponing bedtime later each consecutive night, and I know that Monday will be a day of reckoning.
Part of me is sitting here with pursed church-lady lips, disapproving of my lack of discipline. Another part of me is pumping a fist skyward and shouting, "Yessss! I love this time of the night."
When I think about all the things I'll do when I eventually retire from work, one of the things that excites me most is the idea of being able to dispense with the alarm clock and wake up only when I'm good and ready. In fact, I think about that a lot. I didn't realize how much I think about it until I got all the way down to this fifth paragraph and it started sounding familiar. A quick little blog search shows me it's only been eight days since I wrote wistfully about waking up without an alarm.
So, now we all know that my memory is slipping. When the day arrives that I can sleep late every morning, I hope I can remember to appreciate it.
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Okay...I'm one of those awful morning people, awake at the first hint of dawn. Fully functioning and happy to greet the day. Mike is more like you and it was hard for me to learn to turn down my own volume until he had, literally, downed an entire pot of coffee. I wish you joy in your future retirement routine! Carmon
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A very special game that I didn't like, but have a huge respect for it.
Many gamers are crazy about this game. Donald Duck together with Final Fantasy's Cloud. Wow!!! Sorry, but it seems at least naive to me. I guess I lost my childhood inocense in the way.
Too cartoonish for me.
Visually stunning. I don't much liked the battle system.
I played it to the end. A very good game that I don't want to play again. Not my type of game.
Too violent. There is enough violence in our everyday life, no need for extra portion.
Surprisingly good, even though I'm not a fan of the series.
Absolutely fantastic game!
Not so good as Command & Conquer 3.
A game that I never played it. Why did I buy it?
Not so good as FIFA 09. The online mode is horrible!
Too hard for me. Did I tell that I hate strategy-RPGs?
I've never played a more addictive game in my whole life.
The best Civilization game.
The coverbox image of "Civilization Revolution" puzzled me to say the truth, as I was wondering why the world leaders looked, as if they had been taken out form some comic book, but I said to myself: "you shouldn't judge a game by its cover". Well, sometimes one should!
They made a mockery of "Civilization" with this title.
Fantastic collection, but honestly who can play these games today?
Why is it so hard? Get out of here!
I got so angry with this game, that I wrote a review, and posted a video in YouTube, for people to know what they are going to suffer from, if they play the PS2 version.
Never buy a game that belongs into a movie, or TV franchise. I usually follow this rule strictly. But I wasn't aware that Lundblum, Ludlum, Bourne, or whatever, was such a release. Damn! Read carefully the backcover text, you video-game junkie!
A very good football game.
Very good racing game. A Gran Turismo clone actually, and in some parts superior than GT itself.
Flashy, but shallow.
Beautiful in every aspect. My favourite PS3 game.
It's fun, but it gets really hard after a while.
Visually stunning. A great game.
Decent fighter, but pretty mild for a Mortal Kombat game. Not thrilled.
Not as good as the first one. It has more cars in it, but the visuals are mediocre.
One of the main reasons, why I love video-games.
A failed experiment, one that a true Tomb Raider fan like me, must have the greatness to forgive, for the sake of Lara's glorious past.
Good game, but something is missing. It's soulless.
Tomb Raider Anniversary is one of those ultra rare cases, where a remake is...actually good!
It can't be compared though to the original game. That game was unbeatable in every aspect.
I hate this cliche when I read it elsewhere, but here I go... I will write it my self too for this game: it's short.
Superb racer.
Incredible gaming experience, but after some point it repeats itself.
With Soul Calibur and Tekken around, it doesn't have a chance.
It isn't beautiful at all. Too hard, and the controls are horrible.
My favourite next-gen horror game.
It's so bad that it's hilarious. Worth every penny of it.
Addictive and fun
All this X360 technology for a game that looks so grey as the asphalt! And the characters are as much dislikable, as the aliens they are fighting with. Well, that's not true... The aliens look slightly better.
The absolute action-RPG title! The crown jewel of my collection
I thought it was only a shooting game, but it's not the case with this title. Sick realism! If anyone wants to live this experience, then why don't arrange a trip to Iraq?
I just feel repeled from this bearded face on the coverbox. From the 5 games package, I've only played Portal, and Iiked it.
A great game that possibly I will never play, mainly for 3 reasons: 1. Its an NTSC version and during the last 34 years of my life, I live in a PAL zone. 2. I will probably never buy such a powerfull computer that can handle the Playstation emulators, without crashing. 3. Because of the previous two reasons, I prefer just having it sealed, as a living proof, that PAL and NTSC region locked games practice SUCKS!
