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The next day was chock full of breakout sessions and meeting the exhibitors. I attended two of the breakout sessions, but the one that stood out the most was What Cancer Stole From Me: Grieving the Losses Associated With Cancer. During this session, the speakers had us write on two sides of an index card. The front was about what cancer has taken from you. The back was for something that people don't understand that affects our cancer journey. On the front, I wrote about my grandfather (d. 2005 of non-Hodgkins lymphoma), and my family suffering from familial papillary thyroid cancer (there's more about this in previous blog entries, if you are new to this blog). This was not the difficult part. The difficult part was the back. I wrote about how I am about to "celebrate" my 9th cancerversary, and yet the stigma that "thyroid cancer is the good cancer" still exists. It hurts to feel like my journey is easier than others, when really everyone's journey with cancer is different and cannot be compared. Of course, I didn't write ALL of that, but it pretty much stated that. After we wrote on our cards, one of the speakers read our cards out loud. When my card was read, I started to cry. I didn't understand why, at first. I've thought about this so many times, repeated it out loud to so many people. Why did it get to me so deeply? Why was this even still something that COULD reach my heart in such a way?
That evening was Stupid Cancer Pub Trivia. Team Badass plus my new thysister and her husband joined us. We did pretty well, and it was so much fun! Italia Ricci (lovely lead actress in "Chasing Life" on ABC Family, and awesome Stupid Cancer advocate) joined the fun and was watching at a table behind us. She came in so quietly I didn't even realize she was there! She looked like she was enjoying herself, and was such a sweetheart when people talked to her. The night was full of laughs, love, and badassery. ;-)
The next day was the last day of CancerCon, with breakout sessions in the morning and the last few speeches before the end of the conference. I attended two sessions: When Did Cancer Turn Me Into A Control Freak? and Your Next Chapter - Making Your Survivorship COUNT! The first one was pretty powerful because I was in a room full of people who felt like they had no control over their lives, and that cancer and its side effects were taking the pieces of control that we thought we had left. We talked about our feelings and about how we can take back control and rely on those who understand and give us comfort. We all were given a little fabric bag and little cut out pieces of index cards. We were told to write down things/people/places that make us happy and bring us peace. We were also told to write down various things that stress us out or make us lose our sense of control. At the end, we put our "happy cards" into our bag, and the "stress cards" into a bin to later be burned. It sounds crazy, but I felt like a weight was lifted from me. I knew I had let go, and I had a better grasp on what was important to me. It felt nice to throw those little cards made of nightmares into that bin. Good riddance.
During the second session, I got to watch two lovely and beautiful ladies, Tamika Felder and Helaine Bader speak to us about telling our story. I spoke up at one point to respond to them about a question, and I talked about what I wrote on that card the day before. Again, my throat closed and cried. I had a harder time saying it than I did writing it. I kept contemplating afterward why this kept catching me. It dawned on me later on, and that epiphany was hard to swallow:
I had cancer.
You're probably thinking, "Well, DUH..." But, honestly, that never did sink in before. Not as much as it did during the conference. People in the cancer world used to get so frustrated with me when I told them that my cancer was "no big deal," and that I "didn't go through as much as they did." I used to shrug it off, and say how I felt bad that I didn't suffer as much. I was told over and over again, "Dori. Cancer is cancer. There is nothing 'good' or 'easy' about it, no matter which type you have." That finally got through. After 9 years of that stigma of "good cancer" being thrown in my face, it finally hit me. I have had two surgeries, two RAI treatments, countless biopsies, scans, and blood work tests. This cancer is still not gone. It is still in my body. In fact, my blood work numbers are going up every 6 months. It's only a matter of time, really, before they need to go cherry picking in my neck once more.
I want to end these false ideas about thyroid cancer. I want to bring my knowledge, my story, and my family to as many people as possible. I want to inform and move people into being more aware of this disease and what it can do. I want to get to know and help those who already fight this every single day and feel so alone because they feel like no one understands. I want to be a person who really makes waves in the thyroid cancer world and in the outside world.
So, to close this long, long entry, I will say this: I will be more involved in the young adult cancer community, and I am going to do everything in my power to accomplish the goals I have set upon myself. You will see me again, and this blog will continue.
Until then, friends, I wish you love, happiness, and -- most importantly -- good health.


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Dickerson, Blackmon providing thump; Lyles, Kahnle strong on the bump
DENVER -- The Rockies have tried the headline-grabbing offseason signings before -- see Mike Hampton and Darryl Kile.
They didn't work.
They have tried patience, waiting for the farm system to produce the necessary bodies to fill all of the needs at the big league level.
That didn't work.
So this winter, they embarked on a different approach. This winter, they put the focus on emphasizing the need for roster depth.
So far, so good.
Now, be warned, it is early. Their season is only 21 games old.
The Rockies, however, are 11-10. They have only had six better starts in franchise history. Thanks to an 8-2 win against the Giants on Monday night at Coors Field, combined with the Dodgers getting beat by the Phillies, Colorado is just a half-game back of second-place San Francisco and 1 1/2 behind division-leading Los Angeles in the National League West.
That's with starting pitcher Jhoulys Chacin having opened the season on the disabled list, and still most likely having rehab starts with Triple-A Colorado Springs on Thursday and April 29 before a possible activation.
It's with major offseason rotation addition Brett Anderson out for at least two months after suffering a broken finger while batting in his third start.
It's with All-Star left fielder Carlos Gonzalez in a 5-for-35 slump that has seen him drive in one run in the last 10 games, defending NL batting champ and heart of the clubhouse Michael Cuddyer on the disabled list with a left hamstring strain, and Jorge De La Rosa not earning his first victory until Monday's win over the Giants.
And De La Rosa could only make it through five innings in that game, allowing one run but laboring through a 102-pitch effort that included only 59 strikes. He did, however, ease some concerns when he pitched out of a two-on, nobody-out threat in the fourth and escaped unscored upon with Giants runners on first and third with one out and the middle of the order coming up in the fifth.
"It was a good sign to see him pitch out of those jams," manager Walt Weiss said. "It's what was a staple for him last year, but early on [this year], he hasn't been so good at it."
What's been good about the Rockies, though, is the help they have received from throughout the roster.
"I talked about it this spring," Weiss said. "I felt we are in a better position to take on some adversity throughout the year. I hoped we wouldn't be tested so early, but the guys have stepped up."
Guys like Corey Dickerson, joining the lineup in center field on Monday when Charlie Blackmon moved to right, filling the defensive void of Cuddyer. Dickerson responded with a double, a two-run home run and a single in his first three at-bats.
Blackmon himself was supposed to be part of a revolving center-field door, but he has played so well he's forced himself into the lineup in 16 of the first 21 games -- and not only leads the team with a .411 average but raised his home run total to four with two in Monday's victory.
And then there's the emergence of Jordan Lyles in the rotation and Tommy Kahnle in the bullpen.
Lyles, who was recalled from Triple-A before the season began, is 3-0 with a 3.04 ERA in four games.
Kahnle, a Rule 5 Draft selection from the Yankees, has given the Rockies a much-needed right-handed power arm who can work middle innings. He delivered two hitless innings with five strikeouts against San Francisco on Monday.
"What it takes [to win] is everybody," Weiss said.
Right now, the Rockies are competing.
Hey, it's a starting point for a franchise that has never won a World Series and has claimed only one NL pennant (2007).
"Everyone talked coming into Spring Training that we had depth from last season," Cuddyer said. "Obviously every guy we had [added] has played well."
There is:
• Outfielder Brandon Barnes, who came along with him from Houston in the Dexter Fowler deal, hitting .303.
• Kahnle has picked up two wins, compiling a 1.59 ERA in eight appearances and twice providing that two-inning mid-game relief in victories against the Giants.
• Dickerson, a product of the system, is now hitting .375 in 10 games.
