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I Won BOTH NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo!!
Posted by infinitygoods on December 1, 2007
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Reader Asks Where To Purchase Quality Foods Online
Posted by infinitygoods on November 30, 2007
As my regular readers know, healthy and quality foods are important to our family. One of my readers has asked if I know of quality food sources online, and yes, I do know a few, but I wonder if the rest of my readers know of any others.
So please help us out by commenting. Here is Leo's complete question posted in response to yesterday's Wow! Every Cookie Imaginable!:
wow…thats all I can say…wow! I love this blog!!!!
Do you by chance, know of any quality online food services? I am starting to order all my food online because of various reasons. (Health being one of them) So far I have found 2 services, Fresh Dining (an LA company) and Celebrity Foods, but you have to call them so they can talk to you about your need. I would really like any suggestions that you may have, so I can widen my list of quality places online where I can order healthy food from.
Thank you and have a great night or day…depending on when you read this. LOL!!!!
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Leo, here's the sources I can personally vouch for. (Click on the links.)
1. Whole Foods Market — They are headquartered in Texas and have regular stores throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. While they do deliver, their delivery policy however varies by store so you need to check with your local stores. Whole Foods carries a wide variety of foods, cleaners and body products.
2. Country Sun Natural Foods is a small, very friendly store in Palo Alto, Calif. Their online store carries groceries, organic wine, vitamins, herbs and body care products. They have monthly sales and they provide senior discounts. If you don't see what you want, but they carry that item in the brick and mortar store, they will usually add it online just for you. If they don't carry it, they will often special order it or at least point you in the right direction. Yes, they really are that friendly. You can see what I said about them in the post Flavor and Flowers at Farmer's Market. Your previous shopping carts will be remembered for 60 days for faster reordering too. They also publish Taste For Life Magazine which is available instore and shipped with every order.
3. Infinity Goods — Yes, that's us! We are an online Amazon Affiliate store. Amazon now has a grocery store. We have requested more health foods and quality foods for our affiliate store at infinitygoods.com. For now we carry products in our gourmet foods section like Alaska wild salmon, Omaha Steaks (and other Omaha foods), maple syrup, stevia and even whole black winter truffles direct from France, and much more. We will start carrying more foods as Amazon makes it available. If you want a specific food which Amazon carries, but we do not have listed, we will add it to our products for you, just let us know. When you shop at Infinity Goods, you use the same Amazon shopping cart, products come to you directly from Amazon and we have the same Amazon return policy. So be sure to shop with us whenever a product attracts your eye. You'll be helping me and my small family.
4. Fabrique Delices — It is a French charcuterie or delicatessen. It's not a one-stop shopping since they only provide deli products, but they are excellent. They serve the Pope and the White House, but remain a good value for the quality. I also mentioned them in my Farmer's Market post, along with a couple of small family businesses with online stores, Prevedelli Farms and Bolani and Sauce.
Dear Readers, if you can, please don't forget to post your own suggestions for Leo and all of us. It will be greatly useful to all who visit here. In advance, I thank all of you.
Posted in America, American Cookery, blog, blogging, Blogroll, Britain, British, Cooking, culture, Family, Food, Home, Household Tip, Household Tips, Kosher, life, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, National Blog Post Month, natural foods, novel, novel in 30 days, nutrition, organic food, organic foods, Salads, Salmon, Sandwich, Science Experiments, Scientists, Shopping, Tips, U.S., USA, writing | Tagged: Alaska, Alaska wild salmon, Amazon, black truffles, body care products, Bolani and Sauce, Canada, Celebrity Foods, Country Sun, Country Sun Natural Foods, deli, delicatessen, Fabrique Delices, Farmers Market, Food, foods, France, Fresh Dining, gourmet foods, groceries, Health, healthy foods, herbs, Infinity Goods, infinitygoods.com, maple syrup, market, natural foods, Omaha Steaks, online shopping, organic, organic foods, organic wine, Prevedelli Farms, reader advice, reader question, senior discounts, steaks, stevia, Taste For Life Magazine, truffles, vitamins, whole black winter truffles, Whole Foods Market, whole truffles, winter truffles | 3 Comments »
Thursday Thirteen #8 — Favorite Christmas Movies
Posted by infinitygoods on November 28, 2007
Welcome back to Thursday Thirteen where I share with you bits and pieces about my life and interests. Today in the spirit of Christmas, I share 13 favorite Christmas movies I watch each year — and even several times each year. These classics help put me in the holiday mood where the world is a little better, a little friendlier and a little happier.
Let me know which ones we share in common and which ones you would add (there are many more I would add, but I only have room for 13 — shhh… I sneaked in a 14th one with #11). Any favorite foreign (non-Hollywood) Christmas movies anyone? If you are a fellow Thursday Thirteen participant, do make sure you leave a comment so people can follow to your post too!!
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Happy Thursday everyone!! Happy Holiday Season!!
- Jingle All The Way
- Frosty The Snowman
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Miracle On 34th Street (B & W 1947)
- Miracle On 34th Street (Color 1995)
- It's a Wonderful Life
- A Christmas Carol
- Home Alone
- The Santa Clause 1 and 2
- White Christmas
- Christmas in Connecticut (original)
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Write A Santa Letter To Your Children
Posted by infinitygoods on November 27, 2007
If Santa has never written a Christmas greeting to your children, you'd better remedy that by writing him right now at the North Pole, care of the United States Postal Service.
The Fairbanks, Alaska, postmaster delivers Santa's mail each year to boys and girls all across the country (or world if you have access to U.S. stamps).
Here's what to do: You are Santa and you write a letter to your children. You can use fancy holiday stationery, including ones with Santa's jolly likeness. In the letter, tell your children how they are on your Special List of Good Children. Children love it when you personalize the letter with details like their latest accomplishments, awards or grades, their friends' names, a pet, or a lovey or blanket.
You can include information about the North Pole, the elves, Rudolph training the youngest reindeers, Mrs. Claus and whatever strikes your fancy. If you mention a specific toy, be absolutely positive it's going to be under the tree (I would only include something that's already hiding in the closet — you know how those mad shoppers can be).
Santa's whirlwind flight around the world requires a lot of energy, so Santa Claus should ask for a plate of cookies and a glass of milk. Kris Kringle never worries about calories because the chubbier, the merrier.
When you've written the letter, place it in a matching envelope with a Christmas stamp and address it to your child with your full U.S. postal address. In the upper left corner, just write Santa Claus, North Pole (or St. Nick, Kris Kringle, Pere Noel or whatever is your children's favorite name for the jolly fellow in the red suit).
Seal the envelope. You can decorate it with stickers or even a fancy wax seal of a snowflake, Rudolph or an initial like S for Santa or C for Claus.
Place the letter your children will be receiving into a larger envelope, properly stamped for First Class or Priority Mail and address that envelope to:
North Pole Christmas Cancellation
5400 Mail Trail
Fairbanks, AK 99709-9998
The elves at the North Pole Post Office will postmark Santa's letter with this postmark and send it back to your children!
Your request must arrive before Dec. 15. After that date, the Postal Services requires priority mail postage to ensure the letter's arrival before Christmas because Santa just would not send his mail after he already came down your chimney.
For a list of other holiday-based towns which will also postmark your mail, click here.
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Three Purple Candles, A Pink One And A Wreath
Posted by infinitygoods on November 26, 2007
Advent starts this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007. A tradition we celebrate in our home is the Advent wreath. It's time to gather our candles and our wreath. We light our candles daily rather than just on Sundays, so I have found that small pillars work better than tapers as we go through too many tapers too quickly otherwise. I've also found that picking varying heights for the candles makes for a pretty centerpiece while serving the need since one purple candle will be used for four weeks and the last purple candle for only one week.
Advent comes from the Latin words, AD (to) VENIRE (come). During the Advent season we prepare ourselves spiritually for the coming of the Christ Child. The candles symbolize the light that The Christ Child will bring to the world. The circular, unending shape of the wreath symbolizes eternity and the everlasting nature of God. Decorations of the wreath are to symbolize that Christ brings each of us hope, beauty and life.
