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Poisonous Ingredient
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We are a start up providing VOIP & Billing solutions, our headquarter is in Spain. Currently, we are rebuilding our website and we need a new logo in order to start.
You can see our actual website here : http://www.star2billing.com/
We are open to ideas, color and design, as well as icons to give us an identity.
The target audience is commercial and professional telecom companies such as:-
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Residential, SME and wholesale telecom providers
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The logo should contain the words Star2Billing, and the subtext - "Commercial Open Source Telephony"
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Q. In our prayer group recently, we had a discussion of what is an "active" Catholic. Most of the group said that it means Sunday Mass and confession, plus involvement in one or more ministries or programs of the parish. I felt left out as, with four young children, I am not able to donate any volunteer time to the parish. Does this mean I am not an "active" Catholic?
A. Here's a reply from Msgr. M. Francis Mannion:
The consensus of your prayer group on what constitutes an active Catholic is, I am afraid, widely shared. An active Catholic is thought to be one who, besides regular attendance of Mass and the sacraments, serves as a reader or extraordinary minister of holy Communion, teaches in the religious education or the RCIA program or is a member of the parish pastoral council. When we think of a "very active" Catholic, we are inclined to thinking of someone who is highly involved in parish ministries and programs.
Such a way of thinking is, at one level, not wrong. Every parish community depends on groups of parishioners who are willing to assist in the life of the parish. Without them, the parish would be poor and would not operate very well.
But, fundamentally, the consensus of your prayer group is not adequate. The fact is the most basic and necessary description of an active Catholic is a person who, besides participation in the Mass and the sacraments, seeks to live out the Catholic faith in the ordinary circumstances of his or her life.
Before we serve God in the parish, we serve him first in our homes, as parents, children, spouses and as single persons, and in society at large as workers, professionals and citizens.
Not enough Catholics think of their marriage as a vocation and the primary means by which they are active Catholics. Living together "for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or health," constitutes the framework within which most Catholics live their faith actively.
The role of parents in raising their children involves the same sort of commitment. The Church has, since the Second Vatican Council, promoted the idea of the family as the "domestic church." All that goes on in the lives of parents and children goes to make up a truly active unit of the Church.
Consider also the area of work and the professions we have. We are not adequately inclined to think of these as vocations or the arenas within which we can be active Catholics. Yet they are in truth vocations, because they are the ways in which we serve God.
Whether we are employers or employees, there are a whole host of virtues that we are called upon to practice in our daily work. These include diligence, wisdom, fairness, charity, tolerance, solidarity and consideration of the needs and failures of others.
Being an active Catholic in our places of work does not mean that we go around preaching to others. It means acting out our faith in the knowledge that actions speak louder than words. Each profession or job brings with it a whole host of possibilities for serving the kingdom of God and embodying the Catholic faith.
Each and every one of us is called to be an active Catholic. This does not begin and end with what we do on Sunday morning. Certainly, the liturgical aspect of faith is central. But being an active Catholic means living our faith in the ordinary circumstances of life Monday through Saturday.
If on top of that we are able to take on some participation in the ministries and programs of the parish, so much the better. But such activities should be regarded as secondary to what has traditionally been called "the apostolate of the laity," the work of advancing God's kingdom within the everyday circumstances of life.
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Blunt amendment voted down in Senate
The Senate today voted 51-48 against a proposal that would have allowed any employer to opt out of providing health care coverage that they find morally disagreeable.
The vote was mainly along party lines, with one Republican voting against the proposal and three Democrats voting for it.
Many of the Democrats who voted against the bill said the proposal went much beyond the spectrum of contraception and would have allowed employers to opt out of covering any kind of medical treatment that it had moral objections to.
Said Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services: "The Obama administration believes that decisions about medical care should be made by a woman and her doctor, not a woman and her boss."
Frustrating about the whole process is that the bill was tacked on to a $109 billion transportation bill that is backed by both parties, meaning that action has now stalled on this bill that is not related in any way to contraception or religious freedom that had support from both of our country's widely polarized political parties. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allowed the amendment to move forward after it became clear that Republicans would not let the transportation bill progress without including Senator Blunt's amendment.
I feel safe in saying that we haven't heard the end of the contraception debate, especially as the US bishops have vowed that they won't rest until the entire mandate is repealed, saying in a February 10 statement that "The only complete solution to this religious liberty problem is for HHS to rescind the mandate of these objectionable services." Hopefully it can continue to be debated without coming at the expense of other important pieces of legislation.


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A jury trial was averted in Sunnyside Municipal Court yesterday when the city of Sunnyside and motel owners Fred and Helen Kim reached a settlement.
The case began in June when Sunnyside police charged the couple with permitting or maintaining a nuisance at the Townhouse Motel they own near Sixth Street and Yakima Valley Highway. The motel had been the site of 97 police calls in the past three years.
The Kims were scheduled to go to trial yesterday, Thursday, but that was cancelled when Judge Steven Michels approved the stipulated order of continuance.
The continuance dismisses the charges as long as the Kims comply with the agreement. It requires the couple to maintain their motel property in a clean, neat and presentable fashion and to cooperate with city officials.
Terms of the agreement were negotiated between the Kims, their attorney Doug Garrison, city prosecutors and police. They include requirements for the motel owners to report suspicious activity or persons and comply with BEST standards.
The acronym for Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking, BEST practices required of the Kims range from attending training classes to installing security cameras.
Under the BEST system outlined in yesterday's agreement, the Townhouse's requirements will also include training employees in detecting signs of possible illegal activity, establishing quiet hours and ensuring vehicles, guests and visitors at the motel are all registered in the front office.
The city of Sunnyside also has responsibilities under terms of the deal.
They include requiring city officials to cease and desist from making threats against the Kims, contacting the couple if there is a perceived problem with a tenant prior to police action and not blocking the Kims' retail property at 16th Street and Edison Avenue.
In approving the deal between Sunnyside and the Kims, Michels praised the couple for steps they have already taken to clean up the motel. "I'm glad this has worked out," he said.
Yesterday's agreement wraps up a long journey through Sunnyside's legal system for the Kims.
The couple had an original trial date in July cancelled when city prosecutor Kathleen Hitchcock was charged with DUI by the Washington State Patrol.
A re-scheduled trial in August had to again be postponed because Hitchcock's replacement previously sat as a judge on one of the Kims' previous hearings.
Fred Kim praised Sunnyside police for their help in drawing up an agreement and says he's happy to finally have the case resolved.