Not my style really.
This characters gets to my nerves. I don't know why.
I never understood, why it is so much praised.
I purchased it just recently. I guess I was "a little" late, so I couldn't really appreciate its virtues. Unfortunately it's totally unplayable today. I'm sad for that. If I was a millionaire, I would had bought it in the first place, as all the new games of the world. I can't do anything to change that. And I'm not going to sell my house either, just to be able to buy every new game that is released. That's the cruel reality. Some games are to be missed in the process. That's how it works.
..and the news for today are: the weather will be good, the oil price will further drop, a video of Paris Hilton nude was uploaded on YouTube, and the Tekken characters are resurrected. Is it their fifth resurrection, or did I just loose the count. What are they? zombies?
Wait a minute... oh it's a "dark" resurrection, not a standard one. Now I got it! So, to be fair, it's only their first dark resurrection. No problem with that I guess.


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This page includes information about assessing, residential appraising, and the Board of Review.
Board of Review
The Board of Review is required to meet in March to hear assessment and classification appeals. The Board of Review may also be required to meet in July and/or December to correct clerical errors or hear Principal Residence Exemption appeals. Members are appointed to two year terms, with each term beginning on January 1st of an odd-numbered year. There are no term limits. Any correspondence or telephone messages for the Board of Review should be directed to the Township Office. The Township Assessor or Supervisor are directly responsible for this Board.
Members: Jim Momber (Chairman), Chuck Jakems and Mary Wilcome.
Calculating your Property Tax
To calculate your property tax, use the formula (TAXABLE VALUE) x (MILLAGE RATE) = (TAX). As an example, take a principal residence in the Comstock Park School District. If your 2014 taxable value is $52,576 and the 2014 millage rate is 31.6289 mills, your 2014 total property tax bill can be estimated as: $52,576 X (31.6289/1000) = $1,662.92. Keep in mind that the method shown here will result in an estimate of your total tax for the entire year. The same method can be used to estimate your summer and winter bill separately. Just insert the summer millage rate to estimate your summer tax bill and insert the winter millage rate to estimate your winter tax.
The taxable value of your property is determined via a formula and, in most cases, is limited by the rate of inflation. This number is calculated by the assessor and is reported to you on your assessment change notice, mailed in February.
The millage rate is the total number of mills being levied, divided by 1000. Millage rates are calculated in the spring for the summer collection and in the fall for the winter collection. Millage rates vary from year to year, due to a number of factors. Significant increases in millage rates are the result of voter approval, while decreases are due to the expiration of a previously approved millage.
Finding your Taxable Value
Taxable value is the number upon which your property tax bill is calculated. It is determined each year by comparing assessed and capped values and choosing the lower of the two.Assessed value is the assessor's estimate of 50% of the market value of a piece of property.Capped value is determined by the formula [(prior year taxable value) - (losses)] x [1 + (lesser of CPI or 5%)] + (additions).
In most cases, losses are equal to the taxable value of any buildings, or portions thereof, that were removed or destroyed in the previous year. In most cases, additions are equal to the assessed value of any new buildings, or portions thereof, that were built in the previous year. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the inflation rate that was experienced in the State of Michigan in the prior year. This figure is determined by the State's treasury Department.
Once the capped value has been determined, the assessor compares it to the assessed value. The taxable value is the lower of the two.
As an example, assume your 2013 Taxable Value was $50,123, the 2014 CPI is 1.6% and your 2014 Assessed Value is $55,000. Included in that figure is a new deck that was built in 2013. The assessor estimates that it adds $2,400 to your property value (so, assessed value of deck = $2,400 x 50% = $1,200). Given these facts you can calculate your taxable value as:
2014 Assessed Value = $55,000
2013 Capped Value = ($50,123 – 0) x (1 + .016) + $1,200 = ($50,123 x 1.016) + $1,200 = $52,125
2014 Taxable Value = (the lower value of either Assessed Value or Capped Value) = $52,125
Finding your Millage Rate
Property taxes, which are billed and collected by Alpine Township, are a combined collection of taxes levied by several different entities, shown in the millage rates table that HAS BEEN MOVED TO TREASURER'S PAGE. Summer bills are mailed around July 1st and due September 14th. Winter bills are mailed around December 1st and due February 14th. Most property owners in Alpine Township are required to pay the majority of their taxes in the summer because Comstock Park and Kenowa Hills School Districts collect their entire millage in the summertime, while Sparta's is more balanced.