Here's how to celebrate this tradition. It's very simple, so don't be intimidated if you've never followed this tradition.
First Week (Sun. Dec. 2): FAITH — Light one purple candle at dinner time (or each meal) and say a prayer. There are no official prayers, so you can use a favorite prayer, say grace, use one from the many Advent pamphlets published or even make up your own focusing on the week's theme.
Second Week (Sun. Dec. 9): HOPE — Light two purple candles and say a prayer.
Third Week (Sun. Dec. 16): JOY — Light two purple candles and one pink candle; and say a prayer.
Fourth Week (Sun. Dec. 23): PEACE — Light three purple candles and one pink candle; and say a prayer.
Christmas Day (Tues. Dec. 25): LOVE — On Christmas morning, either light 4 white candles (my preference to symbolize Christ, the joy and celebration of Christmas) or some people light 3 purple candles, a pink candle and a white candle in the center. Say a prayer. These candles are lighted for the 12 days of Christmas until Epiphany (traditionally on January 6).
That is all there is to it. We keep our wreath lighted throughout our meals. If you are used to this tradition or not afraid of a little more devotion after your family's meal, you could gather around the wreath to read the Bible, read Advent devotions, read the writings of influential spiritual writers, or read some Christmas stories and poems such as O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" and T.S. Eliot's The Journey of the Magi." You could even sing some of the songs you heard in church.
How do you celebrate the coming of the Christ Child who is our light? What are your Advent Season traditions or memories? Or if you are Jewish or celebrate Jewish traditions in addition to Christian ones, what are your traditions to prepare for Hanukkah?
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Bookcases at the Breaking Point?
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Pope Names Iraq's 1st. Cardinal, 22 Others
Posted by infinitygoods on November 25, 2007
Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans was applauded as he knelt before the Pope to receive his gold ring of office making him history's first Cardinal in Iraq. Delly an Iraqi-born will continue his service as Prince of the Church in Baghdad.
Pope Benedict XVI named 22 other cardinals from the United States, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany, Spain, India, Argentina, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Senegal and Brazil.
The Pope urged the cardinals to pray for world peace, particularly in Iraq and the Holy Land. The Pope stated Delly's elevation to cardinal was an expression of solidarity and sympathy with Iraq's Christians.
Benedict XVI also named Monsignor Sean Brady, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, now giving Ireland a total of 3 cardinals.
Pope Benedict XVI stated he hoped this week's Annapolis Middle East Summit would relaunch negotiations "to find a just and definitive solution to the conflict which for 60 years has bloodied the Holy Land and provoked so many tears and suffering among two peoples."
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Posted in 9/11, America, blog, blogging, British, Christianity, culture, Faith, God, Infinity Goods, infinitygoods.com, Iraq, Islam, Italy, Judaism, life, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, National Blog Post Month, National Novel Writing Month, News, novel, novel in 30 days, politics, religion, spirituality, terrorism, U.S., Uncategorized, USA, Vatican, writing | Tagged: Annapolis, Archbishop of Armagh, Argentina, Baghdad, Brazil, cardinal, cardinals, Catholic, Christian, Emmanuel III Delly, France, Germany, Holy Land, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jewish, Kenya, Mexico, Middle East, Middle East Summit, Monsignor Sean Brady, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Poland, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Primate of All Ireland, Sean Brady, Senegal, Spain, United States | 1 Comment »
Another Thank You To My Readers; I'm So Blessed!
Posted by infinitygoods on November 24, 2007
I want to thank all of you who regularly come by my website and all the new people who shopped my Black Friday sales. You truly are a blessing to this small family especially at a time when our strapped-for-money-church decided to get rid of such a large percentage of its employees, yours truly included.
God has once again turned a negative into a positive. I now have time to be home and take care of my family. I have the time to blog for all of you readers from all over the world, and that is really exciting to see all the different countries who read me and people who comment and e-mail me too. And very importantly I still get to directly work for God in a small way because my Infinity Goods store mostly specializes in products for God-loving families or as our slogan says, A Marketplace for God's People.
You, my dear readers have rewarded me with a fast-growing blog, repeatedly one of the fastest growing on WordPress and with an Amazon Affiliate website which can help make a difference for a family who is used to directly serving God and serving the families in our parish. As I liked to say when people would ask me why I would be willing to work for a church, it's because I am addicted to working directly for God. There aren't too many opportunities to work DIRECTLY for God, especially for a wife and mother.
So I am finding myself thanking you once again. It is thanks to your support in reading my blog and purchasing from my website, that I am able to continue this addiction I have to spreading the word about God, spreading His love, and helping His people.
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Black Friday Shopping: No Lines, No Crowds, No Waiting
Posted by infinitygoods on November 23, 2007
Does that headline sound like the biggest oxymoron of the millennium?
It won't once you experience on-line shopping with all the sales, deals and savings offered at my Amazon Affiliate Black Friday page at Infinity Goods.
Today, Friday, November 23, 2007 between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, you will be able to stay home in your PJs and take advantage of special affiliate sales. No crowds, no bumper to bumper lines in the parking lot, you won't even have to get showered and dressed before the sun is up, yet you can still shop to your little heart's content and enjoy all the Black Friday sales, deals and savings. At infinitygoods.com we normally carry selected items of interest to families, but on Black Friday we're linking to the entire Amazon Web site so that you'll be able to save on all the sales, deals and savings available to Amazon Affiliates. So be sure to go to our store today. It will definitely be worth your while because there will be hourly deals from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST along with thousands of products on sale for a limited time. There will even be gift wrapping for only $.99 per item to make the busy holiday season that much easier for you.
Happy shopping without the crowds!
Infinity Goods wishes you a great Thanksgiving Weekend
and a happy holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving!! Happy Autumn!!
Posted by infinitygoods on November 22, 2007
Your Autumn is a photo mosaic by Isa13 from Flickr's public files.
Happy Thanksgiving
a wonderful autumn season
to all my readers!!
I am so thankful for every single one of you.
Don't miss my posts about Black Friday and Holiday Shopping.
Thanks to the Internet we can have our cake and eat it too:
Let's shop all the Black Friday sales WHILE we stay home in our pajamas!!
Now that's a good reason to TGIF!!
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See your OneDrive files in File Explorer
Your OneDrive files will show up in File Explorer after you sync them to your PC:
Go to the right side of the taskbar and right-click (or press and hold) the OneDrive icon. If you don't see it there, you might need to select the Show hidden icons arrow first.
Select Settings, go to the Account tab, and then select Choose folders.
Select the Sync all files and folders in my OneDrive check box, then OK.
Open File Explorer and check to see if your OneDrive files are there. If they aren't, follow the troubleshooting steps in this OneDrive topic.

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C3 is in no way affiliated with or sponsored by Harmonix, but we've always had strict policies in place to protect their work and the Rock Band property in general, and that has not changed with Rock Band 4.
(A) The following things are NOT allowed anywhere on this site:
- Official content: Download links to ISOs, LIVE files, CON files, audio, MIDI files, or other copyrighted assets of RB4, RB4 DLC, legacy disc exports, or currently available legacy DLC, or any discussion of external sites that offer those files
- How to steal official content: Guides or discussion on how to extract copyrighted assets from RB4 and RB4 DLC, including converting any RB4 content to RB3, Phase Shift, or any other formats
- Stems/multitracks: Download links to multitrack audio stems, even if those stems have been officially released for free, and whether or not the song in question is available in Rock Band
- Similar content: Pretty much anything else along the lines of the previous points, at our discretion
- Official content: Any official Harmonix content of any kind, including but not limited to RB4 disc songs, RB4 DLC, old disc songs, old DLC, pulled content, and Beatles content
- Customs of songs released as official content: Any user-made version of any song released for any Rock Band title, or announced as upcoming DLC (we pull these from the database and delete links from the forums as they are announced, do not re-post them)
- Customs of official content with different charts: Including Keys-only versions of official Harmonix songs, or any other song download that includes audio assets or any authoring from official content
- Customs without RB3 versions: Every custom must nominally include the XBox 360 CON format. Customs that are only in other formats (Phase Shift, etc.) are not allowed.