"It feels great!" he smiled.
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Robert Watkins - Another Mystery
Of course finding the work of yet another talented unknown is just a reminder that there were so many accomplished illustrators working in the field back then - and only a tiny portion of them ever made it to "name status".
This album cover might seem a little dull at first glance (I blame the muted colour scheme for that), but Watkins created a great composition filled with interesting character types - and an amusing scenario that isn't immediately obvious.
In fact I didn't even realize that everyone was waiting for the pretty flutist's reaction to the joker on the trombone's fake mouse until I got the record home!
What puzzles me most about Watkins' illustration is why, after doing such a fabulous job of creating very distinctive and individual characters with subtle and nuanced expressions, did he dash off a generic face on the tuba player. Did he feel that character wasn't worth the extra effort? Was he rushing to finish... or did he just not care for tuba players?
We'll probably never know - just as we'll probably never see any more work by Robert Watkins. My internet search didn't turn up any leads. Whoever he was, this album cover is all he left for us to ponder.
My Robert Watkins Flickr set.
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Looks to me like the tuba player might be an older person, maybe the teacher? He may have wanted to focus on the children, or he may just have wanted to have this guy blend into the background? A mystery indeed, but a lovely illustration.ReplyDelete
I'm pretty sure that the tuba player is less distinct for a couple of reasons: 1) he's the furthest back of the group, and loosening the detail helps to recede the space (as Stephen says), and 2) Watkins didn't want the tuba player's face to compete with the trombone player, and by extension, with the mouse sight gag.
At least, that's what I thought when I saw it. As you say, we'll probably never know...
This illustration has those same great qualities as a Barbara Bradley illustration... they look like real people and real natural body gestures. I like the simplicity of the all white background, which gives greater interest to all the different shapes in the composition. Watkins has turned an other wise mediocre illustration into an entertaining illustration.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
What a sweet illustration! I love the eye expressions especially- they have an alertness to them that's really charming.ReplyDelete


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Since I've been contributing to Wired, confirmed they're a big bunch of bike nerds and visiting their offices in San Francisco yesterday spotted the employee bike rack. Nerds for sure.
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Not seen here and I'll upload later are the city whips, custom bikes, and sweet fixies in the office too. A floor below Wired is Strava and that's a lunch ride I'd like to race, especially if the Reddit crew shows up too. They're all in the same building. Just guessing here, but the competition for street sign sprints and San Francisco's best segments just ticked up a notch.
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For nearly a dozen years, George Gibson worked in the shadows of Miami, meeting intravenous drug users at bus stops, corners and alleys to exchange dirty needles for clean ones.
The exchanges, typically on a one-to-one ratio, served as the entrée into a conversation about the risks of spreading HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne diseases through tainted needles and, in the best case scenario , the first step toward drug treatment.
He has since stopped his small, unofficial needle exchange program – which served a dozen or so users – but he now hopes Florida lawmakers will approve a bill for a five-year pilot program in Miami-Dade County to legalize syringe and needle exchange programs. Such exchanges operate in at least 35 states, but remain illegal in Florida. The bill is based on research conducted by University of Miami students.
"It's not a pretty business, but if I can get one person a clean needle which helps to stop the spread of disease, then it's worth it,'' says Gibson, 46, a community activist who also distributed educational materials and condoms in Liberty City, Overtown and Brownsville. "I am hoping they finally make this legal because it saves lives.''
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Rep. Mark S. Pafford, a West Palm Beach Democrat, is trying to move HB 735 bill through the Judiciary Committee and the Health & Human Services Committee but time is running short in the legislative session. A similar bill in the Senate, sponsored by Miami Democratic Sen. Gwen Margolis, has stalled.
Still, Pafford is continuing to fight for the measure, hoping to attach it as an amendment to another bill.
"I really didn't think this bill had a chance,'' he said, adding that the efforts of the UM students helped raise its profile. "I've got to find a bill to amend it to and, with a little luck, it'll get out of the House and to the Senate. If not this year, maybe next year."
In taking on the issue, he said, "This is absolutely about public safety. We are talking about trying to lower the spread of diseases and limiting the exposure of used needles to first responders like firefighters.''
The proposed legislation was inspired by a study published by a UM student showing that Miami had eight times the number of publicly discarded needles as San Francisco, where the estimated population of injection drug users is double that of Miami. Needle exchanges have operated for 25 years in San Francisco.
The bill calls for the exchange program to provide free, clean and unused needles and hypodermic syringes in exchange for used needles and syringes as a way to curb the transmission of diseases among injection drug users, as well as to protect emergency workers and members of the public who might inadvertently come into contact with contaminated injection supplies. Participants would also receive educational materials, HIV counseling and testing and referrals to drug treatment. The program would operate for five years and be funded through grants and donations.
Historically, needle exchange programs have met some resistance, with critics arguing that such programs facilitate and encourage drug use. In the late 1980s, Republican Sen. Jesse Helms led the effort to ban federal funding of the programs. In 2009, Congress, then controlled by Democrats, rescinded the ban only to have the ban reinstated three years later by a Republican Congress.
Even with the ban, state and local governments can sponsor the programs but in Florida, the issue of funding is irrelevant because drug paraphernalia is outlawed for use with illegal substances.
Pafford sponsored the bill after learning about the troubling results of the study, published by Hansel Tookes, a third-year student at UM's Miller School of Medicine. The bill comes as legislators are also considering a measure that would prohibit the sales of certain drug paraphernalia such as bongs and pipes. A Senate version of that bill cleared a critical legislative panel this week.
In late 2010, Tookes and a team of students spent hundreds of hours scouring some of Miami's most notorious spots for illegal drug use, interviewing 448 injection drug users who admitted to throwing away a total of 9,845 needles in the streets. Of those, they sold or shared 700 needles. In all, 95 percent of the used needles were discarded improperly, potentially exposing the users and others to blood disease. In comparison, 13 percent of used needles were tossed improperly in San Francisco. That city's syringe access program, one of the largest in the nation, was launched in 1988. Last year, it distributed approximately 2.4 million clean syringes.
The risks are real: Injection drug users accounted for 8 percent of all new HIV infections in 2010 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the needle exchange programs seem to be effective. A 2009 study in the Journal of Urban Health showed 12 percent of injection drug users in San Francisco were HIV positive. In Miami-Dade, the figure is almost double, with 23 percent of injection drug users estimated to be HIV positive.