They may not be the heart of the order, like Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki and Cuddyer; or the foundation of the rotation; or the bullpen closer. They are, however, all critical parts of what Colorado envisions as long-term success.
"We have a team that has embraced the team concept," Weiss said. "It is a matter of sustaining it."
Can it be done? Sure.
Will it be done? Time will tell.
So far, for the Rockies, however, it has been so good.


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Most of the gatherings were minuscule, even in big cities, but the effort did receive widespread publicity. According to organizers cited by Agence France-Presse, over 5,000 demonstrations were held in more than 180 countries.
The protestors rallied around the motif of "350" — the supposed level of carbon dioxide in parts per million that some scientists claim is an acceptable ceiling. They carried signs and unfurled banners reading 350, even forming themselves into giant human numbers to illustrate their point.
"We had no idea we would get the overwhelming support, enthusiasm and engagement from all over the world that we're seeing," explained Bill McKibben, a climate-change activist who founded the Rockefeller-funded organization 350.org that coordinated the day of protests. "It shows just how scared of global warming much of the planet really is, and how fed up at the inaction of our leaders."
Ironically, recent surveys indicate that most Americans do not believe global warming is a serious problem or even caused by human activity at all. And several other ironies in this saga become immediately apparent as well.
The continual charge that so-called "deniers" are financed by oil companies should finally be put to rest, considering that a significant share of the Rockefeller family fortune came and continues to come from oil. Several oil companies have financed past McKibben efforts as well.
Another ironic occurrence was a group of mountain climbers in Antarctica — an area that scientists claim has been cooling for over 10 years and where 90 percent of the world's ice is located and continuing to grow — displaying a 350 banner. Similarly, a group gathered on a mountain in Wanaka, New Zealand, to protest the warming of the globe. Meanwhile skilakewanaka.com, the official ski and snowboard resort website for the region, reports: "The 2009 Winter Season is under way with the best early season snow conditions in over ten years."
But McKibben is adamant about the need to reduce carbon dioxide levels from the current 387 parts per million, even calling the draconian U.S. "cap and trade" bills inadequate. "To get back to the safe level we need a very rapid halt to the use of coal, gas and oil so that forests and oceans can absorb some of that carbon," McKibben said in a press release, adding that the world should ratify global restrictions at the UN Climate Summit that scientist Lord Christopher Monckton predicted would obliterate American sovereignty and create a communist world government.
McKibben, the activist author, has called for the formation of government "green corps" groups to work on climate-change issues. McKibben's organization also trains young people in what it calls "climate camps" around the world. But despite the complete media blackout on the connection to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund through the Sustainable Markets Foundation, critics have seized on the funding as evidence that the real goal is not simply to save the planet. "I'm thinking that anything that has to do with Rockefeller's money is never in the best interests of people or the earth," explained a blogger at Aletho News. "Do these tens of thousands participating in the '350' social engineering 'events' really understand the background of their financial leaders or are they, as Rockefeller's buddy Kissinger might say, 'useful idiots?'" The writer also points to a myriad of global-warming propaganda grants — each over $200,000 — made by the Rockefeller Fund.
So why is the link troubling? "For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will," wrote David Rockefeller in his autobiography. "If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." He also promotes draconian "population control" via global governance, among other highly controversial ideas.
Americans need to educate themselves about the facts surrounding the whole "climate change" debate before the nation is saddled with the economy-destroying measures being cheered on by alarmists and other environmental extremists financed by elitists like the Rockefellers. New evidence suggests carbon dioxide levels could even be decreasing as more and more is absorbed by the cooling oceans, so it is important for educational purposes to stay on top of the science.
But at least one point is clear: the stakes are very high. If the globalist climate-change peddlers get their way, humanity could very well enter another dark age, with millions or even billions of people in developing countries feeling the true brunt of these measures. Pursuit of freedom and the truth must be relentless for America to maintain its liberties under the Constitution, and possibly even for human civilization to continue to thrive. Fearmongers and deceivers must be exposed so that the truth can stop the planned carbon regime.
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Looking back over the past 20 years in the Digital Marketing bubble, there have been a handful of disruptive "barbarians at the gate" moments that shake our foundations and challenge the way we think of the world. The collapse of the tech bubble in 2000 reintroduced the ideas of gravity and final accounting. The Wall Street Journal's "What They Know" series changed the terms of the debate around online consumer privacy. Now Mike Shields from Adweek has come to the gate with "Ad Wreck: VC-backed ad tech firms have arguably inflicted one big mess on digital advertising."
Now, if you're a CEO in the Ad Tech business, you're probably not sending Mike a Christmas card this year. Indeed, if you'd seen him at the gate you might have been tempted to call out the archers or dump some boiling oil from atop the castle walls. I mean, he's saying things like "It sounds counterintuitive that loads of cash threatens to harm an industry, but a growing chorus complains that VC dollars have, in fact, done more harm than good to online advertising." Ouch!
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But before you shoot the messenger, read the article. Rather than quibbling over the details or reflexively staking your claim of exceptionalism, accept the reality of Mike's thesis. The article quotes Daniel Klaus of K2 Labs: "There has been so much money wasted, and it continues to be wasted in this space. When it comes to ad tech, there are very few signs that it is really working." While investors like Klaus are more vocal, the meme is taking root at the publisher level as well. "Publishers are reluctant to talk about their ad tech experiences on the record, but many privately describe having dramatically cut their lists of third-party partners."
The weak CEO responds to these ideas with vitriol or denial. The strong and visionary accept that there's a sea change in marketplace attitude and adjust to that new reality.
People often ask me if I'm down on the programmatic, technology-driven side of our business. I am not. For the record, I've always believed that technology-driven process automation is a natural phenomenon in our world and will only get bigger as the years go by. I wrote about it in 2007 and I still believe it today. But I also just as firmly believe that (a) the ad tech marketplace must and should consolidate into the hands of very few companies and (b) that the flood of VC money has perverted the market, creating a surreal world in which "serial entrepreneurs" survive by continually taxing the dollar exchange between marketer and publisher.
So what's an Ad Tech CEO to do? Build your company and your services to last 25 years, not 25 months. Build products that grow new value and create new revenue, rather than simply finding incremental savings in an already collapsing banner market. In the flood of VC money, a lot of things floated that weren't necessarily boats. Now is the time to build well.
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One tends to think of data visualization as a new phenomenon but the practice dates back to the 17th century at least according to the British Library's Beautiful Science exhibition opening today, Feb. 20, 2014 and extending to May 26, 2014. Rebekah Higgitt's Feb. 20, 2014 posting for the Guardian's Science blog network offers a preview (Note: Links have been removed),
Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight, which opens at the British Library tomorrow, is a small but thought-provoking display that looks at how scientific data has and can be visualised. Prompted by today's interest in big data and infographics, it merges modern digital displays with historic texts and images.
The display items are well-chosen, and include some key examples of innovation in data collection and presentation. However, the science- rather than history-led interpretation of the 17th- to 19th-century texts is clear in the fact that their selection reflects trends and concerns of the present, rather than a concern to reveal those of the past. There is, likewise, an emphasis on progress toward ever better and more accurate approaches to data visualisation (although in a post at PLOS Blogs, Kieniewicz suggests that designers have recently stolen a march over scientists in the display of data).
The PLOS (Public Library of Science) blogger mentioned in previous excerpt is Johanna Kieniewicz and the Beautiful Science exhibition's curator. In the Feb. 13, 2014 posting on her 'At the Interface' blog, where she discusses the exhibit she also makes it clear that this is a personal blog and is not associated with her employers (Note: A link has been removed),
When it comes to the visual representation of scientific information, in a scientific context, does aesthetic matter? In my day job at the British Library, I've spent the past year curating the upcoming Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Ideas exhibition. This experience has given me a phenomenal opportunity to think about the way we communicate and discover things in science. And, I think there's a strong case to be made for beautiful science.