- Upcycled customs: Any song posted by an author in the DB and reposted by another author with marginal edits. If you see a song in the DB that is missing an instrument or 2, contact the original author and contribute to that version. If the author is not willing to collaborate, start authoring the song from scratch if you want it released. If the author is unreachable or if you think there are special circumstances (like very very badly authoring of the original version from which you would start anyway to save time, for example), contact a moderator. If your edits are substantial (you are making a drums only song full band, for example), always contact the original author if the song is in the DB but in this case you can upcycle without permission for the benefit of the community: make sure the original author is properly credited. Upcycling without permission is stealing stats and recognition, which is what fuels the community of authors, and we can't allow that by any means.
- General discussion, feedback, reactions, etc. for RB4 and its DLC (highly encouraged!)
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- Discussion of other leaked/unofficial information, unintended DLC sales, etc., unless it violates the other rules in this post or our forum rules
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- Workarounds for XB1/PS4 limitations, including those related to legacy entitlements, as long as they don't violate the other rules in this post
- Customs for alternate recordings of official songs: (i.e. doing the studio version when a live version is available as DLC or vice-versa) This is case-by-case at our discretion, and your version cannot include any Harmonix authoring or other protected assets; does not cover a second live version if we already have one, Wavegroup/etc. covers of official songs, and anything that might be mistaken for the official song
- Chart-only upgrades to official songs: User-made Keys or Pro G/B authoring for official content, as a MIDI or other package that does not include any official assets (the only official asset allowed is a tempo map inside a MIDI or RPP; this kind of thing is also case-by-case at our discretion)
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Steve Watson
Feb 6, 2013
A Connecticut based toy company has taken a satirical shot at Obama's 'skeeter' comments, and the subsequent picture that was hastily released by the White House to verify that the president goes shooting "all the time", by releasing a rifle toting doll of the President.
Priced at $19.95, the doll Obama, produced by Herobuilders.com, wears tan slacks and a white T-shirt with the words "Clay pigeons" printed on it.
The big question is, will these toys be banned from schools around the country as part of the purge on toy guns, gun hand gestures and even pictures of guns?
As we reported earlier this week, detractors accused the White House of blatantly attempting to make the President appear sympathetic to gun owners by concocting a story that Obama likes to shoot clay pigeons with a skeet rifle.
After saying he liked to skeet shoot, Obama told a crowd of reporters that he had "a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations."
Days later when the White House released the picture, some suggested that the photo was faked, and pointed out that reports from August 4, 2012, his 51st birthday, the day that the picture was supposedly taken, indicated that Obama did not take part in any kind of shooting activity.
Further reports suggested that Obama did indeed shoot clay pigeons on two occasions, according to a source who was present at the Camp David retreat. However, the source noted that "The only time he shot skeet was for President's Cup," a shooting competition tradition involving the presidential Marine guards.
"I was there. He stayed for about five minutes, and couldn't leave fast enough… He couldn't have been more uncomfortable." the source added.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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Let's take a look at some new and shuffled release dates:
- Shawn Levy's The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, moves up a few weeks from June 28th to June 7th, 2013.
- Paranoia, from director Robert Luketic and starring Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford, moves back from September 27th to October 4th, 2013.
- Dead Man Down, starring Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper, moves up a month from April 5th to March 8th, 2013.
- Scott Charles Stewart's thriller Dark Skies starring Keri Russell and Dakota Goyo gets a release date of February 22nd, 2013.
- Disneynature's Bears, directed by Keith Scholey (African Cats) and Alastair Fothergill (Chimpanzee), gets the somewhat less generic release date of April 2014 (it was previously listed as Spring 2014).
- Admission, the comedy from director Paul Weitz that stars Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, gets a release date of March 8th, 2013.
Hit the jump for plot info on each film.
Variety reports that Fox has bumped up Levy's The Internship, which will now compete with M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth, starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. The Internship reunites Vaughn and Wilson as two old school salesmen who are attempting to reinvent themselves with an internship at a major tech company. We'll see if the Wedding Crashers team can out-earn the father/son Smith picture.
The rest of the release date info comes courtesy of Box Office Mojo.
Here's the synopsis for Paranoia:
In this high-stakes thriller, Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is an ambitious junior technologist trying to climb the ranks of telecom giant Wyatt Corporation. But after one costly mistake, Adam is blackmailed by ruthless CEO Nicholas Wyatt (Gary Oldman) to turn corporate spy by going to work for the firm's top competitor, which is run by Wyatt's old mentor, Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford). Adam soon finds himself delivered into prepackaged success, living his fantasy life of old-world boardrooms, private clubs, exotic cars, and all the spoils of Manhattan bachelorhood. However, behind the scenes, he is merely a pawn in Wyatt's power play, and must search for a way out from under his boss, who will stop at nothing, even murder, to gain a multi-billion dollar advantage.
From original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Opley comes the revenge thriller Dead Man Down centers on a mobster's hitman (Farrell) who teams up with a crime victim seeking retribution in order to achieve their violent revenge. Farrell's character is reportedly the right-hand man of a New York crime boss and is out to avenge the deaths of his wife and daughter.
The plot of sci-fi/horror flick Dark Skies centers on "a 6-year-old boy who's apparently been 'marked' by an alien (living among us) for future abduction." It reportedly shares some of the same themes as Fright Night, with elements of child abuse. It also stars Josh Hamilton (J. Edgar).
Here's a look at what we can expect from Disneynature's Bears:
Disneynature's 2014 motion picture "Bears" cozies up to the brown bears who call Alaska's stunning coastal mountains and shores their home, revealing through tender moments and entertaining imagery how these animals are far from grizzly creatures. This shooting location provides some of the most spectacular visuals ever for a Disneynature film. The film is directed by Keith Scholey ("African Cats") and Alastair Fothergill ("Earth," "African Cats" and "Chimpanzee").
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In the movie, Ms. Fey is portraying Portia Nathan, an admissions officer at Princeton University. Evaluating thousands of hopeful college students, the exceedingly bright and driven woman lives her life by the book, both at work and in her relationship with a faculty colleague, Mark (Mr. Sheen). Visiting an experimental New Hampshire high school submitting applicants, Portia is caught off guard when its co-founder John Halsey (Mr. Rudd) turns out to have attended college with her. She is then floored when reminded of the life-altering decision that she made while still a student herself; she had a son, who she gave up for adoption, and who she now realizes may be one of John's students, the precocious misfit Jeremiah. As Portia's emotions surge forth, she finds her life turning upside down in embarrassing ways and begins to bend the admissions rules – in the hopes of getting Jeremiah on the best path while perhaps righting her own as well.


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Today James Turk spoke with King World News about a historic event which has just taken place in the United States. Turk states that this situation is not being accurately reported in the mainstream media. He also believes that because of this unfolding drama, "It is all but certain now that the dollar is headed for hyperinflation." Here is what Turk had to say: "The huge bases in gold and silver are getting bigger, which is very positive, Eric. The only thing the drop in price over the last few days has done is set up a retest of this significant and growing support."
"We are seeing just another example of how the central planners intervene in the precious metal markets by selling paper to drive the price down during month-end option expiry. This maneuver maximizes the profit for their agents – those bullion banks facilitating the gold price suppression scheme – so that the calls they've sold to investors and financial institutions expire out of the money. It also ensures that as many call buyers as possible lose money, which helps the central planners foster a negative sentiment for the precious metals.
We have seen this time and again, Eric. Contributing to the manipulation is the FOMC meeting this week, during which the central planners like to put a lid on gold and silver prices while they announce their new money printing schemes. And then watch out for Friday when the unemployment report is released, usually a time of wide price swings aimed to trigger stops. None of this is new. But there is something new and important happening in Washington DC….