In Baltimore, infection rates among injection drug users have fallen significantly since public health officials launched a needle exchange program 19 years ago. When they started, about 60 percent of all new HIV cases were among the injection drug population. Last year, that number was 15 percent, according the Baltimore City Health Department.
Between 2004 and 2012, the department issued 3,488,369 needles. It conducted 3,446 HIV tests and made 2,487 drug treatment referrals. The program is operated out of 35 Winnebagos,retrofitted with exam rooms, testing equipment and safe injection supplies.
"It took some time for the people to trust us,'' said Chris Serio-Chapman, the department's program director for community risk reduction services. "The idea is to go where they are at and to make them feel comfortable. In our conversations, we are asking our clients what can we do to help them and if they are ready for treatment.''
In Florida, Tookes' study -- published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence medical journal in 2011-- presented the stark reality of illicit needle use in Miami, galvanizing the support of medical students and healthcare professionals across the state to bring needle exchanges to Florida. Among the supporters: the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association, the Florida Nurse Practitioner Network and the Florida Academy of Family Physicians.
"The Florida Medical Association supports this legislation, which addresses a serious public health issue and has the real potential to save taxpayer dollars," said Timothy J. Stapleton, FMA executive vice president in a statement. "These medical students have done a tremendous job not only researching the issue and its impacts, but also promoting this non-partisan bill and garnering favorable support among community and medical stakeholders, lawmakers, and the public,"
Armed with the study results, Tookes and three other students – Marek Hirsch, Dyani Loo and Chanelle Diaz -- launched a grassroots campaign called The Florida Needle Exchange Initiative to lobby for legalization. Pafford and Margolis agreed to take it on.
Among the most powerful messages: The program saves lives and taxpayer money.
The cost of a needle is about 97 cents. The estimated lifetime cost healthcare for an HIV positive person runs about $400,000 to $600,000, according to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
"The entire community is at risk when you are talking about discarded needles,'' said Tookes. "There is overwhelming evidence that getting the needles off the streets reduces the transmission of diseases.''
Miami Herald staff writer Mary Ellen Klas contributed to this report.


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Here's my yearly assortment of tech gadgets that all make great gifts for this holiday season. Many of these products are new this year so it's unlikely you'll be giving something your recipient already has. I'd also encourage you to look back over the past year's columns for other products that reviewed well.
$10 to $50
Vinturi Wine Aerator –Vinturi of nearby Carlsbad, CA created the category of wine aeration and continues to lead with ingenious products. They're beautifully designed and constructed, and work by aerating the wine as it's poured through the device, one glass at a time. As the wine flows through a small channel, it creates a pressure differential that sucks in and mixes air into the stream. In my tests I found that it reduced the harshness of younger and less expensive wines and opened up the bouquet, creating the same results in a few seconds that normally would take an hour or more of the wine sitting in a glass. If you're still skeptical, the Vinturi products have been broadly accepted and recommended by wineries, wine retailers and experts.
This year the company introduced a new smaller version for traveling. The Vinturi Travel is 5 1/2 inches tall, weighs four ounces and comes with a hard case for travel. $50. Vinturi.com.
OpenIt – If you give this as a gift, be sure to write "open me first" on the package. It's a tool designed to open packages of all kinds. It snips open plastic clamshells with its pliers-like jaws, slices rugged cardboard with its retractable knife, and opens battery compartments with its screwdrivers. $12. enjoyzibra.com.
The Master Lock 1500iD speed dial is a reinvention and a vast improvement to the combination lock. Instead of a rotating knob with numbers, it opens on directional movements of a similar looking knob, moving it up, down, left and right in a particular sequence. That makes it faster to open; it works in the dark and you can set your own combination. About $10.
$51 to $150
Media Players – Apple TV, Roku and WD Live are small boxes that plug into your TV and stream Netflix and other content to your set, bypassing your cable company. Each of these products is simple to set up and use. Roku ($60 to $100) and WD TV Live Hub Media Center ( $130) offer the broadest range of content. AppleTV ($100) also works with iTunes. If you're tired of cable fare and want to control what you watch, each of these products is sure to satisfy. (apple.com, roku.com, wdc.com)
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Kevin Anthony Devine needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 41 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
http://www.realenergy.ie - company name is Real Energy
Real Energy is a Company that supplies innovative heating technologies including renewable energy solutions to the domestic and commercial heating community wiithin the island of ireland. We supply high efficiency gas condensing boilers/solar thermal systems/heat pump technology/floor heating systems/wall heating systems/skirting radiators/trench heaters/combined heat and power systems. We offer a consultancy/design and maintenance contracts as part of our product offering.
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Liz Jones
Year started with KUOW: 2006
Liz reports on immigration and emerging communities for KUOW. Her work covers issues within our region's growing immigrant and refugee populations, as well as stories connected to minority groups with a longer history in the area.
She comes to KUOW after several years at an online news startup, which was later bought by Oxygen Media in New York. Her last position there was health editor for the network's website.
Liz has also lived in Spain and Peru and speaks Spanish. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a degree in communications.
Liz's work for KUOW has taken her to Mexico and India. Both those reporting trips produced award-winning documentaries. In 2009, Liz received a regional Murrow award for a documentary about indigenous Mexicans who migrate to the Seattle area. In 2014, she won a national Gracie award and RTNDA's Kaleidoscope Award for a series that focused on immigration-related links between India and the Puget Sound region.
Her work has also been heard on national shows including NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Here & Now, PRI's The World, Latino USA, Marketplace, The Takeaway and BBC News Service.


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Deputy Administrator of Cotton and Tobacco Programs for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Darryl W. Earnest, has approved both the Cotton Board's and Cotton Incorporated's 2009 budgets.
The Cotton Board submitted a letter requesting approval of the budgets on Sept. 15, 2008 following their annual meeting. USDA approved an operation budget of $4,680,355 for the Cotton Board.
Cotton Incorporated's approved budget consists of $78 million in program funding and $3.1 million in supplemental funding, bringing their total approved budget to $81.1 million. The breakdown of Cotton Incorporated's budget is as follows:
• Fiber Research Committee $17,208,000.
• Product Research & Development $10,285,000.
• Global Strategy & Implementation $14,164,000.
• Consumer Marketing Committee $31,890,000.
• Administration $4,453,000.
• Supplemental Funding $3,100,000.