Tax Deferments
Summer taxes may be deferred until February 14th of each tax year if the household income from the previous year was less than $25,000 and you qualify under one of the following classifications:
Blind Person
Eligible Service Person, Veteran
Eligible Widow or Widower
Paraplegic, Quadriplegic
Senior Citizen (age 62 or older)
Totally and Permanently Disabled
County Collection
All summer and winter tax bills are held by the Township until March 1st
Alpine's Property Database
Property owners, realtors and appraisers can use the property database to find detailed property information, sketches and pictures.
Database's Codes
41080 - Comstock Park
41145 - Kenowa Hills
41240 - Sparta
A - Agricultural
C1, C2, C3 - Commercial zones
I1 and I2 - Industrial zones
OS - Office Services
RA - Rural Agriculture
R1 - Low density residential
R2 - Medium density residential
R3 - High density residential (Apartments)
R4 - Mobile Home Communities
All of the forms discussed below can be filed with the Township's Assessor and are available in the PDF format.
The Principal Residence Exemption Affidavit (2368) exempts a property owner from paying 18 mills of local school operating tax on the owner's principal residence. Vacant land that is contiguous to the owner's principal residence is also eligible. An owner is required to file aRequest to Rescind/Withdraw Principal Residence Exemption (2602) when he sells or is no longer using a property as a principal residence. Property or buildings used for commercial or industrial purposes aren't eligible for the Principal Residence Exemption.
Property classified as agricultural is also exempt from 18 mills of local school operating tax. If a property isn't classified as agricultural, it may qualify for the exemption if more than 50% of the acreage is devoted to an agricultural use. To request a qualified agricultural exemption on property not classified as agricultural, an owner must file a Claim For Farmland Exemption From Some School Property Taxes (2599). When a property is no longer qualified agricultural property, the owner is required to file a Request To Rescind Qualified Agricultural Property Exemption (2743). Property or buildings used for commercial or industrial purposes are not eligible to receive the agricultural exemption.
Property Transfers
State law caps or limits the rate of increase in your property's taxable value (taxable value is used to calculate your tax bill). The taxable value, in most cases, can't rise faster than the rate of inflation, with the exception of value added due to an improvement. Another exception to the cap is a transfer of ownership. In the tax year following a transfer of ownership, the property's taxable value will become uncapped and become equal to the assessed value of the property. The assessed value is the assessor's estimate of 50% of market value.
As a result of this uncapping, a new property owner is required to file the Property Transfer Affidavit (2766) within 45 days of the transfer of ownership. Starting on the 46th day after the ownership transfer, there is a $5/day penalty, $200 maximum, which begins to accrue.


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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: July 4, 2001 from Dubuque, Iowa Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: February 1, 1981 Age: 20 years old Height and Weight: 5'6, 115 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, brown eyes. Arensdorf has a mole near her navel. She wore blue-tinted soft contact lenses at the time of her disappearance. Arensdorf's ears are double-pierced. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A white polo shirt, tan shorts, black sandals, a gold chain necklace with an opal pendant, an opal ring and a toe ring.
Details of Disappearance
Arensdorf was last seen at approximately 2:00 a.m. on July 4, 2001 in Dubuque, Iowa. She was at Knickers Saloon (occasionally called Knickers Tavern) in the 2100 block of Central Avenue at the time of her disappearance. She has never been heard from again.Officials announced that Steven and David Peacock were at the bar on July 4. The brothers resided in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin at the time. They were questioned about Arensdrof several times and agreed to polygraph exams in April 2002. Authorities also searched one of the Peacocks' vehicles. The brothers have never been charged in connection to Arensdorf's case.
Robert F. Mootz was employed as a bartender at Knickers Saloon in 2001. He pled guilty to serving alcohol to a minor in May 2002. (Arensdorf was a minor at the time of her visit to the bar). Mootz told authorities that he and Arensdorf planned to share a cab to East Dubuque, Illinois after her friends departed from the bar. The plans apparently changed during the evening and Arensdorf did not leave with Mootz. He has not been charged in connection with her disappearance.
Arensdorf's family members said that it is uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning. Authorities searched Leisure Lake in Jackson County, Iowa after a witness reported seeing a body floating in the water on July 16, 12 days after Arensdorf vanished. The sighting turned out to be a false alarm and no evidence was discovered at the scene.
Investigators eliminated Arensdorf's boyfriend as a possible suspect in her disappearance in October 2001, three months after she was reported missing. Authorities said that they do not believe she left of her own accord. Arensdorf's case remains unsolved.
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Here's a simple delicious salad that we tasted at our local Trader Joe's using a great new (to us) vegan find - Goddess Dressing!
Prepare couscous as directed. I used a vegan broth for more flavor. Let cool.