The visual representation of data is a fundamental part of what it means to be a scientist today. Whether a single data point plotted on a graph or a whole genome sequence, data visualisation helps us to examine, interpret, and contextualise information in a way that numbers and statistics often do not. Moreover, at a time when we are expected to process ever-increasing volumes of information, visualisations are often more readily digestible than some of the more 'traditional' alternatives; as the increased prominence of colourful 'data viz' work in the pages of our newspapers, websites, and in-flight magazines would attest.
You do have to be in London, UK to attend this show however the British Library's Feb. 19, 2014 press release does offer more information which might satisfy curiosity about the show and associated events, as well as, some images (Note: Links have been removed),
In an age of rapidly advancing technologies Beautiful Science, opening tomorrow in The Folio Society Gallery at the British Library, shows that the challenge of presenting big data in innovative ways is not a new one. From 17th century illustrated diagrams to contemporary interactive visualisations, the exhibition explores how advances in science alongside changes in technology have allowed us to visually interpret masses of information.
Beautiful Science, sponsored by Winton Capital Management, explores the work of scientists and statisticians through the ages using the Library's own vast science collections together with new and exciting technology, focusing on three key themes – public health, weather and evolution.
From an early visual representation of a hierarchically ordered universe in Robert Fludd's 'Great Chain of Being' (1617) and Florence Nightingale's seminal 'rose diagram' (1858), which showed that significantly more Crimean War deaths were caused by poor hospital conditions than battlefield wounds, to a contemporary moving infographic of ocean currents from NASA, this exhibition shows how visualising data has changed the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us.
Dr Johanna Kieniewicz, lead curator of Beautiful Science, says: "The British Library is home to the nation's science collection and we're thrilled to be opening up our fantastic collections in the Library's first science exhibition. As big data is becoming a topic of such huge interest, we particularly wanted to show the important connections between the past and the present. Data that is centuries old from collections like ours is now being used to inform cutting edge science. We're also delighted to include video interviews with leading experts, Dame Sally Davies, UK Chief Medical Officer, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, chairman and co-founder of the Open Data Institute, David McCandless, data-journalist and designer, and David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University."
Following the success of last year's Inspiring Science season, the exhibition is accompanied by a range of events including Festival of the Spoken Nerd: I Chart the Library, Seeing is Believing: Picturing the Nation's Health with Sally Davies and David Spiegelhalter, Knowledge is Beautiful with David McCandless and a Family Discovery Day.
Now for some of the images in the show. This first one is Florence Nightingale's Rose,
Next, there's a contemporary reworking of Florence Nightingale's Rose,
This next image from the Beautiful Science show leads to Vancouver,
This particular set of 'Circos' diagrams are also called the 'Circles of Life' and were created by Martin Krzywinski, a Vancouver-based scientist (mostly biosciences) and data visualizer. His blog features his data visualization work which is quite beautiful and, I imagine, is at least part of the reason for the worldwide interest in his work. Krzywinsk has contributed to a Nature (journal) group blog devoted to data visualization. The blog has since been retired but the July 30, 2013 posting provides a subject index to the group's postings. Krzywinsk was also a featured speaker at a WIRED (magazine) Data | Life conference in New York City on Nov. 6, 2013.


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Dreamworks Animation's "The Croods" is easily the silliest, most cartoonish animated movie I've seen in a long time. It seemed to me to be even more squarely aimed at children than most modern animated offerings are nowadays.
Regardless, it's fun, funny, brightly colored and spiritedly animated. It's definitely a family friendly slice of entertainment.
It's totally worth it to take your brood to "The Croods".
Grug (Nic Cage) is a caveman faced with the daunting challenge of keeping his family safe in dangerous, prehistoric times. To do this, he insists they all stay shut in a cave except to hunt for food. This doesn't sit well with Eep (Emma Stone), a teen girl who's anxious to experience more of the world. One night, against her father's wishes, she sneaks out of the cave and encounters Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a more advanced human, who, among other things, has mastered fire.
Her father is incensed, of course, but the encounter couldn't have happened at a better time. Guy is aware that the lands they live in are undergoing violent upheaval. Earthquakes and volcanic activity are rapidly approaching the area of the Crood's home. Their only hope is to try to outrun the cataclysm and take to higher ground. So Grug takes his son (Clark Duke), Wife (Catherine Keener), Mother in Law (Chloris Leachman), and youngest daughter and reluctantly heads off with Eep and Guy towards safe haven.
On the way towards safety, Grug and clan have to cross unfamiliar terrain and survive numerous obstacles they've never encountered before, including new predators. Grug is further challenged by the fact that Guy, with all his comparative worldliness, has better ides for combating these challenges than he does. It isn't long before his family is deferring to Guy in critical situations, rather than to him.
So, with the Earth crumbling behind him, vicious prehistoric plants and animals all around, and a young boy after his daughter's heart and his family's minds, will Grug be able to get his family to safety and keep their love and respect at the same time?
The plot of "The Croods" is even more simplistic and straightforward than most animated fare. With the earth crumbling behind them, the Croods are forced to outrace it to safety. As far as characters go, Stone's Eep develops a crush on Reynold's Guy, which causes her father to be protective at first, and later, when the family begins to follow Guy as well, he also becomes jealous. I understand that animated films aren't typically a bastion of themes and character development, but "The Croods" seems even less concerned with it than most. Instead it spends its runtime having its characters be chased by predators, falling over cliffs, and smashing their faces into rocks.
Which I'm certain will be a complaint that will be widely levied against it, but personally I can't hold it against the movie too much. "The Croods" takes a much more whimsical approach than most recent animated movies I can recall. It uses the "Prehistoric" setting as a license to reimagine the planet… with giant colorful flora and all manner of bizarrely designed animal characters. None of which seem to have much basis in prehistory as I understand it. Within this colorful playground, the characters have a fast paced, run for your life style adventure, with frequent bursts of child friendly humor such as tripping and falling, getting things dropped on people's heads, and talking animals who crack wise. It was refreshing, actually, and reminded me at times of a full length Hannah Barbera movie.
Fast paced, silly, and visually unique, "The Croods" is good family fun, especially for families with younger children.


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Swap of land for services is part of larger plan to reduce federal footprint.
The General Services Administration on Monday took steps to attract developers to two properties in Washington's Federal Triangle complex, answering congressional critics who complained of inaction and furthering the Obama administration's ongoing bid to shrink the government's real estate footprint.
The agency released a Request for Qualification, soliciting development and construction firms willing to swap services for the government in exchange for taking the title to the currently vacant Cotton Annex in Southwest Washington as well as the nearby GSA Regional Office Building.
GSA in turn would use the services to complete the transfer of 1,500 personnel from around the area to its newly renovated F Street Northwest headquarters, as well as continue its ongoing conversion of three buildings at the St. Elizabeths hospital campus in Southeast as part of the consolidated headquarters of the Homeland Security Department.
"The Federal Triangle South project is an opportunity to reexamine how the federal government uses these buildings and reassess how this space fits into the surrounding community," GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini said. "This action will facilitate the city's efforts to transform this precinct that is dominated by federal office buildings, into a mixed-use neighborhood that will both provide for a modern workplace for federal employees and create a vibrant, diverse and special community of its own."
Tangherlini stressed to reporters in a conference call that the moves are important to "getting vacant properties off our rolls and back contributing to the economy and the communities which are hosting them." The moves would open local infrastructure development opportunities in line with the long-term vision for a sustainable community in the Federal Triangle South area identified by the National Capital Planning Commission's Southwest EcoDistrict.
For GSA, the twin moves would also cut workplace costs and reduce energy consumption by bringing more employees into GSA's open office "total workplace" program.
Overall since 2010, GSA reported, it has completed 565 property disposal transactions, generating $207.5 million in proceeds and eliminating more than 28,121 acres of excess government land.