The Cotton Research & Promotion Act established the Cotton Board as a quasi-governmental, non-profit entity to serve as the administrator of the Cotton Research & Promotion Program. Funded by America's cotton producers and importers through the cotton check-off, the program's research and promotion activities are conducted worldwide by Cotton Incorporated, the Cotton Board's sole-source contracting organization, to increase the demand for and improve the market position of cotton.
The Cotton Research & Promotion Program continues to work in all areas of cotton's pipeline — from the field to the consumer — to keep cotton the No. 1 fiber choice in the U.S.
For more information about the Cotton Board and the innovative activities stemming from the program, visit www.cottonboard.org.


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The 101 Quick and Easy Secrets blog has moved and has a new name.
Check out Text and Image Photography.
This is my first post for the blog for the new Quick and Easy Secrets book series.
I present you with my first picture, a picture that will appear in the first book of my book series, 101 Quick and Easy Secrets to Create Winning Photographs.
Just in case if you wanted to know that's rat-pack member Peter Lawford drinking out of the hose. I photoshopped him into the TV.
Okay, so I'm not a purist. Anyone who manipulates in Photoshop might be considered by traditional photographers as "unpure."
Hey, but that doesn't mean you can't go both ways–taking some photos on film (or on a sensor) and not manipulating them a bit. I do do this sometimes, actually about half the time. Sometimes I'll hit a perfect 10 with a photograph, getting the right amount of light, framing to my (and others) likings and capturing what the editor of Popular Photography magazine might look for–a photo that makes you say, "wow!"
TIP: Remember that the "Wow!" is a matter of taste.
What one person thinks is a spectacular photo might just look derivative to another. For example, you may have taken the brightest, clearest and most colorful picture of a flower and the editor of many photography magazines may like it and publish it.
But that same picture may not appeal to someone who's looking for an offbeat image or an image that no longer can be obtained. This second scenario would more likely be an image that might be accepted by a avant garde gallery or museum.
Take for example the image posted at the bottom of this entry. I submitted it to Popular Photography magazine. No dice here. But that doesn't mean I tossed it to my computers trash can or recycle bin. I print it out and sell it regularly. The hip modern people love it.
Oh by the way, I transformed (select the part of the image you want with one of Photoshop's selection tools, then click on Edit>Transform, then pick one of the transform tools) the image and put it inside the old television set I had shot when I saw it in a museum in Paris.


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[A version of this post originally appeared on September 11, 2011.]
I've struggled with whether to blog about my memories of September 11, 2001, as suggested at Geneabloggers. It seems trite, somehow, a superficial way to treat the scariest, most vividly horrific day of my life. But I've been thinking about that day all weekend, and I want to write about it. So I'll write, and I think I may even hit "publish" when I'm done.
The night of September 11, 2001, and the afternoon of the next day, I wrote down my experiences, because I thought I'd want to remember them. I didn't realize at the time that I wouldn't be able to forget if I tried. I've never had to refer back to what I wrote when writing or telling someone how I experienced the day. The memories are too vivid, and too detailed. This will be long, I must warn you. I've tried to edit it before, and I can only revisit the memories in minute detail. They don't make any sense to me when I try to cover just the important points.
I was a sophomore in HS, in Chemistry class, when an announcement was made over the PA system. The assistant principal got on, and announced that the principal was going to make an announcement. Then the principal came on, and announced that two planes had been "purposefully" flown into the Twin Towers. My first reaction was a flash forward, to some time in the future, as I told my yet-unborn children how their grandfather had been killed the day the World Trade Center was bombed.
I specifically remember thinking "bombed," though I knew quite well that the announcement had not said that the towers had been bombed. But what word does the English language have for when you fly passenger planes into skyscrapers full of people? "Bombing" was how we conceived of terrorism at the time. It wasn't immediate that we were actually able to settle on using the word "attack" to describe what had happened that day. If you read other people's accounts of their memories, they are often full of terrified phone calls telling them to turn on the TV because "something happened in New York!" And so I thought "bombed," though I knew the word was inaccurate. But mostly, I just thought my dad was dead.
But only for a split second. Immediately thereafter, I went into what I suppose you would call "denial." It was simply inconceivable that my dad could be dead. I wouldn't be able to handle that. He just couldn't be. And so, I went about my day. "If anything's really wrong," I thought, "they'd tell me." (By "really wrong," I, in my adolescent self-centeredness, thought only of things that would affect my own life.) I had two close friends in that class who, I later found out, didn't know what at all to do with me. They knew my dad worked in the Twin Towers, but I was not at all acknowledging the fact. I simply did my chem lab. I burned my finger on some hot glass. But I didn't talk about my dad. (My sister, a floor below me, I would later learn, was crying and leaving class repeatedly to call my mom. I, meanwhile, was acting as if everything would be okay, because, well, it just had to be.)
When my first of two periods of Chemistry was over, an unusually large number of people were called down to the office. I took comfort in the fact that Laura and I weren't among them. If anything were really wrong, they'd be calling us down to the office. All those kids who got called down, those must be the kids whose parents were injured or killed. Our dad must have been okay. It didn't occur to me that it might be hours, if not days, before some people were accounted for, and that there was no way that anyone had heard from or about my father - or anyone else's - yet.
During our second period of Chemistry, there was another announcement: a plane had hit the Pentagon. And another: all after-school activities were cancelled. And then, after that period - we were called down to the office. I went to my locker first. I took the long way to get there. I just didn't want to hear what they might be about to tell me. I ran into a friend. She said she'd been looking for me, she wanted to talk to me. I - not at all realizing the scope of what was happening, not realizing that it must be first on everyone's mind, not just my own - thought she was going to tell me what the drama with her boyfriend at the football game Friday night had been about. Instead, she asked how I was. "I don't know," I answered. "I'm going to find out." How I was depended entirely on what they told me in the office - and again, at this point, I assumed that "they" (the office staff? my mother? the authorities?) would know whether Dad was okay.
Outside the office was a large crowd of students. One gave me a pinky-swear that my dad would be okay. I thought that was inane, but didn't say so. Another told me that my sister had been crying, really hard. I don't remember who that was, and I'm glad, because it made me think that Dad was dead and Laura had already been told. (She was probably just trying to let me know that my sister needed me.) Another told me to go talk to the woman wearing the red sweater. I went to talk to her. All she told me - this was supposed to be the big moment of truth - was that Virginia Ward was coming to pick me up. "I don't know who that is." But that was the name she had. A friend suggested that it might be Virginia R*****. She was the only Virginia we knew. Of course it was her. But I wasn't thinking clearly.