For salad combine:
2 cups couscous
1 cup cooked chickpeas (or from a can)
1 cup Goddess dressing
Crumbled or cubed feta (omit for vegan version)
Sliced scallions
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
We combined ours with spinach - great as a wrap filling also!
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Scott Berkun
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Residence | Seattle, Washington[1] |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Author |
Employer | Self |
Website | www.scottberkun.com |
Scott Berkun is an American author and speaker.
Scott Berkun studied computer science, philosophy, and design at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003 on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0, Windows, MSN, and in roles including usability engineer, lead program manager, and UI design evangelist. He left Microsoft in 2003 with the goal of filling his bookshelf with books he has written. [2]
He has written three best-selling books: Making things happen, The Myths of Innovation, and Confessions of a Public Speaker.[3]
He taught creative thinking at the University of Washington, led an NYC architecture tour at the GEL conference, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on National Public Radio. Scott makes a living speaking at events and teaching seminars around the world on topics including leading teams, managing projects, and creative thinking.
In 2008 he received the Jolt Award for Productivity Winner for his book "The Myths of Innovation".
- The Art of Project Management, ISBN 0-596-00786-8
- Making things happen, ISBN 0-596-51771-8
- The Myths of Innovation, ISBN 1-4493-8962-7
- Confessions of a Public Speaker, ISBN 1-4493-0195-9
- Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, ISBN 0-9838731-0-0
- The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work, ISBN 978-1118660638
- The Ghost of My Father ISBN 978-0983873129
- ^ "Spotlight on Seattle Authors". innovationexcellence.com. 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
- ^ Berkun, Scott. Confessions of a Public Speaker. p. 221.
- ^ "Scott Berkun - O'Reilly Media". Retrieved 2011-09-18.
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2kg salmon
3 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra
6 onions, peeled and sliced
200 ml white wine
30g fresh ginger, peeled
1 French shallot, peeled
1 small bunch basil, leaves only
1 small tarragon, leaves only
1 small bunch chervil, leaves only
2 Melba toasts
100g butter
Roast fish is as satisfying on a winter day as a meat roast, and just as simple to prepare. In fact, it's a lot quicker.
Remove the salmon head. Cut away the two sides of salmon, retaining the skin. Trim the tail 5cm from the end. Use tweezers to remove the bones from the salmon fillets.
Preheat the oven to 160C (gas 2-3).
Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Add the onion and sauté it over a medium heat until it's soft. Then deglaze with white wine and reduce for five minutes. Season with salt and pepper, then pour the mixture into a flameproof roasting tin.
Put the ginger, shallot, the basil, tarragon and chervil leaves, Melba toast and butter in a food processor. Blend the ingredients until smooth, then season with salt and pepper.
Spread the herb mixture generously over one salmon fillet, skin-side down, then cover with the other and tie together with string.
Lay the salmon parcel on top of the softened onion, drizzle over a little olive oil, then bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Turn the salmon over and continue to cook for another 10 minutes.
From 'Rôtis – Roasts For Every Day Of The Week' by Stéphane Reynauld (Murdoch Books, £17.99)
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H. Khambhaita, G.J.M. Kruijff, M. Mancas, M. Gianni, P. Papadakis, F. Pirri, and M. Pizzoli (2011)
Help me to help you: How to learn intentions, actions and plans
In: Proc. of the AAAI Spring Symposium Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration.
The collaboration between a human and a robot is here understood as a learning process mediated by the instructor prompt behaviours and the apprentice collecting information from them to learn a plan. The instructor wears the Gaze Machine, a wearable device gathering and conveying visual and audio input from the in- structor while executing a task. The robot, on the other hand, is eager to learn both the best sequence of actions, their timing and how they interlace. The cross relation among actions is specified both in terms of time intervals for their execution, and in terms of location in space to cope with the instruction interaction with peo- ple and objects in the scene. We outline this process: how to transform the rich information delivered by the Gaze Machine into a plan. Specifically, how to obtain a map of the instructor positions and his gaze position, via visual slam and gaze fixations; further, how to obtain an action map from the running commentaries and the topological maps and, finally, how to obtain a temporal net of the relevant actions that have been extracted. The learned structure is then managed by the flexible time paradigm of flexible planning in the Situation Calculus for execution monitoring and plan generation.


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Preceptors - Experiential
Appreciation of Preceptors
The preceptors are an integral part of the pharmacy student's professional development, and are vital to the training of capable and caring pharmacy students. They are critical in transitioning the student from the classroom to the patient care setting by providing invaluable pharmacy practice experiences. A preceptor has the unique opportunity to mentor a pharmacy student, and impact their professional and personal growth.