The Cotton Annex, which has been vacant since 2007 and was last used by the Agriculture Department, was the site of a March 22, 2012, field hearing by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Its then-chairman, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., blasted GSA for not acting more quickly to dispose of the annex and other vacant federal properties. Reached on Monday, Mica told Government Executive, "It is refreshing to see that GSA is finally getting off its duff and taking on one of the most valuable assets. I'm encouraged and will keep holding their feet to the fire."
Later this spring, Mica plans a hearing in Beltsville, Md., to pressure GSA to take action on 200 buildings deemed as excess at the 6,500-acre Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
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Daily deals seem to be on their way out. Their demise is heralded by the recent fiscal failings of Groupon, the site that sells discounted package deals for anything from spa trips to burgers to reading glasses. Critics of Groupon have been vocal about what they see as an inherently flawed business model.
Articles at varied news outlets like Slate, Forbes, Esquire, and even The Christian Science Monitor have voiced one opinion: Groupon has no future. Most of these critics cite the fact that there's no barrier for competition. Companies can, and do, exactly what Groupon does. It hasn't created enough of a niche for itself. These same critiques can be applied to any site that features a daily deal or package sale similar to Groupon.
The main reason for their demise? The competition can't be helping, but it is the very nature of the deals that dooms them. Groupon and other sites rely heavily on the merchants that provide them with those incredibly discounted offers, and the deal sites have very little to bargain with. Groupon lures businesses—often cash-strapped ones—into the deal by promising increased exposure and customers who will spend more than their coupon amount.
However, the company doesn't keep any statistics to back up these claims. Businesses usually just end up losing 75% of profits to bargain hunting costumers unlikely to make a return trip. Groupon and others can't exist without the businesses that provide their deals, and those businesses seem to be getting little out of the partnership.
Are you a daily deals customer? If so, how have you taken advantage of the offers? Do you return to the businesses you get deals from? If you're a small business owner, have you been affected by Groupon or other such sites? If Groupon is on the brink, what can consumers do to protect themselves if they're still trying to find a good deal?
Matt DeBord, KPCC Reporter; writes the DeBord Report KPCC.org
Rawkesh Agrawal, writer for VentureBeat, appears on Bloomberg TV and CNBC and has contributed to TechCrunch and GigaOm
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Four-Star Chef
It's 6:15 p.m. on a rainy late spring Wednesday, and chef Eric Ripert is making the rounds in the shining, spotless and very active kitchen at Le Bernardin, his renowned four-star fish and seafood restaurant on West 51st Street in Manhattan. With a white plastic teaspoon in his hand, Ripert advises the more than 20 assistants around him who are preparing the evening meals for the first of the expected guests in the 110-seat, 30-table dining room.
Ripert glances at a plate of marinated Kumamoto oysters in shiso-lemon extra virgin olive oil that sits, briefly, on a stainless-steel counter. He looks beside it, at a serving of thinly pounded yellowfin tuna, foie gras and toasted baguette, all in layers. Ripert smiles as the plates are whisked away to be served to a customer. Three feet away, an assistant is putting the finishing touches on poached lobster in a lemon miso broth, with shiso and hon shimeji mushrooms.
Nearby, an aide calls out an order, in kitchen shorthand: "One tuna; one soft-shell." Ripert eyes a pan, dips the spoon in the broth and puts it to his mouth. He pauses, then beckons to his saucier, Jenny Carroll, whispering in her ear. She nods, turns and sets to work. A few seconds later, Ripert tells a visitor that the gingered-shiitake broth in the pan is good but lacks richness. Carroll will prepare another broth, he says, also with a chicken-stock base, and then reduce it and add to it the first broth to adjust the flavor. "A broth is very difficult," he says. "It's like tea. It's easy for a tea not to be infused enough, or to be too infused. Tonight what is in the pan is not intense enough, not round enough. It needs to be fuller."
Such attention to detail is one reason Le Bernardin is among the world's top restaurants, and Ripert one of the finest chefs on the globe. The imagination he pours into his dishes, the quality of his ingredients, the quintessential correctness and yet friendliness of the service, continue to put Le Bernardin at the top of the list of the best restaurants in New York, a city where the competition to be No. 1 in anything, but especially in the business of restaurants, is fierce.
In a field in which the vagaries of the moment often consign this year's success to next year's five minutes ago, Le Bernardin has remained at the summit for what counts as forever. Imported to the United States by the highly successful Parisian brother-and-sister team of Maguy and Gilbert Le Coze in 1986, Le Bernardin almost immediately earned the highest rating, four stars, from The New York Times. It has retained those stars for 20 years, more than twice as long as any other current four-star restaurant in New York City (its closest competitor is Jean-Georges, which first got the premier rating in 1997). Thanks to Ripert, Le Bernardin held on to those stars after Gilbert Le Coze, its original chef, unexpectedly died in 1994 and Ripert, then the chef de cuisine, had to suddenly take over.
"Now as before, it is a high church of reverently prepared fish," The Times said last year, in its most recent four-star review, citing the "exquisite balance of colors, shapes and flavors" and service that is "expert but unintrusive."
Le Bernardin is rated No. 1 for food in New York City by the popular Zagat survey, and by New York magazine as well. "The city is full of ornate restaurants," New York said, "but none of them manages to exude the glamour and class of Manhattan the way this one does, without any overweening glitz."
So how does Ripert do it year after year?
"Obviously, it's the search for perfection," Ripert, 41, says in his French-accented English as he sits in his conference room, one floor below the restaurant. "At least, you try to get close to perfection." His hair has made the bulk of life's journey toward gray, but he still looks eager and youthful—trim, vibrant, attractive—even after years of the constant pressure of trying to remain the best. "You never achieve perfection. Perfection probably is boring. But you want to search—the search is what's exciting."
The goal, he says, is to "make people happy. To pamper them. To make sure they have had a good time." It's a simple goal, he says, although hard to achieve, even for someone as dedicated and hardworking as he is.
His workdays, five of them a week—"for 13 years, I did six days a week; not anymore"—begin with a walk to Le Bernardin through Central Park, after spending the early mornings at home on the Upper East Side with his wife, Sandra, and their son, Adrien, who is almost three.
He arrives at the office around 11 a.m. And he is there, most often, until about 11 p.m., dealing with his staff of 120 (40 or so of whom work in the kitchen, 50 in the dining room, the rest around the office), ordering food, changing the menu, creating new dishes, planning for the future. Unlike many celebrity chefs, Ripert prefers not to behave like a celebrity, live like a celebrity or hang around with celebrities. He spends a lot of his time in his kitchen. "I have very little interaction with the outside world," he says. "The foodies, the gossipy world of what's going on in the industry, I am very remote from that. And it is very peaceful to be remote from that. It allows me to really focus on what I have to do."
The simplicity of his lifestyle also defines his culinary philosophy. "It's a straightforward approach," he says. "Fish is so delicate, and the approach complements the fish. The less you bring to the plate, the better. It's a little bit like the Japanese mentality. You don't put 10,000 things on the plate. I don't care about colors. I don't care about presentation. I don't care about the countless little vegetables. What I care about is the fish being elevated to the next level.
"Whatever goes on the plate has to have a function in the dish. Everything has to have a reason for being there. Nothing is there just because it looks good. And then, we deal with the presentation. So it's all about the fish."
As with many top chefs these days, Ripert has been influenced and impressed by the flavors of Asia; the current menu includes ingredients such as shiso, miso, ginger-coriander emulsion, wasabi and hijiki. But they are all applied in the Ripert way, metamorphosed so the dishes aren't really Asian but presented through the Le Bernardin filter.
The creativity he brings to his dishes can come at any time, he says. "It's impossible to say you are going to create from 8 to 9 on a Monday, or tomorrow from 10 to 11. It doesn't work like that. Or at least for me it doesn't work like that. It's totally uncontrollable. Inspiration comes whenever it wants to. I can't push a button. I let it happen very naturally. I don't force things.