She came to pick us up, and then we had to go get my youngest sister at elementary school. Virginia asked me to come inside with her, since I was the oldest. In the front hall - there was a desk set up, anticipating the high demand for pulling kids out of school - a teacher told us that the kids hadn't been told yet. Virginia told me that I'd have to tell Anna, because she should hear it from family. I was lost. I felt like just a kid myself. I didn't know what was going on. How could this be my job?
As Anna left her classroom, she put her chair on her desk, just like everyone always had to do in elementary school. I seemed like such a normal, everyday, childhood movement. I couldn't believe it could coexist with what I was about to tell her. As we walked down the hall, she asked "Why are we getting picked up?" and I had to tell her. "A plane hit Daddy's office building." She reached out and held my hand. And then Virginia added, reassuringly, "But the plane hit very high up, and your Daddy's office was very low down, so I'm sure he'll be okay," or something to that effect. I only remember the beginning of the sentence, because it was new information to me. I hadn't known where the plane had hit, or remembered what floor Dad's office was on, and I hadn't thought to ask.
When we got to the house, there were lots of cars outside, and all I could think of was the scene in Cheaper by the Dozen where (spoiler alert) the kids come home after school, and they know something's wrong because of all the cars lined up outside the house, and it turns out that their father has died of a heart attack. If there are lots of cars outside, then Dad must be dead!
We went inside, where a number of my aunts and one uncle were, with my mom. Everyone was crying, and everyone hugged us. I saw Mom crying; it was to be expected. I saw several of her sisters crying; to be expected. But then I saw my dad's sister's crying face, and I knew he was dead. And then someone said something along the lines of "there's nothing we can do but wait," and I realized for the first time that no one knew anything yet. They were all just as clueless as I was. We were all waiting for news.
I remember seeing a tower fall for the first time as I walked into the TV room to greet my uncle, but I had no conscious awareness of what I was seeing. My mom went upstairs, and Virginia came over and whispered to me that maybe I should go up and check on her. This seemed uncharacteristic of me (you'll recall that I've already mentioned my adolescent self-centeredness), but I did it anyway. Mom said she just wanted to shower. I came back down. Virginia left, but soon returned with several pizzas and a few bottles of soda before leaving us to wait and watch with family. No one was hungry.
Most of my detailed recollection ends here. All the waiting was kind of a blur. I don't really know what we did with ourselves, and what I do remember, I don't remember in order. My aunt arrived, bringing with her my cousin Grace, who was not quite 2 at the time. She was, for me, literally a saving Grace. She prattled happily in baby talk, and let us occupy ourselves with something other than the news and the worry. We colored. She was just learning her colors, and that day, everything was "lello." I thought that was ironic. Or symbolic. Something. I noticed, as we stood around coloring, the outfit I was wearing - new clothes, because it was the beginning of the school year. I had on a green three-quarter sleeve shirt, with light blue jeans and a black belt. I made a mental note not to ever wear that exact outfit again - whether out of respect or superstition, I'm not quite sure, but I know I never did it.
At one point, Grace and I were alone in the play room, coloring. The phone rang. There was a bit of a commotion. I couldn't tell whether it was a good commotion or a bad commotion, and I couldn't make out anyone's words. I was terrified. For a minute, I couldn't bring myself to go into the other room. I wanted to stay where I was, pretend I hadn't heard anything, and not have to hear whatever they had learned. I forced myself to pick Grace up and go into the living room, where my mom said, "That was Lester's wife Leann. Dad and Lester are walking uptown together."
We didn't have any details - Dad and all of his friends had been trying to get in touch with their wives, but the cell phone service was overcome by demand, and most of them couldn't get through. When Lester finally reached his wife, I guess, she was given a list of numbers to call to let everyone's family know that they were alive. My family is probably not the only one that thinks fondly and gratefully of Leann, though most of us have never met her. On such a terrible day, she was the one tasked with the telling of good news, and we who received that good news have never forgotten her.
It occurs to me now that I had spent the entire day assuming any news would be bad news. It's not a hard assumption to make, when planes are crashing and buildings are falling. It's only in retrospect that I'm able to see that on that day, no news was almost always worse. For my family, and I'm sure for many others, the phone ringing was heart-stopping, but it brought good news. It was when the phone didn't ring, undoubtedly, that the worst news slowly dawned.
The rest of our afternoon became about logistics. Locating Dad, and other relatives at work in the city, and trying to get them home. No one could drive into the city, Dad's car was stuck in a parking garage near Ground Zero (though we had yet to hear the phrase) and mass transit was suspended. Who could get the closest to a bridge or tunnel, to pick them up as soon as they got onto the New Jersey side? How could we organize it? We got one phone call from Dad, from a restaurant he had stopped at, but after that he was difficult to reach.
We played soccer on the front lawn at one point. We might have watched a movie? My aunt brought my cousin by after picking her up from school, "because of Uncle Kevin." I hadn't even been sure that I would be picked up from school, and Uncle Kevin was my dad. I was only beginning to comprehend how much bigger this was than just how it affected me.
People were stopping by the house, some of them not even knowing that Dad had been in the World Trade Center. The best man at his wedding happened to be in town - I was reminded that it was my parents' anniversary. A coworker of his, who had mercifully taken a vacation day, dropped something off. Neighbors, friends, everyone wanted to see how we were.
Late that afternoon, two of my friends came by the front door. I stood on the step and talked to them for a while. They asked about my dad; they told me how school had gone after I left. They told me that Samantha D*** had been crying in gym class. "Why?" I asked. They looked at me like I was crazy. "Because of your dad." I was still so focused on how I was being affected that I wasn't aware of what the attack meant to other people, those who knew my family and those who didn't, those who were in the towers and those who weren't.
Then we saw someone walking up the road, his shoes in his hand. I assumed it was some dumb teenager. Who else would carry his shoes in his hand for no good reason? "Who is that?" I asked. My friend faltered. "I . . . I think it's your dad." It hadn't occurred to me that he would be walking home, and so it hadn't registered that it could be him. I stayed on the step, unsure of what to do. Should I run to him, or run inside to tell everyone else that he's home?
Suddenly, my mom burst out of the side gate, somehow having seen him coming from the backyard. She was followed by my sisters, my grandmother, and everyone else at my house. I'm still not sure why, but I stayed put for a minute, until my aunt came to the door and urged me to join them, at which point I did. We had our reunion near the top of our next door neighbor's driveway.