The University of Houston College of Pharmacy truly appreciates the generosity, knowledge, and devotion to education of those who serve as our preceptors. Thank you!!!
Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPE)
The Doctor of Pharmacy student will complete 300 hours of Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences prior to their fourth year of pharmacy school.
IPPE has three components:
IPPE I and Professional Development - A structured pharmacy practice experience for P2 students in a long-term care pharmacy setting.
Introductory Community Pharmacy - Post-P2 students are assigned to a pharmacist preceptor in a community setting for four weeks.
IPPE II and Professional Development - A structured pharmacy practice experience for P3 students in a health-systems pharmacy setting.
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE)
The Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences consist of seven 6-week pharmacy practice experiences during the fourth year of pharmacy school. Doctor of Pharmacy students in APPEs participate under the supervision of registered pharmacist preceptors in a range of interdisciplinary patient care activities in a variety of settings from ambulatory, community and institutional facilities.
The components of APPE are: 4 Required APPEs and 3 Electives.
Required APPEs
1) Advanced Community Pharmacy
2) Advanced Hospital Pharmacy
3) Ambulatory Care - Primacy Care; Disease State Management; Family Medicine
4) Internal Medicine
Community Pharmacist Continuing Education
"The Community Pharmacist Preceptor Education Program" is a home-study continuing education activity for pharmacists developed by the American Pharmacists Association and the NACDS Foundation and supported originally by an independent educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc.
Pharmacists wishing to obtain continuing pharmacy education credit for the activity will now go to http://pharmacist.com/education and select the activity title on the CPE QuickList.


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As technology races ahead at an ever-increasing pace, more and more of society's activities are moving into an online digital world that requires unfettered access. Although many of us may feel like we're falling behind technologically, large groups of Californians face barriers that block their access to the online world. People with disabilities, seniors, the poor and those without strong reading skills are facing ever-increasing obstacles to technology use. Since technology is becoming essential to education, business, personal finance, politics, entertainment and shopping, if we don't do something, we may find someone we love, or even ourselves, left behind.
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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
Author Notes: To me baking gluten-free is not about cooking without traditional flour but cooking with a variety of flours. I enjoy the challenge of thinking outside my flour canister when baking. —Ladystiles
Makes 2 dozen cookies
- 1 cup all-natural chunky or smooth peanut butter
- 1 cup raw sugar
- 1/3 cup roughly chopped peanuts
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a baking sheet with butter and set aside. In a mixer combine peanut butter, chopped peanuts and sugars until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add eggs and baking soda and mix for another 2 minutes. Roll into walnut sized balls (1 tablespoon of dough) and flatten with your palm. If you'd like, add a few chocolate pieces to the top of the cookies. Bake for 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on a baking sheet for two minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Gluten-Free Baked Good


text: An "Insertable" System: More on Ferrari's Four-Wheel-Drive SystemMike Spinelli10/11/06 9:22amFiled to: News4WdFerrariTechnologyTransmission8EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink This image was lost some time after publication. It's almost exactly a year to date since we first heard about a Ferrari part-time 4WD system in development, and our motherland- covering amici at Italiaspeed have more on the gadgetry behind it. Dubbed an "insertable" four-wheel-drive system, Ferrari's new clockworks aim to quell the loss of torque associated with disbursing wheelspin to all corners, thereby giving Ferrari drivers the benefits of AWD in adverse weather conditions along with the otherwise superior performance of rear-wheel drive. The system involves an electronically controlled "second clutch," which (stop me if you've heard this one) connects the crankshaft upstream of the gearbox to the fixed-ratio secondary driving wheels, transferring torque to the front wheels when the driving wheels slip. The system can be used for both front- and mid-engine layouts. From the press release, it seems like an elegant solution to a vexing problem, but we'll get back to you when we finish our one-hour correspondence course in mechanical engineering. Advertisement 11.10.2006 FERRARI DEVELOP "INSERTABLE" FOUR WHEEL DRIVE [Italiaspeed]Related: Ferrari Developing Part-Time 4WD System [internal]


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Nearly two years after receiving a science-based proposal from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to protect workers from exposure to toxic crystalline silica dust, the White House Office of Management and Budget refuses to allow the agency to even seek feedback on its proposal. Public health advocates have put together a petition on the White House website urging the White House to act. The petition is worthy of your signature.
Overexposure to breathable crystalline silica causes an irreversible lung disease called silicosis. At least 1.7 million American workers are potentially exposed to this hazard. Since OSHA sent its proposal to the White House for review on February 14, 2011, we can estimate that 400 people have died from silicosis, and as many as 14,600 new cases of silicosis were diagnosed.