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Health clubs might have a new and unconventional rival to fear: virtual gyms. Indiana University researchers recently conducted a study and found that participants who watched virtual versions of themselves working out lost just as much weight during a 12-week period as those who worked out in an actual gym.
Participants spent at least four hours per week in a real or virtual gym and learned about nutrition, physical activity, changing habits and how to benefit from social support. Members of both groups lost an average of 10 pounds and had similar decreases in body fat.
Those exercising virtually could watch their likenesses work out with the help of a trainer, using a weight loss program called Club One Island on Second Life, an interactive 3D virtual reality site that allows users to create avatars.
"It's counterintuitive, the idea of being more active in a virtual world, but the activities that they do in a virtual world can carry over into the real world," says assistant professor Jeanne Johnston, who led the study.
Although the weight-loss results were the same, the study found an interesting difference between the two groups. Members of the group that exercised virtually reported positive changes in behaviors such as healthy eating and physical activity, whereas the participants who worked out in a real gym reported no changes.
"The virtual world program was at least as beneficial as the face-to-face program and in some ways, more effective," Johnston says. "It has the potential to reach people who normally wouldn't go to a gym or join a program because of limitations, such as time or discomfort with a fitness center environment."
"It takes away that barrier of 'a club isn't right for me,'" says Celeste DeVaneaux, CEO of Club One Island. Many members of the virtual club have found that they enjoy moving again and work out in real life while their avatars exercise on the computer, she adds.
Initially, some traditional health club operators had concerns that the site would take away business, but the opposite seems to be happening. DeVaneaux says she has heard of many members joining fitness facilities after using the program because they feel more comfortable working out after watching their avatars do it.
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European Union regulators are to accept an offer by Apple and four publishers to end an antitrust probe into their e-book prices, two sources said, handing Amazon victory in a bid to sell online books cheaper than its rivals, sources said.
The case underscores the battle between retailers and publishers over pricing control of e-books, which publishers hope will boost revenue and increase customers.
Apple and the publishers have offered to let retailers set their own prices or discounts for a period of two years, and also to suspend "most-favoured nation" contracts for five years, the sources said.
Such clauses bar publishers from making deals with rival retailers to sell e-books more cheaply than Apple.
Apple, Simon & Schuster, News Corp. unit HarperCollins, Lagardere SCA's Hachette Livre and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, the owner of German company Macmillan, made the proposal in September.
The EU antitrust authority was investigating the companies' e-book pricing, which critics say prevents Amazon and other retailers from undercutting Apple's charges.
Pearson Plc's Penguin group, which is also under investigation, did not take part in the offer.
The European Commission, which in September asked for feedback from rivals and consumers about the proposal, has not asked for more concessions, said one of sources.
"The Commission is likely to accept the offer and announce its decision next month," the person said on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Urban Circus in my mailbox
So...how excited was I today to get my first cuts of Urban Circus?!? Another dork out moment. When I opened the box and spied that pretty little selvage with MY name on it, I just couldn't contain myself. My name? Really?!? I did a brief happy dance that surprised (ok mildly freaked out) the dog and then just sort of stared at them for a bit. It just seems totally surreal some days!
I'm so very happy with the way the colors turned out. Spring is such a sweet, sassy and preppy group. And Earth is just so bright and I think it just looks handsome and happy. I really hope you like them. They'll be in stores in August, so the wait is almost over. In the next few weeks, I'll host a giveaway and share some FQ packs so a few lucky folks will get to be the first to start sewing with them!! So make sure you stay tuned :)
And don't forget that time is running out for you to get Urban Circus in the original colors (Sherbet and Grass). They're all 15% off through Sunday 6/27, so if you haven't placed your order, time is running out!
26 comments:
- DianeY said...
Is it my imagination (or my computer), but the colors you are showing today look soooo much better than the ones in your previous post! I wasn't sure I liked them before, but I'm loving them now!
- June 16, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
Well, you imagine MY thoughts about some of these pictures! I know you don't need another pincushion but I've got some other thoughts tumbling around...
- June 16, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- Laurie Wisbrun | Scarlet Fig said...
kaiolohiakids: It's not your imagination! Those early scans from RK definitely didn't capture the real colors. These are the real deal. SOOO glad you like them!
- June 16, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Jorie said...
I love this whole line, all the colors. The mix of geometric shapes, and animals, and everything. Its awesome :)
- June 16, 2010 at 9:26 PM
- Unknown said...
These are so fun! Congratulations :)
- June 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM
- Hoot Couture said...
These prints are brilliant & lively- I can't wait to order!
- June 16, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- Sherri said...
These colors and prints are amazing...LOVE them!
- June 16, 2010 at 10:55 PM
- Susanna said...
Oh my goodness.. they are so happy and pretty!
- June 17, 2010 at 12:25 AM
- Janna said...
GAAAAHHH!...LOVE those blue elephants!!! LOVE!
- June 17, 2010 at 12:45 AM
- Ashley said...
congrats Laurie!!
it's so fabulous to see a second line - and so soon, too! i think my favorite is the elephants on blue - really fun!
- June 17, 2010 at 7:07 AM
- Carla said...
How amazing Laurie! I bet you can't stop smiling :oD
- June 17, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Unknown said...
Really REALLY looking forward to getting my hands on some of this gorgeous fabric -- okay all of it. I couldn't pick just one. Already have lots of ideas swirling around my brain. Congratulations - I love your fabric.
- June 17, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- Bee Yourself Fabrics said...
Congratulations Laury! I love the colors and the print! Looking forward to the release in August!
- June 17, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- sally said...
I love the new colors. I can think of so many fun things to make with those.
- June 17, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Sew Fresh Fabrics said...
So amazing! You've done it again. We spoke to Kaufman yesterday and we'll be getting the whole line in as soon as it's ready to ship. We're so excited!
- June 17, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- AllieKatMom said...
Cant wait, those look great!
- June 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- Ciara said...
As for your "dork out" moment, I think you deserve it! Getting your name on fabric that the rest of us will be talking about is a huge deal and even though you've had your name in the salvage before I don't think the excitement should ever wear off.
- June 17, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Poppyprint said...
How exciting!! I must have pink elephants in my life, or at least on my stash shelves. Can't wait. Congratulations Laurie.
- June 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Dorrie said...
Stay tuned! More like camp out on your doorstep and stalk you~in a nice way :)! Oh, I cannot wait! There are some cute little toddler quilts in my future with these adorable prints. And some pj's for daughter #3 who I think loves these prints more than I. Such good work Laurie!
- June 17, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Smeeker082 said...
wow I love them, my son adores elephants so I really am wanting to make a quilt out of this. Great work! Congrats
- June 17, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Just opened the mail and in it was seven 1/2 yd cuts of tufted tweets grass and orchid, sweet! Love the Urban circus and can't wait for a chance to win them!
- June 18, 2010 at 7:49 PM
- Kate said...
Wow! Love them Laurie. Dance away!
- June 19, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- Wendy P said...
Can't wait for August. Must get these!
- June 28, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- robie dodson said...
These are AMAZING!!! How do I get my hands on some yardage??? (by the way, I've never met a REAL fabric designer before - I am all goose pimply right now!!!)
- June 30, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Stevens Family said...
I am in love! I can't wait to get my hands on some of these prints. I especially NEED that giraffe print for my ABC I-Spy quilt.
Amazing work - can't wait to get a shot at trying to win a bundle.
- July 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Andrée Lachapelle said...
Those are so cute! Thanks for posting... I just started following your blog; have a look at mine: http://thesexyhomemaker.blogspot.com
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Kip Moore Avoids Surgery After Popping Vocal Cords
Kip Moore is "back to normal" after a scary vocal cord accident that forced him to not sing or speak for over two weeks. Those precautions were in order to prevent the need for surgery to fix the problem.
"I was in Charlotte, and I was about to do a show," Moore reveals to Taste of Country, just days after being allowed to speak again. "I was doing soundcheck, and I had been singing a lot of shows with strep throat. I just kept singing, and I wasn't getting better. When you're out on the road, it's late nights and this and that … you're getting up early. My body just wasn't healing, and I just kept on pushing through.