There's more, of course: the church service that night; doing my math homework before bed, since I was pretty sure my new math teacher was so strict she wouldn't find even a national and personal tragedy to be a reasonable excuse for not handing in your homework; crying on the soccer field the first day that after school activities returned, as the physical exertion finally caused my emotions to overflow; the dreams I had in the weeks after, where I watched my dad die in various televised scenarios; gathering at my grandmother's on Friday, with a "God Bless Kevin" cake, so that everyone who had worried about my dad could see him. My experience of September 11 extended well past the hours of the actual day. There are things that happened months or even years later that I consider part of my memories of that day.


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Reached Your Deductible? Maximize Healthcare Expenses Before the New Year
by Him • November 20, 2012 • Tagged: depression, health, hsa  • Comments
Due to an unfortunate stint in the emergency room this past summer, I single-handedly hit our health insurance deductible for the year. You know what that means? FREE STUFF!
(well, not for my employer or the other people who are paying in this insurance plan, but I digress…)
A few days ago I had my regular checkup with my psychiatrist who is managing the medication regimen that I use for depression. I'm pretty frank with my psychiatrist about money matters, so I always ask what's the best way to get my money's worth so that I can maximize my HSA dollars. I was down to my last few pills and was prescribed a 30 day supply of the medication (Wellbutrin, if you're curious). My psychiatrist told me to fill my prescription ASAP so that I could get a "free" refill before the end of the year. How does that work, you ask?
My insurance company will allow most prescriptions to be refilled every 28 days (or whenever there should be about 90% remaining). By filling my prescription before tomorrow (November 5), I will be able to refill my prescription twice for "free" (remember I hit my deductible for the year) since there are two 28-day intervals before January 1; the last dates that I'd be able to refill are December 3 and 31. If I refilled my prescription every 30 days starting November 5, I will have to refill my prescription on December 5 and January 2. In that scenario, the second time I refill my prescription would be in 2012, so I would have to pay out-of-pocket (minus the insurance discount). By refilling my prescription a little early, I'll be getting my January allotment of pills for "free" since I will be refilling the prescription this calendar year.
If you've hit your healthcare insurance deductible for this year, try to maximize your healthcare expenses before the year is up. You could potentially save a lot of money.
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This post was originally published on November 4, 2011. I was going to write pretty much the exact post but remembered this was in the archives.


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Fears arising from a tapering of stimulus in the U.S. may have resulted in a sell-off in global equity and bond markets in June, but a recent survey shows institutional investors' confidence was high that month with a healthy appetite for risk.
An index - developed by the investment research arm of Wall Street firm State Street Corporation - which measures risk appetite based on stock buying and selling patterns of institutional investors rose to 106.8 in June, up over 12 percent from May. A reading of 100 is considered neutral - where investors are neither increasing nor decreasing their long term allocations to risky assets.
(Read More: The Biggest Risk for Asian Markets - It's Not China)
According to Harvard University professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the State Street global Investor Confidence Index (ICI), the "robust" increase in the index number shows that institutional investors took somewhat contrarian positions in June.
"We witnessed selling of U.S. equities, buying of European equities, and significant buying of emerging markets equities. These reallocations run counter to price movements over the period," Froot said in a note on Tuesday. "Overall, our data suggest that institutional investors are content to 'take the other side' of these price moves."
(Read More: We Were Wrong, but Stock Rally Is Coming Back: Goldman )
Paul O'Connell of State Street Associates, who also developed the index, added: "While the prospect of an end to quantitative easing in the U.S. has caused a spike in bond yields and a sell-off in equities, institutional investors have viewed this as an opportunity to add equity risk at the expense of bond holdings."
U.S. benchmark indexes - the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average - are both down more than 5 percent from yearly highs hit in May. They are down over 2 percent in June alone, while the MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan stock index has also fallen 11 percent over the past month.
The bond markets have seen a wide sell-off after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank could reduce its monthly $85 billion bond buying program this year. The yield on the 10-year Treasury has risen to 2.61 percent from 1.6 percent in early May.
(Read More: Waiting on a Bond Market Auction for Cues )
But despite fears of the Fed scaling back its stimulus, risk appetite in June was driven largely by North American institutional investors, according to the survey.
There was a more than 11 percent increase in risk appetite to 114 points among North American institutional investors in June from May, while confidence among European and Asian institutions increased 5 percent and over 3 percent, respectively.
O'Connell said the firm would be watching the data closely to see if the optimism "is a one-off opportunistic trade, or a more durable valuation-based strategic trade."
- By CNBC.com's Rajeshni Naidu-Ghelani; Follow her on Twitter @RajeshniNaidu


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$19.99 for an iLuv Vibro dual-alarm clock with iPod dock and bed shaker in black ($60 list price)
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Thanks to the iLuv Vibro dual-alarm clock, soothing tunes from an iPod or FM radio can finally replace the banshee shrieks of your pet rooster's air horn. Crisp, crystal-clear sound pours from built-in speakers when it's time to wake up, and an integrated universal dock charges your iPod throughout the night. The gadget also includes a bed shaker that conveniently tucks beneath pillows or mattresses and vibrates to help release deeper sleepers from the Sandman's vice-like grip. A large, easy-to-read screen with adjustable brightness levels marks each passing minute, making it clear when it's bedtime or Hammer Time.
- Wake up to FM-radio tunes, buzzer, or recorded snores from your iPod touch, classic, or nano
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- Plays and charges simultaneously
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Viewers of the holiday parade got an eyeful of all things Pacific Beach on Dec. 15. From local school marching bands to vintage cars to the lavishly decorated holiday van often seen around the community, the parade was truly an homage to PB.
The parade also featured locals who give Pacific Beach its unique flavor. The Old Mission Beach Athletic Club's (OMBAC) parade entry carried members of the organization, along with Miss Emerson 2013.
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 10, 2013
Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram, leader in RAW Vegan health movement and founder of the nations largest Co-op, Rawfully Organic and wellness lifestyle media, FullyRaw, will be speaking at the Annual Texas Veggie Fair to be held on Sunday, October 20, 2013 in Reverchon Park in Dallas. The festivities include a family friendly celebration of plant-based foods, eco friendly activities, animal welfare, vendors, live music, speakers, demos, games and more. Kristina is featured among various other health and wellness speakers with her primary focus on the RAW Vegan lifestyle.
Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram leads the movement towards eating more locally grown Vegan and Vegetarian foods for health and wellness of the body and the planet. Kristina is a pioneer in not only the raw food movement, but also in the local, organic food co-operative movement in America. She is the founder of the largest raw, organic produce co-operative in the U.S., and has been 100% RAW Vegan for almost 7 years. An exemplification of all she wishes to create, she is a leading visionary in the raw movement, especially in Texas. Her mission to spread awareness of healthy living resonated with the purpose of Texas Veggie Fair. We felt Kristina was the perfect choice to help educate our attendees about the health benefits of a plant-based diet." shares James Scott, Founder of the Texas Veggie Fair.
Kristina is pleased to share her expertise on Vegan Lifestyle through recipe demos imbued with fresh and local organic produce. As a native Texan, I am really looking forward to inspiring and motivating the Vegan/ Vegetarian Community through the opportunity to connect and create a community at Texas Veggie Fair. Says Carrillo-Bucaram. Kristina is on the event roster for her Journey to Going Raw chat 12:15pm, a Chef Demo of her popular recipes at 1:30 PM and 2:45 PM, she will be chatting with Vegan Texas Film Maker and Producer, David Lowery about Veganism and the health and wellness advantages of that lifestyle.
The family friendly event is has been entirely put together by Dallas Volunteers. There is an expected attendance of over 6,000 people that will enjoy a fun filled day of great food, music, education and entertainment. This year includes the inauguration of the first Beer Garden and the performance of popular Vegan Singer/ Songwriter and entertainer, Erykah Badu.


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Just about every store has a store loyalty card giving special deals and other bonuses to loyal customers. Stores use these cards to manage rewards programs and to monitor what consumers purchase. Because I shop at many different stores, my coupon binder is full of loyalty cards. I'll add an additional card next week as Walgreens introduces its new loyalty program, "Balance Rewards."
Walgreens currently offers a coupon called a "Register Reward," manufacturer coupons that print at the register and are good for future purchases on just about everything in the store. I have been assured by the corporate office that Register Rewards are not being replaced but you will need a Balance Rewards card to take advantage of any of the Register Reward offers, sales prices, instant value coupons and the coupons in the Walgreens ad.
Easy to join
How much does the Balance Rewards program cost to join? The Balance Rewards program is free to join.
Who can sign up? Any individual ages 13 years and older may have a card. Businesses and groups may not participate.
When can I sign up? You can sign up online or in stores starting Sept. 6. Walgreens will run a special promotion online Sept. 6-15 and give away a million points to 10 lucky winners. Everyone who registers online will be entered in the drawing, and the points will be loaded to your Balance Rewards card.
How do I sign up? You can sign up at any Walgreen store at the checkout or any photo kiosk. You can also sign up online at www.walgreens.com/balance.
What information do I need to provide when registering? You will need to provide your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.
• Be sure to fill out all of the information. If you do not provide complete information or if you provide false information, your cards will be deactivated. (This is to prevent people from signing up for multiple cards.)
• By registering your phone number, you will be able to access your account at the register even if you forget your loyalty card.
• Providing your email address and mailing address provides Walgreens an opportunity to send you coupons and special offers.
Why do I need the loyalty card? In order to take advantage of the sales and promotional prices, you have to have the loyalty card. You may shop without the card, however you will not receive Register Rewards or points and will pay a higher price on most items than people who shop with the free loyalty card.
How do I know how many points I have available? Members can easily access point totals at checkout, online at www.walgreens.com/balance or through their mobile devices.
When can I begin earning points? The first date that you can begin adding points is Sept. 16.
Earning points
Scan your card first. The cashier must scan your card, your mobile device or enter your phone number for you to get credit. As long as they scan the card prior to the completion of the transaction you will get credit for the points. However, I would recommend always scan your card first to prevent any chance of you or the cashier forgetting to scan it.
Purchase designated items in the ad. Pay close attention to the store circular. Each week, it will list items that you will receive points for and the amount of points you will earn for each one. This will vary depending on the promotion. You must purchase these items during the advertised promotion period to earn points. You may purchase the items in the store or online and earn points on them. If the item is purchased online but you select in-store pick up, the points will not be credited to your account until the item is picked up.
Purchase specially marked items in the store. Pay close attention to the signs in the store. All of the available items may not be in the stores ad. The representative that I spoke to said there would be many opportunities to earn points throughout the store.
What about rain checks? You may receive a rain check on a sale item in the ad, however you will not receive points for that item if it is purchased after the promotion has ended. For example if you would have earned points for purchasing ABC garbage bags for $4.99 during the week of Sept. 16-22, but they were out of the item, you could get a rain check that would allow you to purchase them later for $4.99. If you purchase the ABC garbage bags on Sept. 23 with the rain check you will still get them for $4.99, but you will not be able to collect the points for them.
When will points be awarded? Points are awarded three to five days after purchase.
May I "roll" my points? The terms and conditions state that points will not be earned in a transaction where Redemption Dollars or store credit has been used. Because the program hasn't gone live yet, I haven't been able to test this but my couponing brain is already thinking that there is still a way to make this work. I would recommend redeeming those points to pay for Register Reward items, then use the Register Rewards to pay for the items that will earn you points. There is still a chance that this will not work, but until we try it we won't know. I encourage everyone to follow the terms and conditions of the new program. I haven't seen any language in the new program that prevents you from using a Register Reward to purchase something that will earn you points.
What if I return the item to the store? If you return an item that you received points for the points will be deducted from your account.
Will I earn points on prescriptions? You will earn points on some prescriptions that are filled in Georgia and South Carolina. However if your prescription is paid for by any government-funded program (Tricare, Medicaid, Medicare), Walgreens is not allowed by state and federal laws to reward you with points. (This is listed on the Terms and Conditions of the program, see the store or look online at www.walgreens.com/balance for a copy of the Terms and Conditions).
Are there any restrictions for earning points? Yes, points will not be earned if the company determines that the items purchased are for resale or for commercial use. They also reserve the right to limit points awarded and to limit any offer or promotion to reasonable household quantities.
Cashing in
When can I start redeeming my points? You must reach 5,000 points to be eligible for your first reward. It takes between three to five days for your purchases to post to your account.
How do I redeem my points? You just let the cashier know that you wish to use your points to pay for your purchase. Your points will be converted into "Redemption Dollars."