These deaths and illnesses are preventable.
Incredibly, we're just talking about the first step in the process here. OSHA isn't asking the White House to approve a final rule. It is simply asking the White House to allow the agency to collect public comments on its draft proposal. We're still many months and likely years away from a final silica public health standard.
In other words, if the Obama administration intends on taking action during the president's second term to protect workers from this entirely preventable disease, it needs to remove the logjam now.
More than three hundred public health scientists wrote the president last January urging him to stop the White House from gumming up the works. "The OSHA proposed rule on crystalline silica needs to be issued," the scientists wrote, "So that the public, workers, unions, public health experts and employers have the full opportunity to participate in the development of this important worker protection measure."
Their plea fell on deaf ears, perhaps because of administration desires to appease industry representatives in advance of the November election. The delay came after nine meetings between the White House and industry groups apparently opposed to even discussing how to best protect workers from unnecessary exposure to silica dust.
OSHA started working on this proposal in 1997. That's when Bill Clinton started his second term. A gallon of gasoline cost $1.22. Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear. We watched Titanic and The Full Monty in theaters. Tony Blair became prime minister of England. And Hansen was topping the charts.
We're past the election. It's time for the White House to let OSHA advance its science-based proposal. Delay only leads to more deaths and more disease.
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bookstores of new york
pictured above: community bookstore, mcnally jackson (i heart this place!), and the strand
on the topic of new york bookstores, i was excited to see this article: ten best indie bookstores of nyc
i may have an exciting new book project in my future. have you heard about these bad boys?
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you are great inspiration for me ( this blog actually)!
I love place from this post - lamps with books!
ah! increadible! I wish i had such a bookstores in my country.
I have a small question: what camera you're taking pictures. I saw "pentax" the tags here, but it is digital or analog?
wish you a good day!
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Good lord...those arms! My sister and I have come to the conclusion that Ryan Gosling is the ultimate trump card when pitting two celebrities against each other in a battle of looks, wit, intelligence, and personality (because this is the sort of important conversations we have...lol). He can pretty much never lose. The Gos is unstoppable!
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I finally watched Blue Valentine last night. Ryan was outstanding, as was the chemistry between him and Michelle.
I feel like I watch Ryan Gosling's films just to see HIM and his amazing acting abilities. Half Nelson blew me away, as did Lars and the Real Girl. This guy is going to go far.
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Q: I am searching for a feature that I think was on The Wonderful World of Disney about 30 years ago. It described the Coast Guard training school and boat rescue at Cape Disappointment in Astoria, Oregon. It may have been filmed to coincide with the release of The Boatniks. Can you give me any more information and is it available for purchase?
Marian, San Pedro, California
Marian, San Pedro, California
A [Dave Smith]: Perhaps you are thinking of Cruise of the Eagle. Here is the entry from my Disney A to Z encyclopedia: "'People and Places' featurette; released on March 19, 1959. The varied and important services of the U.S. Coast Guard are glimpsed. They warn ships of dangerous shoals, keep sea lanes open with icebreakers, face gale and hurricane to accurately forecast the weather in remote areas of the Atlantic and Pacific, and perform rescue services to ships and downed aircraft. We are also told of a training program of men of the Coast Guard and their many hardships. Filmed in CinemaScope. 18 min." The film is not available for purchase.


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Hey guys. Quick update. Sorry it took me so long but we are home from the hospital. Thank you for all the love and prayers!! We got home Saturday afternoon and my girl is doing much better. And I am back on track and full speed ahead. I have a blog coming later. Just wanted to wish you an awesome Tuesday!
Remember: treat your body like you would treat your dream car. Keep it clean. Fill it with premium fuel. Keep it moving. And don't forget to show it off!!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Yay, SO glad to hear that your daughter is HOME and improving!
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Glad your daughter is doing better and you guys are back home!
- January 31, 2012 at 10:56 AM
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Just found your blog. So happy to hear your daughter is home and doing well. It is so scary when our little ones get sick. Cant wait to hear more about you and your journey.
- January 31, 2012 at 11:58 AM
So wonderful to have you guys back home and doing well!!
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25 Classic Quotes on Western Hegemony
1- "It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."
- General Colin Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 "Desert Storm" terror campaign (200,000 people!)]
2- "I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are."
-President George Bush 1988 [Bush was demonstrating his patriotism by excusing an act of cold-blooded mass-murder by the U.S. Navy. On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian commercial airliner. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed. The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial corridor in Iranian airspace. The targeting of it by the U.S. Navy was blatantly illegal. That it was grossly immoral is also obvious. Except to a patriot.]