"I heard a pop and felt a pop in my vocal cord area," he continues. "Basically, it was the same thing Adele went through … it hemorrhaged and started bleeding. It was in bad, bad shape. The doctors told me that I was on the verge of doing some permanent damage, so I just had to shut up for two and a half weeks and couldn't say a word."
Moore, who is currently in the Top 20 with his second single 'Somethin' 'Bout a Truck,' says that not speaking was the toughest part about what he went through in order to mend his vocal cords. "I about lost my mind," he says with a laugh. "I didn't realize how much I actually talked. I did a lot of writing those two and a half weeks. I ended up just locking myself in my studio. I didn't go around people for the last week and a half of it because I was so fed up with trying to write stuff and people not understanding what I'm talking about. So I just stayed in the studio and practiced and wrote and stayed away from people."
However, that quiet time also allowed his mind to wander, thinking about what his future holds. "That was a really scary time because I had no idea what I was going to be like when I came back," he says. "The first few shows I did, I was very weak and my voice felt like it had changed. I was scared to death because I was like I'm never going to be the same again. You have all these fears and doubts, right when the song was getting to pump. It was just scary, but it's fine now. The last two or three shows, I've felt like I'm finally back to being strong again. I've got the same tone, and everything's back to normal. It feels good."
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Clowney leads S.C. to big Shrine Bowl win
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. - On Saturday at the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., we learned two new things about the nation's No. 1 prospect, defensive end Jadeveon Clowney from Rock Hill (S.C.) South Pointe. First, apparently Clowney doesn't need any practice to be a dominant force in a game. And second, he also doesn't need to be 100-percent healthy. Despite missing all but one practice during the week and playing with a bum shoulder, Clowney showed everyone why he is the top prospect in the country and could be the top high school football player in decades.
Clowney's stat line from a 42-10 South Carolina Sandlapper drubbing of the North Carolina Tar Heel team - 5 tackles (2 solo, 3 assists), 3 sacks for a loss of 15 yards, 2 tackles for a loss of 17 yards and 2 quarterback hurries - doesn't exactly tell the entire story. Of course they are impressive and show his dominance in the game, but he could have been credited with at least a half-sack on two other occasions, he flushed the quarterback two other times that led to sacks and he also drew an amazing five offensive holding penalties. Basically, on nearly every snap he took in the game, Clowney was a factor. However, the 6-foot-6, 247-pounder felt it was just another performance on his part.
"I thought I played well," he said. "But I wasn't 100 percent, my shoulder was bothering me a bit and I couldn't do everything I wanted to do out there. I was also a little rusty because I just did a lot of standing around this week in practice which was frustrating. But they wanted to make sure I was healthy enough to play in the game so whatever it takes."
Clowney was lined up against the North Carolina left tackle on every snap he played and while he drew the five holding calls, he and everyone else felt it could have been more.
"Oh, at least nine or 10 times, maybe more," said Clowney when asked how many times he felt he was held in the game. "It was bad. I was getting grabbed pretty good out there and I think they could have called a lot more holding. I'm used to getting held in games, but this was bad."
The main matchup for Clowney was against Pikeville (N.C.) Aycock offensive guard Jarrod James who was forced to play left tackle. Earlier in the week James expressed his desire to avoid being on anyone's highlight tape referring to his matchup against Clowney. Following the game, James was asked how good No. 90 (Clowney) was. His response was, to say the least, surprising.
"If he's the top player in the country, then I'm not far behind," said James following at least a 20-second pause after being asked the question.
Huh? Come again? What about all those holding calls, sacks, tackles for a loss and quarterback hurries?
"I did what I had to do to help my team," said James. "Playing against someone like him just makes you better and now I have a good idea of how college will be."
Certainly it's unfair to call out James for being abused by arguably the best high school prospect in decades, but make no mistake about it - James is very far behind Clowney as was everyone else on the field. Inexplicably, the North Carolina coaching staff didn't put a tight end over Clowney, didn't chip him with a running back and rarely double-teamed him with the left guard.
"I would have liked to be on that side of the line to at least chip him," said Fayetteville (N.C.) Jack Britt tight end Eric MacLain who wasn't involved in the game plan much. "It was tough watching this, we got beaten badly."
When asked about James, Clowney was his typical honest self not pulling any punches.
"I've never had anyone play that bad against me," he said. "But he'll be alright."
Coming into the game, much of the talk was about the solid group of quarterbacks on both teams. However, the play under center and in the shotgun was ugly at times from the big four of Marquise Williams, Vad Lee, Everett Golson and Justin Worley.
Of the four, it was clear that Golson had the best game. He completed 9 of his 15 attempts for 79 yards and had a couple nice runs as well. Most importantly he didn't turn the ball over and also connected on a touchdown pass. However, the others didn't fare as well.
Worley completed 8 of his 14 passes for 109 yards and made some nice plays, but he also threw an interception for that was returned 44 yards for a touchdown by safety Brandon Ellerbe in the first quarter. He also threw another pass into a traffic that was nearly picked by linebacker Stephone Anthony and his best play, a long touchdown pass to Jerell Adams that was called back on a penalty, was thrown into double coverage. Worley didn't account for a touchdown, the only South Carolina quarterback to fall short as Golson, DeEdward Burris and even linebacker Dexter Staley threw touchdown passes in the game.
On the North Carolina side, it was very puzzling why Lee received so many more snaps in the game despite Williams being the better passer and more effective player in practice all week. Lee completed 4-of-8 passes for 26 yards and ran the ball nine times but he was also sacked four times and threw an interception that was returned 33 yards for a touchdown by linebacker Quinn Backus. Williams also struggled, completing 3-of-9 passes for 42 yards and an interception and rushing once but he was also in on about half the snaps of Lee throughout the game making some wonder if he was injured.
"No, I wasn't injured, I'm healthy," said the 6-foot-3, 218-pounder. "They just didn't want to play me I guess. It was supposed to be Vad in the first quarter, me in the second quarter and so on, but that didn't happen. But it's all good and I had a lot of fun and week and today. I would have liked to get more snaps, but that's the way it goes. I still had fun."
Ellerbe and Backus had the defensive touchdowns on the day and running back Shon Carson had a 12-yard scamper for a score while Dexter Staley ran one in from two yards, but the rest of the scoring was all by Jerell Adams.
Adams, a 6-foot-5, 220-pounder from Summerton (S.C.) Scotts Branch, caught four touchdowns on the day with three of them going into the record books. His first TD was a three-yarder on a jump pass from Staley in a Wildcat formation in the second quarter. His second was a 5-yarder from DeEdward Burris in the third quarter and he finished his day with a 19-yard from Everett Golson in the fourth. As mentioned earlier, Adams also had a long touchdown catch from Worley between two defenders that was called back for an illegal man downfield. On the day Adams had five catches for 62 yards and three scores.
"This was a good experience," said Adams. "I'm so used to playing quarterback that this week in practice and in the game playing tight end was fun. I give the credit to our great receivers and running backs who really opened things up for me. It was good to come out and perform because I always hear things about playing 1A football and all of that and people question whether I can play tight end in college, so this was nice."
Lake City, S.C., running back Shon Carson had a big game with 82 yards on 16 carries and a touchdown while also catching four passes. He was named the Offensive MVP for South Carolina while Clowney was named Defensive MVP.
"I credit our offensive line for really opening up holes for me," he said. "I'm short already so I try to get even lower and make myself hard to find and hit and it worked today. I think it was a good game and it was an honor to be here."
While he was also very effective on defense (see below), Bennettsville (S.C.) Marlboro County linebacker Lateek Townsend was also an offensive standout. He rushed for 71 yards on eight carries from the Wildcat package.
Irmo, S.C., sleeper wide receiver David Frazier had six catches for 107 yards to lead all receivers in the game.