How are redemption dollars calculated? Points are converted into Redemption Dollars using the following scale:
• 5,000 points = $5
• 10,000 points = $10
• 18,000 points = $20
• 30,000 points = $35
• 40,000 points = $50
What if I return something that I paid for by redeeming points? Once points are redeemed they are automatically deducted from your account and can't be credited back. You will receive the redemption dollars in the form of a store credit.
What can I use my redemption dollars for? You can redeem your redemption dollars for just about anything in the store except dairy, liquor, tobacco, stamps, phone/pre-paid gift cards, money orders/transfers, transportation passes, charitable donations, prescriptions, pseudoephedrine or ephedrine products, immunizations, health tests or other health care items or services.
Do my points ever expire? Yes, if you do not use your card for six consecutive months your card will be considered inactive and you will lose your points. If you use your card on a regular basis the points expire on a 36-month rolling basis.
Do I have to use my points all at once? You may choose to use your points as you earn them, or you can "bank" them and continue to save them until you reach a larger reward. The choice is yours. Example: Once you reach 5,000 points you will earn a $5 Redemption Dollar that can be used at the register. You can choose to use this $5 or let the cashier know you want to continue to bank your points.
Will there be extra benefits available with the loyalty card? Yes, Walgreens will occasionally offer additional points for AARP members and also have special offers available to members of their Walk with Walgreens program.
May I transfer my points to someone else? No, any attempt to transfer your points will result in your card being deactivated; you will lose all of the points that you have earned.
When I first learned of this program I wasn't very excited, I thought that the Register Rewards would be going away. Now that I have learned that the Register Rewards aren't going anywhere, I am excited about a chance to earn even more free products as a loyal Walgreens shopper.
And a quick reminder: Store cashiers have very little to do with the creation and the implementation of this program. Please be patient and kind with our local store employees and managers as they transition to this new loyalty program. With any new program you can expect a few snags until they get the kinks worked out.
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Pop culture covers a broad range of emotions. Sometimes, amidst all the excitement, touching TV plot lines, and breaking news stories, we get a little teary-eyed. We're only human, right? But it's not usually sad tears—we have passion for this stuff and can get a little emotional. The Office ending? Reminicent sobs. A perfectly constructed storyline on Mad Men? Tears of joy. Think of it as a wedding, and who hasn't cried at one of those?
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"As soon as Jim told Dwight at his wedding "I can't be your bestest mensch, it has to be someone older" I started to tear up. I knew what was coming! And seeing Steve Carell is enough to make me cry happy tears at any point. Seriously, it almost happened during the Anchorman 2 trailer too." —Lea, Video Editor
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Michael Jackson - What Really Happened (Interview With People Close To MJ & More) [45 Min Documentary]
Nadim reports "In June 2005, Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation, but instead of returning to his Neverland home, he disappeared, wandering the globe for two years. Writer Jacques Peretti wanted to find out why. To this end, he tracks down the people inside the Jackson story who have never agreed to talk on camera before, including Bob Jones, his manager and right-hand man of 17 years; and Victor Guttierez, the investigative reporter who first uncovered allegations of child abuse and subsequently fled the US. They talk frankly about the details of the darkest moments in Jackson's life. What emerges is a story radically different from the one the public know: a picture both darker, more complex and more morally ambiguous than anyone could have imagined."
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The Retina MacBook Pro has been with us for almost a full year now. The 15-inch version came to us by way of WWDC 2012, and frankly was unlike any laptop computer ever seen. The incredible 2880x1800 resolution Retina Display had to be seen to be believed, and just like that Apple had the best laptop display ever produced.
The Retina MacBook Pro now also comes in a 13-inch form factor too, and the display is equally stunning to look at. Combined with a slimmer profile compared to the non-Retina MacBook Pro's, it's a remarkable piece of hardware.
But, the Retina MacBook's are quite expensive sat next to their non-Retina counterparts. Those displays don't come cheap, and the 13-inch versions are $300 apart for the base models while the lowest priced MacBook Air can be had for $999, a full $500 less than the cheapest Retina MacBook Pro.
For me, the jump has been irreversible. From an 11-inch MacBook Air to a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, I just couldn't go back. The MacBook Pro is portable enough to haul around on the road, and the Retina Display is simply too good to turn my back on.
And that's where you come in. We want to know what you, the iMore readers think. For your next MacBook purchase, would you still consider buying a non-Retina version? Is the form factor and highly portable nature of the MacBook Air more important? Or do you really need the Superdrive that, for now at least, comes on the regular MacBook Pro? Vote in the poll up top, and let us know why in the comments below!


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Benton boys follow girls to conference title
The Benton Panther boys golf team followed in the footsteps of the girls team to end the season. The Panthers won the 6A South conference on Monday and then took third in the State Tournament on Tuesday. Playing at El Dorado Country Club, the Panthers edged the home team by three strokes winning with a score of 313. El Dorado followed with at 316, Sheridan (319), Texarkana (337), Lake Hamilton (342) and Siloam Springs (344).
"We had a great week," Benton Coach Chad Pitts said. "We won the conference and finished third overall. I couldn't be anymore proud of the boys."
Benton took third in the State Tournament with a score of 631. Favorite Jonesboro won State with a 599 and Russelville was runner-up with a score of 618. Senior Austin Eoff led the way for the Panthers shooting a 3-over 75 on Monday and a 1-under 71 on Tuesday to take fourth overall in State. Senior Coulton Lee followed Eoff with a 78 on Day 1 and a 79 on Day 2.
"Coulton Lee had a tremendous week shooting some of the best scores in his career and finishing 10th overall individually," Pitts said ."Austin was disappointed with his play, but he has had a remarkable high school career. I am proud of the seniors and the whole team. Austin Eoff and Coulton Lee both made all conference. Austin was also named all state. The boys were able to play great and add a conference championship to go along with the girls."
Senior Keith hammer shot a 79 on the first day and an 83 the second, senior Cameron Treece shot an 81 band an 85, and freshman Sam Eddington shot an 81 and a 91.
"Everyone of them stepped up and played great golf for two days," Pitts said.


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Franz Ressel needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 199 designs submitted by 62 freelance designers.
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We need a logo for our corporate identity which will be used on our website (http://www.transglobalentertainment.com) on TV, presentations and any corporate communications to represent our company. We have been in business since 2004 and produce TV talk shows which are currently broadcast in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. We are also a technology provider for TV companies. We deliver a number of services to enable the delivery of TV via Satellite, Cable TV and IP and INTV.
- Company name can be either TransGlobal Entertainment Inc. or TGE Inc. - either is fine.
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