"For example, if it's March 21, the first day of spring, but in my head I don't feel it's spring yet, I will wait before I create new dishes for spring. And then, when inspiration comes, I take notes. A lot of notes. It can happen in the middle of the night, or when I'm on a plane 30,000 feet in the air. That's OK with me."
Why, then, has he decided to focus almost exclusively on fish and seafood? "I like to work with something so delicate," he says. "When you create a sauce for fish, you have to be extremely careful not to overpower the fish. If you use spices you must make sure you are enhancing the quality, not destroying the quality. It's subtle, and I like that. And it's precise, and I like that, too. A piece of fish can be perfectly cooked right now, and in 10 seconds it can be overcooked. It's a connection for me, it's a way of grounding myself. Cooking meat is more sensual. With fish you have to be a really good technician, you have to be totally focused. And I like being a really good technician." And besides, he says, when he first began working in kitchens, "I always ended up in the fish station. I was a poissonier. And I liked it."
Ripert was introduced to the kitchen at a very early age. Born in Antibes, in the south of France, he moved with his parents to Andorra, a small country between France and Spain, when he was nine. He began culinary school in Perpignan, in southern France, when he was 15.
"I always had a passion for food," Ripert says. "Not necessarily for work. I was a bad student. But I was extremely happy to be a bad student, because I knew that at one point I would be forced to stop my schooling and would have to go to a professional college. And I knew I would choose culinary school."
His passion for food, he says, came from his mother. "She was an excellent cook. My grandmothers were excellent cooks, too. My mother was a very refined cook—every day there would be a white tablecloth, silver, china, crystal glasses, a good bottle of Bordeaux, an appetizer, a main course, a dessert. I learned the refinement from my mother. My grandmothers made more earthy country and comfort food. And I learned that from them. I was always hanging around the kitchen. It was fun. I didn't know you had to work hard in a professional kitchen. I had no idea about that."
In culinary school he discovered that he needed discipline, he says. "I surprised myself by accepting all the painful aspects of the industry—the hours, the heat of the kitchen. I said I would do it, even though my favorite part of the day wasn't when I had to empty the guts of a chicken or a fish or scale a fish. But I accepted that it was part of the deal. I was doing it because I wanted to be a chef and to be able to do what I do today, to be able to create my own dream and to live in it."
When he graduated from culinary school, he opened a copy of the Michelin Guide and sent a letter to all the top-rated three-star restaurants. "Nobody answered. Except Maxim's, which said they had no position."
But one day he received a call from renowned restaurant La Tour d'Argent in Paris, which offered him a job as a cook. It was 1982. Two days later, he was on a plane bound for Paris to start a career that would take him to other notable restaurants and to celebrated chefs who would influence and help cultivate his culinary genius.
In 1984, he went to work for Joël Robuchon at the three-star Jamin in Paris, where he wound up in charge of the fish station. His first job in the United States, in 1989, was as sous chef with Jean-Louis Palladin at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. In 1991, he came to New York, where he worked briefly for David Bouley. And next came Le Bernardin.
Three years later, Gilbert Le Coze died of a heart attack at age 49 while working out at a health club. Ripert, at the No. 2 position, stepped in. "Emotionally, it was very difficult for me, because we had developed a friendship. I enjoyed him as a man. Our relationship was not boss-employee. It was friend to friend. I missed him a lot. I still miss him."
The food world wondered: would Ripert be the equal of his mentor? "I didn't feel the pressure," Ripert recalls. "I knew there was pressure in the air, but, perhaps naïvely, I had no idea that we were really in danger. I was just focusing on what I had to do."
The next year, The Times returned—and the four stars remained.
In 1996, Maguy Le Coze made Ripert a co-owner. In 2003, the James Beard Foundation named him the best chef in the United States. But he doesn't let the accolades go to his head.
"You don't wake up and think about the stars and the awards," Ripert says. "At least I don't. I can't spend my days worrying about the ratings. I'd be distracted from doing what I'm supposed to be doing in the kitchen. Of course, I'm aware of the awards, and I don't take them for granted. We're very proud of them. But we don't bring them into the work life."
Something else he doesn't bring into his work life is his home life, and vice versa. "When I go home, we don't talk about business, except if my wife wants to know something," he says. "I separate my private life completely. I also don't allow any press in my private life. I don't know if I'm right or wrong. But it works for me."
He spends many weekends of that private life with his family in his house in Sag Harbor, New York, in the Hamptons. He often enjoys a good cigar while on those weekend getaways.
He has been smoking cigars since he was a teenager. "I was selective about my cigars even then, but I couldn't afford to buy many. I was in Paris. I was smoking Partagas and Montecristos. I would go to the lobby of a fancy hotel or to a piano bar and I would light up."
These days, he smokes a cigar maybe two or three nights during the week and limits his weekend intake to three. His favorites include Trinidad Fundadores (what Fidel Castro smoked prior to quitting), Montecristo No. 2 torpedos and Cohiba Double Coronas.
"I especially like the flavor of the Trinidad. But the problem is they have a tendency to sometimes stop in the middle. You have to be careful. I don't know if it's a problem with the wrapper. But I like the way they burn, so I'm very loyal to that cigar."
He doesn't like to go to cigar dinners, he says, because he doesn't want to share the experience with a roomful of people. "Cigars are something I like to share intimately with a couple of friends, or, very selfishly, by myself. It's all about taking the time and slowing the pace. I like the ritual. You go to your humidor and open it, you check the humidity, you find a cutter. And then I light the cigar."
These days, Ripert is branching out. He is a consultant for two restaurants at the Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman, called Blue and Periwinkle, which he describes as Le Bernardin in the Caribbean, "much more casual, with the same spirit and approach as Le Bernardin," but with a Caribbean flair at Blue and a touch of the Mediterranean at Periwinkle. And he and restaurateur Stephen Hanson are partners in Barca 18, a Spanish/tapas restaurant at Park Avenue South and East 18th Street in Manhattan.
Ripert has also recently signed a contract with PBS for a television series called "Harvest," for which he will be traveling around the United States and heading to Puerto Rico, Argentina, Italy and Morocco, among other places. "I will be in contact with and inspired by people who are cultivating the land—growing, hunting, fishing. And we will be heavily promoting organic food and sustainability. I will hook up with farmers and chefs, visit with them to establish a connection with what they do, and then go somewhere and cook, sometimes with them and sometimes just me." Ripert has accomplished a great deal in his 41 years. But, he says, he never looks back. "I never think too much about the past, really," he says. "I don't even take pictures and look at them. Thank God my wife does that, so we have pictures of our vacations. I don't mean I'm not happy to see them a few years later. But I really prefer to live in the present, to focus on what's happening at this moment. It's a very zen approach. And it makes sense to me."
Ripert rises from the conference table to see what is happening in his kitchen and restaurant. He takes an elevator to the main floor. At Le Bernardin, it's hard not to focus on the golden walls with their paintings that illustrate the multiple aspects of the sea, and the tropical hanging heliconia (also called, appropriately, lobster claw) that emerge from giant vases and hint at the exotic yet subtle flavors to come.
But one's eyes ultimately turn to the staff. The maitre d', waiters, sommelier and busboys all glide along on a sea of near-perfection, performing their twice-a-day ballet. It's a scene that has been going on for two decades. And that is likely to continue for a long time.
Mervyn Rothstein is an editor at The New York Times.


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Jewel appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
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I ran into a tired old phrase over there on Forbes.com the other day: "Opting out."
Surely you've heard it. It refers to women who take a career-track detour. It's a concept that won't go away, implying that our choices are to go big or go home. That may be an actual choice for a a small number of women, but for most of us, it's a lot of smoke and mirrors. Illusion rather than reality. And at that, a dangerous distraction.