For North Carolina, Charlotte (N.C.) Ardrey Kell running back Justus Pickett had 28 yards on six carries and caught two passes for 28 more while Durham (N.C.) Jordan wide receiver T.J. Thorpe had a catch for 8 yards and four returns for 104 yards including a 50-yarder on a kickoff. They were the only two standouts for an offense that accounted for 75 yards on 44 plays. In fact, the Offensive MVP for the North Carolina squad was kicker Trevor Austin from Shelby (N.C.) Crest who kicked a 43-yard field goal and punted seven times for 232 yards.
In addition to Clowney, many South Carolina defenders had big days as well. Williston (S.C.) Elko linebacker Dexter Staley had eight tackles including three for a loss.
Manning, S.C., defensive tackle Phillip Dukes, who was hobbled for much of the week with an ankle injury, had four tackles including two sacks and two tackles for a loss.
Chester, S.C., running back Julius Pendergrass played safety and was all over the field. In addition to his four tackles he also had a fumble recovery, an interception and a pass breakup.
Rock Hill (S.C.) South Pointe defensive end Gerald Dixon had four tackles including two sacks and two tackles for a loss.
Townsend had two tackles as well as a sack and a tackle for a loss on the day and Backus had his interception for a score as well as three tackles.
For North Carolina, Matthews (N.C.) Butler linebacker Kris Frost was named the North Carolina Defensive MVP although it could also have gone to Asheville (N.C.) A.C. Reynolds 'backer Ben Councell. Frost had seven tackles including three for a loss and a pass breakup and was all over the field. Councell had 13 tackles including a sack and 1.5 tackles for a loss as well as a blocked punt and was also everywhere.
The other two standout linebackers, Stephone Anthony from Wadesboro (N.C.) Anson and Tremayne McNair from Jacksonville (N.C.) White Oak also had solid games. Anthony had five tackles including one for a loss and McNair had two tackles with one for a loss.
Defensive back Jerrell Armstrong from New Bern, N.C., had five tackles including one for a loss and had very good coverage on a few occasions on South Carolina star wide receiver Charone Peake.
Defensive tackle Shawn Underwood from Fuquay-Varina, N.C., had four tackles from his nose guard position and cornerback Domonique Noble from Mount Ulla (N.C.) West Rowan had four tackles. Ellerbe, as mentioned before, had his interception for a touchdown and also had three tackles.
And while many stood out in the game, others were surprising in their absence. Peake, a Rivals100 receiver from Roebuck (S.C.) Dorman, had only one catch for three yards and had trouble separating from defensive backs all game. St. Matthews (S.C.) Calhoun County athlete Shamier Jeffery had only one catch for 4 yards and was also a non-factor in the game.
Fayetteville (N.C.) Jack Britt defensive tackle Devonte Brown had only one tackle and was handled pretty easily throughout the game despite a strong week of practice and his teammate, the aforementioned MacLain, was not throw at once nor did it appear he was asked to run routes.
Kannapolis (N.C.) Brown running back Travis Riley had -1 yards on five carries and fumbled on the South Carolina two-yard line with a chance to put North Carolina up 17-0. Durham (N.C.) Southern Durham receiver Sherman Ragland had no catches and Greensboro (N.C.) Ben L. Smith receiver Eric Ebron was also kept off the stat sheet and had a drop. Another three-star receiver, Monroe (N.C.) Parkwood's Marcus Leak was also held without a catch. In fact, the apparent advantage the North Carolina receivers had over the South Carolina defensive backs was never exploited due to poor quarterback play and a guy named Clowney.
While Jarrod James and the North Carolina offensive line was embarrassed for the most part, the South Carolina offensive line was stellar overall.
Left tackles Shaq Anthony from Piedmont (S.C.) Wren and Stephen Grommer from Spartanburg, S.C., handled Brown and the rest with ease, Mauldin, S.C., center Ryan Norton had a couple of bad snaps but did a solid job against Underwood and right tackle Brandon Shell from Charleston (S.C.) Goose Creek was dominant.
Winnsboro (S.C.) Fairfield Central linebacker Ralph Cooper had three tackles on defense, but he also contributed on offense as a lead blocker in the Wildcat package. Cooper laid out a few defensive backs and did a good job on the linebackers when South Carolina decided to go to the direct snap formation.


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Water supply threatened in Owen, Pendleton counties
27 Ky. counties may not have enough drinking water
Kentucky officials have placed 27 counties on a water shortage watch as high heat and drought conditions persist throughout the state.
The state Energy and Environment Cabinet says the watch is issued when a drought has the potential to threaten drinking water supplies.
The counties are Monroe, Simpson, Warren, Fleming, Robertson, Whitley, Webster, Lee, Owsley, Owen, Pendleton, Crittenden as well as the 15-county Bluegrass Drought Management Area in central Kentucky.
Its counties are Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas, Scott and Woodford.
The Cabinet says residents living in these areas should be prepared to reduce water use if they are requested to do so by water suppliers.


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Digital X-Rays
Dental radiography is a painless and safe way to obtain images of your pet's mouth, teeth, and jaw bones. During a routine dental exam, your veterinarian may recommend digital dental x-rays to assess the health of your pet's teeth and gums. Digital dental x-rays can also expose bone tumors, tooth impactions and fractures, and painful lesions or erosions on the surface of your pet's teeth that may otherwise go unnoticed.
Other diseases and critical health issues digital dental x-rays can reveal:
- Periodontal Disease
- Broken and Discolored Teeth
- Suborbital Swellings
- Nasal Cavity Disease
- Dentigerous Cysts
- Cavities
- Retained Teeth
According to the American Veterinary Dental College, the use of digital x-ray equipment significantly reduces your pet's exposure to increased levels of radiation by a third of the amount, making it safer for your pet as well as the staff involved. In addition to its increased health benefits, the use of digital x-ray equipment allows for the enlarging of the image, increasing and decreasing image contrast, and the ability to store, print, and email digital files, making it easier for our staff to share your pet's dental images with you or a referring specialist.
Although only taking a few minutes to complete, sedation or anesthetization is required during a dental radiograph to ensure your pet maintains the proper position for each x-ray. Speak with your veterinarian regarding other preventative care treatments your pet can undergo while sedated.
Digital dental radiography is an important tool in assessing the health of your pet's mouth. Early detection is the key to maintaining the overall health and well-being of your pet companion. Make digital dental radiography an important part of your pet's healthcare routine!


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First make sure your linux machine is up to date and has curl installed.
Then install your local development environment.
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
This will get you the latest version of the meteor stack installed on your local machine.
From the help menu "meteor help" we can see our options:
With no arguments, 'meteor' runs the project in the current
directory in local development mode. You can run it from the root
directory of the project or from any subdirectory.
Use 'meteor create <name>' to create a new Meteor project.
run - [default] Run this project in local development mode
create - Create a new project
update - Upgrade this project to the latest version of Meteor
add - Add a package to this project
remove - Remove a package from this project
list - List available packages
bundle - Pack this project up into a tarball
mongo - Connect to the Mongo database for the specified site
deploy - Deploy this project to Meteor
logs - Show logs for specified site
reset - Reset the project state. Erases the local database.
test-packages - Test one or more packages
directory in local development mode. You can run it from the root
directory of the project or from any subdirectory.
Use 'meteor create <name>' to create a new Meteor project.
run - [default] Run this project in local development mode
create - Create a new project
update - Upgrade this project to the latest version of Meteor
add - Add a package to this project
remove - Remove a package from this project
list - List available packages
bundle - Pack this project up into a tarball
mongo - Connect to the Mongo database for the specified site
deploy - Deploy this project to Meteor
logs - Show logs for specified site
reset - Reset the project state. Erases the local database.
test-packages - Test one or more packages
Now with meteor installed and ready we need to start a new project.
First thing we need to do is navagate to the directory we want to have the project located.
I am choosing to have mine in a folder called meteor_examples on the user desktop of my Ubuntu machine.
cd Desktop/meteor_examples
Now inside of meteor_examples we will create a new meteor application
meteor create chatterbox
You should get a message in your console that looks like this:
chatterbox: created.