3- "To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-military supremacy)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.... The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
-George Kennan [Director of Policy Planning U.S. State Department 1948]
4- "If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need."
-U.S. Brig. General William Looney (Interview Washington Post, August 30, 1999) [Referring, in reality, to the brutal mass- murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during 10,000 sorties by American/British war criminals in the first eight months of 1999]
5- "The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
-Ramsey Clark [Former U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson]
6- "I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these [Third World] nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans."
-General David Sharp [Former United States Marine Commandant 1966]
7- "We have no honourable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment."
-Martin Luther King, Jr. ["A Time to Break the Silence" speech given at Riverside Church New York City April 4, 1967]
8- "Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media."
-Ralph McGehee [Former CIA analyst & Author] CIABASE; The Crisis of Democracy Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA
9- "The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world."
-Amnesty International ["United States of America - Rights for All" October 1998]
10- "We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."
-Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]
11- "We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source, of at least a proportion of the oil which we require."
- British Royal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards Iraq, 1913
12- "What we want to have in existence, what we ought to have been creating in this time is some administration with Arab institutions which we can safely leave while pulling the strings ourselves; something that won't cost very much, which the Labour government can swallow consistent with its' principles, but under which our economic and political interests will be secure. [.....] If the French remain in Syria we shall have to avoid giving them the excuse of setting up a protectorate. If they go, or if we appear to be reactionary in Mesopotamia, there is always the risk that [King] Faisal will encourage the Americans to take over both, and it should be borne in mind that the Standard Oil company is very anxious to take over Iraq."
- Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Head of the British government's 'India Office Political Department.' 1919
13- "If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect."
- Private memo from The Council of Foreign Relations to the US State Department, 1941
14- "Our strategic and security interests throughout the world will be best safeguarded by the establishment in suitable spots of 'Police Stations', fully equipped to deal with emergencies within a large radius. Kuwait is one such spot from which Iraq, South Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf could be controlled. It will be worthwhile to go to considerable trouble and expense to establish and man a 'Police Station' there."
- British Foreign Office, policy memo, 1947
15- "We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its' population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
- George Kennan, former Head of the US State Department Policy Planning Staff, Document PPS23, 24th February 1948
16- "I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime."
-Albert Einstein, 1947
17- "The target suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad."
- CIA officer testifying to US Senate hearing, after bloody CIA aided Ba'th Party coup overthrew Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Kassem, 1963
18- "Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to create a counterproductive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly to increase the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union. Destruction of locks and dams, however – if handled right – might offer promise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drown people. By shallow-flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread starvation (more than a million) unless food is provided – which we could offer to do 'at the conference table'."
- John McNaughton, US State Department Vietnam policy, as quoted in 'The Mentality of the Backroom Boys.' Article by Noam Chomsky, 1973
19- "The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its' determination to continue to be a world power."
- Henry Kissinger, post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975
20- "It would not have been possible for a political party to be more committed to a national home for the Jews in Palestine than was Labour."
- Harold Wilson, former British Labour Party Prime Minister, 1981
21- "One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all."
- Ronald Reagan, former US President, basking in the triumph that was the US invasion of Grenada, 1983
22- Q. "Mr. President, have you approved of covert activity to destabilise the present government of Nicaragua?" A. "Well, no, we're supporting them, the - oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I was thinking of El Salvador, because of the previous, when you said Nicaragua. Here again, this is something upon which the national security interests, I just - I will not comment."
- Ronald Reagan, former US President, Washington press conference, February 13th, 1983, as quoted by John Pilger in 'Heroes'
23- "After seeing 'RAMBO' last night, I know what to do the next time this happens."
- Ronald Reagan, former US President, as reported by Daily Express, July 2nd, 1985
24- "Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on the battlefield could be significant with potential radiological and toxicological effects. [...] Under combat conditions, the most exposed individuals are probably ground troops that re- enter a battlefield following the exchange of armour-piercing munitions. [...] We are simply highlighting the potential for levels of DU exposure to military personnel during combat that would be unacceptable during peacetime operations. [...DU is..]... a low level alpha radiation emitter which is linked to cancer when exposures are internal, [and] chemical toxicity causing kidney damage. [...] Short term effects of high doses can result in death, while long term effects of low doses have been linked to cancer. [...] Our conclusion regarding the health and environmental acceptability of DU penetrators assume both controlled use and the presence of excellent health physics management practices. Combat conditions will lead to the uncontrolled release of DU. [...] The conditions of the battlefield, and the long term health risks to natives and combat veterans may become issues in the acceptability of the continued use of DU kinetic penetrators for military applications."