Back at Forbes, writer Meghan Casserly bemoans the fact that "opting out" has become a catch phrase among women leaders who lament that we will never make it into the corporate suites if women continue to step off the ladder. And those words, they continue to confuse her:
… each time I hear the phrase, I have a very physical reaction. I stiffen up, I shut down. I often question her judgment entirely. Doesn't the very phrase "opting out" imply making a choice? And more than making a choice, doesn't opting imply making the preferred decision? How, then, can these bright so-called experts be criticizing women who make the decision to do what's best for them, what's best for their children? By focusing on the greater good of woman-kind, are we losing sight of the individual?
Interesting question, but not necessarily the one I would ask. I've opted in, out and all things in between and what I can tell you is this: It's way more complicated than those two little words tend to imply. When my kids were small, I worked from home — only because I was lucky enough to have a career and family finances that allowed for it. When they grew up, I switched out magazine writing for teaching and what I realized was this: I never ever could have juggled the time crunch of being a full-time professor with raising a family without flipping out. To wit: there's a reason male professors are more likely to have children than female professors, and even when the latter do have a family, it's usually one child only.
This opt-out business began back in 2003 when Lisa Belkin wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine on a group of fast-track women who'd "opted out" of their high-flying careers once they had children. Ever since, a debate has raged as to whether or not the story reflected an actual trend, backed up by numbers, or was based on anecdotal information from a select group of women, but the phrase itself has earned a permanent place in the lexicon. The controversy flared back up, as we wrote in 2009, when the Washington Post reported on new census figures that seemed, at first glance, to debunk this so-called "mommy myth":
A first census snapshot of married women who stay home to raise their children shows that the popular obsession with high-achieving professional mothers sidelining careers for family life is largely beside the point.
Census researchers said the new report is the first of its kind and was spurred by interest in the so-called "opt-out revolution" among well-educated women said to be leaving the workforce to care for children at home.
In other words, the census reports seemed to show that the vast majority of stay-at-home moms were not those who opted out – but more likely those who were never comfortably in. So case closed, right? But right after the report came out, several writers drilled down the numbers and found the snapshot to be a little more complex. WaPo blogger Brian Reid was one:
If you dig into the data, it does indeed show that, on average, stay-at-home moms are more likely to be young, foreign-born and less-educated than moms as a whole. But that's hardly a stake in the heart of the idea that you're seeing a lot of women with college degrees stepping out of the workforce. In fact, though college-educated moms are slightly less likely to be at-home moms, a whopping 1.8 million of the 5.6 million at-home moms have a college diploma. That's hardly a "small population."
Of course, the Census is interested in providing a snapshot of the current situation, not making a value judgment. I've taken the position that opting out of the workforce is not intrinsically bad: it's only bad when parents are forced into it by a lack of other options. It's clear that we're still not living in a golden age of work flexibility: for too many moms and dads, there are only two choices:the 40+ hour week or the at-home option. I'd love to know where the numbers would go if there were ways to structure home and career with more precision.
Bingo. For all but a very few of us, our so-called choices to opt in or opt out are largely a matter of circumstance. One of them is a workplace that is often inhospitable to women and/or dual career families. Another is a social culture that still gives women ownership of the second shift. A third might be the reality check when we realize that when we bought into the "have it all" mantra, we were sold a bill of goods.
Back to that Forbes piece, Casserly quotes Pamela Stone, the author of Opting Out? and professor of sociology at Hunter College:
"The majority of women I've spoken to who have decided to stay home to raise children certainly frame their decision in terms of choices," [Stone] says, "But when they told me their stories, the truth was very, very different." Most of them had tried unsuccessfully to find flexibility with their employers—and here Stone stresses that the highly-educated successful women she researches often have serious leverage at the office—but found that even so they were mommy-tracked or saw their careers derailed. "They describe the decision as a choice," she says, "But in the end it was a highly conflicted choice and truly a last resort."
Precisely. And in fact, that's what a number of the women we interviewed for our book told us. So here's what I think: Instead of yammering about opting in or opting out and placing the weight of women's progress on the backs of personal choices, wouldn't our energy be better spent working for workplace and cultural changes that would benefit us all?


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Moving companies that pack and move ensure the safety of your furniture and other goods by making use of packaging material like cardboard boxes, bubble wraps and cling wraps. Fragile goods like glassware as well as electronics are packed and handled with extreme care. Dismantling the furniture at the time of packing and then assembling it while unpacking also falls under their purview. Depending on the quantity of goods to be moved and their weight, the companies provide a quotation of the cost that will be incurred.
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It is normal to find the exercise of relocating from one place to another to be a hectic and laborious task. Whether you are shifting offices in the neighbourhood or moving homes within the city, transporting goods from one place to another gets daunting and may pose a number of challenges and problems. To avoid any mishaps and unpleasant situations, it is important you plan the shifting process well in advance. Making it convenient and easy for you during the shifting process are the many popular Packers and Movers in Devaraja Mohalla has, who ensure to make the move a smooth and hassle-free affair. There is a plethora of professional relocation services that offer packing and moving of goods within India as well as overseas. These establishments offer you a wide spectrum of services that can be tailor-made with customized rates as per your needs and requirements. These services can range from packing goods to arranging for transportation to loading, unloading and unpacking your belongings. Be it house shifting, office relocation or car transport, you can rely on these companies to use the best packing and moving practices and offer top-notch services at the lowest possible shifting rates and charges. And with these professional packers and movers by your side, you are better prepared when it comes to handling any unpleasant surprises, should they arise at any given point in time.
Why Should You Hire One Of The Best Packers and Movers in Devaraja Mohalla?
While you may think you can do the local shifting at negligible and lowest costs by managing it all by yourself, think again as you may be 'penny wise and pound foolish'. In fact, there are several advantages in store when you choose to seek the services of the verified moving companies.
5 Prime Advantages on Hiring Movers and Packers
- End-to-end relocation services: By choosing to opt for a relocation service, you will end up uncomplicating the daunting moving processes. These firms assist in transporting your belongings, thus providing you with an end-to-end service when shifting homes, relocating offices, or moving vehicles. More often than not, the packing and moving firm take the onus of delivering the goods to the intended destination in a safe and sound condition.
- Save your precious time and energy: If you are thinking of doing the shifting all by yourself, you should know that packing all your belongings, loading them on a hired vehicle, unloading and then unpacking them, is certainly not a piece of cake. It requires lots of time, a lot of effort and patience. Since most of the trustworthy moving companies have plenty of experience and are used to the rigours of packing, moving and transportation, they know the most efficient and secure ways of transporting your goods. These firms can save your valuable time and energy by arranging the whole process right down to the minutest details. And more importantly, the services of these reliable companies can make moving effortless and leave you and your family stress-free.
- Distance does not matter: Whether you want to relocate within the city (intracity service or local shifting service) or relocate to another city altogether (intercity service), it is the responsibility of these shifting companies to collect goods from your doorstep and deliver it to the specified destination. Look to hire from the packing and moving firm with the required permits to transport goods within the state or anywhere in India is a definite plus. You must bear this aspect in mind during times when the place of relocation is extremely far in terms of distance, for odd, terrain-induced routes and remote locations.
- Assured professional packing and moving: When planning the whole relocation process, you must have taken into account all the belongings that you need to shift to your new home/office. Now, there may be several items and goods that are fragile and need extra care while handling. Appliances like television sets, refrigerators, washing machines, handicrafts, glass décor pieces and embellishments, which need to be handled with extreme care while packing, loading and especially during transit. In order to ensure that your prized belongings are safe while in transit, you can expect the movers and packers to use appropriate packing materials such as tamper-proof boxes, isolative materials and bubble wrap. When professionally packed and secured with the help of the packers and movers in Devaraja Mohalla, to an extent, the goods are prevented from any sort of damage.