To run your new app:
cd chatterbox
To run your new app:
cd chatterbox
Now follow the prompt and change to the chatterbox directory and then run your app using "meteor run" or just "meteor".
Now you should see a message like this:
[[[[[ ~/Desktop/meteor_examples/chatterbox ]]]]]
Initializing mongo database... this may take a moment.
Initializing mongo database... this may take a moment.
and then when the database is complete and the server is ready you will get a message that you are being hosted at http://localhost:3000
Go there and see your app.
There is a button that you see that logs the number of clicks if you are interested see our development console for your browser.
Congrats you have a working meteor app.
Getting into the application
Now that you have a working application it is time to build our own.
In the folder chatterbox are three visable files and some hidden ones, for now we only want to focus on the three available.
Open chatterbox.css, chatterbox.js, and chatterbox.html in your editor and have a look at what you see. You will see an HTML
file that contains some handlebars templateing code. You see a css file that is empty, and a Javascript file that contains the meat of the application.
Since meteor runs on both the server and the client we have two if statments that check for this "Meteor.isClient()" and "Meteor.isServer()". To keep this
simple we will only be using the client check so you can delete the isServer check for clarity. Then delete all the code inside the isClient block.
This should leave you with just the "if (Meteor.isClient) { }" empty block in your js file.
Now we will move to the html file.
The first thing I learned when dealing with the meteor stack is that the templates are basic. Don't add a doctype as it is already being added as html5 <!DOCTYPE html>
Now for our chat site set up. The first thing we will do is remove all the markup and start fresh with some templates, head, body, foot.
 <title>chatterbox</title>   {{> head}} {{> body}} {{> foot}}
Now to create the templates that corispond with the template calls seen above:
<template name="head">
Hello and welcome to Chatterbox

 </template> <template name="body">

 <input type="text" id="userText"/><button type="button">Send</button>
 </template> <template name="foot">
Created by {{creator}} {{year}}
 </template>
You will notice that in the foot template we have some handlebars template variables that we will set later in the js section.
Now that our site is marked up its time to give it s bit of style in the chatterbox.css file:
/* CSS declarations go here */ body{ text-align:center; } #chatText{ margin-right: auto; margin-left:auto; border: silver solid 1px; width: 500px; height: 400px; }
Feel free to design any chat area you would like, we will keep it simple for the example.
Now we get to deal with the main idea for meteor, the javascript.
Open the chatterbox.js file and we will begin by adding the creator and year into the foot section.
Using the object Template we can select the foot template and then the creator variable and set it to a string, I used my username:
Template.foot.creator = "LaytonsDad";
Now we select the foot template and the year variable and set it to a function return:
Template.foot.year = function() { var _d = new Date();// Create new date return _d.getFullYear();// Return the year to the year variable };
Your js file should now look like this:
if (Meteor.isClient) { // select the template named foot and set the creator variable to your name Template.foot.creator = "LaytonsDad"; // Select the template named foot and set the year using a function return Template.foot.year = function() { var _d = new Date();// Create new date return _d.getFullYear();// Return the year to the year variable }; }
If it does then you are ready to check your application. Make sure you have saved all your files and go to http://localhost:3000. It should now have your
variables filled in the template. Now to move on to the main part of this which is the chat feature.
The first thing we need for the chat is a new collection in the database. In order to do this we will declare it above the isClient check in our
javascript file. The collection name must be a gloabl so we don't use var when naming it but we will make it capital:
Posts = new Meteor.Collection("posts");
Now we have a new database collection named Posts. Since we just created it we will have to create a structure so we know what to insert and what is available
to us. We will need to a userTag, text, postDate. The userTag is the name of the user that posted, the text is the text the user posted, and the postDate
will be the seconds representation of the date for sorting our query for posts. So with this in mind lets create a first post shall we.
In the development console of your browser you will need to type
Posts.insert({"userTag": "laytonsdad", "text": "This is a new post from laytonsdad!", "postDate": Math.floor(Date.now()/1000) });
and press enter this will now be in your collection for the next part of displaying posts.
In order to display the posts we will need to first add a new part to our HTML template. This will be an each loop for our variable that will return the posts.
The each will be:

 {{#each messages}}
{{userTag}} - {{text}}
 {{/each}}

and the query will be like:
Template.body.messages = function(){ return Posts.find({}, {sort: {postDate: -1}, limit: 10}); };
Inside the chatText div we create the loop for the messages returned from the query. These will contain the userTag, text, and postDate that will
get injected into the variables in the template.
In the js we are selecting the template body and the messages var to be looped and assigning it the return value of a query for everything in the posts
collection and then sorting it descending with a limit of ten docs returned.
You should now see your post in your application.
Next we will work on setting a userTag in a session for the user from a prompt.
(function() { var state = document.readyState; if(state === 'interactive' || state === 'complete') { Session.set("userTag", prompt("What is your userTag?") || "Guest"); // Set user session with userTag } else setTimeout(arguments.callee, 1000);// Recall the state of the Dom loading })();
The function above will check the readystate of the DOM and if complete it will prompt for a userTag. If none is given it will assign "Guest"
this would need to be ajusted for checks to see if the session is in use by another client but for this it will work fine.
Now that we have a userTag it is time to get some button events set to check the text and post if it is not blank.
So we want to be able to click the button or click enter so we will make some events:
Template.body.events = { 'keyup #userText' : function(e){ if (e.which === 13){ addPost(); } }, 'click #sendBtn' : function(e){ addPost(); } }
This also calls a function called addPost:
function addPost(){ var userText = document.getElementById("userText").value; if (userText.length > 0){ Posts.insert({"userTag": Session.get("userTag"), "text": userText, "postDate": Math.floor(Date.now()/1000)}); document.getElementById("userText").value = ""; } }
This should give you a working chat that can be manipulated any way you wish. Below are the final copies of the files for you to use if you need.
For refrences see docs.meteor.com and for videos see eventedmind.com
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Exploration Project
Department of
School of
Earth Sciences
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Page Maintainer: firstname.lastname@example.com
Copyright © 2009 SEP.
The Free Software Foundation puts together a complete, integrated software system named "GNU" that will be upwardly compatible with UNIX. Most parts of this system are already in place and the FSF distributes them freely.
GNU helps us (SEP) to distribute our reproducible research. To communicate our research in computational aspects of seismic data processing, we write reproducible research documents. Such a reproducible research document enables a reader to remove and recompute the document's results on her own UNIX workstation.
A reproducible document relies on a set of computer tools and utilities. Many of them are available on standard UNIX workstation. But if a tool is missing, or if we need a special version of a tool, we use the corresponding GNU program to fill the gap. In other words, GNU enables us to freely distribute a miniature copy of the SEP research laboratory, the SEP environment.
The SEP environment requires all GNU programs listed in the section "Essential at SEP." If you want to install the SEP environment on your system, but your workstation lacks any of these GNU tools, you need to download and install them.
In general, should you encounter installation problems with SEP software on your system, you may be able to work around it by installing the GNU version of whatever is giving you a problem. Since SEP software is suppose to install in a GNU environment, you should be able to complete your installation.
Currently, we distribute the SEP research and environment on CD-ROMs, but in the future we hope that we can use the Web.
We usually ftp the GNU packages we need from one of GNU's main FTP hosts:
Below I describe most of the GNU software available at SEP. To be able to install the SEP environment you need the GNU tools listed in the first category, Essential at SEP. The second category contains a list of tools that we find important. A third category states programs we consider helpful. A final category lists a few programs that we find interesting enough to play around with them.
For each program I characterize each package (based on the GNU bulletin of June 1995) and briefly state how it relates to the SEP environment.
GNU's documentation is TeX based and can be printed out or viewed online. The hyper-linked online version is accessible through emacs or the stand-alone executables "info" or "xinfo". (I wish GNU would create web pages as documentation.) Additionally, most (all?) GNU programs print a short self documentation when invoked with a "–help" flag. Only a few GNU programs come additionally with standard UNIX man pages.