- Excerpts from the July 1990 Science and Applications International Corporation report: ' Kinetic Energy Penetrator Environment and Health Considerations', as included in Appenix D - US Army Armaments, Munitions and Chemical Command report: 'Kinetic Energy Penetrator Long Term Strategy Study, July 1990' These documents state clearly and equivocally that the US army was well aware of the radioactive and toxic dangers of Depleted Uranium ammunition long before the first shots of the war were fired.
25- "We do not have any defence treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defence or security commitments to Kuwait."
- Margaret Tutweiller, US State Department spokeswoman, 24th July 1990, nine days before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait


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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Santa and the second or maternal family name is Ramírez.
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Carlos Johelín Santa Ramírez (born 7 January 1978 in Azua de Compostela[1]) is a sprinter from the Dominican Republic who specializes in the 400 metres.
He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics as well as the World Championships in 1999, 2003 and 2005, and finished fifth at the 2005 World Athletics Final.
In 2006 he finished fifth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2006 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Arismendy Peguero, Danis García and Juan Betances, and won a bronze medal in the same event at the 2006 IAAF World Cup with the American team.
His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 2004 in Huelva.
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- Carlos Santa profile at IAAF
- Picture of Carlos Santa[3]
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- ^ Carlos Santa, segundo en 400 metros en torneo de la reunión de Madrid (in Spanish), Periódico Hoy, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, 24 February 2005, retrieved 15 April 2012[permanent dead link]
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This is The Boiler Monkey.
Not to be confused with a Monkey Boiler which is what I typed on accident the first time. That would be something entirely different.
No, I'm talking about one of Albuquerque's newest food trucks -- er, in this case, food bus. The bustaurant, as they call it, looks pretty sweet from the outside. And even more surprising is that it's just as cool on the inside, and patrons are welcome to take a seat and dine inside.
And what do they serve at The Boiler Monkey? Crêpes, of course. Some really freaking delicious crêpes.
A fine example is the crêpe called My Navidad. It's filled with blueberry pie filling and I chose the option to add goat cheese. It was a perfect pairing. Perfect and plump.
If you want to get in on this crêpe action for yourself, follow them online. And once you've tracked them down, gorge on some of the best crêpes around.


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There are 75 billion blogs in Cyberspace. Only O-N-E is devoted entirely to trashy Filipino movies about the Vietnam War. Welcome to that blog!
Friday, 7 December 2012
And the Filipino Vietnam War rages on... on facebook!
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Do you have any info on VHS editions of Siege of Firebase Gloria. I know it's an Australian movie but it was made in the Philippines and it is easily in the top 5 greatest movies ever made in my opinion. I bid once on the laserdisc but it got away. I can't even afford a vhs tape for what it's been going for.
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If you haven't seen The Siege of Firebase Gloria you need to get on that right away. It is the most insane, over the top, gory, kick ass, highest body count, sizable budget, made in the Phillipines Vietnam movie you will ever see. I hate Tarantino but even I had to give him props for giving props to Gloria and showing a print.
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(ANSAmed) - DUBAI - The centuries-old traditional desert food sources, camels and dates, are now part of the international gourmet food chain. In 2007 in the United Arab Emirates, a company called Al-Nassma made the first camel-milk chocolate. A recognized pioneer, Al-Nassma today has placed its products in every mall and commercial district in the Gulf region.
In 2010, people began eating camel burgers washed down with date-and-camel-milk shakes. Today the first restaurant to serve camel burgers in Dubai's old city, The Local House, has become a must stop on the local and tourist circuit. Another local pioneer, Cafe2Go, is about to open a second restaurant, offering a wide range of camel meat and dairy products. In Saudi Arabia in 2008, Bateel launched a line of 120 different kinds of luxury sweets based on dates. It is now a chain, retailing a deluxe line of date creations, from chocolate to drinks to cakes.
What began as a niche local market has now made it into Europe. In March, the EU approved camel milk for potential import, declaring it to be more digestible and richer in vitamins than dairy milk. Cafe2Go is a leading, one-of-a-kind franchise coffee shop, and is known as the only place in Dubai where you can get a camel milk latte or camel fajita. The restaurant offers a menu based on camel meat and dairy, from ice cream to cappuccino, from meat dishes to cheese sandwiches.
Starting out in one of the city's most renowned hotels, it recently opened a new branch, launched a mobile station and announced it will be opening two more restaurants in the next six months. (ANSAmed).


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