- Transit insurance: Despite taking all the necessary precautions through proper packing, enough space and a hiring the service of one of the trusted moving companies, though the chances are slim, it may happen that your goods are lost or damaged due to unforeseen circumstances. It may be the last thought on your mind while looking for moving services, however, transit insurance is a crucial aspect of covering various eventualities. The key benefit of availing transit insurance from movers and packers is that this cover protects the goods against certain damages that may occur due to unforeseen events and circumstances during transit. Packers and movers are known insure goods from any sort of damage or harm caused in transit. And in the case of any damage, you may get reimbursed for the losses you have to face.
Things to Keep In Mind before Hiring Any of the Packers and Movers in Devaraja Mohalla
When it comes to selecting a trustworthy company, you may be in a fix as there is a huge list of firms offering these services. Not only can this confuse you, but can also make the selection process difficult. Moreover, the home and office relocation industry in India is rather unorganised with many unprofessional firms with inexperienced crew. Thus, it is imperative to pick a mover with due care.
These 7 tips can help you identify the best relocation service.
- Invest some time in researching about the packing and moving firm with a good track record.
- Take references from your relatives and friends about the moving experience with a particular firm
- Don't just go for the firm offering the lowest shifting charges, try to cross-check the background and credibility of the firm.
- Reading the testimonials or reviews of the previous customers may be a helpful indicator.
- Compare the quotes of reliable Packers And Movers in Devaraja Mohalla on the basis of rates, experience, manpower, reliability and reputation to know which firm is best as per your budget and needs. However, remember that a quote with lowest charges does not necessarily mean very good services.
- Check whether the packers and movers offer an insurance coverage or not in case of loss or damage. Learn about the extent of the coverage by reading the terms and conditions in detail.
- Ask about hidden costs so that you don't have to face an unpleasant surprise on receiving the bill. Requesting a gross invoice beforehand is recommended.
9 Common Mistakes to Avoid Before the Relocation Service Firm Arrives At Your Doorstep
Shifting to new premises calls for meticulous planning and thoughtful execution. Here is a list of mistakes that people often make and you should certainly avoid when relocating to a new premises.
- Waiting till the last minute: You may not have time on your hands to pack stuff and may rely on your family to do so. In such cases, it becomes prudent to schedule packing services from these companies beforehand to avoid disappointments. Leaving things for the last minute can put a lot of pressure and can hamper the whole moving process. If possible, plan your move at least a month in advance by first sorting out what items you need to pack and what you don't.
Pro Tip: Check the drawers and the closets to ensure that everything has been checked. On the day of the move, do a recce to ensure nothing has been left out.
- Cutting down the clutter: Don't pack mindlessly and hastily. Before packing, sort out all the items that you don't need at your new premises. Ask yourself, 'do you need all this stuff?' This also applies when you are moving to completely different weather conditions. For example, if you are relocating from a cold climate to a warm, tropic climate, you can safely ditch some of the piles of the thick woollens and sweaters you own. Disposing off the items that you don't require or need can cut down on the overall weight of the goods. This is particularly helpful because many of these companies may charge you by the volume of goods.
Pro Tip: If you are using cardboard boxes, label them carefully.
- Lack of timely scheduling: Many people tend to contact the moving company a day or two before the scheduled moving date. This is a sign of poor planning, which may lead to poor execution. There may a very good chance that most of the best relocation companies have been completely booked for the designated date. This can mean rescheduling your complete move. Thus, you must book moving services well in advance and avoid any disappointments.
Pro Tip: Remind the relocation services of the scheduled day of the move and confirm the moving schedule.
- Turning down professional assistance: You may be one of the many who believes relocating from one place to another is a piece of cake and can be done without the involvement of a professional moving company. Others may see the services of these professional services as a waste of money. With these thoughts in mind, people may avoid seeking help from a professional company for their move. The relocation may eventually end with full of stress and hassles thanks to clumsy or loose packing, breaking of fragile goods, losing important documents and improper load on the vehicle. Given the expertise some of the top, reliable moving firms, you need not worry much about the mentioned issues. Seeking the professional assistance of one of the trusted packing and moving firms ensures that your belongings are in safe hands.
- Failing to record utility bills: You must not forget to record the meter readings of various utilities such as electricity, pipeline gas and water supply, before leaving the previous premises. In turn, you must also inform the concerned people and organizations, like your milkman, the bank and your grocer about the change in your address.
- Forgetting about the fridge: In the midst of the frenzy of planning to move, you may completely forget about emptying the contents of your fridge. Skipping this can result in a lot of wastage of food and supplies. Thus, you must clear out the fridge at least a day or two before the moving day.
- Not checking the paperwork or the contract of the company: A very common mistake that people are known to commit is not rechecking the inventory sheet containing the detailed list of all the items packed by the packing and moving firm. There is a high chance that you may miss out on certain important items and leave them behind. So make sure you read the list and the contract carefully.
- Packing important documents along with the goods: It is best to carry important documents like your passport, identification proofs, education certificates and degrees, medical files, agreement, chequebooks, etc. along with you. In the eventuality that they are misplaced or disappear during transit, it becomes very difficult to recreate them.
- Not insuring valuable items: if you are the owner of a rare artifact, artwork or a collector's piece, it is best to protect them by opting for a moving insurance. An insurance cover with a reliable relocation service can safeguard your most valuable items and prized possessions.


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13" MacBook Air for $899 or a 11" MacBook Air for $799, tax-free outside NY
Apple Authorized Reseller B&H Photo is offering Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air (MD711LL/A) with a 1.30GHz Core i5 Dual-Core (Haswell) processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD for $799, with free shipping, no tax on orders shipped outside NY and over 25% off 3-year Apple Care protection plans when purchased on the same receipt. Similarly, it's selling Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air (MD760LL/A) with a 1.30GHz Core i5 Haswell chip, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD for $899. Both offers are $200 below Apple's MSRP and the lowest prices we could find, per our Mac Price Guides.


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Sia, we see you!
The wind in Colorado had its way with the artist's wig last night, giving the audience watching Sia's performance at Denver's Seriesfest a glimpse at her almost always hidden face.
To be honest, we'd be perfectly happy to see that lovely face more often.
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The 40-year-old Australian singer spoke to Nightline's Chris Conley about why she chooses to keep her identity concealed — even during interviews.
With her back turned to Conley, she explained, "I don't want to be famous, or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the internet."
Sia's many methods of anonymity, from brown paper bags covering her head to silver masks shielding her face, all go toward that effort to remain as anonymous as possible when she's not in the spotlight.
"You know I was at Target the other day buying a hose and nobody recognized me — and my song was on the radio," the star said. "And I thought, OK, this experiment is working".
The "Chandelier" artist has also written songs for major hit-makers such as Rihanna, Flo Rida and David Guetta.
"I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and have become friends with them and see what their lives are like. And that's just not something I want," Sia said to Conley in 2014.
Regardless of whether Sia's face is covered or accidentally exposed, she is always gone-with-the-wind fabulous to us.
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by Chris Haire
Shortly before the new year, we heard that A.C.'s was going to close temporarily for remodeling. At first we feared the powers-that-be would pretty up the joint and turn it into some bright, cheery place for young professionals with money to burn and tapas to eat. Fortunately, our fears were unfounded. The renovation is complete and A.C.'s has barely changed a bit. It's still the dark hole that we've grown to love, but now with a black-and-white-tile floor. As soon as the Best of Charleston issue is done, this writer is going to swing by to grab a California burger and a cold one.
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Sunday, 15 August 2010
Chanel Fall 2010 Enigma Quad
It contains a very sheer pink with peach and gold shimmer; cool brown with a touch of olive (contains micro glitter), deep cool dusty slightly sparkly plum and a slightly mauve grey ( contains micro glitter)
Although the shadows apply smooth and blend well I do find them quite powdery. As a result of this once I have blended,the micro glitter is barely visible and the colours less vibrant/complex so I have to press the shadows on if I want them to appear like they do in the pan. I felt that the grey and brown didn't show up as distinctly different colours once applied and kind of meld into one another. I do really like the finished look but have to work with it, nice to have but not one of my must haves.