Since GNU software is by definition platform independent, it adheres to POSIX and ANSI standards (GNU programs often, however, offer a wide range of enhancements beyond the basic standards and the user needs to set flags such as "-ansi -Wall" to force the GNU tools such as gcc to strict adherence of these standards). Compiling or interpreting software using GNU tools (such as gcc, g77, gawk, etc) can help to discover potential portability problems.
A freely distributed and very portable UNIX environment, such as GNU, could tremendously improve software portability and hardware compatibility. Future programmers concerned about portability could test their software for a GNU system that can run on many platforms. Hardware manufacturers could ensure that the GNU system is ported to their platform and could thereby gain a rich set of applications that run on their machine. You can gain a glimpse into such a world by taking a peek into the Linux world for PCs. The GNU community is working hard on the release of Hurd, its collection of server processes that run on top of a Mach kernel. It will be interesting to see if GNU's Hurd system is going to be usable before powerful Linux PCs successfully compete in all parts of the UNIX world. On the other hand, maybe Java will solve the entire portability problem. Exciting times …
Future SEP programmers may want to read GNU's document on programming standards for projects submitted to GNU. The standards outline a set of rules to ensure consistent, well documented, robust and portable code.
The sophistication and ease of GNU's software distribution is admirable. Anyone distributing software that requires installation should consider GNU's configure (autoconfig) technique. (I wish all of SEPlib had such an installation mechanism.) The official installation document is in a package's README file. You can, however, expect to install most GNU software packages with a few basic steps:
Trent's GNU page: a wealth of information.
Delorie offers another unofficial GNU page. It includes online documentation for the various packages.
Exploration Project
Department of
School of
Earth Sciences
| Stanford
Page Maintainer: email@example.com
Copyright © 2009 SEP.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Group AG
Bank executives say Credit Suisse Securities (USA) can make money by focusing on ultra-wealthy clients who use multiple investment banking and personal investment services, and by introducing products that generate relatively high and sustainable interest income even when rates are low.
Profit margins can rise by cutting compensation costs through layoffs, training brokers internally rather than through expensive recruiting, and better use of technology to lower back-office costs and improve sales, they say.
The U.S. wealth business is a small part of revenue at Switzerland's second-largest bank, but getting it into the black is becoming increasingly important to Credit Suisse. Wealthy investors worldwide have been closing their Swiss accounts as U.S. and European regulators investigate the complicity of financial firms in helping customers evade taxes, hurting the profitability of the private wealth business in Switzerland.
Profit margin on Credit Suisse's $1.44 trillion (1.3 trillion Swiss francs) of private banking assets worldwide is 1.1 to 1.15 percent, bank officials said. The take would be closer to 1.5 percent if not for the U.S. unit that oversees about $110 billion (99 billion Swiss francs) of those assets, said people familiar with the U.S. brokerage's returns.
Credit Suisse has given the U.S. private wealth business 18 months to turn around, at least temporarily sparing it from the death sentences it is handing down to small and unprofitable operations in 50 other markets, including in Africa, Central Asia and Europe.
The business has not been profitable since Credit Suisse bought it as part of its purchase of U.S. investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 2000, according to a former Credit Suisse chief financial officer, who said it was ignored for many years but considered essential.
As one of the largest wealth managers in the world, Credit Suisse needs "to have a presence in the world's biggest wealth market," the former CFO said.
Last March, the bank named Philip Vasan, a 53-year-old executive whom it credited with reversing the fortunes of the bank's prime brokerage, to head private wealth in the Americas. Bank executives said that despite his lack of experience in retail brokerage, Vasan knows how to work with the very wealthy and how to run businesses efficiently.
Vasan, who declined to be interviewed for this story, faces formidable challenges and lingering skepticism from analysts and within the industry.
Chris Wheeler, a London-based bank stock analyst at Mediobanca, has a buy rating on Credit Suisse but thinks the U.S. brokerage should be shuttered.
"There is no way the U.S. business is sustainable," he said. "They're not big enough there. That's the bottom line."
The brokerage force at Credit Suisse Securities (USA) has declined to about 350 from close to 450 three years ago. That is much smaller than competitors such as Morgan Stanley
Several top brokerage teams have left since Vasan arrived. Many U.S. brokers said they worry that Vasan has no background in the retail brokerage business and fear they will be pushed to dump all but their wealthiest clients.
Further, former executives said, the U.S. business would have been profitable if it had not been weighed down by global corporate expenses for operations, information technology, risk management and other costs allocated from Zurich.
They also say that the cross-marketing strategy being pursued by Vasan has been tried before with little success. Investment bankers, for example, resist entrusting the personal wealth of some of their best clients to brokers. In the past, the parent bank has also offered financing on expensive terms, making loans in the U.S. uncompetitive.
Credit Suisse spokesman Calvin Mitchell said the business under Vasan has been making progress.
"We have focused on accelerating growth in our U.S. private banking client franchise to capture the opportunity in the U.S. market while adapting the business to improve scale and efficiency," Mitchell wrote in an email.
Under Vasan, who spent much of the last decade dealing with hedge-fund tycoons and previously directed Credit Suisse's e-commerce investments, the client focus in the U.S. has turned from the merely wealthy to "ultra-high-net-worth" clients. In the bank's lexicon, that's either a household net worth of at least $25 million, or $50 million or more in Credit Suisse lending and investing accounts, according to bank officials.
The average client household has roughly $20 million in accounts at Credit Suisse Securities (USA), according to a former executive.
Mitchell declined to comment on the U.S. business, but said about 44 percent of private banking clients worldwide fit the firm's ultra-high-net-worth criteria. He also would not comment on whether U.S. brokers have been turning away less wealthy clients as a result of the focus on the ultra-rich.
But Vasan, who has managed Credit Suisse's companywide cost-reduction efforts, is planning to run a tight ship in the U.S.
He is devising plans to cut back-office costs and oversaw layoffs of about 35 brokers and other staff during the summer, Mitchell said. Rather than replacing experienced brokers who left, he is developing a retention plan for the ones he wants to keep and working on the training program, the former chief financial officer said.
As part of his plan to build net interest revenue at the U.S. brokerage, Vasan at the end of 2013 introduced its first mortgage product for the hyper-rich.
Analysts said Credit Suisse Chief Executive Brady Dougan's public support of Vasan suggests that the bank will allow the U.S. unit to take more credit risk than it has in the past, improving the chances that the lending strategy can work.
Vasan will never generate a profit without convincing Zurich to lower the costs it allocates to the U.S. wealth management business, the former brokerage executives said.
The unit has been absorbing about $400 million of expenses annually for corporate services, many of which it rarely, if ever, uses, they said. Without these, the U.S. brokerage generated profit of at least $200 million annually since 2010, they said.
For example, Credit Securities (USA) was routinely charged more than $100 million a year for products and back-office services from European headquarters that it actually purchased from Bank of New York's Pershing LLC, said a former executive who sought anonymity because of contractual agreements.
Bank officials said costs for services ranging from corporate jets to legal expenses are assigned across the bank and is standard practice for multinational corporations.
"Allocations come with being part of a big bank, which gives you benefits as well," said another former executive, Michael Campbell, who ran the retail brokerage business at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and, briefly, at Credit Suisse. But if the business stood alone, he said, "it would be wildly profitable."
(Reporting By Jed Horowitz; Editing by Linda Stern, Paritosh Bansal and Nick Zieminski)


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In a region marked by long-standing conflicts, HEKS/EPER is striving to promote peace based on justice and respect for human rights. The latter have been drastically curtailed as a result of the strife and this is hampering a permanent peace settlement. HEKS/EPER supports civil society players that are working, by non-violent means, to overcome the current conflicts and inequality. To this end, a network of local and international organizations is being forged in order to achieve a just, human rights-based peace settlement. Under the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), HEKS/EPER also works to enhance the protection of the civilian population through the use of international human rights observers. HEKS/EPER carries out awareness-raising activities in Switzerland.
In 2017, some 68000 people living in conflict situations were reached through peace initiatives or protective measures.