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Thank you so much for posting this! I haven't had chance to look at any of the collection in person yet. You have further convinced me that I don't need this. I'm still going to have a look at the singles (and the liner) but if they are pretty but nothing special it'll certainly help with the Guerlain situation! ;)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 August 2010 at 08:18
Yeah, I'm not surprised. I've had Chanel eyeshadows before and was never super impressed with them... but I'm getting this one anyway, just because it's Chanel and I feel like it! I'm terrible, I collect everything...ReplyDelete
I appreciate your observations about the powdery-ness of this quad- I'm probably going to keep resisting it. I'll probably just get more Burberry shadows instead-lol ;O)ReplyDelete
Hi, hope it's OK to contact you here. We would love to include your blog on our giveaway search engine: Giveaway Scout (http://www.giveawayscout.com). Have a look and if interested, use our online form to add your blog (http://www.giveawayscout.com/addblog/ ). thanks, JoshReplyDelete
Hi Jane,ReplyDelete
I got the Vert Khaki single as well as it looks a lot nicer in the pan than it does on! I'll try and get that review up at the weekend x
Hi Cafe Bellini,
I know what you mean about collecting things, I tend to go through brand phases where I have to have nearly everything from a certain one :)
Hi Jv,
I like your thinking, Burberry would be a better option, I bought three more of their shadows, I'll post about them tommorow.
So the Vert Khaki is one to swerve too? Oh dear! Good news for the Guerlain fund I guess. Talking of which, the date you were told was right. I got an email yesterday finally from Guerlain and they said 4th Sept. It's disappointing and I suppose I should learn not to trust the SAs on release dates! xReplyDelete
Its a bit murky, I'll take a pic of it on as well and you will see what I mean.ReplyDelete
Yes, I think the Guerlain SA must have thought me a bit strange as I asked where the fall collection was in a slightly panicked voice! I was hoping it would be here sooner really as the longer I wait the more I want! x
I look forward to seeing your post. You're doing an excellent job of saving me money ;)ReplyDelete
I'm sorry about the Guerlain error. I hope you told the SA some hairy biker from the internet mis-informed you! I really was hounding everyone for official information. I should've been more patient.
New follower. If you get a chance, please check out my dare you to wear challenge. I am challenging my subscribers to recreate a look from the derek lam fashion show (pics on my blog). I will be doing an updated post showing what everyone came up with.ReplyDelete
I am also currently having my August giveaway.
The Fall quad is really beautiful though I think the quality of Chanel baked eyeshadows is not that outstanding.ReplyDelete
Thanks for swatching!
I am glad I found your blog and I am following it now.
Hi Jane,ReplyDelete
LOL, hairy biker! Saving you money, I'll have to try and rectify that ;)
Hello Funnyfacebeauty,
Sounds interesting, I'll make sure to check out your blog :)
Hello Catanya,
Thanks, I think you are right about the quality, it just doesn't really compare to my other brands.


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The logo
With no previous brand, I was given free reign to develop something new. With some guidelines and wishes from the client I started the process;
Brainstorming and Sketching…
I presented ideas based on the meanings of the core subjects and in this case Stratega, Strategies, Strategy expanding into Achieving, Tactics, Goals and Planning.
The core meaning of a strategy is;
To achieve an action through use of tactical dynamic planning and skill.
The ideas were expanded and I looked at how strategies are enabled specifically looking at battle strategies and more so the most prominent and effective strategies or formations in recent and past history.
This led me on to thinking about the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu and his conception of the "3 Pronged Attack" where a centre force would go straight for the enemy and the left and right forces would move left and right to flank the enemy force and crush them in their centre disabling the enemy in one fell swoop.
The visualisation in my sketches show how financial planning and strategies can achieve goals, i.e. cutting costs or expenditure.
During the design phase I considered various colors;
Primary Colours:
- Black – Wealth and Sophistication
- Soft Grey – Respect & Wisdom
- Strong Purple – Efficient and Intelligent
Secondary Colours:
- Blue – Trustworthy
- Red – Strength and Passion
For the initial designs I chose "Bree Bold" which I wasn't particularly happy with..
I had been sketching various versions of the three prongs and had to progress from my initial drawings as it looked slightly wrong, something I was obviously keen to stay away from.
The client was perfect every step of the way, providing feedback when needed. Some of the feedback on the ideas above came back like this;
Reminded us of opening sequence of Dad's Army
The other logos gave us the impression that the word had almost been miss spelt, if you see what I mean, through the highlighting and the arrows on the "E".
The feedback requested that I also look in to the Power option. I wanted to steer away from the 'Money' side of things as it would be far to tacky and 'normal' for my liking.
So I spun the whole strategy and power on it's head. The most powerful formation within an armed force, especially in a cavalry troop is the Wedge or 'Flying V' as it is sometimes called, this formation can pierce the hardest infantry line and is extremely powerful.
I mixed the flying V into a few different version and came up with No.3 (purple background), the individual triangles are broken down to represent the units within the 'Wedge', the three separate 'Wedges' on top of each other represent the 3 pronged attack and powers in numbers. It's all just an abstract view which works very well together. I changed the typeface, moved it away from "Bree" which it was originally to "Often" and believe it suites very well.
Options 1 and 2 were brought out of doing No.3.
The client chose Option 3, which was my preferred choice.
The Stratega Group Ltd branding process was an awesome job to work on, the clients were an absolute dream to work with.


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Hedbergella monmouthensis (Olsson, 1960) 2 moreClass: Rotaliata Subclass: Globigerinana Order: Globigerinida Family: Hedbergellidae
found in a core of ODP Leg 114 Sites 698 and 700 off Argentina off territorial waters Sites 698 and 700
Geological Time: Cretaceous Upper Cretaceous Maastrichtian
the images are published under public domain in the below cited scientific report of the IODP, ODP and DSDP
View of a specimen of Hedbergella monmouthensis (Olsson, 1960)
scale bar 50µm
The identification is based upon:
Huber, Brian T., 1991: Planktonic foraminifer biostratigraphy of Campanian-Maestrichtian sediments from Sites 698 and 700, southern South Atlantic Ciesielski, P.F. et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 114 Publisher: Texas A & M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States Plate 1, Fig. 3
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Christina Aguilera won't be the only singing sensation belting it out at the Super Bowl!
Access Hollywood has confirmed that "Glee" star Lea Michele will also be performing before the big game. The actress will sing "America the Beautiful" prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers hitting the field for Super Bowl XLV.
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Past performers of "America the Beautiful" include Alicia Keys, Faith Hill and Queen Latifah in 2010
In addition to Lea and Christina – who is singing the national anthem – The Black Eyed Peas will perform at halftime of this year's game.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Scenes From 'Glee's' 'Thriller' Super Bowl Episode
Super Bowl Sunday will be a big night for the small screen star. Following the game, a Michael Jackson-themed "Glee" episode, which includes a larger-than-life rendition of "Thriller" performed on a football field, will air.
Earlier this month, Golden Globe winner Chris Colfer – who plays Kurt Hummel on the hit FOX series – told Access the "Thriller" performance moved him.
"I got to watch it and it was amazing," Chris said. "It was so cool it almost put me in tears. It was that cool!"
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Lots of other states are actively involved in advertising the coming health insurance exchanges.
Early evidence suggests those states will have more people gaining insurance and thus suffering fewer preventable illnesses and deaths.
My state, Maine, isn't running its own exchange, and has done little publicity.
I like to think that, while the Maryland one (just below) shows crabs, Maine would show lobsters.
And here's a less upbeat ad from Nevada:
Arkansas shows a huge range of individuals.
Kentucky uses animation.
New York's shows the diversity of places and people in the Empire State.
Connecticut has five different ads. This one focuses on small business.
And they're singing in Oregon's ads.